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Brumby government to reflect on and gave federal elections. But Labor’s fundraising arm, State Government & Politics scores out of 10 for each of them. Law and order Progressive Business, will continue to hold got 5 out of 10; health, 6 out of 10; water, 7 out special ‘forums’ at which companies will be able You won’t know us of 10; the economy, 8 out of 10; public transport to pay to meet ministers in open rooms where Premier John Brumby will contest next year’s and roads, 4 out of 10; and education 7 out of other politicians and businesses are present. election by portraying himself as head of a new 10. The decision comes in the wake of mounting government, ‘only three years old’, with plans controversy this year over the ethics of ‘cash- and energy to confront Victoria’s big challenges. Bitter irony for-chat’ fund-raising exercises. Jeff Kennett The Opposition will contest the Labor strategy, Freedom of information laws would be has accused Labor of corrupting the democratic with Liberal leader Ted Baillieu saying Brumby policed by an independent watchdog under an system by selling access to ministers, The Age as cabinet minister, treasurer and Premier Opposition plan. Opposition leader Ted Baillieu reported. has been at the heart of the Bracks-Brumby said he would appoint a freedom of information Government since it was elected in 1999, and commissioner should he win next year’s state We believe! that Victoria has gone backwards since then, The election, The Age reported. An editorial in Victoria’s Coalition MPs have avoided the bitter Age reported. A poll in the same paper found the the same paper said that the door is open for split over global warming that has created chaos ALP ahead by a margin of 58 per cent to 42 per the Coalition to turn Labor’s 1999 campaign in the federal Liberal and National parties. State cent on a two-party preferred basis – a huge against it, with a Saulwick poll suggesting John Liberal leader Ted Baillieu and National Party margin. Brumby is preferred premier for 56 per Brumby’s Government may now be alienating leader Peter Ryan said they were climate cent of voters, compared with Baillieu with only regional voters, particularly hostile towards change believers and supported the introduction 25 per cent support. The poll of 1000 voters water policies that they regard as appalling. In of an emissions trading scheme. shows the government is highly regarded on 1999, Labor advertisements aimed at regional the issue of economic management, indicating voters showed two taps, one flowing freely in Time for change for same Labor has received credit for steering the state Melbourne and the other down to its last drop The Victorian Labor Party state conference through the economic downturn. in regional Victoria. Today, that image resounds passed a resolution calling for gay and with bitter irony for Victorians north of the lesbian couples to be given the same rights as Big job divide. heterosexual couples, including the right to state Labor has opened the door to setting up an anti- sanctioned marriage. The resolution calls on the corruption commission in Victoria, after Premier Ted’s liquor licensing laws Federal Government to change the marriage John Brumby announced a surprise pre-election Ted Baillieu is taking the Opposition to next act to allow for equal access to marriage, review of the state’s integrity watchdogs. Former year’s election with a plan to reduce alcohol regardless of the gender of either partner, The head of Victoria’s Department of Premier and fuelled violence, where liquor licences will Age reported. Cabinet Elizabeth Proust will investigate the automatically be suspended when a venue performance of key integrity bodies including accumulates sufficient demerit points, by (for Atheist outrage the Office of Police Integrity, the Ombudsman example) allowing the presence and service The Parliament of the World’s Religions began and the Auditor-General. Labor is confident of drunk or disorderly people or the presence on December 3 at the Melbourne Convention Proust will endorse its approach, but and service of alcohol to minors on licensed and Exhibition Centre. It received $2m from Opposition leader Ted Baillieu said the Premier’s premises. The plan also includes a five-star the Federal Government and $500,000 from decision to order a review was an admission rating system that will reward liquor licensees the Melbourne City Council. The Atheist that Victoria had a corruption problem and not who act responsibly and observe the law by giving Foundation of Australia says it approached all enough had been done to stamp it out, The Age them a discount on their liquor licence renewals three levels of Government, seeking a total of reported. The Law Institute of Victoria backed where they had two or more consecutive years $270,000 for its conference, to be held at the the review, which is due to report by the end without breaking relevant licensing laws. same venue early next year, but has received of May, but has called for the investigation to no funding, The Age reported. The same paper examine whether Victoria’s anticorruption Open door policy published a 16-page lift-out on the Parliament bodies have too much secretive power. Premier John Brumby and his ministers will including speakers and a program for the week. no longer offer exclusive private meetings Australia’s ambassador to the Vatican, Tim Out of ten behind closed doors with companies in return Fischer, has raised the plight of 10 Fijians for An article in the Herald Sun by Stephen for donations to the ALP, as the party seeks to whom he has been lobbying in Rome when McMahon noted six major policy areas of the polish its image ahead of next year’s state and he addressed the Parliament of the World’s

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Religions. British child rights activist Christine departments and local councils was operationally Up there 2 Dodd, coordinator of the Church’s Network justified, and noted oversight systems were The outgoing head of the New South Wales for Non-Violence, told the event that corporal missing, the Financial Review reported. corruption commission, Jerrold Cripps, QC, punishment infringed children’s rights and has heavily criticised the relationship between dignity, taught them that violence was a proper The Victorian of the year? property developers and the State Government, way to solve conflict and was on the same Victoria’s Australian of the Year Award went and said his organisation had insufficient continuum as serious abuse, and should be to Patrick McGorry, 57, a professor at the resources for a major enquiry into political made illegal throughout the world. The Obama University of Melbourne, who has devoted the lobbying, the Financial Review reported. administration secretly sent staff to Melbourne past 27 years to the improvement of youth to ask religious leaders about winning hearts mental health. In the far north and minds in the Muslim world. Retired Supreme Court judge Martin Moynihan, Worth a look who made his name in the historic Mabo Informal address The Victorian Government Lobbyists Register, indigenous land rights case, is set to become The Dalai Lama gave his only address to an which presently lists 21 lobbying firms, is now chairman of Queensland’s Crime and Misconduct Australian parliament on this visit, in Melbourne. on line, www.lobbyistsregister.vic.gov.au. Commission, replacing Robert Needham, The Organised by the informal group, Victorian MPs Australian reported. for Tibet, whose chair is Liberal upper house A full team member Ed O’Donohue, The Age reported. The Institute of Public Administration Australia Over there 1 The Dalai Lama spoke for about 30 minutes (Victoria) held its annual general meeting on 25 Receptionist Michelle Chantelois claimed on on peace, love and understanding. It was his November, which included the election of three Channel 7’s Sunday Night program that South first visit to the Victorian Parliament House new board members, to round out a committee Australian Premier Mike Rann, 56, acted since 1992, but he did not meet John Brumby of ten. Chair Fran Thorn, Peter Allen, Dr Claire out a fantasy from a Hollywood movie when (the pair have met on a number of previous Noon, Carl Obst, James Van Smeerdijk, Dr Art he had sex with her, a married woman, in his occasions) because their schedules clashed. Looi, Michael White, Ms Kerry Thompson, Dr Parliament House office. While he admits they Tim Fischer passed on the Lama’s best wishes Jim Hyde and Paula Giles. had a flirty friendship which ended in 2005, to the editor of this magazine when he shook his Rann continues to deny ever having sex with hand later in the day. Up there her. She is challenging him to take a lie detector (Then) New South Wales Premier Nathan Rees test, which he is refusing as he moves to sue the How much? moved swiftly to take control of the parliamentary Seven Network, saying that the truth will come The Age reported that Victorian MPs would wing of the New South Wales Labor Party, out during the case. have to declare publicly the value of their sacking two ministers who had been accused shareholdings under a plan to prevent conflicts of undermining him and the party’s chances Over there 2 of interest and corruption in State Parliament. of victory at the next election. The architect The South Australian Government announced Under current laws, state MPs are required to of Labor’s $6b energy privatisation plan, Joe its intention to implement a Lobbyist Code of list only the companies in which they hold shares Tripodi, was sacked from his job as finance Conduct, www.premcab.sa.gov.au/lobbyist but not the number of shares or their value..... minister and Ian McDonald was removed from primary industries as the party adjusted to the Down there Well done implications of the new powers Rees was given Tasmanian Liberal MP and QC and Australia’s Former Victorian Farmers Federation president at Labor’s State Conference in mid-November. longest serving politician, Michael Hodgman, Simon Ramsay has won Liberal preselection said he would quit politics at the March 20 for the upper house seat of Western Victoria Not for long election, after 43 years, the Herald Sun reported. Region, which stretches from Melton to Portland, (However), New South Wales Planning and Perhaps to be replaced by his son. The Age reported. Infrastructure Minister Kristina Keneally, 40, who was born in America and took out Australian A recent report citizenship nine years ago, won the New South In a recently released report, Auditor-General Wales Labor Party leadership vote, 47 to 21 over Des Pearson said there was little assurance Nathan Rees, in the first week in December. the money spent on car fleets for government

