Palm Lake Resort Eagleby Social Bowls Club

Good morning everyone, start your morning knowing someone cares for you deeply. May today bring soft joys that touch your heart and make life feel brighter and fuller.

The artwork I have for you today is another grea5t one from Simon White at Koo Wee Rup, in Victoria.

On this day in Australia, the 19th of June 1969.

Equal pay for women granted by the Arbitration Commission.

Equal pay for equal work is the concept of labour rights that individuals in the same workplace be given equal pay. It is most commonly used in the context of sexual discrimination, in relation to the gender pay gap. Equal pay relates to the full range of payments and benefits, including basic pay, non-salary payments, bonuses and allowances. Some countries have moved faster than others in addressing equal pay.
As wage labor became increasingly formalized during the Industrial Revolution, women were often paid less than their male counterparts for the same labor, whether for the explicit reason that they were women or under another pretext.

The principle of equal pay for equal work arose at the same part of first-wave feminism, with early efforts for equal pay being associated with nineteenth-century Trade Union activism in industrialized countries: for example, a series of strikes by unionized women in the UK in the 1830s. Pressure from Trade Unions has had varied effects, with trade unions sometimes promoting conservatism. Carrie Ashton Johnson was an American suffragist who related equal pay and wages of women in the industrial workforce to the issue of women's suffrage. In 1895, she was quoted by the Chicago Tribune as having said, "When women are given the ballot, there will be equal pay for equal work."

Before woman's suffrage, women who sought equal pay for equal work used a variety of strategies to convince city and state governments that they deserved the same pay as their male counterparts. For example, the women in the New York City Interborough Association of Women Teachers won their campaign in 1911 by streamlining their goals and emphasizing women's important role in the schoolroom.

Following the Second World War, trade unions and the legislatures of industrialized countries gradually embraced the principle of equal pay for equal work; one example of this process is the UK's introduction of the Equal Pay Act 1970 in response both to the Treaty of Rome and the Ford sewing machinists strike of 1968. In recent years European trade unions have generally exerted pressure on states and employers to progress in this direction.

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Our quote of the day is from: Matt Cameron
Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.

Good morning bowlers, members and friends all. Some days feel ordinary, but even those hold magic if you look close enough. May you find beauty in unexpected places and reasons to smile all day long.

Today Sherril and I are heading out to Karalee to look after our daughter's family pets while they on holidays to Canberra until the 28th of June, but we will come back for Saturday night's members draw.

Good luck to all the guys playing in the men's self-select pairs game this afternoon, we hope you will all enjoy a cracker of a game.

The artwork I have for you today is on the Mungbean Mobile Silos near Biloela in Central Queensland and were done by The Zookeeper and DRAPL.

On this day in Australia, the 18th of June 1827.

James Stirling establishes a settlement at Raffles Bay.

Admiral Sir James Stirling (28 January 1791 – 22 April 1865) was a British naval officer and colonial administrator. His enthusiasm and persistence persuaded the British Government to establish the Swan River Colony and he became the first Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Western Australia. In 1854, when Commander-in-Chief, East Indies and China Station, Stirling on his own initiative signed Britain's first Anglo-Japanese Friendship Treaty. Throughout his career Stirling showed considerable diplomatic skill and was selected for a number of sensitive missions. Paradoxically, this was not reflected in his personal dealings with officialdom and his hopes for preferment received many rebuffs.

Stirling also personally led the attack in Western Australia on a group of approximately seventy Bindjareb men, women and children now known as the Pinjarra massacre. Stirling entered the Royal Navy at age 12 and as a midshipman saw action in the Napoleonic Wars. Rapid promotion followed and when he was 21 he received his first command, the 28-gun sloop HMS Brazen, and, in the War of 1812 between the US and the UK, seized two prizes. Brazen carried the news of the end of that war to Fort Bowyer and took part in carrying to England the British troops that had captured the fort. On return to the West Indies, Stirling made two surveys of the Venezuelan coast and reported on the strengths, attitudes and dispositions of the Spanish government and various revolutionary factions, later playing a role in the British negotiations with these groups.In his second command, HMS Success, he carried supplies and coinage to Australia, but with a covert mission to assess other nations' interest in the region and explore opportunities for British settlements. He is chiefly remembered for his exploration of the Swan River, followed by his eventual success in lobbying the British Government to establish a settlement there. On 30 December 1828, he was made Lieutenant-Governor of the colony-to-be.

