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Where should affordable housing go in Tweed Shire?

Should affordable and social housing in the Tweed Shire be tucked away in a few discrete corners? Perhaps it...

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Coveted Wollumbin Art Award open for young and old

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Floodplains

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Lismore Labor MP called out over native forest logging

More than five hundred people marched in the rain through Lismore to the local state member’s office in protest against government sanctioned native forest logging on Sunday.

Richmond MP again called on for immediate Gaza ceasefire 

On Saturday, March 16 Northern Rivers Friends of Palestine unfurled a 20m scroll with the names of murdered children and host a ‘die-in’ action at the office of the federal Member for Richmond, Justine Elliot (Labor).

Echo readers love the great food and produce we have here, but also travel all over the place and are often telling us about the great (and small) restaurants, cafes and bars outside the Byron bubble.

If you’ve travelled farther north than Tweed Heads, or farther south than Ballina, and found some food or wine you love, please tell us about it!

We might publish your tip, with your name, in the paper, and every now and again we’ll reward a good tip with a $50 voucher generously donated by Harvest Café, or a similarly fun treat.

Simply email your 100-word tip, plus a photo if you have one, to [email protected].

Onion, tapioca … just the start of the flavour journey
Onion, tapioca … just the start of the flavour journey

BRISBANE – Urbane

Okay, it’s no secret that this is a great restaurant – it’s received two hats from the GFG for the last three years and Gourmet Traveller ranks it QLD’s second-best restaurant after Esquire, but it’s easy to be disappointed when your expectations are raised.

It’s solely degustation, five or eight courses, vegetarian or omnivore – the herbivore option is top-notch as Argentinian chef  Alejandro is a vegetarian. He was 2013 GFG QLD Chef of the year, but he hasn’t lost his edge if our visit last week was any indication.

Of course, it’s expensive! Five courses $110, eight courses $145 but if you’re really looking for something special I don’t think you’d be disappointed, especially if you took the matching wine option.

MELBOURNE – Seamstress

This is a quirky, small pan-Asian restaurant upstairs in a 120-year-old former textile factory in the Chinatown district. The food is great, with an emphasis on sharing, and the staff are friendly and there’s a fun, casual atmosphere.

We went there last month over Melbourne’s comedy festival and loved it – they open at 5.30pm on Friday and Saturday nights to cater for diners visiting Her Majesty’s Theatre and the Melbourne Comedy Theatre that are practically next door. If you just feel like a drink, there’s an excellent cocktail bar even farther upstairs.


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Making Lismore Showground accessible to everyone

The Lismore Showground isn’t just a critical local community asset that plays host to a number of major events each year, but has also been used as an evacuation centre during past natural disasters in the region. 

Iconic Lennox beach shed upgraded –  not demolished

Lennox Park and the shelter shed has now been upgraded and reopened.

Govt cost-shifting ‘erodes financially sustainable local government’

Byron Shire Council looks set to add its voice to the growing chorus calling on the state government to stop shifting responsibilities and costs onto local government.

Saddle Road group home DA decision this week

Plans to build Byron Shire’s first permanent group home for women and children in housing stress are moving ahead, with the development application for the project coming before Council this week.