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Upgrade to deliver safer road and new native trees

Tweed Shire Council says Old Lismore Road will be upgraded to improve safety and restore local rainforest habitat.

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The second algorithm: why government control is the wrong fix

It is not often that a minister describes the most sweeping power she has ever asked for with the words 'I guess'.

Appalling leadership

While the PM spins and avoids transparency and the foreign minister prefers to yell abuse to take up time...

57 Station Street public meeting moved

A motion for Byron Shire Council to tell Landcom it was withdrawing support for the 57 Station Street affordable housing project was lost on Mayor Ndiaye’s casting vote at Council’s ordinary meeting on 17 September.

Byron takes top spots in Sydney’s U16 Bridge to Beach

Three young surf lifesavers from Byron Bay Surf Lifesaving Club (BBSLSC) have produced an outstanding result on Sydney Harbour,...

Byron Netball finishes epic season on a high

Buffy Gall Byron Bay Netball Club has wrapped up an outstanding season with premiership glory, strong junior results and a...

Swap the classroom for the trenches?

History teachers from the Northern Rivers are being encouraged to apply for the new NSW History Teachers Anzac Scholarship,...

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Anthony Albanese’s recent performance on the world stage in New York was a breathtaking piece of rhetorical acrobatics.

Experts question government claims on nature

The Australian government has just submitted a report to the United Nations on its progress to stop biodiversity loss by 2030. The Biodiversity Council has reviewed the 261 page report and says Australia is not on track to meet key commitments, including preventing extinctions, restoring degraded land and stopping government funding for activities that harm nature.

Seven in ten women human rights defenders, activists and journalists report online violence

Online violence against women human rights defenders, activists and journalists has reached a tipping point, often fueling offline attacks, according to a major new international report.

The Disunited States of America versus the world

Any self-respecting Australian leader would be running for the hills rather than be seen with the leader of the United States after that unhinged speech to the UN last week, but Anthony Albanese sought out not one but two photo opportunities with President Trump while he was in New York, along with an assurance of a face to face meeting in Goldfinger's oval-shaped lair next month.

First Nations native title claimants win case in UN

A Charles Sturt University legal expert has won a historic case in a United Nations tribunal for native title claimants in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Israeli women march against UN silence on Hamas attacks

Around 30 women identifying as Israeli marched in Byron’s CBD and Main Beach on Sunday to highlight what they say is a ‘disturbing and harmful silence’ by the United Nations and others after the October 7 attacks on Israel.

World Wildlife Day – once it’s gone, it’s gone forever

It’s World Wildlife Day and the United Nations is reminding us that this an opportunity to celebrate the many beautiful and varied forms of wild fauna and flora and to raise awareness of the multitude of benefits that their conservation provides to people.

World hungry for food security solution

The complex issue of global food security can only be solved if all nations work together, according to UNSW expert Professor Johannes le Coutre.

Ballina Advocate for People with Disability speaks to the United Nations in New York

The recent floods affected many people in different ways but People with Disability are often affected in ways that no one can imagine and their stories were recently presented to the United Nations in New York by local woman Kelly Cox.

Thus Spake Mungo: ScoMo’s youth vision

Kids should be kids, ScoMo insists, and teenagers should be teenagers he told a bemused audience at his own UN address – perhaps he meant they should spend more time on the traditional teenage pursuits of sex and drugs and rock’n’roll.

360 charges laid, 102 weapons seized

Police have charged more 150 people with more than 360 alleged offences following a two-day blitz across the state last week.

What’s wrong with this picture?

Anthony Albanese’s recent performance on the world stage in New York was a breathtaking piece of rhetorical acrobatics.

Climate 200 wants YOU!

Climate 200 is putting their money where their independents are and last Friday their latest ‘kitchen table’ event included hundreds of supporters at the A&I Hall in Bangalow.

ReSolve Global: making renewable energy truly sustainable

The Northern Rivers has enthusiastically embraced rooftop solar since it was invented. Now a locally established initiative is tackling the other end of the problem: what happens when the panels come down?