(They were going to finish Hobart Deputy Mayor first but evidently the plan changed somewhere perhaps because the LM and DM counts were taking so long.)
This was not an opinion poll - an opinion poll is a small sample of a much greater whole that may be subject to weighting errors and random sample noise. This was a compulsory vote in which 84% of enrolled Hobart voters voted with only 5% of those declining to express a view.
https://twitter.com/CityByrne/status/1585872972644245505
This said an opinion poll on the issue if remotely well designed would also show an overwhelming no (and I suspect already has though the results of the poll that was being done were never released.)
It is indeed only one municipality, and some voters who voted No would be against aspects of the current move proposal or the timing and not necessarily permanently against the concept fullstop. But "just an opinion poll" = "only a flesh wound".
It may well be that surrounding municipalities have a very different view. If so a well designed (actual) opinion poll would demonstrate that, if conducted by a quality pollster with all results, wordings and methods transparently released.
A few things about the elector poll being restricted to Hobart.
The elector poll was conducted because the Save UTAS Campus group went through the process to get a poll on the ballot in Hobart. The bar for getting a poll on the ballot is quite low.
The elector poll was conducted because the Save UTAS Campus group went through the process to get a poll on the ballot in Hobart. The bar for getting a poll on the ballot is quite low.
An elector poll does not have to relate to something in that council area. In the past we have seen a Hobart elector poll about a proposed pulp mill at the other end of the state, for example.
Threshhold is lesser of 5% of electors or 1000 electors, following a public meeting.
Threshhold is lesser of 5% of electors or 1000 electors, following a public meeting.
There was nothing in principle to prevent a "Move UTAS Campus" group setting up in surrounding councils and doing the same thing to canvass support for a move in those councils. If, that is, enough people cared and thought it was a thing worth doing,
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