Launceston's mayor believes the remaining eight Tasmanian tiger statues in the Brisbane Street Mall are safe if you look where you are going. ................................... Earlier this month two of the thylacine statues, which caused the most community concern, were removed and placed into storage until a new placement plan was developed for all 10 statues. ................................... Coffee Republic owner Robin Smith raised concerns about the remaining eight statues at the last City of Launceston council meeting. He asked if the council considered them to be safe. ................................... "My observation, having worked in the mall for 20 years now, [is] people don't seem to have trouble with anything that's standard height," he said. ................................... "Certainly the Thylacines that remain in the mall today are also too low to be considered safe." ................................... Mayor Albert van Zetten said he believed the remaining statues were safe. ................................... "I think the ones there are safe if you look where you're going," he said. ................................... A risk assessment of the bronzed statues to foot traffic was undertaken by the council, after a number of people had fallen or tripped over them. ................................... The review was first announced in April 2020 and took more than eight months to be finalised. ................................... Mr Smith also asked why all of the plans from the 2015 concept for the mall upgrade were not implemented. ................................... The council's chief executive Michael Stretton said there was extensive consultation with mall retailers during installation that saw changes to those plans. ................................... "Not all elements of the mall, as it was constructed was entirely with what the initial approved plan was," he said. ................................... "The best balance in terms of trying to meet the needs of retailers versus the approved plan was what was sought." .... https://www.examiner.com.au/story/7125738/remaining-tiger-statues-are-safe-if-you-look-where-you-are-going-mayor/get-your-daily-morning-wrap-from-the-examiner/
IS THIS ABLEISM OR IS IT SIMPLY DISCONNECTIVISM AT WORK?
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Date: 14 February 2021 at 5:53:52 pm AEDT
Subject: We have received your response for Letters to the editorReply-To: gstone@austcommunitymedia.com.au
TEXT FIXED ..... The community has been short changed in relation to the design features and facilities promised/expected for the Mall.................. The scant consultation undertaken made it very clear that the community wanted a lush shady and aesthetically-pleasing environment, and this would attract people to the place and provide a welcoming environment for shoppers and visitors to the central area. However, Council managers employed Adelaide-based consultants with pre-conceived ideas about design, and the result we have is what you get. ................... The management operates under the radar of Councillors who in the end have to just "suck it up" and either expose themselves of claims of interfering in day-to-day management affairs, or keep their mouths shut. ................. Electors expected their representatives to speak up....to represent them....but no, after all "snouts in troughs" is a very comfortable place to exist. Yum!
Lionel Morrell President, Tasmanian Ratepayers Association Inc.
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WHAT IS AT WORK HERE?
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