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Thursday 23 November, 2017
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This Sunday is Monkey Zoo Day BILLABONG Zoo: Koala and Wildlife Park, Port Macquarie is holding a Monkey Zoo Day on Sunday November 26, 2017. It’s a great day for all ages - fun, stimulating and educational. Doors open at 9am. As part of our role as Ambassadors for Wildlife we highlight the plight of some of the animals we care for, who, as a species are under real threat of extinction. Sadly the Black-handed Spider Monkey is listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Be sure to visit the Zoo on Sunday November 26 and be part of our Conservation through Education program. Kids can also enjoy a bouncy castle, face painting and colouring in competitions. Plus there’s a free raffle and much more at our annual Monkey Conservation Awareness Day. If youMACQUARIE, haven’t been to the award-winning PORT NSW Billabong Zoo recently you may be amazed at the number of animals we now care for over 80 species and over 200 animals. KOALA & WILDLIFE PARK Plus the world-renowned Koala Breeding Centre. There are 14 Free Keeper Talks throughout the day and a chance to book an Animal Encounter with Cheetahs, Snow Leopards, Red Pandas, Meerkats, Snakes PORT MACQUARIE, NSW and Koalas. Fun and education for all ages. Rain or shine. Open daily 9am -5pm, 61 Billabong Drive, Port Macquarie. KOALA & WILDLIFE PARK Visit www.billabongzoo.com.au for more details or call 02 6585 1060. Open 7 days 9am to 5pm. PORT MACQUARIE, NSW
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Palliative care survey is vital HAVE your say on palliative care in NSW: The NSW community is being asked to participate in a palliative care survey to ensure everyone receives the support and services they deserve at the end of life. Recently the NSW State Government released a consultation paper based on feedback from community roundtables held across NSW earlier this year. Providing quality palliative care services to every resident of NSW is a key priority for the NSW Government. We are investing an extra $100 million over the next four years to provide more tailored, community-based palliative care services, on top of the approximately $210 million already spent each year. We are listening carefully to the community’s views on where and how palliative care services can be improved so that we have a strong plan for the future. The consultation paper and feedback from the survey will inform a new palliative and end-oflife care policy in NSW. The survey will only take about 10 minutes so I strongly urge everyone to take this opportunity to have their say. The NSW Health Palliative Care Roundtables Consultation Paper and survey can be viewed
STATE MATTERS
With Leslie Williams State Member for Port Macquarie
at www.health.nsw.gov.au/palliativecare or for further information and a copy please contact my Electorate Office – 65 840977. Port Macquarie to recognise women in local government: I’m calling on our community to nominate women councillors and council staff for the 2018 Ministers’ Awards for Women in Local Government. The prized awards recognise the hard work and imaginative ideas of senior staff and elected representatives as well as women making a difference behind the scenes and trail-blazing women in non-traditional roles. Nominations close on December 21. Full details of the categories and how to make a nomination are on the Office of Local Government website www.olg.nsw.gov.au. For further details please don’t hesitate to contact my Electorate Office – 6584 0977.
THE COWPER REPORT With Luke Hartsuyker
Federal Member for Cowper
THE Coalition Government’s recently announced child care reforms will deliver more support for families right across Australia and the Mid North Coast. With an estimated 1.15 million families accessing childcare in 2018, it is important that we give families notice of changes to the child care system. Under the government’s changes, nearly one million Australian families will be better off. Families are the backbone of our society and we understand that, every day, parents are making choices in the best interest of their family. That’s why we are investing an additional $2.5 billion in early childhood education and care. The changes will introduce a better targeted activity test to ensure taxpayer subsidised child care places are targeted to those families who depend on it in order to work, or be able to work additional hours. In addition, those families struggling the most will receive the largest benefit, with the base subsidy increasing from 72 per cent to 85 per cent for the more than 370,000 families with a household income of $65,000 or less. Low and middle income families earning up to $185,000 a year will also no longer be limited by a $7,613 annual cap.
Don’t want to take ‘hi’ road
HAVE you ever used ‘hi’ as a form of greeting? I thought about hi and I can say without contradiction I have never used hi. Probably somebody will try to test me on this. I don’t have anything against hi. I have just never used it. I thought about hi a few weeks ago when a woman on television went into a veterinarian’s store, carrying a dog, and said hello to the veterinarian. He said hi in response. Several years ago I conducted my own experiment when I said hello to everyone I passed on an early-morning walk. Every person in response said hi. I also discovered people were more inclined to respond in the morning than the afternoon. I don’t know why. But I do know hi had some connection with Davy Crockett, that backwoodsman who was born in 1786 and died at the Alamo on March 6, 1836, aged 49. My big dictionary found some connection between hi and hy, “A word of greeting, chiefly north American”. So that’s why I haven’t used it. Anyway, the big dictionary (Oxford in response to many questions) refers to the United States on many occasions. The first reference the big dictionary had was
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in 805 in an old English text. In 1862 when a person said “up galloped an Indian on his pony with his saluting hi”. I know, I know, an Indian would have difficulty galloping if he didn’t have a pony, but the woman who said this, Mrs Miriam Davis Colt, is dead now so I can’t discuss this with her. But she said it was a “thrilling account”. The term hi became known as an abbreviation of words such as hello or hullo, or even hallo. Did you know that when Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone he let out a cry and it was allegedly hi. I wasn’t around at the time, but that’s what they tell me. Hi was apparently a contraction of hello or something similar. I think he intended to say ahoy – maybe he did. Thomas Edison allegedly used the same term, or was it hello? Telephone operators for years became known as hello girls.
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Samuel Johnson in his 1755, dictionary sees some similarities between hi and hey. You asked about Davy Crockett. The word hi was used in a book called the Sketches and Eccentricities of Colonel Davy Crockett (they called him David) published in 1833. Crockett was unhappy about some of the comments but I don’t know if hi was one of them. Crockett was a fairly belligerent person. This was some time before Bell and Edison became known. They say that hi in some places gave way to them. Hi has been used in many other locations. For instance, it was used in a BBC radio play called Hi De Hi. Some jazz bands in the USA used hi de ho. Hi has come down through the years as a form of greeting. Regrettably, it seems to be here to stay. The American Webster dictionary says hi is a British exclamation “used to attract attention”. The Australian Macquarie says it is an exclamation. Allow me to tell you about a man who saw “hell” as a key part of hello. He wanted people to change from hello to use the word heaveno. I don’t think they took much notice of him. lauriebarber.com; lbword@midcoast.com.au
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