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  Empty chair: still empty!

  Margot Giblin Are Aldermen Valentine, Ruzicka, Haigh, Sexton, Burnet, Freeman, Zucco, Briscoe, Christie, Hayes and Cocker using due process to protect themselves...

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  The Empty Chair: Hobart City Council

  Margot Giblin THE chairman of the Hobart City Council’s Development and Environmental Services Committee is Alderman Lyn Archer. At its first meeting...

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  Gimme Shelter …

  Margot Giblin Inside the Town Hall, and symbolic of the Council’s status and its decision making power, are the comforts of thick...

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  A very Merry Christmas council

  Margot Giblin Citizen Reporter By 9pm. some aldermen were propping their weary heads on one hand. Eyes drooped, refocused, drooped again. Sexton,...

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  Point of Interest

  Margot Giblin Municipal Affairs Citizen Reporter Alderman Christie had assured the meeting that a complex and lengthy tendering process had been gone...

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  North Hobart: the burning question …

  Margot Giblin Citizen Reporter At the Council meeting argument for a ‘whatsitsname’ was presented as facing reality better than any objection. The...

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  HCC: Decisions, decisions …

  Margot Giblin Citizen Reporter Hate to mention it but Batty Point did come up next in the shape of nominations to the...

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  Paula misses her chance …

  Margot Giblin John Freeman had accepted the invitation to present the petition to his people with alacrity. Getting the other one into...

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  Democracy and the dripping tap

  Margot Giblin I have never thought a power-point presentation is the way to go. They usually have me sliding to the floor...