Coast Community News 315

22 OCTOBER 2021

ISSUE 315

News

Brewing up new engineers

A $5,000 grant from O’Brien Electrical and Plumbing will help Coast Shelter keep its emergency accommodation in peak condition.

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Out&About

In less than a year after moving to Lisarow and setting up a brewery five times larger than its previous operation, Hawkesbury Brewing Co (HBC) has grown to a staff of more than 70 employees, four of them engineering apprentices.

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Central Coast artist, Yuley Buist, has been painting since she was a child, but in the past five years her work has taken off, with a series of exhibitions at various venues.

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Business

Wicks votes against debating Bill to kill off PEP11 At 11am in the Federal House of Representatives yesterday, (Thursday, October 21), the Federal Member for Robertson, Lucy Wicks, rose to speak against a motion that would have paved the way for a Private Members’ Bill to permanently kill off the PEP11 offshore drilling permit.

Strongly opposed by the Central Coast community, Petroleum Exploration Permit 11, known as PEP11, is a work permit granted under the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006.

PEP11 covers 4,575 square kilometres of ocean from Newcastle through the Central

Member for Warringah, Zali Steggall

Coast to Manly.

Wicks and Prime Minister Scott Morrison have said they will not allow PEP11 to be extended under a Morrison Government but yesterday Wicks voted with the government to stop the Bill from being considered.

Zali Steggall, Independent

Member for Warringah, moved to suspend standing orders so her Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Stopping PEP11) Bill 2021 could be given priority for debate.

“This motion must be debated today because it deals with vital issues: climate change; environmental destruction; and the fate of the economy for a significant portion of the east coast of Australia,” Steggall told the House.

“PEP11 comes as close as five kilometres to the shore in places.

“Human line of sight on the horizon is over five kilometres, so gas rigs may well be seen from our headlands and beaches.

giving enough assurance to Advent Energy that they are An application to add a sixth seeking tenders for equipment storey to a development to drill the works on PEP11.” already underway at 5-7 Steggall said over 60,000 Church St Terrigal is once people had lent their names to more in the spotlight.

See page 27 a petition calling for PEP11 to be stopped.

“Our ecotourism, our tourism, our hospitality all need confidence and certainty, and having this risk hanging over Aerial Photograph (Note: This photograph shows the former Figure 2: Locality car park on the subject site and pre-dates the current them is impacting public their construction of shop-top housing on the site). confidence in the rebuild.”

Steggall saidApplication the Member for 8.3 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act, 1979 requesting 4 pursuant to Section Central Coast Council to review its decision to refuse DA 52083/2017 – Part 4 for shop top housing and car Robertson parking had on Lots told the7861, Nos. 5 & 7 Church Street, Terrigal.

19 & 20 DP community she opposed the Doug Sneddon Planning Pty Ltd – August 2021.

An introduction to the world of project.

“Yet here we are: we are still ocean racing in outrigger canoes will be held at in the hands of Minister Pitt.”

Sport

Member for Robertson, Lucy Wicks

“As recently as October 20, comments in the media by David Breeze, the Executive Director of Advent Energy, indicated that Advent has every intention to proceed with the project.

“PEP11 is still on foot, and Minister Pitt, a Queensland Liberal-National MP, is still

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Gwandalan this weekend, as part Veterans’ Health Week.

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Residents will have their chance to learn more and ask questions about State Government plans to rejuvenate Peat Island and Mooney Mooney at a series of community information webinars.

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Out&About

Heavyweights of the Australian and international music scene will lend their support to Musicians Making a Difference (MMAD) Day on October 15.

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Knitters and crocheters across the Central Coast have been hard at work during lockdown preparing for a vibrant installation set to take pride of place at Terrigal from November 19 to December 17.

Health

See page 17 Soroptimist International Brisbane Water is one group contributing to the project

Executives not listed to appear at Public Inquiry The Commissioner of the Public Inquiry into Central Coast Council intends to interview some witnesses in private and it is still unclear if some senior Council staff will be interviewed at all.

The office of the Commissioner has released a list of witnesses for the Public Inquiry but none of the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) at the time the crisis occurred is on the list.

Resident Kevin Brooks received the list and an email from the Commissioner’s Office that said: “The witness list does not include persons from whom the Commissioner will

hear in private.”

It said the witness list was a matter for the Commissioner, Roslyn McCulloch, and was signed by her assistant officer.

Brooks said this seemed to continue the theme of a “not so public” inquiry.

“Why are some witnesses being allowed to provide their testimony in secret despite this being a ‘public’ inquiry,” he said.

“First the submissions aren’t made public, then the video link doesn’t work, and now we learn some testimony will be given in secret – whilst current executives in posts at the time won’t face any public questions at all.

“No wonder 22,400 petitioned for a genuinely independent judicial inquiry rather than this State Government alternative.”

Brooks said the list contains past executives who left before the crisis and also executives who joined after the crisis.

These include current Administrator Rik Hart, CEO David Farmer and CFO Natalia Cowley.

But executives who were at Council at the time of the crisis and are still at Council are not on the list.

“You have to wonder if Council executives who kept their jobs despite the financial collapse have now been declared some

sort of protected species,” Brooks said.

“These executives were responsible for managing budgets in their own departments.

“They were responsible for providing reports and recommendations to the governing body.

“And they were part of a collective leadership team.

“How can they not have questions to answer at this inquiry?”

The Office of the Commissioner said in exceptional circumstances, the Commissioner may exercise her discretion to hear oral

October is Mental Health Month and Central Coast Council has pulled together a program of online courses and activities to get residents to reflect on their mental wellbeing.

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submissions from a person wishing to make such submissions in confidence.

During Day Three, the Commissioner said on the livestream that “Pursuant to my discretion under section 12B of the Royal Commissions Act,” some witnesses would give evidence in private.

“I make decisions about those matters having regard to the particular circumstances of the witnesses and the impact that their giving of evidence might have on their current or future employment, on their mental health or other factors such as that,” she said.

Sport

Storm Roux has re-joined the Central Coast Mariners on a oneyear deal after spending three years with Melbourne Victory.

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Coast shines on global eco-tourism stage

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Bateau Bay residents can now walk in safety from Shelly Beach to Crackneck Lookout completely in the bush, away from busy traffic along Bateau Bay Rd.

Out & About

Local manufacturer SpotGo has been crowned Central Coast Business of the Year.

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Health

1,500 locals ask Minister to save Ettalong from highrise

Over 1,500 local residents have signed a petition to voice their objection to Central Coast Council’s proposal to increase the foreshore building height at Ettalong Beach.

The Pearl Beach Progress Association is running a fundraiser throughout the month of October to help generate funds for the upkeep of the Memorial Hall.

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Business

The Central Coast is the only NSW location on the Top 100 list, and one of only five in Australia,alongside Bundaberg, Margaret River, Port Douglas/ Daintree and Townsville.

It’s a competition led by Green Destinations, which collects Good Practice Stories from all around the world to inspire travellers and tourism professionals, and then to shine the spotlight on the top 100 locations which are making promising progress toward a more sustainable tourism industry.

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here on the Coast … a lot of people just think about beaches and national parks, they don’t realise we’ve got this beautiful hinterland, so many great operators, the food and beverage scene, so many great experiences, there’s so much more to discover than what people realise.

“This Top 100 recognition is another step and ties in with our efforts for Eco Tourism Certification, all of which will help position us differently to all the other beachside towns up along the east coast,” Perham said.

Council’s Chief Financial Officer, Natalia Cowley, said that being the only NSW location on the Top 100 list flagged the Central Coast’s attraction as an eco-tourism attraction to both visitors and business enterprise.

“We want to put ourselves on the map, that this is a hub for businesses focussing on nature-based eco-tourism and the environment,” she said.

“We’re sending the message to everyone that if that’s your type of business, come here to set up or relocate and grow your business, you’ll be more visible and you’ll be among like-minded people in complementary endeavours.

“This is precisely the focus that we have exhibited in becoming an eco-certified destination and now being recognised on this international level, as one of only five locations in Australia, is just one more step in promoting ourselves as a destination of choice for both visitors and business opportunities.

“Doing this would drive the

local spend in our community to support local businesses, it will create local jobs, build our economy and also grow the community pride in our region,” Cowley said.

The opportunity to enter the Top 100 was made possible through a partnership with Destination Central Coast and Ecotourism Australia, as part of the ECO Destination Certification program, fully funded by WWF-Australia (World Wildlife Fund).

Emma Perham said our region’s winning story focussed on the Coast’s refreshed approach to tourism, led by the new Love Central Coast campaign, which showcases the value of the region’s natural and cultural assets and sharing the inspiring stories of local brand ambassadors.

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Ben Brown of Bateau Bay has continued to empower people with intellectual disabilities throughout lockdown in his role as support officer with the organisation Self Advocacy.

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Sport

Central Coast Mariners have announced the addition of goalkeeper Yaren Sözer to Nick Montgomery’s A-League squad this season.

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The Central Coast is the only NSW location on the Top 100 list, and one of only five in Australia,alongside Bundaberg, Margaret River, Port Douglas/ Daintree and Townsville.

It’s a competition led by Green Destinations, which collects Good Practice Stories from all around the world to inspire travellers and tourism professionals, and then to

shine the spotlight on the top 100 locations which are making promising progress toward a more sustainable tourism industry.

Emma Perham, of Destination Central Coast, said this was a wonderful accolade for the Central Coast and something everyone should be incredibly proud of.

“This good news story will lift spirits and help industry focus on the future, especially moving into recovery after COVID,” she said.

“Sustainable tourism is not a fleeting trend and eco-tourism values are becoming more important in shaping how

people decide to travel.

“This recognition just helps us to attract the kind of visitors we want to draw to the Coast, people who want to immerse themselves in the local culture and are more mindful of their environmental footprint.

“We’ve got such depth of tourism product and experience here on the Coast … a lot of people just think about beaches and national parks, they don’t realise we’ve got this beautiful hinterland, so many great operators, the food and beverage scene, so many great experiences, there’s so much more to discover than what people realise.

“This Top 100 recognition is another step and ties in with our efforts for Eco Tourism Certification, all of which will help position us differently to all the other beachside towns up along the east coast,” Perham said.

Council’s Chief Financial Officer, Natalia Cowley, said that being the only NSW location on the Top 100 list flagged the Central Coast as an eco-tourism attraction to both visitors and business enterprises.

“We want to put ourselves on the map, that this is a hub for businesses focussing on nature-based eco-tourism and the environment,” she said.

“We’re sending the message to everyone that if that’s your type of business, come here to set up or relocate and grow your business, you’ll be more visible and you’ll be among like-minded people in complementary endeavours.

“This is precisely the focus that we have exhibited in becoming an eco-certified destination and now being recognised on this international level, as one of only five locations in Australia, is just one more step in promoting ourselves as a destination of choice for both visitors and business opportunities.

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Smokey Mountain facing the bulldozer

Business

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Sport

On the precipice of the most expansive season in the history of Australian women’s football, the Central Coast’s Mikayla Ryan has been confirmed as the A-League Women’s fourth official.

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Former Central Coast Council Interim Administrator, Dick Persson, called an article critical of his work at Central Coast Council “academic wankery” during his evidence at the Public Inquiry on October 13.

Mr Persson said the financial crisis that resulted in him being installed in November 2020 was “I don’t want to be crude – a cluster mess”.

Under cross examination, he warned his interrogator not to treat him in a “smart-arse” way.

He described suspended

Deputy Mayor Jane Smith as a fine environmental activist and said he considered himself a bit of one too.

Persson published three reports when he was Interim Administrator.

“Sometimes when you write a document, time passes, you look at it and you go ‘Ouch’, or whatever. Well, I’m very comfortable with every word in those documents,” Persson said.

Commissioner Roslyn McCulloch said: “Although you did change your opinion about whether an inquiry was appropriate?”

“No, no, I recommended an

inquiry,” Persson replied.

“Ultimately, yes,” the Commissioner said.

Persson said the Councillors weren’t up the job and gave special mention to suspended Councillors Greg Best and Jane Smith.

“He’d been around for a long time,” Persson said of Cr Best.

“Asking questions on notice was his modus operandi.

“I said to him – he probably showed you the 56 motions he’d moved, or whatever.

“I said, ‘Well, after the first 20 didn’t work, did you think about some other way of dealing with it, because clearly it wasn’t working, yet you claim to be

aware that there was a financial calamity?’.”

He said Cr Jane Smith acted to a large extent like a mayor from the 1990s when the mayor was chief executive under the Local Government Act. “In my view – and I’ve talked to all the Executive Leadership Team and quite a number of other people – Mayor Jane Smith, who I believe has a very fine record as an environmental activist, and I consider myself a bit of one as well – she came in determined to effect changes.

“She employed a person, and one of the Councillors on the Inquiry mentioned to me that

she wanted to employ a woman but, ‘If I can’t get a woman, I’m going to get a non-alpha-type male’.

“She acted to a large extent like a pre-’93 mayor.

“She attended ELT meetings, took over the meetings to a large extent, you know, was tough on staff directly.

“Mr Murphy (former CEO Gary Murphy) didn’t intervene, in my view, from all accounts, to provide the balance that the chief executive should do under the Act between that, and I think that was sort of the beginning of when it went off the rails.”

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Two homes in Calais Rd, Wamberal, have sold for a combined total of more than $5.5M. See page 31

Sport

The sixth event in this season’s Sail Grand Prix (SGP) has been won by the Australian team, helmed by Gosford Sailing Club Alumnus and Olympic Gold Medallist, Tom Slingsby.

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Where’s our precinct?

Train services will be disrupted on Wednesday, October 20, when rail workers take industrial action following the breakdown of negotiations between the NSW Government and the union...

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Health

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Rob Noble, who took over as Acting CEO in 2016 when Central Coast Council was created, told the Public Inquiry he was surprised to discover a cash reward system in place for Gosford staff.

“I handed out cash rewards totalling about $166,000 in the first year because I had to and because it was a very nice thing to do, but a similar system wasn’t in place for people who might have been performing to the same level at Wyong,” he said.

Noble suggested that the Gosford Council staff had more anxiety and it was more of a feardriven culture than the Wyong Council where he had been CEO before the merger.

“As a result of that, they were

heavily unionised,” he said.

“I recall that at the time of the amalgamation, the Gosford Council had about 31 matters in front of the state Industrial Relations Commission, and Wyong had zero,” he said.

“It was very difficult and highly expensive to harmonise the salary and wages systems and conditions across the two councils.”

He said it was somewhere in the vicinity of “20-something million dollars”.

Noble revealed he had contemplated the idea of selling the water, sewerage and drainage system because of the massive backlog of infrastructure works at both former councils.

“I used to have regular meetings with the CEO of Hunter

Water,” Noble said.

“We had, you know, a shared water pipeline arrangement and other collaborations.

“I raised the idea as a potential for the future with him and he thought it was well worth pursuing.

“I suggested that one option might be to sell the business to either Hunter Water or to Sydney Water, if the complexities of the government’s permissions and all that sort of thing could be gotten through.

“If that could have been achieved, I thought that there might well be a multi-billion dollar benefit for the general fund to Council that would remain at the Central Coast, which would not only cover all of the infrastructure backlogs many, many times over, but provide a

whole new lifestyle and way forward and quality of life for the citizens of the Central Coast with fabulous infrastructure and wonderful service levels and maintenance levels.

“I’m throwing that out there as something that, you know, the CouncilandtheStateGovernment may wish to think about into the future,” he said.

The inquiry continues this week.

Council commissioned an independent review of the model governing its water and sewer operations late last year.

CEO David Farmer said at the time that the review would explore if there are opportunities to produce better value and return on investment for the community.

He said Council’s water and sewer assets are valued at close to $4B. “Our obligation to the community is to ensure we are maximising the value of these assets, and improving efficiency and performance in how water and sewer services are delivered,” Farmer said.

“This review is about gathering and assessing all the data to get an informed view of all the possible operating structures.”

The United Services Union was concerned that the review could open the door to privatisation.

Administrator, Rik Hart, said in August last year that he was against any sell-off.

The review has yet to return to a public meeting.

Merilyn Vale

Two Central Coast nurses have travelled to the furthest reaches of outback NSW, as part of a COVID response health team to help the remote community of Wilcannia.

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Local fundraisers Bryan Dorfling and Matthew Johnstone were so impressed by Anton Nootenboom, also known as the Barefoot Dutchman, that they joined him when he passed through the Central Coast last week.

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Rob Noble, who took over as Acting CEO in 2016 when Central Coast Council was created, told the Public Inquiry he was surprised to discover a cash reward system in place for Gosford staff.

“I handed out cash rewards totalling about $166,000 in the first year because I had to and because it was a very nice thing to do, but a similar system wasn’t in place for people who might have been performing to the same level at Wyong,” he said.

Noble suggested that the Gosford Council staff had more anxiety and it was more of a fear-driven culture than the Wyong Council where he had been CEO before the merger.

“As a result of that, they were

heavily unionised,” he said.

“I recall that at the time of the amalgamation, the Gosford Council had about 31 matters in front of the state Industrial Relations Commission, and Wyong had zero,” he said.

“It was very difficult and highly expensive to harmonise the salary and wages systems and conditions across the two councils.”

He said it was somewhere in the vicinity of “20-something million dollars”.

Noble revealed he had contemplated the idea of selling the water, sewerage and drainage system because of the massive backlog of infrastructure works at both former councils.

“I used to have regular meetings with the CEO of Hunter Water,” Noble said.

“We had, you know, a shared water pipeline arrangement and other collaborations.

“I raised the idea as a potential for the future with him and he thought it was well worth pursuing.

“I suggested that one option might be to sell the business to either Hunter Water or to Sydney Water, if the complexities of the government’s permissions and all that sort of thing could be gotten through.

“If that could have been achieved, I thought that there might well be a multibillion dollar benefit for the general fund to Council that would remain at the Central Coast, which would not only cover all of the infrastructure backlogs many, many times over, but provide a whole new lifestyle

and way forward and quality of life for the citizens of the Central Coast with fabulous infrastructure and wonderful service levels and maintenance levels.

“I’m throwing that out there as something that, you know, the Council and the State Government may wish to think about into the future,” he said.

The inquiry continues this week.

Council commissioned an independent review of the model governing its water and sewer operations late last year.

CEO David Farmer said at the time that the review would explore if there are opportunities to produce better value and return on investment for the community.

He said Council’s water and sewer assets are valued at

close to $4B. “Our obligation to the community is to ensure we are maximising the value of these assets, and improving efficiency and performance in how water and sewer services are delivered,” Farmer said.

“This review is about gathering and assessing all the data to get an informed view of all the possible operating structures.”

The United Services Union was concerned that the review could open the door to privatisation.

Administrator, Rik Hart, said in August last year that he was against any sell-off.

The review has yet to return to a public meeting.

Merilyn Vale

Local emergency doctor, Ash Bowden, also known as Doctor Do More, helped raise over $100,000 during September for Cancer Council Central Coast.

See page 31

Sport

The Central Coast Dragon Boat Club is welcoming new members, catering for those looking for a social experience as well as those with aspirations to compete in racing.

See page 37

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At 11am in the Federal House of Representatives yesterday, (Thursday, October 21), the Federal Member for Robertson, Lucy Wicks, rose to speak against a motion that would have paved the way for a Private Members’ Bill to permanently kill off the PEP11 offshore drilling permit.

Strongly opposed by the Central Coast community, Petroleum Exploration Permit 11, known as PEP11, is a work permit granted under the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006.

PEP11 covers 4,575 square kilometres of ocean from Newcastle through the Central

Member for Warringah, Zali Steggall

Coast to Manly.

Wicks and Prime Minister Scott Morrison have said they will not allow PEP11 to be extended under a Morrison Government but yesterday Wicks voted with the government to stop the Bill from being considered.

Zali Steggall, Independent

Member for Warringah, moved to suspend standing orders so her Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (Stopping PEP11) Bill 2021 could be given priority for debate.

