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KORORO School friends from the class of 1945 are on the cusp of celebrating 80 years of companionship. Adele Simmond (Berriman), Peggy Mavin (Hoy), Lorraine Partland (Taylor), Helen Bowen (Edwards) and Lesley Burling (Gillam) met as five-year-olds at Kororo School, Coffs Harbour. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business....

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THE grassroots creative culture of Coffs Harbour offers a rich and often clandestine life for aspiring artists. The burgeoning poetry scene for instance continues to thrive in the margins, fuelled by passion rather than driven by economics. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone us –...

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BELLINGEN’S Wal Tyson, 89, has received an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for services to the Bellingen Shire community. Mr Tyson was presented the OAM at the King’s Birthday 2024 Honours and Awards Ceremony at Government House, Sydney on Thursday, 19 September by NSW Governor Margaret Beazley. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s...

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TWO recent koala deaths on the Pacific Highway near Bonville have the Friends of Pine Creek urging motorists to take even greater care to avoid animals. “Koalas are particularly active in spring because of breeding urges,” a spokesperson said. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone...

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My latest in The Guardian Announcements from major employers, including Amazon and Tabcorp, that workers will be required to return to the office five days a week have a familiar ring. There has been a steady flow of such directives. The Commonwealth Bank CEO, Matt Comyn, attracted a lot of attention with an announcement that […]

APPLICATIONS are open for funding under the NSW Government’s Local Sport Defibrillator Grant Program. Member for Coffs Harbour Gurmesh Singh said applications for grants of up to $3000 will be accepted until Wednesday, 27 November, but the program could close sooner if funds are exhausted. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it...

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We round up the week at the UN in New York where thousands have gathered to denounce Benjamin Netanyahu and demand his arrest. Groups have also called for the resignation of Antony Blinken for alleged lies to Congress, and we question why Jordan, also a US ally, can speak out against Israel. Finally, we applaud Continue reading »

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There’s a new poll out by the Barna group which surveys evangelical Christians and is considered to be very reliable. There’s lot’s of interesting information but this struck me as important: Historical data indicates that turnout among the voting age population was 53.6%in 2012 (Obama-Romney); 54.6% in 2016 (Trump-Clinton); and 61.3% in 2020(Trump-Biden). If the election were held now (about 7 weeks before November5th), the expected turnout would be 50% of voting age adults. Typically, thatturnout figure will rise several percentage points, likely concluding in the 53% to 55% range. That would put the 2024 election squarely in line with the turnout levels of 2012 and 2016, but below that of 2020. It’s big problem for Trump if any of his evangelical followers don’t vote. But one biggie there at the bottom is especially problematic this time. The voters who say the election is rigged are almost certainly his. He can’t afford to lose them. I must say, this surprised me (actually not…) Moral decline was identified by less than one-quarter of the churched Christians(23%) as a defining issue in this election.

Activists are drawing parallels between the state-sanctioned killing of Williams in Missouri and U.S. backing for Israel’s war on Gaza.

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McDonald’s is actually not on her resume which he used to use as proof that she never worked there. But nobody puts their summer job while they’re in school on their professional resume. (Trump wouldn’t know that because he never had a job other than working for daddy before he inherited his $400 million.) Now he’s saying is all over her resume I guess to push that she’s a liar? I don’t know why Trump thinks this is such a put away shot but he’s leaning very heavily on it. Usually I can see why he thinks something is going to resonate with the MAGA cult but I honestly can’t see it this time. Sure, he wants to portray her as lying about her normal middle class upbringing (I guess to say she’s a Marxist???) but the fact that she worked at McDonald’s doesn’t prove or disprove that. She’s not lying but I doubt there’s a record of her short term part time job from 40 years ago. So is he trying to make this into a new “birther ” scandal? (“Burger” scandal?) I just don’t get it.

Three Earth plants will soon make a new home on the lunar surface.

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I don’t know how much time you have to listen to podcasts but if you’re interested in the minutia of the electoral college vote and are worried about Pennsylvania, this one with Greg Sargent interviewing Gov. Josh Shapiro may be up your alley. An excerpt: If Kamala Harris can defeat Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, she almost certainly will win the presidency. It’s must-win for him. Yet the state remains a coin-flip—which is why both candidates campaigned in the state this week. So what is Harris’s path to victory? We talked to Governor Josh Shapiro, who explained why the race is so close—and why he thinks she’s “on her way” to winning there, in part due to concerted communications with non-college voters. Shapiro also responded at length to Trump’s lies about Haitian immigrants living in Pennsylvania, pronouncing them “utter bullshit.” Here is the whole thing: I know the polls show a very close race. But as I wrote in an earlier post,

After listening to a 90-minute comprehensive webinar on campus protests and antisemitism, led by a...

Opposition leader, Peter Dutton, fresh off releasing no new details of his nuclear power policy, has reacted angrily to all those against the policy (sic) saying: ”let them eat yellow cake.” ”Bloody Greenies, inner city elite and the so-called journalists... Read More ›

Naturally, the MAGAs had him removed. Their sense of humor is confined to making fun of disabled people and chanting “lock her up” and “send them back.”