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Byron Shire
October 17, 2026

Tangle of Life

Articles & Columns

Marine life booms, with a helping hand

From how far can the cries of a seabird be heard? The gannets that dive here in the waters of Byron shire nest on rock ledges of the West Coast in the Waitakere Ranges. With their every cry come words from across the shared ocean.
Mary Gardner - 1
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Byron Echo

Bringing home the roadkill

I brought home the roadkill. The raggedy dead butterfly is called a Common Crow, perhaps a female. But imagine: alive she might have migrated along the coast from Moreton Bay fig trees to frangipanis.
Mary Gardner - 0
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Articles & Columns

Mary Gardner: A few of my favourite things

Mary Gardner One of my favourite things is meeting this...
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Planet Watch

Byron Echo

Smart tech for a hot planet: how AI is powering climate action

Dr Willow Hallgren - 4
As the impacts of climate change crash down around us – megafires, record floods, brutal heatwaves – it’s easy to despair. But amid the climate chaos, a new and potent ally has emerged: Artificial Intelligence.
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Planet Watch

Planet Watch: Are humans the disease?

David Lowe - 16
Humans have told a lot of stories about how awesome we are, but there's one emerging hypothesis that casts our species in a very anti-heroic light. In terms of the planet, are we behaving like a disease?
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Planet Watch

Planet Watch: War and the environment

David Lowe - 12
War is probably as old as humanity. The natural world is much older, of course, but it's been damaged and affected by human conflicts since we first started killing each other.
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The Vault

This is the place where content comes to rest. In this section you may find items of interest in the form of discontinued columns, historical stories other curious.

Just remember that this is not breaking news, so don’t be fooled; enjoy.

Culture Roundups

Entertainment News

Culture Wrap April 23

The Space Cowboy returns to his hometown Byron Bay with a performance jam-packed with his latest stunts and revelations.
The Echo - 0
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Entertainment News

Culture wrap up February 25

We start our Culture column this week with a treat for poetry lovers ho are in for a very special evening of words and music at the first Poetry at the Paradiso for the year.
The Echo - 0
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Entertainment News

Culture August 27

A feast of cultural events including art, comedy, concerts, cabaret and theatre is on offer throughout the north coast this week, headed up by Opera Australia's workshops with schools in the Tweed working on their production of The Magic Flute – an Indiana Jones-inspired tale of adventure.
The Echo - 0
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Entertainment News

Culture Roundup: Wednesday 1 February, 2017

Illumination of Water Dave Sparkes’s upcoming exhibition Illumination will be...
The Echo - 0
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Story Comp Winners

Local NewsThe Echo - 1

Winner of Echo story comp: week 6

Mandy Nolan Thanks so much to all the writers who submitted stories...
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Echo History

Expansionist plans! The Echo embarks on the Lismore foray: a town too far

A major milestone in The Echo’s history occurred in 1991: we decided to start another weekly newspaper.
Articles & Columns David Lovejoy - 0
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The Echo dream bursts into being with a dash of controversy

Part two: So far in the story, Nicholas Shand has been unable to get local media to cover police hooliganism in the Main Arm Valley, and has invited David Lovejoy to join him in starting a newspaper…
Articles & Columns David Lovejoy - 3
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Changing Council and premises

By the election of September 1995 most people had had enough of Cr Ross Tucker and his crew. Although at that stage the evidence of the colossal mismanagement of Council’s planning and finances had yet to emerge
Articles & Columns David Lovejoy - 1
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Being Vegan

Being Vegan

Being Vegan: Let me tell ya ’bout the birds and the bees (Part 2)

Eve Jeffery - 7
Honey bees make honey as a way of storing food to eat over the cooler winter period, when they are unable to forage and there are fewer flowers from which to gather food
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Sustainability

Being vegan: Where do vegans get their protein?

Eve Jeffery - 16
You can eat a plant-based diet and get plenty of protein. Like any balanced diet, if you eat properly you will get all the nutrients you need. This is the first article in our monthly Being Vegan series.
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Byron Echo

Crossword solver’s guide: Stephen Clarke’s Crossword #36

Stephen Clarke - 0
This solvers guide is to Stephen Clarke’s Crossword #36, published in The Byron Shire Echo Issue 39.30, 1 January 2025.
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Local News

Police go APES on the Gold Coast

A field of more than 3,600 competitors are on the Gold Coast to take part in this week’s Australasian Police and Emergency Services Games (APES).
The Echo - 0
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Byron Echo

The price of ignorance

What often gets described as ‘racism’ in Australia is...
Mike Balson, Upper Wilsons Creek - 0
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Byron Echo

Dear Brunswick

After 11 wonderful years, the time has come for...
Vinnie, Teagan, Odette, Marlon, and Monty, Brunswick Heads Post Office - 0
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