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The secret nature of the Iron Gates case

Despite a comprehensive refusal of the development application for residential development at the Iron Gates at Evans Head last year the DA is still ‘live’ in the NSW Land & Environment Court as the developer pushes back.

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The secret nature of the Iron Gates case

Despite a comprehensive refusal of the development application for residential development at the Iron Gates at Evans Head last year the DA is still ‘live’ in the NSW Land & Environment Court as the developer pushes back.

Getting Real About The Voice

Responding to Ian Pratt in an attempt to ‘get real about the Voice’. The proposal does not challenge the...

Mullumbimby Giants rope in the Mustangs

The Mullumbimby Giants have played their way back into the top four of local, first-grade rugby league with a...

Inter-club cycling gets underway in Glenugie

Byron Bay Cycling Club is in second place in a three-way tussle after race one of the inter-club cycling...

Political comment: Matey with Modi

Since becoming Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese has shown that he likes being publicly associated with popular figures, regardless of their negative associations for some Australians. Examples include Kyle Sandilands, Piers Morgan, and most recently the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi.

Closed door deals on fast-tracked land rezonings

Up to 1,300 new dwellings could be accommodated in Byron Shire under vague draft fast-track development plans released by the NSW government-run Northern Rivers Reconstruction Corporation (NRRC) last week. 

Brendon Luke, Wilsons Creek

I’d like to know who has been tresspassing on properties in Wilsons Creek to drop off propaganda material.

My CCTV has you on my deck and clearly with no-one home you proceed to check out the rest of the place.

Considering the recent break-ins and the thieves’ modus operandi of making preliminary ‘I’m lost’ enquiries at homes, you’re running a very fine line.

I also understand that another overnight expert handing out petitions became outraged and aggressive toward a local who had just rejected their diatribe about how the Telstra tower is going to kill us all.

Listening to you talk is my choice and not your right so get over yourself and earn the right to be heard.

The basis of the ‘no’ argument is fundamentally flawed.

It’s so tiring to hear yet another typical, ‘find the right scientist and you’ll get the right answer’ strategy.

Most are blind to logic and quickly play the ‘I’m offended’ card when pure logic and facts are offered toward your theories.

If this tower does not go ahead there will be blood on the hands of the nimbys when a death occurs as a result of our third-world standard communications being a contributing factor.


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