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Page 1 YASS VALLEY TIMES WEDNESDAY July 14, 2021 $2.00 Man Rescued From Cave Emergency services the bottom of the cave. members at work rescuing the man. As the cavers were prepared, A man has been rescued they were able to send food, after becoming stuck in a water and warm clothing cave at Wee Jasper on down to the man. Sunday. Officers attached to The A small group of people were Hume Police District arrived caving at the site, an hour on scene at 8pm, along with south-east of Yass, and were Fire and Rescue NSW, NSW abseiling 20m down into a Ambulance paramedics, cave. Ambulance Rescue and the TOLL Rescue helicopter. Emergency services were contacted just after 7pm, after A vertical rescue commenced a 26-year-old man made it just before 10pm by specialist ten metres underground but police from the Rescue and became stuck when Bomb Disposal Unit, and the attempting to ascend through man was returned to the a small opening. surface less than an hour later. With assistance from other The man was assessed by members of the group, the NSW Ambulance paramedics man was assisted down to but was uninjured. Dumping Addressed By Yass Council Yass Valley Council took significant steps in “Also, providing more detail around what is required “Council’s also approved in the operational plan for resolving the issue of fill dumping from ACT to be submitted to Council with the development this financial year, a provision for two compliance companies in our region at the end of June. application and detailing the types of conditions officers. So, rather than just trying to get people to needed for development consent,” said Julie. get development consent, it’s going to be a whole of “The Draft Filing Policy is about the requirements for issue approach to the problem.” getting development consent for the filling of land. With more rules involving legal dumping, one could This has come about due to the significant amounts assume that illegal dumping, already prevalent in “Those positions will be permanent positions within of soil that are being dumped out of the ACT into our the region, could become even more appealing to Council and I suspect they will be ongoing, with their local government area,” said Director of Planning these companies. However, Julie revealed Council primary focus initially being on this filling issue out of and Environment, Julie Rogers. has put aside funding for two compliance officers in the ACT,” she said. the next financial year. This is being done in the The revised policy focuses on ensuring there are hope of mitigating this risk and to potentially catch The Heavy Haulage Contributions Plan being more conditions for dumpers to abide by, and Julie illegal dumpers. placed on public exhibition will also provide s source explained that premise in more detail. of revenue for Council. “I think it’s always tempting and something people “The main changes are about essentially outlining will do, but Council’s now taking more of a whole of “That relates essentially to contributions being paid when and where you need development consent for issue approach to the problem. So we have this for the impact of large trucks on our roads.” filling and providing more detail around that.” policy but we’ve also just put our heavy haulage contributions plan on public exhibition.” Continued page 2. 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Stone retaining walls, fully fenced back yard. places. Sleep out off the garage with concrete floor & electricity. subdivision in Yass. All perfectly located close to the CBD. Page 2 YASS VALLEY TIMES WEDNESDAY July 14, 2021 David Young Features on Landline are not the only ones benefiting from it. The processors benefit, our export industries benefit, so you know we're not the only ones that can benefit from that technology, so the costs need to be shared.” “Woolgrowers Australia have got a caveat on their approval of those Safe Meat recommendations and one of those is that a nationally competitive tag tender be put out there to bring the costs of the tags down.” “If the cost of the tags is the same or not too much different to what we’re currently using, it takes a lot of the heat out of the argument. There’s plenty of advantages to be gained in individual tagging of sheep because you can collect the data from that particular sheep and use it for your breeding and for your growth plates, and for a million other things,” he said. David likened the current opposition to individual EID tags to the resistance of the colour tag system for sheep a few years back. This is the process of putting a coloured tag on each sheep to ensure David Young. you’re aware of what year they were born. Bookham’s David Young featured in an ABC “When that was brought in a few years ago Landline episode which aired on Sunday the there were people dead against it. There is 4th of July. an aspect of intergenerational resistance to change to put it democratically,” he said. His segment focused on the issue of animal contact tracing and traceability in the case of According to David, individualising EID tags a major disease outbreak. is a small issue of a greater system that requires urgent reinvigoration. Whilst agreeing with the overall message, David was not entirely thrilled with how the “I’d really stress that the EID issue is one program turned out. small part of the whole issue of traceability, national vendor decs (declarations) and that “As per normal the excerpts they take out whole system.” are not necessarily all the ones you’d like them to put in.” “The system itself is due for a review. It’s been 20 odd years and nothing much has “The line about the young and the old and been done with it. The whole system needs those that should have retired are the ones to be updated. It was from a time where that aren’t taking up the technology and faxes were commonplace, and people still using it to their advantage has gained a lot had dial phones.” of media coverage. My father-in-law has taken it very personally at which point I “We’re using new technology and the really stress that it’s not an age barrier to system, whether it goes towards mandating taking up the technology. Those that electronic tags or not, is due for a review should’ve retired, would be some of those and a bit of a refresh,” he said. that are in their 20’s,” he said with a chuckle. While sheep prices are great, David is David believes individual EID (Electronic encouraging the farming community to Identification) tagging to be the way forward. innovate to ensure this current period can He hopes at an upcoming conference be sustained long-term. scheduled for late August that NSW Farmers take on the advice of a recent Safe “We’re currently enjoying really good prices Meat report on the issue in Australia. for sheep and it’s really vital to keep that, that we’ve got an assurance system that’s “On the back of a Safe Meat report which trackable back. All of these things, whether was released a little while ago, there were we like it or not, are part and parcel of us some recommendations made and one of doing business and you don’t knock back those which was for our traceability system easier or more convenient or more efficient was, that individual tagging be put into ways to do business.” From place.” “Farmers are a pretty practical lot. We don’t “That’s against NSW Farmers policy, so do things without reason, and we’ve got the what we would be doing is taking most of welfare of our animals as a number one the Conference which has been pushed priority.” The Front back until the end of August this year because of Covid.” “How much they pay depends on the program. We’re doing some work “This traceability means that in the event of type of truck that’s using the road and there on a coordinated response from a disease outbreak we’ve got to be able to the type of road that it’s going on,” ourselves, Queanbeyan Council, the “We really want to get people's involvement track, trace and isolate just like Covid. on this because while different ones may be We’ve all gotten used to using QR codes said Julie.