Nimbin GoodTimes

Nimbin GoodTimes NGT is a free monthly newspaper for the vibrant Nimbin and Northern Rivers community in NSW Australia The paper is growing and evolving.

There have been three editors since the tabloid’s inception. The founding editor was Bob Hopkins – a prolific writer, with a “belief that an informed community meant a stronger community, that an open public discussion of issues meant a more thinking and considered group of people that will inevitably cause the community per se to get beyond the cliches and slogans that permeate and dominate the '

alternative' way.”

Bob Hopkins was succeeded in 1999 by the late Peter Atkinson, who held the reins for five years. He maintained that he didn’t mind reading something he disagreed with, as long as it was well argued, and he often reprinted John Pilger articles. Full credit to him for carrying the flag as long as he did. The present editor, since the February 2004 edition, is Bob Dooley, assisted by Sue Stock. They have drawn together a collection of regular contributors and layout, proofing support and distribution people. Under this team, the paper has grown from 8 pages with 1400 copies, to a 32 page 16,000 copy full-colour monster, with distribution throughout the Rainbow Region, from Tweed to Woodenbong, including Nimbin, Lismore, Byron, Kyogle, Casino and Murwillumbah. The involvement of new people brings fresh approaches, interesting ideas and new ways of doing things, and the topic of future directions is always open for discussion. As long as we keep the good times rolling.

11/06/2026

Our next deadline is Friday 26th June.

Tomorrow - Wednesday. Home-made bread and leek and potato soup $5 for a very affordable lunch at Nimbin CWA Nimbin Branc...
09/06/2026

Tomorrow - Wednesday. Home-made bread and leek and potato soup $5 for a very affordable lunch at Nimbin CWA Nimbin Branch . There is also GF Chocolate slice and GF pineapple cake. Nimbin CWA is next to Nimbin Rural Fire Brigade in the Community Centre Grounds.

It's toastie day today from 10am till 2pm at the CWA rooms next door to the RFS. Ham, cheese and tomato toasties or your...
27/05/2026

It's toastie day today from 10am till 2pm at the CWA rooms next door to the RFS. Ham, cheese and tomato toasties or your choice of combination. $5. We also have a GF banana cake with cream cheese icing made with local bananas.

Something on your mind? Write a letter to the editor! Email us at nimbin.goodtimes@gmail.com
26/05/2026

Something on your mind? Write a letter to the editor! Email us at [email protected]

19/05/2026

Deadline for the GoodTimes June edition is early this month! Please send articles, letters, photos, notices to us by deadline this Friday 22nd May to [email protected]

18/05/2026

I originally didn’t add a comment here but after reading some ignorant comments I thought that I would now. I didn’t write this note. A true blue Australian did. A great patriotic Australian singer. Stop bagging me as the author and read the views of a great Australian. Still don’t know who it is? Go get an education.

Fair
18/05/2026

Fair

Renowned as Australia’s easternmost point, Byron Bay is also the country’s biggest d*ckhead magnet. Every type of gronk under the sun gravitates to Byron: smelly hippies spilling out of their housevans, tattooed surfers fighting each other for territory, barefoot bogans fighting each other for fun, cashed-up boomers flittering between overpriced organic cafes and pretentious galleries, and overseas millionaires buying up the entire town for holiday homes. It’s the sort of place that corporate shills on their second divorce fantasise about moving to so they can open a yoga retreat and root a dreadlocked barista on the beach. Byron Bay is Disneyland for dropouts, or the Gold Coast for people who prefer their Meter Maids to have hairy pits.

Overrun by tourists and littered with their half-eaten takeaways and used condoms, the only people who actually live in Byron Bay are pretentious trustafarians who turned up for Splendour in the Grass and forgot to go home after the mushies wore off. These private school plastic hippies use their old man’s money to live the ‘Byron dream’ and subsidise their supposed ‘free spirit lifestyle’, which actually consists of wearing cheap jewellery they bought in Bali while complaining about other fake hippies, catching herpes from German backpackers and generally doing large amounts of serious f*ck-all. Byron Bay gained national notoriety for rejecting fast food giants McDonald’s and KFC under the pretence that junk food didn’t fit with the ‘Byron lifestyle’—maybe if Macca’s started serving kombucha and lentils and giving away hacky sacks in their Happy Meals it might have got the Byron seal of approval.

Byron Bay is known for its nightlife, which consists of drunken drongos and schoolies smashing each other’s teeth out and projectile vomiting at passers-by. It’s also a prime spot for spotting whales, which is why Byronites were still slaughtering humpbacks as recently as the 1960s. A popular feature is the Cape Byron Lighthouse, which serves the vital purpose of warning passing seafarers away from the complete wankeropolis of Byron Bay. We suggest you heed its warning.

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81 Cullen Street
Nimbin, NSW
2480

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