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The Wagaitear - August 2015

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In a shock announcement at the council meeting on July 21, councillors were told they had eight weeks to shut the Wagait tip, negotiate a new site and build the infrastructure on the new site to make it operational.

The resounding message from guest speakers Hannah Feneley from the Department of Chief Minister and David Willing the Executive Director of NT Depart-ment of Local Governments and Regions, was that the Wagait Tip must be shut by October.

“Discussions need to start in

earnest now so that a solution can be reached by August 31” said Willing.

The reason for the closure has been long known, but it is the haste at which the Wagait Shire Council has to come up with an alternative that has councillors worried.

The Wagait tip is one of the contaminated sites that will be cleaned up at a cost of $31 mil-lion to the Federal Government as part of the remediation plan to prepare the land for the final-isation of the Kenbi Land Claim.

No more new holes for the Wagait tipIt is expected the remedia-

tion work won’t be finished un-til 2018, but the Feds want the il-legal Wagait Beach tip shut as a matter of urgency.

According to Feneley and Will-ing the way forward was for Wagait Council to begin conver-sations with Belyuen, and togeth-er find a solution of how rubbish from both towns could be dealt with.

It was made very clear the re-sponsibility sits on the shoulders of the council.

A number of possible rubbish dump possibilities were dis-cussed such as Wagait Beach resi-dents using the Belyuen tip, how-ever the Belyuen tip is hazard-ous and relatively inaccessible to the general public. People would not be able to pull up and dump their rubbish like they are used to doing.

Another option was a transfer station on the site of an old gener-ator shed just past Belyuen on the Cox Peninsula Road.

Willing described a natural drop off on the site which would be appropriate for people offload-ing rubbish into skips that would be taken away when full.

Both of these options require the approval of Larrakia tradi-tional owners, which includes a meeting with the Northern Land Council.

Another option that Council-lor Gamble seemed to favour was having the rubbish taken away from house to house as is done currently in Belyuen.

“If the truck is coming all the way out to Belyuen to pick up the rubbish, why can’t we pay for it to come to Wagait Beach to pick up our rubbish too?” enquired Gamble.

None of the options would be able to accept large rubbish like car parts, building materials or dead whitegoods which are all dumpable at the Wagait tip.

After October Wagait Beach residents will have to take large rubbish items to Shoal Bay tip at a cost as there will be no facilties to dispose of them on the Peninsula.

And talking of costs. Accord-ing to Willing, a small scale trans-fer station with three skips would cost around $500,000 to set up as well as the ongoing costs of main-taining the site.

CEO Allen said “we need in-formation so that we can throw things around and understand what is going to work best for the community”.

Answers around where Wagait Beach residents will be dumping their rubbish after October may be still up in the air, but one thing you can be sure of is disposing of rubbish in the future will require lots more driving and a load more hassle.


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What’s inside …

Weather report for July

Community challenges council payments .......................................3 WAG Poster........................................................................................4Council meeting wrap.......................................................................5 Word from CEO.................................................................................6Firies Ball Poster.................................................................................7Wagait Wild Side ................................................................................8Tiwi Holiday Treat.............................................................................10Yearn for the Urn............................................................................11Letters to the Editor........................................................................12On the hook....................................................................................13Cross words and Pearls ...............................................................15Tidees & Toons...............................................................................16

Total rainfall July 2015 ..........................................................0 mmDays without rain.........................................................................29 Wettest day ..........................................................................0 mmNext full moon .............................................................August 30Hottest temp .....................................................34.4 degrees (27/7)Coldest temp ....................................................14.8 degrees (14/7)July average temp...................................................24.3 degrees

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The idea of paying the council president the equivalent of a part time wage was nev-er going to sit well with a community that has long since prided itself with the culture of time on council as a community service, not a paid job.

“We voted these guys in and they agreed not be paid and look what is happening” were words from one particularly fired up local coming off the 5pm ferry on Tuesday July 28.

