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      <title>Mr vincent Marty [Signature #106]</title>
      <link>https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/14107315?utm_medium=rss</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Mr vincent Marty, Currans Hill, NSW, Australia<p>I would like to invite you to view my petitions for the support of injured workers in Australia and their rights, and decide if you wish to sign on one or both and if you could kindly pass the links around to your family, friends, co-workers...( may be your supporters too as my petitions truly concern all) ...as you know it is hard to promote a petition and any legal ways to do so should be exploited...thank you for your understanding<br />
www.communityrun.org/p/classaction15<br />
and<br />
www.communityrun.org/p/royalcommission<br />
Thanks</p>

<p>Vincent</p>]]></description>
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      <title>mrs Paula Fielding [Signature #105]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[mrs Paula Fielding, Penguin, Tasmania, Australia<p>Save our Schools!!!</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 5 Jul 2011 01:52:00 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Anna Tremayne [Signature #104]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Anna Tremayne, Perth, WA, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 4 Jul 2011 12:59:04 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr peter Swain [Signature #103]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr peter Swain, Exeter, Tasmania, Australia<p>Westbury is a small town that needs a primary school to support the towns residents and business.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>ms Anonymous [Signature #102]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anonymous, punchbowl, tasmania, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 4 Jul 2011 12:21:14 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Miss Emma Hodgkinson [Signature #101]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miss Emma Hodgkinson, Deloraine, Tas, Australia<p>SAVE OUR SCHOOLS!<br />
Meander and Meander vally schools should not be targeted- especially westbury primary</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 3 Jul 2011 11:03:11 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Anne Yeates [Signature #100]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Anne Yeates, Mole Creek, Tas, Australia<p>By closing the rural schools you are being very short sighted.  If closed all the students will have to travel much further and use more petrol therefore adding to carbon pollution. These schools are vital to their local community and must never be closed.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 3 Jul 2011 10:01:36 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>ms Cindy Watkins [Signature #99]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[ms Cindy Watkins, Deloraine, Tas, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 3 Jul 2011 09:57:24 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Jeremy Geach [Signature #98]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Jeremy Geach, Wagga Wagga, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 3 Jul 2011 07:44:15 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Amy Geach [Signature #97]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Amy Geach, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia<p>We underestimate the importance of Education for our children now but also in the future when they enter the workforce.  Funding schools like WPS is an investment for the country&#039;s future. It is not even a small school.  It needs to be kept open to support working localy families and support the local community</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mr Kevin Sheldon [Signature #96]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Kevin Sheldon, Weegena, Tasmania, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 3 Jul 2011 07:20:33 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Geraldine How [Signature #95]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Geraldine How, Mole Creek]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 3 Jul 2011 06:40:51 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Fiona Proudfoot [Signature #94]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Fiona Proudfoot, Golden Valley]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 3 Jul 2011 05:25:11 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>mrs kim dane [Signature #93]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[mrs kim dane, westbury, AU, Australia<p>An education for all is vital. Denying this to the kid&#039;s is criminal.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Ms Isabel Shapcott [Signature #92]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Isabel Shapcott, Deloraine<p>Invest in our children.  It will pay off exponentially. Smaller class sizes = a better investment.  It is also preventative.  Small schools also build community, which has the most far reaching benefits. You may think you&#039;re saving $ by closing schools, but you could end up spending a whole lot more later - on welfare, law inforcement, remedial learning, mental health for those in isolated communities, transport, pollution (more travel) and on and on.  Closing schools is not a smart move.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>mrs Jodi Snell [Signature #91]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[mrs Jodi Snell, longford]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 2 Jul 2011 07:13:23 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Bessie Strating [Signature #90]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Bessie Strating, Grindelwald, Tas]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 2 Jul 2011 06:35:30 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>mrs Katrina Viney [Signature #89]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[mrs Katrina Viney, Westbury<p>Save our primary school. I went their my children went to Westbury and I have a granddaughter their.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mrs Saahza Hensley [Signature #88]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Saahza Hensley, Glen Huon, Tasmania, Australia<p>Please dont close another community school. Our children need the fantastic education they provide.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 2 Jul 2011 04:29:52 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Kyle Simmons [Signature #87]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Kyle Simmons, Kingston, Tasmania, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 2 Jul 2011 04:26:47 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr William Scollard [Signature #86]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr William Scollard, Windermere, Tasmania, Australia<p>How can they justify financing the Triabunna sale, invest millions of dollars on football and then say we can&#039;t afford to educate Tasmanian students within their communities.</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 2 Jul 2011 03:58:06 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Dr Jennifer Gales [Signature #85]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dr Jennifer Gales, Windermere, Tasmania, Australia<p>State Government needs to recognise the importance of schools in rural communities to the surrounding communities for connectivity and employment opportunities. Dollars saved on school closures will be lost on expenses incurred to keep communities and small businesses operating. Shame on the Labour Government</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mrs Angela Moore [Signature #84]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Angela Moore, Geelong, Victoria, Australia<p>Every skill and strength I have and utilise to this day, I attribute to my years at Westbury Primary School, a small school where the teachers were able to support and extend my learning, show interest in the person I was becoming and give me the confidence to achieve anything I set my mind to which led to a love of education, a Masters degree in Education, teaching in a remote Aboriginal community and enriching my two year old son&#039;s life with all these things have given me.</p>

