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Vol 9 No 5 May, 2011 50c

Arrests after ferry attack

8th birthday edition

Two people banned

Another moving Anzac Day

A children’s choir singing the National Anthem was a highlight of this year’s

Anzac Day at Wagait Beach. A large crowd turned out for the service and the march to

the Cox Club. Story, pictures page 7.

Two people who alleg-edly assaulted crew mem-bers on the Mandorah fer-ry have been issued tres-pass notices banning them from the service.

The incident happened after a domestic dispute

on the jetty involving four adults and a baby.

Crew members became involved when the cou-ple at the centre of the dis-pute attempted to board the ferry.

Both had minor injuries.

A 21-year-old man was later over the domestic in-cident and charged with endangering serious harm and breaching a domestic violence order. He has been released on bail.

Continued page 5.

2 – The Wagaitear, May 2011

The WagaitearPublisher: Jack EllisPublished at: 22 (Sect 60) Mungalo Rd Wagait BeachPhone: 8978 5111 mobile: 0417 089 528 email (editorial & ads) administration/finance [email protected]: monthly (first Monday)Deadline (advertising and editorial) – 25thPostal address: CMB 1 Wagait Beach via Darwin NT 0801Sold at Wagait Beach Supermarket, Mandorah Hotel and on board the Sea-Cat Ferry.Subscriptions $1.50/edition (post paid), pdf available on-line through the NT Library web page www.ntl.nt.gov.au/collections (select online newspapers) or public.me.com/chrisnjack

What’s inside …Wagait Shire report ................................................ 4Compromise dump suggestion ............................. 5Out and about in April ............................................ 6Anzac Day 2011 ...................................................... 8Social doings .......................................................... 9Crossword and stars .............................................. 9Trade and service directories ......................... 10-11From the quarterdeck and tide chart .................. 12

Monthly rainfall and temperatureRain to April 30 ........................................................... 347 mmMonthly average ......................................................... 102 mmRain since October 1 (+ or - average) ...................... 3271 mmAnnual average (Oct 1 – Sep 30) ............................. 1784 mmAverage rainfall for May ............................................... 15 mmExpect it to rain on.........................................................2 daysAverage min/max temp (Darwin) .......................... 22.1/32.0ºC

Weather watch

Dry season comes in with a chill

$10 000 for club play

equipmentStall-holders at the Cox

Country Club’s market day may have made a quid or two, but the club scored a serious-ly big cheque on the same day.

Coolalinga Bendigo Bank executive Maureen Newman presented club president Keith Ferguson with a $10 000 grant as part of the bank’s communi-ty involvement program.

The money – along with oth-er funds being sought from government sources – will be used to install a range of mod-ern children’s play equipment.

Keith was delighted with the gift which he said would be a big boost to the country club.Keith accepts the cheque from

Maureen at the handover ceremony last month.

With the record wet season finally over and the dry announcing it-self with some very cool mornings on the jetty, the Darwin weather bureau is puzzling over figures that show the La Niña is still hanging around.

Much of the extraordi-nary weather since October last year has been attribut-ed to one of the strongest La Niña events on record.

Wagait Beach record-ed another 295 mm in

April, some three times the monthly average for a total of 3271 mm since October 1.

The annual average to September 30 is 1784.

But the bureau is expect-ing the atmospheric indi-cators to return to neutral over the coming months.

The next burst of the monsoon is predicted to have little influence on rainfall and tropical cy-clone activity in the south-ern hemisphere, but more likely to influence north-

ern hemisphere weather patterns.

But the May average rainfall on this side of the harbour is 15 mm, usual-ly around the time of the Fred’s Pass Show, so don’t start leaving the mower out overnight just yet.

With the overnight aver-age temperature a chilly 22 degrees, a blanket or a doo-na – and a jacket for the ear-ly morning ferry travellers – could be pretty handy be-fore the month is out.

Toads cost a pretty pennyWagait Beach mother living on the beach

front decided one sure way to get rid of the toads being spotted regularly was to offer the junior family members 50c a toad.

Facing bankruptcy after the first night when 80 of the pests were caught and a second when 90 were captured, it was decided there was an urgent need to renegotiate the price.

Even the new going rate of 25c a toad proved a pretty profitable enterprise.

The new entrepreneurs fame has spread and others are queuing up to offer good prices for the skills of the intrepid toad busters. – CT

The Wagaitear, May 2011 – 3

Mission grass a growing fire risk

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Above: Seeding mission grass metres from the Wagait Beach community centre after the area was mowed for Anzac Day. Right: The Wagait Tower Road main drain choked with mission grass in full seed. Stands of mission grass are a common sight around Wagait Beach despite a weed control plan

introduced more than three years ago to ensure that feral grasses such as gamba and mission were kept at bay. The plan could not be found when the

Wagait Shire Council was alerted to its existence.

