The Mullumbimby Chamber of Commerce, the Ex-Services CLllley Historical Society (BVHS) are providing $100 vouchers to people in Mullumbimby who have been impacted severely by the flooding. ‘We are going to walk the flood-affected streets and provide $100 credit...
Our local communities are becoming old hands at responding effectively to natural disasters. This was shown dramatically in the widescale flooding of the Northern Rivers, when small towns, and the city of Lismore, were isolated from any outside help.
A group of concerned hinterland residents are wanting to create a network of people/communities to give voice to the unique needs of their communities during and following natural disasters such as the recent flooding.
So now we know where we stand, when the chips are down the only thing we can rely on is our community. We cannot rely on the government, the internet or the mobile phone network. As monolithic as these...
Raw sewage is far from sexy, but dealing with it is critical to public and environmental health. If in doubt imagine the impact of raw sewage pouring into the Brunswick River. The Brunswick Valley Sewerage Treatment Plant (BVSTP) was designed...
Religious freedom allows Sikhs to wear a turban (pagri,) Jews to wear a skull cap (kippala), Christians to wear vestments (a liturgical dress or gown), gay teachers to be blacklisted from teaching in school and students experiencing gender dysphoria...
If you have driven to/from Byron Bay via Ewingsdale Road, you will have seen the ambulances parked beside the road, instead of within the new station. Did the State government ignore Council’s requirements re minimum floor levels in flood prone...
All through human history the feminine gender has been relegated to a secondary position. I thought we femmes should find an independent identity for ourselves, but then had the notion that both genders are homo sapiens and it might be...
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In our efforts to change and dominate our landscape we have altered the very fabric of how our ecosystems and geography manage in times of severe weather. Severe weather that is becoming more frequent, more devastating.
Finding housing for those displaced by the floods has unquestionably become the greatest challenge of the flood recovery effort in the Northern Rivers.
It’s the $2,000 question. Will the Byron, Ballina and Tweed Shires share in the extra government disaster payments offered to our neighbours in Lismore, Richmond Valley, and Clarence Valley?
A flood evacuation centre in Lismore suffered a COVID outbreak that resulted in a significant number of flood victims becoming infected, local volunteers say.
Being in post-flood Mullum at the moment is no walk in the park, but for recent Ukrainian arrival Igor Zorkin, Mullumbimby has been, for the last week, a paradise.
The development application by the ‘local’ group, Site R&D, for West Byron has been approved by the Land and Environment Court.
They say ‘it takes a village’, but you don’t know what kind of village you are until disaster hits. We have just found out that our villages are amazing. For years in our region, as the housing crisis hit, people started to say ‘this community is gone’.
Joe Camilleri is bringing The Black Sorrows goods to Bluesfest 2022 and for all those fans of the constantly evolving Camilleri – Jo Jo Zep, the Sorrows, The Revelators, Bakelite Radio, The Voodoo Sheiks and Here Comes The Night, you will get a bit of everything on Good Friday and Easter Saturday.
If you heard rumours of a restaurant that started during the height of a pandemic in 2020, and that had endured through all the lockdowns and disruptions to be probably the busiest restaurant in a seaside town in the...
I went up to Harvest for a special family birthday lunch on Sunday. Not only was the food terrific, with lots of new dishes I’d never tried before on the menu, but I also had the chance to try...
Nobody came to Lucy Vader’s rescue after she had been trapped on a roof in the floods for seven hours.
Lucy Vader was trapped on a Lismore roof for seven hours: 'I have to admit that I’ve had better days, possibly every single day of my life has been better than this.'
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