If we want healthy local economies and thriving communities, we actually need to set better policy at a central government level that local people can actually deliver when they're elected. So conflicting objectives, like taking out parking and pursuing climate change goals that are, really, only the preserve of central government through the emissions trading scheme, don't help foster better candidates; they only cause confusion for people voting in local body elections and definitely lead to a whole lot of extremely confused candidates, whether they're supporting cats' rights or claiming that they're going to solve climate change by taking out parking outside local businesses in favour of cycleways, for example.