Issue 9 September 2021

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Find Out How Much Check Your You Can Borrow Loan Health James Leader Sales Associate e: jamesleader@shorefinancial.com.au m: 0450 029 418 w: https://shorefinancial.com.au/james-leader/ G'day Beaches The Tawny Frogmouth by Liam Carroll The Tawny Frogmouth Pty Ltd ABN 95 013 114 772 www.thetawnyfrogmouth.com.au Contents Welcome to Issue 9! It should come as Editor [email protected] Issue 9, September 2021 no surprise, the clue’s in the mag’s name, but Ads [email protected] here at The Tawny Frogmouth we love animals, and for the September issue we’ve really gone Circulation 50,000 copies delivered monthly from Manly to Narrabeen; 47,500 all in for an all out animal-protection offensive. 04 G'day Beaches 40 Kangaroo: A Love-Hate Story We showcase the plight of our kangaroos, to letterboxes, 2,500 to local businesses. and on 16 September we’ll be hosting an online Letters [email protected] 06 Peninsula Wash Up 42 Instagram for Business screening of the film, “Kangaroo: A Love- PEFC Certified The Tawny Frogmouth uses 08 Letters to the Tawny 43 Billy's Clicks Hate Story”. Please watch! We’re promoting paper from sustainably managed forests. 11 Hooroo 44 Craig's Pandemic Wisdom Birdlife Australia’s Powerful Owl Project that 14 One Another Community 45 Kick Unhealthy Habits Shapes in the Sand Swimwear is supporting so well. We’ve featured Malin Frick of Northern through this seemingly endless lockdown. 16 Wisemans Surf Lodge 46 Izzy's Mumma Files Beaches Cleanup Crew before and are glad to The measures being put in place are proving 18 Corporate Nut Farming 47 Biodegradable Balloons once more share her insights into the bursting no match for Variant Delta. Lifeline recently 19 Ikea: Tax-Free Profits 48 The Love Scout threat balloons impose on marine life. And reported their largest number of daily calls 20 Sport: Olympic Special 50 The Collaroy Plateau Vet: Ticks with September being Save the Koala month, ever recorded. Not everyone is equipped for Koalafied Plumbing has teamed up with the long periods in isolation. 22 Final Steps to Mount HSC 52 The Forgotten Art of Breathing Australian Koala Foundation to raise money for This month we've included a feature on 24 OMG! Decadent Donuts 53 Ingleside Rezoning our favourite tree-huggers. Beleave me, that’s the OneAnother platform, specifically set up 26 James Griffin MP Update 54 Mal's Wild SIde a great cause. to facilitate community kindness. Please use 28 Our Blue Dot x Green Caffeen 55 Ask a Sparky We love humans too, and our thoughts this, and any other means to be there for one are with everyone doing their best to manage another. Cheers, Liam 30 PEP11: Threat to Our Oceans 56 Music with Digz 32 The Powerful Owl Project 57 Film & Food 34 Local Artist 58 Local Photos 36 Property: Mr Brassman 60 Paige Turner ZaliSteggall OAM MP 37 15 Minute Home Loan Approval 61 Razzle's Trivia 38 Crimewatch 62 Star Signs 39 Tide Chart 63 Roll of Honour Let’s get vaccinated!

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Photo Credit: Rob Edgren, @robedgren 4 The Tawny Frogmouth Issue 9 September 2021 The Tawny Frogmouth 5 sented by Andrew Pigott and SEPTEMBER IS Yianni Mentis from Northern Beaches Council, outlining the various environmental studies that are needed in Narrabeen Save the Koala Month Lagoon Catchment to inform the preparation of the new Local Environment Plan (LEP). To be held via Zoom at 7pm on 30 August. If interested, book here: email@narrabeenlagoon. org.au and learn more at: www. narrabeenlagoon.org.au

Zut Alors!! French Music Festival Tom Merrett will be staying put in Indonesia, hard to see why On Sunday 17 October, Saint Paul’s Catholic College will host Fête de la Musique. From 9am Peninsula Wash Up to 4pm there will be different by Liam Carroll bands playing, with food mar- We’re donating $15 to the quees onsite offering "a little taste of France". Inspired by Australian Koala Foundation Top Merrett for Indonesia’s and the SMH was right, unlike "Make Music Day", launched in Manly Gain. Tom Merrett has Arnie Schwarzenegger, Tom France decades ago to celebrate for every job carried out been setting global news wires won’t be back. music, this event will have a alight lately, with a recent SMH global focus, celebrating music article -“Life is Pretty Good”: The Pretty Green Supermarket from all over the world. For any during September The Aussies who don’t want to Shake Up. Starting out in 2019 Tawny Frogmouth readers keen come back from Bali – racing as a gift store of small-batch, to play music, register your to the top of all articles viewed unique Australian products, band and propose a perfor- globally. You may recognise the Pretty Green (www.pret- mance by emailing: fetedela Merrett name, as it is Tom’s tygreen.com.au) has quickly [email protected] Great Uncle, Oswald Merrett, expanded into a sustainable, who was the manager of the online supermarket. Download Twins Razzle, TWINS! Australian Olympic Team in the Pretty Green App and have Huge congratulations to our Paris, 1924, and his name is their supermarket at your resident Doyen of all things etched forever at the Manly fingertips, providing all your trivia, Razzle Dazzle. He, wife Oval gateway, erected in 1927. In weekly grocery shopping, 100% Rebecca, and kids Zoe and more recent times, Tom and his Australian fresh produce and Locky recently welcomed two partner Lucy upped stumps and supermarket products from new members to the clan, twins relocated to Lombok, Indonesia household cleaning to personal Cooper and Sienna!! The Dazzle in 2017 and are absolutely loving care at affordable prices and Dynasty is in fine shape. The KOALAFIED it, having set up Reef Property arriving straight to your door twins’ arrival comes shortly Lombok (reefpropertylombok. with free delivery. That’s pretty after Razzle’s 40th birthday com), a boutique real estate sweet. That’s Pretty Green. too, so to help in the celebra- PLUMBING & GAS agency specialising in helping tions of Cromer’s favourite people make their Lombok Narrabeen Lagoon Catchment Queenslander, we’ve got a case Proud to support the Australian Koala Foundation. Seachange. A proud Manly boy, Forum. 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Because the government pays hospitals with COVID cases, it is keen to see that extra cash, so diagnosis is often skewed for this reason as well. But yes, Bali is keen to see its borders open, and we look forward to Letters to The Tawny Frogmouth welcoming tourists and their wallets. However, at the rate Australia is going, you will still Council Rates and Flawed is aware that the develop- be fighting an internal polit- Development Proceedings ers pay the certifiers, thus ical war, while the rest of the I was surprised to read Dep- creating a glaring potential world has moved on, learning uty Mayor Candy Bingham’s conflict of interest. It is quite to live with a virus that has a comments (Aug 2021) that clear to me that developers 99.95% recovery rate. council rates had risen on and certifiers are acting in in Catherine, Omies Café, Bali average 2.4% p.a. for most concert to build substandard households. I just received and non-compliant buildings. Re: Bali Article (Aug2021) my rates notice for 2021/22, The Council should advise the A great article by Kim Win- up 26.4%, after already Planning Department they gerei on Bali (Aug edition). increasing 10.6% in 2020/21. must not approve non-com- Having a daughter and 2 Interestingly, I have a rates pliant development applica- grandchildren living in Bali, I notice from Manly Council tions that adversely affect the can vouch for the veracity of for 2007/8 and can report the amenity and market value of Kim's story on current life in rates growth from 2007/8 to nearby property. Bali. The Banjar (the village 2021/22 is over 7% compound Concerned Resident council) not only arranged p.a, three times the rate of in- efficient roll out of vaccina- crease our Deputy Mayor says Re: Bali Article (Aug2021) tions but continue to provide is typical for most households. The rates of vaccinations are regular food parcels for the We were told a great benefit super high here (in Bali), with villagers. Those who have en- of the council merger would AZ and Pfizer both readily joyed holidays in Bali will find be lower rates. In my case, the available. Plenty of foreigners a different Bali when they re- exact opposite has occurred. I have been vaccinated too; if turn. A quieter ambience and would also like to highlight my you have a Kitas it is free. (The a very appreciative welcome concerns pertaining to what I Work Visa KITAS is issued to will capture the hearts of believe is the flawed nature of foreign nationals who want those first Australian holiday our town planning processes. to work.) Unlike Australia, makers who arrive in the early Having battled against two the government here has stages of normality. Good luck grossly non-compliant devel- done the best it can to sup- Bali - can't wait to return. opments over several years, port small business staying John & Helena, C'roy Plateau it is time to look at the role of open. There have been some the NBC’s Planning Depart- lockdowns that have created Re: July Quiz question 16 ment. Senior personnel of the poverty over and above 9.2% Hello, I’ve been involved with department have advised me: of the population. Some say it Computers since 1971 (Crikey, 1. The Planning Department will rise to about 22% of the that’s 50 years!) and I think cannot reject a DA on the population living in poverty by your Answer to Quiz Question grounds of non-compliance the time the pandemic gets its 16 is wrong – the Computer (i.e. all non-compliant appli- stick shortened. There is also Mouse was never called a cations will be approved). no division or hate speech Turtle. There was a separate 2. The Planning Department between the vaxxed and un- child’s learning toy developed takes no responsibility for vaxxed; everyone just happily by MIT some years after the what it built, relying on advice co-existing doing their best to Mouse was patented, which of the certifiers that the con- support one another. I think featured a Turtle. Keep up the struction is correct. also that our stats, (like India) good work though. Cheers! 3. The Planning Department will never have an absolute Peter, Collaroy Plateau

