Once upon a time, if you were applying for a lease, if you hadn’t burnt down the last house you were pretty much given the keys. Now it can require half a dozen referees who are willing to reveal things about you that border on the outrageous and demeaning.
Mandy Nolan’s Soap Box #144 – A lease woman
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Suffolk Park Pump Track
We the ‘Engaged Neighbours’, on behalf of the Suffolk Park pump track’s affected neighbours and 300–400 petitioners and letter writers, request Council NOT to continue to bulldoze the large fenced in section of Linda Vidler Parkland adjacent to Baz and Shaz’s shop, close to the houses on three sides.
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