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Families consider class action against Intrapac over cancelled Banyan Hill house and land contracts

Nearly fifty local Intrapac house and land buyers on the Northern Rivers may need to take Supreme Court action to avoid being short-changed and priced out of the region.

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Bush ball – but fancy schmancy

The beautiful A&I Hall is the setting for the inaugural Bangalow Boujee Bush Ball on October 14 – celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Bangalow Community Children’s Centre. This will be a party to remember. 

Editorial: Be more like Gavin Newsom

The US state of California is suing five major fossil fuel companies over their contribution to the climate crisis.

Families consider class action against Intrapac over cancelled Banyan Hill house and land contracts

Nearly fifty local Intrapac house and land buyers on the Northern Rivers may need to take Supreme Court action to avoid being short-changed and priced out of the region.

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Just want to acknowledge The Echo for your front page of the Uluru Statement. A powerful and generous contribution...

A short history of cruelty

Anthony Albanese went to the last election promising to end live sheep exports from Australia. This rubbery promise has since been rolled back to his government's second term (assuming they get one). The independent panel's long-awaited report to the federal government on the issue has now also been delayed, from this week to late October.

BES rejects Ramsey’s proposal to leave conservation zones to private landholders

Ballina Environment Society (BES) has come out strongly against conservative independent Ballina Councillor Eva Ramsey’s proposal to have private property owners ‘opt in’ to conservation zones.

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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