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How is RT-PCR used to diagnose COVID-19?
It’s fast, reliable and full of lines – but might look different to the PCR you learned about in school.
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XR to protest outside NAB tomorrow
Extinction Rebellion (XR) Lismore and their supporters say they will protest at the Woodlark Street branch of the National Australia Bank (NAB) from 12pm tomorrow, Tuesday, September 14.
Transparency
Byron Shire Council (BSC) is not transparent despite what the former Mayor or BSC’s senior management would like the...
Moving on
In my seventy-eight years I’ve seen many changes, not only in Mullumbimby. The thing I notice most is how...
Cartoon of the week – 15 September, 2021
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Is all cannabis the same? How do its variations impact us?
Are you interested in learning more about the cannabinoids you use? Researchers from Monash University are asking both smokers and non-smokers to help research the variety of cannabinoids and their impacts.
State gov’t services failing to keep up with regional population growth, says independent Ballina councillor
Cr Cadwallader told The Echo on Thursday she’d be asking council staff to pursue the matter of policing resources in the shire after last month winning majority council support to pressure the government on the future of Lennox Head Public School.
Stories about "trek":
Schoolboys trek 130km for brain cancer research
Three Byron Bay teens have hiked from Cape Byron to Brooms Head, raising over $3,300 for brain cancer research and awareness.
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Queensland passes voluntary assisted dying laws
Dying with Dignity NSW has welcomed the passage of Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) laws in Queensland and is hoping that NSW Parliament resumes next month so that this issue can be addressed in NSW without further delay.
Byron Echo
Planning staff back Wilsons Creek DA, residents’ concerns downplayed
Paul Bibby - 0
Residents living near a proposed 15-lot housing development in Wilsons Creek say it will negatively impact a precious wildlife corridor on the site, exacerbate traffic safety problems on the surrounding roads, and damage the peaceful character of their quiet enclave.
Byron Echo
A moment of your life?
Six questions for Jehovah’s Witness doorknockers:
1. Are you aware that the 2016 Royal Commission into Institutional Handling of Child Sexual Abuse investigated 1006 alleged...
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Local mum features in documentary about the impacts and possible solutions around suicide
Eve Jeffery - 0
Murwillumbah mum Ursula has lived every parents worst nightmare – her child, at the age of just 17, took his own life – and a lot of time and energy, questions and conjecture and finger-pointing can rumble around this, but at the end of the day Ursula’s precious boy is gone and he’s not coming back.
