An ongoing legal stoush over one of the most prized locations at Wategos Beach has been settled, paving the way for a $12 million dual occupancy to be built on the site.
Brad Turner was one of the many muscle men and women who showed off their ability to demolish logs in a matter of seconds at last week’s ever-popular. Photo ‘Spitting Chips’ Dawson
Surf fans have the chance to win one of five twin-fin surfboards and support the purchase of a custom-fitted trailer essential for transporting specialised surf equipment and adapted wheelchairs.
The Echo would like to heartily thank the talented wordsmith, Stephen Clarke, for so generously offering his crosswords for us to publish over the last couple of years. We wish him all the best enjoying his freedom from the relentless task of feeding us a new puzzle every week.
There are now four flood cameras installed around Byron Shire to assist residents and visitors to make safe and sensible decisions on driving during wet weather and flood events. A new flood camera has been installed on Mullumbimby Road...
Another shop-top housing development has been proposed for central Mullumbimby – the fourth such application to be submitted in the past year. As residents continue to trawl through the plans for unit proposals on Station and Stuart streets, new plans...
From hula to Bollywood and visual art of many cultures the Multikulcha Festival and Art Exhibition will open on Friday, 23 January with all the richness that multicultural arts can bring.
The man accused of murdering 23-year-old Ashleigh Grice in Mullumbimby nearly four months ago is to have his case mentioned in court again next month.
Four potential ways forward for the Bangalow Bowlo to reopen have been put on the table by the Save Bangalow Bowlo Steering Committee (SBBSC), from challenging the breach of the memorandum of understanding (MOU) by Norths Collective to a philanthropic support for a buyback.
The hitchhiker’s $50 has not been claimed. So I’m opening the opportunity to all Echo readers to write a letter to the editor saying in 50 words or less what I should do with the $50. Sapoty Brook, Main Arm
I don’t support cancelling writers at writers’ festivals. But Randa Abdel-Fattah, cancelled by the Adelaide Writers Festival, does. In February 2024, Abdel-Fattah urged the board of the same Adelaide Writers Festival to cancel an invitation to Jewish New York Times...
Randa Abdel-Fattah was rightly removed from the Adelaide Writers Week for the following reasons: publicly stated that ‘Zionists have no claim or right to cultural safety’; posted statements expressing a desire for the end of Israel as a...
‘Beauty is in the eye of the beholder’ was first said a long time ago. What’s up with my gov? Are they seeing hate speech these days, is it being written in their new laws, so everyone can read it?...
Some bastard in the US reckons ‘Green’land should be called ‘Red White and Blue’land. Does that mean Australia, the UK, France, New Zealand and about a quarter of the world’s countries that have a flag of the same colours...
We are witnessing the decline of the American empire in real time. Stupidity now sits on a gilded throne in Washington and obedience is being enforced with terrifying brutality upon its people and institutions with the rest of us in the firing line of the regime’s impulsive and criminal acts.
After founding Echo editor Nicholas Shand’s death in 1996 his business partners, David Lovejoy and Jeff Dawson, along with then editor Michael McDonald kept the fires and ideas burning along with the rest of the amazing, shell–shocked, Echo team.
What do we do for 26 January, the day Australia was invaded? For some it is a celebration of the Australian identity, for others it is a day of recognising the pain and destruction of colonisation, a day of survival, while for others it is a day of looking to connect. There are a range of events going on throughout the Byron Shire that people are invited to go to and recognise this day in a way that works for them.
So, finally we have the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion! Finally, Prime Minister Albanese crumbled under the pressure. The pressure of the Jewish lobby? Unfortunately, Albanese also did not parry the attack of Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu, who accused...
I don’t always agree with the expressed opinions of Mandy Nolan and I’m sure she would feel similarly, vice versa. But I do agree with what she wrote in The Echo recently about contemporary Byron Bay. I think it’s inappropriate...
To Sarah – You say you love Byron for its beach parties and $10 casks, and you tell Mandy Nolan to ‘chill out… and go to the gym’. I find that deeply dismissive of a woman who has...
Thanks Jeff Rake for your reply to my letter. I don’t personally know Mandy, but I know she has been writing for the Echo a long time and I used to always get a giggle from her articles and witty...
Well said Mandy Nolan! And so true (Echo, Jan 14). Mandy, ignore those bigoted crackpots who will never see the light, what is wrong and what is right. Sadly, tunnel-visionistas are in epidemic numbers in our ‘enlightened’ Shire. Hugo Wehner, Uki
Residents living near the site of a proposed 50-unit residential development in Mullumbimby have expressed concern about the impact of the project on their street, the town more broadly, and the precedent it could set for future development in the Shire.
I love Australia, but I don’t love Australia Day on 26th Jan. I don’t love that it is about a flag with a Union Jack on it.
My property in Mullum backs onto the river and there is a stretch of Crown land before the river bank. Over the years I have walked down there, and on a number of occasions, I have found the entire place...
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