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More Than a Café: The Swampy Heaven Sofie Created at Highway Myocum 

What started as a roadside caravan on the way to the tip has become so much more than a place to stop for a coffee or mouth watering crumpet.  

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Zomi Frankcom remembered on National Peacekeeper Day

On Monday, 14 September peackeepers from Australia and around the world were recognised at the Mullumbimby Cenotaph with particular recognition of aid worker Zomi Frankcom who was killed in Gaza by the Israel Defence Force.

Regional to Global brings movers and shakers of the screen industry to Lennox Head

When around 300 screen practitioners gathered at Lennox Head last week for ScreenWorks' two-day Regional to Global Screen Forum, the setting was half the story. Here was a serious industry conversation happening a long way from Sydney or Melbourne, and after many successful years, nobody was treating that as a novelty.

Wallum II

The truth, the whole truth , and nothing but the truth. So help me God. That is what we swear...

Rates rise II

Is Byron Shire Council (BSC) actually serious about ‘affordable housing’? Looking at their rates policy, I have to say...

Pill testing: just a small step

The NSW Minns Labor government has recognised that drug and pill testing is effective in reducing risks and harms associated with illicit drug use, including for festival attendees.

Ballina draws line between homelessness and anti-social behaviour

Ballina Council has moved to draw a clearer distinction between homelessness and anti-social behaviour, declaring that rough sleeping is not an offence as it puts a new homelessness strategy out for public comment.

I think migrants overall enrich our communities. I have an idea! For every new immigrant, we exile a bogan! Tata Pauline!

Warwick AndersonSuffolk Park



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What can Clarence Property actually do at Wallum now?

The slashers and bulldozers are preparing to move onto the Wallum site at Brunswick Heads. But after two major Federal Court judgments, what is developer Clarence Property actually entitled to do?

Flood-free industrial land push emerges on Lismore’s eastern edge

One of Lismore’s few identified areas for future flood-free industrial development is moving through the planning system, as the city continues to grapple with where businesses can relocate away from the floodplain.

How ready is the Northern Rivers for the next disaster?

Four-and-a-half years after the 2022 floods devastated the Northern Rivers, emergency workers, researchers and community groups are gathering in Lismore to ask a deceptively simple question: are we better prepared for the next one?

Ballina draws line between homelessness and anti-social behaviour

Ballina Council has moved to draw a clearer distinction between homelessness and anti-social behaviour, declaring that rough sleeping is not an offence as it puts a new homelessness strategy out for public comment.