Happy Mother's Day Show this Monday - On Upbeat Songs With John

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Thank you for listening to last week's show of 'Country Songs Never played on Upbeat Songs With John' @ Upbeat Songs With John.

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This week we have 'Mother's Day songs on Upbeat Songs With John's Radio Show.

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Please Explain - Episode 21- 24 - Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party

Click here for Episode 21 Please Explain 'Inflation'

Episode 21 "Please Explain Inflation" What's a government do when it has a problem? Throw money at it. But what can government do when it's a little strapped for cash? Hey, why not just print some more. What's the worst that can happen? Well, how about inflation? The printing machine starts running on overdrive and suddenly our money becomes as worthless as a Labor politicians' promise not to raise taxes. The only way to stop it is to understand how it starts so join us this week as we get a visit from a special guest and learn everything there is to know about inflation.

Click here for Episode 22 'Happy Easter'

Episode 22 "Please Explain The Campaign Easter Special" This week we will be touching on the events after the first week on the campaign trail. Have a great Easter!

Click here for Episode 23 Please Explain The Media'

Episode 23 "Please Explain The Media" The mainstream media, once upon a time it was known as the fourth estate. These days it’s more commonly called fake news. Journalists, fighting over fewer and fewer jobs, rush to ask cheap gotcha questions or write up lazy clickbait gossip articles, the pursuit of the truth long forgotten. How did it ever get so bad? Is it possible for the media to sink any lower? Tune into this week’s episode of please explain and find out.

Click here for Episode 24 - Please Explain 'Voter Fraud'

Pauline Hanson's Please Explain Episode 24 "Please Explain Voter Fraud" Voter fraud. What is it? How do they do it? How bad is it? How do we stop it? With an election just weeks away these are important questions that need answers. Democracy is a beautiful thing but what do you do when bad actors feel they know better than the voters? We explore these questions and more in this week's episode of Pauline Hanson's Please Explain.

Local Heritage Assistance Fund - Applications now open - Shoalhaven City Council - Media Release

29 April 2022

Shoalhaven City Council is pleased to announce that the 2022-23 Shoalhaven Local Heritage Assistance Fund, which is proudly co-funded by the NSW Government, is now accepting applications.

The Local Heritage Assistance Fund Grants Program provides small grants of up to $5,000 for local heritage projects to encourage the owners of heritage items, sites and buildings of heritage significance listed in the Shoalhaven Local Environmental Plan (LEP) 2014 to undertake new minor conservation works and maintenance.

The grant program seeks to improve the quality of the City’s heritage and will assist property owners to undertake minor improvements, restorations or repairs.

This year’s Local Heritage Assistance Fund will focus on severe weather events and flood relief in a heritage setting. Priority will be given to the projects that seek to restore heritage items affected by recent severe weather events.

The Local Heritage Assistance Fund Grants are available to owners of recognised heritage properties and projects will need to be completed by the end of March 2023. Successful applicants are required to match the grant offer amount dollar for dollar from their own funds. 

For more information, visit the Shoalhaven Local Heritage Assistance Fund page on our website.

Completed application forms must be received by Council by 5pm, Wednesday 15 June 2022 by emailing council@shoalhaven.nsw.gov.au or posting to PO Box 42, NOWRA NSW 2541. 

If you require assistance, please contact Council on 1300 293 111. 

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Further Updates to the Candidates for the Federal Seat of Gilmore

Gilmore Ballot paper has the Candidates in this order, for the Federal Election due 21st May 2022:

1. Andrew Constance, Liberal Party of Australia, NSW Division

2. Nina Digiglio - Independent

3. Carmel McCallum - NSW Greens

4. John Lindsay Maloney - United Australia Party

5 Jeremy Eid - Pauline Hanson's - One Nation Party

6. Adrian Fadini - Liberal Democratic Party

7. Fiona Phillips - Australian Labor Party (NSW Branch)

So we have three new candidates that have placed their hands up to be candidates for the Gilmore election. Andrew Constance will pick up what is called the 'Donkey votes' and that might end up being a few hundred or so, a small proportionate of the votes.

