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THE Coffs Harbour Justice of the Peace (JP) service achieved a new record for servicing the community in 2024. “Our team processed a new record of in excess of 18,000 documents during the year,” Coffs Harbour Branch NSW Justices Association spokesperson Mike Blewitt told News Of The Area. Advertise with News of The Area today....

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THE Dorrigo Support Centre welcomed the elderly and their carers to its Annual Seniors Christmas Luncheon at the Dorrigo Community Hall on Thursday, 15 December. The centre is a hub that provides services to seniors over 65 years of age and their carers. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your...

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SURPRISE kicked off the afternoon for the Ulong community’s Mountain Christmas Carols event on Sunday 15 December. Member for Coffs Harbour Gurmesh Singh and Federal Member for Cowper Pat Conaghan both arrived at Ulong Community Hall unannounced and in a festive mood; ready to sing and celebrate with the mountain community. Advertise with News of...

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Who among us hasn’t accidentally texted the wrong person? But I don’t think any of us have accidentally posted on social media instead of texting. Then there’s Donald Trump… Trump posted a private message meant for Elon Musk on Truth Social by mistake. Trump-Musk Bromance Alive and Well? Who among us hasn’t accidentally texted the wrong person? But I don’t think any of us have accidentally posted on social media instead of texting. Then there’s Donald Trump… Trump posted a private message meant for Elon Musk on Truth Social… pic.twitter.com/lHLdeB8daZ — Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline) December 28, 2024 Haha. Was he trying to make him jealous with Bill Gates? Too funny. The CNN reporter says that this suggests that Trump isn’t unhappy with Musk but who knows? If he isn’t I’d guess it’s because Trump is hoping for that rumored merger of Truth Social and X which will bring him a huge payday. But there is serious trouble in MAGA land with Elon and Vivek threatening his loyal followers like this: I doubt Trump cares at all about this visa issue. He’s happy to give Elon what he wants.

ROBERT and Margaret Chapman, long-term benefactors of Coffs Harbour Health Campus (CHHC), have donated nine infusion pumps costing almost $15,000 to the hospital’s Emergency Department. Infusion pumps are essential medical devices capable of delivering fluids in precise amounts, ranging from nutrients and medications like insulin, antibiotics, and pain relievers, to chemotherapy drugs. Advertise with News...

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THE Bellinger RSL sub-Branch is adopting its organisation’s successful RSL NSW Sport and Recreation Program, an initiative that has been running for two years. The program began in 2022 as a pilot program in two district councils with only 14 sub-Branches. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message...

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We have a major problem with the damage that Rupert Murdoch has done to newspapers in Australia, and any self-respecting government should take steps to correct that as soon as possible. A repost from January 05, 2024 I met Rupert when I was working for Gough Whitlam in Canberra. I got to know the people Continue reading »

The inclusion of anti-Israel and anti-Zionist actions and speech in the definition of antisemitism is a gross infringement on freedom of expression in this country, the group Jews Against the Occupation says in a submission to a government inquiry into antisemitism at Australian universities. The full submission is below. Submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee Continue reading »

If it wasn’t already clear, the writing is now well and truly on the wall for the fossil car makers: Just a week after BYD launched its $US15,000 “Corolla killer” and with the world’s largest EV battery maker recently announcing it’s on track to cut battery costs in half this year, new research suggests the decline in Continue reading »

How reassuring it is to be a mining magnate in Australia. Far more significant than royalty, such figures are the unelected captains of industry who know that governments will do whatever they can to accommodate their wishes and whims. True, the rhetoric might sometimes be sharp and seemingly at odds, especially when it comes to Continue reading »

Only in Australia could such an edgy political satire be put on stage. Sharp and witty, Donald’s Inferno, written and directed by Jon-Claire Lee, was launched in Sydney this month to a modest but discerning audience. Buried in its wacky story, the comedy pulled no punches in its description of current tensions between the Chinese Continue reading »

I’ve had a hard day’s night watching an excruciating, made-for-Fox-TV showdown between political scientist Norman Finkelstein and the former deputy mayor of Jerusalem, Fleur Hassan-Nahoum. It’s white knuckled viewing, no doubt about that. It’s designed to be. Piers Morgan, an infotainment stalwart, presides over these so-called “debates” (which are anything but) by extolling his own Continue reading »

Are you: a better coach for having played the game at highest level; a superior baron of a media corporation if you started as a desk journalist; a smarter tech billionaire for having cut code; an out-performing venture capitalist if once a failed entrepreneur; a far-sighted head of NASA if you journeyed as an astronaut; Continue reading »

In October 2024, four key Southeast Asian countries became partners of BRICS, making the organisation much closer to home for Australians. So why have Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Vietnam put themselves on a path to membership? What is BRICS? BRICS was established in 2009 by Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa and is viewed Continue reading »

When we hear of so many incidents in which Israeli soldiers in the Occupied Palestinian Territories of Gaza, East Jerusalem, and the West Bank detain Palestinians and gratuitously ransack their homes (if not completely destroy their homes), one tries to understand what role humiliation plays in the way in which the soldiers orient themselves to Continue reading »

It couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch Make America Grouse Again (Axios): This will not end well: Meanwhile, Trump supporters are engaged in as much wishcasting about whose benefits Trump sill slash (not theirs, just those low-caste Irresponsibles) as lefties who believed after the Berlin Wall fell that the “peace dividend” would be a boone for social safety net programs.

The results are in, and they’ve exceeded our wildest hopes.

Equalizers on retainer Anticipating Donald Trump’s “promised revenge tour,” Josh Marshall floated the idea of about ten days ago that anti-Trumpers with deep pockets assemble a big pile of money for the legal defense of women and men on his enemies list. Marshall is back to report there is movement on this effort in a good-news, bad-news sort of way. Since then, he’s become aware of “groups or consortia that are organizing to be the place that Trump targets can go when they get their subpoena or their lawsuit,” but for now they are keeping their identities below the radar: For very real reasons these groups don’t want to draw a lot of attention to themselves. They don’t want themselves to become the targets of harassment and lawfare when they’re trying to defend others from it. If they themselves get run out of business who’s going to be around to help everyone else? So I can’t give websites for these operations that you’d want to look up if you’re a target or show you how to contribute money. They’re not set up that way and they don’t want the attention.

Ncuti Gatwa is the most emotionally open take on the Doctor in the new Doctor Who era, but is the constant tragedy getting to be too much?

Tax experts say IRS whistleblower Charles Littlejohn’s leaks provided a public service — and fear Trump will take retribution.

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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Niall Harbison (@niall.harbison) Every morning when I wake up and put on my glasses the first thing I look at online is this feed by Niall Harbison. It never fails to get my day started in the right frame of mind. (That link is to his Twitter feed, but he also posts all the time on Instagram.) Niall lives in Thailand and runs a street dog rescue. Every day he has an amazing story about what he does often featuring the story of one dog he’s found in some terrible situation whom they bring back to what he calls “the land” and they fix the pup up both physically and psychologically. Then they find many of them a home there in Thailand and all over the world. One of the dogs was even adopted by Liam Gallagher from Oasis           View this post on Instagram                       A post shared by Niall Harbison (@niall.harbison) He also runs sterilization clinics, feeds hundreds of street dogs and gives medication to those who need it every day.

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