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Edition
12-30 27/3/08 -
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 Music
Festival Community
News Landcare
Health
Letters |
Apollo
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Ocean Road Home |
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2008
is as follows:
"Lady Janet Clarke Memorial" on Linlithgow
Avenue, Right on St. Kilda Road, continue to Swanston
Street, Left on Lonsdale Street, left on Elizabeth
Street, left on Bourke Street Mall, right on Swanston
Street and culminating at the BMW Edge in Federation
Square. The total distance of the walk is 3.1 KM
Program details:
Registration of the participants: 9:30 AM at Lady
Janet Clarke memorial,
Linlithgow Avenue. MEL REF: 2F J8
Pre Walk Program begins: 10:30 AM Pre Walk
Program ends: 10:45 AM
Walk begins: 11:00 AM Walk ends: 12:30 PM
Program begins: 1:00 PM Program ends: 2:00 PM
The next meeting of the Apollo Bay News Inc. will
be held at 4pm on Monday 31 March
au rvoir goodbye arrivederci
After 24 years each in the Bay, the Richardsons
are heading north. So, come along and have a beer
with
Trish and Andy on Sat April 12 and help celebrate
their new venture. Great Ocean Road Wines 330 Barham
River Rd
6pm to 10pm.
Drinks at bar prices. Bring a plate to share.
Van Troppo will be getting back together for the
night
for a once off reunion.
RSVP April7 to Maria Me Quinn 52376507
or Larelle Fitt 52376808 |
National
Walk For Values 2008 Saturday, April 12,2008
Why are we walking for Values? This walk
is promoting the awareness of five universal
human values - Truth (is what we speak),
Right Conduct (is what we practise), Love
(is what we give), Peace (is what we live)
and Non-violence (is the fruit). Raise awareness
of positive human values and importance
for the need to practice them. Walk promotes
the advancement of values in all facets
of society - personal, family, education,
work, governance, in business and in sport.
Values provide us with basic security to
deal with changes in and around our Nation.
This walk is occurring simultaneously in
Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Adelaide
and Perth, providing an Australia-wide context.
By walking together as kindred spirits,
we can raise community awareness of positive
human values that enrich our lives. By practising
human values as individuals, we can promote
harmony, unity and tolerance in our nation.
Be the change you want to see in the world
-Gandhi
Our route for the walk in Melbourne on Saturday
12 April
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Southern Otway Landcare
Network 'Landtalk' |
Working
Bee: Skenes Creek Wed 2nd
April
The public reserve along Skenes Ck
just behind the Skenes Ck bridge is
local parkland area which has been
improved and maintained by local volunteers
for the last 5 years. The intrusion
of kikua into the revegetation zones
is now making the management of the
site more difficult. Our volunteers
need more help! Please join us on
Wednesday 2nd April from 12.30 to
4pm to help maintain this pretty site
through weed removal, and applying
weed matting and mulch. Afternoon
tea and equipment will be provided.
Earth Hour Sat 29th March
8 to 9pm
On 31 March 2007, more than 2 million
Sydney businesses and households turned
off their lights for one hour - Earth
Hour -sending a powerful national
and global message that it's possible
to take action on global warming.
At 8pm on 29 March 2008, Earth Hour
goes global, with cities and towns
around the world taking stand on the
greatest threat our planet has ever
faced, and millions of people uniting
to rum the tide on global warming.
So remember to turn the lights off!
- 8-9pm 29th March. For more information
and to register your participation
please the website www.earthhour.org
2007 Waterwatch Run Down & SOLN's
2008 Annual General Meeting
Join us for a wrap-up on 2007
projects, achievements and
waterwatch results at SOLN's 2008
AGM. The meeting will begin at 3pm
this Sun 30th March 08 with the 2007
Waterwatch Run Down and finish with
a BBQ dinner. Dierdre Murphy, who
manages the waterwatch program across
the Corangamite CMA, will present
and interpret results collated by
our local water quality testers during
2007. This will be followed by a presentation
on Estuary watch with Rys Collins
- a great opportunity to leam more
about how our community can be involved
in the program. SOLN's AGM will begin
at approx 4pm to be followed by a
BBQ dinner.