<p>Save my school!</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mrs Michela Pinner [Signature #83]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Michela Pinner, Norwood, Tasmania, Australia<p>This is a wonderful school and will cause the community to be very negatively affected if it is closed.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mrs Diana Stevens [Signature #82]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Diana Stevens, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia<p>You moved the road, it killed local business. Close the SCHOOL and it kills the community. Take a PAY CUT ALL POLITICIANS. You don&#039;t earn the big bucks so give some back.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Ms Cheryl Barnard [Signature #81]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ms Cheryl Barnard, Mole Creek, Tasmania, Australia<p>Another great school in the Meander Valley on the hit list. Please save our schools!!</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mrs Corinne Allen [Signature #80]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Corinne Allen, Mole Creek, TAS, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 1 Jul 2011 09:58:33 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr Geoff Tabain [Signature #79]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Geoff Tabain, Devonport]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 1 Jul 2011 09:37:20 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Ms Hannah Briggs [Signature #78]</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 1 Jul 2011 09:36:30 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Dale Anning [Signature #77]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Dale Anning, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia<p>Children of primary school age should be able to go to a local school rather than travel to another area. It is at primary school that children gradually gain a sense of independence in a safe environment that is not overwhelming. Being moved out of area does not cater for this, especially if the school they attend is large.  Their early years of education are so important, surely it is better to offer quality experiences in smaller classes than make crucial decisions on an economic basis.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>MS Jude Preece [Signature #76]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[MS Jude Preece, Launceston, Australia]]></description>
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      <title>Mrs Christen Richards [Signature #75]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Christen Richards, Frankland, WA]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 1 Jul 2011 08:05:11 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Ellen Marston [Signature #74]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Ellen Marston, Westbury<p>AS GRANDPARENTS WE WOULD FIND IT DIFFICULT TO PICK UP CHILDREN FROM ANOTHER SCHOOL</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mr Graeme Marston [Signature #73]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Graeme Marston, Westbury<p>AS GRANDPARENTS WE WOULD FIND IT DIFFICULT TO PICK UP CHILDREN FROM ANOTHER SCHOOL</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mrs Naomi Nichols [Signature #72]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Naomi Nichols, Hagley, Tasmania, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 1 Jul 2011 06:43:19 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Lorey Bentley [Signature #71]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Lorey Bentley, Yarraville]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 1 Jul 2011 06:14:34 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Jo-Anne Worsfold [Signature #70]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Jo-Anne Worsfold, Westbury<p>It is vital for my family and for the westbury community that our school remains open. The worry I&#039;m experiencing at the thought of sending my young 4 year old on a bus every day unrestrained is massive. Also the worry of her getting lost in the system amongst a class full of 30 + students at an alternative school, as opposed to her being known by all teachers and most students at westbury primary - giving her confidence, excellent social skills, the list goes on.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Miss Andrea Neilson [Signature #69]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Miss Andrea Neilson, London, United Kingdom]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 1 Jul 2011 02:45:05 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mr John McDonald [Signature #68]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr John McDonald, hOBART<p>If its money you need ...how about selling the property of some of the schools you have already closed?  Claremont primary , Abbotsfield Primary , Claremont High ??</p>]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 1 Jul 2011 07:38:52 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Karen Gibson [Signature #67]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Karen Gibson, St.Leonards]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 1 Jul 2011 04:57:28 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>mrs kristy wallis [Signature #66]</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 1 Jul 2011 04:30:21 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>mrs tiana kirkhope [Signature #65]</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 1 Jul 2011 04:15:04 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Pam Johns [Signature #64]</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 1 Jul 2011 03:35:00 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>ms kristy hennessy [Signature #63]</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 1 Jul 2011 03:30:34 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>miss kylie frost [Signature #62]</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 1 Jul 2011 03:28:23 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mts Kerry Lee [Signature #61]</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 1 Jul 2011 03:09:28 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>MRS Cheryl Hyde [Signature #60]</title>
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      <title>Mr Clinton Garratt [Signature #59]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Clinton Garratt, Devonport, Tas, Australia]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 1 Jul 2011 02:24:14 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Mrs Amanda Barnett [Signature #58]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mrs Amanda Barnett, Petrie, Australia<p>Part of tasmania&#039;s unique charm is to truly bring children up in a village type community, a place of safety and care. I am signing this petition to support our friends who Live in westbury, moving there for the unique community village lifestyle , don&#039;t take the heart of the community away!</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Mr Scott Marston [Signature #57]</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mr Scott Marston, Hobart, Tas, Australia<p>The Westbury Primary School will soo expand due to the opportunities provided to the Commmunity by the meander Dam, please do not close this great asset to the community down.</p>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:52:22 UTC</pubDate>
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The money needed to move these children to other schools will negate any money the department could possibly save. Its a load of rubbish that bigger schools deliver better programs, in fact the oposite applies. Smaller schools have more unity and teachers are better able to cater for the individual. Where a child is happy they are more likely to learn!</p>]]></description>
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