#Eden-Monaro

[keeplanau]

What Issues Influence Town Planning in Cooma?

Town planning in Cooma is prejudiced by various factors, such as populace growth, infrastructure development, environmental conservation, and economic factors. The trial for Cooma, the biggest town in the Snowy Monaro county, is to maintain its natural lands and cultural heritage whereas juggling urban extension.Town Planning Milton decisions in Cooma are also partial by its location near the Snowy Mountains and its meaning as a hub for tourism and farming in the region. As such, thoughtful thought of tourism infrastructure and agrarian land use is authoritative.

Town Planning Bega An essential component of overseeing Bega's growth and development is town planning. Bega's town planning, as a local hub in the Bega Valley Shire, is centered on harmonizing population expansion with the protection of the town's natural setting and cultural legacy. The development of substructure, environmental management, and terrestrial use zoning are significant facets of Bega town preparation. Though addressing issues like circulation congestion and housing affordability, real Town Planning Batemans Bay strategies seek to recover livability, foster financial growth, and create lively community chairs. Town Planning Tathra

Tathra is a seaside town whose future expansion is greatly influenced by its town development. Tathra is a town in New South Wales that is mainly concerned with managing tourism, preserving the setting, and promoting sustainable development. Tathra is a town with spotless beaches and natural attractions. Its town preparation strives to defend the town's characteristic character and biodiversity while complementary the wants of residents and visitors. 

Town Planning Merimbula

Keeping the town's seaside charm and controlling growth are two areas of Merimbula's town planning initiatives. Merimbula, which is recognized for its lakes, beaches, and outdoor regeneration options, is located on the Sapphire Coast. In instruction to serve both locals and tourists, public facilities, transportation infrastructure, and seaside hazard management are top priorities. The goalmouth of Merimbula town preparation is to preserve its natural capitals for future generations though developing a robust and lively community.

Town Planning Pambula

In command to sanctuary the town's rural charm and promote supportable development, Pambula must priorities town planning. In Pambula, municipal involvement, heritage preservation, and land use planning are ordered. Supporting regional companies, improving heritage precincts, and encouraging sustainable agriculture are important programmes. Pambula hopes to establish a prospering, welcoming community that embraces its distinct identity and the beauty of the environment by striking a balance between economic growth and environmental stewardship. Town Planning Eden

Eden's town planning is vital to controlling the development of the seaside public and safeguarding its natural capitals. Eden, which lies on New South Wales' thrilling south coast, is well-known for its breathtaking beaches, whaling heritage, and maritime biodiversity. In Eden, town planning creativities are concentrated on refining tourism, managing the coast, and indorsing sustainable expansion. Town Planning Cooma

The Snowy Mountains region's development and growth are guided in big part by Cooma's town planning creativities. Cooma, the main town in the Snowy Monaro region, is a center for outdoor recreation, tourism, and cultivation. Community resilience, organization investment, and sustainable land use are given top importance in Cooma town planning. 

[adelatur]

My favourite hobby is finding Australian federal electorates which are the same size as sovereign European nations.

Switzerland? Eden-Monaro (NSW)

Latvia? Barker (SA)

France? Kennedy (QLD, seat of everybody's favourite croc attack hater, Bob Katter)

Albania? Indi (VIC)

How many European countries do you need to make up the area of Lingiari (NT) which isn't even the largest electorate? ALL OF SCANDINAVIA PLUS MOLDOVA

[axvoter]

Blatantly Partisan Party Review V (federal 2022): Australian Federation Party

Running where: All states except NSW for the Senate; in NSW, they are only standing candidates in the Divisions of Berowra, Newcastle, Page, and Robertson

(prior reviews and quote are given primarily for historical context as these have little relevance today—read on for why!)

Prior reviews (as the Country Alliance or Australian Country Party): federal 2013, VIC 2014, federal 2016, VIC 2018

What I said before: “I suppose if some rural electors are disillusioned with the Nationals, perhaps unhappy with their declining significance and fading role in the Coalition, a minor party like this might be attractive to them as a protest vote.”

What I think this year: The Australian Federation Party emerged from the remnants of a Victorian party known as the Country Alliance, but it is now a quite different entity. As the Country Alliance, it almost snagged a seat in Victoria’s state upper house in 2010, and since then has worked its way through a bunch of different guises, regularly changing its name and absorbing other micro-parties or fringe independents (e.g. Tasmania 4 Tasmanians and the Victorian branch of Katter’s Australia Party). The last time I reviewed this party, they had taken a more militant right-wing slant into the 2018 Victorian state election, including the addition of the slogan “Give It Back!” to their registered name for some poorly articulated reason. They then did not contest the 2019 federal election and took on their current name in February 2020, cropping up since then at a few state/territorial elections and in July 2020 at the federal by-election in Eden-Monaro, where they flopped into 14th place (out of 14) with just 170 votes.

