Dear Editor, Do you have a student debt? Over 17,000 Bendigo residents do, and they are part of more than 3 million Australians who will benefit from Labor’s Bill to cut student debt by 20%, which has just been tabled in the new Parliament. Our proposal is to apply a one-off, 20 per cent reduction…
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Butts Reserve Picnic Shelter
It was very pleasing to read in the TT of 6 June that Parks Victoria had allocated money for the repair of both the Beehive Chimney and the Butts Reserve Shelter – known as The Butts Pavilion. It was, however, disappointing that the construction of the Pavilion was given by Parks as ‘around 1900’. This…
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Re: Highlight of the Paper
Dear Geoff Park, Lauren’s lovely letter in the TT last week spoke very deeply to us and reminded me that I too have been meaning to write in your praise for a long time. Your ‘Natural Newstead’ article is the first item turned to in order to see what wonderful local bird is highlighted for…
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Hope
I hope we can draw back from the fascism that is so fashionable in our country. Hope, according to Havel, is different from optimism. It is a state of the soul rather than a response to the evidence. It is not the expectation that things will turn out successfully but the conviction that something is…
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