The Byron Bay Beez senior men’s team has stamped its authority on the local Sunshine Conference by winning six of its last seven games, including a 91–64 win over the Lismore Storm last Saturday at the Cavanbah Centre.
Russell Brand has yet to be charged with anything. Four anonymous women have apparently told their stories. Over the past few weeks there have been numerous stories, speculations and historical incidents smeared all over social media. Perhaps you should...
BayFM has been nominated for three prestigious awards by the Community Broadcast Association Australia (CBAA), says station president, Ange Kent.
Local government elections are still a year away, but Byron Shire Deputy Mayor, Sarah Ndiaye (Greens), is already asking passionate community members to consider running.
For questioning his opinions, John Scrivener has accused me of an ad hominem attack, implying I composed the heading ‘Scrivener’s Ukraine’. This is surely an ad hominem attack. I raised Wagner because it is almost certain that a Russian...
Now, if you were to build a 150-home residential site on a wetlands site (like the one proposed for West Ballina), you would obviously need to construct a very firm foundation for your project. Especially if it has recently...
We appreciate the initiative of the six cross-party parliamentarians who recently travelled to the United States to make direct representation to members of the American Congress on behalf of Australian citizen, journalist and publisher Julian Assange. A major objection...
On August 8, 2018, while walking along Stuart Street, I tripped on the concrete footpath. Why did I trip and fall? Because part of the concrete was broken and protruding. An X-ray revealed I’d sustained a glenoid fracture. I...
Prize winners were announced for the Ingenuity Sculpture Festival, held on Saturday at the Mullum Museum, located at 17 Myokum Street.
With 2022 flooding in Byron Shire and the North Coast at levels never seen before, the public will be asked by Council next week to comment on future housing plans without vital information included.
I am part of the 96 per cent of Australians who probably won’t feel a thing after the referendum on Saturday. But four per cent will. They will know that their +50,000-year presence here is being recognised. What happens...
Noel Pearson says he is approaching the referendum results with a mixture of hope and terror. Terror obviously, because of the possibility that a ‘No’ result will intensify the division and racism stirred up by the ‘No’ campaign. As a...
‘Yes’ represents hope for the future and recognition of the potential to improve First Nations people’s lives by listening, respecting, and supporting self-determination. The Uluru Statement from the Heart and the Voice are a reasonable request from the peoples...
A mother screaming ‘save my baby!’ was all 18-year-old Elyse Partridge needed to propel her into Angels Beach’s wild, dark surf with her younger friend, Belana Broadley, ploughing ahead.
The new CEO of the Reconstruction Authority, Simon Draper, is yet to answer questions put to him by The Echo, despite many weeks of promises from his latest communications manager that they would be.
In 1901, when Australia’s Constitution was originally determined, there was no direct mention of First Nations people. In fact, it was designed to deliberately exclude us.
A resident of Feros Care Residential Village Bangalow says that his time at the facility has become worse than it already was, since residents of Feros in Byron have been relocated there.
Apart from tragedy, what do the following three police siege deaths in the last 12 months have in common?
Regarding Storylines: Advance Australia where? (3 December, 2020). Thank you Eli Cook for your well-written and positive article in The Echo. ♦ See Eli Cook’s If not now then when? My difficulty is, as a white person and being someone active...
Byron Shire Mayor Michael Lyon is seeking councillor support at this Thursday’s meeting for a staff report that could identify how to ‘constrain the future use of a secondary dwelling for the purposes of providing affordable and/or permanent accommodation’.
The campaign to preserve rare environmentally sensitive land in Brunswick Heads from becoming urban development is stepping up, after a big community event was held on Sunday at Paddock Project in Mullum.
On 15 October I hope this country wakes up with a ‘Yes’ for the Voice referendum. In putting forward my view, I have been savagely trolled. I’ve had some opportunistic ‘No’ people use my platform to prosecute their agenda. I have not gone on the page of ‘No’ supporters. I have not abused them. I have seen the proliferation of misinformation and the use of fear and conspiracy to inflame uncertainty and to keep Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people voiceless in our colonial system. So this week I have asked my nephew, Levi Murray, a Wakka Wakka/ Kubi Kubi man to share his insights.
Spending more than ten years living and working on several Aboriginal communities my heart says ‘Yes’. But… my head says ‘No’. Most governments and the Australian people want to help and stop the most awful situations happening on the...
Those voting ‘No’ in the referendum often claim they have done their own research. But can they explain why their research has led them to the complete opposite conclusion to that of people who have devoted much of their...
