As Bernard Collaery’s friends and supporters celebrate the dropping of the prosecution against him, it is still relevant to ask, why were Witness K and his lawyer Collaery put on trial in the first place?
Addressing the recent real estate push, aided by the NSW Planning Department to up-re-market ‘the cost of housing in Byron Shire to ‘high-end’ crisp beige ‘jooshy’ standards, there is not one aspect of life that has not been negatively...
A major outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in Indonesia is threatening to spread to Australian animals, with authorities warning, ‘the threat level has rapidly dramatically increased’. Indonesia had been free of the disease for thirty years until this May,...
The impact of elite female trans athletes in sport needs some perspective (Letters, 6 July). New Zealander, Laurel Hubbard, failed to finish in her weightlifting division at the 2020 Summer Olympics. US BMX freestyler Chelsea Wolfe was an alternative...
‘Developer fees and charges cut’ 6 July cites industry representatives informing Council it ‘entirely unviable to invest in Byron (and Suffolk)’. Doesn’t appear that way with houses being demolished for units or double storey houses, and proposed larger devolpments...
Kinship and Country obligations for mob resulted in bands, or groups of families living together and sharing everyday life, prior to colonisation.
What joy, to hear Bernard Collaery is finally free from prosecution by my government for conspiracy. Witness K wanted to blow the whistle on my government for bugging the governmental offices we were building for our fledgling neighbour Timor-Leste. Collaery...
A person was criticised by the uninformed for writing several prescient, Echo Letters around 1998, predicting future problems from a new neuro-degenerative disease, that began in cattle in Britain. Subsequently neuro-degenerative disease went from the fourth leading cause of death...
Destination Byron’s 2022 Tourism Symposium hosted at Elements of Byron 29 July had some ominous predictions. Board member and host, David Jones certainly shuffled the cards well.
A wild circus week is coming to Mulumbimby that will include The Wheel of Death and The Famous Spiegeltent between 26 September and 2 October.
David Gilet, in his 6 July letter, brought up the issue of beach signage regarding public confusion about dog exercise areas. I’ve been warning people with dogs away from the Belongil estuary for more than 15 years now – to...
Wondering which Byron Writers Festival ticket is right for you? Read on for our quick guide.
How can we approach our current moment with radical hope? This is the question that will reverberate through Byron Writers Festival this year.
It can be hard to know when to be a ‘dobber’. But there are times when the actions of others require us to take a stand.
Two weeks ago, a group of developers came before Byron Council claiming that fees and charges had made investing here ‘entirely unviable’. But new figures show that the building and construction industry has had a field day in Byron over the past three years.
Many Enova Energy customers have been shocked by the fact that they have found themselves now customers of Origin Energy or Energy Austalia.
In 2020 Adam Mangleson from Chincogan Real Estate applied to develop the 1,075m2 site at 8 Kumbellin Glen, Ocean Shores, with seven units. This drew around 20 objections from local residents who said that this was an overdevelopment of the site, which is in a low-density zoned area.
The anthropocentric among us believe that robots, which we created, are here to serve us or destroy us.
We are seeing the impacts of climate change around us daily. The upcoming Byron Writers Festival is taking the opportunity to imagine ways to create a future where we can look for and drive positive change.
Around 20 per cent of Australians live with chronic pain. It’s consistent with worldwide stats that indicate one in five people suffer from chronic pain (CP) with prevalence increasing with age. I woke at 1am and started thinking about this. And then I woke again at 1.30am and 2am and then I lay there until after 3am. I might have drifted but woke at about 4.30am to roll over. I am in pain.
In 2020 a new show burst onto the NSW and Qld entertainment scenes. Dubbed Cirkus Maximas by its creators, the show had all the energy and excitement of a sold-out rock concert.
Coby Carruthers and Sarah Hammett have won the 2022 NSW Junior Championships played in Ocean Shores and Byron Bay to secure their spots in the 2023 NSW Open. Coby Carruthers maintained his two-shot lead in the boy’s division ahead of...
The area’s croquet clubs are joining forces to host this year’s Croquet NSW division two Golf Croquet championships this weekend. With a forecast of fine weather, the event is co-hosted by Ballina Cherry Street Croquet Club, Ballina Croquet Inc. and...
Some of Australia’s best and most competitive junior surfers got their chance to shine in one-metre conditions at Lennox Head over the weekend for the opening rounds of the WSL Pro Junior event getting underway. The early heats in the...
The Mullumbimby Brunswick Valley FC opened the second half of the Far North Coast premier league with a riveting 3–2, home game win over the Lismore Thistles. The crowd were treated to a game that was both entertaining and dramatic...
