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Many thanks to the staff at Byron Hospital, thanks to Dr Suzanne for your care and compassion, thanks for fixing my eye. And please, if you’re using power tools, use appropriate eye protection! David Julian Suffolk Park
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Bankrupted by Adani Adrian Burragubba, a traditional owner of Wangan and Jagalangou people, made himself bankrupt by the actions of Adani for protecting his country. It made me sick to hear that’s what happened to a First-nation Australian by an overseas Indian company. $600,000 for Adani’s legal costs is a shame and the regimes in Brisbane and Canberra should hang their heads in shame for giving Adani the go-ahead with this crime against our natural environment. Not only against flora and fauna and traditional lands but to allow more fossil fuel to be generated into the atmosphere when we should be stopping it and using renewable energy sources. How the hell is Australia going to meet its submission targets if this mine goes ahead? It won’t.
Cartoon Gary Cavanagh – Instagram: @gary–cavanagh It’s a joke and the jokers in Brisbane and Canberra should be voted out ASAP next elections. We need to change from the current form of running this country, eg becoming a sovereign nation sooner rather than later. Paul Brecht Evans Head
The elephant in the Greens’ room Will the Neo-Greens governing Byron Council be adhering to the relevant federal and state safety regulations when generating the clouds of ‘radioactive’ dust by digging up and transporting the 30,000m3 of fill? These laws, regulations,
MEYRICK’S MESSAGE My name is Meyrick Gilchrist and I am 80 years old. I am dying. But I am not complaining. I have something important to say: I want all Australians to recognise and celebrate the 60,000 years of our true history and respond joyfully to the “Uluru Statement from the Heart” by having a First Nations Voice enshrined in the Australian Constitution. I grew up with a sense of Aboriginal ownership of the land. My greatgrandmother and grandmother were settlers who lived with Aboriginal people on their land. They respected them and I felt I was lucky to grow up in a family that had a positive attitude towards Indigenous people. I have lived family life for many years with close Aboriginal friends. I have worked with Ted Kennedy, and with Kaye and Bob Bellear in Redfern. Bob Bellear later became the first Aboriginal judge in Australia and was associated with the development of the Aboriginal Legal and Medical Services. In my working life teaching at West Sydney Tech, in TAFE and in Vocational Education and Training, my colleagues and I introduced programs to increase participation of Aboriginal students, teachers and consultants. But now the time has come to do more. As Australians, we need to take on this issue of recognition – Voice, Treaty and Truth. I want to see Australia shining in the world as having recognised the Aboriginal and Torres Straits Islander culture that has lasted longer than any other. Sure, over the years we have made progress. Multiculturalism flourishes, we increasingly accept diversity but we have failed to accept the true history of Aboriginal and Torres Straits Islander culture. Widespread activism and advocacy for Indigenous rights have become part of our social, legal and political lives. We do have laws for the education and care of Indigenous people and we do fight for reconciliation, but do we have equality? The current gaps in life expectancy, educational and employment opportunity, living and health standards would suggest “no”. Callousness is still there, manifest in the disproportionate incarceration of Indigenous citizens; the remaining toxic effects of institutional racism; the mockery and insults of extremists and of the politicians looking for their support. Now is the time to act by supporting the positive outcome of a referendum.
and protocols are designed to protect workers and the public from the toxic sideeffects of sand mining activities. Will they be obeyed by the contractors? Enforced by the consent authority and site safety managers? Who will monitor these elements? According to records held by the DPI this area was the rail head where thorium ore was loaded on to trains and sent to Brisbane from 1937 till 1961. Afterwards the waste and tailings around the railyards and stockpiles were dozed and capped with scrub, rocks, and clay to form the basis of Butler St and now destination Byron Bay. Just borrow a Geiger counter and walk the area yourself; it’s there alright. Will there be signs erected to warn visitors of these carcinogenic, naturally occurring biohazards? Will residents and visitors be given biohazard dust suits and masks while this nanoparticle, airborne, toxic hazard wafts around? Unfortunately the glowing forest of Fern Gully stands in way of profit and progress. Who will save us from the tourists? Council? Extinction Rebellion? The mayoral bypass, of cour$e! Darren Smith Mullumbimby
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