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How can we keep paying for incompetence

The only way forward is going backwards. That’s how I explain the current situation of Byron Shire Council. The...

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Big Council rates rise coming – SRV for ratepayers

The proposed 35.03 per cent rates increase over three years to Byron Shire ratepayers is extremely concerning. I fully understand...

Happy councillors

Our councillors should be happy, even proud to be part of a community that so values participatory democracy. A...

Lower the age

It was pleasing to see smart young people around the county coming out recently to protest idiotic political leaders...

Ocean Shores golf winners

The Ocean Shores division one team won the clubs first ever NRDGA division one pennant flag.

Byron Writers Fest

Like everyone else, I am still bathing in the warm inner glow and sanctuary of being surrounded by like-minded...

Robot armies

Nuclear war now seems a matter of not if, but when: the bulletin of atomic scientists now has us...

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Steve Bolt talks activism and the law

Lismore-based lawyer Steve Bolt has recently retired, after thirty years of practice in the Northern Rivers. The Echo caught up with this illustrious local legal legend to talk about the intersection of activism and the law, in his own life and the wider community.

Naked and told to squat in a corner: a 16-yr-old’s Splendour experience

Sixteen years old, lining up to get into a music festival, separated from friends, taken into a tent and forced to strip.

Greens urged to back pathway to end native forest logging

Some of NSW’s most respected and long-standing forest campaigners and scientists have today urged the Greens not to support the Nationals' attempt to disallow the Improved Native Forest Management (INFM) method.

Ballina Council makes decision on Ross Lane

With the absence of all four of its progressive councillors for various reasons, Ballina Council pushed ahead with its agenda at yesterday's monthly meeting, including a decision which is likely to close Ross Lane for months while the road is upgraded.

Mullumbimby puts new governance models first, and now wants to build it

Imagine Northern Rivers says Mullumbimby is the only community across the region to rank new models of governance and decision-making as the number one element of its preferred future, and last week locals gathered to work out how to make it real.

Appeal to locate man missing from Broadwater

Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate a local missing man.