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Mullum CWA raises $900 for Cancer Council

Each year Mullumbimby CWA supports the Cancer Council with a Biggest Morning Tea fundraiser. This year they decided to change things up a bit and have a soup lunch and raffles.

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Mullum water supply, a new twist

Debates on the future of Mullumbimby’s water supply took a new twist at Council’s meeting on 18 June. The latest...

No man is an island

What is it with billionaires and islands? Donald Trump wants to resurrect the notorious prison island of Alcatraz to house ‘America’s most ruthless and violent offenders’. Perhaps subconsciously he is preparing his future island residence.  The sordid Epstein network is divided into those who did and did not travel to Epstein Island where, undoubtedly, heinous crimes occurred.

Byron Council signs MoU with Homes NSW

Byron Council has formally partnered with Homes NSW in a bid to accelerate social and affordable housing projects across the Shire, with the former Mullumbimby Hospital site identified as a key priority.

Iran: honest, sincere

When Israel and the US launched their illegal, unprovoked aggression against Iran at the end of February, they unintentionally...

Floodland

Local filmmaker Darius Devas is bringing Floodland – winner of the Sustainable Futures Award at the Sydney Film Festival – to Mullumbimby, for one night only.

Discursion on ‘reserve’

Reserve is a word with many meanings. What is the Reserve Bank of Australia? Does it have a ‘reserve’? Reserve...

Is the world we live in, more than what we understand? Theories challenge the known facts, so does any association of letters in words, that we make and combine in theory first, they share the same function. We can make images in our head of the stories being told, by using the symbols we have learnt to use, giving us our internal language. Reading books requires the same function of use. We make images in our head, an ‘image-in-action’. A universe we create ourselves.

A you-in-an-inverse state, is making our own internal universe. We send instructions to move our body, is it constructing your mind to do something? Of course it is. Closing the eyes is seeing the first page of our individual all-inclusive book, of being in our inverse state. You can’t see the stars in the physical without using your eyes, instructions have to be sent.

It Is described as going through the gate of the eyes to see the stars. We open or close our eyes and interpret the echoes. It can be called a functioning star gate, or a fail-safe mechanism to perceive the presence of the internal and external universe, (a you-inverse). In one package, being alive.

Is there more? When returning, into our inverse state, it’s only the first page of the book; have we read our own book, or stories already told? Physical star gates are said to have been found in the ruins of ancient civilisations on earth, and were used to travel through, to the distant stars that our eyes see. Some say it is mythology, or say it is the inner vision, others say it is part of ourself. We have a star gate, a description that will always be a theory. Until it is used.

Robert Podhajsky, Ocean Shores

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Ballina big band back with a blast

The Ballina Concert Band will perform a fun-packed set of jazz, blues and New Orleans favourites at a free gig at the Cherry Street Sports Club in Ballina, this Sunday, 28 June, from 2pm to 3pm.

Wollumbin Art Award finalists announced

The finalists for the biennial Wollumbin Art Award, held by Tweed Regional Gallery, have been announced. They are Tweed based artist Kane Corowa, Gold Coast based artist Beth Andrews, and Byron based artists Kirsten Chambers and Monica Buscarino.   

Tweed Mayor advocates to restore funding at Local Government assembly

Tweed Shire Council say it has secured national support at the Australian Local Government Association’s National General Assembly, with four key motions carried.

Byron Council signs MoU with Homes NSW

Byron Council has formally partnered with Homes NSW in a bid to accelerate social and affordable housing projects across the Shire, with the former Mullumbimby Hospital site identified as a key priority.