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Not quite ‘too late’
Desmond Bellamy, PETA Australia
Sir David Attenborough, the world’s most famous naturalist, has just addressed the United Nations Security Council to...
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The amazing world of seeds
Hilary Bain
If it wasn’t for seeds and plants, we humans, along with all the animals, birds and insects would...
Praying for Vanuatu in Ballina
The World Day of Prayer is a gigantic ecumenical event staged on the first Friday of March.
Helping Our Kids, help our kids
The Lismore Samson Fitness Challenge kicks off tonight in Lismore with the express aim of raising much-needed funds for the Our Kids charity.
Hospital staff want to park for free while they work
It seems that Lismore Base isn’t the only hospital whose workers would like to park their cars for free while they work.
M1 closed both directions at Yelgun
Traffic is currently at a standstill between Ocean Shores and Crabbes Creek on the M1 Pacific Highway following a truck crash at around 7am this morning.
Stories about "Brunswick Heads caravan parks and Crown reserves":
Byron mayor in cahoots with holiday park trust
Michele Grant, Convenor, Foreshore Protection Group.
We witnessed another standout performance from mayor Simon Richardson as he boldly handed over the last piece of disputed...
Greens betrayal
Kelly Dodd, Brunswick Heads.
In the past when a Greens councillor found she could no longer abide by Greens principles, and found that she had more...
Genuine consultation missing in van park decision
Leigh Rees, Brunswick Heads.
I have been working with people who have been researching the activities of the NSW Crown Trust in Brunswick Heads for 20...
Did Byron mayor lie over van park motion?
Patricia Warren, Brunswick Heads.
Byron Shire Council's decision to support NSW Crown Holiday Parks Trust putting their development plans for Massy Greene and Ferry caravan...
Brunswick foreshore revisited
Cr Sarah Ndiaye, Byron Shire Council.
I saw Jan Barham’s article in The Echo in support of Byron Shire Council’s motion 9.3 on Brunswick Heads parkland...
Greens accused of folding over Bruns parks negotiations
Deep division and political backflips have emerged within local Greens members over a move to put plans of management (PoM) on public exhibition for two of the three holiday parks in Brunswick Heads.
Byron councillors offer $3.7m land to Bruns holiday parks
Michele Grant, Foreshore Protection Group.
Byron councillors, Sarah Ndiaye, Michael Lyons and Alan Hunter have lodged a rescission motion that will gift around 36,000m2 of...
Byron council’s last chance to change park boundaries
Michele Grant, convenor, Foreshore Protection Group. Byron Shire Council has one last chance to save the Ferry Reserve foreshore and Lot 7005 at Massey Greene caravan parks from commercial development.
Bruns park managers should be dismissed
Patricia Warren, Brunswick Heads. North Coast Holiday Parks (NCHP) and the then North Coast Accommodation Trust (NCAT) held Byron Shire Council's (BSC) licences from August 2012, reaffirmed in 2013, in utter contempt in their preparation of the Plans of Management (POM) for the caravan parks in Brunswick Heads.
Government ‘misled’ over Brunswick Heads park plans
Campaigners against what they say is a long-running ‘land grab’ of public foreshore lands by adjoining crown-reserve caravan parks in Brunswick Heads have accused park managers of misleading the state government over park boundaries.
Byron Echo
Suspicion and belief
Fast Buck$, Coorabell
My suspicion is that the mayor and the senior staff have been helping Michael Lyon become electable as mayor by scripting his...
Letters
Suffolk Park pump track
Jinesh Attard, Suffolk Park
Many in the local community of hillside Suffolk Park have come to understand the impact the pump track will have on our...
Letters
New Greens team
Matthew O’Reilly
President of CABS and a proud member of the NEW Byron Greens team
It seems that some readers have taken my comments on the...
