Byron Shire Echo – Issue 31.42 – 29/03/2017

THE BYRON SHIRE Volume 31 #42

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Wednesday, March 29, 2017

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At last – a day of harmony Expected growth State govt flags 3,150 new dwellings by 2036 Hans Lovejoy wrote this

Pictured are Harmony Day performers, speakers and organisers. Photo Jeff Dawson

As part of Byron Harmony Day on Saturday April 1, a world-premiere dance performance, Bedoyo Pager Bumi, will take place from 7pm at the Byron High School.

Internationally renowned Indonesian filmmaker Garin Nugroho has directed the performance

that is a gift from the Provincial Government of Jogjakarta.

Additionally the Australian and Indonesian Arts Alliance (AIAA) will be bringing together a range of speakers and cross-cultural experiences celebrating both the similarities and differences of our cultures.

Indonesian consul General Bpk Yayan Mulyana will present the keynote speech at the good neighbours forum that will also be the launch of the new AIAA hub.

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Lennox reaches for new heights if ski jump gets up Aslan Shand

An aerial training ski jump between 35m and 37m tall (11 to 14 storeys), is being proposed for Lennox Head and has the potential to split the community.

The proposal is being funded by the state and federal governments and the winter Olympic funding body and will feature seven ski ramps and a

four-metre-deep pool to land in.

Ballina mayor David Wright told The Echo a development application (DA) will be submitted to Council in April for Council to comment on.

However, the proposal will be decided by the Joint Regional Planning Panel (JRPP) and many are concerned that the council will merely be rubber stamping the approval after the general manager confirmed

that the council is not able to impose any conditions on the DA. The ski jump will be located within the existing Lake Ainsworth Sport and Recreation Centre on the site of a current basketball court.

‘Most people don’t think it will look good,’ said mayor Wright.

‘There will be economic benefits and tourism and it will help busicontinued on page 7

A long-awaited state government plan that will shape the future development from Tweed Heads to Port Macquarie was released last Thursday, signalling a modest rise in housing stock for Byron Shire to 3,150 new dwellings by 2036.

NSW planning minister Anthony Roberts (Liberal) announced the North Coast Regional Plan 2036, and enthused in the introduction, ‘More than 12 million people visit the region each year, making it also one of the great tourist attractions of the nation.’

The 96-page glossy document and its implementation plan will be incorporated into Council’s planning ‘instruments,’ and play a significant role in how the future of the region is developed.

Like the previous draft plan, roads and airports feature heavily while railways do not. The report claims an estimated 83 per cent freight increase will barrel down the highways between 2013 and 2031.

And like the draft plan, Byron Shire does not feature prominently in the final report, despite it saying ‘Byron Shire is one of Australia’s most visited local government areas.’

A suggestion in the draft to open up the region to fracking was widely condemned; however, the final report makes it clear that there will be no CSG industry developed for the north coast.

Lovely words Greens mayor Simon Richardson told The Echo, ‘Like expected, it’s all about the highway [and] all

about lovely words. Only West Byron was mentioned [in relation to Byron Shire].’

But the mayor appeared encouraged by the plan’s aim to ‘diversify the energy sector by identifying renewable-energy resource precincts and infrastructure corridors with access to the electricity network.’

The consultation report that accompanies the report says public feedback requested a commitment to renewable energies, climate change, affordable housing and public transport. Such issues were either missing or not a feature of the draft.

As for renewable energy, another aim is to ‘Enable appropriate smaller-scale renewable-energy projects using bio-waste, solar, wind, smallscale hydro, geothermal or other innovative storage technologies.’ The promotion of ‘appropriate smaller and community-scale renewable energy projects’ is another aim.

The mayor said, ‘If they are prepared to walk their talk this can only help us, as we are primed and ready to roll such projects out.’

Housing predictions Byron Shire’s housing stock is currently 16,100, the report claims, which will become 19,250 by 2036.

By comparison, Kyogle is expected to only increase 100 dwellings to 4,900 by 2036. Cities are the main focus of growth, with Tweed pegged to increase the most with 11,600 new dwellings, up to 56,050.

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seeing how food is grown, to not only encourage a love of fresh produce, but also to provide ‘seed’ inspiration for ‘a change towards a healthier, more harmonious existence with our land, our animals and our communities’.

The Farm land comprises 86 acres, of which five acres are developed, was purchased in 2013 and at the time of its

2015 opening Mr Lane praised Council’s economic development team for smoothing the process of setting up the iconic business.

‘The world needs to grow 70 per cent more food by 2050, but that will all be grown by huge corporations unless we make farming more attractive to young people’, he said.

To that end, The Farm

provides land, equipment and seedlings to local small businesses and schools.

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Q The Gathering invites local Byron Bay entrepreneurs to talk each month.

On April 19 at Combi, Victorial Beattie, founder of lifestyle brand The Beach People, will present.

Residents of Lennox Head and the Ballina Greens are opposing a proposal to create a new 3.2 million tonne sand mine on Newrybar Swamp Road, saying an existing mine in the area is already exceeding its extraction approvals and is creating a blight on the coastal landscape.

