More than five hundred people have rallied on the Northern Rivers along with thousands across the country calling for an end to domestic and family violence.

Years before he would become the tyrannical President of Panem, 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth) is the last hope for his fading lineage, a once-proud family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. 

Historically, difficult women have been outlawed and called witches. That’s been the fate of ordinary women with extraordinary voices – women like singer/songwriter Áine Tyrrell and comedian Mandy Nolan.

Very sadly, local treasure Pam Sonia passed away in Ewingsdale, last Wednesday, December 6. 

In 2003, when I introduced myself as an MP with my maiden speech in parliament, I articulated my centralist, small ‘l’ liberal principles. I argued that values are not something to be on display in the morning and forgotten in the afternoon. 

The most contentious items on Lismore Council’s agenda for the November meeting were a development application (DA) for the...