“This motion must be debated today because it deals with vital issues: climate change; environmental destruction; and the fate of the economy for a significant portion of the east coast of Australia,” Steggall told the House.

“PEP11 comes as close as five kilometres to the shore in places.

“Human line of sight on the horizon is over five kilometres, so gas rigs may well be seen from our headlands and beaches.

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giving enough assurance to Advent Energy that they are An application to add a sixth seeking tenders for equipment storey to a development to drill the works on PEP11.” already underway at 5-7 Steggall said over 60,000 Church St Terrigal is once people had lent their names to more in the spotlight.

See page 27 a petition calling for PEP11 to be stopped.

“Our ecotourism, our tourism, our hospitality all need confidence and certainty, and having this risk hanging over Aerial Photograph (Note: This photograph shows the former Figure 2: Locality public car park on the subject site and pre-dates the current them is impacting construction their of shop-top housing on the site). confidence in the rebuild.”

Steggall saidApplication the Member for 8.3 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act, 1979 requesting 4 pursuant to Section Central Coast Council to review its decision to refuse DA 52083/2017 – Part 4 for shop top housing and car Robertson parking had on Lots told the7861, Nos. 5 & 7 Church Street, Terrigal.

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“Yet here we are: we are still ocean racing in outrigger canoes will be held at in the hands of Minister Pitt.”

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Member for Robertson, Lucy Wicks

“As recently as October 20, comments in the media by David Breeze, the Executive Director of Advent Energy, indicated that Advent has every intention to proceed with the project.

“PEP11 is still on foot, and Minister Pitt, a Queensland Liberal-National MP, is still

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Gwandalan this weekend, as part Veterans’ Health Week.

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Central Coast artist, Yuley Buist, has been painting since she was a child, but in the past five years her work has taken off, with a series of exhibitions at various venues.

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In less than a year after moving to Lisarow and setting up a brewery five times larger than its previous operation, Hawkesbury Brewing Co (HBC) has grown to a staff of more than 70 employees, four of them engineering apprentices.

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Woy Woy’s Troubadour Folk Club will bring a carnival atmosphere to Woy Woy by hosting a night of live music from Australian-Brazilian band – Brazil and Beyond Trio – on October 30.

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See page 10 Max Green and Jakobie Gadd taking a break from home schooling want to know when the new facilities at the Peninsula Recreation Precinct will be built

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A $5,000 grant from O’Brien Electrical and Plumbing will help Coast Shelter keep its emergency accommodation in peak condition.

Waiting times at the Services Australia Centre in Blackwall Road have soared over recent weeks as people have encountered difficulties accessing their COVID-19 vaccination certificates.

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The $8.25M redevelopment of the Peninsula Recreation Precinct at Umina promised in the 2019 election campaign has not commenced and community groups are beginning to ask questions.

Public comment is being sought, under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC Act), in relation to a development proposal

The former Smokey Mountain and Grizzly Flats Railroad has closed after five decades of providing a place for locomotive enthusiasts, and tourists to enjoy the joys of steam trains.

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Complete ‘cluster mess’ The historical Woy Woy Hotel is set to undergo a facelift after being acquired by a regionally focused hospitality company.

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Bakehouse 2000 at Kincumber has been keeping smiles on customers’ faces throughout lockdown with its zany theme days and intends to keep up the fun right through to December 1.

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Central Coast residents flocked to their favourite retail outlets, hairdressers, cafes, restaurants and watering holes as the region emerged from its 15week lockdown on October 11.

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Coast goes global as eco-tourism destination Local stories showcasing the Central Coast as an eco-tourism destination have captured international attention and a winning spot in the 2021 Top 100 Destination Sustainability Stories competition.

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Running of the horses at Glenworth Valley – the Central Coast hinterland rounds out the complete package of beaches and national parks for a world-class eco-tourism destination

Emma Perham, of Destination Central Coast, said this was a wonderful accolade for the Central Coast and something everyone should be incredibly proud of.

“This good news story will lift spirits and help industry focus on the future, especially moving into recovery after COVID,” she said.

“Sustainable tourism is not a fleeting trend and eco-tourism values are becoming more important in shaping how people decide to travel.

“This recognition just helps us to attract the kind of visitors we want to draw to the Coast, people who want to immerse themselves in the local culture and are more mindful of their environmental footprint.

“We’ve got such depth of tourism product and experience

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Despite fears that a major upgrade of the Tumbi Rd/Central Coast Hwy intersection at Wamberal could spell the demise of the nearby Valley Fruit, the popular fresh food outlet will remain and may gain a new carpark.

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Killcare Surf Lifesaving Club has warned residents to be aware of blue-ringed octopuses after a child nearly came into contact with the creature recently.

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Lifts now operating at Narara train station The new lifts at Narara railway station are now operational as the station’s multi million dollar accessibility upgrades continue.

Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast, Adam Crouch, said the upgrade would include creating a new kiss and ride zone, improved toilet facilities and upgrading accessible paths and ramps to ensure the station meets the needs of train customers both now and into the future.

“This $11.8M upgrade will

help make sure all our customers, including people with a disability, limited mobility, parents and carers with prams, and travellers with luggage can easily access the station,” Crouch said.

“Customers can now utilise new lifts, with easily accessible paths in and around the station, and improved lighting and wayfinding being completed.

“As well as improving accessibility, this project is supporting more than 660 jobs over the process of planning and construction.”

Deputy Premier and Minister

for Regional Transport and Roads, Paul Toole, said the upgrade was being delivered as part of the Transport Access Program, in which the NSW Government has invested more than $2B to provide more accessible, modern, secure and integrated transport infrastructure since 2011.

For more information, go to: www.transport.nsw.gov.au/ projects-tap.

Source: Media release, Oct 18 Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast, Adam Crouch

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Grant given to help maintain emergency housing A $5,000 grant from O’Brien Electrical and Plumbing will help Coast Shelter keep its emergency accommodation in peak condition.

The Wyong-based business, which continually seeks to minimise the impact it has on the environment, likes to give back to the community through its Sustainability Community Grants.

O’Brien Director, Brad Pesavento, said the not-forprofit organisation, based at Gosford and providing

specialist homelessness services and personal support programs for those escaping domestic and family violence, was a worthy recipient.

“This grant is about giving back to the community and working on a couple of factors including water efficiency and power savings,” he said.

Coast Shelter Domestic Violence Rapid Response Coordinator, Amy Selback, said it was important for the organisation to have the work done on its properties.

“We have a couple of

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properties across the Central Coast where we’re able to

accommodate families who have fled domestic and family

violence instead of them being housed in temporary accommodation in hotels and motels,” she said.

“Getting work done like this ensures that we’re able to keep our properties maintained and ready for families to come in when they need.”

With over 1,000 community members supported across its refuges and Domestic Violence Rapid Response program every year and 21,800 meals given out at its Gosford Community Centre, local businesses such as O’Brien Plumbing were vital

to the work Coast Shelter does, Selback said.

“I’d like to say thank you so much to Brad from O’Brien and his team for providing the work that they have; we thank you so much.”

To find out about Coast Shelter’s homelessness and domestic and family violence services visit https:// coastshelter.org.au/ or call 4325 3540 during business hours.

Source: Media release, Oct 13 Coast Shelter

Central Coast, it's time to talk water, sewer and stormwater prices.

Did you know your water, sewer and stormwater drainage prices are set by the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART)?

Central Coast Council recently lodged their water, sewer and stormwater drainage pricing proposal to IPART, for 1 July 2022.

IPART are inviting the community to:  attend IPART's online public hearing on Tuesday 26 October 2021 at 10am via Zoom  have their say by making a formal submission.

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A new building at Copacabana Men’s Shed is a step closer with an additional $127,500 in funding announced by the NSW Government to move the project from a concept design to construction.

Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast, Adam Crouch, said the project has been a long time in the making.

“I have already secured $21,800 to begin the project in 2018, and more recently the team of volunteers received $130,000 by popular vote through the NSW Government’s My Community Project program,” Crouch said.

“Men’s Sheds on the Central Coast are the backbone of our community.

“Not only do they provide a social setting for local residents, they also enhance

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Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast, Adam Crouch (centre) presents the cheque to Men’s Shed representatives

the mental health of each participant.

“I want to congratulate Mike Mitchelmore, Ray Crawley and the entire team of supporters for their perseverance which has ensured this project becomes a reality.”

Coordinator of the project, Mike Mitchelmore, said he appreciated the support shown by the Copacabana community.

“This is wonderful news,” he said.

“We are very grateful to the NSW Government and local donors and sponsors for their generous support and look forward to establishing a facility that will benefit the entire community.”

The NSW Government’s annual $12.5M Infrastructure Grants program funds projects which build or upgrade community facilities.

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The latest round of funding was one of the largest yet in a response to the recent drought, floods, bushfires and pandemic.

Since 2015, the NSW Government has funded more than 439 community projects worth $73M through the program.

Source: Media release, Oct 20 Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast, Adam Crouch

“I firstly want to say very loudly that I remain firmly opposed to PEP11,” Wicks said when she rose to oppose Steggall’s motion.

“The Member for Warringah’s motion, supported by members of the opposition, this morning to suspend standing orders is not the best way to achieve this outcome that they seek.

“It only adds to the cacophony of confusion and misinformation that has been surrounding this issue.”

Wicks said Steggall was politicising a community issue.

She acknowledged the

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importance of local beaches and oceans to the Coast’s way of life and repeated Morrison’s “rock-solid guarantee” that his government would not allow the PEP11 permit to be extended.

“That is why the motion before the House this morning really achieves nothing for communities up and down the NSW coast,” Wicks said.

“The best way to achieve the outcome that all of you and indeed many of us in this chamber seek is through the proper processes of government, not political stunts,” she said.

Save Our Coast committee member, Tim Heffernan, said the vote to suspend standing orders and debate the Steggall Bill was defeated 52 to 48.

“If Wicks, Sharma and Falinski had voted differently the debate would have ensued,” Heffernan said.

“The community has made it clear that PEP11 has no place off our coast and today our elected representatives let us down by supporting fossil fuel projects over our coastline.

“Ten days away from a global climate summit and the Liberal Government not only has no plan for net-zero, but they perverted democracy by disallowing a debate on a new Bill.”

Federal Member for Dobell, Emma McBride, spoke in favour of Steggall’s motion and Member for Shortland, Pat Conroy, seconded the motion for the Member for Warringah.

In an interview with CCN following the debate, Steggall said: “We’ve had a lot of platitudes from especially Coalition and along the coast saying that this project won’t go ahead but the reality is that the license holder is going ahead.

“The Bill seeks to basically decline the application for the license and then, which is really important, it makes it that there can be no further license approved in this area,” she said.

The full interview with Zali Steggall and transcript can be found on the video news section of our coastcommunitynews.com.au website.

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Funds made available for Ourimbah memorial Planning is underway on repairs to the heritage Ourimbah War Memorial as part of an accessibility upgrade to the wider railway station precinct.

Parliamentary Secretary for Central Coast, Adam Crouch, said additional funding for the repair and restoration work had been secured, following a multi-million-dollar accessibility upgrade for Ourimbah railway station.

“The World War 1 memorial at Ourimbah includes a monument and memorial garden, and I know it is historically and culturally significant for the

community,” he said.

The Entrance MP, David Mehan, welcomed the funding which he has been working towards for several years.

“It is my hope that the memorial will be given the treatment that it deserves and due respect as an important historical monument for the community,” he said.

Transport for NSW has been liaising with the Ourimbah RSL Sub-Branch and the team will also work with specialist advisors to decide the scope of works for this repair and restoration work.

“The war memorial is an

important piece of the Central Coast’s history which is why we should do everything possible to ensure it is protected,” Crouch said.

Further information on the memorial repair and restoration works will be provided to the community once early investigations are complete.

The Ourimbah Station upgrade has been delivered as part of the NSW Government’s Transport Access Program, an initiative to provide a better experience for public transport customers by delivering accessible infrastructure.

Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast, Adam Crouch (second from left), with representatives from the Ourimbah RSL committee

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Staff could not watch Council Inquiry Staff at Central Coast Council have been unable to watch the “not-so” Public Inquiry into the circumstances of its financial crisis.

An email from CEO, David Farmer, suggested they were free to watch the live streamed hearings after hours.

He said he had no doubt staff would be interested, given it

was about their organisation but they were not allowed to watch at work.

“With the hearings being held virtually and recordings available, staff who choose to do so may follow the hearings in their own personal time outside their working hours,” he said.

Farmer did not acknowledge that staff could not watch

outside working hours because the live stream of testimonies from witnesses was removed from Youtube almost immediately after the last speaker finished each day.

The Office of the Commissioner said the Commissioner, Roslyn McCulloch, decided to hold the public hearings online primarily due to the ongoing COVID-19 restrictions.

“She also determined that in order to limit reproduction, the live stream of the hearings would be available to view only while the proceedings were in progress.

“This is consistent with the degree of public access which would be available had the hearings been held in person.

“The published transcripts are the enduring record

of the proceedings.”

Transcripts sometimes take more than 16 hours to appear on the Commissioner’s page on the Office of Local Government website.

The October 18 transcript was still not public by 9am on October 19 despite the hearings finishing mid-afternoon the day before.

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The Commissioner asked if they would be able to pick up the words from the audio and the team agreed they would be able to, so the hearing continued.

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Central Coast Council still does not report the number of employees in every budget, so the community still doesn’t know where the big spending cuts are being made, according to a witness at the Public Inquiry into the Council’s financial issues.

Brian Halstead is a Northern Beaches resident and Save Our Councils campaigner who opposed the 2016 council mergers and sat on the Mosman Council Audit and Risk Committee.

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Halstead said he hoped the big reductions were coming from overheads rather than from front line services.

Halstead also put another angle on the $39M hit to Council’s budget in 2019 when IPART reduced the amount Council could charge residents for water, sewerage and drainage.

Commissioner, Roslyn McCulloch, asked him if he thought Council, including the former Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, reacted sufficiently to the news that they got a $39M reduction

from IPART in May 2019.

“Look, they had put forward a proposal to reduce the income by about $20M,” Halstead said.

“I was surprised, they were halfway through the budgetary process and clearly they had budgeted for the $20M they had proposed to IPART. “When the other $20M came through that they had to find more money for, they didn’t,” he said.

He said there appeared to be no commentary on the fact that suddenly it got hit with a further reduction in income of $20M.

“It is $20M which is going to the ratepayers; it is lost to the Council, but it shouldn’t be forgotten that the ratepayers all got the benefit of that additional $20M,” Halstead said.

In telling the Commissioner his background, Halstead said he went through the accounts of the 20 amalgamated councils in NSW a couple of years ago and reported on their performance against the amalgamation proposals.

It was not a pretty picture, Halstead said, as they had failed to produce the projected results, so the Central Coast

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was not alone in its problems.

He had three other main points to make about the Coast’s situation: the handover to the Councillors; the restricted cash; and the actual level of debt.

He said Councillors were told by the first Administrator that the accounts were sound and strong but they were given no budgets and no staff numbers.

He said small increases in depreciation were inconsistent with a huge capital expenditure.

“An example of that is that, in the year 2022, the Administrator had said the depreciation would be $130 million and the last budget that came out in the July results said the depreciation would be $177 million.

“Now,that’s a huge difference.

“There was no major change in capital expenditure levels until they started to cut last year, so it’s really hard to understand that.

“Now, in my view, the conclusion is that the incoming Councillors were not inheriting finances that were sound and strong and there was no transparent budgeting by area for employee numbers, for savings being generated, and transparent links between the depreciation and the large capital expenditure.”

On restricted cash, he said it remained at $100m between 2017 and 2021.

“It appears, on my review of the accounts, that only in August ‘20 the externally restricted funds were used, and the maximum I calculated was about $30 million,” Halstead said.

“The debate between the auditors and the solicitors about unrestricted cash in the sewerage fund, which was $80 million at the end of ‘20 and has now risen to $112 million, to me is not relevant.

“The Council could have an inter-fund loan from sewer to the general fund for that amount.

“It’s also interesting to note that the current Administrator is saying in the July investment report ‘Unrestricted funds

deficit is being funded through the general fund internally restricted reserves’.

“So he’s knowingly using the restricted funds, internally restricted funds, to run the business day-to-day, which is similar to what the previous Council had been accused of and criticised for doing,” he said.

Halstead also questioned the debt and said he had asked Council for details.

“It was often quoted that the Council had $565M worth of debt,” Halstead said.

“I asked the Council on a number of occasions how this was calculated and I did not get a satisfactory answer, and I think the size of this figure had an impact on the community’s confidence in the Council.

“The figures I have put in my submission showed that at the end of September ‘20, the maximum debt, including restricted borrowings, was calculated at $440 million, well below the $565 million that was often quoted, and then it fell after that.

“The interesting thing is that the issue was not as big as it was often reported.”

Halstead said that when he looked through the accounts the conclusion he came to was that the crisis could have been avoided by the management providing transparent reporting of cash holdings, financial performance by budget area, employee numbers by budget area, and this would have enabled the community and the Councillors to understand the issues, plan and follow up on the actions being delivered.

He said councils needed to be in surplus if they wanted to generate cash for new assets, there was no other way – unless they got grants.

His last point was to record that the amalgamation proposal had the Council with a surplus of more than $30 million in the current year, so a $7 million surplus, as projected in the July 2021 monthly reports, would leave Council still with a lot to do.

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The Public Inquiry into Central Coast Council will go back to its not-so-public position behind closed doors as both public and private hearings have now concluded.

The Office of the Commissioner confirmed on Wednesday, October 20, that private hearings have also concluded.

“The Commissioner has determined not to publish the names, or the transcripts of persons interviewed in private,”

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No timeframe for report to Minister the Office said.

The Commissioner, Roslyn McCulloch, said after the last witness gave their evidence on Tuesday, October 19, that her final report would be handed down as soon as possible but she gave no indication of the time frame.

She has given submission writers and those who gave oral evidence a deadline of November 3 to submit any responses to the evidence heard at the hearings.

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“From here, the inquiry will obtain further documentary information which has arisen from the evidence we have received during the public hearings,” McCulloch said.

“Once that documentation and the submissions in reply are received, a report will be prepared and provided to the Minister for Local Government to be considered,” she said.

“It is not possible at this stage to say when that will occur but suffice to say that although there is a lot of information to

assimilate and consider, I am very cognisant of the need to report to the Minister as soon as practicable to enable her to consider any recommendations which I might make.”

More than 100 people made written submissions and, of those, 43 people also gave oral evidence at the public hearings which have been streamed live via YouTube.

The number of people who gave evidence privately is not known.

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The public speakers included the current Chief Executive Officer, David Farmer, and Chief Financial Officer, Natalia Cowley, and the Administrator, Rik Hart, as well as his predecessor Dick Persson.

All 13 suspended Councillors fronted the Inquiry and the two former Councillors who resigned days before suspension; Liberals Rebecca Gale and Troy Marquart.

The professional members of theAudit,Risk and Improvement Committee, Dr Col Gellatly, Carl Millington and John Gordon also spoke.

The final day saw Professor Graham Sansom, who had many years earlier chaired an independent review panel that

raised the possibility of a merger of Gosford and Wyong, give his opinion on many of the main themes that have emerged throughout the public hearings.

Two former Gosford employees Gary Chestnut and Razia Hassan and a Umina resident Tom Collosimo also spoke on the last day.

The previous day saw a Warringah resident, Brian Halstead who had sat on the Mosman Council’s Audit and Risk Committee give evidence.

Don’t miss next week’s paper for a wrap up of the common themes that the submissions and speakers addressed.

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Facilities re-open for those who’ve been vaccinated As COVID-19 restrictions continue to ease, Central Coast Council is reopening its facilities and venues, but only to doubly vaccinated adults and children under 16 accompanied by a doubly vaccinated adult.

Leisure centres, gyms and waste management facilities opened their doors on October 11, followed on October 18 by Edogawa Commemorative Gardens, pools and some libraries.