The No Sand Mine for Lennox group said that following its investigation of the existing mine, Ballina Shire Council admitted that despite quarterly statements being submitted to the council clearly outlining the over extraction, Council have not contacted the miners to discuss their over extraction, nor imposed any restrictions or fines.

Lennox Head resident and group spokesperson Amelia Hicks said that on Council’s

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statements the group estimates ‘there have been 18,000 extra truck movements’ east and west on Ross Lane in 2016 ‘which equates to 62 additional truck movements per day’.

Macadamia Castle owner Tony Gilding described the existing mine as ‘a blight on the landscape.’

‘The council has been part of a program to promote Hinterland Way as an iconic tourist drive,’ he said. ‘There is a strong thread in all north coast planning documents that this type of development should occur west of the highway and not between the highway and the ocean. This is the wrong place for active large-scale mines,’ Mr Gilding said.

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A new initiative called The Gathering that showcases successful local businesses recently commenced, with The Farm founders Tom and Emma Lane speaking about their inspirations and experience in starting up a business in the Shire.

Events will be running every month for the next year, says co-founder Lisa Laing.

The Lanes told the audience it had not been easy over the last two years to persist with their dream of establishing a showcase working farm at the gateway to Byron.

Tom, a well-known fashion businessman and Emma, with a background in nutrition, health and marketing, started a small farm after moving from Sydney to Byron with their family. They told the story of their three-year-old daughter who went missing, only to be found soon after a panicked search contentedly picking and eating beans.

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Local News OS Waterlily Park opens Sunday April 2 Performances, face-painting and games run by the students of Ocean Shores Public School will be the highlight of the official opening of Waterlily Park, this Sunday 2 April from 1 till 3pm.

Luke and Naiya, school captains at Ocean Shores Public, will be speaking at the event, alongside Tamara Smith, MP for Ballina, and other community members.

Relieving principal of Ocean Shores Public School Martin Gill said students have been incredibly enthusiastic about the project.

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Hall party ends in assaults, arrests A Durrumbul Hall party held on Friday March 17 resulted in at least three or four people being assaulted, one seriously.

The Echo understands that the trouble was caused by young men who identify with an eshay-style group based in Ocean Shores and South Golden Beach.

Caretaker Doug Manning told The Echo, ‘The police came around and shut it

down at 11.30pm.’

Doug says similar events occurred around the halls in the mid 1990s and led to the hall being closed to events.

‘We call those times the ice age,’ he said. ‘There was a lot of aggro and violence back then.’

‘We want to see people have a good time, and it seems just a few people were the problem. These young men appeared to have little or no

empathy for others… perhaps they are still shifting through their moral/ethical phase of development.

‘The young men were running around stealing people’s things, bags and phones.’

A boy was seriously beaten around the face and eye and was taken to hospital.

Acting inspector Chad Deegenaars confirmed that a young man with a serious

eye injury made a statement to police and they are investigating.

‘It’s possibly a fractured eye socket,’ he told The Echo.

‘We were concerned there were around 200 intoxicated underage people at the party with minimal security.

‘One male who was detained and taken home to his family was very aggressive and intoxicated.’

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agricultural, food manufacturing and health sectors.’

West Byron featured as a major housing project for the Byron Shire (page 62), with an aim to ‘Investigate opportunities for increased housing diversity in the form of additional multi-unit dwellings in appropriate locations.’

West Byron Bay will also be investigated for ‘additional employment land’ opportunities, which will accompany Council’s still-to-be-released employment lands policy.

The plan also aims to ‘protect important farmland at Eureka, Federal, Bangalow, Goonengerry, Coorabell, Tyagarah, Mullumbimby, Nashua and Billinudgel.’

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The state government’s new plan for the region

Joint Organisation.’

One stated aim is to ‘Facilitate appropriate large-scale tourism developments in prime tourism-development areas such as Tweed Heads, Tweed Coast, Ballina, Byron Bay, Coffs Harbour and Port Macquarie.’

Protecting the North Coast Rail Line and high-speed rail corridor is a stated aim, which will ‘ensure network opportunities are not sterilised by incompatible land uses or land fragmentation.’

Public transport will be provided ‘where the size of the urban area has the potential to generate sufficient demand.’

Oversight, reviews and new policies will be developed, with the implementation plan to be overseen by the newly formed North Coast Delivery, Co-ordination and Monitoring Committee. But the makeup of the committee is stacked heavily with state bureaucrats and ‘a representative from each Local Council North Coast news daily: www.echonetdaily.net.au

How will this state government plan align with Council plans? Generally, in the hierarchy, NSW legislation overrides council LEPs and DCPs. Council’s forward planning strategies such as growth policies fall below these.

Solicitor Sue Higginson and CEO of public legal advocate organisation EDO, says that generally speaking, any new plan and strategy that Council makes will be required to be consistent with the regional plan.

‘The Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (s75AI) states that in preparing any planning proposals, ie LEP and LEP amendments, Council is to give effect to the Regional Plan. This means there is a general requirement on Council in future that any LEP amendments and LEPs it makes must be consistent with the Regional Plan.

‘That said, the EPA Act (s75AK) states that nothing in the Act that provides for the making of the Regional Plan prevents an LEP from being made, or can invalidate

an LEP once it is made.’

