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We’ve printed an excerpt from Jan Barham’s valedictory speech to parliament on pages 16–17. She got a standing ovation from her fellow MPs for her illustrious career, one which was about caring for the environment, rather than setting up her chances as a consultant for a mining company, which seems to be the go these days. Rock on, Jan. Q Q Q Q
Local activist and psychonaut Dean Jefferys, dressed in a shark costume, almost caught the premier for backflips, Mike Baird, in a net at the protest in Ballina last Friday. Apparently one of Mike’s minders tried to have Jefferys arrested for ‘insulting the premier’ but the police, sensibly enough, merely issued a caution. Backlash can attest from personal experience that some polly minders can be very self-important and officious – ‘dressed in a little brief authority’, as Shakespeare had it in Measure for Measure. Q Q Q Q
Each to their own taste, but for Backlash, among the best gigs at the Mullum Music Festival were Bread & Butter, in which different musicians jammed with each other – even a Dolly Parton number got a look-in – and the amazing virtuosity of the Fourplay String Quartet. There was plenty to be enjoyed free in the streets, too. If you missed out this year, make sure you put it in your calendar for 2017.
The soothing classical strains in Aj Hickling’s popup concert hall a vacant block halfway between the Civic Hall and the high school provided a wonderful rest stop for the weary punter at the Mullum Music Festival. Aj is here assisted by the fabulous Danidoo Butterfly, right. Photo Jeff ‘Tickle My Ivories’ Dawson
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tive scientist Donald Hoffman in The Atlantic, wherein he argues that the world is
nothing like the one we experience through our senses: http://theatln.tc/2eLE5gp.
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Aboriginal trackers were put in an invidious position when they were used to track down their own mob, but much good work was done finding bushrangers and people lost in the bush. Now at last NSW Police is honouring these highly skilled trackers with the website ‘Pathfinders: the History of NSW Aboriginal Trackers’ at http://pathfindersnsw.org.au/nsw-aboriginal-trackers. If the western capitalist economy goes to the dogs, we may be needing 40,000 years of Indigenous skills to help us survive.
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A special elephant stamp to Nats MP Ben Franklin, aided no doubt by immense pressure from residents, for persuading education minister Adrian Piccoli to cancel the sale by auction of Lot 60 Beech Drive at Suffolk Park.
‘Evolution has shaped us with perceptions that allow us to survive. They guide adaptive behaviours. But part of that involves hiding from us the stuff we don’t need to know.’ Here’s a little brain-stretcher from cogni-
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