Traralgon sisters Gracie and Kaitlyn Beckett were one of the lucky few to get tickets to see Taylor Swift live in concert. Morwell Ticketek reported unprecedented demand to see the pop megastar.
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By PHILIP HOPKINS
THE future of Victoria’s forests has been captured by political ideology and complex legalities rather than being determined by scienceand professional expertise, according to Forestry Australia.
Forestry Australia, which represents Australia’s forestry scientists, forestry managers and timber growers, was commenting on the appeals court’s dismissal of the appeal by VicForests against Supreme Court Justice Melinda Richards’ initial ruling from November last year, that the forestry company failed to adequately survey for two protected glider species.
The appeals court foundthat the trial judgehad correctlyinterpreted the requirements of the timber code of practice and that the declarations and injunctions were lawful.
The case centred on the regulatory framework, where the ‘Precautionary
Principle’ in the code requires VicForests, during timber harvest operations, including planning, to assess “if there are threats of serious or irreversible environmental damage,lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as areason for postponing measures to prevent environmental degradation”.
This is the case even where there are already specific protections in place for those species.
Sixty to 80 per cent of pre-harvest surveys were conducted by DEEECA (formerly DELWP) staff, and the rest by VicForests.
The president of Forestry Australia, Dr MichelleFreeman,saidall shouldbe concernedthat lawyers had become key decision makers in forest management, causing the disempowerment of forest management professionals who had dedicated their lives to caring for forests.
“We must now ask: what impact will this decisionhave on ouractive management of forests goingforward
and therefore on regional communities more broadly?” she said.
Forestry Australia noted that when DELWP incorporated the Precautionary Principle into thecode,they shiftedit from being aconcept to guide management to ahardand fast rule that had to be applied, as it is an offence not to comply with the code.
“The problemis, there has been no universally accepted definition or clarity regarding how key components of the principle should be interpreted or applied in practice,” Forestry Australia said.
Dr Freemansaiditwas not appropriate to consider the Precautionary Principle as ahard and fast rule.
“That’swhy it is termed the Precautionary Principle…not the Precautionary Rule. In other jurisdictions, the intent of the Precautionary Principle is embedded indirectly into regulatory instruments, guiding how the rules and approachesfor values
management are constructed,rather than thePrinciple being aruleinits own right (as it is in Victoria), working at an operational level,” she said.
“Hence why the challenge around this issue seems to be unique to Victoria. The court and experts for the complainants seem to have taken aview that an impact to asingle individualofa threatened species represents “serious and irreversible damage”.
“We all know that the approach in forestry is to take alandscape-wide view …sothere is aclear mismatch here in terms of how scale is considered. There is areal risk that this interpretation of ‘serious and irreversible damage’, or ‘significant impact’ may flow through into the EPBC Act and Nature Positive reforms, whichcouldcompletely tie up the ability to conductother active management in the landscape.”
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MEMBER for Eastern Victoria Region, Melina Bath says civil contractors working in forestry management have been shrouded in uncertainty after the state government said it would transition displacednative timber workers intothe industry.
Forestry management contractors have for decades been performing work for the state government to construct firebreaks, maintain bush access roads, remove dangerous trees in water catchments and undertake bushfire mitigation activities.
Labor’s sudden closure of the native timber has now put abig question mark over all state government civil work contracts and caused aplethora of uncertainty for existing forestry management workers.
Questioning Labor’s Minister for Environment in state parliament, Ms Bath sought aguarantee that existingforest managementcivilcontractors wouldnot lose their existing contracts.
Responding to Ms Bath, the Minister for the Environment, Ingrid Stitt, said she “was not in a position to give definitive timeframes yet”.
Ms Bath said given the bottleneckcreated by the state governments plans to move nativetimber workers into the forestry management area, “it’s gobsmacking the state government hasn’tdevised acomprehensive plan to provide both workforces certainty -it’sclear the it’s making up policy on the run”.
“It’s unfathomable that the Andrews government failed to consider the flow on impacts of shunting one industry into an existing one. Both workforces deservecomprehensive answers -the Andrews government must sort out the wicked problem it created,” Ms Bath said.
“Neither industry can afford to hold onto their specialised equipment and guarantee jobswithout aplan that delivers worthwhile contracts that services the substantialdebt associatedwith their highly specialist equipment.
“Howcan the Andrewsgovernment act to collapse one industry and then announce atransitionplan
AMAGNITUDE-4.6 earthquake was recorded last week on Friday (June 30) in Rawson.
Thousands of nearby residents reported light-to-moderate shaking of the earthquake that occurred around 1.30am.
Seismologists believe the tremor could be asequence of earthquakes recorded as far as South Australia, New South Wales and Tasmania, dating back to 2021.
“This event that occurred early this morningispart of that sequencethat started in September 2021 with that magnitude-5.9 and we’ve recorded at least 47 earthquakes nowbetween magnitude-two and this 4.6,” Geoscience Australia senior seismologist Jonathan Bathgate told the ABC
“Labor owes forestry management workers and displaced native timber workersrespect and open dialogue, instead of issuing vague and non-committal statements like ‘theywill continue to work on these issues’. There is areal sense of urgency for Labor to sort out this mess”.
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NATIONALS Member for Eastern Victoria Region, Melina Bath said the state government had failed Victoriansbyfailing to closeloopholes in thetimber code of practice, wiping out abilliondollar industry that employed thousands of Victorians.
“A change to the timber code of practice would have allowedVictoria’ssustainable nativetimber industry to continue without the constant threat of green lawfare. Icompletely reject the Andrews government’s assertion it’s hands were tied on native timber harvesting,” she said.
Ms Bath, who is the ShadowAssistant Parliamentary Secretary for Public Land Use, said the PrecautionaryPrinciple shouldberemovedas amandatory action in the timbercode of practice. The code should be treated as ageneral goal to support the industry operations.
“Every single animal and tree species should not be named when it’s adesignated rotational harvestingarea.The timber code of practice should be designed to enable harvesting, not adocument that acts as ablueprint to shutdown harvesting operations,” she said.
Ms Bath saidthe appeal court’s decisionwas bitterly disappointing.
“I am deeply saddened for thousands of lives and livelihoods this decision destroys. Daniel Andrews will forever be remembered as the Premierwho failedtoput peopleand jobs before politicalideology,” she said.
“Legislationcouldhavebeen introduced and the loopholesshould havebeenclosed-instead the Premierhas hiddenbehind secretlegal advice that he refuses to release, allowing it to play out in court.
“The hypocrisyofLaborhas no bounds -it’s happily delivered the death knell for Victoria’s sustainable native industry and sided with activists -all whileturning ablind eyetothe importation of hardwood from countries devoid
of the same stringent environmental standards.
“My thoughts remain with workers -direct and indirect, and theirfamilies,who havehad their lives turned into apolitical football by this disgraceful Andrews government.”
VicForests said it was disappointed with the appeal outcome and would review the decision in full before making any further comment.
Costs of the appeal were awarded to the community grouprespondents, Environment East Gippsland and Kinglake Friends of the Forest.
Both groups welcomed the outcome of the appeal
Jill Redwood from Environment East Gippsland said the verdict “was another nail in the coffin of VicForests”.
“Our decision to turn to the law has been vindicated,” she said.Kinglake Friends of the Forest said the decision gave endangered forest species afighting chance of survival.
Astate governmentspokesman said the government acknowledged the Supreme Court’s decision and would continue to support timber workers during the transition out of native timber harvesting on January 1, 2024.
“Forestry workers, their families and communities are our immediate priority,” the spokesman said.
The native timber harvesting industry is set to close from January 1next year after the Victorian government’s decision to cut short its 2030 phase out. When handing down the 2023-24 state budget TreasurerTim Pallassaid: “The courts have taken the decision out of our hands.”
Last week, VicForests released an amended Timber Release Plantosupportthe new transition time frame out of native harvesting. The approved TRP changesinclude 184 new coupes, 12 coupe boundary changes and two coupe driveway additions for previously approved coupes.
VicForests said they hadopened the new coupes
to create flexibility in the coupes available for harvest to provide supply andemployment for industry during the government’s managed transition to January 1, 2024.
“In light of court orders, new reserves and speciesdetections, thereare currently significant constraints that limit the ability to plan acoupe to harvest stage,” VicForests said in astatement.
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“This is the largest aftershockthat we’ve had since the main shock main in September 2021.”
ABC had callers from Walhalla (about 10 kilometres away from the event) and as far as Healesville (120 kilometres away) called into radio to report the shaking, after being woken by the sensation.
The earthquake is reported to be apart of normal seismic activity, with experts believing that that 2021quakeisproducing it’s own sequence of tremors.
“It is alargerevent so we would expect aftershocks,” Seismology Research Centre hazard seismologist, Elodie Borleis, told the ABC
“This is very normal. Yes, we’ve had an increase in the last, you know, couple of years of people actually feeling them (earthquakes) but the actual background seismicity hasn’t changed at all.
“If you look at it, over the last 100 years, it is quite normal seismic activity.”
KATRINABRANDON
BATTERIES madeofseaweed,seaweed as afuture product, keepingacuriousmindsetand 'education may not be the mostimportant thing to get you where you need to get to' -those were some of the thoughts bandied about at the Festival of Big Ideas last month at the Gippsland Performing Arts Centre in Traralgon.
The festival also included aconversation about minerehabilitation as Victoria decreasesits useof coal and moves to rehabilitatethe Latrobe Valley’s brown coal mines.
The overall weekend had 12 sessions and acouple of subsections where speakers would come in and talk about their big ideas, what it takes to have one andthe products andbusinesses they have produced through their big ideas.
Day 1featuredminerehabilitation -the processused to repair the impacts of miningonthe environment and which is carried out both during mining operations and after operations have ended. Mine operators have regulatoryresponsibilities around mine rehabilitation.
“It’s asituation of enormous importance with generational implications and tremendous opportunity, right here on our doorstep,” said Jenny Brereton, chief executive officer of the MineLand Rehabilitation Authority,speaking to the festival audience. “And the best part is, every single person has arole to playinits solution.”
Ms Brereton spoke of anumberofmegatrends happening in mine rehabilitation including ecosystem restoration, droneinnovation, geospatial mapping and climate change considerations, and addressed the desire for maintaining progress.
“We want everyone in the community to understand and contribute to the mine rehabilitation process, to be aware of what's happening, to understand the
decisions being made and why,” she said.
The MineLandRehabilitation Authority hosted aliveprogressive mural at the festival in which participants could see their views come to life.
Particularly exciting forthe public wasonthe Friday night when Dr Karl Kruszelnicki closed with 'Which coke or diet coke will get you drunk quicker' and that'Santa is Superman', withthe science and reasoning behind each.
Before Dr Kruszelnicki was Steve Sammaritino, highlighted as ‘one of the world's most engaging and thought-provoking keynote speakersonthe future’,
who stole the stage with his comedic delivery and technological expertise. This led him to build afull size Lego car moved by air, and the concept that knowledge about AI and finding amentor were key factors that may help people.
Scott Douglas, an attendee said, “I’ve had an amazing time networking, planning my future collaborations and listening to some amazing people and feats being achieved across our region”.
Day two transformed from 'Big Ideas' to 'Gipps Talk' where work was shown; attendeeslearnt about successful opportunities that people took; little ideas that became big ideas; advertising the
want for electric vehicles and how they are going to take over; and lastly 'how we need to prioritise mental health more'.
Otherthan speakers,outdoor activities included two men on stilts walking around; ajuggling man; kids' corner; acar show;asweets, foodand arts area with Lego' and sewing.
Community groups and schools can request a speaker visit from the Mine Land Rehabilitation Authority by contacting contactus@mineland.vic.gov.au or 1800 571 966.
By ZAIDAGLIBANOVIC
EVERYONE was welcome to Latrobe Valley Enterprises’ (LVE) open day on Wednesday, June 21.
Thesocial enterprise opens its doors to allow the communitytosee the work its employees do and educate the benefits of inclusivity in the workplace.
Guided tourswere taken on the hour like clockwork,with the first onestartingnice and earlyat9:30am and goinguntil 3.30pm. Many came from around the area to take apeek at the operations of the Latrobe Valley enterprise and see the exceptional work done by their employees, who openly live with disabilities.
People who came for the tour donnedthe high visibility vest with light catering and free pens available.
The Latrobe Valley Enterprises is aleader in creating opportunities for people with disabilities to thrive throughmeaningful and sustainable employment.
The chiefexecutive of LVE, SuzanneLewis, was excited to welcome people into the enterprise to showcase her spectacular staff and employees.
“We employ 100 plus people here, and around 88 of them have different forms of disabilities, whether it be an intellectual or physical disability,” she said.
“Today, we are having tours come through to showcase the great work that our people do.”
“It’s about showcasing the different abilities that
people have. The work they provide is top quality with amazing outcomes, and it’s about showcasing what our people can do; it’s all about them,” Ms Lewis said.
People toured through the building witnessing the four LVE’s business service centres on display, including sign-making services, business support services, recycling and secure document destruction and their ground's management team.
Ms Lewis said that social enterprise was about true inclusion and the sense of worth that people aregranted as they’re included in our community. She went on to say that employees at LVE had great job satisfaction from the services that they providetothe community and were well-known and respected for the work they do.
“I have asayingthat goes ‘No disability but know disability’ becausetomeweare working here with people who have different forms of disabilities but to us, we look at the abilityofwhatthat person can do and that’s what makes LVE really special. We encourage them to go out have agoand be part of the community and show what they can do,” Ms Lewis added.
Ms Lewis aims to open more doors for people living with disabilities,hoping to attract more people in need of work and also encourage other businesses to take on the LVE lead.
“Inclusivity to me is people having the opportunity to live theireverydaylifethe same as youand I
do,” she said.
“Hopefully, with peoplecoming through,itopens up other opportunities for people living with disabilities that they could come to LVE and say, ‘I could give that ago’,” she said.
“It is also an opportunity for businessesand other organisations to come through and say, ‘Perhaps Icould consider having someone with adisability come and work in my workplace’.”
As asocial enterprise, all LVE’s profits go back to the organisation and its employees.
James Center,the LVE’s resident sign and braille expert, loves working at Latrobe Valley Enterprise.
“My job is to engrave and make signs of course, Icut thematerial and all that if the guys are too busy, occasionally spray paint here and there and just more like getting material like stainless steel from the shop,” he explained Mr Center, having worked at LVE for about 15 years, has grown an exceptional understanding of how to do braille work on signage that no one could compete with.
Now secondnature to him, Mr Center can engraveand make amyriadofsigns aday with minimalmess as he is aseasoned professional and perfectionist, says Ms Lewis.
“(Latrobe Valley Enterprises) provided me with ajob in my youth, it was hard to get work, and also Itried apprenticeships, and they didn’t work out …Ifelt down in the dumps because of it. This wasanopportunity and Ididn’t lose all my hair
because of it,” he laughed.
Eager to tell the story of his most recent purchase, Mr Centresaidhis stableemployment at LVE has given him the financial independence to buy aspecialty custom and expensive bike for himself and his family.
If you would like to know more about the work that Latrobe Valley Enterprise do head to https:// lve.com.au/
ONE POINTERS
1. Neale Daniher is afflicted and raises money for which disease?
2. Which video game and movie series features Lara Croft as the main character?
3. Who was ‘Livin La Vida Loca’ in 1999?
4. What title did the Australian Cricket team win recently in England by defeating India?
TWO POINTERS
5. What vegetable has varieties called, Angers, Snowball, Roscoffand Patna?
6. In the TV show MASH, what does MASH stand for? For a bonus point, what was the number of the unit in the show?
7. If Iwas visiting the town of Geraldton, what Australian state would Ibein?
8. What planet is closest to Earth?
THREE POINTERS
9. True or False? Electrons aresmaller than atoms?
10. “Let them eat cake” is afamous misquote attributed to who?
11. Which of these animals has the most legs: bee, octopus, or crab?
12. Which country was the first man in space from? Bonus point if you know his name.
FOUR POINTERS
13. What term is given to an angle that ranges from 90 to 180 degrees?
14. Which artist painted “The Persistence of Memory” in 1931?
FIVE POINTER
15. Who am I? Clue: Iamaformer AFL player who appeared on the show ‘Big Brother’ in 2004. I am now acomedian who is also apresenter on radio and television.
HOW DID YOU FARE?
37+: Topofthe class; 30-36: Outstanding; 23-29: Well done; 15-22: Solid effort; 9-14: Room for improvement; 0-8: Hit the books.
EVERY Tuesday,agroup in Morwell called the RostrumClubhas acouple of peopleintheirgroup who do aprepared speech to help boost their public speaking skills.
According to the group, public speaking skills are important to all aspects of life, such as personal and professional development, in making presentations and building confidence and credibility.
In the late 1950s andearly1960s, Morwell Rostrum was aclub that assisted up-and-coming youngexecutives to gain confidence at giving presentations to their peers. Now, it’s about gaining confidence, having fun and getting the opportunity to speak about topics that can challenge thinking skills while being able to get feedback.
The currentgroup hasbeen in the Morwell area for more than 60 years, and commence their activities at the Morwell Bowling Club at 5.45pm. Anyone over the ageof18ismore than welcome to attend, even if you have no experience. The members expressed that the experience in the
Rostrum group is good in day-to-day experiences like presentationsatwork and more as public speaking or group speaking is part of everyone’s life.
The night starts with awelcome by their president, ahandover to the chairman of the night to go through introductions and business, before an activity which might be news, adebate, a‘would you rather’ or some prepared speeches.
Recenttopics that came up included‘it’s amen’s world’, ‘would you rather broccoli for the rest of your life or watch ‘Keeping up with the Kardashians’ everyday?’, ‘advertisement for sardine tea’ and ‘banningsubstances: helps or hinders the problem’
During the night,while keepingserious,club members chipped in with humorous points and laughter.
The roles that are within the club are rotated each time the groupmeets. One night youcouldbe acriticand the next you could become the chairman of the group.
COMMENT
BY JOHN CAMERON
GOVERNMENT-DRIVEN industry closures have resulted in job losses despite transitional assistance.
Industry closures in the Latrobe Valley and surrounding areas of Gippsland have increased and transitional arrangements promised by the state government have failed. Job numbers have decreased despite the Andrews government spending ahugeamountofyour taxes in afutile attempt to create more jobs.
In Latrobe,South Gippsland, Wellington and East Gippsland local government area’s (LGA’s), the number of jobs shrunk, and by up to eight per cent for Latrobe LGA over the last 11 years.
By contrast, other regional and rural areas of Greater Shepparton, Greater Bendigo, Ballarat, Mildura and Wodonga experienced job growth of 11 per cent to 37 per cent.Greater Geelong recorded growth of 39 per cent and Melbourne LGA 44 per cent.
The Latrobe Valley Authority (LVA) claim that they have created 4000 additional jobs. The job
losses in Latrobeand surrounding LGA’s indicate thisclaim by the LVA is not supported by the facts Gippsland and the Latrobe Valley are being cruelled by the state government’s hasty launch of reckless policies.
Policies are rolled out withappallingtiming and without agood strategy, sufficient feasibility studies and appropriate consultation. For example closingpowerstationswell in advance of the commissioning of replacement renewable power sources, and well in advance of resolving issues withtransmission lines, and well in advance of the setting up of domestic manufacture of components for renewables, and well in advance of setting up environmentallysaferecycling of spent components.
Now the state government has announced the closureofthe nativeforests prior to evenstarting on the establishment of the plantations that are supposed to replace the 1millioncubic metres traditionally harvested from native forests.
Thenthe government onlypromise14,000 hectares when 50,000 hectares is required to replacethe native log supply and another 50,000 hectaresisrequiredtoreplacethe shrinkage of the Victorian plantation estate over the last six years
(under the state governmentsfailed plantation policy).
LATROBE Valley hasbeen hit by the closure of McCormackMorwell hardwood sawmill in 2011, Morwell Power and Briquette including Morwell Mine in 2014, Auschar Morwell in 2014, Hazelwood Power and Mine in 2017 and Carter Holt Harvey Morwell softwood sawmill in 2017. These closures probably caused the loss of up to 10,000 jobsinthe region (directemploymentplus production induced plus consumption induced).
In February 2023, Opal wasforced into an unplanned closure of itsM5Paper Machine with the lossofmore than 200 jobs, duetothe state government’s inability to supply hardwood pulp logs in accordance with its contractual obligation. Under the Forests (Wood Pulp Agreement) Act, the government was obligated to supply to Opal 350,000 cubic metres per year of native hardwood pulp log until 2030. Business can no longer rely
on sovereign risk -now riskier than junk bonds.
Then in May 2023 the state government announced the ‘unplanned’ early closure of the native forest industry in January 2024. This will result in about 3600job losses (directemployment plus production induced plus consumption induced).
The LVA has spent more than $300 million of your taxes but failed to create ongoing jobs
Following theclosure of Hazelwood, thestate government, in November 2016, established the Latrobe Valley Authority (LVA). The LVA spent around $300 million over aboutsix years with the objective of transitioning redundant workers intonew jobs. In the budget,the government promised atoken amount of $7.2 million for the next financial year 2023-24, which is like putting aband-aid on an amputation.
The LVA boasts helping with the investment of $1.5 billion that has contributed to more than 4000 additional jobs being created. Most of those jobswere one-off in construction withvery few on-going jobs created, as evidenced by the job losses in Latrobe, South Gippsland, Wellington and East Gippsland Local Government Areas (LGA’s).
IN February 2023, aspokesperson for Victoria’s Ministerfor Agriculture Training and Skills and Higher Education,Gayle Tierney, said the Victorian Forestry Plan was “providing more than $200 million in business, worker and community support to help the native timber industry transition”.
Then, the state government announcement in theMay 2023 budget that it brought forward the closureofnativeforest timber supply from 2030 to January 2024, to give those in the supply chain more certainty!
The government’sremoving the fundamental raw material from the integratedhardwood timber supplychain will deliver uncertainty to harvesters, haulers, sawmill workers, timber remanufacturers, furniture manufacturers and allthe support industries and services.
Gayle Tierneyindicated“our focus is on workers andtheirfamilies.Wewill backlocal communities with thefinancial support, secure jobsand training and one-on-one case managementthey need”
The government announced another $200 million, raising the supposed support for the forestry transition to $877 million.
However, this includes ‘old money’ -$200million already promised on the original Forestry Plan and $120 million already promised on the GippslandPlantation InvestmentProgram(going to Hancock Victorian Plantations).
‘New money’ only includes the$200 million announced in this year’s May budget. The amount of funding is unknown for support payments for Opal mill workers already laid off, and the mill and forest contractors about to lose their jobs.
The announcements lack transparency -more smoke and mirrors.
THE government announcement on May 23, 2023 is light on detail about how the support fund will be spent, nor how many jobs it will create, nor how many jobs will be sustainable in the long term.
Belowisanoutline of the support fund with my comments in italic:
Forest contractor workers can contract for forest management works on bushfire risk reduction.
There is no mention of how many jobs this will provide, nor where, nor for how long.
TAFE will retrain workers, helping them get jobs in growing regional industries like construction, agriculture, transport, and manufacturing.
Where will the new jobsbegiven alot of construction, agriculture, transport and manufacturing are actually declining in the region, adding to the loss of jobsinmining, powergeneration,pulp and paper, sawntimber and dairy processing.
Up to $8000 in retraining vouchers for courses inside and outside the TAFE Network. The most valuable trainingis‘on-the-job’ but where are the jobs to come from?
Financial and mental health support covering out-of-pocket costs.
Industry support payments will also continue as needed until the transition is finalised.
There is no mention of when the transition will be complete, nor how much the industry support payments will cost -vital information given that job losses in Latrobe LGA indicate that the Hazelwood transition failed.
The dedicated Opal Worker Support Service will support every impacted worker at Maryvale.
There is no detail on how long will the support last for and how much will it cost.
All native timber mills will be eligible for avoluntary transition package, whether they choose to stay in timber processing or switch to other industry sectors.
There is no mention of what sectors, nor raw materials, nor products, nor markets forthese ‘other industry sectors’.
