Brunswick Heads sisters Sana and Ghina Bloudani have shown just what a refugee family can do if given the chance of a new life.
It is time for the Australian government to take a clear and firm stand for justice, equality and moral independence from the current US administration, as the US spirals further into chaos both internally and on the world stage.
The world has gone mad. It impacts all of us. A great article from Jo Immig. What are we to do? Stay true and open to discussion. Think for ourselves, not be swayed by the dictates of the mass media...
Short story by Edie Foxglove. Lu hates parties. Well, she hated that party, anyway. She dreams of attending big-city parties, far away from these people, this town...
Short story by Pearl Bannister. I read a book once; it was a book about a man, he was lonesome and lost. I read half the book before turning the light off at a quarter to one...
The past week David Littleproud competed with Donald Trump for the worst of media headlines.
It was shuffling room only at last Friday’s opening of the SURFACE 2026 North Coast Ceramic Art Awards at the Civic Art Space and the Mullumbimby Civic Centre Hall.
Local community group Together She Thrives is hosting a traditional Indian Holi Festival of Colour at Banner Park, Brunswick Heads on Sunday, 1 March for women and girls.
The Echo was contacted by concerned residents over the ‘brown and frothy’ storm water at the outlet on Clarkes Beach, which drains from the new Sandhills Wetlands site.
It was during a quick tour of the Lismore Regional Gallery late last year that the reality of making and exhibiting art in a climate-changed world truly hit home for Courtney Gibson.
The ‘left’ breeds the ‘right’, and the ‘right’ breeds the ‘left’. When the left is settling into a comfortable democracy its children are pampered and given the opportunities, wealth and power. Meanwhile the growing right begins to fume at...
Every opinion poll shows that the principal concern of Australians is the escalating cost of living. But here’s good news from Dieticians Australia, the peak body for nutrition and dietetic professionals. Their latest research shows that ‘eating a diet based...
Thank you John Lazarus and Vivi Royston, for both expressing views that many people share regarding the recent comments made by Randa Abdel-Fattah. I strongly disagree with her comments and find them deeply unhelpful to constructive discussion. John Lazarus has demonstrated...
It is sickening that even after the murder of 15 innocent people at Bondi, some locals continue to double down on Nazi and antisemitic tropes, that have been regular on Byron Shire Community pages. Do they not understand that...
I’ve been reading the very good letters over the last two weeks on the unfortunate stockpiling of Roundup in the USA destined for Australia. There have been many letters over many years complaining of Byron Shire Council still spraying. Won’t...
How special to have Aslan Shand, daughter of beloved Echo co-founder Nicholas, take over the reins as editor of our unique local paper – 40 years old and still going strong. It is still fiercely independent in an age of...
Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. Maybe instead of toughening anti-hate laws in a vain attempt to combat racism, antisemitism and Islamophobia, we could do what Denmark has done and teach empathy in school....
Fletcher Street in the Byron CBD would undergo significant changes to make it more pedestrian-friendly under a draft plan produced by Byron Shire Council.
Byron Shire Council refused the mixed-use development application (DA) for 8 Marvell Street, Byron Bay on 15 October. The developer has now taken Council to the Land and Environment Court (L&EC) and a L&EC conciliation meeting is taking place this Friday, 30 January.
‘Hot enough for ya?’ Where I grew up that was how people greeted each other on a sweltering summer’s day. It was a tongue-in-cheek way of saying it’s hot, can you take it? Is this the heat you ordered?
Formed in Byron Bay in 2003, Parkway Drive have risen from teenage metal underdogs to global heavy music icons. In 2026, they return home for a defining moment, delivering their first ever hometown performance since their Byron Bay High School shows in 2014 – and their first ever Byron Bay festival performance.
The alcohol lobby has set its sights on our little bit of real estate and they want to buy us up. And if the Sufis are right, the spirit of the Djinn lies waiting at the bottom of that bottle...
I’d like to suggest a simple change to state planning rules (and I’ve written to the minister). If a developer decides to challenge the height, size or other planning restrictions set by a local council, they should be required to...
After a long list of ideas and a lot of indecisiveness, I think you should buy the ugliest outfit you can and then walk around Byron complimenting strangers on their outfits. Or ask strangers to perform for it. Sophie Scott, Bangalow...
Dear Sapoty, please use the hitchhiker’s $50 to buy ‘Roundup on Creeks’ Sally bush regeneration weeding tools so that her family and neighbours feel empowered to do something about the traumatising menacing green dye and ‘lead the way to...
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