Higginson says, ‘Essentially what it all means in effect is that the state government has good cause to refuse to allow an LEP or an LEP amendment to get through the Gateway (s55 EPA Act), unless it is consistent with the Regional Plan. This is regardless of what Council’s current growth strategy – or any strategy for that matter – currently states. But the same could be said the other way; it is entirely a matter for the state government to allow an LEP to be made that is not consistent with the strategic plan.

‘In short, the new regional plan will not affect Council’s current plans and strategies.

Only district plans require the amendment of existing instruments to be consistent with them.

‘But the state government will have the ultimate say when it comes to Council seeking to implement its current plans and policies through planning proposals at the Gateway.’

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Shelly McConachy of Mullumbimby Ex-Services Club has taken out the most recent Mullumbimby Chamber of Commerce Staff Giraffe award for outstanding customer service.

Shelly received a certificate of appreciation from the Mullumbimby Chamber and a voucher from Video Ezy Mullumbimby.

The Staff Giraffe program recognises and acknowledges local staff who ‘put their neck

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While the Brunswick River experienced large fish kills recently, the threat is also looming over Ballina as deoxegenated water in the former Tuckean Swamp begins to make its way into the Richmond River.

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The Richmond River was closed to commercial and recreational fishing in 2008 after similar circumstances resulted in a massive fish kill that left the coastal town of Ballina stinking of dead fish for weeks. Prior to that, the Richmond River endured another fish kill in 2001.

Four arrested after brawl outside pub Four people were arrested after police were called to the Great Northern Hotel, Byron Bay, on Saturday night (March 25), after angry would-be patrons attacked security guards.

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economy Ms Shannon Burt told The Echo they have been in contact with the Department of Primary Industries – Fisheries, and are hoping they will be onsite Wednesday.

‘With the recent heavy rainfall, this may have caused low oxygen levels and cloudy water in the river,’ she said.

Meanwhile experts are worried that in the Ballina region, cattle pastures that have

Police say when they arrived at about 11pm, 100 people were gathered on the footpath outside the hotel, with three being detained by security guards. CCTV footage revealed that a young woman,

who had been refused entry for being drunk, argued with security staff before running into the hotel. Inspector Bobbie Cullen said, ‘Owing to the numbers of people involved it was a very dangerous situation.’

Kids’ yoga book launch April 8 Illustrator Yuti McLean is holding a book launch on April 8 at Temple Byron in Byron Bay for Deer-Lightful, a children’s yoga book.

It’s a collaboration between author Suzanna Thel and Yuti;

they say the book, ‘focuses on a narrative of a deer searching to satisfy a longing, and discovering an inner secret.’ ‘[It’s a] playful stress-releasing yoga sequence originating from the Dru Yoga

tradition.’ Yuri says a percentage of the profits will be donated to the World Peace Flame Charity – www.worldpeaceflame.org/en.

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Surf Alley to be ‘popped’ On the weekend of Friday and Saturday May 19 and 20, there will be an ‘urban laneway activation’ event called POPPED, encompassing live art, street food, bar, music, lighting, green walls, bespoke sustainable furniture, a talk and ideas program and much more, say organisers.

Mayor Simon Richardson spoke specifically of ‘activating’ these laneways when initiating the Byron masterplan, to reflect the creative nature of our area and encourage the circulation of people, rather than cars.

Byron Bay arts and creative services firm Popped Creative will soon collaborate with a team of talented Byron Bay street artists, headed by Austin of Nitsua, to transform ‘Surf Alley’, the lane from Jonson Street to a carpark that is a hotspot for what they coyly call ‘late-night antisocial behaviour’.

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Story Dog school fundraiser assists child literacy Students at a local primary school created a money Story-Dog to raise almost $200 for an innovative program that sees dogs offer a helping paw to children struggling with literacy.

School principal Virginia Pavlovich says it runs every Monday at Main Arm Public School and the Australiawide program relies on donations and volunteers – both of the human and canine variety.

‘The program helps 880 children across the country each week with students reading to specially trained

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dogs aiming to ensure no child is left behind in literacy.

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‘Options’ now considered over legal service cuts North coast National Party MPs have broken ranks with party line over the survival of Murwillumbah Community Legal Service, following major budgets cut to its parent, the Lismore-based Northern Rivers Community Legal Centre.

The centre’s annual budget is set to be cut by $180,000 and is due to take effect from July 1, 2017. Community legal centres play a vital role in providing free legal services to vulnerable people.

Local Nationals MLC Ben Franklin told The Echo, ‘Community Legal Centres play an important role in our communities and I value the work they do for people who need a lawyer, but can’t afford

to pay for one. I have raised this issue with the NSW attorney-general, Mark Speakman. The NSW government is considering options in regard to the funding cuts.’

‘In the interim, the attorney-general and I implore the federal government to reconsider its decision so CLCs can continue to deliver their invaluable service.’

A spokesperson for Mr Provest said the funding cuts may affect the outreach services and thus had already expressed his concerns to the NSW attorney-general.

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able to introduce Story Dogs to Main Arm this year and I was pleased when our SRC

decided to raise some funds for this fantastic program.

