Byron Shire Echo – Issue 27.28 – 18/12/2012

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Local News General manager Ken Gainger appointed to Byron Council Hans Lovejoy

A newly appointed general manager (GM) for Byron Council has been announced with Marrickville Council’s current GM, Ken Gainger.

Mr Gainger has also been GM for Sydney’s Ashfield Council (2005 to 2009) before taking on Marrickville (2009 to 2012), and prior to that was Lismore City Council GM from 1998 to 2002.

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The annual reading of the credits The Echo was created, produced and distributed by the following people over the last year. Thanks to all and apologies for any inadvertent omissions.

Alison Harman, Anara Carroll, Andrea Herraman, Andrew Meaden, Angela Cornell, Angela McDermott, Ben Black, Brefney Ruhl, Brendan Dudgeon, Brian Mollet, Bryan Petersen, Casper Askill, Cath Hughes, Chris Dobney, Cristina Sharratt, David Lovejoy, Emma Keenan, Errol Beaumont, Eve Jeffery, Felicity Gaze, Frank Mazzer, Geoff and Fay Collins, Gordon Haynes, Greg O’Brien, Hans Lovejoy, Helen Luna, Helen Magill, Helen Puckey, Ian Rogers, Ingrid Ouwerkerk, Jade Foggo, James Biggs, Janice Dutton, Jarrod Warren-Clarke, Jasmine Laing, Jayne Bradbury, Jeff Buchan, Jeff Dawson, Jennifer Dallimore, Jenny and Blake Mazzer, Jo and Wayne Stubbins, John Buchan, John Campbell, John Dailhau, Julie Jarvie, Julie Ray, Karen MacCrae, Kate Boyle, Kathy Pascoe, Katie Dailhau, Kay Groves, Ken Burgess, Kristal Byron, Lachlan Stubbins, Lilith Rocha, Luis Feliu, Lynne Adams, Mandy Nolan, Margaret and Alan Serone, Marie Clibbins, Marj Davey, Mary Gardner, Mel Hargraves, Melanie Tongmar, Melinda Saxe, Michael Johnson, Michael Kelly-Gleeson, Michael McDonald, Mitchelle Farina, Mungo MacCallum, Nigel Dornan, Nighean O’Brien, Noven Purnell-Webb, Paul Gulia, Penny Bagshaw, Peter Couldwell, Peter Mills, Rachel Stone, Rangi-Marie Ferguson, Ray Draper, Seymour Walters, Simeon Michaels, Simon Haslam, Stewart Hughes, Stuart Amos, Tasman Lindsay, Tony Sinclair, Tracey Bourke, Tracey McCrae, Tuppy Lang, Vicki Burke, Vicki Ouwerkerk, Victoria Cosford and Ziggi Browning.

Local artist Djuul Price has designed our front cover, Beached Christmas. If you would like to see more of his work then email sirlipsalot@gmail.com.

Knows the Greens and controversy And he’s no stranger to controversy or a Greens council either; he oversaw administration with a Greens-dominated council in the inner-Sydney council that made headlines for its support for the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel.

The Sydney Morning Herald (Fairfax) reported in September Council dumped the movement against Israeli products and services in April after widespread criticism from the federal and state governments, business leaders and the Jewish community. Then Greens mayor Fiona Byrne did not contest her seat last September.

Mr Gainger told The Echo that while he understood the sentiment behind the campaign against Israel, he wasn’t surprised by the backlash against the council.

‘Along with councillors, I visited [the Palestinian city] Bethlehem – it’s Marrickville’s sister city – and I was struck by the awful conditions they live under.’

As for the move north, Mr Gainger told The Echo that after seven years in Sydney, it was always going to be temporary. ‘I’ve been a [north coast] resident for 18 years,’ he said, ‘and I’m looking forward to moving back to my house in Bangalow.’

He also said one of the reasons for applying for the job was new mayor Simon Richardson.

‘He seems like a straight-up sort of guy… here in Marrickville, a new mayor is elected every year so I’m looking forward to a bit more stability.’

From 2002 to 2005, Council says he provided consultancy services to local government as principal of Gainger Management Services, and his early background is in environmental health and surveying. It is anticipated that Mr Gainger will commence his new role at the end of January 2013.

Liquor accords campaign against violent behaviour Liquor accords on the north coast have banded together to fund a television campaign to discourage violent behaviour in licensed premises.

Byron Bay’s Accord president, Elke van Haandel, who is also general manager of the Beach Hotel, says the campaign will run over the Christmas New Year period on all three commercial TV networks.

The accords taking part are Byron Bay, Grafton, Hastings, Lismore and Lower Clarence.

‘The people who operate licensed premises want to see patrons enjoy themselves, but not at the expense of others,’ she says.

‘Particularly during this festive season, many people are out

and about. It’s important that all patrons understand the type of behaviour that is expected of them in licensed premises and also the type of behaviour that won’t be tolerated. People who are drunk, disorderly or violent will be asked to leave premises.

‘If they refuse they are liable to significant fines that can be imposed on the spot by police.’

Elke added, ‘It’s important for visitors to remember that just because they are away from home, this doesn’t mean they are able to behave at a standard lower than they would in licensed premises situated in their home towns.’

The television campaign will conclude after the new year.

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A packed audience attended the Frack finding tour documentary at the Mullumbimby Civic Hall last Friday.

The film, by Greens MP and mining spokesperson Jeremy Buckingham, follows his journey to the US where he inspected the coal-seam gas industry in operation. It showed the impact of the unconventional-gas industry in places like Texas, Wyoming and Pennsylvania.

‘My recent tour of the United States highlighted the dangers of coal-seam gas and provides

a graphic warning to Australia not to risk this toxic industry dominating our landscapes,’ said Mr Buckingham.

He added, ‘The Greens’ Responsible Mining Bill will prohibit coal-seam gas and mining in certain productive agricultural areas and other sensitive areas.

‘Additionally it will provide local councils with the power to prohibit coal-seam gas and other mining in certain areas under their local planning provisions.’

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The state governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s failure to endorse traditional Aboriginal fishing and hunting rights was highlighted over the weekend as Aboriginal people of coastal regions protested against NSW Fisheries regulations. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;We are here this weekend to make a statement to Marine Parks and NSW Fisheries in regards to our natural resource collectionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, said Yvonne Stewart speaking on behalf of the Arakwal people of Byron Bay. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;We believe that the state government really needs to start looking at the needs of Aboriginal people and their access and their rights to their cultural resources.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Mrs Stewart says that she believes that the local Aboriginals have tried very hard over ten years to find some resolution so that they can manage country and have access to the their resources.

She says that the local mob fished and gathered food in the

area over the weekend in protest against Fisheries restrictions.

Yvonne says that the midden that the boat ramp at the Pass is built on top of was established about 1500 hundred years ago and is of cultural significance to the Arakwal and other Indigenous people in the area. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;This place holds our cultureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, she said. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;It tells a story. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s part of who we are. We have been coming to this place for so long. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;We want to continue to come here and we want to bring all of our jarjums here and exercise our right to go fishing.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

Current zonings Currently the zoning puts the area, up to the shoreline, from halfway between Clarkes and The Pass, all the way around the cape to the lighthouse in a Sanctuary Zone, a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;no-takeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; area.

This covers the area of shoreline adjacent to the Arakwalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s midden site under the boat ramp at the Pass. The area from the lighthouse to Kings Beach

in the south and Clarkes to the Belongil at the west is a habitat zone, which means recreational and some forms of commercial fishing and fishing competitions are allowable, though several species are protected within this area. The only areas for general fishing are some distance from the shore and would require access by sea craft.

BEC supportive The Byron Environment Centre (BEC) members and management committee also went on record as supporting the Arakwal Bundjalung people of Byronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s civil disobedience protest. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The BEC supports the Arakwal campaign to allow all Aboriginal people the right to fish and collect seafood for their personal, and their familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, consumption, irrespective of any restrictions placed on the wider society, and irrespective of Marine Park or any other zoning restrictionsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, said convenor of the centre John Lazarus.

The Aboriginal people of the

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No decision: MP A spokesperson for Ballina MP Don Pageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office told The Echo, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;We have followed up with Minister Hodgkinsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office who says that no decision has been made in relation to Arakwal peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right to access fishing in the Cape Byron Marine Park. Ms Hodgkinsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office says the latest representations and protests will be part of that decision-making process.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

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Ph: 6687 1160 A hundred or so attended the carols by candlelight on the grounds at the Mullum Hospital on Sunday. The event was put on by the Mullum Chamber of Commerce. Photo Jeff Dawson

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Liberation Larder, the volunteer crew who provide meals for community members from the Byron Bay Community Centre, will be holding a special Christmas Day Lunch at the Fletcher Street Kitchen.

Anyone in need of a meal and company on Christmas Day is welcome at 12.30pm.

‘It’s a difficult time of year for many,’ says coordinator Cath Garvan. ‘Many of our community members are without

shelter, food, or company.

‘A few Byron businesses have already committed to giving us Christmas donations, but we still are in need of volunteers to help us prepare and serve the meals.’

Liberation Larder provides meals, bags of food, and outreach meals on Mondays and Thursdays from the Fletcher Street Kitchen of the Byron Community Centre. See more at www.liberationlarder.org.

Christmas makeover for Shire’s public toilets The Suffolk Park sports field public toilets have received a Christmas makeover, along with other public ammenities in the Shire.

With new paint, toilet fittings and a wall removed to improve sight lines to discourage graffiti, work on the toilet block has been completed and the doors are open for ‘business’.

Mayor Simon Richardson said, ‘Completed in time for the Christmas holidays, the $30,000 vandal repair was greatly needed at this public toilet block.’

As part of a new maintenance program, Council says public amenities will be

checked and repainted where necessary on a regular basis.

‘However, the best vandal prevention is the eyes and ears of the community,’ mayor Richardson said.

Youth artworks ‘If you see any suspicious behaviour or anyone vandalising the toilet block, please call the police or Council rangers immediately. Catching offenders in the act is the best deterrent there is.’ As an anti-graffiti measure, Council over the past two months has installed 30 youth artworks on public buildings and amenities.

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Eight Aboriginal students from the Byron area have recently completed a two-week fulltime introductory course in the basic skills necessary in the hospitality industry.

In conjunction with The Arakwal Aboriginal Corporation, North Coast TAFE and

the Byron YAC, the students, including Kiaron, Rhiannon, Mundara, Unjalung and Djarra (pictured with Yvonne Stewart), are immediately employable in Byron’s busy cafe and restaurant trade.

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The owner of a recently stolen iPhone 3 is appealing for its return as the phone contains pictures of his mother who recently passed away.

Ocean Shores resident John O’Connor says that between 6.30 and 7pm on Friday December 14 it went missing from his vehicle at the Brunswick

Heads Fish Co-op.

He says he wants at least the sim card back which contains a series of photos of his mother, ‘who passed away in Byron Bay Hospital on Thursday Novemeber 22.’

He says the phone has his name and address on it and his home number is 6680 5035.

Vale Rain Ireland Ilona Harker

On Friday Mullumbimby stood still as the town said farewell to Rain Ireland, who died on Tuesday December 4 in a tragic accident on the highway between Byron and Mullumbimby.

The Civic Hall was filled to capacity as hundreds honoured the life of Rain who was just 19.

In a profound show of solidarity, many of Rain’s friends wore white and this simple act showed the love and care that the room was experiencing.

Rain had been affected by a myriad of health issues since he was 15, yet before that he was raised happily in the Shire by a devoted, loving mother

and a wonderful brother and sisters and stepfathers.

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holiday intensives 7-11, 14-18 and 21-25 January 2013 The end of the Mayan calendar on December 21 is an opportunity for evolution according to Uplift organisers. In celebration, they are hosting a four-day festival of inspirational artists and innovative thinkers â&#x20AC;&#x201C;many pictured here â&#x20AC;&#x201C; from December 20. The launch pad is the Byron Regional Sport and Cultural Complex on Ewingsdale Road. For lineup and tickets, visit upliftfestival.com. Photo Jeff Dawson

Bangalow four-storey proposal riles residents Hans Lovejoy

A four-storey development proposed adjacent to the Bangalow A&I Hall has been labelled inappropriate by some residents but the town planner behind it, who is also a resident, has talked up the project saying it is in keeping with the townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heritage.

The development proposal for 9 Station Street, by Sydneybased developers Gordon Highlands Pty Ltd, will see a fourstorey residential/commercial building with eight dwellings, three shops and basement car parking for eighteen vehicles.

It will replace the existing house and garage, and according to the DA information on

Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website, the work is estimated to cost $3,488,000.

Bangalow town planner Paul De Fina, who submitted the DA to Council, told The Echo he welcomes community debate and suggestions on the development. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I love Bangalow,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; said Mr De Fina, who is also a member of the Bangalow chamber of commerce, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;and I have an interest in keeping with the heritage feel for the place.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The last thing we want is large-scale buildings here.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; He said the designer of the building, Ron Johnson, also designed the new Urban Cafe in Bangalow. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The front [of the Station St buiding] will only be two stories, and access will be

from the rear lane, which frees the street up. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The apartments are small too; only 55 square metres and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s zoned commercial. Three storeys with basement parking, below ground level.

As for the current dwelling, Mr De Fina says it will be given free to the Bangalow Showground Trust to replace the existing caretakers cottage, which is in need of major repairs.

P&C opposed But resident and former councillor Jenny Coman says she is â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;horrified at the proposed size of the development,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; and wants to see the country village nature of Bangalow preserved, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;as recommended in

[Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s] Settlement Strategy â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Â which I and other residents took part in developing.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Additionally, Sue Franklin from Bangalow School P&C says they are opposed because of the additional traffic proposed for the lane next to the school, and are worried about the safety of children. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The laneway is already congested at school pickup time and our principal feels the need to walk the children to the end of the laneway for their safety. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Additionally we have parking problems already. I worry that the Shire is facing off against a strong push from developers.

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MP Skinner makes a raft of promises for regionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hospitals Plans for a Byron central hospital were given resuscitation after NSW health minister Mrs Skinner announced $500,000 for the next stage of planning for the Byron Shire Central Hospital at the greenfield site next to the new ambulance station in Ewingsdale last week.

It was part of a whirwind visit of the northern rivers last week where almost $4 million in funding promises for facilities at several other northern rivers hospitals were announced.

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The Byron funding will cover a master plan and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;business caseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; for the hospital, which are expected to be drawn up next year.

The new 54-bed Byron hospital, which has been on the drawing board for around 30 years, is expected to cost around $100 million.

Mrs Skinner said construction of the new hospital was not expected to start before 2016 and it would not replace the smaller Byron and Mullumbimby hospitals but add

to their existing services. Mrs building of a new combined Skinner also announced a $2.95 patient lounge facility.

The new â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Awaiting Results million upgrade of the Lismore and Discharge Loungeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; facilemergency department. ity has already been criticised Lismore ED upgrade by the opposition. Opposition The upgrade is scheduled to health spokesman Dr Andrew start in April and be up and McDonald told ABC North running in February 2014, Coast radio last week that meanwhile the planned major Tweed Hospital â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;needs more $80 million redevelopment of beds, not chairs in a loungeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.

And finally at Casino Hospithe hospital should be comtal, Mrs Skinner met with staff plete in 2016.

At Tweed Hospital, she an- and inspected progress on its nounced $350,000 for the $300,000 upgrade.

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Reviving for the long holiday drive Story & photo Eve Jeffery

Each holiday season about 220 Driver Reviver Sites open right across Australia.

Serving thousands cups of coffee and tea with a bikky to weary travellers, it cannot be calculated how many lives have been saved when a driver has stopped even for a few minutes instead of driving through and risking falling asleep ay the wheel.

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Comments by CEO of coalseam gas company Metgasco against members of the community have taken on an increasingly desperate tone recently.

Last week Peter Henderson called a poll on the subject Wrong and offensive ‘My wife and I are long-term conducted by the Australian Electoral Commission for Lis- residents here and live just more City Council ‘fraudulent’. 1,300 metres from the drilling site. To describe me, or the Grafton CSG drilling gathering of people, of whom Deb Whitley was one, as “lawprevented so far less vigilantes” is simply wrong On Tuesday last week he an- and offensive as well. nounced a bomb scare at the ‘Mr Henderson was not an company’s headquarters at Ca- eyewitness to the events of that sino where a handful of people day. He was not in the vicinity. were holding a peaceful protest, He has relied on hearsay and even though police didn’t think that hearsay is wrong,’ he added. enough of it to ask the protestIn the ABC item Mr Heners to move. derson referred to the driver And last Wendesday he of the truck to which protester described the group that pre- Deb Whitley locked on. vented a drilling rig’s access to ‘Can you imagine how that one of its test sites at Glenu- contractor would have felt if he gie as ‘lawless vigilantes’ in an hadn’t been able to put his foot

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to deal with “lawless vigilantes”.’

Lock the Gate president Drew Hutton has dismissed the bomb hoax claims as ‘unsubstantiated allegations’.

‘Let [Metgasco] provide the evidence, if there is such behaviour on our part.

‘Until they can do that these sorts of allegations should be treated with contempt,’ he told ABC radio this morning.

Last week MP Thomas George claimed that protesters at a meeting with planning minister Brad Hazzard had spat on MPs and bureaucrats as they departed the meeting.

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Mr Yarrington, who is not associated with Splendour in the Grass, was fined $30,000 and ordered to pay council costs of $26,000 and court costs of $166 in the Byron Bay Local Court last week.

Byron Shire Council (BSC) conducted aerial surveillance of the property over concerns that the property might be used as an unapproved camping ground during Splendour.

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The federal opposition and the Australian Greens are again calling on the government to send a customs ship to monitor expected clashes between Japanese whalers and conservationists in the Southern Ocean.

The Japanese fleet reportedly has left for a reduced whaling

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The joy of reading to the pooch

Waiting to hear the latest story, Lenna and Bill, Brody and Aidan with Sooti and Ebonie, Jemmeka and Karla Albert with Lucy during the Story Dig session at Ocean Shores Public School.

Story & photo Eve Jeffery

When children read to dogs the outcomes are amazing.

For the children, the experience is non-judgmental and the child’s focus improves while at the same time literacy skills increase and confidence soars – but apart front that it’s just plain fun.

Ocean Shores Public School has been running a successful Story Dog program and the kids can’t wait to get to ‘class’ to hang out with the pooches.

The school’s Story Dog teams are two of almost 50 in the northern rivers region.

Story Dog listener Lenna Kelson, who is the person of Sooti,

says that this is a really exciting program. ‘I get a lot of interaction with the younger children’, she says. ‘We have a very simple mission: to make reading fun for children and to help make children lifelong readers.

Karla Albert, who belongs to Lucy, says that the dogs are not bred for the program but are simply family pets. ‘These are our pets and they go through a process of screening and accreditation to make sure they obey basic commands and that they are good with other dogs and of course children. They can get grabbed and climbed on and they remain very calm and relaxed.’ Karla says that the program makes reading fun for

kids. ‘They break their neck to come out and read with us and I have never had that in all the years of home reading.’

Dogs like reading Lenna says that the dogs like to be read to. She says they especially like animals stories.

‘Sometimes the dogs become quite alert and depending on the child’s voice, sometimes they get so relaxed they fall asleep!’

The children are unanimous in there love of their K9 listeners.

They love to talk to them, they love to play with them and above all they love to read to them.

For more information on Story Dogs, visit the website: www.storydogs.org.au.

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‘According to the government the report is due “by the end of the year”,’ said TOOT president Karin Kolbe.

‘We want to ensure that this report doesn’t get buried over the holiday season.

‘People are asking if the local members are really committed to rail transport. [In the past] local members have committed to rail services.

‘For example on September 15, 2009, Don Page said in a media release “the line should be upgraded, and used for a commuter and light-rail service linking towns and villages in the northern rivers.”

‘The government allocated $2 million for this study in its 2011 budget and we want to en-

sure that this report doesn’t get buried. If the report has been delayed we want to know why.’

A spokesperson for Mr Page told The Echo, ‘We understand it’s in the hands of the consultants. The report then goes to ministers Page and [transport minister] Berejiklian, so there is still time before the break.

‘It will either be in the next few days or early in the new year. When any announcement is made it will come from Ms Berejiklian’s office.’

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Discovering the stardust in a ’shroom Microbiologist Paul Stamets claims fungi can outperform conventional medicines and help decompose toxic waste Mandy Nolan

There is little doubt that the Earth and her ecologies are at risk, and now is time for action.

While many scientists are scratching their heads unable to provide a workable and fastacting pathway, mycologist Paul Stamets has a radical and simple solution: mushrooms.

‘Mushrooms’, says Stamets, ‘remain a vast resource of new medicines and environmental opportunities.’

According to Stamets, it’s about adopting synergistic mycotechnologies that he believes will jumpstart the healing for people and the planet.

‘Fungi are the foundation of the food web. Habitat and humans share immune systems and fungi are cellular bridges

connecting the two.

‘Fungi erect the humus platform for re-greening our imperiled planet. Humus is the organic material in the soils coming from decomposed flora and fauna that makes the Earth fertile. We need to invest in fungi to create soils and support ecosystems.’

Fungi were the first organisms on land, dating 1.3 billion years. So why have we not been open to the vast resources they offer? Human beings, Stamet believes, suffer from mycophobia: an unrational fear of fungi.

‘If someone dies from eating a mushroom the whole world knows! Mushrooms are ephemeral – the window of exposure is much shorter. Here is something that can feed you, heal you, or kill you or even

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get you high. But because they are only in the environment for such a short period of time, it’s natural for people to be fearful, it’s logical to fear the unknown.’

This fear of the unknown has presented itself as a huge opportunity for Stamets, who was recently awarded an honorary Doctor of Science by the National College of Natural Medicine for his academic work (in research and publishing) and the significant contribution he’s made to the field of science for public good.

Stamet’s most recent studies and publications focus on a clinical study with breast cancer patients who were given turkey tail mushrooms to augment conventional therapy.

The results from the Phase I Breast Cancer Study showed a significant increase in T cells – Dr Paul Stamets will be a guest speaker at the Uplift Festival on December 22 imperative in creating a robust Stamets has also created to conventional anti-virals usefulness of medicinal mushimmune system. rooms to protect against global natural biodiversity-preserving which are always toxic.

Breast cancer clinical In his 2008 TED talk (rated pandemics.’ mycopesticides that he believes Alongside the vast medici- not only deter and control at the time number one TED studies promising Talk), Stamets delivered the core nal benefits and properties of harmful insect plagues, but atMushrooms species are like of his thesis, citing studies where fungi, Stamets also believes tract beneficial insects. nature’s mini-pharmaceutical fungi-derived anti-virals out- that mushrooms are pencillin ‘Green treatment alternatives production houses says Stamets. performed conventional medi- for the planet. are needed, especially as insects ‘There are more than 250, cines for smallpox and bird flu.

‘Mycorestoration encom- build resistance to chemical 000 compounds that are gepasses mycofiltration, my- pesticides,’ says Stamets. netically encoded within the 90 per cent are yet to coremediation, plant-fungal Stamets is clearly a convert species. There are one to two pairings for building soil, and when it comes to the healing be discovered million species of fungi, and strengthening food webs. powers of fungi.

‘More than 500 of my fungal ten per cent are mushroom ‘As soils are enhanced, carFor him it was an even more forming. 150,000 species are samples have been tested. rying capacity increases, and personal experience, particu‘These fungal extracts sup- ecosystems re-green. out in nature but we have only larly as his work has taken him named and discovered 14, 000, plement existing therapies, ‘Several mycofiltraton test into the public speaking realm. so over 90 per cent are yet to be increasing our defences for sites have proved success in At his 2008 TED talk he premitigating viral epidemics and cleaning water of coliform bac- sented in front of luminaries discovered by science.

‘They are literally a treasure bacterial as well as protozoan teria contamination. such as Al Gore, an intimidattrove of medicines yet to be infections. Furthermore, anti‘I have several mycoremedia- ing audience for an accombacterial tests confirm activity tion projects showing success plished presenter. discovered.’

Stamets has found in his against TB, E coli, and staph. in decomposing toxic wastes, Ending up with a TED talk, ‘Our team has discovered at particularly oil based. numerous clinical studies that rated at the time number one, the anti-viral medicines de- least five novel, active ingre‘Our team has created ‘my- was extraordinary for Stamets, rived from fungi are not toxic dients (AIs) for inhibiting TB cobooms’ – floating hemp who admitted that as a younger bacteria (tuberculosis) at the socks filled with mushroom man he had a profound stutterto the host.

This is in direct opposition University of Illinois TB Re- mycelium that secrete oil-de- ing habit and could not speak search Center. stroying enzymes. without continually stuttering.

He also claims it shows prom‘Most recently, I invented a ‘When I was a late teenager ising signs in combating pox new method using ‘salt water I took a dose of magic mush(Vaccinia), herpes, flu and oth- fermentation’ that dramati- rooms and stopped stutterer viruses in collaboration with cally reduces the expenses of ing. It 99 per cent resolved my National Center for Natural substrate preparation (>95 per problem!’

Products Research (NCNPR). cent), which has profound imPaul Stamets is one of the ‘Endorsements from NC- plications for mycoremediation featured presenters at the Uplift NPR and UIC are available for and for feeding people world- Festival in Byron Bay at the new review. Our natural products wide with a low-cost method. Sports Centre, Thursday Deresearch is a robust effort based ‘Our team is now positioned cember 20 to Sunday 23. Paul on naturally occurring fungi, to decontamination of radioac- will be presenting on Saturday. often dwelling in endangered tive soils in Fukushima with a For program information go habitats, and show potential white paper available.’ to www.upliftfestival.com.

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officer wins award Byron Shire Council’s sustainability officer Graeme Williams took out the Individual Sustainability Award at the LGS Excellent in the Environment Awards recently.

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Volume 27 #28

December 18, 2012

War and peace at Christmas We enter the holiday season having escaped the end of the world that was prophesied for 2012.

However, there are still 13 days to go so perhaps we shouldn’t breathe easy yet. Of course breathing easy is the core of any sensible medical or spiritual regime, but even peaceful people cannot help being sickened by the amount of conflict that is going on around the globe.

Ideology, politics, statehood and religion underpin most of the bloodletting, and simple territorial or resource envy is also a motive. Some wars are not even civil or foreign; Mexico tears itself apart with drug violence, while the latest atrocity in the USA shows a society that prefers to allow the slaughter of little children rather than face its firearm demons.

Australia, although a continent free of war, has not escaped the general hypocrisy that surrounds it, particularly with our treatment of its Indigenous peoples and those seeking refuge from overseas wars we are complicit in.

Like Afghanistan and Iraq.

There have no doubt been just wars, but there’s a difference between dying for one’s country when it is under attack and dying for confused and unclear aims, or insufficiently examined foreign policies, or simply because we feel obliged to do what another, more powerful, country tells us to do.

Then there’s the war that is going on against the world itself, conducted by fossil fuel companies, greedy corporations and carpetbaggers of all kinds.

Governments have put on hold funds for renewable power sources while they collude with mining companies to extract the last profitable joule of energy from fossil fuels, with devastating consequences to the environment.

As this planet’s inhabitants and dependants we face the new year with the knowledge that peace seems more elusive than ever. Wise men have always said that peace is indivisible, that war begins in the heart, that hatred is never ended by hatred, but only by love.

Our problems are complex, and difficult beyond belief; nevertheless, the best counsel is still breathe easy and enjoy the moment.

David Lovejoy

Dear Man, You are the active pole on earth and needed like the sun – shining with honest care, in love, on to a woman.

She is like the earth – she receives, she gives, she knows. We are this beautiful life. In this self-made world man learned to show off, it is easy for you but are you brave enough to stand up for love? Be true – be simple and give your honest love and care and make sweetly and rightly love to her. It is a woman’s delight and need to grow with you and glow in love. It is your most fulfilling task. For this to be, you will have to give up selfish, restless sex. Be still, drop your demand, enjoy moment to moment life.

Love life.

Do you excite yourself with sex-thought? It overstimulates you. It makes you dishonest in love, so you just take, but you should ask and learn to give right love. We are influenced as a child... take a drug, get used to sex, be sexy, show off, be greedy, give your attention to the newest invention, get excited... nothing will be good enough for long and such greediness supports the sex business. Worldwide he manipulates young women to play sexy for him, to be his sex object and if she makes sex with such a selfish demanding ungiving man it makes her like him.

Infected and made discontent, both feel dependent on stimulation, for in truth they have not made love and so they say ‘let’s have some fun with a drug...’ Hey man, give up, you can’t just take what you want, you can’t just take love! You have to give to a woman. Life’s love is her gift to you, if you have earned it.

A woman today can be honest to man. If he is not honest, do not give to him, wait until he demonstrates true love. If you are honest, moment to moment and give to what is good and right, you simply feel well from the inside. With such a woman of love, you will listen to her carefully. Love is easily broken, it has to be made fresh, new, no other body belongs to you. Each of us has to stand up for love. Life felt inside is reflected in beautiful earth, universe – I belong to you.

From a Woman.

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Well, probably not.

Anthony Albanese and Mike Kelly are getting ahead of themselves in comparing the Ashby-Brough fiasco with the criminal conspiracy that ultimately brought down the most powerful man on earth.

Although the tragic farce surrounding Peter Slipper has been deceitful, treacherous, vicious, totally unethical and immeasurably sleazy, it is unlikely to have the earth-shaking consequences of its American predecessor.

But having said that, it should be noted that both affairs went beyond what would normally be condoned by society, or even the law. Watergate began with an actual crime, the break-in and robbery at the headquarters of the Democrat Party, and James Ashby deliberately abstracted the contents of Slipper’s private diary and sent them to his political opponent. This has not yet resulted in charges being laid, but the case has a way to run yet.

Even so, ask the cynics among the political insiders, the media and large sections of the public, so what? So a bunch of politicians and their mates indulged in a conspiracy – well, isn’t that what politicians do? Run plots against their enemies and rivals (the difference purely one of terminology)? Labor Party politics is based on unedifying factional power plays and even Malcolm Turnbull, that model of Liberal rectitude, masterminded the mother of all branch stacks to gain preselection in his seat of Wentworth over the incumbent Peter King.

Tony Abbott’s career has been littered with conspiracies: he was the one who hawked stories of Cheryl Kernot’s sex life around the press gallery and memorably intrigued with Peter Coleman and Piers Akerman to destroy Pauline Hanson. Surely the only sin is in getting caught.

But while that is unfortunately

true of Australian politics up to a point, there was one big difference in the current case, and that is that it involved the courts. Politicians are expected to play their games on their own turf, and not attempt to encroach on the judicial system. In this context it is noteworthy that nearly all those mentioned in the case – Peter Slipper, James Ashby, Slipper aide Karen Doane, Mal Brough, LNP president Bruce McIver, state minister Mark McArdle,

tulated, had been overwhelmed by the real motives, which were purely political. Coming from a seasoned and respected judge, there could hardly have been a more comprehensive put-down.

And Rares reserved some of his harshest criticism for Slipper’s legal guru, the very high profile Michael Harmer, for what he termed ‘scandalous’ conduct of the case. Harmer, predictably, rejected the rebuke and is apparently encourag-

As soon as Ashby and his coconspirators crossed that line by lodging a statement of claim in the Federal Court, they were taking on forces over which they had no control.

by Mungo MacCallum David Russell QC, Clive Palmer – are Queenslanders.

As Joh Bjelke-Petersen repeatedly showed, he and his fellow banana benders have always had a problem with the doctrine of the separation of powers, the inviolable constitutional premise which guarantees that the three arms of government, the executive, the legislature and the judiciary all have their distinct and independent role and none of them may interfere with the other two.

As soon as Ashby and his co-conspirators crossed that line by lodging a statement of claim in the Federal Court, they were taking on forces over which they had no control and ones which were instinctively sceptical about political gameplaying, and who would deeply resent any attempt to use them as part of it.

Judge Steven Rares, who is not a Queenslander, made no secret of his unhappiness at being dragged into what he saw as an abuse of process by both the plaintiff and his legal-public relations team. Any merit the case may have had, he expos-

friends with money: two of the most prominent are the Liberal Party of Australia and News Ltd. But for either of those to produce a cheque book would be an admission that Rares was quite right – the whole thing is indeed a political conspiracy, a stitch-up to hurt Slipper, advantage Brough and boost Tony Abbott’s quest for an election.

And any third party who suddenly bobbed up would be subject to minute scrutiny to see if there was even the faintest suggestion of a hidden connection or an ulterior motive.

And that’s the other problem with ignoring the separation of powers: while political plotting can often be done on the cheap, those involving lawyers can’t.

Whatever advice Ashby is getting from Harmer, he may find it a lot less costly to listen to his fellow Liberals, the smartest of whom will be telling him to cop it sweet, take a long holiday and hope, as they do, that the whole thing will fade away during the silly season.

It’s already been a huge unearned bonus for Julia Gillard and her embattled government.

Tony Abbott will fervently want it dead, buried and cremated before the election year proper gets under way. The whole sorry business has already produced quite enough unintended consequences.

And interestingly, the politician who showed the most perspicacity throughout the whole sorry saga was another Queenslander, Barnaby Joyce, who opined early in the piece that Ashby looked almost as shonky as Slipper.

If only his commonsense was applied more widely, we could have avoided not only Ashbygate but perhaps even Watergate as well.

ing Ashby to lodge and appeal against the judgment. This prospect is providing a useful shield for opposition, and in particular Tony Abbott, Joe Hockey and Christopher Pyne, all of whom were, according to a gleeful government, heavily involved in the conspiracy from the beginning.

But the idea of an appeal has also amplified the cries of that old political poser: ‘Where’s the money coming from?’ which, one suspects, is the last question Ashby will want to answer, because it is hardly likely to be from his own pockets. Harmer and his pricey PR side kick Anthony McClellan apparently appeared on a no-win, no-fee basis so that’s okay – for the moment. But the barristers didn’t and Rares has ordered Ashby to pay Slipper’s costs as well.

Ashby has the $50,000 he got from the Commonwealth prematurely settling the case to fall back on, but even if that is enough to pay his current expenses, it certainly won’t cover Q See Mungo live at an appeal; which is where his personal Catch 22 comes in.

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Minor tweaking To those people who objected to DA10.2012.149.1, ie 27 Station Street, the revised plans are on exhibition at the Council Chambers. My reading of these plans is that there has been some minor tweaking concerning screens and louvres to alleviate privacy issues from the second-floor balconies.

This development is still totally inappropriate for this site. The bulk and scale of this development is still there. Please contact your councillors as this issue has shirewide ramifications.

Chris Cooney

Mullumbimby

Cheap shot It was disappointing to see The Australian newspaper (11/12/12) publish what was, in my eyes, a pretty cheap shot by an â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;unnamed Belongil activistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; bemoaning the fact that the Cornells will benefit from their upcoming sale of their Belongil property when they hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t contributed to the fighting fund against Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s planned retreat policy.

I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know the Cornells, but I do know that without their support (and other communityminded people) it is unlikely we would have a near new functioning community centre. It is probably also fair to say that without the support of the Cornells a number of other community groups would also struggle (even more than they do) to provide valuable community services. A more balanced (and accurate) view might have recognised the massive contribution the Cornells have made to the Byron community.

Refuse to serve any person connected with these firms. Refuse to purchase from any business that supplies or deals with them in any way. It is time to choose a side.

The good cop/bad cop merry-goround political parties have sold their souls to the miners; we must decide what to do with ours.

We can decide where we shop, who we trade with. The community can identify those who trade with Metgasco, its employees, its supporters.

Refuse to refuel their vehicles.

Refuse to buy petrol from a supplier who serves them. A blacklist is required. In strategic terms, this is cutting their supplies and communications. Who sells them power? Who serves them lunch?

Who cleans their houses? Shut their gates. This is a fight for existence. We must win.

Matt Hartley

Byron Bay

Moving about This summer get on your pushbike, try a ride on a bus, walk, leave your car at home, pool your car with others. Your wallet, your health and your planet will thank you.

Jens Krause

Byron Bay

Uplifting?

Uplift... We Are The One... Really?

Now I may be a cynical cow when it comes to this sort of sugar coated, self-important spiritual drivel, but seriously? â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;An invitation for all of us to create a space where the collective Heart Wisdom and Consciousness can reveal a new paradigm.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Ah, how lovely, except by â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;allâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; they mean the spiritually elite who have a spare few hundred dollars (no concessions, so sorry all ye povos!)

Yes, we have the family day which contains some sensible, worthwhile speakers, but $380/$480?

In an impressive lineup of 13 keynote presenters, flown in from all over the world (think of the air miles!), just two are Aboriginal.

I am sure theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all very lovely and fabulously knowledgeable but three and a half hours out of over 90 (not including musicians) presented from the original custodians of our land? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s embarrassing. Were they not consulted or not impressed? Thankfully, we have the sunrise ceremony which is open to all, as seemingly, our Indigenous friends donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wish to profit from the betterment of our planet or â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;the birth of a new paradigm of consciousnessâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.

What a shame.

Dawn Blackwell

Mullumbimby

Not finger-lickinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; good Nick Gazzard makes the point (Letters, December 11) that Byron Bay already has many global chains, so we canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really object to KFC. I think we can. KFC, McDonaldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, and Pizza Hut are widely known as the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;big threeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; of superchains. They are often criticised because of the effect of their foods on public health. To allow any of these in Byron Bay would be a huge step downwards for our townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s image and appeal.

Besides, it all seems so mean and unfair. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a story in the Bible of a poor man who had one ewe lamb. The rich man had hundreds of sheep of all kinds, but nonetheless, he came and took away the poor manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beloved ewe.

Australia has one town, Byron Bay, with no KFC, and hundreds of towns with KFCs. Why does this superchain have to be so superdominating that it has to come here as well as everywhere else?

What is the logic that makes them want to push their product here when they already have dominated every other town of any size in Australia?

I hope the people of Byron Bay will rise up and flood the council chambers and the pages of our newspapers with hundreds of letters in opposition to this mean and unfair imposition on our town.

Israelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s iniquities Mr Alhadeff says that Israel has no quarrel with the people of Gaza (Letters, December 11) and yet, as Israeli historian Ilan Pappe points out, Israelis often refer to Gaza as meâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;arat nachashim, a snake pit.

He quotes former Israeli finance minister Pinchas Sapir who, in June 1967 said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gaza is the problem, I was there in 1956 and saw venomous snakes walking in the street...â&#x20AC;&#x2122; (Out of the Frame: The Struggle for Academic Freedom in Israel, pp167â&#x20AC;&#x201C;168). Mr Alhadeff continues: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Israel makes no apology for doing whatever it can to protect its civiliansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.

Note the omission of any reference to international law which is accurate, because the Israeli Occupation Force, dubbed by Israel as the most moral army in the world, used its precision bombs (with a circle error probably of only a couple of metres) to destroy the United Nations Works and Relief Agency warehouse during Operation Cast Lead and then, on July 25, 2006, in South Lebanon, it finished off four unarmed UN peacekeepers in an airstrike after their post had been shelled 14 times over six hours.

Repeated transmissions of their GPS coordinates to the Israeli military, who promised their safety, were spurned.

With an attitude and a record like this, Mr Alhadeff â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attempts to lay the blame for Gazaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s civilian casualties on Hamas are fatuous.

Gareth W R Smith

Byron Bay

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Association As usual, it is telling everyone else how to behave and in this case Lock Their Gates presents a clear restatement of the operation of the legal framework There is one simple and brutally effective means by which our for holiday letting. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t actually disagree with most of what he has community, and the Australian to say. My issue with Mr Buck$ public, can break the CSG companies, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the ballot is the same as always â&#x20AC;&#x201C; practise box. The tool we have is refusal Charles MacFarland what you preach.

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Letters/Articles continued from page 17 and would like to hear whether or not he intends to hold himself to the same rigorous standards he so stridently propounds for everyone else.

My real issue is the notion of selective compliance and the belief that if you have lived in Byron for many years you are entitled to special treatment or to ignore regulations that simply don’t suit you and be free from council oversight.

How can local government be expected to function if the same people who agitate the loudest for strict council enforcement of one regulation are also the loudest protesters when another regulation doesn’t fit their own self-interest?

Over to you, Mr Buck$. Are you being unfairly misjudged?

Are your own activities 100 per cent compliant or are you still ‘special’?

Ian Gow

New Brighton

Thanks all I would like to express my many thanks to all the 270 very keen residents who signed the petition asking for Council to reseal the southern end of Pine Avenue, Mullumbimby.

The petition has been lodged with Council and will hopefully be presented at their meeting on Thursday December 20.

Unfortunately time was not on our side when submitting at the previous council meeting on December 13.

Let’s hope Council considers and acts on this matter.

Alexia White

Mullumbimby

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They came bearing a gift as good as gold John Campbell

As a little kid, the idea of Santa seemed totally bogus – we didn’t have a chimney for him to come down at Tempe for starters. Nor was I convinced by the Baby Jesus and Holy Mother story.

Virginity needed to be delicately explained to me when I heard about the immaculate conception and, to be honest, I didn’t have a clue what a manger was either while singing that our tiny Saviour was away in one.

Nonetheless, the nativities painted by Raphael, Fra Angelico and Piero della Francesca inspire me to this day, for I grew up without the breast-beating fervour of the crusader atheist.

But for this unreconstructed materialist, Christmas is and always has been about giving and receiving presents. The excitement of getting brand new stuff remains undiminished since my broiling child’s brain registered Chrissy as a time of dripping humidity, shark attacks and lousy TV. That’s why I’m not fazed by Christmas shopping. I figure it’s a classic case of ‘as ye give, so shall ye receive’ (I hoard Biblical quotes, too). My insatiable narcissism also sees the ritual as incontrovertible evidence that, for at least one fleeting moment while they were wandering around K-Mart or the local ABC

shop, somebody was thinking of me.

When it all began, on those distant boisterous eves of December 24, after the elders had got dutifully legless, my brother and I would lie awake in bed like meth-crazed rodents, impatient for daybreak and the prezzies it promised.

Weaponry always topped our wish list.

Tinny six-shooters with formica ivory handles and a narrow coil of paper imprinted with black dots that exploded when

struck by the revolver’s hammer were a must-have in the local arms race. Bows and arrows tipped with rubber suction-cap heads were essential when reenacting the Little Big Horn. We spent the whole of one Boxing Day kitted out as Sioux warriors – which is to say, we tied a rag around our head and stuck chook feathers in it – chasing cousin Zin around the neighbourhood. Her survival without losing an eye was, in hindsight, nothing short of miraculous.

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to GI Joe mode, the following year we woke up to pumpaction tommy guns. They had transparent plastic barrels and shot ping-pong balls at blinding speed over a distance of at least ten yards – we’d managed to lose all of them before the week was out.

The pimply teenage era was highlighted by vinyl LPs. As gifts that no amount of inventive wrapping could disguise, the eager opening of them all too regularly resulted in dashed expectations. Whatever possessed Auntie Pearl to buy Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass for me, I’ll never know, but, strangely enough, I wish I still had it.

There followed the terminal period of everybody’s last-ditch, fail-safe option; books. Sadly, the odds are lengthening with each passing Yule that my sister will find something that I might actually want to read before either of us carks it. One door-stop volume of Bryce Courtenay was daunting enough, two is punishing testament to the disingenuous gratitude I showed upon accepting the first. Only lately has it dawned on me that the titles she chooses are payback for all of those crappy bars of perfumed soap that I keep giving her.

So you can imagine how narked I am by the current trend of high-minded wowsers

deciding that they will save the planet by not indulging in such exploitative consumerism. Especially after the unique – I’d go so far as to call it priceless – gift I received from an unlikely source last December.

My nephew and niece come up from Sydney in the summer school hols. They trash the house, bug the cat, take halfhour showers, eat everything in the fridge etc, etc. You know the score.

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It was an aqua bottle-opener in the form of a great white pointer, with jaws agape. Howard Carter could not have been more delighted than I when he discovered the gold mask of Tutankhamun.

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Performing random acts of good has its own rewards Mandy Nolan

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rang the cops. What a bunch of losers, reporting a breakand-tidy!

Now this is the stuff of fairy tales. I do recall a certain flaxen-skinned Snow White entering a dirty little out-of-the-way hovel and finding its contents so appalling she was forced to perform a spot of spring cleaning with nothing more than a damp cloth, a squirrel and a few bluebirds. At least our cleaning products have improved. (Although I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been able to find a cleaning squirrel anywhere. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been forced to use the cat and it just doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get into the corners.)

Fortunately Show White had stumbled on a house full of men capable of expressing gratitude rather than fear.

Those seven dwarfs knew they were onto a good thing, and who knows where her acts of goodly charity would end! When a beautiful woman breaks in and cleans your pad, you go with it. You just hope that at some point sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll offer to wash you as well. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Hey love, put that squirrel down and come over here. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something very dirty down my trousers!â&#x20AC;&#x2122; I once had a friend who loved mowing. It was like a meditation for him. Looking back I think he might have been a bit Aspergers. Once heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d done his own lawn heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d have this long wait before the thick waft of two-stroke once again filled his nostrils. This idea of lawn ownership seemed arbitrary to him â&#x20AC;&#x201C; if a lawn needed mowing, then why not mow it? To Mow or Not to Mow? He mowed.

So when people were at work heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d pop over the fence and mow their lawn. More often than not, it made people angry and suspicious. Okay, so he liked to do it in the nude. But apart from that it was benign.

A nude man in work boots couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really be doing something for nothing? There had to be motivation. He must be coming back at night looking through the windows masturbating. Surely he was just cutting himself a clear path to the back step? A long-haired lawn screams out that the occupants either donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a mower, or time, or both. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just so hard to believe a random act of good on its face value in a world plagued with sinister

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a bit rich coming from me, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m prepared to give it a shot.

The funny thing about performing random unexpected acts of good is that it actually makes you feel good too. Who would have thought that giving had fringe benefits? I tried to explain this to my adolescent daughters who seemed unconvinced that doing something for anyone else could benefit them in anyway. So I decided to help them by donating their iPhones to the homeless bloke I found going through their room yesterday.

As they wept over their terrible loss, I tried to help them reframe. I said â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t worry darlings, being good will help us move to a higher vibration.

We are all one.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Then I went into my room and checked no-one had touched my stuff.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not quite ready to evolve just yet.

But Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m happy to assist those who are.

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Project staff will be available to discuss the EIS in more detail during community information sessions at Corindi, Grafton, Gulmarrad, Harwood, Maclean, New Italy, Tyndale, Wardell and Woodburn. Visit the project website for more information.

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Most of us operate in selfinterest. The circle of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;meâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; wrapped tightly like a blanket, keeping us and our stuff safe from the other mes out there who might covet not just our arse and our stuff, but our blanket as well. This year, for 2013, it might be nice to try something new. Be kind. I know itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

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The game rules are changing on ownership of the world Mary Gardner

How many rainy holidays have you spent playing Monopoly?

Remember making deals, bickering and double checking the rules? Did you ever get uneasy, somehow, with this game glorifying economic domination?

So that’s you, me and Elizabeth Magie, an American Quaker.

She invented the game in 1902 as a teaching tool about capitalism. She called her version The Landlord’s Game. Players saw the inequities of private ownership of land and were introduced to the economic al-

ternatives proposed by Henry George. This American writer suggested that, rather than wages, land value should be taxed and this income shared throughout society. So how did the original game change so much? What ever happened to the old rules?

In the 19th century, land grabs were standard practice in large parts of the United States, Australia and New Zealand, to name only a few places. Governments supported monopolies. At the same time, social justice was stirring and heaving. From

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labourers to slaves, including women, children and domestic animals – all were gaining new rights which transformed their lives. Anti-trust laws arose. Active in these social and legal reforms were the Quakers. They, among others, even questioned the ethics of owning land as individuals rather than as a community.

For even then, careful observers saw structural patterns behind the social misery and environmental destruction occurring around the world.

This was intensified when in 1819, the US courts granted corporations legal personhood. For two hundred years, this legal privilege has been used by corporate executives to develop business regardless of impact, heedless of any check or balance.

Countermovements (environmental, political and educational) struggle but only manage to slow down the widespread harm. Today, facing runaway climate change, observers and citizens alike are frustrated and despairing.

But around the world, the game rules are changing. In 2008, Ecuador’s new constitution gave legal rights to Mother Nature. This year, Bolivia’s Assembly is writing legal rights for Pachamama, the Andean expression of Mother Earth. In

August, as part of the Treaty settlement for Maori in Aotearoa /New Zealand, the Whangaui River was acknowledged as a new legal person, Te Awa Tupua (an integrated, living whole).

In the USA, this uprising of indigenous values is matched by a new grass-roots democratic initiative. Since 2009, 78 local councils in Pennsylvania passed ordinances that ban environmentally destructive corporations such as hog farming, sludge disposal on farmland and fracking. The councils, including the City of Pittsburgh, cite their right to protect their

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citizens against harm and their right to self-governance.

In the words of their lawyer Thomas Linzey, cofounder of the Community Environmental Legal Defence Fund, ‘townships and boroughs [are] writing their own local ordinances [to] read like constitutions.’ For example, laws in Spokane, Washington state, assert ‘ecosystems, including but not limited to, all groundwater systems, surfacewater systems, and aquifers have the right to exist and flourish.’ Barnstead (NH) writes ‘natural communities and ecosystems possess inalienable and fundamental

rights to exist and flourish within the Town of Barnstead’.

Linzey describes a growing movement of local communities reclaiming their power and challenging the legal structure that favours alliances of corporations and state government.

Experience and techniques are shared through communityorganised National Democracy Schools (www.celdf.org, www. celdf.org. Also hear Linzey at www.filmsforaction.org.)

All this is from a new legal arena called Wild Law. In 1996, Christopher Stone first asked ‘What would a radically different law-driven consciousness look like?... one in which Nature had rights?’ In 2001, geologian Thomas Berry proposed Earth Jurisprudence and now at the close of 2012 the international Earth Law Centre is celebrating its first year of action.

The game rules are changing everywhere. Ralph Anspach, economics professor, now publishes Anti-Monopoly, raising the play to a new level.

The Parker Brothers corporation claimed their man Charlie Darrow invented Monopoly and sued. But they lost as Anspach exposed the true Quaker and educational origins of the game. The new rules are online at UniversityGames.com. Next time it rains, teach your kids.

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Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m continually amazed by the fact that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve lived in Byron Shire for decades and can still go to parties where I hardly know anyone. Maybe I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go to that many parties but there are circles within circles, ones that overlap and still others that only sight each other in passing, if at all. For a relatively small region it manages to convey a feeling of bigness, true to the sign on the way in to Mullumbimby.

Working as Echonetdailyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s video journalist for over a year now, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m like a mini Australian Story crew in one. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m required to monitor focus and sound levels, framing and exposure, while engaging my subject.

Probably the biggest challenge is holding the camera still while Mandy Nolan performs her hilarious weekly Soapbox.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve documented a multitude of events held by community groups all over the Byron area, as well in the Tweed, Ballina

and Lismore shires. Despite any reservations I may have to start with (and pushing past my natural shyness), I am often surprised by how engrossed I become inside each circle. Be it a naked bike ride or a vintage car meet, these worlds range from the eclectic to the conventional and are invariably fascinating.

Sometimes the camera does get in the way and people close down when I turn up, but more often than not they allow me to focus my lens on them. Without exception I find passionate, devoted, inspired, talented and opinionated people, and everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got a story to tell.

It harks back to my days attending Mullumbimby High School. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d acquired my first 35mm stills camera at the age of 14 and used to stalk the sporting events, honed to catch interesting or usual moments.

The disused darkroom at the end of the woodwork block

was kindly given to me to use by one of the maths teachers, and thanks to the tutelage of local photographer Nick Poutsma I was able to develop and print my negatives during lunch break or free periods.

(Or when I skipped class â&#x20AC;&#x201C; shh!)

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d then post the best shots on a board, numbered so that students could order from me.

I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t recall it blossoming into much of a business venture, but wandering around my community with a camera was certainly a role I took to early on in life.

Perhaps itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a cover for latent introversion, or simply chronic voyeurism, but all these years later Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m elated to be employed in it. Even if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s questionable to be comfortable having a camera between me and the world, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m enthralled by the same thing that seized my imagination back in high school, and which is even more explicit

with the moving image â&#x20AC;&#x201C; how evocative the captured moments are. Framing life, then evoking emotional responses through the use of strategic editing and music, has got to be the ultimate storytelling buzz.

The YouTube channel echonetvideo exists as a sort of community time capsule that is being added to on a weekly basis, now burgeoning with those events that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been witness to. With so many circles in this big little area, a quandary often presents itself: how to choose, for example, between the consecration of a rare Buddhist stupa, a living-soil festival at the community gardens, a surf festival or a rally to assert the right of women to be safe?

Given that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impossible to cover the plethora of events on an average weekend, I content myself with what my grandmother used to say: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;You can only sit on your tuchus at one wedding.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

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Visitors to the Crystal Castle over the holidays have a special opportunity to take in the experience of the stupa, while listening to the soothing sounds of The Great Bell Chant. Playing on the hour, this seven-minute audio meditation is an invitation to help create world peace.

It combines the calming resonance of the bell, with music and the beautiful words by ThĂ­ch Nhat Hanh, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet and peace activist.

Discovering the Discovery Room

Our Discovery Room is an excellent place to explore all manner of interesting topics. Over the holiday we are offering a fascinating program of informative presentations, inspiring DVDs and experiential mini-workshops â&#x20AC;&#x201C; great fun for all ages. Learn how to enhance your intuition and your psychic ability as you develop your connection with your third eye energy centre. Listen as our shamanic storyteller weaves wonderful interactive tales for young and old alike, or takes you on a journey with the sound of his drum. Create your own gum leaf art using leaves collected from the Crystal Castle gardens or colour a beautiful mandala that looks deep into the eye of a whale.

Learn all about dolphins â&#x20AC;&#x201C; such amazing, playful and highly intelligent creatures â&#x20AC;&#x201C; or explore the songs of the whales and connect with the wisdom of these graceful custodians of the sea. And donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forget our fabulous face painters who will turn your beautiful children into exotic elves, faeries, pirates and princesses.

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With a wonderful new menu, the Lotus Cafe offers everything from a great cup of organic coffee or a tasty morsel to a fabulous feast. Sit, relax and enjoy one of the shireâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most breathtaking views from the cafeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s terrace. Its handy location just above the castle playground allows parents the opportunity for a relaxed, delicious meal while keeping an eye on their childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s adventures. All our chicken and eggs are free-range, and there are now many gluten-free, vegan and other organic options.

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Miss Elizabeth Bennet and the flesh-eating zombies It is a truth universally acknowledged that an author in search of a plot idea invariably turns to a parody of the works of Jane Austen. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Septimus Brooch Whether the final blow comes from flesh-eating zombies, demonic hell beasts or from the total triumph of K-pop, if you know one thing about me it is this: I will always fight for you to the very end. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Julia Gillard (http://bit.ly/UGj0S2) Michael McDonald

The news that Netherfield Park had been let, apparently to a single man in possession of a good fortune and a collection of white shirts which became diaphanous when immersed in water, travelled throughout the village at the speed of wildfire or a lively dose of the cholera.

Mr Bennet, a man of astonishing patience, was the recipient of the news through the vehicle of his wife, who, for the umpteenth time, suggested that this may be another means to shuck off one of the many daughters which hovered around them uselessly like vinegar flies.

While entertaining the pleasant thought that his wife might be sold to Chinese slavers and the rest of his life devoted to his bumblebee collection, Mr Bennet politely suggested that the new inhabitant of Netherfield Park might not be considered the rightful property of Bennet-spawn or, in fact, might be gay.

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She, at least, has a brain, which may be of interest to him.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Young Lizzy gracefully gave in to her parentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; demands, although her heart was set on completing her invention of a new science which she thought she might call â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Quantum Mechanicalsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. She had been working on a theory which involved a dead â&#x20AC;&#x201C; or not-dead â&#x20AC;&#x201C; cat in a box, but that now must wait until she completed her familial duty.

She took off at a brisk pace towards Netherfield Park, the hem of her long dress neither soiled by mud nor torn by burrs, a remarkable feature of the 19th century novel. Having trained undercover with the Meryton 15 second-grade, and indeed scored the winning try in the semi-final, Miss Bennet arrived without a perturbation to her lungs at the Netherfield manor front door, which opened of its own accord before she had time to knock upon it.

Indeed, the man who stood at the threshold wore a white shirt, beneath which the pectoral muscles bulged and writhed

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like puppies in a sack. Miss Bennet, who eschewed all notions of a romantic nature in favour of empirical enquiry, found her heart jumping involuntarily in her not-insubstantial chest, made more insufferable by the restrictions of her Empire-line bodice. It reminded her of the ligaments of a frog she had dissected being stimulated by a phlogistic current.

Having introduced himself as a Mr Darcy, the brooding gentleman at the door, who seemed to have some sort of plasma attached to his unkempt hair, failed to invite Miss Bennet indoors or indeed inquire about the nature of her visit.

