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Public housing forum/doco May 16
A documentary exploring the devastating impacts of losing one’s home owing to the privatisation and demolition of public housing assets will be screened May 16 at the Palace Cinema.
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Dog attack kills another wallaby at Cosy Corner, Tallow Beach
Wednesday saw another wallaby put down after a suspected dog attack on the beach at Byron Bay, the second in a short period of time.
Food security workshop May 11
How can we as a community ensure that a steady supply of nutritious food is available to everyone after a natural disaster?
From gumboot throwing to a gnome known as Costa
Permaculture is the foundation of the 30th anniversary weekend celebrations at the Djanbung Gardens over the weekend of May 25-26.
DV
Call it for what it is, murder and violent assault.
The terms ‘domestic violence’ or worse ‘DV’ appear to give...
Waiting for Assange
A major turning point in his son’s freedom campaign only twelve days away, John Shipton exuded calm and at times, joy, during an intimate forum in Mullumbimby last week.
2022 flood data will not be incorporated into Council planning ‘at this stage’
With the recent release of local flood data from the devastating 2022 floods now public, Council staff have told The Echo there is no budget this year to apply for funding to incorporate it into their planning instruments.
Stories about "Elevator ARI":
The Future of Toys rising from the floods
Future of Toys is an exhibition featuring new inventions from 22 children from across the Northern Rivers will open next week at Elevator ARI, presented in conjunction with the Lismore Regional Gallery.
Byron Echo
Free all the people
By any account, the current ongoing humanitarian tragedy in Gaza today needs thorough analysis, to objectively understand the causes as to why this ongoing...
Local News
Exploring the Burmese struggle in Byron, May 30
Rosemary and previously, her late husband, have been teaching, then quietly building clean water systems for villages and schools in the ‘dry region’ of Burma / Myanmar for years.
Local News
Freemasonry looks to its future
Meet the Freemasonry Grand PooBah of Lodge Cavanbah in Byron Bay, Nick Towers.
Local News
Labor NSW spruiks healthcare worker incentives as QLD continues to poach
More than a thousand nursing graduates and students have received offers under Labor’s NSW Tertiary Health Study Subsidy Program as part of state efforts to counter staff shortages.