Mills that stay will be able to access investment support through the Timber Innovation Fund. This fund will provide grants of up to $1 million for projects that create significant jobs, have local community benefit and require aco-contribution by the applicant.
This involves a14-step process that takes months. Also capping of grants at $1 millionwillpreclude largeprojectswith the scale economies capable of generating thousands of sustainable jobs required to replace those jobs lost.
The Supply Chain Resilience package will support business continuity and provide assistance to help manufacturing and other businesses make the transition to future opportunities.
Straight fromthe spin doctorshandbook. Sounds too good to be true and it is, because they don’t identifythe manufacturersand businessesthat are going to deliver these future opportunities.
Local Development Strategy grants of $360,000 to $500,000 per community to do studies and develop roadmaps on potential new industry to create potential new jobs.
This is an old initiative and the allocation is already exhausted -thisishoodwinking the community.
Government will deliver 1.8 million hectares of public land currently subject to the timber harvesting allocation order.
This is amisrepresentation of the facts as the VicForests ‘operable area’ availablefor harvesting was only 0.16 million hectares and all of the 1.8 million ha of state forest, including the ‘operable area’, are public land.
THE Andrews government’s ‘Forestry Plan’ will fail because it impairs the critical success factors for adynamic and sustainable forest and forest products industry and agricultural sector in Gippsland.
Thereisnolonger sufficient resource (raw material) availablenow to deliver the scale economies required to support investmentinlarge scale pulp and paper and sawntimber manufacturing in Gippsland.
The loss of 1million m3 pa of native forest logs and the 50,000 hectareshrinkage of the Victorian plantation estate under the stategovernment’s watch will irreparably damage the integrated industry.
There is unlikely to be afew billion dollars of patient capital to invest in the plantation expansion the industry requires, particularly given the risk of future regulatory constraints on plantations by futuregovernments that do not understandthe forest andforest products business.
Thereisinsufficient land that is suitable, affordable and withineconomichaul to deliver the extra 100,000 hectares of plantation required -most of Gippsland is native forest.
Farmland converted to plantations will result in the loss of scale economies and loss of jobs in agricultureand processing of agricultural produce Land is afinite and scarce resource -with land thereisnomagic pudding as assumed in the Andrews government’s Forestry Plan.
Multiple useofour native forestland is necessary to deliverasustainable supply of timber, given the scarcity of agricultural land in Gippsland suitable for plantations. However, the state government has precluded multiple use by the closure of the tiny areathat was harvested each year -about 3000 ha harvested each year within ahuge7.5 million hectares of Victorian native forest.
New plantationwillonlydeliver extralogsin about 25 to 30 years.
Millexpansions with associated job creation need known projected log supply based on what is already planted.
No rationalmillmanager will invest in mill upgradesbased on the ‘Forestry Plans’ inadequate and speculativefutureplanting program, particularly giventhatthe governmentsforestry plan has delivered no new planting in the four years since it was launched.
WITHOUT acomprehensive strategy for large new industries that are close to up and running, the state government’s transitional arrangements will fail.
Many timber workerswill be forced to sell their homes at adiscounted price into an oversupplied localmarket, and move to get employment, disrupting family and community connections.
Some will move to Melbourne, putting pressure on Melbourne’sscarce housing and congested infrastructure. Otherswillbeforced take fly-in fly-out jobs with adverse family consequences
Others will undertake the government retraining and still struggle to find ajob.
The viability of the local service and support businesses, who are to receive no meaningful government support, willbeweakened andsome will be forced to close.
Many community organisations that are the lifeblood and fabric of rural society will fold (e.g. serviceclubs, sportingclubs etc.). Schools will close because of declining pupils and many towns will struggle to attract the doctors, health workers etc. required.
The government decision is adisaster for rural and regional development, Gippsland forests, global sustainability, human rights and world peace.
However,whether by designoraccident, it is good news for Chinese exporters of wood products processed withcoal-fired power.Itisalsogood news for Russian exporters of logs (conflict timber) and energy into China (there hasbeen ahuge increase in volumes of Russian coal, oil and gas into China following the invasion of Ukraine).
JOHN Cameron (DipHort. Burnley, MBA Monash, and tertiary units in economics, mathematics and statistics) is aforestry and business consultant previously holding positions in general management, corporate development and research in forestry and forest products. Former roles include Chairman of PrivateForestry Gippsland, Chairman Southern Tree Breeding Association, Chairman Australian Research Group on Forest Genetics, Board Member CRC forForestryHobart &CRC forPulpand Paper Science Monash.
By TOMPARRY
THIS story contains the names of Indigenous people who have died. Both are respectfully used with the permission of the family of the deceased.
EAST of Lakes Entrance and off the Princes Highway is the Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust.
It’s aplace of many names -Tyers, the station, the mission, Bung Yarnda -but to Gunaikurnai elder John Gorrie, it’s known simply as Home.
The Gunaikurnaipeople havea storied connection with Lake Tyers which, of course, existed long before whitefullas came to Australia.
The Trust’s history can be traced back to 1863, when it was founded as an Anglican Mission for First Nations peoples by English clergyman John Bulmer.
In 1908, control of the settlement was handed to the state government, which severely limited the freedoms and opportunities of residents.
Mr Gorrie lived at Bung Yarnda for seven years of his childhood.
While he is unable to recall his earliest memory living there, he does recollect being tub-bathed under awatchfuleye.
“MrsRule, the manager’s wife, used to walk around…(and) make sure that we had abath,” he said
“Used to comeand make sure the mother was doing it right, cleaning the kids up and all that stuff.”
Though he adds: “Apart from that, it was great fun living there.”
Mr Gorrie was born to asinglemother, Lindaherself aGunaikurnaiwoman-onMarch 10, 1950.
Being the child of an unwed parent, he was removed from his mother and placed in an orphanage in Melbourne.
This practice, known as “forced adoption”, was common in Victoria at the time, with both Indigenous andnon-Indigenous single mothers having their children taken from them.
Three years later, Linda wrote to the secretary of the Children’s Welfare Department, informing of hermarriagetoCarl Turner andrequesting custody of her son.
The next year, afour-year-old John Gorrie was returned to hismother to liveonLakeTyers Aboriginal Station.
But even then, the fear of separation remained.
“Mum was still frightened of the welfare people, taking me off (her) again,” Mr Gorrie said.
“She used to hear the cars come down along the
dirt track, used to race me into the bushes…”
Though he wasnever taken again, Mr Gorrie did witnessother children being forcibly removed
In 1961,the governmentannounced its intention to close the station, purportedly at the behest of a certain aviation magnate.
“Old Reg Ansett was going to buy the property and turn it into aresort area,” Mr Gorrie said.
As aresult, residents were “shipped out” and moved to towns such as Bruthen, Orbost, Newborough and Warragul; the Gorriefamily were relocated to Moe.
“You had no say about the place at all; you just got moved out, and that’s it,” Mr Gorrie said.
“I’d never heard of Moe until Igot to Moe. All I knew was Lake Tyers…”
Due to the protests of older residents, the closure never came to fruition; instead, the settlement became aself-governing community in 1971, and has remainedunder the control of the Trust to this day.
John Gorrie would go on to be employed as an Aboriginal Liaison and Advocacy officer with the Department of Health and HumanServices, where he had along and distinguished career.
In recognition of his efforts, in 2005 he became the first Indigenous Australian to be awarded the Public Service Medal.
Nowadays aresident of Sale, he visits to Lake Tyers when he can, and recently invited the Gippsland Times on atour of the area.
As ageneral rule, whitefullas (such as this author)
aren’t allowed onto the property, but aspecial exemption has been granted for this occasion. There are no signs directing people to the Trust; the only indication of its existence is abus shelter painted withFirst Nations artwork alongthe highway.
From here, motorists turn and followahilly, winding road through bushland, where they are greeted by alarge wooden gateway and billboards instructing non-residents not to enter.
After ashort drive beyond the gates,the bushland turns to farmland, with cows grazing in the fields. Another few-hundred metres down the road, and signs of atownship at last become visible.
Mr Gorrie will alwaysstop by the NewCemetery first whenever he visits Bung Yarnda; this occasion is no different.
It’s here where his mother and father are buried; it’salsowherehewishes to be buried once he passes.
After saying our greetings and payingour respects, it’s time for abrief tour of the area.
Mr Gorrie identifies the various sites of interest, including theold abattoir, adam, and the remains of theold bathhouse -it’shere where local children were required to wash every morning, regardless of weather.
In winter, the children would walk from their homes through the cold mud and then clean themselves, only to get mud on themselves again as they walked back home.
Next to be drivenpastisthe church. Built in 1878 by architect Leonard Terry, the building is one of
Communal: An old mission building at Lake TyersAboriginal Trust. It’s herewhere local residents wouldqueue fortheir food rations
the oldest, and few remaining, timber churches in Australia.
It’s also where Mr Gorrie’s parents were married. The church has seenmany weddings over its lifetime -and many more funerals.
During latterevents, alarge bell in the tower would toll as mourners followed the caskets of loved ones to their resting place. The bell has since been removed from the church.
Nearby is amodern health centre, and an old mission building where residents, in the past, would queue to receive their food rations.
Just beyond this building is the Old Cemetery, surrounded by whitepost-and-rail fencingand sheltered by large evergreen trees.
Unlike the New Cemetery, there are no tombstonesormarkedgraves; instead, asingle freestanding wall lists the names of the deceased.
Further down the road, Mr Gorrie points out what was the first -and for atime, the only -lamp-post at Bung Yarnda.
He recalls the children hanging around the pole after dark, trying to hit its bulb with stones. After adrive past the local residences, it’s back into town for aquick visit to the main hall and information centre for acuppa,ayarn and aglance at old photos.
Then, it’s back in the car for the return journey, withMrGorrie wavingashepassesthe New Cemetery.
Upon return to Sale, he admitted to feeling emotional whenever he thinks about hischildhood. “It brings back alot of memories …sometimes I get teary about it,” he said.
It’s mostly positive memories that spring to mind -picture nights, swimming in the lake and playing with friends.
Forthose reason, Mr Gorrie says: “Lake Tyers will always be home.”
This article was made possible through the assistance of Mr Gorrie’s local sponsors, Tidy Toes and Toys Galore And More.
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IT'S me, hi, I’m the problem, it’s me. Yes,Taylor, youwerethe problem, causing unprecedented demand on Ticketek after announcing five shows across Sydney and Melbourne and sending Swifties into screaming,crying, perfect storms.
The Ticketek at Morwell Newsagency was wholly inundated as Latrobe ValleySwiftiesflocked to the store for their tickets.
Taylor Swift created quite astirlastweek after sheannounced an Australian leg to her Eras Tour headed to the country in February 2024. The state government even stepped in, marking the Swiftconcertasa significanteventand enforcing anti-scalping laws.
T-Swift broke records in Australia, with four millionpeople trying to get aticket over the course of Wednesday; there was also areported 800,000 in theTicketek queue at once. Only 2.4 per cent of Australians would have gotten tickets, leaving the rest of us high and dry waiting until Friday. With two new shows announced due to demand, Swiftiesacross the countrywho missed out on presale and last Wednesday’s release, were given asecond chance on Friday, June 30.
Like a‘soldier who’s returning half her weight,’ fans returned to Ticketek on Friday at 2pm and even earlier.
Kaitlyn Beckett, acertified ‘super-fan’, secured tickets for four shows in Melbourne and Sydney. Ms Beckett was in aLavender Haze as Morwell Newsagent Ray Burgess announced he found two tickets for her at the Sydney show.
“When (Taylor Swift) firstannounced (her Australian tour), we saw on Twitter the night before arumour that she would announce it …wewere freaking out quite abit,” she said.
“Melbourne on Friday, and then I’ll be going to the Saturday show with my best friend Shania, whom Imet through Taylor like 10 years ago in a Taylor Swift group, and after that, we’ll be flying to Sydney to do the Sunday and Monday shows."
Having got to witness Taylor in the fleshin2018 on her Reputation tour, Ms Beckett was always set on seeing her again.
“Expecting”the chaos of getting tickets, Ms Beckett said the onlinelottery type of ticketing was fairasshe’d“rather it wouldberandomised rather than knowing 800,00 people we’re in front of me.” When asked what about Taylor attracts so many people to her and hermusic, Ms Beckett said absolutely everything.
“She is really versatile, she has gone through so much herself, she was our age once, she has gone
through so much, and things we haven’t. She caters to everyone, she has good energy. Just everything about her,” she said.
Mr Burgess reporteda“hectic” few days as Swiftiescametofulfiltheir wildest dreams in scoring atickettoher show.
Walking into the Morwell newsagent that Friday afternoon, a20people long line of Swifties waited anxiously for their turn to purchase tickets.
Some die-hard fans arrived as early as 5.30 am Friday morning to secureaplace early in the queue.
“We’ve seen shows that have had alot of demand but not this size,” Mr Burgess said.
“Every mum and their nanna and their nanna’s dog wants to buy aticket.
“This better make me the father of the year," said one high visibility-clad man, who may or may not have been buying the tickets for himself.
There was tears of joy and cries of excitement as, one by one, people went up to the service desk andboughttheirtickets forthe Sunday, February 18 shownext year, singing ‘you belong with me’.
At the time of writing, Frontier Touring reported that Friday and Saturday Melbourne shows were entirely sold out, and by 4pm, two hours after the Friday release, Morwell was all sold out.
“It’s disappointing for those who don’t get it because they’re all excited,” Mr Burgess said.
Many huge Taylor fans have been left without theirlove story as shows have now sold out.
Taylor’s concert ticket hunt makes an excellent case for the needofbricks and mortar stores;waiting in line in astore and feeling like you’re getting somewhere gave some visual and physical hope of getting aticketasopposed to waiting tirelessly with hundreds and thousands of others in a‘blank space’ of acontinuously refreshing page.
Resaletickets will be the next option for those desperate to see Taylor live.
MORWELLFestival of Dance started June 23 with awelcoming open of young dancers on their 36th Annual Eisteddfod, and finished this week. Dance schoolsfrom all over Victoria came to participate in the eisteddfod, such as Dance Legacy, Dance on Academy, Project Dance, Dance Stream Victoria, Julie Ryan Dancers, and more.
"It’s really fun and reallybig and Iget to havefun. Ilikeentertainingpeopleand makingthem happy." said Clemmie Reid, from Julie Ryan Dancers. Categories were staged from ages 8-18 and over with solos, duos, trios and group performances in most categories throughout the open days, which were June 23 through to July 2atthe Traralgon GippslandPerforming Arts Centre.Sessions
started at 9am, 1pmand 6pm. Dance categories included Tap,Classical, Character, Jazz, Hip Hop, Lyrical, National and Contemporary. The festival featured 1800 entries with 520 performers coming from all over Victoria to dance. "I like the Morwell eisteddfod because it's anew experience for children and Ilike dancing because youget to encourage new kids andmeet morechildren."saidZarlee Graham from Julie Ryan Dancers. Normally, the eisteddfod is at KernotHallbut due to renovations, the grouphad to moveintothe GippslandPerformingArts Centre(GPAC) for this year's performances.
The eisteddfod is run by acommittee of volunteers and has been supported by many local businesses as well as supported by the Victoria Government through Creative Victoria and Latrobe City Council
Pose: Clementine Reid,JRD,8&Under10
YearsClassical Solo Novice.
Photographs: KatrinaBrandon
Dance: 6&Under 8Neo-Classical/Lyrical Solo Open, Isabella Doolin,DSV
ONE of cinema’s most iconic heroes has returned for one last adventure in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. The Express' resident film buffs Tom Parry and Stefan Bradley went to check it out.
TP: It would be remiss of us not to startthis review without discussing our thoughts on the other four movies in this long-runningfranchise. Stefan, what is your history with “Indy”?
SB: I’ve seen Raiders of the Lost Ark a bunch of times, and Isaw the other two films in the “original” trilogy, Temple of Doom and The Last Crusade,around the time Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was released in 2008. And Ihaven’t seen any of those sequels since then, so Ifeel like I’ve aged together with Indy. How about you?
TP: My parents didn’t let me watch the Indiana Jones trilogy as akid becausethey believed the movieswould be too scaryfor me -and they were probably right -soI didn’t see any instalments until Crystal Skull came out. I’ve got asoft spot for all the movies,even the much-maligned fourth one.
SB: Same here -the casting of Shia LaBeouf and infamous “nuking the fridge” scene aside, Iquite enjoyed Crystal Skull As for this instalment, the plot of Dial of Destiny takesplacein1969, for the most part, and sees retiring archaeologist Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) join his goddaughter Helena Shaw (Phoebe “Fleabag” Waller-Bridge) on ajourney to recover adevice known as the Antikythera.
TP: And they mustdosowhile preventing it fromfalling into the handsofDr. Jürgen Voller (MadsMikkelsen),aformer Nazi scientist with bold plans of re-establishing the Third Reich. The premise has all the makings of aclassic IndianaJones film; and yet, this is probably the movie Iwas least enthused by in the entire series.
SB: My expectations were low for Dial of Destiny,and sadly those expectations were met but never surpassed. I’m calling it the Dial of Dullness,which sounds harsh, but it’s just painfully average. Obviously,
HarrisonFord is great,asisWaller-Bridge
-I'm abig fanofher show Fleabag.Her character’s shady motivations made Helenaquite an interesting figure in the early partsofthe movie; lesssothe second-half where she switches between antagonist and ally when it's convenient.
TP: Part of me believes Helena was written with Waller-Bridge in mind, because we did seeshades of her Fleabag character come through in her performance.
SB: Ithought Ethann Isidore as Teddy, the child sidekick was pretty good as well, even though he’s similar to Short Round from Temple of Doom.Asfor the other characters, they were pretty hit-or-miss.
TP: You can count Dr Voller among the lattercompany. It’s becoming abit of a clichétocast Mikkelsen as the antagonist in everymovie, and that seems to be the onlyjustification for his inclusionhere.
Dial of Destiny is Mads at his least menacing or his least effectual as avillain There’s nothing he does here which Isaw as particularly menacing or sinister, aside from his Nazi associations.
SB: It is unfortunate we’restuck with another boring villain, that’s for sure.
TP: One performer Idid likewas Shaunette Renée Wilson as Agent Wilson, who is by far the coolest and most-interestingcharacter,but the time we spend with her is disappointingly short -she isn’t seen beyond the halfway point.
SB: On amore positive note, the movie started strong, with aprologue set in the past with ade-aged Indiana Jones and his classic Indy energy and humour in its action sequences. Although that chase sceneonthe train would have been better with less shaky cam, and it was so dark it was difficult to watch. Someone should have told the editor to adjust that Dial of Dullness to ahigher brightness! There’s also afun horse chase through the streets of New York City, anda funtuk-tukchase through the Moroccan city of Tangiers.
TP: All three chase sequencesare the highlight for me, because without them, the film never feels like aromp. You watch
the original trilogy, or even Crystal Skull, and it plays like an old-school adventure serial and you’re along for the ride; in Dial of Destiny,itfeels like the narrative just happens, and the events just wash over you. It’s strange how the other Indiana Jones chapters are criticised for being cartoonish or silly, and this fifth movie -even thoughthey have these wacky or outlandishideas -itdoesn’t have that same sense of fun.
SB: This film peaksatthe beginning, and the level of enjoymentcharts south fromthere.Overall, it's abland and forgettable affair. It especially starts to feel its 142-minute length once you get to theunderwhelming third act. There were many examples of scenes that could have been shortenedoroutright cut to improve the pacing. However, the ending -without wishingtospoilanything- was anice way to finish this saga.
TP: Honestly, those final moments did melt the heart and bring a tear to my eye. It was predictable and milkedfor all it was worth, but you couldn’t help but like it.
SB: Is this movie worth seeing? I think justone viewingdoes the trick-Iwon't be watching it again. This is certainly not anywhere close to the original three movies in quality. If you’re expecting abig comeback for Indy, àla Mad Max: Fury Road or Top Gun: Maverick,this isn’t it.
TP: Ican only echo what Stefan has said. Dial of Destiny isn’t awful, nor bad; yet at the same time, it’s hardly the best action movie we’ve seen this year -that title easily belongs to JohnWick: Chapter4,which also stands as one of the best action films ever made.
SB: We probably come across as overly negative here, but that's because of the prestige which the Indiana Jones series carries. Whileit'sgoodtosee Ford back in his hat, this film failed to reach its true potential.
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is ratedMfor frequent action violence, and is currently screening.
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returns as everybody’sfavouritewhipcracking archaeologist, Indiana Jones. Images: Disney/LucasFilm
VEGEMITE has revealed the highly anticipated remake of its iconic Happy Little Vegemites advertisement as the brandinches towardsits 100th birthday.
In celebrationofVegemite's100th birthday on October 25, 2023, comes the return of the Happy Little Vegemites.
In 1954, atrio of bright,energeticyoungsters burst into song on the radio to atoe-tapping jingle named 'Happy Little Vegemites'.
Two years later, the infectious song was developed into atelevision campaign, which continued intermittently until the late 1960s.
In the dawnofthe 1980s, the original 'Happy Little Vegemites' commercials, re-mastered and colourised, were broadcast to an entirely new generation of Australians.
Vegemite released anational public casting call in April, inviting Australian children to apply for aonce-in-a-lifetime part in theiconic HappyLittle Vegemites remake. Children nationwide responded
in droves,and Vegemite received more than 10,000 audition applications from aspiring Happy Little Vegemites destined for stardom.
With the stage set to introduce Australia to the reveal of the new cast, Vegemite announced awellkept secret -the return of avery special member of the Vegemite family for the remake.
Many mightrecognise the iconicTrish Cavanagh, who was seven-years-old when she marched on top of the Vegemite jar in the 1950s ad, and now, 71, on boardasaspecial guest within its 2023 remake.
Aged seven, Trishdidn'trealisewhatshe was getting herself into then, but 64 years later, the Happy Little Vegemites ad is now as iconic as ever.
"I'm so honoured Vegemite asked me to be involved in the ad that changed my life forever," Ms Cavanagh said.
"Vegemite has been and continues to play ahuge role in my life, and Iamsothrilled to be passing the baton to the next generation of Happy Little Vegemite kids.
"These children today don't realise what abig event this is for them, and Ihope in the years to come, they look back with pride,” added Ms Cavanagh.
"To be in the remake of the original Vegemite ad for Vegemite's 100th birthday is something very special.
"Get readyfor the ride,kids -Ithinkitwill be along one."
From the 10,000 who responded to Vegemite's national casting call auditions, six lucky youngsters madethe final cut; six-year-old Brielle, six-year-old Cyril,seven-year-old Albie, 10-year-old Amber, 10-year-old Ava and 11-year-old Xavier.
Within the remake, you'll spot Vegemite's 2023 cast of Happy Little Vegemites joyously dancing, gleefully running around the clotheslineinthe backyard, climbingtrees and sharing Vegemite moments with their cherished friends.
The new Happy Littleremake, and the next generation of Happy Little Vegemites, proudly celebrate the tapestry of Aussielife -where the simple act of enjoying Vegemite brings people together and fostersasenseofbelonging and nostalgia that resonates within every Australian heart.
General Manager, Marketing at Bega Foods, Matt Gray said the remake of the Happy Little Vegemites ad provides an opportunity for children to write their names in Australian history.
"When Vegemite announced the remake of the Happy Little Vegemites ad, we knew one thing was true -itwas achancefor some lucky kids to weave themselves into the Aussie history books," Mr Gray said.
"Vegemite has played akey roleinthis great
Waybackwhen: Trish Cavanagh biting intoher Vegemitetoast in theoriginal ad in May1959.
What’s oldisnew: Trish in the2023 Happy Little remake.
nation since 1923, and we couldn'tthink of abetter waytocelebrate its incredible legacy than by inviting anew generation of Happy Little Vegemites to be apartofsomething incredibly special."
Vegemite thanked each Happy Little Vegemite who submitted their auditionand everyone who has supported Vegemite during its 100-year existence.
