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Union wants mandatory vaccination across the board
Representatives of NSW prison officers say they are demanding mandatory vaccinations be adopted across the NSW justice system, with the union saying inmates who refuse the jab should face the same public health restrictions unvaccinated members of the public do.
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Viruses
Viruses are organisms at the edge of life and possess genes, evolve by natural selection, and reproduce by creating...
COVID update – sewage detection in East and South Lismore and Byron Bay
Northern NSW Local Health District is urging people in the Lismore City and Byron Bay areas to get tested for COVID-19, after fragments of the virus were detected in samples from the East Lismore, South Lismore and Byron Bay sewage treatment plants.
Entertainment in the Byron Shire for the week beginning 15 September, 2021
Inception – Byron Theatre’s first post-lockdown live event
Cancelled twice owing to the local lockdown, Three Lords’ Inception and AV...
Bangalow’s modern baker
S Haslam
Being a baker in a modern town like Bangalow these days involves a lot more than getting up...
The old slouch hat
‘This is my favourite,’ we say
espite the painfully obvious fact
that we all, from time to time
enjoy a wide variety...
Sometimes you’ve just got to laugh
I confess to having no clinical or medical training, but my reading of some of the literature increasingly tells me that laughter, and the hormones that trigger it, is a powerful healing and comforting tool that serves to help us cope with stress, anxiety, trauma and the challenges associated with living and navigating modern life.
Stories about "Dunoon Dam":
Ballina mayor hopeful and Dunoon Dam advocate loses bid for new water science team
Cr Cadwallader said earlier this year she’d be running for mayor in the next local government elections and that water security, particularly the dumped Dunoon Dam proposal, would be one of her key campaign issues.
Cartoon of the week – 8 September, 2021
The deadline for the Byron Echo newspaper is noon Friday and letters longer than 200 words may be cut for the paper.
Dam it Dunoon!
Jen Ireland, The Channon
It would seem that a dam at Dunoon is still on some people’s minds. It has actually been on a lot of...
Outdated dam greed
Léandra Martiniello, Whian Whian
The ‘conservative progressives’ cry outdated greedy and destructive methods of supplying water to the people, driven by the colonial mentality (Dunoon Dam).
I...
Widjabul Wia-bal and the Dunoon Dam
Those supporting the proposed Dunoon Dam seem to be living back in a time-warp of Terra Nullius.
Is population growth the real reason for the Dunoon Dam push?
It’s very clear that the State government’s push for population growth is the main driving force behind the proposed revisit of the Dunoon Dam
Independent assessment needed to determine use of Alstonville aquifers
The Save Alstonville Aquifer Group have raised concerns regarding the potential impact on the aquifer of making it part of the Rous County Council...
Criticism of Ballina Cr Cadwallader’s water election tactics
The Ballina Environment Society (BES) has accused Ballina Councillor Sharon Cadwallader of politicising water security by using ‘the Dunoon Dam as one of her key concerns in her bid for mayor in September’s local government elections’.
MP steps into Dunoon Dam debate as county council defends and defies
The Rous County Council has again voted against including a new dam in future water security investigations but new state political pressure suggests the debate is far from over.
Our water future – Rous County Council
Hugh Nicholson, The Channon
A spokesperson for Our Future Northern Rivers (OFNR), explains clearly why the OFNR position on water supply for this region is...
Letters
Champion a cause
Delighted to read Dan Reade’s letter (September 1) calling for everyone to take a new cause to champion. I have it, it’s called true...
Local News
COVID-19 updated venues of concern in Lismore and Goonellabah
Northern NSW Local Health District has been notified of a number of venues of concern in Lismore and Goonellabah, associated with a confirmed case of COVID-19 in the region.
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Second confirmed COVID case in Lismore
Acting Chief Executive Northern NSW Local Health District, Lynne Weir says there one new case of COVID-19 has been confirmed in a resident of the Northern NSW Local Health District.
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Mandatory mask
Mandatory mask wearing is not working. Supermarkets can’t seem to enforce this, unfortunately. If like me, you see a young couple with two children...
