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Last week’s Echo stated that Santos Organics is offering a 60 per cent locals’ discount for Renew Fest tickets bought from any Santos Organics outlet. The correct discount for all Byron Shire locals is 40 per cent. Normal ticket prices are: $135 for full fest price, $120 for the weekend, $30 for Friday and $65 for Saturday and $65 for Sunday. The discounted local prices for full fest price is $80, $70 for the weekend, Friday evening will be $15, Saturday is $40 and Sunday is $40. Photo ID with current address is required at time of purchase at your closest Santos Organics store. Q Q Q Q
A new website has been launched – www.protectbyron.com.au – which aims to inform residents on the soonto-be-decided West Byron development. The website’s content designer is local ad man Alan Morden. Alan conceived the hugely successful tourism advertising campaign 100% Pure New Zealand while art director with Saatchi & Saatchi. After arriving back from an overseas trip, he discovered ‘The horror that is West Byron’, and immediately put his energy to the cause. ‘The problem is that most people think West Byron is a done deal,’ he says. ‘So we need to explain that it’s not and that their submissions can, and will, make a difference. The website will give residents and visitors the facts they need.’ Q Q Q Q
Congrats to Will Hodgman and powerful gambling lobbyists who will now work in perfect unison to form a Liberal-gambling government after the weekend election in Tasmania. Crikey’s William Bowe says the clearest loser in
The last train from Pottsville arrived at Mullum Station on Monday. It was lifted from the tracks – which is a simpler operation than it sounds – and shunted into the smallest gallery in the arts end of the Shire. Potts the engineer, waiting at the station, oversaw the transfer to the Byron Shire Council foyer’s Cube Gallery. Photo Jeff ‘Art Installation Since 1986’ Dawson
the state was the Greens, ‘who have now progressed from 21.6 per cent of the vote in 2010 to 13.8 per cent in 2014 to barely 10 per cent in 2018, and from five seats to three to potentially as few as one.’ Ouch. Q Q Q Q
Now that the Fair Work Commission have approved the merger of Australia’s largest unions, the CFMEU, TCFUA and the MUA, will they be able to turn around rising inequality? Perhaps big business and their Liberal and National Party muppets have the answer, which is essentially to trust them instead to make the economic pie big enough so there are a few more crumbs for the 99 per cent. The big business fear campaign kicked off immediatley, calling it an ‘entity with the capacity to shut down multiple supply chains and effectively hold the economy to ransom.’ It appears it’s either big business or unions who hold us to ransom. Q Q Q Q
Congrats to women’s world champ and local legend Pauline Menczer, who has be-
come the 40th inductee into the Australian Surfing Hall of Fame!
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48 March 7, 2018 The Byron Shire Echo
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