Machiavelli is pulling someone's chain at Town Hall

The politicians in the CANBERRAbubble might well be tossing and turning looking for a way forward. Likewise, their 'mates' in the LAUNCESTONbubble have got their fingers crossed and hoping that there is a way forward that looks 'something like what it is now'. 

Sadly, what's being missed is that 'the purpose' in all this stuff is serving and representing constituencies!

The plot is well and truly lost not only in Canberra but also in Launceston/Tasmania. Well people, in the end it is not about you as representatives. Yes people, in fact its all about the people in the places whom you represent. Hello!

Basil Fitch's call to 'keep party politics out of local government' is more than timely. The speculation that a branch of the Liberal Party, if the speculation has substance, the branch has encouraged, and apparently  endorsed, Mayor van Zetten as a mayoral candidate for the upcoming elections with Ald. Hugh McKenzie apparently as the endorsed Deputy candidate. 

Ratepayers and residents are likely to hear 'party political proponents' bleating that this isn't so but they, whoever they are, might be inclined to say that mightn't they.

For anyone who has been looking at what the cosy snuggle-ups between Launceston's Mayor and the Minister has resulted in will note that LAUNCESTONIANS are in debt – something like $20million in fact – and it's a legacy Launcestonians are stuck with for a long time ahead. 

The calculation being, seemingly, that none of it will touch the incumbents at Town Hall. They let the situation slip by while they dozed-off around the table and/or chose to look the other way on while taking their stipends.

Launcestonians need to be aware of the sort of things going on behind behind 'closed doors' at Town Hall and elsewhere. In fact it is more than worrying what has been happening in 'Closed Council Meetings' and in 'Machiavellian Meetings' in Newstead or wherever. 

Launcetonians need to be looking very, very carefully at the toxic circumstances in which they find themselves – very very carefully indeed.

Ray Norman

August 2018

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