Beagle Weekender Vol 255 April 15th 2022

Vol 255 April 15th 2022

Your FREE online Eurobodalla weekend magazine.

Cover photo courtesy of Dean Songberg

Your Beagle Weekly Index Arts ……………………. 33, 34 Cinema ……………….. 25 Community ………………3 to 16 Reading ……………………..26 to 32 Food………………………… o Sport and Fishing ………. 35 to 38 Editorial …………………..2 What’s On …………….... 17 to 24

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editorial Welcome to this week’s editorial, As I write the sky is blue, the winds are so4 and the weekend ahead looks as if it intends to behave itself, delivering sunny days that might dry out our region, and our lawns that now pass as bogs.

There is much to celebrate this weekend. Yes, it is Easter and that is an opportunity for chocolate, buns with crosses and the opportunity to watch the reruns on TV of Pasolini’s film, The Greatest Story Ever Told while the kids look for Easter Eggs in the garden that you claim to have hidden, but didn’t.

The Easter message this year is to all of our locals who normally hunker down knowing that there are lots of visitors to the area. This year, don’t.

Across the region the numbers of visitors is much lower than expected. While it is Easter, school holidays and then another long weekend with ANZAC Day that would normally see numbers swell the impact of fuel prices and the concerns around household finances mean that the folks who might normally come, the families from the West, are baulking at spending $200 or more to fill the car and make the journey.

We had bushfires that dealt our tourism a blow, then Covid, then La Nina with her endless bloody rain that has turned the Eastern seaboard into a quagmire. Now we have fuel prices that are having a dampener of family holiday budgets.

But for those who do make the journey, and for all of our locals, there is much to do this weekend that is affordable. There is the Tilba FesAval on Saturday, the From the Forest FesAval at Eurobodalla Botanical Gardens all weekend, the Tuross Head Easter Fair on Monday and 85 beaches from north to south that don’t costs a cent to explore and enjoy.

Mogo Wildlife Park have declared Kids are Free in April and you can use your Discover Vouchers to cover the entry fee for parents. Simply purchase an full-priced adult, concession or senior Acket and you’ll get up to 4 children into Mogo Wildlife Park for free.

This week is a massive week for our local businesses as they approach the long winter ahead. Our local cafes have put on extra staff to cover the anAcipated demand. If you can, over this weekend and the coming week, please review your Discover Vouchers and your Dining Vouchers. And if you have any in your Service NSW App please consider using them to support our local businesses so that they can conAnue to thrive and employ our own community.

If you are venturing out please stay safe. There are sAll lots of potholes, the seas are decepAve, the shire is covered in leeches and gumboots are the new chosen footware. And be Covid aware—it is out there and really is more than “just the flu”.

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Poli%cal Poster vandalism needs to be addressed It appears that we have the same issues we saw during the State by-elecAon. Candidates using roadside trees for their campaign assuming they have impunity simply because the Australian Electoral Commission passes the responsibility to Council to administer and Council has beLer things to do then be the deputy-dog for a Commission that refuses to fine or offer consequence.

So here we are once again, elecAon Ame, and it appears that we have the same quandary again.

The ElecAon Act (secAon 184) requires that adverAsing material, including signs and posters, cannot be displayed on or within land or buildings occupied, used by, or under the control or management of the Crown, NSW Government agencies, or a Council. Local roads and State highways fit this definiAon. Should we take down the poliAcal posters illegally aLached to roadside trees in our neighbourhood?

By nailing a poster to a tree it is clear that the candidate is declaring that they have liLle respect for the community not the environment. It is liLle more than a snub and a dare you to complain, knowing there are no immediate consequences. The only possible consequence is that the community see the signs for what they are and react negaAvely at the voAng booth.

This was the case with the voter backlash received to a candidate during the State Government by-elecAon and to a candidate in the September 2021 Council elecAon. The rules are clear yet, for some reason these candidates consider they are above the rules.

It is Eurobodalla Council’s interpretaAon that elecAon posters cannot be erected/placed: • on trees; • on footpath areas; or • on any structure within a road reserve.

On receipt of complaint Council contacts the elecAon candidates during the elecAon campaign to remind them of their responsibiliAes for elecAon posters. If the sign is not removed Council can issue a fine. But they don't. And the offending candidates and their supporters know this, and conAnue to flaunt the rules.

When you consider the cost of the corflutes that are beginning to liLer our region you might like to consider how much this markeAng costs and note that it appears only the major parAes, at the moment, can afford this style of elecAoneering with the small parAes and the independents abiding by the rules and mindful of the percepAon the community has for environmental vandals.

The signs below are just some of the ones that The Beagle has received in the past days.

So far they appear to be promoAng one candidate.

To be absolutely fair and criAcal of any environmental vandal who shows disdain for the rules and disrespect of the community and of the tree they choose to sink nails into please send in any photos you have.

The ones below will be passed on to Council rangers so that they might at least make contact with the candidate concerned.

Be sure to contact Council on 44741000 in the first instance to report this kind of wanton vandalism.

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Community-based discussion supports CBD upgrade The transformaAon of Moruya’s CBD into a pedestrian -friendly precinct conAnues, with work to get underway shortly in Queen and Church Streets a4er two months of comprehensive discussions with business and the community.

Previous work to create a safe and navigable town centre has included raised crossings on Shore and Ford streets, a roundabout at the intersecAon of Ford Street and Ford Lane, and 30 kilometre-per-hour speed zone.

Eurobodalla Council has since sought addiAonal community feedback on further upgrades in Moruya, including raised crossings on Church and Queen streets and consistent two-hour on-street parking.

Eurobodalla Traffic CommiLee chair Amber Schutz said although verbal feedback on the early work was largely posiAve, Council desired stronger engagement with the community before proceeding to the next phase.

“We agreed to accept Transport for NSW funding of $280,000 back in February with the proviso of addiAonal engagement with business and the community,” Cr Schutz said.

