Posted in Albury, Local Government, tagged Albury City Council, Amanda Duncan-Strelec, Kevan Portor, Paul Wareham, Stuart Baker on July 31, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Jack Stone and Kieran Bennett decided to pop along to last night’s extraordinary meeting at Albury City Council. Here’s a summary of our coverage:
Wareham faces the music – Jack Stone
While Cr. Wareham and his supporters put on a brave front for the camera and fielded questions from the assembled media, among council ranks however, Cr. [...]
Posted in Albury, Council, Local Government, tagged Albury City Council, Amanda Duncan-Strelec, Kevan Portor, Paul Wareham, Save Fromholtz Park, Stuart Baker on July 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
During tonight’s extra-ordinary Albury Council meeting to lynch (did I say Lynch? I meant censure, they were carrying ropes for another reason!) censure Paul Wareham, I took a few notes.
Here’s a run down of what the players said, as best I can remember and determine from notes. I should note these are far from verbatim, [...]
Posted in Albury, Council, Local Government, tagged Albury City Council, Amanda Duncan-Strelec, Paul Wareham, Stuart Baker on July 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After tonight’s Council meeting, Paul Wareham’s supporters were a bit upset, and it wasn’t just because the rest of council was out to lynch their darling. The agenda had promised that Mayor Stuart Baker would move a Mayoral Minute containing two parts, the first read:
That council:
a. has full considered the Code of Conduct Committee report [...]
Posted in Albury, Council, Editorial, Local Government on July 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
You could be forgiven for thinking you were at a capital trial instead of a council meeting at the Albury council chambers tonight.
The mood was tense, the anmity almost palpable.
All that was missing was a black cap on Mayor Stuart Baker’s head, and of course, a gallows.
The one item for the agenda was a mayoral [...]
Posted in Council, Local Government, tagged Albury, Albury City, Arthur, Fraunfelder, Liberal, Paul Wareham on July 31, 2008 | 6 Comments »
As Mayor Baker pointed out, you elect your representatives to make decisions.
Arthur Fraunfelder was elected to Albury City Council as head of the Liberal ticket. At times he has voted with former Liberal colleague Paul Wareham in opposition to council development in Fromholtz Park.
Tonight was show down night. In an extra-ordinary meeting council was hoping [...]
Posted in Editorial, Events, Lifestyle, Media, Sports on July 30, 2008 | 16 Comments »
Here’s a little whinge I’m going to have for no other reason than because I can.
With the Beijing olympics just around the corner, it’s on everybody’s lips, here’s something I notice and now, maybe you will too.
Most of the dullards they employ on commercial television to do the sports reports can’t even pronounce the bloody [...]
Posted in Albury, Council, Local Government, tagged Albury, Council, Demolition, Development, Hanel St, Heritage on July 28, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I was trawling Saturday’s paper when I noticed this in the list of development applications in Albury:
“10-2008-28961.1 542 – Hanel St – Demolition of residence (heritage item) and construction of dual occupancy”
Anyone know what this mean? What specifically is a “heritage item” in council jargon? Is it something that perhaps should not be demolished?
I’ve got [...]
Posted in Crime, Editorial, Wodonga on July 28, 2008 | 13 Comments »
Two men have been remanded in custody over the alledged bashing murder of a Wodonga man in the carpark of the Birallee Tavern leaving the region in a state of shock over the brutality.
We certainly like to think of ourselves as a caring community “family values” and all that but the events of the past [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Beechworth, Climate, Environment, Flannery, Global Warming, Kerferd, Kerferd Lecture, Kerferd Oration, Tim Flannery on July 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Just back from the Kerferd Oration at Latrobe Uni in Beechworth. Tim Flannery gave a talk, which I recorded and hope to transcribe in the near future. His basic theme was:
Global warming is an air pollution crisis.
Humanity has dealt with two air pollution crisis’ before, Acid Rain caused by burning sulfar intensive coal, and the [...]
Posted in Local Government, Wodonga, tagged CEO, Council, Gavin Cator, Moira, Wodonga on July 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Gavin Cator is Wodonga’s new CEO. The Border Mail has a pithy, some might say scant, article on the man who will play a much greater role in our towns governance than any elected representative. He’s from Moira Council, and he has two main claims to fame.
When an old lady died last year, having [...]
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