tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30909919939805119792024-03-06T04:09:10.677+11:00Freedom Cyclist (ad-free advocacy)... bicycle helmet laws are bad for my health - & yours too!Freedom Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11187400454555241935noreply@blogger.comBlogger876125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3090991993980511979.post-28997678887444961182022-04-06T10:01:00.000+10:002022-04-06T10:01:24.580+10:00“Anyone else noticing Local Governments systematically being dumbed down?” asks Greens councillor Sue Abbott <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9dtJlmsmzWvGYzBrHa74aNhQdd5z3TwVy2veeU3OnK82OW4YFRy2DCegaOpAIrhBrvAau4FpzFjBdm2mpuepxrZCNka3Y-tWEWXSDW2Ga_gl3aomn9g7ghWosojkGRqOtbgtx9HrMyQFsu5JPlwiZXRMkTQaCcF3TDHuWiFp4SGE7UXiimFMZx1PZzw/s2048/E8C860BB-86F3-4278-B1FA-2D63E3CB783B.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9dtJlmsmzWvGYzBrHa74aNhQdd5z3TwVy2veeU3OnK82OW4YFRy2DCegaOpAIrhBrvAau4FpzFjBdm2mpuepxrZCNka3Y-tWEWXSDW2Ga_gl3aomn9g7ghWosojkGRqOtbgtx9HrMyQFsu5JPlwiZXRMkTQaCcF3TDHuWiFp4SGE7UXiimFMZx1PZzw/w400-h300/E8C860BB-86F3-4278-B1FA-2D63E3CB783B.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Upper Hunter sunset</td></tr></tbody></table><p>MEDIA RELEASE<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Roboto; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-themecolor: text1;">Greens councillor Sue Abbott is calling out Upper Hunter Shire Council’s
recent move at ending most of its community committees.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Roboto; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-themecolor: text1;">“At the beginning of this new council term, council resolved to get rid
of its former community committees and to replace them with three new district
committees, which are yet to meet,” said Sue Abbott.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Roboto; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-themecolor: text1;">“That means the old library, community services, heritage, and
sustainability committees along with many others have all been axed. The
business of those former committees is now to be subsumed into councils’ new
district committee structure and its renamed standing committees.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Roboto; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-themecolor: text1;">“In my opinion it is very disappointing that the old community
committees have gone, and that the new district committees have not even met yet
despite the fact that council is going through its community strategic planning
process right now.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Roboto; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-themecolor: text1;">“The ‘closing-down-of-community-committees’ is a gagging of the
community’s voice, and that translates into a general dumbing-down of Local
Government.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0cm 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Roboto; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-themecolor: text1;">“There used to be a broad amount of participation from the local
community in council’s affairs, but with the insidious corporatisation of
councils across the board, community voices are being silenced.”</span></p>
<p>
<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-themecolor: text1;">Sue Abbott is available for interview. Phone: 0418 237
021</span></b></p>Freedom Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11187400454555241935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3090991993980511979.post-52006626483469503932021-11-24T16:38:00.004+11:002021-11-25T10:44:49.209+11:00Multi-national coal and their playbook are never about community<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtbGFckv02lvtaJ4xOPCKq9NOza3bpF_Z_WcfmxFP3IzpjPsnYayBdoPG0TxH5GPS4MWJ4W6NSzLDQgwBcxv1-2TA2uVHEeu2rVIJFbz-73Md6jALqFwSiROuz_h3swNjgWNh3Z536fcQn/s2048/579DE4AA-9B29-4348-8E28-D6BD805F7948.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtbGFckv02lvtaJ4xOPCKq9NOza3bpF_Z_WcfmxFP3IzpjPsnYayBdoPG0TxH5GPS4MWJ4W6NSzLDQgwBcxv1-2TA2uVHEeu2rVIJFbz-73Md6jALqFwSiROuz_h3swNjgWNh3Z536fcQn/w426-h500/579DE4AA-9B29-4348-8E28-D6BD805F7948.jpeg" width="426" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Full page attack, Friday 5th November 2021</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p> A couple of weeks ago, a friend showed me this page from the Hunter River Times published Friday 5th November 2021.</p><p> I could not believe what I was reading. </p><p>I was appalled at this vicious attack made by one of the world's largest most destructive mines, Glencore, and that here they were taking out a full page of goodness knows what in a ‘community newspaper,’ outright attacking two individual traditional owners for following a legal process.</p><p>But this paper, the Hunter River Times, is no ordinary independent community paper. It is the NSW Minerals Council's rag, and it brooks no criticism to do with mining from any quarter.</p><p>As chance would have it, I am running for the Upper Hunter Shire Council for a second term, and all 'councillor-candidates' were invited by the Hunter River Times to write fluffy 'vote-for-me' 100 word pieces for the Friday 19th November 2021 issue.</p><p>I chose my 100 words very carefully and precisely, and they were as follows:</p><p><i>"My name is Sue Abbott and I am appalled at the extraordinary attack recently launched by Glencore, the world's largest mining company, against two individual traditional owners for trying to preserve Ravensworth massacre site. I am also appalled that it was published in this paper."</i></p><p><i>"That Glencore resorts to bullying and intimidation so that it can extend the life of its open cut mine near Ravensworth demonstrates the Swiss giant is lacking any corporate responsibility. That the the Hunter River Times would run the piece on the mine's behalf demonstrates how missed truly independent media really are."</i></p><p>Admittedly I did think there was a good chance that my words would not be published but what I did not think was that words I had not supplied Hunter River Times would be inserted looking as though a contribution from me.<br /></p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvEqpXkGAp2TqQSQqQzpXbjwtk7IHkY8Ad4thbyyNRPte22hPLNXQ_TymTehsGv0ufOdtI79jJMe792D5Ss1jn8ysx5lSXjeCvv6zl4hs4BIGOm6byQ9bRq6Hk_fXzWW-xFb4Exd7kDvBu/s2048/9D15630D-AE6F-41BB-AED0-B5D4CE2F14BB.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvEqpXkGAp2TqQSQqQzpXbjwtk7IHkY8Ad4thbyyNRPte22hPLNXQ_TymTehsGv0ufOdtI79jJMe792D5Ss1jn8ysx5lSXjeCvv6zl4hs4BIGOm6byQ9bRq6Hk_fXzWW-xFb4Exd7kDvBu/s320/9D15630D-AE6F-41BB-AED0-B5D4CE2F14BB.jpeg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Words I did not write for Hunter River Times, Friday 19th November 2021</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p> This layout is misleading and deceptive.</p><p>I immediately contacted the Hunter River Times via text with the following words:</p><p><i>"I did not write those words on page 8 of the Hunter River Times (Friday 19th November 2021). Please retract them and please issue an apology in your next issue as they seem to be 'passing off' as me and those words are certainly not what I wrote."</i><br /></p><p>In response, the Hunter River Times justified their action by informing me that the words they used in their column, purporting to be mine, were from my statement on the NSW Electoral Commission's website. </p><p>Cherry-picking and cobbling together words from my nomination form do not qualify as words from me in the capacity readers think that they are reading, and basically just shows a complete lack of respect for me and for the paper’s very own readers.<br /></p><p>I remain appalled by Glencore's actions towards the two individual traditional owners and also by everything to do with the Hunter River Times ... </p><p> ... and I still expect a retraction and an apology in the next issue of the Hunter River Times.</p><p>Furthermore I miss and will always miss ‘real’ independent community media so very much.<br /></p>Freedom Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11187400454555241935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3090991993980511979.post-7562637407378216372021-08-18T18:48:00.002+10:002021-08-18T18:52:21.833+10:00IPCC tells world nowhere's safe<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwWRV7BMwn4dHotwWbxm_uzfJJqRgVNkhu9WNoHnbRsr_ySVlgIedW-H5rEvKq86gvh0FUGwpfoVETuk_U0xUGgaooH_eAj1ongT7U4ObFhta34th6tEto-oHG2CUNxukDxgDPE3GDzVw4/s2508/E86vrNrWUAYrpCA.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1254" data-original-width="2508" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwWRV7BMwn4dHotwWbxm_uzfJJqRgVNkhu9WNoHnbRsr_ySVlgIedW-H5rEvKq86gvh0FUGwpfoVETuk_U0xUGgaooH_eAj1ongT7U4ObFhta34th6tEto-oHG2CUNxukDxgDPE3GDzVw4/w433-h217/E86vrNrWUAYrpCA.jpg" width="433" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><u></u></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b></b></div><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></u></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Last week the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC) released their sixth report, and it makes for salutary reading. </span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Everything in the report we already know, but this
time the scientists have made it crystal clear that unless we do something urgently
about the unprecedented human-induced global warming, we are on course for an
unlivable planet by the end of this century.</span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Highlighting irrefutable evidence that global warming
is driven by humans’ use of fossil fuels and resulting emissions, the report
grimly states that the scale and pace we are changing the earth’s climate
system have almost no precedent and have already led to catastrophic events
which are predicted to only get worse if we carry on as we are. In fact, even
if countries start taking climate change seriously and start meaningfully doing
something about it, worsening impacts are already ‘baked in’ to the climate
system for the next two decades at least.</span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Australian trends show that heatwaves will be more
frequent and intense across land and sea, and that marine heatwaves will see a
rise in ocean acidity. The intensity, frequency and duration of fire weather is
projected to increase, and we will lose the Great Barrier Reef and other reefs.
