Intriguing news from Queensland this week with the Department of Seniors, Disability Services and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships (DSDSATSIP) announcing that the State’s annual Disability Action Week, has picked up its bed and moved on.
Announcing the walk into the future, the State Minister for Disability Services announced that the traditional Action Week’s usual September date is to move into December and align with the International Day of People with Disability, giving organisers more time to plan COVID-safe events and activities.
“Disability Action Week will be celebrated from 5 to 11 December this year,” the Minister declared.
A most logical and understandable move under the circumstances for which PS-sssst! wishes the Minister and his organisers the very best of success.
Excuse PS-sssst! for being its usual uber-pedantic self however but there is one mini-matter we can’t fail to notice.
The International Day of People with Disability this year is being held on 3 December!
“Missed by THAT much!”
A track leading back
Great news from Victoria now that the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) is inviting the community to comment on plans to finalise a 90km walking track alongside the State’s legendary beach highway, the Great Ocean Road.
Sadly it’s only great news if we’re American!
That’s because the spectacular walkway the comment has been invited on has been lumbered with Uncle Sam’s yankee title the ‘Great Ocean Road Coastal Trail’ instead of the green and gold Aussie moniker ‘Great Ocean Road Coastal Track’.
While Australia classes such classical walkways as the Birdsville Track, the Kokoda Track, Strzelecki Track and hundreds more as tracks – and Mr Oxford defines ‘trail’ as ‘something that trails or hangs’, ‘a trellis for training climbing plants’ or ‘to haul or tow something’ – PS-sssst! is of the view that a walkway as naturally prestigious as Victoria’s Great Ocean Road deserves a prestigious Australian name by being honoured as a track.
Already an active section of the nation’s 655km Australian Alps Walking Track, Victoria has shown it can be done, linking up with New South Wales and the ACT.
Could it be time to link up the Great Ocean Road with Australia?
Booking a good read
To Rama Gaind’s weekly giveaway now where two copies of the inspirational book Breaking Good have been offered on the offer of offering to readers simply answering one of Rama’s far-too-easy questions: Who was the memoir Breaking Good was written about?
The correct answer is its author, the past Australian and South Pacific kickboxing champion Simon Fenech and the first two correct entrants whose entries escaped the PS News Barrel of Booty were Kelvin E from the Western Australian Department of Communities and Brian R from Victoria’s Department of Families, Fairness and Housing.
Congratulations Kelvin and Brian and many thanks to everyone who took part in Rama’s latest brain scraper. The free prize books will be fighting their way to their new homes very soon.
For another chance to try your luck in the Garden of Rama simply visit her review of the Book Sort Your Money Out & Get Invested at this PS News link and answer her quiz question and/or visit her review of the Book The Pick-up at this link and answer her quiz question there, after which fame, fortune and a free prize could be yours if you become one of her wise, worthy and witty winning winners.
Good fortune to all!
Zipped lips
And finally, a final word of wisdom from our Mistress of Mental health, Philomena S of the Victorian Department of Families, Fairness and Housing whose occasional offerings can mean the difference between a day of dismal drudgery and a pastime of playful pleasantness.
Today we have a fraction of Philomena’s Philosophy, fragmenting a flair of aphorism and sharing the wisdom of the wise:
Fresh out of Philomena’s foresight is the following phrase of finesse she obviously got her teeth into:
“A Closed Mouth gathers no Feet!”
And so say all of us!
Till next week….
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