Backlash Backlash got its political musings slightly wrong last week. Independent media Crikey predicted that as Tophat Turnbull suffered a mortal wound on his first challenge, it was just a matter of time before he went. It was just a few days, as it turned out. Q Q Q Q
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Skaters, scooterers and BMX riders with creative flair or an interest in design are invited to a free community workshop on Thursday August 30 at the Cavanbah Centre from 4pm to help shape Byron Bay’s new skatepark.The Sandhills Estate, located between the Byron Library, the courthouse, the Byron Youth Centre and the Sandhills Childcare Centre, has been identified by Council as its preferred location. Q Q Q Q
The owner of the Northern Star and Byron News has been called a lot of unpleasant things over the years, so when former PM Kevin Rudd called him the ‘greatest cancer on the Australian democracy’ on Monday, the US media mogul probably hardly flinched. He probably didn’t mind either when Mr Rudd said that, rather than running a news organisation he, ‘operates as a political party, acting in pursuit of clearly defined commercial interests, in addition to his far-right ideological world view’. Q Q Q Q
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The oldest and thickest sea ice in the Arctic has started to break up, reports The Guardian, opening waters north of Greenland that are normally frozen, even in summer. The report reads, ‘This phenomenon – which has never been recorded before – has occurred twice this year owing to warm winds and a climate-
Being comedian mums, late nights and weeks of touring away from home make career advancement almost impossible. Yet Ellen Briggs and Mandy Nolan found a way – collaboration! The two teamed up to create their own two-hour show under the moniker Women Like Us and have booked themselves into venues and festivals around the country. Their first hometown show is coming to Mullumbimby’s Ex-Services on Saturday September 15 and will be a fundraiser for the Mullum Public and Mullum High School formal. For more info visit www.womenlikeus.com au. Photo Jeff ‘Hitched Since 1986’ Dawson
change driven heatwave in the northern hemisphere.’ Still trust coal-sponsored political actors over climate scientists? There’s plenty of Kool-Aid available and enough research proves any theory, of course…
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The phrase ‘Don’t drink the Kool-Aid’ comes from the 1978 Jim Jones cult mass-suicide in Jonestown in the US. In other words, hone some critical thinking skills and be careful whom you trust. Q Q Q Q
Further to last week’s video of a Byron Bay scuba diver saving a protected and endangered Grey Nurse shark from a painful death by fishing line, it’s now online at www.echo.net.au after some technical glitches. And the brave diver who untangled the line, Inaki Aizpun, is Spanish, not Japanese, as incorrectly stated last week.
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