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Tweed residents outraged at destruction of koala habitat on Cobaki Creek

A 'legacy' floodplain development on the tidal estuary of Cobaki Creek, known to have recent koala sightings, was approved in 1996 and is now being cleared.

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Monthly market

Congratulations to all concerned on the successful relaunch of the Byron market held on the first Sunday of the...

Bulga Forest logging ‘suspended’

The NSW Forestry Corporation has changed the status of a contentious area of Bulga Forest from ‘active’ to ‘suspended’.

Interview with Guy Maddison from Mudhoney

Seminal Seattle four-piece, Mudhoney, are returning to Australia marking nine years since their last local shows. A mammoth odyssey spanning April and May will see them playing headline shows across six states. Next week they will also release their new album, Plastic Eternity.

Appeal to locate man last seen at Casino on way to Tweed

Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a man from Grafton missing from the North Coast area.

NEFA welcomes the election of a new government

The North East Forest Alliance welcomes the election of the Minns Labor government with their promise to create a Great Koala National Park, and calls for a moratorium on logging within the park proposal until the promised assessment is complete.

Sleepbus: giving the homeless a good night’s sleep

A chance encounter with a homeless man in Melbourne was the beginning of a project that has seen Melbourne entrepreneur, Simon Rowe, create a safe place for people to sleep when there is nowhere else to go.

Join the Chemical Free Land Care Group

They meet every second Saturday at Brunswick Heads near the Surf Club, come to the Christmas Party next Saturday and sign up.

Commit to making a difference.  The group is led and advised by professionally qualified bush regenerators who have been recognised by DECC within the “Current management and control options of Bitou bush in Australia”

I know we are all busy busy busy but when you lose your health, when the few soldiers at the front line retreat you will be thrown back into being aerial sprayed.

Your health and that of your family is already at risk with the amount of pesticides now in use in your shire.  We have the possibility of winning those who spray chemicals over to a more sustainable way by proving it works: that it is more time affective and cost affective in the long term.

If one really counts the cost, hours of pain and sickness for residents, enormous biodiversity loss, bees, frogs, fish destroyed or injured it is clear that the pesticide path is very, very, very expensive.

For more info email me on [email protected]

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