She found this to be a peculiar lack of manners and was then singularly surprised when he lunged towards her

face, hissing hoarsely â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Brains!â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Accustomed to the brawling scrums of the Meryton 15, Miss Bennet deftly skipped aside, at the same time employing a trick of the venerable art of JiuJitsu, taught by Miss Han at the Lambton Spinsters Academy of Martial Arts, to turn Mr Darcy upon his head.

This is a den of zombies, she thought. Her conjecture was supported by a glimpse into the dark interior of the manor, where even now a host of the undead shuffled towards her, sadly lusting after the contents of her cranium.

She turned swiftly upon her heel, confident that she would easily outrun the seething tide of decomposing humanity. Her first thought was to raise the alarum so that her family and the inhabitants of Meryton might escape the danger.

However wicked it may be regarded by the arbiters of the moral heights, her second thought was to alert only her father, with whom she might escape to a quiet, reason-based life in the heathers of Scotland, and leave her sisters, mad mother, and the unbearable population of simpering young women to their fate, if, indeed, the zombies were capable of digesting them. This she resolved to do and proceeded rapidly to carry out her intentions.

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It first forcibly struck me up at GOMA. There we were, our favourite Brisbane art gallery, having patiently queued to see the Ron Mueck exhibition, released at last into the various rooms housing his spectacular, hyper-real sculptures.

Except that, constantly blocking our vision, there were walls of iPhones held aloft like trophies by practically every other visitor. For the work entitled In Bed, a vast woman lying under a sheet, looking pensive, this was less offensive â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but for the poignant half-human-size old lady draped in blankets, asleep, the situation became ludicrous as I ducked and dipped in and out and under all these bloody phones.

This is so sad: people are increasingly incapable of experiencing something, be it an art gallery or a concert or a restaurant meal or travel or nature, unless through the filter of a camera. As if the experience itself is meaningless until it is recorded or documented via a photograph or an instant message to a social network. I am aware that I am hypocritical in my indignation, that I too have often sat in restaurants taking photos of a particularly artistic or drool-able dish â&#x20AC;&#x201C; that, indeed, I have been documenting all my life, as evidenced by the entire bookcase devoted to photo albums dating back to my early teens.

But this trend is different,

The Echoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daily news service is easy to read on your mobile! and a little sinister. Is it a form of mental laziness, whereby we simply do not need to merely gaze at an object of beauty and absorb it and thereby imprint it â&#x20AC;&#x201C; no apparatus required â&#x20AC;&#x201C; on our memories?

Allow it to feed our imaginations, or fire our imaginations?

Perhaps we simply do not require imagination or memory any longer.

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else, it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t count; we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even really have it.

A friend told me about a trip to Tasmania he took with his wife.

At the beginning of a track which would bear them upward to majestic scenery they encountered a couple of middle-aged women; one of them was pleading tiredness. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;But you go aheadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, she urged her companion, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;and I can always look at the photos later.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; The first time I saw Michelangeloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s David in Florence â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the real one, not the many imitations â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I burst into tears.

Standing before this sublime work of art, so famous it is almost a cliche, I was utterly undone by it. That visceral moment, thirty years ago, is so perfectly etched in my memory that there was no need to take a photograph â&#x20AC;&#x201C; to even jot down my thoughts.

It is this human capacity to observe, solitarily or in company, and connect, and appreciate, and consider, which, it seems to me, is being lost.

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It’s the end of the world as we of the Mayan long-count peknow it and I feel fine – R.E.M. riod but then – just as your calendar begins again on January Michael McDonald 1 – another long-count period begins for the Mayan calendar.’

MOKHA CAFE Three days from the date of See more about the end of the Cocomangas publication of this issue the world at www.nasa.gov/topics/ world is supposed to end – earth/features/2012.html#end. and we haven’t even got in the There are a lot of loopy, halfvodka. baked theories associated with At least that’s the theory of 2012. One of the more complex the Mayanists, as opposed to stabs in the dark of the psyche Byron Bay actual scholars of the Maya was by the late psychonaut TerHandimarket civilisation (2000BCE–1697), ence McKenna (1946–2000). based on the long-count peri- In his Novelty Theory he fixed Cape Byron Kayaks Inghams Cheese Please od of the Mayan calendar. But an historical endpoint of time Byron Bay Accom Net Fletcher Project Developments Go Sea Byron Bay Kayaks as NASA scientists point out, at December 21, 2012, when Anna Middleton Frontline Copy Centre Byron Bay.com ‘[December 21, 2012] is the end during the ‘omega point of infinite novelty’ anything and everything conceivable to the human imagination will occur simultaneously. Trippy, hey?

And perfectly tailored to his audience of altered-staters. In an infinite universe with at least All revealed in store 11 dimensions, according to Mtheory (http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/M-theory), this may We will be offering something never already be happening and seen before. Come along at 10am on we’ve just been too busy pickBoxing Day to check it out. ing our noses to notice.

Don ’ When I tried to pin down mis t s McKenna on this theory durout ing an interview in the late !

1990s, and the bit about machine elves in his book The Archaic Revival, he went into a long rave about metaphors – the escape clause for all prophets. (Don’t get me wrong, McKenna was a nice bloke, even if he talked too much, and his theory about humans developing greater motor skills and bigger brains by ingesting magic mushrooms, expounded in Food Of The Gods, is a hoot. By the way, Theobroma is Greek for ‘food of the gods’ and is the genus of the plant which brings us chocolate.)

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Four Horsemen of Apocalypse, by Viktor Vasnetsov (1848–1926).

of more use to you if the world does end.

Mayanists, the world is supposed to end at the end of a thousand years – pick one, any one, though the year 2000 would have done. This is generally known as ‘millennialism’, belief in the Christian doctrine of the millennium in which Christ reigns on Earth for a thousand years before the end of the world, sometimes known as chiliasm – which, unfortunately, is not the orgasm to be had at the end of a particularly good enchilada.

thousand-year reign after only 11 years as boss (John Howard managed 12), and Theosophist Alice A Bailey reckoned Christ, aka Maitreya, would usher in the Aquarian bimillennium ‘sometime after AD 2025’, so stand by for that. Bailey, who brought us the love-filled notion of the Age of Aquarius, also wrote, ‘People complain (and it is frequently true) the Jews lower the atmosphere of any district in which they reside. They hang their bedding and their clothing out of the windows. They live on the

As with most New Age theories, the 2012 Mayanism is a little slow off the mark for anyone who has a passing knowledge of disasterology.

In the Book of Revelation, John of Patmos, either sleepdeprived, schizophrenic, or on heavy medication, points out that ‘when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea’.

Zoroastrianism had the ‘millennialism’ thing on track at least a thousand years before Christianity. According to Wikipedia, ‘Zoroastrian tradition envisions three future saviours, one for the end of each 1,000-year period that comprise the last 3,000 years of the world. All three will be born of maidens, conceived while their mothers bathed in a lake that miraculously preserved the seed of the prophet Zoroaster himself. The first will be named Hushedar, the second Hushedarmah, and the third will be Saoshyant, who will lead humanity in the final battle against falsehood.’ There you go.

Closer to our time, Adolf Hitler bombed out on his plans to be the messiah of a

streets, sitting in groups on the sidewalks.’ What else could you expect from a lass trying to rebel against her aristocratic British upbringing?

Throughout all of the thousand years there have been all kinds of fruitloops who have prophesied the end of the world and even convinced their followers to kill themselves in order to enter heaven or as a better option to lakes of fire. Don’t believe a word of it.

We don’t need prophets or gods to end the world. We have the nuclear bomb and global warming and general environmental disasters like a large volcano exploding. In truth, these may only end a world with humans on it. The bacteria will do just fine and some of them will figure out again how to use chlorophyll to recycle solar energy, at least until the sun burns out five billion years from now.

Perhaps we amuse ourselves with fanciful visions of apocalypse because we know the world – as we know it – will end for each of us, regardless of what the next thousand years bring. Pass me another enchilada and a martini. www.echo.net.au

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products and materials. New containers of bamboo screens, bagged pebbles and Balinese statues just arrived.

Our indoor showroom is a beautiful area of our business full of gift ideas this Christmas. Lots to choose, from daybeds, 100s of cushions, paintings, mirrors, timber art, beach tops and dresses plus lots more. From now until Christmas 20 per cent off anything in the showroom.

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holiday classes over Christmas and New Year, for info see our website www.redtentyoga.com.au.

For those holidaying in the Byron Bay area, we offer private yoga and massage at your hotel, apt or beach house. We have a range of experienced yoga teachers and massage therapists who will conveniently come to you, so you can enjoy being pampered in your beautiful space without the holiday hustle and bustle.

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MegbyDesign MegbyDesign is a unique clothing store that opened in Byron Bay in November. All designs are locally made and produced, using natural fabrics such as linen, silk or cotton. The garments are hand-dyed and finished with hand-stitching, vintage buttons or a quirky trim.

You can find anything from casual wear to beach bridal wear, interchanging and layering your outfits to suit any occasion.

With the right ingredients, the alchemy of talent and passion can transform an idea into a business and magic can happen. Walking through the doors of the Red Ginger stores in Byron Bay and Bangalow is like stepping into the lanes of old Shanghai and finding your senses come alive to the sights and smells of Asia.

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Red Ginger is generously stocked with rich spices, Asian groceries, steaming yum cha snacks, oriental medicines, fine teas, teapots, gifts, homewares, recipe books and traditional Chinese furniture.

The heady aromas and visual artistry make Red Ginger a dynamic hub for locals and visitors who keep returning MegbyDesign is a feminine, elegant, fun label to play with for the delights of sitting in the store eating yum cha and to meet your own personality. drinking the complimentary green tea or indulging in a delicious Portuguese custard tart. The dumplings are 2/8 Byron St, Byron Bay. Phone 0412 287 464. freshly steamed all day long or you can buy them frozen www.megbydesign.com to take home. www.facebook.com/Megbydesign www.etsy.com/shop/megbydesign

Red Tent Yoga Be Pampered at Red Tent Yoga this Summer... We will be open through Christmas and New Year Holidays for massage offering: Swedish, ayurvedic oil massage, Kahuna bodywork, prenatal and postnatal yoga, moon massage for women and womb blessings.

Our yoga classes continue till Saturday 22 December and will resume as usual Saturday 5 Jan. We will have some

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Variety Value has a fantastic range of products for Christmas and the summer season. Lighten the mood with fairy lights ranging from $2 to $40 and choose from batteryoperated, solar, plug-in and low-voltage LEDs. As things start to heat up donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forget the great range of affordable blow-up pools, pool lounges, water slides and swim rings. 2013 diaries are now in store, choose from student diaries, A4 and A5 diaries and layouts with a day to a page or a week to an opening.

2013 calendars from Biscay are just $2.50, and check out the new laminated wall planners from $3.99.

Shop 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8, 8 Bayshore Drive, Byron Byron Shire based, the Rainbow Workshop is 100 per cent Phone 6685 5998 Australian made and owned, and retails environmentally friendly UV-activated dyes. They are non-toxic and super colourfast, guaranteed to not run in the wash.

Simply paint on and set in the sun! See us at the markets, or order a kit via www.tiedye.com.au.

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The Kiva Spa Kiva Spa Gift Vouchers will always put a smile on the faces of your loved ones.

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As your body relaxes into the oxygenated water and the healing touch of massage, your mind also unwinds and becomes quieter. You gain great perspective and insight in those moments of bliss. You leave feeling utterly restored rejuvenated, at peace and in love with life again.

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GIVEAWAYS* SPIRIT GIVEAWAY We have a CD giveaway for Byron Spirit Festival. If you’d like a great ambient/ massage kinda sensual gorgeous music of Sean McVitty then email gigs@ echo.net.au for your very own copy of Floating Towards Ecstasy.

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SO YOU THOUGHT THE CELLO WAS A SEDATE INSTRUMENT, MEANT ONLY FOR THE ORCHESTRA? WELL THINK AGAIN. KENTUCKY CELLIST AND VOCALIST BEN SOLLEE HAS BEEN CHANGING MINDS ALL AROUND THE WORLD WITH HIS FOOT-TAPPING INDIE-TINGED SOULFUL FOLK. MAN AND INSTRUMENT ARE FRONT OF STAGE AND IT IS DOWNRIGHT THRILLING! Why the cello? What is it about your instrument that is unique? The cello has stuck with me through the years because of its versatility. It’s like the Swiss Army Knife of the orchestra: it can cover harmony, textures and rhythm while having a massive melodic range. In so many ways, it’s the perfect McGyver-like tool for a songwriter such as myself. With this instrument I can have it all.

The cello is an instrument that to date hasn’t really strayed too far from the orchestra (unlike big brother the double bass or little sister violin). Why do you think that is? I’m not entirely sure. Its strength in versatility may keep it from being singled out. In other words, the need for tonal foundation demands the bass. The desire for clear, definitive melody falls to the violin. The cello can do all those things but is not absolutely necessary. But, flexibility and multi-function is a requisite in contemporary music and, for my money, there is no better instrument for the job.

What about you – did you come from a more traditional/orchestral background? I studied classical throughout high school and college, eventually earning my BA in cello performance from the University of Louisville. However, I started touring with blues bands and bluegrass ensembles when I was in high school so I’ve nearly always found myself bending between skill sets. The sound of orchestras is something I miss and they can have the social atmosphere.

What to you are the key elements of a good song/compostiion? Oh gosh, there’s so many ways to approach a song. I would say, for me, the song must move in a way that fits the character. The momentum of the music must match the narrative.

Can you tell me a little about your songwriting process? The song must be compelling to me first. Maybe it centres on a certain person or something they said that had a profound impact on me. Then I try to achieve the same sensation I had but with music. I’m constantly asking myself, “what part of this experience relates to the human condition.” Assuming I can realise those things then I can whittle away with song form and melody shape, instrumentation, and so on… It’s got to feel like the listener is experiencing the story.

As a committed environmentalist, do you ever get a sense of doom or fatalism about the world particularly in light of new predictions of temperature rises)? The world will be fine, it’s us humans that will struggle. However, I do not get sense of doom at all. There’s a so many forces at work in this world that keeping all my attention on one would distract from all the others. We have a tremendous amount of work to do as a globe to transition gracefully in to this new climate. We have a choice as what degree that change in weather will be. I dedicate a significant portion of my time trying to build and invigorate community because strong, healthy communities is what we will need most to deal with basic needs like water, food and shelter.

What are the themes that you pick up on, particularly in your music? People. Time and again I find myself attracted to peoples stories. Moreover, how people treat other people. Most often the narrative of is derived from an acutely personal perspective. But as a sculpt the themes I try to centre on what specifically I relate to as a human.

Can you tell me a little about Half Made Man – why did you choose to selfproduce? A mentor and friend of mine encouraged to capture more of the spirit of the live show in the studio. So I invited some musicians that I know and trust to make music in a more social way. The way I see it, all these musicians are uniquely seasoned after recording scores of records. Once we all got in the room together with our extraordinary engineer, Kevin Rattermann, there was no need for an engineer or really even a leader. We just made the music that made sense to us as a collective based on the songs I had written.

Did you end up achieving what you set out to? Were there bumps or unexpected twists on the way? Well, my intention was to honestly capture the sound of the ensemble in a less curated way. We certainly succeeded in that effort. And, to that end, I thoroughly enjoy listening back to Half-Made Man and hearing each player’s distinct voice. I don’t hear tricky overdubs and detailed scoring, but rather good group craftsmanship.

What track on Half Made Man are you fondest of ? Why? I’m quite fond of The Healer.

The theme of trying to fix things or search for truth is a big part of my life. And I like how the songs moves in a cinematic way: beginning with a close shot of idling trucks and drivers in a dense city and slowly panning out to the suburbs and rural areas… it feels like home.

What should we expect for your Byron show? Sheer joy. My percussion, Jordon Ellis, and I won’t be flying all the way across the world for anything less.

Thursday 3 January at the Byron Community Theatre.

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Firetree at the Brewery Returning from an inspiring three months of touring and recording across Europe, surf folk duo The Firetree are hitting the road this summer to promote the release of their brand new single After The World Ends as well as their debut live FIRETREE AT THE album Live At The Basement.

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titled Start the story playing frequently up and down the east coast. Their recently composed music has headed towards a more progressive big rock sound stemming from folk roots and has been well received at various festivals and private shows. Live shows are customarily energetic and innovative.

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Become a subscriber during December Barkely at the Beach The Reuben Barkley Trio is bringing their lush and soulful vibes to The Beach Hotel, Byron Bay, on Boxing Day. This funky trio consists of Reuben Barkley on guitar/vocals/loops/beats, Mia Forest, a tight and lightning-fast jazz flautist as well as the amazing sounds of Elle Shimada (Japan) on electric violin.

The flavour of this brand new act is a mix of soul, jazz and reggae utilising loops and beats to create a sweet and sticky, full-band sound.

Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss one of the first appearances of this unique trio. 5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7.30pm, free entry.

Tim Stokes Belongil Bouncing Live music will return to Belongil this Sunday with songwriter Tim Stokes launching the first of the Summer Sunday Session at the Belongil Bistro. Tim, freshly plated from Sydney/Adelaide tour, a packed and boiling backroom, with a little more roll and a little less rock. The home of the paperbark trees will give an opportunity to hear the softer side of the Stokes song catalogue. Belongil Bistro chef Christian loves a great deal, is crafting a tasty barbecue menu to complement the beachside location and organic tunes.

Sunday 23 December, Belongil Bistro music from 1.30pm.

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Shaken and Stirred Woodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Surf Shack gets funky and full of soul this Thursday 20 December with Martini Lounge.

DJs Hunter S Beaver and Scotty Davis Jnr are taking their patrons back for a night of smooth jazz through to dirty funk for all lovers of good music, retro style and dancefloor shenanigans! So get festive, and as Mick Jagger says, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Anything worth doing, is worth overdoinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, so come and overdo it with us â&#x20AC;&#x201C; get your outfits styled and your dance shoes polished and letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s share some Christmas cheer! Make it funky now! Free entry, starts at 8pm.

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She has been singing in public since she was eight years old, beginning with her family group, led by patriarch Roebuck â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Popsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Staples on guitar. The five siblings and their pops were called â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Greatest Hits Makersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. The Staple singers were not just gospel singers, they were part of something much bigger. They were the singers who opened for Martin Luther King when he toured addressing the people of America. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The movement hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t started when we first got singing, but when we met Martin Luther and we heard those speeches, we said the Lord has really blessed us and we would sing before he would speak and we would travel with him. He said, Pops, I want you and your daughters to come with me. Every time he went to a meeting heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d say you can come to the meeting, he had one song called Why Am I treated so Bad â&#x20AC;&#x201C; weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d sing that and he would get up and speak.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Mavis Staplesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s entire life has been about singing. She has shared the stage with the world greats, but it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t until 2011 that she won her first Grammy for Best American Album in 2011 for You Are Not Alone. She took to the stage declaring, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;This has been a long time coming!â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

Singing for Mavis is about giving a piece of herself. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I live the life I sing about and I live my songs,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; she says. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I have a little movie in my head and I can actually see it when I sing. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Especially the freedom songs like You are not Alone â&#x20AC;&#x201C; that song takes me on a journey of where I want to reach the people and let them know that they are not alone; there are many people in the same predicaments and the trying times in the world today and it comforts you and it helps me thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re many songs that take me to places. I love to sing the songs my father wrote â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I am on a different journey each time I sing. It is my purpose to want to reach people.

My father taught me; he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mavis when you sing from your heart, that is enoughâ&#x20AC;?. I had seen kids singing and jumping across the stage and Pops snatched me off stage and he said what are you doing? He said let me tell you something, you are singing Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music! You are singing sacred music! You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need gimmicks or to clown, you sing from your heart, what comes from the heart reaches the heart; if you sing from your heart you will reach the people who listen to you. I have never forgotten that. I still take that on stage.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

Staplesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life has been a fortunate one. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I am so grateful,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; she says. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I have been so blessed. Life is love, and God is Love. You know I am just a really happy-go-lucky person, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a people person. I love doing what I can for anyone who will ask me. If I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t I just say Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sorry. I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t had a stressful life. I love what I do. I love to sing. I love to travel and I love to meet new people. I am sad to leave my sister Cleotha sometimes â&#x20AC;&#x201C; sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not well â&#x20AC;&#x201C; so I have to apologise to her when I get home. I always say I am sorry. We are a close family. There was never a problem with our Mavis Staples is one of the featured performers at Bluesfest family; our mother and our father brought us up in a family of love. this year. For ticketing and program information go to www. bluesfest.com.au.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an upbringing that I am always thankful for.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; guitar and CHRISTMAS UKE SPECTACULAR AT THE harmonica, COURTHOUSE IN MULLUMBIMBY ON Thierry THURSDAY 20 DECEMBER Fossemalle, double bass and Pete Wilkins on drums. From 7pm.

UKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Will and the People at the Brewery Will and The People are a collective of people who have decided to play and make music together foreverâ&#x20AC;Ś They are perfect for main stages at festivals, living rooms, sweaty packed pubs and clubs at 3am, in tents, fast cars, slow cars, and on boats, and in the morning sun with a bloody mary. They all write songs and then play reggae, pop, grunge, ska, and house four to the floorâ&#x20AC;Ś and mix them all together. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fun. It is honest, very catchy, and rather interesting when they really get goingâ&#x20AC;Ś they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really have a setlist, and have loads of songs so every show is different.

Byron Brewery on Boxing Day from 3pm

make amazing power duos.

Felicity will be playing at The Sheoak Shack in Fingal Head on Saturday December 22 from 7pm, following up the huge success of her last show there in September. It is sure to be a night to remember combining deeply moving lyrics, guitar virtuosity and amazing songs.

Argonauts are go Lennox Head outfit The Argonauts will be rocking the Lennox Hotel this Christmas Eve with support from Lismore locals Outside The Square. The twotime National Campus Band A LITTLE PROVINCE AT THE Competition HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN ON FRIDAY 28 DECEMBER

Lawless at Sheoak QLD division heat pointscore champions will be Felicity Lawless has made quite playing a selection of original music including JIMMY BARNES a name for herself around the songs from their upcoming debut EP, and some AT TWIN TOWNS Gold Coast this year, playing rocking covers. The Argonauts bring a massive ON THURSDAY 20 countless shows in Queensland sound to any venue, with shades of symphonic and New South Wales. Her DECEMBER classical music, electronica, and indie rock, all unique blend of world, reggae falling under a heavy space-rock show fit for and soul music took Island stadiumsâ&#x20AC;Ś a show not to be missed! You can also see The Argonauts Vibe Festival audiences by storm in October, and she continues with Lismore grunge-kings, Substation, and Chicks with Guns at to captivate audiences at a multitude of venues with her flashy, The New Tattersalls Hotel, Lismore on Saturday 22. flamenco guitar style and powerful voice.

Though she has a huge one-woman-band solo sound, playing Uke it Up for Xmas percussion on cajon while singing and playing the guitar, she has Uke Mullum presents The Christmas Uke-Tacular! â&#x20AC;&#x201C; returning to also collaborated with percussionist Brennan Smith (French Butler the Courthouse Hotel on Thursday 20 December from 6.30pm.

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It doesn’t matter. I don’t need to be loved to give love. Cards are that.

They are personal messages from me to you. They’re not merely gift tags that go with presents, to denote who gave you the steak knives and who gave you the coffee cup. They’re the little piece of cardboard that attempts to say ‘Hey I’m alive, and you’re still alive and See Mandy live at www.echonetdaily.net.au isn’t this thing we’re all doing on the planet the most terrifyingly fun thing ever? Hope you don’t fall off or lose heart? See you at the end.’

Of course we’d never say anything that blunt. Usually it’s ‘Happy HAPP-E XMAS Birthday’ or ‘Merry Christmas’. I think a card should say something Nothing says I don’t care about you more than an E-card. In fact I meaningful or at least relevant. It should be purpose built for the couldn’t think of a better way to let someone know that they don’t heart of another. Not downloaded and group mailed with a trusty matter. It’s perfect. It declares ‘I’m a tightarse and I’m not prepared click on the SEND button. Every year I send out Xmas cards. I have to waste time or money on anyone in my life so I’ve just sent you always done it, not because I am a crazy Christian spreading the this patronising animated Santa card that you have to download in word about the birth of the good Lord but because I think there’s your own time’. And don’t bleat on about how it saves paper. It’s not something sweet in the tradition of acknowledgment of the Green-E. E-Cards are Laz-E and lack any generosit-E of spirit. importance of friends or family we may rarely see, or a thankyou to those people in our tightest circles that we see every day.

An E-Card is not a Card. It is an email with a picture in it. It is an electronic blip in the inbox, meant to somehow replicate the warm It doesn’t matter what you write. The fact is you’ve gone to the effort fuzzies of having something real and tangible in your letterbox. And to make an effort to choose a card, to write their name and to find it doesn’t. I just think, ‘thanks tightwad’ and then I press Delete. Then their address. Finding the address is one of the major Xmas-card I send them a real Xmas card to remind them of what sentiment challenges. Last year I sent out around 60 cards. I only got 12 back, actually looks like. but hey, I never count. It ‘s the giving that matters…

I mean it’s Xmas time, cockhead, you can’t display your E-cards on a It’s easy to send out an E-card. Postal addresses are like last names piece of string above the fireplace, can you? Used to be a sign of your these days, you can know someone for years and never know either. good fortune in the friends department. The longer the string that I spend hours collating addresses. Every year we make our own was needed the more you were loved. I have three Xmas cards, so Christmas card. Early on I used to make every one by hand with the according to that equation things aren’t looking too good for me in kids. We’d make red hearts covered in glitter and buttons and fluff.

About three hours of work went into each card. It took so long that even when you started in Easter you’d still only have 10 cards by Xmas.

So I came up with the idea of the family photograph. But not a pretentious white shirts and jeans one, with us all photoshopped to look like we’d stepped out of a Home Living magazine. No, I wanted something stupid. There’s been the Wizard of Oz shoot (we only had 15 minutes to take the shot before the silver paint on Sophia went through her kidneys and became toxic), Hippy Xmas dressed as you would imagine, like dirty hippies. Living in Mullum the costume hunt was simple.

Last year was a Very Bogan Xmas, and featured the kids in mullet wigs and tattoos smoking and drinking Bundy. One of those daughters is now covered in real tattoos, so I guess you should be careful what you ask for! This year we celebrated our blended family by imitating the Brady Bunch headshots. There’s something romantic about taking a bundle of letters to the post office, knowing that in a few days someone you love is going to receive that card, that little passport to a smile, knowing that the effort that has gone into creating that card and getting it to them says more than the corny Christmas greetings. It says far more. It says.

See, At least I made an Effort.

Happy Xmas, Cockhead.

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Belt out some carols and Christmas faves with a stellar line up of guest vocalist including: uke royalty Ben Hur, the award-winning sisters of Scarlett Affection, good vibe master Soulman O’Gaia plus The Tinsel Tones, comprising singin’ stars: international Country Queen Clelia Adams, Kathryn Jones with Miss Amber and Stukulele.

Bring the kids for photos with reggae SANTA played by John Fog from Ragga Jump.

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Minx can do it Twelve months since winning EMI’s inaugural She Can DJ competition and inking a global record deal, Australia’s queen of clubs, Minx, is dealing out another ace from her deck, with a scorching new single Night Up a creek without a perch To Remember. When she’s not jugband: a hillbilly xmas bunkered down in the studio The Perch Creek Family Jugband will be rolling back into their or co-hosting Channel V’s club hometown stomping grounds of Uki, for their annual Hillbilly show The Weekend (Friday nights Christmas Hoedown this Sunday 23 December. They have at 10pm), this top-level spinner’s just returned from a two-month tour of Europe and after all that been running laps around the European culture can’t wait to get back to their hillbilly roots this globe and supporting the likes Christmas with the help of Lil’ Fi & the Candy Apples and the of Madeon and Avicii. Earlier this Barkers Vale Brothers. It’s sure to be one hootin’ celebration! The year, in a life-changing trip, she Uki Hall, Sunday 23 December. spun at the Grammy Awards Doors open 7pm. Tickets are $15 at www.perchcreek.com/ticketing or after-party in Los Angeles and at the door. Kids are free! the Brit Awards after-party in Hot drinks and yummy goodies available on the night.

London, playing tunes to the likes of Gorillaz’s Damon Albarn, Maya Solstice Dance Party Coldplay’s Chris Martin and Tinie Tempah. After her maiden voyage Electric Forest presents the Maya Summer Solstice Festival. A to Ibiza last year, she’s been back special creative dance experience for the summer solstice cyberto the dance-music mecca twice tribal gathering on Friday 21 December at Kohinur Hall – 7pm till in 2012. ‘I love being busy and I midnight. love what I do,’ she exclaims. ‘Who The Maya Solstice Festival and countless standout dance events over needs sleep anyway?!’ At La La the last sixteen years is testimony to the dedication Electric Forest Land in Byron on Thursday 27 has brought to the local indoor and outdoor electronic music scene.

December It is the longest-running dance music production hub in the Byron Bay region. We are determined to grow into the new millennium Say Hello to with outstanding production values and cutting-edge tunes for the Barlow discerning electronic dance music freak.

With a creative process described After a hiatus of many years the solstice events have returned to as ‘prolific’ and style uniquely the hills of Byron Bay. Featuring a solid lineup of the region’s most ‘Aussie’, it is no surprise that outstanding DJ/producers: Solid and Grimez, DJ Pop and PsyPhi. Phil Barlow has expanded to With stunning projections and state-of-the-art audio from also perform as the Phil Barlow multidimension media artists Crystal Grid, decor by the legendary Band to express his rock, reggae TrancEnhance and more installation artists to be announced. and blues styles. To him, it is Electric Forest incorporates festival-grade high production values and both a passion and a way of performance art meshed with a deep and danceable soundtrack… life. ‘Music to me is a fluid art, Vego Gone Troppo will be serving up the region’s finest vegetarian continually evolving through treats, chai and mouth-watering cakes for the discerning dancer. The time as influences change and

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LISA HUNT AT THE MULLUM EX-SERVICES CLUB ON FRIDAY 28 DECEMBER

FELICITY LAWLESS AT THE SHEOAK SHACK AT FINGAL HEAD ON SATURDAY 22 DECEMBER

emotions grow and fade. I believe in unrestricted, honest musical expression in whatever style or form that comes out. As for emotions, I appreciate them all and seek to walk through all the doors of an open mind.’ Phil is looking forward to coming home for a short visit, playing back at the Sheoak Shack, Fingal Head on December 29.

Captain Kirk To say it has been a big year for blues singer/songwriter/multiinstrumentalist Shaun Kirk is somewhat of an understatement.

Kirk’s latest release, Thank You for Giving Me the Blues soared to

THE ARGONAUTS AT THE TATTS HOTEL ON SATURDAY 22 DECEMBER AND XMAS EVE AT THE LENNOX PUB number one on the Australian Blues & Roots Airplay Charts in January and the year has seen him play over 180 shows across the country, including performances at the Australian Blues Festival, Blues on Broadbeach and Darwin Blues Festival, as well as opening spots for Joe, Bonamassa, Big Bill Morganfield (Muddy Waters’s son and guitarist in the Tom Waits Band) and Mia Dyson. Staying true to his troubadour reputation, Shaun is showing no sign of slowing down, capping off 2012 with an epic three-month tour that will include appearances at notable Australian festivals such as Caloundra Music Festival, Sydney Blues Festival, Blues at Bridgetown and Queenscliff Music Festival along

USE YOUR FLIGHT FACILITIES crowds stake up in comparison? We have the home-crowd advantage in Australia. We forgot that we have such a loyal following here. The USA crowds are crazy. They’re in a period of music where a lot of kids are happy to go to a venue and listen to anything. Europe has such a deep DJ culture that you can’t It’s been a huge year for Flight Facilities. What has been your sneak much past them. They tend to know every song played, personal highlight? The most recent tour was a pretty surprising even before release. Having played a few Australian shows since indicator of how far our music is spreading. It’s not exactly a one-off returning, we’ve been amazed at the turnout. It’s been a year since event, but there was real consistency throughout nearly every show we played here, and we we’re more than pleasantly surprised at the on the trip. We played some of the same venues we were playing turnout. It’s easy to assume you’ve been forgotten when you don’t two years ago but this time they were full or they were there play somewhere for so long. This definitely hasn’t been the case. to see us and not the act we were supporting. The most recent Australians have memories like elephants. release, Clair De Lune, featuring Christine Hoberg, was also a special At the recent Harbourlife Festival in Sydney you had three highlight. A very different song for us but a really positive reaction. vocalists perform during your set. Is this something you’re Your latest single Clair De Lune is a big change of direction. It’s striving to include in all your shows? We actually managed to a lot deeper and more ambient than anything you’ve released have four. Elizabeth Rose came and sang a brand-new song that in the past. Were you nervous to step away from the disco will be out some time next year. Eventually we’d love to work sound Flight Facilities was becoming synonymous for? We’ve towards a show where our vocalists can come and put a face on the always had it in our plan to make music of all kinds. We’re quite name. It adds another element to the show. We’re trying to attain comfortable making 120bpm vocal-housey numbers, but you get a a full stage setup, graphics, the whole lot. Perhaps over the next proper representation of your own abilities when you step outside few years, people will see the natural evolution. It’s definitely in the your comfort zone. A few of our next releases are definitely in some blueprint. other genres but others are true to our previous work. It tends to be whatever we’re feeling in the studio and whatever gets finished Your songs are always about impossible love stories. Why is this? We put that down to the vocalists. They’re responsible for a first. big part of the content (sometimes all). It’s a common subject to Given the success of Clair De Lune, can fans expect to hear a write about but it’s never intentional. It helps that it’s a universal lot more dreamy soundscapes in the future? Maybe. We don’t subject. We have one or two songs coming up in the future about have any in the works at the moment but it’s bound to happen. other subjects – but in saying that we have a few more love That song took over a year to finish so we’re probably not going stories too. We think we might be hopelessly drawn to love-struck to rush into another just yet but the response to Clair De Lune has vocalists. encouraged us to revisit the style.

You work where others have fun. What’s your way to have fun?

Any chance of a debut LP in 2013 or beyond? A compilation We usually have fun while we’re at ‘work’, but sometimes all we is more likely. We’re happy releasing singles at the moment. Our want to do at the end of a tour is avoid music, clubs or the studio. system for that isn’t broken yet and it’s the newest, and seemingly It’s nice to get home and watch movies, hang out with our friends most effective, way of releasing songs. We might wait until we or even just appreciate the silence. have 10 or so singles out, then release them all on one format. We Do you have any surprises in store for Safari fans? It wouldn’t be probably wouldn’t dare call it an album though. a surprise if we told you.

2012 has seen you tour both the US and Europe extensively.

Sunday 23 December at the Beach Hotel.

Now halfway through an Australian tour, how do Australian

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YOU AM I AT TWIN TOWNS ON SATURDAY 29 DECEMBER

THE OWLS AT THE HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN ON FRIDAY 21 DECEMBER

PINK ZINC AT THE BEACH HOTEL IN BYRON ON SUNDAY 23 DECEMBER

STILLWATER GIANTS AT THE BEACH HOTEL ON THURSDAY 20 DECEMBER

with a support show with international blues virtuoso Joe Bonamassa at Melbourneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s illustrious Palais Theatre, before venturing his music overseas and back in to the studio next year. He plays the Rails on Sunday 23 December.

Naughty and Niceâ&#x20AC;Ś Lisa Huntâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Forever Soul Xmas is full of cute little rhymes, but hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one from the soul diva. Ms Lisa Hunt has a few words for her adoring fansâ&#x20AC;Ś When Christmas is over and the leftovers done and all that remains are the pounds on your bum get ready to boogie let those calories burn out on the dance floor jump, twist and turn for soul sister hunt is coming town for her annual show to disco Mullum down.

Friday 28 December at the Mullumbimby Ex-Services Club. 8pm.

Tix at the door.

Xmas Eve Plantation As a songwriter, Col is inspired by the cream of popular musicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most prolific artists and eras, namely those of the late 60s and early 70s.

More recently, Col joined The Blues Plantation, formed by ex-Canned Heat member James Thornberry, and the four-piece rock band The StereoTypes with ex-Bourbon Street member Simon Dundon. These bands continue to make appearances in the Gold Coast and northern rivers regions on a casual basis.

With special guest Kevin Borich, a man with 40 years of professional experience behind him, a man who has shared the stage with Bo Didley, Richie Blackmore (Deep Purple), Ron Wood (Rolling Stones), John Mayall, Taj Mahal, Living Colour, Joe Walsh and has opened shows for Ray Charles, Elton John, Status Quo, Jeff Beck and Buddy Guy and a man who topped the Australian Rock Music Awards twice as Best Guitarist.

At the Beach Hotel Christmas Eve Monday 23 December from 9pm, free entry.

Rory McLeod at Harvest Rory McLeod is truly a unique modern gypsy and travelling troubadour weaving his Cockney spruik into highly rhythmic latin / reggae / blues-inspired music. A one-man soul band and once seen never forgotten. He has a natural talent for weaving magical, musical, Stillwater Giants in Town storytelling spells accompanied Four lads emerged out of a hazy southwestern beach cottage into by his own bizarre solo orchestra a scorching summer day with nothing but ringing ears, music and of distinctive instruments. surf on the mindâ&#x20AC;Ś Shoot forward to the present and experience the McLeodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eccentric melodies electric surfie rock that is the Stillwater Giants. Characterised by the are infused with influences from brotherhood of duelling guitars and epic three-part voice harmonies, Flamenco to blues, through to 22ND I the Giants of Margaret River launched their debut six-track EP in Celtic, East European and Calypso SHORNTERNAT I ONAL August 2011, rocked out various festivals and supports, and are rhythms creating a style of music T FILM FESTIVAL gearing up to release their second six-track EP in October 2012. and songwriting that has been Performing at the Beach Hotel, Thursday 20 December, supported described as â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Intimate, revealing, by local lads Inside Outlaw, from 9pm, free entry. political and powerfulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Catch him in a very special intimate show on Sunday 6 January at Harvest Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Wright to come Home Cafe in Newrybar. Tickets $18 at Whether itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a dimly lit room in a small Fitzroy bar, a packed house the door. 4.30pm show. at Byron Bayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Beach Hotel or on main stage at a weekend festival in Victoriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s countryside, Simon Wright never fails to fill the room with his presence. With an old Flickerfest is Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s premier beaten guitar, a charismatic short ďŹ lm festival, back in Byron stage persona and a songwriting for our 15th year showcasing the best, most innovative & entertaining style that calls on the flavours of shorts from at home & the world. blues, funk, soul, hip-hop, reggae Come early and enjoy some chilled and rock â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; roll, Simon is able to sounds, yummy organic food and entertain all branches of todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drinks at our Blue Hawaii cafĂŠ. pop subcultures. Local favourite Simon Wright will be gracing our TICKETING stage on Friday 21 December at Fri 25 Jan 7.30pm Opening drinks & Best of International 1 $25/15 the Beach Hotel, from 9.30pm, Sat 26 Jan 2.30pm free entry.

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Five days of singing, dancing, acting and loads of fun with a chance to showcase the kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; talents in the Friday night performance. The workshop and performance are all at the Mullumbimby Civic Hall, 14 to 18 January. Susanna and Anna will be joined by a new singing teacher, Jemma Walker, while Robynn has a well deserved holiday.

Jemma is a local singer and musician and is looking forward to being part of KTDS. As well as having fun and learning new skills, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great way to make friends and gain confidence.

Bookings are essential: 6680 1994, 0402 485 687.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Abo out Being Well l The Starlight Wellbeing expo is the regional hub of natural therapies including: Australian bush flower essences, tarot, sound healing, psychic readers, kinesiology, iridology, numerology, astrology, theta healing, Tibetan chanting, sacred geometry, shamanic drumming and much more.

A small admission of $10/15 covers workshops, talks, crystal singing bowl meditations, cafe chats and free healings. Add to that healthy vegetarian and vegan food, organic coffee and gluten-free cakes and you have the perfect recipe for a fun day out.

Each morning begins with a blessing with Tibetan Buddhist monk and Chant Master the Venerable Lobsang Tendar, followed by the deep peace experienced when listening to the incredible sounds of pure quartz crystal singing bowl music. Thursday and Friday offers two-for-one full-price admission. Featured two-hour workshop presenters this January include:

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The return of the rainbow warrior. Sacred Ceremony and Sound with

KTDS SUMMER HOLIDAY WORKSHOP â&#x20AC;&#x201C; WHY BE BORED WHEN YOU CAN TREAD THE BOARDS! MULLUMBIMBY CIVIC HALL 14â&#x20AC;&#x201C;18 JANUARY Dee Banton. Dee channels White Buffalo Calf Women, experience the Sacred Dance of the Universe that enables a trance-like state, download the New Grids that are overlaying the Earth after the alignment of the planets in 2012. With Dee Banton is a natural healer, shaman, clairvoyant and medium with over 20 yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; experience.

Home Alignment is applied to the balancing of spaces, whether it be domestic homes, commercial buildings or the land. The home/ office is an extension of oneself and reflects aspects of ourselves going back to our early experience. Discover what is involved in clearing and balancing your home, office or land. With Arleen Hanks

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LF: Yes, cheese, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unanimous; deep-fried cheese could be the go and some pickled quail eggs.

What would you wear?

M: I think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d insist it be nude. I came in this way and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going out this way too. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m all up for nude burials. I think it would make the letting-go process a lot easier.

LF: Oh, no no no â&#x20AC;&#x201C; feathers, lots of diamonds and basically too much of everything; nude was so boring. Too much is barely enough So do you believe in the end of the in my book. world?

Mandy: Of course not. But I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss a What music would you play? good marketing opportunity. And if it is true M: I suppose youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d have to play that REM it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter because no-one will be song that goes â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the end of the world around to tell me I had it wrong! as we know itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;Ś apart from that I guess it would be an 80s/90s mix tape of bad Lilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Fi: Well Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got my doubts; common dance tracks. I think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d take advantage of sense seems to be prevailing Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m afraid. the whole end-of-the-world thing and lose So you are having an end-of-the-world my inhibition about dancing in public and dinner partyâ&#x20AC;Ś who would you invite? really shake my shit. Actually I think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like M: Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to say Julian Assange, Barack to listen to Lilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Fi. Obama, Russell Brand, Madonnaâ&#x20AC;Ś but I LF: Something joyous, probably want to guess they are going to be pretty busy. play with all my favourite musicians. Alison Actually itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a pretty pretentious list. To be Penney would definitely be in the band. honest I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have anything to say to Would you have sex? them anyway really. I think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d just go with my family on that one.

M: Clearly not. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve just had this stupid dinner party and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve invited my family. If LF: Everyone is invited, especially anyone youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d asked me that first I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got a problem worrying about it; a invited my mum along. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just creepy. jolly good laugh might just help with their constipation.

LF: Absolutely, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d have to be after the end of the world when we got home.

What would you serve at your end-ofthe-world dinner party?

Why do you think people believe in endof-the-world prophecies?

M: Cheese. A lot of it. And every arteryclogging food I could find. Decadence M: I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a pretty good indication that before death. weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve all been pretty crazy for most of

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civilisation. Doomsday is a big selling point for cult leaders. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like a use-by date. Puts the pressure on to sign up fast in case you miss out. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just no urgency in eternity.

LF: Yes, the publicity angle Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m thinking and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s that Bible that causes all the troubles of the world. People fight and carry on about that book much too much â&#x20AC;&#x201C; my god is better than yours. Keeps the masses distracted.

What have you learnt so far on the planet that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be taking to the next vibrational level?

M: Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wear horizontal stripes. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even think a spiritual awakening into evolved consciousness would have an impact on the stripe thing. Very unflattering.

LF: I have to agree with Mandy on that one.

Do you believe in life forms moving to higher vibrations?

M: Nope. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re already here, dipshit. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve evolved from primordial slime. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think it gets any better than this. Talk about the grass is always greener. Stop waiting for a planetary promotion and love this place and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s people â&#x20AC;&#x201C; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fucking amazing!

LF: Certainly do. I have ghosts visit all the time; however, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s we brave souls who have incarnated onto this planet that have the real GUTS. Gotta live right now â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;cause itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the only time weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got. Those disembodied sprits have got no idea. Get your feet on the ground and stomp in the good love, I say. Take some responsibility and love this beautiful planet, play some music and be kindâ&#x20AC;Ś Am I going onâ&#x20AC;Ś I could, go on and on and on if you like. But I wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t

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Hall. NORPA will be moving their office to another iconic building, the Lismore Club, from December 17. All their contact details will remain the same, with NORPA administration back on board from 7 Jan. NORPA will launch their 2013 season in an alternative venue on May 22. The plan is to then have their first theatrical performance in the new-look Lismore City Hall on July 19.

A gr rande e experiienc ce at the pal lac ce The Palace Byron Bay Cinema has a program to please everyone during the holiday season. For dance lovers who would like to experience the greatest of all romantic ballets, Swan Lake, recognised as a perfect synthesis of choreography and music.

Though Tchaikovsky did not live to see the work become a success, his first ballet score is now synonymous with ballet itself, inspiring generations of dancers and crossing over into popular culture. Presented

by Palace Opera & Ballet in conjunction with The Royal Opera, and starring Zenaida Yanowsky and Nehemiah Kish, Swan Lake screens once only on Sunday December 23 at 1pm.

Films opening on December 26 include the eagerly awaited Les Misérables, with an all-star cast featuring Australian actors Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Geoffrey Rush, with Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonham Carter. Set against the backdrop of 19th-century France, Les Misérables tells an enthralling Norpa on the move story of broken dreams and unrequited love, passion, sacrifice and NORPA, the performing arts company that has called Lismore City redemption – a timeless testament to the survival of the human Hall home for the last 19 years, is on the move while Lismore City spirit. The genius who brought to life JRR Tolkien’s extraordinary Hall undergoes major renovations from January to July, transforming opus The Lord of the Rings, New Zealander Peter Jackson, has now the 1960s building to a contemporary function and arts centre. The worked his magic on the story that started it all. The Hobbit: An upgrade by Lismore City Council (and designed by architects Phillips Unexpected Journey also opens at Palace on December 26, in 2D Smith Conwell and locals Dominic Finlay Jones) includes creating and 3D, and follows title character Bilbo Baggins, who is swept into covered spaces, building a new loading dock, improvements to the an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor. Another foyer, auditorium and acoustics. It will be home to resident theatre film based on a best-selling and celebrated novel is Life of Pi, from company NORPA, who present an annual season of homegrown and touring theatre works, as well as manage the space as a venue for hire. The building will provide spaces for functions and events and the many community groups that currently utilise the Lismore City

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If there were beings making it to a higher vibration… would you be on Noah’s new-age ark?

M: I hope not. I prefer lessevolved humans. They generally make nicer people. A lot of people bang on about ‘oneness’ and our ‘interconnectedness’ but I don’t see them lending their car to strangers, or their multimillion-dollar beach houses. You also don’t see them with a card table outside the newsagents selling pink ribbons for breast cancer. I think we have a lot to learn about being ordinary. Maybe that is the secret to our ‘oneness’.

LF: No thanks, I’ll take my chances on the reality of here and now.

How would you describe your fellow performer?

M: Lil’ Fi is a gift from the angels… the ones that once visited Doris Day bearing picnic baskets and little gingham tablecloths. She’s a force of nature. Fierce, fragile and fabulously funny. What a voice!

But it’s not just that she can sing; it’s that she has something to say. She’s my kind of woman. I like women who hold themselves at their full majesty, who cast big shadows, and hers is so large it could help cool the

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planet with this nasty global warming thingy…

LF: Mandy is a marvel of Mother Nature herself. She is real and speaks up for those that cannot speak for themselves. A warrior of women, the mother of common sense, and she has the ability to put our thoughts into acerbic and hilarious observations and throw them around like a seal with a ball.

She makes me check that I’ve done my pelvic-floor exercises every Monday when I watch her weekly column and nearly wet myself laughing all the time. I love this feisty chick; she is wild and wonderful in every way.

She’s the cat’s pyjamas in my book, larger than life and realer than rock.

What should patrons expect for yours and Lil’ Fi’s End-ofthe-World Cabaret?

M: Nothing. The world’s ending.

Didn’t anyone tell you that?

Clearly they’ll piss themselves laughing at me and then Lil’ Fi will make them full to the brim with joy, generosity and a desire to go out and live a better life.

Then they’ll wake up with a hangover of course and go back to being the same prick they were before. But everything starts with a good intention!

LF: Yes, it’s a bit scary isn’t it? I think you should probably pack the Tenas just in case. It’s bound to be a whole lot of silliness. The antithesis of the humming and chanting that’s being offered up elsewhere. I figure if the world is going to end we might as well go out laughing and having some fun.

Catch these women with attitude at the Mullum ExServices Club on Friday at 8pm. Tix are just $15 and are available at the club.

Session 1 - 7.00pm - 10.00pm Drinks & Canapes from 5.30pm $15.00 T F member & concession $25.00 Guest Sunday 30th December Session 2 - 3.00pm - 5.00pm Documentary and Shorts Program $10.00 T F member & concession $12.00 Guest Sunday 30th December Session 3 - 6.00pm - 8.15pm Shorts Program $12.00 T F member & concession $15.00 Guest Sunday 30th December Tickets: ZZZ TXHHUIUXLWVÀOPIHVWLYDO RUJ WLFNHWLQJ Session 4 - 8.30pm - 10.30pm Shiny Shiny (live electro set) Late Session Special Ph: 6687 1984 T F member & concession LQIR#TXHHUIUXLWVÀOPIHVWLYDO RUJ $12.00 $15.00 Guest 2I¿FLDO $IWHU 3DUW\ IROORZV VHVVLRQ ZLWK '- /$'< . 3ODWLQXP &RFNWDLO %DU (Free entry with festival wristband/ticket) PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY EVENT PARTNERS:

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Seafood Buffet All you can eat Hot and cold seafood including Australian prawns and mussels, delicious hot dishes, a full carvery with all the trimmings, salads and our favourite desserts.

TO CELEBRATE THE END OF ANOTHER YEAR, the Ocean Shores Country Club plans to send off 2012 in style and bring in the New Year with gusto.

The evening will get underway early with raffles including meat trays, seafood vouchers and gift cards â&#x20AC;&#x201C; there will be $1,000 in prizes given away and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just for starters.

Being yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s end the weekly membership draw must be won.

Giveaways will be sprinkled throughout the evening with draws at 8pm for $50, 9pm for $100, 10pm $150, 11pm for $200 and 12.15am for $500.

Chef Dino Georgakopoulos and his staff will be rolling out the welcome mat at the clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s restaurant â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Reflectionsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. As well as the usual array of scrumptious culinary delights, a delicious Seafood Buffet will be the centrepiece for the enjoyment of the clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eve revellers.

The entertainment for the evening will be provided by Kellie Knight and The Daze. This band have emerged as a powerful, highly polished outfit. Through their mutual love of soul,funk and jazz music, they come together to pay tribute to some of the legendary musicians of these genres and create a unique jazz infused sound with there originals. Kelly and the crew will start at 9pm and will lead you well into the new year. Entertainment is free!

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his hometown Brisbane, Slynk secured residency in an underground New York-inspired cafe, where he refined his skills, experimented and educated his peers and fans with mashup productions of classic hip-hop ingrained with rare and funky rhythmically savvy grooves.

Recently Slynk smashed the Fractal Forest stage at Canada’s biggest breakbeat festival, Shambhala, simultaneously releasing his first three vinyls on respected ghetto-funk labels Goodgroove and Manmade. Bring in the new year with one of the country’s unsurpassed DJs at the Byron Brewery.

OVER TEN YEARS AGO, after much encouragement from his audiences, multi-award-winning singer Roo Mackerras created the ‘Neilly Diamond’ show. He already had a good reputation for his cover versions of various famous artists but his fans let him know that he really sounded like Neil Diamond and so began one of the best Neil Diamond tribute shows in the country. Since the age of 10, when his big brother played Holly Holy and Song Sung Blue to him, Roo had been a big fan and, even with having experienced many great concerts, Roo THE NEILLY DIAMOND SHOW describes seeing Neil Diamond live as AT THE MULLUM GOLF CLUB a profound musical experience.

ON NYE ‘The combined power of Neil’s songs and his voice has always been much more than the sum of the individual parts to me,’ explains Roo, ‘and it is this that I aim to recreate’.

MARMALADE NEW YEAR ‘Close your eyes and you’d swear it’s Neil Diamond’ and ‘I’ve BYRON SHIRE’S OWN WILD MARMALADE have only heard one person do it better and that’s Neil Diamond’. defined the genre of didgeridoo dance music Such have been the comments from audiences so it that is now a global phenomenon. Their unique certainly sounds like a show that shouldn’t be missed! fusion of ancient sounds with modern beats, Neil Diamond is among the world’s best-selling artists and and uplifting vibes delivered with unparalleled has proven to be one of the most enduring and popular enthusiasm, creates a exhilarating sonic feelgood acts of our time. He has sold over 92 million records experience. worldwide, amassing over 35 Top Forty singles and 18 2012 saw the band tour Europe fusing break Platinum albums and his songs have touched the hearts of beats and dubstep with their classic old school music lovers since the early 60s. Today he is still one of the trance and drum ‘n’ bass-style grooves. This is the most-requested artists in the entertainment business with summer of musical diversity for Wild Marmalade. fans in every age group who still flock to his concerts after The band is joined by young master percussionist four decades. But it seems that nowhere is he more popular Yohai Cohen. A student of Moroccan percussion than in Australia, where over three million copies of Hot since the age of five, Yohai plays darbuka, cajon August Night have been sold, making it one of Australia’s and canjeera among other exotic percussion all-time best-selling albums still! It is no wonder that this instruments. show has proven so successful.

After playing main stage at Sydney’s Peats Ridge The Neilly Diamond Show is a tribute to the man and his festival on 30 December, Wild Marmalade return songs; by a fan, for the fans. You won’t see a singer trying to see in the New Year at the Byron Bay Brewery. For to make believe he is Neil Diamond (even though you this special night, the band will also be joined by guest will swear that it is Neil himself on stage); instead this is a drummer Marley Berry Pearce. 2013 promises good things reverent nod by an entertainer who has, since an early age, for the Marmalade boys with shows already booked in been moved by the power of this music.

Europe and Japan as well as select appearances including Mullum Golf Club on NYE followed by The Angry the Byron Spirit Festival and Earth Frequency.

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SLYNKY NEW YEARS EVE AT THE BREWERY EVAN CHANDLER, AKA SLYNK, had music on his mind from birth. Naturally gifted with a musical ear, he flirted with a range of classical instruments including piano, guitar and drums. In 2004, Slynk received a gift that would inevitably set the wheels in motion. A set of turntables motivated the aspiring DJ and consequently resulted in an unremitting addiction to vinyl. The two years following in

… AND THERE E’S MOR RE AT THE B R E W E R Y! ELECTRIK LEMONADE ARE EIGHT individuals united by the cosmic collective boogie, playing rump-funkin’ live shows that feature a repertoire of original energetic funkrock tunes, infused with electronic, soul, hip-hop and blues elements.

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BLAZE FIIRE, BREWER RY THERE’S CLEARLY SOMETHING for everyone at the Byron Bay Brewery on New Years Eve when Blaze Fire Sound bring the party vibes and live energy of a dancehall soundsystem to the stage. The core of Blaze Fire Sound are selectors Comrade Dubs, Dollamix, Host MC Otis and vocalists Raz Bin Sam and Jaminglish who, together with guest DJs, toasters and more vocalists mix classic reggae and dancehall music as well as the latest releases from Jamaica and the world with live original vocals.

DUNE ROOM BELONG GIL L GO OES OFF F O R N E W Y E A R! CALLING ALL STEAMPUNKERS, time bandits, sky pirates, technical wizards, extraordinary journeymen and ladies of anachronistic pleasure!

Come and experience a night of dancing, entertainment and visual fantasy in Byron Bay’s newest venues, The Duneroom and Belongil Bistro, Belongil Beach. Do you run clockwise

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or anticlockwise? Is ‘time’ just an illusion created by man, as Einstein so famously said? Are we all running out of time? Was Mick Jagger wrong when he languidly sang ‘time is on my side’? What time is it anyway? Universal time, daylight-saving time, summertime? Why can we only move forwards in time, yet not backwards? These are just some of the questions that we are all pondering in the calendar year 2012, the supposed ‘end of time’. Since time began (when was that?) man has been trying to capture it in some way, hold on to it and make it linear and his slave.

