‘In the race of life, always back self-interest – at least you know it’s trying’ Former prime minister Paul Keating loved this quote of his long-time mentor, the former NSW premier Jack Lang. As then, also today, self-interest is alive...
More than 80 Northern Rivers singers and musicians will perform on June 30 at the Mullumbimby Civic Hall in a massive fundraiser to help settle refugee families in the region.
Plans to build a housing estate on part of the old Broken Head Quarry site were rejected last week by Byron Shire councillors.
Bangalow residents and businesses are being asked for their thoughts on a plan to replace seven trees in the main street (Byron Street) and two in Station Street.
After many months of hard work and rehearsing, Byron Bay High School students and staff are about to perform their musical whodunnit on June 25, 26, 28, and 29. Curtains is described as a murder-mystery comedy, and was originally...
The developer behind the beleaguered Wallum urban subdivision on rare and sensitive land in Brunswick Heads welcomed the recent arrests of protectors who have blockaded the site over the last four months.
The extraordinary popularity of the Vivid light shows in Sydney has exploded this year, but quietly, thanks to the ‘Love is in the Air’ drone presentations. Beautiful, colourful figures light up the sky, without the detonations of fireworks that...
Both Duncan Shipley-Smith and John Scrivener yet again display the same responses that I talk about over, and over and over again. They do not mention even one word about the unspeakable atrocities that were committed against Israeli civilian...
I think it’s really stupid and potentially dangerous that the concept of an absorption period of charging a lead acid battery has been transferred across to charging of lithium batteries. Lithium batteries don’t need an absorption period, and in...
Local muso, Ian Walsh, passed away peacefully at home recently with his long-time partner, Faye, and loyal dog, Louie, by his side.
Bruns local Toni Storer thought one way to help her neighbours and other locals to survive the economic downturn was to stop mowing and weeding the Council strip at the front of her house and to pop in a veggie garden.
Ballina Shire Council will receive $210,000 through the NSW government’s $100 million Resilient Lands Program to help support the delivery of a range of housing options across the Ballina Shire.
Installation of an emergency services mobile tower on a popular visitor look-out in Wilsons Creek is on hold, after a local NSW MP raised concerns that the area had been misidentified as regrowth.
With all the noise and fury over the lack of ‘affordable housing’, it might be useful to define what different types there are in Australia’s market-based housing system.
Yet another year has passed and Wednesday, 3 July is Julian Assange’s 53rd birthday. It will be the sixth birthday he has spent in Belmarsh Prison, where high-profile terrorists and murderers are held. He has been imprisoned for all these years...
Sadly, two of Byron’s best yoga studios close this month. Bamboo Yoga has been providing a beautiful space and authentic teachers for over 15 years but closes June 30. I understand they had to vacate their space and could...
Over 3.2 million Australian households now have solar systems, and NSW leads, with a million systems (rooftop, heated pool or hot water).
Having traded in Byron Bay for 47 years, Skallyrags owner, Rob Bass, said he’s never seen a winter like this one.
‘All the old salts have moved on… All the old salts have moved on… I’m wondering where they’ve gone…’
Clarence Property like to accentuate their green credentials, however they are pressing ahead with their housing development on the Wallum heathland regardless of the ecological impact under today’s environmental guidelines. In my opinion, if they really cared about the environment...
The Forestry Corporation’s Planning Portal shows that forest compartments are on the chopping block before the Great Koala National Park (GKNP) boundaries are finalised. Even a moratorium has been ignored. This was an election promise by the Labor government:...
Byron Council staff have proposed options and a ten-year vision for the much-used space, including the removal, or partial removal, of the carpark overlooking Main Beach.
A vibrant program packed with high-profile literary luminaries, and new voices to discover, has been released by the Byron Writers Festival. The event will be held August 9 till 11.
It was the type of motion that comes up at Byron Council quite regularly – a broad, uncontroversial political statement that is unlikely to make a difference in the grand scheme of things.
Whenever a cloudy day hits Mullumbimby we all know it’s only a matter of time before someone’s on a community Facebook group warning people about chemtrails. I’ve sat in a Meet the Candidates and heard an audience member ask an MP what they are going to do about chemtrails and watched them squirm.
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