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May 10, 2024

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Roads to Mullum High and Tallowood Estate closed

The corner of Jubilee Ave and Azalea Street, near Mullumbimby High School, is currently closed following a truck leaving the road and damaging overhead electrical lines.

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It’s the Byron Caper!

Like your entertainment served up with delicious food and booze? Then this one’s for you! Caper Byron Bay Food & Culture Festival is thrilled to announce the return of the ‘Dinner & Show’ at Brunswick Picture House for two nights only on Saturday, 18 May and Sunday, 19 May.

New report reveals NSW biodiversity no better off under Labor

A new report released today has revealed that declining biodiversity and increasing extinctions has continued despite pre-election commitments by the Minns government to take action on environmental protection.

Reflections yet to reply on court orders update

Long-standing court orders placed upon NSW government-run corporation Reflections, appear to be not fulfilled.

Thalison wins third major BJJ title in 2024

Thalison Soares has won his third major tournament in a row after taking gold at the 2024 Brazilian National...

Food security workshop May 11

How can we as a community ensure that a steady supply of nutritious food is available to everyone after a natural disaster?

Main Arm road meeting this Thursday

It has been over two years since the 2022 floods and residents of Main Arm have been dealing with third world road conditions ever since. Now Byron Shire Council has agreed to ‘enter Middle Earth’ as one resident put it, and they have invited Main Arm residents to join them at Kohinur Hall this Thursday.

I once knew a bloke who owned a gym with a swimming pool in the basement. He was a crazy bloke. He used to muck around with strobe lights in his gym and he would dance around juggling spinning dumbbells. He used to call it playing with air.

One day the silly bastard got a long bar and put a weight in the middle and another two weights at the ends and started to dance around spinning it. He adjusted the strobe lights so that they were in tune with the big spinning weights. It was pretty mesmerising, everybody just watched and didn’t do much about it.

But suddenly it smashed through the wall into the electrical system and created a bloody fire so the whole place went up in flames and all the weights just went flying down through the floor into the swimming pool and made a huge splash so the whole place was burning and flooding and he lost everything! He went into shock, went berserk, and died of starvation!

It actually reminds me of climate change, people just watching mesmerised and not doing much. Even the way carbon dioxide spins up with a particular infrared frequency and rips through the atmosphere creating havoc.

The moral of the story is don’t get fossilised when you are watching some fuel playing with fire.

Sapoty Brook, Main Arm


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