Norfolk Island 2016

2016 election: Isle of Norfolk away from the laboratory

Of the 393 voting on the island, sixteen per cent  were non-formal, a figure far higher than the 2.89 per cents that were registered in the entire constituency. The incumbent Gai Brodtmann registered a 12% turn against her in the only electoral center on the island, while the Green Party nominee, Patricia Cahill, profited the most from the reunification.

It received 25 percent of the votes, compared to 8 percent in the 2013 election. Liberals Jessica Adelan-Langford only won 0.87 percent in her party's election. 10 persons votted for Bullet Train for Australia. In Norfolk, the statute shift has proved disputed, with the new self-governing body being the major part of the reelected Local Assembly and an overriding" yes" minority in last year's popular ballot asking whether the island's inhabitants should have a say in its state.

Following the referenda, a self-determination group was established named Norfolk Island Peoples For Democracy, which is working to ensure that Norfolk is recognized by the United Nations as a non-self-governing area. "Australia must register Norfolk Island and comply with its obligations under Art. 73e of the United Nations Charter XI to give the Norfolk Island nation an act of self-determination," the group says on its website.

Mrs Brodtmann backed the changes and argued before the reforms that the island was "simply not viable" in its former state. I am now aware that the present government regulations have only fulfilled the most fundamental socioeconomic needs of the inhabitants of Norfolk."

ANAC DAY 25 APRIL NORFOLK ISLAND 2016

It is ANZAC Monday, April 25. The name ANZAC is for Australia, New Zealand, Army Corps. The ANZAC celebration is a nationwide commemoration in Australia and New Zealand, commemorating "all Australians and New Zealanders who have fought and perished in all war, conflict and peace-keeping operations" and the "contribution and sufferings of all those who have served".

The Norfolk Islanders also became members of the New Zealand and Australia military forces. Northfolk Island's military story is captured at the Cenotaph in Kingston and the Norfolk Island Memorial RSL. The small Norfolk Island municipality had the highest per capita recruitment rate in the British Empire.

For more information, please consult RSL's Norfolk Island office. I thought this time about the "poppy", the icon of "remembrance" and connected with ANZAC-Tag. Each of the red poppies were carried to symbolize our dead soldier and to show due regard to those who lost their lives in the war.

I' ve been reading about the poppy plots in Flanders, northern Belgium and the man who composed a poetry about the poppy plots on the battlegrounds of the First World War. In 1915, ANZAC troops also saw flowers of poppy blossom on the battlefield of the peninsula of Gaolipoli. Lieutenant-colonel John McCrae, a 1915 Flanders-based resident of Canada, was hit by the link between the deceased troops and the blood-red opium poppy after he buried his best buddy, who had been murdered in the war.

Seated on the back of an Ambulance, McCrae wrote: "The words were part of his poetry "In Flanders Fields", which speaks for the deceased soldier and their anxiety that they would be forgot. What I have seen tells the tale of Armistice Day and the Red Poppy, which became the emblem of the slain and injured warriors.

A group of wives who produce silkworms for a truce and distribute them worldwide to collect funds for the orphan children of France. The poppy flowers from France came to New Zealand too belatedly to be on sale for the 1921 truce. So, the RSA chose to keep the opium flowers back and waiting until Anzac Day the following year.

In 1922, the first call for Poppy Seed Days took place on the eve of Anzacsday. In New Zealand and Australia, and here on Norfolk Island, the poppy-day apple is still going on. Monday I will join the St John of Norfolk Island chapter as a St John agent.

The ANZAC Day Dawn Memorial Worship will begin at 5:10 am (30 minutes early due to timezone changes).