Local News Remembrance Day – 11 November On Monday 11 November all the RSLs in the area including Mullumbimby, Byron, Ballina, Lismore, and other major towns, will be holding services to commemorate Remembrance Day. Services start at about 10.30am with one minute of silence at exactly 11am, to remember those who served and gave their life. Remembrance Day began at the first anniversary of the end of the first World War and now commemorates all those who served in all conflicts since.
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Around a fifth of people living in various parts of the Northern Rivers are living in poverty, including up to one in four children. The latest research on poverty rates from the NSW Council of Social Services shows the official status of ‘economically disadvantaged’ is rife in the region. People who are economically disadvantaged have less than half of Australia’s median household disposable income, NCOSS says. The organisation has made the information publicly available via an interactive map online at https:// maps.ncoss.org.au. Mullumbimby, Brunswick Heads, Ocean Shores, Tweed Heads, Lismore, and Tenterfield top the Northern Rivers poverty list. The Mapping Economic Disadvantage in NSW report shows nearly 20 per cent of residents in Mullumbimby, Goonengerry, Myocum and Main Arm – around 1,300
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people – are officially living in poverty. Similar figures are reported for Brunswick Heads, Ocean Shores and Tweed Heads. Around a thousand people in the Byron Bay area, including Suffolk Park and Broken Head, and 2,000 in the Ballina area, are suffering poverty.
Low rates But Lennox Head and Skennars Head have the lowest rates of poverty in the region at less than ten per cent of the population, or around six hundred people. Further north in Tweed Heads, 19 per cent of the population is living in poverty, and with more people living there, the figure reflects 3,200 individuals. Around 17 per cent of residents in Murwillumbah, the north-west of Byron, Goonellabah, and east of Lismore, are in poverty. Out west, 1,100 people in the Tenterfield Shire are also
affected and again, that’s nearly 20 per cent of the population there.
Lismore hardest hit by poverty But the worst poverty rate is in the Lismore inner-city area, affecting 2,700 people, which is more than a fifth of all residents there. The poorest people in the region are living in North Lismore, Lismore Heights, South Lismore, East Lismore and Girards Hill.
Children and the unemployed the poorest of all Figures for children and unemployed people specifically are the worst, and result in almost the whole region being flooded in red on an interactive NCOSS map online. Red represents rates of poverty higher than 20 per cent. Nearly a third of all children in the inner-Lismore and Murwillumbah areas
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