Locals


Tips and rumours

Passing the buck to the EPA. There are some oil recycling facilities in the Rutherford Industrial Estate in Maitland NSW that are emitting putrid stenches and causing illness in locals. Despite repeated reports to the council (these facilities where vigorously objected to by locals in the development phase) and the EPA - nothing has been done. […]

Winning in marginals: any pork in a storm

Where should the federal government be tossing its pork to persuade marginal electorates it’s still number one? Hospitals? Schools? Roads? Generous cash handouts to individuals living in marginal seats? Crikey has some timely suggestions.

Grey nomads make a beeline for Aboriginal land

The attack on the permit system in the Northern Territory is well underway — weeks before its abolition is enacted in federal law. And the leaders of the assault are not Howard and Brough in Canberra, but tourists, with western Arnhem Land as their first target.