The Weekly Times - TWT - 29th August 2018

4 THE WEEKLY TIMES Wednesday 29 August, 2018
New PM Morrison priority
must be cheaper electricity
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HUNTERS HILL
Letters to the Editor
Dear Sir,
The Australian Taxpayers’
Alliance (ATA) congratulates
Prime Minister
Scott Morrison on his
new role and called upon
the new administration
to prioritise cheaper
power bills for Australian
families and businesses
in their policy platform.
Exclusive Reachtel polling
commissioned by the
Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance
in four key swing
electorates earlier this
week found that over nine
in ten voters think it is important
that the government
take action on their
power bills, with half of
the respondents “not at all
confident” that the Turnbull
government’s National
Energy Guarantee would
achieve it.
Australians pay some of
the world’s highest electricity
prices despite being
blessed with vast reserves
of cheap coal, natural gas
and uranium due to irresponsible
government
policies.
Businesses are closing
down, jobs are disappearing,
and pensioners
are shivering through the
winter because they can’t
afford heating.
Lowering electricity prices
is not just good economics
– it is a moral imperative.
Our polling also shows
that over three in four voters
would support a withdrawal
from the Paris Accord
mandate on lowering
emissions if it meant lower
power bills in favour of a
voluntary model for lowering
carbon emissions.
The Australian Taxpayers’
Alliance Cheap Energy
Guarantee supports a
unique mechanism for reducing
carbon emissions
through an ‘opt out’ model
based in behavioural economics
research that will
lower Australia’s carbon
footprint without forcing
higher power bills or less
reliable and more expensive
electricity on those
who do not want it.
We urge Prime Minister
Morrison and his new
cabinet to adopt this approach
as a fairer, more
efficient way to balance
the interests of Australians
while combatting climate
change and meeting Australia’s
international obligations.
The polling also shows
declines of up to 11 percent
in the primary vote for
the Liberals compared to
the 2016 election.
The results make it clear
that the Morrison Liberal
coalition government must
focus on lowering electricity
bills if it wants to regain
lost ground and stay in
government come the next
federal election.
SATYAJEET ‘SATYA’
MARAR
Director of Policy,
Australian Taxpayers’
Alliance
Dementia Awareness
Friends invitation
Dementia Australia is
calling on Australian organisations
to take the
lead and inspire their staff
to sign up as Dementia
Friends to learn how small
actions can make a big
difference to the lives of
people living with dementia,
their families and carers.
Dementia Awareness
Month is Dementia Australia’s
national awarenessraising
campaign held every
year throughout September.
This year’s theme is Small
actions Big difference.
We are challenging all
business and community
leaders to put dementia on
the agenda in workplaces,
clubs and community centres
throughout September.
Whether you have 40
club members or 40,000
employees, combined we
all can make a difference
to the more than 425,000
people living with dementia
in Australia and the almost
1.5 million people involved
in their care.
At your next team or all
staff meeting ask for a show
of hands from all those who
have been impacted by dementia.
I guarantee you will
be surprised by the numbers.
With our Dementia Friends
program we are providing
an opportunity for everyone
to empower themselves
with more knowledge and
increased understanding
about dementia so they
can learn how some small
actions can make a big difference
in the day-to-day
life of someone living with
dementia.
The short online Dementia
Friends module provides
explanations about demen-
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sharing how dementia
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Global warmists
put up or shut up!
Hunters Hill Guest Column
Wonderful volunteers at
St Mark’s Playgroup
At 10am on Wednesday
mornings, in a hall
behind St Mark’s Church
on Figtree Road, Hunters
Hill, one of Sydney’s
most charming playgroups
opens its gates.
My daughter Indiana
and I discovered the
playgroup on one of our
walks around Hunters Hill.
Indiana spotted a boxing
kangaroo outside the
Church grounds (that she
now hugs each time before
we go in).
Inside the hall, we are
greeted by the delightful
and inspiring Pamela,
Mary and Joan and their
wonderful team of volunteers,
who put so much
love, care and kindness
into this little playgroup.
What I love as a Mum
is the thought that
goes into the program
they’ve created.
* * *
THE MORNING starts
with arts and crafts that is
run by Winsome, Dellane,
Lesley and Gay which is
often inspired by the seasons
or special events
coming up; so anything
from making purple blossom
jacaranda trees to
making fireplaces in winter
to Mother’s Day cards.
There are many toys,
dress ups and activity tables
set up for everyone to
go between.
The morning then
moves onto a complimentary
morning tea for the little
ones, with cheese and
vegemite sandwiches,
freshly cut fruit and
drinks, and a lovely morning
tea for the adults
with home made baking
and sandwiches and Nespresso
coffee.
* * *
To The POINT
with INDIANA & KIRSTEN
NEXT UP the playgroup
moves outside
for ‘bubbles and popcorn’
with a bubble and
popcorn machine in full
swing with toddler cars,
sandpit and the very popular
dolls house and water
activities in summer.
At 11.30am the bell
rings and we’re all ushered
back inside for singing,
accompanied by
a piano thanks to the
talented piano player
Helen and storytime, culminating
with Sleeping
Bunnies, led by Reverend
Kimberly Sawyer.
Indiana and I cannot
thank Pamela, Mary and
Joan and their wonderful
team of volunteers for the
service they provide.
On behalf of all the
Mums, Dads, Nannies
and Grandparents at
St Marks Playgroup, thank
you so much. See you all
next week!
INDIANA & KIRSTEN
Daughter & Mum, Hunters
Hill
Residents Tigers
2018
reject bureaucrats new move
FIFA
Rev-up for
World
to bury radio active waste underground
Cup
BY OUR CIVIC ROUNDSMAN
THE VAST MAJORITY of Hunters Hill residents have rejected the latest attempt by bureaucrats to convince them to accept
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the burial of the radio active waste in Nelson Parade in a concrete bunker, activist Philippa Quinn claims.
