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Coercive control incidents rise across Northern Rivers

Recorded incidents of coercive control have increased across the Northern Rivers in the second year of NSW’s new coercive control laws, with 30 incidents recorded in the Richmond-Tweed region since the offence came into effect.
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Byron EchoTerry Hand, Mullumbimby - 0

Development? Where now?

So Cr Michael Lyon (Facebook, 17 September) has indicated that he no longer supports housing development for the 57...
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Byron EchoIan Blair Hamilton, Byron Bay - 0

Jo Immig’s article

I am looking at Jo Immig’s article in last week’s Echo, where she said the reasons human have been...
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Local NewsThe Echo - 0

What’s behind the Green Seats of Clarence Valley?

The Green Seats of the Clarence Valley are more than somewhere to sit – they are a reminder that missing people must not become forgotten people and that families should not have to stop asking questions simply because decades have passed.
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Local NewsThe Echo - 0

The Pocket Road to close later this month

The Pocket Road will be closed for several months from 28 September to repair a culvert originally built in 1960.
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Entertainment NewsThe Echo - 0

Greasing up Bright Lights

Bright Lights senior musical theatre troupe is proud to present Grease for their 2026 musical production.
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Byron EchoCatherine Cusack - 0

Time to create a new politics

Climate change is happening faster than we thought and Australia is set to fall well short of its 2030 renewable energy target of 82 per cent.
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Stories about "development in Byron":

Editorial: Ready for the upright position…

Editorial The Echo - 0
There wasn’t space in other parts of the paper to cover all the important planning decisions that were made last Thursday by our glorious and courageous councillors.
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Another large Byron DA seeks to breach policy 

Local News Paul Bibby - 2
Locals have expressed concern about a $3m hotel and retail development proposed for Marvell Street Byron Bay, saying a lack of sufficient parking will place extra pressure on the town’s already-crowded streets.
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Ross and Max to the fore: Dirty tactics key to undermining the opposition

Articles & Columns David Lovejoy - 1
As the Club Med battle described in the previous episode approached its climax, the leader of Council’s conservatives, Ross Tucker, decided on a diversion.
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What is a developer?

Letters Aslan Shand - 5
Matthew O’Reilly, Saddle Road A little more than ten years ago I was the Northern Territory delegate to the Australian Greens national conference. At that conference...
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Councillors bastardising our planning system

Letters The Echo - 0
Dailan Pugh, Byron Bay. Affordable housing has become the justification for inappropriate development in inappropriate places. It was the mantra used to justify West Byron, Habitat, allowing second dwellings throughout rural and urban areas, waiving developer contributions and a myriad of developments.
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Local News

New laws set to influence local live music scene

The Echo - 0
New NSW laws designed to support live music venues have been passed months after Byron Shire Council abandoned plans for a Special Entertainment Precinct in Byron Bay.
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Local News

Shark drone operator rescues six-year-old at Lighthouse Beach

The Echo - 0
A shark surveillance drone operator at Ballina’s Lighthouse Beach has found himself carrying out a very different kind of rescue after spotting a six-year-old boy struggling in the surf.
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Local News

Red alert issued for potentially toxic algae at Lake Ainsworth

The Echo - 0
People are being warned to stay out of Lake Ainsworth at Lennox Head after testing detected high levels of potentially toxic blue-green algae.
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Byron Echo

Appalling leadership

Rod Murray, Ocean Shores - 0
While the PM spins and avoids transparency and the foreign minister prefers to yell abuse to take up time and never gives a straight...
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