Sunday May 26, 2013

Byron Shire Echo Issue 27.49

Latest News Updated May 21, 2013
Opinion and Analysis Updated October 29, 2012

Clayton’s coastal news

By Michael McDonald

The news you have when you’re not having news (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claytons): NSW environment minister Robyn Parker was not only running behind the news last Thursday when she.....

Julia welcomes in the Asian century

By Mungo MacCallum

Asia already accounts for nearly half all our imports and a staggering 71 per cent of exports.For a prime minister who once admitted that she felt more at home in the classroom than on the.....

Playing god

By Mandy Nolan

It would seem that there is a new war of terror in America right now, and that is a war being waged on the female body. Once again, abortion has made itself a key issue in the US race for the White.....

A Colombian and a Bulgarian meet at Ventuno…

By Victoria Cosford

So, how did a Colombian and a Bulgarian end up running one of the Shire’s most successful – and authentic – Thai restaurants? It could almost be the start of one of those jokes, and.....

Cinema Reviews

By John Campbell

Argo You need not have been around at the time to know what happens at the end of this movie; its outcome is prefaced in promos and on the poster. And yet, despite being fully cognisant of this,.....

Class war casualty week

By Hans Lovejoy

There’s a few young guys currently hanging out in the streets of Mullum asking for money. They don’t look particularly drug-addled or destitute. In fact they seem well fed and in.....