In response to David Witney’s letter (30 August). Every year the government releases their budget projections for the coming year. Each year funding is allocated to Aboriginal communities to address welfare, health, and housing. The decisions on how this...
Australian Aboriginal peoples are experiencing a second wave of dispossession, and given the bloody carnage required to drive them from paradise into this civilised machine, they are now point-blank faced with the likelihood of becoming perpetrators in the cycle...
Hey David Witney (Letters, 30 August), the Constitution was written by colonisers for colonisers. Us white people. Settlers. It doesn’t mention our First Nations people anywhere! Over 80 per cent of mob want recognition in the Constitution. The Voice...
A new TAFE NSW Connected Learning Centre facility has opened, and is the first permanent TAFE NSW presence in Byron Bay.
Byron Council is overly-reliant on analysis and advice from external consultancies, some of which have conflicts of interest which inhibit their ability to provide frank and fearless advice, Greens Councillor Duncan Dey says.
Plans being made to benefit Australian people. What happens when there are complaints? Does every living person conspire with their own mind (the physical and mental interaction) so they can function on earth? The act and actions conspiring to live...
Homelessness has nothing to do with the environment and everything to do with the 500,000 immigrants that landed here in the last year. Likely more per capita than the massive flood of immigrants into the USA and with another...
After numerous protest rallies and over 30,000 names on petitions collected locally calling for Trains On Our Tracks, six Byron Shire councillors think it’s a good idea to spend almost $900,000 per kilometre of taxpayers’ money to needlessly destroy...
David Lowe is correct in his comments (The Echo online, 21 August) regarding the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) protesting at the ALP conference last week in Brisbane. As the union official responsible we were predominantly arguing against a...
From supporting emerging youth artists to mentoring emerging writers Arts Northern Rivers Country Arts Support Program 2023 is supporting a diverse range of projects.
I refer to the recent petition begging the Byron Shire Council (BSC) to cooperate with the community to expedite the completion of the rail trail in Byron Shire’s jurisdiction. The arrogance, dishonesty and disingenuous behaviour of those councillors who voted...
Just wanting to say how much I enjoy Richard Jones’s column, and especially the one about the ‘Greens in government’ fantasy... Marvellous. It’s great to dream. Thanks Richard! Virginia White, Goonellabah
The Almighty Sometimes is a new Australian play about mental health, autonomy, and the medication of children. Without judgement, the play features the story of a teenage girl curious to explore life without her pills.
A rally to ‘demand reform’ and ‘tackle the current housing crisis’ will be held Saturday September 9, from 3pm at Main Beach, Byron Bay.
A disabled Afghanistan war veteran, with diagnosed PTSD, faces the loss of his off-grid, tiny home in Wilsons Creek because it is deemed an ‘unauthorised development’.
In relation to the Byron Shire Council’s uninformed decision to vote for a rail trail – it is for everyone, just so ridiculous, as of course not everyone can ride a bike or walk the rail trail. Another ridiculous statement...
To the old guy driving with P-plates thinking he can intimidate a young woman. Thank you so much for the fun game we played on Friday afternoon around Bruns and Mullum – I’ve always wanted to have a car...
Local federal MP, Justine Elliot (Labor) announced last week that Byron Shire Council will receive $49,500 in funding ‘to reduce light pollution and help protect the coastal habitat of Australia’s threatened species
Yes, we have printed the Uluru Statement from the Heart on the front page of The Echo newspaper this week. They are the words of simplicity, dignity and truth that stirred the government into presenting us with a referendum.
To all the Byron Shire councillors who voted for proceeding with the Northern Rivers Rail Trail (NRRT) in two sections, between Mullumbimby to Crabbes Creek, joining the existing Tweed Rail Trail, and between Byron Bay township and Booyong, via...
Australia’s first community land trust has been launched in the Byron Shire, and has applied to build its first project: a group home for single mothers and kids facing homelessness.
The Australian Child Maltreatment Study found that almost 1 in 4 Australians experienced one or more types of contact child sexual abuse while almost 1 in 5 experienced non-contact child sexual abuse. Almost 1 in 10 Australians experienced forced sex in childhood. How do we continue to fail to protect our children? What is broken that we need to fix? What is systemic that we need to smash?
I once knew a bloke who owned a gym with a swimming pool in the basement. He was a crazy bloke. He used to muck around with strobe lights in his gym and he would dance around juggling spinning...
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.
Victoria Cosford It’s the first year the Forrests have had a go at growing Brussels sprouts. ‘We’re coming into the season of abundance,’ Sue tells me at their stall, where there’s every sign of it: great bunches of green onions...
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