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Monumental win for North Lismore Plateau Protection Association
It may seem difficult to keep up with the epic battle for Banyam Biagham, the North Lismore Plateau. Surely it’s all sorted by now? So you might think, but the fight to protect Aboriginal heritage is often a long hard one. There are many envious eyes turned to high ground around Lismore, and rightly so.…
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Blakebrook Quarry: the region’s rubbish dump, or not?
Waste management can be a messy subject. Here in the Northern Rivers, we have been thought and practice leaders in resource recovery and circular economy. Unfortunately, the 2022 floods seriously impacted our community infrastructure at the Wyrallah Road Waste and Recycling Centre, and our community’s commitment to a more circular economy in the 2022-2032 Waste…
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Reconstruction Authority seeks to reclaim the narrative
Reconstruction Authority announces Mission Accomplished: Lismore Now Fully Resilient (Pending Reality) – a triumphant dispatch from the Bureau of Unchecked Optimism. The Northern Rivers Reconstruction Authority (RA for short, because acronyms = progress) has bravely announced that everything is fine. Again. Locals were briefly ecstatic over a Lismore App headline declaring: “The Resilient Lands Program…
