Beagle Weekender Vol 250 March 11th 2022

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Flood relief. A brief handbook for a future government commi8ed to competence. Use fes4val crew to build a tent city, with everything a major fes4val contains: temporary showers, toilets, food vans (government pays for food), field hospital, comms, power, water trucks, marquee gathering places, fences, security. Easy for us events people to arrange. Next, enact emergency powers to requisi4on all the stuff above. Then, put the military and the state emergency and the police into a conference room, and have someone sensible like Michael Chugg chair the mee4ng. Their job is to get to people using the boats and helicopters we taxpayers own, and transport them to the relief (fes4val) site, handing them over to the events crew. We look aBer 50,000+ people at events like Bluesfest. We could stage several relief sites at one 4me, and have base facili4es around the country ready for disasters. Our air force has plenty of heavy liB capability siVng on the ground at Richmond, our army has a lot of stuff we could use. All you need is us. Under employed, almost broke, events people. Julius Gra%on When Stevie comes off much worse than second-best in a playground encounter with the kid they call Nightmare, his days, nights and everything else are turned upside down. Hiding in the library is a temporary fix, un4l unusual visitors begin giving him advice in his dreams. He discovers there might just be a way to take back control of his life and even act half normal with the preVest girl in school. Wri<en for ages 11 to 15, (school Years 5 to 9), A bully named Nightmare! If you can't beat 'em, join forces draws on themes such as mindfulness, self-defence, taking control, collabora4on, resilience and the support of family and friends to equip young people to take back their lives in the context of being bullied. Roulee teacher, Danny Graham, is a registered psychologist and schoolteacher. He has more than 30 years experience providing counselling and psychological support services to children and teens in Australia and overseas.

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