#midnorthcoast — Public Fediverse posts

Bulahdelah Uniting Church #bulahdelah #midnorthcoast #nsw #au #bentsabout #latergram

Bulahdelah Uniting Church #bulahdelah #midnorthcoast #nsw #au #bentsabout #latergram

Buladelah School of Arts was build in 1882 and remains a hub for the local community #bulahdelah #midnorthcoast #nsw #au #bentsabout #latergram

Buladelah School of Arts was build in 1882 and remains a hub for the local community #bulahdelah #midnorthcoast #nsw #au #bentsabout #latergram

The Uniting Church histories can be hard to determine - given the formation of the ‘denominaton’ in the 1970s #bulahdelah #midnorthcoast #nsw #au #bentsabout #latergram

The Uniting Church histories can be hard to determine - given the formation of the ‘denominaton’ in the 1970s #bulahdelah #midnorthcoast #nsw #au #bentsabout #latergram

Bulahdelah Scout Hall looks like it might also have had a religious history #bulahdelah #midnorthcoast #nsw #au #bentsabout #latergram

Bulahdelah Scout Hall looks like it might also have had a religious history #bulahdelah #midnorthcoast #nsw #au #bentsabout #latergram

Rather imposing St Brigid’s Catholic Church in Bulahdelah was built in 1927 in the Interwar Gothic style #bulahdelah #midnorthcoast #nsw #au #bentsabout #latergram

Rather imposing St Brigid’s Catholic Church in Bulahdelah was built in 1927 in the Interwar Gothic style #bulahdelah #midnorthcoast #nsw #au #bentsabout #latergram

The Plough Inn Hotel in Bulahdelah was established in 1862 #bulahdelah #midnorthcoast #nsw #au #bentsabout #latergram

The Plough Inn Hotel in Bulahdelah was established in 1862 #bulahdelah #midnorthcoast #nsw #au #bentsabout #latergram

Motorised bikes
First they put e-bikes on the market, then it is a long wait for regulation of illegal high-powered 'motorbikes' on shared pathways and beaches.

There has been "...alleged antisocial and criminal behaviour involving a group of youths riding e-bikes in the Moonee and North Sapphire Beach areas."

"The claims echo concerns being raised in communities right across the state. For many locals, the issue isn’t just legality. It’s safety on shared pathways residents once felt confident using every day." >>
https://coffscoast.newsofthearea.com.au/technology-outpaces-the-law-on-e-bikes
#pedestrians #motorists #Ebike #safety #regulation #beaches #MooneeBeach #NorthSapphireBeach #Sawtell #CoffsHarbour #NSW #MotorVehicles #MobilityDesign #ActiveTansportInfrastructure
#MidNorthCoast #SapphireBeach #NorthSapphireBeachPlayground #parenting #AntisocialBehaviour #DissocialBehaviours #crime

Logging the Promised Land, Bellingen/ Gleniffer

Promised Land Forest! Tuckers Nob, 250 ha, 130ha clearfall, 120 ha thinning.

Stakeholder Consultation - Remnant Forest Protection & Tuckers Nob Forestry Operations Compartments 8, 10, 11, 12, 17 18 >>
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TuckersRemnantsSurvey-Residents

How NSW Forestry converts native forest to plantations , Dr Tim Cadman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wY9HzWwEvs

Unfortunately most residents and Friends groups use (closed) proprietary social media platforms, owned by the parent company of Meta Platforms
#SaveTuckersNob #FriendsOfTuckersNob #BellingenLogging #NSWLogging #NSWForestry #loggingIndustry #loggingIndustry #loggingImpacts #biodiversity #remnants #wildlife #koalas #harm #Gleniffer #Bellingen #PromisedLand #NSW #MIdNorthCoast #SaveChristmasHoles

Traumatic landscapes of plastic, pollution and exploitation

The coastline of Spain is known as the ‘Sea of Plastic’ ("Mar de Plástico”) It is the world’s largest plastic greenhouse complex with 350 square km of fruit and vegetables grown by immigrant labour for the horticultural industry. >>
https://www.behance.net/gallery/22272681/Mar-del-Plastico#

Could we do the same thing to the coast of NSW?
NSW Greens to move bill to let councils better regulate berry industry as it continues rapid expansion

“People move into these beautiful valleys for the lifestyle and the environment but then wake up one day and within months they are looking at an industrial-scale blueberry farm."

