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NEWS: $2.5M FUNDING WINDFALL FOR SAINT MARTIN’S COLLEGE > PAGE 5

BY ANELIA BLACKIE
Email: anelia@tbw.com.au
PULL down the invisible curtain
and wipe the geographical line
between Victoria and South
Australia off the map – different
laws in the two states are just a
pain in the neck, say Victorian
border residents.
With anomalies including
the 10 cent South Australian
container deposit legislation,
the difference in school holiday
times, restrictions on taking fruit
across the border and the use of
concession cards – even watching
DVDs – residents in towns like
Dartmoor and Nelson are fed
up.
They say they can live with
the time difference, but argue
they “don’t need different laws
in different states.”
Dartmoor resident Sam Lanyon
was one of many Victorians who
recently found a letter from
the Environment Protection
Authority (EPA) in his mailbox,
warning him that he was break-
ing the law by delivering drink
containers in South Australia for
a 10 cents refund.
Offended at being accused of
rorting the system, Mr Lanyon
said he helped keep Dartmoor
clean by ridding the town of drink
containers and saving them from
going into landfill.
“I get them out of the bins, from
the streets and from the hotel, I
sort them out and take them to
Mount Gambier once a fortnight –
along with bags of old clothes for
Lifeline,” Mr Lanyon said.
“You’ve got to show your driver’s
licence, so since I got the letter,
I am taking it to my son in the
Mount who takes it to the depot
for me.
“When I get the refund, I go
down the road and spend the
money in the Mount.
“The whole thing is just ridicu-
lous and what beats me is the
blokes from the Mount who come
here to pick up empty contain-
ers and take them home for a
refund.”
Dartmoor residents Andrea
Cameron, Maggie Kirkpatrick
and Janet Kuhl agree.
Continued page 7

pABOVE: “I am not rorting the system,” says Sam Lanyon from Dartmoor who is
ready to bring yet another load of empty drink containers in the back of his vehicle
across the Victorian border to Mount Gambier for a deposit. Pictures: ANELIA BLACKIE.

pLEFT: “Our kids are encouraged to bring healthy food to school, but we not
allowed to pack fruit in the lunchboxes when they go to school in Mount
Gambier:” Andrea Cameron.

pFAR LEFT: “We can’t even use our Victorian health cards in Mount
Gambier:” Janet Kuhl.

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