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Ill-gotten gains

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Deaths from military conflict

Whilst the Mullumbimby RSL Sub-Branch acknowledges the death of Zomi Francom as tragic, so too are the deaths of...

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Making is better together

There is something that happens when people sit around a table and make something together.

Medicinal cannabis driving reforms pass NSW Parliament

Medicinal cannabis patients in NSW will no longer automatically face penalties simply because THC is detected in their system while driving, after long-awaited reforms passed State Parliament.

The second algorithm: why government control is the wrong fix

It is not often that a minister describes the most sweeping power she has ever asked for with the words 'I guess'.

Friendly pooches up for adoption

Stone & Wood are teaming up with Willow Tree Sanctuary and a whole lot of friendly dogs who are looking for their forever homes this Saturday, 19 September at the tasting room in Byron Bay from 11am to 2pm.

Council explores future for Brunswick flood housing village

Byron Shire Council is exploring options to keep the 58-home temporary housing village at Brunswick Heads operating after the NSW Government’s flood-housing program ends.

Tony Burke and the immigration iceberg

In a speech to the National Press Club, Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has attempted to redefine the immigration debate. But what lies beneath?

As the American President Trump stuffs up the world and stuffs his pockets with money, Australia’s homegrown hard-right-wing, Trump-loving Pauline Hanson has been stuffing her own pockets with political gifts of gold bars and electoral funding – she is on the same path.

Her rising orange T-shirt tribe is Australia’s most popular party according to polls.

In a podcast interview (News 24), Hanson stated that teaching First Nations history to children was a complete waste of time and that the race was the most primitive in the world.

‘What the hell have they done in this country?’ asked Hanson. ‘What have they achieved in… supposedly 60,000 years?’

Will belittling Australia’s Indigenous people and their culture ‘make Australia great again’?

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SRV and traffic lights

Amongst the many correspondents understandably aghast at a second 35 per cent SRV, last week we were told that traffic lights would be ‘absurd’...

Ill-gotten gains

As the American President Trump stuffs up the world and stuffs his pockets with money, Australia’s homegrown hard-right-wing, Trump-loving Pauline Hanson has been stuffing...

A natural burial and conservation site for Byron Shire

For many people in Byron Shire, caring for the environment is not simply something we do; it is part of how we live.

Community rallies in support of Bangalow Bowlo

Over 1,000 people rallied on Saturday in support of the Bangalow Bowlo and returning it to community hands, 11 months after Norths Collective closed the Bowlo.