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Housing not industrial precinct say Lismore locals

Locals from Goonellabah and Lindendale have called out the proposed Goonellabah industrial precinct at 1055A Bruxner Hwy and 245 Oliver Ave as being the wrong use of the site. 

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More Byron CBD height exceedance approved

Two multi-storey mixed-use developments with a combined value of $36.2 million have been approved for the centre of Byron Bay, despite both exceeding height limits for that part of the Shire.

Waterlily Park weed control underway 

The reintroduction of weevils that have previously kept weeds at bay at Waterlily Park in Ocean Shores is now underway while the weather is favourable, say Council staff.

Gabriella Cohen in Bruns

Gabriella Cohen, Australia’s folk darling, is coming to Brunswick Picture House to perform a one-off intimate solo show on Saturday. Known for her magnetic performances, off-hand charm and pop sensibilities, Gabriella plays music that is all-at-once laid-back, tongue-in-cheek, and peppered with the sweet sounds of ‘60s girl groups.

A fond farewell to Mungo’s crosswords

This week we sadly publish the last of Mungo MacCallum’s puzzles. Before he died in 2020 Mungo compiled a large archive of crosswords for The Echo.

Anzac Day memorials 2024

From the early hours of this morning people gathered to acknowledge the sacrifice of lives, families and communities have made in the name of war and keeping peace. Across the Northern Rivers events will continue today as we acknowledge the cost of war.

Rebuilding communities from Lennox and Evans Head to Coraki and Woodburn

In February and March 2022, our region was subject to a series of weather events that causeed one of the nation’s worst recorded flood disasters. The economic impact of a natural disaster can be felt far beyond the damage to housing and infrastructure.

Dr Liz Elliott, Billinudgel

Goebbels, Hitler’s propaganda minister, said, ‘Give me control of the nation’s media, and I will convert the people into a herd of pigs’. So that about covers our recent federal election!

A debt-compromised, nervous electorate frightened to rock the boat even if it’s heading for the ecological and financial rocks.

What a shame to think our lovely, ecologically fragile country is to be headed by adversarial fools for another three years!

Expect that financial meltdown, Iranian wars and climate and water disasters will expose our pathetic LNP crew for the hapless, corporate graft-fuelled mob they are.


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5 COMMENTS

  1. Yes, Dr Liz Elliot… & even Machiavelli would
    [I think] rise up against such a fear campaign
    & known exactly where ‘all the flowers’ had
    gone. The Earth is left to save itself or be
    crushed. Nightmare stuff!

    • I think the flowers thing was about a song, and the Italian name I can’t spell a system of control. Eitheir way it’s fluff. Renewable energy will bankrupt the country if not taken in stages. The IPCC has taken to talk about the ‘turning point’ or something. This is a purported Industrial Revolution we haven’t seen since the last. Surely you remember Lawrence’s image of the horse and its rider against the image of the new train. This is that train no different from the last. It bulldozed Spain. And as Toffler predicted the tech just keeps past dating the last. We need to slow a little I think.

  2. Liz,
    Love your post…
    But lets be honest calling everyone names after you didn’t get what you want is a bit like Brexit.
    Everyone is not fools, behaps your just selfish because you did not get your way.

  3. Hi Frank! Caring for a country is definitely not
    ‘selfish’. We are under ‘media control’ since
    80% of our people via social media, TV + Fox
    News + newspapers all carried the scare
    campaign to frighten the hell out of the
    Australian public. Most [on speaking to them
    now] say ‘I just didn’t know what to do’ – or
    ‘I should have done a donkey vote’. What
    was ‘best for the Country’ didn’t take place.
    I don’t appreciate being ‘ruled’ by bullies.
    There was a better way.

  4. Liz Yes totally agree– maybe Independents in both the New South Wales Parliament and The Federal Parliament — spinning out of control– I sort of hope I am still alive to see what happens

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