HOT Dealsisanyone's chance to win afamily dinner and other things; this time it was Emily Just’s time.
“Winning it, Iwas blown away like being able to spend $1000 at stores that Iwanted to," she said.
"One of the highlights was definitely being able to head out with the family for ameal, like to get together with everybody.”
Emily suggestedthatentering the Hot Deals draw was nothing but good fun and everyone should give it ago.
The Hot Deals promotion is three times ayear and the winner receives aspending voucher of $1000 to spend over three months.
The questionnaire, once completed, is to be sent
or delivered to the Latrobe Valley Express office.
“What Ihad to do was fillinthe quiz, which was talking about 29 different stores and looking through to find the answers," she said.
"I then just had to fill it in, send it in, and wait to be picked first, so it was pretty good."
Emily said that she does this often, not expecting to win but just entering gives you achance of winning something.
"The surprise of winning is worth all the times you don’t get picked for the draw," she said. Some of the items she could choosefrom included dinner at the Morwell Club and material from the newsagent.
DURINGTerm2,the Year 7studentsfrom the Churchill Campusand Morwell CampusatKurnai College attended their retrospective camps, with the theme of their camp focusing on resilience.
Eighty-three Year 7studentsfrom the Churchill campus attended Camp Coolamatong, along with 14 Year 10 Peer Support Leaders during week five of Term 2, while 84 Year 7studentsfrom the Morwell Campus attended duringweek eightof Term 2.
Students excitedlyarrivedatCampCoolamatong located on the Banksia Peninsula, at the foreshore of the Gippsland Lakes. They received an official welcome from the camp staff, interns, and watchful hungry bird life. After lunch, students settled into their bunk rooms and enjoyed alittle free time before heading off to their first of numerous rotational activities.
“The impressive range of activities kept groups busy learning and certainly more energetic than a day back at school,” commented Churchill Campus,
Year 7Team Leader, Darren Campbell.
Over the four days, students participatedina range of different activities including bush cooking, climbing, abseiling,bike orienteering, lowropes, farming andcombatarchery
“Bush cooking was fun and relaxing.Wecooked popcorn, pancakes,and damper over acampfire”, student Sienna said.
Water activities such as tubing and sailing were alsothoroughlyenjoyed. Mia mentioned, “I had never done tubing before, but my first time blew me away."
“My highlight from camp wasdefinitelythe Indigenous session with Aunty Cass. Iwitnessed people eatingplants and theirreactionswerequite entertaining”, Riley said.
Studentsalsogot to enjoya boat ride over Raymond Island, where they took awalk around the koalaconservation and enjoyed achipsandwich lunch.
Kurnai staff member Anna McGregor from the
Morwell Campus, mentioned that each student was encouraged to participate and supported to challenge themselves through each experience.
Students hadmultiple occasions during the week where they were prompted to consider and reflect on the resilience they had seen demonstrated in day-to-day life by parents, carers, teachers and themselves, as well as the resilience they and their peers had demonstrated on camp.
During the evenings, students settledinto camp life, establishing routines including setting up the dining hall, enjoying ameal together, and participating in various evening activities.
“It was great to see so manyofour students come together in adifferent environment and flourish,” mentioned Morwell Campus Assistant Tear 7/8 Team Leader Sarah Lewis.
Mr Campbell also commented on how the spiritof teamwork, building relationships, and welcoming new experiences prevailed throughout the week.
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THE annual Centrepiece Concert performed by St Paul’s Anglican Grammar School students once again leftthe audience in awe of their phenomenal performing arts talent.
From dancerstosoul band and from choir to singer-soloists, there was something for everyone on show at the West Gippsland Arts Centre.
Backstage crew students also broadened their technical experience for big-stage performances at aworld-class theatre, enjoying being mentored by professionalsound andlighting engineers at the arts centre.
Educators at St Paul’s provide students with real-lifeexperience through the entire Centrepiece process, first with an audition process for soloists that prepares them for future performing arts applications, and then with aperformance open to the community at the arts centre.
Through avariety of co-curricular activities offered by the school, students at St Paul's can explore their potential in the performing arts, personalise their educational experienceand make friends with peers from other year levels.
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July 3-July 9, 2023
Aries On Monday you ’ re keen to rush things and speak bluntly but don’t barge in with Full Moon guns blazing! If you do, then you could end up smack bang in the middle of a fiery argument – especially at work It is a suitable week to tackle domestic and professional projects Just make sure you finish details properly before you embark on exciting new ventures With Venus and Mars visiting your love/creativity zone, you could fall in love with a person or an idea
Taurus This week’s Full Moon activates your adventure and exploration zone Plus Venus (your ruling planet) and Uranus (transiting through your sign) push you to jump out of your comfort zone shake off bad habits embrace opportunities and fast track changes Which can feel very uncomfortable! It’s time to view transformation as terrific, rather than terrifying Be inspired by birthday great The Dalai Lama (who turns 88 on Thursday) “True change is within ”
FEDERATION University Australia’s Centre for Smart Analytics (CSA) in collaboration with Centre for New Energy Transition Research (C4NETR) will develop new scenario modelling tools that will improve the state’s energy infrastructure planning after receiving an industry grant.
Libra Expect some tension as the Full Moon stirs up old grievances with a family member or a work colleague If you sit back and let others make decisions then you’ll just feel powerless
So strive to be more self-sufficient, as you use your natural diplomatic skills to help smooth troubled waters Getting the ratio right between your public and private lives is an ongoing challenge But if anyone can juggle complex commitments,
it’s a well-balanced Libran!
Scorpio Neighbourhood activities and local connections are favoured, as the Full Moon encourages you to be more community minded Also – courtesy of Jupiter and Uranus - you’ll be given the chance to heal an old emotional wound or patch up a relationship problem Don’t let false Scorpio pride stop you from taking a giant leap forward when it comes to love and forgiveness Accept the opportunity gratefully, with outstretched hands and an open heart
The grant from the Centre for New Energy Technologies (C4NET) willsee Federation develop amodelling frameworkthat leverages artificial intelligence and computer modelling to assist local authorities, energy suppliers, and the state government to plan infrastructure in the rapidly evolving energy sector. Federation will receive AUD $340,000 over 18 months for this project.
Federation is the lead university in this project that is supported by RMIT, with Gippsland-based Gour Karmakar, Associate Professoratthe Centre for Smart Analytics, the leadresearcher.The project team from Federation also includes Professor Joarder Kamruzzaman, Dr Rakibuzzaman Shah and Professor Syed Islam.
Currently, there is asignificant gapinestimating future scenarios on energy supply and demand, as energy networksare undergoing significant changessuchasmassadoption of renewable energy generation, the electrification of transport, and the transition from domestic gas use to electric.
The interaction of all these variables -plus the added complexity posed by climate change -will
become even more intricate in future, hence the need for arigorous whole-of-system modelling framework that this research will deliver.
The research will initially involve the development of scenarios based on emerging supply and demand forces within the energy network. These scenarios will be combined to produce amodel that can be used to provide future estimations on energy supply and demand for agiven region.
The state government has atargetofreaching net-zerocarbonemissions by 2050, which will require large investment in renewable energy. Modellingtoolssuch as thesewill support this transition by enhancing energygeneration and transmission infrastructure planning.
Associate Professor, Gour Karmakar, at the Centrefor Smart Analytics at Federation University Australia said, “The project team is proudtohave received this grant from C4NET and we are looking forward to starting this exciting venture."
"The Australian EnergyMarket Operator has recently statedthat the transition to renewable energy needs to be accelerated and optimising infrastructure planning is key to achieving this.
"My hope is that once developed, these tools can expedite the planningprocess of new infrastructure to support the state’s transition to net zero."
Gemini
The Full Moon shines a spotlight o Gn money, business, property, investments, taxes and joint finances so make sure they are all in working order On Friday, Mercury makes a fabulous aspect with Uranus so an innovative financial idea or an unusual professional opportunity could really take flight And maintain your sense of humour! Quote for the week is from birthday great writer/artist Jean Cocteau “The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul ”
Cancer Mercury and the Sun are both moving through your sign, which boosts your creativity and your moodiness And there’s a Full Moon in your relationship zone on Monday So it’s time to look after loved ones, and nurture your inner self via meditation, contemplation and relaxation Your quote for the week is from fellow Crab, actress Selena Gomez “I’m such a Cancer I feel everything so intensely, which is one of my favourite things about myself ”
Leo The Capricorn Full Moon highlights your health zone so it’s a good week to try a detox diet or a disciplined new exercise routine Venus and Mars are both vamping through your sign, which boosts your Cat charisma and playful sense of fun So it s also a wonderful week to turn up the charm and call in a few old favours However, too much happy hilarity (and no action) will just annoy others (who are doing all the work)
So try to walk your talk
Virgo Mercury and the Sun are in moody Cancg er and there’s a Full Moon on Monday So your obsessive/compulsive side could crank up and take over However, if you sweat the small stuff, you’ll end up feeling tired and emotional (and exhausted) by the end of the week
Perhaps it’s time to de-stress, as you sample a session of meditation or try a spot of yoga? You might just enjoy it! Friday is fabulous for innovative ideas, alternative viewpoints, and bohemian friends
Sagittarius The focus is on financial mattg ers, as the Full Moon fires up your money zone and your spontaneous spending gene Which is OK – as long as you have the cash flow to fund a shopping spree If you don’t then you’ll have to entertain yourself in more frugal ways Finances and friends are a particularly messy mix so strive to keep the two well separated On Friday the Mercury/Uranus link favours innovative ideas at work and adventurous daydreams at home
Capricorn Monday’s feisty Full Moon lights up your sign, so relationship dramas are likely Unless you can slip out of fussy Capricorn control-freak mode and instead, try the gentle art of compromise Other people are acting as a mirror, reflecting negative personal traits that you may have been unaware of Use these experiences to work on your weaknesses – and build on your natural strengths As always, calm cooperation is the key to interpersonal harmony
THE Cub Scouts of 1st Newborough had abusy Term 2, with awide range of activities for youth aged seven to 11.
Youthmembers planned their program which involved experimenting withchocolate in the kitchen, practising first aidskills and trying archery with the team of volunteers at Twin City Archers, Morwell.
While the program is youth led, it's not just the meaningless fun, it's focusedonskilldevelopment while offeringyoung people away to connectwith the widercommunity,building socialskills and connecting them with young people from within
and beyond their own school community.
Term 3will end with amajor event, with cubs headingtoCuboree 2023 in theSeptemberschool holidays. Amassive camp over five days and four nights,held every threeyears for Cub Scouts from all across Victoria.
The unit has space for my young people aged seven to 11 to join this term.
Group leader Andrew Corrigan can be reached by visitnghttps://scoutsvictoria.com.au/location/1STNEWBOROUGH/ or gl.1stnewborough@ scoutsvictoria.com.au
Aquarius
Aquarians are free spirits And you could go missing in action this week, as Uranus and the Full Moon boost your tendency to detach or run away from difficult situations Heading for the hills or escaping into a private fantasy seems appealing, but the current problems will still be waiting when you return So you need to get the balance right between dealing with daily challenges when they occur and retreating into your own quirky inner world PiscesYou could bump into an old friend, discover long-forgotten love-letters, or re-connect with a former flame Just remember –memories are so seductive because they’re so selective You intuitively know what is right for you - even though you may appear confused to others Don’t let your family (or peer group) push you around or persuade you to do something you don’t believe in Saturn (in your sign) encourages you to be sensible and stay grounded
CopyrightJoanne Madeline Moore 2023
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Divinely inspired and delightfullycheeky,crime-solving nun Sister Boniface (Lorna Watson, pictured) is the secret weapon of her local police (Max Brown and JerryIwu) in this cosy,charmingand cheerful FatherBrownspinoff. Armed with themostcutting-edge technology the 1960s has to offer,SisterBoniface usesher unique insightand sharp people skills to nail responsible forthe frankly alarmingnumber of murders in theaptly named village of GreatSlaughter.This week, the town’sAnnualGiant Marrow Contestisinterrupted when Brutus the dog digsupahuman skeleton. Initially believed to be Vikingin origin, Sister Boniface determines them to be much morerecent
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FOOTBALL GIPPSLAND LEAGUE
GIPPSLAND League will host its mental health round thisweekend.
Round12will see players and officials aim to help raise awareness of mental health issues and the impact it is having in our community, and the quest in ‘making better mental health our goal’.
TraralgonversusMaffraonSaturdayand
Warragul versus Drouin on Sunday have been chosen as the feature match days of the round.
Bothfootball and netball willbeengaged with activities.The main activation in the roundwill seeone mentalhealth champion from each football team across the four grades wear aspecially
designed jumper featuring ablue0 on the back to represent the push for zero lives lost to mental health.
Thesejumpers represent the league and member clubs united position to support better mental health across clubs and communities.
In each netball match, amental health champion from each team will wear aspecial blue bib.
Each netball match will also feature the use of a special blue netball match ball.
All football and netball players and officials will be wearing bluearm bands to support the quest to make better mental health our goal.
Each of the five matchdaysacross the Gippsland League will participatefor aMental Health Round Cup. The winning club will receive this at the end
of the day. The winning club will be based on the total team wins on the day across football and netball.Inthe result of atie,the club with the highest average winning marginonthe day will be declared the winner.
All 10 matches at each venue will have amedal to be awarded to the player judgedplayer of the game.This medal will be decided by the winning sides coachingpanel and awardedtothe player they believe demonstrated the most courage, determination and teamworkfor the winning side. This theme round will be the second of three in the GippslandLeague this season, following Orange Round in Round 10 and Change Our Game Round to come in Round 16.
United: One player from each Gippsland League team willbechosen to wear thenumber zero guernseythisweekend,representing the pushfor zero lives lost to mentalhealth
Photograph supplied
FOOTBALL GIPPSLAND LEAGUE
BY LIAM DURKIN
THE July Test is upon competitors in the Gippsland League.
As the nights get colder, darker and longer, teams will be challenged with negotiating what is typically the hardest stage of the season mentally.
Players have had aweek's rest to preparefor those challenges following aleague-wide bye. While this time of year can often be seen as 'no man's land', with finalsstill some time off, the heavier grounds can also mean there is every chance outsiders get up, throwing further complexities into the mix as far as ladder positions go.
Historically, teams that havegood Julyshave good Septembers, as they sew up finals positions and are then affordedthe luxury of plottingacourse for the post-regular season.
Withthis in mind,thoseatthe top end of the ladder will be fighting to give themselves thisluxury, while those belowwill be aiming to unsettle afew teams withperhaps too muchfocus on September.
Thereispossibly only one type who reallyenjoys this time of year -fringe players.
They are bound to get opportunities, and while others are loathing conditions, they could see this as the lucky break they need.
MORWELL is hosting another rivalry game.
Havingwelcomed Traralgon theweek beforethe break, the Tigers arenow preparing to take on Moe.
The home sidegoes intothe contest underno illusions it simply needs to keep winning in order to have any chance of playing finals.
Morwellisone game off fifth-placed Sale, and with'should win'games to come againstDrouin and Maffra, the Tigers could see this weekend's match as achance to ignite ahot streak.
The Tigers proved their capability in the Traralgon game, and were only acouple of goals down midway through the final term before the Maroons kicked away.
Morwellwilltake some confidence out of this, andlook to replicate whatthey produced in the second quarter against the Maroons.
In that term, they were able to score four goals in slippery conditions, with some good overlap run ahighlight.
Brandon Mcauliffe was productive up forward and on the ball, and was one of several young Morwell
players that looks to be leading the next generation of Tiger stars.
Moe by contrastare expected to takeamore experienced team into the encounter, which could prove advantageous.
Going off the previous game, the Lions had 17 players that had played more than 50 games at Gippsland Leaguelevelorhigher, compared to Morwell who had around 10.
On that basis, as well as the fact Moe is third on the ladder, the Lions will start favourite.
Although Moe is coming offaone-point lossto fellow top-three side Wonthaggi,confidence will be high in the Moe camp after they came back from more than five goalsdown in that game to very nearly steal it.
With afour-game gap between fourth and fifth on the ladder, the Lions will want to demonstrate just how big agap there is betweenthose fighting for a double chance and those fightingjust to play finals.
Moe veterans Ben Morrow and Tom Long were both inductedasMoe Football-Netball Club life members before the bye,and there could be added motivation to ensure theirfirst gameasofficial legends is apositive one.
There could be some friendly-fire in the match, with former Moe players Darnell Grech and Josh Galea possibly comingupagainst their old side, as well as former Casey VFL teammates Riley Baldi and Aidan Quigley squaring off in the midfield for Moe and Morwell respectively.
The Lions have been kissed on the proverbial with the fixture for the rest of the season, as four of their last seven games are at home, and six of those are in the Latrobe Valley.
An away game to Maffra in Round 17 presents the only genuine road trip, so Moecould justabout be walking down the red carpet to adouble-chance before then.
TRARALGON will aim to make it four wins in arow.
The Maroonsare set to welcomeMaffra to Terry Hunter Oval, in agame Traralgon must win to stay on track to secure the double-chance.
The home side will start aheavy favourite against ateam facing along rebuild.
Maffra's last two weeksbefore the bye werechallenging,losing by their biggestmarginin25years to Wonthaggi, before going down to arch-rival Sale.
The Eagles kicked just two goals against the Power, and kicked all their goals against Sale in
the third quarter, meaning across eight quarters of football in two weeks, Maffra has only scored in three.
While they will be out to win first and foremost, Traralgon might be mindful of their percentage.
Factoring in percentage, the Maroons are effectively two games off Wonthaggi in second, so if given the chance to really bury Maffra on Saturday, the Maroons will surely take it.
Traralgon's firepower up forward in thelikes of Brett Eddy and Billy Schilling presents agood chancefor the Maroons to kick ascore well into triple figures.
Conversely, it presentsa good learningopportunity for young Maffra defenders the likes of Jonathan Boyd and Zach Felsbourg.
Traralgon might also have added motivation for the rest of the season, following astory appearing in astate-widepublication that the premiership race was down to three clubs -one of which wasn't Traralgon. SALE gets an extra day's rest.
The Magpies travel to Bairnsdale on Sunday, facing agame they just need to win.
Sale hangs onto fifth spot, and the last available spotinfinals by one game.WithMorwellbreathing down their neck, the Magpies can get atwo-game break on their nearest challenger if they win and Moe defeats Morwell.
While those two results are expected,bothare far from formalities.
The Magpies lost to Bairnsdale earlier in the season,and Morwell is usuallygood foratleast one upset aseason, especially against aLatrobe Valley-based team.
There hasn't been too many surprises in Sale's form line over the last four games, with the team winningthe games they have been expected to and competing strongly in the others.
Sale continues to be beset with chopping and changing its line-up, and will hope the extra day gives them achancetowelcome some key players back.
The Magpies have hadonly eight players play everygame this season:CooperWhitehill, Nathan Whitford, Jarrod Freeman, Daine McGuiness, Josh Butcher, Jack Leslie, Will Leslie and Jack McLaren.
With time still on their side however, Salehas been working its way through availability as best it can, and given the performances ofthe reserves, who have beaten top-five sides Traralgon,
Leongatha and Maffra, there is enough to suggest Sale is getting some players back in time for the business end.
Before that however, they will need to overcome aside that is generally five goals better at home.
Bairnsdale will no doubt be smarting afterbecoming the first team to hand Drouin awin, and Sale can ill-afford to take them lightly.
DROUIN has the chance to climb off the bottom of the ladder.
The Hawks take on westerncounterpart Warragul in the other Sunday match.
Whileamatch between ninth and 10th wouldn't evoke much interest from the neutralsupporter, for the clubs involved, this will be every bit as keenly contested as afinal.
Drouin will be riding high following their maiden win, in stark contrast to the Gulls, who have not won agame since Round 4.
The lastfew weekshave indeed been challenging for Warragul, with two 100-point losses in their last four games.
Unavailability has been pushed to the limit,with areported 30 players on the sidelinesfor the Gulls.
However, aclash against the neighbour means Warragulwillbepulling outall thestopstotry and go 2-nil up on Drouin in 2023.
Drouin, surely buoyed by their victory last round, will be riding awaveofconfidence.
The Hawks could actually go from last to eighth if they win and Maffra loses, as their percentage is greater than the Eagles' and the Gulls’. HAVE fun covering this one Sentinel Times.
It is one versus two as Leongatha heads over to Wonthaggi.
The Parrots hold what appears to be the only advantage on paper, as they have won 10 games compared to the Power's one.
Apart from that, there is little, if anything that separates the sides. Both have apercentage over 200, Wonthaggi has an eight-game winning streak, while Leongatha has lost just one of its last 39.
Last time these two sides met, the Parrots prevailed by three points.
Interestingly, according to statisticsprovided by isports from that game, Leongathawon the free kick count by 14.
BY LIAM DURKIN
ANY year ending in three seems to be asuccessful oneatMorwell Football-Netball Club.
The Tigers gathered recently to celebrate three premierships from three separate decades.
Generations collided in the Morwell FNC social rooms, as players and officials from the club's 1983, 1993 and 2013 senior Gippsland League triumphs regaled stories from those memorable days.
While each game was played amid adifferent backdrop, they all saw apremiership cup return home to Tigerland.
Those cups were proudly on display at the reunion,each symbolising adifferentjourney to the Gippsland League summit.
Coaches Alan Lowe (1983), Lachlan Sim (1993) and Harmit Singh (2013) were all on hand, reacquaintingthemselveswiththe silverware they had helped deliver.
As the playing careers of some in the yellow and black is now but amemory, with multiple flags spread across different eras, the notion of 'success breeds success' was hard to refute.
THE Tigersofthe early 1980s set the tone for what was to follow.
Morwellput together astrong home-and-away campaign in 1983,ending the regular season equal-first with Bairnsdale.
Under first-year playing-coachAlanLowe -generally regarded as one of the greatestcentre half forwards Gippsland has ever seen -the Tigerswon through to the decider in devastating fashion, after disposing of the Redlegs with relative ease in the second semi-final.
However, their path to the premiership was far from straightforward, as injuryand suspension played their part.
Up against arch-rivalTraralgon, in front of a record crowd that paid $8500 at the gate ($32,000 today adjusted for inflation), the Tigers held off a
defiant Maroons to win by six points 12.14 (86) to 11.14 (80).
Lowe hit the post late in the piece to tie the scores, before Stephen Allisonmadehimself the hero, kicking the winner at the 27-minute mark.
It was Morwell's first senior flag since 1966, and the closestGippsland League Grand Final since 1974.
The win set the wheels in motion for Morwell to win further premierships in 1985 and 1988, making it three flags in six seasons.
The 1985 flag was of particular note, as the Tiger’s won what looked to be an unwinnable Grand Final after trailing by six goals at three quarter time.
ASENIOR-playing coach at 23 years of age in a major league?
It happened.
Not only did it happen, it ended with a premiership. Morwell, somewhat controversially,landed LachlanSim as playing-coach in 1993. Simhad wonthe TroodAward and Rodda Medal as best player in theGippsland League in 1988 playing for Moe.
Simstarted his coaching career after ayear playing with West Adelaide in the SANFL, following his AFL days with the Brisbane Bears.
After findinghis feet as aplaying-coach, Simtook the Tigers to the top of the ladder with a15-win, three-loss record after the regular season.
Like the team 10 years before them, the Morwell side of 1993 was pitted against Traralgon for the premiership.
In an eerily similarmargin, the Tigers of '93 won the GrandFinal by 12 points, 14.13(97) to 12.13 (85).
Youngster Dean Caldow announced himself on the biggest stage of all, kicking seven goals in a best-on-ground display.
The win gave Sim the perfect start to his coaching career,and denied Traralgonwinning four flags in arow.
Morwell followed this with another flag in 1996
and then arunner-up finish came the following year.
The Morwell teams of the mid-90s are regarded as some of the strongestever seen in the Gippsland League.
THIS one still definitely happened.
Morwellmight nothavebeen the best team in 2013 -but they certainly were on Grand Final day.
In one of the greatest boil overs in league history,the Tigers stunned thelocal football world by defeating Sale 17.15 (117) to 5.6 (36).
