South Coast

There's no two ways about it.

I spoke to Scott Harris, superintendent from Naruma Golf Club down the south coast of New South Wales, and he has suggested one to me that he has seen, and he suggested that I have a look into...

the par 3 fifth hole of Cootamundra Golf and Sports Club.

Now, I've only been to Cootamundra once.

Now, here are some of the winners that I'd like to share with you because it was pretty impressive and worth talking about.

Now, from the New South Wales Golf Course Superintendents Association, we had a number of awards presented to winners on the night.

And I start off with Superintendent of the Year Award, and that went to the fantastic Pat Wilson from Pambula Maroombula Golf Club on the New South Wales South Coast.

Now, congratulations to Pat.

Jeez, that's quick.

He's from New South Wales South Coast, and his kicking and punching was on song in the first couple of minutes, and it was pretty much a bloody procession from there.

So Evlov, who was 20-1, is a bit of an elite wrestler, so he took Volk down a few times in the last couple of minutes of the first round, and people thought, oh, he's starting to find his way into the match here and starting to get him, but...

But I'll bounce straight back up and give him a bit what for.

What happens when a job you fall into becomes a 20-year career? My guest today is Lauren Bates, who started in freight at just 18 and went on to build a career that has taken her through operations, leadership, remote working, and now customs.

Along the way, she traveled solo, moved to the New South Wales South Coast, helped build a family business, and convinced her employer to let her work remotely back in 2009.

Now Lauren has completed her customs diploma and is taking on her next challenge, becoming a customs broker.

We talk about taking opportunities, creating the life you want, the importance of good mentors and why it's never too late to change direction.

live,

you know, somewhere quieter and, you know, with more accessible spaces.

beach time and yeah traffic so much like you know that sort of thing um when we wanted to raise a family where would we want to live what you know where we want to be um so i we decided to move to a coastal area on the south coast um in new south wales and my husband my now husband he at the time we were just you know boyfriend girlfriend quite young and the dream of living somewhere beautiful um and he was in hospitality and wanted to open his own restaurant and did not want to do that in Sydney.

He wanted to do that regionally.

think he does his best.

I've never met him, but I'll talk to him online and he'll be South Coast, New South Wales one second and catching a cod at Eildon and then back over in Exmouth.

How the fuck do you do that? Yeah.

Yeah, like...

Lewin specialises in roses, dahlias and daisies, with a growing list of annuals.

Having moved further south, Lewin now lives, works and tends to the soil with partner Luke and dog Muzzy on Ewan Country on NSW's south coast.

Thank you so much for joining Avant Gardeners, we are really excited to chat to you.

Thank you so much for having

yeah it's well i don't have rabbits myself but it does help with the bandicoots it doesn't stop them from digging but it means that they can only dig a five centimeter square area rather than digging like the whole area

up So you talked a bit before about the soil in Byron.

Is that the reason why you ended up there in the Northern Rivers? But you've recently come down to Milton on the New South Wales South Coast.

What prompted the move there? I mean, it's obviously in its early stages.

Yep.

And then after that we lived in Mollymook on the South Coast until I was about 28.

And when I was down there I was in, um, uh, another, uh, Christian rock band at that time, but we decided to move to, to Canberra for, for work predominantly.

[laughs] Um-

Yep.

We're running a dairy farm, a family farm, on i- well, a place called Jaspers Brush, but most people will know Berry, familiar with Berry on the South Coast, New South Wales.

Yep.

And that's a dairy farm, and there's, um, about 380 cows we're milking.

So with that in mind, we're going to go to our first speaker.

You've already heard the Honourable Ryan Park, Minister for Health and Minister for Regional Health, Minister for Illawarra and South Coast, has represented the electorate of Keira in New South Wales Legislative Senate since 2011.

And Ryan came to this debate we ran prior to the last election.

I've kindly suggested to him that he was the opposition health spokesperson when he presented in that debate.