The Wangaratta Clay Target Club had plenty of problems. And then Senator Bridget McKenzie turned up bearing a gift auspol
The Wangaratta clay-target shooting club was beset by years of troubles, until National Party Senator Bridget McKenzie turned up with her shotgun early last year.
Two years later, with the club struggling to meet strict EPA compliance regulations in order to keep operating, floods destroyed the clubhouse carpets and tens of thousands of dollars worth of the electrical workings of clay-target traps.All along, the club’s toilets were so primitive that some members, turned off by the stink, preferred to walk to the nearby Vine Hotel to use its facilities.
“We desperately needed lady members, she was a lady who enjoyed shooting and she was a senior Australian politician,” said Brian Reid, a retired stock and station agent who is vice-president of the Wangaratta Clay Target Club.Meanwhile, the club had been trying, without success, to get a sports grant to fix its ancient, reeking toilets.“The old toilets looked like something you’d see at a building site,” Reid said.
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