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On Friday evening 25/9/09 the Nowa Nowa Exhibition of arts & crafts & textiles in support of Angel Flight was opened with a large number of people in attendance. Organised by the “Four sisters & friends’ this year’s event is to raise funds for Angel Flight. After the opening, Peter & Jodie Simpson spoke of [...]

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Where there is smoke, there is fire, and so it seems is the case with regard to The Code of Conduct and Good Governance. Why did the Code of Conduct and Good Governance have to be review by 15th September 2009? It appears that following a compliant by a single resident, an inquiry by the [...]

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The following is a link which should take you to details of the study and preliminary proposals for the redevelopment of the Paynesville Town Centre. Important that residents look now and have your say rather than wait and complain when it is too late. Overall the proposals look good. No doubt some matter to be [...]

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Back to Coast Paynesville (formerly Lakes Peninsula) development. It appears that under Shire CEO Steve Kozlowski and the last two Councils, efficiency may vary in inverse proportion to the number of staff. Section 17, 17 (1) of the Subdivision Act 1988 states “A person must not commence works until – (a) the plan has been [...]

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It appears that the East Gippsland Shire Council Code of Conduct and Good Governance was the root of Cr Ben Buckley’s problem. Council has had a Code since 2004 but due to changes in the Local Government Act 1989 was required to ‘develop and approve’ a Code by this month. This is what was debated [...]

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Cr Ben Buckley was on ABC radio last Friday objecting to being forced to sign the Code of Conduct and Good Governance. Is he right? Council has had a Code since 2004. The Code is available on the Shire web site. What is the problem? What are the issues? We will review this in the [...]

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There have been issues with this land development since the original application for a Planning Permit, but because of my business interests I have refrained from getting too involved as it might have been seen as using this site to gain a commercial advantage. However, the recent public interest in this development has changed that. [...]

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Entrance to Paynesville Following the other comment about the entrance to Paynesville, I am wondering if you can help me with some information I was recently given in relation to the new Coast Paynesville development? The new, or should I say re branded Lake Peninsula development, have been told by the DS&E I believe, that [...]

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EG must make up its mind about tourism or industrial development; you can’t have both. Witness the continuing uglification of Paynesville’s approaches. Soon it will be like that of Bairnsdale’s west which must be the envy of Footscray. And when another residential canal is mooted make sure that the ancient right of way along tidal [...]

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Maybe ‘Silence is golden’. There have been no new additions to this site since late June. Apologies to those who have expressed disappointment. By way of explanation, in June and July I traveled overseas through Egypt and then travelled Europe from Amsterdam to Prague. On return home I lead a group of 17 private aircraft [...]

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