Facilities now open to the public are: leisure centres, gyms, outdoor pools (squad swimming); waste management facilities at Buttonderry and Woy Woy; Central Coast Animal Care Facility and Society of Companion Animal Rescue (for impounded animals only – rehoming by appointment); holiday parks (to guests from Greater Sydney); Patonga Camping Ground (to guests from Greater Sydney); and libraries at Kincumber, Toukley, Tuggerah and Woy Woy. Other libraries will follow in coming weeks.

From Monday, October 25, sports programs will resume at leisure centres, as will learn to swim classes at pools.

Niagara Park Stadium will also reopen on October 25, with Gosford Regional Gallery to follow on November 1, along with Central Coast Stadium.

The Bookmobile service will resume on November 1.

All Council facilities and venues have thorough COVID-19 Safety Plans which will be updated to reflect any changes to the Public Health Orders that apply.

All visitors over the age of 16 are required to show their vaccination certificate, sign-in using the QR code and wear a correctly fitted mask.

Children under the age of 16 are not required to show a vaccination certificate but must be accompanied by a fully-vaccinated adult from the same household.

“To say that we are thrilled to reopen is an understatement – it is exciting to see activity return to venues and small businesses across the Coast as we get back to a freer way of living,” Council Administrator, Rik Hart, said.

“We’ve already reopened a number of our facilities in line with Public Health Orders and a host are scheduled to open their doors very soon.

“This is a particularly important time to support local businesses and provide a much-needed boost to the Central Coast economy, but it is also vital that we are careful when we are out and about and ensure we carefully follow all safety requirements.”

Source: Media release, Oct 15 Central Coast Council

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Lucy Wicks and the Morrison Government are delivering for the Central Coast.

Construction now complete for the $45 million Central Coast Clinical School and Research Institute in Gosford.

Reducing travel times for Central Coast residents with the $15 million Faster Rail Proposal. $18 million for a university campus extension in Gosford, including design, development, construction and fit-out.

Up to 140 car spaces in Woy Woy Train Station and up to 600 at Gosford Train Station, with a $35 million total investment.

Cutting travel times for Central Coast residents with the NorthConnex tunnel linking the M1 Pacific Motorway to the Hills M2 Motorway.

Investing $7 million to build a new regional library in Gosford.

Continuous mobile phone coverage between Wyong and Hornsby and Wi-Fi at train stations is completed.

A new $3.85 million Linear Accelerator for Central Coast Cancer Centre is now operating. $300,000 in additional Funding for Clean4Shore Environmental Clean Up Programs. $20,000 to purchase a van for ‘Soul Soup’, a charity providing meals and welfare services to disadvantaged locals.

Construction underway for The Glen Women’s Rehabilitation Centre on the Central Coast.

Rollout of the Love Bites Respectful Relationships Program across local High Schools.

Delivered upgrades to the M1 Motorway, including at the Kariong and Somersby interchanges.

Delivering better health outcomes for those sleeping rough through the Health on the Streets Homelessness Program.

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Peace Prize win upholds place of journalism in democracy The team at CCN is delighted to report that this year’s Nobel Peace Prize 2021 has been awarded to two journalists in the firing line for freedom of expression in their respective countries of Russia and the Philippines.

According to Reporters Without Borders (RSF) 50 journalists across the world were killed while working in 2020 and each year their work to uphold the community’s right to information gets more difficult.

CCN spoke directly with the Norwegian Nobel Committee Secretary, Olav Njølstad, on Monday, October 18, about the reasoning behind the awarding of the 2021 Peace Prize to these two journalists.

The journalists, Maria Ressa, from the Philippines and Dmitry Andreyevich Muratov of Russia share the million dollar prize in

Olav Njølstad, Norwegian Nobel Committee Secretary

Journalist, Maria Ressa of The Philippines

Journalist, Dmitry Andreyevich Muratov of Russia

the words of the Nobel Peace Prize committee “for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a

precondition for democracy and lasting peace”.

The Committee, made up of members appointed by the

Norwegian Parliament noted that the two journalists were “..representatives of all journalists who stand up for

this ideal in a world in which democracy and freedom of the press face increasingly adverse conditions”.

These new Nobel laureates join a group of celebrated individuals and organisations that include Nelson Mandela, Liu Xiaobo, Mikhail Gorbachev, Jimmy Carter, Shirin Ebadi, Barack Obama, Jody Williams, Jose Ramos-Horta, The Dalai Lama (14th), Mother Teresa, Lech Walesa, Willy Brandt, Martin Luther King Jr and organisations including the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), Red Cross, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Médecins Sans Frontières and United Nations Peacekeeping Forces.

The Nobel Peace Prize Committee said democracy must stick to independent journalism if it is to work in

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It said free, independent and fact-based journalism served to protect against abuse of power,lies and war propaganda.

Berit Reiss-Andersen, Chair of the Nobel Committee said: “The Norwegian Nobel Committee is convinced that freedom of expression and freedom of information help to ensure an informed public.

“These rights are crucial prerequisites for democracy and protect against war and conflict.

“The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov is intended to underscore the importance of protecting and defending these fundamental rights.

“Without freedom of expression and freedom of the press, it will be difficult to successfully promote fraternity between nations, disarmament and a better world order to succeed in our time.”

This year’s award of the Nobel Peace Prize is anchored in the provisions of Alfred Nobel’s will that funded the first prizes in 1901.

Alfred Nobel was one of the world’s most successful industrialists and his last will and testament created the Nobel Prizes in five categories: Physics; Chemistry; Medicine; Literature; and Peace.

A sixth prize in Economic Sciences was funded by the Swedish Central Bank in 1968 though it strictly is not a Nobel Prize but a prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences using the same principles of the Nobel Prizes.

All the prizes are formally awarded in the second week of December in Oslo and Stockholm.

This year’s festivities will be a mixture of digital and physical events, many will be streamed and possible to follow online.

Go to nobelprize.org for details.

The full video interview and interview transcript is available at the video section of the CCN website.

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Exciting news for the Central Coast!

Every adult in NSW will be offered an additional 2 x $25 Dine and Discover vouchers.

These vouchers will be available from December in your Service NSW app.

The Central Coast has already benefited from a $5 million boost to our economy and the extra vouchers are fantastic news for our local businesses.

There are over $13 million worth of Dine and Discover Vouchers yet to be redeemed

by Central Coast residents.

If you haven’t downloaded your Dine and Discover Vouchers yet, please scan the QR code to download them now.

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Two year payment trial may help women flee violence Women on the Central Coast who are in the process of leaving a violent relationship may have access to a one-off payment of up to $5,000 to help them establish a life free of violence.

Under the Federal Government’s two-year Escaping Violence Payment trial, women may receive financial assistance of up to $1,500 in cash with the remainder available for goods and services or direct payments of bonds, school fees or other support to help establish a safe home.

The Escaping Violence Payment trial will not be considered taxable or reportable income and will not impact on any other social security payments a recipient may be receiving.

Eligibility includes financial stress and evidence of domestic violence including, but not limited to, a referral from a family and domestic violence service provider with a risk assessment and safety plan, an AVO, court order or a police report.

The UnitingCare Australia

Consortium has been selected as the service provider to deliver the payments and will support women to engage with other relevant Commonwealth or state funded community services.

Federal Member for Robertson, Lucy Wicks, said the payments would assist women on the Central Coast who need financial support to leave.

“When a woman is fleeing

violence, we know the size of the house she is fleeing doesn’t matter – often she bundles the kids into the car, maybe the dog and they leave with nothing more than the clothes on their back,” Wicks said.

“It doesn’t matter if you are living across our region, people from all backgrounds can and do experience domestic violence.

“It is important to point out that this new payment is not

means tested in a traditional sense because we know that women from every walk of life can experience DV and we want to encourage them all to reach out for support.

“This new program is part of the Morrison Government’s record $1.1B investment in women’s safety which is helping to ensure we end domestic, family and sexual violence.”

Minister for Women’s Safety,

Anne Ruston, said the payments would help address the financial barriers that may stop women leaving violent relationships.

“We know that financial hardship as well as economic abuse, which may involve interfering with work or controlling or withholding money, reduces women’s ability to acquire and use money and makes it difficult to leave violent relationships,”

Ruston said.

“The new Escaping Violence Payment aims to help address those issues, so women have more security when making that brave decision to leave any form of intimate partner violence – including physical violence, coercive control and financial abuse.”

Women can apply for the payment through the UnitingCare Network, with more information available at unitingvictas.org.au/escapingviolence-payment The two-year trial will be independently evaluated to assess the benefit of the payment, including demand, eligibility criteria, needs of specific cohorts, and how it works with related services.

If you or someone you know is impacted by sexual assault, domestic or family violence, call 1800RESPECT on 1800 737 732 or visit www.1800RESPECT.org.au Source: Media release, Oct 20 Member for Robertson, Lucy Wicks

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THE ENTRANCE ELECTORATE The boundaries of The Entrance electorate will change at the 2023 state election.

The change is minor and has resulted in all of Berkeley Vale being included in The Entrance electorate. Below is a list of all suburbs within The Entrance electorate.

• Bateau Bay

• Magenta

• Toowoon Bay

• Berkeley Vale

• Mount Elliot

• Tuggerah

• Blue Bay

• Narara (part only)

• Tumbi Umbi

• Fountaindale

• Niagara Park

• Wyoming

• Glenning Valley

• Ourimbah

• Postcodes:

• Kangy Angy

• Shelly Beach

2250, 2258,

• Killarney Vale

• Somersby (part only)

2259, 2261

• Lisarow

• The Entrance

• Long Jetty

• The Entrance North

DAVID MEHAN MP MEMBER FOR THE ENTRANCE Office: 24 The Entrance Road, The Entrance NSW 2261 Phone: 4334 1012 Email: theentrance@parliament.nsw.gov.au Authorised by David Mehan MP, 24 The Entrance Rd, The Entrance NSW 2261 funded using parliamentary entitlements.

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Emergency service communication upgraded The Public Safety Network (PSN) on the Central Coast has been expanded with the completion of a new site in Algewn Rd, Gosford.

Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast and Member for Terrigal, Adam Crouch, said the new radio site, delivered by NSW Telco Authority, is vital to ongoing community safety in the region.

“These sites provide emergency service organisations with a single, integrated network on which to communicate,”

The new site in Algewn Rd

Crouch said.

“Alongside the triple zero emergency hotline, the Public Safety Network is the most critical communications network in our state.

“It’s technology that saves lives.

“By expanding the footprint of this critical infrastructure, we are ensuring that frontline responders including the Rural Fire Service, Police, Fire and Rescue, Ambulance and the State Emergency Services have a more reliable network to help keep people and places safe.

“The Black Summer of bushfires in 2019-20 saw flames reach as far east as Mangrove Mountain,which is why protecting the community of Gosford as well as the surrounding area is so vital.

“This is the Central Coast’s fourth Public Safety Network site to be switched ‘on’ this year and will ensure frontline responders have a more reliable network to keep people and property safe during emergencies.”

Minister for Digital and Customer Service, Victor

Dominello, said the NSW Government is investing $1.4B to expand the PSN to better protect communities.

“The network’s expansion representsthebiggestinvestment in critical communications infrastructure by the NSW Government in a generation,” Dominello said.

Source: Media release, Oct 13 Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast, Adam Crouch

Residents urged to attend water hearing Ratepayers will have a chance to express their views on Central Coast Council’s proposed 34 per cent hike in water rates at an an online public hearing next week.

The Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) will hold a public forum via Zoom at 10am on October 26 to discuss Council’s proposal for the rise which would take place from July

next year if approved.

Council Director Water and Sewer, Jamie Loader, said that the forum would be a great opportunity for the community to provide feedback to IPART before the Tribunal releases its draft determination in March, 2022.

“Both Council and IPART are dedicated to making sure that the community have every opportunity to have their say on their water, sewerage and stormwater drainage prices,”

Loader said.

“If you’re unable to make the public hearing, you can also provide your feedback in writing directly to IPART, until November 1.”

The pricing proposal for water, sewerage and stormwater drainage services is separate to the Special Rates Variation rise of 13 per cent on top of the IPART cap of 2 per cent, which came into effect for general rates this year.

“It’s important to remember that as a ratepayer, you receive two separate bills: your general rates and your water, sewerage and stormwater drainage rates,” Administrator, Rik Hart, said.

“Our rates for water, sewerage and stormwater drainage are currently the lowest in NSW, and they are not financially sustainable.

“If we were to continue with these prices, we would not have sufficient funds to provide a safe,

clean and reliable water supply and an effective sewer and drainage system that does not harm the environment.

“We are proposing returning our prices for these services similar to 2018-19 levels, with an allowance for subsequent inflation.

“This means there will be, on average, an increase by about 34 per cent in the first year, and then by inflation after that.”

IPART Chair, Carmel Donnelly,

said IPART would assess whether the price changes proposed by the Council represented good value for money for customers and were affordable.

She strongly encouraged ratepayers to attend the Zoom meeting.

To find out how to attend or to make a formal submission to IPART, visit yourvoiceourcoast. com.

Terry Collins

AN OPEN LETTER TO READERS THAT VALUE AUSTRALIA’S MOUNTAIN CULTURAL HERITAGE AND HISTORY

The NSW Minister for the Environment has released a Draft Kosciuszko National Park Wild Horse Heritage Plan (DPoM) inviting submissions and comments which must be submitted by 2 November 2021.

The DPoM and its release conform to the Wild Horse Heritage Act 2018 (NSW), (the Act).

The Act provides for a recognition of the heritage values of sustainable brumby populations in particular regions within Kosciuszko National Park (KNP) and the protection of those values through the application of a Management Plan.

The Act represents a paradigm shift, applauded across Australia and internationally, in how the snowy brumby mobs MUST be managed and entrenches a legislated recognition of Australia’s Anglo-European mountain cultural heritage and history.

Readers that appreciate and value those

mountain cultural heritages and history are already familiar with the well-funded and politically very influential (even with a “conservative” government) anti-brumby caravan, the Invasive Species Council, Reclaim Kossi,National Parks Association, Wilderness Society et al.

These organisations campaigned against passage of the Act and have been extremely active in agitating their followers to submit negative submissions.

They promote aerial culling as a humane, preferred option for the “elimination” of the entire brumby populations.

These mobs have for far toooo long been able to penetrate government bureaucracies and influence how public lands are mis-managed.

Readers, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make your opinion count as to how the brumbies are managed.

2020 promotes a population in KNP of 14,380 brumbies, with 12,111 in the northern block.

These statistics are regarded as a gross and wilful misrepresentation of fact.

The September 2019 NPWS unpublished survey recorded 3,110 brumbies, the June 2020 NPWS unpublished survey recorded 2,468 brumbies in the northern block.

The NSW DPIE website confirms that from July 2020 to July 2021, 764 brumbies were removed and 5 dead.

Simple maths states that circa 1,697 brumbies are left in the northern block.

The Cairns 2020 survey at page 20 states that the northern population comprises at least 85% of the total population, therefore the total population across KNP is approximately 1,996 brumbies, 1,000 less than the threshold population target of 3,000 brumbies quoted at pages 2, 10 and 13 of the DPoM.

You submit that any Plan of Management MUST entrench a Wild Horse Advisory Panel with permanent tenure and according to the provisions of Schedule 1 of the Act, but that the Panel has the power to provide advice AND intervene in the management of sustainable brumby populations in KNP. The DPoM is a general document containing statements that you may agree or disagree with or feel warrants comment, therefore you are urged to make submissions according to your own history, knowledge and opinion.

Alan Lanyon, President, SMBSMG. https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/research-andpublications/publications-search/kosciuszko-nationalpark-wild-horse-heritage-management-planconsultation-draft-factsheet

The following is some information that you may care to use in your submission.

You REJECT the introduction of any PoM until AND ONLY UNTIL a “horse numbers survey” utilising the same helicopter flight methodology as the unpublished 2011, 2012, 2013, 2019 and 2020 National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) surveys is conducted to establish a finite start population for any Plan of Management.

The most recent published Cairns survey in

SMBSMG's objective is"To ensure that, through Government legislation, the snowy brumby is recognised as part of the history, cultural heritage and social values of the Snowy Mountains and that sustainable populations of the snowy brumby are present and protected within Kosciuszko National Park

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Police visible as restrictions ease Police from Brisbane Water Police District supported by units from Central Coast Operation Utah, Broken Bay Water Police and The NSW Police Mounted Unit, were out and about on the Coast from October 11 to 17 as social restrictions in the region eased.

Patrols were focused on public spaces, such as beach foreshores, parks, shopping

centres and waterways as well as the numerous licensed premises throughout the district.

Police were on hand to support the community and business owners in navigating the new health rules and ensure a high visibility presence to deter crime and anti-social behaviour in and around licensed premises.

Coonan wanted for alleged sex offences Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a man who often spends time on the Central Coast.

Joshua Coonan, 34, is wanted on outstanding warrants in relation to alleged child sex offences.

He is described as being of Caucasian appearance, about 165cm tall, of medium build, with a fair complexion and brown hair.

As part of their inquiries, Police have received information that Coonan could be working as an arborist in the Northern Rivers area and is also known to frequent the

Central Coast area.

Police say Coonan might be driving either a white 2007 Mitsubishi Canter tipper truck or a black 2007 Hyundai Santa Fe. As officers attached to Brisbane Waters Police District continue to conduct inquiries into Coonan’s whereabouts, they are urging anyone who might have information to Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

Source: NSW Police

The further easing of restrictions as summer approaches means the community can expect to see more police in and around these areas with the aim of ensuring public safety and deterring antisocial and criminal behaviour.

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Rider rescued

The Westpac Rescue Helicopter was despatched to Mangrove Mountain on Saturday, October 16, following a serious mountain bike accident.

Following a call at 11:55am, the Helicopter medical team and paramedics treated a 59-year-old man after he came off a bridge on a fire trail in an isolated area of bushland.

He was stabilised but had suffered possible internal injuries and was airlifted direct to John Hunter Hospital in a stable condition for further investigation and treatment.

Source: Westpac Rescue Helicopter

Cybercrime Squad detectives have charged two men as investigations continue into fraudulent COVID-19 grant applications and drug supply offences on the Central Coast.

A search of a home at Mardi on October 19 yielded nearly 2.4kg of cannabis leaf, as well as documentation and electronic devices, which will undergo further forensic examination.

A 30-year-old man was arrested at the scene and a second man, aged 39, arrested shortly after at Wattanobi.

The 30-year-old man was

Anyone with information about these incidents should call

Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000

or use the Crime Stoppers online reporting page: www.crimestoppers.com.au Information provided will be treated in the strictest of confidence.

charged with 14 offences with police alleging he submitted fraudulent COVID-19 JobSaver and business grant applications and facilitated fraudulent applications on behalf of others.

It will be further alleged the man supplied prohibited drugs

across the Coast in September.

He will appear at Wyong Local Court on November 2.

The other man was charged with dishonestly obtaining financial advantage by deception and giving false information (person or property in danger).

Police will allege in court the man falsely claimed he had tested positive for COVID-19, subsequently forcing the closure of multiple businesses in the region last month.

He will appear at Wyong Local Court on November 10.

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More credence to scientific records Godfrey Franz’s claims re climate change predictions of disasters past, present and future appear rather exaggerated and baseless (CCN312).

I cannot recall any of the extreme predictions he mentions.

I do agree that our governments must “prioritise reliable lowemission energy”.

The nuclear path needs be trod with caution; far better to proceed

FORUM towards renewable energy sources with appropriate “base load” storage.

Unlike coal fired generators, nuclear power reactors cannot be quickly and easily dismantled at the end of their design life.

Mr Franz’s last paragraph indicates a clear lack of understanding on the problem of observing rising sea levels.

The observational method he described is scientifically implausible, far better to check the tidal records for Fort Dennison (Sydney Harbour) over the last 100 years or so.

