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Building hei(s)(gh)ts
I also strongly agree with David Gilet and Paul McCarthy on the creeping cancer of increased building heights/heists in...
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Elliot’s still sore
You (The Echo), rightly so, have a dig (in Backlash) at right-wing media outlets for mindless repetition of discredited...
Renewable energy certificates might not be honest about their renewable energy
Buying emissions drops isn’t as effective as reducing your emissions.
Vests or peace?
Gareth Smith makes a valid point in his letter (June 8) stating that Israel has signed and ratified the...
#Fridays4Forests take koala and forest protection to Sydney
#Fridays4Forests has now expanded to Sydney with a community action outside Parliament House Sydney.
Byron Council committee vacancies
I am a great believer in community input into Council business. A great opportunity for that is through Advisory...
Lettuce to the Editor
As a writer you never really know what is going to strike a chord with your audience. What will inspire them? Make them think? Make them change their mind? Make them angry? After more than two decades of publishing I am still surprised by what rocks a reader’s boat. About a week ago I discovered that a lot of people have strong opinions on the humble iceberg. I’m not talking about the one that took out theTitantic. I’m talking about the one that has been sinking wallets at the supermarket.
Stories about "100th birthday":
Frans turns 100 in Byron Bay
Frans Ruhl celebrated his 100th birthday last Wednesday at home at the RSL LifeCare [email protected] Echonetdaily's Eve Jeffery went along to sample the cake.
Letters
Palestine’s ‘terra nullius’ and children’s body armour
Firstly, the Zionist regime of Israel is an apartheid regime. It is based on the dispossession, expropriation, expulsion and oppression of the Palestinian people.
This...
Local News
Lismore council flirts with ‘koala-killer’ status
The fate of one of the state’s last koala populations appears to lie in the hands of the Lismore City Council after an extraordinary meeting Thursday afternoon.
Local News
Suspected Tweed Heads meth lab dismantled
Specialist police units along with NSW Fire and Rescue have been dismantling an alleged meth lab in Tweed Heads this morning, police said.
Local News
Hydro cannabis bust in Tweed
Police have confiscated equipment they say was being used for a hydroponic cannabis station set up in a Tweed Heads garage.
