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Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: The Power of Brow

I’ve always loved raising eyebrows. In surprise, or shock, or outrage. Or in hysterics. I always thought eyebrows were how our faces spoke to the...

Convenience food at the farmers’ markets

Victoria Cosford For many of us, especially those who enjoy cooking, the words ‘convenience foods’ fill us with horror – visions of frozen food, junky...

From Bruns to Billi – Rosefina’s heart is still in the same place

For those of you who fell in love with Rosefina’s in Brunswick Heads and were devasated when the caravan moved on, the wonderful news...

Interview with Nick Garbett from The Vampires

Vampires coming to the Northern Rivers With their latest, seventh, album Nightjar, ARIA Award winners The Vampires mark a watershed in their 15-year career, making...

The meeting of art and dance

‘Hinterland + Dance’ is a solo exhibition by Jan Rae – an exhibition of recent paintings that celebrate the beautiful hinterland and coastline of...

The Loveys farewell tour

The Loveys – Jennifer Parenteau, Janet Swain, Pamelah Freeman and Belinda Eadsforth are presenting their final tour in 2025 – it is time for...

Learn great songs and have a blast doing it!

After a fabulous first year, Big Voice Community Gospel Choir returns to Brunswick Picture House for another great year of singing, community and performance....

Talking Heads and David Bowie – KAPOW!

Get ready for an afternoon of timeless music as Soft Treadly, the acclaimed covers project from the founding members of Brisbane band The Jensens,...

Eclectic Selection: What’s on this week

The Mother of them all, Cheeky Cabaret, is back with another massive Summer 2025 season – one of the biggest! This outrageous genre-bending show has...

While the world watches

After reading so many letters and articles referring to atrocities over these months and years, inflicted by man upon men, women, and children, (I...

Tough on crime

Justine Elliot’s advocacy for more police is welcome, but it must be paired with progressive policies addressing crime’s root causes. The current ‘tough on...

A call for bike helmets

I am alarmed to see children riding ebikes at high speed on busy streets in shorts and T-shirts without helmets. I ask other members of...

What’s needed to win?

Mandy Nolan has been advertising that the Greens only need 1.8 per cent to win so l decided to give this claim a test...

Re: Suffolk traffic lights letter

Oh the mock humility Dean! At the insufficient awe I showed for the illustriousness of your campaign group. Sorry, I’m actually more interested in...

Suffering Park

I have lived in ‘Suffering Park’ for 17.5 years. I drive into Byron town on most days. Sometimes two to three trips a day....

Power bikes on footpath

Walking along the footpath between Clifford Street and the service station in Suffolk, quite a few times recently, the Black Power Bikes have whizzed...

Covid petition to Council, really?

So Backlash is now promoting any idea that comes across the desk. How did it become Byron Council’s responsibility to investigate the health outcomes...

Fire ants

Much as I agree with the need to eradicate the red imported fire ant or RIFA (Solenopsis invicta), there is no need to misreport...

Happy New Year

Will the catastrophic and unprecedented fires in Los Angeles wake up the masses to what our new outlook for the future is, because we...

Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: The names that drive us

I am driving on the highway and there’s a giant ute up my butt. It’s making me nervous. I can feel the ‘get out of my way’ energy. I’m a menopausal woman. I don’t respond to coercion.

Photo of the week –January 15, 2025

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.

Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: The Power of Brow

I’ve always loved raising eyebrows. In surprise, or shock, or outrage. Or in hysterics. I always thought eyebrows were how our faces spoke to the...

Convenience food at the farmers’ markets

Victoria Cosford For many of us, especially those who enjoy cooking, the words ‘convenience foods’ fill us with horror – visions of frozen food, junky...

From Bruns to Billi – Rosefina’s heart is still in the same place

For those of you who fell in love with Rosefina’s in Brunswick Heads and were devasated when the caravan moved on, the wonderful news...

Interview with Nick Garbett from The Vampires

Vampires coming to the Northern Rivers With their latest, seventh, album Nightjar, ARIA Award winners The Vampires mark a watershed in their 15-year career, making...

The meeting of art and dance

‘Hinterland + Dance’ is a solo exhibition by Jan Rae – an exhibition of recent paintings that celebrate the beautiful hinterland and coastline of...

The Loveys farewell tour

The Loveys – Jennifer Parenteau, Janet Swain, Pamelah Freeman and Belinda Eadsforth are presenting their final tour in 2025 – it is time for...

Learn great songs and have a blast doing it!

After a fabulous first year, Big Voice Community Gospel Choir returns to Brunswick Picture House for another great year of singing, community and performance....

Talking Heads and David Bowie – KAPOW!

Get ready for an afternoon of timeless music as Soft Treadly, the acclaimed covers project from the founding members of Brisbane band The Jensens,...

Eclectic Selection: What’s on this week

The Mother of them all, Cheeky Cabaret, is back with another massive Summer 2025 season – one of the biggest! This outrageous genre-bending show has...

While the world watches

After reading so many letters and articles referring to atrocities over these months and years, inflicted by man upon men, women, and children, (I...

Tough on crime

Justine Elliot’s advocacy for more police is welcome, but it must be paired with progressive policies addressing crime’s root causes. The current ‘tough on...

A call for bike helmets

I am alarmed to see children riding ebikes at high speed on busy streets in shorts and T-shirts without helmets. I ask other members of...

What’s needed to win?

Mandy Nolan has been advertising that the Greens only need 1.8 per cent to win so l decided to give this claim a test...

Re: Suffolk traffic lights letter

Oh the mock humility Dean! At the insufficient awe I showed for the illustriousness of your campaign group. Sorry, I’m actually more interested in...

Suffering Park

I have lived in ‘Suffering Park’ for 17.5 years. I drive into Byron town on most days. Sometimes two to three trips a day....

Power bikes on footpath

Walking along the footpath between Clifford Street and the service station in Suffolk, quite a few times recently, the Black Power Bikes have whizzed...

Covid petition to Council, really?

So Backlash is now promoting any idea that comes across the desk. How did it become Byron Council’s responsibility to investigate the health outcomes...

Fire ants

Much as I agree with the need to eradicate the red imported fire ant or RIFA (Solenopsis invicta), there is no need to misreport...

Happy New Year

Will the catastrophic and unprecedented fires in Los Angeles wake up the masses to what our new outlook for the future is, because we...

Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: The names that drive us

I am driving on the highway and there’s a giant ute up my butt. It’s making me nervous. I can feel the ‘get out of my way’ energy. I’m a menopausal woman. I don’t respond to coercion.

Photo of the week –January 15, 2025

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.
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