Nimbin GoodTimes

18/08/2024

I enjoyed my return trip to Sydney on the train. I arrived back at Casino yesterday at 2.30am. It is very cheap with a pensioner card. Free plus $40 for a 1st class upgrade. I borrowed a few online books from the local library to read on the Ipad and I settled in, looking out the window sometimes and enjoying the ride.

Quote:"Almost 12 hours after boarding in Sydney, as the lights of Deepwater came into view, I had to admit that I still prefer public transport to driving, despite the bumpy ride.

Even when our old rattler runs late and half-empty, the glass is more than half-full for those of us actually supporting the service."

The ageing fleet of Xplorer trains are running late half the time and can’t get up to speed on single tracks, but the 10-hour journey still has much to recommend it

08/08/2024

August edition of this little community newsletter is now online at nimbingoodtimes.com Hope you like it.

04/07/2024

01/07/2024

Not only did Assange make the MSM look dishonest; by reinventing Fourth Estate journalism with WikiLeaks, he challenged the narrative control.

17/06/2024

June edition is available online at nimbingoodtimes.com

16/06/2024

As a result of misleading media, many people in Australia now view China negatively. China isn’t a threat to the economy, it’s a lifeline

12/06/2024

An interesting analysis about powerful men in the media.

The horrible truth is that in the Australian legacy media landscape, there are too many stories of senior men who forgive themselves their own lapses of judgement, or forgive each other's because they're "good blokes", or go easy on each other because they fear a nuclear escalation.

12/06/2024

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/12/peter-duttons-energy-policy-is-a-political-death-wish-and-utterly-irresponsible-in-the-face-of-the-climate-emergency
"CSIRO’s regular GenCost study confirms the cold financial truth. Recent world average prices of electricity from solar farms and wind turbines are about 4c a kilowatt hour. Nuclear power costs about 16c. Even adding in the price of the storage we need and the cost of increased grid connections, renewables cost far less than nuclear power. Deciding to replace our coal-fired power by nuclear would commit us to continuing to burn coal until well into the 2040s, as well as promising to increase the scale of our electricity bills. The economically responsible solution to climate change is renewables backed up by storage, plus an urgent investment in energy efficiency."

As well as spending billions subsidising fossil fuels, we are spending billions more repairing the damage global heating is doing

08/06/2024

Probably the most significant photo taken.

So very sad to learn that Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders has been killed in a plane crash aged 90.

He took this picture, the first ‘earth rise’ ever seen by a human eye, a picture which has since shaped our understanding of our planets’ fragility ever since.

RIP

03/06/2024

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/03/koala-thief-leaves-claude-eastern-forest-nursery-lismore-nsw

Koala became online hit after sampling wares at NSW nursery, but conservationists say increasingly brazen behaviour highlights serious issue

30/05/2024

Saturday June 8 Rising Tide Event at Birth and Beyond, Nimbin at 5pm

The film of the People’s Blockade of the World’s Largest Coal Port At the end of the hottest year in human history, a Rising Tide of everyday people shut down the world’s largest coal port for 32 hours. Here’s how we did it.Revisit the epic People’s Blockade with footage from the beach, th...

28/05/2024

Congratulations Robyn Francis on the 30 year anniversary of Djanbung Gardens. Well it was such a fun afternoon last Sunday - Kids Day with the lovely Costa. This photo is at the start of the family teams' competition for fastest no dig garden. I was sorry to miss the previous day due to a family gathering on GC but heard Costa's speech was just fantastic. More photos in June GoodTimes.

26/05/2024

It was great to catch up with Vee Waters, our local Greens candidate for the upcoming Lismore Council election, with supporters at the Nimbin market today. The Council election is in September.

24/05/2024

Congratulations and good luck.

Nimbin Central School are so proud of Daniel Frey, who recently ranked in the top 20 Under 18 Shotput throwers in the world! Following this success, Daniel has been selected to represent Australia at the Oceania Athletics Championships being held next month in Suva, Fiji (2-9th June) in the Australian Athletics Under 18 team. Daniel has been a student at Nimbin Central School since kindy and has excelled academically and creatively in addition to his incredible athletic achievements. We wish Daniel well as he represents Nimbin and Australia internationally!

24/05/2024

24/05/2024

Did you know lawn is the dominant land cover in most Canadian communities? Lawns are a great place to picnic and play sports, but way too many of them exist.

In Canada, there are millions of lawns. Watering them accounts for about one-third of all residential water use! Ditch the lawn habit and try one of these nine lawn alternatives. 🌷

24/05/2024

Defence and Anduril Australia’s American parent, an AI and robotics developer, have invested $140 m for three Ghost Shark in three years.

24/05/2024

John Jiggens regularly writes for GoodTimes. Thanks John.

John Shipton has been in London, observing his son Julian Assange's appeal against extradition to the United States.

21/05/2024

Independent Member for Clark, Andrew Wilkie, discussed the United Kingdom High Court of Justice’s decision to grant Julian Assange permission to appeal against his extradition to the United States of America.

“It’s wonderful news that Julian Assange has been granted permission to appeal his extradition to the United States,” Mr Wilkie said. “Mr Assange’s case will now go to the Court of Appeal, where I hope for success so he can be reunited with his family and allowed to return to Australia.

“Mind you it never should have come to this because Mr Assange should never have been charged for Wikileaks’ astonishing revelations of egregious United States misconduct, including war crimes. Mr Assange is an award-winning Australian journalist who is being dragged through the mud by the US for simply doing his job and telling the truth. The man should be lauded as a hero, not rotting away in a cell.

“The court’s decision overnight also gives the Australian and US governments, and indeed Mr Assange and the US Department of Justice, more time to negotiate to have the charges dropped or at least a deal to be struck.

“In any case this matter has gone on for far too long and millions of people around the world are saying enough is enough. Indeed the majority of the Australian Parliament, including the Prime Minister and his Cabinet, voted in favour of my motion calling on the UK and US Governments to bring this to an end and to let Julian return to Australia.”

Mr Wilkie is a co-chair of the parliamentary Julian Assange group and has twice travelled to London in support of Mr Assange.