The Weekly Advertiser – Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Landmark recognition

BY JESSICA GRIMBLE

The signing of a landmark doc ument commits to recognising culture, traditional practices and unique relationship to Country for the Wotjobaluk, Jaadwa, Jadawad jali, Wergaia and Jupagulk peoples of the Wotjobaluk Nations, while also acknowledging the atrocities of colonisation.

Wotjobaluk Nations and the State of Victoria last week signed a ‘Recogni tion and Settlement Agreement’ to

recognise and give effect to the Tra ditional Owner rights under the ‘Tra ditional Owner Settlement Act 2010’.

The State reached the agreement with Barengi Gadjin Land Council, as the Traditional Owner group entity appointed by its family groups, after years of advocacy.

The agreement gives rise to Tra ditional Owners in supporting the management of Crown land and Country, supports strategic and eco nomic growth and cultural activities, and supports employment for rangers.

It will hand back culturally sig nificant sites to Traditional Owners, who now also have the opportunity to practice their ‘cultural right’ to hunt, fish and camp on Country.

The agreement was made with the land council on behalf of the WJJWJ peoples whom it recognises has lived in the Wimmera ‘since the beginning of time’. Its ancestors are Pelham Cameron, Albert Coombes, Capital Harrison, Richard Kennedy, Thomas Marks, Archibald Pepper, Augusta Robinson and Arthur Wellington.

The agreement acknowledges Bun jil and the creation stories of the land, waterholes, animals and plants; of a ‘lifeblood’ connection to Barringgi Gadyin, now known as the Wimmera River, its source of water and food and spiritual and cultural connection to ancestors; and of cultural connec tions to Country, including tradition al land management practices.

It acknowledges the arrival of Eu ropean settlement in the 1830s and the obtaining, dispossession and control of Aboriginal land, some

times with ‘extreme violence’, upon colonisation – which brought about ‘rapid and devastating change’ for ancestors.

It acknowledges the policies and practices of successive governments, their agencies, other organisations and individuals that ‘substantially obstructed’ the ability of the Indig enous community to practice tradi tion, customs and language and access Country and its resources.

VIBRANT: Performers, from left, Anna Rodway, Carolyn Bock, Madi Nunn, Helen Hopkins and Candace Miles, of Three Birds Theatre and The Shift Theatre’s show ‘Garage Girls’, were among the crowd to open the biennial Nati Frinj Festival during its ‘Fabulous Frinj Fashion Fiesta’ parade on Friday. The festival returned for the first time since 2019 and hosted a range of performances, exhibitions, music and community events across three days. More photos, visit www.theweeklyadvertiser.com.au

Picture: PAUL CARRACHER

Highway duplication back on agenda

BY JESSICA GRIMBLE

ALiberal-Nationals govern ment would reignite works to duplicate the Western Highway to Stawell.

Member for Lowan Emma Kealy, also The Nationals’ deputy leader, said the Coalition would activate fund ing worth $90-million to complete a highway duplication between Ararat and Stawell if elected to government later this month.

The Labor government has already committed the funds but not yet start ed works. It complements a $360-mil lion commitment from the previous federal Coalition government for the Ararat to Stawell phase of construc tion.

Ms Kealy said planning was com pleted in 2013 and was due for com

pletion in 2016. She said a ‘Don’t stall fund at Stawell’ campaign to fund the stretch of the highway duplication was among ‘headline projects’ on her election to state politics in 2014.

Works would add two lanes in each direction with a central median to sep arate traffic; upgrade intersections to improve safety and move traffic more efficiently; build new access to the highway with intersections that con nect to local roads; build a bypass to the north of Great Western; and build highway overpasses at Delahoy Road, Bests Road and Sandy Creek Road.

Early works have included a tree survey and environmental field sur veys, and investigations into potential environmental initiatives and commu nity opportunities.

Ms Kealy said a Coalition govern

ment would start works in mid-2024 and complete them by the end of 2025.

“Duplication of the Western High way commenced in 2013 and was supposed to be finished by 2016, but almost 10 years later and we have only 55 kilometres of this 103-kilome tre section of highway duplicated with no work occurring for the past three years,” Ms Kealy said.

“During this period, there have been 163 crashes on this section of the highway, including 18 fatalities and 90 people seriously injured.

“The condition of the existing high way has become increasingly dire with many sections littered with pot holes and permanent speed reduc tions in place in some areas because the surface is so dangerous. Recent significant rainfall has only sped up

National accolades for radio trio

Horsham radio presenters have won top gongs at commercial radio’s night of nights.

Adam Roche, with 3WM’s Adam in the Afternoons, was ‘Best Talk Presenter’; MIXX FM’s Kayla Wil son was ‘Best Newcomer On-Air’; and Sophie Jackson, for 3WM, won ‘Best Achievement in Production’ at the Australian Commercial Radio Awards, ACRAs, in Sydney on Sat urday night.

The trio were among nine award winners and 31 nominations from the ACE Radio Network – including seven nominations for the Horshambased team.

Country Today with Libby Price won ‘Best networked program’; Neil Mitchell won ‘Best current affairs presenter’ and ‘Best metro talk pre senter’; and Fitzy and Wippa, who feature on MIXX FM, won ‘Best syndicated Australian program’.

More than 900 industry representa tives gathered for the awards night.

Roche, ACE Radio Horsham’s con tent director, said the awards were a ‘humbling’ reward for hard work.

“To be recognised and nominated among our peers was an incredibly humbling and rewarding feeling; let alone walking away with three local awards,” Roche said.

“We work tirelessly around the clock to entertain, inform and edu cate and we do it because we love it.

“We thank our listeners and our clients and all of the people behind the scenes who allow us to present 48 hours of radio across the Wimmera on a daily basis.”

The awards were held for the first

time in three years. The industry honoured the late Geoff Handbury for his contribution to radio as part of a memorial tribute.

Jon Vertigan represented the net work as a category award presenter. General manager Brendan O’Loughlin said Roche, with Kaycee Bould, were among finalists in the ‘Best Station Promotion’ gong for their Great Australian Travel Dream initiative.

Emma Clark was a finalist for ‘Best News Presenter Country and Pro vincial’, following her win of the category last year; and The Shirt

front sports show’s Grant Kuchel was nominated for ‘Best Sports Pre senter’.

“All of our nominees represent a champion team who do their upmost to entertain, inform and to market our listeners’ community and businesses. It is a tremendous effort on a national stage,” he said.

Entries were received from 260 metropolitan and regional radio sta tions across Australia. There were more than 200 finalists from country and provincial stations with the win ners peer judged by industry mem bers.

the deterioration.” A duplication be tween Ballarat and Burrumbeet was completed in April 2013, Burrumbeet to Trawalla in June 2015, Trawalla to Beaufort in March 2013, Beaufort to Buangor in April 2016 and a bypass of Buangor in November 2016.

A duplication of the highway be tween Buangor and Ararat is on hold as the initial proposed route would impact culturally-significant trees, in cluding birthing trees.

“We can’t be stuck in this standstill any longer, and we need to work as quickly as possible to ensure we don’t lose the federal funding,” Ms Kealy said.

“We’ve had eight years to work with local Indigenous groups to ensure we’re not destroying areas of cultural significance.

“Further, from a road safety perspec tive, we’ve seen so many tragedies along that stretch of highway, which are massive losses for families and friends and emergency services who provide support – often to someone they know. That stays with you for the rest of your life.

“It’s time to get the project back on track and finally complete it through to Stawell.”

Planning is underway for bypasses of Ararat and Beaufort, but these pro jects are not yet funded.

Ms Kealy also announced last month funding worth $10-billion for road maintenance, across a 10-year period, should votes fall in the favour of the Coalition.

The State Election is on November 26.

State recognition for Traditional Owners

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The land council’s chair, Dylan Clarke, said the settlement was a ‘celebration of resilience and tireless work’ and followed more than seven years of negotiations with the State and family groups.

It provides State recognition for Tra ditional Owners, as has existed at fed eral level after consent determination was acknowledged in December 2005.

“This is a landmark moment for our people, culminating in 30 years of recognition for our people,” Mr Clarke said.

“The BGLC board and WJJWJ fam ily groups will take this time to honour our Elders and original trailblazers.

“We hope they’re looking down on us with great pride and will guide us to acknowledge our past and how we can shape our future by following Bunjil’s law for caring and protecting our Country.

“We’re recognised under Native Ti tle, federally, as Traditional Owners over Country and for many years, the State has confirmed and understood this; but this agreement now paves the way for legislated State recognition of our people.

“It gets into more of the details of the atrocities and traumas that have happened on our Country over a long period of time.”

Mr Clarke said the land council would grow ‘substantially’ to fulfill the details of agreement – including more visual representation of Tradi tional Owners in the landscape and

increased ‘leverage’ in negotiations with local government. He hopes the agreement will encourage Traditional Owners to return to Country to con tribute their expertise to the imple mentation of initiatives.

“Essentially, our organisation will grow quite large and we will need the input of our families and the direction of our group to ensure we meet their aspirations,” he said.

“I do want to acknowledge that not everyone agrees with these agree ments.

“It’s been a very emotional process.

“We acknowledge there is a lot of pride that people carry by represent ing their family at the land council because they’re carrying that legacy, those stories and those people with them. We all have our own family groups and the people we represent, so when we make these large decisions, it’s quite powerful and moving.

“It’s a big step for us, as individual family groups and as a Nation and for our staff, lawyers and representatives who have supported us.”

The land council’s board of direc tors signed the ‘Recognition and Set tlement Agreement’, the ‘Traditional Owner Land Natural Resource Agree ment’, the ‘Traditional Owner Land Management Agreement’ and the ‘Participation Agreement’ with Attor ney-General Jaclyn Symes last week.

People can view the land council’s full statement via www.bglc.com.au/ media

HONOURED: MIXX FM’s Kayla Wilson, Best Newcomer On-Air, and 3WM’s Adam Roche, Best Talk Presenter, with their ACRA awards.

Pledge adds hope for parents

BY ABBY WALTER

parents continue to hope a childcare centre

to fruition in Murtoa

Murtoa parent Claire Bibby can only return to work because her mother travels more than three hours each week to care for her daughter, Ed wina, three days a week.

“It’s a village that raises children and my mum is certainly helping with that, but a childcare centre would ease the pressure on our household a lot,” she said.

“It would be amazing for the Dun munkle triangle. We haven’t had ac cess to childcare here and there are huge waitlists in Horsham that we have been on for nearly two years and haven’t got a place.

“It would benefit our towns and communities and give us space for local employment as well.

“I’d probably feel more comfortable using a local childcare centre because I’d know the staff and the children.”

Ms Bibby is an apprenticeship coordinator at Longerenong College.

“At the moment, I work three days a week – but if I secure childcare, I could potentially increase that,” she said.

Murtoa mum-of-three Eve Dela hunty is a registered nurse, but be cause she cannot access childcare, she has been unable to return to work.

“We have no access at all at the moment, so it would be good to have childcare to be able to get back to nursing and allow other mums to have a break and time for themselves as well,” she said.

“I am running a small pilates busi

ness on the side to keep me going at the moment. I would like other mums to be able to access childcare so they can look after their health and well ness, too.”

Member for Lowan Emma Kealy, also deputy leader of The Nation als, has committed $845,000 in state funding, if the Coalition is elected this month, to build Dunmunkle Childcare Centre in Murtoa. Dunmunkle refers to the area of Minyip, Murtoa and Rupanyup and surrounding districts.

Yarriambiack Shire Council would support the State Government con tribution with $440,000 towards the project.

Heading

“It’s been fabulous to work with the community, who have been fierce ad vocates for childcare in this region,”

Ms Kealy said.

“There’s no doubt that no matter where you live, you deserve access to childcare – it’s an essential service.

“It’s been disappointing that we haven’t been able to secure funding for a childcare centre so far.

“I don’t think parents living in this part of the state are any less needy for regular childcare access.”

Ms Kealy said even if not elected, she would continue to fiercely support the project.

“Murtoa is in the unique situation of

having childcare workers, pre-schoolaged children and land ready to go, but is missing the required infrastruc ture to make the project a reality,” she said.

“I have personally met with ICU nurses, teachers and a dental nurse in the area who are all keen to return to the local workforce, but many have been unable to do so simply because there is no childcare available in their local community.

“Some parents are currently leaving their homes and travelling more than 200 kilometres a day just to access the childcare they so desperately need, which is not sustainable.”

Opportunity for traders

Wimmera businesses can learn from an expert in customer experiences and social trends.

Amanda Stevens, Australia’s ‘Key note Speaker of the Year 2018’, will address people prior to the West Vic Business annual general meeting on Tuesday.

Ms Stevens has conducted research into consumers, as COVID-19 restric tions and challenges ease, to under stand implications for brands and or ganisations wanting to connect with customers in new, relevant and mean ingful ways.

She will highlight the new consumer, the experience economy and other important issues businesses should consider into the future.

She will present via Zoom at 6pm, prior to the AGM.

West Vic Business ambassador Sta cey Taig said it was a night not to be missed.

“This incredible opportunity for businesses and staff to learn from Australia’s best consumer forecaster is something not to be missed,” she said.

“Having this session via Zoom al lows businesses from right across our region to attend and benefit from Amanda’s insight.

“If you are in regional business, you cannot afford not to be part of this event.”

The opportunity is the first in a West Vic Business ‘master class series, with funding from Business Victo ria’s ‘Business Chamber and Trader’s Group Grant’ program.

Ms Taig said people wanting to at tend could register their interest by emailing info@westvicbusiness.com. au to receive a Zoom link.

COMMITMENT: From left, Yarriambiack Shire councillors Graeme Massey and Tom Hamilton, Member for Lowan Emma Kealy, councillor Corinne Heintze and mayor Kylie Zanker, Claire Bibby with daughter Edwina, John Delahunty with son Gus and Eve Delahunty at the pledge announcement for a Dunmunkle Childcare Centre.

Picture: ABBY WALTER

Confidence key in program delivery

BY ABBY WALTER

Wimmera education leaders say teacher’s confidence in delivering respectful relationship education is key to implementing the learning successfully.

Women’s Health Grampians sexual health advisor Shannon Hill said edu cating young people about respectful relationships was the beginning of preventing violence against women.

“It creates moments for them to build better awareness to say some thing when they know what is hap pening to themselves, or others, is not okay,” she said.

“It starts with getting young people comfortable with deciding what hap pens to their bodies and knowing their safe people.

“Then these foundational concepts are built upon and lead into sex and relationships – and it’s not as difficult to move into sexual health education.

“Respectful relationship education also opens different levels of conver sation beyond biology and looks at how we interact with others.”

Respectful relationships are connec tions characterised by non-violence, equality, mutual respect and consid eration and trust. They feature in the health and physical education compo nent of the national school curriculum version nine.

St Brigid’s College Horsham teacher and student wellbeing leader Leigh McDonald said teachers needed knowledge and confidence to deliver the curriculum.

“Not all teachers feel comfortable delivering this content,” he said.

“Next week all of our staff are in

Understanding affirmative consent

The State Government has invested $3.5-million to provide consent edu cation.

The ‘Supporting Young People to Understand Affirmative Consent’ program will support 12 projects to ensure young people aged 12 to 25 understand the new model.

The program targets young peo ple in out-of-school settings, includ ing an after-school digital program on the gaming platform ‘Twitch’, multimedia campaigns and peer-led initiatives.

The affirmative consent model out

volved in a professional development day about gender and sexual identity.

“There is also a parent session with sexuality educator Vanessa Hamilton that is open to all members of the community. The session, on Novem ber 22 at 8pm, is in partnership with Uniting.”

Bookings for the Respectful Rela tionships, Human Sexuality and Body Safety Presentation can be made at www.trybooking.com/CDMQH

Mr McDonald said the school in corporated respectful relationships in health classes, pastoral care classes and religious education classes.

“We also host some one-off special ised days such as Man Cave programs, which we hope to implement next year,” he said.

“We build on this through camps and retreats. But it is equally important that we model respectful relationships into our everyday interactions.”

lines every person has a responsibil ity to get consent before engaging in sexual activity.

For their belief in consent to be reasonable, a person must have taken steps by saying or doing something to find out if the other person con sents – it must be a clear and enthu siastic go-ahead.

This can include, but is not lim ited to, verbally asking and getting a ‘yes’, a physical gesture such as a nod or reciprocating a move such as removing clothes.

Even if a person meets this mini

A Federal Government-funded re port found more teacher training and better evaluation systems were needed to improve respectful relationship ed ucation in Australian schools.

The Monash University report analysed respectful relationships programs aimed at ending violence against women and children, deliv ered nationwide.

Researchers performed a national stocktake and gap analysis of existing programs and resources and consulted more than 100 stakeholders across the areas of education, women’s health, and domestic, family and sexual vio lence.

The report made seven key rec ommendations, including to devel op a quality assessment tool to help schools deliver effective respectful relationship education and develop a Workforce Development Action Plan to ensure teachers have the required

mum requirement to take steps, their belief in consent must still be rea sonable in all the circumstances, for example, taking into consideration if the steps went far enough, or if there were cues such as pushing away the accused’s hand or facial reactions.

It also clarifies that circumstances where there is no consent to remove, not use or tamper with a condom –commonly referred to as ‘stealthing’ – without the other person’s consent is a crime.

knowledge and skills. Establishing a respectful relationship education online professional learning resource hub for schools and educators, fund ing a monitoring and evaluation framework to drive continuous im provement, and establishing a na tional, and a co-ordinated approach to facilitating the program are other recommendations.

Project lead Dr Naomi Pfitzner said respectful relationship education pro fessional learning and pre-service training were underdeveloped in many Australian jurisdictions.

“Our stocktake reveals that only two universities in Australia offer sexual ity and relationship education as part of health and physical education preservice teacher training,” she said.

“We can’t assume that teachers have the skills to deliver respectful relation ship education and have sometimes confronting and challenging discus

sions about issues such as violence and gender equality.”

Dr Pfitzner said education resources and programs needed to cater for and include all students in Australian schools.

