PALMERSTONLIFE MAGAZINE MARCH 2016 ISSUE

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From little things, big things grow. And that’s certainly the case at Bakewell Primary School. The school gates first opened to Palmerston families in 1999 with a humble enrolment of 168 students. It has since grown into the Northern Territory’s largest primary school, boasting a cohort of over 800 students.

This year, Bakewell is celebrating their biggest milestone yet, commencing 2016 as an Independent Public School. “Being granted Independent status is important as it paves the way for embedding excellence further into everything we do,” says Principal Paul Nyhuis.

“AS A S TAFF AND S CHOOL COMMUNIT Y WE HAV E CREATED A S T R ONG S CHOOL AND OR G ANIS AT IONAL CULT URE BUI LT ON POS IT IV E R EL AT IONS HIPS AN D HI GH EXPEC TAT IONS, WIT H A REL ENTLESS FOCUS ON QUAL IT Y T EACH IN G AND L EAR NING." Appointed Principal of Bakewell in 2013, Mr Nyhuis says becoming an Independent school is the culmination of a three-year commitment to school improvement. “As a staff and school community we have created a strong school and organisational culture built on positive relationships and high expectations and a relentless focus on quality teaching and learning. We have made some really positive gains.”

A high level of academic rigour is embedded into the school’s program, which is further supported by a number of exciting innovations such as an academic advancement, learning enrichment, information communication learning technologies, Asian language and guided reading. “We have a strong focus on numeracy and literacy and have set specific achievement targets for students in the areas of Maths and English,” says the Principal. “What we’re doing here is providing students with the opportunities to excel.” Specialist subjects at Bakewell Primary include Science, Visual Arts and Physical Education.

Bakewell primary accepts students from Preschool to Year 6 from the surrounding suburbs of Bakewell, Johnson and Gunn. It has excellent resources and facilities, while spacious and well-maintained school grounds provide students with the opportunity to play and socialise in a safe and child friendly environment.

08 8931 0487 Forrest Parade, Bakewell NT 0832 e. admin.bakewell@ntschools.net

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AVID Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) is a program that provides students with academic, social and emotional skills that empower them to achieve lifelong success. This is a core focus at Bakewell Primary School and we have been teaching these invaluable skills for student success since 2013 with great results.

By using these success skills daily, students become determined learners who take responsibility for their learning.

LEARNING ENRICHMENT CLASS The Learning Enrichment Class (LEC) provides students with accelerated teaching to help them improve their academic success.

Consisting of 23 students ranging from Year 3 to Year 6, this innovative class encourages students to see themselves as successful learners.

LANGUAGE AND CULTURAL PROGRAM

SCHOOL PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS M R N Y H U I S AT T R I B U T E S T H E S U C C E S S OF BAKE WELL TO THE COMMITMENT A N D D E D I C AT I O N O F S TA F F A N D T H E POSITIVE SUPPORT AND ENGAGEMENT O F B A K E W E L L PA R E N T S A N D T H E B R O A D E R S C H O O L C O M M U N I T Y.

The student experience is enhanced with a Cultural Awareness program including Mandarin classes (Upper Primary), as part of a partnership between Bakewell Primary School with the NT School Of Languages. The aim of this partnership is to develop students’ ability to understand language and culture and communicate effectively across cultures.

ICLT IPAD PROGRAM Students are equipped with their own powerful learning tool in this exciting new Information Communication Learning Technology (ICLT) program for Year 4 and Academic Advancement classes. The integration of iPads for each student creates engaging learning experiences through interactivity and supports our ongoing focus on student outcomes and 21st Century learning.

ACADEMIC ADVANCEMENT CLASS This new initiative offers students from Year 4 – 6 academic advancement and extension programs to cater for their advanced needs. In this class of 27 students, learning is personalised, aligning individual learning needs, strengths, interests and goals. A collaborative culture ensures students are able to work together in small focus groups.

GUIDED READING PROGRAM Supporting our focus on excellence in literacy, all students from Transition to Year 6 benefit from a Guided Reading Program. This is small-group reading instruction designed to provide differentiated teaching that supports students in developing reading proficiency.

We have measured significant improvement in student reading outcomes since the program was introduced in 2015.

SCHOOL COUNSELLING AND WELLBEING PROGRAM At the beginning of 2016 Bakewell introduced a School Counselling and Wellbeing program. This coincided with the appointment of a full time School Counsellor; a first for a Northern Territory Primary School. This new program enhances our strong focus on student health and wellbeing by providing individual, group and whole school support.

EVERY STUDENT MAT TERS Taminmin’s 2015 Year 12 highest ATAR student, Cheya Clarke, commenced at Taminmin in year 7 ensuring a smooth and continuous quality learning experience. Cheya has taken advantage of the many opportunities at Taminmin such as the Leading Learner program, International and Interstate travel, participating in the school musical and following her sporting interests.

Principal Miriam McDonald said that Taminmin College is the only Independent Public School that provides a seamless learning environment from years 7 to 12. Like Cheya students can enjoy all of their secondary schooling on the one campus.

