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		<title>We&#8217;re having a heat wave</title>
		<link>http://alpineopinion.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/were-having-a-heat-wave/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was only 2 or 3 weeks ago that we were still having cold wintery conditions, snowfalls on the mountains and temperatures in the low to mid-teens. That&#8217;s all changed quite rapidly and now I&#8217;m even having to water the lawn (we&#8217;re lucky we still can &#8211; we have no restrictions yet). There&#8217;s no sign [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alpineopinion.wordpress.com&blog=916178&post=8592&subd=alpineopinion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Opposition to Gondola starts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another cause for Wally?
The Alpine council looks like it&#8217;s in for a drawn out battle over its support for a proposed $20 &#8211; $30 million gondola going up Mt Buffalo as a major national tourist attraction. According to this report in the Border Mail, the proposal has already attracted opposition from the Victorian National Parks Association spokesman [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alpineopinion.wordpress.com&blog=916178&post=8584&subd=alpineopinion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s the Zuvele v Sophie Show #2</title>
		<link>http://alpineopinion.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/its-the-zuvele-v-sophie-show-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mirabella challenged on climate change
Former Alpine councillor Zuvele Leschen, who once again will run as the ALP candidate for Indi at the next Federal election, wants her opponent Sophie Mirabella to &#8220;come clean&#8221; and outline her views on climate change following last night&#8217;s ABC’s ‘Four Corners’ show that revealed senior coalition figures as non-believers &#38; sceptics on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alpineopinion.wordpress.com&blog=916178&post=8578&subd=alpineopinion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wally&#8217;s hopes dashed (again)</title>
		<link>http://alpineopinion.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/wallys-hopes-dashed-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Dixon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpine Shire Council]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you&#8217;re wondering why there has been no work on the Bright Woolworths building site since last Thursday, it&#8217;s my understanding that workers have had to move out of the adjoining Acacia Motel to accommodate bookings for the current Hot Rod weekend, which were booked 12 months ago. The workers had been staying at Acacia [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alpineopinion.wordpress.com&blog=916178&post=8571&subd=alpineopinion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Simplicity Simpleton&#8217;s Bike</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
It&#8217;s a Unicycle &#8230;. for those who can&#8217;t ride unicycles!
From The Coolist website  comes the latest in minimalist bicycle design, Joey Ruiter’s Simplicity Bike. 
Designed as an on-the-go commuter bike for easy, breezy rides through the city, this highly impractical looking bike (that really is just a glorified unicycle - with two wheels!)  will no doubt sell like hot cakes once it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alpineopinion.wordpress.com&blog=916178&post=8564&subd=alpineopinion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bright Rod Run 2009</title>
		<link>http://alpineopinion.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/bright-rod-run-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s perfect weather in Bright this weekend for the Northern Suburbs Street Rod Club&#8217;s 19th annual Bright Rod Run. Let&#8217;s just hope that &#8216;the barriers&#8217; put in their way this year do not see us lose this event. The cars, the huge crowds and the noise actually creates a great atmosphere despite what a few stick-in-the-muds might say. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alpineopinion.wordpress.com&blog=916178&post=8542&subd=alpineopinion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vic Roads welcomes the Hot Rods to Bright &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://alpineopinion.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/vic-roads-welcomes-the-hot-rods-to-bright/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Dixon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bright Australia]]></category>
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It&#8217;s Thursday before the big Hot Rod event, the biggest of its kind in Southern Hemisphere, with over 1,000 highly decorated and expensive Street Rods about to roll into Bright &#8211; and they start arriving today. So what is this on my nature strip by the Great Alpine Road so bright &#38; early? What&#8217;s going on with THE [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alpineopinion.wordpress.com&blog=916178&post=8533&subd=alpineopinion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wally just won&#8217;t go away</title>
		<link>http://alpineopinion.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/wally-just-wont-go-away/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Dixon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpine Shire Council]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8230;.. they should be stopping work before it goes much further.&#8221; ~ Lee &#8216;Wally&#8217; Rosser articulating his opposition to the progress of the new Woolies supermarket in Bright.
Have a read of this press statement put out by the Alpine council late today, Monday 2 November, following a meeting with &#8216;ex&#8217; Save Bright spokesperson Lee &#8216;Wally&#8217; Rosser [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alpineopinion.wordpress.com&blog=916178&post=8511&subd=alpineopinion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A gondola for Mt Buffalo?</title>
		<link>http://alpineopinion.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/a-gondola-for-mt-buffalo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Dixon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alpine Shire Council]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mount Buffalo Skyways Project to be investigated
The Alpine Council is set to investigate a potential iconic tourism project &#8211; a gondola up to Mount Buffalo aimed at elevating this region’s status on the national and international tourism map. 
At this week&#8217;s council meeting, the council&#8217;s tourism body, Great Alpine Valleys Tourism Board (GAVTB), are seeking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alpineopinion.wordpress.com&blog=916178&post=8484&subd=alpineopinion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New dispute over special rate</title>
		<link>http://alpineopinion.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/new-dispute-over-special-rate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE Sunday 1 November: Rob de Sauty from Bright IGA has stated that they are NOT the appellant in this case (see comments). I wonder who is. Does anyone know?
IGA taking on the Alpine council?