The Australian Federation Party—who abbreviate their name as AusFeds on their website—have drifted so far from their foundations that its website never mentions the old parties. Its candidates this year include some, uh, luminaries of the micro-party scene, such as their lead candidate for the Senate in Western Australia, notorious anti-vaxxer Judy Wilyman, who has jumped ship from the Involuntary Medication Objectors Party. The lead candidate for the Senate in Victoria is Vern Hughes, a serial party-hopper who seems to be standing for a different party every time I come across his name. There are also candidates who were too extreme even for Craig Kelly and Clive Palmer at the United Australia Party: they disendorsed pro-Putin acolyte Jefferson Earl, who is now AusFed candidate for the Division of Flinders (VIC), while the AusFed lead Senate candidate in SA is Cathy Byrne, an antivax nurse (that should be a contradiction in terms) who previously palled around with Craig Kelly and was meant to be second on the UAP ticket.

The Federation Party bills itself as not a new party but “a new kind of political party”. They are obsessed with a rose-tinted, nostalgic view of the past: they have a table that claims to show that up to 1975, Australia was some sort of utopia of community harmony and accessible politicians and that ever since it has been the exact opposite. They describe all their electoral rivals as “centralised, top-down traditional parties” while depicting the AusFeds as a “distributed, networked organisation”. They explicitly draw on Bitcoin to claim their party is organised around similar networked nodes and that policy development will be public with tracked edits: they literally say you should “think a blockchain for text documents” as if turning on tracked-changes is some revolutionary idea.

Their frequent allusions to IT principles sound an awful lot like your drunk uncle at the family barbecue trying to explain his new interest in blockchain and why it revolutionises everything despite having only a superficial grasp of the principles. The silly part here is that literally almost a decade ago, the Pirate Party had actual member-designed policies with edits publicly visible and did so with sounder knowledge of IT principles and policy development rather than this arrogant notion that the AusFeds are the first and only community-based party in the country. Likewise, the whole “our members will hold town halls and be accountable to their community” lark is just plagiarising what indies in the mould of Cathy McGowan have done for years.

So what are they, if they aren't the innovative new party they claim to be? The AusFeds are covid conspiracists, as you would expect when Judy Wilyman and Cathy Byrne are standing for them. Throughout their webpage are crackpot claims that at every turn minimise the severity and prevalence of covid. Their “about” page starts not with a general introduction or a description of their history but a rant about lockdowns. They claim to be an evidence-based party but this is of the "I dO mY oWn ReSeArCh" brainworms variety. To illustrate their policy that party members have a conscience vote on every issue but must back their vote with evidence, they give an example that a party member could not vote for lockdowns in a pandemic even if their constituents wanted lockdowns because there is (according to them) no possible way this could be evidence-based. They have deeply dangerous policies that would prohibit covid vaccines even being offered to people under 18 and pandemic policies that would leave Australia completely exposed to the worst effects of any pandemic now and in the future.

I won’t bother with their other policies, many of which are bullet points that say next to nothing, because you get the picture. This party is now a hotbed of fringe politics and anti-vax advocacy, and must be rejected.

My recommendation: Give the Australian Federation Party a weak or no preference—indeed, they should be one of the very last parties you number if you distribute preferences fully (which I encourage you to do, as it maximises the power of your vote).

Websites: https://www.fedparty.org.au/ or https://ausfedparty.com.au/

[ryanugenthopkins]

not the abc comparing the eden-monaro by-election to the entire ass state of ohio...

[grub-s]

labor got eden monaro

[adecenthat]

https://invidio.us/watch?v=y8PBKhqRUrc

[leanpick]

Fed MP's offensive emailer avoids jail

Fed MP's offensive emailer avoids jail

A Sydney man has been handed a suspended jail sentence for sending spam emails in the lead-up to the 2020 Eden-Monaro by-election.

[armeniaitn]

Kristy McBain MP supports Australian recognition of Armenian, Assyrian and Greek Genocides

New Post has been published on https://armenia.in-the.news/politics/kristy-mcbain-mp-supports-australian-recognition-of-armenian-assyrian-and-greek-genocides-76553-20-07-2021/

Kristy McBain MP supports Australian recognition of Armenian, Assyrian and Greek Genocides

Kristy McBain MP has joined a growing cohort of fellow Federal parliamentarians by signing the Joint Justice Initiative’s affirmation of support, which pledged her support to Australia’s recognition of the Armenian, Assyrian and Greek Genocides.

