What’s On …………….... 21 to

Vol 16 September 15th 2017 Vol 28 December 7th, 2017 Vol 48 April 27th 2018

The world’s best new films come to Sydney in cinema and online this year for 19 days and nights of inspiring and entertaining premieres, talks and par es. Join us and be among the first in Australia to see the greatest, strangest and most exci ng work that cinema has to offer. Sydney Film Fes val takes place at our flagship venue the State Theatre, as well as cinemas in the CBD, Newtown, Cremorne, Western Sydney and more, screening films you won’t usually find in the mul plex. 12 films are selected for the Official Compe on, which celebrates “courageous, audacious and cu ng-edge” cinema with a $60,000 cash prize. Sydney Film Fes val also presents seven other cash awards over the course of the fes val. How can I find out what’s playing in the SFF On Demand program, and how can I access On Demand?

Visit sff.org.au You can either: • Click on the STREAM ON DEMAND tab at the very top of the SFF website to visit SFF On Demand • Click on the ON DEMAND bu on next to Donate on the top right of the main naviga on bar • You can also visit the SFF On Demand virtual program strand for a full list of films on SFF On Demand here.

Once you’re browsing SFF On Demand, you can scroll down from the On Demand home page to view films, or you can visit Browse By Strand, Browse A-Z or Ticket Bundles in the main menu at the top of the site. You can also browse Talks too—and there are so many to choose from.:

There is hope. Vol 16 September 15th 2017 Vol 28 December 7th, 2017 Vol 48 April 27th 2018 Until now, the prospect of a future in which the world was fracturing into armed political camps – science versus faith, democracy versus autocracy; climate action versus denialism - was all around us. Add to that an epidemic that has killed at least five million people and it felt a little like the End of Days so beloved by the biblical eschatologists. In Glasgow, the so-called ‘last chance’ conference for the world to save itself from the horrors of global heating seemed to be sputtering to a pathetic denouement as the kids outside labelled it just more ‘blah, blah, blah’. Here at home it was even more depressing. Instead of the kind of action favoured by the great majority, our government was not only siding with the naysayers, it was actually running interference against those who wanted to cut methane emissions on one hand and demand the phasing out of polluting petrol on the other. Instead, it was actually looking to expand coal mining with 35 new projects in the pipeline. That image of Prime Minster Scott Morrison taunting the Opposition with a lump of coal in the Parliament returned to haunt us on our TV screens. And his laughable announcement about charging terminals for EVs was derided by the very industry group it was designed to benefit. The media has generally blamed his inaction on pressure from the Nationals. They pictured Morrison as being trapped between the collapse of the Coalition and his ‘real’ wish to take meaningful action to save the planet. But it’s a proposition that is wearing very thin. He knows as well as anyone that the Nationals have nowhere to go except to the electoral graveyard if they break away or split. He knows that moderate Liberals would protect him from a leadership coup from Peter Dutton. And most of all, he knows the science that tells of the ravages to his fellow Australians is in certain prospect if climate change blazes unchecked. That leaves two possibilities – either he really believes the Pentecostal conviction that the End of Days is upon us and Jesus will soon return; or like Donald Trump he regards climate change as a hoax and he’ll win a khaki election by making an enemy of China. Or both. However, this week his expectations were undone at the Glasgow conference with a ground-breaking development that really didn’t get the coverage it deserved. American President Joe Biden’s special envoy, John Kerry announced that the United States and China had reached an historic agreement to work together to fight climate change. Suddenly there was hope. And since together they’re responsible for 40 per cent of emissions, that changes the entire equation. It’s great for the planet’s future and for human habitation. Even more important, it joins the two superpowers with the third – the EU – in an endeavour that puts their petty quarrels over trade and nationalist one-upmanship in the shade. It offers the prospect of negotiation over threat, of diplomacy over war and maybe even a little shared humour over silly ‘exceptionalism’ (or ‘face’). Anything that brings them together has to be a plus for humanity. And climate change is about as encompassing as it gets. Of course, it does leave a few people out in the cold. I can think of one in particular. www.robertmacklin.com

