Animals are still suffering and dying on live export ships and in foreign slaughterhouses. More than 200 million animals have been crammed onto filthy cargo ships over the last 30 years, and more than 2.5 million of them died...
I want to offer my heartfelt apologies to the gentleman who was volunteering on behalf of the Independent candidate for Ballina at Ocean Shores Community Centre on Saturday. I let rip very loudly with some vile language, after which...
Congratulations to Valley and her crew for the fun Sidestep festival. It was an incredible free community event, full of local artists, next to the river in Banner Park in Bruns. But after spending a few hours there on both...
Is Byron Council doing a good job of engaging with the community on the issues, policies and projects that matter to you?
A sentence that is grammatically and syntactically perfect can be utterly devoid of meaning – utter nonsense, in other words. Take the old classic ‘The colourless green ideas sleep furiously’; then take ‘music in the soul can be heard by...
Congratulations on another wonderful recnt edition of The Echo full of inspiring pages displaying the wonders of consumer capitalism and the free market. Three large music festivals with international musicians requiring huge inputs of capital, organisation and technology were advertised....
Every non-partisan commentator agrees that the promised subs will be obsolete by the time they are delivered. It is likely, by this time, submarines will be unmanned underwater drones equipped with AI. Richard Marles assures us that the deal involves...
The federal government has allocated up to 368 billion dollars in order to acquire three secondhand nuclear submarines from the USA by the mid-thirties, followed by a further eight purpose-built subs by 2050. To put that into perspective, the...
Much is heard currently about the Voice for our Indigenous people, which is a very welcome and urgent initiative seeking to redress centuries of racist abuse. At the recent Melbourne Palestine Solidarity Conference, Aboriginal and Palestinian flags draped together...
Will the disused/ wasted rail line from Byron to Bangalow be ready for cyclists in August now that the Writers Festival is in Bangalow?! Also, why can’t we ride into Byron from Lilly Pilly at least? Wally Hueneke, Byron Bay
The UK is sending uranium-tipped weapons to Ukraine in a move that will contaminate that food growing area for many thousands of years. Our enemy has responded by stating that, ‘if they send uranium to us, we will send...
As a flood refugee, flushed out of my home in March 2022, living in Qld and still unable to return to my homelands of 12 years, the Byron Shire, the main problem is not just the lack of affordable...
You will not hear much about the following information in the so called mainstream Aussie media as this is a very, very inconvenient truth. A small pro-farmers party has swept provincial elections in the Netherlands to become the biggest...
The photo accompanying your article on dredging rivers last week clearly shows some of the problems causing flooding north of the Brunswick River. The historic man-made design in Marshalls Creek and the ocean end of the Brunswick River show a...
It’s quite an achievement to own and operate a business for 30 years and more so with your life partner and that’s exactly what David and Kim Smith have done.
A chance encounter with a homeless man in Melbourne was the beginning of a project that has seen Melbourne entrepreneur, Simon Rowe, create a safe place for people to sleep when there is nowhere else to go.
One of Byron’s most colourful characters has spread her wings and taken flight for her next adventure – Nina Milenko Marzi died on Thursday March 23, in Byron Bay.
After the floods, the wonderful folk of the One Roof Byron team identified an unoccupied, but apparently structurally sound dwelling on flood-free Council land. In September they presented a solid proposal to Council, offering to manage the dwelling for...
The political pendulum always swings, sometimes quite savagely, knocking out MPs. The late swing to Labor was detected a few days before the election by Newspoll.
A committee that makes recommendations to Council around water and sewage management in the Shire is calling for Mullum’s water supply to remain at Lavertys Gap weir in Wilsons Creek.
So, let’s assume, for simpleton’s sake that the bread and butter of local council responsibilities is roads and garbage. Those living in Upper Main Arm for the last year have had roads that have been neglected and would fail...
A remarkable example of fortitude, graciousness, consciousness and generosity has been viewed this week with the First Nation people sharing the preparation of the required process to present the democratically-structured Voice to parliament, a democratic document to enhance the...
North East Forest Alliance’s Dailan Pugh has pointed out that a Minns NSW Labor government has given no commitment to quick and decisive action on behalf of our forests – but we need action 'now' he says.
Mary’s influence on me as a local activist, and later councillor, was profound – she opened my eyes to how water courses through and shapes this place.
The incoming NSW Labor government says it will spend billions on the state’s roads, but will some of the cash find its way to the hundreds of flood-ravaged roads in the Byron Shire?
