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Food, drink and craft brewery ’in principle’ approval for Tweed South Industrial Estate
Industrial estate zoning was under question at Tweed Council's planning meeting on 4 August as councillors endorsed the development application (DA) for an ‘artisan food and drink industry including craft brewery, retail area and restaurant at Industry Drive Tweed Heads South.
Other News
Mirabelle’s game
A magical quest is taking place in Lismore Quad from August 15–23. Deep underground, right beneath the town (and...
Comment: Catherine Cusack opens up about the crisis in our classrooms
'I came prepared for my last Parliamentary Committee Hearing with a fat file of public submissions to assist questioning of witnesses.'
Autocracy or democracy for Byron Shire?
The New Yorker Magazine recently wrote a quote from Mr Rupert Murdoch ‘The truth is authoritarian governments do work!’...
Storylines – The Voice of the voiceless
My grandfather would often tell me a story. A story about a community. This community was self-sufficient, self-reliant, and self-determining of their own lives.
Curved-space robot defies known laws of physics, heralding new locomotive technology possibilities
A robot engineered at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) has done the unthinkable and flouted a steadfast law of motion, suggesting that new laws need to be defined.
Ecocide in Mullum
Saddened by the huge trauma that homeless flood victims are undergoing, those feelings were further compounded by reading Hans...
Stories about "high court":
Pell freed in unanimous decision
‘Judgment has been delivered in Pell v The Queen’ – this in a tweet from the High Court of Australia just after 10am this...
Court to rule on asylum seeker detention
The High Court will hand down its decision on a legal challenge to the government's detention of 157 asylum seekers on a customs boat for a month.
High Court to hear boat standoff case
Federal government powers to remove asylum seekers from outside territorial waters and send them to other countries will be tested in the High Court.
Bikie laws go to the High Court
A group representing 17 bikie gangs will take their battle against Queensland's anti-bikie laws to the High Court on Tuesday.
Storylines
Storylines – The Voice of the voiceless
My grandfather would often tell me a story. A story about a community. This community was self-sufficient, self-reliant, and self-determining of their own lives.
Local News
Draft COMP caps Public Access at Lismore Council
Eve Jeffery - 0
A Draft Code of Meeting Practice (COMP) and Briefing Policy prepared by the Governance & Customer Service Manager was the subject of discussion at Lismore Council this week.
Byron Echo
Olivia Newton-John and FernGully
Olivia Newton-John was active in many environmental issues in the Northern Rivers region. One in particular was the 12-year battle to save ‘Fern Gully’ in Coorabell from being dammed.
Byron Echo
Planning Dept investigates Splendour festival site
Paul Bibby - 0
The company which owns and manages North Byron Parklands is being investigated by the NSW Department of Planning over traffic safety breaches that occurred during last month’s Splendour in the Grass festival.
