Aslan Shand and Philippa Clark
Former Deputy Prime Minister and MP for Richmond, Doug Anthony, was farewelled at a state memorial service in Tweed Heads on Thursday.
Dignitaries including John Howard and Prime Minister Scott Morrison were among the attendees who paid their respects to Mr Anthony at the Twin Towns Services Club. Doug Anthony while serving as Member for Richmond. Photo: National Library of Australia.
Tweed Mayor Chris Cherry told
Echonetdaily: ‘It was a moving ceremony, with many friends, colleagues and family sharing insights into his life and passion.’
‘Doug Anthony was a statesman, a quiet achiever with no airs and graces. His love for his family, and for the Tweed was evident in all of the reflections made. He leaves an amazing legacy in his family but for the wider community he has left us with our incredible Tweed Regional Gallery and a passion to protect and advance agricultural Tweed,’ Cr Cherry said.
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Photo: Aslan Shand.
Motorists travelling from Ocean Shores to Brunswick Heads were met with the unusual sight of a car mounted on the roundabout at Brunswick Valley Way and Riverside Crescent on Wednesday morning.
Detective Chief Inspector Matt Kehoe from Byron Bay police station told
The Echo that police responded to the incident around midnight and arrested the young driver.
The 16-year-old was charged with domestic violence assault, assault police, resisting arrest, special range drink driving, and being an unaccompanied learner. Bail was refused and he was due to face the Ballina Children’s Court on Wednesday.
Detective Chief Inspector Kehoe said the driver’s family was making arrangements for the removal of the car.
The Echo, that it is a ‘trusted window’ (Letters, 20 January).
Since 1992 I have looked to this community paper as a crucial space for intelligent critique, humour, compassion, agency, analysis, and sanity – an antidote to the nasty noise of the often taken-for-granted bellicose and paranoid culture that more than often than not dominates our lives.
Last week’s bracing editorial about the 2021 Human Rights Watch World Report regarding Australia’s failure on human rights is a good example of how vital
The Echo is as a community news resource.
Noting a major human rights failure, Aslan Shand points to ‘the unconscionable destruction and desecration’ of Indigenous cultural heritage.
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