Yet, it seems we have failed to make time our friend. All the sundials, clocks, watches, hourglasses, smartphones, calendars and various other timepieces created by us and we still have less time than ever! With all this newfangled digital technology and electronic automation should we not have more time? Alas, we don’t. What if we had stayed in a steam-driven world where handcrafted items were the norm. Would things be different? Why not try to find out, like adventurers from the Victorian era would have. So, come 6pm on 31 December 2012, embark on a great voyage to try and capture time, make it your travelling companion on life’s mysterious journey, not your master.

You will need adventure wear to suit such a fantastical voyage, along with handmade contraptions to aid and assist our fanciful needs and you will also need a little currency for fine food and alcohol by the Belongil Bistro and a penchant for music and dance. Oh, and a timepiece is absolutely essential! You will be entertained along the way by some of best performers and musicians in Byron Bay. The Time Punk Dancers, Pole Catz, burlesque artists, DJs Pob, Al Royale, Dakini, Chris Decker, XFakta, Dan

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OME 2013 Jupiter, Midnight Hustle (live), and more will be there to guide you into keeping time. Art installations and wearable artworks will be supplied by the gifted Shearwater Steiner School.

Tickets are at chronologica.com.au and selling fast. This event will sell out.

LAUGHIN NG YOUR WAY INT TO 2013 WIT TH THE BIG GIG G COMEDY Y FEST TIVAL THIS YEAR’S NEW YEAR’S EVE BIG GIG Comedy Festival promises to be the best yet with three headline comedians taking to the stage with Big Gig Mama and MC Mandy Nolan. Bring in the New Year with Chris Franklin, Dave Eastgate and Jackie Loeb.

In the past two years Jackie Loeb has taken America by storm.

‘The woman has so much talent it’s sick,’ says the Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative.

Loeb was nominated for the Best Comedy Award at the 2011 and 2012 Hollywood Fringe festivals and has received rave reviews where she has performed.

If you get the chance to see Loeb perform, the Los Angeles Weekly has just one word of advice: ‘Go!’ The female comedy website Comediva.com describes Loeb as ‘comedy genius’. And they’re not wrong. It’s something that we’ve all known for years. While she’s nominated for a Mo Award for Best Comedy Act this year, in 2011 she scored a Mo Award for ‘Achievement of Excellence in Live Comedy’.

Since 1992 Jackie has delighted audiences with her highly original brand of comedy – using her skills as an actor, vocalist, musician, voiceover artist and writer to enhance her on-stage delivery.

The Sydney Morning Herald declared her as ‘One of the top five comics’.

Former sailor for the Royal Australian Navy, standup comedian Chris Franklin made a name for himself when he released the hit comedy single Bloke back in 2000, sending up Meredith Brooks’s song Bitch. The song went to number one and achieved Platinum sales exceeding 120,000. He shot

Dave Eastgate is an overnight sensation, 14 years in the making.

After a sellout season at the 2010 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Eastgate fulfilled a lifelong dream and headed to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to perform with Edinburgh Comedy Award Winner Brendon Burns.

With Dining Music by Gerri Loong, this is sure to be a night to remember. Two-course meal plus a New Years Eve Comedy Festival that will take you screaming in laughter all the way to midnight. Monday 31 December at the Ballina RSL. Doors 6.45pm. Dinner & Show 7.30pm. Tix $59.90 at www. ballinarsl.com.au or call 6686 2544.

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IT T’S A VERY PIIRATE EY NEW YEARS EVE E! NEW YEARS EVE CELEBRATIONS take on a whole new edge at the Hotel Brunswick when patrons are encouraged to come dressed like a pirate. Seeing as there is a pirate boat moored across the road it seems entirely appropriate to be donning the wooden legs, the cutlass and the boots.

Other nights just won’t have a patch on this. With the Feramones and The Russ Walker Band playing from 7pm till 1.30am and a free courtesy bus servicing Mullum, Billinudgel, Ocean Shores and New Brighton, it’s well worth the $40. Who knows, you may even get best-dressed couple!

HITCHCOCK NYE ALRIGHT, SO YOU DON’T FEEL LIKE laughing or dancing for NYE? Well what about a movie? Palace Byron Bay Cinema invites you to welcome in the new year with style at an exclusive advance screening of Hitchcock, the bookto-screen adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho by Stephen Rebello. Anthony Hopkins stars as the legendary Hitch, one of the most celebrated and influential filmmakers of the last century, with Helen Mirren playing his wife and partner Alma Reville. Scarlett Johansson plays Janet Leigh, known for the rest of her life as ‘the woman in the shower scene in Psycho, with James D’Arcy as Anthony Perkins and Toni Collette as Hitchcock’s secretary Peggy.

Tickets are $25 for Palace Movie Club members, $30 for non-

DAVE EASTGATE , JACKIE LOEB & CHRIS FRANKLIN AT THE BALLINA RSL’S BIG GIG COMEDY FESTIVAL FOR NYE to fame in 1997 when he won the prestigious Melbourne Comedy Festival’s RAW comedy search for new talent.

With regular appearances on The Footy Show, Stand Up Australia and Good News Week, Franklin is an Arianominated comedian who is up there with the best of them.

In February 2010, in a small comedy club in Sydney’s Kings Cross, Dave Eastgate was joined on stage for an impromptu performance by Academy Award winner Robin Williams, who described Dave’s act as “f*#%ing beautiful”.

Indisputably Australian comedy’s most dazzling new talent,

spearheaded by Robert Cray, Joe Louis Walker, Stevie Ray Vaughan and similar crusaders. While many of the Sydney bands from that era have since vanished, become historical footnotes or undergone major changes, the Cigars – true survivors that they indisputably are – have continued on, without ever compromising their distinctive no-nonsense style, to become a leading force in Australian R&B. That original Cigars lineup brought together four like-minded experienced players, all veterans of Sydney inner-west blues venues, and from the word go, as the 1990 tracks

demonstrate, the Cigars have been the very model of the ‘no passengers’ band, a well-oiled machine plus soul: no room for slackers here. Always one of the country’s hardestworking outfits (on the road more than off), the Cigars have kept their music tight, hard driving and down to earth: the Australian bar band par excellence. Apart from the timeless, unpretentious nature of the music, an obvious reason for the longevity of the Cigars must be the ongoing musical team work of two foundation members, Shane Pacey and Al Britton, who continue to co-lead the band. This also explains the consistency of the band’s sound, instantly recognisable for 20 years now, despite personnel changes and occasional stylistic variations. Frontman Shane Pacey has long been a forceful, convincing singer, and a hardattacking, razor-sharp guitarist in the modern blowtorch style of Albert Collins, Joe Louis Walker, Larry McCray and other crazy stringbenders; he’s also an outstanding prolific songwriter, and there’s ample evidence in these tracks of his sardonic, savvy and slightly warped way with lyrics. Bass player Al Hollywood Britton is another blues trooper, having survived the Dynamic Hepnotics and the Foreday Riders, and puts real backbone into the rhythm section – rock solid, responsive and funky; what’s more, he’s a dab hand in the organisational department, playing great lead telephone, according to the credits. Ballina RSL this New Years Eve!

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members, and include a sparkling glass of Brown Brothers IF YOU FEEL LIKE A NEW YEARS PARTY in Mullum with Prosecco on arrival at the cinema at 6pm, with the film screening at 6.30pm. Buy your tickets now at the cinema box a difference then get yourself to the Strictly Vinyl show at the Mullumbimby Bowling Club. Where’s My Chef are office or www.palacecinemas.com.au. providing a two-course meal followed by sweet vinyl disco soul party, and the chef banging on his bongos; it’s about SMOKIN N’ THIS S NEW YEARS S! time, don’t you think? Adults $45 for dinner and dance, $20 WHEN THE BONDI CIGARS were first gigging around dance only. Kids eating are $10 and, if not eating, free. DJs Sydney, in late 1989, they moved in a blues / R&B circuit Inchie UK, Soul Boy Michel London, UK and Mr Bean will which, while robust since the 60s, had then been sparked be supplying the disco, soul and Motown licks. Tickets at into new life by the ‘blues revival’ of the mid-80s, Mullum Mac. From 6pm.

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s r a t S WITH LILITH End of week midsummer solstice traditionally celebrated Earth’s fruitful bounty – today it marks the start of our seasonal gathering of relations, social syncopation and alcoholic animation.

Wishing Capricorns happy birthday and everyone an uplifting transition into 2013…

E ARIES: We all get by this week with a lotta help from our friends. Being thankful for the valuable resources other people are and expressing appreciation and gratitude for this encourages your own wild, wonderful self to blossom – especially beautifully around late week Aries moon.

F TAURUS: Effervescent Venus exploding in your house of adventure and exploration puts travel on many Tauran holiday agendas. As you make plans, don’t let minor aggravations drain your vitality or small annoyances alienate you from others. It simply isn’t worth it. Keep things sweet and easy.

G GEMINI: As this week’s wheels speed up, it gets increasingly difficult to make simple decisions. So either wait till the right move occurs to you, or do the opposite: ditch the rule book and experiment.

Blessed are the flexible these holidays, for they shall endeavour to simplify complications…

H CANCER: It’s looking like major amounts of contagious goodwill and celebration on this week’s perky party circuit for the Crab clan. Though when emotional late-week Cancer full moon mixes affectionate closeness with familial stresses, don’t morph into the grinch. Find ways of staying userfriendly.

(3,5,5) 34. Text message (3) 35. Keen (5) 1. Beautiful boy (6) 38. The present (3) 6. Symbol; ticket (5) 39. See 30.

10. Offspring (5) 40. Mohammed or Baba (3) 11. Friendly, genial (7) 41. Inexperienced girl (7) 12. Toilet (abbrev) (3) 42. Farewell (5) 13. Unmoving (5) 43. Opera ….. Lescaut (5) 14. Former US President (3) 44. Non-imperial system (6) 15. Month (5) 18. Age (3) DOWN 19. Horseman (8) 2. Put off (5) 23. Sin (4) 3. Cloud, galaxy (6) 25. Cigarette end (4) 4. Afternoon nap (6) 26. Self indulgence (7) 5. Town of St Francis (6) 27. Parasites (4) 6. Bank employee (6) 28. Border (4) 7. Opposition leader (5,4) 8. Short work of fiction (9) 30, 39. Very brief affair

9. Hindu god-hero (4) 16. Greek letter (3) 17. Frozen water (3) 20. Avoider of animal products (5) 21. Language of ancient Rome (5) 22. Supplying (5) 23. Volcanic activity (9) 24. Steersman (9) 28. Greek letter (3) 29. Golly! (3) 30. Irish bard (6) 31. And other things (Latin) (2,4) 32. Metallic element (6) 33. Vertical dimension (6) 36. Very clever people (5) 37. Fish eggs (4)

27. Tranche loses direction for parasites (4) 28. Clip grass border (4) 1. Fuss about evil, pretty 30, 39. Fling dingo, then boy (6) ants dance (3,5,5) 6. Symbolic puff on a 34. Message: aggregates number (5) lose uranium (3) 10. Kids edition (5) 35. Keen dance circle 11. One very loud, misses note (5) qualified and friendly (7) 38. Got back present. (3) 12. Little John or Short 39. See 30.

Ivan... (3) 40. Island loses head for 13. ...yet unmoving (5) Mohammed (3) 14. Tyson beheaded 41. Naive girl wrecks president (3) engine taking turn (7) 15. What kind of a fool 42. Now that’s proper; would sicken over a Goodbye (5) pair? (5) 43. Operatic heroine has 18. Serf lacks power – gets no male around (5) a long time (3) 44. Merit new century for 19. Reckless royalist (8) non-imperial (6) 23. Assistant grip? (4) DOWN 25. Strike bottom ... (4) 26. ... to gripe about self- 2. Yield bucks over function (5) indulgence (7) 3. Unable Last week’s solution to disperse mist (6) 4. Indian heroine grabs quarter and kip (6) 5. Donkey is one at Frank’s place (6) 6. Bank employee was a bombmaker (6) 7. Politician

takes drunk drive – not right (5,4) 8. Short month, take note and short communication for short book (9) 9. Sheep a mate of heroine of 4? (4) 16. As an afterthought, I have superhuman power!

(3) 17. Nits lose fifty cold (3) 20. Visitor from Lyra is a fussy eater (5) 21. Italian gave up sloth, carved tongue (5) 22. Supplying drug to Cole, perhaps (5) 23. Smith’s doctrine: hot rock rules! (9) 24. Tiller man hears roosters fade (9) 28. Greek Letter gives landing time (3) 29. Golly he’s a tough king (3) 30. Fat Welsh Jane was Fingal’s Boswell (6) 31. Country takes drug for one, and other things (2,4) 32. Element a little bit upset, polluted by deuterium and uranium (6) 33. Heroin with the crew gives stature (6) 36. Information with two unite for very smart people (5) 37. Eggs got high, by the sound of it (4)

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M SAGITTARIUS: Venus swishing into Planet Sag for a rendezvous with flirty Mercury ushers in an energetic, entertaining holiday break requiring you to glam up the usual casual Sag style. Because right now the universe looks like presenting you with some very juicy opportunities – some disguised as challenges…

N CAPRICORN: Others may think holidays are all about them but the real deal is sun in Capricorn kicking off your month of self-renewal. Minimise festive stress by deleting non-essentials and blowing yourself a kiss in the mirror every time you start taking things too seriously…

O AQUARIUS: Feeling more like stressed Aquarius than merry and gregarious? You can’t control other people’s behaviour, but you can choose how you react to it. As Mars charges into your sign to dramatically rearrange the Aquaverse, seek out small niches of goodwill and peace on Earth…

P P ISCES: ‘Tis the season to be realistic about what you can do and what you’re not able to, because this strenuous week needs dedicated sanity breaks to stop your nerves getting in a whirl. Smile – then your brain thinks you’re happy and releases chemicals that actually make you happy.

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I LEO: Don’t by fooled by appearances or hearsay this week. Rumour isn’t fact, so check before acting on it. Your humanitarian assignment is to help others enjoy their present state of divine disorder – along with making sure you take private hibernation time to recharge the royal batteries.

J VIRGO: You like being organised, knowing who’s doing what, who’ll be there and what time it starts.

If the seasonal mystery ride tosses your detailed arrangements in the air like confetti, then you know it’s time for the impromptu, the spontaneous, being totally in the moment…

K LIBRA: You already know this week won’t be any kind of restful. The abfab news is Venus in your house of communication supports your role as the zodiac’s peace police. Unexpected visitors, unnanounced house guests? Just take things as they come and do what has to be done...

L SCORPIO: With Venus and Mercury in the sign of yadda yadda yadda it’s hard to get a word in – but the next fortnight’s definitely amenable to gallivanting so sign off on problems but take care of practical realities, because who wants to spend the new year in damage control?

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Community Garden. It’s for those who want their kids to play in a truly creative, safe and loving environment. It’s for those who’d like to connect, learn and be blessed by the Gyuto Monks of Tibet. It’s for couples and singles who want to revitalise their relationships Brokeback Mountain and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon director Ang and delve into tantra. It’s for those who want to learn stress-relieving Lee. This is a story that many thought would be impossible to bring meditation and breathing techniques. It’s for those who want to to the screen, but Lee defied the odds to produce a ground-breaking participate in an ecologically and socially sustainable event. It’s for and emotionally captivating experience that will inspire, touch and those who love heart- and body-moving music in an ecstatic tribe transport audiences to a place they will never forget. Life of Pi screens vibe. It’s for those who want to open their minds and hearts to at Palace Byron Bay Cinema in 2D exchange new and old ideas. and 3D from January 1.

Byron Spirit Festival has a very active Facebook page, newsletter, videos from last The Spir rit t of This s year, new video with our Place mascot ‘Puppetji’ guiding Festivals have been happening your journey, links to our since time began, fulfilling the accommodation options, and deeply human need to connect, fantastic special offers. gather together, learn, grow, March 1–3, 2013, and celebrate life on earth. The Mullumbimby. second annual Byron Spirit Join in on www.spiritfestival.

Festival is a proactive response FLAMINGO PRIDE – ONE com.au. to our local and national desire OF THE FILMS SCREENING to strengthen our community through engaging, health-giving, AT THE QUEER FRUITS Affo ordab ble and creative group connection.

FILM FESTIVAL ON 29 & 30 a r t a t B yr ron n With 108 facilitators leading DECEMBER AT THE LISMORE g a ll l e r y workshops in the many forms of WORKERS CLUB Following on from a very yoga, conscious dance, tantra, healing successful launch of the and other genre-defying modalities, this Doublebassment Studios Art Gallery in November we are now second year’s program offers something having our Festive Season Gala Exhibition from Wednesday for everyone. Daily workshops with some of the December 19 to Saturday 22. The exhibition will feature a large world’s most accomplished instructors are designed for all levels. number of talented local artists with a range of styles and affordable A day or weekend pass offers a dazzling choice of activities in prices to tempt the discerning eye. Just a few of the artists that will comfortable venues, all within walking distance of Mullumbimby’s be familiar are Geoffrey Williams, Michael Adams and Flore Legarde. main street. The Spirit Village will again embrace the Mullum Civic Hall, and be open to the public with food stalls, Kidz Space, stages, To get in early on the action you are invited to the official launch and more. Byron Spirit Festival is not just for yogis. It’s for those on Tuesday December 18 at 6pm. There will be music and who love to dance, all kinds of dance. It’s for those who love to refreshments to add to the great atmosphere in what has been taste organic, healthy food, picked that day from our local Mullum touted as ‘our own funky little bit of New York’ in Byron Bay. You can find them at the far end of Jonson Street, number 144 Kasparov’s rating record. behind the Byron Music Shop… also look for their shimmering flags.

CHESS by Ian Rogers Garry Carlsen’s eyes will now be Play at Byron Services Club, Mon 7pm firmly fixed on his next tourna- For more see www.doublebassment.com.

World number one Magnus ment in London – the Candidates Carlsen won the 2012 London tournament in March to decide Children n’s Enterta taiinm ment at t Up plif ft Classic with an eye-popping per- World Champion Viswanathan After launching her new CD Shine Your Light for children only a few formance which gives him the Anand’s next challenger.

Q Judit Polgar, generally out of weeks ago Jessica Hannigan had a surprise in store when she won highest chess rating in history.

The 22-year-old Norwegian form in London, managed to win the Dolphin Award for the Music For Children Category. She has been asked to perform her show, which includes actors playing out received his winner’s trophy and the following impressive game. the day in the life of a little family, at the Uplift Festival on Sunday 50,000 Euro prize at a closing London Classic 2012 dinner which saw the Classic White: L McShane 23 December at 4.30pm in the Kids’ Space. participants play friendly games Black: J Polgar against some of London’s political Opening: English 1.c4 g6 2.g3 Bg7 3.Bg2 c5 4.Nc3 Nc6 5.Nf3 Queer Fil lm! and business elite. b6!? An unusual set-up suggested by opening The private dinner, at Simp- expert Mihai Marin. 6.0-0 Bb7 7.d3 Nf6 8.Bg5 Celebrate the best in Queer Film at the Queer Fruits Film Festival son’s-in-the-Strand, was contro- h6 9.Bd2 d5 10.Qc1 Rc8 11.Rb1 Qd7 12.b3 at the Lismore District Workers Club on Saturday 29 and Sunday versial because throughout the d4 13.Nb5 h5!? 14.b4?! After a slow start, 30 December. The crew will be presenting the very best boys, girls, tournament the organisers had McShane decides that he must start hand-tobeen spruiking for donations hand fighting but 14.h4 was more sober. 14... trans and queer films from around the world. Opening night MC is large and small from internet cxb4 15.Bxb4 a6 16.Na3 Nxb4 17.Rxb4 Fancy Plece and Special guests Shiny Shiny will be delivering a live viewers around the world to Nd5! 18.Rb3 Nc3 This powerful knight seri- electro set. Of course it would be a queer event indeed if they didn’t help ensure that the tournament ously cramps White. 19.Qd2 Bxf3! 20.Bxf3 have an after party with DJ Lady K. It’s the perfect prequel to the would take place in 2013. ‘So this h4!? 21.g4 After 21.Rxb6 ‘I hadn’t seen a forced New Year. is how my donation was spent! win but it looked absolutely terrifying,’ said Festival passes and single-session tickets available now: Hope the wine tasted good,’ was McShane. In fact after 21...hxg3 22.hxg3 Qh3 White can survive with 23.Ra1 rather than http://www.queerfruitsfilmfestival.org/ticketing.html. one peeved comment when the 23.Re1, which is well met by 23...Bh6 24.e3 photos of the event were pub- Bxe3 25.fxe3 (25.Rxe3!) 25...Qxg3+ 26.Bg2 lished.

Rc5!! 27.Qf2 Rh1+! and Black wins. 21...b5!

Yet nothing could take the 22.h3 0-0 23.cxb5 axb5 24.Nc2 Rc5 25.Ne1 Austen Tayshus at Byron s Club gloss off Carlsen’s dominance in Bf6 26.Ng2 Bg5 27.Qb2 Rfc8 28.Kh1 Qd6 Services London, winning five games and 29.Ra3? A blunder, but White is running out Austen Tayshus is back. And I think you’d have to agree, that love drawing three to move his world of useful moves. 29...Na4! 30.Rxa4 bxa4 him or hate him there is nothing quite as exciting as an Austen rating to 2861, 10 points clear of 31.Ne1 Rc1 32.Qb7 Rb8 33.Qa7 Bd2 0-1 Tayshus comedy performance. The audience are literally poised

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E N T E R T A I N M E N T on the edge of their seats as the Big Man of Australian comedy engages in a relentless, rapid-fire satirical assault. Its funny, frightening, fierce and informed. This is not just a collection of gags thrown together with a couple of catchy punchlines.

Austen’s humour is about who we are and how we think and what happened in the cultural melting pot to make us that way. He plays provocateur to our values and measures them against our rather shaky identity as ‘Australian’.

Austen Tayshus has been around since 1981, when a much younger Raybans-wearing loudmouth first burst onto the scene with his 83 hit Australiana. Tickets are available now for his Monday 7 January show at the Byron Services Club. $15/20

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Faerie Solstic ce Crack out those Fairy wings and join Visionary Songstress Wendy Rule for a night of ritual and music to celebrate the Midsummer Solstice. Dress in your faerie finery and celebrate the season in style at the beautiful Castle on the Hill. Kids are welcome free of charge!

The night will begin with a joyous ritual presented by Wendy and renowned pagan author Gede Parma. Wendy and her husband and Magical Partner Timothy Van Diest will then lead us on a magical musical journey. Bring along drums and shakers if you have them and join in the merrymaking. Wednesday 20 December at The Castle on the Hill, 90 Bonny Doon Road, Uki. 7pm.

Tickets $20 in advance online www.trybooking.com/CEGN or at Happy Herbs Shop in Uki, $25 at the door if still available.

Children 15 and under welcome free of charge.

UST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS, BLUESFEST 2013 – hailed as ‘... the greatest lineup ever seen at one festival in Australia’ (Paul Cashmere, Noise 11) – dazzles its audience once again.

Headlining this announcement is no other than Grammywinning singer/songwriter Jason Mraz, whose song I’m Yours has captured the hearts of millions of people across the globe.

His new album Love Is A Four Letter Word – which features the heartfelt single I Won’t Give Up, has quickly proven to be a smash hit this year.

Jason Mraz has been added to the opening day of Bluesfest, Thursday 28 March.

The Thursday of Bluesfest is the official opening day of the festival and already features Ben Harper, Counting Crows, Trombone Shorty, Grace Potter, Chris Isaak, Robert Cray, Rodriguez, Frank Turner and loads more – it is just an incredible evening of music – amongst Bluesfest’s greatest-ever bills.

Manu Chao and his band La Ventura put the icing on the cake with his performance on Good Friday.

The lineup is already star studded on Easter Friday with heavyweights like Santana, Steve Miller Band, Rodriguez, and Jimmy Cliff on the bill, but who would not happily make room for such a talented musician as Manu Chao?

Manu Chao with his band La Ventura has been described as one of the most charismatic and energetic musicians around today.

His anti-globalisation and anti-free-trade stance has won him legions of fans around the world. His music is a blend of punk, rock, reggae, ska, salsa, French chanson and Algerian rai. His musical message resonates with the dispossessed of the world.

It is about immigration, homelessness and drugs – and has strong leftist leanings. His background is Spanish Basque and his parents emigrated to Paris to escape the Spanish dictator Franco.

He is simply a superstar in many parts of Europe – and he sings in Spanish, French, English, Portuguese, Arabic and Wolof.

Already headlining the dream Bluesfest lineup are Paul Simon, Robert Plant Presents Sensational Space Shifters, Santana, Ben Harper, Steve Miller Band, Iggy & The Stooges, Wilco, Rodriquez, Chris Isaak, Roger Hodgson from Supertramp and so many more.

JOIN WENDY RULE FOR HER MIDSUMMER SOLSTICE AT THE CASTLE ON THE HILL, 90 BONNY DOON ROAD UKI ON WEDNESDAY 20 DECEMBER

BOOK REVIEWS Word Hunters

Shock Waves

Kong

The Curious Dictionary

by Hanabeth Luke

by Gary Elkerton

by Nick Earls This time they dropped straight down. Al shut his eyes and told himself not to scream like a baby. Then he screamed like a baby. This is not home; the peg read 1835 – they’d travelled back in time!

Word Hunters is a story about an old dictionary that takes two children – Lexi and Al – back in time. Their mission is to save words that could be lost in the future. Each time they enter the dictionary they are blasted into a new adventure. On the way they must fight battles, see kings being killed and run for their lives.

Word Hunters is a great read and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I would recommend it for young teenagers.

Review by Summer Chaseling – age 12

You’re young, in love, and in paradise… surfing, travelling, partying. Then in one terrifying wave of heat and noise your reality shatters into a million pieces that can never be put back together.

Hanabeth was hamming it up on the dance floor when a loud bang momentarily silenced the music and dimmed the lights.

This is a story of young love and lives cut short, yet it is the story of what Hanabeth has done since that brings a spark of hope and light to this terrible chapter in our history.

Confronting

world leaders, campaigning for peace and against the war on terror, resolving to squeeze the most from every day, Hanabeth’s inspirational tale provides a stirring case study in survival and healing.

In the world of pro surfing, personalities don’t come any bigger than Gary ‘Kong’ Elkerton. Gary took to surfing when school, discipline and other conventions failed him.

Living the life, getting the girls, taking the drugs – it all added up to a very good time until he woke up one day and found his nickname and reputation had become the 100-pound gorilla on his back, one that was going to be very tough to rid himself of.

What do you do when everything around you, including the industry you’re in, encourages your bad behaviour and then punishes you for it? An eye-opening wild ride and a great Australian story.

These book reviews are brought to you by Mary Ryan’s Books Music & Coffee Shop 5/21 Fletcher St, Byron Bay 02 6685 8183 www.maryryan.com.au a new book, Turning Point.

Subtitled ‘Surf Portraits and Stories’, Turning Point transports the reader to yesteryear – a time less complicated.

Presented as a series of individual photographs and minimalist stories, the book is a gentle window into surfing Bells to Byron in 1970– 71. This is not a racy book of unbelievable action shots or aweinspiring moves. It is a contemplative work that demands you settle in and reminisce…

Rusty provides a glimpse into his personal ‘turning point’ and ‘falling for’ Byron Bay. ‘These are one-off shots taken in a simpler time… They are of a period remembered as pure and uncomplicated.’

Turning Point

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High Season A Memoir Of Heroin & Hospitality’

by Jim Hearn High Season is a rollicking story of food, heroin, prostitution and celebrity. Jim Hearn cleverly weaves his life story around cooking an unscheduled 5-star lunch for Paris Hilton and friends on New Years Day at the peak of the high season in Byron Bay. The large appetite of the Paris Hilton party, the unexpected shortage of heroin at Kings Cross on NYE… Jim draws attention to the balance of pleasure and pain in the hedonism of those that stay at Rae’s Boutique Guesthouse…

Hearn is thrown into the chaotic world of excess when his father decides to give away everything the family owns! The family is left with nothing. When Jim is 15 the

family dissolves and his mother organises him into a cooking apprenticeship.

Despite continuing to develop his culinary craft, Jim’s life seems to go nowhere. With admirable honesty and a generous portion of good humour, Hearn owns up to a seemingly endless series of disastrous life choices that will make you cry, laugh out loud, wince with pain, and sometimes all three at once.

Back at Rae’s, Hearn’s depiction of the tension, heat and adrenalin in the 5-star kitchen during the New Years Day service is captivating.

However, his portrayal of the associated personal relationships and dynamics is what sets this book apart – endearing, challenging and heart-wrenching.

Hearn offers us a front-seat view into the world of excessive appetite. We are given a taste of what this world is like from the inside. High Season is the real deal – raw, uncompromising and always entertaining.

Review by John Mitchell

FREE SPECS!

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Television Guide

THURSDAY 20 ABC 1

1. Popular American standup comedian Louis CK (www. louisck.com) is the creator, star, producer, writer, director, and editor of the comedy series, named mysteriously, Louie (ABC2, Saturday Dec 22, 9.30pm), sandwiched between Louis Theroux (http://louistheroux.com), who ventures inquisitively into weird subcultures and survives, and Comedy Roadshow, which makes for a pretty entertaining evening altogether.

2. Director Tim Burton is in fine form with Mars Attacks!

(GO!, Sunday Dec 23, 9.30pm), a parody of science fiction B movies based on a cult trading-card series of the same name.

It is loaded with big-name actors but was made famous by the quirky alien laugh, created by reversing the sound ducks make when they quack.

6.00 ABC News 10.00 Robert Schumann 11.00 Cleopatra 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Worst Disasters 1.30 Whatever! The Science Of Teens 2.00 Waterloo Road 3.00 Kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Programs 5.30 Pohâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kitchen 6.00 Rick Steinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Christmas 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 Kitchen Cabinet 8.30 Jack Irish (M) 10.10 Angry Boys (M) 10.35 Late News 10.50 Monty Python (M) 11.45 Twins 12.40 The Clinic 1.35 Live From Abbey Road (M) 2.30 NT AFL 5.30 Eggheads

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Cynthia Gibb, 7.00 ABC News 9.30 Movie: The White Ribbon Dan Cortese 2.00 Today Tonight 2.30 7.30 7.30 (MA 2009) German crime Dr Oz 3.30 Kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Programs 4.30 Seven 8.00 QI 12.00 Movie: The Secret Of The News 5.00 The Price Is Right 5.30 8.30 Movie: Bran Nue Dae (PG Grain (M 2007) French drama 2.45 Deal Or No Deal 2009) Australian comedy. Weatherwatch 6.00 Prime News Rocky McKenzie, Jessica 6.30 Seven News TEN Mauboy 7.00 Better Homes & Gardens 7.00 Wurrawhy 7.30 Entertainment 10.00 Absolutely Fabulous 7.30 Dynamo Tonight 8.00 The Insider 8.30 The 10.30 Late Edition News 8.30 Grimm (M) 10.40 Spooks (M) 11.30 Blue Murder Bold & The Beautiful 9.00 Judge Judy 10.30 The Cult (M) (M) 12.20 Durham County (M) 1.10 9.30 Everyday Gourmet 10.00 Good 11.30 Olivia Lee (MA) 12.00 Sons rage (M) 2.00 W-League Football Chef Bad Chef 10.30 Yes Chef 11.00 And Daughters 12.30 Home 4.00 Treasure Hunt 5.30 Eggheads The Living Room 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 Shopping 5.30 News The Doctors 2.00 Ready Steady Cook ABC 2 3.00 Judge Judy 3.30 Hueyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kitchen 7TWO 6.00 Kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Programs 4.00 Totally Wild 4.30 The Bold & The 6.30 Total Girl 8.30 Bite Sized 9.00 7.00 Spicks And Specks Beautiful 5.00 Ten News Ross On The Range 9.30 Entertaining 7.30 The Truth About Botox 6.00 The Simpsons With James 10.00 An Umbrian 8.30 Louis Theroux (M) 6.30 The Project Kitchen 10.30 Test Kitchen 11.00 9.30 Louie (M) 7.30 Wedding Band Twoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Company 11.30 Doctor 9.50 The 27 Inch Man 8.30 Movie: The A-Team (M At Large 12.00 Movie: Agatha 10.40 Louis Theroux (M) 11.40 OMG! 2010) US action. Liam Christieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Man In The Brown Sextuplets! 12.25 Urban Chef 12.55 Neeson, Bradley Cooper Suit (PG 1989) US mystery. Rue The Fabulous Beekman Boys 1.20 11.00 The Project 12.00 Saving McClanahan, Tony Randall 2.00 How Do They Do It? 1.20 Monkey Grace (M) 1.00 Infomercials 3.30 Movie: Cruisinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Down The River (G Thieves 1.45 ABC News 1.50 Close Late Show 4.30 Religion 5.30 CBS 1953) US musical. 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6.00 Kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Programs 7.00 Spicks And Specks 7.30 Worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Toughest Driving Tests 8.30 Louis And Michael (M) 9.30 Louie (M) 9.50 Alan Carr Chatty Man 10.40 Louis Theroux (M) 11.40 The Young Ones (M) 12.15 Gavin And Stacey 12.40 Party Down (M) 1.10 Root Of All Evil (M) 1.35 Dream Restaurant 1.55 ABC News 2.00 Close

ABC NEWS 24

6.00 ABC News 12.30 One Plus One 1.00 ABC News 2.30 Australia Network News 3.00 Afternoon Live 5.45 Health Quarter 6.00 The Drum 6.45 Consumer Quarter 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 ABC News 8.30 Inside Edge 9.00 The World 10.00 The Drum 10.45 Consumer Quarter 11.00 ABC News 11.30 Australia Network News 12.00 ABC News 12.30 7.30 1.00 BBC Impact 1.30 Australia Network News 2.00 Newshour 3.00 BBC World News 4.30 Big Ideas 5.00 Newhour

SBS 1

5.05 World News 1.00 Food Loversâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Guide To Australia 1.30 My Biggest Fan 2.30 Parent Rescue 3.00 World News 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Global Village 6.00 Food Safari Japan 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 My Sri Lanka 8.00 Greater Mekong 2 8.30 Very Hungry Frenchman 9.35 One Born Every Minute (M) 10.30 World News Australia 11.00 The Sunny Side Of Sex (M) 11.55 Movie: Slaughter Night (MAV 2006) Dutch horror 1.40

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6.00 World News 6.00 Globe Trekker USA 6.30 Foodie Planet 7.30 Berlin 8.30 All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace 9.30 Movie: Max Manus (M 2008) Norwegian drama 11.35 Movie: The Man Next Door (M 2009) Argentinian drama 1.30 Weatherwatch

TEN

7.00 Wurrawhy 7.30 Entertainment Tonight 8.00 The Insider 8.30 The Bold & The Beautiful 9.00 Judge Judy 9.30 Everyday Gourmet 10.00 Good Chef Bad Chef 10.30 Yes Chef 11.00 The Living Room 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 The Doctors 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Judge Judy 3.30 Hueyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kitchen 4.00 Scope 4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News 6.00 The Simpsons 6.30 The Project 7.30 Jamieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Christmas 8.30 Law & Order: SVU (M) 10.30 Go Girls (M) 11.30 The Project 12.30 Infomercials 3.45 Late Show 4.30 Religion 5.30 CBS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; This Morning

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SBS 2

6.00 World News 6.00 Globe Trekker USA 6.30 Foodie Planet St Tropez 7.35 Brave New World 8.30 Carrier (M) 9.30 Movie: Beijing Bicycle (M 2001) Mandarin drama 11.30 Movie: Goemon (MAV 2009) Japanese drama 1.55 Weatherwatch

TEN

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SBS 1

5.05 World News 1.00 Food Loversâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Guide To Australia 1.30 The Nest 2.00 Comedy School (M) 2.30 Here Comes The Neighbourhood 3.00 World News 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Global Village 6.00 Food Safari France 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Mighty Mississippi 8.30 The NASA Missions 9.30 How To Go To War 10.30 World News Australia 11.05 Movie: Desire (M 2010) Spanish drama 1.05 Kurt Wallander (M) 2.45 Weatherwatch

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PRIME

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.30 Seven News 12.00 Movie: A Ring Of Endless Light (G 2002) US drama. Mischa Barton, Ryan Merriman 2.00 Today Tonight 2.30 Dr Oz 3.30 Kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.00 The Price Is Right 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 6.00 Prime News 6.30 Seven News 7.00 Better Homes & Gardens 8.30 Movie: The Santa Clause 3 (G 2006) US comedy.

Tim Allen, Elizabeth Mitchell 10.30 2012 Miss Universe 11.30 Up All Night 12.00 Room For Improvement 12.30 Home Shopping 5.30 News

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6.30 Total Girl 8.30 Bite Sized 9.00 Ross On The Range 9.30 Entertaining With James 10.00 An Umbrian Kitchen 10.30 Test Kitchen 11.00 Twoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Company 11.30 Doctor At Large 12.00 Movie: The Iron Glove (PG 1954) US adventure. Robert Stack, Ursula Thiess 2.00 Movie: Flight Of The Reindeer (G 2000) US drama. Beau Bridges, Richard Thomas 4.00 4 Burners And A Grill 4.30 Designing Women 5.00 Whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Boss? 5.30 Mind Your Language 6.00 Crocodile Hunter Diaries 6.30 Dealers Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is 7.45 How The Other Half Live 8.45 Inspector Morse (M) 11.00 The Bill (M) 12.00 Dealers Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is 1.15 Crocodile Hunter Diaries 1.45 Australian Open Tennis Classic â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1988 Lendl v Cash 5.30 Home Shopping

7MATE

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NBN

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GEM

6.00 Friends 6.30 The Zoo 7.00 Home Shopping 8.00 Green Acres 8.30 Bewitched 9.00 Home Shopping 10.30 Alive & Cooking 11.00 Friends 12.00 Movie: The Iron Maiden (G 1962) UK comedy.

Michael Craig 2.00 Green Acres 2.30 Bewitched 3.00 First Love Second Chance 4.00 Extreme Makeover 5.00 Ellen Degeneres Show 6.00 Friends 7.00 The Zoo 7.30 Life In The Undergrowth 8.30 Movie: The Pursuit Of Happyness (M 2006) US biography. Will Smith, Thandie Newton 11.00 Sensing Murder (M) 12.00 Friends 12.30 Psychic TV 2.00 Movie: Cold Sweat (M 1971) Italian action.

Charles Bronson, Liv Ullmann 3.50 Movie: My Brother Jonathan (G 1947) UK drama. Michael Denison

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5.00 rage 11.30 Eggheads 12.00 Movie: War And Peace (PG 1956) Italian drama. Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda 3.30 Cheese Slices 4.00 Women’s National Basketball 5.00 W-League Football 6.00 River Cottage 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Doc Martin 8.20 Hebburn 8.45 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (M) 9.45 Midsomer Murders (M) 11.20 Waking The Dead (M) 12.10 rage (MA)

4.00 NASCAR (M) 2.20 Weatherwatch

SBS 2

6.00 World News 6.00 At The Table With…

6.30 Feasts 7.30 New York 8.35 The Young Montalbano (M) 10.30 Movie: Cell 211 (MAV 2009) Spanish thriller 12.30 Movie: Sexy Boys (MA 2001) French comedy 2.10 Weatherwatch

TEN

6.00 Kids’ Programs 9.30 Good Chef Bad Chef 10.00 William & Kate: A Modern Day Fairytale 12.00 Australian Rally Championship 2.00 ABC 2 NBL Basketball – Allstars 4.00 Jamie’s 6.00 Kids’ Program Christmas 5.00 TEN News 7.00 Spicks And Specks 6.00 The Simpsons 7.30 Doctor Who 6.30 Life Of Mammals 8.30 Louis Theroux 7.30 Wildlife Warriors 9.30 Louie 8.00 Bondi Vet 10.00 Comedy Roadshow (M) 8.30 Graham Norton Show (M) 10.40 Louis Theroux (M) 11.40 Gavin 9.30 Almighty Johnsons (M) And Stacey (M) 12.40 Misfits (MA) 11.30 Movie: Scoop (PG 2006) 1.30 Harry And Paul (M) 2.00 ABC UK comedy. Scarlett Johansson, News 2.05 Close Hugh Jackman 1.30 Infomercials 4.00 Religion ABC NEWS 24 6.00 Capital Hill 6.30 One Plus One 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The World This Week 8.00 Weekend Breakfast 11.30 State To State 12.00 ABC News 12.45 Arts Quarter 1.00 National Press Club Address 2.00 ABC News 2.30 At The Movies 3.00 ABC News 3.30 Tonic 4.00 ABC News 4.30 Inside Edge 5.00 ABC News 5.30 One Plus One 6.00 ABC News 6.30 Foreign Correspondent 7.00 ABC News 7.30 State To State 8.00 Four Corners 8.45 Big Ideas 9.00 ABC News 9.30 The World This Week 10.00 ABC News 10.30 Big Ideas 11.00 Tonic 12.00 Big Ideas 1.00 BBC World News 1.30 State To State 2.00 Newshour 3.00 BBC World News 3.30 Big Ideas 5.00 Newshour

SBS 1

5.05 World News 1.00 The Extraordinary Voyage 2.15 Trip To The Moon 2.45 Twiggy: Face Of The 60s 3.45 Romance 4.00 Photo 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Who Do You Think You Are? 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Amazon 8.30 Hunted (M) 9.30 Real Humans (M) 10.40 Movie: Tornado (M 2006) German action 12.55 Anatomy For Beginners (MA) 1.50 Dave In The Life

ELEVEN

6.00 Kids’ Programs 7.00 The Brady Bunch 7.30 King Of Queens 8.00 Infomercial 9.00 The Range 11.30 Happy Days 12.00 Charmed 1.00 Jag 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 Infomercial 3.30 Cheers 4.00 Becker 4.30 Family Ties 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 The Brady Bunch 6.00 Sabrina 6.30 Becker 7.00 Raymond 8.00 Becker 8.30 Star Trek Voyager 11.30 The Loop 2.00 Raymond 3.00 Charmed 4.00 Becker 4.30 King Of Queens 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 Religion

ONE HD

6.00 NASCAR 8.00 World Championship Triathlon 9.00 National Football League 12.30 Omnisport 1.00 Dangerous Drives 2.00 Airline At Christmas 3.00 Get Smart 3.30 The Great Australian Doorstep 4.00 The WWE Experience 5.00 Sport Science 6.00 Get Smart 6.30 Meteorite Men 7.30 M*A*S*H 8.30 Movie: Bad News Bears (M 2005) US comedy.

Billy Bob Thornton, Greg Kinnear 11.00 48 Hours 12.00 Mafia’s Greatest Hits (M) 1.05 Trick My Truck 2.05 American Digger 2.35 Flip Men 3.05 Omnisport 3.30 FA Cup Classic

SUNDAY 23 ABC 1

5.00 rage 6.30 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Weekend Breakfast 11.30 Songs Of Praise 12.00 Landline 1.00 River Cottage 2.00 The Race 3.25 Nutcracker: San Francisco Ballet 5.00 David Attenborough’s First Life 6.00 Joanna Lumley’s Great Odyssey 6.45 Gardening Australia 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The Manor Reborn 8.30 Pillars Of The Earth (M) 10.20 Mrs Carey’s Concert 11.55 Movie: Pal Joey (G 1957) US musical. Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth 1.45 Herman’s Hermits 3.05 rage (M) 4.00 The New Inventors 4.30 Art Nation 5.00 Gardening Australia 5.30 Catalyst

ABC 2

6.00 Kids’ Programs 7.00 Spicks And Specks 7.30 Doctor Who 8.45 Louis Theroux (M) 9.35 Louie (MA) 10.00 Comedy Roadshow (M) 10.45 Louis Theroux 11.35 Alan Carr Chatty Man 12.20 The Truth About Botox 1.20 Queens Of The Stone Age 1.50 News 1.55 Close

ABC NEWS 24

6.00 Inside Edge 6.30 Landline 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Newsline 8.00 Weekend Breakfast 11.30 The World This Week 12.00 ABC News 12.45 Consumer Quarter 1.00 Big Ideas 2.00 ABC News 2.30 Inside Edge 3.00 ABC News 3.30 Need To Know 4.00 ABC News 4.30 Capital Hill 5.00 ABC News 5.30 State To State 6.00 ABC News 6.30 Australian Story 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The World This Week 8.00 Landline 9.00 ABC News 9.30 One Plus One 10.00 ABC News 10.30 Big Ideas 11.00 ABC News 11.30 Newsline 12.00 Big Ideas 1.00 BBC World News 1.30 State To State 2.00 Newshour 3.00 BBC World News 3.30 National Press Club Address 4.30 Big Ideas 5.00 Newshour

SBS 1

5.30 World News 8.30 PopAsia 10.30 Football Asia 11.00 FIFA Futbol Mundial 11.30 Speedweek 1.30 World News 2.30 Oz And Hugh Drink To Christmas 3.30 The Legends Of Santa 4.30 ADbc 5.00 Cycling Central 6.00 Thalassa 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Lost Worlds The Crusades

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8.35 Stephen Hawking’s Grand Design 9.30 Valentino Last Emperor 11.20 Movie: The Red Baron (M 2008) German war drama 1.20 Movie: 2 Become 1 (M 2006) Cantonese romantic comedy 3.05 Weatherwatch

SBS 2

5.05 World News 6.10 Rescue 117 6.40 Iron Chef 7.30 Behind The Front Door 8.00 Tomorrow’s Doctors 8.40 Paul Simon Live 9.45 SOS 10.45 Movie: Nosferatu (PG 1922) German horror 11.55 Movie: Transylvania (M 2006) French drama 1.45 Weatherwatch

TEN

6.00 Religion 7.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Good Chef Bad Chef 10.00 Everyday Gourmet 10.30 Ironman Preview 12.00 4x4 Adventures 1.00 Ozzie Holiday 1.30 Summer Hits 2.00 Ironman: Scarborough 5.00 TEN News 6.00 The Simpsons 6.30 Merlin 7.30 Modern Family 8.30 Homeland (M) 9.30 Almighty Johnsons (M) 11.30 The Good Wife (M) 12.30 Saint Mary MacKillop 1.30 Infomercial 5.00 Religion 5.30 CBS This Morning

ELEVEN

PRIME

6.00 Home Shopping 7.00 Weekend Sunrise 10.00 The Morning Show 11.00 Kids’ Programs 2.30 That ’70s Show 3.00 Movie: Sky High (PG 2005) US comedy. Michael Angarano, Kurt Russell 5.00 Hart Of The Barbecue 5.30 Sydney Weekender 6.00 Seven News 6.30 Movie: Evan Almighty (G 2007) US comedy. Steve Carell, Morgan Freeman 8.30 Carols In The Domain LIVE 11.00 Family Guy (M) 11.30 Celebrity Juice (MA) 12.15 Grey’s Anatomy (M) 1.15 Desperate Housewives (M) 3.30 Home Shopping

7TWO

7.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Tony Bennett 10.00 Home Shopping 11.00 Out Of The Blue 11.30 Great South East 12.00 Creek To Coast 12.30 Going Bush 1.00 Sydney Weekender 1.30 Queensland Weekender 2.00 Weekend Kitchen 4.00 Globe Trekker 5.00 All 4 Adventure 5.30 The Great Outdoors 6.30 Michael Buble 7.30 Heartbeat 8.30 PD James (M) 11.50 Movie: Eight Days To Live (M 2006) Canadian drama. Kelly Rowan, Shawn Doyle 1.50 Australian Open Tennis Classic – 2007 Nadal v Murray 5.00 Globe Trekker

7MATE

6.00 Buck Rogers 8.00 Home Shopping 9.00 NBC Today 11.00 Ned And Stacey 12.00 TJ Hooker 1.00 The New Adam 12 1.30 Three Peaks Race – Tasmania 2.30 Hook Line And Sinker 3.30 Smash Lab 5.30 Pimp My Ride 6.30 Parking Wars 7.30 World’s Deadliest Roads 8.30 Full Throttle Saloon (M) 9.30 Warehouse 13 (M) 10.30 Alphas (M) 12.30 30 Rock 1.00 TJ Hooker 2.00 Buck Rogers 4.00 The New Adam 12 4.30 Ned And Stacey 5.30 Home Shopping

NBN

6.00 Danoz 7.00 Weekend Today 10.00 Mornings 11.00 Kids’ Programs 3.00 Andre Rieu 4.00 Explore Canada 5.00 NBN News 5.30 Getaway 6.00 NBN News 6.30 Australia’s Funniest Home Videos 7.30 Dangerous Drives 8.30 Movie: Rat Race (M 2001) US comedy. Rowan Atkinson, John Cleese 11.00 48 Hours (M) 12.00 Black Gold 1.00 Sport Science 2.00 I Fish 3.00 Omnisport 3.30 World Of Free Sports 4.00 National Football League – LIVE

PRIME

6.00 Religion 6.30 Home Shopping 7.00 Weekend Sunrise 10.00 The Morning Show 11.00 Dr Oz 12.00 Minute To Win It 1.00 Beat The Star 2.00 Movie: The Even Stevens Movie (G 2003) US comedy. Shia Labeouf, Christy Carlson Romano 4.00 Fat Family Diet 5.00 Drive Thru Australia 5.30 New Zealand On A Plate 6.00 Seven News 6.30 The Vicar Of Dibley 7.30 Border Patrol 8.00 Coastwatch 8.30 Bones (M) 10.30 The Cult (M) 11.30 Parking Wars 12.00 Grey’s Anatomy (M) 1.00 Desperate Housewives (M) 2.00 Home Shopping 5.30 News

7TWO

7.00 Route 66 8.00 Sea Breeze 8.30 Home Shopping 9.45 Movie: The Locket (PG 2002) US drama. Vanessa Redgrave, Chad Willett 11.45 Movie: Flight Of The Doves (G 1971) UK drama. Ron Moody, Jack Wild 1.50 Movie: Christmas In Conneticut (G 1992) US comedy. Dyan Cannon, Kris Kristofferson 4.00 Carols In The Domain – LIVE 6.30 The Food Truck 7.00 Country Calendar 7.30 Ballykissangel 8.30 Keeping Up Appearances 9.10 Escape To The Country 10.30 60 Minute Makeover 11.30 Homes Under The Hammer 12.45 Hale & Pace (M) 1.15 Movie: Flight Of The Doves 3.30 Australian Open Tennis Classic – 2005 Safin v Hewitt 5.30 Home Shopping

6.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Dr Quinn Medicine Woman 10.00 7th Heaven 11.00 The Love Boat 12.00 Charmed 1.00 Jag 2.00 Infomercial 2.30 Neighbours 5.00 90210 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 6.30 Everybody Loves Raymond 7.30 The Simpsons 8.00 Futurama 9.00 The Cleveland Show (M) 9.30 The Office 10.30 Frasier 11.30 Raymond 12.30 Sabrina 1.00 7MATE Jag 2.00 Love Boat 3.00 Charmed 6.30 Mike Hammer 8.30 Home 4.00 Dr Quinn 5.00 7th Heaven Shopping 9.30 Ned And Stacey 10.30 TJ Hooker 11.30 Mike Hammer ONE HD 12.30 New Adam 12 1.00 New 6.00 NASCAR 8.00 Pro Bull Riding Dragnet 1.30 V.I.P. 3.30 Smash Lab 9.00 Liverpool Football 12.00 5.30 Pimp My Ride Australian Rally Championship 6.30 Mythbusters 2.00 NBL Basketball – Allstars 4.00 7.30 Movie: Fletch (PG 1985) Omnisport 4.30 River To Reef 5.00 US comedy. Chevy Chase, Fishin’ Trip 5.30 M*A*S*H Tim Matheson 6.00 Big Fish, Small Boats 9.30 Movie: 7 Seconds (AV 6.30 Master Of Disaster

7.30 Movie: Polar Express (G 2004) Animation 9.40 Lotto 9.45 Movie: Long Weekend (AV 2008) Australian drama. Jim Caviezel, Claudia Karvan 11.40 Movie: Wolf Creek (AV 2005) Australian thriller. John Jarratt, Cassandra Magrath 1.30 Movie: Link (M 1986) UK thriller. Terence Stamp, Elizabeth Shue 3.30 Skippy 4.00 Home Shopping 5.30 Religion

GO!

6.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Crash Course 12.00 Brainiacs 1.00 The Hills 1.30 Home Shopping 2.00 Spin City 2.30 Crusoe 5.30 Two And A Half Men 6.30 The Cube 7.30 Movie: Gremlins 2 (PG 1990) US comedy. Joe Dante, Zach Galligan 9.30 Movie: Airheads (M 1994) US comedy.

Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi 11.30 Two And A Half Men (M) 12.00 Conan (M) 1.00 Are You There, Chelsea? (M) 2.00 Glory Daze (M) 3.00 Nikita (AV) 4.00 Conan (M) 4.50 Kids’ Programs

GEM

6.00 Movie: The Iron Maiden (G 1962) UK comedy. Michael Craig, Alen Hale Jr 8.00 Danoz 9.30 Movie: The Winslow Boy (G 1950) UK drama.

Cedric Hardwicke, Margaret Leighton 11.55 Aust Geographic Best Of Australia 12.55 F Troop 1.25 Movie: Summer Holiday (G 1963) UK musical. Cliff Richard, David Kossoff 3.40 Movie: Silverado (PG 1985) Western.

Kevin Kline, Kevin Costner 6.30 Secret Dealers 7.30 Antiques Roadshow 8.30 CSI: NY (M) 9.30 CSI: Miami (M) 10.30 CSI (M) 11.30 Memphis Beat (M) 12.20 Psychic TV 1.50 Movie: The Horror Of Frankenstein (M 1970) UK comedy. Ralph Bates, Veronica Carlson 3.45 Movie: Assassin For Hire (PG 1951) UK mystery. Sydney Tafler, Martin Benson 5.00 Dangerman PLEASE NOTE The Echo takes great care producing this guide, but unfortunately TV stations like to tinker with things at the last minute and sometimes make changes after we have gone to print.

2005) UK action. Wesley Snipes, Tamzin Outhwaite 11.30 Punk’d (M) 12.00 The Cape (M) 1.00 V.I.P. 3.00 Mike Hammer 5.00 New Adam 12 5.30 Home Shopping

NBN

6.00 Home Shopping 7.00 Weekend Today 10.00 Surfsport 11.00 Kids’ Programs 3.30 The Bill Engvall Show 4.00 The Middle 4.30 Manly Surf 5.00 NBN News 5.30 Customs 6.00 NBN News 6.30 Frozen Planet 7.30 60 Minutes 8.30 The Mentalist (M) 9.30 CSI (M) 10.30 Unforgettable (M) 11.30 Southland (M) 12.20 What Would You Do? (M) 1.00 Spyforce 2.00 Skippy 2.30 Danoz 4.00 Good Morning America 5.00 NBN News

GO!

6.00 Kids’ Programs 12.00 The Cube 1.00 The Hills 1.30 Home Shopping 2.00 Are You Fitter Than A Pensioner 3.00 Spin City 3.30 Seinfeld 4.30 Survivor: Philippines 5.30 Movie: Doc Hollywood (PG 1991) US comedy. Michael Caton-Jones, Michael J Fox 7.30 The Big Bang Theory 8.30 Mike & Molly (M) 9.30 Movie: Mars Attacks! (M 1996) US comedy. Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close 11.40 Chuck (M) 12.30 Alcatraz (M) 1.30 Mike & Molly (M) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Chuck (M) 4.50 Extra 5.10 Kids’ Programs

GEM

6.00 Danoz 6.30 Movie: The Fallen Idol (G 1948) UK drama.

Ralph Richardson, Jack Hawkins 8.30 Danoz 10.00 Movie: Floating Dutchman (PG 1952) UK drama.

Dermot Walsh, Sydney Tafler 11.35 Movie: The Brigand Of Kandahar (PG 1965) UK adventure. Oliver Reed, Ronald Lewis 1.15 Getaway 1.45 Movie: A Stolen Life (PG 1946) US drama. Bette Davis, Glenn Ford 4.00 Movie: Mame (G 1974) US comedy.

Lucille Ball, Robert Preston 6.30 Antiques Roadshow 7.30 To The Manor Born 8.30 Movie: Zodiac (M 2007) US mystery. Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo 11.45 Movie: Curse Of The Pink Panther (PG 1983) UK comedy. David Niven, Robert Wagner 2.00 Home Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 Seaway

MONDAY 24 ABC 1

6.00 ABC News 10.00 Kids’ Programs 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Kids’ Programs 1.00 Movie: The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen (PG 1989) UK comedy. John Neville, Eric Idle 3.00 Kids’Programs 5.30 The Cook And The Chef 6.00 Carols From St Peter’s Cathedral 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Nativity!