8 The Tawny Frogmouth Issue 9 September 2021 The Tawny Frogmouth 9 A Poem to Krystal Bawl nearby users, and explicitly much rubbish for too long. It’s In the August edition my does not record location. about time we took back con- Aries horoscope reads: “Avoid Secondly, the law seems to be trol of the society we live in. strangers and aphrodisi- doing a reasonable job, as Mr 2). Re Privacy Rights jeopard- acs, in that order. Danger is Barns himself says, "Fortu- ised with Covid Apps by Greg skirting your astral plane this nately they were denied" and Barns, Michael West Media. month. Be wary.” Well, here’s "To be fair, the WA Govern- Mr Barns writes as if he has my response: “In August’s ment is legislating to prevent something to hide. The silent Tawny Frogmouth I read one this." There is of course always majority would be pleased to page and wondered why, my room for improvement, and know that authorities have horoscope by Krystal Bawl we should all applaud the access to any information that admonished me to flee from efforts of privacy advocates. helps them defeat potential all strangers who might cross Thirdly, reading the Com- criminal elements. my track and bring an aph- monwealth Ombudsman’s Dale Misfeld, Narrabeen rodisiac. Times are currently annual reports on "Monitoring most strange, so Krystal could agency access to stored com- N.F.I.D. you please arrange, advice in munications and telecommu- Don't leave your wallet in the my next horoscope not to flee nications data", and "Austral- car, ‘cause you'll have no ID both fun and hope?” ian Federal Police’s use and who you are! Helen Wary Arian Lyne administration of telecommu- Polly S. Czyek-Poynt nications data powers", it is Privacy clear that the data requested Re: Love Scout Issue 6 Great article by Greg Barns on in most cases has been the Scout’s article had excellent privacy rights being jeopard- real-time location of a mobile points to consider when ised. Not only by Covid apps. I phone from mobile operators, choosing a life partner, how- don’t own a mobile phone and used in order to locate an in- ever I question her view that have no apps. So, I was sur- dividual for whom there is an it’s normal to change our prised to receive a letter from arrest warrant. Nothing to do minds after the wedding and my local State MP wishing with Covid-Tracing data. that it's almost impossible me a happy birthday recently. In this time of Covid conspir- to commit to one person. I Hooroo from the Tawny Several good friends don’t acy-mongering, and vaccina- believe that our climate of know the date so how does tion-hesitancy, I find the pub- domestic violence, cheating, Personally talk this man whom I have never lishing of this article at this porn, suicide, poverty, discon- to Ann Wilson met? Privacy is dead. time to be unethical, immoral, tentment, consumerism, men- Ann, Manly and literally life-threatening. tal health and addictions are a and her team It is clearly not the intention big part of the pain and scars Conspiracy Mongering About of the magazine to spread of family breakdown. We need Covid Apps misinformation as can be wit- to see a positive approach I read with dismay the article nessed by the article entitled to the joy of monogamous by Greg Barns entitled "Pri- "Vaccinations. Let's Do It" by relationships. We need sup- vacy Rights Jeopardised with James Griffin in the same edi- port for families to develop Roger Antony Sydney Hutchings Covid Apps Tracking Every tion. I look forward to a more the best environment and 9 August 1935 – 29 July 2021 Ann Wilson and her team at Wilson Family Move". While I respect Mr thoughtful curation in future. relationships with each other Barns' advocacy on privacy Howard Treisman and their community. Scout’s It is with great sadness we farewell Roger Funerals have between them decades of and data protection, I find lessons on discernment of Antony Sydney Hutchings. experience caring for Northern Beaches it both disingenuous and Comment on Issue 08 partner choices is great The co-founder and creative force behind families in their time of need. dangerous to use the current 1). Re Crimewatch by Greg advice. So, with that sound Bookoccino, a thriving bookstore / café which he ran for over twenty-five years, creating a Family operated & 100% Australian owned Covid epidemic as a vehicle to Hogan. Just who is Mr Hogan choice in a partner achieved, nurturing environment for book lovers, authors promote this agenda. Firstly, trying to protect here, the I urge everyone to follow and creative souls. VISIT Suite 3, 1440 Pittwater Road, it is technologically impos- petty criminal punk minority? through with growing up and He leaves behind two daughters, Minna and North Narrabeen, Sydney sible for the Covid-Safe App In the “No Responsibility, No building on the pathways with Ellie, and four grandchildren: Hutch, Willis, CALL 02 9913 7131 or 0467 888 283 to "track every move" as they Respect” climate these clowns their loved one for closeness Remy Roger and Matisse who adore him. WEB wilsonfamilyfunerals.net.au only use Bluetooth to connect were raised in, go for them, I and conflict resolution. Family Roger was one of a kind, an Avalon icon, an to other phones whose own- say. The majority of law-abid- is the most basic natural set- innovator, and a true gentleman. ers have been identified as ing citizens, young and old ting for human life. Value it. He will be greatly missed. at risk. It only records other alike, have put up with too Wendy Pleasance

10 The Tawny Frogmouth Issue 9 September 2021 The Tawny Frogmouth 11 5G Rollout Health Concerns tion emitting device.” Local Re: Hugh G. Lee Inndette Over Rushed group SOS Northern Beaches’ I read Mr Inndette’s article on I am so glad to see the Facebook page reveals this is the RBA’s Birdroom antics’ im- community standing up and one of three current expert pacting interest rates which taking real action in relation medical reports confirming then affect property prices to health concerns over the extreme risks of harm to and I'm sorry, the Frogmouth 5G rollout on the Northern Northern Beaches residents has lowered its usual high Beaches. My family, neigh- from cell facilities. The group standard of credibility in bours and I are concerned has requested a motion be this case. Interest rates are a about an Optus Cell Facility raised at the November 23 lever for controlling macroe- proposed to be built within Council meeting, for Council conomic aspects. Australia's 18 metres of homes in Quirk to hold a public EMR Commu- obsession with speculative Street Dee Why. We have nity Health and Safety Forum. real estate investment needs sought expert medical Our community desperately policy control, such as ending opinion about whether the needs this forum. I urge con- lucrative portfolio investment facility will pose a risk of harm cerned residents to sign SOS incentives. The sooner we to our health and Dr Russell Northern Beaches’ petition at realise that a home is a basic Cooper, an expert special- www.change.org/nbcemr human need and limit owner- ist in EMR (electromagnetic forum visit their Facebook ship to one or two per adult radiation) Health states, “It is page and write to our council- as necessary, the better our my professional opinion that lors to ask them to vote in society will be. We know this, you, your wife and children, favour of this motion. but self-interest ignores it. and the families nearby are Donna Johnston JP Phil Thee, Balgowlah at extreme risk of an array of health hazards due to The Tawny invites the people of the Beaches to send in the immediate proximity of letters to [email protected] the radiofrequency radia-

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12 The Tawny Frogmouth Issue 9 September 2021 The Tawny Frogmouth 13 It’s a free platform, away from the social media clutter, and provides a place where you’re most likely to be heard because everybody is on our platform for the same reason. Support and kindness. “Partnering with Kim and the Manly Observer was an absolute no-brainer. We share a passion for our local com- munity and want to do what we can to bring residents Lisa and Kim, powering kindness in the community of the Northern Beaches together for one another.” Kim Community Founded on was a little blunter: “I think it’s nice to know you’re not Support and Kindness a jerk, and to find out you’re not surrounded by jerks. One by Liam Carroll Another is a great chance to prove that to each other.” The former newspaper Can something just be Manly Observer powered editor and radio producer said good, for goodness’ sake? Two by One Another Community she appreciated how pure and Northern Beaches start-up - in August. functional the platform was. “I up-starts Lisa Hollinshead So, what’s the point of was sceptical at first, which is and Kim Smee think so. it all? Facilitating kindness just my nature, but the closer Thanks to 100 pro bono within the community and I looked the clearer I could helpers from around the better still, practical kindness, see this is a pure and simple globe, Lisa recently launched in a space away from social service to make sure no one is Australia’s first and only kind- media where people can go alone if they don’t want to be. ness platform, One Another to offer or receive help on the And if you’re in isolation and Community, an app for people Northern Beaches, or simply home-schooling three kids to volunteer or receive help. write a note of gratitude to and just realised you’re out of But when lockdown hit and someone or about something milk for your morning coffee, demand for help and support in the region. there’s actually a platform within the community surged, “It’s nothing but good where you can do a quick Lisa realised she too needed vibes,” Lisa said. “The One shout out for help for a dairy assistance to ensure her plat- Another Community brings drop off. Someone just might form was reaching as many communities together. Many be willing to answer that people as possible. people across the Northern call. That’s comforting.” Lisa A keen follower of Kim’s lo- Beaches are struggling. They continued, “Everyone has dif- cal news site Manly Observer, may need support in access- ferent skills and access to dif- Lisa quickly noted she and ing food banks and collecting ferent resources that others Kim shared a similar ethos. medicines or even just some- may need. A simple gesture Manly Observer also had a one to talk to. There are also of collecting a prescription, highly engaged local audience people with skills, community taking the bins out once a and a willingness to coordi- spirit and spare time they’re week or posting letters for a nate help during the recent keen to offer to help others. neighbour who can’t leave the lockdowns. The pair, both We just want to connect those house will make such a huge mums of pre-school aged willing with those seeking. difference to them.” boys, met in July over a well- spaced walk around North The platform is free to use with easy registration. Head, and have not wasted a Visit www.oneanother.community to offer or moment since, launching request assistance to our community. a free community tool –

14 The Tawny Frogmouth Issue 9 September 2021 The Tawny Frogmouth 15 Why I Invested in Surfing’s Ski Resort Moment by Matt Ward, investor in Wisemans Surf Lodge Property Trust

