A FIFTH OF VICTORIA’S SMALLEST BOROUGH REBELS:
20% of ratepayers deliver letters to save climate plan

QUEENSCLIFFE, VIC – 8 OCTOBER 2026 - A massive grassroots pushback is now concerning the administration at the Borough of Queenscliffe, with fast approaching 20% of local ratepayers taking the unprecedented step of hand-delivering physical, hard-copy "Letition" Open Letters directly to the Council chambers for Councillors. 

Letition.org = Pressure; empowering the community.

The extraordinary surge in community concerns comes in response to fears that a 4 -1 approach inside the Council that is using an ongoing independent review by Nation Partners to water down and quietly rebrand the town's highly celebrated Climate Emergency Response Plan (CERP) into a diminished "Climate Strategy."

The community campaign, a digital letter-petition hybrid printed out en masse by residents, has allegedly shattered Council narratives regarding the cost of local climate initiatives.

Local advocates have revealed that the Borough’s current climate framework utilises just 1% of collected municipal rates, costing households an average of only $35 per year.

The campaign's 20% milestone when reached will put immense pressure on a divided Council. In mid-2025, Deputy Mayor Brendan Monahan led a successful 4–1 motion enforcing a strict financial review of the plan. Furthermore, a controversial Council vote in July 2025 stripped climate change, biodiversity, and Wadawurrung heritage references from the town’s official Community Vision document, despite an internal Freedom of Information (FOI) report proving the vast majority of surveyed residents strongly opposed the deletions.

With the independent Nation Partners community roundtables currently underway this October, residents are using the physical delivery of Open Letters to send a clear warning to local officials and executive staff.

Community organisers state the hard-copy campaign will continue to arrive at individual Councillor inboxes and desks until the Council publicly commits to preserving the strict net-zero carbon targets originally aimed at for completion by 2031.

A letter box campaign starts mid Oct. A public meeting is planned by Borough residents for  Saturday the 14^th of Nov 2026 to cover isses of the CERP and the Community Vision with a Survey.

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