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A community workshop evening brought to you by Bruns Eco Village, Social Habitat Housing, North Coast Community Housing and the Green Institute.
As we note in the report on page 9 the North Ocean Shores Sports Field might be receiving a more colourful name, such as Tuckaburra or Pat Boone Park, when the councillors come back from their winter holiday this Thursday. The other option open to councillors, council staff note, is corporate branding. Hungry Jack’s Oval or Heinz Shredz Field, anyone? We suppose Shoresy McShoresface is right out of the question. Q Q Q Q
Solutions to housing affordability and alternatives to the current national ownership model might be varied and IUDXJKW EXW WKH\¡UH ULJKW DW RXU ÀQJHUWLSV LI ZH FDQ IDFH the challenges together.
Byron Council finance staff report that ‘an additional column has been added to the schedule of investments‌ to identify if the financial institution holding the Council investment has been assessed as an “ethicalâ€? institution’. A pie chart – who doesn’t love a pie chart? – illustrates that 65 per cent of Council’s holdings do not invest in the fossil-fuel industry, 23 per cent do, and 12 per cent have an ‘unknown’ status. It’s a good start as global warming bears down upon us like the four riders of the apocalypse. Q Q Q Q
Brunswick Valley Historical Society has decided its proposed film on Mullumbimby’s magic is of such magnitude that it deserves to be split into three, covering Health & Wellbeing, Activism & Politics and The Arts. Keep track of the latest developments on the Facebook page Mullumbimby’s Magic – the Culture of the 70s-80s (facebook.com/MullumbimbysMagic) and see some wonderful historical photographs as well.
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Local artist Dale Rhodes’s striking portrait of actor Susie Porter was rejected by the Archibald Prize judges but a few hours later Dale learnt he made it into the Salon des RefusÊs run by the S H Ervin Gallery at The Rocks. Find out more at http://bit.ly/salonref.
sic and dress-ups last week when organisers this year encouraged festival-goers not to throw away their unwanted camping gear but to donate it to Social Futures so it can be distributed to their partner organisations who work with rough sleepers – see news story. Volunteers picked up an efftonne of stuff, some of it brand new. The youngsters, some clad only in g-strings and glitter, were also happy to give generously to organisations such as Sea Shepherd – and buy their hoodies when it became obvious the nights weren’t quite sub-tropical. Q Q Q Q
While on Splendour, we note that some of our readers were concerned by the depiction of Haim bassist Este Haim on the front cover last week. We point out that Este herself collects ‘bass faces’ of her intriguing expressions and celebrates them at @estebassface on Twitter. Her physiogno-
mical artistry is also appreciated on several other sites and Inverse.com attempts to
explain it scientifically in the article When Musicians Lose Control of Their Faces.
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