Mission grass poses a major fire risk at Wagait Beach during the dry season after it spread out of control during the record wet.

The grass can grow up to 3 me-tres tall and cures much later in the dry than the native grasses, providing a fuel load up to five times greater than spear grass.

It now chokes many of the drains around the estate and has spread on to unmaintained blocks and into the beach reserve.

Control measures such as spraying early in the wet sea-

son were not implemented and many of the drains and verges have not been maintained.

Wagait Shire chief executive Geoff Handicott said other pri-orities after the February cy-clone had stretched resources past breaking point, although ef-fort were being made to slash the verges and clear the drains.

Both the Australian and Terri-tory governments have been ad-vertising assistance and funds available to help tackle problems such as weeds in small commu-

nities, allowing the work to be done by private contractors.

Mission grass, or to give it its full title, Pennisetum polystachion, is a declared weed that first ap-peared at Wagait Beach about 12 years ago.

Originally a native of tropi-cal Africa, it was introduced to Australia as a trial cattle fodder but quickly spread throughout the Darwin rural area and along road networks as far as Arn-hem Land and into the Kather-ine region.

The light fluffy seeds pro-duced by mission grass are easi-ly spread by wind, vehicles, con-taminated hay and soil, animals and machinery such as slashers and whipper-snippers.

Burning only promotes further mission grass establishment.

By remaining green until the late dry season, the grass fuels destructive fires later and hotter than normal seasonal fires. These have an adverse impact on many native species as well as on prop-erty and horticulture.


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The rain, it’s plain, is not in the drain

Shire council report

It may be the dry season, but the Wagait Shire Council spent quite some time at last month’s meeting trying to come to grips with the problems posed with drains that either are blocked or don’t drain.

Chief executive Geoff Handicott (above) investigated the problem after the council received com-plaints about properties flooding when drains overflowed.

“Some of the shallow drains had silted up and we don’t have the equipment to fix it, it needs a grader,” he said.

“I don’t really know, it’s a lousy design in the first place. There’s about 18 inches of silt in some of them.”

Darryl Withnall commented that the drains had been cleaned two years ago, although other councillors noted the job had never been finished.

“I think we should try and clean them out again,” acting president Karen Duncan said.

“We need to get rid of some of the trees growing in them.”

• • • •The long-delayed memorial

garden project finally may be get-ting off the ground.

the latter use already compro-mised by the shelving.

“It’s taking up a lot of room, we can’t open the (dividing) doors any more,” Darryl said.

Karen (above) wanted to know how many people actually use the library.

Geoff’s response was diplo-matic: “There’s a couple of peo-ple coming in during the week,” he said.

Councillors agreed to look at further funding for the library after it was discovered there was no record of an application for a $20 000 grant that was supposed to have been submitted last year.

• • • •Feral pigs also appeared back

on the agenda as well as around people’s homes.

Complaints about the pigs en-tering properties and rooting up gardens have been ongoing for some three years and it ap-pears the problem could be get-ting worse.

The council agreed to investi-gate a new trapping program or asking pig hunters using dogs rather than guns to assist with getting rid of the pests.

• • • •

The concept was floated more than two years ago but quotes from commercial contractors far exceeded the budget and some of the features would have been subject to planning and building controls.

Karen said the way to go was to use local people to do the work and build the garden in stages.

Several names were men-tioned with councillors agree-ing one could be employed as a project manager with the pow-er to hire subcontractors as required.

Matt Prouse summed up the feelings around the table.

“We’ve got $45,000 – it’s cer-tainly enough money,” he said.

“If (someone) is prepared to take on the role they can get sub-bies in to do the job.”

• • • •The ever-expanding council li-

brary has run into a major space problem.

Library coordinator David Barry wrote to the council ex-pressing his deep unhappiness with the decision not to remove the large wall map and the histo-ry board to make way for more library shelving.

Two entire walls of the meet-ing room now are taken up with library bookshelves and council-lors were more than a little reluc-tant to allow a further reduction to their work space.

Several people noted that the building was primarily council offices and a cyclone shelter, with

Kelly Murphy is to be appoint-ed the new Wagait Beach youth, sport and recreation officer.

Kelly was one of two appli-cants, but with Russell Thurston taking on the works role, she won the position.

Programs for the children and the wider community are expect-ed to start shortly.

• • • •There was no financial report

to the council last month after ac-countants found mistakes dating back more than two years in the computer system reports.

