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Forum to address housing emergency, March 8
A grassroots movement is bringing women, community and art together on International Women’s Day (March 8) in an urgent push to solve the local housing emergency.
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Monkey see
Daniel Brown, Byron Bay
Back in my early youth growing up in Mt Eliza Victoria in the ‘90s I’d secretly...
Green Spine parking
Ian Kingston, Mullumbimby
I am concerned at the apparent loss of parking spaces proposed in the centre of Mullum under...
Fossil investments
Brian Mollet, Mullumbimby
It is with considerable incredulity that I read in last week’s Echo that Byron Shire has a lazy...
PM forced
Narelle Rendalls, Ballina
With reference to the recent serious sexual assault allegations in Canberra, our Prime Minister has a lot to...
Police looking for missing Pottsville woman
Police say they are seeking public assistance to locate a woman missing from Pottsville for almost a week.
Australia’s bastardry
Gareth W R Smith, Byron Bay
Australia has a long string of racist and anti-humanitarian policies. These range from its...
Stories about "wanted man":
Police seek man wanted for violent offences
Police are calling for public help in trying to find a 27-year-old man wanted for domestic-violence offences in NSW.
Local News
Bangalow blackspot puts school children at risk
Paul Bibby - 1
Will action ever be taken to protect school kids getting on and off the bus on Lismore Road, Bangalow as trucks fly by at 80km/h?
Local News
Lifting the lid on plans to build a retirement village in Ewingsdale
Paul Bibby - 1
The letter sent to the residents of Ewingsdale last year by holiday park owner Ingenia seemed fairly innocuous at first glance...
Local News
Byron’s new road: the good and not so
After more than 30 years of talk, debate, disagreements, tears and political gridlock, Byron Bay has a new road to divert traffic from the CBD to the southern end of town.
Byron Echo
Interview with Janet Swain
Janet Swain is 14. She’s in love with the tragic and brilliant cellist Jacquleine DuPré. But one day her mother arrives home with a bassoon.