On 2 August around 150 people filled the Flinders Civic Centre for a community meeting to hear about the impacts of the shire’s cuts to performing arts funding and decision to rescind the Climate Emergency Declaration and Action Plan. The environmental and arts advocates chose to combine their causes, finding common ground, despite differing challenges. The arts community is facing a considerable cut in funding from historically high levels, and climate groups the removal of the action plan that provided structure for the peninsula’s approach to climate change mitigation. The audience included shire mayor Cr Anthony Marsh, shire CEO Mark…
Saturday, August 16
