Korumburra CBA branch has a sign on its windows informing the community that it will be closing permanently from Dec 4th, 2020. This leaves South Gippsland with just the branches in Leongatha and Foster.
The news did not thrill the residents of the town. Many accepted that this was the way things were going but did not like it, nonetheless.
Staff numbers (EFT) has increased in the last 12 months. The increase over the period 13/14 to 17/18 shows the gradual increasing trend of staff numbers at South Gippsland Shire.
The significant drop from 17/18 to 18/19 was due to the Government enforced exit from Health and Community Services in all Shires. This reduced the requirements for staffing by around 20 and a savings in costs to ratepayers around $500,000 per year.
Open Letter
Why is it the South Gippsland Shire Council Administration has become increasingly shy of answering questions put to it on virtually any subject?
Instead of answering meaningfully, they habitually resort to ‘stonewalling’ tactics – ducking and weaving, selectively quoting out of context to reverse what the questioner actually said, so that the questioner is made to appear aggressive, or seemingly attacking the integrity of staff, when that was not intended at all. Why are these ‘word games’ even thought to be necessary? Most questions are straightforward – sometimes, of necessity, they are more convoluted.
As we know, today 6 new cases have been identified in our northern suburbs, meaning there have so far been 39 cases spread across 11 households. Concerningly, while these cases have locations in common it is not yet clear how they link together. It means we may still have transmission happening where we can’t see it. The local community, working alongside our public health team, are doing everything they can to stop this spread. In the last 24 hours, over 3,000 Victorians from our northern suburbs did a profoundly powerful thing and got tested. With thousands of tests comes thousands of results.
The Victorian Electoral Commission is currently checking the membership of the Nationals Party Victoria Branch.
As part of the checking process the VEC wrote to the people named as members of the Victorian Nationals Party asking that they confirm their membership. This was to help determine if the party had enough members to remain eligible for registration as a political party.
There is little doubt that foxes and rabbits are two of Australia’s worst invasive pests. Foxes cause livestock and economic losses for farmers and are a major threat to native species. Rabbits detrimentally impact landscapes and biodiversity through causing soil erosion, overgrazing vegetation and competing with other animals for food. In South Gippsland, the natural coastal and agricultural landscapes along the Bunurong coast are experiencing these adverse impacts.
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