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In sentencing a man this week on a dangerous driving charge Judge James Montgomery’s is reported to have said “There is a lot to be said for compulsory licence re-testing for people 65 years and over’. It is a baseless throw away comment from a Judge whose decision making should be based on factual and [...]

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Julia Gillard has attempted classify her about turn on ‘not imposing a carbon tax’ as not a lie, but simply a change of mind due to changed circumstances. Craig Ingram has no such opportunity when it comes to the claims he is making regarding his ‘achievements’. He is trying to re-write history by claiming achievements [...]

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Over the past couple of months, a number of articles have been drafted for this site but not edited, completed and published. They range from Fruit Bats, through Christine Nixon and Black Saturday on to ‘S’ plates for senior citizens, airports in East Gippsland & their reliance on General Aviation airports in Capital cities. Lots [...]

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Have you sold a property and been asked to sign an exclusive sales contract? If you did, then you probably signed a contract which gave the Real Estate selling agent sole rights to sell YOUR property, and gave you no benefit at all. In fact it is probably detrimental to your interests. So, why would [...]

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Been on mental vacation and catching up with other matters. Received a few emails and comments and I apologise if I was a little slow in responding. There have been a couple of comments about Council’s Tambo Bluff re-development, so there apppear to be on-going issues there which we may look at. Thanks to those [...]

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Arrived back a couple of weeks ago and have been catching up with personal matters. After the adventure of flying over the Pacific, getting back to ‘normal’ seems really mundane and boring.  Really would just like to get in the aircraft and go touring, and I suspect there are a number who would like me [...]

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Sorry nothing has happened on the site for some time, but I have been pre-occupied with the lead up to flying a Piper Saratoga from the USA to Australia. Details of the flight across from the USA will, hopefully continue to be detailed, as time and internet access allow, on the following web site: http://gippsland bulletin.blogspot.com Will [...]

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Great start to the New Year for youthful Kane Jones of Langwarrin, who caught this fabulous flathead at Bemm River on 2nd January 2010. Kane and his dad, Mark were fishing in the channel. Kane’s catch weighed in at 4.2 kg and measured 87 cm long. Mark & Debbie Jones and family are regular visitors [...]

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Happy New Year to all and I hope it is a fantastic year for everyone. I had hoped to produce a number of positive, encouraging and even inspiring articles as well as items from many of the towns in East Gippsland. Whilst I get a lot of private comments from individuals by email or by [...]

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Following requests for the details of the letter from the Ombudsman & the Shire the Shire’s letter is uploaded onto this site. One of the lessons from this exercise is that anyone who has a legitimate grievance or has sound reasons for suspecting improper behaviour can make a complaint to one of the regulatory bodies [...]

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