The NSW government legislation has provided a permit for screen filming on private land in NSW without any Council oversight or accountability. This has led to Federal Village currently being overrun by the ITV film company.
In Suffolk Park there are a number of problems including getting out of Clifford Street onto Broken Head Road heading north, but the biggest problem is speed. This is impacting on all sorts of people, including wildlife, and the...
In a recent conversation, with a dear friend, Gumilaroi educator Professor Bob Morgan, my spirit was lifted when he told me that after 50+ years of struggling for justice and equity for First Nations’ people in Australia and overseas that he remains ‘a prisoner of hope’ despite the glacial speed of progress and change.
The truth doesn’t mind being questioned. A lie does. Margot Hays, Bangalow
The French are understandably upset about being stabbed in the back by Australia’s sinking of the submarine contract. They pontificate about the need for trust in international affairs and now claim countries trading with Australia must beware of being...
Bugga! Just when we don’t need to expect the Spanish Inquisition, out pops its wolf-in-sheep’s clothing remake: Opus Dei. New Premier, Dominic Perrottet is closely affiliated with this extreme, conservative, secretive and politically influential, Catholic organisation. Perrottet’s early statement that...
Over the last 20 years or more, Australia has benefited greatly from its economic relationship with China. You may have noticed that most of the goods in our shops are made in China. We have willingly and cheerfully profited...
AFL Aussie Rules Grand Final in Western Australia... Rugby League Grand Final in Queensland... Melbourne Cup in Tasmania? Margaret Keating, Ocean Shores
A military conflict between China and the USA would very likely result in global nuclear war, a major setback to human civilisation and possibly extinction for our species. Who could possibly want to risk that? Fundamentalist Christians look forward eagerly...
Good news! Local police will not be actively enforcing the government’s Public Health (COVID-19 General) Order 2021 when it comes to business activity – see NSW govt’s Health Order lacks clarity.
For Liberal Party luminaries it’s obviously been a heart-wrenching experience watching Gladys Berejiklian bite the dust and they are stupidly blaming the ICAC, for doing exactly the job it was established to do. The ICAC did not force her to...
Corruption, neither noble, nor unavoidable, nor the fault of the ICAC – the NSW premier messed up! Our premier has resigned because of the need to establish her involvement in high-level corruption involving millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money, and...
The entrenched corruption that tied senior politicians and police to notorious underworld figures in NSW for decades from the 1950s until recently shows the need for an ICAC with strong inquisitorial powers. Yet, quite recently, the secret deal was still...
A hospital is not a health farm. For a start, the food has a terrible reputation. Seriously though, when life is on the brink, a hospital is the destination.
A development application is (again) coming before this week’s planning meeting, which attempts to use ‘farm stay’ accommodation to provide affordable housing for students enrolled in agriculture-related courses.
Have you noticed that the streets of Byron Bay have been a less tuneful and colourful place in the past week or so?
Poor Mandy indeed (Letters, 29 September). Glenn, it sounds to me like you’re trying to put Mandy IN her Soapbox instead of allowing her to stand (or sit) on it! Why does Mandy have to only be funny? Why...
Fence sitters, when given a tickle, will generally tumble off on the side of self-interest. So it’s interesting to read that The Echo’s ‘Fence Sitting’ teacher (30 September) has decided to abandon their career and income rather than make...
Thank you David Heilpern for elucidating so eloquently a raft of issues that succinctly cover the current political climate… particularly in respect to the lack of clear forward-thinking leadership. I hope to see further opinion pieces of this ilk. Gaida Macs, Kingscliff
The proposal is to close Ocean Shores Sewage Treatment Plant (OS STP) and transfer its load to Brunswick Valley STP (BV STP), a centralised facility built 15 years ago to replace Mullumbimby and Brunswick Heads STPs built in the...
I want to thank Byron Council for including the flyer in The Echo about koalas and dogs. There is so much ignorance when it comes to protecting our wildlife. I know a man who traps and kills cats on...
Somewhere there is a book of rules for cycling in Byron, but I haven’t had any luck getting hold of a copy. To help other confused cyclists here is some guidance based on my observations: Handlebars: Misleadingly named because your...
We had lost our highway protest, but during those colourful marches we had the beginnings of a stronger sense of community and cohesion in Ocean Shores. So began the Ocean Shores Art and History Expo in 2004. I got...
The world may be in a state of immense turmoil and uncertainty, but at least we can rely on the inexorable forward march of the Tallowood housing development in Mullumbimby.
A proposal for a wildlife hospital on a 2.39 hectare parcel of Crown land in Lindendale Road at Wollongbar, is before Ballina Council and on public exhibition. Northern Rivers Wildlife Hospital chair, Ninian Gemmell, welcomed consent for the use of Crown land for the proposed hospital.