I would place more credence on these scientifically recorded measurements than on an individual’s casual observations of water levels in Brisbane Water.

Email, Oct 4 Col Hodgson, Mount Elliot

Nature corridor price $5M below value Despite assurances to the contrary, yet again we have been lied to by our Council.

This time it has been about how the Tranche 3 sales of Council assets would include no environmental land and that none of these assets would be sold at knocked down prices.

This is contradicted by information that four lots on Thompson’s Vale Rd Doyalson, including areas of E2 Environmental Land, have been placed on the market and offers are being taken by agents which

FORUM are $5M below the price Council paid for them initially.

What is it about NSW Government appointees and their treatment of Coast residents?

Do they think we are all incapable of remembering what they told us just a few months ago?

The sooner we are rid of this totalitarian form of “it’s my way or the highway” governance and get our democratically elected

representatives back on our two separate Councils the better.

Email, Sep 21 Douglas Williamson, Wamberal

The virtues of a variety of views

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Gordon Batt would have us believe that the only proper qualification for election as a Councillor or as a Member of Parliament is having been an independent businessman or having risked money in a “budget driven entity” (CCN 314).

This would certainly limit the number of possible candidates for any electoral position (it would certainly exclude me) and would ensure a reliable unanimity of decision-making on political issues, although I’m not sure most people would necessarily see that as a desirable outcome.

It is usually held that having a variety of views expressed on political issues is a merit of the democratic system, and I wonder how many of the most admired politicians in the world would have made it to office if Mr Batt’s razor had been in operation.

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Opinions expressed are those of the writer and not necessarily of the newspaper I might equally argue that nobody without two university degrees is educationally qualified to make decisions on foreign policy, and, although I have never owned a business, I venture to say that I have as much knowledge of national and international economics as Mr Batt who, I suspect, might be hard pressed to explain the advantages of nuclear submarines over diesel-powered boats.

Praise for new play area I know that it is unusual these days to hear praise for Central Coast Council, but in this case they deserve it.

The newly renovated play area in Green Point near Coles was finished in time for school

FORUM holidays.

It is absolutely full of kids and parents each day enjoying themselves playing and picnicking.

They have turned it into a really delightful area that will get much use.

Good on them.

Email, Sep 28 Jan Burton, Green Point

In my experience small business owners are often the least qualified to deal with anything more than day-to-day financial transactions.

The often-fatuous comments from our local Chamber of Commerce are a case in point: if the Babylon Chamber of Commerce had had its way, you can be sure that the Code of Hamurabai would never have passed.

That said, I have to agree with Mr Batt that the merging of two councils to achieve economies of operation must envisage a reduction in duplicated staff: any other assumption must be a nonsense.

The fact that staff members increased after the amalgamation says all that needs to be said about the acumen of the Councillors involved in the fiscal debacle now exercising the mind of our Inquirer.

I wonder whether Mr Batt has made a submission to the Inquiry: it would be interesting to see whether he can raise any questions that would actually contribute to an informative outcome – an eventuality not too likely at this point.

Email, Oct 18 Bruce Hyland, Woy Woy

Central Coast Central Coast Friends of Democracy Friends of Democracy

The NSW government needs to pay their debt of $150 Million to our residents

The NSW government needs to pay their debt of $150 Million to our residents and Council - before the andtoCouncil - (again) before the Administrator tries to raise rates (again) Administrator tries raise rates Some of the NSW Government impact on Council budgets Cost of amalgamation

Suggested cost from former CEO, Rob Noble, at Public Inquiry (15/10/21)

Gosford CBD SEPP

Reduction in developer contributions to Council from 4% to 1%. In Oct 2018, the NSW Department of Planning valued the 3% decrease at approx. $190M

Local Planning Panel

Emergency works – Wamberal Beach / North Entrance

Cost shifting

$120-150 M

Up to $190 M

The LPP was established by NSW government to take decision making away from Council. A staff report (May 2020), estimated the cost to Council is in the order to $400,000 per annum

$ 400,000 per annum

July 2020 coastal erosion event State government directed Council to construct emergency toe protection works. In Feb 2021, the total cost was estimated at $2.866M. The NSW government has reimbursed $992,501 thus far.

(Council report—3 Feb 2021)

$ 1.894 M

Estimate $45M or more per annum (Operational Plan 21/22)

$ 45 M

TOTAL

> $300 M

There have been various suggestions about the true cost of the There have been various suggestions about the true cost of the merger of Gosford and Wyong Councils - depending on whether you merger of Gosford and Wyong Councils - depending on whether include IT upgrades, equalising wages of the former Councils, you include IT upgrades, equalising redundancies and a range of other wages costs. of the former Councils, redundancies and a range of other costs.

At the Central Coast Council Public Inquiry, former Central Coast At the Central Coast Council Public Inquiry, former Central Interim CEO, Rob Noble, suggested that on top of IT costs, the merger Coast Interim CEO, Rob Noble, suggested that on top of IT costs, could cost in the order of “$120 to $150 million or thereabouts”. the merger could cost in the order of “$120 to $150 million or The NSW government provided $10 million towards merger thereabouts”. The NSW government provided $10 million costs. towards merger costs.

The State government has treated the Central Coast residents and The State government has treated the Central Coast residents ratepayers with contempt. Instead of properly funding the costs of and ratepayers with contempt. Instead of properly funding the the merger, the NSW government used a $252million Stronger costs of the merger, the NSW government used a $252million Communities Fund intended for merged councils to allocate $90 Stronger Communities Fund intended for merged councils to million to Hornsby Council (not merged). allocate $90 million to Hornsby Council (not merged).

Over recent years, the NSW has further impacted Council’s budget Over recent years, the NSW has further impacted Council’s through changes to planning rules, failure to reimburse for emergency budget through changes to planning rules, failure to reimburse for works and cost shifting. All of these costs are ultimately paid for by emergency works and cost shifting. All of these costs are ultimately residents and ratepayers—or services are cut and infrastructure paid for bydeclines. residents and ratepayers—or services are cut and provision infrastructure provision declines.

The NSW Government needs to pay their debt of $150 Million The NSW Government needs to pay their debt of $150 Million before there is a conversation about further rate rises. before there is a conversation about further rate rises.

We have 7 State politicians We have 7 State politicians covering the Central covering the Central Coast. Coast.

WhatWhat are they doing to call on the are they doing to call State government to pay their fair on the State government share? to pay their fair share?

Adam Crouch, MP Terrigal (Liberal)

Adam Crouch, MP Terrigal (Liberal) Taylor Martin, MLC (Liberal)

Martin, (Liberal) DavidTaylor Harris, MP WyongMLC (Labor)

David MP Wyong Liesl Tesch,Harris, MP Gosford (Labor) (Labor) Liesl Tesch, Gosford (Labor) David Mehan, MP MP The Entrance (Labor) David Mehan, MP The Entrance (Labor) Yasmin Catley, MP Swansea (Labor) (Labor) Yasmin Catley, MP Swansea Abigail Boyd,Boyd, MLC (Greens) Abigail MLC (Greens)

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Yuley exhibits ‘Change of Art’ Central Coast artist, Yuley Buist, has been painting since she was a child, but in the past five years her work has taken off, with a series of exhibitions at various venues.

She is now preparing for her first show at Tuggerah’s Red Tree Gallery next month.

Change of Art will feature around 40 original works, ranging in size and price.

“I don’t really characterise my artwork as any particular

style,” Buist said.

“They are mostly landscapes or seascapes, but they are quirky, with lots of colour, and often contain a twist.

“There are two sides to me – the painter and the writer – so I find my artwork always has some kind of narrative.

“Whatever idea I have to begin with is not what I end up with - the artwork develops with its own narrative as ideas come to me whilst I’m painting.

“I might start out painting a

mountain and end up doing a stream.

“I like to add quirky elements.

“For example, I was painting a landscape when I somehow ended up painting in some rabbit ears.

“That took me to an Alice in Wonderland place and I ended up adding other elements of that story into the piece, including the eyes of a cat, a pocket watch and a Mad Hatter’s jacket.

“You have to look to find them

– they’re there but they’re not there.”

Born in Sydney, Buist moved to the Central Coast in the 1990s.

She has undergone formal training at TAFE and with private tutors including Kadira Jennings.

“I attend a lot of art classes as I believe you must always learn and never stop,” she said.

“Though I do enjoy painting in different mediums most of the works are in acrylic.

“I paint quickly to begin with, but the painting may take on many layers.

“The evolution requires me to rub back paint often revealing a character that becomes my ‘story’.”

Buist sometimes gains her inspiration from other artworks but most often from her surroundings.

“Every time you turn around on the Coast there’s inspiration – from the sea to the bush,” she said.

“The freer I am with the artwork, the better it turns out.

“The works are not always inspired locally.

“For example, I did one panting inspired by the multicoloured houses along the coastline of Spain.”

“My work is ever evolving; bold colour is its primary function and to explore what comes from within.”

Change of Art opens at Red Tree Gallery on November 11.

Terry Collins

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Opportunity closing soon to nominate significant local places The Wagstaffe bus shelter is one of the first Central Coast sites to be nominated for the new Blue Plaque program recently announced by the NSW Government.

Nominations close on October 31 so the program has encouraged residents to suggest sites which represent a significant story, person or event in the local region.

A bus shelter may not immediately seem a likely candidate for a Blue Plaque (although some in Canberra have them) but the shelter in Wagstaffe matches the criteria of linking a place, a time, and a community, a community spokesperson said.

“It was during the first NSW COVID lockdown, in early 2020, that a casual group of locals co-ordinated by artist Virginia Henderson decided that a positive use of the frustrating and anxious time could be to smarten up the tatty old wooden bus shelter.

“The project gradually took on a life of its own, with more and more people contributing at the various stages sandpapering, power washing, paint undercoating and paint

Virginia Henderson (with glass raised) toasts the new-look bus shelter with fellow residents in 2020

top coating.

“Sea life murals were created on the front, back and sides of the shelter by Henderson and place name labels, solar lighting and artwork of local flora, sea creatures and wildlife were added.

“The bus shelter now attracts smiling sightseers and photographers each weekend and in holiday time.

“It is beloved of the local children, who respect and protect its artwork and its

inhabitants, and for adults it marks a unique time in Wagstaffe’s history, the time when a community could have despaired but chose not to.”

Member for Gosford, Liesl Tesch, said she encouraged residents to nominate other sites which are connected to interesting stories that have shaped the history of the Central Coast.

“We have a diverse and rich history on the Central Coast dating back many thousands of

years from our local indigenous communities until present day, and we really want to hear from people across all of the local community to help this initiative to reflect that,” Tesch said.

“The eligibility criteria states that the nominated place must be in NSW, have an interesting story to tell about the people or events that are linked to a certain place, and are visible to the public including both public and privately held property.

“The plaques will be linked to

a digital interface to allow access to detailed stories, creating an extensive and wellrepresented Blue Plaques NSW network.”

Tesch said the more people with diverse stories to share the better.

“Many voices make our shared history, and the Blue Plaques help form a unique, interconnected and interactive way to appreciate and learn about local history, particularly parts of local history that are ‘hidden’ or not well known,” she said.

“Ask yourself, before nominating; who are the people that have shaped our communities?

“What stories are important to be heard?

“What are the important historical events that happened in our local area?”

Nominations for the Blue Plaques Program can be made by emailing gosford@ parliament.nsw.gov.au and will be accepted until Sunday, October 31.

For more information, go to: https://bit.ly/ HNSWBluePlaques.

Terry Collins

Naughty Noodle returns to Gosford The Naughty Noodle Fun Haus will bring back its ThursGAY social events at a variety of Gosford venues from December 9.

Previously held at the Lyons Den in Gosford, the monthly event will travel to various sites, with locations to be announced on the Naughty Noodle Fun Haus website.

Organisers have also announced a series of events at the Fun Haus in Ettalong, starting with a nautical-themed cabaret show, Clambake IV – Rock the Boat on December 4, before a Girrakool Blues Xmas Party on December 11.

Both shows will include a light supper, with meal options available when booking.

Dine and Discover vouchers can also be used when booking.

Visit naughtynoodle.com.au for more information on upcoming events along with booking details.

Maisy Rae

Liesl Tesch MP Member for Gosford

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ABC (C20/21)

Friday 22 October

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Saturday 23 October

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Sunday 24 October

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News Breakfast [s] 6:00 ABC News Mornings [s] 9:00 11:30 Q&A [s] Australia Remastered [s] 12:00 ABC News At Noon [s] Foreign Correspondent [s] 2:00 Sherlock (M v) 3:00 4:00 ABC News Afternoons [s] Escape From The City [s] 5:00 Grand Designs Australia (PG) 6:00 7:00 The Drum [s] ABC News [s] Gardening Australia [s] Annika (M v) [s] The Accident (M l,s,v) [s] Talking Heads: Soldiering On (PG) [s] – Muriel’s son Giles appears with papers for her to sign. It turns out she is quite a 8:30 rich widow. But soon there’s a liquidity problem, and Giles could be to blame.

12:00 ABC Late News [s] The Vaccine [s] Gruen [s] 1:00 Frayed (MA15+) [s] 6:00 rage (PG) [s] 7:00 Weekend Breakfast [s] rage Guest Programmer (PG) 10:00 12:00 ABC News At Noon [s] Annika (M v) [s] 5:30 Midsomer Murders: Death And The Divas (M d,v) [s] 6:00 Restoration Australia: 7:00 Hunting Ground, Tasmania (PG) [s] Dream Gardens: Strath Creek (PG) [s] 10:00 Landline [s] Rick Stein’s Road To Mexico (PG) [s] Monty Don’s French Gardens [s] ABC News [s] Grantchester (PG) [s] Shetland (M l,v) [s] Fires (M l) [s] Call The Midwife (M) [s] 12:30 Father Brown: The Great Train Robbery (M v) [s] rage Guest Programmer 2:30 (MA15+) [s] 6:00 rage (PG) [s] 7:00 Weekend Breakfast [s] 10:00 Insiders [s] 12:00 Offsiders [s] 1:00 The World This Week [s] Compass [s] 1:30 Songs Of Praise [s] ABC News At Noon [s] Landline [s] Gardening Australia [s] Rick Stein’s Road To Mexico 5:00 5:30 (PG) [s] Todd Sampson’s Life On The 6:00 7:00 Line: Buoyancy (PG) [s] Secrets Of The Museum (PG) Art Works [s] Antiques Roadshow [s] Back Roads [s] ABC News Sunday [s] Restoration Australia [s] Fires (M) [s] We Hunt Together (MA15+) [s] 8:00 Les Norton: Day Of The 8:30 Gecko (MA15+) [s] 10:30 Stateless (M l) [s] 11:30 Talking Heads [s]

Also see: ABC PLUS (Channel 22) ABC ME (Channel 23) ABC NEWS (Channel 24)

Also see: 7TWO (Channel 62) 7MATE (Channel 63) 7FLIX (Channel 66)

TEN (C10)

NINE (C81/80)

6:00 Sunrise [s] The Morning Show [s] 9:00 Seven Morning News [s] 11:30 Movie: “Dark Angel” (M) (’19) 12:00 Stars: Annalise Basso House Of Wellness (PG) [s] The Chase UK (PG) [s] 1:45 Seven News At 4 [s] The Chase Australia (PG) [s] 2:00 Seven News [s] Better Homes And Gardens 3:00 [s] – Joh shows you some tips 4:00 5:00 for renovating your kitchen 6:00 without blowing your budget.

Fast Ed cooks salt and vinegar 7:00 7:30 potato tortillas. Karen makes chiko rolls. Dr Harry checks out 8:30 baby animals on a farm.

Movie: “Interstellar” (M l) (’14) Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Matthew McConaughey, Mackenzie Foy, 10:30 John Lithgow Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.: The Force Of 12:35 Gravity (M v) [s] Home Shopping 1:30 6:00 Home Shopping [s] 7:00 Weekend Sunrise [s] 10:00 The Morning Show [s] Seven’s Horse Racing: 12:00 Moonee Valley/ Randwick [s] 12:30 Border Security - Australia’s 1:00 1:30 Front Line (PG) [s] 2:00 Seven News [s] Movie: “Harry Potter And The 3:00 Goblet Of Fire” (M h,v) (’05) Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma 4:30 Watson, Rupert Grint Movie: “The Wolverine” (M l,v) 5:00 5:30 (’13) – Logan, the century old 6:00 mutant known to the world as Wolverine, is lured to a Japan 7:00 7:30 he hasn’t seen since World War II, and into a shadowy realm of Yakuza and Samurai. 9:40 Stars: Hugh Jackman, Tao Okamoto, Patrick Stewart, Rila 11:55 Fukushima, Hiroyuki Sanada 12:45 Movie: “Kid Cop” (PG) (’96) 1:35 Stars: Edward Albert, Lewis 2:00 Arquett, Sondra Currie Home Shopping 5:30 6:00 Home Shopping 7:00 Weekend Sunrise [s] The Morning Show Weekend 10:00 House Of Wellness (PG) [s] 11:00 11:30 Border Security 12:00 International (PG) [s] 12:30 Cricket: Women’s Big Bash League: Sydney Sixers v 1:30 Melbourne Renegades *Live* From UTAS Stadium [s] 5:00 Seven News At 5 [s] 5:30 Sydney Weekender [s] 6:00 Seven News [s] 7:00 7News Spotlight (PG) [s] – Spotlight uncovers new evidence in a case dubbed the 8:30 trial of the century. The fate of 9:30 a young police officer is in the 10:00 balance as he waits to face a 11:00 jury after shooting dead a young man.

