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Number 11 3 July 2020 Eden Monaro's 2020 choice

Will the bell-whether status of Eden Monaro be reinstated? After a politically INSIDE THIS WEEK - messy start to the campaign, it's only months on from the devastating bushfires and the repercussions of Covid-19 are still unknown. For many in More Candidate Profiles the electorate, their voting priorities may may be different. The results of Saturday's by-election will be heard loud in the corridors of Parliament House. P ages 16 and 17 News for Braidwood & the district Page 2 3 July 2020 Braidwood Bugle What’s on in Braidwood and the district Number one connection for NBN Braidwood Farmers' Markets Mrs Olive Royds has become the first person in 4th July ! Braidwood to be connected to the NBN fibre to the curb. When Mrs Royds was contacted by the technicians, she Ryrie Park Markets said she wasn't interested, as she did not have a are back on 22 Aug 2020 computer. She only uses a landline and an iPad with it's Nerriga Produce Market back inside the Nerriga Hall on own connectivity. Sunday. Come along and stock up on fresh free range However, after some insistence from the company, a pork, wine, jams and condiments, tasty homemade technician connected up her Monkittee Street home. cakes, gorgeous soaps, and even pick up a potted Her new smaller landline now runs through the NBN succulent plant to decorate your home! We please ask all Connecting your home. visitors to the market to wash/ sanitise your hands upon As a wholesaler, nbn is responsible for the entry to the hall and to pay with card wherever possible. infrastructure that connects your home. To switch to And try to keep 1.5m distance from other shoppers. an nbn™ powered plan, speak to your phone and

internet provider. Braidwood Garden Club is back What: Workshop on Building Insect Hotels Where: The The appointment Servicemen’s Club (Main Hall) When: Thursday, 9th will take place July, 2020 Bring: Gloves, secateurs, your own lunch inside and/or Cost for insect hotel kits: $20 for members and $30 for outside your non-members. Bookings: There is a limit of 25 kits. home or (Others may come and watch, limits also apply). Register business. at Bendigo Bank by 6 July. Enquiries: John Tuckwell: An nbn connectio 0408 625156 n box will be installed inside Tree Pruning on Majors Creek Road and drilling may Essential Energy contractors have let Council know that be required. they will commence tree pruning work around power lines in Braidwood and Majors Creek on Wednesday 1 July. Your modem will The work should take around one week, weather need to connect permitting, and will take place in urban areas only. to the nbn For your safety, and the safety of the contractors, please connection box, keep clear of the work areas. All enquiries should be and your phone directed to Essential Energy on 13 23 91 or via their will be plugged website at www.essentialenergy.com.au/contact-us into your modem. From the time the Majors Creek RFS 2020 AGM nbn is available in Please be advised that Majors Creek RFS 2020 AGM will your area, you be held Sunday 2nd August at 1100 at the Rec Ground have 18 months Hall. All welcome to connect before the old system is disconnected

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Send your contributions to [email protected] News for Braidwood & the district Page 3 3 July 2020 Braidwood Bugle Clyde Mountain communications One of the most dangerous sections for the Kings Highway is soon to Cow Pat Lotto winners get a mobile base station which was funded under round 3 of the Mobile Black Spot Program. The Clyde Mountain was identified in the 2018 list of priority location at number 5 out of 125 black spot locations. The Kings Highway was closed for weeks over the summer when the Clyde Mountain and Currowan fires. Submissions to the current Royal Commission into the Bushfires has identified communications as a significant problem. The Clyde Mountain section of the Kings Highway is in the Electorate of Gilmore. The Clyde Mountain base station is currently under the design, planning and approvals phase. A spokesperson for the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications said “Construction of the base station has experienced delays to date due to Telstra being unable to obtain property and planning approvals at a suitable site.” “The nature of the topography, terrain and location within the surrounding National Parks creates a number of complexities in building telecommunications infrastructure in the area. “A site has now been identified, however, the recent 2019-20 bush fires has further delayed access to the area in order to finalise the design and seek state and local government planning approvals before For a little fun and construction can commence. fundraising on the last day of “The base station is currently forecast for completion by end Q4 2020, Term, St Bede's Cow Pat subject to Telstra obtaining ready access to the site and the required Lotto was held on the school planning approvals. oval. Ironically, as the mountain connectivity approaches, the three large In game A at 12.44 pm Daisy cantilevered electronic message boards have been dismantled. Regular dropped a perfect pat commuters on the mountain would have observed that these signs landing on 27A with the prize almost never worked. Fitted with solar panels and wind turbine, in foggy going to year 6 student weather when they were really needed. They were blank. James Cathro. It was over 10 years ago that I first wrote about these non-functioning Game B at 12.48pm Toffee signs that cost $200,000 each. Part of their problem was that they were live steamed a well placed out of telecommunications range. And now, just as the mountain is pat on 11B going to the finally to get a telco tower, the signs have gone. A spokesperson for Doherty family. Organisers Transport for NSW said they “removed three electronic message signs said "Thanks everyone who from the Kings Highway between Batemans Bay and from has supported our country Monday 1 to Friday 5 June. These signs will be redeployed to other school here in Braidwood. locations on the southern region road network. Three smaller solar Cow Pat Lotto winner It’s been great to see all the powered vehicle activation signs will replace the removed signs. These year 6 student smiling faces after such a signs are more energy efficient and will ensure consistent road safety James Cathro. messaging for motorists.” cow pat of a year!" News for Braidwood & the district Bugle Letters Page 4 3 July 2020

