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Page 1: Published: 4 May 2020 The Wiluna Wire · own ham and pineapple pizza. Keep an eye out for the next Surprise Activity pack. Regards Hayley Beaman Recreation & Youth Officerr Wiluna

Community Newsletter

Published: 4 May 2020

The Wiluna Wire

Thank you Katrina Boylan for this beautiful photo

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Hello and Welcome this week’s edition of the Wiluna Wire

In this edition we have submissions from several Wiluna Agencies. This newsletter can only be as informative, interesting and entertaining as the stories we receive. However, under

copyright law, we can only publish original material that you own the copyright of or that is not copyrighted.

Please forward any feedback, suggestions and submissions to: [email protected].

We hope you enjoy this edition of The Wiluna Wire.

The Shire of Wiluna Follow Us on Facebook

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Hello Everyone,

Last week I posted in the wire about the Kid’s

Surprise Activity Packs that I am making and

delivering each week.

Last week Joella and I delivered the first lot of

packs. These contained 4 coloring in pictures, 1

paint brush and three paints.

I was greeted by big smiles and excitement from all the kids, you can

tell they are eager to get active and

creative.

Next week I will be putting together a

cooking pack for the kids to make their

own ham and pineapple pizza. Keep an

eye out for the next Surprise Activity pack.

Regards

Hayley Beaman

Recreation & Youth Officerr

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Farmers Across Borders Visit in February

By Pam Ward - Glen-Ayle Station Wiluna

Having endured (along with many other regions of Australia) the HOTTEST last 3 Summers and 2 years NO significant Rain falls, Mother Nature in her full force has taken it's toll on livestock, wildlife and the environment. After many attempts at Meetings with our Local Members, asking for a little assistance in the form of Hay for our livestock (Drought Relief) not one request was considered, not even for 3 month Summer Period.

BUT...Relief WAS insight, 'Farmers Across Borders" put their hands up, saying that due to their work commitments, they would be leaving Esperance on AUSTRALIA DAY, to deliver much needed Hay for this region. Morning of 27th January, 2020, several trucks, trailers, volunteer Drivers with their wives and many Donated Bales of Hay from Esperance area, arrived in Wiluna. A very Welcome sight!! Not only did we receive Hay, but a large box of donated, VERY useful items, plus 2 tins lovely homemade Biscuits, Jams, Relishes, Sauces, donated by many CWA Ladies. How thoughtful and a lovely Surprise!

HOWEVER...amidst this very much appreciated event, there was Disappointment felt by all , for the lack of Representation and Acknowledgement from the Local Townspeople. A 10 minute G'day goes a long way at an event as important as this one. So may you all, (you know who you are...so do we) next time you visit the Grocery Store, Supermarket, Butcher, Baker, may the Shiver of Guilt that runs through your hand when you reach out to those shelves, to fill your trolley, be an abrupt reminder to you, that if it wasn't for the Agriculture Industry, Primary Producers, the Man on the Land, your trolleys would never be filled!

A "BIG THANKYOU" to everyone, who kept Bacon, Eggs and Toast going for those who attended, job well done. THANKYOU to Brodie and Danni from Cunyu Station who kindly donating the food for breakfast. Also, A "BIG THANKYOU" to PK and Robert who worked non stop till the load was done.

The Caliber of these type of people, Volunteers, Workers, at an advent such as this, are few and far between.

Australia DOES have a Western State, and another gentle reminder to those that support the Eastern States of Australia all the time, if it wasn't for the West propping them up on MANY occasions, there would be NO Eastern States.

Thank You again, "Farmers Across Borders " and Everyone that Donated.

Top of the Future to you all!

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THIS WEEKS FEATURED ARTIST

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Lena was born on the Canning Stock Route at Well No.7 while her Mother

(Manga Margaret Long) was shepherding cattle. She came to Wiluna as a

school-age child, attending primary school in Wiluna, before being sent to

Karalundi Mission. She has lived mainly in Wiluna, however worked in the

Sandstone Hotel when she was seventeen, looking after children and cleaning.

She once painted watercolour landscapes in Wittenoom when her first

husband worked as a fencer for Lang Hancock at Mulga Downs Station. Lena

now paints in a style which combines both western and traditional influences.

Lena's skin is Karimarra, her totem is the Bangarra (Goanna) and her languages

are Kartujarra, Putjarra and English. 2008 2013 - Exhibited Oakajee Port&Rail,

QV1 Building, Perth. 2013 Birriliburu Exhibition at Spectrum Project Space,

Perth.

