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‘We are in a housing crisis’: Lismore residents accuse NSW government of demolishing homes that should be relocated Residents are demanding greater transparency around decisions made as part of the government’s buyback scheme on Lismore’s flood plain * Get our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcast Seven months after the worst floods in Australia’s modern history lapped at the roof of Jenny’s* home, she moved back in. The sludge was mopped up, the electrics rewired and a new kitchen installed. The next year, in 2023, Jenny was offered the value of her home as part of the New South Wales government’s buyback scheme on Lismore’s flood plain. Aged in her early 70s, she took the deal after being assured her home would ultimately be relocated and someone else would make it their home. Continue reading...

‘We are in a housing crisis’: Lismore residents accuse NSW government of demolishing homes that should be relocated

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“He believed the alleged misbehaviours at Nine would make him a ‘better leader’ moving forward, but said he couldn’t not say why victims might have felt uncomfortable coming forward” (ABC) 🤦

It’s been so rushed and in opposition to a lot of expert opinion. A lot of teens also use social media as support for their mental health, as a way of connecting when they’re isolated. It’s a blanket ban apart from YouTube

You can be professionally engaged and practicing without being employed by an institution. If you’re making making history can’t you be a professional historian? On the verge of resigning I hope this is the case

Thinking about all of them. Any light to shed on why the UC VC gets $1.5m? Shorten would be getting about 3x as much as PM

Yeah maybe the only way is to select text and add, testing this with justfairtruth.bsky.social:

Yes, I was about to write that. It’s weird that happened. Instead of forward what Ron Filipkowski wrote. Actually, I remember I couldn’t forward someone’s post on Bluesky, which only allows copy text!

Isn’t this just copied and pasted from Ron Filipkowski?

In a new collection Transa

The environmental costs also seem invisible to people replying all and sending meaningless emails and then storage

The final office move in my academic career, into a room with no shelves for … books. They think historians no longer read paper 🧐