Logging and Native Forests More than 80% of South Coast forests were burnt in last So tax payers should subsidise trucking companies as a summers bushfires. It’s estimated that over a billion part of the destruction of our native forests? Why? How creatures died in that terrible event. And that’s a much longer are we going to treat our native forests as conservative estimate because the method UNSW some sort of commodity, something we can simply ecologist Prof Chris Dickman used doesn’t include bats, continue to consume without regard? Healthy forests insects, platypus or fish. provide clean air, water and help produce fertile soils. Not Recent research by WWF has suggested that to mention the carbon storage - around 1 tonne of carbon koala numbers in NSW have dropped by between a third for a modest sized tree 8 metres high. (Source: © Forest and two-thirds over the past twenty years. (Source SBS and Wood Products Australia Written by Andrea News) Jane Leys PhD for Forest Learning) With so much damage to critical native habitat and huge Forests are a “must have”, not a “nice to have” and post losses to forestry resources, surely the least we can do is bush fires “business as usual” is just not an option for the press pause on logging native forests species that depend on South Coast native forests. until the full impacts of the fires can be assessed. Human beings are just one of those species. These fires Continuing logging while there’s so much uncertainty should be a catalyst for change. It’s well over due. about the impacts of these fires is simply irresponsible. Candidates - Don’t cave to forest industry lobby groups. But try telling that to the forest industry. Voters - don’t back those candidates who do. Their lobby groups are using the Eden-Monaro by election Gillianne Tedder to pressure candidates for more support, subsidises and Meringo assistance - taxpayers dollars. They want to ramp up the destruction of native forests on the South Coast. The Hands off our rock forests that most need protection right now. It records happy occasions such as birthdays, not divisive The Australian Forestry Products Association (AFPA) say issues. This is Braidwood. This is Australia, our own “These industries (forestry) are the main wellsprings of country, not USA. Australia was a penal colony with regional jobs in Eden-Monaro,” convicts, mainly Irish/British, not African slaves abducted Let’s be generous and choose to believe they’ve made an from their homes. genuine error, rather than a deliberate exaggeration. The Although by today's humanitarian standards convicts may fact is there’s less than 1% of the total workforce in Bega well be regarded as slaves. Valley and Eurobodalla Shires directly employed in native Governor Arthur Philip was committed to equality to All forest logging. To put that in perspective, that’s less than Australians and Aboriginals had the current rights as the amount of people employed pre Covid in Arts and British citizens. He hated slavery and as first governor he Sports administration in this region. There are more stated “there will be no slavery in a free land”. people employed in forestry in the Tumut area because of Education to end the cultural gap has been the key to plantation timber. Aboriginal survival in the modern world since the 1930’s The AFPA believes we should “use the trees that have with many graduating from University in 1960’s. First been burnt as much as we can.” Does this mean denying Australian’s should be encouraged to achieve not promote the evidence of long term scientific studies done by hate or be made to feel victims. internationally recognised experts like Prof David Violence is a criminal act and black on black Lindenmayer who has found that unless fallen timber is violence as occurs in USA should also not be ignored left in the forests to assist recovery there will be negative here nor violence against women . consequences for up to 200 years? Vandalism is also a criminal act and bigoted attacks The AFPA states around 5000 people are employed in on historic monuments or memorials to our past and Eden Monaro and they generate 2 billion dollars per present in a democratic country like Australia should not annum. be tolerated. At that ROI,coupled with the environmental destruction, Margaret Royds OAM doesn’t it make more sense to pay those workers out, Bedervale and/or transition the whole industry to plantation timber? The AFPA is also calling for “long-term financial support LETTERS TO THE EDITOR for transporting logs to mills from unburnt plantation Please provide your full name address and contact details (Not for publication). Please keep your Letters to regions and timber production native forests” under 500 words. Email [email protected]

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Eden Monaro by-election and The conservative parties pay nothing but lip service to candidates climate change policies this urgent problem. Renewables will mean more jobs I nearly choked on my weeties when I read Liberal for Eden-Monaro and delaying the transition to Candidate Fiona Kotvojs claim that “the Government’s clean energy puts Australia behind the eight ball in this (climate change) strategy is working, as Australia's field, delaying our investment in innovation, training emissions are falling.” and manufacture in the renewables sector. Another Selectively quoting from the latest update of Australia's product we’ll have to import from China. The ACT now National Greenhouse Gas Inventory, Kotvojs claims sources all its electricity from renewable sources. “Last year, emissions fell by five million tonnes or Power prices are expected to fall as a consequence. If almost one per cent.” the ACT can do it so can Eden Monaro. Emissions have fallen a little because there’s been a So why are the Liberals so slow to move in that reduction in cropping activity and stock numbers - direction? Why do they continue to promote fossil including the deaths of 600,000 cattle. So emissions fuels? Because they have a vested interest. The fossil have fallen due to severe weather events caused by fuel industry directly donated more than $85.7 million warming global temperatures long-predicted by climate to Australian political parties in the 2018-19 financial science. In other words nothing to do with any policy or year. activity that the Liberal party can take credit for. So even in the face of an ongoing national climate I think they should hang their heads in shame on the emergency and the community’s desire for change, the issue of climate change. It took the deaths of 33 Liberal Government remains an ally of the industries people, the loss of 3000 homes, insurance losses of adding to our problems. Don’t vote Liberal unless you around 1.34 billion dollars and literally billions of dead want longer hotter drier more dangerous summers animals for the Liberals to finally admit it’s this is a real than the one we just lived through. issue. We’re sick of just getting lip service. We need change - Until last summers disastrous bush fires decimated the now. country Prime Minister Morrison was happy to hand Ian Cruickshank about chunks of coal in parliament and ridicule people Meringo who expressed concerns about increases in global temperature.

www.braidwoodbugle.com.au News for Braidwood & the district Braidwood Bugle Page 6 3 July 2020 Machine Show donates to RFS despite postponed event

Matt Darwon hands over the cheque to Chris James and Richard Elliot from the Majors RFS The Majors Creek Bush Fire Brigade received a wonderful donation last week. Organisers of the Machine Show at Braidwood Showground, Matt Darwon and Sophie Lee, donated funds from the sale of T Shirts deigned for the show. Unfortunately the show has had to be postponed twice this year due to the fires and then Covid. The new fire shed is underway so the money will come in handy. The brigade have already purchased navigation equipment, new pagers and hand held radio with earlier The T Shirt Design for the Machine Show donations. News for Braidwood & the district Braidwood Bugle Page 7 3 July 2020 Council notes Waterwise Policy open for comment Planning and Strategy Committee Meeting The Waterwise program was introduced in 2008 as a Council’s next Planning and Strategy Committee measure to encourage the community to save water. Meeting will be held on Wednesday 8 July. Items on The incentives are available to owner/occupiers who the agenda include options for lot sizes for the are connected to Council’s water supply. The Policy East Planning Proposal, proposed new has recently been reviewed and we are seeking the street names in South Jerrabomberra and tender community's comments on the draft Policy recommendations for Bungendore roundabout. The full at https://yourvoice.qprc.nsw.gov.au/draft-waterwise- agenda and business papers can be found on our policy The Waterwise initiative includes a free home website. Members of the public are able to present tune up, a retrofit toilet subsidy, and a rainwater tank about agenda items via video presentation or written subsidy for retro-fitting rainwater tanks to existing presentation, which you can register for via our homes and installing tanks that exceed the website. requirements of BASIX for new homes.