When: Sun 30th Mar 08, 3pm
Where: Apollo Bay
Youth Club, Moore St
Bring: BYO Drinks, SOLN will
provide all BBQ food. Please RSVP
to the SOLN office to help with catering!
Environmental Best Management
Practice on Farms Workshop
We are looking for expressions of
interest from landholders wishing
to participate in Environmental Best
Management Practice on Farm (EBMP)
workshops to be run in Apollo Bay.
EBMP is a DPI initiative which involves
long term planning to implement
whole farm plans. It is a management
tool which can benefit your property,
its natural resources and your business.
This workshop will take participants
through how to Self Assess and begin
their Action Plan. Workshop Attendees
will receive a free EBMP starter
kit. When: Sun 6th April, 10am to
3pm
Where: Conf Rm, Shire Offices, 69-71
Nelson St Apollo Bay Bring: Pen and
Paper, lunch will be provided.
Participants must RSVP the SOLN office
by 28* March 08 on 52376904 or solnanna@'vicnet.net.au
If you have aspirations to make a
contribution to improving habitat
and conservation in our area, talk
to Landcare!
Anna O 'Brien, Greg John, Kristen
Lees, Dianne Inglis
(PH) 5237 6904 69-71 Nelson St. Apollo
Bay. Office hours 9am-lpm daily
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My stomach
is still sore with laughter!
Since when has someone who never play's
golf known what a golf course design should
look like. (Ref. letter to editor A'Bay
News 20.03.08) I may stand corrected, but
unless a certain individual has recently
turned the go-cart track into a golf course,
or has been slipping off in the wee hours
of the morning to play golf tournaments
around Victoria (and if he has then book
me in for a lesson) then he wouldn't have
a clue what makes a good course. Apollo
Bay's current course is not a good course!
Why? Because a good course should be designed
around good golfers & our current course
is mini golf on steroids! We need a new
course that will challenge not only new
golfers but low handicap players as well.
A new championship course will suit both.
Suddenly the golfer will have to think 2
shots in advance. How far do I need to hit
it to carry that bunker on the right? If
I hit it a little left I won't be able to
hit around that tree over hanging the corner
of the dog-leg. Or where do I want to land
it on that massive green to give myself
the best opportunity for birdie or par.
This is only a fraction of the challenges
that arise during a game of golf on a championship
course and its these challenging questions
that drive players to play different courses.
I have seen it first hand whilst working
in the pro-shop in Tocumwal 2 years ago.
Tocumwal has around 3000 members, most of
them from Melbourne, but they will not hesitate
to travel 100s of kms to play golf on a
great course. Large groups of players book
up to 12 months ahead for golf & accommodation
& pay a reasonable amount, about $50
to play 18 holes. Most courses cost upwards
of this amount, of which they are happy
to pay to play on a challenging course.
A new Apollo Bay course will attract countless
amounts of people, retirees all cashed up
looking to scale down & buy a property
on a championship golf course, to live out
their days playing golf & walking the
dog on the beach, or the young kids who
fell in love with the game, being challenged
by a wonderful course, or the droves of
golfing tourists from all over Australia
who can't think of anything better than
to go to Apollo Bay on a Fishing/Golfing
weekend. Its time the people of this community
start thinking of the future. With no disrespect,
the future of this town is not the older
community but the kids, who unfortunately
are too young to vote on this matter. I'm
sick of people thinking they know better
than the Engineers. It has worked elsewhere,
in much worse positions than the Barham
& the Engineers have told us it will
work, that's good enough for me. Looking
to the future.
Mark Shortis
Do you ever feel lonely
Do you ever feel blue
Remember there are others who feel lonely.too
Why not try to cheer them on their way?
Maybe it will help you to be happy again
Esme Bell
APOLLO BAY FIRE BRIGADE VOLUNTEERS REQUIRED
Our brigade is seeking expressions of interest
to join us as a volunteer to the C.F.A.
and the community of Apollo Bay, in wild-fire
and structural fire suppression, road rescue
and search and rescue emergencies and incidents.
