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Tickets are selling fast! Come join a fun-filled night of community celebration – This Saturday (tomorrow) The Echo is set to mark its 40th year in style with a ’30s swing-era style party and community awards night featuring the dynamic sounds of the Melbourne Ska Orchestra.
Byron Council has tightened its definition of ‘affordable housing’ in a bid to make access to housing more equitable on major projects like the former Mullumbimby Hospital site and 57 Station Street.
The campaign to slow traffic on the short stretch of Coolamon Scenic Drive outside Coorabell Hall is gradually gathering momentum, with Byron Council supporting a lower speed limit despite advice the road may not meet state criteria.
Byron Shire Council has voted to provide struggling local LGBTQIA+ support service Queer Family Inc with temporary access to a Council-owned property at peppercorn rent, following an impassioned plea from the organisation and a lengthy debate over governance and fairness.
For decades, naturism has struggled with a strange communication barrier. Most naturist educational material contains nudity, which means it is often automatically classified as NSFW in workplaces, schools, institutions, libraries, and government environments. As a result, many people responsible for discussing...
The 2026 Federal Budget has sent a clear, heartbreaking message to the senior women of the Tweed: you are invisible. While the treasurer boasted about billions for future housing ‘supply’, there is a gaping hole where immediate relief for senior...
Fortunately, someone in the federal bureaucracy understands that spending $42m, or $2.8m per kilometre, of public money destroying a multi-billion-dollar rail line between Crabbes Creek and Mullumbimby for a rail trail/bike track-is not good value for taxpayers. $2.8m is four...
Byron Shire’s infrastructure has become beyond repair. Reports of new overflow of sewage. Reports of decades of no maintenance to our stormwater drains. The consequences of flooding are directly proportional to this storm of ongoing neglect. Shire-wide areas are...
Albert Einstein said, ‘I don’t know what World War III will be fought with… but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones’. Einstein’s prescient vision of a world after nuclear war evokes an image of a...
Is the world we live in, more than what we understand? Theories challenge the known facts, so does any association of letters in words, that we make and combine in theory first, they share the same function. We can...
Recently, many Kingscliff locals have been hit by massive increases in their home insurance. Some properties are located in flood zones but have never flooded; many others sit completely outside flood zones. Yet, insurance companies continue to blame the...
Long-term residents of Mullumbimby, Jeff and Alma Jackson lost their home to fire last week.
Long-term, local Byron businesses are calling on the community for support as they struggle to remain afloat as the drainage works in Byron Bay continue.
Australia’s top radio and podcast talent were crowned at the inaugural Australian Audio Awards last Thursday night at Carriageworks in Sydney. Entries were judged on their technical expertise, audio quality, content and impact.
The 2024 Penington Institute’s Annual Overdose Report stated that, ‘in 2022 there were 2,356 drug-induced deaths in Australia, equating to approximately six lives needlessly lost each day’.
Sunday, 31 May saw everyone having some fun as the sun finally shone at the Mullumbimby Giants games which included the Old Boys Day. Photos by Sarah Archibald.
Teven Golf Club will again host the opening event of the 2026 Ford NSW Open Regional Qualifying Series, with elite players from across Australia set to descend on the Northern Rivers from Wednesday, 29 July to Friday, 31 July. This...
Hywel David It was a mixed day out at Pioneer Park in Wollongbar-Alstonville on a sunny Saturday, with the Rebels colts and women’s rugby union sides delivering strong victories before the men’s XV endured a bruising second half that saw...
Byron Shire’s financial woes are not the result of a lack of money, but rather the waste of it. While it might be tempting to suggest Byron Council spends like drunken sailors, drunken sailors actually spend their own money....
‘Public land should serve the public vision,’ Greens councillor Elia Hauge is quoted as saying in The Echo (May 20) under the headline ‘Community panel proposed for Mullum hospital site’. Byron Shire proudly declares ‘Welcome to Bundjalung Country’ and...
Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians has not ended and it will not end before Israel officially renounces its intention to exterminate or expel the Palestinians, and annihilate any possibility of a Palestinian state. It’s precisely this intention, repeatedly expressed...
Dear Rod Murray (Letters, 27 May) In reply to your very long letter, far exceeding 250 words, (in itself telling), it was never my intention to respond to your spurious assertions about the Israeli government’s response to the Hamas...
The proposed Saltwood development at Ross Lane raises serious concerns for local residents. You cannot engineer away local knowledge. Residents with decades of lived experience of Ross Lane – many of whom have stopped me in the street to share flooding...
Kinda tripping on former PM Paul Keating for the moment, here are a few historical quotes: On the dismantling of protectionist tariff system for Australian industry: ‘The package or measures announced today ends forever Australia’s sorry association with tariffs...
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