Autumn 2007 | Edition #95 | Circulation 4000 copies

Maureen Webb: Where are the Warriors? p3 | Treading the Grapes p4 Richard Bates in the Budawangs p7 | Epic story of Bushfire p8 Whose Is It? Terry Barratt Shoalhaven River Alliance

N common with all river systems in southern , the Shoalhaven River has been suffering Ifrom the long-term downturn in rainfall across a large part of the continent. However, the Shoalhaven is somewhat different from other in that it is close enough to the country’s largest city to be considered as a handy source of water for its burgeoning population. Having exceeded the capacity of the Hawkesbury/ system, is now turning to the Shoalhaven to help quench its unsustainable thirst. This is just one example of the growing ecological footprint of Sydney on resources beyond its boundaries. It is not the drought that threatens the health of the river – it is the growing rate of extractions via a proposed tunnel across the Southern Highlands which will place the river permanently on tap to Sydney. The Shoalhaven River Alliance was formed in February 2005 to fi ght for an environmental fl ow regime that would return the river to health. It has come to the view that this can only be achieved by abandonment of extractions from the river altogether and that this can be achieved through potable re-use.

The Government has turned Ron Doughton PHOTO: a blind eye to this concept even though recent polls have Interestingly, the peak demonstrated 80% support environment groups in Sydney from the community. The support the Opposition’s plans. Opposition has seen the light None of the parties have made The State Election and brought forward a plan to the link between unsustainable make potable re-use a reality population growth and the Patrick Thompson north of the Shoalhaven River the last State election. It was in addition to support for water crisis! will now be in Kiama, whilst the only seat Labor lost in the progressive reduction of the For the sake of the Shoalhaven HE most likely result in those to the south of the river last State poll. Shoalhaven River extractions. River we need to keep the the State election for the will vote in South Coast. Changing electoral The Greens, while opposing pressure on the politicians up two electorates covering Strong challenges are boundaries and an increased the Shoalhaven transfers, to the State elections and on the Shoalhaven will be however are expected. In vote by the Greens in Council have surprisingly criticised the the Government thereafter, aT return of Shelley Hancock Kiama, Ann Sudmalis is the elections is likely to see an Opposition’s re-use plans and whoever they may be. (Liberal) as Member for South Liberal Party candidate while increased vote for that party. instead advocated a range of We must get the message Coast and Matt Brown (Labor) Ben van der Wijngaart will The Greens candidate for the small-scale measures that fail across to them that anything as Member for Kiama. represent the Greens. The South Coast will be Amanda to address the wasteful ocean that does not reduce, recycle or Electorate boundaries have South Coast will see Michelle Findley. dumping regime and the on- reuse water will get the thumbs changed since the last State Miran attempting to regain the going demands on the river. down. ■ election. As a result voters living seat for Labor which it lost in continued on page 3 2 Autumn 2007 #95

EDITORIAL IF the old political adage that L E T T E R S oppositions don’t win elections THE NEW BUSH TELEGRAPH only governments looses them, EDITION 95, AUTUMN 2007 is the case, then the Iemma Bomaderry Creek Bush- The Kiama Greens are opposed to newsletter of various organisa- The views expressed in this Government faces a tough chal- land Under Threat roads through the Park and to resi- tions such as the Shoalhaven publication are not necessarily lenge in the forthcoming State dential carve up of the Bushland. Bushwalkers, Jervis Bay Protec- those of the Editor. election. Although starting Many readers of the NBT will They support addition of the rest tion Committee, Shoalhaven clear favourites in the race be familiar with the past battles of the Bushland to the Regional Conservation Society, Shoalhaven Editor: Patrick Thompson for the polls, there are factors to save this marvellous piece of Park. and Milton-Ulladulla People for Email: [email protected] working against a return of a urban bushland. For those not Peace. Labor government. familiar with the Bushland, I invite The creation of a 250ha Regional Telephone: 0402 361 424 Firstly, history is on the side you to get a copy of the Bomad- Park in the middle of a growing ur- It was established to “share of the challenger. Rarely has erry Creek Bushland Walks book ban landscape would be a valuable encouragement, support and Advertising: Pat Thompson a government been returned from the Nowra Visitor Centre and asset for locals and visitors alike. expertise among the many groups Typesetting & Layout: following the retirement of go for a walk there. with similar or related interests Bungoona Technologies P/L, a long serving leader. Morris This proposal needs a strong and ideals” As well as articles of Grays Point NSW Iemma knows this and has been Council has for many years pro- expression of community support. interest it also had details of each at pains to distinguish himself posed a housing carve-up of the You are urged to let Mr Brown, groups meetings and activities Printer: from his predecessor. Bushland and a through road link- Ms Sudmalis and their parties and contact details. The initially Weston Print, Kiama NSW Secondly, there is the ing the suburbs of North Nowra know what you think of their monthly publication was mailed Send your letters, comments, state of the NSW economy. and Bomaderry. position. out and payment levied against pictures, or contributions to: Governments are hard to each group according to the The Editor, New Bush Telegraph, replace when an economy is Many years of lobbying and a suc- For more information or clarifi ca- membership. With May Leatch as PO Box 2210, doing well. The truth is NSW cessful court case led to declara- tion. the driving force, it was a delight- NSW 2540 is struggling. Unemployment tion in December 2001of 81ha of ful publication. May did most of is high by national standards the Bushland as the Bomaderry Terry Barratt the work on her trusty typewriter, BUSH TELEGRAPH on the WEB and our economy is close to Creek Regional Park. Bomaderry cutting and pasting up each page, http://shoalhaven.net.au/ recession. Whether voters will Ph: 4422 1211 often adding little hand drawn enviro.html. blame the State government for Success and victory at last – or so Email: [email protected] sketches and maps. this state of affairs or will blame we thought! In 1997 (issue 77) Sandra Lee it on Canberra, remains to be As the nature and needs of the took over as NBT’s fi rst modestly seen. In recent years Council has gained NBT - A Retrospective. various groups changed, NBT paid editor and continued until Certainly a shake up in the support for the road from the developed a wider readership and Issue 93. Issue 94 was produced Macquarie Street is called for. Labor Member for Kiama Matt Wonderful to see NBT re emerge a list of individual subscribers. in 2005 with the assistance of Whether the Liberals are ready Brown. Revocation by Act of after a long break. Brenda and David Duffy, and now to govern is, however a question Parliament of part of the Park is When I took over from May in