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Tibetan anniversary
May 23 marks 71 years since the Chinese Communist Party and the People's Liberation Army invaded and commenced the...
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Sculpture distilled at Husk
The inaugural outdoor exhibition, Sculpture Distilled, opens this week at Husk Farm Distillery and promises the opportunity to get...
Election 2022
As we edge closer to the federal election, Australia, like most advanced middle-ranking economies is facing some headwind challenges...
Interviews with Richmond candidates 2022: Independent Terry Sharples
Terry Sharples is a retired accountant living in the Tweed Shire and running as an Independent for the federal...
Busy time for Ballina Region for Refugees
BR4R has not let the floods and COVID slow things down, with lots of recent happenings and more planned for the future.
Health
I heard on the radio this morning (1 May) that a man spent ‘a record 48 hours’ in a...
‘Unprecedented’ but not unpredicted – we are now suffering from our failure to listen to scientists’ predictions of the impacts of climate change 30...
As Australians head into another election season just as many parts of the east coast are recovering from ‘unprecedented’ flooding since February, and the national psyche is still reeling from the trauma of the ‘unprecedented’ Black Summer bushfires before that, it is critical now more than ever to vote according to your environmental conscience and fear for the future.
Stories about "European Settlement":
The Richmond River and its bad health
It is no longer a secret; the Richmond River is in bad health.
2021 marked the establishment of a new project, the Coast Management Program...
Local News
Richmond candidates 2022: The Greens, Mandy Nolan
Mandy Nolan needs little introduction to most readers of The Echo, where she has a weekly column. She is a comedian and journalist running as a candidate for The Greens in the federal seat of Richmond.
Letters
The protest vote
Uncanny that in this federal election, in Richmond as elsewhere, the freedom/protest vote parties just about all preference the National or Liberal candidate. To...
Letters
Inflated Scomo
During his term, Scomo made plenty of decisions that helped lead us to the inflation we face today.
When he says we should not...
Letters
Our sitting member
The sitting member for Richmond, Labor’s Justine Elliott, is aptly named because, as far as I have seen, that’s all she’s done for the...