Vol 16 September 15th 2017 Vol 28 December 7th, 2017 Vol 48 April 27th 2018

Reading - le er to the editor Eurobodalla doctors and midwives informed that service is func oning at the most BASIC level

Vol 16 September 15th 2017 Vol 28 December 7th, 2017 Vol 48 April 27th 2018 On Monday 15th November, I a ended the Tuross Head Progress Associa on Candidates Forum for Local Council candidates. As always, it is a refreshing exercise in the democra c process which is unfortunately rare in our Shire and Electorate. I asked the candidates, "What will you do within the role of Local Government to support the opening of the new Eurobodalla hospital with level 4 services?" Their responses were uniformly suppor ve within their poten al roles as mayor or councillors. Some candidates acknowledged the big picture issues in such a development. However, I was astounded to hear from Karyn Starmer, the Mayoral candidate from the Mayne Team, that a Le er of Offer to the owners of Braemar Farm, the approved site of the new Eurobodalla hospital, was not received by the owners un l this month. I was the VMO representa ve on the Site Selec on Working Group which approved the site in November 2020. I signed a Confiden ality and Conflict of Interest Undertaking. The site was announced one month later by the Hon Andrew Constance, the Member for Bega, who stated that, if necessary, the NSW Government would use compulsory acquisi on powers to obtain the site. Work was promised to start by the end of 2021. The owners of Braemar Farm were informed that a Le er of Offer would be forthcoming by March 2021. Out of good will, they allowed access to their property to planners, surveyors and engineers. I was asked by the Working Group to approve a decision to subdivide the unusable watercourse at the western end of the site in June 2021. Approval for something that had not had an offer made on it. Now our community has been informed that a Le er of Offer was not received un l 12 months a er the announcement by the NSW Government. There is no informa on as to whether the offer has been accepted. That’s pre y basic. Par cularly when our community is elec ng a new Council responsible for planning approval of the new hospital development. They will replace an exis ng Council which must have been aware of the absence of a Le er of Offer for this major development. Par cularly when our community is facing a State by elec on early next year which has been based on some very hollow health care promises. Ironically, immediately before the THPA mee ng, I had a ended a preliminary feedback session concerning Maternity and Neonatal services in the Eurobodalla. A review had been ins tuted by NSW Health due to my evidence presented to the NSW Parliamentary Inquiry into Health and Hospital Access in Rural, Regional and Remote NSW. This inquiry has exposed the negligent state of rural health services in NSW under the current government including our South Coast. Locally, our doctors and midwives were informed that our service is func oning at the most basic level of resilience. Basic. This is an indictment of the miserable state of health management by the NSW Government. In the largest rural maternity unit in Southern NSW, our doctors and midwives provide maternity and neonatal services which deliver the best results for clinical indicators in the SNSWLHD despite the poorest condi ons.

These poorest condi ons include both the physical and the workforce. It is a service which uses an office as the Neonatal nursery. It is a service where midwifery workforce deficiencies do not have the me or the support for statutory con nued professional development and educa on once their first responsibility of pa ent care and their secondary responsibility of box cking for bureaucracy is completed. They work in a system where an MBA accounts for more than a Bachelor of Midwifery. Our service which has been endorsed by the NSW Government will be reduced to 3 maternity beds. Basic. The planned service will provide 2 neonatal and paediatric beds. Basic. There is a threat that maternity services in the Eurobodalla will reduce to a level 2 service and newborn services to level 1.

A long serving, highly skilled and dedicated GP Obstetrician has submi ed her resigna on because of the dysfunc on caused by the NSW Government. How basic will the new Eurobodalla hospital be on opening? That is why we fight on Saturday 27th November at Riverside Park rotunda.