There will be an increase in heavy rainfall across the northern, central and
eastern parts of Australia, with increase in droughts across the southern and
eastern parts of Australia. Australian sea levels are predicted to rise faster
than the global average leading to an increase in coastal flooding and
shoreline retreat. Storms will also increase including sand storms.</span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">This may be our final warning that the natural system
cannot cope with our lifestyle and that we just cannot continue with business
as usual if we are to have any chance of a future compatible with life.</span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We are at a fork in the road and we must act now.</span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">So, what can we do?</span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">First up we need to urgently reduce our emissions and
to do so, that means:</span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
* </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">No new coal, oil or gas development,
or any new fossil fuel development of any kind, and for us to get out of
existing ones pretty smartly.</span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">* We need to focus on reducing our
emissions by 2030 because leaving this task until 2050 will be too late and essentially
is akin to climate denial.</span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">* We need to reduce our emissions by
75% by 2030 (on 2005 baseline).</span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">* We need to be net-zero by 2035</span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">* AND THERE MUST BE NO GAS-LED RECOVERY</span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">… in a nutshell we must stop expanding all fossil fuel
industries and stop the much-touted gas-led recovery immediately which means we
need the right politicians and political representatives at all levels of
government to see this happen.</span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">So really the most important action anyone can do to
halt climate change is to vote for the right representative. Climate change
denialists have had their day and it is time for political renewal. </span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We just don’t have time for local, state and federal
politicians who are not going to take the IPCC’s warning seriously because
honestly, when it sinks in the current rates of climate change are
unprecedented in the planet’s entire ‘4.5 billion years’ geological past, that
is terrifying.</span></p>
Freedom Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11187400454555241935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3090991993980511979.post-50622314133565585932021-07-08T01:17:00.000+10:002021-07-08T01:17:24.594+10:00Can Upper Hunter Shire afford another year of climate inaction?<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYBSPZrKLolOki-UnTkIm-f2VgXC2PMqEsrGot3lK4QnXKmx_oVNRm-sLswwZ1FksHUp2-biamfILRbH530YMkh3OJF-iTJ07HeSE-C4pt5kJv3wkZ8Zr7IutwxrSHHJ-aa9ghmp6BJFt-/s2048/1CD33094-A4C5-447E-8D98-9C5F56C06238.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYBSPZrKLolOki-UnTkIm-f2VgXC2PMqEsrGot3lK4QnXKmx_oVNRm-sLswwZ1FksHUp2-biamfILRbH530YMkh3OJF-iTJ07HeSE-C4pt5kJv3wkZ8Zr7IutwxrSHHJ-aa9ghmp6BJFt-/w300-h400/1CD33094-A4C5-447E-8D98-9C5F56C06238.jpeg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Do we care about intergenerational equity?</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p>At the June 2021 Upper Hunter Shire Council Ordinary Meeting I could not and did not support the 2021/2022 budget.</p><p>Its lack of meaningful action to halt climate change and to mitigate the already damaging impacts we are seeing all around us as a result of climate change only goes to show that the Upper Hunter Shire Council plans to continue ignoring the signs of climate change already impacting our lives. </p><p>The 2021/2022 budget reveals that the Upper Hunter Shire Council is able to find funding for all kinds of projects including climate wrecking ones but is unable to adequately fund a climate emergency response.</p><p>Unquestionably a climate emergency response should be embedded in all of council's decision making processes: putting climate first in every single decision of council is essential and needs to be implemented.</p><p>Speaking to the world on World Environment Day 5 June 2021, Antonio Guterres (UN Secretary General) said:</p><p></p><blockquote><p><i>"We are rapidly reaching the point of no return for the planet. We face a triple emergency:</i></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><i>biodiversity loss; </i></li><li><i>climate disruption</i></li><li><i>escalating pollution</i></li></ol><p><i>Science tells us the next 10 years are our final chance to avert a climate catastrophe, turn back the deadly tide of pollution and end species loss." </i></p></blockquote><p>... yet here in the Upper Hunter Shire we are 'picking the colour scheme for
the family room' rather than doing anything about <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jan/25/our-house-is-on-fire-greta-thunberg16-urges-leaders-to-act-on-climate" target="_blank">'our house on fire'</a> and the real emergencies
steadily enveloping us.</p><p>We don't have time to be carrying on with the business as usual approach. </p><p>Extreme heatwaves, wildfires, seas on fire from gas pipeline leaks, couldn't be clearer in demonstrating that business as usual is no longer ok.</p><p>We need a climate emergency response and we needed it last month.<br /></p>Freedom Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11187400454555241935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3090991993980511979.post-28376623029943110512021-05-17T00:23:00.003+10:002021-05-17T09:22:17.035+10:00A voice for children & nature - a voice for you<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFIbpKOQm3kQfaN1XAoQ059gxVixPRSjlgm1hBqYlO1Yi4dW6kW09GZP3MathJ-lICkQ179Xql8mHAc-QofRlG1mvAhyHqitm-T9OUzhNBC8fvAAjLZyjsCT5cBySKpNKbAGbUVCROdfsd/s2048/Harriet%2526meSGSFete.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFIbpKOQm3kQfaN1XAoQ059gxVixPRSjlgm1hBqYlO1Yi4dW6kW09GZP3MathJ-lICkQ179Xql8mHAc-QofRlG1mvAhyHqitm-T9OUzhNBC8fvAAjLZyjsCT5cBySKpNKbAGbUVCROdfsd/w400-h300/Harriet%2526meSGSFete.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">With my granddaughter at the SGS fete</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><i> Quick update on me since I last posted ... I am running as the Greens candidate for the Upper Hunter by-election which is to be held in five days time (Saturday 22nd May 2021). I have been 'beatleling' around the electorate meeting up with people and participating in Meet-The-Candidates for the past three weeks. On Thursday 13th May 2021, I attended the Dungog Meet-The-Candidates forum at the Dungog RSL, and the following is the speech I gave to crowd in the allocated 10 minutes candidates were given.</i></p><p></p><p>Good evening, I acknowledge the traditional owners of the land where we meet tonight and I pay my respects to their elders past and present.</p><p>I am a first generation Australian because of "Love"! </p><p>But let me go right back to my beginning. I was born in Germany, and for the first 18 years of my life I grew up in Germany, Holland, Cyprus and England. </p><p>Then at 18, I started my registered nurse training at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London. And it was there at the back of the Barts' Hospital bicycle shed that I met this gorgeous young Australian doctor. Upon being asked whether it was 'Susie or Sue,' with me thinking it's neither but I might run with Sue, there followed a whirlwind romance with us getting married in England and then heading out to Australia at the end of 1982. </p><p>I arrived in this beautiful land I was to call home for the rest of my life like a GI bride having never seen Australia before! I fell in love immediately with this beautiful country, and we came to Scone in August 1983. Our four children were all born at Scone Hospital, and all four did all their primary and secondary schooling in Scone too.</p><p>But now I am here before you as the Greens candidate for the Upper Hunter by-election, and the most pressing issue for me is Climate Change.</p><p>Climate Change is here in the Upper Hunter whether we like to admit it or not. We see the impacts all around us with droughts, bushfires, floods and the increase in their severity.</p><p>We are facing an existential threat to nature which includes us too because we are nature.</p><p>Our children's future is bleak. In fact our children have reached a tipping point where they are eschewing their education and leaving the classrooms to take to the streets to protest about the inaction on climate action. Our children do not feel that they have a future so they are wondering what is the point of even getting an education.<br /></p><p>It is imperative that we transition to 100% renewables quickly and eliminate our emissions in an emergency capacity.</p><p>But there is no political will to tackle climate change and undertake necessary climate action.</p><p>Recently it was reported that as a result of massive glacier melting across the world due to global warming, there has been a shift in the earth's axis of rotation. This is huge, yet still are leaders are not moved to do anything.</p><p>Biodiversity is plummeting, and this breaks my heart. Here in Australia we have the biggest mammalian extinction rate in the world - that is not a good record to have.</p><p>But right now I want to transport you to another state ... I want to take you to Tasmania where I follow the cutest little Instagram account, the "Hobart Rivulet Platypus ... you should too! A post was popped up on this account just recently detailing that we (that's us humans) are the biggest threat to the iconic platypus, and that the continuous concreting over of rivulets and tributaries in Hobart is causing platypus deep distress, and platypus numbers are starting to decline.</p><p>Now let me bring you back to Dungog, and your own concrete spectre of more dams being built in this area again. I met with some of you from Hunter Healthy Rivers a couple of weeks ago and you shared with me your concerns about the growing dam-building talk. </p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilBBvazl-BN33hgcYJIjLM81VBC6NrL-veH2mvZt0BkBwZcqfp-dbSq7zWlqx4GFonEelCA7B92f4swNv8JEcwasmEG1nO6DYjvzTNwnXwQjlHBe1x80AFAY87FgwYvpbpDYUGc9cpKl58/s1920/Dungog+residents.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilBBvazl-BN33hgcYJIjLM81VBC6NrL-veH2mvZt0BkBwZcqfp-dbSq7zWlqx4GFonEelCA7B92f4swNv8JEcwasmEG1nO6DYjvzTNwnXwQjlHBe1x80AFAY87FgwYvpbpDYUGc9cpKl58/w400-h225/Dungog+residents.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">With Dungog residents</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>We know that dams are hugely destructive of nature and the natural environment, and we know that they completely destroy wildlife corridors and key areas for wildlife potentially impacting your own iconic koalas which you have here in the Dungog Shire. </p><p>The proposed Tillegra Dam was chased off a few years ago because of environmental reasons, and I must acknowledge the 'marvelousness' of Tracey Norman (independent candidate for Upper Hunter and former Dungog mayor) who successfully championed that cause to make sure the Tillegra Dam did not go ahead. Dams are dinosaur technology as you told me, and they destroy wildlife corridors, and rivers, and even pose a threat to the Ramsar-listed Kooragang Wetlands. </p><p>We know that there are other ways to conserve water such as user education, behaviour-change, recycling, water conservation itself, demand management and yet dams remain the popular choice for ill-informed politicians.</p><p>Let's talk about your koalas and their core habitats. You have breeding koala mothers here in the Dungog shire with the necessary primary and secondary feeding trees - basically you have koala heaven yet this is under threat with all the dam proposal talk. We cannot let dam building go ahead here at the expense of Australia's biodiversity yet again.</p><p>With respect to transition, it is already underway in the Upper Hunter. But what worries me is that it will not be just and we'll get left behind or abandoned if we do not get on board now.</p><p>Three disruptions are converging:<br />1. energy; 2. transport; 3. food and agriculture</p><p>With respect to energy; wind, solar, pumped hydro and battery storage have won the race and the market is running with its wallet. </p><p>All sectors across our electorate must de-carbonise from fossil fuels, to health and hospitals, from tourism and travel, to farming and transport.</p><p>Regarding transport, it took only 13 years for the last major disruption in transport in 1,000 years to totally shift how we got around. In 1900 city transport was all about horses yet by 1913 it was all about cars (what happened to the horses? ... we ate them). So it only took just over a decade for transport to be completely disrupted and upended, and no-one saw that coming.</p><p>And with food and agriculture, it is projected that the dairy and beef industries will be totally disrupted by 2030. Precision fermentation and food-as-software are changing existing food paradigms, and quickly.</p><p>If I were to be elected I would advocate for a just transition to 100% renewables so that we are not left behind or abandoned, and I would insist on emergency elimination of our emissions.</p><p>I would be a voice for children who don't have the vote, yet who are terrified, frustrated, scared, and suffering from climate anxiety because they think they may not have a future.</p><p>I would be a voice for community organisations and neighbourhood-centres