ARTISIT PARTICIPATION IN THE ART GALLERY

Lena Long spends a great deal of time in her artwork. Even though she is also a

valued community member for the Wiluna as a whole (involved in the school

org& Shire etc), she makes time to come into the art gallery and sit and paint.

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RECENT ARTWORKS

She invents her own artwork in the sense that they tell a story just by looking

at them. Lena has been painting here at the Tjukurba Art Gallery since before

most of the artists and is famous for her story telling whilst we have had

tourist in or visitors too. A great story teller, you should really buy artwork to

read her story for her artwork!

Lena Long painting at the

Tjukurba Art Gallery.

ARTWORKS AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE

Artwork Details 19-207 Honey Ant Dreaming

Story 60 x 60cm, $550

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19-275 The Canning Stock Route 130cm x 74cm, $800

Thank you to our Artists who continue to do their paintings at home and to

our artists who have managed to drop off their completed artworks.

Please continue to practice as we have announced, call us before you come

and wait at the gate, and we will drop your canvas and paints there for you

to pick up whilst sanitizing your hand at the gate.

Continue to do so and we will do our work from our end and that is putting

up your artworks to the website tjukurbagallery.com.au.

Please feel free to call Emele on (08) 9981 8080 for Artwork Sales and

postage.

Take care of yourselves you mob!

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The Australian Feral Camel Management Project (AFCMP) in WA

The AFCMP was a national feral camel management and control program conducted in 2010-2014. It was initiated by Aboriginal desert communities who were being severely impacted by feral camels in their homelands. As there was no existing profitable market for feral camels, and they have no natural predators, feral camel numbers had continued to increase in the Australian deserts. Although feral camel density is far higher in the remote WA deserts near the borders, further west in WA feral camels are also significantly impacting cattle stations on the desert/pastoral interface, costing pastoralists a lot of money, particularly in infrastructure damage. Further complicating things is that feral camels are highly mobile, and not territorial like other feral animals in the deserts, such as feral donkeys and feral horses. Together, all 3 are called large feral herbivores (LFH), and they are all declared pests in WA. There was a lot of science in the AFCMP, so it attracted a lot of scientists and people with science backgrounds. The Aboriginal Traditional Owners from all four WA deserts (Gibson, Great Sandy, Little Sandy and Great Victoria deserts) were heavily involved in this project and the accompanying research. They brought their traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) to the table and, combined with western science, the AFCMP began to unlock the riddles of the feral camel. It is very important to understand this before you start planning. There are a lot of myths about feral camels. We also learnt a lot about where to find camels as you can’t just fly around trying to find them; you have to know where to look. The AFCMP was managed by the commonwealth government but delivered by the states, in collaboration with the Commonwealth. I was the coordinator in WA, which meant I spent 4 years out in the WA deserts working with all the remote Aboriginal communities from the NT and SA borders back to the pastoral interface, including Wiluna, and from the Nullarbor up to north of Kiwirrkurra. I learnt a lot about feral camels in those four years. The boss of the project in Canberra was another ex-Army Infantry soldier, and a scientist, so we got along just fine. He knew a lot about camels and had a gang of experienced rangeland scientists at his disposal, gathering enormous amounts of information through their very thorough scientific research, all conducted out in the deserts with the Aboriginal Traditional Owners. It was fascinating to work with the scientists and the Traditional Owners on this project. They all worked hard to understand feral camel ecology, determine and measure impacts, and work out the best ways to effectively control them. Although the millennium drought had killed tens of thousands of feral camels when the deserts dried right out (we saw plenty of evidence of this), there was a need to further reduce feral camel densities, particularly out in the border country where densities are very high (this was determined by months of aerial survey work by scientists in fixed-wing planes). Because we were a density reduction project, and funded with public money, we had to ensure that we had solid evidence of where feral camel densities were highest, after very thorough scientific study, so that project funds were able to have the biggest impact (ie bang for the buck). No stone was left unturned by the scientists, they investigated and researched everything. As most of us had science backgrounds, we enjoyed working with them, and saw the overwhelming evidence ourselves. In WA, the Department of Agriculture was responsible for coordination and delivery of the AFCMP. The WA government formed a partnership with the AFCMP in Canberra. I was a biosecurity manager in the department, so they asked me to be the coordinator and told me that I would be spending most of the next 4 years camped out in the deserts, working with the Traditional Owners, and also delivering a big aerial shooting program, but I had done plenty of this sort of work before. I had to move to Kalgoorlie, but didn’t spend much time there over the next four years as I was out bush most of the time.

