Euroa

I want to give, this is how it looks.

Carlton defeated Hawthorne at Euroa.

Seven and a half thousand attended.

Fitzroy defeated Melbourne at North Hobart.

Yeah, and I've got, thanks to Steve McGregor, He sent me through the permit players that are playing in the GV and other competitions this week, or this year rather.

The seven players in the GV, it's Margarita Serrini is going to play at Euroa and Benalla, David Dawes, Telly and Port Melbourne.

Anthony Flapper, Essendon Shepgolf, Brent Rayner, Shepgolf and Club Sunbury.

Russell Locke to Tura Hilltop and 1U midweek.

Certainly shock and disbelief and then an outpouring of love for Helen and her family and her team and her community and Cathy McGowan and all of those that built that community representation for that part of Victoria.

I'm particularly shocked as I was with Helen down in her seat, actually in Euroa, just a couple of weeks ago, we were there to thank first responders for the bushfires and floods that have hit that area of Victoria.

And just as we were leaving, we were just musing about this increased rise in incivility and We were talking about what would it look like if we all came together and talked about decency in civic life and where the education for Australians on our democratic principles, our democratic systems, respect for those who take public office and do represent communities, how would we bring more of that about? because we've seen this decline, both in civility and in the understanding, I think a deep understanding of how a democracy works and why it is that people do put their hands up at local, state and federal levels to represent communities in this great democracy we have, where it's the people choosing those they trust to go into our parliaments to help us make good laws and support our democracy.

And so I think having been with her and been thinking about what would that look like, what would the conversation look like, it's incomprehensible to me that it is Helen who is the subject of our grief and our shock tonight.

We had a massive power blackout.

24 or something towns plus were blacked out around here in Euroa.

How are you, Ron?

I'm in shock.

It's haunted by a debel debel, a half black, half white spirit, which was apparently a, a young Black warrior killed by a white settler.

And it apparently makes noise it... as it goes up and down the mountains.

Euroa has a history.

Where I live has a history.