Margot Giblin
Hobart City Council Elections October 07
If You Haven’t Voted Yet – It Matters
Votes must be in by 10am Tuesday so those posted this weekend will make it.
Six Councilors, the Lord Mayor and Deputy Lord Mayor are up for re-election.
These people make decisions about you.
About whether you should have to accept that whacking great deck your neighbour is planning to build next year which you think is going to ruin your outdoor privacy.
About whether the licensed restaurant you’d love to be able to sit outside a bit longer on warm summer nights will be able to let you.
About whether you’ll be allowed to walk your dog off lead where you’ve always walked before.
About whether the fact that you’ve chosen to live within walking distance of the CBD means you relinquish the right to expect peace and quiet at home.
About whether your application to run a small business from home is a goer.
About delivering your water and removing your waste.
It’s basic. It’s about getting what you think you paid for when you moved into the electorate of Denison, which is the area encompassed for Hobart City Council Elections.
It’s about how you can expect to live your everyday life, how you get to work and what you can expect to have going on around you at the end of each day. It’s about the buildings you live in, visit, walk past, look at and work in. It’s about the parks you go to in order to get away from all that.
What sort of person do you want making decisions in Hobart.
Do you want some-one who is inclined to put the business dollar ahead of the individual home dweller?
Do you want someone who insists on looking at the environmental impact of a planned development and will put a parrot species’ survival before an aged care facility?
Do you think more attention should be paid to youth, affordable housing,
attracting business to the CBD?
Do you want to take advantage of the plebiscite offered at this election? It gives you the chance to express your opinion on Gunns’ pulp mill – its site, type and the approval process.
Council decisions are made by committees. How have incumbents behaved and performed over the last year in that forum? Do they contribute to a productive or a toxic atmosphere?
Who-ever gets in is there for at least four years. A lot of decisions are made in that time. If you want to effect them, choose who makes them.
Tasmanian Times writers have covered meetings over the last year, many aspects of the campaign and its candidates – so check them out and vote:
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