“We heard repeated calls from stake holders for respectful relationships education to move beyond the tra ditional focus on heterosexual, cis gender interactions between men and women,” she said.

Ms Hill said although respectful relationship education was mandated across Victoria public schools and adopted well, there were still improve ments that could be made with sexual education.

“We find across the region that nurs es or a service will visit schools to fill the gap and it’s not the most effective way to teach sexual health and educa tion,” she said.

“Ideally, teachers would have the tools and confidence to teach it in an ongoing way, however, there is still a stigma regarding talking about sex and sexual health.”

Ms Hill said there was always more that could be done to improve delivery of sexual health education.

“A key example is newly-funded projects from the State Government to get the message of the affirmative consent model out to young people and help them understand it,” she said.

“It’s important for young people to have readily available information they can get from peers and trusted adults.

“Having parents confident in talking and teaching this is important, too.”

Appointments to the boards of directors of public health services, public hospitals, multi purpose services, early parenting centres, Ambulance Victoria, HealthShare Victoria and the Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health (Forensicare)

The Department of Health is pleased to invite applications for part time board director positions of public health services, public hospitals (including early parenting centres), multi purpose services, Ambulance Victoria, HealthShare Victoria and the Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health (Forensicare) with terms of office commencing from 1 July 2023.

These positions provide an exciting opportunity for members of the Victorian public to contribute to the health and wellbeing of our communities. Applicants are selected for their capabilities, including personal and professional attributes, skills, knowledge, and experience that contribute to the strategic leadership of public health care for the Victorian community.

Safe and high quality healthcare for all Victorians is a priority of the Department of Health. Applicants must be able to demonstrate and provide evidence in support of the capabilities they identify in their applications.

The Department of Health is committed to ensuring boards, and committees, reflect the rich diversity of the Victorian community. We encourage applications from women, people of all ages, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and from lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, gender diverse, intersex and queer people.

Applications close at Midnight Monday 21 November 2022

Further information including how to apply, please visit www.health.vic.gov.au/board-applications

SHOWCASE: Rock-n-roll dancers from across the state and beyond were in Horsham at the weekend for three days and nights of rock-and-roll dancing events. Dancers enjoyed a freaky-Friday themed event and the uninitiated were treated to a rock-n-roll showcase at Horsham Plaza on Saturday morning. Horsham Rockers Inc members Anne Erskine and Gary Pilgrim were at the plaza to help put on the show.

Picture: PAUL CARRACHER

Rural resheeting program in full swing

New grader to tackle road program

A new motor grader has joined Horsham Rural City Council’s road plant fleet.

The six-wheel-drive John Deere 672GP will be responsible for the important task of road re-construction and maintenance across the municipality.

The timing of its delivery is particularly valuable as HRCC gets to work repairing flood damaged roads.

“The new grader is a big step up in technology compared to the older machines. This allows it to provide much improved fuel economy, driver comfort and ease of operation,” Acting Fleet Coordinator Tim McDonald said.

“Graders have traditionally been one of the more difficult pieces of equipment to master but manufacturers have incorporated GPS guidance technology to make operation easier and increase production and efficiency,” he said.

With a road network that spans more than 3,000 kms, Council’s graders can always be found working on road maintenance, improvement and rehabilitation.

“We aim to replace our graders every

10 years to obtain good trade in values while minimising repairs and down time,” Mr McDonald said.

One of the new grader’s first operations will be the reconstruction of Polkemmet Road in the north west of the municipality.

As well as sealed road construction

ANIMALS OF OZ AT THE HUB

Kalkee Road Children’s & Community Hub celebrated Children’s Week with local families last week.

The 2022 theme for Children’s week was “All Children have the right to a standard of living that supports their wellbeing and healthy development".

Children’s Week is a reminder to all of us that every week, indeed, every day, is a time to celebrate and to nurture and love our children.

This year the Hub invited the team from Animals of OZ to present their ‘Animals Galore’ education program. All 137 attendees got to meet and touch some of Australia’s wonderful and unique native fauna.

“The sessions were a lot of fun! There was a fantastic sense of community, and it was a great way for families to familiarise themselves with the space as Supported Playgroup starting back this week,” Supported Playgroup Facilitator Jessica Jamieson said. For more information about upcoming events or playgroups visit the Playgroup on Facebook page or contact Supported Playgroup

work, the grader will be used for the gravel road re-sheeting program which will continue in the Haven and Wartook areas in coming weeks.

The new grader is one of five motor graders in the HRCC fleet and replaces an older model which has recently completed 10,000 working hours.

TENDERS AND RFQ

#Q16/2023

DOOEN LANDFILL OFFICE AND TOILET BUILDING

Closes 12noon, Thursday 10 November

# 23/011

RECONSTRUCTION OF HOCKING STREET

Closes 12noon, Friday 11 November

#Q13/2023

ACCESSIBLE DESIGN SPECIFICATIONS FOR AMENITIES

Closes 5pm, Monday 21 November

All tender, EOI and RFQ details online at: www.eprocure.com. au/horsham-rural-citycouncil/

Young people to elect their own Council

A new partnership between HRCC and the Foundation for Young Australians (FYA), will back young people in the region to take on a more active role in local democracy and decision making.

Building on the existing HRCC youth council, the Young Mayors program will support people aged 17 and under to get elected to the youth council.

Members will define priority action areas, and be supported with a fund to deliver projects and campaigns.

“Our Youth Councillors have made an incredible contribution to Horsham through event and community organising. But we know they were keen to do even more,” Louise Barnett, Youth Services Planning and Engagement Officer said.

“Young Mayors will bring this to life as an active part of our local government - with opportunities to learn about and participate in the systems that govern their lives, and influence decisions that impact their community.”

For councils like HRCC the program will foster civic identity at a young age, leading to greater participation in the democratic process and more engaged citizens.

“Local governments play a huge role

in the everyday lives of people in our communities, and that includes young people. But young people are often locked out of power - consulted but never in charge,” FYA’s Executive Director of Civic and Cultural Engagement Molly Whelan said.

“This program puts young people in the driver’s seat - ensuring that council policies and programs better reflect the concerns, needs, and desires of local young people.”

The Young Mayors program has been designed by FYA and is based on successful UK models. The Horsham Young Mayors Program is supported by the Victorian Government Department of Families, Fairness and Housing through the Engage program.

Council is partnering with fitness and wellbeing providers to deliver free sessions at Sawyer Park.

This Saturday

Fit4You Haven - Low Impact Exercise Session

November 12

Fit4You Haven Tai Chi Session

ALL SESSIONS START 9AM

VEGETATION WORKS

HAMILTON STREET

In preparation for the construction of the new pedestrian bridge, vegetation clearing will take place including the removal of trees near the corner of Menadue and Hamilton Streets. Works will be undertaken between 2-4 November. During the works, access to the area will be limited and clearly defined with bollards and caution signs.

CARAVAN PARK

Nine hazardous sugar gum trees will be removed from the Horsham Caravan Park in the week starting 7 November.

They have been identified as problematic due to poor branch attachments and decay pockets. The timber will be repurposed and used for habitat for our wetlands in the new subdivisions and for mulch used in council gardens beds around the municipality.

ASSET RENEWAL: Acting Fleet Coordinator Tim McDonald with the new grader.

Work together for swift roads action

Duplication of the Western Highway to Stawell is back in the spotlight as the LiberalNational party give renewed en ergy to completing the project.

Funding commitments for the $450-million project that stretches be tween Ararat and Stawell have already been made.

The previous federal Liberal-Nation al government committed $360-mil lion and the current state Labor gov ernment says it will contribute the remaining $90-million to get the job

It’s not an easy gig

The anonymous letter published on October 19, 2022 ‘Total disarray’ was so critical of our elected representa tives and some council staff and calls for a response.

This letter is the sort of thing we try and discourage our young people from writing on social media.

Therapist Clinton Power says: “When you’re anonymous, there’s no consequences.”

We should imagine how the named target feels after reading the pointed criticism.

“Empathy is a skill that happens in in-person relationships,” Clinton says.

Our Mayor Cr Gulline, along with Crs Flynn, Haenel, Bowe, Power, Ross and Redden all deserve our re spect and support.

It is not an easy gig being a council lor.

Sure, we may not always agree with every decision that council makes, but these are the guys, bold enough to put themselves forward and manage to be elected, to make decisions to lead this growing regional city.

Council’s CEO, Mr Bhalla, is a good man working hard for this community.

He was appointed for his experi ence at both inner-city and regional councils.

This guides his leadership here through challenging times.

Council staff are committed, local public servants, also working hard for their community.

Some with difficult jobs – parking, rates, local laws, reception staff, road maintenance, waste management, animal welfare, community services, planning, parks and gardens, arts and culture and even sandbag provision.

The list goes on.

I just think that they are all worthy of some positive encouragement oc casionally.

Mark Radford, former Horsham Rural City mayor, Quantong

done. Detail of the project – which, in its entirety, runs from Burrumbeet in the east to Stawell in the west – is listed clearly on both Federal Govern ment and State Government digital assets.

It was originally due for completion in 2016.

Lowan MP Emma Kealy was elected to politics in 2014 when a ‘Don’t stall – fund to Stawell’ campaign to fund the duplication to Stawell was high on the priority list. That’s eight years ago.

Ms Kealy has vowed the Coalition would start the project by mid-2024

Spend mind boggling

I write with regards to Horsham coun cillors’ comments that a ‘rebrand’ would help attract people to live and work in the region.

Liveability does not revolve around a pretty sign or colour of various flags which may be displayed; it’s about amenity, well-maintained facilities, availability of work and close prox imity from work to home, climate and lifestyle – just to mention a few aspects.

I would say having appealing, wellmaintained entrances to the city with good roads, well-maintained road sides, parks and gardens – just to men tion a few – which gives the potential resident the feeling this municipality has pride in its appearance, carries a greater weight than a pretty sign.

This spend – some $787,600 – is astounding and mind boggling as this type of money could well be spent on repairing footpaths, roads and general improvements to the amenity of the city.

The break-up is quite astounding and I would refer readers to the council minutes and discussion.

All we seem to see from this council is spend, spend, spend, with minimal consultation to business and resi dents.

This type of money would be far better used to improve the entrances to the city – especially from Melbourne and Hamilton.

When we compare the northern en trance to Hamilton from Horsham and Coleraine with our entrances, the council should hang their collective heads in shame, as it’s chalk and cheese.

Hamilton’s streetscape is well main tained, has good roads with kerb and channel and neat gardens.

Horsham has poor roads, open storm water channels leading to stagnant pools alongside walking tracks with unkept road verges, and this council

EDITORIAL

By Jessica Grimble

and complete it by the end of 2025, should it become government after the State Election on November 26.

The highway duplication is a safety and an access right for the residents of western Victoria and those travelling through and beyond it.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Thousands of vehicles travel the Western Highway, the connector between two capital cities and two states, every day, moving people and produce across the region.

Currently, any traveller is navigating crumbling and decimated road infra structure after soaking rains continue to wash away the road surface and foundations.

A duplication won’t take away the requirement of ongoing road mainte nance, of course – but it will improve the people and vehicle movement and the fundamental safety measures that

we all need and deserve when behind the wheel.

While a proposed route is approved, we call on authorities to heed the les sons of the Buangor to Ararat duplica tion and ensure cultural heritage stud ies are complete in order to protect any significant sites from irreparable damage before works commence.

And we call on governments, re gardless of party, to work together and take swift and long overdue action to activate this next phase of the Western Highway – and keep people safe.

Group, CRG, the second court was in dicated to go up against the back door of the band hall when the current net ball kitchen and changerooms and the Horsham United Football clubrooms were demolished.

This court, partially side by side, was for the juniors to play on while their mums played senior netball on the current court.

There is still plenty of room to build changerooms at the south-west court end.

Council promised no group would be disadvantaged if moved; that these groups were to be rehoused in a venue ‘equal to or better than what they have now’.

What council is attempting to offer comes nowhere near the home they have now.

says rebranding will influence poten tial residents to live and work in the city.

Franz Tursi, Horsham

Editor’s note: Horsham Rural City Council’s rebrand project scope will replace existing signs such as leav ing and welcome municipality signs and locality signs, publications and stationary, electronic assets and staff uniforms, among other items.

Save the band hall

After meeting with Horsham council staff, I am more determined to muster support in saving the Horsham Rural City Band hall.

In 1967, if the Minister for Crown Lands made the mistake of allowing the brass band to build on Horsham City Oval, so be it – but 54 years later,

it is not a mistake of the current band members to want to stay in the home they own and paid for.

There is plenty of room for a second or junior netball court in that area.

As my family is into netball, I know courts do not have to be side by side and let’s face it – only two courts are not going to attract major netball tour naments to Horsham.

Netball was not thought of when the band hall was built.

Band members told me that the 150-year-old band does not want to make bad friends with netballers; they just want to be left alone in their home surrounded by their 150 years of memorabilia – a home to store all their instruments and equipment.

As planned for 10 months of the 12-month Community Reference

To move to Jubilee Hall, they would have to find $2800 in hire fees, only be allowed two nights for practice, pay an hourly rate if they go over or need extra time, no social or bonding time allowed after practice, members are also not allowed in this council building for unscheduled or anytime practice as now.

Naturally, in Roberts Avenue, there is no place to practice marching.

Definitely not equal to the home they have had for the past 54 years.

Ratepayers: Rally around this 150-year-old band to save their home and also make it your business to look at the size of this site and imagine it with the current kitchen, netball changeroom, United clubrooms and carport and storage area all gone and the laneway as part of the netball area as well.

Do this and you will be convinced – as the CRG members were – that there is plenty of room for the junior netball court without destroying this 150-year-old band.

Neville McIntyre, McKenzie Creek

REBRAND: A six-metre interpretive sculpture on the edge of Horsham’s Sawyer Park, installed earlier this year.

‘Digital divide’ nuances in spotlight

BY MICHAEL SCALZO

Government-funded study investigated key groups of Wimmera and southern Mallee people’s access to digital technol ogy.

Federation University, in partnership with Wimmera Development Asso ciation, interviewed micro-business owners, migrants and elderly people to quantify the scope of the regionalmetropolitan ‘digital divide’.

The study built on data from Austral ian Digital Inclusion Index 2020 that demonstrated Wimmera and southern Mallee local government areas had the lowest access to digital technologies in Victoria.

Dr Cathy Tischler, team lead of Hor sham Research Hub’s Future Regions Research Centre at Federation Uni versity, said the most affected groups in the region were migrants, people of lower socio-economic status and micro-business owners. She said each group faced specific

obstacles to enjoy a similar level of digital connectedness as metropolitan communities.

Dr Tischler said while people of these groups in metropolitan areas faced similar challenges, regional and rural people battled compounding in frastructure and logistical obstacles that many metropolitan communities did not.

“Many migrant communities have a language barrier to overcome, which can make things challenging, and of ten work in less-digital reliant jobs and are therefore unable to regularly engage with digital technologies,” she said.

Dr Tischler said a lack of opportu nity to build their skills in digital tech nologies then impacted their capacity to engage with basic services that had become increasingly more digitised, especially since COVID-19.

“Many elderly people have a similar challenge with digital access, however a major factor of their digital engage ment stems from a desire to feel safe

when asking another person for help – especially about their personal data information privacy,” she said.

“However, many elderly people had people they trusted in the community to call on, whereas migrant groups often had more significant challenges in this space.

“Elderly people, to an extent, had opportunities that migrant groups did not to work around these obstacles.”

Lack of infrastructure

Dr Tischler said small businesses in regional areas were often battling a lack of digital infrastructure that prevented them from using digital technologies

“There are added complexities in regional areas that limit people’s abil ity to engage. A simple lack of mobile coverage providers had been a major obstacle for these groups of people,” she said.

“Often only one or two major mobile providers offered mobile plans to peo ple in the region because of the lack

Reverse Advent Calendar appeal

A new community initiative aims to assist people in need – for Christ mas and beyond.

The ‘Reverse Advent Calendar’ initiative calls for donations of a box of non-perishable groceries.

A supplied donation list calls for items such as canned fruit, soup and spaghetti; baking goods such as sugar and flour; meal bases such as rice, pasta and sauces or ready-toeat, non-perishable meals; cereals and spreads; coffee, tea and biscuits; and personal-care items including toothpaste and toothbrushes.

It would cost about $70 to fill the donation list.

The initiative has support from Horsham churches, Christian Emer gency Food Centre, Horsham Sports and Community Club, Caledonian Transport and 3WM, MIXX FM and The Weekly Advertiser.

Horsham Sports and Community Club manager Glenn Carroll heard the initiative was successfully run

in Ballarat and Geelong and sug gested, through collaborative part nerships, to host it in the Wimmera. He said donations would return to the communities that provided them.

Christian Emergency Food Centre food room manager Anne Lane said the initiative would complement the existing distribution of Christmas food hampers and would streamline the sorting and repacking processes food centre volunteers undertook.

Horsham Christian Ministers’ As sociation’s Simon Risson said the food centre had a proven record of helping and caring for people.

“People go there and know they will be looked after and cared for,” he said.

“This is a great initiative because it will alleviate some of the tensions and challenges of the food centre and it’s a longer-term solution as well. The food provided will cer tainly go beyond Christmas.”

He encouraged people or groups to donate what they could.

“It might be a cricket club or a couple of neighbours in a street. It’s got so much diversity, it’s got so much flexibility and it can be done over a number of weeks,” he said.

“There’s a lot of people who don’t have a lot and yet they’re still in credibly generous.

“It’s about providing the oppor tunity and the tools for people to contribute what they can.”

3WM, MIXX FM and The Weekly Advertiser general manager Brendan O’Loughlin said donation boxes would be distributed to in terested businesses for their staff to contribute to the initiative.

“It’s a great collaborative effort that will support people in our com munity and make a real difference to their lives,” he said.

People wanting to get involved can phone Horsham Sports and Community Club on 5382 6262.

of mobile infrastructure. Often for people with less digital engagement, even plans with the provider’s small est data option were too costly and irrelevant for people who did not use a lot of data on the mobile.

