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of the Brumby government election defeat Come to STATE GOVERNMENT & questioned their value. Seven months after Ted Baillieu won government, an internal Manchester in POLITICS review cast fresh light on what went wrong in Labor’s campaign. Headed by federal Early October Human rights charter MP Alan Griffin, the review looks at a The Age reported that the Victorian Human range of issues, such as marginal suburban Accompany a regular visitor to Rights Commissioner Helen Szoke called electorates Labor neglected, the party’s the Conservative and Labor for the state’s human rights charter to be campaign strategies, and problems in annual conferences and observe expanded, despite the Coalition strongly electorates on the Frankston railway line for yourself how alongside criticising it while in opposition. The review where several seats were lost. the politics, the clever public committee is led by upper house Liberal MP policy minds of Britain, Europe Edward O’Donohue. He preciously labeled What’s in the box? and elsewhere, are exposed the charter ‘undemocratic’ in 2007 while The Age state political editor Josh Gordon and challenged in a range of future Premier Ted Baillieu and future wrote that premier Ted Baillieu isn’t opposed 500 events, large and small. Attorney-General Robert Clark strongly to the idea of a carbon tax. ‘On the contrary, Bring some ideas back home. criticised it when it was introduced the he just doesn’t agree with the model previous year. The Age later reported that presented by the Gillard government. In Call Alistair Urquhart leaked government documents have given the opposition, he went to pains to differentiate 0408 033 110 strongest indication yet that the human rights himself from interstate Liberal colleagues, charter will be retained - possibly with only backing the science of climate change minor reforms - when the Coalition makes a and Kevin Rudd’s now-defunct emissions decision on its fate later this year. trading scheme, and signing up to legislation candidates in a group of bayside seats. The That news came despite some Liberal introduced by the Brumby government Age said the group involving former Liberal MPs maintaining that it is ill-conceived, aspiring to cut Victoria’s greenhouse gas MP Geoff Leigh, operated beyond the reach undemocratic, or a waste of money. The emissions 20 per cent by 2020.’ of Australian electoral law, public scrutiny and, Liberal MP heading the parliamentary inquiry, Watermelons it seems, Liberal Party discipline. Related to Ed O’Donohue, had also been a vocal critic, The Herald Sun reported that some Victorian this, The Age reported that planning minister once describing it as ‘nebulous, ill-defined politicians had branded the Greens a party Matthew Guy attended a $75-a-head and undemocratic’. O’Donohue rejected of radical communists or ‘watermelons’. The function at Parliament House in May. suggestions that the committee - which is term is used to describe something that is Premier Baillieu said that a code of conduct made up of four Coalition MPs and three green on the outside and ‘red’ on the inside. was to be drafted and released by the end of Labor MPs - had a predetermined outcome on As of July, the Greens hold the balance of the year to give ministers and staff clear rules the charter’s future. power in the Senate, allowing them to make around fund raising, gifts and hospitality. After or break some reform laws if the main parties days of inquiries by The Age, the Liberal Party No fair lodged its first disclosures for Business First The Financial Review reported that don’t agree. In federal parliament, Melbourne Ports Labor MP Michael Danby warned with the Australian Electoral Commission for Queensland Premier Anna Bligh demanded 2008-2009 and 2009-2010. the Gillard government give her state a better the ‘watermelon’ faction of the Greens that deal on the carbon tax, saying Queenslanders it must reject extremism. Victorian Liberal Funds running dry won’t ‘sit by’ while Victorian power senator Helen Kroger, also speaking in The Age reported that the Victorian branch of generators win all the compensation. As Bligh Parliament, went a step further. ‘There’s a the Liberal Party has not received hundreds stepped up the pressure, Victorian Premier stale smell wafting at the Senate doors - it’s of thousands of dollars because Premier Ted Baillieu was on the attack, claiming the called radical communism’. Baillieu has not delivered a long-awaited carbon plan would cost the state’s hospitals Fundraising breach code of conduct for ministerial fund raising. about $13.5 million a year in extra energy The Age reported that a Liberal Party fund The Age claimed that state ministers have bills, rising to more than $20 million by 2020. raising group breached federal electoral raised virtually no money since the Coalition was elected in November, with the burden Hindsight is tinted green laws by failing to declare donations to candidates in the lead-up to last year’s state falling entirely on increasingly frustrated The Age reported that the Victorian Labor federal Liberal MPs from Victoria. Party would rethink doing preference deals election. Business First, based in Melbourne’s with the Greens in the future, after a review southern suburbs, raised money for Liberal Brumby’s advertising bolt The Age reported that the Brumby government spent more than $100 million on advertising in the financial year leading up to the 2010 election. Figures show Labor spent more taxpayer dollars selling its water plans and promoting public education than it did on bushfire awareness and the Quit smoking campaign in 2009-10. The report on the Brumby government’s advertising - obtained by The Age under freedom of information - found campaign advertising increased by almost 15 per cent to $100.8 million. Overall advertising on campaigns, government tenders and recruitment jumped from $114.6 million in 2008-09 to $124.3 million, sparking accusations from the Baillieu government that Labor had abused taxpayer

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funds for self-promotion when in power. ruled out increased grants to any of the Playing possum major performing arts companies, including The Age reported that logging began in An also ran Orchestra Victoria and its Sydney counterpart, The Age reported that South Australian native forest north-east of Melbourne. the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra. education minister Jay Weatherill, a lawer, Environmentalists allege that this Opera Australia last year wrote off a $5.5 has been lined up by Labor power brokers particular forest is home to the endangered million debt from the AOBO, which continues to replace the deposed Mike Rann as Leadbeater’s possum. VicForests, the to lose about $800,000 a year. premier. As of 1 August, it is unclear when the Victorian government’s commercial forestry leadership transition will occur. arm, began logging 19 hectares of forest at Sylvia Creek Road in the Toolangi State ENVIRONMENT Forest. The Department of Sustainability ARTS and Environment has been ‘rechecking’ the logging coupe, following protests by anti- logging groups, to see that it is not home to the Leadbeater’s possum. Old Melbourne on display CONSERVATION The small marsupial is endemic to Victoria’s The Age noted the opening of an exhibition at central highlands, and is believed to number the National Gallery of Victoria at Federation fewer than 1,000. Surveys of the coupe by Square. This Wondrous Land: Colonial Art Ambitious target the department and VicForests found no on Paper, ‘Part Two’ is running concurrently The Australian reported that the Victorian Leadbeater’s possum habitat or old-growth with ‘Part One’ at NGV International in St government came under pressure to explain mountain ash forest, but VicForests will Kilda Road, which shows art from early how it would deliver a 20 per cent cut in leave alone an extra three hectares as a settlement in New South Wales and Tasmania. greenhouse gas emissions, after the state ‘habitat island’ in answer to ‘concerns raised The National Gallery of Victoria prints and adopted Australia’s most ambitious climate by conservationists’. On 26 June, The Age drawings curator Alisa Bunbury said that change legislation without introducing new reported that conservationists had entered light sensitivity limits the gallery’s ability policies to meet it. the area and forced work to halt. to display works on paper but these works are being shown to mark the NGV’s 150th Under your feet Sea change anniversary. The Age reported that a south-western The Herald Sun reported that a fire destroyed Victorian community objected to a mining part of the Jirrahlinga Koala and Wildlife Report hits a sad note company’s proposal to search for brown coal Sanctuary at Barwon Heads. Two baby The Age reported that the future of Orchestra over 500 square kilometres that includes koalas and four adults, rescued and in Victoria is in doubt, according to a study the town of Deans Marsh. In the latest bid rehabilitation after road trauma or illness, by the national funding body, the Australia to develop a Victorian brown coal export died as a result. The shelter’s founder, Tehree Council. Melbourne’s major opera and industry, Mantle Mining applied to the state Gordon, rescued her first koala 52 years ago. ballet orchestra had an operating loss last government for an exploratory licence for year of $605,000. It struck a deal with the Possum pill a region near the Otway Ranges, centred musicians to shrink the number of players The brushtail possum population in Carlton about 50 kilometres west of Geelong and by about 10 (from 69) and to halve their North’s Curtain Square is held responsible 10 kilometres from the Great Ocean Road. instrument allowances in 2011, saving an for damaging the area’s trees. The Herald If granted, the licence would allow the estimated $350,000. The confidential study Sun reported that Yarra Council plans a two- company to explore coal reserves beneath by the Anzarts Institute suggested that the year hormone implant trial to stop possums private land. Land owners could negotiate best chance would be for OV to merge with breeding in the square. Greens Mayor Alison for compensation for any property damage. the Australian Ballet and remove what it Clarke said the square’s trees were in poor A separate commercial licence would be describes as restrictive work practices. condition because of possum numbers, needed before a mine was developed. Stop This would involve the abolition of full-time but culling was not the answer. ‘We could the press. This proposal is evidently not going players and allowances, with only a core potentially cull the possums, but that would ahead. ensemble of leading musicians. The study mean a lot of people would be very upset. We was prepared for the federal, Victorian and don’t want to just kill all the possums. We New South Wales governments after they want to have wildlife in the city and we have to learn to co-exist with it.’

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VECCI appoints new Chief Executive

Earlier this year VECCI President Peter McMullin announced the appointment of Mark Stone as the new VECCI Chief Executive: “Mr Stone is an experienced and successful Chief Executive who has specialised in public sector management as well as collaborative private sector and business engagement – he will be a great asset to VECCI and will continue the development and transformation of the organisation achieved by our outgoing Chief Executive Wayne Kayler-Thomson. I congratulate Wayne on a first-class job as CEO – he has taken the organisation forward a long way. The organisation is on the right path and Mr Stone will continue this journey.”

Until this appointment Mr Stone was Chief Executive of Tourism Victoria and was previously Chief Executive of Parks Victoria. He is enthused by the opportunity to lead Victoria’s most influential business organisation and to contribute to Victoria’s future as a great state for business investment and development. “In succeeding Wayne, I am well aware and appreciative of the fact that I have the opportunity to lead an Mark Stone, the new Chief Executive of VECCI organisation which is in great shape, and I am excited by the challenge to further develop its strength and performance,” Mr Stone said.

Outgoing Chief Executive Wayne Kayler-Thomson said that he was delighted with Mr Stone’s appointment and looked forward working with VECCI in the future. “The Chamber is providing excellent services to its members, customers and clients and is developing and advocating good public policy for Victoria. It has been immensely rewarding to have had the opportunity to contribute to its continued success,” Mr Kayler-Thomson said.

Mr Stone took up the role in mid-June. On 1 July, Mr Kayler-Thomson took up his new role as Chief Executive of the Australian Chamber Alliance Pty Ltd – a joint venture company owned by Australia’s State and Territory Chambers of Commerce and Industry - as well as pursuing other interests. Small Businesses Neglected in Carbon Tax Annoucement While a minority of small businesses, particularly in the green technology sector, will benefit, the Federal Government’s carbon price announcement will leave a sour taste in the mouths of most Victorian small businesses.

While we now know the carbon price and the exemptions, Victoria’s 500,000 small businesses were effectively ignored in Prime Minister Gillard’s announcement. Most households and some large businesses will receive compensation but small business will not receive anything meaningful and will have to absorb flow-through power costs. Small business risks being left as `the forgotten sector’, while already operating on low margins in the wake of soft consumer sentiment, interest rate rises and a high Australian dollar.

The Government has also drip-fed announcements through the media without talking to the small business sector, leaving small businesses to work it out for themselves.

There has been little modelling of the impacts on small business – the sector that employs the bulk of Victorians. Victorian State Government modelling shows a cost to the State economy of around $2.5 billion and of up to $1,000 for the average small business such as the hairdresser, bakery and pizza shop via increased power costs. According to this modelling, the cost to the average dairy farm will be $1,500, impacting heavily on regional Victoria.

We are also disappointed that there is a lot of stick and little carrot for small business. One is struck by the lack of incentives to cut carbon intensity.

This package will mean small businesses, besides the impact already referred to, will need to take further energy efficiency measures in their day-to-day business operations just to keep costs within reason.

To follow reader reaction to the carbon tax debate go to: www.vecci.org.au/news/Pages/Chief_Executive_Update_Small_ business_neglected_in_carbon_tax_annoucement.aspx

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Power shortages possible Do us a favour ENERGY The Age reported that in the wake of the Senior columnist at The Age, Kenneth prime minister’s Carbon Tax announcement, Davidson, wrote that the Baillieu government the Victorian government warned the state should do everyone a favour and cancel the to brace for more frequent power outages Wonthaggi plant deal. ‘Premier Ted Baillieu Off the grid in summer in years ahead, because of the describes the Wonthaggi water desalination A special in The Age explored properties likely closure of the Hazelwood power plant. plant as a white elephant. It would be more across central Victoria that are testing out life Acting Premier Peter Ryan warned the federal accurate to say it is half an elephant, and a with no mains electricity in order to reduce government’s carbon tax would drive a ‘stake dangerous one to boot. The public-private the risk of bushfires sparked by power-line through the heart’ of the power generation partnership contract for the plant agreed to failure. Bushfire Safety Taskforce chairman sector, threatening widespread job losses in by the previous Labor government was so Tim Orton said the group’s work is producing the Latrobe Valley. notoriously generous that the unions on site crucial information. ‘If we get this right, we easily obtained a fabulous pay agreement. can make a very substantial change to Disconnected Who could blame them for getting in for their The Age reported that there has been a large bushfire risk in a more proactive way than chop too? Former premier John Brumby said increase in Victorians having utility services we’ve been able to do in the past’. it didn’t matter - the government had a fixed- disconnected or restricted. Consumers are Outcomes of the Bushfire Royal Commission price contract with AquaSure. What Baillieu apparently struggling to cope with steep on the relationship between electricity and knows now, and what Brumby should have rises in electricity, gas and water prices. bushfires was also discussed. known, is that this has set the benchmark for Complaints and inquiries to the state Energy The commission found that the ‘failure of site agreements for infrastructure throughout and Water Ombudsman from people who have electricity assets was responsible for five fires, Victoria. The cost blowout will flow on to had essential services cut have risen to 916 at Kilmore East, Beechworth-Mudgegonga, every major construction project in the state. in the first six months of the year - up 56 per Horsham, Coleraine and Pomboneit-Weerite. Victoria is saddled with an onerous $24 billion cent on the same period in 2009. The figures Now is the time to start replacing the aging contract that will impoverish every Victorian, provided to The Age show a 200 per cent electricity infrastructure and to make major either directly or indirectly, for 30 years. And increase in cases of people facing imminent changes to its operation and management.’ it’s for water that the state doesn’t need.’ The commission’s recommendations to reduce cuts because of unpaid bills, up to 1419. the risk of fires caused by electricity include Energy and Water Ombudsman Fiona McLeod the progressive replacement of all single- said affordability was a growing concern. ‘I wire earth-return power lines in Victoria with think the real need is for companies to HEALTH aerial bundled cable, underground cabling or recognise that.’ technology that greatly reduces bushfire risk. Smart meter held back Station’s future is hazy The Herald Sun reported that the Australian Only the best The Age wrote, prior to the carbon price deal Energy Regulator has moved to block a bid The Royal Children’s Hospital chief executive brokered by Canberra’s multi-party climate by CitiPower, Jemena, Powercor, SP AusNet Christine Kilpatrick told the Herald Sun committee, that the deal would include a plan and United Energy Distribution to charge that the world-leading facility would open on to pay for the closure or conversion to gas $1.24 billion to build and run the smart meter 30 November. The daylight-flooded hospital of at least one of the nation’s greenhouse system from 2012-15. The regulator said the will be able to treat 35,000 more patients a gas-intensive coal plants over an extended cost should be $760 million. The decision year than the current facility, which opened transition period. The paper speculated that has been hailed a major win for Victorians in 1963, and has 353 beds, 46 more. And Australia’s ‘dirtiest’ large coal-fired power struggling with soaring electricity costs. 85 per cent of the rooms in the new hospital station, Hazelwood in the Latrobe Valley, are single rooms with ensuite bathrooms, could be bought out and shut down under a allowing children and families extra space and carbon price package. Federal Energy Minister WATER privacy. Martin Ferguson reportedly flagged the Bar in the Children’s Hospital possibility of the government paying to retire A blueprint seen by The Age showed a large Hazelwood, or the smaller Playford plant 264-square-metre area for a ‘restaurant/ in South Australia. The owners of another Back from the brink bistro/bar’ in the retail zone of the new Royal The Age reported comments from Mark Victorian plant, Yallourn, indicated they would Children’s Hospital paediatric centre on Bailey from Goulburn-Murray Water, where be open to a buyout for the right price. Flemington Road. A spokeswoman for Health he is acting manager of water resources Minister David Davis denied there was room Heart of darkness saying that Lake Eildon is 87.8 per cent full. for a public bar in the project, but said alcohol The Australian reported on Julia Gillard’s visit The mass of water meant that vast areas would be permitted in the hotel’s restaurant to the heart of the nation’s coal sector in were available for recreation, while towns and lounge area, and through room service the Latrobe Valley to meet workers who are and irrigators had improved water security. and mini-bars for guests. John Fitzgerald, probably the most vulnerable to the carbon Recent inflows and long-term inflow records the acting chief executive of VicHealth and tax. Hazelwood, targeted by green groups suggested the water would keep rising founding member of the Alcohol Policy as the nation’s dirtiest coal power station, strongly over coming months. ‘’We are 95 per Coalition, said alcohol should not be served to produces 25 per cent of Victoria’s electricity. It cent confident we will fill the storage’. David people attending the hospital, including staff. is regarded as the most likely coal station to Roff, chief executive of Mansfield Shire, said be closed or converted to gas by either side a full Lake Eildon generated a lot of economic Another tick for the PM of politics. In an event closed to the media, activity. In May 2007 the lake fell as low as 7 The Age reported that the long-awaited Gillard met 120 workers at the Hazelwood per cent capacity. agreement, worth an estimated $175 billion power station. She took questions on her plan to the states in extra funding up to 2030, to shut down 2,000 megawatts of energy from Catchment head promises to provide millions of extra inpatient, Mildura Councillor Sharyon Peart is the coal-fired power stations and replace it with emergency and outpatient services in public cleaner energy generation. Mallee Catchment Authority board’s new chair.

