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Increase in bank fees hurts the hip pocket

4:00 AM | RECENTLY I have become annoyed with my bank.

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Thoughts on renewable energy are welcome

4:00 AM | I WOULD like to thank Robert Treller for his letter of February 1 discussing renewable energy generation. |

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Give council candidates chance to share ideas

4:00 AM | ROBERT Treller’s letter of February 1, ‘‘Think again on backing wind turbines’’, in which he questions Cr Keith Reynard’s promotion and advocacy for wind farms, highlights an important point in this, an election year for council. |

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Gas prices at local outlets just don’t add up

4:00 AM | Shame on the price of gas at Safeway’s at Epsom, trading at 67.9 cents per litre, when at Bendigo, Golden Square and Kangaroo Flat are trading at 61.9 cents per litre. |

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Government falls short on school support

06 Feb 12 | I’d like to wish the thousands of children who are heading back to school all the best for the coming year. |

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Hunt the hoons down and get them off roads

06 Feb 12 | OVER the past holidays I’ve been of school, I’ve noticed how many teens have just turned 18 and finished school, clocking their 120 hours and getting the freedom of driving alone because they now have their P’s. |

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WorkSafe health checks aren’t so free after all

06 Feb 12 | DURING last year WorkSafe targeted employers across Victoria encouraging them to allow their staff to undergo free health checks in their workplace.

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Don’t despair, decent folk outnumber the rogues

04 Feb 12 | Poor Eric Lakey (‘‘Cruelty only highlights present state of society’’, February 2). |

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Deceptive attempts made to stereotype Greens

04 Feb 12 | David Arscott in his claim ‘‘The Greens have questions to answer’’ on January 28 clearly doesn’t like the facts to get in the way of a good Green-bashing letter. |

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Greens not to blame for Australia Day melee

04 Feb 12 | Well, it certainly is true that you can’t believe everything you read in the paper! |

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CWA deserves Mount Alexander Shire’s respect

04 Feb 12 | Typical Mount Alexander Shire council. The CWA women and other voluntary clubs along with sports clubs should be getting a lot more encouragement and help from the shire council. |

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Dja Dja Wurrung recognition to benefit all

04 Feb 12 | The negotiation of a formal recognition of the Dja Dja Wurrung people as the traditional owners of a significant area of central Victoria is exciting news.

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Community’s priority is for a Kangaroo Flat pool

03 Feb 12 | THE overwhelming majority in our community will see much merit in this week’s City of Greater Bendigo statement that the silly summer idea to dust off the ditched multi-million Crusoe Reservoir beach proposal is simply not a priority. |

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Protesters’ reaction to Abbott was no surprise

03 Feb 12 | I COMMEND the Advertiser for publishing Ditchy’s excellent cartoon, “The Tent Embassy Aborigines didn’t want’’, January 31. |

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Speeding drivers need to take responsibility

03 Feb 12 | THE police have a difficult job at any time which is not made easier by idiots who refuse to stop when requested. |

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Numbers don’t add up in political plan

03 Feb 12 | IT IS very disappointing that the member for Bendigo West is making incorrect statements about her plan to spend millions of dollars on a beach at Crusoe Reservoir to the detriment of other more important community-identified needs.

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Actions speak louder than words on the screen

02 Feb 12 | IN response to Raelene Baker’s letter “Made in Hollywood prompts memory” I thought she would be happy to know that as an avid Charlie Chaplin fan, I did indeed point out Jackie Coogan as “the kid” who grew up to play Uncle Fester in the Addams Family

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Cruelty only highlights present state of society

02 Feb 12 | THE recent incident in Kangaroo Flat in which a man allegedly tore off the head of a kitten in front of children underscores what I have said and believed for some time now; we are a society in decay.

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Animal cruelty accused doesn’t deserve bail

02 Feb 12 | WHOEVER awarded bail to a man accused of killing and mutilating a defenceless kitten (Pet beheaded in Kangaroo Flat, Bendigo Advertiser, January 25) should have taken a page from a Sydney court last year that denied bail for alleged animal cruelty.

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Changing Australia Day would give in to bullying

01 Feb 12 | Changing the date of Australia Day, as The Age journalist Martin Ferguson proposes, would be like giving into bullying or even to terrorism and seen as weakness and cowardice throughout the world. |

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