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Collapse Issue 201 - 13 Oct 2008Issue 201 - 13 Oct 2008
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Council to fight bed closure
Groups to ride to Gosford CBD
Chamber calls for loss details
More disruption for Bulls Hill works
Residents asked to prepare for fire
Lobbying for bypass study
Chamber supports network replacement
Andrews warns on climate change
Hawthornes are farewelled
Channel dredging a priority, says Freewater
Mayor plays down economic crisis
Golden Oldies wanted
Finance seminars for retirees
Bush care work at Pearl Beach
Annual spring fair
Scouts celebrate with promotion day
Sustainable living day
Community ideas wanted
Town crier wins two awards
Village construction to start next year
Volunteering session
Council works
Restaurant wins award
Peninsula in the News
Unremarkable rainfall
Correction
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Replacement toilet wanted
Praise for ferry captain
Peninsula will get fair share
Distortion of the facts
Proud to be Australian
States needed as a check
Early renewal
Chuckling
Collapse  EDUCATION EDUCATION
New attendance trial
Outstanding participation
Japanese students visit college
Rugby league win to boys
Ambulance service to run literacy course
Girls are rugby champions
Spelling final held at Ettalong
Student art exhibition
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Recognised
Five soccer champions
Centre to host Masters event
Bowls awards
Netball club wins $2500
Annual pairs
Sand Slog success
Course for swimming teachers
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Blues Festival in seventh year
Classes start
Author speaks at literary event
Patonga memories are inspiration
Wayne Cornell sings at festival
Mother and son exhibit
Springsong attracts 80
PCYC performs
Musical delight
Collapse  HEALTH HEALTH
Exercise program helps recovery
Baby massage workshop
Stroke awareness events held
Violence workshop for health workers
Yoga aid for children
New therapy starts at Woy Woy
Collapse  HISTORY HISTORY
The Trafalgar Ave airstrip

Distortion of the facts

It has taken almost a month for the public to get access to the full 25-page Coroner's Somersby Inquest findings, a public document since September 18.

People have come to me because they were looking for a copy.

The State Coroners website did not put the findings up until October 10 and the bleating by our Mayor on ABC Central Coast on Friday, October 3, that the findings were "out there" was a distortion of the facts.

Council had not, in fact, had the report on its website until the previous afternoon, October 2.

Even then, they were buried in a file named General Manager, with no indication it contained the inquest findings.

The council's home page link "Somersby Inquest Findings" did not link to the findings, but a media statement.

The impression given by council was that it had gone out of its way not to display its copy of the Coroners findings, disadvantaging ratepayers who wished to read it.


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