with issue 95, Pat Thompson, voters will need to consider. required as well as no alternative Inspired by the prospect of a 1991 the NBT was a bimonthly. publisher of Envirobook and Opposition leaders always fi nd road route being available. But new issue, I went to search out Even with a computer, I soon longtime member of the Colong it diffi cult to gain traction with there is an alternative available earlier issues at the Nowra library. discovered the time involved Foundation, has taken on the an electorate and Peter Debnam – West Cambewarra Road! As I fl icked through the various in putting together a 16 page challenge. is no exception. At times his issues I realised I was viewing a magazine was huge. Thankfully I leadership has been well short These facts do not appear to be snapshot of 20 years of environ- was assisted by many including Good luck Pat, thank you for of the mark and the power of of any concern to Matt Brown. He mental activism – Jervis Bay, the ever faithful Sue Prescott who picking up the baton and ensur- right wing factions with his appears to believe that support of Welcome Reef Dam on the upper could produce a magical sketch ing the continuity of NBT – and if party is worrying. Council is a vote-winner. Shoalhaven River, Bomaderry to illustrate even the driest article you ever waver in your endeavour Politicians of both major Creek, ocean outfalls and many and Alec Sourdin and Bede Sunter – go to the Nowra Library and be parties are not popular with Mr Brown has also ignored a peti- other issues – all wins in recent who helped enormously with edit- reminded of what NBT has been the voters. Increasingly, the tion, signed by 1013 North Nowra history. Other issues such as the ing and compilation. part of to date! people have been looking to residents, opposing any roads RAN use of Beecroft and the Her- independents and smaller through the Bushland. itage Estates remain unresolved, Others contributed articles, Ev Pettigrew parties to register their protest. but the overall impression from sourced advertisers, kept the NBT Editor 1991-1997 There is a probability that The Liberal candidate for Kiama, reviewing back issues was: mailing list and collated and independents will be returned Ann Sudmalis, also supports “We have made a difference and mailed out each issue - a won- P.S. The library collection begins at in increasing numbers in the Council and has, without any sup- awareness has changed”. derful volunteer effort and a lot Issue 5. If anyone has any copies coming election. It is also porting evidence, questioned the of fun… but barely sustainable of issues 1-4 I am sure they would possible that they will hold the legitimacy of the petition. NBT began in 1986. At that time as peoples lives became more appreciate these to complete balance of power, just as they it was the combined monthly complex and busy. their collection. did in 1995. Both the major parties will hate this out come but it might be the best result for good government. If forced to sign a C O M M E N T charter with the independents either a Iemma or Debnam led government would be made more accountable. Parliament may meet more frequently and Iraq not be the farce it has become. Dennis Argall strategic decision in the I recently met a senior Jesuit, hoods? What we do at inter- Open government is a good history of Australian with wide church and charitable national policy level and thing and is the best insurance N 2003 great numbers government. I was inter- responsibilities in Cambodia, what we do in our private lives at curbing excesses of power. It of us came out on the ested to hear a former helping Cambodians is one fabric. also gives oppositions purpose streets to campaign against United States Ambassador recover from their long My good neighbour whilst keeping governments of the war beginning in Iraq. to Israel describe it recently as war. He said that when says to me of politicians: their mettle. IWhy did we fall the greatest strategic error in he listened to the news “But they are all the same, silent? I certainly felt American history. from Iraq, he could see aren’t they?” Lots of people are after a year or so that the It does matter that that Iraq’s situation was now saying it — lots of truth in it, in prospect of any human we get our armed forces 30 years behind Cambodia’s terms of the aggres- voice shifting high policy out of Iraq soon. Then, present situation. sive conduct and divisive, was gone. Nothing could because we have been there in We could be angry. But competitive behaviour of SUPPORT YOUR be changed. an invading force and as part of a getting angry with the political ‘leaders’. LOCAL COMMUNITY I shifted my efforts to colonial occupation force, people who got us into So I invite my neigh- trying to do something we will have to make this mess doesn’t break out of the bour’s sons to engage with ADVERTISE IN positive about the world major contributions by politics of fear and insecurity on community politics, to THE NEW BUSH at a human level, as non-military means to which our war-happy govern- form a youth forum to TELEGRAPH discussed in what I write Iraq’s recovery. We are ment has thrived. lobby for things kids need ONLY $6 about nabuur.com in this all, as Australian voters, If government claims around here. Maybe they issue. like the James Hardie share- a right to go to war ‘pre- will. Maybe we can save PER COL/CM We are left now with holders whose company emptively’ because it democracy if young TELEPHONE the terrible consequences pissed on ordinary believes it is ‘in the right’ what people fi nd it a positive of having invaded Iraq, people. We should pay for a message does this send to us in our process, not a tussle between 0402 361 424 surely the most dreadful long time. homes and neighbour- remote and angry leaders. ■ Autumn 2007 #95 3 The State Election continued from page 1 rapidly with a number of key developments on the drawing LOCAL issues are always boards. The question is do these important in contributing to proposals represent sustainable ‘swings’ that can a make a differ- development? ence on polling day. Perusing One of the problems with the candidates’ literature and asking term ‘sustainable development’ candidates what they see as the is that it means different things most important issues is a useful to different people. It’s a term way to gain some knowledge of politicians enjoy using. Like what to expect. Water, law and ‘economic rationalism’ it is not order, sustainable development, very rational in practice. In the employment, the environment run up to the State election we and climate change, as well as need to think very carefully health and transport are some about what we want for our of the major issues that affect community. us. The environment we live Judging by the Newsletter in and want for the future is from Shelley Hancock, law critical to us all. The character and order is the number one of the Shoalhaven is that it is issue. It seems she is ‘extremely not currently over populated or concerned that over the last over developed. The next decade decade, there has been an will bring increasing pressure. increase in assaults, vandalism Other coastal communities have and anti-social behaviour in grown signifi cantly faster than nor Labor has much to say over public. In any case, what the Shoalhaven’. One wonders our region, often at the expense on the subject. The Liberals is needed is some thinking when ‘law and order’ will ever of the environment. Many of want to increase the use of outside