Backlash Hip hip hooray – extra urban domestic bin collections are planned by Council over the festive season. From Monday December 25 until Sunday January 7, Byron Shire residents can place all three bins on the kerbside for weekly collection.
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Proving it’s never too late to get with the program… congratulations to the NSW National Party, who passed a motion at their north coast conference on Sunday that reads: ‘This conference calls for the transition from relying on fossil fuel technology to alternative modern technologies for energy sources and storage options to be prioritised.’ Q Q Q Q
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Yet renewable aspirations can’t come soon enough for some residents, who surrounded federal Nationals MP Kevin Hogan’s Lismore office on Monday to deliver 400 surveys against the giant QLD Adani coal mine, along with a giant Christmas card saying ‘Kevin Hogan, all we want for Christmas is to Stop Adani’. They also brought cake, which read Stop Adani. Q Q Q Q
A new six-month trial bus service is now operating Monday to Friday for commuters working in Lismore but living in Byron Bay, Ballina and Lennox Head. Blanch’s buses leave Byron’s Jonson Street (opposite Woolworths) from 7.20am and reach the Lismore Spinks Park transit centre at 8.40am. The bus leaves Lismore for Byron at 5.15pm and an afternoon service is also running. For more info visit 6686 2144 or visit www.blanchs.com.au. Q Q Q Q
As if it's not hard enough being surrounded by idiots on
A Bruns zen moment: Ocean Shores resident Michael met a friendly wagtail at Bruns Beach on Saturday. Cristina Sharratt took the picture and said, ‘Everyone was mesmerised by the way the bird was hopping and flying about him’.
his front and back benches, PM Malcolm Turnbull had to put up with an hour of the unwashed masses on TV’s Q&A on Monday night. It didn’t go well – no-one really understands how great he thinks he is. Q Q Q Q
Former ABC and Echo journalist Dr Ray Moynihan is hosting a new podcast on healthcare, ideal for Christmas podding. Called The Recommended Dose, Moynihan says it’s a series of intimate and accessible conversations with some of the best medical minds on the planet, ‘covering the biggest controversies in healthcare’. Tune in free at www.australia. cochrane.org/trd.
of the Arakwal Corporation and the Tweed Byron Aboriginal Land Council (LAC), who were opposed. Mayor Richardson said, ‘… while Council supports the rights
of free speech, Council stands alongside our local custodians in both not supporting the event and urging organisers to respect the opinions of local Indigenous leaders.’
BYRON MARKETS THIS SUNDAY 17th December
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Does Council support free speech? Yes, but. A press release last week from councillor Sarah Ndiaye and the mayor called upon organisers to abandon the ‘culturally inappropriate and insensitive’ Standing Stones meeting, proposed for December 12 at Mullum’s Civic Hall. The councillors were in support
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