Aboriginal group calls on aldermen to say no to kunanyi/Mt Wellington cable car project
THE Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre has written to all Hobart City Council aldermen urging them to reject the cable car proposal.
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TASMANIAN Aboriginal Centre CEO Heather Sculthorpe has written to all Hobart aldermen urging them to reject the cable car proposal ahead of next week’s highly anticipated council meeting.
But the Mount Wellington Cableway Company says it respects the original custodians of kunanyi/Mt Wellington.
Aldermen will debate a recommendation from the parks and recreation committee to block any cable car infrastructure on council-owned land at Monday’s council meeting and Ms Sculthorpe has called on all aldermen to back that recommendation.
In a move that shocked the cable car proponent last week, the council parks committee rejected a request for a flora and fauna study and unanimously accepted a motion from Alderman Jeff Briscoe calling for no cable car infrastructure to be built on council land.
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Ms Sculthorpe said the centre had actively opposed the cable car development for many years.
“The proposal just keeps getting worse,” she said.
“While our attention is diverted to a new road up the mountain from the tip, with its intrusion into sensitive ecological communities, we then see all sorts of new developments on top of the mountain — none of it necessary for a cable car.
“We fully support the council and before it CUB in declining use of the land they manage for this private company,” she said.
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Cableway company chairwoman Jude Franks said she had offered to brief Aboriginal
leaders on the proposed cable car project and was meeting the chairman of the Aboriginal Heritage Council Rodney Dillon next week.
“I have spoken to the general manager of Reconciliation Tasmania and we formally brief their members in September,” she said.
“I have also left a message for Heather Sculthorpe to offer briefings.
“We respect the original custodians of kunanyi/Mt Wellington and over the past few years have engaged with Aboriginal community leaders as part of our community consultation process.”
Hobart Lord Mayor Ron Christie said Monday’s meeting would start at 5.30pm due to a performance by the Yurikamome Choir in Town Hall.
He reminded the public that there was limited seating at the council chamber and said the meeting would be live streamed on the council’s website.
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