Items before Council’s meeting on May 16 include a push by two Greens councillors to make Byron Shire beaches accessible to people with disabilities.
It was a hot, smoky morning when Senior Deputy RFS Captain John Holmes and his comrades arrived at the Bean Creek fire, near Bonalbo.
Celebrated author and professor, Clive Hamilton, will discuss the notion of how to prepare for, and manage, the challenges of a warming climate in Australia.
A collective of passionate women taking action to tackle local disadvantage have seen essential local projects funded, and the results are starting to take shape. Amy Colli, co-ordinator of the Northern Rivers Community Foundation’s (NRCF) Women’s Giving Circle says, ‘The...
The Bachelor of Contemporary Music has been ‘suspended’ from Southern Cross University’s Lismore campus, owing to ‘low demand’ from students, a spokesperson says.
Is it time for a new approach to beach safety that utilises AI technology to tell locals and visitors where it’s safe to swim?
By any account, the current ongoing humanitarian tragedy in Gaza today needs thorough analysis, to objectively understand the causes as to why this ongoing issue continues, and ordinary people suffer. There are many perspectives and viewpoints, some valid, others not,...
Thank you to all in the community from both sides of the conflict that have thanked me for my letter regarding coexistence and that Israelis and Palestinians have far more in common as people than not. John Scrivener and Gareth...
Further to T Sharples’ letter (Echo, May 1) Justine Elliot has never been a good representative for her electorate – she is obviously a person of steely ambition and as a result never disagrees with official Labor policies. This...
National service would help eliminate most of the problem and simultaneously bolster the defence force manpower. Peter Walters, Ballina
Call it for what it is, murder and violent assault. The terms ‘domestic violence’ or worse ‘DV’ appear to give this abhorrent situation some kind of special case connotation. If men were doing this to other men would it be...
Thank you David Lowe, for drawing attention to $50 billion more defence spending. I add these points: At least six to seven per cent of the world’s climate emissions are generated by the militaries of the world. ‘At least’ because reporting...
Regarding groundwater contamination (Echo, May 24), for a period of some 30 plus years I have been trying to have something positive done to protect our groundwater. I have written to state and federal government departments e.g. Department of Agriculture,...
How can we as a community ensure that a steady supply of nutritious food is available to everyone after a natural disaster?
A freedom flotilla attempting to get much-needed aid to starving Gazans in war-torn Palestine is being hampered by Israeli forces, according to a statement by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.
The Corruption Perceptions Index defines corruption as an ‘abuse of entrusted power for private gain’. These gains are not always monetary. They are primarily status, an essential component in the social interactions of our community.
In reply to Clarence Properties. Peter Fahey is incorrect when he calls protests at Wallum illegal and criminal. Protests are not illegal. The Knitting Nannas recently took the state government to the High Court to contest its draconian anti-protest laws....
Mulitkulcha Festival organisers say they are thrilled to announce their lineup ‘as one of the best multicultural programs ever in Byron’.
The wishes of Florence Price (nee Wigmore), a great benefactor to Ballina, is now just a pile of rubble. Demolition of the Florence Price Village in Florence Price Place is almost complete and the attached photo shows the results...
Language is a living and ever-changing thing. Israel is currently under the thumb of ‘ultraorthodox’ forces (usually called ‘extremist fundamentalists’) and these need to urgently modify the basic text on which they rely, being the Old Testament. For example,...
‘We need you to cook a muffin, decorate your muffler, pop on some ear muffs or even ‘Show Us Your Muff’ to raise money for women’s homelessness’.
Local Federal Labor MP, Justine Elliot, has labelled those who protested at her Tweed office last week as Greens members, and claimed it was ‘just another cheap political stunt’.
Two new major initiatives to support current and former higher education students have been announced by the federal Labor government.
A old dude named Larry Fink runs a US asset management corporation called BlackRock that not many people have heard of.
I live in Bottlebrush Crescent in Suffolk Park. In 2022 our houses were flooded due to heavy rain and, in my opinion, inadequate or non-maintenance of the drain on the property of 41 Bottlebrush Dr. At the time this...
