Margaret Louise, Lismore I just don’t get it? Why does State MLC, Sam Farraway, want the State and Federal governments to launch an ‘independent study’ into the Dunoon Dam issue? Haven’t we already seen – and paid for! – enough investigation...
John Lazarus, Byron Bay When’s a building’s fourth storey not a fourth storey? Answer: when Byron Council says it isn’t (after a developer asks them to). A new fourth storey was approved for the bottom-of-Jonson-Street mall development, now under construction, after...
Noah Yamore, Mullumbimby At a meeting of frontline activists last Sunday at Mullum gardens, a man held up a copy of our beloved Echo and the crowd went, ‘BOOOO!’. Remember, The Echo was started as a protest against government tyranny here in...
Christine Willmot, Sunrise Beach David Heilpern, you are not the only grumpy old person who finds the restaurant experience in Byron a challenge to sanity and communication – not to say to inner-ear safety! My friends and I have almost given up...
Phoebe Havyatt, Byron Bay I’m wondering if our COVID-infected property buyer might instead spend some of that earmarked money on a couple of ventilators for the community ?
Hilary Bone, Federal Why is the order to ‘stay at home’ seen as a game of hide and seek? Sars-COV-2 does not care about whether or not you can travel to a holiday home. It does not care what the police...
Baden Offord, Ocean Shores Hardcore libertarianism and individualism cannot lead us out of a pandemic. In fact, they have the adverse impact on our individual, collective and planetary well-being and safety. What pandemics challenge is our ability and capacity to sublimely...
Standing at a public urinal in Mullumbimby last week, I found myself face-to-face with a small poster stuck to the wall: ‘Real men don’t wear masks’.
Matt Long, Brunswick Heads Sarah Seaward (Letters, 4 August) is thankful for the unmasked folk making eye contact and bolstering her immune system. She also suggests that Mandy Nolan should consider moving from Mullumbimby if she is concerned about the unmasked....
Global Health Aging Research Professor, Bei Wu, at New York University, says mental health problems caused by isolation and loneliness are magnified for seniors and exacerbated by lockdowns and other restrictions.
IPCC releases sixth major assessment report, and it’s clear that the biggest threat now is delay.
Recent advice from Tim Robertson, one of Australia’s most senior environmental barristers, is that Byron Council acted illegally when it zoned part of Linnaeus Estate for mixed use development.
Matcham Caine, Byron Bay I wish to provide a civil liberties perspective on the novel coronavirus health crisis, given the feelings of some that the decision to vaccinate, or not, need only be considered in regards to their own body. If...
Paul Brecht, Evans Head I am disgusted and angry reading Magenta Appel-Pye’s letter (Echo 4 August) concerning the atrocious treatment of muso Lisa Hunt by NSW police that left her with a two-year good behaviour bond. Now Lisa is leaving Byron...
The NSW government says its Residential Tenancy Support package ‘will now be paid for a second month, and eligible landlords can now apply.
The North East Forest Alliance and the Environmental Defenders Office are challenging what they refer to as the ‘rubber stamped’ ongoing destruction of forest ecosystems of the north-east NSW forests from Sydney to the Queensland border.
Brian Mollett, Mullumbimby Could the lurid plastic bollards marring the intersection of Burringbar and Stuart Streets be replaced with stocks, so the so-called decision makers who approved their erection can be pelted with rotten fruit? People who know the town well...
John Davies, Mullumbimby This morning, I found in my letterbox (Mullumbimby) a four page ‘rant’ about the harm of lockdowns, the case against mandatory vaccines, and the benefits of antiviral therapies. The document is anonymous, it does say it is from...
Andrew Hunter, Bangalow Council should be looking after the ratepayers of the Shire, not trying to ease the housing crisis of the freebies, because that cannot be done. Rents are never going to drop below current rates, house prices are not...
As the Delta variant moves the goalposts globally, local health authorities say they are confident they are prepared for any case surge.
An environmental impact statement is needed for any changes to the Byron Bay Sewage Treatment Plant and its impacts upon the Belongil Estuary say hydrologist and effected landholders.
Gary Opit, Wooyung Having read the letters for over a decade published in The Echo on the Palestine/ Israel conflict I thought I may be able to elucidate matters. The Palestinian/ Israeli is readily identified when viewed from a few metres...
Jan Barham, Broken Head Our North East Forests are a biodiversity treasure and have been protected by the enduring work of regional residents since the historic 1979 Terania Creek rainforest protection campaign. In the early 1990s, under a coalition State Government,...
Annabel Adair, Mullumbimby I just rang Service NSW 13 77 88, told them I was in a locked down LGA, and asked could I leave to go and look at property outside the area? The answer was an astounding ‘Yes,’ just...
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