of the square. Climate be achieved but it is not likely these regions in spite of their ethanol-blended fuels to reduce change makes it an imperative while ‘fear’ is such a useful vote growth remain economically emissions and improve air for radical change. Carbon costs garner. depressed. quality. This sounds like being should herald the arrival of the The Government is promising The proposed Stockland good for local business. Only electric car and vastly improved yet more police and major public development at Vincentia the Greens are taking climate public transport should be part works include spending large is an example of signifi cant change seriously. True they are of the solution. sums on new jails at Kempsey, environmental change. not going to be in government Health is an issue of concern Wellington and Nowra. The Under controversial planning but they propose targets of 20% for us all. Increasingly this is Opposition are not against laws, Minister Sartor, has renewable energy by 2012 and becoming a Federal issue and this, nor the redevelopment of determined this development 50% by 2020. This is planning needs to be as State budgets Goulburn, Broken Hill, Junee may proceed. Under the South for the future. Business is simply can’t manage the and Kirkonnell jails. It is part Coast Regional Strategy the asking for it and it makes costs. Labor under Iemma of boosting jobs in country Minister says there are to be sense. It is needed to set policy has signifi cantly increased and coastal NSW. Perhaps, we no more villages or towns but framework. spending on mental health would all do well to remember the Stockland development is Public transport continues to but Shelley Hancock is right to that NSW was after all founded not included. The Greens have be a neglected issue. It is easy call for mental health beds for as a penal colony. always opposed the proposal enough to complain when not in Shoalhaven Hospital. If we are In an interview with the TOP TO BOTTOM: Shelley Hancock, and to her credit Labor’s government and maintenance going to build a jail then the Bush Tele, Michelle Miran, Amanda Finley and Michelle Miran Michelle Miran has spoken out is costly without much to nexus between mental health says sustainable development against it. show for your investment. It is and prison populations needs is the number one issue for the Stockland developments The environment is the hard to see the Liberals doing to be recognised and provision her with employment ranking in Nowra and Vincentia and issue that is ultimately the much more, as they have long made. ■ second. With unemployment plans for the development of most important. Neither Liberal favoured private transport in the Nowra/Bomaderry area Huskisson village centre are running at 12.8% according to go ahead, we are certainly to the December Quarter in for a development boom. The environment we live in and want for the future is critical to us statistics, we certainly need Ulladulla/Milton and Sussex all…The next decade will bring increasing pressure. something. If building a jail, Inlet are also set to grow Where are the Warriors? Maureen Webb both Federal and State, loss of mises made. (It doesn’t appear made changes but protection of local people had become warriors wildlife or habitat would not be total refusal is often given and 33 Threatened Species makes and stood up proclaiming loudly ITH the sad permitted. not often our wildlife wins.) it diffi cult, even impossible to that our wildlife was important passing in 2006 of It is perplexing then to fi nd This is of course when there ensure the level of protection and should be supported and Steve Irwin, the a development such as that are one, two or maybe three needed and our wildlife is in protected. Many good people famed ‘Crocodile proposed by Stockland, for the Threatened Species found on a danger. fought against this proposal Hunter’,W came outpourings of Vincentia Cross Roads site, can development site. This is not the end of the but where is the full public grief. It was grief for the loss of a have the slightest chance of But wait! Here we have Stockland saga. The Federal outrage for the losses of wildlife good man but also for someone being approved or be permitted not just one, two or three government has the fi nal say. It proposed by this development. who battled for wildlife. Many to continue on its path of Threatened Species. No this recently accepted submissions on Do Australians care or does a people stood up to be counted, approval/destruction. sensitive coastal bushland site Stockland’s proposals to amelio- shopping centre override all. donating money for his Wildlife The application, which went supports thirty three Threatened rate known impacts which are There were many other Warriors work to continue. This to the State government’s Dept Species (yes 33), plus others not threatening those species listed issues associated with the was to help protect wildlife of Planning in 2006, was for on any protection listing. under the Commonwealth’s Vincentia proposal, but at this and it seemed that Australians over 604 home sites plus a major And did our NPWS and other Environment Protection and stage the Federal govt (DEH) believed that work was impor- shopping complex complete government agencies become Biodiversity Conservation Act was dealing only with those tant and wildlife was worthy of with car parking areas. The our Wildlife Warriors and stop (EPBC Act). The Department Threatened Species listed under protection. application did not take into the destruction of their habitat? of Environment and Heritage the Commonwealth Act. The One may think with existing consideration the extra 150 Not on your Nelly! (DEH), Canberra will now study issues need to be looked at for legislation and policies in plus residences planned for the Mr Frank Sartor, Minister these submissions and liaise the community. place, when large develop- future. for Planning announced in with Stockland before making a Issues such as: traffi c; roads; ment proposals are mooted and When a development is set early February 2007 that State determination. community facilities; medical wildlife threatened, protection to impact on threatened fauna government departments have Will the Commonwealth’s facilities; threats to bushland/ would be assured. One would or fl ora, hands are thrown in signed off on the Stockland DEH be our Wildlife Warriors? wetland/marshland/grasslands; assume that with input from the air, complaints are made development. Signed off? How The coming months should give waters of Jervis Bay; threatened our National Parks and Wildlife and the offending development is this possible? us the answer. It would have fl ora; local shops … and the list Service and/or other agencies might be altered or compro- Stockland have altered and been a wonderful act if more goes on. ■ 4 Autumn 2007 #95

