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We need a Community Centre & Library in Carlton

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What's happened to the beach at Portsea?

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Calm day, big swell, no beach, Portsea. Pic. K. Graddy 30 April 2010

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News re the Supreme Court Judgement on Bastion Point versus Madden

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The judgement of Friends of Mallacoota vs Minister for Planning and Anor was handed down on 27 May 2010 by Justice Osborn at the Supreme Court of Victoria.

Whilst the outcome was not in our favour, we feel we won a moral victory on numerous grounds. The Justice found that there was no evidence that the Panel's assessment was other than a careful, fair and balanced evaluation.

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Save the Windsor

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The Battle to Save the Windsor   goes on.
The owners want still more and are taking Heritage Victoria to VCAT and Madden is trying to stop National Trust taking him to VCAT. 
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Kew Junction clearway protest 23 May 2010

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Untitled from Marvellous Melbourne on Vimeo.

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Kew Junction clearway protest 23 May 2010

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Kew Junction clearway protest 23 May 2010 from Marvellous Melbourne on Vimeo.

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Save Williamstown Public Funeral for Democracy

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Series of slides of the Public Funeral protesting the undemocratic way Minister Madden had rezoned the Former Port Phillip Woollen Mill Site

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Behind-closed-doors planning procedures.

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When is a Hearing NOT a Hearing?

When Minister Madden meets with the Developers and then calls in an appalling  application for 39 storeys in the middle of the traffic jam that is Box Hill Station and then he gives it to a Panel - read on. . .

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Maddens call ins - LET'S START A COUNT...

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Minister Madden Interferes Again - this time it's a Wind Farm     
 
The proposed Yaloak wind farm has already been subject to a planning panel and the panel recommended against it in order to protect Wedge-tailed Eagles. 
The then Minister for Planning accepted the panel report but later, in an interview on Stateline, encouraged a new submission suggesting there may be a different outcome.
ABC Stateline 7 April 2006
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Orwellian manipulation at its worst.

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Hi SOS Members
 
I have just returned today from being an invited  panel participant in an elaborate Council run "consultation" of the Warringah community on the residential planning of that area.  I had been invited to provide an alternative viewpoint to that of developers and planners.
 
640 delegates were registered to attend, of whom 500 had been selected from the community.  They were told that the State Government has decreed that 10,300 new dwellings have to go into the council area.  It is up to Warringah Council to determine how this is to be done and the consultation was to help the Council ascertain what the community feels about various possibilities.

 

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