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Engineering flaws in CSIRO Report
Engineers often look at the world slightly differently. It is usually from a rational base, even if some people say they are a bit weird about numbers. So let’s look at a number. The volume of Sydney Harbour is 562 million cubic metres. The combined volume of the proposed detention dams is 565 million cubic…
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The changing face of Nimbin
Nimbin isn’t the tourist town it used to be. Twenty years ago, three buses a day came over from Byron full of curious backpackers. And where else could you easily buy weed? We had three backpackers hostels, now we have none, and there are no daily buses from Byron, or not that I notice. Occasionally…
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Halt pod village evictions until reuse is finalised
After countless calls, meetings and conversations with anyone we knew connected to the pod villages – the Ministerial offices for Recovery and Housing, the Community Housing Providers (CHPs) village managers (Northern Rivers Housing, Uniting, and Baptist Care which no longer manages Coraki, yet no-one can confirm who does), state MPs, councillors, the NSW Reconstruction Authority,…
