On Saturday, March 16 Northern Rivers Friends of Palestine unfurled a 20m scroll with the names of murdered children and host a ‘die-in’ action at the office of the federal Member for Richmond, Justine Elliot (Labor).
We need a serious talk about development on floodplains with more creativity and sophistication. The recent discussion about development or no development in southern Mullumbimby has a lot of emotion and an assumed common understanding but there are no...
Most days I ask myself ‘what the duck’ is happening here? How could Trump be president again if he has to spend every second day in court? How can Mr Dutton go even more nuclear than he normally does after...
They look so uninviting and dismal. It would not cost a lot to change the name to ‘tiny homes’ and paint them pretty. That could hopefully improve wellbeing and a sense of pride. Colleen DaRosa, Ocean Shores
One of the more disappointing aspects of the decline of Byron Bay, and I have a long list, is what has happened to the track that runs beside the Belongil drain, behind the old hospital building. I have long regarded...
If any of you watched Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, you would know that it was a party-political shambles which had little to do with the state of the union, which seems to be in real trouble...
A new regime of social repression is imposing itself over the Byron Shire. Supported by local conservatives, the NSW National Parks Wildlife Service is attacking diversity and a particular minority group in Byron Shire – naturists.
A film about Australia’s first environmental confrontation, which occured at Terania Creek near Nimbin, will screen on Friday, 22 March from 7pm at Brunswick Picture House as a fundraiser for the Save Wallum campaign.
Mullumbimby’s The Drill Hall Theatre Company (DHTC) is offering two creative development opportunities for local independent artists to develop new performance piece concepts.
I am very concerned about the proposed revocation of legal clothing-optional beach use at Tyagarah. When I was last in Byron, I stayed at the Belongil Beach House, and enjoyed a float tank for the first time. Of course, I enjoyed...
‘I feel so powerless,’ a friend said. It’s an understandable sentiment in the face of tragic situations out of our individual control, but there are things people can do to effect change, especially when we come together as a community.
Bouquet to Bangalow PO for its helpful and friendly staff, providing overnight express post delivery before 1pm, and banking services with a bank’s card. The post office is classified as rural and the overnight express post in particular isn’t a...
Dear prude, won’t you come out to play? Dear prude, greet the brand new day The sun is up, the sky is blue It’s beautiful and so are you Dear prude, won’t you come out to play? Dear prude, open up your eyes Dear prude,...
Liberation Larder volunteers have been supplying free meals to homeless people and people in need for 15 years, and say that they have been seeing an increase in women using the service.
Thanks Gyan from Tyagarah for your wonderfully written but factually incorrect letter. The beachgoers who enjoy Tyagarah clothing-optional beach also dream of the days when they could swim at Tyagarah Beach without enduring negative energy from a few irate locals,...
Could Byron set a trend and give white and silver cars free parking for the first half hour? When driven in a warm climate, a white car is likely to emit less pollution per km than an equivalent black model. Dark...
Everyone’s banging on about the Kate Middleton Mother’s Day family photo scandal. Where’s Kate? Well it’s obvious. The royal family are lizards and they ate her. Shapeshifting reptilian overlords don’t always have a lot of self-control, nor are they very good at Photoshop. Lizards have to eat you know.
Third-generation farmer Pam Morrow has been growing her own organic food for over 20 years. Her passion for farming without the use of chemicals saw Pam as an early adopter of organic certification decades ago. Having grown up on the...
Stone and Wood have launched a new beer: Northern Rivers Beer (NRB). At a warm, and pretty laidback, night at the Billinudgel Hotel earlier in the month, members of the local community were told it’s Stone and Wood’s most...
The team at Spangled Drongo Brewing officially fired up their brewhouse in June last year, but you may have heard their name prior to this. After initially planning to build a brewpub and taproom (with a built-in skate ramp) in...
Victoria Cosford From the age of 17, owner of Seedlings Organic, Luke Sansom, has worked in horticulture. Down on the Mornington Peninsula he was a mere 19 years old when he set up a business propagating and planting indigenous aquatic...
A group of eight adult Suffolk Park tennis players headed south of the border for a grass court tennis tournament in the small town of Tatura - north of Melbourne.
Our Generation Media together with the Brunswick Picture House will be hosting a special fundraiser screening of the award-winning documentary, Luku Ngärra: The Law of the Land in support of Save Wallum.
Bangalow Cricket Club has played its way into the third-grade grand final after beating minor premiers Lennox Head in the semi-final played at Megan Crescent Oval last Saturday.
Students of the Byron Bay JWK Karate dojo competed at the first AMAC Gold Coast tournament of the year on March 10 with medal-winning success.
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