The recent Federal election reflected an appalling waste of money and generation of waste by all parties, but principally the major ones which clambered for superiority by producing more and more signage.
Do they really think that more signs means more votes?
The government should enact new election campaigning rules restricting all parties to display no more than five regular 900 x 600 corflutes (or equivalent) at polling booths on the pre-polling and polling days only – not before.
This would save a large amount of material going to landfill as corflutes cannot be recycled as well as giving volunteers more time to dedicate to informing voters of policies and less frustration from voters faced with excessive waste.
Email, May 12
Alan Pappas, West Gosford
The whole campaigning process is in dire need of reform. The impacts on the environment and the economy are widespread, and it’s frankly embarrassing that we’re more concerned about misinformation on toilet paper packaging than on political advertisements.
Unfortunately, the current laws disproportionately benefit the major parties (even in this case – minor parties and independents will rarely use as much physical advertising), and most of the necessary reforms will shrink the size of that benefit. I don’t see any such change happening until we elect a minority government, but I’d be very happy to be proven wrong