Letters to the Editor

NOT often does an establishment get three awards but it is so deserving. Nothing like a cheeky gin and beautiful food and the place is so unique as well. The bonus is the lovely people and not many businesses donate 50 per cent of profits to...

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AS A frequent pedestrian walking across the roads at the new White Road and McKenzie Street roundabout, I find it risky when drivers do not indicate their intentions! Some years ago, I was taught the term LSD, “Look Signal Do” is the lack of...

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IN LAST week’s Sentinel Times, a letter from a Mr. Ehrlich was written expressing his concern for parking in our towns for especially elderly residents where there are time parking restrictions. I know certain permits are now available in named...

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SMALL business owners across Gippsland are being hit hard by crime. I’ve heard from shopkeepers who are tired, frustrated and scared. Their livelihoods are at risk. So too is the safety of their staff and customers. According to the latest figures...

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I HAVE read with interest your article on this week’s edition. Just a note for all dog owners in the Bass Coast area. The reserve at Glen Forbes is a fully fenced off leash area and has been for 15 or so years, notwithstanding the numerous signs...

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I TREMBLE at what is happening to the Inverloch foreshore. I tremble at the speed with which it is happening. And I tremble at what, in the absence of a workable plan, will happen to it. At the time of writing, nine houses in Surf Parade, Inverloch...

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WE WENT for a trip during the school holidays, up through Longwarry, Koo Wee Rup, Bass, etc. We were amazed at all the beautiful homes that councils have allowed to be built on flat land, flat on the ground, concrete slabs, no doubt in flood prone...

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FOLLOWING a community discussion at the Hub on July 13 regarding the crisis currently threatening the survival of the Inverloch Surf Life Saving Club building and some houses in the vicinity of Surf Parade, I would like to raise four issues which...

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POLICIES are written by companies and councils alike, not to promote robust debate as stated in council’s communication policy, but rather to stifle different views to those of the policy maker. In BCSC’s proposed 2025 Governance Policy...

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I AM writing to express my deep concern about the Bass Coast Council’s current parking time restrictions in the town centre, which are having a devastating impact on our elderly community members. While I appreciate that parking is provided free...

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YOUR editorial commentary on some community reaction to the Ngangga Festival in the letters section of your July 8 edition seems to assume that the inevitable and predetermined arrow of history is somehow linear in its quasi-Marxist race notion of...

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AGED 68, I have been reading newspapers for over 60 years. Except for the headline ‘Mushroom murderer guilty of all charges’, The Sentinel-Times, July 8, 2025, the court report at page three is one of the most concise that I have read. Nicholas...

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I READ with interest your story regarding the relocation of the planning submission from Meeniyan to Korumburra. What the council does not address is those public responders who were unavailable to an attend at the original date and place in...

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I AM currently in Bali at Kuta beach somewhere I have been visiting for over 40 years. Specifically the true Kuta end Poppies 1 and 2. This is one of the most famous strips of sand in the world for tourism, surfing and beach amenity i.e. walking...

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