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Time to do democracy differently?
It’s been a crash course in politics for me since a handful of MPs from the Legalise Cannabis party were suddenly elected a few years back. The old HEMP Party, Help End Marijuana Prohibition, was born out of sheer frustration at our views about the drug war not getting heard. At election time we at…
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Leave it in the ground
Gazing over the wide expanse of South Australia to the West, imagining the day(s) of the nuclear blasts. Those First Nations people residing unprotected in the Region reportedly felt the impacts physically and mentally. Sickness and fear. First the white cloud, then the black mist creeping through the sandhills, through country. Some died in the…
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Sacred land back: Shut down Pine Gap convergence
From 18th to the 20th July, just over 600 people gathered from all across so-called Australia for the Shut Down Pine Gap Sacred Land Back Convergence. Many Northern Rivers Activists embarked upon the pilgrimage. The convergence took place on the beautiful unceded country of the Arrernte people, just outside of Mparntwe; so-called Alice Springs. Never…
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Flood mitigation at what cost?
Residents cut off by floodwaters at Websters Creek in March 2017. Photo: Saras Salvadore
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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,…
