The NSW Government has announced $230 million as part of an emergency support package over the next four years for domestic, family and sexual violence victim-survivors.

The galaxies have aligned with two amazing guest DJs – DANU, aka Kelly Lynch, and Andrew Haig – joining the Cunning Stunts resident DJs Lord Sut and Dale Stephen in the Shed at May’s Nudge Nudge Wink Wink: The Ultimate Party with a Conscience!

Swooping into its third year, Ché Pritchard’s hit production Birds of Paradise: A Comedy Birdlesque! is back, and this time the flock is covering more ground than ever! The world-class, multi-skilled and clucking amazing cast will be dazzling audiences with their spectacular and hilarious displays for a whole new flock of feathered cabaret and comedy fans! And where better to do it than the renowned Brunswick Picture House, home of epic cabaret and comedy!

Member for Lismore, Janelle Saffin MP hosted a Northern Rivers housing roundtable in this week.

The Greens are calling for a halt to all new coal mine approvals after a new report has revealed that methane emissions from open cut coal mines could be producing twice as much methane than is accounted for in the National Carbon Inventory.

The impact of Private Native Forestry agreements are often contentious and with eastern Australia being the only first world country identified as one of 24 ‘deforestation hotspots’ around the world the question of who provides permission and oversees the consent for PNF is important. 

Rising Tide Northern Rivers is part of a peaceful mass movement for climate defence, recently launched at Hastings Point and in Lismore.