Elise Archer stands for:
protecting the jobs of frontline police, nurses and teachers;
ensuring transparency & accountability in government decision making and due process;
standing up for our local communities;
one state-wide planning scheme for all Tasmania for a fairer, cheaper, simpler and faster planning system;
where possible, ensuring essential services such as electricity and water and sewerage can be affordable for all Tasmanians;
investigating the economic and practical viability of alternative urban public transport options such as passenger light rail;
maintaining high quality road infrastructure, with road safety a priority;
delivering better health results, shorter hospital waiting lists, keeping people well and out of hospital, providing more services closer to home, spending the health dollar better and ensuring a fairer Tasmania;
lifting our unacceptable education standards and providing better support to teachers and students;
developing a sustainable plan to ease
traffic congestion in and around Hobart;
maximising opportunities for the greater area of Hobart such as:
- developing a Capital City Strategy to ensure access to future federal infrastructure funds (as required by COAG by 1 January 2012);
- access to the waterfront;
- maintaining the working Port of Hobart;
- increasing tourism opportunities;
having a long term commitment to affordable housing, together with a consultative homelessness strategy (and models of youth housing to reconnect young people with education, training and work opportunities);
working with local government for better community and economic outcomes.
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