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Green Heroes among 2026 NSW Environment Award winners

The NSW Environment Awards, hosted by the state’s leading environmental advocacy organisation, Nature Conservation Council NSW, was recently held at Customs House in Sydney.
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Articles & ColumnsDavid Lowe - 0

What does the US blue tsunami mean for us?

In a stunning repudiation of Donald Trump and the Republican Party he remade in his image, US voters have chosen alternative candidates across the country in midterm elections.
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New approach needed for Northern Rivers public transport says Cadwallader

It is the age-old story – the lack of public transport across the Northern Rivers that leads to high car ownership and a failure of local and regional public transport infrastructure and use.
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Northern NSW hospitals fall short on emergency and mental-health targets

Fewer than half of Northern NSW emergency patients needing admission or transfer met a six-hour hospital access target in 2025–26, according to a health district review released yesterday.
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Byron EchoJames Hemsley, Nimbin - 0

Damn the dams

Thanks for the information on the ten-dams project. Accurate and complete is how I found the articles. I’m grateful for...
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Byron EchoHolly Galbraith, Brunswick Heads - 0

Council must stand firm on Wallum

As a Bayside resident and Byron Shire ratepayer, I am concerned by suggestions that Council may be preparing to...
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Byron EchoTerry Hand, Mullumbimby - 0

Council’s special rates variation

There’s lots of noise about Byron Shire Council’s special rates variation (SRV) proposal, that would be additional to the...
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Stories about "Humans":

Eight billion reasons to rejoice, or panic

Articles & Columns David Lowe - 5
Last month, the global population clocked over eight billion. So, what is the ‘carrying capacity’ of our world, in terms of homo sapiens? And how many of us might there be?
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Planet Watch: Are humans the disease?

Planet Watch David Lowe - 16
Humans have told a lot of stories about how awesome we are, but there's one emerging hypothesis that casts our species in a very anti-heroic light. In terms of the planet, are we behaving like a disease?
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The long term ignored

Letters The Echo - 0
Geoff Dawe, Uki. Humans do not 'go back' by choosing to de-industrialise or de-civilise. (De-civilising in terms of moving away from training and taming). Humans 'go back' by turning their backs on the development of the higher self; a self particularly differentiated from that of the other mammals.
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Remembrance Day 2026: 11am, 11 November

The Echo - 0
It is estimated that in WWl there were 20 million dead and 20 million injured. From a population base of fewer than five million,...
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Love books? Join Friends of the Library

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Friends of the Libraries, Byron Shire are looking for some fresh, new, younger faces to join the group and help keep it moving forward.
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NSW News

Racehorses shot for pet food by NSW breeder

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Thirteen thoroughbred horses deemed no longer useful, have been destroyed with eight horses destroyed by firearm at Berkeley Park Stud.
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Byron Bay Surf Lifesaving Club youngsters shine

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Two young members of Byron Bay Surf Lifesaving Club have delivered outstanding performances at the Paddle NSW State Sprint Championships, held at the Penrith International Regatta Centre over the weekend.
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