It’s fascinating how those calling for peace and accountability in the Middle East are branded terrorist sympathisers by some of the letter writers to The Echo. If the number of civilian deaths, and casualties, engineered starvation, and countless amputations –...
A new production commences this week at the Mullumimby Drill Hall – Ghosting the Party. Written by award-winning Australian playwright, Melissa Bubnic, and directed by Liz Chance, Ghosting the Party is described as a pitch-black comedy which has won critical...
A former Greens councillor has called on Byron Shire Council to explore the common practice of developers being granted permission to exceed the Shire’s height limits.
Warren Kennedy in his letter (Echo, 10 September) has the usual rants, such as the common false statement that the Israel-Gaza war started in 1948, not October 7, 2023. Anyone who knows basic history knows that Muslims started massacring indigenous...
I am one of those people old enough and lucky enough to have marched in the Free Nelson Mandela movement in London in the early 1980s. It was the spear tip of a movement that had been long fought...
Travellers of time, time travel is what we do. Every thought is a projection into our determination of a moment in time. I can remember yesterday or can imagine tomorrow, the past or future. I remember or I imagine...
Paul Keating once described The Greens as ‘pixies living down the bottom of the garden path’ and more recently as ‘self-serving opportunists and Trots’. At the time, I dismissed Keating’s vitriol and continued voting Green believing they were keeping the...
It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Kim Rosen on Saturday, September 6, 2025.
Residents have come out overwhelmingly against a proposal by NSW government development corporation Landcom, and Council, to plonk oversized ‘affordable housing’ units on a busy Mullumbimby carpark near the town’s entrance.
On Sunday, 6 September, at 5.15pm, I was sitting on my bike with a djembe in a case on my back, checking out Byron Beach near the fish restaurant. A man aged about 45, wearing dark clothes, a...
From modest beginnings in 2015 with a team of just four practitioners, a local clinic has grown to a dedicated team of 24 allied health professionals in 2025.
Filmmaker and drone pilot, Marcus O’Brien, is down at South Golden Beach most mornings piloting his drone in search of whales to film.
have had seven years experience in relation to the antisocial behaviour in the 1990s when there had been no control of liquor in town resulting in a riot, and Byron being labelled the worst-behaved town in Australia. The community...
Byron Shire Councillor Michael Lyon’s apology in The Echo to the people in the audience at a Mullumbimby Residents Association (MRA) meeting is a bit confusing. Cr Lyon stated he asked the Byron Shire Council (BSC) staff if the height...
In good old Mullumbimby, there have always been many long-timers who displayed a critical thinker’s aura. Without speaking, you know that they know what you know, and the respect is mutual. Even though many have passed and many have faded into...
Tom Kendall Reserve in New Brighton would be decommissioned as a sports field and turned into a ‘community and recreation precinct’ under a suite of changes to our open spaces being considered by Byron Council.
Mullumbimby Industrial Estate businesses have raised concerns around Council’s roadwork plans to block all traffic from travelling east to the highway, for four months (October to February) during the peak of summer/holiday trade.
You can’t take nail clippers on a plane. They’re seen as a potential weapon. So trimmed toenails are out but booze is in. Yep – you can serve alcohol and lock people in a flying cylinder for up to 15 hours at a time. I haven’t seen the hard data, but anecdotally I reckon drunk men are more dangerous than a tiny pair of scissors.
It is my belief that Council has reneged on the 57 Station Street debacle because of the Mullumbimby Residents Association (MRA) canvassing every street in the whole Mullum area. MRA gained well over 2,000 signatures of locals opposed to...
The letters deadline for The Echo is noon Friday. Letters longer than 200 words may be cut. The publication of letters is at the discretion of the letters editor.
Australian-born pastry chef Dan Grigoriou began his career in London before working his way around Europe, perfecting his craft at acclaimed restaurants including Noma in Copenhagen. Five years ago, he landed back on home soil and after continuing to...
A reimagined MV Jasmine – on the river, and by the sea, is coming this November. The MV Jasmine is the first luxury floating venue in Byron Bay offering a Mediterranean-inspired on-river bar and dining experience that curates, collaborates...
The full program for the tenth and final Nimbin Roots Festival has been released.
‘No-one ever came back, but all reports indicate it’s lovely…’ So begins Ghosting the Party, a wickedly-funny and moving black comedy about death, motherhood, and the messy business of being alive.
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