9.15 Outnumbered 9.55 Late Edition News 10.05 Last Night Of The Proms 11.30 Poirot 1.15 Small Faces (M) 2.55 rage (M) 4.20 Movie: Jamaica Inn (PG 1939) UK crime. Maureen O’Hara, Robert Newton

7.30 Whose Line Is It Anyway?

8.30 Movie: A River Runs 6.30 Foodie Planet Berlin Through It (M 1992) US 7.35 Rex In Rome drama. Craig Sheffer, Brad 8.30 Inspector Rex (M) Pitt 9.30 The World Game 11.05 World Class 12.05 Whose Line 10.30 Dambusters Fly Again Is It Anyway? 1.05 M*A*S*H 1.35 11.30 Movie: Broken Embraces Deconstruction 2.05 Omnisport 2.30 (M 2009) Spanish drama 1.45 NBL Basketball – Allstars 4.30 World Weatherwatch Of Free Sports 5.00 NASCAR

TEN

7.00 Wurrawhy 7.30 Entertainment Tonight 8.00 The Insider 8.30 The Bold & The Beautiful 9.00 Judge Judy 9.30 Everyday Gourmet 10.00 Good Chef Bad Chef 10.30 Yes Chef 11.00 The Living Room 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 The Doctors 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Judge Judy 3.30 Huey’s Kitchen 4.00 Totally Wild 4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News 6.00 The Simpsons ABC 2 6.30 The Project 6.00 Kids’ Programs 7.30 Modern Family 7.00 School Spectacular 8.30 Hawaii Five-O (M) 7.30 Would I Lie To You? 9.30 Almighty Johnsons (M) 8.30 Louis Theroux (M) 11.30 The Project 12.30 Infomercial 9.30 Louie 10.00 Comedy Roadshow (M) 3.45 Late Show 4.30 Religion 5.30 10.40 Louis Theroux (MA) 11.30 The CBS – This Morning Royle Family 12.30 Latin Music USA ELEVEN 1.30 Seeker Lover Keeper 1.55 ABC 6.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Dr Quinn News 2.00 Close Medicine Woman 10.00 7th Heaven 11.00 The Love Boat 12.00 ABC NEWS 24 6.00 ABC News 12.30 Newsline 1.00 Charmed 1.00 Jag 2.00 MacGyver ABC News 2.30 Australia Network 3.00 Infomercial 3.30 Cheers 4.00 News 3.00 Afternoon Live 5.45 Becker 4.30 Family Ties 5.00 Happy ABC Open 6.00 ABC News 6.30 Days 5.30 The Brady Bunch Landline 7.00 ABC News 7.45 Food 6.00 The Office Quarter 8.00 ABC News 8.30 Tonic 6.30 Frasier 9.00 The World 9.30 State To State 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond 10.00 Utopia Girls 11.00 ABC News 7.30 Futurama 11.30 Australia Network News 12.00 8.30 Movie: Lake Placid 2 (M 2007) US horror. John ABC News 12.20 Capital Hill 1.00 Schneider, Sarah Lafleur BBC Impact 1.30 Australian Network News 2.00 Newshour 3.00 BBC World 10.30 American Horror Story (MA/AV) News 4.30 Big Ideas 5.00 Newshour 12.30 Late Late Show 1.30 EnterSBS 1 tainment Tonight 2.00 The Insider 5.05 World News 1.00 Johnny 2.30 Happy Days 3.00 Charmed Clegg Live 3.00 World News 4.00 4.00 Dr Quinn Medicine Woman The Journal 4.30 FIFA Futbol Mundial 5.00 7th Heaven 5.00 PopAsia 5.30 Global Village ONE HD 6.00 Food Safari France 6.00 National Football League – 6.30 World News Australia LIVE 8.00 Omnisport 8.15 National 7.30 Man Lab Football League – LIVE 11.15 8.30 Derren Brown (M) Omnisport 11.45 World Of Free 9.30 Heston’s Feasts (M) Sports 12.20 National Football 10.30 World News Australia 11.00 The World Game 12.00 SOS League – LIVE 3.15 Omnisport 1.00 La La Land (M) 2.05 South Park 3.30 Airline At Christmas 4.30 Deconstruction 5.00 I Fish (M) 2.35 Weatherwatch 6.00 M*A*S*H SBS 2 6.30 Get Smart 6.00 World News 7.00 Cops 6.00 Law Of The Dragon

TUESDAY 25

PRIME

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 10.00 Minute To Win It 11.00 Merry Madagascar 11.30 Seven News 12.00 Movie: Eloise At Christmastime (G 2003) UK comedy.

Julie Andrews, Sofia Vassilieva 2.00 Today Tonight 2.30 Dr Oz 3.30 Kid’s Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.00 The Price Is Right 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 6.00 Prime News 6.30 Seven News 7.00 The Vicar Of Dibley 8.10 Serious Crash Unit 10.10 Movie: Two Fists, One Heart (M 2009) Australian action. Daniel Amalm, Ennio Fantastichini 11.50 Whitney (M) 12.20 Home Shopping 5.30 News

7TWO

6.30 Total Girl 8.30 Bite Sized 9.00 Movie: Let’s Do It Again (G 1953) US comedy. Jane Wyman, Ray Milland 11.00 Two’s Company 11.30 Doctor At Large 12.00 Country Calendar 12.30 South 1.00 Hale & Pace 2.00 Movie: Santa And Pete (G 1999) US drama. Hume Cronyn, James Earl Jones 4.00 2012 World Championships Dancesport 5.00 Who’s The Boss? 5.30 Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Tattoo 7.30 Heartbeat 9.40 Movie: Death Becomes Her (M 1992) US comedy.

Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis 12.00 Hale & Pace (M) 12.30 Australian Open Tennis Classic – 2009 Nadal v Federer 5.30 Danoz

7MATE

6.30 Kids’ Programs 9.00 NBC Today 10.00 NBC Meet The Press 11.00 Mike Hammer 12.00 TJ Hooker 1.00 New Dragnet 1.30 Dream Car Garage 2.00 Motor Mate 4.30 Dream Car Garage 5.30 Pimp My Ride 6.30 My Name Is Earl 7.00 How I Met Your Mother 7.30 Big America 8.30 Pawn Stars 9.30 Cash Cowboys 11.30 Banged Up Abroad (M) 12.30

Smart 7.00 Cops 7.30 Undercover Boss Australia French comedy 8.30 Cops (M) ABC 1 11.10 Movie: Iznogoud (M 2005) 9.30 Mafia’s Greatest Hits (M) 6.00 The Making Of The King James French comedy 12.55 Mad Men (M) 10.40 Breakout Kings (M) 11.40 Bible 7.00 Carols From St Andrew’s 2.45 Weatherwatch Better Off Ted 12.10 Fear Factor 1.10 8.00 The Mystic Nativity 8.45 World Cops (M/PG) 2.10 Deconstruction Champion Santa 9.15 Nativity! 11.00 SBS 2 2.40 M*A*S*H 3.10 Airline 4.10 Christmas Mass 1.00 Movie: It’s A 6.00 World News Omnisport 4.30 World Of Free Sports Wonderful Life (PG 1946) US drama. 6.00 Globe Trekker USA 5.00 British Touring Cars James Stewart, Donna Reed 3.00 6.30 Foodie Planet London Kids’Programs 5.30 Doctor Who 5.55 7.30 Mystery Of The Hope PRIME Mother And Son Diamond 6.00 Kids’ Programs 7.00 NBC Today 6.25 Mr Bean 8.30 Paris The Luminous Years 9.00 Kids’ Programs 2.00 That ’70s 6.50 Queen’s Christmas Message 9.30 Movie: Asterix At The Show 2.30 Dr Oz 3.30 Kid’s Programs 7.00 ABC News Olympic Games (PG 4.30 The Secret Mediterranean 5.30 7.30 The One Ronnie 2008) French adventure Deal Or No Deal 8.30 A Moody Christmas (M) 11.35 Movie: Yatterman (M 2009) 6.00 Prime News 10.00 My Family Japanese action 1.35 Weatherwatch 6.30 Seven News 10.30 Jonathan Ross Show 7.00 Movie: Wallace & Gromit 11.35 Catherine Tate (M) 12.25 TEN (PG 2005) Animation The Eternity Man (M) 2.00 WNBL 7.00 Wurrawhy 7.30 Entertainment 8.50 Movie: Flightplan (M Basketball 4.00 Movie: The Tonight 8.00 The Insider 8.30 The 2005) US drama. Jodie Hunchback Of Notre Dame (PG Bold & The Beautiful 9.00 Judge Judy Foster, Peter Sarsgaard 1939) US drama. Charles Laughton, 9.30 Everyday Gourmet 10.00 Good 10.50 Body Of Proof (M) 11.50 I Just Chef Bad Chef 10.30 Yes Chef 11.00 Maureen O’Hara Want My Pants Back (M) 12.20 Home The Living Room 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 Shopping 5.30 News ABC 2 The Doctors 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 6.00 Kids’ Programs 3.00 Judge Judy 3.30 Huey’s Kitchen 7TWO 7.00 Spicks And Specks 4.00 Totally Wild 4.30 The Bold & The 6.30 Total Girl 8.30 Bite Sized 9.00 7.30 Would I Lie To You? Beautiful 5.00 Ten News Movie: The Three Stooges In Orbit 8.30 Louis Theroux (M) 6.00 The Simpsons (G 1962) US comedy. Moe Howard, 9.30 Louie (M) 6.30 The Project Larry Fine 11.00 Movie: Under 10.00 Comedy Roadshow (M) 7.30 The Simpsons The Yum Yum Tree (PG 1963) US 10.40 Louis Theroux (M) 11.40 The 8.30 Movie: Home Alone comedy. Jack Lemmon, Carol Lynley Real Filth Fighters 12.00 Traffic Blues (PG 1990) US comedy.

1.20 Movie: Ice Castles (G 1978) US 12.30 Blade Of The Immortal (M) Macaulay Culkin drama. Robby Benson, Tom Skerritt 1.00 Sanctuary (M) 1.40 ABC News 10.30 Almighty Johnsons (M) 3.45 Movie: Recipe For A Perfect 1.45 Close 11.30 The Project 12.30 Infomercial Christmas (PG 2006) Canadian com3.45 Late Show 4.30 Religion 5.30 edy. Christine Baranski, Carly Pope ABC NEWS 24 CBS – This Morning 5.45 Queen’s Christmas Message 6.00 BBC World News 6.30 Inside 6.00 Crocodile Hunter Diaries Edge 7.30 One Plus One 8.30 State ELEVEN To State 9.30 Newsline 10.30 Tonic 6.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Dr Quinn 6.30 Dealers Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is 11.30 Landline 12.30 Capital Hill 10.00 7th Heaven 11.00 Love Boat 2.30 Australia Network News 3.30 12.00 Charmed 1.00 Jag 2.00 7.45 Heartbeat State To State 4.30 Compass 5.00 MacGyver 3.00 Infomercial 3.30 8.45 Keeping Up Appearances ABC News 6.30 Landline 7.00 ABC Cheers 4.00 Becker 4.30 Family 9.30 Carry On Christmas News 7.30 One Plus One 8.00 ABC Ties 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 The Brady 10.30 Property Ladder News 8.30 Australian Story 9.00 The Bunch 6.00 The Office 6.30 Frasier 11.30 House Doctor 12.30 Movie: Ice Castles 2.45 Australian Open World 9.30 State To State 10.00 ABC 7.00 Raymond 8.00 Excused Tennis Classic – 2003 Serena v News 10.30 Newsline 11.00 ABC 9.00 Snog Marry Avoid?

Clijsters 5.30 Home Shopping News 11.30 Australia Network News 9.40 Geordie Shore (MA) 12.00 ABC News 12.30 Capital Hill 10.40 Skins (MA) 11.40 ET 12.00 7MATE 1.00 BBC Impact 1.30 Australia The Insider 12.30 Everybody Loves 6.30 Kids’ Programs 9.00 NBC Today Network News 2.00 Newshour 3.00 Raymond 1.30 Happy Days 2.00 Love 11.00 Mike Hammer 12.00 TJ Hooker BBC World News 4.30 Big Ideas 5.00 Boat 3.00 Charmed 4.00 Dr Quinn 1.00 New Dragnet 1.30 Dream Car Newshour 5.00 7th Heaven Garage 2.00 Motor Mate 4.00 Panic Mechanics 4.30 Dream Car Garage SBS 1 ONE HD 5.05 World News 1.00 PopAsia 3.00 6.00 Airline 7.00 NASCAR 9.00 5.30 Pimp My Ride World News 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Omnisport 9.30 Magic Of The FA Cup 6.30 My Name Is Earl 7.00 Mythbusters Newshour 5.30 Global Village 10.30 Liverpool Football 1.30 FA Cup 8.00 How I Met Your Mother 6.00 Food Safari Indonesia Classic 2.00 The WWE Experience 8.30 Family Guy (M) 6.30 World News Australia 3.00 Omnisport 3.30 Get Smart 9.30 Bizarre ER (M) 7.30 Rolf Harris Paints 4.00 Cops 4.30 Deconstruction 9.15 Movie: Micmacs (M 2009) 5.00 I Fish 6.00 M*A*S*H 6.30 Get 10.00 American Dad (M)

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Boston Legal (M) 1.30 Dream Car Garage 2.00 Motor Mate 4.30 Pimp My Ride 5.30 Home Shopping

NBN

5.30 Today 9.00 Mornings 10.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Home Shopping 12.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 1.00 The View 2.00 Days Of Our Lives 3.00 Extra 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 NBN News 5.30 Hot Seat 6.00 NBN News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 The Making Of The Hobbit 8.00 Carols By Candlelight LIVE 9.40 Lotto 11.00 Movie: This Christmas (PG 2008) US comedy. Delroy Lindo, Idris Elba 1.30 Extra 2.00 Danoz 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 A Miser Brother’s Christmas

GO!

6.00 Kids’ Programs 1.00 Spin City 1.30 Extra 2.00 TMZ 2.30 Seinfeld 3.00 Kids’ Programs 5.00 Movie: Unaccompanied Minors (PG 2006) US comedy. Wilmer Valderrama, Lewis Black 7.00 The Middle 7.30 Top Gear 9.00 Worst Case Scenario (M) 9.30 Movie: Hard To Kill (AV 1990) US action. Steven Seagal, Kelly Le Brock 11.30 Two And A Half Men (M) 12.00 Park Street (M) 12.30 Conan (M) 1.30 TMZ 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Alcatraz (M) 4.50 Extra 5.10 Kids’ Programs

GEM

6.00 Friends 6.30 The Zoo 7.00 Home Shopping 8.00 Green Acres 8.30 Bewitched 9.00 Home Shopping 10.30 Alive & Cooking 11.00 Friends 12.00 Movie: A Fine Madness (PG 1966) US comedy. Sean Connery, Joanne Woodward 2.00 Green Acres 2.30 Bewitched 3.00 To The Manor Born 4.00 Antiques Roadshow 5.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 6.00 Friends 7.00 The Zoo 7.30 Big Families 8.30 Super Nanny UK 9.30 My Strange Addiction 10.30 Hoarders 11.30 Friends 12.00 Super Nanny UK 1.00 Gideon’s Way (M) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 Seaway All ratings in this guide are G or PG unless otherwise stated.

11.30 Sports Disasters (M) 12.30 Blokesworld (MA) 1.00 Trouble In Paradise (M) 2.00 Mike Hammer 3.00 Motor Mate 5.00 Dream Car Garage 5.30 Home Shopping

NBN

6.00 Religion 6.30 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Movie: Jack Frost (PG 1999) US comedy. Michael Keaton, Kelly Preston 1.00 Carols By Candlelight Replay 4.00 Movie: The Year Without Santa Claus (G 2006) US comedy. Chris Kattan, Eddie Griffin 6.00 NBN News 6.30 A Current Affair 7.00 The Big Bang Theory 7.30 Movie: National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (M 1989) US comedy. Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo 9.30 Movie: Fred Claus (PG 2007) US comedy. Vince Vaughn, Paul Giamatti 11.55 Queen’s Christmas Message 12.00 20/20 1.00 Extra 1.30 Infomercials 3.30 Skippy 4.00 Spyforce 5.00 Early Morning News

GO!

6.00 Kids’ Programs 5.00 Seinfeld 5.30 Community 6.00 Spin City 6.30 Two And A Half Men 7.00 The Middle 7.30 Movie: Deck The Halls (PG 2006) US comedy.

Danny De Vito, Matthew Broderick 9.30 Movie: Bad Santa (MA 2003) US comedy. Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox 11.30 Movie: Bam Margera (MA 2008) US comedy. Bam Margera, Brandon Novak 1.30 TMZ 2.00 Danoz 4.00 Kids’ Programs 4.50 Extra 5.10 Kids’ Programs

GEM

6.00 Friends 6.30 The Zoo 7.00 Home Shopping 8.00 Green Acres 8.30 Bewitched 9.00 Home Shopping 10.30 Alive & Cooking 11.00 Friends 12.00 Movie: The Holly And The Ivy (G 1953) UK drama. Ralph Richardson, Margaret Leighton 2.00 Green Acres 2.30 Bewitched 3.00 Big Families 4.00 Andre Rieu 5.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 6.00 Friends 7.00 The Zoo 7.30 Baby Planet 8.30 The Closer (M) 9.30 Rizzoli & Isles (M) 10.30 The Mentalist (M) 11.30 Memphis Beat (M) 12.30 Friends 1.00 Dangerman 2.00 Danoz 4.30 Religion 5.00 Gideon’s Way

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Television Guide

THURSDAY 27 ABC 1

1. Before Shades of Grey there was the far more accurate title Diary of a Nymphomaniac (SBS2, Saturday Dec 29, 12.30am) starring Belén Fabraand as the sexual athlete in question. Erotic drama about sums it up. Men, women, a piece of wood shaped like a chicken, it’s all grist to the mill of the young lass in question. I might have lied about the wood.

2. Along with Santa and Jesus this time of year brings a welcome outbreak of world-class tennis, beginning in Australia with the Brisbane International www. brisbaneinternational.com.au (7TWO, Monday Dec 31, 8pm), in which our Sam Stosur will attempt to out-muscle the screeching Maria Sharapova and the formidable Serena Williams.

WEDNESDAY 26

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6.30 Get Smart 7.00 Cops 11.25 Movie: Tsotsi (M 2005) South 7.30 Black Gold Marathon ABC 1 African drama 1.05 Movie: Clash Of 10.30 Sons Of Anarchy (AV) 6.00 ABC News 10.00 Kids’ Programs Egos (M 2006) Danish comedy 2.45 11.30 Prison Break (M) 12.30 10.30 Last Night Of The Proms 12.00 Weatherwatch M*A*S*H 1.00 Meteorite Men 2.00 Midday Report 12.30 Opera: The Deconstruction 2.30 Omnisport 3.00 Mikado 3.00 Kids’ Programs 5.00 SBS 2 Magic Of The FA Cup 4.00 NASCAR Movie: Miss Potter (G 2007) UK 6.00 World News Nationwide Series 5.00 NASCAR biography. Renee Zellweger, Ewan 6.00 Globe Trekker Sprint Cup McGregor 6.30 Foodie Planet 6.30 Robbie The Reindeer PRIME 7.30 The Story Of Science 7.00 ABC News 8.35 24 Hours In Emergency (M) 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning 7.30 Doctor Who 9.30 Movie: Me Two (M 2008) Show 10.00 Minute To Win It 11.00 8.30 A Moody Christmas (M) French comedy Perfect Couples 11.30 Seven News 10.00 Genius Russell Howard 11.10 Movie: Moliere (PG 2007) 12.00 Hamilton Island Sailing 12.30 and Hazel Irvine French comedy 1.15 Weatherwatch Sydney To Hobart Sailing – LIVE 2.00 10.30 Late Edition News Today Tonight 2.30 Dr Oz 3.30 Kids’ 10.40 Spooks (M) 11.40 Blue Murder TEN Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.00 The (M) 12.30 Durham County (M) 1.15 7.00 Wurrawhy 7.30 Entertainment Price Is Right 5.30 Deal Or No Deal rage (M) 2.00 W-League Football Tonight 8.00 The Insider 8.30 The 6.00 Prime News 4.15 Movie: This Land Is Mine (PG Bold & The Beautiful 9.00 Judge Judy 6.30 Seven News 1943) WWII drama. Charles Laughton, 9.30 Everyday Gourmet 10.00 Good 7.00 Wild Vets Chef Bad Chef 10.30 Yes Chef 11.00 Maureen O’Hara 7.30 Dynamo The Living Room 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 8.30 Grimm (M) ABC 2 The Doctors 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 10.30 The Cult (M) 6.00 Kids’ Programs 3.00 Judge Judy 3.30 Huey’s Kitchen 11.30 Olivia Lee (MA) 12.00 Sons 7.00 Spicks And Specks 4.00 Totally Wild 4.30 The Bold & The And Daughters 12.30 Home 8.00 Would I Lie To You? Beautiful 5.00 Ten News Shopping 5.30 News 8.30 Louis Theroux (M) 6.00 The Simpsons 9.30 Louie 7TWO 6.30 The Project 9.50 Alan Carr Chatty Man 7.30 Wedding Band 6.30 Kids’ Programs 8.30 Bite Sized 10.45 Louis Theroux (M) 11.45 8.30 Movie: The Truman 9.00 Movie: It Should Happen Raising Sextuplets! 12.30 Urban Show (PG 1998) US To You (G 1954) US comedy. Judy Chef 1.00 The Fabulous Beekman comedy. Jim Carrey, Laura Holliday, Peter Lawford 11.00 Boys 1.25 How Do They Do It? 1.45 Linney Two’s Company 11.30 Doctor At ABC News 1.50 Close 10.30 Almighty Johnsons (M) Large 12.00 Movie: Song Without 11.30 The Project 12.30 Infomercials End (G 1960) US biography. Dirk ABC NEWS 24 3.30 Late Show 4.30 Religion 5.30 Bogarde, Capucine 2.45 Movie: He 6.00 ABC News 12.30 Inside Edge CBS – This Morning Laughed Last (PG 1956) US comedy.

1.00 ABC News 2.30 Australia Frankie Laine, Anthony Dexter 4.30 Network News 3.00 Afternoon Live ELEVEN 5.45 ABC Open 6.00 ABC News 6.30 6.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Dr Quinn Designing Women 5.00 Who’s The Landline 7.00 ABC News 7.45 Arts Medicine Woman 10.00 7th Heaven Boss? 5.30 Mind Your Language Quarter 8.00 ABC News 8.30 Foreign 11.00 The Love Boat 12.00 Charmed 6.00 Crocodile Hunter Diaries Correspondent 9.00 The World 9.30 1.00 Jag 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 6.30 Dealers Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is State To State 10.00 ABC News 10.30 Infomercial 3.30 Cheers 4.00 Becker Newsline 11.00 ABC News 11.30 4.30 Family Ties 5.00 Happy Days 7.45 Ultimate Factories Australia Network News 12.00 ABC 5.30 Brady Bunch 6.00 The Office 8.45 Movie: The Horse Soldiers (G 1959) Western.

News 12.30 Capital Hill 1.00 BBC 6.30 Frasier 7.00 Everybody Loves John Wayne, William Impact 1.30 Australia Network News Raymond 7.30 The Simpsons 8.00 Holden 2.00 Newshour 3.00 BBC World News Futurama 8.30 The Simpsons 9.00 11.20 The Bill (M) 1.00 Dealers Put 4.30 Big Ideas 5.00 Newshour Futurama 9.30 The Cleveland Show Your Money Where Your Mouth Is (M) 10.00 Bob’s Burgers 10.30 King SBS 1 2.15 Aust. Open Tennis Classic – 2009 Of The Hill 12.00 Late Late Show 5.05 World News 1.00 America Dokic v Kleybanova 5.30 Danoz 1.00 Entertainment Tonight 1.20 Before Columbus 2.00 A Taste Of The Insider 2.00 The Love Boat 3.00 7MATE Iran 2.00 Greater Meking Bitesize Charmed 4.00 Dr Quinn Medicine 6.30 Kids’ Programs 9.00 NBC Today 3.00 World News 4.00 The Journal Woman 5.00 7th Heaven 11.00 Mike Hammer 12.00 TJ Hooker 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Global Village 1.00 New Dragnet 1.30 Dream Car ONE HD 6.00 Food Safari Malta Garage 2.00 Motor Mate 4.00 Fifth 6.30 World News Australia 6.00 NASCAR 8.00 Australian Rally Gear 4.30 Dream Car Garage 5.30 7.30 Monster Bug Wars Championship 10.00 National 8.30 Toughest Place To Be A… Football League 3.00 American Pimp My Ride 9.30 Movie: In The Loop (MA Digger 3.30 Get Smart 4.00 Cops 6.30 My Name Is Earl 7.00 How I Met Your Mother 2009) UK comedy. Tom 4.30 Deconstruction 5.00 I Fish 7.30 Cities Of The Underworld Hollander, Peter Capaldi 6.00 M*A*S*H

8.30 Hardcore Pawn (M) 9.00 Bid America 9.30 American Pickers 11.00 Trouble In Paradise (M) 1.00 Trouble In Paradise (M) 2.00 Mike Hammer 3.00 Motor Mate 5.00 Dream Car Garage 5.30 Home Shopping

NBN

5.30 Today 9.00 Kids’ Programs 10.00 Second Test Cricket LIVE – Australia v Sri Lanka 12.30 The Cricket Show 1.00 Cricket continues 6.00 NBN News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 The Big Bang Theory 8.30 Movie: Mr & Mrs Smith (M 2004) US action. Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie 9.40 Lotto 11.00 Anger Management (M) 11.30 I Hate My Teenage Daughter 12.00 Nikita (AV) 1.00 Extra 1.30 Home Shopping 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

GO!

6.00 Kids’ Programs 1.00 The Middle 1.30 Extra 2.00 TMZ 2.30 Seinfeld 3.00 Kids’ Programs 5.00 Spin City 5.30 Community 6.00 Teen Mom 7.00 The Middle 7.30 Prehistoric Park 8.30 The Big Bang Theory 9.00 The Inbetweeners (MA) 9.30 Movie: Interview With The Vampire (AV 1994) US thriller. Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt 12.00 Conan (M) 1.00 Seinfeld 1.30 TMZ 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Conan (M) 4.50 Extra 5.10 Kids’ Programs

GEM

6.00 Friends 6.30 The Zoo 7.00 Danoz 8.00 Green Acres 8.30 Bewitched 9.00 Danoz 10.30 Alive & Cooking 11.00 Friends 12.00 Movie: Merrill’s Marauders (PG 1962) WWII drama. Jeff Chandler, Ty Hardin 2.00 Bewitched 3.00 How Clean Is Your House 4.00 Baby Planet 5.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 6.00 Friends 7.00 The Zoo 7.30 Customs 8.30 RPA 9.30 Cold Case (M) 11.30 Flashpoint (M) 12.30 Friends 1.00 How Clean Is Your House 2.00 Home Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 Dangerman PLEASE NOTE TV stations may make changes after The Echo has gone to print.

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6.00 ABC News 10.00 Kids’ Programs 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter And The Wolf 1.00 Movie: The Way We Were (PG 1973) US romantic drama. Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford 3.00 Kids’ Programs 5.30 Poh’s Kitchen 6.00 3 Men In Another Boat 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 Kitchen Cabinet 8.30 Movie: Genova (M 2008) UK drama. Colin Firth, Catherine Keener 10.00 Angry Boys (M) 10.30 Late News 10.45 Monty Python (M) 11.40 Twins 12.35 The Clinic 1.30 Movie: The High And The Mighty (PG 1954) WWII drama. John Wayne 3.50 Can We Help? 4.00 Movie: A Woman’s Secret (G 1949) US drama. Maureen O’Hara, Melvyn Douglas 5.30 Eggheads

ABC 2

6.00 Kids’ Programs 7.00 Spicks And Specks 8.00 Would I Lie To You? 8.30 Louis Theroux (M) 9.30 Louie 9.50 Alan Carr Chatty Man 10.40 Louis Theroux (MA) 11.40 The Young Ones 12.10 Gavin And Stacey (M) 12.40 Party Down (M) 1.10 Root Of All Evil (M) 1.35 Dream Restaurant 1.55 ABC News 2.00 Close

ABC NEWS 24

6.00 ABC News 12.30 One Plus One 1.00 ABC News 2.30 Australia Network News 3.00 Afternoon Live 5.45 ABC Open 6.00 ABC News 6.30 Landline 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 ABC News 8.30 Inside Edge 9.00 The World 9.30 State To State 10.00 ABC News 10.30 Newsline 11.00 ABC News 11.30 Australia Network News 12.00 ABC News 12.30 7.30 1.00 BBC Impact 1.30 Australia Network News 2.00 Newshour 3.00 BBC World News 4.30 Big Ideas 5.00 Newhour

8.30 Very Hungry Frenchman 9.35 One Born Every Minute (M) 10.30 World News Australia 11.05 The Sunny Side Of Sex (M) 12.00 Movie: North Face (M 2008) German drama 2.10 Weatherwatch

SBS 2

6.00 World News 6.00 Globe Trekker 6.30 Foodie Planet 7.30 Berlin 8.30 All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace 9.30 Movie: The Concert (M 2009) Romanian drama 11.40 Movie: The Dinner Game (M 1998) French comedy 1.10 Weatherwatch

TEN

7.00 Wurrawhy 7.30 Entertainment Tonight 8.00 The Insider 8.30 The Bold & The Beautiful 9.00 Judge Judy 9.30 Everyday Gourmet 10.00 Good Chef Bad Chef 10.30 Yes Chef 11.00 The Living Room 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 The Doctors 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Judge Judy 3.30 Huey’s Kitchen 4.00 Scope 4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News 6.00 The Simpsons 6.30 The Project 7.30 Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals 8.00 Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals 8.30 Law & Order: SVU (M) 10.30 Almighty Johnsons (M) 11.30 The Project 12.30 Infomercials 3.45 Late Show 4.30 Religion 5.30 CBS – This Morning

ELEVEN

6.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Dr Quinn 10.00 7th Heaven 11.00 The Love Boat 12.00 Charmed 1.00 Jag 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 Infomercial 3.30 Cheers 4.00 Becker 4.30 Family Ties 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 Brady Bunch 6.00 The Office 6.30 Frasier 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond 8.00 Raising Hope 8.30 Star Trek Next Generation 11.30 Late Late Show 12.30 ET 1.00 SBS 1 5.05 World News 1.00 Food Lovers’ The Insider 1.30 Happy Days 2.00 Guide To Australia 1.30 Why Doesn’t The Love Boat 3.00 Charmed 4.00 Maths Add Up? 2.30 Parent Rescue Dr Quinn 5.00 7th Heaven 3.00 World News 4.00 The Journal ONE HD 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Global Village 6.00 NASCAR 8.00 Omnisport 8.30 6.00 Food Safari Pakistan World Of Free Sports 9.00 NBL 6.30 World News Australia Basketball – Allstars 11.00 World 7.30 My Sri Lanka Cup Triathlon 1.00 Ironman Series 8.00 Greater Mekong 2 2.30 Omnisport 3.00 Flip Men 3.30

FRIDAY 28 ABC 1

6.00 ABC News 10.00 The Whitlams And Sydney Symphony Orchestra 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Movie: At Sword’s Point (PG 1951) US adventure. Cornel Wilde, Maureen O’Hara 2.00 Sound Of Mumbai: A Musical 3.00 Kids’ Programs 5.30 Poh’s Kitchen 6.00 Doctor Who 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 Friday Night Dinner 8.30 Poirot (M) 10.10 Late Edition News 10.20 My Family 10.50 The Old Guys 11.20 My Family 11.50 rage (MA)

PRIME

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 10.00 Minute To Win It 11.00 Perfect Couples 11.30 Seven News 12.00 Movie: Making Mr Right (PG 2008) US comedy. Dean Cain, Christina Cox 2.00 Today Tonight 2.30 Dr Oz 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.00 The Price Is Right 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 6.00 Prime News 6.30 Seven News 7.00 TBA 7.30 Motorway Patrol 8.00 Serious Crash Unit 8.30 Movie: Diamonds Are Forever (M 1971) 007 action. Sean Connery, Jill St John 11.05 Up All Night 11.35 Cougar Town (M) 12.00 Auction Squad 1.00 Home Shopping 5.30 News

7TWO

6.30 Total Girl 8.30 Bite Sized 9.00 Movie: High Flight (PG 1957) UK drama. Ray Milland, Bernard Lee 11.00 Two’s Company 11.30 Doctor At Large 12.00 Country Calendar 12.30 South 1.00 Movie: Hellcats Of The Navy (PG 1957) WWII drama.

Ronald Reagan 2.45 Movie: Care Bears Movie II (G 1986) Animation 4.30 Designing Women 5.00 Who’s The Boss? 5.30 Mind Your Language 6.00 Crocodile Hunter Diaries 6.30 Dealers Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is 7.45 Movie: Annie (G 1982) US comedy. Carol Burnett, Tim Curry 10.30 The Plank 11.10 The Bill (M) 12.10 Dealers Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is 1.30 Australian Open Tennis Classic – 1993 Fromberg v Stevens 5.30 Home Shopping

7MATE

6.30 Kids’ Programs 9.00 NBC Today 11.00 Mike Hammer 12.00 TJ Hooker 1.00 New Dragnet 1.30 Dream Car Garage 2.00 Motor Mate 4.00 Panic Mechanics 4.30 Dream Car Garage

PRIME

6.00 Globe Trekker 6.30 Foodie Planet 7.35 Brave New World With Stephen Hawking 8.30 Carrier (M) 9.30 Movie: A Frozen Flower (MAV 2007) South Korean drama 11.55 Movie: The Beast Stalker (M 2008) Cantonese drama 2.00 Weatherwatch

TEN

7.00 Wurrawhy 7.30 Entertainment Tonight 8.00 The Insider 8.30 The Bold & The Beautiful 9.00 Judge Judy 9.30 Everyday Gourmet 10.00 Good Chef Bad Chef 10.30 Baking Made Easy 11.00 The Living Room 12.00 ABC 2 Dr Phil 1.00 The Doctors 2.00 Ready 6.00 Kids’ Programs Steady Cook 3.00 Judge Judy 3.30 7.00 Spicks And Specks Huey’s Kitchen 4.00 Shezow 4.30 7.30 Fast Food Baby The Bold & The Beautiful 5.00 Ten 8.30 Louis Theroux (M) News 6.00 The Simpsons 9.30 Louie (M) 6.30 The Project 10.15 Mock The Week 7.30 The Living Room 10.45 Louis And Michael (M) 8.30 Burn Notice (M) 11.45 Friday Night Lights (M) 1.30 9.30 Almighty Johnsons (M) Australia’s Homeless Youth (M) 1.45 11.30 The Project 12.30 The Good ABC News 1.50 Close Wife (M) 1.30 Late Show 2.30 Infomercial 5.00 Religion ABC NEWS 24 6.00 ABC Breakfast 12.30 Tonic 1.00 ELEVEN ABC News 2.30 Australia Network 6.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Dr Quinn News 3.00 Afternoon Live 5.45 ABC 10.00 7th Heaven 11.00 The Love Open 6.00 ABC News 6.30 Landline Boat 12.00 Charmed 1.00 Jag 2.00 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 ABC MacGyver 3.00 Infomercial 3.30 News 8.30 One Plus One 9.00 The Cheers 4.00 Becker 4.30 Family World 9.30 State To State 10.00 ABC Ties 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 The Brady News 10.30 Newsline 11.00 ABC Bunch 6.00 The Office 6.30 Frasier News 11.30 Australia Network News 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond 12.00 ABC News 12.30 7.30 1.00 BBC 7.30 So You Think You Can Dance Impact 1.30 Australia Network News 9.30 Fashion Star 2.00 Newshour 3.00 BBC World News 10.30 NZ’s Next Top Model 3.30 7.30 4.00 BBC World News 4.30 11.30 Late Late Show 12.30 ET 1.00 Big Ideas 5.00 Newshour The Insider 1.30 Happy Days 2.00 The Love Boat 3.00 Charmed 4.00 SBS 1 5.05 World News 1.00 Food Lovers’ Dr Quinn 5.00 7th Heaven Guide To Australia 1.30 The Nest 2.30 ONE HD Here Comes The Neighbourhood 6.30 NASCAR 8.00 National Football 3.00 World News 4.00 The Journal League 11.00 World Cup Triathlon 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Global Village 1.00 Pro Bull Riding 2.00 Omnisport 6.00 Food Safari Croatia 2.30 Fear Factor 3.30 Get Smart 6.30 World News Australia 4.00 Cops 4.30 Drive 5.00 I Fish 7.30 Island Escape 6.00 M*A*S*H 6.30 Get Smart 7.00 8.30 The NASA Missions Cops 7.30 American Digger 9.30 How To Go To War 8.00 Flip Men 10.30 World News Australia 8.30 Law & Order: SVU (M) 11.05 Movie: Lol (M 2008) French 9.30 NBL Basketball Adelaide comedy 12.55 Kurt Wallander (M) v New Zealand 2.35 Weatherwatch 11.30 Australian Rally Championship 1.30 Black Gold 2.30 Omnisport 3.00 SBS 2 Magic Of The FA Cup 4.00 NASCAR 6.00 World News

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Get Smart 4.00 Cops 4.30 Drive 5.00 I Fish 6.00 Ozzie Holiday 6.30 Get Smart 7.00 Cops 7.30 Extreme Fishing 8.30 Hell’s Kitchen USA (M) 9.30 House Of Lies (MA) 10.10 Brand X (MA) 10.40 Psych 12.40 Dangerous Drives 1.40 M*A*S*H 2.10 Deconstruction 2.40 Omnisport 3.00 FA Cup Classic 4.00 NASCAR

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 10.00 Minute To Win It 11.00 Perfect Couples 11.30 Seven News 12.00 Movie: Jane Austen’s Emma (PG 1996) UK comedy. Kate Beckinsale, Bernard Hepton 2.30 Dr Oz 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.00 The Price Is Right 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 6.00 Prime News 6.30 Seven News 7.00 Wild Vets 7.30 Better Homes & Gardens 8.30 Movie: Live And Let Die (PG 1973) 007 action.

Roger Moore, Yaphet Kotto 11.05 The Secrets Of Skyfall 11.35 Celebrity Juice (MA) 12.15 Grey’s Anatomy (M) 1.15 Desperate Housewives (M) 2.15 Danoz

7TWO

6.30 Total Girl 8.30 Bite Sized 9.00 Movie: The Long Haul (PG 1957) UK drama. Victor Mature, Diana Dors 11.00 Two’s Company 11.30 Doctor At Large 12.00 Country Calendar 12.30 South 1.00 Movie: If You Go Down To The Woods Today (G 1981) UK comedy. Eric Sykes, Robin Bailey 2.45 Movie: The Adventures Of Elmo In Grouchland (G 1999) US comedy 4.30 Designing Women 5.00 Who’s The Boss? 5.30 Mind Your Language 6.00 Crocodile Hunter Diaries 6.30 Dealers Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is 7.45 Man Made Marvels 8.45 Escape To The Country 10.00 Cowboy Builders 11.00 Downsize Me 12.00 Dealers Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is 1.15 Aust. Open Tennis Classic – 1991 Edberg v Lendl 5.30 Home Shopping

7MATE

6.30 Kids’ Programs 9.00 NBC Today 11.00 Mike Hammer 12.00 TJ Hooker 1.00 New Dragnet 1.30 Dream Car Garage 2.00 Australian Biker Build Off 2.30 Motor Mate 4.00 Panic Mechanics 4.30 Dream Car Garage 5.30 Pimp My Ride 6.30 Minute To Win It 7.30 Air Crash Investigations 8.30 Warehouse 13 (M) 9.30 Alphas (M) 11.30 Jail (M) 12.00 Blokesworld (MA) 12.30 30 Rock 1.00 Unsolved Mysteries (M) 2.00 TJ Hooker 3.00 Mike Hammer 4.00 Motor Mate 5.30 Dream Car Garage

5.30 Pimp My Ride 6.30 My Name Is Earl 7.00 How I Met Your Mother 7.30 Turtleman 8.00 Gator Boys 9.00 Swamp People 10.00 Operation Repo (M) 10.30 Lizard Lick Towing (M) 11.30 Bear Swamp Recovery (M) 12.00 30 Rock 1.00 Trouble In Paradise (M) 2.00 Mike Hammer 3.00 Motor Mate 5.00 Dream Car Garage 5.30 Home Shopping

NBN

5.30 Today 9.00 Kids’ Programs 10.00 Second Test Cricket LIVE – Australia v Sri Lanka 12.30 The Cricket Show 1.00 Cricket continues 6.00 NBN News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 Getaway 8.30 Person Of Interest (M) 9.30 CSI: NY (M) 10.30 True CSI (AV) 11.30 Weeds (MA) 12.00 20/20 1.00 Extra 1.30 Skippy 2.30 Danoz 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

GO!

6.00 Kids’ Programs 1.00 The Middle 1.30 Extra 2.00 TMZ 2.30 Seinfeld 3.00 Kids’ Programs 5.00 Spin City 5.30 Community 6.00 Teen Mom 7.00 The Middle 7.30 The Big Bang Theory 8.30 Sun, Sex And Suspicous Parents (M) 9.30 Movie: Passenger 57 (M 1992) US action. Wesley Snipes, Tom Sizemore 11.10 The Inbetweeners (MA) 11.40 Two And A Half Men (M) 12.10 Conan (M) 1.00 Seinfeld 1.30 TMZ 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Conan (M) 4.50 Extra 5.10 Kids’ Programs

GEM

6.00 Friends 6.30 The Zoo 7.00 Home Shopping 8.30 Bewitched 9.00 Home Shopping 10.30 Alive & Cooking 11.00 Friends 12.00 Movie: Gun Glory (PG 1957) Western.

Stewart Granger, Rhonda Fleming 2.00 Bewitched 3.00 Surfing The Menu 4.00 Customs 5.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 6.00 Friends 7.00 The Zoo 7.30 Extreme Makeover 8.30 Super Nanny 9.30 Extreme Parents 10.30 The Big C (MA) 12.00 First Love Second Chance 1.00 Surfing The Menu 2.00 Danoz 4.30 Religion 5.00 Gideon’s Way

NBN

5.30 Today 9.00 Kids’ Programs 10.00 Second Test Cricket LIVE – Australia v Sri Lanka 12.30 The Cricket Show 1.00 Cricket continues 6.00 NBN News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 Motorway Patrol 8.00 Two And A Half Men 8.30 Movie: Fool’s Gold (M 2008) US comedy.

Matthew McConaughey, Kate Hudson 10.50 Movie: Friends With Money (M 2005) US comedy. Frances McDormand, Jennifer Aniston 12.40 Movie: West (AV 2007) Australian drama. Khan Chittenden, Nathan Phillips 2.30 The Baron 3.30 Extra 4.00 Danoz 4.30 Good Morning America

GO!

6.00 Kids’ Programs 1.00 The Middle 1.30 Extra 2.00 TMZ 2.30 Seinfeld 3.00 Kids’ Programs 5.30 Movie: Free Willy (G 1993) US adventure.

Jason James Richter, Lori Petty 7.30 Movie: Free Willy – Escape From Pirate’s Cove (PG 2010) US adventure. Bindi Irwin, Beau Bridges 9.30 Movie: The General’s Daughter (AV 1999) German drama. John Travolta, Madeline Stowe 11.50 Two And A Half Men (M) 12.20 Conan (M) 1.20 Seinfeld 1.50 TMZ 2.20 Chuck (M) 4.00 Conan (M) 4.50 Kids’ Programs

GEM

6.00 Friends 6.30 The Zoo 7.00 Home Shopping 8.00 Bewitched 9.00 Home Shopping 10.30 Alive & Cooking 11.00 Friends 12.00 Movie: Oh, God! (PG 1977) US comedy.

John Denver, George Burns 2.00 Bewitched 3.00 First Love Second Chance 4.00 Extreme Makeover 5.00 Ellen Degeneres Show 6.00 Friends 7.00 The Zoo 7.30 Life In The Undergrowth 8.30 Movie: John Grisham’s The Client (M 1994) US thriller. Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones 11.00 Sensing Murder (M) 12.00 Friends 12.30 Psychic TV 2.00 Movie: Twisted Nerve (M 1968) UK thriller.

Hayley Mills 4.25 Movie: Passport To Pimlico (G 1949) UK comedy. Stanley Holloway, Betty Warren

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SATURDAY 29 ABC 1

5.00 rage 11.30 Eggheads 12.00 Movie: The Ten Commandments (G 1956) US historical drama. Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner 3.30 Movie: The Boy With Green Hair (G 1949) US comedy. Pat O’Brien, Robert Ryan 5.00 The Wonder Years 5.30 Free Range Cook 6.00 River Cottage 6.45 Gardening Australia 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Doc Martin 8.20 Hebburn 8.45 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (M) 9.40 Midsomer Murders (M) 11.20 Silent Witness (M) 12.15 Waking The Dead (M) 1.10 rage (MA)

ABC 2

6.00 Kids’ Program 7.00 Spicks And Specks 7.30 Junk Food Mums 8.15 Duran Duran 8.40 Louis Theroux (M) 9.30 Louie 10.15 Louis Theroux (M) 11.05 Alan Carr Chatty Man 11.55 Breaking Bad (M) 12.40 Misfits (MA) 1.30 Harry And Paul (M) 2.00 ABC News 2.05 Close

ABC NEWS 24

6.00 Capital Hill 6.30 One Plus One 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The World This Week 8.00 Weekend Breakfast 11.30 State To State 12.00 ABC News 12.45 Culture Quarter 1.00 National Press Club Address 2.00 ABC News 2.30 At The Movies 3.00 ABC News 3.30 Tonic 4.00 ABC News 4.30 Inside Edge 5.00 ABC News 5.30 One Plus One 6.00 ABC News 6.30 Foreign Correspondent 7.00 ABC News 7.30 State To State 8.00 Four Corners 8.45 Big Ideas 9.00 ABC News 9.30 The World This Week 10.00 ABC News 10.30 Big Ideas 11.00 Tonic 12.00 Big Ideas 1.00 BBC World News 1.30 State To State 2.00 Newshour 3.00 BBC World News 3.30 Landline 4.30 Big Ideas 5.00 Newshour

SBS 1

5.05 World News 1.00 Sutra 2.20 The Mexican Suitcase 3.25 John Cage: Journeys In Sound 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Who Do You Think You Are? 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Amazon 8.30 Hunted (M) 9.35 Real Humans (M) 10.45 Movie: Crows – 0 (MAV 2007)

Magic Of The FA Cup

PRIME

Japanese action 1.10 Anatomy For Beginners (MA) 2.10 Dave In The Life 6.00 Home Shopping 7.00 Weekend Sunrise 10.00 Dr Oz 11.00 Kids’ (M) 2.45 Weatherwatch Programs 1.00 Movie: Like Mike SBS 2 2 (G 2006) US comedy. Jascha 6.00 World News Washington, Kel Mitchell 3.00 6.00 At The Table With…

Movie: Hercules (G 1997) Animation 6.30 Feasts 5.00 Hart Of The Barbecue 5.30 7.30 New York Sydney Weekender 8.35 The Young Montalbano (M) 6.00 Seven News 10.35 Movie: The Crimson Rivers 6.30 Movie: The Man With The Golden Gun (MAV 2000) French thriller 12.30 (PG 1973) 007 action.

Movie: Diary Of A Nymphomaniac Christopher Lee, Britt (MA 2008) French drama 2.20 Ekland Weatherwatch 9.10 Movie: The Spy Who TEN Loved Me (M 1977) 007 6.00 Kids’ Programs 9.30 Good Chef action. Roger Moore, Bad Chef 10.00 The Doctors 11.00 Barbara Bach Cyclones 12.00 The Living Room 11.45 Celebrity Juice (MA) 12.30 1.00 Hopman Cup Tennis LIVE – Grey’s Anatomy (M) 1.30 Desperate Spain v South Africa 5.00 TEN News Housewives (M) 2.30 Danoz 6.00 The Simpsons 7TWO 6.30 Life Of Mammals 7.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 4 Burners 7.30 Bondi Vet 8.30 Hopman Cup Tennis LIVE And A Grill 9.30 Bite Sized 10.00 Home Shopping 11.00 Out Of – Germany v Australia The Blue 11.30 Great South East 1.30 Infomercials 4.00 Religion 12.00 Creek To Coast 12.30 Going ELEVEN Bush 1.00 Sydney Weekender 6.00 Kids’ Programs 7.00 The Brady 1.30 Queensland Weekender Bunch 7.30 King Of Queens 8.00 2.00 Weekend Kitchen 5.00 All 4 Infomercial 9.00 The Range Country Adventure 5.30 Discover Tasmania Music TV 11.30 Happy Days 12.00 6.00 Crocodile Hunter Diaries Charmed 1.00 Jag 2.00 MacGyver 6.30 Movie: That’s Carry On 3.00 Infomercial 3.30 Cheers (PG 1979) UK comedy.

4.00 Becker 4.30 Family Ties 5.00 Kenneth Williams, Barbara Happy Days 5.30 The Brady Bunch Windsor 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 8.30 PD James (M) 6.30 Becker 7.00 Everybody Loves 11.50 Movie: Dark Water (M 2005) Raymond 7.30 So You Think You US thriller. Jennifer Connelly, John C Can Dance 9.30 Star Trek Voyager Reilly 2.00 Australian Open Tennis 11.30 The Loop 2.00 Becker 2.30 Classic – 2005 Nadal v Hewitt Everybody Loves Raymond 3.00 Charmed 4.00 Becker 4.30 King 7MATE Of Queens 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 6.00 Mike Hammer 8.00 Home Shopping 9.00 NBC Today 11.00 Religion Ned And Stacey 12.00 TJ Hooker ONE HD 1.00 The New Adam 12 1.30 V.I.P. 6.00 NASCAR Season Review 7.00 2.30 Hook Line And Sinker 3.30 National Football League 11.00 Smash Lab 5.30 Pimp My Ride Ironman Series 2.00 Dangerous 6.30 Parking Wars Drives 3.00 Get Smart 3.30 M*A*S*H 7.30 World’s Deadliest Roads 4.00 The WWE Experience 5.00 8.30 Full Throttle Saloon (M) Hopman Cup Tennis LIVE – Spain v 10.30 Movie: The Hitcher (AV South Africa 6.00 Get Smart 2007) US action. Sean 6.30 Meteorite Men Bean, Sophia Bush 7.30 M*A*S*H 12.20 Unsolved Mysteries (M) 1.30 8.30 Movie: Hot Rod (M Ned And Stacey 2.00 Mike Hammer 2007) US comedy. Andy 4.00 The New Adam 12 4.30 TJ Samberg, Isla Fisher Hooker 5.30 Home Shopping 10.25 48 Hours (M) 11.25 Mafia’s Greatest Hits (M) 12.35 NBN American Digger 1.05 Flip Men 1.35 6.00 Home Shopping 7.00 Weekend Black Gold 3.35 Omnisport 4.00 Today 10.00 Second Test Cricket LIVE

SUNDAY 30 ABC 1

5.00 rage 6.30 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Weekend Breakfast 11.30 Songs Of Praise 12.00 Landline 1.00 Travel Oz 1.30 Portrait Of A Distant Land 2.00 The Legend Of Pancho Barnes 3.00 Race Movies And The Birth Of Black Cinema 4.00 A Letter To Elia 5.00 Attenborough’s Journey 6.00 Joanna Lumley’s Greek Odyssey 6.45 Gardening Australia 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The Manor Reborn 8.30 Pillars Of The Earth (M) 10.20 The Curse Of The Gothic Symphony 11.45 Movie: Oyster Farmer (M 2004) Australian comedy. Alex O’Loughlan, Jim Norton 1.10 Movie: Arch Of Triumph (PG 1948) WWII drama. Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer 3.20 rage (M) 4.00 The New Inventors 4.30 Art Nation 5.00 Gardening Australia 5.30 Catalyst

ABC 2

6.00 Kids’ Programs 7.00 Spicks And Specks 7.30 Divas And Directors 8.30 Raw Comedy (M) 9.30 Ricky Gervais Live (MA) 10.40 Louis Theroux (M) 11.30 Alan Carr Chatty Man 12.15 6 Going On 60 1.10 Misfits (M) 1.55 News 2.00 Close

ABC NEWS 24

6.00 Inside Edge 6.30 Landline 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Newsline 8.00 Weekend Breakfast 11.30 The World This Week 12.00 ABC News 12.45 Weather Quarter 1.00 Big Ideas 2.00 ABC News 2.30 Inside Edge 3.00 ABC News 3.30 Need To Know 4.00 ABC News 4.30 Capital Hill 5.00 ABC News 5.30 State To State 6.00 ABC News 6.30 Australian Story 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The World This Week 8.00 Landline 9.00 ABC News 9.30 One Plus One 10.00 ABC News 10.30 Big Ideas 11.00 ABC News 11.30 Newsline 12.00 Big Ideas 1.00 BBC World News 1.30 State To State 2.00 Newshour 3.00 BBC World News 3.30 National Press Club Address 4.30 Big Ideas 5.00 Newshour

SBS 1

5.30 World News 8.30 PopAsia 10.30 Football Asia 11.00 FIFA Futbol Mundial 11.30 Speedweek 1.30 World News 2.30 Frank Sinatra Sings 3.35 Bigger Better Faster Stronger 4.00 No Reservations 5.00 Cycling

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Central 6.00 Thalassa 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Lost Worlds The Crusades 8.35 Stephen Hawking’s Grand Design 9.30 Movie: Waste Land (M 2010) Brazilian doco 11.25 Magical Mystery Tour Revisited 12.35 Magical Mystery Tour 1.40 Weatherwatch

SBS 2

5.05 World News 6.00 Rescue 117 6.30 Supersizers Go… 7.30 Behind The Front Door 8.00 Tomorrow’s Doctors 8.35 Discovering Hergé 9.30 SOS (G/M) 10.35 Movie: Kikujiro (M 1999) Japanese drama 12.45 Movie: The Sovereign’s Servant (MAV 2008) Russian action 2.50 Weatherwatch

TEN

6.00 Religion 7.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Good Chef Bad Chef 10.00 Losing It 11.00 Saving Babies 11.30 Everyday Gourmet 12.00 4x4 Adventures 1.00 Hopman Cup Tennis LIVE – USA v South Africa 5.00 TEN News 6.00 The Simpsons 6.30 Merlin 7.30 Modern Family 8.30 Hopman Cup Tennis LIVE – Spain v France 1.30 Infomercial 1.30 Infomercial 5.00 Religion 5.30 CBS This Morning

ELEVEN

6.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Dr Quinn 10.00 7th Heaven 11.00 The Love Boat 12.00 Charmed 1.00 Jag 2.00 Macgyver 3.00 Infomercial 3.30 Cheers 4.00 King Of Queens 4.30 Family Ties 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 The Brady Bunch 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 6.30 Raymond 7.30 The Simpsons 8.00 Futurama 9.00 The Cleveland Show (M) 9.30 The Office 11.00 Graham Norton Show (M) 12.00 Raymond 1.00 Jag 2.00 Love Boat 3.00 Charmed 4.00 Dr Quinn 5.00 7th Heaven

ONE HD

6.00 FINA World Championship Swimming Highlights 11.00 NASCAR Season Review 12.00 NBL Basketball – Adelaide v New Zealand 2.00 NBL Basketball – Sydney v Perth 4.00 River To Reef 4.30 Fishin’ Trip 5.00 Hopman Cup Tennis LIVE – USA v South Africa 6.00 Big Fish, Small Boats

6.30 Master Of Disaster 7.30 Dangerous Drives 8.30 Bikie Wars: Brothers In Arms (M) 10.30 Law & Order: SVU (M) 11.30 Black Gold 12.30 Sport Science 1.30 Omnisport 2.00 World Of Free Sports 2.30 Magic Of The FA Cup 4.00 National Football League – LIVE

PRIME

6.00 Religion 6.30 Home Shopping 7.00 Weekend Sunrise 10.00 Parenthood 12.00 Beat The Star 1.00 Movie: The Greatest Game Ever Played (G 2005) US drama. James Paxton, Shia Laboeuf 3.30 Fat Family Diet 4.30 Better Homes And Gardens 6.00 Seven News 6.30 The Vicar Of Dibley 7.30 Border Patrol 8.00 Coastwatch 8.30 Bones (M) 10.30 The Cult (M) 11.30 Parking Wars 12.00 Grey’s Anatomy (M) 1.00 Desperate Housewives (M) 2.00 Danoz 5.30 News

7TWO

7.00 Route 66 8.00 4 Burners And A Grill 8.30 Home Shopping 9.30 Designing Women 10.00 Night Court 10.30 Head Of The Class 11.00 Who’s The Boss? 11.30 Step By Step 12.00 Valerie 12.30 Brisbane International Tennis – LIVE 5.30 4 Burners And A Grill 6.00 Are You Being Served?

