Our next Mayor must engage, listen and advocate in the best interests of the community.
Ballarat Courier – Opinion 7 November 2015 Very soon our councillors will decide who is to be the mayor for the next 12 months, which is also the final year of this current Council. So what do people expect from …
Our next Mayor must engage, listen and advocate in the best interests of the community.
Ballarat Courier – Opinion 7 November 2015 Very soon our councillors will decide who is to be the mayor for the next 12 months, which is also the final year of this current Council. So what do people expect from …
Rejuvenating Civic Hall site with common sense – it’s about time!
Ballarat Courier Monday 2 November 2015 It is encouraging to read that the five remaining proposals for the site include the retention of the Civic Hall. These proposals celebrate common sense and adhere to the democratic values we all value …
Stop Same Sex Marriage discrimination
Ballarat Courier Tuesday 27 October 2015 I find the current Liberal Party discussion on same-sex marriage to be discriminatory and against all aspects of equality and fundamentally flies in the face of Australian human rights. It is also demeaning and …
Same Sex Marriage – Forget the plebiscite, PM
By AMBER WILSON Ballarat Courier Sept. 18, 2015, 1:54 p.m. Wrong process: Ron Egeberg says Mr Turnbull should use his powers to change gay marriage laws rather than take the issue to a vote. Picture: Jeremy Bannister. BALLARAT marriage celebrant Ron Egeberg …
Show respect for funeral corteges
Ballarat Courier Friday 17 September 2015. Recently I witnessed what I think was a disgraceful act of total rudeness and disrespect. A funeral cortege was turning into the Ballarat Crematorium driveway from Doveton Street. A white four-wheel-drive vehicle, being driven …
Australia must help displaced people
Ballarat Courier 2 September 2015 I can’t get out of my mind the tragic heartbreaking image of the body of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi washed up on a beach in Turkey, who drowned along with his mother and brother as they …
Bipartisan support vital to cure rail woes
Ballarat Courier 4 September 2015 Public rail transport is the future for Ballarat residents. More particularly, we need a 45-minute express train service to Melbourne and return. This should be the vision for Ballarat’s regional fast rail service During the …
Less is more for train line’ Response to Matthew Guy and Josh Morris
Ballarat Courier 18 August 2015 Michael Pollock, are you sure you haven’t misquoted our honourable state opposition members in this article? I’m sure both Matthew Guy and local boy Josh Morris would have said that they were at the Ballarat …
Don’t allow the actions of the current Council to cloud Ballarat’s future
Ron Egeberg August 2015 Let me state from the outset I have no personal issue with Anthony Schinck, Council’s CEO. However, Council’s absolutely disgraceful performance at its closed special meeting on Wednesday night 5 August 2015 treated the citizens of Ballarat …