If you’re a Northern Beaches surfer, you’ve probably heard about Wisemans Surf Lodge. It’s a unique pitch: rather than a convention- al amusement surf park model, Wisemans is providing the chance to co-own the 45-acre Hawkesbury River real estate, which operates solely for its members and their guests to en- joy. Investors are offered the membership; an annual fee to unlock access to perfect surf, ac- commodation, member clubhouse, golf course, a Harvest restaurant, pump track, playground for the kids and loads more. a fun wave though; the magic is to utilise a When this opportunity popped up as a bunch of those chambers side-by-side, and property play with a return profile, my position fire them in a sequence so that all of the wave was “take my money” long before I got to the pulses join up down the line to make a surfable fine print. Old salty seadogs can rant all they wave with a specifically shaped pool-bottom, want about the “purity” of surfing in the ocean; much like a sandbank or reef. Wisemans will I’d just like to catch a bunch of quality waves have 24 of those chambers and the different on my own timetable without absurd crowds. sequences on hand means complete flexibility Did I mention the location was chosen for its in the wave shapes that can be created. world-renowned lack of wind? Glassy. And the SurfLoch has used some very fancy pro- Lodge will be 100% renewably powered? Cool. gramming technology to get their valve control With that in mind, attention turns to: down to a 1/1000th of a second accuracy. “what’s the wave like?” Wisemans will use wave Unlike the Kelly Slater Ranch, which turns generation technology from SurfLoch, backed out the same perfect waves endlessly (but by German engineering giant, Siemens. You with a four-minute lull between them) to the might have seen this in action at a test facility point where the magic can fade, the SurfLoch in Palm Springs, and you’ve no doubt seen technology allows for almost endless wave footage from a similar pneumatics-powered customisation and a 17-second interval so surf park at BSR in Waco, Texas. The Wisemans you’ll never be bored or waiting. Using a digital pool is significantly larger than either of these control panel, the operator can control the and promises to allow for waves in the 2-2.5m firing of each individual chamber, allowing for range on the main peak, with 10-12 second creation and positioning of air sections, barrel rides, an endless wave playlist and 12-15 waves sections and the like. By doing this, the feel per session. With an A-frame take-off and no and performance of the wave can be changed mechanical parts in the water, it will feel more at the touch of a button in a reliable and pre- natural than surfing up against a wall or fence. dictable fashion. There’s a secondary A-frame inside peak for I’m excited about how this customisable 6ft, offshore and empty today? intermediates honing their turns or kiddos technology fits in with the member community taking off for the first time. model. Whereas an amusement park wavepool needs to provide a standardised offering to Didn’t think so. Scan here or visit a mass market and is incentivised to cash-in www.wisemans.surf/wave on every bum on a board, Wisemans has an to see a 4 minute video of exclusive membership it wants to look after for Wisemans Surf Lodge provides an opportunity for surfers the wave technology the long-term. This shifts the focus away from to co-own a world-first surf resort property. All investors attracting mass market customer share, and are offered membership to access perfect surf on-demand, What’s under the hood? The technology towards best servicing Wisemans Surf Lodge starts out simple enough – valves change air members for the ultimate surfing experience, luxe suites, golf course, bar + restaurant, wellness facilities, pressure in a chamber, which basically sucks making the absolute most of all the technology pump track for the kids and loads more. Don’t miss the in water, and then pushes it back out to create on offer. I'm stoked to be part of that commu- chance to be part of a tight-knit community surfing a new a wave pulse. One pulse isn’t enough to make nity and can’t wait to get in the water! line-up, just 90 minutes from the Northern Beaches. LEARN MORE 16 The Tawny Frogmouth Issue 9 September 2021 The Tawny Frogmouth 17 during a drought, the lower Murray Darling is reducing profits by “debt loading” too; some Basin may only have enough water to meet offshore entity writes loans to IKEA Australia 40% of the existing permanent horticulture and the interest on those loans - some $20m a water demands. According to Dalton, at the year - is siphoned overseas. It’s pretty blatant prices which Duxton Water is hoping to but the trick with these things is to not make it achieve, regular croppers and other traditional so blatant that the ATO comes after you. agricultural industries such as dairy would not Nick Scali, with no offshore structures to be able to compete. exploit, disclosed no “related party transac- There are different types of water enti- tions”. And its longer-term debts last year were tlement you can buy. High security water is IKEA shines bright in tax avoidance master craft priced at an average interest rate of 1.78%. Murray Darling droughts flood water trader coffers generally higher reliability and therefore more IKEA however, which is far larger and must expensive. “Farms with living structures such Swedish Cabinets of therefore have access to far cheaper financing, Thirsty Work: as almond trees should be using high securi- was paying interest on its debts of up to 4.4%. ty water”, according to Dalton. The cheaper Rich Tax-Free Profits Why? Because IKEA pays interest on debts to Corporate Nut Farming General Security water entitlements are only itself. With half a billion in loans from offshore, filled once there is enough water in the system by Michael West, Michael West Media interest paid of almost $40m over the past two by Callum Foote, Michael West Media to fill the needs of those holding high security years, again reducing local profit. water. It is impossible to see it from the accounts; Another way farmers can get their water IKEA pays virtually no tax. It does not pull it is not disclosed, but transfer pricing also In an investor meeting, Chairman Ed Peter is on the temporary water market, where its weight in this country where the school- plays a part. IKEA buys its furniture from its of Duxton Water, Australia’s only publicly listed water is bought and sold in quantities as small ing of its executives' children is subsidised by associates offshore and the more it pays its water trader, claimed that the Murray Darling or large as farmers may need. According to taxpayers, where its business and its people foreign associates for this furniture, the more Basin is set for “supply and demand imbalances Dalton, “these big multinationals will buy are protected by a publicly funded police profit flows overseas to lower tax jurisdictions. so perfect, you couldn’t make up a better story.” permanent high security water for a third of force, legal system and army. It has barely paid Despite bathing in cash from its Australian In the US, almond farmers are able to make their needs, then lease another third from any income tax for four years, and not much customers, IKEA has recorded losses over the a profit despite water which costs as high as water traders like Duxton, and then they’re on before. Yet its latest financial reports show past two years. It even recorded a tax benefit $30,000 per million litres (ML). Currently in the market buying the remaining.” Because of IKEA has flourished during the pandemic. Nick in 2019. The way the tax lawyers and Big Four Australia, the most expensive water which can their massive water needs, these multinational Scali is far smaller but paid $32m in tax over accounting wizards structure Multinational be bought are “high security” water entitle- investors drive the price of water up across the past two years whereas IKEA has paid just companies means they are effectively agen- ments which range up to $8,000. The Aus- every water market. On the temporary water a touch over half a million dollars all up - that's cies, not bodies corporate. These are like fake tralian almond industry has grown by 1,500% market, they will be competing against rice and less than one million dollars on more than companies. since 2000, with 30% of the almond trees dairy farmers. $3 billion in total income. There are no such notes in IKEA's accounts planted in the south Murray Darling Basin Lachlan Marshall, a fourth-generation dairy IKEA, whose parent is in the Netherlands - but in most of these multinational subsidiaries, planted in the last 5 years, many of which are farmer, says the rising cost of water has caused part of a tricky tax avoidance web of compa- executives' bonuses are struck on the share not yet mature. When they do mature, current dairy farmers to “close up shop, sell their farms nies - racked up cash receipts from its cus- performance of the overseas parent. This almond orchards in the Murray Darling Basin and walk away”. In 2005, “there were 90 dairy tomers of $1.7b last year, up strongly from $1.5b means that Australian directors have incen- will need approximately 700 gigalitres (GL) of farmers in the Edward River Shire”, says Mar- the year before, despite the virus. Executives tives to rob Australia and sign off on dodgy tax water annually. This is equivalent to 32% of all shall, “now there are only 15”. When Marshall helped themselves to a large increase in pay. structures which maximise returns for some high security water entitlements available to moved to the Edward River Shire, water averaged Nick Scali made a fraction of that, disclosing overseas entity. ASX listed Nick Scali directors, irrigators in Australia. $40 on the temporary market, it now averages cash from customers of $262m, down slightly however, are incentivised by the performance According to the Member for Murray, Helen $150. At prices above $160, dairying becomes from the year before while its profit was al- of the Australian entity alone. And they are real Dalton, there are little to no planning regula- unviable along with most other crops, includ- most dead stable at $42m. It was a bit naughty, directors. IKEA's real directors arguably reside tions surrounding planting of almonds. “You ing rice and cotton becoming unviable at $300. still putting its hand out for a bit of Jobkeep- in another county. They are arguably shadow don’t even need a DA to set up a nut farm” says For Marshall, water investors like Dux- er; but so too did a rash of corporations who directors. They are the ones who really call the Dalton. Where Victoria has put in a moratori- ton Waters are “parasites that thrive off the posted record profits, Harvey Norman being shots. um on permanent plantings, NSW is still “roll- misery of others”. Water investors “want to see the most notorious, having refused thus far to According to Federal Budget forecasts, ing out the red carpet to these international mismanagement and low allocations. Anything pay any of it back. Treasury is expecting tax receipts from large investors”. According to the Duxton Water that causes demand for water increases their How does IKEA get away with it? A mix of corporations to fall in the coming years as a chairman, this is “what’s fun”, as all permanent profit margins”. Without proper planning, or franchise fees and intellectual property pay- proportion of total tax. Meaning an increased agriculture crops such as nuts, vice grapes and at the very least the introduction of transpar- ments to parent companies up the corporate burden on real Australian companies and be- dried fruits, require 700GL of water annually. ency mechanisms suggested by the ACCC’s ladder. Every year, as its revenues climb, IKEA leaguered PAYG taxpayers to pay more. When they reach full maturity, they will need report into the Murray Darling Basin, Dalton finds ways to bump up its costs. The aim, ably approximately 1,250GL. fears that Australia will lose “that diversity of assisted by tax dodging advisors KPMG, is to During the last drought there was only agriculture which has been the strength of wipe out profit, to “offshore” it. Remember, 1,100GL of available freshwater in the whole of our communities”. Ed Peter’s investor story is no profit means no tax to pay. A whip through the lower Murray Darling. This suggests that Australia’s loss. the accounts of both companies shows IKEA

18 The Tawny Frogmouth Issue 9 September 2021 The Tawny Frogmouth 19 can tear up thinking about it. number of misses. And they Oh you, Straya… decided – because they could, it’s in the rules – to win a gold medal each. And they are now enshrined in Olympic folklore and mates forever. How very bloody good. Elsewhere we “won” a bronze in basketball. Beach volleyball girls made the final. The men’s hockey players did too. The women’s hockey team were bundled out in the quarters and were “massively devo” as a teenag- Peter 'Spag' Bol, cooking up a storm er explained. Another teen, Jess Fox in first place Keegan Palmer, 18, won a The Matildas teared up gold on a skateboard, ripping And a pair of twin-broth- after losing to the USA in the off ridiculous manoeuvres in ers-from-another-mother bronze medal play-off but the air. Logan Martin from blitzed the field in perfect Keegan Palmer, skateboarding gold-medalist The Matildas have lots to celebrate, finishing fourth could carry themselves high Logan, Queensland did things all-action synchronicity to onto the JAL bird to Sydney. on a pushbike they didn’t even win the men's kayak double Stories from The Games of the XXXII Olympiad Because how about them? conceive of at Terrey Hills sprint over 1000m. And then, Tough! Ran themselves to BMX Track in 1981. The pair at the end, our sailors just had by Matt Cleary, Editor of Beaches Champion a standstill against Great won Australia’s only land- to stay afloat, which they did, Britain, Sweden and the USA, based gold medals. to win gold in dinghies. Good finished fourth and absolutely As befitting citizens of on them. For mine, it was the skateboarders, the to see any of the bloody events themselves. spent. Left it all out there. the world’s biggest island, And good on them all. little scamps, the oldest barely out of their Instead, they were racking up 30,000 new Much respect there. we won fifteen of our 17 Good on the great American teens. For there they were, representatives cases a day, lord knows how many active in golds by swimming, rowing, gymnast Simone Biles who of Australia, USA and Brazil, chairing off a com- the community during their infectious period. sailing, kayaking and canoe- put her mental health before petitor, No.1-ranked Misugu Okamoto of Japan And yet still they gave us a Games. And they ing through water. Freestyle a circular metal disc. Good on who’d crashed in the skatepark and run fourth. should get them again, and soon, straight after flier Emma McKeon won Lamont Jacobs of Italy who They did it because it was right. Because it Brisbane in ’32. four gold medals and seven came from the clouds to run would bring solace and joy to a crestfallen Anyway. The Games? Well. How good for all up. Ariarne Titmus twice 9.80 in the 100m sprint and comrade. Because she was their friend. And Straya? Seventeen gold medals, 46 all told, bested American Katie run faster than the fastest looking on at home we the people of this sixth on the Big List and right up there on Ledecky who’d never been men in the world. And good virus-afflicted rock in space wiped away a tear unofficial boxing-above-our-weight, popula- bested at the Games. Izaac on those skateboarders. and thought: The kids are alright. And we are tion-to-medal ratios. Perhaps only our whanau Stubblety-Cook was the best Those precious little peo- going to be alright. across the ditch with seven bested us there. at 200m breaststroke, Kaylee ple with their piercings and We didn’t think that before these Games of A team of Anzacs would’ve run fourth on the McKeown the best at 200m messy hair, cheering on the XXXII Olympiad. Indeed, we feared it could gold medal list. So, there is that. But yes, what backstroke. one another in a genuinely be one of those super-spreaders where one a Games for Straya. All that gold. Yum. Don't Honourable fifth for House Starc Jess Fox! What a ripper. collegiate sport, where shared person with Covid-19 gives it to eight people know what we're going to do with it, but it Powered into gold in the humanity and empathy trump who each give it to eight people, and outwards certainly made us feel good for a fortnight. In the high jump, Long Reef canoe slalom just two days everything else. Want a take- the exponential mushroom cloud of bubble-n- Yet some of the most compelling memories Golf Club member Brandon after nudging a dangling pole away from the Games? Take spit goes until we’re all spluttering like geysers came from those who ran second and third Starc finished fifth in a hot to miss out on gold in the that. And when all this shit is and the old people are dropping off the perch. - and fourth. Old mate Peter “Spag” Bol ran field and went down leaping, kayak. We crowned a new done and done, go visit Japan. But that didn’t happen. Instead, Japan, lovely fourth in the 800 metres, bested by a deuce of trying to get over 2.39m. Get Awesome Foursome. We won They deserve a medal. And a Japan, gave us a gift, an outlet, an entertain- Kenyans and the world’s fastest Pole. And as he out a measuring tape and the women’s four as well. hug. And a really big bow. ment to take our minds away from the tedium tore into the last 100m, running himself ragged put it against your house. It’s of hanging out at home. before being run down, he did much for the stupid-high and Mutaz-Essa Matt Cleary is the editor of Beaches Champion, Want a winner at the Olympics? It wasn’t idea of Australia as multi-cultural light on the Barshim of Qatar and Italian providing daily news about the people and clubs the superpowers pissing for distance top of hill. Because there he was and here he is, our Gianmarco Tamberi couldn’t involved in sport on the northern beaches. Read the medal tally, it was the selfless, polite and man Bol, broad Aussie accent, articulate and get over it either. But they did at www.beacheschampion.com.au or scan here: ever-gracious Japanese who couldn’t get in smart, a son of Africa and Australia forever. You scale 2.37m and had the same