In a how of defiance, Rocky Magnolis stood at the gates of the jetty and wasn’t going to let anyone coming off Monday’s 5 or the 6 o’clock ferry pass without getting their signature on a petition opposed to paying the president.

Long term community members and past council members have been openly furi-ous about the very notion of paying council members.

Council President Peter Clee who has made no secret of his support for being paid said he spends 1-2 days a week on council busi-ness and says the time he spends on coun-cil business is earning power lost in his small business.

He also predicts that with the closure of the tip and the looming amalgamation, de-mands on the President’s time is only going to increase.

The dog levy of $50 per household was also a sore point with a large section of the community.

Dog owners and non dog owners alike said they resented being made to shoulder the bur-den of irresponsible dog owners.

Both of these issues were tabled in a special, closed council meeting on Thursday July 30 where the elected councillors met to vote on

the two issues.The meeting was clearly loaded with emo-

tion. Councillors looked weary and nervous while the public sitting in the gallery were vis-ibly anxious.

It was a quick meeting where the dog levy was chucked out based on widespread com-munity opposition.

A decision was made to support the pro-vision of $5000 for LGANT lawyers to de-sign dog bylaws so that when an agreement is reached about how to deal with dogs in the community, there will be laws in place.

In equally decisive fashion the payment of council president was also thrown in the bin.

An alternative was proposed that all coun-cillors who attend the meeting would receive a fortnightly payment of $50.

This was also voted against by the coun-cillors which means rates will not go up as proposed, and councillors remain entirely volunteers.

At the end of the meeting, Jill Mummee from the gallery said “… people are not being transparent enough. People needed more in-formation… it is scary because you are voting on our future”.

Councillor Gamble reminded Jill that it is the role of the elected members of the council to represent the best interests of the commu-nity, which is why they are elected positions.

CEO Deborah Allen said, “In fairness to the council it was hard to communicate this be-cause it happened so quickly. I rocked up on the first of June and there has not enough time to be really open.

“We have taken on board and learnt a lot.

We are really committed to consultation. We got it wrong. We have been very consumed with issues crucial to this council.

“It is more of a timing issue than anything else, not because we are trying to pull the wool over people’s eyes.

“We are very committed to people’s consul-tation and it will get better.”

Councillor Irvine also commented the coun-cil is in a hard place at the moment.

“We had a CEO transfer at the worst possi-ble time and we’ve had to push this through in a tight time frame”.

The outcome of the meeting is that rates will be amended from the proposed amount of $560 per annum to $525 for the 2015-2016 year to account for the council’s decision not to in-clude the dog levy or payment of councillors.

Community stands ground on councilor pay and dog levy

“It is more of a timing issue than anything else, not because we are trying to pull the wool over peo-ple’s eyes.”

Council CEO Deborah Allen


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Council meeting wrap up

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TIP CLOSURE presentation was made to council at it July meeting by representatives from the Chief Ministers dept as well as the Department of Local Government.

It centred around the settlement of the Kenbi Land Claim and requirements to remediate Commonwealth land prior to handing it back to the traditional owners.

Government representatives indicated that as part of the process it is proposed to close down the Wagait rubbish tip and Council had approximately 3 months to establish an alternative.

The Northern Territory Government has suggested that Wagait rubbish could be disposed of at the Belyuen rubbish tip if the two councils could reach agreement with the traditional owners

of the land.

Another possibility was that a commercial rubbish collection service could be adopted for the whole of the community similar to that operating at Belyuen and Batchelor.

The need for a transfer facility similar to that operated by the Northern Territory Government, at no cost to the residents of Dundee, which was constructed at Dundee beach might be needed in the short term.

It was suggested that the transfer facility might cost up to $400,000 to construct and around $150,000 per annum to operate depending on a number of factors.

Council are awaiting some costings and an indication of possible sites to be identified at this time

The Commonwealth Government has

provided money to enable the remediation process to be undertaken, but has not made any allowance for an infrastructure or operating costs for a transfer station.

