The award-winning Murbah Youth Fest (named 2025 Community Event of the Year in the Tweed Shire) is back for its fourth year – bigger, busier, and with more young people involved than ever.
Seven local women from different decades of life spanning from their 20s to their 80s, will be sharing a seven-minute story on something they have survived, and raising money for the SHIFT Project.
Cape Byron Rudolf Steiner School HSC students recently visited NSW Parliament House in Sydney and met with their local Member for Ballina Tamara Smith.
This Saturday, 11 April, ultra-endurance runner John Salton (65 years young) will undertake a 24-hour non-stop run around the Cape Byron Lighthouse loop, beginning at sunrise, to raise funds for the Byron Youth Services (BYS). John’s run is the official...
Inside every adolescent brain, billions of neurons are firing and rewiring, shaping the intense and often overwhelming experience of being a teenager.
Behind the scenes, what is going on? there are quite a few build your own AI adverts, (is it Artificial Intelligence, or is it Anything Is?). What is the message behind the selling, using or building your own AI? The realms...
The war on Iran represents a tipping point in the shifting balance of power on the world stage. Superficially, this war is the culmination of a decades long effort by one man, the indicted war criminal and genocidal psychopath, Israeli...
The end of cheap fossil fuel energy is here now, at least for the next few years. The world is about to change: the balloon has burst. We built a world based on cheap fossil fuel energy, assuming we could...
‘It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal’. This quip, attributed to Henry Kissinger (well-known American diplomat, bureaucrat and alleged war criminal) almost 60 years ago, came to mind as I read...
All fuel measures listed by Labor are completely useless if there is no fuel. Labor should tell us where and when we will get fuel. Unless we drill for oil and process it ourselves, Australia will loose its sovereignty. James...
We ask if a bike trail by itself is really the best thing for the Byron Shire? Surely, looking to a more sustainable future, we need to really assess what the people need, not just a nice occasional recreational...
In reply to John Donnelan (Echo letters, 1 April). My right of reply: Jo Faith ‘confirmed racist’. Universal questions? Can’t be much fun? Or is it? Jo Faith, Newtown
Tongue in cheek! (Echo, 1 April). Surely it’s not to make room for a ‘you know who’ tower. That would fill your letters pages! Peter Walters, Ballina
The whole world is experiencing what it’s like to be the victim of a coercive control relationship. Even here in Byron Bay our lives are being psychologically shaped, and materially impacted by the dementing malignant narcissist and his sadistic sidekick, with a pattern of abuse all too familiar, particularly to women.
Nearly 200 people and just as many teddy bears descended on Mullumbimby Showground last Saturday for Spaghetti Circus’s Teddy Bears’ Picnic, a joyful celebration of circus, community and childhood that raised funds for the circus’s beloved preschool program.
Major drainage upgrade works recommenced in Byron Bay on Tuesday after a short Easter break.
Do you feel tongue-tied when speaking in public? Do you tend to ramble and have trouble getting to the point?
At a time of global conflict and division, a new children’s book by Mullumbimby artist and author Madeline Hill is encouraging young readers to rediscover the value of small acts of kindness – starting with a simple letter.
A Byron Shire Council (BSC) request for public feedback on a proposed lease of public land, part of a road reserve, to the owner of 27 Marine Parade, Wategos, was frustrated by a lack of information supplied to the...
Former Byron Shire councillor Asren Pugh has confirmed with The Echo that he will be seeking support to run on the Labor Party ticket for the NSW Senate (upper house) in the 2027 state election.
In February 2024, Coles signed a three-year contract with US defence and surveillance giant Palantir. The company was co-founded by Peter Thiel – a man who wrote in 2009 that freedom and democracy are ‘no longer compatible’, partly blaming women’s...
After visiting the USA in the 1920s, Oscar Wilde commented: ‘America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilisation in between.’ They certainly have a barbaric president. He is the most uncivilised human being imaginable...
How can it be that the ACT (Canberra) decriminalised the possession of up to 50g of cannabis and two plants per person (max four per household) in 2020, while everywhere else, the other 26 million Australians are criminials! Is...
Reading Jillian Spring’s letter of disgust (Echo, 1 April) with regard to the ridiculous practice of daylight savings time, I recalled the conversation I heard on Radio National earlier this week with a Canadian who informed listeners that some...
I totally disagree with the state NSW government to crush these beautifully made e-bikes taken from these children. For goodness sake, give them away or re-sell them. What a huge waste to crush them. Also Jillian Spring from Billinudgel – I...
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