Businesses and community groups in a NSW town – including the Country Women’s Association – have banned Andrew Thaler after years of “community abuse”.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.Lauren Brown-Babb and her husband thought they’d stumbled into a storybook when they moved from Sydney to Nimmitabel, a pretty town in the Snowy Mountains region. As they renovated their 100-year-old cottage, country cliches came to life. “People would turn up with coffee; they’re bringing you a cake; someone’s dropping in with the season’s first honey,” she says.
After law enforcement couldn’t help them, a group of locals are taking matters into their own hands. Six businesses and organisations – including the Country Women’s Association, the museum, the bakery and the hairdresser – have banned Thaler from their premises. The notices were written with the help of the Monaro Police District Crime Prevention Unit and delivered to Thaler by NSW Police, though they are not a criminal charge or penalty.
Nimmitabel is a small place; behaviour that might be diluted in a city is writ large in a town of a few hundred. “He does also target some men, but absolutely his predominant target is women and, more often than not, community leaders,” Overall says. “Apparently in a civilised society you can get away with calling women pieces of shit, telling them to suck a dick – and you can’t take action against that.
“You have in the past and constantly continue to harass, bully and discriminate against members of NAG and their guests,” the notice to him read. Maryanne Renfrey from the Nimmitabel branch of the Country Women’s Association successfully sought an AVO against Thaler in 2016. She’s running a CWA event about violence against women in rural areas this year. “Everyone that I’m asking or inviting, the first thing that’s said is, ‘is Andrew Thaler coming?’”
Police charged Thaler this year, accusing him of assaulting the owner of a local eatery, which he had repeatedly branded “Salmonella Cafe” and told locals to avoid. “I’d served him once, in 2020,” the owner, Sandra Drayton, told the. Last month, police told Cooma Local Court they had dropped the five charges . He is pursuing the state for costs.Alex Ellinghausen
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