The Northern Territory Government have indicated they are willing to consider any proposals and applications for assistance.

ROADS Council has received a report on Road issues and are undertaking prioritisation costings for the required work

OVERDUE RATES Council is investigating a proposal to sell land to recover long overdue rates, charges and interest accrued against the properties.

NEW VICE PRESIDENT Council has received written notice from Councillor Lisa Maree Stones submitting her resignation as Vice

President. Councillor Stones has served as both President and Vice president on council and has made a valuable contribution over time.

It was decided that the position of Vice president will be done on a 6 month rotational basis in the future and Councillor Brad irvine was elected as the New Vice president.

Full minutes of the meeting are available at the Wagait Beach Supermarket, Council Office, or on the web at www.wagait.nt.gov.au


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Hello Wagaitear readers. I have had a busy and interest-

ing five weeks as the new CEO for Wagait Shire Council (WSC) and the time has arrived for me to pen a few words so here I go.

I would like to say a big thank you to our councillors for their for-ward thinking when they engaged Acting CEO Russell Anderson while I was relocating from South Australia to the Northern Territory.

Russell achieved a considera-ble amount of work in the month he was employed here and his handover placed me in a much better position to step into the role than had he not been here.

I also wish to mention council staff who have helped me to set-tle in as they continued to carry out their business with a good lev-el of enthusiasm and support for me while I have been finding my way around.

In regards to council staff I wish make one point very clear. As the supervisor of council staff, I re-spectfully ask that all feedback or concerns be directed to me and not to council staff or coun-cil members.

I am entirely responsible for the safety, performance manage-ment, tasking and employment of staff so if there is an issue, the is-sue sits firmly on my shoulders and accountability for them stops with me.

The NT Government has been working towards closing the Wagait tip by the end of this year to meet Kenbi land claim require-ments. At this point in time, an alternative waste management solution hasn’t been identified.

WSC is being proactive with this matter so has invited Project Di-rector Regional Governance – Mr Shaun Hardy, from Department of Local Government and Regions to the next council meeting on 21 July so he can provide a brief on the status of the closure and also to ensure the interests and con-cerns of the Wagait communi-ty are heard during any decision making.

There have been a few jobs ticked off recently and one of them is the erection of new shade sails at Cloppenburg Park (sports ground).

Quite timely because as the old sails were being removed, it became apparent that the welds on the centre pole had complete-

ly broken away from its ground plate.

Our works supervisor was able to re-weld the pole to its ground plate and the new sails subse-quently erected. Consequently, a twice yearly inspection on all of the poles, shade sails and fas-teners at the playground has now been programmed.

The works team have started to replace missing and damaged road side storm water barriers and will soon be painting the barriers.

The old Wagait Beach Hotel sign at the entrance to Wagait Tower Road has been replaced and new chevron signs will be erected at two T-junctions soon.

One will replace the faded and damaged sign at the end of Wagait Tower Road and a new one will be erected at the junction of Brisbane St and Erickson Cres.

Meeting statutory requirements for the end of financial year and ensuring council is compliant for the next Department of Local Government review has taken up most of my five weeks; although I was able to meet with LGANT to start planning for remediation works on Wagait’s roads.

Crown Lands also carried out a site inspection to discuss ongoing weeds management and clean-up of storm water drains. I’ll pro-vide an update on these activities as further information becomes available.

Compliance with the LGA and various government and non-gov-ernment departments is placing an increasing demand on coun-cillors and council staff.

It is not something to be tak-en lightly as councils have been stood down and an administra-tor appointed when a Minister has deemed a council not fit to govern. As part of our mitigation against such an action, LGANT have been approached and a Governance Trainer will attend the council meeting on 21 July to provide training for the CEO and new councillors and refresh-er training for longer serving mem-bers of council.

In an effort to build on the lo-cal economy and encourage a shop local/source local mentali-ty, I would like to carry out a skills check.

I note the council website has a community directory but after speaking to a few locals, I realise

A word from the Council CEO.... if you are happy to have the in-formation made available when queries are made to council about what services are available in town, we will pass it on.

