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Only Greens can hold govt to account

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Indigenous cricketers go head-to-head

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Saint Bob of the Greens in Lennox Head

With hardly a vacant seat in the auditorium, Bob Brown kept the party faithful’s eyes, ears and hearts glued...
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Community advocacy

I am a small business owner of Byron Central Apartments. Tamara Smith MP has recently supported us on two...
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The greater good

Byron Council has ratified the International Charter of Human Rights, complete with fine legal minds that developed a Charter...
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Kura and Sou: two authentic Japanese Byron restaurants

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Trove runs out of funding in June. How will the loss of the service affect Australian and Pacific research?

Most of Trove’s 22 million annual page visits come from members of the public: family historians, students, and general browsers interested in the six billion records it houses. But over the past 14 years, the archive has also become a crucial resource for academic work.
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No matter what they say, or don’t say, climate change remains the greatest moral challenge of our time.

Now I have been a rusted on true believer since my political baptism during the Whitlam years: But cometh the hour.

My Labor are no longer on the side of the Angels, and the Coalition is a right wing rag-tag of ratbags. I won’t vote for either.  So, no matter what horrors I wake to on July 3 I will suck it up; but only if there are enough Greens in the Senate to hold somebody’s – anybody’s – fricken feet to the fire.

Vote Green…please.

Simon Campbell Thomson, Mullumbimby

 

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Community advocacy

Scott Wanchap, Byron Central Apartments - 0
I am a small business owner of Byron Central Apartments. Tamara Smith MP has recently supported us on two separate occasions advocating effectively with...
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Swivel by name, drivel by nature

Paul James Hall, Byron BayFebruary 1, 2023 - 0
The lack of authenticity of Byron Councillor, Mark Swivel, does not come as a surprise from this side of the fence. A well-to-do lawyer...
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Land values rise

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Your cover story on 25 January claims that land valuation rises could herald increases in Council rates. This is potentially misleading. A council’s total...
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Go Thistles!

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Climate change likely to bring more compound disasters

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Climate change: It’s here, says Australia’s peak science orgs

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From the Northern Rivers to the PM, with urgency

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