6 6 LETTER FROM MELBOURNE hospitals. Prime minister The deal came part 6A of the Health Services Act and will Care imbalance after years of wrangling between the Kevin provide advice to, and report to, the Minister The Age used its Focus Section to highlight an Rudd and Julia Gillard governments and the for Health and the Department of Health on alarming trend in community care. The paper states - to the signing of the asylum seeker the efficient delivery of quality health services. noted a quickly growing number of disabled arrangement with Malaysia, the unveiling of people in residential care in Victoria, at the the carbon price details and the Tasmanian Quick to quit The Herald Sun reported that Victorians same time as a shrinking pool a volunteers. forestry agreement. wanting to quit smoking are signing up ‘in Michelle Griffin wrote that it was a crisis Victoria’s share of the $175 billion in extra droves’ for government-subsidised nicotine where the most vulnerable have a lot to lose. funding would probably be about $44 billion. patches. The subsidies have been in place The agreement is supposed to start on July 1, Victoria lights the way since February and more than 100,000 but has been delayed by battles with Victoria The Age reported that Victoria was chosen to scripts have been filled across Australia. More and Western Australia. These have been test a $6 billion national disability insurance than 26,000 of those were filled in Victoria. over the new structures for pricing services scheme that its backers claim will be the Quit Victoria applauded the news, saying and monitoring results, and how funds will biggest social reform since Medicare. The that the initiative it campaigned for was be paid. The states have wanted to retain scheme, which is among recommendations helping more people give up a deadly habit. as much control as possible, while getting from the Productivity Commission to the Quit executive director Fiona Sharkie more money, but there has been a series of government, will provide high-quality long- said the subsidy was important and would compromises, with both levels of government term support to anyone who acquires a lead to fewer smoking-related deaths. The giving ground. significant disability, regardless of whether government subsidies for patches have it was related to work and regardless of the Where are the beds? reduced costs for a 12-week patches course state in which it took place. The Herald Sun reported that Victorian for pensioners from $480 to as low as $16.80. The result of an 18-month investigation, the opposition leader Daniel Andrews pressured Other Australians pay about $100 for the 12- recommendations are expected to be stronger Health Minister David Davis to explain when week course. Health Minister Nicola Roxon and more specific than those in an interim and how the Baillieu government intended said that since nicotine replacements were report delivered in February. Funded out of to deliver an election commitment of 800 put on the pharmaceutical benefits scheme, Commonwealth revenue at an estimated cost new hospital beds for sick Victorians. The people had been trying to kick the habit ‘in of $6.3 billion per year, the scheme would government later responded, saying that droves’. provide support services to about 360,000 100 beds would be allocated ‘in the next 12 Australians under strict guidelines. months’ according to ‘clinical need’. The The unbridged gap The Australian covered the results of a Whereas Medicare is funded by a levy paid new beds would include six intensive-care report into the plight of Victoria’s indigenous by all taxpayers, the Productivity Commission beds, three neo-natal intensive-care cots, 20 population, finding that the situation had has made no such recommendation on the palliative-care beds, more than 45 sub-acute barely improved in the past five years. The disability insurance scheme, saying that the beds and 46 mental health beds. Indigenous Affairs Report - released in government should fund the scheme out of But they would not be allocated until June with little public scrutiny or attention - general revenue. The paper said that the trial the government came up with ‘funding showed indigenous Victorians can expect to would begin in 2014 and the scheme would guidelines’. The government will then start to live a decade less, are nine times as likely to go national in 2015, gradually expanding in negotiate with each of the 21 public health be in jail, almost three times more likely to be scope. The scheme would be managed by services across the state to achieve the best unemployed and are more than twice as likely an independent National Disability Insurance outcome for Victorians. A spokesperson said to self-harm than non-indigenous Victorians. Agency, whose board would be appointed ‘We want additional beds to be operational as The story was printed as National Aborigines by state, Commonwealth and territory soon as possible, but new beds will be based and Islanders Day Observance Committee governments. Federal Coalition disabilities on need and capacity of health services to Week kicked off on 4 July and Prime spokesman Mitch Fifield backed the scheme deliver additional services’. Minister Julia Gillard considered the federal on the release of the interim report, offering Council appointments government’s next moves to improve the bipartisan support on the question of funding. The Victorian Department of Health is seeking living standards of indigenous Australians in Top Dog Day expressions of interest for positions to the the north of the country. Member-Zone magazine announced that Top newly established Health Innovation and Dog Day, Guide Dogs Victoria’s annual major Reform Council. 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29 July. Guide Dogs Victoria CEO Dr Graeme Schools in demand Closing the book White said that the aim of the event was A confidential report into the demand for The Age reported that the Christian group that to raise funds to support blind and vision new schools in Melbourne’s booming inner teaches the controversial religious education impaired Victorians, as well as recognise the suburbs was published by The Age. The program in Victorian government schools, vital role guide dogs play in the community. report found that Port Melbourne would announced a five-year ‘mission’ to extend Visit topdogday.com.au need a second primary school within five to its reach into independent schools. Access Call for submissions 10 years. However, the report also said that Ministries chief executive Evonne Paddison A government advertisement in The Age there was insufficient demand for another said more and more parents were choosing requested submissions to an inquiry into high school, despite projected growth in the to send their children to independent schools Access to and Interaction with the Justice number of secondary-school-aged students However, bodies representing independent System by People with an Intellectual in the Port Phillip area. schools and teachers said religious education Disability and Their Families and Carers. The was already taught in the schools, most of Winning design which were faith-based. ‘This shows a lack Victorian Parliament’s Law Reform Committee The Age reported that Woods Bagot won of understanding of what is already existing will inquire into, consider and report no the Public Architecture Award in Alterations in individual independent schools,’ said later than 30 March 2012 on access to and Additions for Deakin University’s new Independent Schools Victoria chief executive and interaction with the justice system by lecture theatre at the annual Australian Michelle Green. people with an intellectual disability and Institute of Architects Awards. Located at their families and carers, including: key the university’s Burwood campus, the new Principles powerless issues and themes, including but not limited building has a 256-seat lecture theatre, foyer, The Age reported that Victoria’s school to: participants’ knowledge of their rights; two tutorial rooms and student lounge and principals are powerless to expel or suspend availability of appropriate services and amenities. students who use social media websites supports; dealings with the police; and the or their mobile phones to bully classmates operation of the courts. Submissions should Printing money outside school hours. With cyber-bullying on The Age reported that the Education be made by Friday 9 September 2011. the rise, government principals are concerned Department has launched an investigation of that when students use home-based social three Victorian government school employees media tools to vilify or harass classmates, after an Ombudsman’s report on the corrupt teachers lack the legal artillery to enforce purchase of print cartridges at massively EDUCATION serious disciplinary procedures. Lawyers inflated prices. warn the Education Department could be Quantity weakens quality exposed to legal action if its schools do not System overhaul The Age reported that reform to vocational act forcefully enough to protect victims from The Age reported that Victoria’s education education in Victoria has caused a surge bullying classmates at home on sites such as department is to be overhauled and turned in enrolments across the sector, but that Facebook. into a ‘super bureaucracy’, in a state TAFE teachers say the new system is driving government move that has prompted fears down the quality of education as students about job losses and cuts to school services. turn to cheaper courses at private providers. INVESTMENT About 2,600 public servants will be affected Certainly the data showed that the bulk of the by the restructure, some programs will go, increase has gone to private providers, and a and a number of divisions will be shut down survey by the Australian Education Union shows there is little support among TAFE or subsumed in one of the biggest shake-ups BUSINESS to the department in years. Education Minister teachers for the reforms, with the majority Martin Dixon insisted ‘no ongoing jobs will of respondents saying the changes have put be lost’ as part of the planned revamp, but more pressure on the system. Over 77 per some staff in fixed-term contracts would not cent of teachers surveyed thought the quality Closing the book of education had dropped. Over half of the have their positions renewed. The Age reported that after nearly 20 years, teachers surveyed also said they felt pressure the final chapter of the bookshop Reader’s National curriculum to pass students who might not be competent. The Australian reported that the Baillieu Feast, is approaching. The iconic bookshop government has rebelled against the national curriculum, with state Education Minister Martin Dixon vowing Victoria will not relinquish control over ‘critical areas’ such as languages. Dixon said the ‘current draft’ of the national curriculum for languages would ‘drive down the standards of languages education in Victoria’ if it was implemented. The national curriculum for languages is being developed on the assumption that only 300 to 400 hours would be spent studying a second language between prep and year 6 - about half the hours recommended by the Victorian Education Department. A national curriculum is also being developed for the arts, geography and languages. They are to be rolled out after the first four subjects are implemented.

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All Borders and vendors. Vendors selling a property to their au, which is owned by News Ltd’s REA Group. company-owned A&R shops are closing. agent are now required to get independent These moves come amid growing industry Pearson Australia has bought REDGroup advice about the transaction from a lawyer concerns about the market power of REA Retails’ online business, including the Borders or accountant. Before January, the laws Group, which is currently being investigated and Angus & Robertson websites. Reader’s were even tougher, requiring approval by the Australian Competition and Consumer Feast Owner Mary Dalmau envisages her BfromU ConsumerSIN EAffairs Victoria for a sale to Commission over allegations of price gouging. own sequel, and is determined to open occur. Under the newS law,S agents will still Melbourne’s largest agencies met at the another bookshop. ‘I have 22 booksellers beA barredL from gaining a beneficial interest REIV’s head office in May to devise a strategy here, three of whom have been with meA for Nin a propertyYS theyI areS commissioned to sell. to counter the power of REA, which was 30 years, and the average tenure is 17 years,’ But there will be exemptions and those sales recently valued at $1.6 billion. willS notI NhaveE third-partySS oversight, the policy Paper offer too thin BUdirector of the Consumer Action Law Centre, The carbon cost in Victoria Victoria’s Small Business festival from E The Australian reported government figures GerardG BrodyEN, said.C August 1 to 31. A booklet in the Herald Sun ELLI that reveal that one in six of the nation’s summarised the festival in a 55 page officialNT Holding back 500 largest polluters that will pay the guide to 400 events around MelbourneI and The Age reported that Melbourne real carbon tax operate solely in Victoria. The the state with an introductory messages estate agents and vendors are increasingly Australian Competition and Consumer from premier Ted Baillieu and minister for withholding or manipulating data provided Commission possesses substantial innovation, services and small business, to the Real Estate Institute of Victoria, powers to crack down on any attempts by Louise Asher. prompting calls for the mandatory reporting companies to link falsely their price hikes of all property sales to protect consumers. to the carbon tax. A breakdown of the Paper offer too thin Nearly one in five properties sold at auction polluters in the $23-a-tonne tax’s firing line, The Australian reported that a syndicate are now reported to the REIV with the price shows 85 operate only in Victoria, 135 in of wealthy Melbourne families, led by Ron marked ‘undisclosed’ - a significant increase NSW and the ACT, 110 in Queensland, 75 Walker, approached Fairfax Media about from last year’s property boom, up from in Western Australia, 25 in South Australia, buying its key Melbourne assets, The Age 11 per cent then to 18 per cent now. The 20 in Tasmania and five in the Northern newspaper and the talk radio station 3AW. investigation also revealed that 43 per cent of Territory. A further 45 operate in multiple However, the informal discussions were cut properties scheduled for auction in June had states. Opposition climate spokesman short by the company’s board. no published quote range, further frustrating Greg Hunt called on the government to Glass maker retrenches buyers’ attempts to obtain basic information. name the companies, but a spokesman The Herald Sun reported that more than 100 Real data control for Climate Change Minister Greg Combet workers at glass manufacturer Viridian’s said the information was collected under The Age reported that a powerful consortium Victorian plant in Clayton were facing Howard government legislation that required of real estate agents backed by the Real redundancies within the year. In a letter confidentiality. Most of the 500 companies Estate Institute of Victoria is planning to to the union, Viridian blamed ‘declining have large facilities emitting more than seize control of all private sale and auction house construction’, the high Australian 25,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases a year. results, which could reduce consumer access dollar and increased manufacturing costs to important market information or force Fine lines for a restructure that had prompted the people to buy the data. The move follows The Age reported that gentlemen’s clubs redundancies. a sharp decline in reporting of auction with scantily dressed waitresses are being Estate agent regulations results by agents, who are concerned that investigated by Victoria’s liquor licensing The Age reported that the Victorian the valuable consumer information is being authority. Some clubs are accused of flouting government is proposing laws that would intercepted by rival property websites. The liquor licensing laws that impose a $30,000 reduce regulation of real estate agents. REIV, which claims to collect 90 per cent fee on strip clubs. The fee, introduced by the However, the agents’ representative body is of all Melbourne auction results, recently Brumby government in 2010, is about 10 arguing for more regulation - specifically to told The Age buyers must attend public times more than a standard liquor licence. stop agents’ family members from buying auctions to be guaranteed of knowing the The Director of Liquor Licensing is expected vendors’ houses. The laws, regulating when result. The industry faces a major upheaval, to examine restaurants and gentlemen’s clubs and how estate agents can buy a property with Liberal Party powerbroker Michael that employ waitresses dressed in lingerie,

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schoolgirl outfits, French maid uniforms or some phone calls and 30 gigabytes of data - ICT survey fact sheet similar attire. and will go as high as $190 per month for a The Department of Business and Innovation’s premium package with the highest speeds latest information and communication Provincial or just parochial? and a large 1000-gigabyte download limit. The Age revealed the contents of a leaked technology industry survey indicated that document from Westpac, relating to Westpac’s Hooking up here the Victorian ICT industry continues to grow, re-launch of the ‘Bank of Melbourne’ brand The Australian reported that the first despite uncertain global economic conditions. to replace St George’s Bank, describing Melbourne site in the government’s national The Victorian ICT industry employs around Melbourne as a ‘provincial’ community. The broadband project is to be launched in 87,400 people – approximately 29 per cent of internal document carried a warning to August. A handful of selected households in total Australian ICT industry employment. 93 exercise caution, as ‘Melbourne is a provincial the inner-northern suburb of Brunswick will per cent of employing Victorian ICT companies global community and many feel that they start testing services to test network speeds have less than 20 employees. own the brand’. By way of clarification, the and connections. About 1,300 properties have Victorian Employers’ Chamber of Commerce been fitted with fibre-optic cable connections and Industry, concedes that when it comes to and commercial services will be available to sport, culture and entertainment Victorians are all connected households in October. AGRICULTURE proudly parochial and differentiate themselves from Sydney. But, it insists, that doesn’t Its only rail The Australian reported that states will lose mean Melbourne is any less a global city than $1.5 billion worth of rail infrastructure savings Sydney, and it cites the range of cultures At last within five years of losing control of 1800MHz The Age reported that the controversial it hosts, the famed cosmopolitan choice spectrum licences if they’re auctioned to relocation of Melbourne’s fruit and vegetable of restaurants and the major international carriers, the federal government has been market to Epping had been confirmed. The events Melbourne stages every year. VECCI told. Melbourne and Sydney’s passenger rail multimillion-dollar project has been in doubt welcomes the undoubted economic boost networks could also lose $400,000 an hour since January when the Baillieu government the revival of the Bank of Melbourne brings in potential benefits from more frequent said it had concerns over its commercial with it: some 800 jobs, 100 branches, local urban train services, according to the report viability and ordered a review However, Major management (including a Melbourne-based that Deloitte Access Economics prepared for Events Minister said the CEO, COO board), more small business lending Denis Napthine the Australasian Railway Association. The review had found the project should proceed opportunities and more customer services. report also identified a huge lost opportunity and would start operating in the financial Unbelievable to derive social benefits from reduced year 2014-15, at least four years behind The Financial Review reported that with the congestion and pollution if the licences are schedule. The announcement means that reopening of the Bank of Melbourne, Saturday re-farmed. The ARA bought the licences from hundreds of traders will move from their banking could return to the city. Customers One.Tel liquidators for less than $20m in West Melbourne base to the Melbourne will have the chance to speak to staff in the late 1990s and over the past 10 years Wholesale Fruit, Vegetable and Flower branches at weekends, with even Sunday it has invested $500m in a new unified Market in the outer north, and was met with banking being possibly on the table if there national rail safety and signalling system concern from the fresh produce industry. is significant demand in a local area. And that relies on them. But the communication Epping’s surrounding network of freeways after a decade of branch closures and staff regulator is under pressure from carriers and its proximity to the airport were cited cuts across the banking sector, the Bank of starved of mobile broadband spectrum to as reasons for the relocation when it was Melbourne will open an extra 85 branches, re-auction the licences. They give access first announced in 2005. Napthine said the in a victory for customers demanding better to a band earmarked by international government had adjusted Labor’s funding service. The Bank of Melbourne’s flexible telecommunications standards bodies for next model to avoid traders’ rent more than hours are expected to pressure the major generation LTE services and could fetch more doubling when they moved to the new site. banks to follow suit and offer more choice to than $1bn at auction. He could not say what the final cost of the customers. eServices exclusive panel relocation would be to taxpayers, but said that about $200 million had already been The Financial Review reported the spent. He said the Department of Treasury and dissatisfaction of omitted companies at the Finance had found the cost of Labor’s model ICT selection process for the Victorian eServices would ultimately reach $670 million, almost Panel. Only companies listed on the panel $400 million more than first anticipated. He are permitted to bid for work related to conceded that the building cost was not over technology management, strategy and Internet pricing budget. ‘it’s a blowout because [Labor] totally analysis, architecture and design, systems The Financial Review reported that consumers under-costed this project’. and solutions, and support and training. will face higher prices to use the National A significant number of well-respected Broadband Network than initially promised, if Highlander members of the Australian IT industry The Australian reported that Victorian premier the first retail prices released are an accurate were reportedly stunned to receive brief attacked the federal plan to gain guide. Mid-size internet provider Internode Ted Baillieu letters saying they had been unsuccessful. greater control of national parks to derail the yesterday became the first company to Australian Information Industry association state’s attempt to reintroduce cattle grazing announce how much it will charge Australians CEO Ian Birks said he was pleased by IT to the Alpine National Park. He said the federal for access to the NBN. While its prices will minister Gordon Rich-Phillips’ decision to government had been unable to do anything be comparable to what people pay today discuss adverse industry reaction. The paper ‘other than show their incompetence’. In a for broadband on the existing copper wire understands that the AIIA is lobbying to have related development, the Victorian government network, they will be significantly higher than the old list retained for an interim period while has launched a covert plan to reintroduce those predicted last December by NBN Co, the new panel is re-evaluated. cattle grazing to Victoria’s Alpine National the company set up by the government to Park in an attempt to bypass federal laws build the new network. Internode’s prices will that derailed last summer’s controversial trial. start at $60 per month - including line rental,

