Splashed all over the news today is Trump declaring victory over Harris as 47th American president. But, one of the big questions is, keeping in mind Trump was mightily ‘pissed off’ after losing to Biden in 2020, can he...
Year 11 Business Studies students, Brooke Towers and Alice Mathison, recently attended the awards ceremony for the Economics and Business Educators Plan Your Own Enterprise Competition in Sydney.
With increasing sightings of feral deer in the region, Byron Shire Council is working with the Tweed, Lismore and Kyogle Councils, and Landcare groups, to raise awareness of the pest, which is described as ‘one of Australia’s worst’.
Supporters of trains attended a presentation at the Bangalow Bowling Club on Saturday around the return of a local train service.
Pasture ecologist and grazier, Dr Judi Earl, will be holding two workshops on November 24 at the Southern Cross University (SCU) to educate the public around managing grazing to restore soil health, ecosystem function and climate resilience.
Terry Bleakley’s latest film about Bangalow, From Out of the Vault will be shown at the Bangalow Museum on Friday, November 22 from 5pm for a 6.30pm start.
Recently I was asked what is wrong with me. What is wrong with me weeping openly in the streets about thousands and thousands of children being maimed and slaughtered without restraint or respect for any current law or convention? Hhhmmm,...
If people are placing hazardous waste in their kerbside bin then put cameras on the trucks to scan the rubbish going into the trucks, and fine the residents. Recycle lithium! Several experts and organisations are highlighting the rapid decline in...
With Trump’s historic victory on November 5, the neoliberal era – the era that promised a marketplace for everything and a solution for nothing – seems to be witnessing its slow, painful death.
When I picked up the latest Echo from my driveway, today, I clipped out, for the first time ever, an article. It was titled ‘Like a bird, on a wire’ and it was written by David Heilpern, former magistrate. I...
The first in a series of public talks called ‘This Stuff Matters – Politics of Life’ takes place at the M-Arts Centre, Murwillumbah on November 21. The conversationalists are Juliane Schultz (The Idea of Australia. A Search for the Soul of a Nation) and Judith White (Culture Heist: Art vs Money).
Prior to September’s Council election, a key issue for voters was the future of Byron Bay’s Main Beach foreshore.
Gold Coast-based Gilmour Space Technologies has received the first Australian orbital launch permit for its maiden Eris rocket launch from the Bowen Orbital Spaceport in north Qld.
The Bangalow Bowlo has hosted its fair share of comic acts, but few would have provoked the raucous hilarity that NRL ‘super ref’ Bill Harrigan managed on Friday.
What a tragic situation you found yourself in, Louise Andrews (Koala letter, Echo November 6) as the police decided to pull you up for travelling at a safe speed for koalas rather than going after the aggressive speeding hoon. As...
Is it a valuable addition to Byron Bay’s desperately limited housing stock, or a congestion-inducing overdevelopment on one of the Shire’s busiest roads?
Local business owners affected by ongoing drainage works on Lawson St, Byron Bay are breathing slightly easier after learning that construction is about to finally be completed.
A few minutes after Donald Trump’s ‘Wow look what just happened!’ speech, claiming the win on election night, I was messaged by an 18-year-old American-born student. We have been connected for some time on social media.
‘Council says you can now pay using the QR code.’ I was shocked when I read this! What about people like me, who are technophobic or neo-Luddites? I don’t do ‘apps’ or two-factor verification or phone banking or... (I...
The Byron Writers Festival’s annual residential mentorship recently wrapped up, after four emerging writers from the region spent a week doing intense workshops and manuscript development.
The Cancer Institute of NSW has issued a sobering reminder to locals to protect themselves from the sun this summer.
I’ve never liked walls. The idea of creating a structure that keeps people separate. A divide that includes some by excluding others. Walls have been a primitive and historic way humans mark their territory. Everything inside the wall is mine. And outside the wall is all that will be mine once I put a wall around it.
Trump v Harris. And the winner is Vladimir Putin (and Chinese Premier Xi Jinping by stealth), Benjamin Netanyahu, Viktor Orban, anti-abortionists, climate change deniers, those who are anti-minorities, autocracy, big business, self-interest, greed, fear and hate, etc. It’s time for...
I refer to last week’s letter by Page O’Hara. I too pay rates and was also denied a parking permit. We live in Byron Shire, however have a business over the border. Our two cars are registered to our...
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