←Volume 34
November 6, 2019
In this Issue:
Ask no questions
Fast Buck$, Coorabell Only a few weeks ago I had to admit to myself that Simon Richardson has a warm, gentle and solicitous side to his nature that comes out especially when he has to deal with an aged or...
Railway heritage amiss
Garrett Fitzgerald, Ocean Shores On Saturday the 2nd of November I was priviliged to attend the reopening of Railway Park Byron Bay. Railway Park was originally created to service the railway: people waiting for passengers, passengers waiting to begin their journey or...
Careful careful
Jo Faith, Sunrise Beach Byron We must all be very careful! A new method of social control and manufacturing political social compliance is being assessed by the Morrison government. We have the ‘polite’ quiet voters. Those tucked away ‘quiet’ communities...
Plans for the future of Byron Bay’s town centre
What will Byron Bay look like in the future? How will the town be shaped, grow, change and develop?
Culture in the Byron Shire for the Week Beginning 7 November,...
Culture in the Byron Shire for the Week Beginning 7 November, 2019
Interview with Montaigne
Montaigne Falls Festival | 30 Dec–1 Jan Sydney musician Montaigne, aka Jess Cerro, is Complex. It’s the title of her impressive second album – an album in which she digs deep into her inner monologue through songs that deal with: an...
Editorial: Protect our main asset
The current mantra from many in the community is that, owing to a lack of strategic planning, we have a housing crisis, we don’t have affordable homes for our kids, and therefore we need to build more houses. But is that really the case?
Are residents at risk at Feros nursing home in Bangalow?
Understaffing at the Feros Care nursing home in Bangalow has become so bad that the care and safety of residents is regularly being neglected, according to staff and people who have had loved ones living in the home.
Frantic carers
Name withheld Staffing levels are too low at Bangalow Feros Care facility, especially as it is a high care home with 65 beds. As a previous employee of five years at Feros Bangalow I know that each one of these...
That’s a bad thing?
Vyvyan Stott, Mullumbimby The Echo, 23 October has yet another article by a rave ‘festival’ corporation’s spokesman, threatening to leave our state. We will have to live without prolonged hideous thumping, local and home phone services disruption, temporary 5G microwave...
Bay FM wins two national awards at CBAA ceremony
Byron’s only community radio station, Bay FM, will need a bigger trophy cabinet soon – the regional station has picked up another two national awards and chances are you helped
RDA’s Bosco off to the Ballina High formal
Riding for the Disabled Ballina and District Branch has had an unusual request from a rider who’s been in the saddle for 13 years.
Interview with Lucie Thorne
Mullum Music Festival | 14–17 Nov Lucie Thorne has made an extraordinary new concept album. Kitty & Frank traces the wild true stories of young frontier woman Kitty Walsh and her lover, the charismatic bandit and bushranger, Frank Gardiner. The...
Replying to Geoff
Paul Brecht, Evans Head Bensley’s letter The Echo, 4 Sept – Considering his take on the fake Byron bypass through Butler Street; you said it Geoff, there will be a sigh, but no relief during the summer months when...
Shake it up for kids with cancer in Bangalow
It’s hard to be ill but it’s heartbreaking when you have a child who is ill, and parents and families need help.
ABC Friends warn of future threats
Professor Ed Davis, National Vice President ABC Friends says that while the ABC is a national treasure, highly regarded and highly trusted, it remains under serious threat.
Cinema: Terminator- Dark Fate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCyEX6u-Yhs Directed by Tim Miller and starring Linda Hamilton, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mackenzie Davis, Terminator: Dark Fate has stirred mixed reviews amongst critics – most of them negative. The movie follows Sarah Connor (Hamilton) and the ‘augmented’ human, Grace (Davis),...
Live Music in the Byron Shire for the Week beginning 6...
Winston Surfshirt Beach Hotel | Friday 15 November Sydney-based funk, soul and R&B act Winston Surfshirt have released Apple Crumble the second full-length release, following on from their applauded 2017 debut, Sponge Cake. The hit album bound together brass, hip-hop sensibilities...
Bob’s story
Bob Maughan, Byron Bay My name is Bob Maughan and this is my story. I am refusing to pay my rates whilst living in the ghetto. Drug addicts fighting in the early hours bringing police and the ranger. Homeless people using...
Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: A Vegan Xmas
This year I’m going to attempt a Vegan Christmas. Maybe I’ll stuff an eggplant with…eggplant. A bowl of nuts and a green salad and you have a vegan Jesus situation.
Cartoon of the week – 6 November 2019
Letters to the editor 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. The deadline for the Byron Echo newspaper is noon Friday and letters longer...
Chilli steps up to make it four in a row at...
For the fourth year in a row Chilli Harel has won a gold medal at the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Pan Pacific Championship held in Melbourne two weekends ago.
Mikey rides high and wins WSL tournamnet in big WA waves
Lennox Head’s Mikey McDonagh has won his first ever WSL QS event, the Cape Naturaliste Pro, when he mastered the powerful surf of Yallingup in Western Australia.
Scores locked in top-of-the-table SYL encounter
Byron Bay FC remains undefeated in the Summer Youth League after a tight 1–1 draw against South Lismore in their top-of-the-table clash last week.
Mullum’s Marielou comes second in state tennis championship
Marielou Baudouin from the Mullumbimby Tennis Club made it into the U/12 girls final of the NSW Junior Closed Championships held in Sydney two weeks ago.