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The Age said that the move is so shrouded in Victoria, requests submissions for an inquiry of the public, in breach of its own rules for secrecy that the Department of Sustainability into agricultural education and training. handling complaints. Principal solicitor at the and Environment has hired auditing firm Submissions by 30 September. Flemington and Kensington Community Legal Deloitte to comb through the emails of Parks Centre, Tamar Hopkins, said police were not Victoria staff to trace any leaks. Department of being held to account. ‘We have a complaints Sustainability and Environment spokeswoman JUSTICE system that is inherently biased and lacking Cathy Heycock confirmed to The Age that in independence and effectiveness.’ Victoria a new trial was being planned. ‘We are Police had recently launched a program to working through the design of the longer-term educate officers on racial hate crimes, amid research trial, informed by the outcomes of Arsonist theory up in smoke claims police are targeting young men of year one of the trial.’ The Age reported that the bushfire that razed African descent in Melbourne’s inner west. Marysville on Black Saturday may have been To market, to market sparked by electrical faults. Victoria police had Oh dear The Age reported that new farmers’ markets The Age reported that a protest on the steps for two and-a-half years pursued the theory are set to be established across country of State Parliament against the Baillieu of a lone arsonist, which they then dumped Victoria and on Melbourne’s fringe under a $2 government’s controversial anti-swearing without explanation. million program. Victoria’s 48 rural councils laws drew a maximum crowd of just 15. In and nine Melbourne fringe councils will Justice is blind June, Victoria Police were given powers share $1.4 million to establish new markets, The Age reported that the state government to issue on-the-spot fines of up to $240 expand existing ones and undertake feasibility spent $90 million on the Bushfires Royal to punish people caught using language studies on proposed markets. The $2 million Commission, but now wants to prevent the deemed to be indecent, disorderly, offensive Farmers’ Market Support Program announced judge who is hearing a class action over or threatening. The move, part of the by Agriculture and Food Security Minister the most deadly of the fires from seeing government’s extensive law-and-order Peter Walsh. A recent parliamentary report the commissioners’ findings. Justice Terry agenda, outraged civil libertarians, who found that Victoria’s 90-odd farmers’ markets Forrest told lawyers in a case conference in accuse the Coalition of eroding fundamental contributed an estimated $227 million to the June that he felt he was ‘going down a mine rights such as freedom of speech, and of state’s economy each year. without a light,’ because the government granting police excessive powers to make lawyers had not allowed him to read the value judgements about decency and morality. By the droves findings and legal arguments from the royal The Herald Sun reported that the commission. He is trying to prepare himself Freedoom Sheepvention in Hamilton would open at the The Herald Sun published the concerns of a to hear a complex class action against power start of August. At this event one can learn prominent lawyer who described as alarming company SP AusNet, its contractor Utility about farming techniques and fashion trends the number of Victorian prisoners who die Services Corporation, and the Country Fire in the industry. Last year, 25,000 people from drug overdoses within weeks of release. Authority and others, for alleged negligence flocked to the two-day event, which includes Department of Justice figures obtained by the over the Kilmore-Kinglake fire on Black a ram sale, wool fashion parade, workshops, paper showed that 29 inmates died of drug Saturday. farm dog and inventors competitions. overdoses within a month of being freed in Parole politics the past decade. Core of the issue The Age reported that the Baillieu government The Age reported that Victorian apple and was on a ‘collision course’ with the criminal Bikies access secrets pear growers have gathered at a mass rally Victoria’s Office of Police Integrity and the justice system over its plan to introduce in Shepparton, warning that their industry will Police Integrity Commission in New South legislation to keep mass murderer Julian be crippled if apples from New Zealand are Wales are conducting separate probes into Knight in jail beyond his first parole date. imported into Australia, because they would allegations of serious security breaches Corrections Minister Andrew McIntosh told introduce fire blight disease. The federal involving bikie gangs. The Age reported that The Age ‘no Victorians want to see Knight government is due to lift long-held import highly sensitive police intelligence was leaked released’. restrictions on New Zealand apples on 17 to outlaw motorbike gangs in Victoria and New August, with a number of conditions. Police behaviour South Wales, undermining organised-crime The Age reported that Victoria Police was probes and potentially endangering the lives Look into it accused of failing to properly investigate of informers. The Education and Training Committee, a Joint alleged assaults by officers on members Investigatory Committee of the Parliament of

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But as Australian workforce shrinks, and Unemployment rate is up 0.6% to 7.6% transplant surgery that yetsaved traditionalhis life. media still valuable for large businesses and nine Melbourne fringe councils will Justice is blind June, Victoria Police were given powers from reporting crimes and prompt politicians the council will not lose money as a result of • In July 2011 Australia’s total unemployment as measured by Roy Morgan was 885,000 (7.6%), up 40,000 share $1.4 million to establish new markets, The Age reported that the state government to issue on-the-spot fines of up to $240 Australian businesses expect newto make media bad (Internet, decisions on Mobilesentencing. 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Counsel said the online survey was an The Age said that the move is so shrouded in Victoria, requests submissions for an inquiry of the public, in breach of its own rules for Our Derryn secrecy that the Department of Sustainability into agricultural education and training. handling complaints. Principal solicitor at the The Age reported that magistrate Charlie extraordinary move by the government made MELBOURNE and Environment has hired auditing firm Submissions by 30 September. Flemington and Kensington Community Legal Rozencwajg sentenced Derryn Hinch to five even more extraordinary if the survey can be Deloitte to comb through the emails of Parks Centre, Tamar Hopkins, said police were not months of home detention for breaching a completed more than once. Victoria staff to trace any leaks. Department of being held to account. ‘We have a complaints suppression order by revealing the names of Judged inadequate Sustainability and Environment spokeswoman system that is inherently biased and lacking sex offenders. The order was imposed with Electric parking JUSTICE The Age reported that one of Victoria’s most The Age reported that in a Victorian first, Cathy Heycock confirmed to The Age that in independence and effectiveness.’ Victoria conditions preventing him from working, using senior judges attacked the state government’s charging stations for electric cars are likely a new trial was being planned. ‘We are Police had recently launched a program to social media including Twitter and Facebook, controversial new sentencing survey as to be installed at 12 on-street parking spaces working through the design of the longer-term educate officers on racial hate crimes, amid publishing material or being interviewed. He deficient and open to abuse, and says it is in Melbourne’s city centre, as part of a research trial, informed by the outcomes of Arsonist theory up in smoke claims police are targeting young men of also must not cause others to contravene unlikely to accurately reflect public opinion program being introduced by the Department year one of the trial.’ The Age reported that the bushfire that razed African descent in Melbourne’s inner west. the conditions. The radio 3AW afternoon on punishing offenders. Supreme Court Judge of Transport. Melbourne City councillors voted Marysville on Black Saturday may have been drive-time program host may have preferred To market, to market Oh dear David Harper, president of the Judicial for a plan to work with the department, to sparked by electrical faults. Victoria police had prison, say some of his supporters. He has The Age reported that new farmers’ markets The Age reported that a protest on the steps Conference of Australia, also accused tabloid alter a dozen metered parking spaces in the for two and-a-half years pursued the theory experienced life on the inside, serving 12 days are set to be established across country of State Parliament against the Baillieu media of peddling grossly inaccurate’ myths CBD to make way for electric car recharging of a lone arsonist, which they then dumped in jail over a similar charge in 1986. Hinch, 67, Victoria and on Melbourne’s fringe under a $2 government’s controversial anti-swearing that courts are soft on crime. He warned that devices. Each metered parking space earns without explanation. shuffled into court, weakened by recent liver million program. Victoria’s 48 rural councils laws drew a maximum crowd of just 15. In such misconceptions could discourage victims the city $10,000 a year in parking fees. But transplant surgery that saved his life. and nine Melbourne fringe councils will Justice is blind June, Victoria Police were given powers from reporting crimes and prompt politicians the council will not lose money as a result of share $1.4 million to establish new markets, The Age reported that the state government to issue on-the-spot fines of up to $240 to make bad decisions on sentencing. installation of the electric vehicle recharging Perpetrators protected expand existing ones and undertake feasibility spent $90 million on the Bushfires Royal to punish people caught using language The Herald Sun reported that laws intended spaces. A report presented to the council’s More detail 1 studies on proposed markets. The $2 million Commission, but now wants to prevent the deemed to be indecent, disorderly, offensive to protect victims are being used to shield Future Melbourne committee said the loss of The Age reported at the end of June that Farmers’ Market Support Program announced judge who is hearing a class action over or threatening. The move, part of the dozens of Victoria’s worst sex offenders. parking revenue ‘will be compensated by the deputy premier Peter Ryan was linked to the by Agriculture and Food Security Minister the most deadly of the fires from seeing government’s extensive law-and-order Rapists’ and paedophiles’ identities and conversion of other on-street spaces … to resignation of Director of Public Prosecutions Peter Walsh. A recent parliamentary report the commissioners’ findings. Justice Terry agenda, outraged civil libertarians, who whereabouts are routinely being shrouded metered parking’. The 12 parking spaces will Jeremy Rapke QC. Ryan told parliament that found that Victoria’s 90-odd farmers’ markets Forrest told lawyers in a case conference in accuse the Coalition of eroding fundamental in secrecy as courts decide if they should be either be 30-minute ‘fast-charging’ spots, or he attended secret meetings last year with the contributed an estimated $227 million to the June that he felt he was ‘going down a mine rights such as freedom of speech, and of freed. More than half of 62 offenders under two-hour standard recharging locations. The former Brumby government and a senior state state’s economy each year. without a light,’ because the government granting police excessive powers to make post-sentence supervision orders are living new on-street parking spaces are expected solicitor to discuss the QC’s conduct. lawyers had not allowed him to read the value judgements about decency and morality. anonymously among us rather than in a to be installed by January. The Department By the droves findings and legal arguments from the royal purpose-built compound outside Ararat Jail. More detail 2 of Transport is running a five-year trial of The Herald Sun reported that the commission. He is trying to prepare himself Freedoom The names of 28 of 30 put under supervision Police Association boss Greg Davies electric cars. Earlier this year, 60 households Sheepvention in Hamilton would open at the The Herald Sun published the concerns of a to hear a complex class action against power orders by the County Court in the past 18 became the latest high-profile Victorian to were given electric cars from one of five start of August. At this event one can learn prominent lawyer who described as alarming company SP AusNet, its contractor Utility months have been suppressed. be caught up in the controversial Office of manufacturers, to drive for three months and about farming techniques and fashion trends the number of Victorian prisoners who die Services Corporation, and the Country Fire Police Integrity probe into departing deputy report back on their experiences. in the industry. Last year, 25,000 people from drug overdoses within weeks of release. Authority and others, for alleged negligence No justice like mob justice commissioner Sir Ken Jones. The Age flocked to the two-day event, which includes Department of Justice figures obtained by the The Age reported that a Victorian government over the Kilmore-Kinglake fire on Black confirmed that the OPI examined the extent of No free parking a ram sale, wool fashion parade, workshops, paper showed that 29 inmates died of drug law and order survey has been criticised The Herald Sun reported that the daily median Saturday. Davies’s discussions with Sir Ken and former farm dog and inventors competitions. overdoses within a month of being freed in by legal experts for allowing respondents parking rate in Melbourne is more than many state government adviser Tristan Weston, as Parole politics the past decade. to complete the online poll multiple times. of the world’s biggest cities including London, part of its investigation into whether the trio Core of the issue The Age reported that the Baillieu government The sentencing survey went live on 27 July, Paris and New York. At $66, Only Copenhagen The Age reported that Victorian apple and were engaged in moves to undermine former was on a ‘collision course’ with the criminal Bikies access secrets with Attorney-General Robert Clark saying and Oslo were more expensive, while Sydney pear growers have gathered at a mass rally Victoria’s Office of Police Integrity and the chief commissioner Simon Overland and justice system over its plan to introduce it would shape decisions on changes to ranked a close fourth. Wilson Parking at 416 in Shepparton, warning that their industry will Police Integrity Commission in New South relay information about problems with force legislation to keep mass murderer Julian sentencing. But there are no restrictions on Flinders Lane is Melbourne’s most expensive be crippled if apples from New Zealand are Wales are conducting separate probes into command to the media. Knight in jail beyond his first parole date. how many times the survey can be filled out. for casual all-day parking, according to imported into Australia, because they would allegations of serious security breaches Corrections Minister Andrew McIntosh told Law Institute of Victoria president Caroline comparison website CarParking.info. It introduce fire blight disease. The federal involving bikie gangs. The Age reported that The Age ‘no Victorians want to see Knight charges $80 for any weekday stay of more government is due to lift long-held import highly sensitive police intelligence was leaked released’. than five hours. The survey, conducted by real restrictions on New Zealand apples on 17 to outlaw motorbike gangs in Victoria and New estate consulting firm Colliers International, August, with a number of conditions. Police behaviour South Wales, undermining organised-crime found parking costs had increased globally Look into it The Age reported that Victoria Police was probes and potentially endangering the lives in the past 12 months, with the US being the accused of failing to properly investigate of informers. The Education and Training Committee, a Joint “Let’s do lunch ... only exception. alleged assaults by officers on members Investigatory Committee of the Parliament of at Morgans at 401” The tallest tree The Herald Sun reported that the City of Melbourne had defended the cost of a hi-tech Christmas tree that will be the centrepiece of more than $2 million worth of decorations Enjoy consistently across the CBD. In a departure from the fabulous food in a traditional green tree that usually graces the City Square, the new tree has 10,000 LED friendly, charming lights and will have images beamed on to it atmosphere and discover from 6am to midnight. Lord Mayor Robert Doyle announced the plan for the new tree. why Melbournians who know are singing the praises The 18 meter tree will cost $285,000, but of Morgans at 401. Call to arrange an inspection of a spokeswoman for the City of Melbourne our extensive function rooms. said it would be cheaper to maintain than its predecessor.