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I would spend about 4 weeks at a time out in the deserts, sometimes longer, then come back to Kal for a week or two to write reports and get more gear, and then head out again. I worked on my own, but had two other aerial shooters and two pilots when I was conducting big aerial shooting activities. Each shoot would be 4 weeks and we’d start in Spinifex country at Tjuntjunjarra and Ilkurlka, and then move the camp up to the Lands, then to the Gibson Desert Nature Reserve (GDNR), then to Kiwirrkurra, and then over to the east and north of Wiluna, all based out in the desert. There’s a lot of very technical planning and logistics with aerial shooting, especially for 4 weeks at a time, and this is complicated by camping out in very remote areas. We had vehicles, trailers, semi-automatic .308 rifles, and choppers, plus carting all of the necessary equipment, ammunition (20,000 rounds at a time) and rations, so we all needed to be self-reliant, able to live hard, work long hours and repair and maintain all of our vehicles, trailers, choppers, rifles, and other equipment. You can’t get RAC or an aircraft mechanic out in the desert when you break down, or when your trailer suspension disintegrates, or when your chopper won’t start. Everyone chips in to get the job done, because there is no other option. There is no place for sooks or bludgers in a hard working bush camp. We always camped out in swags so that our project funding was spent getting outcomes, and not on creature comforts or self-pampering. It took me six months to visit and brief all of the communities and outstations in all 4 of the WA deserts, and then fly them out to their country in our choppers to inspect the damage the camels were doing. We needed the Elders to sign our ‘informed consent’ forms to endorse us to conduct aerial shooting on their country. These areas were where feral camel density was highest, which was confirmed by the fixed-wing surveys. Aerial shooting is very efficient when you have big numbers of feral animals and limited time. 100% of the Traditional Owners signed that form, so we could then shoot all of the deserts, but always involving Elders and rangers in our work. Every time I took the Elders up in the choppers over their country, they’d say ‘where have all these trees come from?’ None of them could believe how many trees there were in the deserts now, ever since traditional burning had stopped. Mo Pawero (ex-DSS) is an Anthropologist and was living in Warburton then, and running the Ranger program out on the Lands. He gave me a hand in the Lands, and up around Kiwirrkurra, when I started out there. He knew everyone and gets a lot of respect, so he was the first person to join my camel gang. He came out with me on some of my early trips to introduce me to the right people, and to help me explain a bit about the AFCMP. I got called Camel Man. Michael ‘Nuni’ Carnegie helped me out too. Before each shoot, I had to fill about 60 empty 200lt drums with avgas from bowsers. I had these drums stashed all around the place in the deserts. I would then drive out and drop them all through the deserts in places where I thought the chopper could land and refuel, on the go. You can’t have a chopper coming back to the camp to refuel every 3 hours or you wouldn’t get any shooting done. The chopper has to land in the desert, refuel and keep moving, in order to meet culling benchmarks. When I hid this fuel in the desert, I had to pick what I thought would be the best spots, then drive cross-country, well off bush tracks, clear a landing pad so that the chopper wouldn’t start a fire, and also so that any fire going through would not destroy the avgas I was leaving out there. I unloaded the drums from my trailer, positioned them so that the extreme conditions wouldn’t affect the fuel, GPS the location and then drive back to a track and moved a couple of hundred of km onto the next spot I had selected for a fuel cache. I mostly did this on my own, but sometimes an Elder or a ranger would come out with me in their area and have a look around and give me a hand. It was hard work but good fun, and I was learning all the time. The Elders would tell me stories about their country, landmarks, and where the kapi (water) was. We visited a lot of very special places, so I was very privileged to see these things.