Vol 16 September 15th 2017 Vol 28 December 7th, 2017 Vol 48 April 27th 2018

Dear Editor, The mayoral ballot and the tyranny of small minds I am prompted to write about the mayoral race because of the Vol 16 September 15th 2017 Vol 28 December 7th, 2017 Vol 48 April 27th 2018 need to answer the rubbish being posted mainly to Facebook but also to the Beagle, by small-minded, uninformed individuals, with a nasty bent, about mayoral candidate Mathew Hatcher. Mat is more than able to look a er himself, and he does so, in magnanimous style, but as a strong supporter of him and his team, I must say something. What is it we need in a mayor? What must our mayor be able to do? We could spend hours discussing and no doubt disagreeing between ourselves in answering these ques ons but, not surprisingly, the Local Government Act 1993 provides the answer for us. Sec on 226 of the LGA sets out the role of a mayor and lists 15 specific roles. At the top of that list we find that a mayor is: (a) to be the leader of the council and a leader in the local community (b) to advance community cohesion and promote civic awareness These top-listed du es go to a mayoral candidate’s personal quali es and capaci es, which go beyond, and are addi onal to, the essen ally func onal quali es necessary to fulfil the remaining du es. The quali es necessary to fulfill these top two du es are either inherent in the individual or simply absent. They cannot be manufactured. They can possibly be learnt, to some extent, as one might do in ac ng classes, but as we o en see in so many aspiring but failed poli cians, the result is a wooden, insincere manner. One cannot manufacture a persona. To be a leader and to be able to advance community cohesion, which has been so completely absent over the past 5 years, one needs to be a natural at bringing people together, to be bright, enthusias c, with innova ve ideas and to have the energy and vitality of youth. Mat Hatcher has these quali es in spades. Those who say otherwise simply don’t know him. In my view, none of the other candidates come near him when measured against these requirements. At the Tuross meet-the-candidates’ forum last Monday night, Mat did himself no favours. Having been constantly sledged as a ‘brash American’, which he is not, he overcorrected and held right back. He was so very uncharacteris cally re cent; and then to be slammed for daring to express his valid concerns about party poli cs. I have known Mat for about 5 years and especially so over the past year, and I have found him to hold the values that mean so much to me. He is a straight talker, completely open, honest and has a genuine egalitarian approach to the world. It is because of those quali es and his vitality, that I am giving him my full support. I wish all new candidates the very best and look forward to a co-opera ve, genuinely engaging and progressive council in which we have cohesion, not division. Peter Cormick Deua River Valley

The Beagle Editor, Being a part me resident, spending half the year at Malua Bay and the rest of the year in Goulburn I take Vol 16 September 15th 2017 Vol 28 December 7th, 2017 Vol 48 April 27th 2018 an interest in both camps. There is much excitement building around the opening of the new aqua c centre in the Bay but what of the theater? There is nothing in the press. I draw your a en on to the new Goulburn Performing Arts Centre and their announcement this week. First ckets on sale for Goulburn Performing Arts Centre The curtains are soon to rise and first release of ckets for performances at Goulburn Performing Arts Centre will go on sale on TUESDAY 23rd November from 3pm. A er almost five years of planning and construc on, compounded by the effects of COVID-19, Goulburn Performing Arts Centre is preparing for its official opening and season launch in March 2022. “We are right at the finishing line for this historic project, which will have an enormous impact on Goulburn and the surrounding region. The message we have for our community is that this theatre is stunning, and you will have a huge choice of shows and programs to enjoy in our City, from March next year” said General Manager Warwick Benne . Goulburn Performing Arts Centre Manager Raina Savage has assembled a packed program of commercial hire shows, community performances and GPAC’s own subscrip on season, to ensure the first year of performances in the state of the art 400 seat venue has something for everyone. Ms Savage said, “From when the doors open we will have something happening just about every weekend, and o en during the week with school shows and seniors concerts. We are launching our own curated Season Program as part of the official opening, but to whet your appe te we are kicking things off with sales to a select and very diverse array of shows put on by commercial hirers.” When cket sales go live at 3pm on TUESDAY 23rd November, audience members can choose from country music, classic Aussie pop, Irish dance, outrageous drag, and some of Australia’s best tribute shows. Locals can also sign up for an exclusive Premium Membership Package – which includes ckets to the VIP Preshow Season Launch event, commemora ve merchandise, exclusive members’ events throughout the year and generous membership offers. The new $18.95 million Goulburn Performing Arts Centre (GPAC) is nearing comple on, with its grand opening expected in early 2022. Built on the site of the old Goulburn Town Hall, the centre will be a state-of -the-art theatre able to seat 400 patrons. Definite plans for the 2022 season are yet to be released, but they will include the following: One major performing arts performance. Four specialist children’s and family performances. Two circus shows. Two First Na ons works. Two comedy shows. A film fes val. Two musical theatre produc ons. Live music concerts. Four drama works. Two culturally diverse works. A fes val of regional theatre The Goulburn Performing Arts Centre is hopeful of luring a number of major performing arts organisa ons which tour regional NSW, including The Australian Ballet, Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Bell Shakespeare. My ques on to Council candidates is "What is happening with our Batemans Bay theatre and why can't I find a single men on of any news about the theatre on the internet?"