Such ascore line only serves to highlight how well they played -Sale went into the Grand Final with 32 consecutive wins under their belt.
The Magpies were coming off aflag in 2012, and history appeared certain to repeat in 2013 after they completedanother dominant home-and-away season.
TheMagpiesfinished on top of the ladder for the second year running, with apercentage of more than 200.
Sale ended up three wins clear of its nearest rival, and also won five games by more than 100 points- oneofthose 100-pointwinscame the week before finals against Morwell.
The Tigers lost the qualifying final to Maffra,
butdefeated theEagles afortnightlater in the preliminary final to book adatewithSale.
Morwell was given little to no chance, but amuddied Ted Summerton Reserve made for adifferent outlookfor the Grand Final, which was played on aSunday.
Some Sale players were reportedly displeased withthe Sundaytimeslot, complaining it would delay their inevitable premiership celebrations. However, Morwell, underfirst year player-coach Harmit Singh, had something up their sleeve.
Legend has it former Collingwood and then Morwell player Tarkyn Lockyer showed the team vision of how Collingwood set up for kick-ins and looked to replicateits style. Whatever instructions were given clearly did not fallondeaf ears, as David defeated Goliath by 81 points.
During the second quarter, the Tigers kicked seven goals to none and had the scoreboard reading 12.6 (78) to 1.3 (9) at halftime.
Disbelieving spectators were left to rub their eyes to make sure what they were witnessing wasn’t a dream, and it’s likely afew Morwell players and staff members were forced to do the same thing.
Future Morwellcoaches Joel Soutar and Boyd Bailey (Morwell’s current coach) kicked four and three goals respectively.
The Tigers went back-to-back, winning again in 2014.
GOALS:
Meeniyan Dumbalk Utd: DSheen 6JDeas3 JWhiteside
BEST: Thorpdale: J
Holland-Burch JMongerMGorman HSinclair-Stanley TPattenSPickering.Meeniyan
Dumbalk Utd: JLeeden DSheenS Walsh JBromley FKelly TCorry
TARWIN
GOALS: Tarwin: JCann4 KPatterson 4BEllen 3M Williams 2T GedyeDHouston RPatterson
TCameron TVanderkolk.Stony Creek:M Portelli 2CMichael 2J Byrnes BEST: Tarwin: B
Ellen MWilliams KPatterson TCameron TVanderkolk JCann. StonyCreek:MPortelli HBullA
Zuidema MRoweT BernaldoA Dyke
GOALS: Newborough: PAinsworth 3JMitchell 3MRowlingsH Prestidge JBishop. Foster:
JSegat
BMaxwell 3R Weaver2 JBrydon 2T Harris BCantwell.
Thorpdale: RPickering 2MMcewan. BEST: Meeniyan Dumbalk Utd: BMaxwell JBrydon B Cantwell MEast RWeaverT Goss.Thorpdale: LRay GHoulihan RPickering SForbes ZDanger JFahey
GOALS: Toora: JMaurilli-Pullin 6JGuganovic 3JPlatt 2LGryllsCFerguson AWalker W
Jenkins.Boolarra: TLaaks BEST: Toora: JMabilia JGuganovic MHoppner AParryLDyson L de Boer.Boolarra: GSmith EStanton JMaggs ABurness TLaaks GDyer
MORWELL EAST 0.1 5.5 8.6 10.6 (66)
YINNAR 5.3 6.4 7.8 8.10 (58)
GOALS: MorwellEast: JMackenzie 2LLittle2 HDwyer 2DHeydenC Hall BGibson DPappas.
Yinnar:CLePage2MMcCafferty 2M Nelson TRussell TRenwick BMahoney BEST: Morwell
East: HDwyer JMackenzie JQuinn PRepniks TCox SBonacci. Yinnar:X Geddes TRenwick T
RussellW Rowley MMcCafferty LAlexander
TARWIN 3.2 5.3 7.6 11.8 (74)
STONYCREEK 2.1 5.1 5.3 6.3 (39)
GOALS: Tarwin: TLomax 3JBest2 ET Brosnan JKilsbyDLawtonCScott NTucker.Stony
Creek:GGray2 THorsburgh JPhillips NSvenson JByrnes BEST: Tarwin: TLomax DLeggo
JBest DLawtonW Blundy E.Stony Creek:N Svenson GGrayT Davies DLoughridge R
BaudinetteT Horsburgh
FISH CREEK2.3
HILLEND 1.0
ROUND 11 of the Mid Gippsland FootballNetball League featured all three possible results from agame of football.
While one team remains undefeated, they do now have adraw next to their name Elsewhere, anumberofother sides are starting to make amove.
FOSTER VNEWBOROUGH
THERE was an early 'shot over the bow' from Newborough coach, Craig Skinner when he warned Foster prior to the game that "We are looking forward to the challengeand hope their young players are ready for some contestedfooty”, alluding to the fact that the weekend would be no place for the faint hearted,settingthe tone foraphysicalclash.
In the end, it was aclash to be remembered, as the Bulldogs drew withFoster 9.6 (60) to 8.12 (60).
The Tigers were brave at home, and morethanprovedtheir worth againstthe ladder-leaders.
“An interesting day for us, areal fight all day with different momentum swings for both teams," Foster coach Sam Davies said.
"Probably afitting result, we missed alot of chances that were gettable and we made some uncharacteristic errors but that’s what high pressure games produce. We’ll take a lot of positives out of it.”
Positives weretaken and lessons also learned about the opposition, valuable intel if the two should meet again.
Likewise, Skinner said there was much to gain from the encounter.
“When you look to next weekand you’ve got to go to Foster, it’s their midfield and two forwards that registers first," he said.
"Hill End forced us intosomebad habits at times and when given time and space could move the ball smoothly.”
The Rovers are still searching for theirfirst win of the season.
Santo hoped that maiden victory wasn't too far away.
“They were sloppy conditions but we were outclassed by awell organised FishCreek side," he said.
"Our effort was good but I’m getting sick of saying that! We needtobebetter with our execution of game plans and basic skills.
"We believe we have winnable game next week at Mirboo, we will prepare accordingly and hopefully we will show up ready to play.”
MDU VTHORPDALE
THIS was always going to be much more than amatch for premiership points,itwas afight for finals positioning, withboth Meeniyan Dumbalk United and Thorpdale part of a group of six, maybe even eight, fighting for anticipated limited spots come finals time.
The Blueseventually clawed their way to a12.11 (83) to 11.6 (72) win on the road.
Thorpdale coach Jason Winderlich labelled it agood result.
“Good effort by the boys to come away with the win in extremely heavy conditions," he said.
"We had avery dominant first half which set the game up. MDU then dominated the next 45 minutes to take the lead. We were able to start winning the ball around the contest late and kick thefinal threegoals which was pleasing.”
Demon's coach Nathan Allen believed the better side won.
“Thorpdale outmuscled us early, we were able to fight the game out as we always do, but we left ourselves too much to do,"hesaid.
AFTER aslowstart,Tarwin had picked themselves up and strung together enough 'w's' to have themselves well-placed as they started to dig their teeth into the second half of the season.
All they had to do was kill off their weekend opponent Stony Creek to start to sure-up their top of the ladder position, and that’s exactly what the home side did, Tarwin winning 18.7 (115) to 5.5 (35).
Sharks coach Troy Hemming said it was great to string five wins together.
“We keep building momentum and cleaning up our game plan. Very happy with our group!" he said.
"Both grades are buying in and supporting each other and Iloveseeing the genuine care for each other! I’m seeinggrowth in every player and it’s getting moreexciting every week!
"Stony triedtoplayagood brand but Ithink turnovers hurt them abit today! Credit to Chris (coachChris Vernoon) and Browny (captain Matt Brown) for pushing them to keep putting in effort andplay agood brand.”
It was adisappointing day for the Lions, who in recent weeks and even months had put up much better performances than what they did on the weekend.
“We have gone away from playing that confident game style that was able to match it with the best sides," Verboon said.
"Skill errors and poor decisions let us down and made it easy for Tarwin to score on the turnover.
"The challenge is to keep the group believing that if we take risks and take the game on, we can play it on our terms. Confidence and mindset go a long way in how we play and at the moment we are searching for it.
2.4 4.6 6.8 (44)
2.2
2.2
2.4 (16)
GOALS: Fish Creek:RStaley 2R Gillespie 2BBusuttil LHateley.HillEnd: HLacunes A
Matwijkiw BEST: Fish Creek:P Holian OStraw RGillespie EFaustin JSegar BBell. Hill End: S
MurphyJ Schiavello HLacunesR Drake ZLawrence
NEWBOROUGH 4.2 9.3 12.6 15.8 (98)
FOSTER 1.2 2.2 3.4 4.5 (29)
GOALS: Newborough: LGilroy 4JMcMahon 3PFrendo2 TWolf BBurgess JEdebohls Jvan
Dolder JJacovou WCollings.Foster:DLaCasa 2OCox BPrain. BEST: Newborough: S
ABertoli WTroyW Collings HGallagher TWolf.Foster:T House BTillack JRochforte D
Casa DMcCarthyJ Prain
"Ourmidfield of Pat Charles,Liam Flahavin and Liam 'Chucky' Cordiner were our best and our key backs Tyler Mander and AlexSkinner left their goal machine(Tom Bartholomew) with adonut. Wade Anderson was outstanding and JoelMitchellisback terrorising backlines.
"The five men that came into the side were fantastic.The scoreboard said adraw but today we evolved as ateam and that was a win for our club."
It may also be awin for anumberofother clubs as well, on two fronts, one because they managed to sneak up on both clubs by two premiership points and two, because it showed that the Bulldogs do in fact have some vulnerabilities.
HILLEND VFISH CREEK
HILL End at home had been atough place to secure premiership points in recent years, but in season 2023, clubs have come and gone with victoriesbeing taken far easier than what Rover's coach Mike Santo would have liked.
The weekend was no different, with Fish Creek claiming acomfortable win 14.11 (95) to 2.4 (16).
Conditions may have been testing for any silky football to be shown, but the Kangaroos had the Rovers' measure despite the home side's best efforts.
Fish Creek coach Jarrod Walker said he was happy to secure the four points.
“It was apositive result for us," he said.
"A tough day conditions wise for us to get our game going in full flight but the guys stuck at it and showed when we can get the game on our terms we can look pretty good.
"Nextweek we have the bye. Good chance to refresh, recover and hit the ground running heading into the final part of the regular season."
Thorpdalehas nowwon six of its lastseven games.
MORWELL EAST VYINNAR
MORWELL East prepared for their weekend clash withYinnar like it was their lastchance to make asurge towards the top half of the ladder.
Too many times in recent weeks, the Hawks had come close only to fall short, but they reversed the trend at the weekend, winning 7.11 (53) to 6.10 (46) at home.
The celebration of Morwell East's 50 years as aclub will soon be celebrated, and wins like this one make it all worthwhile.
“Was such agood win in trying conditions," Hawks coach Paul Henry said.
"We produced afour-quarter effort and got rewardedfor it. Yinnar were fast and moved the ball really well, but we kept the pressure on them allday. We were hungrier to win and it was nice to be on the winning side of aclose one."
Yinnar coach Daniel Taylor was magnanimous in defeat.
"Morwell East were the better team and deserved the win,” he said.
“We got outworked early and found ourselvesdownthreegoals to zip whilst having the breeze.
"Showed abit to get back in the game but overall it was adisappointing day. If you don't show up, are second to the ball all day, give away sloppy free kicks and are undisciplined then you're not going to win any gamesof football, it's as simple as that."
"We will take on Boolaraathome next week. Another game that will be agood test for us and hopefully we can get back to playing the footy Iknow we can play."
TOORAV BOOLARRA
AS rareaswins have been for Toora in season 2023, there is no question that the Magpies would have given themselves achanceat home of knocking off their more fancied opponents in Boolarra.
The Demons needed to win for their season, Toora for respect and reward for effort in a lean year.
In the end, it was the visitor's that got the win witha six goal victory 10.7 (67) to 4.7 (31).
Boolarra coach Tony Giardina said the game never reached any great heights.
“Good start to the game in pretty trying conditions," he said.
"They kept going all game with Toora never throwing in the towel, good to get another win under our beltand hopefully we can get afew players back in the next few weeks for some big games coming up”
It was acrucial winfor the Demons, and kept them in touch with the peloton of clubs at the top of the ladderbut still in their sights. For Toora,itwas the first 60 minutes in which the game slipped away.
“Hard slog today. Credit to Boolarra who adjusted to the conditions earlier and made the most of their advantage to kick away in the first half. Once we adjusted the game was an arm wrestle after halftime,” Magpies coach Jack Weston said.
MIRBOO North had the bye.
Thorpdale: MPowell4 MChopping 4J Winderlich MGorman MGraeme MBurke
BSchroen.
WITHnoGippsland League netballatthe weekend, many players would have opted to go away, have a break, or go for aspininNorth or Mid Gippsland League teams to keep matchfit and resumegeneral play.
It was all status quo for North Gippsland, as teams among the top four played teams at the other end of the ladder.
Churchill had acomfortable win against Yarram, who have struggled to perform in the competition this year. The Cougars defeated the Demons 58 to 30. Cougar’s captain Rachael Loechel played her 100th AGrade game for the club, and celebrated with awin and best-on-court performance.
Woodside still runs this competition, despite afew losses in arow. The Wildcat’s on-court dominance showed through as they easilystopped the Jets from take-off on their home runway.
Wildcat Jess Banik received honours for her role
in the 53 to 29 goal win against Yallourn Yallourn North.
Sale City defeated TTU in agame of closer margins, the Bombers shooting 45 goals to the Bulldogs' 58.
The Blues are back as Rosedale secured another win against Glengarry to havethe two sides sitting equal on 28 points on the ladder.
The game was aclose one and went down to the wire. It was amatter of only five goals or just two turnovers, but it was ultimately the experienced Blues side that won 48 to 43. Magpie Kayla Muller was recognised for her efforts in the loss.
Cowwarr ran over the top of Gormandale in a52 to 36 goal win. Erin Campbell won the best-on-court award for the Saints.
Heyfield had the bye.
ROUND 11 of the Mid Gippsland Football-Netball League saw some even matchups as the top four battled it out.
Boolarra just fell short of knocking the crown off reigning premier Toora. We all know the Magpies
are usedtoextremely closefinish (last-second goal to win them the Grand Final in 2022) but the Demons sure did give the Pies arun for their money.
Boolarra will definitely be walking away from the 48 to 50 defeat with their heads held high.
In what should have been agame to go down to the wire, Yinnar defeated Morwell Eastby19goals.
The Hawkshavelooked the team to beat allyear, but guess old habits die hard and for Yinnar that habit is of winning.
The Mid Gippsland netball powerhouse showcasing why you shouldnever write the original Magpies off.
Newborough nearly handed Fostertheir first win of the season, as it was neck-and-neck the whole game. But it just wasn’t meant to be for Foster as the Bulldogs shot alategoal to secure the win and force the Tigers to continue dreaming of that winning feeling.
Fish Creek made light work of Hill End with a 51 to 19 goal win, while both MDU and Mirboo North had the bye.
NETBALL
By JUDI BUHAGIAR
LOCAL netball talent was on displayasthe
Victorian Netball League came to Traralgon at the Gippsland Regional Indoor Sports Stadium.
The Hawks and the Wilson Storage Southern Saints VNL clubs went head-to-head on Saturday evening.
The Hawksnetball club have made Gippsland their home away from home, with local talent both on and off the court. President Shane O’Sullivan, having grownupinGippsland, wasveryhappy with the crowd and pool of local talent the club continues to benefit from.
The Hawks brought Round 15 to Traralgon and put on ashowthat left the crowd in raptures.
The firstgame wasthe 19 &Under Division, where fourth-placed Hawks were favourites over sixth-placed Saints.
The Hawks had alacklustre start, giving their opposition the chance to get away early and going into the first breakwith aseven goal lead. The Hawks won the second quarter but the score was still in Saints' favour.
Local Warragul player Sienna Green led the way for Hawks,stayingcalmthroughout the match displaying asimilar style of play to Australian Diamond Jamie Lee Price in the centre.
Thecomposed Hawks team lifted theirintensity in the second half withthe supportfromDrouin girl Lucy McKellarinwingdefence.
Relentless defence and pressure proved to be the winningformula for Hawks as they set the scene for the remaining two matches and took the premiership points 44-36.
Best on court for Hawks were Sienna Green, Georgie O’Brien and Allie Davidson.
The ChampionshipDivision match followed, seeing seventh-placed Saints take on Hawks who were sitting in eighth position.
Gippsland girls Jasmine Ferguson and Kelsey Buxton werestronginthe midcourt, but didn’t have it all their way as Saints were causing headaches for Hawks,forcingthem to look at resetsand risky passes to bring the ball down the court.
Hawks raised the intensity in the second quarter, increasing their lead by five goals, but it was the second half that took their opponents by surprise, the Hawks piling on 34 goals to the Saints 22. Rollingsubstitutions werewell utilisedbyHawks,
GIPPSLAND LEAGUE BYE
AGRADE: Cowwarr 52 dGormandale 36, Sale City58d TTU 45, Woodside 53 dYYN 29, Churchill 58 dYarram 30, Rosedale 48 d Glengarry43, BYE-Heyfield.
BGrade: Gormandale 57 dCowwarr 55, Sale City40d TTU 31, Woodside 55 dYYN 40, Yarram 37 dChurchill 36, Glengarry52d
Rosedale 42, BYE-Heyfield.
CGrade: Gormandale 41 dCowwarr 19, TTU 36 dSale City27, Woodside 38 dYNN
19,Churchill 40 dYarram 16,Glengarry38d
Rosedale 35, BYE-Heyfield.
DGrade: Cowwarr 39 dGormandale 31, Sale City31d TTU 26, YNN 30 dWoodside
27,Churchill 54 dYarram 15,Glengarry35d
seeingHannah Keane make her Championship debut in goalattack. Thechange was seamless, and Saints defenders were outclassed by the Hawks shooters.
Best on courtfor Hawks was Kaylia Stanton, Lauren Hucker and Kelsey Buxton in afinal score of 65-48tothe Hawks.
The best was saved for last as Division 1took to the court.
Once again, local talent lined the courts. Daisy Hill and Olivia Barnett for Hawks and Jordan Pyle lining up for Saints with Pyle and Hill eventually matching up against each other.
With Hawks second on theladder and Saints sitting sixth, it would be right to think the Hawks would easily account for their opposition, but someone forgot to tell the Saints that.
Hawks struggled to feed the ball to their goalers, with Saints defenders relentless with their pressure. Pyle playing in goal defence was delivering everything her coach was asking, making it very difficult for Hawks to get aflow on in attack.
The Hawks went into the first quarter break three goals down after some very accurate shooting from the Saints goalers.
Thesecond quarter had Saints still in front after winningit14-12, seeing Hawks down by five. The Hawks had achange in defence in the third quarter with another local girl in Moe's Olivia Barnett rested as aresult of an injury earlier in the week. Bothteamscontinued to pile on the goals, at times the match resemblingatennis game going from end-to-end, however the Hawksgot the upper hand adding 16 goals to the Saints' 12.
The tableswere turning but Saints were still in front at the final break thanks to agoal in the dying seconds.
The scoreat41-40 in Saintsfavourset up a spectacular last quarter, with both teams putting everything on the line.
Yet another local, Morwell's Hill,came outat goal attack for the Hawks, seeing her up against Pyle in goal defence, avery even match-up for the two local girls.
With the Hawks supporters on the edge of their seats, as both teams went goal-for-goal, they erupted in cheers with aroundone minutetogo in the final quarter when Hawks wingdefence Kaila Swindell took asuperb intercept which Hill took advantage of, scoring what would be the winning goal.
Winner: Morwell’sDaisyHill scoredthe winning goal forthe HawksinVNL action in Traralgon at the weekend Photograph supplied
The Hawks pulled off astunningcome-frombehind win and having the only lead for the match when it mattered most, winning an absolute nail-biter 56-55.
Rosedale 23, BYE-Heyfield.
17 and Under: Gormandale 26 dCowwarr 14, Sale City32d TTU 23, Woodside 41 dYYN
13,Churchill 32 dYarram 19,Rosedale 41 d
Glengarry19, BYE-Heyfield.
15 and Under: Gormandale 17 dCowwarr
15,Sale City26d
Foster 11,Tarwin 32 dStony Creek 25, Fish Creek 45 dHill End 17,MDU 47 dThorpdale 7, BYE-Mirboo North.
and Under: Boolarra41dMorwell East 31, MDU dNewborough 10,Toora54d Tarwin 12, BYE- Yinnar,Stony Creek. 15 and Under: Yinnar 48 dMorwell East 15,Boolarra49d Toora18, Foster 31 d Newborough 20, StonyCreek 21 dTarwin
Hill End 34 dFish Creek 23, BYE-MDU, Mirboo North. 13 and Under: Toora19d Boolarra16, Newborough 25 dFoster 13,HillEnd 15 dFish Creek 5, BYE- Yinnar,Tarwin, MDU,Mirboo North.
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JUST when you thought the twists and turns would end, they becameever-present once again after Round 12 of the North Gippsland Football-Netball season.
Although the overall ladder didn’t change much, thoughts would have.
YARRAM are not done with yet.
The Demons might sit sixth and currently out of the finals, but they made astatement at the weekend, dismantling ahot favourite.
Despite their recent form not being the greatest,Yarram has foundaway to bring themselves back into contention with backto-back wins.
TTU: GSinclair 3RJacobsen 3R Richards 2JAitken 2B White2CParker2 BCatlin 2 TMudita TBusch TFrancis.SaleCity: DetailsN/A. BEST: TTU: JSavige DWilliams TMudita G
TBusch RRichards.SaleCity: JClarkeBPedder MSack ALambie LMooney LPfeiffer CHURCHILL 5.2 9.5 11.6 18.9 (117)
(29)
YARRAM 1.1
GOALS: Churchill: THayes4 LHecker3JAnsworth2NLaing 2Hvan Rossum 2C BoyceL
Brereton MClam PKhamphawa BKokshoorn. Yarram: JBabb 2HEdwards SHarvey. BEST:
Churchill: Hvan Rossum THayesPKhamphawa BMogfordLBrereton. Yarram: JBabb L
Nuttall MClearyL Treller RSykes SBrown U18THIRDS
COWWARR 4.4 7.8 9.11 9.15 (69)
GORMANDALE 0.1 2.3 2.4 5.6 (36)
GOALS: Cowwarr:Details N/A. Gormandale: LLigthartKCaldwell TKanara. BEST: Cowwarr
CLappin BEenjes RWhiteJDavison BFelmingham CBass.Gormandale: BForrest CBatson B
Jones TReynolds KWhitney JSalerno
GLENGARRY3.2 6.4 10.8 10.9 (69)
ROSEDALE 2.0 4.1 6.3
Glengarry: JHodges 4LReidy 2KRowleyM VelascoL Taylor NLeslie.Rosedale: L
WORKING HARD FOR YOUR COMMUNITY
They welcomed Churchill into town and did not make life easy for their rivals, always showing up for this contest.
Yarram did everything they couldtoslow down the footy, and make the most of their opportunities going forward by putting something on the scoreboard.
TheDemons tooka 2.4 (16) to 1.3 (9)lead into thefirst break, causing alarm bells to go off in the Cougars camp.
It was only aseven-pointmargin,but things were not going to plan for Churchill, who hoped the tide wouldchangeinthe coming quarters.
Butthe second quarter was much the same, the Demons continued to congest the play, not allowing the Cougars to get the game on their terms,taking aseven-point lead into the main break.
Yarram could have really punishedthe Cougars in the third term, but they were let off the hook.
Having seven scoring shots to three within aquarter in atight game could andshould have put the game to bed right there.
Yarram kicked 1.7 (13) to 0.3 (3), helpful, yet their lead remainedat16points, meaning the game was still wide open.
Churchill had their best chance of the game to get back into it, when the Demons had a player sent off, giving Churchill 15 minutes against one-less player which carried over into the final term.
