Parliamentarians, including many members of the crossbench, have joined community sector leaders in calling on the parliament to raise the rate of income support.
Recycling is no longer a novelty and as we understand more about waste and reusing our resources, and the NSW Return and Earn scheme is playing a major role in making good habits pay on more than one level.
Regional NSW arts organisation NORPA (Northern Rivers Performing Arts) has shared its innovative vision for a new home, housed in the historic Hampton & Larsson timber factory in the centre of Lismore, and referred to as The Joinery.
Byron Bay Rugby Union have gone to the top of the competition ladder after beating rivals Bangalow 20–17.
The top-of-the-table clash was hard fought and...
Cr Michael Armstrong (Tweed Shire Council). Last year I shaved my head as a fund raising event at the Tweed Valley Relay for Life. This has become even more poignant given that my family is currently dealing with ongoing cancer treatment.
Michael Armstrong, Tweed Shire deputy mayor. Tweed Shire Council is determined to protect those things that are important to the shire like our koalas and councillors should stop playing politics with our koalas.
Tweed Shire Council will urge new federal environment minister Greg Hunt to give the Tweed Coast's decimated koala population a fighting chance of survival when he reviews the Kings Forest township development plans.
Dave Norris , Pottsville. At last there is a glimmer of hope that our Tweed Coast koalas can be brought back from the brink of extinction, thanks to decisions made at our last Tweed Shire Council meeting.
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The Tweed Coast's dwindling koala population has been given a lifeline by Tweed Shire Council which last night resolved to urge the federal government to ban dogs from the massive Kings Forest housing development.
The push to open up the Tweed River to high-speed watersports such as waterskiing and wakeboarding continues apace despite concerns about erosion of the river estuary banks caused by power boat wake.
Tweed Shire Council wants to make Knox Park more 'user-friendly' by reconfiguring the little island on the pond where birds live and roost so that people can access it.
A bid by a Tweed councillor to debate and look into the annual costs of the shire's current fluoridation of its drinking water supply and any savings if the practice was stopped was rejected last night.
Councillor Barry Longland has been re-elected as mayor of Tweed for the next 12 months, his third term in a row in the top job, and promised continued stability for the shire during the coming year.
Greens federal candidate Mandy Nolan says the push to end native forest logging is back on the agenda in federal parliament, after emails released last week under freedom of information laws show Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek described a deal late last year to set up a federal Environment Protection Agency (EPA) as ‘critical’ before being overturned by PM Anthony Albanese.
Labor is building Australia’s future’. How often are we to hear this mindless electoral mantra from Justine Elliot during the coming months?
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