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Public housing forum/doco May 16
A documentary exploring the devastating impacts of losing one’s home owing to the privatisation and demolition of public housing assets will be screened May 16 at the Palace Cinema.
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Dog attack kills another wallaby at Cosy Corner, Tallow Beach
Wednesday saw another wallaby put down after a suspected dog attack on the beach at Byron Bay, the second in a short period of time.
NEFA says Forestry Corp are ignoring legal protections for gliders
The North East Forest Alliance is calling on the Environment Protection Authority to issue an immediate Stop Work Order for logging in Styx River State Forest, near Armidale on the Northern Tablelands.
Minjungbal Drive at Tweed Heads South changed traffic conditions
Overnight traffic conditions will change on May 13 at Boyds Bay Bridge on Minjungbal Drive.
Public housing forum/doco May 16
A documentary exploring the devastating impacts of losing one’s home owing to the privatisation and demolition of public housing assets will be screened May 16 at the Palace Cinema.
Byron Shire sees biggest increase in rough sleepers
Byron Shire topped the state with a 16 per cent increase in rough sleepers, but the count also showed significant increases in numbers across Tweed, Ballina and Lismore shires.
Almost ten years since the Northern Rivers made history at Bentley
With hundreds of riot police expected to confront thousands of protectors on site at the Bentley blockade, west of Lismore, it was a great relief to many when the NSW government suspended Metgasco's Petroleum Exploration Licence on 15 May 2014, effectively handing a historic win to the community.
Stories about "low vision":
Hearing and vision service relocates to Alstonville
The NextSense Alstonville centre, servicing people who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind or have low vision, will be officially open their new office later this morning replacing their Lismore centre, which was destroyed in the 2022 floods.
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Free all the people
By any account, the current ongoing humanitarian tragedy in Gaza today needs thorough analysis, to objectively understand the causes as to why this ongoing...
Local News
Exploring the Burmese struggle in Byron, May 30
Rosemary and previously, her late husband, have been teaching, then quietly building clean water systems for villages and schools in the ‘dry region’ of Burma / Myanmar for years.
Local News
Freemasonry looks to its future
Meet the Freemasonry Grand PooBah of Lodge Cavanbah in Byron Bay, Nick Towers.
Local News
Labor NSW spruiks healthcare worker incentives as QLD continues to poach
More than a thousand nursing graduates and students have received offers under Labor’s NSW Tertiary Health Study Subsidy Program as part of state efforts to counter staff shortages.
