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April 18, 2024

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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. 

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Bruns Holistic Dental Centre closed

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Wallum urban development back in court

The company behind the Wallum housing development in Brunswick Heads is once again taking Byron Council to court, this time for allegedly holding up its planned earthworks at the site in an unlawful manner.

Express. Empower. Get loud! for Youth Week in Lismore

This year’s Youth Week is theme is Express. Empower. Get loud!

Andrew Hall, Ocean Shores

Wow, life does sneak up on you. Here I am strongly disapproving of Adani (rebranded as Bravus) and NSW coal mining and I am missing out on a chance to support one of my heroes.

Which hero? Bob Brown. He is blocking the Chinese who want to put a tailings dam right in the middle of the Tarkine on Tassie’s west coast.

Yes, I know it is hard to believe that an Australian government is selling out rainforest to bulldozers…

Actually, it is not so hard to believe that the Tassie government is selling out the rainforest. After all, it is just a bunch of sticks. No use to anyone?

Now that I think of it, Aussie governments have a fondness for selling off forests, land, water and anything else portable that we thought we owned.

Anyway, spare a thought (and a few dollars) for the Bob Brown Foundation and their stand against the Chinese state-owned miner.

As climate change starts to seriously kick in, we will need all our forests.


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1 COMMENT

  1. We can count on Bob. I’ve done so for years. A great pity he’s not carrying
    the job of ‘government’ with him. The China state- owned- miner is not
    needed. Just goes to show what a sad-sack controlled country the Great
    Southern Land has become in the hands of the ‘users’ & ‘abusers’. The
    LNP Grab’s everywhere.

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