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Where’s the funding for critical community help?

Neighbourhood and community centres are struggling to keep their doors open and are cutting services because they don’t have ongoing core funding to cover staffing and operating costs.
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LettersKellly Minahan, President, SPCA - 0

Clifford Street DA conflicts

On the question of ‘perceived’ conflicts of interest of the president and secretary of the Suffolk Park Community Association...
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Local NewsThe Echo - 0

Cadwallader calls for government airport funding

Mayor of Ballina Sharon Cadwallader has called for a fairer airport funding partnership for the Northern Rivers, contrasting the Commonwealth’s reported $5.6 billion investment in Western Sydney Airport with Ballina Shire Council funding almost three-quarters of its airport’s recent runway upgrade.
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Local NewsThe Echo - 0

Can you help buy a bus for the local youth?

Byron Youth Service is calling on the community to support their campaign to buy a bus that is desperately needed so young people can access much-needed services.
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Byron EchoJo Immig - 0

The alchemy of suffering

There is alchemy in the crucible of suffering, if you can surrender to it. I don’t say this glibly and acknowledge the scale of suffering many beings endure is unimaginable.
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Local NewsThe Echo - 0

SCU exhibition marks the end of art and design degree

Twelve emerging Northern Rivers artists will exhibit their work in Lismore tonight at a graduation show marking the last large exhibition of Southern Cross University’s Bachelor of Art and Design degree.
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EditorialEwan Willis - 0

Editorial – The rise of the machines

When the last switchboard operator became extinct and the filing assistant closed the cabinet for the last time to join the lamplighters and ratcatchers we were, perhaps, mollified with the knowledge that newer, more interesting careers would open up before us.
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Stories about "Brittany Higgins":

Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: Couching an Opinion

Byron Echo Mandy Nolan - 7
The Bruce Lehrmann and Brittany Higgins case was never about establishing whether or not Lehrmann raped Higgins. It was about Brittany. She was established as not ‘the perfect victim’ so we overlooked the blazingly obvious fact that Bruce Lehrmann was ‘the perfect perpetrator’. An entitled, compulsive wrecking ball of cocaine, $400 steaks, free rent and very very expensive massages.
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The presumption of innocence dilemma

Byron Echo David Heilpern - 6
When someone is charged with an offence, and for whatever reason the trial does not proceed, the shout from every defence lawyer in the country is that they are ‘innocent’ as they have not been found guilty.  
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Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: Dear Brittany

Byron Echo Mandy Nolan - 6
We watched you. We watched you break the silence. We heard the truth shatter like a glass hitting the tiles.
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Local News

A year in review

The Echo - 0
Byron Shire Council has published its Annual Report for 2025 to 2026, highlighting a year of what it describes as significant achievements in delivering infrastructure flood recovery works, environmental protection, and community programs.
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Local News

Celebration of culture and Country

The Echo - 0
Almost 100 First Nations artists, musicians, performers, makers and cultural practitioners will come together on the banks of the Clarence River this November for Art on Bundjalung; a free celebration of creativity, culture and Country.
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Local News

Ballina students dive into water science

The Echo - 0
Local Ballina Shire primary school students rolled up their sleeves and put water science into action as part of Rous County Council’s inaugural Young Water Leaders event.
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National News

Grim numbers from horse racing industry

The Echo - 0
The annual DeathWatch Report by the Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses (CPR) reveals that the home state of the upcoming Melbourne Cup, Victoria, was responsible for 30 percent of the at least 160 racehorses who were killed from racing across the country in the 2025/26 Australian racing season.
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