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Reply #1200 - Mar 20^th, 2011 at 9:17pm

Teachers, cops in open revolt as Ted Baillieu's about-face angers unions

March 19, 2011

POLICE and teachers are in open revolt against the State Government over wages.
Teachers are threatening to strike after Premier

Ted Baillieu reneged on his promise

to make them Australia's best-paid.

Police, who also threaten strike action, are running a television campaign that lampoons Mr Baillieu and his ministers as circus clowns.

In a series of Monty Pythonesque ads, Mr Baillieu, Deputy Premier Peter Ryan and Attorney-General Robert Clark are portrayed as

a do-nothing, untrustworthy government.

The ads go to air on Sunday night.

The Police Association has $1 million to bankroll its fight for better pay and conditions.

The Government's offer of a 2.5 per cent pay rise has been rejected out of hand by both police and teachers.

The Police Association says the government offer is the equivalent of 65c an hour and has jeopardised the Coalition's election pledge to hire 1700 police and 940 protective service officers in the next four years.

The association's executive has begun planning rolling industrial action by its 11,500 members in June.

The most recent Productivity Commission report shows the State Government's spending on police is the lowest in the country, and that the state has the fewest officers per head of population.

The Australian Education Union Council voted unanimously to reject the Government's pay offer.

It wants a 30 per cent rise over three years for Victoria's 45,000 primary and secondary teachers, which would cost about $1.3 billion.

The AEU said Mr Baillieu's decision to renege on his election promise was "inflammatory and

an extreme act of bad faith".

"Baillieu's previous commitment to immediately lift the pay of teachers didn't even last 100 days," AEU Victorian president Mary Bluett said.

The Government would need to give Victoria's teachers an 8 per cent pay rise to meet its election promise.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/teachers-cops-in-open-revolt-as-ted-ba...

Oh dear, Ted ...
We were told your election pledges had been "costed"

What happened ?

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Reply #1201 - Mar 21^st, 2011 at 9:06am

The Coalition Government has announced another substantial package of measures to help Victorian communities and families recovering from months of devastating floods.

Visiting the Kerang district with Prince William today, Premier Ted Baillieu and Agriculture Minister Peter Walsh said the Coalition was delivering on its pledge to give flood-affected communities and families the support they needed.

“We are standing by these communities and families so they get the help they need to get back on their feet,” Mr Baillieu said.

“Victorians are resilient and recovering strongly from these calamitous floods and this package of targeted government support measures will further aid their recovery.

“These further measures to help Victorian communities recover is in addition to previously-announced assistance for local government and individuals,” Mr Baillieu said.

The $11.956 million package of targeted flood support measures includes:

A $6.15 million employment program to fund the repair and protection of natural assets and other infrastructure damaged by the floods;
$3.4 million to extend the work of rural financial counsellors;
A $1500 bonus per apprentice for rural businesses in flood-affected regions for each apprentice they retain (total funding $1.076 million);
$790,000 for additional health and well-being services through the Sustainable Farm Families program; and
$540,000 for nine Rural Coordination Officers to assist the worst-affected rural councils respond to and coordinate response efforts.
Mr Walsh said the package was based on discussions between the Coalition Government and food and fibre producers throughout Victoria as well as shires under pressure from the aftermath of the floods.

“This package continues the support already provided by the Coalition Government to communities and families that have been hit hard over recent months. We are continuing to support towns and families who will need ongoing support from both State and Federal Governments for some time to come,” Mr Walsh said.

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Reply #1202 - Mar 21^st, 2011 at 9:08am

Horticultural businesses in Gisborne will receive a secure supply of water to irrigate high value crops including cherries, grape vines and olives under a new recycled water scheme.

Minister for Water Peter Walsh made the announcement while representing Deputy Premier and Minister for Regional and Rural Development Peter Ryan at the Pitruzello Estate in Sunbury today.

“The Coalition Government is providing $1.27 million to Western Water towards the Gisborne Recycled Water Scheme project (Gisborne GRoWS),” Mr Walsh said.

“The scheme will deliver a guaranteed supply of up to 250 megalitres of Class B recycled water to the horticultural precinct in Gisborne South and will encourage business growth, diversification and new employment opportunities.”

