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Comment on Aerial baiting of wild dogs by Sue McInnes

Sue McInnes — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:28:38 +0000

We lost a small dog 2 yrs ago to Dingo attack.We live 3ks from town in a rural residential area with lots of homes around. This attack happened out the back of our property at 7am in front of my husband. These dogs looked just like dingoes ( weve seen them many times on Fraser Island) There were 2 of them and they were going to eat our little dog.But my husband managed to scare them off .Our beloved dog died of horrific injuries. The local council were supposed to turn up on the Monday with a dingo trap butnever bothered and we never got so much as an apology.Typical of the lazy councils we have today. We often hear dingoes howling at night.

Comment on Free air transport for people requiring medical treatment by Russell Plunkett

Russell Plunkett — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 07:36:36 +0000

I have an appt to see Mr Stephen Mc Mahon on 30/8 re a replacement of hip, probably on 16/9. I am in a great deal of pain and am on crutches or wheelie and am on morphia. Am I eligible for your service?

Comment on Ingram loses seat – what happened? by Wendy

Wendy — Mon, 30 May 2011 12:11:29 +0000

The loss of craig Ingram will be felt through east gippsland as we have been returned to the nationals who have never done anything for the region. It was the promise of sport money I feel seen Bull getting in he will have to do a lot to gain my vote in the future

Comment on Gripes, whinges and complaints by Tom Courtney

Tom Courtney — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 22:14:16 +0000

As a serial whinger, who has made no contribution to the estate and who is benefitting from the creativity and work of the developer, buying a ride on may give you something positive and constructive to do with your time.

Comment on Gripes, whinges and complaints by peter elsmore

peter elsmore — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 06:30:01 +0000

The presentation of Eagle Bay Village is being spoilt by the lack of maintainance of lawns curbing and stormwater drains and public areas ect It is my understanding someone has the contract to keep the grass mowed ect…..they obviously don’t live in the estate. Maybe i should buy a ride on mower and do the right thing myself.

Comment on Contact by Tom Courtney

Tom Courtney — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 05:04:41 +0000

Although this is probably not the ideal forum to discuss issues where I have close personal involvement, because the issue was raised here, it is answered here.
The maintenance of the estate falls on a number of persons.
Technically the entrance road and the Reserve could and should be transferred to the Council, but Eagle Bay Village currently does the lawn mowing and replacement of trees if necessary.
The roads, drains and footpaths are the responsibility of the Council.
The lights are the responsibility of the electricity supplier.
The nature strips are the responsibility of the owners. Each owner is responsible for the nature strip in front of his/her allotment.
The mowing and maintenance of the various allotments, whether vacant or built on is the responsibility of the individual owners.
There is a tree in front of each house allotment and this is the responsibility of the owner of the adjoining allotment.
Whilst not specifically raised, the issue of builders rubbish was apparently raised in the local newspapers. In the past, because specific littering builders have been hard to identify on casual visits, Eagle Bay Village Pty Ltd frequently cleaned builder’s rubbish from the development.
The rubbish blowing around is the responsibility of either the owners of existing houses, the present builders of houses or the owners of the lots being built on. It is not the responsibility of Eagle Bay Village Pty Ltd and Eagle Bay Village Pty Ltd has no control over unidentified individual litterers.
Instead of complaining, a reasonable person would be pro-active and either pick up the rubbish or identify the litterer, gather the necessary evidence and report that offender in a signed written statement to the relevant authority which could then take action. Simply observing the rubbish and complaining to anyone who will listen will not achieve any result.
There is no doubt that those recently complaining of builder’s rubbish, were conspicuous by their absence, when the very same builders were leaving rubbish while building the complainant’s houses.
Today, Eagle Bay Village Pty Ltd only owns 10 adjoining Lots in Eagle Bay Terrace, at the north-west corner of the development and a section of land 8314 sq.m. at the entrance which will soon be developed and the land sold. There are another 4 Lots in the Basstian Court subdivision and 1 lot in the Bindi Court subdivision which are owned by Eagle Bay Village Pty Ltd. Outside of these, Eagle Bay Village has no responsibility.
Having said that, in the past Eagle Bay Village Pty Ltd has watered the trees and replaced them where necessary, mown the entrance, mown the reserve, mown all of the nature strips, picked up the rubbish left by builders working for individual land owners, and mown the grass on the lots owned by various owners. This work has been done without fuss or bother or charge to those owners.
Additionally, Eagle Bay Village Pty Ltd has been the only entity to enforce the covenant which is the primary instrument for maintaining the quality of the estate. That responsibility is or should be shared by all of the owners as they are all equal parties to the covenant. Not one present landowner has enforced the covenant, which may be an indication that they just don’t care.
It is time that all owners took responsibility for the estate and mowed their own land, mowed and maintained their own nature strips, cared for their own trees and took responsibility for ensuring that other owners or builders were not permitted to litter the estate. It is not for Eagle Bay Village Pty Ltd to show land owners how to do that.
As for the grass, Eagle Bay Village Pty Ltd will determine when it will be cut and makes that decision based on the same successful parameters and criteria used since 2005.