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Meteorology spokeswoman said the fire danger No change? the bushfires rating, which determines whether a school Doubt has been cast on Victoria’s preparations shuts, should be declared twice a day – at 5am for this fire season after a senior lawyer for The season begins and about 5pm. the Bushfires Royal Commission questioned Australia’s first ‘catastrophic’ fire danger whether new plans for days of extreme fire risk warning was issued. The warning was declared December is often a cold month were any different than they were on February to South Australian regions close to Port Augusta Bushfire watchdog Neil Comrie has begun 7, The Age reported. and Port Pirie on November 19. Catastrophic is a month-long holiday just weeks after the highest possible warning, and was created being appointed to oversee the introduction This came through in the coverage after Black Saturday. The Herald Sun reported of the Bushfires Royal Commission’s The Age reported that journalists covering that confusion may prevail across Victoria if recommendations. Despite being hired for a disasters face an ethical vacuum in which the the new code-red fire alert is issued this fire five-month consultancy, the former Victoria rules of their conduct are contrived on the spot, season, as some CFA workers struggled to police chief commissioner went on holiday and according to a review of Black Saturday media explain the new national fire ratings. Towns won’t return to work until January 2. Comrie will coverage. Authorities responsible for access to are still waiting for updated or new fire danger report to the commission at the end of March on disaster scenes likewise lack guidance ‘so when rating information boards with the new code red the Government’s progress. a disaster comes, people on both sides make warning. A spokeswoman for the Office of the up the rules as they go along’, according to a Emergency Services Commissioner said that Best to make the mistakes now draft report for Melbourne University’s Centre 4000 new boards would be rolled out across Fire authorities wrongly issued an extreme fire for Advanced Journalism. the state in December and denied the delivery warning for the Otways area in late November, after the start of the bushfire season is putting in a bungled training exercise, telling residents He’s entered the building lives at risk. She said the new boards would a deadly blaze was heading towards them, The Elvis, which can drop 9000 litres of water or fire not be arrow boards stating the day’s ratings Age reported. retardant, arrived in Victoria three weeks after but would have a phone number and website the beginning of the bushfire season. It is one people could call to find out the rating. Another Places of last resort of 200 firefighting aircraft that Victoria will have CFA spokesman was unsure if the six new fire Fire authorities and local councils are racing access to during the fire season. danger ratings were national or just for Victoria. to locate places of last resort for communities CFA chief executive Mick Burke said the CFA’s trapped by bushfires in Victoria’s 52 most at risk Understated key message for the summer was to leave early towns, The Age reported. A statewide minute’s silence will be held for – a warning still not getting through in some the 173 Black Saturday victims on next year’s communities, The Age reported. Interesting view anniversary. Many flags will fly at half-mast on On the opinion pages of The Age Jeremy the February 7 anniversary. The low-key event Too late Francis, horticulturalist and founding member of will be held in Melbourne for those city-dwellers Fire warnings that close Victorian schools might Mogumber Soil Conservation Group in Western who want to pay their respects, the Herald Sun be issued as late as 5pm on the day before a Australia, wrote that authorities must regulate reported. Black Saturday survivors want to mark catastrophic fire danger, The Age reported. vegetation types for fire safety. He believes the the first anniversary of the tragedy privately and Victoria’s Department of Education website reluctance on the part of authorities to provide have backed calls for commemorations to be assures parents they will be given up to three practical bushfire information of this type is low-key. days notice of a closure and a final notice by frightening. at least noon on the previous day. A Bureau of

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A pile of stories home for organisations such as the Melbourne students regardless of their backgrounds, and The Bushfires Royal Commission has so far Writers Festival, Victorian Writers Centre and how schools compare to those with similar heard details of 41 victims of the blaze that the Australian Poetry Centre. enrolments. Most under underperforming destroyed Marysville. The circumstances schools face complex challenges that are difficult surrounding the death of education researcher Brumby will not let it fail to overcome despite teachers’ efforts. Most are Ken Rowe were examined, perhaps that he The Docklands movie and television studios are in poor suburbs and towns, with high numbers received an emergency phone call about his in deep financial trouble. The State Government- of disadvantaged students, indigenous students property and left suburban Melbourne just in owned Melbourne Central City Studios lost or disabled children. However, in a more unusual time to die at his Marysville property. nearly $7m last financial year, a large fall from trend, 63 schools – which the government has the profit of almost $5m it declared the previous refused to name – were found to be struggling Important job year. Opened in 2004, the studios have been hit even though their students are from middle The Metropolitan Fire and Emergency by the global financial crisis, the 2008 American and upper-class families, The Age reported. Services Board seeks a chief executive officer, scriptwriter strike, and the enduring strength of The Federal Government will launch its own www.mfb.vic.gov.au. the Australian dollar. State Government insiders report card in two months time. It will compare insist the project, which is strongly backed by groups of similar schools based on their results Premier John Brumby, will not be allowed in the national literacy and numeracy tests. The to fail, The Age reported. In its defence, the State government ran an advertisement urging Arts Premier said the complex had helped secure people to go online and find fair and accurate more than $550m in investment, including the information about how well government schools Knocking the Opera House off its perch tele-movie The Pacific, which generated about are performing, allowing parents to make fair The Arts Centre’s new chief executive, Judith 2000 new jobs. comparisons, www.education.vic.gov.au. Isherwood, is determined to challenge the Sydney Opera house as the country’s top Damn Faust but love the opera Not a bad start cultural precinct. The Opera house is the main Victorian Opera released their 2010 season The Age reported that not-for-profit syndicate reason many people cite for going to Sydney, she program; it included a Christmas message from GoodStart, made up of two Christian and two says. Isherwood has been at the Arts Centre for their chairman Michael Roux, and another from secular welfare agencies, won the bidding a month. She replaced former chief executive, their music director Richard Gill, while revealing for the failed ABC Learning Centres, and Tim Jacobs, after spending the previous six that next year opera lovers will be able to enjoy plans to transform them from basic childcare years as the inaugural head of Wales Millennium any number of wonderful plays including The into true early learning organisations. Toby Centre in Cardiff. She says one of the best way Damnation of Faust. Hall, chief executive of one of the partners, to raise the Art Centre’s profile is to attract the Mission Australia, said the group had taken world’s best companies and artists, The Age Move on to there over 185 centres in Victoria. All staff would reported. The Australian Centre for the Moving Image be retained and offered a chance to upgrade presents interesting multimedia exhibitions as their qualifications in line with new Federal Well endowed well as various film festivals. They are currently Government requirements, he said. Following a large endowment from Lonely running an exhibition, amongst others, Dennis Planet founders Tony and Maureen Wheeler, Hopper and the New Hollywood, www.acmi. So? Next? Melbourne’s Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas com.au. Researchers from the University of South – the centrepiece of Melbourne’s successful bid Australia studied 10 suburbs across four to become a UNESCO City of Literature – was cities comparing planned communities with renamed the Wheeler Centre: Books, Writing, their neighbouring suburbs. A common theme Ideas. The Wheelers sold 75 per cent of Lonely Education that emerged in the research by the Centre Planet to BBC Worldwide two years ago for about for Work + Life at the university found that $200m and have a philanthropic foundation, Spring lamb some teenagers, regardless of age or socio- Planet Wheeler, that operates in the areas of child A new reporting system, developed by Melbourne economic background, felt marginalised in and maternal welfare, education and health care University education Professor Stephen Lamb these communities. The centre interviewed in South-east Asia and Africa. Centre director – which allows parents to click on a website 174 teenagers from public and private schools Chrissy Sharp said the substantial amount to see how their school fares in a range of in three master planned communities and they gave to the centre was a fantastic boon measures, including literacy and numeracy, VCE nearby suburbs in Victoria, South Australia and that eased the planning of events. The centre results, retention rates and student well-being Queensland, The Age reported. is based in a wing of the State library of Victoria – went on line in late November. Parents can and, in addition to staging events, will provide a also see how much the school ‘adds value’ to

