Lately there has been ABC coverage of Australian citizen and journalist Cheng Lei, jailed in China, and the American journalist, Evan Gershkovich, recently detained in Russia. Leonid Volkov is Navalny’s chief of staff and was recently in Australia and enjoying...
The Byron Healing magazine in the 12 April Echo was absolutely brilliant and showcased the successful elite of the healing practitioners that reside in Byron Shire. This free market of healers, wellness teachers, alternative and complementary medics of all...
The National Press Gallery was beside itself with affected outrage at remarks by Paul Keating about the AUKUS submarine deal. Predictably, the domestic commentariat focused on Keating’s signature barbs and his inimitable use of incisive epithets, while completely ignoring...
I get emails from Council called Community E News. I received three after the wooden bridge over Belongil Creek failed. There was no info whatsoever about the half-closed, partially open and now completely open (albeit with sheet-metal repairs) timber...
Reading your Backlash page (12 April) wherein the chief executive of the Northern Rivers Reconstruction Corporation (NRRC) said that some two-bedroom emergency pods cost up to $500,000. ‘What poor value for money governments get for our taxpayer money’ it...
Anzac Day is always a solemn day for Australians and New Zealanders – and for good reason.
I certainly agree with many that our unimproved land valuations are outrageously over-the-top. So if, like me, you are about to most definitely object, here are some tips… Our valuations are not just on sales prior to July 2022. There...
Mary Creighton has lived on the corner of Poinciana and Prince Streets in Mullumbimby for the last 80 years and their allotment ‘had never flooded’.
Council’s Business and Industry Committee looks set to continue without any representation from the business community, after the response to entice the business community to its meetings was ‘poor’.
NSW now lags the nation in drug law reform. Qld has just decriminalised possession of small quantities of all drugs, including ice and heroin.
Alan Dickens (Letters, April 12) raised the problem of phosphorus regarding sewage treatment. We sink deeper into it if we contemplate that a particular variety of great apes decided to break ranks and switch from carbs-from-fruit to carbs-from-grain about...
The Bangalow Arts precinct, located opposite the A&I Hall at 6-10 Station Street, is slated for a complete overhaul, with a DA now on exhibition from developer CADRE.
Byron Council’s plan to build affordable housing units above a public car park in Mullumbimby has hit a snag, with no community housing providers willing to accept its offer of a 49-year lease to run the project.
Homesickness is defined as a longing for one’s home after a period of absence from it. It’s a strange anxiety and sense of displacement. I’ve been away for a month now, I start the journey home tomorrow. I can’t...
It is my understanding that an elderly person named Feros, noting that there was not an aged care facility in Byron some 50 plus years ago, walked the streets of Byron with a bell and a tin can collecting...
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They’re back! Come and see why this smash hit has been labelled ‘Immersive theatre at its startling best’ the world over. A brilliant night is on the cards when the Faulty’s come to town. This is the show where you step inside the BBC Fawlty Towers TV series and see it from the inside out. Highly improvised, highly interactive, and fully immersive; where audiences join the action, becoming guests who play along with Basil, Sybil, and Manuel.
A new sonic vortex has emerged in Mullumbimby that weaves instrumentation and technology into a captivating groove. Paradigm Vortex will perform live across four Fridays in May at the Courthouse Hotel.
Barry Singh, who was both the founder and conductor of the Northern Rivers Symphony Orchestra, is embarking on an exciting new project called Music in the Meadow. The idea of having a concert on a beautiful grassy field on a relaxing autumn afternoon was born from the fact that covid was no longer holding the community in its grip.
Hot from her run on the Australian festival circuit, stand-up comedian, Ting Lim, brings her solo show Every Ting or No Ting to the Byron Comedy Festival in June. Seven caught up with Lim to find out just why she is so funny…
The Mullumbimby Chamber of Commerce is very excited about presenting Blues on Burringbar Street, an event to celebrate resilience, sharing stories and honouring the flood-recovery efforts in Mullumbimby.
The Northern Rivers Conservatorium, in association with Musica Viva Australia, is pleased to present a special event in its Concert Room; a ‘one-man band’ mash-up presented by award-winning saxophonist, Nick Russoniello.
Over ten days in May the event will explore the many ways that things come to pass – each day has a theme, plus there are bands such as Cigany Weaver and Tenzin Choegyal & Cye Wood. See the website for a full program of events.
Storyland is a new full festival experience of music, art, and story in Coffs Harbour. Co-headliners are double-Grammy nominated, jazz-soul giants, Hiatus Kaiyote, who will perform fresh from their set at Coachella, and Genesis Owusu, who has defied genre and style ‘boxes’ to keep the limelight burning.
Northern Rivers Food (NRF) have announced the return of their annual Harvest Food Trail in 2023 with an expanded offering of a huge 37 locations across the Northern Rivers. Held over the weekend of May 6–7 this year, with a...
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