Mr. Rob Duffy

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  mudgee.yourguide.com.au/news/local/news/general/busines - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/28/2008    Last Visited: 9/28/2008  

  President of the Mudgee Business Association (MBA), Rob Duffy said this would be up for discussion at the meeting tonight.
  
  "Discussions so far have been very positive.
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  Mr Duffy said local business was doing it tough at the present time.
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  Rob Duffy.
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  Rob Duffy.

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  Published on: 10/12/2007    Last Visited: 10/13/2007  

  COST NOT THE ISSUE: MBA president Rob Duffy says the decision to hold the meeting on the Stockland development application in council chambers will prevent the public having a say on its future.COST NOT THE ISSUE: MBA president Rob Duffy says the decision to hold the meeting on the Stockland development application in council chambers will prevent the public having a say on its future.
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  In a media release, the president of the MBA, Rob Duffy said that it was "unconscionable that some councillors would seek to prevent the public having a say on its own community's future using cost as an excuse."
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  Mr Duffy said it did not seem right when Mr Bennett has just gone on a conference to the USA at a cost of $6000 to ratepayers.
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  "To baulk at spending less than $2000 on audio visual equipment for this meeting whilst having no quibble with spending $6000 to send the general manager overseas is beyond reason," Mr Duffy said.
  
  "The MBA finds it extraordinary that some councillors can say a flat no to their ratepayers, but not question the general manager being sent to the US on an educational exercise.
  
  "Local business uses the internet for world-wide trading, training and education every single day.We wonder how much value for money the ratepayers are getting by allowing the GM to stay in luxury accommodation and rub shoulders.Is it about our future or his?"Mr Duffy said.
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  "This decision carries all the hallmarks of an attempt to stifle debate," Mr Duffy said.
  
  "It's just not good enough.
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  "This decision carries all the hallmarks of an attempt to stifle debate," Mr Duffy said.
  
  "It's just not good enough.

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  Published on: 10/19/2007    Last Visited: 10/19/2007  

  Mudgee Business Association president Rob Duffy and Mr Holden asked council to reconsider an earlier recommendation - to hold the meeting in council chambers.

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  Robert Duffy - Committee

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  Mudgee.yourguide - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/17/2006    Last Visited: 11/17/2006  

  In spite of city shops being able to open on both Boxing Day and New Year's Day, it is very unlikely Mudgee stores will follow suit, according to Mudgee Business Association president, Rob Duffy.
  
  Mr Duffy said most of Mudgee's retailers consider those days holiday and family time and there usually is not enough people around to warrant opening at that time.
  
  "The ones normally open are the coffee shops and specialty shops," Mr Duffy said.
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  However, Mr Duffy said in a small country town, employees could feel pressure to 'volunteer' because they want to please their employer and not lose their job.

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  mudgee.yourguide - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/13/2006    Last Visited: 10/13/2006  

  New Mudgee Business Association (MBA) president Rob Duffy sent an email to members this week to advice them that the MBA would be unable to stage the annual Christmas carnival this year due to a lack of organisers.
  
  Christmas in Mudgee generally attracts thousands of people to Mudgee's CBD in the lead-up to Christmas, with entertainment, stall holders, food and drink and a visit by Santa Claus himself.
  
  However, it is not a case of "Bah Humbug" , but a case of MBA members not stepping forward to join the MBA executive or its Christmas in Mudgee committee. > >
  
  Mr Duffy, who was vice president of the MBA last year and a member of the Christmas in Mudgee street carnival committee, said he reluctantly took the position of president because no one else would.He added that no one had put their hand up to be secretary either.
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  Last year's secretary, Katherine Stanford, did an excellent job of organising the street carnival with her helpers, but this year the secretary is also the treasurer and there are not enough hours in the day to cope, Mr Duffy said.
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  Mr Duffy said local businesses are just working too hard to survive and there is no time left over to do the extras.
  
  "I have been involved with the MBA since 1984 and every time times get tough and business is not as good as it can be, they tend to go into the doldrums," he said.
  
  "If there is anyone in the community that would help with the organisation, we could do something, but time is running out," he said.
  
  So, unless someone steps up to the plate the prospect of Steve Mini jumping his bike near the town clock at Church and Market Streets - and other major attractions the Thursday before Christmas - appear dead.
  
