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This is a new website for the people of Cann Valley.
This site will become the central online portal for locals to reach out to other locals, to showcase their ideas, to collaborate on community projects, to store and archive community documents, to publish community events, to discuss local issues and find local solutions.
So if you are a local community group, business or individual hit the registrations button above. Its simple, instant and free. Even you if you do not need a website, register anyway and add your thoughts to this page and others. Post your events and news.
- What do you want most for this area?
- slow sustainable growth
- A good job & a quiet life
- A self-sufficient, eco-friendly & attractive town that will keep the town thriving for many more years to come
- Peace & quiet, town that that work together, not use as welfare or hiding place for people who don't want to work
- To become a cohesive productive community with a sense of purpose
- More tourism
- Some family people with children
- A swimming pool for our kids / community. ( I know it was tried before but that's not a reason to not try again.)
- to become more self-sustaining and less dependent on tourism
- a decent police man
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- More shops
- A bakery
- A swimming pool
- A pool
- More, better people
- Swimming pool
- Safer roads
- Resiliance stability, happiness, health (social and physical) NOT prosperity, unrestrained growth, environmental degradation
- Parent / offspring activities; volleyball / ride on mover racing etc.; bush nurse / children first aid courses
- To get rid of the timber industry and stop this outrageous burning regime. Capitalise on our clean, green opportunity
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- more opportunities for children (music, sport, dance, drama, etc / festivals / markets / swimming pool etc), more work in tourism / craft aft galleries, the more there is the better it all compliments each other.
- Regional public transport & being able to return hom ethe same day to do business, recreational outings - sporting event - arts events etc. & entertainment
- I want the destruction of our most precious asset, our forests, to stop.
- To encourage families to remain in the area and participate in community activities
- Stability & healthy growth
- What does this area need most?
- another industry
- more gainful work & opportunity
- Employment, young families with children who are actively involved in community events & activities
- Better info centre, proper tourist bus & adventures
- Cohesion and ability to work towards a common goal. Eco Tourism
- industry
- Jobs
- A swimming pool
- More employment and childcare. More self-sustaining industries - food crops
- a good clean out and the old house that the druggies are living (in) burnt down
- Two police man so one can be on duty on weekends when we need one most
- Shops
- A butcher
- A swimming pool
- A pool
- New people
- more shops and tourists
- Bakery / cake shop, large welcome signs urging tourists to take a break and stop! Fruit and vege shop
- Stable primary production. Well planned & regulated eco-tourism. People who are positive and community-minded
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- To recognise that it has other industries such as agriculture, here long before the timber industry, environmental tourism, Aboriginal cultural history, healthy life-style industry. Get rid of the timber industry and its lobbyists
- Selling the area to the tourists. More made of the feature of the lyrebird such as a large lyrebird built in the church garden park or in the centre of the main intersection.
- Organised groups & transport to take children to Orbost or Bombala for activities / sport / art etc and transport in general. Training for tourism ventures & small business in town
- We have 3 industries - not 1. Farming, tourism, timber. Timber is on the "down curve" - tourism is only 6 months at best. We need another industry or 2 to bridge the gaps.
- To shut down all loggin / chipping etc. activities
- Alternate industry. Need to produce something
- Access to more facilities & services, a stable working population
- What do you love most about living in this area?
- the freedom
- The mountains, forests, parks, beaches & the people
- National park, clean lakes & friendly people
- The tip (free), green happy valley, meet lots of interesting people
- The natural assets and the talents of people within our community
- The bush, peace, no smog. Health vacinity's close to coast.
- quiet, people, bush, beach
- Community spirit & support and beautiful area
- Remote beauty and its potential
- don't
- Nothing but can not do anything else at the present
- I don't know
- The quiet nights
- nothing
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- There are 3 different ways to EXIT the town
- peace and quiet
- Remoteness / unspoiled countryside. Real fair dinkum people
- Trees, down to earth people, clean air, water, scenery, quietness
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- Its natural beauty currently being spoilt by the timber industry and narrow-view politics. The history - Aboriginal & early settler families.
- Farms, hills, tall trees and ferny gulliles, Closeness to the coast. Bird life.