Border Security - Australia’s 11:50 Front Line (PG) [s] Program To Be Advised 12:40 Criminal Confessions (M) [s] 1:05 The Blacklist (MA15+) [s] 1:30

Today [s] 6:00 7:00 Today Extra (PG) [s] NINE’s Morning News [s] 7:30 Movie: “The Wrong Patient” (M v) (’18) Stars: Sunny 8:00 Mabrey, Lindsay Maxwell 12:00 2:00 Talking Honey - Princess Diana: Impact Of Media And 3:00 3:30 Paps (PG) [s] 4:00 Pointless (PG) [s] Tipping Point (PG) [s] 4:30 NINE’s Afternoon News [s] Millionaire Hot Seat [s] NINE News [s] 5:00 6:30 A Current Affair (PG) [s] Taronga: Who’s Who In The 7:30 8:30 Zoo: Naomi’s Baby (PG) [s] Movie: “Dolittle” (PG) (’20) 9:30 Stars: Robert Downey Jr., 10:30 Antonio Banderas Movie: “Victoria And Abdul” (PG) (’17) Stars: Dame Judi 11:30 Dench, Ali Fazal, Tim Pigott-Smith, Eddie Izzard 12:30 Tipping Point (PG) [s] Home Shopping 1:30 6:00 Animal Tales (PG) [s] 6:30 Weekend Today [s] Today Extra - Saturday (PG) 7:00 7:30 Rivals [s] 8:00 Destination WA [s] 9:00 Good Food Kitchen [s] 9:30 My Way [s] Taronga: Who’s Who In The 12:00 1:00 Zoo: Naomi’s Baby (PG) [s] The Block: Backyards Reveal 2:10 2:30 (PG) [s] 3:00 The Garden Gurus [s] 3:30 NINE News: First At Five [s] Getaway (PG) [s] 4:00 NINE News Saturday [s] 4:30 A Current Affair (PG) [s] 5:00 Movie: “Mamma Mia!” (PG) 6:00 (’08) Stars: Meryl Streep Movie: “Pitch Perfect 2” (PG) (’15) Stars: Anna Kendrick Pearson: The Political Wife (M) 9:00 Australia’s Top Ten Of 10:00 Everything (PG) [s] 12:00 A Current Affair (PG) [s] 1:00 Home Shopping 5:00 Wesley Impact (PG) [s] Animal Tales (PG) [s] 6:00 Weekend Today [s] 8:00 Sports Sunday (PG) [s] 8:30 The Xtreme CollXtion (PG) [s] 9:00 Fishing Australia (PG) [s] 9:30 Ultimate Rush (PG) [s] 12:00 World’s Greatest Islands: 12:30 Coral Islands (PG) [s] The Block: Garage, Study And 1:00 Wine Cellar Week (PG) [s] 1:30 NINE News: First At Five [s] 2:00 RBT: Merry Widower (PG) [s] NINE News Sunday [s] 2:30 The Block: Garage, Study And 3:00 Wine Cellar Reveal (PG) [s] 3:30 60 Minutes (M) [s] 4:30 NINE News Late [s] 5:00 The First 48: Lester Street (M) 6:30 Cold Case - New Leads 7:30 Wanted: Tuitania Barclay (MA15+) [s] 9:10 Chicago Med: When To Let Go (M) [s] 10:10 The Garden Gurus [s] 11:10 The Xtreme CollXtion (PG) [s] 12:00 Home Shopping 4:30

Also see: GEM (Channel 82) GO! (Channel 83/88) LIFE (Channel 84)

The Talk [s] Judge Judy (PG) [s] The Bold And The Beautiful (PG) [s] Studio 10 (PG) [s] Dr Phil (PG) [s] The Living Room [s] Judge Judy (PG) [s] My Market Kitchen [s] Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield [s] The Bold And The Beautiful (PG) [s] 10 News First [s] The Project (PG) [s] The Living Room [s] The Graham Norton Show (PG) [s] Program To Be Advised The Montreal Comedy Festival: Just For Laughs #1 (MA15+) [s] The Project (PG) [s] The Late Show With Stephen Colbert (PG) [s] Home Shopping Reel Action [s] Religious Programs [s] Healthy Homes [s] Escape Fishing With ET [s] All 4 Adventure [s] Taste Of Australia [s] Studio 10 Saturday (PG) [s] The Living Room [s] Program To Be Advised My Market Kitchen [s] Australia By Design [s] What’s Up Down Under [s] Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield [s] Farm To Fork (PG) [s] Taste Of Australia [s] 10 News First [s] Football: Women’s International: Matildas v Brazil *Live* From CommBank Stadium [s] Making It Australia [s] Ambulance UK (M d) [s] Program To Be Advised Home Shopping Religious Programs Religious Programs [s] Roads Less Travelled [s] Waltzing Jimeoin (PG) [s] Destination Dessert (PG) [s] Studio 10 Sunday (PG) [s] Left Off The Map [s] Taste Of Australia With Hayden Quinn [s] Three Veg And Meat [s] Healthy Homes Australia [s] The People’s Cup - Lexus Melbourne Cup Tour [s] My Market Kitchen [s] Good Chef Bad Chef [s] Program To Be Advised Farm To Fork [s] 10 News First [s] The Sunday Project (PG) [s] Celebrity MasterChef Australia (PG) [s] CSI: Vegas: Under The Skin (M) [s] FBI: Know Thyself (M) [s] The Sunday Project (PG) [s] Home Shopping CBS Mornings [s]

Also see: 10 PEACH (Channel 11) 10 BOLD (Channel 12)

Classifications: (G) General, (PG) Parental Guidance, (M) Mature Audiences, (MA15+) Mature Audience Over 15 Years, [s] Subtitles Consumer Advice: (d) drug references, (s) sexual references or sex scenes (h) horror, (l) language, (mp) medical procedures, (n) nudity, (v) violence

SBS (C30)

5:00 5:15 5:30 1:00 2:05 3:00 3:30 3:40 4:10 5:05 5:30 6:00 6:30 7:35 8:30 10:30 11:00 11:55 4:10 5:00 5:15 5:30 1:00 2:05 3:00 4:00 4:30 5:40 6:30 7:35 8:35 9:30 11:15 1:15

5:00 5:15 5:30 1:00 3:00 4:40 5:10 5:40 6:30 7:35 8:30 10:00 10:10 12:10 1:10 2:20 3:30

France 24 Feature News NHK World English News Worldwatch PBS Newshour The Story Of The Songs: Diana Ross (PG) NITV News: Nula Destination Flavour Japan Bitesize The Cook Up With Adam Liaw (PG) Secrets Of The Railway: The Soviet Hartz Railway (PG) Jeopardy! (PG) Letters And Numbers Mastermind SBS World News Legends Of The Pharaohs: The Tyrant King (PG) Hunting Hitler’s U-Boats (PG) SBS World News 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown (M l,s) The Eagle (M l,v) (In Danish/ Swedish) Huang’s World (M l) France 24 Feature News NHK World English News Worldwatch PBS Newshour Motor Sports: Superbike World Championship Athletics: Marathon De Paris Highlights Escalation Five Billion Pound Super Sewer (PG) The Buildings That Fought Hitler (PG) SBS World News Celebrity Letters And Numbers (M) Dambusters With Dan Snow (PG) 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown (M l,s) Movie: “True Grit” (PG) (’10) Stars: Jeff Bridges Movie: “Predestination” (MA15+) (’14) Stars: Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, Christopher Kirby France 24 Feature News NHK World English News Worldwatch Speedweek Gymnastics: Rhythmic Going Places With Ernie Dingo (PG) Small Business Secrets (PG) The Buildings That Fought Hitler (PG) SBS World News Inside Central Station: Launch (M) Australia Uncovered: The Children In The Pictures (PG) Scotland: Rome’s Final Frontier Turban Legend: Untold Australia (PG) 24 Hours In Emergency: The Extra Mile (M) Surviving The Virus: My Brother And Me (M l) Alex Polizzi The Fixer Cocaine - Living With The Cartels (MA15+)

Also see: SBS VICELAND (Channel 31) SBS MOVIES (Channel 32) SBS FOOD (Channel 33) SBS NITV (Channel 34)

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Sunrise [s] The Morning Show [s] Seven Morning News [s] Movie: “One Small Indiscretion” (M) (’17) Stars: Ashley Scott, Tiera Skovbye, Cru Ennis, Johnny Visotcky, Sienna Noelle Peeples Program To Be Advised The Chase UK (PG) [s] Seven News At 4 [s] The Chase Australia (PG) [s] Seven News [s] Home And Away (PG) [s] SAS Australia: Hell Week: Breaking Point (M) [s] Movie: “Cold Pursuit” (MA15+) (’19) Stars: Liam Neeson, Laura Dern, Micheál Richardson, Michael Eklund, Bradley Stryker The Goldbergs: It’s All About Comptrol (PG) [s] God Friended Me: From Paris With Love (PG) [s] Home Shopping

6:00 9:00 11:30 12:00

6:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 1:00 2:00 3:15 4:05 5:05 6:00 7:00 7:30 8:05

Sunrise [s] The Morning Show [s] Seven Morning News [s] Movie: “A Father’s Choice” (M) (’00) Stars: Peter Strauss Code Blue - Murder: The Murder Of Katherine Smith (M v) [s] The Chase UK (PG) [s] Seven News At 4 [s] The Chase Australia (PG) [s] Seven News [s] Home And Away (PG) [s] SAS Australia: Hell Week: Beyond Limits (M) [s] Unbelievable Moments Caught On Camera (M) [s] S.W.A.T.: Hotel L.A. (M v) [s] – The team must protect a hotel full of civilians after a mission goes wrong.

The Latest Seven News [s] The Goldbergs: Bill’s Wedding (M v) [s] God Friended Me (PG) [s] Home Shopping

6:00 9:00 11:30 12:00

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6:00 News Breakfast [s] 9:00 ABC News Mornings [s] 11:30 Four Corners [s] 12:00 Antiques Roadshow [s] ABC News At Noon [s] 2:00 Grantchester (M l,v) [s] Parliament Question Time [s] ABC News Afternoons [s] 3:00 Escape From The City [s] Grand Designs Australia (PG) 4:00 5:00 The Drum [s] 6:00 ABC News [s] 7:00 7.30 [s] The Greek Islands With Julia 7:30 Bradbury: The Sporades [s] 9:15 Big Deal (M l) [s] Just Between Us (PG) [s] 10:15 ABC Late News [s] The Business [s] Q&A [s] Program To Be Advised 11:15 Midsomer Murders: Death 11:45 And The Divas (M v) [s] rage (MA15+) [s] 12:00 The Drum [s] 12:30 7.30 [s]

6:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 12:30 1:35 2:00 3:15 4:05 5:05 6:00 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:05 9:55 10:20 11:00 11:15 11:30 12:20 12:35 1:20 2:20

News Breakfast [s] 6:00 ABC News Mornings [s] 9:00 Don’t Stop The Music [s] 11:30 Monty Don’s French Gardens 12:00 ABC News At Noon [s] National Press Club Address Media Watch (PG) [s] Parliament Question Time [s] ABC News Afternoons [s] 2:00 Escape From The City [s] Grand Designs Australia (PG) 3:00 The Drum [s] 4:00 ABC News [s] 5:00 7.30 [s] 6:00 Hard Quiz (PG) [s] 7:00 Gruen [s] 7:30 Frayed (MA15+) [s] Back (MA15+) [s] 8:00 Program To Be Advised ABC Late News [s] 8:30 The Business [s] Four Corners [s] 10:30 Media Watch (PG) [s] 11:00 Father Brown (M v) [s] Without Limits (PG) [s] 12:00 Program To Be Advised 12:30

6:00 Today [s] 6:00 Sunrise [s] 6:00 News Breakfast [s] 9:00 Today Extra (PG) [s] 9:00 The Morning Show [s] 9:00 ABC News Mornings [s] 11:30 NINE’s Morning News [s] 11:30 Seven Morning News [s] 10:00 Australian Story [s] 12:00 The Block (PG) [s] 10:30 The Greek Islands With Julia 12:00 Movie: “Dying To Be Loved” 1:00 Desperate Housewives (M) (M v) (’16) Stars: Lindsay Bradbury [s] 2:00 Pointless (PG) [s] Hartley, Paloma Kwiatkowski, 11:00 The Crown And Us - The Story Dan Payne, Jedidiah Goodacre 3:00 Tipping Point (PG) [s] Of The Royals In Australia [s] 4:00 NINE’s Afternoon News [s] 2:00 Kochie’s Business Builders 12:00 ABC News At Noon [s] 2:30 Border Security - International 5:00 Millionaire Hot Seat [s] 1:00 Hard Quiz (PG) [s] 6:00 NINE News [s] (PG) [s] 1:30 How Deadly World (PG) [s] 7:00 A Current Affair (PG) [s] 2:00 Parliament Question Time [s] 3:00 The Chase UK (PG) [s] 7:30 Paramedics (M) [s] – Cam 4:00 Seven News At 4 [s] 3:15 ABC News Afternoons [s] responds to a call for help from 5:00 The Chase Australia (PG) [s] 4:10 Escape From The City [s] parents desperate to save their 5:10 Grand Designs Australia (PG) 6:00 Seven News [s] son who is bleeding to death.

7:00 Home And Away (PG) [s] 6:00 The Drum [s] Mike and Eamon are confronted 8:30 America’s Got Talent: Audition 6:55 Sammy J (PG) [s] with a shocking Martial Arts 6 (PG) [s] – The auditions roll 7:00 ABC News [s] injury. on. Who will wow the judges 7:30 7.30 [s] 8:30 Love Island Australia (M) [s] and make it into the finals of 8:00 Foreign Correspondent [s] 9:30 Love Island Australia America’s Got Talent?

8:35 Q&A [s] Afterparty (M) [s] 10:30 The Latest Seven News [s] 9:35 Secrets Of The Museum [s] 10:00 NINE News Late [s] 10:25 You Can’t Ask That (PG) [s] 11:00 Chicago Fire: A White-Knuckle Panic (M) [s] 10:30 Reported Missing: Archie (M) 10:45 ABC Late News [s] 11:45 The Fix: Lie To Me (M) [s] 12:00 Black-ish: 11:00 The Business [s] 12:35 Tipping Point (PG) [s] What About Gary? (PG) [s] 11:15 Big Weather (And How To 1:30 Home Shopping 12:30 Home Shopping Survive It) [s]

Tuesday 26 October

Monday 25 October

6:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 1:00 2:00 3:15 4:05 5:05 6:00 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:15 9:35 10:35 10:50 11:05 12:05 12:50 1:35 2:20 4:25 5:25

Wednesday 27 October

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Thursday 28 October

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Also see: ABC PLUS (Channel 22) ABC ME (Channel 23) ABC NEWS (Channel 24)

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Today [s] Today Extra (PG) [s] NINE’s Morning News [s] The Block: Garage, Study And Wine Cellar Reveal (PG) [s] Getaway (PG) [s] Pointless (PG) [s] Tipping Point (PG) [s] NINE’s Afternoon News [s] Millionaire Hot Seat [s] NINE News [s] A Current Affair (PG) [s] The Block: Front Garden And Facade Week (PG) [s] Love Island Australia (M) [s] Kath & Kim: Money (PG) [s] Kath & Kim: Party (PG) [s] NINE News Late [s] New Amsterdam: Boundaries (M) [s] – Max creates chaos when he volunteers New Amsterdam to take over for a short-staffed neighbouring hospital.

Tipping Point (PG) [s] A Current Affair (PG) [s]

6:00 The Talk [s] 5:00 France 24 Feature News 7:00 Judge Judy (PG) [s] 5:15 NHK World English News 7:30 The Bold And The Beautiful 5:30 Worldwatch (PG) [s] 2:00 Inside Central Station: 8:00 Studio 10 (PG) [s] Launch (M) 12:00 Dr Phil (M) [s] 3:00 Where Are You Really From?

1:00 Program To Be Advised (PG) 2:40 Entertainment Tonight [s] 3:35 The Cook Up With Adam 3:00 Judge Judy (PG) [s] Liaw (PG) 3:30 My Market Kitchen [s] 4:05 The Supervet (PG) 4:00 Everyday Gourmet [s] 5:05 Jeopardy! (PG) 4:30 The Bold And The Beautiful 5:30 Letters And Numbers (PG) [s] 6:00 Mastermind 5:00 10 News First [s] 6:30 SBS World News 6:30 The Project (PG) [s] 7:35 Britain’s Most Historic 7:30 Celebrity MasterChef Towns: Medieval Lincoln (PG) Australia (PG) [s] 8:30 Saved By A Stranger (M) 8:40 Have You Been Paying 9:30 24 Hours In Emergency: Attention? (MA15+) [s] With Or Without You (M) 9:40 Just For Laughs Uncut 10:30 SBS World News (MA15+) [s] 11:00 Bosch (MA15+) 10:10 Just For Laughs (MA15+) [s] 11:50 An Ordinary Woman (M l) 10:40 Program To Be Advised (In Russian) 11:40 The Project (PG) [s] 1:50 Deep State (MA15+) 12:40 The Late Show (PG) [s] 3:45 Huang’s World (M l,v) 1:30 Home Shopping 4:35 Vice Guide To Film (MA15+)

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Today [s] Today Extra (PG) [s] NINE’s Morning News [s] The Block: Front Garden And Facade Week (PG) [s] Explore [s] Good Food Kitchen [s] Pointless (PG) [s] Tipping Point (PG) [s] NINE’s Afternoon News [s] Millionaire Hot Seat [s] NINE News [s] A Current Affair (PG) [s] The Block: Front Garden And Facade Week (PG) [s] Love Island Australia (M) [s] Travel Guides: Vietnam (PG) [s] – In Hanoi the guides will live like the locals, navigating through busy streets, sampling cuisine, shopping and joining a motorbike tour.

NINE News Late [s] Damian Lewis - Spy Wars: Trojan Horse (M v) [s] Tipping Point (PG) [s]

6:00 The Talk [s] 7:00 Judge Judy (PG) [s] 7:30 The Bold And The Beautiful (PG) [s] 8:00 Studio 10 (PG) [s] 12:00 Dr Phil (M) [s] 1:00 Program To Be Advised 2:00 Entertainment Tonight [s] 2:30 Farm To Fork [s] 3:00 Judge Judy (PG) [s] 3:30 My Market Kitchen [s] 4:00 Everyday Gourmet [s] 4:30 The Bold And The Beautiful (PG) [s] 5:00 10 News First [s] 6:30 The Project (PG) [s] 7:30 The Dog House Australia (PG) [s] 8:30 The Cheap Seats (M l) [s] 9:25 NCIS: Los Angeles: Indentured (M v) [s] 10:25 NCIS: Los Angeles: If The Fates Allow (M v) [s] 11:25 The Project (PG) [s] 12:25 The Late Show (PG) [s] 1:30 Home Shopping

Sunrise [s] 6:00 The Morning Show [s] 9:00 Seven Morning News [s] 11:30 Movie: “Her Last Will” (M v) 12:00 (’16) Stars: Rya Kihlstedt, Patrick Fischler, Harriet 1:00 Sansom Harris, Fiona Dourif, Michael Graziadei 2:00 Code Blue - Murder: The 3:00 Murder Of John Williams (M) [s] 4:00 The Chase UK (PG) [s] 5:00 Seven News At 4 [s] 6:00 The Chase Australia (PG) [s] 7:00 Seven News [s] 7:30 Home And Away (PG) [s] Highway Patrol: Motorbike Mayhem (PG) [s] Highway Patrol: Burning Rubber (PG) [s] 8:40 America’s Got Talent: 9:40 Audition 5 (PG) [s] The Latest Seven News [s] 10:40 Chicago Fire: What Comes 11:10 Next (M) [s] 12:00 The Windsors (M l,s) [s] 1:00 Home Shopping 1:30

Today [s] Today Extra (PG) [s] NINE’s Morning News [s] The Block: Front Garden And Facade Week (PG) [s] Desperate Housewives: The Story Of Lucy And Jessie (M) Pointless (PG) [s] Tipping Point (PG) [s] NINE’s Afternoon News [s] Millionaire Hot Seat [s] NINE News [s] A Current Affair (PG) [s] The Block: Front Garden And Facade Week (PG) [s] – The Blockheads are ecstatic as their families are coming to visit.

Love Island Australia (M) [s] Botched: Most Memorable Celebrity Patients (M) [s] NINE News Late [s] Pearson: The Rival (M) [s] Tipping Point (PG) [s] A Current Affair (PG) [s] Home Shopping

6:00 The Talk [s] 7:00 Judge Judy (PG) [s] 7:30 The Bold And The Beautiful (PG) [s] 8:00 Studio 10 (PG) [s] 12:00 Dr Phil (PG) [s] 1:00 Program To Be Advised 2:10 Entertainment Tonight [s] 2:30 Farm To Fork [s] 3:00 Judge Judy (PG) [s] 3:30 My Market Kitchen [s] 4:00 Everyday Gourmet With Justine Schofield [s] 4:30 The Bold And The Beautiful (PG) [s] 5:00 10 News First [s] 6:30 The Project (PG) [s] 7:30 The Bachelorette Australia (M) [s] 8:30 Bull: Bull Undone (PG) [s] 9:30 Bull: A Friend In Need (M) [s] 10:30 Bull: Separation (M) [s] 11:30 The Project (PG) [s] 12:30 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert (PG) [s] 1:30 Home Shopping

Also see: 7TWO (Channel 62) 7MATE (Channel 63) 7FLIX (Channel 66)

1:30 2:00 3:00 4:00 5:00 6:00 7:00 7:30 8:45 9:45 10:20 10:55 11:25

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1:15 1:30 2:00 3:00 4:00 5:00 6:00 7:00 7:30 8:40 9:40

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Also see: GEM (Channel 82) GO! (Channel 83/88) LIFE (Channel 84)

5:00 5:15 5:30 1:00 2:05 3:00 3:40 4:10 5:05 5:30 6:00 6:30 7:30 8:30 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 5:00 5:15 5:30 1:00 2:00 2:30 3:30 3:40 4:10 5:05 5:30 6:00 6:30 7:30 8:35 9:30 10:45 11:15 12:15 4:35

France 24 Feature News NHK World English News Worldwatch PBS Newshour The Story Of The Songs: Eric Clapton Where Are You Really From?

