Campbelltown Council votes for ban on election campaign posters
Election posters for a federal election candidate are still hanging in a northeastern road as a local council calls for them to be banned.
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Campbelltown Council wants a ban on election campaign posters as several for one federal candidate remain hanging in a busy northeastern road.
Elected members have voted to seek the support of northeastern Liberal MPs James Stevens, Vincent Tarzia and John Gardner to have the posters — known as corflutes — banned from local, state and federal government elections.
They also want the council to write to the Local Government Association to have the issue raised nationally.
The call came as five corflutes for Labor candidate Cressida O’Hanlon have yet to be removed from Schulze Rd, Athelstone, despite commentary by residents on social media.
Cr Matthew Noble told a recent meeting he had wanted the council to ban them but was told “it was not within our power” as it was a federal issue.
Cr Noble said corflutes added “a large cost to the political process with little benefit”.
“Many of us use corflutes but we wouldn’t have if we knew the other people (candidates) weren’t going to use them either,” he said.
“It is within our power to remedy the situation.”
Cr Noble said prominent South Australian federal politicians Christopher Pyne and Kate Ellis were critical of corflutes when they retired.
“Only quite recently we had two retiring federal members who came out and said they didn’t support corflutes and they would be happy for them to go,” he said.
Cr Leombruno said she was “in two minds” as corflutes helped introduce voters to election candidates.
However, she said campaigns should consist of more than putting up corflutes.
“If you are genuine about running for federal government or state government or whatever you go out, show yourself and mix with the public,” she said.
“There are other ways of getting yourself known apart from just some corflute on the side of a Stobie pole.”
Cr Leombruno said corflutes also were regarded as a nuisance, especially “when they are still hanging around” weeks after elections.
“They can have a negative effect for many residents out there,” she said.
Councillors voted 8-1 to seek a ban on the corflutes, with Liberal Party member Therese Bonomi dissenting.
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