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NSW Women of the Year noms open

Nominations are now open for the 2027 NSW Women of the Year Awards. Nationals Member for Tweed, Geoff Provest says the awards recognise and celebrate the outstanding achievements of local women and girls.

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New fish hatchery planned for Chinderah

A Chinderah aquaculture business is set to receive $2 million in state government funding to build a new fish hatchery, according to a NSW government media release.

Cartoons of the week – 1 July, 2026

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Tourism strategy launched across region

Byron Bay will be featured in the first phase of a new tourism marketing strategy designed to 'attract even more visitors, boost local businesses and create jobs across Regional NSW'.

NRAS July adoption day to go ahead

Northern Rivers Animal Services Inc are hoping the sun will be out for their monthly adoption day on Saturday 4 July at the NRAS Rescue Shelter in Ballina.

Council keeps Lavertys Gap option alive despite mounting concerns

Byron Shire Council has voted to continue investigating the use of Lavertys Gap as a water supply for Mullumbimby despite staff advice that the scheme faces major regulatory hurdles, water quality concerns, and increasing costs.

No Small Thing – changing lives for the better, together

This Thursday, 2 July (tonight) the Northern Rivers Community Foundation (NRCF) Women’s Giving Circle is bringing a stellar lineup of leaders to the Regent Theatre in Murwillumbah to discuss how progress happens across climate, gender equality, media, democracy, and community action – and why local action still matters.

Right across the planet, the soccer World Cup is grandstanding multiculturalism in all its splendour!

It’s a great kick in the guts for all the anti-woke, anti-immigrant, anti-diversity, neo-fascist right (wrong) wing conservatives who have hijacked the Divided States of America and much of the western world.

Here in Australia, the World Cup could not have been better timed to coincide with Hanson’s ludicrous idea of monoculturalism.

SBS is the national broadcaster of the World Cup.

The same SBS Hanson wants to get rid of. Its on-air presence must be a constant reminder to her of how multicultural Australia really is, despite her pathological need to make it otherwise.

Imagine if every woman in Australia thought and looked like Pauline Hanson and every man in Australia thought and looked like Barnaby Joyce.

Now that’s monoculture. Hairdressers would go mad dyeing the grey roots of endless queues of red-heads.

And dentists would be driven berserk having to straighten, extract and clean an endless procession of badly-neglected teeth!

And can you imagine these Hanson-Joyce lookalikes filling restaurants, all with the same monocultural menu? Chowing down on ‘chops and two veg’ or ‘bangers and mash’, with ‘fish and chips’ on Friday? Chardonnay-sipping mashed-avocado eating lefties would be reduced to small cohorts meeting secretly in basements to talk about anything but the weather!

Hanson’s mono-vision dystopia means SBS will be closed down, the beloved ABC reduced to a subscription streaming service. Gina Rinehart-owned media will rule the airwaves. What these fundamentalists don’t realise is that SBS and the ABC are the Australian culture!

Without them, this nation would be a cultural desert. Hanson said, ‘I didn’t change… Australia did’. Well let’s hope we didn’t change that much. Federal Labor, the independents and the Greens are really the only adults left in the room.

Mike BalsonUpper Wilsons Creek

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Tourism strategy launched across region

Byron Bay will be featured in the first phase of a new tourism marketing strategy designed to 'attract even more visitors, boost local businesses and create jobs across Regional NSW'.

Dead whale to be towed back out at Wooyung Beach

With a dead juvenile whale washed ashore near Crabbes Creek Beach south of Wooyung Road, Tweed Council say they are preparing to tow it back out to sea on tomorrow morning's high tide.

Lismore village parks get an upgrade

Lismore City Council say they have completed major upgrades to two much-loved village parks, 'delivering revitalised community spaces for play, recreation and connection in Tullera and Dunoon'.

Biodiversity and Agricultural Advisory Committee needs you

Council is currently looking for a new volunteer with a particular interest in agriculture to join its Biodiversity and Agricultural Advisory Committee.