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Owing to rising COVID-19 case numbers, the annual book fair, that was planned for the Byron Bay Surf Club this coming weekend, has been cancelled. The artwork for NAIDOC Week in this week’s Echo masthead is Firestorm by Gloria Gardiner, with thanks to Ninbella Gallery. Cape Byron Lighthouse has been named the 2021 Heritage Lighthouse of the Year, by the International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities (IALA). According to IALA, the award was given owing to its ‘rarity, aesthetic characteristics, cultural significant, architecture and strong connection to the local community’.
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Finally, a vaccination no-fault injury compensation scheme will be established. While around 25 other nations have had them for years, there has been a notable absence in this country. The Guardian reported on June 29 that at the National Immunisation Conference, held by the Public Health Association of Australia, chief medical officer Prof Paul Kelly ‘confirmed the introduction of a no-fault vaccine injury compensation scheme that would cover patients with a vaccine injury’.
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ICYMI: Protectors of Tarkine Country in Tasmania have begun their seventh week of work, defending priceless ecology against the expansion of a mining tailings dam, owned by Chinese mining corp MMG. The Bob Brown Foundation says 58 people have so far been arrested, which includes ‘lock-ons’ to excavators,
With all the puff from Council over how well they do road repairs, this patch outside Mullum’s Ambulance Station could well be the most important improvement made, considering every second responding to an incident can mean either life or death. Photo supplied preventing further clearing and roadworks on the site. Heroes don’t always wear capes: those who prevented insanity recently are retired doctor John Barrenger and Animal Liberation Tasmania president Kristy Algar.
Approachable community-focused US warmonger Donald Rumsfeld has died. And it may be a coincidence, but also last week a hellish ocean death portal opened up in the Gulf of Mexico. Satirical news website The Chaser instead reports that ‘Barnaby Joyce blames ocean-fire on lack of ocean-back-burning’. Former Liberal MP Julia Banks has perhaps coined the most apt description of the PM, while also describing modern politics in general. She told the ABC Scott Morrison was like ‘menacing, controlling wallpaper’.
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