Yes, it’s whale migration season again, and yes, whales keep getting tangled in shark drum lines, shark nets, and fishing nets that are discarded by fishing vessels. This is been going on for as long as I can remember and...
According to research scientist Dr Effie Ablett the main chemicals in our air and water causing cancer today are polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons PAHs (rhymes with cars).
In public access time at last week’s Council meeting (1 August) I told Byron Shire councillors that Hydrosphere’s cost calculations for connecting Mullum’s water to the Rous regional supply are seriously underestimated. Sadly, most councillors seemed indifferent. Rous County Council have been...
PM hopeful, Peter Dutton, Australia’s opposition leader (who always likes a song and dance) has again dragged up the nuclear power alternative as an election issue. Going along is Richmond’s National Party candidate, Kimberly Hone, who’s advertised the fact...
August 2024 marks 100 years of the Mullumbimby Fire Station and you can join in the celebrations with the crew on Saturday at 10am.
Ocean Shores resident, Leslie Hoffman, recounts his treasured memory of running the Olympic torch on the day it arrived in Australia for the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
The ocean holds a very special place in the heart of many Byron locals. For more than a few of us, it’s a place of rejuvenation and solace.
The Eastern Freshwater Cod, native to the Richmond and Clarence River catchments, once swam throughout the freshwater reaches of these rivers, but are now unfortunately locally extinct in the Richmond River and its tributaries.
Last Friday the quick actions of former paramedic Natalie O’Brien, and one of the defibrillators that the Mullumbimby Chamber of Commerce helped place around the area, saved a man’s life after he collapsed at the Mullumbimby Pool Shop.
Mullum’s water supply is not the only issue in the elections, but IT IS the most pressing at this moment, with a Council vote looming next week on August 15. The 2021 consultant’s report is the source for recommending...
J Davies of Mullumbimby, in their letter of July 31, laments the calibre of the three candidates for Byron Shire mayor revealed thus far, and concludes by stating that: ‘Byron Shire deserves a lot better than what is being...
In a world beset by seemingly intractable problems, making a difference can seem like an impossible task.
Don, instead of your security guard shouting ‘Mickey Mouse’ he should have shouted, ‘Donald, duck!’.
There is a matter listed at Byron Bay Local Court where the police are seeking an apprehended violence order against Byron Shire Mayor, Michael Lyon.
At a time when climate change poses the greatest threat to our world as we know it, it is the politics of immigration – specifically refugee resettlement – that is rocking democracies around the globe.
Cr Pugh’s claims in The Echo (24.7.24) that he’s fit to be reelected to council for another term are curious. Particularly his claim of: ‘I have demonstrated my credentials to the community to put myself forward for mayor’. So,...
Thank you Dr Ray Moynihan and The Echo for the recent article on his long walk along the pristine and health restoring strip of coastline that has been kept free of human interference. We have laws to protect areas like this, but...
In response to Lucy Vader, (The Echo letters – August 7) I am not fear-mongering relating to the financial burden that would be imposed on the residents of Mullumbimby if we were to build a brand new water treatment...
I was one of the Mullumbimby residents who partook in the Byron Council-initiated feedback questionnaire regarding cutting off the existing water supply to Mullumbimby from Lavertys Gap weir, and connecting to Rous County Council water supply, stemming from the...
In the lead-up to the election, the Echo is asking mayoral candidates about affordable housing and the environment
J Rose: still barking up a wrong tree and deeply affected by the removal of the derogatory racist street name ‘Hottentot Crescent’. Hottentot, a name given to the indigenous people of South Africa, the Khoisan, by the Dutch colonists in...
On behalf of the Byron Central Hospital branch of the NSW Nurses & Midwives Association, I would like to thank Mandy Nolan for her astute commentary regarding the current parlous state of nursing and midwifery in NSW in her...
If the media can freely discuss Joe Biden’s apparently advancing dementia why do they avoid the elephant in the room with Donald Trump? His mental state and his very loose relationship with the truth. OK, I’m not a psychiatrist but...
Opening Council-related bills is rarely a pleasant experience, but when Ocean Shores resident Robert Birch opened his water bill a few months ago he got a particularly nasty surprise.
Homelessness is proof that our housing system is broken. The neoliberal hot take that hard work and compliance will be rewarded is a fairy tale as fantastical as Cinderella. We have more homelessness in Byron Bay than in the City of Sydney.
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