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  • For our grandchildren

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    Alan Roadknight, Riddells Creek ‘The time has come’ … the Walrus said What a strange thing for a walrus to say on a Saturday morning, Riddells Creek, cold, wet and grey. To all the silver haired vixens and silver haired foxes pause and reflect before ticking those ballot boxes. Yes, you might lose some franking…

  • Waste not, want not

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    Jill Loorham, Castlemaine Along with Hans Paas, Nigel Meeks and Tony Bell, I am dismayed at the shire council’s plans to replace the playground in Victory Park with a new playground, euphemistically called a ‘play space’. Over 13 years, I have enjoyed time in Victory Park with my daughters and grandchildren, who have all enjoyed…

  • Pivotal in scope

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    Ken Maas, Castlemaine Amnesty International has made its very first public statement on the case of Julian Assange: April 12, 2019, “Amnesty International calls on the UK to refuse to extradite or send in any other manner Julian Assange to the USA”. Wikileaks has been nominated for six Nobel Peace Prizes and the UN Mandela…

  • Growth agenda

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    Christine Pruneau, secretary, Macedon Ranges Residents Association The Kyneton Movement Network Study. What’s it about? Mainly roads, cars, trucks and traffic, and overwhelmingly, it’s about changes needed to cater for 2100 new (greenfields) lots south of Kyneton, which will almost double Kyneton’s existing town population by 2036. This study is part of the last council’s…

  • Blatant ageism

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    Paul Allen, Barkers Creek It is with dismay I feel the need to write a rebuttal to the blatant ageism of this week’s letters concerning the proposed new playground in Victory Park. I fully appreciate the concerns for the fiscal management of the project, however these letters seem to begrudge any development of a playground…

  • Lazy or incompetent?

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    Wendy Hebbard, Woodend “The buck stopped with you,” Barnaby. It is quite beyond belief that you did not know what you were signing in the water buy-back deal with a company in the Cayman Islands. You said you were not interested in the detail and that you left the decision to members of your department.…

  • Simple really

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    Huntly Barton, Greenhill Re. ‘Foul water fear’ (Express, April 23), all Coliban Water needs to do is pump water from Lauriston Reservoir so they can shandy their C grade water and be compliant with the EPA. Simple.

  • What were they thinking?

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    Hans Paas, Castlemaine A project for an enhanced ‘play space’ in Victory Park (‘Budget blowout’, Express, April 23) prompts me to ask; “what were they thinking?” The re-purposing of what has for long been a quiet reflective space adjacent to the town’s war memorial and RSL Building is a bad one regardless of the “ridiculous…

  • Wasted rates

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    Tony Bell, Castlemaine Re. ‘Budget blowout’ (Midland Express, April 23). Well why doesn’t this surprise me! (130K overrun). In 12 months this play space has blown out by this much ($326,000 to $456,000). Noting that Cr Petrusma’s statement that labour and materials have gone up significantly is an absolute con. None of the above go…

  • A bit misinformed

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    Kyneton resident I would like to weigh in on the person sending out fact sheets re: the Kyneton airfield. This week I received fact sheet no. 4 again. I would like to point out to this person that the airfield was not secretly put in around 2007 to 2009. My daughter was a junior air…

  • A concerned ratepayer

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    Nigel Meeks, Castlemaine I write regarding the story ‘Budget blowout’ (Express, April 23). I am absolutely bewildered by Mount Alexander Shire Council’s expenditure of $460K of the shire’s money on a playground in Victory Park. Do we really need such extravagance? I ask does this lump sum price include ongoing contract variations that are quite…

  • No credibility on climate

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    Wendy Hebbard, Woodend This is the Climate Change election. When will our political dinosaurs realise that ‘renewables’ are best for the environment? School children and young people are showing us the way. Native species are being extinguished. The rivers and oceans are greatly under threat. Dead fish in the Murray Basin is a calamity. Ambivalent…