Backlash Happy new year, peeps. May 2024 be full of elevated consciousness, laughter, generosity and much less conflict and fear. Psst: BayFM will be holding its funky fundraiser on January 20 at the Byron Theatre. Visit bayfm.org for more info. With the new year upon us, Uniting NSW/ACT are calling on the NSW government to fulfil their election promise of a drug summit. They said in a press release, ‘The hope is that the promised summit will replicate the format and success of former premier Bob Carr’s five-day parliamentary drug summit of 1999, which led to Australia’s first injecting room in Sydney’s King’s Cross, among other reforms’.
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Tweet by Bernie Sanders: ‘This is what oligarchy is about. Today just three Wall Street firms, BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street, manage $20.7 trillion in assets. These three firms are major shareholders in 95 per cent of S&P 500 companies. Democracy will not survive with this concentration of economic and political power’. Samples taken in 2020–21 from Richmond River ‘revealed the presence of a ‘cocktail of pesticides’ – including traces of a chemical that was banned almost 20 years ago, reports The ABC. Southern Cross University marine science professor, Kirsten Benkendorff, said 21 different pesticides were detected in the river near Ballina. Read more on page 10. Here’s more stuff the 0.001 per cent don’t like being made
On Friday at around 10am the ‘Brunswick Buccaneers’ pirate ship moored across from the Brunswick Hotel got into a spot of trouble. Onlookers say around 15 to 20 people were queuing at the boat hire business, when the weight made the ship collapse in shallow water. There were no reports of injuries. Apparently the owner was helping people on the water, and didn’t realise that so many people had come aboard. Photo Terri Miler-Sharp public: Investigative reporter, Anthony Klan, tweeted, ‘Former Australian Finance Minister, Mathias Cormann – now boss of the OECD – went to “work” for former PwC CEO Luke Sayers almost immediately after leaving office’. While NSW government still allows the state’s native forests to be trashed and pulped for woodchips, the WA government have now stopped commercial logging of their native forests. Vale filmmaker and author, John Pilger. He once said, ‘Always look for the truth from the ground up, rarely from the top down. Journalists are never real journalists if they are the agents of power, no matter how they disguise that role. Real journalists are agents of people’.
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