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To all the good-looking and talented millionaires of Byron – listen up! If you would like to see public submissions for a major land rezoning proposal that Council is refusing to release without considerable payment, then contact us regarding the funding of the freedom of info request: email editor@echo.net.au. Australia’s financial dispute resolution scheme has for the first time recorded 100,000 complaints in a calendar year. The Australian Financial Complaints Authority says it is a jump of 23 per cent from 2022. 102,790 consumers and small businesses were unable to resolve disputes directly with their financial firms, they say. For more information visit www.afca.org.au. A takeaway from the release of Jeffrey Epstein’s client list is not that it includes Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Prince Andrew, former Israeli PM Ehud Barak and Stephen Hawking; it is just that so far, only one person, Ghislaine Maxwell, is in jail. And she’s female. What is the US Dept of Justice doing about this? And who killed Epstein? Recently, 124kg of cocaine washed up on beaches around Wyong and the police helpfully told the public where to look should more appear: Magenta Beach, Pelican Beach, Blacksmith Beach, Avoca Beach, Pentaloon Bay and North Steyne Beach. ICYMI, Byron celebrity wedding celebrant, Adam Magnus, pleaded guilty earlier this month to using a carriage service to procure a child under 16 for sexual
Is black-and-white better? Photographer John McCormick thinks so. John’s son, Hamish McCormick, screened a film of John’s work while his dad chatted to Echo drudge and happy snapper, Jeff ‘JD’ Dawson, at the Drill Hall on Monday night. It was part of the Too Young to be Angels season. The trio spent a wonderful hour pondering the history of the area and John’s prolific photographic career. Photo Eve Jeffery activity and using a carriage service to groom a child under 16. According to SMH (Nine), ‘Judge Priestly sentenced Magnus to 27 months in prison, with 14 months non-parole, meaning he will be eligible for release in May 2024 under strict conditions’.
Heads up, February 14 will see the V-Day morning protest dance to end violence on Byron’s Main Beach from 7am, which is followed by The Vagina Conversations; held at the Brunswick Picture House February 14,15 and 16.
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infrastructure will cope for 130 proposed dwellings at the town’s old hospital site.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) annual shindig is about to kick off at Davos, Switzerland, from January 15–19. The 0.0001 per cent will no doubt fly over in their private jets and feast on Kobe beef steaks while telling us to stop using fossil fuels. No irony here – that’s what they always do.
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