
Letters to the editor We love to receive letters, but not every letter will be published; the publication of letters is at the discretion of the online and print letters editors. The deadline for the Byron Echo newspaper is noon Friday and letters... Read More →

Letters to the editor We love to receive letters, but not every letter will be published; the publication of letters is at the discretion of the online and print letters editors. The deadline for the Byron Echo newspaper is noon Friday and letters... Read More →

Letters to the editor We love to receive letters, but not every letter will be published; the publication of letters is at the discretion of the online and print letters editors. The deadline for the Byron Echo newspaper is noon Friday and letters... Read More →

Letters to the editor We love to receive letters, but not every letter will be published; the publication of letters is at the discretion of the online and print letters editors. The deadline for the Byron Echo newspaper is noon Friday and letters... Read More →
Sarah Mabbutt, South Golden Beach In the latter part of last year I spent a couple of weeks in Byron Hospital. The hospital has received so much negative comment that I wanted to say my experience while there was very... Read More →
F Long, Mullumbimby All concerned citizens are welcome at the Brisbane UK Consulate every day this week. We continue to participate in the world wide peaceful protest saying to the UK – don’t extradite our rights! No extradition USA, no... Read More →
Fast Buck$, Coorabell Twenty-odd years ago my fellow councillor Hugh Ermacora remarked how useful public access is in terms of providing insights into a situation that may hitherto have been unclear. Although a lot of public input is tedious and... Read More →
Tracey Stride, Coorabell I lived in a new development called The Kollective in Byron Bay for a while and would have liked to stay because I liked the ideals of the developers. However, it turned out to be a misnomer... Read More →
D Matthew, Wilsons Creek Having moved to Wilsons Creek for the beautiful and rich wildlife, it is with dismay that I continue to see splattered wildlife on the roads almost daily. As a slow driver, I am regularly harassed by... Read More →
Paul Rea, Coorabell One can only hope to have the courage and spiritual awareness in the face of personal trauma described by Timothee Diers in last week’s Echonetdaily article When Motor Neuron disease came into my life. Thanks for publishing... Read More →
Letters to the editor We love to receive letters, but not every letter will be published; the publication of letters is at the discretion of the online and print letters editors. The deadline for the Byron Echo newspaper is noon Friday and letters... Read More →
Dudley Leggett, Suffolk Park Where are the so-called ‘climate deniers’? Almost no one believes the climate isn’t changing; it always is. The issue is, what’s causing it, and is there an emergency? It might be helpful if that embedded labelling was... Read More →
Deborah Lilly, Mullumbimby I loved The Echo’s front page photo of women wielding power tools at the shedding workshop (5 February). However, the caption Ladies hit the shed was a shocking diminishment of their independent can-do stance. The term ladies is... Read More →
John Scrivener, Main Arm Trump is a loose cannon. With one fell swoop of its predator drones the US committed its gravest strategic blunder since the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The extralegal execution of senior Iraqi and Iranian commanders by... Read More →
Rod Murray, Ocean Shores Could Peter Olsen please let up on his paranoia and fear mongering and keep his ‘conclusive logic’ to himself. He lost all credibility since his contribution to the Y2K hysteria all those years ago, and we know... Read More →
Matt Ogle, Byron Bay In response to the article There is no life without water: time to save (5 February). We can all save water in many ways. Did you know ‘the water required for a single hamburger patty is equivalent... Read More →
Liz Friend, Ocean Shores Every time I walk upstairs in the Mercato Building above ByrWoolies, it’s like a dead zone. So a proposal for a 146 room hotel, function centre and retail premises, when we can’t even draw enough people to... Read More →
Bernard Hinchcliffe, Mullumbimby Any constitutional lawyers out there? Regarding section 100 of the constitution on water: if a land owner sells his water rights to someone outside his property – can that new owner use the water even though he has... Read More →
Dr Sonia Laverty, Convener MRA Despite the rain, or maybe because of it, the public meeting on 12 February at Mullum Ex-Services Club on Council’s Floodplain Management process was attended by over 70 local residents. The meeting was organised by Mullumbimby... Read More →
Fast Buck$, Coorabell The local Greens are going through their preselection process at the moment and there’s a bit of jockeying going on. Considering how badly they chose last time, how dumb must the Greens’ membership be? I predict they’ll confirm... Read More →
Julia Lowe, Suffolk Park Peter Olsen (Letters 12 February) should not willfully spread conspiracy theories about COVID-19 (the official name of the novel coronavirus) for which he has cherry picked facts. Dr Francis Boyle is a lawyer not a physician... Read More →
Matthew Lambourne, Mullumbimby $104 million for the Beach Hotel – not a bad price for a building on top of what would be, but for huge amounts of public money, a rapidly eroding sand dune. No doubt they pay a motza... Read More →
Sunflower, Mullum Creek Well said Alison Drover. Thankyou! Those who trash our beautiful towns aren’t ‘free’ as much as they think that lifestyle is. Actually they are slaves to their own sense of entitlement and lack of self-responsibility. How would a... Read More →
Christina Henry, Bangalow Tina Petrof (Letter 12 February) firstly, hats off to your husband, I have great respect and gratitude to all our firies who give so much for our communities’ safety! Secondly, have a look at Jacqui Lambie’s speech in... Read More →
Lisa Peacock, Bangalow Now that Council has recouped on the infamous lighthouse sculpture with the sale of the birds, I have an idea for public sculptures around the Shire. Stylish use of colorbond, concrete, wood and metal. Artistic design if you... Read More →
Sapoty Brook, Main Arm Catastrophic climate change and climate emergency miss the mark… the unconfusable target is criminal emissions.
Matt Brady, Byron Bay We shouldn’t worry about COVID-19 (coronavirus), fires and floods keeping tourists away since our aggressive greeting-party to our shores are doing a fabulous jobs of ‘enforcing our borders’. Returning home from a week in New Zealand, upon... Read More →
Jo Faith, Sunrise Beach The Assange No Extradition campaign is vital for upholding and fighting for Assange, a political prisoner, who took the risk to expose the war crimes of the imperialist west. This act in turn has globally affected... Read More →
Gareth Smith, Byron Bay How can any rational person applaud the fanfaronading of Trump and Netanyahu as they announce the ‘Deal of the Century’ which promises Palestinians billions of dollars if they just totally submit to Israel’s colonisation of their... Read More →