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14 14 11 28 JUNE to 2 AUGUST 2011 LETTER FROM MELBOURNE schoolgirl outfits, French maid uniforms or some phone calls and 30 gigabytes of data - ICT survey fact sheet Conversations the university’s school of earth sciences, West Police Station in the World Trade Centre. said that, statistically speaking, we were similar attire. and will go as high as $190 per month for a The Department of Business and Innovation’s The city of Melbourne has a wonderful due for another. Presenting his findings at Wheel of fortune premium package with the highest speeds Melbourne Conversations series through The Herald Sun reported that Melbourne’s Provincial or just parochial? latest information and communication the International Congress of Geodesy and and a large 1000-gigabyte download limit. out each year, often at 6pm to 7.30pm, free, Southern Star Observation Wheel was The Age revealed the contents of a leaked technology industry survey indicated that Geophysics in Melbourne yesterday, Professor usually at BMW edge at Federation Square or entering the final stage of its rebuild, almost document from Westpac, relating to Westpac’s Hooking up here the Victorian ICT industry continues to grow, Joyce said the most likely places for eruptions at the Melbourne Town Hall. Get on their list at three years after it stopped spinning. The re-launch of the ‘Bank of Melbourne’ brand The Australian reported that the first despite uncertain global economic conditions. would be around Colac, Port Fairy, Portland 03 96589658. wheel’s owner, ING Corporation, has not to replace St George’s Bank, describing Melbourne site in the government’s national The Victorian ICT industry employs around and Mount Gambier. He said eruptions released a completion date. However, a Melbourne as a ‘provincial’ community. The broadband project is to be launched in 87,400 people – approximately 29 per cent of Melbourne News close to Melbourne or Geelong were not The bi-monthly Melbourne News July/August Melbourne City Council source told the paper internal document carried a warning to August. A handful of selected households in total Australian ICT industry employment. 93 out of the question either, as the Australian exercise caution, as ‘Melbourne is a provincial the inner-northern suburb of Brunswick will edition included the lord mayor Robert Doyle that the company had indicated it was on per cent of employing Victorian ICT companies tectonic plate continued to move north at global community and many feel that they start testing services to test network speeds focusing on the city’s budget. Also that focus track to be turning by Christmas. have less than 20 employees. five centimetres a year. The volcanoes that own the brand’. By way of clarification, the and connections. About 1,300 properties have not just be on the 4-year term of mayor, but dot the landscape between Melbourne and Victorian Employers’ Chamber of Commerce been fitted with fibre-optic cable connections looking further ahead than that with planning Mount Gambier are monogenetic volcanoes and Industry, concedes that when it comes to and commercial services will be available to projects etc. A new Southbank Library also - once-off volcanoes that deliver relatively PLANNING & BUILDING sport, culture and entertainment Victorians are all connected households in October. AGRICULTURE mentioned, as well as new parking technology small eruptions. There are 40 alone between proudly parochial and differentiate themselves where one can pay by mobile phone, instead Melbourne and Bacchus Marsh, with the from Sydney. But, it insists, that doesn’t Its only rail of small change or notes. The Australian reported that states will lose last volcano to erupt in Victoria being Mount mean Melbourne is any less a global city than $1.5 billion worth of rail infrastructure savings Run, run, as fast as you can Napier, south of Hamilton. Watch this space Sydney, and it cites the range of cultures At last within five years of losing control of 1800MHz The Age reported that the controversial The Run Melbourne fun run was held on The Age reported that Victorian planning it hosts, the famed cosmopolitan choice Speculative vacancies spectrum licences if they’re auctioned to relocation of Melbourne’s fruit and vegetable Sunday 17 July. More than 20,000 people minister Matthew Guy confirmed he intends of restaurants and the major international The Financial Review reported that according carriers, the federal government has been market to Epping had been confirmed. The took part in the event. to write to councils across the city, inviting events Melbourne stages every year. VECCI to the housing campaign group Earthsharing told. Melbourne and Sydney’s passenger rail multimillion-dollar project has been in doubt them to submit wish lists of changes in their welcomes the undoubted economic boost Taxi rank and file Australia, .property speculators have locked networks could also lose $400,000 an hour since January when the Baillieu government green wedge areas. He would not rule out the revival of the Bank of Melbourne brings The Age reported that a major part of up 46,220 empty homes in metropolitan in potential benefits from more frequent said it had concerns over its commercial more commercial and residential development with it: some 800 jobs, 100 branches, local Melbourne’s central business district could Melbourne. The group released a document, urban train services, according to the report viability and ordered a review However, Major in the corridors, dubbed ‘Melbourne’s lungs’ management (including a Melbourne-based be closed to traffic and turned into a giant Real Estate 4 Ransom, which claims 4.95 per that Deloitte Access Economics prepared for Events Minister said the by their champion, former Liberal premier Sir CEO, COO board), more small business lending Denis Napthine taxi rank on weekend nights, under a radical cent of the city’s potential housing stock is the Australasian Railway Association. The review had found the project should proceed Rupert Hamer. Hamer legislated to make opportunities and more customer services. proposal from Lord Mayor Robert Doyle. unoccupied. That figure is double the rental report also identified a huge lost opportunity green wedges integral to the city’s much- and would start operating in the financial Under the plan, the road between Collins and vacancy rate of 2.4 per cent published last to derive social benefits from reduced vaunted liveability. Unbelievable year 2014-15, at least four years behind Bourke Street would shut down to all cars, week by the Real Estate Institute of Victoria. The Financial Review reported that with the congestion and pollution if the licences are schedule. The announcement means that except taxis, every Friday and Saturday night, The group’s Speculative Vacancy Report Coastal rezoning reopening of the Bank of Melbourne, Saturday re-farmed. The ARA bought the licences from hundreds of traders will move from their in a bid to create a safe and central location said that in Docklands, almost a quarter of The Age reported that Victorian Planning banking could return to the city. Customers One.Tel liquidators for less than $20m in West Melbourne base to the Melbourne to hail one. residential properties there, 23.32 per cent, Minister Matthew Guy was planning to will have the chance to speak to staff in the late 1990s and over the past 10 years Wholesale Fruit, Vegetable and Flower are vacant. The official vacancy rate for rezone about 240 hectares of farmland west branches at weekends, with even Sunday it has invested $500m in a new unified Market in the outer north, and was met with Split a cab Docklands is 3.62 per cent. of Torquay for housing. The local council banking being possibly on the table if there national rail safety and signalling system concern from the fresh produce industry. The Herald Sun reported that late-night estimates the land near Spring Creek could is significant demand in a local area. And that relies on them. But the communication Epping’s surrounding network of freeways revellers could share taxi rides home in provide 1,900 new homes, with an expected after a decade of branch closures and staff regulator is under pressure from carriers and its proximity to the airport were cited mini-van taxis operating from the city on DOCKLANDS population of 4,500 people. Guy told the cuts across the banking sector, the Bank of starved of mobile broadband spectrum to as reasons for the relocation when it was Friday and Saturday nights. In a submission to Surf Coast Shire Council that ‘ministerial Melbourne will open an extra 85 branches, re-auction the licences. They give access first announced in 2005. Napthine said the the Allan Fels taxi inquiry, the Victorian Taxi amendment’ to planning controls for the land in a victory for customers demanding better to a band earmarked by international government had adjusted Labor’s funding Directorate said the service would operate is warranted to ‘respond to the urgent need service. The Bank of Melbourne’s flexible telecommunications standards bodies for next model to avoid traders’ rent more than from supervised taxi ranks in the city. The eagle has landed to address housing affordability, facilitate the hours are expected to pressure the major generation LTE services and could fetch more doubling when they moved to the new site. Felt the earth move The Age reported that four developers will establishment of new schools, and proactively banks to follow suit and offer more choice to than $1bn at auction. He could not say what the final cost of the The Age reported that earthquakes began present proposals to the state government manage growth for Torquay-Jan Juc’. He customers. eServices exclusive panel relocation would be to taxpayers, but said rumbling through south-east Victoria on 5 July by October to develop the two-hectare site called for the council’s views by 4 August. He that about $200 million had already been The Financial Review reported the as the area released pressure generated by between Collins Street and Flinders Street, also asked his department to consult with spent. He said the Department of Treasury and dissatisfaction of omitted companies at the the squeezing of the Australian tectonic plate. including the ‘air rights over Wurundjeri Way’. landowners and developers on new planning Finance had found the cost of Labor’s model ICT selection process for the Victorian eServices The earthquakes which prompted hundreds of Planners have long considered Wurundjeri controls for the land. Since assuming office would ultimately reach $670 million, almost Panel. Only companies listed on the panel calls to Geoscience Australia were centred Way a planning disaster in Docklands, and in November, the minister has also taken over $400 million more than first anticipated. He are permitted to bid for work related to west of Korumburra, in the state’s mid- a major obstacle blocking pedestrian flow planning control for coastal land near Portland conceded that the building cost was not over technology management, strategy and south. The biggest quake was the first, a 4.4 between Southbank and Docklands, The and approved an ecovillage development at Internet pricing budget. ‘it’s a blowout because [Labor] totally analysis, architecture and design, systems magnitude earthquake which struck just after development plans could see buildings Cape Paterson. The Financial Review reported that consumers under-costed this project’. and solutions, and support and training. 11.30am and was felt about 120 kilometres and decking span the busy thoroughfare. will face higher prices to use the National Rezone rethink A significant number of well-respected away in Melbourne. The formidable 25-metre eagle, designed Broadband Network than initially promised, if Highlander The Age reported that the Baillieu government members of the Australian IT industry The Australian reported that Victorian premier by renowned Melbourne sculptor Bruce the first retail prices released are an accurate Victorian volcanos will not proceed with controversial plans to were reportedly stunned to receive brief attacked the federal plan to gain Armstrong is presently located in the median guide. Mid-size internet provider Internode Ted Baillieu The Age reported that Victoria’s volcanoes rezone hundreds of hectares of farmland at letters saying they had been unsuccessful. greater control of national parks to derail the strip of Wurundjeri Way and the centre of the yesterday became the first company to are overdue for an eruption, according to Spring Creek in Torquay for new housing after Australian Information Industry association state’s attempt to reintroduce cattle grazing proposed development site. announce how much it will charge Australians research that has dated the age of the cones, a community backlash. Surf Coast Council CEO Ian Birks said he was pleased by IT to the Alpine National Park. He said the federal for access to the NBN. While its prices will craters and lava flows in the state’s west with Giant cop shop mayor Dean Webster welcomed the Planning minister Gordon Rich-Phillips’ decision to government had been unable to do anything be comparable to what people pay today increased precision. Using the latest dating The Herald Sun reported that a $220 million Minister’s decision. Torquay is in the key discuss adverse industry reaction. The paper ‘other than show their incompetence’. In a for broadband on the existing copper wire techniques, scientists at the University of police super-complex housing more than marginal seat of South Barwon. understands that the AIIA is lobbying to have related development, the Victorian government network, they will be significantly higher than Melbourne established that, on average, the 1,600 officers is to be built in the Docklands. the old list retained for an interim period while has launched a covert plan to reintroduce The state-of-the-art centre will mean the Newest suburb announced those predicted last December by NBN Co, small volcanoes dotted from western Victoria The Age covered Planning Minister Matthew the new panel is re-evaluated. cattle grazing to Victoria’s Alpine National closure and merging of the longstanding St the company set up by the government to to South Australia erupted every 2,000 years. Guy’s announcement that he was opening Park in an attempt to bypass federal laws Kilda Road station, intelligence department build the new network. Internode’s prices will The last eruption at Mount Gambier was more Truganina South for residential development. that derailed last summer’s controversial trial. offices in Flinders Street, and the Melbourne start at $60 per month - including line rental, than 5,000 years ago and Bernie Joyce, of The suburb is 19km southwest of the CBD

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in an area bounded by Leakes and Palmers Recent data from the Australian Bureau of Clarkson faced charges in July regarding BUSIN Master research roads. The new suburb will have 2,500 Statistics shows Victoria is charging ahead conflict of interest laws. A Shepparton City ESS dwellings and is expected to accommodate with construction, despite clear signs of councillor escaped conviction, but received Applied research for government & industry. up to 7,000 people. Truganina is believed to thinning demand. According to the ABS, a $500 fine from a conflict of interest charge ANALYS Providing education, consulting & BUSI IS applied social & business be named after Truganini, the last full-blooded commencements on private-sector units and in the past year. Former Brimbank City NESS Tasmanian Aborigine thought to have lived in apartments shot up from 3,000 at the start of councillor Tran Siu faces charges related to INESS research since 1986. the area. The minister said the government the 2010 calendar year to more than 5,000 distributing unregistered election material and ANALYSIBSUS planned to release 50,000 new housing lots units in the September quarter. providing false and misleading information CE LIGEN Surveys LOGISTICS this year. In January he announced two new On the up-and-up under oath. Five unsuccessful candidates EL Research Methodology HEALTHCARE suburbs - Greenvale North and Greenvale for local council have also been charged SINETSS The Herald Sun published opinions of BU IN West - which will house about 7,000 people in with failing to disclose campaign donations Program Evaluation prominent figures who believe Melbourne ENCE 1,570 houses on 363ha about 20km from the - four cases have been proven and fines IG Operations Research should build its first 100-storey skyscraper LL Phone: 0419 374 776 MASTER CBD near Craigieburn and Roxburgh Park. of up to $250 issued. The charges against TE Statistical Analysis as soon as possible. The Melbourne City N Email: [email protected] RESEARCH councillors are outlined in a list of prosecution I AUSTRALASIA Council wants the CBD transformed, with a TRANSPORT www.masterresearch.com.au Race of the lap matters produced by the Local Government The Age reported that in July the Moonee clean-up of the ‘ugly’ Flinders and Elizabeth Investigations and Compliance Inspectorate. was located in the basement on the corner which they are meant to be selling, changed Kroger and the agency-backed The Weekly Valley Racing Club held a public consultation Street corner to be tackled in its next Municipal Association of Victoria president of Swanston and Bourke streets. Its demise at the start of this year. But other revisions Review magazine involved in separate bids into its plans to build 2,000 apartments and budget. Planning minister Matthew Guy Bill McArthur said new conflict of interest represents another casualty of the collapse now being considered by State Parliament to establish websites that would challenge townhouses - including high-rise towers of up said ‘Melbourne should not be afraid to build regulations which had been introduced during of the REDGroup, which also owned Angus would further whittle away at protection for the dominant advertising site realestate.com. to 25 storeys - that will house 6,000 people. taller in our CBD - I’d love to see our first this term of local council administration were & Robertson and Borders. All Borders and vendors. Vendors selling a property to their au, which is owned by News Ltd’s REA Group. But local residents, who have formed a Save 100-storey skyscraper sooner rather than complex. company-owned A&R shops are closing. agent are now required to get independent These moves come amid growing industry Moonee Ponds group, say the club’s master later.’ Currently, the city’s biggest skyscraper Pearson Australia has bought REDGroup advice about the transaction from a lawyer concerns about the market power of REA plan is a ‘severe case of overdevelopment’. is the 91-storey Eureka tower. According to Library funding Retails’ online business, including the Borders or accountant. Before January, the laws Group, which is currently being investigated Former planning minister Justin Madden, the paper, the building is a favourite of Guy, The Age reported that Victoria’s public libraries and Angus & Robertson websites. Reader’s were even tougher, requiring approval by the Australian Competition and Consumer who opposes the plan, said there were who loves the way ‘its blue glass curtain could face shorter opening hours and cuts to Feast Owner Mary Dalmau envisages her from Consumer Affairs Victoria for a sale to Commission over allegations of price gouging. discussions about a ‘far more modest’ complements the colours of the Rialto, and its internet services and other projects, after a BUSINE own sequel, and is determined to open occur. Under the newS law,S agents will still Melbourne’s largest agencies met at the proposal of two or three storeys when he distinctive design changes from every angle’. Baillieu government decision to cut funding. another bookshop. ‘I have 22 booksellers be barred from gaining a beneficial interest REIV’s head office in May to devise a strategy was planning minister, which did not come to Proponents include Lord Mayor Robert Doyle The Municipal Association of Victoria AL here, three of whom have been with meA for Nin a propertyYS theyI areS commissioned to sell. to counter the power of REA, which was fruition. All of Melbourne’s major racecourses and VECCI chief executive Mark Stone. said the revelation came as a shock. The 30 years, and the average tenure is 17 years,’ But there will be exemptions and those sales recently valued at $1.6 billion. are planning residential developments as the association said it would leave councils with will not have third-party oversight, the policy value of inner-city land soars. Moonee Valley around $5.7 million less to spend on libraries SINESS Paper offer too thin BUdirector of the Consumer Action Law Centre, The carbon cost in Victoria and Flemington racecourses are working on over the next four years. Victoria’s Small Business festival from CE The Australian reported government figures LOCAL GOVERNMENT GerardIG BrodyEN, said. major residential plans, while a $1 billion Councillor under scrutiny August 1 to 31. A booklet in the Herald Sun ELL that reveal that one in six of the nation’s development at Caulfield was recently summarised the festival in a 55 page officialT Holding back 500 largest polluters that will pay the The state government is probing whether N approved by planning minister Matthew Guy. guide to 400 events around MelbourneI and The Age reported that Melbourne real carbon tax operate solely in Victoria. The Geelong councillor Jan Farrell broke the the state with an introductory messages estate agents and vendors are increasingly Australian Competition and Consumer law when she defended a family friend who Northern expansion Councillors in court from premier Ted Baillieu and minister for withholding or manipulating data provided Commission possesses substantial The Age reported that Melbourne City Council The Age reported that some councillors and ‘glassed’ a bar patron in a pub fight. She innovation, services and small business, to the Real Estate Institute of Victoria, powers to crack down on any attempts by had released major draft plans for North council candidates across Victoria are being reportedly used a council letterhead in a Louise Asher. prompting calls for the mandatory reporting companies to link falsely their price hikes Melbourne and the northern end of the CBD taken to court for not declaring conflicts of character reference in the County Court. of all property sales to protect consumers. to the carbon tax. A breakdown of the that propose a high-density residential hub interest and not revealing who bankrolled Paper offer too thin Nearly one in five properties sold at auction polluters in the $23-a-tonne tax’s firing line, at Arden Street, with buildings of between election campaigns. In June, former Latrobe Green land sale The Australian reported that a syndicate The Age reported that the City of Brimbank are now reported to the REIV with the price shows 85 operate only in Victoria, 135 in 30 and 60 metres high, and the upgrade City councillor Lisa Price was barred from of wealthy Melbourne families, led by Ron proposes to sell a large block of open space marked ‘undisclosed’ - a significant increase NSW and the ACT, 110 in Queensland, 75 of the degraded Moonee Ponds Creek into acting as a councillor for seven years, Walker, approached Fairfax Media about on Patterson Avenue in Keilor, and 13 other from last year’s property boom, up from in Western Australia, 25 in South Australia, a recreational park. The paper said that and fined $9,000, for failing to disclose a buying its key Melbourne assets, The Age open spaces in the city, to developers. Money 11 per cent then to 18 per cent now. The 20 in Tasmania and five in the Northern according to local residents, plans to make conflict of interest. The charges related to newspaper and the talk radio station 3AW. from the sale of the 14 spaces will go to a investigation also revealed that 43 per cent of Territory. A further 45 operate in multiple part of North Melbourne an extension of votes in which Price participated at council However, the informal discussions were cut $40 million program to buy or improve ‘more properties scheduled for auction in June had states. Opposition climate spokesman the central city are ‘destined to become a meetings, considering a municipal electoral short by the company’s board. appropriate’ open space elsewhere in the no published quote range, further frustrating Greg Hunt called on the government to disaster’. The industrial landscape - home hearing and a newsletter distributed by city. But locals say the parks are perfectly Glass maker retrenches buyers’ attempts to obtain basic information. name the companies, but a spokesman to the Weston Milling silos, the Allied Mills council in which she was found to have viable now and some are informal community The Herald Sun reported that more than 100 for Climate Change Minister Greg Combet complex and the Younghusband Wool Stores - at minimum ‘an indirect interest’. Ararat Real data control meeting places. The city’s administrators workers at glass manufacturer Viridian’s said the information was collected under will make way for population growth of 3000 Rural City council mayor Andrea Marian The Age reported that a powerful consortium came to power after the former Brumby Victorian plant in Clayton were facing Howard government legislation that required to 25,000, while the northern city’s population and Nillumbik Shire councillor Belinda of real estate agents backed by the Real redundancies within the year. In a letter confidentiality. Most of the 500 companies will soar from 5500 to 19,000, the council Estate Institute of Victoria is planning to to the union, Viridian blamed ‘declining have large facilities emitting more than said. The plans rely on the proposed metro seize control of all private sale and auction house construction’, the high Australian 25,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases a year. train service as a ‘catalyst’ to development in results, which could reduce consumer access dollar and increased manufacturing costs the area, but locals reportedly say the train to important market information or force Fine lines for a restructure that had prompted the line will not be built for many years, if at all. Coffee, Minister? people to buy the data. The move follows The Age reported that gentlemen’s clubs redundancies. Supply and demand A guide to Melbourne’s political scene featuring a sharp decline in reporting of auction with scantily dressed waitresses are being Estate agent regulations results by agents, who are concerned that investigated by Victoria’s liquor licensing The Australian warned that the apartment ministerial offices, government offices and nearby The Age reported that the Victorian the valuable consumer information is being authority. Some clubs are accused of flouting market in Melbourne is marching towards coffee shops. government is proposing laws that would intercepted by rival property websites. The liquor licensing laws that impose a $30,000 a period of oversupply at a time when the reduce regulation of real estate agents. REIV, which claims to collect 90 per cent fee on strip clubs. The fee, introduced by the national one continues to weaken. ‘There Whether you’re a visitor or a veteran, it’s your However, the agents’ representative body is of all Melbourne auction results, recently Brumby government in 2010, is about 10 is a risk of oversupply, particularly rental handy guide to Melbourne’s laneways. arguing for more regulation - specifically to told The Age buyers must attend public times more than a standard liquor licence. oversupply, given that the majority of these stop agents’ family members from buying auctions to be guaranteed of knowing the The Director of Liquor Licensing is expected apartments are owned by private investors,’ Order online at www.affairs.com.au vendors’ houses. The laws, regulating when result. The industry faces a major upheaval, to examine restaurants and gentlemen’s clubs said Angie Zigomanis, senior manager and how estate agents can buy a property with Liberal Party powerbroker Michael that employ waitresses dressed in lingerie, of residential property at BIS Shrapnel.

