A One Nation meeting at Lulu’s Cafe in Mullumbimby last Saturday, 7 February, left some of their customers reeling.
For some people art is made for the delight in creating, and this is definitely the case for artist Di Calder who, now in her 70s, is having her first exhibition.
This Saturday it will be 14 years that the women of the Northern Rivers have been wearing red and gathering on 14 February for the annual V Day flashmob that takes place on Main Beach at Byron Bay from 7am.
The North East Forest Alliance (NEFA) have called into question the NSW government’s recently released koala baseline assessments having found the ‘government’s models of koala densities broad and inaccurate, with cleared paddocks near Kyogle claimed to have higher densities of koalas than the Great Koala National Park (GKNP), resulting in greatly inflated population estimates for NSW.’
When Kate Jackson started Haus of Armour in 2022 she did it with the simple but powerful intention ‘to provide an alternative pathway of healing and recovery for women in the Northern Rivers who are survivors of domestic violence (DV), and to create a safe, supportive space where empowerment can begin again’.
Scientists say bird flu is now ‘completely out of control,’ spreading across continents at an unprecedented scale, devastating wildlife, and – in the US – establishing itself in dairy cattle, creating the risk of igniting a human pandemic as...
I wake up in mourning; haunted by images of emaciated children behind electrified barbed wire fences. It’s 81 years today since the liberation of the German extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, where more than one million Jews were brutally starved, tortured and...
The latest tranche of the Epstein files reveals how extensive Epstein’s network really was and how it snared people of significance and power, from scientists to politicians to influencers. Frequently, the text of Epstein’s emails uses the term ‘goy’ or...
Corporation? Hmm, maybe a nonhuman, amoral money harvester that will consume anyone or everything it reaches, even consuming its creators when their use-by date expires. Empathy or sadism can flavour the crop. Len Hend, Thailand
How is it that we can spend $368 billion (and rising) on the dumb and dangerous Morrison/Albanese AUKUS submarine deal? How is it that we are fed some line about a Chinese threat and spend the billions on nuclear attack submarines,...
Local Main Arm resident Sapoty Brook contacted The Echo to let them know that he has just received one of the first sodium-ion home batteries in Australia from BetterESS.
Sitting on the banks of the Richmond River in Ballina it’s easy to forget the challenges this vital waterway is facing.
In its 40th year, The Echo speaks with pivotal businesses and organisations that have helped shape the Northern Rivers over the past four decades.
On Friday residents of Prince Street were shocked to see tall wire fences being erected around the land between the Mullumbimby Community Shedding Workshop and the Mullumbimby Railway Station.
I live in North Lismore just downstream from the proposed development . I wonder if anyone has even thought about the horrifically loud noise made during speedway race nights? The proposed housing estate will be perched directly above the speedway...
I thank Ginny Black for the back stories she presented when writing of contact with Roundup – the most toxic poison ever. I felt the sensitivity of inner silence and grief when she spoke of the death of her husband: ‘an...
I am appalled at the ignorance of BSC’s department of compliances. I made them aware of a vehicle parked illegally in Cowper Street, Byron Bay four months ago. There is a person sleeping in the vehicle, Council has signage there stating...
Judaism is a well-respected religion with millions of practitioners worldwide. Israel is a state or country run by a comparatively small clique of adherents to a clique or cult within Judaism called Zionism. Criticism of the country or the...
I am writing to express my extreme concern about what I consider racist language, and misinformation in O’Brien’s letter. While I understand the letters section is meant to be an earnest view of the community, it begs the question if...
I was so looking forward to reading the many letters of support for Mandy’s ‘Heat Speech’ article in the 28 January Echo, but there wasn’t one. So I feel obliged to congratulate her for hitting the nail on the head....
South Golden Beach and Byron’s Lilli Pilli have been identified as having ‘unacceptable bushfire risks’ in the region’s new bushfire management plan, paving the way for increased prescribed burning and tree clearing in the towns.
A few weeks ago a trans woman told me she was a big Pauline Hanson supporter. WTF. How can a trans woman feel she is anyway represented, or safe, with One Nation? The same woman who teamed up with Holly Valance to release a parody version of Valances’ previous ‘hit’ (can we even call it that?) that mocks poor people, LGBTQ+ youth, women and the trans community.
Heaps of praise for the recent efforts by The Echo to increase local content and provide more ‘in depth explanation and analysis’. The original founders Nicholas Shand and David Lovejoy would be proud. As a very long-time reader of the weekly...
Regarding the Woodlands NCAT saga, in an area recognised by Byron Shire Council as home to vulnerable and threatened species, I wonder how the native wildlife feels about its territory being invaded by humans? Land has been cleared, trees felled,...
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