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Main Beach surf, Saturday: ‘Hey guys, it’s a great view of Byron from up here’. Photo Jeff ‘Air Planker’ Dawson for long-term rental across the Shire. Only 11 of those were in Lennox Head. By comparison, there are 668 short-term lets available on AirBnB, the majority being in Lennox Head. 92.5 per cent of these are “entire houses” and 50 per cent are multiple listings, where the same person has listed multiple properties for short-term let (indicating a commercial operation). The [number] of short-term holiday lets have increased 250 per cent in the last five years’. Should police be at the centre of disaster management on a permanent basis? The Police Association of NSW thinks so, and has made its submission to the 2022 Flood Inquiry. Nah, let’s just properly fund the SES and RFS. The 47th Australian Parliment sat for the first time on Tuesday! With the former Liberal PM refusing to return to parliament until August, sitting Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade
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