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How is RT-PCR used to diagnose COVID-19?
It’s fast, reliable and full of lines – but might look different to the PCR you learned about in school.
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Sometimes you’ve just got to laugh
I confess to having no clinical or medical training, but my reading of some of the literature increasingly tells me that laughter, and the hormones that trigger it, is a powerful healing and comforting tool that serves to help us cope with stress, anxiety, trauma and the challenges associated with living and navigating modern life.
Not enough ICU beds
My best mate lives in a country town in the UK. Over the last year, she estimates around 10...
Confirmed COVID-19 case in Goonellabah
A local case of COVID-19 has been confirmed in the Lismore area.
Strange strategy
The strategy applied by Byron Shire Council (BSC) since 2002 is bemusing at best.
Firstly a position was created by...
Courage
Mask mandates are flawed orders that violate the human right to informed consent. Businesses that demand their customers wear...
Will Sydney’s trash be Richmond Valley’s ‘treasure’
Richmond Valley Council say they have welcomed an announcement by the Deputy Premier John Barilaro and the Minister for...
Stories about "beach protection works":
Byron resort undertakes beach protection works
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Community concern over beach protection works at Elements of Byron Resort in Belongil have prompted management to respond and explain their plans and permits.
A...
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Queensland passes voluntary assisted dying laws
Dying with Dignity NSW has welcomed the passage of Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) laws in Queensland and is hoping that NSW Parliament resumes next month so that this issue can be addressed in NSW without further delay.
Byron Echo
Planning staff back Wilsons Creek DA, residents’ concerns downplayed
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Residents living near a proposed 15-lot housing development in Wilsons Creek say it will negatively impact a precious wildlife corridor on the site, exacerbate traffic safety problems on the surrounding roads, and damage the peaceful character of their quiet enclave.
Byron Echo
A moment of your life?
Six questions for Jehovah’s Witness doorknockers:
1. Are you aware that the 2016 Royal Commission into Institutional Handling of Child Sexual Abuse investigated 1006 alleged...
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Local mum features in documentary about the impacts and possible solutions around suicide
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Murwillumbah mum Ursula has lived every parents worst nightmare – her child, at the age of just 17, took his own life – and a lot of time and energy, questions and conjecture and finger-pointing can rumble around this, but at the end of the day Ursula’s precious boy is gone and he’s not coming back.
