Council Elections 2016
Byron Echo
From the Mountain to the Market
By Ben Schmitz
Working on the land is a great way to bio-energetically co-create with this incredible country we are so blessed to be a...
Council Elections 2016
Exploding fun park election ad backfires
Stephanie Deane, secretary, Save JEBH Group.
Firstly, I uphold the Australian right to free speech and, secondly, I uphold the right of any newspaper as...
Council Elections 2016
Let Cherry blossom in Tweed
Julie Boyd, Hastings Point, Group B Tweed council candidate
This election is crucial for residents of the Tweed. It will set the scene for the...
Council Elections 2016
Quarter of a century long enough for Polglase
Stephanie Deane, Group B Tweed Shire Council candidate
This week residents of Tweed have the opportunity to change the face of council. It's no good...
Council Elections 2016
More ethical councillors needed in Tweed
Stephen Lloyd, Murwillumbah.
The Tweed Shire Council election is coming with up a whole truckload of aspiring councillors and quite a few crackers. But when you...
Council Elections 2016
Tweed Nats’ familiar tricks
Stephanie Deane, Tweed Shire Council candidate, Tweed Heads.
Tweed Council currently has a Request for Offer (RFO) 2016217 titled expression of interest – licence to conduct a...
Council Elections 2016
Wards not the answer says Tweed poll candidate
Neglect of community infrastructure is feeding growing calls for the introduction of a ward system for Tweed Shire Council, but that won't fix the problem, according to a candidate in the upcoming poll.
Council Elections 2016
Kaye takes the plunge again in Tweed poll
Tweed Heads high-school teacher Kaye Sharples, who narrowly missed out on election to Tweed Shire Council four years ago, is hoping her neighbourhood group will this time make the grade.
Council Elections 2016
Tweed council candidate slams Black Rocks decision
Tweed Shire Council candidate Michael McNamara has lashed out at councillors who voted to sign a five-year lease on a temporary site for the Pottsville Men's Shed at the Black Rocks Sports Field at its last meeting.
Council Elections 2016
Nominations open for Tweed elections
Nominations have opened for candidates in the Tweed Shire Council election, which will be held on Saturday, October 29. The election, which was to have been held on September 10 was postponed after the death of candidate Ken Nicholson.
Council Elections 2016
Five new faces on Byron Council
In a remarkable change to the local political climate, five new councillors have been voted on to Byron Shire Council.
Council Elections 2016
Greens Adam Guise to join ‘progressive’ Lismore council
Greens candidate Adam Guise has been elected to one of the final positions on the Lismore City Council, meaning that Lismore's new mayor Isaac Smith will lead a majority of so-called progressives.
Council Elections 2016
Greens miss out on Ballina council seat
Ballina Greens spokesperson Tony Gilding said the party branch would be ‘doing some naval gazing’ after none of its three candidates were elected to Ballina council.
Council Elections 2016
Smith the mayor of Lismore, as Wright retains Ballina
Country Labor's Isaac Smith is the new mayor of Lismore after defeating Greg Bennett, a member of the Shooters and Fishers Party. Meanwhile, David Wright has been re-elected mayor of Ballina by a margin of 1,254 votes ahead of former Greens councillor and now independent Jeff Johnson.
Council Elections 2016
Ballina mayor ‘hopeful’ for another term
Outgoing Ballina mayor David Wright says that even though the numbers look to be going his way, he’s not going to claim victory until the announcement by the NSW Electoral Commission, expected later today.
Council Elections 2016
Rose didn’t jump, she was pushed
Doug Luke, Byron Bay.
Congratulations, Byron Greens!
I was secretary of Byron Greens at the time when Rose Wanchap ceased to be a member.
Not long after...
Council Elections 2016
Lismore still waiting to know who is mayor
UPDATE: The Lismore mayoral vote will not continue today but instead will resume in the morning.
The returning officer in charge of the Lismore election...
Council Elections 2016
Byron coastal plan to be recalled
Byron Shire Council’s re-elected Greens mayor Simon Richardson says he will use the progressives’ thumping new majority to recall the controversial CZMP, pushed through in the dying days of the previous council.
Council Elections 2016
Simon Richardson set for second term as Byron’s mayor
Byron Greens mayor Simon Richardson has been entrusted with a second term after almost half of the shire's voters gave him their first preference. But things are not so clear-cut in neighbouring Lismore and Ballina.
Byron Echo
Byron Shire council candidates 2016 Q&A
Hans Lovejoy
Let’s vet! Herewith are questions posed by The Echo for all lead candidates.
Now it’s over to you, the conscious, intelligent, discerning and...
Local News
Final stage of Lismore Base Hospital get underway
The redevelopment works commenced in late 2016 and the final stage is now getting underway to complete the Lismore Base Hospital referbishment.
Byron Echo
Constitutional referendum/poll for LG elections for Byron Shire?
Is the wards fight back again? Byron Shire Council staff have advised, in the upcoming agenda, that ‘Council may conduct a Constitutional referendum or poll in conjunction with the Local Government Election, to be held in September 2021’.
Byron Echo
Music fest aims to be COVID-19 recovery event
Paul Bibby - 0
Byron Bay could host a two-day, beachside music and arts festival in June this year, after an application to hold the event was lodged with Byron Council.
Byron Echo
Editorial – Ewingsdale development creep rejected by residents
A petition of 294 signatures against rezoning Ewingsdale farmland to commercial use will be presented to councillors for their upcoming Thursday meeting.