“Many times, a pre-paid option was more applicable for them, but cover age providers still prefer their custom ers to be on a plan. Often it requires technological knowledge some people do not have to negotiate with provid ers about the options.”

Dr Tischler said as mobile provid ers decreased their number of bricksand-mortar stores across the region, knowledge-based obstacles were com pounded, because any shopping had to be completed online.

She said micro businesses across the region were often having to travel into business centres to access an internet bandwidth that allowed them to com plete their work.

“This challenge reinforces the need for more continued advocacy about the need to increase the number of

phone towers across the region, as well as appeals to mobile providers to increase their services in the region,” she said.

Dr Tischler said this research had been sent to Victoria’s Commissioner for Senior Victorians.

“We are keen to make sure the nu ances of living in diverse communi ties and rural geographies with small populations and limited physical ser vices were included, and understood, in government strategies moving for ward,” she said.

The study used the region’s neigh bourhood house network, libraries and word of mouth to engage with poten tial interviewees.

Thirty-one people across several migrant communities, small and micro businesses and lower socialeconomic communities were inter viewed, and seven service providers in the region.

The State Government’s Regional Digital Fund paid for the study.

UNITED: Horsham Christian Ministers’ Association’s Simon Risson, Horsham Sports and Community Club’s Glenn Carroll, ACE Radio’s Brendan O’Loughlin and the Christian Emergency Food Centre’s Anne Lane are calling on people to help others put food on their tables this Christmas.

Picture: PAUL CARRACHER

Plans to increase low-cost housing

BY MICHAEL SCALZO

Leaders within western Victoria’s hous ing and regional-advocacy sectors have welcomed Federal Government ambitions to increase low-cost housing in Australia in partnership with investors.

The Federal Government included in its budget last week a National Housing Accord and with it, an aspiration to see one million new homes built in Australia across five years.

Included within the Accord was also an ad ditional $350-million for 10,000 ‘affordable’ homes and a commitment to develop partner ships with superannuation funds and investors to incentivise investments in low-cost housing with government subsidies for social-housing marketrent discrepancies.

Stuart Benjamin, chair of Regional Develop ment Australia, Grampians and director of prop erty-development firm Elmstone Group, said the days of government being able to provide ‘100 percent’ of social-housing’s capital were gone.

“There is simply not enough government mon ey to pay for social housing, as was done in the mid 20th century,” he said.

“There needs to be a model to incentivise pri vate investment in this space.

“It is not that builders and developers don’t want to be involved, but the world we live in is about risk and return – and about having a good return for reasonable risk.”

Mr Benjamin said Elmstone would partner with homelessness service provider Haven; Home, Safe to develop its proposed residential builds in Horsham North.

He said his build at Alexander Avenue started

Stuart Benjamin

as a private development project, but after VCAT delays and a loss of sales, was reworked as a social housing project.

“Social housing works the same as a rental property except that the people who live there get more help to pay the rent than others in the private market,” he said.

“They are the same as everyone else, they just receive more assistance than others.

“Haven was looking to invest, and we had a product relatively ready to go. We hope to an nounce a builder within the next couple months and start in work 2023.

“For one of our other large projects in Horsh am, accommodation for Wimmera Base Hospital staff, we hope to have a site finalised towards the end of November.”

Federal Budget

Changes to regional grants program

BY MICHAEL SCALZO

Despite the Federal Govern ment’s cancellation of a re gional infrastructure grant pro gram in last week’s budget, a Wimmera municipal leader re mains confident of government contributions for major redevelop ments.

Labor Federal Government aban doned the previous Liberal-National government’s Building Better Regions Fund, BBRF, as it attempted to ‘reca librate’ spending after five months in government.

The Growing Regions program will replace the BBRF, and the govern ment has encouraged round six ap plicants of the previous program to re-apply for money in the new grant scheme.

Horsham Rural City Council had applied for a $6.4-million contribu tion to its city oval and Sawyer Park redevelopments through the BBRF; a

contribution that, if successful, would be used in conjunction with several other grants programs as well as coun cil contributions.

Despite the grant’s scrapping, Hor sham mayor Robyn Gulline said as long as the new program was ‘open and transparent’, the council would re view the new guidelines and re-apply.

“I would have been surprised if the fund was not scrapped. It was expect ed, but they have replaced it with two other regional grant programs,” she said.

“The guidelines haven’t been re leased for these, but we know it is a smaller bucket of money than the BBRF.

“More money in the pot would be nice, but I understand the fiscal con straints the government had – we all have to work within our budgets.”

The October Federal Budget, the first of the new government, ear marked $1-billion across three years for two new grant programs: a Grow

ing Regions program that will fund ‘local’ infrastructure projects, and a Precincts and Partnerships program that will allow councils and states to work with the Federal Government to invest in place-based projects that ‘transform regional centres’.

Priorities

Cr Gulline said she believed the new Growing Regions program would more closely prioritise ‘significant as set upgrades’ across the regions, how ever, she was not privy to program specifics.

Further information about the pro gram has not been released, and appli cations are not yet accepted.

“The broad consensus is Horsham council has a strong case for any application for city oval and Sawyer Park upgrades, so we will review the guidelines when they are available, as sess the criteria, and see what tweaks might need to be made with our ap plication for the new program,” Cr

Population growth is critical

A Wimmera development leader says new re search shows health and care sector industries constitute the region’s largest workforce after agriculture.

Wimmera Development Association chief ex ecutive Chris Sounness said aside from agricul ture, businesses in the health and care sectors remained one of the region’s largest employers despite the region’s relatively low workforce participation of women aged between 25 and 45.

Mr Sounness said this data, a part of a new WDA report due for release later this month, was part of a push to better understand the Wim mera’s business and demographic nuances and how these nuances might aid development of Wimmera-specific solutions to Australian-wide issues.

He said, in light of last week’s Federal Budget, subsidies to make childcare more affordable were ‘part’ of a solution to the region’s lack of childcare, however increasing the childcare workforce was the region’s more immediate task in order to increase childcare availability.

“It is all about workforce,” he said.

“Federal Budget increases in paid parental leave, and more money for childcare subsidies are all great to keep people in the workforce longer and will help to keep the burden off wom en, especially now the paid leave can be shared within couples.

“But for our region, different to regional and metropolitan centres, we will need to work with the Federal Budget to focus on female workforce participation obstacles specific to us.

“It is early days after this budget, but in the coming months we hope to better articulate the

“The only way the Wimmera flourishes is with population growth – and a lot of people are not comfortable with population growth sometimes”

– Stuart Benjamin

way forward in these spaces. Population growth is key. If we start growing our population, all our challenges in housing and childcare, for exam ple, will reduce.”

The Federal Budget committed $4.7 billion across four years to ‘make early childhood ed ucation and care more affordable’, with policies that included up to a 90 percent childcare subsi dy for eligible families.

The budget also allowed for an extension to the government’s Paid Parental Leave Scheme – an increase from 20 to 26 weeks of leave that can be shared across two parents.

Regional Development Australia, Grampians chair Stuart Benjamin agreed with Mr Sounness and said childcare challenges were ‘often misun derstood’ across the region.

“Often people think we need to build more childcare centres, but we really need to fill vacant jobs within the existing centres that, if filled, could easily host another few hundred children in childcare – and that is huge. It could mean up to 150 parents back to full-time work,” he said.

“The only way the Wimmera flourishes is with population growth – and a lot of people are not comfortable with population growth sometimes.”

Gulline said. Rural council collective

Rural Councils Victoria chairman Rob Gersch, also a Hindmarsh Shire coun cillor, said any benefits to small rural councils with a change of regional grant funding would be known ‘in the fine print’.

“Removal of the BBRF hasn’t been detrimental, even if there were some councils in the region with some ap plications in there – but perhaps it could have been better to leave the grant program as it was,” he said.

Cr Gersch said more substantial changes to the way governments funded rural councils were necessary, however, given the declining capac ity for rural councils, with older and small populations, to fund roads and infrastructure upgrades through rates alone.

He said grants that required rural councils to contribute money at a oneto-one or one-to-two ratio were often still unmanageable for councils such as Hindmarsh Shire.

Federal Member for Mallee Dr Anne Webster lambasted the Federal Gov ernment for cutting the BBRF and referred to an Australian National Au dit Office report that said the program was ‘well designed in a number of respects’.

“It is now up to the Labor party to demonstrate whether they have the same commitment to regional Austra lia,” she said.

“I have personally spoken to these rural councils and agencies over the past week, and all were looking for ward to being able to deliver these projects to their local communities –now that is in serious jeopardy.

“Labor claims the BBRF funding favoured Coalition electorates in one breath, but then throws $2.2 billion to Dan Andrews for the Melbourne Sub urban Rail Loop before Infrastructure Australia has approved the merits of the project.”

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New survey aims to ‘capture sentiment’

Acommunity-led survey aims to capture sentiment about Horsham’s central ac tivity district.

The Community Matters – HRC survey comes after Horsham Rural City Council endorsed a 15-year plan, ‘Horsham Central Activity District Revitalisation: Streetscape Plan’, which aims to revitalise the regional city.

Strategies include developing an off-street laneway network that also provides a safe and convenient pedestrian network, identifying im provements for priority streets, ‘strengthening character and identity’ through restoring herit age features, creating more outdoor meeting places, and improving safety and physical and visual connections between the town centre and broader Horsham. It also includes furnishings, paving and planting.

The ‘CAD’ refers to the area bound north by Baillie Street, east to Urquhart Street and west to Darlot Street. It includes O’Callaghan Parade and Horsham Plaza.

Community Matters – HRC, formerly known as Horsham Ratepayers and Residents, is an independent entity with no affiliation with the council. It became a sub-group of Ratepayers Victoria last month.

Representative Di Bell, also a former Horsham councillor, said business owners and landlords had expressed concern about a loss of car parks, gridlocked traffic and widened median strip.

She said planned pedestrian crossings through out the CAD had also prompted concern.

“Local businesses who experienced severe dis ruption and downturn in the previous upgrade in Firebrace Street about 10 to 15 years ago are par ticularly concerned. Many businesses might not survive further disruption to business, while still struggling financially to recover from COVID, effects of a longer and wetter winter than usually experienced and staff shortages,” Mrs Bell said.

“There has been no data and statistics pre sented by HRCC to demonstrate the need for any of the changes.

“The HRCC engagement report had only 147 responses to the engagement on the plan, with general support 49, and general disapproval 45.

“This survey is to establish data and statistics from those who use our central business district. No matter how often they visit, we want their feedback of their experience.”

She said people could respond to the survey online via www.surveymonkey.com/r/X2CL29P

People can view the plan via www.hrcc.vic. gov.au

Pain educator to host presentation

An education session in Horsham next week aims to help people better manage persistent pain.

The Wimmera Local Pain Collective, with the assistance of Pain Revolution, will host the free event to ‘revolutionise’ people’s understanding of pain so they can better manage it.

Horsham pharmacist and pain educator Dan iel Palmer will deliver a one-hour presentation about Pain Revolution’s ‘four essential pain facts’ which will summarise modern pain theory

and how it can be applied to recovery. A panel of collective members and guest speaker Kimberly Barker, who has lived experience with persistent pain, will then answer questions from attendees.

The event is at West Side in Horsham on November 9 from 6pm. People wanting more information can visit www.painrevolution.org

They can register their place online via www.eventbrite.com/e/the-modern-pain-storytickets-426579188837

Brimpaen anniversary

Brimpaen residents past and present will celebrate a significant milestone in De cember, commemorating 100 years since the opening of the district’s community hall.

Brimpaen Recreation Reserve committee members will host an afternoon tea on December 3, to coincide with annual Christmas festivities.

Committee chairperson Sarah Matthews said organisers looked forward to welcoming people with ties to the picturesque region.

“The hall has been an integral part of the social fabric of Brim paen for the past 100 years,” she said.

“Historical records show the hall as a bustling hub, hosting every thing from fundraising dances and kitchen teas to indoor sports and family celebrations.

“Although – like many farm ing districts – our population has declined, we still consider the hall an important asset and are grateful to all who have played a role in establishing, improving and main taining it.”

Then Federal Member for Wan non Mr A.S. Rodgers officially opened Brimpaen Hall on Thurs day, November 30, 1922.

Festivities included dancing and a concert.

“The hall was built remarkably quickly, at least by today’s stand ards, with residents meeting at the former Brimpaen school only seven months earlier to ‘discuss

the question of building a hall for the district’,” Mrs Matthews said.

“The hall has been added onto and improved in subsequent years, thanks to many district residents, including an evolving committee of dedicated volunteers.

“These days, we continue to gather at the hall for an annual Christmas celebration as well as an Australia Day breakfast.

“The tennis club has just started its 2022-23 Central Wimmera Ten nis Association campaign and the long-running craft club continues to meet on Tuesdays.

“We are excited to not only cel ebrate the role the hall has played throughout a century, but also the

many people who have called our beautiful region home.”

The anniversary celebration starts at 2pm and includes a memorabilia display, along with official pro ceedings about 3pm.

Brimpaen’s A Special tennis team will also be in action throughout the afternoon.

The annual ‘Brimpaen Christmas Tree’ will follow the anniversary event, from 6.30pm, with people asked to bring a salad and a sweet to share.

Mrs Matthews said while the af ternoon’s festivities were free of charge, RSVP was essential for catering purposes.

“We’re envisaging most people

CENTENARY CELEBRATION:

State money to start art gallery

An Australian-first art and environment precinct in the Grampians region has won $6.75-million in State Government funding.

WAMA Foundation has received the funds as part of the ‘Regional Tourism Infrastructure Fund’ to support the delivery of a $9-million art gallery facility dedicated to art inspired by the natural environment.

The government funding will contribute to build ing stage one the 16-hectare masterplan, located between Halls Gap and Pomonal. This includes a state-of-the-art, climate-controlled art gallery, café, retail shop and large multi-purpose confer ence centre, with parking, visitor access pathways, landscaping and boardwalk.

WAMA Foundation chairman Greg Lewin said the funding would bring a long-held vision to life. He said a ‘Capital Campaign’ would raise ad ditional funds to complete the project.

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will just come out for a cuppa and a catch-up in the afternoon, but we’re not sure if we’re welcoming 30 people or 300,” Mrs Matthews said.

“If people could let us know of their attendance ASAP, that would be great.”

People can text or call Sarah Matthews on 0403 569 469, email sarahscully29@gmail.com or con tact secretary-treasurer Megan Gardner on 0427 755 151 or at raewoodfarms@gmail.com for more information, to loan memo rabilia or to RSVP.

People can also respond to a ‘Brimpaen Hall Centenary Cele bration’ event on Facebook.

WAMA patron Glenda Lewin said the Gram pians region was increasingly popular for both domestic and international visitors.

“WAMA will offer a unique cultural destination by exploring the deep connections between the natural environment and art,” she said.

“There isn’t anything else quite like it within Australia. We believe WAMA will be an interna tionally-recognised tourist destination.”

The Regional Tourism Investment Fund will also contribute $860,000 to build six luxury villas at Pomonal Estate and $170,000 towards a boutique three-bedroom accommodation in Halls Gap.

WAMA plans to be fully operational and open to the public by the end of 2024.

Member for Lowan Emma Kealy, who has sup ported the foundation with its efforts to secure funding, said WAMA was predicted to attract 25,000 visitors in its first year alone.

“The opportunities and benefits that this trans formational project will bring to our region’s economy and tourism sectors are enormous, and I look forward to following the progress as this amazing facility comes to life,” she said.

Gerard Matthews and sons Harvey, nine months, and Freddie, 3, are looking forward to celebrating Brimpaen Hall’s centenary at an afternoon tea next month. They are sixth and seventh generation members of the Matthews family, which first settled in Brimpaen in 1880.

Milner’s move ‘bittersweet’

BY MICHAEL SCALZO

Wimmera and southern Mal lee communities will say goodbye to their police superin tendent next week after a two-anda-half-year period of service.

Superintendent Ian Milner will move into his new role as Victoria’s East ern Region Emergency Management Superintendent – a position he said would take him closer to his family, who remained in Melbourne during his tenure in the Wimmera.

He said relocating back to Mel bourne was ‘bittersweet’.

“Members of our police service here do a fantastic job and every day I am told examples of incidents when they went above and beyond,” he said.

“I am immensely proud of those ex amples and the hard work they put in.

“The community has every right to be proud of the policing service our members provide here. So it is with mixed feelings that I leave.

“I have enjoyed every day here and it is a fantastic place to work. I have created a number of friendships and gotten to know a lot of people very well. I am going to miss those friend ships.”

Mr Milner took up his position as Western Region Superintendent in April 2020 – two weeks after major COVID-19 restrictions swept through Victoria and following his promotion from Detective Inspector at Counter Terrorism Command based in Mel bourne.

He said he found the professional demands of his relocation and promo tion, at first, a challenge.

“I perhaps hadn’t fully grasped the challenges our police members face up here in their service,” he said.

“I had a little bit of understanding of what country communities expected as I had some past experience with country policing a long time ago in South Gippsland, but I hadn’t grasped the distance and remoteness chal lenges of our members in western Victoria.

“Not only are they expected to keep

the community safe, but they also live in the community that holds them to account.

“They are under a spotlight 24 hours a day and they don’t have any ano nymity when they knock off at night.

“They are constantly scrutinised, judged and measured by the people they are expected to keep safe, and that can be quite challenging.”

Mr Milner said when he considered his experience within metropolitan policing and the relationship those communities had with their police members, he believed – and pointed to National Survey of Community Satisfaction with Policing evidence – that there was a closer relationship between the police and community in regional areas.

He said from early on during his Western Region appointment, COVID had placed extra stressors on his divi sion of service members as metro

politan centres drew police away from their regions.

“It was something no one had dealt with before and we had several mem bers seconded on long-term deploy ment to Melbourne to provide extra policing presence during that time,” he said.

