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Housing roundtable held in Lismore 

Member for Lismore, Janelle Saffin MP hosted a Northern Rivers housing roundtable in this week.

Other News

Evans Head’s Irons Gates developers spend another  $2.5m on legals – how can a local community keep up?

The Evans Head Iron Gates development has been objected to by the local community for 40 years and they are asking why the current developers, who are in administration, are getting another go in the Land and Environment Court.

Political responses to violence

Tens of thousands of people marched against gendered violence on the weekend. Women and men are looking to governments, state and federal, to make them safe. Are they up to the task?

People power must prevail market failures

The Wallum fiasco exemplifies all that is wrong with our current neoliberal economic system, one that thrives on pitting nature and community against ‘progress and development’.

Birds of Paradise: A Comedy Birdlesque

Swooping into its third year, Ché Pritchard’s hit production Birds of Paradise: A Comedy Birdlesque! is back, and this time the flock is covering more ground than ever! The world-class, multi-skilled and clucking amazing cast will be dazzling audiences with their spectacular and hilarious displays for a whole new flock of feathered cabaret and comedy fans! And where better to do it than the renowned Brunswick Picture House, home of epic cabaret and comedy!

Search continues for missing Tweed man

Local police say officers, the State Emergency Services [SES] and family members of missing Tweed Shire man Patrick Liedke are continuing their search.

The Harvest Food Trail

When it comes to celebrating the extraordinary food and beverage producers and unique provenance of the Northern Rivers, it...

News of the Shire

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The Byron Shire Echo‘s bold new look!

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Echo on the move

The Byron Shire Echo is announcing a change of direction. For nearly thirty years the newspaper chronicled the life of Byron Shire as honestly and accurately as possible. Well, stuff that.

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We must face the threat within – AG

'My fellow Australians, our country stands on the brink of a danger so perilous, so over-arching and all-encompassing, that I hardly know how to describe it.' – guest columnist Attorney-General George Brandis

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Remember to ‘Wage Peace, Not War’ says Lismore local 

Last week a global peace movement started in Lismore and the idea behind it is to blanket the world in peace signs.

Should Local Land Service be the only consent for Private Native Forestry in Kyogle Shire?

The impact of Private Native Forestry agreements are often contentious and with eastern Australia being the only first world country identified as one of 24 ‘deforestation hotspots’ around the world the question of who provides permission and oversees the consent for PNF is important. 

State of the Hempire revealed at Nimbin MardiGrass

The state of the Hempire in the Northern Rivers is healthy. In the last two years many changes have come about, both strategically and tactically. Celebrate this weekend at the Nimbin MardiGrass.

Editorial – The prince of technofeudalism

Facebook turns 20 this year! It started in 2004, and is now ubiquitous among older generations who are addicted to its shifting algorithms that keep them stuck like insects on fly paper.