[email protected] Letters Thin blue line NGT I want to thank David welcomes letters Heilpern for his column and other contributions received by email or post Notices (NGT 09/20 p.12). David’s language is insightful and prior to deadline. Letters Position vacant delightful. I’m very much longer than 300 words may Cawongla Playhouse is seeking a Cert III qualified looking forward to your be edited for length, and educator for a casual short term position 3 days a week in promised future columns. articles for accuracy. Please term 4. We are also seeking Cert III staff to join our relief However, the metaphor include your full name, list. You must have current working with children check, invoked by the phrase address and phone number first aid and Cert III qualifications. Please email your CV for verification purposes. “democracy shudders” fails to: [email protected] to truly capture the utter Opinions expressed remain despair, visceral anger, and those of the author, and Room to let permanent dark cynicism are not necessarily those of Vacancy available in large 4-bedroom home in bushland which many of us carry Nimbin Good Times. setting just a 12-minute walk to the Nimbin Post Office. around inside our bodies A third interesting and happy person is wanted, so there every minute of every day of media now openly describe www.hollyenglish.com will be a spare room. Huge verandah and large garden our ‘democratic’ lives. “Police accountability in area, some of it planted. Our possible house-mate would I agree with you that the NSW” as “pathetic and for the rail trail. Over line will run along the coast be working, studying or involved in community activities. public lose faith quickly in a disgraceful” (ABC’s Media $75,000 was raised and include Ballina; A non-tobacco smoker is preferred. Very reasonable rent. hypocritical justice system, Watch 8/9/20). through crowdfunding – • It is not the fault of the Email your interest to: [email protected] and tell us but I would also point out WA Police Union (Harry donations given by the local Sourdough Group or the about yourself. that for some of us, that faith Arnott) on Sat 19 Sep 2020, community; Rail Trail Group that the will never return, if it ever described a suspect (member • There has been no progress train was stopped and has HEMP Annual General Meetings existed at all. of public) as an “animal” and in bringing back the train not returned. Saturday 21st November at the Town Hall, 45 Cullen For me and many people, “pig of a human” (https:// for the 16 years that it has Marie Lawton Street, Nimbin. 11am Nimbin HEMP Embassy; 12pm the ‘thin blue line’ is nothing www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2 been closed, and the cost Public liaison/treasurer MardiGrass Organising Body; 2pm Help End Marijuana more than a daily exercise 519828438309321&extid=fng now (considering the decay NRRT Assoc. Prohibition (HEMP) Party; 3pm HEMP Party NSW. in physical power; and the QmhoqiahWwdgO). of the infrastructure) would Nominations for executive committee positions must ‘justice system’ is just-a- I’m absolutely furious about be even more prohibitive; ABC funding be received one week prior to the AGMs. Voting will be system designed with nothing this ab/use of language/ • The legislation change will I am very concerned about the by open ordinary ballot. A short bio and CV will help else in mind than to uphold power and mainstream media state the following: “The way our communities receive determine the suitability of nominees. the State’s physical power. use of it. This statement is authorisation of the rail important news information. For many of us, our entire a most current example of infrastructure owner under The last 12 months or Interested in cycling? experience of Australia’s the corruption and double- subclause (1) in relation so have been extremely As the road season has started and inspired by watching whole legal set-up is nothing standards which David and to the disposal of the land challenging for many the Tour, I’m looking for local riding buddies. Rides are but a perpetual extension I are desperately trying to concerned is limited to the Australians, particularly loops of between 50 and 150 km at 20 to 25 kph starting of colonial and corporate highlight. Much more than land being dedicated under those people living in rural from Nimbin. Email: [email protected] if you’d like to oppression, suffocating us in ‘democracy’ is at stake! the Crown lands legislation areas of the state. join a small local peloton. every way imaginable. To the extent that it as a rail trail for recreational Firstly the people in the It’s fine and good to existed, democracy does not use.” northern part of NSW had Free notices reference a well-publicised just shudder, but actually • Agreed that the large bus to endure drought and record Keep it