“So not only did it impact their home situation, but also impacted our abil ity to get out and about and provide a proactive policing presence in our own community.

“Yet all members here had to put their own stress aside, pull on the uniform and continue to provide a policing service in the regions.”

In an interview with The Weekly Advertiser at the start of Mr Milner’s tenure in the region, he said his focus would be on reducing high-impact crime and road trauma, and fostering strong relationships with the com munity.

In his final week, he said those as pects of policing were highlights of the Western Region division’s perfor mance throughout recent years.

“I quite proudly refer to a reduc tion in crime rate that is lower than pre-pandemic levels, and I think our relationships with community have improved during a challenging few years,” he said.

“We have also established an en during connection with First Nations communities and implemented an Aboriginal community liaison officer and several police assistance liaison officers in this space.

“Road trauma is also 50 percent lower now when compared with the previous 12 months, and I think that because of our member’s efforts. Our roads are certainly a lot safer. I am very proud of what they have achieved.”

Mr Milner said in his new role,

“I had a little bit of understanding of what country communities expected as I had some past experience with country policing a long time ago in South Gippsland, but I hadn’t grasped the distance and remoteness challenges of our members in western Victoria”

– Superintendent Ian Milner

based in the Melbourne suburb Knox, he would be responsible for co-ordi nating emergency response prepared ness throughout an area stretching from Box Hill in Melbourne’s east ern suburbs, north to Mallacoota on Victoria’s most north-eastern corner, and west to the line of division that separates eastern and western policing regions in the state.

On his Western Region tenure, how ever, Mr Milner admitted his transfer to the region had not panned out as he expected.

“I fully expected I would be here for a long time, but COVID certainly impacted mine and my family’s ability to move up here,” he said.

“My family home is still in Mel bourne, so that is part of the reason why I am going back. I am going to be closer to home. That is why I see this move back to Melbourne with mixed feelings. It just hasn’t turned out the way I thought it might.”

Mr Milner said despite this sen timent, he preferred regional polic ing because of a greater capacity for community engagement and chances it offered to leave behind ‘frenetic’ policing roles in Melbourne.

“And I must admit, too, I really enjoyed looking up at the Grampians on my way to work every day. It was incredibly refreshing and enjoyable,” he said.

A selection process is underway to determine the region’s incoming Su perintendent.

In the interim, Michael Phyland will be Acting Superintendent.

PROACTIVE: Superintendant Ian Milner, left, and Inspector Nick Finnegan discuss emergency management in the Wimmera.

Picture: PAUL CARRACHER

Broad cast call for ‘Seussical’

BY ABBY WALTER

Arts Council will take to the stage with ‘Seussical the Musical’ in 2023.

Horsham

Days after finishing the production season of ‘Legally Blonde’, the arts council began prepar ing for its next musical at Horsham Town Hall in May

‘Seussical the Musical’ director Maddi Ostapiw said preparing for another musical was exciting.

“As a committee, we wanted to choose some thing that had a fun, family-friendly atmos phere,” they said.

“It’s been so much fun organising the auditions and lookbooks for lighting, hair, make-up and costumes – everything is going to be colourful.”

Ostapiw said the musical was a chance for children under 16 years of age to experience musical theatre.

“Coming out of an adult cast for ‘Legally Blonde’, we wanted to broaden that, so we can have up to 10 children in the cast for this musi cal,” they said.

“We have found from COVID-19 that there is a missing generation of those who are younger and not coming to auditions, so we want to encour age them to join in.

“One of the great things is we are not locked into characters being certain ages or genders, so we can swap based on who comes to the audi tions and do what best fits the characters.”

Joining Ostapiw in the creative team is Faye Johns as assistant director, Lisa Thomas as vocal director with assistance from her mentee Chloe Findlay, Alayna Toporzisek as choreographer, Kayla Wilson as assistant choreographer, Emily

ON SONG: Natimuk Brass Band is looking forward to maintaining a strong presence in the Wimmera after celebrating its 120th birthday at the weekend. The band celebrated the milestone with a public performance at Natimuk Showgrounds on Sunday during the town’s farmers market plus. Horsham Rural City mayor Robyn Gulline, pictured with the band’s president and bandmaster Robert White, congratulated band members. “The milestone was a wonderful achievement and members look forward to continuing the legacy started in 1885,” Mr White said. “We encourage budding or experienced musicians to get involved.”

Friedrichsen as set designer and Vicki Thomas as stage manager.

Ostapiw said leading creative roles required commitment akin to full-time jobs.

“It takes a lot of effort from dedicated volun teers to get our shows up and running,” she said.

“We’re so thankful for everyone who puts in the time because we would not be a thriving amateur arts council without the volunteers.

“We have a lot of people who are paid profes sionals who volunteer their time to make our shows the best they can be.”

Ostapiw said moving from the producer role for ‘Legally Blonde’ to director for ‘Seussical the Musical’ was hard work, but exciting.

“It was so lovely that a few of our final shows sold out for ‘Legally Blonde’ and you could feel the energy coming from the audience to the cast,” she said.

“We probably punch above our weight with what we do, but it’s also incredible to see such an amount of talent in the region.”

Ostapiw said they had strong interest in vocal auditions held earlier in the week and dance au ditions are tonight.

“Our cast will be about 36 people,” she said.

“We have found that about 10 percent of our casts for each production have never been in a major production before. We’re always willing to open the door to new people and it’s always exciting to see new people in our casts.”

Call-backs are this weekend and rehearsals will begin for the show in February.

Performances of ‘Seussical the Musical’ are scheduled for May 4 to May 14, with HAC’s first school show slated for the first time since 2006 for either May 4 or 5.

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Water authority plans price drop

GWMWater is proposing a price drop of $111 for residential water customers in the next financial year.

The corporation’s 2023-2028 price submission to Essential Services commissioners outlined plans for lower bills next year, and for the next five years.

GWMWater chairman Peter Vogel said the prices, projects and initiatives included in the submission were the result of extensive engage ment with customers and the community.

“Our community panel clearly expressed their expectation that we would keep prices as afford able as possible in the context of rising living costs, while continuing to make improvements to both service reliability and water quality,” he said.

In 2022-23, the average residential water bill for drinking water and sewer services across 12 months is $1403. In 2023-24, GWMWater pro poses the average bill will be $1292, increasing in 2025-26 to $1299 and 2027-28 to $1307. This excludes consumer price index.

Mr Vogel said the submission also included delivery of projects and initiatives which would improve value to customers.

“A key area of focus will continue to be our renewals program to ensure we are meeting

customer expectations and part of that includes doubling our service standard for minimum flow rates from 10 litres per minute to 20 litres per minute for a 20mm meter,” he said.

“We are proposing two new drinking water upgrades at Berriwillock and Culgoa, as well as improving water quality on the Nyah and Piangil systems on the Northern Mallee Pipeline.

“Our submission also includes a project to improve water flows in industrial areas to bet ter support new and growing businesses in the region.”

GWMWater is one of five Victorian water corporations proposing a price reduction for the 2023-2028 period.

The corporation is proposing productivity ini tiatives to allow more cost-effective operations and new guaranteed service levies.

The levies would give customers who experi enced more than five water supply interruptions, or three sewer blockages within 12 months, $80 credit on their accounts.

GWMWater’s price submission is open for comment and available for download on the Es sential Services Commission’s Engage Victoria online platform – www.engage.vic.gov.au – until December 1. The Essential Services Commis sion is expected to deliver draft decisions on submissions between December and February.

West celebrates its seniors

Chetwynd’s Slobodanka Petro vic is West Wimmera Shire Council’s 2022 Senior Citizen of the Year.

Mrs Petrovic was presented the award at West Wimmera Shire’s Seniors Concert at Edenhope last month.

She was one of four people nominated for the award.

Mrs Petrovic volunteers at Harrow Bush Nursing Centre and for more than 18 years she has cooked ‘Sloba’s Meal’ for the social support group each month.

She was the instigator of Har row Long Lunches in 2018 and 2019.

Mrs Petrovic provides gov ernance to the Harrow Neigh bourhood House Committee, volunteers at Harrow’s Calico and Candles and is a member of Chetwynd CFA.

She recently started voluntar ily teaching cooking at St Mal achy’s School in Edenhope.

The award recognises resi

who have made a difference to community wellbeing, have a positive attitude towards ag ing, continue to be active in their community, and encour age others to do the same.

Mayor Bruce Meyer said Mrs Petrovic was a deserv ing winner, who had made an outstanding contribution to the Chetwynd and Harrow com

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Petrovic of Chetwynd is West Wimmera Shire Council’s Senior Citizen of the Year.

Pride seeks committee

Wimmera Pride Project committee is in dire need of new members.

The committee is calling for people to join its ranks at this year’s annual general meeting to ensure the club’s survival.

Wimmera Pride Project chair Scott Robinson said members of the LGBTIQ+ community and al lies were welcome to nominate to join the committee.

“If you identify with any letter of that alphabet, you are welcome to join – and we have always had allies on the committee as well, who are welcome to nominate,” he said.

“Priority is given to our com munity.

“We currently have nine com mittee members and a full com mittee would be 11 people.”

The November 8 meeting will see election of office bearers for the committee’s eighth year of operation.

Mr Robinson said the commit tee’s projects and objectives were driven by a community survey.

“People want more events like Pride Night, so that will be con tinuing,” he said.

“Another priority we have is communication with medical ser vices to ensure the community has access to the services they need.

“Other goals for the next 12

“Anybody elected to a position will be supported by the former position holders, who will sit with them, answer any questions and make sure they are set up for the role”

– Scott Robinson

months will be established by the newly elected committee.”

Mr Robinson said all execu tive positions – chair, vice-chair, secretary, treasurer and media coordinator – were up for nomina tion.

“Anybody elected to a position will be supported by the former position holders, who will sit with them, answer any questions and make sure they are set up for the role,” he said.

“The rewarding thing about what we do is when we attend events and people come up to us and tell us how much they needed what we have put together.

“The community is starved for visibility and a safe place to be themselves. It’s also about having a good time, making new friends and knowing you are not alone.”

People interested in joining the committee can email info@ wimmerapride.com.au or mes sage Wimmera Pride Project’s Facebook page.

Waterless regatta new to challenge

Goolum Goolum Aboriginal Co-oper ative’s Wimmera River Challenge will have a new look in 2022.

An on-Country canoe race, modelled off a waterless regatta in Alice Springs, will be the centrepiece of this year’s challenge on Friday and Saturday.

General manager Johnny Gorton said the waterless canoe race would be a unique first for the event and he hoped it would help bring the community together.

“The unpredictable nature of the Wimmera River this year has influ enced our decision to move away from the traditional water-based canoe and kayak challenge to a land-based chal lenge,” he said.

“This year we will be building our own unique land canoes out of pipe and materials, modelled off what you would see in Alice Springs at the Henley-OnTodd Dry River Boat Regatta.

“Teams will race in bottomless ‘kay aks’ across our designated course at the

Riverside Caravan Park along the banks of the Wimmera River in Dimboola.”

Grampians Dhelk Dja Action Group and a range of community service pro viders support the annual Wimmera River Challenge.

Community services from across the region are invited to participate in the Wimmera River ‘Corporate Challenge’ at Riverside Caravan Park, Dimboola on Friday.

The day will start with a Welcome to Country at 10am, followed by a group walk and community lunch. The chal lenge and other games will follow.

All Aboriginal and Torres Strait Is lander community members and their families are then invited to camp at Dimboola Caravan Park on Friday and Saturday nights with a range of cultural and non-cultural activities for all ages.

Mr Gorton said the Wimmera River Challenge would create an opportunity for services and organisations to net work within the community and help

to break down barriers and improve relationships.

“The challenge started as a way to foster closer ties between Victoria Po lice and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community, but has since ex panded to include several other organi sations,” he said.

Saturday’s formal activities will begin with an 8am breakfast, followed by an other land race and other activities for families, concluding with a lunch at the camping grounds.

A new feature of the event this year will be a fishing challenge hosted by Goolum’s local men’s group.

Goolum Goolum staff expect more than 150 people from across the Wim mera and Western Victoria to attend the challenge across the two days.

People wanting more information can contact Goolum Goolum’s project and events co-ordinator Kym Bateson at kym.bateson@goolumgoolum.org.au or call 5381 6333.

Success

Goolum Goolum Aboriginal Co-operative’s health and wellbeing team, from left, Kira Marks-Lovett, Kym Bateson, Tyson King and Brittany Healey prepare for the land race as part of the annual Wimmera River Challenge.

‘Connecting for Change’

Regional leaders say a tailored approach to settlement in the Grampians region remains critical to its success.

Koyeh Talor, Ararat Rural City Council’s workforce pilot and new settlement program officer, and Alwyn Kitchen, president of Rural Australians for Refugees – Ararat Chapter, were among 150 participants from regional Australia to attend the Rural Australians for Refugees, RAR, conference in the Blue Mountains.

The biennial conference, called ‘Connecting for Change’ brings together RAR groups, refu gees and refugee advocates.

Participants heard from politicians, refugees and campaigners about resettlement, the impor tance of finding connection and use of language, and the need to foster a culture of compassion and humanity among communities.

Ms Kitchen and Mr Talor briefed Ararat coun cil on their learnings last month.

Mr Talor said the conference drew participants from across rural Victoria and other states.

“I personally found the conference quite inspir ing, as everyone who attended shared a common goal to advocate for refugees and support them to

resettle and find homes and employment in rural towns,” he said.

“The conference was a memorable one as we listened to the stories and journey of people with lived experience speak on building alliances with government, promoting social inclusion, and connection among youths to grow a culture of compassion and acceptance among communi ties.”

The council’s chief executive Dr Tim Harrison said participating in the RAR conference further endorsed the council’s commitment to the Work force Pilot and New Settlement program.

“Ararat Rural City is proud to be part of Wel coming Cities network and is actively working towards making our community more welcom ing, inclusive and liveable,” he said.

“The pilot program is different to the tempo rary visa program because it is about the longterm settlement of people in our community – it is about improving people’s lives and the longterm prosperity of our municipality.

“Having a vibrant and culturally diverse com munity is good for Ararat’s future – it’s about growing our community and businesses to gether.”

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ACTIVE: Alwyn Kitchen, president of Rural Australians for Refugees Ararat chapter, with Ararat council’s workforce pilot and new settlement program officer Koyeh Talor, following a Rural Australians for Refugees, RAR, conference.

Humbled by award

BY ABBY WALTER

Women’s Health Gram pians equality advocate

Joy Sawiche Juma has been inducted into the 2022 Victorian Honour Roll of Women.

Ms Juma, a former Horsham mid wife, said she was honoured to be inducted with 23 other women who had many accomplishments.

“I was humbled and it felt very special,” she said.

“Women’s Health Grampians nominated me and it was great to see a space for women to be recognised and lifted for the work they do.”

The honour roll celebrates Victo rian women who have made signifi cant and lasting contributions to the state and country.

This year’s inductees included emerging leaders on climate action, women leading through disaster and those working to support vul nerable communities.

Minister for Women Natalie Hutchins said the honour roll was about celebrating the significant and lasting contributions of wom en.

“Victoria is full of remarkable women who are leading the nation in their chosen fields and their com munities,” she said.

“Congratulations to all of this year’s inductees in the Victorian Honour Roll of Women – every one of you has made significant and lasting contributions to our state and you help to inspire others to do the same.”

More than 700 women have been

“I was involved in a program called ‘It takes courage’. The program was for women who did not have English as their first language and who might have been in abusive relationships. It was about what a safe space looks like and how to get help”

named on the Victorian Honour Roll of Women since it began in 2001.

Ms Juma is a midwife and regis tered nurse with Grampians Health in Ballarat.

She chairs the Ballarat Regional Multicultural Council and is an equality advocate for Women’s Health Grampians.

Ms Juma said she worked with migrants, refugees and asylum seekers with settlement and lan guage at the Ballarat Welcome Centre.

“As chair, myself and the com mittee volunteer and support the work of the centre,” she said.

During her 10 years in Horsham, Ms Juma became involved with Women’s Health Grampians.

“I was involved in a program called ‘It takes courage’. The pro gram was for women who did not have English as their first language and who might have been in abu sive relationships,” she said.

“It was about what a safe space looks like and how to get help.

“We also did a book called ‘It takes courage’.

“I am also involved in the ‘Equal ity for All’ program that supports women in the Grampians.

“Through the program, I tell my story and speak about how it feels and what makes it hard to settle in a new place.”

Ms Juma said she was grateful to be inducted into the honour roll for her work.

“It’s good for women to be rec ognised like this,” she said.

“I think as there were only a few women from regional Victoria, we need to keep a lookout for the many women who do things in commu nities.”

High honours for work

Wimmera and Grampians leaders and community organisations have received high honours at Government House in Melbourne last week.

Horsham Centre for Participation re ceived a high commendation for Vo cational Education and Training PreAccredited Education and Training at a Victorian Multicultural Awards for Excellence event.

Centre for Participation chief execu tive Robbie Millar said it was ‘very special’ to receive the recognition.

“The primary focus in the category is the work we do with money from the Department of Education to provide literacy, numeracy and digital literacy courses,” he said.

“We support the migrant community, especially with education in English.

“The award also covers an array of other things we do including training through our social enterprise work.”

Kaniva’s Dawn Austin was award ed the Council on the Ageing Senior Achiever Award.

West Wimmera Shire Council nomi nated Mrs Austin for the award, recog nising contributions she has provided to the community throughout her lifetime.

For more than 30 years, Mrs Austin was a first responder with Ambulance Victoria. As a volunteer and later an am bulance community officer, Mrs Austin treated many friends, family and Kaniva residents in their time of need, and also contributed to fundraising efforts.

Mrs Austin is an active and longstand ing volunteer with Kaniva Golf Club and with Sandsmere CFA for more than 30 years. She is a personal care worker with West Wimmera Shire Council in Kaniva district and also works at the residential aged care cottages in Kaniva for West Wimmera Health Service.