“During February and March we saw widespread media and social media coverage of the proposed upgrade, we wrote to all businesses and landlords, dropped by the 101 CBD businesses for a chat, as well as holding two on-street community drop-in sessions with Council’s technical staff.”

“Of the 54 business owners or managers who spoke with us, 91 per cent were in favour of the proposed infrastructure upgrades and 96 per cent in favour of the two-hour on-street parking. Of the 31 community members who aLended a drop-in session, 89 per cent were in favour of the changes.”

Ms Schutz said the engagement resulted in some posiAve changes to the CBD upgrade.

“Thanks to suggesAons from the community, we’ve been able to retain an addiAonal 10 carpark spaces, retain accessible parking directly outside the physiotherapist, and ensure bike racks are visible and able to accommodate eBikes” she said.

Director of infrastructure Warren Sharpe OAM said Council would conAnue to work with Moruya Business Chamber and the community to idenAfy addiAonal parking opportuniAes into the future.

“Work will begin a4er ANZAC Day and should be finished by the end of June, with traffic control in place as necessary.”

For more informaAon visit Council’s website. hLps://www.esc.nsw.gov.au/council/major-projects/currentprojects/planning-recreaAon-business/moruya-cbd-pedestrian-upgrade

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community Help shape the new Eurobodalla Regional Hospital Take a look at the latest plans and designs. Ask quesAons and let us know what you think.

Members of the new Eurobodalla Regional Hospital project team will be ready to meet you at the following locaAons: Batemans Bay Library Wednesday 20 April, 10am to 11.30am Moruya Library Wednesday 20 April, 3pm to 4.30pm Narooma Library Thursday 21 April, 10am to 11.30am Moruya Country Markets Saturday 7 May Scan the QR code pictured to complete the survey.

Man washed off rocks near Malua Bay A man was airli4ed to Canberra Hospital in a serious condiAon a4er being washed off the rocks south of Batemans Bay (Thursday April 14).

Emergency Services received reports a4er 8am today of a man who was laying on the rocks at Mosquito Bay, near Malua Bay. The man in his 60's had potenAally been there for several hours before he was able to raise help according to emergency services.

NSW Ambulance responded sending three vehicles to scene along with a rescue chopper. Police, Fire and Rescue and SES crews were all on site.

Due to the locaAon of the man it was difficult for first-responders to get to him, with rescue teams having to winch a paramedic and doctor down to the paAent. The man sustained serious injuries to his chest and a puncture to his le4 flank.

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New funding to improve community resilience and wellbeing People experiencing mental ill-health will benefit from new funding available to local community organisaAons who can provide group-based acAviAes that promote community resilience and enhance community wellbeing.

COORDINARE - South Eastern NSW PHN is offering Commonwealth Psychosocial Support (CPS) Community Grants between $10,000 and $30,000 to small to medium community groups / organisaAons operaAng within the South Eastern NSW region to provide community led psychosocial support acAviAes. COORDINARE’s CEO Dianne Kitcher said the CPS community grants are an important component of the CPS program which supports adults aged 16 to 65 years who have a severe or complex mental health condiAon. “ParAcipants in the CPS program are supported to help manage daily acAviAes, rebuild and maintain connecAons, build social skills and parAcipate in educaAon and employment. We understand this support is parAcularly helpful for the many people in our region who are impacted by severe or complex mental health issues.

“Community groups and organisaAons that provide community-led psychosocial support acAviAes or help to increase community accessibility and awareness of people with complex mental health needs, can benefit from this support,” said Ms Kitcher.

Funding is available for relevant group-based acAviAes that will: improve social connectedness, social skills, connectedness, friendships, relaAonships, and isolaAon for people with complex mental health needs provide new iniAaAves that are recovery focused, build on an individual’s ability and skills to manage their mental health, or increase social and economic parAcipaAon within the community provide educaAon for non-mental health community groups to become more / mental health inclusive / or extend their longevity or reach increase community accessibility and awareness of people with complex mental health needs and/or decrease sAgma. target area(s) or locaAon(s) that have an idenAfied need for support.

Detailed informaAon about the CPS community grants is available at hLps://connect.coordinare.org.au/cpscommunity-grants.

ApplicaAons are open unAl 24 April 2022.

The CPS program accepts GP referrals and self-referrals.

The service is provided by highly trained peer support workers (workers with prior lived experience of mental ill-health) and other mental health workers for people who are not currently receiving NDIS support.

For more informaAon about Commonwealth Psychosocial Support or to be connected with mental health services in your area that most appropriately meet your individual situaAon, call Head to Health on 1800 595 212. beagle weekly : Vol 255 April 15th 2022

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Installa%on of pedestrian facili%es in Bodalla to begin May 2nd New pedestrian faciliAes will be installed on the Princes Highway in Bodalla opposite the Bodalla Dairy linking the eastern side of the town to the west The work is scheduled to run from Monday 2 May 2022 unAl mid 2022 between 7am and 4pm. .

Transport for NSW say the work will include: • an extended kerb to improve visibility of pedestrians and highway users • a pedestrian refuge to create a safer locaAon for pedestrians to cross the highway • installaAon of No Stopping signs southbound on the Princes Highway • the footpath will be extended to the south on the northbound side of the highway • drainage improvements on the Princes Highway to improve the resilience and safety of the network.

Right: Locals are not convinced that the loss of five highway parking spots saying that these spots play a vital role in catering for caravans and spontaneous visitors who pull up to explore the town adding that the danger of pedestrian accidents, especially with children is increased by moving the lane towards the footpath.

"Bodalla has the only community hall in the shire that has no parking provided. Let's see how all this goes when the CWA is meeAng. They won't park over at the pub I can tell you. They reckon they consulted with the community. Pigs bum they did. This is a dog's breakfast", one long Ame resident told The Beagle.

Transport for NSW say of the project "During busy periods such as the weekend or holidays, it can be difficult for pedestrians to safely cross the Princes Highway and access shops and services in Bodalla. The pedestrian faciliAes will improve safety and accessibility for pedestrians.

