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Beach going, going…
Len Bates, Mullumbimby
I have noticed in the last few years that the poly fibre bags being used to protect the...
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Eight years of ‘suffering’ for Australia’s asylum seekers
Ballina Region for Refugees [BRR]has highlighted the dubious anniversary this week by again calling on Northern Rivers’ locals to write to politicians demanding an end to detention for people who found to be genuine refugees.
COVID-19 fines issued while mask sign legalities unclear
As the Greater Sydney area heads into further lockdown, local health authorities say a known COVID-19 infected case stopped at Chinderah truck stop at the Ampol service station (northbound), 112 Tweed Valley Way, near Murwillumbah turnoff.
Jeff off
Stephen Totterman, Ballina
Local Government elections are coming and Cr Jeff Johnson is on the campaign trail, telling us that...
Dropping a few 5Gs
Dale Steedman, Suffolk Park
Apparently Bill Gates’ plane has been flying over the Shire dropping 5Gs from its ChemTrails. These go...
Male incontinence bin trial at Banora Point Community Centre
Highlighting the issue of gender equality at the Tweed Shire Council meeting Councillor Katie Milne put forward a notice of motion for a trail continence bin for men at Banora Point Community Centre.
Onsite build of manufactured homes in South Tweed deferred
The estimated $13,800,000 manufactured home development slated for 30 Fraser Drive, Tweed Heads South was seeking to build the houses onsite rather than offsite as required by the legislation.
Stories about "Ballina Cup":
Full field for the 2016 Ballina Cup
Regional horses make up half of the 220 racers nominated to run the turf at the Ballina Cup this Thursday.
The record interest in the...
Push to downgrade Ballina Cup public holiday fails
The Ballina Cup looks set to be another quarter day public holiday next year despite a push to downgrade the event to a ‘local event day’.
Byron Echo
The truth about Israel
Danny Wakil, Billinudgel
Gareth Smith, you are clearly very passionate, but constantly providing incredibly one-sided opinions, and half-truths get us nowhere (14 July). I am factual...
Local News
John ‘Strop’ Cornell dies
John Cornell, a character credited with initiating major change in Byron Bay after his purchase of the Beach Hotel, has died at his home in Byron Bay, aged 80, surrounded by his wife Delvene Delaney and family.
Editorial
Editorial – Free fi fo dumb?
Hans Lovejoy, editor
Scientists have warned that now the UK has come out of lockdown on ‘freedom day’ (July 19), it will lead to ‘a...
Articles & Columns
Snakes monitor radioactive contamination
Ten years on from the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan – the most severe nuclear accident since Chernobyl – researchers are using Japanese rat snakes to measure radioactivity in the Fukushima Exclusion Zone.