Pipe for the native plant it usually lays its eggs on. The compounding problem is Agapanthus: Garden pet that the Dutchman Pipe has toxins that kill the emerging caterpillars that attempt on feed on it, causing serious ecological changes all the way up the food or environmental pest? chain. Gerard Proust place today. The list of these (ABS2004). The Sydney region only two states have banned These two examples threats is a sad indictment has new weeds being introduced these plants from sale). This highlight the need to adopt ’VE often been asked, ‘Can of our colonial heritage and into bushland at the rate of four plant is considered an extreme the precautionary principle in I grow Agapanthus and approach to stewardship of the to fi ve a year! (Beadle1986) threat to biodiversity and is dealing with plants that people still be serious about the land. They range from habitat These plants are introduced prevalent throughout the want to grow. Also, individuals environment?’ It’s not as clearing, changed fi re regimes, for a variety of reasons; either Shoalhaven. need to fi nd about the plants easyI a question as it sounds, weed invasions and feral animal as ornamental plants, pasture Dutchmans Pipe is a they have on their land and as it’s hard for people to truly to pollution, salinity and urban plants, rehabilitation plants or much admired but seemingly take responsibility for land grasp the devastating effect that development. fodder plants. Despite having innocuous exotic ornamental. Its stewardship decisions. weeds have on native plants ■ A third of all mammal their supporters, there appears tale represents the potential of So, to return to the question and animals; even people who extinctions last century were in to be no scientifi c basis for the popular ornamental on our of growing Agapanthus and understand and genuinely care Australia. any argument in favour of unique environment. In 1870 the caring about the environment. about the environment. ■ There are more threat- species introduction; just an old Richmond Birdwing Butterfl y These plants grow from rhizomes The Shoalhaven is a special ened species of amphibians and fashioned mentality inherited (Ornithoptera richmondia) was and seeds are being grown in part of an extremely unique reptiles here than any other from colonial days: "I want it, reportedly very common in more and more gardens. As country. The country has country. I like it, so I should be able to the streets of Brisbane. Today a result they are becoming developed in isolation from ■ Salinity has devoured 2.2 have it!". there are no known natural more common in bushland. A the rest of the world for over million hectares Two examples of plants being breeding sites between Nerang simple test to judge a plant’s 50 million years. Most of our ■ 27 million hectares have grown as ornamentals strictly and Caboolture. The butterfl y invasiveness is to try and dig plants and animals are unlike been swamped by the over 2500 for human aesthetic values that usually lays its eggs on two it up; roots and all. Can this their counterparts elsewhere. exotic species (CRC2005) have had catastrophic effects on native vines (Pararistolochia spp.) be done with Agapanthus? Can A staggering 93% of our frogs, The two greatest threats to our country are Bridal Creeper but most have been lost due to I grow Agapanthus and still be an astounding 89% of reptiles, Australia's plants and animals or Baby Smilax (Asparagus coastal rainforest clearing. serious about the environment? 85% of our fl owering plants and are land clearing and invasive asparagoides) and Dutchman’s Unfortunately, research Maybe you can do the test and 84% of our terrestrial mammals plants. The fi rst one should be Pipe (Aristolochia elegans). has shown that the Birdwing judge for yourself: Yes, No, are uniquely Australian and do self evident in its source and Bridal Creeper fi rst appeared Butterfl y mistakes Dutchman’s Maybe? ■ not occur naturally anywhere prevention. The second threat: in Australia in WA in 1870 as else (SEAC 1996). invasive plants, is a complicated an ornamental plant. It now However, the last 200 years and emotive issue. Up against has spread from north of Perth have seen major changes to our more than 20 000 Australian around to Tasmania and up to natural ecosystems through a native plants are in excess of SE Queensland and has become enviroscene Bernie Clarke staggering array of destructive 2500 introduced species that are one of the 20 Weeds of National The impact of long periods of drought is obvious to most people habits, which are still taking invading different ecosystems Signifi cance (Unfortunately but how many understand its impacts on waterways, be it a lake, river, estuary or ocean. Seasonal rain plays an important role in maintaining oxygen levels in marine and freshwaters and keeps pollution levels down after the fi rst cleansing downpour. Rains fl ush organic material Treading The Grapes and a variety of insects into the waters, which forms part of the food chain. Patrick Thompson up to a week. At this stage the This cycle is reversed during a drought, resulting in high nutrient fermenting process gets under levels, algal blooms and in some cases eutrophic. Algal blooms SOON after arriving in the way. The grape skins provide Shoalhaven as part of my sea the natural yeast and they will reduce the dissolved oxygen content of the water to lethal levels. change, I decided it was time tend to rise to the top inside the Algae use more oxygen than they produce. that I started making my own container. You need to push The Sydney Water Board once used billions of litres of water from wine. The sourcing of grapes them down once or twice a day. the Nepean Dam to break up an algal bloom in the Hawkesbury at the local vineyards proved The second stage is when River during a hot dry spell and to improve the river’s water qual- diffi cult but someone gave me the pantyhose are needed. Now ity by raising oxygen levels. the tip that there was a sign on is the time you have to get rid Several years ago, during a long hot dry spell about this time of the highway near Falls Creek of the skins and any stems. It the year, Jervis Bay erupted into a bloom of a milky turquoise offering wine grapes for sale. I is the skins that give the wine colour. The bloom consisted of two types of algae, a dinofl agel- called at the farm. ‘No problem,’ its colour, so the harder you late sp. (a single cell plant) and a diatom alga. The bloom was I was told ‘Call back in a couple many others lands have been squeeze, the blacker the wine. four times bigger than Sydney Harbour, to a depth of about fi ve of weeks’ and so I did. making wine for a very long After squeezing the grapes metres. Algae blooms inhibit photosynthesis and if it remains for Now Easter is the time time so there is much we can your work has almost fi nished. a long period would have a detrimental effect on seagrasses. for grapes but what I wasn’t learn from them. My tutor was It is that simple. Close off the expecting when I went back to my uncle who grew up in the outside air and your wine will The most toxic of algae is a form of marine plankton dinofl agel- the farm was for a semi trailer Riverland, South Australia and go on boiling away, slowing late, a unicellular aquatic organism, the common cause of ‘red full of them to roll in the gate who also went to agricultural progressively as the fermenting tides’. The release of toxins can kill of infect marine animals and after me. I only wanted half college. He makes good wine, so process abates. After a couple humans eating such animals, particular shellfi sh. In one incident a dozen boxes. I helped with I fi gured if I followed faithfully weeks it is a good idea to rack the twenty six people died after ingesting shellfi sh containing the unloading, 1050 boxes, as I what he did, I could too. It is wine. This means pouring your nerve toxin saxitoxia, found in one of the dinofl agellate algae. remember it. What amazed me really pretty straight forward. wine through a strainer so the This happened during a drought when the water temperature was was other cars began arriving Here’s what I do. lees, i.e. the dregs