- The beauty, the closenit community, the beaches
- Goog climate, fresh air - safe environment 5 degree warmer than Melbourne in Autumn / Winter. Access to local National Parks - Beach and Bush walks.
- We live in a beautiful environment, unfortunately it is being destroyed by greed
- The creativity that is part of my work.
- Fresh air & a feeling of freedom (real or otherwise)
- What do you think our greatest strength is?
- Our people
- The natural environment
- Locals who are patriotic about living in Cann River & young individuals who are offering and suggesting ideas to make some changes. Tourism is another strength which could blossom if transport access is available & widely promoted.
- Location, wilderness
- Our diverse range of people and our natural assets
- being a junction of highways
- We have lots to offer here nice place to live Bush Beach etc.
- Our naturally beautiful rivers, mountains, etc.
- Our water
- There is none
- Since the old people have passed on I don't believe there is any strength left.
- I don't know
- The gas stations
- I don't know
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- No idea
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- The people. Location. The road traffic will increase 2-fold in the couple of years, we should plan for it.
- Our environment, our placement on main highways & heart of wilderness destination for eco-tourism, our people
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- The natural beauty and peace of the area - this must be retained - not spoilt by chain-saws, log-trucks, smoke from burning the area
- (Farms, hills, tall trees and ferny gullies, Closeness to the coast. Bird life) Quaint church in centre of town. We are small enough in number to know most others and care for / look out for others.
- Tourism, Tourism Tourism. People pay lots to go on organised tours (ocean, Bush, river) train people up we have a future in more than saw logs & pulp
- Location, location, location. Cann River is strategically located at the junction of Princes Hwy & Monaro Hwy. Halfway between Sydney and Melbourne - and 3 hrs from Canberra.
- Our natural environment
- Forests and coastal areas
- Our isolation, our community
- What do you think our greatest weakness is?
- Our lack of confidence
- The tyranny of distance
- Isolation and [the rise] in fuel prices & grocery; selective population who are afraid of change & confronting our economical, social & environmental problems head on.
- People's attitudes, not moving forward
- Complacency, lack of cohesiveness. Work left to the same few, lack of willingness to cater especially for youth of the area
- To many people not working
- More for the kids to do at weekend; Too many (single) person living on own; not enough getting together; don't need too many commitee (?), more (activities) to put on like sport, dancing for middle age people, trips away
- Isolation, poverty, lack of direction, geographically scattered community. Tiny population.
- Tired attitudes
- drugs and alcohol
- When the old people's units are let out to rat-bags and drunks sure I would not want to live there
- Everything
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- I don't know
- No people
- The town's people
- not enough parking area and not enough shops
- Lack of resources and money. We need more things & shops for tourists to stop for.
- small town politics, empire builders, lack of community champions, a lack of vision
- Let's rip off a tourist attitude
- The all the eggs in one basket approach since the timber industry appeared in the 1950s. That has caused our narrow-view development - it has retarded our progress.
- Not enough musical events
- Too few people do all the work to provide more services while the majority winges but doesn't help
- Outdated Vic Government policy papers in relation to our town profile is grossly outdated and a hinderance to growth of our town also Aust Bureau Statistics can be up to 5 years old.
- Still being focussed on destroying forests - Wake up Cann River! Forest are carbon soaks - get into the 21st Century!
- Not able to retain our younger people
- Our isolation, cost of fuel, small population
- What is our most pressing problem?
- Lack of employment options
- declining population
- The possibility of our mill closing down & people moving out of town finding work & recreational activities
- Lack of interests for youth
- Shifting from a timber focussed town to concentrate on growth areas relating to tourism and giving the youth of the area a sense of purpose. community need to be able to adapt to change. Lack of employment.
- No work. Too many people don't want to work.
- Not enough jobs, or things like housing. Getting more active things to keep going. Petrol too dear, also shopping here too dear.
- Lack of direction, Splinter groups not working together. Lack of money, lack of enthusiasm, jaded / tired attitudes.