Thank you for the many warm welcomes I have received and I look forward to working for your council and with the Wagait community.

Deborah AllenCEO

there are a lot of skilled and talent-ed people who live here and who may not be known to council and community.

There is no limit to how peo-ple’s skills can be utilised in a community.

If you are a cake maker, ac-countant, artist, engineer, fen-builder, dog walker, nurse, barris-ter, writer, cleaner, handy person, journalist, radio/IT geek, social worker or hat maker then please let council know.

If you are a great gardener, have a strong interest in the fore-shore or wildlife or are just keen to be a volunteer, please let the council know.

We’ll put you in our register and


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WAGAITWILD SIDE

By our very own Ranger Nigel Weston

Venomous snakes (Family Elapidae) at Wagait are relatively rare. Non-venomous snakes, including pythons, are a lot more abundant. Some harmless snakes can look and act scary – like the Keelback (pic-tured in May Wagaitear) and Slaty-grey – but they are good to have around.

Venomous snakes may not be as welcome to us humans but they do have their place. They eat rats and mice for example. T

he most commonly-encountered Elapid snakes at Wagait include the Black Whip, the King Brown (or Mulga), Western Brown and Death Adder.

The Black Whip is generally not deadly but the others most definite-ly are. The Death Adder is easy to identify. It is a short, stout snake with a large triangular head and thin tail.

It ambushes its prey while half-buried in sand, soil or leaf litter. Its tail is segmented and can be wriggled like a worm to lure victims into attack range.

The brown snakes, on the other hand, use their lean muscular bod-ies to travel fast in pursuit of their prey. They are also hard to identify. A pronounced brow-ridge (evident in the attached picture) is a distinc-tive feature but there is no hard-and-fast rule to distinguish a danger-ous snake from a harmless one.

Colour is certainly not reliable– juvenile browns differ from adults and individual adults can differ too, just like in humans. In fact, the King Brown (Genus Pseudochis) is not a true brown snake at all, but rather one of the black snake group.

Not every snake is a brown snake - part 2

The venomous and relatibvely rare brown snake

The Slaty-grey, a common resident which looks and acts scary, but isn’t. Nocturnal and often mistaken for the brown snake

Photos: Joe Sambono

by Captain Mark

Ferry business

G’day Mandorah

It’s nice to be home! Nearly 3 months in Tasmania coming in to winter is not something I would normally recommend.

The Master 4 course at AMC was excellent, and well worth the effort. Highlights for me were two voyages on the vessel Bluefin, one south of Hobart and the second in Bass Strait.

During the second one we did a fire drill which included a smoke machine below deck, missing crew, breathing apparatus and rescue gear and finally abandoning ship into a liferaft in Bass Strait.

I drew the short straw and had to run the whole thing from the bridge, which was actually a fantastic experience.

The course did highlight the importance of drills and emergency preparedness, and this is an area where there will be improvements in our Darwin operation.

It’s probably not something you will notice as passengers but rest assured your crew will be as prepared as they can be to respond well in an emergency.

Onto to business at home. A couple of passengers have raised concerns with me since I have returned.

I would remind passengers that we must reserve inside seating for the schoolkids at 7.20 am and at 3pm.

We do have a contractual obligation to have an inside seat for all schoolkids, and it is something we need your co-operation with.

Parents that wish to sit with their children are welcome to sit upstairs with their kids. It is unaccompanied schoolkids that must have a seat inside.

Thanks for the welcome back! I’ll see you on the ferry.


National Banana Freckle Eradication Program

Thanks to the Wagait Beach community for your support. Community support for the National Banana Freckle

Eradication Program has ensured the Northern Territory is on track to eradicate this serious plant pest.

We need to destroy banana plants that have regrown to finish the good work done so far.

YES—EITHER:

1. Destroy the regrowth and contact the Program with your name, address and contact details, confirming you have destroyed the regrowth.

