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Fri, 29/03/2024 - 06:20

SAWTELL psychologist and Repton resident Jill Hely has penned a twelve-week guide to building lasting emotional wellbeing through adopting habits shown to improve mood. The paperback book, ‘Happiness Habits’, was launched at the Sawtell Surf Life Saving Club on Friday 8 March at a well-attended, lively event featuring a round of ‘Happiness Habits karaoke’. Advertise...

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Fri, 29/03/2024 - 06:18

ACCESSIBILITY is the focus of upgrades to four railway stations on the Mid North Coast. The NSW Government has provided funding under the $800 million Safe Accessible Transport (SAT) program for design and investigation work for the upgrade of Sawtell, Urunga, Macksville and Nambucca Heads stations, with designs scheduled to be completed within twelve months....

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Fri, 29/03/2024 - 06:16

DIVESTING her treasures as she downsizes in home, Sister Yvonne Channells has celebrated the handing over of a specially valued item. The piece is a painting created by the late Keene Ballangarry, son of Uncle Martin Ballangarry, and is now the proud possession of Martin’s lifelong friend, John Keene, Sister Yvonne’s cousin. Advertise with News...

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Fri, 29/03/2024 - 06:08

ON FRIDAY 15 March, conservationists from across the Bellinger Valley and Coffs Coast gathered in Pine Creek State Forest, south of Coffs Harbour, in a compartment of forest recently subject to a Forestry Corporation of NSW (FCNSW) harvesting operation, to mourn the loss of key koala habitat. The Friends of Pine Creek, a community-led group...

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Fri, 29/03/2024 - 05:34

RESIDENTS who are worried about the cost and payment of their energy or water bills will have the opportunity to talk directly to the NSW Energy and Water Ombudsman (EWON) at an event in Coffs Harbour in April. A ‘Bring Your Bills Day’ will be held especially for residents and small business operators at Coffs...

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Fri, 29/03/2024 - 04:59
I never thought I’d see an inspiring Easter reflection in the usually secular, The Saturday Paper. But last Saturday (March 23) there was Stan Grant, writing on the Christian feast. Grant is a really thoughtful writer and his spirituality comes, he says, ‘from being born into a history of suffering’ as a First Nations person, Continue reading »
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Fri, 29/03/2024 - 04:55
The Federal government’s reaction to Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza and treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem is a likely reason for the significant increase in the Green’s vote. Readers may recall an earlier article by me published in P&I back in January and titled The 2025 Federal Election Continue reading »
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Fri, 29/03/2024 - 04:54
The government’s new deportation legislation is both radical and at the same time addresses two issues that have been around for at least 30 years. But is it good law and why the urgency? Australian governments have long been frustrated by people subject to deportation or removal not co-operating in their removal. They simply refuse Continue reading »
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Fri, 29/03/2024 - 04:52
The latest Migration Act amendments reflects the fact that Pezzullo’s protégées are still running the Department of Home Affairs. They are actively papering over the mess that their own indefinite detention decisions created. A sharp new broom is needed to clear out the departmental debris. On Tuesday, a bunch of bright young refugees went to Continue reading »
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Fri, 29/03/2024 - 04:51
On 12th March, IPAN ACT held a webinar in Canberra entitled AUKUS and Military Escalation – Who pays and who benefits? View the must-watch speeches from Alan Behm, Hugh White, Sue Wareham and Michelle Fahy below. Allan Behm (You can read the text of his speech previously published in Pearls and Irritations here). Prof. Hugh Continue reading »
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Fri, 29/03/2024 - 04:50
Top spy agency urges Chinese citizens to step up cybersecurity as attacks by overseas agencies have been ‘rampant’ in recent years. The message comes as Beijing broadens scope of anti-espionage law to cover online attacks and prepares to expand penalties for data violations. China’s state security authority warned that the networks of “hundreds” of Chinese Continue reading »
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Fri, 29/03/2024 - 04:30

“Romances have a setting; I had only intervened to place myself well. Mainly, I spotted the precise trouble of being a woman ahead of time, tried to surf it instead of letting it drown me on principle. I had grown bored of discussions of fair and unfair, equal or unequal, and preferred instead to consider a thing called ease.” — from the essay “The Case for Marrying an Older Man” by Grazie Sophia Christie, published in The Cut (3/27/24)

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Fri, 29/03/2024 - 04:30
The judges didn’t buy his defense of the coup attempt David Kurtz at TPM: With the Jan. 6 case against Donald Trump ground to a halt and the no real prospect of the Georgia RICO case against him reaching a verdict before November, yesterday’s ruling against Trump co-defendant John Eastman in California may be the closest we get to a taste of a Jan. 6 verdict before Election Day. In recommending that Eastman be disbarred for his role in the conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election, a state judge issued a blistering ruling that treated the autocoup with the historic seriousness it deserves. It came after a full evidentiary record was developed over months and extensive legal argument, like a full-blown trial. Eastman plans to appeal, and ultimately the state Supreme Court will decide whether he’ll be disbarred, but in the meantime he is suspended from practicing law.
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Fri, 29/03/2024 - 03:00
Trump has “envoys” going around the world: After an anti-corruption crusader unexpectedly won last year’s presidential election in Guatemala, democracy teetered on the edgein the Central American country. Amid law enforcementraids on election offices and threats of violence, the Biden administration worked feverishly to lay the groundwork for a peaceful transfer of power. But not Richard Grenell, a former diplomat and intelligence official in Donald Trump’s administration, who arrived in Guatemala in January, days before the new president was to be sworn in — and threw his support behind aright-wing campaign to undermine the election. Grenell met with a hard-line group that sued to block the inauguration. The group thanked him for his “visit and trust.”He defended Guatemalan officials who had seized ballot boxes in an effort to overturn a vote declared “free and fair” by the United States and international observers,and he attacked the U.S. State Department’s sanctions against hundreds of anti-democratic actors. “They are trying to intimidate conservatives in Guatemala,” Grenell said in a television interview.
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Fri, 29/03/2024 - 02:15

“Trump’s newest venture? A $60 Bible. His Bible sales pitch comes as he appears to be confronting a significant financial squeeze, with his legal fees growing while he fights a number of criminal cases and lawsuits.” — New York Times

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Genesis
Adam calls his banishment from the garden “very unfair.”

Exodus
Moses descends Mount Sinai with the Second Amendment.

Leviticus
The part about not eating bacon is out. The part about not “lying with another male” stays in.

Numbers
Moses takes a census in order to divide the Israelites into “total losers” and “good friends.”

Judges
All nine go GOP.

1 Samuel
Goliath wins.

2 Samuel
Bathsheba is even hotter. David moves on her.

Job
Donald Job Trump perseveres despite the nation stealing his election and the courts taking all his money.

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Fri, 29/03/2024 - 01:30
“That’s because you don’t have a criminal mind” Back in my table-waiting days, a customer who had just signed his credit card receipt asked for the carbon copies (yes, that long ago). Noticing the quizzical look on my face, he explained it was because of reports of thieves dumpster-diving for credit card numbers. That never would have occurred to me, I told him. “That’s because you don’t have a criminal mind,” the customer smiled. On that, Ed Kilgore considers what steps Donald Trump took to steal the 2020 election. Several tactics he used four years ago are now “off the table.” But considering he would not admit defeat in 2020 and what he demonstrated he was capable of, what else might he try if he loses a 2024 reelection effort premised on keeping himself out of prison? “Rolling Stone is reporting that the Biden campaign is examining a ‘comically long’ list of ‘nightmare scenarios’ that might develop. To be forewarned is to be forearmed, to a considerable extent,” Kilgore writes.