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![]( "Interview with Kat Davidson and Jenny Wynter, Women Like Us")
![]( "Interview with Vicky Jay about her Documentary Premiere, Me & Her")
![]( "Gas expansion welcomed by local Nationals MP")
![]( "When motor neuron disease came into my life")
![]( "Planning staff support questionable Main Arm DA")
![]( "Interview with Steve ’n’ Seagulls")
![]( "Culture in the Byron Shire for the Week Beginning February 20, 2020")
![]( "Cinema: Just Mercy")
![]( "‘Cleva’ O’Reilly announces council tilt")
![]( "Greens councillors push high growth agenda")
![]( "Interview with Nikki Bomba, Melbourne Ska Orchestra")
![]( "Live Music in the Byron Shire for the Week Beginning February 19, 2020")
February 19, 2020
In this Issue:
Emotion v facts
Dudley Leggett, Suffolk Park Where are the so-called ‘climate deniers’? Almost no one believes the climate isn’t changing; it always is. The issue is, what’s causing it, and is there an emergency? It might be helpful if that embedded labelling was...
Not ladies!
Deborah Lilly, Mullumbimby I loved The Echo’s front page photo of women wielding power tools at the shedding workshop (5 February). However, the caption Ladies hit the shed was a shocking diminishment of their independent can-do stance. The term ladies is...
The fog of war
John Scrivener, Main Arm Trump is a loose cannon. With one fell swoop of its predator drones the US committed its gravest strategic blunder since the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The extralegal execution of senior Iraqi and Iranian commanders by...
Fear mongering
Rod Murray, Ocean Shores Could Peter Olsen please let up on his paranoia and fear mongering and keep his ‘conclusive logic’ to himself. He lost all credibility since his contribution to the Y2K hysteria all those years ago, and we know how...
Meaty topics
Matt Ogle, Byron Bay In response to the article There is no life without water: time to save (5 February). We can all save water in many ways. Did you know ‘the water required for a single hamburger patty is equivalent...
Dead zone
Liz Friend, Ocean Shores Every time I walk upstairs in the Mercato Building above ByrWoolies, it’s like a dead zone. So a proposal for a 146 room hotel, function centre and retail premises, when we can’t even draw enough people to...
A little advice?
Bernard Hinchcliffe, Mullumbimby Any constitutional lawyers out there? Regarding section 100 of the constitution on water: if a land owner sells his water rights to someone outside his property – can that new owner use the water even though he has no...
Mullum flood study
Dr Sonia Laverty, Convener MRA Despite the rain, or maybe because of it, the public meeting on 12 February at Mullum Ex-Services Club on Council’s Floodplain Management process was attended by over 70 local residents. The meeting was organised by Mullumbimby...
Preselection
Fast Buck$, Coorabell The local Greens are going through their preselection process at the moment and there’s a bit of jockeying going on. Considering how badly they chose last time, how dumb must the Greens’ membership be? I predict they’ll confirm their...
Coronaspiracy
Julia Lowe, Suffolk Park Peter Olsen (Letters 12 February) should not willfully spread conspiracy theories about COVID-19 (the official name of the novel coronavirus) for which he has cherry picked facts. Dr Francis Boyle is a lawyer not a physician or...
Sea protection
Matthew Lambourne, Mullumbimby $104 million for the Beach Hotel – not a bad price for a building on top of what would be, but for huge amounts of public money, a rapidly eroding sand dune. No doubt they pay a motza...
Cost of ‘free’ camping
Sunflower, Mullum Creek Well said Alison Drover. Thankyou! Those who trash our beautiful towns aren’t ‘free’ as much as they think that lifestyle is. Actually they are slaves to their own sense of entitlement and lack of self-responsibility. How would a...
How are governments dealing with floodplain living?
Living on a coastal floodplain in a high rainfall region means that there will be floods and ocean encroachment that need to be managed by Council, state government and landholders.
Interview with Kat Davidson and Jenny Wynter, Women Like Us
Women Like Us: Jenny Wynter & Kat Davidson Ballina RSL | Friday 6 March | 8pm | $35 For Mandy Nolan and Ellen Briggs, one of the joys of developing their Women Like Us show was building something other amazing women...
Interview with Vicky Jay about her Documentary Premiere, Me & Her
Me & Her - Vicky Jay Documentary Premiere Brunswick Picture House | Thursday 27 Feb | 7pm | $15 How do you feel about your clitoris? When were you told you even had one? These are some of the questions that...
Gas expansion welcomed by local Nationals MP
A recently announced bilateral energy deal between the NSW and federal coalition governments – which includes expanding the gas industry – has the full support of local Nationals MLC Ben Franklin.
When motor neuron disease came into my life
There are events in our life that we call ‘life changing’ and there are events that are life-markers: scars from trauma and bad experiences that never heal. But there are also events that transform us, that lift us out of an unthinkable event.
Planning staff support questionable Main Arm DA
Local residents of Coopers Lane West in Main Arm have raised concerns regarding Council staff’s recommendation for approval of a dual occupancy in an area that was identified as a high fire-danger area during the recent bushfires.
Interview with Steve ’n’ Seagulls
Steve ’n’ Seagulls Bluesfest | 9-13 April One thing Bluesfest does is, it allows you to hear music you might never have otherwise heard. One band I’m really looking forward to seeing is Finnish country band Steve ‘n’ Seagulls. Fronted by...
Culture in the Byron Shire for the Week Beginning February 20,...
Monty Python’s Spamalot HOTA | 5–7 March Following its sell-out run in Sydney last year, Monty Python’s Spamalot is coming to the Gold Coast at HOTA, 5–7 March, on the only Queensland stop of its 2020 tour. Directed by Richard Carroll, and...
Cinema: Just Mercy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVQbeG5yW78 Just Mercy is a true-life story of a lawyer by the name of Byron Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan), who defended a man named Walter McMillian (Jamie Foxx), who is on death row for a crime he swore he didn’t...
‘Cleva’ O’Reilly announces council tilt
President of Community Alliance for Byron Shire Association (CABS), Matthew ‘Cleva’ O’Reilly, has announced his intention to run in the next Council election, to be held September 12, 2020.
Greens councillors push high growth agenda
The ‘current strong business and employment growth’ of the region is driving Council’s push to open up large contentious rural land for future development.
Interview with Nikki Bomba, Melbourne Ska Orchestra
Melbourne Ska Orchestra Mullumbimby Civic Hall | Friday 28 Feb | 7pm | $40 Last year, The Melbourne Ska Orchestra took home the 2019 ARIA for best World Music Album. They certainly earned it. Comprising up to 36 members, led by...
Live Music in the Byron Shire for the Week Beginning February...
Live Music in the Byron Shire for the Week Beginning February 19, 2020
