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JUNCTION JOURNALVolume 23 Issue 8

August 2014

Douglas Daly Primary School

WINNERS

Adelaide River Small Schools Sports Carnival

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Busy few weeks it has been. Congratu-lations to the Douglas Daly PrimarySchool on being the winners at thisyear’s Adelaide River Small SchoolsSports Festival.

The Douglas Daly tennis comp was heldon the weekend with the adults finishingthe tournament but the children yet tocomplete theirs. An enjoyable afternoonand evening for those that attended andyes it didn’t go to midnight as was pre-dicted.

Get your bowling and batting in orderand come and enjoy all the action at theannual Douglas Daly Cricket Match inearly September. An event not to bemissed.

Don’t forget the footy season is headingfor the finals. Who will win the tipping?Murray or Sean close followed by Marie

and Nelson. Very close. Even a tie forthe wooden spoon — Bert or Ray!!

The next Junction Journal will be out to-wards the end of the September. Getthose articles in now. Email is preferredand if photos included please send as aseparate file.

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Well Done Classie

By Chris Hazel

The Darwin Dressage Club held the Equestrian NT

Dressage Championships on the 16th and 17th

August at Freds Pass Reserve. We couldn’t have

asked for nicer weather. Cool for both horses and

riders.

Our two judges, Maria Schwennesen and Roger

Fitzhardinge, are highly credentialed, judging at

competitions all over Australia and internationally.

Now for a bit of a brag! My lovely paint gelding,

Patchwork Classic Edge, whom I purchased as an

unbroken 2 yo, started under saddle as a 3yo and

brought up through the levels, with quite a few

differences of opinion on the journey, was a star. He was a pleasure to ride, well

behaved and tried so hard. He did some lovely work and won all of his four tests

and so was Champion Medium horse and Champion Advanced horse of the NT. So

lots of sugar cubes and carrots for the boy!



Douglas Daly School News

Enrolment Reaches 12!

Sharon, Sue and the Douglas Daly School students welcome back Amelia, Dominic, Rory and Kayley.

It is terrific to now have 12 students at our school.

Another Adelaide River Show Win

Jock’s spectacular drawing won third prize in the 5 - 6 years Junior Art Drawing. Well done Jock!


Community Notice

Board

September — Darwin Boat &

Leisure Show

September — Australian

Superbike &

Supercross

Championships

Sept 6th — Douglas Daly

Annual Cricket Match

Sept 6th — Relay for life —

Cancer Council run in

Katherine

Sept 7th — Father’s Day

Sept 26 — DPIF online bull

auction.

Sept 26 — Term 3 ends

Sept 27 — AFL grandfinal

Oct 5 — NRL grandfinal

Oct 6 — School Term 4 com-

mences

Oct 27 — Pink Ribbon Day

Nov 4 — Melbourne Cup

If you would like anything posted on

this community notice board, please

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SUE SHOTTON

Justice of the Peace

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Adelaide River Health Clinic

9am to 12 am & 1pm to 4pm Mon, Tues, Thurs & Fri

9am to 12 am — Wednesday only

Doctor Days (Dr M Fonda)

Tuesday morning an Thursday all day by appointment

After Hours — emergency only

89 767 027

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All dirt roads — caution required

Check for damage

A Recent visit by Geoff Plant to show his sons,

Douglas and Thomas where they used to live.

It was really great to catch up and see how big

the boys have grown


Douglas Daly Community Hall Cleaning Roster

August — Justin & Mary-Ann Stone, Mike & MargoBlack.

September — Philip & Annette Howie, Klyie Rixon &Barry Taber

Annual Douglas Daly Tennis Tournament

What enthusiasm at this year’s tennistournament.

The kids section commenced on the17th August, however has not beencompleted as yet so no results I amafraid.

The 10 adult teams (doubles) played9 games in all and this year’s winnerswere Steve Brosnan and ShenadeKeep scoring 28 points and closelyfollowed by Mike Black and LeanneJohnson on 27.

The trophies will be awarded at alater date as Steve disappeared fairlyquickly and was not present whenShenade held upthe trophy.


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Review of working holiday visas after a spike in

complaints of worker exploitation.ABC Rural — Monday 4th August , 2014

Farmers have been told it is their responsibility to ensure fruit pickers are paid award wages,even if the workers are provided through labour hire companies.

Farmers are being warned they could be held liable for the underpayment of workers on theirfarms, even if they're employed through labour hire companies.

The Fair Work Ombudsman is cracking down on the exploitation of working holiday makers on417 visas, following a spike in complaints.

Ombudsman Natalie James saysforeign workers, who arerequired to work 88 days in aregional area to gain a one-yearvisa extension, are increasinglycomplaining about their wagesand conditions.

"These workers often don'tcomplain," Ms James said.

"They are primarily oftenconcerned with just getting the88 days' work and obviously theyneed to produce evidence ofthat, and so I think there is atendency to put up with a lotbefore they will complain.

"The thing that really caught our eye was a couple of years ago, in 2011/12, we recoveredaround $67,000 for people working under these arrangements, and in the last financial yearthat's just gone, it's almost $350,000, so that's almost five times as much in just a couple ofyears.