Mr Walsh said the project involved the design and construction of a new pipeline, upgrades to existing pipelines, a new booster pump station, and an upgrade to an existing pump station to cater for additional flow demands.

“After a prolonged period of low rainfall, businesses in Gisborne South resorted to expensive measures such as sourcing water from saline groundwater bores and trucking recycled water,” Mr Walsh said.

“The Gisborne GRoWS project will provide the security of a constant water supply to existing businesses.

“It will also attract new business growth to the region, and position Gisborne South as a regional food bowl with further employment and tourism opportunities.”

Mr Walsh said Western Water had provided $2.722 million while local industry and the community had contributed a further $278,000 towards the total cost of the project, which was due to be completed in November 2012.

Mr Ryan said Gisborne GRoWS would retain jobs, as well as create new jobs for the participating businesses, and would also return environmental flows of around 97 megalitres of water to Jacksons Creek each year.

“The completed recycling project will create enormous opportunities for Gisborne South’s future development as a regional food bowl, including reduced transport and energy costs due the close proximity to Melbourne markets,” Mr Ryan said.

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Reply #1203 - Mar 21^st, 2011 at 9:09am

The Coalition Government has implemented another election commitment by extending the freeze on late-night liquor licences in inner Melbourne and surrounding municipalities for a further 18 months, Consumer Affairs Minister Michael O’Brien announced today.

The freeze, which was due to expire at the end of this year, will stop the growth of high-risk late-night venues in the local government areas of Melbourne, Port Phillip, Yarra and Stonnington.

The extension will mean that until 30 June 2013, the Director of Liquor Licensing will not grant any new licences for bars, pubs and nightclubs operating after 1am unless the applicant can show exceptional circumstances.

Membership-based clubs and most restaurants and cafes are not affected by the freeze.

“Victorian families should have the right to go out at night without fearing violence and anti-social behaviour,” Mr O’Brien said.

“The proliferation of late-trading beer barns and the attendant rise in anti-social behaviour has damaged Victoria’s reputation as a safe place to have a night out.

“A number of large-capacity nightclubs have been identified as significant problems for alcohol-related violence, and this freeze on late-night liquor licences allows us to monitor its effect on licensee behaviour and practices and the safety of patrons.

“The Coalition Government believes the regulation of existing late-night venues should be adequate to protect patrons, venue staff and the community.

“Stronger laws and regulations for licensed venues will make Victoria’s entertainment precincts safer and more enjoyable for all.

“The extension will also enable the Coalition Government to consider whether this ban should be extended to other areas that have experienced higher levels of anti-social behaviour,” Mr O’Brien said.

Since coming into power, the Victorian Government has:

halved liquor licence fees for over 11,000 low-risk small businesses and community clubs;
introduced legislation enabling tough new penalties for drunken, loutish and threatening behaviour including increasing on-the-spot fines for drunk and disorderly behaviour and persons who fail to leave a licensed venue when drunk, violent or quarrelsome; and
introduced legislation for new offences to deal with drunks hanging around licensed premises after being refused entry or required to leave, those attempting to re-enter a venue within 24 hours of being denied entry or required to leave a venue and new powers for licensees and police officers to bar troublesome patrons from entering or remaining in a venue for a set period of time.

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Reply #1204 - Mar 21^st, 2011 at 9:11am

Health Minister David Davis yesterday used the opening of the Heart Foundation’s third National Conference in Melbourne to highlight the rising incidence of cardiovascular disease.

Mr Davis said preventing and managing chronic disease, including cardiovascular disease, had emerged as the biggest challenge to our health system, and one of the biggest for the community.

“In Victoria, as in the rest of Australia, cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of premature death and disability and is responsible for significant and increasing hospital demand,” Mr Davis said.

“Yesterday’s conference comes as the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare releases its new report Cardiovascular Disease: Australian facts 2011.

“The report highlights that cardiovascular disease causes the most deaths in Australia and is the nation’s most costly disease.

“Comparable statistics show Victoria’s avoidable death rate due to cardiovascular disease at ages 0 to 74 is 39.8 per 100,000, which is less than Australia's rate of 45 per 100,000 but clearly we can to do better.”