2. Contact the Program and arrange for Program field staff to destroy the regrowth.

HAVE YOUR BANANA PLANTS REGROWN?

Banana plants must not be grown in Red Zones until after 1 May 2016.

NO

Contact the Program with your name, address and contact details confirming your banana plants have not regrown.

1800 77 11 63 @ [email protected]

Online: www.banana.nt.gov.au

Text us: 0439 798 140

With your support, the NT can be Banana Freckle free

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Australian Country music heavyweight Bill Chambers humbly doned his cowboy hat and carried his guitare as he boarded the Mandorah fer-ry to play a gig on July 11 at Wagait Beach.

He gently walk up the jetty stairs with not a hint of the rock star antics one might expect form a national country music icon. Chambers’s relaxed disposition was perhaps the reason why he was so spectacular in the calm, honest surroundings under the beautiful ban-

yan tree at the Cox Country Club. The music treats didn’t end with Chambers and he was followed by Joe Ahern, Dave Garnham, Harry Hookey and the Choir of Man. The event organiser Lisa Buchanan said she was able to convince to team to come and play because the it was the last night of their tour. The fellas had played at the Railway the night before, and Dave Garnham has a bit of soft spot for Wagait Beach, which may have helped things

along a little bit. The night was truly magic with an intimacy that musicians often crave but can rarley find. Harry Hookey described his night as “one of the musical highlights of my life. Darwin’s Choir of man joining me under the Banyan tree on

Rolling Wheel. Brute force!!”

BY JORDAN SPEECHLEY, JADE & CHARLI NESBIT AND

NADIA DRAVITSKIOn Thursday July 16 a group of

23 local kids travelled on the Seal-ink ferry to the Tiwi Islands.

The day didn’t start off that well as the tour guide didn’t end up being booked so one of the lo-cal deckies Kathy volunteered to show us around.

We started off by going to the local museum to learn about the history of the island.

A few people bought hand made postcards from the local kids.

Then we walked up the road to the supermarket where be bought our lunch.

We talked to the locals and end-ed up looking after an adorable baby while the mother went on a daily shop.

After the shop we went to an art gallery where we watched people paint and we got to keep a souve-nir of an aboriginal painted cloth.

A couple of kids from our group called Rico and Nina got to finish off a piece of art painted by an In-digenous man named Alan.

After the art gallery we end-ed the day on the beach skipping stones and relaxing on the sand while waiting to board the fer-ry home.

Overall the trip was amazing and all us kids want to say a huge thank you to Robyn for organis-ing this awesome day!

Tiwi Island holiday treat

Wagait kids on the Tiwi Islands. The Wagaitear was told the

money that was raised for the trip and not used, has been

donated by the kids to the seniors outing later in the year.

Country music royalty plays at Cox Club

Harry Hookey and Bill Chambers

Joe Ahern, Harry Hookey, Dave Garnham and the Choir of Man


BY THE DEMON QUICKAfter not missing a ball of the

last Ashes series I was excited. I suffered through training and prepared the best I could, stocked up on beer, got the missus hooked up on Netflix and sent junior off to the in-laws.

Not surprisingly all the (Eng-lish) press in the build- up was the usual dross ”The Aussie quicks can’t bowl on English pitches”,”Australian batsmen can’t handle the swinging Duke ball”.

One wag went as far as calling the aging Australian team “Dad’s Army”’ which I’ve got to say was pretty funny.

The first test was in Cardiff. I know! “That’s in Wales, right?” Tom Jones and pasties have no place in cricket and that was the attitude of the tourists.

After Captain Cook won the toss and elected to bat on what should have been a great morning for bowling, the Aussies thought he had lost his flipping mind.

When they fell to three for stuff all we were convinced. From then on it all went pear shaped.

I was tired, it was late and there were a few Melbourne stubbies rolling around under the couch and I still should have got a bowl.

I certainly could have im-proved the Aussie fielding.

Disastrous scenes followed as the same pitch the visitors couldn’t persuade to do a damn thing, leapt into life for the Eng-lish quicks.

