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Flood on Prince Street
It seems that the strongest impediment to the Prince Street temporary housing is the addition of fill to the...
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Charity day a big win for Moonshiners
The Mullumbimby Moonshiners rugby union raised over $7000 at their annual Beyond Blue Charity Day last weekend, and collected...
Tweed Council refuse aged care facility Tweed Heads
The proposed aged care facility at Caloola Drive Tweed Heads (DA20/0712) was refused at the Tweed Shire Council meeting last Thursday.
Singing songs of sorrow and resilience
Tucked away in a Mullumbimby music studio, a group of local musicians have been pouring their hearts out through song.
Santos garden
I walked into the open gate at the Santos community garden space with my three-year-old and was asked very...
Mandy Nolan’s Soapbox: For Sale: Moral compass
Some weeks it’s hard to navigate the big feelings I have around injustice; the kind of injustice that occurs every day, everywhere, underwritten by the privilege of some at the expense of the many. The shit stuff people get away with! The shit stuff no one notices. Shit stuff always happens to people who don’t have much to start with. I sometimes wonder how you can hear story after story and not realise the system is broken. Capitalism sucks. Let’s go break stuff – like, the dominant paradigm! We haven’t managed to subvert it – so can we smash it into tiny pieces? Please?
Second independent assessment of Iron Gates DA in Evans Head recommends refusal
Two independent reports on the Iron Gates development at Evans Heads have determined that it should not go ahead.
Stories about "Mary Gardner":
Jim Beatson and Mary Gardner – a valediction forbidding mourning
Jim and Mary are moving to Queensland. I am pretty sad about it. Even if you don’t know them, they have been your friends too because, separately and together, they have done so much for Byron.
The small fry in a world of baleen giants
Like others that day at the Cape Byron lighthouse, David Bryant saw this small whale ride a wave. Skilled photographer that he is, he had his camera to the ready and took this photo that has flashed its way through media around the world.
Protocols, process, and system failures
In the lagoon, the pace of winter life during the long dry seems pretty settled. The growth of small estuarine prawns slows down. Bream now five years old are grown up, itching for saltwater and their winter spawn.
Are there more sharks in our waters?
Are there more sharks or have we just become accustomed to vanishing species in our midst?
Trees or biotechnological genetic rescue?
We peered through the branches amazed to see this colourful bird, resting one wing awkwardly. By the next day it would be dead.
Batting for bats: their vital role in forestry
Flying foxes live life large across the landscape. They are the chief pollinators and seed carriers for many species of forest trees.
It’s not over till the big trucks fill
It’s not a done deal. The swamplands that define Byron Bay are crippled but still alive. The NSW Joint Regional Planning Panel is still debating how mega-development of West Byron might harm the Cumbebin Nature Reserve and the Belongil waterway.
Ancient anger a potent symbol for modern times
This replica nawi, unlike the bark canoe at the Maritime Museum, is oversized and made of steel. It is moored at a cove at Barangaroo, the inner city place named after a Cammeraygal woman.
Explore the waterways and let curiosity lead
Where to go during the holidays? Try following waterways and discovering waterplaces. Start with a ramble down some path or an hour along a shore: curiosity will take over. Where did this water come from? What is it doing now? Where might it go? What does it mean?
It’s time to plan the urban forest: Let’s grow trees
In our town, from December to January, each Royal Poinciana Delonix regia blooms. The magnificent red flowers cascade over the soft green leaves.
Editorial
Editorial – Bye bye, Prince St froggies
It’s worth pausing to reflect on the mass frogacide that just happened on Prince Street, Mullum, which was led by unquestioning Byron Shire councillors and Resilience NSW.
Byron Echo
Byron Council to vote on major flood recovery works
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Major drainage enhancements in flood-affected areas, and the employment of a Council officer to help residents rebuild and return to their homes, are among a raft of measures proposed by Byron Council under the latest round of disaster funding.
Byron Echo
Car park housing
In recent weeks the idea by Council to develop the existing car park in Station Street has dropped out of the news and out...
Byron Echo
Secrecy surrounds govt’s Reconstruction Corp
Echo questions remain unanswered around the advisory board appointments for the Northern Rivers Reconstruction Corporation, which the NSW government says will help with ‘rebuilding flood-affected Northern Rivers’.
