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Punjab Lions - Warehouse Cricket Sunday league top grade Premiers Punjab Lions won the top grade (A3N) of Sunday League of Warehouse cricket by defeating Peninsula Cricket club by 42 runs in the Grand final played in Marchant Park 10 on 24th March. Captain Sandeep Dhaliwal won the toss and chose to bat first. Opening batsman Dharinder kumar gave flying start to Punjab Lions and top scored with 48 runs and Sandeep scored sensible 28 runs to help set the target of 130. While bowling, Karanvir gave a great start to Lions and troubled every batsman with his swing bowling. All other Punjab Lions bowlers bowled with great control and accuracy
and kept taking wickets at regular intervals. None of the batsman of Peninsula find scoring easy in the chase and they got all out on only 87 runs. Dilbag 3/14, Sandeep 2/17 and Simran 2/18 were particularly impressive with the ball in the Grand final. Dharinder won Man of the match award for his quickfire 48 runs with 7 fours and 1 six when every other batsman struggle to score runs on that slow wicket. Simran Singh won the best batsman award from warehouse cricket in this group after scoring 224 runs. He also won ‘Baber Sher of Punjab Lions’ award from Punjab Lions cricket club after being very
impressive with both bat and bowl throughout the season. Captain Sandeep with 196 and Inderjit Bhatti with 149 runs were other two consistent batsman for Punjab Lions in the summer season. Simran, Sandeep and Karanvir were 3 best bowlers of the season with 19, 17 and 12 wickets respectively. It was a great team effort to beat many good teams throughout the summer season to win the trophy. Special thanks to Gurwinder Chahal for taking responsibility of scoring for the team.
Top Row: Pushpinder,Dilbag,Inderjit,Simran,Harman,Neville,Luis Bottom: w:Jagdeep,Dharinder,Ravinder,Sandeep(c),Karan,Gurwinder,Amrinder
ITTF Asian Cup: Sathiyan Gnanasekaran Qualifies For World Cup After Finishing 6th Sathiyan Gnanasekaran lost the 5th-6th position match to end up at the sixth spot in ITTF-ATTU Asian Cup to books a World Cup berth. India's G Sathiyan booked a berth at the World Cup after finishing sixth in the ITTFATTU Asian Cup in positions 5-8 match here Sunday. Sathiyan, who had stunned World No. 14 Chun Ting Wong of Hong Kong on Saturday, couldn't produce his best against 17-y Despite the defeat in the positions match, Sathiyan sealed a spot at the World Cup, to be held in Chengdu, China from October 18 to 20. Fresh from his recent title win at the Challenge Plus Oman Open, the world no
21 Lin seemed far superior than the 26-yearold Indian.
The left-hander was at his usual best and quickly took the first game. Sathiyan managed a few more points in the next two games but Lin, exploiting the angles well, mounted the attack to put pressure on the Indian. The world No. 28 Indian could have taken a game from the Taipei's No. 2 paddler as he had two game points in the fourth set, but the wily teenager pocketed it to push Sathiyan, who is competing in his first Asian Cup, to the sixth spot.
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Adani welcomes the Minister for the Environment's approval of groundwater management plans
Adani has today welcomed the Minister for the Environment’s approval of the groundwater management plans for the Carmichael Coal Mine and Rail Infrastructure project. This approval follows more than 18 months of consultation with the Department, and the independent evaluation and endorsement of the plan by CSIRO and Geoscience Australia. The independent evaluation and endorsement by CSIRO and Geoscience Australia verifies that the measures outlined in the plans will ensure groundwater at the mine, and the ecosystems that depend on it, are protected.
The Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems Management Plan and the Groundwater Management and Monitoring Plan detail all the activities we will undertake and safeguards we will implement to ensure that we meet the approval conditions for the mine relating to groundwater. This includes a network of more than 100 monitoring bores to track underground water levels. The plans will ensure we achieve sustainable environmental outcomes and we’re now looking forward to delivering the thousands of jobs our project will create for people in north and central Queensland.
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Throughout the past 18 months, the Federal Department provided us with certainty of process and timing, including the steps involved in the independent review by CSIRO and Geoscience Australia experts. In contrast, the Queensland Government has continued to shift the goal posts when it comes to finalising the outstanding environmental management plans for the mine and is standing in the way of thousands of jobs for Queenslanders. It’s time the Queensland Government gave us a fair go and stopped shifting the goal posts so we can get on with delivering these jobs.
Sathiyan Gnanasekaran is currently on his career-best 28th spot in the ITTF world rankings. (Photo Credit: Sathiyan Gnanasekaran)
$290,000 for the Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia The Morrison Government will provide more than $290,000 to the Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia (FECCA) so it can continue to represent culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) people at a national level in the aged care sector. Australia’s diversity is one of our greatest strengths and as our population ages the Morrison Government is determined to ensure equal access to high quality, culturally comfortable aged care for people of multicultural heritage. Staying connected to your culture and being cared for by someone who understands your background can make all the difference to a happier, healthier and more fulfilling life. This continued investment in FECCA’s work will help senior Australians from CALD backgrounds to overcome barriers preventing them from connecting with the aged care system. The barriers may include a lack of awareness and knowledge of the services available, navigating complex systems, language barriers, and lack of culturally and linguistically appropriate aged care providers. In 2016, there were 3.7 million Australians aged 65 years and over. Of this number, onethird were born in a non-English speaking country. The Morrison Government wants all senior Australians to be able to access the aged care services when and where they need them, delivered in the way they want.
FECCA led the consultations for the Aged Care Diversity Framework and the Action Plan to Support CALD people. It’s important for people with diverse characteristics and life experiences to be involved in the design of aged care services and the sector broadly. The funding for FECCA complements a number of other Government programs and projects that are improving the experience of older CALD people. Other examples include: • The longstanding Partners in Culturally Appropriate Care Program (PICAC) which supports aged care providers in delivering appropriate care to multicultural communities • The new system navigator trials will be delivered by CALD-specialist organisations. FECCA is directly involved in this project. • Australian Healthcare Associates will analyse barriers to accessing quality palliative care, including people from CALD backgrounds. • The Moving Pictures project to improve the understanding of dementia and access to care for people in Chinese, Indian and Arab communities through a series of short films • The Speak My Language radio project to broadcast up to date information about aged care in up to 25 languages. The Aged Care Diversity Framework and the Aged Care Diversity CALD Action Plan is available at: https://agedcare.health.gov.au/ older-people-their-families-and-carers/peoplefrom-diverse-backgrounds.