THE theme for this year’s CWA state conference was People, Purpose and Passion and it brought together our concerns about life in this great state of NSW.
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The venue – the Mingara Recreation Club was a magnificent one – just let’s forget about the traffic.
There was the usual mixture of wonderful guest speakers and business sessions with time to inspect the displays.
Sturt Group members will be disappointed to hear that our Beryl Brain was not re-elected as state vice-president. We got the following awards: second for marmalade (Berrigan); second in miniatures – Marnie Steer (Berrigan), second Primary School PPT on Mongolia, also Berrigan Branch.
Our Sydney Royal Easter Show tea rooms made a record number of scones this year - 53,872. The committee donated $150,000 to our association. Some other statistics – 20,000 tea bags were used and 2.5 tonnes of flour was donated by Manildra Mills.
Lyme disease was again voted as our medical research topic with $31,000 going to fund research at Murdoch University.
Resolutions on a broad range of topics were debated – comprehensive weather radar coverage for Western NSW; loss of postal services; mobile blood or cardiac services, mental health and ambulance coverage; sale of farmland, water and agri-business to foreigners; coal seam gas; misuse of antibiotics; thyroid function; iodine deficiency, NBN; grandparents as carers, online advertising and betting and politicians’ pensions.
A resolution of the redefinition of the Marriage Act had a long debate but it was decided that in view of upcoming legislation that we would not put the resolution to the vote at this stage.