After nine long years of being led by the least among us, Australia’s future feels optimistic. Thanks, Western Australia, you were instrumental in booting those numpties out!
1. The community were somewhat misled by Byron Shire Council. 2. The information from Council was a video… a truck driving into a shed and dumping rubbish! Treating the community like infants. 3. The report does not seem to comply...
As a brand new MLC, Sue Higginson’s first week in the NSW Upper House has been huge but she says it’s a taste of things to come.
A big thank you to Sonia Laverty and the Mullumbimby Residents Association (MRA) for providing Monday’s meeting on flood resilience. Interesting that the MRA usually seems to be more on top of town issues and needs than the Council....
Mullumbimby locals are concerned that a vital, Council-run out of school hours child care service could shut after Byron Council issued a survey hinting at closure.
Organisers of the North Coast Festival of Flavour on 3–5 June 2022 say it’s not to be missed, as the producers, farmers, restauranteurs, brewers, distillers and winemakers of this lush region are serving up the very best of the...
We love it when the fuerte avocados make their way back to the market. As I walked over to the Organic Avocado stall, my first sighting was of Kate squeezing lime juice onto the perfect half of the avocado...
On Saturday 4 June, Frida’s Field will pay homage to their holistically-reared Angus-Wagyu cattle by hosting a special five-course nose-to-tail long lunch featuring all their own beef. Located just ten minutes from Bangalow in the Byron Bay Hinterland, Frida’s...
As part of Reconciliation Week (May 27 to June 3), Sisters for Reconciliation and the Cavanbah Reconciliation group will host a screening and discussion of the powerful documentary, Incarceration Nation.
Not sure if it will be on full moon, but to be built snuggled up between Sunrise and the Tyagarah Nature Reserve, just at the back of Habitat, the burning gas flare from Council’s proposed new gas-fired electricity plant...
Mullumbimby Residents Association (MRA) held a public meeting at the Ex-Services Club on May 16, and with approximately 150 attending it exceeded expectations.
The insert in The Echo (8 May) could be taken to imply that cloud seeding was the cause of recent flooding in the Northern Rivers. This has apparently been a subject in the twittersphere. Indeed, Associated Press has conducted a...
A couple of questions have been puzzling me for some time: 1. How can Julian Assange be charged with breaking American law when he wasn’t in America? American law doesn’t apply here, or in Europe, or anywhere outside US territory...
At 91, there are many things that you can no longer do, but one of the things you still can do is have your voice heard in an election – but not for at least one Byron Shire resident.
The Mullumbimby community lost one of the founding fathers of its counter culture last Thursday, when Graham Chambers, better known as Jerry De Munga, passed away at his home with the love and care of wife Chrissy, family and close friends.
Byron Council’s plan to build a facility that converts waste into electricity at the Byron Bay Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) has been given the green light by the Northern Regional Planning Panel
Politics is a phenomenal experience. To work harder than you thought possible, to put yourself so absolutely in the public domain full of hope and belief. Then to ask for judgement. It’s high stakes. A kind of ethical and philosophical extreme sport.
I would like to second Nick Buckley’s idea for the Fugly Architectural Design Award (in last week’s Echo). Perhaps we could include a subcategory for commercial buildings – You Dunne It Award, sponsored by Jonson Lane or Mercato. And...
In 1990 a new LEP (Local Environment Plan) was approved in Byron Shire that limited commercial buildings to three storeys with a height limit of 11.5 metres. At the time this was said to be set in stone. With...
First let me say how incredibly proud, inspired and supported I feel as part of the Lismore and Northern Rivers Community. Stories of strength, courage and ongoing generosity abound, from ordinary people pushed to the limits during and in...
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Byron Bay High School’s new agility course recognises the importance of play for learning and has students from all years actively playing during breaks and PDHPE lessons, according to Byron Bay High’s Principal, Janine Marcus.
A dedicated fleet of 13 boats took to the water for the Tweed Valley Sailing Club’s (TVSC) Winter series on Mother’s Day earlier this month.
The Jezabels The Jezabels are on a national tour to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of their multi-award winning Gold Album Prisoner. For the first time, the band will be playing their most successful record, in its entirety, live on stage. Prisoner is a panoramic study of tension and...
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