'Magnificent support on ANZAC Day'
I would like to take this opportunity to pass on my sincerest thank you to the residents of Narooma, Dalmany and Kianga for their magnificent support for our veterans at dawn on ANZAC Day.
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The emotion and pride I experienced whilst travelling to the memorial at Narooma to lay the wreath on behalf of the RSL was incredible.
"Thank you" seems inadequate but what else can I say? This ANZAC Day remembrance will go down in our memories as up there with the best we have experienced. We will not forget you, because you never forgot us.
Lest we forget.
Paul Naylor, President, Narooma RSL Sub-branch
'Petrol: Narooma is being screwed'
Just drove to Moruya and back.
Moruya E10 was 91c/litre , Bodalla 96c/litre and then drove into Narooma: a uniform 122.9c/litre. Now that is a ridiculous extra 32 cents. I suggest we all shun such stations as they are just exploiting the local population.
Neil Ferguson, Narooma
Couple welcomes news
Thousands of Australians with the most severe form of eczema are hoping the COVID-19 pandemic will not prevent the Federal Government from making a breakthrough medicine available through the PBS.
The Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee has recommended that Dupixent be added to the PBS for adults and adolescents with severe eczema. It will come as a cruel blow if a PBS listing is delayed.
John and Jane Rowley, of Narooma, were delighted to receive the news that Dupixent is being recommended for listing on the PBS, for adults and adolescents over 12 years old.
They said it was wonderful to see such a positive outcome for all the hard work and persistence by people such as Eczema Support Australia. The couple travelled to Canberra in February with patients from NSW, Queensland, Victoria, Canberra and Tasmania. John said he was thrilled and proud to be involved in even a small way. Visit www.eczemasupport.org.au.
Melanie Funk, Eczema Support Australia
'Put Mackay Pk to pub test'
This week, the state Southern Regional Planning Panel approved the council's controversial Development Application for the Mackay Park project - see the DA and Panel determination here.
The Planning Panel members did note the community views in their report approving the DA, but were constrained in their deliberation by the fairly narrow range of criteria they can take into consideration - these criteria are strictly related to purely planning issues that do not include community views about a development or even if it is in the public interest.
Council now will no doubt proceed to calling tenders from the list they have already made and when these tenders are in, councillors have resolved to then determine if the project is "affordable", but there is no current publicly available business case for any of us hoi polloi to see if this could be the case.
If council can't afford to forgo a 2.6 per cent rate increase this year, or give an equivalent rebate to ratepayers, as is happening in the Shoalhaven, one must wonder how councillors could agree to take on additional ongoing costs - possibly between $2 and $3 million per year - in subsidising the development's operations and maintenance. These on-going costs are on top of losses to the community when assets like the Batemans Bay Community Centre and the Visitor Information Centre are sold to help pay the project's capital costs.
Councillors, please be responsible. If you're challenged by the system and the numbers, put it to the pub test!