Community Recycling Centres 2020-21 waste calendars available on website Our friends at the CRJO are seeking feedback on the The 2020/21 waste calendars are now available to community's use of Community Recycling Centres. download from our website. Type in your address Community Recycling Centres are places where you and you can see your next collection day and can dispose of problem household wastes safely. download the calendar. Go to Complete the survey at www.qprc.nsw.gov.au/Waste- www.surveymonkey.com/r/6YPQ3WQ Environment/Waste/Find-My-Waste-Collection-Day

www.braidwoodbugle.com.au News for Braidwood & the district Braidwood Bugle Page 8 3 July 2020 $32.9m cemented for road projects in the Monaro Deputy Premier and Member for Monaro John Barilaro “On top of this, I am very excited to share that Monaro has announced a significant State and Federal Highway, Kings Highway and Kosciuszko Road will also investment, see multiple safety upgrades thanks to more than $6.5 totalling $32.9 million, for roads across the Monaro. million of Federal Government funding. Mr Barilaro said local roads in communities including “This includes things like vital safety barriers, shoulder Cooma, Adaminaby and Araluen, as well as major widening, line marking and a pedestrian refuge along thoroughfares including the Monaro and Kings those major and highly trafficked thoroughfares. Highways, will all benefit thanks to the funding injection. “The bushfires placed a huge amount of pressure on “Road safety is paramount and that is why I have been our roads and highlighted how important it is that our working hard to ensure that our community gets its fair roads and safety infrastructure are up to scratch - not share of funding for these much-needed improvements,” just for our emergency services but local residents. Mr Barilaro said. “Today’s investment will make a huge difference “In the lead up to the 2019 Election I committed $20 for locals – delivering a smoother and safer journey, million to upgrade Bobeyan Road and today I am while also getting the economy going again by announcing that work is about to begin on this key link delivering local jobs for local tradespeople.” from Adaminaby to the ACT border. “Sealing Bobeyan Road will put Adaminaby back on the map, and the tourism and business benefits of this Cooma Road to re-open major upgrade cannot be overstated. The poor state of Bobeyan Road is dangerous for locals, deterring for tourists, and not fit for Snowy Hydro 2.0. “This road is an important thoroughfare in the NSW high country, and this commitment is part of a much bigger investment in the Monaro region. “I can also announce that following my commitment at the 2019 State Election of $17.5 million for the Snowy Monaro Roads Package, today the first instalment, $6.1 million, has been delivered for works to begin. “This first instalment of $6.1 million will fund upgrades to Springfield and sealing upgrades for Smiths Road and Tinderry Road in the Snowy Monaro region. “The funding for other roads in this package including Dry Plains Road, Avonside Road, Maffra Road and Mila Road will follow shortly. The QPRC Transport team has advised that “Queanbeyan-Palerang has not missed out, with Cooma Rd is expected to reopen by Monday 6 $300,000 secured through the Fixing Local Roads July. There will still be some guidepost, signage program to repair and renew the tired bitumen on and guardrails to be replaced in the coming Araluen Road. weeks, but the road will be open to traffic.

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Government invests in upgrade of Headquarters Joint Operations - Bungendore Minister for Defence Industry, The Hon Melissa Price MP Joint media release “This first tranche of works extends out to mid- Command to support increase in personnel 2022 and will provide a valuable opportunity for The Morrison Government will invest more than $31 small businesses in Bungendore and Queanbeyan. million in the first tranche of a two tranche project The project will support construction jobs and that will provide additional infrastructure for ensure economic benefits flow to a region that has Headquarters Joint Operations Command (HQJOC) in seen its share of recent challenges,” Minister Price Bungendore, near Canberra, to support the doubling said. of the facility’s original capacity. “Up to 130 workers will be employed during the Minister for Defence, Senator the Hon Linda Reynolds peak of construction. This construction work will CSC said HQJOC and its supporting infrastructure align with the Morrison Government’s COVID-19 must expand to accommodate a significant increase economic recovery efforts. in personnel needed to plan and conduct operations “Defence will leverage existing contract on a daily basis, in Australia and abroad. arrangements to expedite these works and “HQJOC is not only key for the defence of Australia, ensure local industry content is maximised.” but also the protection of our borders in these Works on the project are expected to commence challenging geostrategic times,” Minister Reynolds in August this year and will include the delivery of said. security accreditation works, a 1.9 megawatt solar “We have seen the vital role HQJOC played in the farm, a car park upgrade, and site preparation Australian Government’s response to the Black works ahead of the next ranche of work that is Summer bushfires and COVID-19. This investment expected to commence in 2022. will improve the facility’s capacity to support the Australian Defence Force’s response to domestic and international crises. “When the expansion is complete, HQJOC will house up to 1,400 personnel, doubling its capacity from when it was originally built in 2008, to cater for increasingly complex multi-domain operations including cyber and space. “This increase in the number of personnel based at HQJOC over the coming years will provide a significant boost to the local Bungendore economy on an ongoing basis.” The 2020 Defence Strategic Update and the 2020 Force Structure Plan announced by the Prime Minister and Minister Reynolds will strengthen the ADF’s capabilities to respond to an increasingly challenging strategic environment. “The upgrades at HQJOC will make the ADF more capable for the wide range of potential scenarios and threats Australia will face in the future,” Minister Reynolds said. Minister for Defence Industry, Melissa Price, said this investment will support our commitment to maximise local industry involvement in Defence projects.

www.braidwoodbugle.com.au News for Braidwood & the district Braidwood Bugle Page 10 3 July 2020 LOOKING AHEAD TO LAMBING Dr Lou Baskind, District Veterinarian Time flies on the farm doesn’t it? We’ve only just Vaccinations passed the winter solstice and its already time to start · Before introducing grain or pellets the ewe should thinking about lambing! While not exhaustive, the have received her 6-in-1 clostridial vaccinations. If it’s following list should help you in supporting the ewe in been a few months since her last shot, it’s cheap these last weeks and get ready for lambing. If you insurance to give her another booster. have further questions, please feel free to contact me · Vaccinating the ewe will also ensure antibodies in on (02) 4842 2594 or by email to good levels in the colostrum to pass on to her [email protected] newborn lambs and bolster their naïve immune systems.

