Independent senator joins the anti-signage party.

 

A South Australian senator has joined the call for all political parties to commit to a permanent ban on the use of election corflutes in future state and federal election campaigns.

 

"The time has come to ban election corflutes," declared independent Senator Rex Patrick. "And to lead by example I'm promising you'll not see my mug on any stobies (electrical cable poles) in the coming election campaign."

 

Opposition to corflute signage has been a feature of many previous state and federal elections, with most complaints highlighting environmental concerns.

 

“South Australians have just faced a tidal wave of visual pollution during the State election campaign,” Senator Patrick said in a statement. "They don't need another six weeks of vanity posters staring at them as they drive about the streets".

 

“Corflute mania has long been a feature of our election campaigns, but enough is enough. We have to ban them. There's no evidence that they do anything to help voters," Senator Patrick said. 

 

“The major political parties don’t care about our environment. They’re happy to foul SA landscapes with pictures of grinning political drones. And they’re all too happy to be beholden to big political donors who fund all this waste.”

 

“Corflutes are environmentally wasteful. They’re an eyesore along our roadsides. Putting corflutes up on stobie poles can be dangerous for the volunteers that mount them and the cable ties used to attach them can be harmful to our wildlife.

 

They’re an expensive and environmentally destructive vanity exercise, fuelling the insatiable demand for money that corrupts our political life,” he said.

 

“I won’t be deploying corflutes in the pending Federal election campaign, and I urge other candidates and political parties to join me.

 

“2022 will hopefully be the last time South Australians have to put up with all this political rubbish. We really do need to ban the corflutes,” he added. 

 

 

 

Footnote: Corflute® is a registered trademark of Corex Australia Pty Ltd, as is Fluteboard®. Corex Recycling is a Melbourne-based plastic recycle processor specialising in Corflute®, Polypropylene (PP), HDPE and other plastic recycling solutions..