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Council makes panel selectionThursday, 02 July 2009
Tweed Shire Council has wholeheartedly embraced controversial new planning panels by appointing two unknown planning experts with ties to Queensland to make the area’s major planning decisions.
At an extraordinary meeting yesterday afternoon, councillors selected Dr Ned Wales, a Bond University urban planning assistant professor, and Brisbane...Read More |
Migaloo sighted off the Tweed Coast Thursday, 02 July 2009
A humpback whale breaches off Tweed Heads last weekend, one of many which have started their annual northerly migration along the coast. Photo Carol and Tony Hunt, Aquatic Blue Charters Inset: Migaloo pictured off the Tweed Coast yesterday. Photo Dan Howard, oceanartwork.com
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Hastings Point’s future debated Thursday, 02 July 2009
Left to right: Uve Knop, Ernie Mann, Tess Brill and Vic Brill at the workshop. Photo Jo Kennett
Residents and landowners of Hastings Point met to have their say in the future of their coastal village during a locality plan workshop last weekend.
Tweed Shire Council officers Jane Lofthouse and Danny Rose spoke about estuary...Read More |
New students settle inThursday, 02 July 2009
The students arrived a few days ago from Dalian University in northeast China which has an articulation agreement for SCU Convention and Event Management students, allowing them to complete part of their studies at Southern Cross University.
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EditorialA betrayal that will hauntThursday, 02 July 2009
Tweed Shire councillors have sold out their constituents big time by going down the crooked path of joining the process of appointing members to the controversial ‘joint’ regional planning...Read More | EditorialRally-hoThursday, 25 June 2009
The government’s controversial special legislation smoothing the road for the taxpayer-and-ratepayer funded world rally motor-sport circus was rammed through both houses of state parliament this...Read More |
Mandy NolanKnit PickingThursday, 25 June 2009
Just yesterday I received a package from my blind Nanna. In the absence of vision, she’d employed a woman down the street to knit a cardie set for my newborn. We’re talking booties, Amish style...Read More | EditorialWaste not want notSaturday, 20 June 2009
Federal and state governments squandered a golden opportunity recently to do something simple for the environment by encouraging the recycling of cans and bottles through a container deposit... Read More |