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Bureaucrats from Property
New South Wales
Clean it up NOW!
met with Nelson Parade
residents and Hunters Hill
councillors at the council
chambers last week and
while some support the
bureaucrats’ encapsulation
idea, most want the
waste removed.
Ms Clarke was at the
meeting and said most residents
support the waste
removal demands of Mayor
Mark Bennett and former
Mayor Richard Quinn
as on the front page of The
Weekly Times on June 20.
“Our residents not only
support the Mayors, we
are desperate for action
and we want something
to happen now to remove
the waste from this site,
which is owned by Property
NSW,” Ms Clark said.
Residents were given
hope the radio active
waste - which has been
on the former industrial
site for almost 100 years -
would be removed through
recent reassurances by
Lane Cove MP Anthony
Roberts and Ryde MP Victor
Dominello in The Weekly
Times.
Mr Dominello is the Minister
responsible for Property
NSW and spoke about
a multi-million grant to
have the waste removed,
possibly to South Australia.
Philippa Clark is livid that
Dear Sir,
After reading the Letters
to the Editor over the
last couple of weeks JB,
I credit you with the patience
of Job and the skin
of a rhino.
Concerning your last two
global warmists’ letters, if
these AGW advocates have
anything to tell me that will
change my mind then what
academic authority do they
have better than two I can
name of many.
E.g. Henrick Svensmark
of Denmark and Nir Shaviv
of Israel who have written
books and papers, open to
worldwide discussion and
harsh criticism by many
AGW rent seekers who rely
on Government money for
their existence.
Which brings up the
CSIRO … a world class scientific
organisation which
sacked one of its scientists
for not following its government
funded lead.
If that is science then, can
we burn all of the present
books and say we know all
that there is to know and
that’s that?
BRIAN BINSKIN
Eastwood
Biodegradable ‘poo
bags’ appreciated
Dear Sir,
I’d like to congratulate
those members of Ryde
City Council responsible
for the installation and
supply of the biodegradable
‘poo bags’ at Meadowbank
Park.
They’re a much needed
and appreciated addition.
Rejoice all dog owners!
(Now all we need is a fence
to keep our beloved pooches
and children safe).
JANELLE WILKINSON
Melrose Park
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Hunters Hill Mayor Clr Mark Bennett, right,
and former mayor Richard Quinn, left,
have called on the State Government to
remove the radio active toxic waste in
Nelson Parade immediately.
Nelson Parade is in the electorate of Lane
Cove MP and Minister for Planning
Anthony Roberts and Ryde MP Victor
Dominello in Minister for Property who is
responsible for the clean-up. SEE PAGE 5.
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PAGE ONE of the June 20 edition of The Weekly Times galvanised Hunters Hill residents July 1 in Hunters Hill support Town Hall at 3pm. for SEE Mayor PAGE 8.
Mark Bennett and former Mayor Richard Quinn who demand the government remove Macquarie Nelson Singers Parade’s Concert radio
active waste.
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Singers’ Sublime Romantics concert on Saturday June 30
at Turramurra Uniting Church at 4pm. SEE PAGE 8.
bureaucrats from his department
are now offering Williams who is an environ-
wants this waste removed Beecroft in Orchestra Breakfast Concert Point in the
by Deputy Mayor Ross he sincerely and genuinely crats claims that waste
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a solution she described mental scientist and who but the person in the hot Orchestra’s City next concert of on Canada Sunday July 1 in Bay St Albans has
Anglican Church Epping at 2.30pm. SEE PAGE 2.
as “totally unacceptable” argues that a proposed seat is Mr Dominello,” she recently been successfully
in a residential street. ventilation shaft from the said.
Hunters encapsulated Hill Music Concert in concrete.
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“It is a complete betrayal,”
she said.
emit fumes in a concen-
waste is not removed, PAGE 2. this was encapsulated on
bunker will only serve to “I can tell you that if this Sunday’s Hunters “That’s Hill Music what concert featuring they say pianist but
Tonya Lemoh in Hunters Hill Town Hall at 2.30pm. SEE
“As recently as February trated and more toxic form. residents will make this an an industrial site and not
BACK FROM Anzac
and March this government
was offering money lutely right,” Ms Clark said. tion issue that Mr Domineltial
street Ypres and the although Menin Gate in the
“Ross Williams is abso-
election issue and an elec-
in the middle commemorations of a in residen-
Villers-
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Bretonneux France and
Belgium this week where the
to have the waste removed “In fact the support we lo should be concerned waste was
locals
toxic
still remember
it was
and
not
and ANZAC since then something have received from the about because the waste radio active honour the waste Australians like who we
served and the many who
has Feature changed because all
died defending their
Villers-
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council
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has been
FIFA
outstanding.”
River, on the very doorstep which doesn’t from an oppressive break invader. down
WORLD
flows into the
CUP
Parramatta have in Nelson Parade,
homelands and freedom
we are being offered now
Bretonneux
is
Truly a memorable and
Remembers encapsulating the waste Not so our local politicians.
of his own electorate in for hundreds of years.”
sombre reminder of the
in Australia a concrete bunker.”
JB’s World horrors of war. See PAGE 11.
WALL CHART LIFT-OUT INSIDE
SEE PAGE 11
Continued on Page 5
The concrete bunker proposal
was also rubbished thony Roberts because ist also rejected bureau-
as a safe
Ryde.”
“People are horrified
“I’m not critical of An-
The Nelson Parade activ-
Property NSW regards this
alternative.”