"Faehrmann’s bill will call for mandated buffers between intensive horticulture farms and homes and waterways, as well as strict controls on spraying, runoff and irrigation and greater monitoring of produce for pesticides."

"Blueberry farming is rapidly expanding beyond Coffs Harbour, where it began several decades ago, into the Nambucca Valley and the Kempsey area to the south, and west toward Grafton and Bellingen."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/31/australia-berry-industry-bill-nsw-greens
#rivers #water #extractivism #pesticides #MidNorthCoast #ChinasOrchard #horticulturalIndustry #regulation #runoff #pollution #plastic #PALM #blueberries #SeaOfPlastics #TraumaticLandscapes #NSWCoast #NSW #CoffsHarbour #Nambucca #Kempsey #Grafton #Bellingen #residents #habitability #NSWLogging

Bored fossil fuel enthusiasts are burning rubber, microplastics and toxic chemicals on the Mid North Coast.
#Cars #CarMinds #PetroMasculinity #pollution #noise #toxins #stormwater #BellingerRiver #roads #SchoolHolidays #climate #Bellingen #CoffsHarbour #MidNorthCoast #governance #antisocial #UnsafeBehaviour

The 'world's watching' koalas getting under Aussie wheels

They are begging motorists to slow down when driving through known koala habitats, but...

"Since European colonisation, koala habitat in Australia has been devastated, with approximately 29 million hectares (54 per cent) of forests and woodlands destroyed in NSW alone. Even in recent years, deforestation has continued at an alarming pace...Koalas are facing extinction in NSW by 2050."
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https://au.news.yahoo.com/drivers-warned-after-heartbreaking-find-next-to-road-at-aussie-tourist-town-230610115.html
#biodiversity #extinction #koalas #marsupials #roads #cars #Roadkill #RoadTrauma #NSW #MidNorthCoast #LoggingImpacts #NSWLogging #wildlife #deforestation

Kids want to be mobile
but
don't own a private car and mostly live in public transport deserts.
Poor bike, footpaths, or road infrastructure increase risks of potentially life-threatening injuries when using mobility devices such as e-scooters.

" One in 10 children hurt while riding e-scooters suffered life-threatening injuries. Children were “massively overrepresented” in cases of e-scooter injuries and deaths, despite e-scooters being mostly ridden by adults."
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/04/e-scooter-injury-toll-revealed-in-study-just-tip-of-the-iceberg-in-australia-doctors-warn
#children #MobilityDesign #parenting #TransitDesert #FossilFuel #mobility #RoadTrauma #NSW #MidNorthCoast

Koala habitat on the Mid-North Coast of NSW logged

"Up to 19,000 hectares of forest in the proposed Great Koala National Park is at risk of destruction by Forestry Corporation NSW before April next year."

“It is untenable that so much has been destroyed, and will be destroyed in the coming year, before these areas have been assessed. ..The new analysis reveals Forestry Corporation is continuing its desperate attempt to take as much timber as possible before the park is protected."

“Leaving 95% of the proposed park vulnerable to logging is simply not good enough to ensure the survival of koalas in the wild."
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https://www.nature.org.au/loggers_attempting_to_make_park_unviable_as_koala_sanctuary

"The Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales has developed this interactive MAP to show past and planned logging in the proposed park that has been identified as home to one in five of the state’s koalas.">>
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?webmap=d3b1708ba5d041fa87ab1353413fb0bf
#TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #MidNorthCoast #NSWLogging #NSWForestry #FCNSW #SaveTuckersNob #biodiversity #climate #destruction #Australia

A 2020 NSW parliamentary inquiry found koalas would be extinct in the state by 2050 without urgent action.

"Governments continue to permit the clearing of koala habitat, including for native forest logging operations on the mid-north coast and in areas that have been promised for conservation in a proposed great koala national park."

