SAPOL- Safety assessment crowded places

SAPOL- Safety assessment crowded places

SAPOL - Crowded places

SAPOL - Crowded places


Crowded places


Places where large numbers of people gather are at risk of a terrorist attack. This includes:
entertainment venues
hotels and convention centres
major events
public transport hubs
sporting venues
shopping and business precincts
tourist attractions
significant one-off events.

Places most at risk are those where:
attendance of large numbers is predictable
security controls are minimal.
Risk assessment and advice

The national terrorism threat level for Australia is PROBABLE. Credible intelligence, assessed by our security agencies indicates that individuals or groups have developed both the intent and capability to conduct a terrorist attack in Australia.

A number of global factors and events have come together to indicate a terrorist attack in Australia is now more likely.This multifaceted threat was the reason the Commonwealth Government developed Australia's Strategy for Protecting Crowded Places from Terrorism in August 2017.

We must maintain vigilance in the face of an escalating global terrorist threat that continues to affect Australia. It is timely to review your security, emergency and business continuity plans.

Identifying potential targets for terrorist attack is not precise but there are things that you can do to minimise the risk.

On this page you will find some useful documents, links, a guided self-assessment tool and an audit to help you assess the threat of terrorism at your location.

Information about the National Terrorism Threat Advisory System and the current level can be found at www.nationalsecurity.gov.au
For South Australian Users Only
Crowded places self-assessment tool

If you are the owner or operator of a place in South Australia where large groups of people gather use the safety assessment for crowded places to:
assess the likelihood of a terrorist attack
get advice on where to go for risk management guidance.

SAPOL encourages you to take the time to complete the questionnaire.


Complete the Crowded places self-assessment

Note, the guided self-assessment will be updated shortly to reflect Australia's Strategy for Protecting Crowded Places from Terrorism but the above link should still be used in the meantime.

Once you have completed the self-assessment tool, it is advisable for you to undertake the complementary Crowded Places Security Audit. This primarily aims to:
present a menu of security issues, some of which may be relevant to the type, size and risk profile of your crowded place; and
provide an impetus for you to address any security gaps in a proportionate manner.


Complete the Crowded Places Security Audit

Contact the Critical Infrastructure Support Group for information and advice about crowded places or the self-assessment tool. Phone 7322 3622 or make an enquiry online.
Event planning advice

If you are planning a community event, contact your SAPOL District/Local Service Area planner for advice.

District/Local Service Area planners are located at the following locations:
Adelaide Police Station, Grenfell St
Phone 7322 4800 Christies Beach Police Station
Phone 8392 9085
Elizabeth Police Station
Phone 8207 9411 Port Adelaide Police Station
Phone 8207 4254
Mt Barker Police Station
Phone 8398 1700 Nuriootpa Police Station
Phone 8568 6620


If you are planning a major event, contact the Emergency and Major Event Section on 7322 4275 for advice.
Contact

Critical Infrastructure Support Group
Make an enquiry online
Phone 7322 3622.
Related information

Australia's Strategy for Protecting Crowded Places from Terrorism

Active Armed Offender Guidelines for Crowded Places

Improvised Explosive Device Guidelines for Crowded Places

Chemical Weapon Guidelines for Crowded Places

Hostile Vehicle Guidelines for Crowded Places

National guidelines for the protection of critical infrastructure from terrorism

Australian Government information relating to National Security

Safe and Healthy Crowded Places Handbook

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Peter Lewis dies, aged 75 | The Murray Valley Standard

Peter Lewis dies, aged 75 | The Murray Valley Standard



SEPTEMBER 28 2017 - 1:48PM
Former Member for Hammond Peter Lewis passes away, aged 75


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Controversial state politician Peter Lewis has died, aged 75.


Mr Lewis represented the Murraylands in South Australia’s lower house of Parliament between 1979 and 2006.



He served for more than 20 years as a Liberal MP, but will be remembered for agreeing to bring Labor Premier Mike Rann to power in exchange for a long list of demands, and for his tumultuous three years as Speaker of the House of Assembly.


Mr Lewis succeeded Bill Nankivell as the Liberal Member for Mallee, as it was then called, on September 15, 1979.


However, on July 5, 2000 he publicly called for the leader of his own party, Liberal Premier John Olsen, to step down in favour of Dean Brown.


His colleagues expelled him from the party that night, but Mr Lewis stuck to his guns, telling The Murray Valley Standard the next day “I’m not ashamed of anything I’ve said or done”.


He was re-elected as an independent MP, under the Community Leadership Independence Coalition banner, at the 2002 election despite trailing the Liberal candidate for Hammond on first preferences.


