Letters
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The green bush is aflame and the blue sea is filled with ash
Tom Dobinson, Tweed Heads Now is the summer of our discontent Made disastrous by years of culpable denial This parched land is scorched and ravaged by an inferno of hypocrisy and greed Lives, livelihoods, dreams, iconic species lost, despite heroic and... Read More →
12 days ago | Echonetdaily | 3 -
Stop the doom
Tina Petroff, Ocean Shores In response to Christina Henry (Letters 5 February). Each state has its own fire authority to fight fires. Any person with some common sense could have predicted catastrophic fires if, as I believe, you don’t have any... Read More →
12 days ago | Echonetdaily | 3 -
Coronaspiracy
Peter Olson, Goonengerry Dr Francis Boyle, who drafted the USA Biological Weapons Act, has stated that the Wuhan Coronavirus is an offensive Biological Warfare Weapon. Wuhan is home to China’s only Biohazard Level 4 germ laboratory. Dr Joseph Wu, writing... Read More →
12 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Accountability?
Alan Dickens, Brunswick Heads The results of the investigations into the Mullumbimby sewer and stormwater systems are no surprise to people who worked with, and were paying attention to, what was happening decades ago! Sinkholes appearing after and during rain events,... Read More →
13 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Sugar Daddy
Andrew Hunter, Bangalow Mandy, you ask what’s wrong with prostitution? Nothing. It’s why sites like Sugar Daddy exist; the girls that use the sites are prostitutes.
13 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Predictions
Fast Buck$, Coorabell Senior council staff everywhere have to deal with dim-witted councillors and others who ask silly questions. Accordingly they develop the politician’s skill of appearing to answer questions while in fact avoiding them. Locally they have frequently used big... Read More →
13 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Nature of Science
Jason van Tol, Myocum I refer to Hans’ editorial (February 5), in which he compares, among other things, deductive and inductive forms of reasoning. Basically, deductive reasoning moves from general principles to specific instances, whereas inductive reasoning is opposite, moving... Read More →
14 days ago | Echonetdaily | 1 -
Gas for transition
Richard Swinton, Clunes Hello Kevin, as a constituent of Page, I am horrified to hear that your government is effectively blackmailing the states to open up gas exploration and fracking. As you would be well aware, there have been mass... Read More →
14 days ago | Echonetdaily | 1 -
Religious beliefs
David Gilet, Byron Bay Belief in the Rapture has a lot of similarities to belief in the Easter Bunny and Father Christmas and demonstrates a similar degree of intellectual rigour. In fact, the similarities between belief in the Rapture and... Read More →
14 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
The real radicals?
Michael Balson, Upper Wilsons Creek Are the silent majority now the real radicals? Last night I attended a gathering supporting Julian Assange. The half dozen speakers would all be considered ‘radicals’ and probably thought of as rat-bags by many of Morrison’s... Read More →
14 days ago | Echonetdaily | 1 -
Reinventing sewers
Alan Dickens, Brunswick Heads Byron Shire Council’s (BSC) Water and Recycling are now saying they don’t have plans of their sewer gravity mains. As a former sewer operator, we spent ten years supplying information to the Mullumbimby Council office to generate... Read More →
16 days ago | Echonetdaily | 1 -
First fleet
David Gilet, Byron Bay January the 26 was just the formalisation of the theft of Aboriginal land. The First Fleet had already been at Botany Bay between January 18 and 20. As a nation we could celebrate the original inhabitants of... Read More →
17 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Snail rights
Jo Faith, Newtown Many people who uphold the rights of nature are not surprised that cosy politics sought the successful ongoing path to extinction of the Mitchell’s Rainforest Snail and its habitat rights. The Byron bypass will go ahead. Why? Because... Read More →
17 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Truth
Peter Olson, Goonengerry You’re not being told the truth about the drought and you’re not being told the truth about the Wuhan Coronavirus. When the truth is told, it is not published.
17 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Hazard burning
Barbara Turner, Byron Bay Wouldn’t it be better to collect leaf litter instead of back- or hazard-reduction burning? Most plant litter has the potential to enrich and become nutrients to protect scorched, burnt out and degraded areas. Commercial mowers with bagging... Read More →
18 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Swipe/Swipe/Swipe
Lindy Stacker, Binna Burra In response (to my response) Tim Harrington I fear will never be convinced that the world is not run by ‘lefties’ regardless of the facts and the overwhelmingly obvious fact that current world powers are run by... Read More →
20 days ago | Echonetdaily | 1 -
Fracking fires
Erich Onest, Balmain How good for our politicians to see all their wishes come true at once. With the bushfires (a God-sent natural event) destroying so many of our National Parks and wilderness areas, it is a perfect time to reclassify... Read More →
20 days ago | Echonetdaily | 1 -
Debt of gratitude
Michael J Gamble, Belmont If ever an offer of a NSW State funeral or Memorial Service was justified, it would be to the families of those three US firefighters who recently lost their lives while on active duty. The NSW community... Read More →
20 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Remove the weeds
A Campbell, Rosebank My partner, a bush regenerator of 18 years experience suggested that rather than spend money on expensive replantings of rainforest, we could use available funds or raise funds, toward educating people in identification of, and removal of, local... Read More →
21 days ago | Echonetdaily | 3 -
A sad poem
Gerry Cavanagh (Cabba), Mullumbimby I love this burnt out country… but now it never, never rains I loved her far horizons, I loved her jewelled sea… Her beauty, now is terror BLACKENED… Like the trees…
21 days ago | Echonetdaily | 1 -
Failure of ScoMo
Christina Henry, Bangalow In response to T Petroff’s letter, ScoMo is a PM who has failed the Australian people in multiple ways. From corruption, including deals for water as a commodity, to the delusion of a surplus – our economy is... Read More →
21 days ago | Echonetdaily | 8 -
Pocket vandalism
Bo Wharton, Fannie Bay, NT The community tennis court and barbecue area next to the Pocket Primary School have been significantly vandalised. This is on land donated by my aunt, in memory of her husband, Harry Wharton, long term resident of... Read More →
21 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
$20m DA for Bruns under fire
Russell Eldridge, Brunswick Heads I’m drawing people’s attention to a massive $20 million development application (DA) for Brunswick Heads, which was snuck onto public exhibition during the holidays. The DA (No: 10.2020.24.1) proposes about 150 residential lots in Bayside Brunswick,... Read More →
21 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Cartoon of the week – February 5
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 →
21 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Veterans Affairs
It was interesting to read that Australia’s Department of Veterans Affairs is giving thoughtful attention to using psychedelic medicine to treat returned soldiers with PTSD.
22 days ago | The Echo | 0
