An urgent danger to life warning has been issued as floodwaters submerge the city of Lismore on the northern NSW coast on Monday and more rain expected for Tuesday..
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Subscriber only Families and kids from a Coast state high school can now breathe a sigh of relief after the announcement of a new subsidised bus service. Despite living in the Department of Education catchment area for Maleny State High School, many parents in Mooloolah Valley had been left to fend for themselves when it came to the school run before member for Glass House Andrew Powell received confirmation of a new subsidised bus service. Local mum Lisa West said it was great news. Getting subsidised transport to school, whether that be a bus, a train or whatever, has been a real struggle for my family for the past four years, she said.
Signs have started appearing across the town as anger grows in the community. Construction of a controversial petrol station has started in Maleny, much to the disgust of residents against the development. Dr Adrian McCallum is urging the council to perform the testing so data can be compared once the station is operating. His children go to Maleny State School, which is across the road from the site. Despite community members rallying against the development it was approved without public consultation after the council implemented planning scheme changes that made it code assessable. In a letter to residents and nearby stakeholders, project manager Robert McGuckin wrote works were expected to be complete by May.
The 2024sq m site is set to be transformed into what the proponents argue is a much-needed service station. An application for a service station was made previously on the site in December 2012, but withdrawn in April 2013, which Dr McCallum believed was due to public backlash. The community took a deep breath and hoped that was the end of it, Dr McCallum said. Then in 2017-18 there were murmurings again that a similar service station would be built on that site. The community again rallied to some extent to fight that but unfortunately ⦠there was no mechanism by which the public or anyone else could object to the approval of that development.