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Splendour 2024 cancelled

It's official, Splendour in the Grass 2024 has been cancelled.

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Heavy traffic on M1 predicted over Easter long weekend

Bottlenecks in Northern NSW are predicted to occur at Coffs Harbour and Tugun over the Easter long weekend. This is expected to be further impacted by work on the Pacific Highway just north of the Queensland border.

Biz confidence up, says Business NSW

The state's peak body for business says confidence in the sector has increased but cost of living pressures continue to impact customer spending.

Laid-back but lively

Ooz is an acoustic roots reggae artist with a large, eclectic repertoire of crowd favourites. His unique, laid-back but lively style creates a relaxed atmosphere and his song choices have you remembering many of those forgotten classics.

Way of the dog

One of the more disappointing aspects of the decline of Byron Bay, and I have a long list, is...

Mayoral casting vote gets Lismore’s Affordable Housing Strategy over the line

At the recent Lismore City Council meeting former Mayor Vanessa Ekins and councillor Elly Bird moved the motion to introduce an Affordable Housing Contribution Scheme and submit it to the state government for a gateway determination. 

Breakfeast, Bluesfest weekend

Victoria Cosford Oh to be a cow with a four-chambered stomach system! Farmers’ market, Bluesfest long weekend, a spot of...

SBS are screening the entire series of Servant of the People, starring Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the humble maths teacher who rose to become the president of Ukraine. Which then led to that humble stand-up comedian rising to become the actual president of Ukraine. Pure Hollywood.

Oliver Stone’s documentary Ukraine on Fire makes an excellent companion piece to this series.

It beggars belief that the USA’s vassal states in Europe and here in Australia are willing to completely tank their own economies in service to their US overlords who’re getting filthy rich from massive arms sales in their poxy, proxy wars with Russia and China.

Robin Harrison, Binna Burra


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  1. Don’t forget his 2019 follow up ‘Revealing Ukraine’
    The Russian Rubble has doubled in value, their oil revenues are up 50%, and they are buying everything direct from China now.
    Mean while, more and more countries are abandoning the west’s swift system thus crashing the petro-dollar leading to an inflationary death spiral for all our countries, while the TV watching public clap like trained seals with their faces painted blue and yellow.

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