Time To Make Our Collective Mark

This is not an official ballot paper.
The ticks show how I shall be voting.
How you vote will be known only to you.

City of Vincent Council Election and, importantly, Plebiscite ballot papers have started arriving in our mailboxes. As I have previously mentioned on this blog, the plebiscite might be the only real opportunity we get to make our views about the proposed abolition of the City of Vincent clear and unambiguous.

So, whether or not you would normally choose to vote in the Council Election, please vote in the plebiscite. Although the results of the plebiscite are not binding in the way that a vote under Schedule 2.1 of the Local Government Act would be, if we can get the magic 50% elector turnout it will send an extremely powerful message to Colin Barnett.

Colin Barnett has stated his intention to remove our right to vote on local government amalgamation proposals, although he does seem to be running into increasing opposition from his own party as well as from the communities he seeks to disenfranchise, so this might be your only opportunity to stand up for Vincent and the future of the Vincent community.

If, like me, you would prefer to keep the City of Vincent as it is, then place a tick in the 'No' box for Question 2.

If Vincent were to be abolished, however, as Colin Barnett has threatened, Question 1 allows you to say whether you prefer keeping the Vincent community together in the City of Perth or his model of splitting between Perth and Stirling, effectively destroying the community we have built up over the past two decades.

PS. I'm sure it's not deliberate, but the Plebiscite ballot paper is a little larger than the Councillor or Mayor election ballot papers. However, it will go in the envelope with a bit of pushing and shoving!