Watson scored nothing to go with his bowling figures of none for heaps.

England won convincingly and

the Aussies prepared for Lords. This preparation consist-

ed mostly of finally sacking Watson after 63 years of gross incompetence.

A new, slightly more talent-ed Aussie line up was cranking to have a go at the POMS with-out him at the home of cricket. So they did.

The Aussies had no problem tonking England all day and most of the next day.

Records fell as Buck Rogers and Steve Smith went to town. When a revitalised Mojo Johnson got a go with the ball he repeated-ly demoralised England to hand Australia a record breaking se-ries leveller.

Stay tuned for the next installment.

I miss Richie.

Yearn for the Urn: The Ashes England 2015

The most recent three-day competition wrapped up on Sunday July 26 and took on a slightly different format which allowed people to fish all or any of the nominated days.

Proof by way of photos of their catch was also permit-ted if competitors wanted to fillet or release.

And what a spectacular weekend it was! On the wa-ter the light winds and neap-ish tides provided very clear water.

Mark Presley ventured out with Robbo and they both caught a mixed bag of reef fish as well as some acro-batic action out of the many

sharks stealing their bait.Mark took out the Men’s

section with a nice bluebone.Unfortunately no kids

weighed in which is a remind-er to all the mums and dads who take their children fish-ing. Get your kids involved.

Janelle Vaughan took out the women’s with a couple of nice jewfish – her first. Her husband helped a little bring-ing the second one in. Out fished again.

The Wagait Beach Fishing Club would like to thank the Wagait Beach Supermarket for their continued sponsor-ship providing the male and female prizes of two Shima-

A word from the Wagait Fishing Club President

Janelle Vaughan with her winning jewfish

If you were toying with the idea of entering your work into the Wagait Arts Group exhibition on August 28-30, then now is the time to get cracking on finishing (or dare I say starting) your piece!

This year is more than just an exhibition and has aptly been named the Wagait Arts Show, which promises to entertain with more than just the arty farty stuff.

Live music, pop up markets, circus theatre workshops, poetry workshops, chain saw sculptures, spear throwing and fishing workshops will make our precious little com-munity come alive with input from the entire community.

The Wagait Artist Group have been working hard over the past months to pull the event together with the hope that as in the past, the community of Wagait Beach will get behind it in support.

And don’t forget to get creative and think of your impression of what ‘beyond the jetty’ means to you – as your art teacher used to say - think outside of the box (or jetty!).

Entry forms are at the Wagait Beach Supermarket, or on the WAG website www.wagaitartistsgroup.com

BEYOND THE JETTY

no reels and caps.Robbo generously donated two

spinning outfits as kid’s prizes. These are not yet won, so all

the more reason to be part of the fun kids!

From the 1st to16th August the club is holding a kids comp.

All you need to do kids it to get your mum or dad to take you fish-ing and record your catch on a camera/phone with date record-ed and size and location of your catch.

A weigh in will be held 5-6pm 16 August at the Cox Country Club and children up to 14 years old may enter.


Letters to the Editor Makin Tuckerwith VJ

Heat oven to 220 degrees.

For each person (big serve) get a sheet of puff pastry.

For each sheet, get a handful of chopped ham, handful grated cheese and a chopped spring onion. Brush 1cm around each sheet with milk, then arrange the ham, cheese and spring onion along one side covering just under half.

Roll over the other side over, seal and place on baking paper on a baking tray.

Bake 15 minutes until golden. Slice and serve with fave condiments. Cooks tips Can use any cheese; instead of ham can use roasted veg, chicken, beef, seafood, baked beans etc.

Can make into Pizza Pastries by adding smear of tomato paste, capsicum, onion, bacon, pineapple you get the idea:) Great for party or unexpected visitors as you can make different ones at same time, that everyone likes.

