Dubbo Trivia Questions: 1. Dubbo was gazetted as a village on 23 November 1849 and declared a municipality on 19 February 1872 with its first Mayor elected on 24 April 1872. It is now a City. a. …
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Business owners often tell me that one of their biggest fears is that they will take good, young, inexperienced staff members and train them and give them skills and experience, and then they will leave the organisation and chase the bigger bu…
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It was back in 2013 that ‘selfie’ was named the 2013 word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries. The first use of the term was credited to an Aussie who was describing a photograph he took of himself after falling over drunk after a twenty f…
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As a true blue Aussie, I am very proud to be doing something today that our cricketers have struggled to do recently. Chalk up a century. Today marks a century of columns in my current series for Fairfax. For my one hundredth column, I thought of loo…
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Buskers. School canteens. Tips. Coffees. These are the reasons people often give me to support the argument that we will never be a cashless society. I accept the fact that it may well be a long time before we are cashless but never is a very long ti…
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State of Origin time again and what a fascinating contest in Melbourne on Wednesday night. Not fascinating because NSW actually won a game but fascinating for the technology inherent in the modern broadcast. Since 2014 we have seen the NFL (National …
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The alarm goes off. The hand reaches for the button to stop the noise before bounding out of bed to engage in some gaming before the reality of the real-world sets in. Breakfast, chores and the trip to school. Sounds like a typical morning for a teen…
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While reading through the list of proposed sports for the 2020 Olympic Games, I noticed a new sport was being added. It is called “clayless pigeon shooting.” The concept is remarkably similar to the traditional clay pigeon shooting, excep…
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Jetgo news in the Daily Liberal today is disappointing. Background information: When I was elected Mayor in September 2011, I spoke with Dubbo residents about what they saw as priorities for Council and one of the main priorities was for more air ser…
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It was way back in April 2009 that I had finished talking at a seminar in Copenhagen and was due to fly out to my next stop in Amsterdam but I took a slight detour. While at the conference I was told by a local about a fascinating piece of infrastruc…
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Media release Mathew Dickerson to stand as an Independent Mathew Dickerson has announced that he will be a candidate at the next State Government election to be held on 23 March 2019. At a media conference in Macquarie Street in Dubbo held at …
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Despite the variety of NBN access methods I have previously written about in this column (FTTP; FTTN; FTTB; FTTC; FW; HFC…you get the picture) and the relative merits of the different technologies, all of these are significantly better than th…
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Media release Two years since the Dubbington amalgamation – where are the results? At 12.10pm on 12 May 2016 the Governor of New South Wales, with the advice of the Executive Council of the NSW State Government, proclaimed the amalgamati…
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Well another federal budget announcement has come and gone and pundits are still poring over the papers to see what devils lurk in the detail for different groups and sectors. From a pure technology perspective, there wasn’t a lot to get overly…
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On the day affectionately known across the geek world as Star Wars Day (May the 4th be with you) I thought about the seemingly never-ending series of movies we have seen so far – and continue to see – and how that same concept often appli…
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I walked into a large whitegoods retailer to buy a new fridge for our staffroom. I made one statement to the salesperson: “I need to buy a fridge with a built-in water cooler.” No more, no less. He showed me the “only model that had…
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Everyone using a mobile phone in our country – which means practically everyone – has some gold bling they aren’t necessarily aware of. The mobile phone system we use in Australia is know as GSM (originally standing for Groupe Sp&ea…
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With the mention of military drones, the first image that comes to my mind is that of Helen Mirren starring as Colonel Katherine Powell, a UK military intelligence officer, in the 2015 British thriller film, Eye in the Sky. This movie focused on the …
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When I read ‘The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club’ I should have taken more notice of the words of Charles Dickens. As far back as 1837, Dickens had one of his characters use the expression “Never say never.” Since the f…
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