‘Already, the confidence of our students on the program is soaring as they benefit from the magic of reading to nonjudgmental, loveable dogs.

‘The students seem to be able to relax, have fun, and this helps to improve their focus,’ she added.

To contribute to the students’ fundraising efforts contact Main Arm Upper Public on 6684 5126.

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The purchaser will need to show VALID PHOTO ID showing their home address and postcode.

Eligible forms of ID are a current NSW DRIVER’S LICENSE or NSW PROOF OF AGE CARD. Residents can buy tickets for up to 4 people.

NO CASH SALES or EFTPOS. PAYMENT BY VISA & MASTERCARD CREDIT/DEBIT CARDS ONLY Ticket prices will be available soon on the Splendour website, as will the lineup for the main stages.

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Not April Fools – giant slippery LAWNS NEED A ski dip for Lennox is proposed BIT OF A TRIM? continued from page 1 nesses and the local airport,’ he said adding that it has his in-principle support.

About 100 people attended the four-hour information session at the Lennox Head Community Centre on Sunday to look at the planned proposals, its height, bulk and impact.

Ballina councillor Jeff Johnson attended the information session and said, ‘The structure will be highly visible from the lake, the beach, the Point and the Pat Morton Lookout.

He said, ‘As yet Council hasn’t had any briefing on this matter. I’ve been calling for this for a while so that Council can have a clear idea of the project.

‘The community will want to provide honest and frank feedback and the council should be able to represent the community position.’

According to Mayor Wright, the area has been chosen because it is state

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government-owned and is one of eleven sites that run school camps for children that are losing money.

‘It will include a physio, orthopaedic surgeon, and sports therapist. That’s not in the current DA and it will be added later,’ he said.

‘Plenty of specialist facilities will follow. It will be pretty schmick when it is finished. There is a lot of money going into it.’

Some local residents have expressed dismay at the impact that the development will have on the area.

Councillor Johnson said,

‘We are talking about a coastal heathland area next to the lake and the beach. It is a structure that is way beyond the height limits for the Lennox area.

‘It is fair to say that it doesn’t fit in with the local environment and that it will stand out.

It is right on the beach and is a permanent structure.

‘The main concern that has been expressed to me is about its aesthetic impact from all the vantage points around Lennox.’

The Lennox Head Residents Association does not currently have a position on the proposal. They will

be discussing it at their next meeting on Monday April 3 at 7pm at the Lennox Head Community Centre.

However, many local residents have already put out a call to action against the proposal with a Lennox Head against the ski jump Facebook page and a change.org petition against the development.

‘The community should be truly consulted on this development and their views and concerns taken on board,’ said local greens MP Tamara Smith.

‘Sport NSW says that Ballina Shire Council will carry out formal consultation and the facility will be assessed under local Development Application requirements – Council needs to listen to the community on this issue.

‘One of the major tourist drawcards to our region is our beautiful beaches and hinterland and people are right to be concerned.’

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Forestry Corp defends trespass threat Another Hans Lovejoy story

Further to last week’s Echo story regarding the ejection of an environmentalist undertaking an audit of a state forest currently being logged, NSW Forestry Corporation have said that the closure to the public is routine.

North East Forest Alliance (NEFA) auditor Dailan Pugh was invited to the Gibberagee State Forest by the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) to show them breaches to logging operations, but the state-run Forestry Corporation threatened him with a $2,200 fine if he returned, and he was not allowed to show the EPA the breaches.

The Gibberagee State Forest is located northwest of Yamba.

The Echo asked the NSW Forestry Corporation if the claims were correct and if they were concerned that potential fines for trespass are more

than fines for breaching EPA laws, which can result in endangered habitat loss.

A spokesperson replied that the Gibberagee State Forest currently contains worksites, ‘and we cannot put people’s lives at risk by allowing them to enter a worksite, in the same way members of the public are not permitted to walk through construction sites.’

Active operation ‘This operation remains active and we still have crews in the forest.

‘It is not unusual to close forests for timber harvesting – this is a safety issue and we do remind people not to enter closed areas for their own safety.’

The said, ‘Forestry Corporation is passionate about protecting waterways and threatened species and highly qualified and experienced ecologists spent several

Koori FM crowdfunds for Bluesfest broadcast Koori Radio 93.7FM are crowdfunding to allow their live outside broadcast team to broadcast live from this year’s Boomerang festival, which will be held April 13 till 17 on the Bluesfest site in Tyagarah.

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months completing detailed environmental surveys within Gibberagee State Forest before we touched a single tree to identify and mark threatened species on harvest plans with GPS precision.

‘GPS is used by all harvesting crews so operators know with a high degree of accuracy which areas are protected.

‘This process is completely transparent – we publish all our plans on our website, we are audited by the Environment Protection Authority and we are independently certified to the internationally recognised Australian Standard for Sustainable Forest Management.’

Adequate laws?

An EPA spokesperson confirmed with The Echo the events as described by Mr Pugh and is ‘currently investigating the allegations’.

The Echo also asked the

EPA if the laws are adequate regarding forestry logging breaches given trespass fines are much larger.