"Following community feedback last year, the pedestrian facility was redesigned to include a pedestrian refuge to further improve pedestrian safety when crossing the Princes Highway, and reduce the impact on parking."

"Transport for NSW is working closely with Eurobodalla Shire Council to deliver this project."

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Nomina%ons open for 2022 Local Hero Time again to recognise some of these achievements, with nominaAons open for the 2022 Local Hero Award. Eurobodalla Mayor Mathew Hatcher – a previous recipient of the award – said Council was looking for people who had exceeded expectaAons, in any field.

“Whether that be community service, arts or sport, environment, educaAon or health, we are looking for those shire residents you feel have gone above and beyond for the benefit of others,” Mayor Hatcher said.

“Entries are open unAl Friday 29 April, with the nominaAon form and guidelines on Council’s website. We’ve simplified the process with a quick an easy form.”

Mayor Hatcher said all nominees and their nominators would be invited to aLend the 2022 Local Hero Award presentaAon at the Eurobodalla Regional Botanic Garden on Friday 10 May, where the finalists and winner will be announced.

“So if you know someone who has made an extraordinary effort or act – of compassion, generosity, bravery, or ingenuity – or achieved a parAcular professional accomplishment, get them nominated so they too can be recognised by their community,” he said.

For more informaAon, nominaAons and guidelines, visit Council’s Local Hero Award page

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New funding to improve community resilience and wellbeing People experiencing mental ill-health will benefit from new funding available to local community organisaAons who can provide group-based acAviAes that promote community resilience and enhance community wellbeing.

COORDINARE - South Eastern NSW PHN is offering Commonwealth Psychosocial Support (CPS) Community Grants between $10,000 and $30,000 to small to medium community groups / organisaAons operaAng within the South Eastern NSW region to provide community led psychosocial support acAviAes. COORDINARE’s CEO Dianne Kitcher said the CPS community grants are an important component of the CPS program which supports adults aged 16 to 65 years who have a severe or complex mental health condiAon. “ParAcipants in the CPS program are supported to help manage daily acAviAes, rebuild and maintain connecAons, build social skills and parAcipate in educaAon and employment. We understand this support is parAcularly helpful for the many people in our region who are impacted by severe or complex mental health issues.

“Community groups and organisaAons that provide community-led psychosocial support acAviAes or help to increase community accessibility and awareness of people with complex mental health needs, can benefit from this support,” said Ms Kitcher.

Funding is available for relevant group-based acAviAes that will: - improve social connectedness, social skills, connectedness, friendships, relaAonships, and isolaAon for people with complex mental health needs - provide new iniAaAves that are recovery focused, build on an individual’s ability and skills to manage their mental health, or increase social and economic parAcipaAon within the community - provide educaAon for non-mental health community groups to become more / mental health inclusive / or extend their longevity or reach - increase community accessibility and awareness of people with complex mental health needs and/or decrease sAgma.

- target area(s) or locaAon(s) that have an idenAfied need for support.

Detailed informaAon about the CPS community grants is available at hLps://connect.coordinare.org.au/ cps-community-grants.

ApplicaAons are open unAl 24 April 2022.

The CPS program accepts GP referrals and self-referrals. The service is provided by highly trained peer support workers (workers with prior lived experience of mental ill-health) and other mental health workers for people who are not currently receiving NDIS support.

For more informaAon about Commonwealth Psychosocial Support or to be connected with mental health services in your area that most appropriately meet your individual situaAon, call Head to Health on 1800 595 212.

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Campaign fires up to protect Mt Wandera infrastructure Eurobodalla community groups and associaAons have thrown their support behind Eurobodalla Council’s push to improve the resilience of telecommunicaAons infrastructure in the shire.

In July last year the Council called on government to take acAon to protect infrastructure atop Mount Wandera, which transmits to Police and emergency services, ABC and commercial TV and radio, as well as mobile phone services, internet, and more.

Council’s infrastructure services director Warren Sharpe OAM said the loss of communicaAons in the Black Summer Bushfires placed first responders at increased risk and added to the trauma to the broader community but, he said, it was largely avoidable.

“The Amber poles that serviced our main telecommunicaAons tower on Mt Wandera burnt to the ground and by necessity at that Ame had to be replaced in Amber,” Mr Sharpe explained.

“We’re fighAng to get the NSW and Australian Governments to fund EssenAal Energy to upgrade these 21 power poles with more resilient composite poles, such as those that survived the intense bushfire in the Merricumbene Valley.

“We’re also seeking a commitment to upgrade and maintain an asset protecAon zone around the site, improve the safety of the access and to make telecommunicaAons infrastructure more resilient to fire.”

Mr Sharpe said the work would miAgate the risk to the whole community and could be done at relaAvely low cost – only about $750,000, with the essenAal power upgrade making up half of that.

Emergency services, Police, government agencies, local Chambers of Commerce and community associaAons, as well as Regional Development Australia and the Canberra Region Joint OrganisaAon of councils, have all joined Council in ramping up the campaign for acAon ahead of the federal elecAon. In its leLer to the Australian Regional CommunicaAons, NaAonal Recovery and Resilience Minister Bridget McKenzie, the Batemans Bay Chamber of Commerce detailed how businesses could not acAvate EFTPOS faciliAes during the disaster, at a Ame when residents were desperate for food and fuel. The Chamber said a criAcal part of community recovery was to act on the lessons learnt.

“From the community perspecAve, everyone was technologically blind and deaf to fire updates, warnings and news for a period of six days. This is not a situaAon that governments can allow to recur,” the Chamber said.

A Council-led steering group resulted in a few wins – including an agreement for EssenAal Energy to fund part of the work, improvements to back-up power, some infrastructure work and agreement by RFS to undertake asset protecAon maintenance as a one-off – however Mr Sharpe said a whole soluAon was yet to be forthcoming.

“We are really grateful that everyone is geZng behind this criAcal change for our community. The actual work is straigh[orward and can be implemented before next fire season, if the government decides to act,” Mr Sharpe said.

