I have been asked several times to query the higher rates we are now paying on our current rate notices. Consensus of thought was that on amalgamation we were assured no council jobs would be lost and rates would not rise.
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Job losses have only occurred, I believe, voluntarily and rates have only risen proportional to your recently revealed land valuations.
Now that may be a reasonable explanation and rates annually are pegged by the government, so whether you live in Boorowa, Harden or Young, the rises were to be expected. Now for what could be alarming news. Next year, 2020, rates will apparently be aligned throughout the Hilltops Council Area. This adjustment will be felt here in Boorowa, but I believe, Harden district will feel it more. I guess all will be revealed in July 2020, but hopefully we will be fully informed prior to that date.
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The abortion 'debate' has effectively given the Berejiklian Government a huge set back. Not well handled by the Premier.
NSW is he only state where abortion is criminalised, but surely this and things like law, policing, health and education should be a national concern. Again we can ask, "Is it time to get rid of state governments?"
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Sometimes one comes across a great story, such as the following.
His name was Fleming and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while out making a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog. There, mired up to his waist in black mud, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to save himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death.
The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse surroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as he father of the boy Farmer Fleming saved.
"I want to repay you," said the nobleman, "you saved my son's life."
"No, I can't accept payment for what I did," the farmer replied waving off the offer. At that moment the farmer's son came to the door of the family hovel.
"Is that your son?" the nobleman asked.
"Yes," the farmer proudly replied.
"I'll make you a deal. Let me provide him with the level of education my own son will enjoy. If the lad is anything like his father, he'll no doubt grow to be a man we both will be proud of."
Farmer Fleming's son attended the very best schools and in time, he graduated from St Mary's Hospital Medical School in London. He went on to become known throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin.
Years afterwards, the same nobleman's son who was saved from the bog was stricken with pneumonia. What saved his life this time? Penicillin. The name of the nobleman, Lord Randolph Churchill, his son's name... Sir Winston Churchill.
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Sir Alexander Fleming may have discovered penicillin, but it was an Australian, Howard Florey, along with Sir Ernst Chain, who developed penicillin to be the useful and effective drug that has save millions of lives. In 1945 they shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine.
Florey is regarded by the Australian Medical and Scientific communities as one of its greatest figures, prompting our longest serving Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies to say, "In terms of world wellbeing, Florey was the most important man ever born in Australia."