Willaura woman Heather Fleming was also recognised for her community work, which includes East Grampians Health Service where she was awarded a Life Governorship in 2019 — the high est possible awards honour the health service can bestow on an individual.

SPECIAL: Horsham Centre for Participation migrant liaison worker Cecile Vence and chief executive Robbie Millar accept a high commendation at Victorian Multicultural Awards for Excellence event.

– Joy Sawiche Juma, right

Rotary friends welcome

Horsham East Rotary Club has officially launched its ‘Friends of Rotary’ pro gram.

The program provides community-minded people with a chance to become connected to the club and the community.

It was previously an informal program.

Josh Turco is the newest ‘friend’ to join Rotary, having relocated to Horsham to accept a role at GWMWater. His first introduction to the pro gram has been participating in meals-on-wheels.

“I am keen to get to know the Horsham com munity and learn new skills, but not be commit ted to meetings at this time in my life,” he said.

President Jim Delahunty people might choose to become a Friend of Rotary, as opposed to be coming a ‘regular’ member, due to time, work or financial constraints.

He said Friends of Rotary were welcome to apply for full Rotary membership at any time.

He said the club had a group of 14 people in

terested in components of the club, such as the Wimmera Science and Engineering Challenge, meals-on-wheels, community barbecues, selling raffle tickets, organising an annual art fair and participating in the region’s annual careers expo.

Centre of Participation in Horsham co-ordi nates volunteers for meals-on-wheels, among other social support activities.

Chief executive Robbie Millar said volunteer ing numbers had decreased in more recent times.

“The impact of the COVID-19 on volunteers and volunteering has decreased. It remains an important challenge to reinvigorate volunteering and I commend the Rotary Club of Horsham East for this initiative,” he said.

“Research shows the importance of volunteer ing to the economic and social wellbeing of a community.”

People wanting more information about Friends of Rotary can call Wendy Lang on 0438 981 364 or Marie Varley at Centre of Par ticipation on 5381 6701.

UNITED: Horsham East Rotary Club member Robyn Lardner, left, Friend of Rotary Josh Turco and Centre for Participation’s Maree Varley. Mr Turco joined the ‘friends’ program and is now assisting with meals-on-wheels.

Project comes to fruition

BY ABBY WALTER

Years of fundraising and grant applications have re sulted in the opening of a new community pavilion at Goroke.

An almost $2-million pavilion at the town’s recreation reserve includes a social room, kitchen, public toilets and male and female change rooms.

Goroke Recreation Reserve com mittee of management president Nick Gabbe said the new building had been a long time coming.

He said the committee had been working since 2011 to fundraise and establish plans.

“We hope it’s going to be a great asset for the community,” he said.

“It means the committee won’t spend a week leading up to any function or sporting event fixing the building; we will be able to turn the key and walk in with it ready for us.

“Hopefully it is a building that is well used in the decades to come.”

Construction of the new pavilion started in April 2021 and was com pleted in September.

West Wimmera Shire Council re ceived $1.755 million from Sports and Recreation Victoria for the pro ject.

The council contributed $50,000 and the Goroke community $145,000.

Mr Gabbe said the building was available for community functions, with year-12 students from Goroke P-12 College the first to put the building to use for exams last week.

“Social tennis began last Friday, so it will be used for that, plus the Kowree tennis season has started,

too, so there’s been a couple of games here. Hopefully we’ll get use out of the space next football and netball season as well,” he said.

“We have people in the commu nity looking at bringing in rugby as well.”

West Wimmera Shire mayor Bruce Meyer said funding from the State Government for projects meant dreams could become reality for small communities.

“I would also like to recognise the Goroke community for working hard to get this new pavilion up and running,” he said.

“This is their project, we just helped make it happen. This facil ity will help keep sports running in Goroke.

“Without important upgrades to community facilities, such as this new venue at Goroke, sport in small towns is under threat.”

Mr Gabbe said it was a good combination of work between com munity members, the council and State Government.

“Without all the fundraising from the local community, especially Ed win Mitchell and farmers in the area, this would not have been pos

sible,” he said. “We wouldn’t have been able to match the requirement for the grant, and without the help from council project officers we would not have had it shovel-ready to meet eligibility.

“The committee thanks every one who helped, including Goroke Apex Club who donated $30,000.”

The council reported the project came in under budget and the extra money was used to purchase tables and chairs, air-conditioning for the building and complete landscaping works outside.

Horsham to host final Floyd show

The final performance of Australia’s largest scale Pink Floyd concept act Echoes of Pink Floyd ‘A Journey Through Time’ tour reaches Horsham this month.

Echoes of Pink Floyd will take audiences on a ‘musical and visual journey’ from Pink Floyd’s earliest days as darlings of 1960s London’s psychedelic underground, to their 1990s power house performances as masters of stadium rock. The show also provides insight into the amazing evolution of the seminal English prog rockers.

It takes to the Horsham Town Hall stage on Saturday, November 19 at 8pm.

Echoes of Pink Floyd comprises a six-piece band featuring Daniel Hunter on lead guitar, Ja son Miller on drums, Tony Coppola on bass, Paul Bindig on keyboards and synthesizers, Mark MacNab on rhythm and acoustic guitar and Matt Goodluck on lead vocals. The Adelaide-based tribute has toured nationally since 2014.

Hunter said the group wanted to ensure ‘every aspect’ of the original Pink Floyd music was captured ‘authentically’.

People wanting tickets, or more information, can call the town hall on 5382 9555 or visit web site www.horshamtownhall.com.au

By-election deadline

The Victorian Electoral Commission, VEC, is encouraging all Northern Grampians Shire Kara Kara Ward voters to keep an eye on their mail boxes for ballot packs, which are due at St Arnaud electoral office by mail or hand-delivery before 6pm on Friday.

Northern Grampians shire electoral manager John Lyons said the recent floods were causing logistical distress in some parts of the shire.

“With the whole election being conducted by post, it’s incredibly important voters complete and return their ballot material as soon as pos sible,” he said.

The Kara Kara Ward by-election was to elect a Northern Grampians councillor to replace late mayor Tony Driscoll, who died in July.

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COMMUNITY SPACE: Goroke Recreation Reserve committee of management, back, from left, David Buckley, Fred Lowe, Darren Walter, Haydn Wearne, Jarred Lowe and Nick Gabbe, and front, Cliff Allen, Bryce Hausler, Parliamentary Secretary for Sport Danielle Green, Leah Batson, Liz Hage and Louise Gabbe at the opening of a new community pavilion at Goroke.

Additional access to justice on hand

Unfortunately, the justice system does not always work well for everyone.

A key issue in Australia is that often people de cide not to take legal action to protect their rights due to the costs involved with taking any action. This issue can sometimes be known as an ac cess to justice problem.

Access to justice can include getting the right information about the law and how it applies to you; understanding when you have a legal prob lem and knowing what to do about it; getting the right help with a legal problem, including from a lawyer; being able to deal with your legal prob lem and being able to understand the outcome; and making sure your voice is heard when laws are made.

According to the Law Council, more than 13 percent of Australians live under the poverty line, while legal aid is available to just eight percent.

Accordingly, some Australians in poverty are refused access to free legal help.

For this reason, additional government funding for not-for-profit legal services is required.

While there are significant problems with ac cess to justice, it is important to highlight the free services that are available.

Most Wimmera residents are familiar with the work Victoria Legal Aid does in assisting residents of limited means in relation to criminal law matters – Victoria Legal Aid is based at 29 Darlot Street in Horsham – however there is less knowledge of Ballarat and Grampians Commu nity Legal Services, who can assist with a range of matters.

If you have a legal problem and are unable to pay your legal fees, Ballarat and Grampians Community Legal Services might be able to assist. Matters might include family violence, family law, elder abuse, infringements or fines,

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credit and debt matters, powers of attorney, mo tor vehicle accidents, neighbourhood disputes, personal safety intervention orders, victims of crime, summary crime matters, consumer com plaints, Centrelink matters, employment issues, tenancy or police matters.

Ballarat and Grampians Community Legal Ser vices is a not-for-profit legal service funded by federal and state governments and Victoria Legal Aid, which provides free legal advice, informa tion and community legal education to people who live, work or study in the Central Highlands and Wimmera regions.

Ballarat and Grampians Community Legal Services received additional State Government funding to provide face-to-face services in Hor sham. Appointments are available via Horsham Neighbourhood House at 13-15 Robin Street.

For more information on Ballarat and Gram pians Community Legal Services or to make a booking with a solicitor, people can call 5331 5999 or free call 1800 466 488.

• Patrick Smith is the principal of O’Brien and Smith Lawyers. This article is intended to be used as a guide only. It is not, and is not intended to be, advice on any specific matter. Neither Patrick nor O’Brien and Smith Lawyers accept responsibility for any acts or omissions resulting from reliance upon the content of this article. Before acting on the basis of any material in this article, we recommend that you consult your lawyer.

Cook-off winner crowned

Haven resident Nicole Miller is the winner of West Wim mera Health Service’s ‘Grow Local, Eat Local’ cook-off competition.

Competitors were required to use four locally-sourced ingredients in a dish – Mount Zero Pink Lake salt, Mount Zero olives and olive oil, Relish a Mallee Moment to mato chutney and Wimmera Grain Store chickpeas – for a chance to win a prize worth $1000.

Ms Miller’s winning dish

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was Wimmera chickpea burg ers.

Celebrity chef Tim Bone judged the competition, with dishes rated for their taste, practicality, affordability and healthiness, and how well the local ingredients were fea tured.

“The winning dish had all the elements,” Mr Bone said.

“It was delicious, healthy and could easily become a family favourite for rotation on the weekly meal planner.”

Mr Bone hosted a master

class following the competi tion, and he, too, used the same four ingredients re quired in the competition.

Competition organiser and health promotion officer Jake Wiffen said Mr Bone cre ated a ‘delicious’ chickpea, broccoli and cauliflower curry pasta, which was enjoyed by everyone who attended the event.

West Wimmera Health Ser vice’s Health Promotion team organised the competition.

The Department of Health, is pleased to invite applications for part time board director positions of West Wimmera Health Service with terms of office commencing from 1 July 2023.

Safe and high-quality healthcare for all Victorians is a priority of the Department of Health. Applicants for board director positions must be able to demonstrate and provide evidence in support of the capabilities they identify in their application.

Collaboration and health service partnerships is a fundamental enabler for an effective and efficient health system. Being able to demonstrate achievements through collaboration and partnering and strong working relationships, particularly in the Victorian health sector, will be highly valued.

These positions provide an exciting opportunity for members of the Victorian public with relevant experience and capabilities to contribute to the strategic leadership of public health care delivery to the community.

West Wimmera Health Service is a small rural health service that delivers a range of programs and services to the townships and surrounding communities of Nhill, Kaniva, Jeparit, Rainbow, Natimuk, Goroke, Minyip, Murtoa, and Rupanyup. Further information is available on our website https://www.wwhs.net.au

The Department of Health is committed to ensuring that public health boards and committees reflect the rich diversity of the Victorian community.

We encourage applications from women, people of all ages, Aboriginal and / or Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and from lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, gender diverse, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ+) people.

Applications close at Midnight Monday 21 November 2022.

ALL THE ELEMENTS: From left, ‘Grow Local, Eat Local’ cook-off competition winner Nicole Miller, with fellow contestant May Zadow, judge and celebrity chef Tim Bone, contestants Kirstin Campbell and Sharyn Cook and West Wimmera Health Service representative and judge Joelle Brown.

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TERMITES!

Business awards

Celebration

Hundreds of people gathered to cel ebrate regional business excellence during an ACE Radio Wimmera Busi ness Awards gala event at Horsham Town Hall late last month.

A record number of applications from businesses and individuals across Horsham Rural City, Hindmarsh, Northern Grampians, West Wimmera and Yarriambiack shires were present ed to almost 30 independent judges, who selected 46 finalists across 15 categories.

Winners on the night were: Leading start-up business: Wild Duck Kafe; Community service impact award: Horsham Agriculture Society; Retail experience award: Rupanyup Living; Excellence in hospitality: Paper Scis sors Rock Brew Co; Trade or service specialist award: BugROff Pest Bust ers; Excellence in agribusiness: Wim pak; Tourism, events and attractions outstanding experience award: Gram pians Helicopters; Manufacturing and innovation award: Smallaire; Excel lence in health, fitness and wellbeing: West Wimmera Health Service; Pro fessional service industry award: Ca sey Kosch First Aid Training; Smallscale food and beverage producer award: Beetanicals; People’s choice award: The Capital Cafe Bistro; Ap prentice or trainee of the year: Corey Mann, Laser Plumbing and Electrical; Regional woman in business excel lence award: Tanya Stanley, Beetani cals; Employee of the year: Christine Dufty, West Wimmera Health Ser vice; Wimmera business of the year: BugROff Pest Busters.

Pictures: PAUL

FIRST-CLASS: The professional service industry award went to Casey Kosch First Aid Training.

HEALTHY MINDS: West Wimmera Health Service received an award recognising excellence in health, fitness and wellbeing.

INNOVATIVE: Smallaire won the manufacturing and innovation award.

OUTSTANDING: Grampians Helicopters received the tourism, events and attractions outstanding experience award.

TOPS: Wimpak was the excellence in agribusiness award winner.

WELCOME: Paper Scissors Rock Brew Co at Halls Gap received an award for excellence in hospitality.

EXPERIENCE: Rupanyup Living won the retail experience award.

IMPACT: Horsham Agriculture Society representatives accept the community service impact award.

More choice

Ford Australia has announced the addition of a rear-wheel drive four-cylinder version of the Everest Sport large SUV as part of its revised ‘2023.5’ model year line-up, priced from $62,790 plus on-road costs.

The new variant will maintain a 3500kg braked towing capacity and is available exclusively with Ford’s 2.0-litre bi-turbo four-cylinder diesel engine and seven-seat interior layout.

As well as costing $6800 less than the V6 four-wheel drive Sport variant,

the Everest Sport rear-wheel drive, RWD, is $2800 more affordable than an Everest Trend with four-cylinder engine and four-wheel drive. It arrives as standard with black exterior finishes, black 20-inch alloy wheels, Everest bonnet and tailgate badging, a hands-free powered tail gate, leather-accented upholstering with front-seat heating and ventila tion, 10-way power adjustment for the driver’s seat with memory, eight-way power adjustment for the front passen ger seat, and the availability of Blue Lightning paint.

The news comes as Ford makes a range of product and pricing updates to its ‘2023.5’ model year line-up.

As part of the update, the Everest Platinum now receives steel under body protection and a black painted roof, and the availability of 18-inch alloy wheels with all-terrain tyres as a no-cost option.

Further, Everest Sport four-wheel drive, 4WD, and Trend 4WD variants produced from March 2023 onwards will be available with an optional touring pack, which includes black stand-off roof rails, 360-degree cam

era technology, zone lighting and a factory-fitted tow package with inte grated trailer brake controller.

Ford Australia says current MY22 Everest stock will continue to be of fered at the current retail price until such time as production concludes in February 2023.

Thereafter, modest price increases of between $300 and $695 will be ap plied across the range.

Option pricing for the MY23.5 Ever est range remains unchanged, with the exception of the touring pack, which jumps $350 to $2300, and an increase

of $25 to the cost of premium paint, now $700.

Ford Australia president and chief executive Andrew Birkic said the Ev erest Sport had proven to be a ‘very’ popular model since the company re vealed the next generation Everest range earlier this year.

“With the introduction of the Ever est Sport RWD, we are offering our customers more choice, with a very stylish vehicle that can tow the boat and fit the family in safety and com fort,” he said.

Matt Brogan

Ford introduces its Everest Sport rear-wheel drive to ‘tow the boat, fit the family in safety and comfort’

Cupra Born expected in March

Cupra has revealed specifica tions for the electric Born hatch ahead of its March 2023 arrival.

The sporty rear-wheel drive model will boast a 511 kilometre driving range, WLTP, and outputs of 170kW and 310Nm sufficient for a claimed 0-100kmh time of 7.0 seconds.

Although pricing for the Born has not yet been announced, Cupra Aus tralia director Ben Wilks hinted it would bear a sticker ‘similar to our other great hot hatch, the Leon VZx’, which retails from $60,990 and is available drive-away from $66,490.

The Born is expected to be the sec ond most popular model for the Span ish brand, behind the recently released Formentor plug-in hybrid electric ve hicle, PHEV.

For the Australian market, the Cupra Born battery electric vehicle, BEV, will arrive as standard with progres sive steering, sports suspension and black and copper Typhoon 19-inch alloy wheels. It has a 82kWh battery pack, which may be charged at a rate of up to 11kW AC or 170kW DC.

The unique-in-segment Born will be marketed as a dedicated hot hatch locally and has been tuned to deliver ‘instant responses from the throttle and steering’, the brand says.

Its ride, handling and stability con trol tune have all been tailored to spe

cifically match the vehicle’s sporting intentions.

More dynamically, adaptive damp ers and larger Firestorm 20-inch wheels – shod with Michelin Pilot Sport 4 tyres – are offered optionally as part of a performance package, one of two such packs available on the model. The performance package sees range fall to 475km.

Other standard equipment inclusions include LED headlights with auto high beam, a 12.0-inch infotainment array, 5.3-inch driver display, DAB+ digital radio, four USB-C ports, wire less Apple CarPlay and wired Android Auto connectivity, wireless device charging, a rear roof spoiler, heated and power folding wing mirrors, rear tinted windows, a leather-wrapped

steering wheel, and LED ambient in terior lighting.

The model is further equipped with keyless entry and start, dual-zone cli mate control, aluminium pedals, ‘Sea qual’ sports seats, rain-sensing wipers, securtiy alarm and an auto-dimming rear-view mirror.

Standard safety features include adaptive cruise control, 360-degree

cameras, lane assist, front assist, park assist, side assist with rear traffic alert, tyre pressure monitoring and seven airbags.

Cupra Australia will further option the model with heated and power adjustable front seats upholstered in Aurora Blue Dinamica with seat heat ers and 12-way electric adjustment, heated washer jets, and 395W Beats nine-speaker premium sound system as part of an interior package.

