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June 17, 2026

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Byron Shire Rebels gutsy efforts

A day of contrasting rugby fortunes for the Rebels at Ballina, with the Men’s XV putting in a gutsy...

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Free bike track ‘waste of money’

Byron Shire business people who think that spending eye-watering amounts of taxpayers’ money ripping up a multi-billion-dollar train line...

Nimbin village boil water alert lifted, but remains for outskirts

After just over a month, Lismore City Council say the boil water alert for the village of Nimbin has been lifted, effective immediately. Yet these living in the outskirts of the village, a boil water alert is still in place.

Struggling Byron businesses

I appreciate the difficulties facing Byron businesses regarding the drainage works, but with all due respect to those affected,...

Voters are not ‘always right’

The mantra ‘voters always get it right’ is repeated after every election by winners and losers. The decision of voters must be respected, blah, blah.

Eclectic Selection for the week beginning 17 June 2026

Eclectic Selection: What’s on this week is a taste of some of the events that can be found in the Byron Shire and beyond this coming week.

Here’s to the Flotilla

The Global Sumud Flotilla is about brave people doing exceptional things with skill, compassion, colour, spirit and gruff chutzpah. Would...

March 4, 2014

Issue 28.38

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In this Issue:

Brunswick Valley win cricket grand final

The Brunswick Valley U16s wins the interdistrict Grand Final against Lismore

Player Profile – Tank U

If you know a player or players from your club who would be a great subject for a Player Profile, email: [email protected].

Bangalow Dining Rooms

Bangalow is not an ordinary country town. The Bangalow Dining Rooms in the pub have not only an excellent restaurant dining menu, but also a ‘pub dining’ menu that is a good cut above the rest of the state.

Non Stop

Craggy old Liam Neeson does it tough in the movies these days, doesn’t he? In Non Stop, as US Air Marshal Bill Marks, has also lost an eight-year-old daughter to leukemia and, still devastated, has developed a penchant for hard liquor

Love your Boz

A casual listen to the Boz Scaggs discography makes one thing obvious: Boz Scaggs is both a musical seeker and a man of sizeable talent as a singer, songwriter and guitarist

Player Profile – Mitch ‘Bulldozer’ Arthur

Player Profiles – If you know a player or players from your club who would be a great subject for a Player Profile, email: [email protected].

Sisters doin’ it for sisters

This Friday the Bay Rollers Roller Derby will play the Tweed Valley Vixens in a fundraising ‘Bout for Freedom’ in Byron Bay

Wolf Creek 2

Cruelty and mayhem may not be your cup of tea, but if you consider horror to be as valid a genre as any other, you won’t want to miss Wolf Creek 2 – it’s a ripper

The Passion of Sergio

Over the past few years audiences around the shire have faIlen in love with the music of Passion Flamenca – the wild combination of Paul Margolin and Sergio Navarro

Take it to heart

Sapoty Brook, Mullumbimby. The Deep Water Horizon oil platform fire in the Gulf of Mexico resulted in a massive oil spill in the spawning waters of blue fin tuna.

Questions, questions

Fast Buck$, Coorabell. The fact that staff are on good terms with Simon Richardson tells me they regard him as a harmless chump.

Bringing home the roadkill

I brought home the roadkill. The raggedy dead butterfly is called a Common Crow, perhaps a female. But imagine: alive she might have migrated along the coast from Moreton Bay fig trees to frangipanis.

The fix is in

Matt Hartley, Byron Bay. Attending the Byron United forum re Byron’s future was fascinating. The mayor spoke about ‘our town where we love to live’. He lives in Federal.

Local boxing legend visits Byron Boxing

Kyogle heavyweight, Athol McQueen, who represented Australia at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, and famously floored a then-unknown Joe Frazier, visited Byron Boxing at the...

Seas the Day in Kingscliff this weekend

This weekend the fourth NRMA Insurance Seas The Day women’s surf festival is back at Kingscliff Beach with Surfing Australia. The world’s largest female participation...

Interview with Drover

Doing the DIY at Stone & Wood Bobby Conn, Roy Parsons, Rhys Mcilwaine and Molly O’Neil are the key members of Drover, a folk-rock band...

Mullum takes A grade, Byron takes B, Suffolk takes a sausage

The Northern Rivers NET League Finals went down on Saturday, and it delivered some genuinely good tennis, nervous moments, an old school BBQ, and...