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Volume 9, Wednesday, August 1, 2012
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By Vanessa Switala
he second Women’s Network High Tea was held on Saturday with approximately 80 ladies flocking to the event held in the Outback Tea Rooms. During the afternoon a range of iced-teas, loose leaf teas, blooming teas, tea bag ranges and coffee was on offer along with afternoon tea, sandwiches and assorted sweets. Kath Messner of the Women’s Network told The Monitor approximately 80 well dressed women spent the afternoon enjoying one another’s company. “A colourful and elegant crowd indeed,” Ms Messner said. “Some wonderful teas were sipped and the most delicious cakes were generously prepared by ladies from the Roxby Community Churches. “Further highlighting the community spirit of our town, a raffle with prizes donated by Alex Mendelssohn and Raine and Horne raised $280 which will be donated to the Multicultural Forum to help buy food for our upcoming World Food and Music Festival,” Ms Messner added. Chair of the Women’s Network Kaye Doyle added,
Women’s Network hostess Carmen Jackson.
“The Women’s Network team of volunteers work so well together and it just makes such a difference to the event.” High Tea is known in Australia as a refined social gathering where pots of tea are served alongside small finger sandwiches and pastries. The upper class tradition was commonly known across Britain as Low Tea and High Tea is therefore believed to be created by the working class. Working class would only have two meals per day and would have a late afternoon snack with tea which was eaten standing up therefore; the term ‘high’ was used. The Women’s Network would like to thank chef extraordinaires Penny Knott, Noela Beenham, Avril Luke, Gay Darling, Wendy Kruger and Mary Lewis. They would also like to thank Roxby Downs Community Church’s Vanja Perovic-Vukotic, the Roxby Leisure staff and the Women’s Network hostesses. Organisations which have assisted the Women’s Network include 105.5 RoxFM and the Roxby Hourglass Jewellers. Gold sponsors of the Women’s Network are Roxby Leisure and Roxby Downs Community Church.
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would warrant granting an extension”, the spokesperson said. By Vanessa Switala A BHP Billiton spokesperson told The Monitor, “We are fioubt surrounds the BHP Billiton Board approval of nalising the best case for a BHP Billiton Board decision by the the Olympic Dam mine expansion before the end of end of the year.” this year. Opposition Mineral Resources spokesperson Mitch Williams
According to the Australian Financial Review, BHP Billiton is conducting a review of contractors and staff across its projects looking for potential cost saving cuts. A spokesperson for the Minister for Mineral Resources and Energy Tom Koutsantonis said the South Australian Government is continuing to work with BHP Billiton as it prepares a proposal to be put before the company’s Board during the second half of this year. “BHP Billiton has not approached the Government for an extension beyond the December 15 deadline contained in the Indenture. “No fundamental change to the global economic outlook has occurred since the signing of the Indenture last October that
told The Australian last week there was growing evidence the world economic woes would prompt the company to delay the project, including an Access Economics report which points to the mining boom finishing within two years. “There is a strong chance now that the expansion won’t go ahead next year as BHP Billiton puts the brakes on its global investments, especially long-term ones like Olympic Dam,” Mr Williams explained in a statement. This comes after the engineering, procurement and construction management contractor for Olympic Dam, Jacobs Engineering, laid-off several workers after their contract expired recently. Jacobs Engineering conducted a feasibility study on the pro-
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ject in May and could not justify staffing levels unless the BHP Board approved the expansion. The BHP Billiton spokesperson explained, “The Definition Phase Study for the proposed expansion of Olympic Dam has been completed following more than two and half years of detailed work by the Jacobs Engineering contract team. “As a result the company has finalised this phase of its contract arrangements with Jacobs and will now focus on putting the final touches to the Olympic Dam Project,” the spokesperson concluded. Other BHP Billiton projects unlikely to receive approval are the $20 billion harbour expansion at Port Hedland in WA and a $10 billion potash mine in Canada, and expansion of iron ore mining in Western Australia’s Pilbara. If the $30 billion Olympic Dam expansion is to go ahead the copper-uranium mine will become the largest open-cut mine in the world lifting annual copper production to 750,000 tonnes.
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