Beagle Weekender Vol 222 August 27th 2021

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editorial Welcome to this week’s editorial, How goes your lockdown?

Mayor Innes told15th ABC News (Thursday 26th 2021) in regards to the September 10th extension of the lockVol 16 September 2017 28 April December 7th, 2017 Vol 48 27th 2018 down that people "really are conscien ously doing the right thing so I think they are star ng to get sick to death of being locked down when there's no cases in our local area".

“Sick to death” was probably the wrong thing to say when talking about Covid but we will let that go by along with her idea last week on Facebook to begin a conversa@on on poli@cians and bureaucrats reducing their wages for an interim period to help people in the hospitality and retail trade who are doing it par@cularly tough. The unfortunate spin on this is that Councillors had just voted themselves a 2% fee increase and had put up rates , water, sewer and fees and charges across the shire by an average 2%.

But are we “sick to death” of the lockdowns?

The general response The Beagle is hearing is that Eurobodalla residents celebrated the new rules that were finally set in place that prohibited open access into the Shire from the ACT and Greater Sydney. Once the Delta variant spread west the further restric@ons on travel were appreciated by locals who were jus@fiably fearful of just one case arriving in the Shire.

The Mayor was correct in saying that we “really are conscien ously doing the right thing” however, by evidence, it is clear that many are not. Church goers, beach par@es, engagement par@es, office par@es, driving from Sydney to Bega to receive the Pfizer jab, abusing the holiday home loophole and ignoring the rules all together saying they don’t believe in Covid and it is all a hoax.

So here we are in Lock Down for two more weeks hoping that our Eurobodalla protec@ve bubble isn’t burst.

In the mean@me we are generally doing the right thing, being polite and respecIul of each other when we go out for food, and we remain hopeful that a new normal might return where we can resume lives and livelihoods that have been put on hold.

It is encouraging to hear that our vaccina@on clinics are being well aJended. Many of us now have our Covid Cer@ficates and at some point we might actually be able to use them. Of interest is the growing discussion around their use in allowing access to stores, cafes, aircraK and even the workplace. One wonders what might become of the 20% unvaccinated when we reach 80%? I, for one, appreciate being locked down and locked out of a world that is going mad outside our Eurobodalla border.

A Plea: If you have any Dine and Discover vouchers leK please use them now to support our local businesses. It cost you so liJle and it means the world to them.

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Crossing the ‘t’s2018 and2017 doNng the ‘i’s isn’t the most glamorous part of 28 April December 7th, Vol 48 27th local government but checks and balances are vital to the good governance of any shire. Over the last year Eurobodalla Council has quietly con@nued working through its public and environmental health and compliance programs.

During the 2020-21 financial year, Council took 9,749 phone calls and 636 items of correspondence. About 72 per cent of calls were resolved at the @me, with the remainder genera@ng 2731 formal customer requests around regulatory maJers such as animal control, illegal dumping, public health, pollu@on and illegal clearing.

Despite the disrup@ons caused by COVID-19, these numbers match those of previous years.

Above:: Eurobodalla boasts 29 beaches and reserves that allow dogs off leash, 18 where dogs access beaches on a meshare arrangement, and 24 where dogs are not allowed. Even so, nearly Council staff have worked alongside these business owners with half of complaints made to Council advice and assistance to meet food safety requirements. It turns out concern animals, par cularly dogs. food premises in Eurobodalla have done a great job during trying @mes, with 208 premises inspected with 97 per cent achieving ra@ngs of very good or excellent. Council also worked with NSW Health to address any COVID concerns and breaches.

It’s been a tough @me for the shire’s 226 food outlets and Council assisted these businesses by waiving fees associated with the food inspec@on program, thanks to funding from the NSW Government.

Nearly half of the complaints made to Eurobodalla Council concern animals, par@cularly dogs – on beaches, straying, or barking. With its Companion Animal Management Plan, Eurobodalla Council has worked hard to find the happy balance between the needs of dog owners and of people who prefer to be in dog-free environments. For example, the shire has 29 beaches and reserves that allow dogs off leash, 18 where dogs access beaches on a @meshare arrangement, and 24 where dogs are not allowed.

Onsite sewage management systems are those not connected to Council’s sewerage system – that’s 4,909 approved sep@c tanks, pit toilets, wastewater treatment and greywater systems – and they require regular inspec@ons. In all, 811 inspec@ons were conducted last financial year, with 93% mee@ng the required standard, that’s slightly up on previous years.

Also, many of these systems were impacted during the 2019-20 bushfires and Council has assisted 360 repairs or replacements associated with bushfire rebuilds.

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Opportunity to Improve Community Par'cipa'on in Vol 16 September 15th 2017 28 April December 7th, 2017 Emergency Management Vol 48 27th 2018 Hello Beagle Readers, my name is BreJ Henderson and I am looking for members of the Eurobodalla community to share their ideas and experiences rela@ng to disasters. I have successfully completed a Masters in Emergency Management, and am now studying for my Doctoral degree in emergency management. The focus of my studies is how the Eurobodalla community par@cipates and shares in emergency responsibili@es in their area.

I have a long family history in the Eurobodalla area and volunteered in post bushfire recovery ac@vi@es in early 2020. I am now undertaking University endorsed research into the Eurobodalla region using it as a case study. My research is examining how communi@es par@cipate in all aspects of emergency management, whether it be planning, preven@ng, responding to or recovering from disasters of any type. I thought this was important aKer I listened to so many people post the fires and then the floods talk about how things could be done differently.

My focus is about communi@es, so it is very important to capture the voice of the people, to understand the ways that communi@es can have a say in how disasters are managed before, during and aKer they occur. I am therefore seeking help from the Eurobodalla community to par@cipate in this research. Only you have the answers.

Your par@cipa@on in the project will involve answering two or three ques@ons, and can be done over the phone, by Zoom or email. Your involvement will remain strictly confiden@al.

If you want to par@cipate or are interested in further informa@on, please contact me directly through my email address : bhenderson@csu.edu.au I look forward to hearing from the Eurobodalla community.

BreJ Henderson

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McBain: Government caves to pressure to support childcare sector Member for Eden-Monaro Kristy McBain and Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education and Development Amanda Rishworth advise in a media release issued this week that "the Morrison Government Vol 16 September 15th 2017 finally gave27th in to pressure 28 April December 7th, 2017 from Labor and families across NSW to implement an urgent support package for Vol 48 2018 the early learning sector."

The Member for Eden-Monaro Kristy McBain, and Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education and Development Amanda Rishworth, said they were pleased the Federal Government had finally responded to calls from the Australian Labor Party to provide this essential support to families.

"Unfortunately, the Morrison Government dragged its feet to make this announcement. The delay cost the sector millions, cost educators’ jobs, and cost families across NSW hundreds of dollars in childcare fees they shouldn’t have been paying."

With families, educators and services still working through the detail of the Morrison Government’s announcement, there remains a lot of confusion.

Both Ms McBain and Ms Rishworth will be hosting a community zoom for people in Eden-Monaro to understand what these changes mean for people on the ground, and to hear about the consequences of the Morrison Government’s delay in providing a support package.

“People in the Eden-Monaro are committed to following health orders and staying at home, but this lockdown has been another blow to our businesses and our communities who have been battling disasters and border closures for far too long,” Ms McBain said.

“Families across the electorate have really felt the financial effects of this lockdown and unfortunately many local families have been carrying the financial burden of keeping services afloat, by having to continue to pay fees for childcare they weren’t accessing.

“The belated announcement by the Morrison Government is welcome news to many childcare services and families in my electorate, and we hope it will help to ease the financial pressure many families, services and educators are facing.

“Amanda and I understand the importance of childcare. This is why we’re inviting the community to join us as we share information on what these lockdowns mean to childcare services and our families.”

Childcare services across the Eden-Monaro can now waive gap fees for all families whose children are not attending and in doing so, services will be able to access business continuity payments of 25 per cent of their pre-lockdown revenue. Outside School Hours Care (OSHC) services will be eligible for payments of 40 per cent.

Shadow Minister for Early Childhood Education and Development Amanda Rishworth said she had been calling on the Morrison Government to implement an urgent support package for the early learning sector for many weeks.

“It has been clear in our ongoing talks with providers and educators how dire the situation has become.

Providers have been telling us their viability has been seriously at risk,” Ms Rishworth said.

“The government’s senseless delay has come at a significant cost for the sector, educators, and families.”

