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Happy KRPA members at Kingscliff Community Hall. Photo supplied. One of the Tweed Shire’s oldest residents’ associations is celebrating a long-awaited return to the Kingscliff Community Hall. ‘This is our spiritual home,’ said Peter Newton, President of the Kingscliff Ratepayers and Progress Association (KRPA). ‘Our Association, which has been around in one form or another since 1933, has played a significant part in developing the infrastructure of our wonderful area, including the creation of this iconic building which benefits the whole community,’ said Mr Newton. The Kingscli...

Premium Content Subscriber only Developer Altum Property Group has gone back to the drawing board on its Great Keppel Island project, on Thursday revealing it had revised its budget. Altum also announced it had adjusted its program for common user infrastructure for Stages 1 and 2 of the GKI resort re-development, on the back of advice from Keppel MP Brittany Lauga, Livingstone Shire Council and community stakeholders. Altum director Rob McCready said the company had listened to what councillors said in a special meeting on Tuesday. “We’ve listened to what councillors said in the meeting...

Premium Content Subscriber only Livingstone Shire Council voted not to officially endorse Altum Property Group's and the GKI Progress Association's list of Great Keppel Island infrastructure on Tuesday. The council will, however, write to the State Government that it desires "responsible redevelopment of Great Keppel Island" using all of the government's committed $30 million, possibly beginning with walking trails, visitor facilities, and more. Also included in the council's resolution was the wish that the State Government speed up its decision regarding GKI leases. Although building on...

April 6, 2021 Today in Mullumbimby I witnessed a woman blowing bubbles on people. She was walking with her dog and blowing bubbles over passers-by. What is usually the magical work of the fairy tribe, today it had a kind of aggression. The bubbles weren’t by accident. This was a ‘Fuck You’ to mask wearing. A fuck you to people wearing masks. A fuck you to the existence of this coronavirus.

Livingstone Shire Council is seeking suggestions about how $30 million should be spent on Great Keppel Island, but there are discrepancies between its ideas compared with those of developer Altum Property Group. The money in question is the State Government's, set aside for infrastructure on the island, and the council's role is understood to be mainly one of advocacy. In January, Livingstone Shire Council gave a list of its preferred projects to the Department of Tourism "based on the assumption that future private investment on Great Keppel Island remained uncertain in both scope and tim...