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Byron Shire
March 28, 2023

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Local skateboarders ready for Ballina contest and NCAS tryouts

The Fair Go skate competition will take place at the Ballina Skate Park from this Friday March 31 and...

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Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: Vape Culture

Tobacco companies are in your home and in your school. They are quite possibly in your kid’s school bag. They have their sights set on your children; your precious kids are their future. They need to groom your babies into addiction so that their shareholders can continue to suck in their grubby toxic profits. The lips of the tobacco industry are on the soft fleshy cheeks of your babies and they are sucking hard. They are vaping the life out of your kids.

A pawn in AUKUS

Xi’s defensive ‘ring of steel’ comment, aimed at his domestic audience, clearly suggests that the US is being characterised...

Feros stolen

The Feros board have failed to explain why the existing buildings cannot be redeveloped as a purpose-built, top-of-the-range, aged-care...

‘After Disaster’ film and live concert, March 27 

Working with kids from both The Pocket Primary and Upper Main Arm Primary in the aftermath of the 2022 floods, Janet Swain saw a need to support these kids, many of whom had experienced the full force of the floods and landslips, not once, but twice. 

Cartoon of the week – 22 March 2023

The letters deadline for The Echo is noon Friday. Letters longer than 200 words may be cut. The publication of letters is at the discretion of the letters editor.

We’re coming to cycle

Our small cycling group is headed your way (20-24 March) to experience the newly-opened Northern Rivers Rail Trail and...

Harvest co-founder/owner Tristan Grier, SCU Enterprise Lab director Tanya Egerton, Unity Earth executive director Ben Bowler, Fields of Healing community director Adam Collett, Virgin Australia sustainability adviser Jen Kyna and 96 Bangalow curator Blair Beattie. Photo Jeff Dawson

A pivotal conversation began last week on the topic of ecological healing and what the term means both locally and globally.

The event was sparked ahead of next month’s inaugural Fields of Healing event at the North Parklands festival site, and was facilitated by the event’s community director Adam Collett.

The event has attracted indigenous leaders from across the globe and aims to highlight three key pillars, explained Mr Collett: the concepts of intercultural, ecological and personal healing. He added, ‘The northern rivers is home to an incredible amount of innovation in the field of regenerative agriculture and building a circular economy.’


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