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Over it! I'm over it Covid! Had my two jabs And I feel fab! But, nowhere to go to celebrate. Can't even call in on my old best mate! Mask comes off As I drive to the shop Back on again now, when I stop. Mobile comes out to check in No freedom yet as I remember my pin? But I've had my two jabs, I say to myself Hoping that soon you'll say it yourself As I’m checked in to do my shop Chuffed underneath that I can stop Worrying about this disease Every me I have a sneeze!

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By Mary Murray

Peter Locke Trio Peter Locke (piano), Mike Walshe (acoustic bass) and Rob Brice (jazz guitar). Warm up your Sunday with A Journey Through Jazz 2pm. Sunday 15 August St Bernard's Church 2 David St Batehaven Adults $40; SCMS members and concessions $35 Seats are limited, so don't delay. Purchase your ticket at www.southcoastmusicsociety.com Proudly presented by the South Coast Music Society

Gadfly 189—By Robert Macklin No one likes to be the bearer of bad dings, not even the IPCC in their frightening report on climate change. But recently I was asked to give a talk to the

Vol 16 September 15th 2017 Vol 28 December 7th, 2017 Vol 48 April 27th 2018 Australia-China Friendship Society, based on my book, Dragon and Kangaroo, the shared history of the two countries over the last 200 years. And right now the rela onship is pre y grim. In fact, there’s no doubt that we live in what the Chinese would call “interes ng mes”. But the apocryphal curse applies just as much to the Chinese people – and their Communist Party leadership – as it does to the former colonial na ons of Europe and their off-shoots in the United States and Australia. We are all trying to survive a worldwide existen al threat posed by manmade climate change and one of its most virulent manifesta ons, the Covid-19 pandemic. We think things are bad now, but it’s en rely possible that it’s only the beginning of a much more serious sequence of pandemics. We may well be at the start of an era that will determine whether our scien sts and our poli cal leaders have the imagina on, the wisdom and the will to guide our species through its darkest hour. If they fail, then the future doesn’t bear thinking about. But if we scrape through it occurred to me that given our shared history, China and Australia have a chance – albeit a slight one – to resume a rela onship based on mutual respect and understanding. Let’s not fall into the mental trap of thinking that the current Communist Dynasty will endure forever; that somehow it marks the end of Chinese history. Like all the others, it will eventually fall; the only ques on is when. The human spirit demanding freedom, jus ce and self-respect will triumph in the end. Mean me, as the Olympic Games has revealed quite beau fully, when stripped to its basics, we are all equally human, equally prone to the strengths and weaknesses, the tumbles and revivals of life’s tribula ons. Against that, we have different approaches to governance. In China, power and authority resides with the Emperor and is devolved to his agents. He is chosen either by family heritage or a cabal of associates. In Australia, authority rises from the people via the ballot box to the Execu ve. But what is rarely appreciated is the concentra on of power in the hands of the prime minister. He heads both the Execu ve and the Legisla ve branch and has final say in the appointment of the Head of State and the High Court judges. So while we o en say the two systems are incompa ble, there are also strong similari es; and both are subject to the iron law of Lord Acton: ‘All power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.’ Clearly there’s a danger that Emperor Xi will try to divert a en on from domes c disaster with the folly of a military Taiwan takeover. And while no Australian prime minister has yet tested the limits of his de facto power to remain in office, in a world at panic sta ons over climate change and pandemics. we should not discount any possibility. Nevertheless, I’m an op mist. And paradoxically, the economic slowdown caused by the pandemic will give us a li le more me to act on climate change and think about the consequences if we fail. There’s me to replace recalcitrant governments at the ballot box, or with a popular uprising in countries where the ballot box has been corrupted.

In the end, it’s up to us. And that’s good news. Well, goodish.