He formally founded the city of Perth and the port of Fremantle and oversaw the development of the surrounding area and on 4 March 1831 he was confirmed as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the new territory, Western Australia, in which post he remained until in 1838 he resumed his naval career.In October 1834 Stirling personally led a group of twenty-five police, soldiers and settlers in a punitive expedition against approximately seventy Bindjareb men, women and children camped on the Murray River partly in retaliation for several murders and thefts. This bloody attack involving rifles and bayonets against spears is known as the Pinjarra Massacre – and sometimes the Battle of Pinjarra.

An uncertain number of Aboriginal men, women and children were killed during this encounter; Stirling reported 15 males killed, John Septimus Roe 15–20, and an unidentified eyewitness 25–30 including 1 woman and several children with probably more floating down with the stream. One of Stirling's party was injured and one was injured and died about two weeks later, although it is uncertain if from existing injuries, injuries suffered during the massacre, poor medical treatment after the massacre, or a combination thereof. An uncertain number of Bindjareb were injured, and an uncertain number died of their injuries.

Our quote of the day is from: Les Brown
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

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"Thank You"

To everyone who helped in any way with the removal of the old PLR Fridge, the cleaning, unloading and installation of the two new drink fridges today, We had so many members help and to name them all would be hard in case I missed anyone.

It was unfortunate that the delivery time was not kept, as Chris rang yesterday afternoon to double check that they would be delivered at 8.30am this morning. The disappointing thing was they did not ring to say they were not coming this morning. I believe it was Barry who rang the company around 9am, only to be told that they would be delivered sometime between 2 and 3pm this afternoon.

I think it was about 2.40pm when the truck arrived, and I must say a big Thank You to the truck driver who went out of his way to help bring them right into the club, something he did not have to do. His pallet jack made it so easy to get them to the side door where they could be tilted over and carried through the door and into position, he was there to the end in placing them in position.

The fridges have to be left for two and a half to three hours for the gas to settle before switching them on. Ross and Barry are expecting a delivery of alcohol in the morning so they will restock the new fridges while they are down there.

There was a problem with one fridge in that one door needs to be adjusted up (However it will not stop us from using it until it is adjusted) Chris was going to contact the suppliers to ask them to send someone out to adjust it.

Once again, "Thank You" to everyone who helped in any way today and yesterday, we could not have done it without your help. Cheers John.

A new day means another chance to dream, love, grow and heal. Take it slow if you need to but never forget how far you’ve already come. Good morning everyone.

Good luck to all those playing in the mixed self-select pairs game this afternoon.

The artwork I have for you today is a little different in that it is in the Tropicana Caravan Park at Sarina, just south of Mackay.

On this day in Australia, the 17th of June 1867.

It is the Birth date of Henry Lawson.

Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson (17 June 1867 – 2 September 1922) was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's "greatest short story writer".

A vocal nationalist and republican, Lawson regularly contributed to The Bulletin, and many of his works helped popularise the Australian vernacular in fiction. He wrote prolifically into the 1890s, after which his output declined, in part due to struggles with alcoholism and mental illness. At times destitute, he spent periods in Darlinghurst Gaol and psychiatric institutions. After he died in 1922 following a cerebral haemorrhage, Lawson became the first Australian writer to be granted a state funeral.

He was the son of the poet, publisher and feminist Louisa Lawson.

