There is no capacity of Byron Bay to survive. There is now no actual capacity to limit greenhouse gas emissions from causing a 1.5 degrees temperature increase. This coming 1.5 degrees increase is associated, by a rule of thumb, with...
The Anglican Parish of Byron rang the bells of their three main churches: All Soul’s Bangalow, St Paul’s Byron Bay, and St Martin’s Mullumbimby, on Saturday, October 30 from 6pm for 10 minutes.
What a nauseating display of expedient, political backflipping we’ve just witnessed with the coalition, (especially the Nationals) pitifully attempting to agree on even something vaguely resembling a serious climate policy for ‘Scotty’ to take to Glasgow and sit with the grownups...
New Brighton Farmers Market is an invasion of our community and needs to go! The New Brighton Farmers Market is an invasion of privacy for locals and the impact is too much for our roads and nature reserve that are...
In response to last week’s article on the Saddle Rd DA, the discussion was long and arduous owing to the contradictory and missing information in the staff report. This needed to be thrashed out, as evidenced by the large...
The UN Climate Change Conference will open in Glasgow on Sunday, and Scott Morrison will be there, with the grunts, farts and oinks of the National Party ringing in his ears.
From the balcony of Neil and Erica Holland’s Hayters Hill home, visitors enjoy an uninterrupted view of Cape Byron Lighthouse and its coastal plains. It’s a breathtaking vista, punctuated by rolling green hills and the sparkling of the sun as it dances across the Bay.
In response to ‘Covid Cassandra peers into the future’. One question for David: Will the people who have chosen natural immunity through in-fection, perhaps mitigating the severity of their infection through an unapproved alternative protocol, rather than vaccination, be...
Vaccines do have side effects, but there are some social-media users peddling myths that COVID-19 vaccines cause male infertility and sexual dysfunction.
Since the news came through I have been keeping an eye and an ear out for further reporting in the mainstream media. Needless to say, the news I am talking about did not come through on that very same...
David Lovejoy (14 October) and Jeffrey Lewis (22 October) each provide thoughtful and insightful observations regarding the narrative of oppression and the co-option of human rights language that has been adopted by anti-vax folk. Anyone can use human rights language...
Touted as their ‘first detailed policy position ahead of the Council elections’, the Byron Independents have announced their plans to expand pay parking in ‘other towns’ like Brunswick Heads and Mullumbimby.
Amid the uncertainty of COVID-19 and the winding back of public health restrictions, summer sporting codes are doing what they can to get their season underway.
Whilst I agree with most of Adrian Gattenhoff’s assertions in Letters (13 October: Perrotet and Opus Dei) I urge him not to be fooled by the premise that we have inalienable rights that are innate to us all. What...
If ever alarm bells were sounded for Ballina and ignored, they surely were those of former mayor and West Ballina farmer, Bert Barlow, in the 1976 newspaper report on yet another flood plain outrage as quoted herein. ‘Silting of Fishery...
On Friday I attended a biomass and waste incineration event, at the Condong sugar mill, held by the Northern Rivers Guardians (NRG) and North East Forest Alliance (NEFA). Generating electricity from incinerating wood ‘waste’ and other waste is a...
The range of options for protecting Byron’s Main Beach look set to be narrowed to three, after the community had its say on the crucial shoreline project.
A contentious draft Unauthorised Dwelling Policy, put on exhibition last year by Council, has re-emerged for this Thursday’s meeting. While staff have recommended that the policy become an 'internal' document others are calling for it to be 'abandoned'.
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I love Kangaroos. Like most people my age I grew up eating my dinner off a Skippy plate. Seeing Sonny and Skip was a real incentive to finish my dinner. I wanted a kangaroo friend too. I wanted to say ‘What’s that, Skip?’ And Skip would tell me ‘There was a murder down at the gorge’...
Blueberry Fields is very much a family business with father-and-son team Otto and Jasch Saeck working alongside each other on their 160-acre farm at Brooklet. Farming is part of their DNA. Otto’s father farmed potatoes and cattle on the...
After ten years of wholesale trading from their small factory, Byron Bay Cacao’s stunning new retail space is now open to the public. The industrial-style factory designed by the owner offers a unique experience. It is fast becoming a...
Although Jane Boniface says that everything she does is ‘a mistake’, she seems to have the knack of turning things to her advantage. When she and her partner Jose first bought their farm, they weren’t really looking to become...
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