We have lost a truly beautiful Australian. Conductor and music educator, Richard Gill passed away earlier today. He was 76 years of age.
I had the privilege of knowng Richard. He was a spectacular man, always interested in how other people were getting on. His lifelong vocation as a teacher of music will be his legacy.
He understood the great power of joy. A huge and irreplacable loss. Vale Richard Gill.
And here is a Facebook post featuring musicians playing Dam Busters outside his hime yesterday. Richard would have loved it.
Oh my God! I thought AGW would be a bit of a bummer, billions of people dying and all that, but I never thought for one minute we would be confronted with heart rending scenes like this!
Oh, the humanity!
http://www.ansa.it/english/news/general_news/2018/10/30/storms-slam-yachts-into-coast-at-rapallo_50d6c654-3a71-4714-b11e-d9ee71c26032.html
Whitey Bulger dead at 89. Like a lot of successful gangsters he was also an informant. He was also on the run for 16 yrs but ended his days by being smashed over the head with a lock in a sock! Nasty piece of work who worked with the Irish “mob”, who preferred potatoes over pasta!
Tony Mundine taking this upcoming fight with QLD’s Jeff Horn very seriously, Mr. Insider he has just come back from the US where he was training with the Pros there. Mundine gets a $2 Million purse win lose or draw and Horn the same but for young Horn its a must win against 45yo Mundine.
Jeff Horn seems far too nice for boxing or Mundine.
Well done to you, Jack and Denis Ryan on the updated edition of Unholy Trinity.
From what I’ve read, Richard Gill was an extremely talented and much loved man and educator who would remember students names from many, many years ago. Simply remembering a name tells a student they’re valued. And as is often the way in sports mad Oz not a household name.
This will interest you, Bella.
Council elections across Tasmania have shown a strong swing to Labor/Greens.
Hobart’s new mayor is likely to be Anna Reynolds (prev Green but ran unaligned) and Deputy is Helen Burnet, Green.
I would assume this is a strong message against the cable car and other inappropriate developments.
Also the mayor of Glamorgan, Michael Kent, has been booted out. He oversaw the controversial East Cambria property sell off to the Chinese – which is a war still to be waged. Strong smell of brown paper bags on that, imo.
All in all it is the first opportunity Tasmanians have had to give the Hodgman government a strong message at the ballot boxes – even if only council.
I had a chat to Bob Brown the other day. It was the BBF environmental awards event. (A Mackay conservation group got an award – which may interest you.)
Anyway Bob reckons that Hodgman is getting the message. Lets hope so! He also assured me that the cable car will be fought, tooth and nail!!!
Thanks for that info Boa.
I find it interesting that Will Hodgman has moved so fast after the election in his militant obsession to wreck as much of Tassie’s wild places as he can. I could be wrong but are the bulk of new investors Chinese & if so has there been any talk of investing in Antarctica?
Sounds off I know but I received an email a week ago about Russia & China eyeing off new ventures in that currently pristine area.
I also wouldn’t put it past your government handing over the whole box & dice for a brown paper bag ( make that a cardboard box) donation.
It speaks volumes of Bob’s outstanding passion that even though he long ago retired from politics, this man is still throwing himself into protecting not just the Tarkine or the Galilee Basin or the GBR but he still manages to find the time to encourage young environmentalists who may turn out to be our next conservation legend. 🌳
Jesus, I just lost a whole long reply to you, Bella.
Not going to retype it – but in a nutshell, yes, they are busy establishing themselves here – aided and abetted by the Hodgman govt.
A talk on the subject at utas was packed.
Hodgman will lose t he next state election. For a host of reasons.
Losing a post sucks Boa but ta for the effort.
How many years does Hodgman have to go his hardest on selling out Tassie to the highest cash bidder? It’s a tragedy he got in at all.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-30/china-backflips-on-rhino-trade/10444884
There go the Rhinos – what will they do next I wonder.
Bella, re your 29 Oct @ 8.10pm (coal and refugees) from previous topic, I agree that coal is not completely free from unwanted matter. You may have noted that BASSMAN has also taken me to task over my use of the term “clean”. The point I was attempting to make was that exported Aussie coal is “cleaner” than coal exported by other countries. Our coal exports currently play an important role in curbing global emissions. See the ABC’s Fact Check expert opinion I referred to BASSMAN elsewhere on here.
Regarding refugees, whilst Australia may not have “clean” coal, may I say those who would imperil their children and tiny tots by putting them on “leaky” boats in the process of “country shopping”, also may not have “clean” hands. So when you “seriously weep” for those on Nauru, spare a tear for the bodies and bones of the little ones who no doubt rest somewhere on the sea bed between Indon and Aus.
