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Junabee Hall celebrates new facilities Last Friday, Junabee Memorial Hall committee hosted a morning tea in honour of the new facilities the venue installed thanks to a Southern Downs Regional Council (SDRC) grant. Junabee Memorial Hall committee president Chris Rubie said there were 16 people in attendance, including SDRC councillors Jo McNally, Marco Gliori, and Ross Bartley. Read more on page 5
Nats choose Littleproud
Calls for council pet program Warwick-based animal welfare charity Southern Downs ARK has presented a petition with 1423 signatures, demanding the council establish a community desex-
Residents are calling for Southern Downs Regional Council (SDRC) to establish a low-cost, ongoing desexing program for cats and dogs.
ing scheme in partnership with the National Desexing Network (NDN).
David Littleproud has been chosen as the next leader of the Nationals, ousting former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce. As is tradition, the Nationals had a spill on 30 May following the Coalition’s loss in the recent election. Read more on page 6
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No offence meant By Dominique Tassell Southern Downs Mayor Vic Pennisi has defended comments he made in his recent flood recovery message. In the message, featured in an advertisement for SDRC last edition, Mayor Pennisi
stated “while our region has just experienced a major flooding event which has had a devasting impact on our community, we have in some regards dodged a bigger bullet”. “A situation can always be worse and I am grateful that I am dealing with a flood event as
opposed to living in war-torn Ukraine”. He has further reiterated these sentiments since the publication of that message. When asked if, given two locals have died in floodwaters this year, he regretted this comparison, he stated that he did not know at the
time of writing the message that someone had died. When reminded that one person died earlier this year in floodwaters, he said at the end of the day we did “dodge a bigger bullet”. Read more on page 4
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