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29 July. Guide Dogs Victoria CEO Dr Graeme Schools in demand Closing the book White said that the aim of the event was A confidential report into the demand for The Age reported that the Christian group that collusion of journalists and police, and the question of what can be to raise funds to support blind and vision new schools in Melbourne’s booming inner teaches the controversial religious education Police and the Media make for done to protect a proper regard for the privacy of ordinary citizens impaired Victorians, as well as recognise the suburbs was published by The Age. The program in Victorian government schools, a messy message while avoiding a move towards media regulation at the expense of vital role guide dogs play in the community. report found that Port Melbourne would announced a five-year ‘mission’ to extend open democratic debate. Visit topdogday.com.au need a second primary school within five to its reach into independent schools. Access Call for submissions 10 years. However, the report also said that Ministries chief executive Evonne Paddison Tony McAdam The simplest part of this increasingly messy maze of mendacity A government advertisement in The Age there was insufficient demand for another said more and more parents were choosing and public policy is the need to reaffirm the illegality of phone high school, despite projected growth in the to send their children to independent schools requested submissions to an inquiry into Christine Nixon’s spray of accusations against News Limited and hacking and other acts of journalistic impropriety and attendant Access to and Interaction with the Justice number of secondary-school-aged students However, bodies representing independent in the Port Phillip area. schools and teachers said religious education the Victorian Bushfire Royal Commission encapsulates in one story police involvement. System by People with an Intellectual a number of issues that have haunted the Victorian political stage Disability and Their Families and Carers. The was already taught in the schools, most of Winning design which were faith-based. ‘This shows a lack for a large part of the last decade, and reflects issues which have If there is one enduring lesson to be learnt from the Nixon/Overland Victorian Parliament’s Law Reform Committee The Age reported that Woods Bagot won of understanding of what is already existing more recently flared up on the national stage in response to the controversies it is the urgent requirement that the appointment will inquire into, consider and report no the Public Architecture Award in Alterations in individual independent schools,’ said News of the World hacking scandal in the UK. Christine Nixon was of the next Chief Commissioner of Police should be as free of a later than 30 March 2012 on access to and Additions for Deakin University’s new Independent Schools Victoria chief executive an appointment of Victoria’s Labor government and while in office perceptable political/cultural bias as is humanly possible. and interaction with the justice system by lecture theatre at the annual Australian Michelle Green. people with an intellectual disability and Institute of Architects Awards. Located at she could do little wrong. During that time the police department their families and carers, including: key the university’s Burwood campus, the new Principles powerless was increasingly seen as dysfunctional even giving us the bizarre What is more difficult is the need to put the question of media issues and themes, including but not limited building has a 256-seat lecture theatre, foyer, The Age reported that Victoria’s school spectacle whereby the very office charged with guarding the ownership in a liberal democratic state into its proper perspective. to: participants’ knowledge of their rights; two tutorial rooms and student lounge and principals are powerless to expel or suspend service’s integrity had its own integrity challenged. Our system, the envy of the world, needs a vibrant press. It also availability of appropriate services and amenities. students who use social media websites has an obligation to protect the right to privacy of the ordinary supports; dealings with the police; and the or their mobile phones to bully classmates There can be little doubt that whatever damage has been done citizen. And, above all, it is important that both politicians and the operation of the courts. Submissions should Printing money outside school hours. With cyber-bullying on The Age reported that the Education to Christine Nixon’s reputation is primarily a consequence of her media accept that they need each other and, while their roles are be made by Friday 9 September 2011. the rise, government principals are concerned Department has launched an investigation of own actions or lack of action. Similarly, the forced resignation of different, they share many aspirations in common. that when students use home-based social three Victorian government school employees her chosen successor, Simon Overland, was a reflection of his media tools to vilify or harass classmates, after an Ombudsman’s report on the corrupt performance and his perceived politicisation. To the extent that Rupert Murdoch has become an all purpose teachers lack the legal artillery to enforce purchase of print cartridges at massively target for abuse, it should be remembered that this single EDUCATION serious disciplinary procedures. Lawyers inflated prices. warn the Education Department could be The elements that have constituted the Nixon saga, and its Australian, probably the most globally influential in history, is also Quantity weakens quality exposed to legal action if its schools do not continuing relevance, are the very same that have made the News responsible for saving at great expense to himself some of the System overhaul The Age reported that reform to vocational act forcefully enough to protect victims from of the World hacking affair one of the most wrenching and dramatic most reputable, readable and interesting newspapers of the English crises to afflict modern British politics: the politics of the media and speaking world. The Age reported that Victoria’s education education in Victoria has caused a surge bullying classmates at home on sites such as department is to be overhauled and turned in enrolments across the sector, but that Facebook. the Machiavellian ways of Rupert Murdoch, the alleged improper into a ‘super bureaucracy’, in a state TAFE teachers say the new system is driving government move that has prompted fears down the quality of education as students government sacked the Brimbank council in States loses big on pokies turn to cheaper courses at private providers. about job losses and cuts to school services. INVESTMENT 2009. They posted about 700 letters in June The Age said that a report by Auditor-General Certainly the data showed that the bulk of the About 2,600 public servants will be affected to residents, telling them of their intention Des Pearson found that the Victorian increase has gone to private providers, and a UP AGAINST IT? by the restructure, some programs will go, to sell the parks and seeking community government’s auctioning of pokies licences survey by the Australian Education Union and a number of divisions will be shut down feedback. People have until 8 August to was bungled, costing the taxpayer $3 billion. shows there is little support among TAFE Need a paper, proposal or subsumed in one of the biggest shake-ups make written submissions about the mooted The sale of 10-year entitlements for the bulk teachers for the reforms, with the majority BUSINESS or speech prepared, proofread to the department in years. Education Minister sales. ‘We’re going to the local community of the state’s 27,500 pokies yielded $981 of respondents saying the changes have put or fine-tuned at short notice? Martin Dixon insisted ‘no ongoing jobs will and saying, ‘Can you tell use how you use the million at an average price of about $37,000 more pressure on the system. Over 77 per be lost’ as part of the planned revamp, but land?’, then we’ll be in a position to decide if a machine. That price is well below what cent of teachers surveyed thought the quality We provide a full prompt service - some staff in fixed-term contracts would not Closing the book it’s to be sold or not,’ said Brimbank’s general industry analysts believed was the market of education had dropped. Over half of the we are professionals in public affairs, have their positions renewed. The Age reported that after nearly 20 years, manager for infrastructure and environment, value. Some clubs paid just $5,500 each on teachers surveyed also said they felt pressure with international experience. the final chapter of the bookshop Reader’s Paul Younis. machines that on average generate about National curriculum to pass students who might not be competent. Call anytime and we are at your The Australian reported that the Baillieu Feast, is approaching. The iconic bookshop $100,000 a year. The Age reported that service. government has rebelled against the national Pearson’s 12-month study found the sale curriculum, with state Education Minister GAMING process failed to realise the government’s WriteRight Martin Dixon vowing Victoria will not aim of increasing its take of the industry’s relinquish control over ‘critical areas’ such super profits, with the real total market Contact Anthony on 0412 281 388 as languages. Dixon said the ‘current draft’ value of the machines closer to $4 billion. or email: [email protected] of the national curriculum for languages Tabcorp plays on Gaming businessman Bruce Mathieson, in would ‘drive down the standards of languages The Age reported that gaming giant Tabcorp partnership with Woolworths, was the big winner from the auction, sweeping up one education in Victoria’ if it was implemented. retained its monopoly over the Victorian -Insufficient information and training for third of the pokies available to pubs at an The national curriculum for languages is tote, paying $410 million for a 12-year potential bidders. average price of about $39,000. The auction being developed on the assumption that only exclusive wagering licence. As part of a -Poor handling of the auction. of machine licences to pubs and clubs 300 to 400 hours would be spent studying complex arrangement with the Baillieu -Timelines that were too tight. a second language between prep and year government, Tabcorp will also benefit from followed the Brumby government decision to 6 - about half the hours recommended by the a cut in gambling tax designed to shore up end the Tattersalls and Tabcorp duopoly on Revenue exaggeration The Age published Ian Dunn’s opinion that Victorian Education Department. A national racing industry revenue. The Financial Review machines from 2012. ‘having read the Auditor-General’s report on curriculum is also being developed for the reported that Tabcorp shares surged more The auditor’s report stated that the sale the auction of electronic gaming machines, arts, geography and languages. They are to than five per cent on the news. process was undermined by: be rolled out after the first four subjects are -Weak demand and lack of competitive tension I think the suggestion that the state lost implemented. at the auction of machine entitlements. $3 billion is way over the top. Prospective -Excessively low reserve prices. applicants for gaming machines were aware

