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Weaving through NAIDOC
DJ and Delta with some of the Weaving for Reconciliation exhibits. Photo Jeff Dawson.
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Australian-first Surf Series and workshops ends in Lennox Head on Sunday
It might be cold outside but that's not stopping women who love to surf and over 100 women and girls will participate in the first female event series in Australia on Sunday at Lennox Head.
Weaving through NAIDOC
DJ and Delta with some of the Weaving for Reconciliation exhibits. Photo Jeff Dawson.
Australia to light the way with industrial-scale power
Big ideas are easy. Finding the big money and big names to back them is not. But a long-term plan to turn WA’s Pilbara into the largest renewable energy hub in the world has just taken a giant leap forward.
NSW Farmers: post-flood job losses are devastating
People need jobs if an area is to survive and many businesses have been crippled when successive major floods devastated the region earlier this year.
Editorial – Byron Council report card
Did you know it’s been six months since councillors were elected? They have another two years to go, and while a usual term is a gruelling four years, this time, it’s shorter, owing to a disrupting bat virus.
A poem
Row upon row
Lest we forget
the rows of trees
they planted to recall
the rows of boys
they sent to die
in the war
Jon...
Stories about "David Munk":
Munk asks for support to help his quest for international success
Medal-winning paralympian David Munk has returned to the water and is now trying to raise $20,000 to help him win an adaptive surfing world...
Byron Echo
Management of Byron’s fragile coastline impeded by NSW government: report
Insufficient funding and guidance from the State government is inhibiting Byron Council’s attempt to effectively manage its famous but fragile coastline, a Council report has revealed.
Local News
Road workers strike first time in decades
Road workers, construction crews and other Transport for NSW workers will walk off the job for the first time in decades on Thursday, as frustrations over the NSW Government's effective pay cut boil over.
Local News
Extreme fire weather days in Australia have doubled
Extreme fire weather days in Australia have doubled, yet according to new research from an international team of scientists, including the CSIRO, extreme fire weather days have increased in Australia by 56 per cent over the last four decades.
Entertainment News
Entertainment in the Byron Shire for the week beginning 6 July, 2022
Now showing at HOTA (Home of the Arts), Come From Away tells the remarkable true story of thousands of stranded passengers and the small town in Newfoundland, Canada, that welcomed them all.