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I’ve been to Bali two; you should go too!

Posted: 11 May 12 | MISSING the hippy era, the trail across Asia and even the so-called sexual revolution as I did, Bali was a very late surprise discovery for me a couple of years ago. |

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Big Jim in hunt for really big potholes

Posted: 04 May 12 | BIG JIM MAUGER is the past-master of populist causes and what better one in the present clime than searching for really big potholes to complain about? |

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Bring out your dead, televisions that is, for free

Posted: 27 Apr 12 | GENTLEMAN Jim Clark has few “achievements”, as his soul-mate Lazza likes to call the ordinary process of good government, but one has come to pass. |

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Smokescreen thins on senior staff payouts

Posted: 20 Apr 12 | THE SMOKESCREEN may well thin on senior staff pay-outs, but why the smokescreen anyway? |

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Big Jim’s loose cannon backfires on Halsteadies

Posted: 15 Apr 12 | BIG JIM MAUGER really put the cat among the canaries this sennight at Ivory Towers with a massive loose cannon fusillade aimed at GM Jason Gordon’s handling of a seemingly innocuous QON (question on notice) about an arcane subject, “Deeds of Release-Total Costs”. |

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Secret sewerage system for smallest village

Posted: 08 Apr 12 | BUXTON, arguably our smallest village area, which straddles the Wollondilly border and is mainly in that shire, could end up with a modern sewerage system almost before Winge Inc realises what is happening. |

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Sense of personal monument lures elected elite

Posted: 29 Mar 12 | NOTHING concentrates the political minds of the elected ones so much as the prospect of a permanent, concrete monument to their mercifully (for the rest of us) brief strut across the public stage. |

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Leadership by the short and curlies ain't right

Posted: 23 Mar 12 | A MAJORITY of your councillors, elected by more than 30,000 voters "to create and nurture a vibrant and diverse community"- as their own mission statements has it - have meekly surrendered their independence to an all-powerful Big Brother in a 2012 Orwellian scenario. |

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Larry leads march into hand-washing wilderness

Posted: 15 Mar 12 | WHIPPER AGAIN? Well may you exasperate that once again the obsequious, hand-wringing Larry “my words” Whipper must be portrayed as the leader of a fear-filled rabble. |

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All stops out for Moss Vale pool project

Posted: 09 Mar 12 | LIKE TOPSY, the Moss Vale Swim Shed (aka, Aquatic Centre) just growed and growed a bit more this morning with the formal calling of Expressions of Interest from contractors for all works associated with the construction of the entire project. |

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Principles devalued but wait, there are others

Posted: 04 Mar 12 | OUR ENVIRONMENT encompasses our lives. Built or natural, it may be smoky and fetid, crisp and clear, wet or dry, bracing or debilitating; it’s all around us and we are part of it and its inevitable changes. |

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Mayor makes running on major issues, misses management

Posted: 24 Feb 12 | MAYOR YE KEN Halstead was front and centre in this week’s engagement at Ivory Towers, taking on a range of issues from street smoking, coal roads to state planners, council consistency and school swimmers, but he reared away from the elephant in the room. |

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Wordy Whipper wound up by water weasel words

Posted: 10 Feb 12 | HAND on heart one moment, pummelling the horseshoe table the next, voice trembling with pent-up but controlled emotion, Larry “wordy wordy me” Whipper feather-thrashed them darn southerners from down Goulburn way with their weasel words, wheedling after our water. |

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All change for 2012 - Diss a director, sell the farm

Posted: 19 Dec 11 | ENTER the new era of local government here, when it’s to be no longer “Roads, Rates & Rubbish” and council engineers go the way of steamrollers. |

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Medway Mine issue hauled back to Towers

Posted: 09 Dec 11 | FURIOUS lobbying last weekend by Medway activists indicate the Council decision to support Boral’s continued operation of Berrima Colliery to export levels will be rescinded. |

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Mayor back and all programs will be resumed

Posted: 02 Dec 11 | MAYOR Ye Ken Halstead resumed office this week, taking charge again after some aberrant behaviour among his underlings during his absence overseas left a couple of loose ends to be tied around a couple of necks. |

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Speak soft and carry short twig on code issue

Posted: 25 Nov 11 | THEODORE Roosevelt, in 1900, advised a follower to “speak soft and carry a big stick” when assuming control, however, in the absence of our council’s elected leader, Mayor Ken “I play hardball” Halstead at this week’s fumble-fest, it was a case of “speak soft and carry a short twig”. |

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