The Beagle Editor, While I commend Eurobodalla Shire Council for securing a grant to build & posi on nes ng boxes for the endangered Gang Gang cockatoos that visit our local forests I ask, does the Council have the courage and foresight to go further and fight to keep the natural hollows s ll exis ng for the Gang Gangs and all the other wildlife? Our local forests Vol 16 September 15th 2017 Vol 28 December 7th, 2017 Vol 48 April 27th 2018 have been “harvested”, a.k.a. deforested, by Forestry Corpora on NSW in accordance with their “let’s take everything” business ideal. And then we had the bushfires that burned ho er in the logged areas than in the unlogged forest. And then, as the surviving plants and animals struggled to recover from this devasta on, Forestry Corpora on NSW has relentlessly pursued their log at any cost policy, even into the less fire impacted areas that hold our precious reservoir of surviving na ve species. Species that need an intact func oning forest ecosystem, from under the earth, through a biodiverse understorey to crown cover tree tops. What of the impacts on honey producers and tourism industries or locals and visitors who use and value the exis ng forest. Forestry Corp NSW seems to treat these groups with contempt as they view the forest as THEIR resource alone. All around Mogo has been harvested, the earth ripped, and “rubbish”, including feed trees such as Banksia and Casuarina, bulldozed into piles and le , half burned, smouldering for weeks, awai ng the next bushfire to clean it up. A Forestry spokesperson explained “this is to promote preferred species such as Spo ed Gum and Ironbark”. A few habitat trees are le to struggle on. Logging will turn it into a monoculture of same aged trees, with li le biodiversity NOT a forest. At my boundary where there was once a rainforest gully there is now a thick, dense regrowth of Black Wa le as the Earth tries to heal it’s wounds. If we get another fire through here in the next few years, how much ho er and uncontrollable will it be with this dense, extremely combus ble fuel load? Will we be sending our volunteer fire fighters to deal with it? One compartment remains – 146, on Dog Trap Road, Mogo. It is only 1 Km from the area around Deep Creek Dam (saved from logging to stop sedimenta on of our drinking water), and the Botanic Gardens. It has deep southern fern gullies and was less impacted by fire, it has recordings of threatened species such as Swi Parrot, Gang Gangs, Glossy Black Cockatoos and Greater Gliders. It has the mountain bike trail, something that will bring a con nuing economic benefit to our community and that has been granted millions of dollars in funding. Do riders want to go through a tall, living forest or a burnt, bulldozed hell? This is a local tourism asset and we are allowing it’s (taxpayer subsidised) destruc on by Forestry, who consistently ignore conserva on rules. It is le to community volunteers and organisa ons to try and protect, monitor and report breaches because all levels of Government fail u erly to do so. The undermanned EPA can prosecute a er the event but that is of no use to the wildlife that relied on the hollows and food sources, they are all gone. We can put up the ar ficial nest boxes for the Gang Gangs to replace the natural ones that were, or are about to be, bulldozed, but for what, if there is no forest to feed in? I ask locals and visitors to please drive up Dog Trap Road, Mogo, to Mitchells Road and see what we will lose, see the before and a er for yourselves? I ask why the taxpayer funded report by the Natural Resources Commission has not been released; its contents are kept secret by “Cabinet-in-Confidence”? Please add your voices to SAVE THE FORESTS. Kind regards Lynne Freeman Mogo

