Edition #11 July 3 2020

Braidwood Bugle FREE Independent News for Braidwood & the District www.braidwoodbugle.com.au 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 Altenburg & Co School Holiday Hours Thursday - Monday 10am - 3pm until July 19th 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 Queanbeyan 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 Australia 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.

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