Well voting pre poll at Mount Druitt Hub, the only way you can tell that there is a election at any time is when candidates cor-flutes are placed on A-Frames.
When it comes to media making sure the community are aware that there is an election, usually there is a lot of hype and discussion in radio, television, State elections. There is debate after debate, there are polls after polls one says this the other side says this and then each party releases their policies, normally so close to the election date. Pre Poll for this is automatically known, so the community come as they well educated in this.
Yet when it come s to local government elections the wider media seem to take a low key stance in it and don't advertise much until the day before itself. The local media do the best job they can do, in the meantime.
So With proper banners like the Electoral Commission do for other elections, there is no 'large' sign outside indicating it is an election. Community members may not understand what is happening and stated to me not everyone reads local newspapers and is involved in local social media face book groups. So this is where we need more than A4 signs outside the Mount Druitt Hub library, banners and A4 cor-fllutes explaining the Council election is on.
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