Basic training is provided and essential
with advanced training available. For those
wishing to join a worthwhile and rewarding
commitment to our community, for which a
police check is required, please contact:
Captain Colin Coleman: 0417 056 295 or Secretary
Bob Mason: 5237 6797 or drop into the Fire
Station, 28 Pascoe St, at 7.30pm on any
Tuesday night. Bob Mason Secretary
EVENTS CALENDAR
27 March Internet classes Commencing at
Otway Health
8 April Basic Life Support Level 1 Otway
Health 9 am
8 April CPR Otway Health 9 am
8 and 9 April Senior First Aid Level 2 Otway
Health 9 am
25th -27 April Apollo Bay Music Festival
Here! There! - all Apollo Bay
7 May Blumes Fashion Parade Catholic Church
Hall 1.30 pm
26 July Masonic Lodge Blues & Jazz Dance
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In reference to; Mr Lalor's
recent letters to local newspapers.
As local cattle farmers on 178acres, I take
offence to Mr
Lalor's proposal of increasing farm rates.
Unlike commercial properties and B&Bs
in our shire, we
can't ask more for our cattle to cover rising
costs. Farming
costs in the last five years have gone up
over 100% for
example super phosphate, transport, fuel,
feed etc. We make no more money off our farm
than we did ten years ago.
Our rates are $3900.00 yearly, which we struggle
to cover; therefore I have to work outside
the farm to supplement the family income.
To compare farms to commercial properties
is inappropriate. If Mr Lalor wants farms
to pay the same as commercial and residential
properties, then a number of changes need
to take place. Our zoning needs to be changed
to residential commercial, allowing us to
subdivide;
we need to be given the same potential earning
opportunities as businesses with this zoning.
Mr Lalor's suggested method of financial repair
seems to be the same as everyone in council
and government that finds themselves in debt
- 'Charge more rates, put up taxes'. Surely
cutting expenses might be the way to go. That's
the only way we seem to be able to get by.
armers in this time of increasing costs, climate
change and drought need to be encouraged to
stay on the land, rather than forced off by
increasing shire rates. One need only reflect
on the mental health of farmers nationally,
to know how much they are struggling to cope
with the ever increasing stress and financial
difficulties that are placed upon them. With
this in mind, I invite Mr Lalor to ring me
so that he can look at our property, our tax
returns and rate notices if he wishes.
My telephone number is 52377005.
Craig McKenzie
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Staff appointed to the Community
Bank®
Bendigo Bank Regional Manager, Mr Pat Murnane
said that the Apollo Bay Community Bank®
was rather fortunate in finding two local
people witti extensive banking experience
to staff the new Branch due to open late April.
He announced the appointment last week of
Mr Phil Davey as Branch Manager and Ms Joanne
DiCecco as his deputy and Customer Relations
Officer. The third staff member is Mr Dennis
Holzer who is well known to all Bay people
from his years of service with the newsagency.
He will have the position of Customer Service
Officer. All three will undertake an extensive
training and orientation program with Bendigo
Bank over the next few weeks. Both Phil and
Joanne worked together for a number of years
in the local Westpac Branch before it closed
eight years ago and are both well known within
the Apollo Bay community, Phil from his years
as Business Manager at the school and Joanne
from her time at Otway Health and Community
Services.
The Community Bank® Board congratulates
all the appointees and looks forward to helping
them establish a first class banking service
which will provide a lasting benefit to the
Bay
Community Bank® campaign, the local committee
shareholder in a Community Bank® branch,
and an
Community Bank® Steering Committee, PO
Box
251, Apollo Bay, 3233.
Bendigo Bank currently supports 185 Community
Bank branches throughout Australia.
Under Bendigo Bank's Community Bank® model,
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APOLLO
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APOLLO
BAY
CHURCH
SERVICES |
St.
Aidans Anglican
9.00am
Rev Tim Cohen
5237 6615
Also
at 5pm 1st & 3rd sundays
Uniting Church
9.30am
Rev
Kevin Cranwell 5232 1360
Sunday School every 2nd & 4th Sundays
Star of the Sea Catholic
10.30am
Fr Gerry Prunty
5237 6782
Apollo Bay Assembly
of God
6.00pm
Ps Peter Smith
5237
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THE APOLLO BAY
CWA BRANCH
Following the CWA's 80th birthday report
held at
Government House on the 12th March, 2008,
I would like
to give you a short history of the Apollo
Bay CWA
Branch. With the object of forming a local
branch of the CWA, a
meeting was held at the Mechanics Hall,
Apollo Bay in
March 1934, with 60 ladies present as well
as members
from the Colac CWA. Deciding to form a branch,
the following officers were elected:-
PRESIDENT:Mrs Fred Martin.
