Southern YarnThe June 2015

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JUNEFIFA Women’s World Cup Canada

Monday 8th June, 3 pm, USA v AUSFriday 12th June, 4 pm, AUS v NGAMonday 15th June, 3 pm, CHN v NZLWinnipeg Stadium315 Chancellor Matheson Road, Winnipeg

JULYWinnipeg Folk FestivalJuly 9-12, Birds Hill Park

Check out the performing artists from Australiaand New Zealand joining musicians from acrossNorth America and across the world inWinnipeg’s annual big outdoor festival of music.

Annual Pool Party and PotluckSUNDAY 19th July, 2 pm

Jason and Lynley Davidson57 D’arcy Drive, WinnipegThe Club will provide burger and buns,but it is a potluck, so bring and share side dishes and desserts. Let Lynley know you are coming by calling her at 204-275-7631 or204-943-3775. NOTE: this event was originallyscheduled for the day before.

AUGUSTSaturday 22nd August Golf Tournament at The Players2695 Inkster Blvd.

Details to come, but let Peter Munnknow you’re interested. Phone204-237-1805

RSVPIf you let us know you are coming, we can beready for you! RSVP to (204) 487-0067 orsocial@downunderclub.mb.ca.

Advertise in The Southern Yarn. Contact Jenny (228-9959,info@downunderclub.mb.ca) for all the rates.Send your submission by email toinfo@downunderclub.mb.ca or mail to PO Box1655, Stn Main, Winnipeg MB R3C 2Z6.

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Folk Festival serves up Down Under

Folk music duo Xylouris White will be part of the lineup at the year’s Winnipeg Folk Festival.

Let the smooth rhythms from Down Underwash over you this summer at the WinnipegFolk Fest, July 9-12 at Birds Hill ProvincialPark. We know you can’t compare BondiBeach with Birds Hill, but these diverse actsare sure to lift your spirits up while bringinga bit of the down under to you.

Don’t miss the sizzling vibe and sharppolitics from bluesman Ash Grunwald. TheAustralian has said his album NOW calls forsocial change while “making heads nod andbooties shake.”

Daniel Champagne may be in his mid-twenties, but he has been a touring pro forover eight years, releasing three full-lengthalbums, several EPs, and a live CD. 2014’sThe Gypsy Moon, Vol. II raised heads andbrought this classically trained, blues-lean-ing guitar slinger accolades.

Gorgeous, cascading, masterful, captivat-ing. Those descriptors are consistently usedwhen describing Luluc. This duo has earnedfans around the world mostly through wordof mouth. Their debut, Dear Hamlyn, was fol-lowed up by last year’s dreamscape, Passerby.Let these two take you away this summer.

A star on the rise, Marlon Williamsbegan his career at just 17. Named an artist to

watch by Billboard New Zealand beforereleasing his self-titled album, his solosound lends a country croon to bluer notes.He’s now based in Melbourne.

Perch Creek is a rag-tag brood of siblingsplus one pal that equals a whole lotta fun foraudiences from Adelaide to Alabama. Start-ing off as a family band led by pop BobHodgkins, these kids have carried on thefamily business of rustling up a good time.

Duo Xylouris White have been called“brilliant musicians” by the New York Times.While they look like an odd match, withlutenist George Xylouris having a musicalheritage stretching back to generations nearthe mythic Cave of Zeus, and drummer JimWhite coming from a noisy background withpast bands Dirty Three and People WithChairs Up Their Noses, the two fuse togetherseamlessly, blending Mediterranean melodywith punk rhythm.

We’re lucky enough to have each of theperformers you just read about at the festival,playing our stages at various times through-out the whole weekend. Save yourself a triparound the world and join us in Birds HillPark for these Australian acts that will setyour summer ablaze.

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G’day – Thank you to club member, Dennis Wood-ford, this month for sending in the storybelow of his connection to Kelly country.

“Getting to know..” is the second of athree-part series looking at Treaties – thismonth, New Zealand – p. 4.

