MIXED & MIXED UP MESSAGES OUT OF HOBART & LAUNCESTON COUNCILS

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Hobart City Council seems to have lost its way, or is well along the path to loosing it. The Salamanca Market is iconic and an important component of 'cultural status' is the exchange of ideas along with the sale of goods. Its a great site to engage with 'the community'!

Council  – whether this is the functionaries or the aldermen is uncertain – taking on 'The Greens' is seemingly a trifle stupid to say the least. In the past this very same Council, albeit with different players, took on Rodney Croome et al and look at where that got them and indeed Rodney.

It's now Rodney Croome AM and he is now an Australian LGBT rights activist and academic. Croome currently serves as the spokesperson for the Tasmanian Gay and Lesbian Rights Group, National Convenor of Australian Marriage Equality and one of the founders of the Australian Coalition for Equality (ACE).

Hobart Council needs to be careful about what they wish for an not waste ratepayers' money in counterproductive, costly and pointless litigation. Being involved in an anti-discrimination action is not a good look! 

Indeed it makes the National News and the cost of that relative to the city's economy is incalculable. 

Talking about the BAD LOOKS STAKES Hobart's so-called Christmas Tree is now a national joke and especially so on Social Media. The whole debacle is an example of what happens when you assume the 'moral high ground' and do-it-to your community rather than do-it-with your people.

Funny thing, Christmas trees can be a litmus test of a kind and comparing and contrasting say Hobart and Launceston in the relevance stakes Christmas trees tells us a lot about how Councils regard their constituents more generally. It also has something to say about community engagement..

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“PRETTY” and “cool” were some of the words children used to describe Hobart City Council’s art Christmas tree in Salamanca Square last night. 

 But as the lights came on, not everyone was happy with the $35,000 metal tree. ... “It just doesn’t do anything for me. I think it’s a waste of money and I think there are a lot of better things to use money for,” Kingston’s Melanie Sadler said. Her friend Hannah McCullagh said the tree did not make her feel very festive."

Launceston's Christmas tree for instance, well it clings to tradition with every fibre even if its in plastic and evocative of Christmas elsewhere and London or the Northern Hemisphere generally for goodness sake. And the Christmas Parade will be focusing on "all things Disney" yet another flight to elsewhere and ultimate irrelevance in marketing.

 Just check out Launceston's Christmas spin on FACEBOOK:  

https://www.facebook.com/Christmas-in-the-City-1500152640263928/