Mr Davis said Victoria had an ageing population, increasing concerns about overweight and obesity, and entrenched ill health in disadvantaged sections of the community.

“We’re seeing the prevalence of many risk factors for diseases such as type 2 diabetes and coronary heart disease increase rapidly,” he said.

“Clearly we need to reduce the risk of chronic disease in our community and keep more people well, so prevention must be a priority.

“We also need to establish how we can better manage the care of those who already have heart disease and other chronic diseases, so we can improve their life expectancy and quality of life.

“We must also ensure the demands on our health care system, our hospitals and health workforce, are manageable into the future.”

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Reply #1205 - Mar 21^st, 2011 at 10:53am

Leonards Hill wind farm: first turbine goes up

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20 Mar, 2011 11:32 PM

WINDY days will be welcomed with open arms in the future at Leonards Hill.
The small town, 10 kilometres south of Daylesford, became the first town in Australia to establish a community-owned renewable energy project on Saturday.

A 110-metre wind turbine was raised, to the delight of onlookers and the 1600 owners of the wind farm.

More than $8.7 million was invested by collective members as part of the $13 million project.

Hepburn Wind is behind the project – which is expected to

generate more power than Daylesford uses each year.

Members of Hepburn Wind who invested in the project will share in the proceeds of the sale of electricity and the remainder of the money will be put towards a community fund.

Hepburn Wind member Kate Allsopp said she “loved the idea of the community owning our energy source”, while fellow member Belinda Martin said she “can’t wait to see our turbines spinning”.

Chairman of Hepburn Wind Simon Holmes a Court said the project was a culmination of six years’ hard work.

He said it was fantastic to see a community develop it without waiting for the government.

“Our project is not about building two wind turbines, it is about empowering local people to become engaged and active participants in responding to the challenge of climate change,” he said.

About 12,200 tonnes of CO2 are expected to be displaced each year.

http://www.thecourier.com.au/news/local/news/general/leonards-hill-wind-farm-fir...

A FIRST ...
And probably a LAST ... for a while

Libs' wind-farm plan to 'cost jobs'

Sarah-Jane Collins and Adam Morton
May 14, 2010

THE state opposition is facing a barrage of criticism over a new wind-farm policy that industry and councils say will shut down a vital part of the Victorian renewable energy sector.

Opposition Leader Ted Baillieu announced yesterday that under a Coalition government local councils would be given full control over the wind farm approval process.

Currently decisions about big wind farms are made by the state government.

The Municipal Association of Victoria said councils did not always want to control wind-farm planning decisions. President Bill McArthur said councils often lacked the expertise to make informed decisions.

Planning Minister Justin Madden said the Coalition policy was ''bizarre''.

''In one fell swoop Mr Baillieu will destroy jobs, destroy industry and help destroy the environment in this state.''

A statewide campaign against wind farms is being waged by a network of groups calling themselves Landscape Guardians. The guardians oppose wind farms on visual amenity grounds and claim they cause health problems.

The opposition consulted the Victorian Landscape Guardians ...

... but not the renewable energy industry in drafting its policy.

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/libs-windfarm-plan-to-cost-jobs-20100513-v1rn....

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Australian Landscape Guardians was started by (and bankrolled by) Peter Mitchell, a founding chairman of the Moonie Oil Company and now chairman of Lowell Pty Ltd, which runs an investment fund focused on oil, gas and minerals.

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Reply #1206 - Mar 21^st, 2011 at 1:37pm

Hoddle Street plan shelved

Clay Lucas
March 21, 2011

A report into how to fix Hoddle Street's traffic problems, commissioned by the Brumby government will be shelved

The $3.7 million Hoddle Street study by engineers URS Australia, commissioned last February by the former government, will now not make any recommendations for major infrastructure works, originally promised by the former government to come out of the study

Hoddle Street is one of Melbourne's busiest arterial roads. In Richmond it carries 60,000 cars a day, and in Collingwood near the Eastern Freeway, nearly 90,000, VicRoads figures from last March show.

Transport groups said it was disappointing nothing would now be done.

Peter Daly of the RACV said he understood the rationale for shelving the study, but was

"disappointed, given the amount of congestion on Hoddle Street".