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Mogo Wildlife Park is excited to bring KIDS GO FREE APRIL to allow more kids to experience the amazing, unique and fascinaAng wildlife that calls Mogo home.

Simply purchase an full-priced adult, concession or senior Acket from www.mogowildlifepark.com.au or at the park, and you’ll get up to 4 children into Mogo Wildlife Park for FREE! Mogo Wildlife Park is a wildlife experience not to be missed– eyeball a gorilla, hear lions roar metres away, watch graceful giraffes graze, and incredible primates – from marmosets to lemurs - many you’ve never seen before!

Keeper talks are back too - ask our team when you visit.

At Mogo Wildlife Park, you can leisurely stroll along flat pathways, transporAng you on your very-own South Coast safari through to Australia’s most diverse home of wildlife.

There’s nowhere else in NSW where you can get faceto-face with gorillas, lemurs, marmosets, tamarins, a snow leopard, red pandas, lions, Agers, giraffes and so much more in one home.

Plan your road trip today! Mogo Wildlife Park has been commi6ed to the care of rare and endangered wildlife for over 30 years, and we look forward to school holidays and the opportunity to inspire and engage you, your children and grandchildren to share our passion for wildlife.

Save more – Discover NSW, Dine NSW and Parent NSW vouchers are accepted and you’re welcome to use them to save more on admission Ackets, annual passes, encounters and purchases at the café and our Mogo Gi4 Shop.

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OUT NOW—your latest Beagle Abode : Eurobodalla’s leading real estate guide 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 addiAon 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 properAes on the market each week.

You can find Beagle Abode on the Beagle website under REAL ESTATE The latest Beagle Abode lisAngs 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.

CLICK HERE: hLps://www.beagleweekly.com.au/real-estate

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real estate South Coast Property Specialists (Carlene Franzen) Tips #1092:

Easter - The Bible and Real Estate The Easter period means many things to different people. For some, it is the last hurrah for a holiday at the beach before the winter months, for others (and not exclusively children) it is a “chocfest”, and for others it is a period of spiritual contemplation and awareness as the weekend celebrates the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, which is the fundamental basis of the Christian belief.

As our office is aligned primarily to the later group above, we thought it interesAng to explore in this week’s column, what the Bible menAons about Real Estate. It doesn’t specifically use the term “real estate” but there are some very interesAng references for people that are landowners, sellers, investors and tenants. Here are a few examples: Deuteronomy 19:14 “Do not move your neighbour’s boundary stone set up by your predecessors in the inheritance you receive in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess.”

Proverbs 31:16-18 “She considers a field and buys it; out of her earnings she plants a vineyard. She sets about her work vigorously; her arms are strong for her tasks. She sees that her trading is profitable, and her lamp does not go out at night.”

MaLhew 21:33 “Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another country.”

Acts 2:42-27 “They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need.”

We obviously don’t have space to drill down and elaborate on the background of these scriptural references but it is obvious that just like today, property was an important asset, that had value and in many instances was used for business, investment and in making provision for others.

Regardless of your religion or beliefs, all of our staff at South Coast Property Specialists would like to wish all readers of this column, all residents of our wonderful part of the world and all visitors (to said part of the world) a safe, restful and reflective Easter weekend. beagle weekly : Vol 255 April 15th 2022

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What’s on Apr 15th- Jacii Leigh at Club Catalina Apr 16th - Chris McGrath at Club Catalina Apr 16th - Flock of Haircuts at the Batemans Bay Soldiers Club Apr 16th - South Street Duo at Tomakin Social Club Apr 16th - Some one like you Keith Urban Brian Adams Tribute show at Club Tuross Apr 17th - Flock of Haircuts at the Batemans Bay Soldiers Club Apr 17th - Mick on Wheels at Club Catalina Apr 17th - Joe Quennell – Tuross Club (9.30am) Apr 17th - RiveRok – Club Narooma (3pm) Apr 23rd - Totum at Club Catalina Apr 23rd - Flock of Haircuts at Tomakin Social Club Apr 23rd - Fred Smith and band at Batemans Bay Soldiers Club Apr 23rd - Country Pumpkins – Moruya Markets (10am) Apr 23rd - Roddy Reason – Tuross Club (7.30pm) Apr 24th -Baritone David Greco sings songs of love and loss. 2pm St Bernard's Church Batehaven Apr 30th - Driving Sideways at Club Catalina

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COMING TO CLUB TUROSS 16th April for a outdoor show on the Green Adults 18+ $35 + BF 11-17 Years $20 + BF Children aged 10 and under - FREE Gates 6:30pm | Show 8pm SOMEBODY LIKE YOU pays tribute to Keith Urban & Bryan Adams who share over 5 decades of recording music, touring and staying relevant! They are elite superstars, always evolving and remain at the forefront of pop culture and in the hearts and minds of their adoring fans the world over!

Tickets on sale now hLps://events.humaniAx.com/somebody-like-you-keith...

[Use your NSW Discover Voucher at checkout on HumaniAx] Celebrate Keith Urban’s award-winning career to date. Urban anthems such as Somebody Like You, Day's go Bye, One too many and Blue ain't your colour & many more are front and centre of an unforgeLable tribute to one of the world's greatest and most dynamic country arAsts. And when we turn our eye to Bryan Adams the celebraAon conAnues with classics like Somebody, Summer of 69', Heaven, Run to you & Everything I do...plus many more.

SOMEBODY LIKE YOU features Craig Woodward. Craig is an Australian recording arAst known as “The city boy, with the country soul, a dash of folk & some rock & roll”, who has shared the stage with many major arAsts such as Ian Moss, Sarah McLeod, Mental as Anything, 1927, Damien Leith, Adam Harvey, Hayley Jensen & Shannon Noll to name a few.

His original music features singles like ‘Bondi Smile’, ‘Get Your Boots on’ & look out for ‘Lookin for Love’ the Atle track from his 2022' album.

