Australian Greens
The Alice Springs Town Council will hold elections for eight Councillors and a Mayor on 23 August 2025.
The NT Greens have the following policy priorities for the Alice Springs Town Council:
Prepare our town for a hotter future.
- Create a new climate adaptation strategy, including scenarios like bushfires, power blackout, water security and flooding.
- Maximise the use of solar energy
- Install a battery at the town pool.
- Start electrification of the ASTC vehicle fleet, including rubbish trucks.
- Start development of multi-megawatt scale PV array on ASTC land.
Expand activities for young people.
- Partner with the NT Government to establish a youth hub on weekend evenings as a crime prevention strategy.
Decrease the cost of the pool and increase the hours of the library.
- Extend library hours, especially on the weekend.
- Employ directly or partner with social workers and youth workers to provide support to vulnerable people
- Expand the items that can be borrowed from the library, like tools and hiking gear, to tackle cost of living.
- Make the town pool free for children and their carers outside of school hours, and to all residents over the summer.
Protect and improve our parks.
- No selling off council land.
- Increase shade and seating
- Promote native vegetation to support urban biodiversity and water conservation
- Phase out plastic play equipment
- Ensure all parks have a drinking fountain
- Ensure all parks have public toilets with baby-change facilities that are open during daylight hours.
Activate the CBD.
- Connect empty shopfronts with community initiatives like galleries or workshops
- More council events in the CBD to bring people to town in the evening.
- Explore incentives to fill vacant properties.
More footpaths, bike lanes and zebra crossings.
- Build more and wider footpaths
- Promote active transport
- New seating on footpaths and along the river
- Build more drinking fountains
Get rid of buffel on Council land.
- Make and implement a plan to eliminate buffel on Council land.
- Support individuals and organisations to tackle buffel grass on their land.
Address our childcare shortage.
- Establish a centralised waitlist for all childcare providers in Alice Springs.
- Establish a council-run childcare centre that provides both long and occasional daycare.
Provide public amenities that meet peoples' needs.
- Make sure all public toilets have baby change facilities
- Make the showers at the ASTC building free
- Explore options for a public food bank and public landromat.
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