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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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How the Reconstruction Authority has failed
The NSW Reconstruction Authority is demolishing taxpayer-bought and government-owned buyback homes across the Northern Rivers. One of the estimated six demolition companies, Melbourne-based contractor Industrial confirmed it has destroyed 26 homes to date, as the $880 million Resilient Homes Program limps toward its close, having failed the majority of people it was designed to serve.…