The EPA spokesperson replied, ‘The NSW government has committed to a range of reforms to the regulation of forestry in its NSW Forest Industry Roadmap. Pillar 1 of the roadmap sets out several regulatory reforms including new native forestry legislation that is efficient, outcomes based and enforceable, as well as the modernisation of environmental penalties and regulatory tools.’

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Home birth workshop Sat Aslan Shand

Birthing at home and birthing on country are the focus of the upcoming panel at the Poinciana Cafe this Saturday April 1 at 3pm.

Ishrana Anna, international activist for delayed cord clamping and founder of Sabwac, is organising the panel and is aiming to create a motherand-baby birthing-rights and awareness foundation.

‘It is about the choice to have a home birth or to birth on country,’ said Ishrana.

‘Woman is built to birth.

The more we intervene the more likely there will be a problem. One intervention can open the door to more interventions.’

The focus of the foundation will be on advocacy and mother and parental support to increase birthing choices.

It aims to provide education, support, counselling and legal services in relation to birthing choices.

Ishrana says, ‘Aboriginal elders have been contacted and part of the purpose of this panel is to make a presentation to the grandmothers with respect, in reintroducing and practising the traditional ways.’

‘Permission for the Aborginal department is being sought for a fully functioning service with true protocol in defining the Aboriginals’ right to birth on country if an Aboriginal woman chooses.’

Birthing rights There will be a broad panel, including local doula Sita Tara and Heidi Wedd, a qualified midwife who has worked with Indigenous women in Alice Springs.

The panel will be looking at gaining consensus on the birthing rights that will form the basis of advocacy work for legislative change.

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RenewFest features Helena Norberg-Hodge Renown activist Helena Norberg-Hodge is the latest addition for the RenewFest lineup, which will run over May 6 and 7 at the Mullumbimby Showgrounds.

Creative director Ella Rose Goninan says she is excited to feature Helena and says, ‘In her long and stellar career, she has been an advocate for a reworking of how to influence the fundamentals of the way our economy works.’

Ella says she will address the relationship between unemployment, consumerism and climate change.

‘Helena’s position is that the social as well as environmental crises we face today are the consequences of an out-of-control global economy. Through a series of freetrade treaties, multinational businesses, including banks, have gained ever-greater freedom to manipulate local and national economies for corporate profit.

‘The end result has been increased pollution, economic insecurity and the expansion of a consumer

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culture worldwide.’

Helena told The Echo, ‘It is such a struggle, especially for young people; stereotypical, consumer role models threaten identity, and competition for meaningless jobs is becoming ever more intense… it’s a crazy, crazy path we are on.’

Left–right political theatre Changing this system is not as difficult as it may seem at first, according to Helena.

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a left–right political theatre, and have tended to focus on single-issue symptoms rather than root causes.

‘We need big-picture activism for systemic change’, she says. ‘Around the world, a “new economy” movement is growing. It consists of a broad alliance from farmers to businesspeople, from environmentalists to economists, who are urging a fundamental change to the way the world is run. People are linking hands across divides and demanding change.’

Helena points to Italy’s Five Star movement as an important example.

Italy’s corruption As she explains, it started as a people’s movement that, over six years, grew from the grassroots and entered parliament to bring about the downfall of the corrupt Berlusconi government, which was wedded to corporate interests.

Most people have never heard of what’s happened in Italy and Helena believes this is owing to the willing

blindness of corporate media.

Helena’s organisation Local Futures runs workshops that encourage five simple steps to creating genuine change: connect (change the ‘I’ to a ‘we’), educate, resist, renew, and celebrate.

‘We live in a world where it is our duty to question’, says Helena, and it is her mission to show us how.

Helena will be a leading speaker and panelist at the Ethical Economics session on the main stage, Saturday May 6 from 2.30pm till 3.30pm. She will also be the leading speaker and panelist at the Ethical Economics pod on Sunday May 7 from 10.30am till 6.30pm.

There will be a follow-up workshop the weekend following RenewFest, says Ella, ‘to consider, refine and focus the many ideas that are destined to come out of the Ethical Economics discussion.’

Helena is also holding a Q&A, Hope in a Time of Crisis led by Mandy Nolan, on May 3 at the Mullum Civic Hall.

Q For more info visit www. renewfest.org.au.

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A NSW Police funeral with full honours was held Tuesday for Detective Chief Inspector Darren Steel, who died last Wednesday.

The service was held at the Melaleuca Station Memorial Gardens at Chinderah.

Insp Steel joined the police academy in 1985 and served as a police officer in Moree, Tamworth and the Tweed/ Byron Local Area Command, rising through the ranks to become crime manager.

Superintendent Wayne Starling, Tweed/Byron’s local area commander, said Insp Steel would be sadly missed by all.

‘I think we are all better people for having Detective Chief Inspector Steel in our lives,’ he said.

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said he was saddened by the event but praised the efforts of an officer who dedicated 33 years of his life to his duties and never once took a sick day.

‘I worked with him for many years and always found him a fine, upstanding officer, deeply committed and dedicated to the wider Tweed community,’ Mr Provest said.

‘I was very shocked and saddened by what happened and my thoughts and my sympathies go out to his family and friends.’

