Author: Ken Gray

Editors: Dominic Mobbs & Diane Bull

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Small towns can create great commotions about things that may seem minor to those outside the town. Small dogs frequently bark at larger dogs, and small towns also tend to make a lot of noise due to their size.

Wategos Beach is a small beach located on the north side of Cape Byron. It's part of the popular tourist town in NSW, Byron Bay. Byron was a small town when the goats started to cause a kerfuffle many years ago, but it has grown to over 10,000 residents today.

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Author: Ken Gray

Editors: Chris Forbes & Diane Bull

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This Sketch examines the history of Mission Beach’s population changes and briefly looks at the growth patterns of some other towns in the Cassowary Coast region. 

For these purposes, the town of Mission Beach is defined as the area where many residents will say Mission Beach when asked by interstate people where they live. That means people living in the settlements at Carmoo, the Family Islands, South Mission Beach, Wongaling Beach, Mission Beach, Narragon Beach, Bingil Bay, Brookes Beach, Garners Beach, Midgereebar and Maria Creek. In 2016, the time of the last census, the 4852 Post Code area boundaries (shown below) covered all these ‘Mission Beach’ villages apart from Maria Creek.

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by Ken Gray

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This is a summary of what happened and includes the start-up of the organization and opening of the pool in 2018 and eleven of the most pivotal moments and political tiffs on the journey.

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