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Mud benda rant
Regarding last week’s Splendour Festival and all the ‘haters’ out there. I took along a few seriously fun-deprived teenage...
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More wildlife please
When a wallaby loped across the dirt road, my heart leapt. It used to be common to spot wallabies...
Recognising history
I arrived in Mullum from Sydney in 1976 – I loved the town and the people and felt like...
Council acknowledges desire for house relocations, buybacks and land swaps
Last night Lismore Council looked at House Relocations, Land swaps and Buy Backs when Councillor Adam Guise’s moved a motion that “Council acknowledges flood impacted ratepayers' desire for house relocations, buybacks and land swaps."
Mullum locals protest flood-prone pod site
Around 40–50 locals gathered outside the Byron Shire Council chambers this morning to highlight the risks of, and lack of due process around, the selection of the flood accommodation pod site in Mullumbimby.
Revoke Splendour consent
The legislation that gave Splendour consent has been revoked. Splendour’s consent should also now be revoked.
Originally Byron Council gave...
A well-thought-out blend
Noy Ben Ami says that he ‘feels the vibe of the crowd and place’ before he starts to play his original music.
Stories about "WA senate election":
Can rooftop solar change political power in Australia?
The mining industry still quietly boasts about the slick advertising campaign they ran in 2011 and 2012 to kill off the super profits tax.
Letters
Autocracy or democracy for Byron Shire?
The New Yorker Magazine recently wrote a quote from Mr Rupert Murdoch ‘The truth is authoritarian governments do work!’ Hold that thought.
It has been...
Byron Echo
Criminalising protest
In another Sstate government descent into criminalising protest, to protect their own government’s sabotage of a liveable planet, last Thursday new laws were passed...
Byron Echo
Mullum pods
First, Hans Lovejoy’s article ‘emergency wedged’ was educational, factual and provided valuable information to the community. Michele Grant’s letter (27 July) was emotive overgeneralisations...
Local News
Flood residents get $650 from Lismore Council
Lismore City Mayor Steve Krieg today announced that 1,558 residents will receive a grant of $650 from the Lismore Flood Appeal.