6.30 The Food Truck 7.00 Country Calendar 7.30 Ballykissangel 8.30 Escape To The Country 9.45 60 Minute Makeover 10.45 Homes Under The Hammer 12.00 Hale & Pace (M) 12.30 Designing Women 1.00 Who’s The Boss? 1.30 Australian Open Tennis Classic – 2004 Safin v Agassi 5.30 Home Shopping

7MATE

6.30 Mike Hammer 8.30 Home Shopping 9.30 Ned And Stacey 10.30 New Adam 12 11.30 TJ Hooker 12.30 New Dragnet 1.30 V.I.P. 3.30 Our Lives 4.30 Apollo 11: The Untold Story 5.30 Pimp My Ride 6.30 Mythbusters 7.30 Movie: Fletch Lives (PG 1989) US comedy. Chevy Chase, Hal Holbrook 9.30 Movie: Awake (MA 2007) US mystery. Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba 11.20 Movie: Furnace (AV 2006) US mystery. Michael Paré, Ja Rule 1.10

– Australia v Sri Lanka 12.30 The Cricket Show 1.00 Cricket continues 6.00 NBN News 6.30 Australia’s Funniest Home Videos 7.30 Movie: Surf’s Up (G 2007) Animation 9.20 Movie: Summer Coda (M 2010) Australian drama.

Rachael Taylor, Alex Dimitriades 9.40 Lotto 11.40 Movie: Night Shift (M 1982) US comedy. Henry Winkler, Michael Keaton 1.40 Movie: Blood From The Mummy’s Tomb (M 1972) UK thriller. Andrew Keir, Valerie Leon 3.30 Skippy 4.00 Home Shopping 5.30 Religion

GO!

6.00 Kids’ Programs 1.00 The Hills 1.30 Home Shopping 2.00 Are You Fitter Than A Pensioner 3.00 Seinfeld 4.30 Two And A Half Men 6.30 The Cube 7.30 Movie: Wild Wild West (PG 1999) US comedy. Will Smith, Kevin Kline 9.40 Movie: Goodfellas (M 1990) US biography.

Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta 12.10 Conan (M) 1.00 Are You There, Chelsea? (M) 2.00 Glory Daze (M) 3.00 Chuck (M) 4.00 Conan (M) 4.50 Kids’ Programs

GEM

6.10 Movie: Stories From A Flying Trunk (G 1979) UK musical. Murray Melvin, Ann Firbank 8.00 Danoz 9.30 Movie: Hue And Cry (G 1947) UK comedy. Alastair Sim, Jack Warner 11.15 The Avengers 12.15 Australian Geographic Best Of Australia 1.15 Movie: The Railway Children (G 1972) UK drama. Jenny Agutter, William Mervyn 3.30 Movie: Little Women (G 1949) US drama. June Allyson, Elizabeth Taylor 6.00 To The Manor Born 6.30 Secret Dealers 7.30 Antiques Roadshow 8.30 CSI: NY (M) 9.30 CSI: Miami (M) 10.30 CSI (M) 11.30 Memphis Beat (M) 12.20 Psychic TV 1.50 Movie: And Soon The Darkness (M 1970) UK thriller.

Michele Dotrice, Claire Kelly 3.50 Movie: Champagne Charlie (G 1944) UK comedy. Tommy Trinder, Stanley Holloway All ratings in this guide are G or PG unless otherwise stated.

The Cape (M) 2.00 Movie: Doctor Detroit (M 1983) US comedy. Dan Aykroyd, Fran Drescher 4.00 Mike Hammer 5.00 TJ Hooker

NBN

6.00 Home Shopping 7.00 Weekend Today 10.00 Second Test Cricket LIVE – Australia v Sri Lanka 12.30 The Cricket Show 1.00 Cricket continues 6.00 NBN News 6.30 Frozen Planet 7.30 60 Minutes 8.30 The Mentalist (M) 9.30 CSI (M) 10.30 Unforgettable (M) 11.30 Southland (M) 12.20 What Would You Do? (M) 1.00 Spyforce 2.00 Skippy 2.30 Danoz 4.00 Good Morning America 5.00 NBN News

GO!

6.00 Kids’ Programs 12.00 I Hate My Teenage Daughter 1.00 The Hills 1.30 Home Shopping 2.00 Are You Fitter Than A Pensioner 3.00 The Cube 4.00 Seinfeld 5.30 Two And A Half Men 6.00 Movie: Hoodwinked! (G 2005) US comedy. Anne Hathaway, Glenn Close 7.30 The Big Bang Theory 8.30 Mike & Molly 9.30 Movie: Three Amigos!

(PG 1986) US comedy.

Steve Martin, Chevy Chase 11.40 Two And A Half Men (M) 12.00 Alcatraz (M) 1.00 I Hate My Teenage Daughter 2.00 Danoz 4.00 Alcatraz (M) 4.50 Extra 5.10 Kids’ Programs

GEM

6.00 Danoz 6.40 Movie: Carry On Regardless (G 1961) UK comedy. Sid James 8.30 Danoz 10.00 Movie: The Sleeping Tiger (PG 1954) UK drama.

Alexis Smith 11.45 Movie: Wherever She Goes (G 1953) Australian drama.

Nigel Lovel, George Wallace 1.15 Getaway 1.45 Movie: Waterloo Bridge (PG 1940) WWII drama.

Vivien Leigh, Robert Taylor 4.00 Movie: Trail Of The Pink Panther (PG 1982) UK comedy. Peter Sellers, Joanna Lumley 6.00 To The Manor Born 6.30 Antiques Roadshow 7.30 Customs 8.30 Movie: Seven Pounds (M 2008) US drama. Will Smith, Woody Harrelson 11.00 Sensing Murder 12.00 Movie: Main Event (M 1979) US comedy.

Barbra Streisand, Ryan O’Neal 2.00 Home Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 Seaway

MONDAY 31

7.30 Whose Line Is It Anyway?

8.30 Movie: Shine A Light 6.30 Foodie Planet (M 2008) US doco. Mick ABC 1 7.35 Rex In Rome Jagger, Keith Richards 6.00 ABC News 10.00 Kids’ Programs 8.30 Inspector Rex (M) 11.05 Movie: A Night At The 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Schools 9.30 The World Game Roxbury (M 1998) US comedy. Will Spectacular 2011 3.00 Kids’Programs 10.20 Movie: Paris, Je T’aime Ferrell, Chris Kattan 12.50 Whose 5.30 Poh’s Kitchen (MA 2006) French romance Line Is It Anyway? 1.50 Black Gold 6.00 Restoration Man 12.25 Movie: Kisses (MA 2009) Irish 2.50 M*A*S*H 3.20 Deconstruction 7.00 ABC News drama. Kelly O’Neill, Shane Curry 3.50 Omnisport 4.30 Magic Of The 7.30 7.30 1.50 Weatherwatch FA Cup 8.00 QI 8.30 Edinburgh Military Tattoo TEN PRIME 10.10 Late Edition News 7.00 Wurrawhy 7.30 Entertainment 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 10.20 Last Night Of The Proms Tonight 8.00 The Insider 8.30 The 10.00 Dr Oz 11.00 Perfect Couples 11.50 Poirot (M) 1.35 Movie: Irene Doctors 9.30 Everyday Gourmet 11.30 Seven News 12.00 Movie: (G 1940) UK drama. Anna Neagle, Ray 10.00 Good Chef Bad Chef 10.30 Yes The Great Outdoors (PG 1988) US Milland 3.15 rage (M) 4.00 Movie: Chef 11.00 The Living Room 12.00 comedy. Dan Aykroyd, John Candy The General (G 1926) US comedy. Dr Phil 1.00 Hopman Cup Tennis 2.00 Kid’s Programs 4.30 Seven News Buster Keaton, Marion Mack 5.30 LIVE – Serbia v Italy 5.00 Ten News 5.00 The Price Is Right 5.30 Deal Or Eggheads 6.00 The Simpsons No Deal 6.30 The Project 6.00 Prime News ABC 2 7.30 Modern Family 6.30 Seven News 6.00 Kids’ Programs 7.00 Wild Vets 7.00 School Spectacular 2012 8.00 Ben & Kate 8.30 Graham Norton New 7.30 Motorway Patrol 9.30 Alan Carr Chatty Man Years Eve Show (M) 8.00 Serious Crash Unit 10.15 Videos That Shaped The 10.00 Movie: Moulin Rouge!

8.30 Highway Patrol 80s (M) (M 2001) Australian musi- 9.00 Castle (M) 11.10 Divas And Directors 12.00 cal. Nicole Kidman, Ewan 10.00 Movie: Subdivision (M Mock The Week 12.30 Smokey McGregor 2009) Australian comedy.

Robinson 1.30 Harry And Paul (M) 12.45 Late Show 1.30 Danoz 4.30 Gary Sweet, Bruce Spence 1.55 ABC News 2.00 Close Religion 5.30 CBS – This Morning 12.00 Auction Squad 1.00 Home ABC NEWS 24 Shopping 5.00 Annual Rose Parade ELEVEN 6.00 ABC News 12.30 Newsline 1.00 7TWO 6.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Dr Quinn ABC News 2.30 Australia Network News 3.00 Afternoon Live 5.45 ABC Medicine Woman 10.00 7th Heaven 7.00 4 Burners And A Grill 7.30 Open 6.00 ABC News 6.30 Landline 11.00 The Love Boat 12.00 Charmed Designing Women 8.00 Night Court 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 ABC 1.00 Jag 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 8.30 Doctor At Large 9.00 Movie: In News 8.30 Tonic 9.00 The World Infomercial 3.30 Cheers 4.00 King Love And War (PG 2001) US drama.

9.30 Croker Island Exodus 10.30 Of Queens 4.30 Family Ties 5.00 Callum Blue, Barbora Bobulova 11.00 ABC News 11.30 Australia Network Happy Days 5.30 The Brady Bunch South 11.30 Mind Your Language 12.00 Country Calendar 12.30 News 12.00 ABC News 12.25 7.30 6.00 Becker 6.30 Frasier 1.00 BBC Impact 1.30 Australian 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond Brisbane International Tennis – LIVE 6.30 Crocodile Hunter Diaries Network News 2.00 Newshour 3.00 7.30 Futurama BBC World News 4.30 Big Ideas 5.00 8.30 Movie: The Rocky Horror 6.30 Downsize My Pet Picture Show (M 1975) 7.30 Royal Upstairs Downstairs Newshour UK musical. Tim Curry, 8.00 Brisbane International SBS 1 Susan Sarandon Tennis LIVE 5.05 World News 1.00 Movie: The 10.45 American Horror Story (AV) 11.30 Dangerfield (M) 12.30 Circle (PG 2000) Iranian drama 2.40 12.45 Late Late Show 1.30 Enter- Designing Women 1.00 Australian Cherith 3.00 World News 4.00 The tainment Tonight 2.00 The Insider Open Tennis Classic – 2008 Federer Journal 4.30 FIFA Futbol Mundial 2.30 Happy Days 3.00 Charmed v Tipsarevic 5.00 PopAsia 5.30 Global Village 4.00 Dr Quinn Medicine Woman 7MATE 6.00 Food Safari Singapore 5.00 7th Heaven 6.30 World News Australia 6.00 Home Shopping 7.00 Kids’ ONE HD 7.30 Dinner For One Programs 9.00 NBC Today 10.00 NBC 6.00 National Football League – Meet The Press 11.00 Mike Hammer 7.50 Becoming The Beatles LIVE 8.00 Omnisport 8.15 National 12.00 TJ Hooker 1.00 New Adam 8.50 Produced By George Football League – LIVE 11.15 12 2.00 New Dragnet 3.00 Classic Martin (M) Omnisport 11.30 Pro Bull Riding Racers 4.30 Dream Car Garage 5.30 10.30 World News Australia 11.00 The World Game 11.50 12.30 World Of Free Sports 1.00 Pimp My Ride PopAsia’s New Years Eve 4.00 World Championship Triathlon 2.00 6.30 My Name Is Earl Omnisport 2.30 Meteorite Men 3.30 7.00 How I Met Your Mother Weatherwatch Black Gold 4.30 Drive 5.00 Hopman 7.30 Bid America SBS 2 Cup Tennis LIVE – Serbia v Italy 6.00 8.30 Pawn Stars 6.00 World News M*A*S*H 6.30 Get Smart 7.00 Cops 9.30 Cash Cowboys 6.00 Law Of The Dragon

11.30 Banged Up Abroad (M) 12.30 Boston Legal (M) 1.30 Trouble In Paradise (M) 2.30 Mike Hammer 3.30 New Adam 12 4.30 New Dragnet 5.30 Dream Car Garage

TUESDAY 1

11.30 Sports Disasters (M) 12.30 Blokesworld (MA) 1.00 30 Rock 1.30 Trouble In Paradise (M) 2.30 Mike Hammer 3.30 New Adam 12 4.30 New Dragnet 5.30 Dream Car Garage

ABC 1

6.00 ABC News 10.00 Kids’programs 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Movie: The Red Shoes (G 1948) UK musical.

Anton Walbrook., Marius Goring 3.00 Kids’ Programs 5.30 Poh’s Kitchen 6.00 Time Team 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 QI 8.30 The Mystery Of Edwin Drood (M) 10.30 Late Edition News 10.40 TBA 11.40 Movie: Darling Lili (M 1970) WWI drama. Julie Andrews, Rock Hudson 2.00 The Mystery Of Edwin Drood (M) 4.00 Movie: Belle Starr’s Daughter (PG 1949) Western.

George Montgomery, Rod Cameron 5.30 Eggheads

ABC 2

6.00 Kids’ Programs 7.00 Spicks And Specks 7.30 Rock And Metal Alchemy 8.20 Commercial Kings 8.40 Alone In The Wild 9.30 Doctor Who 10.35 Red Dwarf 11.05 Call Girls (M) 11.55 The Real Filth Fighters 12.20 Traffic Blues 12.45 Blade Of The Immortal (M) 1.10 Sanctuary (M) 1.55 ABC News 2.00 Close

ABC NEWS 24

6.00 ABC News 12.30 Capital Hill 1.00 ABC News 2.30 Australia Network News 3.00 Afternoon Live 5.45 ABC Open 6.00 ABC News 6.30 Landline 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 ABC News 8.30 Australian Story 9.00 The World 9.30 State To State 10.00 ABC News 10.30 Capital Hill 11.00 ABC News 11.30 Australia Network News 12.00 ABC News 12.25 7.30 1.00 BBC Impact 1.30 Australia Network News 2.00 Newshour 3.00 BBC World News 4.30 Big Ideas 5.00 Newshour

SBS 1

5.05 World News 1.00 Movie: Les Misérables (PG 2000) French drama.

Gérard Depardieu, John Malkovich 2.45 High Hopes 3.00 World News 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Global Village 6.00 Food Safari Hungary 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Scrapheap Orchestra 9.15 New Years Day Concert From Austria 11.50 Movie: The Band’s Visit (M 2007) Israeli comedy 1.25 Mad Men

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(M) 3.15 Weatherwatch

SBS 2

6.00 World News 6.00 Globe Trekker 6.30 Culinary Adventures 7.00 The Wild Chef 7.30 Ancient Astronomers Of Timbuktu 8.30 Paris The Luminous Years 9.30 Mitchelton Bay Cycling Classic Highlights 10.00 Movie: Amélie (M 2001) French romantic comedy 12.10 Movie: The Demon Stirs (M 2005) French comedy 1.45 Weatherwatch

TEN

7.00 Wurrawhy 7.30 Entertainment Tonight 8.00 omg! Insider 8.30 The Doctors 9.30 Everyday Gourmet 10.00 Good Chef Bad Chef 10.30 Yes Chef 11.00 The Living Room 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 Everyday Gourmet 1.30 Movie: Pride & Prejudice (G 2005) French drama. Keira Knightley, Jena Malone 4.00 Totally Wild 4.30 Everyday Gourmet 5.00 Ten News 6.00 The Simpsons 6.30 The Project 7.30 Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals 8.00 Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals 8.30 Hopman Cup Tennis USA v France 1.30 Infomercial 4.30 Religion 5.30 CBS – This Morning

ELEVEN

8.30 Cops (M) 9.30 Mafia’s Greatest Hits (M) 10.40 Breakout Kings (M) 11.40 Better Off Ted 12.10 Defying Gravity (M) 1.10 Black Gold 2.10 Cops (M) 2.40 M*A*S*H 3.10 Omnisport 3.30 M7 Multisport 4.00 NBL Basketball – Allstars

PRIME

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 10.00 Tour De Cure Cycling 11.00 Perfect Couples 11.30 Seven News 12.00 Movie: Mom’s Got A Date With A Vampire (PG 2000) US comedy. Matthew O’Leary, Laura Vandervoort 2.00 International Horse Trials 3.00 Dr Oz 4.00 The Zoo 4.30 Seven News 5.00 The Price Is Right 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 6.00 Prime News 6.30 Seven News 7.00 Wild Vets 7.30 Unlikely Animal Friends 8.30 Movie: Bridget Jones’s Diary (M 2001) UK comedy. Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth 10.30 Body Of Proof (M) 11.30 I Just Want My Pants Back (M) 12.00 Auction Squad 1.00 Home Shopping 5.30 News

7TWO

6.00 Home Shopping 7.00 Kids’ Programs 8.30 Doctor At Large 9.00 Movie: The Engagement Ring (PG 2006) US comedy. Patricia Heaton, Vincent Spano 11.00 South 11.30 Mind Your Language 1.20 Country Calendar 12.30 Brisbane International Tennis – LIVE 6.00 Crocodile Hunter Diaries 6.30 Downsize My Pet 7.00 Coastwatch 7.30 Royal Upstairs Downstairs 8.00 Brisbane International Tennis LIVE 11.30 House Doctor 12.30 South 1.00 Australian Open Tennis Classic – 1996 Becker v Chang 5.30 Home Shopping

6.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Dr Quinn Medicine Woman 10.00 7th Heaven 11.00 Love Boat 12.00 Charmed 1.00 Jag 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 Infomercial 3.30 Cheers 4.00 The King Of Queens 4.30 Family Ties 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 The Brady Bunch 6.00 Becker 6.30 Frasier 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond 8.00 Snog Marry Avoid?

9.30 Graham Norton Show (M) 10.00 Being Lara Bingle 11.00 Skins (MA) 12.00 Late Late Show 1.00 Entertainment Tonight 7MATE 1.30 The Insider 2.00 Love Boat 3.00 6.00 Danoz 7.00 Kids’ Programs Charmed 4.00 Dr Quinn Medicine 9.00 NBC Today 11.00 Mike Hammer Woman 5.00 7th Heaven 12.00 TJ Hooker 1.00 New Adam 12 2.00 New Dragnet 3.00 Classic ONE HD Racers 4.30 Dream Car Garage 5.30 6.00 Liverpool Football 9.00 National Pimp My Ride Football League 12.00 Classic Rugby 6.30 My Name Is Earl Match 2.00 The WWE Experience 7.00 Mythbusters 3.00 Omnisport 3.30 Get Smart 8.00 How I Met Your Mother 4.00 Cops 4.30 Drive 5.00 I Fish 6.00 8.30 Family Guy (M) M*A*S*H 6.30 Get Smart 7.00 Cops 10.00 American Dad (M) 7.30 Undercover Boss Australia

NBN

5.30 Today 9.00 Mornings 10.30 Kitchen Whiz 11.00 Home Shopping 12.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 1.00 The View 2.00 Days Of Our Lives 3.00 Extra 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 NBN News 5.30 Hot Seat 6.00 NBN News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 The Big Bang Theory 8.30 New Years Eve LIVE 9.10 Movie: Hairspray (PG 2007) US comedy. John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer 9.40 Lotto 11.25 New Years Eve – LIVE 12.15 Movie: Can’t Stop The Music (PG 1980) US musical. Alex Briley, David Hodo 2.35 Danoz 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 NBN News

GO!

6.00 Kids’ Programs 1.30 Extra 2.00 TMZ 2.30 Movie: Dreamer (PG 2005) US drama. Kurt Russell, Dakota Fannig 4.30 Kids’ Programs 5.00 Seinfeld 5.30 Community 6.00 Total Wipeout UK 7.00 The Middle 7.30 Top Gear 9.00 Worst Case Scenario (M) 9.30 Movie: Above The Law (AV 1988) US action.

Steven Seagal, Pam Grier 11.30 Two And A Half Men (M) 12.00 Park Street (M) 12.30 Fringe (M) 1.30 TMZ 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Fringe (M) 4.50 Extra 5.10 Kids’ Programs

GEM

6.00 Friends 6.30 The Zoo 7.00 Home Shopping 8.00 Bewitched 9.00 Home Shopping 10.30 Alive & Cooking 11.00 Friends 12.00 Movie: The Burning Hills (PG 1956) Western. Tab Hunter, Natalie Wood 2.00 Bewitched 3.00 Antiques Roadshow 4.00 Customs 5.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 6.00 Friends 7.00 The Zoo 7.30 Big Families 8.30 Super Nanny UK (M) 9.30 My Strange Addiction 10.30 Hoarders 11.30 Friends 12.00 Super Nanny UK (M) 1.00 Gideon’s Way (M) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 Seaway

NBN

5.30 Today 9.00 Mornings 10.30 New Adventures Of Old Christine 11.00 Home Shopping 12.00 Ellen Degeneres Show 1.00 The View 2.00 Days Of Our Lives 3.00 Extra 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 NBN News 5.30 Hot Seat 6.00 NBN News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 Hamish & Andy’s Euro Gap Year 8.30 The Big Bang Theory 9.30 2 Broke Girls 10.00 Two And A Half Men (M) 10.30 Survivor: Philippines 11.30 Weeds (M) 12.00 20/20 1.00 Extra 1.30 Infomercials 3.30 Skippy 4.00 Spyforce 5.00 Early Morning News

GO!

6.00 Kids’ Programs 1.30 Extra 2.00 TMZ 2.30 Movie: Summer Catch (G 2001) US comedy. Freddie Prinze Jr, Jessica Biel 4.30 Kid’s Programs 5.00 Seinfeld 6.00 Total Wipeout UK 7.00 The Middle 7.30 Two And A Half Men 8.00 Engaged And Underage (M) 9.30 Movie: Pretty In Pink (M 1986) US comedy. Molly Ringwald, Jon Cryer 11.30 Two And A Half Men (M) 12.00 Fringe (M) 1.00 Seinfeld 1.30 TMZ 2.00 Danoz 4.00 Fringe (M) 4.50 Extra 5.10 Kids’ Programs

GEM

6.00 Friends 6.30 Adventures In Rainbow Country 7.00 Home Shopping 8.00 Bewitched 9.00 Home Shopping 10.30 Alive & Cooking 11.00 Friends 12.00 Movie: The Getting Of Wisdom (PG 1977) Australian drama. John Waters, Susannah York 2.00 Bewitched 3.00 My Strange Addiction 4.00 Big Families 5.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 6.00 Friends 7.00 The Zoo 7.30 Zoo Juniors 8.30 The Closer (M) 9.30 Rizzoli & Isles (M) 10.30 The Mentalist (M) 11.30 Memphis Beat (M) 12.30 Friends 1.00 Dangerman 2.00 Danoz 4.30 Religion 5.00 Gideon’s Way

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Q HOTEL BRUNSWICK

7PM NIGHT MARKETS Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 7.30PM KHARNAGE HIT THAT HIT! MUSICAL Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS BINGO 10.30AM (Q) THE ELTON & Q GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL, FRIENDS SHOW BYRON SCOTT DAVY Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BREEZES LOUNGE 7.30PM (Q) CLAUDE HAY ROCKIN BODGIES Q LA LA LAND, BYRON SPACIE THURSDAY 20 Q WOODY’S SURF SHACK, Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 9PM BYRON SURFBOARD STILLWATER GIANTS W/ GIVEAWAY W DJ TURTLE INSIDE OUTLAW Q BYRON COMMUNITY CENTRE Q GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL, 7.30PM SURFING MOVIE ‘THE BYRON GARRETT KATO HEART & THE SEA’ Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON Q COCOMANGAS, BYRON POLE RAILS’ 31ST BIRTHDAY, KYLE DANCE COMP $300 PRIZE LIONHEART Q BYRON BREWERY, BYRON 7PM Q SPORTS CENTRE, BYRON OPEN MIC W MARIO UPLIFT FESTIVAL Q CHEEKY MONKEYS, BYRON Q COCOMANGAS, BYRON BABE NATION $3000 EAST THURSDAY TEMPTATIONS W JIMMY D COAST GIVEAWAY Q BYRON BREWERY 7.30PM Q DOUBLEBASSMENT STUDIOS COCKATOO PAUL ART GALLERY, BYRON 6PM AFFORDABLE ART SHOW Q WOODYS SURF SHACK,

BYRON XMASSIVE MARTINI LOUNGE DJS SCOTTY DAVIS JR & HUNTER S BEAVER Q LA LA LAND, BYRON TAYA Q THE JUNCTION, BYRON REUBEN BARKLEY W ELLE SHIMADA Q CHEEKY MONKEYS, BYRON WET T COMP $300 Q HOTEL BRUNSWICK 7PM DAN HANNAFORD Q COURTHOUSE HOTEL, MULLUMBIMBY 6.30PM THE CHRISTMAS UKE-TACULAR W BEN HUR, SCARLETT AFFECTION, SOULMAN O’GAIA PLUS THE TINSEL TONES Q CASTLE ON THE HILL, UKI 7PM WENDY RULE’S MIDSUMMER SOLSTICE Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS 8PM (Q) JIMMY BARNES Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS BREEZES LOUNGE 8.30PM (Q) RETRONOMES

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FRIDAY 21 Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 5PM

KIRSTEN AND RYAN 9.30PM SIMON WRIGHT BAND Q GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL, BYRON THE OWLS Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BOHEMIAN COWBOYS Q SPORTS CENTRE, BYRON UPLIFT FESTIVAL Q COCOMANGAS, BYRON DJ JIMMY D & DJ QC Q BYRON BREWERY 7PM FIRETREE Q CHEEKY MONKEYS, BYRON END OF THE WORLD PARTY Q LA LA LAND, BYRON THE LAST PARTY ON EARTH FT BYRON HOUSE MAFIA & SPACIE & AND OH! Q WOODY’S SURF SHACK, BYRON DJ JAXOHMBOY & HAPPY HOUR Q BANGALOW HOTEL 7.30PM HUDABRASTIC FUNK Q HOTEL BRUNSWICK 7PM THE AVERAGE JOES Q MULLUM EX SERVICES CLUB 8PM MANDY NOLAN & LIL FI: END OF THE WORLD COMEDY CABARET Q MIDDLE PUB, MULLUMBIMBY 8PM SABOTAGE Q KOHINUR HALL, MAIN ARM 8PM MAYA SOLSTICE FESTIVAL W DJ POP, DJ SOLID & GRIMEZ & DJ PSYPHI Q OCEAN SHORES COUNTRY CLUB 6.30PM RELISH Q STOKERS SIDING COMMUNITY HALL 7.30PM TROMBONE KELLIE & THE RIPPS ROADERS Q CUDGEN SLSC 6.30PM ADAM BROWN Q NIMBIN HOTEL 7.30PM LISSY STANTON BAND Q ST MARY’S, BALLINA 7.30PM ST ANDREW’S CHOIR & ST CARTHAGE CHOIR FOR LESSONS & CAROLS Q KINGSCLIFF BOWLS CLUB 7.30PM SEGUE DUO Q ELTHAM HOTEL 7PM GLEN MASSEY Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS BREEZES LOUNGE 9PM (Q) RETRONOMES

SATURDAY 22 Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 9PM

MODULE EIGHT DJS

Q GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL,

BYRON DAN HANNAFORD BAND

Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON SYE

MCRITCHIE Q SPORTS CENTRE BYRON UPLIFT FESTIVAL Q COCOMANGAS, BYRON DJ JIMMY D & DJ QC Q BYRON BREWERY 7PM KINDLING Q CHEEKY MONKEYS, BYRON GIRLS NIGHT OUT Q LA LA LAND, BYRON RHYS BYNON Q WOODY’S SURF SHACK, BYRON DJ TURTLE & HAPPY HOUR Q BANGALOW HOTEL 7.30PM BILL JACOBI Q HOTEL BRUNSWICK 7PM HARRY HEALY 10PM KIRBSTREET HOOLIGAN Q BILLINUDGEL HOTEL 8PM MICK BUCKLEY Q ROUS HOTEL, BALLINA 10PM THE DIRTY CHANNEL Q SHEOAK SHACK, FINGAL HEAD 7PM FELICITY LAWLESS Q TATTS HOTEL, LISMORE ARGONAUTS, SUBSTATION & CHICKS W GUNS Q KINGSCLIFF BOWLS CLUB 7.30PM NEIL ANDERSON Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS 8PM (Q) BABBA Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS BREEZES LOUNGE 9PM (Q) RETRONOMES

Q BILLINUDGEL HOTEL 3PM

SUNDAY JAM

Q SALT BAR & BISTRO,

KINGSCLIFF 4PM JON J BRADLEY Q UKI HALL 7PM HILLBILLY XMAS W THE PERCH CREEK FAMILY JUGBAND, LIL FI & THE CANDY APPLES & BARKERS VALE BROTHERS Q BY THE RIVER LOUNGE BAR, BALLINA 3PM JIM KELLY’S THRILLSEEKERS W MARTHA BAARTZ Q ORIO CAFE PATISSERIE BAR, ALSTONVILLE THE TROUBADOURS Q ST ANDREWS, LISMORE 7.30PM ST ANDREW’S CHOIR & ST CARTHAGE’S CHOIR FOR LESSONS & CAROLS Q KINGSCLIFF BOWLS CLUB 3PM JAZZ ASHLEY LEWIS TRIO Q ELTHAM HOTEL 2PM NEIL MCCANN DUO Q RIVERVIEW HOTEL, MURWILLUMBAH 2PM ADAM BROWN Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS BREEZES LOUNGE 7.30PM (Q) RETRONOMES

MONDAY 24 Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 9PM

BLUES PLANTATION W/ KEVIN BORICH Q GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL, BYRON LOS RODRIGOS Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON THE SUNDAY 23 HOMBRES Q COCOMANGAS, BYRON XMAS Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON EVE SNOW PARTY 4.30PM PINK ZINC 8PM SUNDAY SAFARI W/ FLIGHT Q CHEEKY MONKEYS, BYRON FACILITIES, LIGHT YEAR AND ORPHAN’S XMAS PARTY SUNDAY SAFARI DJS Q LA LA LAND, BYRON CHARLIE Q GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL, & THE PARTY FACTORY BYRON KYLE LIONHART Q WOODY’S SURF SHACK, Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BYRON DJ SANCHEZ & SHAUN KIRK HAPPY HOUR Q SPORTS CENTRE, BYRON Q THE JUNCTION, BYRON UPLIFT FESTIVAL GARRETT KATO Q BYRON BREWERY 3PM MANI Q HOTEL BRUNSWICK 7.30PM & BANGO DJS THE DIRTY CHANNEL Q CHEEKY MONKEYS, BYRON Q LENNOX PUB THE SUNDAY SESSION ARGONAUTS Q BELONGIL BISTRO 1.30PM TIM Q KINGSCLIFF BOWLS CLUB STOKES 12PM SMOOTH & GROOVE Q LA LA LAND, BYRON DANIEL 7.30PM LO-SI DUO WEBBER & DISCROW Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS Q THE JUNCTION, BYRON BREEZES LOUNGE 7.30PM (Q) SUNSETS W BEATDUSTA SPIN Q BANGALOW HOTEL 12.30PM TUESDAY 25 THE ROMANIACS Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON Q HOTEL BRUNSWICK 4.30PM CHRISTMAS DAY CLOSED LISA HUNT 8PM KIRBSTREET Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON HOOLIGANS CLOSED FOR CHRISTMAS Q OCEAN SHORES COUNTRY Q LA LA LAND, BYRON CLOSED CLUB 4PM MICK BUCKLEY

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Tuesday 18 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 7.30pm

OPEN MIC NIGHT Wednesday 19 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 7.30pm

HIT THAT HIT! MUSICAL BINGO

WANDERING EYE 8PM DJ TAYA Q GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL, Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BYRON DAN HANNAFORD GOODRICH Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 5PM Q COCOMANGAS, BYRON DJ REUBEN BARKLEY 8PM DJ JIMMY D & DJ QC WEBBER Q BYRON BREWERY 7PM FULL Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON MOON PARTY COSMO JARVIS Q LA LA LAND, BYRON SPACIE & Q LA LA LAND, BYRON SPACIE AND OH! Q WOODYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SURF SHACK, Q CHEEKY MONKEYS, BYRON BYRON SURFBOARD FULL MOON PARTY W GIVEAWAY W DJ TURTLE GUEST DJS Q COCOMANGAS, BYRON POLE Q WOODYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SURF SHACK, DANCE COMP $300 PRIZE BYRON DJ JAXOHMBOY & Q CHEEKY MONKEYS, BYRON HAPPY HOUR BABE NATION $3000 EAST Q HOTEL BRUNSWICK 7PM COAST GIVEAWAY BROADFOOT 10PM DJ Q BYRON BREWERY 3PM WILL FEUXMEGA AND THE PEBBLE (UK) Q MULLUMBIMBY EX SERVICES Q HOTEL BRUNSWICK 4PM 8PM LISA HUNT SOUL PARTY MADISON KAT Q AUSTRALIAN HOTEL, BALLINA Q SALT BAR & BISTRO, THE TROUBADOURS KINGSCLIFF 2PM JON J Q CABARITA SPORTS CLUB 8PM BRADLEY THE DIRTY CHANNEL Q YAMBA PACIFIC HOTEL 9.30PM Q ELTHAM HOTEL 7PM JON J THE DIRTY CHANNEL BRADLEY Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS Q KINGSCLIFF BOWLS CLUB BREEZES LOUNGE 7.30PM (Q) 7.30PM SURF REPORT DUO ON THE MOVE Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS BREEZES LOUNGE 9PM (Q) THURSDAY 27 WIZARDS OF OZ Q GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL, BYRON FAT ALBERT BAND SATURDAY 29 Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 5PM Q GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL, DAN CLARK BAND 8PM DJ BYRON ROGER THAT, CHRIS BRADLEY DEAD BEAT BAND & LYALL MOLONEY Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON HUDIBRASTIC FUNK Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 5PM GUY KACHEL 8PM Q COCOMANGAS, BYRON PANDAMONIUM DJS THURSDAY TEMPTATIONS W JIMMY D Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON DAN HANNAFORD BAND Q BYRON BREWERY 5PM DJS Q COCOMANGAS, BYRON DJ Q BYRON BAY COMMUNITY JIMMY D & DJ QC CENTRE MEDICINE BUDDHA SAND MANDALA Q BYRON BREWERY 7PM KELLY KNIGHT Q LA LA LAND, BYRON MINX & Q CHEEKY MONKEYS, BYRON RHYS BYNON GIRLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S NIGHT OUT Q WOODYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SURF SHACK, Q BYRON BAY COMMUNITY BYRON 9PM SKYDADDY CENTRE 7PM TOUCH THE Q THE JUNCTION, BYRON MIND TIBETAN CULTURAL WANDERING EYES STORIES Q CHEEKY MONKEYS, BYRON Q LA LA LAND, BYRON RHYS WET T SHIRT COMP $300 BYNON Q HOTEL BRUNSWICK 7PM THE Q WOODYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SURF SHACK, TRAIL BYRON DJ TURTLE & HAPPY Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS HOUR BREEZES LOUNGE 7.30PM (Q) Q SUFFOLK PARK HOTEL, BYRON WIZARDS OF OZ 7.30PM JON J BRADLEY FRIDAY 28 Q BANGALOW HOTEL 7.30PM RICHIE WILLIAMS Q GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL, BYRON A LITTLE PROVINCE, Q HOTEL BRUNSWICK 7PM THE BANDLAND & THREE FATHOM 10PM DJ TAYA SQUARED CORNER Q BILLINUDGEL HOTEL 8PM MICK BUCKLEY Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 5PM

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Q SHEOAK SHACK, FINGAL HEAD Q COCOMANGAS, BYRON NYE

PHIL BARLOW

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7.30PM HAPPY DAZE KARAOKE Q LISMORE DISTRICT WORKERS CLUB QUEER FRUITS FILM FESTIVAL Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS 8PM (Q) YOU AM I Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS BREEZES LOUNGE 9PM (Q) WIZARDS OF OZ

SUNDAY 30 Q GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL,

BYRON MARSHALL Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;KELL

Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 4.30PM

RAGGA JUMP 8PM BYRON HOUSE MAFIA Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON GURI GURU Q BYRON BREWERY YUMMY FEAT DJS SOMMERVILLE & WILSON Q LA LA LAND, BYRON TENZIN + DANIEL WEBBER & DISCROW Q THE JUNCTION, BYRON 5PM DJ Q CHEEKY MONKEYS, BYRON SUNDAY SESSION Q HOTEL BRUNSWICK 4PM SARAH GRANT SOUL SESSION 8PM KIRBSTREET HOOLIGAN Q BILLINUDGEL HOTEL 3PM SUNDAY JAM Q KINGSCLIFF BOWLS CLUB 5PM HIGH NOON Q LISMORE DISTRICT WORKERS CLUB QUEER FRUITS FILM FESTIVAL Q ELTHAM HOTEL 2PM LEIGH JAMES Q CUDGEN SLSC 3PM ADAM BROWN Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS BREEZES LOUNGE 7.30PM (Q) WIZARDS OF OZ

MONDAY 31 Q GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL,

BYRON NYE TRIP KICKS WITH ANTIHEROS, THE BELLIGERENTS, TETRAMETH PLUS TRIP KICKS DJS Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON DOORS 8PM CARIBBEAN NYE W/ RHYTHM & CUTLOOSE AND DJ NOWAK (TICKETED) Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON NYE THE SNOWDROPPERS, SUP/ THE LAMPLIGHTS Q BYRON BREWERY DJ SLYNK WILD MARMALADE, BLAZE FIRE SOUND SYSTEM

GLOW PARTY DJ JIMMY D & BYRON SKYDIVE GIVEAWAY DJ Q.C W DJ JAXOHMBOY Q LA LA LAND, BYRON A Q LA LA LAND, BYRON HAWAIIAN NYE: GENERIK + STAFFORD BROTHERS GUESTS Q SUFFOLK PARK HOTEL, BYRON Q WOODYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SURF SHACK, BAY 2PM JON J BRADLEY BYRON NYE PARTY FREE BEFORE 10PM Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS BREEZES LOUNGE THE CHRIS Q BELONGIL BISTRO & THE DUNEROOM, BYRON COOK BAND CHRONOLOGICA STEAMPUNK NYE PARTY Q TARGA RESTAURANT, BYRON 10PM DAVE SCOTT & BAND Q CHEEKY MONKEYS, BYRON NEW YEARS EVE GLAMOUR PARTY Q EWINGSDALE HALL DIVINE MEETINGS FOR MATURE AUDIENCES NEW YEARS EVE PARTY Q BANGALOW HOTEL 7.30PM THE WRIGHT BROTHERS Q HOTEL BRUNSWICK 7PM THE FERAMONES & THE RUSS WALKER BAND Q MULLUMBIMBY GOLF CLUB 8PM NEILY DIAMOND SHOW Q MULLUMBIMBY BOWLO 6PM NEW YEAR EVE DINNER & DANCE STRICTLY VINYL Q KOHINUR HALL, MAIN ARM 8PM TILL LATE VIVACIOUS VIBES, EXTRAORDINARY ENTERTAINMENT Q ELTHAM HOTEL 7PM BILL JACOBI 10PM GLEN MASSEY Q BALLINA RSL 7.30PM BIG GIG COMEDY FESTIVAL W JACKIE LOEB, CHRIS FRANKLIN, DAVE EASTGATE & MANDY NOLAN Q BALLINA RSL 9PM BONDI CIGARS Q KINGSCLIFF BOWLS CLUB 12PM UPSTAGE 8PM ALDERMAN BROTHERS Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS 7.15PM (Q) CLINT BOGE & GLENN ESMOND Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS BREEZES LOUNGE 11PM (Q) RETRONOMES

TUESDAY 1 Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 5PM

THE FEREMONES 8PM DJ LONGTIME Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON PINK ZINC Q BYRON BREWERY 6PM NYE RECOVERY DJS Q CHEEKY MONKEYS, BYRON NEW YEARS DAY CELEBRATIONS

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BEACHY FRIDAYS Cheap drinks & nibblies with

KIRSTEN & RYAN 9.30pm

THE SIMON WRIGHT BAND Saturday 22 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 9.00pm

MODULE EIGHT DJs Sunday 23 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 4.00pm

PINK ZINC 8.00pm

SUNDAY SAFARI WITH FLIGHT FACILITIES, LIGHT YEAR & SUNDAY SAFARI DJs (Ticketed) Monday 24 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 8.00pm

BLUES PLANTATION WITH

KEVIN BORICH Tuesday 25

CHRISTMAS DAY CLOSED Wednesday 26 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 5.00pm

REUBEN BARKLEY 8.00pm

DJ WEBBER Thursday 27 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 5.00pm

DAN CLARK BAND 8.00pm

DJ CHRIS BRADLEY Friday 28 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 5.00pm

WANDERING EYES 8.00pm

DJ TAYA Saturday 29 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 5.00pm

GUY KACHEL 8.00pm

PANDAMONIUM DJs Sunday 30 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 4.30pm

RAGGA JUMP 8.00pm

BYRON HOUSE MAFIA Monday 31 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Doors 8.00pm

CARIBBEAN NYE WITH

RHYTHM & CUTLOOSE & DJ NOWAK (Ticketed) Tuesday 1 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 5.00pm

THE FEREMONES 8.00pm

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p A magnificent reminder that cinema is first and foremost a visual medium, and that it should be experienced on the big screen.

Set in 1927, when the silent movie is about to be overwhelmed by the talkies, the famous actor and heartthrob George Valentin is a man who will be lost in time. Only the intervention of Peppy Miller, the actress whose career he set in train, will save him. Black-and-white never looked so good and, for his sterling contribution, Uggie the Jack Russell was deservedly awarded Cannesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prestigious â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Palm Dogâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.

o THE WAY Unashamed and entirely ingenuous in spurning the triumphant cynicism of so many mainstream filmmakers, Emilio Estevez mines spiritual gold from his Catholic background in a faith-based story of renewal, forgiveness and brotherly love. With reallife father Martin Sheen as a pilgrim seeking to come to terms with the sudden death of his only son, Estevez leads those willing along Spainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rugged but beautiful El Camino di Santiago to a destination of luminous tranquility.

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A normal, middle-class couple is torn apart by the motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s desire to provide opportunity for their child in the West, while the husband is committed to staying in Tehran with his Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s-

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Omar Sy delivers an endearing and memorable performance as Driss, the Senegalese neâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;er-do-well who is employed to be the arms and legs of a fabulously wealthy French quadriplegic.

The odd-couple theme is hardly new, but here it is done with irresistible warmth and convincing spontaneity as both men are enriched by their journey together.

Eschewing any temptation to wallow in pity, grief or resentment, Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledanoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s movie is a funny, poignant celebration of our shared humanity.

t HEADHUNTERS Scandi-noir was suddenly the happening thing and prolific Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesbø the go-to man for your rattling good yarn of murder, mystery and, in this case, a bit of hoary mayhem. The oddly named Roger Brown is about as conflicted as you can get â&#x20AC;&#x201C; he cheats on his girlfriend, he steals paintings from his

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u SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN Invariably, the success of any rom-com is dependent on the chemistry sparked between the two leads.

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A creepy offering, it includes a murder so callous that it shocks in a way that Tarantino could never manage in a month of lurid Sundays.

Cults are a fertile source of material for stories that delve into the compulsive behavioural patterns of those who manipulate and those who allow themselves to be manipulated.

John Hawkes as the charismatic Manson-like figure and Elizabeth Olsen as the ‘family’ member who flees the group without freeing herself from its psychological grip are both fantastic in a dark and demonic tale.

By far this year’s best animation. It trod where few producers for ostensibly more mature audiences are game to go by focusing on a motherand-daughter conflict, with no hero arriving to save the day.

It’s also about a determined and at times fiery feminism – remember that? – as opposed to women believing that they have attained some sort of numbskull liberation because they can behave like ratbag blokes. Beautiful artwork and a fabulous evocation of a mystic, misty Scotland.

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THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY (M) IN 3D No free tickets Wed 26 - 2.45 & 9.15pm Thu 27-Sun 30 - 2.45pm & 9.15pm Mon 31 - 2.45pm THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY (M) IN 2D No free tickets Wed 26-Mon 31 - 11.30 & 6.00pm LES MISERABLES (M) No free tickets Sat 22/Sun 23 - 2.45, 6.00pm Tue 25 - 3.00, 6.00, 8.45pm Wed 26 - 12.00, 3.00, 6.15, 9.15pm Thu 27-Mon 31 - 12.00, 3.00, 6.15pm New Year's Eve HITCHCOCK (M) Special Event 6.30pm, Dec 31 WRECK IT RALPH (G) No free tickets Fri 21 - 2.15pm Sat 22 - 10.15am Sun 23 - 10.40am Tue 25 - 1.15pm, 3.15pm Wed 26 - 10.00am, 2.15pm, 7.00pm Thu 27-Sun 30 - 10.00, 2.15pm, 7.00pm Mon 31 - 10.00, 12.30pm PARENTAL GUIDANCE (PG) No free tickets Tue 25 - 1.30, 6.30pm Wed 26 - 9.30, 12.15pm Thu 27-Sun 30 - 9.30, 12.15pm Mon 31 - 9.30am RISE OF THE GUARDIANS in 3D (PG) No free Tickets Tue 18/Wed 19 - 6.45pm Thu 20 - 12.20pm Fri 21 - 12.10pm Sat 22 - 12.30pm Sun 23 - 12.40pm Mon 24 - 12.20pm RISE OF THE GUARDIANS in 2D (PG) No free Tickets Tue 18/Wed 19 - 12.00, 4.30pm Thu 20/Fri 21 - 4.30, 6.35pm Sat 22 - 10.00, 7.20pm Sun 23 - 4.10, 6.45pm Mon 24 - 4.30, 6.35pm Tue 25 - 1.00pm Wed 26 - 10.00am Thu 27-Mon 31 - 10.00am Enjoy our licensed bar

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SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN (M) Tue 18/Wed 19 - 4.30pm Thu 20 - 2.30pm Mon 24 - 2.30pm Tue 25 - 3.30pm LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED (M) No free tickets Tue 18/Wed 19 - 12.00, 2.30, 6.40pm Thu 20 - 1.00, 3.30, 8.30pm Fri 21 - 10.45, 3.30, 8.30pm Sat 22 - 2.30, 5.00, 9.30pm Sun 23 - 10.30, 8.50pm Mon 24 - 1.00, 3.30, 8.30pm Tue 25 - 9.00pm Wed 26 - 4.30pm Thu 27-Sun 30 - 4.30pm SKYFALL (M) No free tickets Tue 18/Wed 19 - 1.30, 6.30, 9.30pm Thu 20/Fri 21 - 12.50, 6.00, 8.45pm Sat 22 - 12.50, 6.30, 9.15pm Sun 23 - 12.50, 6.30pm Mon 24 - 12.50, 6.00, 8.45pm Tue 25 - 6.15, 9.15pm Wed 26 - 9.30pm Thu 27-Sun 30 - 9.30pm Mon 31 - 3.00pm Palace Opera, Ballet presents SWAN LAKE Sun 23 - 1.00pm PITCH PERFECT (M ) No free Tickets Tue 18/Wed 19 - 9.45, 2.15, 9.00pm Thu 20 - 10.00, 3.40, 6.00pm Fri 21 - 3.40, 6.00pm Sat 22 - 3.40, 9.10pm Sun 23 - 10.40, 3.40, 9.00pm Mon 24 - 10.00, 3.40, 6.00pm THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER (M) Tue 18/Wed 19 - 9.30, 11.30, 8.45pm Thu 20 - 10.45, 8.40pm Fri 21 - 10.00, 1.00, 8.40pm Sat 22 - 12.20pm Mon 24 - 10.45, 8.40pm THE INTOUCHABLES (M) Tue 18 Wed 19 - 4.30pm Thu 20-Sat 22 & Mon 24 - 10.30am THE SESSIONS (MA15+) Last Days Tue 18/Wed 19 - 10.00am All sessions are correct at the time of publication, please visit www.palacecinemas.com.au for the most current session times Gift cards are the perfect gift

Group Bookings available

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bangalow

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Open Breakfast & Lunch 8am - 4.30pm

View the current menu and read other news at our new website at www.utopiacafe.com.au.

Afternoon cake

Fully licensed.

bangalow espressobar & pizzabar

Zentveldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s local coffee offerings

Thai@Byron

coffee. brunch. pizza. pides. salads. cakes Delicious house made treats and pizza (inc GF).

Specialising in local produce and fabulous coffee!

ESPRESSOBAR Monâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Sat and market Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;8am PIZZA lunch 11.30amâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;2.30pm evenings 5.30pm til late. www.bangalowbar.com

Open for dinner 7 days.

Feros Arcade, Jonson St, Byron Bay 6685 6737

Bangalow Dining Rooms

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Bangalow Hotel Open 7 days Lunch: 12 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 3pm Dinner 5.30 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 9pm All day bistro menu

BRUNSWICK HEADS

6687 1144

Gringoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fresh Mex Licensed/B.Y.O. wine Dine In /Takeaway Open 7 nights from Dec 28 Open at 5.30pm Cnr. Tweed & Fawcett St. Brunswick Heads Call for reservations.

6685 1955

Sticky Fingers Pizza & Pasta Open Tuesday-Sunday 7.30am till 9pm 26 Mullumbimbi St Brunswick Heads 6685 0222

Dominicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s RistorantĂŠ Open for dinner Wednesday to Saturday from 5pm Fingal St, Brunswick Heads 6685 1688

BYRON BAY

Byron Fresh Cafe is conveniently located at the beach end of Jonson St and offers a fantastic range of meals Open Breakfast, Lunch & using many locally sourced ingredients. Come in and Dinner 7 days from 7.30am watch the world go by as you enjoy our fine food and 7 Jonson St (beach end) our superb Campos coffee.

Byron Bay

Showcasing the talents of head chef Juan Hernandez and featuring local and exotic produce.

cnr station & deacon streets bangalow 6687 1271 DINE IN. T/WAY. BYO

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Byron Fresh Cafe

Utopia Bangalow

WhyNot! Breakfast & Lunch 7 days from 6am Cocktails & Dinner Wednesday to Sunday 18 Jonson St, Byron Bay 6680 7994 whynotbyronbay.com.au

Fig Tree Restaurant

LUNCH: Sat-Sun DINNER: Thurs, Fri, Sat 4 Sunrise Lane, Ewingsdale 02 66 847 273

The Balcony Breakfast, lunch & sunset balcony dining Cnr Jonson St & Lawson St, Byron Bay 6680 9666 www.balcony.com.au

Byron Bay Brewery & Resto

6685 7810

Enjoy our lovely restaurant, intimate dining room and bistro food in the pub all day. Â With reasonable prices, generous portions and kids meals, our delicious menu will appeal to all.

Large groups welcome, please book. Catering available. www.bangalowdining.com Now taking Christmas season bookings, ask about our new group menu.

Muoiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Feast Lunch: Tues-Sat Dinner: Mon-Sat 11 Fletcher St, Byron Bay Bookings Essential 6685 7557

Fishheads

Sip your margarita in our casual covered garden and enjoy the fresh clean flavours of Mexico. Everything home made. Always tasty Not Spicy Hot. Sample some of our house salsas, such as smokey chipotle or fiery habanero. A great selection of Tequilas, imported beers and wine.

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Raeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fish Cafe Lunch & Dinner 7 days Wategos Beach, Byron Bay 6685 5366 raes@wategos.com.au

Success Thai Lunch Mon-Fri 11am-2.30pm Dinner 7 days from 5pm.

3/109 Jonson St, Byron Bay 6680 7798

Tapas Happy Hour from 5.30 Friday afternoons

Beach Kitchen

Breakfast special with coffee $16 Lunch special with wine $22 Light bites, cocktails and dinner

Open 8am till late At the Beach Hotel, Bay St, Byron Bay 6685 6402 www.beachhotel.com.au

Our Garden Menu: Two courses with wine taste $30 (from 5pm)

GOOD FOOD GUIDE 2012

Lemongrass

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Local produce, global flavourâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Stunning views overlooking Byron Bay www.figtreerestaurant.com.au â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Best Restaurant 2012â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Produce by Fig Tree Organic Gardens

Open 7 nights 5.30pm-9pm Shop 3/17 Lawson Arcade Phone orders welcome 6680 8443

One One One

A sophisticated blend of flavours and textures with an ever changing menu. For breakfast, lunch or dinner and tapas all day, matched by an exciting wine list and arguably the best cocktails in town.

Your taste buds will be tantalised and so will your eyes as you look over the streets of Byron and enjoy the eclectic vibe of The Balcony Bar & Restaurant.

1/111 Jonson St (opp cinema) Dinner Tuesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Saturday 6680 7388 cafeoneoneone@yahoo.com.au GOOD FOOD GUIDE 2012

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RAW BAR

living food, loving vibration

Italian at the Pacific provides a bustling atmospheric restaurant, dishing up contemporary inspired Italian Open for Dinner & Cocktails cuisine. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re introducing an exciting menu of taste 7 days from 4pm till late plates, antipasti, fresh pastas and main dishes. With our Next to the Beach Hotel new Ocean View Bar, we ensure all our guests have the Bay Street opportunity to enjoy some of Byronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s finest cocktails 6680 7055 italianatthepacific.com.au and wine.

Mon-Thurs: 4pm til late Fri-Sun: 12pm till late Cnr Fletcher St and Lawson Lane, Byron Bay 6680 7426

St Elmo is a place where you can enjoy great company, first-class food, sophisticated cocktails and an extensive wine list. St Elmo is plating up modern Spanish cuisine to be enjoyed amongst friends and family. Our menus change regularly and feature daily specials.

SUNDAYS we have live music and $10 cocktails 2.30pmâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;5pm.

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Casual relaxed seaside dining overlooking the picturesque Wategos beach. Using the freshest produce and seafood from WINNER OF throughout the region. CHEF'S HAT 2012 Raeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is an iconic restaurant with a reputation as the best in the area.

Experienced Thai chefs cooking fresh delicious Thai food for you.

Fully Licensed Restaurant and B.Y.O. for wine.

Welcome for dine-in or take-away.

Beachside breakfast, lunch and dinner right in the heart of town overlooking Main Beach, Byron Bay. The only exclusively Vietnamese restaurant in town, this intimate space spilling out into a courtyard offers up fabulous dishes packed full of herbs, spices and varied textures. The traditionally light and healthy style of cuisine ensures the freshness and natural tastes of food are preserved as much as possible. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a popular spot so bookings are recommended.

One One One Dining Food for people Authentic European restaurant dining A la carte & degustation, wine & cocktails

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Naked treaties RAW ELIXIR BAR Serving ORGANIC, RAW, VEGAN. GLUTEN DAIRY AND Welcome to our little CANE SUGAR FREE scrumptious desserts, amazing green shop of smiles smoothies made with homemade nut-milk, young Mon to Friday 8am-4pm coconut and super-foods. Cold-pressed juices, simple grab Saturday 9am-3pm and go raw vegan lunches. Nut-milk and springwater org coffee and tumeric chai (caffeine free available!)

Sunday 9am-3pm 2/3 Marvell St, Byron Bay All infused with Bush Flower essences, blessings and love to help uplift you on your journey.

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Italian at the Pacific

st elmo dining room & bar

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&OKPZ UIF CFBDI Ăś SFXPSLT WJFXT 0OMZ o B EFMJDJPVT DPVSTF NFBM with a complimentary glass of champagne upon arrival. Exclusive use of your table and coffee, breakfast, after dinner 'go & come' as you please till 1am. lunch and dinner Byron Bay â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1 Jonson St Bangalow â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2 Byron St www.facebook.com/ 6680 7632 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 7.30am till late 6687 2883 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 8.30am till late Fishheadsbyron BYO Licensed fishheadsbyron.com.au Try our new Summer Menu!

Dine in or Takeaway Restaurant wine bar Tapas cocktails Daily specials

Free Meal

Muoiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Feast has created a strong following since opening in 2003. Winning numerous awards for its international cuisine, the Asian section of the menu is the predominant favourite. Enjoy for lunch or dinner.

Open seven days

Roll on down to the iconic Sticky Fingers on the idyllic moonlight mile river in Brunswick Heads and get satisfaction morning, noon and night.

Watch the sun dance silver-gold on the water at their new bar as you and your favourite people sup on succulent gourmet pizza, pasta, risotto, salads and other inspired dishes based on local produce with an organic twist. www.stickyfingerspizzeria.com.au

Buy one main meal at the Brewery and get one main meal FREE of the same or lesser value!