The council has already decid-ed to introduce a more appropri-ate and simpler financial system for its needs.

Geoff said he was not happy about presenting the current re-ports to the council.

“We found so many mis-takes,” he said.

“They tried to get reports off for this meeting but couldn’t.

“We’ll set up MYOB – the best time to change over is at the end of the financial year.”

Geoff said he was confident he could have an accurate report for the May meeting.

• • • •There was the usual begin-

ning of dry season debate over whether the sports ground toilets should be locked or open.

Karen had her doubts about leaving them unlocked with cleaning and vandalism her main concerns.

But difficulties with adminis-tration and doubts about the role of the caretaker swung the major-ity behind a decision to open the facilities during daylight hours for a trial period.

• • • •


EPA suggests transfer station planThe Territory’s Envi-

ronmental Protection Agency has suggested an arrangement between the NT Government and the Wagait Shire Coun-cil to establish a rubbish transfer station.

The agency investigat-ed the shire’s dump oper-ations after ongoing con-troversy about pollution from the tip and wet sea-son flooding that twice closed the dump this year.

“Due to the failure of the Wagait tip to be cap-tured by the licensing re-

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From page 1,Police were called to

the disturbance but the offenders had vanished by the time they arrived from Humpty Doo.

Further investigations led to a man and woman being interviewed about the incident. Police allege the man was involved in a domestic dispute with a 20-year-old woman on Friday April 8.

Police are in the proc-ess of interviewing wit-nesses and will look to lay further charges.

This incident and the general increase in drunken behaviour stemming from people using the ferry as an al-cohol supply line for for-tified wines and spirits has alarmed many of the SeaCat crew.

Several have indicat-ed they would resign or refuse to operate late night services if there were further violence.

Police have been con-ducting irregular patrols of the Cullen Bay termi-nal since the attack.

The four-wheel-drive track to the tip during the recent wet season.

gime, there are few, if not no, measures that can be enforced or applied in the situation,” the EPA’s re-port found.

“Waste management is an issue that falls under the council’s jurisdiction, (but) the council argues that due to the expense and the land claim on the tip area, there is little it can do to rectify any envi-ronmental harm from the contamination of ground or surface water.

“It is within the Wagait Shire Council’s jurisdic-

tion to fund and manage the waste facility. Similar-ly, if a transfer station is to be constructed and man-aged, it is up to the coun-cil to fund this proposal.

“If the council contin-ues the status quo, (it) risks being liable for an environmental offence under the Waste Manage-ment and Pollution Con-trol Act.”

The authority acknowl-edged the council could not afford to build and operate a transfer station without assistance. It also warned this did not ex-clude the council from possible prosecution.

It suggested establish-ing a performance agree-ment (under the same leg-islation) as a possible so-lution to be carried out over 5-10 years.

“It seems an appropri-ate recommendation, be-cause it can provide for negotiations between the council and the NT Gov-ernment on the contribu-tions to be made by each party in addressing the problem and implement-ing a solution, whether a transfer station or anoth-er option,” the authority said in its report.

“The agreement is a binding contract on both parties, and may provide:

i) that the (council) is to undertake a program to protect, restore or en-hance the environment, or to improve waste man-agement or the preven-tion, reduction, control, rectification or clean up of pollution or environmen-tal harm resulting from pollution;

ii) that the Territory is to provide assistance in relation to the perform-ance of the program.

“This is a favourable mechanism in the present situation, due to the fi-nancial situation faced by Wagait Shire Coun-cil in seeking to upgrade the tip to a transfer station facility.

“The performance agreement is able to spec-ify a time period (for the project) and the financial assistance that the NT Government will provide in partnering with Wagait Council to address the current situation.”

The matter was dis-cussed briefly at last month’s shire council meeting and is expected to be on the agenda again this month.

Man charged after jetty blue


April a great time for markets and fishing

Trade training centre open for business

More than 250 people attended the launch of the Larrakia Trade Training Centre near Darwin’s East Arm port last month.

Among the guests was gas supplier Inpex chair-man Naoki Kuroda-san who travelled from Tokyo for the event.

Inpex supported the initiative by becoming the centre’s major financial supporter, donating $3 mil-lion towards construction.

The centre provides industrial training and employ-ment opportunities in high demand trade disciplines and is the largest facility of its kind in the Territory.

A Larrakia Development Corporation initiative, the centre is a joint venture between Advanced Training International, Kormilda College as the specialist nu-meracy and literacy education provider and the cor-poration which uses its strong industry relationships to place job-ready graduates into employment.

Development corporation chairman Nigel Browne said the facility offered a mix of quality workstations, classrooms, state-of-the-art virtual machinery train-ing and facilities for school holiday block release.

