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How is RT-PCR used to diagnose COVID-19?
It’s fast, reliable and full of lines – but might look different to the PCR you learned about in school.
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More than 8,000 free meals given away in Ballina lockdown
Around 8,000 free meals were given to a dramatically increased number of people needing them in Ballina over the lockdown period starting 9 August.
Did NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian bow to media pressure?
After announcing last Friday that she would discontinue her daily press conference and the media backlash that followed, New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian was back at her post at 11am today fronting the camera and question
No blank cheques
Since the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its damming ‘code-red’ report on the impending climate emergency...
Bangalow’s modern baker
S Haslam
Being a baker in a modern town like Bangalow these days involves a lot more than getting up...
Face masks
I was just wondering if anyone has the answer to this question:
If face masks have the ability to contain...
Cartoon of the week – 15 September, 2021
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Stories about "Drought":
Sixth time’s the charm: new IPCC report shows climate is still changing
IPCC releases sixth major assessment report, and it’s clear that the biggest threat now is delay.
On track to three degrees of warming
Our planet has warmed by 1.1 degrees, on average, since the Industrial Revolution, and Australia has warmed by 1.4 degrees since 1910 when records of temperature measurements began.
SCU named as partner in two national drought hubs
Southern Cross University has been announced as playing a crucial partnership role in two new Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hubs.
How On Earth do we create a positive future?
How on Earth is a youth production put on by the Byron Youth Theatre that had sell-out shows in Byron Shire last November that looked at how young people are managing their ever changing world.
Planet Watch: Regenerative agriculture as one answer to planetary crisis
Over the last few decades, modern industrialised agriculture has wrought havoc on natural systems. It has razed forests, decimated biodiversity, and has done immense damage to soils.
Start taking action on World Environment Day
Today, 5 June, is World Environment Day and the theme is ‘Time for Nature’. It is a theme that asks you to consider the fact that the food we eat, the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the climate of the earth are what allows us to exist and inhabit this small blue dot in the ever expanding universe.
Creating jobs and bushfire proofing a boon for the environment
As the government talks about getting the economy going by proposing the removal of regulations on development, subsidising gas and reducing environmental requirements for coal seam gas development the Rainforest 4 Foundation is taking the opposite approach.
Lismore City Council calls on government for help
Lismore Councillors are calling on both state and federal governments for support as the community and Council’s workforce suffer disaster fatigue.
Cartoon of the week – January 15, 2020
Letters to the editor
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Planet Watch: Farmers, forests & climate change
Farmers, forests and climate change: The way that humans use and change the land and its vegetation can have a profound effect on the climate, and can either counteract or exacerbate climate change.
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Queensland passes voluntary assisted dying laws
Dying with Dignity NSW has welcomed the passage of Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) laws in Queensland and is hoping that NSW Parliament resumes next month so that this issue can be addressed in NSW without further delay.
Byron Echo
A moment of your life?
Six questions for Jehovah’s Witness doorknockers:
1. Are you aware that the 2016 Royal Commission into Institutional Handling of Child Sexual Abuse investigated 1006 alleged...
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Local mum features in documentary about the impacts and possible solutions around suicide
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Murwillumbah mum Ursula has lived every parents worst nightmare – her child, at the age of just 17, took his own life – and a lot of time and energy, questions and conjecture and finger-pointing can rumble around this, but at the end of the day Ursula’s precious boy is gone and he’s not coming back.
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The Greens and Ballina Council
With the Greens announcing their intention to contest the Ballina Shire local government election to be held in December this year, we can only...
