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Byron EchoEdward Kent, Suffolk Park - 0

Financial woes

Byron Shire’s financial woes are not the result of a lack of money, but rather the waste of it....
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Byron Shire beaches hammered by big swells

Recent big swells over the last week have severely eroded dunes across the region – in  Byron Shire, Council say the most impacted beaches are New Brighton and Suffolk Park.
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Local NewsCourtney Reid, Mullumbimby & District Neighbourhood Centre - 0

More than a pantry – helping feed our community

Neighbourhood Centre has been running a low-cost community pantry? And over the last few years it’s really expanded.
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Byron EchoRon Priestley, Main Arm - 0

Rail trail funding 2

No rail trail funding. As usual, the local federal Labor member for Richmond, Justine Elliot and the local state...
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Byron EchoPaul Jones, Byron Bay - 0

Keating quotes

Kinda tripping on former PM Paul Keating for the moment, here are a few historical quotes: On the dismantling...
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Local NewsThe Echo - 0

Fund set up to help Chase Goldstraw’s family after tragedy

A GoFundMe campaign has been set up to help the family of a young father recently killed in a truck accident in Tweed Heads.
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Byron EchoRichard White , East Ballina - 0

Silence’ on Gaza

Am I allowed to voice an opinion against the Israeli government? What’s happening in Gaza? The USA, as well as...
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Stories about "Mungo McCallum":

Thus spake Mungo: sex, religion and politics 100 days after ScoMo’s win

Thus Spake Mungo Mungo MacCallum - 10
The showdown over religion could well provoke a serious schism, speaketh Mungo. Trouble is brewing in the mess.
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Thus Spake Mungo: Fizzler with little new budget sausage 

Byron Echo Mungo MacCallum - 7
A somewhat exasperated Bill Shorten accuses Scott Morrison of playing games over the election date – and so he is. 
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Thus Spake Mungo: Morrison soft pedals on Hanson 

Byron Echo Mungo MacCallum - 9
Scott Morrison would have been happier and clappier than usual when he went to his Horizon Pentecostalist Church last Sunday. 
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Thus Spake Mungo: Shorten hedging his bets on Adani

Articles & Columns The Echo - 8
By Mungo MacCallum Bill Shorten has finally taken a firm position on the Adani coal mine: procrastination. The opposition leader tells us that when (not if...
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Thus Spake Mungo: And the rorts continue

Byron Echo Mungo MacCallum - 2
As even the most avid reformers admit, you can’t legislate for morality. There will still be politicians who endeavour to wriggle through the loopholes. But at least the net will be harder to evade. Perhaps the silly season has not been wasted after all.
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Thus Spake Mungo: PM’s plebiscite on the nose

Articles & Columns Mungo MacCallum - 6
So much for Malcolm Turnbull’s great fortnight in parliament, followed by his triumphant march through the marbled halls of New York and Washington. His claque of supporters raved, of course, but the paying customers – the voters – remained resolutely unimpressed.
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In the battle between baddies and worsies, there’s no clear strategy

Articles & Columns Mungo MacCallum - 3
It is easy to be cynical about the outcry over the corpse of four-year-old Aylan Kursi, found washed up on a beach just a little over a week ago. He was just one of many victims of the wars in Syria and Iraq, but he was the one that mattered, writes Mungo MacCallum.
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The inevitable decapitation of Bronwyn Bishop

Articles & Columns Mungo MacCallum - 5
Mungo: Even her most obstinate, deluded and purblind supporter (Tony Abbott) eventually realised that he would have to wake up from the nightmare that was engulfing the parliament, his government and most importantly himself.
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Praise for Mungo’s obit on Tom Uren

Letters The Echo - 0
T. Sharples, Tweed Heads. Not a reader of Murdoch's The Australian, I was however drawn in by the stories published last Tuesday on the passing of Tom Uren and just wanted to publicly say I thought the obituary written by our Mungo MacCallum one of his finest pieces.
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Thus Spake Mungo: Reality mugs PM

Articles & Columns Mungo MacCallum - 3
There are times when our Prime Minister get mugged by reality. But it doesn’t mean that he has to like it.
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Byron Echo

Return Mullum hospital to Bundjalung

Gary Opit and Carmel Daoud, Wooyung - 0
‘Public land should serve the public vision,’ Greens councillor Elia Hauge is quoted as saying in The Echo (May 20) under the headline ‘Community...
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Byron Echo

Israel’s rehabilitation

John Scrivener, Main Arm - 0
Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians has not ended and it will not end before Israel officially renounces its intention to exterminate or expel the...
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Byron Echo

ISIS vs Australian Israelis

Marianne McCormack, Billinudgel - 0
Dear Rod Murray (Letters, 27 May) In reply to your very long letter, far exceeding 250 words, (in itself telling), it was never my...
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Byron Echo

Lennox development

Alison Vickery, Lennox Head - 0
The proposed Saltwood development at Ross Lane raises serious concerns for local residents. You cannot engineer away local knowledge. Residents with decades of lived experience of...
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