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26-room Mullum seniors hostel on exhibition

A proposal to build a 26-room seniors hostel in Mullumbimby is back on the table, after being rejected by Byron Shire Council in December 2025.
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LettersSean Houlahan, Booyong - 0

Booyong Abattoir II

The ongoing discussion surrounding the Booyong Abattoir is about more than a single DA application. It raises broader questions...
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Local NewsAslan Shand - 0

Mullum Scout Hall fire overnight

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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Local NewsThe Echo - 0

Site confirmed for future high school at Pottsville

The NSW government says it has secured a site for a future high school in Pottsville, delivering on its commitment to future-proof public education for the growing Tweed community in the Northern Rivers.
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Byron EchoAnnie Radermacher, Brunswick Heads - 0

Sustainable infrastructure

I attended the last Byron Council meeting – thanks to the community members who were able to come. The frustration...
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26-room Mullum seniors hostel on exhibition

A proposal to build a 26-room seniors hostel in Mullumbimby is back on the table, after being rejected by Byron Shire Council in December 2025.
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LettersLouise Doran, Ocean Shores - 0

Economics of rail trail

Byron Shire and the North Coast is one of the fastest-growing regions on NSW’s east coast with millions of...
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Stories about "councils":

Can Council’s overturn their decisions?

Byron Echo Hans Lovejoy - 1
NSW Labor planning minister, Paul Scully, when asked about the Wallum estate by local MP Tamara Smith (Greens)  in parliament on March 20, said,...
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New DA ‘withdrawal guidelines’  

Local News Hans Lovejoy - 5
The NSW Labor government have announced new DA withdrawal guidelines for councils in an attempt to ‘boost housing supply’.
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Editorial: All hail, Supreme Unelected Planning Overlord

Editorial Hans Lovejoy - 0
I CYMI, Marcus Ray, Deputy Secretary NSW Planning, has been bestowed enormous powers by an ineffectual and weak NSW Labor planning minister.
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Emergency Services Levy ‘catastrophic’ for many councils

Local News The Echo - 0
New South Wales local councils’ peak body Local Government NSW (LGNSW) says the newly-elected NSW Government has kicked off its first term in the worst possible way.
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Grant me this

Local News Hans Lovejoy - 1
Let’s examine the grip on NSW councils by the state and federal governments! 
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FNC Councils wind down for lockdown

Local News The Echo - 0
Councils on the Far North Coast are closing several facilities and restricting some services owing to the statewide lockdown which began on Saturday evening.
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Local government elections postponed – again

Local News Mia Armitage - 2
NSW local government elections are postponed again due to the pandemic.
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$250m to councils for bushfire recovery

Local News The Echo - 1
NSW’s peak body for councils has welcomed $250 million in State and Commonwealth government funding to help local communities left reeling from the economic devastation of last summer’s bushfires.
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NSW councils to receive $395m stimulus package from govt

Local News The Echo - 0
NSW councils are set to receive a $395m economic stimulus package from the state government, in an effort ‘to save local jobs and support communities to recover from the economic impacts of COVID-19’.
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Govt ‘stacks deck’ on council amalgamations

National News The Echo - 0
The NSW government was stacking the deck against councils by demanding they meet own source revenue benchmarks and then slamming them as greedy when...
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Local News

Schools Roadshow heads to Lismore

The Echo - 0
The Rivers Secondary College Lismore High Campus will host 80 principals and public school leaders from across the North Coast and New England on Friday 26 June as part of the 2026 Schools Roadshow.
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Editorial

Could you be a better councillor?

Aslan Shand - 0
I had the opportunity to speak to the NSW Reconstruction Authority (NSW RA) last month. One of the matters I brought up was the proposed 57 Station Street, Mullumbimby development. It was clear that the only ‘community feedback’ they would be listening to supported housing development on that site.
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Letters

Discursion on ‘reserve’

Robert Podhajsky, Ocean Shores - 0
Reserve is a word with many meanings. What is the Reserve Bank of Australia? Does it have a ‘reserve’? Reserve means: To keep back or...
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Letters

Economics of rail trail

Louise Doran, Ocean Shores - 0
Byron Shire and the North Coast is one of the fastest-growing regions on NSW’s east coast with millions of tourists, not a dying country...
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