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Happiness
Mick woke up this morning to a great epiphany. So, we’ve decided to forget all our activism, we’re going...
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Bioenergy precaution
The notion of ‘Green Energy’ has recently excited business investors and no doubt the public. We need positive solutions...
Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: Emergency response for our emergency responders
We need our nurses.
Right now, they are the most important workforce in the country. Not politicians or real estate agents or tradies or miners. Nurses. Paramedics. Hospital doctors.
Food for thought?
‘The fundamental cause of the trouble,’ he wrote, ‘is that in the modern world, the stupid are cocksure while...
Hospitals under strain
With ever increasing pressure on health services across the nation and locally, how are health staff coping – and are there enough ICU beds and ventilators to cope with the ongoing surge in COVID-19 cases?
No supply shortage at Byron Farmers Market!
While supermarket shelves around the country are running bare, there’s no shortage of fresh produce at our local farmers’...
1,114 cases of COVID-19 in the Northern Rivers in last 24 hours
The Northern NSW Local Health District say that to 8pm yesterday, January 17, there were confirmed 1,114 new PCR cases of COVID-19.
Stories about "stolen goods":
Stolen property found during drug investigation – Ballina
A man will faced court yesterday after stolen property was located during a search warrant at a Ballina home on Wednesday.
Nimbin man charged over ‘stolen’ war memorabilia
A Nimbin man will appear in Lismore Local Court next month after police allege they seized a number of stolen items, including war memorabilia, cannabis and ammunition from his Gungas Road home.
Man in truck fatal driving stolen vehicle: police
Detectives investigating a fatal accident between two trucks on a north coast section of the Pacific Highway in the early hours of Saturday (September 3) allege the surviving driver was in a stolen vehicle with stolen number plates and carrying stolen goods.
Stolen clothes seized from Tweed markets
Tweed Heads police yesterday seized more than 315 items of clothing of allegedly stolen clothing, worth some $15,000, from the stall and home of a Tweed Heads market operator.
Five arrested in north coast drug raids
Police have arrested four men and a woman seizing guns, cash, and drugs, following raids on the north coast this morning.
Byron Echo
Boat people we are
We here in this country, now called Australia, need to be reminded that we started off as ‘boat people’.
The First Fleet arrived (including my...
Byron Echo
Israel and Palestine
As an apologist for Israel, Michael Burd (Letters, 12 January) conveniently ignores the harsh truth of Israel’s brutal oppression, while claiming there are two...
Local News
Greens Mandy Nolan to hold community forum in support of nurses and paramedics
Locally and across the state nurses, and paramedics are struggling in the face of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic as they are being asked to do double shifts and manage effectively in health system that is struggling to cope. This has led to an increasing number of nurses and paramedics resigning.
Local News
NSW COVID update on COVID deaths – vax stats and comorbidities
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet again opened his COVID update with condolences to families who have lost loved ones, and thanks to the ‘inspirational work of our health workers'.
