Backlash Rail trail enthusiasts obviously have a good lobby network as they’ve been roping in letter writers from across the country; nevertheless we’ve concentrated on local submissions in our letters pages. Correspondents continue to forget to append their address and phone number (for verification purposes only) and thus lessen their chances of getting into print. When in doubt as to what to do, read the note on the first page of Letters each week.
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The NSW state government has shown its lack of interest in reviving the north coast rail track by knocking out a couple of bridges on the line at North Lismore and Binna Burra. That makes it difficult to walk or ride the remaining rail trail, too, unless you want to attempt a flying leap a la Evel Knievel across Lismore Road.
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ocean views, they have many clean public toilets and may even welcome our excess koalas. Perhaps we could learn something from them.
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Last week’s Refugee Week film screening raised money for a bus to take refugees from Lismore to Byron Bay. If the rail trail goes ahead, we could expect a flood of similar people. But let’s not ‘turn back the bus’; refugees from Lismore should be welcomed. They are good lantern-makers and are excellent at covering laneways in artistic graffiti, skills that should be valued here. Sure, they may initially wear ‘beards’ and ‘eat’ at our ‘roadhouses’ without understanding that as a purely ironic hipster gesture, but they are hard workers and while they save for their first rent payment we could affordably house them in marquees on Clarkes Beach. While their inland society lacks basic $2 million+ properties with
Do poker-machine cues trigger an altered state of consciousness in some players? Christopher Tricker, local resident and University of New England psychologyhonours student, is hoping to find out more. You can help him out by undertaking the study, which will take 15–20 minutes, at http://tinyurl.com/pokermachines. Does filling out an online study trigger an altered state of consciousness as much as not hearing a tree fall in the forest?
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Is our federal government throwing us to the wolves? Already negotiating in secret over the Trans Pacific Partnership, the release of documents by WikiLeaks now shows the government planning to deregulate the banking industry under the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) and open up Australia to foreign banks and financiers. Good for competition or just more control for the transnational corporations at the expense of local jobs and environmental protections? Project Censored offers a good look at the financial core of the transnational corporate class at http://bit.ly/ transnat. One of life’s certainties is that ‘free trade’ doesn’t come free.
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