Re: Dandenong market traders
The new design of the Dandenong Market leaves a lot to be desired. The market has a long history so its place in Dandenong needs to be protected. The variety of stallholders need to offer produce and goods that shoppers want to buy at a fair and reasonable price, but the stallholders’ rents need to reflect that. The market has lost is appeal as it is becoming too commercial and the goods offered are all the same. Action needs to be taken now otherwise the market will become another lemon in our landscape.
Cybil (via web)
Re: Pet sheep court bill could balloon
You can’t keep taking people’s free will away from them. If he has a sheep as a pet I can totally understand that. It’s a cheap lawnmower and they can be good companions. Didn’t all of us who grew up in Australia sing the nursery rhyme Baa Baa Black Sheep? It followed her to school one day, which shows already they make good pets. Leave him alone, and stop playing God.
Sheepish (via web)
Re: Pakula refuses landfill pledge
Well, Martin Pakula should turn right around and get out of this district if he’s not interested in the health and life expectancy of residents. A good example of his logic level is that he thinks getting rid of a toxic waste dump will drive property values down.
Alan Hood (via web)
Re: Crestani to contest Senate
The issue for any council is to cater for all minority groups that go to make up a community. I personally dislike Pentecostal Christians and golfers but accept they have a right to practise their pastime.
The issue with Danny Nalliah is he cannot stand the thought that people disagree with his prejudices towards Muslims so he attempted to sway the council on emotive grounds to reject an application for a mosque. Casey Council has done the right thing by deciding the Doveton mosque application purely on planning issues and not the hysterical prejudices of a small Christian sect.
We need to remember that, despite a traditional identity of Christianity for a majority of Australians, only about 5 per cent attend church regularly. Danny’s style of Christianity is a strange subset of this 5 per cent and we must not allow their hysterical ideas about theology to dominate how a community is to be constructed.
Mal Mac Rae (via web)
I can’t believe Casey Council doesn’t care what residents want or whether they are forced to sell their houses because they do not want to live next to a mosque. It’s obvious through this incident that councils have too much power, that they can simply override the 2000-plus names on petitions against the building of the mosque in favour of the town planners’ recommendation. Cr Wayne Smith’s statement — that Cr Crestani’s motion is mischief making that would set a dangerous precedent — is undemocratic. What happened to the rights of the residents?
EJ (via web)
Re: Positive sign at Noble Park
The civic area is a wonderful space, yet a few metres down the road is the Noble Park train station where the landscaping is more like a moonscape. The appearance of the station is an eyesore on the whole Noble Park shopping district. It’s time for something to be done to get an integrated approach to the whole area.
Noble Gentleman
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