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Bumpers to Bruns

Last Sunday, antique chrome and stylish engineering was on display in Brunswick Heads as the Back to Bruns hot rods came to town. Jeff Dawson was there to capture it.

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Deadly stories: powerful First Nations voices at Byron Writers Festival 2026

This year’s festival celebrates some of the most vital and impactful storytelling in Australian literature, with a dedicated program of First Nations writers whose work spans historical fiction, picture books and Indigenous knowledge and whose voices are reshaping how this country understands itself.

Mammalian meat allergy and my heart valve replacement

Increasingly, people living in bush areas of the Shire are becoming aware of Mammalian Meat Allergy (MMA). Also known as alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), the disease is caused when a tick bites you and transfers a sugar called alpha-gal into your bloodstream.

Plastic not so fantastic

There is nothing healthier than drinking some water – or so I’ve always told my kids. It doesn’t contain sugar or colour additives – as one person used to tell us as children, ‘it’s sky juice’! What could be better?

Protests over ALDI supply chain safety issues

Hundreds of transport workers are protesting nationally at Aldi stores as the Transport Workers' Union highlights dangerous practices in the supermarket’s transport supply chain, from lack of maintenance on vehicles to underpayments and worker injuries.

Myocum Road road patching starts soon

Byron Council say they are about to start a major program of heavy patching on Myocum Road later this month.

Ballina courthouse windows smashed, man charged

Police say a man will face court today, charged after 12 windows were allegedly smashed in Ballina last night.   Police say, 'About 10.35pm (Thursday 9 July 2026), police were called to Martin Street following reports of a man smashing windows'.

June 26, 2024

Byron Shire Echo issue 39.03 – June 26, 2024

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Floodland

Local filmmaker Darius Devas is bringing Floodland – winner of the Sustainable Futures Award at the Sydney Film Festival – to Mullumbimby, for one night only.

Women’s Giving Circle hosts DV panel event July 4

A panel event, ‘Gendered violence; hope, optimism, and local solutions’, will be held at The Farm on July 4 from 7.30am to 9am.

More car thefts and break-ins 

Police are reminding residents to lock doors and windows even when they are at home, after the latest spate of break-ins and vehicle theft in Brunswick Heads.

What’s there to do for young adults?

For young people growing up in the region there can be limits to what you can do – especially if you are not a beach-orientated person. 

Spaghetti Circus benefits from govt grants

$55,000 has been awarded for the 2024 National Training Program for Spaghetti Circus, says local Labor MP Justine Elliot.

Vale author, lawyer John Bailey

John Bailey was born in Sydney, worked as a teacher in England and as a public servant in New Guinea, and eventually practised as a barrister in Melbourne. 

Editorial – There’s a bat in my lab! 

The lab-leak theory that Covid-19 came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology – instead of a nearby wet market – was thrashed about in public recently, with the US Senate Homeland Security Committee holding a hearing into Covid-19. 

Religious icons depicting Holy Family bequeathed to St Johns Catholic church

‘You silly bugger, I was born there in the little grey hospital in Dalley Street, and baptised in the Catholic church!’

Married at first sight, or giving mourners a fright?

Earlier this year, Hinterland House in Bangalow featured on Married at First Sight, a hit reality-TV series that has millions tuning in to watch strangers paired up in fictional marriages. 

Greens candidate defends gun/taser policy against Labor

ocal Labor MP, Justine Elliot, has launched a petition backing the police use of tasers and guns, on the back of a social media post criticising the federal Greens’ gun and taser policy.

$50m Mullum pool proposed on Lot 22

An aquatic strategy to be presented by Council staff in the upcoming meeting suggests a new 50m, eight-lane pool be built adjacent to the Mullumbimby Skate Park, within Lot 22 land.

Gaza and DA reform on Byron Council’s table

Some of the issues to be voted on at this Thursday’s Byron Council meeting include a lengthy motion on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, which is proposed by Crs Cate Coorey and Duncan Dey.

Police and Byron Council look to act on e-bikes

The distinctive whoosh of an electric bike flying down the road has become a familiar sound to many locals in the past few years.

A new clear vision for Australia?

There’s an urgent need for truth in political advertising legislation, but it’s hardly likely to be proposed by either major party.

Lapping at the door

The alarming news about Peter Dutton walking away from our 2030 emissions reduction target unfortunately doesn’t come as a surprise. The sad, but predictable, thing is that it’s become the norm for him to walk away from commitments that...

Mullum’s water

Arguably there has never been a more important decision to be made on the future of Mullumbimby. Mullumbimby water, from Lavertys Gap, is very pure and beautiful to drink. This is something that can easily be taken for granted. You...

Could coffins woven from weeds be the death of us?

Many locals are keen to avoid the chemicals and harmful compounds that go with conventional practices, and have advocated for a natural burial ground in the shire.

Conflict claims rejected over Mullum’s future water plans 

The consultant who advises both Byron Council and water utility Rous has defended accusations that they have a perceived non-pecuniary conflict of interest in undertaking work for multiple clients.

Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: Dutton’s Going Nuclear

Peter Dutton’s going nuclear. When you set aside his proposed intention to build actual reactors on our landscape, there is a figurative meaning which I feel underpins the spirit of the man and his political approach. Going nuclear can also mean ‘to become furious; to resort to drastic measures in an attempt to undermine an opponent.’

Nothing affordable

Ballina Council is in the privileged position of owning 30 lots of subdivided residential land in Wollongbar, out of the floodplain, close to services, ready to build. All we need is a clear vision. The current resolution is to...

Can I have more? BayFM

Stuart McConville (Letters, June 12) was expressing his opinion about a perceived lack of business community spirit in Byron Bay compared to years gone by. We appreciate Stuart coming to the defence of BayFM, but he would be unaware...

Shocked and disappointed

I am amazed by something that should have been a good news story, and we desperately need them, that turned out to be a sorry story indeed. There was the uplifting photo of Toni Storer and her fecund verge...

Cinema: Despicable Me 4

With the school holidays fast approaching it’s time to rev up the kids to see the ever-lovable Minions in the first Despicable Me movie in seven years.

Do gin and art mix?

  If you’re an artist, and want to win $5,000 for having your art and your name featured on a limited-edition bottle of gin, plus six bottles of Ink Art Gin, then the Ink Art Gin bottle design competition might...

The masters of ‘zero to hero’

The masters of ‘zero to hero’ pub rock, The Tenants, are bringing their live show and Aussie humour to Mullum’s Courthouse Hotel for one night only on Thursday, July 4.

Business Lennox Head meets Thursday

The first Business Lennox Head After Hours of the new 2026/27 financial year will be this Thursday at the Lennox Hotel  from 5.30pm, and organisers say, 'we'd love to see you there'.

Mullum residents rally over second ‘woeful’ massive DA

A community gathering last night heard of the concerns around the second attempt to plonk a large block of units at the entrance to Mullumbimby.

Myocum Road road patching starts soon

Byron Council say they are about to start a major program of heavy patching on Myocum Road later this month.

Great Koala National Park feedback report released

Feedback around the NSW government's Great Koala National Park (GKNP) proposal has been published – what are the main themes?