which all too often get overlooked when big money is being splashed around for the big ticket items. <br /></p><p>I would be a voice for nature who now more than ever needs a voice and an advocate at the ready.</p><p>And I would be a voice for you.</p><p>Thank you<br /></p><br /><br />Freedom Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11187400454555241935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3090991993980511979.post-78226383097104104632020-08-21T23:49:00.002+10:002020-08-21T23:49:51.023+10:00MOTHERLOAD (Official Trailer)<p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NkklZNE9S-g" width="480"></iframe> </p><p>These are crazy times. </p><p>It's hard to imagine how everything's going to play out,
and I have to admit to feeling more than a little glum quite a lot of the time
what with precious family members and friends scattered all around the world and
wondering when I'm going to see them again. </p><p>So when I read about <a href="http://motherloadmovie.com" target="_blank">'Motherload'</a> on
<a href="https://www.treehugger.com/motherload-documentary-shows-how-families-are-embracing-cargo-bikes-5074540" target="_blank">Treehugger</a> I knew immediately it was going to be a film for me - and boy was I
right! </p><p>I got myself all set up with my laptop and headphones, 'rented' the movie,
made a cuppa and was basically swept away on a magical carpet ride of emotions
and plans and pure joy. </p><p>It was heaven! </p><p>I wept, I smiled, I even took notes!!!!! </p><p>It was so beautiful and it made me feel really alive, and also incredibly lucky
that I have a beautiful bicycle which I get to hop on a lot notwithstanding
Australia's ridiculousness with its insane devotion to its insane helmet law. </p><p>Essentially anything to do with
bicycles always makes me feel happy, alive and about six years old ... basically right in
the moment. </p><p>Liz Canning's moving and insightful documentary has reminded me that
I love bicycles way more than cars, and truly no matter the weather I need to be
on one (ok, if it's 37 °C and upwards I'll probably give myself a leave pass!).</p><p>So I'm
back on my push-bike big time, completely head over heels in love with it again,
and ...</p><p>... really looking forward to my other bike (my Christiannia) undergoing an e-bike conversion with the fabulous folk at <a href="http://www.sydneyelectricbikes.com.au/" target="_blank">Sydney Electric Bikes</a> in two weeks time ... then I may have to just ride no matter how hot it is!!!! No kidding, there'll be no more excuses as I'll have two bikes to choose from with respect to Australian weather.</p><p>Thank you, Liz Canning, your documentary was a tonic and utterly inspiring, and I'm recharged and ready to take on the world again one revolution at a time!<br /></p>Freedom Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11187400454555241935noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3090991993980511979.post-62194348138746848582020-04-06T00:03:00.000+10:002020-04-06T00:09:54.996+10:00So that’s that<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The second half of March 2020 has been like a whole decade and now here we are in April.<br />
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To keep you up to speed with my matters helmet, which right now seem so incredibly pointless, I attended Scone Local Court on Thursday 19th March 2020.<br />
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However because of all the new social distancing measures in place as a result of covid19, none of us (apart from lawyers, police and magistrate) were allowed into the courtroom.<br />
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I did actually have a lawyer this time, so he was permitted to step into court, and from what he has told me I understand that my matter of riding a bicycle without a helmet was withdrawn and dismissed.<br />
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So there we have it!<br />
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And with the lovely weather we're having right now in the Upper Hunter, I'll be back on my bike (my most favourite of wheels) in next to no time!<br />
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... and needless to mention, minus the helmet!<br />
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Oop la here we go again no doubt! <br />
<br />Freedom Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11187400454555241935noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3090991993980511979.post-55649052678201970292020-04-01T00:07:00.004+11:002020-04-01T00:32:17.369+11:00National Parks, 1080 and indiscriminate cruelty<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Why is the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) joining in with the Department of Planning Industry & Environment to be part of this reckless destruction of animals? How does such a poisoning programme fit with their brief? And done from the air too? How can an aerial programme be carefully targeted and administered? <br />
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What about protection for dingoes?<br />
What about protection for wedge tail eagles?<br />
What about protection for quolls?<br />
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How does National Parks plan on protecting them during this deadly two weeks?<br />
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Why are we still obsessed with protecting sheep farming to the lethal cost of Australia's native animals?<br />
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I am so sad about this unnecessary indiscriminate killing and I worry about the dreadful effects on both the targeted and non-targeted animal species.<br />
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Furthermore 1080 (sodium fluroacetate) taints water supplies, food chains and the general local environment, and death from 1080 is slow and painful and torturous.<br />
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But let's just think about the unintended lethal effects on non-targeted native reptiles, birds and insects? Between 2008 and 2015 New Zealand recorded 24 kea deaths caused by 1080 from a population of 199 that were radio tagged.<br />
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Surely there are alternatives?<br />
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I called that number on the poster and I expressed my dismay, and I was informed someone would ring me but that has not happened. No-one has called me.<br />
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If National Parks actually did an audit on all the 1080 they have chucked around our national parks how would it stack up? Has the 1080 programme been successful over the decades? Biodiversity still flourishing? Forests any better for it?<br />
<br />So cynically done as a 'post fire pest relief program' as though that will make our forests safer. I have never seen foxes or wild dogs here in Mount Royal, but I have seen dingoes and quolls and eagles and I feel sick with worry about their safety.<br />
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We do not deserve our beautiful country<br />
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Sheep - it's time we only counted them to get to sleep - I cannot see the justification in destroying dingoes, eagles, quolls and all the other Australian carnivores. 1080 is so old school, and such a hammer with no finesse, and just a lot of toxic poison that takes out so many animals.<br />
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I am so disappointed with the National Parks and Wildlife Service.Freedom Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11187400454555241935noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3090991993980511979.post-91845297266101835462020-03-30T20:42:00.000+11:002020-04-06T00:12:01.799+10:00In Scone we've been given the proverbial hospital pass<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnaVI3ElAZ9A_4MNztb7JJuBFsszYNIOjaUaTAnoDw9HMam2I_8rw37SRIybnc4VsyRtvqJrKeF_JmuBsEIcOlW_3-oYEWtnHNXKpBT6Niv982DOo5Z9sM5GRroPO1LkkovN5TXgMdSvCc/s1600/Scone+station+with+retreating+train.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnaVI3ElAZ9A_4MNztb7JJuBFsszYNIOjaUaTAnoDw9HMam2I_8rw37SRIybnc4VsyRtvqJrKeF_JmuBsEIcOlW_3-oYEWtnHNXKpBT6Niv982DOo5Z9sM5GRroPO1LkkovN5TXgMdSvCc/s400/Scone+station+with+retreating+train.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scone, NSW, one of many Australian towns with no ICU</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">We are ill
prepared for covid19 yet we really ought not to be in this position when you consider
that our state and federal governments have known this was coming since January
this year. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">The message from China could not have been clearer.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">In fact early on in
the covid19 crisis, the federal government even called the “pandemic” for what it is
today but then they all went off for a nap. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Essentially,
our political leaders wasted February despite the fact that they knew that this disease came with a high mortality rate.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">March saw a
complete breakdown in both border-security and bio-security with the Ruby Princess docking in
Sydney, then being permitted to allow all passengers to disembark and melt into
communities across Australia, unbelievably underpinned by the arrival of many air travellers
doing much the same with vague promises that they would ‘self-isolate’ … oh yes
of course.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">And so today
we suffer unintended consequences </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">(a) because of the rising rate of covid19 cases,
and, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">(b) because our leaders did not order in ample amounts of personal
protective equipment (PPE) for nurses, doctors, ambulance personnel and police,
nor vast amounts of testing kits so crucial in flattening the dreaded curve. </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Our
governments should have been ready but they were not and many deaths that were arguably
preventable may inevitably eventuate. </span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">So now we
have been informed that it is up to us to do our bit to socially distance
ourselves in order to minimise transmission, and that we need to be deadly
serious about this strategy given that it is really the only one left in the
box now. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">We need to
quarantine and self-isolate ourselves as though our lives depend upon it because
they do … and if we do need to go to the shops or the doctors or the hospital,
we need to maintain a 1.5 metre distance from people we meet at those places,
we must not sneeze or cough on them, and we must keep on washing our hands and
wiping down supermarket trolley handles. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Basically, we need to drastically
curtail outings and stay home.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">It is worth
bearing in mind that Scone hospital does not have its own doctors per se but is
staffed by doctors from Scone Medical Practice. There are no intensive care beds
at the hospital and there are no facilities to care for ventilated patients for
more than a few hours.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">If the
system is overwhelmed people will die in our hospital because we do not have
the resources to look after them. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Prior to the covid19 pandemic, patients who
required further treatment other than treatment Scone Hospital could provide, would be
transferred down the valley but if hospitals in Maitland and Newcastle are at
capacity because of the covid19 crisis, access to their units will be blocked because
they will be full.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Wondering
how our public health system, which is already stretched to capacity, will
respond to the covid19 pandemic has left me 100% certain that we need to
quarantine (or self-isolate) ourselves as dedicatedly as possible … because if
we do not do our bit we are on track for our hospitals to be completely sunk.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Please stay
home.</span></span></span></div>
Freedom Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11187400454555241935noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3090991993980511979.post-42021021513719662552020-01-18T21:23:00.000+11:002020-04-06T01:25:28.260+10:00We Are On Fire<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">(Photo: Jimmy Abbott <a href="http://www.instagram.com/mostlymountains" target="_blank">@mostlymountains</a>)</td></tr>
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<br />
<i>Yet again my ‘Shire Notes were blocked by Upper Hunter Shire Council management - apparently not up-beat enough and apparently the Scone Advocate would not approve ... sigh. Sometimes I truly despair - anyway Council Comms were wrong about the Scone Advocate because the editor ended up publishing them in letter format! (see below post)</i><br />
<br />
Australia is on fire. Millions and millions of hectares have burnt, at least 25 people have died, more than a billion animals have perished, and we have lost our homes, our trees, our grasses and our unique bees and so much more. The losses from these fires are unfathomable and have plunged the nation into the depths of despair. Communities have been ravaged and will never be the same again.<br />