Ms McBain and Ms Rishworth’s childcare community zoom will take place on Tuesday 31 August at 6pm.

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Community COVID AZ walk-in clinic Sat 28 Aug

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Tomorrow, Saturday, 28 August, Queen Street Medical Centre Moruya has planned a walkin AstraZeneca vaccina@on clinic from 9.00am to 12.30pm.

Pa@ents and non-pa@ents 18 years and over are welcome to aJend – as this is a walk-in clinic, please be prepared to wait your turn.

Please note: If you have any respiratory symptoms or are unwell, you will not be vaccinated.

If you have been to a COVID-19 hot spot including the ACT since 5 Aug, please advise our team upon arrival – you will receive instruc@ons about where you will receive your vaccina@on.

Moruya Branch of the CWA of NSW would like to advise our community, who give us such wonderful support, that in line with the current Regional lockdown restric@ons our tearooms & HandicraK Shop are temporarily closed.

Keep reading the Beagle to see when we are opening again.

The Black Summer had disastrous effects on the physical, psychological, emo@onal and financial wellbeing of thousands of people across our region.

The sustained impacts of covid have also inhibited the healing and recovery that would normally occur.

Please find below the link to a survey for two local Community and Wellbeing Recovery projects: • Resilience NSW has funded the Family Place to undertake a series of community art installa@ons • Coordinare (PHN) has funded Marymead to deliver a flexible range of wellbeing and recovery programs Both of these projects are in the early community consulta@on phase and are designed to support postdisaster recovery in the community.

Please complete the survey monkey to provide your input. The closing date of survey is 13 Sept If you have any ques@ons, please contact Sam at the Family Place on 4474 2907. hJps://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Eurobodallarecoveryprojects beagle weekly : Vol 222 August 27th 2021

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Water main renewal - Ford Street and Queen Street, Vol 16 September 15th 2017 Moruya 28 April December 7th, 2017 Vol 48 27th 2018 As part of Council’s Water Main Renewals Program they are preparing to upgrade the water infrastructure around the intersection of Ford Street and Queen Street in Moruya. Work involves replacing water mains, stop valves and service connections.

Work will begin this week and Council expects the project to be complete in late October, weather permitting. Initial work includes pre-cutting large sections of concrete pathways and driveways. The cut concrete will remain in place and useable until excavation works begin. The main areas directly impacted include: the entrance off Queen Street to the Mitre 10 access road the entrance to Moruya Muffler Centre and Moruya Mower & Chainsaw Centre the pathways outside Moruya Medical Centre The site supervisor will liaise directly with affected businesses regarding property access as required throughout the project. Similarly, if it is necessary to interrupt water supply, they will notify individual properties in advance.

During construction the area will be operating under traffic control and heavy machinery will be active on the nature strip and along the road. It will be necessary to close Queen Street and Ford Street to through traffic at separate times to safely undertake parts of the work. Council will provide further details regarding the road closures when they have determined timeframes.

The improvements to the infrastructure will ensure greater reliability of water supply for the local community

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community Southern NSW vaccination clinics to welcome “walk-ins” in September Southern NSW Local Health District (SNSWLHD) will run a series of “walk-in” vaccination clinics in Queanbeyan, Goulburn, Batemans Bay and Cooma next month, in partnership with local GPs and Vol 16 September 15th 2017 pharmacists.

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Anyone aged 18 years of age or older can attend one of the advertised clinics without a booking, to receive a free AstraZeneca vaccine.

SNSWLHD Chief Executive Margaret Bennett says she hopes the clinics will provide an added boost to local vaccination rates simply by making it easier to get a vaccination.

“Our staff will ensure that people register on site on the day they attend so that they get a record of their vaccination. They can also book in a second vaccination date at the same time.

“We urge everyone in the community to come forward for their jab as high vaccination rates are essential to protect our loved ones and the broader community from the threat of this virus.”

All clinics will open 9am – 4pm.

Venues and dates as follows: - Queanbeyan, Morriset House, Morriset St, Queanbeyan. Thursday 2, Friday 3, Saturday 4 September -Goulburn, Old RTA building, Bourke St, Goulburn. Sunday 5, Monday 6, Tuesday 7 September - Batemans Bay, Batemans Bay Soldiers Club, 6 Beach Rd, Batemans Bay. Thurs 9, Fri 10, Sat 11 September - Cooma, Multi Function Centre, 10 Boundary Street, Cooma. Sun 12, Monday 13, Tuesday 14 September All people aged 18 and above are eligible for the AstraZeneca (Vaxzevria) vaccine.

Staff at the clinics will assist with: - an appropriate assessment of suitability; and confirming your verbal or written consent.

www.iga.com.au/catalogue

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Community—THINK LOCAL—SHOP LOCAL—have your say.

Federal Member for Gilmore, Fiona Phillips told The Beagle, when asked about Thinking Local and Buying Local, “One of the things I love about the Batemans Bay, Moruya, Vol 16 September 15th 2017 28 April December 7th,surrounding 2017 Vol 48 27thand 2018 Tuross Head areas is the community spirit. Think Local – Support Local is a massive part of that. Wherever I go I’m lucky to find local outstanding small businesses, passionate workers and the best products and services.

“While it’s been a difficult 18 months, what’s stood out is the compassion and dedica@on of people in this community. More than ever buying local and suppor@ng local jobs is about helping each other.

“As your federal Member for Gilmore, I have had the absolute honour of helping people through one of the most difficult @mes we could have seen. We’ve seen the hard @mes, the heartache. But we’ve also seen people rise above, join as one and help each other.

“I oKen get slightly confused when mee@ng so many people in their different “day job” roles… in small business, in care industries etc. and then again when volunteering and oKen a completely different job descrip@on! But I reckon that’s just what makes this place so special.

“Over the last year I’ve had so many opportuni@es to give back and help organisa@ons in our community.

Because I know that people in our community groups support our local businesses and local jobs.

“I felt extremely proud seeing the fully federally funded Headspace open in Batemans Bay – a true community win! It will provide a long-las@ng legacy to help our young people and their families.

“Suppor@ng River of Art Inc with a $10,000 grant to provide murals as part of the ‘2021 River of Art’ was high on my list of priori@es. I figured that if we provided some “colour” and promoted that rich history, then we are opening up, helping each other and encouraging more people to fall in love with our area and hoping they stay.

“Like our small businesses and workers, our community organisa@ons have also done it tough. First bushfires, those mul@ple pesky floods, and then ongoing COVID, has put a dampener on many fundraisers.

It’s for this reason I have concentrated on suppor@ng our community organisa@ons with federal grants to help in a small but important way.

“I have found addi@onal federal funding for terrific local organisa@ons like Eurobodalla Meals on Wheels, Hope House, Rotary Batemans Bay, the Clyde River Historical Associa@on”.

“We’ll always fund roads like upgrades to Beach Road and George Bass Drive, but increasingly it’s about suppor@ng our local community organisa@ons, our selfless volunteers and workers that go above and beyond every day. It’s these volunteers and workers that spend money in our local shops and support our local organisa@ons and businesses.

“I take my hat off to everyone for all their efforts during this difficult @me. We will get through this together. Think Local – Support Local.” beagle weekly : Vol 222 August 27th 2021

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“I need to be at the top of my game to be able to help and Vol 16 September 15th 2017 lead my 28 April December 7th, 2017 – Danielle Vol 48 27thteam” 2018 Brice First published 23/08/2021 by Fortem Australia On the eve of one of the biggest days in our Black Summer, Rural Fire Service (RFS) Captain Danielle Brice wrote to her team, “Tomorrow will be a challenging day.”

Danny Brice, in her Tuross garden.

“The response from all our brigades has gone beyond and above the call of duty. We wait and watch with the community and pray that you, your team and everyone stays safe. Our thoughts are with you all tomorrow.”

That was January 3, 2020. The days that followed lived up to the fears Danny spoke of in her email.

The Border Fire in the far south of the Bega Valley made a fast and furious run toward Eden, claiming dozens of homes south and west of the famous town. By that stage, Danny and many other volunteers and paid staff from the Rural Fire Service in the Eurobodalla and Bega Valley had already had a long summer, figh@ng fires in other parts of Australia.

“I’d already done a lot of out of area deployments. I’d been down to Tasmania, and worked as an avia@on radio operator, I went out to Tumut and did the same thing. I went up to Armidale then backup to GraKon and then into Shoalhaven. Then the Currowan Fire took off in Eurobodalla and I came back home to Eurobodalla,” Danny remembers.

