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MORE than 50 people gathered to ‘free the trees’ in Bongil Bongil National Park last Saturday, June 17. They were there as part of a National Parks New South Wales (NPNSW) initiative called the ‘Tree Parents Project’, which began in 2015 to restore koala habitat in Bongil Bongil National Park. Advertise with News of The...

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THE Business and Professional Women’s Association (BPW) Coffs Coast is excited to announce that nominations for the 2023 BPW Scholarship and Education Encouragement Awards are now open. Females who are studying at a tertiary level for a Diploma, Degree or higher qualification who can demonstrate how they have overcome disadvantage, adversity or challenges to achieve...

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ON Saturday July 1 the Sawtell Chilli Festival returns to First Avenue. Organisers rightly describe it as “one of the hottest events on the Coffs Coast events calendar”, attracting thousands of patrons each year. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone us – (02) 4981 8882....

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THE ‘All Creatures Great and Small’ annual members exhibition of the Coffs Harbour Creative Arts Group (CHCAG) opens on Sunday 25 June at the Showground Gallery. The official opening and awards ceremony will be held at 2pm on opening day. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us....

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Transphobic mobilisations must be opposed, writes Sophie Cotton, but this should be linked to a fight against the broader institutional transphobia in the political mainstream

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WE have a winner in the competition to name the North Coast Regional Botanic Garden’s two electric buggies, launched by News Of The Area. The President of the Friends of the garden, Graham Tupper, told NOTA, “The smaller six-seat e-buggy is now called the ‘Banksia Buggy’ and its new eight-seater sister vehicle is the ‘Melaleuca...

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As Australia became the test site for nuclear weapons in the 1950s, opposition developed through the unions and a new peace movement, writes Lucy Honan

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LOCAL country music sensation Billie-Jo Porter is loving her debut album tour across the Coffs Coast. Having played Moonee Beach Hotel on Sunday 18 June, her next stop is Woolgoolga Brewing Co on Sunday 2 July. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone us – (02)...

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Look at Texas, Florida, and Arizona compared to the West Coast cities. Just sayin’

A professional athlete’s tough choice in a country with barely any safety net.

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Following up on the post below here’s a pro-choice tactic that should tie the other side up in knots: Revs. Jan Barnes and Krista Taves have logged hundreds of hours standing outside abortion clinics across Missouri and Illinois, going back to the mid-1980s. But unlike other clergy members around the country, they never pleaded with patients to turn back. The sight of the two women in clerical collars holding up messages of love and support for people terminating a pregnancy “so infuriated the anti-abortion protesters that they would heap abuse on us and it drew the abuse away from the women,” recalled Taves, a minister at Eliot Unitarian Chapel in Kirkwood, Missouri, as she sat on a couch at Barnes’ stately church in this quiet suburb of St. Louis. “I thought: ‘Whoa, these people really are not messing around.’ But then I thought, ‘Well, I’m not messing around either.’” So when Missouri’s abortion ban took effect after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, Barnes and Taves decided to fight back.

The Opposition’s shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor (yep, really) has demanded that the Government invest big in tonight’s 100 million dollar Powerball lottery, as a way to help pay off National debt. ”100 million dollars is a lot of money and... Read More ›

A crucial link that sustains the Amazon rainforest is at risk of running dry.

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Will the new anti-abortion tactics work? They want a total national ban, don’t kid yourself. But they’ve always been willing to do it incrementally. Now that they have succeeded in overturning Roe and “returning it to the states” they’re moving simultaneously to push full bans where they can get it and a so-called “moderate” ban for all the states where it is currently legal. It’s diabolical: A key anti-abortion group is pushing to get Republicans singing from the same songbook a year after the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade damaged the party’s national political prospects. Citing a new round of national polling the group commissioned, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America argues in a new memo, obtained by Semafor, that many Americans are comfortable limiting access to abortions even if they consider themselves broadly “pro-choice.” It’s part of an effort to convince Republicans to go on offense with an issue that many believe played a role in the party’s disappointing midterms performance, and get them to at least back a national ban on abortions after 15 weeks.