20 The Tawny Frogmouth Issue 9 September 2021 The Tawny Frogmouth 21 dents can make the most of the final stages of HSC preparation. Stay Focused on Your End Goals. When you set out to conquer Mount HSC back in October 2020, every student had goals of what they wanted to achieve for the year. Keep these same goals front of mind. This clear focus will provide you with the ener- gy, motivation and self-discipline to keep climbing. Have a Vision Board. Keep this in your study space, a place where it will be viewed when you need it most, serving as a pow- erful and constant reminder of why you are going to keep climbing. Whether it's finishing with zero regrets, getting into a particular university course, keeping your options open, beating a sibling's ATAR (always a strong motivator!), or being able to go to Schoolies Jesse helps HSC students every step of the way knowing you did everything you could, keep the combination of these ideas front of mind Final Steps to Mount in this crucial stage of your studies. Review all Trial Examinations. This HSC: Keep Climbing! ensures any gaps in your knowledge and all sections of exams which you scored poorly by Liam Carroll in are dealt with BEFORE sitting your final exams. Regardless of what happened in the Trial Exams these are a 'trial' to prepare you For our Higher School Certificate stu- for the final HSC exams. Review your trials dents, it’s hard to imagine there’s been a for finals glory. cohort of young adults forced to go through a Consistently Revise Your Foundational more challenging preparation than the Class Content. Whilst working through any weak- of 2021. The Covid-19 pandemic has upended nesses identified in the trial exams, be sure to society for everyone, and school students complete consistent revision of your founda- have been called upon to adapt more than tional content. You can apply this to practice most. Luckily though, the HSC is an endur- exam style tasks on a daily basis. The student ance event, not a sprint, and while technically who trains their brain with the foundational this year’s cohort of bright, young, imminent content through this period will be able to matriculators commenced their HSC in term stay calm and composed in the final weeks 4 of 2020, the reality is they took their first leading into 19 October rather than being in steps on the journey to Mount HSC almost a panic and feeling overwhelmed. 4,600 days ago, arriving in Kindergarten in Finish with No Regrets. A top priority of late January 2009, eyes wide open while tears nearly every student is to finish their HSC streamed down their parents’ cheeks, flood- with zero regrets. This can best be achieved ing the school gates. by continuing to push forward, learn from all So now, with the 19 October start date of the mistakes of your trial exams, and keep the HSC exams a mere hop, skip and jump revising your foundational material. Complete away, and with a whopping 50% of possible these fundamentals and you will have no marks up for grabs, this is the home stretch regrets when the 2021 HSC is all over. for students. The benefit of pushing for- And for Year 11 students who will next ward with a positive, disciplined approach month officially commence Year 12, enjoy - despite feeling “over it” or “being done” – these upcoming holidays and get ready to cannot possibly be overstated. To ensure our launch into the climb to the top of Mount Northern Beaches students achieve their best HSC in October. A strong performance in results, HSC CoWorks’ Jesse Gardiner has Term 4 is the best way to ensure there’s no given us his essential insights on how stu- need to play catch up in 2022.

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24 The Tawny Frogmouth Issue 9 September 2021 The Tawny Frogmouth 25 in 2018 that rekindled my love of running. The Invictus Games are essentially the Olym- pics for veterans who are injured. The word ‘invictus’ means ‘unconquered’. It embodies the fighting spirit of wounded, injured and sick veterans and personifies what men and women can achieve post injury. The Games harness the power of sport to inspire recovery, support rehabilitation and generate a wider under- standing and respect for those who serve their country. The message of overcoming adversity and the relationship between physical activity (not James with Matty Abel, pre Q Station stair run being an Ironman or anything) but getting up and about, is a lesson for all of us. Thankfully we live where we do. Things are tough right Vipers Run Club: My now. I know it because every single day people contact my office for help. We all want to get Running Therapist back to normal, visiting friends and loved ones, by James Griffin MP, Member for Manly travelling and getting on with life. It’s times like this that resilience, determi- nation and patience will carry us through. If These are no doubt stressful times. From you can, enjoy a walk or some exercise whilst home schooling to cashflow issues for small we get through this particularly challenging business, there’s no shortage of challenging point in time. situations that are brought on by a lockdown. People manage stress differently. The number Vaccination Update: Local pharmacists one piece of advice from renowned mental have joined the vaccination rollout in the health outfit, BeyondBlue, is to try and main- Manly area, with more coming online across tain perspective. the Northern Beaches within days. Our Of course, it is reasonable for people to success depends on getting vaccinated. be concerned, frustrated and upset about the With Pharmacies joining the frontline this lockdown and its impacts, and when you’re in we cook, you savour. week there are now even more places to the thick of it, trying to maintain perspective get your jab. I would like to thank the local is hard. But at the end of the day, we will get pharmacists who are known and trusted in from $ ** through it by sticking together. One of the 4,525 our community for their efforts. best things about the Northern Beaches is the strong community. There’s no shortage of Individuals who meet the current eligibility support or people wanting to help one another. criteria for the COVID-19 vaccine and who SYD NAPOLI Lockdowns bring with them a massive surge don’t have a Medicare card will now be able * of work for me and my team in Manly. We work to receive their FREE vaccine at their local 7 days to try assist constituents as best we can. community pharmacy. $ For me, I deal with stress by running. Usual- Manly Starchem Pharmacy - 72 The Corso, ly up around North Head. Over the past few Manly. Book on pharmacy website. years, it has been a real privilege to be a part of 30 Priceline Manly - 28 The Corso, Manly. and support a local men’s run club, the Vipers Book on pharmacy website (mid-August). RC (www.vipersrunclub.com). You’ve probably seen them (lately in pairs) Chemist Warehouse Manly - 23 The Corso, running around the Northern Beaches. They Manly. Book on pharmacy website. do amazing work in fostering community and Malouf's Manly - 15 The Corso, Manly. Call Feel like you’re in Italy with our delicious “LInguine Marinara”. supporting local charities. Co-founder of the for booking. Prawns, calamari, fish, and mussels tossed through a tasty tomato sauce prepared by our chef and delivered frozen to your door. Vipers, Matty Abel (pictured) dragged me out Manly Vale Pharmacy - 339 Condamine St, for a run recently. Only one of us was puffing Manly Vale. Book on pharmacy website. hard and it certainly wasn’t him. Receive 30% off on your first order with code “TAWNY”(1) delidoor.com.au North Balgowlah Pharmacy - 44 Woodbine So why running? I was a reasonable runner

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26 The Tawny Frogmouth Issue 9 September 2021 The Tawny Frogmouth 27 resource stretched small busi- nesses to make steps towards zero waste. The zero dollar financial outlay for businesses and their customers, combined with the simplicity of their app which required no extra work for the cafés helped too. It was also hard not to fall in love with the fact that their cups are made from recycled TECHNOLOGY plastic here in Australia and that at the end of their usable LAW FIRM life they will be recycled into new products. Specialising in Patents, By introducing these swap Trademarks, and Scan, Sip, Return, Repeat! and go reusable coffee cups Intellectual Property Strategy to as many local cafés as we [email protected] Sick of Plastic? So Are We! could, we hoped that it would create a ripple effect through- by Cara Morgan, Our Blue Dot Australia out restaurants, bars and cafés, and see the end of sin- gle use cups on the Northern Did you know that over have the best intentions of Beaches. This was followed a billion single use cups are taking our own reusables, yet up by the initiative Swap for used per year in Australia? remembering your reusable Good by the Northern Beach- That’s 2.7 million coffee cups is one of the biggest barriers es Council which aims to going into landfill every in reducing single use cup phase out single use plastics in single day. The average cafe waste. Green Caffeen solves the food and beverage sector on the Northern Beaches uses this problem. in our region. 2000 single use cups a week. Once a café has the Green A year on, there are 35 So, given that Our Blue Dot Caffeen cups, it really is as cafés spread across the (www.ourbluedot.org.au) is easy as Scan, Sip, Return, Northern Beaches from Palm a volunteer run community Repeat. It’s free and once Beach to Manly with Green group with a focus on sup- you've enjoyed your coffee, Caffeen available. Download porting individuals, groups you can return the cup to any the app or go to greencaffeen. and communities to imple- participating cafe, not just the com.au/cafe-finder to find a   ment practical steps to reduce one you borrowed it from, and cafe near you. This is an awe-     their carbon emissions and pick up a fresh Green Caffeen some start, and we’re keen to waste on the Northern Beach- from the next participating do everything we can to help es and beyond, it made sense venue. more cafés take advantage of for us to try and help local There are some really great the Green Caffeen revolution cafés tackle this issue head options for 'swap and go' cup in replacing single use cups on. Last SUPtember (Single systems (Huskee Swap, Returnr with sustainable alternatives use plastic free September) and Claycups) but we chose to for our precious daily grind. we set out with the goal to focus on Green Caffeen for a introduce Green Caffeen number of reasons. The fact SUP-tember is a great time Contact Paul Wilcox (greencaffeen.com.au) to that we aren’t financially to give focus to your single 0401 051 702 | 8705 3252 every café between Palm affiliated broke down barriers use plastics. Remember the [email protected] Beach and Narrabeen. and any initial push back and 3 R’s of the waste hierarchy www.oasisskeenproperty.com.au Now, what is Green Caffeen? allowed us the opportunity - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. It’s a free reusable coffee cup to talk to cafés about the Action brings hope. Acting system for eco-focused cafés benefits from our own inde- together brings change. and coffee lovers across pendent research. Our only Let’s do it together. Australia. We know we all agenda was to support already

