Victoria Wilkinson - West Tamar

31/10/2026

Here is the Examiner in action. The endless Rockliff saga on front page of today's (31 October 2026) Examiner.

31/10/2026

Noticed this on Dr Kevin Bonham's blog spot.

FAKE POLLSTER ALERT
"Openpoll" is a website that collects responses via opt-in recruitment from One Nation friendly websites and social media and then claims that these opt-in responses represent the views of voters generally. This site's Twitter account has blocked me to evade scrutiny.

26/10/2026

Examiner - please stop doing this front page, click-bait distraction reporting. (There has been 4 click options for a number of days.) The stupidity of our Premier has gone on too long, caused great distress and looks more like something to keep other issues out of this masthead - things such as people dying because our health system is failing, or having to pay $1m to the unsuccessful tender for that stadium we can afford.

20/10/2026

Each year UTAS Conservatorium students compete for the Ossa Music prize – the winner gets to tour Tasmania. I've been going to the Launceston performances for some time - very different music styles and content but always excellent- and free. It can be a solo performance or a group. This year it's a folk trio. Thursday 5th Nov.

BOOK NOW on Humanitix - Ossa Music Prize Tour 2026 - PALENCIA hosted by Conservatorium of Music. Multiple - Refer to Description. Tuesday 3rd November 2026. Find event information.

18/10/2026

Rockcliff thinks he's being very clever - DAP's by deception. DAP's have been rejected by the community and LGAT in the past. Now he's cynically using the need to amend the planning scheme to sneak in what sectors of the development industry want in order to avoid a proper merit based and locally relevant assessment process.

15/10/2026

They named the project ‘ENVI’ to reflect the Gold Coast’s growing appetite for terrace-style housing — a typology more commonly seen in Australia’s larger cities.

How forward-thinking planners enabled Australia’s first micro-lot village, unlocking affordable and diverse housing solutions.

13/10/2026

https://voicesoftasmania.org
https://www.facebook.com/voicesoftasmania

Democracy. Let's do it. Voices of Tasmania announcement. This note is to inform interested parties that Voices of Tasmania has evolved to an electorate driven initiative. The support and efforts to elect quality Community led Independents is seen here: Voices of Tasmania Franklin. May

12/10/2026

This is to take a year long low stocking trial to what is referred to as “a density equivalent to commercial operations.”
There is a Have Your Say opportunity.
https://blueeconomycrc.com.au/blue-economy-zone/epbc-act/have-your-say/

11/10/2026

https://sgsep.com.au/publications/insights/from-cloud-to-concrete-the-planners-role-in-data-centres
"Location Matters
Three types of facilities are being built, and they cannot be treated the same. Edge data centres are small, decentralised and need low latency, so they sit close to users to reduce delays. Hyperscale and enterprise facilities also stay near users and run trained models. AI campuses train models at high compute density, where inference latency is irrelevant and large sites with dedicated power are preferred.

All of the three types of data centres seek to be close to four scarce things: energy transmission lines, fibre networks, subsea cable routes, and water for cooling. The largest-scale AI campuses also seek out very large sites."

Every swipe, tap and click runs through a data centre. We check the weather, scan the news, load a map — and somewhere, a building full of servers does the work. The question planners have a role in is where the buildings should go and who benefits.

07/10/2026

Planning Matters Alliance Tasmanian Candidate Survey 2026

Democracy cannot function without communication. If voters are to make informed choices among candidates, they must have the opportunity to learn about candidates’ policy positions. During the last two Local Government elections PMAT surveyed candidates to ask their position on planning.