13.8 C
Byron Shire
August 29, 2026
Local NewsByron Echo

Byron Shire bucks ‘No’ trend

By The Echo

Latest News

LettersAnnie Radermacher, Brunswick Heads  - 0

How can we keep paying for incompetence

The only way forward is going backwards. That’s how I explain the current situation of Byron Shire Council. The...
Read more

Other News

Local NewsAslan Shand - 0

Chamber and businesses support Byron Hospital

The Mullumbimby Chamber of Commerce and Community with First National Real Estate have stepped up and provided $1,000 of equipment for the new 20-bed Care Awaiting Placement (CAP) ward at Byron Central Hospital that opened in June.
Read more
Local NewsAslan Shand - 0

Bangalow community rallying for the Bowlo

A major town rally for Bangalow is planned for Saturday, 19 September at 2pm as the next phase of action to have the Bowlo reopened and back in community hands.
Read more
Byron EchoThe Echo - 0

Mullum Gold Club charity day Saturday

This Saturday, 29 August  the Mullumbimby Golf Club (MGC) is hosting its rescheduled MND (Motor Neurone Disease) Charity Day in honour of Steve Ryan.
Read more
Byron EchoBronwyn Morris, Montecollum - 0

When will the madness stop?

I attended the Byron Council meeting last week where I was astounded to listen to Jason Dunn, Byron property...
Read more
Local NewsThe Echo - 0

Troubled Hastings Point sewage plant upgrade goes back to the community

A long-running battle over the future of the Hastings Point Wastewater Treatment Plant has entered another round, with Tweed Council putting its preferred upgrade option back before the community.
Read more
Local NewsThe Echo - 0

Climate science meets art at Lismore Gallery

Climate change conversations filled with graphs, reports and grim headlines can be enough to make even the hardiest soul want to hide under the doona. This Sunday, Lismore Regional Gallery is trying a different approach to discussing the issue.
Read more

While nearly all the nation’s states and territories rejected the referendum question of an Indigenous Voice to parliament (except the ACT), Byron Shire bucked the trend with the ‘Yes’ votes claiming all booths on Saturday. 

Byron Shire is part of the seat of Richmond, which also includes Ballina and Tweed shires.

Despite some close counts in various booths, those surrounding shires recorded a ‘No’ majority. 

Seat of Richmond

On Tuesday, according to www.tallyroom.aec.gov.au, the Richmond booths recorded 41,020 ‘Yes’ votes, and 52,506 ‘No’ votes in the booths. 

There were 1,378 informal votes out of a total of 94,904 votes with 123,584 enrolments.

The postal vote count recorded 2,309 ‘Yes’ votes to 4,451 ‘No’ votes. 

Byron Shire booths

Bangalow: 845 ‘Yes’, 374 ‘No’

Billinudgel: 316 ‘Yes’, 206 ‘No’

Brunswick Heads: 945 ‘Yes’, 544 ‘No’

Byron Bay (three polling booths combined: 5,011 ‘Yes’, 2,487 ‘No’

Coorabell: 211 ‘Yes’, 95 ‘No’

Ewingsdale: 120 ‘Yes’, 47 ‘No’

Federal: 225 ‘Yes’, 93 ‘No’

Mullumbimby (two polling booths combined): 1,873 ‘Yes’, 951 ‘No’ 

Ocean Shores (two polling booths): 1,505 ‘Yes’, 845 ‘No’

Suffolk Park: 680 ‘Yes’, 232 ‘No’

Wilsons Creek: 145 ‘Yes’, 57 ‘No’

Outside Byron Shire, Lennox Head (Ballina Shire) recorded 1,290 ‘Yes’ to 736 ‘No’ votes. 

The combined booths in Kingscliff recorded 1,016 ‘Yes’ votes to 1,250 ’No’ votes. 

See Dr Ray Moynihan’s article for more detail on the referendum results.

Previous articleFrom devastation comes determination 
Next articleLocal sparky suffers serious accident

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.

If you are a local business owner help us and in turn we help you. All The Echo asks for is advertising, not a free ride. It is every advert in The Echo and on www.echo.net.au, which creates the space for all the stories and coverage of community events, happenings and concerns.

If you are a reader you can become a sponsor of The Echo. Your support keeps the us independent.

Even a small one-off or regular donation from you will help keep the echo’s independent voice alive and strong.

Support Us

Become one of the supporters who helps keep independent, local journalism alive in the Byron Shire by contributing anything from as little as the cost of a coffee each month.

You're Wonderful, Thank you for supporting independent journalism in the Byron Shire

You’re supporting The Echo, thank you

Your contribution is keeping independent, local journalism alive in the Northern Rivers.

Because of supporters like you, we can keep every story free for everyone — no paywall, no exceptions. Your money goes directly to funding our newsroom of 40-odd local workers covering the stories that matter to this community.

Tell us what you think, give us your opinion

The Echo loves your letters and comments and is proud to provide a community forum on the issues that matter most to our readers and the people of the NSW north coast. So don’t be a passive reader, email us your epistles at editor@echo.net.au.

The letters deadline for The Echo is noon Friday. Letters longer than 200 words may be cut. The publication of letters is at the discretion of the letters editor. Please remember to include your full name, address and telephone number.

Online comments are no longer available.

National News

Greens urged to back pathway to end native forest logging

The Echo - 0
Some of NSW’s most respected and long-standing forest campaigners and scientists have today urged the Greens not to support the Nationals' attempt to disallow the Improved Native Forest Management (INFM) method.
Read more
Local News

Ballina Council makes decision on Ross Lane

David Lowe - 0
With the absence of all four of its progressive councillors for various reasons, Ballina Council pushed ahead with its agenda at yesterday's monthly meeting, including a decision which is likely to close Ross Lane for months while the road is upgraded.
Read more
Local News

Mullumbimby puts new governance models first, and now wants to build it

The Echo - 0
Imagine Northern Rivers says Mullumbimby is the only community across the region to rank new models of governance and decision-making as the number one element of its preferred future, and last week locals gathered to work out how to make it real.
Read more
Local News

Appeal to locate man missing from Broadwater

The Echo - 0
Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate a local missing man.
Read more

More Articles Like This

Editorial – Don’t know, don’t care

Editorial David Lovejoy - 43
The victorious ‘No’ camp is oddly reluctant to examine the roots of its cruel snub to our First Nations peoples.
Read more

Truth-telling beyond the Voice referendum

Byron Echo Professor Jeffery Lewis and Dr Belinda Lewis - 19
In order to transcend the disappointment of the Voice referendum, many political and Aboriginal leaders are focusing on ‘truth-telling’.
Read more

From devastation comes determination 

Byron Echo Dr Ray Moynihan - 28
I was one of the 60,000 ‘Yes’ volunteers who set up stalls, handed out leaflets, and helped the campaign create a local presence and profile. 
Read more

A tale of two pressers

Articles & Columns David Lowe - 26
Last week, the National Press Club in Canberra hosted two major press conferences, one day apart. The first was a desperate plea for attention from Nick Kaldas, the Chair of the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicides. The second was an all-out attack on the Voice to Parliament, via Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, the Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians.
Read more

Support Us

Become one of the supporters who helps keep independent, local journalism alive in the Byron Shire by contributing anything from as little as the cost of a coffee each month.

You're Wonderful, Thank you for supporting independent journalism in the Byron Shire