Comment on Contact by peter elsmore

peter elsmore — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 01:13:27 +0000

who is responsible for the upkeep of eagle bay village grass mowing and trimming down Palm Drive also infrastructure such as roadside storm water drains which seem full of weeds, grass which end up down the stormwater drains ect . The estate at the moment looks a disgrace and unattractive to perspective land purchasers. While current residences do our best to present our properties it is a pity to see this work not being kept up.

Comment on Council complicit in illegal subdivision – initial letter to Council by peter elsmore

peter elsmore — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:45:40 +0000

good to see someone is keeping an eye on what is happening around the area……

Comment on International by Tom Courtney

Tom Courtney — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 05:59:59 +0000

Colonel Gaddafi is no friend of mine.

He is a demented, paranoid, brutal, dictator, which puts him in the same league as many other ‘world leaders’, starting with his now departed neighbour, Hosni Mubarak. Some aren’t dictators in the purest sense, but in reality, their supposed ‘governments’ are fronts for dictatorships.

However, I have a problem with the US & the UN becoming involved in the civil uprising in Libya.

Why was the USA working hell bent (covertly behind the scenes) with the UN and NATO to prevent Gaddafi from ‘maintaining peace and order’ when they didn’t lift a finger against Idi Amin, Pol Pot, The Shah of Persia, Hosni Mubarak, the present army regime in Burma and a whole string of Middle East, African, South American and Asian dictators and oppressors? Isn’t the poverty, starvation, repression and oppression of millions in North Korea at least as bad?

The answer is simple. We know that the US can’t win a war let alone a battle. The North Koreans and the Chinese belted them. The North Vietnamese and the South Vietnamese peasants belted them. Even the Somalis belted them using sticks and stones. They will eventually crawl away from Afghanistan with their tail between their legs and having shown their military might against a weak and underpowered Iraq and in the process having slaughtered thousands of civilians and having destroyed the country’s infrastructure.

It was the USA which supplied the arms to Saddam Hussein and supported him when he was massacring the Kurds and killing and torturing his own people. Why? Because he was an ally.

It was the USA which supplied the arms to the Taliban and supported them with intelligence. Why? Because the Taliban were fighting the Russians.

The USA doesn’t care how corrupt or cruel the leaders are or how oppressed the people are, if the leader(s) support the US and are of use to the USA – preferably have oil like Iran, Iraq & Saudi Arabia.

The really interesting time will be if there is a major uprising in China. The Chinese government would be forced to put down the uprising using arms. What will the USA do then? Woul;d that be maintaining peace and order or would that be oppressing the will of the people?

Obviously, the US doesn’t think that China’s brutal repression and oppression in Tibet is worth worrying about. There is no oil, there is no strategic importance, small and largely voiceless people, so why worry about them? No use to the USA! Not worth getting involved!

Even more interesting will be the reaction of the citizens of the USA as they become a second class country behind China, weighted down with massive debt, falling production due to their second rate products, sustained levels of high unemployment, increasing lack of social services etc..

Already there is unrest with public servant protesting about cuts to entitlements due to the parlous state of finances of governments in the USA and the Tea Party justifiably stirring emotions about inept and corrupt government.

Whilst it is not at the army stage just yet, the time for police forces being more heavily engaged in controlling the unrest, is probably less than a few years away.

As the people of the world become increasingly despairing and rebellious with civil disobedience and civil war, at least Australia will have the calming influence of Bob Brown telling us that having personally avoided the HIV challenge, Climate Change is the next greatest challenge facing the human.

Comment on Aerial baiting of wild dogs by Tom Courtney

Tom Courtney — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 03:43:17 +0000

The 2007 CSIRO report confirm earlier studies which found no evidence that aerial baiting had any effect on the population of quolls. Richard Hughes claims otherwise. If he is unable to provide evidence to contradict the above studies, then his claims are obviously irrational. I stand by my statement.

You say I attack Richard Hughes. Richard Hughes made the statement. Richard Hughes personally sought the publicity by sending out media releases. Who else would I criticise?

If Richard Hughes tries to mislead the community, let Richard Hughes stand accountable.

You indicate that there are ‘other interests to be considered’. What might they be?

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Maybe it is to whip up emotion to obtain donations and funding.

I suspect that some people’s jobs may depend upon getting donations and funding. Richard Hughes’ maybe?