(PG) The Cook Up With Adam Liaw (PG) Secrets Of The Railway (PG) Jeopardy! (PG) Letters And Numbers Mastermind SBS World News Great Canadian Railroad Journeys: Kamloops To Calgary (M) Insight: Lone Survivor Dateline: Back To School With Delta The Feed SBS World News The Point Before We Die (M d,l,v) (In Swedish) France 24 Feature News NHK World English News Worldwatch PBS Newshour Dateline Insight Destination Flavour Japan Bitesize The Cook Up With Adam Liaw (PG) Secrets Of The Railway (PG) Jeopardy! (PG) Letters And Numbers Mastermind SBS World News Australia’s Health Revolution (M) 24 Hours In Emergency: Turn Back Time (M) Railways Of The Western Front (PG) SBS World News Atlantic Crossing (M v) (In Norwegian/ English) The Killing (M l) (In Danish) Vice Guide To Film (M l,v)

6:00 The Talk [s] 5:00 France 24 Feature News 7:00 Judge Judy (PG) [s] 5:15 NHK World English News 7:30 The Bold And The Beautiful 5:30 Worldwatch (PG) [s] 1:00 PBS Newshour 8:00 Studio 10 (PG) [s] 2:00 Destination Flavour China 12:00 Dr Phil (PG) [s] Bitesize 1:00 Program To Be Advised 2:15 The Eviction (PG) 2:00 Entertainment Tonight [s] 3:40 The Cook Up With Adam Liaw 2:30 Farm To Fork [s] (PG) 3:00 Judge Judy (PG) [s] 4:10 Secrets Of The Railway: 3:30 My Market Kitchen [s] The Deadly Liverpool To 4:00 Everyday Gourmet [s] Manchester Railway (PG) 4:30 The Bold And The Beautiful 5:05 Jeopardy! (PG) (PG) [s] 5:30 Letters And Numbers 5:00 10 News First [s] 6:00 Mastermind 6:30 The Project (PG) [s] 6:30 SBS World News 7:30 The Bachelorette Australia (M) 7:30 Coastal Devon And Cornwall 9:10 Gogglebox (PG) [s] – With Michael Portillo (PG) Australia’s favourite armchair 8:30 Red Election (PG) critics let you know what’s hot 10:30 SBS World News and what will have you reaching 11:00 Gomorrah (MA15+) (In Italian) for the remote.

11:55 Mr Mercedes (MA15+) 10:10 Program To Be Advised 1:55 The Name Of The Rose 11:10 The Project (PG) [s] (MA15+) 12:10 The Late Show (PG) [s] 4:00 Ainsley’s Australian Market 1:00 Home Shopping Menu

Also see: 10 PEACH (Channel 11) 10 BOLD (Channel 12)

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Also see: SBS VICELAND (Channel 31) SBS MOVIES (Channel 32) SBS FOOD (Channel 33) SBS NITV (Channel 34)

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DOWN IN THE GARDEN: Get the Tropical Look for Your Garden

CHERALYN DARCEY

On the Central Coast we are in a temperate area and while some tropical plants can grow well in various pockets and may even thrive with additional care, many plants from ‘up North’ just won’t survive or thrive in this cooler climate.

When we think tropical plants for our garden, most of us are referring to the understory rainforest plants that generally need very rich loamy soil that is kept damp.

These plants love humidity, will not tolerate frost and the temperature remains above 18c.

Many tropical plants have large leaves to capture the light and the falling rain in the darkness of the jungle and while looking out over an area of wild tropical growth, you will also notice that the vegetation is rather tangled and almost overgrown in nature.

I’ve got a few tips and tricks to get this look without having to go ‘Troppo!’.

Planting Tips Try selecting plants that have darker foliage as this increases the perceived depth of your faux-tropical garden.

The darker an area is, the more difficult it is the see where the garden ends.

Increase volume by mass planting or grouping together pots of the same plants.

This makes the viewer think they are looking at one big plant, not lots of small ones and subconsciously we tend to think of tropical plants as bigger even though that is not actually always the case.

Placing plants closer together helps but mind that your selection is suited for this as the increase in humidity will be great for real tropical plants but not so good for others.

Too much humidity will increase the chance of fungal issues.

Vines will also boost the jungle vibe of your tropical paradise and you can try the Australian Natives Wonga Wonga Vine and Bower of Beauty (Pandorea jasminoides).

Add in a few plants that have unusual and bright blossoms as nothing says tropical like these.

A couple of suggestions for you that will do well in this area are Bird of Paradise (Strelitzia regina) and any of the Bromeliads.

Also Try These Plants Bamboo can give you a tropical look and if you are hesitant about letting this plant into your garden, then try the delightfully jungle-looking and sounding Tiger grass (Thysanolaena maxima).

There are so many Cordylines in a myriad of colours and these can also give you another layer of texture with their spear-like leaves.

The good old Swiss Cheese Plant (Monstera deliciosa) is a temperate area plant that looks like it comes from the hot depths of the jungle but will be incredibly happy in East Coast Aussie gardens.

If you are looking for a large plant, try the Giant White Bird of Paradise (Strelitzia nicolai) as it is drought tolerant and will provide a great backdrop to your tropical garden.

Philodendron ‘Xanadu’ will grow in full sun and is also drought tolerant.

Any of the gingers will work well including the ornamental stand out Shell Ginger (Alpinia zerumbet ‘variegata’).

If you have a brown thumb, try a bunch of Cast Iron Plants (Aspidistra elatior) as they are pretty much indestructible and also do very well in large pots, perfect for courtyards.

Pop in Flaming Katy (Kalanchoe blossfeldiana) in any open little pockets and spots as their leaves and bright flowers make interesting little focal points that pop.

Heliconia of all sorts are also a welcome addition and give that unusual twist and while they may present a bit of a challenge, if you find a humid spot you should be rewarded.

Dark earthy colours will work as well.

Rustic timber furniture and features will give a wild jungle feeling and you could try adding natural looking water features but instead of fast running fountains opt for slow trickling effects that will mimic the feeling and sounds of the rainforest.

Building a relationship with heatloving plants when you don’t live in the tropics.

Marianne Willburn ISBN: 9780760368947.

Quarto Books, USA If you want to grow real tropical plants or even just be inspired by them then I highly recommend this new book by Marianne Willburn.

Both houseplant growing and delving into the creation of tropical growth for your garden is covered so well.

The advice is suitable for those not living in hot tropical climates and is written in an easy to understand, at time humorous and insightful way.

A gardening book with a bit of a difference for those who love the tropical look.

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TASKS & TIPS FOR YOU THIS WEEK

Design Elements Use pots that are deep emeraldgreen to extend the lushness of your tropical garden.

Tropical Plants and How to Love Them

YOU & YOUR GARDEN: Howard Williams, Wyoming

After our search for the perfect Central Coast deciduous tree for Martin of Blue Bay, Howard Williams wrote to us with his suggestion: Dear Cheralyn, As grower of Australian native plants for well over 35 years, may I suggest a tree that I have grown which may be good for Martin.

The tree is the Fine Leaf Tuckeroo (Lepiderema Pulchella) which puts on a beautiful new leaf followed by orange/

yellow flowers then orange berries which native birds love.

It grows in my garden in Wyoming very well and is between 6 and 8 metres tall.

You can cut it back quite hard and it will still live a good life.

I hope this may help Martin.

Regards Howard Williams

This week, you could plant artichokes, asparagus crowns, cape gooseberry, capsicum, beetroot, climbing and dwarf beans, cabbage, carrot, celery, chicory, choko, cress, cucumbers, eggplants, endive, melons, squashes, lettuce, spring onions, parsnip, peas, potatoes, radish, rhubarb crowns, salsify, silverbeet, sweet corn, alyssum, calendula, California poppy, carnation, celosia, chrysanthemum, cosmos, dahlia, dianthus, everlasting daisies, gazania, gerbera, marigold, petunia, salvia, zinnia, kangaroo paw, nasturtium, snapdragon, salvia.

A few things in season: avocado, banana, blueberries, mango, asparagus, broad beans, silverbeet, passionfruit, oranges.

Cheralyn Darcey is a gardening author, community garden coordinator and along with Pete Little, hosts ‘At Home with The Gardening Gang’ 8 10am every Saturday on CoastFM963.

She is also co-host of @MostlyAboutPlants a weekly gardening podcast with Vicki White.

Send your gardening questions, events, and news to: gardeningcentralcoast@gmail.com

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The Blue Line Down

Author: Maris Lawyer Publisher: Hub City Press

The Blue Line Down is a book I chose after seeing it pop up on Kirkus Reviews (one of the sites I look at to help me chose books).

This is a debut novel about Jude Washer growing up in West Virginia in the early 1900’s.

His father works in the mines and that is where Jude’s future is heading.

His mother passes away while giving birth to Willis and that is when Jude’s life falls apart.

Jude’s father blames Willis

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for his wife’s death and punishes him harshly.

Linnet Myers, a neighbour comes to the house to help put but eventually she marries and has her own children to tend to leaving Jude and Willis at the mercy of their cruel father.

Willis grows up but still bears the brunt of Pa’s punishments.

Eventually he goes to school and Jude has a sense of relief as he can keep an eye out for him, but he can’t watch him all the time and sometimes Jude would come home, “to find Willis with a boxed ear.

Jude did not let on that he knew about the beatings.

He did not know how.”

During one brutal punishment Jude tries to

pull his father off Willis but Willis is so ashamed he runs into the mines to hide out.

The mines will extol the ultimate punishment and Jude will be in such pain he does something to punish his father … but which will punish others as well.

Jude ends up with the Baldwin-Felts, a group of thugs who are hired to

squash mine workers from unionising, by any method necessary, and that doesn’t mean by talking.

There is a particularly brutal attack on a mining camp where Jude’s underling, Harvey Morgan is wounded when he speaks out about the cruelty.

Jude decides he has had enough and takes the injured

Harvey on a journey that will lead them down to South Carolina where they meet some bootleggers who they now owe a debt to.

But the Baldwin-Felts aren’t going to let them get away without a flight.

This is a fast pace novel with some gritty writing set against a backdrop of the Appalachian coal wars and the bootlegging South – an engaging step back in time a hundred years ago during the times of prohibition and outlaws.

It is a story about violence and suffering, revolution, morals and redemption.

Jude is a person in pain that made a terrible decision, but he will try to make things right.

The descriptions are so

detailed you can almost view the movie version.

It isn’t a long book but it sure packs a punch.

Kim Reardon The Reluctant Book Critic For those of you who aren’t familiar with this section, I am an avid book reader that writes about the books I read. I am a simple person with simple views on what makes a good story. I choose books that I want to read, usually from acclaimed lists (so most are pretty good, but some can be surprisingly bad). I always write what I honestly think and, as reflected in the Editor’s name for me, I do it all a little bit reluctantly.

I have read some books from some amazing local authors – Dr Kwong, Donna Cameron and Nina Angelo all come to mind – and have written reviews on these. Over recent months however, I have had a lot of requests to review more local authors’ work, many in the form of unpublished manuscripts or self-published titles. While I do look at these requests, if you don’t see your book reviewed, it means it just wasn’t working for me.

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Business & Property Food industry hydrogen collaboration a world first A new industry-led hydrogen cluster will be established on the Central Coast to provide a carbonfree heat source for food manufacturing.

Bateau Bay-based Star Scientific and Central Coast Industry Connect have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which will pioneer the use of Star Scientific’s awardwinning Hydrogen Energy Release Optimiser (HERO®) technology.

The venture will be known as the Central Coast Hydrogen Food Cluster.

It will involve Star Scientific working with food companies to provide carbon-free heat with Central Coast Industry Connect running the cluster and providing the governance structure.

Global Group Chairman of Star Scientific,Andrew Horvath,

said he was excited that the first commercial application of HERO in the world would be on the Coast.

“Food manufacturers all over the world are looking for solutions to remove carbon from industrial processes such as heating, drying and cleaning,” he said.

“The Central Coast region is home to some of Australia’s biggest household brands and global food manufacturers, many of whom are realising the potential of hydrogen and our HERO technology to meet their heating needs.

“We have already commenced work under this MoU providing heat for industrial-scale cleaning purposes in the food hub.

“This exciting work will demonstrate how our HERO can pave the way for Australian food manufacturers to

Andrew Horvath (left) and Frank Sammut sign the MoU

reduce emissions.

“The gazetting by the NSW Government of the Central Coast as a Renewable Energy Zone and the recent release of a visionary hydrogen strategy for NSW is the icing

on the cake.”

Executive Director of the Central Coast Industry Connect, Frank Sammut, said taking steps to decarbonise was important for the manufacturing sector including food and

beverage manufacturing.

“Manufacturers have turned to renewable electricity sources to reduce their carbon footprint but alternatives to gas for heating and cooking continue to be a challenge across a number of uses,” he said.

“The MoU with Star Scientific provides the opportunity for developing that alternative carbon free heat source.”

Horvath said the cluster would be designed to be as inclusive as possible and hoped to engage and share knowledge with similar ventures emerging across Australia and New Zealand.

“Knowledge and skills sharing with similar clusters emerging around Australia and New Zealand is of paramount importance to increase efficiency around these processes,” he said.

“We want this cluster to be an ‘incubator’ of regulatory issues for the hydrogen supply chain, and more specifically, ‘green’ hydrogen made from renewable energy.

“Regulators are coming to grips with the use of green hydrogen and we hope the cluster will enable us to identify those issues early in the process and deal with them.”

Star Scientific is a leading hydrogen research and development company with a global reach and scope.

Central Coast Industry Connect (CCIC) is a not-forprofit organisation which supports the region’s manufacturing sector to unlock opportunities through collaboration.

Source: Media release, Oct 19 Star Scientific

Brewing up new engineers In less than a year after moving to Lisarow and setting up a brewery five times larger than its previous operation, Hawkesbury Brewing Co (HBC) has grown to a staff of more than 70 employees, four of them engineering apprentices.

Central Coast Head Brewer, Tim Best, and Head of Engineering, Mick Hookham, said it’s all about investing in the future and meaningfully contributing to the community.

“We’re on the Central Coast for the long haul and we’re committed to being a part of this community,” Hookham said.

Best said some of the skills of

operating a brewery were unique and the company was excited to bring on apprentices and show them the ropes.

“That way, they grow as we grow,” he said.

“We are teaching the apprentices all facets of brewery production.

“This includes fitting and welding, running the machines, helping with brewing and all the way to warehousing.

“We believe it’s critical they spend time in each area.

“At the end of the apprenticeship they will be qualified to work in our engineering departmen and will be equipped with trade skills for life which will equally be transferrable to other industries.

Apprentice, Andrew Nemeth, said it was a great opportunity to skill up in a large, fastgrowing industry.

“I’m learning how to run and maintain all of the different machines as well as weld stainless steel,” he said.

“So far the apprenticeship is challenging but a lot of fun and I’m excited to see where it takes me.

“I hope to expand my skill set and learn as much as I can to improve as a boilermaker, and continue to work at the Hawkesbury Brewing Co.” Fellow apprentice, Erin Cleaver, said she was finding the position very enjoyable but challenging.

“It’s not the type of job role that you would come across

often,” she said.

“It is very rewarding knowing how much you are able to accomplish in such a short period of time.

“It’s a great to see the Hawkesbury beers we’re making going into more and more shops around the Coast and being part of something local.”

Best said the management at Hawkesbury Brewing Co felt lucky to be based on the Central Coast.

“The calibre of the people has been fantastic,” he said.

“Everyone is professional, works hard but still finds time for a laugh.

“There’s a real community aspect to our brewery now.

“We even have an olympian working amog us in Erin.”

The company will open a taphouse early in 2022 and continues to look at ways to expand and train its team.

“We’ve offered to pay for our brewery team to get their RSAs so in the future they can work in the taphouse and support the events we’re involved in,” Best said.

“It diversifies their skillsets and provides us with a multifunctional team; it’s a win-win.

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The company’s beers can be purchased in more than 100 locations on the Central Coast including Dan Murphy’s and BWS. Source: Media release, Oct 15 Hawkesbury Brewing Co

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Terrigal project refusal to be reviewed An application to add a sixth storey to a development already underway at 5-7 Church St Terrigal is once more in the spotlight, with the applicant requesting a review of a rejection of the proposal by the Central Coast Local Planning Panel in June.

The Panel unanimously rejected the application, for a sixth storey penthouse and winder balconies on lower floors to be added to an approved five-storey commercial and shop top housing development.

Following the receipt of 62 submissions of objection, the Panel said the proposed modification would significantly increase the height and floor

space of the approved development and exceeded the development standards of Clause 4.3 and 4.4 of the Gosford Local Environmental Plan 2014.

It also found the suggested alteration did not comply with the objectives and development standards of various environmental planning and development control plans and would affect the views and amenity of neighbouring properties.

A Statement of Environmental Effects (SEE) lodged with the review request claimed the application “does indeed comply” with planning policies and is consistent with the intended function of Church St as one of the principal “mixed use” streets within Terrigal

Map showing the location of the block in question

Village Centre.

The SEE said amendments to the street and side boundary building setbacks and the reduced floor plate of the proposed penthouse provided for wider coastal view sharing corridors through Level 6.

“The proposed modified development does not result in

any additional adverse amenity impacts (over shadowing; loss of privacy; or noise generating activities) on adjoining sites,” the SEE said.

It said the application was not contrary to the public interest because it was consistent with the relevant objectives of the applicable environmental

planning framework and would not result in unreasonable environmental impacts on either neighbouring properties or the public domain.

It said the proposed additional penthouse level was lower than, or similar in height to, other multi-level mixed use buildings approved by Council in recent years in the immediate locality at 15 Kurrawyba St, 6 Pine Tree Lne and 13 Ash St. “The proposed modified development does not overshadow any public open space and does not obstruct any views of natural topographical features from any public open space, or the public domain generally,” the SEE said.

Updated architectural drawings submitted with the

review request included: a revision to the outline of the terrace on Level 5; a modification of Level 6 to show increased building setbacks to Church St and to the side property boundaries; and a reconfiguration of the penthouse floor plan.

Submissions can be made on the proposal from Friday, October 22 until close of business on Friday, November 19.

Online submissions can be made at centralcoast.nsw.gov. au, with written submissions to be addressed to the CEO, Coast Council, PO Box 21, Gosford 2250.

Source: NSW Department of Planning Major Projects website

201-unit development approved for John Whiteway Drive A controversial $110M residential project planned for 89 John Whiteway Dr, Gosford, has been approved by the Department of Planning as a State Significant Development.

The Department said the project would provide a range of benefits for the region, that it was consistent with planning policies, that impacts on the community and the environment could be minimised and that issues raised by objectors had been adequately addressed.

In its approval ruling, the project is in the public interest, and would provide 472 construction jobs, both local and state infrastructure contributions, and 201 new dwellings to meet housing demand and provide housing diversity.

“The project is permissible with development consent and is consistent with NSW Government policies including the North Coast Regional Plan 2036, The Gosford Urban

Design Framework, and Future of objection and undertook a It required three units from Transport Strategy 2056,” the site visit.

Block D to be removed with the approval said.

The development will space to be used as communal Figure 2: Locality Aerial Photograph (Note: This photograph shows the former “The impacts on the comprise 201 dwellings in four space (indoor or outdoor) or an public car park on the subject site and “alternative pre-dates the currentto the ancillary community and the buildings, basement car construction of shop-top housing on theresidential site). character of the environment can be parking, associated appropriately minimised, landscaping and public domain development”.

4 managed or offset to an works.

Full details of the requirements Application pursuant to Section 8.3 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act, 1979 requesting acceptable level, in accordance are available on the Department Prior to issuing a construction Central Coast Council to review its decision to refuse DA 52083/2017 – Part 4 for shop top housing and car with applicable NSW the Department has of Planning Major Projects parking on Lots 19 & 20 DP 7861, certificate, Nos. 5 & 7 Church Street, Terrigal.

