←Volume 35
![]( "No easy path with this virulent pathogen")
![]( "Support for natural burial grounds sought")
![]( "Bluesfest drops big 2021 lineup")
![]( "Tale of business trading on COVID-19 times")
![]( "Cartoon of the week – 15 July, 2020")
![]( "Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: The Entitled Generation")
![]( "Entertainment in the Byron Shire and beyond for the week beginning 14 July, 2020")
![]( "Interview with Tex Perkins")
![]( "Evan lands on his feet at the New Brighton Farmers Market")
![]( "Still brewing up the good stuff in Byron Bay")
![]( "From cookies to chocolate – life is sweet for Kathy")
![]( "A Simple Photo Competition in Bruns")
![]( "Thus Spake Mungo: the second wave")
July 15, 2020
In this Issue:
No easy path with this virulent pathogen
While New Zealand declares itself COVID-19 free this week, Australia, particularly Victoria and now NSW residents, are bracing themselves for fresh cases of the virus.
Where the shit flows
Alan Dickens, Brunswick Heads Mr Dey’s letter (8 July) on the proposed new flow path for treated effluent leaving West Byron STP (WBSTP) raises some very serious issues. Why was this proposal not put before the Water Waste and Sewer Advisory Committee...
CSG crunch time
Gabriela Mueller, Cumbalum The Pilliga State Forest is the largest temperate woodland west of the Great Dividing Range, covering more than 500,000ha. It is one of the most bio-diverse areas of Australia, and home to many vulnerable species of fauna and...
Support for natural burial grounds sought
Zenith Virago from the NSW Charity, The Natural Death Care Centre, is seeking support from those wishing to be buried in a Byron natural burial ground.
Bluesfest drops big 2021 lineup
Bluesfest say they have released their largest ever first artists announcement.
Tale of business trading on COVID-19 times
While Byron Bay clearly had extra people on the streets last week, there were other areas of the Far North Coast that also swelled in numbers because of the school holidays.
The COVID-19 doof!
Graeme Wilkins, Alstonville The idiots who organised the doof party at Wilson’s Creek, and the idiots who attended, should be totally ashamed of themselves... but they won’t be. They’ll just line up for medical care if their lack of social distancing...
Refugees
Meg Pickup, Ballina July 19 marks seven years since Kevin Rudd’s fateful announcement that, from that date, any people seeking asylum who arrived by boat in Australian waters would never be settled here as refugees. Since then, these already traumatised people...
Asking for trouble
Matthew Hartley, Byron Bay Anyone picking a fight with Dailan Pugh is asking for unnecessary trouble. For those readers of The Echo who have not had the pleasure of dealing with Mr Pugh, I can assure you he is very well-informed,...
Paradise SOLD!
Anthony Stante, Coorabell The ink isn’t even dry on the development application approval and the fine dining restaurant development at Scarrabellottis Lookout is up for sale. Surprise surprise… ‘A once in a lifetime opportunity with multiple development options’ according to the...
Cartoon of the week – 15 July, 2020
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...
Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: The Entitled Generation
We do not like to be held accountable. It was not our fault. We didn’t do it. This broken world was not ours to fix. We didn’t fuck it… well, maybe a little. Maybe we had shares in BHP. Maybe we bought clothing made by children in sweatshops in the developing world. Maybe we used airplanes like taxis. Maybe we just coasted on the path of least resistance, instead of veering off onto paths less travelled.
Entertainment in the Byron Shire and beyond for the week beginning...
Entertainment in the Byron Shire and beyond for the week beginning 14 July, 2020
Interview with Tex Perkins
For a lot of musicians the COVID-19 lockdown has been devastating. With their live gigs cancelled many were looking down the barrel of a year with very little certainty. Tex Perkins was about to head off on a European tour with The Beasts of Bourbon, and he had a new album with Matt Walker to tour but that had to get put on hold. But Perko has been making magic in them there hills, with the creation of a unique live show, called The Show, shot in a rustic shed on the family property. What he and his crew have created is an intimate, yet rowdy evening of music, with a special guest each month, familiar faces, and new discoveries. While everyone was going on Zoom streaming from the couch, Tex was making good TV.
Evan lands on his feet at the New Brighton Farmers Market
Story & photo by Kate O’Neill New Brighton Farmers Market was one of the first places Evan Anderson visited when he came to the Byron Shire as a traveller in his early 20s. ‘Within the first few days of arriving I somehow...
Still brewing up the good stuff in Byron Bay
Although things have changed at the Byron Bay Brewery, rest assured that they are still busily brewing the beer you love. Like so many live music and hospitality venues, the past few months have been extremely tough on the Byron Bay Brewery...
From cookies to chocolate – life is sweet for Kathy
Eve Jeffery Working in retail as a Buyer in Chicago and Cape Town, Kathy Quinn was looking for something else to do when she came up with a random idea to start a cookie business. ‘Liking to bake cookies was my only...
A Simple Photo Competition in Bruns
The annual Simple Pleasures Photo Competition was run a little differently this year with all entries being sent in electronically either by email, on Facebook or tagged on Instagram.
Thus Spake Mungo: the second wave
If this isn’t the dreaded second wave of COVID-19, it will do until the real thing comes along.
