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After allocating $2.94 million for a ‘refurbishment’ of Centre Road, Bentleigh, and Glen Eira Clowncil’s continued claim that the current footpaths were ‘unsafe’, we now have the situation where the new arrangements present an even greater danger to pedestrians. I quote a Letter To The Editor (Leader, January 16th) -
“Would the idiot who decided to […]

Glen Eira would like us all to believe that ‘community consultation’ lies at the heart of its endeavours. In short that it really ‘values’ what the community thinks and wants. Its website contains this gem. “Council sees community consultation as a vital part of its decision-making process”. Public question time at Council meetings would also […]

The following appears in today’s (Friday 14th) Age newspaper. Comparisons with Glen Eira and similar community dissatisfaction over numerous issues are unavoidable -
Cameron Houston and Royce Millar

PORT Phillip Council has been forced into an embarrassing backdown, deferring a decision on the contentious St Kilda’s triangle development after receiving a flood of objections from angry locals.
A crowd […]

This story takes place in the kingdom of Glen Eira. It is not a ‘fairy tale’, although there are plenty of ‘wicked witches’ about.
 
For years now a gentle, kind, and lovely 63 year old man has done his ‘civic duty’ by watering council trees that run just outside his back fence and along a Melbourne Water reserve. […]

Glen Eira’s abject capitulation over the ‘kids in the park’ fiasco and their latest homepage call for ‘fair go for all’ cannot camouflage the simple fact that once you mix media, kids, and powerful luminaries such as Brumby, Ian Thorpe, Dawn Fraser, Andrew Gaze, etc., the writing was always on the wall that these puppets […]

Now here’s another bit of wonderful Glen Eira nonsense. What makes it worse, is that the logic beggars belief. Following are two consecutive paragraphs from Council’s ‘Media Release’ dated 21st November.
 “,,,that unless you are in an area displaying the green off-leash sign, you must keep your dog on a leash, which does not exceed 1.5 […]

The following was sent to me via a friend - once more it makes for interesting reading.
 
The recent fiasco which Neil Mitchell has highlighted and which has even reached the highest ‘corridors of power’ with John Brumby stating that Glen Eira needs to ‘take a long hard look at itself’, is an illuminating example of […]

More to the point - a picture reveals the truth of the matter. What you see below is Halley Park and its signage indicating on-off leash areas. Doesn’t look like 50 metres to me - more like 15 metres! Oh, I forgot, council maintains that its signage isn’t a ‘distance marker’ - they’ve only decided […]