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Editorial – Look, over there! A virus is a great distraction
Will the local governing class (Council) change their perception of ‘normal’ development? Presently, this community still faces the never-ending barrage of growth opportunities (ie strategies, plans and policies), which have been foisted upon us by the NSW government and Council planning staff.
6 days ago | Hans Lovejoy | % Byron Echo, Editorial, Articles & Columns, Comment -
Editorial: Not confused enough
What do bureaucrats do if they want to simplify complex planning laws? Create another one!
14 days ago | Hans Lovejoy | 3 Byron Echo, Editorial -
Editorial: Why power corrupts
What’s your relationship with power and authority?
21 days ago | Hans Lovejoy | 6 Byron Echo, Editorial -
Mordor foists Tower of Sauron on Mullum
Society really doesn’t do science well. Being outraged is an easier achievement.
28 days ago | Hans Lovejoy | 7 Byron Echo, Editorial
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Editorial – Look, over there! A virus is a great distraction
Will the local governing class (Council) change their perception of ‘normal’ development? Presently, this community still faces the never-ending barrage of growth opportunities (ie strategies, plans and policies), which have been foisted upon us by the NSW government and Council planning staff.
6 days ago | Hans Lovejoy | 1 -
Editorial: Not confused enough
What do bureaucrats do if they want to simplify complex planning laws? Create another one!
14 days ago | Hans Lovejoy | 3 -
Editorial: Why power corrupts
What’s your relationship with power and authority?
21 days ago | Hans Lovejoy | 6 -
Mordor foists Tower of Sauron on Mullum
Society really doesn’t do science well. Being outraged is an easier achievement.
28 days ago | Hans Lovejoy | 7 -
Editorial – This is not COVID-19 related
While a virus sweeps across the planet and through humanity, this Thursday in the Mullum chambers you will find a dedicated bunch of Council staff and elected councillors thrashing over contentious local planning issues. In varying degrees of abilities.
April 16, 2020 | Hans Lovejoy | 0 -
After the plague
Not being able to socialise, or go to work, or be abroad for any but officially approved purposes certainly gives a body room to think.
April 10, 2020 | David Lovejoy | 3 -
Comment: Is isolation stupid?
Of course I wouldn't have the coronavirus! Right?
April 3, 2020 | Echonetdaily | 15 -
Editorial – Bring in a UBI for the crisis
Around the country we have people lining up down the streets outside Centrelink offices, attempting social distancing, to ensure they don’t starve and lose their homes as they lose their jobs. One key government response should be to bring in the universal basic income.
March 26, 2020 | Aslan Shand | 11 -
Who listens to smart peeps anymore?
If only critical and disciplinary thinking underpinned political and mainstream media discourse – like it does within the scientific community.
March 17, 2020 | Hans Lovejoy | 3 -
Editorial – Nuclear afterglow
While there will surely be an afterglow of good will towards local National Party MLC Ben Franklin for securing the Shire $25m in road and infrastructure funding, it should be pointed out where his government is taking us when it comes to the energy sector.
March 13, 2020 | Echonetdaily | 7 -
Supporting equality
The Wikipedia entry for feminism says: ‘Feminism is a range of social movements, political movements, and ideologies that aim to define, establish, and achieve the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes’.
March 5, 2020 | Eve Jeffery | 2 -
Editorial – Dear Greens voter
The local Green councillors you elected in 2016 have little interest in protecting or enhancing the environmental credentials of this region and do the bidding of wealthy developers, Council planning staff and the National Party.
February 21, 2020 | Hans Lovejoy | 1 -
People’s Climate Assembly calls for action
The People’s Climate Assembly gathered outside Australia’s Federal Parliament on the first day of sitting, on 4 February ‘to make a stand against the ignorance of the Australian government, and to demand real action in the face of the climate change emergency.’
February 20, 2020 | Echonetdaily | 4 -
Inner circle of jerks
What makes a good leader? Perhaps one who surrounds themselves with others who hold a diverse range of expert views or even challenge the ideologies of that leader.
February 18, 2020 | Hans Lovejoy | 6 -
Editorial: Polarised humbug
Every Australia Day, polarised humbug erupts from those who want to just wave a flag to celebrate their culture, and those who see that Aussie flag as a symbol of British genocide and invasion.
January 30, 2020 | Hans Lovejoy | 6 -
Editorial: Watch out! It’s biased
Everyone has a bias – it’s a natural human condition. It’s always a surprise to hear a political actor complain that The Echo is biased. The issue is really about fairness, not bias. Let's take holiday letting, like on Airbnb as an example...
January 23, 2020 | Hans Lovejoy | 2 -
Editorial: We don’t need a war and we don’t need the oil
So long as we keep burning oil to power our machines, we are at the mercy of rival powers in the Middle East, the richest being the Saudis, led by the murdering Prince Mohammad bin Salman, who has a deal with the crooked Prince Trump of America.
January 17, 2020 | Echonetdaily | 3 -
Editorial: Psychonaut of the week
‘Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third storey window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.’
January 10, 2020 | Hans Lovejoy | 2 -
It’s time to tap and go – for enviro action on the run
When I was a kid there was no such thing as bottled water. Water lived in the tap. Everyone drank tap. You turned it on, and water came out. It still does apparently.
January 3, 2020 | Mandy Nolan | 0 -
Living in the Pyrocene
As one of many bushfire refugees in Australia and beyond this year, I was faced with that classic question – what do I take and what can be left behind?
January 2, 2020 | David Lowe | 3 -
Will Byron Shire achieve an ecologically sustainable future?
We are in a crucial time of species extinction and destruction of our natural environment.
December 31, 2019 | Echonetdaily | 10 -
It’s not about ‘giving up’
How do we prepare for the future of a new climate reality?
December 13, 2019 | Echonetdaily | 5 -
Young people and our mental health in the Byron Shire: where can we go?
Young people who live in Byron Bay and surrounding towns lack one of the most important health services: mental health assistance.
December 13, 2019 | Echonetdaily | 3 -
Did not vote for this
What awaits the unsuspecting public this Thursday at Council’s December 12 meeting?
December 12, 2019 | Hans Lovejoy | 0 -
How Good is Cruelty?
Determined to share the pain of their recent humiliation with the rest of the country, the Morrison government finished the 2019 parliament with a spate of behaviour that was Grinch-worthy in its awfulness
December 9, 2019 | David Lowe | 16
