Richmond River

Lismore

Lismore is the closest thing Bundjalung Country has to a regional capital — a Richmond River city built around a university, a market economy, and, in recent years, a hard road back from flood.

About Lismore

Lismore and its immediate suburbs — Goonellabah, East Lismore, South Lismore, North Lismore, and Girards Hill — together made up around 27,900 people at the 2021 Census (ABS Urban Centre and Locality figure), with Goonellabah alone accounting for over 13,000 of that. It is the largest city inland of the coast anywhere on the NSW far north coast, and home to the main campus of Southern Cross University.

Lismore sits low in the Wilsons River (Richmond River) floodplain, which has always meant periodic flooding — but the flood of February–March 2022 was catastrophic, well beyond any previous record, and reshaped the city. The university campus became an evacuation centre and later a base for dozens of recovery organisations; rebuilding, buyback schemes, and flood-resilient design are still very much part of daily conversation in Lismore years on.

Lismore is Bundjalung Country, and the wider area has long been known informally as the "Rainbow Region" for the alternative and arts communities that settled through the Northern Rivers hinterland from the 1970s onward. For matters of language, cultural protocol, or country and family connections, local Bundjalung organisations and native title bodies are the right contact — not this website.

Email for Lismore

A name@bundjalung.au address gives Lismore and Goonellabah residents, students, and small organisations a stable contact point that doesn't depend on any one employer, landlord, or ISP.

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A free static site

Community groups, flood-recovery projects, artists, and small Lismore businesses can get a simple static page live under name.bundjalung.au at no cost once identity checks are complete.

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Bundjalung artists, makers, and business owners in Lismore: this page doesn't publish a directory of local people or businesses without their say-so. If you're a Bundjalung artist, maker, or business owner based in or around Lismore or Goonellabah and would like a page, portfolio link, or listing here — with a link back to your own site or socials — use the contact form below and mention Lismore. Nothing about you goes on this page unless you ask for it.

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Use the form for email hosting, web hosting, corrections, or a new Bundjalung community page for Lismore. Identity checks are used to reduce impersonation and protect the domain.

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