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Casino Suspension Bridge opens

Minister For Small Business, Recovery and North Coast Janelle Saffin joined Mayor Robert Mustow and Member for Page Kevin Hogan to officially opening the Casino Suspension Bridge today (Saturday).

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They’re playing with our lives when they’re making wars in the Middle East. After Trump’s so-called peace announcement, there was...

26-room Mullum seniors hostel on exhibition

A proposal to build a 26-room seniors hostel in Mullumbimby is back on the table, after being rejected by Byron Shire Council in December 2025.

Lismore wants a a safe, accessible and long-term home for the Hannah Cabinet

The Hannah Cabinet was created by Lismore master craftsman Geoff Hannah OAM over six-and-a-half years and is widely regarded as one of Australia’s most significant pieces of contemporary decorative furniture.

Savour The Tweed returns, 22 October

Food and drink event, Savour The Tweed, returns to excite tastebuds this spring, from Wednesday 22 October to Sunday 26 October.

NSW budget and the Northern Rivers

The Minns government says it's handed down a budget which locks in major funding for North Coast health infrastructure, alongside targeted cost-of-living relief designed for regional households and disaster recovery, as locals continue to face higher costs.

Six dwellings proposed on flood-prone Mullum block

Six units are proposed at the eastern end of New City Road, Mullumbimby, on a site that was inundated during the 2022 floods. Submitted by Duncan Band's Kollective, Development Application (DA) 10.2026.269.1 at 73 New City Road is on public exhibition with Byron Shire Council, and sits within the Shire's flood planning area.

September 17, 2025

Byron Shire Echo issue 40.15 – September 17, 2025

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In this Issue:

Who are the terrorists?

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 –...

Drill Hall dips into death

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...

Councillors agree to look at building height ‘scam’ 

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.

Ridiculous excuses

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...

Value of action

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...

Time travel

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...

Get back to basics

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...

Vale Bruns stalwart, Kim Rosen

It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Kim Rosen on Saturday, September 6, 2025.

Mullum residents reject large Landcom/Council DA

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.

‘I’ll fucking kill you’

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...

Health Cove celebrates 20 years

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.

Drone pilot assists with whale entanglement

Filmmaker and drone pilot, Marcus O’Brien, is down at South Golden Beach most mornings piloting his drone in search of whales to film.

More on the Byron SEP

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...

Lyon’s apology

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...

Critical thinkers

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...

Open spaces overhaul proposed for Shire

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.

Mullum traffic disaster looming, warns biz

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.

Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: Bombed on Board

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.

Consult, don’t waste

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...

Cartoon of the week – 17 September, 2025

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.

From Bordeaux to Byron with love

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...

Luxury floating venue on the river

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 Nimbin Roots

The full program for the tenth and final Nimbin Roots Festival has been released.

Don’t ghost Ghosting the Party

‘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.

Where Love Lives LOVEMORE

Where Love Lives Events presents LOVEMORE, a night filled with love and joy in Lismore.

Byron’s Winter Whales raise $43,000

The Byron Bay Winter Whales (BBWW) took to the ocean for the 39th time this year on the first Sunday of May and raised $43,000 for local organisations and charities.

When it comes to real estate, everyone can use an advocate

With 45 years combined experience across both sales and property management, husband and wife team Mark and Michelle Errichiello have recently moved to the Northern Rivers and teamed up with Byron Property Search to provide advocacy services for people looking to buy or sell across the region.

Savour The Tweed returns, 22 October

Food and drink event, Savour The Tweed, returns to excite tastebuds this spring, from Wednesday 22 October to Sunday 26 October.

Conservationists welcome carbon credit scheme to protect forests

Today’s release of the government’s proposed Improved Native Forest Method, which allows governments to claim carbon credits in return for stopping logging has been welcomed by the North East Forest Alliance and North Coast Environment Council as "providing a way to end native forest logging on public land".