Reading Where do we want to be in 20 years? By Trevor Moore

Vol 16 September 15th 2017 A few days ago, there appeared on a couple of Facebook Vol 28 December 7th, 2017 Vol 48 April 27th 2018 Groups a picture of what looks like a physical adver sement that asks the ques on “where will we be in 20 years?” It seems that “Eurobodalla Council is reviewing the Community Strategic Plan, which outlines everybody's vision and aspira ons for the Shire.” One of the posts asks, not unreasonably, “shouldn't a Community Strategic Plan for the next 20 years be undertaken by the new upcoming council?”. Probably yes but the interes ng thing is that the current Community Strategic Plan, which was published in 2017, asked a different ques on. It asked, “where do we want to be?” and I argue that this is a different ques on, and needs to be tackled differently from the ques on “where do we want to be in 20 years?” The difference arises because of the me frame. It is the case that on page 1 of the 2017 plan the mayor writes about “work[ing] together over the next 20 years to enable and achieve a strong, vibrant and diverse community. There is nothing else in the document that suggests a meframe. The 2017 document is a good document. It is well laid-out and it is easy enough to read. It describes a vision. It says we should be friendly, responsible, thriving, and proud. Those are very fine a ributes, but they cannot be interpreted other than against the backdrop of what the world looks like. Since the publica on of that plan, we have faced fires, floods, and the plague. How did we do? We do not know because, although a set of key community indicators were published separately, I cannot find any measurement against them. One cannot disagree with the four a ributes listed but the way in which we live up to them will change. And the result of that may be that their meaning may change. Indeed, their meaning may be different to different people. The adver sement says that the update to the 2017 plan will be achieved through asking four ques ons. These four ques ons are nearly the same as the ques ons asked for the 2017 plan, namely: where are we now? where do we want to be in 20 years' me? how will we get there? and how will we know we've arrived? There’s nothing wrong with those ques ons: they are basically Consul ng 101 ques ons and, I suggest, they will not give us the answer we need. The challenge lies in that phrase “in 20 years’ me”. We need to know what the world will be like in 20 years’ me. And, of course, we cannot. We can guess but we will be wrong. We do not have a crystal ball. I do not know if a contract has been let to undertake this work. If it has, I have not seen the terms of reference. I hope a contract has not been let because the terms of reference for the “20 years’ me” ques on need to be carefully thought through, and I agree that this work should be delayed un l a er the new Council has been sworn in. This is not just because 20 years is a long way off. There are plenty of industries that need to plan for longer than 20 years. The thing is that there is no single vision for 20 years that will work for everyone. We do so much need an answer as we need a conversa on. The consultants that assist with this work will need to have a background in storytelling as well as informa on collec on, analysis and synthesis, and communica on. They will need to describe scenarios of the world in 2041. Thirty years ago, in 1992, I was lucky enough to be invited by a department of the UK Government to lead a team to take a look at technology trends over the following 18 years, to 2010 (18 years a strange number but it is three NATO planning periods). Now the client needed a view on this to be able to plan the UK’s defence capability. One ques on we did not need to consider, but a ques on that the Community Strategic Plan review must consider, is the interac on between technology and society. Do we make technology

