Sunday 23 September 2018
Yamba, the jewel in the crown of Clarence Valley tourism
The Daily Examiner, 18 September 2018, p.1:
The Clarence Valley is
out-performing the whole state in tourism growth, according to Clarence Valley
Council, with Yamba the jewel in the crown.
Director environment,
planning and community Des Schroder said the Clarence Valley had recorded a
12.2 per cent growth, while NSW had only notched up a 5.7 per cent growth.
Tourism has become one
of the Valley’s biggest employers with 6.8 per cent of people employed in the
Valley working in tourism and hospitality according to Mr Schroder.
Council statistics
show Yamba has become the fourth most visited town in the North Coast
behind Byron Bay, Port Macquarie and Coffs Harbour, with more tourists than
Ballina, Tweed Heads and Old Bar, Taree.
Mr Schroder said
according to NSW tourism research Yamba statistics are merely 30 per
cent of Byron Bay’s tourism numbers at the moment, but it might not be that way
for long.
“Yamba is growing
but it’s not Byron Bay yet from a tourism point of view, but it’s getting up
there,” he said.
Mr Schroder added the
population of Yamba is fairly stable, but still growing.
He said the influx of
people visiting Yamba around Christmas is starting to become a
constant stream of tourists all year round.
“The impact of the
highway will make a big difference,” Mr Schroder said. “The highway will
improve access for people coming to Yamba from the north and south.”
With 30 per cent of
tourists visiting Yamba hailing from South-East Queensland he said
the council is conscious the tourism in Yamba will continue to grow.
“All council can do is
put the framework in place,” Mr Schroder said.
“We need to manage
lifestyle for the locals while allowing for tourism growth which balances jobs.
You need tourism to create jobs but you don’t want to be over run by tourists.”…….
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison apeing his hero......
Words fail me.....
Labels:
Donald Trump,
right wing rat bags,
Scott Morrison
Saturday 22 September 2018
Ways the twitterverse tells Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison it cares.....
Belinda Jones has compiled a list of ‘nicknames’
for the Australian Prime Minister found on Twitter
in the last three weeks:
#slomo
#shoutymo
#scummo
#morriscum
#ScoMo
Shouty
McShouty
Fozzie Bear
Pastor PM
Preacher PM
Fatman ScoMo
Skid Toryscum
Skid
Muppetson
Prime Muppet
Pissant Muppet
Morrison
Labels:
Scott Morrison,
Twitter
Friday 21 September 2018
Two koalas return to their home range in the Clarence
Clarence Valley Council, Media Release, 18 September 2018:
Mayor: Jim Simmons LOCKED BAG 23
GRAFTON NSW 2460
General Manager: Ashley Lindsay
Telephone: (02) 6643 0200
Fax: (02) 6642 7647
Miss Starry in the fork of a tree and Ashby David is a little reluctant to go from his washing basket transport.
Coming home to the
Clarence
Clarence Valley Council
natural resource management project officer, Caragh Heenan, said Miss Starry was picked up by a WIRES
carer and assessed by a local vet, then sent to Australia Zoo’s Wildlife Hospital
where she was also treated for chlamydia – a serious and potentially fatal
infection that causes blindness and internal infections if not treated.
Ms Heenan said her last
few weeks were at the Friends of Koala Nursery in Lismore where she had been
regaining strength for her release.
Another koala was
released the same day; ‘Ashby David’ was found on the ground in Ashby and was sent
to Currumbin Wildlife Hospital for treatment for chlamydia.
Ms Heenan said Clarence
koalas were under threat from fire, cars, dogs and disease.
“WIRES carers play a big
role in caring for injured animals, and koalas need your help too,” she said.
“With funding from the
NSW Environmental Trust, council is running a project to support our koalas.
“Register where you’ve
seen a koala at http://www.clarenceconversations.com.au
and help us plan for Clarence koalas into the future.
“With the public’s help
we can help koalas remain safe and healthy for the long term.”
Release ends.
