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What with a shortage of affordable properties in the Shire, it makes sense that Byron Shire Council is considering allowing rural properties to have a secondary dwelling under a proposed key policy change, now on public exhibition at http:// bit.ly/dualocc. You have until Friday January 16 to make a submission. There are some reservations about increasing rural density but the change would ‘normalise’ all the unauthorised dwellings out there anyway. It’s almost as big a move as the recognition in law of multiple occupancies in 1989. An interesting 2004 paper by Warwick Fisher on the history and future of rural landsharing communities is available in PDF at http://bit.ly/ruralshare. Q Q Q Q
While the NSW LibNats score a deep fail on their ongoing frack-the-frick-out-of-thestate plan, one must welcome
the move to introduce a container deposit scheme which will see beverage containers recycled, following the fine example of South Australia. Labor will have no option but to support such a scheme if it wants a chance at getting some of its candidates elected in March. It’s an opportunity for enterprising young tackers and homeless people to pick up a bit of pocket money and, as far as Backlash is concerned, Coke and other purveyors of bottled sugar-water who oppose such schemes can go take a flying fork to a rolling donut.
www.ifaw.org/australia. It’s a lovely way to help our native wildlife without leaving the comfort of your workroom.
won by a Toowoomba pensioner, no matter what the actual news. WTF?
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Naturally enough Australia Post has a stamp issue to celebrate the upcoming Year of the Goat – or Sheep, if you prefer. In its publicity Oz Post lists famous Australians born in the Year of the Goat, including former PM Paul Keating and now-American media tycoon Rupert Murdoch. ‘According to Chinese astrology they are likely to be reserved, quiet and deeply affectionate.’ The examples given hide it so well.
Byron Bay continues to fascinate the international media (well, maybe not in Kazakhstan), especially the UK Daily Mail, which notes importantly the newly engaged model Jesinta Campbell showing off her washboard abs on the Lighthouse track and Channel [V] presenter Clarissa Walford showing off her bikini body, whatever that is, in a fetching stream with her gal pal. In the local paper roundup by Google Alerts www.google. com/alerts – a great system for getting news on any topic into your inbox – the APN newspaper stable showed a photograph of a house illustrating a Byron Bay holiday
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And big congratulations to the teenage lifesavers, aged between 14 and 16, who helped save a man’s life at Byron Bay last Thursday. You’re a credit to your generation and an inspiration to others.
NOEL HART GALLERY & STUDIO
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If you’re handy with a sewing machine, you could help out koalas caught in the recent bushfires in several states. There is a desperate need for mittens to help protect the koalas’ burnt paws as they heal. The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) has a pattern on its website
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44 January 14, 2015 The Byron Shire Echo
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