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Mental health explored at Ballina symposium
250 people attended the first free Community Mental Health Symposium last Thursday at Ballina RSL, with a range of expert speakers from various organisations explaining the dimensions of the problem and how best to move forward.
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Recognising history
I arrived in Mullum from Sydney in 1976 – I loved the town and the people and felt like...
Revoke Splendour consent
The legislation that gave Splendour consent has been revoked. Splendour’s consent should also now be revoked.
Originally Byron Council gave...
Richmond Tweed Regional Library Mobile Library is on the road
Following the destruction of the previous trailer in this year’s unprecedented floods, a replacement trailer for the Richmond Tweed Regional Mobile Library has arrived – it's been polished and loaded with brand-new books and is on the road.
Criminalising protest
In another Sstate government descent into criminalising protest, to protect their own government’s sabotage of a liveable planet, last...
Council: Goonellabah park not available for pods
Tuesday’s debate in the Lismore Council chambers was mostly about the community’s need for open, green space for sport and recreation balanced against the need for places to live.
Where the Crawdads Sing
Abandoned by her family as a girl in the dangerous marshlands of North Carolina, Kya Clark, otherwise known to...
Stories about "coal":
Will Morrison’s gas-led recovery delete the IPCC’s belief we need climate action now?
Most Australians know the news, or have had firsthand experiences themselves, of two years of floods, fires, coastal erosion, and storms, both here and overseas. In fact Australia has warmed on average by 1.44 ± 0.24 °C since national records began in 1910.
Greens: Morrison’s budget makes housing more expensive and funds more coal and gas
Though many in the Northern Rivers are too distracted to even know it happened, the Australian Greens have slammed the government’s final budget.
Adam Bandt on the floods, housing, the third party and Mandy Nolan
This week Greens head honcho Adam Bandt spent time in Mullumbimby to see for himself the crushing result of the floods.
Students vow to continue fighting
Eight high school students who took the Federal Environment Minister to court claiming she has a duty to avoid causing harm from climate change have promised to keep fighting for stronger climate action in Australia.
The Coal Monster’s victims could dwarf the impacts of COVID-19
Healthcare workers staged a climate ‘die-in’ in Melbourne this morning with leading public health advocates, healthcare workers and community members are taking action outside the offices of what they say is Australia’s biggest climate polluter, AGL.
Liberal and Labor called on to stop coal and gas mining
At the Glasgow UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) that has now wrapped up has made it clear – coal and gas exploration and new mines need to stop if we are to have any chance of keeping the rise in temperature to 1.5 degrees.
IPC fails at reducing emissions: report
A NSW planning commission tasked with assessing large fossil fuel projects has been found to have ‘comprehensively failed’ in mitigating greenhouse emissions, according to a report published by Griffith University Emeritus Professor Ian Lowe.
Pennings and Adani to continue court battle
The Supreme Court has formalised orders agreed out of court by both Adani and Ben Pennings in relation to a decision handed down on 25 June 2021.
Will the Shenhua Watermark coal mine be cancelled?
News is trickling through unofficial channels about the possibility of a Berejiklian government plan to buy out the remaining licence from the Shenhua Watermark coal mine project at Breeze in the state's west.
NSW coal power stations still emitting dangerous levels of air pollution
New National Pollutant Inventory data shows that toxic air emissions from the state’s coal-fired power stations fell 15% in the year to June 2020, but they are still among the most polluting industrial facilities in NSW.
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Have your say on aged care facility in Kingscliff
The developers of new $150 million redevelopment ‘designed to meet the growing and evolving needs of seniors in the region’, are inviting Kingscliff residents to take part in community consultation.
Byron Echo
Fuel stolen from farmer
Aslan Shand - 0
The cost of fuel continues to be a major consideration in the budget, particularly in country areas where distances travelled are inevitably further for your average daily needs like accessing shops, schools and other activities.
Byron Echo
Developer proposes light industrial in Federal
Paul Bibby - 0
Tasteful, reasonable and useful? Or noisy, oversized and intrusive? This is the question at the heart of the debate over a light industrial development that has been proposed for the heart of Federal.
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‘We’re back!’ Homecoming for The Channon market
Eve Jeffery - 0
The reverberations of the February and March floods reached far beyond things most people expected – one of those things was the state of Coronation Park at The Channon where every second Sunday of the month one of the biggest and best markets on the Far North Coast is held.