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No Small Thing: NRCF Women’s Giving Circle event, Murwillumbah

Cheek Media founder, Hannah Ferguson, will headline a panel of prominent women leaders at the Regent Theatre in Murwillumbah next Thursday, in an event the organisers say brings, 'the kind of line-up you'd usually travel to Sydney for' to the Northern Rivers.
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Local NewsHans Lovejoy - 0

Expansion on farmland around Tweed Valley Hospital opposed

Residents are holding firm against a proposal to develop State Significant Farmland (SSF) near the Tweed Valley Hospital at Cudgen, after the Northern Regional Planning Panel (NRPP) held a public meeting on Friday 19 June around the Planning Proposal for Cudgen Connection (PP-2023-2669-Cudgen Connection).
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Local NewsThe Echo - 0

Momentum hosts free skate workshop for girls and women

Whether you are stepping on a skateboard for the first time, sharpening your skills or getting ready to compete, a free school holiday workshop is being offered to all female skaters up to 25 years.
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Local NewsThe Echo - 0

Artist Gerwyn Davies exhibits at Tweed Gallery

From 3 July, a major new body of work by Gadigal/Sydney-based artist Gerwyn Davies will be exhibited at the Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre.
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Byron EchoRichard Adams, Kingscliff - 0

Difficult times

We live in difficult times: so it’s good to know some things are certain; the sun will rise in...
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Byron EchoMichele Grant, Ocean Shores - 0

Long serving drudges

One category overlooked for an award at The Echo’s 40th birthday party was for the long-serving drudges. Jenny Dalimore, Steve...
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Byron EchoTerry Hand, Mullumbimby - 0

Trumpism

Is it naïve to think of a promise in the political context as no more than intention to do...
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Stories about "Buybacks":

Consultants hired for Tweed’s vacated floodplains

Local News The Echo - 0
A ‘resilience-focused master plan’ and ‘specialist consultants’ were announced on Friday for a new South Murwillumbah flood buyback precinct, more than four years after the 2022 disasters.
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Homes sold for as little as a dollar in latest buyback auctions

Local News Mia Armitage - 0
More former homes of 2022’s Northern Rivers flood and landslide disasters have sold under the hammer, this time for as little as a dollar.
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Greens MLC accuses Labor of ‘secret deal’ to reduce recovery support

Local News The Echo - 12
Greens MLC Sue Higginson has accused the state government of ‘a secret Labor deal to cut funding from 1000 flooded homes’.
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Greens MP ‘not taking sides’ in homeless stand-off with NSW gov’t

Local News Mia Armitage - 6
The state member for Ballina says she is reluctant to take sides in a recent stand-off between local homeless people and the NSW government.
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RA to auction nine buyback homes

Local News The Echo - 1
Nine homes sold to the NSW government owing to impacts of the 2022 Northern Rivers flood and landslides disaster in the Tweed Shire are to be auctioned next month.
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Lismore Council to debate future of flood-plain buybacks

Local News Mia Armitage - 3
The future of bought-back houses on Lismore’s flood plain is to again be discussed at a Lismore City Council meeting today.
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Protests continue against RA’s house demolitions

Local News Mia Armitage - 3
Around 150 people gathered in intermittently wet weather in Lismore on Saturday to share frustrations over the NSW Reconstruction Authority’s management of recovery processes for disaster impacted homes.
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NSW RA fails to formally agree to house relocations to high ground at Goonellabah, say Council staff

Local News Mia Armitage - 4
Land at Goonellabah proposed for rezoning to accommodate housing is to be considered at this week’s Lismore City Council meeting but hopes for house relocations from flood areas appear reduced.
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30 buyback homes for sale

Local News The Echo - 8
Expressions of Interest are being accepted now for nearly 30 homes bought by the NSW Reconstruction Authority through its Resilient Homes Program buyback stream.
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Occupiers of North Lismore buybacks report no eviction past deadline

Local News Mia Armitage - 0
Supporters of people occupying otherwise empty bought-back houses in North Lismore say Monday passed peacefully without any eviction attempts.
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Consultation closes Friday on Lismore’s 60,000 population plans

The Echo - 0
The future of Lismore is now up for discussion, with Council's Strategic Planning Framework currently out for public exhibition. Now is your time to have your say – consultation closes 26 June.
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Local News

Science in the Pub, Lismore, 16 July

The Echo - 0
An engaging and informative Science in the Pub event is planned on Thursday, 16 July, from 5pm at Two Mates Brewing, South Lismore.
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Six dwellings proposed on flood-prone Mullum block

The Echo - 0
Six units are proposed at the eastern end of New City Road, Mullumbimby, on a site that was inundated during the 2022 floods. Submitted by Duncan Band's Kollective, Development Application (DA) 10.2026.269.1 at 73 New City Road is on public exhibition with Byron Shire Council, and sits within the Shire's flood planning area.
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Mullum Scout Hall fire overnight

Aslan Shand - 0
At 1.45am this morning the NSW Fire and Rescue Mullumbimby Station 388 Sans and Brunswick Station 240 were called to a fire at the Mullumbimby Scout Hall.
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