Graffiti Forum
02 June, 2010
About 18 months ago Lord Mayor Campbell Newman started up the Lord Mayor's Taskforce Against Graffiti in conjunction with Queensland Police and 143 people have since been charged with more that 4,300 graffiti-related offences as a direct result of the taskforce's work.
The Council's 12 graffiti clean-up teams have also removed a massive 260,000 square metres of graffiti during that same period.
But our hands are also somewhat tied when it comes to other public assets like railway lines and private property. The reality is that Council can not clean up all the graffiti alone.
Next month the Lord Mayor will be getting together with the Queensland Police to host the nations first graffiti forum; a meeting of the minds from government and the community all the way through to town planners, shopping centres and insurance companies. This is Brisbane's chance to create a united front against these thoughtless vandals. Illegal graffiti costs Brisbane ratepayers over $14 millions a year so the Lord Mayors Can Do team certainly will be listening out for any new ideas.