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Everyone’s having a blast Becalmed rolled products division will sack one sixth of its A Government plan to pay bored teachers to get In a direct challenge to dire environmental workforce, calling for voluntary redundancies out of the classroom is yet to result in one person forecasts from Canberra in regard to climate from its two operating locations at Point Henry being removed from the profession, despite the change related sea level rises, State Environment near Geelong and Yennora in western Sydney, program being announced with much fanfare Minister Gavin Jennings has called for a calm The Age reported. more than 18 months ago. Education Minister and more reasoned examination of climatic Bronwyn Pike announced the scheme in April threats facing Victoria, the Herald Sun reported. Stand up straight last year, as part of the Government’s education Victorians wanting to diminish their carbon blueprint – a five-year strategy to tackle Conservation corridors footprints after death are now being offered underperformance, overhaul teaching standards The Age reported that a plan to link isolated the option of vertical burial. Upright Burials and make schools more accountable for student patches of vegetation will initially focus on managing director Tony Dupleix said that ‘Our results, The Age reported. the region between Melbourne’s west and the burials involve less energy intensive practices Grampians, with funding also set for a link and using a biodegradable bag ensures a Can you hear them playing? between Wilsons Promontory and the Gippsland natural product is going into the ground.’ More Concerned academics at Melbourne University’s Lakes. The promise is one of few tangible than 100 people have registered their interest 115-year-old music school say the future of environmental outcomes from the Government’s in having an upright burial and the company the prestigious institution is at risk and the long-awaited land biodiversity white paper. has permission to carry out the internment in a importance of musical scholarship is being Work on the Melbourne-Grampians link is set to cemetery near Darlington, about 20 kilometres ignored. In an open letter, 14 signatories, begin next year, with $1.5m to be spent in 2010 southwest of Lismore, in the Western District. including former Victoria State Opera music revegetating and protecting habitat on public The upright burials are set to cost $2,750; the director Richard Divall, say an investigation and private land. average Australian funeral costs more than into the future of the Victorian College of the $7,000. Dupleix believes principle rather than Arts and music is too focused on the VCA and Wrapped in tin foil price is the main reason for interest in vertical ignores the illustrious contributions made by the Taxpayer funded subsidies to the aluminium plots, The Age reported. former music faculty to Australian society, The industry remain secret after the Government Age reported. rejected a call for transparency from the City folk in awe state appointed environmental watchdog. Wallabies, wombats and wedge-tailed eagles Didn’t fail at least The proposal was part of last year’s State of are among thousands of native animals killed Melbourne University staff voted to withhold end the Environment Report – the result of a five- with Government approval this year. Nearly of year student results, accusing management year investigation that revealed degradation of 2,000 permits to control 44 different species of treating staff with contempt. Unionised staff Victoria’s landscape and serious deficiencies in have been issued by the Department of voted not to process results which means exam state policies. The Government rejected 14 of Sustainability and Environment since January 1. and essay marks for thousands of students were the recommendations by former commissioner Landholders were issued permits to catch or kill not uploaded into the university’s computer for environmental stability Ian McPhail. these animals, the Herald Sun reported. system. Staff also resolved to continue industrial Another 275 were supported or considered as action over the holidays and next year in a bid to policy development. Among those not supported Randy devils pressure the university into negotiating a new was that the Government review and make The Healesville Tasmanian devil breeding workplace agreement, The Age reported. public its energy subsidies, including revealing program is part of a national project that has the impact on the state’s greenhouse gas increased the numbers of healthy devils in emissions. Alcoa smelters at Portland and near captivity to 145. Geelong were likely to cost Victorians $4.5b by Environment the time contracts expire in 2014 and 2016. Have a look The Government said energy contracts were The National Trust’s Victorian News, a 20-page commercial-in-confidence and established colour magazine, brings together recent heritage Conservation more than 20 years ago, The Age reported. concerns across the city and regional Victoria, www.nattrust.com.au. Thanks Tony Nearby New Federal opposition leader Tony Abbott Alcoa Australia will lay off about 150 workers, Getting warmed up said Victorians would be the ones most affected with 90 of those jobs to be dropped from its The Walk Against Warming was held on by an emissions trading scheme. Geelong operations, as the global financial December 12 and began on Swanston Street crisis hit global demand and a strong Australian outside the State Library, www.waw.org.au. dollar erodes profitability. The aluminium giant’s

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given the significant effects on consumers; and Energy DPI has engaged with the project in only a limited way as an observer during its implementation Don’t worry John, Tony’s here phase. In a letter to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, Premier John Brumby expressed concern that if the The green earth underground emissions trading scheme passes the Senate, Victoria’s first geothermal power plant could be Victoria could face power shortages unless operational within three years after the Brumby coal-fired power stations are compensated with government announced $25m in funding for billions of dollars because new investments to Greenearth Energy, which is assessing the improve services will not go ahead, the Herald potential of geothermal energy around Geelong. Sun reported. The Greenearth project, located about 11 big thinkers kilometres north-west of Anglesea, hopes to Politics changes everything provide enough power for more than 120,000 (think tanks, The Brumby Government has shelved its plans to Victorian homes, The Age reported. allow the mining and export of Victorian brown knowledge bro- coal to India, amid fears of a voter backlash. kers, networks & Energy Minister Peter Batchelor has ruled out Water allowing Melbourne-based Exergen to launch a opinion shapers) $1.5b coal export scheme where it would mine, Getting a thirst up dry and export 12 million tonnes of brown coal November’s hot weather caused average per The 2009 edition of Affairs of State’s a year to be burned in Indian power stations. person water consumption to rise to 200 litres latest publication Big Thinkers The Government has no immediate plan to per day. Managing director of Yarra Valley water (thing tanks, knowledge brokers, open coalfields for tender next year – which and chairman of WaterAid Australia, Tony Kelly, networks & opinion shapers) has would suggest any future tender would happen said that at 45 litres over the 155 litre target for just been launched by historian after next November’s state election. West two weeks saw us destroy nine weeks of hard- Geoffrey Blainey. Australian coal entrepreneur and ALP donor won water savings, the Herald Sun reported. Allan Blood said Batchelor’s office had assured Big Thinkers is the only compre- him absolutely that the tender would occur next Union fighting hensive and accurate guide to think year, and that he was very disappointed that it The construction of the desalination plant in would otherwise. Wonthaggi is at risk of significant delay because tanks, thinking/ideas organisations of a union turf war over representation of and opinion shapers in Australia. Shouldn’t this be front-page news? workers. Fair Work Australia is set to hear an The Herald Sun reported that a 140-megawatt Australian Workers Union application that seeks It assembles a list of more than 300 hydro power station opened in north-east to exclude the Construction, Forestry, Mining think tanks, think/ideas organisa- Victoria. Near Mount Beauty, the Bogong and Energy union from the project. tions and opinion shapers from a Power Station uses water from a nearby power cross section of disciplines to help plant and will supplement supply during peak Cow water you understand the new financial demand, generating enough clean energy to The Age reported that the Health Department and policy environment. power 18,000 homes. It is one of the largest wanted cattle barred from the state’s rivers hydropower stations built on the mainland in in the interests of human health, according to With easy-to-read summaries, Big the past 25 years. Premier John Brumby said a series of letters sent to the Department of ‘this project is unique because it delivers clean Sustainability and Environment this year. The Thinkers provides up-to-date infor- energy without the need for new dams and new letters, sent by the Health Department’s drinking mation including: water, by reusing water already used by the water regulation unit, show officials wanted the Academic think tanks McKay Creek power station. It produces zero- 9,200 cattle grazing licences discontinued when Government think tanks emission energy while conserving our water up for renewal in October. Despite that advice, Contract research think tanks resources’. grazing licences for the 17,000 kilometres of Policy advocacy think tanks river front – including rivers such as the Murray, No-for-profit policy centres Advanced metering infrastructure Goulburn and Thomson – were renewed for University public policy and The Victorian Auditor-General’s report Towards five years. Research has linked cattle waste in research centres a ‘smart grid’ – the rollout of Advanced Metering waterways to human disease. Opinion editors, columnists Infrastructure came hot on the heels of an and writers Australian Information Industry Association Going up event attended by over 100 people which With more than half of the state’s regional water discussed the same topic. The report’s overall authorities posting losses last financial year, Only $110 inc. GST conclusions included highlighting a gap in the many consumers are set to face higher water project’s accountability framework and noted prices. An Auditor-General’s report found the To order your copy contact: that there have been significant inadequacies water industry’s net profits dipped by $197m, Affairs of State in the advice and recommendations provided or 44 per cent, in 2008-09, with many falling Level 2, 14 Collins Street, by the Government on the rollout of the project. further into debt to fund infrastructure works. Melbourne VIC 3000 Also, the department’s project governance has The report warns that water authorities outside Telephone: +61 3 9654 1300 not been appropriate to the nature and scale of Melbourne are in danger of running out of Facsimilie: +61 3 9654 1165 of the market intervention the project poses. money. Seven of the 13 regional water authorities In particular, its advice to government on risk and the two rural water corporation’s lost money Email: [email protected] assessment has been inadequate; the level of in 2008-09, the Herald Sun reported. community engagement has been inadequate,

