Managing Crown Land for the Community
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📮The Opal Reserve sent off all the hard copy submissions they received on the 28th of March.📮
👏👏Thanks to the Lightning Ridge community for stepping up and letting their voice and perspective be heard for the Independent Review of the Statutory Framework of Small-scale Titles.
👍It was a massive feat for individuals to complete and we now eagerly await the next phase and response of the Review.
👏👏Thanks to the then Acting Reserve Manager, Victoria, for advocating to the community for responses and providing support in formulating submissions.
👍Victoria will now step down from her role, due to welcoming back David from his paternal leave.
👥The Opal Reserve team look forward to what the year ahead will bring for their Crown Land Management organisation and the Lightning Ridge community.
Have your say: forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=IYjvljkqHEe4mmewgz3TuSJWyFFuxEROrhvSCGWoNLVURVBSMkVCT...
Email: [email protected]
Post: Ms Saxon, Norton Rose Fulbright Australia, GPO Box 3872, Sydney 2001.
🌵Backpack sprayers available for loan from North West Local Land Services
🌵They have a limited number of backpack sprayers which can be loaned by landholders to treat Hudson Pear on their property.
🌵Backpack sprayers can be loaned for up to 1 month (4 weeks) to assist people who do not own a suitable sprayer.
🌵The backpack sprayer is perfect for small landholders with an area of less than 2 hectares.
🌵This goes hand in hand with the Landholder Chemical Program that was initiated under the $2.6million funding for Hudson Pear Control.
🌵For more information, give Todd or Rachael a call at the Local Land Services Walgett office.
🌵Todd Pallister - Cacti Coordinator - 0457939055
🌵Rachel Turner - Biosecurity Officer - 0417753170
🌵For more information on where the $2.6million funding is going, sign up to their newsletter comms.lls.nsw.gov.au/hudson-pear-control-updates?utm_source=Hudson_pear
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🧑🚒Last week we presented the petition to have Graiwn Rd renamed to Capt. Leo Fransen Way to Walgett Shire Council.
🧑🚒All councillors seemed to be in favour of the decision and it was stated that we can informally begin to call the main entrance off Wilby Wilby Rd into Grawin, Capt. Leo Fransen Way.
🧑🚒To have it formally named, Council will have to take it to the Geographical Names Board, and with that some limitations and requirements are necessary.
🧑🚒We are happy the name change was accepted by the community and look forward to the day we can commemorate this wonderful, brave man for his service to the RFS and to our community.
📑If you need help writing a submission, we are providing Submission Support and will be available every Monday from 3pm-6pm at the Lightning Ridge District Bowling Club until submissions are due on the 31st March.
💻Or you can submit online via this link forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=IYjvljkqHEe4mmewgz3TuSJWyFFuxEROrhvSCGWoNLVURVBSMkVCT...
‼9 more till we get 1000 online!
📲Help share this around before the end of the day.
🗣We will be presenting this at Council tomorrow.
🚗This fantastic experience on the Red Car Door Tour is not one to be missed.
🗣The story, the tenacity, and the creativity, are among the wonderful elements that make Lightning Ridge so unique.
‼️Don't miss the opportunity to visit the Black Queen from Easter (29th March) to June Long Weekend (10th June).
Thank you Roy Butler MP for listening to the community's voice on this issue.
We hope Minister Houssos can respectfully understand how many homes and lives are impacted by this conversation.I share the community's concerns about any changes that impact the security of people living on residential mining claims.
These are people's homes; many have lived on these leases for a very long time. In the current climate with cost of living and housing shortages, anything that reduces the availability of homes doesn't make sense. It also creates significant anxiety for people who believe they would be able to stay on with existing arrangements.
I will be taking this up with Minister Courtney Houssos, to ensure that the review of the Act acknowledges the longstanding legal agreements for people who occupy these claims.
🚒The Reserve has created a petition to have 'Grawin Rd' (as it's locally known), renamed to 'Capt. Leo Fransen Way', after the firefighter who lost his life while combatting the Hudson Fire in Nov 2023.
📣We will be addressing Walgett Shire Council at their next meeting on the 27th of February with all the signatures we have gathered, which is over 1000 so far, online and hard copies.
📝Please sign and share.