Alas, it was Yarram’s day as they finished offChurchill in style, kicking 5.2 (32) to 1.3 (9)inthe final term to keep their finals hopes aliveina39-point win, 10.15 (75) to 4.12 (36).
Liam Bentley was best for the home side, andwas supportedbyDaniel Vardy, Dylan Garnham,Thomas Sheedy,Anthony Scott and Thomas Mattern.
For the Cougars, Andy Phelanwas prominent once again, as was Jack Hasell, Pat Kearns, Ben Skinner, Bailey Flanigan and Kurt Holt.
Yarram will want to keep their run going when they travel to Yallourn North this weekend, while Churchill will hope to get some big namesback on the park as soon as possible. WATCH out for Woodside.
This weekend is shaping up to be one of the mostepic first versus second battles, after Woodside madelight work of the visiting Yallourn Yallourn North.
Despitethe conditions at Woodside, scoring wasfree-flowing compared to what was seen in other games.
Woodsidetookatwo-point lead into quarter time, as either team scored three goals in an entertaining quarter of football.
But it didn’t take the Wildcats longtoget into their groove, as they stormed away, kicking
5.2(32)totwo behinds, restoring amassive lead that they’re so used to. By three quarter time, the game was put to bed, witheverything lyingonWoodside’s terms.
Amonster seven-goal to two third term just blew the game wide open, as the Wildcats registered atriple-figure score, taking alead of 65 points into the final quarter.
YYN weren’t going to go away easy which was pleasing to see, winning the final term and kicking twice as many goals to see the game out.
Woodside claimed the four points in a 52-point win, 17.11 (113) to 9.7 (61).
In the best forthe winning Wildcats were Rowan Missen, Thomas Mann, Michael and Lee Stockdale, Joh Fytheand Adam Janssen.
Jai Massese was best on for YYN, while other stand-outs were Josh Keyhoe, Lachlan Little, Barrie Burnett, Matt Twaddle and Anthony Young.
Woodside now set up amassive home game against league-leaders Traralgon Tyers United this weekend, with favouritism for the flag most definitely on the line.
As for YYN, things mightn’t be as calm, with themselvesinfourth they have percentage on their side, but Heyfield (fifth and agame in hand) and Yarram (sixth) sit on the same points as them.
The race for finals has everyright to go down to the wire.
ELEVEN straight.
Traralgon Tyers United have merely hit a bump in the road this season, after winning their eleventh game in arow this year.
The Bombers openedtheir doors to Sale City, who arrivedknowing that anything less than awin could havetheir finalschancestaken away from them.
TTU got off to ahot start, and in hindsight, they would have had Sale City covered on the scoreboard earlyinto the first quarter.
A47-point buffer separated the two sides at quarter time, thanks to seven goals to the home side while keeping the Bulldogs to a singular point.
The Bombers powered through the next 30 minutes, adding another 4.2 (26), while keeping the visitor’stojust the one scoring ashot-amajor.
The Bulldogs were held to one scoring shot once again,adding another point, butthis time in atightly-contestedquarter,with TTU only able to add1.3 (9).
But acomeback looked unlikelyhere, as the Bombers were up by 75 points with aquarter to play, they would’ve wanted to finish with abang.
Which is exactly what they did, booting 6.2 (38) to 1.2 (8), to remain on top of the ladder afterwinningby105-points,18.13(121) to 2.4 (16).
Rohan Hildebrandwas astandout for TTU, as was Frazar Brouns, Oscar Aliotta, Beau White, Jake Cashmore and Brad Kelleherwho top scored with five majors. For Sale City,Blake Safstrom,Jaxsyn Whitehill, Jai Nelson, BillyQuirk, Brysen Nottle and Matthew Walker did agood job.
TTU will be keen for atestthis weekend, something that they haverarelyhad this season, when they travel to Woodside for an all-important fixturethat could shape the rest of the season.
Meanwhile, Sale Citycould put their season back on track when they host Gormandale this weekend, they have more winnable games than not in their run into finals.
COWWARR recorded their first win since April. The Saints survived asee-sawing match against Gormandale, which could have gone either way at the Boneyard. Essentially thiswas Gormandale’s last realistic chance to get awin this season, yet anything remains possible with six rounds to go.
The Tigers started strong, taking aone-goal lead into quarter time, changing the pace of the game that Cowwarr controlled so much in their Round 1encounter
The Saintsdid regain some control before halftime however, with sixscoring shots to one, taking anine-point lead into the main break, but things were not done with yet. Gormandale smackedback, kicking3.3 (21) to two behinds, takinga10-pointleadinto three quarter time, setting up ablockbuster final term.
Just when it looked like the Tigers could pull off amiraculous win, Cowwarr denied them. At what wasseemingly the scoring end, Cowwarr had aplethora of chances to ice the game, kicking 3.6 (24) to no score in the final term, getting home by 14 points, 6.15 (51) to 5.7 (37).
Brayden Rioli was best-on-ground for Cowwarr, and he was supported by captains Ben Coffey and Kyle Stamers, Mathew Leicester, Luke Hegarty and Jake Brown. Despite the loss, vice-captains Isaac Copland and Liam Deering led from the front, scoring three of Gormandale’s five goals.
Tristan Salerno was the most prominent Tigers player afield, in thebestalso were Ray Heywood, Copland, Wynn Harvey, Ben Heath and Flynn Roscoe.
The win pushes Cowwarrupthe ladder into ninth, meanwhile Gormandale look all but certain to pick up the wooden spoon in 2023. ROSEDALE ran over the top of Glengarry.
The Blues wouldhave prided themselves over this finish, which saw them start poorly and walk away with the four points.
Glengarry took atwo-goal lead into the first break, settingupthe next quarter nicely while keeping Rosedale to just three behinds.
It was much closer in the second term, but thanks to their lead, Glengarry held onto atwo-goal margin (or thereabouts) at the halftime siren, 6.3 (39) to 4.4 (28).
Rosedale bit back in the third term, squaring things up with aquarter to go by kicking 3.2 (20) to 1.3 (9).
And all of asudden, this game was there to be won.
Rosedale took full advantage of this, kicking 2.2 (14) in the final term, completely icing out Glengarry, holdingthem scoreless to win by 14 points in an entertaining come-from-behind victory.
Thomas Northe wasbest on for the winning side, whileLuke Stockey, BaileyReid, Hayden Bell, Spencer Fox and Declan Barnett all had days to remember
As for the Magpies, JesseLee, Callum Mitchell,Lachlan Jewell, DeclanMassaro, Matt Scholtesand Cassidy Bartleywere standouts in the loss.
With this game having no real effecton finals, therewas nothing to lose for either team, but they can make things difficult for those making finalsrunsinthe coming weeks. Rosedale host Churchill this weekend, who are in abit of arough patch, while Glengarry travel to Heyfield who will be fresh off of the bye.
HEYFIELD had the bye.
THE memories are all that's left.
Members of the Devon-Welshpool-Won WronWoodside Football-Netball Club's 2003 senior premiershipgathered recentlytocelebrate their 20-year reunion.
Just as DWWWW had welcomed players from across Gippsland when it was formedinthe mid-1990s, those who were there in 2003 came from across the state, and even the country, for the reunion at Woodside RecreationReserveon Saturday, June 17.
While holding areunioninWoodside might have technically been out of placegivenDWWWW's home ground is in Alberton West, it was perhaps fitting for ateam known as the Allies.
The Allies brought together the four clubs mentioned in its acronym in 1996, which in turn was afollow-up to the merger between Devon and Welshpool (whohad mergedin1994) andWon Wron and Woodside, who did likewise some years earlier.
By 2002, the Allies had already won two Alberton Football-Netball League flags, and added athird when they defeated Fish Creek by eight points to take the 2003 title.
CurrentWoodsideDistrict Football-Netball Club president Ash Walpole was listed in the best forthe Allies on Grand Final day, and has vivid memories of apackedcrowd in attendance at the Foster Showgrounds.
"It was 10-deep the whole ground, there was an incredible crowd there. Not sure if it was arecord crowd but there was amassivecrowd," he recalled.
"Fish Creek hadwon the lastthree premierships, and they hadn't lost agame for the year, so they were probably just ripe to be beaten on that day.
"It was just aperfect day for us, being ablustery sort of day, the ball was on the groundalot,itdidn't suit their blokes.
"It's only amemory now, 20 years on, we are all retired now, it's nice to have something like apremiership to have areason to come back together."
Walpole had played in the Allies flags of 1998 and 1999, but witharunner-up finishin2000, and consecutiveearly-finalsexitsoverthe next two seasons, it appeared time was running out to add athird flag to the collection.
The Allies secured favourite son Anthony 'Macca' Banik to come back and coach in 2002, as the club set about having one last tilt in any such premiership window.
Banik had coached Sale in the major Gippsland League for two seasonsfrom 2000 to 2001, following his AFL days with Richmond after he was taken at number one in the 1989 AFL draft.
The Allies appointment completed afull circle
for Banik, as it had been for Won Wron-Woodside where he made his senior debutasa mere 14-year-old.
As 2003 unfolded, an Allies flag looked agenuine possibility after the team strung nine consecutive wins together during the home-and-away season, prompting headlines such as 'DWWWW Do What Winners Want Whenever'.
However, as good as the Allies might have been, the Kangaroos appeared just that little bit better. FishCreekdefeated DWWWW by 59 pointsduring the season, and again by 20 points in the second semi-final.
Victorytothe Kangaroos in the second-semi meant they went straight to the big dance. Yet, as is often the case at country level, Banik believed his sidebenefittedfromplaying uninterrupted football during the finals series.
"We'd been one of the strongerteams of the comp that year, but we went to Fish Creek and got beaten by 10 goals," he said.
"We came away thinking 'okay, how are we going to turn this around?' Ithink we proved it in the second semi-finalwhenweplayed them at Yarram, we were 20 points up at threequartertimeand ended up going down by 20 points in the end, but we knew we were there abouts.
"I think the extra footy that we played actually helped us. Ithink Fish Creek would be testament to the same thing, they only played one game in 21 days, and we were actually footy-hardened."
The Allies easily accounted for Dalyston in the preliminary final to set up adecider between the two best teams of the 2003 season.
DWWWW ran out on Grand Final day through a banner reading 'DWWWW for Kiwi 2003', in tribute to club stalwart Jeff Kee who was battling illness.
With no AFL finals in Melbourne on the day, peopleturnedout in droves to witness the fight for Alberton football supremacy.
Those in attendance saw two great sidesdobattle, at atimewhenthe AFNL was generally regarded as the best league in Gippsland outside the major league.
By 2003, the AFNL had established itself as astrong12-team competition, following amajor expansion in 1996 after the Bass Valley-Wonthaggi league wound up.
Given the reputation of the oldBassValley league, known colloquially as 'Bash Valley', one could draw accurate parallels as to the type of football being played.
Banik ran with the underdog theme during Grand Final week, and while his side might have lost to Fish Creek in all matches leading up to the big day, the Allies won when it mattered most.
"The day itself with the weather, the wind, was conducive to contestedfootball, and we were ready to go. They were probably alittle bit flat, and we
had afew guys that were pretty hungry for a premiership," he said.
"It was tight all the way through. Neither side could really take advantage of the wind,wekicked with the wind in the first quarter and Ithink we kicked 3.6 (24), they were more-or-less the same, it was pretty tight at halftime. We didn't have an ascendency at three quarter time, and we just defended and hungoninthe end, it was just a real slog."
In agame where no less than 10 points separated the sides at any of the breaks, DWWWW were the ones that had their noses in front at the final siren, 13.14 (92) to 12.12 (84).
Premiership celebrations went from Saturday night in the Alberton West Recreation Reserve social rooms, and carried through to the following Wednesday.
In keeping with tradition, those at the Allies reunion headed to their old stomping ground, The Victoria HotelinAlberton (The'Albo'), following formalitiesinWoodside.
The 2003 flag was Banik'slastsenior game of football.Hehad battled withchronicfatigue during his five years at Richmond from 1990 to 1994, but did win abest-and-fairest for Tigers' reserves in hisfinal year.
From there,hemoved to South Australia,playing for West Adelaide in the SANFL, where he won two best-and-fairestsbefore returning to Gippsland to coach Sale.
Amazingly, the Alliespremiership meanthis seniorfootballcareer was bookended with the same club 16 years apart -retiring at age 30 after debuting at 14. It alsoaddedtothe four junior flags he'd won at the 'three W's' -Won Wron-Woodside.
As the Allies were enjoying asea of euphoria in 2003, it is unlikely anyonecouldhaveforeseen what was to unravel just four years later.
What followedwas acomplex story of ownership andchanging demographics.
While those gathered at the reunion had a premiership to remember -there was no premiership cup to be seen.
That's because the 2003 premiership cup, along with all those won by the Allies, are still stored at Alberton West.
DWWWW backed up their premiership by playing finals again in 2004, and made it to consecutive preliminary finals over the next two years.
However, in adramatic situation, the mostly Won Wron-Woodsidesection of DWWWW, tired of travelling to places such as Philip Island in what had become an even bigger AFNL by 2007, advocated for amove out of Alberton and into the North Gippsland Football-Netball League.
Another section of the club relented, and in an extraordinary move, part of the Allies broke away to form the Woodside that currently competes in the NGFNL (as Woodside and District Wildcats).
In essence, the club that had originallybeen formed by merging two clubs -demerged.
When asked aboutthe split, Banik, who was president of DWWWW in 2007, and became the inaugural president of Woodside District the following year, said it was an unfortunate episode.
"I took overasenior role at the club (DWWWW), wentfromcoaching to being vice president and president, (and)saw avisionfor the clubtolook at opportunities in other leagues and move north (to the NGFNL)," he said.
"Unfortunately as awhole we didn't move as a group, and the Allies stayed as an entity in the Alberton footy league, and Woodside was more-orlessreborn, and we went to North Gippy, and here we are some 15 years later going along quite nicely."
Giventhe population of the Yarram region,to have the Allies and Wildcatsbothtryingtofield senior, reserve and junior football and netball teams,aswell as Yarram FNC themselves, meant between three clubs in such asmall area, there was always ahigh possibility one was eventually going to fall over.
Unfortunately for the Allies, they were the club to do so. DWWWW went into recess in 2014, before making abrief comeback, only to go back into recess again in 2018.
While they haven't officiallyfolded,the Allies haven't put ateam on the park since, and in all likelihood, probably never will again.
As an organisation taking in four clubs and a catchment of around 50 kilometres across two municipalities, DWWWW faced someunique challenges, including the use of multiple facilities.
The club,whichbecame known as the 'four wheel drives', hadtwo presidents from its firstseason in 1997 until the premiership year of 2003, one representing the Devon-Welshpool component, and the other, Won Wron-Woodside.
Banik,often in the hot seat, said there was ahost of challenges to work through.
"It was always hard. Iwas coach of the club and we had apresident from one side and apresident from the otherside.Ialways felttorn in between," he said.
"To look back, I'll be very honest, it probably wasn't aharmonious amalgamation initially, because both entities were looking after themselves and both entities were going backwards as far as facilities.
"Alberton West was going backwards, there was no money, you couldn'tsustaintwo football grounds, Woodside wasgoing backwards,we neededimprovements here, we as an Alberton West entity neededimprovements out there as well.
"Financially, people, resources it was going to come to ahead at some stage, it was just at my time, and I, along with alot of others, thought it was best to go north, and it didn't happen as a whole, which is unfortunate.
"But, is there vindication in the idea that we go to North Gippsland? Maybe, maybe not.
"Woodside is going along nicely for the moment, but football in general is achanging environment
"I've been out of the system for five years. I'm in Queensland now, this is not my environment, who knows what the futureisgoingforward,but the main thingisthe kids of the area have got things to do, they have places to play football and netball.
"I know people are very passionate about their regions and their history, sometimes you have to put that asidefor the betterment of the actual game."
Likethe JudgementofKing Solomon, there is still someconjecture overwhetherornot premierships won by DWWWW can be counted as 'Woodside' flags.
Regardless of viewpoint, if the reunion was anything to go by, 2003 was every bit aWoodside premiership -only three players from the team were not in attendance.
Photos of all DWWWW premierships take pride of place on the wall at Woodside Recreation Reserve, as does the honour board detailing the club's history.
Walpole was hopefulthe Woodside of todaygave theAllies the chance to live on in some form.
"Thereisalwaysa bit of Allies in Woodside because of the connection there, the 10 years that Woodside was part of that club," he said.
"(I've) stillgot areasontocelebrate the three premierships thatIplayedatthe Allies, so it's good times. The boys are still here and we are all good mates together that's what it's all about."
With 2003 the last time any team carrying the nameWoodside won aseniorpremiership, and with the Wildcats currently second on the NGFNL ladder, both Walpole and Banik said they would lovenothingmore than to seeaWoodside flag this season.
"Hopefully in 10 year's time we can have a30 year Allies and a10-year Woodside (premiership reunion)," Walpole said.
"They can forget about us and move on," Banik said laughing.
"Would love it, would be agreat thing."
KIDS are honestly wizards with technology these days.
Wonthaggi Football-Netball ClubyoungsterSethMcBeanisgaining quitethe online following.
His game day vlogs documenting his season playing for the Powerhave amassed closeto 400 subscribers on YouTube.
What started as motivation to get stuck into football preseason quickly led Seth to also decide to enter the worldofcontent creation
"Watchingall of the footyYouTubers, Christian Petracca on TikTok influenced me, just gave me the drive to work hard and go foritthisseason," Seth said.
"I've always been into the idea of doing it (vlogging), so since about 2021 I've been into that kind of thing and started doing it this year."
Atypical game day vlog will show Seth, who plays for Wonthaggi fourths, take viewers behind-the-scenes into his game day preparation, all the way through to the postgame analysis.
Apart from in-game footage shot by afixed camera, all other footage is simply shot on his phone.
Not only that, the 14-year-old edits all the footage -again just using his phone. Working under the name 'Sethro29'on YouTube, in reference to his guernsey
number for Wonthaggi, Seth said his teammates,coaches, and even opposition players had been receptive to the videos.
"They(teammates) like to have fun with it sometimes, Idocop alittle bit but it's not too bad," he said.
"They'repretty on board withitall,they love to get in (thevideo) every now and again
"I do get afew comments here and there (on field), some people like to give me ago for it, but others like to make it ajoke and have some fun with it.
"The Maffra boys, the first time we played them they were giving it to me but after the game it was all good."
The vlogshavebecome so popular, Seth has even gained acultfollowing, posing for photos with opposition players after games.
The youngster has received good support frommum Karli, who is also assists as game day photographer, and dad Justin.
Seth said he was keen to keep publishing his vlogs, and with Wonthaggi being one of the clubs required to do the most travel in the Gippsland League, he should have no shortage of content.
"It's rising slowly, just going to keep doing what I'm doing," he said.
"It's not the greatest season (Seth's team has managed two wins so far)but we've played pretty well (inpatches).Weare a new up-and-coming team this year, it's good to see we are slowly improving."
While somemight wonder if theadded social media only leads to distraction, Seth
Taking off: Wonthaggijunior footballer
Seth McBean has been posting game dayvlogscharting his team’s season.
said his coaches and teammates saw the positive benefits the videos brought to the group.
The benefits extrapolate far beyond the early morning start times of junior football, as Seth explained the buddy system in place at Wonthaggi FNC.
"It's pretty cool how we are doing it this year, down at the club we've partnered-up with someofthe seniors and they'relike buddies, they will mentor us through the whole season," he said
"I've got my buddy on Snapchat, Lachie Jones."
PLAYERS and officials across the Gippsland Leaguewould have no doubt enjoyedthe chance to have abreak last week.
The Gippsland League fixture this season should act as agood model in howtostructure a season.
With two league-widebyes every five weeks after Easter, as well as asplit round in another four/five weeks, the risk of player and officialburnout is severely lowered.
Athree/two week run into finals should also give those clubs looking to join in the post-regular season motivation to have one last push, while for those battling the remaining weeks out, it at least gives them an extra week to maybe get some players back and save face.
Atraditional18-straight week season canreally drag on.
AFEW results across the weekend havecertainly shakenthings up in their respective leagues.
Who sawYarram beating Churchill in North Gippy? Or MorwellEastrolling Yinnar in Mid Gippy?
Granteditcan be easy to draw conclusions at the halfway mark of aseason,nothing should be consideredaformality while thereisstill games left and things remain mathematically possible.
On the weekend, Icovered an event regarding Moe United SoccerClub's2013league championship in Latrobe Valley Soccer.
Moe was essentially three games off top spot with three games to play and given little to no chance. However, they ended up winning the leagueafter a number of results fell their way. Finals often throw up curveballs, and there has been enough upsets throughoutthe course of history that will keep the frontrunners worried.
Awet day in afinal or external factors can make it an evenmoney game. The storyoffood poisoning going througha North Gippsland club on the eve of afinaljust last year did the rounds on the bush telegraph.
IT seems every secondperson was trying to get Taylor Swift tickets last week. The sheer volumeofpeople trying to get tickets made getting to the AFL Grand Final look easy. Ticket agencies reportedrecord demand, while those trying their luck online were one of four million people bidding for aseat. As alicenced ticket agency, Morwell Newspowersaidthe line of people queuing up was the longest they had ever seen.
Does the Swift name have any connection to the area?
Well, Richmond premiership captain Fred Swift coached Morwellfrom1970to1972, and is said to have brought the Tiger’s theme song to the club. Yarram also hasthe Swift brothers, Jarryd and Josh.
Both played in Demon flags in 2018, and Josh kicked six goals in his 200th game for Yarram earlier in the season.
He also spent aseason with Yinnar in 2013, kicking 82 goals.
BEN Stokes isn't human. What an enthralling final day it was at Lord's.
The secondAshes Testfollowed the lead of the first, as the game came down to the wire.
In the end, Australiahung on to take a2-0 series lead, but not beforeStokes very nearly repeatedhis Headingleyheroics from 2019.
The England skipper smashed 155 to get his side within 43 runs of hauling in amammoth 371.
It was the highest score by a number six in afourth innings and most sixes in an Ashes innings (nine).
As theleft-hander was whacking sixes either side of lunch with the field spread, it evoked the story of Gamani Kumara doing likewise for Yarragon.
In the Warragul District Cricket Association semi-final of 2012/13, Yarragon was 7/187 in pursuit of 385.
Kumara ended up scoring 187 not out against aBunyip side featuring Tom Papley.
Although his sidelost, it is regarded as one of the greatest inningsinGippsland cricket history.
Bunyip had everyone back and Kumara kept finding the rope.
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5.30 Today. The latest in news, current affairs, sport,politics, entertainment, fashion, healthand lifestyle.
6.30 TheProject Alook at the day’snews and events.
7.30 MasterChef Australia. (PGal) Contestants vie for asemifinal spot.
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10.10 FBI: MostWanted. (Madv,R)
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9.30 Cycling. Tour de France. Stage10. Vulcania to Issoire. 167.5km hilly stage.FromFrance.
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7.30 Million Dollar Island. (PG) HostedbyAnt Middleton.
9.00 TheRookie (Mv) Nolan and the team investigate thedeath of asuspectinpolice custody
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7.30 Rush. Theracecontinues as three teams of everyday Aussies, deprived of sight and sound, are dropped into anew location.
8.45 To Be Advised.
9.30 Wimbledon Tennis Pre-Show. Pre-game coverage of Wimbledon tennis tournament,featuringreviews, previews, interviews, highlights, opinions and topicalstories, from the AllEngland Lawn Tennis andCroquet Club
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GRADE 3to6studentsatMorwell Central Primary School displayed all their wonderful work from an inquiry on wars, at arecent showcase for the whole school community.
The showcasebeganwithstudents singing some songsabout theRatsofTobruk, which were taught by John Turner.
Many parents and carers cametowatch this
moving eventinthe school’s performing artscentre
After this, visitors walked through the hubs to look at the wide variety of work students had done about World War 1and other wars. They wereable to ask questions of the students and learn about the particular topic they had researched. Students foundthis inquiry very interesting, and many had personal stories to tell about family members who were involved in war or affected by it.
