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June 1, 2023

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Tweed Council to start nappy rebate scheme but defer Cudgen Creek Masterplan

The last Tweed Shire Council meeting saw the Reusable Nappy Rebate Scheme adopted by councillors, the rail trail impacts...

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When western medicine doesn’t work 

Once I finally admitted I needed help with vicarious trauma, I tried a few techniques to ease my troubled mind. 

Local MP refutes Reflections Holiday Parks CEO claims over Bruns holiday park

Local MP, Tamara Smith is standing by her claim that NSW government run corporation, Reflections Holiday Parks, is a private enterprise, despite its new CEO claiming it is a ‘certified social enterprise’.

Byron’s favourite block party

Australian roots legends, The Beautiful Girls, will headline Stone & Wood’s winter block party, Festival of the Stone, when...

Francisco’s table

A thick hunk of toasted sourdough, a joyous tumble of braised tomatoey capsicum and onion and beans, a perfect fried egg to crest it all – and there it is on the counter waiting for whoever ordered it and I’m so tempted to claim it!

Labor Government committed to the demerger of Murwillumbah Education Campus

The significant issue of a merger of several Murwillumbah schools has been ongoing since 2020 when the then State Government announced via Sarah Mitchell MP that four public schools would be amalgamated into a single Kindergarten to Year 12 campus at Murwillumbah High.

The humpbacks are heading north

Multiple pods of whales have been spotted off the coast from Seal Rocks to Coffs Harbour in recent days as the northern migration humpback plods its way to warmer waters.

Brunswick Heads Public School's 'Eco Kids' during last Friday's tree-plating in the school's showpiece garden as part of National Tree Day. Photo supplied
Brunswick Heads Public School’s ‘Eco Kids’ during last Friday’s tree-plating in the school’s showpiece garden as part of National Tree Day. Photo supplied

Brunswick Heads Public School’s garden is the pride of students and teachers alike, much admired by local passers-by and many tourists who visit the town.

On Friday, their garden was further enhanced for National Tree Day, with 15 students who make up the school’s ‘Eco Kids’ holding a planting event in the garden out front, which was registered as a participating event of Planet Ark’s activities.

The students contacted Byron Shire Council, who kindly donated, via Wilsons Creek Nursery, 50 bush tucker seedlings to the productive school garden.


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