28 The Tawny Frogmouth Issue 9 September 2021 The Tawny Frogmouth 29 and the environment. The permit should also not go ahead for the sake of the climate. Oil and gas extraction, and subsequent greenhouse gas emissions are fuelling the climate crisis we are facing. Just this year, the International Energy Agency stated that no new fossil fuel projects can pro- Work-life balance ceed if we are to reach net zero emissions by 2050. This is a goal the Coalition Government is has stated its ‘preference’ towards. Yet if the Just Better Coalition are serious about decarbonising and getting to net zero by 2050, PEP11 must be with hours that cancelled. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate suit you. Change have released a report that sets out the world is warming ten years faster than Zali's Bill means no offshore gas for our coast expected. We may yet breach 1.5°C soon- Aged Care & Disability Support er than expected and be ever closer to trigger- roles available now. Federal Government ing irreversible tipping points. Any increase in temperature means exponentially more Threat to our Oceans extreme weather events. Find out more and apply for a role at An application for a four-year extension Just Better Care Northern Beaches by Zali Steggall MP to PEP11 is yet to be decided by the Water and & Northern Suburbs Resources Minister, Nationals MP Keith Pitt, Visit justbettercare.com/nbcareers who says he is still deliberating on whether to The ocean has been a saving grace for many extend the permit even though NSW National of us during lockdown, whether it’s ocean MP and Deputy Premier John Barilaro Just Better Care Northern Beaches & Northern Suburbs | Call 02 9934 9999 | Visit justbettercare.com/nbcareers swimming across Cabbage Tree Bay, having doesn’t support it. Minister Pitt has been ‘con- an early morning surf, or even a quick dip sidering’ these applications for over 308 days. to enliven our spirits. The saltwater offers Communities on the coast are sick of the WE ARE STEAM us something beyond working from home, uncertainty and are desperate for a resolution. home schooling our kids or endless Zoom I say it is time to end the wait. That is why I am EDUCATION meetings. It offers an escape and the ability to introducing a Bill into Parliament in October. refresh. But our pristine ocean could be under The Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas threat if the Morrison Government allows a Storage (Stopping PEP11) Bill 2021 will cancel permit for oil and gas drilling to go ahead. PEP 11 once and for all. The permit is known as PEP11 and would For the MPs who have come out against allow oil and gas exploration within 4,575 this project including Jason Falinksi, Lucy level up your child's future! square kilometres of ocean, just offshore from Wicks, Trent Zimmerman and Dave Sharma, Get #FutureProof at TINKERTANK. Manly Beach, up through the Central Coast this Bill is their opportunity to put an end to to Newcastle. If allowed, we could be swim- this diabolical proposal. Cancelling PEP11 is Sydney's ONLY Tech-based Makerspace. ming, surfing, or snorkelling with a gas rig on above politics and in the public’s interest. the horizon. A number of high-profile surfers, Layne Coding, Robotics, 3D Design, On your next ocean swim spare a moment Beachley AO, Ace Buchan, Belinda Baggs, Animation/Media and Engineering. We and imagine the consequences of oil and gas thelegendary Tom Carroll, and the Surfrider drilling going badly. Many of you will have seen Foundation Australia have joined me and sup- develop your child's computational thinking the images of undersea gas pipelines on fire in ported the Bill, knowing this project could skills, problem solving, critical thinking and the Gulf of Mexico recently or even remember destroy marine ecosystems. With theirs and each individual students unique creativity. when the Deepwater Horizon was spewing your support, PEP11 will be an idea whose time toxic oil, also across the Gulf of Mexico a dec- has come. This Bill is for our ocean and every- Ages 5 to 95! ade ago. The clean-up for Deepwater Horizon one who seeks refuge, respite and recreation Scan the QR code to enrol now! was in the billions. Millions were affected and within it. animals perished or were poisoned by slicks of Est. 2016 We are for the innovators, inventors and oil stretching kilometres. Similarly, the conse- To view the PEP11 Bill, go to my dreamers of the future. Memberships, drop in's, online quences of a disaster off the coast of Sydney website www.zalisteggall.com.au www.tinkertank.rocks 1300 670 104 sessions, holiday camps and birthday parties. would be catastrophic, threatening livelihoods

30 The Tawny Frogmouth Issue 9 September 2021 The Tawny Frogmouth 31 Designed for days spent in the sand while helping Woo-hooo! Shaping a Future for Local Feathers The choices to protect our planet and its inhabitants. by Alexandra Dash Swimwear made from a soft regenerated fabric, we make impact our playful print stories echo the natural world. Created for nature girls alike, we respect each " Making sure we protect and cherish many lives. process involved in the creation and delivery of our large old trees and our younger our Australian made minimal waste collections. trees and shrubs, is the only way to keep Powerful Owls with us.” Powerful Owl Project Manager, Beth Mott.

As a proud, local nature girl, I’ve been supporting The Powerful Owl Project this past year through my Australian made sus- tainable swimwear label, Shapes in the Sand. The label’s motto, Sustainably Shaping A local Powerful Owl Chick by Wendy Whorrod Swimwear, is truly lived up to, where each collection is created to help keep the eco- Peering up at Pittwater’s impressive An- logical footprint as small as possible. Shapes gophora forests, eyes peeled with a chance in the Sand’s playful signature print stories of catching a peek of Australia’s largest owl, illustrate the natural world, while encourag- with its glowing yellow eyes and impecca- ing others to protect it. ble camouflage, the Powerful Owl calls this As part of the current Birds and the Bees paradise home. collection, Shapes in the Sand is donating If you’ve ever heard a deep, slow ‘wooo- $10 from every swimsuit sold towards The hooo’ call travelling through the evening air, Powerful Owl Project. there’s a chance it’s our remarkable Power- ful Owl. And now, thanks to The Powerful Owl Project, managed by BirdLife Australia program officer Beth Mott, this amazing creature and threatened species is being given a voice. “Research shows our urban spaces could be the answer to saving these remarkable creatures. The leafy Northern Beaches is home to a few breeding pairs of Powerful Owl." Beth continues, “Because of their cam- ouflage, sometimes the calls of adults or the Shapes in the Sand campaign photo by Alice Wint trilling calls of chicks are the only way we with rescue Tawny Frogmouth ‘Hoot’ know owls are about. It’s the second half of the 2021 breeding season, and young owlets How can you create a green corridor in and their parents are just beginning to get your garden? Talk to your neighbours and noisy again.” think about how together you can grow an Owls face many problems in the city, owl garden or save a tree in your neighbour- including car strikes and habitat loss, and hood. These small collective actions make a one of the things most important to stem huge difference for our urban wildlife. the loss of our urban owls are safe passag- es for movement. In the urban space these Contact BirdLife Australia passages are called green corridors. to report your owl sightings at: In the Northern Beaches, important green [email protected] corridors for owls aren’t just made up of To support Shapes in the Sand & patches of bushland in parks, but of many The Powerful Owl Project, small patches of unprotected bushland, as follow@shapesinthesandswim and well as street trees, and even trees in our visit www.shapesinthesand.com.au own backyards. visit us at www.shapesinthesand.com.au or scan here: 32 The Tawny Frogmouth Issue 9 Use code TAWNY15 at checkoutSeptember to receive 2021 15% The off. Tawny Frogmouth 33 tured by a drone and blew up on all ‘reputable’ media outlets…like the Daily Mail. What inspires your artwork in general? All my work is more or less inspired by the natural world, especially the ocean. The meaning how- ever is drawn from human connection and our interactions with one another within nature. How would you describe your art? My distinct land and seascapes are abstract and expres- sionistic in style. My intention is to connect the audience to the movement and dance of Mother Nature through these transcendent snapshots of our world. MolzArt is a play on the symphonies of movement that I create. How did you discover you had a gift for art? I realised I had a knack for painting when my year 8 art teacher bought a painting that I’d done of fashion icon, Twiggy. Did you formally study art? Nope. Self-taught. What’s your favourite thing about what you Molly mixing the perfect colour do? Painting brings me joy, and to know that it brings others around me, my audience, joy too! You can’t beat that. Local Artist... What else are you working on at the moment? I’m working on a painting for a charity exhi- Molly Goudie bition organised by DiversARTy Gallery to Interview by Liam Carroll support Dreams 2 Live 4 - a charity who make dreams come true for patients living with met- astatic cancer, relapsed lymphoma, relapsed This month’s humpback breaching cover art leukemia and aggressive brain tumours. This was created by Molly Goudie, an artist whose opportunity for me to contribute to such a ability to capture nature, land and sea grabbed fantastic initiative came about through my our attention. We sat down to find out more involvement with DiversARTy, who currently about her @molzart approach to creativity. have a few other MolzArt originals ready for What’s your favourite beach on the Northern show. The partnership between DiversArty Beaches? Freshwater Beach, it’s been my home and Dreams 2 Live 4 has been hugely inspiring for 4 years now and the sunrise swims have and I'm very honoured to be included in the been a truly magic daily ritual. Feathers and Dreams Exhibition. Where’s your favourite place to eat, drink, Do you have a guiding principle, belief, or hang out? The Stowaway. I’ll have to recom- life philosophy? Intuition is the god of many mend they get the Tawny Grogmouth on tap! voices. Trust it. What’s the best thing about the Northern What advice would you give yourself when Beaches? Community! Everyone rallies around first starting out as an artist? Ask more everyone. Anyone who wants to give life a questions! Knowledge is there to be shared so crack, have an idea, or show their creative tal- inquire often and listen well (but feel free to ents, there is always someone around here that throw it out the window to do your own thing) will back you and show their support. Any general words of wisdom for our readers? If you could live anywhere else, where would Be kind to the sea. To share the ocean with that second-best place to live be? A Northern friends means we can be anywhere in the Beaches where Covid-19 doesn’t exist. world and it always feels like home. What inspired your cover artwork? This painting is inspired by the baby whale that See more of Molly’s art at molzart.com and swam right into Manly, metres from the shore, follow @molzartofficial on Instagram. only to have the mumma whale charge in after Her work is also on display at DiversARTy it, flicking her tail around and knocking surfers Gallery (www.diversarty.com.au). off their boards. The whole scene was cap-

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36 The Tawny Frogmouth Issue 9 be criminally liable should corpses indeed pile up? John’s nobly put himself at the helm of September 2021 Tide Chart public experimentation. Is he to blame if test Info Bureau of Meteorology Tidal Centre Photo Nick Tompson, @tompsonnick results prove fatal? The Delta strain death toll is growing rapidly, corpses ARE piling up, and it remains unclear whether paying $1,000 to attend a rally and going on to claim that any Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday subsequent Covid-19 deaths can be pinned on you was the shrewdest of gambles. John’s a 1 2 3 4 5 smart man. We trust he knows a thing or two 0335 1.08 0450 1.11 0545 1.17 0032 0.45 0110 0.37 about a dicey punt. 0910 0.72 1015 0.69 1113 0.64 0629 1.24 0707 1.32 1554 1.45 1654 1.51 1745 1.59 1200 0.57 1244 0.49 2257 0.62 2350 0.54 1829 1.68 1909 1.76 Owner Sought: Dropped Wads. A hefty sum of cash was found on a Dee Why street. 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His tweet’s downs drag on and the enforced solitude has concluding ecstatic laughing face emoji would many of us climbing the walls in search of lead us to believe he’s quietly confident there’s companionship, it seems only reasonable to no connection between the mass protest and turn to man’s best friend and bring a canine subsequent loss of life. confidante into your isolated home. I’m not privy to inside scoops on whether Unfortunately, this is proving a ripe breed- John’s a savvy gambler, though his claim that ing ground for puppy scams, with a surge in if he were in charge of our great Southern fake dogs up for online sale where a large Land all Covid-19 restrictions would be long upfront deposit is required before the adorable gone in time for the race that stops a nation, pooch seen on screen evaporates into thin air November’s Melbourne Cup. You beauty!! I like with a trail of your money gone into crooks’ his swagger!! So, with that in mind, it’s safe accounts. We urge all Tawny Frogmouth read- to assume the Warringah Liberal Democrat is ers to be extremely cautious when considering no stranger to a handsome flutter. But now an online puppy purchase, but to never give the grave question must be asked; will he and up, there’s a Shitzu out there for you, simply other fine-copping, freedom-fighting, pub- exercise caution on your path to true love and lic-health-scientific-experimenting citizens be sure to pick up all droppings along the way.

