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Youth arrested over Nimbin shooting
A 20-year-old has been charged over a shooting that took place in the middle of the day near the centre of Nimbin.
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NSW Parliament off for a month, with full pay
With COVID-19 cases surging across Sydney and defence forces being deployed in the city, NSW Parliament put out a brief statement last week saying MPs will not sit in the month of August ‘owing to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in NSW’.
Bruns North Arm
Jillian Spring, BillinudgelRegarding your article ‘A positive change to bring back the Bruns’, (Echo, 14 July).
Since 2013/14 submissions to Council,...
Climate change duty of care campaigners risk jail
Environmental activists say a 48-year-old Lismore nurse will face court on Wednesday in Canberra over protest stunts at the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association's headquarters.
To kill all Jews? No…
Subhi Awad, Mullumbimby
With respect to Wakil and Macklin (Letters, 21 July) the assertion that the Palestinian resistance wants to kill...
Sticking to facts
Roger Cotgreave, Byron Bay
Thanks to The Echo for reporting scientific facts around the pandemic and not relying on social media...
Medical government
Peter Olson, Goonengerry
The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, Article 20: ‘Everyone has the right to peaceful assembly and association’....
Stories about "Family and personal violence":
Family and personal violence – the law plays catch up
How can it be that the response of the Prime Minister’s office to an allegation of rape in parliament house was to background journalists negatively about her partner? And that this bullying and re-victimising of the victim did not excite, at the very least, a police or judicial inquiry?
Local News
NSW Parliament off for a month, with full pay
With COVID-19 cases surging across Sydney and defence forces being deployed in the city, NSW Parliament put out a brief statement last week saying MPs will not sit in the month of August ‘owing to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in NSW’.
Local News
Markets could return to Byron’s Butler St Reserve
Paul Bibby - 2
Byron’s weekly farmers’ market may return to its traditional home in Butler Street Reserve after detailed soil testing found that the park was less contaminated than was feared.
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Push to create transitional accommodation at Lot 22
Paul Bibby - 0
Should the Council-owned plot of land in Mullumbimby, known as Lot 22, be used for temporary accommodation for those at risk of homelessness, as a matter of urgency?
Byron Echo
Sticking to facts
Roger Cotgreave, Byron Bay
Thanks to The Echo for reporting scientific facts around the pandemic and not relying on social media ‘research’. Also a big thanks...
