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National NewsThe Echo - June 15, 20260

Men’s Health Week: simple conversations

This National Men’s Health Week experts from Triple P – Positive Parenting Program are encouraging dads, granddads and father figures to embrace something simple but powerful: everyday conversations that support their own wellbeing and their family’s wellbeing.

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Local NewsThe Echo - June 10, 20260

Bangalow Film Festival opens

The Bangalow Film Festival opening night is this Thursday, 11 June and has already sold out.

Articles & ColumnsJuliet Lamont - June 11, 20260

Israel’s assault on Global Sumud Flotilla – a first-hand account

It hit me like a lightning strike. It was the latex gloves that did it. Those pale blue five fingered clinical sheaths made me want to vomit. Last Tuesday, having just been repatriated from my time on the Global Sumud Flotilla, I was at Tweed Valley Hospital getting a forensic medical examination for my sexual assault at the hands of the Israeli occupation forces.

Entertainment NewsThe Echo - June 9, 20260

Cinema: The Christophers

From acclaimed director Steven Soderbergh, The Christophers is a sharp, darkly comic exploration of art, legacy and deception, led by Golden Globe winner Ian McKellen and Emmy winner Michaela Coel.

Local NewsThe Echo - June 11, 20260

Major repairs for Lismore roads

Wyrallah and Coraki Roads will soon have 15km of road surface restored, as part of ongoing disaster recovery works across Lismore’s rural road network.

Local NewsThe Echo - June 10, 20260

Community to rally against ‘relentless’ RA house demolitions

Northern Rivers locals and flood-impacted residents will gather in Lismore this Saturday to demand the NSW Reconstruction Authority stop demolishing heritage homes and deliver on broken promises, as community anger at the failed flood recovery reaches a new peak.

Entertainment NewsThe Echo - June 9, 20260

A night out that changes lives

Some fundraisers just ask you to give – Rafiki Royale asks you to come and have the best night of your year, and the giving takes care of itself.

Lennox headland restoration works a success

Local News The Echo - June 11, 2026 0

Community members rolled up their sleeves last week for the 21st Lennox Head Community Tree Planting Day, which helped to continue more than two decades of restoration work on this iconic coastal landscape.

Ballina Council move to offset losing Wardell rec grounds to essential housing

Local News The Echo - September 30, 2025 0

With the likelihood that the Wardell Recreation Grounds will be permanently used for ‘essential housing’, Ballina Council resolved last week to seek assurances from the NSW government that it would not occur ‘until a compensating area of open space is delivered to the community’.

Wardell rec grounds could become permanent essential housing

Local News Hans Lovejoy - September 25, 2025 0

Ballina mayor calls for open space to offset ‘essential housing’ plans on Wardell rec grounds

Byron Council bans balloons and single-use decorations

Local News The Echo - August 27, 2024 4

Byron Shire Council staff say they have banned the use of balloons and other single-use decorations in all Council buildings, parks and outdoor areas from June 1.

Affordable housing key to Ballina Greens, Kiri Dicker’s, mayoral campaign

Local News The Echo - July 9, 2024 15

Lennox local and sitting councillor Kiri Dicker is running for Mayor of Ballina Shire Council in the upcoming council election on September 14 and is putting affordable housing for key workers as front and centre of her campaign.

‘Key workers’ removed from Ballina Council’s housing project as Mayor seeks full market rents

Local News The Echo - February 23, 2024 7

Ballina Council have removed any doubt that the development of housing on land it owns in Wollongbar is for the benefit of ‘key workers’.

Community input sought on Richmond River estuary plan

Local News The Echo - November 21, 2022 1

What can be done to protect and improve the health of the Richmond River estuary?

The Widjabul Wia-bal respond to the proposed Sleeping Lizard takeback motion

Local News Eve Jeffery - February 7, 2022 21

Representatives of the Widjabul Wia-bal mob have responded to the news that there is a motion to reverse the handback of the sacred site – Banyam Baigham, to the traditional owners.

Water security needed and that means we need to think beyond the traditional dam

Byron Echo Steve Posselt & Craig Zerk - November 29, 2021 9

As two professional engineers, each with over 40 years of experience in the water industry, we support Rous County Council’s decision to start tapping into underground water resources to meet the growing water supply needs of our region.

Ben Smith leaving Ballina Council

Local News David Lowe - October 27, 2021 0

The unique contributions of current Deputy Mayor Ben Smith to Ballina Shire Council are coming to an end, as he's decided to hang up his councillor hat after thirteen years, and not contest the December election.

World News

Peace in our time?

David Lowe - June 15, 2026 0

While details remain scant, there are claims from multiple sources that a peace deal has finally been reached in the war between Iran and the United States, after nearly four months of fighting.

Byron Echo

How to stop the erosion of our human rights

Russell Eldridge - June 15, 2026 0

Let’s celebrate Refugee Week, 15–21 June, which was initiated in Australia 40 years ago and now observed worldwide.

Local News

Appeal to locate wanted man Adam Richards

The Echo - June 15, 2026 0

Police are appealing for assistance to locate a man wanted on outstanding warrants in the Casino area.