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Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: It’s a Sign
Someone is taking down signs. You know who you are. Right now, I bet you are sitting at home with a bunch of corflutes from the Byron Comedy Festival, and a bunch of other local events, feeling powerful in your sad fight against fun.
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New Tweed Valley Hospital opens today
The controversial new Tweed Valley Hospital opened to patients at 8am this morning.
Can artificial intelligence be used for beach safety?
Is it time for a new approach to beach safety that utilises AI technology to tell locals and visitors where it’s safe to swim?
Revised version?
Language is a living and ever-changing thing.
Israel is currently under the thumb of ‘ultraorthodox’ forces (usually called ‘extremist...
Bev knows how to make a boob of herself
Some women make you feel good about yourself right to your marrow. Bev Killick is one of those women. She’s not a cutesy storyteller, she’s our Phyllis Diller, a graduate of the bold and brassy school of stand-up, delivering a non-stop energetic set every time. As soon as she blasts her way on stage, you know you’re in for a treat.
Beware the Trojan Pig
The article in last’s week’s Echo (‘Piggery plans on exhibition’), could not have been more lacking in balance had...
Once Upon A Time
Local artist Michelle Ansoul’s sepia-toned photographic prints reflect moments of her hometown Byron Bay over the course of four...
Stories about "amplified events":
Bluesfest asked to trial small events, again
If a noise test takes place in the woods, but nobody knows it’s happening, does it still make a sound?
Byron Echo
Beware the Trojan Pig
The article in last’s week’s Echo (‘Piggery plans on exhibition’), could not have been more lacking in balance had it been provided by the...
Byron Echo
Concerns over Piggery plans
As a long-term resident of Skinners Shoot, I am writing to express my concern that the article ‘Piggery plans on exhibition’ (Echo, May 1,)...
Byron Echo
Labor’s gas failure?
I can’t understand how Labor can commit to gas for the future while the UN Secretary-General said last year already: ‘We need disruption to...
Byron Echo
Domestic violence
It has occurred to me that as many women who experience domestic violence are forced to flee their homes, it is they, the victims...
