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A smoothie operator
Mullum, the town with everything, now has its own new specialty smoothie bar...
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Water resilience
A number of groups in the Byron Shire have been working our way each month through topics set for...
New venues of concern in Ballina
The Northern NSW Local Health District has been notified of a number of new venues of
concern associated with a confirmed case of COVID-19.
Lismore coming out of lockdown
At midnight tonight (Wednesday 22 September) lockdown will be lifted for the Lismore local government area (LGA).
NSW ‘Crisis Cabinet’ failed in crisis
As the Northern Rivers goes back into lockdown once again as a result of people coming to the area from Sydney it has been revealed that the ‘Crisis Cabinet’ failed to meet during key crisis points.
Lismore LGA to re-enter Queensland border bubble
Now that Lismore LGA is out of lockdown, the number of acceptable reasons for residents to cross the border into Queensland has increased.
Nuclear-powered subs? Dr Caldicott speaks
‘America has 18 Trident submarines, powered by highly enriched Uranium 235, which can be used as fuel for nuclear weapons. Each sub carries 24 missiles, each one is armed with eight hydrogen bombs – 30 times the killing power of one Hiroshima bomb. That’s enough subs to produce nuclear winter and end life on Earth.’
Stories about "Mount Warning Spring Water":
Was water mining approval a ‘foregone conclusion’?
A Tweed group opposing water extraction for bottling in the shire says staff published their recommendation to approve a development application on the Council website before public submissions had closed.
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Byron and Tweed lockdown to end at midnight!
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The lockdowns in the Byron and Tweed local government areas will end at midnight tonight, with no further cases having been detected in either area.
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Murwillumbah TAFE offers new course to meet pharmacy skills shortage
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Murwillumbah TAFE has introduced a new course to meet the growing demand for local pharmacy services brought about by COVID-19.
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Ballina mayor hopeful loses bid for independent water science team a second time
Cr Cadwallader's second version of the motion came with an extra suggestion referring directly to the dumped option of a new hinterland dam in Dunoon.
Articles & Columns
Why Nuclear Will Bomb
Unless you’ve been blissfully slumbering in a very welcome coma, you’d be aware that Scott Morrison abruptly cancelled the terribly important contract we had with France, to build new submarines, in order to get fancy nuclear sink-boats from the US instead (in decades time and at incalculable cost, much like the previous contract).