7 Days, Lunch & Dinner Conditions apply. Bring this voucher Noon till late and spend over $10 over the bar and a Bookings for groups free meal deal is yours. Offer expires essential 31st December, 2012 1 Skinners Shoot Rd, Byron Like our page to win a Maddog surfboard 6685 5833 facebook.com/TheByronBayBrewery

Take your taste buds on a culinary tour of Thailand!

Experienced Thai chefs cooking fresh, authentic Thai cuisine with love!

Popular with locals and tourists alike.

Dine -in and take-away.

Fully licenced bar.

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Belongil Bistro Now open every day! Yay! Brunch 7am-3pm Dinner (Thu-Sat) 5pm-late 33 Childe St, Belongil 6680 9007 eat@belongilbistro.com.au

The Junction NEW - Dine Lounge Bar Breakfast 8 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 11.45am Lunch 12 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 5pm Dinner 5.30 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 9.30pm Meet at the Junction of Fletcher, Marvell and Jonson Streets 6685 7320 for bookings

all day breakfast from 7 to 3 dinner 5 till late bar courses street pizza bar until midnightâ&#x20AC;Ś..if you want great wines at bottle shop prices boutique beers | cool cocktails Book now for Xmas party & NYE! Meet us at the Junction for a stylish dining and bar experience in the heart of Byron's CBD. The iconic old bakery building has a warm welcoming feeling that partners the Junction team's philosophy for great food and service.

Open 7 days for breakfast, lunch and dinner, the Junction is the perfect place to drop in with friends and colleagues for a relaxed meal or a refreshing cocktail at the end of the day. Fully licensed, dinner bookings are suggested

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Open 7 days 6amâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;2pm 25 Childe St Belongil (next to Treehouse) silver bullet cafe

Come and see the only 1964 Silver OPEN Bullet Airstream caravan operating as 6AM a cafe in Australia!

7 DAYS Experience Byron Bay's best breakfast wraps and sensational coffee.

Take your breakfast with you across the road to Belongil Beach and watch the dolphins play or just sit and relax at our tables and catch up with friends.

Traditional Thai

Here the curry pastes are freshly pounded to leave your palate dumbfounded.

Dinner every evening 5.30-9.30pm

5/2 Fletcher St, Byron Bay 6685 5151

Hogâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Breath Cafe Open 7 Days, 11.30am-2.30pm Dinner from 5pm 9/4 Jonson St, Byron Bay 6685 5320 www.hogsbreath.com.au

O-Sushi

Byron Bay Woolies Plaza, Jonson St 02 6685 7103 Coolangatta Showcase on the Beach 07 5536 5455 Broadbeach The Oracle, 12 Charles Ave 07 5570 2166 www.osushi.com.au

Italian

Cafe/Restaurant

CLOSED for holidays 19â&#x20AC;&#x201C;28 November OPEN again 29 November 2012 Hogâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Breath Cafeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s menu just got better with some mouth-watering new steaks, salad, pasta and an abundance of delicious dessert selections. As usual, the diverse menu also offers chicken, seafood, snacks, burgers, ribs, kidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s meals, a range of Lite Options, plus their famous Prime Rib Steak â&#x20AC;&#x201C; slow cooked for up to 18 hours for maximum flavour and tenderness. Kids eat free Mon â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Wed nights and you can grab lunch for just $9.90, so thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something to please the whole family.

Multi award winning restaurants â&#x20AC;&#x153;Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Favourite Japanese Restaurantâ&#x20AC;? twice running in the I Love Food Awards and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Best Asianâ&#x20AC;? in Northern NSW in the Restaurant & Catering Awards for Excellence, continuing a string of 13 awards. Eat in, takeaway, licensed.

Open 7 days 11amâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;late. Modern & traditional wholesome Japanese food and great service.

Live music every Wednesday from 6pm.

Dinner: 6pm-10pm Authentic, a la carte Italian

6680 9960

Superb coffee and wine, day and night.

North Byron Events Bistro

COORABELL

Peppers Coorabell

KINGSCLIFF

Dinner Thurs-Sat 5.30pm-late B'fast Sunday 7am-11.30am Lot 10 Bayshore Drive, Byron Bay (end Bayshore Dr, over the railway tracks) northbyronevents.com.au

Fins

Open Fri & Sat evenings for fine dining from 6pm Sunday tapas from 1pm 139 Newes Rd, Coorabell 6684 7348 coorabell@peppers.com.au Salt Village, Kingscliff 6674 4833 dining@fins.com.au Dinner 7 days Lunch Fri, Sat & Sun

I have come to visit Steve at his Kingscliff restaurant called Fins, same name as the more recent one at Byron Bayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Beach Hotel and before that the legendary Brunswick Heads one, the one people still talk about wistfully, nostalgically.

Despite the proximity of carpark and the absence of sea views, it is a lovely space for dining: chic and intimate, deck fringed by luxuriant greenery, swank bar where you can perch for freshly shucked oysters or proper tapas. And the ocean is a stroll away, as it would have to be for a man whose foremost motive for travelling the world was surfing.

Steve is so infectiously happy, so boyishly enthusiastic, that you become swept up in the excitement of it all. He cannot stop smiling, and it is plain that a restaurant relocation many regarded dubiously has been nothing less than a triumph. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re radically busy â&#x20AC;&#x201C; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always busy,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; he tells me. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;We find weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re running all the time.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; He believes itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s due to a combination of the extraordinary produce he has access to and his wifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s input. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s full of ideas â&#x20AC;&#x201C; sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kept the restaurant interesting and freshâ&#x20AC;Ś Morgan is an amazing driving force.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Growing up, he was exposed to many different culinary influences. His Australian father had married a girl from Lahore, Pakistan whom he had met at teachers college â&#x20AC;&#x201C; so while Steveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s schoolmates were hoeing into devon sandwiches he would be having â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;a radical curryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;To this day,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; he says, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know anything that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t taste better with chili.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

Breakfast/Lunch: 7am-5pm Delicious, contemporary Italian-inspired

Byron Bay

11 Marvell Street

OPENS JANUARY 3RD 2013 Sunday Sessions at the Bistro 12pm till late.

Tapas, DJ/live music All meals under $25 Phone for reservations 02 6685 5152

WILSON'S RESTAURANT Relaxed Fine dining from 6pm Friday & Saturday Tapas from 1pm Sunday featuring live entertainment Christmas parties catered for.

www. peppers.com.au/coorabell Book online at restaurantdiary.com.au

Live global tunes every Friday night from 6pm in the Fins Cocktail Bar.

Salt Village, Kingscliff 6674 4833 dining@fins.com.au Dinner 7 days Lunch Fri, Sat & Sun

MINYON FALLS

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MULLUMBIMBY

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La Table

Minyon Falls Rd Minyon Falls 6688 2361 Wed-Sun from 11am

72 & 72a Burringbar St, Mullumbimby Cafe: 6684 2220 Mon-Fri 8-4, Sat 9-2 Restaurant: 6684 2227 Wed-Fri from 4pm Sat from 2pm www.latable.com.au

And yet his becoming a chef was almost accidental. He started a law degree then dropped out, to take up one in business. This led to a job with NestlĂŠ, through which he was contacted one day by chef Michael de Lawrence (ex-Utopia, ex-Dish) who loved his ideas and wanted him to offer business assistance toward his new Surry Hills restaurant.

Steve started doing entrees and desserts and ended up job-sharing the venue with Michael, lasting two years before his urge to surf and travel took him to Portugal. It was there that he met his first wife and commenced a love-affair with Portugal which, spanning thirty years, has dramatically influenced and informed his cooking.

He spent time working on fishing boats in France; he ran a restaurant in South Africa. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Everywhere I went,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; he says, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;it was for surfing.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Back in Australia he ended up cooking at The Rails in Byron Bay, before opening up his first Fins in Brunswick Heads. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;It was like a hippy restaurant,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; he recalls. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;All I wanted to do was have thirty bums on seats on a Saturday night.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; So down-to-earth, so intrinsically joyous, here is a man who still cooks most nights a week â&#x20AC;&#x201C; who, incidentally, cooks like an angel, one of the best around â&#x20AC;&#x201C; who balances the lifestyle out with yoga and meditation, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in love, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so happy he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t become a lawyer â&#x20AC;&#x201C; who is just so happy, godammit, I leave him wreathed in smiles, shimmering with some of the happiness thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rubbed off on me.

Spice It Up Thai Restaurant Open 5 days.

Open Wednesday-Sunday Ä&#x192;QN t %JOF JO PS 5BLFBXBZ 6684 2273 Mullumbimby Golf Club

FOR THE LOVE OF THAI FOOD!

Yum Yum Tree CafĂŠ

The â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Yum Yum Treeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; was a traditional meeting place for the first Australians of our area. A place to take sustenance, and catch up with old and new friends.

Come notice the extra flair, enthusiasm and personal touch of the Yum Yum Tree CafĂŠ team, a collection of professional, down to earth people, enjoying their day serving you the tastiest meals and drinks. www.yumyumtreecafe.com.au

Horizons

Overlooking the sparkling blue waters of the Jack Evans Boat Harbour at Twin Towns is Horizons restaurant.

Enjoy a friendly atmosphere with casual indoor or alfresco dining where you can take in our spectacular views. Bring a friend to Horizons for High Tea available 7 days in the afternoon from 2.30pm to 4.30pm for an extra special afternoon delight!

Breakfast & Lunch 7 days from 8am Open for Dinner Thurs, Fri & Sat 6680 3368 50 River St, New Brighton

Lunch from 11am Dinner from 5.30pm 07 5536 2277 or visit www.twintowns.com.au

Luscious Foods

DJ AQUA IS BACK!

GOOD FOOD GUIDE CHEFS HAT EVERY YEAR SINCE 1998

Fins

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Here the ambrosial meals are cooked to order and the scrumptious cocktails and mocktails thrust you into a land of wonderful tales.

Food and fish, surfing and flavours: these are the things that Steven Snow loves. And Morgan his wife â&#x20AC;&#x201C; especially Morgan.

1/6 Tasman Way, Byron Arts & Industry Estate 6680 8228 www.lusciousfoods.com.au info@lusciousfoods.com.au

Luscious Foods aim to provide the freshest, first class quality handmade food for your event. Whether your function is a cocktail party, wedding, conference, picnic or intimate, Luscious is here to help create delicious menus to suit your tastes and budget.

FINS is famous for serving the best seafood in Australia. We have now launched FINS EARTH. An exciting menu of the best steaks from Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most premium producers. Choose your cut, choose how you would like it served.

SCRATCH PATISSERIE

The Wrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rest CafĂŠ is now owner operated. Come for a country drive & look from the balcony at uninterrupted views of Nightcap National Forest, minutes from Minyon Falls. Stretch your legs on a bush trail or sit and soak up nature. Available for functions & parties.

BYO See www.thewrensrestminyonfalls.com.au for map

Red Ginger

A uniquely Byron uniquely Asian Emporium with everything you need for cooking Asian food â&#x20AC;&#x201C; from Korea and Japan though China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, India and even into the Middle East. Spices and rices, groceries, fine teas and teapots, Yum Cha dumplings ready to eat in the store or frozen to take home, fresh noodles and tofu PLUS gorgeous exotic gifts, homewares and furniture.

CafĂŠ: First CafĂŠ in the shire to offer quality espresso coffee & organic milk! Modern Wholesome CafĂŠ food & house baked pastries. Relax in our tropical courtyard with friendly professional service. Resto: Late afternoon â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Share a drink with something to taste Evening: Live life deliciously with our creative regularly changing menu! French Chef Bruno passionately recreates bistro classics using high quality produce. Reviewed and recommended by SMH Good Food Guide since 2009 & Top 10 Sustainable NSW Rest!

Open Table

OPEN TABLE offers: Catering - Mediterranean and contemporary European cuisine, as well as special diets, specialising in vegetarian, vegan and macrobiotic preparations. Catering to film sets and crews, according to your needs and location. Event management and co-ordination: from intimate dinners and birthdays to grand scale weddings.

Cooking workshops: Moroccan, Middle Eastern, Raw, Gourmet wholefood.

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The French really know how to do it. Baguettes, croissants, macaronsâ&#x20AC;Ś Mullumbimby local Greg Wilton knew this when he went to New Caledonia to train under French pastry chefs. Using local, organic and natural ORDER ONLINE ingredients, Greg is baking his range of delectable Mullumbimby pastries, breads and cakes, all made from Scratch. The 0466 605 007 next time youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got a celebration or lazy morning to info@scratchpatisserie.com.au enjoy, do it deliciously â&#x20AC;&#x201C; order online or find them at the scratchpatisserie.com.au Byron Bay and Mullumbimby Farmers Markets.

Byron Bay: Jonson St (opp. Dendy Byron Bay) 6680 9779 Bangalow: Byron St (around the corner) 6687 2808

19 Lagoon Dr Mullumbimby

6684 3013 0414 878 290 opentable.net.au

MULLUMBIMBY

SILVER BULLET CAFE

VICTORIA COSFORD

NEW BRIGHTON

32 Lawson St, 6680 8198 LICENSED MEXICAN RESTAURANT Open 7 nights from 5.30pm

All the favourites â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Nachos, Enchiladas, Burritos etc Extensive vegetarian options.

TWO UP TUESDAY - Buy one main meal and receive a second main meal FREE from 5.30pm. Now offering Inexpensive and extensive cocktail list. $20 Group Bookings. Menu for bookings of 15 or more.

Takeways and Children's Menu available. Conditions Apply.

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Accountants ......................................70 Antennas & Installation ..............70 Appliance Repair ............................70 Architects............................................70 Bathroom Renovations ...............70 Building Trades ................................70 Carpet Cleaning...............................70 Carpet Laying ...................................70 Catering ...............................................70 Chimney Sweep ...............................70 Chiropractic .......................................70 Cleaning ..............................................71 Computer Services.........................71 Concreting..........................................71 Curtains, Blinds & Awnings .......71 Counselling........................................71 Decks, Patios & Extensions ........71 Dentists................................................71 Design & Drafting...........................71 Driveway Maintenance................71 Earthmoving & Excavation ........71 Electricians.........................................71 Fencing ................................................72 Floor Sanding & Polishing .........72 Garden & Property Maintenance .72 Garden Design .................................72 Gas Suppliers.......................................72 Glaziers ................................................72 Guttering ............................................72 Handypersons ..................................72 Health ...................................................72 Hire ........................................................73 Horse Services..................................73 Interior Design .................................73 Kitchens ...............................................73 Landscaping .....................................73 Lawnmower Repairs .....................73 Lighting ...............................................73

Motoring .............................................73 Music .....................................................73 Naturopathy......................................73 Osteopathy ........................................73 Painting ...............................................73 Pest Control .......................................73 Physiotherapy ..................................73 Picture Framing ...............................73 Plastering ...........................................73 Plastic Welding ................................73 Plumbers .............................................73 Printer Toners & Cartridges .......74 Printing & Copying Services .....74 Removalists .......................................73 Rubbish Removal............................74 Scrap Metal Merchants ................74 Security Services.............................74 Septic Systems .................................74 Sewing & Alterations ..........................74 Sewing Machine Sales & Service.74 Shop Fitting .......................................74 Solar Installation ............................74 Stonemasonry..................................74 Swimming Pools .............................74 Tiling .....................................................74 Travel ....................................................74 Tree Services .....................................74 Upholstery .........................................74 Valuers .................................................74 Veterinary Surgeons .....................74 Water Filters ......................................74 Water Tanks & Tank Cleaning ...74 Web Design Services.....................74 Window Tinting ...............................74 Wood Heater Installation ...........74

EXTENSIONS Renovations, maintenance, new homes. Lic R79143 ...................Russell 0403 120498

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BYRON ANTENNA SERVICE CALL US FIRST - FAST SERVICE.

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APPLIANCE REPAIR MULLUMBIMBY APPLIANCE SERVICE Byron Shire ..............................0408 851633 or 66842952 DIGITAL ELECTRONICS REPAIR & SERVICE TV. Audio. Antennas .........66843575 or 0414 922786

ACCOUNTANT â&#x20AC;&#x201C; BANGALOW John Hudson .....................................................................66872960 BAS AGENT Bookkeeping, MYOB, Admin, P.A. ........................................Helen Stickley 0431 441628 ACCOUNTANT BOOKKEEPER Small business accounting ......................................Gail 0401 884231

Including minor painting & tiling work Small renovations / Alterations / Maintenance s )NSURED s ,IC # s 2EFERENCES s 'UARANTEE 0HONE $AVID 6680

2001 or 0419 902 002

Quality Cabinets & Renovations Kitchens and cabinets â&#x20AC;&#x201C; co-designed with you.

Bathrooms, timber features, custom-made projects.

Owner-builder friendly.

References and inspection of work available.

Lic 84399C Don 0418 650 608 or Piers 0431 184 315

CARPET CLEANING

TLC

ARCHITECTS FRANK STEWART ARCHITECT Reg. 6075. www.frankstewart.com.au ...........................66856984 JOSE DO Sustainable Architecture. Reg. 7647. www.josedoarchitect.com....................0424 062096

ZAHER ARCHITECTS Reg 7872. www.zaherarchitects.com.au.............66849408 or 0414 974088 GRAEME BARR ARCHITECTS Reg 4244. www.graemebarr.com .......................................66877973 OCEANARC ARCHITECTS Reg. 6042 www.oceanarc.com.au .............................................66855001

CARPET CLEANING

Kevin & Margaret Bower

FRANCHISE OF THE YEAR!

(02) 6684 1001

Green & Clean Carpet and upholstery cleaning, urine extraction, rust removal, heavy traffic areas, deodorising and sanitation.

RIHS ARCHITECTS PTY LTD Special consultancies, eco designs, Reg. 3638. www.rihs.com.au .........................................................................................0411 699205

Truck Mounted Machine

TENDER LOVING CARE Specialising in household carpet cleaning Speedy Drying

SPACEstudio Architecture & interiors. Reg. 8261. www.spacestudio.com.au ...................66809921

Far North Coast NSW John & Teresa

0408 232 066

Cleans deeply, dries in 1-2 hours Commercial / Domestic / Insurance

CARPET LAYING CARPET LAYING Quality work, big or small jobs, free quotes, reliable.........................0412 755244

CATERING

BATHROOM SPECIALISTS Blue Dolphin Bathroom Renovations. Lic 105283C .............0405 148536 PLATTER PUSS Perfect platters for any occassion ........................................................0409 214000

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PLASTERER CARPENTER

APEX CARPET CLEANING www.apexcarpetcleaning.com.au ........................ Nathan 0412 926441

ALLCOAST SHOWER REPAIRS Leaks, makeovers & cleaning. Lic 1875C ..........................66808646

HANS ON BOOKKEEPING BAS agent, MYOB, QuickBooks, training ..................Sonja 0427 171087

PHONE NO: 02 6684 6635 BRUNSWICK HEADS LICENCE NO: 225906C wrightbuilders@bigpond.com www.aawrightbuilders.com

CARPET, UPHOLSTERY & more. No chemicals. www.mintsteamclean.com.....................66872129

BATHROOM RENOVATIONS Peter Alexander. Lic 177579C .........................................0417 499023

ACCOUNTANT Paul Mayberry .............................................................................................66847415

HOME RENOVATIONS BATHROOMS KITCHENS DECKS STAIRCASES ROOF EXTENSIONS AND REPAIRS TERMITE DAMAGE

WASHING MACHINES & DRYERS Repairs & service. Byron Shire .................................0418 410263 AMORE CARPET CLEANING & UPHOLSTERY CLEANING .................66807721 or 0429 726999

BATHROOM RENOVATIONS ACCOUNTANTS

SERVICING THE BYRON SHIRE FOR THIRTY-FIVE YEARS

DIGITAL EXPERTS

This is our way of rewarding our longterm loyal customers. We believe this to be a fairer way of providing this service. Ensuring prompt payment of your account will conserve your priority listing space. The longer you remain in the directory the further up the list you will climb.

INDEX

FABRICA JOINERY Quality kitchens/timber doors/windows. Lic 244652C.........................66808162

INSPIRE CONSTRUCTIONS 25 yrs exp. Extensions, decks, renos. Lic 215763C..............0437 153160

s $6$ VIDEO SETUP s .EW 46 SOCKETS s 3URROUND SOUND SETUP s .EW PHONE SOCKETS s &LAT 46 WALL MOUNTING s 0ENSIONER DISCOUNTS David Levine s &- RADIO ANTENNAS s ,IC ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR

0402 022 111

BRICK & BLOCK LAYING Lic 173697C ...........................................................................0431 792260

CARPENTER & JOINER Noel Pearce. 35yrs exp. Lic 9446C for high quality work ..........0468 914327

*conditions apply

Please supply display ads 85mm wide, 28mm high. New display ads will be placed at end of section.

BRICKLAYER Quality work, reasonable quotes. Lic 164155C..................0437 135483 or 66849102

BUILDING TRADES

CHIMNEY SWEEP BLACKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FIREPLACE INSTALLATIONS (3rd generation) 20 yrs exp, insured ..........Phone 66771905

CHIROPRACTIC BAY FAMILY CHIROPRACTIC Peter Wuehr 17 Bangalow Rd Byron Bay .............................66855282 WAVE OF LIFE NETWORK CHIRO (lowforce) 8/9 Fletcher St, Byron Bay. Andrew Badman .66858553

MICHAEL SCHWAGER & SHAUN CASHMAN Chiropractors 108 Stuart St, Mullum ........66841962 BOOKKEEPING & BAS AGENT SERVICES â&#x20AC;&#x201C; small creative businesses ...............Jenny 0411 232266 STAINLESS WIRE BALUSTRADING Supplies and installation................66809409 or 0419 758821 MULLUM CHIROPRACTIC Massage, chiropractic & fitness. 110 Dalley St........................66841028 BRIMS BUILDERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S HARDWARE ........................................................................................66801718 BOOKKEEPER/BAS AGENT MYOB, Quickbooks, admin, Byron. Racquel .......................0402 704068 PAVING, LANDSCAPING, DECKS, SANDSTONE WORK Lic 10711C Greg 0414 859830 or 66803234 DISCOVER CHIROPRACTIC BYRON BAY Margaret Tay ...................................................66808400

ANTENNAS & INSTALLATION

BUILDER â&#x20AC;&#x201C; THINK BUILDING Excellent work. Quality projects. Lic 188670C ............0432 381880 BYRON BAY CHIROPRACTIC CENTRE Bruce Campbell. 1/12 Tasman Way, A&I Estate ...66858159 DINGO DEMOLITIONS & ASBESTOS REMOVAL ................................66834008 or 0407 728998

ROB DEEGAN Australian Govt approved antenna installer ....................0429 994516 or 66845525 GECKO LANDSCAPE SOLUTIONS Decks, pergolas, walls & fencing. Lic 212479C .......0415 755337 NORTH COAST ANTENNA SERVICES Digital specialists, Govt endorsed installer ...........66841234

0439 624 945

AH

02 66 804 173

Digital TV ALL Antenna Installations & Repairs ALL Electrical Work

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CLEANING

CARPENTER All jobs. Michael Dow. Lic 147675C ...................................66291169 or 0412 967677 WINDOW & PRESSURE CLEANING Professional work. Free quotes. Ph Steve .............0421 797210 BUILDER â&#x20AC;&#x201C; JOHN McGAURAN Personalised Service. Lic 170208C ......66884215 or 0415 793242 CONSCIOUS CLEANING Non-toxic, eco-friendly, 8 yrs exp ................................... Anra 0466 984317 CARPENTRY/JOINERY Renos, kitchens, bthrms, small jobs. Lic 157823C. Paul .... 0423 658885 or 66845273 DIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CLEANING SERVICE Quality, efficient. O.Sh, SGB, NB & Mullum & surrounds......0414 408723 ADDITIONS & RENOVATIONS Peter Alexander. Lic 177579C ........................................0417 499023 A WHITE GLOVE CLEANING SERVICE for homes, 27 yrs exp ..........................................66857279 BUILDER/CARPENTER High qual & exp, renos, kitchens, bathrms, decks Lic 214946C .....0412 261684 ACE PRESSURE CLEANING SERVICES All areas, friendly service, pensioner disc .........0419 478459 RBA CARPENTRY & MAINTENANCE New & reno work, decks & pergolas. Lic 243918C..... 0407 330326 BUILDING SPACES buildingspaces.com.au Lic 16941C. Design & build. Rob .....................0414 355300 S.T. CLEANING Home, yard, office, car. Steve ................................................................0413 668228 CARPENTER Any job, all areas, free quotes. Lic 239951C...................................... Matt 0432 956815 ABOVE & BEYOND CLEANING Simply the best. Free quotes. Great rates .....................0413 190266

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CARPARK & DRIVEWAY MAINTENANCE CONCRETE EDGING

02 6684 6235

61 Stuart St Mullumbimby

info@mullummac.com www.mullummac.com

ACTION WINDOW & PRESSURE CLEANING s (OUSE WASHING s (IGH PRESSURE OR SOFT WASH s 7INDOW CLEANING s $RIVEWAYS PATHS ROOFS s 'UTTERS m YSCREENS s 7ATER EFl CIENT s &REE QUOTES 0HONE *OE OR (ELEN 6684 4018 or 0412 495 750

0418 156 909 Call Steven Butturini

EARTHMOVING & EXCAVATION A NORTHERN RIVERS TRENCHING 65HP chain trencher, 1.5 tonne excavator, tipper.0402 716857 MINI EXCAVATOR & TIPPER HIRE................................................................................0412 272564 A KANGAMAN Mini Bobcat, Tiptruck, Trenching, Fencing, Retaining walls ...................0424 234500

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BRUNSWICK BOBCAT HIRE Good rates, very experienced operator. Ilan .....................0414 300012 BYRON BAY BOBCAT & MINI EXCAVATOR All areas ..............................................Ian 0412 853479

M a c R e p a i r s , u p g r a d e s , t u i t i o n , d a t a r e c o v e r y, Setup. Used Macs for sale. See my website for specials www.macdoc.net.au 0411 562 111 s

Apple Certified Support

02 6688 4777 Green Rocket cleaners 0405 437 431 ABN 85746157599

Matt

0427 172 684

TINY EARTHWOR CONCRETING

Philip Toovey 0409 799 909 ph/fax 02 6684 3208 various implements available for limited access projects

CONCRETING â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Steve Baker. Lic 143161C.....................................................................0412 272564

EXCAVATOR BOBCAT & WATER TRUCK

COUNSELLING TRAUMA RELIEF Alakh Analda, 26 years experience. Advanced Diploma ...................0413 167688

BYRON BAY CLEANER

CURTAINS, BLINDS & AWNINGS

www.byronbaycleaner.com.au

SUMMERCRAFT BYRON SHIRE Rob Cubis ..........................................66851969 or 0412 995267

PURE WATER SYSTEM / 3 STOREY POLE

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All aspects of small earthmoving.

HOMES BUSINESSES & OFFICES BOND CLEANS PRESSURE CLEANING WINDOWS QUALITY WORK ECO CLEANING CONSTRUCTION BUILDERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CLEAN

0427 110 375

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BYRON BAY, BANGALOW & SURROUNDS

FREE QUOTES FREECALL 1800 683 838 MOBILE 0419 677 991 cmhwindows@gmail.com COMMERCIAL, DOMESTIC, SHOPS & REAL ESTATE FULLY INSURED

ASDIG EARTHWORX Excavator, Bobcat & Tipper Hire. glakescc@bigpond.net.au.........0412 265520

s 4)0 425#+3 s &,/!4 s 425#+ $/'3 s $2)6%7!93 s 2/!$3 s (/53% 0!$3 s #,%!2).' s $2!).!'% s #!20!2+3 s "53( 2/#+3 s 2/#+ 7!,,3 s -!#().% 4)#+%43 ALL MATERIAL DELIVERIES Ph: Quentin

0404 193 933

ELECTRICIANS COUGHRAN ELECTRICAL 24 hour service, Lic 154293C .........................0439 624945 or 66804173 CURTIS ELECTRICAL 24 hour service â&#x20AC;&#x201C; all Byron Shire. Lic 247725C...........................0427 402399 SMALL â&#x20AC;&#x201C; URGENT â&#x20AC;&#x201C; EMERGENCY JOBS ONLY.........................................................0427 402399 RONNIE SPINKS Everything electrical. Lic 27673 ........................................................0429 802355 HALLMARK ELECTRICAL Domestic, small job specialist. Lic EC41467 ..........................0407 416575 CHRIS APPEL Ocean Shores. Lic EC22349 ......................................................................0422 607444

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LIGHTHOUSE ELECTRICAL BYRON BAY Your friendly electrician Lic 233440C ............0450 631183

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ABSOLUTE ELECTRICAL SOLUTIONS Lic EC27673 ....................................................0429 802355

cleans Bond cleans Pre-sale cleans 100% SpringHome detailing One-off cleans ORGANIC CLEANING 0488 063 828 Fully insured, ASIC holder

COMPUTER SERVICES DAVID LAWSON COMPUTER SERVICES All services & repairs for PCs ............................66843955 BYRON IT Ex Techmagic PC & networking............................................. Brian Edwards 0401 864184

COMPUTER REPAIRS â&#x20AC;¢MOBILE SERVICE â&#x20AC;¢PC â&#x20AC;¢URGENT â&#x20AC;¢VIRUS

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DENTISTS

AFTERGLOW ELECTRICAL Prompt, reliable electrician. Lic 212742C..........................0432 331633 DENBY ELECTRICAL Reasonable rates with great service. Lic 225484C ........................0432 767764

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02 66 804 173 All Jobs Small or Large

Lic: 154293c

CProfessional ompulsive About Cleaning Pristine & Polite cleaning services

BRUNSWICK HOLISTIC DENTAL CENTRE ......................................................................66851264

SHORES DENTAL Brian Donnellan & Richard Conn. Rajah Rd, Ocean Shores ....................66803477

Serving Byronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mac Users for over 20 Years with

MICHAEL LEACH 100 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby ............................................................66842644

Genuine 24/7 emergency service

Apple Certified Technicians for In & Out of Warranty Repairs

Lightforce Computers 6685 8796 â&#x20AC;¢ hrs: m-fri 9-5 â&#x20AC;¢ sat 9 -1 (we do callouts too!)

DESIGN & DRAFTING BAREFOOT BUILDING DESIGN New Homes & additions ..........................Bob Acton 0407 787993 ACCENT COLOR PLAN COPYING / PRINTING .................................................................66856236 BYRON ENERGY EFFICIENT DESIGN & DRAFTING ............................0423 531448 or 66857713 MICHAEL SPITERI ARCHITECTURAL DRAFTING SERVICE .....................................0417 713033

Call 1300 639 843

Lic 247725C

Authorised Service Provider

SMALL, URGENT & EMERGENCY ELECTRICAL JOBS

BANGALOW DENTAL HEALTH In the Medical Centre Complex, Bangalow ......................66872766

DOMESTIC COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL JAMIE 0408 809 817 licence no. 201775c

DAVID ROBINSON DRAFTING Renovation, design & plans.................0419 880048 or 66858114 BEACH LIFE BY DESIGN Architecural design. Reasonable rates ....................................0450 313573

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Service Directory TEA TREE MULCH at wholesale prices, $33 per metre+ delivery, min 3m ...............Ph 0424 163784

ELECTRICIANS (continued)

GAS SUPPLIERS

TREE & PALM LOPPING Felling, rubbish removal, fully insured, free quotes ................0405 620261 LAWNS & GARDENS Ride-on, brushcutting, gardening, tip runs................... 0430 297101 or 66845437

Free Delivery

Prompt Service

LOCAL FOOD GARDENS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Mullum. Don Coyne, Horticulturist ............................................ 0459 175729

No Rental

Competitive

ETHICAL GARDENING by qualified horticulturist. Call Rebecca ....................66844644 or 0413 166314

Reliable

HINTERLAND Property Maintenance acreage mowing, servicing Byron Hinterland. Pete ....0429 809363

Rates Locally Owned Est 15 years

TEVA LANDSCAPING Acreage mowing, property maintenance, landscaping. Zac .......0468 344939

6680 1575 or 0408 760 609

Circuits Plus

BYRON SHIRE LAWN & GARDEN All aspects of garden maint, brushcut & rubbish removal 0468 922899

GLAZIERS

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LAWNMOWING Pruning, rubbish removal & small jobs ........................................................ 0422 692127 ALL GLASS BYRON BAY Shower screens & splashbacks.....................................................66857200

RESORT STYLE PROPERTY MAINTENANCE..................................................... Darren 0429 921359 OCEAN SHORES GLASS AND SCREENS Glass splashbacks Lic No 61205C .........................66803333

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GUTTERING

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Call 0400 826 483 Lic 201844C Small & large jobs

THE GUTTER GURU Repairs, cleaning, gutter guard, downpiping, roof repairs, solar panel cleaning. Call Sam for free quote..................................................................0459 821411

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0419 772 897

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Gutter guard Gutter cleaning Locally owned Fully insured Free quotes Call Junior for friendly, genuine advice and service.

www.spotlessgutters.com.au

FENCING

0405 922 839 or AH 6684 1778 ABN 180 623 364 42

BEDNARZ, H & W, FENCING Specialise in pool, Colorbond & timber fencing .............0417 491136

HANDYPERSONS

BYRON & BEYOND FENCING Any fence, any time, prompt quotes .....66804766 or 0416 424256 A KANGAMAN Post Hole Boring, Retaining Walls & Farm Fencing ...............................0424 234500

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E.D.L. FENCING Installations & repairs, prompt service .........................66771852 or 0432 107262

#4 #OUCH â&#x20AC;&#x201C; A Grade $3.30 /m2 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; B Grade /m2 3OFT ,EAF "UFFALO /m2

FLOOR SANDING & POLISHING

Floor Sanding & Polishing New & old ďŹ&#x201A;oors â&#x20AC;&#x201C; stairs For a free quote & quality guaranteed

North Coast

call Chris Mundey 0422 982 008 Lic 181445C www.cmtimberďŹ&#x201A;ooring.com.au

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BYRON BAY FLOOR SANDING

A.C.E. LAWNMOWING Cheap, reliable, guaranteed .....................Sam 0438 655763 or 66854237 ABSOLUTE GARDEN WASTE REMOVAL OR WHATEVER Large trailer. Free quotes ......66804704 MULLUM HANDYMAN Gardening, mowing, rubbish removal, insured.......................0424 954388

MULLUM HANDYMAN Maintenance, repairs, painting, renovations, gardening ........0424 954388 ABSOLUTE HANDYMAN Repairs, renovation, maintenance........................................0402 281638 HANDYMAN with 25 years carpentry experience ..............................................................66840227

6684 7380

A VERY HANDY MAN for just about anything ...........................Andrew 66877674 or 0412 558890 MAINTENANCE WITH CARE by a former master builder. Phone Ben ...........................0401 375900

'ARDEN 0ROPERTY -AINTENANCE

A.S.A.P. HANDYMAN SERVICES Fast, efficient, best solutions for all jobs big or small.....0405 625697

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FLYSCREENS REPLACED on windows & doors. Phone Keith .........................................0411 466211

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ALL MAINTENANCE SORTED 25 years carpentry experience. Lic R84001. Greg ...........0422 069632

V "RUSH CUTTING V ,ANDSCAPING V 2UBBISH REMOVAL V 0RESSURE CLEANING 3AM 0LUMMER Fully insured V 'UTTER CLEARING

RELIABLE HANDYMAN SERVICES Michael ...........................................66844970 or 0405 325569

LANGFORD BUILDING & PROPERTY MAINTENANCE Lic 34643 .........0418 433769 or 66842843

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& Byron Shires Tweed Call Jeff 02 6680 1728 0408 666 418

When you need us!

Bob Quirk â&#x20AC;&#x201C; proud owner

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acreage specialist lawnmowing gardening brushcutting green waste removal domestic & commercial Call Shay 0402 728 722

MULLUM-MOWING@mullumonline.net. Ride-on .............................................Peter 0423 756394

A TO Z GARDEN SERVICES Lawns, acreage, hedges, clear ups, gutters, pressure cleans .0405 625697

CAPE BYRON PROPERTY MAINTENANCE all areas. Tom Scott .................................0418 600576

A1 HOME MAINTENANCE SERVICES repairs, painting, renos, all aspects Lic 213061C ..0419 478459

0408 536 565

GUTTERS CLEANED All areas, free quotes, fully insured ............................... 66841778 or 0405 922839

A TO Z HANDYMAN SERVICES Jack of All ....................................Andre 66847553 or 0439 495247

Trading hours: 7am-4pm Monday to Friday

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Prompt service. Free quotes.

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0424 982 935 HEALTH

t 05)&3 )&"-5) 3&-"5&% 4&$5*0/4 */ 5)*4 4&37*$& %*3&$503:: Chiropractic, Counselling, Dentists, Naturopathy, Nutrition, Osteopathy, Physiotherapy, Podiatry ACUPUNCTURE CHINESE HERBAL MEDICINE M Collis .................................................66842559 MULLUMBIMBY MEDICAL CENTRE 60 Stuart St ............................................................66841511 ACUPUNCTURE & COSMETIC MEDICINE Dr Adam Osborne...........................................66857366

GREEN WASTE REMOVAL Brushcutting & mowing ....................................................0431 700195

ACUPUNCTURE www.marlenefarry.com Facial rejuvenation, general practice ..............66842400

CHEAP LAWNMOWING & RIDE-ON WORK envirolawn@bigpond.com ......0412 434601 or 66840235

MULLUMBIMBY MASSAGE, CHIROPRACTIC & PERSONAL TRAINING......................66841028

LEAF IT TO US Acreage/residential mowing/gardening, pressure cleaning, lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;scaping ...0402 487213

KINESIOLOGY & REMEDIAL MASSAGE Paritosho Rowe .................................................66802475 MULLUMBIMBY HERBALS Naturopathy, massage. 79 Stuart St .....................................66843002

ABOUT BYRON Lawnmowing, houses to acreage, rubbish removal ..Rick 0409 654946/66804476

BRYANT HOPLEY Herbalism, homeopathy, nutrition. Byron Bay .....................................66857225

MOW JOES Lawn & garden maintenance, ride-on mowing. Fully insured ..............Joe 0407 065849

MULLUMBIMBY SKIN CLINIC 58 Stuart Street .................................................................66844400

A GREEN EARTH Garden restoration, maintenance, tree & rubbish removal .66884549 or 0405 716552 ACREAGE BRUSHCUTTING & CLEARING SERVICES Lantana specialists ...................0412 705962 ACREAGE MOWING/PROPERTY MAINTENANCE Fast & reliable ..........66845148 or 0402 823928

ACUPUNCTURE Kim Kilgariff specialising in Japanese, Chinese & Esoteric ............text 0414 692673

GARDEN DESIGN

MICHAEL TAYLOR Structural re-integration, trigger point & deep tissue therapy .............66803347 POSSUM CREEK PERSONAL TRAINING .............................................................. John 0416 039471

NICKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S MOWING Lawns, edges, hedges, local & reliable. Mullum, Bruns, O.Shores .....0418 792279 GARDEN DESIGN, FENG SHUI www.simplybeautifulspaces.com.au ......................... Lyn 0428 884329 CRANIOSACRAL BALANCING Najma Ahern. Practitioner, tutor and trainer ....................66846444

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Service Directory HIRE BYRON WEDDING & PARTY HIRE ..........www.byronbayweddingandpartyhire.com.au 66855483 MULLUM HIRE Builders, party and much more .......................www.mullumhire.com.au 66843003 BYRON HIRE Building & home handyman equipment hire ....... www.byronhire.com.au 66856228

HORSE SERVICES

NATUROPATHY

HOLISTIC HORSE RIDING COACH Beginners-Advanced. Lisa..............66845053 or 0423 087647

INTERIOR DESIGN

LEGENDARY OFFROAD TYRES

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BRYANT HOPLEY Herbalism, homeopathy, nutrition. Byron Bay .....................................66857225

OSTEOPATHY

KATE PLATT Interior Designs, www.kateplatt.com................................0411 888416 or 66807606

SHAUN LEMURA KITCHENS & CABINETS Byron Bay. 14yrs+ qualified exp .............0499 771769

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Extraordinaireâ&#x20AC;?

0418 110 714

BEAUTY INTERIOR DESIGNS www.buildingspaces.com.au............................................66872511 BYRON OSTEOPATHIC CARE Eve Schoenheimer & Courtney Ward Mon-Fri ....................66853660

KITCHENS

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2ND OPINIONS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; ALTERNATIVE VIEWS

BRUNSWICK HEADS OSTEOPATHY Sue Broadbent & Toby Mills. Monday â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Saturday...... 66851126

PHYSIOTHERAPY

NORTH COAST OSTEOPATHY Jodie Jacobs & Jamie Bennett. Mon-Fri .............................66857517 TRADITIONAL OSTEOPATHY Lennox Head Michael Petrie.................................................66874410

BANGALOW PHYSIOTHERAPY Manual therapies, acupuncture, pilates, remedial massage.

Liz Thomas, Cally Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hara, Zac Forrester ................................................................................66872330

KITCHEN BENCH TOPS Laminate & Timber, timber bench tops resanded...................0401 488628

NICK EDMOND, TROY EADY, Physiotherapy, acupuncture. Open Monday to Friday.

LANDSCAPING

Corner Dalley & Burringbar Sts, Mullumbimby ......................................................................66843255

GECKO LANDSCAPE SOLUTIONS All aspects of landscaping & design. Lic 212479C..0415 755337

Sue Broadbent, Toby Mills and Amelia Rocco

PAULA RAYMOND-YACOUB Acupuncture & physio .........................................................66851646

ADAMEARTHSCAPE Retaining walls. Paving. Concrete paths. Tipper truck/loader.......0411 726604

Clinic open for osteopathy Mon to Sat, open for massage Mon to Sun

CLAUDIA MIRDITA Craniosacral therapy, physiotherapy....................................................66857222

2/32 Mullumbimbi St, Brunswick Heads. Tel 02 6685 1126

CONTINENCE / PELVIC FLOOR Janelle Angel. 3/10 Station Street, Bangalow .................66872337

LANDSCAPE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DESIGN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; BUILD kmdesign/com.au ..................................Phone Kris 0400 891266

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PETRA KARNI Physiotherapy, Craniosacral, Alexander Technique. Byron..........................66807207

PAINTING

SUBTROPICALLANDSCAPES.COM.AU 20 years exp. Lic 231789C................................0405 122456

ANTHONY Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ORSOGNA Physiotherapy, hydrotherapy, acupuncture Suffolk Park 1 Bryce St.. 66853511

DEREK BULLION PAINTING Free quotes. Lic R98818 ..........................0414 225604 or 66805049 OCEAN SHORES PHYSIOTHERAPY Manual therapies, dry needling, custom orthotics, AD PAINTING by John Hand. Lic 13246C ...............................................0413 185399 or 66841249 remedial massage. Nigel Pitman, Ilse v.Oostenbrugge, Lachlan Dewar, Amy Khoury .........66803499 KELVIN & ROBERT TEALE Painters & decorators. Lic R65919 ..............0400 349027 or 0438 842731 LIBBIE NELSON PHYSIO â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Acupuncture, yoga & therapy, BFL, Herbs, CS. Byron Bay ......0416 369698

PICTURE FRAMING

BYRON PAINTING Immediate starts, great rates. Lic 239832C .....................................0427 669806 FLYNNâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PAINTING Professional, friendly, clean. Lic 130521C ...............0410 520647 or 66843542 ACE PAINTERS & DECORATORS Domestic/commercial. All areas. Lic 213061C ............0419 478459

1176 Myocum Rd, Mullumbimby (just past golf course)

GOTHIC PICTURE FRAMERS Mullum. Mexican Art. Open Thu & Fri 10-4 .......................66841647

B Timbs Painting "RUCE 4IMBS 6685 1018 OR 0413 666 267

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PLASTERING COL JENKINS PLASTER Gyprock, renovations, repairs. No job too small .....................0401 078733

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BILLINUDGEL CUSTOM PICTURE FRAMING 7/1 Wilfred St, Billinudgel .......................66803444

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I LOVE PLUMBING Call Steve Lic 148904C ....................................................................0412 916140

MOTORING MECHANICAL REPAIRS, WARREN SIMMONS Byron Bay .................................................66858500

HRH PLUMBING (new business) Prompt, reliable, efficient. Lic 220755C ........Harley 0402 652017

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DART PLUMBING Plumbing, roofing, gas. Byron Bay. Lic 1175539C.............................0421 334515 MARK STRATTON PLUMBING All aspects & emergency work. Lic 57803C ..................0419 019035 ADM PLUMBING SERVICESâ&#x20AC;Ś (No job too small.) Lic 234528C. ................Call Adam 0466 992483 JTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s PLUMBING Plumber, roofer & drainage. Lic 221638C .....................66803339 or 0428 102665 CHE NICHOLSON PLUMBING Drainage & gas fitting. Lic 204159C .......66802358 or 0439 760292 ACE PLUMBING All plumbing, gas fitting, roofing. Free quotes Lic 198061C.. 66847776 or 0428 635378 ALIAS PLUMBING 24hr blocked drains & maintenance specialist Lic 230095C. Terry ...0416 282919

ALL MECHANICAL REPAIRS & SERVICING, RTA slips, Byron Classic Cars..........................66807533 TROPICALE Integrated Pest Management Techniques .................................................0418 110714

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CALL ROBERT 0414 818 169

RUBBISH REMOVAL

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02 6684 2198

Lic 219684C

BEST SKIPS BANGALOW 2m2, 4m2, 6m2 bins ......................................0417 458149 or 66871544

BLOCKED DRAIN SPECIALISTS

OCEAN SHORES SKIPS Mini skip specialists ......................................................................0412 161564 ALL GARDEN & GENERAL WASTE removed cheap. Ph Mark ......................................0421 932945

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BYRON SKIPS & RUBBISH REMOVAL..........................................................................0450 300360 WILL SHIFT Trailer loads, tip runs..................................................... Ph Will 66843080 or 0404 466867 BYRON RUBBISH REMOVALS & TIP TRUCK HIRE Free quotes, same day service ......0423 920348

PROFESSIONAL RELIABLE SERVICE DOMESTIC COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL Email stuart@simpsonplumbing.com.au

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24 HR SERVICE

0481 390 273 – 0435 945 810

TREE SERVICES

SCRAP METAL MERCHANTS

Lic: 198243c

Ph: 0416 527 410

SUMMERLAND TREE SERVICES ............................................... Call Jo 66877677 or 0417 698227

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NORTHERN TREE CARE Consulting arborist, tree surgery ...........................................0414 186161 7 TILL 7 TREE SERVICES Tree removal & chipping ......................................................0427 347380 A KANGAMAN Trimming, Pruning & rubbish removal. Garden Mulch..........................0424 234500 TREE CONTROL Safe lopping, removal, 12” chipper, stump grinder. Free quotes ..........0422 767677 CHOPPY CHOP TREE SERVICE Bobcat, crane truck, 18” chipper.................................0408 202184 OUT ON A LIMB Experienced tree removal. Free quotes. Low rates. Ph Lucas ...............0402 191316 DFK CAMPHOR CONTROL & CONVERSION Cost efficient & effective........................0423 725422

SECURITY SERVICES

AVHM TREE SERVICES Happy to help .....................................Andrew 66877674 or 0412 558890

BRUNSWICK VALLEY LOCKSMITHS Shirewide ............................................................0412 144679 BYRON TREE SERVICES Qualified, insured. Call Alex ..................................................0402 364852 TALLOW TREE SERVICES Tree Surgery & removal, stump grinding ..............................0401 208797

SEPTIC SYSTEMS

masterblastas@gmail.com

PRINTER TONERS & CARTRIDGES TRINE

NICK’S TREE SERVICES Tree surgery & removal, chipping ............................................0439 849332

Trine Solutions

Licence No. 158031C

SEWAGE MANAGEMENT SPECIALISTS Sustainable environmental outcomes Drainage, Gasfitting & Plumbing 6680 2358 / www.trinesolutions.com.au / 0407 439 805

JIM’S TREE & STUMP REMOVAL s 1UALIl ED !RBORIST s 4REE 0RUNING s 4REE 2EMOVAL s 3TUMP 2EMOVAL s -ULCHING s &ULLY )NSURED s 3AME $AY 2ESPONSE

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SEWING REPAIRS & ALTERATIONS All areas.............................................................Jan 66849398

ACCENT COLOR The Copy & Laminating Shop ....................................................................66856236

SEWING MACHINE SALES & SERVICE

PRINTWORKS Your local printer. Traditional and Digital printing ......................................66843633

REMOVALISTS

SHOP FITTING

MAN WITH A VAN/TRUCK Reasonable rates. Phone Don ...........................................0414 282813

BEYOND BYRON REMOVALS Ready for work within & beyond Byron Brisbane Sydney backloading For careful service & great rates

phone 66801158 or 0408 004719

Andy’s Move & More Small and Medium Moves, Tip Runs and Deliveries, 1 or 2 Men at Low Prices Byron Bay and Mullumbimby based

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0429 149 533

A1 SEWING MACHINES – PARTS & REPAIRS Since 1964. Leaders in service .................66847447

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THE SHIRE FREIGHT CO From Middle Pocket to Middle Earth – just give us a ring

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UPHOLSTERY

BUILDING SPACES Shop fitouts www.buildingspaces.com.au Lic 16941C Rob .................0414 355300

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Lic. Electrical Contractors

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STONEMASONRY

BYRON BAY VALUERS NSW & QLD reg’d. Chartered Valuation Surveyors....0431 245460 or 66857010

VETERINARY SURGEONS MULLUM VET CLINIC Neil Farquhar, Richard Gregory & Jamie Lines. 24 hours 7 days .....66843818 VITALITY VETCARE Bangalow. Megan Kearney .................................................................66870675

WATER FILTERS FILTERED FRESH Water purification systems. Commercial, home, rural. All areas .........0414 229114

BIG FOOT ROCK WALLS Materials @ cost, $35/hour ...................................................0402 669230

SWIMMING POOLS MULLUMBIMBY POOL SHOP Water tesing, Eco products, mobile servicing Lic 39126 ...66844846

ATTENTION POOL OWNERS s !LL POOL REQUIREMENTS s 0ROFESSIONAL ADVICE s 7ATER TESTING s &RIENDLY SERVICE s 0OOL SERVICING 73 Station St, Mullumbimby (opp. Council chambers)

6684 3003 TILING

The Water Filter Experts for home, commercial and rural properties

6680 8200 or 0418 108 181

WATER TANKS & TANK CLEANING BYRON SHIRE WATER TANK CLEANING Free quotes ...............................Phone Peter 0432 680913 ALL WATER TANK CLEANING & water tank sales, all areas .................66888055 or 0407 002833

WEB DESIGN SERVICES

WEB BROWSER Quality websites at affordable prices ..........................66803707 or 0423 770799 TILER Bathroom repairs, walls & floors. Lic 75915 ...............................................Andy 0419 478248 COAST CREATIVE Graphic & website design....................www.coastcreative.com.au 66877998 TILER/STONEMASON/WATERPROOFER Lic 24418C. Phone Karl ...................................66804103 BYRON BAY WEB HOSTING Green web host www.byronbaywebhosting.com.au .....0411 356242 For tips & testimonials

Friendly Staff No weekend surcharge

search “Lighthouse Removals”

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Plus Check our website for how to get free boxes and a 10% discount

LIGHTHOUSE REMOVALS (02) 6684 5395

042050 5395

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WANT A GREAT WEBSITE? No job too small… MyBusinessWebsiteGuy.com .............02 84172992

WINDOW TINTING SUNRISE WINDOW TINTING 32 years personal experience. Cars, homes & offices......0412 158478

WOOD HEATER INSTALLATION BLACK’S FIREPLACE INSTALLATIONS (3rd generation) 20 yrs exp, insured ..........Phone 66771905

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Classifieds INDEX Anniversaries........................... 79 Birthdays ................................ 79 Businesses For Sale ............... 77 Cabins For Sale ...................... 77 Car Service ............................. 77 Childcare ................................. 75 Clothing & Alterations ............. 75 Death Notices.......................... 79 For Hire.................................... 76 For Sale ................................... 77 Free Stuff ................................. 77 Funeral Notices ....................... 79 Garage Sales ......................... 77 Halls For Hire .......................... 76 Health Notices ........................ 75 Holiday Accommodation ........ 77 House Sit ................................. 78 House Swap ............................ 78 Houses For Sale ..................... 77 In Memoriam ........................... 79 Land For Sale.......................... 77 Lost & Found ........................... 79 Motor Bikes ............................. 77 Motor Vehicles ......................... 77 Musical Notes.......................... 78 Only Adults .............................. 79 Pets.......................................... 79 Positions Vacant ...................... 78 Probate Notices....................... 75 Professional Services ............. 75 Property For Sale .................... 77 Public Notices.......................... 75 Readings ................................. 75 Removalists ............................. 77 Share Accommodation ........... 78 Short Term Accommodation ... 77 Social Escorts ......................... 79 Thank You ................................ 75 To Lease .................................. 78 To Let ....................................... 78 Tradework ............................... 77 Tree Services .......................... 77 Tuition ...................................... 78 Wanted .................................... 77 Wanted To Rent....................... 78 Work Wanted........................... 78

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WISHING ALL MY CUSTOMERS and their pianos happy, harmonious holidays.

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NYE Kohinur Hall

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Artisan Market every Saturday

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NORTHCOAST RECYCLED Building materials

NOW OPEN Unit 3 / 10 Smith St, Mullumbimby Ph: 6684 3110 M: 0407 742 704

TWILIGHT MARKETS

19TH DECEMBER, 2012 Â 3pm till late!

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Honey Roasted Macas Only $29.95kg!

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Call Colleen now on 0410 635 367

Give a gift of support this Xmas Is someone you love is feeling lost or fed up with feeling a certain way, exibiting a behaviour or trying to break a habit?

Why not give them a gift voucher to assist them to experience a different 2013.

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Hypnoenergetics works!

3-DAY OSHO MEDITATION RETREAT Wednesday 2 to Friday 4 Jan with Swami Anand Arun from Nepal Call Shahido 6688 2494

SCHOOL HOLIDAY CIRCUS WORKSHOPS 20-21 December & 2-25 January Ages 5-15 years Monday to Friday 9.30 AM-4.30 PM Full day $70 Half day $40 Plus FLYING TRAPEZE SESSIONS All ages 12.30pm & 5pm $55 For online bookings and info: circusarts.com.au or call 6685 6566 BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL (closed 24 Dec-1 Jan) 17 Centennial Circuit, A&I Estate Byron Bay

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LOOK GOOD FEEL GOOD Free consultation. SANDRO 66805002 GRAPHIC DESIGN, VIDEO & SOCIAL MEDIA creative available. Previous clients include ABC, Esprit & Dept of Manufacturing. Ph 0477185288

Jack The Snipper

SUMMERSONG MUSIC CAMP 11-18/1 Lennox Head Adult music holiday with top teachers & classes for all levels; songwriting, acappella singing, guitar, voice, impro, percussion & more.

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4 / 27 Brigantine Street Byron Arts & Industry Estate

STUDY KINESIOLOGY

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THIS WEEK XMAS SPECIAL:

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& counselling. Wendy Purdey.

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HYPNOTHERAPY

ECHO CLASSIFIEDS 6684 1777

THE PRACTICE OF DR SURESH RANANAVARE AT 24 BURRINGBAR ST IS CLOSING DOWN Patients requiring a copy of their records please call & collect. If practice is unattended please leave a message on the answering machine & your call will be returned as soon as possible.

Surgery number is 66842081 CHRISTMAS COOKING CLASS Rawsom, edible, Christmas gifts.

Sat 22, Mullumbimby, 11-5pm, $110/$90 each with friend. Anthea 0422383151 PLEASE HELP stable exercise bike urgently needed for low income disabled pensioner. 66841013 MULLUMBIMBY PHYSIOTHERAPY Reopens on 2nd Jan. Ph 66843255

PROBATE NOTICES IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW SOUTH WALES EQUITY DIVISION. After 14 days from the publication of this notice an application for Probate of the Will dated 25 FEBRUARY 2005 of the late MURIEL MATTHEWS WOODS, Homecare Assistant, 1/4 Shearwater Close, East Ballina, NSW will be made by her Executor STEPHEN CAMERON WOODS. Creditors are required to send particulars of their claims upon her estate to JENSENS SOLICITORS & ATTORNEYS, 7/62 Ballina Street, (PO Box 233) Lennox Head NSW 2478.

Phone (02) 6687 5333.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW SOUTH WALES EQUITY DIVISION â&#x20AC;&#x201C; PROBATE LIST After 14 days from publication of this notice an application for Probate of the Will dated 14 February 1997 of NORMA VIOLET ROBERTS late of Hertitage Lodge, Murwillumbah, New South Wales, will be made

by KERRY DAVID ROBERTS and BRETT NEWTON ROBERTS, the executors named in the said will. Creditors are required to send particulars of their claims upon her Estate to: Robert Parrey & Associates Pty Ltd T/As Hungerford Lehmann & Andrews, 64 McGoughans Lane, MULLUMBIMBY NSW 2482, Ph: 02 6684 2477, Ref: DJW:JG:20120320.

