Regional

When Bangalow architect Duncan Sproul joined forces with Sally and Dhugal Cowan to restore Maclean’s Argyle Hotel, they proved heritage pubs can thrive without pokies or paint-by-numbers renovations, writes Sally Schofield.

There are places within a short drive from Bangalow that you can visit to learn about local Bundjalung culture. Once you start looking, you will discover that Bundjalung is present all around us, just waiting to be noticed, admired, and respected.

Tricia Shantz has lived in Byron Shire for 40 years, 33 of those in Coorabell. Here she explains the genesis of her book Neverland, a social history that documents the arrival of American surfers in the 1960s and how their creative collaboration with locals started the first ripples of alternative culture in Byron Bay.