The Alpine council&#8217;s controversial special rate &#8211; a surcharge of 50% that it imposes on commercial properties like mine - is once [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alpineopinion.wordpress.com&blog=916178&post=8482&subd=alpineopinion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Honest John</title>
		<link>http://alpineopinion.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/honest-john/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Did you kill your 70-year-old mother, put her in a barrel and throw her into a creek?&#8221;
&#8220;Of course not.&#8221; 
&#8220;I love my mum.&#8221; 
&#8220;I&#8217;d do anything for my mum,&#8221; he said &#8230;. 
&#8230;. adding (that) police believed he had used his mum&#8217;s money after she disappeared to buy a $300,000 Ferrari.
Well, I believe him.
Source: HeraldSun
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		<title>And he also hates the Hot Rods</title>
		<link>http://alpineopinion.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/and-he-also-hates-the-hot-rods/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post expressing hatred for the forthcoming Bright Rod Run event, is from an anonymously authored anti-Ray Dixon website that I stumbled across recently.
I know who runs this piece of garbage because some time ago he expressed almost identical sentiments about the hot rod event in a private email that he sent me under his own name (for a change). Obviously he&#8217;s forgotten about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alpineopinion.wordpress.com&blog=916178&post=8450&subd=alpineopinion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Melbourne Cup Sweep</title>
		<link>http://alpineopinion.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/melbourne-cup-sweep/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[drinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gambling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: I have now registered at http://mycupsweep.com.au, which is run by the TAB, but no details are available yet ~ maybe that&#8217;s a way it can be done.
Sorry, I no can do
With apologies to Stuart, Rox, Baldrick et al, I have made a decision that it is just not practical for A.O. to conduct a sweepstakes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alpineopinion.wordpress.com&blog=916178&post=8443&subd=alpineopinion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stop work now, says Wal</title>
		<link>http://alpineopinion.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/stop-work-now-says-wal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exclusive: 
Wally&#8217;s memo (in song) to the Alpine councillors
For the second week in a row the so-called controversy surrounding the wall height of the Woolworths supermarket presently under construction in Bright dominates the front page of the Bright Observer. And once again the only concerned resident appears to be local musician &#38; &#8216;former&#8217; Save Bright spokesperson Lee &#8216;Wally&#8217; Rosser. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alpineopinion.wordpress.com&blog=916178&post=8430&subd=alpineopinion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bright Rod Run barriers</title>
		<link>http://alpineopinion.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/bright-rod-run-barriers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Alpine Council has been good enough to drop off a map of the:
 New &#8216;road management plan&#8217; for the Bright Hot Rod Event from 6 &#8211; 8 Nov. 
Contrary to the way the original notice read, the rods will not be banned from the CBD, however, access will be severely limited and they will no longer be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alpineopinion.wordpress.com&blog=916178&post=8417&subd=alpineopinion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blogs are burning</title>
		<link>http://alpineopinion.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/blogs-are-burning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twitter sucks
So let&#8217;s take the Internet back!
It seems everyone is too busy on Twitter to write on their blogs these days.
Well I&#8217;ve had enough.
I&#8217;m calling on all bloggers to unite and rid us of the pest known as Twitter.
And what better way to get the message across than in song?
To the tune of Midnight Oil&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alpineopinion.wordpress.com&blog=916178&post=8392&subd=alpineopinion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Holding to say thank you &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://alpineopinion.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/holding-to-say-thank-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; with a sausage sizzle !
I&#8217;ve just read in today&#8217;s Herald-Sun that State Minister for Water, Tourism and just about everything else, Tim Holding, is putting on a free barbecue in Bright today to say thank you to those involved in his rescue from the icy slopes of Mt Feathertop about two months ago.
Unfortunately we didn&#8217;t get [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alpineopinion.wordpress.com&blog=916178&post=8381&subd=alpineopinion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rods banned from Bright CBD?</title>
		<link>http://alpineopinion.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/rods-banned-from-bright-cbd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bright Australia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE Monday 26 October: I&#8217;ve spoken to Peter @ the council and it&#8217;s a partial blockade in that the rodders will not be able to do laps around the clock tower. I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s going to work though. Peter is dropping off a map later today and I&#8217;ll put it up here.
Huh? This [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alpineopinion.wordpress.com&blog=916178&post=8370&subd=alpineopinion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Strange search terms</title>
		<link>http://alpineopinion.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/strange-search-terms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world is full of weirdos &#8230; 
&#8230; who go searching @ Google looking for all manner of things. Somehow these search term enquiries have brought people to this blog over the past 7 days. My o-so-witty responses are in italics: 
what does an ugly guy look like? ~ The opposite to me.
rox no going back on this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alpineopinion.wordpress.com&blog=916178&post=8364&subd=alpineopinion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Infrastructure builds tourism</title>
		<link>http://alpineopinion.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/infrastructure-attracts-tourists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So why aren&#8217;t we improving Bright&#8217;s CBD?
This news story from ABC Online  highlights the very issue that I have been raising for many years. 
At long last someone else is making the right calls.
I have been saying for years that the best way for established tourist destinations in regional areas &#8211; like Bright - to attract more tourists is to enhance [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alpineopinion.wordpress.com&blog=916178&post=8356&subd=alpineopinion&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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