Community Newsroom - 19 December 2025

Enough for a year: how Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital will spend $2 million in fed funds

Enough for a year: how Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital will spend $2 million in fed funds featuring Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital Strategy and marketingGeneral Manager Russell Mills  reporter: Emma Setterfield-Smith PIC supplied

Northern Rivers ICU nurse returns from Gaza

Northern Rivers ICU nurse returns from Gaza featuringclinical nurse specialist in critical care Cass Lillis reporter: Mia Armitage Cass Lillis is from Crabbes Creek, she’d been struck down with a virus and had no home reception when she sat in her car on the side of the road to share over the ph…

CN 12-12-25: Northern Rivers ICU nurse returns from Gaza; Community radio kills the streaming star; Enough for a year: how Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital will spend $2 million in fed funds

Cass Lillis is from Crabbes Creek, she’d been struck down with a virus and had no home reception when she spoke to me yesterday from somewhere near Crabbes Creek but she sat in her car on the side of the road to share over the phone what she has seen and heard in a place where most reporters fear t…

CN 05-12-25: Ballina marches against domestic violence; Something fishy about Tassie salmon; Community raises more than $100K to save bowlo; Will Trump deploy the national guard in next presidential elections?; Christmas fundraiser for Gaza

Community spirit has been strong on the Northern Rivers, with record attendance at the Ballina march for an end to domestic violence and more than $100,000 raised in less than a week to try to have the Bangalow Bowlo in community hands. Ballina marches against domestic violence w Emma Setterfield-S…

CN 28-11-25: Hopes for another zero-arrests Byron Schoolies; Warning to Schoolies headed OS; Our cadet’s first Byron Shire Council meeting; Slow progress at COP30; Byron’s Christmas hamper call-out for the needy

‘Tis the season for Schoolies, and Byron is one of the famously popular Australian school-leaver destinations. The event has a long and varied history in Byron, from heady, alcohol-fuelled days earlier this century to some distinctly more sober affairs in recent times. Today we hear what police a…

Greens Byron Shire Councillor Hague on loss of planning powers, selling public land in Mullum and her support of carpark units proposal

Greens Byron Shire Councillor Hague on loss of planning powers, selling public land in Mullum and her support of carpark units proposal featuring Greens Byron Shire Cr Elia Hague reporter: Mia Armitage Greens Byron Shire Councillor Elia Hague joins us in the studio to discuss changes announced t…

21 DV arrests on the Northern Rivers as police prepare to march in Ballina

21 DV arrests on the Northern Rivers as police prepare to march in Ballina featuring Richmond Police Acting Superintendent Susie Johnston and Tweed Byron Police District Detective Acting Inspector Gary Sheehan (Parts 1 and 2 of 2-part interview) Reporter: Mia Armitage NSW Police are part-way thr…

CN 21-11-25: 21 DV arrests on the Northern Rivers as police prepare to march in Ballina; Impulse buying at the latest buybacks auction in Lismore; Greens Byron Shire Councillor Hague on loss of planning powers, selling public land in Mullum and her support of carpark units proposal; Regen group celebrates millionth tree planting

Greens Byron Shire Councillor Elia Hague joins us in the studio to discuss changes announced to state planning laws that reduce council powers, the controversial Station Street units proposal in Mullumbimby and the prospect of retaining public land at the old Mullum hospital site for housing. We a…

CN 14-11-25: Campaign to save Bangalow Bowlo; Farmers feeling disconnected from Nats after net zero ditch; Home sold for a dollar in Mur’bah; The Dismissal, the republic referendum and Australian democracy; Politics in Mullum’s water

PIC (L-R): Labor Byron Shire Councillor Asren Pugh and The Bangalow Herald Editor Sally Schofield (PIC: Gayle Cue)