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Country Web 44 1 N S W D P I REFLECTIONS ON THE PAST N U M B E R 4 4 wi N T E R 2 0 0 7 F R EE NE W SLETTE R HOTOGRAPHY P VOKE E HOTO: P AY. AY. H ARDEN AT ARDEN AT G OSE R ERITAGE ERITAGE H Bishops Lodge Historic House the region’s extreme climate. This is just one of the great things OUSE & & Heritage Rose Garden The building is surrounded by a you can see and do as part of the H Bishop’s Lodge (pictured above) historic garden which contains a 2007 Women’s Gathering to be ISTORIC is an 1888 iron house designed remarkable collection of heritage held in Hay from 2-4 November. H by architect John Sulman and the roses, some of which are unique See pages 19-22 for program and Bishop of the Riverina to combat to this garden. registration information. BISHOPS LODGE I N C LUDES THE 2 0 0 7 HAY W OMEN ’ S G ATHER I N G P RO G RAM & RE GI STRAT I ON PUBL I S H E D B Y NS W D E P ARTMENT OF PR I MARY INDUSTR I ES ISSN 1039–5202 THE COUNTRY WEB contents The Country Web is produced by NSW Department of Primary Industries FEATURES Rural Women’s Network (RWN) and is distributed free, three times a year. 8 It’s not like it was in the For more about RWN see page 5. old days Daphne Kennedy from Walgett EDITING/DESKTOP PUBLISHING shares her story about life in the Allison Priest ‘old’ days and her hopes for a CONTRIBUTIONS better future for our young people. Letters, stories, poems and photographs 10 Knowing Geordie from rural women and their families are The promise of a new life in the always welcome. country was exciting. With six FREE MAILING LIST young sons, leaving the city If you live in New South Wales and would seemed like a good idea. Told by like to be on our free mailing list, contact Jill Baggett from Mudgee, this the RWN. personal story transports you back to 1982 – a time of fuel (wood) ADVERTISING stoves and mud-brick houses. 14,000 Country Webs are produced each edition. We welcome advertisements and 19 2007 Hay Women’s Gathering Rural women leading the way for program and registration offer very competitive rates. Contact RWN primary industries information 16 for more information. Sponsorship and Gatherings are a wonderful insert options are also available. opportunity for women from all CONTACT DETAILS over NSW to come together and Rural Women’s Network network or just have fun! Hay’s Locked Bag 21 2007 Gathering will be no Orange NSW 2800 exception, offering participants Ph: 02 6391 3620 tours, dinners, networking, a wide Fax: 02 6391 3650 range of workshops, keynote TTY: 02 6391 3300 speakers, fun and laughter! Email: [email protected] Website: www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/rwn 4 Writing a successful grant application Writing an application for financial COMPETITION TERMS & CONDITIONS assistance for any worthwhile See pages 13 & 23 for competitions. community project, can, at times, 1. Information on how to enter and prize details be likened to running a marathon. form part of the Terms & Conditions. By entering the This article lists some of the major competition, entrants accept these Terms & Conditions. 2. To enter, you must provide your full name and postal considerations that need to be details, and in 25 words or less answer the competition explored well in advance of filling question. 3. Entries must be posted to the stated address in the application form. by the stated date. 4. This competition is a game of skill. Protect your children against bites The best answer as judged by the RWN will win. The 6 For the love of river boats and stings this summer. judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be 18 entered into. Prizes cannot be transferred or redeemed This story takes readers on an for cash. The winner will be notified by mail within 14 historic voyage back in time along days from the judging date. the Clarence, to an era when DISCLAIMER river boats were at the centre of Recognising that some of the information in this people’s lives. document is provided by third parties, the NSW Department of Primary Industries, the State of New South Wales, the author and the publisher take no RE gu LA R F E A T ur ES responsibility for the accuracy, currency, reliability and correctness of any information included in the document provided by such third parties. The information 3 Editorial 23 Book reviews 34 SAC Update contained in this publication is based on knowledge and understanding at the time of writing. However, because 3 