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How can we keep paying for incompetence

The only way forward is going backwards. That’s how I explain the current situation of Byron Shire Council. The...

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Rail and community consultation

The first stage of the Casino to Murwillumbah railway was opened in 1894 and shortly after the line was...

Need a little free legal advice?

Lawyers from Tyndall & Co say they will provide free legal advice covering most areas of law including domestic violence, elder abuse and visa issues at their upcoming Pro Bono Cafe in Byron.

Safer roads for North Coast

Richmond MP Justine Elliot has announced that the Albanese government is delivering more than $4.6 million in federal funding from the 2026-27 Black Spot Program to improve road safety at four sites across the North Coast.

Byron Writers Fest

Like everyone else, I am still bathing in the warm inner glow and sanctuary of being surrounded by like-minded...

A hole in one!

Mullumbimby Golf Club’s Cody Watego get a hole in one.

Proposed rate rises Byron Shire Council

In yesterday’s mail on 18 August I received a letter/brochure from Byron Shire Council (BSC) dated 11 August titled...

While the population of planet Earth grapples with the novel coronavirus situation, everyone is facing the ancient learning; what to do and what not to do? 

Life continues regardless of circumstances people create in their participation with life. 

One nagging reported situation that raised its head at the beginning of 2020; where did COVID-19 come from? Sadly, this question has taken the back seat while the process of ignoring and removing the question altogether is being implemented. 

As long as authority does not peruse this question, with open and honest debate with the rest of the population, are we not all following the blind men of authority to get results only they can see? 

SARS-CoV-2 can’t be seen without specialist equipment, thus identification remains in the control of the few. What the equipment reveals to the experts who use it is shrouded in the secrets of their processes and laws. The same people who are making the rules for the pandemic… er, is that a conflict of interest like robodebt and sports rorts etc? 

What is going to change this process to reveal these secrets to all people? What is going on with the secrets they are keeping? What are  the reasons? 

Doubt remains about where SARS-CoV-2 came from; is it natural or unnatural? What have, and what are the bio labs doing, besides making the vaccines? 

The morality of their actions we are listening to and following are leading to unknown situations, we can believe, or not believe, the information they give. It still remains the blind person following the blind person, to get somewhere. While learning what to do and what not to do. 

Robert Podhajsk, Ocean Shores



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Greens urged to back pathway to end native forest logging

Some of NSW’s most respected and long-standing forest campaigners and scientists have today urged the Greens not to support the Nationals' attempt to disallow the Improved Native Forest Management (INFM) method.

Ballina Council makes decision on Ross Lane

With the absence of all four of its progressive councillors for various reasons, Ballina Council pushed ahead with its agenda at yesterday's monthly meeting, including a decision which is likely to close Ross Lane for months while the road is upgraded.

Mullumbimby puts new governance models first, and now wants to build it

Imagine Northern Rivers says Mullumbimby is the only community across the region to rank new models of governance and decision-making as the number one element of its preferred future, and last week locals gathered to work out how to make it real.

Appeal to locate man missing from Broadwater

Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate a local missing man.