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Green Heroes among 2026 NSW Environment Award winners

The NSW Environment Awards, hosted by the state’s leading environmental advocacy organisation, Nature Conservation Council NSW, was recently held at Customs House in Sydney.
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Cinema: 500 Miles

Is it even possible to not love a film with Bill Nighy? Well, no! In this beautiful, sweeping and life-affirming adventure that celebrates the human spirit, 500 Miles follows a broken family that must come together when two young boys, Charlie and Finn, run away from home in England to reach their beloved but estranged grandfather (Nighy) on the west coast of Ireland.
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Byron EchoSteve Bellerby, Mullumbimby - 0

Sad: 57 Station St

If the proposed ‘affordable’ housing development is ever built on the car park at 57 Station Street, Mullumbimby it...
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Kinvara centre relocation would allow taller shop-top housing

The planned village centre at Kinvara, west of Lennox Head, would move to flatter land and allow taller shop-top housing under planning changes now open for public comment.
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Casino Truck Show crowned NSW’s Best Visitor Experience

The North Coast Petroleum Casino Truck Show has taken out the Outstanding Visitor Experience category at the 2026 NSW Business Awards in Sydney.
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Legend Groove Terminator at the Nudge

Nudge Nudge Wink Wink returns to the Billinudgel Hotel on Saturday with Australian dance music icon Groove Terminator headlining fresh local talent and our beloved residents – all ready to deliver a serious dose of dance delight, all while supporting youth mental health organisation Human Nature Adventure Therapy.
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Byron EchoAnnie Radermacher, Brunswick Heads - 0

Our rates, infrastructure and future

It’s time for our community to come together with purpose and demand accountability. Residents have legitimate questions about cumulative...
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Stories about "Buybacks":

Consultants hired for Tweed’s vacated floodplains

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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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Remembrance Day 2026: 11am, 11 November

The Echo - 0
It is estimated that in WWl there were 20 million dead and 20 million injured. From a population base of fewer than five million,...
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Love books? Join Friends of the Library

The Echo - 0
Friends of the Libraries, Byron Shire are looking for some fresh, new, younger faces to join the group and help keep it moving forward.
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NSW News

Racehorses shot for pet food by NSW breeder

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Thirteen thoroughbred horses deemed no longer useful, have been destroyed with eight horses destroyed by firearm at Berkeley Park Stud.
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Byron Bay Surf Lifesaving Club youngsters shine

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Two young members of Byron Bay Surf Lifesaving Club have delivered outstanding performances at the Paddle NSW State Sprint Championships, held at the Penrith International Regatta Centre over the weekend.
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