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Getting Real About The Voice
Responding to Ian Pratt in an attempt to ‘get real about the Voice’. The proposal does not challenge the...
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Treachery
It is with great concern and disappointment, but not surprising, we have to declare that the brief hope we...
Greens call for two-year rent freeze
A new Essential Guardian poll shows 60 per cent of Australians support a freeze on rental increases.
Ballina council votes against investment handicap for fossil fuel-free ventures
Independent Ballina Shire Councillor Jeff Johnson has lost a last-ditch effort to reinstate a council investment policy clause in favour of diverting from fossil fuels.
Schoolboy’s moral courage
I would like to give a big shout out to the Bangalow Public School boy who showed courage and...
Will Byron kids help to regenerate public land?
Byron school students could take part in regular community tree plantings on land owned by Byron Council as a way of learning about bush regeneration and acting on climate change.
Yulli’s Byron Bay branches into breakfast!
Weekend breakfast out in the shire just got tastier! After recently locating to a new space in Carlyle St, Yulli’s Byron Bay is now also open for breakfast from 8 to 11am on Saturdays and Sundays.
Stories about "Murwillumbah crime":
Man caught masturbating on Murwillumbah wharf
Police allegedly spotted the 31-year-old Murwillumbah man on a wharf on Tumbulgum Road, lying down with his pants around his ankles masturbating.
Man threatens to kill police in motel standoff
Police resorted to capsicum spray to subdue a man who allegedly threatened to kill them at at Murwillumbah motel on Saturday night. They resorted to it a second time the same evening after attending a road rage incident in Kingscliff.
Charity house deliberately set alight: police
Police are seeking help from the public after they established that a Murwillumbah house owned by a church charity was deliberately set alight on Monday.
Police seek men who disappeared during pursuit
Police are seeking two men who disappeared from a car during a police pursuit through northern NSW which crossed the border into Queensland on Friday (April 6).
Man hides stolen supermarket shopping down pants
A man who stowed a few last-minute Christmas goodies down the front of his pants and left a supermarket without paying for them will face court after being spotted in the act.
Son accused of murdering dad lied on life insurance policy
A Murwillumbah man accused of murdering his father with a samurai sword in 2014 has admitted to a jury he lied when taking out $2.5 million in life insurance policies in the months preceding his grisly death.
Murwillumbah woman charged over alleged business fraud
A woman has been charged following investigations into the alleged fraud of a business in Murwillumbah.
Murwillumbah supermarket robbed by knife-wielding man
Police are investigating the armed robbery of a Murwillumbah supermarket yesterday afternoon in which a female staff member was threatened with knives.
Spitting man arrested for assaulting police in Murwillumbah
Police have arrested a 22-year-old man they said swore, lunged and wrestled with officers in a Murwillumbah park, and then repeatedly spat at them, in the police car and the police station.
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Police compassion
Mandy, you said (Echo, 17 May)]: ‘There’s not many 95-year-olds I wouldn’t be able to overpower if necessary’ and ‘to disarm a 95-year-old with...
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Treachery
It is with great concern and disappointment, but not surprising, we have to declare that the brief hope we had for a nuclear-weapons-free future,...
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Israel’s formation
In his apologia for Israel, what Danny Wakil failed to mention about Israel’s formation is significant.
From his description you’d think the founding of Israel...
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Backlash Stan Grant
Extraordinary negative and callous statements regarding Stan Grant in the recent edition’s Backlash section. Grant was a terrible host? Grant made the show unwatchable?...
