LIBERAL MLA for Brindabella Mark Parton says the ACT Government would be “hypocrites” not to cut back the delivery of the “Our Canberra” newsletter, claiming the current distribution doesn’t adhere with the Labor and Greens environmental policy.

The newsletter has been delivered monthly into every Canberra letterbox since November 2015, before which it was delivered quarterly. It is also available online.

“The 8.4 million newsletters currently cost Canberrans approximately $2.6 million and consumes around 2027 trees, over a four-year term,” said Parton.

“The paper used is not from a recycled source and would stretch the distance from Canberra to Perth and back again.”

Parton is calling for the Government to return to circulating the newspaper on a quarterly basis, saying the current distribution is “out of step with the Labor-Greens claims of saving the environment.”

“The Labor-Greens Government has banned plastic bags, banned paper tickets on buses, and announced further single use bans are coming. Surely, they must follow suit and reduce the amount of paper being used for a newsletter where an alternative is possible,” he said.

“Reducing the newsletter from monthly to quarterly would save Canberrans around $1.6 million, a reduction of 5.3 million newsletters and about 1290 trees, over a four-year term.”

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