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Salty water warning issued in Tweed shire
Residents of Tweed Shire are being advised not to drink their tap water if it tastes salty or use water outside after salt water contaminated the Bray Park Weir overnight.
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$2.1m announced to help recover from March floods
The Federal and NSW governments have announced a $2.1 million fund to help north coast communities recover from the March floods.
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Byron Council backs naming sports field after Bob Bellear
Byron Shire Council is proposing the North Ocean Shores sports field be named the Bob Bellear Sports Field in honour of Australia’s first Indigenous judge, Robert (Bob) William Bellear who was raised in Billinudgel. After considering 17 suggestions put forward... Read More →
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What’s your solution for affordable housing?
Families are having to uproot their lives as one of the major issues facing the Byron Shire is increasingly the inability for many to find housing that is reasonably priced.
17 hours ago | Eve Jeffery | % Local News
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Salty water warning issued in Tweed shire
Residents of Tweed Shire are being advised not to drink their tap water if it tastes salty or use water outside after salt water contaminated the Bray Park Weir overnight.
14 hours ago | The Echo | 0 -
$2.1m announced to help recover from March floods
The Federal and NSW governments have announced a $2.1 million fund to help north coast communities recover from the March floods.
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Tackling HSC at Lismore library (and free pizza!)
In many cases the Higher School Certificate (HSC) is the cause for stress and anxiety in youth reaching the end of their secondary education.
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Holiday letting woes will get bigger
Our homes and neighbourhoods are under attack. The online, multinational, tax-evading, short term holiday letting disruptors would like to fill them all with tourists. Communities around the world are being damaged by these disruptors.
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Australia Day should not be January 26
C Boyle, Durrumbul. When a British penal colony was established in Botany Bay, New Holland, on 26 January 1788, Australia didn’t exist.
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Thus Spake Mungo: The good news …
The good news for Malcolm Turnbull is that his government is not in immediate danger of falling – at least, not any more than usual. The laws of mathematics (the ones Turnbull believes can be overridden by the laws of Australia, but let that pass for the moment) reveal that the coalition currently has 76 members, Labor 69, and the crossbenchers the other five.
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Australian wind delivers more record low prices
Just three months after Origin Energy stunned the renewables industry with a record low power off-take deal for the 530MW Stockyard Hill Wind Farm in Victoria, AGL Energy has delivered more of the same, securing an off-take price of below $60/MWh through the sale of its 453MW Coopers Gap Wind Farm, between Kingaroy and Dalby in Queensland’s south-east.
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