GRADE 1and 2studentsfrom St Michael’s Primary School Traralgon set off on an excursion to explore Old Gippstown in Moe recently. Students participated in engaging activities such as playing old fashioned games, watching a blacksmith work, and visiting Sunny Creek School, where they gained asense of what it would have been like to attend school many years ago.
Some of the old fashioned games included bowling, horseshoe toss and quoits.
The interaction with the blacksmith included
ahammering demonstration and abrief history on the blacksmith trade as well as answering questions from students.
In the school, an interactive lesson was brought on by an Old Gippstown volunteer ‘teacher’ while the children were seated at the authentic wooden school desks with an exhibitionofthe old ink wells and writing slates kept at the school. This experience aligned with work students had been completing in history lessonsintheir classrooms.
CROSS’S Road in Traralgon is extremely narrow and dangerous.
About 11 months ago Ihad two very close calls when St Paul’s students were heading home.
The first, when two students decided to make a dash for the other side of Cross’s Rd before realising that my car was headingtowards them,whereupon they very quickly stopped on the white line. Cross’s Rd is not wide enough to stand on the white line when traffic is approaching from both directions and thiswas averyclosecall-the woman standing on the very edge of my side of the road and presumably their mother, gave everyindication that she was about to sprint onto the centre of Cross’s Rd.
Luckily, myself and the three cars coming towards me were all on or belowthe 40-kilometre speed limit, and they somehow managed to avoid arearend collision as the leadcar came to asudden stop. It was very close.
Ihad no car behindmeand Istopped and signalled for the studentstocompletecrossingthe road in front of me.
Lessthan 30 seconds later at the roundabout on Cross’s Rd and Grubb Avenue, awoman and a student did not see me and stepped onto the road before realising Iwas there, whereuponthey quickly stepped back. Most pedestrians are also unaware that cars have right of way at roundabouts.
Because of thesetwo incidents in aperiod of less than 30 seconds, Igot in touch with St Paul’s concerning aschool crossing, and was told they had previously made an application whichwas unsuccessful, however they wouldmakea new application as they now have 500 students.
Recently, Imadeenquiries concerning the results of their application and Iamvery disappointed to hear that Latrobe City says it does not have the budget. Nothing they can do, there is no money. Iwonder what pricethe city places on injury or worse, to astudent or parent.
When Iread about some of the projects and schemes that the city funds, Ijust shake my head and wonder if there really has to be atragedy before they take action.
Graeme O’Rourke TraralgonTHE Leader of the opposition, Peter Dutton is absolutely right when he asks relevant questions concerning the Voice.
Our nation’s leader, Anthony Albanese is sadly pathetic when he shouts down and insults anyone who darestoqueryany questionsabout the Voice.
Albo,and in particularLinda Burney, are now in bed together with issues such as early deaths, living conditions, alcoholabuse,drug abuse, mental health, etc. that are prevalent in Indigenous communities.
Apparently these issues are the fault of all other Australians.
Over many, many years Indigenous people and its government fundedcommittees,have beenhanded millions upon millions of dollars. If this obscene amount of money had been spent and distributed in the correct, moral and ethical manner, this country of ours wouldn’t be finding itself in this ridiculous situation of having to take avote on “where to next!”.
Shouldn’t we be asking where all this money has gone?
If it has been distributed in the correct way to the appropriate authorities and relevant committees, then why haven’t we seen significant improvement in the lives of Indigenous Australians?
What we are currently going through is ridiculous and shambolic.
Is the federalgovernment going to ask its taxpaying citizens to give more of their hard earned? Are we coming to apoint that we’ll live in acountry that will have all its names changed, continually having to say “sorry”, welcome to country, thanking elders past and present, etc? Are we going to have to begin paying for the land on which we already walk on? If Iwas to buy an acre of land on which to build ahome for example, am Igoing to have to go through all of the above? Iwould certainly not be going downthatpath or cowering in acorner fearing retribution!
Ihave been acitizen of Australia for almost 60 years. Iama92-year-oldpensioner and in the winter of my life. Ilive in aretirement village, Ipay rent and I’m coloured! Idon’t pander or subscribe to political correctness or the woke agenda. Ihave an opinion and have no qualms in voicing it.
We liveinademocratic country, the greatest country in the world. We are multicultural, liberated, generous to afault, adventurous, and most of all, we are free.
We can thank the ANZAC diggers for that. We are able to say what we thinkand that doesn’t and shouldn’t automatically class us or myself as racist.
Millions of like-minded Australians have had enough, the cup is full and it has spilled over.
The past has gone, it’s history. Let’s concentrate on the present and the future.
As far as the referendum goes, Iwill have no hesitation in voting no! As the title of this article states, enough is enough!
Roy Foenander Traralgon
ON our dog walks around the Moe Botanical Gardens and parts of Newborough, Ihave observed thestrange phenomena of plastic-bagged dog droppings left under trees.
Iwonder if there is an emerging folklore whereby certain trees are home to Compost Goblins who descend in the dead of night to drag the bags off to
secret underground processing facilities. More prosaically, perhapsthereisa need to insert anew clause into our bylaws.
Neil Hauxwell MoeTHE Australian Electoral Commission website (aec. gov.au/referendums/) comprehensively covers the practical issues relating to the Voice referendum.
It outlines how information will be distributed to Australians by the AEC once both Yes and No teams have agreed on their ‘pitch’ now the Parliamentary process has been completed.
In the meantime,boththe Yesand the No cases are being presented through their separate websites.
ABC Australian Story (Monday, June 26, 2023) availableonABC iView, features Professor Megan Davis, aconstitutionallawyer. ProfessorDavishas worked with many others for more than adecade to establish the opportunity to hold areferendum that will enshrine an Advisory Voice into our Constitution. Wellrespected journalist Kerry O’Brien, together with ThomasMayo,havewritten the ‘Voice to Parliament’ handbook.
Professor Fiona Stanley AC and Professor Marcia Langton AO, both contribute to this handbook. The book has an excellent frequently asked questions section. It also lists the members of the Referendum Working Group and the Referendum Engagement Group, as well as providing ahistory of events that has led to this point in history -the holding of areferendum.
Susan Casey, Jillian Carroll and Rosemary Dunworth (Latrobe Valley Express,Wednesday, June 21, 2023) belong to acommunitydiscussiongroupthatexaminesissues relating to our Constitution, its powers and its relationship to Parliament and the Executive Government.
It has explored issues such as the environment as well as the upcoming referendum.
Members of the group are gaining abetter understanding of how the Constitution acts as our Parliament’s rule book.Acomplicated exercise! The group understands the sky will not fall in with the success of aYES vote.
Again, Iask our Gippsland Federal Parliamentary representative to access the information Ihave recommended and be even-handed in his commentary.
Wendy CastlesTraralgon
SINCE2014, PremierDaniel Andrews andDeputy Premier Jacinta Allan have hit Victorianswith 49 neworincreased taxes.
In the new financial year, they will continue to
slam you with more increases.
The cost of living will rise further, with expenses such as paying rent top of mind for many Victorians Rents have swollen by 30 per cent since 2020, and Labor’s decision to again impose higher taxes and charges on property owners is puttingmore renters under more financial stress.
At the supermarket, the impactisobvious Families, on average, are being forced to spend $1565 more on groceries this year than last.
According to Foodbank Victoria, the demand for their services andresources currentlyoutstrips the demand during flooding, bushfires and the pandemic.
“This is the worst I’ve seen it in 15 years,” Foodbank Victoria’s chief executive David McNamara said recently.
Foodbank’sschool breakfastprogramwas increasedby40per cent across the past year, with 2.4 million extrameals deliveredtostudentsin need.
Labor has ignored calls from industry experts for asensible transition to renewables.
Instead of listening to advice, Labor’s leaders locked-up gas reserves, leaving Victorians without atransitionenergy source, and they succumbed to the Greens to prematurely shut down coal power generation.
As aresult, hardworking Victorians are paying skyrocketingpower bills that will go up by afurther 25 per cent after July 1.
Public transport expenses will be growing by 8.7 per cent, with Labor slyly increasing aday pass to $10 -with another rise scheduled for six months’ time.
It’s asad time for drivers, too, with car registrations increasing another $12.50 and licence renewals increasing by $3.40 ayear.
And don’tforget, Labor is cutting 4000 people from the public service, but hardworking Victorians are paying more tax to service Labor’s highly paid fat cats.
Labor continues to push more responsibility and shiftmore costs onto local councils to prop up a broken State Budget, leading to increased council rates of up to 3.5 per cent.
The Nationals were successful in implementing aparliamentary review into Labor’s cost shifting onto local councils, in acrucial step to bring rates down and ensure Victorians get value for money.
However, Victoriansare being punished by Laborsincompetence right now and, based on Anglicare Australia statistics, single parents fall $180 short every week and afamily of four only has $73 left after paying essential weekly expenses. With taxes and charges continuing to soar, it is obvious why Victorians can no longerafford life under Labor.
Peter Walsh Leader of The Nationals
By ZAIDAGLIBANOVIC
LATROBE Valleyresidents were not allowed to attendlastMonday’s Latrobe City Council’s June meetingasthe council hadopted to go online.
The council’sMonday, June meeting was conducted entirely online following adecision to prioritise orderly proceedings over public viewing.
Council released apress release that stated the decision to move the council meeting to an online format had been taken after careful consideration of the circumstances. It had been made to ensure the orderly conduct of council proceedings and to provide an environmentthat fosters respectful dialogue and effective decision-making.
This decision comes after awave of councils opted to go digital for public meetings due to security concerns. In February of this year, 100 people disrupted aYarra Ranges councilmeeting, which needed police to defuse the situation. The Yarra Ranges council banned public galleries from meetingsshortly after, and many other councilsfollowed suit. The council instead live streams meetings.
Latrobe City alleges that over the past months, there have been instances of disruptive behaviour by members of thepublic attending council meetings.
The council said that while they encourage community engagementand valuepublic participation, it was essential to maintain aconducive and respectful environment for all attendees,including councillors, council officers, and the community.
The online meeting is said to allow council business to proceed efficiently while upholdingthe principles of good governance.
LatrobeCity is notthe firstcouncil to optfor virtual meetings. Even the City of Greater Geelong in 2022 fought to have the option of staging virtual meetingstobepermanent, citing health and efficiency grounds.
The move is allowed under security provisionsin the Local Government Act 2020, which provides for ameeting to be open to the public by broadcasting the meeting live on the council’s internet site.
The arrangement to allow councillors to attend council meetingsvirtually wasput in place by the state government as part of the pandemic orders and ended on 1September last year. Many local municipalities were forcedtohave online meetings during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Latrobe City Councilsaysitremains committed to transparency and accessibility. It says live streaming of acouncil meeting is in accordance with council’sobligations underthe Act and council’s governance rules, and ensures that the community and stakeholderscan stay informed about council decisions and discussions.
Council’s governance rules stillallow for individuals to participate in council meetings virtually for those members of the public who wish to speak on aspecific agenda item.
In the press statement, Latrobe City Council said it was committed to engagingrespectfully with the community by creating an “inclusive and harmonious environment where everyone’s voice is heard”.
Cr David Clark,the former president of local government’s peakbody,the MunicipalAssociation
of Victoria,saidthere had been arise in disruptive public behaviour and civil unrest.
“This ongoing behaviouristhreatening and unpredictable, and it has no place in our communitiesand shouldn’t be acceptedatany level of government or board. Councils are right to take azero-tolerance approach, as the people most at risk are other community members who are in the gallery with the disruptive people,” he said.
“Closing galleries also does not remove the opportunity for public questions of the council, these are still available to residents, all be it in a slightly different manner (online).
“We expect any councilinthe situation of having to close their public gallery will regularly review this and seek to return to in-person galleries at council meetings as soon as it is safe to do so,” Cr Clark added.
Voices of the Valley president, Wendy Farmer, said the councilhad aduty to holdpublic meetings.
“The council have aduty to the community to hold public meetings and make them accessible to the public,” she said.
“To see emotions from the public galley is not a bad thing.Ithink it’s agood thing; we got to be able to understand how peopleinternally feel; by giving aclap or whatever; that’s what they’re passionate about; that’s not asecurity risk.”
Ms Farmer said the community behaved better than most elected federal members in parliament sittings
“Let’s compare it to watchingparliament behave; Ithink our communitybehave even better than our federal government when there’s asitting in the House,” shesaid.
The Voices of the Valley president warnedthat online meetings have the potential to isolatethe councilfrom the community.
“It really just cuts off so many people in our community, but it also cuts off connection in our community.
“By excluding the public fromthe gallery, it does not give access to the councillors because often councillors have the opportunity to go and speak to people when they are in the gallery and listen to concerns.
“It also separates the community. I’ve been in public meetingswhere I’ve learnt from other people about issues that Imight have never known.”
Ms Farmer also expressed concern over accessibility issues regarding online meetings.
“It could stop people from participating in council meetings because they don’twant to talk over Zoom. It’s too hard, and not everybody can access it, especially our older generations …you also have those who can’t afford it, that don’t even have acomputer.”
Councilsaid thatadecision to reopenthe public gallery would be reviewed in the coming months after the assessment of appropriate measures to enable respectful dialogue and effective decision-making.
Ms Farmer remains hopefulthat the council will “reconsider that type of thinking and embrace the engagement of the gallery”.
Details regarding the live stream and access to the online meeting will be provided on the council’s website at latrobecity.com.au and social media on facebook.com/LatrobeCity
WEDNESDAY26JULY,2023
Urgent action: Trafalgar residents are calling on moretobedone to help address flooding in the town Photograph supplied
TRAFALGAR resident Sharon Kanehas started an e-petition,hoping to address flooding in the township.
Stateopposition leader John Pesutto, as well as Member for Narracan WayneFarnham and Member for Gippsland South Danny O’Brien have all visited the area to see first-hand the situation that needs addressing.
Trafalgar is prone to flooding due to its lowlying location and proximity to nearby canals. Anumberofcanals have not been maintained for many years, and fears are the town will go underwater in the event of asevere weather event.
To sign the petition, head to parliament.vic. gov.au/view-sign-e-petitions-assembly
The petition number is 20230421 and is open until August 18, 2023.
INAUGURALchief executive of the State Electricity Commission, Chris Miller, was incorrectly quotedinlast week’sissue of the Express (‘Top SEC advisorsteps down’, Wednesday, June 28 2023).
The correct quote is: “We knowthat gettingto 95 per cent renewables in Victoria will require alarge uptick in buildrates for variable generation and especially for storage.” The Express apologies for any inconvenience this mayhavecaused.
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LATROBE City Councillor and former Mayor, Sharon Gibson will resume her listening posts next month.
Cr Gibson would like to hear from the community about any concerns or questionsthey have regarding the West Ward municipality.
Cr Gibson has typicallyheldlistening posts on the first and second Monday of each month, andisplanning to get these back up and running following surgery.
Listeningpostsare scheduled for Monday,August 7atMoe Library, and Monday,August 14 at Moe/Newborough Rec Centre.
JULY will be abumper month for the Strzelecki Bushwalking Club, with many exciting activities on offerfor the outdoor enthusiast.
If you are thinking of getting in touch with the club, this is the time to give it atry!Agroup was led to the Ada Tree on Saturday. This is an iconic walk of around seven kilometres near Powell Town, well known for its large old Eucalyptus trees.
This Sunday, July 9, Martinwill be instructing members on map reading skills. This educational program is aimed at adding to ourmembers’ skills while out in the bush and will contribute to the confidenceand safety of members.
On, July 23, Rob will lead agroup to the Lady Vera Mine in the Walhalla area. This walk will require amoderate level of fitness and ability. The Strzelecki Bushwalking Club often lead walks within the Walhalla region and our leaders have extensive knowledge of the history within this area.
In July, the group will also have acouple of social opportunitiesfor members.
On, July12wewillhold our monthly club night in the Trafalgar Scout Hall beginningat7.30pm. Our guest speaker
with Liam Durkin
will by Jenny Wolswinkelwho is an expert on Eucalyptus trees within the Strzelecki Ranges. Visitors are welcome to attend and supper is provided.
On July 22, we will be holding our mid-winter dinner, which will give all members achancefor acatch up and chat on amore social level.
Further information is available on the website at sbwc.org.au, on our Facebook page, or by emailing publicity@sbwc.org.au
STEVE Ahern topped the field in Latrobe ValleyChess, winning all battles after an early loss.
Cliff Thornton forced awin and deserves honourable mention for club contributions.
Both Peter Bakker and Ian Hamilton fell short after starting well.
Ricky Sabrinskasisone of the new players showing interest.
PhoneCliffThornton on 0413 330 458 or Ian Hamilton on 5134 1971 for more information on local chess.
GET in touch with your creative side and impressyour family and friends by learning cake decorating.
There are three cakedecorating classes and asugar flowers class held weeklyatthe Traralgon Neighbourhood Learning House for afraction of the cost of aMelbourne workshop.
Frommakingcupcake toppers and abaseball cap cake hack for Father’s Day to aKoala cake, aFlamingo cake and even aMexican Lama Pinata cake,
there is something to suit everyone.
Discovereasy yet effective cake hacks, cute toppers and how to be creative with butter cream, ganache, and fondant.
The Tuesday night sugar flower class will be makinglifelike and beautiful Anemoneflowers andaccompanying greenery.
Day and evening cake decorating classes are available,sophone5174 6199for more informationand to register your interest in Term 3classes
NEXT general meeting of the society will be held on Tuesday, July 11 at 7.30pm at the Kath Teychenne Centre Breed Street Traralgon.
The launch of the society’s new website willbea feature of the evening Adrian Crawford, our technical guru, willgothroughthe new websiteexplaining the new links and search facilities that have been added.
Also, time allowing, Trevor Graham will give atalkonthe Graham family and their involvementinthe Greyhound industry.
Our 2024 calendar is at the printers at the moment and shouldbeready for purchase in late-August early-September 2024 from NewspowerGo Newsagency, SeymourStreet, Traralgon for $15.
The theme for the calendar is ‘Historical Houses’. Research into some of the houses has proven to be challenging, which has given the society some interesting new information.
The society has not received any updates on thefuture of the Old
Methodist Church in Traralgon. It was decided that we get in touch with Latrobe City Council requestingthat the society be kept informed on any decisions council makes in relation to thechurch.
AHIGH-FIVE and big shout out to Moe Rotary Club.
Over manymonths, members have worked diligently and skilfully to completely rebuild abarbecueshelter which looks amazing at the Moe Botanical Gardens.
In addition, there are newly-installed large barbecue facilities for use. The hours of work that has been put into this project is to be highly commended.
This addition to the gardens is certainly enhancing that area and when warmer weather is here, it will be well used.
After such ahugeeffort from Rotary members, Itrustthat the facility will be respected and appreciated by all Yourdedication and commitment to improving ourenvironment for social get togethers deserves praise.
Thank-youfor your energy, initiative and motivation to get the job done.
From, Valerie Hemmings
THE Planetary Meditation for Peace (also known as Twin Hearts Meditation) Be guided through asimple meditation that will relax your mind and body as well as invoking adeep sense of inner peace and contentment.
Experience stress relief,positiveemotions and mental clarity by using this meditation on aregular basis.
Note that this is aguidedmeditation and no prior experience is required.
After the meditation, you can experience afree Pranic Energy Healing
which can address both physical and emotional issues.
When:First Thursday of themonth (July6)10.30am to 12 noon.
Contact: Amanda (0411 051 044).
Location: 2Avondale Rd, Morwell.
Cost: $5 (Donation).
DESPITE the very cold days and nights over the last month, many of our orchid growers are spotting plenty of buds, forming on the native orchids and the cymbidiums showing good flower spikes.
There is even aflash of colour appearing among the greenery in the orchid houses.
We have been welcoming new members each month and it is great to see the enthusiasm for their own orchids and the opportunity for them to obtain some new plants.
Our popular vote awardwas won by Garry Evans for his beautiful cymbidium.
Membersbrought their problem orchids along for discussion, and others had the opportunity to hopefully learn more about the care of their plants. Members are encouraged to continue to ask questions when they are unsure.
Our next club meeting is on the second Thursday of the month (July 13) at the Traralgon Anglican Hall, 100 Grey Street commencing from 1.30pm. The July meeting will include our annual member auction.
All those attending are askedto bring along some items for the auction, including: Orchid plants, general plants and bulbs. Other items arealsovery welcome.
Beforethe auction, we willbeing having asouporbread sticklunch, supplied by the club, followed by the auction, which is always abit of fun.
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Later on, afternoon tea will be available. Attendees are requested to bring along asmall afternoon tea contribution to share.
Tea and coffee are supplied.
For further information, ring secretary Pat on 0407 741 621.
RESULTS for June 26, 27, 29.
Monday -1st Helen McAdam and Moira Hecker (69 per cent); 2nd Barbara Brabets and Anne Moloney (59).
Tuesday- N/S 1st Anna Field and Anne Howes (59.08); 2nd Ken Tierney and Anne denHouting (57.09), E/W 1st Moira Hecker and Helen McAdam (60.07); 2nd PeterLonie and Jan Williams (58.28).
Thursday -1st Helen McAdam and MoiraHecker (68.52); 2nd Barbara Barr and Phillip Goode (55.56).
If you would like to learn more or play bridge, pleasephoneour president, Greg Nicholson, on 0419 365 739.
NEXT meeting of the Traralgon Garden Club will be at 1pm on Tuesday, July 11 at theTraralgon Greyhound Club (GlenviewPark, McNairn Road, Traralgon).
Enter via the float entrance.
Topic is ‘bring your favouritepot plant’.
Membershipfees are due at this meeting.
LATROBE Valley Toastmasters can help you gain confidence and personal growth through public speaking.
We are open to everyone. There is no cost to visit our meeting; neither need for you to prepare anything. Just come along and have ataste!
We are alovely mix of members, including bright young people, professionals, migrants, and retirees.
Our meetings tend to be fun and fastpaced, and the size of our club means that it is agreat fitfor people who are keen to advance their skills quickly.
We have alot of opportunities to trynew rolesand deliver prepared speeches.Wealsohave some members who prefer to take it slow, which is fine -toastmasters is self-paced.
We meet everysecond and fourth Wednesday of the month (arrive at 7.15pm for a7.30pm start). The meeting lasts about an hour and ahalf.
We gatherat11/13 Breed Street, Traralgon at the Traralgon Neighbourhood Learning House.
You may find the front door is closed but walk through the alleyonthe right, you will find the door open next to the post box.
You can also join us on Zoom. Email us through latrobevalleyTM@gmail.com to get information.
LIONS Club of Moe are once again seeking nominations for the MoeNewborough Citizens of the Year Award which is presented on Australia Day.
There are two categories, one for Australia Day Young Citizen of the
Year for ages between 12 and 25, and Australia Day Citizen of the Year.
Both of these awards will be presented on Australia DayatHeritage Park, Moe.
All nominations must havecontributed and demonstrated outstanding service to theMoe-Newborough community in avoluntary capacity.
Closing datefor nominations is November 3, 2023
Please phone Lion Robert Sharrock on 0497 299 719 or Lion Allison Stewart on 0407 230 044 for any further informationorfor acopyofthe nominationform.
Email to LionBarbara Cameron at moelionsaustraliaday@outlook.com
GIPPSLAND FM presenters are leaving the studios to bring an afternoon of entertainment, fun and surprises to theMorwell RSL this Sunday, July 9 from 1pm.
Bringing you the greatestsongsof
Merle Haggard, Neil Diamond and ABBA, the best of the best of local talent has joined forces to perform these timeless classics.
There are severallocal performersand bands to check out as well, including Bryce Wright, The 350s and Destiny Oz, all in one venue.
Entry of $20 includes araffle ticket, (14 years-and-under are free).
Throughout the event, you will be able to get drinks at bar prices and meals in the Victoria Cross Bistro at the RSL. We recommend booking for your meal in advance.
If you are interested in attending our annual fundraiser, call Hilary on 0439 980 226.
