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The Byron Shire Echo is a weekly independent newspaper that is published in the Byron Shire of New South Wales in Australia.
The office is located at Village Way, Stuart St, Mullumbimby NSW
Phone (02) 66 841 777 Fax (02) 6684 1719The Echo, as it is also known, was first published on June 11, 1986. It has a sister paper The Tweed Shire Echo, founded on August 28, 2008.
The original Byron Shire Echo was founded in 1986 following marijuana raids by the NSW Police in the valleys surrounding Mullumbimby. Many people believed that the police were acting aggressively and illegally, and local TV and print media refused to touch the story.Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, does things in a big way. Presently retrograde in Pisces it tends to do floods, tsunamis and large scale water displacement, leaving humans no option but to go with the flow…
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‘Never had any trouble with politicians when I was up the Zambezi,’ said Bosworth, observing the sunlight through his beaker of absinthe. ‘Local chieftain soon found a spot for them among his shrunken head collection.’
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Danish-born Jakob Leschly, Buddhist teacher and Tibetan translator, embarked on the spiritual nomad’s path at 17, receiving instruction for the next 35 years from the Dalai Lama and a luminary cast of Tibetan lamas, most notably the Dalai Lama’s own spiritual teacher, His Holiness Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, with whom Jakob studied for sixteen years in India, Nepal and France, and trav Read more »
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ARIES: Uranus the planet of surprises retrograding in Aries this week (followed by Jupiter later in the month) swirls flux and ferment in Read more »