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Casino Suspension Bridge opens

Minister For Small Business, Recovery and North Coast Janelle Saffin joined Mayor Robert Mustow and Member for Page Kevin Hogan to officially opening the Casino Suspension Bridge today (Saturday).
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EditorialAslan Shand - 0

Could you be a better councillor?

I had the opportunity to speak to the NSW Reconstruction Authority (NSW RA) last month. One of the matters I brought up was the proposed 57 Station Street, Mullumbimby development. It was clear that the only ‘community feedback’ they would be listening to supported housing development on that site.
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Lismore wants a a safe, accessible and long-term home for the Hannah Cabinet

The Hannah Cabinet was created by Lismore master craftsman Geoff Hannah OAM over six-and-a-half years and is widely regarded as one of Australia’s most significant pieces of contemporary decorative furniture.
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26-room Mullum seniors hostel on exhibition

A proposal to build a 26-room seniors hostel in Mullumbimby is back on the table, after being rejected by Byron Shire Council in December 2025.
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A heartfelt night of fundraising

We can’t solve the lack of social housing investment, or magically make emergency accommodation appear, but we can help alleviate suffering and bring warmth and comfort to people coping in truly awful situations.
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Tweed keeps rate increase below rate of inflation

Tweed Shire Council says it has adopted one of the lowest rate increases in the cross-border region for 2026/27, with the average household bill rising around 3.6 per cent once all charges are counted. This is below the current annual rate of inflation of 4.2 per cent.
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Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: Vagina-Maxxing

It’s a thing. It popped into my newsfeed as a story. I had to click. I mean, what new vagina fashion has come into play. Maxxing? Is this some new big vagina trend? Are our vaginas now not ‘big’ enough? Are we trying to create a spare room in our womb?
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‘Aquarius’ announced as BBFF opening night film

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The opening night film at this year’s Byron Bay Film Festival will be a feature-length documentary that captures and celebrates a defining event in the history of the Northern Rivers – the 1973 Aquarius Festival.
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Law & Order: Special Nimbin Unit

Local News Eve Jeffery - 5
One could have been mistaken for thinking the speakers at last night's Lismore Council meeting were in a court of law after the clearly hostile grilling they received from certain councillors in the chamber.
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Time to dream your dreams of the future…

Byron Echo Aslan Shand - 2
The Aquarius Festival was born out of the counterculture of the 1960s and 70s and as  Graeme Dunstan, director of the Aquarius Festival said, ‘We were cooking the counterculture of the time’.
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COVID update – Aquarius, Lismore sewage fragments and the South African variant

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The Northern NSW Local Health District says there have been no new cases of COVID-19 reported in the 24 hours to 8pm 28 November, but, they are urging residents in the Lismore area to be alert for COVID-19 symptoms.
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COVID update: a new Byron case, Aquarius and Community Support Accommodation

Local News The Echo - 1
The Northern NSW Local Health District says there was one new case of COVID-19 was reported for NNSWLHD to 8pm, November 25. This case is located in the Byron Local Government Area, a traveller from outside the region and e is not associated with the Aquarius Backpackers.
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Aquarius – a series of Echo articles

Articles & Columns The Echo - 0
The Byron Echo and Echonetdaily published this series of articles in the months leading up to the 40th anniversary of the Aquarius Festival on...
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The Pied Piper of Aquarius

Articles & Columns The Echo - 0
By Paul Joseph, as told to Graham Askey ‘Get a trade son, then whatever happens, you’ll always have something to fall back on.’ Back in the...
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Aquarius through the eyes of the festival psych

Articles & Columns The Echo - 0
By Dr Harry Freeman, as told to Graham Askey ‘Memory is not false in the sense that it is wilfully bad, but it is excitingly...
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Witnessing the dawn of Aquarius on the north coast

Articles & Columns The Echo - 0
Pat Walsh was one of the original New Settlers, later labelled as hippies. In 1971 she pioneered a community in Burringbar, a couple of...
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The Age of Aquarius set to dawn again

Articles & Columns The Echo - 0
Harsha Prabhu looks back to Nimbin’s Aquarius Festival and forward to its 40th anniversary. I will never forget that first ride into Nimbin. After placing all...
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Byron Echo

Byron’s Winter Whales raise $43,000

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The Byron Bay Winter Whales (BBWW) took to the ocean for the 39th time this year on the first Sunday of May and raised $43,000 for local organisations and charities.
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Byron Echo

When it comes to real estate, everyone can use an advocate

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With 45 years combined experience across both sales and property management, husband and wife team Mark and Michelle Errichiello have recently moved to the Northern Rivers and teamed up with Byron Property Search to provide advocacy services for people looking to buy or sell across the region.
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Savour The Tweed returns, 22 October

The Echo - 0
Food and drink event, Savour The Tweed, returns to excite tastebuds this spring, from Wednesday 22 October to Sunday 26 October.
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Conservationists welcome carbon credit scheme to protect forests

The Echo - 0
Today’s release of the government’s proposed Improved Native Forest Method, which allows governments to claim carbon credits in return for stopping logging has been welcomed by the North East Forest Alliance and North Coast Environment Council as "providing a way to end native forest logging on public land".
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