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On my shoot team I had James, a black belt martial arts expert who is also an ex-Infantry soldier and excellent aerial shooter, and whose nickname is ‘Kung Fu Panda’ (KFP); and Simon, who is nicknamed the ‘Simonator’, also a very experienced aerial shooter from the Kimberley. Our pilots were Weldon and Roger, both very experienced mustering pilots, with plenty of low-level and aerial shooting experience. Becoming an aerial marksman is a big deal. It takes a lot of training, and starts with small jobs before getting a spot out on the big remote jobs where you are culling big numbers. Not only must you be a proficient marksman, but you must pass rigorous testing and endure very challenging training. You have to know what you are doing to consistently hit your mark - the brain or heart of a moving animal from a moving platform (a chopper), and do it day after day in harsh conditions, whilst living in a bush camp for extended periods. You have to be able to operate a lot of different equipment, and write big plans, risk assessments and reports about your work. You also need to be handy with radios, maps and cooking good feeds on a fire. Everyone also has to be able to butcher camels for meat in the camp. Along with helicopter and high powered firearm safety, animal welfare and humane destruction compliance underpin successful aerial shooting. This is very strictly controlled and we would get random RSPCA audits during our shoots. We would get a call out of the blue on our sat phone or HF radio to tell us that an RSPCA veterinarian (vet) had landed at Yulara and that we had to stop shooting and send the chopper over to Yulara to bring the vet back to the camp. The vet and I would go through our shoot data and the vet would then inspect a random 100 carcases out of mobs shot in the past 24 hours. We’d fly the vet out to those spots so that the vet could do autopsies on the dead animals. They had to see evidence (science is all about evidence) that every dead animal had a minimum of two fatal shots (in the brain and the heart only). There is no margin for error here and any evidence that this had not occurred meant that we would be shut down immediately. Our team was well-trained, experienced, and professional, so we had no problems with audits. Compliance is very expensive but important. At the end of each long day, and after a debrief, one of us cooked a feed on the fire while the others service/inspect/ repair vehicles, trailers and the choppers, clean all the firearms, reload the magazines, conduct briefings for the next day’s work , get the next day’s equipment ready, and fuel the choppers up. The choppers take off at first light as this is always a good time for finding feral camels moving through the deserts. Everyone sleeps well after a big day of aerial shooting and keeping things going. After each shoot, the rest of the gang returned to base and I stayed out bush to collect all the empty drums, and then secured them at Ilkurlka, Warakurna, Kiwirrkurra, Alice Springs and around Wiluna. Sometimes Mo, Nuni or an Elder would give me a hand. I would then head back to Kalgoorlie and write all my reports, acquit our financials and commence planning and preparation for the next trip or shoot. This was a great job and I received very privileged access to Elders and communities over all of that beautiful desert country, by vehicle and chopper. We also trained Aboriginal rangers to ground shoot camels. I learnt a lot and made great friends out in the desert communities. We culled over 50,000 feral camels from the WA deserts, and I drove almost 50,000km per year on the desert roads and tracks. I also got to work with the Martu Elders and the Martu rangers during this work, Yuwawu! Biosecurity work is another interesting career choice, particularly for those people with an interest or qualifications in science. All the aerial shooters I’ve worked with have science backgrounds. Aerial shooters are recruited from biosecurity staff. You have to volunteer, meet selection and minimum marksmanship standards (tested on the range), and then pass the rigorous training and requal courses. Aerial shooters must be able to work in a team under difficult physical conditions in remote

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Here are some pics from the AFCMP in the WA deserts

2010 — 2014:

The Spinifex Elders with us near Tjuntjunjarra With Mr Mitchell, Mr Butler and the Blackstone gang

The chopper lands on a fuel cache on the NT border Chopper takes off from a fuel cache near Tjukurla

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A feral camel collared in the Lands for tracking data Kung Fu Panda doing his daily rifle zeroing

Our office each day Weldon and KFP setting the chopper up for a big days

work

Dawn takeoff near the Rawlinson Ranges Takeoff on the Sandy Blight Track for a day’s work on the NT border

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Getting ready for takeoff at Ilkurlka in Spinifex country Coming back to Ilkurlka from an SA border shoot

One of our camps on the NT border Camp Shower in the desert oaks

Chopper pad in one of our camps Uluru on a Yulara trip to collect the vet for auditing

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Lunch break while moving camp in the Lands The chopper lands for a quick refuel during lunch

It always rains on shoots but our work never stops Nuni with some empty drums at Warakurna

The Simonator lines up a feral camel in the Gibson desert

Our gang - Mac, KFP, Roger, Weldon and the Simonator in the Gibson desert

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Getting some camel meat for the camp The pilots enjoying camel ribs cooked on the coals

Good training resulted in 1000’s of feral camels culled Training Spinifex Rangers to ground shoot camels.