The February 2020 launch of the Joint Justice Initiative at Australia’s Parliament House featured the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding by the Armenian National Committee of Australia (ANC-AU), Assyrian National Council – Australia (ANC) and Australian Hellenic Council (AHC), which declares Australia’s recognition of the Armenian, Assyrian and Greek Genocides as a priority on behalf of their communities.

A former Mayor of the Bega Valley Shire, McBain entered Federal Parliament in 2020 after winning a by-election for the seat of Eden-Monaro. A lawyer by training, McBain becomes the newest member of the Joint Justice Initiative.

Executive Director of the Armenian National Committee of Australia (ANC-AU), Haig Kayserian applauded McBain’s addition to the signatories of the Joint Justice Initiative.

“The Armenian National Committee of Australia, Assyrian National Council – Australia and the Australian Hellenic Council thank Ms. Kirsty McBain on behalf of the three communities we represent, and welcome the continued support being received by the Joint Justice Initiative,” added Kayserian.

“Over 40 Federal Parliamentarians have now signed on to express the wish of Australia for our Government to stop succumbing to threats from the Turkish dictatorship and stand up for this important issue of human rights, which impacts so many descendants of the 1915 genocides who proudly call this country home.”

The Joint Justice Initiative has so far announced the support of McBain, Senator Rachel Siewert, Susan Templeman MP, Adam Bandt MP, Tim Wilson MP, Senator Janet Rice, Steve Georganas MP, Michael Sukkar MP, Senator Louise Pratt, Warren Entsch, Joel Fitzgibbon MP, Andrew Wilkie MP, Julian Leeser MP, Michelle Rowland MP, Senator Paul Scarr, Tony Zappia MP, Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, Senator Hollie Hughes, Senator Rex Patrick, Mike Freelander MP, Senator Eric Abetz, Senator Larissa Waters, Senator Pat Dodson, Jason Falinski MP, Josh Burns MP, John Alexander MP, Senator Andrew Bragg and Bob Katter MP with a promise of more announcements to come.

On 25th February 2020, over 100 Federal Australian parliamentarians, diplomats, departmental officials, political staffers, academics, media and community leaders were treated to cultural performances, food, wine and brandy, as well as the historic signing of a Memorandum of Understanding, which affirmed that the signatory public affairs representatives of the three communities were jointly committed to seeing Australia recognise the Turkish-committed Genocides against the Armenian, Greek and Assyrian citizens of the Ottoman Empire during World War I.

Read original article here.

[surelyucantbe]

You know what if it's a slow news day the news just doesn't have to run. Like if you've got nothing to show me don't show me statistics about the eden monaro by election again just like turn off. Slow news days was the reason toilet paper hoarding became a thing

[adelatur]

As if the by-election wasn't already a complete joke, this flier from the AEC gave me real meme vibes.

Side note: did you know that the electorate of Eden-Monaro is larger than the sovereign nation of Switzerland?

[axvoter]

Blatantly Partisan Party Review XXXVI (federal 2022): Australia One

(This party did not so much as apply for registration, despite soliciting donations to help it do so. It is standing independents instead. Spoiler alert: this is really cooked stuff)

Running where: all mainland states—see list below for electorates so you know if there is an independent you need to avoid

Prior reviews: None, this is a new party, but it emerged from the ashes of the Australian Conservatives (NSW 2019, federal 2019)

What I said before: “Let’s hope these bilious disagreeable people and their miserable party soon collapse in a heap and that after Cory Bernardi’s current term in the Senate expires in 2022 we never hear a thing from them ever again.”

What I think this year: Well, I got part of my wish. Cory’s party collapsed and he did not even serve out his term—he resigned in January 2020. His remaining followers scattered: some back to the Liberal Party, some to One Nation, some to UAP, and some went elsewhere. That’s where Australia One comes in. Riccardo Bosi stood for the Australian Conservatives as the second candidate on their NSW ticket for the Senate in 2019. After the party collapsed, he decided to found Australia One, stood in the 2020 Eden-Monaro federal by-election (coming 13th out of 14) and the electoral district of Nicklin at the Queensland state election (coming 5th of 6), and has become prominent in the covid conspiracist freedom movement.

Bosi has, among other things, led “freedom” rallies. He breached South Australia’s covid rules and then accused a judge of having no standing and of being an imbecile and a traitor. He has threatened terrorist action to shut down water and power if crackpot demands are not met, and called for the hanging of judges and politicians. As well as peddling vaccine disinformation and violent covid conspiracism, he also believes 5G is a tool of the Chinese government.

