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Cygnet Community Hub

Locality: Cygnet, Tasmania

Phone: +61 3 6131 4803

Address: 14 Mary Street 7112 Cygnet, TAS, Australia

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24.01.2022 The high-level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly will be a key opportunity to bring to the forefront the relevance of the Beijing Declaration and m...ove the needle on implementation. Attended by global leaders on Accelerating the Realization of Gender Equality and the Empowerment of all Women and Girls the event will showcase how building equal and inclusive societies is more urgent than ever, as the COVID-19 pandemic ravages lives and livelihoods. Under the theme, Accelerating the realization of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls", this high-level meeting of the General Assembly aims to demonstrate the political will and leadership that will bring about the transformative change needed to address root causes, structural barriers, discriminatory practices and social norms that underpin discrimination and inequality. The event will also showcase concrete actions, plans and commitments to accelerate the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls by 2030, including in support of the role of civil society organizations and youth. 910 a.m.: Opening segment 10 a.m.6.30 p.m.: Plenary segment 6.30p.m.7 p.m.: Closing segment The opening segment will feature statements by the President of the General Assembly, the Secretary-General, a representative of China as the host country of the Fourth World Conference on Women, the Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), the Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund, the Chair of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, the Chair of the Working Group of the Human Rights Council on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice and the Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council on violence against women, its causes and consequences. In addition, an eminent high-level champion of gender equality, a representative from civil society and a young woman leader, all to be selected by the President of the Assembly in consultation with Member States, will take part. Learn more: https://bit.ly/2Saaezs

24.01.2022 Announcing our 2020 Overall Premier's Young Achiever of the Year: Toby Thorpe! Toby Thorpe, 18 of Huonville led the Energy Futures Team at Huonville High Scho...ol to become the sole Australian finalist in the International Zayed Sustainability Prize and the winner of $100,000 (US). Toby has represented his community twice at the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week and spoke at multiple e-meetings across the world. He organised the first ever state-wide Climate Leaders Conference in Hobart, attracting over 350 students and professionals and is an active member of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition. Toby volunteers for Switched on Schools and has empowered young people to take action against climate change through the role of Youth Facilitator at Education for Sustainability Tasmania. Tonight, Toby will take home an additional $2,000 and an amazing overall winner trophy. Congratulations! Huon News Tasminion Government Australian Red Cross Tasmanian University Medical Students' Society (TUMSS) Will Hodgman Huonville

22.01.2022 a pic i took a few years ago at the hotel ruins, lovely little flame robin

21.01.2022 Not all heroes wear capes. Some breed gummy animals. #MiniMocks

21.01.2022 J U S T C R U I S I N G 'Flat-top' the unofficial mascot of Binalong Bay patrolling his territory and doing what he did best... looking good! Sadly, Flat To...p vanished from the Bay about 6 years ago. I am very grateful to have been able to visit him many times over about a 3 year period. He was always easily distinguished by his super cool layer back 'hair style'. Bay of Fires, Tasmania

19.01.2022 Very sad news...

19.01.2022 We want your input and ideas to help shape our state’s recovery from COVID-19. The Premier’s Economic and Social Recovery Advisory Council (PESRAC) is inviting ...Tasmanians to share their thoughts and ideas, as part of Phase 2 of the state’s Recovery Plan. For more information, visit www.pesrac.tas.gov.au/phase_2_consultation

18.01.2022 Clever recycling...

17.01.2022 finding your tribe???

17.01.2022 A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds, 'What does love mean?' The answers they got were broader, deeper, and more pr...ofound than anyone could have ever imagined! 'When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore... So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love.' Rebecca - age 8 'When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth.' Billy - age 4 'Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other.' Karl - age 5 'Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs.' Chrissy - age 6 'Love is what makes you smile when you're tired.' Terri - age 4 'Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK.' Danny - age 8 'Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and just listen.' Bobby - age 7 (Wow!) 'If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate.' Nikka - age 6 (we need a few million more Nikka's on this planet) 'Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it every day.' Noelle - age 7 'Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well.' Tommy - age 6 'During my piano recital, I was on a stage and I was scared. I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling. He was the only one doing that. I wasn't scared anymore.' Cindy - age 8 'My mommy loves me more than anybody. You don't see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night.' Clare - age 6 'Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken.' Elaine - age 5 'Love is when Mommy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Robert Redford.' Chris - age 7 'Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day.' Mary Ann - age 4 'I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones.' Lauren - age 4 'When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you.' (what an image!) Karen - age 7 'Love is when Mommy sees Daddy on the toilet and she doesn't think it's gross...' Mark - age 6 'You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget.' Jessica - age 8 And the final one: The winner was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there. When his mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said, 'Nothing, I just helped him cry.' Now, take 60 seconds and post this for other to see. And then be a child again today!

