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Then Premier Dominic Perrottet, the Minister for the Arts Ben Franklin and Member for Sydney Alex Greenwich pictured looking at the flood damaged artworks from Lismore art gallery that are being restored by conservators at the Registrar-General’s Building in Sydney in May 2022.

New theatre HQ and gallery set to put Lismore back on the arts map

A former joinery factory is set to become the centrepiece of an arts-led regeneration of flood-ravaged Lismore.

  • Heath Gilmore

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Lismore city centre, September 2024.

How Australia’s ‘flood capital’ is rebuilding, two years on

Hundreds of millions of dollars are pouring into NSW’s “grand dame” of the Northern Rivers. Leading community figures say local people, not insurers, should shape their city’s future.

  • Heath Gilmore
Sophie Roome and her son Rowan, 2.

Inside the ADVO hearing that could have saved a two-year-old boy

The Lismore man last week killed his two-year-old son Rowan, and himself, in a murder-suicide that shocked the state.

  • Sally Rawsthorne
Sophie Roome is comforted by family, friends and the community of Lismore at a silent vigil for Rowan, 2, who was murdered by his father last Sunday.

Lismore rallies for a mother in grief after murder of her child

Rowan’s mother Dr Sophie Roome and students from his swim school were among the crowd of 120 who gathered to remember the toddler killed by his father in a murder-suicide last week.

  • Sally Rawsthorne
GIF: A toddler’s trike at the Lismore crime scene.

Anger, revenge, domestic violence: Why do fathers kill their children?

The Lismore father suspected of killing himself and his two-year-old son has left a community bereft. Many are asking what is behind such a heinous act.

  • Jordan Baker
The College Street unit block where the body of a father and son were found in East Lismore.

‘Community paralysed’: Father and son, aged 2, found dead in suspected murder-suicide

The boy’s mother called police after the 38-year-old man failed to return from a custody visit. Four hours later two bodies were discovered at a unit.

  • Jessica McSweeney and Eryk Bagshaw
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Paul Shipway, pictured, was left quadriplegic after a crash near Lismore in 2022. The driver, Alex Edward Bourke, was sentenced to an 18-month intensive correction order on Thursday, April 4, 2024.

‘Lost control of my own life’: Father left quadriplegic by driver on wrong side of the road

Father-of-three Paul Shipway was riding his motorbike when an illegally parked car pulled out in front of him, causing a crash that a judge said was easily avoidable.

  • Clare Sibthorpe
GIF: Planes and robot boats map the Northern Rivers  to help CSIRO scientists recreate floods of the region.

In the Northern Rivers, planes have been criss-crossing the sky to recreate a disaster

Improbable as it sounds, Jai Vaze is bringing the February 2022 disaster back to life in his Canberra laboratory.

  • Heath Gilmore
Tess Dellagiacoma’s cottage is prepared for its journey.

New chapter for heritage house full of memories after epic journey

The 20th century played out within its walls. Now, a heritage-listed Federation cottage has found a new resting place in a different state.

  • Catherine Naylor
Ballina’s property market has cooled.

The NSW sea change towns where house prices fell most

Interest rate rises and a return to CBD offices have taken the heat out of popular towns, although some areas are showing signs of renewed confidence.

  • Tawar Razaghi and Melissa Heagney-Bayliss

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