Equine connections A local instructor of equineassisted learning, Stephanie Rouillon, has created a horse centre near Mullumbimby and says it has helped many people – whether they have trauma issues or not – to better understand relationships, communication, thoughts, feelings and awareness.

Upcoming programs include an adults’ horse connection program, a youth leadership connection course and a PTSD course for emergency workers with a local psychologist.

To book in for school holidays and term two, contact Stephanie on 0432 186 955.

A post-politics in the pub event will be held April 3 at the Heartspace (above Santos Organics in Mullum) from 6.30pm to discuss ending corporate rule.

Co-ordinators of Ngara’s Politics in the Pub say that at the last event, ‘Jeremy Tager identified weaknesses of “the left” and challenged us to work together as a unified movement to develop strategies to overcome the current order and build a new world.’

‘Faced with a highly organised, well-funded and

strategically savvy band of ultra conservatives – those who have planned the corporate takeover of the globe – how do we set about creating a unified movement capable of bringing about fundamental and lasting change?

Threat to existence ‘Given the rise of ultraconservatism, the consolidated power of multinational corporations, and the threat to our very existence, the challenges we face have never been greater.’

Whooping cough warning A local school has told par- may just have a cough that is ents that there has been a persistent and is worse at night. recent confirmed case of The infection may also occur pertussis (whooping cough) in fully vaccinated children.’ at the school and that NSW ‘Pertussis is readily spread Health has confimed that from an infected person to pertussis is prevalent in the others by coughing and sneezMullumbimby and surround- ing. If left untreated, it can be ing area at the moment. spread for up to three weeks The school’s statement to after the start of the infected parents reads, ‘Pertussis caught person’s cough. at school can spread to any The school says people who other members at home.’ are sick with pertussis should ‘Coughing spreads the in- not attend work, school or a fection to others nearby. Pertus- childcare facility.

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A plan unaligned to Byron A 96-page glossy advertisement for endless economic growth for the region was released by the state government last Thursday!

The North Coast Regional Plan aims to provide a planning framework for Tweed Heads down to Port Macquarie until 2036, and will be incorporated into Council’s planning ‘instruments.’

That makes this an important document for shaping the future.

Its focus is roads, airports and more housing. It’s similar to the draft version, which was proudly announced by National Party MP Chris Gulaptis last year, yet copped flack for its general lack of imagination and suggestion to start a localised CSG industry.

The draft vanished on June 2, 2016, and now it’s back with a solemn promise there will be no localised CSG industry.

For those easily impressed with stunning pictures of beaches and forests, motherhood statements and buzz words, this document is for you.

While it celebrates the area as having ‘more endemic plants and animals than any other NSW region,’ it also enthuses that those endemic plants and animals – ie diversity – attract ‘new residents and visitors.’

More people equals less diversity is the first of many ironic and ultimately unreconcilable aspects to this plan.

For example it claims our dwindling koala population is being protected, yet evidence is to the contrary: a new section of Pacific Highway south of Ballina, for example, will most likely further their demise. When you build a major road along an eastern coastline, it obviously cuts off wildlife movements east of that highway.

Free movement is something which is critical for koalas.

As for development east of the highway, the plan gives itself some wriggle room while acknowledging the obvious. It says, ‘To safeguard the sensitive coastal environment, rural residential development will be limited in this area, and only minor and contiguous variations to urban growth area boundaries will be considered.’

Moving on, the accompanying consultation report revealed the chasm that exists between politics/bureaucracy and the real world. It’s a reminder of how the two-party political spectrum – which is basically an extension of corporate aspirations – has little to offer a public that, for example, has some of the highest solar take-up in the state.

Lacking in the report, say the public and north coast council staff, is a commitment to renewable energies, climate change, affordable housing and public transport. But reassuringly, the planning bureaucrats on Bridge Street in Sydney who wrote the plan say they have addressed these issues in the final version!

What’s in it for Byron Bay and Byron Shire? The significance of the nation’s most easterly golden goose – which without question generates the lion’s share of tourist activity on the north coast – is once again ignored and played down by the state government.

Possibly it’s because the NSW government doesn’t know what to do with a low ratepayer base with high visitation.

Endless growth doesn’t fit Byron’s narrative.

Most places welcome unquestioned robust economic activity.

Byron has that in spades but it’s clear the more it develops, the less it will be desirable as a home and destination.

Hans Lovejoy, editor

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a l c ol m Tu r nbu l l should follow the sensible example of Donald Trump.

No, this is not the message from Cory Bernardi, George Christensen and Pauline Hanson, nor the lunar right of Fox News and the Murdoch Press.

It is the sober assessment of pragmatists who are finally ready to move on from the 2014 budget and the more recent futile policies which have never and will never pass a stubborn senate.

Last week The Donald, the consummate deal maker, quickly and decisively cut his losses. For most of last year he had been committed to the destruction of Barack Obama’s public health scheme – Obamacare, as it became known.

This would be his first act in office; the obnoxious, unaffordable socialist menace would be replaced by something else – Trumpcare, perhaps.

It all sounded so simple and straightforward. But alas, the congress – the parliament – intervened; not all his fellow Republicans were convinced and the numbers were not there.

