Backlash With councillors likely to vote for a pay rise at this week’s meeting, will more Council wages (i.e. your money) result in better governance for the pothole-suffering public? See page 6. Satirical news media, theshot.net.au, reported on the shocking lack of Middle East knowledge by Sky News (Murdoch) anchor Tom Connell at the National Press Club last week. As host, his question made the very articulate and informed UN Special Rapporteur on occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, gasp in disbelief. The story is entitled, ‘Australian media annihilated by someone who knows what they’re talking about’. Type store name here Type store address here T 0000 0000
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Military whistleblower, David McBride, has no options left but to now plead guilty for leaking classified information, after Justice Mossop rejected his public interest defence last week. This means that the two ‘interests’ – military and public – are not aligned. How is Australia a democracy if the military’s interests are more important than the public’s? Asking for 25.69 million people. Electric Vehicle (EV) infrastructure company, EVX has installed two pole-chargers in Byron Bay. According to EVX, the two dual Australian made chargers are located on Childe Street, Belongil, and Wordsworth Street, Byron Bay. A salient reminder for all the dodgy politicians and bureaucrats – if Optus CEO Kelly Bayer Rosmarin can resign because she failed to do her job, then so can you.
Ash Grunwald, Emily Lubitz, Ian Peres and Bobby Alu pumped life back into the Mullum Civic Hall on Saturday night – the launch of Grunwald’s latest album Bluesfest Studio Sessions was the first event in the hall since it closed for repair work after the 2022 floods. Photo Eve Jeffery Congrats to the Social Futures Tweed Assertive Outreach team, who last week won the 2023 Premier’s Award in the Connecting Communities category. Organisers say, ‘The program has significantly reduced the number of rough sleepers in the Tweed Shire, resulting in housing for 140 individuals with a 95 per cent tenancy success rate’. A similar outreach program is now underway for Byron Shire. Psst: A piano has magically appeared in the Sound Shell in Bruns. Let’s hope it gets treated lovingly X. Turns out inflation is trickling down upon us. The OECD’s 2023 Economic Outlook found that corporate profits have been a major contributor to inflation in Australia and elsewhere. Given the major political parties are embedded with corporate interests, how will they spin their way out of that?
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