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Building hei(s)(gh)ts
I also strongly agree with David Gilet and Paul McCarthy on the creeping cancer of increased building heights/heists in...
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Lettuce to the Editor
As a writer you never really know what is going to strike a chord with your audience. What will inspire them? Make them think? Make them change their mind? Make them angry? After more than two decades of publishing I am still surprised by what rocks a reader’s boat. About a week ago I discovered that a lot of people have strong opinions on the humble iceberg. I’m not talking about the one that took out theTitantic. I’m talking about the one that has been sinking wallets at the supermarket.
Humpback whale and calf tangled in shark net – Surfers Paradise
A humpback whale and her calf became entangled in shark nets off the coast of Surfers Paradise last Thursday.
Byron Council committee vacancies
I am a great believer in community input into Council business. A great opportunity for that is through Advisory...
Ballina’s balloon ban in support of wildlife
Balloons are to be banned outside in the Ballina Shire from next year after a unanimous council vote Thursday morning.
Chill – not warships
Peter Walters can relax. There are no Chinese warships in Darwin. A Chinese company operates the port in Darwin...
Next step for Byron Shire coastal management
Byron Shire Council will move to the next step of their Coastal Management Program (CMP) that will cover the Shire’s southern coastline and Belongil estuary, after an ongoing grant was approved by the NSW government
Stories about "super rough seas":
Traversing the Super Rough Seas in Murwillumbah
The Super Rough Seas Project is a new and vibrant street art montage that has been installed at the M.Arts Precinct, in Murwillumbah.
The Super Rough Seas of drought, fire, pandemic…
Local artist Karma Barnes says that the notion that we are all in this together has inspired a community art project. 'People were talking about how we are all the same boat during this crisis, but really it is more that we are in the same storm.
Letters
Palestine’s ‘terra nullius’ and children’s body armour
Firstly, the Zionist regime of Israel is an apartheid regime. It is based on the dispossession, expropriation, expulsion and oppression of the Palestinian people.
This...
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Lismore council flirts with ‘koala-killer’ status
The fate of one of the state’s last koala populations appears to lie in the hands of the Lismore City Council after an extraordinary meeting Thursday afternoon.
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Suspected Tweed Heads meth lab dismantled
Specialist police units along with NSW Fire and Rescue have been dismantling an alleged meth lab in Tweed Heads this morning, police said.
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Hydro cannabis bust in Tweed
Police have confiscated equipment they say was being used for a hydroponic cannabis station set up in a Tweed Heads garage.
