Kim Peart in Longford with his election barrow (photo by Jennifer Bolton)
Dear Editor,
Running a low-budget campaign is tough going.
The going got tougher today, when I found that I was not included among the candidates in Lyons in the on-line version of the Mercury. ~
http://www.themercury.com.au/news/politics/tasmanian-state-election-the-pitch-from-every-lyons-candidate/news-story/9a262e5795a88851d368b0387ad8a9b9
After lodging this matter of missing fairness with the reporter and the Editor (see below), I may have since appeared.
I did find that though the Election Guide does not appear following the Digital Print edition, it can be accessed separately below on the page. ~
http://mercury.digitaleditions.com.au/?key=44db588a-9266-4e23-90bb-a8bbd11403b7&target=TheMercury
I am a tad concerned that a short letter, that a Mercury editor checked with me about, didn’t see print, along with a later letter (included below).
You can judge their worthiness for publication.
I am concerned that my media releases do not get any air, especially when they include ways to create work, improve tourism and prepare for worsening climate change in Tasmania, but, the editor is god, and I respect that (grumbling about deities).
Rewarding Ideas ~ not just Power and Pestilence
Kim Peart, candidate for Lyons in the State Poll
20.02.18
http://oldtt.pixelkey.biz/index.php?/pr-article/rewarding-ideas-not-just-power-and-pestilence/
How to make the March 3 poll anything but boring …
Kim Peart, candidate for Lyons … a lion for Lyons, a tiger for Tasmania
18.02.18
http://oldtt.pixelkey.biz/index.php?/pr-article/how-to-make-the-march-3-poll-anything-but-boring-/
Where is the Public Car Park in Ross?
Kim Peart, Candidate for Lyons in the Tasmanian election, a lion for Lyons, a tiger for Tasmania
18.02.18
http://oldtt.pixelkey.biz/index.php?/pr-article/where-is-the-public-car-park-in-ross-saturday-17-february-2018/
Today on the campaign trail in Lyons
Kim Peart
15.02.18
http://oldtt.pixelkey.biz/index.php?/pr-article/today-on-the-campaign-trail-in-lyons/
Today in Kim Peart’s campaign in Lyons …
Kim Peart, a lion for Lyons, a tiger for Tasmania
13.02.18
http://oldtt.pixelkey.biz/index.php?/pr-article/today-in-kim-pearts-campaign-in-lyons-/
TasSpace ~ Election Event 2pm Sunday 25 February 39 Church Street, Ross
Kim Peart, a lion for Lyons, a tiger for Tasmania
09.02.18
http://oldtt.pixelkey.biz/index.php?/pr-article/tasspace-election-event-2pm-sunday-25-february-39-church-street-ross/
Work on the Australian Convict Trail will continue after the election, along with TasSpace (see last link), and drumming the needs of preparing Tasmania for a future where this planet is getting hotter.
Yours sincerely,
Kim Peart
Authorised by: Jennifer Bolton, 39A Bridge St., Ross
David Killick ~ The Mercury ~ 25 February 2018
Dear David,
Have I died?
I could not find myself in the list of Lyons candidates in the Mercury.
Have I been black-banned?
I did receive an Email from a Mercury editor about publishing my letter, included below, but it never appeared.
Did I miss that?
When I look at the Mercury today, both digital and on-line versions, I cannot be found among the candidates for Lyons. ~
http://www.themercury.com.au/news/politics/tasmanian-state-election-the-pitch-from-every-lyons-candidate/news-story/9a262e5795a88851d368b0387ad8a9b9
How bizarre is that?
The Digital Print Edition has left out the Election Guide completely, so I’ll have to drive downtown to see what the score is in the hands-on paper edition.
If I am still alive and running as a candidate in Lyons in the coming week, am I to be given special coverage?
To date, my media releases have been ignored.
Now I have been ignored as a candidate, entirely.
Is this fair?
Yours sincerely,
Kim Peart
Thanks for the opportunity David,
Sincerely,
Kim
Profile portrait
Kim Peart
Running in Lyons
66 years of age
Lives in Ross
Visual artist
Independent
In 2007 Kim was listed among Tasmania’s top 200 movers and shakers for “An urban bushland conservationist who has worked tirelessly over the years to maintain walking tracks and protect wildlife from the encroachment of bush-front housing developments.” Kim is campaigning for an Australian Convict Trail, with the Tasmanian leg running from the ferry in Devonport to Port Arthur, along with foot and cycle paths by Tasmania’s highways and roads. After being at the launch of an Australian Space Agency last September, Kim is seeking ways to create employment, careers and new enterprise in Tasmania with the global space industry.
