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Infrastructure for east end of Mullum

Mullumbimby was founded 135 years ago. In the 1960s sewerage was introduced, as was I suppose drainage infrastructure. Are...

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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. 

Keeping an eye on the landscapes of the Tweed

Tweed Shire Council says they have made a commitment to identify and protect the Tweed’s unique landscape, to this end a draft Scenic Landscape Protection Policy has been prepared to ensure the Shire’s spectacular scenery is front of mind when there is new development, change in land use, or when preparing related new policy.

Musicians and MLC support the save Wallum fight

As the drama unfolded between police and protesters at the Wallum Development in Brunswick Heads yesterday, people were drawn to the site by the red alerts sent out by the Save Wallum organisers.

Can Council’s overturn their decisions?

NSW Labor planning minister, Paul Scully, when asked about the Wallum estate by local MP Tamara Smith (Greens)  in...

D-day for Bruns pod village pesticide treatment

After two delays, the NSW Reconstruction Authority (RA) will be treating Bruns emergency pods with a pesticide treatment, despite some strong opposition from flood-affected residents.

Chibo Mertineit, Lillian Rock

A big thank you to all the people writing and ringing the, so called, ‘our’ politicians to vote against the koala killer bill.

How stupid (they might never have read it), or corrupt must someone be to vote for these kind of changes in the Local Land Services Amendment Bill 2020, after we just experienced the worst devastation of forests and wildlife since the great white land grab?

Unbelievable! These people in the NSW Parliament are getting paid big money for destroying our environment and the future of generations to come. Oops, I meant taxpayers money for their wages.

Aren’t we lucky to once again see the true face of Gladys, our premier, as she immediately sacked Catherine Cusack as a parliamentary secretary after Cusack voted against the party line on this issue.

Observing, and searching for koala scats in Myrtle State Forest, in the area they are planning to log, I’m totally shocked to see that the Forestry Corporation, who are in charge of the logging operation, don’t seem to care and appear to be just in it for the koala kill.

We need to have a moratorium on logging in state forests ASAP. How many jobs, or how much money are we really creating by not letting our forests recover [from the black summer fires]? Meanwhile ‘our’ parliament is spending billions on a sport stadium or the travel problems in Sydney. It’s time to stand up and speak up!


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