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Byron EchoEdward Kent, Suffolk Park - 0

Financial woes

Byron Shire’s financial woes are not the result of a lack of money, but rather the waste of it....
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Local NewsThe Echo - 0

Tweed Shire fisher faces court

A Tweed Shire commercial fisher pleaded guilty last week to six offences in relation to illegal fishing activity.
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Local NewsThe Echo - 0

Teen charged over Mullum crash

A fifteen-year-old is to face court later this month accused of a crash in Mullumbimby that police say left another child hospitalised while the offender fled the scene.
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Local NewsThe Echo - 0

Ballina Shire Council’s special rate variation approved

Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) has approved Ballina Shire Council's application to increase its general income through a permanent special variation (SV) of 26.25% [in rates] over four years, from 2026-27 to 2029-30.
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Byron EchoLiz Levy, Suffolk Park - 0

No thanks, Greens

Yes Duncan Dey (Letters, 27 May), Australia could deliver a full-throated verbal shirtfront that might appease the algorithmically outraged...
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LettersLouise Doran, Ocean Shore - 0

Trains vs buses

As one of the many thousands of locals who have been involved in the long campaign for accessible, socially, environmentally, and cost...
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Byron EchoPaul Jones, Byron Bay - 0

Keating quotes

Kinda tripping on former PM Paul Keating for the moment, here are a few historical quotes: On the dismantling...
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Stories about "Cr Alan Hunter":

Byron Council rejects Urbis holiday-let cap report, vows to lobby for 90-day limit

Local News Mia Armitage - 5
The Byron Shire Council has voted to continue lobbying the state government for a 90-day cap on holiday rentals in certain parts of the shire.
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Knife-wielding criminal on the loose in Byron Bay

Local News Aslan Shand - 8
A terrifying media release is still on the loose in Byron Bay after escaping from the computers of Council candidates Rhett Holt and Cr Alan Hunter.  'It is a frightful to wake up at three in the morning to a man blood dripping with a backpack full of knives using your shower,' the [sic] release said...
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Byron Councillor seeks mandatory contact with new rural landowners

Local News The Echo - 0
A Notice of Motion before Byron Council this Thursday aims to formalise ‘a mandatory initial contact for Council with all new purchasers of land in the rural areas of our Shire to ensure they are aware of this service’.
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Byron Councillor wins court case against Council

Local News The Echo - 2
Councillor Alan Hunter has won a court case against the very council he was elected to, perhaps ending a protracted battle with his neighbours over his desire to operate a self-storage facility at the end of a short rural road in Myocum.
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Byron council GM to wrangle Cr Hunter’s DA

Local News Aslan Shand - 1
The ongoing saga of Cr Alan Hunter’s development application for a self-storage facility on his property at the end of Pinegroves Road in Myocum continues as councillors in confidential session handed responsibility for the DA to general manager Ken Gainger.
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Councillor takes Council to court

Local News Hans Lovejoy - 2
There’s a new chapter to a seemingly neverending drama revolving around National Party-aligned councillor Alan Hunter’s battle to operate a self-storage facility on his rural Myocum property.
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Cr Hunter’s move will hurt Byron ratepayers

Letters The Echo - 1
Graham Mathews, Myocum. Bloodied but unbowed! After the almost unanimous rejection of his 2016 Development Application for his mega-mini-storage complex by his fellow Byron shire councillors, the worthy Cr Alan Hunter strikes back with an appeal to the Land and Environment Court against the decision.
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Byron councillor’s self-storage development refused

Local News The Echo - 2
A proposal for a controversial large self-storage facility on a short road in Myocum by Byron Cr Alan Hunter was rejected at last Thursday’s council meeting.
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Rate rise amid fears of amalgamation

Local News Aslan Shand - 1
Byron Shire Council has forged ahead with the Special Rates Variation (SRV) amid fears of amalgamation at Thursday’s council meeting. Councillor Alan Hunter's DA refused as council awaits a review of current trial DA in 2017.
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Pinegroves Road accident a salient lesson

Letters The Echo - 0
Graham Mathews, Byron Bay. Our darkest fears about increased traffic flow in Pinegroves Road generally and the resulting potential for accidents at the corner with...
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Byron Echo

Return Mullum hospital to Bundjalung

Gary Opit and Carmel Daoud, Wooyung - 0
‘Public land should serve the public vision,’ Greens councillor Elia Hauge is quoted as saying in The Echo (May 20) under the headline ‘Community...
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Byron Echo

Israel’s rehabilitation

John Scrivener, Main Arm - 0
Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians has not ended and it will not end before Israel officially renounces its intention to exterminate or expel the...
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Byron Echo

ISIS vs Australian Israelis

Marianne McCormack, Billinudgel - 0
Dear Rod Murray (Letters, 27 May) In reply to your very long letter, far exceeding 250 words, (in itself telling), it was never my...
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Byron Echo

Lennox development

Alison Vickery, Lennox Head - 0
The proposed Saltwood development at Ross Lane raises serious concerns for local residents. You cannot engineer away local knowledge. Residents with decades of lived experience of...
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