CBD flood mitigation

While we were delighted to be invited to the public meeting held by Council to inform as well as to gain feedback regarding the up coming drainage works for the CBD, it was disappointing to see so few of the public there. The ratio of Council to interested members of...

tonight’s the night….

The Association intend to ask Council some questions tonight regarding issues that have been ongoing. We all know that the Bureaucratic Machine moves slowly but this is ridiculous. One question we have been waiting for answer to for nearly 2 years. The other they just...

Surprise, surprise …

Well surprise, surprise, we now have a new Mayor. Les McPhee has been given the Mayoral Robes and we will have a new 4 year Council term starting off with this change. Along with this is the appointment of an interim CEO, David Leahy, who replaces the old CEO Dennis...

Elections are over

Well the Council elections are over and the results are in. It would seem that the community have decided that the Bridge was an “overarching” issue after all and that we now have three new Councillors, two who definitely oppose the construction of bridge...

Well I’ll be buggered….

Well it nearly happened! Today we had a bridge in crisis. Good old faithful was opened and wouldn’t close again and because of this the Speewa Punt was getting a work out, along with the bridge at Nyah. So it seemed we might have been in for a new bridge earlier...

the saga continues….

Well at last nights Guardian Election Forum there was a lot of noise about the bridge coming from a vocal minority as usual. Seems everyone wants a bridge somewhere else except in Swan Hill. Can’t understand it. There’s a reason Swan Hill has gone...