Around 150 people gathered in intermittently wet weather in Lismore on Saturday to share frustrations over the NSW Reconstruction Authority’s management of recovery processes for disaster impacted homes.
Ballina Council's last meeting saw progress on Tuckean Swamp, while Mayor Cadwallader maintained her support for the stockyards at Alstonville Showground, despite residents' objections.
I have been trying to keep this column non-political. But today I can only write one thing. I can only write about how I woke up today. Because in over 22 years of writing the Soapbox I have a contract with my readers. I always write from my authenticity. I tell you the truth. I write what is front of mind. And today when I sit at the desk, I’m in tears. Tears of gratitude for the beautiful people who have turned up, who have carried me through, and tears of sorrow for this terrible feeling that I have let my community down. That I gave people hope for something I now couldn’t deliver.
Lismore has seen a number of its Big Scrub homes demolished since the 2022 floods and this Saturday concerned residents and locals are taking to the streets to protest their demolition.
The development of 742 residential lots, two neighbourhood business lots (super lots), one residue lot (future residential) and 45 new roads on the North Lismore Plateau has been recommended for refusal by the Lismore City Council assessment.
Last weekend a group of photographers and conservationists made a trek up Banyam Baigham, Lismore’s Sleeping Lizard, to capture the landmark reptile for posterity.
The development of the North Lismore Plateau has been creating community division for many years with local Bundjalung Elder, Mickey Ryan having led the opposition to the unfettered development of the plateau.
The Land and Environment Court has ruled that approval of the development application to create over 400 residential lots on the North Lismore Plateau, is invalid.
Bundjalung Aboriginal elders and traditional owners along with community supporters will be performing a sacred fire and smoking ceremony to protest the controversial North Lismore Plateau development.
Aboriginal Elder Mickey Ryan has served Lismore City Council with a summons over the contentious North Lismore Plateau development, which he claims is set to be built on sacred Indigenous land.
A Lismore Aboriginal elder has this morning won a victory in the NSW Land and Environment Court against a proposal to build more than 1500 dwellings on the North Lismore Plateau.
Opponents of the proposed North Lismore plateau housing development will find out in the New Year whether they have successfully overturned the development’s approval.
Al Oshlack, Lismore.
Mickey Ryan, you are a hero the way you stand strong and for the rights of Koori people and the protection of sacred cultural heritage.
Police say Organised Crime Squad detectives have charged five men after the seizure of more than a tonne of cocaine found on board a vessel off the NSW coast.
The Love Lennox festival will return to the shores of Seven Mile Beach next month, transforming the town’s main street into an explosion of food, art, and entertainment.
Greens supporters and other minor party voters are still waiting for some acknowledgement from Anthony Albanese for delivering his record majority in the House of Representatives, via preferences, while over in the Senate it's looking like a case of the more things change, the more they stay the same.
