March 2014 Vol 16 Issue 3
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Keeping the “Glamour days on the water!” Easter a cracker season peace at Inskip
Peninsula on Women celebrate in Cooloola Easter Sunday
Annually on March 8, thousands of events are held Leftworld to right: throughout the to inspire women and celebrate Tye Gerrard, Sargeant Teala Muller achievements.
(On “Cj”), Ranger Richard Through rallies, conferences, markets, Whitney, theatre and fashion, localSenior activities connect women the globe. Constable Kate across Blomkamp Three events are“Dave”) scheduled on Adina the Cooloola Coast - a (On and Mcdougall Lioness Lunch celebrating Women in the Defence Forces, Photo courtesy of QPWS a Surf Girl lunch and community expo. Story page 3 Originally set up to challenge oppression and inequality of women, last century saw more women in the boardroom, greater equality in rights, more role models in every aspect of life, one could think that ‘all the battles have been won for women’.
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The unfortunate fact is that women are still not paid equally to that of their male counterparts, women still are not present in equal numbers in business or politics, and globally women’s education, health and the violence against them is worse than that of men.
A floating pontoon for Carlo Point
Only recently, women in Australian armed forces have been granted rights around breastfeeding policies.
Anzac Day images
It wasn’t until 1980 that all Queensland Surf Lifesaving Clubs welcomed female active members.
Fishing reports and days out
Rainbow Beach clubbie, Glenys Kidd said, “RBSLSC began in 1965/66 when roles of men and women were different to today. The club house was for the boys. Girls were not allowed in the building.”
Inskip Peninsula Master Plan – comments due May 9 by the Rainbow Beach Residents and Ratepayers Association
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It’s three guiding principles are to HE INSKIP PENINSULA draft manage Inskip Peninsula to protect master ofsect. which were See ourplan, Fishingcopies and boating pg 35-37 nature conservation values, to minimise placed in our mail boxes recently cumulative impacts of development on the ‘outlines a vision to with guideDouble growth andCharters to meetand infrastructure (L) Jim Cole went out Islandenvironment Point Fishing brought in needs without compromising other values. and development overskipper a 20 to Greg 30 year a trophy red, what Pearce says is a sensational fish and highly addictive! All our charter captains agree February has been a great month for period’. Continued page 10 fishing.
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Women met outside the clubhouse and actively fundraised. Glenys remembers, as a girlfriend, “I wasn’t allowed in the club - I used to sleep outside in the ute - whilst continued on pg 4 husbandmaster slept inside.” Two options of the draft Inskipmy Peninsula plan were released for public comment, after the April RBCCCN was published. Option one has planned a possible golf course residential development in town, whereas option two has it potentially located further north. The plan includes existing infrastructure, such as sewerage, road and powerlines, and is said to provide a planning vision covering possible tourism, conservation and residential development opportunities. Community members have until May 9 to make a submission on the plan. Submission forms and plans at: www.dsdip.qld.gov.au/inskip
In this issue
• Visitor guide - where to eat, what to do... • Local people, local businesses, local stories • “The Badging”, page 20
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