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Can’t make it rain discusses a range of issues, www.vicwater.org. inappropriate and dangerous. From December In a new 50-year water plan for the states north, au. people will be able to apply for a TAB betting the Northern Region Sustainable Water Strategy, account, make betting deposits and withdrawals rivers such as the Goulburn and Murray will have Harvest the storm and obtain a balance of their betting accounts at no new sources of water from the environment The Federal Department of the Environment, Australia Post outlets. Betting transactions will nor any improved guaranteed environmental Water, Heritage and the Arts has opened the not be offered. Tabcorp said the service could flow levels. second round of funding for its Stormwater be offered at more than 3,300 Australia Post Harvesting and Reuse projects as part of the outlets. Antigambling campaigner Tim Costello Orwell turns in grave $1b National Urban Water and Desalination Plan, said Australia Post had made a mistake in Police files of people protesting against www.environment.gov.au/water/programs/ signing up with Tabcorp. Tabcorp’s Australia Victoria’s $3.5b desalination project are being urban/stormwater-harvesting.html. Post move is not the first move to generate more made available to Aquasure, the consortium business by the company this year. Its decision building the plant, to help it ‘manage’ protests to take bets on Good Friday, the holiest day of the and potential security threats, The Age reported. Christian calendar, was labelled inappropriate, Privacy Commissioner Helen Versey is seeking Gaming The Age reported. an urgent briefing from the Government on the deal it struck. Following this report, the Swapsies Change afoot paper received a number of powerful letters The Opposition revealed it would approve 150 More than 1,700 hotels in New South Wales to the editor, many of which compared the new gaming tables for Crown – but only in and 249 in Victoria could have poker machine government’s actions to those of totalitarian exchange for a new $10m support package for revenues reduced if the draft recommendations regimes. On the opinion pages of that paper, problem gamblers, the Herald Sun reported. It from a report into gambling by the Productivity Kenneth Davidson wrote that public or private, takes the number of gaming tables at Crown Commission are implemented. According to the 150-gigalitre desalination plant is not from 350 to 500. industry consultant Graeme Campbell, the needed. The additional water could be produced recommended changes to the poker machines at a sixth to a quarter of the cost by a judicious Into the pubs business could trigger viability concerns and a mixture of conservation, recycling and diversion Tabcop is in talks to buy Wesfarmers’ $200m- significant decline in gaming revenue streams, dams. Far from saving it money, this project is plus pub business as part of a strategy to The Age reported. a burden on state coffers. The Office of Police diversify earnings in preparation for the loss of Integrity has joined the investigation into the its privileged poker machine hold on Victoria. Government’s decision to provide the files to It will be the first foray into pubs for Tabcorp, Aquasure. Chief police commissioner Simon which is facing the potential loss of its exclusive Health Overland has backed down on a commitment to wagering licence in Victoria after 2012, the reveal a list of projects were police have struck Financial Review reported. Tabcorp Holdings’ Approaching a miracle deals to pass on sensitive information about wagering executive, Robert Nason, 54, Thirty-two hours after they went into surgery protesters. resigned to head a new special-purpose unit at at the Royal Children’s Hospital, conjoined Telstra – customer satisfaction, simplicity and Bangladeshi twins Krishna and Trishna were Read by car washers productivity. separated and in a stable condition at the The Victorian Water Industry Association Inc hospital, thanks to some superb work by the represents seventeen water corporations and Diversifying 16-strong surgical and anaesthetic team that businesses in the state. Its newsletter, Water The deal to allow over-the-counter TAB account operated on them. Matters, is an informative publication which services at Australia Post offices has been criticised by anti-gambling campaigners as

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Respect operators claim the changes to the rules of Deathly heat Premier John Brumby launched a plan to operation could push daily costs up for Victorian More than 370 Victorians are believed to have prevent violence against women. Under the parents by as much as $25 for each child. The died in last summer’s heat wave – 10 times more scheme, schools, sports clubs and workplaces agreement between state, territory and federal than initially feared. The spike in temperatures will be encouraged to build cultures that reject governments to introduce minimum quality above 40C on consecutive days in late January aggression towards women. Sport and media standards will also mean the introduction of early February resulted in a 62 per cent increase personalities will be appointed ‘champions and mandatory requirements for qualified child-care in deaths on the previous summer. The executive ambassadors’ for the respect of women. Brumby workers and teachers from the middle of next director of regional and rural health and aged says more than half the women in Australia will year, The Age reported. care services, Chris Brook, told a parliamentary suffer some form of physical or sexual violence hearing that the majority of the deaths were in there lifetime. He says a woman is killed Finding cash among over 75-year-olds. The committee also almost every week by a male partner or former Two Melbourne hospitals have been accused heard that Ambulance Victoria came under great partner. Women’s Affairs Minister Maxine of exploiting Medicare by shifting millions of stress last summer with 514 people in Victoria Morand says violence inflicted by a partner is dollars worth of patient scans and diagnostic seeking treatment for conditions including heat the leading contributor to death, disability and tests on to the Commonwealth. Some patients stress, heatstroke and dehydration – up from an ill-health for Victorian women aged 15 to 44, are left with out-of-pocket expenses, despite average of just 15. The Government is expected The Age reported. Wednesday, November 25, having come to the hospital as public patients to release a comprehensive heatwave plan in was White Ribbon Day, a nationwide campaign who should receive free treatment. The Age late December, the Herald Sun reported. to end violence against women. reported that the practice is widespread among Victorian hospitals, whose state funding has to Danger prams Troubling Brouwer cover the rising cost of outpatient clinics. The Herald Sun reported that the popularity of The report by ombudsman George Brouwer into lightweight three-wheeled prams is partly to children in state care has uncovered cases in Mainly for eye operations to correct myopia blame for landing many babies and toddlers which the Department of Human Services took a The Government is considering paying for more in hospital each year. Figures show 937 dangerously long time to intervene in instances surgery to be done in private hospitals in an infants have been treated in Victorian hospital where children were exposed to abuse. The attempt to make up for critical problems in the emergency departments for pram injuries since Government has accepted all the Ombudsman’s public health system. Doctors are criticising the 2002-03, with more than half of them under 42 recommendations, conceding it had failed plan as shortsighted, saying it should not be a year old. The total includes more than 120 to protect some of Victoria’s most vulnerable adopted as a substitute for investing in public with head injuries, 41 suffering fractures and children. It will also consider overhauling the hospitals. A strategy document uploaded to 143 with open wounds, figures by Monash Children’s Court amid widespread concern the Health Department’s website outlines the University’s Accident Research Centre show. that it is too adversarial, The Age reported. The Government’s plan to deal with escalating Herald Sun reported that Community Services demand for elective and emergency surgery An insider’s view Minister Lisa Neville rejected demands that she over the next five years, The Age reported. In an e-mail circulated to all its staff, Barwon step down following the release of the report. The Herald Sun reported that private hospitals Health said it is currently facing a number of She came under sustained pressure in Question say they could wipe out the nation’s elective challenges that have the potential to inhibit Time and a Herald Sun online poll found that surgery waiting lists if the Federal Government the organisation’s ability to develop and grow over 85 per cent of voters called for her to go. was prepared to pay for surgery using their services. The budget projects a deficit of $3m in spare beds. The Australian Private Hospitals the current year. A review resulted in 26 positions Child costs going up Association said private hospitals were operating in Central Services and Human Resources being Child-care centres will be forced to meet at about 77 per cent capacity and could carry identified as surplus to requirements. minimum staff ratios and will be ranked to out an extra 323,000 elective operations every allow parents to compare quality. Private year.

