The Wategos Beach mansion development that breached Byron’s height limit by nearly 10 per cent was just one example of the development issues occurring in the famous suburb, Byron Council has heard.
It’s National Carers Week, focusing on the diversity of primary carers and their caring roles. Anyone at any time may become an unpaid carer. Their outstanding commitment, made more challenging by Covid, deserves to be acknowledged and celebrated. With no formal...
Byron Council has to be held to public account in relation to aspects of the current development approval underlying the West Byron development. Reviewing research reveals how imperative risk and safety processes have been contemptuously dismissed by Byron legal...
A significant increase in the minimum floor level for all new buildings in flood-affected parts of Byron Shire, and a blanket ban on basement carparks in Brunswick Heads, are among a raft of changes to local planning rules being proposed by Byron Council.
The response from a member of Victims of Holiday Letting (VOHL) to the spurious figures in the third Byron Deserves Better (BDB) full-page advertisement in The Echo (October 12) was ‘pigs can fly too’. The BDB group consists of a...
Byron Shire is known as a hotbed of alternative politics, and the next generation is stepping up.
A big celebration will be held Saturday night, October 22, at the Nimbin Hall, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Nightcap Action Group’s direct actions on Mt. Nardi, which resulted in the cessation of logging and the creation of the Nightcap National Park.
Last week nine fire brigades come together in Federal to simulate saving the Federal Store and village from a fire.
Thank you Chris Minns for promising that Labor will convert 10,000 temporary teaching positions to permanent ones. The myth of teacher shortages is a result of the current state government’s staffing policy, not an actual shortage as many principals,...
Belonging is a feeling of security and support we experience when we experience a sense of acceptance and inclusion in community. Belonging is a sense of being connected to something greater
We live in times when exposing crimes has become the crime, and the illegal activities of elected politicians and unelected bureaucrats go largely without punishment.
The Wategos Beach mansion development that breached Byron’s height limit by nearly 10 per cent was just one example of the development issues occurring in the famous suburb, Byron Council has heard
October 26 marks the 40th anniversary of the 1982 Rainforest Decision by the ALP government of Neville Wran, which resulted in 120,000ha of some of our most important rainforests and old-growth forests on public lands across North East NSW being protected from logging in national parks and flora reserves.
Last Thursday, October 13 in Sydney the public gallery in the lower house of NSW parliament was packed with citizens hoping to hear their representatives support the community’s calls for an end to the logging of our public native forests.
Former Byron Shire mayor, Simon Richardson, will not be voting on a large eco-resort DA, called the Linnaeus Estate, located in rare littoral rainforest along Broken Head beach frontage.
A locally-based respected ecologist says the developers behind a large exclusive eco village proposal in rare littoral rainforest along Broken Head beach frontage are avoiding environmental scrutiny through loopholes.
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My wife and I are long-term residents of the Byron Shire. We have both lived in and around this beautiful region for over 50 years. We are locals. My early career revolved around the backpacker industry as travellers from across...
In March 2019 a bubbly ambitious 25-year-old Brittany Higgins was allegedly raped in the office of Australia’s Defence minister. Now in October 2022 as she seeks justice, we get to bear witness to the legal system raping her again....
The Angels are coming to Bluesfest With their 50th anniversary in the not-too-distant future, The Angels have nothing to prove and everything to give as they prepare to mount the stairs of a Bluesfest stage next Easter. Founding member John...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLs2xxM0e78 Amsterdam is set in 1918 where Burt Berendsen (Christian Bale) is sent by his estranged wife’s parents to fight in World War I. While stationed in France, Burt meets and befriends African American soldier Harold Woodsman (John David Washington). After they...
Caper Byron Bay Food & Culture Festival is infiltrating Brunswick Picture House for three days during the inaugural festival from Friday 11 till Sunday 13 November with dinner and a show by night and Yum Cha restaurant and bar...
The Byron Bay Magpies AFL club are holding their AGM next week and are inviting anyone interested in being part of the club to come along. ‘We want to build momentum going into next season,’ Magpie Daniel Tiffin said. ‘We also...
Byron Bay basket ballers are in full swing after playing four games at the Cavanbah Centre courts earlier in October as part of the Sunshine Conference.
This year has been quite the journey for local not-for-profit Queer Family, beginning with the Great Covid Outbreak of ’22. Queer Family responded with Queers on Wheels and delivered hundreds of free meals, fresh juice, meds, and support to isolated...
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