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Be aware and on the lookout for new traffic cameras

Queensland’s traffic cameras are about to be swapped out for newer technology traffic enforcement cameras to catch drivers behaving badly.

Artificial intelligence in the state’s nextgeneration of traffic cameras are to be introduced as authorities are keen to reinforce the “anywhere, anytime” approach.

Operation of the cameras will also swop from the Police Service to the the Department of Transport and Main Roads. This comes at a time when the tragic Queensland road toll is once again on the rise over the past two years after a period of decline.

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With ANZAC Day soon to be remembered, it is appropriate to remember the services provided by Australian Army Nurses who also were involved in the many theatres of War.

Sister Vivian Bullwinkel, AO, MBE, ARRC, ED an Australian army nursing sister and prisoner of war. A victim of a war atrocity, she was the sole survivor when a group of nurses were machine-gunned by their Japanese captors in the Bangka Island Massacre.

The Banka Island massacre was the killing of unarmed Australian nurses and wounded Allied soldiers on Bangka Island, east of Sumatra in the Indonesian archipelago on the16th February 1942. This was shortly after the outbreak of World War II in the Pacific.

The lead-up to this massacre was on the 12th February 1942, and with the fall of Singapore to the Japanese imminent, sixty-five Australian Army nurses, including Sister Vivian Bullwinkel, were evacuated from the besieged city on the small coastal steamer Vyner Brooke. In addition to the Australian nurses, the ship was crammed with over two hundred civilian evacuees and English military personnel.

The SS Vyner Brooke was a Scottish-built steamship was a merchant ship frequently used between Singapore and Kuching

In the seas between Sumatra and Borneo, a Japanese aircraft bombed and strafed the overloaded ship and it sank quickly. The survivors in lifeboats were strafed by Japanese aircraft but some reached Radjj Beach, Bangka Island off the coast of Sumatra.

A group of approximately 100 survivors, realising that their situation was dire decided that they should surrender to the Japanese.

A patrol of about fifteen Japanese soldiers arrived from the coastal township of Muntok and took the survivors into custody. They immediately took the men to the seashore and massacred them.

There is some suggestion that the females were sexually assaulted before they too were taken to the beach and marched into the sea. Once they were into the water they were machine gunned down. Whilst wounded, Sister Vivian Bullwinkel was the only one to survive the massacre.

On realising she was still alive, but wounded she made her way back to the beach where she found a wounded British soldier, Private Kingsley who had been earlier bayoneted by the Japanese and left for dead

They hid out for 12 days in the bush. Whilst hiding out they were given food by the local village women from that area.

She cared for the wounded soldier until he died of his injuries.

The situation again being hopeless she again surrendered to the Japanese.

She survived a harsh imprisonment

After the War she give evidence of the massacre at a war crimes trial in Tokyo in 1947.

After the war Bullwinkel was active in military and civilian nursing. She reached the rank lieutenant colonel in the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps.

She later became President of the Australian College of Nursing.

She married Colonel Francis West Statham in September 1977.

She died on the 3rd July, 2000 aged 84.

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On Friday February 16th, 2018 a dedication and installation of a Plaque on the headland at Radjj Beach was one of the highlights of a Commemorative Service remembering those killed on this beach in 1942.

This large bronze plaque 600mm x 450mm in size and weighing 17kgs has been in the safe keeping of the Muntok History Volunteers Group Bangka Barat (MHVG) for the last 12 months.

The Plaque tells the story of what happened on Radji Beach on 16 February 1942 and lists all those who were known to have been killed including military people and civilians. Visitors will be able to stand high on the headland, read the Plaque, look out over Radji Beach and reflect on what happened there many years ago. Each year this is the location of a Commemorative Service to remember the tragedy of Radji Beach and the events of 16 February 1942.

ANZAC Day 2023

Commemorative events in Maleny are:

• 4.28 am Dawn Service, followed by breakfast ($5)

• 8:45 am Witta Cemetery

• 9:40 am Maleny Soldiers Memorial Hospital

• 10:45 March steps off from Cooke Park

• 11.00am Main Service at the RSL Hall and Cenotaph, followed by lunch ($15). If you are marching, you will need to assemble at the corner of Maple and Fig Streets no later than 10:30 as the march steps off at 10:45 am.