Tucked away in the fine print, well below the $34 billion headline, is an ironic twist: backpackers and 457 visa folk will provide nearly $900 million of those tax cuts, writes Michael Pascoe.
Residents
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. […]
Maningrida: watching the intervention roll in
The two key members of the government’s intervention into indigenous communities, Dr Sue Gordon and Major General Dave Chalmers, flew into the top end fulcrum of Maningrida yesterday to begin a two-day survey into what shape the intervention would take in the community. Maningrida resident Hamish Townsend reports.
