The Victorian government should be looking elsewhere if it wants to fix the glacial pace of planning, not at councils. City of Melbourne’s deputy lord mayor Nicholas Reece lambasted the rumoured state government’s planning takeover in a Future Melbourne Committee meeting recently following a question from a constituent. “If the Victorian government was looking for … [Read more…]
/cloudfront-ap-southeast-2.images.arcpublishing.com/nzme/SMXIP73DGBGHNLVEYCCQ5YYRNU.JPG "Letters: Climate change, genetic engineering, violence, te reo Māori, and Green Party tax policy")
Homes in Waihī Beach after floods on May 29. Photo / Alex Cairns Seeing is believing, right? Whether you understand the science, acknowledge the climate models are useful, believe tipping points are fast approaching, accept the World Weather Attribution scientists are finding man’s fingerprint – or not – the extreme weather you are seeing with … [Read more…]
As far as putting shovels in the ground, no other Queensland budget has dug deeper. “This budget commits our government to the biggest building program in our state’s history,” declared state Treasurer Cameron Dick as he delivered the 2023-24 Queensland budget. “Our government will deliver more hospitals, more houses, more roads, more trains and more … [Read more…]
GFL Environmental Inc., the fourth largest diversified environmental services company in North America, and OPAL Fuels Inc., a vertically integrated producer and distributor of renewable natural gas (RNG) and renewable energy, today announced that they have completed construction of their new RNG production facility, Emerald RNG. The parties held a ribbon cutting ceremony earlier today to … [Read more…]
PLEASANT PRAIRIE VILLAGE BOARD: 4 p.m., at the Village Hall Auditorium, 99.15 39th Ave. This is for a possible closed executive session to confer with legal counsel with respect to possible litigation on fiduciary real estate development. KENOSHA COUNTY HUMAN SERVICES BOARD: 4 p.m., at the Kenosha County Job Center Human Services Building, 8600 Sheridan … [Read more…]
![[+] Crunch Time for the River City](http://images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/6jFZKNUda1pxrO74PFqfpk/b25f28090ace7fb39409ce2d94045bff/1.jpg "[+] Crunch Time for the River City")
There Is A Lot Going On. As the six-word title slide of his keynote presentation flashed onto the screen, Urbis director Paul Riga could feel the collective thought bubble popping up in the room. It was quite an understatement, to say the least. To be fair, however, and as Riga quickly pointed out, emphasis was … [Read more…]
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Federated Farmers says farmer confidence is at record lows. File photo / Sandra Gibbs Federated Farmers has released its policy platform for the 2023 election, setting out a rural roadmap with 12 key policy changes for New Zealand’s next government. “Kiwi farmers have a great story to tell when it comes to our economic contribution, … [Read more…]
![[+] Development Driving Great Ocean Road’s Future](http://images.ctfassets.net/8pr762qjocl3/4W9YvLOyvhiIT2EBvToJFx/d9b80b67b8deb11c76ed057d2c6888e9/____Great_Ocean_Road_.jpg "[+] Development Driving Great Ocean Road’s Future")
If you take a trip across the Nullabor, you may hear about the world’s longest golf course or the museum dedicated to Skylab crashing to earth in 1979s. And you likely already know of the underground world at Coober Pedy and the sadness and tragedy of Australia’s own nuclear test site at Maralinga. But as … [Read more…]
Despite many of its apartments sitting empty most of the year—including an entire beachfront tower—the Gold Coast has emerged as ground zero for Australia’s housing supply crisis. Unlocking the city’s under-utilised residences with a “vacancy tax” in a bid to bolster its record low rental stocks is one plan on the table. But it will … [Read more…]
/cloudfront-ap-southeast-2.images.arcpublishing.com/nzme/UGIC65IOWVGJNASPMWAWWKB7AY.jpg "Whanganui District Council shuts down living wage policy during annual plan deliberations")
Josh Chandulal-Mackay says the living wage campaign has spanned ‘three councils and about seven years’. Photo / Bevan Conley. The living wage debate has again reared its head in the Whanganui District Council chambers. The council deliberated on its annual plan this week, with one submission coming from Living Wage Whanganui (LWW) representative Marion Sanson. … [Read more…]