Tag Archive | "byron bay"
A local currency that was
Local currencies are coming back into popularity to judge by a couple issued by Transition initiatives in the UK. Australian social innovators, however, experimented with a local currency well before the British...
Continue reading...Less a town than a landscape
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
It's not the town, its the landscape it is set in that gives the Byron region its spectacular character. This I was taught by a sea eagle and by quietness as I gazed over coast and ocean to a northern horizon bounded by mountains...
Continue reading...The long road in the far north – on the local food speakers trail in northern NSW
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
MARCH DAYS ARE MILD DAYS in the sleepy northern NSW town of Lismore. And this year they were no different...
Continue reading...Fishing symbolises polarisation
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
A discussion with local fishermen hauling in their catch on a Byron Bay beach in 2006 disclosed how they might be the losers had environmentalists succeeded in having the area zoned as a marine reserve...
Continue reading...On Kerouac, Hemingway and a literary friend
Friday, July 13, 2007
First published in 2008. IF YOU HAVE TIME TO HANG AROUND, I’ll tell you a little story about literature and coincidence. It’s not a significant story nor an exciting one, rather a recounting on one of those minor occurrences that sometimes appear in our lives. A couple months ago I accidentally embarked on a Jack Kerouac reading [...]
Continue reading...Byron Bay — discovered and rediscovered
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
The first time I saw it, the North Coast lay inspiring and revealed from my vantage point part way down a steep, winding road that took me to the coastal plain below...
Continue reading...Byron backroads
Friday, August 27, 2004
It's magic country, those rolling hills of the Byron Bay hinterland, and dotted here an there among their folds are people who have moved from city to country in search of a new life...
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- Mark Diesendorf — from academia to climate action campaigner
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- Rosemary's retrofit a good home forever
- Lawson residents ready to garden as community
- Yvonne Gluyas: Yes, it WAS 'Barricades"!!! Now I remember that so...
- alfredo zotti: Dr Bob Rich has given some valuable feedback on my...
- alfredo zotti: I would like to add a correction here. My wife mis...
- Merilyn Thomas: Today I was waiting for my son to have an MRI in T...
- Jane Logan: Hi Russ I am doing an assignment for uni (I am st...
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