A comparison of how three countries (USA, UK, and Australia) have dealt with the Covid-19 pandemic is something many in Australia may not be too aware of considering we have all gone through difficult times and only now are we having restrictions eased to something like pre-COVID-19 levels in many areas of our lives. We have all been concerned about events at home as is totally understandable.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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