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Nimbin farewells a stalwart
RIP July Hales 4/4/1948 – 11/7/2026 Mum was born and raised in Belmore, Sydney, the middle of three sisters, Lynne and Robin, one year apart. She said she was always a bit of a loner at school, with only one or two good friends. She finished school at 15, which was pretty standard back then.…
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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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Is AUKUS a boondoggle?
Boondoggle: “An informal term for an expensive and wasteful project, especially one funded by the public.” – Cambridge Dictionary. I’d come across the American word ‘boondoggle’ and was puzzled by this bizarre verbal mishmash. What did this weird word mean? I looked it up, and found the word was used by Americans to describe wasteful…