Keith Urban & Bryan Adams influenced Craig to start a career in rock and country music so it’s only fiZng he honours them both with a tribute act.

SOMEBODY LIKE YOU – Keith Urban & Bryan Adams Tribute Show is a full producAon, country rock high energy show, guaranteed to thrill fans of the Canadian icon Bryan Adams and Australia’s own Keith Urban.

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Fred Smith ANZAC Weekend Concert at Batemans Bay Soldiers Club Fred Smith and band will be presenAng this extraordinary song cycle on Australia’s involvement in Afghanistan at the Batemans Bay Soldiers Club on Saturday 23 April.

The concert will begin with songs from Fred’s acclaimed Dust of Uruzgan album which draw on his experiences working alongside Australian soldiers in southern Afghanistan. It will culminate with material he wrote a4er working on the dramaAc evacuaAon from Kabul in August 2021.

Fred Smith was the first Australian diplomat to be sent to work alongside Australian soldiers in Uruzgan Province in 2009 and a last to leave in 2013. While there he wrote songs about his experience and put on regular concerts on the base with band is made up of Aussie, US and Dutch soldiers as well as Afghan staff.

Returning to Australia, he recorded these songs on an album Dust of Uruzgan. The CD was described in the Weekend Australian as conAnuing “a tradiAon of profoundly affecAng Australians-at-war ballads that includes Eric Bogle’s And the band played Waltzing Ma,lda, Don Walker’s Khe Sanh and John Schumann’s I was only 19.”

The Atle track was covered by Lee Kernaghan on his top selling Spirit of the Anzacs album.

Smith also wrote a book called The Dust of Uruzgan about his experiences, published by Allen and Unwin in 2016, and is subject of an ABC Australian Story documentary.

In 2020, Smith went back to Afghanistan to work in the Australian Embassy in Kabul. As Kabul fell under Taliban control, he found himself working from Kabul InternaAonal Airport (KIA) on Australia’s mission to evacuate passport and visa holders.

His experiences at the horrendous human logjams at the gates of the airport are expressed in this new single, “Gates of KIA”. “Seeing such human desperaAon of my own eyes changed me” said Smith.

Since returning, he built a final version of the Dust of Uruzgan stage show that toured to 80 theatres around Australia. Does a remarkable job of explaining Australia’s 20 year involvement in Afghanistan, culminaAng the evacuaAon. “The percepAon is that the evacuaAon was a failure, but in fact the Australian team managed to get 4100 people out most of them are now living in Australia. Their girls and boys are going to school and having swimming lessons. We’ve changed people’s lives” said Smith. “This is a story worth telling” Fred is seen by many as the unofficial historian of Australia’s involvement in Afghanistan.

His book The Dust of Uruzgan was described by Channel 10 PoliAcal Editor Hugh Riminton as “as convincing a picture as we will ever have of the tragedy, hope, oddness and courage of Australia’s Uruzgan enterprise…an astonishingly vibrant piece of reportage from the heart of our longest war.”

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What’s on For More info on the events below visit: h6ps://www.esc.nsw.gov.au/news-and-events/whats-on/

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What’s on—cinema

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Reading Gadfly 227 By Robert Macklin Has there ever been a war without war crimes? Try as I might, I can’t think of one. This is not to excuse or minimise the gut-wrenching horror of Putin’s barbaric murderers and rapists in the invasion of Ukraine. But let’s not forget all the others.

Ancient history is full of them – mass slaughters and rapine, with slavery of both sexes for the defeated. Same goes for the colonial era in South America, Africa, Asia and North America. And let’s not forget our own Frontier War where only now the extent of the massacres is being uncovered, with the attempted genocide and ethnocide of an ancient people and their culture tossed in for good measure.

The twentieth century saw the Nazi blitz of Britain where bombing raids on cities killed indiscriminately from Portsmouth to Coventry and all in between. And in revenge, the much-admired Winston Churchill ordered the fire bombing and utter destruction of Dresden and all its people when the war was already won.

In our part of the world there was Changi, the Burma Road, the ‘Death March’ of Corregidor and the war crime trials that followed. Oh, and the atomic bombs dropped on the women and children of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but that, we’re told, was in a good cause.

Then there’s the sheer awfulness of Vietnam where we went ‘all the way’ with US President Lyndon Johnson, author of the Agent Orange chemical warfare. Anyone who’s visited that country in the last twenty years will have been witness to the maiming it caused…to say nothing of My Lai, the Nixon-Kissinger ‘secret’ bombing of Cambodia and their millions of mines that don’t discriminate for age or gender.

I used to think the 20th century was the worst of it, until along came Dick Cheney and his malleable President George W Bush to give us the ‘shock and awe’ of Baghdad, Abu Ghraib, and – with his successors - the long, horrific grind of Afghanistan and the court case now being played out in Sydney.

But that was then. In response to the Ukraine horrors, the ABC last week posted a little lecture from a recently retired Australian Major-General, Mick Ryan ‘who served in East Timor, Iraq, Afghanistan and as a strategist on the US Joint Chiefs of Staffs’. Mick says that over the last three decades, ‘I loved being a member of the profession of arms because it imposed a professional discipline that made us better soldiers, better citizens and better servants of our nation.’

By comparison, he says, ‘The Russian officers who commanded the forces in and around Bucha were

negligent, ethically corrupt and criminal…they have shown throughout their disastrous campaign a lack of the vital mindset of the professional.’

Oh Mick, if only the human psyche were not so easily manipulable. Truth is, all wars between nations are barbarous. And once you’ve been given the okay by your political leaders to kill some of the enemy, the ethical structures of the combatant totter and fall as night follows day.

The real criminals, Mick, are those politicians who beat the drums of war, who use the differences of governance in other countries to bolster their own standing at home. They protect each other in the name of ‘leadership’ and ‘defence of values’ to pour their national treasure into ever more terrifying killing machines - men like Vladimir Putin.

They’re the ones who should be dragged to the courts of justice.

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Reading—A beer with Baz The front bar was rowdier than usual as Bazza guided the two schooners through snippets of conversaAon; ‘Both arseholes’….