<br />
Yet our leaders remain disconnected from the Australian people and the natural world, and they continue to refuse to listen to our fire chiefs who between them all have decades of experience and wisdom and knowledge. Instead ridiculous conspiracy theories are being pedalled as to where the fault lies in an attempt to distract from the complete lack of political action in relation to climate change adaptation and our desiccated continent. Despite three hundred and fifty million metric tonnes of CO2 having been belched into the atmosphere by these Australian bushfires (the worst bushfires ever), water is being carted to coal mines to keep them operating.<br />
<br />
Without trees we cannot breathe; without soil we cannot eat; without water we cannot drink or fight fires ... and yet none of these have been considered important enough to protect and cherish. Instead we have a backbencher remark that 'footpaths don't burn' as though that kernel of an idea might shed some light onto where to now.<br />
<br />
Many fear that these unprecedented catastrophic fires are indeed our new normal yet<br />
<br />
Australian rural fire-fighters on the frontline are an ageing unpaid 'permanently on-call' voluntary workforce with meagre government support. Unquestionably these women and men are the nation's heroines and heroes; but they are exhausted, and they are injured and too many of them have died defending us.<br />
<br />
Right now all levels of government in Australia need to park the politics, and roll up their sleeves and work alongside each other because if we are going to have half a chance we need policies that protect and respect the natural environment more than ever.<br />
<br />
Australia as we know it depends on it; our very existence depends on it.<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 17px;"><br />
</span> <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Shire notes initially prepared by me for Shire Notes in Scone Advocate, then blocked by Upper Hunter Shire Council then published anyway by Scone Advocate as a letter ... such silly and unnecessary shenanigans</i></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "uictfonttextstylebody"; font-size: 17px;"><br />
</span>Freedom Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11187400454555241935noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3090991993980511979.post-44903585206595232512019-11-30T01:45:00.000+11:002019-11-30T01:55:16.828+11:00We need a Royal Commission into Lack of State Pollution Control<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Coal mines and coal fired power stations, Hunter Valley</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We are dying in the
Upper Hunter from the toxic air we breathe and the process is being comprehensively
monitored by the New South Wales Government.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Yet what is the
government actually doing about it apart from collecting data and sending out
endless air quality alerts informing us that PM10 and PM2.5 levels for
Aberdeen, Merriwa, Muswellbrook and Singleton have exceeded national air
quality standards? </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">From what I have
observed, absolutely nothing, apart from additionally giving us advice about ‘staying
indoors’. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And all our local
member (aka Michael Johnsen MP) has to say on the topic (and he was an apology for Tuesday night’s air
quality meeting hosted by Friends of the Upper Hunter in Muswellbrook with the
EPA in attendance) is that there are many “unsubstantiated claims out there”
and that the government “wants everyone to be healthy” and that “this is not a
political issue, it’s a weather issue.” </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Despite his uninformed opinion,
everyone who actually did turn up to last Tuesday night’s meeting, and that
included Dr Richard Abbott from Doctors for the Environment Australia, Kirsty
O’Connell from Friends of the Upper Hunter, Adam Gillegan from the EPA and
approximately 50 worried community members from across the Upper Hunter, all fully
accepted that air pollution is a major environmental risk to health. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Moreover,
they all fully accepted that there is no safe level of pollution and that if we
stopped emissions from coal fired power stations and coal mines, our health
would immediately improve with fewer deaths, fewer incidences of cardiovascular
disease, fewer low birth weight babies, fewer premature babies and fewer new
cases of diabetes.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">They also all fully
appreciated that even though the law says that prescribed standards of air
impurities are not to be exceeded, the standards are routinely exceeded, and no
polluter is ever satisfactorily prosecuted. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Hence why I now
think that there is nothing else for it but to hold a ‘Royal Commission into Lack of State Pollution Control.’</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We cannot keep on
dying with the NSW Government watching on doing nothing. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">We need protection –
enough is enough.</span></div>
Freedom Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11187400454555241935noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3090991993980511979.post-58489502116502841472019-10-28T00:38:00.000+11:002019-10-31T00:40:38.069+11:00I'm back and I'm still fighting helmet laws (naturally)<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPaOL4QBI31-PINKfhmjfErAQKs_FObIXRUhjVrh8dQ9QKuz28FbqkBbnnjVkxcncYOKEDbid8U4eKVFr7zdgvEDP7b7G2F7Xy2MwicMp-U4vY9mPgq5cZ57liBk75jnroem0qKPdmLy7S/s1600/MeDailyTele.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="727" data-original-width="487" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPaOL4QBI31-PINKfhmjfErAQKs_FObIXRUhjVrh8dQ9QKuz28FbqkBbnnjVkxcncYOKEDbid8U4eKVFr7zdgvEDP7b7G2F7Xy2MwicMp-U4vY9mPgq5cZ57liBk75jnroem0qKPdmLy7S/s400/MeDailyTele.png" width="267" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blurb from Daily Telegraph (I'm not a subscriber!)</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
Finally the hearing to solve our bicycle helmet matter has happened and been decided. <br />
<br />
After waiting since Saturday 17th March 2018 when approx 40 of us joined the 'Freestyle Cyclists' Helmet Freedom' ride around Centennial Park and two of us received tickets for our pains followed by legal assistance and mentions in court, and notwithstanding two lots of counsel and instructing solicitors and expert witnesses plus us in Waverley Court on Thursday 24th October 2019, it was all over in 15 minutes!?<br />
<br />
... and no mention of our freedom to political communication ... sigh.<br />
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The Magistrate entered the court room and read out his decision right at the beginning of proceedings whereby he held that the Crown was not able to prove beyond reasonable doubt
that the two of us (the defendants) had breached s 18 of t<span style="font-family: inherit;">he</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <i><a href="https://legislation.nsw.gov.au/#/view/regulation/2014/557/part2/sec18">Centennial
Park and Moore Park Trust Regulation 2014 <span style="font-style: normal;">(NSW)</span></a></i></span>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Therefore the case was dismissed without
the need to address the constitutional questions!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Noooooooooooo - I wanted to address the constitutional questions!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Anyway a win I suppose, in that there were no court costs or convictions, but really, a win like a 'forfeit' - very empty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">So we all packed up our things and went our merry ways, with me chatting to a NewsCorp journalist on the way out of the courtroom (see photo and caption above), and then with me the next day chatting to 'Wendy and Robbie' on ABC Sydney (which you can listen to at the </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/radio/sydney/programs/breakfast/breakfast/11619512" target="_blank">2:53:56</a> mark if you like)!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The next bicycle helmet chapter in my life (a completely different 'me-being-non-compliant' bicycle helmet matter) is to be heard in Scone Local Court, next March 2020 ... I'll keep you posted! </span></div>
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Freedom Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11187400454555241935noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3090991993980511979.post-75636882118383709382019-05-01T00:41:00.003+10:002019-05-01T00:45:18.316+10:00Matters bicycle helmet and the Minister<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMG6Ygxc_uhIgl090jsC9CoWhOrmztVxwAkYsjTKyzW6EU1FwcHK6cge3ftEQ0Saevz3Nr181gpZzEuVRaO1J54mlLpHIRBStcDIUsSWzUYjU1FIUonHeGBbRS5gjAguBy-s9jZvI7C7Ud/s1600/me+and+my+bike+april+2019.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMG6Ygxc_uhIgl090jsC9CoWhOrmztVxwAkYsjTKyzW6EU1FwcHK6cge3ftEQ0Saevz3Nr181gpZzEuVRaO1J54mlLpHIRBStcDIUsSWzUYjU1FIUonHeGBbRS5gjAguBy-s9jZvI7C7Ud/s400/me+and+my+bike+april+2019.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Enjoying the cooler weather ... and my bicycle</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="left: 156px; top: 367.127px; transform: scalex(1.00294);">On the off chance that you're interested, the content of my letter (15/04/19) sent to</span><span style="left: 156px; top: 367.127px; transform: scalex(1.00294);"><span style="left: 154.6px; top: 193.853px; transform: scalex(0.979654);"> The Hon. Andrew Constance MP </span><span style="left: 154.6px; top: 214.853px; transform: scalex(0.989395);">Minister for Transport & Roads</span><span style="left: 181.6px; top: 293.253px; transform: scalex(0.947817);"> is </span>below the dotted line:</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="left: 156px; top: 367.127px; transform: scalex(1.00294);">Dear Minister Constance, </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="left: 156px; top: 405.327px; transform: scalex(1.00446);">RE: Bicycle helmet regulation and exemption in NSW </span></b><span style="left: 156px; top: 443.727px; transform: scalex(1.00342);"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="left: 156px; top: 443.727px; transform: scalex(1.00342);">I am writing to you as a result of correspondence I have had with Chief Inspector Guy </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 466.727px; transform: scalex(1.0021);">Guiana, of the Hunter Valley Local Area Command, in relation to whether or not I am </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 489.527px; transform: scalex(1.00271);">exempt from wearing a bicycle helmet when riding a bicycle. </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 527.727px; transform: scalex(0.999148);"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="left: 156px; top: 527.727px; transform: scalex(0.999148);">As you would be aware, the provisions of regulation 256 (NSW Road Rules) state that: </span><span style="left: 212.4px; top: 573.527px; transform: scalex(0.998899);"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="left: 212.4px; top: 573.527px; transform: scalex(0.998899);">(1) The rider of a bicycle must wear an approved bicycle helmet securely fitted and </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 596.527px; transform: scalex(1.06769);"> fastened on the rider’s head, unless the rider is exempt from wearing a bicycle helmet </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 619.527px; transform: scalex(1.13043);"> under another law of this jurisdiction. </span></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="left: 156px; top: 619.527px; transform: scalex(1.13043);"> </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 657.927px; transform: scalex(1.00719);">In light of the rule’s mention of possible ‘exemption’ I believe that you could accept that I </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 680.727px; transform: scalex(1.00077);">am “exempt from wearing a bicycle helmet” by virtue of the Australian Consumer Law </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 703.727px; transform: scalex(1.02663);">which provides me with a number of consumer guarantees and protections from </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 726.727px; transform: scalex(1.02068);">questionable products (in this case the bicycle helmet). </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b><span style="left: 156px; top: 764.727px; transform: scalex(1.00308);"><u>Australian Consumer Law</u> </span></b></i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="left: 156px; top: 787.927px; transform: scalex(1.00658);">Thus, to recap the framework of my exemption, the Australian Consumer Law provides </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 810.927px; transform: scalex(1.02848);">consumers such as me with a number of consumer guarantees. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="left: 156px; top: 810.927px; transform: scalex(1.02848);"> </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 849.127px; transform: scalex(1.02114);">Inter alia, statutory warranties exist in addition to any other warranty provided by suppliers, </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 871.927px; transform: scalex(1.02783);">importers or manufacturers. Consequently suppliers, importers and manufacturers of </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 894.927px; transform: scalex(1.01981);">bicycle helmets cannot limit, restrict or exclude consumer guarantees, or avoid their </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 917.927px; transform: scalex(1.00236);">obligations. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="left: 156px; top: 917.927px; transform: scalex(1.00236);"> </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 956.127px; transform: scalex(1.02453);">The consumer guarantees are relevant to the bicycle industry particularly because people </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 979.127px; transform: scalex(1.00371);">selling bicycle helmets are generally regarded as suppliers as they sell goods (bicycle </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 1002.13px; transform: scalex(1.02863);">helmets) to consumers such as me. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="left: 156px; top: 1002.13px; transform: scalex(1.02863);"> </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 1040.33px; transform: scalex(1.01256);">As you would be aware, the definition of ‘consumer’ is restricted to persons who acquire </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 1063.13px; transform: scalex(1.01258);">goods and services with a value less than $40,000: in my experience bicycle helmets tend to </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 1086.13px; transform: scalex(1.00964);">have a value of less than $40,000 (certainly the ones I might consider). </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 1124.53px; transform: scalex(1.02248);"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="left: 156px; top: 1124.53px; transform: scalex(1.02248);"><i><u><b>Fitness for purpose</b></u></i> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="left: 156px; top: 1124.53px; transform: scalex(1.02248);"><span style="left: 156px; top: 1147.33px; transform: scalex(1.02294);">The relevant consumer guarantees in relation to fitness for purpose and quality for goods </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 1170.33px; transform: scalex(1.01803);">and services are: </span> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="left: 184.2px; top: 116.527px; transform: scalex(0.954922);">(1) </span><span style="left: 212.4px; top: 116.527px; transform: scalex(1.02566);">Guarantee as to fitness for any disclosed purpose where the goods are reasonably fit </span><span style="left: 212.4px; top: 139.527px; transform: scalex(1.03413);">for a purpose for which the supplier represents that they are fit; or a purpose the </span><span style="left: 212.4px; top: 162.527px; transform: scalex(1.02724);">consumer makes known to the supplier or manufacturer that they will use the goods </span><span style="left: 212.4px; top: 185.327px; transform: scalex(0.986131);">for; </span><span style="left: 184.2px; top: 223.727px; transform: scalex(0.954922);"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="left: 184.2px; top: 223.727px; transform: scalex(0.954922);">(2) </span><span style="left: 212.4px; top: 223.727px; transform: scalex(1.02301);">Guarantee as to acceptable quality where goods will be considered to be of </span><span style="left: 212.4px; top: 246.727px; transform: scalex(1.02377);">acceptable quality if they are safe, durable and free from defects; acceptable in </span><span style="left: 212.4px; top: 269.527px; transform: scalex(1.02421);">appearance and finish; and do everything that they are commonly used for; </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 307.727px; transform: scalex(1.01717);"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="left: 156px; top: 307.727px; transform: scalex(1.01717);">In relation to fitness for purpose, a bicycle helmet is bought to protect the cyclist from </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 330.727px; transform: scalex(0.985644);">acquiring brain injury whilst the cyclist is riding a bicycle. Accordingly, there is an implied </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 353.727px; transform: scalex(1.01318);">condition that they will do just that: <u>protect the cyclist from acquiring brain injury</u>. </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 391.927px; transform: scalex(1.02185);"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="left: 156px; top: 391.927px; transform: scalex(1.02185);">Yet in a letter addressed to me from the former Roads & Maritime Minister’s department </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 414.927px; transform: scalex(1.01457);">dated 11/04/2017, it was communicated in a binary manner that 76% of cyclists killed over </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 437.927px; transform: scalex(0.979233);">the period of ‘2009 – 2013’ in NSW </span><span style="left: 427.6px; top: 437.927px; transform: scalex(1.08547);">were</span><span style="left: 467.2px; top: 437.927px; transform: scalex(1.01654);"> wearing helmets. This information revealed the </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 460.727px; transform: scalex(1.00687);">implied condition that bicycle helmets will protect cyclists from acquiring catastrophic brain </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 483.727px; transform: scalex(1.02734);">injury was not being met, meaning the relevant consumer guarantee in relation to fitness </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 506.727px; transform: scalex(1.00163);">for purpose for bicycle helmets is not being fulfilled. </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 545.127px; transform: scalex(1.02538);"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="left: 156px; top: 545.127px; transform: scalex(1.02538);">To reiterate my summation of the information in the minister’s letter with the backdrop of </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 567.927px; transform: scalex(1.00746);">Australian Consumer Law, whilst bicycle helmets are sold for the sole purpose of protecting </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 590.927px; transform: scalex(1.00645);">cyclists from catastrophic brain injury and death when cyclists are riding bicycles, three </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 613.927px; transform: scalex(1.00882);">quarters of the cyclists killed in NSW are wearing bicycle helmets and their helmets are not </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 636.727px; transform: scalex(1.01955);">protecting them from acquiring catastrophic brain injury. </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 674.927px; transform: scalex(1.01485);"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="left: 156px; top: 674.927px; transform: scalex(1.01485);">Therefore, it is only logical I would conclude that helmets are not fit for the purpose under </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 697.927px; transform: scalex(0.987109);">Australian Consumer Law. Furthermore, it is only logical I would conclude that it is illogical </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 720.927px; transform: scalex(1.00749);">cyclists are compelled by NSW law to wear a product that is not fit for purpose. </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 759.127px; transform: scalex(1.04931);"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="left: 156px; top: 759.127px; transform: scalex(1.04931);"><u><b>Merchantable quality</b></u> </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 782.127px; transform: scalex(1.02047);"> </span></i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="left: 156px; top: 782.127px; transform: scalex(1.02047);">In relation to merchantable quality, a bicycle helmet is bought to protect the cyclist from </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 805.127px; transform: scalex(1.00205);">acquiring brain injury. Australian Consumer Law provides that bicycle helmets must be of </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 827.927px; transform: scalex(1.0319);">acceptable quality, meaning that they must be safe, durable and free from defects. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="left: 156px; top: 866.327px; transform: scalex(1.00243);">Bicycle helmets contain latex which many people (and I am one) are allergic to especially </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 889.327px; transform: scalex(1.01726);">health workers and former health workers (the latter being a group I fall into from my time </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 912.127px; transform: scalex(1.00496);">working as a registered nurse back in the 1980s at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London). </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 935.127px; transform: scalex(1.00867);">Whilst latex allergies vary in grades of severity from contact dermatitis to anaphylactic </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 958.127px; transform: scalex(1.00958);">shock, all people with a latex allergy are strongly advised to avoid any contact with the </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 980.927px; transform: scalex(1.02367);">substance as the potential for life-threatening reaction increases every time an individual </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 1003.93px; transform: scalex(1.00393);">allergic to latex is exposed to latex. </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 1042.33px; transform: scalex(0.999139);"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="left: 156px; top: 1042.33px; transform: scalex(0.999139);">Additionally, bicycle helmets contain polystyrene which according to the US National </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 1065.33px; transform: scalex(0.994726);">Toxicology Program, Department of Health and Human Services, is </span><i><span style="left: 667.6px; top: 1065.33px; transform: scalex(1.02846);">“reasonably anticipated </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 1088.13px; transform: scalex(1.00613);">to be a human carcinogen based on limited evidence of carcinogenicity from studies in </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 1111.13px; transform: scalex(1.00399);">humans, sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity from studies in experimental animals and </span></i><span style="left: 156px; top: 1134.13px; transform: scalex(1.01457);"><i>supporting data on mechanisms of carcinogenesis.”</i> </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 116.527px; transform: scalex(1.00096);"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="left: 156px; top: 116.527px; transform: scalex(1.00096);">In relation to durability, bicycle helmets significantly add to landfill because cyclists are </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 139.527px; transform: scalex(1.00992);">widely exhorted to replace helmets regularly (every two years or after any significant knock </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 162.527px; transform: scalex(1.01092);">within that timeframe). As you would know, there is much discussion in the community as </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 185.327px; transform: scalex(1.02713);">to whether polystyrene can be recycled, but the general consensus is that it rarely is due to </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 208.327px; transform: scalex(1.03284);">the nature of the product and the high energy costs to do so, and that inevitably </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 231.327px; transform: scalex(1.00763);">polystyrene ends up sitting in landfill for centuries. </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 269.527px; transform: scalex(1.0065);"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="left: 156px; top: 269.527px; transform: scalex(1.0065);">Thus, when the implications of latex allergies, carcinogenic defects and the significant </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 292.527px; transform: scalex(1.02414);">landfill concerns are taken into account underpinned by the fact that bicycle helmets cannot </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 315.527px; transform: scalex(1.02081);">be guaranteed to provide protection from acquiring brain injury they are commonly used for </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 338.527px; transform: scalex(1.03669);">and legislated for, merchantable quality cannot be guaranteed either, meaning the relevant </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 361.327px; transform: scalex(1.02271);">consumer guarantee in relation to merchantable quality for bicycle helmets is not being </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 384.327px; transform: scalex(0.957459);">fulfilled. </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 422.727px; transform: scalex(1.01154);"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="left: 156px; top: 422.727px; transform: scalex(1.01154);">Therefore, it is only logical I would conclude that helmets are not of merchantable quality </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 445.527px; transform: scalex(0.996828);">under Australian Consumer Law. Furthermore, it is only logical that I would conclude it is </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 468.527px; transform: scalex(1.00087);">illogical that cyclists are compelled by NSW law to wear a product that is not of </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 491.527px; transform: scalex(1.03686);">merchantable quality. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="left: 156px; top: 529.727px; transform: scalex(0.983548);"><u><i><b>Implied condition, s19 Sale of Goods Act (NSW)</b></i></u> </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 552.527px; transform: scalex(1.00427);"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="left: 156px; top: 552.527px; transform: scalex(1.00427);">To conclude whilst regulation </span><span style="left: 385px; top: 552.527px; transform: scalex(0.973378);">256 of the NSW Road Rules 2014</span><span style="left: 634.8px; top: 552.527px; transform: scalex(1.07435);"> states that </span><i><span style="left: 724.8px; top: 552.527px; transform: scalex(1.01533);">the rider of a </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 575.527px; transform: scalex(1.00962);">bicycle must wear an approved bicycle helmet securely fitted and fastened on the rider’s </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 598.527px; transform: scalex(1.01135);">head, unless the rider is exempt from wearing a bicycle helmet under another law of this </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 621.527px; transform: scalex(0.981056);">jurisdiction</span></i><span style="left: 240px; top: 621.527px; transform: scalex(1.00172);">, under the ‘Implied Condition as to quality or fitness’ provisions of section 19 </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 644.527px; transform: scalex(0.968917);"><i>Sale of Goods Act 1923</i> </span><span style="left: 335.4px; top: 644.527px; transform: scalex(0.99827);">(NSW) you will find that bicycle helmets are not fit for purpose nor </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 667.527px; transform: scalex(1.0256);">of merchantable quality. </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 705.527px; transform: scalex(1.01368);"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="left: 156px; top: 705.527px; transform: scalex(1.01368);">Therefore, I believe that you can accept I am exempt from wearing a bicycle helmet under </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 728.527px; transform: scalex(1.01726);">s19 of the </span><span style="left: 236px; top: 728.527px; transform: scalex(0.944455);">Sale of Goods Act (NSW)</span><span style="left: 422.2px; top: 728.527px; transform: scalex(0.998873);"> and the Australian Consumer Law. </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 766.927px; transform: scalex(1.0112);"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="left: 156px; top: 766.927px; transform: scalex(1.0112);">Alternatively, exemption provisions could be read down in s256 of the </span><span style="left: 695.6px; top: 766.927px; transform: scalex(0.93807);">NSW Road Rules</span><span style="left: 821.2px; top: 766.927px; transform: scalex(0.940344);"> in </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 789.727px; transform: scalex(1.03449);">light of the fact that there are exemptions for not wearing seat-belts in cars and other motor </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 812.727px; transform: scalex(0.99028);">vehicles (s267 </span><span style="left: 267.4px; top: 812.727px; transform: scalex(0.936691);">NSW Road Rules</span><span style="left: 392.6px; top: 812.727px; transform: scalex(1.01804);">), for not wearing motor-bike helmets on motor-bikes (s270 </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 835.727px; transform: scalex(0.939527);">NSW Road Rules</span><span style="left: 281.4px; top: 835.727px; transform: scalex(1.0107);">) and also for P plate drivers driving with passengers after 23:00hrs when </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 858.727px; transform: scalex(1.01689);">their passengers are their siblings and/or their children. It is unlikely when the</span><span style="left: 751.4px; top: 858.727px; transform: scalex(0.959055);"> Road Rules </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 881.527px; transform: scalex(1.02487);">were being constructed that exemptions for not wearing bicycle helmets would not have </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 904.527px; transform: scalex(1.03029);">been intended to be read down in the relevant road rule as well (s256 </span><span style="left: 694px; top: 904.527px; transform: scalex(0.940382);">NSW Road Rules</span><span style="left: 819.4px; top: 904.527px; transform: scalex(0.966484);">). </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 942.927px; transform: scalex(1.00352);"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="left: 156px; top: 942.927px; transform: scalex(1.00352);">Thank you for your time and consideration - I look forward to hearing from you. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="left: 156px; top: 977.527px; transform: scalex(0.99148);">Yours sincerely, </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 1081.53px; transform: scalex(0.997655);"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="left: 156px; top: 1081.53px; transform: scalex(0.997655);">Sue Abbott </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 1115.45px; transform: scalex(0.959837);"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="left: 156px; top: 1115.45px; transform: scalex(0.959837);">Cc: The Hon. Michael Johnsen MP, 20 Bridge Street, MUSWELLBROOK NSW 2333 ; Chief Inspector Guy Guiana, Hunter </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 1132.45px; transform: scalex(0.944249);">Valley Local Area Command, 20 William Street, MUSWELLBROOK NSW 2333; Mr Mike Pritchard, ABC Rural,</span><span style="left: 156px; top: 1149.85px; transform: scalex(1.03515);">pritchard.michael@abc.net.au</span><span style="left: 330.2px; top: 1149.85px; transform: scalex(0.985667);">; Ms Liz Flaherty, “scone.com.au,” </span><span style="left: 527.4px; top: 1149.85px; transform: scalex(1.02856);">elizabeth@scone.com.au</span><span style="left: 671.6px; top: 1149.85px; transform: scalex(0.975025);">; Ms Kathy Francis, Freestyle </span><span style="left: 156px; top: 1167.05px; transform: scalex(0.935939);">Cyclists, </span><span style="left: 205px; top: 1167.05px; transform: scalex(1.03481);">kathy.francis@westnet.com.au</span></span></span>Freedom Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11187400454555241935noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3090991993980511979.post-50194073919026647672019-04-17T12:09:00.001+10:002019-04-18T00:31:19.666+10:00On and on and on it goes<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The past nine months have been a emotional jumble box and consequently I'm sure you will have noticed that I have neglected this blog. Yes life matters have been scattered on my planetary journey, and they have appeared as figurative de-railing tin tacks.<br />
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Losing my beautiful mother last October opened up a pantry of emotions and piled them all into a life-time mixing bowl.<br />
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There was bereavement and happiness and gratitude and hilarity and a tonne of memories swirling around, and I suppose really I just feel so immensely grateful that I was (am) her daughter and equally so contented that today I see her all around me, in myself and my sister, and my children and my nieces. She has left an indelible stamp on all of us who were lucky enough to know her, and no kidding a pile of funny, loving, cranky, outspoken women with opinions who pipe up continuously and see themselves as life advisors for everyone, politicians and all.<br />
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Darling Mum, thank you! Xx<br />
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But you lose one beautiful person, and another comes into your life who then prodigiously proceeds to turn everything upside down in the most magical and wondrous way.<br />
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Meet Harriet the most wonderful baby ever, my beautiful gorgeous fabulous granddaughter.<br />
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Oh boy, the fight in me just got a whole lot bigger and fiercer!<br />
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And so back to all things bicycle - I mean that fight is just not over yet, is it!!!<br />
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Thus having had a bit of a hiatus in relation to riding my bicycle around Scone what with unbearable 'heatwave weather' conditions and unbearable 'heatwave police' enthusiasm for issuing me with helmet infringement notices, the actual weather now in Scone is utterly glorious and autumnal and perfect for using my bicycle for popping into town.<br />
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So two weekends ago, my husband and I cycled the<i> </i>8½ kms into town to have dinner with two of our friends at one of the local pubs, the fabulous <a href="https://thethoroughbredscone.com/" target="_blank">Thoroughbred Hotel.</a><br />
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Then at around 10:30pm we said our fond farewells, and off we went to our respective homes. Scone on a typical Saturday night is .... <span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>shhhhhhhhh very quiet, yes we're talking country town here ... very very quiet!!!! ... a cat, a fox, a wombat, a mopoke ... nothing else!</i></span><br />
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But no kidding within minutes of us un-padlocking our bikes and setting off for home those familiar blue and red lights that I have come to know and not love were lighting up the valley and I was being pulled over for ... yup you guessed it "AUSTRALIAN BICYCLE HELMET CRIME" ...<br />
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"Oh Sue" (policeman to me)<br />
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"Oh Dave" (me to policeman)<br />
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And after languishing for so long, having been kicked into touch some time ago, my Groundhog-Day-Australian-bicycle-helmet-saga" was tossed back into the line-up.<br />
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Sigh.<br />
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And so it came to pass that I sat myself down this week and <a href="http://www.medicinewithaltitude.com.au/client_images/2119800.pdf" target="_blank">wrote</a> to Minister Andrew Constance, head pooh-bah of the Department of Transport, which since the recent NSW elections has subsumed the former stand-alone Roads and Maritime Services, setting out why I should be exempt to <a href="http://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_reg/rr2014104/s256.html" target="_blank">rule 256</a> in the<i> NSW Road Rules </i>by virtue of <a href="http://www8.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/soga1923128/s19.html" target="_blank">s19 <i>Sales of Goods Act 1923</i> (NSW)</a>.<br />
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In my letter, I copied in my local member, the Hon. Michael Johnsen MP, Chief Inspector Guy Guiana of the Hunter Valley Local Area Command, Mr Mike Pritchard of ABC Upper Hunter Rural radio, Ms Liz Flaherty of the "scone.com.au" blog and Ms Kathy Francis of Freestyle Cyclists, and now I wait to see what if anything will come out of this latest episode, including even an actual ticket, which as I type this blogpost, still hasn't eventuated! - and maybe it won't!!!<br />
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Oh funtimes indeed - here we go again.Freedom Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11187400454555241935noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3090991993980511979.post-49929660610519210082019-03-20T01:40:00.001+11:002019-03-20T01:40:06.540+11:00The right to clean air; it ought to be a thing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span>It’s time to press the panic button on the air we breathe in
the Upper Hunter and there’s no time to waste.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span>At the Upper Hunter Health Forum (Tuesday 12th March ) presented by Dr
Ben Ewald, Dr John Van Der Kallen and Dr Bob Vickers from <a href="https://www.dea.org.au/" target="_blank">Doctors of the Environment (DEA)</a>, we heard how air pollution is a major environmental risk to
health and how it is killing us. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span>We also heard that there is strong evidence that we
can reduce illness and death from stroke, heart disease, lung cancer, and
respiratory diseases by significantly reducing air pollution levels but … and
it’s a big ‘but’ … we need political will and leadership from those who
represent us.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span>With the NSW election only 3 days away, we have an
opportunity to make a difference in our health outcomes by voting for
politicians who take climate change seriously and who are prepared to
transition quickly to renewable energy. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span>The DEA doctors told us that stopping
emissions from coal-fired power stations would immediately improve our health
with fewer deaths, fewer incidences of cardiovascular disease, fewer low birth
weight babies, fewer premature babies and fewer new cases of diabetes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span>In a nutshell, choosing a politician prepared to deal with
climate change would provide us with an opportunity to improve our health. We
need to vote for this sort of a politician.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span>In the Upper Hunter, air pollution routinely breaches
Australian national standards and nothing is done about it. Yes, there are
monitoring stations and we monitor that we are steadily being poisoned but
nothing is actually done to stop the breaches re-occurring. It is air pollution
