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Major $300,000 commission calling for artists, HOTA ArtKeeper returns, plus winners of Patrick White Literary Award and Artspace studio artists announced.

Was it divine intervention or western democracy that changed the fate of a former country church on the Northern Rivers last week? ‘I didn’t realise we had elections in Ballina Shire,’ Echo reader Peter Hatfield commented recently, ‘I thought David Wright was divinely appointed for life, if not beyond’. David Wright has been mayor of Ballina Shire for the past eleven years and has held a seat on the council for the past seventeen so it’s fair to say his time has been epic in local g...

Premium Content Subscriber only A development application to turn the former Uniting Church at Rous Mill into an art gallery is back on public exhibition. Ballina Shire Council received an application to turn the former church at 36 Rous Mill Road into an art gallery and pottery studio. The project included the use of the existing building as exhibition space, adding a deck, and the erection a building to be used for office and storage, an outdoor kitchen, bathroom and shared toilet amenitie...