17.01.2022 All people deserve timely access to healthcare, including abortion care no matter where they live. Some women and pregnant people in Tasmania currently face bar...riers when trying to access a termination. Read more in this blog post: https://www.womenshealthtas.org.au//public-hospitals-shoul

16.01.2022 To celebrate the rice harvest, artists in Northern Japan create giant animal sculptures from leftover rice straw.

15.01.2022 Ágnes Herczeg, Lace Artwork "My name is Ágnes Herczeg. I was born in Hungary and I still live here in a small town next to the river Danube. I started working w...ith lace works in 2013. I mainly use natural threads of plant origin like linen, hemp, cotton, jute, raphia etc. While preparing a lace work, I usually make use of threads of different origin and thickness and I also apply several techniques. I mainly use needle lace technique, which I frequently combine with pillow lace and braiding work. The frame of the pictures is made of small branches, bark, coconut shell or any other material of my liking. This 'frame' constitutes a compositional part of the picture. I lay high emphasis on planning as I have to provide not solely visual content for the picture but also elaborate its structural elements and the order of work phases as well; which may sometimes be as complicated as solving a riddle." www.agnesherczeg.com https://www.instagram.com/agnesherczeg_lace/

15.01.2022 Here's the latest on Cygnet from Sydney Morning Herald Domain feature....

15.01.2022 funny if it wasn't so true

14.01.2022 Get Picking Transport survey trying to find out the transport needs of people who might like to do seasonal work this season? https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GetPickingHuonValleyTranspor

14.01.2022 " someday, power will be given to tenderness..." Rubem Alves

13.01.2022 Hi Everyone, The Sunflower plant a seed event seen in this post relates to the event in Hobart. Quite a few people have asked if we will be having a planting a seed event in Cygnet. We will be at the Cygnet Community Health Garden at the corner of Frederick Street Cygnet at 11.00am on Thursday 8th October, if you would care to join us.... Please let us know if you are coming so that we can have a sunflower seed ready for you. Or, if you prefer bring a seed or two with you. FB Message me or leave a confirmation comment on this post. See you there.... Mez See more

13.01.2022 The ABC Australia has a great job offer for someone to spend three months working on their own content project as part of an ABC Regional Storyteller Scholarshi...p. It can be based in any ABC Regional office across Australia. Applicants must be from regional Australia with a lived experience of disability. It will be approximately a $20K package with 2 scholarships available. You will spend three months working in an ABC regional station, developing your ability to create high quality, compelling content for a variety of ABC platforms, based on your own content idea. For more information: https://careers.abc.net.au//abc-regional-storyteller-schol #ABCJobOpportunity #RegionalAustraliaPosition #ContentProject #ApplicantsWithALivedExperienceOfDisability #3MonthsInAnABCRegionalStation Image Description: A promotional image for ABC Regional Storyteller Scholarship for an Australian with disability. At the top is the ABC logo and the title has white font and the word Scholarship has yellow font all in front of a black background.

12.01.2022 An incredible photo of the spectacular natural phenomenon that occurs when the waves crash into the basalt rock formations that exist in Bunbury. Photo by Mick Steele - @mdlr_photo (IG)

