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How can we keep paying for incompetence

The only way forward is going backwards. That’s how I explain the current situation of Byron Shire Council. The...

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‘Imagine there’s no heaven, it’s easy if you try No hell below us… above us only sky, Imagine all the people,...

Labor and Liberal join forces on multiple fronts

Last week, government and opposition found themselves singing from the same song sheet in parliament on a range of issues, from the NDIS to ASIO, and big tech to gambling advertising. 

New research highlights pressures facing Northern Rivers community organisations

More than 50 representatives from grassroots organisations across the Northern Rivers came together at Bangalow A&I Hall last week for the Northern Rivers Community Sector Sustainability Summit.

Can you help our rainbow community find a home?

For four years Queer Family Inc has lived the perilous life of a homeless community organisation – bouncing from one temporary venue to the next, sometimes without anywhere to stay at all.

Two rescues in one day

Last Friday, Queensland Government Air (QGAir) Rescue 500 was tasked with two separate search and rescues in Tallebudgera Valley.

Mullum water investigation comes with $322,000-plus price tag

Byron Council faces a bill of at least $322,000 to complete the next stage of its long-running investigation into Mullumbimby’s future water supply, as it simultaneously prepares the ground for a possible 35 per cent increase in general rates.

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Queensland police clamping-down and locking-up e-bikes

The Queensland Police Service has seized more than 240 non-compliant e-Mobility devices and issued almost 1,000 Traffic Infringement Notices in the first month of Operation Yankee Surety.

Tarawi Minnie: tip of the race industry’s iceberg

Damning new undercover footage has exposed veterinary clinics complicit in the routine killing of healthy racing greyhounds in Australia.

Missing QLD child may be on Northern Rivers

Police are asking the public for help finding a boy missing from Queensland.

New Great Barrier Reef report confirms worst annual coral declines on record

The choices the Australian government makes in the next 12 months will decide the Great Barrier Reef’s fate, say the Australian Marine Conservation Society, following the release of the Long Term Monitoring Program report today by the Australian Institute of Marine Science.

World Heritage Committee questions management of Great Barrier Reef

UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee has ordered a full review of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef management in 2026, following the sixth mass bleaching event in nine years and severe coastal flooding.

Missing man’s disappearance ‘out of character’

Officers say Mr Murdoch was most recently spoken to on Thursday 29 May and the Sutherland Shire Police Area Command started an investigation when he couldn’t be found or contacted afterwards.

Fire ants – one month ban on movement of high risk landscaping material 

Hay, soil, landscaping materials, pots and soils are now banned from entering NSW from storm-impacted and infested areas of South East Queensland.

Tropical Cyclone Alfred tracking towards coast

In its latest video update, the Bureau of Meteorology is telling people along the coast of Queensland to be alert but not alarmed as Tropical Cyclone Alfred heads closer to the coast and increases its intensity. Northern NSW might also be affected, depending on what happens over the next few days.

NSW crackdown on rogue turf businesses pays off

Two Queensland businesses have been separately convicted in the NSW Local Court of breaching biosecurity regulations designed to protect NSW from red imported fire ants. In total they were ordered to pay $60,000.

Bruce Highway gets $7.2 billion for the pot(holes)

In his first official media release for the year, the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, that the government will provide an additional $7.2 billion to upgrade and fix the Bruce Highway in Queensland, to bring it up to a minimum three-star safety rating.

Greens urged to back pathway to end native forest logging

Some of NSW’s most respected and long-standing forest campaigners and scientists have today urged the Greens not to support the Nationals' attempt to disallow the Improved Native Forest Management (INFM) method.

Ballina Council makes decision on Ross Lane

With the absence of all four of its progressive councillors for various reasons, Ballina Council pushed ahead with its agenda at yesterday's monthly meeting, including a decision which is likely to close Ross Lane for months while the road is upgraded.

Mullumbimby puts new governance models first, and now wants to build it

Imagine Northern Rivers says Mullumbimby is the only community across the region to rank new models of governance and decision-making as the number one element of its preferred future, and last week locals gathered to work out how to make it real.

Appeal to locate man missing from Broadwater

Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate a local missing man.