Labels:
Clarence Valley,
flora and fauna,
Koala
Only one Liberal female federal politician was brave enough to stand up and publicly name an alleged political bully
Image: 9News |
This was the Liberal MP for Gilmore Ann Sudmalis according to Hansard on 17 September 2017:
To date NSW Liberal MLC Gareth Ward has not specifically denied Ms. Sudmalis' detailed allegations.
Instead saying he was "too busy" to have conducted a campaign against Sudmalis, suggesting it was all a case of "sour grapes".
Shoalhaven
councillor, Andrew Guile, described her speech as an appalling abuse of parliamentary privilege.
As is becoming usual for the current Prime Minister, he still refuses to publicly admit there is a culture of bullying in the Liberal Party.
But make no mistake the Liberal Party has mobilised and, Morrison is now making sure that Ann Sudmalis is incapable of anymore spontaneous truth telling over the next five parliamentary sitting weeks, by appointing her as the Coalition member of a two-member Australian delegation to the United Nations until the end of 2018.
After which she will be further neutered by the early December to start of February long parliamentary break and subsequent est. twelve weeks between when Morrison announces the federal election date and the return of the writs in May 2019.
Indeed after her New York sojourn at the United Nations we will probably never hear from Ann Sudmalis again.
Thursday 20 September 2018
Sometime Australian Prime Minister & MP for Cook, Scott Morrison, is the protector of religious freedom? Don't make me laugh
This was Australia’s
most recent Liberal prime minister quoted in The
Sydney Morning Herald on 17 September 2018:
Prime Minister Scott
Morrison will enact "preventative regulation and legislation" to
shield freedom of religion from future enemies, giving his strongest hints to
date about the government's intentions regarding "religious freedom"
laws.
What a load of
codswallop, manure, dung, heifers dust, cowpats, meadow cocktails – what ABSOLUTE BULLSH*T!
The Liberal Member
for Cook Scott Morrison already
knows that the Australian Constitution without qualification guarantees religious
freedom in this country at federal level:
The Commonwealth shall not
make any law for establishing any religion, or for imposing any
religious observance, or for
prohibiting the free exercise of any religion, and no religious test
shall be required as a qualification for any office or public trust under the
Commonwealth. [my yellow highlighting]
As the
Australian Constitution is the highest source in the land on this issue, one can only suspect that:
a) Scott
Morrison has never read the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act (as
amended up to 1977); or
b) Scott Morrison is shamelessly pandering to his
far-right, ideologically blind & bigoted supporter base, in the hope of being re-elected in 2019.
Even a callow first-year-in-parliament politician knows that when state law is in conflict with federal law it is federal law which usually prevails and, if either is in conflict with the Constitution it will be the Constitution which prevails.
Having well and truly politicised his own faith Morrison may in fact be creating his own "future enemies" - he has all but guaranteed that someone will take his legislation and regulations to the High Court of Australia - where every word, phrase and punctuation mark will be studied closely.
He
appears to forget that Australia has also ratified a number of UN resolutions which directly or indirectly protect religious freedom and these have been upheld by the courts.
While he ignores the fact that Tasmania has had a religious freedom provision written
into its state constitution since 1934 and Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia,
the Northern Territory as well as the ACT have passed legislation prohibiting
direct and indirect discrimination on the ground of religion. Only South Australia appears to have no legislation specifically covering religious freedom to date.
Morrison also
forgets that whatever legislation he forces through this parliament, or whatever
regulations he imposes, can all be undone in the first instance by subsequent federal parliaments and in the second instance by the minister of the day.
If he really
wants to genuinely strengthen existing religious freedoms he would call a
referendum to change the Australian Constitution.
Even a callow first-year-in-parliament politician knows that when state law is in conflict with federal law it is federal law which usually prevails and, if either is in conflict with the Constitution it will be the Constitution which prevails.
Having well and truly politicised his own faith Morrison may in fact be creating his own "future enemies" - he has all but guaranteed that someone will take his legislation and regulations to the High Court of Australia - where every word, phrase and punctuation mark will be studied closely.
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