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Let it be known that Friday Jan 13 2023 was the day your psephologist almost ended up living outside the Hobart City boundaries for the first time since 1982 but following events much too bizarre to make up it didn't occur. Hobart is stuck with me for at least another year.
Which #lgtas municipality has dodged the bullet? (Answer order randomised)
And the answer is ... Clarence!
(You really don't need me Clarence. You are lucky to have @Tantusar 's lavish council reporting, @IngridHarrison 's astute general commentary and even at least one closet pseph junkie on your council.)
(You really don't need me Clarence. You are lucky to have @Tantusar 's lavish council reporting, @IngridHarrison 's astute general commentary and even at least one closet pseph junkie on your council.)
All councillor counts are now final except:
Burnie
Central Coast
Clarence
Devonport
Glenorchy
Hobart
Launceston
Meander Valley
West Tamar
Data entry til 10:30 tonight so should get a few more today and from 7:30 am Monday
#lgtas
Burnie
Central Coast
Clarence
Devonport
Glenorchy
Hobart
Launceston
Meander Valley
West Tamar
Data entry til 10:30 tonight so should get a few more today and from 7:30 am Monday
#lgtas
Correction: Kingborough also still to come.
Kingborough, Burnie, Meander Valley all done now so seven to go. Surprising that Central Coast is one of them since that was at 50% on Wednesday and is quite small.
(They were going to finish Hobart Deputy Mayor first but evidently the plan changed somewhere perhaps because the LM and DM counts were taking so long.)
This was not an opinion poll - an opinion poll is a small sample of a much greater whole that may be subject to weighting errors and random sample noise. This was a compulsory vote in which 84% of enrolled Hobart voters voted with only 5% of those declining to express a view.
Exclusion order interesting here though I highly doubt anyone catches Burnet. Also, Briscoe is currently provisionally losing his councillor seat (though I think still some chance to retain, albeit difficult) #lgtas
And it can remain interesting for tonight at least (awaiting word on counting tomorrow) because that is all for Friday.
Dutta gained on Briscoe but not enough and is out now. Briscoe needs to gain 2.53% on Behrakis off Dutta's 20.53%; that seems highly unlikely to me.
Hobart folk, as a @UTAS_ academic and alumni, current Sandy Bay resident, former Glenorchy and Burnie boy, here's my opinion on moving the rest of the Sandy Bay campus to Hobart. Pls ignore if outside Hobart. #lgtas🧵 1/n
Two issues here, so don't conflate as is being done: 1. Should UTas move the rest of its academics to Hobart; 2) Should the Sandy Bay campus be reused for housing? 2/n
Before the long list, a note that I loved - like most people who attended uni at Sandy Bay in the 1990s or before - being at uni. Education has changed though. Campus life has changed. Complexity of lives have changed. The student body is more diverse by far. 3/n
An #lgtas 🧵 on the positions of candidates at tonight's Save UTAS forum on the move.
Order of candidates is the same as their appearance.
(Disclaimers at the end)
Order of candidates is the same as their appearance.
(Disclaimers at the end)
@LouiseBloomfld (17:05) - 110% against the move. Based on the effects of parking and resources with customers. Says there's already been a negative effect from those in the city.
@AnnaReyno (20:27) - wants to strike a compromise that shifts UTAS' position. Wants STEM and Ag Sci to remain at Sandy Bay. Wants the current buildings leased after the move. Wants current buildings refurbished and not demolished. Notes the amount of buildings in the city.
Whoah, Hobart has 44 candidates including *ten* not known about as of yesterday. Three I have immediately heard of: Lili Christie (wife of Ron), Tiina Sexton (wife of Sexton who is retiring, ran in 2011), Stefan Vogel (2018 candidate) #lgtas #politas
44 candidates is too many. I am like a broken record on this but it is absolutely nuts that there is no deposit for running for local government and absolutely nuts that you do not need a significant number of nominators.
#lgtas
#lgtas
I'll be adding info on the new candidates through the day as I can find it, little as they deserve it after hiding their lights under bushels for so long.
Why did Hobart City Council send a confidential two-page briefing to its/our elected members, secretly urging them to “collaborate” with UTAS on its proposal to redevelop the S/Bay campus? I just asked HCC to release the document, so we can all see it... #LGTas #politas 
... but they’ve taken all three of my questions on notice, and blamed their inability to answer on the short period of time since I sent the questions. Just for the record, I sent them on Tuesday 14 January, almost two weeks ago.
The @UTAS_ Council meets on Friday to decide whether to abandon most or all of the beautiful Sandy Bay campus, based on a lie. UTAS claims it can’t refurbish old buildings on the campus, but the evidence says it can. They wasted the💰on CBD buildings instead
#politas #lgtas
#politas #lgtas
The Engineering building at Sandy Bay was built in 1959. A few weeks ago UTAS launched a new state-of-the-art design centre inside this 60-year old building. This facility is one of the most modern teaching spaces in Tasmania. In a 60yo old building
The old engineering building on the Domain campus was built in the 50s or 60s. But UTAS has successfully refurbished it for the School of Nursing and Midwifery, a faculty that clearly involves aspects of Science, and Technology. In an old building
utas.edu.au/infrastructure…
utas.edu.au/infrastructure…
The purchase of the former Forestry Tasmania building is not the only real estate deal that's seen UTAS take a financial bath, at taxpayer's expense. Thread.
#politas #lgtas #Hobart
#politas #lgtas #Hobart
The former Forestry Tasmania building was previously owned by Calbourne Nominees, a company associated with the Rockefellers. According to the ABC, the property was valued at $5.7 million and UTAS paid $15 million
Calbourne Nominees were also the company that applied to the @cityofhobarttas to demolish the forestry dome last year themercury.com.au/news/tasmania/…
