Alasdair L McDonald | Journalist
Alasdair L McDonald
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25.01.2022 Liquor license battle : 'The grog there will be cheaper, so will the smokes, which will attract the kids'
23.01.2022 Seeing what looked like thousands of dead bream with my own eyes was a pretty confronting experience. The Department of Primary Industries is still investigating.
22.01.2022 This innovative space is transforming a small country town and everyone around it. Here Startup Muster CEO Monica Wulff talks about her visit to Funhouse Studio in Bega, NSW.
22.01.2022 Labor is pushing to use NBN fixed wireless internet towers to better mobile phone coverage.
21.01.2022 Art and dementia: ‘I always thought looking at art was just a way of killing time’
20.01.2022 The year long wait for major supermarket chains Woolworths and Coles to phase out single-use plastic bags across Australia is far too long, says activist.
19.01.2022 Ella Taylor gets colourful to celebrate the end of the 2017 school year. Story: http://www.begadistrictnews.com.au//all-the-colours-of-t/
16.01.2022 Gardening guru and television presenter Costa Georgiadis fights his war on waste one battle at a time. Story: http://www.begadistrictnews.com.au//costa-fights-his-war-/
16.01.2022 Robo-debt pain: 'The biggest issue in particular for my office has been the whole Centrelink fiasco. It has caused a lot of distress and anguish.'
16.01.2022 'It's essential to have Indigenous voices in everything, well beyond events, because I want to see Indigenous Australians represented across business, communities, governments and schools.'
15.01.2022 Folk on fire: "Billy Bragg gave a great talk about why we do what we do, the solidarity and what it means. He said our biggest danger wasn’t terrorism or anything like that, but our own cynicism." Scott Cook talks anti-facism, his distaste for Justin Trudeau, the Second Chances and his sixth full-length release Further Down the Line ahead of this weekend's Cobargo Folk Festival.
14.01.2022 When Wajuk, Balardung, Kija and Yulparitja man Clinton Pryor was 16 years old he promised his father he would dedicate his life to keeping his people’s culture alive and creating positive change.
12.01.2022 Bega's Kaleb Kelly flying high at the Bega skatepark on Saturday. Picture: Alasdair L McDonald
10.01.2022 Combining live music with small business could be a way of revitalising small towns in isolated parts of the state.
09.01.2022 Disaster relief has been a hot topic on the Eden-Monaro by-election campaign trail. Both major party candidates yesterday welcomed a review of how disaster payments to bushfire-affected communities are managed.
08.01.2022 Human rights advocate Martin Hodgson has uncovered new evidence, including a witness statement found in the files of the Aboriginal Legal Service, he says shows Kevin Henry could not have committed the crime.
08.01.2022 NSW Opposition Leader Luke Foley outside the South East Regional Hospital in November. Story: http://www.begadistrictnews.com.au//opposition-leader-mee/
06.01.2022 Senator Lee Rhiannon discusses affordable housing, potential TAFE NSW sites sell off and the re-signing of Regional Forest Agreements. Story: http://www.begadistrictnews.com.au//greens-senator-lee-rh/
05.01.2022 Bird breeding patterns changing: 'Breeding too early is a new phenomenon, and a very worrying one'
04.01.2022 Slow motion fire breathing at this year's Cobargo Folk Festival.
01.01.2022 Push for language to be taught in schools: 'It all comes back to the Stolen Generations, because before that people were speaking language. When they moved them to missions is when we lost it.'
01.01.2022 Losing out: 'If I was in this situation it would be a real kick in the guts'
01.01.2022 Apparently there's at least three different kinds of vinyl obsession.
