I moved to the Byron Shire in 1986, the year this great little paper started expressing the views of our community. I remember back then the complaints about the state of our roads… It’s like this paralysing brain fog...
The Echo (March 29) contains a strange contradiction in its uncritical support for local Greens representative, Tamara Smith, and its scepticism of the nascent ALP government in NSW with regard to funding local road upgrades. The article reads positively...
With all the hype about the Tweed Rail Trail recently, I wonder if now is the right time to think about our railway infrastructure, before it’s too late. Since we lost the trains on our tracks 19 years ago,...
The Northern Rivers Reconstruction Corporation (NRRC) is hosting a free industry conference to provide insight into the works required to rebuild the region, following the February–March 2022 floods.
A Byron Bay homeless hub that provides a safe and secure environment for those in need has celebrated its first anniversary.
I was quite distressed to read a letter recently in The Echo from Tim Shanasy with regard to the Tweed Rail Trail. He wrote that he was ‘aghast at the lies and mistruths pedalled by Lydia Kindred…’ I have known...
Another election, another hiding for the conservatives. How much humiliation does it take for these drongos to finally get the message? They are out of touch, out of integrity, out of competency, out of intelligence and certainly now, out...
Congratulations to Tamara Smith on her reelection as representative of our community in parliament. So, here’s my message, yet again. Under the Affordable Housing SEPP Professor Peter Phibbs of UNSW, after studying the true affordability of SEPP housing, found...
It is not a lie that Tweed Shire Council (TSC) pushed through the rail trail on the railway formation, pulling up the tracks, while they could have taken the cheaper option, according to initial projections by contractors Hazell Bros,...
Terry Pratchett once suggested our species’ name should be Pan Narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee, because that's what we do and we’re supremely good at it – creating stories. All of our empires have had their own stories/cultural narratives, that were...
I’m writing to express my sincere gratitude for the fair and unbiased reporting during the recent election. As a candidate, I know how hard it can be to stay neutral, so I appreciate The Echo’s dedication to objective reporting. To...
A Coffs Harbour man is so fed up with racism he is walking from Melbourne to 1770, that’s 2023kms, in 101 days to make a point.
On 30 March, 2023 the newly formed Water and Sewer Advisory Committee was scheduled to meet. The committee would have been supplied with an agenda containing some very strange and also misleading information. Consultants Fitzroy and Associates have supplied...
The death of recent Feros Byron Bay resident, Jason Smith, has put fire in the belly of a local advocacy group fighting the facility’s closure.
On Thursday March 23, 2023, Australian Labor Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, flanked by members of the First Nations referendum working group, laid out the proposed wording of the question on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament that will be taken to referendum in late 2023.
Jason used to come to Byron Bay in the mid ‘60s, stay in caravan parks in town and surf The Pass. He moved up north permanently in 1971.
In the world of the ‘big political boys’ it is shocking to read in Crikey that 78-year-old Aunty Joy Murphy was removed from two events by event organisers. Aunty Joy wished to offer visiting ex-US president Obama ‘a gift’,...
Have you ever been stuck in the middle of Mullum at the intersection of Stuart and Burringbar streets, with traffic in front of you, cars turning across you and nervous pedestrians on both sets of crossings? This intersection is...
Flood-affected residents are moving into the new emergency housing in Brunswick Heads and Mullumbimby.
The state government is trying to quietly sell off a piece of rail corridor land in the centre of Byron for residential development.
I met Mary Gardner a couple of times and she was a very quiet person. That’s my impression. When I read in The Echo (29.3.23) of her passing and all that great stuff Cate Coorey wrote about her and her...
Just a short letter to advise your readers about the notification of Development Application D.A. 2022/721 to Ballina Shire Council (BSC) which close on 14 April 23. This DA needs to be brought to the attention of ‘all’...
Women named Karen aren’t doing so well. They don’t find Karen jokes funny. ‘Calm Down Karen’ doesn’t make them calm. It makes them anxious, unhappy and unfairly victimised.
The media are falling over themselves to say what a great guy Chris Minns is. If he is such a great guy why is he opposing cashless gaming? Poker machines cause poverty among the very people he claims to...
Send to Letters Editor Aslan Shand, email: [email protected], fax: 6684 1719 or mail to The Letters Editor, The Echo, 6 Village Way, Mullumbimby, 2482, NSW, Australia.
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