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  • READY TO ROCK: Rock The Gate organiser Amanda Doran urges people to come to this weekend’s rally and concert in Lismore.

    Lock the Gate and rock

    News May 10, 2012, 12:42 p.m.

    ROCK the Gate - it's more than a march around the block followed by great entertainment at Riverside Park. According to event organiser Amanda Doran, this Saturday's rally and concert in Lismore for a coal seam...

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  • VISITING THE PAST: Gary Johnson, from Clunes, looking at himself as a three-year-old.

    That was then: this is now

    News May 10, 2012, 12:41 p.m.

    NOW and Then is a photography project being run by ABC Open. People are being asked to find a historical image and rephotograph it in the same location. This image (right) was provided by the Johnson family of Clunes and rephotographed by ABC Open producer Catherine Marciniak. "During the...

  • GRAND PLANS: Page MP Janelle Saffin, Northern NSW Local Health District chief executive Chris Crawford and Health Minister Tanya Plibersek at the announcement of $60 million for improvements to the hospital.

    $60m shot in the arm for hospital

    News May 10, 2012, 12:40 p.m.

    AN emergency department where geriatric patients may be gasping their last breaths within metres of mentally ill patients, yelling their heads off next to frightened children taken sick in the night, will be a thing of the...

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  • TIME TO CELEBRATE: Friends of the Koala leaf-gatherer Ros Irwin and president Lorraine Vass celebrate the Comprehensive Koala Plan of Management win with Joanna the koala.

    Green light for koala plan

    News May 10, 2012, 12:37 p.m.

    KOALAS living in south-east Lismore and the landholders who care about them will be relieved to hear Lismore City Council voted to adopt its Comprehensive Koala Plan of Management this week. The plan would scarcely be...

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Koalas vs CSG: it's unseamly

Opinion May 10, 2012 12:35 pm

Editorial: WE HAD a conversation in The Echo office this week that went something like this...

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Council explores carbon tax impact

News May 10, 2012 12:34 pm

AT THEIR meeting last Tuesday, Lismore City councillors were told the carbon tax will impact councils as producers of emissions.

 
Artist Judith Shannon, subject S Sorrensen, and the People’s Choice portrait.

The people's choice – twice

News May 10, 2012 12:33 pm

Will the Real S Sorrensen Please Stand Up, by Lismore artist Jude Shannon has won this year's Northern Rivers Portrait Prize People's Choice award.

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Allan Stewart’s lecturer, Dr Sonya Brownie, adjusts his gown before the graduation.

Oldest graduate's fourth degree

News May 10, 2012 12:31 pm

He was 21 when he first graduated in dentistry with honours from Sydney University.

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DIY gravel roads plan

News May 10, 2012 12:30 pm

Residents tired of potholes in their gravel roads should be able to fix them under supervision from council, Cr David Yarnall has proposed.

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Noeline Hickling and Rashid Habib from Lismore Neighbourhood Centre have brokered over one milion dollars in loans to the local community through the No Interest Loans Scheme.

A million dollars with no interest

News May 10, 2012 12:29 pm

It's not every day that you can say you have given one million dollars to needy people in the community.

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Some of Lismore’s ’Now Remembered Australians’: (l-r) Paul Stephenson, Vanessa Amy, Graham Wilson, Barbara Lane, John Bigelow and Peter Gould.

Forgotten no longer

News May 10, 2012 12:27 pm

At the beginning of a Senate Committee report into the “Forgotten Australians” is a quote from Nelson Mandela.

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Business

CQ mine hurdles causing problems

CQ mine hurdles causing problems

SKIRMISHES fought on Central Queensland mine sites between BHP Billiton and the coal miners' union have been highlighted by chairman Jac Nasser.

Entertainment

Carmen kicked off The Voice

Carmen kicked off The Voice

UPDATE: Guy Sebastian has spoken out about the scandal rocking The Voice today.

 

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