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While motorists are often guilty of not taking care around cyclists – or stopping for pedestrians on pedestrian crossings (there is a reason for those stripes, you know) – we have heard from motorists that lately there has been another outbreak of cyclists riding without lights at night. That is plain fucking stupid, not to put too fine a point on it. There are easier ways to die which don’t involve giving drivers unnecessary heartbreak. The law requires you to have lights operating front and back at night – read up about it here: http://bit.ly/ Tx3hk1. Q Q Q Q
Mungo MacCallum must be soaking his smoking fingers in ice water after the speed with which he produced his book on the election we just had. The Mad Marathon is the third in his series of reports on federal election mayhem and you can read all about it on page 13. Q Q Q Q
While on the subject of that election, the pundits seem
One of Mullum’s little laneways was lovingly painted by local artist Karena Wynn-Moylan. Now Karena is having a sale of hundreds of her works in all sorts of media on September 28–29 at Newrybar Hall, 8am–4pm. Check out what’s on offer at www.karenawynn-moylan. bravehost.com. Proceeds from the sale will be going to her next big multimedia art project called Zid – Memories of Sarajevo.
to agree the way to end the Byzantine process of voting for senate candidates would be to introduce an optional preferential system, in which you can vote above the line for a number of parties, and need not fill in all the squares. It might also be worth ending the above-the-line and belowthe-line system for the senate altogether – anything to end the farce of the Nosepicking Appreciation Society candidate getting elected with 1,273 primary votes because of a weird chain of preference flow-ons.
threatening the the NSW chief medical officer when
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Backlash keeps banging on about our local libraries but how can we not when they produce such interesting events? Another good hangout for bibliophiles is bookriot.com.
If the state government decides to legislate to take fluoridation of water supplies out of local councils’ hands, then one obvious way to avoid being dosed, if you’re so inclined, is to get a rainwater tank and put a filter on it to sort out the possum poo bacteria and other nasties. It makes more sense than
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