The College includes a Vocational Education and Training (VET) section and is the only school in the Northern Territory with an agricultural facility. Miriam is also proud of the 98% NTCET completion rate achieved this year.

Students from year 5 can enter the Young Scholars program at Taminmin. This enables students to undertake challenging and innovative experiences at the college as well as assuring them a place in the Leading Learner or Aspire programs from year 7.

Taminmin College provides success for all students with a range of pathways to access employment and higher education.

TAMINMIN COLLEGE PH 08 89 83 7000 • E admin.taminmin@ntschools.net A Challoner Circuit Humpty Doo, NT, 0836 www.taminmin.nt.edu.au

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United is the primary distributor of Konecranes lift trucks and Haulotte access equipment within Australia, and the primary seller of Cat Lift Trucks in the Northern Territory. Although the business deals in the rental and sales of forklift trucks and access equipment like others in the Territory, United offers something you won’t find elsewhere.

Its team is made up largely of qualified road and workshop technicians, who provide preventative maintenance plans for customers and are on call 24 hours, seven days a week to ensure all equipment is in the best possible working condition. If something breaks down on site, they’ll be there to fix it. The United team promises to do everything it can to make sure the equipment they sell or PA L M E R S T O N L I F E M A G A Z I N E

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It’s this extraordinary customer focus that sets United apart.

What’s more, United has remained loyal to its long-standing customers, and promises to do so for new ones. The organisation’s vision is for Darwin and the long-term, not the short-term activity brought on by big industrial visitors. It is, first and foremost, a customer driven business.

Branch Manager Mick Lovatt credits a good team dynamic and the resourcefulness of workers to United’s success and reputation.

Though the team is relatively new, employees have the required knowledge and skill set enabling them to work at the top of their game.

With branches in each state and a Head Office in Perth, the team can call on United nationally if required.

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This year has seen an increase in designated family rooms; spaces that don’t revolve around the direction of the TV or feature computers or any hi-fi equipment in them, just a quiet cosy refuge in which to relax or to gather in for undistracted family time.

The secret of these family rooms is in the furnishing and decoration of them.

Seating and scale is the key to getting these spaces right so you need to make sure there is enough seating for each member of the family including any furry animal members who are likely to join you without cramping the room or making it feel overstuffed.

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of the room. By having various lighting sources you will get the maximum use of the room so I recommend bright ceiling lights to provide enough light for board games as well as wall sconces with a lower wattage globe and then a mix of floor and table lamps in bright and soft lighting for reading as well as casual after dinner chats.

Any colour scheme can work in these spaces but the tone of colours should be soft and nurturing. Some popular choices at the moment are serenity blue, with tan and white. Deep teal with yellow and grey or traditional antique white with muted timber finishes.

Try it at home today, your family will thank you for it.

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THE CURRENT MOVES

BY THE FEDERAL LABOR PA R T Y T O D E C I M A T E THE PROPERT Y MARKET THROUGH ITS PROPOSED C H A N G E S T O N E G AT I V E GEARING SHOULD CONCERN ALL PROPERTY OWNERS, NOT JUST INVESTORS. First of all, what is Negative Gearing? Negative Gearing (on property) occurs when the cost of owning a rental property outweighs the income it generates each year. This creates a taxable loss, which can normally be offset against other income including your wage or salary, to provide tax savings.

Let's say for example you own a rental property generating $25,000 in rent each year. The costs of holding the property, including mortgage interest, come to $30,000. This gives you a taxable loss of $5,000, which you can use to reduce the tax payable on things such as your salary.

By the way, this is a simplification and should not be construed as financial advice…just making that clear.

But Negative Gearing does not just apply to the property market. It can also be applied to investments in the stock market, and this is something that is being overlooked in this current tax grab proposal.

Property is not the investment class that benefits the most from the Capital Gains Tax discount. The majority (around 60 percent) of capital gains are sourced from shares, while real estate investments account for just 26 percent of taxable individuals.

And who are these individuals. Well seven out of ten property investors who benefit from negative gearing earn a taxable income of less than $80,001 per annum! Plus the data shows that the majority of investors own only one property and this has not significantly changed

over time. So these are people who are trying to make a difference for their future and their retirement – people who have decided they would rather plan for their own future than be another burden on the public purse in retirement.

The rationale for the current 50 percent discount on ‘capital gains’ is to ensure that only ‘real’ capital gains are taxed – not nominal gains.

If this is reduced and nominal capital gains are taxed without a discount, then investors will be taxed on a gain they have not yet made!

Even Labor’s own tax expert said that Negative Gearing was a good thing to retain. The Henry Tax Review (2010) noted “the current tax advantages available to highly geared investment can operate as a subsidy to renters by placing downward pressure on rents.”

It is frustrating that the ‘experts’ in Canberra look at the Eastern seaboard of Australia as being representative of the entire Australian property market and make decisions based on what is happening only in Sydney and Melbourne.

