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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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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...

Going beyond the BBQ

The Men & Family Centre will soon be running a free Beyond the BBQ event in Lismore.

Traditional owners vs Adani’s mining operations

From bankruptcy to the Queensland government intervening and extinguishing their native title – Adrian Burragubba, a Wangan and Jagalingou Elder has continued the fight against Adani’s contentious mine.

Everyone’s welcome at the House of Spaghetti

Spaghetti Circus is throwing open the doors of its Mullumbimby home later this month, presenting its 2026 Annual Show, House of Spaghetti, at the Mullumbimby Showground from Friday 28 to Sunday 30 August. Five shows over three days, with every student on stage.

Bangalow community rallying for the Bowlo

A major town rally for Bangalow is planned for Saturday, 19 September at 2pm as the next phase of action to have the Bowlo reopened and back in community hands.

Mullum water investigation comes with $322,000-plus price tag

Byron Council faces a bill of at least $322,000 to complete the next stage of its long-running investigation into Mullumbimby’s future water supply, as it simultaneously prepares the ground for a possible 35 per cent increase in general rates.

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Tour de Cure pays tribute to Professor Richard Scolyer AO

Renowned Australian pathologist Richard Anthony Scolyer AO, died yesterday after living for three years with a grade 4 glioblastoma IDH wild-type brain tumour.

Forests on national agenda as government wants to lock in more logging

Murray Watt's lifeline to loggers won’t save native forests, says Bob Brown Foundation, as forest protests continue in Lutruwita/Tasmania.

Tasmanian activists stage dead whale crime scene to protest industrial krill fishing

Activists have today unveiled a life-sized dead juvenile humpback out the front of the Commission for Conservation of Antarctic and Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) building in Hobart, calling for an end to krill fishing in Antarctica.

Stop-work forest protest as swift parrots return to Tasmania

This morning, veteran forest defender Ali Alishah has attached himself to the only access gate leading into a sub-alpine forest in the Central Highlands that Forestry Tasmania refers to as BD052A. This forest, near Brady Lake, contains large numbers of Eucalyptus dalrympleana and the critically endangered swift parrot has been documented here.

More wildlife deaths at Tasmanian salmon farm

In just one month, fifteen cormorants and one seal have drowned in a single Tassal industrial fish farm lease on the Tasman Peninsula.

Forest defenders occupy third logging area in Tasmania’s Central Highlands

Forest defenders with Bob Brown Foundation yesterday occupied a third logging area in Waykaywirinu/Tasmania’s Central Highlands, where Forestry Tasmania’s logging machines are tearing through an ancient, sub-alpine forest.

Stadiums, health and extinction on the ballot in Tasmania, as majors race to the bottom

Just over a year since its last state election, Tasmania is about to return to the polls, as the beautiful but troubled island state sinks further into debt and dysfunction.

Another logging protest in Tasmania, as state election approaches

The morning after Western Australia legislated to ban logging, in Tasmania the logging of ancient forests was halted by another daily protest calling on political leaders to save this ancient forest and forests across the state from further destruction.

Protesters again halt Australia’s worst logging

Bob Brown Foundation says Australia's worst native forest logging is currently underway in Tasmania's Central Highlands. The Foundation has recently carried out multiple forest protests in this area to highlight the critical need to end native forest logging. So far, four people have been arrested defending this forest.

Protesters again halt Australia’s worst logging in Tasmania’s Central Highlands

Climate protector and forest protester Violet CoCo, along with other forest defenders, is this morning defending swift parrot, masked owl and Tasmanian devil habitat in the Waykaywirinu/Central Highlands of Tasmania.

Greens urged to back pathway to end native forest logging

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.

Ballina Council makes decision on Ross Lane

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.

Mullumbimby puts new governance models first, and now wants to build it

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.

Appeal to locate man missing from Broadwater

Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate a local missing man.