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IT IS GOOD TO HEAR ABOUT A WIN FOR HERITAGE - IT DOES NOT HAPPEN OFTEN BUT HERE IT IS SO CLIFTON HILL IS REJOICING

http://www.yarracity.vic.gov.au/hot-topics/heritage-win-in-clifton-hill/

Kelvin Thomson does not agree with bringing in extra migrants  to work the mines when so many Australians are losing  their jobs.  He wants migration reduced   and that would certainly be good for the pressure on Melbourne re the high density development that is happening  everywhere.  

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/city-sprawl-hits-food-bowls-20120525-1zaeq.html

This is the Study by the Property Council about Urban Renewal. Be alarmed as they want to RENEW us, especially where they can a make the most profit. Time to tell the government we dont want all this development in our suburbs. We want to keep out city liveable.

http://www.propertyoz.com.au/Article/NewsDetail.aspx?p=16&id=5814

The loss of sunlight is a very important point. As is the fact that high-density high-rise buildings have big carbon footprints, consume more energy, generate more pollution and detract public amenity through the large shadows they cast. The proliferation of high-rise development is threatening not only our environment, but also our social fabric.

Is big business trying to curtail our democratic rights.... Read on....

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/call-to-cut-the-number-of-councils-20120320-1vhwq.html

By Ray Smith Retired. Formerly Area Specialist with the Australian Science Education Project and Senior Lecturer at the Regional Educational Centre for Science and Mathematics. Malaysia. Co-author of the series of Headstart Science books.

The tallest woman on Earth, Yao Defen, died because she didn't stop growing. The cause turned out to be a cancer in her pituitary gland There are stages in the growth of all people. The first is physical growth to the early teens. During that period there is much learning of facts and a mental growth through what are called "concrete" stages of learnings. After that, the physical growth should stop, and be followed by a mental growth - that which psychologist Jan Piaget calls the "formal" thinking stage. As in Physical growth, there is a need for challenges and exercises in mental growth to achieve this formal level of thinking*.

He notes that while total GDP has risen, this is almost entirely due to population growth.  Per capita GDP, which is what really matters to most of us, is stationary. And Australia's abnormally rapid population growth brings many economic ills (as well as the obvious environmental and resource ones).

IF THEY ONLY BUILT THEM WELL AND PROPERLY SOUNDPROOFED BUT OBVIOUSLY THESE DEVELOPERS TO MAKE MAXIMUM PROFITS DONT GIVE QUALITY

Stack-'em-up flats erode quality of life I WONDER how many politicians/developers ever live in the apartments they approve/build. Not too many, I think. The Age's Domain apartment guide is full of happy stories about people who have downsized from spacious suburban homes. But these people are living in top-dollar dwellings. For the majority of Melburnians the story is quite different.

THIS IS GOOD NEWS FOR BRIAN WALSH OF KEW COTTAGES COALITION WHO HAS BEEN DEMANDING THIS FOR YEARS -  let us hope  it really happens

Mary Drost Channel 7 News 16 February 2012 from Marvellous Melbourne on Vimeo.

This photo is tagged as the US legislators at work passing a budget.
US House Minority Leader pictured standing, far right, speaks while colleagues play as the House considers a new budget. The guy sitting in the row in front of these two....he's on Facebook, and the guy behind Hennessy is checking out the baseball scores.
These are the folks that couldn't get the budget out by Oct.1, and are about to control your health care, cap and trade, and the list goes on and on.
Should we buy them larger screen computers - or -a ticket home, permanently? This is one of their 3-DAY WORK WEEKS that we all pay for (salary is about $179,000 per year).

Is it so different in Australia ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeZRZE-5kAM

Letters Editor Herald Sun,  Melbourne (by email).  16th February 2012.