Lengthy process to apply for organic waste collection exemption
As a ratepayer and owner of a small rural property I am applying for exemption from the organic waste collection.
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After completing the form, explaining how I dispose of my orange peel, egg shells, dirty tissues, food scraps and grass clippings etc I thought job done. But no, next page, you don’t believe me and I am required to supply photographs for proof. Still not trusting me, I need an onsite inspection then a signed statutory declaration.
Do councillors and council officers supply photos and have onsite inspection when claiming expenses for reimbursements or will a receipt be sufficient.
It is only ratepayers who cannot be trusted, or is big brother showing his strength.
Des Boyd, Maiden Gully
Time to open up workshops and employ locals
Over the last 6 months there has been a lot of controversy over the Vlocity trains in wheel wear and line problems.
At the weekend I caught the 3.44pm train to Melbourne to go to the football. It was the old steel bodied carriages that were built approximately 40 years ago, the seats are far more comfortable than the new whizz-bang Vlocity trains, at least you can adjust the recline to suite a comfortable sitting position that makes the journey pleasant for the commuter.
In the new Vlocity trains the seats are set in one position, and it has been proven in a number of things one size doesn’t always fit all, and especially people with back trouble these particular seats get very uncomfortable.
The fact is these old carriages are far more reliable and comfortable than the new trains, and they were built here in Victoria, with input from all Railway workshops including the two country workshops at North Bendigo and Ballarat.
Not the slogan that’s plastered on the sides of these new trains made in Victoria for Victoria. When actual fact they are assembled in Victoria from imported components.
Perhaps it’s time for governments to go back to opening up our workshops and employing local people, return to employing and training apprentices and start to rebuild our manufacturing industries again.
Sadly all political parties are the same – they spend megabucks on consultants that come out of universities without any lifetime or working skills, consulting on things that they know nothing about.
But sadly this isn’t an isolated case, it is happening everywhere.
The education department is another prime example, a lot of principals and some teachers have never left school and haven’t built up any lifetime skills or work experience, are failing to make the right decisions in running the school properly that supports all staff and students. Where unfortunately we are witnessing a lot of stressed out teachers and under-performing students.
When are all forms of governments going to be honest with themselves and to the public and admit they have got it horribly wrong?
Ivan Kitt, Bendigo
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