When the Ballina Chamber of Commerce invited a male councillor to speak at the International Women's Day lunch, they didn't expect such a strong reaction.
Cr Johnston asked fellow councillors to keep and approve structural improvements for the weather shelter. I understand the argument of modernising and embracing clean lines of adjoining building in Lennox (. but) I don t know why we can t hang on to, without being too blunt, a snippet of white man s history in that village, he said. Our indigenous folk have an abundance of historical and cultural sites across this shire. I readily concede that a 1950s brick shed has no comparison to the significance of some of the indigenous sites that we have in our area, thousands of years of indigenous connection, we can t match that, but we did have white settlement in this country, and I think it s a tragedy that we seem to want to rush to demolish any connections with the past.
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From divesting from fossil fuel-related projects to a housing affordability strategy, here are five motions that will be presented to Ballina Shire Council in this week’s meeting:
1. Divestment from fossil fuel:
Councillor Jeff Johnson has moved a motion for Ballina Council to stop investing in financial institutions that support the fossil fuel industry.
A similar motion was approved by council in November 2015, also by Cr Johnson.
In December 2015, 57 per cent of council’s investments were with institutions that were considered to be fossil fuel aligned.
In November 2020, five years after the Ballina Council formally resolved to divest, it had 64 per cent of its investments with fossil fuel aligned institutions.
We know that in dry times the water stops running, she said. I am concerned that if enough stress is placed on the Alstonville aquifer, it will collapse. In the councils involved, there is little to none understanding of the magnitude of this issue. Before the vote was completed, Cr Cadwallader said she will present another rescission motion for the next Rous County Council meeting. Cr Mustow called on his fellow councillors to support the motion. I think it s premature and short sighted to dispose of this land, he said. We need to be thinking strategically for the future, not for 10 years, but from until 2060.
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