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	<title>Councillor Ross Grove &#187; Holroyd City Council</title>
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		<title>OPEN FOR BUSINESS: Council backs the Ross Grove SmartForms proposal</title>
		<link>http://rossgrove.com/2010/05/05/open-for-business-council-backs-the-ross-grove-smartforms-proposal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 16:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross Grove</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Holroyd City Liberal Councillor Ross Grove has managed to secure a win for the local community tonight by getting his colleagues to support the implementation of SmartForms, an online initiative designed to untangle the maze of redtape and bureaucracy associated with local government. &#8220;Smartforms will make doing business with Council much more user-friendly for everyone.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Animal-rights indoctrination program exposed and thwarted</title>
		<link>http://rossgrove.com/2010/03/17/council-animal-rights-indoctrination-program-exposed-and-thwarted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross Grove</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A council organised animal-rights indoctrination program which encourages children as young as nine to become vegetarians and political activists is likely to be curbed at the result of Liberal Councillor Ross Grove&#8217;s actions in response to Holroyd City Council’s recent endorsement of a sister-city relationship with the Riverina-based Hay Shire Council. “Council’s ‘Too Cruel for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update on Holroyd&#8217;s bus routes</title>
		<link>http://rossgrove.com/2010/02/27/update-on-holroyds-bus-routes/</link>
		<comments>http://rossgrove.com/2010/02/27/update-on-holroyds-bus-routes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross Grove</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently the state government announced their ammended bus route plan for our local area. Whilst there are winners and a number of losers, it is thanks to the the campaign waged by local councillors, residents, businesses and the state opposition which inevitably pressured the state government into changing their plans to cut bus routes and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keneally will cut services and infrastructure &#8211; Grove</title>
		<link>http://rossgrove.com/2009/12/04/keneally-will-cut-services-and-infrastructure-grove/</link>
		<comments>http://rossgrove.com/2009/12/04/keneally-will-cut-services-and-infrastructure-grove/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross Grove</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kristina Keneally]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I never thought I would be unhappy to see the back of Nathan Rees as Premier of NSW. The elevation of Kristina Keneally to the post of Premier sends shivers down my spine because she has a track record of cutting services and infrastructure in the local community. In order to appease property developers (who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SMARTFORMS: Honouring our commitment to cut red tape</title>
		<link>http://rossgrove.com/2009/11/10/smartforms-honouring-our-commitment-to-cut-red-tape/</link>
		<comments>http://rossgrove.com/2009/11/10/smartforms-honouring-our-commitment-to-cut-red-tape/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross Grove</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the last election I gave you, the voter, my personal commitment that I would fight the excesses of bureaucracy and red tape at Holroyd City Council - this was at a time when Holroyd had been branded the second slowest council in NSW by the Department of Planning. (click header for more)]]></description>
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		<title>POLL: New aquatic centre to be built as part of major Council services shake-up</title>
		<link>http://rossgrove.com/2009/11/09/poll-new-aquatic-centre-to-be-built-as-part-of-major-council-services-shake-up/</link>
		<comments>http://rossgrove.com/2009/11/09/poll-new-aquatic-centre-to-be-built-as-part-of-major-council-services-shake-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross Grove</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Guildford]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pools]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our community may be the home to a modern day aquatic and leisure centre under a major review of services provided by Holroyd City Council, Liberal Councillor Ross Grove said today. Under the plan, council’s existing swimming pools at Merrylands, Wentworthville and Guildford will be closed down to make way for a central facility which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debate on caged-eggs shows Council is out of touch with community expectations</title>
		<link>http://rossgrove.com/2009/10/23/debate-on-caged-eggs-shows-council-out-of-touch-with-community-expectation/</link>
		<comments>http://rossgrove.com/2009/10/23/debate-on-caged-eggs-shows-council-out-of-touch-with-community-expectation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross Grove</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The extensive debate at Tuesday night's meeting over Holroyd City Council's position on caged-eggs shows that local councillors have lost touch and would rather talk about side-issues than the real needs and aspirations of the community for improved parks and family facilities.]]></description>
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		<title>Holroyd&#8217;s extreme tree management orders to face the axe</title>
		<link>http://rossgrove.com/2009/03/25/holroyds-extreme-tree-management-orders-to-face-the-axe/</link>
		<comments>http://rossgrove.com/2009/03/25/holroyds-extreme-tree-management-orders-to-face-the-axe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After SIX HOURS of controversial debate spanning eight weeks of council meetings Liberal Councillor Ross Grove has successfully embarrassed the Labor-Independent majority on Holroyd Council into reviewing council's Tree Management Orders - some of the most extreme in the state.]]></description>
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		<title>GRAFFITI: Make them clean it up! &#8211; Grove</title>
		<link>http://rossgrove.com/2008/11/20/graffiti-make-them-clean-it-up-grove/</link>
		<comments>http://rossgrove.com/2008/11/20/graffiti-make-them-clean-it-up-grove/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[West Ward Liberal Councillor Ross Grove has successfully amended Holroyd Council’s new graffiti policy to allow council to lobby for the insertion of restorative justice principles into the Graffiti Control Bill 2008 currently before the NSW Parliament. “The NSW Parliament is currently considering legislation to give more powers for councils to remove graffiti but the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Labor councillors lose their way on graffiti</title>
		<link>http://rossgrove.com/2008/11/18/labor-councillors-lose-their-way-on-graffiti/</link>
		<comments>http://rossgrove.com/2008/11/18/labor-councillors-lose-their-way-on-graffiti/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ross Grove</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[West Ward Liberal Councillor Ross Grove has today criticised Labor councillors for their plans to abandon the graffiti policy they took to the September council election at the upcoming council meeting on Tuesday night. &#8220;Labor have lost their way in the month since the council elections- they went to the polls with a policy to [...]]]></description>
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