←Volume 34
August 14, 2019
In this Issue:
Social Influence?
Dennis Fitzgerald, Box Hill I was amused to read a number of articles on social influencers. As a person who is not on social media – am I the last human to say that? – I don’t have followers but I...
Shooting chef
Desmond Bellamy, PETA Australia Gordon Ramsey is the target of justifiable outrage for shooting and then cooking a goat in New Zealand. But let’s not forget the eight million animals who are just as cruelly slaughtered every single hour of the...
Predictive text
Raphael Lee Cass, Byron Bay Around 1769, some people walked on a pristine beach, eating pipis and fish. Years later some people arrived who caught a whale and wanted different food, clearing land for cows and chickens. Nobody protested. They wanted...
Interview with Major Steve McDonald concerning award-winning documentary ‘From Shock...
From Shock to Awe Byron Centre, Community Centre | Sunday | 2.30pm | $30/25/15 Can psychedelic medicines treat mental illness? In the award-winning documentary From Shock to Awe, the use of these cutting-edge medicines is examined in relation to war veterans suffering from...
Suffolk Park pump track
Donald Maughan, President SPPA The Suffolk Park community and the Suffolk Park Progress Association (SPPA) are encouraging families to support our children by lobbying the state government to allocate grant money to finance the building of a pump track on their...
Interview with Smokey Fields, the Alter Ego of Musician Chris Mallory
Woodstock Re-Imagined: An Acoustic Celebration Brunswick Picture House | Saturday | 7pm | $20/25 Smokey Fields is the alter ego of musician Chris Mallory, and to celebrate the infamous Woodstock Music Festival 50 years on, he’s gathered a hip group of local musos...
Culture in the Byron Shire for the Week Beginning 15 August,...
Music Careers Symposium Southern Cross University Lismore Campus, D Block | 9am till 3pm | Friday 16 August | Free (bookings essential ) This Friday at Southern Cross University, music makers and industry shakers are taking the stage to talk about...
Just a bunch of bleeders
Unless the powers that be expect women to drip their way around the streets, to work and on the school run, then we can only consider sanitary products as ‘essential’.
Drugs and that war
Paul Dixon, Ocean Shores I think you missed my point, Marc Salmon (Letters, August 7). I will never support anyone encouraging young people to go and try pure heroin or MDMA because they say it is safe, as was claimed...
A god of kindness
Carl Cleves, Byron Bay Israel Folau has become Australia’s OJ Simpson without the murder – or perhaps in his own mind, Australia’s Joan of Arc. We have all read about the star rugby player’s sacking from his multi-million-dollar contract with his...
Own your dog
Elizabeth Taylor, Bellingen Thank you for the article by Melanie Lotfali, (Comments, July 31), concerning dog owners. It is timely. I am a dog lover, have owned dogs myself, and appreciate that they make a great contribution to the lives of many...
Behind the propaganda of war in the Middle East
Richard Hil joins forces with a former US marine and journalist to examine the human cost behind the propaganda of war in the Middle East.
Residents object to Barrio extension
Gael Nash, Sunrise The noise is set to escalate at Barrio in Sunrise if a new development application (DA) to double their licensed area is approved. Nearby residents are disappointed this comes so soon after a year-long process to control excessive noise...
No need for farmland
R Whelan, Myocum Byron Council is developing state-significant farmland – really? In the looming face of climate-change-induced food shortages and the reality of our current 98 per cent drought-declared state of New South Wales, it beggars belief that any governing body,...
Buck$ Byron bypass correction
Fast Buck$, Coorabell I can’t forgive Aslan Shand, The Echo Letters editor, for concluding my letter with the suggestion that releasing the bypass information ‘would only invite a local challenge’. Clearly I wrote ‘legal challenge’ . The Echo’s version isn’t even...
Adani and GHD
Matthew Lambourne, Mullumbimby If there is something positive going on, as claimed by Cr Michael Lyon (Letters, August 7) in relation to the Council motion that any company that has links to Adani is not eligible for Council business, then Council...
Cartoon of the week – 14 August, 2019
We love to receive letters, but not every letter will be published; the publication of letters is at the discretion of the online and print letters editors.
Ding, Dong… could ‘that’ sculpture soon be dead?
The infamous ‘Disco Dong’ sculpture on the Bayshore Drive roundabout could be removed by Council within months after an investigation found ‘structural and non-structural’ safety issues.
Live Music in the Byron Shire and Beyond for the Week...
The 3rd Annual Byron Bay Guitar Festival Byron Bay Brewery | Saturday 12 & Sunday 13 October The Byron Bay Guitar Festival has just announced the lineup for its third event at the Byron Brewery on Saturday 12 and Sunday 13...
Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: Our Inconvenient Youth
This is no time to sit back and be polite. This is the time to rattle the cage. To scream. To disrupt. To bring attention to what matters. Last week in Brisbane 70 people got arrested at a peaceful sit-in that shut down parts of the Brisbane CBD and caused ‘commuter chaos’.
New Saddle Road plans meets opposition
Residents living in and around Saddle Road between Mullumbimby and Brunswick Heads fear plans for an industrial estate and business park could be a Trojan horse for broader residential development in their rural enclave.
Greens mayor refuses ecology study for road
With protesters evicted from the Butler Street bypass construction site by Council staff on Monday, it’s emerged that the peak body representing ecological consultants in NSW is calling for additional surveys of the site after critically endangered species were found in its path
Red Devils miss finals
The Byron Bay Red Devils have narrowly missed out on the rugby league finals for 2019 after finishing in sixth place behind Tweed Heads, who went through on a better for-and-against tally.
Byron Bay U/15s beat Armidale in Bill Turner Cup
Byron Bay U/15 have won their clash with Armidale 2–0 in the Bill Turner knockout competition and will head to Newcastle next week for the quarterfinals.
BEER INVITATIONAL
Orange Sky provides regular shower and laundry services free of charge to homeless and disadvantaged people around Australia, and has been selected to receive profits from the upcoming Backyard Invitational Gold Coast via the Northern Rivers-based not-for-profit, the inGrained...
