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Pottsville mobile tower approved despite concerns over the environment

A failure to provide the requested ecological assessment for the site of a potential telecommunications pole at Pottsville, following a previous refusal, has not proved a hindrance to the majority of Tweed Shire councillors now approving the proposal.

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Minister Stephen Kamper – it’s time to talk about the Dirawong Reserve

Dear Minister I am writing this Open Letter to you as Minister responsible for Crown Lands. Previous letters to you...

Pub’s live music under pressure

Just two weeks after NSW Minister for Music and the Night-time Economy, John Graham, released ‘Vibrancy Reforms’ to ‘encourage businesses to innovate and put on live performance by giving them certainty’, the Eltham Hotel had noise restrictions placed on them by Liquor and Gaming NSW.

3G networks phased out next week

The peak lobby group representing Australia's telecommunication industry announced last week it will phase out 3G networks in the region on 15 December.

Koalas losers in legal fight; their forests to be denuded

Since July, legal action has stopped the Forestry Corporation logging nationally important koala habitat in Braemar and Myrtle State Forests, south of Casino. However, logging can now resume despite evidence of significant impacts on koalas. 

A racial slur or a just a tree name?

Changing the name of a local street because it is derived from a racist slur might seem a simple decision at first glance. 

$15 million to subsidise habitat destruction?

The recently-released NSW Forestry Corporation’s annual report, which shows that taxpayers will again be asked to spend $15 million to subsidise native forest logging, has today been labelled ‘a damning indictment on our state’.

A brief note to say thank you for the online Echonetdaily.

Now I get to read a dry – that is, not a wet and saturated by the rain – Echo.

The format you’ve come up with is great! I would, however, like your typeface to be a bit bigger, or at least have a ‘read more’ button on every article and letter so that it can be easily made bigger and read in clear black on white.

Keep up the strongly independent and investigative editorial policies; they are what really makes Echonetdaily stand head and shoulders above the rest of the national and local newspapers.

Trevor R Bird

Editor’s note: Hi Trevor, We have taken on board the great feedback we’ve received from you and many others, and are in the midst of making some design changes to Echonetdaily which we’ll be unveiling in the coming month or so. Keep your eyes peeled.


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