Roadtrip

03/03/2026

Tune in this arvo to hear Nell and Kathy connect ahead of this special event for Byron Writers Festival !!
Kathy Lette

15/12/2025

We have some colourful tales for you tonight on Roadtrip.

Chels Hood-Withy from House You will talk about how they’re fighting to end the $20 billion in annual tax breaks the government hands out to property investors to be redirected to public housing.

Home birth advocate and business owner, Nature’s Child founder Jannine Barron will share news about Regenerative Business - putting nature first in the board room

And you’ll also hear about the Still Wallum exhibition opening tomorrow as part of Brunswick Xmas Twilight market at the Wheel of Life Studios & Garden.

And music 🎵 music 🎶 music 🎧

Simone O'Brien Nell Schofield Bay FM 99.9 - Byron Bay Australia

09/12/2025

This is how we roll on Roadtrip, especially with just two sleeps til BAY VIBES @ The Shack

Thanks to Danu Lynch for the great track by Osner - It's Good.

It sure is!!!

Simone O'Brien
Nell Schofield
Bay FM 99.9 - Byron Bay Australia
Beach Hotel, Byron Bay

02/12/2025

Danu Lynch GI Jode joined Dim Sim and Nelly in the studio this arvo to raise the frequency for Bay Vibes

Ticket link - https://events.humanitix.com/bay-vibes

25/11/2025

Last night's show broke all records for the most guests on Roadtrip ever!

It kicked off with the fabulous Valerie Thompson and Lisa Sandstrom from Save Walllum who are en route to the with RisingTide, the Mandy Nolan about her SHIFTI Xmas gig for the SHIFT Project, then Zee Gachette with news of her show Electric Ladyland, then Lainie Chait on her love for Bay FM 99.9 - Byron Bay Australia and participation in Bay Vibes , and finally Ingrid Wilson who is the Arts Coordinator at the Community Arts Hub Byron Community College RTO: 90013

Tune in and catch up on all the news in the Byron Shire and beyond!

Byron Shire News Save Wallum The SHIFT Project Rising Tide

Juicy tunes and yarns to get you to wherever it is you’re going.

17/09/2024

A Musing:

As I prepare to head off into the wilderness once more and leave the heady world of local politics behind me, I have been musing on what a privilege it has been to run with four amazing women who stood up for a better world for everyone in Byron Shire.

Sarah Ndiaye was Deputy Mayor for the past four years and may still be Mayor this term as counting continues. We sing together in the Big Voices Choir led by new Labor Councillor Janet Swain who I adore (and who used to be a member of the Byron Greens)

Elia Hauge is a 28 year-old super star. She's a water engineer who, among other things, will take on the Byron wetlands project over the next four years. And she is the youngest Councillor ever to be elected to Byron Shire Council.

Delta Kay is beyond deadly. She is the first Arakwal Councillor representing the Native Title group responsible for our area. She also runs a thriving small business called Explore Byron Bay which educates visitors about the traditional ways of Country.

Proud local Bundjalung woman Michelle Lowe is adored by her students at Byron High School and stands with the . We're still waiting to see if she becomes the fourth Greens Councillor but whatever the outcome, our womance will continue.

As for me, as the fifth on the ticket it looks highly unlikely that I will get a seat. But I'm used to backing the good folk in. I was fifth on Lord Mayor Clover Moore 's ticket in 2012 and lost out to Tony Abbott's sister Christine Forster. Number 6 was the amazing Alex Greenwich with whom I door knocked every door in the electorate. I worked in the Office of the Lord Mayor on Keep It Local and other local government issues and represented Clover on the board of the Sydney Festival and handed out how to vote cards for Clover and Alex on many subsequent campaigns including Australian Marriage Equality.

Now I'm working with Mandy Nolan - Greens for Richmond which is about the most fun one can have on the hustings.

It's such an honour to wave the flags and beat the drums for champions like these. I'll be in wings for Mandy leading up to the next Federal election and supporting our new Greens Councillors every step of the way.

But for now, there's a radio show to prepare for! Tonight's Roadtrip on Bay FM 99.9 - Byron Bay Australia we have a special Salon de Refuse including Max Foggon - Musician who ran second on Michael Lyon's ticket, and Lucy Vader the only ungrouped candidate. And Meredith Wray will also join us to talk about her campaign with Bright Future Byron.

It's a wild ride but someone's gotta do it!

29/07/2024

I'm a massive fan girl of author Richard Flanagan. He's coming to the Byron Writers Festival Aug 9 - 11 and I interviewed him about his latest book Chapter 7 for tonight's Roadtrip
Turn on tune in and dig deep into the very fabric of our interwoven lives.

Bay FM 99.9 - Byron Bay Australia

In order to answer it I read the book twice and listened to Flanagan read the audio version of it too. But I still couldn’t find an answer.

28/05/2024

Trouble has been brewing in Myanmar ever since 1948 when the British colonisers left the country. Conflict between the government and opposing armed ethnic groups has been intensifying over the past 70 years, and is now regarded as the world's longest ongoing civil war.
Many protestors have been jailed over those 7 decades of struggle between the pro-independence movement and the military Junta. Australian Professor Sean Turnell, the former economic policy advisor to State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, and Burmese author, activist and intellectual, Ma Thida are two of them.

Ma Thida and Sean Turnell are coming to Byron as guests of Byron Writers Festival to give a talk this Thursday at the Mullumbimby Civic Hall facilitated by Mick O'Reagan.

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Nell Schofield interviews Ma Thida, one of Myanmar’s leading activists, and Sean Turnell, former economic policy advisor to State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi. Both of them spent time in the notorious

27/05/2024

This arvo on Roadtrip we'll meet two freedom fighters from Myanmar who are coming to Mullumbimby as guests of the Byron Writers Festival- Ma Thida is an author and "voice of the voiceless", and Sean Turnell was Aung San Suu Kyi's former economic policy advisor. Both of them spent time in the notorious Insein Prison and survived to bring hope to the pro-independence movement in that beleaguered but beautiful country.
We'll also hear from Knitting Nannas Against Gas and other protectors of Bentley at their 10th anniversary celebrations.
And Mark Swivelwill join us to talk Green Futures - that's all after Community Newsroom Byron Bay at 4pm.
Nell Schofield