Ms Nicole O'Connor:

I can only speak for myself and the conversations I had over the course of the assembly. The question of whether we would discuss a plebiscite was raised on the first day and grew legs from there. It seemed to constantly come up in conversations afterwards. Personally, I would not think that the committee had not listened to us on the question of a plebiscite. I think it would be the right thing to do and it would be a great opportunity to educate people. Many people's reasoning for the plebiscite was that they did not want to be the only people to have a say and also we did not want this to be a failure. We wanted people to want to go out and vote for a directly elected mayor. Without that push to educate themselves on what was going on, we were afraid it would ultimately be a failure and people would not get out and vote.