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Collapse Issue 418 - 01 May 2017Issue 418 - 01 May 2017
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Peninsula exhibitors win at Royal Easter Show
Flying fox colony established near the Everglades
Sandstone steps to be installed on coastal walk
Free morning activities
Fox bait warning
New president for community group
Rotary presents Opera proceeds
Council website lists 60 Peninsula projects
Council waits for details while Woy Woy channel silts up
Rotary provides early morning tea and biscuits
Medals reunited with family
Association life member dies
Volunteer lifesavers carry out double rescue
Application for adult shop in Woy Woy
Beach erosion and shoaling addressed at Patonga
Identified for temporary protection
Council adopts coastal management plan
Roads to be included in council condition assessment
Townhouses proposed for Ettalong
Ridge walk is featured
Comment wanted on planning notice changes
Independent members appointed
Council webcast to continue
Dry month after a wet start
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NBN so poor telephone connections are lost
Sewerage and water is overpriced
Another tree goes with a developer-friendly decision
Dawn service special at Patonga
Wrong colour
We deserve our fair share
Where is the evidence for sustainability?
Is letterhead next in displacement operetta?
Collapse  HEALTH HEALTH
Coast Shelter starts awareness campaign
Rotary club back campaign for palliative care facility
Retirement village commemorates Anzac Day
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School to celebrate Star Wars Day
Suiting up for science at Empire Bay
Pacific Island group performs
Dance group selected
Easter hat parade
Students and staff attend Anzac march
Students join veterans
Students in Anzac ceremony
Naplan advice at Ettalong
New teacher at Woy Woy South
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Coach is confident of successful season
Woy Woy players selected for Barcelona tour
Silver medals for aquatic rescue

Is letterhead next in displacement operetta?

If only the great John Clarke were still with us.

What a time he would have had with the appointment of an ex-policewoman to the prestigious post of Coordinator General for the Central Coast.

No doubt, in matters animal and vegetable and mineral, Ms Shearer is the very model of a modern Coordinator-General, but is there any indication that her knowledge of waste collection, drains and kerb and guttering has been brought up to the beginning of the century, which would, at least, put her ahead of most of the local councillors we have had.

After all the grandiose talk, this is the Government's contribution to the development of the Central Coast region: it would be laughable, if it were not so pathetic.

Whatever Ms Shearer's personal virtues (and I'm sure they are many), this decision is what psychologists call "displacement action", a pointless piece of business designed to cover inability to face what really needs to be done.

The importance of the post can be easily judged from the fact that Ms Shearer will report directly to the Secretary of the Department of Planning and Environment, in other words, she is a supernumerary in a department renowned for its ineffectiveness.

However, we can all take heart that the Council will have an important role to play on the Consultative Committee, pushing forward priority projects, such as harmonizing our housing development controls, a clerical task that has been hanging fire for a year and has now emerged in all its incompetent glory for public comment.

Add to that such vital matters as the Warnervale town centre, the Central Coast airport, the new university precinct, the China Theme Park, the regional library thought-bubble, the Performing Arts Centre shambles, and it can be seen that the Consultative Committee will have its work cut out.

I suspect that the Consultative Committee will probably be bogged down for the first six months of its operation designing its letterhead.





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