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April 19, 2024

The green bush is aflame and the blue sea is filled with ash

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A quiet day in Bruns after arrests and lock-ons

Though no machinery arrived at Wallum this morning, contractors and police were on the development site at Brunswick Heads as well as dozens of Save Wallum protesters. 

Other News

Peace

Elimination by people-power voting is necessary to remove dictators from Russia, Israel, China, Iran, wannabe (again!) North Korea, to...

Byron swimmer airlifted to hospital

A man swimming in Byron Bay on the weekend was airlifted to the Gold Coast University Hospital, rescuers said. 

Metal is back at The Northern

Beast Machine are coming home from a successful spell in the United States and the thrash/metal two-piece with their massive sound layered with riff-driven guitars and thundering drums are coming to lift the roof off of the Backroom. Check out their new music video currently out for their latest single ‘Pretend’, which is featured in HEAVY magazine.

Alternate facts?

According to David Shoebridge of the Greens in a recent sitting in the senate, the UN has named Australia...

Ballina Greens announce ticket for 2024

Aiming to build on their two existing councillors, the Ballina Greens have announced their team of candidates for the upcoming Ballina Shire Council elections, set for 14 September this year.

Bruns Holistic Dental Centre closed

Longterm employee and senior dentist, Dr Roy Gamma, has described the closure of Brunswick Holistic Dental Centre (BHDC) as devastating.

Tom Dobinson, Tweed Heads

Now is the summer of our discontent

Made disastrous by years of culpable denial

This parched land is scorched and ravaged by an inferno of hypocrisy and greed

Lives, livelihoods, dreams, iconic species lost, despite heroic and futile deeds.

The once merry festive season is now a time of apprehension, despair and disbelief.

The sky is red, the air is black, the green bush is aflame and the blue sea is filled with ash and burning embers.

Now because Morrison is duplicitous, conflicted and paralysed by vested interests and right-wing dogmatism

We must be resolute, rebellious and proactive to save the nation from the prophecy of climate doom.


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3 COMMENTS

  1. Yes… we are all living dangerously. What’s more,
    we are surrounded by living dead-heads & others
    with their wide eyes shut who parrot party lines.
    Raise the Eureka Flag.

  2. Yes Tom , we are a sunburnt Country !
    With lands of droughts and flooding rains!
    Its going to flood again Tom ! And more
    Bushfires Tom . Its Australia we live in Tom
    Nothing to do with blaming Governments for
    Its natural disasters.

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