It has been nearly four months since the Sunshine Residents & Ratepayers Association, (SunRRA) assisted in organizing a rally under the Teddy Whitten statue at Western Oval supported by over twenty community groups concerned by the appalling neglect of the western region of Melbourne by Local, State and Federal Governments.

The STOP N.O.W. rally was the first step of a process that will enable western community groups to network, share information and support each others causes. One of the purposes of STOP N.O.W. will be to highlight and expose the entrenched neglect of the west. Compared with other Melbourne communities in the east, south and north, the western suburbs consistently has less and inferior services and infrastructure, receives less funding and grants and is generally the poorer and hidden relative in the Melbourne family.

What could be the reason for the third poorest municipality Brimbank having the shortest zone 1 railway service, the most cancelled train services and trains with the least number of carriages. The poorest in Melbourne forced to pay the highest premium for an inferior public transport service.

The western suburbs has the highest needs and the least support services whether it is police numbers like the problems that Werribee police station endures, our schools, our hospitals, our transport, our roads, the story is the same in all things in the west.

With Brimbank CEO Marilyn Duncan set to resign only six months before her five year contract expires, questions are being asked about her payout figure which is becoming the subject of a great deal of public interest.

Here it is, finally, our Top 10 forum topics for the 2006 year. And yes, Ken Capar does get a guernsey, but we had to bend the rules to get him in. And of course the Sunshine pool complex was a red hot topic all year, but it didn't come in at number one.

Can you guess what the number one topic for 2006 was? Read on to find out.

Also, if you haven't already done so, don't forget to read part 1 of this article, where we reveal how SunRRA's website has continued to grow. You can also read about 2 of our most popular topics from last year's Top 10 and how visits and posts to these 2 topics have continued to grow.