Neither Labor nor Liberal won a majority at that election, and it fell to Mr Lewis to decide which would form government, a task he regarded as both a burden and an opportunity.



His decision to support Labor leader Mike Rann led him to receive death threats, but again, he said he had no regrets.



“You should get out of public life if you haven’t got the guts to face it,” he told The Standard.



“Of course it’s hurtful, but it mustn’t be allowed to affect the logic or the objectives.”


Those objectives included improvement to South Australia’s system of government, including the introduction of citizen-initiated referenda, a reduction in the number of MPs and the removal of political parties from the upper house; and benefits for rural areas, including better consultation, job opportunities, infrastructure and services.


In Hammond, he wanted gillnetting to be banned, roads to be improved, the weed branched broomrape eradicated and private school students allowed on public school buses.


He told The Standard the words of US president John F Kennedy had guided him: “ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country”.


In return for his support, he was elected Speaker of the House of Assembly on March 5, 2002.


However, in March 2005 he sensationally claimed that a sitting MP and senior police officers were paedophiles, but did not provide any evidence.


He resigned as Speaker on April 4, moments before a vote of no confidence could be brought against him.


He remained in Parliament, but an attempt to shift from the House of Assembly to the Legislative Council at the 2006 election failed, and his political career was done.



He spent the later years of his life involved in mining investments.


Recollections


The current Member for Hammond, Liberal MP Adrian Pederick, said Mr Lewis would be best remembered for the decision he made in 2002, a decision whose repercussions were still being felt after 15 years of Labor government.


“Peter and I certainly didn’t agree on everything, but he was a long-standing Member for Hammond and Member of Parliament,” he said.


“My condolences to his family.”

Former SA MP and speaker Lewis dies

Former SA MP and speaker Lewis dies




Former SA MP and speaker Lewis dies



Former South Australian parliamentary speaker Peter Lewis has died at the age of 75.
UpdatedUpdated 28 September 2017
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The man who ushered in the past 16 years of Labor government in South Australia, former Liberal MP Peter Lewis, has died aged 75.

He was first elected in 1979 but the Liberals expelled him in 2000 after he spoke out against the party's government.

He stood as an independent in 2002 and when the election result returned a hung parliament, Lewis held the balance of power and controversially installed the-then Labor opposition leader Mike Rann as the new premier.


Labor made Mr Lewis the Speaker and has held power ever since, winning the next three elections.

Attorney-General John Rau said Mr Lewis was a "very, very colourful character",

"He certainly was a very interesting speaker," Mr Rau told reporters on Thursday.

"To be in the parliament during his period, one never quite knew what was coming next."

Mr Rau said while it was impossible to tell what would have happened had Mr Lewis not sided with Labor in 2002, his decision appeared vindicated at the 2006 poll when the government won with a significantly increased majority.

"As it turned out, when Labor was put into office by Peter, it was a stable government, it was a government which was successful and the community clearly endorsed that decision overwhelmingly at the 2006 election," the attorney-general said.

"So, if you're looking at it from the perspective of electoral consequences, electoral history and the verdict of the people, it would seem Peter made the right call."

Mr Lewis resigned from parliament in 2005 before facing a no-confidence motion.

Both Premier Jay Weatherill and Opposition Leader Steven Marshall offered their condolences to the Lewis family.
Source: AAP

Bill Bryson: The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes From a Small Island | Book Review

Bill Bryson: The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes From a Small Island | Book Review

Twenty years after ‘Notes from a Small Island’ an older Bryson potters round a much-changed Britain

Notes from a Small Island - Wikipedia

Notes from a Small Island - Wikipedia



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Notes from a Small Island
Notes From A Small Island cover
Author Bill Bryson
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre Non-fiction
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers

Publication date 1995
ISBN 0-552-99600-9
OCLC 60305303


Notes from a Small Island is a humorous travel book on Great Britain by American author Bill Bryson, first published in 1995.
Overview[edit]

Bryson wrote Notes from a Small Island when he decided to move back to his native United States, but wanted to take one final trip around Great Britain, which had been his home for over twenty years. Bryson covers all corners of the island observing and talking to people from as far afield as Exeter in the West Country to John o' Groats at the north-eastern tip of Scotland's mainland. During this trip he insisted on using only public transport, but failed on two occasions: in Oxfordshire and on the journey to John o' Groats he had to rent a car. He also re-visits Virginia Water where he worked at the Holloway Sanatorium when he first came to Britain in 1973. (He met his future wife while employed at Holloway.)

On his way, Bryson provides historical information on the places he visits, and expresses amazement at the heritage in Britain, stating that there were 445,000 listed historical buildings, 12,000 medieval churches, 1,500,000 acres (610,000 ha) of common land, 120,000 miles (190,000 km) of footpaths and public rights-of-way, 600,000 known sites of archaeological interest and that in his Yorkshire village at that time, there were more 17th century buildings than in the whole of North America.