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A whimper Do more A long running Victoria Police inquiry into The Investment The Government has been accused of not doing Alfred Hospital’s former trauma chief, Thomas enough for small business in its tendering process Kossman, found insufficient evidence to charge following the annual report of the six-year-old the surgeon over his billing practices, The Age Business Office of the Small Business Commissioner. reported. Deputy Liberal party leader Louise Asher, who Luxury growth is also state opposition spokeswoman on small The opiate that kills Chadstone is the biggest shopping centre in the business took umbrage with flaws announced in The Herald Sun reported that 134 people died of southern hemisphere following the opening of the annual report in the tendering process which heroin caused deaths in Victoria last year. a new luxury boutique section which features resulted in a business being excluded from the stores from Burberry, Chanel, Gucci, Coach, Whole of Government eServices Panel – from Good jobs Hugo Boss, Tiffany and Co, Ralph Lauren and which businesses are selected to undertake The Department of Health seeks appointments Omega, the Herald Sun reported. An estimated various work – and therefore from access to to Boards of Directors of Public Health 5000 shoppers attended the new fashion government contracts. A review of the matter Services, Ambulance Victoria, and Rural precinct’s opening. There are 530 shops in by the Victorian Government Purchasing Board Public Hospitals. Ambulance Victoria is now a 175,600 square metres of chanting, with 9,500 concluded that the structure of the one stage single statewide service following the integration parking bays and 18 million shoppers a year. tender did not meet government policy, or the of the three former ambulance services in 2008, aim of making it easier for small to medium www.health.vic.gov.au/governance. Showing some leg enterprises and eService bidders to do business David Jones managing director Mark McInnes with the government, the Financial Review Read them and Premier John Brumby unveiled the first reported. Following the division of the Department of stage of David Jones’ $100m redeveloped Human Services and Health, two glossy 16 to Melbourne city store at the end of November, Doing their job 20-page magazines are available, detailing many The Age reported. At the opening, 680 staff Victoria’s workplace ombudsman recovered interesting aspects of health and community were rostered to work, taking charge of the $8.76m in underpayments for workers last care, www.health.vic.gov.au. 1,850 new brands available at the store. financial year. The ombudsman’s office released a statement saying the money was Another job A special treat shared among 4,552 workers who had been Shepparton-based FamilyCare seeks a chief Shoppers are being treated the longest trading underpaid. Workplace inspectors investigated executive officer, [email protected]. hours in history as retailers look to cash in on 6,216 complaints throughout the state and the Christmas dollar. The Herald Sun detailed recorded 7,442 workplace law breaches. Fair the opening hours of major shopping centres. Work Ombudsman executive director Michael The Australian Retailers Association predicts Campbell said 99 per cent of the money was $9.3b will be spent state wide over Christmas, recovered without resorting to litigation, The up 4.7 per cent on last year. Age reported.

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with agencies by going through their financial that the battle to beat alcohol-fuelled violence C Engineering, accounts to do due diligence to find the real cost may take decades. In a speech he delivered social science of technology to the Government. This included at Melbourne University, Overland said that no and business giving CenITex the ability to review the accounts amount of police blitzes would stop alcohol- of the department to find total costs rather related violence and it has been too easy to services G than what was booked in under the computing obtain licences in Melbourne. He believes budget. Blades confirmed that Victoria Police’s licensing hours should be restricted in the S commodity technology could possibly be taken central business district and society has failed The experts for over by CenITex, but hinted that his organisation to deal with the destructive consequences of the business connections, could wait until a clearer picture emerged. growing binge culture. Nevertheless, Premier strategic planning, John Brumby says Melbourne’s nightlife will be research, industry Eureka! allowed to keep growing, defending the growth A new information technology service centre was in bars and licensed cafes by saying they are an development and officially opened in Ballarat in early December, important part of Melbourne’s culture and only public policy advice. adding $61m to the region’s economy over the certain large venues needed closer regulation. next five years and 300 new jobs to an area of He was confident extra policing and the new Strategic Connections Victoria where unemployment is an ongoing licensing regime would reduce alcohol-related Group problem. The $10.8m centre at the University of crime in the city within the next 12-18 months, Ballarat Technology Park accommodates about The Age reported. Overland said his force cannot Lawrie Groom 50 IBM workers whose duties have so far been find its way out of alcohol-fuelled violence, with hosted on site at the University of Ballarat and the state recording a jump in assaults over a [email protected] by overstretched centres elsewhere around the year. More than 34,000 assaults were recorded 0407 533 282 country, the Financial Review reported. up to September this year – 7.8 per cent increase over the previous year, The Age reported. MELBOURNE CANBERRA SYDNEY Agriculture Nearby Moving up stream Police chief commissioner Simon Overland Melbourne’s fish market, which employs more Anyone for wheaties? called for alcohol price increases to combat than 200 people and supplies retailers and Australia’s wheat crop is on track to surpass rising alcohol related issues such as street restaurants around the state, will move from 3.4 million tonnes, making it twice as big as last violence. Police data showed in the past five West Melbourne to Brooklyn, near the Westgate year’s and almost 60 per cent bigger than the years more than 80,000 revellers across the Freeway in Ring Road interchange, the Herald recent five-year average, according to figures state have been locked up for being too drunk, Sun reported. released by the Federal Government agricultural the Herald Sun reported. forecaster. However, the November heatwave, Defection followed by heavy rains later in the month and In his right hand Carla Zampatti is defecting to rival department more rain in early December, could threaten the Police Chief Commissioner Simon Overland’s store David Jones under a deal that will see her predictions, The Age reported. right-hand man has been issued with a semi- label go to twice as many stores as she is in at automatic pistol due to security fears. Overland Myer. The urban farm boundary is a potential target for disgruntled crime and On the opinion pages of The Age, Dr Cate terror figures, the Herald Sun reported. Burns, a VicHealth public health research fellow IcT at Deakin University, wrote that we need prime Maladministration agricultural land on the city’s outskirts to cater Victoria Police’s forensic services will be Bedtime reading for a growing population. overhauled following a report by Ombudsman The Financial Review reported that technology George Brouwer, in which, for the second time suppliers have cut prices by up to 25 per cent in Good jobs in less than a month, he accused senior police response to moves by the Victorian Government The Department of Innovation, Industry managers of maladministration. to centralise the delivery of commodity competing and Regional Development has a number services, the head of the rationalisation scheme of positions available in its Dandenong and Flaws in police DNA has claimed. Peter Blades, the chief executive of Bunbury locations, www.diird.vic.gov.au. At least six criminal cases have been put on Victoria’s new state and infrastructure services hold after flaws were found in police DNA corporation CenITex, said he expected computer evidence procedures. Chief Commissioner costs for agencies would continue to fall as the Simon Overland said he had banned police program was rolled out to government agencies. Justice forensics scientists from giving evidence until The Government has projected it will extract further notice, The Age reported. He has ordered annual operational savings of about $40m a Getting on it a restructure of senior police management year. Blades said that while embarking on such Premier John Brumby has promised an practices in the wake of Ombudsman George a program might be unpopular with agencies investigation of claims of increased drug use Brouwer’s report into Victoria’s Forensic that preferred to strike their own deals, there at the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre amid concern Services Centre in Macleod, where it was found was little understanding across the different about the amount of contraband smuggled more than 15 years of mismanagement and lack departments of the true cost of maintaining into Victoria’s largest women’s jail, The Age of accountability meant corruption could occur hundreds of different deals for largely similar reported. and go unnoticed. infrastructure. He warned that across-the- board funding cuts to technology budgets, an Long-term fight Police leaving Labor approach used by the Federal Government under Police chief commissioner Simon Overland said The Herald Sun reported that an independent its Gershon review, in his experience might not in a speech at the Turning Point alcohol and drug survey of more than 2,000 officers, work in Victoria. Instead, CenITex was working centre annual meeting at Melbourne University commissioned by the Police Association, show