TO: Michelle Paine ~ 12 February 2018 ~
Dear Michelle,
Agree.
I should have included that.
Sincerely,
Kim
Hi Kim,
I’d like to run your letter on North Korea but would have to say you’re a Lyons candidate underneath it :
Kim Peart
Independent candidate, Lyons
Are you happy with that?
Thanks,
Michelle Paine
On 30 January 2018 at 06:19, Kim Peart
Kim Peart
39A bridge Street
Ross 7209 Tasmania
Re: Winning peace with North Korea
Dear Editor,
Will we ever declare peace with North Korea, which remains in perpetual war, and with nuclear weapons now in the mix, there is a form of conflict that could send all nations down the nuclear gurgler?
North Korea fired a rocket higher than the International Space Station, so could space be the way to peace with North Korea?
If leading nations, including Australia, engaged in a mission to launch industry in space, and invited North Korea to join the mission, if they will be peaceful on Earth, this could be the way to avoid nuclear madness.
Space as the way to peace has not been tried yet, so should we investigate that?
Yours sincerely,
Kim Peart
Letter to the Editor of the Mercury ~ 17 February 2018 ~
Kim Peart
39A Bridge Street
Ross 7209 Tasmania
Re: Editorial ~ Help the Homeless
Dear Editor,
The status quo is so entrenched in Australia, that the economy and politicians depend on under-employment, unemployment and homelessness to maintain growth.
This is criminal level negligence, revealed in Hobart’s housing crisis (Editorial, 17 Feb), and the political driven abuse of the Centrelink robot debacle.
If this were not the case, the problem would not be upon us.
The simple solution to homelessness, is to provide homes.
Finland did that, and found it works.
Any politician unwilling to fight for housing provision as a basic human right, does not deserve a vote.
All voters need to vet the moral credentials of who they will vote for.
The other simple solution to homelessness, is to launch a government work guarantee, with real work paying the minimum wage.
Housing would come with a work guarantee, as workers need homes.
Less tax would be paid, because more people would be paying tax.
Centrelink would shrink.
Scam training and other blights, would be history.
A work guarantee would need to be a national program, but it could be launched at a community level in Tasmania, driven by citizens who care.
Everyone with a heart needs to find candidates who will fight for a Fair Go in this election.
Yours sincerely,
Kim Peart
Kim Peart is running in Lyons in the Tasmanian election.
I am willing to visit Hobart and address a meeting of interested people.
After my marriage broke up in the 1990s, as a poor artist I was sleeping in my car and working in my studio in the Salamanca Arts Centre during the day.
On a winter night I would tape icypole sticks to my fingers, so I could open my hands in the morning.
I organised a conference on unemployment as a human right during human rights week in the 1990s (see article 23 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights). The event went well, but I was amazed to see how poverty workers on Government funded positions went behind my back to kill off any outcomes of the event that could make a difference. Part of the problem we have, is a poverty industry that will not fight for real solutions to the problem, as solving the problem, would mean that their services would no longer be needed.
“The Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment is a term used by economists and politicians to refer to the level of unemployment, between 4% and 6%, considered necessary to prevent inflation taking off.”
‘How the unemployed ‘disappear’ and why it matters’
Rose-Marie Stampe & David Fryer, The Conversation, 12 January 2015
https://theconversation.com/how-the-unemployed-disappear-and-why-it-matters-35850
An article of mine on the matter ~
Creating a Future Beyond Homelessness
Tasmanian Times, 13 February 2017
http://oldtt.pixelkey.biz/index.php?/weblog/article/creating-a-future-beyond-homelessness/show_comments
ALSO ~
Creating a Future that Works
http://oldtt.pixelkey.biz/index.php?/article/creating-a-future-that-works/
‘Help! Saving Australia’
Kim Peart, 6 April 2015, Tasmanian Times
http://oldtt.pixelkey.biz/index.php?/article/help-saving-australia/
‘Liberating Australia from an Addiction to Unemployment’
Kim Peart, 16 March 2015, Tasmanian Times
http://oldtt.pixelkey.biz/index.php?/article/liberating-australia-from-an-addiction-to-unemployment/
Dawn of the Centrelink Robot
http://oldtt.pixelkey.biz/index.php?/weblog/article/dawn-of-the-centrelink-robot/
Kim Peart, Independent candidate in Lyons
