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Green Heroes among 2026 NSW Environment Award winners

The NSW Environment Awards, hosted by the state’s leading environmental advocacy organisation, Nature Conservation Council NSW, was recently held at Customs House in Sydney.
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Byron EchoSteve Bellerby, Mullumbimby - 0

Sad: 57 Station St

If the proposed ‘affordable’ housing development is ever built on the car park at 57 Station Street, Mullumbimby it...
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Cinema: 500 Miles

Is it even possible to not love a film with Bill Nighy? Well, no! In this beautiful, sweeping and life-affirming adventure that celebrates the human spirit, 500 Miles follows a broken family that must come together when two young boys, Charlie and Finn, run away from home in England to reach their beloved but estranged grandfather (Nighy) on the west coast of Ireland.
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NSW commits $3 million for Saddle Road sewer link

The NSW Government will spend $3 million on a sewer link for the Saddle Road housing precinct near Brunswick Heads, a connection it says could service up to 600 residential lots.
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Fatal injury in Ocean Shores

About 2pm on Friday 30 October 2026, emergency services were called to a home on Warrambool Road, Ocean Shores, following reports a man had been injured.
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Make a SHIFT and support women at risk of homelessness

The Small SHIFT: I Will Survive event where seven women, spanning seven decades, tell their story in seven minutes, is back for the fourth year running on Thursday, 5 November.
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Byron EchoJohn Anderson, Coorabell - 0

Chumps: certain fools

I noticed in a recent edition of The Echo what I regard as the most enduringly relevant of the...
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Stories about "Farmers":

Gas exploration safeguards questioned

National News The Echo - 0
The state’s peak farming organisation has called on the NSW government to answer urgent questions about how it will protect groundwater, farm biosecurity, and landholders as it promotes new gas exploration areas in the west of the state.
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Support for north coast farmers’ mental health

Local News The Echo - 1
The Minns government is investing in the mental health of regional communities with a new $335,000 12-month pilot program to support the mental wellbeing of farmers on the north coast.
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Tweed farmers encouraged to apply for $4,000 funding

Local News The Echo - 1
Tweed Shire Council is once again offering the Sustainable Agriculture Small Grants Program, designed to encourage best practice and inspire environmental creativity in agricultural activities across our community.
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Rural roads need a path to recovery

Local News The Echo - 0
The recent and continuing rains have turned many of our roads into a sodden mud puddle and the NSW Farmers have renewed calls for real action on road infrastructure funding after continual damage on roads and bridges across the state.
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Food security at stake, say NSW Farmers

National News The Echo - 1
Australia will be unable to feed itself and farmers will be driven out of business unless radical action is taken to reform the supermarket retail sector, NSW Farmers has told a senate inquiry today. 
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Farmers managing climate change

National News The Echo - 16
New research from Charles Darwin University shows that Australian farmers are becoming climate change innovators by making significant strategic decisions, such as planting crops at different times, to better position their businesses and accommodate climate change uncertainty.
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Farmers and families at mercy of retail giants

National News The Echo - 4
NSW Farmers is calling for an ACCC inquiry into the supermarket retail sector as fair prices for consumers and farmers remain nowhere in sight.
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Thank a farmer for National Ag Day

National News The Echo - 2
The national charity Rural Aid is encouraging Australia to put farmers front of mind today, on National Ag Day.
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Sustainable and regenerative farming

Byron Echo Jordyn de Boer - 0
Aussie farmers are a particularly fine vintage. In fact, the average age of an Australian farmer is between 50 and 60 years old. This is the result of a number of interconnected social, economic and ecological challenges that typically inhibit the success of aspiring farmers. 
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Farmers and families ‘disappointed but not surprised’ by Bentley quarry decision

Local News Eve Jeffery - 0
Last week the Northern Regional Planning Panel handed down a decision to approve the Bentley Quarry to the dismay of many of the local farmers and families.
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Local News

Remembrance Day 2026: 11am, 11 November

The Echo - 0
It is estimated that in WWl there were 20 million dead and 20 million injured. From a population base of fewer than five million,...
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Local News

Love books? Join Friends of the Library

The Echo - 0
Friends of the Libraries, Byron Shire are looking for some fresh, new, younger faces to join the group and help keep it moving forward.
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NSW News

Racehorses shot for pet food by NSW breeder

The Echo - 0
Thirteen thoroughbred horses deemed no longer useful, have been destroyed with eight horses destroyed by firearm at Berkeley Park Stud.
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Local News

Byron Bay Surf Lifesaving Club youngsters shine

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Two young members of Byron Bay Surf Lifesaving Club have delivered outstanding performances at the Paddle NSW State Sprint Championships, held at the Penrith International Regatta Centre over the weekend.
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