Four days of clay, creativity and community have just concluded for another year, with ceramic artists from across the Northern Rivers showing off their latest creations.
The Minns government says it is delivering on a key election commitment with its latest tranche of gaming reforms, giving people and families stronger protections against gambling harm and tightening the rules concerning gambling promotion and marketing.
Last week, government and opposition found themselves singing from the same song sheet in parliament on a range of issues, from the NDIS to ASIO, and big tech to gambling advertising.
Nearly a hundred women and girls were seen powdering their noses and much more at Brunswick Heads on Sunday for local celebrations of the global Holi Festival of colour.
Local community group Together She Thrives inc. organised the event which featured the transformation of white clad revelers into walking rainbows thanks to dust clouds of organic coloured flour.
Overhead, skies kindly paused the rain just long enough for the festivities to happen and for The Echo to capture the colour.
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Some of NSW’s most respected and long-standing forest campaigners and scientists have today urged the Greens not to support the Nationals' attempt to disallow the Improved Native Forest Management (INFM) method.
With the absence of all four of its progressive councillors for various reasons, Ballina Council pushed ahead with its agenda at yesterday's monthly meeting, including a decision which is likely to close Ross Lane for months while the road is upgraded.
Imagine Northern Rivers says Mullumbimby is the only community across the region to rank new models of governance and decision-making as the number one element of its preferred future, and last week locals gathered to work out how to make it real.
With the campaign to Save Wallum approaching the three-year mark, Saturday’s powerful community gathering clearly demonstrated that the determination of the local community and Bayside residents to protect this land is not waning.
On Wednesday evening, Deputy Captain Sue Biggar, of the Brunswick Heads NSW Fire and Rescue Station 240, participated in her last drill on her final day of duty.
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