The birds i view this month are seagulls,among others (p. 6).

Thanks to other contributors for thismonth – Jenny, Murray and Brian.

I am saving space here so there is roomfor more interesting news in this issue.

Enjoy!

It’s been a strange start to our sum-mer, with the weather all over theplace, but hopefully we can lookforward to many long, warmdays ahead. I’ve been play-ing nursemaid for manyweeks now, as Margaretdecided to take theexpress elevator down thelast few stairs at ourdaughter’s house about 7weeks back. The cast hasnow come off her leg, and her right fibulalooks a lot better on the x-rays, but rehab is

taking time to work its magic. So I’vebeen the chief cook and bottle-washerduring that time, and I have to saythat the marriage vows, especiallythe obey bit, are stretching a bitthinner than usual thesedays. Luckily though, it was aclean break, so the healing hasgone well. Unluckily, it was theright leg, so driving is out of thequestion for now. So that’s allfor now.

“Yes dear, I’m coming”.Peter

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Farewell to JamesTumeOn May 8, 2015, DUCWmembers Peggy, andYvonne and Odette, losttheir husband and father,

James. He was born in Lon-don, England, on May 22,1923, and joined the RoyalAir Force prior to the Sec-ond World War, reachingthe rank of Sergeant. Dur-ing the Second World War,James was stationed inSouth Africa with the Com-monwealth Air Training asa Radio Tradesman with theAir Sea Rescue. After theWar ended, he met andmarried Peggy, the love ofhis life. The couple movedto Canada in 1957 whereJames worked for Avro on

the CF100 and CAE sup-porting the RCAF Pinetreeradar sites. In 1964, whilein Australia, he worked forWeapons Research Estab-lishment RAAF Edinburgh.In 1972, he worked at thepaper mill in Dryden,Ontario, from 1972 until heretired at age 65. He thenmoved to Winnipeg to becloser to his daughterYvonne. James lived a fulland exciting life. He will bemissed by all who knewhim.

By Dennis Woodford

Iwas raised in Ned Kelly Country on afarm in Bobinawarrah about 20 km fromGreta where Ned Kelly had lived. From

our farm house we could look across theOxley Plains to the saddle in the WarbyRanges where Glenrowan nestled. In themid 1960’s, another movie of Ned was to bemade with Mick Jagger starring as Ned. Thiswas an insult to some of the locals as theRolling Stones in those days were a culturalshock to rural Victorians. Then to add fur-ther insult, the movie was shot in New SouthWales.

In order to appease the public in NedKelly Country, the World Premiere of themovie was to be held in the Glenrowan Hall.Glenrowan of course is where Ned was dra-matically captured in his armour.

Well, the Premiere commenced, buthalfway through its showing there was agreat explosion and the back end of the hallwas blown out with dynamite! So ended thePremiere of the movie with Mick starring asNed Kelly.

The Ned Kelly Blowout atGlenrowan

Like a big pizza piePizza Hut and Four ‘N Twenty Pies are team-ing up to produce the “Four ‘N TwentyStuffed Crust”.

The pizza includes a mini Four ‘N Twen-ty meat pie on the crust of each slice. Therest of the pizza contains meat such as pep-peroni, ham and bacon. The pizza alsocomes with two tomato sauce sachets for thepies. This release is part of a marketingeffort to coincide with the rugby league Stateof Origin series (between Qld and NSW).[More online.]

Enlightened Hobart Huge numbers of bioluminescent dinoflagel-lates creating phosphorescence in breakingwaves. (Wikipedia)

Late in May there was a glow in the Der-went River, Hobart, Tasmania. The source ofthe blue luminescence was billions of plank-ton, also called “Sea Sparkles”. Jellyfishexpert Lisa-Ann Gershwin, interviewed bythe ABC, was one of many who headed toSouth Arm, a peninsula south of Hobart, toenjoy the spectacle.

Dr Gershwin said while biolumines-cence was quite common, the concentration

of the blooms she witnessed were very rare.Dr Gershwin said the display was the mostspectacular she had ever seen.