Government policies and requested a raft of actions website.

Doug Sneddon Planning Pty Ltd – August 2021.revised plans to: standards, subject to conditions including Terry Collins of consent. increase the setback from John “The issues raised by the Whiteway Dr; improve community during consultation integration of the entry and in submissions have been structure into the overall considered and adequately building envelope; and addressed through changes to minimise blank wall interfaces the project and the to the bushland corridor and recommended conditions of the public domain. consent.”

The developer will be required The Environmental Impact to provide screening along the Statement for the project was southern edge of the public NOW AT CORNER GEORGE DOWNES exhibited from April 23 to walkway opposite the northern DRIVE and BLOODTREE ROAD May20 and received 16 elevations of Blocks C and D, to submissions, including 14 be designed to include public • home style preserves & Food and more objections, one comment and art. one in support of the project.

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Julia NEWBOULD Managing Editor • Money magazine Getting approved for a home loan is set to get tougher after the banking regulator announced an increase to the minimum interest rate buffer banks use when assessing home loan applications.

Previously, banks had to assess whether an applicant was able to service a loan that was 2.5% higher than the current advertised rate for a given product. Now, that threshold has been lifted to 3%.

The move aims to increase the stability of the banking system, ahead of an inevitable increase in the cash rate.

“While the banking system is well capitalised and lending standards overall have held up, increases in the share of heavily indebted borrowers and

leverage in the household sector more broadly, mean that medium-term risks to financial stability are building,” says APRA Chair Wayne Byres.

“More than one in five new loans approved in the June quarter were at more than six times the borrowers’ income, and at an aggregate level the expectation is that housing credit growth will run ahead of household income growth in the period ahead. With the economy expected to bounce back as lockdowns begin to be lifted around the country, the balance of risks is such that stronger serviceability standards are warranted.”

Commonwealth Bank was quick to give the change the thumbs up.

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serviceability floor is a sensible and appropriate step to help take some of the heat out of the housing market,” Commonwealth Bank chief executive Matt Comyn said in a statement.

“Having increased our floor to 5.25% in June we think this further step will provide additional comfort for borrowers and is a prudent measure for lenders.”

APRA forecasts that increasing the buffer by 0.5% will “maximum borrowing

capacity for the typical borrower by around 5%”.

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“During a low interest rate environment, such as we have today, it is important for borrowers to understand not just their actual loan repayments, but what a rise in rates would do to those

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“Having increased our floor to 5.25% in June we think this further step will provide additional comfort for borrowers and is a prudent measure for lenders.”

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Last month treasurer Josh Frydenberg gave the green light for APRA to turn the screws on the housing market.

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More than half of employers are clueless about super changes More than half of employers are clueless on what the Your Future, Your Super reforms including stapling - mean and how to comply, according to new research.

The study, commissioned by consumer experience consultancy CSBA and Fund Executives Association Limited (FEAL) in partnership with Melbourne Business School, surveyed 8355 individual fund members and 1155 employers.

It found 54% of surveyed

employers were not aware of the YFYS reform and stapling requirement that comes into effect on November 1.

Among employers who were aware of YFYS, approximately 65% looked to their funds for information and support, including details they could pass on to employees.

The study also found 17% of employers had a specific suggestion for how super funds could improve proactive engagement.

“Any help is better than none. I

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Another employer gave this feedback: “Some background on what it actually is, and the impact on the employer to be compliant, and anything to give to employees would be fantastic.”

When super fund members were asked if they were more or less likely to stay with their fund long term as a result of the stapling reforms, 52% of older

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Members closer to retirement were more likely to seek financial advice, discuss insurance and investments and were also more likely to report greater trust with the fund as a result of these interactions.

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$50 tourism vouchers too little too late says Harris A $530M State Government support package announced on October 20 to revive the events and tourism industry has been applauded by Business NSW Central Coast, but Shadow Minister for Jobs, Investment and Tourism and Member for Wyong, David Harris, says a $50 voucher scheme which forms part of the package will be offered too late to help Coast businesses recover.

Major elements of the package include: $250M for an expanded Stay & Rediscover scheme providing a $50 voucher to all NSW adults; $150M to support the recovery of major event activity across the state including $50M for a Regional Events Package; $50M for a CBDs Revitalisation Program to support events and

activations; an Event Saver Fund to provide immediate support to organisers if events are cancelled or disrupted by any public health orders during the 2021-22 summer; and a $25M Festival Relaunch package.

“Business NSW has been telling Government since the start of the pandemic that different industries were being impacted in different ways, but the tourism, hospitality and events sector has been the hardest hit,” said Business NSW Regional Director, Paula Martin.

“What is particularly pleasing is this is not a Sydney-centric package but recognises that all of NSW has a part to play in the economic recovery through regional events and tourism, with support for satellite CBDs a cornerstone of this funding.

“Central Coast business in

this sector will be delighted with the Event Saver Fund which allows for immediate financial support for organisers of events that are disrupted or cancelled due to a Public Health Order this summer.

“This will allow confidence in investment and employment without a fear of being left footing a huge bill.

“The exciting part about this support package is that it will actually encourage more business investment and drive a collaborative partnership between business and Government in securing events and once again making NSW the number one destination in the Asia Pacific region for both business and travel.

“What is crucial is the targeted approach the Government takes from here in deciding where the money is spent – this needs to be on a

needs-based approach to ensure maximum return on investment.

“A united approach using insight from stakeholders on the ground will be crucial to ensuring this package delivers for all of NSW.” NSW Labor said the $50 voucher scheme, not set to be delivered until March next year, would be offered too late for tourism operators to recover, after being decimated over the last four months due to lockdowns and travel restrictions.

“The tourism industry in NSW, particularly in regional areas, has been hit extremely hard,” Shadow Minister for Jobs, Investment and Tourism and Member for Wyong, David Harris, said.

“These are family businesses who rely on people visiting to put food on the table and pay

the bills.

“A $50 voucher in six months’ time isn’t exactly the stimulus tourism operators and accommodation providers were expecting.

“Tourism operators can’t afford to wait until next year for relief.

“The Government should have had these vouchers ready to go by November 1 when regional travel resumes and well ahead of the Christmas/ New Year holiday period when families will be able to travel.”

Harris said $50 vouchers fall short of the amount given in other states.

“For example, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory offered vouchers of up to $200,” he said.

Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast, Adam

Crouch, said providing the vouchers in March would prolong the bumper summer season.

“The vouchers can be spent on accommodation anywhere in NSW and given our proximity to Sydney, this means that many thousands of people will choose our region as their destination of choice,” he said.

“We have some of NSW’s best beaches and tourism attractions here on the Central Coast, and I am looking forward to seeing our local businesses come back with a bang.

“The Dine & Discover vouchers have already injected over $5M into the Central Coast economy, which just goes to show the impact that NSW Government-funded stimulus is having.”

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Commuters warned to prepare for reduced timetable due to overtime ban Coast commuters may need to be prepared for disruptions to train services as rail workers have placed a two-week ban on overtime from October 25.

This follows an industrial action on October 20, that halted services following the breakdown of negotiations between the NSW Government and the NSW Rail, Tram and Bus Union (RTBU) over wages and conditions.

The two-week ban will likely see trains forced to run at a reduced timetable but the extent of changes to impact the Coast is not yet clear.

RTBU Secretary, Alex Claassens, said the industrial action followed the continued refusal of senior management at NSW Trains and Sydney Trains to meet with workers to negotiate wages and conditions.

Claassens said neither senior management nor the Transport Minister had attended negotiation meetings, despite the Enterprise Agreement expiring more than five months ago.

He said issues in the new Enterprise Agreement included a refusal to rule out further privatisation of transport services and jobs and a refusal

to commit to a continued high standard of train cleaning.

“We don’t want to have to take any action, but rail workers have absolutely no choice but to try to make management listen to them, and industrial action is the only tool they have,” Claassens said.

“Last month, rail workers were forced to take the step of

stopping our train network for the first time in decades, out of sheer desperation at the complete silence and disrespect from the NSW Government.

“Unbelievably, the silence and disrespect has continued.

“Rail workers will again take every step to make sure essential workers can still get

by while industrial action takes place this month, but we urge commuters to plan their travel carefully and leave extra time while industrial action takes place.

“All rail workers are asking for is safety and security for themselves and the travelling public and for a halt to the silent sell-off of our rail network.

“This State Government has a shocking record of dismantling, privatising and selling off our public transport, a policy they have enthusiastically continued under cover of the COVID pandemic.

“More and more of our state’s public transport jobs are being privatised and axed.

“It’s the public that loses out with an inferior service that is increasingly unsafe.

“The people of NSW have said time and again they want to keep public transport in public hands, and it’s high time

they were listened to.”

Chief Executive of Sydney Trains, Matt Longland, said the strike on October 20 had been handled satisfactorily.

Trains were running at about 80 per cent of pre-COVID passenger levels, he said.

“On Wednesday we built a new train plan and spread about a third of the trains which would normally operate across the network, adding buses where needed.”

Longland said he was still hopeful the two-week overtime ban could be averted as discussions with unions continued.

“It’s a lengthy process involving seven different unions and we have to work productively with all those unions,” he said.

He would not be drawn on details of the workers’ demands.

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Central Coast Local Health District (CCLHD) has refuted claims by Member for Gosford, Liesl Tesch, that the maternity unit at Gosford is under-staffed.

Tesch said the number of babies born at the hospital has increased by 17.1 per cent over the past year, according to the Bureau of Health.

“The birth rate is the highest increase in comparison to the others within its peer group including hospitals like Westmead, Royal Prince Alfred and Nepean,” Tesch said.

“From the data it is clear the births at Gosford Hospital have consistently increased since October last year.

“With this increase it seems like a given that more staff need to be rostered on yet instead I am hearing from our midwives and new mothers that nurses are being run off their feet trying to accommodate to all of the needs.”

Tesch said the ongoing unavailability of the maternity unit at Wyong Hospital, which was closed early last year in

anticipation of a surge in COVID-19 patients, is adding to the stress on Gosford Hospital and new families.

“We are clearly seeing an increase in births and yet the Government is yet to wake up and give us a solution which would benefit our midwives,

nurses and mums to be,” she said.

“With a total of 822 babies born and an increase of 120 babies in the April to June period since 2020 this only adds to the already heavy workload for nurses at Gosford Hospital.”

Tesch said data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare indicated the percentage of babies born in the region with an Apgar score of less than seven was higher than the state average.

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prematurity through to congenital anomaly – requiring further attention, she said.

“The NSW Nurses and Midwives Association has been calling for babies to be included in the nurse-topatient ratio for years yet the NSW Government is yet to answer their calls,” Tesch said.

“Nurses are not just caring for 822 mothers, they are caring for 822 new-born babies, that means a total of 1644 lives.

“We all know that our nurses and midwives will do their very best to accommodate the needs of both mum and bub but that does not mean it is fair or just to run them off their feet; nurses know this and so do patients.”

A spokesperson for CCLHD said there were more nurses and midwives in NSW public hospitals than at any other time in history.

“Between 2012 and 2021, the CCLHD expanded its workforce by an additional 1,265 full-time equivalent staff – an increase of 28.7 per cent - including 239 more

doctors, 519 more nurses and midwives and 131 more allied health staff,” the spokesperson said.

“CCLHD maternity services monitor bookings for pregnancy care and adjust staffing requirements according to patient need.

“All NSW Health maternity services use an assessment method to determine maternity staffing levels, which has been endorsed by the NSW Nurses and Midwives Association.

“Like all workplaces, our maternity service does at times have staff vacancies due to retirements, parental leave requirements or staff moving on to other roles and we actively recruit as necessary.

“The NSW Government is also currently investing in a further 5,000 nurses and midwives over four years under a record $2.8B boost to frontline staff.

There has been no indication when the maternity unit at Wyong Hospital will reopen.

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Starting over in Spring: mindset ‘big rocks’

GEORGIA LIENEMANN This is the third part of our post-lockdown wholistic health reset. We’re focusing on simple mindset and lifestyle shifts that will create significant results.

Last week we introduced the concept of ‘big rocks’ and the benefits associated with ‘crowding out’ unproductive or harmful habits with beneficial ones.

This week we’re applying it to mindset shifts and the small actions we can take in that area, to radically improve our health.

How long has it been since you experienced an irrepressible lust for life? When was the last time you had an outlook and accompanying energy levels that compelled you to jump out of bed and into your day?

I’d hazard a guess that it’s been a while.

Often, when life gets challenging or unpredictable, we can become trapped in the story that it’s our external circumstances that dictate where the needle lies on this barometer.

A gentle reminder, folks: it’s not!

We have the ability to actively generate this joyful, inspired state and we can develop this ability like a muscle – thankfully even during periods of grief, stress, uncertainty and upheaval!

There are certain behaviours that support this type of mental muscle building and repeatedly engaging in these, create structural changes in the brain through the process of neuroplasticity.

Essentially, the quickest way to change how we feel is to change

overextending oneself to meet the needs of others and this has the opposite effect when it comes to our health.

In a practical sense, the habit of altruism of can be integrated in much the same way as a gratitude practice. Aim to include one small thing each day that you can do for someone else and build from there. Keep a list of simple ideas to inspire you if it doesn’t come naturally at first.

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the way we think.

Here are three simple practices that are powerful in their ability to radically improve our health.

Practising gratitude If you’re rolling your eyes at how often this suggestion graces these types of lists, put your cynicism on hold for just a moment. There’s a reason why the world’s top high-performance experts unanimously rate it as one of the most effective strategies to create health and success.

The sheer volume of research supporting this strategy is staggering. Gratitude is now being recognised as one of the essential keys to human health and happiness.

It has the power to improve our resilience in the face of stress, reduce anxiety and depression, greatly improve sleep, immunity and numerous health markers, including blood pressure, while strengthening our social bonds and relationships (one of the most important predictors of longevity).

How does it work?

Whenever we cultivate a state of gratitude, there is a surge of the feel-good chemicals, dopamine, serotonin and oxytocin in the brain. We instantly enhance our mood and induce feelings of pleasure and contentment – regardless of our external circumstances.

By practicing gratitude on a regular basis, we assist these

neural pathways to strengthen and eventually we create a more permanent shift in outlook. We perceive our reality differently because our brains are primed to notice and recognise positive occurrences.

On the other hand, if you’re constantly ruminating over perceived negative events or allowing yourself to fall into a regular habit of complaining, then the pathways for gratitude and happiness will become weaker and less influential over time.

How to implement the practice A great way to start is by keeping a gratitude journal and noting down a couple of unique things you are grateful for each day. If you have time – elaborate on why. If this is too much of a commitment to start with, even sitting quietly and focusing your full attention on one thing you deeply love and appreciate about your life, partner, work, kids or self each day.

As we’ve spoken about in previous weeks, integrating any new habit will be more successful if it’s added to another existing routine. Keeping a small notepad or journal on the bedside table and jotting something down at bedtime or prior to rising is a really easy way to make this a daily habit that sticks.

If you can rope your partner in to join you, it’s a great exercise to do verbally together at the end of each day. The research has

shown profound impacts of gratitude in relationships – it is now being recognised as one of the biggest predictors of relationship longevity and success.

Another way to integrate this practice and have it simultaneously benefit your relationships is to regularly engage in the practice of writing thank you notes.

Altruism Practising altruism, either in the form of kindness, compassion, generosity volunteering or donating, is another evidencebased strategy to improve wellbeing.

Compelling research has shown that when we behave in an altruistic manner, we activate the pleasure and reward centres in the brain, much like when we indulge our food cravings or other niggling habits.

There have been numerous studies highlighting the fact that people volunteering experience greater benefits than those they are serving. The most common benefits include increased satisfaction, a greater sense of connection and community and a noticeable improvement in self-esteem and selfacceptance.

The essential thing to recognise is that it’s giving from a place of abundance that is associated with all the benefits – from a place of having enough time and energy to give. Sacrificial giving, on the other hand, involves

Your diet doesn’t merely consist of what you take from your plate, it’s what you tune into on television and social media, what you read, listen to and absorb from other people around you.

Our ‘newsfeed’ for want of a better word, has the power to influence and redirect our thoughts – which we’ve established, greatly impacts how we feel.

Lately, our feeds are jampacked with fear-based messaging, which, if absorbed without discernment, create a mild stress response and subsequent emotional state of worry or outrage. The exact opposite of the aforementioned states we’re aiming to cultivate for optimal health!

A hugely beneficial practice in this day and age is to intentionally refine your mental input and load, either by having periods of ‘fasting’ or digital detox (lifechanging, if you haven’t tried it), or simply being more discerning about the types and tone of information you regularly allow into your space.

Becoming more conscious of how much time we spend tuning into these time-sapping activities is also really important for wellbeing. Our nervous systems simply weren’t designed to be receiving as much excitatory stimuli as they are in the information age and one of the best antidotes is to clear some space in your day (or week) where you switch off all devices and allow good old fashioned silence, hobbies or heartfelt conversation to fill the gap.

So, ponder which of these strategies you might like to implement first and then take one tiny step in the direction of making it routine.

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A pilot program supporting self-administration of chemotherapy at home is one of seven research projects to receive funding under the 2021 Central Coast Local Health District (CCLHD) Caring for our Future Research Grants.

The projects have been awarded grants totalling $127,005 to enable staff and students to undertake research to deliver long-term benefits to patients and the community.

Jacqui Jagger (Cancer Services) and Michael Swab (Pharmacy Department) are receiving a grant to pilot and evaluate a new model of care for eligible myeloma patients using self-administration of chemotherapy at home.

Jagger said her research grant would help “give back a bit of control” to cancer patients.

“This grant will help us provide better support for cancer patients in a number of ways,” she said.

“Firstly, by removing the need to make regular, sometimes twice a week, visits to hospital, it gives them more time to do the things they want to do.

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“This also helps the patient’s family, who often have to provide transport.

“Myeloma is particularly difficult in that its chronic nature means people are more often on treatment than they are not.

“This grant will help keep a group of patients particularly susceptible to infections out of hospital, yet in active treatment from the comfort of their own home.

“It will also enable us to develop robust telehealth

services that relieve some of the pressure on our Cancer Services teams, providing sustainable benefits to District staff and patients alike.”

Research into mental health support for First Nations pregnant women and mothers has also received a funding boost.

Melissa Stephens (Ngiyang Aboriginal Pregnancy Child & Family Health Service) and Leanne Roberts (Women, Children and Families) have been granted funds to improve

anxiety and depression screening for First Nations pregnant women and mothers of children up to six years of age.

The research will develop an improved and culturally appropriate tool that allows for a comprehensive mental health assessment of pregnant Aboriginal women and mothers.

Jonathan Brinton and Dr Anne Purcell (Community Nursing Service) will receive funds to evaluate the impact of CCLHD

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Communication Nursing Service’s Specialist Wound Centre model of care, introduced in 2019, on improving wound healing rates and patient experiences, along with economic efficiencies.

Cheryl Travers and Andrew Dixon (Public Health Unit) will receive a grant to explore the factors that affect healthcare workers’ ability and willingness to work during natural disasters and extreme weather events.

Dr Anna Schutz (Neurology Department) and Dr Karen Hutchinson (Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University) will receive funding to assess the impact of a community-based multidisciplinary motor neurone disease (MND) clinic, established in February 2020 on the Central Coast, on improving quality of life and patient outcomes in a regional setting.

Clare Linton (Podiatry Department), along with the University of Newcastle’s Professor Vivienne Chuter and Dr Sean Sadler, has been awarded a grant to help reduce the likelihood of people with diabetes developing ulcers or

requiring amputation.

Finally, Sim Galimam (Wyong Pharmacy Department) and Nicole Cerruto (Gosford Pharmacy Department) will receive funds to investigate whether COVID has affected the way patients with respiratory infections are treated empirically with antimicrobials.

