Triffic news from the Sunshine State in today’s un-so-good days with the impressive number of six high-risk invasive plant species being eradicated from Queensland’s list of alien, invading and intruding plants that threaten the health and lifestyle of the local flora many local farmers and communities depend on.
“Invasive plants are a major threat to native pastures,” Biosecurity Queensland’s General Manager of Invasive Plants and Animals, Dr John Robertson announced breathlessly, “costing the grazing industry tens of millions in lost production every year.”
According to the good doctor: “This very important work means 27 plant species have now been eradicated from the State.”
Well done in anyone’s book, but equally well done in PS-sssst’s book was the clever and witty way the news story was promoted.
“Invasive plants nipped in the bud” was the headline that hijacked our heedfulness to score the highly regarded ‘Headline Of the Week Leadership Award’, more widely known as the updated, upgraded and upsetting acronym HOWLA.
Internationally ignored Awards aside, congratulations to the witty and wise headline humourists and may their buds be always nippable!
Spring sprung!
Saying goodbye to the numismatic nomenclatureness of gardening and hello to the alliterative appropriate of agriculture now, PS-sssst! turns its 2-second attention to the Victorian Agriculture agency ‘Agriculture Victoria’ which has jumped to the steep end of humour with its own sense of horticultural hilarity by promoting online ‘webinars’ for irrigating farmers keen to know how to buy and sell water for their farms.
Senior Irrigation Extension Officer with Agriculture Victoria, Rob O’Connor encouraged irrigators and service providers to join in the webinar and learn how to make better informed water decisions when buying and selling water on the liquid market.
“This webinar will discuss the key features of the connected southern Murray Darling Basin water market, as well as the current situation and seasonal outlook for water availability and price,” Mr O’Connor intoned.
The Agency had already unveiled its all-wet, all-bubbly fun series of webinars in the wet when it saddled its humorous horseplay to point out where the series was to be held.
“Agriculture Victoria is running a series of ‘irrigation webinars ‘over spring’,” it announced.
Any spring or a hot one? In honour of coronavirus perhaps?
Or is it just another of the pandemic’s elusive ‘bubbles’
Only time – and water levels – will tell!
Name game
Maybe it’s a NSW thing but the appointments of senior staff positions of talented members qualifying as ‘aptonymic’ for the positons they are filling.
PS-sssst! has always been impressed by the State’s Minister for Health who for many years has been known as Brad Hazzard, presumably referring to a lifetime of familiarity with the world’s ‘hazards’ and ‘hazardousness’ and therefore the perfect person to direct the activities of a health portfolio.
And it couldn’t get much better when we hear that the most senior officer of Mr Hazzard’s Department of Health is the equally aptonymically-suffering Secretary, Elizabeth Koff.
With the NSW PS managing its coronavirus challenges well compared to some other jurisdictions, PS-sssst! is of the perfectly reasonable view that ‘Aptonymy’ should not be discarded as a directive towards achieving a significant and appropriate appointments when all else fails!
A giveaway well given!
Another week another collection of lucky winners in Rama Gaind’s constantly crowd-pleasing and charitable gratis and gratuitous giveaways making resourceful readers resource-richer at no cost to them.
To enlist in Rama’s Army of reading rivalry, all we had to do this week was read Rama’s review of the guide to leadership Work Well Being: How to Lead Thriving Teams by Mark McCrindle and Ashley Fell and then name the three catalysts they say come into our lives occasionally to experience seasons of extraordinary flourishing.
The answer is: ‘significant adversity, extreme dissatisfaction, or exposure to an exceptional leader’ and the three entries whose correct answers were first to escape the PS News Barrel of Booty belonged to Peter S from the Australian Public Service in WA, Amanda D from the Office of the eSafety Commissioner, and Ed H from the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment.
Congratulations to all the winners and thanks to everyone who took part. The new Books will be on their way to their new owners shortly.
In the meantime, for another chance to win give your luck an airing on her current DVD Black Water: Abyss at this PS News link and the other DVD Think Like A Dog at this link.
Good luck to all who do…..
The Wilde thing
And finally, possibly the smartest piece of interest you’ll encounter this side of the next string of smart pages in PS News.
Well known author and Libran (who happens to share an alleged Libran birth date with PS News’s non-alleged editor), one Oscar Wilde pointed out to anyone trying to capitalize by improving themselves to be just like someone else.
“Be yourself,” the ultra-perspective and perspicacious Wilde proposed.
“Everyone else is taken!”
Till next week…..
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