‘It’s not easy Albanese was a good line’….. ‘ScoMo is full of it’.

Bazza paused to listen to a credible voice impression of Michaelia Cash, chuckled, and finally landed the schooners on the bar table.

He checked his watch, scanned the bar and opted for his taLered anthology of Robert Frost poems. he flicked the pages to ‘A Road not Taken’.

He took a decent drink from the schooner and read;

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the be4er claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, Bazza paused for another sip. The bar was now full and the din was punctuated with swearing and the odd heated exchange, all directed at the poliAcal class. Bazza finished off the schooner and returned to the poem.

And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference Bazza reread the final two lines and considered the rising tempo of the bar for a long moment. He checked his watch and made a start on the second schooner, just as a flustered Mick elbowed his way through the clientele.

“Bloody potholes….. I got a flat tyre, Bazza…… I’ve got a tongue like a fireman’s shovel and you’ve already started on my schooner….. bloody hell!”

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Reading—A beer with Baz con%nues...

Mick took a generous drink from the fresh schooner and stretched his back.

“I wish I read that poem before leaving home, Bazza. I should of gone the other way. That bloody road is a disgrace and is a shocker now with all the rain. It’s more a case of spoZng the bitumen, than looking out for the potholes.”

There was a moment of quiet in the bar as the raffle was drawn.

“Mick, the poem is not just about…..”

Bazza le4 the sentence unfinished, shook his head and changed tack.

‘Yeah, they’ve been promising to fix that road for years, Mick. They have probably got a commiLee of consultants working on a catchy name for the project before a cost analysis can be done on forward projecAons. A proposed Ameline will be out for review by Christmas.”

Mick half laughed.

“I’ll be taking the other road on the way home, Bazza.”

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

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100 Years ago April 15th 1922 The Sydney show is said to excel any of its predecessors as an all-round exhibiAon. The South Coast and Tableland won the District Trophy Display at the Sydney Show by 4 points.

The populaAon of N.S.W. at the end of December was esAmated at 2,128,786, an increase of 36,451 during the year. The natural increase for the last year was the highest on record.

OURSELVES. – Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Constable le4 on Wednesday for the Metropolis on a much-needed holiday and during their absence Mr. H. Bishop will conduct the desAnies of the “Examiner.” Mr. Bishop, who was our trusted compositor and manager for over 20 years, was the proprietor of the Milton “Times” for 19 years. … We trust that our correspondents and secretaries will keep our locum tenens well supplied with news.

The Dwyer’s Creek Public School is now surrounded by a neat fence erected by the residents of that village.

HOTEL IMPROVEMENTS. – Mr. KeaAng’s hotel is being beauAfied by an extensive applicaAon of paint, and Mr. Dunsmore’s Adelaide Hotel has been further improved by the addiAon of three fresh motor car boxes with locks and keys.

Mr. Reg. Bishop, of Tilba Tilba, is sAll a paAent in Narooma hospital. The day prior to Tilba show he was cuZng cornstalks, when the cane knife he was using inflicted a severe gash on the right wrist. Reg lost a considerable quanAty of blood. Fear was entertained that he might lose the use of his fingers, but informaAon last week gave the cheering news that the paAent is recovering the use of his hand.

The usual exodus of country folk to the Easter Show in Sydney is in full swing, Moruya, in common with towns up the Coast being much in evidence. The show this year promised to be a record.

BODALLA. – (From our Correspondent). A4er being conducted by the Bodalla Company for 47 years the Bodalla Arms Hotel, was, on April 1 , transferred to Mr. P. Lennard, who has been manager for a number of years. At the invitaAon of Mr. Hutchinson, a large number of employees assembled to wish Mr. and Mrs. Lennard good luck in their under-taking.

A well aLended meeAng of the local football club was held on Monday night, when it was decided to reform the club for the ensuring year. The following officers were appointed: - Patron, John Bailey, Esq., M.L.A.; Vice-Presidents, Messrs. J. Brown, H. Decsclen, R. Nixon and F. J. Woodward; Secretary and Treasurer, H. Head; SelecAon CommiLee, Messrs. Roy Byrne, D. Head, and A. Smith. It was decided that the colours be blue and gold. st

Extracted from the Moruya Examiner by the Moruya and District Historical Society Inc. h4ps://www.mdhs.org.au

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Book launch: Up and Down Clyde Mountain The Braidwood Museum hosted the book launch of “Up and Down Clyde Mountain” by Roslyn Maddrell on April 9th 2022.

“Up and Down Clyde Mountain” is a history of the Kings Highway from Braidwood over the Clyde Mountain and down to Nelligen.

The book published by Braidwood & District Historical Society, is 80 pages packed with magnificent historic photographs, maps, reminiscences, family history, newspaper extracts and historical explanaAons. It covers the history of the road pre-construcAon in 1850s to the road closures of 2021. One intriguing piece is an explanaAon of the names of places along the way that were used by the teamsters and changed over the years. Pooh Bear was a late comer.

The Braidwood Community Bank assisted with prinAng and producAon costs.

Local historian, Roslyn Maddrell , who turns 95 next month, has wriLen many books on the history of the district. Ros turns 95 next month.

Nick Fry from the Braidwood Community Bank said “She says it will be her last book, but we’ll wait and see.”

Both Ros and President of the Braidwood Historical Society, Peter Smith, spoke how fortunate we are to have the Community Branches and thanked them for the support with this project.

Up & Down Clyde Mountain is available at Community Bank Braidwood. On Sale Now $25 Right: Nick Fry from the Braidwood Community Bank, and John Stahel from the Braidwood Museum with historian Ros Maddrell at the Book launch

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Reading—Le6er to the editor

Fix the Bloody Highway To the Editor of The Beagle and Dr Michael Holland MP for Bega.

As of 14th April the numerous dangerous potholes in the Princes Highway between Tuross Head and Moruya have not been filled.