In the 10 weeks that followed around 1000 homes were destroyed in the Eurobodalla and Bega Valley, not to men@on lives like those of Robert and Patrick Salway at Cobargo.

Eighteen months on siNng in Danny’s garden at Tuross Head the experience is s@ll raw and one that Danny and her husband Nick step through every day.

“It does seem like a blur. There are @mes when you see pictures or reports in the paper, hear things on the radio, or see footage on the TV, and a lot of feelings and memories do come flooding back,” she says.

Danny is the Team Leader of the Eurobodalla RFS Volunteer Opera@ons Support team, “they’re an amazing team that take all the radio calls,” she says.

“But then my role became an avia@on radio operator. I ended up working with the crews that came out from America and Canada. But also working alongside my team that we’re taking all the calls from the fire ground. All the radio reports and chaJer comes in. You can beagle weekly : Vol 222 August 27th 2021

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community hear and you can feel what’s going on. It was just unbelievable what was happening out on the fire ground.

“We were covering radio opera@ons for both Eurobodalla and Bega Valley. There were fires everywhere.

Every brigade was out, there were calls from crews coming in trying to save property, trying to save lives.

One that2017 really s@cks in my mind was a call saying that the condi@ons were cyclonic.

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“We all just had to keep doing our job. There were a lot of firefighters out figh@ng the fires knowing that at the same @me their own property was under threat. One of our members actually lost her house.”

Sadly, for Danny and Nick, grief and trauma shadow their every day. The sudden death of their two young sons, three years apart drives Danny’s passion and community contribu@on.

“Trauma and grief are really hard things to go through, if you are feeling any sort of feelings that don’t feel quite right, then geNng help is really important,” Danny says.

“It’s 13 years since we lost Chris and 10 years this August since Nicholas, you s@ll have memories that keep coming up all the @me, but you just try and address what you can. Talk to people, it may be talking to a doctor or a psychologist, talking to a good friend, talking to your family, just to help you through some of those really hard @mes. Things don’t happen overnight. It is really a work in progress.”

The compounding experience of Black Summer adds to Danny’s mental fitness challenge.

“I’d wake up and just have this wave of sadness go over me and feel sick in the stomach. I can get a dry mouth, I can startle easily at different things. You forget things, and par@cularly aKer the fire I found I was just walking around in circles.”

Connec@ng with other first responders through Fortem Australia has been important.

Danny and Nick took part in an RFS v SES Mystery Box Cooking Challenge at Eastwood’s Deli and Cooking School in Bermagui earlier this year.

“One of the reasons I wanted to have a go was when young Nicholas was alive, all he wanted to do was go on Masterchef. And I thought, I might be able to fill that liJle niche for him,” Danny smiles. “It helped me deal with the trauma of the Black Summer and also remember my son and con@nue to deal with that grief and trauma.

Winners are grinners – Nikki, Chris and Danny from Team RFS.

“I had the wonderful opportunity to work with a couple of fellow RFS members – Chris and Nikki, and we we’re up against nine fabulous SES members. There was a lot of teamwork, and a lot of laughs, it was great mateship, and a chance to learn and try something new.”

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“It gave us something to look forward to, something to take our mind off everything. Nick and I really want to thank Jacqueline and Hayley from Fortem and Kelly Eastwood at the cooking school, for the opportunity to in 15th this 2017 amazing cooking challenge.”

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At the heart of Danny’s resilience and strength is her service, that sense of “giving back to our community, being part of that community and being there when there is need.”

“Par@cularly for myself and Nick, when we lost both our boys the community was absolutely amazing and I really feel a heavy debt to the them,” Danny says.

“I really want to give back, and both Nicholas and Chris had special dreams and contributed to the community in their own way through the RFS, SES, St John Ambulance, Surf Life Saving, and Army Reserves, I am also helping their memories live on.”

For someone who gets so much from helping her community, Danny understands that she can’t look aKer others if she doesn’t look aKer herself.

“I felt preJy shiJy aKer the fires and just felt I needed to do something. So I’ve lost some weight and I’m exercising more. But I’m s@ll really trying to work on my mental health at the moment,” she says.

“Look at the devasta@on that has occurred, the loss of life, the loss of people’s homes, loss of property, and the environment – you see it every day.

“I love to volunteer and I love serving with the Rural Fire Service, but I need to be at the top of my game to be able to help and lead my team.

“It’s really important that I set a good example and try and look aKer myself and the people around me.”

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COORDINARE launches 'Innovate' Reconcilia'on Ac'on Plan Vol 16 September 15th 2017 COORDINARE – 7th, South Eastern NSW PHN will launch its 'Innovate' 28 April December 2017 Vol 48 27th 2018 Reconcilia@on Ac@on Plan with a virtual event aJended by staff, members of the Board and the RAP Working Group along with key community members.

According to Dianne Kitcher, CEO of COORDINARE – South Eastern NSW PHN, the 'Innovate' Reconcilia@on Ac@on Plan (RAP) has been officially endorsed by Reconcilia@on Australia.

“It is our commitment to the organisa@ons and communi@es we work with to be truthful in our work together with a vision to progress and celebrate health, well-being and equity for and with First Na@ons peoples,” said Ms Kitcher.

“Reconcilia@on, in COORDINARE’S context, represents equal health outcomes for members of First Na@ons communi@es in our region and an inclusive and diverse workplace that is culturally safe, culturally rich and proud.

“Building on the learning of our REFLECT RAP, we have undertaken an authen@c journey that has involved staff across the organisa@on as well as members of the Aboriginal community. We have focused on deepening our understanding of the reconcilia@on process, cul@va@ng rela@onships, welcoming truth telling and iden@fying opportuni@es to gain beJer understanding,” she said.

Developing the RAP has enabled COORDINARE to develop a framework that will keep the organisa@on accountable in con@nuing to build rela@onships, trust and respect across its programs. This includes having beJer understanding and empathy and improving access and safety for Aboriginal people.

“Our RAP working group, including PHN staff and members of regional Aboriginal communi@es, working together have proudly led this ini@a@ve in consulta@on with our Board and execu@ve, and we are delighted to launch it,” said Ms Kitcher.

“The South Eastern NSW region is place of many diverse Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communi@es.

Given our significant cultural footprint, it is very important that COORDINARE works closely with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communi@es to ensure we are culturally sensi@ve, respecIul and meaningful in all that we do.”

“We hope the Innovate RAP will con@nue to draw our staff and the community into the story of reconcilia@on over the next 24 months. It provides our staff with a set of priori@es and guidelines to help us engage more meaningfully with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communi@es, histories and cultures,” said Ms Kitcher.

You can read the Innovate RAP here.

You are invited to join the launch event When 11am – 12 noon, Thursday 26 August 2021 How via GoToWebinar hJps://aJendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3272359226651497488 You will receive a return email with the link to the Webinar. beagle weekly : Vol 222 August 27th 2021

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River Of Art 2021 Goes Virtual This year's River of Art Fes@val which was due to be held next month is going virtual.

Faced with the ongoing Vol 16 September 15th 2017COVID restric@ons across NSW 28 April December 7th, 2017 Vol 48 27th 2018 and the ACT, the fes@val can't proceed with its live events. Instead, it will showcase the Eurobodalla’s vibrant arts community online.

"It’s obvious that we can’t hold face to face events this September as the safety and comfort of our ar@sts, community, visitors and supporters is paramount," said co-chair, Di Jay when she and fellow co-chair, Vicki Lascelles, announced the decision.

"We will run a virtual fes@val showcasing many of the amazing 120 events we had programmed including pain@ng, tex@les, woodwork, sculpture, performance, music, film and poetry, " Di added.

"We're also looking to reschedule some of the cancelled live events early in the new year," Vicki said.

A main feature of the 2021 Virtual River of Art will be the Arts Directory which was introduced at last year's fes@val. This year, the directory to be launched on 17 September, will feature works of the regions’ ar@sts who were to have opened their studios during the fes@val.

This will enable people to s@ll see the work of these ar@sts by simply visi@ng the fes@val's website on www.riverofart.com.au. People will be able to contact them directly to view, purchase or commission works directly.

Determined that COVID won't knock out the op@mism and enthusiasm which has been a hallmark of the fes@val, the dates for next year's fes@val have already been fixed.