‘Groundhog Day’ over and over again.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span>So, what to do! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span>Hit that panic button and vote for the
candidate who takes our Upper Hunter predicament seriously and who recognises
that we have a right to breathe clean air … </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span>… and PS don’t forget to number all the boxes to get the
most out of your vote!!!</span></i></span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>(this post has been cross-posted at <a href="https://sconeblogger.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-right-to-clean-air-it-ought-to-be.html" target="_blank">Scone Blogger</a>)</i></span>Freedom Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11187400454555241935noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3090991993980511979.post-86755659258169187932018-08-01T01:12:00.000+10:002018-08-01T01:12:53.747+10:00Time spent on helmet laws expensive for all of us<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The magistrate was none too pleased to see me in front of him today<i> (yesterday)</i> nor to hear that I would be raising necessity at a future defended hearing.<br />
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Further he was none too pleased that I had raised necessity in front of him before and that after that hearing I had cycled away on my bicycle without wearing a helmet, and that I had then gone and got myself plastered all over the papers and the media across New South Wales.<br />
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He said that I seemed to be making a bit of a celebrity of myself but I pointed out that that was not the case; rather I was highlighting that bicycle helmet law is flawed.<br />
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He asked me if I was going to ride away from court on my bicycle without a helmet today <i>(yesterday)</i> and I said that I was not because unfortunately I had a flat tyre and so had had to walk (from Randwick). He then asked if I would be able to assure if that I would not ride away again without a helmet, and I said that I could for today <i>(yesterday)</i> as my bicycle was not with me.<br />
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He told me that my fines were mounting, and was I aware that the maximum fine was $2,200. Yes, I said that I was aware.<br />
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He then said was I aware of all the medical journal papers detailing brain injuries that helmets protect you from. I said that I was aware and that I was also aware of other ones detailing that bicycle helmet law has been a public health disaster for Australia.<br />
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He asked me if I had talked about this bicycle helmet law issue with politicians and I said that I had but to no avail.<br />
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He wanted to know if I was prepared to waste valuable police time in expecting them to come to court for a future defended hearing and I said that if it would assist the court I was happy to read their statements beforehand and that if their facts were essentially that I was riding a bicycle without a helmet, that would be fine by me.<br />
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He then rather helpfully recused himself from my future defended hearing and set down a date.<br />
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So Friday 2nd November 2018 here we come!Freedom Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11187400454555241935noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3090991993980511979.post-51986899671075809482018-07-31T01:12:00.001+10:002019-05-01T00:43:31.258+10:00Protest in March court appearance in July - this is Australia<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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And so it comes to pass that after our St Patrick's Day Freestyle Cyclist Protest Ride in Centennial Park, Sydney (2018), I have since been issued with a Court Attendance Notice and am to appear in Waverley Local Court later on this morning. This appearance will be a mention which essentially is a session for sorting out the magistrate's diary.<br />
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I intend to plead 'Not Guilty' of course, and when asked, as I'm sure I will be, what could possibly be my defence, I shall raise the environmental spectre of necessity.<br />
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I will keep you posted - off to bed now for some all important zzzzzzzFreedom Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11187400454555241935noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3090991993980511979.post-27289609017314235312018-04-22T02:34:00.000+10:002018-04-22T02:47:47.979+10:00My challenge of stupidity: bike helmet laws<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Guilty as charged ... sigh<br />
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Yet you know, step by step we are getting a little closer to our goal of getting rid of bicycle helmet law. I am sure so!<br />
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Oh I know winning slowly feels much the same as losing but I am a firm believer of the principles set out in Rebecca Solnit's article <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/13/protest-persist-hope-trump-activism-anti-nuclear-movement" target="_blank"><i>"Protest & persist: why giving up hope is not an option." </i></a><br />
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Truly, giving up is not an option!<br />
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However back to Friday and my day in court.<br />
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Essentially the magistrate refused to entertain my defence of necessity.<br />
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But the most startling moment of the whole morning was when he alleged that I wasn't using the Queen's english properly and that I had split my infinitives!!!!<br />
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I was so taken aback I had to clarify what he had actually said!!! Once clarified I then launched into a defence of necessity for splitting infinitives, you know how doing so can make meaning clearer, more illustrative, that plenty of grammarians don't agree with the rule, that moving the adverb can be awkward, blah de blah de blah de blah!<br />
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Oh lordy, but I think he may have been a touch muddled on what actually splitting infinitves entail because the words he used to demonstrate that I had done so bore no resemblance to splitting infinitives. Oop-la!<br />
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But how is any of this relevant to me riding a bicycle on a New South Wales road without a securely fastened helmet I hear you ask?<br />
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Quite.<br />
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But on the bright side, it was a packed court and I got to sombrely talk <i>(split infinitive)</i> about the perils of climate change and how a non-recyclable plastic styrofoam bicycle helmet that needs to frequently be <i>(split infinitive)</i> replaced just adds to plastic pollution and landfill. I got to passionately exhort <i>(split infinitive)</i> his honour that since the legislative and the executive had completely failed us in relation to protecting us against climate change I was now turning to him as part of the judiciary, to boldly go <i>(split infinitive)</i> where no magistrate had gone before in Australia and to jolly well find <i>(split infinitive)</i> for me. I got to diligently remind <i>(split infinitive)</i> him that a US court found the former deputy president's daughter, <a href="https://www.libertyheadlines.com/judge-lets-off-al-gores-trespassing-daughter-because-climate-protest-was-necessary/" target="_blank">Kareena Gore and her fellow activists not responsible</a> of the crime of trespass because their actions were done "out of necessity." Furthermore I got to solemnly state <i>(split infinitive)</i> that I believe it is necessary that we force our government to jolly well face <i>(split infinitive)</i> our role as a country in this global climate emergency just as the Dutch did with their government in 2015 when <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/24/dutch-government-ordered-cut-carbon-emissions-landmark-ruling" target="_blank">three judges ruled that the Dutch government plans</a> to superficially cut <i>(split infinitive) </i>emissions by just 14-17% compared to 1990 levels by 2020 were unlawful, given the scale of the threat posed by climate change.<br />
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That my unhelmeted conduct was a question of my survival and the planet's survial left his honour unmoved. And me concluding that it was and still is necessary for to me to regularly cycle <i>(split infinitive) </i>and to routinely cycle <i>(split infinitive)</i> without a helmet in order to hopefully prevent <i>(split infinitive) </i>risk of brain injury, plastic styrofoam consumption, plastic pollution, landfill, carbon emissions pollution was never going to wash.<br />
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Nope, it turns out that I must continue to stupidly be <i>(split infinitive) </i>compelled by the NSW government to ridiculously do <i>(split infinitive)</i> an act which puts my health and life and that of the planet's in greater danger than if I declined to do the act.<br />
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Appeal lodged and to be mentioned at the end of May 2018 in the Newcastle District Court.<br />
<br />Freedom Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11187400454555241935noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3090991993980511979.post-61550394369981970372018-04-19T23:50:00.000+10:002018-04-19T23:50:05.530+10:00Hey ho it's off to court I go<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Half a century in court appearances, 27 years of evidence-bereft helmet law, and $1,000s spent on court costs. <br />
Tomorrow's day in court for bicycle helmet crime is another chance to potentially convince the magistrate why he or she should find me 'not guilty' by way of necessity.<br />
I'll keep you posted!Freedom Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11187400454555241935noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3090991993980511979.post-45939494282260468602018-04-19T02:14:00.001+10:002018-04-19T23:02:55.209+10:00Cycling Without Age Murrurundi Chapter LAUNCHED<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Oh frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! The <a href="https://www.huntervalleynews.net.au/story/5350670/a-first-for-the-upper-hunter-photos-video/?cs=1457" target="_blank">Murrurundi Chapter</a> of the global phenomenon <a href="http://cyclingwithoutage.org/" target="_blank">Cycling Without Age</a> was launched yesterday at Murravale Retirment Home... and what a wonderful event! Cakes, scones, sandwiches, speeches ... and most importantly of all, BICYCLE RIDES!!!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lights camera action</td></tr>
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And just like the icing on that yummy cake, off we were whisked for marvellous little jaunts around the chocolate-box pretty town of Murrurundi.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mrs Fran Scriven, Pilot Harriet McKillop & yours truly (photo credit: Mandy Archibald)</td></tr>
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A beautiful Upper Hunter autumn day, it was smiles all round as residents, family, friends, staff ...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Murravale Manager Di Van Balen, Pilot Harriet McKillop & the Hon. Michael Johnsen MP</td></tr>
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... and even the local member for the Upper Hunter, got to have a turn in these fabulous glorious chariots of happiness!!!!! Pure perfection <span class="st">✓ & pure </span>bliss <span class="st">❤ </span><br />
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<span class="st">Well done Murravale and the wonderful Murravale Team, well done Dave Paradice for such astounding generosity in the funding of the two tri-shaws, and well done <a href="https://youtu.be/O6Ti4qUa-OU" target="_blank">Ole Kassow</a> and <a href="http://cyclingwithoutage.org/about/" target="_blank">Dorthe Pedersen</a> for the inspiration to join this movement of building bridges between generations and communities all the while with wind in hair and faces!!!</span><br />
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<span class="st">You all rock!</span>Freedom Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11187400454555241935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3090991993980511979.post-48104403724673142712018-03-20T02:39:00.000+11:002018-03-21T15:33:34.063+11:00Driving Kills & Silences Dissenters<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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By <a href="http://freedomcyclist.blogspot.com.au/2017/10/roads-fumes-automobiles.html" target="_blank">maiming and poisoning,</a> driving kills ... everything ... people, fauna, flora. </div>
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Yet this detrimental habit continues unchecked with political appetite for more roads, motorways and bypasses growing greedier by the day.</div>
