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Greens urged to back pathway to end native forest logging

Some of NSW’s most respected and long-standing forest campaigners and scientists have today urged the Greens not to support the Nationals' attempt to disallow the Improved Native Forest Management (INFM) method.
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Troubled Hastings Point sewage plant upgrade goes back to the community

A long-running battle over the future of the Hastings Point Wastewater Treatment Plant has entered another round, with Tweed Council putting its preferred upgrade option back before the community.
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Local NewsAslan Shand - 0

Call to keep Bangalow Showgrounds in community hands

The Bangalow Park Trust, a volunteer community group that have successfully run the Bangalow Showgrounds since at least the 1950s, say they just want to get on with managing the showgrounds and don’t want Byron Shire Council to take over their role.
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National NewsThe Echo - 0

NSW gambling reforms announced

The Minns government says it is delivering on a key election commitment with its latest tranche of gaming reforms, giving people and families stronger protections against gambling harm and tightening the rules concerning gambling promotion and marketing.
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Local NewsDavid Lowe - 0

Tweed Shire Council update

Tweed Council's latest meeting included motions on solar panel recycling, free speech, financial sustainability and Clarrie Hall Dam.
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Byron EchoPatrick Morrisey, Goonengerry - 0

Big Council rates rise coming – We’ve got mail

Dear Mayor Ndiaye, councillors and general manager, we got your letter. You’re telling ratepayers that Council needs more money...
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LettersPeter Olson, Goonengerry - 0

Robot armies

Nuclear war now seems a matter of not if, but when: the bulletin of atomic scientists now has us...
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Stories about "Fire ants":

A new fire ant detection in Tweed Heads – NSW Farmers calling for crackdown

Local News The Echo - 11
Red Imported Fire Ants were detected yesterday, Wednesday, 2 July, at a site in Tweed Heads and NSW Farmers calling for ‘crackdown’ saying that ‘current biosecurity measures clearly aren’t doing the job’.
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Fire ant eradication poisons spark public meeting, March 30

Local News The Echo - 15
A public meeting to discuss the possible implications of the Fire Ant Eradication Program being implemented in the Byron Shire will be held.
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Fire ants – one month ban on movement of high risk landscaping material 

Local News The Echo - 2
Hay, soil, landscaping materials, pots and soils are now banned from entering NSW from storm-impacted and infested areas of South East Queensland.
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Fire ants and cattle ticks on agenda for North Coast farmers

Local News The Echo - 0
Fire ants and cattle ticks will be top of the agenda for the NSW Farmers Biosecurity Forum to be hosted in Murwillumbah today.
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NSW crackdown on rogue turf businesses pays off

National News The Echo - 3
Two Queensland businesses have been separately convicted in the NSW Local Court of breaching biosecurity regulations designed to protect NSW from red imported fire ants. In total they were ordered to pay $60,000.
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What are the impacts of ‘broadcast baiting’ fire ants?

Local News Hans Lovejoy & Nick Hanlon - 10
On November 14, the NSW government reported that fire ants, including six queens, were discovered at a farm in Eureka in the Byron Shire. They were eradicated.
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Fire ant protection underway for Kyogle

Local News Olivia Grosser - 4
The Minns Labor government will ramp up its surveillance and response efforts leading into summer to stop the spread of red fire ants into Northern NSW from southeast Queensland.
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Turf from heavily infested fire ant areas in Qld suspended

Local News The Echo - 9
The recent detection of fire ants at Clunes has led to a temporary suspension of turf movements from heavily infested fire ant areas of Southeast Queensland.
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Clunes confirmed as site of recent fire ant detection

Local News The Echo - 6
A vigilant landscaper in Clunes led to the detection of several live queen fire ants and worker ants – but not nests – in a turf delivery originating in South East Queensland.
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Too little too late on fire ants?

National News The Echo - 5
Leader of The Nationals David Littleproud says the government has wasted six months on its Senate inquiry into Red imported fire ants in Australia – ‘don’t let this come back to bite us’.
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Local News

Ballina Council makes decision on Ross Lane

David Lowe - 0
With the absence of all four of its progressive councillors for various reasons, Ballina Council pushed ahead with its agenda at yesterday's monthly meeting, including a decision which is likely to close Ross Lane for months while the road is upgraded.
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Mullumbimby puts new governance models first, and now wants to build it

The Echo - 0
Imagine Northern Rivers says Mullumbimby is the only community across the region to rank new models of governance and decision-making as the number one element of its preferred future, and last week locals gathered to work out how to make it real.
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Local News

Appeal to locate man missing from Broadwater

The Echo - 0
Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate a local missing man.
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Katie Milne responds to Tweed’s draft housing and employment strategy

The Echo - 0
The former mayor of Tweed Shire Council, Kate Milne, has shared her submission to Tweed's Draft Growth Management Housing & Employment Strategy.
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