Worming · During late pregnancy and for a couple of months after lambing the ewe’s immune system is weakened and she is much more susceptible to the effect of worms. This is the ideal time to collect a poo sample and send away for a worm egg count. Local Land Services has collection kits or you can request kits directly from NSW DPI. Worm testing is a simple and accurate way to decide whether chemical drenches are needed.

Ewe Nutrition Lambing assistance · The ewe has substantial nutritional needs in the · Plan for the absolute minimum of interference when last six weeks of pregnancy, but at the same time her the ewe gives birth. Disturbing the ewe can disrupt capacity to eat is much reduced - the lamb is taking the birthing process or the stop the bond between the up all the space! This effect is exacerbated if mother and her lamb from forming. Over-participation she’s carrying twins, or triplets. Ewes receiving less by you, the enthusiastic and anxious “grandparent”, than required nutrition in late pregnancy have poor can result in more lamb deaths than allowing the mothering instincts, and the resulting low process to progress undisturbed. Invest in a good pair birthweight lambs have poorer survival rates. of binoculars and observe from a distance. Then seek · The disease caused by not getting enough calories advice from a vet or an experienced stockperson in the last weeks of pregnancy is called Pregnancy before approaching. Toxaemia and is sometimes referred to as Twin Gather these few items just in case, but try to avoid Lamb Disease. Affected ewes will stand away from intervening unless absolutely necessary: a few litres of the mob, remain still when approached, seem obstetrical/veterinary lubricant, (essential), old “depressed” or drowsy and may appear blind. They newspapers or clean empty feed bags, clean and dry may stand in water, lapping or “sham” drinking. By towels, soap, buckets, gloves. the time the signs are recognised it is often too late to Prepare yourself reverse the effects. To have a chance at success, · Birthing fluids carry the risk of transmitting Q fever, treatment must be intensive. a disease that spreads from animals to humans and · To prevent pregnancy toxaemia the ewe needs causes severe flu-like illness, occasionally with chronic high energy food in a small package - this is complications. Vaccination is the most effective way where grains or pellets are a good option. She needs to prevent Q fever. Take proper precautions by a few weeks for her rumen to get used to the high wearing a P2 mask, eye protection, gloves and energy foods in order to avoid grain protective outer clothing if in the vicinity of birthing poisoning. So start slowly at just 50g per day and membranes and fluids. For more information about Q increasing by a little each day. Her fever go to overall diet must be at least 20% roughage/hay - she the health.gov.au or safework.nsw.gov.au websites. needs this to keep her rumen healthy and to produce milk.

Send your contributions to [email protected] News for Braidwood & the district Page 11 3 July 2020 Braidwood Bugle What to do with Narbethong House? The following is an extract from a leaflet circulated by Dr Roderck Pitty from the Save Narbethong Action Group.

This building was opened on 21st October 1992 and has operated since then as a facility for the community care of elderly residents of Braidwood and its surrounding villages. One resident says: “It is a lovely building. I think it’s beautiful. I was a volunteer here for years. It is a very pleasant building to be in – indeed, it’s a very pleasant place for many people.” Soon the current residents of Narbethong will be moved to a new facility nearby. The issue for those who are concerned about the Braidwood community is what should happen with the old building. There are two options, which could be called plan A and plan B. They can be given more accurate names. Plan A is the bulldozer or the “Yes Minister” option. It is really no option at all. You can imagine what a bulldozer would do to this lovely building. Sometimes bulldozers are needed, to make containment lines in a bushfire crisis, but not because people have not thought to create a good community use for this lovely building. One resident says: “There could well be better uses for Narbethong than to be destroyed.” An obvious use, considering the lack of emergency accommodation in Braidwood during the summer fires, would be to keep Narbethong available for use in a future bushfire crisis. The building has 16 self- contained rooms, each with a fridge and a toilet, plus dining areas and common rooms. Heating is good. It may need some maintenance, but not demolition. This is an example of a plan B, the preservation or community emergency use option. Now, when we are still in the early phase of the Covid 19 pandemic, this is the real choice. The future use to be made of Narbethong could be changed, depending on community needs, if the building is not destroyed. Under plan A, demolition is likely in August 2020. When the current residents of Narbethong House are moved nearby, the building will soon be a pleasant place without people. What should be done with it? The bulldozer option is simple and stupid – demolish this lovely building and replace it with a combination of two very different types of projects, one a car park and the other a new residence for nurses. The health bureaucrats have never asked Braidwood residents what Narbethong House could be used for. They also wrongly assume we can’t keep it, plus the other two projects. Currently the federal government needs sensible infrastructure projects. Maintaining and improving Narbethong House for community reuse is one obvious project in Braidwood.

