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The ABC 4 Corners investigation into Coles and Woolies is a must see, especially the interview with Woolies CEO, Brad Banducci. It was an awkward train wreck, and serves as a good model for how journalists should handle overpaid, entitled corporate vultures who lack empathy.

Those affected by the 2022 floods and wanting to join with others fighting for what the government promised for recovery can email byronfloodemergencyactiongroup@ gmail.com. The NSW government is calling on the IT industry to ‘submit AI technology solutions to help reduce manual development application (DA) workloads for councils and streamline the pre-lodgement phase’ according to www. governmentnews.com.au. NSW Greens MP Cate Faehrmann says ‘regulatory persecution’ led to the cancellation of the Groovin’ the Moo festival. While organisers claim insufficient ticket sales, Faehrmann says the NSW government needs to support the industry by scrapping upwards of $120,000 that NSW Police charge ‘for the privilege of harassing patrons with sniffer dogs and strip searching them’. News headline of the week by Popular Mechanics: Mutant wolves of Chernobyl have evolved to survive cancer. ‘You are comprised of 84 minerals, 23 elements, and 30 litres of water spread across 38 trillion cells. You have been built up from nothing by the spare parts of the Earth you have consumed, according to a set of instructions hidden in a double helix and small enough to be carried by a sperm. You are recycled butterflies, plants, rocks, streams, firewood, wolf fur, and shark teeth, broken down to their smallest parts and rebuilt into our planet’s

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Another meme from the interwebs. most complex living thing. You are not living on Earth. You are Earth’ – Aubrey Marcus (Onnit CEO). ICYMI In the same week whistle-blower Julian Assange faces a crucial hearing in the UK’s High Court that could allow him another chance to appeal his extradition to the US, there were crocodile tears from Western leaders over the death/execution of Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny. An open day for the public to see the new $723.3 million Tweed Valley Hospital will be held Saturday, March 16 from 10am till 2pm. To register, visit www.tweedvalleyhospital.health.nsw. gov.au/get-involved/2024community-open-day. ANZ’s $4.9 billion bid to buy Suncorp’s banking business has been approved by the Australian Competition Tribunal, despite the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) blocking the deal in August. Independent regional banks, Bendigo

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According to www.nationaltribune.com.au, an East Lismore man was fined $11,000 and given a two-year Community Corrections Order in the Byron Bay Local Court last week for killing an eastern brown snake at a protected nature reserve in Brunswick Heads. RSPCA NSW Chief Inspector Scott Meyers said, ‘In my 12 years of service as an Inspector, this is the first RSPCA NSW prosecution of this kind’.

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