VICE PRESIDENTS: Mrs Ley, Mrs M.Martin,
Mrs J Cockerill and Mrs Mildren
HON. SECRETARY: Mrs Leo Martin
HON. TREASURER: Mrs Garrett
A demonstration of rug making was given,
followed by afternoon tea, daintily served.
The Apollo Bay members looking forward to
their first ordinary meeting to be held
at the Mechanics hall on Saturday 7th April
at 2.30pm. After 80 years, we are still
going and we would love to have more members,
so all ladies desirous of joining this fine
organisation are cordially invited to attend.
NORMA ALLEN Vice president.
The Uniting Church in Apollo Bay
and St Aidans, Anglican Church, Apollo Bay
Are holding a Combined Celebration of Worship
Sunday,
30 March 2008, 9.30am
Uniting Church, Nelson Street
Theme: Life and Peace in Christ
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need you.....
Essential upgrade required by DHS for Apollo
Bay preschool
The Preschool is desperate for financial
support for the much needed upgrade of the
bathroom facilities for the children. The
project will require approximately $20,000.
This estimate is above and beyond the generosity
of the local builders and tradesmen who
will be working on the project. The project
is supported by the council. DHS has informed
the committee that an upgrade of the bathroom
is required in order to fulfil compliance
requirements as a pre school.
The preschool's voluntary committees are
dedicated to the running, and sustainability
of the preschool as it provides an essential
service to the young families in our community.
Each year the preschool committees fundraise
approximately $15000 for the day to day
running of the centre, which we are on target
for this year. In relation to the bathroom
upgrades we require extra help from the
community and shire with regards to raising
the funds for this specific project.
We are hopeful that local community members
and businesses will support this project
financially. Please contact Sandra Healey
if you can help in any way or for more information
on this project 5237 6822.
thankyou on behalf on the Apollo Bay Preschool
SENIOR CITIZENS
Saturday 29 March Carpet bowls 2pm
Monday 31 March Carpet bowls 2pm
Tuesday 1 April Carpet bowls 2pm
SENIORS TRIP
We're off to Tassie next week, leaving Sunday
6 April at 12.30pm. Would those folk going
please contact Jeanette 5237 6268 for last
minute details.
C.W.A.
Next meeting will be on Friday 28 March
at 1.30pm. Competition flower Salt and pepper
Apollo Bay RSL Womens Auxiliary
Next meeting will be on Tuesday 8 April
10am
RED CROSS
Our next meeting will be Wednesday 2 April
1.30pm
PATCHWORK QUILTING
The next Patchwork Quilting meeting will
be held on
Tuesday, the 1st of April at 1:30 pm at
Marrar Woorn,
Pengilley Ave, Apollo Bay. Bring something
to share or work on. New members welcome.
Note: Next night meeting will be at 7:30pm
on the Monday, the 21s' of April.
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OTWAY
HEALTH NEWS |
Diabetes Education
at Otwav Health
Otway Health is pleased to announce a new service
available to the community: Diabetes Support Service.
This service is led by Otway Health's own diabetes
educator, who will work closely with clients to
increase their knowledge of diabetes and optimise
their chances of prevention and management of diabetes.The
diabetes educator will work closely with a whole
range of professionals to optimise client outcomes
including the doctor, podiatrist and dietician.
Individual appointments are available, as well as
group education, family and carer support and community
education sessions. To access this service or to
obtain further information, please contact Michelle
Cox on 03 5237 8500 or speak with your doctor.
National Youth Week Celebration
Where: Youth Club Moore Street
When: Sunday 13 April 12pm to 3pm
What: BBQ and live music
Why: To celebrate Youth Week hosted
by Apollo Bay P12 in conjunction with Otway Health
and the Youth Club. A canvas will be unveiled which
will be the focus of artwork to be completed by
the youth of Apollo Bay. All interested parties
are invited to come and participate in the planning
and design of this large canvas. Any enquiries call
Karen on 03 5237 8500
Volunteer Bus Drivers needed!