16 LETTER FROM MELBOURNE support for Labor is only at 9 per cent, with the Association secretary Senior Sergeant Greg Phil Green, Detective Inspector Glenn Davies rest intending to vote for another party. The Davies said the inclusion of the advertisement and Sergeant Peter Kosta handed in their police figures reflect a growing disillusionment with had not been approved and was a mistake, the association memberships after its executive the Government performance on police matters, Herald Sun reported. voted to pay Ashby’s legal costs, the Herald Sun with an overwhelming majority stating it had reported. performed ‘worse’ or ‘much worse’ in the past Transgressing themselves year. The Weekly Times reported that new police Specialising in traffic law powers, announced by the Government in Carmen Randazzo, the magistrate forced to Tattoo parlours banned early November, breached the Government’s resign after investigation into irregularities in 10 The Herald Sun reported that bikie gangs the own human rights charter. Police Minister Bob speeding tickets is applying to be readmitted as Comancheros and Finks – both well-established Cameron introduced a number of new powers a barrister, The Age reported. in other states – are in the process of establishing to Parliament, including giving police the power their first chapters in Victoria. A report by the to conduct random searches, including strip Congratulations! Victoria Police says Finks members are already searches, in designated areas. The Government The Herald Sun reported that former police chief operating a tattoo parlour in Port Melbourne and assessment of the legislation concedes it is ‘Mick’ Miller became the second member of are likely to be attempting to secure a locally- incompatible with the charter in providing the Neighbourhood Watch Hall of Fame. based clubhouse. Comancheros are trying find powers to police to randomly search persons a location for a clubhouse in Richmond or Port (including children). Melbourne. The State Government refused to join other states in strengthening bikie laws Ready to judge Melbourne after a fatal brawl between bikies at Sydney Two senior barristers with decades of airport in March. It rejected suggestions then experience in diverse legal fields have been Men’s and women’s rights that interstate motorcycle gang members appointed judges of the County Court. Attorney- The Age reported that the Scrutiny of Acts and would head to Victoria to avoid tougher laws in general Rob Hulls said James Montgomery, Regulations Committee said, in its report on the South Australia and in some other states. South SC, and James Parish, SC, would make a right of some clubs to continue as single sex Australia, Western Australia, Queensland, New significant contribution to Victoria’s justice institutions, that freedom of association was South Wales and the Northern Territory have all system, The Age reported. Barristers’ clerk a fundamental human right protected under enacted or are planning anti-association laws Suzanne Cameron and the director of courts Victorian law, and it needed to be balanced designed to disrupt and dismantle bikie gangs. and tribunals policy unit, Johanna Metcalf, against the right to non-discrimination. ‘The The Victoria Police Association said bikie gangs have become magistrates committee does not recommend a change that had effectively been invited to set up shop here would prevent single sex clubs from continuing and have happily accepted the invitation. Ready to review their operations or require them to seek an Monash University academic Pam O’Connor exemption [to antidiscrimination laws],’ it says. Police are investigating has been appointed to a review of Victoria’s The Police Association inadvertently allowed property law. The first stage of the review will One year on a brothel to advertise in its monthly glossy focus on updating the Property Law Act of 1958, One year into his Town Hall rein, Robert Doyle’s magazine. It included an advertisement for the Financial Review reported. attitude and performance has pleasantly the 39 Tope brothel in South Melbourne on surprised many doubters. One reason why specialist pages it uses to allow businesses to A stand against perjury Doyle has proved popular inside and outside advertise products and services to its members. Several senior police have quit their union Town Hall is that he is not an ideologue or The brothel appears to specialise in Asian over a decision to fund the perjury trial of political warrior. Business leaders have also prostitutes, and was advertised in the October former assistant commissioner Noel Ashby. said nice things. Victorian Employers Chamber issue of the Police Association’s Journal. Superintendent Richard Grant, Superintendent of Commerce and Industry chief executive

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Wayne Kayler-Thomson says Doyle has are among the top priorities of the new US claiming it will reduce housing affordability and been a good spokesman for Melbourne, while ambassador. Victoria’s housing competitiveness over other Melbourne Business Council secretary Don states. Proposed legislation is before Parliament Parsons describes Doyle as a big improvement A sight for sore eyes that would introduce a tax of up to $95,000 a on his predecessor. Brian Weld from the Master Virtual Tourist put Federation Square fifth on its hectare on land brought within Melbourne’s Builders Association, echoes this sentiment. list of eyesores, alongside a library in Kosovo, a urban growth boundary. The tax is to be paid Doyle recently declared he wants no homeless television tower in Prague and New Zealand’s by the buyer of the property on the first sale people to be forced to live on the streets by the 1970s era Parliament building, the Herald Sun or subdivision of the land after it is included in time his term ends. reported. Melbourne’s urban growth area. The letter from the Australian Property Institute, the Housing Another part of Paris Royal revolution Industry Association, the Master Builders Eighty seven-year-old, exclusive boutique Le The Royal Melbourne Show will be held in the Association of Victoria, the Property Council of Louvre is leaving the Paris end of Collins Street second week of school holidays instead of the Australia and the Urban Development Institute of after its second-generation owner, Georgina first, as of next year. It will be swapped from Australia said if the tax were introduced it would Weir, sold the 1855 building to Queensland- the traditional Thursday before school holidays result in a decline in levels of development in based fund manager QIC for $13.1m. It will to Saturday, September 18, and the event will the growth areas in Melbourne and cause a move to another historic heritage protected finish on Tuesday, September 28. The Royal reduction in the amount of land available for building, 2 Daly Street, South Yarra, owned by Agricultural Society of Victoria says the change new housing. Peta Duke, spokeswoman for the Melbourne Metropolitan Tramways board of date will allow more young families to Planning Minister Justin Madden, said the since 1927. Weirs mother, Lillian Wightman, attend. new growth areas tax was the best way to established the Le Louvre boutique in 1922, help pay for infrastructure needed by families reportedly to cater for the wives of wealthy city Sustain us who will move to some of Melbourne’s newest doctors. The City of Melbourne seeks a Manager of suburbs, The Age reported. In mid-December, Sustainability, www.jofisher.com.au. the Financial Review reported that the tax faces Fast lane an uncertain future after opposition parties Motor racing great Sir Jack Brabham is to blocked the necessary legislation in the state’s have a Melbourne laneway named in his honour. upper house. The Government is committed to The small lane is next to Monaco House on Geelong bringing the bill back to parliament early next Ridgeway Place. Sir Jack won his first Grand year. Prix in Monaco in 1959. Monaco Honorary A big pier Consul Andrew Canning said he suggested Plans for a $30m pier and waterfront Double the dollars naming the lane after Sir Jack, an exceptional development in central Geelong is expected to Melbourne house prices could double to hit a sportsman and a gentleman, The Age reported. be announced. With Victorian Government Major median of $1m in a decade, according to the Real Projects development facilitator Kathy Timmins Estate Institute of Victoria. REIV chief executive Lightening strikes twice telling Capital Gain the Government was happy Enzo Raimondo said population growth and a The storms in late November matched those with the response to a recent expression of shortage of housing stock would make million- from earlier in the month with much lightning interest campaign to revive the Yarra Street Pier, dollar homes the norm, The Age reported. and rain. A teenage girl survived being struck by which was destroyed by fire in 1988, The Age lightning, as did a train driver when the storms reported. The Grollo wreaked havoc with Melbourne’s transport. Rialto owner Lorrenz Grollo said his firm Equiset was planning a big environmental retrofit of the Talking us through it Rialto. It has been researching a retrofit for the US President Barack Obama’s new ambassador Planning & Building past two years with local engineers. Grollo was to Australia, Jeffrey Bleich, delivered one part of a 22-person Victorian industry delegation of his first public speeches in Melbourne at a A new tax touring sustainable buildings in New York, San Melbourne Press Club lunch in the River Room Five key building groups have released an open Francisco and Chicago in mid-November, the at Crown, on December 8. Combating the twin letter to Premier John Brumby criticising the Herald Sun reported. Lorenz did not visit his threats of nuclear weapons and climate change planned tax on land in Melbourne’s growth areas cousin Daniel Grollo, who evidently regularly