“It was the most wondrous sight imagina-ble,” she told 936 ABC Hobart.

“I’ve seen a lot of bioluminescence in thepast 25 years and this is the best I’ve everseen.” [More online.]

Local fine dining with our menuOut near the northern perimeter is an oppor-tunity to wine and dine on a downundermenu. 925 Bistro and Lounge is located inthe Arrowwood Plaza at the corner of Lagi-modiere and Headmaster Row in North Kil-donan, and Chef Paul has developed sixspecialised menus that will definitely whetyour appetite.

The other menus are The Caribbean, TheVegetarian, The Private Dinner, The Prairiesand The Whole Hog, but the one that mightbe of interest to our members is The Aus-tralian.

To take advantage of the menu on offer,you need to preorder with a week and a halfnotice so everything will be made to suityour tastes. The Australian menu is outlinedon page 7 of our online version of The Yarnand on our website.

Caption: Brendon McCullum and Trent Boult cele-brate after dismissing England batsman Gary Bal-lance.

Black Caps triumph at HeadingleyThe Black Caps have won their first gameagainst England in 16 years, levelling the

test series 1-1 and winning the second matchby 199 runs.

The result was a tribute to the cadence atwhich they played after being sent in. Theymade 804 runs at 4.93 an over and weredenied more than a full day's cricket due toinclement weather.

The victory was another tribute to Bren-don McCullum's leadership. Off the field heinsisted they could play the same way theydid at Lord's, after seeing the test slip fromtheir grasp on the fourth day. With this victo-ry, McCullum edges ahead of Geoff Howarthas the most successful New Zealand captainby virtue of percentage wins.

ANZAC dogCaesar, A Company, 4 Battalion, New ZealandRifle Brigade

Caesar the bulldog, wearing his official col-lar, led the grand parade down Auckland’sQueen Street before the Rifle Brigade leftNew Zealand for the war. He was a trainedRed Cross dog and helped rescue woundedtroops during the Battle of the Somme in1916. Dogs were especially useful for helpingstretcher-bearers find wounded soldiers inno man’s land at night.

Caesar was killed in action. His collar isnow held at the Auckland War MemorialMuseum. Patricia Stroud wrote book abouthis life, Caesar the Anzac dog, which wasillustrated by Bruce Potter. [Link.]

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Treaty peopleThis is the second in our look at wherethings are at with Treaties in our 3 countries.Last month was Australia; this month it’sNew Zealand.

The Treaty of Waitangi is New Zealand’sfounding document. It takes its name fromthe place in the Bay of Islands where it wasfirst signed, on 6 February 1840. This day isnow a public holiday in New Zealand. TheTreaty is an agreement, in Māori and English,that was made between the British Crownand about 540 Māori rangatira (chiefs).

Growing numbers of British migrantsarrived in New Zealand in the late 1830s,and there were plans for extensive settle-ment. Around this time there were large-scale land transactions with Māori, unrulybehaviour by some settlers and signs thatthe French were interested in annexing NewZealand. The British government was initial-ly unwilling to act, but it eventually realisedthat annexing the country could protectMāori, regulate British subjects and securecommercial interests.

Lieutenant-Governor William Hobsonhad the task of securing British sovereigntyover New Zealand. He relied on the adviceand support of, among others, James Busby,the British Resident in New Zealand. TheTreaty was prepared in just a few days. Mis-sionary Henry Williams and his son Edwardtranslated the English draft into Māoriovernight on 4 February. About 500 Māoridebated the document for a day and a nightbefore it was signed on 6 February.

Hobson and others stressed the Treaty’sbenefits while playing down the effects ofBritish sovereignty on rangatiratanga(chiefly authority). Reassured that their sta-tus would be strengthened, many chiefs sup-ported the agreement. About 40 chiefs,starting with H�ne Heke, signed the Māoriversion of the Treaty on 6 February. By Sep-tember, another 500 had signed the copiesof the document that were sent around thecountry. Some signed while remaininguncertain; others refused or had no chanceto sign. Almost all signed the Māori text. TheColonial Office in England later declared thatthe Treaty applied to Māori tribes whosechiefs had not signed. British sovereigntyover the country was proclaimed on 21 May1840.

