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June 17, 2026

Mandy’s Virgin Sacrifice

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Vale William ‘Bill’ Ewen

The funeral service for Marine Rescue Ballina volunteer William ‘Bill’ Ewen was held on Monday at Ballina RSL Club.

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A Church for All People

Celebrating its tenth year, the Brunswick Picture House personifies ‘A Church for All People’, in its packed, eclectic and biggest ever program. The next few weeks and months bring a throng of music superstars, a gang of Australia’s hottest comedians, and plenty of jaw-dropping burlesque beauties to blow your minds.

I was a participant in Mandy Nolan’s stand-up comedy course in November this year. On the evening of Monday, December 2, sixteen of us got up and did our original performances at the Byron Bay Services Club. It was a wonderful night of hilarious, comedic talent.

My partner and I got up last as a duo, having not even rehearsed once together. We, in spite of our lack of practice, had so much fun and the crowd certainly sounded like they enjoyed our clowning around.

We would have loved to have seen our own performance and when we were finished we were approached by many people who said how funny our act was and how they laughed hysterically.

At the end, one woman came up to us to say how much she loved what we did. She told me that she filmed it and she offered to send the copy to me by Dropbox, then she took down my email address.

Unfortunately we didn’t receive an email with the Dropbox link from the woman, whose name I did not recall.

Anyway we would still love to see the film of our performance, so if there is anyone out there who knows this woman or if you are she, reading this, could you make contact with me please, either through The Echo or Mandy or the Byron Community College? All of whom I give permission to pass on my email address which I assume you may have either lost or written down wrongly.

Anyway, I hope you or someone you know reads this. Thank you.

Philip Byrt aka Phil Freeman, did his best attempt at Andy Kaufman’s character Tony Clifton. In case anyone was wondering?

Philip Byrt, Tyagarah



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Empowering women and girls

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Byron Writers Festival reveals 30th anniversary program

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