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From refugee to community contributor – a personal story

When I first arrived in Australia from Syria, I carried many emotions with me. Like many refugees and newcomers, I was grateful to be safe, but I was also overwhelmed by the challenges of starting over in a completely new country.

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Music comes to Mullum this weekend!

Wild Rocket blast into Mullum as Mullum Roots Festival lights up the town this coming weekend. Three venues around Mullum will host music, while songwriting workshops will happen at the Drill Hall Theatre on Sunday.

Vale Ev King-Prime

Ev King-Prime opened the first art gallery in Byron and helped develop the nascent visual arts scene on the North Coast.

Longboard titles return to Tweed July 24–30

Billed as the 'longest running event on the Australian surfing calendar', the Thermos Australian Longboard Titles will return for a third consecutive year to Tweed Coast beaches 24-30 July.

Baby it’s warm inside

We know times are tough right now: the world’s gone tits up, it’s cold, and the forecast has more rain on the way. Well, to get us out of the doldrums, Brunswick Picture House has the perfect tonic to help warm your bits, and cast away the winter doldrums – the return of Bruns Does Winter Burlesque!

Backup plans

We carry a spare tyre in the car in case the unexpected and unpredictable happens. Byron Council needs to consider...

Jeff Dawson captures Mullum Roots Festival

Did you make it to Mullum Roots Festival on the weekend?

Want to know the crazy story of eight billion humans? They are getting fatter. They are getting sicker. They are eating grains, rat food. Rats run very fast. Rats have a fast metabolism. Grains are rat food.

Generally, humans are not rats. Humans have a slower metabolism. But humans are eating rat food. In the stomach, grain, starch, breaks into glucose. Humans are eating too much glucose. Unused glucose is stored into fat. Humans have to go to gyms and run in hamster wheels. But humans get bored running in hamster wheels.

So humans get fatter because they eat rat food… then too much glucose is turning into fat. Humans love sweet food but they can’t taste the sweet glucose in grain because the glucose is hidden in starch. So humans add sugar to their food which adds more fat to their bodies. Humans get stressed keeping all their fat alive, slowly getting fatter and sicker.

Humans are apes. Apes love sweet food. Fruit has only a total of 15 per cent glucose and fructose. Fructose is the sweetest sugar. Apes eat fruit, not starchy seeds. Starch combined with added sucrose is poisoning eight billion crazy humans.

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Oz Grom Open wraps up in Lennox

The 2026 Soundboks Oz Grom Open saw a fairytale finish to competition yesterday with huge performances, bluebird skies and local wins in dreamy two-foot conditions.

Jeff Dawson captures Mullum Roots Festival

Did you make it to Mullum Roots Festival on the weekend?

Coorabell art show inspired by natural world

'Elemental: Conversations with Nature' is the title of a forthcoming exhibition featuring eight established and midcareer artists working across painting, drawing, weaving, ceramics, and textiles.  Inspired by the natural world, each artist explores the forms, patterns, materials, and forces found in nature.

NSW Women of the Year nominations closing soon

Member for Lismore Janelle Saffin is calling on residents of the Lismore electorate to get their nominations in for the 2027 NSW Women of the Year Awards.