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Technical Service Team member Douglas Bendigo warehouse manager Paul Mckeon. Chadambuka.
Stockyard Industries expands its Technical Service Team and welcomes new warehouse manager in Bendigo
STOCKYARD Indus- tries would like to wel- come Douglas Chad- ambuka to the Techni- cal Service Team.
Douglas has a diploma in Electrical and Elec- tronics Engineering and a Cert IV in Electrical Instrumentation.
Douglas has more than
20 years’ experience in installation, repair, maintenance and com- missioning of machines in various industrial manufacturing indus- tries.
In his previous roles Douglas was responsi- ble for installation, fault finding, servicing and
maintenance and pro- viding hands-on experi- ence training to staff.
Douglas will be based in Toowoomba, Queens- land for all your ser- vice needs and can be contacted on 0427 583 997 or douglas@stock yardindustries.com
Stockyard would also
like to welcome Paul McKeon as the new warehouse manager at Bendigo.
Paul has more than 23 years’ experience in warehousing in hard- ware and retail.
With the growing business, Stockyard has bought a larger delivery vehicle to service cus- tomers on delivery runs in southern NSW, Victo- ria and South Australia.
The larger vehicle al- lows the team to add more equipment onto the runs.
With the rakes, the drivers can now can car- ry longer feedpipes.
After adding the soon- to-be-delivered alumin- ium trailer, Stockyard’s new vehicle will be able to carry more than 4.5 tonnes of products.
Stockyard’s new delivery vehicle.
In the line of fire
EVERY year, thousands of volunteer firefighters give up their free time and risk their lives to help their follow citi- zens.
Australia’s leading spe- cialist bushfire fighting pump company Austral- ian Pump Industries de- cided to find out what makes a firefighting vol- unteer tick.
The company launched a program to pull entries from volunteer brigades in Victoria with a view to letting them have their say about what makes these folks put themselves in the line of fire.
According to the ‘State of the Climate 2018’ re- port, there has been a long-term increase in Australian fire conditions and the length of bushfire seasons.
This has been a con- stant trend since the 1950s and there’s no denying the fact, even if the cause is open to question.
The concept of volun- teer firefighting appears to be almost unique to Australia.
The idea is that citizens, most of whom already have a full-time job, give up their leisure time with family and friends to train and educate people and raise funds, then in emer- gency situations, they don their gear and report for duty within community that needs them most.
Country Fire Authority volunteers respond
Aussie Pumps’ Brad Farrugia said, “We start- ed with the Country Fire Authority in Victoria be-
cause we know they have 50,000 volunteers and that is a mighty force.”
Aussie Pumps builds high-pressure firefighting pumps used by farmers and home owners to pro- tect their property.
They’ve supplied hun- dreds of pumps to the Na- tional Parks and Wildlife Service and to the Rural Fire Service in NSW.
The company believes if the volunteers are going to have to put themselves at risk, they should have the best equipment and get the credit they deserve.
“The more we get to understand the volunteers and the people who give up their free time, the more we realise what a huge debt we have,” Far- rugia said.
“We appreciate the over- ly selfless men and wom- en who protect the lives and properties of others.”
Here are some samples of the great responses the company received.
This is from Craig War- ren from Wallington Fire Station.
He said a lot with his short sharp comment about volunteers giving up their time.
The question was ‘what motivates a volunteer to join?’
“The only reward is feeling good about your- self by helping others,” Craig said.
Carol Brislane from Anakie Fire Brigade came up with a good point.
“I hope I may inspire others to join,” Carol said. Aussie Pumps was flooded with entries but
eventually Christmas Hills Fire Brigade won the prize of an Aussie Fire Red Brigade Fire Captain high-pressure firefighting pump based on this very lyrical entry from Liz Mildenhall.
“Motivated to learn about fire behaviour and suppression after the devastating Black Satur- day bushfires, we women joined the Christmas Hills Brigade. Ten years later with more knowledge and skills under our belts, we feel our efforts are valued, enjoy the teamwork and feel safer living in our beautiful bush,” Liz said.
Christmas Hills typical- ly has a history of active women firefighters going back to the 1970s.
Several of the female members are officers and hold important roles with- in the brigade.
The brigade often fields an all-female crew!
Aussie Pumps distribu- tors around the country are getting behind this “appre- ciate the firie volunteers” campaign and doing their bit to help out as well.
Bushfire survival guide
Tens of thousands of Aussie Pumps’ Bushfire Survival Guides are going out into the market, free of charge to help people prepare for the worst.
The guide helps to pro- tect property, livestock, crops and human life.
For more info on the Aussie Pumps’ prod- uct range, contact Aus- sie Pumps or dealers throughout Australia.
www.aussiepumps.com. au
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Congratulations to Christmas Hills Brigade and Dianne Simmons (captain), Deirdre Lucas (secretary) and Veronica Holland (firefighter).
Littleproud welcomes Aussie Farms decision
FEDERAL Member for Maranoa David Littleproud has wel- comed the decision of the Charities and Not-for-profits Com- mission to strip Aussie Farms of its charitable status.
Aussie Farms runs a website listing the pri- vate details of thousands of Australian farming families and encourag- ing activists to take part in farm invasions.
“This is a win for common sense,” Minis- ter Littleproud said.
“As Agriculture Min- ister I wrote to the
Charities Commission- er asking him to review Aussie Farms’ charita- ble status.
“Today he acted.
“I also worked with the Attorney-General to bring Aussie Farms un- der the Privacy Act with a maximum penalty of $2.1 million for breach- ing the Act.
“Charities do not in- vade people’s privacy and encourage illegal behaviour.
“Our farmers deserve respect for putting the best food in the world on our dinner tables.
“These activists put
farming families at risk by encouraging large- scale trespass.
“No one wants 50 strangers invading their backyard where their kids play.
“Aussie Farms will lose charity tax benefits after being exposed for what they are – militant activists.
“It’s time Aussie Farms came to their senses and took their attack map down.
“We will always stand behind our farmers and farming families who have done nothing wrong.”