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Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: Big Polluters are Getting Off

Offsets don’t work. They have become a licence to pollute. What we actually need is a reduction in carbon emissions, not carbon-emitting industries to greenwash their impact by investing in a solar farm or planting saplings. While it’s nice to know that big polluters are keen to invest in green industry it would be better if they just stopped polluting. You know what’s better than offsets?
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Wollumbin Street bridge reduced to one lane

As part of the sewerage upgrade in Murwillumbah, Tweed Shire Council is urging motorists to plan ahead and seek alternative routes between the CBD and South Murwillumbah for up to four weeks from today.
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School holidays: farmers’ market fun

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Rehab centre Buttery celebrates 50

Binna Burra-based rehab centre, The Buttery, celebrated 50 years of serving the community this year, and held a gala dinner for 150 supporters in Tweed Heads on September 14.
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Chen Yang from the Gold Coast Orchestra

Season two of the Gold Coast Chamber Orchestra sees performances of Classical Gems conducted by Chen Yang in two shows with concert one on Sunday, 24 September at the Murwillumbah Civic Centre and concert two on Sunday, 8 October at Bond University.

This is the GCCO’s second full orchestra concert as Orchestra in Residence at Bond University and will feature works; ‘Moorside Suite’ (last movement) by Gustav Holst; ‘Elegy’ for solo viola, string quartet and strings by Herbert Howells; ‘Little Suite for String Orchestra’ by Peter Sculthorpe; ‘Serenade for Strings’ by Suk; ‘Sextet arranged for String Orchestra’ by Krug, and; ‘Fuga y Misterio’ for strings by Piazzolla.

For more info, visit gcco.com.au.

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