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IN taking a fresh look at the skills shortage, a coalition of organisations is creating civil construction opportunities for local refugees. The Refugee Employment Pathways Program (REPP) was devised by the social enterprise Purpose & Growth (P&G) for refugee and asylum seeker communities. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your...

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HEAVY rain didn’t deter former racing driver Joel Wakely from attending the National Holden Motor Museum on Saturday to help celebrate 76 years of the marque on our roads. Mr Wakely, 87, was in Coffs Harbour to launch his book on the 48-215, affectionately known as the Humpy, which started 70 years of Australian automotive...

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HANDY, helpful and practical, the free 2025 Legal Topics For Seniors Diary is available now at Member for Coffs Harbour Gurmesh Singh’s electorate office. A favourite year after year, the Legal Topics For Seniors Diary is a free legal information resource produced for seniors by Legal Aid NSW. Advertise with News of The Area today....

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In his ongoing campaign to pad and shield criticism of Israel in the conduct of its war of gross bloodletting in Gaza, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rarely misses a beat to attack critics. It has become clear that even mere disagreement from long standing allies suggests wobbliness and tilting in the direction of antisemitism. Continue reading »

International Court of Justice to provide advice on nations’ climate change obligations. SE Australia and WA to experience more heat waves than predicted but NT and FNQ will have fewer. Mixed evidence of countries working together to progress sustainability. International Court of Justice climate change hearings You are possibly vaguely aware of but not well Continue reading »

“We must ask for no references to Gaza/Palestine/Israel as it’s a very sensitive topic in our area. If these topics are included it drastically changes our risk management plans for events. Thus for safety and harmony we kindly ask the guest speakers avoid these topics and any questions about it that come up.” – Sam Continue reading »

There should be a Christmas truce/ceasefire (Orthodox Christmas or western doesn’t matter) in the war between Russia and Ukraine. Last Western AND Orthodox Christmas, there was discussion of the possibility of a truce or ceasefire over one of the Christmases. The precedent quoted was of course, the spontaneous ceasefire that took place over December 1914, Continue reading »

Is your local community, like mine, preparing for that enjoyable Christmas Carols event? Will there be a reference to the place where it all began and, if so, what will be said? Will there be any reference to the current plight of its citizens? Most of us attend our Christmas Carols event as an opportunity Continue reading »

Mohammed Salamat delivered this anguished poem about his detention on Nauru outside Federal Parliament last Tuesday November 19, 2024. The reality of ‘offshore processing’ by the Australian government is still very much a fact, in legislation and the news. Barn of Broken Doors  Australia, is this the land you promised, Where hope once bloomed, now Continue reading »

Tricking people into seeing unexpected content and converting some of them into customers is a tale as old as the web. It was the perfect model for the takeover.

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. Une des erreurs fondamentales dans le débat actuel sur la dette publique et le déficit budgétaire est de ne pas distinguer entre différents types de dettes. Même s’il est vrai qu’à l’échelle macroéconomique, les dettes et les actifs s’équilibrent nécessairement, il est loin d’être insignifiant de savoir qui détient les actifs et qui supporte […]

As Syrian rebels retake major cities from Bashar al-Assad, many are celebrating a return home.

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As Syrian rebels retake major cities from Bashar al-Assad, many are celebrating a return home.

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An oil-backed justice bows out, location tracking gets turned off, Elon Musk loses a few bucks, Wisconsin public workers win big, and a controversial anesthesia policy is out cold.

As fans fret over the show's ratings and possible cancellation, Doctor Who writer and ex-showrunner Steven Moffat offers some perspective.

. Films can touch us in many different ways. Many are little more than pure time-fillers and escapism. But there are also a few — very few — films that truly mean something. The ones that deeply penetrate our souls and shake us to our core. Kjell-Åke Andersson’s adaptation of Göran Tunström’s masterpiece The Christmas […]

Yay! Christmas arrived early in the Kibwezi Forest: We just received the most beautiful gift, in the form of Lima Lima’s brand new baby boy! He is Lima Lima’s first child and our second Umani grandbaby. The story began on Tuesday, 3rd December 2024. That morning, Lima Lima and her fellow ‘nightclubbers’ linked up with the dependent orphans, as they always do. At the mud bath, we noticed Lima Lima rolling around on the dust pile, clearly trying to soothe her heavily pregnant belly. When she got to her feet, Keeper Evans put his ear to her side — as we joked, she was getting a house call from her personal obstetrician! The story began on Tuesday, 3rd December 2024. That morning, Lima Lima and her fellow ‘nightclubbers’ linked up with the dependent orphans, as they always do. At the mud bath, we noticed Lima Lima rolling around on the dust pile, clearly trying to soothe her heavily pregnant belly. When she got to her feet, Keeper Evans put his ear to her side — as we joked, she was getting a house call from her personal obstetrician! In hindsight, Lima Lima was in the early stages of labour.

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