Opinion
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Active sponsorship
THE Upper Yarra Toy Library would like to sincerely thank the Warburton and Yarra Junction Community Bank branches for their recent sponsorship, allowing us to…
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Budgets have been cut
IN RESPONSE to both Jim Child’s and Cindy McLeish’s letters regarding CFA and MFB ‘NEVER’ having their budgets cut by the Napthine Government, I say…
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Where Cindy lives
IN THE course of this campaign I have been questioned about whether I live in the Eildon electorate. Let me set the record straight. I…
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Climate of fear
THE Fire Rating Index was set at 100 for the conditions of the 1939 fires. The 1983 fires had a FRI of 97. In 2009,…
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Liberal attitude
INTERESTING to note that the Napthine Liberal Government has given $45 million to upgrade TAFE in Frankston, yet they give the outer east only $2.25…
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End of an era
THE end of an era has come to Warburton. Pete the Postie who has delivered our mail in oppressive heat and freezing cold with paradise…
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Vote for education
PEOPLE in the outer east need the opportunity to participate in higher education, TAFE and community education in Lilydale. The best site is the Swinburne…
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Be warned
LAST week I received a telephone call. The caller was purporting to be from the Commonwealth Bank’s head office in Sydney. She knew my name…
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What a dud
DANIEL Andrews’ election promise that they will not turn the North-South Pipeline on is simply an admission by Labor that the pipeline is a “dud”.…
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Dog of an act
WE WERE sitting by the river at Warburton enjoying a family of wood ducks with five tiny ducklings. A woman arrived with a black male…
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Sad to read
IT WAS with sadness that I read the letter “Disappointing” from Kersten Gentle. I think the parade was the tale of a town in transition.…
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Fighting back
IN NOVEMBER, the community of Yarra Ranges came together to fight back against cancer at Cancer Council’s Relay For Life. I would like to thank…
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