The heavy rain contribuAng to the damage was in early March with follow-up rain into April.

In previous decades a highway maintenance truck and crew were on the road filling potholes a day or two a4er rain. Maybe these days we have to wait for an urgent repair issue to go to a commiLee and then a contractor.

It appears the state government conAnues to neglect the safety of the Princes Highway from Nowra to Bega.

Expensive tyres and some wheels are being damaged which are generally not covered by car insurance so perhaps there may be a Class AcAon for damages due to lack of Duty of Care.

In recent weeks I have witnessed drivers swerving to avoid potholes and have personally seen cars on the roadside with flat tyres and have heard of many more, just in Ame for the Easter holiday visitors to run the expensive and dangerous gauntlet of our potholed Princes Highway.

Could also cause serious injury to motor cyclists as some potholes can’t be easily seen when in shade.

For years the Teensafe campaign to Fix The Bloody Highway with more overtaking lanes and centre barriers has seen no improvement in these key safety suggesAons.

Perhaps we may have more focus on the highway by our new MP for Bega, Dr Michael Holland, a welcome change.

Gary Smith , Tuross Head.

Teensafe manager.

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Gallery Bodalla is very pleased to open with a new exhibiAon by outstanding arAst Jennifer Taylor.

EnAtled “… dear life”, these painAngs are about holding on for dear life to the places that we love.

Working in oils, Jennifer paints with a deep respect and warmth for country, expressed with excellent tonality.

The result is beauAful, strong painAngs, that capture the changing light and caring connecAon she feels with the land.

The show runs through to Sunday 1 May open Thursday to Sunday 11am to 4pm and by appointment.

The exhibiAon will also be available for viewing and purchase at www.gallerybodalla.com.au

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Bay Theatre Players thrilled to present Calendar Girls Bay Theatre Players are thrilled to present Calendar Girls by Tim Firth as the final producAon for the 2022 Season.

The Players will be audiAoning for several adult roles, both male and female, for a producAon scheduled to be onstage in October/November 2022.

AudiAons will be held on Saturday 18 June 2022, and producAon audiAon packs are available on the website www.baytheatreplayers.com . AudiAon forms should be returned to the Director, Candy Burgess, by 2 May 2022, in order to schedule audiAon Ames and send out audiAon pieces to those interested.

Based on the true story of eleven WI members who posed nude for a calendar to raise money for the Leukemia Research Fund, Calendar Girls became the fastest selling play in BriAsh theatre and is performed all over the world. It is tradiAonal that the cast produce a replica Calendar that will be sold at the theatre and all profits are donated to Cancer Research. BTP will proudly be upholding this tradiAon! With a large cast that lends itself to add some non-speaking roles for those wishing to try treading the boards, it is a marvellous fit for our theatre community and an upli4ing end to the theatre year.

Come and join in the fun! **************** Bay Theatre Players are also busy with rehearsals for their mid-year performance, Compass by Jessica Bellamy.

This play is the perfect example of a script that focuses on the “Ensemble” and creates an opportunity for ten young actors to shine.

The cast have wholeheartedly taken on the challenges of portraying the different personaliAes in each role and their interacAons with each other. We have also been able to give an opportunity to a “new to the stage” adult member who is playing a supporAng role as the teacher, Mr Finchley.

Compass will be on stage from Friday 24th June to Sunday 3rd July, and Ackets will be available at www.trybooking.com soon.

If you would like to join your theatre community and find your creaAve spark, come along to one of Bay Theatre Players Workshops, Play ExploraAons or InformaAon sessions for new producAons.

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Tuross Women Bowlers enjoyed the Pennant Play off at Forster.

The Tuross Pennant 2 bowlers enjoyed their Ame recently at Forster, playing some very compeAAve bowls.

The first game on the Monday a4ernoon was against a team from Sawtell. This was a very warm a4ernoon. One side started off slowly geZng used to a reasonably slick green LeB to Right: Lorrie Bird ( Manager ), Carol Williams, Sue Fahey, Doreen Monks, Rita Downie, Marg Downey, Lorraine Wake, Rose Farrington, Irene McDonald. and some wind interference.

However, a4er seLling down and finding our rhythm, we were pleased with the final result, going down by 3 shots overall and having a 1-4 rink result. Special menAon must go to Irene Macdonald, in her first pennant playoff, who under unexpected difficult circumstances for one side showed not only skill at the game but team leadership and forAtude.

Irene put in a valiant effort as subsAtute skip, to successfully bring in the winning bowls on many occasions and enhance the confidence of her side for the second day.

The next morning we played a friendly team of ladies from Asquith. This Ame we enjoyed a deligh[ul green, on a beauAful sunny morning. We achieved a pleasing, winning result in this game giving us a 5-0 rink result and overall result of 43-31.

The final game was against Tuncurry Beach who were dominant overall, but one of our sides won their rink, giving us another 1-4 rink result. One of the members of the Tuncurry Beach team is Sarah Boddington, who is a talented State player who has gone on to win the State Singles championship in the Championship playoff at Tamworth which followed the pennant week. It was good to see this standard of player in “full flight”, even though she lead her side to a very effecAve finish.

Tuncurry Beach was the overall winner of our SecAon 1 and went on to play on the Wednesday in the semifinal. We were runners-up in this secAon. However congratulaAons must go Munmorah United who were the eventual overall winners ( out of 14 teams) of the Pennant 2 compeAAon with Bomaderry as runners – up.

Our good friends from Tathra Bowling Club in our Region were elated to be the winners overall of the Pennant 4’s. It was a joy to watch their excitement at the presentaAon of the State pennant flags.

The Tuross women were thrilled to represent their club at the playoff and thank everyone for their best wishes and support. We must congratulate several of our more experienced players who have played in at in at least 4 NSW State pennant playoffs. This is an amazing achievement for a small club such as ours. Two ladies have indicated it is Ame to make way for other younger players in the future. Special congratulaAons and thanks to Doreen Monks and Carol Williams who will be excepAonally good mentors and managers in the future.