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advances because society (or people) want them, or do we make technology advances and then see whether people adopt them? The truth is somewhere in between these two points of view. In the case of my 1992 review, we foresaw the rise of the internet, the extent of mobile communica ons, we foresaw the concept of cloud storage, and we had an idea of a keyboard-less computer (though I would not say we forecast the Vol 16 September 15th 2017 smartphone and tablet). But we failed to foresee a technology that has today become indispensable to Vol 28 December 7th, 2017 Vol 48 April 27th 2018 society. We missed social media. We knew that there were (albeit primi ve) internet no ce boards (it wasn’t called the internet then) for sharing and exchanging informa on - I had used these in the early 1980s - but projec ng forward from them to Twi er (founded in 2006) or Facebook (founded in 2004) was too much to expect. So, let’s fast forward to 2021 and look back 20 years. Here are a few observa ons: we had no iPhones: I men on the iPhone because its design (rather than its technology) in large part drove the smart device. The iPhone appeared in 2007 as I noted above, there was no real social media and yet now it has transformed the way we interact and the way we get news. It has both shrunk the world while facilita ng closer local connec ons. Whether social media is a force for good in our lives is perhaps an open ques on on-all-the- me broadband was a novelty, now the idea that wi-fi is a layer in Maslow’s hierarchy is not as silly as it used to be the Windows PC was the dominant device to access the internet, now it’s the smart phone and if you use a computer, it is as likely to be an Apple as a PC there was very li le online retail, today on-line retail has been an important factor in keeping locked down people rela vely sane SARS arrived in 2002 but it was happening somewhere else. If you had asked a random someone about the Spanish ‘flu you would probably have got a blank look the cash rate in August 2000 was 6.25%: it’s currently 0.1% there were about 6 people working to support each person over 65, now it’s 5 and dropping Now not all these things are only about technology, but they are things that have changed us. We are a different society, with different connec ons, different poli cs, and some different economic instruments (Bitcoin came in 2009). If we are to take a look at where we would like to be in 20 years’ me, then we have to have a conversion about what the world might look like at that me. There is no single view of that but there could be a single conversa on about it. We need to know what the likely parameters will be that will affect our well-being. Then we can talk about how we will need to respond. Consider these predic ons. In 20 years' (in no par cular order) … the world will have heated by another 1°C or so: extreme weather events (fires, floods, droughts) will be less extreme and more normal which will mean we will need strategies to protect ourselves and especially the vulnerable we will not use cash: that will mean there will be no bank branches. It will also mean that we need to understand how we help people who may be on the wrong side of the digital divide ar ficial intelligence will be the norm and be driven by advances in quantum compu ng: we all know that computers get more powerful and will enable quicker, faster, and hopefully be er algorithms to analyse. We need to know that these algorithms are fair and just and that means robots everywhere, almost certainly displacing jobs. If something can be automated, then it will be: that includes the automa on of parts of the jobs of professionals like lawyers and doctors as well as lower-paid jobs and even housework. In 20 years, robots will be able to detect emo on and will be care providers. The impact of this on the Shire - as everywhere - will be enormous; it will change the economy our cars will drive themselves; they will be connected and nego ate traffic situa ons with one another. They are more likely to be hydrogen powered than electric con nues….

body modifica on will be increasingly normal, not ta ooing and piercing but prosthe cs and other ar ficial body parts we will communicate with technology through gestures, such as eye movement and arm movements. Control of devices through telepathy will be capable of mass produc on will be in its early adop on stage virtual reality (VR) will supersede out current two-dimensional screens: the effect of this on educa on will be significant as VR replaces textbooks the smartphone will be very old-school in 20 years. We will use augmented or virtual reality to pull up screens from very small devices that may be implanted in our bodies In addi on to these changes, the world will be ho er and there will be more extreme weather events, except that rather than being extreme they will be becoming the norm. This will have huge health implica ons. The Federal Government’s recent Intergenera onal Report tells us that economic growth will be slower because popula on growth will slow though, I suspect, produc vity may edge higher because of robo cs. By 2041, even the most diehard of fossil fuel advocates will have given up. All our energy will come from renewable sources. This will happen because no one will invest in fossil fuel anymore, a trend that is nearly here today. The changes in our lives as far as work is concerned will mean that we will enjoy a universal basic income. It is possible that these ideas are wrong, they probably are in detail but probably not in concept. They may worry you. They worry me but that’s because I will be 91 in 2041 and the world will not be my world. My granddaughters will be in their 20s. It will be their world and they will not be scared of it because they will have grown up with it. When the consultants that are engaged to update the Community Strategic Plan, they will need to factor all this into the conversa on that they have. They will need to be clever enough and experienced enough to know that where we want to be in 20 years is not a ques on but a conversa on. Postscript: some readers will know that as well as having been a consultant for 40 years I am also a mathema cian. For any other mathema cians out there, I predict that we will not have solved the Riemann Hypothesis and nor the Goldbach Conjecture and we s ll will not know if P = NP (which will con nue to limit the poten al of quantum compu ng).

