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LettersAnnie Radermacher, Brunswick Heads  - 0

How can we keep paying for incompetence

The only way forward is going backwards. That’s how I explain the current situation of Byron Shire Council. The...
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Articles & ColumnsDr Will Tregoning, CEO of Unharm - 0

How to stop overdoses? Dr Will Tregoning has some thoughts

With International Overdose Awareness Day approaching on 31 August, NSW now has the evidence, the tools and record overdose deaths but lacks the will on permanent, community based pill testing.
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Local NewsThe Echo - 0

Artist attempts the impossible at Lismore gallery

How do you grab hold of a horizon? Artist Lottie Consalvo has decided to have a crack.
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Local NewsThe Echo - 0

Interhall Committee volunteers’ hazard update

As the weather warms up, so too are community volunteers. In mid August regional volunteers gathered at Clunes for the quarterly Interhall Committee meeting.
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Byron EchoDoug Foskey, Tregeagle - 0

Local Land Services

Are people aware that NSW is the only state to tax farmers for Local Land Services? Other states must...
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Entertainment NewsThe Echo - 0

One Night Only

What if one messy night turns out to be the best thing that ever happened to you? Will Gluck, the filmmaker of Anyone but You and Easy’, celebrates modern romantic comedy on the big screen with a fresh, witty, swoony, original film about searching for love on the least romantic night of the year in One Night Only.
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Local NewsThe Echo - 0

Data centres for the Northern Rivers?

What regulations are there to stop or manage data centres in the Northern Rivers?
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Stories about "visitor levy":

If tourism isn’t the problem, why are Byron’s rates going up?

Local News Paul Bibby - 0
For years, Byron residents have been told the Shire is carrying the financial burden of being one of Australia’s premier tourist destinations.
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National News

Greens urged to back pathway to end native forest logging

The Echo - 0
Some of NSW’s most respected and long-standing forest campaigners and scientists have today urged the Greens not to support the Nationals' attempt to disallow the Improved Native Forest Management (INFM) method.
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Local News

Ballina Council makes decision on Ross Lane

David Lowe - 0
With the absence of all four of its progressive councillors for various reasons, Ballina Council pushed ahead with its agenda at yesterday's monthly meeting, including a decision which is likely to close Ross Lane for months while the road is upgraded.
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Local News

Mullumbimby puts new governance models first, and now wants to build it

The Echo - 0
Imagine Northern Rivers says Mullumbimby is the only community across the region to rank new models of governance and decision-making as the number one element of its preferred future, and last week locals gathered to work out how to make it real.
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Local News

Appeal to locate man missing from Broadwater

The Echo - 0
Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate a local missing man.
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