If you can spare a couple of hours a week . please
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Second Sails Garage Sale
Thank you to all the volunteer organisers of the
Second Sails Garage Sale held on Easter Saturday
in our Laura Pengilley Car Park. The event was
a great success and the preparation undertaken
is greatly appreciated. Well done to everyone
involved! The total amount raised will be published
shortly.
Home and Community Care Services
The Home and Community Care Services have been
designed to enable older people and people (of
any age) with disabilities to live independently
and with dignity at home in a safe, secure and
healthy environment.
The services Otway Health provide include:
» Home Care can assist with general household
duties such as cleaning, ironing, washing, and
doing the shopping
¦ Personal Care assists people with personal
care tasks such as showering, grooming, medication
checks, and mobility issues.
¦ Respite Care is available to provide
carers/families a break from their daily caring
role.
¦ Delivered meals can be provided each
day of the week except Sunday.
¦ Property Maintenance is available generally
between 9am and 3pm Monday to Thursday.
To access this or any Otway Health service please
contact our Customer Services Desk on (03) 5237
8500.
Community Course Guide
The Course Guide will be ready for distribution
towards the end of next week. All those wonderful
people who volunteered to deliver last time and
would like to assist again please contact Karen
at Marrar Woorn on 5237 8500 or drop into the
house.
Anyone else who would like to join this group
would be very welcome!
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Letters
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Water experts give Great Ocean Green the
green light
Apollo Bay's most environmentally sustainable residential
development, the proposed Great Ocean Green, can
be built in a flood plain without any adverse risk,
a leading international flood model program has
found. The internationally recognised program used
to plan British coastal strategies showed development
can proceed without impact on existing properties.
Development Manager, Derek Humphries, said the Great
Ocean Green team acted on public concern and tested
the site to see what impacts an extreme sea level
rise could have on the proposed development. BMT
WBM, a leading international engineering and environmental
consultants found sea level rises - even of up an
extreme 1.4 metres - not to be a significant constraint
in this environment. Issues of flooding were also
found to have been overstated by project opponents,
with flooding found to not present
significant difficulties. "We recognise some
in the community have concerns, we want to reassure
people that our proposal has been engineered to
be built above the flood plain to ensure no significant
increase in flooding on any existing properties,"
Mr Humphries said. "The modelling showed Great
Ocean Green can successfully exist in a floodplain
without presenting
adverse risks." In 2007 an independent planning
panel gave Great Ocean Green its tick of approval,
commended the
proponent on the level of examination it had undertaken
and the quality of the research it presented. The
panel also supported the range of community and
environmental benefits Great Ocean Green would deliver,
endorsing the project and dispelling myths peddled
by some opponents. It is now up to
council to accept the panel's recommendation and
give Great Ocean Green its tick of approval. Great
Ocean Green also secures a new home for the Apollo
Bay Golf Club, an 18-hole Peter Thompson designed
golf course, allowing for the
redevelopment of the current Bunbury Point course
site to be handed over for public use. It will also
allow for the sustainable development of around
537 housing lots, new bike paths and
walking tracks between Apollo Bay and Marengo with
a vegetated front continuing to separate the two
towns.
For more information visit
www.greatoceanqreen.com.au
Dear Editor
I am tired of hearing that the opposition to the
Great Ocean Green development is a" minority
group that doesn't even live in town" as stated
by Guy Holman in last week's news sheet. If this
is true then how was it possible for Carol Wilmink,
who has clearly stated her opposition to Great ocean
Green, to become elected as councillor in the recent
by election? To me this is a clear indication that
the supposed "minority group" is very
large and they live in the ward and therefore in
Apollo Bay. Apollo Bay is a town that has a wonderful
community feel and soul, that has been able to support
Netball and Football Clubs with great success, long
before Urban Development started to sponsor them.
Although sponsors are greatly appreciated, it is
people that make clubs. What I love about this town
is its community feel, how you can walk down the
street and say "HI" to half the people
you pass. I loved going to school in the Bay, having
friends from year 7 to year 12 that I still have
today. This will no longer be possible if C 29 amendment
is passed and Great Ocean Green development goes
ahead. This town will lose its SOUL; it will lose
what we all love about it and what visitors love
about it. Our town will turn into another resort
town with no soul or community feel and that would
be the worst tragedy of all.
