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@mullokintyre What's that!!!!!
@mullokintyre What's that!!!!!Bit like sex.
Mick
do you imbibe the flattie through the little aperture?I am always bemused when getting a coffee and use a keep-cup. They always have those cute emblems on the coffee which I cannot see when I put the lid on the cup.
Monty Python tragics take note .Looks like the "we were so poor" Monty Python skit has some truth to it.
Eric Idle says he's so broke he still has to work at 80.
Monty Python is a financial disaster, says Eric Idle
British comedian Eric Idle says the legendary Monty Python comedy troupe is a financial "disaster".www.thenewdaily.com.au
Oophs looks as if the idiot driver used a short measuring stick for height.
Nah they are all in the Midland Food Hall these days!!!!!!!.
And I've run out of grunt!!!
You and me both, I am trying to think of a believable excuse not to go to my next appointment.And I've run out of grunt!!!
Like most states, the NSW government is more than happy to collect the royalties from miners, but is extremely reluctant to pass on some of those royalties to the regionals that have to give up all thats required for the royalties to be levied.Several New South Wales councils say they are missing out on crucial funding that helps them pay for road upgrades and community services that support nearby mines.
Since 2012, mining communities have received tailored funding through the Resources for Regions fund, which delivered $560 million for 355 projects across the state.
It was abandoned in the 2023–24 budget and mining communities were told they could instead access funding through the Regional Development Trust (RDT).
Multiple councils have told the ABC they have not been allocated mining funding for two years.
NSW Minerals Council chief executive Stephen Galilee said government support was particularly important for remote mining communities such as Broken Hill and Cobar.
"The ability for those communities to fund some of the infrastructure that is needed to maintain big mining operations near those communities is limited," he said.
"We're talking about 26 local councils out of a total of nearly 100 regional councils that have had funding taken away over the past two years."
The state government sets aside $25 million annually from mining royalties, which are revenue taxes paid to governments to extract minerals, for the Royalties for Rejuvenation Fund — designed to support coal mining communities.
Brad Cam is the chair of the Royalties for Rejuvenation Central West Regional Expert Panel.
He estimated $75 million was sitting in that fund but said the panel had been told it was being withheld, without reason.
"We had got the guidelines finalised ready for the first rounds of funding to be rolled out and that unfortunately has been stopped," Mr Cam said.
"We've been told as chairs that the funding has been quarantined until 2028."
Figures from the NSW Minerals Council show mining royalties delivered a record $4.7 billion to the state's economy in 2022/23 and are forecast to deliver more than $13 billion over the next four years.
Mr Cam called for the Royalties for Rejuvenation funding to be made available to mining communities.
"We feel like we've become the forgotten areas in regional NSW," he said.
Might need a bit of modification to the suspension, but apart from that should be fine!
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