Over 8000 food, water and shelter elements have been added to residences and businesses across Australia since August 2013 thanks to this initiative.
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Winter and the hope it brings – theme for first poets’ breakfast
Inspired by the multiple poetry meetings and events in NSW such as ‘Poetica’ in Sydney (produced by Miriam Hechtman), the Gosford Poets and the annual Words on Waves Festival in the Central Coast and many more, Poets’ breakfast in Kincumber begins
Famous novel recreated for stage
Central to the story is an unorthodox love that develops between Mary, a career driven business executive in her mid-50s, and Tim, a handsome 25-year-old labourer with a mild intellectual disability.
Cities commission ditched but housing targets remain
“The previous Government left us with a planning system that included too many agencies reporting to too many ministers. It was a system that, put simply, wasn’t delivering enough housing for people in NSW.”
Opinion: Bank closures and outages are a social justice issue
As the least computer literate generation fades away the expectation that we will all be able to digitally serve ourselves may become a reality. It is a despicable and socially malevolent reality.
8000 farmers take a welcome stand on habitat
We need deep emissions reductions in this decisive decade for climate and we need to make genuine increases to biodiversity across the country.
$51 million for renewable hydrogen on NSW border
It will be powered by renewable energy from a Victorian wind farm and demonstrate renewable hydrogen’s compatibility with existing gas infrastructure.
Disasters diminish cancer screening
Australia’s national bowel screening rate dropped to 40.9% during 2020-2021. While more than 6 million Australians were sent a test, only around 2.5 million returned their samples for screening. That’s around 179,000 fewer people returning their tests in 2020-2021.
Poet’s breakfast at Kincumber Neighbourhood Centre
It’s really just a group of different people getting together to share poetry and creative writing in a happy and common space, to share a morning together, and to hopefully inspire each other to create more or simply enjoy more.
Green is the gold standard for Somersby company
“You walk into a place that’s dull or it is even nice, they’ve done all this work and you bring the plants in and the plants just lift it and you can see people’s happiness changes, and they have smiles on their faces. It really makes a difference.”