Byron Council and State Government-owned housing developer, Landcom, are proposing to build a block of affordable units above a car park in central Mullumbimby as part of the attempt to address the Shire’s housing crisis.
Jo Faith, Newtown It is well known by local farmers and ‘oldies’ in Byron that West Byron is recognised as ‘the Lungs of Byron’. How has it come to reality that this development has been approved? Let’s start with the...
Margrette Young, Dorroughby PM Morrison this week called someone ‘gutless’ on public television. I’ll tell you who’s gutless Mr Morrison. Look in the mirror. Look in the mirror at the man who turned up in Lismore after the devastating floods...
Dale Rhodes, Mullumbimby Standing on the south wall of the Brunswick River at Brunswick Heads it is immediately obvious what a massive bottleneck the north and south walls create. Every bit of water flooding out of the Brunswick River is...
Hannah Grace, Ocean Shores These last years have been tough. Drought, and then terrible fires and the coronavirus and this disgusting homicidal mental case in Russia invading Ukraine because his playground isn’t big enough and he needs more oligarchical power...
Flooding and damage to homes and businesses in New South Wales are as big an issue as they are in Queensland where I now live.
Roy Drew, Mullumbimby On Wednesday 23 March 2022, Julian Assange and Stella Moris were married within the grim walls of Her Majesty’s Maximum Security Prison, Belmarsh, UK. Apparently just four guests were allowed to attend, along with two witnesses and two...
Gary Opit, Brunswick Heads I blame the NSW State Forestry Corporation operations for the devastating floods that have all but destroyed our community and our economy. Many editions of The Echo contain articles on the logging and clear-felling of the...
Warren Kirchner, Banora Point It is timely, with the recent ramp up of people movements, to highlight one major adverse impact and a curse of the modern way of life – noise pollution. Living close to the current Gold Coast airport...
Deborah Preston, Byron Bay I appreciate many people are currently homeless and still processing the trauma of extreme loss from the floods. I am finding the community support we have for each other in this time profoundly moving to experience....
With residents still mopping up and renovating from floods, councillors assembled in a room last Thursday to thrash out agendas, motions, staff recommendations and reports. Yes, the wheels of progress grind onwards, while running roughshod over the Shire’s ever-increasing potholes.
As garbage trucks circled the streets of the Shire collecting masses of flood waste over the past few weeks, more than a few locals were heard to ask, ‘where is all this stuff going?’.
Peter Olson, Goonengerry One of President Vladimir Putin’s closest allies has warned the United States that the world could spiral towards a nuclear dystopia if Washington presses on with what the Kremlin casts as a long-term plot to destroy Russia. To...
Dr Marc Heyning, Brunswick Heads On Friday, 18 March I was on-call for the midwifery unit at the Byron Central Hospital. A midwife became concerned that an unborn baby had become distressed during labour. The midwife tried to telephone me,...
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Fletcher Street cottage has risen again. It’s hard to believe that the light-filled building that was reopened last week is the same drab, run-down structure that sat gathering dust in the centre of Byron Bay for five years.
The InGrained Foundation, started by Stone & Wood, has donated over $1m through fundraisers, and in particular over the last three years, the Large Grants program has donated $290,000.
There are two types of people. Those who, on coming home, take their shoes off, and those who leave them on. I’m a shoes-on person.
The Scenic Rim’s Long Sunset The Long Sunset has dropped the full line-up for their April event and it’s pretty damned spesh. Joining the already announced Angus & Julia Stone, Ball Park Music and Babe Rainbow are Jack Gray, Nice Biscuit,...
Linda Bull has been to Bluesfest so many times she’s lost count. Linda and her sister Vika are pretty much one of Australia’s most iconic singing duos and certainly the most well known sister act.
At the ripe old age of 20, Oliver Bora has already been farming for three years. What started as a school project – running some chooks on the grounds of his school farm – has turned into a fully-fledged...
Regulars at local farmers’ markets would have noticed the bright red stall Jumping Red Ant, bursting with beautiful blooms and seasonal fruit and vegetables. If you’re wondering about the name of the stall, Duranbah (where the family farm is...
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