Comments on: Ballina Shire residents’ wish-list for 2025 http://www.ballina.info/blog/2006/02/20/ballina-shire-residents-wish-list-for-2025/ Regular information and comments on the Ballina Shire. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:53:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: barry http://www.ballina.info/blog/2006/02/20/ballina-shire-residents-wish-list-for-2025/#comment-19 barry Mon, 20 Feb 2006 04:50:48 +0000 http://www.ballina.info/blog/2006/02/20/ballina-shire-residents-wish-list-for-2025/#comment-19 Your comment about poverty in the shire makes sense to me -- there's a lot of people out there struggling. I wonder how a family could survive on $500 a week, given that if they're on such a low income, it's likely they would be renting. Your comment about poverty in the shire makes sense to me — there’s a lot of people out there struggling. I wonder how a family could survive on $500 a week, given that if they’re on such a low income, it’s likely they would be renting.

]]> By: dave http://www.ballina.info/blog/2006/02/20/ballina-shire-residents-wish-list-for-2025/#comment-18 dave Mon, 20 Feb 2006 03:16:36 +0000 http://www.ballina.info/blog/2006/02/20/ballina-shire-residents-wish-list-for-2025/#comment-18 The natural environment, IMO, is definitely the most valuable resource that we have and I hope that the council does everything in its power to keep it clean and accessible for everybody. It has been sad to watch over the years the amount of housing popping up between Ballina and Lennox Head, fortunately we not seen another Gold Coast though! The amount of poverty in the Ballina Shire both surprises me, and doesn't surprise me [if that makes sense]. The natural environment, IMO, is definitely the most valuable resource that we have and I hope that the council does everything in its power to keep it clean and accessible for everybody.

It has been sad to watch over the years the amount of housing popping up between Ballina and Lennox Head, fortunately we not seen another Gold Coast though!

The amount of poverty in the Ballina Shire both surprises me, and doesn’t surprise me [if that makes sense].

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