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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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Local NewsThe Echo - 0

Gathering in the beauty of community

Community garden committees and volunteers from across the Northern Rivers and into South East Queensland gathered at Shara Community...
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Local NewsThe Echo - 0

Mur’bah woman arrested over alleged bomb threats

A 23-old woman accused of making multiple bomb threats to public places across the state was arrested in Murwillumbah on Friday.
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Tyagarah Road, Myocum, closes Thursday

Essential Energy say contractors will carry out vegetation management around the electricity network in parts of Myocum on Thursday, 4 June.
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Articles & ColumnsDavid Lowe - 0

Was the NACC designed to fail?

The sudden resignation of controversy-plagued National Anti-Corruption Commissioner Paul Brereton has served to further highlight the failings of an organisation which began with such high hopes, having been one of the key demands of the first teal representatives and a core promise of the incoming Albanese Labor government.
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Local NewsThe Echo - 0

Free Indigenous aquatic programs on offer in Tweed

Free aquatic exercise programs are now on offer in the Tweed Shire for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community members and their families. 
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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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Stories about "pesticides":

D-day for Bruns pod village pesticide treatment

Local News The Echo - 2
After two delays, the NSW Reconstruction Authority (RA) will be treating Bruns emergency pods with a pesticide treatment, despite some strong opposition from flood-affected residents.
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‘Mandatory’ pesticide spraying deferred at Bruns pod village

Local News Hans Lovejoy - 0
Flood-affected residents have had a last-minute reprieve by the NSW Reconstruction Authority, who had planned to spray controversial pesticides at the Bruns pod village.
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Editorial – Northern rivers are sick

Editorial Hans Lovejoy - 1
A recently released scientific paper on the health of the Richmond River has found a mix of pesticides (herbicides, fungicides and insecticides) at dangerous levels.
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That really shucks: Pesticide pollution threatens shellfish safety

Local News Paul Bibby - 10
A cocktail of pesticides has been found in oysters and water from one of the NSW North Coast’s dominant rivers, Southern Cross University researchers have found.
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Pesticide misuse sees Brooklet macca farmer’s appeal lost in court

Local News Eve Jeffery - 1
The NSW Land and Environment Court has upheld the conviction and sentence imposed on the owner and operator of a macadamia farm in Brooklet in northern NSW.
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Truth

Byron Echo The Echo - 0
Dr Matt Landos, East Ballina There is the real news and then there is the fake news. The radio news announced recently new economic figures showing...
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Misuse of pesticides

Local News The Echo - 1
Councillor Basil Cameron told The Echo that the recent use of pesticides on rural roads against Council policy has been confirmed.
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Are macadamia farmers poisoning us?

Letters The Echo - 9
Anthony Stante, Coorabell. Some five years ago now, my Lismore doctor diagnosed my serious melanoma. Then a specialist surgeon cut the serious melanoma from my...
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Byron aims for chemical-free weed control

Local News The Echo - 8
Byron Shire Council voted last week to aim to go chemical-free within the next five years in a new shire-wide weed/pest management policy.
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Towards chemical-free public spaces

Letters The Echo - 0
Ellen White, Georgica. In Canada, nine out of 10 provinces and over 170 municipalities restrict or ban the use of pesticides in public spaces, in some cases extending this to schools, crèches, hospitals, etc.
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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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