"We are already planning a spectacular River of Art Fes@val from 16-25 September 2022 featuring lively arts programs as well as the exci@ng Luminous: Art AKer Dark event with projec@ons, site illumina@on and loads of colour, sound and ac@vity at Riverside Park," Di said.

"But for now, River of Art looks forward to welcoming the many visitors to the Eurobodalla who would have joined us for the fes@val aKer the ongoing lockdown across NSW and the ACT is at an end," said Vicki.

River of Art will con@nue presen@ng and promo@ng local and visi@ng ar@sts across all art forms and our 2022 fes@val will be even bigger and beJer with fresh new possibili@es in a post-Covid world.

For updates on the virtual program, stay in touch via the website and to see what events will be running in the new year. You can also subscribe to our E-news and join River of Art on Instagram or Facebook.

The fes@val is a community-led ini@a@ve run by volunteers with support from local ar@sts and local business.

Thanks to the NSW Government through Des@na@on NSW and the Eurobodalla Shire Council for funding and our 2021 sponsors - Southern Phone, Moruya Golf Club, Horizon Bank, Excell Prin@ng and Lincoln Downs Resort.

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OUT NOW—your latest Beagle Abode : Eurobodalla’s leading real estate guide Vol 16 September 15th 2017 Vol 28 December 7th, 2017 Vol 48 April 27th 2018

The beagle abode is an online weekly Eurobodalla real estate guide showcasing the current Eurobodalla market and our many realtors.

The beagle abode is the new addi@on to the South Coast Beagle that owns The Beagle and the South Coast Travel Guide: The Nature Coast of NSW : from Durras to The Tilbas The Beagle Abode has been established to provide that service while also providing our readers with a glossy overview of latest proper@es on the market each week.

You can find Beagle Abode on the Beagle website under REAL ESTATE The latest Beagle Abode lis@ngs are also available each week as a FlipBook on the website and also distributed to readers via our social media pages and our twice weekly mailouts.

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real estate South Coast Property Specialists (Carlene Franzen) Tips #1059:

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Housing affordability has become a hot topic, particularly as housing prices continue to soar around the country. If you are regular reader of this column (and who wouldn’t be), you would remember that we reported the Real Estate Institute of NSW recently saying that increased revenue from stamp duty has effectively kept the NSW afloat during the covid pandemic. So, we have this dilemma, stamp duty increases the overall cost of purchasing a property, thus impacting housing affordability, yet the government(s) make so much money from stamp duty it will be difficult for them to let it go (or change it dramatically).

The Real Estate Institute of Australia (REIA) has now reported that “Families across all the states and territories, except the ACT, are paying more stamp duty today than 20 years ago….” and “Australia has had the fourth-fastest house price growth out of the world’s advanced economies over the past 20 years.

REIA President, Adrian Kelly said “Politicians cannot on one hand gripe about housing affordability; and then on the other say we need this income from home buyers and owners to fund public sector operations.

“REIA has called on the Council of Federal Financial Relations to take on board this issue seriously and nationally rather than just shift this responsibility off to States and Territories,”

Mr Kelly said the massive market entry from First Home Buyers in both 2009 and 2020 show the power of waiving taxes and stimulus programs in boosting house ownership.

“The lack of national coordination has led to limited supply of both new and existing listings across the board “Now more than ever we need fact based and bi-partisan support on policy issues for home buyers and home owners,” he added.

REIA has welcomed the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Tax and Revenue inquiry into housing affordability and supply in Australia. Adrian Kelly said the inquiry will address property taxation in the form of stamp or transfer duties and land tax which are among the largest barriers to housing affordability and consistently performing markets.

REIA will also release, in the final week of August, its “Housing Affordability Report the case for home ownership - a 21 year analysis”.

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Eurobodalla Health Service Community Informa'on Sessions Go Online Vol September 15th 2017 The16 informa@on sessions 28 December 7th, 2017 to learn more about the Eurobodalla Health Service (EHS) including the new $200 Vol 48 April 27th 2018

million Eurobodalla Health Service Project (EHSP) have moved to an online webinar format.

Community informa@on sessions will now be held online: -Tuesday, 31 August 2021, 5:00pm – 6:00pm -Wednesday, 1 September 2021, 5:00pm – 6:00pm Southern NSW LHD Chief Execu@ve Margaret BenneJ said the strict measures in place to keep the local community safe during the COVID-19 pandemic, have necessitated the sessions being moved to an online webinar format.

“The safety and wellbeing of our local community and staff is our number one priority. While it’s an uncertain @me, we’d like to ensure the sessions s@ll go ahead and the community get an understanding of what we have planned and how it will support the region’s health care needs. Community members will s@ll be able to submit ques@ons as part of the webinar.

“We were very much looking forward to mee@ng our community in person and hope to run face to face sessions in the near future,” said Ms BenneJ. The new $200 million Eurobodalla hospital at Moruya will provide an overall increase in bed and service capacity than both exis@ng Moruya and Batemans Bay hospitals combined. It will be designed with the capacity to grow as demand for health services changes In the future.

Once completed the new hospital will deliver high quality, contemporary and accessible healthcare. The building will feature an emergency department, cri@cal care services, opera@ng theatres, a day-stay surgical unit, ambulatory care services, increased capacity for chemotherapy and, paediatrics and maternity, as well as educa@on facili@es.

All members of the community are welcome to aJend the informa@on sessions. Those who have already registered have been contacted and will be priori@sed for webinar bookings.

People are also encouraged to submit ques@ons in the lead up to the sessions via HI-EurobodallaHospital@health.nsw.gov.au.

Session bookings can be made here: - 31 August: hJps://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/168205524251 - 1 September: hJps://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/168205676707 Southern NSW Local Health District is working with Health Infrastructure to deliver the new hospital in Eurobodalla to meet the current and future health needs of the region from Narooma to Batemans Bay.

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More Time To Apply For Bushfire Recovery Grants The Australian Government is extending the closing date for the $280 million Black Summer Bushfire Recovery (BSBR) Grants program to 6 October 2021, giving communi@es more @me to apply.

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McKenzie said extending the applica@on period by an extra month will enable communi@es impacted by the 2019/20 Black Summer bushfires to recover and rebuild.

“We have listened to extensive feedback from the impacted communi@es, and are providing them with this extension to put forward their best ideas and projects that will meet local needs,” Minister McKenzie said.

“We’re pleased to have commiJed $2.8 billion of Commonwealth support towards the recovery from the devasta@ng 2019_20 Black Summer bushfires, with $2.4 billion already spent to get people back on their feet. I encourage those who are eligible and have a great project ini@a@ve to submit an applica@on by 6 October, with all applica@ons from the 110 eligible Local Government areas to be assessed on merit and demonstrated need.”

Coordinator-General for the Na@onal Recovery and Resilience Agency the Hon Shane L Stone AC QC said the new closing date buys people much-needed @me.

“Many Australians are facing a major disrup@on to their lives due to COVID-19 and a lot of the communi@es impacted by the Black Summer Bushfires are now in lockdown. It’s understandable that filling out a grant applica@on may not have been someone’s highest priority. It made sense to shiK the closing date to give them a bit more @me. We want people to have the @me to think of projects that will bring the greatest benefit to their communi@es, and to get as much informa@on and support as they can before pulling their applica@ons together,” Mr Stone said.

The NRRA is con@nuing to support people in a range of ways to prepare their applica@ons, for example online workshops are s@ll available, as well as short videos and answers to Frequently Asked Ques@ons on the NRRA website. Black Summer Bushfire Recovery grants are available in every Local Government Area that was disaster declared as a result of the 2019–20 Black Summer bushfires.

For more informa@on on the assistance that is available, including workshops, visit: www.recovery.gov.au/ black-summer-grants. To start your applica@on visit: hJps://business.gov.au/bsbr

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Narooma Legacy Golf Day a huge success Last week saw the running of the Annual Narooma Legacy Golf Day, which was a huge success.

It was another beau@ful day at the Narooma Golf Club, and we had an enthusias@c field of over 112 starters. The course was as always, at its best, and the shotgun start ensured the BBQ supplying sausage Vol 16 September 15th 2017 sandwiches 0n2018 the2017 14th hole was very popular, overall, it was a fantas@c day, the best weather, inspiring 28 April December 7th, Vol 48 27th views and of course some golf (plus missing lock down by 24 hours).

The winning team was Ann and Bill Durnam, John Murray and Rex Dunn with a blistering score of 51.3.

