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Perplexed
Perplexed to read Richard Jones’ article ‘Now’s the time for those reforms’, when the opening sentence quotes: ‘Just over...
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Firearm and drugs seized during vehicle stop; pair charged – Mullumbimby
A man and woman have been charged with drug and firearm offences following a vehicle stop in Mullumbimby.
Helping hand – have you seen the tinny?
At the height of the floods my lovely young neighbour, Brian, was all over the place helping people. Also,...
Lismore council flirts with ‘koala-killer’ status
The fate of one of the state’s last koala populations appears to lie in the hands of the Lismore City Council after an extraordinary meeting Thursday afternoon.
Byronification
In amongst all those duplexes in Tweed Heads have sprung funky cafes full of hipsters sipping almond-milk chai lattes...
Opinion: What a Dutton might say, and did…
'At a recent gathering, I murmured something faintly conservative, and quick as a flash I was called a "Dutton"...'
Millions needed for drainage maintenance in the north of Byron Shire
Byron Council would need to find more than $4 million in its budget to kick-start the process of bringing drainage maintenance in the north of the Shire up to a desirable standard, a staff report has found.
Stories about "train":
Trains and transport
Geoff Bensley, Byron Bay
The local train groups didn’t have any strategies or options in place that would correspond and work with the 2011 Tweed...
Local News
Fooling no one
Danny Wakil isn’t fooling anyone (Letters, 15 June). He is obviously pro-Israel, but his tone and talking points belie his claim to be pro-Palestinian,...
Byron Echo
Building hei(s)(gh)ts
I also strongly agree with David Gilet and Paul McCarthy on the creeping cancer of increased building heights/heists in Byron CBD, and I have...
Letters
Palestine’s ‘terra nullius’ and children’s body armour
Firstly, the Zionist regime of Israel is an apartheid regime. It is based on the dispossession, expropriation, expulsion and oppression of the Palestinian people.
This...
Local News
Lismore council flirts with ‘koala-killer’ status
The fate of one of the state’s last koala populations appears to lie in the hands of the Lismore City Council after an extraordinary meeting Thursday afternoon.