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Nimblefoot launches tonight in Byron
Acclaimed Bangalow author Robert Drewe, who will be featuring at Byron Writers Festival, is having his latest book Nimblefoot launched by Kerry O’Brien at The Book Room at Byron at 6pm tonight.
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Neanderthal vs. modern humans: Slow and steady wins the brain game
Our closest human relatives are Neanderthals and their Asian relatives the Denisovans. The differences between Homo sapiens and these other groups are encoded in changes to the amino acids which are the building blocks of proteins in our cells and tissues.
Be alert – koalas are on the move
Yes it's that time of year and Friends of the Koala are urging members of the public to contain dogs at night and keep a lookout for koalas on their properties and when driving, particularly during dusk to dawn.
Evans Head, Iron Gates DA public planning meeting coming
The current development application (DA) for the flood and bushfire-prone site of the Evans Head, Iron Gates development will go before the Northern Rivers Planning Panel (NRPP) on 30 August.
Comment: Time for another Police Royal Commission?
It might be time for another investigation into the NSW Police Force, but this time, the police conduct under the microscope would be alleged overreach in the application of certain powers.
Singing songs of sorrow and resilience
Tucked away in a Mullumbimby music studio, a group of local musicians have been pouring their hearts out through song.
Richmond Tweed Regional Library Mobile Library is on the road
Following the destruction of the previous trailer in this year’s unprecedented floods, a replacement trailer for the Richmond Tweed Regional Mobile Library has arrived – it's been polished and loaded with brand-new books and is on the road.
Stories about "Israel":
Palestine Israel
Léonie De Dreux-Crawford, Mullumbimby
With regard to Mr Wakil’s letter, you edified Mosab Hassan Yousef.
To put the record straight, yes, Mosab was the son of a...
Thus Spake Mungo: ScoMo’s embassy move is a no-go
Bill Shorten and Penny Wong got it right last week: ScoMo’s pre-Wentworth thought bubble about moving the Australian embassy to Jerusalem should be dead, buried and cremated.
Ollie McAfee: a wanderer consumed by the desert?
A pilgrim to the Holy Land is missing after having a mystical experience.
Rogue-state Israel continues its ‘murder’
Gareth W R Smith, Palestine Liberation Centre, Byron Bay. Israel swapped the blood of the paschal lamb this Passover for the blood of Palestinians but there was no staying of the Angel of Death.
Israel’s brutality of Palestinian children continues unabated
Israel is the only country in the world which arraigns kids before military courts denying them family access and legal representation.
Israel a pariah state in global popularity stakes
Gareth W R Smith, Palestine Liberation Centre, Byron Bay. Dr Abramovich et al have a difficult time deodorising the moral stench emanating from apartheid Israel which extends back to Zionism’s collaboration with anti-Semitic regimes, including Hitler’s.
Israel not an apartheid state
Dr Dvir Abramovich, Chairman, Anti-Defamation Commission.
We write in response to the article “Palestine friends to target north coast MPs, ABC offices” that appeared in...
Turnbull sucks up to apartheid Israel, bans Palestinian visit
Gareth W R Smith, Palestine Liberation Centre, Byron Bay. Ahed Tamimi is a 16 year old Palestinian girl from Nabi Saleh, a small village in the West Bank which doggedly resists Israel's theft of their lands and water. Recently, when the soldiers invaded the Tamimi backyard and shot her cousin Mohammed in the head with a rubber bullet at point blank range, Ahed slapped their faces.
Israel’s inhumanity against Palestinians shockingly shameful
Gareth W R Smith, Palestine Liberation Centre, Byron Bay. Israel has managed to transcend even its own levels of inhumanity when an Israeli sniper shot double amputee Ibrahim Abu Thuraya through the head on December 15.
Apologists for apartheid Israel unmasked
Gareth W R Smith, Palestine Liberation Centre, Byron Bay. Thank you Donald Trump for having the brazen effrontery and stupidity to reveal the American Emperor in all his naked glory.
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Mullum locals protest flood-prone pod site
Aslan Shand - 7
Around 40–50 locals gathered outside the Byron Shire Council chambers this morning to highlight the risks of, and lack of due process around, the selection of the flood accommodation pod site in Mullumbimby.
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Council: Goonellabah park not available for pods
Eve Jeffery - 3
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.
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Cabarita DA refused on character grounds
Aslan Shand - 2
Tweed Shire Councillors refused a DA for a four-storey block of flats at 2-6 Tweed Coast Road, Cabarita Beach, despite the staff recommendation of approval.
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Concerns over future of Murwillumbah Hospital
Northern NSW Local Health District have sought to reassure locals that facilities won't be downgraded or closed at Murwillumbah Hospital when the controversial new Tweed Valley Hospital in Cudgen near Kingscliff opens in 2023.
