Installing CCTV cameras and motion-sensor lights is one of the best ways for locals to protect their homes from the wave of break-ins and car thefts occurring across the Northern Rivers, a community meeting has been told.
Byron Shire Council staff say the stormwater system at the corner of Station Street and Fern Street in Mullumbimby will be soon upgraded, which aims to reduce flash flooding in the area.
The Ballina Shire Council have announced the nominees for their 2025 Australia Day Awards, commemorating individual and community achievement throughout the shire
A childhood love of eating smoked fish inspired former documentary filmmaker Damien Curtis to launch what is now an award-winning fish smokery business, The Bay Smokehouse, which specialises in sustainable wild caught local fish.
2024 is now officially the hottest year ever recorded on our planet, easily beating the previous record year of 2023 as we collectively travel up the exponential curve towards catastrophe.
Reflections, the largest holiday park group in NSW, is encouraging its guests to 'go with the flow' this summer and help it save water by reporting any leaks when staying in their parks.
In 1996 the American intellectual Noam Chomsky wrote, 'The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.' Professor Chomsky has now lost the ability to speak, but his words continue to ring true.
The eyes of Australia turn this week to the electorate of Dunkley in Victoria, historically the site of the Frankston riot and just down the road from where Harold Holt disappeared. Now it's the location of an all important federal by-election.
Labor recently said goodbye to one of its heroes, Bill Hayden, sometimes referred to as the greatest prime minister Australia never had. He was pushed aside as party leader by Bob Hawke in 1983. Soon after, Hawke was elected to replace Malcolm Fraser as PM. As Hayden memorably put it in a moment of bitterness, 'a drover's dog' could have led Labor to victory at that time, but in the end it was a silver bodgie who took the prize.
Federal Labor has effectively abandoned its 50 per cent renewable energy target after its leaders failed hopelessly to identify the obvious arguments to defend the policy.
Prolific writer Bob Ellis has died at his home in Sydney at the age of 73 after a battle with liver cancer. A Seventh Day Adventist who grew up in Lismore, Ellis wrote speeches for Labor leaders including Paul Keating, Kim Beazley and Bob Carr.
Paul Power, chief executive officer, Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA). Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and shadow immigration minister Richard Marles are pandering to the politics of fear by supporting the forced turnbacks of asylum seeker boats.
Given its poor handling of refugee policy when it came to power in 2007, the Labor Party will need to tread very carefully when it formulates a new policy at its upcoming national conference.
The path towards ‘the new federalism’ is strewn with the corpses of prime ministers far more dedicated to the cause than Tony Abbott, writes Mungo MacCallum.
Justine Elliot’s advocacy for more police is welcome, but it must be paired with progressive policies addressing crime’s root causes. The current ‘tough on...
What options do we have to combat global warming and address the energy crisis? Politically, there’s a debate between renewable energy and nuclear power.
