For many years I have wondered why Australian business’s have not reinvested their money in this country where they made it? Why go off shore and pay no tax to, or employ Australian workers?
Now we have a company who has employed local workers for over 30 years who needs to make their company larger in our area to employ more locals. We hear so many reasons why Brook Farm should not be built opposite the industrial estate in Bangalow, so much Agricultural land has been lost in the area to housing estates, making extra traffic. This area of land will not be used for farming again, so how much more traffic will arrive with another housing estate of 100 homes? And where are the jobs?
I lived in Bangalow for 24 years.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
