The Moorabool News FREE EMAIL: [email protected] Your Local News WEB: www.themooraboolnews.com.au Tuesday 5 July, 2016 Serving Ballan and district since 1872 Phone 5368 1966 Fax 5368 2764 Vol 10 No 26 Wadawarrung Elder Uncle Bryon Powell conducts the smoking ceremony and (inset) Rhyder Harrison joined in the NAIDOC Week celebrations. Photos - Helen Tatchell Cultural celebration There is a saying that things come in started with Wadawurrung Elder Uncle Gordon resident and Wadawurrung Moorabool Shire Council invite three’s and a flag raising ceremony was Bryon Powell conducting the traditional Elder Aunty Marlene Gilson said it was everyone to attend NAIDOC (National testament to that. smoking ceremony. a time to remember and acknowledge Aboriginal & Islander Day Observance At the Ballan Shire offices the the traditional owners of the land and Committee) Week celebrations with a “I come back each year, and each year it Australian, Aboriginal and Torres Strait all indigenous people. Family Day today, Tuesday 5 July, 10am- gets better and better,” Mr Powell said. islander flags were raised to kick start Ms Gilson’s daughter Tammy said, “It is 2pm in the Bacchus Marsh Public Hall NAIDOC Week (5-12 July). “This is a great start to the week. Let’s a celebration of who we are and provides and a Movie Day on Thursday 7 July, 12 A small gathering on a brisk Sunday start this week on a good note with an education to the community of our noon – 4pm at the Lerderderg Library in morning enjoyed proceedings that friends and family around us.” culture.” Bacchus Marsh. GAS DUCTED HEATING Your Local Heating Specialist G.J. BRADDING From $2,750 Phone: 5367 4964 [email protected] www.gjbradding.com.au HEATING & COOLING WARNING: For your own health and well being have your heater serviced ready for Winter RTA # AU03582 SYSTEMS Phone for your FREE measure & quote 0438 692 858 Complete your home with quality window furnishings. 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These figures are heartbreaking, but I fear they task or get you to anger against CFA or the UFU Budget papers show that council is only tell part of the story. or whoever else. Moorabool ratepayers are being ripped currently undertaking a progressive Please stay focused and stick with CFA and pro- Based on the number of peri-natal deaths our off by property owners dubiously review of properties that are eligible to tect the people of Victoria as you always have in firm has investigated and issued legal proceed- claiming their rates under the lower receive the farm rate via a reapplication the past and continue to do so for the future. I Farm Rate category. ings for since 2008, I believe the number could have concentrated on summer fire here because process. The issue was raised at the Special be higher. that’s what concerns me the most, but there are “The process is being applied to all We have represented families whose babies also the car accidents, chemical spills, etc. etc. etc. Council meeting held on Wednesday 23 farm assessments that are either sold have been stillborn or who have died soon after I could go on and on. June, to consider budget submissions. or subject to ownership changes on or birth at hospitals across Melbourne and regional Chris Kearney, Balliang farmer Chris Sharkey ad- after 1st July 2015. To date, this process Victoria, including Bacchus Marsh Hospital. Bacchus Marsh dressed the meeting, pointing out that has resulted in 48 assessments no longer I urge authorities to continue to investigate peri- figures used in the council budget in being eligible to receive the farm rate,” natal deaths and do whatever it takes to prevent Facebook relation to the number of primary pro- the documents read. more unnecessary young lives being lost. ducers in Moorabool who pay rates un- “Council will continue to review on Anne Shortall feedback der the farm rate category, are wrong. a progressive basis properties eligi- Slater and Gordon Lawyer Mr Sharkey said that the number used ble to receive the farm rate to ensure The by council, 1443, is way above the actual the integrity of its Rating Strategy is number of 412, as per Australian Bureau To all CFA volunteers, Moorabool News FREE maintained.” EMAIL: [email protected] Your Local News WEB: www.themooraboolnews.com.au Tuesday 21 June, 2016 Serving Ballan and district since 1872 Phone 5368 1966 Fax 5368 2764 Vol 10 No 24 of Statistics figures of legally registered I worked for CFA for 11 years as a BASO. I may West Ward Councillor Tom Sullivan farm businesses within Moorabool have known a lot of you in that time; I worked was not impressed. in Incidental Control Centres on the NTH EAST Shire. “What is the difficulty in determin- Fires, Century Track Fires, Black Saturday Fires He said the numbers show that rate- ing the actual number of properties as and others. payers who are not farmers are claim- farms? What is the real problem in ob- I have seen first-hand time and time again what ing the benefit of the farm rate.