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Almost half a million tests, zero positives: how statistics shows we can be confident COVID-19 is gone from Victoria

How do you know that something you are looking for is not there? Looking for a needle in a haystack is fundamentally easy – however laborious and tedious – if you know it’s definitely there. Looking for something, not finding it, and therefore concluding it does not exist is a different problem.

In Victoria, at the time of writing, we have had 38 consecutive days of zero newly detected COVID-19 infections. But, obviously, not everyone in the state has been tested.

Application to VCAT secures release of South Gippsland Councillors submission to Ex-Minister Somyurek

The then Minister for Local Government, Adem Somyurek wrote to Council on April 2nd, 2019 requesting Council to respond to his show cause letter asking why Council should not be suspended. In that letter he stated that the provided responses would be made public alongside the monitors report.

The submissions were made and expected to be released in Parliament as promised but they were never released. The documents provided the only response to allegations made against the Council by some in the community and should have been made available at least to the Parliament when they voted to dismiss the Council six weeks later.

South Gippsland Shire Council – Openness and Transparency. Honesty and Integrity.-Letter to Editor

Let’s challenge the Administration heads to enter new territory! The ‘flick and tick’ accounting & audit processes that the constituents are expected to accept today as being satisfactory, are far removed from what the ordinary citizen thinks they are.

Administrators paddling hard but Korumburra projects will remain incomplete when they leave office

The two main Korumburra projects have been delayed and will not be completed as planned in the 2020/2021 year.

The Administrators approved of a $10 Million loan to enable these two projects to be constructed quickly but a VCAT challenge to the Community Hub and design challenges to the Streetscape means the community will need to wait a little longer.

SGSC Not Interested in Mountain Bikers and Tourists

Over the past weeks we have seen a large spread of reporting on the needs of Mountain Bikers in Bass Coast and then in the Herald Sun on Wed 9 there was a feature article on the popularity of Mountain Bikes and the great tourist activity it generates. That article mentioned that the Government is spending a further $1.57 million on trails in the Otways.

Victoria Police’s Air Wing assisted in the rescue of three men in the waters off Port Welshpool early this morning.

Emergency services called to the waters about 7km South of Port Welshpool following reports that three men were clinging to the hull of their capsized boat.