In token community consultation sessions, all but a handful of residents opposed the amalgamation of their local councils but the state government went ahead and disbanded their elected councils and forcibly merged them under an appointed administrator.
The result is a far less representative mega council, a decline in community services and a drive to outsource or privatise services and council buildings. Council workers have been made redundant and recently workers in the privately-managed council swimming pools have been stood down amid the latest COVID-19 lockdown.
On top of this, residents are facing higher rates through a “rates harmonisation” imposed by the NSW government.
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William Henry Corkhill and the Tilba Tilba Collection
William Henry Corkhill (1846-1936),
The John Poole Family, c. 1895, glass negative, nla.pic-an2441607
In 1890, at the age of 44, William Henry Corkhill of Tilba Tilba, accountant, cheesemaker and farm manager, decided to become a photographer. There is no record that he received any training in photography, but he had, it seems, read a few books on the subject. Over the next twenty years he would take thousands of pictures of his family, friends and neighbours, seldom taking his camera beyond the confines of his local community. Corkhill’s collection of glass plate negatives, reduced over the intervening decades to about 1,000 in number, were offered to the National Library by his daughter in 1975. Suffering the decays of time and damp, only 840 of the plates still retained printable images, but the record they contain of life in a small but thriving rural community at the turn of the twentieth century is fascinating. As
CBRLife = 堪 生 活 is now being received through legal deposit. Published by a group of young Chinese Australians, it is a ‘magazine for Chinese Australians living in Canberra, recording their lives and memories with connection of this City .
While many multicultural publishers are pleased to deposit their works with the Library, others can be less responsive to the Library’s standard ‘official’ approach. There was a good example recently with the acquisition of three volumes of
Aodaliya hua ren nian jian = Yearbook of Chinese in Australia, which we believe to be the first Chinese language yearbooks published in Australia. The acquisition was achieved indirectly, as the publisher did not respond to direct approaches requesting deposit. One of the Library’s volunteers made contact with the editor via his personal network, at which point the volumes were deposited. In these situations, the ‘community-based’ collecting approach is liable to be more successful, and