New Candidate details:

Nina Digiglio is a former Grens Councillor/ Independent on Shoalhaven City Councilor and a former Community First candidate for Mayor at 2021 Shoalhaven City Council elections and is a registered nurse. Click here for her Facebook page & Click here for her website

Jeremey Eid was born in Sydney and grew up on the Gold Coast Click here for his details

Adrian Fadini is a husband, father and the founding Director of TradesFormation which has turned around struggling businesses and improved the lives of thousands of Aussie tradies. Adrian is driven to serve and build his community, and to help them take charge of their own lives. Click here for more details

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Invitation to participate in Community Workshop in Shoalhaven LGA - Applications Close 1/5/2022 - Shoalhaven City Council

Are you passionate about helping people in your local community who are doing it tough? Do you have ideas, resources, time, or a helping hand to make a difference in homelessness in Shoalhaven?

A Community Workshop is being held on the 11th of May 2022. The Workshop aims to bring together local government, welfare services, businesses, and community groups, as well as people with lived experience of homelessness and community members who are interested in the issues
surrounding homelessness. The Workshop will focus on building upon our community’s assets to develop actions to assist those who are experiencing homelessness and/or doing it tough.

Applications are currently being sought for local businesses and organisations, people with lived experience and community members with an interest in homelessness to take part in the Homelessness Workshop. If this is of interest to you, please complete the questionnaire below and return it
by post to:

Community Connections Team

Shoalhaven City Council

PO Box 42, NOWRA NSW 2541

OR email it to communityconnections@shoalhaven.nsw.gov.au

Application closing date: 1st May 2022

Workshop Details:

• Date: Wednesday 11th May 2022
• Time: 10:00am to 2:00pm
• Location: Bomaderry – TBA

If you would like to know more, or need help completing your application, call 02 4429 3539 or contact communityconnections@shoalhaven.nsw.gov.au . Hope to see you at this very important event for the wellbeing of our community.

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Planning Day - Shoalhaven Suicide Prevention & Awareness

  

Shoalhaven SPAN Planning Day will be held face-to-face in at the Bluegum Room, Bomaderry Bowling Club, 154 Meroo Rd, Bomaderry NSW 2541

 

9.30 am to 3 pm

 

Please come along and help us plan for the future...SSPAN is a grassroots, boots on the ground network. It is important that people interested in suicide prevention  have input into our future

 

If you have any questions, please email info@sspan.org.au

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Facebook: Click here

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Shoalhaven Arts Board Membership Opportunities - Shoalhaven City Council - Media Release

27 April 2022

Are you interested in supporting the development of arts and culture in Shoalhaven?  

Shoalhaven City Council is seeking applications from community members to fill vacancies on the Shoalhaven Arts Board. The Arts Board supports community arts projects through annual grants and provides strategic advice to Council on the development and opportunities for the arts in the region.  

In recent years, the Arts Board have been involved in funding exciting initiatives across the community including: 

• Annaliese Szota ‘Hearthstone’ Project – local singer, and songwriter recording songs about the Shoalhaven.
• Shoalhaven Youth Orchestra (SYO) - Masterclass and Concert Project – masterclasses and concerts with current and former SYO members.  
• Bonnie Porter Greene and Nicole Smede – Sensing Place Art Project and exhibition – capturing the diverse landscapes of the Shoalhaven through painting and poetry. 

The Arts Board also supports the Artists in Residence in Schools Program, delivered by Southland Creative and the Shoalhaven Family Festival - Arty Farty Party, due to take place this June.  

Shoalhaven City Council Mayor, Amanda Findley emphasised the importance of creating development opportunities for our emerging artists, as well as acknowledging the outstanding contributions our community makes to arts and culture within the Shoalhaven. 

“The Arts Board work in close partnership with Council on many exciting initiatives including the Shoalhaven Arts Foundation.” 

“I encourage anyone interested in helping to shape the strategic direction to support our region’s arts and culture for the next three years to apply,” Mayor Findley said. 

Please submit your EOI by completing the Shoalhaven Arts Board Membership Expression of Interest Membership 2022 -2024 Form, published on the Shoalhaven Arts Board Membership Expression of Interest web page. 

Expressions of Interest close on Friday, 6 May 2022.  