Tuross is very lucky to have acquired several new, keen and very able bowlers, who will be an asset to our club. We will need to work very hard now to build up a strong squad to tackle future events at this level.

If you would like to join us, come along to social bowls on Tuesday mornings at 8:50am. You will be warmly welcomed. Well done Tuross Head Country Club Women’s Bowling Club.

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Club Malua Women’s Bowls Report There were 17 social bowlers and 5 matches of Club Drawn Pairs on Tuesday. Winners on Rink 11, Sue Morgan and Olga Geshwend. Runners-up on Rink 12, Gwen Ware and Pat Bill.

Rink 11 selected to try for Jackpot , Olga pressed buLon on 13, but needed 4 . Results of Round 1 Club Drawn Pairs. Bev Keatley and Sue Beavan 26 defeated Fran Lucas and Gay Biggs 13. Gloria Harper and Paula Hancock 21 def. Connie Anderson and Jenny Blyth 19. Sue Morgan and Olga Geshwend 23 def.

Jean Beeley and Noleen Taylor19. Gwen Ware and Pat Bill 25 def. Sue Palmer and Alison Innes 19. Anne O'Dwyer (Sub) and Nancy White 22 def. Colleen Ashby and Pat Weekes 13 Social Winners- Tania Calder and Lisa Grice. Gai Gibson and Rae Fayle. Above: two wonderful ladies, Maralyn White and Di Byrne Sonia Frey and JeaneLe Roberts. Robyn Butcher, June Williams and Lyn Hardy. Happy 80 th Birthday to Judy Lane , pleased to hear Judy is home again. A beauAful card was made by Anna Stewart with messages sent to Julie Lewis.

CongratulaAons to Margaret Bridges and Kim Giannasca who have been elected to the Advisory CommiLee, well done to both ladies. Club Consistency will be played on 24th May. AGM changed to October.

BROULEE RUNNER’S RESULTS WEDNESDAY 13 APRIL 2022 Once again, the wet condiAons have caused the event to be closed. Senior members ran on the course in the last few days, and it is sAll very slippery and dangerous under foot. For the safety of our compeAtors, the event starAng at the Mossy Point Anchor has been abandoned for this week. If runners want to submit a virtual Ame, it can be recorded against this evening’s run.

It is important to honour those Broulee runners, who performed with disAncAon at the Canberra Marathon running fesAval on Sunday 10 April 2022. The list of those outstanding athletes is as follow: MARATHON 42.20 KILOMETRES LISA ROBBINS GILL STAPLETON TORI HENNIG MATT LAMBERT MICHAEL LAMBERT MARK EVANS NUNO GONCALVES ANTHONY KENNEDY HALF MARATHON 21.1 KILOMETRES LAUREN EVANS CHRISTIAN PROKSCH They were all asked to secretly nominate their finishing Ames the night before the event and prizes were awarded to those who finished closest to their nominated Ame. The winners were Lisa Robbins and Lauren Evans. This is a good indicator of how they managed their race and their training program.

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Narooma Ladies Golf results Monday 11th April 14 entrants competed in a medley stableford event. The course was very wet and muddy in parts so no carts were allowed.

Sylvia Donohoe was the winner with 36 points off handicap of 0.

Kay Lawrence finished with a score of 35 off handicap of 14.

Balls to 26.

Wednesday was a Par event with 20 entrants.

Today, Kay Lawrence was the winner with -1 off handicap of 14 and runner up was Sylvia Donohoe with -2 OCB. Division 2 winner was Lee Lewis with -4 off handicap of 38.

Balls to -4.

NTP on the 3rd, division 2 was Dierdre Landells.

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Your Tackle World Moruya Fishing Report Moruya River.

This weeks report is a day early to allow all those visiAng the area to get the good oil ready for fishing tomorrow.

With good breezes and sunny days the wet ground is quickly starAng to dry up. This will make for much more comfortable condiAons leading into the Easter this weekend.

The river is however, unfortunately sAll running on the dirty side.

My advise for all those families wanAng to get out and fish this weekend, is to try the areas around the airport on the north side of the river, and Preddy’s wharf on the south side. Oily baits of mullet fillet will be the best opAon with the kids this weekend. One , it is very pick resistant, which means mum or dad will spend less Ame rebaiAng hooks, and being oily, it has a good inbuilt aLractant.

Expect to sAll be able to find flathead, bream and Trevally in all these areas. Tide wise, the top half of run in Ade will allow for cleaner ocean currents to push into the river, making condiAons beLer for finding a fish or two.

Tuross River.

Tuross is in a similar condiAon to Moruya this weekend, it does have a much larger mouth at present, which is allowing for a bigger turn over rate of dirty water. This will mean it will clear up faster than Moruya.

Tuross will be fishing best from the main boat ramp round to the boat sheds and even up to four ways this weekend. Flathead, bream trevally and Luderick can all be encountered in this lower half of the river areas.

Mullet fillet for the flathead and bream, while worms , nippers will work for the trevally and Luderick.

The middle to upper areas will sAll be very dirty, making finding fish difficult to say the least.

Rock and Beach.

Salmon and tailor are readily available on most beaches this week, with a few good drummer off of the rocks.

Moruya break wall has been conAnuing to produce fish, with bream, trevally, flathead salmon and tailor all being taken from the wall this week. I have heard reports of bonito further south, and with the warm waters currently around, there is a beLer than average chance of finding one of these speedsters off the rock pla[orms.

Offshore.

Snapper, flathead, mowong, and gummies have all been reported from the local reefs and sand patches. We can expect that this trend will conAnue this weekend. If you are geZng out in the boat this weekend, be aware that there sAll is a lot of suspended debris floaAng offshore.

Keep an eagle eye out and stay safe.

We are open all Easter weekend, with no closed days at all. So if you need anything this weekend, someone will be here to help you out with all your fishing, camping and boaAng needs.

Don’t forget our website at www.tackleworldmoruya.com.au Stay safe everyone and remember, “every day's a good day for fishing”

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