MARYVALE Probus Club is set to celebrate its 30th birthday.
July 20 will be aspecial event in the history of the club.
Established in 1993, the club has provided ameeting, activity and social venue for the retired and semi-retired residents of the Latrobe Valley community, mostly central to the Morwell and Churchill areas.
Included in this general meeting in the Anzac room of the Morwell RSL, members and guests will enjoy entertainment from the Coal Creek Male Chorus. A30th birthdaycake willbe part of the morning tea break. Following the meeting will be abirthdaymenu lunch catered by the RSL club.
Aside from this celebrated day, most general meetings have aguest speaker who givesmembersaninsight into relative issues of retirees,and/or interesting topics of everyday life.
Visitors are most welcometothe member meetings to ascertain if Probus is asuitable extension of their retired or semi-retired life for the over 60s age group.
Phone Neil on 0439 562 221 for any further information.
THE Moe &District Historical Society (M&DHS) has put together adisplay of the history of Moe Library.
Thedisplay is showcasing at the Moe Library in George Street, and will be open to the public to view over the next threemonths.
The display providesahistory of Moe Library, whichbegan as part of the Moe Mechanics Institute (Mechanics Institutes began in Glasgow, Scotland in 1799 and spread across the British Empire) in 1884, through to the new library beingbuilt in George Street, Moe in 2017.
TAKING time to sit in silence can be ahighly-rewarding experience. Eliminating sounds from your environment can help you focus on anchoring yourself in the present moment and boost your awareness of what’s happening internally from amental, physical and emotional standpoint. The Moe Meditation Group is offering an opportunity to sitinsilence with our groupon the first and third Wednesdays of the month. We sit from 8.30am to 9.30am in the Narracan Hall at the Gippsland Heritage Park (Old Gippstown) Moe. Cost is $5 per session. Email clem@ asia.comorphone0427262 064 for more information.
GIPPSLAND Tango are afantastic group who attend classes in Yarragon every Wednesday night. The group also has asocial dance on the first Saturday of every month. We invite professional tutors to visit us on aregular basistoenhanceour learning and assistusindeveloping our dance further. This has seen dramatic results for each individual which is delightful to see, and to hear the positive feedback from all.
No experience needed
No partner needed
Two left feet dance well
All inclusive
Family friendly -children learn free or can sit and amuse themselves while one or both parents learn.
So bring your non-grip shoes (ie not sneakers etc) with you to dance in -leather or suedesole, or dance in socks- and begin your Tango journey having funwith us.
Wednesday evenings from 7pm to 8.30pm at St David’s Uniting Church Hall, 9Campbell St, Yarragon -sign out front of church.
For more information, phone Naomi on 0405 739 819.
MEMBERS are enjoying their warm and pleasant surroundings in the Moe Library, and are happy to welcome new and returning members.
Some membersare enjoyingaholiday and others have just returned from a well-earned break.
Meetings are on Thursdays every week from 9amuntil 3pm and up to three Fridays amonth from 9.30am until 2.20pm.
Meeting this Friday, July 7isfrom 9.30am until 1pm due to the room being booked from then onwards.
The publicare welcometocome in for achatwiththe artists.
All membership enquiries can be directed to secretary Peter McLaren on 0400 933 609 or president Beryl Galloway on 0407 271 686.
THIS month,artist brand AnnieSloan stockistsacross Australia are invitedto partner with not-for-profit charities and organisations in theirlocal community to paint -and then donate -furniture for them to use, pass on to those in need, or sell for fundraising.
When people donate unwanted furniture, the community organisations they donate to -including not-for-profits, charities,schools,kindergartens,sporting clubs and community groups -often end up with shabby furniture that is tired looking and sometimes unsafe.
Paint to Donate Australia solves that problem by working together to give new life (including afresh coat of paint!) to donated furniture.
By working with NFPsand other community organisations across the nation, Annie Sloan’s Paint to Donate initiative is asustainable, hands-on way to reduce the around 30,000 tonnes of furniture thatmakes its way to Australian landfill each year and get it to the NFPs that can really use it.
The Paint to Donate Australia month will culminate with finished painted pieces being handedover to NFPs, charitiesand community groups in need during KAB Week (Keep Australia Beautiful) from August 7-13.
KarolynMumford, from Rosedale stockist Garden Station, is taking part in the initiative
When Annie Sloan stockists register their interest, they’ll receive the Paint to Donate Australia toolkit to help brighten up their local community -one item of unwanted furniture at atime!
IF you are acommunity group andhave any news items you need publicised, feel free to email us at news@lvexpress. com.au
You can address the correspondence to Editor, Liam Durkin.
Please write ‘Community Corner’ in the subject line and nothing else.
Deadline is Friday 9am to appear in the following Wednesday issue.
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In this unique role you will deliver fun educational workshops for primary and secondary school children. This position is ideal for retired or part-time teachers, or for those looking to combine study or home commitments with work and have relevant education and/or experience. This role is project-based and offered on acasual basis. We are looking for applicants who are available for 8hours per week during school term 4of2023, with apotential of extension into 2024 and beyond.
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The Gunaikurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation (GLaWAC)represents the Traditional Owners of Gippsland, the Gunaikurnai people
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Applications are sought from appropriately qualified or experienced persons to join the Board of Trafalgar &District Financial Services Ltd (TDFS).
Apply your skills and experience by leading an organisation that is dedicated to providing exceptional banking services and is committed to returning profits to the local communities it serves.
TDFS is the franchisee of the Trafalgar &District Community Bank Branch and in partnership with Bendigo Bank has aproud history of delivering high quality financial products and services to the communities in the eastern district of the Baw Baw Shire.
As avoluntary Director on the Board of TDFS, your expertise and skills in the following areas will be highly regarded though not essential:
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It is equally important that applicants have akeen interest in and strong connection to their communities.
For further information, or to apply please contact Rosie Carroll at secretary@tdfs.com.au
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Major Projects Senior Manager –Economic Development
We’relooking for aMajor Projects Senior Manager to provide strategic leadership and planning to deliver amajor projects development program, with afocus on the renewable energy transition on Gunaikurnai Country.
Major Projects Project Manager –Economic Development
This role will provide strategic planning, reporting and administrative support to the cconomic development team to manage the deliveryofRenewable Energy industrytransition projects within Gippsland, delivering innovative and quality outcomes with ahigh level of communityfocus.
Commonwealth Games Program Lead
The Program Lead (Commonwealth Games) will provide leadership, support and advice to ensure Gunaikurnaicultureand aspirations areembedded into the planning and deliveryofthe Commonwealth Games 2026(Gippsland).
GLaWAC considersthat being of Aboriginal or TorresStrait Islander heritage is agenuine occupational requirement for this position.
Commonwealth Games Program Manager
We’relooking for aProgram Manager(Commonwealth Games) to provide program development, and lead community and stakeholder engagement,toachieve cultural, economic and socialoutcomes for the Gunaikurnaicommunityaspart of the 2026 Commonwealth Games (Gippsland)
Applications close: Wednesday,19th July, 2023
Formoreinformation, visit: www.gunaikurnai.orgorcontact Mardi Edwardson0421818 748.
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THEIR STORY
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ONE of Moe's greatest claims to fame is the dynamic college basketball star Jaz Shelley, who willreturntothe Nebraska Cornhuskers women’s basketball program for afifth and final season.
With an extra year of eligibility because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Shelley hadadecision to make.
The Australian native could have decided to pursue professional options, likely back home, or play one more year for the Huskers.
She chose the latter.
Shelley’smotivation to go back for one more yearofcollege basketballcomes fromafeeling of unfinished business and adrive to exceed expectations.
“I guess I’ve always kind of had that underdog feeling coming from Moe. We’re not always expected to do awhole lot,” the star basketballer said.
Starting her career at the Moe Meteors, she quickly moved into the Big Vand even captained her Under 16’s Victoria Country team.
By 2016, she moved to Canberra to train full-time at the Australian Institute of Sport.
In April 2017, Shelley led Victoria Country to it’s first Under 18 national title since 2000, recording 13 points and five rebounds in the final.
Shelley played with the Melbourne Boomers of the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL) for the 2018-19 season.
She was voted WNBL Rookie of the Year after assisting the Boomers to the playoffs.
Shewas named Basketball Victoria's Junior Female Athlete of the Year in 2018.
Shelleysignedwith the Geelong Supercats of the NBL1 for the 2019 season and led her club to arunner-up finish by averaging10.5points, 3.5 rebounds, and 2.7 assists per game.
“I’ve always liked the challenge; I’vemadea lot of Australian teamsasa doublebottom age and bottom agewhenIwasn’t expectedtoand stuff. Ithink growing up in those environments and challenging myself when the opportunities come,” she said.
Shelley was considered athree-star recruit and 28th-best point guardinthe 2019 high schoolclass by ESPN.
Colleges fought over Shelley, but she ultimately choseOregonover offers from Oregon State and Nebraska in October, 2018.
At Oregon,onDecember 16, 2019, she made her first career start after previously playing off the bench, Shelley scored acareer-high 32 points and set aprogram single-game record with 10 threepointers in an 84–41 win over UC Riverside. Her Oregon Duck’s team wereamong thefavourites to win the 2020NCAAtournament, whichwas cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
As asophomore, she averaged 4points, 1.9 assists and 1.7 rebounds per game.
In 2021,Shelley announcedthat she would transfer to Nebraska, and play in the Big 10 conference.
Moving from Oregon to Nebraska was a“hard process to do and an even harder decision to make,” Shelley said.
“Because I’m so far away from home,I definitely wanted somewhere that felt like ahome away from home, we had alot of players and coaches leave, so it didn’t feel like my place.
“I grew up with Izzy Bourne, she is another player on the Nebraska team, so Ipretty much got in contact with her and found Nebraska as my home.” Shelley has led the Huskersinpoints, assists, and steals in each of her two years for the Huskers.
The 5-foot-9 point guard started all 33 games for Nebraska this past season and is fresh off of averaging teamhighs of 14.5 points, 6.2 assists and 1.7 steals and 4.8 rebounds per game.
In her time at Lincoln, Shelley has also hit 154 3-pointers on over six attempts per game.
“My experience has been incredible; I’m really happy with my decision to go to college, and I’m alsohappyabout the decision to come backfor my fifth year; Ithink my team is really capable of something, so I’m excited about that,” said Shelley Head coach Amy Williams welcomed Shelley’s decisiontoreturnfor another year of college,as
Shelley hasbeen acornerstone of the teamfor the past twoyears
Shelleytransferred to Nebraska, where she has seen great success. She earned afirst-team All-Big 10 selection in 2023, the first player to do so under Williams at Nebraska. Shelley would have declared for the WNBA Draft if she hadn't decided to return to Nebraska. She also could have gone home to Australia and played professional basketball.
“Ourteam is hoping that our teamcan makethe NCAA tournament again, which is really hard to do, we did it two years ago, and we fell short of those goals last season, so that’s one of the big reasons why Iwanted to come back as well,” Shelley said.
The Huskers will look to returntothe success they enjoyed in Shelley’s first season in Lincoln. Aftermakingthe NCAA Tournamentin2022, the Huskers finished off this year's campaign 18-15, advancing to the Super 16 of the Women’s National Invitation Tournament (WNIT) before falling to Kansas 64-55.
On the court, Shelley wants to improve some parts of her game, such as scoring at the basket and shooting ahigher percentage on midrange shots. She’ll work on thatwhenshe returns to the United States on July 1.
“My biggest goal in lifeistoget drafted, and that will hopefully be after this year, so we’ll see what comes of that, and Iwant to come back and play WNBL and come back in Australia for however long. I’m just really excited to come back and play Australian basketball,”Shelley added.
One way Shelley’s decision differs from some other fifth-year players is that she doesn’t have the same opportunities as other top college players to earn NIL (Name, Image, Likeness) money due to her student visa. Shelley says Nebraska’s compliancedepartment continues to look into NIL opportunities for international athletes.
“Prettymuch I’m on astudent VISA so Ican’t be paid for any working experience, and NIL stands for Name, Imageand Likeness, and companies can paymetopromote their business or do aservice for their business or camps andselltheir merchandise, but Ican’t do that while I’m in the United States so Ihave acertain period of time when Icome back home to Australia where I’m open to all NIL activities,” she explained.
Shelley could sell merchandise with her name on it online during her time back home.
Havingadvocatedfor the rightsofInternational Students in collegebasketball, Shelley enjoys standing up for what she believes is right and uses her public platform to raise awareness.
“Since the NIL stuff happened, Ithink alot of internationals have looked at me as an advocate for all that, because Ihave aplatform. Ithink it’s important to be able to use it in positive ways,” she said.
“I think that came from when Iwas in Oregon, you know, the whole weight room incident, Iwas apartofthat, Iwas really closewith Sedona, who posted the TikTok about it, so Iwas there and lived that experience so Ithink alot of that came from that and how much you can really use your voice and platform to get the issue out there,” she said.
Oregon forward Sedona Prince posted avideo of the NCAA women's tournament weight room, which consisted of asingleset of dumbbells.
Thevideo then showed what she said was the men's tournament weight room, which was stocked with rows of weights and training equipment.
The videoattracted widespread outrageaspeople were shockedatthe inequality in women’scollege basketball.
The NCAA did apologise due to the widespread
backlash.
Shelley is asuperstar in Nebraska and many young children idolise her and the Huskers' team as their sporting heroes.
“We don’t haveany professionalsports in Nebraska so there’s alot of young kids that look up to our student-athletes, those little kids who play basketball look up to us and our basketball team. We’re kind of like the epitome of who they want to be,Ithink realising that,I’d do alot of work with those kids,” she said.
“We sold out agame, Ithink it was 12,500people at awomen’s basketball game; Ithink the support around it is real.
“We don’t have any pro sports teams, so we get fans and support for our games,” she explained.
The decision to stay at college for another year was hard for Shelley, who misses home soil but also wants to pursue aWNBAcareer.
“I only come home once ayear, so it’s definitely hard,” though going to the AIS before college, Shelleyhas gotten sort of accustomed to being away from home but does miss her family. As the hardestchallenge to get through in her college basketball experience for Shelley was “definitely being away from family,” she said.
Shelley loves coming home to supportlocaltalent and especially to watch her siblings play in NBL1, with an older brother in Ringwood’s teamand her younger brother playing for Mt Gambier.
Moe never forgets their most famous Meteor and always welcomes her back with open arms.
“When Iwent back, Ithink it was last year, seeing just how much the Moe girls still watch my games, and Ihad no idea that they would even know who Iwas.Itwas agood feeling,” she said.
Shelleywas super stoked to host her firstschool holidaytrainingcamp back in herhometown at Moe’s STADIUM 34’s new basketball training facility.
On the school holidays kids from as young as seven all the way to 18 had the opportunity to be taught arange of fundamentalbasketball skills by Nebraska’s best player.
Taking to twitter Jaz Shelley said, "I am thankful for all the youngkidswho showed up, you guys were awesome. Big thanks to Stadium34 for allowing me to use your incredible new facility."
“Being able to connect with them and stuff and realise how much of an impact Ihad on them made me want to go back and visit them and do those camps,” Shelley said.
If you would like to learnmore about STADIUM 34’s new facilities head to stadium34.com.au
THERE was ataleoftwo stories in the Big Vover the last fortnight, with gamesgoingeither way for the men and women’s Gippsland United sides.
GippslandUnited Womenmade it 15 wins straight at the weekend, dispatchingthe Redbacks by 21 points in Bundoora, then Coburg by three points at home.
They went large in the first and final periods of the game against Bundoora, maintaining their lead throughout the mid-section.
United stormed to aseven-point lead at the end of the first quarter, going up 28-21.
The tide shiftedslightly in the secondquarter, as the Redbacks managed to outscore the Gippsland side by three points, drawing the margin back to just four.
In atightly-contested third period, Gippy United was able to extend their lead, but ever so slightly, going up by six points with aquarter to play. This is when the party started, as United scored more than double the Redbacks’ score, scoring 28 points to 13 to see the game out as 21-point winners, 87-66.
MaKenzie Miller top-scored for Gippsland with 19 points, while other double-digit scorers were KrystalArnason (13), Alahna Arnason (13) and Lauren Tuplin (12).
Krystal Arnason and Tuplin led the way on the floor for providing assists with five each.
Macey McGlead was prominent off of the glass, collecting 10 rebounds,while Alahna Arnason collectedeight rebounds from the bench. Tuplin also managed six boards.
Against Coburg, things were much tighter, but it wasn't always that way.
Gippy United stormed to an eight-point lead at the end of the first, before growing that lead out to 17 points at halftime.
Things looked comfortable for the local women, before amonster 33-18 quarter from Coburg saw them trail by just two points with aquarter to play.
United was able to steady and reset, winning the final quarter by apoint to claim an 84-81 win.
Miller top-scored again with 20 points, claiming nine rebounds and five assists.
Joanna Watson scored 16 points, while Tuplin compiled 14 for herself, also with five assists.
The womenwouldbealmostcertain of promotion to Division 1, after making the Division 2season look like acakewalk so far.
With just four games to go in the home-and-away season, things look just about set for the women to lock in top spot.
ON the other hand, the men had tough challenges, taking one win from three games.
Despite getting close against top-of-the-table Shepparton, it wasn’t meant to be for the Gippsland side, as they fell at home by 11 points.
Just like the girls’ win, Shepparton dominated in the first and last quarter to see themselves through with the win.
Gippy United went six points downatthe end of the first period, before beginning to make a comeback in the second and third quarters.
They drew the deficit back to three points at halftime, then one point with aquarter to play
But in league-leading fashion, Shepparton was always going to be hard to beat,asthey strodeaway in the final term, 22-12,towin by 11 points, 78-67
Jordan Canovan led the way for Gippsland with 14 points,alsoclaiming eightrebounds and providing four assists.
The men then took on eighth-placed Coburg at home,again going down,this time by eightpoints.
Gippy Unitedled throughout the whole game up until the final quarter, leading by as much as eight points in the first quarter break, but Coburg outscoredthemby11points in the final quarter to stealthe win.
Ben Barlowled the scoringfor United with 16 points,withthree rebounds and two assists also to his name.
Canovan scored 15 of his own points and five boards.
Thenext day, the Gippy United men returned to thewinners' list with a79-56 win over Southern Peninsula.
To be fair, it was agame they should be winning, considering SP are still yet to win all season.
United won every quarter to continuetogrow their lead, going from five points, to 19 points, to 20, then finishing at 23 when time expired. Barlow was immenseonceagainwith 16 points andseven rebounds.
Jayden McMillin scored 12 himself, as did Kody Tibballs off the bench.
The men currently sit fourth on the ladder after 15 games, still with some games in hand on those above.
TENNIS
By TOM HAYESTHE Traralgon Tennis Associationhas held another successful event, hosting the Latrobe City Open and Junior Event from June 26 to 29. Around 100 people from Victoria and surrounds entered to compete, with everything coming to a close on Thursday, June 29 after plenty of rain and weather interruptions.
With school holidays in full swing, it was the perfect chance for as many peopleaspossible to give it ago, and hopefully come away with some wins under their belt.
And that was exactly the case, with 100 entrants
GOLF
CHURCHILL &MONASH
Saturday24/6/223– Monthly Medal
AGrade: T. Webb (9)8071–Medal
Winner BGrade: M. Harvey(19)9879
CGrade: W. Sutton(28) 10072
Scratch: T. Webb 80
Dtl: R. Welsh 72 B. Mathieson 72 G. Beyer
73 Mamun 73 A. West 74 C. Sterrick74D
Ellwood 75 C/B R. Vesty75C/B
Ntp: 3rd. J. Armstrong 12th R. Dent
Putts: G. Sanders27
Birdies: 3rd. D. ByersR.Vesty12th D.
Burridge
MIRBOONORTH
Thursday29th June,Stableford,
Daywinner: TWhitelaw(8) 35pts
DTL: SMcKenzie 33, MHeiberg29.
NTP: JRobbins 6th, GRenwick16th.
Birdies: GRenwick13th,
Saturday1st July.Stroke. &President
TrophyQualifier
AGrade: TBradshaw(11)70c/b
BGrade: NBickerton (19) 70
DTL: DTaylor 72, SMcKenzie,P
Cummaudo 75.
NTP: 4th RRobbins,6th BWells,13th T Bradshaw, 16th DTaylor.
Birdies: 4th SMills,13th TBradshaw, 16th
DTaylor.
across both the open and junior divisions. With fourdays of competition ahead, things were in full swing at the Traralgon Tennis Association. Some sour weather came and went throughout the tournament, but things werestill able to wrap up on time.
In the doubles competitions, divisions ranged from Under 12s in both the boys and girls, up to the open division in the men’s.
The boysUnder 12 doubles champions were Sam Huang and Eddie Lin. Under 14 champions were Masato Burgess and Navik Yahan, while the Under 16 champions were Ryan Delios and Toby Sugden.
For the girls, the Under 12 doubles champions were local CandiceBramwell andZara Felmingham,
President TrophyPlayOff: DTaylor v GRenwick, RMatthews vMHeiberg, MPayne vPDraper,J Smeriglio vP Cummaudo
MOE
Sunday, 25 June 2023 OPEN Sunday9
hole Stableford
Grade AWinners: Stewart, Leahann (30) 12
Sunday, 25 June 2023 OPEN Medley
Stableford
Grade AWinners: Langmaid, Trevor (17) 24
Thursday, 29 June 2023 OPEN Medley
Stableford
Grade AWinners: Beveridge,Eric(9) 35
Grade BWinners: Dyt, Ricky (15) 37
Grade CWinners: Keenan, Peter(18)37
c/b
Place Getters: Shearing,Andrew 37 c/b
Donaldson, Murray 35 c/b
Hall, Bill 35
Yeomans,Wayne 34 c/b
White, Darren 34
Pisa, John 33
Donnison, Terry32c/b
White, Lockie 32 c/b
Murphy, Enda 32 c/b
Great Score: Paul SpiteriGreat Score
(Birdie) @8
Nearest to Pin: 4th Graeme Wilson
8th Wayne Yeomans
14th Tony Johnson
WITH most hockey playerstaking abreak dueto the school holidays, 12 junior players represented Latrobe Valley, playing for the Gippsland Bulls in the Junior State Championship recently held at the Hockey Centre in Parkville and Footscray Hockey club. TheBulls teamisselected from players of the LatrobeValley,EastGippsland and WestGippsland Hockey Associations.The competitionsincludedboth metro and regional teams.
The Under12boys wererepresentedby Branigan Kitwood, who plays as agoalkeeper. Branigan wasnamed player of the match on Sunday. This team was coachedbylocal Jenna McLauchlan
Isla Godfrey, Lily Johnson, Sanne Schelfhout andIsabel were members of the Under 12 Girls team coached by Latrobe Valleys own Daniel Godfrey.Sanne Schelfhout received aplayer of thematch award.
The Under 14 boys team included Brady Cake, Aiden Muir, Jack Morley and Hayden Winters. They were coached by Latrobe Valley local Paul Cake.
LeandraMcLauchlan, Sophie Almondand
Represent: Latrobe Valley’sunder12hockey reps at the junior statechampionships
Photograph supplied
Kaela Kurzawa playedfor the Under16girls team. Leandra was the leading goal scorer for her team, scoringfourgoals over the tournament. Kaela was also on the goal scoring list.
All competitions resume games this week, with all teams playing at home in Churchill at the hockey centre, Federation University.
Junior games commence at 9.30 am, followed by VicLeaguematches from 12.30pm and the local competition at 3.30pm.
ATHLETICS
TRARALGON Harriers Athletics Clubpresident Phill Mayer has been nominated for an Athletics Australia award.
Mayer has been nominated for acommunity hero award, recognising the extraordinary individuals who form the bedrock of the sport.
The award celebrates the contributions of people behind the scenes of Australian athletics, and the exceptional individuals who go above andbeyond to uplift and inspire participants across the country.
