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Dunoon informal settlement is so crowded that residents have begun digging into Potsdam Road bridge, causing parts of the structure's barrier to fall apart. This coupled with refuse last collected in June poses health and safety risks - but many residents blame their ward councillor.
Locals in Australia’s most flood-ravaged community are demanding an investigation into water security in northern New South Wales as the region continues to be battered by deadly floods and drought.
Ground water is at the top of Rous County Council's priority list - and it's looking to recycle in its plans for the future. Chair Keith Williams wants to move past the continuing Dunoon Dam debate, and focus on securing the region's water supply. by Georgia Schefe | NBN News-News, Sport & Weather
How can it be that the response of the Prime Minister’s office to an allegation of rape in parliament house was to background journalists negatively about her partner? And that this bullying and re-victimising of the victim did not excite, at the very least, a police or judicial inquiry? Ballina Deputy Mayor Sharon Cadwallader. Photo David Lowe. ‘I think I’ve done my apprenticeship,’ independent Ballina Shire Councillor Sharon Cadwallader says after seventeen years in the role and announcing her intention to run for mayor. ‘I stand on my experience, my apprenticeship, honesty, inte...
Ballina Deputy Mayor and Rous County Cr Sharon Cadwallader. Photo David Lowe. The Dunoon Dam made an unscheduled appearance late in the last Ballina Shire Council meeting, on the back of a motion put forward by Cr Phillip Meehan and seconded by Cr Sharon Cadwallader. Cr Meehan said he had growing concerns about Rous County Council’s plan to purchase the Marom Creek Water Treatment Plant and the associated water licences from Ballina as part of the Future Water Strategy. He also said he was alarmed about Rous’s plans for the Alstonville aquifers. ‘This is another example of water mining...