There is an urgent need to change the name of a locality in Byron Shire. It contains an offensive element that must be removed by a total change of name.
We know that Mayor Lyon will be highly supportive as he obviously has high qualifications in linguistics, specifically lexicography and semantics. His support of what the well-known literary figure calls shining wits in a recent street name change in Mullumbimby reveals his capacity for sympathy and understanding. Of course, we are confident other councillors will support us too.
We all know of the swearing abuse the unemployed suffer as if they are ‘exploitative’ of the general community. Demeaning, derogatory, and derisive terminology pursues the unemployed; it is only right that Byron Shire leads the charge to adopt a more sympathetic and kindly approach to negate the slandering of the unemployed.
I do not want to use any of the nasty characterisations of the unemployed, but I will have to use one such when I reveal the name of the locality. The last two syllables of the name contain the offensiveness, which is partly obscured by a deliberate misspelling.
The locality is Talofa.
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. 
