Richmond Valley Council adopted its first Sustainable Communities Strategy in March 2023, marking a pivotal moment in Council’s commitment to environmental stewardship.
Tweed Shire Council is committed to a sustainable future and working with the community to protect the region’s internationally significant environment.
Tweed Shire Council is committed to a sustainable future and working with the community to protect the region’s internationally significant environment.
Sustainability is intrinsic to Aboriginal cultural frameworks, all ways of being, knowing and doing. It’s about being in the right relationship with Country, and all the endemic species being in the right relationships, in the kinship Country for Country, Jagun.
In 2023, scientists from around the world said that action needs to be taken on climate change before it is too late.
Research is to get underway for the first time into the environmental impact of spraying firefighting chemicals (FFC) near waterways.
After years of countless reports, community support and Council staff time spent, Byron Shire will not have a natural burial ground any time soon.
There are some people in domestic violence situations who feel that escaping is an insurmountable problem.
Water and Recycling proposed to the Water Waste and Sewer Advisory Committee in 2018 for the committee to endorse a five-year plan to bring a company in to reline the sewerage gravity mains and reline some sewer manholes in...
Those who doubt the veracity of the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrants for Natanyahu and his defence minister Gallant, should consult the following resources, all of which are written/established by ‘self-hating Jews’. Two key texts to understanding Gaza are...
How much head scratching, and mental contortions, were required to produce last week’s editorial (Optics v reform) – about the $300 help with electricity bills. It’s at least original – who else would put their name to such a...
It’s bad enough to see Labor’s indifference at the ICC (International Criminal Court) requesting arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders, but when Peter Dutton comes out and berates Albanese for ‘not supporting our allies’… if it wasn’t so...
One area that seems to be missing in the recent Echo online (21 May) Cosmos article about water resources is local storage tanks. We allow runoff from the roof to become contaminated runoff, lost down roadside drains, mixed with contaminants...
The debate about including data from the February 2022 flood event (Letters, 15 May) is missing an essential factor for consideration. The question is whether the unprecedented flood event was part of the variation due to climate change or...
In an article that the Echo published in 2016 (www.echo.net.au/byron-mayor-defends-rate-rise-plan/) the mayor defended Byron Council’s rate-rise plan. Why are the roads in worse shape now after a 60 per cent (compounded) rates increase was granted per household? Why is there no...
Tonight at 11pm will mark the fifth anniversary of the disappearance of Théo Hayez, an 18-year-old Belgian man who was last seen leaving Cheeky Monkey’s nightclub in Byron Bay.
What negotiations are happening behind closed doors with the former Mullum hospital site?
Many were left puzzled by the recent federal budget by Labor Treasurer, Jim Chalmers, with its projected surplus of $9.3 billion.
Fast Buck$, The Echo was right in correcting your quote to ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’, but there are also other inaccuracies in your letter. Firstly, the above quote is banned in many countries as...
For over four years the residents of Paterson Street have campaigned for a pedestrian path on Paterson Street, one of the busiest and most dangerous thoroughfares in Byron between Bangalow Road and Massinger Street. In 2021, 57 residents signed...
A motion by Cr Sarah Ndiaye (Greens) to amend the LEP to reduce the building height limits in the Wategos residential area from 9m to 8m was unsuccessful at last Thursday’s Council meeting.
With the conclusion of Caper Byron Bay Food and Culture Festival on May 26 – with events held across the Shire’s prestigious dining and watering establishments – Stone & Wood’s Festival of the Stone gears up for its big event on June 1, from 3pm till 10pm.
Residents have sent a clear message to Council regarding its plans for Mullum’s main drag, with staff reporting over 500 submissions were received for the Burringbar Street Concept Design.
Regarding Fast Buck$’ letter (Echo 22 May). In 1948 while 700,000 Arabs fled Israel, 150,000 very sensibly stayed and their 2,080,000 descendants living within the borders of Israel are citizens of Israel enjoying the freedoms and prosperity that most...
I wish to take exception to the clue ‘lambastes’, (Echo crossword two weeks ago). Lambastes, spelt with an ‘e’ is American or Canadian English. Everywhere else, it does not have an ‘e’ at the end. Apart from this, I am...
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