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LettersAnnie Radermacher, Brunswick Heads  - 0

How can we keep paying for incompetence

The only way forward is going backwards. That’s how I explain the current situation of Byron Shire Council. The...
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Byron EchoDoug Foskey, Tregeagle - 0

Local Land Services

Are people aware that NSW is the only state to tax farmers for Local Land Services? Other states must...
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Local NewsThe Echo - 0

Katie Milne responds to Tweed’s draft housing and employment strategy

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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Byron EchoThe Echo - 0

Ocean Shores golf winners

The Ocean Shores division one team won the clubs first ever NRDGA division one pennant flag.
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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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National NewsThe Echo - 0

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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National NewsThe Echo - 0

NSW gambling reforms announced

The Minns government says it is delivering on a key election commitment with its latest tranche of gaming reforms, giving people and families stronger protections against gambling harm and tightening the rules concerning gambling promotion and marketing.
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Stories about "koalas":

NEFA pleads with Janelle Saffin to save koalas from logging

Local News The Echo - 0
The North East Forest Alliance says it's outrageous that yesterday the Forestry Corporation began logging the homes of another source koala population in the proposed Richmond River Koala Parks.
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Room to roam for Byron’s famous koalas

Local News The Echo - 0
Some of Byron Bay’s most photographed residents are getting a little more room to move, with more than 2,000 trees planted to create new habitat for koalas living around The Pass.
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Major chlamydia advance for wild koalas

National News The Echo - 0
In what’s been hailed as a massive breakthrough, a chlamydia vaccine implant has been administered to a wild koala for the first time, with calls for a wider vaccination roll out.
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Byron Public’s forest of koalas exhibition

Local News Aslan Shand - 0
Five hundred clay koalas handmade by children are keeping the lone goat company at Byron’s flagship gallery this Easter.
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Cherry Tree State Forest logging disrupted

Local News The Echo - 0
Environmental activists say they’ve temporarily stopped logging in Cherry Tree state forest near Casino today by locking onto machinery.
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Team Koala hands over cheques to help wildlife

Local News David Lowe - 0
World Wildlife Day this year saw two very welcome donations from Murwillumbah-based volunteer environmental group Team Koala, the product of months of fundraising, to worthy local wildlife organisations.
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Are we any closer to animal justice?

Articles & Columns David Lowe - 0
If you think it's been a tough year to be a human, consider our fellow earthlings for a moment.
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Ballina Council supports Richmond River Commissioner idea

Local News David Lowe - 0
Ballina Shire Council's penultimate meeting for the year covered a lot of ground. A motion regarding the establishment of a Richmond River Commissioner found support, with amendments.
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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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Working together to keep (frisky) koalas safe

Local News The Echo - 2
As koala breeding season approaches across the Northern Rivers, councils and Friends of the Koala are urging the community to unite in protecting our region’s koalas.


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National News

Greens urged to back pathway to end native forest logging

The Echo - 0
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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Local News

Ballina Council makes decision on Ross Lane

David Lowe - 0
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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Local News

Mullumbimby puts new governance models first, and now wants to build it

The Echo - 0
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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Local News

Appeal to locate man missing from Broadwater

The Echo - 0
Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate a local missing man.
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