A change of use for the former Wraight’s mechanic workshop in Brunswick Heads was waved through unanimously by councillors at their November 14 meeting, paving the way for a takeaway cafe and wellness gym and recovery centre.
More than 150 young humans from eight local high schools gathered at Ballina Coast High School last week for a day devoted to learning about, and defending, our precious marine environments.
Whitehaven Coal yesterday announced it would halt its clearing of Leard State Forest until September following an injunction in the NSW Land and Environment Court by the Maules Creek Community Council.
Narrabri residents pleaded with their local councillors yesterday not to force campers off public lands in the shire in the face of a growing number of forest protectors blockading a controversial coal-mine project.
Deep in the Leard State Forest, something massive is stirring. Whitehaven Coal is set to construct the Maules Creek mine, decimating local farming communities and critically endangered woodland.
Over the next week climate change group 350.org in collaboration with local Lock the Gate Alliance groups will be hosting information sessions about the blockade to stop Whitehaven Coal’s Maules Creek Coal mine near Narrabri in North Western NSW.
In its final session for the year, the Australian Senate passed 45 bills last week, most of them in a marathon session on Thursday. The ones that were left behind show the priorities of the government as we all head towards an election in 2025.
