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Emergency guide wins NSW Resilient Australia Award

Resilient Uki has won a 2026 NSW Resilient Australia Award for its Northern Rivers Community Emergency Hub Guide, developed with funding from Northern Rivers Community Foundation.
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Dance and raise funds for Nepal’s flood victims

Byron Shire’s music community is coming together on Sunday, 20 September from 2pm at Haven, Byron Bay to raise funds for flood relief in Nepal after the devastating floods and landslides.
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Olley meets her muse in new Tweed exhibition

Margaret Olley’s famously crowded world of flowers, fruit, bottles and bowls is being placed alongside one of the artists who helped shape it in a new exhibition opening at Tweed Regional Gallery on Friday.
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Cartoon of the week – 16 September, 2026

The Echo loves your letters and is proud to provide a community forum on the issues that matter most to our readers and the people of the NSW north coast. So don’t be a passive reader, send us your epistles.
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Just a thought

Once upon a time Billy Shakespeare wrote... ‘The world is a stage and we are all but actors playing a...
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Tyagarah’s slow and gentle treasure – from their hive to your home

When Michael Howes left Sydney in the mid-1990s, he wasn’t chasing a business. He came north to visit a friend, got lost somewhere in the ranges, fell for the country and stayed. He started keeping bees in 1996...
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Rally with Bangalow to reclaim the Bowlo

The Bangalow community are coming out in all their colour, uniforms, and fury this Saturday, 19 September from 2pm to raise their voice in protest at their treatment by Norths Collective who, they say, have not met the commitments they made to the Bangalow Bowlo, and the community, when they took over the club.
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Stories about "Shark Watch":

Pop-up protest against shark nets at surf comp

Local News Aslan Shand - 4
Calling for the removal of shark nets members of north coast marine conservation groups converged on the Roxy Pro and the Quicksilver Pro Surfing competitions at Coolangatta last Saturday.
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Stop shark nets says local MP

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Greens want shark nets removed and the state government and the DPI to fund shark watch supported by drone technology, claiming current methods give swimmers and surfers a false sense of security.
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Shark nets catching and killing more threatened species than sharks

Local News Aslan Shand - 13
Out of 72 creatures caught across the five shark nets only one white shark was caught and many of the creatures caught and killed in the nets were endangered and included threatened species.
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Drone pilots, spotters prepare for Shark Watch

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A sign-up and fundraiser for volunteers wanting to become part of Australia’s first Shark Watch crew using state-of-the-art drones for spotting held at Byron Bay’s Belongil Beach on Saturday had a buzz of excitement in the air about it.
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Byron council to fund Shark Watch program

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Byron Shire Council is putting its money where its mouth is in providing funding for a shark spotting program by Shark Watch in the Byron shire.
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Michelle Bailey targets net zero in Ballina

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Fresh from winning pre-selection as the Nationals candidate for the state seat of Ballina, the 'independent' first-term Ballina councillor Michelle Bailey has put forward a notice of motion asking Council to scrap its fixed 2030 net-zero target in favour of what she describes as a 'flexible sustainability strategy'.
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Articles & Columns

The second algorithm: why government control is the wrong fix

Chaiy Donati - 0
It is not often that a minister describes the most sweeping power she has ever asked for with the words 'I guess'.
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Tweed small schools take centre stage

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Students from nine of the Tweed region’s smallest public schools will take over the Murwillumbah Civic Centre tomorrow for the third annual Tweed Small Schools Talent Show.
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All the results from the 2026 Chinny Charge

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After another epic race on the one day of the year Mullum's iconic Mount Chincogan opens to the public, here are the complete results of the 2026 Chinny Charge.
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