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School is the beating heart of Bruns

From floods to festivals, Brunswick Heads Public School has long the been the anchor of village life.
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National NewsThe Echo - 0

Emergency departments buckling under pressure

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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Lismore councillor pay rise divides chamber at June meeting

The sharpest debate from Lismore City Council's 9 June ordinary meeting saw a majority vote to increase councillor and mayoral fees, following a 3.7 per cent rise determined by the Local Government Remuneration Tribunal (LGRT) – a figure tied to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the 12 months to February 2026.
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Local NewsThe Echo - 0

Prayers For Peace at Durrumbul Hall, 21 June

A Winter Solstice concert will be held Sunday 21 June, from 6.30pm at Durrumbul Hall, Main Arm.
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Local NewsPaul Bibby - 0

School is the beating heart of Bruns

From floods to festivals, Brunswick Heads Public School has long the been the anchor of village life.
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Local NewsThe Echo - 0

Declining print media a concern for Kyogle mayor

Kyogle councillors will be asked to consider a motion by mayor Danielle Mulholland around the 'demise of print media In rural and regional Australia'.
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Local NewsThe Echo - 0

Nimbin village boil water alert lifted, but remains for outskirts

After just over a month, Lismore City Council say the boil water alert for the village of Nimbin has been lifted, effective immediately. Yet these living in the outskirts of the village, a boil water alert is still in place.
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Stories about "poverty":

Most agree income support is too low to live on

National News The Echo - 0
Concerns about poverty in Australia are rising as cost-of-living pressures hit hard, with a majority of people agreeing income support payments are not enough to live on, according to new research by the ACOSS and UNSW Sydney-led Poverty and Inequality Partnership, which includes a large group of social justice organisations.
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Crossbench and community sector leaders urge parliament to raise income support

National News The Echo - 4
Parliamentarians, including many members of the crossbench, have joined community sector leaders in calling on the parliament to raise the rate of income support.
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Editorial – Tackling inequality is key to tackling youth crime

Editorial Aslan Shand - 1
Youth crime has been touted as a significant problem across NSW, as well as locally, and has led to several meetings being held in Ballina earlier this year and the introduction of tougher youth bail laws across the state.
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People becoming severely ill at home due to heat

National News The Echo - 1
People experiencing financial and social disadvantage are struggling to keep their homes cool in summer and becoming seriously unwell from the heat, new ACOSS research has found.
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Richmond-Tweed families drowning in power bills, says NCOSS

Local News The Echo - 14
As the housing crisis worsens, almost half of financially disadvantaged households in Richmond-Tweed were unable to pay their utility bills on time in the last 12 months, according to new research from the NSW Council of Social Service.
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Northern Rivers rental crisis worsens

Local News The Echo - 4
Those advocating for people suffering from housing stress, homelessness, and poverty housing across the Northern Rivers region, say there is an urgent need for the federal government to invest in social housing.
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Local company Sharing the DigniTEA

Local News Eve Jeffery - 0
Global figures are astounding with an estimated 500 million women and girls are living each month in period poverty – it is also estimated that in Australia, that figure is over 1 million. 
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More than a quarter of kids in Ballina, Bruns and Ocean Shores in poverty

Local News Mia Armitage - 6
Around a fifth of people living in various parts of the Northern Rivers are living in poverty, including up to one in four children.
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Home is where the poverty is

Byron Echo Eve Jeffery - 1
Is it a coincidence that national Anti-Poverty Week starts on the calendar the week right where Responsible Gambling Awareness Week finished off? Or that the week where we look at homelessness also falls the week after Mental Health week?
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Poverty more widespread in the northern rivers

Local News Chris Dobney - 2
While our region accounts for only four per cent of the NSW population, some 20 per cent of the state’s rough sleepers are here in the northern rivers, according to Tony Davies, CEO of Social Futures.
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Articles & Columns

Israel’s assault on Global Sumud Flotilla – a first-hand account

Juliet Lamont - 0
It hit me like a lightning strike. It was the latex gloves that did it. Those pale blue five fingered clinical sheaths made me want to vomit. Last Tuesday, having just been repatriated from my time on the Global Sumud Flotilla, I was at Tweed Valley Hospital getting a forensic medical examination for my sexual assault at the hands of the Israeli occupation forces.
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Byron Echo

Voters are not ‘always right’

Richard Jones - 0
The mantra ‘voters always get it right’ is repeated after every election by winners and losers. The decision of voters must be respected, blah, blah.
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Local News

Lismore councillor pay rise divides chamber at June meeting

The Echo - 0
The sharpest debate from Lismore City Council's 9 June ordinary meeting saw a majority vote to increase councillor and mayoral fees, following a 3.7 per cent rise determined by the Local Government Remuneration Tribunal (LGRT) – a figure tied to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the 12 months to February 2026.
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Byron Echo

Here’s to the Flotilla

Jane Salmon, Killara, NSW - 0
The Global Sumud Flotilla is about brave people doing exceptional things with skill, compassion, colour, spirit and gruff chutzpah. Would I leave my comfy chair...
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