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Tweed Shire Council presents flood resilience series – part one

Over the coming weeks, Tweed Shire Council will present a flood resilience series, which looks at how 'Tweed's story is different from the standard flood recovery narrative and what happened next'.

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Labor and housing

I met Treasurer Jim Chalmers on the beach here a little while back. I asked him, ‘Are we in...

The Roast returns!

A sold-out show. A two-minute standing ovation. Melia Naughton returns for an encore performance of Amalfi Roast.

Empowering women and girls

Applications are now open for Northern Rivers Community Foundation's (NRCF) 2026 Empowering Women & Girls Grant, offering local not-for-profit organisations the opportunity to secure funding for projects that empower women and girls across the Northern Rivers.

Discovering Byron’s influence on Australian music

For a small regional area the Byron Shire and Northern Rivers have had an outsized impact on the culture and music in Australia.

Speaking and listening

All of a sudden Council’s supposed experts condemn the Wilsons Creek weir water quality during rain events, which would...

WAVE – I Have Friends Everywhere

The closing date for entries is in October, so this is a callout for all design artists, fashion innovators, culture initiators and wearable inventors.

December 17, 2013

Issue 28.28

Download PDF  (55MB) Jump to: Comment | Letters | Articles | It's Christmas Time | Living | 2013 Through Our Lens | Season's Greetings | Seven | New Years Eve Liftout | Gig Guide | Cinema | Good Taste | Service Directory | Classifieds | Sport | Byron Shire Council Notices | Real Estate | Backlash ByronEcho-2828p48,61 The Bluesfest poster appears split in the online edition due to it's position underneath the New Years Eve entertainment liftout so we have reproduced it here.

In this Issue:

New Years Eve Comedy Festival

New Years Eve at the Ballina RSL has fast gained a reputation for being one of the best-value nights on the coast.

Kohinur goes all night to see New Year dawn

The good people of Kohinur Hall NYE are excited about this year’s offering. Opening all night, this is going to be a party that takes punters right through to 2014.

Cinema: John’s Top Ten for 2013

Echonetdaily's man in the dark John Campbell tells us his top ten movies for 2013

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 is all about science gone wrong, with the not objectionable message that genetically engineered factory food is not worth the plastic that it’s wrapped in and that those who produce it are (like Monsanto etc) megalomaniacal cads.

Surf’s up at the Tav

The surf’s up at the new-look Ocean Shores Tavern this NYE! Grab ya beach clobber and join Team Tavern for games, prizes, buckets of Coronas just $25 and cheeky cocktails.

Getting the Gang back together

GANGajang has been coming together to play ever since, taking time off for other projects, but still writing and evolving as a classic Aussie rock band.

Connecting the rainforest dots

Stumped about what to get your kids for Christmas? How about a hectare of rainforest in Borneo for just $250? Or maybe you’d prefer something more local.

Relief at the eleventh hour saves a sports fan’s season

When the best is saved until the last, it’s even better. Am I right? My year in the bleachers had rewarded me with no moments of ecstasy, no triumphs of red-hot parochialism.

Kellie Knight & The Daze see in the New Year

Kellie Knight and the Daze are a powerful, highly polished and dynamic north coast-based music outfit who through their mutual love of soul, funk and jazz music came together to pay tribute to some of the legendary musicians of these genres.


Byron light rail gets council nod

While it may be some time off, Byron Shire Council unanimously voted Thursday to support North Byron Beach Resort’s light-rail proposal.

Barn Dance at the the Eltham Inn

Now this is a real country feel NYE – think hay bales, call dancing, strings of lights, southern fried chicken and wide-brim hats!

A fine Byron brew of SpoonBill, Mista Savona and Electrik Lemonade

Celebrate New Years Eve at the Byron Brewery with Sweaty Buddha DJs.

Neily Diamond at the Bruns Bowlo

Over ten years ago after much encouragement from his audiences, multi-award-winning singer Roo Mackerras created the Neily Diamond Show.

Summer Solstice at Kohinur

Electric Forest events create a unique festival atmosphere where self-expression, freedom and personal journeys can meld into a positive life-affirming experience through dance within an immersive multimedia environment.

Accepting the science that suits us

To those who think fluoride is mass medication designed to keep us docile and vaccinations cause more diseases than they prevent, Mungo McCallum has one thing to say: bah humbug.

Byron councillor under fire over development

The activities of Byron Shire councillor Alan Hunter are becoming increasingly unpopular with his neighbours after he recently submitted another development application for his Myocum property.

WellSwung Daddies
 Gatsby style

Party like Jay Gatsby and be transported to the outrageous and spectacular 1920s. The Byron at Byron is getting into the swing by theming the resort.

Community housing industry call for major expansion in upcoming NSW budget

The community housing industry are calling on the NSW government to use next week's State Budget to unlock a major expansion of community housing.

New bus services for Tweed and Murwillumbah

From 29 June, 175 additional weekly bus services will be added to Tweed and Murwillumbah routes.

The NT intervention laws that shape lives

local filmmaker Sinem Saban will be presenting back-to-back screenings in Murwillumbah of her two award-winning films that not only expose draconian Australian intervention policies, but also present the catastrophic fallout from these laws that have been unravelling in Aboriginal communities to this day.

Dancing and fundraising for our children’s future

The recent premeditated killings of several children in Australia by their fathers has raised the issue of filicide (the deliberate act of a parent killing their own child) alongside the issue of domestic violence (DV) and femicide (the intentional murder of women or girls) as key areas that need research to help understand why these things happen.