Policy position 2026

CHILD-SAFETY FIRST

Circular Head Council needs systems that make safety the default, not an afterthought. As Mayor, I will initiate collaboration with the Behavioural Economics Team of the Australian Government (BETA, DPMC) to redesign Council safety protocols. Instead of reactive crisis management, we'll use evidence-based behavioural design to reduce stigma, bring concerns forward earlier, and make it easier for families to ask for help..

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SHOW TASMANIANS THE MONEY

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REAL TIME T&A = Integrity UpGRADE

Circular Head Council didn't just endorse the "Lift the Tone" campaign—they jumped the gun.

Latrobe Council documents reveal the real agenda: legislative amendments to limit access and manage behaviours.

Translation: making it harder for you to ask questions and easier for them to hide answers. Who placed a crown on these heads?

This is White Shoe Brigade governance straight out of Joh Bjelke-Petersen's playbook. Just like Joh's Queensland, where developers in white shoes wrote the rules while the Premier declared "don't you worry about that,".

Circular Head tried to test-drive censorship.

"Lift the Tone" frames legitimate scrutiny as "bad behaviour" needing legislative suppression.

The Joh method is clear: pre-emptive decisions, anti-transparency laws, and treating accountability as harassment.

This isn't about manners. The unmistakable smell of white shoes.

Council wants the right to ignore you while claiming the moral high ground.

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Save The devils

The Tasmanian devil is Circular Head's future economic engine, not just a conservation problem.

While Council focuses on pothole repairs, the extinction of our regional mascot would cost us decades of eco-tourism revenue, international research partnerships, and the "Tassie devil" brand.

As Mayor, I will treat devil habitat as infrastructure with appreciating value: wildlife corridors that increase tourism opportunities and speed-management systems that enable "devil spotting" eco-tourism circuits.

This is a 20-year trajectory, building an environmental value economy our grandchildren inherit, not just reacting to carcasses on Arthur River Road.

Tracking devil populations as economic indicators, not just statistics, every Tasmanian Devil death is a loss to the Circular Head region.

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