It is time to come together and connect the generations at the Connecting Generations Autumn Family Fun Day.
The Returning, an Indigenous women-led not-for-profit organisation based in Mullumbimby, has taken on four Aboriginal programs after the closure of the Murwillumbah Community Centre.
Concerns are being raised that the community could be sidelined in decisions about the future of the old Mullumbimby Hospital site, as Byron Shire Council (BSC) and Homes NSW negotiate the potential transfer of the land back to the state government.
Higher paid-parking fees, increased holiday park charges, and new commercial income streams are among a range of measures being put forward by Byron Mayor Sarah Ndiaye as Council grapples with mounting financial pressure.
Victoria is side-stepping the rising cost of fuel by offering free public transport. If only public transport was an option in the Northern Rivers, let alone it being free!
Here at The Echo we are celebrating our big 4-0 and to make the party bigger than Ben Hur, we have invited the ultimate fun band to help us swing the night away – the electrifying Melbourne Ska Orchestra – delivering their signature high-energy big brass band sound. They are travelling north in June, and Seven caught up with band leader Nicky Bomba in the studio prepping for their next album.
It’s a new dawn, a new day yet there is still the attempt to persuade thinking, feeling humanity that it is okay or there is justification in the killing, maiming or starving of thousands of innocent children, who have...
A local woman has been invited by a world-renowned ballet school in New York to join their ranks as a student to attain an international qualification as a dancer and teacher.
Mullumbimby’s flood-damaged former Scout Hall could soon be demolished and replaced with open parkland under a proposal going before Byron Council today.
It is volunteer week this week, and it was great to see Natasha Cali and two friends decided they were getting out and doing their bit for their community.
I have decided to join Pauline Hanson’s One Nation (PHON). I have tired of voting for losers, and can sense a wave of support. After all, if they can shamelessly publicly signpost a meeting at Mullumbimby’s Lulu’s Cafe, then they must be on the up. Yep, six per cent is not a great starting point, but that’s all they got in Farrer in 2025 as well.
Mr Murray’s letter (Echo, 13/5/26) is a deeply offensive attempt to cast suspicion on an entire community of Australians because they are Israeli/Jewish. To compare Israeli-Australian dual citizens who have undertaken compulsory military service in Israel, with ISIS brides linked...
Bruce Porter (Echo, 13/5/26) raises the problem that is inciting anti-Jewish actions and bigotry here – holding all Jews collectively responsible for Israel’s actions. Dear Bruce, how is it that the actions of no other world government, or the actions...
Zionism attempts to conflate race, religion and nationality into a political ideology that purports to represent all Jews, irrespective of their race, religion or nationality. To penetrate this paradox, we must examine the strategic ambiguity of Jewish identity as defined...
Despite there being established agencies to receive and distribute food into Gaza, and despite the fact that these agencies have encouraged Greta and her minions to engage with these agencies to distribute aid, the good folk of the Tik...
The Byron Shire Council budget meeting was very informative in the fact that Phil Holloway estimates the costs to fix up the failed stormwater system for Bayside Brunswick Heads to be close to $300million. Interesting, as this is a...
On Monday 4 May, a ten-year-old was hit by a teenager on an e-bike on Jubilee Avenue, Mullumbimby near the Mullumbimby Pool.
After 118 years the fourth generation member of the Bridgeland family, Rob Bridgland, is closing up shop.
Former Nationals Party Deputy Leader and Member for Ballina from 1988 to 2015, Don Page, has told The Echo that it is vital to hold the line on height limits in Byron Bay to ensure it doesn’t become another Gold Coast.
Everyone needs their ‘people’. They are the people who get you. They might share your values, or have shared experiences. They don’t judge you. These are the people you can ‘unmask’ for. When you sit with your community, you have a sense of belonging. That belonging is what you use to navigate the other parts of your life where you often don’t belong. Belonging is your compass. And we all need a compass.
Anyone that lives in the Shire who looks around at what is being forced on this community by this Byron Council should be so disappointed. This shire went through a development moratorium in the ’90s, because the infrastructure – mostly...
The federal Budget promises to help 75,000 Australians into housing over four years*. Net migration is running at over 300,000 people per year. The government’s own construction target requires 240,000 new homes annually. Last year we built 179,000. The scheme...
Spot on, Judith Shelley (Letters, Echo, 14 May): ‘please write to your councillors now – please let them know you want to keep the train tracks’. Please, Byron residents, do as Judith suggested. Dual use is the answer! Roger Seccombe, Ballina M.I.E.Aust.
Dear Ms Nash, I am sure Echo readers are tired of this continuing tit for tat, and I’d otherwise leave it alone. You seem; however, to insist on extolling the wondrous dynamism of the Suffolk Park Community Association (SPCA) executive...
What is it with journalists and broken promises? Considering the state of politics in Australia, is breaking a promise really so bad? Is it such a failing to change your mind? Let’s have backflips on: AUKUS nuclear submarines, allowing huge...
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