Dear Premier Minns, I am writing to express my disappointment and sorrow at your decision to light the Sydney Opera House in support of Israel, weighing in on one side of a complex political debate, particularly at a time...
Thank you for the wonderful article ‘A short history of cruelty’ by the brilliant David Lowe (The Echo online, 25 September: www.echo.net.au/articles). Those who profit most from this terrible trade in animal suffering are some of the richest people...
The message from the refusal of the development application (DA) for the mega, mixed development at Suffolk Park by Commissioner Dickson last Thursday is ‘Don’t give up!’ Developers do not always win, but it is imperative to get key...
The NSW Labor government have announced new DA withdrawal guidelines for councils in an attempt to ‘boost housing supply’.
Like the Prime Minister, I support Israel’s right to exist and detest the extremist religious group Hamas who advocate ‘pushing the Jews into the sea’. But, like many people I’m not surprised by the current escalation of the conflict....
A number of months ago I was privileged to take Rose Jackson, the NSW Minister for Housing and the North Coast, to meet with the wonderful people running Fletcher Street Cottage and to hear from Council staff on the...
Work towards a NSW treaty between representatives of European colonisers of Australia and First Nations peoples in the state is to start before the end of the year.
What the hell did Israel and its supporters expect when Palestinians rose up and attacked it, after enduring a never-ending catalogue of crimes by this fabulously weaponised apartheid regime? We could all see the conflagration coming, just like the...
Now the world can finally see the nature of Hamas. Could humans really carry out these atrocities in Israel, butchering 1,500 people (almost all of them civilians) in the most personal and inhumane ways possible, and severely wounding several...
There is an increasing incidence of catastrophic events caused by youngsters driving stolen or ‘borrowed’ vehicles creating devastation to the families of those maimed or killed due to their inexperience and arrogance. Apart from their ultimate police action, their...
No child is reported to have suffered serious physical injury in the floods and landslides that devastated the Byron Shire hinterland and beyond in early 2022, but the experience was ‘really scary’, as one child says, and likely unforgettable.
Byron Shire Council is asking residents to comment on its Housing Options Paper, which is currently on exhibition at www.byron.nsw.gov.au until November 6.
With International Repair Day on tomorrow, Saturday October 21, Repair Cafe Mullumbimby will be hosting an all-day event between 10.30am and 4.30pm at the Shedding Community Workshop, located at 18 Prince Street in Mullumbimby.
Once upon a time, Ocean Shores was a very proud town as all houses were to be built brick, garages large enough to occupy all vehicles, washing lines were not to be visible from the road and fencing disallowed...
A large mixed-use Suffolk Park DA proposed by Sydney-based property development company Denwol has been rejected in the Land & Environment Court after mediation failed.
Local tradie, Jamie Gluyas suffered terrible injuries in a workplace accident on September 28, and he and his family are still coming to terms with the repercussions and trying to navigate the next few months.
While nearly all the nation’s states and territories rejected the referendum question of an Indigenous Voice to parliament (except the ACT), Byron Shire bucked the trend with the ‘Yes’ votes claiming all booths on Saturday.
I was one of the 60,000 ‘Yes’ volunteers who set up stalls, handed out leaflets, and helped the campaign create a local presence and profile.
Thank you to the NSW Minister for Crown Lands Stephen Kamper MP, Tamara Smith MP, Byron Shire Council, Justine Elliot MP and all their staff. We all know how hard everyone has been working to investigate our complaints about...
Firstly, may I address the cynics out there and assure them that this letter is not a subtle advertisement for the Greens. It’s merely a ‘pat on the back’ for a job well done and greatly appreciated. I would like...
With considerable public interest in the imminent loss of threatened and diminishing native habitat for an urban subdivision in Brunswick Heads, councillors passed a unanimous notice of motion last week to seek legal advice and federal and state government intervention.
Developer Allan Larkin with Centuria Capital Group and Digital Infratech are continuing to push for development of SSF against zoning regardless of community opposition and long-term ‘iron clad’ guarantees from NSW government that no further development would take place at the site.
The NSW Labor government has come good with their promise to find emergency funding for Byron’s Fletcher Street Cottage (the Cottage), yet it will not prevent the service from reducing its services.
We lost two young lives through untested ecstasy use at a festival in Sydney a few weeks ago. What an unnecessary loss, especially when we remember that free drug testing for the participants (free of costs for the government...
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