←Volume 33
January 2, 2019
In this Issue:
Interview with Ellen Briggs of Women Like Us
Women Like Us Last Local Laughs! If you haven’t caught a Women Like Us show, or if you can’t remember the jokes, then this is your last chance for 2019. The girls perform their last local shows this January. Ellen...
Interview with Dave Hughes
Hughesy WE Have a Problem: I lost your interview! I love Dave Hughes or, as he’s been known by Australia for well over a decade, ‘Hughesy’. He’s got this trademark laconic style that just seems to leave you thinking about...
Cannabis testing unjust? Make your vote count
Throughout 2018 there was a significant increase in police highway patrol activity in the northern rivers that has disturbed many residents.
Culture in the Byron Shire for the Week Beginning January 3,...
An Austen Tayshus New Year! Byron Services Club | Monday 7 Jan | Lennox Bowlo | Thursday 10 Jan | 8pm | $35 Every year Austen Tayshus comes to Byron – it’s his standup comedy mecca – the place where he returns...
Goonengerry school seeks creative arts support
With the NSW government not funding music education in schools, Goonengerry Public School has kicked off a Gofundme campaign to make up the difference.
Student art to adorn Cottage
Nine girls from Mullumbimby High have completed a creative arts program at the Byron Youth Service cottage with youth workers Karma Barnes and Deb Pearse.
Female soccer club to get change rooms
The Mullumbimby-Brunswick Valley Football Club will receive $20,000 in federal funding for female change rooms and showers. Still more groups were showered with state funding.
Belongil residents’ bid to repair sea walls rejected
Chief Judge Preston found that the sea walls had been unlawful in the first place because they were built without development consent.
Crystal Castle unveils dragon egg
A brand-new treasure has been unveiled at the Crystal Castle – a rare Uruguayan Amethyst dragon egg.
Vale Judy MacDonald 1951–2018
Judy MacDonald was an indefatigable warrior, well known for her energy and drive, her passion and commitment across a wide range of community and environmental causes.
Interview with Goothala Doyle
Sharing Wisdom Goothala Doyle is a dreamtime healer, actor, traditional craftsman/artisan, cultural educator, and activist, presented in 2017 at the World First Nations traditional knowledge conference. Goothala Doyle’s country and people are Yugarabul; he was first recognised as the first...
Mayor claims coastal management plan derailed by Belongil landowners
An urgent meeting with the premier on coastal zone management has been requested by mayor Simon Richardson to clarify a government backflip on Byron’s Coastal Zone Management Plan.
Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: Can we love our bad sculpture?
Not everyone loves Picasso’s Weeping Woman. But it is without a doubt an important and incredible painting. Our sculpture is not a Weeping Woman. It’s a creeping catastrophe. So what are we going to do about it? Grow vines? Wrap it up like a Christo?
Kerry’s memoirs in print
Six-time Walkley award-winning ABC journalist and Byron local Kerry O’Brien recently launched his latest book, A Memoir, at The Book Room at Newrybar Merchants.
Live Music in the Byron Shire and Beyond from January 3,...
Magpie Diaries debut Sanctuary at the Brewery Byron Brewery | Thursday 7pm | FREE Alluding to an era of more simplistic notions, Magpie Diaries take flight into an abundant musical sanctuary with their 11-track debut album release. To celebrate their debut,...
Students to undertake Byron Council’s building audit
Around 265 council-managed buildings across Byron Shire will be audited over the coming four months by four student engineers, saving some $70,000, say Council staff.
Big year for young and old local surfers
Crystal Cylinders The year gone has been a watershed for Australian surfing with Steph Gilmore winning her seventh world title, the retirements of Mick Fanning and Joel Parkinson, and for locals the news that 23-year-old Sufflolk Park lad Soli Bailey...
Tweed sailing a thrilling choice for 83 juniors
The Tweed Valley Sailing Club at Fingal Head on the Tweed River is now nearly eight years old and 2018 was another packed year with both winter and summer seasons of regular Sunday Learn to Sail sessions, afternoon racing,...
Support Stone & Wood
S Haslam The GABS Hottest 100 Craft Beers poll is described as the ‘largest and most influential people’s choice poll in the land’ for Australian breweries. Thousands of people vote online for their five favourite beers, and our independent northern...
Byron junior basketballers still buzzing after trophy haul
Jenny Ogle The Byron Bay Beez representative teams had a great 2018 as three out of the six competing in the Waratah Northern Junior League won their championships An example was the U/16 girls who fought a fierce grandfinal against arch-rivals...
Carnivores and vegans rejoice!
There is a banging burger joint in town that we can all eat at without anyone having to sacrifice on flavour – yeehaa! Main St Burger Bar really does have it all, my flavour-loving friends, with burgers piled high with...
Enjoying Byron
S Haslam With the Byron holiday season in full swing we ventured right into the heart of Jonson St for Saturday night dinner for two at Loft Byron Bay. Having just spent $80 on a really disappointing lunch for two...
Rainbow Kitchen
S Haslam The new place in Mullum with the funky wooden kids’ playground is The Rainbow Kitchen, the first 100 per cent plant-based/vegan cafe in Mullumbimby, offering ‘heart-centred love-based’ food. But owners Angel and Gopala see it, together with the...
Macadamia Castle
The Macadamia Castle now offers something very adult: artisan, certified-organic, paddock-to-bottle, locally produced, small-batch spirits at Bar Macca. As well as the Castle’s usual animal and bird fun for kids, including some fun holiday workshops, Bar Macca has a menu...
Cinema Review: Peppermint
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeBMQpzoEXQ I don’t know how she did it, and it’s never explained, but somehow or other Riley North (Jennifer Garner) managed to get the bodies of three thugs that she had killed hanging like bats from the spokes of a...