at the bottom at an elevated level. There have been many large fi sh kills from and I learnt that upwards of a Start with a few boxes of red of the barrel, are removed. suffocation caused by oxygen depletion in the water through the hundred other families would grapes, say of Shiraz, Merlot, The fi nal stage comes with decomposition of an algal bloom. The decaying ‘red tide’ alga be calling to collect their wine Grenache or whatever. Wine the drinking. Around August is exudes toxins that can be harmful to humans breathing it. grapes. I was not alone. There I grapes cost less than $20 a box a good time to start. It will only Recent rains have given us a reprieve, with the welcome news Tal- was thinking I was a bit unusual and a box will make 8 to 10 get better as time goes bye. There lawa Dam is overfl owing. Our coastal waters have been revitalised in making my own wine. litres. You then need suitable is no need for preservatives to and both freshwater and saltwater fi shing will improve greatly. Now Italians and folk from containers. I use the 25 litre beer be added. If you decide you Rains help stir prawns from their winter hibernation, a crustacean making variety with an air-lock. want to keep some of the wine most fi sh are attracted to, thus excellent bait. We are in the mid- You must keep the air out, as it for years, you can add Tannisol, dle of the prawning season. Of the twenty six species of prawns is the enemy. Initially, with red an anti oxidant or a sodium (PENAEIDAE) only three species are known to spend their juvenile grapes, air is not a problem for metabisulphite tablet, but this life in the estuaries. Two species, king and school prawn go to sea the fi rst stage. should not be added with red to spawn, the other, greasyback, is the only specie in Australia that It is the fi rst stage where the wine until after the fermentation spends its life in the estuaries and coastal lakes, except when a kids get involved. Your grapes process has fi nished. What I fl ood may carry some into ocean waters. need crushing and stomping would recommend, however, on them is the age old method. is to make sure your containers Prawns rise from their winter hibernation on an ebb tide in the Leaving the stems on is optional. are sterilised to start. It is only a dark of the moon. Add nine days to the date of the previous full I remove the stems but my safeguard as I think the alcohol is moon for the dark. uncle doesn’t. When you have a pretty good preservative itself. During a good season, estuary prawning may extend to May. squashed your grapes leave Now it is over to you and ■ NEXT ISSUE: Rigs and bait and why fl athead can’t bite you off, the them for a few days or even Easter is approaching. fi shing line of course. Autumn 2007 #95 5 Nabuur, a virtual neighbourhood N 2004 it seemed to me fi nd a long ‘discussion’ I had in site and a trained volunteer ‘write a book’ - in one form or increasingly diffi cult to 2005 with the Nabuur founder facilitator, and a community of another - for how to succeed. make a dint in our govern- if you look at the home page ‘virtual neighbours’ join in Fred, in Uganda, leads a ment’s war-focused foreign of my web site www.aplaceof. to solve the problem. The group of young people fi nding Ipolicy. So I went exploring info for reference to Nabuur. project focus remains what the life in a refugee camp. The big for things that could be done You will see also that Nabuur locals want. question: can you have a life people-to-people for a better is supported by the Clinton Now in early 2007 there if you have been a boy soldier world. Foundation. are 158 Nabuur ‘villages’ in 23 or a sex slave to an insur- I discovered the United The basic concept is countries, with 8445 neigh- gent army or members of your Nations had a place on the web simple, though the execu- bours registered. Quite a few family have been killed in front for recruiting ‘on-line volun- tion is proving quite diffi cult. Australians. of you? The practical task? – teers’ – http://www.unv.org A community anywhere in The number of villages is set up an internet cafe in town Via that I discovered an the developing world may put ready to grow rapidly, as the to give us work skills, to give extraordinary new concept at forward an ‘issue’ it wants idea catches on, but we are us income for other projects www.nabuur.com – you can solved. Nabuur provides a web at critical and complex stages — real self help. now in getting ‘success’. You can fi nd Fred on his A teacher’s seminar in Burundi on how to build ‘nonkilling society’ programs Sometimes I have been able bike at my home page. We’ve into their teaching. to give nabuur projects quite got the donated computers, a few hours a week, at other they should have arrived by times very little. Along the way the time this is published. Now Fred Obala is coordinating com- I have been profoundly the hard work begins – a real munity organisations in Uganda, as affected by developing close business plan, staff training, well as building his own. friendship with people far policies on dealing with away, via the internet, from customers to build a quality home. I have also learned service niche, rules for money any other war since WWII - he enormously from the diffi - management, etc. The young just wants to build a Nonkilling culties of communication of women have a drama group Society’. Oh, and yes, to ideas over distances between raising a little money with achieve self-suffi ciency for his cultures. gender plays. Young men have school for war orphans. Right You sit here, and they sit a small cattle herd. Next a now, we are breaking the over there, when they have a grain mill... It would be great school project down into pack- little money for the internet, to have your help, your time, ages that can be worked on and when they are not down your ideas and imagination. effectively. with malaria... Like me, you will be stretched! You can help with that too! Right now I am heavily Flory, on the border of the [email protected]. committed to two projects in Congo and Burundi, where in au www.aplaceof.info Africa whose success, if we the past decade more people PO Box 2205 Tomerong NSW can secure that, will help us have been killed in war than 2540 ■

plunging the Planet’s atmosphere and lesser gases, keeping Planet into unstoppable deterioration Earth from over-warming. Trees at any time, though no one can are a fourth. say exactly when. Three of such WARNING on WARMING possible tipping points are: Can breakneck growth be ■ SOILS. As they warm, soils slowed? are less able to absorb and hold Today’s “terrifying diagnosis” It’s worse than you thought CO2. worsens when one looks a little ! ■ OCEANS. As they warm, further ahead – not a century A terrifying diagnosis The 19th Annual Seed Savers’ top authority, Sir Nicholas Stern, oceans too are less able to hold hence, but say to 2050, which th A “jury” of 2500 of the world’s Conference and the 4 Annual former Chief Economist of CO2. is only as far forward as we were scientists has summed up six Australian City Farms and the World Bank, backs up the ■ PERMAFROST. Siberia’s back in the 1960s… Time fl ies. years work by warning that if Community Gardens Network urgency by calling for action “on million square kilometres of peat, ❏ By 2050 today’s 6 billion will greenhouse gas emissions aren’t Conference will be held on the scale of two World Wars and frozen for thousands of years, be 10 billion people. greatly reduced COMMUNITY Tuesday 20th March to Sunday the Great Depression”. is