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THANK YOU THE MULLUMBIMBY SOUP KITCHEN Would like to thank all our team members, Sol Bread Distributors, Continental Bakery, Jordans Bakery, Edenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Landing, Mullum Fruit & Vegetables, Coffee Oasis, Santos Mullum Juice Bar, Brunswick Health Foods, The Echo, ANZ Bank for their Hamper, Mullum High Year 12, 2012 & Mullum Neighbourhood Centre for all their support over the past year.

Wishing everyone a Happy Solstice, Christmas and 2013 TO DEREK & JOEL BULLION you are the best painters in the world, my home will be perfect for Xmas. Many Thanks, see you in the New Year. Jo Stubbings

HEALTH

KINESIOLOGY

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Reprogram patterns and beliefs.

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ASHTANGA YOGA

Mon-Fri 9.30am. ALL WELCOME Phone Jack 66849299

MASSAGE

Best massage by qualiďŹ ed masseur, Cert 4 + diploma, special price $45p/h Byron studio or home service.

Phone 0438655763 or 66854237

Kahuna Bodywork

Relaxation, alignment & balance kahunabodyworkclinic.com 66844883 YOUR BODY IS A TEMPLE Fabulous massage! +AHUNA s ,OMI ,OMI s 4HERAPEUTIC Byron A&I. Ph Brigitte 0402503603 MASSAGE PAIN RELIEF s RELAXATION $40ph.

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Maureen Bracken 0402205352 BEST MOBILE MASSAGE therapeutic 20yrs exp. Phone Julie 0419339319

Cranio Sacral

with Martina Rigby, Physiotherapist Health Fund Rebates. 0432322998

SUFFOLK PARK YOGA With Flo Fenton Xmas break 23 Dec - 7 Jan 66859910

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TRADITIONAL THAI MASSAGE Thai masseur, 1hr $40 & 2hrs $70 Ph Nui 66771670, 0410519341

WOMENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BUSINESS Feminine embodyment practices creating deeper intimacy with your body. Individual & group coaching.

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Hawaiian Massage ONLY $80 1.5hrs combining Hawaiian & Remedial massage to give you a strong, deeply therapeutic & relaxing massage.

Michaela 0416332886

BABY SWIM

9 Heated indoor splash pool 9 Infant & toddler classes 9 Skilful & gentle tuition 9 Enjoy beautiful Mevlana

Jonson St, Byron Bay Prenatal, Mat & Equipment Classes!

Booking essential â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 6685 5773 classicalpilatesbyronbay.com.au

Ph Karin (Mukti) on 6684 3153 DipEd., Aust.

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tel: 0402 207 137 www.KateChase.com.au

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BAYSIDE ACUPUNCTURE & HERBAL MEDICINE Eeka King

Adv Dip (Acup) AACMA

Fertility, pregnancy & childbirth specialist.

Pain conditions.

Mental/emotional disturbances & general.

Volcanic Hot Stones Ayurvedic Yoga massage course March 3/4 $290 Massage Course Fluid Bodywork course

Jan17/18 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;27, March

BYRON herbal THAI MASSAGE The perfect Christmas gift Gift vouchers from $55 hour Heal your body, soothe yo ur soul

Phone for bookings or drop in anytime

masti m adler Great Gift Ideas: Skin Care Pks $120

Cert: Bowen Therapy Re-align / Therapeutic / Deep Massage / Facials / Waxing

0409 112 075 Clinic in Byron Bay. Service to holiday accommodation. www.chelhiebodytherapy.com

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Studio - 6 Byron St (above Centrelink)

Asana, breath, meditation, philosophy

Special weekend meditation retreat Classes $17 or 5 for $70 Teacher Trainee (TT) led classes $8 at 6am and $10 at 4pm Classes are open and suitable for all yogis, beginner to advanced

www.byronyoga.com | ph: 6685 8327 | info@byronyoga.com

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Detox, feel light, clear & vital.

Guaranteed! Colonic hydrotherapy, naturopathy, Chineitsang.

Natalie 0458633869 www.byronbaydetoxretreats.com.au

CLASSES AS USUAL OVER THE BREAK EXCEPT XMAS, BOXING AND NEW YEARS DAYS

SHIVA SHAKTI YOGA Intro Offer $25 for 2 Weeks Summer Special $35/Week ph : 6629 1637 17 Centennial Circuit

by Circus Arts www.yogainbyron.com

NLP / Hypnosis t #SFBLPVU PG PME )BCJUT #FMJFG 1BUUFOT t $PNCBU 'FBST 1IPCJBT t -FBSO UP NBLF /FX Positive Change in your -JGF t 4QFDJBM PÄ&#x152; FS )ZQOPTJT /-1 Practitioner, Rupda 0404 196 900

Brazilian $38â&#x20AC;&#x201C;$40 ½ Leg & Brazilian $50 Full Leg & Brazilian $60 G-String $30 Bikini $20 Full Leg & Bikini $45 ½ Leg & Bikini $35 ½ Leg $25 Full Leg $35 Full Arm $20 ½ Arm $15 Underarm $10â&#x20AC;&#x201C;$15 MENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S WAX Chest $35 Back $35 Y-front $38 Call or SMS Lisa for your booking

0401 839 223

Open Tues â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sat. After hours avail.

Spiritual Life Coach

GET CONNECTED ...your numerology ...your positive creative focus ...your motivation for an appointment phone: Ida-Lee 02 6685 9055 (Byron Bay)

MONDAY 9.30-11.30am Hatha 3.30-5.00pm Hatha

WEDNESDAY Diana 9.30-11.30am Beginners 5.30-7.00pm Hatha Diana THURSDAY 9.30-11.30am TUESDAY 3.30-5.00pm Hatha 6.30-8.00am Consta 5.30-7.00pm Hatha 5.30-7.30pm Dru Yoga Diana FRIDAY 9.30-11.30am Hatha CLOSED 25 DECâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;1 JAN. MERRY CHRISTMAS AND THANKYOU FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT DURING 2012.

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MONDAY Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Flow Yoga s 7.30am Nikki Shakti Moves s 10am Leyolah Antara Community Acupuncture s 12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;4pm Prenatal Yoga s 5.30pm Natasha Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Shamanic Yoga s 7.15pm Kamala Devii TUESDAY Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Flow Yoga s 7.30am Kamala Devii Byron Pregnancy Support Group s 10â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1pm Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Yoga s 5.30pm Kathryn WEDNESDAY Mumsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; & Toddler Yoga s 9.30am Emma Mumsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; & Bubsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Yoga s 11am Emma Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Massage $25 Clinic s 1â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5pm THURSDAY Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Flow Yoga s 7.30am Natasha Prenatal Yoga s 9.30am Emma Yin Yoga s 5pm Tara FRIDAY Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Yoga s 9.30am Kathryn SATURDAY Prenatal Yoga s 8am Natasha 10/21-23 Tasman Way (cnr Wollongbar & Tasman) Byron A&I Estate. info@redtentyoga.com.au YLK[LU[`VNH JVT H\

FOR HIRE DJ WITH A PA lights etc. Weddings, Parties, Anything. Phone 0412729902

HALLS FOR HIRE EWINGSDALE HALL - All functions Day classes welcome. 0421878556

Diana

SHIATSU & REMEDIAL MASSAGE WITH DIANA EWING $60 PER HOUR BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL. HEALTH FUND REBATES

Enquiries: Diana Ewing 9 Myocum St Mullumbimby P: 6684 3431 M: 0407 455 212 E: dianaewing@bigpond.com

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$590 $290

Call Chelhie Body Therapy

Come and enjoy our gorgeous air conditioned retreat above the Cardamom Pod vegetarian in Byronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CBD

David King

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Jeremy Sutton www.rolďŹ ngbyronbay.com 0407 132 921

6684 6982 / 0403 730 304

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CHIROPRACTOR

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BRENT VERCO

relationship counselling family mediation co-parenting coaching

DELUXE DEEP TISSUE MASSAGE Organic oils, ďŹ&#x201A;uffy towels, perfect Xmas gift, home visits. 20 yrs exp. 0499145292

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YOGA TEACHER TRAINING Level 1 part time with Flo Fenton March 6 to December 4, 2013. Ph 66859910 intouchyogabyronbay.com

Quit Smoking

New Year special $130 off bookings made in Dec or Jan Phone Ingrid 66803827

SACRED HEART HEALINGS WITH DEVI Reiki, sound healings, massage, psychic readings. Reiki Masters workshop Jan 2013. Ph 0401796769

0413 432 584

Sexual Counselling Alison Rahn qualiďŹ ed sex therapist www.alisonrahn.com.au 0432599812

NATUROPATHIC COLONIC HYDROTHERAPY The only professional council approved Open Libbe Colonic system in the Shire. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;A favourite with the localsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; www.whitelotuscleansing.com.au Ph Sarah 0427857148 or 66846124

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COUNSELLING Professional male counsellor.

Individual couples family & children.

ConďŹ dentiality gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;teed. Ph 0427802097

BODY BLESSINGS Massage & energy work to nurture the body & mind bringing peace, balance & harmony. Phone 0402928555

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THAI MASSAGE 1.5hrs $50, home visit $60. Ekka, 7 days 66804478. Traditional

BYRONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BEST MASSAGE

SKIN & BODY by Jodie Beauty & massage. Byron. 0410861353

COORABELL HALL BOOKINGS 66871307 www.coorabellhall.net

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TRADEWORK

COMPOST TOILETS

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TREE SERVICES

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6684 4421 0402 323 910 NICK HART TREE LOPPING s Affordable tree services s Professional tree care

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SECOND-HAND SHOP Lots of new stock coming & going, good prices, open 6 days closed Tuesdays 38 Tweed St, Bruns. 66851213

MOSQUITO NETS

100% cotton, all sizes, locals discounts.

Ph 66843191 www.1001nets.net

CARVER CHAIRS (pair) tapestry cushion seats, exc cond, $95ea. 0417226122

WANTED

SUBARU FORESTER 04 2.5X, man, exc cond, extras, $7900 ono. Ph 0428839009

MOTOR BIKE TRAILER lockable holds 3 bikes, $4350 ono. 0418433769, 66842843

OLD MOTORBIKE any make, any year, any cond. Will pickup. 0427109195

MOTOR BIKES

BICYCLES kids from $0, adult from $50, vintage from $100, repairs. Phone Phil 0413779228

GOOD used furniture bought and sold Bridglands Mullumbimby 66842511

TENT large 4-person, with annexe, hardly used, good cond $175 ono. Ph 66801276

Scrap gold, damaged/unwanted modern & antique jewellery. $$ Good prices paid $$ Cedar House 140 Dalley St Phone 0428668426 or 66842653 30 years trading in Mullumbimby.

Honest & reliable service

Pre-purchase inspection from $40!

Pink slips, service + repair.

10 Bonanza Dr, Billinudgel. 66804999

OLD JEWELLERY silver or gold any condition. Call 66804478 7 days

BUSINESS FOR SALE

BUILDING MATERIALS hwd beams, 4x2 etc & French doors, etc. Will pick up. 66872511

BUSY TAKEAWAY / CAFE / SHOP at South Golden Beach. Ph 0405007325

VACUUM BAGS

100% ORGANIC COTTON T-SHIRTS $15 ea ideal Xmas gift. 0417884990 www.ethicalwin.weebly.com

BRIDGLANDS

NEW AB WAVE still boxed, sell for $350 (new $450). Phone 0457353006

NARNIA NURSERY

RHAPIS PALMS up to 6’ tall in plastic pots, multistemmed ready to divide, $50 each.

66844425

To suit most makes & models Mullumbimby. 66842511

Quality landscaping plants. Great prices!

Phone 0419771514 www.narnianursery.com.au

Go Pro HERO 3 CAMERAS

IN STOCK NOW Bridglands Mullum. 66842511

TEMPUR

Range of bedding now available at BRIDGLANDS SLEEPZONE Mullumbimby 66842511 BICYCLES pre-loved from $50. Repairs.

Ph 66804165 or 0431540579 WASHING MACHINE auto $180, fridge 2 door $250, delivery. Ph 0413589388 HARDWOOD TIMBER FLOORING T&G $1.85 L/m. Ph 0411482365

ARCHIBALD’S CHEAP QUARRY PRODUCTS

POTTERY SALE

ALL GOLD

Behind Mullum Drill Hall. Dec 18, 20, 22, 23 & Jan 5 & 6, 10 to 4. BARGAINS!

WANTED TO BUY 2nd-hand foam mattresses for packing, will collect. Phone 66855417

LIVE + CUT XMAS TREES 66843337, 0401246009

GARAGE SALES

DISHWASHER Fisher & Paykel, 2 drawer, new $900; bar fridge new $160. Phone 66802642, 0431736353

MASSIVE SALE BANGALOW 8 Gumtree Crt, Sat 8am. Books, furn, antiques, linen, building materials, vast array.

4-PERSON SPA Cylone Tempest Sports 2008, $4750. Ph 0408644743

SOUTH GOLDEN BEACH 29 Helen St Saturday from 8am. Lots of great bargains

JB’S EMPORIUM Potted veg & herbs, handpainted quilts, furniture, books, records. Open Wed Sat. 2/105 Stuart St, Mullumbimby

BYRON BAY 110 Paterson St Sat 7am1pm. Good quality furniture, household items & bric-a-brac.

HAY certified organic lucerne $15 a bale.

Ph 0401660073

BYRON BAY 8/17 Browning St, Saturday 8am - 12pm

SELLING EVERYTHING, GOING OS. Lots of good stuff, come & look. All prices negotiable. Ph Phillip 0423482108

MYOCUM Sat 8-2pm, 272 Manse Rd, past tip, follow signs from Myocum Rd. Bikes, toys, car equip + more

Road base, gravel, blue metal and metal dust. ALL SIZE DELIVERIES. Phone 66845517, 0418481617

Tree pruning & removal Call Michael 0412 788 687

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STUMP GRINDING TREE REPORTS DA APPLICATIONS CRANE HIRE

6685 4015 - 0401 208 797

SUMMERLAND TREE SERVICES s #HERRY 0ICKER s 7OOD #HIPPER s 3TUMP 'RINDER s 4REE 3URGEON s &ULLY )NSURED

Mulch Supplies Mobile 0417 698 227

FOR SALE

Go Pro HERO 3 CAMERAS

IN STOCK NOW Bridglands Mullum. 66842511

BAMBOO PLY

from $10.50sqm & Bamboo Flooring.

For ceilings, walls, doors, etc.

Ph 66884188 - sample & brochure www.bambooply.com.au

BILLINUDGEL

LANDSCAPING SUPPLIES Cypress mulch now available.

Mon to Fri 7.30 - 4pm, Sat 8am - 11.30 Sun from 10 till 12. Ph 66804555

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MARKET VAN easy prep/clean up, 2 markets + events, $9000. 0403526668 PREMIUM FLORIST FOR SALE Owner going overseas looking to sell in the New Year. Fantastic price for very successful business!! $135,000 + SAV The work is done for you already.

We are heavily booked with weddings for all of 2013. Enquiries forwarded to Elle: info@flowersontherun.com.au FREEHOLD LANDSCAPING YARD Billinudgel 1007sqm block, 2 storey building, 2 trucks, bobcat & forklift $620,000. 66804634

Burringbar Village Hair Salon 18 years + one owner.

Long term loyal clientele.

Potential to extend hours.

Reasonable rent & lease.

Reluctant sale.

HiP Caravan Hire, funky modern caravans with everything included.

Busiest part of the year coming up. hipcaravanhire.com.au

Dehumidifiers from $279

Bridglands

Supplying commercial, wood fired bakeries, pizza restaurants and residential, combustion stoves, open fires, pot belly, kindling. Various load sizes from 4’x 6’ to 4 ton tipper.

PRICES STARTING FROM $95.

VOLUME DISCOUNTS.

Matt 0427 172 684

Tip Runs & Rubbish Removal 0408 210 772

NATIVE PLANTS The Largest range of native plants in the Byron Shire.

Tubestock to Semi-advanced Buy direct from the grower

MULLUM CREEK NATIVE NURSERY 110 Yankee Ck Rd, via Wilsons Ck Rd Mullumbimby 6684 1703 Open every Wed–Fri 10am to 4pm or by appointment www.mcnativenursery.com.au

CAWONGLA 4.5 acres dwelling site, elevated northerly aspect. $188,000 private sale. 0427970689

PROPERTY FOR SALE Coorabell Acreage 100 acres with 6 dwelling entitlements (Multiple Occupancy). 3 sites have good views, 2 have temporary cabins with room for horticulture, one has a basic house and studio.

Will sell one, a majority or the lot. From $225k each.

Private sale.

66847420 Tweed Shire, rainforest village.

Elevated, private, rainforest ‘village’ on 300 acres that backs to N.P. A magical and ancient place of crystal, spring mountain water, fireflies, old growth, pristine rainforest, swimming holes, waterfalls, views over the Caldera and an abundance of life. 4 renovated homes, a 5th community/visitor centre, cold room and cellar/food store with 7 more outbuildings to work with.

Equipped nursery, plateau paddocks, terraced veggie gardens, fruit and bush food orchards, school bus to the gate. $1.95m, WIWO (incl furniture and equipment).

CONTACT: andrewh@ propertyadvisoryservices.com.au Phone 0414 996 490

REMOVALISTS BACKLOAD TO SYDNEY this week great rates ph Tas 0409917646

HOLIDAY ACCOM. BEAUTIFUL BYRON HOUSE in rain forest setting from 25/12 to 21/1/13 from $2500pw email: spoyas@westnet.com.au WOOLI beach house s-c holiday rental, walk to beach & river, sleeps 7, $1400pw.

Ph 66841273 or 0427841621 MIACASA lush oasis, pool, spa, view, 2 mins Mullum, 15 Byron. Ph 66844762 Facebook: Miacasa B&B Byron Bay MULLUM avail 30 Dec 2012 -19 January 2013 spacious 3br apartment walk to town, 20 min Byron $700pw. 66844282

BYRON spacious 1br s-c, f-f aptmt, 5 min walk CBD/beach, sleeps 4, avail 23 Dec to 6 Jan 2013. 0434218747 or 66882386

Mullumbimby 6684 2511

FIREWOOD DELIVERIES ALL YEAR ROUND

HOUSE BLOCK 615sqm $39,000 ono, bay views, Gold Coast area, great fishing.

Urgent sale. Call 0755704153

GARDEN OASIS 4 doors to Tallow Beach, sleeps 6, linen supplied, 24 Dec - 5 Jan $2500pw. Ph 0401802737

IN STOCK NOW

Byron Bay & Surrounding Areas

6687 7677

BSW MOTORS

PART TIME LOCAL BUSINESS FOR SALE Great Opportunity!

SAMSUNG SyncMaster BX2450 LCD MONITOR, 24", practically brand new, hardly used, bought for $400, sell for $150 ono. Pick up O. Shores. 0409974877

MOVING SALE Queen bed base + mattress $100; Dining table + 6 chairs $200; coffee table $150; desk $50; outdoor glass table + 6 chairs $100; fridge VGC $400; Bosch dishwasher (still 2 years warranty) $400. Ph 0423293922

TREE SERVICES

CAR SERVICE

Speak with Stuart for details and contact. All hours 02 6677 1699 / 0478 651 490

TIMBER, pine, treated pine, hardwood, mouldings, sleepers, fencing, Koppers logs, ply, MDF, lattice, made to order.

Brims Builders Hardware, Billinudgel 02 66801718, Sth Tweed 07 55236002

PARKER LOUNGE 2 x 2 seater, light beige fabric, exc cond can deliver local $250 Lennox. Phone 66875822

Tallow

HONDA VT750 CRUISER 11 mths rego, black, low kms, with fairing & panniers, VGC. Nothing to spend other than $6500.

Phone 0412732465 to begin your Fonzie years

LAND FOR SALE

BYRON BAY STUDIO quiet, beautiful gardens, spa, n/s, ideal for yogi, 5 mins to town. Avail 18/12/12 to 5/1/13, $500pw sgl/$550 cpl. Ph 0413201303 LARGE RECYCLED KITCHEN granite top, stove & dishwasher $2000 ono.

Panelift double garage door, exc cond, $500. Phone 0421428520 WASHER 5kg $120, fridge/freezer $150 good cond, delivery. Phone 0415387611

MEXICAN HAMMOCKS

King $110, Queen $90.

Will deliver. Phone Greg 0431049933 HASBRO TRANSFORMERS x16, Harry Potter Lego, full set, 1st & 2nd edition, also collection of diecast 1/24 scale x 9 plus Matchbox cars. Also record player & 100 records. Price neg on viewing. Ph Phillip 0423482108 PEATS RIDGE SEASON PASSES x 2, $300 each. Ph 0412838861 2 SINGLE BEDS zips into king-size bed, hardly used, perfect for holiday visitors $400. 0407709921 WEBER KETTLE BBQ good cond, with beads, instructions & cookbook $50.

0421079561

FREE STUFF 2 CHICKENS & A ROOSTER (must go together) 66841022

MOTOR VEHICLES

EWINGSDALE beautiful 2br, 2 bath furn house. Cathedral ceilings, renov kitchen, lge v’dah, gardens $550pw. 0404201190

CASH PAID FOR UNWANTED CARS

LOVERS RETREAT luxury, private, spa cottage, 4 poster bed, $150pn. 66845000 or shushona1@googlemail.com

Local reg’d business 66845296 or 66845403 or 0413120970

CAR BODIES REMOVED FREE

$$$s for some.

Phone 0418189324, 0438189323 KIA RIO LS sedan 04, manual, blue, reg 5/13, 101,000 kms, $5000. 0403158631

BARGAINS

1996 Suzuki Sierra. 4wd, 5spd, hardtop, great cond, 5/2013 rego. SN 673 .......$4,950 1999 Ford Econovan. 5spd, a/c, p/s. Ready for work or travel. LK-95-GB ...............$3,200 Nissan NX Coupe. Auto, a/c, p/s, dual racks.

Nice little car. AM-16-TP .....................$3,850 1999 Holden Barina. 5spd, a/c, p/s, CD, 8/2013 rego, great value. BVM-NR2 ...$2,650 Toyota Hi-Ace Camper. 5spd, safari fitout, pop-top, seats 5. SJM-103 .................$9,650 Subaru Outback Wagon. Auto, a/c, p/s, very nice, green/silver. ZH-19-EB................$4,950

50 CARS UNDER $10,000

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HOUSE SWAP beautiful older style beach house, Mermaid Beach, 50m from beach, swap with house or unit in Byron CBD. 8th to 12th January. Email: goldnor@bigpond.com

Ballina Car Centre

DLN 19950

6686 5586 / 0418 676 274

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SHORT TERM ACCOM. CABINS FOR SALE NEW MOBILE CABIN Colorbond, 12mx4m, roofed verandah 12mx3m, lge bi-fold doors, fully lined, plumbed & wired. Incl. 300L water tank. $28,000. Call 0488611151 RETIRE OR WEEKENDER Top Park, Hastings Point, $140,000. 0438168001

HOUSES FOR SALE BUYERS AGENT vendors advocate, mortgage broker. Michael 0428555501 www.byronpropertysearch.com.au CAWONGLA 4br ensuite, DLUG, elevated exceptional views, 10.5 acres, $575,000, 0427970689. View realestate. com.au

OCEAN SHORES quiet house, avail 6 Feb - 10 Mar, costs, $180pw. 66804478 BYRON nice 4br home $200pw. Phone 0414622053 or 0411176133 MYOCUM charming renov Queenslander beautiful quiet spot, solar hw, n-s, now to Sept 2013, $380pw. Phone 66841985 BYRON TOWN flat 1br, s-cont, priv, ens, kitch, linen, WiFi, $450pw. 0401166688 MYOCUM now until 28/1/13. 4br leafy peaceful, private & convenient. $300pw for responsible people. Ph 0420284748 ECO COTTAGE in Nat Park, Main Arm. !.5 br 29/12-4/2/13 $300pw. 0428839009

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HOUSE SIT

STORAGE From $91/mth. Bangalow. Ph 66871500

McAULEYS LN 2br house from 7 Jan to 5 March on 5 acs. $350 all inc. 66841022

EXCELLENT HOUSE SITTER avail from 24 Dec for 2-3 mths. Ph 0477432710

BANGALOW RENT-A-SHED Self-storage sheds fr $25pw. 66871306

MULLUM 1br studio in town. $260pw + elec. No pets. Ph 66846760

HOUSE SWAP

CARAVANS & CABINS from $195pw.

Apply in person to Byron Bay Tourist Village, Ewingsdale Road

SOUTH GOLDEN BEACH 3br newly renov Queenslander, 300m to beach, pets neg $470pw. Avail now. Ph 0423361597

BANGALOW SELF-STORAGE Hi-tech security. 66872333

TYAGARAH 10 minutes beach, private spacious 1br house, shady deck, vege gardens, available 8 weeks from 13/1/13 $300pw. Phone 66847023

BRUNSWICK HEADS 2br unit, river view, deck $330pw Commercial - Brunswick Heads 40sqm studio ground ďŹ&#x201A;oor $140pw NO PETS UNLESS SPECIFIED www.siwickirealestate.com.au Siwicki Real Estate 17 Fingal St Brunswick Heads. Ph 66851206

OCEAN SHORES 2-storey, high on the hill, 3br, 2 bthrm, garage + carport $425pw. Avail now. 0414502222

BACKLOAD TO SYDNEY this week great rates ph Tas 0409917646

SUNRISE 1br self-cont studio, ensuite, share laundry, n/s, no pets, sgle $245pw, cpl $295pw. Avail 25/12. 66854394 AH

OCEAN SHORES f-f, s-c studio, $200pw incl elec, aircon, courtyard. 0419550282

MELBOURNE CBD modern 2 lev apt in res city high-rise. Building has sauna, lappool & gym. Apt has all steel appliances & linen supplied. Reverse cycle A/C comfort, high-speed WiFi ADSL2+ internet, wall mount LCD TV & PS3 with games provided. 2br; 1 Queen Bed, 1 large cot (baby), 1 Single bed, 1 foldup mattress & a couch. Minutes to Vic Market, Swanston St, Melbourne Central.

Avail 21st Dec - 6th Jan. Swap for Byron house/apartment to suit 2 adults 2 young children. Enjoy Melbourne's Christmas and New Years fireworks. Interested contact: N & J Matsumoto 0405104581.

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SHARE ACCOM. O.SHORES room in dbl-storey house, great garden & verandahs, $140pw + bills/bond. 0410964806, 0421913569 O.SHORES dble room beautiful spacious house, share with 2 males. Working, clean, n/s $150pw + bills. 0438758374

MY OWN GYM

No contracts, 24 hr access, $14.95 per week. Ph 66808180 BANGALOW lge p/f rm, close town, quiet & friendly, $140pw incl bills. 0402281638 FEDERAL 1/2 acre, 1br semi-furn, suit working single/couple $200/$250pw + bond. 0401850394

COORABELL quiet house, great views, on acreage + creek, 3br, 1 bthrm, deck + patio, DLUG, acreage mowing inc. Long lease OK, pets OK. $575pw. Avail midJanuary. Phone 0448889920 BALLINA SELF-STORAGE Secure from $13.20pw. Ph 66867011 MULLUM 5km, 1br, unfurn ďŹ&#x201A;at, pref quiet, mature female, n/s, d/f, no pets, pref no kids $220pw + elect. 66843154

LOCAL REMOVAL

& backloads to Brisbane. Friendly, with 10 years local exp. 0409917646 THE LINKS APARTMENTS, fully-furn, 3br, 2 bthrm apartment with large northfacing balcony, 4-star standard. Strictly no pets, minimum 6 month lease.

Available mid-January from $650pw + bond & utilities. Ph Paul 0418324297

SUFFOLK lge furn room with own terrace & garden, $250pw incl bills. 1 lge furn rm with own ent & deck, $190pw incl bills.

Clean & tidy house, no pets. 0401013234 SUFFOLK large, private f-furn room in happy comfortable, clean home, mature working woman pref. WiFi, n/s $280pw no bills. Text 0408102184 SUNRISE 2br to share $145pw & $150pw clean & calm, no bills. Ph 0432400726

BYRON 3br timber house, open-plan, verandahs, yard. 1km Tallow Beach, 2km town, $540pw, long term. Ph 0438728271 BANGALOW spacious 3br, 2 bath house, DLUG, rural view, avail mid Jan, no pets, $510pw. Ph 0410588048

YOUR OWN SPACE trees, river, beach, South Ballina large caravan with cabin attached, covered deck, gas stove, fridge, pets OK, $175pw, long term lease or rent to buy. Ph 66805789 or 0423857490 RURAL PROPERTY FOR LEASE lge 3br, original farmhouse & sep new timber cottage on acreage, 7 mins from Mullum.

66845003 or enchant1@linknet.com.au BYRON HILLS 3br, 1 bathroom house, $440pw. Ph 0448030344 OCEAN SHORES part-furn house, 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, $400pw. Avail 9 Jan. Ph 66803039

MULLUM 5km sc ďŹ&#x201A;at with kitchen, bath, 3 rooms semi-furn. Great location nr Crystal Castle, pool, $180pw+bills neg. 66841114

New Brighton

BYRON HILLS semi self-cont lge caravan with solid annex, own entrance, for quiet worker $200 inc bills & WiFi. 66853521

We currently have properties available to lease. Please contact our ofďŹ ce or view our website. www.eldersnewbrighton.com.au 6 Strand Ave, New Brighton 6680 1594

MULLUM CBD ďŹ&#x201A;atmate wanted 2 rooms $200pw + bond incl bills. Ph 0405849539 NTH OCEAN SHORES room in beautiful house, ensuite, sep ent, WIR, $160pw + bills. Fem pref. Phone 0421593093

BYRON BAY 2br apartment, SLUG, ocean views, no pets, refs required, $400pw. accom@byron 66853805

2BR CABIN on Tyagarah Rd, s-c, cosy, private vâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;dah, shady parking space $250pw + bills, suit sgl wkg person, long term rental. Avail 1/1/13. Ph 66847180

SUFFOLK 1br unit, brand new available early January $370pw. Ph 0424609980 COUNTRY HOME perfect for loving family or conscious friends. Spacious, calm, organic, views, decks, summer breezes, abundant spring & rain water, 8 mins from Mullum. Lge open kitchen, 3br, no pets $450pw. Now avail. 66845003

MULLUMBIMBY 3 Bed House, avail 14/01/13 $380 pw RURAL 2 Bed + Sunroom avail 30/01/13 $350 pw 3 Bed House avail early Jan 2013 $360 pw MULLUMBIMBY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; COMMERCIAL Com OfďŹ ces â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 81m2 avail with 30 days notice Com OfďŹ ces â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 157.7m2 Burringbar St Retail Shop â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 60m2, Burringbar St. Industrial â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Large range of Industrial Units available to lease.

BYRON THERAPY ROOM AVAIL in massage centre, suit complementary therapist with own clients. 0411114344 s !24)34 s 3(!2% 30!#%3 s Byron A & I, from $84pw.

Phone Silva 0402909193

POSITIONS VACANT WARNING The Department of Fair Trading has warned people to be very careful about responding to advertisements offering work at home. Readers should be wary if asked to pay money upfront for employment opportunities and never send money to a post ofďŹ ce box GOOD DRIVERS WANTED NOW Shifts avail for taxi, coach & hire cars.

Full training provided. Ph BH 66855008 email: info@byronbaytaxis.com HAIR STYLIST Must be passionate & experienced.

Great team environment. Send resume to hairbeauty@sulisbyron.com.au EXP SHIFT SUPERVISOR / MANAGER Also exp Barista wanted for busy coastal restaurant @ Lennox Head. 0401786181 MODELS 18+ years required. Nude female for Picture and People magazines.

No experience required. All shapes and sizes. Backpackers welcome. Good money. Professional accredited ACP photographer. Ph 0413627846 BARISTA extremely skilled, for busy town cafe in Bangalow. Call Sarah 0401606407 CABARITA OCEAN HEALTH RETREAT requires the services of a PHYSICAL EDUCATION/ACTIVITIES INSTRUCTOR. The successful applicant must be qualiďŹ ed and offer a range of group activities. The position is permanent part-time (30 hours) and requires weekend work. Please send resume to: brookramage@gmail.com SEAMSTRESS Highly motivated & experienced p-time to join our team making windsocks & kites. Own machine & working premises req e:cashall13@bigpond.com by 15 Jan EXPERIENCED FARM HAND 1 day/wk $20 cash/hr. Phone 0400472280

61 Burringbar Street Mullumbimby NSW 2482 Ph: 6684 2663 Fax: 6684 1699 markcochrane.com.au

EXP BARISTA Lennox Head. Flex hours.

Resume to vanman2481@hotmail.com OFFICE ASSISTANT required for busy online business.

Excellent customer service, email and computer skills req. Residents only. CV to: manager@dreamrideronline.com.au BARISTA position for fast-paced cafe in Ocean Shores. Must be experienced, enthusiastic, long-term 21hrs/week over 3 weekdays. Send resume to cafebossanova@hotmail.com BARISTA Experienced & passionate barista wanted for new restaurant in Byron. Breakfast & lunch shifts. Email resume to emma@thomsoneg.com KITCHEN HAND Experienced, fast kitchen hand/cleaner for busy Byron restaurant. Some ďŹ&#x201A;oor experience an advantage. Email resume to emma@ asiajoes.com FILM MAKER required for promo music video. Send details & portfolio to: m@ marionnedecandia.com

WORK WANTED LOCAL GUYS 20yrs exp landscaping, gardens & lawns, paving, tiling, ute. Jobs under $1100. Phone 0432401334 BABYSITTER fun, playful, present, exp & exc refs. Ph Dianna 0431579025

Window Cleaner

20 yrs exp. Ph Tony 0429948662 DECKS, PERGOLAS all carpentry needs.

Under $1100. Free quotes. 0427196962 LAWNS & GARDENS ride-on/mowing, brush-cutting, pruning, tip runs etc. 0430297101 or 66845437 D.U.I.s ETC. DO YOU NEED A DRIVER? $25/hr, my car, min 2hrs. Phone 66844884 PROF LOCAL PLASTERER Avail 27/12 to 10/1. Lic No 136925C. Ph 0401664035 ADMIN PROFESSIONAL Reliable, efďŹ cient, energetic, computer savvy. Reliable for long term.

Experienced & excellent refs. Call Deha 0439044303 EXP CLEANER for home or business, $25ph, min 2 hours, ABN. 0481285934

TUITION ENGLISH LANGUAGE ESL courses in handy Byron location.

BYRON BAY ENGLISH LANGUAGE SCHOOL. 66808253

STH GOLDEN BEACH stroll to beach.

Extra lge room in extra lge home to share with 2 others. $150pw. Ph 0407906301 MULLUM 10 min, beautiful room in quiet retreat house $180pw incl bills. 66844331

Bangalow

Cocktail Barman required

SUFFOLK STUDIO own kitchenette + separate bathroom, no pets, n/s working person $250pw. Phone 0422269605

Greenfrog Ln, Bangalow â&#x20AC;&#x201C; $400 pw Fully furnished 2 bed, plus sleep-out duplex. Avail mid Jan.

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Eva 66846760 www.languagetuitionbyron.com.au

Please call 0439 978 787

PIANO FOR KIDS Lessons young beginners. Ph 66872511

BYRON CENTRAL Shirley Lane 2 rooms, modern home, conscious fem pref, WiFi, LUG, BIRS, decks, garden, quiet, $240 & $280pw incl bills. 0401375900

Arthur Rd, Corndale â&#x20AC;&#x201C; $475 pw 3 bed plus loft, 1 bath, in-ground pool. No pets. Avail now.

TO LET

Ivory Curl Pl, Bangalow â&#x20AC;&#x201C; $510 pw 3 bed, 2 bath, dlug. No pets.

Avail Jan 4.

YALLAKOOL DRIVE, OCEAN SHORES â&#x20AC;&#x201C; $380pw Partly furnished, 3 B/R, 1 Bth, SLUG Available: 21st January 2013 RUSKIN STREET â&#x20AC;&#x201C; $480pw 2 B/R, 2 Bths, Secure Car park Available: 11th January 2013 1A OODGEROO GARDENS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; $490pw 3 B/R, 1 Bth, SLUG Available: 14th January 2013

Bangalow Industrial Estate â&#x20AC;&#x201C; $3693 + GST/Outgoings pm Large approx 200 sqm warehouse + 200 sqm covered. Avail mid Jan WE HAVE STRONG DEMAND FOR RENTAL PROPERTIES IN BANGALOW PHONE US TO DISCUSS YOUR PROPERTY

BRUNSWICK HEADS Commercial $1260pm BAYSIDE 3br house, water inc. $410pw 3br house $400pw OCEAN SHORES 3br house $360pw 3br house $380pw NORTH OCEAN SHORES 1br unit $250pw 4br house $420pw BILLINUDGEL Rural studio $270pw 3br house $390pw TYAGARAH 2br cottage $300pw OPEN HOUSE TIMES ARE AVAILABLE, PLEASE CALL L.J. Hooker Brunswick Heads

6685 0177 5/16 The Terrace, Brunswick Heads

O.SHORES 3br, 2 bthrm hse, $380pw lawns incl, long-term avail. 66805401

For more available rental properties go to:

eldersbangalow.com.au 19a Byron Street, Bangalow 02 6687 1500

Byron Bay 6680 8111

 Experienced, exceptional Child Care worker/mother.

For ongoing work with sixmonth-old â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a few days per week.

Ph Michael 0432 488 888 or email mg@sbb.co

Bangalow Real Estate and Byron Hinterland Properties wish all our lovely clients and friends a relaxing, enjoyable time over the festive season and wish to thank you for your continued support!

TAYLORS LANE, EWINGSDALE $370 PW 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Studio. Available now

Bangalow $500 pw Gorgeous timber cottage.

E D 3 br, 1 bath.

S A Can be utilised L E as home business.

Walk to town. Available mid Dec.

PACIFIC HIGHWAY, MCLEODS SHOOT $400 PW 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2x Yurts. Available now

Bangalow $645 pw Brand new executive style villa with 3 br, 2 bath, DLUG. Gas cooking, dishwasher, tiled floor throughout. Avail 10/01/13.

TAYLORS LANE, EWINGSDALE $550 PW 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom â&#x20AC;&#x201C; House. Available 30 Jan

Bangalow $700 pw Brand new executive style, split level townhouse. 3 br, 2 bath, DLUG, timber floors. Prime location. Avail 10/01/13.

CEMETERY ROAD, BYRON BAY $600 PW 4 bedroom, 1 bathroom â&#x20AC;&#x201C; House. Available 25 Jan BANGALOW ROAD, BYRON BAY $650 PW 4 bedroom, 2 bathroom â&#x20AC;&#x201C; House. Available 30 Jan KINGSLEY STREET, BYRON BAY $950 PW 4 bedroom, 2 bathrooms â&#x20AC;&#x201C; House. Available 18 Jan 2013 Ray White Rental Centre 3/47 Byron Street, Byron Bay s RWBYRONBAY COM

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NEW LISTING Clunes $380 pw Gorgeous 3 bed timber cottage, walking distance to Clunes. 1 bath, off st parking, fully fenced â&#x20AC;&#x201C; pets ok. Avail late Jan. NEW LISTING Byron Bay $450 pw Neat & tidy 3 bed villa with open plan living, walking distance to Belongil Beach & Shopping Village. Avail early Jan. NEW LISTING Ewingsdale $800 pw Architect designed 4 bed home with 2 bath, DLUG, large deck with landscape & views to Byron lighthouse. Avail late Jan.

6687 2479

WANTED TO RENT RESPONSIBLE MEDITATOR seeks separate & private 1-2br. 0466995485 WORKING GENT requires accomm Bangalow-Eureka area up to $300 weekly. 0410551828 FURN STUDIO/COTTAGE WANTED from 24 Dec for 2-3 mths. Exc tenant. Ph 0477432710 FRIENDLY 25YO mature minded female, seeking room/house that allows two good natured & happy dogs. Meetings welcome. Contact Hannah 0431278339

SWIMWEAR SIZE/ FIT MODEL REQUIRED (c- ,-c,0"&0 +cfc-,cFc shape must have correct size 10 measurements: Bust 87cm - Waist 67cm Hip 97cm - Height 162-175 All enquires to go to kristen @ lisablue.com.au All applicants approved to -- ' c c& ,.+ & '-cfc--"' c will receive a free bikini.

LEARN PHOTOSHOP & INDESIGN from a professional graphic artist.

Get the tools you need for a job in the publishing industry. Beginners classes $30/half hour min 3 classes.

Ph 0409974877

MUSICAL NOTES BYRON SOUND LOUNGE rehearsals, recording & PA hire. Ph 66808938 PIANO TUNER Restorer, repairer & retailer since 1981.

Ph Dr Fred Cole 0412216019 or www.specialtypianos.com.au

PIANO TUNING

Tuner for Planet Music, Studio 301 & SAE College. R. Barkley. 0422221116 www.reubenbarkleypianotuning.com.au Recording, Photography & Video packages in Byron Bay studio What you get: 3 hours (2 hours recording, 1 hour mixing). 1-3 songs HD recorded, with video and photo shoot. Mixed to wav, mp3 and mov ďŹ les.

Starts from only $300. Special $150 for enrolled students. For showreel visit www.doublebassment.com

TUITION

STABLE RELIABLE LOCAL TENANTS seek 3-4br plus liveable outbuilding. Ph 66841013

TO LEASE SHOPFRONT STUDIO Billinudgel.

Siwicki Real Estate 66851206 BANGALOW OFFICE Available now. $450pw inc GST & o/gs.

Modern 80sqm, 2 ofďŹ ces wâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; kitchenette.

Bangalow Real Estate. Ph 66872479

WANTED Land approx 4 to 10 ha within 20km of Byron pref close to PaciďŹ c Hwy & must have water, long term. 0439971119

STUDY NOW AND PAY LATER Diploma of Beauty Therapy Gold Coast Training Academyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ rst-class Diploma of Beauty Therapy is now VET Fee-Help approved.

For more information and application details contact: Phone: 07 5535 2827 Email: enquiries@gcta.com.au WWW.GCTA.EDU.AU

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BECHSTEIN Model V Grand Piano, Brazilian Rosewood case, professionally restored with new action, strings, tuning pins & re-crowned sound-board. Original ivory key tops. Beautiful warm rich tone, $35,000. Phone 0412216019 MARSHALL GUITAR AMP Valvestate Stereo Chorus 80w 2x12 speakers $500. Ph 66884490 DRUMMER avail for gigs, recordings etc.

Please ring Karl 66849460, 0400310087

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ANNIVERSARY CONGRATULATIONS COLIN & JAN TARBOX Celebrating 40 years of marriage on 16th Dec. With lots of love Kieran, Julian & Megan

BIRTHDAYS

Happy Birthday Nighean!

Love from all the Echo crew

Happy Birthday Nigel!

Love from all the Echo crew

Happy Birthday Tuppy!

TEMPEST, BRIAN 13-02-1935 ~ 14-12-2012

Much Loved husband of Maureen (dec). Loved father of Glenn, Sharon and Jason. Loved Father-in-law, Grandfather and Great-Grandfather.

Brian will be sadly missed by all family and friends.

Relatives and friends are invited to attend a funeral service to be held at St Martins Anglican Church, Stuart St, Mullumbimby on TUESDAY (18 December, 2012) commencing at 11.00 am.

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Hogan, Enid Beryl ‘Beryl’ 16- 07-1926 ~ 15-12-2012

Passed away peacefully at Mullumbimby Hospital with her sons at her side. Much loved wife of the late Jim Hogan. Loved mother of Darrell, Jim and their families.

Beryl will be sadly missed by all family and friends.

Relatives and friends are invited to attend Beryl’s funeral service to be held at the Melaleuca Station Memorial Gardens & Crematorium, Tweed Valley Way, Chinderah NSW on WEDNESDAY (December 19, 2012) commencing at 4.00 pm.

EMERGENCY NUMBERS AMBULANCE, FIRE, POLICE .............................................................. 000 AMBULANCE Mullumbimby & Byron Bay .................................131 233 BRUNSWICK VALLEY RESCUE Primary rescue........................6685 1999 BRUNSWICK MARINE RADIO TOWER ...................................6685 0148 MULLUMBIMBY HOSPITAL ......................................................6684 2266 BYRON BAY HOSPITAL ............................................................6685 6200 POLICE Brunswick Heads .......................................................6685 1277 Mullumbimby ..............................................................6684 2144 Byron Bay ...................................................................6685 9499 Bangalow ....................................................................6687 1404 STATE EMERGENCY SERVICE Storm & tempest damage, flooding.6684 3444 AIDS Confidential testing & information (ACON) ................................6622 1555 AL-ANON Help for family & friends of alcoholics ...................... 1300 ALANON ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 24 hours...............................1800 423 431 ANIMAL RESCUE (DOGS & CATS) .........................................6628 1358 LIFELINE .........................................................................................131 114 MENSLINE 7pm–11pm nightly (phone counselling & referral for men)..6622 2240 NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS Meets daily ....................................6680 7280 NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE ..................................................6684 1286 NORTHERN RIVERS GAMBLING SERVICE ...........................6687 2520 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 24 hour crisis line ...............................1800 656 463 GAMBLERS ANONYMOUS Meet 7.30pm Tuesdays at Byron Hospital Group Room, Shirly St, Byron Bay......................0466 885 820 NORTHERN RIVERS WILDLIFE CARERS...............................6628 1866 KOALA HOTLINE........................................................6622 1233 GEORGE THE SNAKE MAN.................................................0407 965 092 NSW Wildlife Information & Rescue Service (WIRES)..........6628 1898

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Mary Patricia Hudson Blessings, love and light to you Mum. A year has passed and we miss you every day. We love you forever. Our love is golden.

Forever and always, Rebecca, Aarna, Bethany and Alex xxxxx

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Belinda will be sadly missed by all family and friends.

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Milly started her family at a very early age, so, as a youngster herself, she is now free to enjoy a life without parental responsibilities.

Ginger and white, with short hair, Milly is one of those quiet cats that grow on you. Gentle and affectionate, she seeks no more than a quiet peaceful life with a family, preferably in time for the Christmas festivities (and those turkey left overs!).

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Much loved daughter of Rosemary and the late Thomas Prober.

Dearly loved mother of Dominic.

Loved sister and sister-in-law of Suzanne & Kevin and Julia & Nelson.

Loved niece of Wendy & John and auntie to Sam, Sophie, Ellie and Roxie.

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Relatives and friends are invited to attend Belinda’s funeral service to be held at the Melaleuca Station Memorial Gardens & Crematorium, 9394 Tweed Valley Way, Chinderah NSW on THURSDAY (December 20, 2012) commencing at 11.30am.

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Love from all the Echo crew

Prober, Belinda Jane

Governments and Corporations are desperate to keep us reliant on non renewable energy because our economy is based on consumerism, not sustainability.

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HARKNESS, Emily May (Em) nee Howie Aged 92. Late of Brunswick Heads.

Passed into God’s care 16/12/12.

Loved wife of the late Frank Robert (Bob) Harkness.

Loved mother and mother-in-law of Diane (dec’d), Frank & Annette, Bruce & Linda and Janelle.

Loved grandmother of Lydia & Pierce, April, Andrew, Blair, Francesca & Will, and greatgrandmother of Olivia.

Relatives and Friends are invited to celebrate Em’s life at a Memorial Service to be held at the Brunswick Heads Uniting Church, Fingal Street on Thursday 20th December 2012 at 11am NSW Time.

In lieu of flowers please make a donation in memory of Emily to the National Heart Foundation.

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HELENE JOY WOTTON 12.5.1949 - 17.12.2012 Aged 63 of Brunswick Heads. Left this world in peace and comfort. She will be greatly missed by all who knew her.

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say. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had eight or nine access officers; everyone comes with a different story every couple of months.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; These statements reflect the despair felt by many farmers in the Darling Downs and Western Downs regions that I have been visiting in the last week. I went to see for myself what living with the gas rush might be like.

An incessant line of trucks rumble along taxpayersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; roads at high speeds. Sometimes the machinery they carry is so wide it takes up two lanes.

Backroads are busy with shiny white utes and fancy four bes and tanker trucks; all this activity is unnerving. And then there are the pipelines, 42 inches of steel from China sitting in a deep trench in a swathe 40 metres across, all the way to Gladstone. Delays of months or years occur because the pipes are faulty and I saw and smelt the rotting carcass of a calf that had fallen into the trench.

CSG companies target the old, the needy and naive first of all because they can get a foot in the door. One old lady signed up even before negotiating compensation.

So please go to csgfreenorthernrivers.org, take the pledge and watch their new five-minute clip. Talk to your neighbours and watch

Well done, Echo, for being pretty much the only media that reported on the substance of the Lismore CSG December 5 meeting. Other media have focused on the alleged spitting by one or two individuals and has ignored the 898 or so other attendees (of which I was one) whose questions were not answered.

For example, whereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the answer to the woman who gave a firsthand account of the 1954 floods that devastated the region? What happens to holding/evaporation ponds when they are flooded? Minister Hazzard: where is this answered in your â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;processâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;? Please donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tell me that most of the chemicals are â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;in common useâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (eerily the same words that the CSG companies use) unless youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re prepared to have Ratsak in your tea or paint-stripper on your Wheaties. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want chemicals anywhere near our water supply. Full-stop.

Karin Kolbe

Suffolk Park

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parents faced trying to get the help this beautiful child needed.

For now, we will need to respect the mourning process but I hope in few weeks we can have a community meeting to look at strategies to shine light on this issue. Till then you can always email your concerns to the member for Richmond Justine Eliott: Justine.Elliot.MP@ aph.gov.au.

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What safety nets and guardrails do we have in place to stop our children from falling in this way?

Not enough, and what services we have are horrendously underfunded and when I heard that one service said that this young man had to wait till February, as everyone was busy over Christmas, I was overwhelmed with sorrow and anger. How could they turn their backs and how can we now?

The issues young people face are often forgotten as we as parents and adults are swept up in our own struggles of life and we forget that these are turbulent and awkward years filled with extreme physical and hormonal changes.

Most make it through yet some can get lost in drug-induced psychoses of no return.

Some can be like Peter Pan, unable to grow up and care for their own children and some take their own lives.

We need more acute care and assessment mental health services that work with wellfunctioning drug and alcohol rehabilitation and well-funded mental health clinics.

I hope, with your support, there will be an immediate and thorough inquiry into the death of this young man because he deserves his story to be told and we deserve to know the truth about the turmoil he and his

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Last week one of our mothers lost her son, and we lost a beautiful child of the shire.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m in deep heartache, sadness and anger that this gifted and misunderstood young man didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get the help he deserved and that his mother, who tried everything to help her son, is now bereft and has to carry this loss for the rest of her life.

How many more young people need to be lost forever, before health services for the young especially are improved in the area? The burden of responsibility belongs to us all to make enough noise and say one life is enough, and yet we have had so, so many beautiful souls perish in this area.

For a counterculture that prides and markets itself on alternative living and experimentation, we have along the way brought our kids into this way of life and we need to buffer and provide adequate care for them, as they have had no choice in it. Too many of them have fallen off the edges of the fringe we have created.

It is our responsibility to nurture them in an environment that is as safe as possible. Â To turn our backs on them, in a culture we created, is something we shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ever do.

Part of me is petrified, as a mother, that if my own son loses the way, as most teenagers are wont to do, then who

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Marg: Not very â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;ecoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is it, not very â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Permacultureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.

Bob: Remember a few months back those on-off-on roadworks between the Bimby Co-Op and the Golf Club?

They surfaced the whole thing and it fell to bits so they did it again. Twice the energy input (or permies would say half the yield) because of not doing it right in the first instance.

Marg: Third world up here.

Bob: Yep, we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see potholes the size of fish tanks and underutilised guys we pay to stand around when we were in Sumatra all those years back.

Marg, there are two issues at hand: One is money â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Council doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the money.

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Deborah Lilly

Mullumbimby

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Marg returns from a weekly foray down the hill to the Bimby Market, cardboard boxes full of the Shireâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tastiest produce. She kisses Bob on return but is clearly bothered.

Bob: What happened down there, Marg?

Marg: Another flat tyre, Bob. A car was coming the other way so couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t avoid it, and this one was half a metre deep.

Bob: Same one just after that bend?

Marg: Yep, same one they patched up a few weeks back.

Do you think the council road workers are nervous about their work drying up?

Bob: Could well be, Marg, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;design to failâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is the term in the manufacturing world. You make a product that will fail in six months and in six months the consumer has to come

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CSG Free Byron

Helpers needed to keep Byron CSG Free. Please come to the planning meeting Byron Bay this Wednesday, 19th December at 6pm. Ph Convener, Suzie Deyris on 0414 649 115 or email sdeyris@tpg.com.au more info on csgfreenorthernrivers.org

Brunswick Valley Scrabble Club

This very friendly club will meet at 1.00 to 4.00 pm on Thursday 27 December and Thursday 3 January, then revert back to our usual Tuesdays 1.00 to 4.00 pm thereafter. Venue: Bowling Club, Old Pacific Highway, Brunswick Heads, just to the right as you enter the club. Cost $3 (includes tea, coffee and biscuits). Contacts: Barbara Nakkan 02 6685 0409, Trish Reynolds 02 6685 0208

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enough state funds? But letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not rely completely on state government. Byron Shire needs a way to urgently capture funds from the mass of tourist humanity that enjoy the Shire. I suggest a Tourist Tax (call it investment) for all those cashed up coal and CSG mining Queenslanders (and others) who frequent the area.

How do we do that? Well I have never had a parking ticket in my life and I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;localsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; sticker. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need to create a city environment with meters. It could be a few ticket machines in Byron where tourists pay $10 to obtain a day pass to park anywhere locally. And the locals grab their sticker from Council and are of course exempt.

It could be that that a Locals Card induces a ten per cent discount on everything.

And then two is works. The current inefficiencies and urgently needed cultural shift required within Byron Shire works â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Marg: Bob, come and help me with these boxes!

Ben Nowland

Mullumbimby

Futile camphor policy

When Council did its annual accounts last year the auditor explained that from now on Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s listed assets would include the value of the land under and alongside its roads.

Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ask me what cute bookkeeping purpose this innovation serves, but my immediate reaction was to ask the auditor whether this asset would be balanced against a growing council liability: the cost of removing camphor laurels from those roadsides. He said no, but acknowledged the validity of my point. Millions of dollars will in fact be required to address the problem, and that figure grows exponentially as the trees grow.

Since my MO was revalidat-

Mayan moon

The Mayan long-count calendar ticks over on 21 December 2012, so Thursday 20 December may well be your last chance to join Marie and Philip in their monthly moon viewings. If you would like to see craters, mare and other lunar features through a telescope, or just have a chat about all things astronomical, the folk from Starrynight Planetarium are happy to oblige. They will be at Brunswick Heads near the music shell on The Terrace, this Thursday 20th December, from about 7 to 8.30pm. All welcome. Free. (Cancelled if raining, too cloudy or apocalyptic). Details: www.starrynight.com.au, 0413 779 223.

Christmas day lunch

An invitation to anyone who may be having Christmas lunch on their own to come and join with other folk at the Uniting Church hall in Fingal Street, Brunswick Heads, from

ed by the court last February Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been busily clearing dwelling sites and bushfire zones.

Even on the cheap, doing a lot of the work myself, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve forked out thousands. Had I engaged â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;arboristsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (as tree-lopping outfits call themselves) I would have paid at least four times as much; these guys are the new plumbers. I know of one person who was quoted over $4000 to remove one averagesize camphor in a fairly easy access position. The young guy who climbs and saws gets $30$40 per hour for risking his life and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the pen-pushers who pocket the real profits.

My recent experience in clearing proves what I already knew: camphors eventually choke out everything else â&#x20AC;&#x201C; because they hog the light by spreading their branches wide.

Underneath them nothing else grows, nothing, leaving a kind of green desert that is incapable of supporting wildlife and with nothing to hold the surface soil together.

The previous Greens-dominated council (and I include under this term non-card-carrying Crs Morrissey and Cameron) was an abject failure in regard to this major environmental problem.

All your council has done to limit the invasion of the camphor triffid is to develop a policy ie retreat into a parallel paper universe. Nothing at all has happened on the ground.

The policy itself (No 11/007 if you care to look it up) is an exercise in intellectual dysfunction, if not actual autism.

This policy is clearly the result of some poor bureaucrat having to sort through scores of contradictory public submissions and coming up with something that makes all of those people feel heard without offending any of them. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pitiful.

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12 noon on December 25. This will be an alcohol-free area.

Pudding and juices will be provided but the main meal will be for each person to bring food to share. Contact Robin 6685 1097 for more info.