The Treatyis a broad state-ment of princi-ples on whichthe British andMāori made apolitical com-pact to found anation stateand build a government in New Zealand. Thedocument has three articles. In the Englishversion, Māori cede the sovereignty of NewZealand to Britain; Māori give the Crown anexclusive right to buy lands they wish to sell,and, in return, are guaranteed full rights ofownership of their lands, forests, fisheriesand other possessions; and Māori are giventhe rights and privileges of British subjects.

The Treaty in Māori was deemed to con-vey the meaning of the English version, butthere are important differences. Most signif-icantly, the word ‘sovereignty’ was translatedas ‘kawanatanga’ (governance). Some Māoribelieved they were giving up governmentover their lands but retaining the right tomanage their own affairs. The English ver-sion guaranteed ‘undisturbed possession’ ofall their ‘properties’, but the Māori versionguaranteed ‘tino rangatiratanga’ (full author-ity) over ‘taonga’ (treasures, which may beintangible). Māori understanding was atodds with the understanding of those negoti-ating the Treaty for the Crown, and as Māorisociety valued the spoken word, explana-tions given at the time were probably as

important as the wording of the document.Different understandings of the Treaty

have long been the subject of debate. Fromthe 1970s especially, many Māori have calledfor the terms of the Treaty to be honoured.Some have protested – by marching on Par-liament and by occupying land. There havebeen studies of the Treaty and a growingawareness of its meaning in modern NewZealand.

It is common now to refer to the inten-tion, spirit or principles of the Treaty. TheTreaty of Waitangi is not considered part ofNew Zealand domestic law, except where itsprinciples are referred to in Acts of Parlia-ment. The exclusive right to determine themeaning of the Treaty rests with the Waitan-gi Tribunal, a commission of inquiry createdin 1975 to investigate alleged breaches of theTreaty by the Crown. More than 2000 claimshave been lodged with the tribunal, and anumber of major settlements have beenreached.

Next month: Canada’s Treaties

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Refugees flee Bangladesh,Myanmar for death at seaThousands of Bangladeshi refugees areamong the victims of piratical smugglerspromising passages to freedom, which forhundreds end in death at sea or rejectionashore at their coastline destination.

They are just a fraction of the displacedtoday from Myanmar and Bangladesh seek-ing hope and safety in Indonesia, Thailandor Malaysia.

Latest is the discovery of 40 gravesbelieved to be Rohingyas at the Myanmar-Malaysia border.

Most of the Bangladeshis in flight aredescendants of refugees, originally Rohingyas,who fled persecution in Burma, and in flightthen were absorbed by Bangladesh more than30 years ago.

Now they seek relief from privation inhuge Bangladeshi camps they occupy. Theylook to hope in the more developed south buttoo often these days find their transportationis a “floating coffin.” Thousands have drowned.

Bangladesh is itself an impoverishedcountry of over 160 million people. In itsshort history as an independent nation, ithas faced a major civil war, massive internaldisplacement, famines and frequent naturaldisasters.

In addition, it is hosting over 200,000Rohingya refugees from Burma in the east-ern region, and in recent years recognizedthe nationality rights of large numbers ofUrdu-speaking minority (also known asBiharis or Stranded Pakistanis).

The Rohingya ethnic minority of Burmais one of the most persecuted and at the sametime one of the largest stateless groups in theworld. Stripped of their citizenship by theBurmese government in 1982 and forced toflee by violent military campaigns and sus-tained persecution since at least the 1940s,over one million Rohingya live in exile.

South Africa scraps tax intelSouth Africa’s tax agency has disbanded asecret intelligence unit that was createdunlawfully in 2007. A government-appointedinvestigation found it had damaged the pub-lic’s confidence in the tax institution.

