Today we follow the money, in the Byron Shire at least, with an expert guide to ‘developer contributions’ ie. fees… but not always, as we learn thanks to the council’s assets and major projects manager, who joins us in the studio to explain how you can have a say in how the funds are spent.

Something’s frothing at Clarkes Beach but it ain’t the surf… we find out what’s up with thanks to a long-term local who reckons he’s been keeping tabs on a possibly illegal drain spewing toxic brown water onto the beach for the past 16 years.

All isn’t well over in New Zealand when it comes to relations between the government and Maori representatives but we hear how generational changes could alter dynamics; and how a new film accidentally caught the last days of one of Russia’s only independent TV news outlets.

1. 18 years since the National Apology featuring former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Took the children away by Archie Roach (Fernando de Freitas)
2. Following the $$ in Byron Shire and how to have your say featuring Byron Shire Council Assets and Major Projects Manager Christopher Soulsby
3. NZ gov’t accused of racist politics featuring Auckland University Māori Studies Professor and Ngāti Kahu leader Margaret Mutu (Harrison Pederson, The Wire)
4. The Byron beach frothing in a bad way featuring Byron resident George Graham (Emma Setterfield-Smith)
5. Filming the last days of independent Russian TV featuring Julia Loktev, director of My Undesirable Friends, Part 1: Last Air in Moscow (Stephen Hill, The Wire)
6. Northern Rivers News with Emma Setterfield-Smith (Karen Crick)

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PIC: brown stormwater discharge on Clarkes Beach (pic supplied)