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Public housing forum/doco May 16

A documentary exploring the devastating impacts of losing one’s home owing to the privatisation and demolition of public housing assets will be screened May 16 at the Palace Cinema.

Other News

Ballina Council delays Sharpes Beach redevelopment

At the eleventh hour, Ballina Shire Council has voted to press pause on the controversial Sharpes Beach car park redevelopment, and seek further options.

NEFA says Forestry Corp are ignoring legal protections for gliders

The North East Forest Alliance is calling on the Environment Protection Authority to issue an immediate Stop Work Order for logging in Styx River State Forest, near Armidale on the Northern Tablelands.

From gumboot throwing to a gnome known as Costa

Permaculture is the foundation of the 30th anniversary weekend celebrations at the Djanbung Gardens over the weekend of May 25-26. 

Lighthouse walkway

Soon most of the lighthouse walk that National Parks are responsible for will be top shelf. Could the Byron...

Almost ten years since the Northern Rivers made history at Bentley

With hundreds of riot police expected to confront thousands of protectors on site at the Bentley blockade, west of Lismore, it was a great relief to many when the NSW government suspended Metgasco's Petroleum Exploration Licence on 15 May 2014, effectively handing a historic win to the community.

Record pokies losses in 2023 as NSW waits for real reform

The people of NSW lost $8.129 billion to poker machines in 2023, an increase of $29 million on 2022 and the equivalent of $1,000 for every adult and child in the state.

Stories about "powers":

Editorial: All hail, Supreme Unelected Planning Overlord

I CYMI, Marcus Ray, Deputy Secretary NSW Planning, has been bestowed enormous powers by an ineffectual and weak NSW Labor planning minister.

Free all the people

By any account, the current ongoing humanitarian tragedy in Gaza today needs thorough analysis, to objectively understand the causes as to why this ongoing...

Exploring the Burmese struggle in Byron, May 30

Rosemary and previously, her late husband, have been teaching, then quietly building clean water systems for villages and schools in the ‘dry region’ of Burma / Myanmar for years.

Freemasonry looks to its future

Meet the Freemasonry Grand PooBah of Lodge Cavanbah in Byron Bay, Nick Towers.

Labor NSW spruiks healthcare worker incentives as QLD continues to poach

More than a thousand nursing graduates and students have received offers under Labor’s NSW Tertiary Health Study Subsidy Program as part of state efforts to counter staff shortages.