AUSTRALIA’S SUMMER music calendar is heating up with Falls Festival teasing their 2016-17 line-up with the revelation rapper Childish Gambino will see in New Year’s at their event.
Known as Donald Glover on his passport, the actor and popular musician was the only name organisers are prepared to announce ahead of their official line-up roll call on August 23.
Amelia “Millie” Telford, Bundjalung National Co-Director, has been nominated in this year’s Cosmopolitan Australian Woman of the Year awards under the Game Changer category.
THE FIRST meeting to reclaim Tyagarah Beach and its adjacent lake from sexual perverts will be Tuesday 9th July at the Gondwana Meditation Hall.
Organizer Yuti McLean said the meeting is to discuss holding a rally to be held in support of women who wish to use the Tyagarah beach and lake without feeling threatened by sexual predators.
BYRON BAY has the second highest number of rough sleepers in NSW, behind inner-city Sydney.
Over the last decade, Byron Shire has found itself reliant on tourism and the economic benefits that come with it.
But there are pitfalls, too. House prices rival that of Sydney, Paris, and New York City. Rental prices are going up.
SIXTY TENTS from the Splendour in the Grass site in Byron Bay were salvaged by volunteers from On Track Community Programs (OTCP) and Connecting Home.
BYRON BAY-based photographer and documentary filmmaker Evan Malcolm has had his short environmental documentary film ‘Lapse of Reason’ announced as a finalist in the documentary/social commentary category at the International Timelapse Festival in California.
The Timelapse Film Festival in California is the premiere event for the timelapse community, worldwide.
In today’s installment of I Can’t Believe I’ve Been Doing This Wrong All My Life, blogger Martin Schapendonk (what a name) shares his secret knowledge on how to peel sticky notes correctly.
THE LACK of affordable housing for people wanting to rent or buy in Byron Shire is something that Greens Cr Simon Richardson has been working hard to address.
Cr Richardson is running again for Mayor 2016-2020 and one of his main priorities is affordable housing in the shire.
“When community workers, older residents wanting to downsize, young locals looking to move out of home but stay near their parents … and young families are forced to leave the Shire because of high rents and high property prices, it makes Byron Shire a poorer place,” he said.
NEW SOUTH Wales Minister for Planning, Hon Rob Stokes, will be petitioned by the Byron Greens to send Byron Shire’s draft Coastal Zone Management Plan for the Byron Bay Embayment (CZMPBBE) back to Council for revision.
The draft Plan proposes hard works to resolve the conflict perceived between natural coastal processes and real estate boundaries at Belongil Beach.
BYRON WRITERS Festival will not only boast a lineup of more than 150 brilliant writers and thinkers, it will help change perceptions and challenge stereotypes about growing older in Australia.
Backed by major sponsor, Feros Care, the Byron Bay Writers Festival is renowned for its stimulating lineup and this year’s program is no different, asking the provocative question, “What Sort of Old Do You Want to Be?”
