Byron Shire GM Hits Back at Rate-Rise Claims

Byron Shire Council General Manager Ken Gainger has responded to critics of the council’s rate-rise plan. Photo: Supplied.

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BYRON SHIRE General Manager Ken Gainger has contacted The Echo in an effort to address complaints about the Shire’s controversial plan to raise rates above the state cap.

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Sara Connor: ‘I often wonder if it would’ve been better not to try to help’

Sara and David Taylor walking around Kerobokan jail on Wednesday. Photo: Alan Putra.

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BYRON BAY mum Sara Connor often thinks about what might have happened had she not tried to intervene in a fight between her boyfriend and a stranger on Kuta beach that fateful August night.

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Byron Bay’s Tallow Beach Trashed After Illegal Beach Party

DISREGARD: Revellers using the ecologically sensitive foreshore at Tallow Creek in Arakwal National Park for their own hedonistic pleasure. Photo: Contributed.

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THEY PROBABLY think they are being “in tune” with their environment by having a party on the beach, but they’re sorely mistaken.

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