Schools and community groups have shared in community grants worth  $50,000 from Splendour in the Grass. 

Two independent reports on the Iron Gates development at Evans Heads have determined that it should not go ahead.

Some weeks it’s hard to navigate the big feelings I have around injustice; the kind of injustice that occurs every day, everywhere, underwritten by the privilege of some at the expense of the many. The shit stuff people get away with! The shit stuff no one notices. Shit stuff always happens to people who don’t have much to start with. I sometimes wonder how you can hear story after story and not realise the system is broken. Capitalism sucks. Let’s go break stuff – like, the dominant paradigm! We haven’t managed to subvert it – so can we smash it into tiny pieces? Please?

Later this year, Byron Farmers Market will celebrate its 20th birthday. An impressive feat given that when it first...

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.