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Green Heroes among 2026 NSW Environment Award winners

The NSW Environment Awards, hosted by the state’s leading environmental advocacy organisation, Nature Conservation Council NSW, was recently held at Customs House in Sydney.

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A new season on the plate at The Imperial Hotel

As summer approaches, the Imperial Hotel in Murwillumbah has once again let the seasons shape what’s on the plate.

Damn the dams

Thanks for the information on the ten-dams project. Accurate and complete is how I found the articles. I’m grateful for...

Role of the Greens

Recent articles and letters in The Echo have provided different perspectives about Australian politics today and the Australian Greens. There...

Byron’s Sunday Golden Hour

From Sunday, 1 November, Three Blue Ducks is launching Golden Hour at The Farm Byron Bay, with freshly shucked oysters, live music and happy hour drinks every Sunday afternoon.

Jewellery theft leaves Bangalow artists without work to sell before Christmas

Hundreds of handmade jewellery pieces have been stolen from a Bangalow artists’ collective, leaving some members without any work to sell ahead of the crucial Christmas trading period.

‘Go-ahead’ not positive

So the NRPP unanimously approved the controversial 57 Station St development after more than 2,500 signatories were against it. Those...

The left wing (Labor) and the right wing (Liberal/National) are only the wings of the same bird… but this bird has no head. This bird kind of struggles and flies without direction, to the left, and to the right, back and forth and doesn’t get far or anywhere specific.

The only way to create a different and focused flightpath for this Australian bird, is voting for ANYONE ELSE than the wings!

The cross bench, in a hung parliament, will be the head and brain of the bird. If you care about your future, vote for any minor party who gives preferences to the Greens. As a member, I vote for the Legalise Cannabis Party.

And a question to the mad Coalition – how can you switch on a nuclear monster when you will not be able to switch the bugger properly off, in your lifetime? Only careless idiots would do that!  And on another note, who wants a cop as prime minister?

Urs Schmid, Montecolum



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