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Value of the intangible and Suffolk Parks future
It’s hard to know what value to place on the environment – until it changes irrevocably.
A place is defined...
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Tweed Council to sponsor community events
With disasters like fires, floods and pandemics, still smouldering in our recent memory, Tweed Shire Council wants to know if you have an event that will help the Tweed community reconnect and celebrate after tough times?
Sport and gender
Olympic golden girl Cate Campbell claims to have wrestled long and hard with herself before passionately promoting a ban...
First Nations Voice in Council moves closer
Byron Council will aim to give local First Nations people a role in its decision-making process by September 2024, echoing the newly-elected federal government’s pledge to honour the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
Will Byron become the Malibu of the antipodes?
Here’s another reason for millennials to be marching on the street. We found out last week that on census day 2021, 15 per cent of the dwellings in the Byron Shire were unoccupied (2,348 places to be precise). That figure was 30 per cent in Byron Bay itself, three times the national average.
Australian-first Surf Series and workshops ends in Lennox Head on Sunday
It might be cold outside but that's not stopping women who love to surf and over 100 women and girls will participate in the first female event series in Australia on Sunday at Lennox Head.
Two confirmed cases of diphtheria in northern NSW
On Saturday evening the North Coast Public Health Unit confirmed that there was a case of diphtheria in a two-year-old child in Northern NSW.
Stories about "Trees Not Bombs":
Trees Not Bombs gone but not forgotten
On Friday evening the space that was home for the Trees Not Bombs recovery café stood empty of its tent, pots and pans, makeshift kitchen sink and cups of tea and cake, but the most noticeable absence was the smiles and support of the volunteers.
Trees Not Bombs – so much more than food and chai
Like so many across the country and the world, Susie Russell sat and watched the tragedy of the February 28 floods unfold on social media, but then she did something about it.
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Where is the love?
I have lived in Mullum and the surrounding hills for 35 years.
Yesterday I drove to Upper Main Arm, to Kohinur, to visit a friend,...
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Flood help information from Chinderah, and Uki to South Golden Beach
The floods in February and March are still having direct impacts on the lives of many people and Serice NSW has a trailer coming to a location near you so you can easily access flood assistance.
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Weaving through NAIDOC
DJ and Delta with some of the Weaving for Reconciliation exhibits. Photo Jeff Dawson.
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Management of Byron’s fragile coastline impeded by NSW government: report
Insufficient funding and guidance from the State government is inhibiting Byron Council’s attempt to effectively manage its famous but fragile coastline, a Council report has revealed.
