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PURR-FECT DAY TO BE A CAT If you love nothing more than cuddling up to your family cat, the then you have an extra reason to celebrate today – it’s International Cat Day. Thursday, August Augus 8, is a day to give kitty some extra TLC, which is exactly what Grace Jones was doing with her cat ‘Thomas’ when our photographer took this adorable shot. Here’s four feline fun facts for this special day: z Cats conserve energy en by sleeping for an average of 13-14 hours a day, which equates to aabout 70 per cent of their lives sleeping. z Cats have power powerful night vision, allowin allowing them to see at light levels six times lower tha than what a human needs in oorder to see. z Cats also have excele lent hearing and a powerful sense of ssmell. z The riches richest cat in the world according to Guinnes Guinness World Records is ‘Blackie’. When h his millionaire owner passed away, he refused to recognise his family in his will and instead fami gave his $12 million fortune to gav ‘Blackie’. ‘Bla
Meet “Cat” the oneM eyed ey cat, age 26 Since 1993, ‘Cat’ (pictured above, Sinc inset inset) has been the resident shop cat at Michael White’s store in Welling Wellington. Other than greeting custome customers with a meow, ‘Cat’ has a very spe special skill.
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Learn from our history By JOHN RYAN DUBBO photographer Merv Bishop took one of the nation’s unforgettable images when he snapped prime minister Gough Whitlam pouring sand from his hand into the hand of Vincent Lingiari. The photograph was captured nine years after Lingiari led more than 200 Aboriginal stockmen and their families in a walk-off from Wave Hill Station in protest against their British masters. Now there’s a new Dubbo connection to Wave Hill and its history 50 years on, with three Dubbo men – all Indigenous – following in the footsteps of that trek.
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THE PRICE OF DEMOCRACY CITY beats COUNTRY: More expensiive in the bush M z Small rural councils would pay an average of $14.37 per elector, while large metropolitan councils would only pay $9.54. z Elections could be outsourced to private enterprise
COUNCIL WATCH By YVETTE AUBUSSON-FOLEY A PROPOSED 62 per cent rise to the NSW Electoral Commission’s fee to run Dubbo’s local government election next year has the hallmarks of something the cat dragged in. Dubbo Regional Council (DRC) Mayor Ben Shields, who is also a Local Government NSW Regional/Rural board director, agrees the recommendation being made by the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) is all ‘a bit yuck’. “I am firmly opposed to any increase in the cost of holding Council elections and
Ratepayers to foot the bill for local elections
that is why, as a member of LG NSW board, we have lobbied against the proposal.” Cr Shields quoted from the Terms of Reference for the IPART review which said in part, “The purpose of IPART’s review is to ensure a robust methodology for determining costs is applied, in order to minimise the financial burden on councils and ratepayers and ensure local government elections are conducted efficiently and cost effectively.” But, he added, “Despite this, the review has proposed a system that doesn’t meet requirements of the terms of reference because it would result in higher costs for councils and ratepayers.”
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