Resources

Population dynamics: two videos and the Council presentation

Kingborough is growing faster than Tasmania, and ageing faster too. Here is the data Council was briefed on.

• 41,574 people at 30 June 2024, 47,300 projected by 2038.
• Growth of 0.86% in 2023/24 against 0.19% for Tasmania; 1.62% a year over 15 years against 0.91% statewide.
• Median age 42.5 to 46.6; residents 65 and over from 8,966 to 12,619; residents 85 and over from 954 to 2,476, more than double.
• By 2038 Tasmania’s growth is migration-led with more deaths than births. Fifty years ago there were seven working-age Australians per retiree; today there are four.

Part 1, The Growth (5:32) and Part 2, The Ageing (4:02), with the source presentation. Source of the presentation: Kingborough Council.

My 100 Day Plan

Eleven commitments. In writing, before you vote.

The eleven commitments I will start or finish in my first 100 days as Mayor, with a day 100 report card.

Kingborough Council Planning Function Review

Council’s independent review of how planning applications are handled: 112 pages, 45 recommendations, now public

Demand is down, not up. Effort per application has roughly doubled. Requests for information are the biggest frustration. Counter help runs two hours a day and emails take ten business days. Read what the review covered, what it found and what it recommends, then download the report from Council’s own website.

A win for the little guys

The Minister’s reply on candidate home addresses: the rule will go, but not before this election

The Minister for Local Government, the Hon Kerry Vincent MLC, has confirmed in writing that the Government will remove the need for candidates to display their home address on election signage, for both State and local government elections, calling it “an important step in ensuring candidates can campaign safely”. The change needs legislation and cannot be made before the October 2026 poll, so section 311 of the Local Government Act 1993 still applies this time. Fixed for next time. Not for this one.

The address problem

Why independent candidates are required to publish their family home address on election material, and what I have asked the Government to do about it

Section 311 of the Local Government Act 1993 requires every piece of election material to carry the responsible person’s true name and address, and it rules out a post office box or an email address. A party endorsed candidate can use the party’s registered office. An independent has to use the house their family lives in. On 17 August 2026 I wrote to the Minister for Local Government, the Tasmanian Electoral Commission, LGAT and the Office of Local Government asking for an approved alternative address for candidates with a safety concern, before nominations close on 21 September 2026.

Published 17 August 2026

A Message to Bruny Island

Read my statement to attendees at the BICA “Meet the Candidate” event, Sunday 9 August 2026

I could not attend the Bruny Island Community Association’s Meet the Candidate event in person, so BICA kindly made a copy of this statement available for those present to read. The response was generous enough that I am publishing it here for the whole Bruny community. It covers Adventure Bay Road, this year’s rate rise and the short stay accommodation rate, the withdrawal of the Bruny Island Specific Area Plan, quarantined funding for the island, and a monthly public clinic on Bruny if I am elected Mayor.

Published 9 August 2026

Bonnet Hill & Bruny Island Specific Area Plans

My concerns, and the amendment I will move — Kingborough Council, 3 August 2026

Kingborough is going through the biggest change to its planning rules in a generation. Ahead of the 3 August Council meeting I have published my full reasoning on the Bonnet Hill and Bruny Island Specific Area Plans: what the law actually requires, where my concerns lie, the amendment I will move so each plan is voted on separately, and the arguments that run against my own position. Read it online in one click, or download the PDF.

Updated 2 August 2026