With empathy and kind regards
Carl.
Thanks for your measured reply dear Carl.
I don’t agree with you regarding ‘clean’ coal & I never will. I want the subsidies removed from the mining industry and the majority of Australians want no new coal mines. Unfortunately this government
doesn’t give a jot about failing our emissions target or transitioning to subsidized renewables because their biggest donors like Gina R will withdraw their undeniably conditional support immediately. You know they don’t give the big dollars as philanthropists mate.
As for Manus & Nauru, however they got there, I don’t really care.
You can say they put their children’s lives in danger, that’s not the point. I can say the boat turnarounds would’ve included many more bones resting on the bottom of the sea only we weren’t told about it, but that’s not the point either. These people are human and last I looked these adult & child humans are, after five years of detention for no actual crime, still without a real life. They’re used as a political tool by highly paid jailers without empathy or compassion for their fellow man and that by itself is disgraceful.
Ive posted the link numerous times before Bella but your continual claim that the majority of Australians don’t want new coal mines is just not true.
Thanks for that Razor but the links you post are invariably only the opinions of your mega-biased newspaper, which I can’t get. Thankfully.
Well over 70% of our citizens want immediate action on climate change so why would those people want new filfthy coal mines ?
The sixty year unlimited water license for the Galilee Basin for a known dodgy operator like Adani is just insane, especially in drought, where even agricultural farmers must pay for it.
I do understand why you strive to believe that Adani will fix all that ails regional Qld but please think of the inevitable environmental catastrope our kids & their kids will be left with once Adani scuttles off to the Caymans with the only thing they care about.
Please don’t get angry mate, I really do have legitimate concerns about my son’s & his future son’s world if we don’t care about the damage, and I bet you care as well, enjoing the GBR as you clearly do.
This is interesting Carl…https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-15/clean-coal-will-not-work-industry-insider/8618836
BASSMAN 4.16pm 29 Oct (previous topic) asks:
“Have you ANY idea how many die from pollutants every day Toaster?”
No, but the WHO”s most recent report estimates pa. 1.8 mil in China and 2,5 mil in India.
Regarding pollution/emissions, and prior to his recent career change, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull told journalists, including our ABC : “So if Australia were to stop all of its coal exports, it would not affect – it would not reduce global emissions one iota”. Australia exports “by and large” cleaner coal than other countries”.
The ABC’s fact check verdict: “Experts say Australian export coal is of a higher quality on average compared with other countries, meaning less is needed to generate the same amount of energy. This leads to lower carbon emissions by weight compared with coal from other countries. Mr Turnbull’s claim checks out. In fact, arguably it would increase them because our coal, by and large, is cleaner than the coal in many other countries.”
So you see BASSMAN, as much as you care to continue with your puerile commentary on this issue, Australia is playing its part in raising the living standards for those less fortunate.
Carl the slippery eel. The original argument was that we should reduce our domestic emissions. You started banging on about export coal.
We’re stuffed anyway. Perversely for all your supposed good intentions the “clean coal” you champion may well help cause our demise as the weirdest species in the known universe sooner than if the world used “dirtier” coal.
No, no, no JB, the “original argument” started with your religious reverence of your man Guy’s prophesies and repetitive reappraisals promoting near term extinctions. The poor chap seems to be stuck on a fossil-fueled treadmill and doesn’t know how to hop off.
BTW JB, have you had a chance to take in one of Guy’s recent books – “Ms Ladybug & Mr Honeybee”? A most endearing tale if ever there was one. But have your box of tissues close at hand me old mate.
You are simply telling lies now.
You’re just lying, and you my old mate are so deep in denial you are quite removed from the real world.
You’re OK with the chemical extinction of vitally important to us, insects?
As the erudite Dismayed would say, “No surprises.”
Always feels wrong when there is widespread sorrow over the death of someone I’ve never heard of. Although he does look familiar and I know people who would definitely have known him. Sigh.
Staying with the morbid theme, I was thinking only last week (honest) how many footballers there are in Australia and how statistically, one or more of them is likely to be injured in a road accident every so often (don’t ask me why I was thinking this). Then we lose Colin Sylvia, who I confess I often found irritating on the field. Also a great shame.
Trivalve. Be thankful at least that none of the 29,000 children under the age of five who die each and every day of every year of preventable causes are famous. Imagine how much sorrow we would have to bear if they were famous!
Well that’s relevant
Relative is the word you are looking for. A long time admirer of the energy and compassion of Richard Gill, right or wrong I like to think he would approve of it.