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Two deaths in Northern Rivers in previous 24 hours, 29 across the state
There were another two deaths reported in the Northern NSW Local Health District (NNSWHD) to 8pm 26 January with 44 people in hospital and five in ICU.
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Toilet-to-tap ‘best water in Oz’
Congratulations, Casino! Casino is to represent Australia in an international competition after being voted as having the ‘best-tasting tap...
Ballina community leaders honoured
Koala conservationist Maria Matthes was named Ballina's Citizen of the Year in yesterday's Australia Day Awards, which were closed to the public but livestreamed from the Lennox Head Cultural Centre.
COVID-19 update: restrictions extended by a month
The State's COVID-19 restrictions have been extended for a month, as another 29 people with the virus passed away.
TGA grants Provisional approval of oral COVID-19 treatments
At last, some good news on the COVID front: the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has provisionally approved the first oral antiviral treatments for COVID-19.
Daintree buyback sees more forest retained
Over the last two-and-a-half years, the Mullumbimby based Rainforest 4 Foundation has had a mission to buy back parts of the Daintree Lowland Rainforest that were subdivided for sale in the 1980s.
Boat people we are
We here in this country, now called Australia, need to be reminded that we started off as ‘boat people’.
The...
Stories about "effluent":
Effluent for Belongil Creek or a sustainable blueprint for Belongil recovery?
Council is currently implementing a project that will further ignore the reuse option and drain effluent down a shorter flowpath to the Belongil estuary. But what do the community want the sewage treatment plant in Byron to achieve?
Institutional forgetting
David Pont, Indonesia
Council’s plan to shorten the route of excess treated effluent to the Belongil carries serious implications. Let’s dig down by looking at the...
Tweed effluent discharge warning
Tweed Shire Council is warning residents to avoid contact with parts of the Terranora Broadwater, Cobaki Broadwater and Terranora Creek following a discharge of raw sewage in the Terranora Inlet, following an incident at the Banora Point Wastewater Treatment Plant last week.
Local News
Vaccinating koalas against chlamydia
Koala chlamydia affects 60 per cent of koalas that are admitted to the Currumbin Wildlife Hospital and is having a significant impact on koalas in the region. The figures have continued to rise each year.
Local News
Lismore Citizen of the Year
Recognising her tireless work in helping people living with Parkison’s Disease Di Lymbury was awarded Lismore Citizen of the Year.
Byron Echo
RAT upcycling available in Mullum
Paul Bibby - 0
Most of us have been far more concerned about how to get hold of rapid antigen tests (RATs) over the past few months than what happens to the plastic testing kits after use.
Byron Echo
Bill will not prevent social media trolling: Law Council
The nation’s peak law advocay legal body, The Law Council of Australia, is calling for a nationally consistent approach to law reform as ‘the best defence against social media defamation’.