Tales of Life and Music By: Dave Grohl

Vol 16 September 15th 2017 Vol 28 December 7th, 2017 Vol 48 April 27th 2018 So, I’ve wri en a book. Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few ques onable opportuni es (‘It’s a piece of cake! Just do four hours of interviews, find someone else to write it, put your face on the cover, and voila!’), I have decided to write these stories just as I have always done, in my own hand. The joy that I have felt from chronicling these tales is not unlike listening back to a song that I’ve recorded and can’t wait to share with the world, or reading a primi ve journal entry from a stained notebook, or even hearing my voice bounce between the Kiss posters on my wall as a child. This certainly doesn’t mean that I’m qui ng my day job, but it does give me a place to shed a li le light on what it’s like to be a kid from Springfield, Virginia, walking through life while living out the crazy dreams I had as young musician. From hi ng the road with Scream at 18 years old, to my me in Nirvana and the Foo Fighters, jamming with Iggy Pop or playing at the Academy Awards or dancing with AC/DC and the Preserva on Hall Jazz Band, drumming for Tom Pe y or mee ng Sir Paul McCartney at Royal Albert Hall, bed me stories with Joan Je or a chance mee ng with Li le Richard, to flying halfway around the world for one epic night with my daughters…the list goes on. I look forward to focusing the lens through which I see these memories a li le sharper for you with much excitement.

About the Author

Dave Grohl is an award-winning musician and director. He has been one of the most beloved and respected figures on the interna onal music since his recorded debut with Nirvana on 1991’s genera on-defining Nevermind. Grohl took centre stage with Foo Fighters’ 1995 self- tled debut album, and the band have gone on to win twelve Grammys and five Brit Awards. Their most recent album, Medicine at Midnight, went to No 1 on the UK charts. In 2013, Grohl made his debut as a feature director/producer with the acclaimed documentary Sound City. Grohl also directed the eight-part HBO docuseries Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways, which premiered in October 2014 and went on to win two Emmys.

Reading—A beer with Baz Bazza leaned back on his bar stool, gave his crook shoulder a good stretch and gazed out the window. The sky was well washed and a hopeful blue brought a slight smile to his face. Paul Kelly’s tribute song ‘Don Bradman’ dri ed across the bar, cemen ng the mood. “Deep in thought there, Bazza?” Mick took a long sip from the full schooner. “Just reminiscing about the old days, Mick” Mick rolled his eyes. “What? Before or a er the Great Depression, Bazza?” “You’re a bit of a smart arse some mes, Mick, but no…. not that long ago……back when the start of summer was the beginning of the big relax. When everyone kicked back a notch when daylight saving started, and enjoyed the longer evenings. The days when people were not tuned into the ABC for bushfire updates or the latest Corona Virus sta s cs or lockdown announcements. Things just cked along that li le bit slower all the way to Melbourne Cup Day.” “Yeah now I’m with you, Bazza……And by the first cricket test at the GABBA, you’re looking for that good spot on the lounge, ready access to a couple of cold ones, to start the big doze through to the end of January. By gee, we’re going back a few years now.” They both took a decent drink and enjoyed the thought. Ah yeah…. the cricket. You know Mick, I could of played for Australia.” Mick splu ered his beer. “I kid you not, Mick. Trouble is, we lived next door to a witch.” Mick had to steady his schooner, “What?” “Ah Mick. To start, her name was Micky, which was odd to begin with, and it did not take too much imagina on for us kids to just turn the ‘M’ upside down and I’m sure you start to get the picture. She was also a trained butcher which was pre y bloody frightening, and she had this immaculate garden with manicured lawns that were seriously off limits to us feral kids. I tell you, Mick, she even used tweezers to pull out ny weeds. Our elder brother convinced us the only reason she was such a good gardener was because she would chop up any kids that strayed into her place, burn them in the incinerator and put the ashes into her compost.” Mick smiled and Bazza took a decent drink. “So Mick, if the ball went over the fence when we played backyard cricket, we were too frightened to get it. In fact, we probably pioneered women’s cricket because we even let our sister play with us, on the proviso she retrieve the ball, if we hit a six. Even that strategy didn’t work because the la ce brick fence came tumbling down on her, when I was trying to get off my best score of 87 runs. And as you know, it’s the ‘devil’s number’ for ba ers. So back then, it made sense. The witch had put a curse on that fence.” Mick shook his head and had another sip. “Well Mick, we all ended up ba ng like the boring English cricketer, Geoffrey Boyco . We specialised in blocking and just scoring singles. Under these circumstances, there is no way we could emulate our heroes, like Dougie Walters.” Mick could not contain a good laugh. “But Mick, we did solve the problem by digging a series of tunnels into the witch’s place. We would pop out behind her rose bed and grab the ball before she could catch us.” Bazza sighed and grinned. “But of course…….by that stage, the Chappell Brothers had pinched our spots in the Australian Cricket Team.”

