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By Mia Armitage and Hans Lovejoy
With more than 30 candidates announced so far for this year’s local government elections in the Byron Shire, the council’s nine seats are the most hotly contested on the Northern Rivers.
Campaigns started early compared to previous election years, after a twelve-month delay due to the pandemic.
One of the most noticeable features of the 2021 Byron Shire Council elections has been the number of independents wanting to win power.
There were already six independent tickets announced by late July, including representation from four existing councillors, one of whom quit The Greens (Mayor Michael Lyon) to lead his own team.
Filming was recently taking place at old Byron Hospital. Photo Tree Faerie
Byron Council will review its rules around filming in public places in a bid to prevent productions like the docu-soap Byron Baes being filmed here in the future.
As filming of the much-loathed Netflix series continues, Council passed a resolution at last week’s meeting to develop a filming protocol that was ‘consistent with the new realities of film production in the Shire’.
‘The film industry and the proliferation of it in the area is a fantastic thing,’ Greens Deputy Mayor, Sarah Ndiaye, said. ‘Locals who work in that industry can now do here what they previously had to fly elsewhere to do.