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Monday, 12 December 2011 |
 Sunshine's history is rapidly being reduced to a series of signs pointing to where remarkable things once used to be, but no longer are.
The physical history of Sunshine's heritage-listed H.V. McKay Gardens has already been reduced to a few bits and pieces – the iron gates, part of the footbridge and the size and position of the gardens are what remains. For the rest - the gardener's cottage, the glasshouses, the gate lions, the golden footpaths, the rotunda, the fences, the cypress hedges – these have all been reduced to signs pointing to where things used to be. Fourteen mature trees had been allowed to wither and die under former Brimbank CEO Marilyn Duncan's inept stewardship. We tell school children and visitors, as we point to an empty lawn, “imagine what it once looked like..”. It is rather pathetic and sad don't you think?
The Regional Rail Link Authority now plans to remove what remains of the original fabric of the gardens, to move the iron gates, slice off a “sliver” of land, and to entirely replace what remains of the original footbridge. The destruction of the historical fabric of these gardens will then be utterly complete. We will be left with references to our history, but not the actual history itself. Australia will have lost its oldest remaining industrial garden.
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Monday, 14 November 2011 |
 Brimbank's administrators have quietly been laying the groundwork for a significant increase in high density housing in Sunshine, approving a range of strategies and policies and setting conditions for a high-rise developers' "free-for-all" in the suburb and surrounds.
Brimbank's 2011 housing policy received a scathing review from SunRRA. The Council policy predicts a population increase in Sunshine of 11,000 people while Keilor is expected to grow by just 25 people over the same period. The administrators' flagship program for Sunshine, called Sunshine Rising, is shrouded in secrecy and supposed to deliver "medium" density housing to the area.
Planning by stealth, the more recent Home and Housed policy now makes no secret of Sunshine's High Density future.
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Sunday, 16 October 2011 |
Following on from last months article and the first part of SunRRA’s top 10 forum topics here is the second half with our top forum topics 1 to 5.
SunRRA's top 10 forum topics have notched up more than 2 million visits between them since our website was launched 6 years ago. The site’s fan base continues to grow judging by the number of visits our most popular forum threads receive.
In July the Sunvale discussion thread attracted 1,200 views in just one day, while the Corruption thread - headed Victoria, State of Corruption – regularly receives over 1000 visits every day. The most popular threads concern a mixture of local issues and state politics.
Here then are the all time top five threads for 2011.
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Wednesday, 14 September 2011 |
SunRRA's top 10 forum topics have notched up more than 2 million visits between them since our website was launched 6 years ago. The site’s fan base continues to grow judging by the number of visits our most popular forum topics receive.
In July the Sunvale discussion thread attracted 1,200 views in just one day, while the Corruption thread - headed Victoria, State of Corruption – regularly receives over 1000 visits every day. The most popular threads concern a mixture of local issues and state politics.
Following on from our last annual top 10 forum topics produced in 2006, we now give you the all time top 10 topics to date.
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Monday, 15 August 2011 |
 Brimbank Council's controversial plan to sell off its public reserves has been branded a "gift" for the benefit of local political groups.
Introduced with impeccable timing, the land sale proposal is guaranteed to be an explosive issue at next year's council elections. Already the "usual suspects" - discredited Brimbank political figures - are lining up to capitalise on this rolled-gold opportunity for their re-election. Council meetings once again resemble the kind of open brawl that was common only a few short years ago.
What can the CEO and Administrators be thinking? The one message they are getting from residents, loud and clear and time and time again, is the importance of retaining public open space. What possible reason can they have to stir up the natives with all this talk of land sales?
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