In the picturesque heart of Byron Bay, a culinary revolution is unfolding—with pizza taking centre stage. Spearheaded by the dynamic duo that brought pizza prowess to The Roadhouse, chefs Leonardo Giorgetti and Maurizio Gabbrielli are redefining pizza by blending...
Victoria Cosford ‘It’s just about getting more goodness into your body’, one customer tells me. Sipping a freshly pressed wheatgrass juice, she’s picking out a couple of bags of sprouts from Avi Karny’s stall, and I’d intercepted her to ask...
When it comes to celebrating the extraordinary food and beverage producers and unique provenance of the Northern Rivers, it doesn’t get more authentic or grassroots than the Harvest Food Trail. Now in its eighth year, the 2024 festival is...
With a review of 2022 anti-protest laws now underway, the NSW Council for Civil Liberties is calling on the NSW Labor government to include public submissions.
The Brunswick Heads Post Office Fairy was very happy when they moved into their own, first home, in a post office box in 2018. It was a terrible tragedy for them to come home one morning last September and find that while they had been visiting children, someone had stolen all their fairy stuff.
It is hoped that Byron Council have a local policy that addresses Closing the Gap. This addresses the ongoing injustices executed on First Nations children/adults since colonisation. Assurance upholding further suffering/ trauma/ despair is now articulated by NSW Premier Chris...
Mention Sea Shepherd (SS) to most people, and it conjures up images of dramatic whaling boat collisions at sea.
Yes, it would be great to come out and play and romp around naked on the beach. The freedom of swimming butt-naked is a joy – I’m the first to agree. But that is only part of the truth at...
A friend of mine fell off her bike on the rail trail. She lost quite a lot of bark, but she was wearing her helmet and that probably saved her from a much worse injury. When I am driving through...
An excellent article from Mandy in the last edition, why more people won’t vote for the Greens beggars belief. David Shoebridge of the Greens, in a recent sitting in the Senate, recently stated the UN has named Australia as one...
What’s that smell? It’s the first whiff of an upcoming election, and residents are to get free parking!
Emergency services will be on show at the next Brunswick Heads Markets in Banner Park on Saturday April 6 from 9am until 2pm.
I don’t know if this is right but I think I’ve heard that Australia has the highest extinction rate in the world? Is that right, or close to? The top half of our planet has been populated by whiteys a...
I would like to reassure Susan Fell (Echo online 27.3.24) that noisy fruit miners do not, as stated by her, ‘destroy other bird populations’. Noisy miners catch enormous amounts of insects to feed their young, then change over to flowers...
Plans to turn the former Mullumbimby Hospital site into a housing and community development with up to 100 homes have taken a significant step forward, with Byron Council endorsing a broad-brush rezoning proposal for the site last week.
Bangalow residents and businesses, struggling for years with inadequate internet and phone coverage, will hear from NBN and Telstra reps on planned improvements on April 4.
In response to Jo Faith’s recent letter (Echo online edition 23.3.24), it’s definitely not all over for train services in our region! The recent completion of the first on-the-ground study of our tracks in 20 years has shown that it...
The efforts to save Wallum have brought to light serious flaws in planning approvals. This is a zombie DA using out-of-date assessments. Mayor Michael Lyon was very clear that if it came to Byron Council today it would not...
I have been a resident of Mullumbimby for many years, originally from Israel. On the 26th of March, I attended an event in Mullum’s RSL called ‘Politics in the Pub’, advertised as a ‘peace and freedom in Israel &...
Residents around 30 Chinbible Avenue, Mullumbimby, have been advised a proposal is being drawn up for a mix of 27 strata titled dwellings located near the Mullum Showgrounds and the flood-prone creek.
A majority of Byron councillors have reiterated their commitment to make parking permits free for locals across the Shire when paid parking comes into force in Brunswick Heads, despite some asserting that the move is ‘completely fiscally irresponsible’.
When we work out how to manage power we can work out how we manage power. It’s something I’ve contemplated a lot. In a world dependent on us being plugged in, what we plug into matters.
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Murbah Youth Fest 2024 is on this Saturday from 10am to 3pm in Knox Park, at the heart of Murwillumbah. This is the second edition of a Youth Week event that was born last year to create new opportunities...
Only fools would miss April’s Nudge Nudge Wink Wink with two awesome Australian guest DJs Jason Digby, and Embelina, joining the Cunning Stunts’ resident DJs Lord Sut and Dale Stephen in the Shed at April’s Nudge Nudge Wink Wink:...
