u/hobart-social

I was chatting with u/Edwin_Johnstone this morning and found his candor refreshing, and rather than have a discussion about his policies in private messages I thought we could all benefit from being able to ask him some questions about his policies going into the Council Elections in October.

Is it Lord Mayor you're running for, Edwin?

I don't want to misrepresent him, so I'll refrain from any specific questions on my part. It rather seems the popular sentiment from the private account brigade is for me to butt out. So I'll sit this one out and I guess if no one else has questions this can just drift off with zero responses.

Thanks for your time,

Sam

aka 'Snackgate' which I hate.

Let's get ahead of the rabid noodles here.

https://hobart.infocouncil.biz/Open/2026/07/CO_27072026_MIN_2168.htm#PDF2_Cr_Sherlock

Should go to the exact section.

As you can see, transparency was given priority, and not by those who have been demanding it so loudly for the sake of clout and political point scoring.

The loudest of those voices didn't even bother to stick around and vote. Louise shouts about democracy and justice, but does not even believe in either in the slightest. If she did she would show it more respect.

So I was reading through the post on pushing back on airbnb conversions, and came across a useful link posted by u/redlentilsoupfan that deserves a bit more of a broadcasting.

It is a website maintained my Murray Cox using data scraped from short stay sites, and Tasmania is included.

I have found it to be very useful in visualising the impact of short stay on our state.

There is even a list of which users are offering what. For instance, someone with the username 'Moxxi' has 148 entire homes/apartments listed, while 'Linda & Andre' have 12 private rooms, and 'Louella' is hosting 16 full houses/apartments.

Anyway, it's very insightful and likely of great interest to users on here, considering the attention given to the post from the other day.

Thanks for your time.