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The solution is absolute transparency
Heilpern's great comparison (20 July) of wars in Ukraine and Iraq, illustrates the USA and all participants commit great...
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Old man shouts at cloud #3
At a beachside town a couple of years ago I saw a young couple dressed as Goths. Not as cathedrals in that style of architecture, or as members of an axe-wielding Germanic tribe, or as characters in an Emily Bronte novel (though that’s fairly close), but as the black-clothed, black eyelinered Emo youth of the 1980s and ‘90s.
Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: For Sale: Moral compass
Some weeks it’s hard to navigate the big feelings I have around injustice; the kind of injustice that occurs every day, everywhere, underwritten by the privilege of some at the expense of the many. The shit stuff people get away with! The shit stuff no one notices. Shit stuff always happens to people who don’t have much to start with. I sometimes wonder how you can hear story after story and not realise the system is broken. Capitalism sucks. Let’s go break stuff – like, the dominant paradigm! We haven’t managed to subvert it – so can we smash it into tiny pieces? Please?
Power of the people
Katherine (Letters, 3 August) asked ‘can the power of the people compete...’?
The answer is in the recent federal election:...
Veteran big band sounds coming to Ballina
The Royal Australian Navy Veterans Band is coming to Ballina RSL on Thursday, with a concert raising funds for the Northern Rivers Flood Relief Fund, by donation. They will be joined by the Royal Australian Navy Band, from Sydney, for what will be a big sound in a great cause.
Council: Goonellabah park not available for pods
Tuesday’s debate in the Lismore Council chambers was mostly about the community’s need for open, green space for sport and recreation balanced against the need for places to live.
Undesirable
An undeniable purpose in living is enjoyment, due to the fact that we have the capability to enjoy. What...
Stories about "Dyraaba crash":
Family angered by fatal-crash sentence
The family of a young father and his two children killed in a car crash at Dyraaba last year has hit out at the sentence handed down yesterday to the driver responsible for their deaths.
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Veteran big band sounds coming to Ballina
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The Royal Australian Navy Veterans Band is coming to Ballina RSL on Thursday, with a concert raising funds for the Northern Rivers Flood Relief Fund, by donation. They will be joined by the Royal Australian Navy Band, from Sydney, for what will be a big sound in a great cause.
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Some truths
In answer to David Lisle’s letter – Backlash Echo Aug 3, 2022.
Our rail corridor was only ‘disused’ because of purely political and so-called economics!...
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Alarming footage of devastation in Ellis State Forest
Today north coast conservationists say they are shocked and alarmed at footage of the devastation being wrought in Ellis State Forest south of Grafton.
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Mental health explored at Ballina symposium
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250 people attended the first free Community Mental Health Symposium last Thursday at Ballina RSL, with a range of expert speakers from various organisations explaining the dimensions of the problem and how best to move forward.