unfreezing and releasing vast ❏ The UN’s International Energy NOTICEBOARD 25th March 2007. Website www. He confi rms what the 2500 quantities of methane, which is Agency estimates energy demand ceres.org.au Ceres is the Centre scientists are saying: it is human/ 20-times as potent as CO2. will then be twice today’s. Monthly community for Education and Research in industrial/governmental behav- These are a big three of ❏ Breakneck industrial growth Markets: Environmental Strategies iour that is to blame for the Nature’s “carbon sinks” that have in China, India, Brazil, Mexico, accelerating climate change – our so far absorbed CO2, methane etc. will have put huge strains on Jenni, I will give you hard MUSIC FESTIVAL billion belching vehicles, our copy table to include here. World class performers belching power plants, our often including Yvonne Kenny, energy-wasting industries and Geoffrey Tozer, Ian Munro many, many other emitters of Shelley Hancock MP and Slava Grigoryan will be the carbon dioxide, methane and among performers at ‘Arts in other greenhouse gases which Member for South Coast the Valley’ over the weekend of swirl into the air (the atmos- April 20-22. For details: www. phere) and capture the sun’s artsinthevalley.net.au or call heat, thus over-warming our BUSKERS IN DEMAND 4465 2126by 2020, humanity planet Earth. will suffer catastrophic climate Working for South Coast A request has come from change. The scientists are Kate Robson inviting buskers to Their verdict, delivered in a conservative the Tomerong Markets. Sounds 1200-page report on 2 February Far from the 2500 Scientists like a great idea to add some 2007, put an end to the compla- of the Intergovernmental Panel colour and interest to what is cency of climate change deniers who on Climate Change (IPCC) being “Please come in already an interesting market for years have been saying “the alarmist, they reluctantly agreed day. It could read well on your jury is still out”. On the contrary, to scale down their warning and see me – it CV, ‘I started my professional this “jury” of 2500 is saying, Act because of pressure from China, life busking at Tomerong’ or at once to drastically slow the Saudi Arabia and a very few other will be a pleasure ‘I got my fi rst big break after global warming process. major polluters. They wanted my talent was recognised in No time to lose. Barely 15 to achieve unanimity – which Tomerong.’ years to change the rooted habits was achieved. All countries have to help” of governments, industry, and signed the declaration. individuals. But it was unanimity at a COMING EVENTS price. The call for urgent action Realism, not alarmism should have been more strident. Shop 2, 24 Berry Street, Nowra • Ph: 4423 4822 SEED SAVERS In another, quite independent Many scientists argued there is a PO Box 1002, Nowra NSW 2541 • Fx: 4422 8159 CONFERENCE Report, the British Government’s grave danger of “tipping points” 6 Autumn 2007 #95

TWO CULTURES and contribute some seed from SHOALHAVEN SEED SAVERS their harvest each year building VALLEY up the supply of seed that is ORGANICS KV and then redistributed into the “Help Us Grow” gardening community. 100% Certified Organic EAST TIMOR In doing so, varieties grown Your Organic SHOALHAVEN Seed Savers given away for free. The overall will be further adapted to local Supermarket on Wheels Chris Nobel are currently looking for new aim of the group is to educate conditions and therefore more Fruit & Vegetables members. Since forming in the general public about seed successful in our region. If and a large range of Groceries Kangaroo Valley is a wonder- 2005, Shoalhaven Seed Savers saving and to gradually develop you have seed that you wish FREE DELIVERY have been involved in a range a Shoalhaven strain of locally to contribute or if you would ful place to live and it’s not just in the Shoalhaven: of workshops spreading the grown fruit and vegetable vari- like to join you can do so at the because of its fogs, cold winters, word about the importance eties by collecting seeds from Seed Savers stall at Tomerong Nowra, Bay and Basin, and challenging mountain roads! of seed saving and how to go various crops each season and Market, the third Saturday of Kangaroo Valley and Milton Its beauty is widely acclaimed about it. redistributing them throughout every month or contact the Certified Organic Produce does not pollute the and offers an excellent holiday The group has had a regular the area via members. It is co-ordinator Gerard Proust for land with pesticides, herbicides, or hormones. destination. But its real appeal The farmer cares for the environment by stall at the Tomerong market hoped that more people will get more information on 4443 6537 promoting a vibrant living soil and a balanced lies in the community. This is a where seeds and information are involved by becoming members or [email protected] eco-system far into the future. Food produced community which holds dispa- this way is tastier, more nutritious and is your rate views and values and yet best health insurance. manages to co-habit with relative GOOD FOR YOU – harmony and respect. There are GOOD FOR THE PLANET the usual Church, Environment, Craft & Sports clubs which are active and productive. But the Contact Suzi and Peg: Phone/Fax 4446 0569 KV also boasts an unusual group e: valley [email protected] which was formed from a feeling of despair and outrage over the treatment of the East Timorese people during the time of the THE OLIVE referendum for Independence in FARM 1999. A PLACE TO VISIT The group consists of a loose-knit BULK AND BOTTLED gathering of interested people OLIVES and has steadfastly remained informal and independent. Most KALAMATA, members of the group have MANZANILLO travelled to East Timor where they have visited the Valley’s sister BLACK AND GREEN village called Remexio. There OLIVES have been numerous projects and AVAILABLE AS SUN one of the major outcomes of the formation of the group has been DRIED, HERB & SPICES the developing networks. There are many such support groups 1106 PRINCES HWY now operating and we help each FALLS CREEK other by sharing information and contacts. A number of singers (CNR PETERSON RD) from the Choir Ana murak were 02 4447 8791 billeted in K.V and some have subsequently spent 3 – 6mths BRUNO AND MARIA living with families in K.V. Keith Bell from Bell’s Sewing Machines in Nowra made a dream come true after a short trip to East MONTHLY COMMUNITY MARKETS Timor in 2002. He met a young 1ST FRIDAY NOWRA UNITING CHURCH BERRY & JUNCTION STS, NOWRA CONTACT ✆ 4421 3740 man who showed promise in the skill of repairing machines and a 1ST SATURDAY MILTON VILLAGE MARKETS SETTLEMENT COURTYARD, PRINCES HWY, ALAN PEDDER ✆ 4455 3843 year later gave him the oppor- tunity to spend 3 months in the LADY DENMAN MARKETS WOOLLAMIA RD, HUSKISSON BOB & MICHELLE SMITH ✆ 4443 3157 Shoalhaven, learning the skills that would enable young Aleixo 2ND SATURDAY SUSSEX INLET FLEA MARKET UNITING CHURCH, JACOBS DR, SUSSEX INLET BILL HUNTER ✆ 4441 1546 to return to his country and earn a living independently. He has sub- 3RD SATURDAY TOMERONG VILLAGE MARKETS SCHOOL OF ARTS, TOMERONG KATE ROBSON ✆ 4443 9480 sequently built a house/shop from which he and his family make 2ND SUNDAY WHITE SANDS MARKET SPORTING GROUNDS, HUSKISSION BOB FINLAY ✆ 4441 8668 (B/H) clothes and repair machines. COASTAL PATROL MARKETS WASON STREET, ULLADULLA We have remained in close ✆ contact with our East Timorese 4TH SUNDAY GREYHOUND TRACK MARKETS NOWRA GREYHOUND TRACK, SOUTH