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Future cedar cutters?
Are subcontractors to Clarence Property the cedar cutters of 2024?
Lets put this in economic terms. Subcontractors: you are trading the priceless capital value of...
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Wallum works
With the recent issuing to the developer, Clarence Properties, of a subdivision works certificate, the fate of the Wallum heath and woodland at Torakina...
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Floodplain Mullumbimby
Mullumbimby is a floodplain. Every time we have a heavy downpour I am up and down through the night, checking if the water is...
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Time to tape up
Could I suggest that all flood-affected residents in Mullumbimby turn up to the Byron Council chambers by 8.30am for the next meeting on 14...
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Floodplains, drainage
I understand the owners of floodplain land wanting to fill and develop for money, and who work secretly with Byron Council (who are very...
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Cannabis
I’m not sure Andrew Hall understands how politics works if he is blaming the Greens for cannabis not being decriminalised yet. That’s actually up...
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Will rejected developments, now included in the TGHMS, destroy the Tweed Shire
It is unfortunate the Tweed Growth Management and Housing Strategy – draft Options Paper (TGMHS) is mired in much controversy.
The huge discrepancy of the...
Letters
What’s Mullum?
Having worked at the Ford dealership in Mullum while my wife ran an art and craft shop in Mullum, and having lived on the...
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Time for change
National Parks & Wildlife Service (NPWS) and Byron Shire Council (BSC) have agreed to close Tyagarah clothing-optional area on 30 June.
What a relief that...
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Trees and birds to go in Mullum?
When I heard that the council had new plans for Burringbar Street, I was curious to see what that plan was. I was shocked...
Letters
Water meter outrage
The Echo’s article about the Rous County Council (RCC) water meter flowback prevention device was very timely. We are about to be slammed $200...
Cartoons
Cartoon of the week – 13 March, 2024
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Western values
In a recent vote at the United Nations, the General Assembly adopted a resolution on the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination, with...
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Decline of naturism
The closing of the nude beach at Tyagarah can be seen as another step in the long decline of nudism. In the ‘60s and...
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On Wallum
We seem to rely way too much on Byron Council and councillors to have the knowledge or expertise in assessing developments like Wallum in...
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Byron influencers
I'd love to know the fashion swimwear evolution for the Bundjalung people swimming at Tyagarah, 60,000, 50,000, 40,000, 30,000, 20,000, 10,000 and 250 years...
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Time for marriage?
I have a huge dilemma that I thought your readers might be able to help me with.
I never got married because I thought it...
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Defacing artworks
Mullumbimby is a colourful place. We love all the events, workshops, activities and markets – it all adds to our diverse culture. What we...
Letters
Israel Palestine
Audacious, humane, sensible, permanent. Achieving such a solution to the present Middle East crisis would require persons of state, that, unlike the current ones...
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Gratitude for the ‘vagina’ events
This year I joined the V-day dance for the first time and I will treasure this sacred gathering for many years to come. To...
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Clothing-optional at Tyagarah Beach
I am writing to object to Byron Shire Council’s intention to revoke the clothing-optional status of Tyagarah Beach.
I grew up in neighbouring Ballina Shire...
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Save Wallum
I listened to the Byron Shire Council (BSC) meeting to hear the fate of the Wallum site. Congrats to the Save Wallum community and...
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Punishment
There is a justice problem in criminal assault cases if a person who claims to have been assaulted makes a formal complaint, such that...
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Lighthouse Road
The section from the bus stop on Lighthouse Road to the divide of the road to Byron Bay, is totally unacceptable. It’s putrid for...
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4,000 failed
I attended the flood forum held at the Ballina RSL last Monday and was aghast to hear some of the facts presented. 4,000 people...
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Wallum: lies built on foundation of truth
I am 51 and have been homeless for eight years. I live in a van in a paddock. In my younger years I never...
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Housing parasites
Trying to fix the housing crisis in the Byron Shire by building more houses is like trying to put out a fire with kerosene....
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MIA: Balson on Wallum
Dear Cr Balson,
I understand that you attended the Byron Council meeting last Thursday very briefly, but absented yourself from the discussion and vote on...
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Green Convoy
Michael Trevaskis (Letters, 8 February) might have enjoyed the extra three years of the miserable and mean Morrison government that his hallowed Brown-led ‘Green...
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Knock down Byron’s forests
And another FU to the community, from the dominantly pro-development Council. Submissions due by 23 February on the proposed further housing development of the...
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Byron: flats and highrise?
Where are the residents of Byron Bay who are concerned about where we live and the changes afoot? At the Council information sessions for...
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Cartoon of the week – 21 February, 2024
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Wallum vote
Lyon, Swivel, Pugh and Hunter voted on Thursday to let the bulldozers in and destroy Wallum.
The Byron electorate trashed the real Green Council...
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River to the sea
Here we go again. Another example of the antisemitic slur ‘from the river to the sea’ from Mary McMorrow (Letters, 7 February). If the...
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Mary McMorrow
Thank you Mary for your letter in last week’s Echo supporting Israel in its efforts to remove Hamas and other radical Islamist groups from...
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Pam’s chemical-free farming passion
Third-generation farmer Pam Morrow has been growing her own organic food for over 20 years. Her passion for farming without the use of chemicals...
National News
Many rental homes barely habitable due to heat
Rental homes had an average indoor temperature of 25°C and experienced two hours a day over 30°C according to a new report, 'Cruel Summers', from tenant advocacy organisation Better Renting.
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Stone and Wood’s new NRB beer
Stone and Wood have launched a new beer: Northern Rivers Beer (NRB). At a warm, and pretty laidback, night at the Billinudgel Hotel earlier...
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The Drongo: even more of them around these days
The team at Spangled Drongo Brewing officially fired up their brewhouse in June last year, but you may have heard their name prior to...