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Badge of honour BENDIGO has made its mark on the RSL’s latest Anzac Day fundraising badge. The $50 badge featuring Army nurses was inspired by suggestions from RSL secretary Lisa Gellatly, pictured, with a little help from the Bendigo Weekly. A former Army nurse herself, Ms Gellatly sent in some ideas and photographs, including a Weekly cover from 2015, to Anzac House. When the final design was revealed and the badges produced, Ms Gellatly was told inspiration for the badge had come from her submission.
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Continuing the tradition
THE RSL’s commemorative group will be busy over this special weekend taking part in many events. Becky Dodgshun and Eilish Pocock will play their part as World War I-era Anzac nurses. – Anzac stories Pages 6, 7 and 9
TIPPING POINT Photo: ANDREW PERRYMAN
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By SHARON KEMP
RATEPAYERS will be asked to carry the weight of increasing waste costs in a City of Greater Bendigo budget that also puts more resources to the unglamorous use of renewing assets rather than building shiny new ones. Councillors are warning that ratepayers will need to change their behaviour around waste disposal if they don’t want to see charges continue to rise. The market upheaval caused by China no longer buying recyclables, which has led to most Australian
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shires increasing waste costs, will speed up discussions about longterm waste solutions, including expensive waste to energy infrastructure, according to the council. “We are doing some careful homework,” strategy and growth director Bernie O’Sullivan said. Deputy mayor Jennifer Alden is warning against rushing to a high cost solution when “we are not addressing behaviour change and oth-
er opportunities to use waste as a resource”. Councillor Andrea Metcalf said at Wednesday night’s meeting when the draft budget was released for public comment: “Unless we change our habits as a community, this (waste expense) will continue to increase.” Major and capital works remain the biggest expense category for council next year. Of the $40 million the council
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has set aside for major and capital works next financial year, more than $33m will be spent on renewing some of the council’s $1.6 billion in assets, including roads and footpaths. Of that $33m, $3m will go to maintaining facilities, such as town halls and parks, on state government land typically operated by volunteer committees of management which chief executive Craig Niemann and mayor Margaret O’Rourke say are
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routinely ignored when they ask for funding. “They won’t get fixed, it will go round and round because it sits with the state government, not with us, but we end up paying for it because the community needs it,” Cr O’Rourke said. The budget includes funding for some new infrastructure projects in the city such as a pop-up park, new female changerooms at the QEO and an upgrade at the Garden Gully Hockey Pavillion.
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