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Shoalhaven Citizen of the Year News - Sanctuary Point Bike Bump Track! - Fran Mooney Facebook Page

Editors Notes:

Elections always provide a rainbow of promises from candidates, especially when we live in a Federally swinging seat of Gilmore. Each candidate is like Santa Claus, with his bag of gifts/ or not. (without his suit and reminders) As voters, we judge each candidate with what is promised, what has been done and hope that promises are kept. Not all promises can be kept and there are promises that will be honoured. Instead of promises, why don't we ask candidates to provide us with pledges that solidify a promise?

Dictionary. com meaning :

Promise: a declaration or assurance that one will do something or that a particular thing will happen.

Pledge: a solemn promise or undertaking.

Anyway, congratulations Fran here is her news. I'm sure other candidates will be running to Fran with more pledges? Now, my other thought was if she wasn't Shoalhaven Citizen of the year, would she have got this?:

From Fran's Faebook Page:

I CAN NOW SHARE THE NEWS!

THE OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT HAS JUST BEEN MADE ON ABC by Andrew Constance and Paul Ell

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT has committed $75k to the Sanctuary Point Pump Track with the expectation that Council will match.

We’re on the way to building a better future for SANCTUARY POINT and THE BAY AND BASIN community 

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Join Council’s Youth Advisory Committee - Shoalhaven City Council - Media Release

 26 April 2022

Applications are currently being sought for members of Shoalhaven City Council’s Youth Advisory Committee.

The Committee represents the interests and views of young people (12-25 years) to the Council and the community. It is an inclusive space that allows individuals from diverse and varied backgrounds to work together to drive change for the young people of the Shoalhaven and have an impact on how they live, work and play
in our community.  

The Committee is looking for young people (12 to 25 years) who are: 

• Passionate about having an impact on the lives of young people in the Shoalhaven region 
• Interested in being an advocate for young people in the community, particularly in representing the various regions of the Shoalhaven  
• Motivated to drive change through local government
• Interested in local government and its role in the community
• Keen to improve and develop skills in advocacy, leadership, problem-solving, communication, decision making and presenting
• Available to attend quarterly meetings and other regular virtual meetings.  

To apply, download and complete the application form on our website and email it to council@shoalhaven.nsw.gov.au.  

Applications close on Friday 13 May 2022.

If you need help completing your application or require interpretive services, please contact Council’s Community Connections Team on 1300 293 111. 

Great news! An Albanese Labor Government will invest in local schools -Hon. Fiona Phillips MP Gilmore (ALP)

 

Today I welcomed Shadow Minister for Education, Tanya Plibersek to the South Coast to join me in making two critical funding commitments for our local schools in Bomaderry and Ulladulla. I’ve always been a fan of public education, and nothing has changed. Growing up on a local family dairy farm, I went to Terara Public School and I was one of around six students to go on to Nowra High School, where great opportunities awaited me. I’m really pleased that Labor will help improve infrastructure in our local schools, so students have the best possible environment to learn. Our commitment is for $300,000 for covered outdoor areas at Bomaderry High School. Bomaderry High School has been in desperate need of extra funds to upgrade ageing infrastructure and repair damage from storms. Our commitment will fund covered outdoor play areas and upgrades to netball and basketball courts.

With Shadow Minister for Education, Tanya Plibersek and Bomaderry High School P&C President Cath Philpott making the announcement today that an Albanese Labor Government will invest in local schools, including outdoor shade structures at Bomaderry High School.

An Albanese Labor Government will also provide $45,000 to Ulladulla High School for outdoor shade and rain protection. Outdoor all-weather areas are crucial to the health and wellbeing of students, to ensure they can still gather and play safely outdoors.

Join the campaign!

With Ulladulla HIgh School Principal Denise Lofts, teachers, P&C and SRC representatives letting them know that an Albanese Labor Government will invest in local schools, including shade structures at Ulladulla High School.

With your support, under an Albanese Labor government, I will create local jobs and: Put nurses back into nursing homes with better food for residents and a pay rise for aged care workers. Fix the GP crisis and improve local health and mental health services. Invest in our local schools and make TAFE free for skills shortage courses.  Take real action to rebuild after disasters and prepare our community for the future. Build better infrastructure, including fixing NBN connections and mobile coverage. Boost affordable and social housing. Thank you for sharing with me over the last three years what is important to you. I can't wait to keep building a better future with you and for you.

