Byron Community College say they have received NSW Government funding as part of the Skills for Recovery initiative.
Over the last two-and-a-half years, the Mullumbimby based Rainforest 4 Foundation has had a mission to buy back parts of the Daintree Lowland Rainforest that were subdivided for sale in the 1980s.
A new Mungo is needed to investigate, report and comment, because the major media sure as hell ain’t! When is the Australian Government (via the Therapeutic Goods Administration) going to register the COVID-killing nasal spray Viraleze by Melbourne’s ASX listed...
As a 90-year-old, I have travelled many years since I was 18 years of age; to America, the UK and Europe on a ‘visa’, ever recognised as a ‘valid entry’ to countries being visited. Currently, it seems Djokovic was provided...
Mick woke up this morning to a great epiphany. So, we’ve decided to forget all our activism, we’re going to join the Hillsong Church, and organise a dance/singing party, which will go on for eternity, and make the world...
We here in this country, now called Australia, need to be reminded that we started off as ‘boat people’. The First Fleet arrived (including my ancestors, Major Johnson and Esther Abrahams) without an invitation from the Indigenous inhabitants, and most...
As an apologist for Israel, Michael Burd (Letters, 12 January) conveniently ignores the harsh truth of Israel’s brutal oppression, while claiming there are two sides to the conflict and that Palestinians are treated equally. I believe that only one side...
Local paramedics will be able to get free coffee and snacks at selected local cafes, as part of a major community effort to support frontline health workers during the ongoing and increasing COVID-19 outbreak.
The Mullum Aeronautics and Space Administration (MASA) will soon launch the Spiders Webb telescope, which will break through to deeper levels of Advanced Astrological Psychodelics – looking right back in thyme to the origins of love in the sinoatrial...
I am writing about the upcoming COVID-19 vaccinations for children. I am and remain a vax-sceptic. My reasons are many, but hinge around the fact that we are still a provisionally approved medical product. So, if for no other...
A proposal to subdivide one lot (2,097m2) into three lots, and build two dwellings and three secondary dwellings, in densly forested riparian land in North Ocean Shores would create ‘Gold-Coast-style overdevelopment’, say residents.
The Australian Local Government Association (ALGA) has welcomed a pre-election commitment from Federal Labor to invest up to $200 million per year in disaster prevention and resilience.
For two decades, the Rainbow Temple in Rosebank has stood as a striking reflection of the region’s proudly beating spiritual heart.
The federal Standing Committee on Communications and the Arts has commenced a new inquiry into Australia’s regional newspapers (print and digital). According to its terms of references, the Committee will consider: ‘The impact of decisions in a number of markets...
Our PM and premier have decided to fall back on the old ‘Dunkirk Strategy’: Retreat, withdraw and claim a victory. Harald Ehrlich, Balmain
Dear Editor, good on you for your piece reminding us about the importance of public discourse. Like you, I find Drs McCullough and Malone pretty credible (can one ever know for sure?). Though in these troubled times I often keep...
Locals are raising concerns in relation to a Development Application for a ‘Community Facilities – Primitive camp ground' near Coraki that they say is a site prone to severe flooding and fire risk.
Patricia, better known as Pat or Patsy, was born in Byron Bay in 1933 and was the second eldest of nine, to Horace Cecil Vernon Freeman (better known as ‘Bluey’) and Dorothy Lulu Freeman (nee Daniels).
Over the last two-and-a-half years the Mullumbimby based Rainforest 4 Foundation has had a mission to buy back parts of the Daintree Lowland Rainforest that were subdivided for sale in the 1980s.
While Coles and Woolworths struggle with supply chain issues caused by the Omicron outbreak, local farmer’s markets and independent food retailers appear to be coming into their own.
Two things happened during the last week that perfectly illustrate the federal government’s position on religious discrimination in Australia.
With ever increasing pressure on health services across the nation and locally, how are health staff coping – and are there enough ICU beds and ventilators to cope with the ongoing surge in COVID-19 cases?
‘The fundamental cause of the trouble,’ he wrote, ‘is that in the modern world, the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.’ Bertrand Russell said this. I wonder if Mr Perrottet has read it? M Easton, Ballina
We need our nurses. Right now, they are the most important workforce in the country. Not politicians or real estate agents or tradies or miners. Nurses. Paramedics. Hospital doctors.
The notion of ‘Green Energy’ has recently excited business investors and no doubt the public. We need positive solutions to pollution / pollutants as we face the sixth extinction. Air pollution has, for many years, been labelled the highest...
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