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ST BEDE'S CATHOLIC CHURCH Reading further, we discover that agape love keeps no record Reflection for NAIDOC Week. 14th. Sunday Yr. A. Matt 11:25- 30. In today’s Gospel we hear these words of Jesus: “Come to of wrong (bad or evil in the widest sense). Imagine what that me, all you who labour and are overburdened and I will give type of acceptance could look like among people! It can seem you rest.” I thought of so many today who are struggling in like an impossible task, easier said than done sometimes. these difficult times and of their need for support and see that We’re only human. But we can practice this love by not holding much is being done to help them. others’ shortfalls over them, or expecting them to “make it up to At the beginning of NAIDOC week, we must not forget the us.” We can also wish them well, while understanding that it difficult and often unjust experiences of our may not be our role to walk with him or her throughout a Indigenous people and how these can be redressed. particular season. That’s still forgiveness. There was high expectations after Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in February 2008, gave, on behalf of the people of Australia, the Sadly, our church doors must remain closed for a little while apology to the Stolen Generations. An occasion of great hope. longer. You are welcome to join our Zoom service of prayer & Then six months later Pope praise at 10am each Sunday. If you’d like to join in, please Benedict XVI, here in Australia for the World Youth Day 2008, email [email protected] for more spoke these words of hope. information. “For thousands of years before the arrival of Western settlers (in Australia) the sole inhabitants of the land were Sunday 12th July at 11am a service of worship will be held in St Indigenous peoples, the ABORIGINIES AND TORRES STRAIT Andrew’s church which will be a different experience for those ISLANDERS. Their ancient heritage attending as the COVID19 restrictions will be in place. The forms an essential part of the cultural landscape of modern service will be on Zoom for those who prefer to stay at home. Australia. Thanks to the Australian Government’s courageous Email [email protected] for more decision to acknowledge the information I also commend to you the Braidwood community injustices committed against the Indigenous peoples in the radio church service which now has a permanent spot at 6pm past, concrete steps are now being taken to achieve on Sundays. Parish Scribbler reconciliation based on mutual respect. Rightly, you are seeking to close the gap between Indigenous and non- BRAIDWOOD UNITING CHURCH Indigenous Australians regarding life expectancy, educational “While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, achievement and economic opportunity! This example of summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.” (Genesis reconciliation offers hope to peoples all over the world who long 8:22). That verse is part of the covenant God made with Noah. to see their rights affirmed and their contribution to society Like the sign of the rainbow, the cycle of the seasons testifies acknowledged and promoted.” that God will preserve and redeem His created order. Twelve years after these two events which gendered great However in agrarian cultures, the changing seasons bring with hope, we must ask the question: Have these hopes been them an annual cycle of plenty and want: there is a time to plant achieved? Let us all reflect during this NAIDOC week and and a time to harvest; a time to lay up goods for the coming resolve to not let these issues go into the too hard basket. We lean months when nothing will grow. each have a personal responsibility. It is far too easy to forget God in the midst of warmth and “Come to me, all who labour and are overburdened and I will prosperity and then to grumble against Him when going through give you rest.” hardship and cold. But the rhythm of the seasons teaches a different lesson. It declares that God is the creator of both ANGLICAN PARISH OF BRAIDWOOD warmth and cold, of both abundance and need. The one who Rotten Eggs/Forgiveness 4 gives all good things to His creatures: times of freshness and An elderly pastor was searching his closet for a tie before new growth and even times of chill that provides rest and church one Sunday morning. In the back of the closet, he found rejuvenation. a small box containing 3 eggs and 100x$1.00 coins. He called C.S. Lewis writes God has balanced (in us) the love of change his wife into the closet to ask her about the box and its in them by a love of permanence. He has contrived to gratify contents. Embarrassed, she admitted having hidden the box for both tastes together in the very world He has made, by that the entire 30 years of marriage. Disappointed and hurt, the union of change and permanence which we call Rhythm. He pastor asked her “why?” The wife replied that she hadn’t gives them the seasons, each season different yet every year wanted to hurt his feelings. He asked how the box could have the same, so that spring is always felt as a novelty yet always as the recurrence of an immemorial theme. hurt his feelings. She said that every time during their marriage You really can’t savor a robust pot of chili in January—not the that he delivered a poor sermon, she placed an egg into the way you can savor it in July. During the winter, we have a box. The pastor felt that 3 poor sermons in 30 years was different set of joys and comforts, so let’s dive right into them! certainly nothing to feel bad about, so he asked what about the Rathere than think of winter as $100.00. She replied, “Each time I got a dozen eggs, I sold We can think of winter activities as default options you’re left them to the neighbour for $1.00!” with but as entirely different yet wonderful pleasures. “Love keeps no record of wrongs.” 1 Corinthians 13:5 Winter may not be your first choice as a season. Yet it carries In this instance, Paul is using the word agape. which means to its specific gifts and purposes. May you enjoy them in the love, to wish well to, take pleasure in, or long for. weeks to come.

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movie review with Jack Watkins-Sully Every Which Way But Loose (1978) @raggady_jack

You wouldn't think that Clint Eastwood could be acted off screen by an orangutang, but he could, and he was. Every Which Way But Loose wasn't given great reviews when it was released, but at the box office it grossed $104.3 million and with a budget of $5 million I would say that was a success. It's not a smart high brow comedy, just a universally funny film. Clint Eastwood plays Philo, an angry man who'll beat up anybody over anything. He meets Sondra Locke's character Lynn Halsey-Taylor and instantly falls in love with her, but she leaves town with her “boyfriend”. So the quest to find her begins, Philo and his brother Orville depart and eventually pick up a woman named Echo (“What's your name?” “Echo” “Huh?” “Echo”). Now this would be a shocking plot and film if not for the addition of Manis the Orangutang as Clyde, he provides the bulk of the comedy that sets this film apart from the hoard of mediocre American road I acquired a copy of Every Which Way But Loose in the trip comedies of the 70s and 80s. The addition of the 61 film Clint Eastwood collection, this is more of a Nazi biker gang the Black Widows also provides plenty collectors item and not something the general film of comedy, I especially like the homage to A Fistful Of watcher is going to want, but it is great value for money. Dollars when Clint confronts the gang in an alleyway. eBay is the next best option for this film, you can get The soundtrack is mainly comprised of country music (I it in a double pack with the sequel Any Which Way You felt like stabbing my ear drums with a knitting needle, Can for $20 on DVD and $30 on Blu-Ray. Individually but managed to refrain from doing so.), it fits the setting your looking at $12 on DVD and $15+ on Blu-Ray. and style of the film. The Blu-Ray looks imperfect but better than standard The main song, Every Which Way But Loose, is definition would. The grain is a bit clunky in scenes (I performed by Eddie Rabbitt. It's not a particularly good suspect this is from a lower bitrate but haven't had time song, but it's damn catchy, which is not a good to investigate yet). combination. A scene that takes place besides a river looks stunning, Clint Eastwood is a surprisingly good comedy actor. very vivid and very clean. The cinematography's This was the first of his comedy roles (apparently he nothing special so if you don't have a large T.V. you called up Burt Reynolds for advice on comedic acting) could probably get away with the DVD. and I think he nailed it. Somehow Clint manages to This is a really funny film, nothing sophisticated but it make you like someone who you really shouldn't. wasn't trying to be, it's another case of critics missing Sondra Locke is alright in this, but seriously she wasn't the mark and expecting more than the movie was trying a very good actress. The only other film I've seen her in to offer. I laughed from start to finish and have no so far is The Gauntlet (1977, also with Eastwood) and regrets watching it. An easy watching movie that most that's supposed to be her best film, though I thought people will enjoy. she was worse in it. THREE AND A HALF STARS Geoffrey Lewis as Orville and Beverly D'Angelo as Echo were both very good, nothing spectacular but there isn't really anything spectacular in the whole film. @Raggady Jack currently holds over 1,000 titles and continue to add more classic and contemporary films every If there is one role to rival Clyde then it is Ruth Gordon week. With the current situation the internet is slow making it as Ma. An absolutely hilarious character who adds harder for people to stream, proving the point that physical another good layer of comedy to the film. media is still important.