8 8 17 28 JUNE to 2 AUGUST 2011 LETTER FROM MELBOURNE hospitals. Prime minister The deal came part 6A of the Health Services Act and will Care imbalance that Victorians’ interest in poker machines several days later. days of the state’s finest dining, wining and after years of wrangling between the Kevin provide advice to, and report to, the Minister The Age used its Focus Section to highlight an was waning.’ Dunn was chairman of the touring during her ‘Oprah’s Ultimate Australian Rudd and Julia Gillard governments and the for Health and the Department of Health on alarming trend in community care. The paper Victorian Commission for Gambling Regulation Betting scandal Adventure’ event in 2010. The Herald Sun reported that Collingwood states - to the signing of the asylum seeker the efficient delivery of quality health services. noted a quickly growing number of disabled from 2004 to 2009. He is adjunct professor player Heath Shaw has been suspended for arrangement with Malaysia, the unveiling of people in residential care in Victoria, at the of law at La Trobe University. He had no the carbon price details and the Tasmanian Quick to quit eight matches and fined $20,000 after being The Herald Sun reported that Victorians same time as a shrinking pool a volunteers. involvement in the auction process. forestry agreement. embroiled in a betting scandal also involving INFRASTRUCTURE wanting to quit smoking are signing up ‘in Michelle Griffin wrote that it was a crisis Victoria’s share of the $175 billion in extra Gaming discussions captain Nick Maxwell. Shaw and a friend bet droves’ for government-subsidised nicotine where the most vulnerable have a lot to lose. funding would probably be about $44 billion. The Age reported that the Baillieu government $10 each on Maxwell kicking the first goal of patches. The subsidies have been in place The agreement is supposed to start on July 1, Victoria lights the way held confidential discussions with gambling the Round 10 game against Adelaide, knowing since February and more than 100,000 but has been delayed by battles with Victoria The Age reported that Victoria was chosen to king James Packer about plans for gamblers his teammate was to start in the forward line, Don’t miss out scripts have been filled across Australia. More and Western Australia. These have been test a $6 billion national disability insurance to limit their potential losses before beginning giving odds at over 100 to one. It was also The Australian reported that Victoria is at than 26,000 of those were filled in Victoria. over the new structures for pricing services scheme that its backers claim will be the to play poker machines in Victoria. A revealed that three of his family members risk of losing billions of dollars of federal Quit Victoria applauded the news, saying and monitoring results, and how funds will biggest social reform since Medicare. The spokesman for gaming minister Michael placed bets. infrastructure funding because the Baillieu that the initiative it campaigned for was be paid. The states have wanted to retain scheme, which is among recommendations O’Brien said: ‘The minister has met with many government has not delivered any major helping more people give up a deadly habit. from the Productivity Commission to the parties interested in gambling regulation in Online debt cleared project proposals to Australia’s independent as much control as possible, while getting The Age reported that a prominent online Quit executive director Fiona Sharkie government, will provide high-quality long- the seven months since the election and will infrastructure umpire. Infrastructure more money, but there has been a series of betting agency agreed to cancel more than said the subsidy was important and would term support to anyone who acquires a continue to do so. Discussions regarding Australia is the publicly funded but compromises, with both levels of government $80,000 in debts run up by a Melbourne man lead to fewer smoking-related deaths. The significant disability, regardless of whether the Victorian government’s pre-commitment independent think tank, which makes giving ground. who claimed he was lured into trouble by the government subsidies for patches have it was related to work and regardless of the policies have occurred with various groups recommendations to the federal government agency’s offer of $5,000 in free bets. In a Where are the beds? reduced costs for a 12-week patches course state in which it took place. including Clubs Victoria, the Interchurch about funding of major projects. It has case that has prompted calls for a crackdown The Herald Sun reported that Victorian for pensioners from $480 to as low as $16.80. The result of an 18-month investigation, the Gambling Taskforce and Crown Ltd, including received 59 submissions so far this year, on betting agencies offering credit, the man, opposition leader Daniel Andrews pressured Other Australians pay about $100 for the 12- recommendations are expected to be stronger its chairman, James Packer.’ The Reverend with proposals from every state and territory who has a mental illness, faced losing his Health Minister David Davis to explain when week course. Health Minister Nicola Roxon and more specific than those in an interim Tim Costello, national campaigner for action except Victoria. A report from the body said house after a betting binge he said began with and how the Baillieu government intended said that since nicotine replacements were report delivered in February. Funded out of to reduce problem gambling, said he had been the Baillieu government told Infrastructure an approach from Sportsbet.com.au to open to deliver an election commitment of 800 put on the pharmaceutical benefits scheme, Commonwealth revenue at an estimated cost waiting six months for a meeting with Baillieu. Australia soon after the state election last an account. new hospital beds for sick Victorians. The people had been trying to kick the habit ‘in of $6.3 billion per year, the scheme would November that it would assess the former government later responded, saying that droves’. provide support services to about 360,000 Generation One Brumby government’s infrastructure plans and The Age reported that Crown Casino is set 100 beds would be allocated ‘in the next 12 Australians under strict guidelines. then submit proposals. But according to the The unbridged gap to become one of the largest employers months’ according to ‘clinical need’. The Whereas Medicare is funded by a levy paid TOURISM report ‘as at 6 June 2011, no new or revised The Australian covered the results of a of indigenous people in Victoria, under a new beds would include six intensive-care by all taxpayers, the Productivity Commission project submissions have been presented report into the plight of Victoria’s indigenous plan partly created by mining magnate beds, three neo-natal intensive-care cots, 20 has made no such recommendation on the by the Victorian government.’ Infrastructure population, finding that the situation had Andrew Forrest. Crown Limited executive palliative-care beds, more than 45 sub-acute disability insurance scheme, saying that the Australia chairman Sir Rod Eddington said barely improved in the past five years. The chairman James Packer told a discussion at beds and 46 mental health beds. government should fund the scheme out of government reforms to infrastructure planning Indigenous Affairs Report - released in Melbourne University that the casino and its Ride the wave But they would not be allocated until general revenue. The paper said that the trial The Age said Victorian Tourism Minister Louise and delivery had been ‘frustratingly slow’, June with little public scrutiny or attention - Perth stablemate Burswood plan to employ the government came up with ‘funding would begin in 2014 and the scheme would Asher unveiled the state’s four-year plan to dragging Australia’s productivity below the showed indigenous Victorians can expect to 2,000 indigenous Australians by 2021. The guidelines’. The government will then start to go national in 2015, gradually expanding in snare a bigger share of Australia’s burgeoning average level for the developed world. live a decade less, are nine times as likely to discussion, organised by Forrest’s charity negotiate with each of the 21 public health scope. The scheme would be managed by international cycling tourism market, and be in jail, almost three times more likely to be Generation One, centred on career training for Asleep at the wheel services across the state to achieve the best an independent National Disability Insurance named Melbourne the nation’s first ‘bike unemployed and are more than twice as likely indigenous Australians. State political editor at The Age, Josh outcome for Victorians. A spokesperson said Agency, whose board would be appointed city’. The Union Cycliste Internationale - the to self-harm than non-indigenous Victorians. Gordon, wrote an opinion piece accusing ‘We want additional beds to be operational as by state, Commonwealth and territory world governing body for sports cycling - The story was printed as National Aborigines Casino death Victoria of being ‘asleep at the wheel on soon as possible, but new beds will be based governments. Federal Coalition disabilities The Age reported that Crown Casino security had named Melbourne as only the second and Islanders Day Observance Committee infrastructure projects.’ He pointed out that on need and capacity of health services to spokesman Mitch Fifield backed the scheme guards involved in a gaming-room incident nominated ‘bike city’ in the world, after Week kicked off on 4 July and Prime the relevant federal authority had received deliver additional services’. on the release of the interim report, offering with a man who later died in hospital have Copenhagen in 2007. The Switzerland-based Minister Julia Gillard considered the federal 59 submissions from all states and territories bipartisan support on the question of funding. been interviewed by homicide detectives. union’s criteria for the designation include the Council appointments government’s next moves to improve the except Victoria. He continues ‘Fair or not, the Anthony Dunning, aged 40, was in the city’s international reputation, and its plan to The Victorian Department of Health is seeking living standards of indigenous Australians in Top Dog Day news, buried in an appendix of Infrastructure casino’s Velvet Room on 3 July when he was develop cycling. expressions of interest for positions to the the north of the country. Member-Zone magazine announced that Top Australia’s annual report to state and pushed to the ground and pinned to the floor newly established Health Innovation and Dog Day, Guide Dogs Victoria’s annual major federal governments, seemed to reinforce by up to six casino bouncers for six minutes. Oprah’s Victorian vacation Reform Council. HIRC was established under fundraising event, would take place on Friday The Herald Sun said that Tourism Victoria claims that the Baillieu government has Dunning fell unconscious while he was pinned paid $650,000 for Oprah Winfrey and 92 been asleep at the wheel for the past seven to the ground and is believed to have suffered of her ‘mates’ from the US to sample three months.’ Defending his government against a cardiac arrest. He died at the Alfred hospital EXCLUSIVELY $100K+ JOBS AND TALENT www.sixfigures.com.au

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Power shortages possible Do us a favour such charges, acting Premier Peter Ryan load they carried,’ Dr Napthine said. ‘This criticising the Baillieu government’s two-week suggested there was little point submitting would have ruined Victoria’s competitive shutdown of the Sydenham line. Member ENERGY The Age reported that in the wake of the Senior columnist at The Age, Kenneth prime minister’s Carbon Tax announcement, Davidson, wrote that the Baillieu government Victoria’s policy proposals because the advantage when it comes to freight and put for Keilor Natalie Hutchins went to Albion the Victorian government warned the state should do everyone a favour and cancel the major projects umpire had no money. ‘We many of our smaller, family-run operators station in Sunshine to distribute a petition. It to brace for more frequent power outages Wonthaggi plant deal. ‘Premier Ted Baillieu haven’t snubbed the Infrastructure Australia at risk. Labor’s unfair truck tax would have condemned the government’s decision to Off the grid in summer in years ahead, because of the describes the Wonthaggi water desalination process,’ Ryan said. ‘In fact, there is no significantly disadvantaged exporters and close the line for two weeks, for works on the A special in The Age explored properties likely closure of the Hazelwood power plant. plant as a white elephant. It would be more money in Infrastructure Australia at the transport operators in rural and regional Regional Rail Link project. This work could across central Victoria that are testing out life Acting Premier Peter Ryan warned the federal accurate to say it is half an elephant, and a present time. They’ve run out of dough.’ Victoria.’ Dr Napthine also said Labor’s truck have been done at night and on weekends, with no mains electricity in order to reduce government’s carbon tax would drive a ‘stake dangerous one to boot. The public-private Infrastructure Australia’s Michael Deegan tax would have cost over $100 million to set it said. Hutchins said that, after she had the risk of bushfires sparked by power-line through the heart’ of the power generation partnership contract for the plant agreed to notes that his organisation has no control up and administer, and was completely out of handed out leaflets, an ‘aggressive’ Metro failure. Bushfire Safety Taskforce chairman sector, threatening widespread job losses in by the previous Labor government was so over federal government finances. ‘We advise, proportion to the revenue raised. staff member instructed her to leave. Under Tim Orton said the group’s work is producing the Latrobe Valley. notoriously generous that the unions on site governments decide,’ Deegan told The Age. the 2005 Transport Conduct Regulations, crucial information. ‘If we get this right, we easily obtained a fabulous pay agreement. Nevertheless, the Baillieu government now distributing any leaflet on a suburban railway can make a very substantial change to Disconnected Who could blame them for getting in for their has just months to get its act together or station without Metro’s permission is banned! The Age reported that there has been a large TRANSPORT bushfire risk in a more proactive way than chop too? Former premier John Brumby said Infrastructure Australia will be unable to increase in Victorians having utility services Patchy coverage, patchy we’ve been able to do in the past’. it didn’t matter - the government had a fixed- assess its projects until 2013.’ disconnected or restricted. Consumers are performance Outcomes of the Bushfire Royal Commission price contract with AquaSure. What Baillieu apparently struggling to cope with steep Prices move like a freight train The Age reported that in 2006 the Victorian on the relationship between electricity and knows now, and what Brumby should have rises in electricity, gas and water prices. The Financial Review reported that Metro government granted $135 million to bushfires was also discussed. known, is that this has set the benchmark for Complaints and inquiries to the state Energy Trains Melbourne was trying to double the RAIL the Department of Transport, to oversee The commission found that the ‘failure of site agreements for infrastructure throughout and Water Ombudsman from people who have price for freight access to its rail network, installation of a new digital radio system on electricity assets was responsible for five fires, Victoria. The cost blowout will flow on to had essential services cut have risen to 916 triggering a struggle with freight group the train fleet. Now, internal departmental at Kilmore East, Beechworth-Mudgegonga, every major construction project in the state. in the first six months of the year - up 56 per Asciano. The paper anticipates that higher briefing papers show that the project will Horsham, Coleraine and Pomboneit-Weerite. Victoria is saddled with an onerous $24 billion cent on the same period in 2009. The figures rail freight access prices could drive up retail Change in the air eventually cost taxpayers $166 million. The Now is the time to start replacing the aging contract that will impoverish every Victorian, provided to The Age show a 200 per cent prices and cause more freight to go by road. The Age reported that the company which paper said that more than five years after electricity infrastructure and to make major either directly or indirectly, for 30 years. And increase in cases of people facing imminent Asciano accused MTM of discouraging the manages Southern Cross railway station the government committed to replacing the changes to its operation and management.’ it’s for water that the state doesn’t need.’ The commission’s recommendations to reduce cuts because of unpaid bills, up to 1419. use of rail network by freight operators. Under agreed to install extraction fans to improve air badly outdated radios on Melbourne’s trains, the risk of fires caused by electricity include Energy and Water Ombudsman Fiona McLeod the changes, a 900-meter long train would quality. Diesel fumes from V/Line trains idling work installing a new system is only due to the progressive replacement of all single- said affordability was a growing concern. ‘I pay $738 to travel 60 kilometres, more than in the station circulate beneath the station’s begin next in August. Transport Minister Terry wire earth-return power lines in Victoria with think the real need is for companies to HEALTH double the existing price, which is confidential. wavy roof. After a protracted campaign by the Mulder acknowledged the blowout, and aerial bundled cable, underground cabling or recognise that.’ MTM controls the rail network and levies the Rail, Tram and Bus Union, the station’s private blamed the increased cost of the project on technology that greatly reduces bushfire risk. fees to help pay for maintenance. The rise is manager, AssetCo, agreed to install massive his predecessors. Smart meter held back intended to fund much higher levels of track extraction fans. However, the Victorian Station’s future is hazy The Herald Sun reported that the Australian Only the best repairs. Metro wants to spend $634 million on government is likely to foot the bill for work at Mulder pointed out that the delays came on The Age wrote, prior to the carbon price deal Energy Regulator has moved to block a bid The Royal Children’s Hospital chief executive track and signals maintenance between 2011 the station, which was built under a public- top of a $1 billion blowout on the $5.3 billion brokered by Canberra’s multi-party climate by CitiPower, Jemena, Powercor, SP AusNet Christine Kilpatrick told the Herald Sun and 2015, compared with $197 million spent private partnership. Regional Rail Link project, and the $350 committee, that the deal would include a plan and United Energy Distribution to charge that the world-leading facility would open on by previous operator Connex between 2006 million extra, which the former government to pay for the closure or conversion to gas $1.24 billion to build and run the smart meter 30 November. The daylight-flooded hospital and 2010. Western developments had committed itself to spending on myki. The The Herald Sun reported that tens of of at least one of the nation’s greenhouse system from 2012-15. The regulator said the will be able to treat 35,000 more patients a same Department of Transport officers who thousands of commuters faced a longer gas-intensive coal plants over an extended cost should be $760 million. The decision year than the current facility, which opened Freight charge dropped were in charge of the project under Labor The Victorian government announced that after journey to work from 4 July owing to the transition period. The paper speculated that has been hailed a major win for Victorians in 1963, and has 353 beds, 46 more. And remain in place. Melbourne’s existing train extensive consultations with the transport closure of one of Melbourne’s busiest railway Australia’s ‘dirtiest’ large coal-fired power struggling with soaring electricity costs. 85 per cent of the rooms in the new hospital radio system regularly drops out on drivers industry and other business groups, Minister lines. Trains on the Sydenham, Ballarat station, Hazelwood in the Latrobe Valley, are single rooms with ensuite bathrooms, in ‘black spots’ across the network. This is for Ports Denis Napthine announced that and Bendigo lines were disrupted until 18 could be bought out and shut down under a allowing children and families extra space and recognised as a serious safety issue, as train Labor’s unpopular ‘truck tax’ would be July, because of work on the Regional Rail carbon price package. Federal Energy Minister privacy. controllers do not know the location of rail WATER replaced by a fairer, cheaper and more Link. A trip into the city would take up to Martin Ferguson reportedly flagged the services. It also stops Metro from providing Bar in the Children’s Hospital efficient licence levy that would be applied to 45 minutes longer than usual. Delays were possibility of the government paying to retire real-time information about when its trains A blueprint seen by The Age showed a large the Port of Melbourne Corporation. ‘Labor’s also experienced on Ballarat Rd, where Hazelwood, or the smaller Playford plant will arrive - as Yarra Trams does with its 264-square-metre area for a ‘restaurant/ Freight Infrastructure Charge would have special lanes for replacement buses operated in South Australia. The owners of another Back from the brink bistro/bar’ in the retail zone of the new Royal tramTRACKER service. Replacing the old train The Age reported comments from Mark forced every truck operator in the state between Anderson Rd and Ashley St. The Victorian plant, Yallourn, indicated they would Children’s Hospital paediatric centre on radio system with a digital one will also allow Bailey from Goulburn-Murray Water, where who entered the port to pay a tax for each RRL authority had said there would be be open to a buyout for the right price. Flemington Road. A spokeswoman for Health passengers to use 3G mobile devices at all he is acting manager of water resources significant delays, and advised motorists to Minister David Davis denied there was room times when travelling through the City Loop. Heart of darkness saying that Lake Eildon is 87.8 per cent full. seek alternative routes where possible. Trains for a public bar in the project, but said alcohol The Australian reported on Julia Gillard’s visit The mass of water meant that vast areas will still ran on the Sydenham line between Rail cop plan defended would be permitted in the hotel’s restaurant to the heart of the nation’s coal sector in were available for recreation, while towns Watergardens and Albion. Express buses The Age reported that Acting Chief and lounge area, and through room service the Latrobe Valley to meet workers who are and irrigators had improved water security. WANTED went from Albion and Sunshine stations Commissioner Ken Lay defended the and mini-bars for guests. John Fitzgerald, probably the most vulnerable to the carbon Recent inflows and long-term inflow records to Flemington Racecourse. A replacement deployment of protective services officers the acting chief executive of VicHealth and tax. Hazelwood, targeted by green groups suggested the water would keep rising A young dreamer to join a bus also ran from Sunshine, stopping at all as an effective use of resources, despite founding member of the Alcohol Policy as the nation’s dirtiest coal power station, strongly over coming months. ‘’We are 95 per stations to Footscray. Metro organised 230 criticism that most stations see virtually no Coalition, said alcohol should not be served to luncheon discussion on High produces 25 per cent of Victoria’s electricity. It cent confident we will fill the storage’. David buses to ferry 18,000 commuters a day serious crimes committed. Victoria Police people attending the hospital, including staff. is regarded as the most likely coal station to Roff, chief executive of Mansfield Shire, said Speed Rail in Melbourne in to Flemington Racecourse and Footscray are holding information sessions for people be closed or converted to gas by either side stations. About 8,000 Ballarat and Bendigo wishing to participate in the rollout of armed a full Lake Eildon generated a lot of economic Another tick for the PM April. of politics. In an event closed to the media, activity. In May 2007 the lake fell as low as 7 The Age reported that the long-awaited V/Line commuters had to take replacement guards at Melbourne train stations. Gillard met 120 workers at the Hazelwood per cent capacity. agreement, worth an estimated $175 billion coaches. power station. She took questions on her plan Smart money on metro to the states in extra funding up to 2030, Email [email protected] No soliciting The Age reported that Metro is testing a to shut down 2,000 megawatts of energy from Catchment head promises to provide millions of extra inpatient, Mildura Councillor Sharyon Peart is the The Age reported that Metro Trains staff new revenue stream. The rail operator coal-fired power stations and replace it with emergency and outpatient services in public or phone 03 9654 1300. cleaner energy generation. Mallee Catchment Authority board’s new chair. threatened to report a Labor MP to police began selling advertisements on the side unless she stopped handing out leaflets of Melbourne’s trains in a trial that state