They talk about rental demand and supply shortage and apply this to all areas. Well in the Northern Territory we don’t have the same supply shortage as Sydney, and we don’t have the same rental demands as Sydney. We are unique and we require legislative treatment that recognises that we are in a different position, as is Western Australia, as is Tasmania and so on.

So what would happen under the Labor modelling? Well firstly, as was evidenced when Keating removed Negative Gearing in 1985, rents will skyrocket. If an investor no longer has the ability to write down losses they will need to ensure their property is ‘positively geared’ and that will mean ensuring the rental return is higher than all the collective outgoings including mortgage payments and maintenance costs.

Secondly investors will start deserting the property market, probably for shares or other areas where tax breaks will remain. This will mean a large number of ‘existing properties’ will return to the sales market and it will rapidly devalue the capital worth of the family home.

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in price as they will be the only ones that will attract tax discounts and therefore will attract the interest of investors. But what happens to these ‘new’ properties when an investor wants to sell? No other investor will be interested because that ‘new’ property will now be an ‘existing’ property and it will not have any tax incentives attached, and it will therefore be diminished in its sales value.

And thirdly, as the investor market shrinks, and with it the available rental market, and rents rapidly rise, this will put additional pressure on Governments to provide social and welfare housing as those on lower incomes and welfare benefits will be quickly driven further out of the private housing market.

The impact of this proposal will be felt very broadly across all sectors of the housing market and not just confined to people who have chosen to invest in a property.

Blind Freddy could see the massive amount of damage this ludicrous proposal would have on the property market – but apparently some of our politicians and their loony mates cannot!

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And that’s just the point. Owning a Ford Mustang is about buying into a legend, one that went mainstream after the 1968 hit movie Bullitt, when the ultra-cool Steve McQueen tore up the screen in his 1968 Ford Mustang 390 GT 2+2.

McQueen’s popularity shot to superstar status overnight, while the Mustang became an American automotive icon.

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As you might imagine, this was a huge step up from our bogstandard family Falcon, because even before Bullitt, the affordable Ford Mustang had already become a blue-collar hero in the States, especially if it swapped the lazy straight-six for the infinitely more charismatic 289 cubic-inch (4.7-litre) small-block V8 engine, as ours surely did.

And therein lies my position in the 2.3-litre turbo-four v 5.0-litre V8 argument. It’s pretty simple really: if you’re going to drive a Mustang, be sure it makes all the right noises.

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And that also seems to be the consensus among the 4000-plus Aussie buyers who have already put down deposits on the new sixthgeneration Mustang, with around 80 per cent opting for the V8-powered GT model, and the

remaining 20 per cent choosing the fourcylinder version.

Enthusiasts will demand the V8. But for those more frugal buyers, the turbo-four will seem like the perfect package. I get it, I really do. You still get the great looks and decent performance, but above all you get outstanding value for money.

The entry-level EcoBoost Fastback can be had from $45,990 (before on-road costs) – a substantial discount over the $57,490 full-strength GT, by any reckoning.

Underneath, it’s a different story.

For argument’s sake, let’s leave any discussion around the Mustang’s exhaust note aside for the moment and focus on the headline performance figures.

The heavy-hitting V8 makes 306kW of power at 6500rpm and 530Nm of torque at 4250rpm, with combined fuel economy estimated at 12.37 litres per 100km on premium 98 RON for the manual and automatic.

The more frugal four-cylinder version generates a not too shabby 233kW at 56005700rpm and 432Nm at 3000rpm, while consuming a claimed 9.04L/100km of standard 91 RON combined for the manual and 9.4L/100km for the automatic.

So on paper, there’s no contest when it comes to engine displacement. The GT has got its four-cylinder sibling well and truly beaten in that department. But what the turbo ‘Stang looses in good ole-fashioned cubic inches, it more than makes up for at the petrol bowser.

Of course, enthusiasts won’t give a hoot about fuel economy when it comes to their new Mustang. For those buyers, it’s all about thunder and lightning – the same as it’s always been with American muscle cars.

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But why do we listen to it? Why do we want it? Why is it out there at all? Why do women, to a greater extent than men, search for and covet the elusive work/life balance: “having it all”?

Perhaps it’s because the woman’s role has changed so much in the last few decades that our heads are still spinning. We have careers, aspirations of our own, separate to those of our families and social groups. We want to raise children, run marathons, be the perfect domestic goddess, conquer the business world, save the whales, feed the hungry. And we can. I firmly believe that we can “have it all”.

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I think the answer lies in the wisdom of Man who has it all.

“Working dad? Instead of asking your wife to help out with the housework, why not get up 2 hours earlier and do it yourself?”

While I sit here at my computer, I glance over to Mr CH, vacuuming with Miss E strapped to his chest it dawns on me: having it all doesn’t mean doing it all.

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You can find her on instagram @cosmohippy, on the web www.cosmohippy.com.au and on Facebook for more fantastic health information.

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