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Green Heroes among 2026 NSW Environment Award winners

The NSW Environment Awards, hosted by the state’s leading environmental advocacy organisation, Nature Conservation Council NSW, was recently held at Customs House in Sydney.

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Horse lovers say nup to Melbourne Cup

As more horses risk life and limb at The Melbourne Cup today, animal lovers are gathering at Flemington Racecourse and across the country to stand up for the victims of what has been described as an outdated and exploitative horseracing spectacle.

Byron’s Sunday Golden Hour

From Sunday, 1 November, Three Blue Ducks is launching Golden Hour at The Farm Byron Bay, with freshly shucked oysters, live music and happy hour drinks every Sunday afternoon.

Sentient care

Words can fail one. I am compelled to write and thank all of the remarkable, peaceful activists who maintained...

Damn the dams

Thanks for the information on the ten-dams project. Accurate and complete is how I found the articles. I’m grateful for...

Koalas on the move – stay alert on the roads

Over spring and summer koalas are on the move as they search for food, territory and mates.

I’m not a robot

In the microseconds it takes AI agents to tick the ‘I’m not a robot’ checkbox, do they have a...

Entertaining as it is to learn we have a brace of Saggas, a lone Goat, a mix ‘n match Gemini twin set, an unexpected Virgo – a backyard zoo running for mayor – I’m disappointed there’s not a Sceptacarius among the lot of ‘em.

We Sceptacarians want to know who’s really wielding the power? Where there’s so much money to be made who will sniff out the taurus poo in the glib phrase ‘sustainable development’, call it out and vote it down past the S-bend? And who will answer honestly the questions put by Suzie Deyris in her letter?

Adrian Gattenhof, Mullumbimby



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