Vol 16 September 15th 2017 Vol 28 December 7th, 2017 Vol 48 April 27th 2018

A BIG HALL. – When completed the new hall or picture palace, now in course of erec on by Mr. Preddy, in Vulcan Street, immediately opposite Mr. Mar n Kea ng’s Hotel, will be spacious enough to take in the Vol 16 September 15th 2017 Vol 28 December 7th, 2017 Vol 48 April 27th 2018 Mechanic’s and Centennial halls side by side. What a glorious waltzing pavilion. GOLF CLUB AT NAROOMA. – Narooma is determined not to be behind the mes, as this popular summer resort, formerly the home of fish and oysters, has secured ground for a golf links. A mee ng of the residents was held in the School of Arts on Saturday last, and it was decided to form a club and get a professional from Sydney to lay out the course so as to take the most out of the ground available. The following were elected as officers, viz., President, Mr. George W. Dunbar; Vice-President, Mr. Cecil T. Carter; Council, Dr. Birmingham, Messrs. John McMillan, Carl Mitchell, Lance Davison, George Thomson, Arthur Cos n, W. Rowlands and Miss Q. Cos n; Secretary and Treasurer pro tem, Miss Imelda Lynch (Corona on Hotel) ….It is expected that the links will be ready for playing on about Christmas me, so that tourists will be able to enjoy a round on a nine hole course. The links run along the cliffs, and the view of the Pacific adds greatly to the pleasure of playing. ACCIDENT. - An accident occurred on Tuesday, the result of which Mr. J. Gibbon had a small bone in his foot broken. Mr. Gibbon, who was on his usual trip from the sawmill with his mber wagon and team, was descending the hill to Ryan’s Creek, west of Bergalia, when he jumped off the sha s to escape a branch of a tree which had become entangled in the wheels. In doing so his ankle, usually weak, gave way, causing him to fall, and the wheel passed over his foot. Dr. Cutler a ended the pa ent, pu ng his foot in plaster of Paris. EUCHRE PARTY. – A most successful euchre party and dance was held in the Centennial Hall on Tuesday, the event being organized by the fair Secretaries, Mrs. Sebbens and Miss A. Johnson, to assist in augmen ng the forthcoming Convent Ball funds. Considering the unpropi ous state of the weather there was a splendid a endance, 120 players compe ng for the six valuable prizes…. Mr. J. Spinks was the winner of the first prize – a turkey, Master Fisher Crapp securing second – a bag of corn. Mrs. P. Lynch presen ng the next best card annexed the cheese, Mr. Claude Coppin receiving as his reward a watch, whilst an electric torch and a n of tea were won by Miss Mary Staunton and Mr. A. W. Constable respec vely. PERSONAL & OTHERWISE. – Sir Samuel Hordern and party, in a luxurious Rolls Royce car, passed through Moruya on Saturday on their way to Sydney from the Melbourne Cup. Mr. P. J. Heffernan, of Candelo, has been on a visit to his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. R. Heffernan, of Yarragee. P. J., who has amassed enough of this world’s goods to re re at will, returned home on Wednesday.