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Some performers are born with talent, others with charisma. A very special few are born with both, and when you’re in their presence you know that magic is going to happen.
Sally Rippin is one of the country’s best-loved children’s authors and was Australia’s highest-selling female author in 2016. Writing for almost 20 years, Sally has written more than 50 books for children and young adults, and holds numerous awards for... Read More →
With more than 30 million streams to their credit and having played the likes of Glastonbury and Splendour in the Grass, a national support slot with RUFUS, and a run of their own sold-shows, the band that grew out of Mullumbimby’s Shearwater School, Tora, came back to home ground to make their debut album Take A Rest.
The Arakwal Corporation, Flickerfest & iQ Inc present an inspiring evening of Aboriginal storytelling celebrating NAIDOC Week 2017 (2–9 July).
Shannon Hulbert A tag rugby league competition started a month ago in the region and the Red Devils have had three wins from three so far. The women follow the Red Devils men’s team around and play the opposition clubs... Read More →
Dogwhistle The Northern Hotel Rams faced southern neighbours Lennox Head Sharks for the second time in as many weeks last Friday on a very dark winter evening at the Byron Recreation Grounds. The Byron squad is battling the usual mid-season... Read More →
John Campbell The Byron Bay Red Devils enjoyed their first win of the 2017 season when they romped home against a lacklustre Mullumbimby side 36–4. As local derbies go, there was a curious lack of intensity when the Red Devils... Read More →
Crystal Cylinders Local Byron Bay surfers Dave Munk and Mark ‘Mono’ Stewart had great success with both winning their divisions at the nudie Australian Adaptive Surfing Titles held at Kingscliff on the Tweed Coast over the weekend. Small but clean... Read More →
Local surfers Jye Whyatt, Alan Atkins and Ben Dickens all featured in the winners’ list at the close of the Australian Skin Cancer Clinics’ NSW Longboard Titles held at Bonny Hills last week. Jye Whyatt (Suffolk Park) claimed his second... Read More →
Strong leadership and sure-fire spot kicking from the Bangalow rugby team underpinned their 19–17 away win over Byron Bay in Far North Coast competition last Saturday. Despite running in three tries to one, the Byron Bay team could not contain... Read More →
Neil ‘Steel’ McLeod has won through to the semifinals of the District Reserve bowls tournament after a strong comeback in his qualifying game played at Pottsville over the weekend. The Ocean Shores bowls player got off to a good start... Read More →
Sick of seeing your kids patronised by the cutesy jingles of The Wiggles and Hi 5? Well Bunny Racket is rock’n’roll for kids
Byron Shire councillors all agreed at last Thursday’s meeting to a staff report that recommends buying the Butler Street reserve from NSW Crown Lands.
Byron Shire Mayor Simon Richardson has told his followers on social media, ‘We have no choice but to jump back into the trenches and fire off litigation missiles,’ in an effort to curb unauthorised holiday letting in Byron Bay.
There will be a special screening of a fine new Australian film at the Brunswick Picture House at 7pm, Thursday 6 July.
An angry group of Butler Street residents unloaded upon staff and the Greens councillors at last Thursday’s Byron Shire Council meeting, with accusations of lies and suppressing information as to whether it was possible to build a bypass on the disused rail corridor instead of past their homes.
Students at Main Arm School got busy during Refugee Week, fundraising $325 by selling cakes to purchase phone cards for asylum seekers on Manus and Nauru.
Dr Karl Kruszelnicki took the students at Mullumbimby High School for an exciting ride through science past, present and into the future – presenting them with possibilities and giving them a message of hope for the world they live in.
Five years ago my husband and I built a six-bedroom house. After years of stacking kids two deep per room, we graduated from lower middle class to the ripening affluence of a family where everyone had their own bedrooms.
By Vivienne Pearson The coffee-cup problem will be best solved through an interplay between customers and businesses. Compare it to the quest to reduce plastic-bag use (also well covered by War on Waste) customers need to remember to bring their... Read More →
By Vivienne Pearson Just in case you didn’t catch the coffee-cup segment of ABC television’s War on Waste series, here is the major point it made: Australians dispose of more than one billion single-use coffee cups every year (that’s more... Read More →