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Transport Minister Terry Mulder has approved Across the tracks The road figures Since 1 July, Metro has been running The Victorian shadow minister for transport, The Herald Sun reported that more than 70 advertisements on the outside of three trains, Fiona Richardson, and her team have deaths were excluded from Victoria’s road for superannuation fund VicSuper. been handing out pamphlets at Parliament toll last year before declaring it a record Arriving on time station criticising the Baillieu governments low. Victoria Police did not tell the State The Herald Sun reported that Melbourne’s approach to public transport. It reads: ‘Over Government it had not included 72 other train operator Metro posted its best the next 12 months Melbourne’s tains, trams deaths, amounting to 25 per cent of its performance results since it took over the and busses will carry an additional 30.5 claimed record low toll of 287 fatalities. Road service in 2009. The latest performance million commuters. Despite this, the Baillieu safety strategies - including saturation use of VECCI appoints new Chief Executive targets show marked improvements across Liberal government has failed to provide speed cameras - were credited with helping metropolitan rail lines with the Sandringham any extra train services, new trams, or new to achieve the milestone. Analysis by the buses. Instead, the Baillieu government has Herald Sun showed a change in how decisions Earlier this year VECCI President Peter McMullin announced the appointment of line achieving the best result - 98.62 per Mark Stone as the new VECCI Chief Executive: “Mr Stone is an experienced and cent of services maintaining punctuality and introduced a new timetable that has cut city are made about which deaths are included in successful Chief Executive who has specialised in public sector management as well delivery. The least successful train line is loop services and increased travel times. It’s the toll meant that substantially more deaths as collaborative private sector and business engagement – he will be a great asset Belgrave, which has only managed a score no wonder public transport is getting worse. were written off last year than in previous of 82.3 per cent. Overall Metro claimed a years. The paper discovered the review panel to VECCI and will continue the development and transformation of the organisation 91.69 per cent success rate for punctuality excluded 30 deaths after deciding the crashes achieved by our outgoing Chief Executive Wayne Kayler-Thomson. I congratulate had resulted from natural causes - mainly Wayne on a first-class job as CEO – he has taken the organisation forward a long way. and delivery across the 16 main rail lines that ROAD make up the metropolitan system. heart attacks. Police wiped off another 17 The organisation is on the right path and Mr Stone will continue this journey.” fatalities on the grounds they were intentional Get the memo deaths, such as suicides. And 25 more Until this appointment Mr Stone was Chief Executive of Tourism Victoria and was The Age reported that Metro’s 300 station Anti-hoon laws were excluded after being declared off-road previously Chief Executive of Parks Victoria. He is enthused by the opportunity to lead staff have been warned in a memo that it crashes. Police Association secretary Greg VicRoads ran advertisements alerting the Victoria’s most influential business organisation and to contribute to Victoria’s future was unprofessional to have a radio or reading Davies expressed concern about the big public to the introduction of strict new as a great state for business investment and development. “In succeeding Wayne, material on public view at any of the city’s 90 number of exclusions. booking offices. anti-hoon laws. The laws came into effect I am well aware and appreciative of the fact that I have the opportunity to lead an Mark Stone, the new Chief Executive of VECCI on 1 July and mean harsher penalties Tyranny of motorcyclists organisation which is in great shape, and I am excited by the challenge to further Council on hold for dangerous and reckless drivers. More The Age reported accusations that Victoria’s develop its strength and performance,” Mr Stone said. The Age reported that Hobsons Bay City information is available at the VicRoads motorcycle licensing system is inadequate. Council wrote to Transport Minister Terry website. Mark Collins, national manager for Honda Outgoing Chief Executive Wayne Kayler-Thomson said that he was delighted with Mr Stone’s appointment and looked forward working Mulder in May asking that he investigate Australia Rider Training, which trains 20,000 with VECCI in the future. “The Chamber is providing excellent services to its members, customers and clients and is developing and rebuilding Paisley and Galvin stations on Where, oh where riders annually, said ‘the learner test only The Herald Sun continues to publish the advocating good public policy for Victoria. It has been immensely rewarding to have had the opportunity to contribute to its continued the Werribee line. However the Baillieu tests three skills: the ability to ride slowly, the publicly available Victoria Police roster for success,” Mr Kayler-Thomson said. government has now told the council that ability to corner at 10km/h and the ability to mobile speed camera locations. A secret while it understood the demand for more stop.’ VicRoads director of road user safety report by senior police that was supposed Mr Stone took up the role in mid-June. On 1 July, Mr Kayler-Thomson took up his new role as Chief Executive of the Australian Chamber railway stations on that line, it had no plans James Holgate said novice riders made up to detail how to publicise speed camera Alliance Pty Ltd – a joint venture company owned by Australia’s State and Territory Chambers of Commerce and Industry - as well as to reopen those stations. Hobsons Bay deputy almost one in three of all rider fatalities and locations instead focused on the success mayor Tony Briffa said soaring patronage on serious injuries. Pre-learner training is not pursuing other interests. of covert cameras. The Herald Sun revealed Melbourne’s rail network had created chronic compulsory for motorcyclists in Victoria, but that Victoria Police advised the Coalition car park shortages around major western Holgate said evidence from providers was against releasing secret mobile speed camera Small Businesses Neglected in Carbon Tax Annoucement suburbs stations such as Newport and that most learners had some training before locations in the weeks before it was forced to While a minority of small businesses, particularly in the green technology sector, will benefit, the Federal Government’s carbon price Laverton. taking the test. He said one option under implement the new State Government’s policy announcement will leave a sour taste in the mouths of most Victorian small businesses. consideration was mandatory pre-learner One at a time of greater transparency. More than 30 pages training. Mark Davidson, a rider trainer and The Age reported that concerns over the of briefing notes and emails between police tester with 12 years’ experience, said: ‘We While we now know the carbon price and the exemptions, Victoria’s 500,000 small businesses were effectively ignored in Prime soundness of a 127-year-old bridge spanning command and Department of Justice officials are sending people out underprepared. I Minister Gillard’s announcement. Most households and some large businesses will receive compensation but small business will not the Yarra River between Kew and Richmond show strong support for Victoria’s ‘cover’ sometimes feel like I am signing someone’s receive anything meaningful and will have to absorb flow-through power costs. Small business risks being left as `the forgotten sector’, have led VicRoads to warn that only one mobile speed cameras as Police Minister death warrant.’ He said he didn’t believe any while already operating on low margins in the wake of soft consumer sentiment, interest rate rises and a high Australian dollar. tram can cross it at any time. The heritage- Peter Ryan pressed ahead with an election trainer in the state agreed with the current listed Victoria Bridge links Victoria Street in commitment to reveal locations. Richmond to Barkers Road in Kew. Built in system. The Government has also drip-fed announcements through the media without talking to the small business sector, leaving small 1884, the steel bridge carries 21,000 cars Confidence fixed? Last bus to Kinglake businesses to work it out for themselves. The Age reported that confidence remained and hundreds of trams daily on the busy route The Age reported that a bus service linking strong in Victoria’s fixed speed cameras from Port Melbourne to Box Hill. bushfire-devastated Kinglake with Whittlesea There has been little modelling of the impacts on small business – the sector that employs the bulk of Victorians. Victorian State despite the New South Wales government has been cancelled. The free service was Government modelling shows a cost to the State economy of around $2.5 billion and of up to $1,000 for the average small business Out of steam shutting down more than a quarter of the established after the devastating Black such as the hairdresser, bakery and pizza shop via increased power costs. According to this modelling, the cost to the average dairy The Herald Sun reported that rail operator devices across that state. New South Wales Saturday fires to give transport to families farm will be $1,500, impacting heavily on regional Victoria. V/Line would investigate how a diesel Roads Minister Duncan Gay ordered the that had lost cars in the blaze. Kinglake is locomotive was allowed to run out of cameras switched off after the New South now connected to other towns by just two We are also disappointed that there is a lot of stick and little carrot for small business. One is struck by the lack of incentives to cut fuel, delaying thousands of commuters in Wales Auditor-General found 38 of the state’s bus services a day. The Labor government’s Melbourne’s west. The passenger train was 141 cameras had no real safety benefit. While carbon intensity. service, which travelled via Kinglake West, on its way to the city from Marshall, on the Auditor-General found no evidence that included at least nine shuttle bus services on the Geelong line, when it came to a halt at revenue was a factor in their placement, Mr This package will mean small businesses, besides the impact already referred to, will need to take further energy efficiency weekdays and Saturday and eight on Sundays, Footscray about 5.45am on 27 July. Evidently Gay said the cameras were primarily revenue measures in their day-to-day business operations just to keep costs within reason. with the same number of return services. The the locomotive does not have a fuel gauge for raisers and he pledged to dismantle them In Department of Transport said that the service the driver to check. August. Victoria’s Auditor-General is currently was shut down on 10 July as each service To follow reader reaction to the carbon tax debate go to: www.vecci.org.au/news/Pages/Chief_Executive_Update_Small_ auditing the state’s speed cameras, at the was averaging about one passenger per trip. business_neglected_in_carbon_tax_annoucement.aspx request of Police Minister Peter Ryan.

20 20 5 28 JUNE to 2 AUGUST 2011 LETTER FROM MELBOURNE funds for self-promotion when in power. ruled out increased grants to any of the Playing possum across the state, was unanimously supported, Public pay a gender issue? An also ran major performing arts companies, including The Age reported that logging began in with a labourer in 2012 to get an annual The Age reported that the Baillieu government Orchestra Victoria and its Sydney counterpart, rate of $123,000 for a 56-hour week while The Age reported that South Australian native forest north-east of Melbourne. AIR rejected claims that gender plays a big role the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra. a carpenter will get $130,000 for the same education minister Jay Weatherill, a lawer, Environmentalists allege that this in the low wages of Victorian community Opera Australia last year wrote off a $5.5 hours. That will affect big projects where the has been lined up by Labor power brokers particular forest is home to the endangered sector workers. The government also attacked million debt from the AOBO, which continues Low flying tiger 56-hour week and overtime are most common to replace the deposed Mike Rann as Leadbeater’s possum. VicForests, the a union equal pay push that would deliver to lose about $800,000 a year. The head of the Australian Transport Safety and it is estimated about two-thirds of the premier. As of 1 August, it is unclear when the Victorian government’s commercial forestry the biggest gains to higher paid workers, Bureau told The Age that a low-flying Tiger industry work a 56-hour week at least some leadership transition will occur. arm, began logging 19 hectares of forest claiming in a submission to a landmark equal at Sylvia Creek Road in the Toolangi State Airways aircraft at Avalon Airport did not time during a year. For smaller builders on a pay case, that the Australian Services Union Forest. The Department of Sustainability represent a serious threat to the plane or 36-hour week the rates are more digestible claim would result in a rise of up to 79 per ENVIRONMENT passengers. The Bureau found that Tiger ARTS and Environment has been ‘rechecking’ the with a labourer to get nearly $70,000 a cent for the best-paid workers and managers logging coupe, following protests by anti- flight 6207 aborted a landing, due to higher year in 2012 and a carpenter slightly more in the community sector. By contrast, those logging groups, to see that it is not home to than expected tailwind. The ground controller than that. Premier Ted Baillieu expressed who do most of the ‘caring’, such as lower the Leadbeater’s possum. then advised the pilots to climb to 3,000 feet, ‘significant concern’ about rising labour costs classification youth or social workers, would Old Melbourne on display CONSERVATION The small marsupial is endemic to Victoria’s which they did, and then the pilots advised in the construction industry, and in particular receive rises of as little as 16 per cent. The The Age noted the opening of an exhibition at central highlands, and is believed to number controllers they would make a U-turn for the the pay at the Wonthaggi desalination project. submission, from state Industrial Relations the National Gallery of Victoria at Federation fewer than 1,000. Surveys of the coupe by second landing approach, which the controller The government is now working on a building Minister Richard Dalla-Riva, said ‘significant approved. Afterwards, the plane descended Square. This Wondrous Land: Colonial Art Ambitious target the department and VicForests found no code, modelled on one introduced by the non-gender’ factors explained much of the on Paper, ‘Part Two’ is running concurrently to 1600 feet, which was below the minimum Howard government, that would require The Australian reported that the Victorian Leadbeater’s possum habitat or old-growth pay gap, such as the role governments play with ‘Part One’ at NGV International in St safe altitude for that area, the investigators bidders for state projects to respect freedom government came under pressure to explain mountain ash forest, but VicForests will in funding services, and superior bargaining Kilda Road, which shows art from early found. The incident triggered the airline’s of association and stamp out ‘unlawful or how it would deliver a 20 per cent cut in leave alone an extra three hectares as a outcomes in the public sector. His submission settlement in New South Wales and Tasmania. grounding. However, the Bureau board’s undesirable’ workplace practices. greenhouse gas emissions, after the state ‘habitat island’ in answer to ‘concerns raised dismissed the union’s argument that the gap The National Gallery of Victoria prints and chief commissioner, Martin Dolan, said that adopted Australia’s most ambitious climate by conservationists’. On 26 June, The Age in pay between workers in the community drawings curator Alisa Bunbury said that ‘There’s a substantial safety buffer built into Graphic union protest change legislation without introducing new reported that conservationists had entered The Age reported that the Baillieu government sector and those in the public sector was light sensitivity limits the gallery’s ability the minimum safe altitude arrangements, policies to meet it. the area and forced work to halt. warned unions they will need to agree to entirely due to gender. ‘How this proposition to display works on paper but these works which means there was no serious threat to dramatic workplace changes if they want operates in light of the fact that the unions’ are being shown to mark the NGV’s 150th Under your feet Sea change the safety of the aircraft. better pay deals, as the police union ramps own submission is that workers in the public anniversary. The Age reported that a south-western The Herald Sun reported that a fire destroyed Avalon tiger endangered up its pay campaign by unveiling a graphic sector perform comparable caring work and Victorian community objected to a mining part of the Jirrahlinga Koala and Wildlife The Age reported that Airways was expected mobile billboard showing bloodied and beaten are themselves predominantly women, is Report hits a sad note company’s proposal to search for brown coal Sanctuary at Barwon Heads. Two baby The Age reported that the future of Orchestra to pull out of the Lindsay Fox-owned Avalon police assaulted on the job. In a departure left unexplained.’ Australian Services Union over 500 square kilometres that includes koalas and four adults, rescued and in Victoria is in doubt, according to a study Airport near Geelong after the airline resumes from past practice, the Coalition has told assistant branch secretary Lisa Darmanin the town of Deans Marsh. In the latest bid rehabilitation after road trauma or illness, by the national funding body, the Australia services on 6 August. Its main base in government departments and agencies said that the union was disappointed by to develop a Victorian brown coal export died as a result. The shelter’s founder, Tehree Council. Melbourne’s major opera and Australia is at Melbourne Airport. to develop detailed proposals to fund pay the government’s position and said it was industry, Mantle Mining applied to the state Gordon, rescued her first koala 52 years ago. ballet orchestra had an operating loss last increases above the 2.5 per cent minimum. ‘predictable’ if its main aim was to minimise government for an exploratory licence for Still on track year of $605,000. It struck a deal with the Possum pill costs. a region near the Otway Ranges, centred The Age reported that planning for the Baillieu musicians to shrink the number of players The brushtail possum population in Carlton Public servants pay about 50 kilometres west of Geelong and government’s rail link to Avalon will continue The Age reported that the Victoria’s public by about 10 (from 69) and to halve their North’s Curtain Square is held responsible 10 kilometres from the Great Ocean Road. despite reports troubled cut-price airline sector union was preparing to launch a instrument allowances in 2011, saving an for damaging the area’s trees. The Herald If granted, the licence would allow the Tiger is to pull out of the airport. Premier Ted tough pay campaign against the Baillieu TALES OF BUREAUCRACY estimated $350,000. The confidential study Sun reported that Yarra Council plans a two- company to explore coal reserves beneath Baillieu said the reports had no long-term government amid claims the state’s public by the Anzarts Institute suggested that the year hormone implant trial to stop possums private land. Land owners could negotiate implications for the rail link. servants are the worst-paid in the nation. best chance would be for OV to merge with breeding in the square. Greens Mayor Alison for compensation for any property damage. Wage agreements covering 36,000 public the Australian Ballet and remove what it Clarke said the square’s trees were in poor A separate commercial licence would be condition because of possum numbers, servants expired on 30 June, with the state Big projects, little success describes as restrictive work practices. The Age reported on a study’s findings that needed before a mine was developed. Stop but culling was not the answer. ‘We could government insisting it will grant increases This would involve the abolition of full-time implicitly criticised the former Victorian the press. This proposal is evidently not going potentially cull the possums, but that would THE WORKPLACE. IR above 2.5 per cent only if unions accept players and allowances, with only a core government’s approach to decision- ahead. mean a lot of people would be very upset. We major workplace changes and government ensemble of leading musicians. The study making. Economic consultant ACIL Tasman don’t want to just kill all the possums. We departments offer proposals to fund them. was prepared for the federal, Victorian and concluded in a report, Victoria’s Productivity, want to have wildlife in the city and we have Community and Public Sector Union New South Wales governments after they Building union fined Competitiveness and Participation, that to learn to co-exist with it.’ Victorian secretary Karen Batt said a report The Age reported that Victoria’s construction the headline-grabbing big road projects in union had $415,000 in fines levied against in The Age, revealing that the government was preparing to demand such changes, showed it Victoria have barely paid their way, returning it as a result of a blockade and strikes that benefits no bigger than the costs. ACIL disrupted work at the new Royal Children’s was ‘walking away’ from promises to improve services. Tasman prepared the report for the Victorian Hospital and at six other building sites around Competition and Efficiency Commission, Melbourne. The Victorian branch of the Workplace bullying the state’s equivalent to the Productivity Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy The Age reported that the number of Commission, which has been asked by Union has now been fined nearly $1 million in Victorians claiming to have been bullied at Treasurer Kim Wells to prepare a state-based the past month and ordered to pay about $2.5 work has increased greatly, with complaints reform agenda. million in the 2010-11 financial year - record to WorkSafe Victoria more than doubling to By contrast, evaluations published by the fines against a union under the controversial 6,000 in the past year. However, no action industry’s research arm, Austroads, show building laws. The latest fines, imposed by was taken on the vast majority of complaints, that smaller road projects in Victoria typically the Federal Court, are mostly for ‘unlawful’ as most fell well short of what constitutes deliver benefits worth two to four times industrial action by the union and its senior workplace bullying under the law. People the cost of the project. The report said officials. complained of bullying after being sacked for the decision to build Australia’s biggest Workers back pay deal assaulting a manager, missing out on a pay desalination plant in one hit, rather than adopt The Age reported that a wages deal, which rise or not being invited to a work party. a staged approach, has been ‘quite costly’ for will cover more than 30,000 building workers the state. It also finds that too much emphasis was put on water restrictions, when raising

