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David Bradbury I’m reading an interesting book that may be relevant to the growing divide in our community between those who think Sarah Ndiaye, as an elected councillor, should be able to take shirt-fronted criticism in the chamber and those who think Fast Buck$ is an outrageous ‘mysogynist’ and deserves everything he gets from the police. The book is called Building on Country, and it is by one of Australia’s first female Aboriginal architects and designers, Alison Page, and anthropologist Paul Memmott. ‘In the Indigenous worldview, Country means a way of seeing the world. Ever...

REGIONALITY pitch finalists on stage (L-R) Dr Anne Chesher, Oren Siedler, Damien Lane, Matty Hannon, Johnnie Leahy, and moderator Danielle McCarthy(seated) from AIDC. Judges on screen via Zoom: top row Andrea Ulbrick (Create NSW), Julie Hanna (ABC); middle row Bernadine Lim (SBS), Dorota Lech (Hot Docs), Bill Gardener (PBS); bottom row Hollie Fifer (Doc Society) and pitchers Genevieve Grieves and Andrea Distefano. Photo Jeanie Davison. Regional documentary film production was the focus of the REGIONALITY conference at Lennox Head Cultural Centre last week, presented by the AIDC and Screenwor...

Hugh Nicholson, The Channon I was at the Lismore Car Boot market today (16/5/21) where I saw the pro-dam stall. It appears that this group are rejecting all of the alternative options Rous County Council is proposing to the Dunoon Dam.  If, as this group suggests, Rous proceeds with the Dunoon Dam, it will be several years before coming online. There would be at least two years of studies; followed by the potential of court cases because of destruction of significant pre-European Aboriginal sites and destruction of an endangered ecological rainforest community; then, more years of construct...

The Greens were at Renewfest last weekend, spruiking their credentials for Council 2021–24 and for Mandy Nolan and her run for the federal seat of Richmond. When Ben and Isabel dropped by the stall on Saturday they gifted Ben a T-shirt and asked him and Isabel to come to Koala Hard Quiz in Mullum on Wednesday, 2 June from 6pm, at the Mullumbimby ex-services club. The NSW Libs have rammed a new Koala SEPP (State Environmental Planning Policy) through parliament but it’s designed by their dummy-spitting coalition partner, The Nationals. Under this policy our iconic furry friend will be wip...

A current DA for Linnaeus Estate at Broken Head remains open for comment. Photo www.linnaeus.com.au Community concern over the current development application (DA: 10.2021.170.1) for Linnaeus Estate in Broken Head has led to detailed analysis of the DA. A key point of contention is the impact of the proposed development on the Nationally Critically Endangered Ecological Community (EEC), Littoral Rainforest at the site. According to the Broken Head Protection Committee (BHPC), the DA seeks to clear an area of Littoral Rainforest as identified in the Biodiversity Assessment. They point out t...