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Lake Ainsworth Cyanobacteria Update – RED ALERT
Ballina Shire Council has just issued a Red Alert for Lake Ainsworth. Water should NOT be used for primary recreation. Users should obey all signage erected by Council.
Other News
XR plans two weeks of ‘Reclaim our Future’ protests
Extinction Rebellion Lismore is part of the Northern Rivers push to highlight the issue of climate change and a march and candlelit vigil last night was the start to a fortnight of ‘Reclaim Our Future’ protests.
Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: Mind Your Language
The other day someone called me a sheeple. I was offended. Not personally, but on behalf of sheep. It’s a term meant to denigrate my agency by suggesting I have herd stupidity. Sheep are incredible, and surprising beings. Before you start denigrating sheep, you should know they are emotionally complex animals who can self-medicate!
New positive COVID-19 case at Ballina Coast High School
Update 14 October:
Ballina Coast High School will reopen for staff and students on Thursday, 14 October 2021, after a member/s of the school community tested positive to...
Mandatory vax
I write to you in response to the article on the front page of The Echo relating to mandatory...
Editorial: Clear as a muddled government
Good news! Local police will not be actively enforcing the government’s Public Health (COVID-19 General) Order 2021 when it comes to business activity – see NSW govt’s Health Order lacks clarity.
Lismore school closed and COVID venues of concern and – October 14
Northern NSW Local Health District has been notified of new venues of concern associated
with confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the region.
Stories about "Firesticks":
NPWS cancels meeting with traditional owners over hazard reduction burn
Local Minjungbal Indigenous leaders are asking the National Parks and Wildlife Service to consult with them over a planned hazard reduction burn at Billinudgel Nature Reserve but a scheduled meeting was cancelled by NPWS.
Taking cultural burning to the next level
Indigenous communities from across the country came together recently for the Firesticks virtual conference, which promotes cultural fire practices.
Letters
STP problems ignored
The people in Byron Shire need to start asking Byron Shire Council (BSC) and councillors when are they actually going to responsibly and effectively...
Letters
So long Greens
So, where to now for Greens voters disillusioned with local MP Tamara Smith advocating the big pharmaceutical program?
One would have thought a Greens approach...
Local News
One new COVID case in Lismore and Local Health District venues of concerns
Northern NSW Local Health District says there has been one new case of COVID-19 reported for the are to 8pm 17 October.