Mayer was nominated due to hisdedication to Traralgon Harriers, helping to organise events such as the club's community fun run, which raises money for Rotary Centenary House and Lifeline, as well as the time-honoured Traralgon Marathon and Running Festival.
He has also helped financial support many runnerstoparticipate and travel in cross
and the Under 14/16, champions were Leah Delios and Stashia Mesibhera.
The men’s open doubles champions were Daniel Grubb and Daniel Pelosi, while the doubles match playchampions were Neil Behl and James Harman.
In the singles, local Paige Hosford was the girl’s Under 12 champion, while Leah Delios claimed another win in the Under 14/16 division.
Over in the boy’s division, Umer Syed took out the Under 12s, Aditya Thakur won the Under 14s and Harman picked up another win in the Under 16s, defeating local Heath Kamphuis. Grubb was crowned as the open division men’s final winner. The first seed was one of six number one seeds to win throughout the tournament.
Saturday, 01 July 2023 MEN’S Stroke-
Monthly Medal
Overall Winners: Lodge,Jamie (18) 72 C/B
Medal Winner Grade AWinners: Spiteri, Paul (8) 72 Grade BWinners: Lodge,Jamie (18) 72
C/B
Place Getters: Weir,Charles 72 C/B
Hibbs,Steven74 Wilson, Lee 75
White, Rodney76 Borg, Shannon 77
Gross Winner Lee Wilson 76
Great Score: Shannon Borg(Birdie) @14
Nearest to Pin: 4th Shannon Borg 14th Andrew Pickard
Steven Hibbs MysterySixes Prize Winner
MORWELL
Morwell Golf Club Women 28th June
2023 -Stableford Winner; DVuillermin 35 pts
DTL: CPeter 25 pts
NTP: 2nd NTePaa 8th DVuillermin 11th D Vuillermin 15th DVuillermin
TRAFALGAR
Today’sCompetition: 28/6.23 –Women’s
Stableford
We had ajoint daywithWomen from the Moe Golf Club.Some rain came towards the end of the daybut agood daywas had
country events, and that support is for all, whether the fastest or last finisher at events.
Submissions were received from each state and territory, with the finalists selected based on their impact on their local community.
Athletics Australia chief executive, Peter Bromley said he was thrilled with the calibre of nominations for this year’s award.
“We receivedanoverwhelming amount of nominationsfor the Chemist Warehouse Community Hero Award this year,withso many stories about individuals who selflessly dedicate their time, energy and passiontomake apositive difference in our sport,” he said.
“Itbecame very hardtochoosethese finalists but we believe those who have been cherrypickedtoday are exceptional and playa real role in inspiring members of our community across the country.”
The winner will be announced on Monday, July 24.
Traralgon Tennis Association manager and secretarySusie Grumley was happy withthe tournament.
“The tournament went really well.Apart from the rain delays all went smoothly and all events were completed,” Grumley said.
“The players, parents and coacheswerefantastic with their patience and willingness to play whenever possible, and in helping pushing water off the courts each day.”
The Traralgon TennisAssociation will hold a similar styletournament later in the year-the Optus Open and Junior Event,running from September 25 to 28.
by all. Trafalgar will go to Moeon the26th
July
AGrade Winner: BevKeily(20) with 37 points
AGrade Runner Up: Di Moody (20) with 35 points c/b
BGrade Winner: Lorna Risol (24) with 33 points
BGrade Runner-Up: Cheryl Deppeler (23) with 32 points
Down The Line: Donna Mellon with 33 points,KathyBorg, LynPowell and Anne
Outhred with 31 points and Christine Payne with 29 points
NTP –5th: Kaye Middlemiss 11th Jenny
Evison
Gobblers: Karen MacGregor on the 16th
andKathyBorgon the14th
Nine-Hole Winner: Sue Balfour (43) with 19 points c/b
9-Hole Runner-Up: Bron Wallace (19) with
19 points
SeniorsResults Thursday29thJune, 2023
Tuesday27/06/23 Stableford. Women,
Men, Players
Winner: Frank Edmonds (22) Runner Up: Graeme Grant (21)
DTL: Graeme Harris (20) SteveLawrence
(19) RobertDavie (18c/b), Glenn Doolan
(18)
NTP: Steve Lawrence Bradmans: Duane Baker
Thursday: 29/06/23 4person Ambrose.28
Women, 11 Men, 39 Players
Winners: Russ Balfour,TonyShearer,Vic Hill, Sue Balfour (28 7/8)
RunnersUp: SteveGould, Glenn Doolan, Sue Klemke, RobHardaker (28 1/8)
DTL: RonKeith, Duane Baker,Nola Fordham, Laurie Snowball (30 ¼)
Frank Edmonds, PatO’Connell, Bev Keily, PeterCooke(30 3/8)
Bradmans: MickBennett, Dennis Scambler,Pat Harris,Sue DeVries (33 1/8)
Friday,June 23rd2023, Open Men’s&
Ladies Stableford
Winner: Noel Cornish 35 pts
Runner Up: Tony McGrath 34 pts C/B
DTL’s: GlennFlowers 34, Jackson Giles 33, HoppyIng 31 C/B
Saturday, July 1st 2023, Monthly Medal
Stroke
Medal &A Grade Winner: PeterHobson
70 nett
BGrade Winner: PeterGriffin 74 nett
ScratchWinner: PeterMoss 80 gross
DTL’s: Andrew Jansen 69, PeterMoss 72, GeoffCoulter 74,GarryJansen 74,Ross Anderson 75, Graeme Ayre 75 C/B
NTP’s: 2nd: Glen McCulloch 5th: Mick Poxon11th: PeterBurghardt 13th:Peter Moss 15th:Les Ellis
Birdies: 2nd: GarryJansen, SteveClark, Glenn McCulloch 5th: Brian Wattchow11th: PeterMoss 15th: GregDonohue,Les Ellis
TRARALGON Table Tennis Association hosted Country Weekoverthe King’sBirthdaylong weekend, with teams converging on the area from across the state.
The weekend included five rounds for each team and 11 gradesset by Table Tennis Victoria via clubs
By ZAIDA GLIBANOVIC
GIPPSLAND League is back this Saturday to play Round 12, but anything can happen after abye
Thetwo top teams in Morwell and Moe will face off at Morwell Recreation Reserve.
Moe’s scoring power is secondtonone and the Tiger’s defence in Courtney Garth and Tanya Budge will have to work twice as hard to stop the shooting dominance of Ramayer Gourley. There were only three goals separating these two teams last time they met where Morwell gotthe chocolates,but expect to see aMoe side withthe intent of toppling the tenaciousTigers
Leongatha will take on Wonthaggi, the Parrots should be able to get over the Power line easily
Traralgon’s winshavebeenhard to comeby this season, but the Maroons should get the job done against Maffra.
Bairnsdaleand Sale will go head-to-head on Sunday, the Magpies have so far been the better team this season and would be tipped as mostlikely winners, while Warragul will play Drouin.
NORTH GIPPSLAND will head into Round 13 with some tight clashes on the cards.
Yallourn Yallourn North, in last,and Yarram in second last of the ladder, will battle it out to avoid the wooden spoon.
The two teams have managed just one win thisseason and willbothwant to secure a second winning feeling.
Glengarry will have abig challenge as they take on third-placed Heyfield, who have shown on-court exuberance and speed all year.
The Kangaroos, off the back of abye will have all the energy to hop over any show of weakness from the Magpies.
The battle between Rosedale and Churchill will be the one to watch.
The Blues beat the Cougars early in the season before Churchill wentontowin six games in arow. But seasonsare long, andthings change With the Blues desperate to return to the top of the tablewhere they think they belong, Churchill is hungry to prove themselves as flag contenders.
The lasttime thesetwo met, the marginswere miniscule, so expect to see that same contest repeated Saturday.
Woodside should be fine defeating with TTU.
The Wildcats managed to win easily,even despite the little court mishap that saw both teams relocated fromTTU’shomeground to Traralgon’s Breed Street courts the last time these two played.
It would be areal David and Goliath moment if TTU did manage to topple the North Gippsland giants.
Sale City will have aniceopportunity to extend their already impressivelead to first place on their ladder.
The Bulldogs, one game clear on top, will face ninth-placed Gormandale. One can imagine the Bulldogs considering this apercentage booster game.
Cowwarr has the bye.
IT’S swooping season in Round 12 of the Mid Gippsland League.
The two Magpies teams in Toora and Yinnar will face off not only for the right to be called the Magpiesbut also for top spotonthe ladder. With only twoladder points separating these two teams, expect to see afiery contest on the court.
Fish Creek and Morwell East will be agood game, as the Hawks will be keen to get back on the winners list.
MirbooNorth might be thinking the exact same thing and should get awin over Hill End. Newborough willplayTarwin whichcould be avery close game.
Boolarra should have zero trouble facing Stony Creek and will aim to get anice winning margin for percentage.
MDU and Foster have the bye.
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playing, as wellasa long opens evening for the Sunday night.
Teams included were Traralgon, Leongatha, Bairnsdale,Wonthaggi,Albury Wodonga, Wangarrata, Sunbury, Melton, Ballarat, Geelong, Warnambool, Shepparton, and Mornington with roughly 250 people taking part.
Traralgon teams came first in four of the grades and second in two.
Winning teams included Team 4, Jackson Landy (first in hisgrade), Jeff Pollard (second) and Trenthan Gillespie (third) all in C2. Team7also won, with Ronald Winkelman (second), Quynh Cottrell and Henry Franssen saluting in D3. Team 9, which consisted of Adam Guo (first), Trent Strong (second) and Maya Gomez, had agood time of it in E2,while Team10ofJohn O’Brien (second), Dhiira Sladeand MananSlade in E3 also enjoyed success.
Saturday morning started off withagreeting from both Table Tennis Victoria chief executive, Gen Dohrmann and Latrobe City Mayor, Kellie O’Callaghan.
“I am looking forward to the next seven years of having country week here in Traralgon,” Dohrmann said.
“It was agreat start to the eight year rotation.”
SOCCER GIPPSLAND UNITED
BY JASON LEE, ALAN ROBERTS, PETER BRUCE AND JARED GOODWIN
GIPPSLAND United went to the top of the table at the weekend.
The pre-NPLU12s facedoff against Lynbrook awayonaverywet and wintrymorning at Lawson Poole Reserve.
The openingminutes were balanced, as both teams felttheir way through, looking for openings through the midfield.
It was Hudson Riess thatopened the scoring for Gippsland, on the back of great play from Lucas O’Dowd, Sid Box and Blake Breheny in midfield. Striker Dino Grbic followed with his first for the day not long after.
The boys were challenged to continue to use the space, trying to keep their shape while taking the right opportunities whenthey presented, going in 2-0upatthe half BeckhamBremner was excellent in the second half, pushing the ball downconsistently to O’Dowd who kept running and providingall day, and added another goal to the tally.
Riess was very busy again in the second half, scoring another two goals to make it ahat-trick -his first for the season.
THE Pre-NPL U13 boys faced off against top of the table Glen Eira Arrows at BaxterPark in Warragul.
The Arrows moved the ball with ease around the United boys in the first half, and it was easy to see why they are top of the table in the league. With Munday in goalshavingshots coming at him from all directions, the score at halftime could have been alot more if not for his shot-stopping ability between the sticks.
At the halftime whistle the Arrowshad shot out to a2-0 leadoverthe Gippy lads in what could only be described as aclinical display of football and teamwork.
Thesecondhalfcommenced and it looked like Glen Eira was going to continue to dominate the game, but to the United lad’s credit, they picked themselves up and showed more endeavour and purpose in the second half.
Defensively the boys held better shape and started to work harder through the midfield and into the final third, but unfortunately could not put agoal away. Thefinal result was a4-nil loss but United need to take some heart and positives out of the second half performance against aquality team.
GIPPSLAND United stole victory on the road against Ashburton in the U14s.
In an exciting clash, it was Gippsland who emerged victorious with anarrow3-2 win.
The match took place at Monash University on a high-quality synthetic pitch, providinganexcellent playing surface.
It was Mitch who broke the deadlock early in the first half, finding the back of the net with a well-placed shot.
Archer and Hamish combined brilliantly down the left flank, putting Ashburton’s defence under pressure.
Jett and Henry showcased excellent work rate, forcing turnovers with their relentless hustle.
Midway through the first half, Mitch struck an accuratecorner kick to find Ethanatthe front of the box, who kickedthe secondgoal in for Gippsland.
Ashburton struggledtomakeinroads against Gippsland’ssolid defence, marshalled by Julian and Declan P.
In the second half,Ethan’space helped him outrun the Ashburton striker and set up Harrison for several crucial clearances.
The decisive goal came from Patrick, who controlled the ball expertly in the box and slotted it into the net with aquick touch.
This gaveGippsland a3-2 advantage. The defenders held firm in the closing stages of the match, ensuring Gippslandsecured the victory. Overall, it wasanimpressiveperformance from the entire Gippsland team, with each player making valuable contributions to the hard-fought win.
THE U18s travelled out to Clayton to face astrong Ashburton squad.
Like previous weeks, it was Gippsland who got the first goal, with ChoCho Mohammed hitting the upright, before Ronald Kong smashedhome the rebound to put the away side ahead early.
Ashburton begantoapply the pressure,with defender Abraham Konyi and goalkeeper Jared Goodwin both produced fantastic saves to keep the score at 1-nil, before Ashburton would score not one, but two scrappy goals from set pieces to turnthe game on its head.
It wasn’t until early in the second half where Ashburton looked more the side more likely to score,with abrilliantpiece of build-upplayleading to Ashburton’s third of the day.
Two missed shots on the goal line from the Gippsland attack in quick succession made the fans feel that luck wasn’t on the Gippsland boys’ side, before Monday Cholelel headed home the second rebound to bring the game back to acontest.
However, the persistentGippsland pressure couldn’t resist afourth from Ashburton, with aquite brilliant throughballbythe Ashburton striker to flick the ball throughthe smallest of gaps, finding the feet of Ashburton’s central midfielder, who passed the ballinto the net to seal off the game 4-2 with only amatter of minutes remaining.
THE U15s played out anil-alldrawwith Ashburton.
CFA members from across the Latrobe Valley put their firefighting skills to the test in the inaugural District 27 Firefighter Olympics, on Sunday, June 18 at Maryvale Recreation Reserve in Morwell.
District Headquarters staff organised and coordinated the event; which involved two teams, comprising members from each of the two groups within the district; Merton Group of Brigades(made up of Boolarra, Churchill, Driffield,Hazelwood North,Moe, Moe South, Morwell, Newborough, Tanjil, Yallourn North, Yinnar and Yinnar South Fire Brigades) and Hyland Group of Brigades (made up of Callignee,Flynn,Glengarry, Maryvale,Toongabbie, Traralgon, Traralgon East, Traralgon South, Traralgon West and Tyers Fire Brigades).
Volunteers participated in aseries of challenges utilising their operational skills and knowledge, similar to what they may need to use on deployment or on scene at an emergency.
Challenges focused on skills such as first aid, agility and strength, hose bowling, using ahose to hit afire target, map reading, navigating and communications.
Points were awardedtoteams for each activity and totals for each of the groups were tallied.
Aparticular highlight from the day included ahose bowling challenge between Acting Deputy Chief OfficerBryanRusselland Acting Assistant Chief Fire Officer Garett McDermott.
While the competition was fierce, the camaraderie between members was truly evident, and manylaughswere shared. A true team building exercise, enjoyed by all.
Members enjoyed adelicious barbecue lunch, cooked by members of the Boolarra FireBrigade, which wasfollowed by asoccer challenge in tankers andthen apresentation of awards.
Group Officer Steve Barling accepted the winner’s trophy on behalf of Merton Group of Brigades, and individual memberswere highlighted for demonstrating the CFA values of safety,teamwork,adaptability, integrity and respect throughout the day.
ROUND 14 of the Latrobe Valley Soccer League opened with the match-of-the-round at Burrage Reserve.
Newborough/Yallourn United insertedthemselves backintothe league championship race, while there was also wins to Fortuna, Falcons and Monash
NEWBOROUGH/YALLOURN DEF PEGASUS 4-3
NEWBOROUGH/YALLOURN were hosting their firstnight match since the introduction of their new lights against the high-flying Morwell Pegasus.
As the season nears its crescendo, games like these can define the title race. Pressure was all on the home side to gain maximum points to ensure they keep touch with top spot.
It would be the Combine who started the better as they quickly went to a2-0 lead within the first 15 minutes with both goals coming from Pegasus errors. It would remain 2-0 at the break.
The second half was one for the ages, as the Flying Horseman halved the deficit in the 64th minute, butnine minutes later the Combine restored their two-goal advantage.
Pegasus, renowned for their exceptional attacking prowess, turned the screwswith Aquila Jok bringing his side back to 3-2.
With only two minutes to go in regulation time, Kuku Mahmoud sent the away side fans into raptures with an equaliser. However, this thrilling contest would have one more twist in it, as coach Clayton Bell, at the ripe old age of 44, came on to snatch all three points and marka special night both on and off the park.
The win for Newborough/Yallourn sees them sit six points off Falcons 2000 but with agame in hand, while the loss for Pegasus sees them now five points off top.
FORTUNA DEF TYERS 9-0
FORTUNAhosted Tyers Lightning on the synthetic pitch, and it proved no detriment to their performance as they easily accounted for the Lightning.
Control: Marcy Mahammud in action for Morwell Pegasus against Newborough/Yallourn.
Tyers have been competitiveinsome matches against more fancied opponents, but it was not to be on Sunday as arampant Lions outfit had their foot on the throat from the first whistle.
MONASH DEF SALE 1-0
PRIDE was on the line for both Monash (sixth) and Sale (seventh) in what was aclose encounter. AlthoughMonash have shown plenty of grit and determination over the lastfew weeks, they had to fightextremely hardagainst adetermined Sale team to eventually run out 1-nil winners.
FALCONS DEF CHURCHILL 4-1
CHURCHILL, playing their home gamesout of Morwell Football Club on their synthetic ground for the time being, continuedtheircompetitive form from last week against league leaders Falcons 2000.
Falcons went out to aquick 2-0 lead as Anton Sbaglia helped himself to abrace,but adefence slip allowed Mitch Azlin to halve the deficit.
Falconshave been inexplicablywastefulinfront of goal at times this season and Sunday was no different, as chance after chance went begging despite dominating the contest.
They eventually sealed the contest through a TobyCapppenalty and aJim Mills near post finish Withbig games to come, the question willbe whether the ladder leaders will find theirmojo
Heritage: Newborough/YallournUnitedis wearing aspecial strip this season,paying homagetoits Yallournhistory, whichstarted 100years ago Photographs: Liam Durkin
Good times: MoeUnitedplayers usedthe bye as achance to get-together and celebrate10years since the club’s miracle 2013 league championship.Inarguably the most dramatic finalday in league history, theRed Devils wonthe title by apoint afterbeingeightpoints offthe topofthe ladder with three games to go.Read thefull storyinnextweek’sExpress
in front of goal. If they do, they will be hard to knock off.
For Churchill, they continue to strivefor their
FOOTBALL
AFL EXPORTS
BY TOM HAYES
THERE was no wins for locals this time around in the AFL.
Richmond evidently struggled against the Brisbane Lions and Gold Coast wasn't able to impress their strong home crowd against Collingwood.
The Tigers, coached by Traralgon's Andrew McQualter, were dismantled by the Lions on Thursday night at the Gabba, in amatch where Brisbane displayed the complete package. In atotally one-sided affair, Brisbane climbed from strength to strength to defeat the Tigers who had athree-game winning streak.
Brisbane turneda21-point quartertimelead intoa48-point halftime lead, allwhile keeping theTigers to just 1.7 (13).
Sixgoals to three in the thirdterm stretched the margin past 50, as the Lions also surpassed triple digits themselves.
A100-point margin was on the cards,asBrisbane led by 72 points at the final change.
The lead got as high as 89 points at one stage, but alate flurry for the Tigersswayed the margin back down to 81, as the Lions claimed amassive home win 20.14 (134) to 7.11 (53).
It was the first lossfor McQualter as interim Richmond coach, who admitted the Lions were “far too good”.
“I thoughtthey (Brisbane) were exceptional tonight,inthe clinches they were tough, they hunted the ball well, they pressured well, and unfortunately we weren’t able to get any momentum in that area of the ground,” McQualter said post-match.
“We’ll bounce back, we’ll find away.”
TheTigersfallbackinto the bottom four,currently 15th, yet remain just one-and-a-half wins outside the top eight.
GOLDCOAST washammeredbyCollingwood in front of asold-out Heritage Bank Stadium crowd.
Piesfanscameinnumbers as they helped produce the third-biggest ever crowd at Gold Coast’shome. Similarly to the Richmond game, this one was fairly lop-sided too.
The Magpies turned a26-point margin at thefirst break (keeping Gold Coast goalless), into a62-point
buffer at the main break, scoring 11 goals to one.
In typicalCollingwoodfashion as of late,they took their foot of the accelerator in the third term, as the Suns drew the margin backto57points, which was over 80 points at one stage.
Morwell’s Ben Ainsworthkicked back-to-back goals in the third term to drag some of the margin back,but it was already too far gone.
The Magpies returned to Victoria with a78-point win, 18.12 (120) to 5.12 (42).
Impressingwas Moe’s Sam Flanders who is enjoying his time back at AFL level with another 27 disposals, alongside six marks, four tackles and four clearances, being the fifth-highest-ranked player on the field.
Ainsworth was quiet with eighttouches,but managed his two third-quarter goals,while Moe’s Bailey Humphrey couldonly muster 11 disposals, with three tackles and agoal assist.
Gold Coast may have dropped to 12th, but still remain just one win outside of the top eight, percentage might just be one of theirobvious issues right now.
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SOCCER
LVSL BY LAURIE WILLIAMS
IN auniqueset of circumstances, all four games in the Latrobe ValleySoccer League during Round 15 will be in Morwell.
Match of the day belongs to the anticipated blockbuster between Falcons 2000 and Newborough/ Yallourn on Saturday night.
FALCONS 2000 VS NEWBOROUGH/ YALLOURN (SATURDAY 6PM)
YET another game where the result will have ahugebearing on league title honours later in the season.
After their gutsy win on Saturday night,the Combinewillbelooking to continue their rich vein of form against Falcons.
Their ability to fight for results is acornerstone of the Newborough/Yallourn DNA and it will need to be on full display against the league leaders. For Falcons 2000, such are their high standards
that internally they are far fromhappy with their performances at times, yet they find themselves at the top of the table.
Irrespective of prior form, both teams will give astern account for themselves.
FORTUNA 60 VS MONASH (SUNDAY 2.30PM)
FORTUNA, in their race to the top, still need to keep winning to give themselves achanceofthe championship.
Currently, there is alog jam in the minor placings and up to five teams are in aposition to take top honours.
This is amust win game for Fortuna, who will be playing on the Latrobe City Sports Stadium Synthetic.
The Lions won 4-0 when they last played Monash, but could find Monashadifficult team to beat especially after the Wolves' gritty win over Sale.
CHURCHILL VS SALE (SUNDAY 2.30PM)
WITH their second home match 'away’ Churchill are in aposition to cause an upset on the Morwell
Football-Netball Club synthetic pitch.
Conditions will be perfect, although astro can be more slippery than conventional turf.
The Rams have been the scapegoats so far this season but need to rally and crack awin before season’s end, and this is as good achanceasany to get the points.
Churchill has history over Sale, but the Swans will be tough to crack this time round. Sale wontheirlastencounter5-0 but will be smarting after their loss to Monash.
PEGASUS VS MOE (SUNDAY 2.30PM)
ANOTHER match-of-the-round worthy fixture takes us to Ronald Reserve as fourth-placed Moe are up against third-placed Pegasus.
Moe, having endured their final bye for the season, will look to hit their next eight games full of vigour, and what better place than against aPegasus side who are coming off aloss last weekend.
The pressure will be on Pegasus to gain all three points because if they don’t, it may well spell the end of their league title hopes for 2023.
first points of the campaign, but performances of late suggest it’s not too far away. MOE and Olympians had the bye.
