One of the state’s most endangered native animals has been brought back from the brink of extinction thanks to a conservation program backed by the Victorian Government.
The re-establishment of the Eastern Barred Bandicoot on Phillip Island is the first time in Victorian history a species declared extinct in the wild has had its decline successfully reversed.
Do you know of the winki pop president?”
“Yes, I do yeah, I wasn’t working at that council at that time, but I’ve been briefed on it in some detail over the years-but yes I am aware of it”.
Local councils made up of publicly elected members used to hold extensive powers over property development approvals.
But in recent years, the two major parties’ state governments have stripped much of this power from them and concentrated it in the hands of (unelected) ‘planning panels’.
The latest example comes from the amalgamated Central Coast Council in NSW.
We are all starting to adjust to the burden of living in the new norm. As we start to see signs on the horizon of an opening up of the restrictions, we are also starting to become aware that life really will not be the same as before. We are questioning everything.
What a big week it has been following the Premier’s announcement to gradually relax the Stay at Home
provisions for COVID-19. This will no doubt come as a great relief to many in our community who have
been missing social connection and will help to reduce feelings of loneliness and isolation for many of
us.
South Gippsland Shire Council has been successful in securing a $500,000 grant to extend the Great Southern Rail Trail between Korumburra and Leongatha.
The following statement is from South Gippsland Shire Council’s Chief Executive Officer, Kerryn Ellis:
My mother was an avid cook in the 1950s and 1960’s, who explored the exotic world beyond Women’s Weekly. She proudly cooked Indian and other different nationalities foods. We loved her long running (1930s-1960s) bridge game of three tables with her former Royal Adelaide Hospital nurse colleagues. Each tried to outdo each other with enticing food for the card night. When it was mum’s turn, she always laid on a feast. Savouries, cakes, high tea sandwiches, curries add my favourite crunchy Pavlovas.
I’ve been wanting to pen this wonderful experience for so long, as it’s still a regular occurrence, which continually melts my heart.
Now, during this abnormal pandemic phase, it’s even more significant and an appropriate reminder for us all …
Major Initiative by State Govt to Match Workers to Employers
The State Govt announced today a new program that will allow for unemployed people to find work with various types of employers. Employers and the unemployed sign up and are then matched to appropriate jobs. Positions will be for at least 3 months.
Last year l attended the SGWater roadshow to convince us a 9% rate increase was warranted. The community engagement did not indicate this once approachable organisation was headed down the corporate empire building path.
Well, it has been only one week since launching the newspaper and we have certainly been kept busy!
Our world consists of two basic parts; the ground on which we stand and what is going on in our heads. Normally (and we all like to think we’re normal enough to survive), there should be some kind of connection and congruence between these two basic parts. But oh, how easy is it for us to be picked up from the ground and wafted away on the wings of some seductive dream!
Loch. Like just about everyone in South Gippsland, the people of Loch are adapting to these strange times. Others, like tradies, truck drivers and nurses, are working as usual. But the town is quiet, with people observing the guidelines to stay home as much as possible. Some who have a second home in or around Loch have moved here just because it is a nice, safe place to be.
Working for an organisation that has long offered flexible work arrangements, our recent experience being forced to work from home for an extended period of time has thrown us some interesting insights why this option wasn’t more widely taken up in the past.
A group of us in and around Fish Creek have been thinking about a future based on a fair society with a sustainable environmental footprint. Around the planet the climate-change issue has driven a lot of people to do this with the tag lines of Just Transitions or Green New Deals. It seeks hope in dark times, but things have gotten even darker.
Gillian Welch and David Rawlins, Mavis Staples, Jeff Tweedy, Joe Henry, Cat Power, Joan As Policewoman, Steve Earl, James Blood Ulmer, Glen Hansard, Mulatu Astatke, Sharon Jones – just a tiny selection of the stellar line-up of overseas musicians to have hit the Meeniyan Town Hall stage over the past 20 years.
I read your interview with the CEO & my brain switches to Sir Humphry Appleby – talk about straight out of the ‘gobbledegook manual’!
On June 26th, 2019, a Council report in the Agenda papers for the Budget meeting as a result of the s223 process was presented by the officers. The Councillors had been dismissed the previous week and the administrators were in charge.
The report noted the following advice from the officers.
When is the report on the future of our Recreation Reserves coming to Council, and have we already allocated funding in the proposed budget for reserves ahead of the report being considered?
The Covid-19 pandemic is proving to have a significant impact on people’s lives. Well in the throws, we can decipher the negatives, and surprisingly a number of positives, within our inner and outer worlds.
The growing signs that some of the social isolation restrictions are likely to be eased in the near future is good news for all of us.
Supporting Casual Workers During Coronavirus-6th May 2020
The Victorian Government will support thousands more Victorians who have lost work due to coronavirus and ensure they are redeployed doing jobs our community needs to stay safe and rebuild from the pandemic.
Ever wondered why your rates in South Gippsland Shire are higher than many other comparable Councils?
