BUSSELTON resident Julia Avery is running for council next month and would like to see Busselton become a better place.
She would like to see more attractions along the foreshore for young people to enjoy and provide them with employment opportunities.
“A tunnel of terror would be great there,” she said.
“It would be fun and I know we like the comfortable lifestyle in Busselton, we have nice cafes in the area but there is something more that needs to be done for young people.”
Ms Avery would like Busselton to become more vibrant and sees the cruise ships coming into town as a great opportunity to host small festivals and markets in Mitchell Park.
“We could use our public space for markets and things like that, you can visualise it, we could make it a vibrant town,” she said.
“People know where we are.
“We are the events capital and we are known internationally for the ironman and Busselton Jetty swim.”
While Ms Avery would like to see a more vibrant town she would also like more innovative measures to improve infrastructure for ratepayers and visitors to the region.
“People have repeatedly reported poor road conditions and nothing happens,” she said.
Ms Avery would like the city do more road inspections and have a roster of upgrades while keeping as many trees as possible for fauna corridors.
Another project Ms Avery would like to see get off the ground was innovation around waste management and had been looking at what other cities do around the world.
She wanted to find out how a Danish waste management model used no landfill and how a similar model could be implemented in Busselton.
“Queensland also use big belly rubbish bins,” she said.
“The bins take three times more rubbish than traditional bins and partially composts.”
Ms Avery said an initiative like this would be great in summer when more people visited the town and bins tended to overflow with rubbish.