NOWRA GLENN MIDSON 4421 2332 friends and an added bonus to the ✆ whole experience is that the re- VILLAGE ARTS & CRAFT ROAD, PYREE WENDY HARRIS 4446 5658 lationships within the group itself have developed into close friend- ships. When Martin Wesley-Smith COMMUNITY NOTICEBOARD was commissioned to compose a piece for the Tasmanian Sympho- BUSKERS IN DEMAND SEED SAVERS CONFERENCE MUSIC FESTIVAL Community notices in the ny Orchestra to commemorate New Bush Telegraph are the Independence and continuing A request has come from Kate The 19th Annual Seed Savers’ World class performers including FREE. struggle of East Timor, the group Robson inviting buskers to the Conference and the 4th Annual Yvonne Kenny, Geoffrey Tozer, Ian Tomerong Markets. Sounds like Australian City Farms and Munro and Slava Grigoryan will be organised to attend the Premier Send information about a great idea to add some colour Community Gardens Network among performers at ‘Arts in the your community event to performance in Hobart without and interest to what is already an Conference will be held on Valley’ over the weekend of April The Editor, PO Box 2210, his knowledge. Peter, his twin interesting market day. It could Tuesday 20th March to Sunday 20-22. TOMERONG NSW 2540 brother had written the lyrics and read well on your CV, ‘I started 25th March 2007. Website or email to pat@ was equally surprised (and we my professional life busking at www.ceres.org.au Ceres is For details: www.artsinthevalley. envirobook.com.au hope delighted) by our unexpect- Tomerong’ or ‘I got my fi rst the Centre for Education and net.au or call 4465 2126 ed presence at this exceptional big break after my talent was Research in Environmental evening. recognised in Tomerong.’ Strategies. Autumn 2007 #95 7 A Walk To Remember (or how the Budawangs chewed me up and spat me out!) Richard Bates

AVING planned an extended walk in the Budawangs for a long time, I fi nally managedH to organise a date in mid-May for a party of 6 friends, all experienced Budawangs walkers and very keen to get out there. Having made numerous day and overnight walks into the wilderness area between Nerriga and Milton, I had long wanted to explore deeper and further and chose a route that would take us into the park at Wog Wog Creek on the Mongarlowe Road, through to the heart of the mountains - Monolith Valley - and bring us out at near Nerriga 4 days later. We all had 2 months to get fi t and our training weather was South Coast perfection - the balmy weather just went on and on and I spent almost as much time swimming and snorkelling around our stun- ning coastline as I did walking.

I went for extended walks Ron Doughton PHOTO: several times a week and got pack-fi t while the weather and stagger down but the in your head, to your camp- being our second night’s desti- halfway in the same caves as remained perfect for weeks on rewards are great. The isolation site for the night. But we also nation, when my right knee the fi rst night if not. We end. Wouldn’t you know it, a (we didn’t see another soul dearly wanted to visit the gave out on me - started to walked out. few days before the walk the out there), the vastness and Corang Arch - a truly spec- hurt then it was gone, just like It rained the whole weather turned and the day awesome beauty of the land- tacular rock formation just that, in an hour. I staggered morning, it was cold and the before it was still raining but scape, the peace and quiet and below the cliffl ine that is easily into the Mt Cole camping caves tracks were brooks and the the forecast looked quite good the cooperative company of found IF you are on the right mid-afternoon where the brooks rivers but we were back so off we went on a drizzly day special friends bonded by the trail. Analysing both of our others were waiting and we at the Burrumbeet Brook caves but in high spirits. enterprise all make it an expe- confl icting maps and guide decided to stay there the night, for lunch. For those of you not rience of joy and wonder that book was of little help but only 20 minutes short of our My knee was painful but familiar with the Budawangs is quite unique. fortunately we had several intended destination but too was holding up. My caring Wilderness Area - it is rough, So we left our cars at the clear bushwalking heads in late now to spend the after- companions never let me be remote walking and some of exit and entry points and set our group and we eventually noon exploring Monolith last on the trail and although I the most spectacularly beau- off under overcast but clearing found the arch just before it Valley, truly one of the special slowed them up a bit we kept tiful country in the world. For skies. We were all joyous started to rain and we were places on Earth - like the up a good pace. We were cold me it ranks with the Himalayas at fi nally being off walking able to shelter there and have setting for The Land That Time and wet so decided on the and the Tasmanian Highlands after all the preparation, our lunch. Forgot, as we had planned. forced march out, which we for sheer spectacle, but you the weather being our only Next day dawned bright The others went for a bit of did, 19 kilometres through the earn it! Tracks are often diffi - concern. and sunny to the lyrebird’s exploration while I rested and mountains with full packs cult to follow and sometimes The views were largely call and the Yurnga Lookout tried not to worry about the (although the others with overgrown or non-existent, the obscured by low cloud and over the whole of the southern next day - we hadn’t even much selfl ess compassion terrain is rugged, unless you eventually we climbed up into Budawangs kept us entranced covered half the distance of had shared some of my load want to carry the extra burden it and after 3 hours walking for a bit too long. A long trek our walk yet and the next day to take some of the weight of a tent sleeping is under rock it started to rain. Now when around Bibbenluke Mountain was the tough one! off my knee - thanks guys), overhangs, there are creeks to you’re faced with the reality saw us heading down a steep We had camped under a arriving cross, scrub to push through, of being out on a wet trail, in ridge towards the massif trickling waterfall yet awoke back at the car an hour after steep and rough slopes strewn cloud and the day getting on surrounding Monolith Valley, to the roar of a powerful sunset in the moonlight, with obstacles to stagger up you need a clear route, at least a cave just outside the valley cascade. You guessed it - it had exhausted but exhilarated by rained in the night and was what we had accomplished. still raining. A hard decision It was tough but one of the had to be made - do the tough best walks I’ve ever done and I day with my bad knee getting enjoyed (nearly) every minute soaked to the bone with yet of it - none of us will ever another gruelling day ahead forget it and what we proved or cut it short and walk back ourselves capable of. out the way we had come, trying to get out in one day if Above: Mount Tarn my knee held up or camping Left: Corang Arch

