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Michael McDonald Locals fought long and hard against Club Med in Byron Bay and eventually won through the courts. Photo Jeff Dawson.
The art of the peaceful protest has been a staple of Byron Shire life since the ‘new settlers’ arrived in the 1970s, searching for that rainbow at the end of conformity. It has taken on elements of theatre and of humour, often expressed through costume, dance, music and that ubiquitous medium, face-painting.
In 1991, as well as protests against indiscriminate government logging mentioned in Archive #2, some 400 people took to the streets of Byron Bay in January to protest against ‘the current crisis in the Persian Gulf’. Various luminaries addressed the rally at Main Beach, backed by a large banner, ’No Bloody War’.
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Michael McDonald
None of the small team of
Echo drudges back then would have expected the paper to last so long and in fact be the last of the old paper newspapers left standing on the north coast.
My association with
The Echo began in its first year in 1986. I was the Tasmanian correspondent, filing whimsical stories of farm life, dubious doggerel and philosophical ramblings of an equally dubious nature, along with a cartoon series called ‘Swami Cootamundra says’, a single panel repeated each time with different tag lines purporting to be esoteric wisdom; some of which enraged readers.
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