Claire Smith
Apollo Bay
Dear Editor,
Does the Apollo Bay News have a policy on editorial
comments? What does it say? Do the comments in last
week's issue represent the views of Apollo Bay News
Inc.?
Whatever the reply to these questions would not
the material published as Editorial Comments have
been more appropriate in the Letters to the Editor
section? Here, letters offer individual points of
view, which everyone is entitled to have and to
submit for publication.
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Dear Editor,
In Edition 11/30 News sheet, the very divisive issue
of GOG once again was prominent in both the letters
to the Editor and Editorial Comment. Firstly may
I say that any person I have spoken with regarding
GOG has never had any objection to a Golf Course
on the Barham Flats. They have however said they
cannot support 500 + housing lots. Now we are told
150 of these will be on 'pods' above the floor level
of the shops in the main street. That will all be
easy on the eye won't it? The logistics of this
whole proposal get more outrageous with every telling.
No matter what spin, rhetoric, or so called expert
advice is quoted, the project is flawed. Housing
is being proposed on a flood plain. How many of
the supporters of this development will be 're-locating
to a Golf Club block.' ?. I am a 'climate change
sceptic' howeverj am a firm believer in' variations
to weather patterns' and we all know how fierce
the storms can be on this coast. We have had floods
a plenty on those flats, and no one can predict
time frames for these events. We have had 3 councillors
sacked for their stance against this project; we
have had a bi-election in which the 2 candidates
who stated their opposition to it gained over 80%
of the vote. We have Barwon Water drilling holes
all over the countryside trying to find an appropriate
site for water storage for the town, because the
ideal site is not acceptable to the developer. Guy
Holman, no doubt an earnest young lad, who values
his leisure time on the golf course, wrote an emotive
& at times contradictory letter (are the minority
in town or out of town?) & petulantly threatens
to leave town if it doesn't go ahead. Enough! go
back to the drawing board and come up with a plan
that is sustainable and acceptable, not just to
golfers but to normal people who also call this
town home . In closing may I say I was disappointed
in the Editorial Comments section, which I felt
had been used to highlight an issue in which the
editor is closely involved. Further, the only letter
supporting the opposition to GOG was buried on page
18 of the newspaper, The classified notices received
greater priority. Perhaps as a show of good faith
the News Sheet could reprint that letter in its
next edition under "Letters to the Editor"
Ruth Hedrick.
Dear Editor,
The Golf Club would be pleased for the accompanying
news article explaining further investigations into
flood studies... a hypothetical "let's look
at"... with an increased sea level rise of
1.4 metres (that is up a further 0.6m above the
very conservative 0.8m figure factored in by Corrangamite
Water Management, CSIRO, and the independent Panel,
last vear).
Yours faithfully,
Val Higman, Hon Secretary . Apollo Bay Golf Club
Inc
Dear Editor,
Australians are fortunate to live in a Democracy.
I have written previously to the News Sheet about
the responsibility that comes hand in glove with
the privilege of living the democratic way. We Aussies
are an irreverent lot. We take great delight in
sticking it verbally to our politicians, to people
in authority, and in fact to any person who takes
themselves too seriously. It's the Australian way,
so too is giving the other bloke a fair go.
Phil Lawson wasn't given a fair go in last weeks
News Sheet.
I seriously question the News Sheet Committee editorial
policy that condones the equivalent of a full column
of pro development information lifted from the C29
Panel Report being printed as Editorial Comment
on page 2 of the News Sheet. In addition to this,
two letters pro Great Ocean Green Development were
printed under the Letters to the Editor banner on
page 7. Phil Lawson's letter daring to offer a contrary
view was relegated to page 18. A number of residents
I've spoken with didn't even see it printed way
back there midst the Public Notices, Arts News and
Real Estate ads.
I personally feel that Phil is owed a formal apology
from the News Sheet Committee, and a re-printing
of his informative letter - this time alongside
the other Letters to the Editor where it should
have appeared the first time around. In future may
we please have a News Sheet which is politically
and socially unbiased where letters stating opposing
viewpoints on such controversial issues are presented
to readers on a level playing field. Apollo Bay
is a great town but such blatant editorial bias
as that which appeared last week is undemocratic
and can be both divisive and destructive in what
should be, and can hopefully remain, a cohesive,
healthy, and sustainably progressive town.
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