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Resilient Lismore’s ‘Repair to Return’ funding

On the eve of the second anniversary of the second devastating flood in 2022, Resilient Lismore has welcomed the finalisation of its funding deed with the NSW Reconstruction Authority, which will enable the continuation of its ‘Repair to Return’ program.

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Bay FM community radio celebrates digital upgrade

Volunteers from Byron and across the Northern Rivers celebrated nearly $100,000 worth of new studio equipment at Bay FM Community Radio station on the weekend.

Carrying and passing the torch

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Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: Why Being Seen is Beautiful

There is something profound about being seen. Being accepted and loved for exactly who you are. It’s life changing. It’s simple. It’s transformative. But some people don’t get to experience this. Nearly half of transgender Australians have attempted suicide.That data tells the very real impact of discrimination, stigma and lack of access to gender-affirming surgery. I write this as a woman who was born a woman, who identifies as a woman. I’ll admit, that even in that gender role, that fits within the societal binary, I’ve had my own challenges.

How the coral crisis affects other marine wildlife

Marine heatwaves are killing coral and denuding reefs of their colourful beauty – but in a world where everything is food for something else, these heatwaves also pose a major threat to biodiversity.

Lismore Labor MP called out over native forest logging

More than five hundred people marched in the rain through Lismore to the local state member’s office in protest against government sanctioned native forest logging on Sunday.

Tony Abbott and mining magnate Clive Palmer declared last Wednesday a great day for Australia. I think they both meant to say that it was a great day for Australia’s nine largest mining companies at the expense of the vast majority of Australians.

The powerful mining companies and their lobby group, the Minerals Council of Australia, and the Murdoch press were successful in watering down the original mining tax to one that has hardly raised any revenue at all.

Why is it that we are repeatedly being told we have a ‘budget emergency’ yet at the same time the government is providing a tax cut to companies like BHP, who have recently announced a profit of over $20 billion?

That other ‘big scary’ tax, the carbon tax, which provided a large pool of money for large scale renewable energy projects, and a financial incentive for Australia’s top 100 companies to reduce their carbon emissions has also been scrapped. The promise being that our electricity bills would be reduced by hundreds of dollars.

What we got instead was a 14 per cent increase (IPART approved increase starting 1 July). Nineteenth-century policies that favour polluting industries and big business are bad enough, to win an election based on lies is unforgivable.

Jeff Johnson, Ballina shire councillor

 


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