The Country - Walking edition
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Today on The Country, Jamie Mackay caught up with Resilient Farmer Doug Avery, who is walking the Paparoa Track.
On with the show:
Julia Jones:
The NZX Head of Insight looks at what s behind yesterday s surge in milk commodity prices. We also take a look at the prospects for red meat.
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Katie Milne:
The former President of Federated Farmers talks about the surging milk price, tourism (or the lack of it) on the West Coast, and representing Oceania on the World Farming Organisation.
Chris Russell:
Our Australian correspondent comments on the prospect of Wagyu-quality marbled lamb, NSW ending the ban on GM crops and the Sydney Royal Easter Show still going ahead.
The forest red gum (
Eucalyptus tereticornis) has been there longer than the Freckles Early Childhood Learning Centre in Tweed Heads West but the impact of the ibises who are roosting there at night are leaving their deposits on the ground. While this is entirely natural for the birds it has been a cause of concern for the Childcare Centre and Tweed Shire Councillor Warren Polglase (conservative) put forward a Notice of Motion (NoM) at last Thursday’s Council meeting (18 February) to have the tree removed.
While Cr Polglase acknowledged that the tree had been there before the childcare centre and that the ‘25 page arborist report was full of jargon’ that he didn’t understand he felt it should be removed at the cost of the Freckles Childhood Centre.
Richard, you’re sounding very out of touch. Milne and Cherry listen to their community and know there is strong support for rail services, just as there always has been. “Unrest” will naturally occur when it’s planned to remove any chance of that happening in the future. It’s not up to Milne or Cherry, the community will do it themselves!
The rail trail isn’t much of “community path” when using most of it would only suitable to a very small group of people, ie cyclists with the right equipment, fitness and importantly vast amounts of time to kill. That branding feels like a bit of a slap in the face when most locals, myself included, either cannot use it or would have no use at all for it.
Roberts Day Intrapac 2015 Masterlan of Gales-Kingscliff. Photo www.galeskingscliff.com.au.
Thirteen courts cases since the 2000s and residents of Kingscliff and Tweed Shire Council accept that there is going to be significant disruption to their lives and amenity during the fill and developments of the residential developments at Chinderah. However, it is the severity of the impact of these activities on the community that was up for debate at Tweed Council’s planning meeting last Thursday.
There are predicted to be 32 trucks an hour for 44 weeks for development applications (DA) 20/0860 and 32 trucks per hour for 28 weeks for DA20/0965 if permission is given to bring in fill from the M1 for the sites.
Tweed Valley Hospital will treat and employ a significant number of Gold Coast residents. An artist impression of the exterior of the new Tweed Valley Hospital at Cudgen. Picture: NSW Government About 20 per cent of patients using the current Tweed Hospital, and almost 40 per cent of staff live in Queensland, according to Northern NSW Local Health District CEO Wayne Jones. Funds have been allocated by the New South Wales Government to turbocharge construction of the new Cudgen hospital, which has proved a contentious development due to its location on state significant farmland - former mayor Katie Milne even protested against the decision.