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Goonengerry is located in the hinterland of Byron Bay (New South Wales, Australia). This website's purpose is to celebrate all things Goonengerry: past, present and future. To make this happen we will encourage community involvment and make this website a one stop shop for anything and everything to do with Goonengerry. 
Local Lions Club Helping Hamish
Written by Greg Cromwell   
Wednesday, 09 April 2008

Hamish and his family have been given some much appreciated support from the Local Lions Clubs in the form of a donation that helped with the purchase of a generator. The Generator was purchased at a subsidised price from Farmcare in Mullumbimby. It's a Honda 3 KW generator. Over the past year Hamish and his wife Heather have experienced numerous power outages ranging from half and hour to almost six hours. Hamish relies on electricity to power his special bed with bi-wave carer mattress that aids in reducing pressure areas which are a very serious
concern for quadriplegics.  Cheryl became aware of the families situation and called to see if the Lions could be of any assistance. The
call was well received as Hamish and Heather were in need of assistance in a variety of ways with the generator
being the most urgent.

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Cheryl Froude of Brunswick Heads Mullumbimby Lions, Hamish and Greg Cromwell Bangalow Lions

 If you would like to help out Hamish and his family please use the contact form on this website and we will get you in contact with Hamish.

 

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 09 April 2008 )
 
Matilda Writes
Written by Greg Cromwell   
Wednesday, 09 April 2008
After growing up and living in Goonengerry for the past 13 years i am now in London, trying something different. You may know my darling mother Mary down on Nunkeri farm. A colleague of mine stubbled arcoss this site and forwarded me the link.  Just wanted to say it's fantastic such a beautiful idea.  Not a day goes by that i don't think of the beautiful mafeking Rd.  Thank you.

Oh and i hope your meeting with heather and hamish went well, i have been a close friend of theres for years and years, and it's so wonderful seeing the community pull together to suport them.

Much peace and respect.

Matilda
 
Visiting Hamish and Heather
Written by Greg Cromwell   
Tuesday, 12 February 2008

Local residents Hamish Graham and Heather are known to most people in Goonengerry as a result of a tragic cricket injury suffered by Hamish over a year ago. The community has rallied around this family in their time of need providing much needed emotional and financial support.

 Personally I have not met Hamish or Heather but that's about to change. I have just got off the phone to Heather and have arranged to meet them today to discuss how the Bangalow Lions can best help them out. As a member of the Bangalow Lion's I have been asked to see how we can help out. The Brunswick Heads Lions got in contact with us about contributing to the purchase of a generator. After my meeting today I will get back to you all with more information on how Goonengerry can generate sustainable assistance to Hamish and his family.

If you have any ideas please use the contact us section on this website or call me --Greg Cromwell on 0447755440

 
Mining in Byron Shire
Written by Greg Cromwell   
Tuesday, 18 December 2007

Goonengerry residents please be aware that the mines could be in our own backyard. Please read the following email from Alan Gold and take action. You can express your opinion in our latest poll.

Hi all,

This is a follow up to a short email I sent a week ago.
You will perhaps of heard that  The West Australian company, Nea Kameni Pty Ltd, has lodged an application with the NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) to determine whether a 300 square kilometer area west of Byron Bay
contains any diamonds, rubies or sapphires. The application is;

Diamond Mine Exploration License Application no 3127
Attached  is a map of the area affected and I am sending you this because you could be directly affected!

The Company is making a big noise about how they probably will not find anything and there is nothing to worry about.
It always worries me when someone or some organisation abruptly enters my world and says "don't worry about a thing we're here to help." Usually the exact opposite happens!
Why are they bothering? For profit of course!
A local geologist agrees that our area is not a likely source of diamonds but it is a likely source of lots of other valuable minerals and possibly gold. Perhaps this license is a cover for the real game. What happens if they find gold for instance?
There are two things we can do, the first one is nothing. Sit back and wait to see what happens. See how non-invasive their exploration techniques are.
 Or second, we can let them know from the very beginning just how much trouble they will have on their hands if they actually try and mine anything in this area. Yes, the scare them off from the start technique. We must remember that once they have taken up a license and spent money they will fight to keep it.
It took just such a concerted and early action by this community to stop the exploratory mining for Perlite in Mafeking Road, Goonengerry less than 10 years ago. If they discover anything worth mining on your property they will exploit it to the maximum, destroy your environment in the process and compensate you to the absolute minimum. And you will be able to do little about it. A mine even in the general vicinity of your place will bring environmental disaster to you via pollution, especially water pollution, degradation to our already struggling biodiversity, and destruction to our infrastructure such as roads.
Sometimes it is necessary to stand tall and strong from day one to stop the constant degradation of our planet.
So if you want to send these people a clear message of non-support and opposition then do one or more of the following;

Most Importantly, Phone the Company Directors. At the moment we only have one name but he does seem to be the main name behind the company. His name and phone number is;
Gregory Pooley           08 93867953


Phone him up and let him know how you feel. Emotion is okay, and ask him why they are spending all this money if they don't intend to mine and anything else you can think of??

Phone Dept Primary Industry, Mines Section, 1300 736122 (free call) Robert Falzon Mining Titles Eastern Tel: (02) 4931 6457  and let them know what you think and get an address to write a letter to.
Write an email or letter to local MP; her contacts are;
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Electorate Office
Suite 6, Hallmark Centre
107-111 Minjungbal Drive
Tweed Heads South NSW 2486
Tel:(07) 5523 4371
Fax:(07) 5523 4379
Postal Address:
PO Box 6996
Tweed Heads South NSW 2486
Write a letter or email to Byron Council and Councillors. Contacts are at Council website, which is;
www.byron.nsw.gov.au

A public meeting will be convened at Federal Hall on Wed 16th January, at 7.30pm, to discuss if further action is required. Stay tuned, but act today.

We do need help from those who may have a research and/or legal ability to research the company and the directors and help sieve through the law. We already have the legal angles we used last time and geologists on board, so all the help you can give would be appreciated but at least we are not starting from scratch.

This stop the mining action is being initiated by The Goonengerry Landcare Group and you can help or get updates from us by contacting John Hellmers at; This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or on Phone 66849135.

Thanks for reading and doing. Please pass this on to others in the area.
Cheers,   alan

 PS Hi all,

and it seems the mining map includes parts of two State MP's electorates, Thomas George's and Don Page......contact details for them being:

Thomas George
PO Box 52
Lismore 2480
66213624
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Don Page
PO Box 1018
Ballina 2478
66867522
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Slow Down. Holiday in Progress.
Written by Greg Cromwell   
Wednesday, 17 October 2007

Driving around the Byron Shire I often think of this great call to action that a long time associate of mine Nick Vale coined a number of years back. I was so taken by the power of these words that I had them trademarked back in 2002.

Nick and I had hoped to collaborate one day on putting "Slow Down. Holiday in Progress." to good use. More specifically as a call to action for a community, city, shire... heck why not a whole country. Well like all good ideas the time has come to do something.

Look for signs in Goonengerry soon asking both locals and passers by to slow down when they are driving around the windy roads of Goonengerry.

  

 
Costa-the organic mechanic
Written by Greg Cromwell   
Tuesday, 26 June 2007

Great news. Costa has just told me that his business is NOT for sale. Plans are in place for a community based co-ooperative business focussed on organic and real food. There will be several tiers of pricing based on community involvement. Very exciting and good news for Goonengerry. The car repair shop will continue as it has for the last 23 years. Thank goodness.

 

 

 
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