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29.09.2024// THE REST


Wispy Dreads South
MIICA BALINT, FILM MCTAVISH, PHOTOGRAPHY JILL BONTEMPO
Wispy speaks to the secluded breaks of our mountainous Antarctic-nearing relative. 

01.12.2024 // ART
Trump got re-elected, so we went to life drawingNATALIE WOODS
PHOTOGRAPHY NINA CLAIRE, UMA CHAGHAGHI, HAYLEY SMITH, SHARI ANNABELL MARKS, ANTHONY ONG, SINEAD LEIGH.  

HOTMESS. A little bit surrealistic,  a little bit raunch, and a whole lot of incredible costumes. Had we been wearing bras we would have burned them.
29.09.2024 // ECOLOGY

A reflection on the relationship between ancestral memory, the ocean, and the encroaching reality of climate change. 

01.09.2024 // MUSIC
The Azure Kingfisher MIICA BALINT, PHOTOGRAPHY JILL BONTEMPO
Watch birds, volunteer your time, go to therapy. Andrew Fraser of Pasiflorez and Bodalla. 
05.07.2024 // MUSIC
MIICA BALINT, PHOTOGRAPHY JILL BONTEMPO 

The pioneers of soul-rectifying desert blues. This is a love letter of sorts, to a band, to a story of rebellion, to a photographer.

29.09.2024 // THE REST
Time To Grow Down 

A TedX talk at the height of the pandemic, grief, milk, and a roadside pickup. 
27.10.2024 // THE REST

MIICA BALINT, PHOTOGRAPHY MONTANA COOPER

A regenerative farming tangent, a conversation with the owner of the duo of
Bruns--Old Maids and Saint Maries-- an exploration of belonging, learning and experimenting.

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01.09.2024 // ECOLOGY

This ode begins with a gift. Which I must say, to this day, I still don’t know if it was truly meant for me. 
10.05.2024 // ECOLOGY

MIICA BALINT

Soil and watching plants grow.
01.12.2024 // MUSIC

KATE MIDDELEER, PHOTOGRAPHY NICOLE MUNNELLY

No hidden gem. Casey and The Lovers are big and bold and hard to miss. Bringing soulful jazz to the Northern Rivers. 
24.05.2024 // MUSIC
MIICA BALINT, PHOTOGRAPHY JILL BONTEMPO

I did. I also ate two boiled eggs and was on my second coffee, black, by the time I met Jill and Nic at ten am.

27.10.2024 // LIT

On Windows, Writer’s Block, and Steinbeck
KATE MIDDELEER

A little less force, a little more give. 
Cannery Row helps us fight writer’s block.
19.07.2024 // THE REST

KATE MIDDELEER

A personal essay on conviction, cause and effect, dominos, and Joan Didion.

19.06.2024 // ART
JORDAN ROCHFORTH, PHOTOGRAPHY MIICA BALINT

An introduction to the new Art Gallery in Lismore, Flying Arch, and to the first artist exhibiting-- Rebecca Cunningham.
10.02.2024 // THE REST

In conversation with Holly Wawn
MIICA BALINT, PHOTOGRAPHY ADAM ROBERTSON

Probing on puny details and making average poems out of it.


charlie’s literature club
29.09.2024 

A Lonely Girl Is A Dangerous ThingCHARLIE TRENERRY
An unapologetic look into the gruesome and beautiful guilt of female desire.
Jessie Tu.
04.08.2024 

The Laying On Of HandsCHARLIE TRENERRY
Charlie replaces food 
money for books this week. Alan Bennett. 



Let Us Compare Mythologies CHARLIE TRENERRY
Achingly beautiful and raw with youth, accompanied 
with Freda Guttman’s illustration. Leonard Cohen.

Street Haunting and other Essays  CHARLIE TRENERRY
I begin my second column by promising you, dear reader, that they won’t all be on obscure little pieces by well-known authors of other things. Virginia Woolf.

Letters to a Young Poet CHARLIE TRENERRY
One of those little books that may change your life. Rainer Maria Rilke. 

plant profiling with daniel souza



The Endless Possibilities of the Banana BlossomDANIEL SOUZA
This ode begins with a gift. Which I must say, to this day, I still don’t know if it was truly meant for me. But as many things in my life, I took it with gratitude and a hint of cheek.
14.07.2024 

The humble friends that brought me back to Earth DANIEL SOUZA

Paperbark trees and beauty in subtleties. 

28.05.2024

Imagine Naming Your Child TurpentineDANIEL SOUZA

Let this be an ode to the incredibly special nature of Australian flora. The first; the turpentine tree.


Northern Rivers Independent Press operates on the unceded lands of the Bundjalung Arakwal people, the Minjungbal people and the Widjabul Wia-bal people. 

We acknowledge these custodians, and the Traditional Owners of Country throughout Australia. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, and to Elders both past and present. We recognise the continuing connection to lands, waters, skies, communities and stories. 

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