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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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Lynda Dean – a life of love and making the world a better place

My beloved Lynda Dean was the rock and the heart that held in place not only me and our family, but an extraordinary network of friends and communities throughout the Byron Shire and far beyond.
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No food fraud at the farmers’ market

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Appeal to locate man missing from Broadwater

Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate a local missing man.
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They’ve got their trousers on

They’re almost here – Baggy Trousers bring ‘Madness’ to Ballina next week! London-born and hailed as the Southern Hemisphere’s premier Madness tribute show, Baggy Trousers brings to life the legendary UK band’s iconic hits in The Sound of Madness and bring the energy, humour and soundtrack of the UK’s golden era to Ballina RSL.
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Stories about "Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse":

Editorial – Good riddance to George

Editorial David Lovejoy - 30
The Devil pounced on Cardinal Pell last week and dragged him down to the infernal level prepared for him by his own actions.
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Childhood sexual assault: healing at Heartfelt house

Local News Aslan Shand - 0
Moving forward from childhood sexual abuse and creating a positive life is a challenge – supporting people to achieve this is the purpose of Heartfelt House in Wollongbar near Lismore.
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Celibacy to blame for priests’ perversions

Letters Chris Dobney - 0
Darrell Mcdowall, Byron Bay. Cardinal Pell has given evidence at last. The churches, however, like countries, are often deemed more important than the truth. The immoral reasoning that is used for this action is that the whole, or the many, is more important than the individual and therefore the individual may be sacrificed, along with truth.
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Cardinal Pell denies bribing victim of pedophile priest

National News The Echo - 0
Cardinal George Pell has moved to 'correct the record' after being accused at the sex abuse royal commission of bribing a victim of pedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale to keep quiet.
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Child abuse inquiry needs more time

National News The Echo - 0
The child sex abuse royal commission says it will need to extend its final reporting date by two years to December 2017 to finish its job.
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Salvos sorry for abuse ‘greatest failure’

National News The Echo - 2
The Salvation Army says abuse at its boys' homes in the 1960s and 1970s are the darkest period in its history in Australia.
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Lucas defends abuse actions to inquiry

National News The Echo - 0
Senior Catholic official Brian Lucas has told a royal commission he has a problem with being accused of covering up sex abuse by clergy.
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Abuse royal commission probes the Vatican

National News The Echo - 0
The child sex abuse royal commission has asked the Vatican to produce all documents relating to abuse complaints against its priests in Australia.
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Anglican abuse register ‘dysfunctional’

Local News Chris Dobney - 0
More than 50 files relating to abuse complaints against Anglican church staff in the Grafton Diocese have yet to be added to a central register which is still not fully operational five years after it was set up.
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Church to audit child sex abuse settlement

Local News The Echo - 0
Keith Slater, the former Bishop of Grafton, says he is totally humiliated for personally falling 'very short' in dealing with the victims of sex abuse, including dozens of former North Coast Children's Home residents.
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Greens urged to back pathway to end native forest logging

The Echo - 0
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.
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Ballina Council makes decision on Ross Lane

David Lowe - 0
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.
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Mullumbimby puts new governance models first, and now wants to build it

The Echo - 0
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.
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Appeal to locate man missing from Broadwater

The Echo - 0
Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate a local missing man.
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