Spinifex Rangers on the Ilkurlka rifle range we built A big mob of feral camels crossing a sand dune

Thumbs from Ullalla Boss in the chopper 2012 With Ullalla Boss and Ben Brown way out in the desert

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G O V E R N M E N T O F W E S T E R N A U S T R A L I A

Consumer Watch

Consumer Protection 50-52 Durlacher Street, Geraldton WA 6530 Tel: (08) 9920 9800 Fax: (08) 9964 5678

Email: [email protected]

Financial relief for renters

If you’re a tenant who’s lost their job in the coronavirus crunch, you may be wondering how to afford what’s likely the household’s biggest weekly expense – the rent.

To relieve some of the burden, the State Government has announced a $30 million residential rental relief scheme, which will see payments of up to $2000 granted to landlords on behalf of tenants in financial strife due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tenants can apply for the grant online, however there are some things they should know before taking that step.

To qualify you must be in ‘financial hardship’, meaning you’ve lost your job on or after March 20 due to COVID-19, have applied for, or are now receiving, Centrelink income support, plus your household must have less than $10,000 in savings and be spending at least 25 per cent of its available after-tax income on rent.

You must have agreed to a reduction in rent with your landlord or engaged in Consumer Protection’s conciliation service.

A tenancy bond would have been – or shortly will be – lodged with the Bond Administrator, and you must live in either a private residential property, rooming house or residential park.

Documentary evidence showing you meet the above criteria is required, as well as proof of citizenship, residency or an appropriate visa.

It’s important to remember that the grant must be applied for by the tenant, but will be paid directly to the landlord. Neither party will need to repay the grant, however the landlord needs to ensure the lower rent is payable for the minimum period or that the amount of the grant offsets any deferred rental debt. It is important that the tenant receives the benefits of the grant along with the landlord.

The scheme is due to expire on 29 September 2020, however it’s worth knowing that the total available for all grants is $30 million, meaning this may limit the time that applications can be made.

For further details and to apply for the grant, please refer to our website: https://www.commerce.wa.gov.au/consumer-protection/residential-rent-relief-grant-scheme

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WOULD YOU LIKE TO HELP IMPROVE

BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT FOR OLDER PEOPLE?

The Melbourne Ageing Research Collaboration, led by the National

Ageing Research Institute, is conducting a research project on grief and

its effects on quality of life and healthcare use in older people.

To participate, you need to be:

a) Aged 65 years or older. b) Currently living in Australia. c) Able to read and write in English. d) Have experienced the death of a significant person in your life

at least 6 months ago or longer.

To participate in this study, we invite you to

Complete a 25-Minute Survey

The survey can be accessed online via this link:

https://bit.ly/grief-survey

If you prefer a paper-based version, please leave us a message with

your name and address and we will post a survey to you:

Dr Katrin Gerber at the National Ageing Research Institute

Telephone: 03 8387 2662 - E-mail: [email protected]

All participants who return a completed survey enter into a draw to

win one of five $200 Coles-Myer gift cards.

This study has been approved by the Human Research Ethics Committee of

Deakin University (Reference Number 2019-433).

STUDY INVITATION

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Blocked - The State Government’s proposal

to raise the gold royalty - In 2017 I was

Successful with the Disallowance Motion

which defeated the Government’s attempt to

increase the Gold Royalty by 50%. Which I

think is an absolutely fantastic win. I am

determined to protect and promote mining

and lead the defence against water charges

for prospectors and small miners.

Granted - License for an MRI Machine in

Kalgoorlie-Boulder –Alongside Senator

Georgiou we secured the Medicare license for

the MRI machine in June 2018 after leading a

strong advocacy campaign alongside WA One

Nation. Although our town is still waiting for

the MRI Machine i reassure you that I will

continue to ask the question and update my

electorate as to when we can expect it to be

operating.

Granted - Funding for Palliative Care - I

accomplished a desired result with obtaining

a multi-million-dollar funding injection for

Palliative care in regional WA. I was

disappointed to hear that the government had

again let our people down with in the health

department and knew that people deserved to

die with dignity.

Blocked Removal of Education components

with School of the air - I won the fight with

members of the cross bench when the state

government proposed that they wanted to

remove critical education components with

School.

• Advocating the PHON plan to

subsidise apprenticeships by 75%

in the first year, 50% in the

second year and 25% in the third

year.

• Investigate unfair Native Title

Claims

• Create Suitable accommodation

in regional towns for remote

community visitors.

• Continue to follow up on the

current status of the MRI machine

for the Kalgoorlie Health Campus.