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The IPCC Report shows that South East Australia faces more droughts with occasional floods. As we have experienced we now have more extreme fire weather days and a longer fire season. On our coastline the ocean is Vol 16 September 15th 2017 hea ng up faster than elsewhere. Vol 28 December 7th, 2017 Vol 48 April 27th 2018 Wildfires in Canada, USA, Siberia, Greece and Turkey make it obvious that the whole world is suffering from the climate crisis. Unprecedented floods, fires, droughts and storms are all signs that we need to act on climate. Serious damage is happening at only 1.1 degrees of global warming and 1.4 degrees across Australia’s land areas. Stopping global temperature rise at or below 1.5 degrees is essen al for our present and future safety. Coral bleaching is slowly killing the Great Barrier Reef, with three events in five years. The Morrison government cannot pretend the Reef is not in danger. 350 Eurobodalla says we need ac on, not more excuses. The Morrison government has only a weak target of 26 – 28% when a 45% reduc on by 2030 is the minimum recommended by the government’s scien fic advisers. Australia’s emissions are only falling due to a reduc on in the rate of land clearing since 2005, otherwise emissions rose by 6% from all other sources between 2005 and the start of Covid restric ons. Public subsidies for new gas power and for gas explora on will increase Australia’s emissions and make our problems worse. As with the pandemic, Morrison is failing in his duty to keep Australia safe. 350 Eurobodalla says we can halt the downward spiral. There is a narrow path to avoid climate catastrophe, but only through rapid and deep emissions reduc ons. There is no room for any new fossil fuel developments – including gas – if we are to avoid catastrophe. We can get all of our electricity and deliver it reliably from exis ng wind, solar, ba eries and hydro technology. We need a rapid, fair transi on to renewables and new forests to draw carbon from the atmosphere in order to return to a safe climate. Allan Rees The Beagle Editor, On this day, two years ago today, 13 August 2019, your Council voted down the Climate Emergency Declara on mo on, put forward by Cr Pat McGinlay, seconded by Cr Anthony Mayne. The minutes of that mee ng demonstrate that Council did everything it could to avoid agreeing to anything meaningful or useful in respect to climate change. Since that day, we have had the worst drought on record, the ho est year on record, followed by unprecedented bushfires and seven major flooding events. Two years ago, with my youngest child on my hip, I stood up in front of my Shire's Council and implored them to listen to the science and act on climate change. Michelle Hamrosi

The Beagle Editor, The Mullenderee floodplains north of the Moruya River and the Tuross River floodplains are the most fer le large scale agricultural farms in the Eurobodalla. Because these farms are large enough to support full- me farmers the rest of us all benefit. By 'us', I include the fresh food growers (see them at Tuesday farmers market), the small acreage hobby farmers and the residen al dwellers with our gardens. In Moruya we have two produce stores (Harrisons and Turnbulls), two hardware stores and Moruya Engineering just some of the businesses that are required and benefit from large scale farmers and which 'us' small- me farmers and gardeners subsequently benefit. By severing the Mullenderee with the purple alignment we are pu ng these large farm businesses at risk and the whole of the Eurobodalla will be less vibrant. The yellow alignment is on State owned land north of the river with sound founda on strata (unlike the Mullenderee) and no homes are at risk. The yellow alignment will have the best cost/benefit ra o and this is needed to put our bypass ahead of other State wide road projects compe ng for scarce funding. By promo ng any other alignment this bypass will repeat the saga's of Berry and Murrumbateman bypasses. Both towns saw different op ons split the community for years and years which played into the hands of the State Gov't by delaying the alloca on of funds. Moruya mustn't get caught by any of this poli cal shenanigans. The yellow alignment is buildable, needs to be adopted and a meline set in place.

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Ross Hayward.

