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March 28, 2024

Happiness just got cheaper

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Saddle Road group home DA decision this week

Plans to build Byron Shire’s first permanent group home for women and children in housing stress are moving ahead, with the development application for the project coming before Council this week.

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Mullum pods

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Bruns-Billinudgel RSL marches on

Though recently the membership of the Brunswick Heads–Billinudgel RSL sub-Branch has grown, the numbers are still very low and if there is not a continual increase, this chapter faces closing.

Cinema: Wicked Little Letters

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UK court seeks assurances from US over Julian Assange

The UK High Court of Justice has released a 66 page judgement seeking more information from the United States relating to Australian citizen Julian Assange, which it says it needs before deciding whether to grant the WikiLeaks founder leave to appeal his extradition.

Murwillumbah’s Rebecca Whan recognised for tireless work post 2022 floods

Murwillumbah was severely impacted by the 2022 floods and it was a huge community effort to support, rescue and inspire everyone to move forward. 

We just love him!

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Helena Norberg-Hodge, Byron Bay

Like Susan de Groot Heupner (letters, February 27), we have been troubled by the ticket prices for our upcoming Economics of Happiness conference, and have been going over the figures in an attempt to make them more widely affordable. We would have loved the whole event to be completely free of charge but, even though some of the speakers are paying their own airfares, a conference like this costs real money that somehow has to be recouped.

The good news is that having covered most of our basic costs through the sale of full price tickets, we now have a very special offer: just $50 for two day passes (Saturday and Sunday). These tickets include all the plenary sessions via live video feed, plus access to the World Café and the full program of workshops (24 so far). I hope Susan and many like her will take the opportunity that these tickets provide. Come to the conference full of energy and ideas to share with an extraordinary array of prominent economists, bestselling authors and indigenous activists from more than a dozen different countries!

At a time when so many people are feeling despondent about the state of the world, this event will offer a coherent and hopeful vision for the future.

For a full program and to buy tickets: http://www.theeconomicsofhappiness.org/conference-program.


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