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Congrats to Off The Rails, Byron Bay, who were crowned winner of the Micro Business category at the Northern Rivers Regional Business Awards, held last Saturday evening at the Ballina RSL. They are heading to the State Awards in Sydney for November 9. Psst: National Australia Bank has been fined $2.1 million for ‘unconscionable conduct over account fees’. Corporate regulator ASIC says the Federal Court’s fine was because NAB continued ‘to charge periodic payment fees even though NAB knew it was wrongfully overcharging customers’. How wonderful for former Liberal treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, who has been named chairman of Goldman Sachs’ Australian business, according to AFR. Investigative journalist, Anthony Klan, says that Frydenberg covered up an ASIC corruption scandal tied to the international bank. ICYMI: From 2025, the Victorian government will charge a 7.5 per cent levy on revenue collected by short-stay accommodation providers such as Airbnb and Stayz. The ABC reports: ‘The revenue will fund the construction of social and affordable housing across the state. Any other local council charges being applied to short-stay accommodation will be removed when the levy takes effect’.
Artist Verity Nunan is sewing together abandoned tents and she says she needs your help! She says, ‘Just turn up to Summers Park, opposite Mullumbimby Museum from 10am till 2pm everyday, until Sunday October 1. This is a “drop in” style community workshop in a public space. Feel free to come by for five minutes or five days!’ Donations of old canvas tents/tarps/pegs are also welcome, she says. Photo Jeff ‘Pegged’ Dawson The first council in Australia to allow residents to live in tiny homes ‘indefinitely’ is Victoria’s Mount Alexandra Shire, according to The Guardian. ‘But to adhere to the state’s planning regulation, the homes can only be a secondary dwelling, and there can’t be a commercial agreement between the landowner and tiny homeowner’.
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