Built upon Volkswagen’s MEB dedi cated electric architecture, the Cupra Born offers 385 litres of cargo space with the rear seats in place and to window height.

“The Cupra Leon, Formentor and Ateca have been widely praised by Australian and international media for their clear design, performance and technology focus,” Mr Wilks said.

“The Born is a BEV with a long 500km-plus range, exclusive rearwheel drive hot hatch dynamics, plus the interior space and versatility of a larger vehicle.

“Its specifications are ideal for pro gressive Australian customers who will also be drawn to pricing similar to our other great hot hatch, the Leon VZx.”

– Matt Brogan

ON ITS WAY: The Electric Cupra Born hatch is expected to land in Australia in March, with a 511 kilometre range and a long standard kit list.

Small increase for spruced Juke

Nissan has priced its updat ed-for-2023 Juke crossover from $28,390 plus on-road costs, a modest increase to the manufac turer’s recommended list price of just $400 applied across the sixvariant line-up.

Bringing a new look and improved cabin technology to the range, the light SUV segment contender also benefits from aerodynamic changes and updated badging when it arrives in Australian showrooms from early 2023.

It also heralds the introduction of two new paint colours: ceramic grey and magnetic blue.

Further, lower-end Juke ST and ST+ variants now receive new 17-inch alloy designs, while mid-spec ST-L grades debut new black interior ele ments and leather-accented upholstery with contrasting white stitching.

On some Juke variants, a proximity key offers keyless entry and push-but ton start, and a new premium Bose au dio package includes speakers incor porated into the front head restraints.

Higher-grade ST-L+ and Ti variants gain two additional speakers in the rear, taking the total speaker count to 10.

Powering the Juke is a turbocharged 1.0-litre three-cylinder petrol engine producing 84kW and 180Nm. It is paired exclusively to a seven-speed

dual-clutch transmission and can re turn a fuel consumption figure as low as 5.8 litres per 100km on the ADR combined cycle.

All Juke grades benefit from a fivestar ANCAP safety rating.

The Juke range again begins with the entry-spec ST, from $28,390 plus onroad costs, which is equipped with 17inch alloys, a rear spoiler, LED day time running lights, auto folding and heated wing mirrors, paddle-shifters, idle-stop and a 4.2-inch TFT display as part of the instrument panel.

Nissan has also specified the Juke

ST with an 8.0-inch infotainment ar ray incorporating wired Apple Car Play and Android Auto connectivity, four speakers and voice recognition.

The base model features cloth uphol stery and six-way manual seat adjust ment on the driver’s side, as well as a long list of standard safety equip ment including a rear-view camera and reverse parking sensors, alarm, forward collision warning, auto emer gency braking, lane departure warning intervention, traffic sign recognition, cruise control and speed limiter, blindspot monitoring, rear cross-traffic

Lexus confirms all-electric SUV

Lexus Australia has confirmed it will offer its RZ450e allelectric SUV from mid next year, with a claimed driving range of up to 450km, but final specifications and pricing will not be announced until closer to launch.

As the Japanese luxury brand’s first dedicated battery electric vehicle, BEV, the RZ450e showcases what Lexus says are advanced technologies and innovations developed through more than 15 years of expertise with electric motor, battery and energy management systems for its popular hybrid models.

Lexus says the RZ breaks new ground as the first BEV from the brand to be built from a clean-sheet

design. The model rides on a specific version of Toyota’s e-TNGA platform that allows batteries to be placed low to the ground for optimal weight dis tribution and a low centre of gravity.

Further, the Lexus RZ450e utilises the brand’s Direct4 all-wheel drive system that not only offers additional traction but can also automatically adjust front-to-rear torque delivery in response to acceleration, cornering speed and steering angle inputs to maximise grip, stability, and comfort.

Lexus says it has designed the cabin of the RZ450e around its human-cen tric Tazuna philosophy, which aims to place all vehicle controls intuitively while also ‘welcoming occupants with thoughtful appointments’.

Output figures of its dual-motor

RZ450e are yet to be announced, but Lexus says the model’s battery tech nology offers a world-class capacity retention rate of ‘at least 90 percent after 10 years’, thanks, in part, to a built-in timer function that avoids over-charging.

The RZ450e measures 4805mm in length, 1895mm in width, 1635mm in height and rides on a 2850mm wheel base and 20-inch alloy wheels.

The SUV has a MacPherson strut suspension up front and a trailing arm double-wishbone arrangement at the rear.

Damping is managed by frequen cy-reactive dampers, which alter the damping force on the extension stroke in response to read surface frequency input.

PRACTICAL: Nissan says the new Juke places renewed focus on practicality by offering a relocatable luggage board across the range, which helps to make the most of boot storage that already ranks as the largest in its class.

alert, intelligent driver assist, highbeam assist, emergency stop signal and hill-start assist.

From $31,140 plus on-road costs, the Juke ST+ adds LED fog lights, au tomatic climate control, heated front seats, satellite navigation, DAB+ digi tal radio and front parking sensors.

Moving up to the Juke ST-L, 19-inch alloys, a shark fin-style antenna, key less entry and ignition, an electrochro matic rear-view mirror, rain-sensing wipers, ambient interior lighting, elec tric park brake with auto hold, a larger 7.0-inch TFT screen on the instrument

panel, rear USB outlet, three drive modes and a vanity mirror with illu mination feature.

The ST-L further gains leather-ac cented front armrest, steering wheel and gear shift knob trim plus a six-way manually adjustable front passenger seat, a six-speaker stereo, 360-degree camera technology with moving object detection and adaptive cruise control.

Like the Juke ST, the ST-L is topped by a ‘+’ variant, from $35,540 plus on-road costs, adding cloth and leath er-accented combination upholstery, a white leather-accented dashboard, knee pad, door trim and front armrest, and a black chrome centre console and head restraint finisher. The variant also scores a 10-speaker Bose audio system.

Topping the 2023 Nissan Juke range is the Ti and Ti Energy Orange duo priced identically at $36,890 plus onroad costs.

Both variants feature 19-inch alloy wheels, illuminated sill covers, fol low-me-home headlights, quilted and leather-accented upholstery with Al cantara trim, dashboard, knee pad and door panels, a soft instrument panel visor and tyre pressure monitoring.

Differentiating the Juke Ti Energy Orange variant are black and orange leather-accented upholstery, dash board, knee pad, door trims and front armrest.

– Matt Brogan

The RZ450e is steered by a yokestyle ‘wheel’ and steer-by-wire tech nology, along with Lexus’ new Direct4 all-wheel drive-force distribution. The

arrangement aims to create ‘vehicle control that is faithful to the driver’s every intention’, Lexus claims.

Matt Brogan

LEADING THE WAY: Lexus Australia leads the premium segment in terms of electrified vehicle sales with a 47.3 percent share across the first nine months of 2022.

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“Sayonara”

(’57)

“Convoy” (M d,s,v) (’78) Stars: Kris Kristofferson 12:15 My Favourite Martian 12:45 Explore 1:00 Home Shopping 4:00 Religious Programs 4:30 Home Shopping

Silent Witness (M n,v)

3:30 South Aussie With Cosi (PG)

Investigation (PG) 7:00

Australia’s Front

Carr’s

(PG)

(PG) 8:30

With Agatha Christie

Journeys

The Fairly OddParents 4:35 The Beachbuds 5:00 Miraculous: Tales Of

Cat

6:00 Home Shopping 7:00 Weekend Sunrise 10:00 The Morning Show - Weekend (PG) 12:00 House Of Wellness (PG) 1:00 Border Security - Australia’s Front Line (PG) 1:30 Cricket: Womens Big Bash League: Melbourne Renegades v Sydney Thunder *Live* 5:00 Seven News At 5 5:30 Border Security - Australia’s Front Line (PG) 6:00 Seven News 7:00 Australia’s Got Talent (PG) 8:45 Armed And Dangerous (M)

3:00 Hook Line And Sinker (PG) 4:00 Mark Berg’s Fishing Addiction (PG) 4:55 Movie: “The Lego Ninjago Movie” (PG) (’17) Stars: Dave Franco 7:00 Movie: “Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince” (M h,v) (’09) Stars: Alan Rickman 10:15 Movie: “300” (MA15+) (’06)

6:00 Rivals 6:30 A Current Affair (PG) 7:00 Weekend Today 10:00 Sports Sunday (PG) 11:00 Women’s Footy (PG) 12:00 Reel Destinations 12:30 Fishing Australia 1:00 Great Australian Detour 1:30 Spy In The Wild (PG) 2:40 The Block (PG) 4:00 Bondi Vet (PG) 5:00 NINE News: First At Five 5:30 Postcards (PG) 6:00 NINE News Sunday 7:00 The Block (PG) 8:50 60 Minutes (PG) 9:50 NINE News Late 10:20 The First 48 (M)

11:00 The Middle (PG) 12:30 To Kingdom Come (PG) 2:00 Basketball: Round 6: New Zealand Breakers v Sydney Kings *Live* 4:00 Basketball: Round 6: Melbourne United v South East Melbourne Phoenix *Live* 6:00 The Big Bang Theory (PG) 9:00 Friends (PG)

2:00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield 2:30 Freshly Picked With Simon Toohey 3:00 Cook With Luke 3:30 Farm To Fork (PG) 4:00 Well Traveller (PG) 4:30 Taste Of Australia With Hayden Quinn 5:00 10 News First 6:30 The Sunday Project (PG) 7:30 The Traitors (PG) 9:10 NCIS: Hawaii (M v) 10:10 FBI (M v) 11:00 The Sunday Project (PG) 12:00 Home Shopping 4:30 CBS Mornings

12:00 Scorpion (PG) 1:00 Pooches At Play 1:30 Destination Dessert 2:00 What’s Up Down Under 2:30 Football: Round 5: Brisbane Roar v Sydney FC *Live* 5:30 Reel Action 6:00 Bondi Rescue (PG) 6:30 MacGyver (M) 7:30 NCIS (M v) 10:20 48 Hours (M)

12:00 Worldwatch 1:00 Motor Sports: Speedweek 3:00 Football: Countdown To Qatar 4:00 Sportswoman: Nadia Nadim 4:30 Figure Skating: ISU Grand Prix Canada 5:30 Ascot Kayaking 5:35 ETOA - A Kokoda Track Story (PG) (In English/ Tok Pisin) 6:30 SBS World News 7:30 Curse Of The Ancients: Middle Ages (PG) 8:30 King Tut - Allies And Enemies (PG) 10:30 Sex And Sensibility (MA15+) 11:25 Planet Expedition (PG)

3:50 Insight (PG) 4:50 Forged In Fire (PG) 5:40 The Bee Whisperer (PG) 6:40 The Buildings That Fought Hitler (PG) 7:35 Abandoned Engineering (M) 8:30 UnXplained With William Shatner (M) 9:20 Cracking The Code (M) 10:20 Dark Side Of Comedy (MA15+)

(PG) 5:30 Hardball

3:00 The Wonder Gang 3:30 Play School 4:00 Emma! 4:35 Mecha Builders 5:00 Love Monster 5:30 Kiri And Lou 6:05 Interstellar Ella 6:25 Alva’s World 7:00 Andy And The Band 7:30 Australia Remastered 8:30 Louis Theroux: Surviving America’s Most Hated Family (MA15+)

Sunrise 9:00 The Morning Show 11:30

Movie: “Chris

Confessions Of A Killer” (M v) (’20)

Sean Kleier 2:00

3:00 ABC News 3:30 Offsiders 4:00 Landline 5:00 ABC News With Auslan 5:30 The World This Week 6:00 ABC Evening News 6:30 Foreign Correspondent 7:00 ABC News Sunday 7:30 Insiders 8:30 ABC News Tonight 9:00 ABC Nightly News 9:30 Australian Story

3:00 Full Bloom (PG) 4:00 Dance Moms (PG) 5:00 About A Boy (PG) 5:30 Movie: “Wayne’s World” (PG) (’92) Stars: Mike Myers 7:30 Movie: “The Fast And The Furious” (M l,v) (’01) Stars: Paul Walker 9:35 Movie: “2 Fast 2 Furious” (M l,v) (’03) Stars: Cole Hauser

12:40 Movie: “I’ve Gotta Horse” (G) (’65) Stars: Billy Fury 2:35 Movie: “Golden Ivory” (PG) (’54) Stars: John Bentley 4:30 Movie: “The Wonderful Country” (PG) (’59) Stars: Robert Mitchum 6:30 Cricket: ICC T20 World Cup: India v TBA *Live* 10:00 TBA

Media

Four Corners (PG)

(PG) 9:35 Planet

Deadliest (PG) 3:00 The Chase UK (PG) 4:00 Seven News At 4 5:00 The Chase Australia (PG) 6:00 Seven News 7:00 Home And Away (PG) 7:30 This Is Your Life: Rebecca Gibney (PG) 9:20 9-1-1 (M) 10:20 S.W.A.T. (M v) 11:20 The Latest Seven News

3:30 Australian Rally Championship 4:30 Repco

Support Highlights 5:30 American Restoration (PG) 6:00 American Pickers (PG)

Pawn Stars (PG) 7:30 American Pickers (PG) 8:30 Movie: “Django Unchained” (MA15+) (’12) Stars: Jamie Foxx

3:00 Remy & Boo 3:30 Play School 4:00 Emma! 4:35 Mecha Builders

Love Monster 5:30 Kiri And Lou 6:10

And Holly’s Little Kingdom 6:25 Alva’s

7:10 Shaun The Sheep 7:30 The Poles

(PG) 8:30 Long

George Clarke’s

6:00 Today 9:00 Today Extra 11:30 NINE’s Morning News 12:00 The Block (PG) 1:50 Talking Honey (PG) 2:00 Pointless (PG) 3:00 Tipping Point (PG) 4:00 NINE’s Afternoon News 4:30 Millionaire Hot Seat 5:30 WIN News 6:00 NINE News 7:00 A Current Affair (PG) 7:30 My Mum, Your Dad (M) 9:10 Under Investigation (M) 10:10 Suburban Gangsters (M) 11:10 NINE News Late 11:40 The Equalizer (M v) 12:30 Emergence (M v)

12:00 The Big Bang Theory (PG) 12:30 Friends (PG) 2:30 The Middle (PG) 3:00 The King Of Queens (PG) 4:00 Becker (PG) 5:00 Frasier (PG) 6:00 Friends (PG) 8:00 The Big Bang Theory (PG) 9:30 Seinfeld (PG) 11:00 Frasier (PG) 12:00 Home Shopping

2:40 Entertainment Tonight 3:00 Judge Judy (PG) 3:30 My Market Kitchen 4:00 Farm To Fork 4:30 The Bold And The Beautiful (PG) 5:00 10 News First 6:30 The Project (PG) 7:30 The Traitors (M) 8:40 Have You Been Paying Attention? (M) 9:40 Ghosts (M) 10:10 Peter Helliar: Loopy (MA15+) 11:25 The Project (PG) 12:25 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert (PG) 1:30 Home Shopping 4:30 CBS Mornings

12:00 NCIS: Los Angeles (PG) 1:00 NCIS: New Orleans (PG) 2:00 Bull (M) 3:00 Bondi Rescue (PG) 3:30 The Love Boat (PG) 4:30 Star Trek: The Next Generation (PG) 5:30 MacGyver (PG) 7:30 NCIS (M) 10:20 The Code (M v) 11:15 Blood & Treasure (M) 12:15 Home Shopping

12:10 Worldwatch 2:00 Apocalypse - The Second World War (PG) (In English/ French/ German) 3:00 Journey Through Albania 3:40 The Cook Up With Adam Liaw (PG) 4:10 Empire With Michael Portillo (PG) 5:05 Jeopardy! (PG) 5:30 Letters And Numbers 6:00 Mastermind (PG) 6:30 SBS World News 7:30 Celebrity Letters And Numbers (M) 8:30 Scotland’s Extreme Medics (M l) 9:25 24 Hours In Emergency (M)

3:50 ABC World News Tonight With David Muir 4:20 ABC America This Week 5:15 Shortland Street (PG) 5:45 The Joy Of Painting With Bob Ross (PG) 6:15 Forged In Fire (PG) 7:05 Jeopardy! (PG) 7:30 NITV News Update 7:35 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown (M l,s) 8:30 Taskmaster (M)

Family (PG)

3:15 ABC News Afternoons 4:00 Afternoon Briefing 5:00 ABC News Hour 6:00 The Drum 7:00 ABC National News 7:30 7.30 8:00 ABC News Tonight 8:45 The Business 9:00 ABC Nightly News 9:30 Kurt Fearnley’s One Plus One 10:00 The World 11:00 The Drum

3:00 The Nanny (PG) 3:30 Everybody Loves Raymond (PG) 5:30 The Nanny (PG) 6:00 3rd Rock From The Sun (PG) 6:30 That 70’s Show (PG) 7:00 Young Sheldon (PG) 7:30 The Weakest Link USA (PG) 8:30 Dating No Filter UK (M) 9:30 Love Island Australia (M)

3:00 Antiques Roadshow 3:30 Movie: “The Angry Silence” (PG) (’60) Stars: Richard Attenborough 5:30 Murder, She Wrote (PG) 6:30 Antiques Roadshow 7:30 Death In Paradise (PG) 8:40 Whitstable Pearl (M) 10:40 Law & Order: SVU (M) 11:40 Antiques Roadshow

Frasier

12:30 The

Frasier

6:00 Today 9:00 Today Extra 11:30 NINE’s Morning News 12:00 My Mum, Your Dad (M) 1:50 Talking Honey (PG) 2:00 Pointless (PG) 3:00 Tipping Point (PG) 4:00 NINE’s Afternoon News 4:30 Millionaire Hot Seat 5:30 WIN News 6:00 NINE News 7:00 A Current Affair (PG) 7:30 My Mum, Your Dad (M) 9:10 Travel Guides (PG) 10:10 Botched (MA15+) 11:10 NINE News Late 11:40 Skin A&E (M v) 12:40 Tipping Point (PG) 12:00 NCIS: Los Angeles (PG) 1:00 NCIS: New Orleans (PG) 2:00 Bull (M) 3:00 Bondi Rescue (PG) 3:30 The Love Boat (PG) 4:30 Star Trek: The Next Generation (PG) 5:30 MacGyver (PG) 7:30 NCIS (M) 8:30 Bull (M) 10:20 48 Hours (M) 12:15 Home Shopping 2:15 The Code (M)

4:00

ABC News Hour 6:00 The Drum 7:00 ABC National News 7:30 7.30 8:00 ABC News

8:45 The Business 9:00 ABC Nightly

9:30

10:00 The World 11:00 The Drum 12:00

Late

3:00 The Nanny (PG) 3:30 3rd Rock From The Sun (PG) 4:00 That 70’s Show (PG) 4:30 Everybody Loves Raymond (PG) 5:30 The Nanny (PG) 6:00 3rd Rock From The Sun (PG) 6:30

3:30 3rd Rock From The Sun (PG) 4:00 That 70’s Show (PG)

Everybody Loves Raymond (PG)

Nanny (PG)

Sun (PG)

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1. What town in the Rural City of Ararat starting with ‘P’, originally named after a Roman goddess, had a slight name change in 1904 to avoid confusion with a similarly named town else where in Australia?

