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Planets and weather align for Cape Byron Steiner Winter Solstice success

Last Thursday, in the days before the Winter Solstice, and after weeks of on and off rain that had more than a few parents nervously eyeing weather apps, Cape Byron Steiner School's annual Winter Festival went ahead.

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Science in the Pub, Lismore, 16 July

An engaging and informative Science in the Pub event is planned on Thursday, 16 July, from 5pm at Two Mates Brewing, South Lismore.

Dancing and fundraising for our children’s future

The recent premeditated killings of several children in Australia by their fathers has raised the issue of filicide (the deliberate act of a parent killing their own child) alongside the issue of domestic violence (DV) and femicide (the intentional murder of women or girls) as key areas that need research to help understand why these things happen.

Booyong Abattoir I

We strongly believe that the disturbing Booyong Abattoir is a blight on Byron Shire. The health and wellbeing of the local...

57 Station St, Mullumbimby amended DA on public exhibition

The development application (DA 10.2025.212.1) for the carpark at 57 Station Street, Mullumbimby is now back on exhibition for eight weeks from 22 June.

No man is an island

What is it with billionaires and islands? Donald Trump wants to resurrect the notorious prison island of Alcatraz to house ‘America’s most ruthless and violent offenders’. Perhaps subconsciously he is preparing his future island residence.  The sordid Epstein network is divided into those who did and did not travel to Epstein Island where, undoubtedly, heinous crimes occurred.

Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: Vagina-Maxxing

It’s a thing. It popped into my newsfeed as a story. I had to click. I mean, what new vagina fashion has come into play. Maxxing? Is this some new big vagina trend? Are our vaginas now not ‘big’ enough? Are we trying to create a spare room in our womb?

Sandra Heilpern, just what major social policy has the ‘all accomplishing’ Greens political party, ever delivered by themselves?

The Labor Party, both federal and in NSW has already eased the burden on renters, and enacted the biggest boost to affordable housing in decades, like the fifteen new affordable homes coming to Brunswick Heads courtesy of the Labor government. Thank you Justine Elliott. Sandra, you must have missed that, just like you missed the budget speech.

As for action on climate change, the Labor Party has had to catch up on a decade of lost opportunity because the extremist Greens scuttled Kevin Rudd’s groundbreaking CPRS in the Senate all those years ago, all because it was not up to your purist ideals, finally resulting in giving us Tony Abbott as PM, thank you so much Greens.

The Labor Party has put in motion the biggest transition to alternative renewable energy the country has ever seen, you must have missed that also. As for the Labor Party making gas more affordable and available, the irresponsible Greens have no idea of the political price a government would pay if the country ran out of reliable energy while this difficult transition to renewables is taking place, obviously because your minor party never gets into government, and thank God for that.

Sandra, cheap shots at Justine Elliott for improving access to health care by opening a new mental health facility in Tweed Heads besides the Urgent Care Clinic, just shows what a petty little political party the Greens have become. Maybe people like you should pay much more attention when people of the calibre of Jim Chalmers deliver responsible budgets for all Aussies, you just might learn something.

Keith Duncan, Ballina ALP



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Kyogle bridge build completed in under three months

Kyogle mayor Danielle Mulholland says a new bridge on Gradys Creek Road, off Summerland Way and north of Kyogle, has opened to traffic. She says it took Council less than three months to build Methvens Bridge.

57 Station St, Mullumbimby amended DA on public exhibition

The development application (DA 10.2025.212.1) for the carpark at 57 Station Street, Mullumbimby is now back on exhibition for eight weeks from 22 June.

A Byron kickback with the Gimelli family

The Gimelli family ran a small Italian restaurant on Jonson Street from about 1995 into the early 2000s. It was a classy joint, ahead of Byron’s culinary curve, serving dishes from every corner of Italy.

12 winners at Byron Bay Herb Nursery

The Byron Bay Herb Nursery continues to create constructive pathways to achievement with 12 students from Byron Bay Herb Nursery’s disability support program recently graduating with a Certificate II in Horticulture.