Solos Network Rally
The CMCA Solos Network and the Rally Committee wish to thank the people of Cohuna and Gannawarra shire for the fantastic welcome and hospitality we received during our recent highly successful rally, with over 250 campervans, motorhomes and caravans, and participants.
We particularly enjoyed your great, positive articles and photos in the newspaper.
It was fantastic publicity for your town and the Solos Network.
Everyone who attended had a wonderful time in your lovely town and its surrounds.
A large number of our visitors were happy to spend a considerable amount of money in the shops, footy club, bowls club, pubs, bakeries, restaurants etc.
Our recorded spend was over $90,000.
Marilyn Bromley,
Admin coordinator for Solos
Network Cohuna Rally Committee
(On behalf of everyone involved, including rally manager Mal Smith and assistant
rally manager, Lynn Rees)
Workplace
manslaughter laws
EVERY Victorian deserves to be safe where they work and I’m really pleased that proposed workplace manslaughter laws have passed the first hurdle in the lower house of the Victorian Parliament.
As many as 30 people are killed in workplaces across the state every year, with 20 people having already lost their lives so far in 2019.
Under the proposed new laws, which deliver on an election promise, employers who negligently cause a workplace death will face fines of up to $16.5 million and individuals will face up to 20 years in jail.
Too many Victorians have had their lives tragically cut short after simply going to work and this new offence will hold employers who don’t put safety first to account.
This legislation was developed after extensive consultation with business, unions, industry and victims’ families.
I have to say, I’m immensely disappointed that local Liberal and Nationals MPs – including Louise Staley and Emma Kealy – voted against the new laws when they were presented to the lower house.
It doesn’t matter if you work in construction, retail, administration, a factory or a farm – no person deserves to die at work.
I urge Liberal, Nationals and Independent politicians to do the right thing and pass this legislation when it comes before the upper house in coming weeks.
Jaala Pulford MP,
Labor Member for Western Victoria.