The SA Revenue Service “does not haveand did not have the statutory authority tocovertly gather intelligence,” Judge FrankKroon, who heads a committee probing alle-

gations of impropriety at the agency, toldreporters in Johannesburg last month. Nobudget was allocated for the unit and moneyand human resources spent on it was waste-ful and fruitless, the committee found. SARSCommissioner Tom Moyane has disbandedthe unit, Kroon said.

The tax agency has been rocked by resig-nations of several senior executives sinceMoyane took office in September. Localnewspapers have reported a range of allega-tions of wrongdoing, including that the Rev-enue Service operated a “rogue” unit, whichspied on senior political leaders, includingPresident Jacob Zuma.

Corrupt Chinese headed our wayCommonwealth countries are popularretreats for Chinese fleeing legal process inChina, a Beijing report shows.

With that in mind, China has securedfrom Interpol 100 “red notices” for corrup-tion suspects as part of its campaign to pur-sue fugitives that have sought sanctuary inforeign countries.

Released by the Interpol National Cen-tral Bureau for China in April, the list isaimed at appealing to foreign law enforce-ment authorities for help in the repatriationof those named.

The Interpol notice identified some whofled the Chinese mainland as early as 1996.Forty of those sought are believed to be inthe US, 26 are in Canada, 11 in New Zealand,10 in Australia, Thailand and Singapore arealso presumed to be major destinations forthe fugitives.

The “notices” offer case details for eachfugitive including a list of alleged crimes, apassport-sized photo of the individual andinformation on their Chinese resident identi-ty card.

The list also provides the fugitives’ for-mer positions of employment, date of depar-ture from China and the countries they arebelieved to have moved to.

Among those on the list, 12 left China in2013 when the new Chinese leadershipunder President Xi Jinping took power,according to the country’s top anti-graftagency, the Central Commission for Disci-pline Inspection (CCDI).

At the top of the list is 68-year-old YangXiuzhu, a former Zhejiang provincial govern-ment official who oversaw urban develop-ment. She is wanted for embezzlement,according to the Interpol notice. Yang fledChina with some family members in 2003.Authorities have revealed little about heralleged crimes but her brother was arrestedfor taking bribes in March of that year.

Calming the South China Seasover disputed boundariesAt least two Commonwealth nations,Malaysia and Brunei, have good reason toworry about the security of their maritimeboundaries as China flexes its muscle to layclaims to sovereignty over large stretches ofthe South China Sea.

Indeed, a new report by the InternationalCrisis Group, which is dedicated to the pre-vention of worldwide conflict, sees the poten-tial for political, if not military, nastiness ifgoodwill is breached.

As ICC writes, the South China Sea is thecockpit of geopolitics in East Asia. Five coun-tries – Brunei, China, Malaysia, the Philip-pines and Vietnam — plus Taiwan — havesubstantial and competing territorial andmaritime claims in a body of water that isboth an important source of hydrocarbonsand fisheries and a vital trade corridor.

“The recent history has been scarred bycycles of confrontation. Today, the clashesare becoming more heated, and the lullsbetween periods of tension are growingshorter. As the region continues to grow ininfluence and power, the handling of thecompeting claims will set the tone for rela-tions within East Asia for years. “

Kigali: End child marriageThe Commonwealth is jumping into the fightto eradicate child marriages.

Its National Human Rights Institutionsagreed the new Kigali Declaration – to pre-vent and end child marriage, after a two-daysession in Kigali, Rwanda.

All agreed child, early and forced mar-riage presents a serious and persistent viola-tion of the rights and causes irreparabledamage to victims and society as a whole.The declaration sets out a framework to takestrengthen and calibrate efforts to eliminatethe practices. Key commitments includemonitoring the enforcement of legislation;improving data collection and promotingcompulsory education for girls.