Send your contributions to [email protected] News for Braidwood & the district Braidwood Bugle Page 14 3 July 2020 Farm Fibres to Felt at Braidwood Central Plain English Speaking Awards Although Covid has curtailed so many activities in our community, the Department of Education has arranged for public speakers across the state to record their speeches and submit them to a panel of senior adjudicators. Already the first stage of the senior competition, the Plain English Speaking Award for students in both public and private schools, has been run virtually. Each school may enter two speakers, and Jack Wasson in Year 11 and Tara Broso in Year 10 competed from BCS. The majority of speakers in this competition are in Year 12, so it is a significant achievement that both our students won through to the remaining 44 This term, one of the 7/8 Technology Mandatory students who will speak in the preliminary finals streams was the ‘Farm Fibres to Felt’ program with Miss during the first week of Term Two. Only 8 speakers Forster. In this stream students designed and created will progress to the state final. these colourful and environmentally sustainable bird The adjudicators gave detailed feedback, which for houses from wool felt. Jack’s speech on fear included, ‘Congratulations on a fantastic speech (which was almost at a university Take care when mobile charging level!). For Tara’s speech on activism they wrote, ‘This was a great speech that the adjudicators were really impressed with.’

BlazeAid Update Sunday 28th June, 2020. Be proud of what you have achieved: Total meals to date 17,376 Completed new fencing 133.4K Fencing completed last week 6.86K Research has revealed that 53% of children charge their phone or tablet either on their bed or under their pillow. Pickets Installed 16,374 This is can be extremely dangerous. The heat generated Strainer posts installed: 1,285 cannot dissipate and the charger will become hotter and Properties registered: 229 hotter. The likely result is that the pillow/bed will catch fire –placing the child (as well as everyone else in the Properties completed: 126 property) in great danger. Properties completed last week: 5 Properties % completed 55% HOME TO BUY Total volunteers to date - 401 Genuine couple in their mid 50s looking to Volunteer days to date - 5,507 privately purchase a home in Braidwood. We Average age of volunteers this week - 49.4 are ideally searching for a home between the Average age of volunteers to date - 51.14 eras of late 1800s - 1940s which has heritage Total blazeaiders in camps - 39 integrity. No agents and no modern homes Teams in Braidwood & Nerriga areas - 6 please. Character references from Braidwood Money spent Locally - $310,887.88 locals available on request. Overseas world trackers in camps - 14 To discuss, please call Deborah Nations represented in camp - 9 0417140364 or Michael 0407290528

www.braidwoodbugle.com.au News for Braidwood & the district Page 15 3 July 2020 Braidwood Bugle By-Election 4th July Democracy Sausages Sydney man charged over by-election Don’t forget to vote in the Eden-Monaro In Braidwood at BCS spam emails by-election this Saturday 4 July. Braidwood Central The Australian Federal Police has charged a A range of COVID-19 safety measures School P&C will be 32-year-old Blacktown man over a spam email are being implemented at all AEC voting holding a Election campaign related to the upcoming Eden- venues. You will be guided to observe day BBQ on Saturday Monaro by-election. social distancing and hygiene 4th July. The man was arrested during a search requirements when casting your vote. warrant at his house and later conveyed to Parramatta Police Station, where he was The AEC is asking everyone to bring Cuppas, cake and soup charged with one count of using a their own pen or pencil to cast their vote in Araluen telecommunications service to menace, harass but will have single-use pencils for Polls open from 8am to or cause offence, contrary to section 474.17 (1) people who are unable to or forget. 6pm. Check out the hall of the Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth). The man Polling places in QPRC are the Araluen restoration work that was released on police bail and is due to Federal Hall, Braidwood Central School, has been completed appear before the Blacktown Local Court on 2 Braidwood Regional Arts Centre, and to sample some September 2020. Bungendore Public School, St Mary’s local goodies as you The AFP commenced the investigation Hall (Bungendore), vote. following a report from the Electoral Integrity Community Hall, Queanbeyan High Cuppas and cake at Assurance Taskforce and the Australian School, Public $5.00 and soup and Electoral Commission on 10 June 2020. School, The Anglican School Googong, bread roll at lunchtime The report related to spam emails, which Jerrabomberra Public School, for $10.00. appeared to be from legitimate sources, being Queanbeyan South Public School, All monies raised will go sent from an unidentified user to the Australian community and various organisations. The Majors Creek Recreation Hall, 116 towards supporting the Monaro Street Queanbeyan, QPRC emails were assessed as offensive and hall restoration. Indoor Sports, Queanbeyan Presbyterian harassing in nature. You can even take Church Hall, Queanbeyan Public School, The AFP investigation identified the use of a some books or Public School, umber of telecommunications services pumpkins from the Community Association Hall. subscribed using suspected fraudulent Street Library while Find more information about polling identification documents. Investigators will there. places and the by-election allege in court that these activities were linked to the 32-year-old man. The AFP investigation at www.aec.gov.au/eden-monaro into this matter remains ongoing.