Henry Lawson was born 17 June 1867 in a town on the Grenfell goldfields of New South Wales. His father was Niels Hertzberg Larsen, a Norwegian-born miner. Niels Larsen went to sea at 21 and arrived in Melbourne in 1855 to join the gold rush, along with partner William Henry John Slee.[1] Lawson's parents met at the goldfields of Pipeclay (now Eurunderee, Locality Mudgee). Niels and Louisa Albury (1848–1920) married on 7 July 1866 when he was 32 and she 18. On Henry's birth, the family surname was Anglicised and Niels became Peter Lawson. The newly married couple were to have an unhappy marriage. Peter Lawson's grave (with headstone) is in the little private cemetery at Hartley Vale, New South Wales, a few minutes' walk behind what was Collitt's Inn.

Lawson attended school at Eurunderee from 2 October 1876 but experienced an ear infection around this time. It left him with partial deafness and by the age of fourteen he had lost his hearing entirely. However, his master John Tierney was kind and did all he could for Lawson, who was quite shy. Lawson later attended a Catholic school at Mudgee, New South Wales around 8 km away; the master there, Mr Kevan, would teach Lawson about poetry.

Lawson was a keen reader of Dickens and Marryat and Australian novels such as Marcus Clarke's For the Term of His Natural Life (1874) and Rolf Boldrewood's Robbery Under Arms (1882); an aunt had also given him a volume by Bret Harte. Reading became a major source of his education because, due to his deafness, he had trouble learning in the classroom.

In 1883, after working on building jobs with his father in the Blue Mountains, Lawson joined his mother in Sydney at her request. Louisa was then living with Henry's sister and brother. At this time, Lawson was working during the day and studying at night for his matriculation in the hopes of receiving a university education. However, he failed his exams. Lawson lived in a boarding house along William Street and wrote a poem titled William Street.

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Our quote of the day is from: Walter Winchell
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Good morning everyone

We have some great news for you all.

The two new drink fridges are being delivered at 8.30am this morning and we have several members who have indicated that they will be there to help move the fridges into place and transfer the stock from the old fridges and clean the floor and wall where the old fridges were.

Unfortunately, I cannot be there at the time of delivery as I have an appointment at 8.30am at the Meadowbrook Medical Centre to see the podiatrist first then one of the vascular specialists to remove the stiches from the last toe amputation and to dress the wound on the top of my foot that has been there since the 11th of January.

Yesterday afternoon I received an e-mail from Pacific Patios letting us know that the builder is hoping to make a start around Thursday, 16th of July, with materials scheduled to arrive on Tuesday the 14th of July for the covered area above the astro turf area near the BBQ.

However, these dates could change due to weather conditions or delays on other jobs.

We will need a working bee on the 15th of July to remove the old shade cloth over the area, if we can get half a dozen guys to give us a hand to do this it will be greatly appreciated, we will also need a couple of ladders to help with this.

If you are able to help with this removal, can you let me know please so that I will know we have enough guys to help with this.

Thanking you all in advance. Cheers John

Good morning everyone, may you be greeted today with warmth in your heart, peace in your mind, and a quiet sense of knowing that you are exactly where you need to be.

As it is Tuesday, we hope our ladies are all in for a great game this afternoon, with lots of laughter and fun to be had.

The artwork I have for you today is at the Drovers Camp at Camooweal in western Queensland.

On this day in Australia, the 16th of June 1906.

The town of Roma, Queensland becomes the first town in Australia to be lit and powered by natural gas, however the gas reserve only lasts ten days.

The Roma to Brisbane Pipeline or Wallumbilla to Brisbane Pipeline is a natural gas pipeline in Queensland, Australia. It is one of five major natural gas pipelines in the state. It is the oldest operating natural gas pipeline in Australia. Operations began in March 1969. An opening ceremony was attended by the premier, Joh Bjelke-Petersen.

The pipeline was constructed by Thiess Pty Ltd. Reserves discovered by 1964 justified the need for a pipeline to markets.

The pipeline moves gas from the fields at Wallumbilla to markets in Brisbane and regional networks via a 438 kilometre long network. Both conventional and coal seam gas are transported.

Gas flow is bi-directional. The Oakey Power Station was strategically built at Oakey on the pipeline to help ensure supply.

