Backlash In Tom Gleeson’s ABC TV show Hard Quiz last week, Mullum musician Steve Berry, who works with WIRES, did very well, yet was knocked out in the final round. His specialist subject was Australian poisonous snakes. The winner was a real estate agent from Kyogle, whose subject was the Mitford sisters. Well done Steve!
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While Packer’s Crown Casino has been found by an inquiry to have facilitated moneylaundering, NSW Greens MP Jamie Parker pointed out that the NSW government ‘excused Crown from existing planning rules, handed them prime public waterfront land, and delivered a casino licence outside the normal tender process’. Will any political actor get slapped with a wet lettuce for that?
Congrats to Mandy Nolan for being selected by Greens members to run against Labor’s Justine Elliot and whoever runs as the Nationals candidate for the upcoming federal election (see page 4, 8). It's odd times when a Greens candidate says the interests of the community should come above developers. If you look closely at the current ‘Greens’ Council, they appear very, very developer friendly.
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Australia’s Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly notes that the South African variant of COVID-19 has now been reported in 80 countries. Accoridng to www.abc.net.au, he says this variant appears set to become the dominant strain of coronavirus. Q Q Q Q
Farewell to Collingwood Football Club’s embattled president, Eddie McGuire. His contributions to a racist backward culture have been considerable and damaging to reconciliation for years. Q Q Q Q
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Administrative Appeals Tribunal, which called out Robodebt’s heinous harassment of the most vulnerable, has been stacked with a Liberal crony, Karen Synon. Copying the former US president’s tactic of awarding sycophants with watchdog roles appears the best way for autocrats to solve the problems they’ve created.
The BreastScreen NSW mobile screening van will be at Mullumbimbi Street, Brunswick Heads, until February 25. The free mammograms are aimed at women aged 50–74. Director BreastScreen NSW for North Coast, Jane Walsh, says, ‘Around 90 per cent of women diagnosed
From March 12 till 28, The Drill Hall Theatre Company in Mullumbimby will throw a spotlight on the systemic failure of our nation’s child protection and social services system, with Patricia Cornelius’s multi award-winning play SHIT. Despite its tough subject matter and even tougher characters, performed by Claire Atkins, Kate Foster and Kate Horsley, the play sold-so many tickets for its 2019 season, it has returned to the Drill Hall by popular demand. Photo Jeff ‘Expletives Since 1986’Dawson with breast cancer have no family history. This is why breast cancer screening is so important for all eligible women’.
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There are just two oil refineries left in Australia, after ExxonMobil announced it will close its Altona oil refinery in Victoria. A review found it is ‘not economically viable’, according to the ABC. According to the Australia Institute of Petroleum (www. ip.com.au), the others are the Caltex owned plant in Lytton, Brisbane (6.5B litres per year) and Viva Energy’s Geelong plant, (7.5B litres per year). In October 2020, SMH reported that Western Australia’s BP Kwinana refinery would close, which was the country’s largest, producing 8.6B litres per year. Clearly this is an opportunity to push harder on renewables. Will the fossil fuel compromised government act fast, as the climate science suggests we should?
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