So instead of endlessly procrastinating, keeping the bill on the backburner in the hope that something might eventually turn out, Trump dumped the zombie measure and moved on.

Okay, it may have been one of the few rational things he has done since moving into the White House, but it was considerably more decisive than the endless procrastination of our own leader, who seems determined to hang on to the great National Economic Plan of 2016, the plan for massive across-theboard cuts to company tax.

There was a moment last week when both Turnbull and his beleaguered treasurer, Scott Morrison, appeared to acknowledge reality: that the senate would not cop it, and it would be

smarter to pass the cuts for small businesses and confine the rest to the limbo from which they have never really emerged.

And there was some encouragement when a massive rejig of the childcare reforms, which had been stuck in the system for more than two years, suddenly saw the government ready to compromise to the extent that Turnbull was ready and willing to proclaim a rare victory.

Suddenly all the stonewalling about the need for huge cuts to family welfare to pay for the childcare melted away.

Morrison had always insisted that there were no alternatives; he

to the poor – has been comprehensively discredited for years.

These days even Turnbull does not spend much time on the fantasy except to berate Bill Shorten and Chris Bowen for once espousing it and now moving on.

The new mantra is international competitiveness: some other countries have lower corporate tax rates, and Trump’s America is foreshadowing huge reductions, thus Australia must not be left behind.

Apart from being a notable example of cultural cringe, and also the risk of comparing avocados with pineapples, it is clear that a majority of voters reject

Trump’s move was considerably more decisive than the endless procrastination of our own leader.

by Mungo MacCallum even threatened the National Disability Insurance Scheme might suffer if the government did not get its way. But in the event there were, in fact, entirely acceptable alternatives. And in the process it would appear that many of the proposed cuts – many of them zombie measures from 2014 – have just melted away.

Admittedly, this revolution was aided and abetted by the ratings agencies, which had indicated that pretending the stalled policies were actual reductions to the deficit could no longer be countenanced.

But at any level it made sense.

And thus, it was hoped, would Turnbull take the next step: canning the tax cuts for the big corporations, and thus saving vast amounts of money which could, perhaps, be diverted to more productive pursuits.

The idea of supply side economics – the theory that giving money to the rich in the hope that some of it might trickle down

Turnbull’s enthusiasm.

They are constantly harangued about the need for restraint, the end of entitlement, constant belt-tightening: the debt and deficit crisis is upon us, our triple A rating is in peril, the budget must be repaired.

Yet it seems that the government’s priority is to give large sums of money to boost the already substantial profits of the big end of town in the hope that it will induce jobs and growth while the rest of us suffer the pain. Understandably, they regard the homilies as at best confusing, at worst a shit sandwich.

And unsurprisingly a majority in the senate agrees with them.

The chamber is composed of those who won their seats at the election in which Turnbull’s plan was seen, charitably, as less than an unalloyed triumph, and they are not in the least anxious to associate themselves with it.

True, those in the coalition have little choice, but the rest of

them – most particularly most of the crossbenchers – have decided that they have better ideas for the tens of billions on offer.

But Turnbull, we are told, is not for turning – well, not this time, or at least not yet.

Rather than follow The Donald’s ungracious but resigned acceptance of defeat, Turnbull prefers another example of his Trumpery: alternative facts. If he just continues to push the doors marked ‘Pull’ hard enough, perhaps they will yield.

And even if they don’t, he can pretend to his followers (if not to the rating agencies) that sooner or later it will all come right.

Evidence from the past makes it clear that it won’t – that in fact the stubbornness and lack of realism will do more damage than good to the cause, and that it is more likely than not to end in humiliation and capitulation.

But Turnbull insists that there his pet scheme will endure, rather as Tony Abbott’s paid parental leave scheme did – until the party room has had enough.

And then, of course, Turnbull will fold. We have already seen his surrender on 18c, which has now we are told, been triumphantly settled.

Well, up to a point. And the next episode appears to be same-sex marriage, where, incredibly, Peter Dutton is proposing himself as the solution.

But desperate as he is, surely this proposition is too much even for Turnbull.

He may have – no, he has – abandoned his principles on the issue, but to hand such a delicate matter over to the Queensland drug squad invites not deliverance, but ridicule.

Following Donald Trump, may, just occasionally, be helpful. Following Peter Dutton is stretching the limits of credulity.

Who will be the next mentor?

Pauline Hanson? I am joking – well, aren’t I?

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Letters Festival levy Our council willingly lets in hundreds of thousands of visitors each year via music festivals. These visitors put huge strains on our infrastructure and then the council turns around and ups our rates by 70 per cent to pay for it.

How on Earth can they get away with it? Both the Bluesfest and Splendour/ Falls should have a five per cent surcharge ‘environmental levy’ on their ticket sales and that money should go directly to deal with the roads, waste and other infrastructure demands forced on the infrastructure by Council’s stupidity.

Andrew Crockett Mullumbimby

EU. The UN contributes a subsidy of two per cent to cover admin costs and contributes tents, trucks and medicines.