The Australia One website is a wild ride with pages outlining supposed government policies and practices that breach the constitution. You know you’ve stumbled onto a website of unhinged brane geniouses when there is a “knowledge” menu with options that include “news you don’t see unless you look”. It’s pure “I am the smartest person in the room” conspiracist drivel. Australia One wildly misinterprets legislation for conspiracy-theorist and often sovereign-citizen purposes, appearing to believe that the government wants to microchip and quarantine the population. They peddle the debunked rumour that covid vaccines cause infertility, and employ alarmist anti-choice agitation on abortion that is pure American far-right textbook shit. They also think climate change is a conspiracy, citing the utterly discredited PragerU YouTube channel (the specific video they post has been thoroughly debunked).

The websites for the Australia One-aligned independents espouse similar rhetoric. In general they articulate a sense that the country is being, or has been, stolen from them and they want to take it back. Some of it is quite dangerous, most of it is utterly delusional.

Avoid the following independent candidates, all of whom are aligned with Australia One:

NSW: Riccardo Bosi (Division of Greenway)

QLD: Lindsay Temple (ungrouped independent for the Senate)

SA: Vince Pannell and Maddy Fry (both Division of Barker, oddly enough); Paul Busuttil (Division of Boothby)

VIC: James Laurie (Division of Bendigo); Craig Cole (Division of Casey); Dominique Murphy (Division of Chisholm); Darren Bergwerf (Division of Dunkley)

My recommendation: Give these independents very weak preferences indeed (in the QLD Senate, you can give Temple a weak or no preference—if you vote above the line you won’t need to worry about him anyway)

Website: https://australiaoneparty.com/ for the party and links to the specific indies; there is also a page for the SA candidates at https://sa-independents.com.au/

[lindoig7]

Monday to Friday, 12-16 October

Monday

A home-day today, with quite a few hours working on our photos, blogs and odd jobs around the van.  I went for a longish walk around the local area in the afternoon, but it was quite windy and I saw very few birds.

Tuesday

We started out with some rather nebulous ideas of where we might go but settled on Cabbage Tree Creek for a start.  It is only 20-odd km from here and it hosts the southernmost stand of palms anywhere in Australia with about 100 mature Cabbage Tree palms. The next nearest palms are at Eden in NSW, about 190 km away if you can get a Crow to fly that far in a straight line.  Not sure where you would find such a Crow anyway - we only have Ravens in part of Victoria.

There is a short walk there, about 800 metres and we walked it in both directions.  The whole area was alive with birdsong, but the only birds we saw were a few Grey Fantails near the parking area.  Quite a few of the calls were quite unfamiliar to me, but the sneaky little critters simply wouldn’t come out of the canopy so we could see them. There were quite a few Grey-headed Flying Foxes in the area and despite hearing them almost constantly, we never saw one!  It is quite frustrating knowing that there is so much close by to look, hearing plenty, but being unable to find anything at all.

We decided to head for Cann River and explore a little of the Monaro Highway, but waylaid ourselves when we saw an alternative route to Club Terrace – the quaint place we had driven through on the way home after our exhausting Old Growth Forest Walk a week or so ago.  The route was as interesting as we remembered it and we came across a couple of foresters trying to remove a bit more of the tree that had caused us a bit of concern on our way through last trip. Someone had cut a section out of it, but the section was barely large enough to get our car through and the foresters were trying to remove another section to make passage easier.  From what they said, the tree was too big for their chain saws to cut though so they were waiting on another crew with better gear to assist in dragging the log off the road.  We told them about the other place we had been unable to get through last time so they said they would remove that one too once they had resolved the current problem.  There were lots of other places where the road was partly blocked too, so they would probably have at least a day’s work to do before they even got near the other blockage we reported.

We did another walk further north – yet another Rainforest Walk, this one not quite as wet and soggy as the previous ones. (Would you believe it is referred to as a DRY rainforest?  What is dry rain – snow, hail?  But it still ends up being wet!)  Again, lots of birdsong, but we only saw a couple of Yellow-faced Honeyeaters.  But along the road, we saw quite a few kangaroos, wallabies, a dingo, lots of rabbits, and even another lyrebird.  We called in at a place called the Ada Camping Reserve on the Ada River and there were quite a few King (and Queen?) Parrots there.

We drove almost up to Bendoc again and cut across to the Bonang Road and thence back to Orbost.  By the time we got back, it was well after dark to we just bought fish and chips in town and ate in the warmth of our cosy cubbyhouse.

I took quite a lot of photos during the day, but once again, they are all overexposed and slightly out of focus.  I think I will have to have my camera checked by an expert – I have been very unhappy with the results throughout this trip.

