A big congratulations to Moving Byron. We all dream and hope for a route into the future, without ever quite knowing how. Council’s new transport policy is groundbreaking; it is stripped of bureaucratic ‘blah blah’ to core practical approaches. It...
Thanks to Matt Hartley for highlighting the musically illiterate culture that masquerades as hip and groovy music entertainment. Any basic high school academic analysis will tell you that a repetitive, narrow range vocal melody (rap) against a simplistic, repetitive bass...
Was down at the Equestrian Centre, a few of the horses said they wouldn’t take Invermectin and wanted AstraZeneca instead. I think they were influenced by the new Head of Stables who appears to have got his job by...
The NSW Government have enacted changes to legislation to enable business to ‘quickly adapt and accelerate planned capital investment’.
Bangalow Public School students have proven themselves very capable at mounting an argument – and winning!
I also enjoyed Lynne West’s letter about gratitude and agree with Gerry Gleeson, from last week’s letters, that a dedicated space for gratitude in The Echo would be a wonderful inclusion. The Echo is a community newspaper and reports...
Recently I’ve been wading through hundreds of hours of archival material from the successful struggle to keep the Northern Rivers gasfield free. The collective optimism and unity in the face of what seemed, at the time, like an unstoppable opponent, is inspiring.
While Australians debate culling the great white shark Americans run riot in the southern gothic nation’s stone-cold muzzled, throttled black heart Jon Summers, Suffolk Park
The Apostrophe Protection Society, founded in 2001, has announced its end.
An elderly aunt recently told me how, after a decade in the spiritual wilderness, she had found her way back to god. In return, I told her how, after more than four decades of dog aversion, I found my way back to dog.
Absolutely loved the story about parking recently! When we arrived in Mullumbimby a long time ago, a laid-back local shared her local knowledge regarding parking and many other vital hints for this blow-in. She said that I had to chant to...
Congratulations to Stephen Axelsen (stephenaxelsen.com.au) for his beautiful front cover on the recent big holiday edition of The Echo. The taming of the coalition monster is devoutly to be wished before its hot, stinking breath wilts all the landscape. For...
Many thanks to Byron Council for putting in a good path through the Sandhills Estate (extension of Cowper Street). Great Xmas present. Especially appreciated by Ferris residents. Wally Hueneke, Byron Bay
I’m immensely grateful to this extraordinary, beautiful and wise person who had the greatest depth of humanity and love.
Well, here we are: careering through the festive season in the wake of one of the most miserable years in living memory. Or was it?
Thank you Ewan Willis for ‘Electric Boogaloo of EVs on the Northern Rivers’ last week. As a very happy newly minted EV driver, I appreciate all the attributes described of driving an EV. Even better, when driving out of the...
Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is an approach to economics that views money as a human relationship, rather than a thing in our wallets.
Eight Byron Shire councillor positions were confirmed last week, following the election of Michael Lyon as Mayor.
The newly formed Broken Head Society Inc has put an Expression of Interest (EOI) to buy St Oswald’s memorial church from the Grafton Diocese for $1m, so it can ‘be held in trust, in perpetuity’.
A very big thank you to the people who test us for covid infection. For hours every day they continuously wear masks and look at computers and throats and noses. It’s not a glamorous job. It’s indoors and it...
The silence is deafening. Where are the Australian journalists who should be afraid of the latest development in the extradition case by the USA against Julian Assange? The lower court denied the US Julian’s extradition on the grounds of the...
Politicians in other States may perform a backflip. Here in NSW, it is more of a pirouette. John Greenham, Ewingsdale
In the face of a real threat to public health, provoking fear and panic in the population by exaggerating the risk is the last thing that competent, responsible authorities would do. And yet this is exactly what I believe...
‘I died’. That’s what we say as comedians when we don’t do well on stage. A lot of the language around our performance has a life/death metaphor. For example, when we do really well we say ‘I killed’ or a colleague might say ‘you slayed them’. It’s extreme language, and I guess as a life-calling comedy is an extreme sport. To survive in the industry you have to develop a certain resilience. An ability to die and live again. Well at least metaphorically.
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