Teodora Ravelle Independent for Mayor of Port Ellery
Election day
Saturday 17 April 2027
Polls open 07:00 to 21:00
Fix the harbour. Then the rest.
Twenty-eight years on the sea wall. A plan you can say on a doorstep, and every line of it costed.
Print the poster
Make one for your window.
Every poster on this campaign comes off a riso duplicator in the Ropewalk shed, two drums at a time. Pull one here, choose the line it carries, and send it on.
- Ink drum: black
- Ink drum: fluorescent pink
- Paper feed: dry and stack
Print no. 1207
Who she is
Read her like a tide table.
High water is the work that held.
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1998
Apprentice
Sixteen, a welding apprentice at the Ellery dry dock. First job: the gate seals.
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2006
Engineer on the sea wall
Qualified as a civil engineer. Nine winters on the North Mole, block by block.
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2017
The storm year
One January night the sea took 90 m of the Saltgate wall. She was on it at three in the morning with the pump crew.
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2019
The Harbour Trust
Founded a trust so the people who live on the water decide what is built on it. 2,300 members now.
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2026
Running
Running for mayor because the wall still moves, and the city still patches it and hopes.
I am not a politician. I am the person who gets called when the water comes over.
The plan
Four lines you can repeat.
Each one costed, each one paid for. No new borrowing. Say them on a doorstep and you have said the whole campaign.
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Fix the sea wall before the next storm season.
- What it costs
- $41.2m over four years
- How it is paid for
- Refinancing the 2009 harbour bond, a matched state coastal grant, and berth fees from the cruise pier.
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A bus every ten minutes on the harbour loop.
- What it costs
- $6.8m a year
- How it is paid for
- A $2 levy on each cruise passenger, parking income moved out of the general fund, and fares.
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Turn the empty fish sheds into homes and workshops.
- What it costs
- $12.5m, recovered by year eight
- How it is paid for
- City land put in as equity, a housing trust partner, and workshop rents.
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Publish every city contract within seven days.
- What it costs
- $180,000 a year
- How it is paid for
- From the existing city IT budget, by ending two software licences nobody uses.
Where to find us
The next five.
Free, public, and in a building with step-free access. Tear off a stub: it goes straight into your calendar.
All events, five weeks ahead-
Tuesday 27 Oct
Supper Ropewalk
Doorstep supper
Tue 27 Oct, 18:30 to 20:30 Ropewalk Institute hall
Soup, bread and the plan. Bring a neighbour.
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Saturday 31 Oct
Walk Saltgate
Sea wall walk with Teodora
Sat 31 Oct, 10:00 to 12:00 Saltgate slipway
She shows you where the wall has moved. Boots, not shoes.
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Thursday 5 Nov
Coffee Netherbank
Early shift coffee at the dock gates
Thu 5 Nov, 06:30 to 08:00 Gate 4, Netherbank docks
For the people the loop leaves behind after dark.
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Saturday 7 Nov
Ride Quayside
Ride the loop and time it
Sat 7 Nov, 11:00 to 12:30 Stop Q1, Quayside
One full lap with stopwatches. We publish the times.
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Wednesday 11 Nov
Meeting Lantern Hill
Ask anything: the costed plan
Wed 11 Nov, 19:00 to 20:30 Lantern Hill library
Every figure on the plan page, and the people who worked them out.
Knock on one door
Two hours. One street. That is a shift.
Pick a patch on the map and a time. The sheet fills in as you choose, the way it does on the clipboard you will carry.
Chip in
Ten dollars prints two hundred posters.
No corporate money, no developer money. The campaign runs on people who live here and the riso in the Ropewalk shed.
Where the money goes