kalminercom.au OPINION Thursday, August 18, 2016

Today in history 1227 Death of Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan. 1743 First rules of boxing approved - they were drafted by English heavyweight boxing champion fue: FM UWE John Broughton. To MAW ffAOLU1EL? 1870 WA is granted representative Government. LR tM$6 1958 Vladimir Nabokovs controversial novel 014 .1S1cu Lolita is published. MkFcc 1960 First commercially produced oral contraceptive, Enovid 10, is launched in Illinois. 1964 South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games because of its apartheid policies. 2000 Indians belonging to a tribe believed to have been decimated 80 years ago are found in Brazils Amazon jungle. 2011 Veteran ABC news gatherers Paul Lockyer, Gary Ticehurst and John Bean are killed in a helicopter crash at South Australias Lake Eyre. Todays birthdays Casper Weinberger, US politician (1917-2006); Shelley Winters, US actor (1920-2006); Roman Polanski, film director (1933-); Robert Redford, US actor (1937-); Patrick Swayze, US actor (1952-2009); Edward Norton, US actor (1969-); Thought of the day New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. John Locke. English philosopher (1632-1704) AAP/AP/Reuters

• • WEIRD WO C Vienna mall towns, strong spirit Two couples 1ookini to got married have left an Austrian registry office wearing handcuffs MONS MUSINGS instead of rings. $ Monique Preston State broadcaster ORF reported the registrar in Moedling, south I love living in regional areas. of Vienna, became suspicious I love the lifestyle, I love the because neither of the pairs - a wide open spaces, and I love not Romanian woman with a having to deal with the hustle and Nepalese man and a Hungarian bustle that cities can throw at woman with a Tunisian man - you. could understand each other. Most of all, I love the way Police determined the four were people in the country band seeking bogus marriages that together to get things done. would have given the men a better That type of camaraderie, I chance of settling in the EU find, is lacking in cities. through wives who came froi: Its definitely alive and well in EU-member nations. the country, though. ORF said yesterday one of And people here are passionate men was sought by police, but about things in their towns. gave no details. None of the four A couple of weeks ago, I went to was identified in keeping with Esperance for the weekend. Austrian privacy laws. While there, I quickly came AP across the thing that the people of Esperance are most passionate The Tanker Jetty at Esperance. Picture: Monique Preston FIAVE YOUR SLAY about. Its the towns historic Tanker Jetty. Petitions are up all over the town career and I have seen the fight day, yet people stepped out of Your letter to the editor must be SIGNED with Once, there were 80 wooden trying to save the jetty, and will be that locals put into issues they their offices, off their farms and the writers full name and residential address and telephone number. Send to: Letter to the jetties in WA. presented to both Houses of feel are important to them and out of their shops to join in Editor. Kalgoorlie Miner. P0 Box 10392, Now there are only three, and Parliament. their towns. because they felt it was a worthy Kalgoorlie 6430; or email to one of those is the Esperance And when I say all over town, I One of the best fights by the cause. [email protected] (Include full address Tanker Jetty. mean all over town: community I have ever seen was They were strong in thetr and phone number). A group of concerned residents I was asked at least four times - in Echuca, in northern Victoria, never-give-up attitude. The Kalgoorlie Miner is bound by the Independeni in the town has already formed a when I was there if I wanted to when the townspeople joined Echuca got that new hosital. Media Council Code of Conduct group called the Jetty Group to sign the petition. together to fight for a new Whatever happens in Esperance (independentmediacouncil.com.au). If you belie. fight against the Esperance Already, 2388 signatures are on hospital. They were relentless in in the next few weeks, I think the the code has been breached and wish to cornplan Shires decision to demolish the the petition. their campaign. people there can be proud that about an article in this newspaper, contact the jetty and replace it with a new That seems a lot in a place the The crux came when about 1600 they at least gave it a crac to try Readers Editor by email: . [email protected] or in writing to he structure. size of Esperance. people joined a rally on the to save their jetty and they didnt Readers Editor, GPO Box D162, Perth WA 6840. The group has also paid out of Thats the sort of fighting spirit hospital grounds. just sit back and watch it go the complaint is not resolved to your satisfaction its own pockets to do an of regional towns that I am This was from twin towns that without a fight. INDEPENDENT the Readers Editor W 1 engineering study to explore talking about. had a combined population of pass it on to the alternative restoration options I have worked in several small about 14,000. I: Monique Preston is a reporter for - Independent Media LJUINLJ..L . and the costings of them. towns during my journalism It was in the middle of a work the Kalgoorlie Miner. Council for review.

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