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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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Disastrous levels of sexism and misogyny in Australian schools

Monash University has conducted the largest Australian survey of teachers to examine their experiences of sexism, misogyny and sexual harassment in schools.
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Local NewsChristopher Dean - 0

Lynda Dean – a life of love and making the world a better place

My beloved Lynda Dean was the rock and the heart that held in place not only me and our family, but an extraordinary network of friends and communities throughout the Byron Shire and far beyond.
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LettersJo Faith, Newtown - 0

Given up the ghost

We are informed that Byron Shire Council (BSC) has, in a sense, ‘given up the ghost’.  It has run...
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Mullum Gold Club charity day Saturday

This Saturday, 29 August  the Mullumbimby Golf Club (MGC) is hosting its rescheduled MND (Motor Neurone Disease) Charity Day in honour of Steve Ryan.
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Have you seen Stephanie Cordery?

NSW Police are reappealing for public assistance to locate a woman missing from Lismore.
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Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: Turn and Face the Change

‘Changes’ – It’s my favourite Bowie song. How do we change? And I don’t just mean personally. I mean as a large community of humans. As a species? Because we have to change. Now.
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Stories about "Great Koala National Park":

Great Koala National Park feedback report released

Local News The Echo - 0
Feedback around the NSW government's Great Koala National Park (GKNP) proposal has been published – what are the main themes?
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Great Koala National Park plans move forward

Local News The Echo - 0
Plans for the Great Koala National Park are advancing says the NSW government, which they describe as a 'world leading park which will protect a nationally critical koala population and more than 100 threatened species'.
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Kyogle Council votes down land transition to Great Koala National Park

Local News The Echo - 0
At its meeting on 8 December, Kyogle Council passed a motion formally opposing the transition of 176,000 hectares of State Forest into the NSW Government’s proposed Great Koala National Park (GKNP).
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Gov’t says Great Koala National Park dream a reality

Local News The Echo - 14
Boundaries of the long-awaited Great Koala National Park on the NSW mid-north coast have finally been announced alongside an immediate temporary ban on timber harvesting in impacted state forest.
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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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‘Outrageous’ Minns Government accelerates logging in Great Koala National Park

Local News The Echo - 9
The North East Forest Alliance (NEFA) say it’s ‘outrageous’ that despite their promise the Minns Government has accelerated logging of the Great Koala National Park.
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NCC condemns logging in proposed Great Koala National Park

Local News Eve Jeffery - 4
The Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales has condemned the targeted and intensive logging of forests within the proposed Great Koala National Park by Forestry Corporation of NSW. 
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Call for Labor government to reinstate logging moratorium – now

National News Aslan Shand - 1
North East Forest Alliance’s Dailan Pugh has pointed out that a Minns NSW Labor government has given no commitment to quick and decisive action on behalf of our forests – but we need action 'now' he says.
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NEFA welcomes the election of a new government

Local News The Echo - 0
The North East Forest Alliance welcomes the election of the Minns Labor government with their promise to create a Great Koala National Park, and calls for a moratorium on logging within the park proposal until the promised assessment is complete.
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Call to end logging in koala habitat as NSW Forestry Corporation fined $200,000+

Local News Aslan Shand - 6
Yesterday NSW Forestry Corporation was fined $135,600 fine for destroying high use koala habitat on the NSW North Coast, dating back to 2018, and then ordered to pay $150,000 of the Environment Protection Authority’s legal costs.
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Ballina Council makes decision on Ross Lane

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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

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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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Appeal to locate man missing from Broadwater

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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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