"Complaints from 417 visas now are almost a third of complaints from all overseas workers andvisa holders and we're seeing an increase both in the number of people coming out on thesevisas, and the number of complaints.

I think there is a tendency to put up with a lot before they will complain.

Ombudsman Natalie James says she's heard reports of fruit pickers earning well below awardwages.

“We hear things like $8 an hour, or even less," Ms James said.

"There was an example with some strawberry farmers in Caboolture last year where I think theywere being paid less than $4 an hour. I think they were on piece rate, so it worked out that theywere being paid per punnet, but it was a very low amount."


She says farmers are responsible for ensuring workers on their properties are being paid awardwages, even if they are employed through labour hire companies.

"If you're not employing the people who are working on your farm, but you are closing your eyesto the fact that these workers are being consulted and they are not being paid their minimumrates, then you need to be aware that you could be found liable, if you knew, or you should haveknown that was going on."

Carl Walker, president of the Bowen Gumlu Growers Association, which represents fruit andvegetable growers in north Queensland's Bowen region, says his industry would fall apart if itweren't for workers on 417 visas.

"Travelling overseas workers, which are commonly known as backpackers, our industry, rightover Australia, is extremely reliant on them to fill up the spots we can't manage to fill withAustralians," Mr Walker said.

"They're good kids, they turn up every day, they have to work, if they don't work they don't eatand if they don't work they don't get their second visa."

Mr Walker has welcomed the Fair Work Ombudsman's crackdown on the wages and conditionsof 417 visa workers, and says it will target the small minority of people who are doing the wrongthing.

He's heard stories of farmers being duped by dodgy contractors, who tell them they areemploying a certain number of workers to pick a crop, but actually employ more workers and paythem less.

"The contracts that they (labour hire firms) sign with growers ... say number one that the personmust be paid a minimum of X amount ... they must have their visa, they must be eligible to work,all these conditions are on these contracts and they sign it," Mr Walker said.

"If the contractor doesn't adhere to those rules, it's really hard for the grower to say 'hang on aminute, I trusted this bloke I thought he was doing the right thing, but it turns out he's not'.

"How can the grower be liable? It's a very, very grey area," he said.

For more information on 417 visa visit http://www.immi.gov.au/Visas/Pages/417.aspx


ICPA Federal Conference—Launceston, Tas

One of the largest NT contingents travelled to Launceston recently to put the concerns of the

NT forward at the annual ICPA Federal Conference. All nine motions from the NT were passed

for action. There were 5 Tertiary motions which voiced our concerns regarding the effect of the

recent budget on the spiralling costs of a tertiary education for our rural and remote children.

We also asked for the Assistance for Isolated Children scheme to be lowered to include 4 year

old pre-school distance education students and for equal internet access regarding speed,

quality, capabilities and cost of service. Two of the motions covered the in Home Care scheme

asking for an increase in places and to extend the scheme to cover governesses and home

tutors.

It was pleasing to see the NT Minister for Education, Hon Peter Chandler, make an appearance

on Day 2 of the conference to hear the NT report delivered by NT ICPA State President, Sally

Sullivan followed by motions regarding education and assistance for dyslexia children.

Some of the presentations over the two days were from “Hook Line & Sinker” presenter Nick

Duigan, Telstra Country Wide Executive Director, Andrew Coull, NBN Lalla Mackenzie and a

workshop from Ben Teoh on “Breaking through the Techno—Babble”. Read more at

www.icpa.com.au/documents and click Federal/conference archived documents.

Some of the NT contingent in Launceston — Sue Shotton (retiring Federal Councillor),

Sally Sullivan (NT President), Gail Auricht (NT Vice-President), NT Minister for

Education, the Hon Peter Chandler and Kate McMasters (new Federal Councillor).

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Special Visitors to Douglas Daly School

Ken Davies, Chief Executive, Department of Education and Hylton Hayes, Regional

Director, Palmerston & Rural Regions, Schools North, Department of Education

visited Douglas Daly School on July 24th. The two hour visit included speaking with

parents, a school tour and sharing student learning with the students and the

Teaching Principal.

Ken Davies and Hylton Hayes with some parents from Douglas Daly School.

ST JOHN’S AMBULANCE FIRST AID TRAINING

Douglas Daly School was fortunate to have two St John’s Ambulance

First Aid Ambulance trainers visit our school. Kathy and Kelly were part

of a community education program sponsored by the Bendigo Bank. The aims

of the session were to create an awareness of first aid as a life-saving

skill and to develop important skills in performing emergency first aid.

Students in Transition and Year 1 learnt about checking for danger, who

can help them, calling for an ambulance, what paramedics look like and

bleeding and burns. Year 2-6 students learnt and revised DRSABCD,

calling for an ambulance, managing an unconscious patient, CPR and

managing bleeding and burns.



Media Release

Preparing farming’s future in the NorthFriday 22 August 2014

Minister Joyce Agrees: Food Bowl is Misleading

Federal Minister for Agriculture, Barnaby Joyce echoed the sentiments of the NorthernTerritory Farmers Association yesterday when he indicated he did not support the conceptof Northern Australia becoming a Food Bowl.

