LAUNCESTON IN SOLIDARITY

 

“If we know, then we must fight for your life as though it were our own -which it is- and render impassable with our bodies the corridors to the gas chamber. For if they come for you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.” ... James Baldwin

LAUNCESTON IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE UKRAINE PEOPLE

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If you want to make peace with your enemy, 

you have to work with your enemy. 

Then he becomes your partner.

Nelson Mandela

HAS LAUNCESTON ACTUALLY GOT THE CAPACITY TO LEAD? OR, WILL THIS COUNCIL PERSIST WITH IS 'NEAR ENOUGH IS GOOD ENOUGH' STANCE?

 

GO TO CENTRAL COAST COUNCIL POLICY: https://www.centralcoast.tas.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/2021-Greening-Central-Coast-Strategy.pdf

Launceston Council's February 10 agenda is not yet published but it is reported that there will be an agenda item to do with, wait for it, GREENING LAUNCESTON! Notably, its reported that it comes about as a knee jerk reaction to that august body, the Launceston Chamber of Commerce, and it's 'initiative' to encourage/whatever the council to, presumably deliver on its 2019 'CLIMATE EMERGENCY POLICY' – something that 'this bunch of Councillors' has avoided doing anything about in reality.

Local Governments throughout Australia not only have such policies, they are being very active relative to their determinations. 

In Launceston the chain dragging is palpable and if one dare ask anyone, Councillor or officer, you'll get 'we cannot do that sort of change just yet' ... 'this is hard and we are constrained by this or that'  ... and it goes on and on and on and tediously.

AND, this Council has spent $8.1 million dollar of ratepayers money on a landfill cell all the time mouthing support for ZERO WASTE. Can anyone spot the credibility gap?

In the end it is all empty rhetoric! Meanwhile, Tasmania's Central Coast Council is in front and centre building upon its past and rather environmentally sensitive policy sets and always looking to 'up the anti'. In fact, in that administration there has been some interest in the 12 questions a Launceston Ratepayer has put to Council, alongside the Chamber of Commerce's apparent advocacy, and that is more than interesting.

The Central Coast Council turns out to be a leader and as for Launceston's Council you might say .................

Doreen Bowen