It was moved when the aerodrome was turned into sporting fields and left covered in grass for years but the council restored and relocated the marker and put up an information sign explaining what it was all about.

Plans for the new sporting complex on part of the old golf course show the sign being retained so thankfully there's no plans to move it.

Council also put back the windsock on what was Windsock Corner, so-named when the road was a race track.

The old aerodrome was opened in February, 1938, by Minister for Defence Harold Thorby and was the only access to Orange by air until work began on Spring Hill Airport in the late 1950s.

Because of its limited area the aerodrome up to the 70s was used only for training and light aircraft.

Former Orange Qantas pilot John Ellis remembers the last time he saw the sign from the air was in 1958 when he flew over before landing there in a de Havilland Chipmunk aircraft.

The bluff by the Nats to bring down the State Government unless Premier Gladys Berijiklian agreed to their demands to water down koala protection policies came to nothing other than Leader John Barilaro's credibility, which is shot.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian told him to withdraw the Nats' threat or she'd sign in a new all-Liberal ministry.

The back-down means Bathurst will keep their minister and along with the other six Nat ministers he will retain the luxuries of having a driver, extra staff and $34,000 more in pay.

But it's interesting to note the Nat who kicked off the koala row, still threatening to cross the floor, was Clarence MP Chris Gulaptis who was elected in a by-election in 2011 while president of Maclean High School P & C. His election pledge was to cut red tape that was preventing removal of thousands of bats living next door to the school.

On the other side of the coin in August 2016 the Nats' then leader Dubbo's Troy Grant sacked him and Cootamundra MP Katrina Hodgkinson as parliamentary secretaries after they crossed the floor to vote against the Coalition's greyhound racing ban.

So anti-bats, pro-greyhounds, anti-koalas. What's next?

With Anson Street to become a pedestrian mall in the council's plans to tart up the CBD, Orange should join other cities around the world and take part in World Car Free Day next Tuesday for people to see what it would be like without cars.

The day is designed to promote greener commuting, reduce traffic congestion and encourage people to ride bikes like the council is trying to do in Orange with its Future City plans.

It would be a good experiment to get rid of hundreds of single occupant cars parked in streets around the central business district every day if people could be convinced to ride to work.

But then dozens of bike riders weaving in and out of our aggressive drivers every day could create traffic chaos.