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Asren Pugh, Labor candidate for Mayor Labor has a very long and proud history as part of the Byron Shire community with the Byron Bay branch recently celebrating its 100th anniversary. We have seen this community change from farming, to working class industrial, then through the Aquarius revolution to the beautiful, kind and progressive community it is today. It was Labor that created all of our local National Parks and Nature Reserves, from Tyagarah to Cumbebin Swamp to Arakwal National Park. Sandra Heilpern asks what Labor has to do with local government. It has been Labor councillor, Paul...

Premium Content Subscriber only A matter of urgency regarding Telstra’s 5G technology rollout was brought before Byron Shire Council’s recent meeting. Before the meeting closed on Thursday afternoon, the motion was brought before the council by Cr Sarah Ndiaye and deputy mayor Michael Lyon. Mayor Simon Richardson allowed the matter of a planned upgrade of an existing communications tower at Bottlebrush Crescent in Suffolk Park to be put to a debate as an urgent item, in light of the fact submissions on the proposal are due prior to May 3. They asked that the council send an objection to ...

Premium Content Byron Shire Council has approved a contentious development in Brunswick Heads. A group of community members were in the public gallery to show their opposition to the development application for The Corso, a mixed-use boarding house and commercial development in the Bayside area, when the council met on Thursday. The $6.3 million proposal, from Oniva Pty Ltd, proposed business spaces, shop-top housing and a boarding house at 94 Kingsford Drive. Judith Brazenor, representing Bayside Connected, told councillors they would be “voting to disregard 20 plus years of (their) own pl...

Premium Content Subscriber only Byron Shire councillors have been at loggerheads over the future of the shire's rail corridor. Councillor Paul Spooner sought for the council to suspend all work on the Byron Shire Rail with Trail project at the council's meeting on Thursday. While a solar train runs between Elements of Byron Resort and the CBD, the remainder of the shire's rail corridor remains disused, with its future unclear for now. Cr Spooner's motion sought information on whether discussions took place between the council's staff and the mayor or any the councillor as to "the perceive...

The new multi-day event has been touted as a way to boost the local music industry.