Cumulonimbus clouds: forming heavy rain and thunder on the horizon Credits to A SevenlerSenior Floodplain EngineerShoalhaven City Council Dear All, South East New South Wales is expecting heavy rainfall over the coming days and the possibility of high ocean water…
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Priorities all wrong as NSW Coalition delivers hundreds of fewer paid fire fighters.
Credit NSW Greens JAN2020 Stripping back the number of paid firefighters. Analysis by the Greens NSW shows in the nine years since the Coalition was elected in NSW the number of paid professional firefighters has been cut by over 110.…
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FREE PRESS UNDER ATTACK
Shoalhaven Councillors (some) set out to silence The New Bush Telegraph by Stuart Rees & Patrick Thompson In yet another extraordinary display of boorish, bullying and misogynistic behaviour by some Shoalhaven councillors, Council voted to no longer advertise in the…
Green Waste & Tipping Advice
Photo by Gravitylicious.com on Pexels.com 12 January 2020Credit to SCC Media Team Green Waste and Tipping Advice Council has been providing concessions to the normal waste fees & charges structure to support our community during this Bushfire crisis. The changes to fees…
Welcome to the new year – Australia continues to usher in 2020 with bushfires.
Stay safe - https://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/ Repost from The Australian Greens & The Guardian has a good wrap-up of what we know so far https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jan/01/what-we-know-so-far-about-the-australian-bushfire-crisis-on-new-years-day And more on the story of NSW volunteer firefighter Samuel McPaul who died when a fire tornado…
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Update on the fortunes of the Huskisson Holy Trinity church site.
Dark days - Development, Demolition and Desecration by Shirley Fitzgerald, Huskisson Heritage Association Well you can be wrong. We all thought that developer Stephen Bartlett would abide by the constraints of his DA that allowed the demolition of the old…
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No justice for David Dungay, 240 years of black deaths in custody continues.
Photo by Jimmy Chan on Pexels.com 2019-11-22 The findings of the Coronial Inquest into the death of David Dungay has today recommended no charges or sanctions for the prison officers involved in his death in Long Bay Jail in 2015.…
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Bushfires, Hazard Reduction and Backburning.
https://greens.org.au/bushfires The Australian Greens support hazard reduction burns and back-burning to reduce the impact of wildfire when guided by the best scientific, ecological and emergency service expertise. Attempts by right-wing pundits and politicians to place the blame on the Greens represent the…
Free Documentary Movie Screening.
CSG Free Shoalhaven along with the Wilderness Society will hold a screening of “Pilliga Rising” A 40 minute documentary that takes viewers on a journey involving the intimate lives of four Australians who anchor themselves in courage and convey a…
Unfit Health System by Nina Digiglio.
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com I wouldn’t say politics opened my eyes to the problems in the health system. I knew very well they were there. Everybody knows there are problems within the health system, especially those who work there.…
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