Your local Legacy group would like to thank all of the players and sponsors for their amazing ongoing support. Legacy Australia strives to ensure that the partners and children of veterans who gave their lives or health in recognised military service can fully realise their poten@al. Our vision is that no dependant of a veteran suffer financial or social disadvantage as a result of their loved ones' death or injury from service.

In these uncertain @mes the support of the community has been incredible, Legacy like so many other chari@es rely on the generosity of locals, and once again, our area from Bermagui to Moyura has delivered.

The next challenge for our group is our Legacy Week, where tradi@onally we sell Badges, Bears and Pens to the public face to face, in street stalls.

Just like last year, this is no longer possible, so we are once again asking you all to help. Our BSB and Bank Account details are as follows: BSB: 082-057 Account number: 695300893 Thanks Narooma District.

For more informa@on or to request a receipt, please contact our Treasurer Stephanie, on 0413 229 133.

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WaFle Walk 2021 Unfortunately, due to the ongoing nature of the current COVID-19 restric@ons, UOW Batemans Bay has made the decision to postpone the WaJle Walk display planned for the 17th-26th September 2021.

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We will confirm a new date in the coming weeks for a 2022 event. The good news is that we have more @me to make waJles which will make our display even grander.

We thank all of the wonderful members of our extended community who have been busy making waJles this year and assure you that they are all packaged up safely in readiness for a spectacular display at the Eurobodalla Regional Botanic Gardens when it is safe to proceed. Please keep making waJles and stay tuned for further details about dropping off your waJles and our display next year.

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community Window Pain It's always there bringing light, Even on a starry night.

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Seasons come and seasons go Now, with not a lot to show!

An iron fence hides the view

SHASA AGM Tuesday 14 September 10.30am 12 noon by ZOOM.

Once it was so new to you!

Tall gums would stretch to the sky With liJle birds flying by.

Now they perch upon a fence Looking for their own defence From neighbours’ cats eyeing them

All are welcome.

Please contact Steve Colman, Vice President, SHASA to arrange a ZOOM link on 0414 491 375 or email steve@globallearning.com.au SHASA is a Eurobodalla community organisation committed to achieving more resilient communities and helping make the Eurobodalla a better place to live, work and play.

Looking for a climbing stem.

Maybe that ladder might be right, As the cat plans his fight.

But as he climbs to stalk his prey The liJle birds fly away!

By Mary Murray

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The Beagle celebrates the Connect Today ini'a've Celebra@ng the ever increasing number of independent news Vol 16 September 15th 2017 publishers across Australia The Beagle readers join with over 28 April December 7th, 2017 Vol 48 27th 2018

1 million other Australians every month keeping local communi@es strong, informed and connected.

Known as hyper-local, these news outlets are springing up across the na@on as communi@es look for accurate, @mely and local news that is fast disappearing from the churn being witnessed as major mastheads present cloned, out of area stories and further downsize their staff and their newsprints.

Locally we have seen the once proud Moruya Examiner masthead disappear from sight without any explana@on. AKer serving the community for 150 years the popular masthead vanished overnight as ACM closed down their Batemans Bay and Narooma offices sending their already skeleton staff to work remotely due to Covid in 2020.

Since then the Bay Post has reduced its edi@ons from twice weekly to just once a week on Wednesdays and has reduced its pages even further to just 16 with nearly 50% of its edi@ons being adver@sing. The once very popular Narooma News, under editor Stan Gorton, has sadly become a weekly clone of content from the Bega News and Bay Post.

The many independent newspapers outside of NewsCorp and ACM are proven to be commiJed to keeping their communi@es informed , included and most importantly in a @mely fashion that presents the news as relevant.

“There is nothing worse than buying a paper to read about what happened last week or last fortnight.”

“I don’t buy the local paper any longer. It is adverts and rubbish and always out of date. I get the free one at the supermarket in winter to start my fire”.

While independent media company ACM has launched a large-scale marke@ng campaign to “seduce adver@sers across the country” in a bid for a larger por@on of the na@onal adver@sing market the majority of hyper-locals springing up across the country have stepped in to provide local businesses with affordable adver@sing to support their own local economies.

Get to know your own local independent news sources: A spokesperson for the recently launched hyper-local Connect Today campaign said that Your News – Connect Today was is an ini@a@ve that encourages the community to support simply by becoming aware of who their local independent papers were and recognising that local businesses are being promoted rather than na@onal adver@sers.

“We have to remember that the budgets for many of our local businesses is very modest. They need to adver@se so that we are aware of their goods and services. Facebook ads just don’t cut it. When you see a local business advert you can see the passion behind it. The owner, their family, their employees. They are our community. They are us. This is why they are given preference in our news feeds. Without those businesses we have nothing. No goods, no services and no community”.

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Gadfly 191 By Robert Macklin The Labor Party at the federal level is playing an ever more dangerous game. As the election looms their plan, apparently, is to seek the best of both Vol 16 September 2017 political worlds – a15th public fed up with a Coalition government that’s been in power 28 April December 7th, 2017 Vol 48 27th 2018 since 2013; and an Opposition with such a small policy target that their opponents have very little to rail against.

As they constantly tell us, they’re saving their big announcements for the campaign. They’re hoping that by then Scott Morrison will be such damaged goods that a majority of the electors will be ready to vote for the alternative. All they’ll need is a range of attractive, broadly costed policies on climate change, aged care, early childhood and the gig economy and they’ll romp in. In the leadership stakes, Anthony Albanese will be a combination of trusted helmsman and primus inter pares in a team of engaging and competent women and unexceptionable blokes.

It’s a natural response to the disaster that was the 2019 ‘miracle’ election that Morrison turned into a presidential contest against a Bill Shorten staggering beneath a policy overload and a reputation as a political hack.

But will it work?

On the one hand, Scott Morrison does seem to be following the Labor scenario. His stumbles include the arrogant use of government grants in sporting facilities and parking lots to feather the nests of Coalition and marginal electorates; ham-fisted, if not offensive, handling of the Brittany Higgins and Christian Porter imbroglios; climate change hesitancy; the bungled vaccine rollout; and the Afghanistan disaster.

They must be thinking, ‘Wacko, we got that part right.’

But that’s not the whole Morrison story. By election time, the rollout will be complete and he’ll be claiming success. Memories are short, so the early mistakes will have faded away. And unless his polling has reached the point of no return, he has all the powers of incumbency to rebuild his image. (On the other hand, Peter Dutton has unresolved prime ministerial ambitions and a parcel of rightwing votes in his pocket, so Morrison will be keeping to the straight and narrow.)

The Labor strategists’ big problem is ‘Albo’ as a figure of national – let alone international – stature. He’s obviously a pleasant enough bloke with a good political brain and well-earned aura of decency. But the simple truth is that we barely know him beyond his growing up in council housing with his single Mum. Google says he and his former wife, Carmel Tebbutt have a son Nathan at Uni and Albo has a warm relationship with another woman since the breakup. But that does little to fill in the blanks.

He’s made few criticisms that have hit home. His one Covid initiative – the $300 incentive payment – really didn’t fly. Those ‘headline speeches’ passed virtually without notice. And the pandemic has prevented his female ‘team’ - with the exception of Katy Gallagher – from making any impact.

By now, he can’t appear anywhere without being hit with demands for Labor’s ‘roadmap’ to reach zero emissions, the remake of aged care, tax reform, relations with China, refugee policy and sundry others. Taken together, they’re far too much for the electorate to swallow in a single mouthful.

The problem becomes ever more acute as Covid extends the period where political gatherings are verboten… except of course the press conferences that have the Premiers - and the PM - front and centre.

There is probably a way around it. But that’s for the geniuses who created the dangerous game to figure out. It will be fascinating to watch them try. robert@robertmacklin.com beagle weekly : Vol 222 August 27th 2021

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100 Years Ago—27th August1921 ILLNESS. - It is with sincere regret that we have to report the serious illness of Mr. R. N. Carden, the popular host of the Royal Hotel, who is suffering from an affec@on of the throat. On the advice of Drs. Quilter and Vol 16 September 15th 2017 28 April December 7th, 2017 Henry, who27th held2018 a consulta@on, the pa@ent (if strong enough) will be taken to Sydney today where he will be Vol 48 placed in the hands of Sir Alexander McCormick.

