Ignore Byron Council’s front page statement in last week’s Echo, ‘that the supply of electricity from Council’s proposed gas-fired Bioenergy Facility will reduce Council’s carbon emissions by up to 20 per cent’. Council’s present grid electricity supply is 60...
Dog owners beware, Byron Council is cracking down on those who allow their fur friends to breach the rules, including fining those who don’t paw the line.
How good is it to wake up in a better Australia!? How great to see our democracy working so well. How fabulous to have decency restored. On Saturday 21 May Australians demanded climate action. Australians demanded action on the Uluru...
Recently I had the unfortunate experience of running into Simon Richardson while shopping at Woolies in Byron. A tentative smile came to his face and I scanned it for signs of smugness or condescension but all I saw was...
The ratified imposition of the proposed Bioenergy Facility in Sunrise Beach defies community expectations on every level. The previous Council and current Council have attempted to minimise public information that is imperative to the health of sentient beings within the...
To all you spoilt Byron Bay brats who booed Albo when he was trying to say a few words onstage at Bluesfest, l hope you can now at least give credit to a decent working-class man who has made...
The Brunswick Heads Old & Gold Festival, coming up on Saturday June 11, celebrates all things used, recycled, vintage and retro – and not just clothes, but furniture, art, toys, tools and collectables.
Byron’s northern towns and suburbs have been ‘ignored’, with basic infrastructure such as sewerage pipes and drains suffering from long-term neglect, Byron Council was told last week.
On Sunday morning, I woke up feeling tremendously buoyed by the surprise election result. I fancied I could feel the sun shining, even above the dense grey rain-clouds covering the sky. For decades, survey researchers have claimed that the...
Now that the Albanese Labor government has been elected, we presume they will follow through with their commitment to sign and ratify the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). ‘Nuclear disarmament is core business for any Labor...
What a blessed relief! Are most of you, like me, still breathing a little more easily? The election has delivered ‘a seismic shift in Australia’s political landscape’.
The communities of Byron and Ballina shires lost a much loved local on Tuesday May 17, when Peter Gilmore passed away peacefully in Lismore Base Hospital, nine months after being diagnosed with cancer.
Now that all those ballot sheets have fallen into place it’s interesting to look at how the cards have landed. There’s something odd when an environmental filmmaker is preferencing One Nation and Clive Palmer’s UAP. If you followed his guide...
Sco no mo? John Greenham, Ewingsdale
The Australian Energy Regulator (AER) last week approved significant electricity price increases starting this month.
Three charities on the Northern Rivers have received almost $300,000 in support for projects for disadvantaged and at-risk young people.
An ‘in-person community town hall meeting’ will be hosted by the NSW government’s Flood Inquiry team on Monday June 6, from 10.30am till 12.30pm, at the Mullumbimby Ex-Services Club.
Welcome to America. Where the Second Amendment right to bear arms has become the right to shoot kids. Last week 19 children and two teachers were gunned down at the Robb Elementary School in Ulvade, Texas. Since the 1999 shooting at Columbine more than 311,000 students have experienced gun violence. 169 people have died. And still they don’t change their laws to keep children safe. The same place that has introduced ‘the heartbeat law’ where women can go to jail for having an abortion at seven weeks, won’t bring in regulations that might protect actual children from being gunned down at their desks.
The regional planning panel’s decision to approve a Bioenergy Facility at the Byron Wetlands was disappointing, but not surprising. What was surprising though, was a particular condition imposed on the development: that an ‘independent ornithologist’ perform surveys at the...
It was great to see Paul McCarthy and BE Crowle standing up for compliant development in our Shire (Letters, 25 May). For too long, Council has waved through developments that breach the LEP (Local Environment Plan), DCP (Development Control...
Having a large following for its own sake, rather than as a consequence of some significant achievement or contribution to the wider world is compensatory in nature. It seeks to compensate for a lack of substance or meaning and instead...
If I look out my window and can’t see Mt Chincogan, it means it’s raining. If I can see Mt Chincogan, it means it’s going to rain. Ian Haris, Mullumbimby
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Lots to see and do in the Byron Shire this week
