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Byron EchoThe Echo - April 23, 20240

Sweet and sour doughnuts

Victoria Cosford ‘It’s probably a good thing I don’t have a sweet tooth,’ says Megan. I’ve called in at the pop-up...

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Byron EchoEcho - April 23, 20240

Tweed Shire asking for input on sporting needs

Tweed Shire Council’s (TSC) draft Sport and Active Recreation Strategy 2023-2033 is open for public comment. The strategy will provide...

Byron EchoEcho - April 23, 20240

Try-fest for Byron Bay in local league

The Byron Bay A-grader league players left the Clarence Valley on Saturday afternoon after scoring 11 tries on their...

Byron EchoPaul Bibby - April 19, 20240

Funds sought to complete clubhouse

Byron Bay Football Club may finally get the funds to complete its new clubhouse, with Byron councillors to consider loaning the club $200,000 at this week’s meeting.

Byron EchoThe Echo - April 23, 20240

Heart and Song Gold Coast Chamber Orchestra with soprano, Gaynor Morgan

Join us for an enchanting afternoon as Byron Music Society proudly presents ‘Heart and Song.’ Prepare to be immersed in a program meticulously crafted by the Gold Coast Chamber Orchestra, showcasing a world premiere composition. Well-known soprano, Gaynor Morgan, will be premiering a setting of poems by Seamus Heaney and Robert Graves, skilfully arranged for soprano, harp, cello and string orchestra by prominent Northern Rivers musician Nicholas Routley.

Byron EchoThe Echo - April 23, 20240

Wallum ponds

There are currently two proposed developments in the Byron Shire that will endanger, if not locally exterminate, frog species. Many...

Byron EchoPaul Bibby - April 23, 20241

Increased Byron Council fees on the cards as fossil fuel investments decrease

Byron Council’s financial ship is beginning to list concerningly, taking from its reserves and other funds in order to bail out its bottom line.

The time has come for Byron Shire to save the world – Mandy’s in, are you?

Byron Echo The Echo - January 6, 2021 15

When we met, in 1971, Mungo MacCallum was already piercing the egos of Canberra pollies, and I was putting out a paper called 'The Digger', which championed the many movements seeking to replace cultures that had passed their use-by dates.

Oh, how we will miss Mungo’s column!

Byron Echo The Echo - December 11, 2020 2

Carole Gamble, Mullumbimby Creek One of the unexpected joys of moving to Mullumbimby fifteen years ago was to discover the treasures in our midst. Certainly to...

Vale Mungo MacCallum

Local News The Echo - December 10, 2020 43

Mungo Wentworth MacCallum: December 21, 1941 – December 9, 2020

Go well Mungo

Byron Echo The Echo - December 10, 2020 3

Dave Lisle, Goonengerry A brief note appended to Mungo’s column last week advised that he was too ill to continue working. His swansong was, as always,...

Thank you Mungo

Byron Echo The Echo - December 9, 2020 1

Kate Ramsay, Goonengerry I was sad to read in last week’s Echo that it contained Mungo’s last ever column. I moved to this region in 1996 and...

Thus Spake Mungo: Australians all let us…

Thus Spake Mungo Mungo MacCallum - November 23, 2020 13

Our national anthem is back on the playlist, and as always for the wrong reasons.

Thus Spake Mungo: the faction

Byron Echo Mungo MacCallum - November 16, 2020 34

Joel Fitzgibbon’s resignation from the front bench does not change the policy of the Labor Party, nor its leadership. But it does change the mechanics.

Thus Spake Mungo: Crunch Tuesday

Byron Echo Eve Jeffery - November 2, 2020 36

Two crunch Tuesdays for Australia and the US coming up: not just the Melbourne Cup, vital as that is for the nation’s well-being. November 4 (Tuesday...

Thus Spake Mungo: duck-shoving

Byron Echo Mungo MacCallum - October 26, 2020 13

In the far-off innocent days before the spin doctors decreed that backbenchers should cease thinking for themselves, a few brave souls were prepared to respond to questions more or less spontaneously