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Golf operations manager Lloyd White and the Eynesbury Golf Course will host the 2022 Master Pro-Am.
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The Eynesbury Masters Pro Am will return this month, with the unique tournament giving amateur golfers the opportunity to play alongside the best in the business. Held at the Eynesbury Golf Course, the tournament will be held from Friday, March 25 to Sunday, March 27, with three days of action designed to entertain players of all kinds. Following a corporate competition held on the Friday, Eynesbury members and other casual golfers will be teamed up with professional players on Saturday. Visitors will then be treated to a show on Sunday, with a pros-only 18-hole tournament, the first time Eynesbury will host such an event in its 15-year history. Spectators may also catch a glimpse of other sporting heroes such as Richmond AFLW player Jess Hosking and jockey Damien Oliver. As a sponsor of the event, Resimax Group chief executive Steve Hooker said: “To say we’re excited to see this line-up in action is an understatement. “Over the three days, players of all abilities will have the chance to play on one of Victoria’s top 100 golf courses while picking up some helpful tips and tricks from the pros.”
Aged care access fears By Oliver Lees A key advocate for the welfare of older Australians has raised concerns that those accessing aged care in Moorabool may suffer the consequences as council facilitates its transition away from the service. On March 2, Moorabool councillors voted to pull the pin on council’s delivery of aged care and disability services. The withdrawal followed the findings of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, which highlighted fundamental changes
to the manner in which financing would be managed between clients and providers. In a statement, Moorabool mayor Tom Sullivan described council’s decision as necessary to ensure clients “continue to receive the same level of service they are currently receiving”. Cr Sullivan said council had already commenced the process of finding successors to fill the void after its formal withdrawal, which will begin on June 30. Elder Rights Advocacy programs manager Debra Nicholl has seen this process take place
elsewhere in the country. Other regional council’s such as Horsham and Campaspe have already completed their own transitions. Ms Nicholl said that those accessing aged care can often have the quality of that service drop dramatically as management is shifted. “In particular, rural and regional areas have the tyranny of distance and workforce issues,” she said. Ms Nicholl said that regional care recipients often have more complex or specific needs, needs that providers without local understanding can struggle to fulfill.
“That’s the main fear for councils getting out of aged care provision, and I fear if [the provider] is not located within the town, it is going to be harder for them to access services,” she said. “Someone in a regional area may not have a taxi service, so they may need a subsidy towards other means of transport. “It is more a complicated arrangement between provider and the individual. “The fear is regional people will not need the flexibility of service [that comes with council withdrawal], what they need is a provider that understands the local context.”
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