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The Federal Government's plan to filter (censor) the internet is running into increasing difficulties in Canberra. Senator Nick Xenophon has said that he will not support the Government's filtering proposal and is not even sure that the proposed trial shoul...
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Posted: 28Feb2009 23:20
The climate that feeds you, needs you
I was one of a dozen North Coast residents who attended a climate summit in Canberra last weekend. From across the country, 1,500 people came to protest about the proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. The parliamentarians cam...
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Posted: 10Feb2009 02:14
Local Greens joined in with concerned community groups to challenge the Rees Government's proposed funding cuts to the North Coast Area Health Service. Groups rallied outside a range of hospitals across the North Coast on Saturday 29th November including Tweed and ...
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Posted: 28Nov2008 05:52
Local Environmental News Show "The Generator" has just been highly commended in the Spoken Word, News and Current Affairs category of the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia Awards for 2008....
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Posted: 25Nov2008 04:43
The Federal Government is currently seeking to impose a new regime of internet censorship.
The Minister for telecommunications, Steven Conroy is on record as being firmly committed to a mandatory filtering of the internet to Australian homes, schools and public compu...
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Posted: 13Nov2008 09:06
This was the message from participants of The Residents Against Inappropriate Development who held a successful rally last weekat Hyde Park in Sydney. There were representatives of 30 groups from around NSW - all of whom came to express their displeasure at recent amend...
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Posted: 27Oct2008 02:50
Report from Nature Conservation Council of NSW (NCC) forum on Carbon Forests.
by Sandra Heilpern October 2008
As I was down in Sydney last week, I went along to this NCC forum to see how our city brothers and sisters organised a climate change event. Th...
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Posted: 27Oct2008 02:09
Local Kayaker Steve Posselt is undertaking another great journey to highlight the threat facing the Mary River with the building of the Traveston Crossing Dam.
Steve has done a number of trips before, most notably a journey down the Darling and Murray Rivers, to hig...
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Posted: 23Sep2008 12:26
In what was the climax to an emotional afternoon Byron Shire Council voted 5 to 4 to approve the hosting of a trial Splendour in the Grass festival at Yelgun in 2009. Dissenting votes were the Greens and Clr Lazarus.
Councillor Peter Westheimer was considered to be t...
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Posted: 4Aug2008 03:08