Just wanting to alert the community to a major cane toad outbreak on Clarkes Beach. Just below Reflections Holiday Park is a very unhealthy drain that has formed a lagoon, an ideal breeding spot for cane toads, which now number...
The Northern Rivers lost one of its stalwart volunteers late last year, with the death on December 15 of Barrie Peters.
It was January 26, 2023 and Bulagahn was walking on country…
We are very blessed to live in this beautiful region especially with four farmers’ markets plus Lismore weekly. My sincerest ‘thank you’ to all of our amazing farmers, market crews, stall holders, helpers and musicians who awake in the...
I see one very progressive council in Victoria will introduce 24-hour cat containment requirements this year. We all know about the damage roaming cats visit upon our wildlife, and yet Byron Shire Council still advocates for an ‘education’ approach....
In the 10 January Letters to the Editor Hannah Grace incorrectly refers to ‘mahimsa’ as a Hindi word meaning non-violence. Ahimsa is the correct spelling/pronunciation and is a sacred Sanskrit word – and part of the Indian religions of...
Your front-page story on the Housing Options Paper is a scandal. How many readers believe that a council with nothing to hide would gaslight the citizens and the media about public submissions on a topic of public interest? Mayor Michael...
The longest-running yoga spot in the country, Byron Yoga Centre, is celebrating 35 years of flexing and stretching.
There’s a few Council-led housing projects burbling away under the surface, one of which has popped up again with the statutory requirement to engage with the public.
I just couldn’t let the letter from B Warrick just go by without a response (Letters, 10 January). Mr Warrick appears to come from a position of colonial privilege. I think it’s arrogance to denigrate and make personal attacks on...
A secret process, undertaken last year without public exhibition, enabled the approval of the destruction of the Wallum site at Brunswick Heads. In March 2023 the state government determined that the ecological assessments undertaken for the 2013 Concept Plan...
Is it just me or does anyone else wonder if a study, named ‘The Dunoon Dam Study’, might have already reached its conclusion before the first word is written? Would Joshua Booyens (Letters, 10 January) be as enthusiastic to...
This is Chris Minns here, Premier and top dog for all of NSW. I have been reading some criticisms of the government I lead in your ever-popular and most influential newspaper, so I am writing to set the record straight.
The owners of a site in the Byron Arts & Industry Estate that is slated to include a new food and beverage venue have denied suggestions that the establishment is set to become a late-night amplified music venue.
One should not be surprised to read in The Echo (10 January), that our federal member, Justine Elliot is trying, again, to take credit for the recent decision to secure the future of Feros Village. Mrs Elliot claims to...
I wonder if those councillors and Council staff who think it is a good idea to put more houses on the floodplain around Mullumbimby, despite the 2022 flood, have been watching what has happened on the Goulburn River floodplain...
Jessica Alice has been appointed by the Byron Writers Festival board as the festival’s new artistic director.
Let’s dig deeper into Byron Shire Council’s plans for turning the former hospital site in Mullumbimby into residential dwellings!
How dare Justine Elliot take credit for saving Feros Aged Care Village at Byron Bay? She makes no mention of the eight residents who refused to leave and stayed on living at Feros Byon Bay under difficult circumstances for the...
On behalf of our members and the hundreds of Northern NSW timber workers and their families the CFMEU Qld/NT Division applauds the Federal Court’s decision to dismiss the North East Forest Alliance (NEFA) claim. Had it been successful it...
A part of the Mullumbimby Masterplan, Byron Council’s Stuart Street Green Spine project’s stated aim is to ‘create a leafy, green boulevard on Stuart Street… that runs from Heritage Park through the town centre to the Mullumbimby Recreation Grounds.’...
How do I continue to perpetuate circumstances that cause pain or injustice? Decolonisation is a big process, and it asks us to reexamine all that we have captured, appropriated and stolen, all the hurt caused to First Nations cultures all over the world.
Send to Letters Editor Aslan Shand, email: [email protected], fax: 6684 1719 or mail to The Letters Editor, The Echo, 6 Village Way, Mullumbimby, 2482, NSW, Australia.
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