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Thoroughly Modern: The Life + Times of Moir + Sutherland Architects

Author: Peter Freeman

Publisher: Uro Publica ons 2021, Designer: Hannah Gamble, ISBN: 9780648685883, Format: Hardcover, 245mm(H)x290mm (W), 320pp

Following the death of her husband Walter Burley Griffin in 1937, Marion Mahony Griffin briefly returned to Canberra. The city was beginning to develop from the plans the Griffins had designed for it two-and-a-half decades earlier, but there were only two buildings in par cular she found noteworthy: the Civic Theatre (since demolished) and a small and house and studio at 42 Melbourne Avenue. Both were designed by early modernist architect Malcom Moir. For a brief period between the end of the Depression and the beginning of WWII, Canberra, one of the twen eth century’s handful of new, planned ci es, looked set to be defined by the dis nc ve precepts and forms of ‘Func onalism’. It represented a clear break with the architectural conven ons of the past, and Malcolm Moir and his partner in life and prac ce Heather Sutherland were at the forefront of this push as designers of a singularly coherent collec on of residen al and commercial buildings, spread throughout the fledgling city. The richly illustrated narra ve of Thoroughly Modern traces the evolu on of Moir and Sutherland’s architecture, some of the earliest examples of modernism built in Australia, and the subsequent achievements of Ian Slater and Neville Ward, Malcolm’s architect partners following Heather’s tragic death in 1953.

This remarkable history examines the na onal and interna onal contacts and influences that shaped and informed Moir and Sutherland’s work and brings together a wealth of primary source material, including exquisitely rendered water colour sketches, architectural drawings, period photography, and correspondence, to paint a picture of the thrilling but at mes deeply challenging beginnings of Canberra and modernist architecture in Australia.

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NINE consecu ve days of cold bleak winds. SNOW visible on western hills on Wednesday. LEAVE OF ABSENCE. - Matron Constable, who has been granted two months’ leave of absence, le on Thursday to enjoy her well earned rest. Relieving Matron Grundy, who nursed Mr. Ollie Harrison’s li le son through an a ack of diptheria a few years ago, has arrived to take up her du es at the Hospital. FOOTBALL. – The football match which took place on Saturday a ernoon between Braidwood and Bateman’s Bay, on the former’s ground, was commenced in a snow storm, and the ground resembled a “slippery dip” more than a football field, thus pu ng a stop to anything approaching scien fic play. The ball soon became saturated with water and the players clothes with mud, but like mud larks, the players of both sides fairly revelled it the mire to the spoiling of the nice new white pants of the local team. The game was hard from the beginning, as, owing to the nature of the ground, a player when tackled would come a harder thud than a tackler could have managed on a solid dry ground. Braidwood won by 14 to 3. A. & P. Society. - A commi ee mee ng of the A. & P. Society held on Wednesday, was a ended by Messrs. D. Hutchinson (chair), A. Lou t, R. J. Anderson, W. S. Nelson, H. W. Luck, R. B. Heffernan, J. E. Lavis, L. D. Colle , P. J. Mylo , T. Flood and R. L. Dawson….. THE TRUE CIVIC SPIRIT. – The following is an extract from Shire Engineer Dawson’s report of 3

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rd August, submi ed to the Eurobodalla Shire Council (right), regarding road improvement works recently carried out on road Central Tilba towards the cemetery, and to Sherringham and Wallaga Lake: - “A start was made early in July, and I visited the roads on the 19th and found that about 30 chains or more had been ploughed and re-formed, a good, deep, roomy water-table cut, and also a stretch of nearly 20 chains of gravel put out. There were three single horse drays and four men (all free laborers) at work, and two men paid by the Shire, one spreading the gravel and one in the pit. It has cost Council £44 4s 8d to end of July, and there were s ll a few more days required to make a good finish. Un l next month’s report I cannot give full par culars, but it is safe to say that the value of the work is fully three mes the amount paid by the Shire. This a splendid instance of the proper civic spirit, and most creditable to those who have turned to and helped the Shire at a bad me, when, though the Shire officials knew full well that the repairs were urgently needed, it would have been impossible through lack of funds to carry them out without the help so willingly given.” The residents who gave help were approached and organized by Councillor H. J. Bate, and the response to his appeal was prompt and willing. To their credit be it said this is not the first and only instance of self help on the part of the landholders and others in the Eurobodalla Shire though never previously on quite so extensive and costly a scale.

Vulcan Street Moruya

Extracted from the Moruya Examiner by the Moruya and District Historical Society Inc. h ps:// www.mdhs.org.au