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Let's charge not limp out of recession...

Tue 8 Sept - Last week brought some positive news for the national economy and to a lesser extent NSW. We saw that Australia was now the only major economy that grew last year and NSW after two quarters of negative growth returned into positive territory (although it was growth lower than all but one other State).

It appeared to me that the hollow men saw this as an opportunity to take centre stage last week and with trumpets sounding and cymbals clanging... 

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Opening of New Salvos Centre - A Celebration ...
New Salvo Centre.
This is wonderful news Mike. Manly has suffered diminished low cost housing over the past 20 years, and we have a lot of people doing it tough.(many n...
22/07/10 17:27 Read more...
Comment from Bruce O'Toole

Opening of New Salvos Centre - A Celebration ...
Salvos again.
Hello again Mike, Back on to the Salvos & the good work that they do. May I suggest that companies in our area as well as residents of companies l...
22/07/10 16:01 Read more...
Comment from Albert Salles

Opening of New Salvos Centre - A Celebration ...
Salvo`s..............
This is a great story, good to have some positive news for once. Great work Mike. Debra Arena.
22/07/10 15:43 Read more...
Comment from Debra Arena

Opening of New Salvos Centre - A Celebration ...
salvos soup kitchen
I am volunteer at the soup kitchen - thanks for your efforts in getting some of the funding for the recently opened new facility. It will be a great ...
22/07/10 15:41 Read more...
Comment from rod macleod

Opening of New Salvos Centre - A Celebration ...
thanks, Amanda
Hi Amanda Thanks for your offer of help. Below is the email address for Captain Brett Mitchell from the Salvos who can let you know what they most ne...
22/07/10 15:34 Read more...
Comment from Lisa from Mike's office

Opening of New Salvos Centre - A Celebration ...
what can we do to help
Great news that there is somewhere in Manly providing help. What can we do to help? What things do they need? Food/clothes etc happy to try and rou...
22/07/10 15:19 Read more...
Comment from amanda

Opening of New Salvos Centre - A Celebration ...
The Salvos.
Hello Mike, Nice to hear from you. I did in fact pop in your office 2 week's ago but you had gone away. May I say that in the case of the Salvos, ...
22/07/10 14:42 Read more...
Comment from albert Salles

Freshwater Development Proposal
Video link about the proposed developmen
Here is a link to a video in which Peter Harley from The Friends of Freshwater Village takes concerned residents on a tour of the proposed controversi...
21/07/10 14:53 Read more...
Comment from Danny from UpsideDown Producti

Memo to RTA: Don't Tell Us About the Traffic ...
Spit Bridge
....somehow the Spit Bridge has turned pedestrian across the spit instead of over it. Protest now - Call 131 700 !
15/07/10 13:07 Read more...
Comment from Anton Horak

NSW Treasurer Unsure How Fed Bank Guarantees ...
State finances
Hi Mike You may remember me from Christchurch St Ives. I heard recently how proud the State Govt was to announce they will be in the black 2 years b...
29/06/10 12:05 Read more...
Comment from Peter Munro

Seaforth Traffic Sign
RTA SIGN
I agree entirely with what Mike had to tell parliament, but an important issue went unaddressed - the flaws in the RTA which led it to make this decis...
25/06/10 10:01 Read more...
Comment from Paul

Seaforth Traffic Sign
RTA sign in Seaforth
One day an accident will occur because a motorist was so busy reading all the signs that 'litter' our roads and highways. Spend the money on reducing ...
25/06/10 07:55 Read more...
Comment from Annette Debenham

Seaforth Traffic Sign
Seaforth traffic
If you mange to get the minister to Seaforth . Please could you show him the roundabout, the possibility for slip roads st the rounabout and the acce...
24/06/10 16:09 Read more...
Comment from Sandy Hudspith

Seaforth Traffic Sign
Seaforth Traffic Sign.
Hello Mike. What a waste, I will save the other words ! RTA = Real Total Absurdity ! Keep well, A.
24/06/10 15:26 Read more...
Comment from A. Salles

Seaforth Traffic Sign
$4oo,ooo down the drain.................
Again the RTA have come up with no solution to fixing the problem, all they are doing is creating another one. That $400,000 could be put to better us...
24/06/10 15:11 Read more...
Comment from Debra Arena

Seaforth Traffic Sign
Seaforth Traffic Sign
It's a pity energy has to be wasted trying to get the RTA/Government to see commonsense. I think this side of the spit bridge should now be allocated...
24/06/10 14:52 Read more...
Comment from Denise Lee

Seaforth Traffic Sign
$400,000 Seaforth sign
This appears to be another example of our State Governments ignorance and lack of foresight. Futhermore it continue to show how out of touch they wre ...
24/06/10 14:27 Read more...
Comment from Kirsten

Seaforth Traffic Sign
Wasting money
I still get the strong impression that they're only going to move the location of the sign, instead of using the money in a meaningful way to fix some...
24/06/10 14:27 Read more...
Comment from Alicia

Memo to RTA: Don't Tell Us About the Traffic ...
Burnt Bridge Creek
Roads planning has reached an appalling state, remove the variable message sign on the Burnt Bridge Creek Deviation, stop construction of the proposed...
23/06/10 15:30 Read more...
Comment from Anton Horak

Memo to RTA: Don't Tell Us About the Traffic ...
Memo to RTA: Don't Tell Us About the Tr
Same thing applies to the insult to peak hour motorists travelling towards the city over the past week along Ourimbah Rd. The vile scum that decided t...
20/06/10 00:37 Read more...
Comment from Alex Jabs