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11: Labor Backlash Threatens To Derail Rees Rail Selloff

The Rees Labor Government is facing a backlash from the ALP about its plan to rip up rail tracks throughout NSW. Labor MPs and officials have spoken against legislation that will threaten key regional lines.

The federal Labor MP for the north coast seat ...
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Posted: 3Oct2009 06:46   Similar items

12: Railway Rip Up Crisis! NSW Govt Wants To Sell Off Unused Railways

The NSW Government is set to introduce legislation into state parliament that would give them the power to rip up disused rail lines and sell off the land without needing special legislation for each particular line (as is the present case).

Currently lin...
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Posted: 20Sep2009 06:00   Similar items

13: Bob Brown Claims Traveston Impact Report Is Being Kept Secret

Greens leader Bob Brown says the Queensland Government is keeping secret about a draft report on the impact of the proposed Traveston Crossing dam in south-east Queensland....
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Posted: 18Sep2009 05:52   Similar items

14: Geoff Moxham Advocator Of Biochar Dies In A Freak Accident

Advocater for biochar and inventor, Geoff Moxham, died in a freak forest accident on Thursday 27th August. Geoff was interviewed by Giovanni Ebono on this site earlier this year....
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Posted: 3Sep2009 02:46   Similar items

15: Tweed Group Lodges Federal Court Injunction To Stop Repco Rally

Tweed Groups have lodged a federal court injunction in a last minute bid to halt the Repco Rally in the Tweed shire.
A representative of a group opposed to the rally confirmed yesterday that a Sydney-based Senior Counsel had been appointed and would argue the ra...
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Posted: 26Aug2009 02:23   Similar items

16: Repco Rally Generates Community Outrage

A motor rally is planned to roar through The Tweed from Kingscliff to Murwillumbah, Uki,
Kyogle and beyond on 3-6 September. It also involves a race around the streets of Murwillumbah, along rural roads, through villages and into national Parks. Incredibly the NS...
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Posted: 9Aug2009 23:26   Similar items

17: Ballina Council Votes To Buy Land In 'Secret Meeting'

BALLINA Shire Council held an extraordinary meeting on Monday 3rd August with only one item on the agenda, that being a land acquisition matter. The meeting was held behind closed doors to avoid any public scrutiny. The meeting resolved to go ahead with secret plans to ...
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Posted: 8Aug2009 02:13   Similar items

18: Ballina Coastal Cycleway Cops Flak

Ballina Council have recently had their much anticipated 'preferred route' cycleway on public exhibition. The cycleway has received funding from the NSW Government as part of an ambitious project to have a continuous cycleway from Victoria to Queensland....
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Posted: 23Jul2009 16:10   Similar items

19: Tillegra Report: Nathan's Watergate? John Kaye

A SECRET Tillegra Dam memo that Hunter Water has tried to keep under wraps should be made public, a retired Supreme Court judge has found.


The water authority had claimed legal privilege over the memo, which was sent from general manager Kevin Yo...
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Posted: 29Jun2009 01:38   Similar items

20: Good Turnout For Eleventh Hour Film In Ballina

On Monday 1st June, Ballina Climate Action Network hosted a film and discussion evening with a screening of Leonardo Di Caprio’s Eleventh Hour.

The film is scientifically accurate but also emotionally confronting, as it presents the science of climate cha...
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Posted: 3Jun2009 12:26   Similar items