DOUG SUNDERLAND LINK

 http://www.abc.net.au/austory/specials/onyourbike/

Doug Sunderland left us. His obit is in an earlier post.

There may be a memorial ride.

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Exciting opportunity for a student of Marketing to gain experience in Blog and Website marketing as well as Social Media development during summer holidays.

IRG, a Melbourne based not for profit organisation for motorcylcists is offering a two month internship during February/March 2014. Interested applicants should have some experience with Google Analytics, backlinking, all forms of Social Media (Blogs, FB, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Linked-in, Youtube etc), be able to write good tight and effective copy. Some knowledge about effective website advertising would be welcomed. Position to be carried out at home with Social Media training provided once a week via skype.

PLEASE NOTE: This position is for training and development and has no financial remuneration.

For further details please mail Adrienne at mail adriennefarrelly@yahoo.com.au.

VALE DOUG SUNDERLAND

Doug   Sunderland  was one of Australian motorcycling's greats. He was
a rider for  73  years and his two-wheel adventures would fill the lives of ten ordinary riders.

Doug passed away early on January 15, 2014.

He made a submission to the Parliamentary Inquiry into motorcycle & scooter  safety  at
the  hearing in Wangaratta, Victoria. It is worth reading.

http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/images/stories/committees/rsc/motorcycle_safety/Transcripts/20111129_DSunderland_Transcript.pdf

Damien
IRG
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Hi Damien,

Here is an email I just got.

It is sad news.

John Vance
Wangaratta, Vic.
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Hello

I am writing to you to let you know that Dad, Doug Sunderland, passed
away early this morning. As you may be aware Dad suffered a major
debilitating stroke in July this year, as a result it affected his
memory and his cognitive impairment to the point where we were forced to
place him in Illoura Nursing home.  Since that time Dad suffered
numerous mini strokes the most recent last Sunday morning rendering him
comatose and non responsive a condition he remained in until he passed
away around 3am this morning.

We have a meeting at 3pm today with the funeral home with the thought at
this stage the funeral would be mid next week.

Please be advised that Dad's service will be private family only with an
after service celebration with all welcome, We will advise you of dates

Please tell any and all related or connected to Dad in any way that they
will be most welcome as well.

The bottom line is Dad was a tough old bugger who had taken many hits
over the years but kept going and as usual did things in his own time
frame his own way which we were all please, it is just unfortunate the
sad way it ended and not over the edge of a cliff on his bike as he
always hoped for.

Cliff Sunderland
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Hello Damien, John,

In the absence of telephone numbers for either of you,  I have some sad news to 

impart via this email.

Doug Sunderland passed away yesterday in Wangaratta. I am assuming, based on 

past correspondence, that his family will want a private funeral ceremony but I also 

know that a great many people will want to pay their final respects. I have just posted 

on our Facebook page my intentions.

I am in the process of organising a Memorial Run for him on Australia Day, Jan 26th, 

from Sydney to Wang and I'm wondering Damien whether you'd care to arrange 

something likewise from Melbourne? 

John, we'll need some local advice and logistical assistance for just where we might 

meet in Wang; no idea at this stage how many bikes might be involved.

Please feel free to call me, 02 9970 6370 to discuss.       

Mike

Ferris Wheels Motorcycle Safaris  |   WOW Television

P O Box 996  Narrabeen  NSW  2101 Australia

Telephone: (+61) (02) 9970 6370

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World On Wheels TV series, shown Australia-wide and internationally.

     

LINKS

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-12-08/hundreds-of-bikers-roared-through-melbourne-with/5143058?section=vic 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoJvui8viW4

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Freedom-Ride-1st-Dec/585799561485296?fref=pb&hc_location=profile_browser

https://www.facebook.com/NorthernRegisterIRG

https://www.facebook.com/IndependentRidersGroup?fref=pb&hc_location=profile_browser

NO QLD HOLIDAYS FOR ME!

WITH SOCCER CLUB ASSOCIATES RUNNING RIOT ONE WONDERS WILL THESE FOOTBALL CLUBS BE BRANDED CRIMINAL ORGANISATIONS IN QUEENSLAND.

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/five-victorian-men-charged-under-queensland-bikie-laws-20140105-30bh7.html

REGARDLESS I WON'T BE RIDING MY MOTORCYCLE IN THE SUNSHINE STATE WHILE THEIR ANTI-ASSOCIATION LAWS ARE IN PLACE.

THIS IS AUSTRALIA NOT NORTH KOREA

DAMIEN

BRACKS = NAPTHINE

Both Steve Bracks MP and Dennis Napthine MP made promises to the motorcycle & scooter community, that they broke. Both became premiers of Victoria then shafted riders.

Here are some quotes from Aussie Sadler that, I reckon are relevant.

Damien

                   In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a government.
  John  Adams
If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are  misinformed. 
   Mark  Twain
Suppose you were an idiot.  And suppose you were a member of government. But then I repeat myself.
   Mark Twain
I  contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying  to lift himself up by the handle.
    Winston Churchill
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
   George Bernard  Shaw
Foreign aid might be defined as a  transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
   Douglas  Casey,  Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown  University
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage  boys.
     P.J.  O'Rourke,  Civil Libertarian
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavours to live at the expense of everybody else.
      Frederic  Bastiat,  French economist(1801-1850)
  I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
    Will  Rogers
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!
      P.J.  O'Rourke
  In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as  possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. 
      Voltaire   (1764)
  Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!
       Pericles (430  B.C.)
No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
      Mark Twain   (1866)
Talk is cheap...except when government does  it.
       Anonymous
The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
      Ronald  Reagan

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
      Mark  Twain

There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save government. 
      Mark  Twain
What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
      Edward   Langley,  Artist (1928-1995)
  A  government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. 
      Thomas   Jefferson
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
        Aesop

VICPOL & DISCRIMINATION

Something has changed in the Victoria Police over the last decade or so. Command policies and methods have changed and not in a way that inspires confidence in police by the general public.

On Wednesday, January 1, 2014, Damien Codognotto wrote:

G'day all.

I half heard a bit on ABC radio about the Victoria Police being taken to court for discriminating against black African migrants?

I'd like to know more. What law? What court? What are the police supposed to have done?

It may apply to the way motorcyclists are treated by police in some cases?

Damien

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-06-21/melbourne-court-rules-random-police-checks-27not-lawful27/4772154

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/police-power-to-stop-cars-under-threat-20130620-2oluv.html

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/31/victorian-police-act-against-racial-bias-but-say-racism-is-not-systemic?CMP=soc_568

I have been fully involved with the case

I supplied evidence to the lawyers for the lads  in the Flemington case

It was presented to Vicpol & assisted in reaching a settlement 

My evidence was an statement to the OPI in relation to the matter

The whole OPI investigation was a direct cover up by Vicpol

It never got investigated by Vicpol

Dale Robert Maggs

Mob 0432776458

@convictstock

Independent Riders Group

There's currently a discrimination case involving police unfairly targeting young Africans and that's been given alot of media coverage. Alongside this, the Sunshine Police are in trouble with some very racist stubbie holders they have in their bar.

Not sure if you heard the tail end of this media report at all?

Cheers,

Name supplied.

Thanks 

Wasn't it the Sunshine police that let the old Chinese bloke die in the rain?

Damien

That happened at Dandenong Police station. 

Outrageous situation and something I'd expect in China not here. 

Sometimes I think WE should have the status of developing nation.

Name supplied.