“The training centre caters to those wishing to complete apprenticeships or traineeships, however it also caters to those from remote communities who wish to take up short courses,” he said.

“The Larrakia Development Corporation is ex-tremely proud to have realised such a significant achievement.”

Courses Available at Larrakia TTCMetal fabricationWelding programsCivil constructionMetalliferous miningGeneral constructionElectricianRefrigeration and air conditioningAutomotive training, including marine, motorcycle and generators

Young ladies on the scone and drinks stand at the Cox Club markets did a roaring trade, despite devouring some of the unaudited profits.

Barry Demasson scooped the April fishing club prize with these two nice coral trout.

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Peter Clee’s opening address focussed on his thoughts on the meaning of Anzac Day. Chaplain Peter Wright then led the service, including some interesting background

about Simpson and his donkey at Gallipoli. Simpson was a stretched bearer for the 19 days he was ashore before being killed in action rescuing wounded soldiers from the front line. His real surname was Kilpatrick but he joined the army under his middle name fearing he would be discovered as a deserter from the British ship that brought

him to Australia. Jack Spratt recited the Ode before Kerry Murphy, Dave Arratta and Peter Clee laid the wreaths. The singing of the National Anthem was led by the newly formed children’s choir organised by Bec Forrest and Lisa-Marie Stone. Once again

there was a good turnout for the march from Erickson Crescent to the Cox Club and the club’s flag raising. The traditional two-up game was part of the afternoon’s festivities.

The march to the Cox Club with all three services represented. Far left:

Kerry Murphy and Kaleb Speechley perform the flag-raising at the club.

Chaplain Peter Wright leads the Anzac Day service at the Cenotaph. Right: the Ode “They shall not grow

old …” by Jack Spratt

Strong support for 2011

Anzac Day


Smile-a-Mile returning

The popular Smile-a-Mile chil-dren’s activity bus has included Wagait Beach in its itinerary for the coming months.

The bus and its workers provide a range of activities for the small fry in remote areas that always proves popular.

The first visit will be later this month on Tuesday May 31 and then the bus and its crew will be back on Tuesday July 5.

The action starts at 9.30 am and goes through until 11.30 am at the Wagait Beach sports ground.

Band attracts big crowd to country club

It was a big night at the Cox Country Club last month when popular duo Enth De-gree provided the live music.

With the event coinciding with the five-day Easter and Anzac holidays, locals and vis-itors packed the premises to the wee hours.

While the dance floor wasn’t over-populated, the children made the most of the music with their own versions of moving to the music.

The night was the highlight of a big month for the venue with the market day, the band and Anzac Day all attracting large numbers.

And then we were olderApril proved a good month for key birthdays with

Anthony Kerr (left) celebrating his 40th with partner Max and friends. And Bec Forrest, above left with good mate Lil Prouse at Ant’s birthday

bash, turned 30 just in time for this edition.

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Wagait Beach Fishing ClubA combined fishing competition, kids’ clinic and family camping

weekend will be held at One-Fella Creek on the May 21-22 weekend. Weigh-ins each afternoon for the

respective events. There will be a sausage sizzle on

Saturday evening in the bush camping area (1 km east of the

creek), and another during the kids clinic on Sunday at 1 pm.

Come along, join in and make this a great community event

The Wagaitearpublished monthly


Across1 What Santa uses to carry gifts (4)3 In law, a formal objection to an op-

ponent’s pleadings (8)9 Projection behind and above a

horse’s hoof (7)10 Any of numerous inedible fruits with

hard rinds (5)11 A mountain range in southern Spain

(6,6)14 A unit of electrical resistance (3)16 Of or relating to or located near a

hilum (5)17 Cause to have a certain location (3)18 What you might make with Power-

Point (12)21 A saying of Jesus that is regarded

as authentic although not recorded in the Gospels (5)

22 Integrated courses of academic studies (7)

23 Phrase introducing a different topic (2,3,3)

24 A large mass of ice floating at sea (4)

Down1 Sentimental affection (4,4)2 Perhaps the object of 1 down (5)

4 Expresses mild surprise or alarm (3)5 Failing to follow rules or orders (12)6 Gather (7)7 Perform again (4)8 The media (6,6)12 A synthetic fibre (5)13 Informal and emphatic word for ex-

cellent (8)15 What every girl seeks, so they say

(2,5)19 Visual representation (5)20 A standard quantity of beer (4)22 A pen for swine (3)

Answers to last puzzle

TIFFWORDS

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Gemini (May 21 – June 20)Attempting to head in two different directions at

once may be fine for real twins but not when they are trapped in the one body. Find a nice red wine, share it with each other and get some consensus into your life. Lucky no 1.

