NSW public servants have too much time on their hands?

NSW State Water Corporation has an e-tendering training page on its website and someone down south obviously thought it would be hilarious if the example contract used on the page was for a Clarence Dam.

Yes, very funny.
Folks on the NSW North Coast get the joke after spending so much time and effort repelling water raiders wanting to dam our coastal rivers - in particular the Clarence River.
Not so sure those down at Lithgow would be amused though - given their own problems with a "Clarence Dam".

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The records found on this website are not real.

Please visit https://tenders.nsw.gov.au/ for current tender opportunities and contract records.

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Archived Tender Detail View - SWC99999

Clarence Dam

RFT ID SWC99999
Publish Date 14-May-2009
Close Date & Time 14-May-2009 12:45pm

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CERN's Large Haldron Collider being fired up again for full run in early 2010

The Times online last month reported that:
"After starting it with a bang, which promptly turned into a whimper, scientists have quietly powered up the Large Hadron Collider for a second time.
The preliminary run was low key compared with the ill-fated switch-on in September last year, but CERN scientists said the first beams suggested that the £3.6 billion experiment in Switzerland was finally under way again. “It’s the beginning of a very well-planned and cautious switch-on,” Brian Foster, a particle physicist from the University of Oxford, said.......
The accelerator is being ramped up to full energy gradually to minimise the chances of a repeat of the failure that led to a year of repairs. The first particles to be sent around the whole ring are scheduled for mid-November and the first collisions in the new year."
Unfortunately in its related article link the newspaper also displayed the 13th October 2009 headline:
Haldron Collider physist Adlene Hicheur charged with terrorism.
More fuel to the fire for those with a penchant for mini-black hole end of the world predictions.
Perhaps that intrepid Oz pollie, Steve Fielding, needs to rush to the nearest telephone box and change......

Want to swim in that pretty little lake in Yamba? First check for sharks!

I received a phone call this morning from a long time resident of Yamba at the mouth of the Clarence River.

He had been checking out Kolora Lake on the edge of town, as a possible alternative free still-water swimming pool due to the Main Beach rock pool being indefinitely closed because of structural damage.

All was going well as he walked this pretty little lake's bank until.......
he spotted a young shark (about two and a half to three feet long) calmly cruising by.

Now before he puts a toe in the water he wants to know if Mumma Shark is nearby!

The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month - Lest We Forget

In remembrance of the many who fell and all who suffered during war

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