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The recent media rounds of the new chair of the Australian War Memorial Council, Kim Beazley, appear to presage a major shift in the institution’s attitude to the frontier wars.
Three years ago, I was approached at a pub in Brisbane by a television station reporting on the mask mandates to be put in place by our state premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk.
Now the Federal Labor Government has proposed amendments to the Family Law Act which will further emasculate the rights of fathers to shared parenting.
A 2m wide fibre reinforced plastic boardwalk, 400m long, cutting through untouched bush that will cost $1.8million (that’s $4,500 dollars a metre!). The boardwalk is another move to “urbanise” the are
A relevant question when you consider how long your street has been in existence and yet other, barely used streets, get footpaths on both sides of the street.
Every year around this time I get distressed by all the carry on about Australia Day. It only seems like yesterday that we were all celebrating 200 years of white settlement and today we cringe.
On behalf of everyone on the Northern Beaches, we congratulate our Australia Day Award winners and thank them for the outstanding contributions they have made to the community.
Our Home Town applauds the Northern Beaches Council decision to refuse to be the Planning Proposal Authority for the proposed subdivision of Lizard Rock and we call upon the Metropolitan Local Aborigi
At the June Council meeting it was resolved that a report be presented to Council on how the bus service could be made cost neutral.