Wednesday

Not a lot happened today.  We spent quite a bit of time on photos and blogs, FB and emails, crocheting, backing up our devices, etc., etc., but not much else.

I went for a local walk in the afternoon looking for birds but saw very little.  It was warm and windy and I think the birds must all have been sheltering out of sight from me.

Thursday

A much bigger day today!  Nearly 400 km bigger.  We fuelled up in Orbost and were on the road by 9am, heading to Bruthen and thence to Omeo. We had 3 false starts, having to return to the caravan for things we either forgot or belatedly decided we should take with us, but then it was pretty straight-forward.

The road north is quite scenic and we stopped a couple of times to photograph flowers.  Of course, every time we stop, it is not just for a quick pic – we always see something nearby so take a pic of that – and that points us on to something next to it that makes us look a bit further and in no time at all, half an hour has gone, sometimes an hour!

We eventually reached Swift’s Creek, an interesting little place that is the start of an alternative, more scenic, route to Omeo. There was very little traffic on that road and it was quite an interesting drive.  Three kilometres from Omeo, we came across a place called Oriental Claims.  Apparently, this area was extensively mined by the Chinese during the Gold Rush and a huge area has been dug over and effectively landscaped in a rather radical fashion.  The whole area is riddled with diggings, unmarked shafts, dykes made from the rocks brought to the surface during the mining operations.  There are incredible cliffs all around, extensively eroded as a result of the sluicing methods they used to extract more than $50 Million in alluvial gold.  It is an amazing place with a couple of tracks through it and warnings not to stray from the path for fear of falling down a hidden shaft, or getting buried under a falling cliff or collapsing mine.  It is becoming a bit overgrown but the environmental carnage must have been horrific a hundred years ago.  The mine was actually closed in 1904 as a result of the environmental damage at a time when the environment didn’t attract more than a handful of votes.  It is apparently a favourite birders’ haunt and we did see quite a few birds along our 2 km or so walk.  Definitely worth a visit – or another one sometime.

Omeo was not as quaint as I recalled it when we camped there a couple of times with our old caravan 20 years or more ago.  It is a bit busier than I remember, but we have only been there in mid-winter before so maybe this is normal out of the snow season.

We returned to Bruthen along the main road and there was a small bushfire along the road verge about 10 clicks short of Swift’s Creek and although everything around it was very green, we thought we should report it – but there was nobody to report it to in town so we couldn’t do much about it.  I reckon it was pretty safe with all the green around and there were plenty of cars heading north past it that could have reported it in Omeo – if there was anyone to report it to there!

As we drove home, we were watching some rather dramatic cloud build-up that looked very stormy and we just got inside the van when the thunder roared and the rain descended.  It didn’t last more than half an hour or so, but the thunder was very loud and shook the caravan and everything in it.  It was really a lot of fun – I just love the excitement of thunderstorms.

Friday

We stayed around the van again most of the day. It rained on and off all night and the paths were wet and soggy.  We went up to the Supermarket for a few essentials and called in at the Information Centre where Heather found out about a few more local walks and drives we might do.

I went birding again, without a lot of enthral again, but I always enjoy just wandering and looking in case I see something of great or greater interest.  We also watched a movie during the afternoon – a rare treat for us in a way and a break from whatever else we are doing.

Our HWS is still misbehaving and we experimented around trying to get it working again, but eventually gave up and decided to leave it until it was lighter in the morning.  It is frustrating because we packed up and took the van to Bairnsdale a week ago to get it fixed, but it is still not operating properly (or at all at present!)

We cooked another fabulous paella for dinner and managed to eat nearly half of it – so there is a lot left over.  I just love eating up leftovers – very often with embellishments that make it even better.  The other day, Heather combined a few small leftover items, added some herbs and seasoning and made a fantastically delicious lunch – very creative and absolutely yum!  Outstanding!

[todaynewsjournal]

Liberal candidate Fiona Kotvojs yet to concede Eden-Monaro The Liberal Party's candidate for Eden-Monaro has yet to concede defeat for the by-election as Labor celebrates an "against-the-odds" win.

[redroadsmedia]

Labor's lead firms in Eden Monaro by-election

[leanpick]

Climate a priority in NSW regional seats

Climate a priority in NSW regional seats

Climate and environment policies were key priorities for voters at the May 21 election in the regional NSW seats of Gilmore, Page and Eden-Monaro, according to exit polling. The poll conducted by YouGov for Farmers for Climate Action and released on Tuesday found around two thirds of people interviewed across the three electorates said “effective climate change policies” were important to their…