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Key organisations in Norfolk Island have written to Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, pleading with him to restore good governance and representative democracy.
The Council of Elders, the Chamber of Commerce and the People for Democracy Movement say the removal of the island s autonomy in 2015 was ill-considered, hasty and poorly planned.
The island is attached to the suburban Canberra seat of Bean in the federal parliament, has no state government representation and late last year its local council was suspended.
Council of Elders president, David Buffett, said something similar to what existed in 2015 needed to be brought back. There needs to be a Norfolk Island democratic process. In other words an elected representative in, say, both what are presently federal matters, and in the range of state matters, as well as obviously in local matters. And that was the system in play obviously before the five year ago change in governance.