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September 26, 2023

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Cinema: Battle of the sea folk

Yes, it’s school holidays so there are lots of films with ‘G’ in the rating, and Ruby Gillman – Teenage Kraken is definitely on the list. Sometimes the hero you are meant to be lies just beneath the surface.

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After school is extra fun in Kyogle, Grafton, Goonellabah and Tweed

Go4Fun is a free, after-school, healthy lifestyle program for primary school-aged children who are above a healthy weight, kicks off in Term 4 in Kyogle, Grafton, Goonellabah and Tweed.

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Just want to acknowledge The Echo for your front page of the Uluru Statement. A powerful and generous contribution...

Misanthropic disGrace

Hannah Grace’s recent letter ‘Benefits of microplastic’ might be considered a sick joke, but over the years misanthropy has...

Splendour found in the brass 

The sound of music has well and truly returned to our schools, following the eerie silence of the pandemic. 

School holidays: farmers’ market fun

It’s an image still with me, the little boy dancing in front of the stage, face split into a smile of pure joy, orange balloon floating from his fingers, his father bopping alongside.

Ciggie butts tops in litter prevention project 

A litter prevention project has been a success, say Byron Shire Council staff, with 1,450 pieces of litter being prevented from flowing into the Cape Byron Marine Park over a two month period.

Don’t rely on any regime to save anything that’s endangered because their mates the miners and developers pay them too much money to look the other way. 

Remember the Rum Corps in the good old days when we were a penal colony; a jail for poor unfortunates from Pommy-land? 

The song remains the same, it’s all corrupt and won’t change until something drastic happens.

What that will be, Mmother Earth only knows, and we’ll find out soon enough won’t we?

What needs to happen is to stop the logging of koala habitats that get woodchipped and taken to sugar mills in Northern NSW and used for fuel. 

What a bloody sham NSW, and an indictment of the system that allows this to happen. 

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