In 2020 then Greens Mayor Simon Richardson used his casting vote to facilitate the rezoning of flood-prone, environmentally constrained and sensitive coastal land at the former Club Med site at 144 Bayshore Drive, Byron Bay, now Elements of Byron resort.

As the Club Med battle described in the previous episode approached its climax, the leader of Council’s conservatives, Ross Tucker, decided on a diversion.

By the beginning of 1993 The Echo had outgrown its A4 page size, and our first large-format edition appeared in March that year. The increased work combined with the ritual of putting the paper to bed on Monday nights became quite stressful.