“We’re in one of the most biodiverse, rich areas on this continent, but historical clearing has seriously degraded the area."
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/03/koala-thief-leaves-claude-eastern-forest-nursery-lismore-nsw
#Koalas #LoggingImpacts #LandClearing #NSWForestry #MidNorthCoast #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #SaveTuckersNob #governance #biodiversity #extinction makers

The Dunghutti people and sand mining

"Uncle Reg was among the many Indigenous people forcibly removed from a camp there at the time. He was six years old when his family's homes were bulldozed and burnt to make way for the sand mine. He said his family were told to "pack a bag and get out of here". We saw them drive up and push the houses over, pushed them to the ground and poured kerosene or diesel over them and set them alight....When the rutile sand mine later closed in 1985, the land became a dumping ground for rubbish and burnt-out cars."

"Uncle Cedric said he would like to have the land returned to his people, or to see them compensated for their loss of home and culture."

#mining #MineRehabilitation #LandUse #NSW #MidNorthCoast #CrescentHead #BackBeach #DunghuttiPeople #CarvedTrees #Kempsey

Forestry Corp cops $500,000 penalty for illegal logging

"This arrangement stems from an incident involving the confirmed illegal harvesting of 17 protected trees in Coopernook State Forest on the NSW mid-North Coast."

A "Penalty comes while Forestry Corp has been issued with Stop Work Orders at Tallaganda and Flat Rock State Forests because of inadequate wildlife surveys before logging commences."
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https://1earthmedia.com/forestry-corp-cops-500000-penalty-for-illegal-logging/
#NativeForests #NSWForestry #NSWLogging #TallagandaSF #tax #surveys #breaches #contractors #MidNorthCoast #WildlifeAct #biodiversity #ClimateActionNow

Unearth the truth
"Multiple sites of possible secret or “clandestine” burials have been discovered on the grounds of one of the most violent and abusive institutions of the Stolen Generations era – Kinchela Aboriginal Boys’ Training Home on the north coast of New South Wales."
"Former residents of Kinchela, near Kempsey, call on NSW government to excavate site after ground-penetrating radar picked up at least nine suspicious anomalies."
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/sep/07/kinchela-aboriginal-boys-training-home-secret-graves-burial-sites-stolen-generations-institution-children

‘Taken to hell’: Even today survivors of Kinchela Aboriginal Boys’ Training Home are known by their numbers
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/sep/07/kinchela-aboriginal-boys-training-home-kempsey-burials-graves-residents-survivors
#Kempsey #Christians #Kinchela #children #survivors #MidNorthCoast #AU #CA #IndigenousPeoples

The Great Koala National Park misunderstood
A letter by Grahame Douglas, President, National Parks Association of NSW, Korora.

Excerpt:
"...The current Government committed to the establishment of a GKNP comprising existing national parks (135,000 Ha) as well as areas of native forest (approximately 175,000 Ha).

Currently, native forest harvesting is neither economically or environmentally sustainable, which is why there is a need to invest in genuine plantation forests.

Forestry Corporation currently cross subsidizes native forest logging through its profitable Softwoods Division and direct Government subsidies on the public purse.

Haulers will need to go back to their original areas (hopefully not native forests) rather than the accelerated harvesting occurring around Kempsey, Nambucca and Coffs Harbour.

Clearly the impacts of national parks management are far less than that of FCNSW contractors, which have been fined for breaching logging conditions and even harvesting illegally on adjoining neighbours’ land.

Nearly 90 percent of the NSW timber market is currently supplied from profitable softwood plantations (including Forest Corporation NSW) and would be closer to 95 percent if export woodchips from the Southern Forests ceased.

Pallets, fencing and garden stakes do not need to use native forest timbers from the Mid North Coast. What a waste.

The GKNP is our main hope for the conservation of koala and other native species which is why the public and local businesses support its early establishment."

> Read the letter in full:
https://www.newsofthearea.com.au/opinion-great-koala-national-park-misunderstood
#MidNorthCoast #Kempsey #Nambucca #CoffsHarbour #Bellingen #FCNSW #logging #StopLogging #SaveTuckersNob #extinction #koalas #biodiversity