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Music festival law reform a failure: Greens MP
With music festivals struggling to survive in NSW, a new law was passed in NSW parliament this week by Labor: Music Festivals Amendment Act 2024.
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Double demerits on the way
Motorists across Northern NSW are being urged to take extra care on the roads this long weekend as double demerits come into effect from Friday 4 October to Monday 7 October.
Interview Kate Horsley, talking about The Chronicles of Eldershaw
Adapted for the stage by Gregory Aitken and directed by Kate Horsley, The Chronicles of Eldershaw is the story of Helen, a 1950s Tasmanian feminist. Helen possesses a certain grandeur. Both sexes are attracted to her. A wife and a mother, she is in touch with something greater than herself. Helen is also a bit of a drama queen – and don’t we all love a bit of drama?
Cross Words
As long-term Echo cruciverbalists (in this case afficionados and not setters), we suggest you recycle Mungo’s crosswords because we...
Max Chandler-Mather
Have the federal Greens of late completely lost the plot? Has the election of certain new members to the...
Julian Assange speaks
Last week Julian Assange spoke publicly for the first time since his release from solitary confinement at Belmarsh Prison, saying 'I am free today after years of incarceration because I pled guilty to journalism.'
Marvellous melodies
The Northern Rivers Symphony Orchestra (NRSO) Ensemble is thrilled to present internationally-acclaimed artist/composer Matt Ottley’s The Sound of Picture Books™ series in a concert, featuring the award-winning picture book How to Make a Bird by author Meg McKinlay.
Stories about "quad bike rollover":
Chopper rescues man injured in quad bike rollover
The Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter was called out late Sunday to an area north west of Tenterfield, near Back Creek, where a 70-year-old was found trapped under a quad bike on a remote rural property.
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Delving into the Big Scrub
The Bangalow Historical Society is staging its latest exhibition, called Uncovering Our Past.
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Julian Assange speaks
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Last week Julian Assange spoke publicly for the first time since his release from solitary confinement at Belmarsh Prison, saying 'I am free today after years of incarceration because I pled guilty to journalism.'
Byron Echo
Byron’s unhosted property data to be consolidated
With the new cap on unhosted short-term rental accommodation (STRA) of 60 days a year now in place for Byron Shire, Council staff say they ‘will now spend the next several months focusing on consolidating data on unhosted properties’.
Byron Echo
Israel, Gaza and Lebanon
Unfortunately I am yet again not surprised by the biased, anti-Israel letters in last week’s Echo. It is almost exactly one year since this...
