Mr Mark Arnold, General Manager, Byron Shire Council,
I am shocked and disgusted to hear a story from Joshua Kinnear, a homeowner and a community volunteer during recent flooding.
I have experienced some of the trauma caused by two successive and extreme floods in our region. For two of your compliance officers to prioritise threats to demolish a safe and sound home shortly after the disaster, and during ongoing trauma, including homelessness for many, is outrageous.
For the sake of basic humanity Council’s current priority should be to house as many displaced people as possible and not to add to the numbers of homeless.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
