Following a ‘disappointing’ inaugural Nature Positive Summit in Sydney, a team of researchers say that current laws are not sufficient to achieve the summit’s lofty goal.
A pair of critically endangered beach stone-curlews are nesting in the dunes on Clarkes Beach, they are one of only 13 breeding pairs in NSW.
Truth and victorious peace: a scattered journey we live in a scattered world. Violence, wars, deaths of innocent children, imprisonment of children, the failure of institutions and the rise of the military industrial complex, the rise of mad men...
Danny Wakil denies that Israel is committing genocide claiming that Hamas inflates the figures and that probably 17,000 of the 40,000(sic) Palestinian victims, were Hamas fighters (October 23). What about the other 23,000 innocent deaths, Danny, or don’t they...
One of the most disturbing things about the ongoing carnage in Gaza is the fact that wealthy plutocrats, comfortably ensconced in Western capitals, are making huge profits from the sale of weapons to Israel. The bombs that are used...
The Byron Shire Council’s (BSC) utility manager Cameron Clarke makes some confusing statements in The Echo concerning the Lavertys Gap Water Filtration Plant (LGWFP). Mr Clarke claims any delay in handing the Mullumbimby water supply over Rous has health and...
There has been much grandstanding and obstructionism of late by the federal Greens in blocking the Labor government’s badly-needed housing reforms in the Senate, resulting in unnecessary long delays and inevitable cost blowouts, and really the country deserves much...
Re the ‘screaming, obstructionist Greens’ rhetoric – the Greens challenge a status quo where Labor and the Coalition are in bed with the one per cent and the capitalist power lobby. This is why they let corporations pay little or...
I would like to encourage everyone to refer to that large country sandwiched between Canada and Mexico as the United States. lt is not America. North America begins in the Arctic Circle and South America finishes way down south in...
Joana Sponsel is starting a free monthly group for female sexual assault survivors in Byron Bay.
Regional and rural papers providing public interest journalism will get financial assistance in what the Minns Labor government says is its ‘ongoing work to deliver solutions which will support regional NSW communities to thrive.
Skye Ray, a colorful explosion of beautiful, organised chaos, laughter, professionalism and sharp wit passed away on Sunday, October 13 with her husband John by her side.
‘If you don’t have a drug problem then the last thing you need is a conviction; if you do have a drug problem then the last thing you need is a conviction.’
You are not my king. As Lidia Thorpe’s words reverberated around the parliamentary chambers, it was an opportunity for some colonial reflection. ‘This is not your land’ (whose land is it anyway?), ‘we want a treaty’ (why the hell don’t...
As a resident of Wategos beach it was very disturbing to see Raes hotels hold what I would call a ‘corporate event’ selling alcohol all under the guise of community. In my opinion this is nothing other than commercial –...
The Queensland election was not the rout most pundits predicted. Labor did well to hold metropolitan seats but lost heavily in the regions.
The option to source Mullumbimby’s local water supply from Lavertys Gap has risen from the dead, after Byron Council backtracked on its decision to permanently connect the town to the Rous County Council regional supply.
Drug reform is finally on the NSW agenda and the NSW Drug Summit will be held for a day in Lismore on Monday, November 4. It will also be held for a day in Griffith on November 1 and for two days in Sydney on December 4 and 5.
Last week my 11-year-old son awoke with horrendous nightmares. His body shook in fear. The evening before he’d watched a MA+ film at his friend’s house, one that involved gratuitous violence and murder. His friend’s mother had allowed him full...
In relation to The Echo’s front page last week on the future of Byron Bay Golf Club. It is rather unfortunate that a member of that club feels that the fees are too high for the common person. Everything...
At the recent Council meeting, the new Council voted in favour of deferring the decision to pursue a permanent connection for Mullumbimby to Rous for up to two years. This decision to connect to Rous Water was made at...
One of the six new councillors at the Council bench in the Byron Shire is Elia Hauge, member of the Greens team.
It was a mid-week evening in June 2017 and The Echo was sitting alongside about 50 locals in a high-ceilinged room above the Byron Community Centre.
I felt driven to respond to the letter from Ms Farlow (October 23). Julian Assange did not put any lives at risk, as stated by Ms Farlow. This is precisely why the US government could NOT provide any evidence...
You can have a wide, sweeping, world-attracting Byron beach or you can have a pool on a broken, undermined beach, but you can’t have both. Already the rocky outcrop on Main Beach is tearing ‘The Bay ‘apart, particularly on the...
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