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Good vibes at MardiGrass26
There was a good vibe at MardiGrass everyone agreed, but what does that mean? People were smiling, there were no altercations, or very few, people were happy, and even the police agreed it was a “good vibe”. The vibe of thousands of people getting high together, that’s what it was. And there’s less and less…
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Observatory opening soured
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A brazen act of vandalism and theft has soured the opening of Mallanganee’s one-of-a-kind observatory, leaving Kyogle Council “disheartened, disappointed and disillusioned”. The observatory, featuring a unique, semi-enclosed structure that frames spectacular views of the constellations by night and the rolling green hills and mountain ranges of the Northern Rivers, opened to the public to…
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Lismore farewells two exemplary public figures
Thousands of people turned out on Tuesday 31st March to celebrate the lives of Jenny Dowell OAM and Rhoda Roberts AO at separate funerals in Lismore. Both women died in March after lengthy battles with cancer. Jenny Dowell was farewelled at the Lismore Quad, where Dot Orchard officiated, speaking of Jenny’s early life, her election…
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Aquarius Talks return in May
On Saturday 9th May, the Nimbin Town Hall will host the second annual Aquarius Talks, a gathering inspired by the spirit of the 1973 Aquarius Festival. This year’s theme, ‘Our Forests and People’, brings the focus back to something that has always mattered deeply in this region, the protection of forests and the communities that…
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Why MardiGrass?
So it’s 34 years now that we’ve been protesting the cannabis laws with MardiGrass, and the world then and now are like different universes. We were a bunch of outsiders who really just wanted to be left alone to grow and smoke weed, instead of getting endless police harassment, on the ground and in the…