Yours sincerely, Fiona Phillips MP Member for Gilmore

Election Standings At Gilmore Federal Seat - We need fewer Informal votes - make your vote count!

 Well, so far we have 4 declared candidates running for the Federal seat of Gilmore:

Declared candidates: 

Andrew Constance (Liberal Party)

Jordan Maloney (United Australian Party)

Carmel McCallum (The Greens)

Fiona Phillips (Australian Labor Party)

So, we have  Fiona Phillips (ALP), seeking her second term to represent the area for the Australian Government and the third time running for the seat. Click here for further wikipedia details

Andrew Constance (LIB) former NSW Treasurer & Transport Minister and former Member for the State Seat of Bega Click here for further wikipedia details

Jordan Maloney  (UAP)is a first-timer candidate and is a fresh face coming into the political scene.

Carmel McCallum (Greens) second time a running candidate for the seat 

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2019 Resuts 

2019 Result

Candidate	Party	Votes	%	Swing
Fiona Phillips	ALP	38,972	36.2	-3.0
Warren Mundine	LIB	31,427	29.2	-16.1
Katrina Hodgkinson	NAT	13,462	12.5	+12.5
Carmel Mary McCallum	GRN	10,740	10.0	-0.5
Grant Schultz	IND	7,585	7.0	+7.0
Milton Leslight	UAP	3,638	3.4	+3.4
Serah Kolukulapally	CDP	1,853	1.7	-3.3
After Preferences
Fiona Phillips	ALP	56,652	52.6	+3.3
Warren Mundine	LIB	51,025	47.4	-3.3

Well looking at the recent results, there will be no Christian Democrat Party and Nationals and no Independents.  As a marginal 2.6% swinging seat at hand required unseating the current candidate - it is considered a hot seat to watch around Australia.

With all the Electoral Polls predicting the wrong winner at the last Federal Election, in my books, the only polls that count are election day. You've probably heard that before!

*Based on the 2019 results, if the 83.7% National votes might transfer to Liberal Party candidate Andrew Constance, which is 11,267 votes approximately and then ALP candidate, Fiona Phillips 2, 195 votes

*Also based on the 2019 results, the CDP votes 76% might be transferred to Liberal Party candidate Andrew Constance and then at least 24% might be transferred to ALP Candidate, Fiona Phillips. Those figures represent 1,408 for LIB Candidate Andrew Constance and 444 for ALP candidate Fiona Phillips

*Then from the  2019 results, Independent votes might be distributed 54% to ALP candidate, Fiona Phillips and 46% to LIB candidate, Andrew Constance, representing figures of  4,095 to ALP Candidate, Fiona Phillips and 3,490 to LIB candidate, Andrew Constance

Yet, what we must consider here, is it has been a tough last two and a bit years with COVID-19  restrictions, isolation, people working from home, business may have suffered a bit/lot from this and are starting to pick up. No government of the day around the world didn't have difficulty making decisions and there would have been mostly supported by their opposition parties.  We've had fires and now we have rains, no need to blame anyone, it is natural in Australia. Yet for some people it was devasting. I always wonder how people survive these natural disasters, especially if not covered by insurance for the buildings.

We can't judge this election and compare it to the previous election, as we have reduced candidates numbers and new candidates running for election in Gilmore. The political field was also different to this year's election and it will depend on what each candidate is offering to each voter and how it will be budgeted. Although, for most voters, the budgeting is not important it is what is offered and promised. There are voters that swing from the candidate during the last three years and decide on the day of polling. 

So, in rounding this up, each and everyone's vote in Gilmore is so important. Just make sure you make sure your vote counts, no matter, who you vote for - an informal vote is really a wasted vote. We all should be proud of making that important vote.

Click here on how to vote from the Australian Electoral Commission

A tip from me, if you are not within the electorate of Gilmore on 21st may 2022, go pre-poll or postal vote. On postal vote, I heard someone requested it, never received male and received a fine after the election for not voting.

Click here to meet the Gilmore Candidates on 4th May 2022

Click here for further details on ABC website - Gilmore Candidates

* Based on reduced candidates leaving two-party preferred candidates