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LettersAnnie Radermacher, Brunswick Heads  - 0

How can we keep paying for incompetence

The only way forward is going backwards. That’s how I explain the current situation of Byron Shire Council. The...
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Local NewsLeah Day, Northern Rivers Community Foundation - 0

New research highlights pressures facing Northern Rivers community organisations

More than 50 representatives from grassroots organisations across the Northern Rivers came together at Bangalow A&I Hall last week for the Northern Rivers Community Sector Sustainability Summit.
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Articles & ColumnsDr Will Tregoning, CEO of Unharm - 0

How to stop overdoses? Dr Will Tregoning has some thoughts

With International Overdose Awareness Day approaching on 31 August, NSW now has the evidence, the tools and record overdose deaths but lacks the will on permanent, community based pill testing.
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Local NewsThe Echo - 0

Appeal to locate man missing from Broadwater

Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate a local missing man.
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Local NewsAslan Shand - 0

Byron Bay fights for its low-rise character as 16m to 21m height breaches loom

Urgent questions are being raised about Byron Bay’s future as the NSW government increasingly uses fast-tracked planning pathways that can allow major developments to bypass or vary local planning controls, including height limits, raising concerns about how Byron’s unique character, built environment, and community expectations will be protected.
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Byron EchoThe Echo - 0

Mullum Gold Club charity day Saturday

This Saturday, 29 August  the Mullumbimby Golf Club (MGC) is hosting its rescheduled MND (Motor Neurone Disease) Charity Day in honour of Steve Ryan.
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Byron EchoBronwyn Morris, Montecollum - 0

When will the madness stop?

I attended the Byron Council meeting last week where I was astounded to listen to Jason Dunn, Byron property...
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Stories about "agritourism":

Farmers call for government clarity around land tax compliance

Local News The Echo - 0
Farming advocacy organisation NSW Farmers say farmers from across the state and across all commodities have "unanimously agreed that the NSW Government must urgently suspend land tax compliance of primary production until the current definition is resolved – including all current and planned investigations".  
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Tweed Council seeks exclusion from NSW Government Agritourism Reform

Local News Aslan Shand - 3
Tweed Shire Council has asked the NSW government for an exemption from the planning reform for agritourism due to the impact the changes are going to have on the Tweed Shire. 
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Agritourism policy forced upon LGAs

Local News Hans Lovejoy - 2
The NSW Department of Planning and Environment (DPE) has ignored Byron Shire Council’s urgent request to delay the forced adoption of the NSW government’s agritourism policy. The policy came into effect last week in all local government areas (LGAs).
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State govt overrules councils to push agritourism on rural land

Local News Paul Bibby - 5
The state government is ramming through an ‘agritourism’ policy which effectively removes restrictions on tourism development on rural lands, ignoring the objections of local councils and the impact on surrounding landowners.
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Tweed Council ‘opt in’ to States agritourism – with conditions

Local News The Echo - 2
The ‘confusing’ Agritourism SEPP was once again back on the table at last week's Tweed Council meeting as Cr Firth pushed to 'opt-out' over the State government's lack detail on conditions.
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Farm tours, tastings and horse riding – confusion over State agritourism SEPP

Local News The Echo - 0
A lengthy debate took place at the last Tweed Shire Council planning meeting (5 May) around the issue of agritourism controls that ran the...
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National News

Greens urged to back pathway to end native forest logging

The Echo - 0
Some of NSW’s most respected and long-standing forest campaigners and scientists have today urged the Greens not to support the Nationals' attempt to disallow the Improved Native Forest Management (INFM) method.
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Local News

Ballina Council makes decision on Ross Lane

David Lowe - 0
With the absence of all four of its progressive councillors for various reasons, Ballina Council pushed ahead with its agenda at yesterday's monthly meeting, including a decision which is likely to close Ross Lane for months while the road is upgraded.
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Local News

Mullumbimby puts new governance models first, and now wants to build it

The Echo - 0
Imagine Northern Rivers says Mullumbimby is the only community across the region to rank new models of governance and decision-making as the number one element of its preferred future, and last week locals gathered to work out how to make it real.
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Local News

Appeal to locate man missing from Broadwater

The Echo - 0
Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate a local missing man.
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