Bryson also pays homage to the humble self-effacing fortitude of British people under trying times such as the world wars and Great Depression, as well as the various peculiarities of Britain and British English (such as not understanding, on his first arrival, what a counterpane was, and assuming it was something to do with a window. It is a British English word that means quilt.) Bryson also recalls first going into an English tobacconist's and hearing the man in front of him ask for "Twenty Number 6", and assuming that everything in Britain was ordered by number. A popular brand at the time was [Players No. 6], and in British English it is usual to ask for twenty (cigarettes) meaning a packet, not twenty of them.)
Reception[edit]

In an opinion poll organised for World Book Day in 2003, Notes from a Small Islandwas voted by BBC Radio 4 listeners as the book which best represented Britain.[1]

The book was adapted for Carlton Television in 1998 and appeared as a six-part 30-minute documentary broadcast on ITV from January to February 1999. The book is available in an audio book format as well.

Heavily abridged, the book was read in five fifteen-minute episodes by Kerry Shale for BBC Radio 4. It has been repeated on BBC Radio 7 several times.[2]

Bryson praises the city of Durham in the book. He later became Chancellor of Durham University from 2005 to 2011.[3]

The title of Briton Neil Humphreys' book Notes from an Even Smaller Island (written on his experiences in the former Crown Colony of Singapore) appears to be a reference to Bryson's book.[citation needed]

Rising above the Babel » The Senior

Rising above the Babel » The Senior


Rising above the Babel


Tuesday, 9th January, 2018

John Piggott

YOU'LL NEVER TALK ALONE - Eckhard Roehrich and Joanne Cho are members of the Central Coast NSW Esperanto Club.
BONVENON al la mondo de Esperanto! (Welcome to the world of Esperanto!)
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What, never heard of Esperanto? You should: it's the world's most popular constructed language, with a special gift of making friends out of strangers.


Not only that, it's good for you too, says 73-year-old Eckard Roehrich, who only began learning Esperanto in recent years.


"It's an exercise that keeps you active and alert and your mind fit and well," the Central Coast senior said of the language developed by LL Zamenhof in the 1870s.


The retired doctor says that no matter who you are, Esperanto is easy to pick up; he was well on his way in just a day.





Some words of Esperanto


Whereas languages like English and his native German are full of exceptions, Esperanto is "logical and consistent in every respect", he said.


For example, it has a simple, regular structure, the grammar is clear and straightforward, and there are no sound-alike words with different meanings!


But more than that, Esperanto is a community, Eckard said.


"There's always the argument that it is not a living language, that it doesn't have a population, that it doesn't have a country. But it is still a community and it's open to everyone.


"We can travel the world without ever paying a hotel bill. We go from invitation to Esperanto invitation.


"In more than 100 countries you will find Esperantists and you can visit them and invite them back. That's what makes the community and keeps the language alive."


With the rise of social media, these are good times for the language. There are many free sites to learn and practise online.


"Probably three-quarters of my Facebook friends are in Esperanto," said Joanne Cho, founder of the Central Coast club, which meets in Wyong.


"There are speakers all around the world, so I get to hear about what's happening in places like in Italy directly, without having to rely on mainstream media. I use it every day - but not Twitter so much."


Esperanto is the perfect vehicle for learning, Eckhard said.


"Computer language, the sciences, astrophysics - you can teach anything in Esperanto. "


There is even a virtual university, based in the tiny sovereign state of San Marino, inside Italy, where Esperanto is the main language used.


But it is hardly a dry, highbrow language. There is beauty in it, too.


"So many artists, so many musicians speak and perform in Esperanto," he said.


"Poetry, too, There's a creativity to it. You can change words slightly, cut off part of the word, play with the order, as in any poetry."





Treasure Island in Esperanto


Nor is Esperanto a stranger to literature, with Australian author Trevor Steele having won acclaim for his novels and short stories in the language.


And it can be fun. The worldwide Esperanto community gets together for conferences at every opportunity.


From March 29-April 2, for example, the Australian Esperanto Association will hold its Second Tri-Nation congress in Bekasi, Indonesia, promising a feast of theatre and music, excursions, classes, conversations and laughter.


Special guests will include Congolese-born, French-based jazz-reggae musician Zhou Mack Mafuila.


Central Coast Esperanto club, contact Joanne Cho, 0413 087 340, centralcoast@esperanto.org.au


National contact: aea.esperanto.org.au


NSW/ACT contact: aea.esperanto.org.au/nswact