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Gary Opit invites Byron to explore what moves after dark

Most of us notice nocturnal wildlife when it darts across the road. Gary Opit has spent decades listening to people who reckon they have seen something rather harder to identify.
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Local NewsPaul Bibby - 0

Two left feet welcome as Byron Latin Fiesta starts tonight

You don’t need to know your salsa from your bachata to join Byron’s Latin dance crowd this weekend. Everyone...
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Local NewsThe Echo - 0

Byron report reveals confusion over permission to fill flood-prone land

Some building certifiers have interpreted conditions requiring raised floor levels as permission to use fill on flood-prone land, even though the filling required specific assessment, a Byron Shire Council report reveals.
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Local NewsDavid Lowe - 0

Ballina debates regional arts funding, missing people and live music

Ballina Council's October meeting opened with Mayor Sharon Cadwallader acknowledging the attack on Dr Helen Haynes and calling for respectful public service. She said, 'Democracy depends on people being able to participate freely, respectfully, and without fear'.
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Local NewsThe Echo - 0

Lismore’s former joinery makes room for a different kind of craft

A former Lismore joinery is about to test what else can be made in a timber factory, with Northern Rivers artists turning its industrial spaces into stages, screens and installations.
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Mandy Nolan

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Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: It stops with Helen

The horrendous and shocking violence experienced by MP for Indi, Helen Haines has shown us, in technicolour, that public life is not safe. Helen is known for her moderate approach, her lack of affiliation with party politics and her deep commitment to community.
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General Interest

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Mangroves are crucial

A global study of mangroves has found a modest boost in conserved area could significantly increase their ability to adapt to the changing climate, including rising sea levels.
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National NewsAslan Shand - 0

As report highlights dangerous climate warning for Australia IPC rejects reopening Redbank Power Station

The Independent Planning Commission (IPC) has rejected Verdant Earth Technologies’ biomass power plans at Redbank Power Station on the same day the government released the country's first National Climate Risk Assessment which highlighted Australians are at risk from more frequent and severe flooding, cyclones, heatwaves, droughts and bushfires. 
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National NewsEve Jeffery - 2

The Living Lab helping researchers get to net zero

The CSIRO has launched the National Energy Analysis Centre – which is vital new research infrastructure to support, accelerate and de-risk Australia’s complex energy transition.  
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Entertainment

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Wanderlust come to Mullum

Wanderlust invites the community to a magical evening celebrating connection and conscious living at the Wanderlust Night Market.
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Local NewsThe Echo - 0

Music overtones at Byron Bay International Film Festival

From the extraordinary life and legacy of Marianne Faithfull to the raw energy of Australia’s 1995 Summersault tour, a larrikin road trip through the Australian bush and the next generation of music video makers, music runs through this year’s Byron Bay International Film Festival. 
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Retrospective

Articles & ColumnsDavid Lovejoy - 1

The end of fun: David Lovejoy concludes the story of the The Echo’s early years

While the drama of general manager Max Eastcott’s departure was playing out, The Echo passed its tenth birthday, and we marked the jubilee with a fourth awards night.
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Local News

Gary Opit invites Byron to explore what moves after dark

Most of us notice nocturnal wildlife when it darts across the road. Gary Opit has spent decades listening to people who reckon they have seen something rather harder to identify.
The Echo - 0
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Editorial

Editorial – The rise of the machines

When the last switchboard operator became extinct and the filing assistant closed the cabinet for the last time to join the lamplighters and ratcatchers we were, perhaps, mollified with the knowledge that newer, more interesting careers would open up before us.
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Byron Echo

Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: It stops with Helen

The horrendous and shocking violence experienced by MP for Indi, Helen Haines has shown us, in technicolour, that public life is not safe. Helen is known for her moderate approach, her lack of affiliation with party politics and her deep commitment to community.
Mandy Nolan - 0
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Two left feet welcome as Byron Latin Fiesta starts tonight

Paul Bibby - 0
You don’t need to know your salsa from your...
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Local News

Byron report reveals confusion over permission to fill flood-prone land

The Echo - 0
Some building certifiers have interpreted conditions requiring raised floor levels as permission to use fill on flood-prone land, even though the filling required specific assessment, a Byron Shire Council report reveals.
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Local News

Ballina debates regional arts funding, missing people and live music

David Lowe - 0
Ballina Council's October meeting opened with Mayor Sharon Cadwallader acknowledging the attack on Dr Helen Haynes and calling for respectful public service. She said, 'Democracy depends on people being able to participate freely, respectfully, and without fear'.
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Letters

Council: efficient, benchmarked?

Letters Jan Barham, Broken Head - 0
Despite lots of information about the rate rise, there are no options, ideas for increasing revenue, or organisational efficiencies...
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Clifford St koalas

Letters Lynne Richardson, Suffolk Park - 0
Trawling through voluminous documentation to get abreast of the current DA for 9-15 Clifford Street is not how I...
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Ballina Hospital

Letters Scott Hyams, Mullumbimby - 0
After recently suffering a stroke I have been extremely fortunate to be doing my rehabilitation at the Ballina Hospital...
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Cheques exist?