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Published in the Sydney Morning Herald last week, <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/national/we-banned-cigarette-ads-now-we-should-ban-car-ads-too-20180312-p4z3y8.html" target="_blank">Arwen Birch</a> highlights the pervasive connection between promotion and human gullibility, and posits that just as we did with cigarette ads, so we have fallen for yet another product that detrimentally affects our health.</div>
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<i>"A ban on car advertising may seem far-fetched, but if you compare the automotive and the tobacco industries, the similarities may be closer than you think. Smoking and car use have comparable health costs, yet while we have the strictest tobacco promotion laws in the world, we allow car companies to promote themselves unbridled."</i> </blockquote>
Would our politicians be open to banning car ads?<br>
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Right now, I doubt it!<br>
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As
the Big Oil puppets that they are, in my opinion it would take a seismic jolt to wean New
South Wales politicians off their auto-mobile pap and onto the solid act of minimising car advertising.<br>
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By way of illustration, cycling in Australia is seen as a direct threat to the automobile industry, and in NSW, State opposition to cycling is extreme.<br>
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With cycle paths ripped up and helmet fines increased by 349% over the last two years, cycling numbers in NSW have plummeted so when news filtered across political and media spheres that synchronised helmet optional rides were to happen across Australia and New Zealand last Saturday, the Sydney Oil patriachy set about nipping the Sydney ride in the bud.<br>
<br>Voila the excessive over-reach of the NSW Police Force witnessed when seven police vehicles were despatched to quash our implied right to political communication at our peaceful protest last Saturday in Centennial Park - the very strong arm of the law in action indeed, helping the community keep #BigOil centre stage of our lives ...<br>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Freedom of policitcal communication via a peaceful protest </td></tr>
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... but we will not be silenced, and the law may find for us yet ... </div>
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... and with champions like this former governor of California, car ads will be a thing of the past in the not too distant future, of that I am sure.</div>
Freedom Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11187400454555241935noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3090991993980511979.post-27366813608653299132018-03-15T22:54:00.000+11:002018-03-15T22:54:22.047+11:00What about finger helmets<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Our youngest one's beloved took a tumble from his bicycle last week, and if he'd been wearing a finger helmet it would have saved him from this broken finger!<br />
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$$$ C'mon, Australia, ... there's not a moment to lose!<br />
<br />Freedom Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11187400454555241935noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3090991993980511979.post-47453939290508955102018-03-15T02:34:00.001+11:002018-03-15T02:40:30.588+11:00Freestyle Cyclists Antipodean Protest Rides<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This coming Saturday will see synchronised bicycle protest rides being held across Australia and New Zealand.<br />
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In Sydney, the Freestyle Cyclists Sydney Chapter have had enough of academic overstated scaremongering of cycling and will be doing a couple of leisurely laps of Centennial Park in protest, some with helmets and some without; your choice, or should be. <br />
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"We do not support the promotion of helmet wearing for everyday cycling," says Kathy Francis, founding member of Freestyle Cyclists and one of the co-organisers for Saturday’s Melbourne Protest Ride. "We categorically oppose laws requiring adults to wear helmets … bicycle helmets present a significant barrier to everyday cycling."<br />
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Compared to other countries in the world, Australia is an outlier in terms of active transport, and with our mandatory bicycle helmet compulsion, attempts at building up cycling as a mode of transport in Australian towns and cities have been well and truly stymied. <br />
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"Cycling must become the easy choice," says Kathy Francis, "which means changes to legislation, and community attitudes, and changes to the way roads are designed."<br />
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Bicycle helmet law is a uniquely Antipodean law of oppression and privilege, and Antipodean Freestyle Cyclists have had enough of this political nonsense. <br />
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<i><b>Media Contact</b> - for more information, images or interviews please contact:<br />
Rudy Botha, Freestyle Cyclists Sydney Ride organiser, 0488 497 484 <br />
<b>What:</b> Stop Fining Healthy Transport <br />
<b>When:</b> Saturday, 17th March 2018<br />
<b>Where:</b> Centennial Homestead, Centennial Park, Sydney<br />
<b>Time:</b> 11:00AM start<br />
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Further Info: Visit the Freestyle Cyclists facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/FreestyleCyclists/)</i>Freedom Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11187400454555241935noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3090991993980511979.post-11029707662919129752018-03-06T01:21:00.000+11:002018-03-06T01:21:20.409+11:00♩ ♪ Don't be too polite, girls, don't be too polite ♫ ♬<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Notwithstanding my respectfully submitting that using a bicycle precludes bicycle helmets being termed excluded goods, and instead allows a bicycle to come under the provision of section 41 BD (1)(a)(iii) of the <a href="http://www8.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/legis/cth/consol_act/tga1989191/s41bd.html" target="_blank"><i>Therapuetic Goods Act 1989</i></a> defining bicycle helmets as medical devices, the judge in the Newcastle District Court last Thursday just could not uphold my appeal ... sigh.<br />
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I tried my damnedest but could not get over the line.<br />
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I tried so hard in the respectfully submitting department to make the case that the <i>Therapeutic Goods Act</i>, if it had been properly considered might have found that whilst the <i>Therapeutic Goods Act </i>was not intedend to apply to the exclusion of <a href="http://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_reg/rr2014104/s256.html" target="_blank">Regulation 256</a> (<i>NSW Road Rules 2014</i>) to the extent that Regulation 256 (<i>Road Rules 2014</i>) is capable of operating concurrently with the <i>Theraueputic Goods Act</i>, in relation to bicycle helmets it does exclude Regulation 256, and therefore I ought not to be compelled to wear a medical device withouth my informed consent ... but all to no avail.<br />
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The whole process seems so very dated and backward looking ... and extremely long-winded.<br />
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There was the housekeeping session in the morning with the housekeeping judge working out everybodies' diaries followed by the actual appeal after lunch, where I was assigned a court room all to myself containing:<br />
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1 judge<br />
1 judge's associate<br />
1 clerk<br />
1 court officer<br />
1 DPP solicitor<br />
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me<br />
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How much simpler (and cheaper) would it be to relinquish the notion that helmets proffer protection from B-doubles et al, and get on with the business of actually providing bicycle safety by actually providing us with proper bicycle infrastructure that separates us from aforementioned vehicles.<br />
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So check<span class="st" data-hveid="118" data-ved="0ahUKEwj-vYOQrtXZAhWMvbwKHaQLAE4Q4EUIdjAN"> ✔,</span> <span class="st" data-hveid="118" data-ved="0ahUKEwj-vYOQrtXZAhWMvbwKHaQLAE4Q4EUIdjAN"></span>that one is done and dusted ...<br />
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Next bicycle saga, and last one too I might add now that I've removed myself from Scone roads due to intense police targeting, is set for 20 April 2018 and I'm thinking of going back to the good old defence of necessity - talk about full circle! Freedom Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11187400454555241935noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3090991993980511979.post-43011990809317595062018-02-22T00:56:00.002+11:002018-02-22T01:11:47.499+11:00Whiff of hope - am I delerious or something?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In relation to riding a bicycle in Australia for me personally things have been a touch wintery over the last 6 months.<br />
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Literally hounded by the police every time I get on my bicycle, I have parked my beautiful set of wheels in a shed at home, and now I drive into town interspersing that with occasional walking if it's not over 35 degrees celsius which it hardly ever isn't!!<br />
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But there is change in the air ... I can feel it.<br />
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It could be the usual butterflies I experience before pending court cases (Newcastle District Court next week!) but something else is making me feel jumpily hopeful.<br />
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There's <a href="http://www.heraldsun.com.au/rendezview/we-want-more-cyclists-so-relax-helmet-laws/news-story/97c707b759e6b078845a1040e3c499eb" target="_blank">a new type of doctor, a new type of journalist</a>, and they're not so wedded to their own experience of using a bicycle. In fact they are listening to other people's stories about using bicycles, other people's narratives, hearing about the drop in cycling rates and appalling conditions, and if our politicians would only do the same things could only improve in the transport equation of sharing Australian roads.<br />
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But back to me and next week's court matter!<br />
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I shall be re-visiting section 41 BD of the <a href="http://www8.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/legis/cth/consol_act/tga1989191/s41bd.html" target="_blank"><i>Therapeutic Goods Act</i></a> and how in my opinion bicycle helmets can be defined as medical devices. Consequently misguided politicians can not force me to plonk some ridiculous plastic hat on top of my head in an erroneous gesture of protection.<br />
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I am not confident but <i>'c'est la vie, on verra.'</i><br />
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Of course next week's matter is not the end of it ... I have two more matters for the Scone Local Court to be heard at some stage but they've been temporarily popped onto the backburner as the police had prior engagements - we're looking at April some time after Easter.<br />
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Looking ahead, for those matters I am thinking of acquiring a 'medical exemption' so I've been looking through the 'catalogue'!<br />
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I am dithering between either the <i>'skin cancer' option</i> or the<i> 'latex allergy' option</i> - (surely that nasty mix of plastic, polystyrene and chemicals contains something I'm allergic to in it?!).<br />
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But could there even be a <i>'beyond plastic' option</i>? <br />
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Could we object to the mandated pollution-consumerism we're obliged to sign up to if we wish to use bicycles for transport?<br />
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Could we object to the mandated purchasing of unrecyclable plastic objects which we know will end up in landfill every 2-5
years? ... <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/tv/programs/war-on-waste/" target="_blank">War on Waste</a> and all that?! <br />
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I think we possibly can ... self-defence, necessity, anyone?<br />
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But back to next week, must remember to stay in the framework of my argument from the court of first instance ... so <i>Therapeutic Goods Act</i> it is juxtaposed with the <a href="https://www.tga.gov.au/therapeutic-goods-excluded-goods-order-no-1-2011" target="_blank">Therapeutic Goods (Excluded Goods) Order No. 1 of 2011.</a></div>
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Notwithstanding next week though, I will definitely be revisiting the exemption catalogue again once next week is out of the way!!!<br />
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Such a daft country ...Freedom Cyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11187400454555241935noreply@blogger.com1