Ballina shark attack: How the eco barrier became an 'environmental disaster'
When 17-year-old Cooper Allen was attacked this morning, he was surfing above the cement bases of a half-built shark barrier the New South Wales Government had promised would help protect surfers. It's now abandoned and crumbling.Installation of the 'eco barrier' at the popular surf break Lighthouse Beach, on the New South Wales far north coast, had been stopped only in recent months. The surf had already begun dismantling the underwater construction and scattering metal parts along the coast.T..>> view originalCops probe daylight shooting at Campbellfield Plaza after injured man taken to hospital
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Saturday, October 1, 2016
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