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A dumb act of STP
Council is stating that breaches of licence conditions, in part, justifies spending $10m on transferring raw sewage from Ocean...
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Speeding traffic
In Suffolk Park there are a number of problems including getting out of Clifford Street onto Broken Head Road...
COVID’s genetic solution?
A lucky few are unusually resistant to COVID-19. Scientists are trying to find a reason in their genes.
Water Night coming tomorrow
Rous County Council is putting residents of the Northern Rivers to the test by challenging households to take up the Water Night Challenge.
Editorial: Jabby jab jab jabb
As of this week, NSW reached the double vaccination target of 80 per cent!
The 29th annual Ernies a shocking look at misogyny
Has lockdown made misogyny worse? We could find out tomorrow when the 29th Annual Ernies Awards for sexist remarks give out their gongs
Privately owned, but still ‘sacred site’ – Nimbin church burns to the ground
Last night at around 9pm, St Patrick's Catholic Church in Nimbin burned to the ground.
Stories about "Federal Politics":
Acting Prime Ministers
Last week, Acting PM Michael McCormack managed the tricky feat of making the absent Scott Morrison look good, at least by comparison. Perhaps that's now the Nationals' role in the Canberra circus?
Editorial – Dear diary
As if I don’t have enough to deal with, my empathy coach just cancelled my appointments because someone in his family ‘just died unexpectedly’.
Cartoon of the week – 31 March, 2021
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Craig Kelly quits Liberal Party
Federal Member for Hughes Craig Kelly has resigned from the Liberal Party, technically throwing Scott Morrison's government into minority as it grapples with scandals from within and without.
Make Politics Boring Again
The new year is still looking awfully like 2020 Part II: The Suckening.
Corruption? Let’s remind ourselves of Joh
As a Brisbane teenager in Sir Joh’s stifling, authoritarian, corrupt police state, I’d buy a Nation Review each week to read Mungo on federal politics.
Work experience
A short story about an encounter with a famous journalist in the old Parliament House press gallery, remembering the great Mungo MacCallum.
A peek at Rupert Murdoch’s revised walking dead cabinet
Good riddance Turnbull, a PM of massive wealth and ego who left office without much record of accomplishment. Remember when the Libs scoffed as Labor tore itself apart?
Electorate takes softer line than pollies
Australian voters tend to accept difference and change better than the politicians they voted for, judging by a recent report released by the Australian National University.
Pulling the think tank strings
Hans Lovejoy
Anyone who doubts the influence of think tanks needs only to consider Tony Abbott’s short tenure as prime minister (2013–2015).
Most of his initiatives...
Local News
COVID-19 update: 5 new cases in the NNSWLHD
Northern NSW Local Health District, Acting Chief Executive, Lynne Weir, says there were five new cases of COVID-19 reported for the District to 8pm last night, 21 October.
Local News
NSW Education responds to Teachers Federation over Murwillumbah Education Campus staff cuts
The NSW Education Department has responded to the NSW Teachers Federation's accusation that Education Minister Sarah Mitchell has only just revealed the extent of staff cuts at the mega school.
Local News
The Rebels and the Wraiths visit Nationals: ‘We are facing a planetary crisis’
Eve Jeffery - 1
As part of a fortnight of climate actions and protests with the Extinction Rebellion, over 30 activists visited MP Kevin Hogan’s office in Lismore yesterday pushing ghostly empty white prams.
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NSW Legislative Council expresses concerns over push to burn native forests for power
The NSW Legislative Council unanimously passed a motion expressing its concerns over the growing push by industry to burn NSW native forests for electricity and hydrogen production.
