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The holidays are over but the summer fun kicks on

This week, the Brunswick Picture House has rolled out the red carpet for the ‘Queen of Ireland’ herself, Panti Bliss, as she hits Bruns with her record-breaking, smash hit comedy If These Wigs Could Talk.

Under 10s cricket gets underway

An eight-a-side competition is starting for under 10s in mid-February, with five teams from NSW far north towns such as Ballina, Lennox Head, Bangalow and Alstonville.

Tennis league to strengthen junior pathways

The launch of the North-East Tennis League is an exciting new inter-club competition designed to strengthen local tennis communities, foster affordable play, and create vital development pathways for junior players.

Injury – Whian Whian Falls 

Westpac Rescue Helicopter and NSW Ambulance were called to Whian Whian Falls, north of Dunoon on Saturday, February 8 to attend an injured individual.

Two charged with alleged property offences – Lismore

Two people have been charged over alleged property offences as part of an ongoing investigation in Lismore.

Bill and Carol and Mandy

Given the content of Mandy’s story about her parents’ Vietnamese ‘intruder,’ I’d love to have had the opportunity to...

Stories about "Syria":

Sunday choral celebration to raise funds for new Syrian refugee families

Two Syrian refugee families have been welcomed on the Northern Rivers in recet months as part of a national resettlement pilot program featuring just ten families.

Editorial: We don’t need a war and we don’t need the oil

So long as we keep burning oil to power our machines, we are at the mercy of rival powers in the Middle East, the richest being the Saudis, led by the murdering Prince Mohammad bin Salman, who has a deal with the crooked Prince Trump of America.

Nujeen: one girl’s journey from war-torn Syria in a wheelchair

'The story of Nujeen, amazing young woman and Syrian refugee, reminds the world that refugees, just like others, have aspirations and dreams for peace, education and a better society.'

Drums of war now beating over Syria

Gareth W R Smith, Palestine Liberation Centre, Byron Bay. Predictably, responsibility for the appalling chemical attack on Khan Sheikhoun is being attributed to the Syrian government even before a full investigation has taken place and now the drums of war are beating.

Children deserve more than a lifetime of war

  Peter Walton, Director International, Australian Red Cross To the Editor Six-year-old Yousra is the same age as the war in Syria. All she has known is...

DJ says drop dubs not bombs

A local DJ has donated his first recording to a good cause in the hopes that music will help and heal people in war torn Syria.

In the battle between baddies and worsies, there’s no clear strategy

It is easy to be cynical about the outcry over the corpse of four-year-old Aylan Kursi, found washed up on a beach just a little over a week ago. He was just one of many victims of the wars in Syria and Iraq, but he was the one that mattered, writes Mungo MacCallum.

A plea to help those facing horror

Peter Walton, head of international programs, Australian Red Cross. Humans have an astounding ability to ignore horror. Particularly when it’s not happening to us. How else can we explain the stunning lack of interest in the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis?

Critical thinking the first casualty of war

'It’s a funny old war, this one -- and the discussion of it is even stranger. As Australia joins the latest Western campaign in Iraq, where’s the debate about what’s supposed to happen?' asks Jeff Sparrow.

Embracing Islamists abroad while fomenting terrorism at home

Well, that didn't take long, did it? In northern Syria, American airstrikes were made against the Khorasan network, apparently a rebranding of what is really a section of al-Qaeda.

Bill and Carol and Mandy

Given the content of Mandy’s story about her parents’ Vietnamese ‘intruder,’ I’d love to have had the opportunity to retitle her story, ‘Empathy, Kindness,...

V-Day welcomes the sun for 2025

Around 140 women came together at Byron's Main Beach this morning to dance, celebrate, and dip into the water as part of the annual...

130 new parking spaces for Tweed Valley Hospital sorely needed

For anyone who has to go to the new Tweed Valley Hospital parking is a significant problem.

Bob Brown to join Mandy Nolan in Murwillumbah

Mandy Nolan will be talking to former Greens leader Bob Brown in Murwillumbah on Friday, February 21 to look at the issues Mandy will be working on if she is elected.