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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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Labor and housing

I met Treasurer Jim Chalmers on the beach here a little while back. I asked him, ‘Are we in...
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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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Tweed Shire Council presents flood resilience series – part one

Over the coming weeks, Tweed Shire Council will present a flood resilience series, which looks at how 'Tweed's story is different from the standard flood recovery narrative and what happened next'.
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Expansion on farmland around Tweed Valley Hospital opposed

Residents are holding firm against a proposal to develop State Significant Farmland (SSF) near the Tweed Valley Hospital at Cudgen, after the Northern Regional Planning Panel (NRPP) held a public meeting on Friday 19 June around the Planning Proposal for Cudgen Connection (PP-2023-2669-Cudgen Connection).
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Byron EchoTerry Hand, Mullumbimby - 0

Trumpism

Is it naïve to think of a promise in the political context as no more than intention to do...
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Flood gauges installed in Ballina and Wardell 

Residents in Ballina and Wardell will have more more localised flood warnings, giving them time to prepare before floodwaters arrives, thanks to new flood forecast services along the Richmond River.
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Emergency departments buckling under pressure

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Nurses working at emergency departments (ED) across the state are continuing to feel the effects of increased presentations and very unwell people coming through their doors, with the latest health snapshot painting a worrying picture of NSW public hospitals.
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Hospital wards next in line for staffing ratios

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After more than a decade of campaigning by the NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA), staffing ratios will finally be introduced across medical, surgical and specialty wards including neurology, respiratory and oncology, in the next stage of the nurse-to-patient ratios rollout.
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Thousands of nurses strike for 24-hours – rally today at Tweed

Local News The Echo - 2
Thousands of NSW nurses and midwives are striking across the state from this morning’s shift for 24-hours as they call for a wage increase of 15 per cent to make their wages competitive with other states. 
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Northern Rivers nurses rally for equal pay with Queensland

Local News Aslan Shand - 5
Around 200 hundred nurses from Tweed, Lismore, Byron Bay, Casino and Clarence Valley to highlight that NSW nurses are the lowest paid in the country. 
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Union mute over bureaucrats acting as political mouthpieces for governments

Byron Echo Hans Lovejoy - 0
The NSW Public Service Association have refused to comment on whether it is appropriate for government policy to be defended by government bureaucrats
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Hospital emergency department wait times at record highs

National News Aslan Shand - 4
The ongoing neglect of the healthcare system in NSW has been demonstrated by data released today that reveals emergency department wait times are at record highs.
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Nurses strike for safe health ratios as NSW Health threatens ‘action’

National News The Echo - 1
Around 5,000 nurses and midwives marched on NSW Parliament yesterday with thousands more joining in around the state, including at Lismore, to seek safer staff-to-patient ratios in the public health system.
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Patient ratios needed in NSW health system

Local News The Echo - 2
Patient ratios, not the current unwieldy, often misinterpreted system that measures patient care needs on an inequitable equation of hours per day, is needed.
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More government support needed for nurses

Local News Paul Bibby - 3
What would it take to keep our nurses and paramedics from resigning en masse as the current crisis in the NSW health care system worsens?
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Greens Mandy Nolan to hold community forum in support of nurses and paramedics

Local News Aslan Shand - 15
Locally and across the state nurses, and paramedics are struggling in the face of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic as they are being asked to do double shifts and manage effectively in health system that is struggling to cope. This has led to an increasing number of nurses and paramedics resigning.
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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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