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Greens urged to back pathway to end native forest logging

Some of NSW’s most respected and long-standing forest campaigners and scientists have today urged the Greens not to support the Nationals' attempt to disallow the Improved Native Forest Management (INFM) method.
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Going beyond the BBQ

The Men & Family Centre will soon be running a free Beyond the BBQ event in Lismore.
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Big Council rates rise coming – SRV for ratepayers

The proposed 35.03 per cent rates increase over three years to Byron Shire ratepayers is extremely concerning. I fully understand...
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Byron Bay fights for its low-rise character as 16m to 21m height breaches loom

Urgent questions are being raised about Byron Bay’s future as the NSW government increasingly uses fast-tracked planning pathways that can allow major developments to bypass or vary local planning controls, including height limits, raising concerns about how Byron’s unique character, built environment, and community expectations will be protected.
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A hole in one!

Mullumbimby Golf Club’s Cody Watego get a hole in one.
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Two charged over alleged Ballina machete attack

A man and woman have been charged after a 22-year-old man was allegedly attacked with a machete in central Ballina on Sunday night.
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Artist attempts the impossible at Lismore gallery

How do you grab hold of a horizon? Artist Lottie Consalvo has decided to have a crack.
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Stories about "Bulga State Forest":

Knitting Nannas doing it for the kids in Bulga Forest

National News The Echo - 8
Knitting Nannas Dominique Jacobs (60) and Helen Kvelde (73) yesterday became the 21st and 22nd people arrested protesting the logging of Bulga State Forest, west of Port Macquarie. They had attached themselves to the giant tree killing machine known as a harvester.
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19th arrest in Bulga Forest

National News The Echo - 4
Yesterday local protector Fiona Lee locked on to the harvesting machine to slow the logging of the homes of endangered greater gliders and koalas in Bulga State Forest, 65 km west of Port Macquarie.
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Aaron Crowe becomes 18th arrest in Bulga

National News The Echo - 2
Architectural designer Aaron Crowe yesterday suspended himself from a bamboo bipod over a piece of logging equipment in Bulga State Forest.
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John Seed OAM arrested in Bulga SF

National News The Echo - 12
John Seed, founder of the Rainforest Information Centre and the Deep Ecology Network, was arrested yesterday for attaching himself to logging machinery in Bulga State Forest, becoming the 16th person to be arrested in this campaign.
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Nanna becomes 15th person to be arrested in Bulga State Forest

National News The Echo - 6
Knitting Nanna, Bronwyn Vost, was arrested yesterday for attaching herself to logging machinery in Bulga State Forest.
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Veteran forest campaigner becomes 12th Bulga arrest

National News The Echo - 4
Veteran forest campaigner Susie Russell was arrested yesterday in Bulga State Forest. She was the 12th arrest in the local community’s campaign to protect the Bulga forest.
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Rally and march in Taree for National Threatened Species Day

Local News Aslan Shand - 3
Tomorrow is National Threatened Species Day and as the climate warms, floods, droughts, fires and melting ice sheets become the norm there is no escaping the scientific fact that human-induced climate change is having a massive impact not only on humans but on a multitude of other species. 
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Greens calling for logging of koala hubs to stop as Bulga Forest camp sets up

Local News The Echo - 1
Last night saw the Greens call on the NSW Labor government to stop logging koala hubs that have been identified to become part of...
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Call for Labor government to reinstate logging moratorium – now

National News Aslan Shand - 1
North East Forest Alliance’s Dailan Pugh has pointed out that a Minns NSW Labor government has given no commitment to quick and decisive action on behalf of our forests – but we need action 'now' he says.
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Mother–daughter protesters face court over tree-sit at Yarratt State Forest

Local News Aslan Shand - 0
It is symbolic that on International Women’s Day (IWD) that the non-violent, mother–daughter protesters who sat in a tree to highlight the danger that continued logging of NSW native forests, particularly in high-quality koala habitat, face court.
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Ballina Council makes decision on Ross Lane

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With the absence of all four of its progressive councillors for various reasons, Ballina Council pushed ahead with its agenda at yesterday's monthly meeting, including a decision which is likely to close Ross Lane for months while the road is upgraded.
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Mullumbimby puts new governance models first, and now wants to build it

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Imagine Northern Rivers says Mullumbimby is the only community across the region to rank new models of governance and decision-making as the number one element of its preferred future, and last week locals gathered to work out how to make it real.
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Appeal to locate man missing from Broadwater

The Echo - 0
Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate a local missing man.
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Katie Milne responds to Tweed’s draft housing and employment strategy

The Echo - 0
The former mayor of Tweed Shire Council, Kate Milne, has shared her submission to Tweed's Draft Growth Management Housing & Employment Strategy.
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