Planning your big weekend at Byron Writers Festival? We take a look at the hot button topics at Australia’s largest regional writers festival this August.
Ziggy Ramo is an award-winning artist whose work spans music, literature, film, and performance. This year, Ramo brings his powerful voice and vision to Byron Writers Festival.
The public are invited to provide feedback on Byron Shire Council’s Resourcing Strategy, contained in four strategic planning documents.
A SHIFT Project fundraiser is planned for July 24, with Mandy Nolan hosting a regular conversation series focused around resilience, truth-telling and changemaking.
Mullumbimby businesses have partnered with Byron Shire Council to say no to single-use coffee cups in July.
Council’s subdivision plans for its Mullumbimby HQ land have become a little clearer, with staff telling The Echo that one parcel of land, ‘relates only to the access road and is unrelated to the creation of a carpark’.
A large-scale upgrade of Mullumbimby Road –from Uncle Toms to the town – has commenced, and Council staff are warning residents it will cause significant traffic delays and detours until December.
What do toddlers and chimpanzees have in common? A deep, unshakable interest in other people’s business.
For many years, the Drill Hall Film Society has been a source of things you just can’t find on the little screen.
Brunswick Heads celebrated the arrival of a new community piano, with a joyful outdoor concert at the Soundshell in Terrace Park.
The scientific evidence is clear, and has been for a long time, that drug issues need to be treated as a health issue not as a police issue.
There’s an old gag about being a musician: what’s the difference between a musician and a pizza?
A Regional and Remote Music Summit will take place at the Byron Community Centre and throughout Byron Bay venues from July 23 to 25.
Lennox Head local Jane Allen has won the Doyles Art Award 2025. Ms Allen took out first place with a $20,000 acquisitive cash prize for her work ‘Seaside Explorers’.
With the opening night gala sold out, the Mullum Roots Festival is shaping up to be a big weekend for the Biggest Little Town in Australia.
Councillor being related to a developer involved in a current DA. Council staff acting on behalf of the developer in the acquisition of land necessary for the developer to commence, on the grounds of safety for the community. Byron Shire...
The US-Israeli bombing of uranium enrichment facilities in Iran was not just incredibly reckless and irresponsible, it was also a gross violation of international law, the UN Charter and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. This criminal act could have triggered an...
Mandy’s belief is that a right to protest means little if you can’t disrupt. This attitude is the reason her friend in Grayndler hurt herself. A Hunter, Bangalow
As an avid regular reader of The Echo, I feel disappointed because in your latest editorial there was no mention of the Nimbin GoodTimes. The other Northern Rivers-based, free, privately-funded newspaper, also committed to ‘...sociopolitical grassroots representation’. Ari Ehrlich, Tyalgum
The long-awaited development application (DA) to redevelop a Mullumbimby carpark into 32 small ‘affordable housing’ rental homes and commercial shops has dropped on to Council’s website – submissions close August 31.
We have nearly completed every rail trail in the southern hemisphere, and from someone who hated riding normal bikes because my bum hurt and my legs hurt and my lungs hurt, I have become a cycle convert (sans the attire).
It may be due to a sweet ignorance that I resist an authority saying that something is ‘too difficult’, or even ‘impossible’. I was originally told that putting an essential roundabout in at the junction of Byron Street and the...
An article in The Atlantic magazine, June 2025, features an interview with Donald Trump by former Washington Post journalists Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer. In case anyone is still under any illusion about the ‘state of the union’, Trump makes...
It is a melancholy object that according to the most recent public access data, 73 per cent of the monetary benefit of capital gains tax discounts and negative gearing goes to the top ten per cent of wealthy Australians....
Over two months ago Byron Council reached out to its citizens in the north of the Shire asking for suggestions of improvements. I suggested six proposals. Last week one of the proposals was partly implemented. I requested that all the safety...
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