38 The Tawny Frogmouth Issue 9 September 2021 The Tawny Frogmouth 39 policies. Secondly, on March 15, The Hon. Mark Pearson was successful in setting up a NSW Parliamentary inquiry into the Wellbeing of Kangaroos. A historic feat, as for 25 years there has been no public review of how we treat kangaroos in NSW. The recommendations from this inquiry will be released in October. Thirdly, in 2017, Mick and Kate McIntyre, exceptional documentary filmmakers, released “Kangaroo: A Love-Hate Story”, with Variety magazine comparing it to “The Cove” and “Blackfish”, Mick McIntyre on set with starring cast member exposing the largest land based wildlife slaugh- ter in the world - Australia’s mass destruction Protecting Australia’s of kangaroos. Thanks to the tireless efforts of those Macropod Treasure mentioned above and so many others, more and more Australians are waking up to the by Liam Carroll horrifying reality at the heart of how we treat kangaroos, myself included. I watched Mick and Kate’s film the first chance I got after see- Saturday 26 June: On a rare and unfortu- ing the June protest. I was blown away at the nate moment, forced to depart the Northern huge array of farmers, scientists, indigenous Beaches, CBD-bound across the Draw Bridge, people, wildlife carers, roo-shooters, meat-ex- I was confronted by keeled over men and porters, politicians and whistle-blowers inter- YOU ARE WARMLY INVITED TO women in kangaroo outfits, sprawled across viewed for their unique perspectives, in awe Parriwi’s grassy knoll, imploring drivers to of the cinematic beauty of Red Kangaroos in “Protect our Kangaroos” who are being “Loved full flight, springing across the rich, sparkling A FREE ONLINE SCREENING by Day and Shot by Night”. What on earth? ochre of Sturt National Park, horrified to see Everyone knows our treasured Skippy icon, young children tagging along on night missions boxing superstar, and national aircraft carrier’s with their parents, clubbing baby joeys to 6:30pm Thurs 16th September tail model is proliferating the Land Down death against the blood-drenched back trays Under in plague proportions. They should be of their utes, and heartbroken by the paddocks shot on sight. Pests the lot of ‘em. Someone full of abandoned kangaroo heads, arms, legs told me that in a pub once and I place colossal and tails, left to pasture after being trapped in This award-winning film exposes the divisive opinions around value in that rigorous test environment. But the wrong place at the right time in the dead of ever since upstanding cardboard dinosaurs night, only to meet a senseless, barbaric end. our unique Australian icon that is subject to the largest mass held aloft “Ban Fossils from Parliament” plac- It doesn’t need to be this way. Step one of destruction of terrestrial wildlife in the world. ards to oust Warringah’s most well-known change is to shine the brightest of lights on firefighter from his Federal seat, Mosman’s the woeful “science” used to make egregiously A 'must watch' for every Australian. sand-stoned Spit Road entrance has become over-inflated claims as to kangaroo population the global pinnacle of protest locations. numbers. Step two is to understand well and I know to pay close attention when the truly who is profiting from this continental Peninsula’s southern border plays host to any mass slaughter. And step three is to demand form of enthralling rally. This is the ground- policy change from the authorities charged breaking coalface of sweeping changes in pub- with expert stewardship of our land. Join us for an online Q+A with lic consciousness. So, what indeed was going To assist in achieving these goals, and in on here? Why were people dedicating a fine, conjunction with Mick and Kate McIntyre, sunny Saturday morning to drawing everyone’s The Tawny Frogmouth invites all readers FILM DIRECTORS after the film attention to the issue of how Australia treats to an online screening of “Kangaroo: A its kangaroos? Let’s unpack this. Love-Hate Story” at 6:30pm on Thursday 16 Firstly, the Animal Justice Party was estab- September. Please see page opposite for more lished in 2009 in response to growing public details. This is must watch viewing for every concern over the abuse, harm and mistreat- Australian, and I sincerely hope you can tune in Book Now Via Eventbrite: ment of animals across Australia, giving our on Thursday 16 September and see for yourself precious fauna a voice, and encouraging what our kangaroos face when the sun goes https://www.eventbrite.com/e/165852971703 political parties to adopt animal-friendly down each night.

40 The Tawny Frogmouth Issue 9 September 2021 The Tawny Frogmouth 41 Instagram for Business: How you’re so focused on being a Money in the Banksy: Secret Street Photography gun at fixing those blocked to Develop Engaging Content pipes or massaging the pain By Johnny Baylis @billysclicks out of a tight knot. by Rebecca Clark Pictures speak even loud- er than words, so having the The mysterious @altmanly the polarisation will continue.” right images will help attract has the neighbourhood Property buyer’s agent good at taking photos for new customers. Here are buzzing again after another Paul Wilcox agrees. “Alt’s gotta your feed and you don’t have some excellent, free, stock ‘Banksy’ style post overnight. be a local because we’re all time to be posting on social image sites that offer non- “I can’t believe Alt shot my locked down. Some say it’s media. Does anything of this sucky content for you to use. balcony,” screamed the lucky Sprout Daily. Others say it’s sound familiar? Thought so. • Unsplash has an exten- resident. “That’s upped my Erin Masters or Tamara Toon. Here are our top three re- sive collection of beautiful unit’s value by $50k”. Regardless, they’re keeping sources to get ideas flowing. images. The motives of Manly’s the property market red hot, 1. Answer the Public is a • Pexels does eye-catching secret shooter appear pure. A ghostly presence in photography fantastic!” key word tool that listens stock photos and videos. Alt wants to highlight the Experts tip Alt’s insta worth to autocomplete data from • Pixabay offers photos plus beauty that exists in our back It’s no secret the Manly will soon grow north of $50 search engines, then cranks illustrations, vector graphics, laneways, our everyday, our community’s polarised. Half million as digital auctions take out useful phrases and film footage and music. normal. Social commentator believe Alt’s just an ins- hold. Alt’s also showed a phil- questions people ask around If you have the budget, Jeshayle Singh explains, “Alt’s ta-graffer out to cause chaos, anthropic side by co-founding your keyword. It’s a gold- professional shots of your teaching us beauty’s all around. while others have embraced the new @manlyclicks page Instagram is a super man- mine of consumer insight product or service will be a It’s not just about beachfront Alt’s philosophy. Alt’s also for local photographers. On ageable platform and “83% you can use to create fresh, game-changer. bliss and sweeping million trending in at CrimeStoppers, the website Alt confirmed, of Instagram users discover ultra-useful content. Posting regularly is im- dollar views. “There’s beauty popping up in police brief- “It’s about involving the new products and services 2. 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42 The Tawny Frogmouth Issue 9 September 2021 The Tawny Frogmouth 43 Sift out the Gold: Precious Pandemic Wisdom yourself what feeling you’re attempting to deal with. Seeing the pattern is the first step by Craig Fallshaw towards changing it. Sometimes the feelings that bother us the most are the ones we’re not acknowledging. who’ve poured their heart, soul, talent and If you’ve found unhelpful habits having a capital into once-brilliant local businesses. negative impact on your life, what’s the right In my business, we employ 65 people. The strategy to help regain the balance in your life? monthly wages bill is over $400,000. Thankful- The one that works best for you will depend on ly we’ve remained busy. Everybody still wants your situation, but here are some to try. their vitamin products for immunity and gen- Notice your thinking. If you’re over- eral health. Fingers, toes and eyeballs crossed whelmed by anxious or negative thoughts, that continues. But paying wages, overheads write them down. Transferring your inner and every conceivable cost at the coal face of Feeling stuck? monologue to written words helps you keep running any business requires sales and in- track of how your feelings fluctuate and what Craig's watertight solution to lockdown measures come. There’s no magic money pot businesses people or factors set you off. can access when times get tough. Sales drive How to Kick Unhelpful Talk it through. A sounding board can be AB Facey wrote in the Australian literary this juggernaut. enormously helpful when you’re trying to sort classic, that his was indeed a fortunate life. There are two obvious questions then; how (Covid-19) Habits through your feelings – so don’t bottle them Strength through adversity was the message, do you generate sales amidst rapidly changing by Alistair Robinson up! Make time to call someone or if you’re although I don’t know if we can compare our business conditions? And how do you keep struggling to reach out, text a loved one to let current struggles with those that faced the a positive state of mind so you can approach them know you need support. Often simply farm worker and courageous Gallipoli soldier. each day with some semblance of a spring in When Covid-19 swept the globe, our ‘usual’ communicating your inner storm can help to Still, these are very challenging times, seeing your stride, the most crucial factor of all for lives were thrown into chaos. Overnight, we calm it. modern Australia irrevocably changed by the achieving productive outcomes. had to find new ways to work, communicate invisible Covid-19 assassin. The most important element is an ability and co-exist – all without the external struc- If you’re stuck for someone to call, or don’t Coming on the back of bushfires and floods, to adapt. One of my clients, whose biggest tures like our gym sessions, school hours or want to put pressure on your loved ones, you the pandemic is impacting us all in unprece- market is gyms, has been forced to find ways social connections that previously helped keep can always call Lifeline on 13 11 14 (24/7). dented ways. Apart from the physical require- to survive while gyms are closed. They’ve tran- us grounded. And as we’ve struggled to find a ments of social distancing and mask wearing, sitioned to a more online sales focus, finding new normal in an abnormally stressful time, Make your habit inconvenient. Put envi- I’ve found myself suffering varying amounts of customers in broader markets beyond their we may have reached for the things that bring ronmental barriers or distance between you Covid-Anxiety. When will my daughter be able traditional gym client base. In my business, comfort or distraction, whether it’s a sugary and the ‘thing’ you no longer want to do. Want to go back to school? Will my business survive? we’ve changed shifting arrangements and split snack, sneaky cigarette, an online punt, or an to cut down drinking? Don’t keep alcohol in What is happening with the economy? Is my break times to fully adhere to social distancing extra glass of wine. the house. Want to stop obsessing over social income secure? requirements and have moved all client meet- At first this was easy to justify. This is an media? Don’t sleep with your mobile phone I decided to stop tuning into the news, real- ings online. It’s not as fun, but it’s effective, ‘unprecedented’ crisis after all. But as the in the room. The harder you have to work to ising the exasperated updates on Corona cases safe and gets the job done. months have dragged on, some of us are start- engage in the behaviour, the less likely you are were overwhelming and bleak, and replaced Now, retaining a spring in your stride, this ing to feel a tad uncomfortable about the im- to do it. the aural fear-mongering with a rediscovery of is every bit as important as finding new ways pacts of our new habits; wondering when and Replace your old habit for a (more helpful) my epic 90’s playlist. It’s safe to say, listening to to generate sales. My great passion in life, how our self-control will reappear. So, how do new one. Can’t resist a drink in the after-work Black Box (Everybody, Ow!), Tori Amos (Corn- apart from my family, is photography. But with you know if a habit really needs changing? wind down? Go for a walk or do a guided medi- flake Girl), Technotronic (Pump up the Jam, the lockdown in place, leaving the house is Firstly, assess whether your habit is un- tation instead. Finding it hard to limit screen R-E-WAAAH, the Place to Stay) on the way to reserved for essential purposes only. What to healthy or unhelpful. If it’s impacting your time? Rediscover puzzles or books. Remind work put me in a frame of mind that can best do? Well, seeing as we’re still allowed to swim sleep, detaching you from friends, making you yourself there are other ways to respond to be described as FRESH, but there’s no amount in the ocean, I found a watertight solution - an less productive, or compromising your health stress and anxiety apart from the ones you’ve of timeless toe-tappers that allow any of us to underwater case for my camera. Forget dry or finances, these are sure signs the habit is become accustomed to. escape the simple truth, Covid-19 is forcing us land, I’m an aquatic mammal nowadays, finding indeed an unhealthy and unhelpful one. Once Find a new way to treat yourself. The all to amend our daily lives. my new love, taking photos of the waves from you’ve identified the habit, it helps to uncover infuriating thing about so many unhelpful In some cases, those changes repre- inside these curling cylinders. the ‘why’. habits is that they feel so good at the time! We sent mere inconveniences, in others they’re Covid-19’s brought upheaval that we Habits are essentially learned responses to tend to justify things like alcohol or chocolate life-shattering. We’ve lost some great busi- couldn’t have imagined in March 2020, but triggers, situations that make us feel stressed, by saying we ‘deserve it’. The trick here is to nesses where I live, watering holes and this remains indeed a fortunate life. Adapt unhappy or anxious. When confronted with switch out the ‘reward’ for something else that restaurants that were my absolute favourite where you can, listen to tunes that enrich your these, we instinctively try to do something feels like a treat. It could be a relaxing bath, a haunts to enjoy with friends and family, their 90’s soul, and sift out the precious nuggets (anything!) that alleviates our discomfort. To new book, yummy takeaway or a TV binge – doors shut to keep Covid-19 at bay. Safety first, anywhere you can, there’ll be gold in your pan figure out your triggers, look at when you whatever will make you feel good, but in a way of course, but this is devastating to the owners I’m sure. engage with your unhelpful habit, and ask that’s actually good for you.