18 LETTER FROM MELBOURNE spends time in New York, while he was there, homes will have a six-star environmental rating, sale with an asking price of more than $4.8m, whom incidentally is competing in the Eureka The Age reported. The Age reported. Climb’s celebrity challenge, when 89 floors and 1,958 stairs will be scaled. The climb raises It’s off Arch arrival money for disadvantaged youths and has more St Kilda’s $400m triangle project has been Mark Stewart has been appointed chief than 1000 entrants. cancelled by Port Phillip Council at a cost executive of building advisory service of $5m. ‘The proposed development will be Archicentre. His move to Archicentre comes A clear view terminated, absolutely, from now,’ said Mayor after seven years in the automotive sector as A permanent buffer zone around the Royal Frank O’Connor. Councillors agreed to a general manager of Assist Australia. Exhibition Building, to protect views of the commercial settlement of $5m over three years World Heritage-listed precinct, was approved by with developer Citta Group. In early 2008, after Moving right along Planning Minister Justin Madden. It will restrict a long and controversial tender process, Port The Building Commission and the Plumbing development in streets surrounding the site, Phillip Council finally gave the green light for Industry Commission moved their operations with Madden amending the planning schemes the project to Citta Group. By year’s end the to the Goods Shed North building at the of Melbourne and Yarra councils to reflect the global financial crisis and the election of an Docklands precinct, alongside VicUrban, www. new rules. The zone is designed to protect the anti-triangle council had put the project in real buildingcommission.com.au. heritage values of the Exhibition Building and jeopardy, The Age reported. Carlton Gardens by maintaining clear views of the building to reflect its historical significance, Clash of steel the Weekly Times reported. The steel industry criticised the State Local government Government for ignoring local purchasing rules More jobs in the Federal Government’s multi-billion-dollar Young mayors The Government announced Australian stimulus school building program. The Australian Liberal party member Tim Smith, 26, is construction company Baulderstone as its Steel Institute told a state Parliamentary enquiry Stonnington Council’s new mayor. Labor Party preferred builder for the $128.5m Hamer Hall that the Victorian Department of Education and member Jane Garratt, 36, was elected mayor refurbishment. Redevelopment will include Early Childhood Development was flouting of Yarra Council. new connections to the CBD, St Kilda Road and specifications for local materials laid down the Yarra River, new foyer spaces and stairs, by the Federal Government and substituting Good job better disability access, escalators and lifts, it with overseas content, the Financial Review The Wimmera Development Association, the improved acoustics, new auditorium seating reported. peak economic development organisation for and staging systems. The Government says the the Wimmerra – Southern Mallee region, seeks project will create more than 400 jobs and inject More supermarkets an Executive Director, execrec@macarthur. about $373m into the state economy during Developers can be given greater scope to open com.au. construction alone. Work is expected to begin in more supermarkets in Melbourne suburbs to mid 2010, the Weekly Times reported. break the dominance of Coles and Woolworths under changes being pushed by the Federal Prudent investment Government. Consumer Affairs Minister Craig Sport Angus Reeds’ Prudentia Investments is Emerson wants an overhaul of state planning undertakingFINE AUSTRALIANa $440m development, HAND Wyndham CRAFT laws, warning they could be unjustifiably Pot calling the kettle black Harbour, on the western side of Port Phillip Bay. restricting competition by limiting retail centres Soccer’s ruling body, Football Federation It includes waterfront blocks, apartments, two to specific locations, The Age reported. Australia, has told the MCG it will need a $130m new beaches, up to 1000 wet berths and 390 taxpayer funded overhaul to install rectangular dry berths,IDEAL as PERSONAL well as shops AND and CORPORATE cafes. 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Suite 204, 757 Bourke St, Melbourne VIC 3004 +61 (0)3 8687 9092 the Herald Sun reported. The Age reported that of the Adelaide Oval, allowing stadiums to host Transport AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou has AFL fixtures and potentially World Cup soccer declared Etihad stadium off limits for the World matches, the Financial Review reported. Cup should Australia win the rights to host the Rail sporting event. Cheetah Woods plays around Tiger Woods, married with two kids, had a The problem child The last hurdle bad month with a waitress from Los Angeles The Herald Sun reported that when the myki Jumps racing will be stopped by the end of claiming to be his secret lover and police citing smartcard is introduced this year, the existing next year. A review of jumps racing by Racing him for careless driving. At least four other rule that allows commuters to use expired Victoria found trials of safety measures to women claimed to have had affairs with him. tickets in cases of late services will be lost. make jumps racing less dangerous to horses Myki’s architects failed to take late and and riders had failed. Racing Victoria chairman cancelled services into account when designing Michael Duffy said the decision to ban jumps the system. Another benefit eliminated because racing was agonising and that the industry’s Tourism of myki is free weekend travel for commuters image and reputation had to be protected with weekly, monthly or yearly tickets. ‘This within the community. ‘The recommendations Unofficially change is necessary because under myki, the in six previous reviews have been implemented The Herald Sun reported that in an unofficial entire state needs to be divided into zones, from without any sustained reduction in incident poll, Tourism Victoria declared Brighton and zone 1 in Melbourne to zone 53 in Mildura,’ rates,’ he said. The controversial decision has Sandringham beaches the best option for city myki spokeswoman Ker Walsh said. The Age been accepted by the Government and cheered residents. It also gave the nod to other bay reported that ticket inspectors on Melbourne by animal rights groups. But the jumps industry beaches Ricketts Point, Queenscliff, Sorrento trams increase their checks of tickets by 15 per and country racing organisations vowed to fight and Portsea. Keep Australia beautiful chairman cent once the introduction of myki is complete. the decision, saying it pandered to the ‘loony Don Chambers said Melbourne’s inner-city The inspection plan is part of a deal worked left’, The Age reported. beaches have a long way to go before they could out by the Government with Yarra Trams new be considered among the best. operator KDR. Radio station trade week Tim Lane, one of Australia’s most respected Wicked value Adieu sporting broadcasters, left the ABC after more Wicked, the musical about the witches from Connex took out a full-page advertisement in than 30 years, to join 3AW. Lane will call football The Wizard of Oz, played to 610,000 people in the Herald Sun, saying that they are proud to each Sunday until the end of 2011, the duration 13 months at the Regent Theatre, with 180,000 have been part of moving Melbourne forward of the current AFL broadcast agreement. He will being interstate or overseas visitors who spent and thanking their customers, staff, the call the 2010 grand final with the station’s other up big in Melbourne’s hotels, restaurants and government and other valued stakeholders for recruit, Brian Taylor, who left Triple M for the shops, the Herald Sun reported. their support, ideas and involvement in helping job. In a straight swap, Rex Hunt left 3AW to call revive the Melbourne train network