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Myall Creek walk starts conversations and opens eyes to difficult history

The Walk 4 Stolen Children, Land & Lives has successfully concluded in Myall Creek, having completed 474km on foot from Ballina and visited a number of massacre sites along the way.

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Wardell Knit n’ Knat Group – 22 years of knitting and giving

Since 2011, 15 years, Dawn and Robert Sword have been entrusted by the Wardell Knit n’ Knat Group with the privilege of distributing the beautiful handcrafted rugs, scarves, beanies and other knitted and crocheted items they have made to people in need throughout the Ballina Shire.

World Environment Day celebrated in M’bah, 7 June

A free family-friendly community celebration for World Environment Day will be held on Sunday, 7 June, at the Murwillumbah Showgrounds from 10am till 3pm.

‘Open slather’ if rural housing expands under Tweed policy, says councillor

A Tweed councillor is warning that protections for agricultural/environmental land could be diminished if a strategy to expand housing on rural land is adopted by Council. 

Update on Mullumbimby house fire which destroyed locals’ home

Long-term residents of Mullumbimby, Jeff and Alma Jackson lost their home to fire last week.

Local family-owned Byron businesses asking for your support

Long-term, local Byron businesses are calling on the community for support as they struggle to remain afloat as the drainage works in Byron Bay continue.

Evans Head STP: kicking the environmental can down the road

For decades the Evans Head Sewerage Treatment Plant (STP) has been dumping effluent into Salty Lagoon in Broadwater National Park. Rich in nutrients and other contaminants, the lake succumbed to these pollutants with a massive fish and bird kill in 2005.

December 13, 2023

Byron Shire Echo issue 38.27 – December 13, 2023

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In this Issue:

Social housing mandated targets needed

Homelessness advocates, Homelessness NSW, say that ‘mandating social housing in new high-density developments is key to tackling the homelessness crisis’.

Fed Sheds back in Council

The controversial Fed Sheds development returned before Byron councillors at last Thursday’s meeting. 

Take directions, please

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...

Thalidomide

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...

Missed opportunity

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...

Racist vote?

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...

Buffer zone

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...

Editorial – Make Mullum Great Again!

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? 

A reminder of what’s precious

Students from Mullumbimby High School have been doing their best to get the message across that our native creatures are very precious.

Wallum Council vote

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...

Flood protest held at Labor MPs’ offices

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.

Dance, sing and play more in 2024  

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. 

Shari-Lee’s family in need 

The sudden death of Suffolk Park mum Shari-Lee Bromley has sparked a GoFundMe campaign to assist her family financially through their difficult time.

Car parks at capacity – Bruns paid parking plans make a...

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.

Byron Council staff push for higher dwelling density 

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.

Free Palestine 

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...

Mandy Nolans Soapbox: Why We’re Stealing Bread Again

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. 

Common humanity?

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...

Palestinian refugees? 

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...

War crimes in Gaza

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...

The side of kindness’?

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...

What’s fair in war?

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...

Zionist genocide

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...

Solidarity

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...

Violence in Gaza

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...

Emergency departments buckling under pressure

Nurses working at emergency departments (ED) across the state are continuing to feel the effects of increased presentations and very unwell people coming through their doors, with the latest health snapshot painting a worrying picture of NSW public hospitals.

New exhibitions opening at Lismore Regional Gallery

All are welcome to the official opening of four new exhibitions at Lismore Regional gallery this Friday evening, with live music and a talk from Melbourne artist Sarah Ujmaia.

Missing man

Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a 35-year-old man missing from Tugun on the southern Gold Coast since 9 June.

North Coast Safe Haven closure

Safe Haven North Coast has provided effective mental health supports for people across the region since it was established in 2022, but is now running out of funding.