The day before Greg Mcqueen died in Brunswick Heads, the funeral director arrived at Greg’s home to organise his services.
Byron Shire locals generally don’t take kindly to external powers attempting to curtail their opportunities for discussion and debate.
A not-for-profit provider of employment and training services has awarded $7,500 to the Brunswick Heads Breakfast Club, a grassroots initiative offering meals, connection, and compassion to people experiencing homelessness and hardship in the local community.
Could vacant land adjacent to the Brunswick Valley Sewage Treatment Plant (BVSTP) become home to an affordable housing village where residents can walk or ride along the rail trail into the centre of Mullumbimby?
When I came to the Byron Shire over 30 years ago, there were three local newspapers. Since that time two have disappeared and others have come and gone. The Echo is still going after 40 years because they care about,...
Walking along the Brunswick River through the sculpture park in town, it was a windy day today and as I walked the gusts of wind picked up dirt and some grass debris into tiny whirlwinds around me. I was walking...
Hats off to the Byron Shire Council for finally committing to a community consultation process for large projects (Echo Dec 31). After multiple failures and the resultant complete loss of faith and confidence by the community in Council, a motion...
Two letters appeared in The Echo regarding the terrible shooting in Sydney a couple of weeks ago. One followed a concise and accurate summary of the situation from Bruce Porter. The other, from Dr Nicole Phillips, was a hectoring...
The NSW government response to Bondi has seen a huge transfer of power from the courts to the police.
Northern Rivers short film competition for all ages, Byron All Shorts, is open for submissions. Finalists screening and awards will be held on Saturday 28 February, alongside the Flickerfest International Short Film Festival tour at the Mullumbimby Civic Hall. Local...
The Whitlams once famously expressed the desire to ‘blow up the pokies and drag them away’.
Congratulations to Maribeth Cole, who won Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Community Theatre Play at the 2025 Gold Palm Awards, for her role in the Drill Hall Theatre Company’s production of 10 Minutes of Fame.
If you live in Byron Bay, you might have written a submission, attended a meeting, or at least heard talk of the proposed Special Entertainment Precinct (SEP), a NSW government policy designed to grow the 24-hour economy.
Billinudgel Fire Station is home to a new defibrillator (AED), kindly granted to the village by not-for-profit health insurer, Westfund.
If there was ever any doubt that our Byron Bay community wanted to come together and celebrate, then with the Christmas Community’s Initiative of a ‘movie under the stars’, we got our answer on December 22. More than 250 residents...
Could this be the year that Byron Shire Council takes meaningful, decisive action on building a rail trail between Mullumbimby and Byron Bay?
How much empty rhetoric and breathtaking hypocrisy are we supposed to tolerate? The events at Bondi were tragic, however if the Jewish community really want to improve their image and attempt to eliminate alleged antisemitism perhaps mainstream Jewish leaders in...
Bruce Porter (antisemitism’, Echo 23/12/2025) has discovered an ‘elephant in the room’ that is the cause of the vicious hatred directed at Jews this month and for the last two years (and two millennia). Sorry, but it’s not an...
I’m so tired of this polarising narrative you push that divides self-proclaimed ‘locals’ and the town’s tourists – who, by the way, our entire town’s economy relies on. If you don’t like shopping alongside some of the world’s most...
On 30 December many beaches between Byron and Ballina were closed due to rough seas. Not at Broken Head (except for a short shark alarm). Parking was at a premium with cars parking along the entry road nearly back to...
When I was a kid we used to swim in the river. Local waterways were full of fish and yabbies. We’d grab a giant inner tube from a tractor tyre and eight of us would fight to stay on the slippery surface. It was the closest thing we had to technology.
This festive season, drivers will again crawl 45–60 minutes to enter Byron via the M1 Byron exit, while traffic queues dangerously into the 110 km/h motorway. Everyone knows this is unsafe. Everyone knows it’s been happening for years. Actually...
A couple of days before Xmas 25, I am sitting in the Byron Community Centre. I am aware of a growing spiritual frailty within my body. I watch the wonderful volunteers at the centre aid a young mother with...
I am glad the hydrogen-powered waste truck will be quiet and emit low emissions because otherwise it makes no sense. The range of the truck is 300 km but one third of that will be used every time it has...
When will a majority of Jewish people and modern day Israelis take on board the wisdom of their own ancient scriptures where in the first book of the Torah (Genesis) it recounts how Cain, the son of Adam and...
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