44 The Tawny Frogmouth Issue 9 September 2021 The Tawny Frogmouth 45 constantly saying “just a minute!” as I held the to create a product we expect to use for about mute button and listened to my customer’s 24 hours. So, the balloons cannot possibly be issues rather than my daughter’s concerns. “100% natural rubber latex”. By the afternoon of home-schooling day For decades, the industry relied on ONE two, I cried, breaking down and having a 1989 industry-funded study which claimed tantrum to my partner. I felt awful for Ruby, that after six weeks, balloons degraded “at showing her loud and clear my work is my about the same rate as oak tree leaves”. That priority. She was clearly frustrated too, sensing study was not peer-reviewed, its methods are quickly I didn’t know how to teach her things. unclear and not repeatable, and the results are I know how to read and write but to teach based on only six balloons. Please note that, those foundations? No clue. industrial composting standards require that My mum could see what was unraveling the material completely disintegrates after 12 and was fortunately equipped with the skills weeks, and that the product is not distinguish- to swoop in and take over. The next day we able from the surrounding soil. rocked up to mum’s house to a sign atop the In 2020, Morgan Gilmour and Jennifer front door, “Welcome Ruby to Vovo’s School”. Lavers conducted research by the Institute for (Vovo is grandma in Portuguese. Ruby’s dad is Say NO to balloons. Photo by Justin Williams Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Brazilian). Tasmania. The experiment added a few colour- Since enrolling in Vovo’s School, Ruby’s Do Biodegradable ful latex balloons to an industrial compost heap education has never been better, improving and monitored the progress over 16 weeks. immensely, while my gratitude to teachers Balloons Exist? The results were far from eco-friendly. “Af- everywhere and my mum in particular has ter 16 weeks in an industrial compost heap, Three generations of Buda education never been higher. I work full time and the by Malin Frick, Northern Beaches Clean Up Crew we unearthed blue and white balloons and reality is, if I didn’t have my mum helping, found them totally unscathed. The knots we Homeschooling Ruby would be watching Netflix for the spent hours painstakingly tying by hand more majority of her homeschooling. I was com- You may have seen big balloon arches when than four months ago were still attached, and Through Lockdown pletely unable to work at a sufficient pace in businesses have a celebration, rooms “full” of sparkly blue balloons still glinted in the sun.” my day job while simultaneously teaching my balloons for wedding celebrations or bunches There was no change in the look or feel of Izzy's Mumma Files By Izzy Buda child. How other parents are coping through of balloons tied to a fence showing off a child’s these balloons. This means that there would be this, I have no idea. birthday party and thought nothing more of it, more than enough time for wildlife to pick it My lockdown life is largely unchanged. I maybe presuming these balloons were inno- up and risk entanglement or being poisoned. When the Tawny Frogmouth editor asked drop Ruby off at Vovo’s at 9am and collect cent fun, and will be disposed of safely, soon to According to CSIRO, balloons are one of me to write my monthly column, this time her by 3pm. Ruby’s being educated by a real be degraded in landfill or backyard compost. the disproportionately deadliest litter items on “Homeschooling Through Lockdown”, I teacher, as well as going on regular nature You may believe this because balloons often to marine wildlife such as seabirds and turtles. immediately felt sheepish. I had just completed bike rides with her grandpa. Something else use “100% biodegradable” advertising on the If a bird ingests a balloon or a balloon frag- my first week of homeschooling, sure, but I’ve begun to realise is that lockdown here on packaging, with the manufacturers assuring ment, it is 32 times more likely to die than if it comprised multiple meltdowns, eventually the Northern Beaches is paradise compared customers they’re made of “100% natural latex it ingests a hard plastic fragment. Birds and resulting in my mum - who is a teacher thank to many other areas of Sydney where my rubber”. This implies these balloons have no turtles not only ingest balloons, they actively goodness - homeschooling Ruby. Ruby now has colleagues are mired in severe lockdowns trouble breaking down in the environment, select them as food. This is because a burst her own private tutor and the grandmotherly and movement restrictions. Here, we step making them highly appealing to eco-con- balloon often resembles a jellyfish, the natural improvements in her homeschooling, above off our doorsteps and are surrounded by the scious consumers. Really though, it’s corporate food sources of many marine species like turtles. what I could offer, have been exceptional. Pacific Ocean, beautiful walks, breaching greenwashing, making unsubstantiated claims Ingesting balloons, and the clips and Back track though, let’s look at that first whales, frolicking dolphins, and we can go of environmentally friendly products. strings attached to them, can cause intestinal week. Ruby and I sat at the dining room table paddle-boarding, surfing, skateboarding and What most consumers don’t realise is blockages and results in a slow painful death together. I flicked through her workbooks. It all the list really doesn’t end there. Our outdoor that to shape milky natural rubber latex sap through starvation. Marine animals don’t have seemed pretty straightforward. The first five walks aren’t just around suburbia, we’re into the product we know as a balloon, many the gastrointestinal pH levels to breakdown a minutes were great. I thought to myself, this is wandering amongst some of the most pristine additional chemicals must be added. These balloon and for turtles, it may also cause float- going to be lush! Mother and daughter working parts of the world. chemicals include antioxidants and anti-fog- ing syndrome. Trapped gases in the gut can side by side. So, when asked to reflect on homeschooling ging (to counteract that cloudy look balloons cause a turtle to become buoyant, unable to But five minutes passed and the fidgeting through lockdown, I don’t have any hilarious can get), plasticisers (to make it more flexible), dive for food—making them vulnerable to boat began. Ruby’s, not mine. She was wriggling, anecdotes to rattle off. I can only reflect with preservatives (to enable the balloon to sit in strikes and leading to starvation and severe sliding sideways off her chair, colouring in the sincere gratitude. Grateful that my daughter is warehouses and store shelves for months), dehydration. table, noticing ants outside. To compound her being educated superbly. Grateful that I have flame retardants, fragrance, dyes and pig- Next time, you are thinking of purchasing squirming, my phone was ringing hot. I work in loving parents nearby that can support me and ments. Further chemicals must be used to a balloon arch, filling a room “full” of balloons, sales so there’s never any choice but to answer my kids too. Grateful that I live here on the make the additives “stick” to the latex and to or tying balloons to your fence to celebrate, any and every call, but I felt terrible for Ruby, Northern Beaches. I’m one lucky Mum. each other, enabling them to work in tandem please think again.

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50 The Tawny Frogmouth Issue 9 September 2021 The Tawny Frogmouth 51 It zaps the body of moisture it’s being opened to property developers. The and stops us from enter- geographic (EIE) area of impact, south of Mona ing deep, or REM, sleep. By Vale Road, at present has 130 residences. The plan breathing in and out of the is the NSW Government Draft Ingleside Place nose, we not only filter the Strategy. It will add 980 new homes, placing 40% air, but it helps us take fuller along Wilga Street. deeper breaths and allows us On 27 July 2021, the local Council responded, to absorb up to 20% more ox- unanimously voting to reject the strategy. It ygen into the blood due to the recognises serious issues. It wants the govern- buildup of co2 in our bodies. ment to transfer public land for infrastructure, I like to think of ocean such as sports fields. Yet Council concedes the swimming when explaining proposed homes have to go somewhere. If not the effects of mouth breathing all at Ingleside, then Brookvale is mooted. In or shallow breathing. Either government-speak, redistribution of the shortfall. you can take a bunch of very One can have sympathy for Council's short, fast, laboured strokes, The community is split on Ingleside rezoning plans response. Opening Ingleside to housing has Emma demonstrating 'conscious breathing'. Photo Credit: Guy Dixon and you'll eventually get to been on a government’s agenda since 1991, more Shelly Beach. It's going to take recently in 2016. It is back on the agenda of the a little longer, and you’ll pull Ingleside Rezoning: NSW Liberals. The Department of planning, The Forgotten Art of Breathing up puffed, but you'll get there. industry and environment sought feedback via by Emma Shearman Or you could take a series of How Did We Get Here? My Social Pin Point Map. Until 23 July, anyone fluid and extended strokes By Greg Hogan could ‘pinpoint’ on the map and make comment. and get there so much more See the map at https://dpie.mysocialpinpoint. Breathing. We do it roughly the power contained in a sin- enjoyably and efficiently. com.au/ingleside#/ 26,000 times a day, but few of gle breath, those ties are only Breathwork can benefit all Last year, the government confirmed We took a closer look: hoovered all 206 us give much thought to this growing thicker. of us. But what it has to offer Ingleside as a State-led rezoning. David Byrne's comments, processed catchwords, checked automatic function. While we The New Science and athletes can be especially American Utopia had its world premiere at sentiment, putting each one in a category to can survive without food for Extensive Impacts transformative - bigger waves, Toronto International Film Festival. It screened create granularity. weeks and without water for How we breathe affects us deeper dives and less injuries. in Sydney’s arthouses. This masterpiece allows days, most of us will only live physically, psychologically If you're a surfer, swimmer reappreciation of Talking Heads ‘Once in a a few minutes without air. Yet and mentally. Just as eating or you enjoy high intensity Lifetime’. The year was 1980. Showing artistic flair still, we devote far more of organic foods, drinking a glass training, but you’ve never and deep meaning, Byrne asked: you may find our energy to thinking about of water with lemon in the been taught to engage the di- yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile, what we're going to eat and morning, or enjoying a sauna aphragm, one of the strongest in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife. And drink on any given day. encourages your body to re- stabilisers in the entire body, you may ask yourself: well, how did I get here? In many Eastern cultures duce toxins and build up your for example, could take your To wake one day, questioning of that large and religions, conscious immune system, different performance to new heights. automobile, that beautiful house. breathing forms the founda- forms of breathing can have Three Tips and Takeaways In 1980, semi-rural Ingleside attracted animal tion of practices and beliefs, similarly detoxifying effects. 1. Focus on nasal breathing lovers on small farms and migrants with market and has done so for cen- Our bodies were designed as much as you can. Try to gardens. Others pursued unique interests such turies. If, for example, you to breathe through the nose. implement it in your every- as religion, special school, animal welfare, and have practiced yoga at one Again, Eastern cultures teach day life, fitness and sleeping nurseries. of our many great studios their children from a young routines. For the brave, there Ingleside also saw very wealthy individuals The Pareto chart shows their heartbeats: on the Beaches, you might age to sleep with their mouth is even mouth tape that will construct large houses with multiple car garages 33 persons (16%) are anti-development have heard the term, ‘pra- closed. Yet about half of us help you to keep your mouth in semi-secluded large plots. To these persons, NIMBYs. 23 persons (11%) card-carrying nayama’ in a class, or the are chronic mouth breathers, shut during the night. Talking Heads directed its lyrics, in awe at the pro-development YIMBYs. Other people (68%) phrase ‘conscious breathing’. a style of breathing that irri- 2. Practice Box Breathing - lavish standard of living available to so few. worry of traffic congestion and damage to the In Buddhism, it is referred to tates the lungs, increases the Take an inhale for 4 seconds, 41 years on, the same lyrics may examine natural environment, fear bushfire and poor as ‘anapanasati’ - the practice risk of respiratory infection hold on the inhale for 4 sec- a perception that the impact of urbanisation egress, dismay lack of infrastructure for water of mindful breathing. In these and causes a pattern of shal- onds, exhale for 4 second and upon society is detrimental. An urban pessimism & sewerage. Queenwood Sports Precinct at 169 spaces, breath is respected, low breathing. then hold on the exhale for 4 because of the population pressure it brings. The Mona Vale Road attracts special comments, as and the benefits are acknowl- Do you find yourself wak- seconds - Repeat for 2 + mins contrary view is urbanisation gives opportunity did the State Heritage Register listing curtilage edged extensively. However, ing up in the middle of night 3. Learn more from Emma for economic growth and human advancement. of early European settlement at Ingleside. there are ties connecting the in need of the bathroom, or a Shearman, Performance As living on the Northern Beaches is a wonderful Once in a lifetime is clarion call to gov- East and West approaches to glass of water? Often, this is Breathwork Practitioner at place, it should be further developed. ernment to ‘Get Right’ Ingleside. Muck it. The breathing, and as we realise because of mouth breathing. www.Sisuu.life or @sisuu.life Today, 985 people live across Ingleside, and children will ask: How did we get here?

