Australia Day thanks
With Griffith Pioneer Park Museum’s Australia Day Breakfast now over for another year I would like to take this opportunity to thank the many people involved in this year’s event.
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It is with a happy heart that I advise that this year’s breakfast has proven to be even bigger than previous years which demonstrated how this Australia Day celebration is enjoyed by the community.
The support and commitment of the 2016 sponsors is very much appreciated as without these businesses the Australia Day breakfast would not be possible. By providing their services and supplies, they support the museum and therefore allow us to showcase our picturesque and beautiful facility that preserves Griffith’s history.
So a big thank you to Atkinson’s Tomatoes, Axikem, Broomes Fruit & Veg, Central Butchery, Coca Cola Amatil, Codemo’s Meats, Coles, Driver Country Oven, Gannon’s Butchery, Griffith City Hire, Griffith Milk & Dairy, Hanwood Butchery, Harvey Fresh Juices, Pace Farms, PFD Food Services, Piccoli Bros, Riverina Grove, Rombolo Family, Rossies and Woolworths.
With an event like this it also takes a dedicated group of volunteers that give up their time and work under pressure to achieve a good outcome. A&G Engineering lent us their marquee and then the Lion’s Club collected, put it up and packed it down. Rotary members cooked up a storm and our Griffith Pioneer Park Museum volunteers worked feverishly to keep up and then stayed behind to clean! So thank you all, you are an inspiration and a real credit to our community.
Lastly, thank you to all the Griffith community who attended the Australia Day Breakfast, as the ultimate hard work by the volunteers was done because of your support of the Australia Day Breakfast.
Jenny O’Donnell-Priest
Griffith Pioneer Park Museum
Changes not enough
Urgent action is needed to address social and economic issues across large parts of the Murray-Darling Basin. Proposed amendments to the Water Act, which are expected to be debated in parliament this week, do not address this imbalance. The majority of the 23 recommendations are a good starting point, but none of them go anywhere near far enough to address the communities’ concerns and issues.
The so-called ‘triple bottom line’ is seriously skewed towards the environment and as a consequence the economies and therefore the people in our food producing communities are suffering.
We all want and need a basin plan, but it needs to be effective. That’s not what we have at present. It is vital that amendments to the Water Act indisputably give balance to the triple bottom line.
Our communities had hoped the Water Act Review and government response would result in changes that cleared up the existing ambiguity and required the basin plan to achieve triple bottom line outcomes.
Our regional communities will welcome amendments to the Water Act that provide essential flexibility that allows limited water resources to be effectively shared between food production and environmental needs.
I am confident I am speaking on behalf of our wider community when I say we want the act to give us balance.
Shelley Scoullar
It’s a girl!
Matilda Kaia Sofia Smettan was born on October 9, 2015, at Griffith Base Hospital to Päivi and Konrad Smettan. She is a little sister for Alisa and Kasper Smettan. News of her arrival was welcomed by grandparents Kaija Kauhanen of Finland, Dagmar Krause of Germany and Gerhard Smettan of Germany.