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THE BYRON SHIRE Volume 31 #13 Wednesday, September 7, 2016
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Farewell to the ‘Wizard of Oz’ Richard Neville, one of the founding editors of the iconic counterculture magazine, Oz, died last Sunday in Suffolk Park, aged 74, after a struggle with dementia. His wife Julie Clarke Neville and daughters Lucy and Angelica were by his side. With Oz co-founders Richard Walsh and Martin Sharp, Neville fought unearned privilege, all forms of prejudice and sexual bigotry with humour and courage. In NSW and in the UK he and his co-editors were several times charged with obscenity and corrupting the young. In England, Richard spent time in prison before the politically motivated charges were successfully appealed. John Lennon contributed a song to the battle to protect the Oz editors and Geoffrey Robertson defended them in court. After the London Oz closed, Neville and Walsh founded another newspaper in Australia, The Living Daylights, and Richard went on to become an author, broadcaster and continued on page 8
An appetite for gustations
An estimated 17,000 visitors attended this year’s Sample Food Festival at Bangalow Showground, which is a celebration of local chefs, producers and artisans. Co-organiser Remy Tancred said she couldn’t be happier with the day, now in its sixth year. Pictured right and dressed in national garb is Ilias (the Greek) with helpers Melissa and Matthew. They shared their delicious ‘opa!’ with the Sample Food Festival crowds. Photo Tree Faerie
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Bangalow Chamber exodus The president of the Bangalow chamber of commerce, Carolyn Adams, told members via email last Thursday of her resignation, along with vice-president Jeff Lovett, treasurer Greg Clark and committee member John Gray. She said the decision comes with ‘deep disappointment.’ ‘Many of you will know that I have had a very difficult month as president. There has been a ridiculous amount of emails and phone calls in respect of the annual general meeting and the special general meeting. ‘I have been threatened with motions of “no confidence”, accused of acting unconstitutionally. I have been bullied and my decisions as your president are constantly questioned.’ Ms Adams thanked Jeff, Greg and John and, ‘members who have gone out of their way to be supportive.’
Compliance shuts Bruns Picture House Mandy Nolan
Richard Neville with some early copies of Oz. Photo University of Wollongong
A change.org petition has kicked off in response to the recent closure of the Brunswick Picture House, which was served with an ‘Order to Cease Operations’ by Council staff last week. The Echo understands it is owing to complaints from a neighbour and unapproved activities. Owners Brett Haylock and Chris Chen are devastated that this historic Brunswick Heads landmark,
originally designed and operated for public use back in the 1950s may have to close. They opened at Easter with what they thought was full approval from Council under existing rights for a place of entertainment. This should have meant they did not require a DA, yet Council staff insist the owners were advised in October 2015 that there were no continuing approvals (for use as a theatre/cafe etc), ‘as the previous approvals had been abandoned for more than twelve months when
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the building was occupied as a secondhand store in about 1986.’ Council’s legal services co-ordinaor Ralph James told The Echo an outstanding issue is that ‘currently [the theatre] has a fully operable cafe which has never been approved and the cafe is open outside of the hours when movies are being shown’. He said, ‘Our aim has always been to encourage the lodgement of a DA. It was not to close the Brunswick Picture House down.’ Yet the Brunswick Picture House
purchase was a huge win for Brunwick Heads residents – they have passionately embraced this iconic new venue as a vibrant creative hub. Haylock told The Echo, ‘The community had resigned themselves to the fact that this was going to be turned into apartments or some commercial development. But I was the schmuck who came along with a romantic dream to restore the building to what it once was.’ Chen and Haylock are not big continued on page 2
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