PRESENTATION. – In Mr. AnneJs’ Hall at Mogo on Sunday last, 21st inst., the Salva@on Army held a service, the leader being Captain Hill, of Milton. AKer the service a presenta@on was made to Miss Elsie AnneJs, daughter of Mr.and Mrs. H. C. AnneJs, who is leaving Mogo to become a nurse in the Salva@on Army Bethesda Hospital, Melbourne. Mr. F. Barling, of Tomakin, who spoke in eulogis@c terms of Miss AnneJs and of her un@ring work, assisted by her mother, in connec@on with Sunday School at Mogo, on behalf of her many friends presented the depar@ng guest with a handsome bible. Miss AnneJs in a neat liJle speech thanked all for their kindness and presenta@on.

NEW GARAGE. – Mr. A. H. Preddy, district agent for the Chandler and Cleveland Six cars, and one of our most energe@c ci@zens, has purchased from Mr. J. McKeon two allotments of land, opposite Kea@ngs’ Hotel, on which he has commenced the erec@on of an up-to-date motor garage and showroom.

WEDDING. – At St. Saviour’s Cathedral, Goulburn, on Saturday, the wedding was celebrated of Mr. Albert Edward Lavis, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Lavis, of “Glenella,” Bateman’s Bay, to Miss Minnie Louisa Willis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James. J. Willis, of “Swansea,” Auburn Street, Goulburn……The future home of Mr. and Mrs. Lavis will be at Oakbranch, Bateman’s Bay. Many valuable presents, including cheques, were received by the bride and bridegroom.

NERRIGUNDAH. –(Correspondent) Mining is very flat in Nerrigundah. Our only hopes were in the dredge doing some good; now it is closed down, the manager, Mr. Roberts having returned to Sydney. An elderly lady named Miss Brice, of Wagonga, died at Cadgee on Saturday last.

BATEMAN’S BAY. – (Correspondent) The Tennis Tournament is to be started on Saturday – the handicapping of the members was done by Messrs. CalcraK, Ladmore, and A. Perry. The S.S. Bermagui on her last trip brought a 16-ton tug for the Starch Factory, which we understand is to shortly enlarge its opera@ons. Our local Senior Constable Johnstone took up his du@es on Wednesday last aKer a three months’ leave, the result of a severe aJack of pneumonia. He has had a severe @me and judging by appearance should s@ll be on the invalid list, but the call of duty is impera@ve.

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Reading - Moruya Books Hello friends of Moruya Books, Good news!

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We are running a tight ship behind closed doors for anyone that needs to squirrel some more reading away!

From Monday-Friday, 9am12pm, we'll be taking orders via PHONE, EMAIL or TEXT for prepay and collection or postage.

Just knock on the door and we'll hand you your book booty.

Due to lockdown we can't allow browsing or entry to the shop.

We hope everyone is staying safe and sane!

Stay tuned for all the latest new releases in store on Monday.

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Dalmeny Land Sale Dear Beagle Editor, I read with interest the views and concerns of new community group ‘Dalmeny MaJers’.

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of the truth. As a long-@me Narooma/Dalmeny resident I think some of the public commentary of this group need to be addressed.

This land and the 2 blocks privately owned have been marked as ‘urban expansion’ for well over 20 years in Councils current and recent LEP How does this group arrive at 200 homes for Lot 54, the biggest lot when a DA has not been lodged with council?

Affordable housing would be considered in any DA that was considered by council….as it is a requirement

Yes, the land is ‘Bush Fire’ prone, however any DA for subdivision subjects the developer to the ‘Planning for Bushfire’ rules and regula@ons that require any lot must contain a ‘Building Envelope of the dwelling to be able to achieve a maximum of BAL 29 or less.

Building costs for BAL 29 are NOT exorbitant and infact many new dwelling in the ESC are condi@oned to be constructed at maximum of BAL29 Any subdivision now requires a full and complete Biodiversity Assessment to accompany the applica@on.

This study iden@fies all the environmental issues such as endangered species, vegeta@on, riparian zones and is reflected in the overall design of the subdivision.

To make the comment it will be ‘Bulldozed’ is simply not true.

I understand the emo@on of some folks about this land being developed, but there is demand from young families for homes in this area. As a person who raised children here only to see them have to move away for work as they got older, I fully support controlled and sensible development.

There is of course a simple solu@on to this issue.

Dalmeny MaJers group should get together and buy the land otherwise be proac@ve in how this may look and how it will shape the future community in the south of the shire.

Concerned Resident

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Reading—LeFer to the Editor The Beagle Editor, When Luck’s a Fortune I was watching another council vehicle drive past the other Vol 16 September 15th 2017 day and thought, “Gees 28 December 7th, 2017 this must be a really successful Vol 48 April 27th 2018 council”. I mean, the amount of council vehicles on the roads is constant and that’s just the ones driving around, there would have to be even more parked. late model vehicles of every manufacture, utes, light trucks, heavy trucks, tractors, dual cab trucks, ride on mowers, shining pressed metal aluminium tool boxes, trailers of every shape and size, all in new or near new condi@on. Now that’s the sign of an extremely successful opera@on. I mean, just in the equipment alone, they’re in beJer shape than most any other business in Australia, up there with the best in the world, probably. Just looking around there would seem to be more council vehicles on the road than any other company or business, be they local, state or interna@onal.

Have you ever wondered just how well run and profitable you’d need to be to maintain that high a level of assets and manpower, and the logis@cs of it all. Any large business knows the most crucial factor for success is keeping everyone gainfully employed and ac@ve.

On a reasonable sized construc@on site the logis@cs of keeping up progress relies on efficiently matching manpower, materials and the machinery required, so that the workers always have work in front of them with the materials required ready and the tools on hand, in good working condi@on. Project managers are the crucible and, even on a modest site, there would be a number of project managers.

Our council has an indeterminate number of workers to fulfil du@es across a broad spectrum of services that requires skills ranging from caring for people through to major construc@on projects. To get an idea just look at the diverse range of services on council cars. Euro Transport, Eurowaste, Eurowater, Euroworks and the simple Eurobodalla Shire Council sign on the doors of a flo@lla of different vehicles. The scope of our council is so much more than roads and rubbish nowadays and the abili@es required to successfully run any opera@on of comparable size are of the elite order.

And by comparable I mean our council is one of the biggest opera@ons in the shire. There is no other shire based company that comes within a bull’s roar of our shire in terms of manpower and assets.

And to think only a couple of decades ago it was just another small country shire with a Shire Clerk and a small workforce, working out of a small single level building a couple of streets back from the main street and now look at them, the biggest employer in the shire, with the biggest turnover and the most assets of any locally based company and they’re leading the pack by the length of the straight with clear daylight coming second.

And the truly marvellous part is……. they’re just public servants. Albeit university trained in their jobs as town planners, engineers, health officers, sanita@on inspectors and yet, unbeknownst to anyone, they just happen to be great, great business people who can build a business empire where there used to be a municipality beagle weekly : Vol 222 August 27th 2021

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Reading—leFer to the editor office. It’s a wonder they haven’t been approached by other big businesses and corpora@ons to replicate their success with them. That sort of ability is in high demand all over the world. Any service based interstate, mul@-na@onal corpora@on would love to know their secret of success and, I reckon, they’d be prepared to pay a preJy penny to get them on board.

Vol 16 September 15th 2017 You know, they probably 28 April December 7th, 2017 have been approached. They’re probably just so dedicated to making this the best Vol 48 27th 2018 shire ever, that you could possibly imagine, that they are probably turning down offers like a model at a foo@e doo.

But, I guess, we’ll never know. Try as they might, nobody has been able to work out how they do it and that’s probably due to that “commercial in confidence” stuff. You know the old, “We can’t tell you because then you’d know” argument that they use so oKen. And you’d want to be profitable, given how big council is…….the biggest employer in the shire. Any ques@ons of stymying the growth of businesses in the shire or whether that impressive growth was a result of owning the marketplace that they have created, are treated with a knowing smile……..knowing that you’ll never know, and smiling about that.

I was pondering this conundrum when reminiscing with one of the old boys about our wonderful scenic path around Tuross. You can walk from Kyla Hall along the foreshores of Coila lake un@l you reach Coila beach where you can follow it past every beach in Tuross all the way down to One Tree Point and, if you keep going, you follow the foreshores of Tuross Lake un@l you get to Lavender Bay, and the boat ramp and the play area and, finally, to famous Tuross eateries on the foreshore of the lake.

The walkway is a tremendous example of a wonderful asset built by the community from funds raised by the community from an idea that came from within the community to the clear and obvious benefit of the community.

