I watched 4 Corners ABC TV concerning this company buying carbon credits for big polluters and paying villagers in Papua New Guinea (PNG) near nothing, but instead of saving their forests they are commercially logging them. The PNG regime...
We thank The Echo for publishing the letters from John Bradley and David Morris discussing the recent local extinction of many of our unique native birds and plants. Fortunately, these species had no value and will not be missed....
All of these blokes circling each other and looking for a war – unevolved idiots! Put your dicks back in your pants and climb back up into the trees. Sorry to insult other tree dwellers. Hannah Grace, Ocean Shores
What the actual fuck? How is it possible there is not a declared School Strike for Climate in this town and others on the north coast this year? What is going on? Okay, maybe the strikers from before covid...
The Short-Term Rental Accommodation Planning Proposal Engagement Report by Locale Consultants on behalf of Byron Shire Council (BSC) relates to community consultation for Council’s proposal tailoring short term rental accommodation (STRA) to the special needs of the Shire’s community.
I write in response to your story ‘Grant Me This’, (1 March). Interestingly, my quote in the story states, ‘In accordance with the premier’s memorandum, it is now mandatory for all NSW government agencies and ministerial offices to implement the...
As the Robodebt inquiry brings out more and more scandalous facts about our high-paid public service employees, I have real difficulties digesting what I’m hearing. Someone dreamed up that the government could reclaim over two billion dollars with this...
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock now stands at 90 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been, even in the height of the Cold War. Meanwhile, Labor and the opposition enthuse about AUKUS and what...
Dale Viola’s letter and the statistic of over 50 koala deaths on our Northern Rivers roads this year is horrific. Council has confirmed at least 13 koala kills in Byron Shire in 2022. This isn’t corrupt corporations or governments, this...
Feros’ $2 million management disrupters knew this would be tricky. The 40 elderly people blissfully living there were perfectly happy with their status quo.
The World Naked Bike Ride is an annual protest and demonstration in the form of a clothing optional bicycle ride, which happens in approximately 70 cities around the world.
Online artifical intelligence bot, ChatGPT, was asked to write an editorial on local politics in the style of Hans Lovejoy from the Byron Shire Echo. This was the result:
It would greatly progress the Voice to Parliament debate if the Nationals were prepared to honestly declare their objections to the process. Their current attitude is transparently flimsy and unbelievable. Their main concern is obviously the fear that the...
If ever there was a political party totally unfit to govern, or even influence governments, it has to be the Greens. They are once again threatening to use their Senate numbers to derail the Labor government’s new laws to...
We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of Brian Perkins, a founding member of The Delltones (1958), and a true legend in the music industry.
Hearings at the Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme will end this week, and its report is due at the end of June.
Tony Barry’s tribute on Sunday at the Bruns Picture House was befitting for this larger than life, yet humble and loving Australian icon.
It is really easy to blame the self-centred entitled boneheads who choose to take their dogs into the no-go areas on the beach.
A motion within this Thursday’s meeting agenda by Mayor Michael Lyon, if successful, would ask compliance staff ‘to enforce existing consent conditions which prohibit the use of a property as short-term rental accommodation’.
To the princess burying your dog droppings on the no-dog beach at South Golden Beach, then (6.30pm Thursday 2 March) continuing further down the beach towards New Brighton where a family of Sooty Oystercatchers live, you were noticed and...
Sleepwalking into nuclear war: ‘The delivery of NATO aircraft to Ukraine and their maintenance by a NATO country, will be a direct entry of NATO into the war against Russia, with all the ensuing consequences’; Russian Security Council Deputy...
The latest action from the short-term rental accommodation (STRA) campaigners is an alarmist email exhorting recipients to ‘Join the fight to protect your right to stay in a holiday home in Byron Bay’.
The Iron Gates site at Evans Head is once again back in the Land and Environment Court following the rejection of a DA by the Northern Regional Planning Panel on 7 September, 2022.
With the Feros Care Board announcing to residents and families the closure of Feros Village Byron Bay last Tuesday, questions are being raised around the board’s decision to redevelop the large and valuable Byron Bay land as an ‘intergenerational community’.
I am sure I am right in saying that the town is in shock at the sudden closure of our local Byron Bay Mitre 10. Unfortunately, this is yet another example of the changing face of Byron Bay, when arguably...
