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Nimbin is a small village in the Northern Rivers area of the Australian state of New South Wales, approximately 30 km north of Lismore, 33 km southeast of Kyogle, and 70km west of Byron Bay. At the 2001 census, Nimbin had a population of 321.[1] The area is part of what is known as the 'Rainbow Region' and is culturally important to the Bundjalung Aboriginal Australians and has become a haven for Australia's counterculture in recent decades.[2] Slogan or Nickname: First State, Premier State Motto(s): Orta Recens Quam Pura Nites (Newly Risen, How Brightly You Shine) Other Australian states and territories Capital Sydney Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Professor Marie Bashir Premier Morris Iemma (ALP) Federal representation - House seats 50 - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004...
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Left Bank Cafe, Spinks Park. ...
Mt Warning seen from Point Danger, Coolangatta, Queensland. ...
Kyogle is a town of approximately 3000 persons and Local Government Area in northern New South Wales, Australia on the Summerland Way. ...
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Slogan or Nickname: First State, Premier State Motto(s): Orta Recens Quam Pura Nites (Newly Risen, How Brightly You Shine) Other Australian states and territories Capital Sydney Government Constitutional monarchy Governor Professor Marie Bashir Premier Morris Iemma (ALP) Federal representation - House seats 50 - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004...
Left Bank Cafe, Spinks Park. ...
Kyogle is a town of approximately 3000 persons and Local Government Area in northern New South Wales, Australia on the Summerland Way. ...
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It was a sleepy dairy town until 1973, when the Aquarius Festival, a large gathering of university students, alternative lifestylers, 'hippies' and party people was held in the town.[3] This event attracted the attention of the authorities and so the Assistant and Chief Constable of the NSW Police attended. It did not take long to realise that a lot of the 'hippies' were using marijuana. Many of the festival goers stayed to form communes and other multiple occupancy properties of various sizes, some based around a particular philosophy, most not. Since then, the area has attracted many writers, artists, musicians, actors, environmentalists, permaculture enthusiasts, small farmers and mainstream society drop outs. The Aquarius Festival was a music and cultural festival organised by the Australian Union of Students and held in Nimbin, New South Wales in 1973. ...
A Commune is a kind of intentional community where most resources are shared and there is little or no personal property. ...
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Cannabis Culture & MardiGrass In NSW, the cultivation, selling and possession of cannabis is illegal. In Nimbin, however, all three activities continue unabated. It has a high tolerance for cannabis plant (marijuana), with the open buying, selling and consumption of locally grown cannabis on the streets and laneways. To rally for an end to the prohibition of cannabis in Australia, Nimbin holds its annual MardiGrass festival. On the first weekend with any part of it in May, thousands descend on Nimbin for cannabis oriented fun and frivolity. Activities include: a Prohibition Protest Rally and Parade with the Ganja Faeries, the Nimbin Cannabis Cup, the Hemp Olympix, which includes the Bong "Throw'n'Yell", Joint Rolling, and the Grower's Iron Person event, where runners must first carry a 20kg sack of fertiliser, then a bucket of water, and finally "the crop", as a tribute to the difficulties faced by growers in the hills, and to show that cannabis users can be fit and healthy. At night, entertainment ranges from the Harvest Ball and Picker's Ball, rave doof parties, to poetry and jazz in local cafes.[4] Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ...
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MardiGrass is a cannabis law reform rally and festival held annually in the town of Nimbin, in north east New South Wales. ...
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There are a number of shops in Nimbin geared to the cannabis culture.
- The Nimbin Hemp Embassy is a "soft entry point for drug information", and a shop selling anything to do with Hemp, except cannabis itself.
- Clothing & natural skin products using industrial hemp products.
- Nimbin HEMP Bar allows the patrons to smoke cannabis while enjoying fresh coffee and cake. It also sells potent hash brownies.
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Wikibooks Cookbook has more about this subject: Magic Brownie Cannabis or hashish can be cooked into a sweet cake, cookie, brownie, or other baked product to produce a psychoactive food. ...
Economy of Nimbin - Tourism: Usually higher during late summer/spring as Nimbin is a main tourist attraction for people visiting nearby.
- Property: In 2004 the region was experiencing a property boom, as many left the cities for an alternative lifestyle or tree-change, and large farms were being subdivided into smaller blocks for sale. After a brief property price lull in 2005, pressure is now coming from the Uki side where workers from the Tweed Coast and Gold Coast are forcing up home prices.
- Alternative Energy/Culture/Lifestyle: Many green industries operate in Nimbin include the Rainbow Power Company, Djanbung Permaculture Gardens, Nimbin Environment Centre, Ecosilk Bags and the Nimbin Candle Factory.
- Health & Lifestyle: New Age healing is available in almost every form, and the local arts are thriving with many galleries and arts events.[5]
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Accommodation & Sights Nimbin is serviced by a police station, hospital and medical centre, restaurants, cafes and a pub. All types of accommodation are available for visitors from camping grounds and youth hostels to bush cabins and luxury hotels. An amusingly named pub (the Old New Inn) at Bourton-on-the-Water, in the Cotswold Hills of South West England A pub in the Haymarket area of Edinburgh, Scotland A public house, usually known as a pub, is a drinking establishment found mainly in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada...
Other nearby attractions:[2]
- Nimbin Rocks, a series of jagged outcroppings, solidified plugs left after the erosion of volcanic dykes and vents & Blue Knob that are both landmarks for the village.
- Mt Warning (known as Wollumbin to the Bundjalung people) is close by, the summit of which is the first point of mainland Australia to see the sunrise and can be climbed following an 8km track through forested slopes. Mount Warning is the solid plug at the centre of a caldera containing the Tweed River, where, millions of years ago, a volcano had stood instead. Nimbin is on the outside edge of that ancient volcano.
- Nightcap National Park is one of the few remaining places to see the remnants of the Big Scrub rainforest.
- There are many local creeks and rivers for swimming
Nimbin Rocks The Nimbin Rocks are volcanic extrusions of rhyolite left over from the Mount Warning Tweed Volcano that erupted around 20 million years ago in what is now northern New South Wales, Australia. ...
Mount Warning seen from the Tweed River / Point Danger / Coolangatta, Queensland. ...
Mount Warning seen from the Tweed River / Point Danger / Coolangatta, Queensland. ...
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References Australian Bureau of Statistics logo The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is the Australian government agency that collects and publishes statistical information about Australia. ...
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See also Nightcap is a national park in New South Wales (Australia), 626 km north of Sydney. ...
The Protected Areas of New South Wales comprise 549 separate protected areas with a total land area of 49,533 km² (6. ...
External links Coordinates: 28°36′S 153°14′E / -28.6, 153.233 Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...
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