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No Small Thing: NRCF Women’s Giving Circle event, Murwillumbah

Cheek Media founder, Hannah Ferguson, will headline a panel of prominent women leaders at the Regent Theatre in Murwillumbah next Thursday, in an event the organisers say brings, 'the kind of line-up you'd usually travel to Sydney for' to the Northern Rivers.
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Local NewsAslan Shand - 0

Morrison Avenue a ‘disgrace’

Local Mullumbimby residents are saying Byron Shire Council (BSC) needs to step up and fix Morrison Avenue properly.
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Big things are happening at The Paddock — and one of them has a flush

There are two milestones worth celebrating at The Paddock this season as they push ahead with their innovative project.
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In loving memory of Dr Tony Parkes AO PhD (1929 – 2026)

Dr Tony Parkes AO PhD, one of Australia’s most visionary conservation leaders and a pioneering force in ecological restoration, passed away last Thursday at the age of 96. He spent his final months at Honey Bee Homes in Ewingsdale.
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Lismore shops enchanted for Lantern Parade

Winners of Lismore’s Enchanted Windows comp have been announced, with The Two Ravens taking top spot. The comp is part of the city's Lantern Parade, to be held this Saturday, 20 June.
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Expansion on farmland around Tweed Valley Hospital opposed

Residents are holding firm against a proposal to develop State Significant Farmland (SSF) near the Tweed Valley Hospital at Cudgen, after the Northern Regional Planning Panel (NRPP) held a public meeting on Friday 19 June around the Planning Proposal for Cudgen Connection (PP-2023-2669-Cudgen Connection).
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Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: Plastic Is Forever

Our family has been trying to give up plastic. And I’m not just talking single-use straws or takeaway cups or bottled water. Like most people we did that years ago. I’m talking about all the other plastic that we ingest either directly or through chemical leaching. In the period of time since I was a child, to a child born now, the fossil fuel industry has become implicated in nearly every part of our daily routine.
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Experts question government claims on nature

National News The Echo - 0
The Australian government has just submitted a report to the United Nations on its progress to stop biodiversity loss by 2030. The Biodiversity Council has reviewed the 261 page report and says Australia is not on track to meet key commitments, including preventing extinctions, restoring degraded land and stopping government funding for activities that harm nature.
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Choosing extinction over science?

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Bob Brown Foundation says newly-released freedom of information documents show that the Albanese government chose to ignore the science relating to the threatened Maugean Skate and other species.
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Are we any closer to animal justice?

Articles & Columns David Lowe - 0
If you think it's been a tough year to be a human, consider our fellow earthlings for a moment.
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Murray Watt’s EPBC Bill will sink swift parrots, says Bob Brown Foundation

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Bob Brown Foundation has recorded critically endangered swift parrots across their Tasmanian breeding territory, in multiple forests on the logging schedule, including two nesting pairs of the critically endangered parrots in a forest behind Dover.
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Minns leaves koalas out in the cold as logging in Great Koala National Park continues

National News The Echo - 4
The Forest Alliance NSW has strongly criticised the Minns’ government budget for failing to allocate the money needed to deliver its promised Great Koala National Park and future forest industry reform.
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Leadbeater’s Possum discovered in NSW

Local News The Echo - 2
The NSW Government say its threatened species team has discovered a variety of possum thought to be extinct in the state.
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Conservation groups say it’s time to deliver the Great Koala National Park

National News The Echo - 3
Conservation groups have published an open letter calling on NSW Premier Chris Minns to declare the full 176,000 hectares assessed as the Great Koala National Park.
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Australia’s threatened species in crisis

National News The Echo - 8
The Albanese government, which committed to ‘no new extinctions’ in 2022, approved more than 25,000 hectares of threatened species habitat to be destroyed in 2024 – more than twice as much as the previous year, according to new analysis by the Australian Conservation Foundation.
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Report: overfishing threatens world’s sharks and rays

National News The Echo - 4
A new report has discovered that one third of shark and ray species are endangered, and two thirds of the endangered species are at risk of extinction by overfishing.
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Australian Koala Foundation bringing back Democracy Booklet

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The non-profit NGO Australian Koala Foundation (AKF) are preparing to re-launch a refreshed version of their Democracy Booklet initiative, ahead of the federal election this year.
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Consultation closes Friday on Lismore’s 60,000 population plans

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The future of Lismore is now up for discussion, with Council's Strategic Planning Framework currently out for public exhibition. Now is your time to have your say – consultation closes 26 June.
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Science in the Pub, Lismore, 16 July

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An engaging and informative Science in the Pub event is planned on Thursday, 16 July, from 5pm at Two Mates Brewing, South Lismore.
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Six dwellings proposed on flood-prone Mullum block

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Six units are proposed at the eastern end of New City Road, Mullumbimby, on a site that was inundated during the 2022 floods. Submitted by Duncan Band's Kollective, Development Application (DA) 10.2026.269.1 at 73 New City Road is on public exhibition with Byron Shire Council, and sits within the Shire's flood planning area.
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Mullum Scout Hall fire overnight

Aslan Shand - 0
At 1.45am this morning the NSW Fire and Rescue Mullumbimby Station 388 Sans and Brunswick Station 240 were called to a fire at the Mullumbimby Scout Hall.
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