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Comment – National Party encumbrance a problem for Liberals in NSW too
There is no shortage of NSW Liberal MPs out in the media warning they could be next to fall in the push from independent candidates that saw a massive shake up of politics in Australia last weekend.
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Coalition policy
It should be obvious to everyone by now that the Coalition’s insistence that ‘technology’ will drag us across the...
Never again
It seems to me that the floods became a ‘never again’ moment in time for Lismore and to a...
2022 Environmental Citizen of the Year Awards
Two local groups have been nominated for the he Environmental Citizen of the Year Awards, an initiative of The Australia Day Council of NSW in partnership with Return and Earn.
Bittersweet announcement about koalas
Bitter in its necessity and sweet in the action it might prompt, it has been announced today that koalas have been listed as Endangered under the Biodiversity Conservation Act.
Historic sex assault and abduction – alleged offender charged
NSW Police say a man will spend the weekend in the lock-up after being refused bail today in Grafton following an investigation into the alleged historical sexual assault of a woman in Byron Bay more than 20 years ago.
Computers donated to home schooled kids in Lismore
There nothing like the support of the CWA ladies to help get you through a disaster and the Lismore CWA Evening Branch were very pleased to be able to help their community once again to supply computers to some flood-affected Lismore kids.
Stories about "Peter Cumming":
Peter Cumming talks about his priorities as a future Tweed Councillor
Who will be your next Tweed Shire councillors? Well that is up to you when you vote in the 4 December local council elections. The Echo online has sent out a series of questions covering issues from affordable housing, holiday letting and development to the rail trail, water mining and the climate emergency to all the candidate groups who have put their hands up to represent you.
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Up to five times the average rainfall during 2022 in some areas says BOM
Aslan Shand - 5
The formal record of the extreme rainfall and flooding was released today by the Bureau of Meteorology with some areas of south-east Queensland and north-east New South Wales having five times their monthly average of rain.
Local News
Recognising 50 years of police service
When John 'Jack' Keough moved to Byron Bay police station in 1982 there was still a station sheep that kept the grass down and goats still roamed Cape Byron. Sargent Keough began his career in policing in 1972 when he walked into the Redfern Academy to join the police force.
Byron Echo
The postal vote that never arrived
Eve Jeffery - 7
At 91, there are many things that you can no longer do, but one of the things you still can do is have your voice heard in an election – but not for at least one Byron Shire resident.
Byron Echo
Vale big Jez, Mullum troubadour
The Mullumbimby community lost one of the founding fathers of its counter culture last Thursday, when Graham Chambers, better known as Jerry De Munga, passed away at his home with the love and care of wife Chrissy, family and close friends.
