Local News
Elliot holds onto Richmond
Despite a certain change of government after today's federal election, sitting Richmond MP Justine Elliot has held onto her seat.
Local News
A spokesman for Richmond MP Justine Elliot says they have been encouraged by the results so far which are 'looking positive'.
Mrs Elliot, who...
Page Electorate
Coalition set to slash regional funding
Nationals leader Warren Truss has confirmed that, if elected, the coalition will abolish the $2.5 billion Regional Development Australia Fund, slashing the money available for regional development projects by almost two thirds.
Local News
Fraser accuses ALP of ‘media control’
Nationals Richmond MP Matthew Fraser falsely accused sitting member Justine Elliot of controlling local media at last night’s Richmond candidates forum, to the disgust of many in the audience.
Local News
Richmond candidates face off
Five of the six candidates for the seat of Richmond faced-off at the final meet-the-candidates forum at a combined Tweed business chamber breakfast at Kingscliff yesterday.
Local News
Fraser ‘conflicted on CSG’
Only three of the six candidates standing in the Richmond electorate bothered to respond to a survey of attitudes towards coal seam gas.
Local anti-CSG...
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Abbott excesses unveiled
Right now we are facing the excesses of Tony Abbott and his Liberal party controlling both houses of Parliament.
Richmond Electorate
Richmond Candidate Profiles
Labor: Justine Elliot - (age 46) - re-elected in 2013
Justine Elliot MP was re-elected in 2013, and has held the seat of Richmond since...
Local News
Candidates fail social issues test
A number of candidates at Tuesday night’s Richmond electorate forum could not commit their parties on a range of social issues – and at least one candidate got his party’s policy on an important issue wrong.
Local News
Fraser’s CSG logic questioned
Anti-coal seam gas group Lock the Tweed has taken the Nationals candidate for the seat of Richmond, Matthew Fraser, to task over his repeated comments that ‘there is no CSG in Richmond’.
Richmond Electorate
Nats man profits from fast food
Letter to the Editor: Why would any sensible person vote for the Nationals’ Matthew Fraser to represent our best interests as the federal member for Richmond? Matthew makes his money from selling fast food, even as the costs of obesity-related illnesses to Australia's national health budget are skyrocketing.
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Greens and balance of power
Letter to the editor: Greens and the balance of power in the Federal Election
Richmond Electorate
Vote for Abbott, get Murdoch
Letter to the Editor: Vote for Abbott in the election and get Murdoch
Richmond Electorate
Come the election, give a Gonski
Letter to the Editor: Come the election, give a Gonski
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Feds ‘have power to act’ on CSG
Federal local ALP members Justine Elliot and Janelle Saffin will today pose for a media shoot outside Lismore Post Office with a 12,000 strong petition they have collected to go to state parliament opposing coal seam gas mining in the northern rivers.
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Meet the candidates at our forums
Echonetdaily and the Byron Shire Echo will each be sponsoring a meet-the-candidates forum in coming weeks.
The Richmond forum, sponsored by the Byron Shire Echo...
Richmond Electorate
Parties rorting the system, situation normal
David Lovejoy goes postal on the candidates’ mail chicanery
Two brochures came to my house in the post last week. They both appeared to come...
Local News
Byron Wildlife Hospital’s DA up for public comment
A development application for the mobile Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital is now before the public.
Local News
Tweed Council staff’s delegated powers debated
The question of what staff and councillors get to decide in relation to development applications was raised by Tweed Councillor Ron Cooper at the last Tweed Shire Council meeting.
Byron Echo
Supporting independent news or making fat cats fatter?
The recent skirmish between Facebook and the government is hard to miss, even if you rely on Facebook for your news. But what does it all mean?
Byron Echo
Koala groups lobby Tweed MP Geoff Provest for action
Local koala groups have been taking action to protect NSW koalas by meeting with Tweed State Member of Parliament, Geoff Provest seeking his support for action on koala protections and asking him not to support the koala killing legislation his government are putting forward.
