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September 16, 2026
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Local NewsPaul Bibby - 0

$12m Brunswick development back on exhibition after redesign

A controversial $12 million mixed-use development in the heart of Brunswick Heads has been redesigned and put back on public exhibition, with two affordable housing apartments added and the amount of commercial space reduced.
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Entertainment NewsThe Echo - 0

Ten plays. Ten minutes. You decide.

What can happen in ten minutes? A retirement village might need a child. A cat could outsmart its human.
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Local NewsDavid Lowe - 0

John Weiley accepts lifetime achievement award

Last week a local filmmaker who has made a significant international impact was presented with the inaugural ScreenWorks Lifetime Achievement Award, at the Regional to Global Screen Forum in Lennox Head.
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Byron EchoMaxine Hawker, Byron Bay - 0

Byron’s character

Protecting Byron’s character is not NIMBYism. The recent article (Echo, 2 September) on the increasing use of State Significant Development...
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Local NewsThe Echo - 0

$100m Ballina seniors housing plan nears end of exhibition as CEO departs

A $100.3 million redevelopment of St Andrew’s Village in Ballina is nearing the end of its public exhibition period as the organisation prepares for the departure of its long-serving chief executive.
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Byron EchoDavid Rainbow, Mullumbimby - 0

The brumbies

Although the killing, the massacring of Australia’s brumbies in the Kosciuszko National Park is being done for presented environmental...
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Byron EchoMandy Nolan - 0

Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: How do you view the world without taking your view from the world?

Sometimes people will say something, and the words just land inside me. Like a bird flying home to their nest. Like an ant finding the cool underside of a rock. Like a salmon swimming upstream to the place where they were born.
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Cartoon by Raoul. Perhaps Einstein would agree with the sentiment, however it seems this is a famously misattributed quote – see: wikiquote.org/wiki/albert_einstein. – Ed

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Local News

Olley meets her muse in new Tweed exhibition

The Echo - 0
Margaret Olley’s famously crowded world of flowers, fruit, bottles and bowls is being placed alongside one of the artists who helped shape it in a new exhibition opening at Tweed Regional Gallery on Friday.
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Footy, family and culture return for Lismore knockout

The Echo - 0
For three days this weekend, the whistle at Lismore’s sporting precinct will signal more than the start of a footy match.
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$100m Ballina seniors housing plan nears end of exhibition as CEO departs

The Echo - 0
A $100.3 million redevelopment of St Andrew’s Village in Ballina is nearing the end of its public exhibition period as the organisation prepares for the departure of its long-serving chief executive.
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Byron rail trail a ‘gem’

Tim Shanasy, Byron Bay - 0
The section of the proposed ‘rail trail’ between old Mitre 10 and the Roadhouse Cafe, is one of the most incredible areas yet to...
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