2. If you walk from Flat Rock to Mt Stapylton in the northern Grampians you will come across a dis tinctive rock face or crag, popular with rock-climb ers, that shares one of its names with what Australian snake?

3. As humans, like many other mammals but not all, we are viviparous. What does this mean?

4. Unfortunately, Wim mera waterways have be come home to what nox ious pest fish, introduced into Australia in 1925 and often mistaken by novice anglers as native bait spe cies?

5. What Yarriambiack Shire settlement gets its name from the Book of Isaiah, 62:4 that translated can mean ‘married’ or ‘in habited’?

6. True or false? The spread of gum trees around the world from seed in the 1880s led to Benedictine monks in Italy creating a liqueur they called Euca latino.

7. Where do you find eus tachian tubes?

8. Which has feathery an tennas – moths or butter flies?

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ARIES: (March 21- April 20)

Lucky Colour: Apricot Lucky Day: Tuesday Racing Numbers: 2-4-9-1 Lotto Numbers: 12-23-24-28-31-38

Unexpected travel and sudden changes in social life could cause a little problem with your timetable but nothing you cannot handle. Some money matters that have been waiting to be decided upon are now very prominent.

TAURUS: (April 21- May 20)

Lucky Colour: Emerald Lucky Day: Sunday Racing Numbers: 3-6-1-8 Lotto Numbers: 1-5-11-26-30-45

Many singles could be making wedding plans during the next few months. Keep a tight grip on that purse of yours – you could be in too generous a mood to handle money matters properly. Loved ones could be returning to your life.

GEMINI: (May 21- June 21)

Lucky Colour: Pink Lucky Day: Saturday Racing Numbers: 3-6-1-5 Lotto Numbers: 13-15-17-22-34-41

This could be the time of year when you meet up with long-lost friends and old flames and social life should be very busy. Any official business should be looked after carefully – maybe it should be attended to by professionals.

CANCER: (June 22- July 22)

Lucky Colour: Sky Blue Lucky Day: Friday Racing Numbers: 5-5-1-6 Lotto Numbers: 3-4-14-18-22-44

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You might not be in the best of moods in the beginning of this period but as time passes, your mood should change. Your financial matters should also get a boost for the better so keep an eye out for opportunities.

LEO: (July 23- August 22)

Lucky Colour: Orange Lucky Day: Wednesday Racing Numbers: 5-7-1-3 Lotto Numbers: 20-24-29-36-37-40

A good time to talk things over with friends and plan for the holiday period – some travel should be in the wind. Double check all bookings and reservations to make sure that nothing has gone wrong.

VIRGO: (August 23- September 23)

Lucky Colour: Dark Green

Lucky Day: Monday Racing Numbers: 4-8-1-6 Lotto Numbers: 18-21-33-35-37-40

Some very surprising happenings during the next few weeks. Problems should be able to be solved and worries turn to victories and general well-being should prevail.

LIBRA: (September 24- October 23)

Lucky Colour: Blue Lucky Day: Saturday Racing Numbers: 4-1-7-3 Lotto Numbers: 4-12-13-30-37-42

Some will get very much involved with a love relationship, which will take up a lot of their time. Many will find it very difficult to come to terms with their emotional drive and their sense of security.

SCORPIO: (October 24- November 22)

Lucky Colour: White Lucky Day: Friday Racing Numbers: 8-1-7-3 Lotto Numbers:7-8-16-32-37-43

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Many could be accepting a rather exotic and romantic affair. However, be very careful and consider the consequences well before getting too deeply involved. Don’t put your trust in strangers.

SAGITTARIUS: (November 23- December 20)

Lucky Colour: Red Lucky Day: Monday Racing Numbers: 1-9-6-4 Lotto Numbers: 4-14-15-24-29-40

Some very harmonious periods coming up at home. Many will try to influence other people and make them accept their ideas. The time for that is very favourable at present.

CAPRICORN: (December 21- January 19)

Lucky Colour: Black Lucky Day: Tuesday Racing Numbers: 4-1-9-7 Lotto Numbers: 9-11-32-39-41-43

Try to be very tactful, for then will you be able to get loved ones on your side. But if you try to force your opinion onto others, you will meet with some resistance. Many are in for a bit of a windfall with a ticket in a lottery.

AQUARIUS: (January 20- February 19)

Lucky Colour: Black Lucky Day: Friday Racing Numbers: 5-1-7-9 Lotto Numbers: 10-13-23-28-34-41

Many Aquarians will have a very lucky period coming up for them. They seem to be in the right place at the right time with the right people. A very favourable time to try out new ventures. An unexpected romantic interlude coming your way.

PISCES: (February 20- March 20) Lucky Colour: Beige Lucky Day: Thursday Racing Numbers: 5-1-7-3 Lotto Numbers: 13-14-21-22-31-43

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BURLISON, Ronald James (Ron)

Passed away on October 20, 2022 aged 72 years.

Dearly loved husband of Helen.

Loving father and father-inlaw of Fiona; Kelly & Tim. Adored Pop (Tockie) to James & Lily.

Keep on Truckin

HEARD, Adrian Mark

Passed away in Portland on October 23, 2022 aged 50 years.

Father of Lori and Harrison. Brother and brother-in-law of Sharee & Campbell; and Matthew.

Son of Ian & Shirly (dec). Now At Rest

WHITE, Yvonne Elizabeth

Passed away on October 21, 2022 aged 71 years.

Dearly loved wife of Robin (dec).

Loved mother of Michael and Moya. Adored Nan to Taylan and Axel. Reunited with Dad

BURLISON, Ronald James (Ron)

Ron Burlison was farewelled at a private family gathering.

Trevor Bysouth & Daughter Ph 5381 1444 AFDA Member

HEARD, Adrian Mark

The Funeral of Adrian Mark Heard will take place at the Graveside, Horsham Lawn Cemetery on Thursday, November 3, 2022 commencing at 2pm

Two years on and we still miss you everyday.

Thinking of you always, Jeff, Maddie, Steph, Jeremey, Tom

SCHILLING, (nee Dumesny)

Susan

Passed away 3-11-2021.

Aged 57.

Thank you for being the most amazing daughter, mum and grandma.

The love and laughter you brought to our family is treasured forever.

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Ph 0429647095

Bristlenose catfish, great tank cleaners $5 each until sold out Ph 0474159010 after 6.30pm

Budgies, young, asstd colours $10ea Ph 0423182267

Goats wanted Ph 0427361940

1950 Bondwood caravan, 12’ 4 berth small, porthole window, restoration started, windows not fitted, W2 x H2.4m $2500 Ph 0400696362 Horsham

1960s Bondwood caravan 14’ white, alloy roof, 4 birth, W2.1x H2.5m, light grey and red interior, almost complete restoration, needs trim inside and out etc $4500 Ph 0400696362 Horsham

2013 On the Move caravan 21’, as new colour co-ordinated annex, cafe style eating area, lovely deco, q/bed, large 2 door fridge/freezer, washing machine, immaculate condition $45,000, Ph 0407812480

Trevor Bysouth & Daughter Ph 5381 1444 AFDA Member

WHITE, Yvonne Elizabeth

The Funeral of Yvonne Elizabeth White will take place at the Graveside, Murtoa Cemetery on Friday, November 4, 2022 commencing at 1.30pm

Murtoa Funerals

Trevor Bysouth & Daughter Ph 5385 2833 AFDA Member

“Of all the special gifts in life, however great or small, To have you as my daughter was the greatest gift of all.”

Forever loved.

Mum xx Jan Dumesny (nee Bye) I will carry you with me wherever I go, in my heart forever.

Julie x

WOODHART ~ Max ~

Passed away November 5, 2021

Always in our hearts We miss you so much Faye, Jason, Dean and families.

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Pet carrier crate for cat or dog, large $50 Ph 0473870476

Pure breed black faced Dorper ewe lambs, pic# 3HSDC083 Ph Liz 0419664345

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Jayco Discovery pop-top, 2013, vin# 6AM000000DIR52049, tare 1518, regit til Aug 23, roll out awning, full annex, ground floor mat, shower toilet and hand basin, hot and cold water, solar with battery plus two extra solar panels, wind u antenna, two single beds, tv with dvd, built in radio, hot plates 3 gas one elec with grill plus microwave, reverse cycle split level air con, stabiliser bars and caravan mover, EC $28,000ono Ph 0409967815 Horsham

2002 Avan, 17.6” Tandem, pop top, elec hot water, double bed with bolster, R.O.A, full anexe, 12v system, VGC, S24,000 ONO, Ph 0427861316

2003 Canterbury Signature series caravan, 17’ tandem, d/bed, elec hot water, air con, fridge, awning, reg 3/23 $16,000 Ph 0437164589 Ararat

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36HV Smale pick up, all harvest ready Ph

John Deere model D 1953 tractor, restored

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In Loving Memory of Patricia Anne Milton

91 Garden Gnomes, wholesale $2600 or $2000

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Aircon Levanti, VGC $300 Ph 0428527544

Antique 1890 era solid iron babies cot, brass knobs on either end Ph 53981238

Arock recovery winch , 12v, as new , only used once $200, Pareless elec welder $100 Ph 0409891308

Berands 5’ slasher $1250 Ph 0481864397

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Cabin type canvas tent, 12x15 metal poles, 3 rooms $95ono, King single bed, double decker single bed, full size tennis table with net bats and balls Ph 0429092349 will deliver local area

Carpet mat, heavy quality, GC, 1.6x2.3 $60ono Ph 53822267

Clearance of plants, some citrus 53844274

Craft generator, 5.5hp, 240v $400 Ph 0487313892

Deutz mag air seeder, motor with fan, all accessories $700ono Ph 0407911884

Multiple items for sale, Paslode gun with extra gas cartridges and nails, ozito miter saw plus impact driver plus multi tool plus circular saw under warranty, Feiyu Tech G5 gimbal for action camera, PS3 with 20 plus games, Epson printer, brand new Hikoki charger, Mavic Pro drone with 2 batteries and portable bag, call for prices, Ph or text 0419600049

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2012 Holden Cruze,1.8 manual, regularly serviced, recent major service with timing belt replacement, water pump and all pulleys, new tyres, bluetooth android touch screen stereo and reverse camera, in daily use, no issues, 1TY2JR $6000ono Ph 0415772074

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2001 Jeep Cherokee Sport Wagon, 4X4, 3.7L V6, engine# 2W154632, 216,100kms, 1TV 3JA $2,450 Ph 0429821539

Light blue Toyota carona sport, 2005, 311,000kms, TRD592 Ph 0493100329

Mitsubishi Magna 1997,

vin# 6MMTE6D42VT038104, 241,000kms $800 Ph 53912077

1977 Holden 1 tonne ute, 95%

chassi 411933-A, $8500 Ph 0447972097

2000 Holden Statesman VH auto, 6cyl, 3.8 petrol, white, 282,000kms, QIU916 $6000 Ph 0491034206

2004 6 Cylinder Fairlane Ghia runs very well, leather seats, reg until Dec 2022, 220,000km, WLP718, $7000 Ph Bev 0402910990

Holden Gemini x2 , 1981 TE8TF69-188333B, 4dr sed man SL, 1983 TG8TF69-241320B, 4dr sed man SL, as is both $4300ono Ph 0427801969 no text

2016 Pajero Sport Exceed 7 seat auto 4x4 diesel, roof racks, RWC supplied registered until Jan 2023, great family car, 98000kms, 1IW2AK $40,950 Ph 0418361268

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A Grade cricketers hit the pitch

BY MICHAEL SCALZO

It might seem recent spring rain and delays to the region’s cricket season have ended after Horsham Cricket Association A Grade cricketers made successful starts to the 2022-23 season at the weekend.

With competition racing towards a round six fixture already this week end, players will hope conditions at Rupanyup Recreation Reserve will hold up enough for an uninterrupted arrival of the season’s first one-day games.

Nhill’s Davis Park will feature again on Saturday, as it did at the weekend, set to host West Wimmera Warriors and Bullants players on its hard wick et from 1pm. Rupanyup-Minyip will host Jung Tigers at Rupanyup.

But before players move to the longer format this weekend, A Grade players ended their scheduled spring-season 20-over fixture on Saturday, with a round-five double-header at Davis Park.

As pitches and ovals continue to dry off, B Grade and C Grade squads, pinched for available cricket-ready ovals, again had to delay their season start by another week.

West Wimmera Warriors and Rupa nyup-Minyip players took to the pitch in the early afternoon, with Warriors

bowlers taking early wickets against the Blue Panthers’ top order.

Rupanyup-Minyip opener Lachlan Weidemann only lasted a single ball before he exited for a duck, while Jake Leith, batting at first drop, followed him out the door shortly after with a duck of his own.

Among falling wickets, Connor Weidemann plugged away for two overs before he went for 13.

It was Jamie Byrne and Bailey Young who found a rhythm for the Blue Panthers in the end, holding out for a combined 49 runs across nearly

13 overs, before the lower order added single-figure tallies to round out the innings.

For the Warriors, it was Zak Guin iven who claimed two scalps, while Xavier Bone, Nathan Alexander, Jer emy Weeks and Liam Preston all claimed one each – Guiniven’s two for 10 across four overs the most economical and damaging of the War riors’ attack.

The Warriors needed 75 to win and it was Alexander at the top of the order with a punchy seven that got them started before his exit, and the arrival

DEEP SQUARE: RupanyupMinyip middleorder batter Bailey Young goes square during his 29-run innings against West Wimmera Warriors at Davis Park, Nhill.

opener Shane Oakley who anchored the Bullants response to an even ly-spread Jung Tigers innings with the bat.

Tigers’ middle-order batters Tyler Puls, 23, Conor Lawson, 15, and Jake Durdin, 15, all made scores of note to help the Tigers to eight for 95 after 20 overs before the Bullants’ Jordan McDonald cleaned up the lower order with a stump-to-stump bowling and figures of three wickets for 23. That was before Oakley was allowed the chance to put any nervous Bullants supporters at ease – his 54 lasting almost the Bullants innings before he was bowled by Durdin, one run short of victory.

The Bullants’ two for 97 was more than enough to close out the match with three overs to spare.

of Mitch Dahlenburg and Preston.

Dahlenburg, with a 26 not out, paired with Preston’s blistering 23 runs from 26 balls, was enough to leave only 13 runs the discrepancy once Lachlan Weidemann ran out Preston.

Guiniven and Weeks closed out the innings with just under three overs to spare and a comfortable win for the Warriors.

The day’s second twenty-over match treated spectators to a high run tally and perhaps the day’s highlight during the afternoon and early evening – an almost run-a-ball 54 from Bullants

This week: A Grade, RupanyupMinyip v Jung Tigers, Rupanyup Rec reation Reserve; West Wimmera War riors v Bullants, Davis Park. Homers, bye.

Last week: A Grade, West Wimmera Warriors 3-75 (M.R. Dahlenberg 26, L. Preston 23) d Rupanyup-Minyip 7-74 (B. Young 29, J. Byrne 20no, Z. Guiniven 2-10); Bullants 2-97 (S. Oakley 54, T. Caccaviello 20, M. Combe 17no, J.W. McDonald 3-23) d Jung Tigers 8-95 (T. Puls 23, C. Law son 15, J. Durdin 15). Homers, bye.

Picture: PAUL CARRACHER

TRIPLES WINNERS: Horsham City bowling team, from left, Kevin Gepp, Gary Knight and Ron Goudie are Horsham City Bowling Club Seniors Month Triples Bowls winners. Teams from Horsham City and Coughlin Park played three games of 10 ends to decide the winners of the triples tournament on Wednesday last week. At the end of the day, only one team had won three games. The winning team finished with 81 points. The team of John Lehmann, skip, Derek Ballinger and Marie Lehmann on 62 points was runner-up.

Grampians underway

BY ‘ONE SHORT’

Cricket is underway in the Grampi ans Cricket Association, albeit in somewhat chaotic circumstances.

Ground inspections by the pennant com mittee revealed that only Great Western and Stawell’s North Park were fit enough to play cricket.

In order to give every team a game of cricket, officials decided to play round two as a Twenty20 fixture with back-to-back matches on the two grounds.

This excellent plan came unstuck when both Chalambar and Halls Gap 2 could not field a team and forfeited, leaving one match at Great Western and North Park.

Officials then decided to continue with the back-to-back format and shifted the game at North Park to Great Western.

The first match was between SwiftsGreat Western 2 and St Andrews, with the Saints winning by seven runs.

The Saints were asked to bat and reached 6-97, a reasonable score considering the slow outfield.

Best of the Saints’ batsmen was Matt Spalding with 28 runs, with Combine bowler Stewart McPherson the best with 3-14.

