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Insurrectionists released, Nazi salutes – day 1 of Trump 2.0

Incoming US President and convicted felon Donald Trump delivered on his promise to be a dictator on day one of his second presidency, defying his own country's laws and rejecting the institutions of international allies as he sought to 'Make America Great Again'.

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Power bikes on footpath

Walking along the footpath between Clifford Street and the service station in Suffolk, quite a few times recently, the...

Feedback

Mandy Nolan’s column (Echo, December 11, 2024) title ‘You want my feedback?’ demands that very thing about one very...

Bushfire preparedness – red tape slashed

Bushfire preparedness – red tape slashed

What’s needed to win?

Mandy Nolan has been advertising that the Greens only need 1.8 per cent to win so l decided to...

Community meeting in Goonellabah to look at youth crime and intervention

‘We need people to come together to help our youth,’ says Bradley Walker, CEO of the Magpie Community Centre based in Goonellabah. 

Report: overfishing threatens world’s sharks and rays

A new report has discovered that one third of shark and ray species are endangered, and two thirds of the endangered species are at risk of extinction by overfishing.

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Still a long way until we close the gap

The Productivity Commission's latest Annual Data Compilation Report (ADCR), which tracks progress towards the targets and indicators in the National Agreement on Closing the Gap, shows that only five of 19 targets are on track to be met.

Fear, lies and loathing in Australia

Most Australian households have now received their Voice referendum booklet in the mail. It looks quite official and is being distributed by the Australian Electoral Commission. Unfortunately the contents haven't been fact checked. Like most other forms of federal political advertising, lying and misinformation in this context is completely legal.

More information on the Closing the Gap Agreement

The Productivity Commission has released the second Annual Data Compilation Report. It provides a point-in-time snapshot of data for monitoring progress under the National Agreement on Closing the Gap, signed in July 2020.

Major fire on mid-north coast

Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) crews are currently battling a significant fire at the Nambucca Heads Leagues and Sports Club, on the state's mid-north coast.

Australia’s threatened species in crisis

The Albanese government, which committed to ‘no new extinctions’ in 2022, approved more than 25,000 hectares of threatened species habitat to be destroyed in 2024 – more than twice as much as the previous year, according to new analysis by the Australian Conservation Foundation.

Claims that Lismore squatters creating a ‘ghetto’ refuted

Claims by Federal Member for Page Kevin Hogan that ‘Labor governments are creating a ghetto in our community’ in Lismore have been refuted by the local, grassroots, Lismore group Reclaim Our Recovery.

Safety concerns stop kids travelling to school alone

New research released today reveals that more than half of primary school children are now driven or accompanied to and from school by another adult, with only a third of parents allowing their kids to travel to school unaccompanied or with other kids.