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Byron Council votes to retain Tyagarah clothing optional beach
Twenty years of nude bathing at Tyagarah beach is set to continue after Byron Shire Council voted to retain its clothing optional status despite a staff recommendation to end it.
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JRPP closes meeting on North Lismore Plateau to public
The meeting to decide the fate of the North Lismore Plateau development application by the Joint Regional Planning Panel last night was closed to the public following disruption from audience members.
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Coal seam gas needs tighter controls in NSW
The Greens have condemned the paltry fine given to gas company Santos for not having appropriate approval for using treated coal seam gas water and called for an increase in penalties for breaches of licences or misconduct.
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Petition to save Cudgen – Should new Tweed Hospital stay at current site?
North coast Greens MP Dawn Walker presented a petition to the upper house of the NSW parliament this week calling for the prime farmland on Cudgen Plateau to be protected.
8 hours ago | Aslan Shand | 0 Local News
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Byron Council votes to retain Tyagarah clothing optional beach
Twenty years of nude bathing at Tyagarah beach is set to continue after Byron Shire Council voted to retain its clothing optional status despite a staff recommendation to end it.
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‘Politics in the pub’ has come to Lismore!
Lismore Ngara has formed and is bringing topical speakers to to Lismore to stimulate discussion about the issues that effect us all. Issues like social inequality, climate change, democracy.
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JRPP closes meeting on North Lismore Plateau to public
The meeting to decide the fate of the North Lismore Plateau development application by the Joint Regional Planning Panel last night was closed to the public following disruption from audience members.
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Five charged, drugs seized, police assaulted – Lismore
Five people have been charged after police investigating a break and enter were allegedly assaulted at Lismore yesterday including three 14 year old.
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Neo-liberalism
Boyd Kellner, Newrybar Richard Hil’s article on Neo-liberalism (Echo 3 October) offers a salutary critique, however regrettably provides no progressive left political strategy and narrative to changing it. The ‘Remaking Australia – What is to be Done’ falls abysmally short... Read More →
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A reponse from a place of fear
Concerned Local I was grateful to read the Margaret Touchwood article you printed and I am also grateful to those brave souls, including Mandy Nolan, who hosted the recent forum on the topic, which I was unfortunately unable to attend.... Read More →
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S Sorrensen’s Here & Now: In the zoo
My heart goes out to the poor kangaroo. It’s obviously young, but just lies there, unmoving, right paw twitching occasionally. A man with a huge camera takes a photograph of the joey, checks the result on the screen, and moves on.
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The other day I realised that whenever I talk or write about mental health or people with lived experience that I talk about it as ‘other’. Like people with mental health issues are not me.
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