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February 13, 2025

The beginning of 2019’s One Billion Rising

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Local triathletes fire up for the Tweed Enduro 

A contingent of the Byron Tri Club joined 600 other competitors in Pottsville last weekend for the 2025 Tweed Enduro. 

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Appalling telco

It’s appalling how incompetent Telstra is! I had far better mobile phone reception at my home in Montecollum when...

Greens mayor, Greens MP, at odds over large Mullum DA

Mullumbimby Residents Association (MRA) has ramped up its opposition to a proposal to plonk a three-storey block of units on the town’s flood-prone public carpark, located next to Ottilies Pizza, opposite the roundabout at the town’s entrance.

No eviction for Mullum pod residents

Concerns that residents of the Mullumbimby pod houses are about to be evicted have been quashed by NSW Reconstruction Authority

A human with a purpose

Humans of Purpose is honoured to host David Whyte, internationally-renowned poet, philosopher and speaker in Byron Bay this weekend.

NSW crackdown on rogue turf businesses pays off

Two Queensland businesses have been separately convicted in the NSW Local Court of breaching biosecurity regulations designed to protect NSW from red imported fire ants. In total they were ordered to pay $60,000.

Will NSW Forestry Corporation be investigated for changing data on native logging? 

The NSW Forestry Corporation has retrospectively slashed timber yields by 28 per cent according to the NEFA calling into question the viability of NSW’s native logging forestry industry

Zenith: organiser and motivator of V-Day Byron style.

One of the first groups of dancers on the planet to add their presence the 2019 One Billion Rising event were hundreds of women and children and men who were not deterred by a few drops of rain at the annual V-Day dawn event on Main Beach at Byron this morning Thursday 14 February.

Calling on all women everywhere to ‘dance’ and ‘rise’ during the V-Day activism event to end violence against women and girls, those gathered learned a dance to the song Break the Chain.

One Billion Rising is a worldwide movement against domestic violence and sexual assault against women and children.

Photos Jeff ‘V-Guy’ Dawson

 


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