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LettersAnnie Radermacher, Brunswick Heads  - 0

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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Byron EchoCampbell Shepherd, Better By Bike, Byron Bay - 0

Rail trail future

The Northern Rivers Rail Trail (NRRT) represents one of the most exciting opportunities our region has seen in decades....
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Local NewsAslan Shand - 0

Byron Bay fights for its low-rise character as 16m to 21m height breaches loom

Urgent questions are being raised about Byron Bay’s future as the NSW government increasingly uses fast-tracked planning pathways that can allow major developments to bypass or vary local planning controls, including height limits, raising concerns about how Byron’s unique character, built environment, and community expectations will be protected.
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Local NewsPaul Bibby - 0

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.
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Entertainment NewsThe Echo - 0

One Night Only

What if one messy night turns out to be the best thing that ever happened to you? Will Gluck, the filmmaker of Anyone but You and Easy’, celebrates modern romantic comedy on the big screen with a fresh, witty, swoony, original film about searching for love on the least romantic night of the year in One Night Only.
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Byron EchoMichael McDougall, Suffolk Park - 0

Big Council rates rise coming – SRV for ratepayers

The proposed 35.03 per cent rates increase over three years to Byron Shire ratepayers is extremely concerning. I fully understand...
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Local NewsAslan Shand - 0

Chamber and businesses support Byron Hospital

The Mullumbimby Chamber of Commerce and Community with First National Real Estate have stepped up and provided $1,000 of equipment for the new 20-bed Care Awaiting Placement (CAP) ward at Byron Central Hospital that opened in June.
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Stories about "Sussan Ley":

Government squibs it on gambling ads

Articles & Columns David Lowe - 0
In the kind of move that Labor once derided in their opponents, the government used the cover of the federal budget – while most journalists were literally locked up – to deliver its response to the late Peta Murphy's report into online gambling, 'You Win Some, You Lose More'.
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Farrer falls – please explain?

Articles & Columns David Lowe - 0
The bookies were right, unfortunately. For the first time since 1996, Pauline Hanson has captured a seat in the House of Representatives via the democratic process, and this time it wasn't in Queensland.
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What will happen in Farrer, and does it matter?

Articles & Columns David Lowe - 0
The unceremonious dumping of Sussan Ley as leader of the Liberal Party is about to lead to an interesting by-election in her old seat of Farrer. As Sussan leaves politics to enjoy her parliamentary pension, what happens in this traditionally stodgy seat is likely to provide some real-time pointers on where conservative Australia is heading.
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Would you buy a used car from Angus Taylor?

Articles & Columns David Lowe - 0
As the Liberal and National parties slide deeper into irrelevance, and further from power, leadership challenges continue to occupy the minds of members, rather than policy, or the needs of their constituents.
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This goes with that at Susssssan

Articles & Columns David Lowe - 11
The first appearance of a federal opposition leader at the National Press Club in three years saw Sussan Ley showing her personal side and eating humble pie, as she tries to find a way to bring a fractured and bruised Coalition back from electoral disaster.
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Social cohesion in Australia – is it just another illusion?

Articles & Columns Dr Jeffery Lewis and Dr Belinda Lewis - 0
Sussan Ley, the new Liberal leader, has been quick to condemn Anthony Albanese for his inadequate support of the Israeli military attacks on Hamas. According to Ley, the prime minister is seriously damaging Australia’s strong record of ‘social cohesion.’
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Coalition soap opera continues

Articles & Columns David Lowe - 11
Will the Libs and Nats kiss and make up? Yes of course they will, because they both need the Coalition to have any sort of political future, but the fact that it's purely a marriage of convenience is clearer than ever.
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Sussan Ley first woman to lead the Liberal Party

National News Aslan Shand - 10
Sussan Ley has been elected as the leader of the Liberal Party – the first woman to have led the party since it was founded in 1944. 
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Students vow to continue fighting

National News The Echo - 11
Eight high school students who took the Federal Environment Minister to court claiming she has a duty to avoid causing harm from climate change have promised to keep fighting for stronger climate action in Australia.
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Climate change duty of care campaigners risk jail

Local News Mia Armitage - 4
Environmental activists say a 48-year-old Lismore nurse will face court on Wednesday in Canberra over protest stunts at the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association's headquarters.
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National News

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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Local News

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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Local News

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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Local News

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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