www.braidwoodbugle.com.au News for Braidwood & the district Braidwood Bugle Page 16 3 July 2020 Eden Monaro By-Election Candidate Profiles The Bugle asked each of the candidates to provide a profile. Last week The Bugle published profiles for Dean McCrae, Joy Angel, Karen Porter and Fiona Kotvojs. This week we have Kristy McBain, Cathy Griff and Matthew Stadtmiller. The other candidates did not supply profiles. The 14 Candidates for Eden Monaro in the 4th July By-Election are; in ballot paper order. 1. STADTMILLER, Matthew - Shooters, Fishers & Farmers, 2. JANSSON, James - Science Party, 3. BALDERSTONE, Michael - Help End Marijuana Prohibition (HEMP) Party, 4. HOLGATE, James - Independent, 5. HICKS, Trevor - The Nationals, 6. McCRAE, Dean - Liberal Democrats, 7. ANGEL, Joy - SUSTAINABLE AUSTRALIA - STOP OVERDEVELOPMENT. STOP CORRUPTION, 8. McBAIN, Kristy - Labor, 9. BOSI, Riccardo - Independent, 10. PORTER, Karen - Independent, 11. GRIFF, Cathy - The Greens, 12. STOREY, Narelle - Christian Democratic Party (Fred Nile Group), 13. POTTER, Jason - Australian Federation Party, 14. KOTVOJS, Fiona - Liberal.

McBAIN, Kristy – Labor I've served on the Bega Valley Shire Council since 2012 If a party doesn't have a plan to phase out coal and and was Mayor from 2016 to 2020. I set out to represent other fossil fuels, and do it soon, it has no plan to the Bega Valley because we needed new voices to be address climate change. heard and a fresh approach to engage with our We are the only party to have received the highest community. rating Our community has been hit hard with the triple whammy from the Friends of the ABC survey. The Greens stand of drought, bushfires and now coronavirus. With the out from others on that and many issues, like ending challenges we face ahead of us, I am more determined native forest logging and moving to 100% plantations; than ever that we need new voices and fresh approaches w self-determination not intervention for First Australians; to engaging with the community and the electorate. I want a to be that voice. I want to be your voice. compassionate approach to refugees; and My family moved to the Bega Valley in the 90s and ran a strengthening and supporting local government with de- small sporting store in Merimbula for more than 10 years. amalgamations where necessary to restore local I grew up on the Far South Coast and attended school at democracy to communities. And elected Greens and Eden Marine High School. I still count my high school those in the community have been campaigning for mates as some of my best friends – it’s one of the many years on strengthening TAFE and its capacity to reasons I moved back to the area that I call home after offer more courses, and reintroducing free tertiary completing a double degree in Law/Communications at education for undergraduate degrees. the University of Canberra. The local Braidwood economy has been hit with the I met my husband in high school. We now live in Tura double Beach with our three children and our beloved Border whammy of the fires and COVID-19 so it is essential Collie and run a successful plumbing business employing that JobKeeper is retained for longer than the two locals. Government intends and is extended to catch those All of our local businesses are under pressure. I want to people ensure there are real career prospects for people in our who have fallen through the net, and that the current area moving forward, that real regional development is a JobSeeker rate is key priority for governments and that our bushfire-affected retained. See our fully costed Invest to Recover plan communities aren't forgotten in this Government's term. I (part of the Green New Deal) here want to be the voice that represents you. https://greens.org.au/recovery There is so much more that governments can do in the Griff, Cathy - The Greens in Eden-Monaro long-term to create a just society and a safe Voters have a wide field to choose from in this by-election, environment into the future, and elected Greens in all but how many candidates are standing on a solid base of d spheres of government are crucial to help make that four principles – social and economic justice, ecological happen. If you haven't already voted, please consider sustainability, grassroots democracy and peace and sending a strong message to the ALP and LNP that g nonviolence? Only The Greens, and these principles are the these issues and more are important to you by voting . foundation of our comprehensive policy platform developed Cathy Griff 1, and then numbering all boxes so your over many years in consultation with party members and vote is formal. https://greens.org.au/policies, experts in their field. Of particular relevance is our climate https://www.facebook.com/CathyGriffGreens/ t change and energy policy https://greens.org.au/policies/climate-change-and-energy which clearly differentiates us from the others.

Send your contributions to [email protected] News for Braidwood & the district Braidwood Bugle Page 17 3 July 2020 Eden Monaro Candidate Profiles STADTMILLER, Matthew - Shooters, Fishers & Farmers, Who is Matthew Stadtmiller? Matt was born in Harden, he is 35 years old and is married with two children. Since 2012, Matt has been a Local government Councillor. He is also the former Deputy Mayor of Harden. Matt has run and owned an independent newspaper since 2014. Having run for the Shooters Fisher and Farmers previously in the NSW State seat of Cootamundra, Matt is taking the opportunity again to run for the seat of Eden-Monaro to make sure that those who have been forgotten have a voice. During the Bushfires that ravaged through the electorate, Matt helped organise a fundraiser in the community of Harden- Murrumburrah in coordination with the local supermarket to raise funds and gather non perishable goods for those in need after the summer bush fires. He travelled to Adelong with his family and a trailer behind their ute to deliver the goods to Blaze Aid. Matt has seen the issues that regional communities face and more specifically the electorate of Eden-Monaro, from drought, bushfires and now COVID-19. With this in mind, we need the government to treat the recovery and rebuild of the electorate with empathy and priority. It is for these reasons that Matt will be fighting for rebuilding post Covid-19, bushfire recover as well advocating for the continuation of JobSeeker and JobKeeper programs. The Government must rebuild the tourism and hospitality industry across Eden-Monaro, or else these operators face oblivion. The hospitality sector is the 5th largest employer across the region and would be feeling the hardest hit due to the COVID pandemic. We need to ensure that these communities have people visiting and spending their money in town and it is incumbent on the Government to do so. Similarly, the effect that the bushfires have had on the forestry industry need to be considered when discussing support and job creation. We know that around 80 per cent of forestry areas in Bega Valley and Eurobodalla were affected by the fires, as well as 35% of state-owned plantation was lost in Tumut. We need to continue to injection funding into the regrowing state forests so that communities can continue to reap the rewards. Turning off the tap to JobKeeper and JobSeeker is not the answer. It makes no sense for the Government to pull the plug on JobKeeper when there are no more jobs to keep, they must firstly ensure that employers are in a position to bring back employees who are currently reliant on these Government payments. Similarly, the JobSeeker program will serve its purpose when and only when, the Government puts jobs on the table for those seeking employment. A vote for the major parties is a vote for business as usual. Eden-Monaro needs a Member and party to represent the best interests of the community, not the best interests of themselves.

