How big will council’s deficit turn out to be?
Obviously the Council needs to be sacked, especially if in coming weeks people find out the actual debt is closer to $300M than $100M. The true liability amount will be…
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What a stitch-up
First the NSW government dissolves the democratically elected and most accessible branch of government to the people of the Central Coast, then both councils are forced into amalgamation through financial…
Where did all the money go?
On the front page of Issue 199 of Community Coast News (16/1/2019), our mayor at the time, Councillor Smith, linked the negligent enforcement of local planning controls with problems identified…
A farrago of incompetence
Events are moving so quickly in relation to the dismissal of Central Coast Council that it is difficult to know where we stand at any particular moment. The Minister has…
Unlikely
In reference to reader K. Woldring’s letter about Lucy Wicks’ professed support for the ABC (Issue 265), it is risible to think that she will actually do so. It is…
The quality of the ABC speaks for itself
Commenting on Dr Padmanabhan’s letter in Issue 264 concerning ABC bias: Yes, it is reasonable to expect our ABC to report in a fair and balanced manner. We need that…
What about council’s directors?
Forum – Blaming Councillors for the financial problems of the Central Coast is not the solution to the problems and is being used as a political football. In any normal…
A Budget of missed opportunity
Forum – Are you able to imagine a new and better society and Australia post COVID-19? One with free education, pre-school to university and TAFE, free childcare, housing for all,…
What about the larger amounts of misused taxes?
Forum – Give us a break, Scomo! I watched with amusement as our intrepid Prime Minister launched a blistering attack on the CEO of Australia Post, a defenceless woman, so…
Tuggerah Station needs a lift
Forum – It’s bad enough that residents in the former Wyong Shire are missing out on things, thanks to amalgamation, but now I have found out that the State Government…
Public inquiry required prior to suspension of councillors
Forum – Democracy is under threat on the Central Coast. The community’s right to have local matters subjected to local democratic processes is being undermined by the State Government’s threat…
Council appears impotent in the face of recalcitrant business operators
Forum – As residents of Palm Grove and surrounds, we strongly object to a development application at 604 Ourimbah Creek Rd, that seeks retrospective approval for an unauthorised intensive French…
Council accounting anomalies
Forum – I refer to an article in the Community Coast News on August 21 titled “Council act on Auditor General Recommendations”, which includes an overview of how Central Coast…
Where does the buck stop?
Forum – What a confused Council we seem to have on the Central Coast (Vote of no confidence in missing CEO withdrawn; October 16). If Council, like any Board that…
Financial crisis … nothing another Committee can’t fix
Forum – Can we take Adam Crouch’s word for it that the State Government will neither stump up a $100M loan to provide Central Coast Council with enough cash to…
Roll up, roll up …
Due to recent events I propose a name change from Central Coast Council to Central Coast Circus; the only thing missing is a ringmaster to put them through the hoops….
Solution is simple … keep it local and stop wasting money
When you have an overpaid top level of public servants, leaving the bottom very thin on the ground, that’s where the problem lies. As well as the last Carr Government…
Swallowing the Murdoch Kool Aid
Dr.N.Padmanabhan (October 16); if you don’t like the ABC and prefer Newscorp, I think you’ve swallowed the Murdoch Kool Aid. Look where this particular news source has got the USA:…
Will the Member for Robertson show her love for the ABC?
Forum – A few years ago, the Friends of the ABC had a market stall at the Avoca markets and Lucy Wicks, her husband and friends visited us. She had…
Business runs counter to shared values
Forum – Forgive my fury, but the impotence of Central Coast Council and its planning system, as well as the arrogance of the applicant for a puppy farm in Palm…