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Koalas
Don’t rely on any regime to save anything that’s endangered because their mates the miners and developers pay them...
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No Bones: a plant-based restaurant for a new future
No Bones is a vegan restaurant that opened five years ago in Byron Bay and has recently expanded to...
Bone found by divers still being examined
In a statement to The Echo, New South Wales Police say that officers attached to Tweed-Byron Police District are investigating following the discovery of a bone offshore at Belongil Beach, Byron Bay, about 1.30pm on Saturday 6 May 2023.
Emergency Services training at Lismore today
From 10am to 1pm today you may well hear and see lots of sirens and flashing lights at the Lismore Regional Airport.
Art Pharmacy’s art trail and Lismore Base Hospital
Art Pharmacy in collaboration with Health Infrastructure NSW has commissioned 36 artworks by nine artists local to the Northern...
DV reoffence reduced by electronic ankle devices
Reductions in reoffence and new offences have been identified as a result of NSW domestic violence offenders wearing electronic ankle devices in the first year of release from prison.
Carl Cleves & Parissa Bouas
If you came to Byron in the ’90s, you would have danced to and been uplifted by local legends,...
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Interview with Steve ’n’ Seagulls
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Bluesfest | 9-13 April
One thing Bluesfest does is, it allows you to hear music you might never have otherwise heard. One band...
Byron Echo
Posturing politicians
While Greens in the Senate endure the irony of being pilloried by the government for speaking passionately about social justice and housing, Patricia Warren’s...
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National Reconciliation Week starts tomorrow
National Reconciliation Week (NRW) is a time for all Australians to learn about our shared histories, cultures, and achievements, and to explore how each of us can contribute to achieving reconciliation in Australia.
Byron Echo
Thank you from the top of our heads to the bottom of our well-dressed feet
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Saturday's annual Bell & Ford vintage clothes garage sale fundraiser for the SHIFT Project was an incredible success with $36,500 being raised at the Byron Surf Club – this year’s effort was up about $7,500 on the last event.
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Labor Government committed to the demerger of Murwillumbah Education Campus
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The significant issue of a merger of several Murwillumbah schools has been ongoing since 2020 when the then State Government announced via Sarah Mitchell MP that four public schools would be amalgamated into a single Kindergarten to Year 12 campus at Murwillumbah High.
