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Community the big winner at Rotary Duck Race
The Richmond River at Fawcett Park in Ballina was full of colour on the weekend for the 30th Rotary Duck Race. The event has raised a quarter of a million dollars for charity over its history in Ballina.
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Vale Craig Ruddy, passionate artist
Internationally acclaimed Archibald prize-winning artist, and revered icon of the Shire, Craig Ruddy, died suddenly last week, leaving a community in shock and mourning.
Govt offer pandemic payments
There is now financial support of up to $750 per week for individuals who have lost work because they have had to isolate – or if you are caring for someone who has to self-isolate or quarantine owing to COVID-19.
776 cases of COVID-19 in the Northern Rivers in last 24 hours
There’s no shortage of positive COVID-19 cases in the Northern NSW Health District with the current count likely to be an underestimation of the numbers due to the overwhelmed testing capacity.
The PM’s report from the National Cabinet meeting yesterday
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has released a media statement about the meeting yesterday of the National Cabinet.
Free KYUP! Project workshops
Empowering our next generation to value and champion their safety and well being through self-worth and self-defence is the mission of the KYUP Project who are running free workshops in the Northern Rivers today and tomorrow.
COVID infections
My dear old aunty just died of COVID-19 in a Sydney nursing home.
Locally, my son and daughter-in-law have had...
Stories about "Greg Sheridan":
Thus spake Mungo: Incurable romantic or fossil fool?
At Byron's annual Writers Festival Julia Gillard could hardly have received more rapturous applause. But for every heroine there has to be villain and the organisers cast Greg Sheridan.
Science Goes Viral
The earliest unequivocally modern human remains in Africa
There may be earlier remains of modern humans – but science is certain about these ones.
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The Greens launch NurseKeeper for nurses and paramedics
The Greens have written to the Premier to ask him to immediately introduce ‘NurseKeeper’ to urgently introduce pandemic pay and bonuses for nurses and paramedics.
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Lung specialist ‘we’re doing the best we can’ and Hazzard lays it on the line for the unvaccinated
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At this morning's COVID-19 update press conference, Concord and Nepean Hospitals lung specialist Dr Lucy Morgan gave an update on COVID-19. Dr Morgan says she works as part of a team of people looking after patients with COVID.
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Lismore’s Australia Day Ambassadors
Ahead of the Australia Day celebrations Olympians Kaarle McCulloch and Kevin Chavez have been announced as Lismore’s 2022 Australia Day Ambassadors.
