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Fast Buck$ ejected from Byron Council meeting
During this morning's Byron Shire Council meeting a dispute between the Mayor Simon Richardson and local activist and agitator Fast Buck$ over the pronunciation of Cr Sarah Ndiaye's name led to the meeting being suspended.
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Affordable myth
Patricia Warren, Brunswick Heads
There is a ‘myth of affordable housing’ in Byron Shire.
Well may councillors lament the lack of ‘affordable...
You Donne good
Liz Levy, Suffolk Park
I’d like to thank whoever decided to reprint John Donne’s beautiful poem ‘No Man is an Island’...
Could pyrolysis help solve the plastics crisis?
Philippe Dupuy from the Lismore Environment Centre thinks there is a role for pyrolysis technology in dealing with the global plastic waste dilemma, with new technology making it possible to turn plastic waste into a useful resource.
Midwife quits
Deb Walsh, Fernleigh
It’s become untenable for me to continue working in hospitals. I have quit. I will be deregistered soon...
An insult, Poppa
From what I can understand, Poppa Veet Mayo’s letter seems to imply that this latest COVID scare is a...
A coast in need of management
It appears that the long-suffering management of perhaps the region’s most precious resource and attraction, Byron Shire’s beaches and estuaries, are not a high priority for Sydney-based bureaucrats and the Liberal-Nationals government.
Stories about "Myanmar elections":
Adani’s links to Myanmar military condemned
A report released on 30 March by the Australian Centre for International Justice revealed Adani has paid over $US50 million to the military-aligned Myanmar Economic Corporation to lease land for its Yangon International Terminal.
Local News
Shenhua gone and Breeza breathes again
Eve Jeffery - 0
In a much-hoped-for move, the NSW Government and the China Shenhua Energy Company Limited have reached a $100 million agreement in which Shenhua will withdraw its mining lease application and surrender its development consent for the Shenhua Watermark Coal project at Breeza on the Liverpool Plains.
Byron Echo
Pandemic plate lickers release lockdown dessert
Eve Jeffery - 0
The 2020 pandemic lockdown meant the entire entertainment industry was cancelled, but making music cannot be cancelled.
Byron Echo
5MW solar farm funding under question
A 5MW solar farm proposed for Myocum, located near the Byron Resource Recovery Centre, poses a ‘high degree of risk’, and could jeopardise funding for other large Council infrastructure projects, according to a staff report, to be tabled at this Thursday’s meeting.
Byron Echo
Tony Barry, Ben Chifley and FD’s Four Freedoms
Eve Jeffery - 0
Local actor-vist, Tony Barry, has taken on a lot since he moved to the Northern Rivers, and though cancer took one of his legs, Tony still manages to put in the hard yards for social, environmental and human rights causes.
