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June 30, 2026

Oligarchy to kill 90 per cent

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Eclectic Selection for the week beginning 1 July 2026

Eclectic Selection: What’s on this week is a taste of some of the events that can be found in the Byron Shire and beyond this coming week.

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Charge dismissed for activist hindering coal exports

An activist who came to national attention after being punched by a police officer while protesting, has had an anti-protest charge dismissed in court today.

Retiring on HEV

The Echo article on 17 June regarding the Oasis ‘retirement lifestyle’ development – with sites on Butler St and...

Casino Suspension Bridge opens

Minister For Small Business, Recovery and North Coast Janelle Saffin joined Mayor Robert Mustow and Member for Page Kevin Hogan to officially opening the Casino Suspension Bridge today (Saturday).

Mud bath at Bangalow – Rebels vs Ballina men’s XV

Heavy rain in the lead-up made for treacherous conditions for rugby at Bangalow, with Ballina ultimately proving too strong...

Could you be a better councillor?

I had the opportunity to speak to the NSW Reconstruction Authority (NSW RA) last month. One of the matters I brought up was the proposed 57 Station Street, Mullumbimby development. It was clear that the only ‘community feedback’ they would be listening to supported housing development on that site.

Top female player shares tips in Byron

Croquet players from across the Northern Rivers area were privileged to spend time recently with Australia’s top female golf...

Noah Yamore, Mullumbimby

At a meeting of frontline activists last Sunday at Mullum gardens, a man held up a copy of our beloved Echo and the crowd went, ‘BOOOO!’.

Remember, The Echo was started as a protest against government tyranny here in Mullum. Now it seems that The Echo, the Byron Community Centre, BayFM, and Byron Council are all going corporate. And this in Byron Shire!

Finally, there is a bill: No Domestic COVID Vaccine Passports Bill 2021, to safeguard us from being second-class citizens.

Please write to the politicians on this one. Safeguarding our ‘last rights’ rather than them reading our last rights to us as we expire, is important.

But what is really important is the state of the environment. The IPCC report released on 9 August is a shock. Attenborough’s series on the Great Barrier Reef and humanity’s approaching extinction is shocking as well.

SBS has broadcast two shows with climate experts saying we may have passed the ‘tipping point’ already. The tipping point is the point of no return for a runaway climate catastrophe, explained in the IPCC report.

No wonder the oligarchy wants to eliminate 90 per cent of humanity. It has been working on an airborne virus for decades.

Now everyone is being given the spike protein vaxxination to bring on the ‘great reset’. Will it be soon enough to make a difference? Will the messianic Second Coming save us? The ET’s? Gaia herself? Will those who know escape in their individual or group merkaba?

We are quickly coming to the fulcrum point. We will see it in our lifetime. There is an ‘Extinction Rebellion’ group working on an alternative. Blessings on your journey.



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The John Mitchell Memorial Golf Even

On Sunday, 16 August, the Lennox Head Lions will be staging their annual Golf Tournament at the beautiful Byron Bay course. This tournament commemorates...

Top female player shares tips in Byron

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Winter wellness begins in the pantry

or thousands of years, the kitchen was the pharmacy. Long before supermarket shelves and medicine cabinets, families turned to nourishing broths, warming spices, medicinal herbs and seasonal foods to support their health through winter. While modern medicine has an invaluable place – particularly for serious illness – many everyday winter rituals have been forgotten or aged out.