I was in charge of the group who did the final sec@ons along past the old council caravan park and along Nelson Parade to Jellicoe Road. A lot of the blokes had been in the gangs that did from One Tree to Kyla oval, the originals, led by erstwhile old local tradesmen, wizen elders and volunteers from local volunteer organisa@ons like the RFS, the SES, the Progress Associa@on et al.

A bit of background, long story short, the idea was floated for a concrete path along the forefront, an op shop was started at the shops that raised the funds that enabled the laying of hundreds of square metres of concrete path by a dedicated mob of, basically, old blokes and their missuses. Laying concrete is not easy. It is, literally, back breaking work and the moaning and bitching was only subdued with beer and sandwiches and mateship.

And that, liJle kiddies, is how we made friends back in the day. It was a way to make a mark on your community and, in a very real way, become a part of your community and its history.

So, as I was saying, our liJle group was merrily laying our way along Nelson Parade and everybody was enjoying themselves and my appren@ces were geNng a solid grounding in the art of concrete laying when things started to go all herky jerky, you know, stop start and a bit all over beagle weekly : Vol 222 August 27th 2021

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We were doing what we had been doing for quite some @me and weren’t much thinking past that, so it came as a surprise when council announced that Vol 16 September 15th 2017 we possibly do another meter of path 28 April December 7th, 2017 Volcouldn’t 48 27th 2018 without some form of OH&S. How we had survived thus far was a modern day miracle and, without further ado, we needed to do a site induc@on, a site orienta@on, a site safety check list and work method statements for each and every single one of us.

This was met with mirth and merriment by the chaps and a few whispered…..I suppose council has to look like their doing something….smirk, smirk. An hour later the smirking had receded to farthest recesses of our minds as council officers read from an endless pile of laminated A3 sheets of endless warnings and safety precau@ons to be taken, each different sheet reitera@ng what the previous sheet had said plus one or two other new warnings and precau@ons. Finally we were allowed to start working, which we did and council leK as soon as the last laminated A3 sheets was thrown in the back of the council car.

We all did a good amount of work and leK with a “we’ll see you all tomorrow” saluta@on. To be met the next day by council, with the same pile of A3 sheets, to go through the whole procedure in an exact replay of day before and no less, again. This was for our own good, we were told, as council had a well-earned reputa@on for having the gold standard OH&S system and……we clearly had Alzheimer's.

Just over an hour later we started and were a bit perplexed…..for a while, but then the fun and camaraderie took over again. Good day’s work, see you tomorrow. Which was also ground hogs day (this @me everyone’s looking for Bill Murray, not just me). But ya goJa do what ya goJa do and we finished the sec@on over the creek’s bridge winding up to the car park as the council con@nued it’s helpful, almost parental, guidance in an@cipa@ng every possible, foreseeable, imaginable problem that may arise from our endeavours.

Long story short. The next problem to arise from council was…..we now needed traffic control, even though we were now the furthest from the road we had ever been. By traffic control council meant a set of mobile traffic lights at each end of the 200 metre long strip of pathway we were doing. managed to talk them Vulcan StreetWe Moruya down to a council lollipop man, who arrived late (sorry got held up) and who was called away less than an hour later aKer having been told we needed to pack up as we couldn’t work without traffic control. We managed to convince him that we should be able to turn a lollipop a full one hundred and eighty degrees in the unlikely event that in the middle of winter, in the middle of the week, a car might appear.

Old mate and I were musing over the Monty Python-ish memories of how our community project had been surrep@@ously and slowly choked out and then moved to the sidelines. There was the delay as council revised the engineer approved/common prac@se details of the reo and concrete strength……oh and then we had to buy everything through council so there was a delay as they formulated project specific order forms and instructed us on their use……..and then there was the delay while council engineered the requirements for any retaining walls. And that was basically it. The boy’s had been on hold for months now and had wandered off to other projects while we waited. Although I’d like to, I really couldn’t begin to tell you of the joys of ringing council every week, talking to, usually, a different person each @me, having to reprise the en@re tale of the project and where we’re up to and what we’re wai@ng on and then hanging on the phone for the longest of @mes wai@ng for whoever, to find out what was going on and let’s not talk about the @mes when the line was inadvertently cut off. beagle weekly : Vol 222 August 27th 2021

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Reading– leFer to the editor There was a small rally amongst the fellas when council announced it had the details for the retaining walls ready and there was going to be a public exhibi@on of the plans at the boat ramp at Lavender Bay. Everyone gathered around to view the plans and realised the plans were generic ones and were not specific to our walkway, which started a bit of grumbling. What’s the problem, the nice council man inquired? The plans are Vol 16 September 15th 2017 generic 28 April December and27th not2018 7th, specific 2017 to our project, came the answer. But they are, he assured us, but they’re not, we Vol 48 replied, what makes you think that, he politely asked…..the @tle on the plans that read Generic Plans for Retaining Walls, we said. Oh he says with a laugh, looking at the @tle block, that’s an oversight, the plans were derived from a template and just forgot to change the @tle block, no biggie, it’s ready to rock and roll.

Oooookaay we say, quite a few of us read plans as a profession and, well, the @tle block wasn’t the only giveaway, but, okay, great.

A week later having gone through the painful phone process we are informed, by an uninformed council chap that the plans were in the process of being drawn up. But they are ready to go, we saw them last week.

Oh no replies the uninformed one, they were just generic plans, we’re drawing up site specific ones now.

That preJy much did it. A couple of wasted phone calls on progress with the plans enquires and then, a few months down the line, unannounced, a large council crew with all sorts of capital equipment started work on the rest of the pathway.

The council threw a bit of a sausage sizzle at the comple@on of the pathway so the community could marvel.

The lord mayor was there, as were numerous council dignitaries and workers and not one volunteer was contacted or invited, which saved a lot of explaining….like which was which, and, who did what, kind of stuff.

Which is why I was musing at the unbridled geniuses in council who can take over a community project, with all council’s associated overheads and costs and s@ll be a beJer deal for the community than a motely group of volunteers, who had successfully completed two-thirds of the project using free labour and charity discounted materials from suppor@ve local businesses.

You can see what I mean, can’t you. The genius of being able to pounce on community work in order to give Council blokes something to do and, at the same @me, moun@ng a case that this was for the good of the community, is pure genius. Just as well too, Council’s got lots of blokes to keep occupied, aKer all they wouldn’t pay the big boss the sort of money they pay him if he had less men. The biggest trick is keeping the largest council workforce (per head of popula@on) in the state occupied and, if that means taking over volunteer community projects, then that’s a good thing. And what’s good theMoruya big bosses is good for the Vulcanfor Street council and what’s good for the council is good for the community, whether they realise it or not.

And that’s the problem that our council execu@ve have. They are, clearly, financial and business geniuses, building an empire upon shiKing sands, able to disable most of the community volunteer organisa@ons and unable, or unwilling, to spend any @me explaining their success to ratepayers who, and let’s be frank, don’t have the intellectual wherewithal to understand it even if they did.

But, hey, that’s the way the system works, the success of which shows up as your rates……amongst the highest per head of popula@on in the state.

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Reading—A beer with Baz From the box labelled ‘school stuff’, Bazza picked out an old school report, read the comments, raised an eyebrow and half chuckled. He dug further into the box, found a yellow Bic ballpoint pen, some Derwent colour pencils and even an old slope card.

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‘Barry, if you’re not going to throw out some of that stuff from last century, at least take the dog for a walk. Gladys has grounded us, but she will let you go for a walk. Put a mask on and don’t put the pedometer on the dog. It doesn’t fool anybody.’

Bazza sighed and returned to his box of school memories and pulled out an old diary from the 1970’s, stretched back into the lounge chair and opened to a random entry.

‘There is no point in becoming an astronaut. Neil Armstrong has buggered that up. No one can even remember the name of the second person who walked on the moon so what’s the point of being…… like…. the eighty first.

Nah, I reckon I’ll become a Greek. I reckon the only thing wrong with being a Greek was the name calling.

Anyhow, our family is pretty good friends with other Greek families.

I don’t like looking like everybody else. White skin and sunburn in summer. My Greek mate just goes darker and no amount of coconut oil seems to change my skin colour.

‘Its good being a Greek in summer, mate’ he says.

He talks about Greek Gods and I try to match with convict heritage.

Nope, being Greek is the go.