In reply, the Combine reached 5-92 with opener Jack Cann top-scoring with 29 and McPherson chipped in with 21 not out.

The Saints can thank James Hosking, 4-18, for their win.

The second match was a low-scoring event with Halls Gap 1 dismissed for 64 and Rymney-Moyston reaching only 7-44 in reply.

Luke Stevens was the stand-out batsmen with 24.

Mitchell Hill recorded a remarkable 6-5 for ‘Rymston’ to be the stand-out with the ball.

This week’s draw sees Swifts-Great Western 1 v Rhymney-Moston 2 at Cen tral Park in Stawell, Rhymney-Moyston 1 v Chalambar at Moyston, Pomonal v St Andrews at Pomonal, Swifts-Great West ern 2 v Halls Gap 2 at Great Western.

Halls Gap 1 has a bye.

Officials are hoping that a few more

grounds are available, although the turf at Stawell’s Central Park is doubtful; North Park is free if needed.

The main match will be at Pomonal be tween the Tigers and the Saints.

The Saints are on the winner’s list in round two, whereas Pomonal have yet to play.

The Saints had good games from Matt Spalding, Jack Jennings and James Hosk ing in round one and will need a repeat against an unknown Tigers line-up.

Rhymney-Moyston 1 will be tested against Chalambar in a game, where nei ther team has hit the park.

Swifts-Great Western 2 is drawn to play Halls Gap 2. The Combine showed enough last game to suggest they will have the form to prevail against the Gappers.

The final match is rather a ‘David v Goliath’ tussle between the unrevealed Combine and Rhymney-Moyston 2.

‘Rymston’ did not do enough against Halls Gap to suggest they will trouble the powerhouse Combine.

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Lawn takes top position

Central Wimmera Tennis Association pennant players were on court at the weekend for round four of competition despite patchy rain causing intermittent delays.

Central Park players hosted Horsham Lawn for a match that would offer top spot on the ladder as a prize.

Horsham Lawn was dominant against a Central Park squad – the final score 8-80 to 4-61, more than enough for Lawn to claim top spot on the ladder by the end of the day.

Lawn’s Graeme Wood provided a highlight of the day after storming back from a twogames-to-four-games deficit against Justin Slade to win eight games to four.

Central Park pair Brendan Nitschke and Reece Harman found another level after a rain delay against Horsham Lawn’s Lachlan Punchard and Pat Hall.

Nitschke and Harman came back from a six-games-to-five deficit before the rain break to win eight games to seven in a tie breaker.

Eli Bailey stepped in as a Central Park lady for Saturday’s play and was too good for Horsham Lawn’s Ella Thompson in their singles match – Bailey taking the win eight games to four.

Lawn’s Tahlia Thompson and Cherie Wood also starred on a cold Saturday of tennis, winning all their sets.

Drung South players were at Kalkee for their round-four bout.

As evenly matched as the ladder would suggest, Kalkee and Drung South finished the day level on sets.

Drung South’s Logan Casey defeated his singles opponent Jeff Friberg eight games to two, while Kalkee’s Kate-lyn Perkin was six games better than her opponent Paula Wei dermann, claiming the single’s rubber, also eight games to two.

Kalkee was the eventual victor, having won the day on games.

St Michaels players sat out this round with

a bye. This week Kalkee will sit out the weekend with a scheduled bye, while St Mi chaels meets Central Park at Central Park in an effort to claim their first win of the season.

Drung South players will head to Horsham Lawn courts this weekend for a tough match against the ladder leaders.

Round four results

Seniors

Pennant: Kalkee 6-77 d Drung South 6-66, Horsham Lawn 8-80 d Central Park 4-61.

A Special: Brimpaen 3-42 drew Kalkee 5-51, washout; Hor sham Lawn Thompson 8-97 d Haven 6-66; Drung South 14112 d Horsham Lawn Dorman 0-0, forfeit; Natimuk 14-112 d Central Park 0-42; Telangatuk East 8-80 d Homers 6-77.

A Grade: Homers 8-75 d Drung South 4-61, Horsham Lawn Bardell 9-79 d Central Park 3-48, Haven 12-96 d Horsham Lawn O’Connor 0-39.

B Special: Central Park 8-85 d Haven 4-52, Natimuk 8-80 d St Michael’s 4-57, Laharum 11-92 d Horsham Lawn 1-30.

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Open: Homers 6-36 d Horsham Lawn Green 0-13, Natimuk Yellow 4-30 d Horsham Lawn Gold 2-24, Natimuk Blue 4-31 d Central Park 2–22.

Section 1 Boys: Natimuk 5-33 d Haven 1-19, Quantong 4-30 d Central Park 2-20.

Section 1 Girls: Horsham Lawn 5-30 d Homers 1-18, Haven Red 5-33 d Haven Purple 1-15.

Section 2 Boys: Central Park 5-32 d Haven 1-12, Horsh am Lawn Green 3-27 d Homers White 3-26, Horsham Lawn White 3-24 d Homers Red 3-22.

Section 2 Girls: Horsham Lawn Gold 5-32 d Central Park 1-17, Haven 4-33 d Horsham Lawn White 2-25, Horsham Lawn Green 3-31 d Homers 3-28.

Section 3 Boys: Horsham Lawn Gold 2-26 d Haven 4-30, Horsham Lawn Green 4-33 d Horsham Lawn White 2-25.

Section 3 Girls: Homers forfeited to Haven, Horsham Lawn White 4-29 d Horsham Lawn Gold 2-20, Horsham Lawn Green 3-33 d Natimuk 3-22.

Section 4 Boys: Horsham Lawn Red 3-30 d Horsham Lawn White 3-25, Natimuk 4-27 d Haven 2-23.

Section 4 Girls: Horsham Lawn Gold 6-36 d Haven Pink 0-7, Haven Orange 6-36 d Homers 0-7, Horsham Lawn Green 4-27 d Central Park 2-23.

Match Play Section 5: Horsham Lawn Red 4-20 d Natimuk 2-18, Horsham Lawn Purple 6-24 d Horsham Lawn Gold 0-7, Horsham Lawn Pink 4-22 d Central Park 2-17, Horsham Lawn Green 4-21 d Haven 2-16, Horsham Lawn White 4-21 d Horsham Lawn Yellow 2-11.

Match Play Section 6: Homers 4-22 d Horsham Lawn Orange 2-17, Natimuk 3-16 d Horsham Lawn Gold 3-14, Horsham Lawn Blue 6-24 d Haven 0-8, Horsham Lawn Red 5-21 d Central Park 1-13, Horsham Lawn Green 4-17 d Horsham Lawn White 2-17.

WINNING FORM: Drung South’s Olivia Hill, pictured, playing with A Grade partner Dianne Rudolph, claimed a win against their Homers opponents eight games to five.

Picture: PAUL CARRACHER

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Finals await volleyballers

BY DAVID BERRY

Regular season games are com plete and now it is finals time for all grades in Volleyball Hor sham’s winter season.

Tonight sees the women open pro ceedings with Nuggets and Heidel berg squaring off in the second semifinal, while Academy Team Barnett and Rangers will do battle in the first semi-final.

Nuggets start favourite against Hei delberg, with Clare Whyte and Ella van Duren their key players.

Annika McDonald and Holly King will need to use their experience in order to get Heidelberg over the line.

Rangers, with Mercedes Arnott and Tamikah Dockrill in good form, should end Academy Team Barnett’s impres sive first season.

Once the girls finish, attention will turn to the A Grade competition, where Hellenic Nuggets take on Heidelberg in the second semi-final and Rangers and Tsunami will fight out the first semi-final.

Dimitrios Vettos and Ben Wilde are key players for Nuggets and they will face strong opposition from Heidelberg duo Nathan Berry and Will Saligari.

Nuggets have had the wood over Heidelberg in all games this season and should progress through to the grand final.

In the first semi-final, Rangers pass-hitters Jack Exell and Joey Na gorcka are the keys to a Rangers’ victory. They will face tough oppo sition from Tsunami’s Jack Hannan and Shaun Bray. The experienced duo should get their team over the line.

In the A Reserve second semi-final, Heidelberg will renew acquaintances with Blockbusters after securing top spot by beating the Horsham College youngsters last week.

Vaughn Maroske and Paul Drendel are key players for Heidelberg, while Tom Milbourne and Rowan Sanders are important to any success for Block busters.

In the first semi-final, Waterham mers square off against Von Steiger Shadows.

Chris Baker and Michael Schneider are key players for Waterhammers.

If Von Steiger Shadows are to prog ress, Adam Harrison and Leigh Crea sey are going to have to play to their best.

Finals get underway at 6pm.

Club honours ‘outstanding commitment’

Horsham Golf Club lady members highlighted the ‘outstanding com mitment’ of leaders at an annual meeting last week.

Members honoured outgoing Lady president, June Crabtree, and Lady captain, Kathy Strudwick.

Horsham Golf Club now welcomes Jill Gawith as Lady president and Lisa Jakobi and Pam Watkins, who will share the role of Lady captain.

Several members were present ed with awards, which recognise golfing achievements throughout the golfing calendar.

Lil Mayer was the winner of the Agnes Seater Trophy, which is an award for the best five stableford rounds. Lil had rounds above her handicap of 36, 37, 39, 38 and 37 for a total of 187 points.

The winner of the trophy for par rounds was June Crabtree.

Across four rounds within a period of six months, June averaged a par score of square and was presented with the Catalina Country Golf Club Veterans Trophy.

The Fenix Cup is awarded to the player with the best nett scores for

five rounds of stroke. Colleen Dix received the award with scores of 72, 75, 78, 71 and 73 for a total of 369.

The winner of the Jenny McRae Medallist Cup was Margaret How ison with a nett score of 73.

This is a trophy donated by current Horsham Lady Golf Club champion, Jenny McRae. To win this trophy, players who have won a monthly medal for stroke during the year compete against each other in anoth er game of stroke.

ACCOLADES: June Crabtree received the Catalina Country Golf Club Veterans Trophy and Colleen Dix was the Fenix Cup winner.

AWARDED: Margaret Howison won the Jenny McRae Medallist Cup.

Cup thrill for syndicates

BY MICHAEL SCALZO

An electric late charge from a part Buangor and Horshamowned stayer has claimed a stun ning third place in yesterday’s Melbourne Cup.

On a track that was downgraded late in the day from a soft five to a soft seven, High Emocean held its run down the Flemington straight until late in the race to shoot past early bolters with only Emissary and top-weight runner Gold Trip ahead at the post.

High Emocean, a six-year-old mare part-owned by two separate syndicates – one from near Buangor, another from Horsham – left barrier eight yesterday with only 3200 me tres between it, a $4,400,000 prize pool and a Melbourne Cup win.

The horse’s collective owners end ed the day $440,000 richer.

Matt McKinnon, of the Horsh am-based owner group with a five-percent share in High Emocean, told The Weekly Advertiser before the race that the mare was the first horse the seven-person syndicate had purchased a stake.

“It will probably never happen again – it is just sheer luck. Perhaps the other guys think this is what happens every time a group buys a horse,” he said.

“What started as a joke – to buy into High Emocean – resulted in us being a part of her winning more than hundreds of thousands in prizemoney and a start in the Mel bourne Cup.”

High Emocean won entry into the Cup after sealing a win in last week’s 2400m Bendigo Cup and carried a comparatively light 50 ki lograms around the 3.2-kilometre track in yesterday’s race. Jockey Teo Nugent rode the horse to thired.

High Emocean trainers Ciaron Ma her and David Eustace also trained cup winner Gold Trip, as well as three other runners.

Mr McKinnon said it was nearly curtains for High Emocean’s racing career after breaking a pelvis in 2020 and missing 12 months of racing.

He said, before the race, that he be lieved High Emocean had potential to finish inside the top 10.

“Since her return, she has been great. Obviously, today’s race is on another level, but we are confident she could finish in the top 10 – we think the distance is right up her alley,” he said before the race.

Also with a five-percent stake in High Emocean was Buangor Bunch, a syndicate of 10 owners of Buan gor, a farming district south-east of

THIRD: High Emocean, a horse part-owned by a 10-person Buangor-based syndicate and a seven-person Horsham-based group, has finished third in Australia’s most famous horse race. Partowner Mark Sulic, of Horsham, is pictured with the six-year-old Melbourne Cup placegetter.

Ararat. Buangor Bunch syndicate manager Brooke Jess, also an Ararat Turf Club committee member, said the group was ‘so proud’ of their horse after it returned to the top ech elon of racing after the pelvis injury.

“Nine of the 10 had never owned a horse before, so we decided to buy into High Emocean as a social thing and that has turned out pretty good – especially during the previous few years during lockdowns when we all needed a bit of joy.”

Horsham-based jockey Dean Yendall rode Tralee Rose in yester day’s cup and finished 17th.

Golfers set for Bates memorial

An annual Melbourne Cup week memorial golf tournament returns to the Wimmera as teams of four compete and raise money for junior golf in the region.

The 15th edition of Wimmera District Golf Association’s Jimmy Bates Memorial Golf Tournament will welcome the region’s golfers to the course at Warracknabeal on Sunday for an 18-hole, four-person Am brose competition.

The tournament started in 2006 in honour of Jimmy Bates, who at the time was in hospital with a serious illness. Bates died at Horsham Golf Club the day of the inaugural tournament after he left hospital to attend the course.

This year’s tournament will see the first golfers tee off at 12.30pm, with buses avail able from Horsham to the course at War racknabeal for the 11.30am assembly time. Tournament entries close tomorrow. Peo ple interested in attending can phone asso ciation secretary Jo Donnelly on 0407 018 862 for details.

Crabtree wins title

Despite last week’s rain threat, 29 golfers gathered at Horsham Golf Club for the Royal Silver Salver event.

Outgoing Ladies president June Crabtree claimed the title with a 73-nett score.

Crabtree bettered Julie Neuman, who claimed second place, by a single stroke to win the silver salver trophy – a donation to the club from Royal Melbourne Golf Club in 2009.

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Ararat carnival back with crowd

BY MICHAEL SCALZO

With the spring racing season now reaching its peak, Ararat Racing Club officials will welcome cup crowds back through its gates on Sunday for the first time since 2019.

Despite Sunday’s sunny forecast, club officials will still keep an eye on any looming rain clouds, with their fingers crossed wet weather stays away later this week.

The Ararat Gold Cup, one of western Victoria’s largest, is a 2000-metre handicap with a total prize pool of $70,000.

It is a race meet that went ahead during the pan demic years with punters and socialites absent from festivities in 2020 and 2021.

Wimmera Racing Club manager Penny Pen fold said organisers were ‘excited’ for the week end and expected crowds to return with the same fervour they did in 2019.

“Things are a little wet, but everything should go ahead as planned,” she said.

“It should be a great day and hopefully every one makes their way down to Ararat for one of the region’s best race days of the year.”

Gates to the Ararat Turf Club open at 11am and the first race of the eight-race meeting is scheduled for 1pm.

Trackside entertainment includes a fashions on the field competition for adults and young peo ple, live music and children’s activities.

Buses are available for patrons to travel be tween Ararat and the track.

Dunkeld cancelled

Nearby, at Dunkeld, race officials have had less luck with recent weather.

The Dunkeld Cup, a picturesque and iconic Grampians race meet, has been abandoned be cause of a sodden track and surrounds.

Dunkeld Racing Club officials also expected to welcome crowds for the first time since 2019 on Sunday, November 12, but unfortunately will have neither crowds nor riders at the track in 2022.

Racing Victoria has indicated it will schedule a replacement race meet to take the cup’s place at a western Victoria track – with the new venue se lection dependent on next week’s rain forecasts.

Dunkeld Racing Club will offer full refunds for pre-purchased ticket holders.

Redbacks on top of ladder

Ararat Redbacks have a scheduled bye this weekend after double-header wins at the week end capped off a perfect start to a Country Bas ketball League, south-west conference return.

Absent from the competition during the 202122 season, the Redbacks have started the new season in peak form – their latest dismissed opponents being Warrnambool Seahawks and Surfcoast Chargers.

The Redbacks travelled to Warrnambool on Saturday for their first encounter of the weekend, before a Sunday game against the Chargers.

It was the Redbacks’ fourth quarter that stood out in a tight match, outscoring the Seahawks by eight points after three-quarters of back-andforth play to win by two points.

Redbacks captain Zac Dunmore was shooting well, finishing the game with 33 points.

The Chargers fared worse than the Seahawks – the second of the Redbacks’ games an easier affair for the now ladder leaders.

Redbacks’ Joshua Fiegert rode shotgun with

Dunmore on Sunday, Fiegert scoring 29 points, alongside Dunmore’s 30 points to help the Red backs’ claim a 21-point win.

Horsham Hornets men’s and women’s sides had scheduled round-five byes at the weekend. They have a round six match against Terang Tornadoes at Horsham on Sunday.

In the women’s competition, Terang remains winless after three games and sits one spot be low the Lady Hornets on the ladder, while in the men’s competition, Terang might prove a tough er opponent even if the Tornadoes previous two wins have come against a sixth-placed Chargers.

This week: Women, Lady Hornets v Terang Tornadoes, Horsham. Men, Horsham Hornets v Terang Tornadoes, Horsham. Ararat Redbacks, bye.

Last week: Women, Lady Hornets, bye. Men, Horsham Hornets, bye; Ararat Redbacks 84 d Warrnambool Seahawks 82, Ararat Redbacks 92 d Surfcoast Chargers 71.

IN FORM: Ararat Redbacks captain Zac Dunmore shot 33 points against Warrnambool Seahawks on Saturday.

Picture: PAUL CARRACHER

Warriors winners

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West Wimmera Warriors tweeker Liam Preston sends a spinner down the wicket in a Horsham

Cricket Association A Grade Twenty 20 game against RupanyupMinyip at Davis Park in Nhill at the weekend. Preston took one wicket and contributed 23 runs in the Warriors’ win against the Panthers. Association officials were forced to cancel some games at the weekend due to ground unavailability after recent rain. Story, page 46.

Picture: PAUL CARRACHER