over the the footy at Triple M. In the bush past decade. In its final days, the operator The 2009 Upper Murray WOW Festival brought was also forced to impound another of the city Metricon stadium together the towns of Jingellic, Tintaldra and Siemens trains because it had overshot a train The naming rights of the $267m rectangular Walwa and all the people living in between, and platform. It handed over control of the system stadium opposite the MCG has been whittled their guests and other visitors. It is all part of a to Metro Trains Melbourne on December 1, a down to a shortlist, with home builder Metricon plan to promote this wonderful area. If waves company that will remove thousands of seats the favourite in a deal that could be valued at and beaches are not necessary, keep in touch from the existing trains over the next two years as much as $3m. The stadium will officially for November 2010, www.walwa.com.wow. to squeeze in more passengers. They didn’t open on May 7 when it hosts a rugby league have a very good start with the Glen Waverley showdown between Australia and New Zealand. line closed for five hours on the day they took Sports Minister James Merlino said the new control, which included the morning rush. Metro 30,000-seat stadium will be a great place to chief Andrew Lezala blamed the bad start watch rugby league, rugby union and soccer, on a broken pantograph (a rod that transfers the Herald Sun reported. electricity to the train) and missing carbon for a short circuit. On the second day running the What about the lawn? city’s trains, Metro had another bad day of The South Australian government has cancellations, with 38 trains not running, most committed $450m to fund an extensive upgrade due to the Glen Waverley line breakdown. Many

20 LETTER FROM MELBOURNE more services were badly delayed across the to boost tram speeds along one of Melbourne’s women in particular tend to drive cars that are network. The State Opposition said the incident busiest roads has been found to improve journey both older and smaller than average, placing proved it had not been Connex’s fault that times by just a few seconds. The Government them at very high risk, The Age reported. Melbourne’s trains were unreliable, but a lack of has argued that, along with improving travel investment by the Government in better trains times for motorists, the clearway will improve Underway for the city. KDR took over from Yarra Trams on the speed of Melbourne’s trams by freeing up VicRoads is upgrading the 38-kilometre M80 the same day and hinted at a plan that would see road space and reducing interference from cars. ring road which consists of the Western and underused tram routes cut back and timetables And Yarra Trams’ outgoing chief, Dennis Cliche, Metropolitan Ring Roads. The first section to abandoned in favour of more frequent trams in recently claimed that advocating extending be upgraded is between Tullamarine Freeway busy areas. clearway hours was one of the most significant and Sydney Road, where works commenced on solutions to tram speed it had delivered in its Wednesday 25 November, www.vicroads.vic. It was Connex decade running the network. gov.au/m80upgrade. A teenager has been charged over a suspected arson attack at Gardenvale Railway Station that Taxi! By bus caused severe disruption to peak hour services, Widespread passenger dissatisfaction with The Department of Transport is reviewing the Herald Sun reported. Victoria’s taxi industry has resulted in the bus services in Melbourne, Port Philip, Yarra, Government’s failure to meet performance Banyule, Darebin and Moreland and holding Blue train… targets for the second consecutive year. The public workshops throughout November and The Department of Transport and Victorian Department of Transport annual report shows December, www.transport.vic.gov.au/buses. Railtrack Corporation, in conjunction with the the customer satisfaction index at 60.3 out of Heritage Operations Committee, is offering four a hundred in 2008-09, well short of the 64.4 A good Purchase of the former Vinelander Sleeping Carriages for a target. But it is a slight improvement on 2008, The ACCC says the Government could do more long-term placement to an interested registered when only 58 of every 100 passengers were to tackle unsafe vehicles as part of a series ‘not for profit’ organisation(s). happy with their cab ride, The Age reported. of advertisements promoting vehicle safety and linking road safety to occupational health Happy rail day A bridge too far and safety. At their annual dinner, executive The Australasian Railway Association 2009 Lawyer, transport lobbyist and independent director David Purchase gave a very practical Rail Industry Conference in Adelaide presents candidate for Higgins, Peter Brohier, thinks talk where he promoted tougher sentencing a number of awards for excellence. Apart we need a bridge across the heads of Port for hoons. The Age reported that Purchase is from the conference presentations, 250 rail Phillip Bay, linking the Mornington and Bellarine campaigning for low powered scooters to be enterprises large and small were an inspiration peninsulas. He estimates the bridge would cost given access to bicycle and bus lanes, where to the future of rail. Clean. Capacity. Climate. the Federal Government about $4b plus another they will ease congestion and be safe from Happy. $5b in ancillary works. The idea is not new. careless motorists. Melbourne engineer David Broadbent tried to muster support for a bridge across the 3 road kilometre gap at the heads a decade ago and air VicRoads had looked at the possibility as far Duplicate to improve back as the 1950s. RACV public policy manager When dogs fly The Victorian Employers’ Chamber of Commerce Brian Negus supports projects within the A legally blind couple claimed Jetstar refused and Industry released a state development $38b Victorian Transport Plan as more urgent to allow them to fly with their guide dog, The blueprint calling on the Government and priorities, but said a bridge could be considered Age reported. Federal Parliamentary Secretary Opposition to commit to building a duplicated in 30 years time in light of Melbourne’s for disability Bill Shorten summoned Jetstar to highway over a several hundred kilometre arc projected population growth to 7 million, The explain why the company would treat potential from Geelong in the west to Ballarat, Bendigo Age reported. customers with such a lack of respect. Jeststar and on to Shepparton in the north before linking is not the only airline to have problems with guide with the Hume Highway. Under the multi-billion- The youth dogs. Qantas left a blind woman distressed dollar plan, unveiled at a summit of business Young drivers are choosing the least safe cars, and stranded interstate at night because the and political leaders at Parliament house, road often with deadly consequences, new research airline would not let her guide dog on a flight. links would also be improved between Geelong from Monash University has found. Monash Two days earlier, Tiger Airways baulked at and Colac in the Western District, Ballarat and University’s Accident Research Centre found letting the same woman fly with a guide dog. Horsham in the Mallee, and Traralgon and Sale that the types of cars people aged between Tiger blamed an outsourced company for not in Gippsland, The Age reported. 17 and 25 driver is a major contributing factor understanding the airlines policy. Qantas head to the high road deaths in that age group. 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Allan Gordon be designed to help overcome the problems and lived in Malerargues in France for 20 years ‘Robbie’ Robertson, OBE, OAM, an engineer that animal inspectors have had penalising bad teaching, performing, writing and directing not responsible for the construction of every dam owners, The Age reported. only for the Roy Hart Theatre, but in Germany, from 1951 to 1976, including the Upper Yarra, Norway, Denmark and the United States, Cardinia, Sugarloaf, Greenvale and the Upper Swim day aged 84. Glennys Bell, the first female cadet Thompson, engineering chief of the Melbourne The Great Australia Day Swim 2010 is a 1.2 employed in the ABC’s Sydney newsroom in the & Metropolitan Board of Works, a committed kilometre open water swim that begins at the 1960s, highly successful journalist with Fairfax community leader, deeply involved with Legacy, Middle Brighton Pier on 26 January 2010, www. and then Australian Consolidated Press, aged the RSL, and other organisations, aged 93. Niel greataustraliadayswim.com.au. 71. Richard Meale, Australian composer, aged Ross, teacher, electrician, inventor, aged 98. 77. Robert James Berry, singer who made his Vale theatrical debut, at age 16, in Oliver, aged 59. Edward Albert Arthur Woodward, English Lance Aubrey Endersbury, AO, engineer, aged James Thorpe Woodcock, AM, researcher gentleman actor who did three movies with 83. Gwyneth Eliot Higgerson, community who had significant impact on the mineral Australian filmmaker Bruce Beresford, aged stalwart, aged 92. Dr Michael Kloss, leader in processing industry, author, aged 83. Bryan 79. Samak Sundaravei, sometime Thailand obstetrics, gynaecology and maternity services. Francis A’Hearn. Alistair Smith, established Prime Minister, aged 74. 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