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Hans Lovejoy

New South Wales

Editor of the independently owned Byron Shire Echo newspaper, musician and dad to Emily😁

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  • Fascism and journalism don’t mix

    1 week ago | echo.net.au | Hans Lovejoy

    Attacks on journalists – whether by military forces in conflict zones or by law enforcement during civil unrest – pose a grave threat to freedom of speech and the health of democracy. And unfortunately the numbers of deaths and injuries are increasing – 2024 was the deadliest year on record for journalists since global organisations began tracking such incidents. The situation for journalists in Gaza has ballooned those numbers.

  • Bayside pod eviction snafu

    1 week ago | echo.net.au | Hans Lovejoy

    Pod residents preparing to leave the Brunswick/Bayside Village will no longer have to leave a week earlier, after the NSW Reconstruction Authority (RA) told The Echo they were incorrectly informed that they needed to move out by June 20. In the aftermath of the 2022 floods, RA established 11 temporary housing villages across the Northern Rivers on council and private land.

  • Greens crs split over large, exclusive, contentious DA

    1 week ago | echo.net.au | Hans Lovejoy

    Greens Mayor Sarah Ndiaye used her casting vote to squash fellow Greens Cr Elia Hauge’s efforts to delay and seek independent legal advice around a planning agreement for a large contentious 39-large-lot exclusive greenfield proposal near the Mullumbimby Road and McAuleys Lane intersection. Instead, an adopted amendment at last week’s Council meeting by Cr David Warth passed after councillors went into a closed door meeting with staff for 45 minutes.

  • Q&A with Crs Warth and Mayor Ndiaye over their support of 53 MacAuleys Lane DA

    1 week ago | echo.net.au | Hans Lovejoy

    The following is a Q&A with Cr David Warth and Greens Mayor Sarah Ndiaye around their justifications to give passage for a 39-large-lot contentious, DA at 53 MacAuleys Lane, Myocum (Development application 10.2023.454). At the June 12, 2025 Council meeting they both supported an last minute amended planning proposal – done in secret – which includes the option of Council acquiring land at the Mullumbimby Road and McAuleys Lane intersection.

  • Editorial - Are you at a loose end?

    2 weeks ago | echo.net.au | Hans Lovejoy

    Woahhh the grinding rubber wheels of progress will once again touch Byron’s potholed roads as councillors and staff meet this Thursday in their never-ending live streamed reality show called ‘local governance’. Are you new to this? If so, there’s a cast of players who influence your comfortable and quiet Byron lifestyle, whether you know it or not.

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13 May 23

Alternative reality: two kambo deaths spark soul-searching in Australia’s counter-culture capital | Australia news | The Guardian https://t.co/7vzCYsHWym

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30 Jul 22

RT @MediaAnalystOz: @vanOnselenP @australian My column on the successes of the current Labor government: https://t.co/D51mDtSHYv