In February this year, Eve Sinton was admitted to Tamworth Hospital.
All tests and biopsies were taken. Before announcing the diagnosis to Eve, the doctor asked ‘First Please tell me what was your occupation?’
Eve replied, ‘I am a journalist’.
The doctor said ‘I’m sorry to say that you have Mesothelioma caused by asbestos exposure’.
After a brief pause Eve replied, ‘Oh, I’ve renovated five homes on the north coast of NSW’.
Eve passed away in the palliative care unit of Tamworth Hospital on 30 June just on midnight.
Evelyn Monica Brenda Salt was born in Hastings, New Zealand, in 1952. She married Grant Allan in 1976, in Hawks Bay, New Zealand and had two sons, David and Mathew.
Eve moved to northern NSW in 1990, after her marriage ended.
Eve became the editor for the Permaculture magazine in Auckland in late 1980s, which sparked her life-long interest in sustainability and care for the environment.
She worked as a journalist for The Echo from 1992 till 2002. She was the partner of co-founder of Echo, David Lovejoy, for many years.
Eve worked for The Northern Star in Lismore for sometime after The Echo too.
As an investigative journalist, she contributed to Crikey and compiled and edited The Fossil Fool Bulletin, focusing on the impact of coal and gas projects, such as Narrabri Gas Project and Santos operations.
She became the press writer for The Knitting Nannas on the North Coast of NSW.
She wrote and published The Australian Cannabis Cookbook in 1998.
Eve loved dogs and cats, and rescued many, many animals over the years she lived on the Northern Rivers.
She moved to Bendemeer, following the devastating floods in Main Arm of 2022, and the passing of her then-partner, Winston La Galle.
Eve’s gentle nature, easy going personality, enquiring mind and passion for justice and the environment will be missed by all who knew her.
There will be a life celebration for Eve and scattering of her ashes, as she wished, sometime in the very near future.
Eve is very sorry she never saw the end of Rupert Murdoch.
‘The bastard is going to out live me’, she said.
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. 
