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LECC find police failed in their duty in the death of Lindy Lucena

The Law Enforcement Conduct Commission’s Operation Almas has criticised the police response to the violent death of Ballina woman Lindy Lucena at the hands of her partner in 2023.
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Load limit increased for Byron Creek Bridge

The load limit for Byron Creek Bridge has been increased to 24 tonnes, say Byron Shire Council, following structural analysis of the bridge.
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Call to end damaging native logging agreements

North East Forest Alliance (NEFA) is calling on the NSW state government to reassess the Wood Supply Agreements (WSA) that facilitate native forest in NSW’s state forests.
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Byron EchoJohn Scrivener, Main Arm  - 0

What sovereignty?

The gravest threat to Australia’s sovereignty comes from the security doctrine and foreign policy of strategic dependence on the...
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Major repairs for Lismore roads

Wyrallah and Coraki Roads will soon have 15km of road surface restored, as part of ongoing disaster recovery works across Lismore’s rural road network.
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Calls for micro-abattoirs to boost food security

Local farmers and food producers are calling on NSW Agriculture Minister Tara Moriarty and Minister for Small Business and the North Coast, Janelle Saffin, to work with farmers, industry and local communities to develop practical, evidence-based reforms that support a diverse, decentralised and resilient food production sector.
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Questions remain over future of Bangalow Bowlo

The Save Bangalow Bowlo Steering Committee (SBBSC) are seeking clarification on a number of issues in relation to the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that formed the basis of the amalgamation between the Bangalow Bowlo and Norths Collective.
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Improving bushfire resilience

Local News The Echo - 0
Six years on from Black Summer, the NSW government says it's continuing to roll out a raft of initiatives to prepare and protect the community as the 2025/26 bushfire season kicks off.
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Crime spree hits Bruns – community piano destroyed

Local News Hans Lovejoy - 10
The much-loved community piano, located in the Bruns Soundshell, was burnt to the ground last Thursday night.
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Northern Rivers activists wear ‘media vests’ at Brisbane’s Palestine march

Local News Mia Armitage - 19
A group of around 150 Northern Rivers residents travelled over the state border on Sunday to join Brisbane’s march in support of journalists killed in Palestine.
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Bruns tunes in for new piano

Local News The Echo - 0
Brunswick Heads celebrated the arrival of a new community piano, with a joyful outdoor concert at the Soundshell in Terrace Park.
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It’s a new community piano!

Local News The Echo - 0
To celebrate the year of the piano and the new ABC iview series The Piano, the ABC and Piano Plus Australia have delivered up to 20 pre-loved pianos donated by organisations and ordinary people to towns across the country.
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What was missing from the ‘leaders’ debate

Federal election David Lowe - 53
Last week's televised debate between Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton confirmed what many voters already suspected: Dutton remains unfit to lead, and Albo is no Gough Whitlam.
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Escaping gas and other noxious emissions

Articles & Columns David Lowe - 27
The consequences of regulatory failure and gas industry greed are coming home to roost in Port Kembla, with a $1 billion LNG import terminal nearing completion.
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Much ado about racism

Articles & Columns David Lowe - 27
A journalist told the truth in public. Shock! Horror! Of course Australia is a racist country, and always has been.
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Lawrence Museum a hidden treasure of ABC history

Local News Eve Jeffery - 5
The Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) was established on 1 July 1932, and before moving to Lismore in 1989, ABC North Coast began its life four years later as 2NR in July 1936, at Lawrence, about 30ks north of Grafton.
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Morrison’s craven cave to the QAnon cult – can he squirm out of this one too?

Byron Echo The Echo - 7
Monday night’s Four Corners program on ABC explained that two Australian lackeys of the American cult called QAnon – Tim Stewart and his son Jesse – are pushing the cult’s terrible excuse for a belief system.
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Byron Echo

Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: Plastic Is Forever

Mandy Nolan - 0
Our family has been trying to give up plastic. And I’m not just talking single-use straws or takeaway cups or bottled water. Like most people we did that years ago. I’m talking about all the other plastic that we ingest either directly or through chemical leaching. In the period of time since I was a child, to a child born now, the fossil fuel industry has become implicated in nearly every part of our daily routine.
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Byron Echo

Byron Shire Rebels gutsy efforts

Hywel David - 0
A day of contrasting rugby fortunes for the Rebels at Ballina, with the Men’s XV putting in a gutsy defensive effort to go down...
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Byron Echo

Local boxing legend visits Byron Boxing

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Kyogle heavyweight, Athol McQueen, who represented Australia at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, and famously floored a then-unknown Joe Frazier, visited Byron Boxing at the...
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Byron Echo

Seas the Day in Kingscliff this weekend

The Echo - 0
This weekend the fourth NRMA Insurance Seas The Day women’s surf festival is back at Kingscliff Beach with Surfing Australia. The world’s largest female participation...
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