12.01.2022 REMEMBERING LEWIS THE KOALA AND HIS COMPASSIONATE RESCUER TONI DOHERTY... Whenever I smell eucalyptus, I think of Lewis and all of the other precious koalas that we have lost. I imagine them climbing high in those beautiful big gum trees in the sky, dropping a leaf to let me know that they are there. Sharon Rigby November 2019 19th November 2019... I’m sure that many of you, like me, were distressed and brought to tears at the sight of poor Lewis the koala crying from his burns as he was rescued from the flaming fire ground by a compassionate passer by named Toni Doherty. The news reports shocked Australia and the world, and changed the way we thought about our unique, but often taken for granted, koala population. Grandmother Toni Doherty has been hailed a hero after she rushed into smouldering bushland to rescue a koala she saw struggling to escape a raging bushfire. "It was terrifying to see him just come out of the flames... he looked so defenceless running along the road," Mrs Doherty told Today. "It was our worst fear that he ran into the flamesall I could think to do was to try and rescue him. "The poor koala, he was crying and screaming, because he was being burnt. He was burning underneath, on his little back legs... I've never heard a koala before. I didn't realise they could cry out. It was just so heart-rendering." Lewis was born approximately 2005, and lived in the beautiful eucalyptus forests at Ellenborough, which is inland from Port Macquarie on the New South Wales mid north coast. He was around 14 years old when he passed away on the 26th November 2019 at Port Macquarie Koala Hospital. Lewis spent his final moments eating eucalyptus leaves in the caring hands of volunteer Barbara Barrett. His burns were so bad that he had to be taken to her house because he needed one-on-one care at all hours of the day. Koala Conservation Australia President Sue Ashton said the little man was so tired in his final hours that he could barely eat. 'We moved him into homecare for one-on-one, round-the-clock care because we have so many koalas to look after here and he needed more attention. We recently posted that burn injuries can get worse before they get better. In Ellenborough Lewis's case, the burns did get worse, and unfortunately would not have gotten better. The Koala Hospital's number one goal is animal welfare, so it was on those grounds that this decision was made." A video of Lewis’s rescue went viral around the world. People began making koala mittens to be used to protect the affected koalas severely burned paws during recovery. The Animal Rescue Craft Guild received thousands of donated mittens from all over Australia and the world in the months after Lewis was rescued. This led to a heightened awareness of all species of Australian animals who needed help when orphaned or injured. Hundreds of thousands of healing and warming pouches, hanging bags, pods, palaces, cubbies and dreys, blankets, animal jumpers and more have since been made by Craft Guild members from all over Australia, and the world, and sent to the ARC Craft Hub where they are quickly distributed to where they are needed most. Lewis came to represent all of the koalas lost in the Black Summer fires of 2019/2020. He was responsible for raising international awareness of the plight of koalas in this country due to not just the ravages of fire, but the loss of habitat through land clearing and the subsequent loss of life when the koalas no longer have a gum tree to call home. LEWIS FOREVER CLIMBING THE GUM TREES IN OUR HEARTS #rememberinglewisthekoala #ARCG #craftguild #koalas #ARC

09.01.2022 Today is International Mens Day, which is celebrated in over 80 Countries around the world. It is a day to draw attention to some sobering statistics about men...'s health: 93% of workplace fatalities are Men - Bureau of Labor Statistics 97% of war fatalities are Men - U.S. Department of Defense 80% of all suicide victims are men - World Health Organisation 79% of all homicide victims are male - United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime 75% of single homeless people are men - National Coalition for the Homeless Nearly 50% of fathers without any visitation rights still financially support their children - U.S. Census Bureau The gap in life expectancy between the sexes was 4.3 years in 2000 and had remained almost the same by 2016 (4.4). - World Health Organisation 2020 has been tough for a lot of people. This International Mens Day, reach out and have a chat to the men in your life. For more information on International Mens Day, visit https://internationalmensday.com/

07.01.2022 hello lovelies wishing you smiles

07.01.2022 A crack in the Earth's magnetic field over the weekend (not uncommon around the Equinox) allowed the Solar Wind to pour in over Norway. The result? A fantastic ...display of the Northern Lights, that look like it's almost flowing to the ground! Very cool. (spaceweather.com) This image is from Greenlander Tromsø . Check them out...great stuff! See more

07.01.2022 Coming up soon are three beautiful open gardens which are sure to give any artist lots of inspiration. 'Eggs and Bacon Cottage' is artist (and long time HAEG stalwart) Anne Le Fevre's lovely creation.

06.01.2022 Art by Will Santino Illustration

06.01.2022 The One Nation NSW's Religion Bill gives significant power to organisations that define themselves as religious, elevating their religious beliefs over the righ...ts of others. Extending special protections and exemptions to these organisations, this bill will deeply impact the LGBTIQ+ community and many others with different beliefs who seek access to employment opportunities and essential services, such as education and housing, which have been contracted out to these organisations by governments. No laws should place the importance of one group at the risk of harming another. Our laws should protect all of us, equally. Make sure your voice is heard and tell our MP's to not let this flawed and dangerous bill pass! SIGN HERE! https://equalityaustralia.org.au/stoponenationsbill/

04.01.2022 https://www.tasmaniantimes.com//tas-that-was-tasmanian-ad/

02.01.2022 Mat from the bottom pub has lost his leather Tabaco pouch if anyone finds it to please hand it into the commercial hotel ...Mat from the bottom pub has lost his leather Tabaco pouch if anyone finds it to please hand it into the commercial hotel ...

02.01.2022 THE ACTUAL FACTS There are so many incorrect facts being flouted around in the lead up to the Lower House debate next week. Most likely an opponent tactic t...o create fear and uncertainty within the community. Here are the actual facts of our Tasmanian Bill. As always, if you have any questions fire away.... we want to ensure that no one can claim our community aren't aware of what they are supporting The Lower House debate commences on 3 December. You can write to your local member of Parliament here to share your reasons for supporting VAD as an end of life choice: https://dwdnsw.good.do/MPTAS2020/email/ . . . . . #voluntaryassisteddying #yourchoicetas #doingitfordisey #compassion #yourlife #yourright #yourchoice #facts #vad #endoflife #options #peacefuldeath #GoGentle