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NSW budget and the Northern Rivers

The Minns government says it's handed down a budget which locks in major funding for North Coast health infrastructure, alongside targeted cost-of-living relief designed for regional households and disaster recovery, as locals continue to face higher costs.
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NSW Golf Croquet State Championships to be hosted in the Northern Rivers

Ballina Cherry Street, Byron Bay, and Lismore croquet clubs region will once again host the 2026 NSW Golf Croquet...
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E-bikes destroyed by police in Tweed

Thirty-five e-bikes that were seized during police operations near Tweed Heads have been destroyed, say police.
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A heartfelt night of fundraising

We can’t solve the lack of social housing investment, or magically make emergency accommodation appear, but we can help alleviate suffering and bring warmth and comfort to people coping in truly awful situations.
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Winter Warmer fundraiser for homelessness

The annual Winter Warmer Homelessness Relief campaign, hosted by Dharma Care, will return for 2026 with cabaret at Salt, Kingscliff, on Thursday 2 July, headlined by comedian Mandy Nolan, interactive performance artist The Space Cowboy and the Kinship Doobai Dancers, with a Welcome to Country from Aunty Jackie.
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Byron EchoLydia Kindred, NRRL director/secretary - 0

Consultation lacking with rail trail

Byron Shire Council is pursuing an unfunded on-formation bike trail, risking significant ratepayer liability for ongoing maintenance, while disregarding...
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Digital age

When travelling these days there is a lot of cards come and go. They are like a business card...
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Stories about "Melbourne":

Height limits ‘unreasonable’ and ‘unnecessary’

Local News Paul Bibby - 0
The Melbourne-based developer behind a luxury beachfront apartment project in Byron Bay is seeking to push the building more than two metres above the town’s height limit, describing our height rules as ‘unreasonable’ and ‘unnecessary’.
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Protester statue proposed for Byron Bay

Local News David Lowe - 0
After contributing to decades of protests from the Northern Rivers to New York, the legendary artivist Benny Zable returned to Melbourne earlier this year to work with the team at Fundere Foundry in an effort to replicate his iconic masked character in bronze.
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Qantas engineers strike

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Qantas Engineers' Alliance says around 300 Qantas engineers across Australia will walk off the job for 24 hours from this morning, following repeated industrial actions by workers across major airports this past month, after the airline refused to meet with workers to discuss the latest enterprise agreement.
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Mental health experts urge governments to act on prevention

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Mental and public health experts are gathering in Melbourne today to discuss the growing number of young Australians experiencing mental illness, and encourage governments to tailor their investments in programs which help protect and promote mental wellbeing.
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Doing it for Dunkley

Articles & Columns David Lowe - 28
The eyes of Australia turn this week to the electorate of Dunkley in Victoria, historically the site of the Frankston riot and just down the road from where Harold Holt disappeared. Now it's the location of an all important federal by-election.
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Memorial for horses to replace Cup Eve Parade

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Animal Activists from the Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses (CPR), who have been held responsible for the death of the Melbourne Cup Eve Parade, have now replaced it with a memorial service for the 168 horses that were killed from racing-related injuries in the last racing year.
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Crown to pay $450 million after Federal Court ruling

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Two casino centred businesses will have to come up with a collective total of $450 million  in penalty payments over two years
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Activists block ‘facilitation of the climate crisis’ at ports in Newcastle, Brisbane and Melbourne

National News Eve Jeffery - 4
As part of a coordinated mobilisation of actions in response to what they say is Australia's facilitation of the climate and ecological crisis, there are blockades in port at Newcastle, Melbourne and Brisbane this morning.
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3.8ML earthquake hits Melbourne’s northern suburbs

National News Eve Jeffery - 0
Residents in Melbourne and the northern suburbs were woken in the middle of the night as a magnitude 3.8 earthquake shook the darkness radiating out from the town of Sunbury, about 41 kilometres north west of the city.
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Bringing the latest research to your local

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Ever walked into a room and immediately felt energised, calm, or drained? What if the design of the building was making you feel that way? A Pint of Science can tell you why.
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Appeal to locate missing woman

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Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a woman missing from the Kempsey area.
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Citizen science last line of defence for threatened species

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Native forest logging is again in the spotlight in NSW, following Monday night’s Four Corners investigation into Forestry Corporation NSW’s failure to protect nationally endangered species.
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Site confirmed for future high school at Pottsville

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The NSW government says it has secured a site for a future high school in Pottsville, delivering on its commitment to future-proof public education for the growing Tweed community in the Northern Rivers.
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Eleven winners at Byron Bay Herb Nursery

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The Byron Bay Herb Nursery continues to create constructive pathways to achievement with twelve students from Byron Bay Herb Nursery’s disability support program recently graduating with a Certificate II in Horticulture.
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