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Lismore residents call to stop the demolition of homes

Community group Reclaim our Recovery are urging Lismore residents to join a gathering at the Lismore QUAD this Saturday from 11am to 'stop the demolitions of our Big Scrub heritage homes — and the NSW Reconstruction Authority needs to know we are not going away'.
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Australia’s first greenhouse gas monitoring network launches

With World Environment Day being today, June 5, NSW government scientists say they have launched Australia’s first dedicated regional greenhouse gas (GHG) monitoring network, "which will help inform emissions reduction as we head towards net zero".
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Byron EchoRon Priestley, Main Arm - 0

Rail trail funding 2

No rail trail funding. As usual, the local federal Labor member for Richmond, Justine Elliot and the local state...
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Byron EchoVincent Marty - 0

Naturism

For decades, naturism has struggled with a strange communication barrier. Most naturist educational material contains nudity, which means it is...
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Gathering in the beauty of community

Community garden committees and volunteers from across the Northern Rivers and into South East Queensland gathered at Shara Community...
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Byron EchoLouise Doran, Ocean Shores  - 0

$42m for ‘a few cyclists’

Fortunately, someone in the federal bureaucracy understands that spending $42m, or $2.8m per kilometre, of public money destroying a...
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Drug driving reform introduced to NSW Parliament

Greens MP and drug harm reduction spokesperson Cate Faehrmann has welcomed news that reform to drug driving laws for medicinal cannabis patients will finally be introduced into NSW Parliament.
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Forest protectors return to court today

Local News The Echo - 4
Kashmir Miller and Valerie Thompson face court in Ballina today over two separate stop-work actions targeting logging in Doubleduke State Forest in March and April 2023.
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Gully of Giants protectors face court

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Forest protectors Valerie Thompson and Kashmir Miller face court in Ballina today, charged with a series of offences related to suspending logging works in the Doubleduke State Forest.
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Tweed community calls on Justine Elliot to support an end to native forest logging

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Local forest and wildlife protectors gathered at Richmond MP Justine Elliot's office in Tweed Heads on Friday to call for immediate protection of remaining public native forests.
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Greens MP says forest protector will be vindicated

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Forest defender Valerie Thompson will today face court in Ballina after she was arrested for stopping forest operations in Doubleduke State Forest north of Grafton.
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Byron Youth Service continues to invest in young people and community spaces

Christian Tancred, BYS - 0
Byron Youth Service is celebrating another year of supporting young people across the Byron Shire through a diverse range of creative, educational, and wellbeing initiatives, while continuing significant improvements to The YAC.
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Man seriously assaulted in Byron Bay

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NSW Police say detectives have commenced an investigation after a man was seriously assaulted in the local area overnight.
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Tour de Cure pays tribute to Professor Richard Scolyer AO

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

Evans Head STP: kicking the environmental can down the road

Dr Richard Gates, for Evans Head Residents for Sustainable Development - 0
For decades the Evans Head Sewerage Treatment Plant (STP) has been dumping effluent into Salty Lagoon in Broadwater National Park. Rich in nutrients and other contaminants, the lake succumbed to these pollutants with a massive fish and bird kill in 2005.
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