Those of us trying to escape from floods up and down the east coast can testify that climate change is not a looming threat – it is an immediate reality. The latest IPCC report last week stated that the...
A) Laugh, B) Cry, C) Feel contemptuous? These possible reactions occurred to me when I recently saw and heard in the federal parliament one politician sanctimoniously accuse another politician of – wait for it – ‘playing politics’! Needless to say C)...
Every little bit helps in the effort for flood recovery, and 10-year-old Miila Bijou thought she would like to do her little bit.
Midgen Flat Road, there is nothing flat about it, it’s a death trap! Midgen Flat Road is the main connection from Hinterland Way to Broken Head and Suffolk Park. When Ross Lane is flooded it services Lennox Head for residents...
I’m so sad to hear the horrible ordeal local residents and business owners have faced with the recent floods in the Northern Rivers, especially in Lismore. My heart goes out to all those who have lost so many precious and...
The Byron Environment Centre say they are sad to note the passing of Sharon Curry, who died on February 15, 2022.
When the head of the federal government’s disaster recovery agency, Shane Stone says ‘You’ve got people who want to live among the gum trees – what do you think is going to happen? Their house falls in the river and they say it’s the government’s fault’, well that’s not help. That’s actually abuse.
I lived through the ’54 and ’74 floods in Lismore – my home was under what is now Lismore Square – and nothing that’s been done in the way of flood mitigation has proven worthwhile when the big ones...
When all this settles down there should be either an Inquiry or Royal Commission about communications in Australia. How can a system fall over as it did in the Northern Rivers? Thanks, Malcolm Turnbull for implementing an inferior NBN service...
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The legendary Hoodoo Gurus will make their Bluesfest debut next Easter. By any measure, they are one of Australia’s greatest, best-loved, most enduring rock bands of all time.
There were a lot of smiles in Mullumbimby on Friday morning as people driving into Mullum were greeted with the Farmers Market’s superhero banana man Tim Green, redirecting Mullum Farmers Market traffic to Byron Shire Council car park in...
Aslan Shand The community response to the devastation wrought by the flooding of the Northern Rivers had been incredible and stories abound of people of all ages coming together to assist one another through this heartbreaking time. From gangs of teenagers...
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