With ten elderly residents still refusing to move on after their eviction notice, and the Feros board apparently moving ahead with redevelopment plans, The Echo sought an update from Feros management and those refusing to leave.
Cr Lyon, Re: Tyagarah Aquifer as a Source of Water in the Future Water Plan 2060 I note that you have expressed alarm at the prospect of Rous County Council (RCC) extracting water from the Tyagarah aquifer to augment its bulk...
Last month I wrote about West Ballina’s $75 million DA to construct some 148 residences on wetlands. These wetlands were completely inundated in last year’s horrific floods. Ballina Shire Council had subsequently lodged a submission to rezone the site...
I am a private person. I don’t have a cat or a dog, and dog parks are a foreign territory to me. Yet, last week, I put on my ‘Yes’ t-shirt, picked up my corflutes and flyers, and headed...
Last week’s Echo reported Byron Shire Mayor Lyon suggesting increasing building height limits to permit more development in ‘certain areas’. He adds that the Department of Primary Industries may have to give a bit regarding significant farmlands. Sounds ominously like...
According to the Parliamentary Education Office (https://peo.gov.au/understand-our-parliament/how-parliament-works/system-of-government/democracy/): ‘Democracy means rule by the people. The word comes from the ancient Greek words “demos” (the people) and “kratos” (to rule). A democratic country has a system of government in which the...
Walking down the backyard with a loaded house paintbrush and wondering if anyone would notice the drips of paint on the yukka plant, I was suddenly caught by a Xavier Rudd song emanating from the church hall and the...
Are land taxes, set by the NSW government, contributing to spiralling inflation?
Later this year we will be asked if we agree to establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. Opinion polls show that opposition to the Voice proposal is growing.
I am writing in support of the letter ‘Compliance’ by Sharon Kelly (21 June) in regard to the compliance system operated by Byron Council. Recently a townhouse was constructed on the boundary of my property for which the DA specified...
Selecting just ten worthy groups to be the recipients of the $201,000 of grant money from this year’s inGrained charitable foundation set up by Stone & Wood was no easy task.
One of the weird side benefits of my job at Southern Cross University is a free subscription to all the Murdoch rags around the country.
Public submissions close June 30 on vague plans to fast-track dwelling developments across the region by the Northern Rivers Reconstruction Corporation (NRRC).
A group of locals who have experienced homelessness firsthand are gearing up to run in the Gold Coast Half Marathon on July 1, to raise much-needed funds for the Fletcher Street Cottage in Byron Bay.
I was sad to read in last week’s Echo of the death of Michael Borenstein, born 1946. He was a kind, intelligent person with a great sense of humour and a stalwart of Mullum’s theatre community. Michael played in our...
The program for this year’s Byron Writers Festival, to be held August 11 till 13, has been revealed. It features celebrated authors and thinkers as well as powerful new voices.
Byron councillors have stepped back from endorsing a controversial new busking policy that would require local buskers to fork out for public liability insurance.
New research aimed to address local food security has found a lack of a co-ordinated government approach to disaster food security, with the burden of addressing food insecurity falling on the community.
Last week a call went out from Goonengerry for all those who believe they suffered harm from COVID-19 vaccination to join a class action. All medications have the potential to cause adverse side-effects in some people. In the case of...
Have we reached peak mullet? I thought we had, but it seems they are breeding. Is it the haircut we intend to wear for the end of the world? Is it a sign that we have lost hope for...
The letters deadline for The Echo is noon Friday. Letters longer than 200 words may be cut. The publication of letters is at the discretion of the letters editor.
If you haven’t popped into The Empire in Mullumbimby recently, now would be the time. The Shire’s longest-running cafe has just reinvented itself for the umpteenth time. Finally putting the last of the flood repairs behind them, in recent weeks...
Simon Haslam Personally, I like to round up the bill and leave a tip of around 10 per cent when I go to restaurants, in cash, regardless of whether my Echo rate of pay is actually higher than that of...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQfMbSe7F2g Harrison Ford returns as the legendary hero archaeologist in the highly anticipated (or not) fifth instalment of the iconic Indiana Jones franchise – for the first time directed by James Mangold. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny unfolds in...
Victoria Cosford Today, I’m baking using Ian MacRae’s Macadamia Biscuits receipe. I’m using the whole, fabulously fresh, roasted buttery macadamia nuts and folding them through a very buttery batter, and I know once I eat one, I may never stop. Are...
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