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  Published on: 12/22/2006    Last Visited: 12/22/2006  

  MBA president Rob Duffy voiced disappointment at the decision.
  
  He said that economic impact had not been given enough attention and it was disappointing that councillors had ingnored a 5000-name anti-Stockland petition.He also questionned the sale of Wilkinson's Furniture One to Stockland at 5.15pm, on Wednesday night just before the meeting with talk of the sale flying around council chambers.
  
  "Did they know something we didn't know?"he asked.

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  Published on: 1/19/2007    Last Visited: 1/19/2007  

  MBA President Rob Duffy this week.MBA President Rob Duffy this week.
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  MBA president Rob Duffy said the meeting was successful in finding avenues that could strengthen the business association's defense against the Stockland development.
  
  "Since the meeting with Mary-Lynne we have found a number of areas where we could take action against the development through the Land and Environment Court," Mr Duffy said.
  
  "We have had a legal opinion that one of the clauses of council's LEP has been breached."
  
  The MBA will be holding a public forum to discuss the action it will take.
  
  "So far, we plan the meeting to take place on January 30 at the Mudgee Soldiers' Club auditorium and there we hope to have guest speakers," Mr Duffy said.
  
  One speaker Mr Duffy has arranged to attend the public forum is University of New England Professor, Robert Baker.
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  Mr Duffy has said that from the meeting, MBA members and the general public will discuss the situation and consider their options further.
  
  "The action we take in the future against the proposed development will be determined by our available funds," he said.
  
  The fight against the Stockland Development has created a noticeable stir amongst the community, so much so that the Sydney Morning Herald made its way to Mudgee this week and was planning to publish a story on the issue in its paper tomorrow (Saturday, January 20)
  
  Mr Duffy and the MBA is working on gathering other guest speakers for the public forum.
  
  He has also confirmed that the MBA has been lobbying councillors in the hopes of getting a recission motion to the council chambers.

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  Published on: 1/15/2007    Last Visited: 1/15/2007  

  President of the MBA, Rob Duffy, hopes that the legal advice the MBA receives will direct it towards a breakthrough in its fight against the Stockland development.President of the MBA, Rob Duffy, hopes that the legal advice the MBA receives will direct it towards a breakthrough in its fight against the Stockland development.
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  MBA president Rob Duffy said the purpose of the meeting was to help direct the Mudgee community on overturning the Stockland development.
  
  "We sought after advice on the direction the Mudgee community could take in having the decision of the Mid-Western Region Council to approve the Stockland development overturned," Mr Duffy said.
  
  "The MBA has been collecting information over the Christmas break relating to council's decision and the process involved in reaching the approval in late December," he said.
  
  Mr Duffy stressed that the MBA is not against development on the Mortimer Street site, but was firmly opposed to the amended Stockland Development Application as it stands at present.
  
  "It is still too big and still too soon to have a shopping mall project of such a massive scale forced on us," Mr Duffy said.
  
  "All the independent studies we have seen clearly state that the Stockland mall will have a negative social and economic impact on the town," he said.
  
  The MBA is now organising a public meeting to be held within the next two weeks to discuss future movements.
  
  "We hope that this advice will be some sort of breakthrough for our fight against the development," Mr Duffy said.
  
  Although adamant the proposed council development is not right for Mudgee, Mr Duffy said the MBA would gladly support new development as longas the community could cater for its size.
  
  "The proposed development it much too large for Mudgee.
  
  "A win for us in this battle would even be to see a considerably downsizing of the current proposal," Mr Duffy said.

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  EMPTY STREETS: MBA President, Rob Duffy, in front of a ‘For Lease' sign in front of Corporate Express along Mortimer Street.EMPTY STREETS: MBA President, Rob Duffy, in front of a ‘For Lease' sign in front of Corporate Express along Mortimer Street.
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  "Mudgee's still very dependent on the rural economy," said Rob Duffy, president of the Mudgee Business Association, who describes the current situation as a "flow-on effect of the drought."
  
  In 25 years of experience with business in Mudgee, Mr Duffy has observed that any drought means a recession for local businesses, and he has never seen a drought worse than this one.

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