- Keeping people here and sustaining that population with our own produce
- Unmarried mothers not caring for their kids they get paid to look after the children but spend the money buying and selling drugs
- Drugs and drinking and there is nothing done about it also people abusing the tax payers
- No shops
- No one cares
- Not having a swimming pool
- No people
- The whole area, and people
- Not enough people go through the town
- Getting Cann River recognised as a great revival town for tourists
- lack of community cohesion, economy which affects travellers
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- The timber industry and the narrow view of people who believe that it was the industry that set this place up - it was not - family-owned farms, timber mills and mining started this area.
- With Cann River being at the junction of 2 major highways it would be good if we could have something special for the motoro cyclists who drive through - a special event
- Not enough diversity & future for children (work force). No culture (music / arts) to expose children too. No organised sport / dance etc groups. Transport from outlying communities to town.
- More industry, mor jobs for residents to make our town flourish
- Our town is being used as a low socio-economic drop point. Fix it.
- Highways are old and out of date for modern day traffic that is around now.
- Job opportunities
- Any suggestions on how to solve it?
- Start a series of small industrial hemp based industries
- More jobs - particularly in forest & resource management & maintenance
- Re-localization. Make good uses of our resources e.g. use timber to make furniture & may even turn into bio-diesel. Grow vegeations that will help supply the source of making biodiesel -> algae is one of the solutions. Implement solar panel to community centre not onlyh to save costs but also allowing drive pass tourists to know we are environmentally conscious people / town.
- Better attitudes, people doing things
- Streamline committees, and start working towards some common goals & themes. Events to put Cann River on the map i.e. Bruthen Blues Festival, Bombala Bike Show, Mallacoota Arts Festival are some examples that have worked.
- Some saught of industries to be bought in to the area "menning", factorys, tourism
- Don't know answer. Try and get more people with some new idea for our community (same people on committee). For future generation jobs.
- If I knew I'd have done something about it!
- Fruit tree group - vegie co-op. - local produce; old car collection & exhibit - enhance tourism - support local artists; resource networking - waste recycling back into community; historic trail - tourism - local interest; overview of what current resources are and where situated with the catchment area; group skills and people together to brainstorm industry ideas
- Stop all dole bludgers coming into the town unless they intend to work
- Stop letting so many dead beats entering the town. Just living and getting paid by Centrelink to keep dealing in drugs
- More shops
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- Get a swimming pool
- Get more people
- Leave
- Bring in some tourist pamphlets on what they can do in the area
- Set up Cann River as a very attractive "stop" centre for tourists passing through. Don't waste money trying to get them to stay. We need tourists just to stop for a break in travel. Don't expect them to stay.
- Make a community council with representatives from all community agencies, committees. This council could facilitate developing a united front to address problems / issues; Become self-sufficient and market our strengths
- Guided tours by National Parks staff; live exhibition centre (quolls, bandicoots, etc); town parks display boards of settlement history and natives tribes
- Get rid of the timber industry - especially the pulp and thinnings progress - use timber for fine artisans and promote the development of sustainable skilled artists and producers with true green credentials.
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- Local box (community) for events for children and adults so everyone has the opportunity to broaden horizons funding for tourism ventures / galleries / markets etc. & the training or communal galleries / co-ops for fresh fruit & veg market gardens etc.
- Create a higher education component and attach to Cann River p-12 college - e.g. animal husbandry, farm animals & native animals. Nursery, water / river plants, hydroponics, vegetables seeds, dehydrated food.
- Clean up town - raze old houses not up to standard. Embrace tourism - it is the only answer
- Build new dual lane highways (Princes and Monaro) and clean back on edges
- Have a sealed road to Point Hicks & advertise it as the significant historical site it truly is. Whilst selling the tourists Cann Valley produced biofuel & naturally grown food & produce from local market or acropolus
- Are you looking for any extra income? ( No | $0-200/wk | $200-500/wk | full-time )
- No
- Yes: <$200/wk
- Yes: $200-$500/wk
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- [No]
- No
- [No]
- Yes: $200-$500/wk
- Yes any amount would be good - but someone needs to look after the children
- No: I have worked hard all my life and so have my family and still are to pay heavy taxes to keep the ones sitting on their bums and keep them in drugs.
- No: Done my share of work and payed all my taxes
- No
- Yes: $0-$200/wk
- No
- [No]
- [No]
- [No]
- No
- No
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- No
- [No]
- Yes: $0-$200/wk
- No
- No
- No
- No
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