Homelessness advocates, Homelessness NSW, say that ‘mandating social housing in new high-density developments is key to tackling the homelessness crisis’.
The controversial Fed Sheds development returned before Byron councillors at last Thursday’s meeting.
On December 6, 2023 there was a head-on collision between two vehicles on Bangalow Road. Police, Ambulance, the Rural Fire Service (RFS) and a local tow truck company responded. All crews were fully occupied providing emergency care to victims, clearing...
It was great to read your article with regard to Brett Nielsen and the acknowledgement and support he has finally received from the federal government. Great news indeed. Brett has many wonderful skills but one you failed to mention in...
Further to David Lovejoy’s editorial Don’t know, don’t care (December 6), there is another way to view the referendum results. To think 65,000 plus years of an Indigenous symbiotic relationship with this country and the amazing knowledge systems built...
I agree wholeheartedly with David Lovejoy’s editorial Don’t know, don’t care (December 6) which rightly observes that the referendum result was ‘callous’ and indicative of a ‘don’t know, don’t care’ mindset. Was the outcome racist or not? Well, yes. I...
Reflections Holiday Parks was ordered to provide a 3m buffer zone along Simpsons Creek in Terrace Park by Justice Nicola Pain from the Land & Environment Court (L&EC) in June 2021. Reflections’ revised Plans of Management (PoM) for Terrace...
Have you been watching the gradual decline of Mullum over the years? Less attention to curbs and gutters? Virtually no improvements to drainage after a catastrophic flood?
Students from Mullumbimby High School have been doing their best to get the message across that our native creatures are very precious.
The 131-lot Wallum housing development application (DA), on precious ecological land in Bayside Bruns, has been a protracted battle for over 20 years. In 2011, Byron Shire Council and National Parks wrote scathing reports against the development. However, the state...
Federal Greens candidate Mandy Nolan is keeping up the pressure on both NSW and federal Labor over their response to the 2022 flood recovery, with a joint protest held on Tuesday outside the Tweed offices of sitting Labor MP, Justine Elliot, and the office of Lismore Labor MP, Janelle Saffin.
As a fierce sun finally fades, hundreds of people dance in the darkness, stars swirling above. This is not the Burning Man festival but an outdoor end of year school concert in Byron Bay last week.
The sudden death of Suffolk Park mum Shari-Lee Bromley has sparked a GoFundMe campaign to assist her family financially through their difficult time.
Byron Council is once again on the brink of introducing paid parking in Brunswick Heads, after a consultant’s review found that parking demand in the town has reached the point where intervention was necessary.
Plans for up to 6,695 new homes to be constructed in the Byron Shire over the next 20 years will be tabled at Thursday’s December 14 Council meeting.
Note from The Echo The Israeli/Palestinian conflict has been a consistent topic of letter writers to The Echo, even before the latest tragic events. This newspaper was started when the local media refused to publish complaints of locals about the abuse...
The other day I watched someone put their groceries back. They were at the checkout anxiously watching the tally. I know that feeling. It’s something I’ve done many times in the past. Especially when I was a single mother. It’s humiliating. Having to declare your financial strain by returning items until the number on the screen matches the numbers in your account. In public. Under pressure. Usually with screaming kids hanging off your trolley.
Note from The Echo The Israeli/Palestinian conflict has been a consistent topic of letter writers to The Echo, even before the latest tragic events. This newspaper was started when the local media refused to publish complaints of locals about the...
Note from The Echo The Israeli/Palestinian conflict has been a consistent topic of letter writers to The Echo, even before the latest tragic events. This newspaper was started when the local media refused to publish complaints of locals about the...
Note from The Echo The Israeli/Palestinian conflict has been a consistent topic of letter writers to The Echo, even before the latest tragic events. This newspaper was started when the local media refused to publish complaints of locals about the...
Note from The Echo The Israeli/Palestinian conflict has been a consistent topic of letter writers to The Echo, even before the latest tragic events. This newspaper was started when the local media refused to publish complaints of locals about the...
Note from The Echo The Israeli/Palestinian conflict has been a consistent topic of letter writers to The Echo, even before the latest tragic events. This newspaper was started when the local media refused to publish complaints of locals about the...
Note from The Echo The Israeli/Palestinian conflict has been a consistent topic of letter writers to The Echo, even before the latest tragic events. This newspaper was started when the local media refused to publish complaints of locals about the...
Note from The Echo The Israeli/Palestinian conflict has been a consistent topic of letter writers to The Echo, even before the latest tragic events. This newspaper was started when the local media refused to publish complaints of locals about the...
Note from The Echo The Israeli/Palestinian conflict has been a consistent topic of letter writers to The Echo, even before the latest tragic events. This newspaper was started when the local media refused to publish complaints of locals about the abuse...
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