Elise Archer stands for:
ensuring transparency & accountability in government decision making and due process;
ensuring essential services such as electricity and water and sewerage remain 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:
- access to the waterfront;
- maintaining the working Port of Hobart;
- increasing tourism opportunities
- calling for the redevlopment of Princes Wharf Shed No.1 to be energy efficient with renewable enery options, and ensuring it provides an appropriate site for the Taste Festival, community events and conventions, and remains in public ownership;
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);
standing up for local communities;
working with local government for better community and economic outcomes.
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