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Saturday’s benefit night for the Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital was a great success, with a full house enjoying the return of the mighty Cruel Sea at the Bluesfest’s Green Room. While organisers were careful not to mention any names, it was Nationals MLC Ben Franklin who promised $6m in funding for the hospital prior to the 2023 NSW election. After Labor’s win, Environment Minister, Penny Sharpe, rejected the funds, which were never secured by Franklin. Congrats Jules Hunt from Honey Hunt, who has been awarded 2023 Australia Post Local Business Hero – her small business clothes design company was selected from over 4,000 applicants. She told The Echo, ‘I am passionate about all we create and to be recognised for this contribution to small business by Australia Post is an amazing honour’.
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of recognising this may be incapable of morality.’
Who really runs Council? It doesn’t appear to be the elected councillors and mayor. Two senior staff members, Shannon Burt and Phil Holloway, think that the public shouldn’t see the review underpinning the water and sewage capacity of Mullumbimby and Brunswick Heads. ICYMI, Council’s Housing Options Paper is now on exhibition and proposes a major up-scaling of housing, yet doesn’t include the 2022 flood data. See more on page 8.
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It’s been a month since NSW Premier Chris Minns (Labor) committed to ask the Commonwealth government for a second tranche of flood funds, after a question from local MP, Tamara Smith. On
‘It takes real chutzpah for the federal Coalition to have occupied the government benches for 21 of the last 27 years, and blame everyone else for failures in Indigenous policy’ – Tweet by Frank Bongiorno, historian at the Australian National University.
Painting titled ‘Why can’t you leave the toilet seat up for me?’ Photo Classic Art Memes October 20, Federal Member for Richmond, Justine Elliot (Labor) told The Guardian that the NSW government is still yet to ask. ‘As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time, people will solemnly vote against their own interests’ – US author Gore Vidal (1925–2012)
US author James Baldwin wrote: ‘The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable
SMH (Nine) reports that cardboard mogul, Anthony Pratt, paid for access to Trump and monthly retainers of $25k to former PM Paul Keating and $8k to former PM Tony Abbott. Surely Abbott would be unhappy to learn he is worth 68 per cent less than Keating? How many sociopaths does it take to change a light bulb? None – they all use gaslighting. Boom-tish!
A new preparedness campaign, called Get Ready NSW, was launched last week by the NSW Labor government. Visit visit nsw.gov.au/getready for more info. Reuters reports that Switzerland’s right-wing party, Swiss People’s Party (SVP), has surged in the polls over immigration concerns, and is likely to win Sunday’s election. ‘The party campaigned on a platform of preventing the country’s population – currently at 8.7 million people – exceeding ten million’.
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