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Richmond candidates 2022: The Greens, Mandy Nolan
Mandy Nolan needs little introduction to most readers of The Echo, where she has a weekly column. She is a comedian and journalist running as a candidate for The Greens in the federal seat of Richmond.
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Bittersweet announcement about koalas
Bitter in its necessity and sweet in the action it might prompt, it has been announced today that koalas have been listed as Endangered under the Biodiversity Conservation Act.
Entertainment in the Byron Shire for the week beginning 18 May, 2022
Brilliant entertainment always in the Byron Shire
Coalition policy
It should be obvious to everyone by now that the Coalition’s insistence that ‘technology’ will drag us across the...
Releasing the chokehold on Australia’s water
What the trading of 40 gigalitres of water from the Barmah Choke means for the Murray Darling Basin.
Homelessness hub under immense pressure
A new homelessness hub in Byron Bay has been so inundated with requests for help, that the service already needs additional staff to meet the demand.
Hydrogen hoax
This is very serious. Last year expert scientists published a warning via The Society of Chemical Industry: ‘blue hydrogen’,...
Stories about "Beyond Bentley":
Bentley community takes ‘mega’ quarry to court
Beyond Bentley – Our Sustainable Future Incorporated has commenced proceedings in the NSW Land and Environment Court to stop the Bentley Quarry.
Letters
The protest vote
Uncanny that in this federal election, in Richmond as elsewhere, the freedom/protest vote parties just about all preference the National or Liberal candidate. To...
Letters
Inflated Scomo
During his term, Scomo made plenty of decisions that helped lead us to the inflation we face today.
When he says we should not...
Letters
Our sitting member
The sitting member for Richmond, Labor’s Justine Elliott, is aptly named because, as far as I have seen, that’s all she’s done for the...
Local News
Bittersweet announcement about koalas
Bitter in its necessity and sweet in the action it might prompt, it has been announced today that koalas have been listed as Endangered under the Biodiversity Conservation Act.