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World Environment Day Festival returns to Murwillumbah 

The World Environment Day Festival is back on and will return to Murwillumbah on Sunday, 13 July from 10am to 3.30pm at the Murwillumbah Showground.

Outrageous and heartbreaking – neighbour speaks of Council/developer failures with large subdivision

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Byron Council’s big budget adopted after some fine tuning

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Protect Murujuga from Woodside’s North West Shelf gas plant

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Power not speed

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The nation would decide on same-sex marriage at the next election under draft legislation introduced by the Senate crossbench.

Five independent crossbench senators and Greens senator Janet Rice introduced the private bill which would force the government to hold a plebiscite at the next federal poll.

It would force same-sex marriage to be legislated within six months of a “yes” vote.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has floated the idea of either a plebiscite or a referendum, but wants the issue to be dealt with during the next term of government.


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