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Mutual obligation or mandatory vax?
There is much being said about the pros and cons of the vaccination. Do we? Don’t we? Must we?
Must...
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Call to reject Evans Head Iron Gates DA over failure to recognise Indigenous heritage
Evans Head locals call for rejection of Iron Gates DA and recognition of the national significance of the site and its incorporation into the Broadwater National Park.
Love Island takes over Federal – time to test the law?
The NSW government legislation has provided a permit for screen filming on private land in NSW without any Council oversight or accountability. This has led to Federal Village currently being overrun by the ITV film company.
STP inches closer
Paul Bibby’s article ‘Ocean Shores STP (OS STP) inches closer to closure’ (6 October) raises some questions with me...
Privately owned, but still ‘sacred site’ – Nimbin church burns to the ground
Last night at around 9pm, St Patrick's Catholic Church in Nimbin burned to the ground.
New freedom party, not Greens
I write with dismay but not surprise at the article ‘Local Greens MP Urges Vaccination.’
As a very Active ex-member...
The Great Reopening
S Haslam
What a time to go out in Byron – easy to park and, for the shy retiring types...
Stories about "Australia":
Tonight Australians are asked to fill out the Census
Every five years, the Australian Bureau of Statistics counts every person and household in Australia. This count is called the Census of Population and Housing.
The loneliness of the long distance activist
In Australia, it's not easy being green. There are no monuments to those who have risked their lives and liberty in the defence of Australia's unique and precious ecology.
Food waste up amid pandemic hoarding
Aussie households are wasting more food as a result of the pandemic according to Rabobank’s 2020 Food Waste Report.
Storylines: Advance Australia Where?
Australia, as a nation, is at a crossroads.
Open letter to the year 12 school leavers of 2020
Open letter to the year 12 school leavers of 2020 (because I still haven’t figured out Tik Tok yet) from Professor Nick Klomp, Vice-Chancellor of CQUniversity Australia
Storylines: Surviving a pandemic in the colony
The toilet paper, and a measure of our societal maturity, were the first Australian casualties in today’s COVID-19 pandemic. The madness in the shopping centres were an early indicator that the leaders of the nation would need to step up. But as with the bushfire crisis, they did not.
The big good things we got in the decade gone by
When Galileo said that the Earth went around the Sun, not the other way around, priests tortured him...
Byron and Kylie calling all Poms!
With a tag line: 'Dear United Kingdom, Your besties across the ocean are calling. Love, Your mates in Australia…' a new tourism campaign to entice tourists to the entire country, features a hefty swatch of Byron Bay and the Byron Shire.
Extinction crisis in Australia according to government
Australia’s extinction crisis in regard to its fauna (animals) is under the spotlight and the results are not good.
Roamer trots through the Shire
Terra Roam is on her final leg of her 16,000km walk around Australia and has been traversing the northern rivers via Wollumbin, Huonville, Mullumbimby, Byron Bay and Ballina over the last week as she does her final 800km to the finishing line in Newcastle, where she was born.
Byron Echo
Christian fundamentals
Robin Harrison’s letter (13 October) made me realise how Christian fundamentals are little known, yet so freely referred to. There are at least three...
Byron Echo
A dumb act of STP
Council is stating that breaches of licence conditions, in part, justifies spending $10m on transferring raw sewage from Ocean Shores Sewerage Treatment Plant (OS...
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COVID-19 update: 5 new cases in the NNSWLHD
Northern NSW Local Health District, Acting Chief Executive, Lynne Weir, says there were five new cases of COVID-19 reported for the District to 8pm last night, 21 October.
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NSW Education responds to Teachers Federation over Murwillumbah Education Campus staff cuts
The NSW Education Department has responded to the NSW Teachers Federation's accusation that Education Minister Sarah Mitchell has only just revealed the extent of staff cuts at the mega school.