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YOGA POSE OF THE WEEK Look after your tackle Local and visiting fishers are being urged to ‘look after their tackle’ in a new nationwide campaign aimed at reducing lost fishing line in waterways. Fishing line is one of the top-20 items of litter impacting Australian waterways, where it can kill and injure marine life. An initiative of the Tangaroa Blue oundation, the ‘look after your tackle’ campaign urges recreational fishers to properly dispose of fishing tackle and to “know their knots” to prevent unexpected losses. Fishers can even test themselves against knot-tying expert Adam Royle, from the Australian National Sportfishing Association, and try to beat his 9.5-second improved clinch Head to knee pose - Janu sirshasana knot. Eurobodalla Council’s environmental education officer This forward bend provides a great stretch to the Bernadette Davis said fishing line remained in the aquatic shoulders, spine, hamstrings, neck, abdominal muscles environment long after it had been thrown away. and groins. It helps to calm the body and mind, soothing “Discarded fishing line can severely injure or kill marine headache, anxiety and reduces fatigue. A pose with mammals and sea birds by entanglement, restricting their mobility and causing starvation, infection, amputation and many benefits and is known to helps relieve the eventually death,” she said. symptoms of menopause and menstrual discomfort. “We are asking our local and visiting fisherfolk to get on board To practice - Begin sitting on the floor with the legs with this national campaign and ‘look after your tackle’. Make extended. Bend the right knee and place the sole of the sure you take any line or packaging with you when you are out foot on the inside of the left thigh. Square the torso over at your favourite fishing spot and check that your knots are the extended left leg and rest the hands on the thigh. secure to avoid loss of gear.” Lengthen the spine then fold forward from the hips. Council has installed fishing tackle debris bins at popular fishing locations throughout Eurobodalla for beachgoers and anglers to Extend as far as appropriate without rounding the spine. use, maintained by fabulous volunteers. Allow the breath to be slow and deep. When ready to “Next time you are out and see one of our 'tackle bins', take a release return upright and pracice to the other side. moment to look around and pick up any discarded fishing tackle

you see - you may just be saving a life,” Ms Davis said. “And if you have a favourite fishing spot with a discarded fishing Got a community event coming line problem, we would like to hear about it. up ? A significant birthday? “Contact [email protected] to find out how you can help.” Let the Bugle know. Email For more information on the campaign – including the ‘know your knots’ challenge – head to www.tangaroablue.org/amdi- [email protected] network/reefclean/lookafteryourtackle/

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Braidwood BELT UP FOR DEFENSIVE DRIVING Braidwood APEX is again coordinating a Defensive Driver Golf Club News Course for P Platers who live in the Braidwood area. With the support of the Braidwood Community Bank, Braidwood Lions, There are still some old tee signs available for Braidwood Lodge of Truth and The Braidwood Motor Club, purchase by members for $20 each & ‘first in the course will be held on Sunday the 27th of September, best dressed’. The signs were made by Gordon 2020 at the Transport Industries Skills Centre in Majura. The Scott and are memorable for any Braidwood course runs for 8 hours.All applicants must hold a current golfer, past or present. Please see Keith Probationary Licence and will be required to produce the Ferguson re payment/availability. Licence on the day. 1 person per vehicle (which is provided Results: Saturday June 27 - Medley 2BBB by the applicant), participants to wear neat, casual attire, Stableford thongs and bare feet are not accepted.Due to the generosity Winners: Mark Newman & Gordon Scott 70 of the 5 groups of support, the cost of the course which is Runners Up: Robin Tennant Wood & Tom Watson $270, has been fully funded. Participants are required to pay 68 a $50 non-refundable deposit with a completed application Ball Comp: Michael Toirkens & Simon Briggs 66, Fran McGrath & Donna Kuhn 66, Tom Duffy 63, form. these forms are available from Braidwood Central Keith & Deb Ferguson 62 School or Braidwood Community Bank. Should you wish a Handicap changes: form to be emailed, please contact Nick Fry at the Bank on Don Burke down 1 to 25, Tom Watson down 1 to 31, (02) 48421700 or [email protected]. Forms Terry Hughes out 1 to 25, Keith Ferguson out 1 to are to be returned to Nick upon completion..Please direct 18, Andrew Clark out 1 to 19 enquiries to Leland Blyton on 0402 530 456 or Nick Fry on Deb Ferguson down 1 to 19 48421700 Congratulations to Simon Briggs who had an eagle on the 4th Coming Events Saturday July 4: Men’s Stroke (Monthly Medal) Women’s Stroke (Monthly Medal) Saturday July 11: Men’s Single Stableford – Don Burke Trophy Women’s Single Stableford – Robin Tennant Wood Trophy Saturday July 18: Committee Meeting Men’s 2BBB Stableford - Nick Fry & Pat Martin Trophy Women’s Single Stableford – Michelle Henry Trophy Saturday July 25: Medley Irish 4 Ball Stableford Legacy Day – 12.15 Hit Off– all players Betty & Vic Jones Memorial Trophy Saturday August 1: Men’s Stroke (Monthly Medal) Women’s Stroke (Monthly Medal) Rugby returns After an extended stint in hibernation, the redbacks are now able to return to full contact training. The draw has been finalised and the shortened competition will kick off on the 18th of July. Our first game will be at home, on the 25th of July at the recreation ground, hope to see all supporters there!

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