The Minister was in Darwin as part of the Agricultural Competitiveness White Paper Task-force visit to the Northern Territory.

CEO of the Northern Territory Farmers Association, Mr Grant Fenton appeared before theJoint Select Committee on Northern Australia Hearings which were held in Darwin thisweek. His message to Hearings Committee was that Northern Australia had enormouspotential for agricultural development, but the concept that a food bowl environment wouldbe created was misleading.

“In simple terms, Australia provides food for some 60 million people world-wide and thatincludes the 20 million that live here,” Mr Fenton said.

“If we magically doubled our production to feed 120 million people overnight, we wouldstill be well short of the population of Indonesia, let alone the combined populations ofIndia, China, Japan, Vietnam and Korea.”

However, Mr Fenton did talk about the many opportunities that exist for agriculture inNorthern Australia.

“Just because we won’t be a food bowl, doesn’t mean there isn’t an amazing opportunity forNorthern farmers.”

“What we need to do is stop thinking about feeding the world and focus on selling to theneighbourhood. We need to start focussing on ‘can we grow it, can we sell it and can wemake a profit’.

“We need to stop framing agricultural development around potential land and waterresources and start focussing on markets and economics,” Mr Fenton said.

“Land and water are important, but the key to success will be an approach underpinned bywhat the market wants and where we can sell what we can grow”.

“As an example, Indonesia currently imports around 2.5 million metric tons of soybeansannually. That’s around a $2Billion USD of soy. Surely, there’s room for Northern farmers


to create an opportunity to own a share of that. A 10% share of $2B is surely worth gettingout of bed for.”

Federal Minister Joyce has been invited to attend the Northern Australia Food FuturesConference in Darwin, November 3, 4 and 5 this year to discuss a range of opportunities forthe development of agriculture in the north.

For more information contact:Natalie Bell

P: 08 8942 3388 | M: 0419 653 729Grant Fenton

P: 08 8999 6128 | M: 0405 287 344

Northern Territory Food Futures Conference 2014

Preparing for the future of Agriculture in the North

3-5 November — Darwin, NT

Northern Australia Food Futures is a conference aimed at generating focused discussionon northern agriculture development policies, helping to create a framework for long termsuccess.

The inaugural Northern Australia Food Futures 2014 Conference focuses on the marketsand economics underpinning emerging Asian markets. Sessions will be held on topics andideas for issues seen throughout the supply chain, including technical and economic basedresearch and development, environmental impacts and management, policies and foodsecurity. Broader sessions will be complemented with interactive single commoditysessions, allowing for individuals to zero in on their specialty.

For more information on the Northern Australia Food Futures Conference please visitwww.foodfutures.ntfarmers.org.au

Associated Advertising & Promotions is proud to be the Conference Coordinators for the2014 Northern Australian Food Futures Conference.

For further information call Natalie Bell on 08 8942 3388

2014 Footy Tipping Comp

All fees need to be

paid now so contact

Mary-Jane for the

Social Club’s banking

details.


Murray 218

Sean 218

Marie 210

Nelson 210

Alix 209

Mary-Jane 209

Daniel 205

Ross 201

Annabelle 193

Kerry 193

Sue 185

Chad 182

Spud 178

Ben 174

Shaz 173

Emma 171

Rooster 168

Bert 164

Ray 164

Scotty 200

Congratulations

Duane and Mel Nunn

On the birth of your little boy

Derek Augustus Nunn

31/07/2014

The Junction Journal

and the Douglas Daly

Community wishes

Ross Harlan-Parker

a speedy recovery

from his current visit

to the hospital in

Perth.


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Junction Journal—August 2014

Douglas Daly Weather Report

Dry season weather continues with plenty of wind and cool or should we say coldnight (need to be near the burn drum when outside).

July August (up to 22nd)

Max Temp: 34.1 o C (16th) Max Temp: 35.0 o C (2nd)Min Temp: 7.8 o C (3rd) Min Temp: 9.1 o C (16th & 20th)Mean Temp Range: 12.5—31.6 o C Mean Temp Range: 13.3—31.8 o CMax Wind Run: 57 km/hr ESE (17th) Max Wind Run: 50 km/hr ESE (13th)Rainfall: nil Rainfall: nilMean Rainfall: 2.7 mm Mean Rainfall: 1.4 mmHighest Rainfall: 47.7 mm (1968) Highest Rainfall: 21.4 mm (2007)Highest Daily Rain: nil Highest Daily Rain: nilHighest recorded daily rain: Highest recorded daily rain:

41.8 mm (26/07/1986) 13.4 mm (18/08/2007)Raindays: nil Raindays: nil

Rainfall for season 13/14: 1422.2 mm Rainfall for season 12/13: 976.0 mm

Rainfall for 2014 calendar year: 1015.0 mmRainfall for 2013 calendar year: 1036.6 mmMean rainfall per calendar year: 1206.0 mmHighest rainfall per calendar year: 1939 mm (2011)Lowest rainfall per calendar year: 640.5 mm (1970)

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