From bankruptcy to the Queensland government intervening and extinguishing their native title – Adrian Burragubba, a Wangan and Jagalingou Elder has continued the fight against Adani’s contentious mine.
The Mullumbimby Chamber of Commerce and Community with First National Real Estate have stepped up and provided $1,000 of equipment for the new 20-bed Care Awaiting Placement (CAP) ward at Byron Central Hospital that opened in June.
‘A simple conclusion: the benefits of strong and early action far outweigh the economic costs of not acting.’
Unspeakable: Facing up to the climate catastrophe and its consequences in Australia by authors Professor Richard Hil and Dr Jean Renouf, both of whom live and work in the Northern Rivers, launches on Wednesday, 26 August at The Regent Cinema, Murwillumbah from 5pm.
Just looking at Mandy’s Soapbox of last week, which I think is so ‘on-target’ and excellently written. To paraphrase her, ‘to open your heart you first have to open your ears and receive. Trust me it’s worth it.’ To my...
The near sell-out show Sex Drugs and Handrails (Stiff in all the wrong places!) has added an extra show for Sunday, 23 August that will raise funds for refugee settlement in the Northern Rivers.
New councillors may not be aware that the councillors on the previous Council seem to have been misinformed about 57 Station Street as a suitable site for building affordable housing. A snapshot history… In February 2020, Council resolved to ‘support,...
Backlash last week noted that 88 per cent of Victorian homes use mains gas for heating. We all know they think minor gas is cool too: but Echo readers know they both stink. Sapoty Brook, Main Arm
What an interesting article by David Brown in last week’s Echo. Well-researched and full of numbers. Here are a few more numbers. Did you recoil in horror at someone having a meagre 18 square metres to live in? Here’s...
Regarding theft from local supermarkets, this issue can cut both ways. Recently I went to a supermarket and bought six random items, and I always memorise prices. At the checkout one item came up above the shelf price, then...
Students from The Pocket Public School hit a high note at the Sydney Opera House, taking the stage with hundreds of NSW public school students as part of the Combined Schools Choir.
Great article by Jo Immig (Echo 6 August). But whether we’re feeling hopeful or fearful, it doesn’t matter, because neither is telling us what’s actually going to happen, or even what’s actually true right now, just what we think...
The policy of the Country Women’s Association (CWA) of NSW is to support the work of the NSW Anti-slavery Commissioner, to actively oppose all forms of modern slavery. The scourge of modern slavery in the agriculture industry has been in...
Baywood Chase Lake, commonly known as Bird Lake, is a Council stormwater asset and it is time we treated it that way. A recent Notice of Motion (NoM) to Byron Shire Council (BSC) has brought the long-running water-quality problems into...
The Bonobo hasn’t impressed Byron Bay locals with its uninviting facade and brutal contribution to one of our primary streetscapes. Comments include ‘eyesore’, ‘looks like a prison’, and ‘Blotobo’. It might be illuminating to hear from the developers and architects...
When AI’s taken over all our jobs, what might come in handy? A rail trail. Sandy Loyall
People concerned about the future of Mullumbimby as a town and community have been out on the street educating and talking to their fellow residents about the potential impacts of the Byron Shire Council development application for the car park at 57 Station Street, Mullumbimby.
Lynda Dean OAM passed away on Sunday afternoon surrounded by family.
We are in a housing crisis. But does that adequately describe where we are right now? The last census told us there are lots of houses. A million empty ones in fact. So if we’re building enough houses, is it in fact less a housing crisis, and more a homing crisis?
Byron Shire Council (BSC) has received a DA from Jobern P/L for the partial demolition of 109 Jonson Street, (above Red Ginger to the butcher), which includes two additional storeys with a rooftop pool. It also requests a rooftop structure,...
No promises come with a Special Rate Variation (SRV). Council’s approach in seeking a community-sanctioned SRV as outlined in last week’s Echo has been used before. The promise of improved services if an SRV is agreed to is a...
If councillors are unable to put a viable business plan to the general manager using the rate base collected in Byron Shire then Council needs to be restructured. Threatening ratepayers with no services, services we should already have in place,...
I think The Echo made a terrible error with last week’s printing. I found it incredibly difficult to read. The whole paper was printed upside down except for one ad on the back page. Please be more careful. Raphael Lee...
Following the highest selling film festival in its history, Sydney Film Festival (SFF) is taking highlights from its June program to Lismore Cinemas this September. The Travelling Film Festival (TFF) returns to the newly reburnished cinema for the first...
Australia’s internationally acclaimed Streeton Trio returns to Byron Theatre with Women Who Dared, a powerful chamber music concert celebrating four extraordinary female composers whose creativity, resilience and determination helped shape the classical music world. Spanning nearly two centuries of composition,...
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