Seriously, I'd like to know if council is doing anything?

Are they wanting to attract people and families to shop there?

The area at the Mitchell St end needs to go.  Local riffraff are constantly around making families (or anyone, actually) not want to go there.

Car parking metres need to be 3 hours or longer  – they currently are not long enough.

I would go to Marketplace any day as I don’t need to pay.

I would love to know the plans, council.

And, if it is not working, perhaps you could enlist people who can assist you. The past decisions have obviously, and unfortunately, not worked.

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The Federal Government has now targeted the ABC to be sold off. What have we got left to sell after all ready selling off all our commodities such as gas, sater, electricity. We closed down our car industries and sold off farming land and the TAB.

They have made all these free trade agreements that do nothing to support our farming Industries.

The government is beating its chest on all these so called jobs they have created, but how many of these jobs are permanent, not casual part time positions?

Now we see that another Australian company, Telstra, will shed 8000 jobs over the next three years.

Maybe they will start trading people for slave labour. So much for us supposedly being the lucky country.

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Privatisation, the cure for all of our service woes, more productive, cheaper, and delivered more effectively. Nothing could be further from the truth.

The sale of state and gederal government assets, particularly our coal plants, has given their bottom line a temporary boost, but to consumers it has been a permanent escalation of sky rocketing costs.

Telstra, Commonwealth Bank, energy suppliers, in particular, but not an isolation, our gas, which costs Australian consumers, a whole lot more than the countries we export it to. Medicare offices gone, Centrelink decimated, Medibank Health Insurance, the private hospital system severely effected by rising costs, and the loss of members who are leaving in droves.

Now we have a motion by the young Liberals as well as the West Australian Mob, wanting to privatise the ABC. Well, just who do they want to sell it to? Rupert Murdoch? And install Andrew Bolt as their chief paranoia spokesperson in Victoria?

If it comes to a question of who would you trust, the LNP, or the ABC, it is a no race, as consistent polling suggests 85 per cent support for Aunty, with an overwhelming number in the bush.

It is obvious that the extreme right of Australian politics, wants to totally control the airwaves and television screens, so they can use these facilities as their own re election platforms.

To most they would say, go ahead and make our day, as it would guarantee the demise of the LNP as it is now known, and portray once and for all, that they were not " born to rule, they only think they were".

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