I have a boring biblical name. Lots of bloody JOHNS out there and the bloody Americans use the name for toilets in their movies. I’d trade for a SPIRO or MARIO any day. I chose LUKE as my confirmation name but my parents kept calling me JOHN. My Greek mate advised, get a nickname like ‘John the Greek.’ It did not ring true.

I like Greek food a lot. Dolmades and taramasalata versus Vegemite crusts at recess. My mate never swaps. His mum has started packing me some of the good gear as well, so I reckon I am on the way to becoming a Greek.

My Greek mate has become somewhat perplexed with all this trying to be a Greek stuff. He says “We spend all our life trying to be like you. You should speak to my old man about being a Greek.”

His old man says it’s not always fun being a Greek in Australia. You had to learn English and even if you were good at it, you had an accent for life. He told me our family was a bit different. Not all Australians liked Greeks being Greek in Australia when all Australians should be Australians in Australia. In fact, he told me some stuff that has made me think twice about being a Greek.

I am giving up trying to be a Greek This new kid from Vietnam has joined our school. Crikey, what a bloody adventure he has been through; surviving war and then open seas in a tiny boat to escape.

Bloody hell. Why would I want to become a Greek, when I could become a refugee?’

Bazza grinned and turned the page.

‘I’ve decided to become a bushranger……’

Have a beer with Baz at john.longhurst59@gmail.com

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Should we stay or should we go—a review by Trevor Moore Lionel Shriver, Borough Press, 2021, ISBN 978-0-00-845856-0, 266pp Lionel Shriver is 15th possibly Vol 16 September 2017 as well known for the controversy 28 April December 7th, 2017 Vol 48 27th 2018 that she s@rred up some years ago following her remarks at the 2016 Brisbane Writers’ Fes@val. At the risk of wrongly summarising things, she cri@cised the argument that writers – most par@cularly white writers – are guilty of “cultural appropria@on” by wri@ng from the point of view of characters from other cultural backgrounds. Her point, I think, was that it is the work of a fic@on writer to - as she put it - “step into other people’s shoes and try on their hats.” One cri@cism of Shriver’s speech was that it was “a celebra@on of the unfeJered exploita@on of the experiences of others, under the guise of fic@on”. My purpose here is not enter any debate about the tricky subject of cultural appropria@on but to review a book by a writer who is not afraid of s@cking her neck out.

I recall hearing her talking about Donald Trump of whom she had a preJy low opinion. Apart from thinking that he was suffering from demen@a she also remarked that would have been “too far-fetched” to appear in a novel a year ago and that writers would have been cri@cised for not inven@ng a “more beguiling demagogue”. I was reminded of this because apart from reading Shriver’s latest novel Should we stay or should we go I have read a couple of recent books (see at the end of this review) about Trump driven by a prurient interest to understand the workings of a man so obviously peculiar. Whatever I may or may not think about Shriver’s views on cultural appropria@on, I preJy much share her views on Trump.

But, to the subject: Shriver’s latest novel, Should we stay or should we go. I would like to have been a fly on the wall for the debate about whether the @tle should have a ques@on mark. I am quite sure that in the relevant literary halls of power there were many heated debates on this important ques@on. The “no ques@on mark” party won the day. It s@ll seems odd. Shriver is American and shares her @me between London and Brooklyn.

Should we stay or should we go is set, mainly, in London and Shriver manages to insert several colloquialisms that are definitely Bri@sh. She has her characters ringing one another up, she has prevailed upon her editor to spell the verb to prac@se with an “s” … these, to my mind, are important details not the least because her two main characters are very definitely English - and I mean English and not Bri@sh.

Cyril and Kay Wilkinson are in their 50s as the book opens. She has been a nurse and he a doctor, she is a bit of a free spirit while he is a frustrated socialist. They decide that they will kill themselves when Kay turns 80.

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Reading elsewhere. Cyril squires the necessary medica@on which is stored, in a liJle black box, at the back of the refrigerator. But things do not quite go as they planned but we find this out at the end of chapter 3 on page 71. There are 200 pages to go. In chapter 4, Cyril and Kay reappear and go through a different process of dying or not. And the novel proceeds through a series of “what ifs”.

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The idea of a suicide pact provides Shriver with the opportunity to explore different ideas of life and death, or at least the end of life. In one chapter Kay and Cyril’s rather unpleasant children consign them to a dreadful old-age facility, Close of Day CoJages, whose sadis@c staff compel the couple, aKer 60 years of marriage, to sleep in separate rooms. In another chapter the couple are cryogenically preserved, and Shriver imagines what it might be like to be reanimated in a future world that is radically different to the one you leK. In all the scenarios both Kay and Cyril die, but not always when they are 80.

Both Kay and Cyril are likeable enough though their three children are truly dreadful. I found myself being glad that I have rela@vely normal children. At least, I think I do. Perhaps they would consign me to a ghastly aged-care facility given half a chance. But the novel is not really a novel about death … it’s a novel about a rela@onship. The fact that the rela@onship is a marriage is by the by. Shriver is exploring, and encourages her reader to consider, what it means to be in an in@mate rela@onship with one person for 60 years. In that context it is interes@ng to think about the place of the individual in that rela@onship. In the case of Kay and Cyril the rela@onship is cri@cal, but it never seems to remove the power of the individual. When it comes down to it, this is a novel about life and not about death.

It’s a good book. It’s designed to make its reader think. I found it, I have to say, in Moruya Books and it may be that there are copies s@ll there. Janice posted on Facebook last week that she is “running a @ght ship behind closed doors for anyone that needs to squirrel some more reading away”. She is taking orders Monday — Friday, 0900 — 1200 by phone, email or SMS. You can prepay and collect, or she can mail your books to you. Support a local business: buy a book. Buy two. In fact, definitely buy two.

Note on Trump: The two books I read were Micheal Wolff’s Landslaide and I alone can fix it by Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker. The Wolff book is the third in a trilogy on the Trump years and follows Fire and fury (2018) and Siege (2019). I found it hard to read as it seemed be all over the place - possibly as a result of the event it tries to record. There are too many characters and it’s too easy to forget who’s who. I think he wrote it in a hurry.

The Leaning and Rucker book, on the other hand, is a masterpiece. It’s not short at 570 or so pages (compared to Wolff’s 300) but it’s thoroughly readable. It leaves you open-mouthed at the an@cs of some of these people and makes you wonder who actually ran the US in the last year of the Trump presidency. And it makes it clear that the whole elec@on fraud thing was just made up. I think democracy in the US had a preJy close call.

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Broulee Runners August 25th 2021 The run is in the second week of lock down and we are only able to take virtual run results. It is worth reflec@ng on how we were back to this @me 5-years ago in 2016.

This event number 463 and there were 63 starters. It must have been good Vol 16 September 15th 2017 condi@ons as there were 10 personal best @mes. First home in the 2 Kilometres was 28 April December 7th, 2017 Vol 48 27th 2018 Klaye Van Weerdenburg with his best @me of 6.29. In the 3.5 was Foxx McGeachey in a personal best @me of 15.49 and in the 5 Kilometres was Daniel Beby in a @me of 17.40. Daniel was closely followed home by Dan Lloyd-Jones with his PB @me of 17.59. All except Klaye have gone on to improve on these @mes.

The weather over the last few days has been terrible with rain and gale force winds and those who recorded a @me would have earned every kilometre of their selected distance.

Narooma Ladies Golf results Narooma ladies played R1 Women's Club Championships- Red course. Very lucky to finish before the weather condi@ons changed.

Grade A winners Kay Lawrence with 74 C/B to Tina Wilson. Grade B winner was Ris Cheale with 76 close behind for 2nd place was Robyn GibleJ with 77. Balls to 79 C/B. NTP 3rd hole division 3 was Chris Hendra., 7th hole division 2 was Jenny Walker Wednesday 24th was a cold, wet and windy day to play our R2 Ladies Club Championships, monthly medal and puNng compe@@on. 33 ladies braved the condi@ons and the results are as follows.

The monthly medal winner was Chris Fader with a score of 72 off handicap of 16. PuNng prize with 28 puJs was Jan Shevlin.

Grade A winner was Chris Fader and runner up was Sylvia Donohoe with a score of 75 off handicap of 4.

Grade B winners were Heather McMillan with 75 C/B to Julie Melville. Balls to 80 C/B NTP9th hole division 3 was Laura Taylor The cake hole on the 14th was won by Sylvia Donohoe.

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