Roma is a rural town and locality in the Maranoa Region, Queensland, Australia. It is the administrative centre of the Maranoa Region. The town was incorporated in 1867 and is named after Lady Diamantina Bowen (née di Roma), the wife of Sir George Bowen, the Governor of Queensland at the time. In the 2021 census, the locality of Roma had a population of 6,838 people.

When Mitchell returned to Sydney from his expedition, he encouraged his friend and head colonial government bureaucrat, William Macpherson, to take up land on the Fitzroy Downs. Macpherson's son, Allan Macpherson, subsequently took 20 men and around 10,000 head of sheep and cattle from his property at Keera on the Gwydir River and headed for the Fitzroy Downs. In October 1847, he established the Mount Abundance pastoral station, which covered 400,000 acres from Muckadilla Creek on the west to Bungil Creek on the east. The township of Roma now stands on the part of the station where Macpherson decided to graze his cattle.

In August 1848, James Blyth attempted to establish a sheep station on Bungil Creek but the resident Mandandanji drove him off, spearing Blyth in the leg, killing his stockman and taking 3,000 of his sheep. This incident was the start of a lengthy war between the Aboriginal people of the area and the colonists. In late 1848, Macpherson had several skirmishes with Aboriginal people around Bungil Creek, killing an indeterminate number. By April 1849 the Mandandanji had killed seven of Macpherson's stockmen, and the local Crown Lands Commissioner, John Durbin, with his contingent of mounted Border Police troopers was called in to give armed assistance. Despite this, Macpherson was defeated and forced to abandon his Mount Abundance station in May 1849.

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Our quote of the day is from: Irving Berlin
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.

Congratulations to our Gold Team in the Resort Challenge this year who were the Runner-up team in the Gold category.

Here they are collected their badges at the function tonight.

Good morning my dear friends, may your day be as beautiful as the first light of dawn.

The artwork I have for you today is by Amanda Diamond at Venus Bay in Victoria.

On this day in Australia, the 15th of June 1924.

Yallourn Power Station began operating.

The Yallourn Power Station, now owned by EnergyAustralia is located in the Latrobe Valley of Victoria, Australia, beside the Latrobe River. Yallourn Power Station was a complex of six brown coal–fired thermal power stations built progressively from the 1920s to the 1960s; all except one have now been decommissioned. Today, only the 1,450 megawatts (1,940,000 hp) Yallourn W plant remains. It is the second largest power station in Victoria, supplying about 8.4TWh in 2024, or around 16% of Victoria's electricity and 4% of the National Electricity Market. The adjacent open cut brown coal mine is the largest open cut coal mine in Australia, with reserves sufficient to meet the projected needs of the power station to 2028. On 10 March 2021, EnergyAustralia announced that it will close the Yallourn Power Station in mid-2028, four years ahead of schedule, and instead build a 350 megawatt battery in the Latrobe Valley by the end of 2026. At the time, Yallourn produced about 20% of Victoria's electricity.

Map of the major towns and coal-fired power stations in the Latrobe Valley
Power generation at Yallourn was first proposed in 1919 when the Victorian Government appointed a committee to investigate the use of coal from the Latrobe Valley. The plant was operated by the State Electricity Commission of Victoria, and the first sod was turned at the Yallourn Power Station site in 1921. Along with the power station, the town of Yallourn was constructed nearby to house workers of the plant. Coal was moved from the open cut mine to the power station by the Yallourn 900 mm railway, a narrow gauge electric railway running along temporary tracks in the mine. The Morwell Interconnecting Railway was later provided to the Morwell power station and briquette works for the transfer of Yallourn coal to the briquette works, as Morwell mine (now called Hazelwood mine) coal did not briquette satisfactorily.

In the complex, Yallourn A was the first plant opened in 1928. "A" station consisted of six Metropolitan-Vickers sets each 12.5MW. Steam was supplied by 12 John Thompson chain grate boilers each producing 80,000 lb/hr at 260PSI and 640 °F (338 °C).

