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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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National NewsThe Echo - 0

Disastrous levels of sexism and misogyny in Australian schools

Monash University has conducted the largest Australian survey of teachers to examine their experiences of sexism, misogyny and sexual harassment in schools.
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Entertainment NewsThe Echo - 0

They’ve got their trousers on

They’re almost here – Baggy Trousers bring ‘Madness’ to Ballina next week! London-born and hailed as the Southern Hemisphere’s premier Madness tribute show, Baggy Trousers brings to life the legendary UK band’s iconic hits in The Sound of Madness and bring the energy, humour and soundtrack of the UK’s golden era to Ballina RSL.
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LettersPeter Olson, Goonengerry - 0

Robot armies

Nuclear war now seems a matter of not if, but when: the bulletin of atomic scientists now has us...
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National NewsThe Echo - 0

It’s Scam Awareness Week

Quick thinking and strong scams awareness from a bank branch manager has prevented a woman from losing almost $10,000 to an impersonation scam.
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Local NewsThe Echo - 0

Troubled Hastings Point sewage plant upgrade goes back to the community

A long-running battle over the future of the Hastings Point Wastewater Treatment Plant has entered another round, with Tweed Council putting its preferred upgrade option back before the community.
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LettersChris Abraham, Mullumbimby - 0

Rail and community consultation

The first stage of the Casino to Murwillumbah railway was opened in 1894 and shortly after the line was...
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Stories about "Australian politics":

Labor and Liberal join forces on multiple fronts

Articles & Columns David Lowe - 0
Last week, government and opposition found themselves singing from the same song sheet in parliament on a range of issues, from the NDIS to ASIO, and big tech to gambling advertising. 
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Why voters have stopped listening

Byron Echo Sunil Badami - 0
It appears from the polls that Western democracies are lurching to the populist right. Voters across Australia, US and the UK are increasingly dissatisfied with major party duopolies – or as many call them, the ‘uniparty’.
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This goes with that at Susssssan

Articles & Columns David Lowe - 11
The first appearance of a federal opposition leader at the National Press Club in three years saw Sussan Ley showing her personal side and eating humble pie, as she tries to find a way to bring a fractured and bruised Coalition back from electoral disaster.
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Ship-jumpers and other unauthorised departures

Articles & Columns David Lowe - 27
Former Greens Senator Dorinda Cox's decision to abandon the party which elected her in 2021, and join Labor, has infuriated Greens supporters but delighted Anthony Albanese, who now has one less stroppy cross-bencher to convince of his government's agenda.
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Labor are climate criminals

Articles & Columns David Lowe - 13
The writing has been on the wall for some time, but now it's in bold, red and underlined. Labor are climate criminals. The new federal government sealed the deal with their approval last week of Woodside's disastrous North West Shelf Extension, until 2070, if humanity makes it until then.
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Coalition soap opera continues

Articles & Columns David Lowe - 11
Will the Libs and Nats kiss and make up? Yes of course they will, because they both need the Coalition to have any sort of political future, but the fact that it's purely a marriage of convenience is clearer than ever.
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‘Unrepresentative swill’, or the nation’s conscience?

Articles & Columns David Lowe - 27
Greens supporters and other minor party voters are still waiting for some acknowledgement from Anthony Albanese for delivering his record majority in the House of Representatives, via preferences, while over in the Senate it's looking like a case of the more things change, the more they stay the same.
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Politics of division rejected

Articles & Columns David Lowe - 26
Labor is on track to a thumping majority, with Peter Dutton's Coalition cut to shreds, following an Australian election conducted under the shadow of collapsing democracy in the United States.
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Making good and bad political trouble

Articles & Columns David Lowe - 12
New Jersey representative Cory Booker's epic 25 hour speech on the floor of the United States Senate last week may come to be seen as a turning point in the resistance of Americans to the Donald Trump regime.
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Red and blue overwhelm the green

Articles & Columns David Lowe - 21
The last legislative action of the Albanese government before the election was announced said it all, sadly – they teamed up with the Liberal and National parties to further weaken Australian environmental protection.
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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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