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Oct 27, 2024 | 
echo.net.au | Byron opens
NSW now has an LGBTIQ+ Advisory Council. The council was one of Labor’s election commitments, a government announcement on Friday read, and its first priority is to help develop the state’s first LGBTIQ+ Inclusion Strategy. Sixteen inaugural members have been chosen, based on their experiences, expertise and dedication to advocating for LGBTIQ+ communities. They’re to serve a two-year term with Robyn Kennedy and Dr Justin Koonin as inaugural Co-Chairs.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
echo.net.au | Byron opens
Clunes locals gathered last week to discuss the current proposed Clunes Masterplan process that is being run by Living Lab Northern Rivers on behalf of Lismore City Council (LCC). Around 50 residents gathered in Clunes at the Coronation Hall on Thursday, October 17 to discuss the current process and procedures that have been undertaken during the selection process of the Clunes Masterplan Community Reference Group (CRG).
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
echo.net.au | Byron opens |David Lowe
‘You are not our king! You are not sovereign! You committed genocide against our people. Give us our land back, give us what you stole from us – our bones, our skulls, our babies, our people. You destroyed our land. Give us a treaty, we want a treaty in this country!’So began independent senator and Gunditjmara woman Lidia Thorpe’s tirade in the direction of a heavily be-medalled King Charlies III in the Great Hall of Canberra’s parliament last week. She continued:‘You are a genocidalist.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
echo.net.au | Byron opens
The once idyllic Byron Shire has become one huge Ponzi scheme for greedy spivs from all over the planet, while locals suffer from homelessness, traffic gridlock, lack of parking, terrible roads, and drains not maintained adequately causing homes to flood. People camp on the streets and in national parks leaving a mess behind. On and on it goes.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
echo.net.au | Byron opens
In response to the letter from Matt Wierzbicki (October 9), l am also a great supporter of Palestine, but I definitely do not support Hamas or other fanatical Islamist ruling parties, who could not care less about their own people. They need a leader such as Mosab Hassan Yousef who is the son of one of the founders of Hamas, and an ex-Hamas operative.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
echo.net.au | Byron opens
Whilst all levels of government are talking about the ‘housing crisis’, little exposes the role of ‘bankocracy’ and how it works in that market and fuelled the crisis. Australia’s four banks are the most profitable in the world and the banking lobby has awesome power! There is a bill currently in the parliament called the Communications Legislation Amendment (Combating Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2024.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
echo.net.au | Byron opens
As a resident in what is generally a quiet neighbourhood, I have been very disappointed to find myself now living next door to a community hall that was originally built and used as a senior citizens’ hall. Activities once were low key, and included a lot of children’s dance classes, and without the need for a super-duper sound system. Suitable for a residential street. The rented units I live in next to the hall are public housing, and many residents have health issues, some severe.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
echo.net.au | Byron opens
About 12.45pm (Thursday, 24 October, 2024), emergency services were called to Tweed Valley Way, Condong, following reports of a crash. At the scene, police were told that a Volkswagen Passat and Subaru Forester had collided near Clothiers Creek Road. The male driver of the Passat was treated at the scene by NSW Ambulance paramedics before being airlifted to the Gold Coast University Hospital in a serious condition.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
echo.net.au | Byron opens |Byron CoLab
Five years after community representatives and Byron Shire Council put a case to the NSW government to gift them the old Byron Bay Hospital site on the fringe of the CBD, the new Byron CoLab on Arakwal Country was officially opened this morning. ‘When the Byron Central Hospital opened at Ewingsdale the community was insistent that the old hospital site continue to be used for the health and well-being of local people and not be sold for commercial profit,’ said Byron Shire Mayor, Sarah Ndiaye.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
echo.net.au | Byron opens |Paul Bibby
Will the controversial decision to close Mullumbimby’s local water supply at Lavertys Gap be reversed by Byron’s newly-elected mayor and her fellow councillors? This is the question that will be answered at Byron Council this week. In what promises to be a colourful meeting on Thursday, Mayor Sarah Ndiaye will move a motion proposing that any decision on the town’s water supply be deferred for two years while alternative options are considered.
