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Psst: Council staff are proposing the newly elected councillors prohibit the public from asking questions at Council meetings. And did you know that Byron Shire has one of the longest Council meeting times in the country? It’s all contained in staff reports in the agenda for the February 3 meeting. Grab your pillows and popcorn! Public access, while we still have it, starts at 9am and is also streamed online. See editorial, page 8. The latest perceived levels of public sector corruption index is available at www. transparency.org, which lists 180 countries as being the least to most corrupt. New Zealand, Finland and Denmark are ranked number 1 as the least corrupt, while Australia ranks 18th. To perhaps no surprise, the index says Australia has seen a gradual increase in public sector corruption since 2012. ‘So glad that Gina Rinehart got recognised for her services [Australia Day Awards] to inheriting wealth, relentlessly pursuing more wealth, withholding wealth from her family members and complaining about paying other people for making her more wealthy. A real credit to this country’ – tweet by Andrew P Street. While many children return to school this week, others will be heading off for their first day in prison. According to www.raisetheage.org.au, ‘Children as young as ten can be arrested by police,
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charged with an offence, hauled before a court and locked away in a prison. The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has called on countries to raise the age to at least 14 years. Their #RaiseTheAge petition is on their website.
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Neil Young and Joni Mitchell have pulled their music from streaming giant Spotify over spreading COVID-19 vaccine ‘misinformation’ through Joe Rogan’s show. Aside from the censorship debate, Spotify is well known to pay its artists very little for their music, while its CEO, Daniel Ek, has invested €100 million in AI military tech startup Helsing. ABC North Coast journalist Bruce McKenzie reports that a locally designed wetsuit that will ‘drastically reduce the impact of a shark bites’ is about to hit the market. ‘The Shark Stop suit is the brainchild of Haydon Burford, an inventor from
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