Yallourn B entering service on 11 April 1932. B station consisted of four Metropolitan-Vickers sets of 25MW. Steam was supplied by 10 John Thompson chain grate boilers each producing 120,000 lb/hr at 260PSI and 670 °F. Yallourn A was demolished in 1968, and Yallourn B following in the early 1970s. Yallourn C, D and E stations were commissioned in 1954, 1957 and 1961 respectively, and provided the bulk of Victoria's power until Hazelwood Power Station became operational in the mid 1960s. Yallourn A, B, C & D were constructed as 'range'-type power stations that connected individual boilers to a common steam range before connecting to the turbine.

C station had 2 turbo alternators, each 60 megawatts (80,000 hp). Steam was supplied by 6 pulverized coal burning water tube boilers.

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Our quote of the day is from: Ayn Rand
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Good afternoon everyone

Well, if you were unable to be at the first round of the Ladies “B” Singles Championship game this afternoon, then you missed out on seeing some great bowls being played.

Several times I saw where a player was holding four shots when her opponent would come down with the last bowl to be played and either take the shot or reduce her opponent’s score to just the one shot.

In one game it came down to one point at the last end to decide the winner, several of the ladies playing have only been playing for a few years and really surprised me as to how well they played.

Congratulations to all players on an entertaining afternoon of bowls.

Game one: Rhonda Pascoe v Jan Cassels with Rhonda taking the win.

Game two: Shelia Wojtasik v Carol Ashley with Sheila winning that game.

Game three: Margaret Rees v Narelle Meiforth saw Margaret coming out on top in a very closely fought game.

Game four: Jenny Baker v Maz Gooding with Jenny taking the win.

Be sure to mark your calendar for next Sunday for the second round, come on down at 1pm to give the ladies your support. Unfortunately, I cannot be there as we will out at our eldest daughter's home looking after all on the family's dogs, cats, chickens and ducks while they are away for ten days.

Good morning one and all, today we see the start of the Ladies "B" singles Championship, they would love to see you come down and give your support, so if you have nothing on this afternoon, come on down at 1pm and you see some great bowls being played. Good luck to you all, may you all have a great game.

The artwork I have selected for you today is in Toowoomba and was done by Elysha Rei.

On this day in Australia, the 14th of June 1943.

Forty American service personnel are killed in Australia's deadliest aviation disaster at Bakers Creek, Queensland.

The Bakers Creek air crash was an aviation disaster that occurred on 14 June 1943, when a United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft crashed at Bakers Creek, Queensland, Australia. The aircraft took off from Mackay and crashed approximately 8 km south of the airfield. Forty military service personnel on board were killed; one person survived the crash. The crash is Australia's deadliest aviation disaster by death toll and was the deadliest accident involving a transport aircraft in the south-western Pacific during World War II.
The aircraft was a Boeing B-17C, serial number 40-2072, known as "Miss Every Morning Fixin".

The six crew and 35 passengers were returning to New Guinea after an R&R break. The aircraft was part of the United States Fifth Air Force, operated by the 46th Troop Carrier Squadron of the 317th Troop Carrier Group. It had formerly been one of the B-17s sent to the Philippines in the autumn of 1941 with the 19th Bomb Group. It had been converted into a transport after suffering heavy battle damage in a mission on 25 December 1941. Over 1,100 bullet holes were found when the plane returned to Darwin.

The plane earned its nickname due to the constant work needed to keep it airworthy. A former maintenance chief estimated that for every eight hours the aircraft flew, it required at least 12 hours of maintenance. During the ten days before the plane's last flight, mechanics installed a new fuel tank and two new engines, and a satisfactory test flight was made on the previous day.

The aircraft took off from Mackay Airfield just before dawn at about 6 am in foggy conditions, headed for Port Moresby. Soon after, it made a low-altitude turn and crashed a few minutes later. All but one person on board was killed. The cause of the crash remains a mystery.

Australia's equal second deadliest aviation disaster, the 1960 crash of Trans Australia Airlines Flight 538, also occurred at Mackay Airfield.

A memorial was unveiled at Bakers Creek, near Mackay, Australia, on 11 May 1992, consisting of two brick columns aligned northwards on which are mounted flag poles and two brass plaques facing eastwards.

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Our quote of the day is from: William Butler Yeats
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.