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DPI has an eye on Lismore’s yellow crazy ants

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Bruns boarding house showdown Thursday

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Suffolk Park Pump Track

We the ‘Engaged Neighbours’, on behalf of the Suffolk Park pump track’s affected neighbours and 300–400 petitioners and letter writers, request Council NOT to continue to bulldoze the large fenced in section of Linda Vidler Parkland adjacent to Baz and Shaz’s shop, close to the houses on three sides.
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The reincarnation of the Member for Wentworth, Malcolm Turnbull, is not that far away.

Abbott was always leading a one-term government.

You cannot blame the people for getting rid of Rudd v Julia or Julia v Rudd or for that matter the stupid ALP (in that instance) for allowing that circus to happen.

It may well be, one term governments are what the Australian political landscape is going to be for quite a while.

Anyway, back to Malcolm. Who can forget his wife’s (Lucy) rule at Tweed Shire Council? I always felt the most telling statement she made in my presence was ‘I’m here to support the system, that’s what I believe in’.

As an old Greek once told me ‘you’re only as good as your competition’.

T. Sharples, Tweed Heads

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