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Entertainment in the Byron Shire for the week beginning 26 October, 2021
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Blue skies for Blueberry Fields
Blueberry Fields is very much a family business with father-and-son team Otto and Jasch Saeck working alongside each other...
No Ballina commemoration for 11 November
Speaking on behalf of the Ballina RSL sub-branch, Dick Wills BEM has announced that there will be no public commemoration service in Ballina for Remembrance Day next month.
One million homes to provide affordable housing say The Greens
Local Greens candidate Mandy Nolan is looking to wrest the federal seat of Richmond from Labor to claim the balance of power in the next Federal government. To do it she needs a five per cent swing.
Mutual obligation or mandatory vax?
There is much being said about the pros and cons of the vaccination. Do we? Don’t we? Must we?
Must...
Rancho Relaxo
Although Jane Boniface says that everything she does is ‘a mistake’, she seems to have the knack of turning...
Julian Assange: the name that cannot be uttered
Since the news came through I have been keeping an eye and an ear out for further reporting in...
Stories about "Bentley":
Quarry owners say they are listening to the locals
According to Rob and Sarah McKenzie, owners of the Bentley Quarry, the impacts of the proposed expansion of the site will be fully managed.
The ghost in the archives #4: Searching for that rainbow at the end of conformity
The art of the peaceful protest has been a staple of Byron Shire life since the ‘new settlers’ arrived in the 1970s, searching for that rainbow at the end of conformity.
Proposed quarry expansion opposed by the farmers of Bentley
You would need to be a pretty tough customer to come up against the Bentley farmers, yet, that is exactly what Rob and Sarah McKenzie, the operators of the Bentley Quarry, what they say is a local, family-operated business, are doing.
Remembering Bentley
Saturday 15 May is the seventh anniversary of Victory Day at the historic Bentley Blockade, just west of Lismore.
Bentley prepping for another fight
Bungabbee Forest sits midway between Lismore, Casino and Kyogle – right near Bentley and the NSW Forestry Corporation are planning to conduct logging there in April 2021.
Planet Watch: the madness and corruption of unconventional gas
The people of the Northern Rivers of NSW breathed a big sigh of relief when they stopped the unconventional gas industry at Bentley. But the industry didn't stop when it hit resistance – it simply went around us, and left the region in a false bubble of security.
More than a quarter of kids in Ballina, Bruns and Ocean Shores in poverty
Around a fifth of people living in various parts of the Northern Rivers are living in poverty, including up to one in four children.
Bentley a victory but the war continues: filmmaker
The story behind the Bentley Blockade, which effectively chased the coal-seam gas industry out of the northern rivers, will be the centrepiece film at the upcoming Byron Bay Film Festival's 10th closing gala on October 22 .
CSG fighters celebrate – Metgasgone?
Story & photos Cloudcatcher Media
News spread quickly across the northern rivers yesterday that the NSW Government had offered Metgasco $25 million to abandon their...
Back to frocks against fracking
Harking back to Frocks on the Frontline from the Doubtful Creek and Bentley blockades, the Knitting Nanna’s hosted Frocks Back on the Frontline yesterday at the Eltham hall
The Good Life
Blue skies for Blueberry Fields
Blueberry Fields is very much a family business with father-and-son team Otto and Jasch Saeck working alongside each other on their 160-acre farm at...
The Good Life
Cacao wow
After ten years of wholesale trading from their small factory, Byron Bay Cacao’s stunning new retail space is now open to the public. The...
The Good Life
Rancho Relaxo
Although Jane Boniface says that everything she does is ‘a mistake’, she seems to have the knack of turning things to her advantage. When...
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New plan to minimise flood hazard in Lismore
Paul Bibby - 1
Lismore City Council has commenced the preparation of a new Flood Risk Management Plan that will identify the measures designed to minimise the community’s exposure to flood hazard.