Ham-n-cheese pastries

On behalf of the Eaton family I wish to thank Robyn Presley for the wonderful day at the Tiwi Islands yesterday. We all enjoyed it and learnt a lot about Tiwi life. We were also fortunate to have the voluntary services of Kathy of the Ferry who explained the island way of life and the various centres we visited

Best regards, Charles (Eaton)

Dear Editor SHAME to the person who removed several orchids from the Memorial garden. I find it a bit disturbing and would appreciate it if they could be returned asap.

Jill Mumme

Dear Editor,In regards to helping the Banan Freckle Taskforce with stamping out banana plant regrowth, please take a look at the picture below and if people have regrowth that looks similar, can people please ring 1800 77 1163 or www.banana.nt.gov.au.

Banana Freckle Taskforce


Who does what at Wagait Beach

Accommodation Wagait Beach Bush Retreat 8978 5123

Airconditioner installation/maintenance Michael Vaughan (MJ Electrical) 0427 180 379

Block and home maintenance Mark 0427 029 966 Matelot (Phil) 0412 506 999 or 8978 5372 Warren 0407 546 275 or 8978 5175

Builders Michael Collins (sheds, fencing) 0418 638 170

Commissioners for Oaths Peter Clee 0418 894 404 Linda King 8978 5064

Concreting and Welding Rick Gosper 0404 656 270

Earthworks & installations: Mick & Donna 419 822 320 or 8978 5034

Eating out Under the Banyan Tree (Cox Club) 0411 748 386

Electrical contractor Michael Vaughan (MJ Electrical) 0427 180 379

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On the hookwith JAMES ARRATTA

July defiantely didn’t fail to meet its mark, bringing some lovely cold weather, but more importantly bringing in plenty of pelagic fish species such as mackrel and tuna throughout the harbour and outer reaches.

Tuna and mackrel showed there presence almost every single day of the neap tide cycle jumping and feed-ing all around the jetty, although despite the amount of fish, there was barely any actually landed with most ei-ther braking the line or spitting the hooks.

Queenies on the other hand are going as good as usu-al with a good amount of queenies being landed through-out the whole of July.

The fishing comp in late July couldn’t of been chosen on a better set of tides with not only on a beautiful set of neap tides but also the weather was excellent with virtually not a breath of wind over the 3 days of the comp.

Even with perfect conditions, unfortunately, the number of decent fish landed wasn’t all that spectacular. Almost everyone reported the bigger fish were hard to come by, landing mainly small stuff...

August is either the best month of fishing or the worst..., some times in august you can walk across the harbour on the amount of fish jumping, and other times, you need to create songs to try and attract fish to your lure or bait,

Trust me I’ve been there...Until next times rods in hands.

James Arratta

Bob, Alex and James with a triple hook up on queenies and mackerel


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a footy club, a team to represent those lucky enough to live north of the Dundee turnoff.

The Cox Cocks was the proposal, with a scrub fowl dressed in a rooster tail and crown to be the emblem.

Although a long way off, a concept well worth considering as youth of Wagait and Belyuan continue to grow in numbers.

Finally to the league, and unless you have a psychotic pre-disposition that allows you to enjoy massacres, the third and final origin game was awful.

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It was a train wreck with tries falling from the sky for Queensland in the second half. They ripped New South Wales open and then repeated the dose again and again.

As August moves us closer to September, I hope your team cements its place in the finals, or as in Brisbane and Essendons’ case, cements itself in the top 8 of post season draft picks.

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July was a month that saw the beginnings of a clear divide with a pile of winners and a pile of losers emerging.

It was like the steady stream of south-easterly winds brought a southern logic to us and finally we could understand that West Coast were a good team and Port Adelaide aren’t.

Who at the Cox Club or the jetty would have been brave enough in March to say the former Darwin Doggies would make the finals or that Essendon would have self-

imploded without a single drug related suspension.

But these are facts that July has dished up. Picking winners in 2015, has been tough, so tough I’d liken it to catching a barra of the beach in August while using dog liver as bait.

Tough, but not impossible as Sholto is proving in the Supermarket tipping comp.

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