Murray Burt writes this column to raise sensitivi-ties to the Commonwealth’s value and to lift thecurtain on our understanding of a third of the pop-ulation of the world. The Commonwealth nameand significance is rarely mentioned in daily news,he says. It should be. Burt is president of the Man-itoba branch of the Royal Commonwealth Society;past president of the Commonwealth JournalistsAssociation; secretary of the Queen’s OwnCameron Highlanders of Canada advisory board;Hon LCol of the 78th Fraser Highlanders; a sena-tor of the 166th Battery RCA (Kenora) and a direc-tor of The Intrepid Society. He is retired frommore than 50 years of journalism.

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commonwealth place by Murray Burt

Seagulls, and so many others …An Upclose article in the Winnipeg FreePress on April 11, 2015 by Martin Zeiligreported on efforts by a dedicated group ofvolunteers who, from 2010 to 2014, “trav-elled to almost every corner of Manitoba inan unparalleled effort to complete a compre-hensive survey of all bird species that breedin the province..”. The bulk of the article is aQ&A with Dr Christian Artuso, of Bird Stud-ies Canada, who has co-ordinated the result-ing Atlas since its inception and who notesthat ”birds are an excellent indicator of thehealth of the ecosystems”.

I used to regularly contribute to a similarproject in Australia [Link]. It involved takinga walk around my immediate neighbourhoodonce a month and counting the birdsobserved, both numbers and species. Thelist presented in this article compares anaverage list from rural Queensland with mybirds I view in south Winnipeg.… and of course many others come and

go, but the one that most surprised me whenwe first came here was the Seagull. MyAussie bird-brain only associated them withcoastal waters, so what was the attraction

here? Well, we soon learned of all the nearbybodies of water - AND Brady landfill!

The most common gull here is the ring-billed gull (Larus delawarensis), so namedfor the dark marking on its bill. Another youmight see at the water is the herring gull – ithas a red mark on the lower bill, which, whenpecked at by the hungry chick, triggersregurgitation of a meal by the parent. The sil-ver gull (Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae)is the most common one found throughoutAustralia.

Of New Zealand’s gull species, the black-blacked gull, or karoro (Larus dominicanus)is the largest, at 60 centimetres long.

Gulls in New Zealand slang have a roughreputation. In the 1930s wharf labourerswaiting for scraps of work were called seag-ulls. And in rugby, a seagull is a loose for-ward who scavenges for pickings on theedges of tight play. [Link.]

Board of DirectorsPresident: Peter MunnVice President: Catherine BoweringSecretary: Margaret MunnNewsletter Editor:Charlie PowellTreasurer: Peter DebenhamSocial Coordinator: Liz HydesmithMembership:Norm GriffithsPast President: Terry Roberts

This newsletter can be downloaded in PDFformat from the website. Thank you to all ofour contributors within the club, fromoverseas and information services. Layoutby design@hydesmith.com

The Southern Yarn is published by the DownUnder Club of Winnipeg, Inc. (DUCW). Theviews and opinions expressed bycontributors to this publication are notendorsed by, nor do they necessarily reflectthose of, the members of the DUCW. TheDUCW and the Editor of The Southern Yarndo not accept any responsibility for thecontent or accuracy of information orwebsites contained in this publication.Articles may be republished withpermission of the Editor.

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Mallard duck

Continued from page 3: Fine DiningThe AustralianChef’s Presentation – A tasting plate of grilledprawns with a curried pineapple glaze, presentedby the Chef in charge of cooking your dinner

Salad – Papaya and green apple salad with housepickled beets and mango vinaigrette

Appetizer – Blackened crocodile spring rolls withcabbage, bean sprouts and carrot, drizzled withdark soy sauce

Amuse Bouche – Kiwi sorbet

Entree – Grilled kangaroo loin with a red winereduction over pumpkin stuffed phyllo pastry anda herb microgreen salad

Dessert – An Australian and New Zealandfavourite, the pavlova. A merangue cake that’scrispy on the outside, soft and fluffy on the inside,topped off with honey rum whipped cream andseasonal fruit.

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Glenrowan, site of the stand-off battle with Australian outlaw Ned Kelly.