Short-term fixes such as "green-lighting buses and trams at traffic lights" would improve traffic flow, Mr Daly said.

"But something major needs to be done."

While

major work on Hoddle Street will now not happen

, the Department of Transport is looking at short-term plans to improve peak-time bus lanes.

Opposition roads spokeswoman Jacinta Allan said that, by shelving the report,

"it appears the only plan the Baillieu government has for Melbourne's road users is congestion and chaos".

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/4m-hoddle-street-plan-shelved-20110321-1c300.h...

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Underpass plan to ease gridlock on Hoddle
Clay Lucas
December 17, 2009

A SERIES of massive underpasses costing at least $750 million could soon be built along one of Melbourne's most gridlocked thoroughfares - Hoddle Street - under confidential State Government plans.

VicRoads has issued tender documents to engineers seeking advice on how to unclog up to four major intersections along the route.

The tender, made available this month to a select number of consulting firms, will also look at how public transport - particularly buses using Hoddle Street, and trams crossing it - can be sped up.

Hoddle Street is the city's second-most congested arterial road (Kings Way in South Melbourne is the busiest, and several freeways carry more traffic).

http://www.theage.com.au/national/underpass-plan-to-ease-gridlock-on-hoddle-2009...

If you've EVER driven alond Hoddle Street, at ANY time of day, you'll remember wishing you had WALKED

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Reply #1207 - Mar 22^nd, 2011 at 8:38am

Baillieu breaks second pay pledge

Ben Schneiders
March 22, 2011

THE Baillieu government has moved to

dump another costly election promise

, warning of possible job cuts and reduced services if it had to fund a large pay rise as part of a landmark women's pay case for community workers.

Before the state election, Coalition spokeswoman Mary Wooldridge had committed to funding the women's pay case even if it cost more than the $200 million over four years for which they had budgeted.

''We've been very clear: we'll be making financial commitments in our policies in relation to supporting that claim and if it's more than that, then we will be funding and supporting it,'' she said in a pre-election interview with the Victorian Council of Social Service.

Ms Wooldridge made the same commitment in a separate letter she wrote on November 24.

But, in a submission to Fair Work Australia last night, the government said if the case cost more than $50 million a year and it was not funded by the federal government, there might be a ''gap'' between the pay rise awarded by the tribunal and ''funding of the sector''.

The backdown comes after the Baillieu government angered teachers by breaking a promise to make them the best paid in Australia

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/baillieu-breaks-second-pay-pledge-20110321-1c3...

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Reply #1208 - Mar 22^nd, 2011 at 8:42am

LITANY OF FAILURE IN VICTORIAN HEALTHCARE

A DYING newborn had to be taken from her distressed grandparents' arms and resuscitated on a chair because nowhere else was available in an overcrowded emergency department.

The horror case is just one of dozens of incidents in which patients' lives are being needlessly put at risk because of a lack of resources, emergency doctors claim.

Fed-up doctors have decided to lift the lid on the issues in Melbourne's emergency departments, saying shocking ambulance bypass figures released by the Victorian Government last week barely scratched the surface of the crisis

Cases highlighted by the Victorian Emergency Physicians Association show a wider risk to public safety because of bed shortages.

Last March, a heartbroken doctor had to ask a grandparent holding an infant to leave so they could treat her on a bedside chair - no other space was available and all resuscitation cubicles at the hospital in Melbourne's southeast had patients on life support.

"Although baby survived, the incredulous looks between the grandparent, the infant's family, myself and staff are unforgettable," the doctor said.

Melbourne's busiest emergency departments turned away ambulances for more than 4300 hours in just six months last year.

But VEPA president Dr Con Georgakas said the situation was even worse, with hospital administrators blocking physician requests to go on bypass when it was in the interests of patient safety.

"If we were able to get those patients who need to stay in hospital overnight up to the hospital wards promptly, then new patients arriving by ambulance would go straight to a bed in the emergency department," he said.

"The real problem here is a lack of capacity in our hospital system.

"VEPA is calling on the State Government to fulfil its promise of more beds before this situation deteriorates further. We need those beds available 24 hours a day, seven days a week."

Health Minister David Davis said "the Government is determined to turn around Labor's 11 years of mismanagement".