Letters Larry Hoofs - 0
I received a cheque in the mail (I didn’t know they still existed) from Medicare. It is payment to...
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Cartoon of the week – 28 October, 2026

Cartoons The Echo - 0
The Echo loves your letters and is proud to provide a community forum on the issues that matter most to...
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Ballina to Atlantis

Letters C & C Quick, Rous - 0
Regarding Ballina Hospital emergency/Ballina Shire Council (Echo, 14 October): Jamie Hoile, what a great letter. A couple of additional...
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Local News

57 Station Street approved

Last Thursday, 22 October, the Northern Regional Planning Panel unanimously approved the amended 57 Station Street, Mullumbimby development application by Landcom on the Byron Shire Council (BSC) owned site.
Local News Aslan Shand - 0
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Banjo meets electronics for Lismore gallery’s Noisy Hour

Keeping quiet is usually part of the deal when visiting an art gallery. Tomorrow, Lismore Regional Gallery is inviting a former Gerling musician and a banjo player to make some noise.
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Man dies following single-vehicle crash – Chinderah

A man has died following a single-vehicle crash near Chinderah today.
Local News The Echo - 0
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Trust Council with DA compliance?

The controversial subdivision at 53 McAuleys Lane, Myocum that directs traffic onto the McAuleys Lane and Mullumbimby Road intersection has had a number of the modifications approved – but not all.
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Current Print Edition

Byron Shire Echo issue 41.20 – October 28, 2026

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Local News

Byron Council won’t lose $2.4m in government funding

The proposed draft changes to NSW’s allocation formula for Financial Assistance Grant funding to local councils that woudl have seen Byron Shire Council lose $2.4m in funding will not go ahead.
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Byron Echo

How regenerative farming and ecological restoration are rebuilding resilience

Recent ecological surveys of formerly ‘lifeless paddocks’ at Banyula farm. near Clunes recorded an astonishing 121 bird species and sightings of threatened species, including koalas, which now make the property home.
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Byron Echo

Locals heading to Jakarta for a padel

Three Northern Rivers junior tennis players, brothers Miles and...
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Local News

Trust Council with DA compliance?

The controversial subdivision at 53 McAuleys Lane, Myocum that directs traffic onto the McAuleys Lane and Mullumbimby Road intersection has had a number of the modifications approved – but not all.
Aslan Shand - 0
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Sport

Locals heading to Jakarta for a padel

Byron Echo The Echo - 0
Three Northern Rivers junior tennis players, brothers Miles and Ollie and teammate Frankie, have...
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Ballina Dragons conquer the Tweed again

Local News The Echo - 0
For the second consecutive year, Ballina Dragon Boat Racing Club has won the 21 km 'Three Bridges Long Paddle' in a time of 1 hour 55 minutes 23 seconds.
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Wingsuit pilot Chris Geiler is all about speed

Local News Eve Jeffery - 0
Northern Rivers wingsuit pilot Chris Geiler has returned from the the sixth World Championships in Performance Wingsuit Flying held at Skydive Elsinore in California, with a win in the speed division.
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Byron Bay wins Wallace Shield

Local News The Echo - 0
For the past 63 years Byron Bay and Ballina lady golfers have had a fierce but friendly rivalry for the Wallace Shield. Even COVID couldn't spoil the party, although the competition was played with certain restrictions.
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Good Life

Spring into summer with local Dorper Lamb

The Good Life Allie Godfrey - 0
As we move from spring into summer, it’s time to fire up the barbecue, enjoy long lunches with family and friends, and make the most of fresh, local produce. I recently spoke with Warren from Boorabe Dorper Lamb about the different cuts of lamb and how to get the best out of them.
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Foreshore Italian

The Good Life The Echo - 0
Foreshore Italian brings the warmth, generosity and simplicity of Italian cooking to Elements of Byron, celebrating the pleasure of good food, fresh ingredients and shared dining experiences.
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Berry season is here

The Good Life Allie Godfrey - 0
Spring is in the air and berries are bursting onto the farmers’ market stalls. Sweet, juicy and packed with goodness, berries are one of those treats that rarely make it all the way home without a few disappearing from the punnet.
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New at the Belongil Bistro

The Good Life The Echo - 0
Set beachside at Belongil, Shannon Bennett’s Belongil Bistro has a new, more approachable menu format, designed for sharing. One of four distinct venues within The Belongil, the Bistro brings produce-driven dining into a setting that feels relaxed, welcoming and distinctly coastal.
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Local News

Cadwallader calls for government airport funding

Mayor of Ballina Sharon Cadwallader has called for a fairer airport funding partnership for the Northern Rivers, contrasting the Commonwealth’s reported $5.6 billion investment in Western Sydney Airport with Ballina Shire Council funding almost three-quarters of its airport’s recent runway upgrade.
The Echo - 0
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National News

Barwon flood must not be pumped dry

Nature Conservation Council NSW (NCC), the state's leading environmental advocacy organisation, is calling on the Minns government to put in place an urgent moratorium on floodplain harvesting to ensure the current flood is used to prepare rivers and wetlands for the coming El Niño summer, not as a bonanza for big irrigators.
The Echo - 0
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Byron Echo

Rejecting the politics of hate

Have you ever lived in such turbulent times? We really don’t know what to expect from one day to the next. With such uncertainty it is difficult to plan ahead.
Richard Jones - 0
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