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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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Tugun tunnel work at Tweed Heads – road diversion

Motorists are advised of changed overnight traffic conditions from Sunday on the Pacific Motorway, Tweed Heads.

Editorial – For King and Country

As the Edwardian period ended (1901–1914), the new era of WWI saw the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (Anzacs) land around Ari Burnu on the western side of the Gallipoli peninsula. 

New Brighton parking

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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.

Buzz Byron Bay, brewing unforgettable moments with a tuk-tuk twist

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Foodie road-trip paradise: Harvest Food Trail

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Alan Dickens (Letters, April 12) raised the problem of phosphorus regarding sewage treatment. We sink deeper into it if we contemplate that a particular variety of great apes decided to break ranks and switch from carbs-from-fruit to carbs-from-grain about ten thousand years ago. 

Unfortunately grain has eight times as much phosphorus as fruit and the acidity of this globalised diet has been wreaking havoc in that particular great ape ever since. Prior to becoming sewage, the acidity [of carbs-from-grain] damages internal tissue, which stimulates inflammation, which then obstructs blood flow – resulting in almost every disease a great ape can think of.

It really shits me that the global food system continues to fart around feeding poison to billions of brainwashed great apes. The food-health industry has probably shortened more lives than the military-industrial complex.

Sapoty Brook, Main Arm


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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.

Tugun tunnel work at Tweed Heads – road diversion

Motorists are advised of changed overnight traffic conditions from Sunday on the Pacific Motorway, Tweed Heads.

Driver charged following Coffs Harbour fatal crash

A driver has been charged following a fatal crash in the Coffs Harbour area yesterday.

Geologist warns groundwater resource is ‘shrinking’

A new book about Australian groundwater, soil and water has been published by geologist Philip John Brown.