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Koalas
Don’t rely on any regime to save anything that’s endangered because their mates the miners and developers pay them...
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Labor MP spruiks 2023–24 budget
Cost of living relief, investment towards net-zero and economic responsibility is how local federal Labor MP, Justine Elliot, has framed her party’s first budget this term.
Carl Cleves & Parissa Bouas
If you came to Byron in the ’90s, you would have danced to and been uplifted by local legends,...
Rainbow Dragons Abreast scoop international win
Seventeen members of Ballina-based Rainbow Dragons Abreast joined ‘Aussie Dragonfly’ teams= to race at the International Breast Cancer Paddlers...
Emergency Services training at Lismore today
From 10am to 1pm today you may well hear and see lots of sirens and flashing lights at the Lismore Regional Airport.
Floodplain cynic
It has been like riding on the back of a bumblebee in the attempt to find sweet nectar and...
Building waste
Surely Byron Council can do something about the lack of recycling at building sites in Byron Shire? In the...
Stories about "Australian flag":
S Sorrensen’s Here & Now: Change everything!
I shovel some red powder into the mix. It puffs like dragon’s breath as it joins the cement, sand and aggregate. I don’t like grey concrete. Cocooned in my earmuffs, my mind wanders...
Byron Echo
Posturing politicians
While Greens in the Senate endure the irony of being pilloried by the government for speaking passionately about social justice and housing, Patricia Warren’s...
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National Reconciliation Week starts tomorrow
National Reconciliation Week (NRW) is a time for all Australians to learn about our shared histories, cultures, and achievements, and to explore how each of us can contribute to achieving reconciliation in Australia.
Byron Echo
Thank you from the top of our heads to the bottom of our well-dressed feet
Eve Jeffery - 0
Saturday's annual Bell & Ford vintage clothes garage sale fundraiser for the SHIFT Project was an incredible success with $36,500 being raised at the Byron Surf Club – this year’s effort was up about $7,500 on the last event.
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Labor Government committed to the demerger of Murwillumbah Education Campus
Eve Jeffery - 3
The significant issue of a merger of several Murwillumbah schools has been ongoing since 2020 when the then State Government announced via Sarah Mitchell MP that four public schools would be amalgamated into a single Kindergarten to Year 12 campus at Murwillumbah High.