The research will involve a retrospective observational study comparing two randomised cohorts of patients, one with COVID and another with influenza, and will help formulate guidelines for future antimicrobial use during respiratory illness outbreaks like coronaviruses.

The Caring for our Future Research Grants support projects that generate preliminary data to attract larger funding grants in the future, such as the Translational Research Grants Scheme (TRGS), National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) grants or research fellowships.

Source: Media release, Oct 14 Central Coast Local Health District

Nurses help remote community Two Central Coast nurses have travelled to the furthest reaches of outback NSW, as part of a COVID response health team to help the remote community of Wilcannia.

Acute Geriatrics Nurse Unit Manager, Fiona Young, and Trauma Clinical Nurse Consultant, Peter Mackay, put up their hands to help the

remote and vulnerable community where COVID rapidly spread in August.

The Gosford Hospital senior nurses joined a multidisciplinary, multi-agency team including NSW Health, Police, Rural Fire Service, Australian Defence Force and SES. Due to limited accommodation in Wilcannia, 35 campervans

were hired and set up in a park to accommodate, isolate, observe and monitor close contacts in a “hospital in the home” model – the first of its kind.

Young and Mackay were involved in formalising procedures, observing close contacts, and carrying out home visits to check on positive cases in the community.

This often involved them needing to change in the back of a car and wear full head_totoe personal protective equipment in temperatures well over 30C degrees, but both said it was a very rewarding experience.

“The feedback from both the community and the Far West Local Health District was great,” Mackay said.

“They really appreciated us being out there and helping out. We were almost always greeted with a joke or a yarn.”

“It was great to be involved in a unique opportunity to set up a process of caring for close contacts in a new and exciting model of care that can be implemented in other rural areas.”

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“It was a wonderful experience and opportunity to participate in setting up a new model of care during the COVID response,” she said.

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Community college teacher wins major award Central Coast Community College teacher Erin Jacob has taken out the Vocational Education Teacher of the Year award at the 2021 Annual NSW Training Awards.

Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast and Member for Terrigal, Adam Crouch, said the award recognised Jacob as one of the state’s top teachers.

“Erin designs accredited and non-accredited horticulture programs for Central Coast Community College that engage and motivate students at risk,” Crouch said.

“She enables students to gain

qualifications so they can get a job and realise their full potential.

“Erin’s innovative Step Forward and Keep on Stepping programs successfully reengage students in learning and help to facilitate a pathway towards employment.

“Erin’s award is also welldeserved recognition for the entire team of staff at Central Coast Community College.”

Jacob said many of her students experience a multitude of barriers to education and employment.

“Students are typically unemployed, living in shelters,

at risk of homelessness and/or escaping domestic violence,” she said.

“With a focus on work-based skills as well as art therapy, students can reflect, explore their identity and think about the future.”

Minister for Skills and Tertiary Education, Geoff Lee, congratulated Jacob on receiving the prestigious award while also completing her Certificate IV in Community Services.

“It is a great honour to be recognised on a state level and I have no doubt Erin will go on to be a great ambassador for

vocational education and training,” Lee said.

“The students, educators and training providers represented at the NSW Training Awards are living proof that NSW’s training system is gold standard.”

The NSW Training Awards are conducted annually by the NSW Department of Education in recognition of outstanding achievements in VET. For more information, go to: www.training.nsw.gov.au/ training_awards.

Source: Media release, Oct 19 Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast, Adam Crouch

Extra funding welcomed to help students catch up The NSW Government has announced the extension of the COVID Intensive Learning Support Program into next year as Kindergarten and Year 1 students return to Central Coast schools for face-toface learning and hundreds more primary students in other grades set to return on October 25.

Minister for Education, Sarah Mitchell, said extending the program would cost the government a further $383M. It was first introduced in Term 1 this year to help students who had fallen behind after last year’s disruptions improve their core knowledge and skills.

Central Coast District P&C (CCDP&C) applauded the announcement.

“The program was very successful in supporting students after the loss of learning in the previous COVID

lockdown environment,” CCDP&C spokesperson, Sharryn Brownlee, said.

“Due to the massive disruptions of home learning the injection of $383M into this program will help ensure no child slips through the cracks.

“It will ensure the resources schools need are available

directly to them, to help the small groups of students and ensure no further learning is lost.

“Schools have done their very best to stay connected with individual students and their families but for reasons such as complexities around ages and stages of learning,

individual children and their siblings needs, family issues as well as technology issues have played a part in students falling behind.

“This program helps ensure those gaps are analysed and rectified.

“It is reassuring for the Central Coast families and the

wider community to see the new NSW Government leadership team move quickly to build on successful programs and act quickly to support those in need.

“P&Cs are very pleased to see this injection of funds and look forward to a continuing focus on the educational needs of our community.”

Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast and Member for Terrigal, Adam Crouch, said the move would help students who had “slipped through the cracks.

“Research shows that small group tuition, particularly in literacy and numeracy, makes a big difference at helping children catch up,” he said.

“All 52 public primary schools on the Central Coast will benefit from this $383M program as well as some Catholic and independent schools in areas of highest need.

“All of our public schools

have already been benefitting since the COVID Intensive Learning Support Program commenced in Term 1 this year.”

NSW Premier, Dominic Perrottet, said 2021 had been a tough year, with many students learning from home for twice as long as they did last year.

“Early insights from the ongoing evaluation of the program show that students are bouncing back thanks to the intensive tutoring delivered through the program, and we are committed to helping them do so again next year,” he said.

The Department of Education will work with schools and key stakeholder groups during Term 4 to refine the program to ensure the greatest benefit is delivered for students who need it most.

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Those wanting a career in hospitality or already in the industry can take advantage of three free online hospitality licensing courses offered through TAFE NSW. The three courses: Statement of Attainment in Responsible Service of Alcohol (RSA); TAFE Statement in NSW Liquor Licensee; and TAFE Statement in NSW Liquor Licensee (Advanced) are targeted to existing industry members to upskill and to drive more workers to hospitality venues in NSW. TAFE NSW Teacher of Tourism and Hospitality, Monique Fors, said the free courses would be delivered online and available to anyone in NSW who wants to learn how to comply with and understand NSW liquor laws.

“These courses offer a great opportunity for people to

upskill, whether you wish to become a compliant licensee, approved manager, club secretary, or simply require an RSA to secure bar and wait staff roles,” Fors said.

“As the online courses are self-paced, they can be picked up at any time of the day or week, such as in between work shifts.”

The three courses are supported by global drinks giant Diageo through its Raising the Bar COVID-19 response initiative.

In 2020, Diageo Australia pledged $11.5M to the Down Under instalment of Raising the Bar, through its Bundaberg Rum brand, to be invested over two years to help venues in

Over $45M allocated to public schools for 2022 Public schools on the Central Coast will receive $45.6M NSW Government funding in the 2022 school year – a $445,444 increase on the 2021 allocation.

Funds have been allocated by state electorate: Gosford is to receive $10.99M; Terrigal $6.19M; The Entrance $11.79M; and Wyong $16.62M. Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast, Adam Crouch, said the funds would be allocated to primary and high schools through the Resource Allocation Model (RAM).

“RAM is a needs-based model that ensures funds are targeted towards the individual needs of students,” Crouch said.

“This gives each school

principal the freedom to make spending decisions.

“It helps them to effectively strategically plan the use of resources which puts students and their educational needs first.

“Our schools can use the funding to hire more staff, buy new IT equipment, or build new facilities – whatever each school principal decides will best meet their unique teaching and learning needs.”

The allocation of RAM funding considers the socio-economic profile of students, Aboriginal student numbers, students with disability and English language proficiency.

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“The allocations are part of a total $10.4B investment being delivered directly to public schools in 2022,” Mitchell said.

“This record investment is not a ‘spend and forget’, but a targeted approach solely focused on our students and underpinned by the new School Success Model.”

The School Success Model’s commitment to simplifying school budgets and reduce time spent on low-value administrative tasks in schools strengthens the state-wide focus on teaching and learning to ensure funding is invested to improve results, Mitchell said.

Source: Media release, Oct 20 Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast, Adam Crouch

Australia adapt and emerge stronger from the COVID-19 crisis.

Diageo Australia Managing Director, Angus McPherson, said the fund had already provided thousands of venues across the country with targeted support which

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included equipment to promote safe indoor and outdoor socialising.

“The first phase of Raising the Bar supported venues with funds for … equipment to reopen, such as hand sanitiser dispensers, temperature scanners and personal protective equipment,” McPherson said.

“We are now excited to offer the industry access to free digital training through TAFE NSW to help our hospitality workers understand complicated legislation and compliance and support their business from the bottom up.”

Australian Hotels Association (AHA) NSW CEO, John Whelan, said offering the industry free training in mandatory areas will ease a little of the economic burden experienced over the

last 18 months.

“Support like the Raising the Bar initiative is exactly what we need to help our hotels get back on their feet, employing people and contributing to the Australian economy,” Whelan said.

“A large portion of this funding will see training for the next generation of leadership in the hotel sector.

“It will see managers provided with the same training as licensees and will vastly improve pub operations.”

The free courses are available until June 30, 2022.

To enrol or find out more visit www.tafensw.edu.au/raisingthe-bar.

Source: Media release, Oct 19 TAFE NSW

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Your child may benefit from being a student at a NSW Department of Education selective high school. A selective high school can provide your child with an education designed to challenge them academically and mix with other like-minded students.

There are 47 selective high schools across NSW which form part of the public education system. You can apply for your child to participate in a test to determine if they are eligible for placement into a Selective High School.

If you feel that this opportunity may be right for your child, you can apply on their behalf using an online application form on our public website: education.nsw.gov.au/publicschools/selective-high-schools-and-opportunity-classes/year-7. Applications are open from Tuesday 19 October to Wednesday 17 November 2021 for Year 5 students seeking a placement into a selective high school for Year 7 in 2023.

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Veterans invited to paddle, walk or ride An introduction to the world of ocean racing in outrigger canoes will be held at Gwandalan this weekend, as part Veterans’ Health Week.

Purple Warriors Australia Outrigger Canoeing will hold the come and try day on Saturday, October 23, starting at 11am on Lake Macquarie at the Point Wolstoncroft Sport and Recreation Centre on Kanangra Dr. On November 4 at Long Jetty, the Terrigal Wamberal RSL Sub-Branch will stage a Health Week Ride & Walk event.

The event at Saltwater Creek Park on The Entrance will be held between 10am and

2.30pm and involve a 5km bike ride or 2km walk, followed by a barbecue.

Participants will need their own bike, helmet, chair, hat,

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water bottle and appropriate attire.

During the event, a clinical psychologist will address the group on mental health matters.

These events are among 720 being held to focus on veteran wellbeing during the largest Veterans Health Week held in the country.

The Australian Government has provided a record $540,000 funding for Veterans Health Week activities that focus on enhancing the overall health of our veterans and their families.

You have experience with clients who have high care needs and/or dementia.

Minister for Veterans Affairs and Defence Personnel, Andrew Gee, said this year’s theme, Get Moving, is promoting physical health and encourage veterans and their families to stay active.

“I’m delighted this year’s Veterans Health Week is the biggest yet, with ex-service organisations and community groups coming together to host more than 720 events around the country until the end of November,” he said.

“We know that staying active can have many flow-on benefits to our physical and

mental health, and so I encourage veterans and their families to get out and get involved in Veterans Health Week.

“As part of the event calendar, veteran charity Swiss 8 has also been supported to host barbecues across the nation during Veterans Health Week and in the lead up to Remembrance Day, to help raise awareness of the importance of mental health.

“Improving mental health starts with connection and meaningful conversations, and where better to have a chat and

check-in with your mates than with a snag by the barbie.

“I’d like to thank all our exservice organisations and community groups for showing their support and putting on a raft of fantastic COVID-safe events and activities for veterans and their families to participate in,” Minister Gee said.

“Among the planned virtual events is the Bravery Trek Challenge 2021 run by the Bravery Trust, which challenges veterans and their families to walk, run or cycle 100km to celebrate 100 years of the Royal Australian Air Force.

“I encourage you all to check out the events on offer near you, and perhaps broaden your network by participating in virtual activities outside your local area.”

A full list of Australian Veterans’ Health Week events and information about how to register is available on the DVA website dva.gov.au/vhw or by calling DVA on 1800 838 372 or email vhw@dva.gov.au Sue Murray

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The Central Coast Dragon Boat Club is welcoming new members, catering for those looking for a social experience as well as those with aspirations to compete in racing.

“We cater for men and women of all ages,” said Club President Donna Lerway.

“We have teams participating

in regattas in Sydney and in the northern region.

“We’re located at Peel St, Toukley next to the Marine Rescue Centre and train late afternoon on Wednesday as well as Sunday mornings on Budgewoi Lake.

“After a short five years in the sport I have had the opportunity to compete in Hong Kong, Singapore, the Gold Coast and

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Adelaide as well as Regatta’s all over NSW, I am now the Club Captain.

“Previously being a Rugby player, I am stoked that I still get to compete in sport in my 50s,” she said.

Central Coast Dragon Boat Club has just held its AGM and with a COVID Safe Plan approved, is ready for a new season.

“We will be holding some Learn to Paddle Sessions over November and December and are offering five sessions free of charge.

“You can check out our Facebook Page Central Coast Dragon Boat Club.”

Source: Media release, Oct 19 Central Coast Dragon Boat Club

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Defender represents Australia in qualifiers FOOTBALL Central Coast Mariner defender, Lewis Miller, has been confirmed within the Australian U23 squad to travel to Tajikistan for the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Under-23 qualifiers against Indonesia.

Lewis Miller training with the Central Coast Mariners

Miller has played over 1000 minutes in yellow and blue since being called up from the academy into the Mariners first team under the leadership of Alen Stajcic in 2019.

This includes one FFA cup win in 2019 against Brisbane Roar and, most recently, one A-league finals match against Macarthur FC. This is Miller’s first call up to represent his nation in the professional grades and the

21-year-old is taking it as an opportunity to develop his game alongside the best young players in the world.

“I am really looking forward to travelling to Tajikistan and I can’t wait to get my first taste of international football and experience the Australian U23 set up,” Miller said.

“Playing for your country is such a great honour and I want to give everything I have during this time.”

The news has also been welcomed by Mariners Head Coach, Nick Montgomery, who wished his squad member the best ahead of this important career milestone.

“Lewis has great potential in his playing style and has been nurturing well through the academy and now first team,” Montgomery said.

“It’s such a positive step for him in his career.

“It speaks volumes for what we are trying to build here, a place where young talent can come, put the hard work in and be rewarded with opportunities like this, as we saw with Ruon (Tongyik) and Kye (Rowles) last season.”

Miller was similarly praised

by Mariners Head of Football, Ken Schembri.

“He has worked hard during this pre-season and his performances over the years have rightly been rewarded,” he said.

“I look forward to watching him on the national stage and we value this experience as adding to the season for us.’

Source: Media Release, Oct 15 Central Coast Mariners.

Mariners to play Blacktown City in Mudgee FOOTBALL The Central Coast Mariners have sold their academy alumnus and first team player Jordan Smylie to Blacktown City FC, where he will play in the NSW National Premier League Men’s Division One (NPL 1).

Smylie will face the Mariners as part of the Blacktown City squad when the two sides meet at Mudgee in the FFA Cup Round of 32 on November 13.

The Mariners suggested it was Smylie’s aim to increase his game time this season and

have even suggested their potential willingness to take him back in the future.

Smylie has lost his active affiliation with the Mariners and must go his own way as a professional footballer.

Since debuting in the A-League as a final third substitution in 2018, Smylie was not reselected for the first team until the opening match of the 2020/21 season against the Newcastle Jets.

In the following Round Two home win against Macarthur FC, Smylie scored a late goal

– his first and so far only in the A-League – to give the Mariners a final 2-0 lead.

He was since subbed on for a further 10 matches throughout last season, always as an end game surge of energy, last appearing in the Round 23 loss to Newcastle at Central Coast Stadium.

Now Smylie joins the NPL 1 with the team who were leading the competition before it’s recent cancellation due to the current lockdown.

Jordan will have a chance to – as it were – get back at his

old club in the upcoming FFA Cup Round of 32 fixture between the Central Coast and Blacktown City.

It will be the first encounter between the two clubs since the similar Round of 32 match of 2017, when Blacktown were victorious at Lilys Football Centre, Seven Hills.

The Blacktown City FC V Central Coast Mariners FC will proceed at Mudgee’s Glen Willow Stadium on November 13 at 5pm.

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Jordan Smylie from the 2020/21 Mariners campaign

Humpback Highway Watch Ronny Ling and his Central Coast Dolphin Project and Central Coast Newspapers have combined to bring you a regular Humpback Highway report in each edition of this newspaper.

A big thankyou to everyone who have reported their sightings for our “Dolphin Days” weekend.

We’ve had a great response from the entire Coast, even if the weather wasn’t all that good.

We will now work through the data and see what conclusions we come to for our research.

Sightings have been fantastic for humpback whales as well.

All whale sightings are valuable for our research, and we’ve been getting a lot,

particularly mothers and their calves in recent days.

Whale and dolphin sightings have come in from Killcare, Copacabana, Avoca, North Avoca, The Haven, Terrigal, Wamberal and Foresters Beach Lookout.

Seals have popped up at The Haven, Avoca, Killcare and Brisbane Water.

The Barrenjoey Seal Colony has 14 seals chilling there, at the moment.

Remember if you see a seal on the shore or rocks, stay back at least 40m, never get between the seal and the water, keep pets and kids well away, and never try to touch or feed them.

If you’re planning to go whale watching, remember to comply with Health Regulations and police/government directions.

If you are lucky enough to spot a whale, seal or dolphin, please text or call the Project on 0490 401 969 or email centralcoastdolphins@gmail.com

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Breakers Stadium prepares to re-open The indoor stadium

BASKETBALL The Breakers Indoor Stadium at Terrigal is back in business.

With the easing of COVD-19 restrictions taking place from October 11, the stadium doors reopened on October 18 for casual court hire and competitions will resume on November 1.

“We understand that many of you are so keen to get back and wanting to be knocking on the door on Monday October 11, but we didn’t want to rush this as your health and wellbeing is

simply too important to us,” a spokesperson said.

During the first stage of reopening: members and staff 16+ must be fully vaccinated to enter the stadium unless they are medically exempt; group court sessions are capped at 20 people; masks are compulsory for those aged 12 and over while not participating in an on-court activity; and QR code check-in is required with a manual option available for those without a smart phone.

From December 1, unvaccinated staff and members will be allowed to

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Proof of full vaccination from everyone aged 16 years and over will need to be shown on entry.

Participants can remove masks while engaged in oncourt activity but must replace them once on-court activity is complete.

The stadium has asked patrons to: sanitise on arrival and exit from venue; arrive as late as possible and leave promptly after their activity; follow signage for exit points; maintain social distance of 1.5m whilst not engaged in on-

court activity; stay home if unwell; only come to the stadium if you absolutely must.

Patrons are also requested not to sing, cheer or chant.

“Please remember that this has been a tough time for everyone, our staff included,” the spokesperson said.

“We will not under any circumstances tolerate rude behaviour towards our staff or volunteers, your understanding will be appreciated.

“We are so excited to be able to welcome you back into the stadium and offer a positive

environment to help us all back to our best health – both physically, mentally and socially.

“Please trust we are doing our absolute best and bring only kindness into the stadium.”

Domestic Basketball, Junior and Senior, returns from November 1, with netball returning on November 3 and volleyball on November 7.

Walking Basketball and Sunday Scrimmage will resume at a date yet to be announced, following the attainment of the 80 per cent double vaccination rate.

Aussie Hoops returns of October 23.

No other development programs will run for this term due to COVID-19 restrictions and details of the January 2022 school holiday programs will be advised in coming months.

Representative Rebels Trials will take place on December 4 and 5 for U12s, U14s and U16s and on December 11 and 12 for U18s.

Source: Media release, oct 15 Central Coast Basketball

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