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Greens urged to back pathway to end native forest logging

Some of NSW’s most respected and long-standing forest campaigners and scientists have today urged the Greens not to support the Nationals' attempt to disallow the Improved Native Forest Management (INFM) method.
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It’s Scam Awareness Week

Quick thinking and strong scams awareness from a bank branch manager has prevented a woman from losing almost $10,000 to an impersonation scam.
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Byron EchoJim Ewan, Main Arm - 0

Happy councillors

Our councillors should be happy, even proud to be part of a community that so values participatory democracy. A...
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Articles & ColumnsDr Will Tregoning, CEO of Unharm - 0

How to stop overdoses? Dr Will Tregoning has some thoughts

With International Overdose Awareness Day approaching on 31 August, NSW now has the evidence, the tools and record overdose deaths but lacks the will on permanent, community based pill testing.
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Local NewsThe Echo - 0

Cameras rolling on Ballina crime fight

A $1 million CCTV network targeting crime hotspots and major roads in Ballina and Lennox Head is finally moving into the installation phase, following years of calls for greater surveillance across the shire.
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Byron EchoThe Echo - 0

Mullum Gold Club charity day Saturday

This Saturday, 29 August  the Mullumbimby Golf Club (MGC) is hosting its rescheduled MND (Motor Neurone Disease) Charity Day in honour of Steve Ryan.
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Entertainment NewsThe Echo - 0

Byron’s Philo Café

Byron’s long-running discussion group – Byron Philo Café – is inviting members of the general public to join them on Friday, 4 September, at Marvell Hall, to welcome one of Australia’s most respected journalists.
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Consumer watchdog asked to investigate MasterChef ‘renewable gas’ claims

National News The Echo - 2
Claims that ‘renewable gas’ is making MasterChef 'greener' are under scrutiny following a complaint to the ACCC.
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Santos’ approval to drill for gas north of the Tiwi Islands invalid

National News The Echo - 4
In a landmark decision, the Federal Court of Australia has invalidated Santos’ approval to drill for gas in the sea north of the Tiwi Islands.
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Federal Resources Minister’s grant to fracking company invalid

National News The Echo - 2
The Federal Court has found that Federal Resources Minister Keith Pitt’s decision to grant $21 million of public money to private company Imperial Oil & Gas to pursue fracking in the Beetaloo Basin was invalid.
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Transforming lives, empowering individuals and uniting communities

Local News The Echo - 0
A Sound Life, Australia’s first charity to transform the lives of people in need through free music, yoga and meditation programs is having an event this Sunday as a fundraiser for the COVID crisis in India.
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Legal obstacle to Narrabri Gas Project

National News The Echo - 5
A community group has launched a legal appeal against the NSW Independent Planning Commission’s approval of the controversial Narrabri Gas Project, in the state’s north west.
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Bushfire survivors launch legal action against EPA

National News The Echo - 0
With Australia dealing with one disaster after another of biblical proportions, one group of people believe that the power to change the course of the future lies in the hands of a government department.
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EDO and HSI legal case challenges drum lines in marine park

National News Eve Jeffery - 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_ix0FNAfAw A court challenge to a permit for lethal shark drum lines within the Great Barrier Reef will begin next week in Brisbane, as dozens...
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Great Barrier Reef: environment minister’s unlawful decision on land clearing

National News The Echo - 1
Federal minister for the environment has now conceded that the decision to apply the least rigorous environmental assessment to the proposed clearing of 2,100 ha of native vegetation in the Great Barrier Reef catchment was unlawful.
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Land clearing laws ‘a licence to kill’

Local News The Echo - 0
A meeting at Marvell Hall in Byron Bay on Thursday heard the Nature Conservation Council outline its plans to take the NSW Government to court over its controversial land clearing laws.
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Swimathon for the Great Barrier Reef

Local News Aslan Shand - 0
It is time to save the reef! After the success of last year's first swim for the reef in Mullumbimby organiser Josh Scott-Jouir is putting out the call to locals to get involved in raising money for the EDO through a swimathon in Mullum pool.
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Ballina Council makes decision on Ross Lane

David Lowe - 0
With the absence of all four of its progressive councillors for various reasons, Ballina Council pushed ahead with its agenda at yesterday's monthly meeting, including a decision which is likely to close Ross Lane for months while the road is upgraded.
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Mullumbimby puts new governance models first, and now wants to build it

The Echo - 0
Imagine Northern Rivers says Mullumbimby is the only community across the region to rank new models of governance and decision-making as the number one element of its preferred future, and last week locals gathered to work out how to make it real.
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Local News

Appeal to locate man missing from Broadwater

The Echo - 0
Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate a local missing man.
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Katie Milne responds to Tweed’s draft housing and employment strategy

The Echo - 0
The former mayor of Tweed Shire Council, Kate Milne, has shared her submission to Tweed's Draft Growth Management Housing & Employment Strategy.
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