Calendar 24 Grants/Funding 36 Web Watch of advances in knowledge, users are reminded of the need to ensure that information upon which they rely is 4 Letters 28 Health 37 What’s on, up to date and to check currency of the information with What’s new? 5 RWN Report 31 Women in the appropriate officer of NSW Department of Primary Industries or the user’s independent adviser. Decision Making 38 Resources 18 Parenting THE C OUNTRY W EB • ��������������������R EFLE C T I ONS ON THE P AST editorial COUNTRY WEB NO.43 The past provides an enormous canvas on we have lost some important principles COMPETITION WINNERS which to think and reflect. There are many which help to make life meaningful. Congratulations to the following books and television programs dedicated to I often complain that no one takes Country Web readers for their examining many different ‘pasts’. responsibility for their actions any winning entries in the No.43 We all have ‘personal pasts’ providing more. There is less honour among men. Country Web reader give-away. memories. For some it will be happy Remember when a handshake was as good images of a wonderful loving and secure as a written contract? 007 Communities in Control childhood. For others, suffering early grief, With the focus of most news stories on Conference: Due to the high illness or abuse, such memories can be the dreadful things happening around the standard of entries received, Our opposite. There is also the ‘historical past’ world, it is easy to become overwhelmed Community decided to give all uncovered and shared by historians and and forget to reflect on good things we six entrants a double-pass to the archaeologists. once valued – like helping people and Conference: Meredith Boyd, Mt One thing is certain, in all its manifestations, contributing to the community. We need Hutton; Helen Dalton, Condobolin; the past will fascinate us at some time in more stories of the many wonderful people Mary Hollingworth, Deepwater; our lives. Many people become fascinated everywhere who help others suffering or in Lee McDonald, Corowa; Cathy researching family trees and spend vast trouble. Walsh, Boorowa; and Denise Willis, amounts of time and money sleuthing long- If I am truly honest I admit throughout Upper Lansdowne. lost cousins, grandparents and great great history little has changed. There have The Greatest Life Never to be aunts. We like to know where we come always been and will always be honourable Lived: Jenny Magner, Tenterfield from and why we are as we are. men and women alongside dishonest, My own personal reflections on the past are unscrupulous and cruel people. It is well Beyond Burnout to Balance: for the most part happy. We all have times to look back and reflect on the past. We Strategies & Solutions: Mary in our past that we would rather forget, can learn a lot if we just take the time. Hollingworth, Deepwater & Jenny but on the whole I have lived a blessed life I guess if it was an ideal world we would Symons, Molong and am grateful for it. It is easy for me to have nothing to strive for. My reflections Meditation – Mind, Body & value the past, yet I feel many great values on the past have made me wonder if we are Spirit CD: Jennifer Duddle, Milvale learned from the past have disappeared. imperfect for a reason and if this is why we Meditation for people with I most certainly wouldn’t want to return to all need to keep working towards a better cancer and people in remission: the good old days of no washing machines world. Norma Stewart, Port Macquarie or refrigeration, no power and all things less Denise Turnbull, former member of the Rural technologically advanced. However, perhaps Women’s Network State Advisory Committee. CALEN D A R OF E V ENTS : L O C A L A N D R E G I O N A L NS W E V ENTS & ACTI V I T I E S gu I D E CALEN D A R OF E V ENTS AUGUST 007 SEPTEMBER 007 OCTOBER 007 WHAT’S NEXT? 13-14, MANLY (SYDNEY) 22–23, GUNDY 15, STATEWIDE The next edition of The Country 2nd National Men’s Shed Shaping Our Futures Together Applications close for 2008 Web will focus on ‘Recovery & Conference. Call 02 9954 4400 Contact Sonia Muir on 02 6391 3611 RIRDC Rural Women’s Award. Resilience’. or [email protected] or [email protected] See page 17 for information. or go to: www.mensshed.org If you have stories, poems, pictures 22–23, KYOGLE NOVEMBER 007 or information of interest, we would 15-23, NATIONAL Farmers Mental Health love to hear from you.
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