short, under 50 words, and to the point, get it to us example of Police abuse at disappears, the moment the services do not suit many bushfires, and now the Covid- by deadline and we’ll run it for you for free. street level, but I want the ‘thin blue line’ is crossed – people in our region. If 19 epidemic. I am witnessing reader to know this same and it’s crossed every minute the region was served by depression in the community caught fire. Huge areas of space available within the hypocritical and corrupt of every day. ‘Democracy’, smaller, electric buses they and a great deal of other permafrost are melting. existing verges and I believe behaviour is the very ‘legal’ whatever it might be, seems would be able to pick up social problems. These conflagrations this is some, albeit small, apparatus that has been to exist despite us. and drop off at a far wider I believe the communities guarantee planetary warming concession council can make continually imposed onto our David, I’m so very glad array of destinations; need a well-funded ABC to to the level of catastrophe. to assist the community meet lives every day, and onto our to know you’re now able • The current route does not provide up-to-the-minute Evgeny Zinichev, Russia’s the current financial and continent for 200+ years. to speak publicly, from the service the main transport commentary on such emergencies minister, social challenges. From society’s highest heart, on these matters. route between Ballina and important and potentially speaks of a critical situation Additional outdoor dining elites persecuting Julian There’s lots to say, and your Lismore and Tweed Heads; catastrophic events that have unfolding in Siberia and space within town centres Assange to death, via one insights are important. • The government will not been happening around us. across Russia’s Far East. can be achieved with the use of the oldest ‘democratic’ Daniel John fund the train coming back That would be news Permafrost melt and of street parking spaces after countries in the world; to Goonellabah at this time; updates that are not being wildfires are having an 5pm daily. “officer Plod” downtown, in • The corridor will be kept provided by the commercial impact not only across A Parklet is a car space one the youngest ‘democratic’ Rail Trail myths for the use of the general television and radio networks. Siberia but around the making a footpath extension countries in the world, we are In response to Lydia public, not just a few fit In my opinion, I saw a world. that provides more space and living in a very tenuous, if not Kindred’s article (‘Rail myths cyclists; great deal of misinformation Siberia’s forests act amenities for people using lawless world. and realities’ NGT 9/20), • There are no plans for from the commercial media as an enormous carbon the street. Usually Parklets Many officers of the State some of Lydia’s information the Elements train to run channels. Lives are likely to sink, storing millions of are installed on parking (Police) embody willingly if recently published is any further by the owner, be put at risk. tonnes of climate-changing zones and use several parks. not willfully, the systemic incorrect. Please read the and Byron Shire Council Tony Batchelor greenhouse gases. Wildfire Parklets typically extend out racism which has filled our points below. will not have the money Lismore is now releasing these gases. level from the footpath to the prisons disproportionally • Arcadis did not survey needed to do so. The State Siberia’s thawing tundra will width of the adjacent parking with First Nations people – “most of the line” in Government will not fund Planetary warming dramatically reshape the space. Parklets can provide a psychological and war-like the Byron Shire, due to this project; We all know it’s the natural earth’s entire ecosystems. additional alfresco dining process congruent with ‘terra inaccessibility; • The Rail Trail Project came world that makes the oxygen Thomas Smith, an space for adjacent cafes and nullius’. • The Sourdough Group about because the train was be breathe. We all know, or environmental geographer, restaurants. Conservative mainstream has not raised money stopped. If there were plans we should, that the Amazon said: “Alarming is the right At the Byron Shire Council to reinstate the train, the forest is one of Earth’s great term.” An understatement. meeting, I moved a Notice of rail trail group would not be lungs – billions of plants and Michael Brooke Motion requesting Council Bookkeeper Martha Paitson pursuing this path; trees breathing in carbon Kyogle begin a trial to investigate the About us Web www.nimbingoodtimes.com • It is not practical to run the dioxide and breathing out use of carparks on the street And find us on Facebook Managing editor Bob Dooley trail beside the tracks along life giving oxygen.