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expressive face landed Koko the kelpie the accusation that the media pursued a ‘fattist’ of the Brumby government election defeat title role in the Australian movie Red Dog, agenda is a slur. It also reveals the depths Come to COMMUNITY STATE GOVERNMENT & questioned their value. Seven months after the story of a beloved 1970s outback stray, she is prepared to sink as she attempts to Ted Baillieu won government, an internal Manchester in which had its Melbourne premiere at the repair her tattered reputation.’ Former premier POLITICS review cast fresh light on what went wrong Jam Factory in South Yarra on 31 July. Hura Jeff Kennett wrote: ‘the former top cop’s the price of water would have done the job in Labor’s campaign. Headed by federal Early October said Koko’s work ethic got him through the book was a final chance to apologies for her more simply. Tackling a wide range of topics, Human rights charter MP Alan Griffin, the review looks at a nine-week shoot in Adelaide and the Pilbara faults. But by pointing the finger elsewhere, The Age reported that the Victorian Human the report also suggests that the Baillieu range of issues, such as marginal suburban Accompany a regular visitor to in Western Australia, although after too many she has taken the path of no return.’ Police Rights Commissioner Helen Szoke called government should: electorates Labor neglected, the party’s the Conservative and Labor film takes in a day he would refuse to go on! Association Secretary, Greg Davies, lamented for the state’s human rights charter to be - Consider a historic tradeoff to cut stamp campaign strategies, and problems in annual conferences and observe that she ‘could have been remembered as expanded, despite the Coalition strongly duties, such as those on property sales, PM launches Nixon electorates on the Frankston railway line for yourself how alongside Australia’s first female police commissioner criticising it while in opposition. The review and raise more revenue from land tax, by The Australian reported that prime minister where several seats were lost. the politics, the clever public – lauded for her achievement in reaching the committee is led by upper house Liberal MP overhauling the exemptions that mean most Julia Gillard would launch the biography of policy minds of Britain, Europe pinnacle of what was a traditionally male, Edward O’Donohue. He preciously labeled What’s in the box? land goes untaxed. controversial former Victorian police chief and elsewhere, are exposed conservative profession. Instead she will be the charter ‘undemocratic’ in 2007 while The Age state political editor Josh Gordon - Introduce congestion pricing on Melbourne’s commissioner Christine Nixon. Melbourne and challenged in a range of remembered as a woman out of her depth.’ future Premier Ted Baillieu and future wrote that premier Ted Baillieu isn’t opposed roads, and earmark the money to pay for University Publishing approached Gillard to 500 events, large and small. Even Melbourne University Press, which is Attorney-General Robert Clark strongly to the idea of a carbon tax. ‘On the contrary, improving roads and public transport. launch the biography A Fair Cop, co-written by Bring some ideas back home. publishing the book has come under pressure criticised it when it was introduced the he just doesn’t agree with the model - Allow private operators to run Manila-style The Age’s Jo Chandler. Gillard faced criticism with former Liberal MP Fran Bailey whose previous year. The Age later reported that presented by the Gillard government. In Call Alistair Urquhart jeepneys, minibuses or group taxis on routes over her decision to support Nixon’s memoirs, electorate was devastated by the fires said leaked government documents have given the opposition, he went to pains to differentiate poorly served by public transport, or at times with a number of Labor MPs questioning the 0408 033 110 the University should not be subsidising non strongest indication yet that the human rights himself from interstate Liberal colleagues, when trams, trains or buses are rare. former chief commissioner’s criticism of the academic books that benefit individuals. charter will be retained - possibly with only backing the science of climate change bushfire royal commission. Extracts from the Without a trace minor reforms - when the Coalition makes a and Kevin Rudd’s now-defunct emissions book later appeared in The Age. Victory tour About 35,000 people go missing each year in decision on its fate later this year. trading scheme, and signing up to legislation candidates in a group of bayside seats. The The Age reported that state cabinet are Australia and in the past year 7280 Victorians That news came despite some Liberal introduced by the Brumby government Age said the group involving former Liberal Nixon claims persecution discussing plans to recognise local cycling have disappeared That’s according to Victoria The Age reported that former Victorian chief MPs maintaining that it is ill-conceived, aspiring to cut Victoria’s greenhouse gas MP Geoff Leigh, operated beyond the reach hero Cadel Evans’ victory in the Tour de Police figures released for National Missing police commissioner Christine Nixon accused undemocratic, or a waste of money. The emissions 20 per cent by 2020.’ of Australian electoral law, public scrutiny and, France. Premier Ted Baillieu suggested Persons week, beginning on 1 August. Rupert Murdoch’s News Ltd newspapers Liberal MP heading the parliamentary inquiry, it seems, Liberal Party discipline. Related to people ‘wear a bit of yellow’ on Monday 25 Watermelons of being instrumental in bringing down her , had also been a vocal critic, this, The Age reported that planning minister Euthanasia July to celebrate. Ed O’Donohue The Herald Sun reported that some Victorian successor in the job, Simon Overland. She once describing it as ‘nebulous, ill-defined Matthew Guy attended a $75-a-head The Age reported that Ted Baillieu rejected politicians had branded the Greens a party also said she believed she had been subject Double take and undemocratic’. O’Donohue rejected function at Parliament House in May. a dying man’s plea for voluntary euthanasia of radical communists or ‘watermelons’. The to a relentless campaign by News Ltd papers, Interestingly, and to be careful with the suggestions that the committee - which is Premier Baillieu said that a code of conduct to be put back on the agenda in Victoria, term is used to describe something that is particularly the Herald Sun, to force her from headlines, because occasionally the age has made up of four Coalition MPs and three was to be drafted and released by the end of saying it should be dealt with at a national green on the outside and ‘red’ on the inside. public life since she retired following the a different front page for a later edition on Labor MPs - had a predetermined outcome on the year to give ministers and staff clear rules level. Melbourne lawyer Alan Rosendorff, As of July, the Greens hold the balance of Black Saturday bushfires on 7 February 2009. the same day, which for the scanner of the the charter’s future. around fund raising, gifts and hospitality. After 58,who is dying of cancer, wrote a letter to power in the Senate, allowing them to make ‘In the 2½ years since retiring, they have run news can leave front page news item onto a days of inquiries by The Age, the Liberal Party the Premier in the last week of June, and or break some reform laws if the main parties a vendetta against me. They have published subsequent page. No fair lodged its first disclosures for Business First requested the premier refer the matter to the The Financial Review reported that don’t agree. In federal parliament, Melbourne articles and beat up stories saying I am not with the Australian Electoral Commission for Victorian Law Reform Commission. Queensland Premier Anna Bligh demanded Ports Labor MP Michael Danby warned supposed to teach courses, shouldn’t be That’s using your head 2008-2009 and 2009-2010. In 1990 Victoria broke new ground by forcing the Gillard government give her state a better the ‘watermelon’ faction of the Greens that Behind the veil allowed to sit on boards, not allowed to do cyclists to wear crash helmets. The Age deal on the carbon tax, saying Queenslanders it must reject extremism. Victorian Liberal Funds running dry The Age reported that the Victorian leadership lectures, should have quit my job reported that on 30 July at Federation Square, won’t ‘sit by’ while Victorian power senator Helen Kroger, also speaking in The Age reported that the Victorian branch of government would consider laws being as chair of the Bushfire Recovery Authority, a small band of cyclists used Melbourne’s generators win all the compensation. As Bligh Parliament, went a step further. ‘There’s a the Liberal Party has not received hundreds adopted in other states that give police the should not mentor people, and the final one is troubled shared bike scheme to rail against stepped up the pressure, Victorian Premier stale smell wafting at the Senate doors - it’s of thousands of dollars because Premier power to force Muslim women wearing I am not allowed to write a book.’ those laws. The bike scheme has been Ted Baillieu was on the attack, claiming the called radical communism’. Baillieu has not delivered a long-awaited a full veil to reveal their faces. The Police Choosing sides hampered by the inconvenience of carrying a carbon plan would cost the state’s hospitals code of conduct for ministerial fund raising. Association also has supported the need Fundraising breach The Australian reported that state Labor helmet in order to use the bikes. Some argue about $13.5 million a year in extra energy The Age claimed that state ministers have for more clarity for its members. However, The Age reported that a Liberal Party fund frontbencher James Merlino strongly backed that the laws have led to an exaggeration of bills, rising to more than $20 million by 2020. raised virtually no money since the Coalition the Herald Sun reported that Victorian raising group breached federal electoral the royal commission, rejecting Christine the dangers of cycling, and deprived people was elected in November, with the burden Multicultural Affairs and Citizenship Minister laws by failing to declare donations to Nixon’s accusation that it was more a witch- of their right to choose. However, a University Hindsight is tinted green falling entirely on increasingly frustrated Nick Kotsiras stated that he was comfortable The Age reported that the Victorian Labor candidates in the lead-up to last year’s state hunt than a search for the truth. In her attack of New South Wales study released in June federal Liberal MPs from Victoria. with Muslim women wearing the burqa and Party would rethink doing preference deals election. Business First, based in Melbourne’s on the integrity of the Victorian bushfires showed cyclist head injuries had fallen by full-face veil niqab. with the Greens in the future, after a review southern suburbs, raised money for Liberal Brumby’s advertising bolt royal commission, which condemned the almost a third since compulsory helmet laws The Age reported that the Brumby government Child protection surge quality of her evidence, Nixon likened it to began. VicRoads also cites several studies spent more than $100 million on advertising The Age reported that more Victorian child the ‘worst kind of kangaroo court’. Merlino supporting the helmet law. in the financial year leading up to the 2010 protection workers will be moved to the front told The Australian that Labor continued to Burke and Wills election. Figures show Labor spent more line, and will receive extra pay and training endorse the commission’s work, as it had in The Royal Society of Victoria conducted the taxpayer dollars selling its water plans and in a bid to improve conditions and stop one government, and rejected claims by Nixon of Burke and Wills hearing as a mock inquiry promoting public education than it did on in four workers quitting each year. Under the a News Limited-led media conspiracy. The into the tragic death of the famous colonial bushfire awareness and the Quit smoking changes, the percentage of workers who deal Age reported that the royal commission was duo. The inquest was open to the public, held campaign in 2009-10. The report on the directly with children will increase from 63 per defended across the political spectrum, with at the Legislative Assembly chamber of State Brumby government’s advertising - obtained cent to 75 per cent. The government would premier Ted Baillieu flatly rejecting the Parliament in July on the 150th anniversary of by The Age under freedom of information aim for a less bureaucratic environment by comparison to a kangaroo court. their death in 1861 in remote western New - found campaign advertising increased by giving front-line staff more decision-making Nixon cops flack South Wales. almost 15 per cent to $100.8 million. power around families that they deal with. A number of commentators have turned on Overall advertising on campaigns, former Victorian chief police commissioner Vale government tenders and recruitment jumped Red dog run Robert Molesworth Hobill Cole, accountant, The Age ran a story on Luke Hura, a showbiz Christine Nixon since the release of her book. from $114.6 million in 2008-09 to $124.3 farmer, friend to very many people, a animal trainer for 30 years. He said an The Herald Sun editorial read: ‘Nixon’s bizarre million, sparking accusations from the Baillieu wonderful man. George Rowan Nicks, AO, government that Labor had abused taxpayer

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The eldest, Victoria, Australia Kaele Dian Way, AM, City of Whitehorse in major state and national collections, Karl, has now become head of the house of P 03 9654 1300 As the editor looked through the 18,000 words of this edition, a few more words than in Councillor. John Bruce Bingeman, QC. Sir including four works at the National Gallery Habsburg, who had been dispossessed by F 03 9654 1165 recent editions and following our normal methodology of summarising the massive amount of Edward Cohen, aged 98. Lorna Ashton. of Victoria, Order of Australia 2006. Warren Austria in 1919 but kept its private fortune. [email protected] print media, not many items stood out as being ‘big’ or controversial. Perhaps, this is because David Austin. James Harvey Pettifer, Mann HC. Judge Gordon Just, WWII veteran. www.letterfrommelbourne.com.au the Victorian parliament has not been sitting since the last edition. Signals of more important Brighton Grammar School staff member. Francis Xavier Murphy, AM. Charles John Letter from Melbourne scans The Age Editor Alistair Urquhart planning changes are on the horizon. Sean Wight, Melbourne Football Club player, Stevens, journalist, first chief sub-editor obituaries, among others, as the basis for our Associate Editor Gabriel Phipps lost his battle with lung cancer at age 47. at The Australian. Rob Chalmers, aged 82, own vale section. Sub-Editor RJ Stove The feature items in the Melbourne papers have been the launch of the nationally-oriented Natalie Wood, lay dead in her Sydney home former President of the National Press Club, Woof, woof, woof Subscription Manager Juliette Biegler carbon tax details/ legislation, and the international media/privacy/Murdoch coverage. in Surry Hills for eight years. John Norman 60 years as a gallery journalist, published the The Age reported that businessman Frank Advertising Adviser Tony McAdam Myers. Brian Douglas Clendinnen, AM. weekly newsletter Inside Canberra, journalist Editorial Consultant Rick Brown Samways, aged 82, left Melbourne’s Lost The slow Victorian newsfront probably explains why Christine Nixon has had such extensive Carly Hibberd, professional cyclist struck Alan Ramsey relfected on Rob’s career in a Design Camilla Orr-Thomson Dogs Home $3 million - the largest bequest coverage, with massive print/other media and photo coverage in metropolitan and national and killed by a car while she was riding tribute to mark his retirement (inside.org.au/ Cover Photograph John Tozer in its 100-year history. Managing director, Dr papers. on a road north of Milan, Italy, just three sixty-years-in-the-gallery). Veronica Mary Graeme Smith, said Samways ‘never set foot months from her wedding day. Dr Peter Duncan, BEM, aged 102, campaign manager, inside the shelter because he thought it would Melbourne remains bloody cold. The editor had a few days in Darwin. Not a bad place to Tisdall, aged 71, after 45 years of service community volunteer, a pillar and founding Letter From Melbourne is a monthly public affairs be too disturbing for him. He didn’t want to do business, certainly at this time of the year. Last chances for you to join the editor in to the community of Kyabram. Dr Anthony member of the Liberal Party with her husband, bulletin, a simple précis, distilling and interpreting see any dog or cat incarcerated.’ Samways public policy and government decisions, which affect Manchester in early October, to find out how the other side of the world debates public policy Roseman, of the Alfred Hospital. Allan joined the Gardenvale branch in 1974. was a single man with no children, and was business opportunities in Victoria and Australia. and government. Jeans, AFL coach, player, legend, three time Pauline Neura Reilly, OAM, ornithologist, a furniture factory owner in Strathmore. The Hawthorn premiership player, ’66 St Kilda author. 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2 2 23 GovernmentNext Event: Thursday 25 August 2011 Relations The Windsor Hotel master class “There is nothing more Positioning for Success difficult to carry out nor more doubtful of success, OUR TEAM presents a unique combination of experience and talent nor more dangerous to from multiple perspectives. They share their combined knowledge and handle, than to initiate a skill with participants on how to successfully influence government new order of things” department policy and understand the importance of research and strategy in marketing and selling to government.They enable participants – Machiavelli in THE PRINCE (1513) to understand both the strategic and tactical elements that must fit together in order to bring a desired result. THE LOBBYIST Alistair Urquhart These are very special events; they are an unlikely constellation of political, government and industry expertise that will focus on the Alistair Urquhart is a respected challenge of how to influence government. How often does one hear a and independent public affairs former government Minister, a former Permanent Head of department professional with over 20 years and an experienced ex-bureaucrat interact with a professional lobbyist experience both in Australia and overseas. to discuss how to influence ‘affairs of state?’ THE BUREAUCRAT Doug Connell The change of government in Victoria Doug Connell is a project may bring new opportunities. Perhaps management and logistics the chance for a new approach by your expert who has held senior team to a new team. positions in Industry, the Port of Melbourne, The Department of Transport and Australia Post. A training course in public affairs and communication THE DEPARTMENTAL HEAD David Wilson

A one-day, interactive workshop educating workshop David Wilson has held educating and training you so that you can more easily executive positions in clarify perspectives and achieve your objectives with government in Victoria (Director of the Ministry of Transport) government and stakeholders. and a Logistics Manager for WillowWare Australia. He is a Senior Research Fellow in the • PResenTATions • Role-PlAy WiTHin gRouPs Department of Infrastructure • Round TAble discussions • cAse sTudies Engineering at the University of Melbourne.

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