Cancer (June 21 – July 22)Getting crabby because everyone wanted you

to shell out for easter just when you’re clawing back the bank balance is not the way to go. Tell them to nip off – politely. Lucky no 14.

Leo (July 23 – August 22)Now that the wet is finally over, what about

getting the block cleaned up? The poor old power meter reader took three hours to find his way back to your front gate after getting lost in the spear grass. Lucky no 18.

Virgo (August 23 – September 22)Your stars are aligned in a manner that sug-

gests your luck with a fishing line could be very good on the high tides. Check the charts, see Chris and Sue for some new tackle and go for it! Lucky nos 14, 15 and 16.

Libra (September 23 – October 22)The planets are doing extraordinary things that

could mean deep rumblings in your life. A carton of Coopers may settle things down and prevent any personal tsunamis. Lucky no 6.

Scorpio (October 23 – November 21)Beware of gifts from people who have no rea-

son to be super-nice to you. This means if the deckie gives you change of $100 when you give him $50, give it back before your luck alters for the worse. Lucky no $20.

Sagittarius (November 22 – December 21)Finding anything nice to say about your for-

tunes this month would demonstrate an extreme lack of truth. Put your head down, cross your fingers and hope it gets better sooner than later. Lucky no 31.

Capricorn (December 22 – January 20 )Capricorns should be very health conscious for

the month of May. Your star gazer has it on good authority that hops, yeast, barley and malt are an excellent food supplements to ensure your future well-being. Lucky no 24

Aquarius (January 21 – February 19)Crash through or crash may be a good motto

for aspiring prime ministers but not for finely balanced water carriers. Remember what hap-pened to Gough Whitlam when he crashed one-too-many times in November ’75. Lucky no 11.

Pisces (February 20 – March 19)If the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog,

what did the Delissa Drive howling dingo do? The answer to this vitally important knowledge is writ-ten in your stars. Lucky number 13.

Aries (March 21 – April 19)A long stroll along the beach is the sort of

therapy that will calm the impetuous Aries and keep life on the straight and narrow. No, it is not boring, this lack of conflict is known to mere mortals as relaxing. Lucky no 22.

Taurus (April 20 – May 20)So long as you didn’t (or are not planning to)

do anything stupid on your birthday, your stars are pointing to a much better month. Just take it easy and all should be well. Lucky no 2.

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Who does what locallyAccommodation

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Commissioners for Oaths Linda King ................................................................8978 5064Rhonda Solien ..........................................................8978 5241

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Electrical appliance testing Gary ..............................................0418 673 536 or 8978 5234

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Native plant nursery Chris and Jack ...........................................................8978 5111

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Printing and publishing Wagaitear ......................................0417 089 528 or 8978 5111

Property conveyancing Trish McIntyre ....................................8981 6733 or 8978 5237

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from the quarterdeck …with the Admiral

ACROSS

THE

HARBOUR

Darwin Harbour tide times for May

It just wasn’t legal eagle Pat McIntyre’s day when he and wife Trish parked at the jetty to catch the 6.45 am Friday ferry.

The pair was seated on the boat when told that their car lights were on.

Pat resigned himself to catch-ing the 7.20 feral ferry and jumped off to fix the problem.

He then discovered Trish still had the keys in her bag and threw a very quick u-turn to grab them before the ferry left.

c c c cWagait Shire Council meetings

usually are not the most exciting events on the peninsula..

Darryl Withnall brightened up the last one considerably after taking exception to something the Wagaitear’s usually dormant roving reporter said while an-swering a question about a recent government report on the dump.

There was some colourful lan-guage and a demand that your scribe leave the meeting until acting president Karen Duncan used her best and biggest voice to restore order.

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Karen also brightened the council minutes when it was sug-gested there was not a lot of use having another go using traps to

catch the feral pigs causing prob-lems around the town..

“I didn’t get pregnant the first time I tried either,” she told the meeting.

“That didn’t stop me from keeping on trying.”

CEO Geoff Handicott has not been here long but correctly fore-cast that the comment would make it into the paper.

c c c cLess than a year after the last

Wagait Beach baby boom, there’s another one on the horizon.

Steve and Kiara expect to start the population explosion this month but the Admiral is told

there are another three new citi-zens brewing.

It seems the local playgroup will need to be a whole lot bigger around Christmas.

c c c cWhat has happened to all the

ferry committee information?The last entry on the wagait-

beachferry.com site is March 26 and the government site has an agen-da but no minutes at all.

Was nothing said at the next two meetings or is this why the media is not allowed to attend the ‘open and transparent’ process?

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