Frustration has been expressed by locals at the potholes already appearing in the recent $10.7 million upgrade to Wilsons Creek Road.
As the damning NSW Auditor-Generals report into the NSW Reconstruction Authority’s (RA) handling of its two key programs, the Resilient Homes (RHP) and Resilient Lands Programs (RLP) came out RA announced that Kate Fitzgerald has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer.
The South Golden Beach Community Association (SGBCA) and locals are calling on Byron Shire Council (BSC) to include the repair of the Helen Street Bridge in their operational plan for the next financial year.
Local Mullumbimby businesses say they have been facing a challenging time and are encouraging locals and visitors to shop local.
We have seen the government ban under-16s from social media over concerns for mental health which include isolation, loneliness, anxiety, depression, body image issues, and low self-esteem.
As one of the many thousands of locals who have been involved in the long campaign for accessible, socially, environmentally, and cost effective local public transport, especially train services, since the 1980s, and who used the one daily train service regularly for over thirty...
Gazans accuse Hamas of war crimes against Gazans. Lawyers for the Gazan residents have submitted a 40-page application to the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor, seeking investigations into 14 named Hamas leaders over alleged crimes committed against the Gazan...
Am I allowed to voice an opinion against the Israeli government? What’s happening in Gaza? The USA, as well as supplying high tech weapons to Israel, joins Israel in a war on Iran. Israel attacks another country, Lebanon, and we wonder...
The destruction by fire of the Rail Master’s Cottage prompts questions of social justice. Is this land still related to the legal deeds that supported such land (e.g. Railway Transport and taxpayer payers’ support for same) or has, or...
The government announced $2 billion in small business support in this year’s federal Budget. For those of us actually running one, that number feels like fiction. I operate a wellness studio in Australia. In the past twelve months, my landlord...
Byron Shire Council’s decision not to renew the contract to locals for the Mullumbimby and Byron pools was decided in a confidential session – like far too many of this month’s Council deliberations – leaving the public with little information why the decision was made to hand over the local aquatic facilities to Belgravia Leisure ‘one of Australia’s largest providers of sports and leisure’ according to their website.
Local kombucha maker Jake Miller grew up in the house behind Santos Organics in Mullumbimby and remembers jumping over the fence to play in the garden and enjoy a few carob treats.
It is recommended that the following requirements are added to the latest draft of the Development Control Plan (DCP) for the former Mullumbimby Hospital site before it gets adopted to ensure that the final development meets the wishes of Council, state government and the local community.
I believe Australians are fine with fairness for housing. The issue is messy because Labor went a step too far by increasing capital gains tax on non-housing investment. It was a tax grab out of the blue, so yes there is blowback.
Soon there will be space lasers that can melt pimples while you’re lying on the beach and shoot down flies in full flight! Sapoty Brook, Main Arm
I moved to Booyong long before the Booyong pig abattoir existed. What started as a small unobtrusive enterprise has escalated under the radar to a nightmarish operation that horrendously impacts this village. Indeed, many Echo readers have walked through the...
It is fascinating, yet not unexpected, that Marianne McCormack’s response to my previous letter bares very little factual relevance to the content of my letter and had to resort to insult, exaggeration and spurious assertion. One wonders how many international...
We live in what feels like the forgotten corner of the Byron Shire. Our neighbourhood of Booyong is a pristine rural village – and it is being slowly destroyed by an industrial-scale abattoir that has outgrown its location and...
Slaughtering 30,000 is fine; causing starvation is fine; making homeless a million is fine; demolishing homes is fine; wrecking cities is fine; stealing land is fine; preventing assistance to the needy is fine … when you are Lord of...
On 19 May, I wrote to Albo thanking him for being PM instead of Dutton, Ley, Taylor or Hanson. Then I asked him why he, as my representative, is taking no action to kerb the despicable behaviour of the Israeli...
The US national debt is around $33 trillion and at $150 a barrel, the value of Iran’s oil and gas would be around $30 trillion. Do you see? Hundreds of American oil-producing wells that were unprofitable and were shut down at...
Having moved to Booyong Road a year ago, I assumed the Booyong abattoir was a small operation serving local farmers and workers. How wrong I was! What was once a farmers’ co-operative is now what I would call an ‘unlisted...
I am writing to express how devastating it is to live opposite a killing field – Casino Food Company’s Booyong abbattoir. I moved to this area in January, unaware of what operated across the road from my home. The real...
The annual Old and Gold Festival is on again in Brunswick Heads on 6 June. The all town garage sale gives everyone the chance to rummage, discover, and enjoy hunting for their most treasured gift, or delight in their most exotic find.
An extraordinary amount of literary talent calls the Northern Rivers home, and in its 30th year the Byron Writers Festival is celebrating with an incredible local lineup, joining Trent Dalton, Geetanjali Shree, Evelyn Araluen, Steve Toltz, Melissa Lucashenko and others.
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