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Reply #1210 - Mar 22^nd, 2011 at 9:20am

Of course, none of this really matters

The Liberal Party election campaign has been exposed as a barrage of lies
A series of micro "faux policy" to grab the vote of every minority group from opponents of renewable energy - to the beef industry, that thinks it owns Victoria's National Parks

And Victorians FELL for it - "hook line and sinker" - handing Baillieu a majority in both houses

He now has FOUR years to push his agenda, unhindered, through both houses and not have to fulfill ONE election promise

I hope NSW doesn't make the same mistake Victorians did

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Reply #1211 - Mar 22^nd, 2011 at 9:22am

Would you care to comment on the current state of Victoria's health system following 11 years of Labor rule Buzz?

It seems doctors and healthcare professionals are very angry.

The horror stories coming out of the hospitals seem to support their claim.

Success or failure?

These are people's lives we're talking about here....

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Reply #1212 - Mar 22^nd, 2011 at 10:00am

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Mar 22^nd, 2011 at 9:22am:

Would you care to comment on the current state of Victoria's health system following 11 years of Labor rule Buzz?

You can "cherry pick" incident by incident - yet dispite Victoria having the largest population growth of any state - and Tony Abbott punishing it with Federal health funding cut-backs for being Labor's "jewel in the crown" - Victoria is seen as having the BEST hospital system in the country

UNIVERSALLY

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THE state opposition is facing a barrage of criticism over a new wind-farm policy that industry and councils say will shut down a vital part of the Victorian renewable energy sector.

Opposition Leader Ted Baillieu announced yesterday that under a Coalition government local councils would be given full control over the wind farm approval process.

Currently decisions about big wind farms are made by the state government.

The Coalition policy also includes:

■ A ban on wind farms in state and national parks, tourist areas and growth corridors, including Wilsons Promontory, the Dandenong Ranges and the Great Ocean Road.

■ Compensation for landowners whose properties are within one kilometre of existing wind farms.

■ No new wind turbines to be built within two kilometres of homes.

Mr Baillieu rejected suggestions his policy would kill the industry. ''We're supportive of renewable energy. We're not seeking to prevent applications, we're seeking to ensure that those who have interests have a say,'' he said.

But the Municipal Association of Victoria said councils did not always want to control wind-farm planning decisions. President Bill McArthur said councils often lacked the expertise to make informed decisions.

Planning Minister Justin Madden said the Coalition policy was ''bizarre''.

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/libs-windfarm-plan-to-cost-jobs-20100513-v1rn....

Mon Mar 21, 2011

Pacific Hydro has told the Financial Review it will not introduce any new projects to Victoria, under the new planning rules introduced by the Coalition Government.

The company has $250-million of projects underway across Victoria.

The rules hand planning control to local governments and include tougher requirements for wind farms placed within two kilometres of houses.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/21/3169143.htm

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Reply #1214 - Mar 23^rd, 2011 at 8:04am

Government's broken promises

February 06, 2011

THE Baillieu Government has been accused of backing away from one of its most contentious election promises just two months after taking office.
Mystery surrounds the Government's pledge to put powerlines underground in bushfire risk areas, despite Premier Ted Baillieu's promise to do so in the lead-up to the November state election.

An email from Energy Safe Victoria, leaked to the Sunday Herald Sun, reveals the Government has put on ice a Stakeholder Reference Group of fire-affected community and industry leaders set up to investigate the issue.

It is also not known if the Government intends to continue with a Powerline Bushfire Safety Taskforce set up last year to look at the technology available, costs and community impact of burying the power sources.

The taskforce was due to deliver an interim report on its 10-year plan tomorrow. Its final report is due on June 30

Opposition bushfire response spokeswoman Jacinta Allan said the Government appeared to be shirking its pre-election pledge to implement all the bushfires royal commission report recommendations.

"We are seeing the very first sign that they are going to walk away from that promise that they made to communities right across Victoria," she said.

"What are the government hiding from the community?"

"Is it that behind the scenes they are in absolute turmoil about how they are going to meet each and every one of the recommendations?

"Are they walking away from this because they know they can't fund all their Budget commitments?"

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/governments-broken-promises/story-e6frf7jo-1226...

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