Kudelka & The Australian 26 August 2010
Tuesday 7 September 2010
Are you around 10 years old and hankering to be a star? Look no further than the Lismore Show in October 2010
North Coast National Exhibition
125 Years Celebration
21 - 23 October 2010, Lismore, NSW
GIRLS - WHERE ARE YOU?
The search for a star continues across the Northern Rivers for a young girl to sing a feature song in LOCAL HEROES, the arena spectacular at the 2010 North Coast National (Lismore Show) in October.
The song will pay tribute to the SES volunteers who are always at the ready in times of need.
Local Heroes producer Mark Eady says he is looking for a girl, around 10 years old, who will have a leading role in the production and will be backed by a full choir. Mark is also looking for an experienced adult female singer.
"This is a tremendous opportunity for a girl and a woman with immense talent to sing to an audience of thousands," Mark said. "I've already cast the male roles but the perfect girl and feature female singer are still to be found!
The 125th anniversary Arena Spectacular, held over the three nights of the Lismore Show (October 21 – 23), will celebrate those ordinary men and women who daily do extraordinary things within our community.
"Local Heroes will be the largest theatrical tribute to our emergency service people ever staged and a behind the scenes peak at these ordinary women and men who achieve extraordinary things.
In my view we can't thank them enough," says John Gibson, North Coast National President.
Some of the groups to be celebrated are NSW Fire, SES, Police, Ambulance, Westpac Helicopter Rescue, Lifeguards and Nippers, Road Safety Officers (lollypop ladies), Animal Rescue groups, and more.
Already chosen to appear in Local Heroes are singers Jesse Mathews-Cooke from Ballina, St John's College Woodlawn student Courtney Macdade and young actors Shyarnah Tryhorn, Matilda Pleace, Marnie Johnston and Kathleen Caughey, Year 9 and 10 dance students from Trinity College, Lismore, Year 9 and 10 dance students from St John's College Woodlawn, junior dancers and the choir from Our Lady Help of Christians, the Woodlawn Senior Choir and the Winsum Loosesum Gospel Choir.
Real life local heroes, members of our region's emergency services, will also be a vital part of the arena spectacular.
To audition for Local Heroes, contact the producer Mark Eady on 0418 150 306, or North Coast National secretary Janelle Hancock on 6621 5916. You can also apply to audition on-line at www.ozworks.net - Click on Local Heroes Auditions.
Media enquiries:
Tracey Mair
TM Publicity
For the North Coast National
Ph: 02 6680 7106 or 0419 221 493
Customer bites back at bank
It's not often a bank comes out on the wrong side of an argument concerning the status of an account, but Westpac did just that according to Banking Day this month:
"The High Court has ruled that a bank could not claim qualified privilege against a defamation claim when it sent dishonoured cheques back to payees, based on a clerical error.
In December 1997 Westpac dishonoured 30 cheques drawn by Homewise Realty, a real estate agency run by Paul Aktas. The cheques were returned to the payees or collecting banks marked "refer to drawer".
The term "refer to drawer" is widely understood to mean that there were insufficient funds to meet the cheque. According to the court record, some members of the Turkish community in the Sydney suburb of Auburn, where Aktas ran his business, "reacted adversely and with some hostility to Mr Aktas after it became known that trust account cheques had bounced."
Westpac made a mistake in dishonouring the cheques...."
Monday 6 September 2010
What's in the news in Armidale? Part 2: The New State Movement ... still!
Again, in Wednesday's Armidale Express, Jim Belshaw who's been known to beat the New State drum more than once, is at it again.
Belshaw, who writes at his blog site New England, Australia and is not one who's known to be backward in coming forward, has called upon Tony Windsor, the Independent MP for New England, and the other 'country' (that's Belshaw's description, but I'd prefer to call then 'rural and regional') independents to do three things:
#1. Support the holding of a convention about state and commonwealth powers
#2. Support the holding of a (yet) another new state plebiscite in Northern NSW, and
#3. Apply a test to any specific initiatives to determine if the proposal has any real longer term impact on New England development, or whether it is just a 'band-aid'?
I have no real quarrels about #1 and #3, but as for #2 ... here we go round the mulberry bush again!
It seems Belshaw and the Mad Hatter from North Queensland are top-and-tailing it in the same bed. Belshaw is (figuratively) at the bottom end of the bed while the Mad Hatter is occupying the bed's top end
The Northern Star (Saturday, September 4) in a piece titled 'MP pushes for region to be split' states:
Bob Katter would have the Northern Rivers split in two, with towns such as Byron Bay, Kyogle, Mullumbimby, and Nimbin moving to Queensland, while places such as Lismore, Casino, Ballina,
The Channon, and Suffolk Park remain in NSW.
The split is part of a wider redrawing of state borders proposed by Mr Katter, which includes creating a new state of North Queensland, handing a big chunk of the Northern Territory to an expanded South Australia, and a rebranding of the Top End as North Western Australia as another new state that takes out the northern end of Western Australia.
The renamed ‘South Queensland’ would extend from Bundaberg south to Byron Bay, creating the Northern Rivers split.
Mr Katter’s argument is that the new division of state boundaries would let Australia better exploit its natural resources, improve farming in the north, and would accommodate an extra 100,000 people.
The idea would have to go to a referendum and is unlikely to ever see the light of day. It’s worth noting that the idea – although raised by the Kennedy MP as recently as last week – did not make his list of 20 ‘priorities’ handed to Labor and the Coalition on Thursday.
Here's a suggestion for both Jim and Bob: You need a cuppa tea, a Bex and a good lie down.Sources: The Armidale Express (September 1) and The Northern Star (September 4)
Defamation litigation against Internet search engines continues and yet another blog thinks it's teflon-coated
In 2004 there was a shooting incident in a Melbourne suburb which was reported in The Herald-Sun at the time in an unexceptional manner.
Very little was heard of the incident after that until sometime between 2007 and 2009 a blogger appears to have created a post based on a second published news report.
This post was apparently capable of being read as a series of imputations that would lead the reader to believe that the named victim was associated in some way with unlawful activity. That original post is no longer displayed by Internet search engines.
The matter is are currently before the Court in what seems to be two separate defamation cases.
Which should have made OzSoapbox rather wary. Instead in July this year this second (and apparently unrelated) website owned by a Taiwan-based blogger has blithely proceeded to justify the Court's 2010 decision that parts of the original post were capable of giving rise to defamatory imputations and that litigation could proceed.
Indeed, OzSoapbox went even further with this particular comment after its 3 July 2010 post concerning the defamation litigation:
ozsoapbox
July 9th, 2010 at 4:02 pm ozsoapbox(Quote)
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Buddy, Id be very careful with this article and what you are
implying, the person in question will be very interested in this,
that is for certain.
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That sounds a bit threatening.
I'd have thought [redacted by North Coast Voices] 'd have his hands full trying to get richsuing search engines to send out hitmen after me.
If geographic distance didn't save Yahoo! and Google from being served, one wonders if OzSoapbox will also find itself involved in litigation.
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