‘Tis the season to strengthen our Capital to Coast links after horror year THE SUMMER HOLIDAYS are here already! After the year we’ve all had, this important break takes on new significance. I think it’s fair to say that most people feel like they didn’t have a holiday last summer. Bushfires forced
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Local news in and around the Capital region, Monaro, and the South Coast.
Fences — dangers of barbed wire fences to wildlife
Climate change is now: health and environmental effects from last summer
From Kristy’s Desk • 75% of national park estate burned out in places • 400 people died of smoke inhalation THE IMPACTS OF climate change loom large across the Eden-Monaro landscape. Climate change is a day-to-day reality from Tumbarumba to Tathra; from Bungendore to Bombala. At the end of the hottest and driest year on
Sculpture Bermagui sails through obstacles for 2021
From Kristy’s Desk
WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER. Let’s drop the tribalism in response to last summer’s disasters “WE’RE ALL IN this together” — it’s become the catch cry and familiar tune to the global pandemic. People from Eden-Monaro and beyond have heard the call, acting for the collective good, something that is now paying
When words fail us
POLITICS HAS BECOME so bad in places, so over-the-top in behaviour that appears consequence-free, even when badged corrupt or immoral, that it gets beyond us. Earnest reporting and social media commentary can’t keep up. It’s too depressing. But a remedy has appeared. Bring on the satirists. Consider Koalagate. It featured a
The Bulletin is also lost for words about Australia’s federal-grade hypocrisy involving state border closures and immigration detention
The Betoota Advocate explains: Government Who Locks Little Girls In Cages So Dark Their Teeth Fall Out Says Don’t Be Cruel!! By Clancy Overall, editor. IMAGE: Betoota Advocate. A GOVERNMENT THAT spends tens of thousands of dollars a day to not show any form of compassion to a refugee family who have been
Bungendore high school proposed for central village location
A day after Bungendore residents protested against poor council communications regarding development proposals and passed on a rumour that QPRC was considering selling its council property including Palerang Council chambers to NSW for a high school, the following press release lobbed in regarding that plan and how it fits with
Bungendore growing pains: residents challenge tree clearing, non-transparent council dealings on development
A NUMBER OF decisions made by Palerang Council pre-amalgamation are now on the implementation radar of Queanbeyan Palerang Regional Council (QPRC). These have their origin in the projected rapid resident and business growth of Bungendore. Visitors have for some time seen empty business premises at the Kings Highway entrance to Bungendore
Surprise! NSW embraces renewables big time
“How Australia’s State energy ministers are turning the tables on Angus Taylor” is the promising headline of a Guardian Australia story by Simon Holmes à Court. It outlines the positive renewables revolution in NSW that has quietly gathered speed since 2018 and a new environment/energy minister. Here’s a few sentences and