• Begin the construction on the

Kimberly Water Pipelines.

• Bring Royalties for Regions back

to Regional WA.

• Continue to push for the Wiluna

to Meekatharra road to be

sealed.

For those of you that don’t know me I am Hon Robin Scott MLC. I was sworn in on 22 May

2017 as a Member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia, representing Mining and

Pastoral Region for Pauline Hanson’s One Nation.

I would like to start by saying for the past thirty years I have been interested in politics, and

just like you I have been forced to vote at every election for the best of a bad bunch. Being a

father of two and grandfather of six it motivated me to maximize my contribution as a

parliamentarian. I’m here for the people of my electorate not the people of the house. I am

here help repair our political system, defend our Australian way of life and maximize

opportunities for fellow West Australians. The major parties have condoned the deterioration

of our manufacturing industries and are slowly strangling our mining, agriculture and

pastoral industries. We have every natural resource the world wants and we still can’t

eliminate poverty in Australia, due to poor management by politicians.”

• 99 Burt Street, BOULDER WA 6432, PO Box 2444, BOULDER WA 6433• Phone (08) 90931455 Mobile: 0499 906 522

Hon Robin Scott MLC Member for Mining and Pastoral Region

My To Do List Achievements

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Notice of Special Council Meeting (Section 5.25 (1) (g). Local Government Act 1995)

(Regulation 12, Local Government (Administration) Regulations 1996)

Notice is hereby given that a special meeting of the Council of the Shire of Wiluna will be held as follows:

Date Time Place

Wednesday, 6 May 2020 6:00 PM Electronic means

“Electronic means” means any of those methods of electronic communications permitted under Regulation 14D of the Local Government (Administration) Regulations 1996, and includes telephone, video conference or other instantaneous communication. The business of the meeting shall be as follows:

1. Consideration of proposals received from consultants for assisting the Council in the recruitment of a new CEO and, if thought appropriate, the awarding of a contract in that matter.

Closure of meeting to the public Due to the commercially sensitive nature of the subject matter, it is anticipated that the meeting will be closed to the public pursuant to subsection 5.23 (2) of the Local Government Act 1995.

Public Question Time: Members of the public may ask a question by submitting the questions prior to the meeting by sending an email with the subject line “Public Question Time” to [email protected] Warren Olsen Acting CEO

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GUNBARREL LAAGER

LIMITED TAKEAWAY MENU

AVAILABLE 7 DAYS A WEEK

ALL $15 each

• Fish, Salad and Chips

• Burger and chips

• Lasagne, salad and chips

• Chicken parmi, salad and Chips

WEEKLY SPECIAL (from 4/5 till 10/5 )

• Honey Soy Chicken pieces with fried rice

MUST BE

Ordered and paid for over the phone by 3pm

You will be given a time between 5pm and

6.30pm to pick up from Gunbarrel Laager.

YOU MUST REMAIN IN YOUR CAR

we will bring it out to you.

PHONE 99817161 by 3pm

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Skippers understands that regular flights into regional WA are vital in maintaining essential services for the people within these communities. To ensure regular flights and services the Federal Government will now be funding and supporting all RPT flights for a 6 week period commencing as of Monday the 27th April 2020 The arrangement will be reviewed at the end of this 6 week period. Please see full flight schedule and times below. Skippers have increased cleaning measures on board our aircraft and continue to follow the directions from the World Health Organisation, the International Civil Aviation Organisation and the International Air Transport Authority. Social distancing measures are in place within our terminal building and when passenger loads permit we will be using an isolated seating plan during flight. It is now also a requirement to make a health declaration prior to travel to protect the broader travelling public and our valued staff. Community support for these services is vital for the RPT flights to continue.

Monday flight HK1935 Depart Time Arrive Time Perth 7.35am Wiluna 9.30am Wiluna 9.55am Meekatharra 10.35am Meekatharra 11.10am Mt Magnet 11.45am Mt Magnet 12.10pm Perth 1.35pm Friday flight HK1934

Depart Time Arrive Time Perth 11.00am Wiluna 12.55pm Wiluna 1.20pm Meekatharra 2.00pm Meekatharra 2.35pm Mt Magnet 3.10pm Mt Magnet 3.35pm Perth 5.00pm Please contact Skippers reservations on 1300 729 924 or by email at [email protected] if you need any further information on this.

*Community fares will still be available with proof of residency at time of booking.

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