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It is curious that Cr Michael Lyon was elected as a Greens councillor in 2016, and after quitting that party owing to a lack of support, he now does everything he can to undermine that party. That includes putting fellow conservative candidate Cr Alan Hunter ahead of the Greens with his preferences, calling into question his commitment to sustainable development. Contrast that to the approach of Duncan Dey (Greens), page 6. Just a reminder that The Byron Farmers Market will move back to Butler Street Reserve permanently from December 2, just in time for Christmas. Council staff say, ‘For two-and-a-half years the market has been held at the Cavanbah Centre after Butler Street Reserve was temporarily closed in 2019 when work started on the Byron Bay Bypass. The EPA have given approval for the Byron Farmers Market to return to a small, stable section of Butler Street Reserve following over two years of on-site contamination investigations’. John Anderson appears to have moved his mayoral campaign platform from victimisation (he’s banned from Council premises and has an ongoing AVO with a councillor) to now digging into the controversial Byron Bypass project – see pages 28, 29. As for his ‘complaint’ against The Echo editor for trivialising the campaign by asking candidates their star signs, fair enough. It was just one question, John. Next week, The Echo will publish a comprehensive list of answers from candidates around policy and past Council
decisions. For example, who is happy that Byron’s CBD height limits keep creeping upwards, and why are the current councillors so clueless in that regard? The family of backpacker Théo Hayez are on their way to Australia from Belgium, for the inquest into his disappearance on May 31, 2019. Eighteen-year-old Théo was last seen leaving Cheeky Monkey’s nightclub in Byron around 11pm that night. An investigation began on June 6, 2019, and the inquest will begin in Byron Bay next Monday, November 29, and will last for two weeks. If you are wondering about the PM’s motive in pushing the voter ID bill, consider the words of Paul Weyrich (a US Republican of the Reagan era): ‘I don’t want everybody to vote… As a matter of fact, quite candidly, our leverage in the elections goes up as the voting populace goes down.’
If every political actor proudly wore the logos of corporations that give them bucketloads of money, would you vote for them? The reimagined picture is of Liberal Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, oafishly handing around coal in parliament in 2017. Unsurprisingly, many Council candidates have refused to disclose to The Echo who is paying for their campaigns – so far. Photo from internet
Surprise! Billionaire miner Clive Palmer’s vanity project, the United Australia Party (UAP), will preference the Liberals and Nationals at the upcoming federal election. Seems you can’t trust Clive or the UAP party, either. Tower Holdings, led by wealthy developer, Terry Agnew, is about to start work on the large land release at West Byron. Called Harvest Estate, it will not comprise of affordable housing because NSW government MPs own a lot of ‘investment properties’. Pssst: Grace Tame for PM. It would like be putting a real adult in charge who doesn’t lie. How good are non-liars?
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