This year’s Byron Writers Festival is a star-studded celebration of national icons and local legends gathered under the festival theme Passion & Purpose.
Arts Northern Rivers will present a free one-and-a-half hour interactive online workshop designed to equip participants with practical public relations and media strategies.
Are you a reader? Love books? Friends of Libraries are once again holding their annual secondhand book fair at the Byron Bay Surf Club from July 11 to 14.
An e-petition asking the government to explore options other than plans for a three-storey mixed residential and commercial shops on a public carpark at Mullumbimby’s entrance has recieved a response from NSW Planning Minister Paul Scully (Labor).
Mullum’s newest music festival is just days away, which will see more than 40 acts fill local venues including the Civic Hall, Ex-Services Club, Courthouse Hotel and the Bowlo. The Mullum Roots Festival will run July 12 and 13.
To celebrate the year of the piano and the new ABC iview series The Piano, the ABC and Piano Plus Australia have delivered up to 20 pre-loved pianos donated by organisations and ordinary people to towns across the country.
Cape Byron Rudolf Steiner School students, parents and teachers gathered on the eve of the winter solstice, last Friday to shine a light into the darkest night of the year.
World Localisation Day is being celebrated through the month of June.
Building on the success of last year’s event, a free Death & Dying Expo is again planned for Saturday, June 28, to be held at the Mullumbimby Civic Memorial Hall.
Plans for a Special Entertainment Precinct (SEP) in Byron’s CBD are moving closer, with Byron Shire Council inviting the public to make comments around how it will be developed.
In response to the letter in The Echo from Carl Cleves (4 June): ‘The truth’ that I am referring to re Israel coming second in Eurovision is that the bulk of people of the world clearly do not have...
Israel’s reliance on violence to the exclusion of all reason, enhanced by contempt for international law and the rights of others, emboldened by decades of impunity, has led to this. Israel’s illegal unprovoked aggression against Iran has now paved the...
Ken Clarke’s article, ‘Flourishing conspiracy theories’ (Echo, 18 June) appeared to echo establishment talking points. In recent years, many views once dismissed as conspiracies – such as mass surveillance, the Covid lab-leak theory, vaccine risks, and overreach during lockdowns –...
Like thousands of others, I happily wandered the packed streets of Lennox a couple of Saturdays back, during the Love Lennox festival. But does Lennox Head really want to get into bed with Airbnb?
It’s a long way from Sumatra to Mullumbimby, but Panut Hadisiswoyo has made the trip five times, all in the name of saving the Sumatran orangutang and to do what he needs to protect and nourish their habitat: the rainforest.
Mullumbimby Residents Association and Mullumbimby’s Community Resilience Group, ‘Our Neighbourhood’, congratulated Byron Shire Council for this week releasing much-needed 2022 flood data.
An online hearing last week by consent authority, the Northern Regional Planning Panel (NRPP), heard that multiple issues remained around a large greenfield proposal near the busy intersection of Mullumbimby Road and McAuleys Lane, located halfway between Mullum and Uncle Toms.
The residents of Northern NSW are amongst the sickest and most anxiety-ridden people in Australia judging by the number of healers and counsellors they are supporting. So I feel it incumbent upon me to help in some small way....
Has anyone else noticed? Whenever Albanese is before the microphone and speaking in public, he has two words that he uses more often than any others – the words are ‘my government’. Surely someone should educate him about democracy and...
Born and bred in Byron Bay, President of the Brunswick Surf Life Saving Club (SLSC), Craig Reid, has spent his entire life by the ocean and he couldn’t love it more.
I feel afraid. And I’m not a person who feels afraid of much. The world is at war, and our leaders are either too stupid, too addicted to power, and too coerced into silence or complicity to speak up.
Byron Shire Council is currently building a roundabout on Bayshore Drive to service the shopping centre and TAFE. Currently, travelling from Ewingsdale Road, to get to Bay Fair shops, people have to drive across the TAFE grass, head north...
Last night I had the privilege of watching the last show of the Country Witches Association which is the collaboration between Mandy Nolan and Áine Tyrrell. There were lots of laughs, incredible music, some tears and deep and important...
The Echo loves your letters and is proud to provide a community forum on the issues that matter most to our readers and the people of the NSW north coast. So don’t be a passive reader, send us your epistles.
A one-off from two Northern Rivers craft trailblazers In a region where the smell of fresh-cut sugarcane usually signals rum season, something a little unexpected has been brewing in the barrel house at Husk Farm Distillery. This winter, Husk is going...
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