52 The Tawny Frogmouth Issue 9 September 2021 The Tawny Frogmouth 53 tough, boofy, blokes into nervous, timorous, trembling Ask a Sparky fools at the mere sight of Interview by Liam Carroll one? The fact that arachnids are loyal allies in our chem- ical war against mosquitoes Queenscliff Sparky,Chris Pemberton of doesn’t seem to have won Local & Licensed Electrical, will be onsite them any friends at all. The each month to answer any Tawny Frogmouth truth is that even the de- reader questions you may have about power- monised mosquito has a role driven and electrical issues. to fill in the finely balanced Be sure to send your questions in to workings of this planet. They [email protected] provide vital food to all the cute little frogs, birds and Garden Orb Weaving Spider bats that David Attenborough Chris, would you advise Tawny Frogmouth What does LED stand for? Light Emitting recruits for star billing in his readers to date an electrician? Of course, but Diode TV charm offensives. be careful, we’re shockingly good in bed. Can I still be electrocuted after I get safety “Man up” Australia!! Regretfully David, few How many borderline, near-death, electro- switches installed at my switchboard? Only Mal's Wild Side By Malcolm Fisher people seem to be getting cution experiences does it take the average for 0.3 of a second. the real gist of your message. apprentice to learn a healthy respect for How much power do my Halogen lights use We have become, not just electricity? Back in the day when I started my compared to LED equivalent? The general rule I reckon our society is re- do on a regular basis). But estranged from the natural apprenticeship in New Zealand the rules were of thumb is that one Halogen downlight would ally learning to embrace and I actually like them, they’re world, but unnaturally afraid a lot more relaxed. Fewer circuits had safety use about the same power as 4 LED down- own the word “pathetic” with intriguing and mostly harm- of it. So, for example, instead switches protecting from serious electric lights. energetic gusto. I mean, how less (in fact they are closely of thinking of possums as shock, so it just took me one big one to scare What does one electrician say to another

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Leave in a covered bowl overnight. band manager Michael Solo from Bird’s Robe for cancelled and reduced capacity events film, but there’s no better time to revisit or Use an electric (or hand) mixer to combine the Collective, here’s a quick checklist on how all due to lockdown. show your kids! starter with all other bread ingredients, mixing Aussie musicians can sort themselves a weekly iv. NSW Fees and Charges rebate - $1,500 dis- for at least 15 minutes to form a smooth dough. lifeline and stay financially afloat while lock- count on eligible business licence fees and Midnight Diner 3. Shape into a ball and allow to rest in a lightly downs continue. charges, sign up for it through MyService All 5 seasons on Netflix oiled bowl covered with a damp tea-towel for 1. NSW Support Grant: $7,500 - $15,000 (for NSW and link your MyBusiness account. A man known only as “Master” operates a tiny one hour. Company, Partnership or Sole Trader) 7. NSW Disaster Relief Payments (individuals) diner in Shinjuku, which opens from midnight Remove dough ball and punch it to remove air. • This is aimed at compensating people for • Check this out if you are not eligible for any to morning and where you can order any dish Divide ball into two, cover, and rest for another the cost of the lockdown. of the above you like as long as there's ingredients for it. 25 minutes. Preheat oven to 160 degrees. • Business turnover must be between $75k – • Must demonstrate you’ve lost work hours This show sparkles with vibrant characters, 4. Punch the dough balls again and form into $10million as a result of Covid-19 human stories and excellent food, emphasising two rectangles to suit your loaf tin. Stack into • Lockdown has caused a drop of 30% or • It can be hard to prove hours lost in re- the need for empathy, kindness and communi- tin and rest for another 45 minutes. more for the same period in 2019 hearsal and work done for a 1 hour gig etc ty. Each episode features a dish with a special 5. Bake for 35 minutes. Once cooked, remove It requires: so best to have contract amounts handy to meaning to the story being told, we even get from tin and cool the bread on a wire rack for - A copy of your FY18-19 tax return show proof fourth-wall breaking moments where the char- 1 hour. - Last BAS quarterly statement • Only apply for this if you’re not eligible for acters give cooking tips! This show is like the 6. Spread whipped cream on two thick slices - A letter from your accountant confirming the above grants (you can’t have both) flavour umami - rich, smooth and pleasant! of bread, then place strawberries in a line on loss of income • It’s tough, time-consuming paperwork but the diagonal, cover with additional cream and - Bank statements and receipts to back up worth the effort if you have no assistance Inspired by Japan, this month we are making a wrap in cling wrap to refrigerate for 1 hour. 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The Tawny loves to feature great local pics! Please send them to [email protected] 58 The Tawny Frogmouth Issue 9 September 2021 The Tawny Frogmouth 59 better conversations about whatever issues your team is facing. I love the cross-over of Sudoku this book from what it intends to be (and is) Medium difficulty and what it can be in the workplace. It reminds me a little of reading Daniel Goleman’s first book in 1995 about Emotional Intelligence. That book was focused on the emotional brain in children but by 1998 it morphed into the 1. How many Gold Medals did Australia win emotional brain at work and then the role of at the Tokyo Olympics? emotional intelligence in leadership. I see Susy 2. Which team defeated The Australian Lee’s book having this sort of trajectory and men’s Hockey Team The Kookaburras for the if it doesn’t it should because its wisdom has Olympic Gold Medal in Tokyo? broad application beyond families, although starting with families is a wonderful place to 3. Which Australian swimmer won 4 Gold Medals at the Tokyo Olympics? Mr Paige Turner perusing points of interest start. Everything starts from being nurtured in your family. 4. Which Australian Basketballer made the Raising Kids Who Care This wasn’t a book I could read in the All Star Tokyowww.razzledazzletrivia.com.au Olympic starting 5 Team? bathtub. It deserves to be read sitting upright 5. In which discipline did Jessica Fox win her Tawny's Bathtub Book Club by Paige Turner and with post-its handy because there are so Gold Medal - Kayak or Canoe? many pages you want to tag and return to. It’s 6. In what month of the year were the also not the type of book you sit down and Sydney Olympics predominantly held in? Susy Lee, author of Raising Kids Who Care, read from beginning to end. It’s more a book is a Northern Beaches gem, and her book is you dip in and out of, reflect on, try out some 7. In what year was Same Sex marriage an especially rare gem in the crowded market of its suggestions and then return to it for legalised in Australia? of so-called “advice” books. A genre I tend to more inspiration. 8. Which of the main characters did Dorothy avoid but this one is an exception. The chapters on listening and coping when meet first in the Wizard of Oz along the I believe this book can help people at all you’ve made a mistake should be essential Yellow Brick Road? ages and stages of their life to build more open, reading for all of us and especially our 9. Which South American country has the www.razzledazzletrivia.com.au honest and robust relationships by resurrect- Commonwealth and State government leaders, Southern Cross on its flag? ing the lost art of listening and encouraging oh and CEOs of banks, insurers and virtually conversations about tricky topics, instead of all large institutions – they’d be so much more 10. What does the QR stand for in relation to avoiding them. If you’re a new parent, or the effective and possibly even trusted if they put QR Code? Adjustments Building parent of a toddler you may want to wait a few some of Susy Lee’s learnings into practice. 11. Every how many years is there a Census in Services Ptd Ltd years to put Susy Lee’s ideas into action but if The three-step plan for knowing what to do Australia? you’re the parent of pre-pubescent or teenage when you’ve done something wrong is brilliant: Need informed advice by a qualified builder/ 12. The Aussie film “Crackerjack” starring kids then this book is a must-read. Admit, Apologise, Amend. That’s a true triple engineer to bring your renovation idea to reality? Mick Molloy featured which sport? Everyone will get something useful from AAA rated solution right there. Need an itemised scope of work to fit your budget this book, something that improves the quality Social commentator, and author, Hugh 13. Someone born on August 1st has which for a residential new build, addition, renovation of their relationships if they choose to read Mackay, a personal hero of mine, sums it up on star sign? or knock-down rebuild? and reflect on the lessons this book shares and the back cover when he says, “Highly recom- 14. In which decade did Bob Marley pass Need a project timeline to align budget then use the practical tools Susy Lee lays out mended for anyone who cares about the future away? and lifestyle milestones? in such an easily understood way. of our children and our society.” 15. Which U.S. state is the only one with only Susy Lee is not only a great communicator, I’ve looked at the book’s reviews on WE PROVIDE one syllable? but also someone who knows what she’s Booktopia and Amazon and it consistently gets • Consultation with the early concept design talking about, a rare combination. She writes five stars. A remarkable achievement. Many 16. Which country is sometimes nicknamed • Advice on civil and structural engineering with insight, passion and humility. This book is reviewers tell brief stories about the success “India’s Teardrop”? • Guidance on pre-DA and council DA Application written from the heart and from hard-learned that’s resulted when trying out some of Susy 17. Which letter represents the number 500 • End to end construction to completion certification life lessons complemented with impressive Lee’s conversation techniques. Do yourself a in Roman Numerals? academic qualifications. One of her many favour – go out and buy it, Father’s Day is just We understand how to make any budget 18. What is the occupation of Nintendo’s skills is her writing style which is gentle and around the corner! fit a project to ensure expectations Mario & Luigi? encouraging yet vigorous. are realistic and achievable! 19. 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