Say ‘No’ to domestic violence this Sunday, May 5 at 4pm in Ballina and stand in solidarity, honouring those who have lost their lives to domestic violence.
The Brunswick Picture House is delighted to announce that the Briefs Factory troupe is bringing a brand new show, Sissy Knickers!, for a special and exclusive performance next week on Thursday.
Swooping into its third year, Ché Pritchard’s hit production Birds of Paradise: A Comedy Birdlesque! is back, and this time the flock is covering more ground than ever! The world-class, multi-skilled and clucking amazing cast will be dazzling audiences with their spectacular and hilarious displays for a whole new flock of feathered cabaret and comedy fans! And where better to do it than the renowned Brunswick Picture House, home of epic cabaret and comedy!
The Alliance for Nature NSW says critical environmental reforms have been delayed and ignored, with concerning indications that some members of the Minns Cabinet are seeking to water down or simply not enact these election commitments.
It’s World Oceans Day and we just wanted to honour that with a few photos from our library.
Australian Sea lion, Great Australian Bight. Photo Brad Leue.
The Ocean Film Festival at Byron Theatre
Greenland’s ice sheet, the largest single contributor to ocean levels rising, has melted beyond the point of no return. Photo NASA.
Mana Aloha Hula Troupe by Sean O’Shea.
A surfer and a shark sharing the same ocean. Photo NSW DPI/Southern Cross University.
Ocean swimming enthusiasts Helen Huxley (L) with Steph Lymburner from Ballina. Photo supplied
Howie Cooke has donated his Ocean of Love artwork for a silent auction fundraiser. Photo supplied
A NROCC crew paddle through Ocean Rock on their marathon-distance Norfolk Island race.
Shark in the ocean. Photo supplied.
Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus). Photo NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program – http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos
An ocean pool at Coogee Beach in Sydney. (supplied)
William Finnegan, San Francisco, 1985.
Photo Ocean Wise.
An ocean pool has been proposed for Ballina but moves are afoot to kill it off. Photo contributed.
Reversing the damage to oceans from industrial pollution could take two centuries. (file pic)
The Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus). Photo from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration photo library
The Ocean Shores School’s Eco Warrior team with a rendered wall they built from plastic milk bottles, filled with used plastic. Photo Jeff ‘All Plastic Since 1986’ Dawson
The US branch of Sea Shepherd has agreed not to fund operations in the Southern Ocean. (file pic)
Hazardous weather conditions forecast to impact the NSW coastline from Friday.
The Wollongbar broke up and became ‘The Wreck’ – a haven for sea life and divers.
Photo courtesy of the
Byron Bay Historical Society
Production still from A moment from the new film ‘Free From Lockdown’. Photo Cathy Ryan.
Movie still from ‘Sea Of Shadows’. Photo National Geographic.
An empty seat at Lennox Head. Photo David Lowe.
Big John Keevers after his morning surf. Photo Sean O’Shea.
SLSC volunteers coped well with a challenging 2019/2020 season.
Mono’ working hard at La Jolla. Photo Sean Evans/ISA
Deep Sea Coral Polynesia
CSIRO research vessel Investigator. Image: CSIRO
Dr Elisabeth Deschaseaux from Southern Cross Uuniversity. Photo supplied.
ORI flagship Research Expedition Vessel, ‘La Boheme’ to be based in Ballina. Photo ORI.
Researcher Kay David. Photo supplied.
Australian Sea lion, Great Australian Bight. Photo Brad Leue.
Sea Shepherd vessel moored off Byron Bay. Photo Jeff Dawson
Migaloo seen in the company of another whale off the coast of Brunswick Heads on July 26, 2018. Photo Sean O’Shea
Migaloo, the white whale, spotted off Brunswick Heads on July 26, 2018. Photo Sean O’Shea
GromSearch champion Nyxie Ryan.
Photo Smith/SNSW
A ray found by Sea Shepherd volunteers trapped in a Ballina shark net on Sunday January 7, 2018. Photo Sea Shepherd Australia
Nyxie Ryan has GromSearch tile in her sights. Photo John Andrews/SQ
The loggerhead turtle found caught in a shark net off Ballina’s Lighthouse Beach yesterday (December 18) before it was rescued. Photo Sea Shepherd
Cr Lloyd ‘Aquaman’ Bridges identifies possible sites for submarine storage units in Myocum after sea-level rise hits. Photo supplied.
Tara, the Hawksbill Sea Turtle. (supplied)
Photo Sean O’Shea
Photo Sean O’Shea
Photo Sean O’Shea
Photo Sean O’Shea
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Photo Sean O’Shea
Byron Bay’s Matt Wilkinson
One of two rays found caught in shark nets off Ballina beaches. Photo Sea Shepherd
Byron Bay’s Mark ‘Mono’ Stewart in action at the 2016 Stance International Surfing Association (ISA) World Adaptive Surfing Championship at San Diego in California.
Dolphin and kayaker sharing a wave at Byron Bay by Sean O’Shea is a semi-finalist in the 2016 Moran Photographic Prize.
Joel Parkinson winning semifinal heat 2 against Tanner Guadauskas at Trestles, California. Photo WSL/Sean Rowland
Victoria’s 12 Apostles. Scientists have found five more apostles submerged of the coast out to sea. Photo Wikipedia/Cookaa
Surfing or flying? Big surf at Byron Bay on the weekend, whipped up by tropical cyclone Winston, saw most stay clear of the water but a brave few take to the waves. Photo Sean O’Shea
A new study has estimated there are 5,500 great white sharks living along the east coast. (Wikipedia)
Byron Bay pro-surfer Dave ‘Rasta’ Rastovich wins the single-fin division of the Four Seasons Maldives Surfing Champions Trophy. Pic: WSL
Shane Dorian dominates division two of the Four Seasons Maldives Surfing Champions Trophy.
Photo: WSL
Gold Coast surfer Chelsea Williams on her way to her maiden World Longboard Championship last year. Photo WSL/Will H-S.
The popular Wreck surf site on Byron Bay’s Belongil Beach. Photo Sean O’Shea
The prickly redfish (Thenenota ananas). Photo SW Purcell
Bleached coral is one of the sobering discoveries CSIRO researchers have found.
Southern right whales, Great Australian Bight. Photo Peta North.
A humpback whale breaching. Photo Wild About Whales
From New Jersey via Melbourne, Cape Byron visitor Shari Cohen got a double treat when she tried on the ‘Bowe’ the Baby Humpback costume and saw whales for the very first time. Photo Eve Jeffery.
Lennox Head photographer Craig Parry takes the ultimate selfie with two whales watching on. (supplied)
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Local residents and Wilson Nature Reserve Landcare Group have said they are ‘dumbfounded’ at the lack of scrutiny of the ongoing development application at 37 City View Drive, East Lismore.
The Evans Head Iron Gates development has been objected to by the local community for 40 years and they are asking why the current developers, who are in administration, are getting another go in the Land and Environment Court.
Australia, or more specifically eastern Australia, was identified as one of 24 ‘deforestation hotspots’ around the world in 2021 and the only first world...
The Wallum fiasco exemplifies all that is wrong with our current neoliberal economic system, one that thrives on pitting nature and community against ‘progress and development’.
verfishing is one of the greatest threats to the health of our oceans, contributing to biodiversity loss, habitat destruction, bycatch of marine species, human rights abuses, and more.
