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RSL needing more members By Dongyun Kwon
L-R: Yarra Glen RSL secretary and treasurer Edward Bartosh, vice president George Miller and president Michael Watkins. (Stewart Chambers: 459391)
A local Returned and Services League of Australia (RSL) sub branch is calling for current or former servicemen and servicewomen, and their family members to be part of them. The local sub branch holds a barbecue party on the last Friday of each month from 12pm at the Yarra Glen Memorial Hall and is going to host a special opening day on Saturday 8 March to introduce the RSL to people. The Yarra Glen RSL committee would like to host more social events if they succeed in recruiting more members. Yarra Glen RSL secretary and treasurer Edward Bartosh said the purpose of the RSL is to remember and assist those who have served or their dependants who need help financially and emotionally. “We host a Remembrance Day Service and Anzac Day Service. We invite local school children to come on Anzac Day and tell us what it means to their family and them,” he said. “We also assist with other RSLs in the Yarra Valley to remember the Vietnam vets who were not treated very well when they came home.” Turn to page 20 for more
Roo cull division By Callum Ludwig Kangaroo harvesting in the Yarra Ranges divided the opinions of councillors during the Tuesday 11 February Yarra Ranges Council meeting. During a councillor motion brought by Walling Ward Councillor Len Cox, Cr Cox and Woori Yallock resident Peter Preuss put forward a plea for Yarra Ranges Council to formally request to be removed from the Gippsland Harvest Zone under the Kangaroo Harvesting Program (KHP).
Mr Preuss said 10 other councils in what used to be the Central shooting zone have asked for and been given an exemption and he’s calling on Yarra Ranges Council to do the same. “The reality is, if you pass the motion, the minister will probably say ‘ No, you’re too late, you should have done it last year’, you’re now in the Gippsland shooting zone and there’s a quota of 120,000, and the shooters that get tags for that region can start shooting them from here all the way through to Mallacoota,” he said.
“You’re not going to be able to control that, and it’s happening all over the place already, but if he says yes, what’s happens is our farmers, and there’s only a few of them that might want to shoot, they can still do it under the old system and at least our kangaroos will be safe.” Commercial kangaroo harvesting was reintroduced in Victoria in 2019 through the KHP, which sets a limit on the number of kangaroos which can be killed by harvesters.
Cr Cox, having joined Mr Preuss for a ‘Walk and Talk’ he held at the Yarra Valley Living Centre in late 2024, asked Mr Preuss a couple of questions about the wellbeing of the kangaroos at the centre and the reports of kangaroo populations increasing. Multiple councillors spoke to the motion, some in favour and others intent on seeking more information before making a decision. Turn to page 7 for more
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