NYE Kohinur Hall

Upper Main Arm Community Association is staging its new years eve hall fundraiser. Vivacious vibes, extraordinary entertainment, fabulous food. $25 entry, 8pm till late. BYO.

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Mullumbimby High School exstudents and staff are invited to say â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Hiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; at the meeting point at the Hotel Brunswick on Friday December 28 from 6pm. Look for Gillian (Archer) Lomath and Pam (Dundas) Morris at the Meeting Point banner.

Please note: this section is intended for the benefit of nonprofit community groups, not for invitations to free events to be followed up by paid workshops. www.echo.net.au

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Byron Shire COUNCIL NOTICES COUNCIL CONTACT DETAILS

Council administration centre 6626 7000 Opening hours: Front counter 9.00am to 4.00pm Switchboard: 8.30am to 4.30pm Email council@byron.nsw.gov.au Web www.byron.nsw.gov.au Emergency after hours 6622 7022 Works Depot 6685 9300 Resident parking stickers Fax: 6684 3018 Sportsfield information line 6626 7111 SES Controller 6684 3444 Rural Fire Service 6684 3662 Myocum Waste & Recycling Centre 6684 1870 Community Access Points: Documents on exhibition are available for review at the Council Administration Centre (Mullumbimby), Bangalow Post Office, Ocean Shores Community Gallery, Suffolk Beachfront Holiday Park and Libraries.

BYRON BAY LIBRARY EXHIBITION SPACE – BOOKINGS OPEN The Byron Bay Library Exhibition Space will be open from 1 February 2013. The space is ideal for local artists to showcase their artwork, or for community members to utilise for meetings and functions.

Hiring of Space: Fees and charges apply and bookings can be per hour, half day, full day or day/night hire.

Council encourages exhibitions which showcase local artists and reflect the community, cultural heritage and environment of Byron Shire. Consortiums of artists are welcome. All artwork must be covered by the artist’s own insurance.

All booking applications will be assessed for their suitability and, if the booking is requested as an exhibition space, must include photographs/portfolio of proposed exhibition works, and preferred exhibition dates.

Application forms and further information can be found on Council’s website at www.byron.nsw.gov.au/libraries.

Submissions Close: 4.00pm Tuesday 15 January 2013 Enquiries: Lisa Brennan 02 6626 7122

COUNCIL MEETINGS Council meetings are scheduled to be held at Station Street, Mullumbimby.

THURSDAY 20 DECEMBER 2012 10.30am – Ordinary Meeting The following listed reports are in addition to those listed in the advertising of 11 December 2012: s 2013-2017 Delivery Program – Key Activities s Proposed Projects for Suffolk Park Section 94 Funds s Investments – November 2012 s Arrangements with State Emergency Services 2.00pm – Byron Shire Reserve Trust Committee Meeting To see the items that will be discussed at the meeting, please refer to Council’s block advertising in last week’s Echo, Echonetdaily or go to Council’s website at www.byron.nsw.gov.au/meetings.

PROPOSED FEES AND CHARGES BYRON BAY LIBRARY EXHIBITION SPACE In accordance with the Local Government Act 1993 Section 610(f), Council at its Ordinary Meeting held on 30 August 2012, resolved to advertise the proposed fees and charges as listed below, to allow for public submissions.

Society and Culture 2012/13 2012/13 Byron Library Services Standard Community Exhibition Space (Byron Bay Library) Per hour New 30.00 20.00 Half day hire (4 hours) New 100.00 75.00 Day/night hire New 170.00 120.00 Kitchen use (per hour) New 40.00 40.00 Time required for set up and pack down by the hirer must be included in total hire time.

The Proposed Fees and Charges for Byron Bay Library Exhibition Space are on exhibition for a period of 28 days and are available at community access points around the Shire or on Council’s website at www.byron.nsw.gov.au/public-exhibition.

Submissions should be in writing and addressed to the General Manager, Byron Shire Council, PO Box 219 Mullumbimby 2482 or sent by email to submissions@byron.nsw.gov.au. Emailed submissions to this address only will be acknowledged.

Submissions Close: 4.00pm 31 December 2012 Enquiries: Lisa Brennan 6626 7122 Submissions will be made public in accordance with Schedule 1 Part 3 Clause 1(a)(vi) within Schedule 5 Part 2 of the GIPA 2009 Regulations as applicable including both the substance of the objection and the identity of the objector. For assistance with this please call Council’s Records Coordinator on 02 6626 7113.

HOLIDAY CLOSING Council advises that the Administration offices will be closed from 4.00pm Monday 23 December 2012 and will reopen at 9.00am Wednesday 2 January 2013.

For emergencies please contact 02 6626 7022.

Byron Shire Council extends Seasons Greetings to all the community.

MYOCUM LANDFILL OPERATING HOURS AND WASTE AND RECYCLING KERBSIDE COLLECTION SERVICE FOR THE CHRISTMAS/NEW YEAR PERIOD Please note the Myocum Landfill facilities will be closed to the public on: s Tuesday 25 December 2012 s Wednesday 26 December 2012 s Tuesday 1 January 2013 There will be no change to the waste and recycling kerbside collection service over the Christmas/New Year period and bins will be emptied as normal. If residents experience any issue regarding missed services or damaged bins, please contact Solo Resource Recovery on 02 6687 0455.

REQUEST FOR QUOTES Interim Cleaning Arrangements at Byron Bay Library Council is requesting quotes for cleaning services at the new Byron Bay Library, due to open in early February 2013, for the following services: s General cleaning s Window cleaning Quotes can be for one or both of the above services. A site inspection will be held on Thursday 10 January 2013.

Documentation and specifications can be obtained from Council’s website at www.byron.nsw.gov.au/requests-for-quotation.

Quotes should be in writing and addressed to the General Manager, Byron Shire Council, PO Box 219 Mullumbimby 2482.

Submissions Close: Monday 21 January 2013 Enquiries: Lisa Brennan 02 6626 7122 Please note: The canvassing of Councillors or Council staff in relation to this request for quote will automatically result in disqualification of offending quoters.

TEMPORARY ROAD CLOSURES Byron Street, Bangalow – 2012 Christmas Eve Carnival. 24 December 2012 Under the provisions of the Roads Act 1993, Council has approved (12-813) the temporary closure of Byron Street, Bangalow between Granuaille Road and Market Street for the holding of the annual Bangalow Christmas Eve Carnival.

The closure, with detour available via Deacon Street, will be in effect Monday 24 December 2012 between the hours of 5.30pm and 10.00pm.

Submissions will be made public in accordance with Schedule 1 Part 3 Clause 1(a)(vi) within Schedule 5 Part 2 of the GIPA 2009 Regulations as applicable including both the substance of the objection and the identity of the objector. For assistance with this please call Council’s Records Coordinator on 02 6626 7113.

Enquiries: 02 6626 7080

Byron Bay New Year’s Eve 31 December 2012 Under the provisions of the Roads Act 1993, Council will consider approval of the temporary closures of the following Byron Bay streets: s Jonson Street, between Lawson Street and Bay Street; and s both Bay Lane and Bay Street, between Fletcher Street and Jonson Street It is proposed the closures will be in effect from 6.00am on 31 December 2012 through to early New Year’s Day 2013 for the purpose of New Year’s Eve activities in Byron Bay. These closures will result in prohibiting general vehicular access to the Main Beach car park and Lawson Street North car park, plus limits access to Bay Lane to resident and service vehicles only via a controlled temporary entrance at Fletcher Street. Similarly, controlled access at Bay Street will provide access to authorised event participants only, for example stall holders.

Enquiries: 02 6626 7080

ADOPTION OF BYRON DEVELOPER CONTRIBUTIONS PLAN 2012 At the Ordinary Meeting held on 6 December 2012 Council resolved to adopt the Byron Developer Contributions Plan 2012 in accordance with Clause 31 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation 2000.

The Byron Developer Contributions Plan 2012 comes into affect on 1 January 2013. Development Applications lodged after this date will be assessed under the provisions of this plan. A copy of the Plan is available for viewing at Council’s Administrative Offices Mullumbimby and on Council’s website at www.byron.nsw.gov.au.

Enquiries: Christopher Soulsby 02 6626 7058

www.byron.nsw.gov.au ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING & ASSESSMENT (EP&A) ACT (SECTION 101 EP&A ACT 1979 AND CLAUSE 124 EP&A REGULATIONS 2000) Development applications determined and complying development certificates issued the following development consents, together with any conditions imposed, may be inspected free of charge at Council’s Information and Enquiry Counter, Station Street, Mullumbimby during normal office hours 9.00am to 4.00pm weekdays, excluding public holidays.

The validity of these consents cannot be questioned in any legal proceeding except those commenced in the Land & Environment Court by any person within 3 months of this notice.

APPLICATIONS APPROVED 10.2012.516.1 – OCEAN SHORES 4 Mundurra Avenue (Lot 746 DP 240399) 2.4 meter fence 10.2012.129.2 – BANGALOW 17 Ballina Road (Lot 2 DP 1086364) S96 to amend development contributions (dual occupancy) 10.2012.525.1 – OCEAN SHORES 5 Halyard Court (Lot 11 DP 1048931) Single storey dwelling 10.2012.510.1 – YELGUN 84 Yelgun Road (Lot 2 DP 581144) Swimming pool 10.2012.513.1 – SUFFOLK PARK 6 Tamarind Court (Lot 40 DP 805839) Tree removal – 3 trees 10.2012.496.1 – OCEAN SHORES 18 Tindara Avenue (Lot 201 DP 238456) Alterations and additions to construct a rear verandah and convert the garage into a bedroom and convert laundry into bathroom 10.2007.658.2 – MYOCUM 683 Myocum Road (Lot 2 DP 628447) S96 to make alterations to the roof over the deck and carport, include a covered walkway from the carport, delete the store room and relocate the laundry and make internal alterations to the dwelling (alteration/additions to single storey dwelling) 10.2012.538.1 – MYOCUM 341 Tyagarah Road (Lot 26 DP 791228) Tree removal – 1 tree 10.2012.524.1 – BRUNSWICK HEADS 10 Teven Street (Lot A DP 401275) Tree removal – 1 tree 10.2012.121.2 – BANGALOW 27 Byron Street (Lot 3 SP 72220) S96 to delete condition 10 relating to strata development contract (strata subdivision - 2 lots) 10.2011.559.1 – MYOCUM 428 Tyagarah Road (Lot 186 DP 755692) Staged development carried out in two stages comprising: Stage 1 – alterations and additions to existing dwelling including ancillary use of an existing shipping container; and, subject to a new development application Stage 2 – use of part of the building as light industry (commercial kitchen catering business) and the other part as studio ancillary to another dwelling-house on the site 10.2001.32.2 – BYRON BAY 8 Banksia Drive (Lot 2 DP 814604) S96 to alter the appearance of factory units and amend mezzanine areas (industrial development – 8 factory units) 10.2011.191.2 – BROKEN HEAD 6/137 Beach Road (Lot 6 SP 81554) S96 to delete condition no 14 relating to bushfire/fencing requirements (use of part of the tourist premises for up to 14 functions annually - limited to a maximum of 70 guests per function) 10.2008.707.3 – BYRON BAY 2 Milton Road (Lot 2 DP 1158309 and Lot 2 DP 736832) S96 to change the description of the development (additions/ alterations to existing entertainment complex (Buddha Bar) and the continued use and operations of the Buddha Bar) 10.2011.208.2 – BYRON BAY 10 Cooper Street (Lot 7 DP 16562) S96 to allow for partial demolition and retention of existing dwelling (demolition of existing dwelling house, subdivision to create 2 allotment and tree removal) APPLICATIONS WITHDRAWN 10.2012.550.1 – OCEAN SHORES 24 Wirruna Avenue (Lot 1234 DP 243480) Alterations/additions to existing dwelling COMPLYING DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATES ISSUED 16.2012.68.1 – OCEAN SHORES 24 Wirruna Avenue (Lot 1234 DP 243480) Patio roof

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Council is in receipt of the following Development Application(s). Byron Shire Council is the Consent Authority. Any person may view the application(s) and the documents accompanying the application(s) at Council’s Information and Enquiry Counter, Station Street, Mullumbimby from 9.00am to 4.00pm, Monday to Friday (public holidays excepted). Any submission needs to be received by 4.00pm on the last day of the exhibition period.

Any person may make a written submission to the General Manager in relation to any of the development applications. Where the submission is by way of an objection the submission must set out the grounds of the objection.

If you are making a submission you may be required to lodge, now or possibly in the future, a “Political Donations and Gifts Disclosure Statement”. It is your responsibility to ensure you meet your obligations to disclose reportable political donations and gifts. A failure to meet your obligations is an offence the penalty for which can include significant fines and/or imprisonment. A Guideline providing detailed information on the disclosure obligations is available at http://www.byron.nsw.gov.au/political-donations or from Council. Council strongly urges you to read the Guideline and satisfy yourself that you are complying with your disclosure obligations prior to lodging a submission.

All Political Donations and Gifts Disclosure Statements will be public documents and all information contained in them will be available to the public and government agencies.

Submissions will be made public in accordance with Schedule 1 Part 3 Clause 1(a)(vi) of the GIPA Regulations 2009 as applicable including both the substance of the objection and the identity of the objector. For assistance with this please call Council’s Records Coordinator on 02 6626 7113.

Council will not deal with the application until after the exhibition period has expired. All submissions will be taken into account in determining the application.

Please quote the development application and property description when making a submission.

EXHIBITION CLOSES 24 DECEMBER 2012 10.2012.545.1 – EWINGSDALE 156 Parkway Drive (Lot 1 DP 792532) Ms S M Nardi: Subdivision to create 3 lots 10.2012.549.1 – BYRON BAY 25 Gordon Street (Lot 4 Sec 40 DP 758207) Ms J M Leone and Mr P S Taylor: Dual occupancy and strata subdivision 10.2012.563.1 – MULLUMBIMBY 47 Tuckeroo Avenue (Lot 7 DP 1169053) Ms A J Mylrea: Detached dual occupancy (2 storeys) 10.2012.149.1 – MULLUMBIMBY (Revised Plans Received) 27 Station Street (Lots 3, 4, 5 DP 727348 and Lot 34 DP 2772) Chris Lonergan – Town Planner: Medium density development consisting of five units 5.1991.192.3 – BANGALOW 1A Granuaille Crescent (Lot 1 DP 615602) B Ferrier: S96 to amend consent for a replacement building in same location (tourist facility) 10.2012.561.1 – TALOFA Bangalow Road (Lot 1 DP 869547) Ms A Hicks: Change of use from expanded house to dual occupancy dwelling

10.2012.565.1 – OCEAN SHORES 5 Yackatoon Court (Lot 495 DP 238451) Chris Lonergan – Town Planner: Change of use of garage to secondary dwelling EXHIBITION CLOSES 7 JANUARY 2013 10.2012.555.1 – BANGALOW 9 Station Street (Lot 1 DP 123326) Gordon Highlands Pty Ltd: Demolition of existing dwelling and garage; erection of a 4 storey mixed residential and commercial building including 8 dwellings (residential flat building), 3 shops and basement car parking for 18 vehicles EXHIBITION CLOSES 14 JANUARY 2013 10.2012.566.1 – BYRON BAY 31 Kingsley Street (Lot 1 DP 781612) Myalla Cover Pty Ltd: New dwelling to create a detached dual occupancy 10.2012.583.1 – BYRON BAY 13-17 Centennial Circuit (Lot 16 DP 812667) Mr R & Mrs G Hultgren: Increase number of occupants for place of assembly/public entertainment 10.2012.584.1 – OCEAN SHORES 5 Bindaree Way (Lot 1259 DP 243480) Ron Ranke: Detached two storey dual occupancy and strata subdivision (staged)

New Year’s Eve 2012 Alcohol Prohibition for Byron Bay and Brunswick Heads

Byron Bay Byron Shire Council adopted the proposal (resolution 12-796) to prohibit alcohol within designated areas in Byron Bay and Brunswick Heads, as shown in the location maps above, for New Year’s Eve 2012/13. The alcohol prohibition is for a period of 18 hours between 12 noon on Monday 31 December 2012 to 6am Tuesday 1 January 2013.

The alcohol prohibition, established under sections 632, 642649 of the Local Government Act 1993, is to prohibit alcohol in defined public areas in Byron Bay and Brunswick Heads.

Brunswick Heads As required under section 632A of the Local Government Act, installation of temporary signs and consultation to apply the carrying of alcohol prohibition for the New Year’s Ever period, will be carried out.

For more information, call Byron Shire Council on 6626 7040 or go to Council’s website www.byron.nsw.gov.au Copies of the maps are also on display at Council’s community access points.

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2012: another brilliant year as a bum on a seat Story & photos John Campbell

‘Played strong, done good.’

If ever the late Jack Gibson’s ungrammatical praise could be applied to a member of the Great Unwashed on the punters’ side of the fence, then I reckon I’d be a lay-down misere for 2012’s Fan of the Year.

Thanks to satellite TV and the opiate of cyberspace, there’s no reason why any jock (or jockette, to give the girls their place in the Great Scam) should miss any sporting event that is happening at any time, anywhere on the globe – except maybe for the fact that most of those events are dead boring.

Rising up against the lounge room’s second-hand, replayed – and replayed again thrills, I made a pact with myself at the beginning of the year to get off my arse and go to as many events that held some interest for me as I could. To be among it, to feel the vibe, to hear the roar of the crowd and smell the liniment (and sure, to smell the crowd too). It didn’t come cheap, but what a stellar season I had.

In January I was at the Sydney Cricket Ground to witness its hundredth test match.

There are plenty more profitable ways that a man might spend five days of his life, but to have seen every run of MJ Clarke’s 329 not out was pure gold for this cricket tragic.

After the return to India of MS Dhoni’s sooky tourists, the footy season was soon upon us.

For the Mullumbimby Giants’ A-grade, a bruising, barren winter ensued at Les Donnelly Field while, across the highway, Byron’s Red Devils got to the regional comp’s semis only to collapse in an unseemly heap.

But the NRL brought joy approaching ecstasy.

I went berko at the Sydney Football Stadium when Greg ‘GI’ Inglis kicked the field-goal that gave the Bunnies a 17–16

win over the Tigers, and I was in the stands at Homebush when NSW beat the Canetoads 16–12 in Origin 2. Grand Final day was also a hoot, and it wasn’t just because the Dogs got done (though it was an essential factor). Being there to see former Mullum boys Jacob Miller and Matt Mulcahy star for the Tigers in the Toyota Cup decider warmed the cockles, especially after Matt’s old man, Kev, with ancient bones rattling and chrome dome glistening in the late winter sun,

had a month earlier figured in the Giants’ reserve grade triumph at Murwillumbah.

2012’s unexpected highlight, however, was at the Sumo in Japan.

I’d caught the train from Kyoto to Osaka and was worried that I might have trouble finding my way to the auditorium. Until I saw a manmountain dressed in a kimono with a Shintaro haircut towering above the station’s throng. I followed in his wake.

There was only a scattering

of fans when I arrived – the matches go all day and it’s not until the higher-ranked wrestlers appear that the bleachers get packed. The early hours are for the true believers, the ones who typically become most vocal (this is the case all around the wide world of sports).

‘Carn big fella! Bore it up him!’ (or words to that effect) from a rube nearby echoed around the half empty stadium as the lesser lights did their pushing and shoving.

An ancient and rigid, but

highly decorative formality prevails (the refs’ silk gowns are to die for) and I suppose the most obvious thing to say about the activity itself is that is that it is very Zen – nobody does their nana.

I was surprised, too, by how passionate the crowd got during the bouts featuring the Alist wrestlers. Although, after sitting through hours of contests that rarely lasted more than half a minute, even I was wound up and happy to go apeshit when the big boppers came to grips.

The healthiest looking bloke on the bill was an American.

Tall and taut, like a Rugby lineout jumper, and with a hairy chest – hirsuteness is not a Jap thing – he fronted up with a square-jawed mongrel attitude.

He scattered salt across the deck like an old pro, squatted and gave his opponent the inscrutable eye, then stood and walked away a couple of times, just to make sure that the other fellow was unsettled. It’s a game of cat and mouse. You could have cut the tension with a knife.

At last they lunged at each other.

The Yank was hurled over the rope within seconds, prompting an outburst of delirious joy from the locals. It was awesome, one of the great moments of a great sporting year.

Only a South Sydney premiership in 2013 will top it.

Do the right thing: swim between the flags The tide is high but we’re holding on…

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The term ‘king tide’ has no scientific definition though it is increasingly used to describe the very highest of high tides.

The low tides that accompany these high tides are also the very lowest of tides.

The extremes in tides are a seasonal and predictable event and we get them generally around Christmas time in the summer and in the middle of winter, though these are gen-

erally not as noticeable due to the time of day they occur and the human traffic on the beach.

The tide coming in on the Bruns on the weekend was so strong and fast it was clearly visible to the eye as it rushed below the footbridge. No matter what we call them, it’s important that we know about the tides and keep vigilant in our swimming habits and those of our children.

It’s just safe to swim between the flags, people. You know you want to.

Members and patrollers from the Brunswick Surf Life Saving Club got together with some of the club’s Nippers and the Bruns pres Craig Reid for a bit of fun before gearing up for a full Christmas and New Year season with their annual doorknock in Brunswick heads on Boxing Day. Photo Tree Faerie.

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If I thought getting down on my knees and personally begging everyone in the country to swim between the flags. would solve the problem of beach drowning this summer, I would do it in a snap.

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– why? Who knows. We have education and media programs telling us what to do, we have patrollers both paid and volunteers watching over us FREE, yet people still take silly risks and end up as a statistic on a slab.

In the Byron Shire we have two great surf clubs. These folk willingly provide personnel to keep you safe on the beach.

They have safety equipment, they’ve had training and they know that prevention is better than a rescue. All you have to do is swim between the flags and before you get up-in-arms, yes it IS cool to swim between the flags. It is cool and safe making the lifesaver’s job a lot easier so they don’t have to spend time leaving their watch to save idiots.

Now that I have that off my chest, say hello to the patrollers over summer. Tell them how appreciative you are of what they do, give them an extra wave if you are at the beach on December 25 instead being with their rels, and if someone from the Bruns club knocks on your door on Boxing Day, your spare change makes a real difference to how they save lives.

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Expect the unexpected: Darby and dad Mick had travelled from the Gold Coast especially to enjoy the renowned flat waters at Torakina Beach in Brunswick Heads, only to find that the surf was up. The pleasant surprise in the tradtionally sheltered spot meant that Mick had to be extra vigilant as Darby had a ball in the waves enhanced by the high tide. Photo Tree Faerie.

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A few minutes with the ‘Chief ’ and Gil Crespy

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Recently the Toohey’s New Crew descended on the Fingal Rovers SLSC to help them finish off the work needed to ensure that the building was up and running for the summer season. The Echonetdaily editor sent me up to see how the work was going and I decided that it would be a great opportunity to pick at the

brains of crew leader Paul ‘The Chief ’ Harragon – but, as we all know, I am a Victorian and unless we are talking Collingwood, I haven’t much of a clue about football. Tag in all-code expert and all-round nice guy Gil Crespy to help me frame a few questions for the Newcastle Knights legend.

Is banning the shoulder charge a good idea?

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First quarter December 20 16:19 Full moon December 28 21:22 Third quarter January 5 13:58 New moon January 12 05:44 Day of Sun Sun Moon Moon High tide, month rise set rise set height (m) 15 S 0642 1939 0728 2122 1026,2.03; 2308,1.45 1117,1.96 16 S 0642 1940 0835 2209 17 M 0643 1940 0940 2251 0001,1.43; 1208,1.85 18 T 0643 1941 1042 2330 0056,1.41; 1259,1.70 19 W 0644 1941 1141 0150,1.39; 1350,1.54 20 T 0644 1942 1237 0006 0245,1.39; 1445,1.39 21 F 0644 1943 1332 0041 0342,1.40; 1545,1.28 22 S 0645 1943 1426 0115 0437,1.44; 1648,1.21 23 S 0645 1944 1519 0151 0530,1.48; 1750,1.19 24 M 0646 1944 1612 0229 0619,1.54; 1846,1.20 25 T 0547 1944 1704 0309 0704,1.60; 1934,1.23 26 W 0547 1945 1754 0352 0745,1.65; 2016,1.26 27 T 0548 1945 1843 0438 0823,1.70; 2056,1.28 28 F 0548 1946 1929 0528 0900,1.73; 2132,1.30 29 S 0549 1946 2012 0620 0936,1.75; 2209,1.32 30 S 0550 1946 2053 0713 1013,1.75; 2246,1.33 31 M 0550 1946 2130 0807 1049,1.74, 2325,1.33 1127,1.70 1 T 0551 1947 2207 0902 2 W 0552 1947 2242 0958 0007,1.35; 1206,1.64 3 T 0552 1947 2317 1054 0052,1.37; 1249,1.56 4 F 0553 1947 2353 1151 0141,1.39; 1338,1.47 5 S 0554 1948 1251 0234,1.43; 1435,1.39 6 S 0555 1948 0032 1351 0333,1.48; 1544,1.32 7 M 0555 1948 0115 1455 0435,1.57; 1659,1.29 8 T 0556 1948 0203 1600 0538,1.67; 1812,1.31 9 W 0557 1948 0258 1705 0638,1.79; 1916,1.35 10 T 0558 1948 0358 1807 0735,1.90; 2015,1.41 11 F 0559 1948 0503 1905 0830,1.98; 2108,1.46 12 S 0559 1948 0611 1956 0922,2.02; 2200,1.49 13 S 0600 1948 0718 2042 1012,2.00; 2248,1.50 14 M 0601 1948 0823 2124 1100,1.92; 2337,1.50

DEC 2012-JAN 2013 Astronomical data and tides

Times Eastern Daylight Saving Time.

Time lags: Ballina Boat Dock: 15 min; Byron Bay: nil; Brunswick River Hwy Bridge: high 30 min, low 1 hr; Mullumbimby: 1 hr 10 min; Billinudgel: 3 hr 55 min; Chinderah: high 1 hr 30 min, low 2 hr; Terranora Inlet: high 2 hr 10 min, low 2 hr 25 min; Murwillumbah: high 2 hr 30 min, low 2 hr 50 min. Tides in bold indicate high tide of 1.7m or more and low tide of 0.3m or less.

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Low tide, height (m) 0354,0.32; 1707,0.09 0448,0.36; 1758,0.14 0544,0.41; 1848,0.22 0640,0.49; 1938,0.32 0738,0.57; 2027,0.40 0841,0.63; 2115,0.47 0949,0.67; 2203,0.52 1100,0.67; 2252,0.55 1206,0.63; 2341,0.56 1302,0.57 0027,0.55; 1347,0.51 0109,0.53; 1428,0.44 0149,0.52; 1504,0.39 0228,0.50; 1539,0.36 0306,0.49; 1614,0.34 0344,0.48; 1648,0.33 0423,0.49; 1723,0.33 0504,0.51; 1800,0.35 0548,0.54; 1839,0.37 0637,0.57; 1920,0.39 0731,0.60; 2005,0.42 0835,0.61; 2058,0.44 0948,0.60; 2156,0.45 1106,0.53; 2258,0.45 1218,0.43 0000,0.42; 1323,0.31 0059,0.37; 1419,0.20 0155,0.33; 1512,0.13 0249,0.30; 1600,0.09 0342,0.29; 1647,0.11 0434,0.32; 1732,0.16

has some merit in its intent but it’s fraught with danger. They could even end up reversing the decision if it is not implemented correctly, and what I mean by that is that shoulder charging is part of the game and you can’t stop something so instinctive on a button. If they try and put a suspension on it, they are going to have people left, right and centre out of the game. It’s too hard to stop. It has to be ushered in over three years with just on-field reminders at the start and as time goes on penalties can get more and more severe.

You cannot just stop shoulder charging.

Is Mark ‘Spud’ Carroll still your mate? *Laughs* Yes he is. He’s a mate, he’s in my phone contacts and we are actually quite close friends now. We usually try catch up once a year before

Christmas. It’s funny how the arch-rivals and enemies become friends. I mean we used to hate each other. Manly and Newcastle, we used to hate each other for all those years but in our old age we’ve become the best of friends.

Will NSW ever win State of Origin again?

This year, that hurt me. I have been suffering for the last seven years, but this one, I felt dejected because we were close. Now with a change of coach, we’ve got to start again a little bit. It won’t take long, Laurie (Daley) will do a good job. So I have no definite answer for that one except to say that, if you don’t reinvent yourself and get ahead of the game, you are forced to reinvent yourself by failure and we have failed abysmally. You can make the excuse that the Queensland team is probably the best of all

time, when you have four or five players who are some of the all-time greats. That’s just one of the things that goes in cycles, but, it’s time for us to really step up.

Will rugby league remain the premier football code in the Newcastle/Hunter region, despite the emergence of soccer and AFL? Absolutely! When rugby league first started in Australia in 1908, Newcastle was actually in the Sydney competition. They went down by train for two years but it was too far, so we started our own competition. Northern England is where the game started. All the northern English coal miners who came out to Australia came to the coal mines in Newcastle. Mate it’s in their blood, in their DNA, and it will never, ever, ever change.

To see the rest of this interview including Paul’s opinion on the integrity of the game, Andrew Johns, bush footy and what impact Wayne Bennett will have on the Knights and much more, look for the sport section of Echonetdaily’s Christmas edition on Friday.

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Parkinson’s a bridesmaid no more An Australia has taken the surfing crown at the Banzai Pipeline in Hawaii. The event, which was also the third and final leg of the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing series, saw Joel Parkinson claim his maiden ASP World Title on Friday at the final stop of the 2012 ASP World Championship Tour (WCT) season, by winning the Billabong Pipe Masters in

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Only Parkinson and reigning 11-time ASP World Champion Kelly Slater (USA), 40, were in contention for the world title heading into the final day. Parkinson needed to finish one position higher to claim the title that has eluded him for the past 12 years. With Slater’s loss to Josh Kerr (AUS) in the semifinal, Parkinson’s dream became reality. Parkinson went on to beat Kerr in the final.

‘Consistency paid off,’ Parkinson said. ‘This is where I wanted to stand at the end of the year. This is what I’ve worked for my whole life. I can’t describe what this feels like. I’ve had runner-ups and ups-and-downs. I’ve been to hell and back and it makes this so much sweeter.’

Parkinson says that right now the Pipe Master World Title is surreal. ‘I figured it was going to be a pressure-cooker like a few years ago. I knew there was nothing I could do about it. It was about what I had to do, not about what he had to do. I thought, surely he (Slater) has got to peak because he had that heat with Shane (Dorian) and I knew Kerr is a danger man for him. When Kerr got that one, I felt like I was going to physically throw

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up. I couldn’t control my emotions at that point.

‘One day you wake up feeling good; the next day you wake up feeling like a loser. This morning I felt like a champion when I woke up. Like Andy always said, ‘I got this, huh?’ I dedicate this to my family, Dad who used to take me to contests when I was 10, my wife and my mum and kids; this is all for us.’

Now that the 2012 ASP World Championship Tour

season has come to a close, and the world’s best surfers prepare for a well-deserved break before the start of the next season, the ASP has determined which surfers will contest the 2013 ASP World Title. Australians make up half of the very top guns – the 2013 ASP World Championship Tour will commence with the Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast at Snapper Rocks from March 2 to 13, 2013.

For more information, log onto www.aspworldtour.com. www.echo.net.au

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Laptops and WiFi – the smart new mini home office The rapid take-up of mobile computing using laptops, tablets and smart phones has made the space required for a home office virtually negligible with many people opting for just a bench placed in a quiet space with a pleasant outlook, according to Archicentre, the building design, inspection and advice service of The Australian Institute of Architects.

David Hallett from Archicentre said the introduction of wi-fi into the home has meant there is no longer the need to establish a home office around a desk-top computer, towers, printers and scanners or to ensure a collection of dedicated power points.

‘Technology has also reduced

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the need for storage space as most small businesses now store their information electronically,’ Mr Hallett said.

‘The introduction of the technology has opened up a creative window for people designing new homes or renovations where a home office is required.’

Archicentre sees the trend growing with changes in employment patterns, companies extending the opportunity for more people to work at home and people wanting to avoid the growing commuting difficulty on congested roads and public transport.

‘Today the home office can be built into a kitchen/meals area, a smartly designed storage area or even a stairwell in one of the most pleasant areas of the home with views into the garden or an internal courtyard,’ Mr Hallett said.

‘In many cases a built-in desk, with storage and drawers

underneath, can allow the home office to blend into major open space areas of the home to create a spacious area to work without sacrificing valuable floor space elsewhere in the home.

‘Making the use of small spaces for a successful mini office saves money as it utilises the space economically and frees up space for other family uses.

‘The success of creating a home office in a small space requires planning to ensure the home office provides a productive working environment and suits the type of work being carried out.

‘A home office is one of the most commonly requested features requested by people contacting Archicentre for renovation or new home design concepts.

‘The increasing trend of people moving into apartments in capital cities has also increased the need for mini home offices as young professionals often

do work from home.’

Mr Hallett said for people considering the development of a mini home office some of the key points which need to be considered in the design includes: t OBUVSBM MJHIU GPS CPUI IFBMUI BOE cutting energy costs t QMFOUZ PG OBUVSBM WFOUJMBUJPO t QMFBTBOU WJTVBM PVUMPPL t FOTVSF UIFSF JT BEFRVBUF SPPN for sitting t VTF PG DVQCPBSET CPUI CFMPX and above working area. t DPPSEJOBUF UIF DPMPVST BOE materials to provide pleasant atmosphere.

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28 Burns Street, Byron Bay Two legal homes on the same block waiting to be taken to the next level Centrally located yet quiet and peaceful - rent one home - live in the other Suitable for holiday or permanent let Approved Dual Occupancy Property backing onto reserve, walk to town , beaches and markets

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Byron Bay

Must Sell on the Day Unit 2, 21-23 Tasman Way, Byron Bay. Ground floor 95m², Mezzanine 36m², Total 131m² Insulated cool and tidy unit in a modern industrial complex Toilet, shower, small kitchen and laundry Full access roller doors and side entrance All offers will be considered.

Inspect today!

Auction 12pm Thursday 31 January, 2013 at our office Cnr Lawson and Fletcher Streets, Byron Bay Contact Geoff Carruth 0448 367 640, Dominick Reyntiens 0449 612 205

Byron Bay

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ON THE MARKET MOTIVATED VENDORS WANT A RESULT

Ignore all previous pricing!

5B Rutherford Street, Lennox Head. Large deck is perfect for entertaining or lazy breakfasts Architect designed home in sought after location.

Sliding doors provide an abundance of light and fresh air Modern Coastal home only 90m to 7 Mile Beach.

DLUG with internal access & located in the heart of the village 3 bedroom 2 storey home with ensuite Auction 6th February, 2013 and sep bath Contact: Lois Buckett 0428 877 399 Large open plan living, kitchen & dining with timber floors Stylish kitchen with stone benches & European appliances

Owner Relocating And Motivated To Sell!

61 Hutley Drive, Lennox Head. covered patio area perfect for outdoor entertaining plus DLUG Located in Lennox Meadows Estate, situated on an 806m2 block Ex-Etosha display home is in a fantastic location, minutes to the Fenced level yard is child & pet village friendly - plenty of space for BBQ’s Auction 6th February, 2013 This spacious home would be perfect Contact: Lois Buckett 0428 877 399 for a family & has a unique layout 4 bedrooms with BIR, the master is in a wing on its own, with ensuite 2 open plan living areas leading off spacious kitchen area

Lennox Head’s Best Kept Secret 12 Angus Kennedy Cl, Lennox Head.

Perched high on the hill, with 270 degree views north to Byron Bay Located in the private area of Angus Kennedy Close The prime NE aspect epitomises the Lennox Head lifestyle Expansive ocean views from both levels 3 spacious bedrooms & 4th bedroom could also suit an office space.

Formal lounge, open plan living and dining room and spacious kitchen Large verandas provide covered entertaining & stunning views Approved dual occupancy 1 bed unit on ground level Auction 6 February, 2013.

Contact Lois Buckett 0428 877 399.

Yoga Sanctuary For Sale In Bay of Islands, New Zealand 6 bedroom house Separate yoga centre, 12 years clientele 2.2ha with river boundary, Organic established veggie gardens and fruit orchards.

Price on application. mobile N.Z. 0274981018 www.kerikeriyogacentre.com

Quintessence Natural Health And Beauty for sale Owner selling for health reasons Located in Byron Bay CBD Three treatment rooms with small office and kitchenette.

Recently refurbished and airconditioned throughout Longterm established massage and beauty clientele

Newly updated website and signage Stockist of Dr.Hauschka, Weleda and Byron Bay Tea Company products For sale $75,000 + SAV or ONO. Contact Jenna on 02 6687 2774.

Quintessence Natural Health and Beauty.

89 Parmenters Road, Wilsons Creek Picturesque Parmenters.

Picturesque, sun-filled 37 acres, fertile paddocks rising to forest Charming, renovated, 1940s home, 4 bedroom, 2 living rooms, timber floors Spring water, easement to Wilsons Creek and an irrigation licence

8 minutes to Mullum, 20 minutes to beaches.

Price $799,000.

Contact David Mutkins 0421 906 460.

LJ Hooker Brunswick Heads 6685 0177.

All Genuine Offers Considered 7 Tongarra Drive, Ocean Shores Byron lighthouse, ocean & mountain views, was valued @ $485k 18 months ago.

Spectacular 752m² parcel of land, at the end of the best street in Ocean Shores.

Reserve in front of land, to the NE.

House plans and geotec & solar passive design available.

Price $225,000.

Phone owner 02 6688 6494 or 0428 649 657. diysell.com.au. Id: P20930.

Bangalow Village Edge Estate Stage 1 Located in Parrot Tree Crescent this Register your interest today. new land release is now available in Invest for the future.

Bangalow.

New land release from $270,000 Prices start from $270,000 for a single $340,000. block and up to $340,000 for a large Call Gail Fuller on 0418 441 675 duplex sized block.

Flat blocks, quiet location, established residential area.

11 lots in total to choose from.

Entry level Byron Bay Very spacious living areas Backing onto reserve 2 very large bedrooms with built-ins Pool in complex Walk to Belongil beach Walk to Shopping centre

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Agent Gail Fuller 0418 441 675.

This beautiful Burringbar property is for sale – offers over $799,000 g ge

An incredibly nourishing place to live in an amazing private location with very easy access!

U 3 bedroom house, large living area, air con, DLUG, carport and storage U NBN Satellite broadband and ADSL broadband and 2 phone lines

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Ring us on 02 6677 1198 – we are available 7 days a week (including all public holidays) between 7am and 6pm

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BALINESE HOME IN BYRON BAY

50 SHIRLEY LANE, BYRON BAY Close to Belongil Beach & town Large block with tropical landscaped gardens Madé Wijaya designed home Two pavilions 4 BED 2 BATH

PRICE $1,350,000

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Jeremy Bennett 0401 222 686

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PRICE $2,850,000

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LOT 1

LOT 2

R H Byron Bay 6685 6588

Lot 1 and 2 Prior Drive Coopers Shoot Rare offering of exclusive prestige land

Price Lot 1 $975,000 Lot 2 $895,000

Introducing two spectacular elevated 2.5 ha lots on Prior Drive. These beautiful lots enjoy expansive hinterland views and offer a rare opportunity to build your dream home.

Agent Janis Perkins 0438 841 122

Lot 1 is a beautifully elevated lot with a north easterly aspect and an approved Building envelope perfectly positioned to enjoy sweeping views to Cape Byron.

Lot 2 has its own dam and peaceful northerly view through the centre of the valley to the hinterland beyond and over the picturesque neighbouring dam.

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A 10 minute drive to the heart of Byron Bay’s restaurants, shopping and beaches All existing advanced trees are remaining and ensure privacy between the lots Both lots fully fenced with underground power and telephone Approved Building Envelopes

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DEVELOPER’S STOCK, DRASTICALLY REDUCED UNIT 1 00 was $750,0 00 Now $550,0 UNIT 10 00 was $775,0 00 ,0 Now $575 UNIT 15 00 was $895,0 00 Now $650,0

R H Byron Bay 6685 6588

Apartments 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 15 17 20-22 Fletcher Street Byron Bay

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These spacious apartments tastefully furnished with all the modern conveniences are ideal for the savvy investor looking to build on their property portfolio or for those who would like to invest and holiday in their own apartment.

Positioned in the heart of the Byron Bay CBD and only 250m to the beach, the apartments can be purchased with the option of being fully leased by the award winning Apartments Inn Group.

Set over three levels the complex includes a resort-style pool, lift access to all levels, and the added convenience of secure on-title undercover car spaces.

Price Agents

Thursday 10th January 11am – 2pm Saturday 12th January 11am – 2pm 2 bedroom apartments $550,000-$650,000 Sophie Christou 0419 399 222 Janis Perkins 0438 841 122

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4 Cooinda Place, Federal ‘Satinwood‘

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32 Jorgensens Lane, Brooklet ‘Avalon’

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This artist’s retreat 4 acre (approx) lifestyle property is exceptionally private home designed for quality living.

Light filled indoor/outdoor areas & extensive use of glass & timber. Contemporary 2-storey home with separate studio.

Soak up the ambience of stunning tropical saltwater pool & landscaped gardens. Long tree lined driveway leads to this well presented property, convenient to Coorabell, Byron Bay & Federal. Offering spring fed creek & dam, rainforest with distant ridge top views to the coast. Potential to further capitalise, DA approved plans available.

Arrange an inspection today.

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Perfectly placed in a quiet country lane, this 18 acre/7.2 ha property indulges in country comfort. The home, circa 1913, features exotic use of timbers, covered wrap around verandahs, north facing deck overlooking sub tropical grounds & 17m salt water pool. There’s a rustic log cabin studio + teenage retreat (ideal guest accommodation), 1250 macadamia trees, large machinery shed & orchard with Lemon Myrtle & Jack fruit trees, limes, mangoes, nectarine, peach, lemonade & mandarin trees. Abundance of water includes 3 x 22,000 litre tanks & current water license.

Country Comfort? You be the judge.

By appointment $975,000 Janis Perkins 0438 841 122 Janis.perkins @rh.com.au

By appointment $1,195,000 Janis Perkins 0438 841 122 Janis.perkins @rh.com.au

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R H Byron Bay 6685 6588

7 4 6 764 Myocum Road, Myocum ‘Myocum Springs’

View By appointment Price $2,300,000 Agent Janis Perkins 0438 841 122 Janis.perkins @rh.com.au

A unique estate set on approx 40 acres with approx 30 acres fully fenced & ideal for ca le.

The sprawling home features seven bedrooms, four bathrooms, media room, ducted air-conditioning, study, a 10m in-ground pool, waterfall, alarm system, 18mx9m machinery shed, 14mx7m 4-car garage plus a double garage with internal access. 32 solar panels service the property.

Abundance of water inc spring fed dam & natural springs. Plus fully self-cont 1 bdrm caretakers co age.

INSPECTIONS A MUST.

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13 Byron Street, Bangalow Utopia Café

R H Byron Bay 6685 6588

‘Reflections’ – Shop 6 Feros Arcade, Byron Bay Owner Is Retiring

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Janis Perkins 0438 841 122 Janis.perkins @rh.com.au

Opportunity of a life time to secure this well established licensed café; arguably one of Byron Shire’s finest cafes with an exceptional reputation a racting local clientele and tourists alike.

Prime main street location, high quality fit out and equipment, a Long lease, and excellent staff.

Seating for 60 pax.

Make the Sea Change today and take advantage of the holiday trading season.

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Now $110,000 Serious offers considered

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Janis Perkins 0438 841 122 Janis.perkins @rh.com.au

Reflections of Byron is positioned right in the heart of Byron Bay. This well established home and giftware store is ready for new owners.

A successful retail outlet located in busy Feros Arcade the business provided a good lease and has been owner operated for the past 16 years.

The business is sold with all fixtures and fi ings including evaporative air conditioning and offers a large floor space of approx 123 square metres. Why not make the sea change today and become your own boss!

Training will be provided if required.

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84 Jonson Street, Byron Bay Noodle Box

R H Byron Bay 6685 6588

3/97 Jonson Street, Byron Bay Burger Master

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Sophie Christou 0419 399 222 sophie.christou @rh.com.au

A lucrative franchise business in thriving Byron Bay. This successful business is operational with 1-2 staff.

A lucrative franchise business in thriving Byron Bay, situated in a prime position within the CBD, just metres from the main bus stop and tourist pickup point.

A long lease is available and the opportunity to earn an income is there. Get in before the Summer rush!

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Sophie Christou 0419 399 222 sophie.christou @rh.com.au

This popular business is located in the centre of the Byron Bay township and has a good local following.

The same owner has operated the business for the last 10 years.

All systems are in place for the smooth and efficient running of the business.

A good secure lease is in place. Make the investment today!

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BAMBOO TOPS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Auction March 2013 unless sold prior

440 OLD BANGALOW RD, BYRON BAY Stunning, contemporary new residence 360 degree panoramic views forever 4 king bedrooms, each with ensuite Separate 2 bedroom guest accommodation Home theatre, wine cellar, integrated storage 10 hectares with dam and palm nursery Can be purchased fully furnished Designed for perfect lifestyle living

AUCTION MARCH 2013 unless sold prior

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Lot 4 Bundaleer Road, Broken Head

39.87 HECTARES OF PARADISE A unique parcel of land with uninterrupted views looking out to Broken Head and beyond.

Offering an unprecedented lifestyle opportunity in one of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most sought-after destinations.

Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss this once in a lifetime opportunity.

To inspect this immensely beautiful property today please call our office on 02 6685 6552. **Agent Declares Interest.

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Price: $1,425,000 Web#: 523848 Contact: Owen Lynn

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26 Blue Seas Parade, LENNOX HEAD

Spectacular Ocean Views Breathtaking PaciďŹ c Ocean panoramas take centre stage from this superbly appointed low maintenance executive entertainer.

Cleverly transformed in a prized location, it boasts spectacular entertaining areas both inside and out.

The views pan from Lennox Point to the Byron Bay Lighthouse, west over our beautiful Hinterland and south to Boulder Beach.

The 4 bedrooms, 3 living areas, 3 car garage and 2 outdoor covered decks that look over the pool will accommodate the biggest family or lodge your visitors in style. The home is packed with many extra features with what you would expect from such an exclusive residence.

Perched on top of the world â&#x20AC;&#x201C; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just you and the ocean.

Features include 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3 car garage, land size 607sqm.

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PRIVACY, $ 509,000 CASH BUSINESS LOCATION & BEAUTY FOR SALE With the most beautiful gardens, this home is elevated on a private allotment in a quiet cul-de-sac.

Northerly aspected it ticks all the boxes, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, separate living and family areas and a double garage.

Solar power to keep those bills down and an added bonus, a caravan for extended family or guests. A must to inspect.

735.5m2. Ref: 3560

$ 239,000 BIG FAMILY $ 579,000 GORGEOUS $ 595,000 SUNNY & WIWO HOME PLUS POOL TROPICAL HIDE-AWAY SECLUDED

Everybody is aware of the huge growth in the home entertainment industry.

The cost of going to the theatre, the introduction of BLU-RAY and HDTV have all contributed. Here’s your chance to capitalise on this growing trend. Civic Video Ocean Shores is fun family business long established and with excellent trading figures. Long lease, great staff, top location. All plant and equipment in great order and very well stocked. Full details on application and upon signing of a confidentiality agreement.

‘Agents Interest Declared’ Ref: 3573

Here’s everything you could want.

Quiet handy location, elevated block with views to Mt Chincogan, big 5 bedroom home, big covered deck, inground pool, easy care gardens, single lock up garage plus extra car spaces.

Exceedingly good value.

1029m2 Ref: 3597

Just 17 minutes from Mullum you’ll be very impressed with this amazing property. Beautiful tropical gardens, fruit trees and a little pool.

A handcrafted timber home with great ambience including 3 bedrooms, lofted master with ensuite (dual shower!) as well as a big deck, substantial double carport and 6m x 8m shed.

Great value too.

Ref: 3596

$ 690,000 SUPERB QUALITY UNIT

'Coolamon Creek' is one of the most beautiful and private small holdings you could imagine.

Lifestyle timber home with 3 bedrooms plus office, large open plan layout, covered verandah, lots of sheds (main 8mx6m with 3 phase power) and in ground pool. This property has so much potential and will appeal to those who love seclusion in the bush and a real north coast lifestyle.

2.168ha. Ref: 3628.

$ 283,000

Located overlooking the Brunswick River this top quality unit is designed for the active retiree.

Two bedrooms, big living area, quality kitchen, enclosed verandah and huge remote control garage.

The complex is for over 50’s and only owner occupiers. Best of all the price is right for this AWARD WINNING design.

‘Agents interest Declared’ Ref:3614

ELEVATED, $ 539,000 VIEWS, PRIVACY $ 1,590,000 ALL YOU COULD $ 499,000 RIGHT IN TOWN $ 619,000 LIVE IN ONE, $ 639,000 LOCATION AND $ 570,000 PRIVATE & READY COMFORT IN MULLUMBIMBY & LIFESTYLE = CLOUDLANDS ASK FOR RENOVATE THE OTHER With plenty of character this timber home is ideally located in one of TO BUILD ON Sitting on an elevated treed knoll is Amazing contemporary elevated One the edge of Mullum, and on the Located on a riverside reserve this This pretty lush block is ready to build your dream home on. With power, phone and septic, most of the hard work is done. A well provides plenty of water. On site is a cosy timber cottage, a place to live whilst building. There is also a caravan providing guest accommodation. This property was once a bromeliad nursery so there is a great variety of beautiful plants.

10acres. Ref: 3630

Mullum’s best streets only a short stroll to the C.B.D. Timber floors, high ceilings, open plan kitchen and dining and separate spacious lounge. 3 good size bedrooms and one bathroom.

Front and rear covered verandah’s with a single garage off the rear lane.

It’s compact with easy care gardens and lots of appeal. This property also features solar hot water and power as well as being zoned Business 3(a) creating added potential.

490.4m2. Ref: 3618

residence featuring solar passive design and eco friendly attributes.

And, the views range from tropical valley to the Pacific Ocean. 4 bedrooms all with views, 2 bathrooms plus a private double outdoor shower, open plan living with a custom built Italian designed kitchen and an inground salt water pool. The land offers fruit trees, big shed, spring fed dam and fenced paddocks.

9.94ha (24.5acres). Ref: 3632

bus route to Shearwater Steiner school is a N-facing couple of acres. The beautifully presented timber home with covered verandahs, split level living, dining and kitchen has high ceilings.

3 bedrooms plus bathroom. The useable land offers a seasonal creek, selection of fruit trees, huge shed and s/c studio. Solar hot water x2 plus 1 kilowatt of power. This is one of a kind!

Ref: 3634

comfortable masterbuilt brick home has got the lot. Spacious lounge dining, kitchen and family room combined.

4 bedrooms, all with built ins, the main with walk in robe and ensuite.

Three way main bathroom, ducted air conditioning, insulation and solar hot water. A rear covered entertaining area with a fully fenced yard opening onto the river reserve. The property is private, has a double lock up garage and low maintenance gardens. A must to inspect. Ref: 3617

an old timber farm house circa 1920s just waiting to be renovated. Privately situated on the same block with its own entrance is a 1978 spacious brick home with 3 generous bedrooms, two bathrooms, open plan living area, kitchen, dining and family room, tiled throughout. An inground pool, 2/3 car garage and large fernery/shed space.

This property presents value for money – take a look. Ref: 3479

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Enjoy the very best of Byron. So close to beaches and shops but so quiet and private. A superb single level home on a rare and valuable acreage which is elevated and easily managed. There are magnificent ocean views in three directions, all the way to Lennox Head. Location does not get any better than this - just minutes to the centre of Byron Bay with its eclectic shopping and restaurants, even closer to the Golf Course. The home is generous in all its proportions with very large rooms, high ceilings with the spacious main bedroom and study at one end and guest rooms at the other.

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SEASONS GREETINGS TO ALL OUR ADVERTISERS THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT IN 2012!

HEREâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S TO A PROSPEROUS 2013!

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Auction onsite Saturday January 19 186 St Helena Road, Mcleods Shoot Auction onsite Saturday February 2 205 Old Byron Bay Rd, Newrybar

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Auction 11am onsite Saturday February 2 45 Blackbean Road, Wilsons Creek.

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UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; BYRON BAY GOLF COURSE LAND

EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST 2.35ha (approx. 5.8 acres) Direct golf course access

A unique opportunity to live on the golf course

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4 minutes to beach and town

To be sold as ONE LOT

Expressions of Interest closing January 18, 2013

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Backlash At great expense to the management, the chains on our drudges’ ankle shackles have been lengthened to allow them to see their friends and families for a week. Thus, this is the last issue until January 1, when the NYE-hangover special edition will be published. The Echo offices will be shut from Friday 21 to Boxing Day, then open every day including Monday December 31.

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When one looks back over the year or the last decade or two, one sees many of the old issues recycling. The only difference this year is that Fast Buck$’s letter on holiday letting came a week earlier, but the abuse of residential zones by carpetbaggers has yet to be resolved.

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The local health service memo which told staff not to call each other or clients by familiar terms such as ‘mate’ or ‘darl’ caused a momentary kerfuffle. As others have pointed out, it’s all in the tone and the occasion as to whether or not it’s offensive. At the Echo offices we avoid this contretemps by resolutely using the works of Miss Jane Austen as our guide, and address each other by the proper honorific.

Over morning coffee one would frequently hear such phrases as ‘A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.’ To which the only suitable reply, as set out in office memo #37B, is ‘Indubitably’.

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Health service chief Chris Crawford managed to send out his Christmas card electronically this year but failed to grasp the concept of blind carbon copy (bcc), thus exposing the recipients’ email addresses to scrutiny. Don’t worry, Chris, al-Qaeda operatives have the same problem.

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Electric-scooter riders and others beware: an elderly gentleman riding his mobility scooter was greeted by some-

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body from behind on a Mullum street. He noticed nothing further but the low-life in question proceeded to nick $60 worth of purchases from the basket at the back of the scooter. So watch out, and also don’t leave valuables in your car at the beach.

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While on the subject of lowlifes, Coca-Cola is attacking the NT government over its plans to introduce container deposit legisation – read more at www. boomerangalliance.org.au/inthe-media.html. Be aware also that the makers of the most useless product on the planet peddle Mt Franklin water. Buy something else instead or, better still, filter your tap water.

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Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon placed a full-page ad in the December 10 edition of The New York Times, calling on Governor Andrew Cuomo to ‘Imagine There’s No Fracking… and give clean energy a chance.’

The ad illustrates and describes how cement in wells at such great depths leaks, poisoning drinking water with gases and toxic chemicals. See more at http://artistsagainstfracking. com/have-you-seen-our-ad.

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Set your bacon free! Australia’s inaugural Meat Free Week, March 18–24, 2013, was unveiled at the 2012 Voiceless Awards in Sydney and launches with a new website – www. meatfreeweek.com. The national week is dedicated to raising awareness of the amount of meat Australians eat and, more importantly, the factory farming practices behind producing it. People can get involved by signing up for the challenge of giving up meat for a week and also raise funds to help end factory farming. If you’re already a vegetarian, perhaps you can give up carrots or something.

If you’re a breatharian, the course of action is obvious. Vegans may continue with falling asleep mid-conversation.

Grail Quest Introduction to Grail Quest (an 8-week course) which is the opening term of the one-year parttime foundation course.

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...a journey into the Spiritual Science of Rudolf Steiner...

GRAIL QUEST offers a modern form of adult education based on the work of Rudolf Steiner. Through a deepened understanding of the inner workings of the world and ourselves, inner development and soul transformation are brought about. This in turn leads to an enhanced capacity to transform the outer world.

The course consists of lectures, discussions and workshops which are expanded through artistic experiences in music, painting, sculpture, story telling, speech, drama and craft. No previous artistic experience is necessary. The emphasis of the course is away from competition and is focused on individual growth. The course aims to teach through the heart, hand and mind and to bring our efforts to fruition through love of the deed. GRAIL QUEST is also a prerequisite for Steiner Teacher Training programs.

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Some of the themes explored in the course are: The Quest for Meaning.

The Elements. The Temperaments.

The Origins of the Earth & Humanity.

The Evolution of Consciousness.

Christology. Biodynamics. The Search for the Holy Grail. Life Phases: an Exploration of Biography.

8 week Introductory Course: $600 Tuesday 4.30 – 7.30pm and Thursday 4.30 – 7.30pm Plus 2 Saturdays 9.30 – 3:30pm Commencing 5th February Venue: Cape Byron Steiner School, McGettigans Lane, Ewingsdale Enquiries: Gerry Josephson 0406 788 050

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