There's a growing push from within the Labor Party for delegates to this week's ALP National Conference in Adelaide to back doubling Commonwealth funding for local government, warning Australia's 538 councils cannot deliver essential services without it. But that's not the whole story...
Art certainly does imitate life, and the Gippsland Symphony Orchestra will prove this when it premieres two locally inspired works in Korumburra.
The cancellation of the annual Inverloch Jazz Festival continues to generate fears of a nationwide collapse of community-run music events with the issue highlighted at a pop-up business event.
The proposal to build a McDonald’s ‘convenience restaurant’ in Cowes is shaping up as the ‘Big Mac’ of all planning applications to come before the Bass Coast Shire Council.
