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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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Byron EchoGary Opit and Carmel Daoud, Wooyung - 0

Return Mullum hospital to Bundjalung

‘Public land should serve the public vision,’ Greens councillor Elia Hauge is quoted as saying in The Echo (May...
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Byron EchoZiggi Browning, Brunswick Heads - 0

Roadworks an upgrade?

I hope that Council kept their receipt for the Mullumbimby Road upgrade. Not even a year old and falling...
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Local NewsThe Echo - 0

Conversations in the Pub starts with Janelle Saffin

Conversations in the Pub – Lismore’s new civic meet-up – kicks off on Friday 19 June with its inaugural special guest, the NSW Minister for Small Business, Minister for Recovery, Minister for the North Coast and Member for Lismore Janelle Saffin MP.
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Local NewsThe Echo - 0

Gathering in the beauty of community

Community garden committees and volunteers from across the Northern Rivers and into South East Queensland gathered at Shara Community...
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Entertainment NewsEve Jeffery - 0

Interview with Pacific Avenue

South Coast rockers, Pacific Avenue, have left an indelible mark on the music industry, their debut studio album Flowers secured a spot as a number one Australian album earning two ARIA nominations. Now, their recently released second studio album, Lovesick Sentimental, looks to be heading in the same direction.
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Local NewsThe Echo - 0

Free Indigenous aquatic programs on offer in Tweed

Free aquatic exercise programs are now on offer in the Tweed Shire for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community members and their families. 
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Council seeks to improve its community consultation

Local News Paul Bibby - 0
Byron Shire Council has voted to beef up its community consultation process for large projects including significant policy changes.
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Criminal charges dropped against Michael Lyon

Local News David Lowe - 0
Criminal charges against former Byron Shire mayor and current councillor Michael Lyon were dismissed in Tweed Heads Courthouse today.
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Mark Swivel withdraws from Byron Independents

Local News The Echo - 1
Cr Mark Swivel has released a message on social media this morning saying he is withdrawing from the Byron Independents Team.
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Push to heat Mullum’s pool adopted

Local News Hans Lovejoy - 6
Mullumbimby’s public swimming pool could be heated all year round within a year, after Greens Byron Shire Councillor Sarah Ndiaye successfully won councillor support last Thursday to ‘urgently explore the option of installing a heating system’.
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Mayor says Cr Swivel’s populist flip-flopping on STRA ‘astounding’

Local News Hans Lovejoy - 3
Mayor Michael Lyon has told The Echo that Cr Mark Swivel’s letter to the planning minister, which was sent as an attachment to A Perfect Stay CEO Colin Hussey’s submission on Council’s STRA policy, ‘raises serious questions’.
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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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Forty per cent of Byron Shire residents yet to get first COVID 19 dose but mayor refuses to join vaccine campaign

Local News Mia Armitage - 73
Byron Shire Mayor Michael Lyon is refusing to join other health, political and community leaders in calls for people to receive a COVID 19 vaccine.
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Council hopeful of sand returning to eroded Byron beaches

Local News The Echo - 3
The Byron Shire Council reported ‘indications’ late last week that sand was returning to the popular beaches.
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Resident groups split over unauthorised dwelling policy

Local News Aslan Shand - 0
With Council extending public submissions  by one week for landowners to respond to the draft Unauthorised Dwelling Policy, resident groups appear to be divided on the issue.
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Acting mayor ‘happy’ to push for pill testing

Local News The Echo - 2
Acting Byron Shire mayor Michael Lyon says if anyone wants the council to call on the NSW government for pill-testing at festivals, all they need do is ask.
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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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