Backlash Right: if you regard global warming as still the ‘greatest moral challenge’ of our times, as Kevin Rudd once did, you might like to consider this scorecard put together by the Australian Youth Climate Coalition, the inheritors of previous generations’ follies. Find out more about AYCC at http:// aycc.org.au.
ST JOHN’S PRIMARY SCHOOL MULLUMBIMBY Ph. 6684 2386 email: sjpmull@lism.catholic.edu.au
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To quote Jim Morrison, ‘strange days have found us’, and it’s all to do with the federal election. The NSW senate ballot paper has acquired 45 parties to vote for – and the Australian Electoral Commission is issuing magnifying glasses at polling booths so you can read it – partly because political parties think it’s fun to play silly buggers with preferences. WikiLeaks owes a debt of gratitude to the Greens, but its Party is directing its preferences in a tortuous route through all kinds of groups. See Graham Askey’s extensive explanation of the metre-wide senate preferences hoopla on pages 14–15. But the real scandal so far is that Pastafarian Australians are being denied religious equality by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Users on the ABC’s ‘Vote Compass’ website have no option to identify themselves as Pastafarian. ‘This is a clear case of discrimination against followers of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM),’ say the faithful. Find out more about the One True Way at venganza.org. Q Q Q Q
We thought there couldn’t be anything more boring than the state of federal politics – the honourable exception being Canberra slacker punk
trio Super Best Friends’ video Round And Round; see it on YouTube – but surely nothing surpasses the tedium of the news media’s fascination with Essendon versus AFL over an alleged drug scandal. If we never heard about the Essendon football club ever again, it would be too soon.
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Local artists might be interested in participating in an exhibition about death coming up at the Tweed River Art Gallery. Submissions close on September 20. You can see artworks from more than 100 artists from all over the world on the A Book About Death Australia blog at www. abadaustralia.blogspot.com. The idea originally came from American artist Ray Johnson (1927–1995), whose work lives on at www.rayjohnsonestate. com.
25TH ANNIVERSARY! IN THE PINK BYRON opened 1st of September 1988 25 years of artisan gourmet gelati all made on the premises. Millions of scoops of delicious gelati sold. Grab a locals loyalty card & fill it before Sept 1 to get a free take home pack as well as the usual discount!
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STOP CSG MINING Authorised by R. Hart, 20 Robinsons Rd Mullumbimby NSW 2482 52 August 27, 2013 The Byron Shire Echo
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