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    Josie Vine

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    A column by Josie Vine, RMIT senior journalism lecturer.
    Politics

    Ashamed councillors, a Techno Park decision, and who pays for Paisley Street?

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    Ashamed councillors, a Techno Park decision, and who pays for Paisley Street?
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    Anniversaries, centenaries, train stations and mulch-gate

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    Council updates for Melbourne's west: Anniversaries, centenaries, train stations and mulch-gate chambers to be voted on. 
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    Spending our money

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    Well, it’s that time of year again. When councils decide what they’re gunna spend our money on. And because they can’t spend it without our say-so, they put draft proposed budgets out for public consultation before heading back to chambers to be voted on. 
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    The bill of bickering

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    Irrelevant, vexatious, obscene, improper, incorrect, collusive, and garbage! These are just some of the words our elected councillors use to describe each other.
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    Bigger’n Taylor Swift!

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    The meetings at Hobsons Bay and Brimbank council last month were bigger’n Taylor Swift!. Well no, maybe your correspondent exaggerates. But there were a lot of people both in and outside council chambers.
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