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including non-stick cookware, DENDROBIUM microwave popcorn bags, carpets There it was, suddenly, before my eyes. NEWS IN So long I’d been searching in vain. and upholstery. I found a dendrobium orchid today… The EPA has listed PFOA along- Though once prolifi c in this patch of bush, BRIEF side well-known poisons such as I walked the track by Tomerong Creek, I doubted I’d see one again. The Ulladulla & Districts Com- mercury and lead, and is asking Through a labyrinth of bracken fern munity Forum decided at their manufacturers, to stop using the To the wooded slopes of the spotted Was this a sign, a turning point? February meeting to seek the in- chemical completely by 2015. gum, Would I soon see wild violets come tervention of the Ombudsman in DuPont, which manufactures I followed each twist and turn. investigating a complaint against back, PFOA in the US agreed to the Along with the moss and the maiden- Shoalhaven City Council regarding It’s been three years now since the 2015 deadline for the releases of hair its continued procrastination over fi res came through the chemical from its manufactur- That once bordered each side of this its application for recognition as a And some say the bush has come back. ing plants, but has yet to decide track? Principal Consultative Body. It is on a complete phasing out of its From a distance the trees all look leafy believed that it has been delayed and green, use. One orchid survived the onslaught of because of opposition from ■ ■ ■ ■ And hide well their traces of black. certain quarters of the business fl ame But a far greater danger now loomed. community. We no longer have the NSW But the canopy’s gone and the sunlight I tried to blot out the bulldozer drone ■ ■ ■ ■ Police Service! It is now to be glare As I bent to breathe its perfume. known as the NSW Police Force. Has sprouted some renegade seeds. The chemical used in Tefl on and Do you remember the days when Black-wattle thickets stretch for the sky other non-stick coatings, may As I tried not to think of real estate we had government depart- From out of a tangle of weeds. cause cancer and reproductive ments? The origin of ‘department’ signs problems, according to the US En- And developers’ clamour for land, is French and means to give Shop 1 Where crinolined toadstools once vironmental Protection Authority. There lingered the thought; maybe service. Sadly, service is out and 138 Junction danced in the gloom orchids once grew The chemical, known as PFOA or ‘force’ and ‘authority’ is in favour. Court, Nowra And circled the leaf-littered fl oor, In the place where my own house now perfl uorooctanoic acid, is used in Does it say something about Now grows the bracken to shoulder stands. many water resistant products, modern government?  4423 3281 high And it’s just not the same anymore Yes, I found a dendrobium orchid today… BOOK REVIEW Ah,…but I found a dendrobium orchid today Bev Stewart 16.12.04 Clinging tenaciously BURN Arrayed in its clusters of greenish blooms Bev’s book, Parodies, Poems and Piffl e, is The Epic Story of Bushfire in Australia In the fork of a fi re-blackened tree. available for $10 phone 4443 5584 by Paul Collins ■ RRP $35.00 Published by Allen and Unwin theories. ‘Their argument is that with its resulting loss of topsoil, HE Shoalhaven has to Australia would be completely if we can recover the Aboriginal the landscape has further been date escaped a ravaging different without it.’ In his view way of ‘managing the landscape’ altered by settlement and bushfi re year. We are ‘fi re should be seen as a positive we will fi nd a convergence of clearing. Soils are then less fortunate as drought is force; it does not come to destroy modern theories of land-clearing able to retain moisture and this Tone of the key elements for a bad but to sort things out, to probe and regular burning with has been compounded by the season. The other is the weather. our strength, and ultimately to pre-European Aboriginal fi re compacting effect of hard-hoofed Following a sharp hot spell renew.’ regimes.’ animals. The introduction of pre-Christmas milder weather As a historian Collins has relied ‘There are those,’ according feral plants and animal pests and followed. Those in other areas, on a vast number of sources to and Acacia are central to the to Collins, ‘who are imbued the loss of native small animals particularly in Victoria, were not bring us an account of the worst story of fi re in Australia and with a zealot-like doggedness has also been a factor in making so lucky. bushfi res from the 1851 Black were dominant long before the to conquer and subdue the the landscape vulnerable to fi re. Paul Collins is an historian. Thursday fi re, the 1939 Black arrival of Aboriginals. It is what continent by any means available He cites the examples of the His book ‘Burn’ was published Friday fi res to the Canberra happened after Aborigines began in order to promote an ideology loss of such animals as bettongs, during 2006 and quickly sold out. inferno of 2003 and many other arriving that the debate begins. of ‘development’. Many of these bandicoots and bilbies, once A reprint is under consideration. serious bushfi res experienced Collins argues persuasively that people seem to almost hate common to the Australian bush, Those interested in the subject will throughout regional Australia. whilst Aborigines used fi re, nature. Developmental mania and their role in breaking down fi nd his work an important one His work is thorough (over 400 they did not go about torching has degraded the landscape. After vegetative matter. and the book is available through pages) and makes interesting the country the way many of almost 220 years of this kind of In ’Burn’, the author also the Shoalhaven libraries. and compassionate reading, but the scholars have suggested. assault the time has come for a embraces deeper ecological, The author rightly says that it is in the last part of the book, He shows the real pyromania serious rethink of how we relate spiritual and philosophical fi re is a controversial subject in ‘The Great Fire Debates’ that the followed the arrival of the post- to the continent. And rethinking questions. ‘Perhaps,’ he writes, Australia and it is one that people author endeavours to answer 1788 settlers. our relationship to fi re will be an ‘the time has come for a few hold very strong views about. the question: To burn or not to It is in the modern context integral part of that process.’ of us to speak about the rights The author is no exception. In burn? that Collins advances the Certainly, Collins is an of other sentient beings, the his introduction he says, “We are The evolution of the landscape interesting view that it is the pro- advocate for nature. He points landscape and the natural world yet to accept that fi re is part of with the emergence of the development lobby who like to out that aside from the effects itself.’ Paul Collin’s contribution the very fabric of our continent. dominant species of Eucalyptus support the fi re-stick farming of constant an excessive burning is certainly useful and what we can say is that whilst fi re remains endemic to Australia, and it looks likely to be more signifi cant with global warming, then the debate will continue. Matt Brown MP ■ Patrick Thompson Listens and refl ection Fascism is more of a natural state than democracy. To Delivers! assume blithely that we can export democracy into any country we choose can serve paradoxically to encourage more fascism at home and Working for abroad. Democracy is a state of grace that is attained only by those countries who have a Bomaderry and host of individuals not only ready to enjoy freedom but to undergo the heavy labor Matt Brown MP and members of the community announce funding North Nowra of maintaining it. for rehabilitation work along Bomaderry Creek. Authorised by J. Taylor, ALP, 2 Spain St Nth Nowra. ■ Norman Mailer