So aren’t we lucky we don’t have to queue up with thousands of other people to receive some basic rations and clean water with the risk of having those supplies (or us) blown to smithereens before they reach us. We just have to walk into the supermarket and stock up with anything we want and more.

God (or whoever we like) forbid that we have to walk past UNHCR people taking up all that space and asking for money. How dare they?

Marie Sherd Mullumbimby

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Reading Sophia Marles’s letter re UNHCR (Echo, March 22) was a WTF moment for me. And by the way I think she is bemoaning the space UNHCR takes up, not UNHRC. UNHCR is the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and UNHRC is the United Nation Human Rights Council.

UNHCR comes to Mullum maybe three times a year to raise money to provide nutrition, basic food rations and medical supplies to millions of people worldwide. At the moment approximately 65 million people have been forced from their homes.

UNHCR is funded almost entirely by voluntary contributions. The majority comes from governments and the

Our local government reps will breathe a sigh of relief now that Fast Buck$ is directing his considerable wrath towards Trump, Hanson and yep, you guessed it, all things homeopathic (Letters, March 22). Few would argue to the contrary that Trump and Hanson are as useful to a healthy society as a cholera epidemic, but Buck$’s attack on the noble practice of homeopathy, or abracadabra as he learnedly refers to it, should not go unchallenged.

I suspect Buck$, like many sceptics, can’t stomach the ‘less is more’ mode of action of homeopathics; ie, the more diluted the active ingredient the greater the remedy’s potency. If that is his major beef, could I suggest

that he consider why 30 per cent of all patients report an improvement in symptoms as a result of taking a placebo, a potion containing, not a diluted active ingredient, but sweet bugger-all active ingredient? So, mate, Rescue Remedy up, because with Trump and Hanson infecting society, you’re gonna need it.

Mick Malloy Suffolk Park Q Fast Buck$ happens upon a girl contemplating giving Rescue Remedy to a traumatised dog and concludes that ‘the world has gone mad’. I agree with his conclusion but it was the extra billions being spent by the biggest military power the world has ever seen, an entity that already out-spends the next seven or eight military budgets, that enlivened my own deduction.

That and the absence of a global chorus, a unified WTF. BTW I had a house cow that responded wonderfully to homeopathic treatments, including calming her amazingly before she was euthanased. I suppose it might have been the placebo effect – though I don’t recall explaining homeopathy to her.

Colin Cook Bangalow

Poverty sucks Colin Clarke’s latest tirade sets a new low for letters to the editor (Echo, March 15).

When he’s not spruiking for nuclear power and genetic engineering, Colin likes to use The Echo’s letters section

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to attack fellow letter writers and ‘you people’ who sit around doing nothing all day.

I can’t help but cringe when I read phrases like ‘too many people are happy to lean on the rest of society and take unemployment benefits’, especially when written by someone who likes to promote an industry that leans heavily on the rest of society, requires multi-billion dollar subsidies from governments but employs relatively few people.

The insinuation that unemployment is a result of people being happy to live on handouts not only smacks of prejudice, it completely obscures the actual causes and function of unemployment.

Colin’s rhetoric might sound plausible to those who have never known economic hardship, but the truth is poverty sucks, and unemployment in this society equals poverty.

No-one chooses to live in poverty; it is forced upon them by circumstances beyond their control. Many

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Jobs cost money and someone has to pay for them.

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The rail/trail debate rolls on…

Q The ‘grieving for the train’ that Will Jeffery notes in his letter (Echonetdaily, March 16) is indeed strong and is not just ‘a minority… with romantic notions about historic trains’. The more than 17,000 people who have signed petitions in the last few years can’t believe that our region, being so very popular, is being deprived of viable public transport that truly serves the people – old, young, disabled, workers, students and travellers.

The rail-trailers would have us pull up our still serviceable tracks when less than ten per cent of Australians ride bikes and while 100 per cent can ride a train. It is well known that most rail trails in Victoria and even in New Zealand are not used by many people, in comparison to the millions who can potentially utilise a well-timetabled rail service.

Indeed, Will, the wrecking ball is being swung by the rail trailers, as we could have it all but you have refused to work with those who want trains.

Simon Richardson’s Friends of the Byron Line are working on a compromise that will serve all interests. We

applaud their efforts and we continue to spread the word that the costs for an already existing line are far from impossible and the outcomes for our economy, ecology and people vastly outweigh a few bike riders’ private interests.

Lydia Kindred Rosebank Q Like most fair-minded people, I am a big fan of trains.

But liking trains is not the same thing as desperately campaigning for the ‘return’ of a long-lost commuter rail service that never existed.

The campaigners at TOOT need no reminding that in 2004 the XPT ceased operating along the Casino–Murwillumbah branch line. But they should also be aware that the buses which replaced the train on this section of track still run today. Those who are not ideologically fixated on trains can still enjoy essentially the same public transport service that existed in 2004. The form might have changed but the substance remains.

There is of course abundant support for a commuter rail service in our region.

Who wouldn’t back such a indubitable proposition?

The problem, however, is that this service will never be commissioned.

continued from page 11 a soldier? More money is spent on the employment of a few hundred politicians or a few thousand soldiers than is spent on a hundred thousand unemployed people.

Think about the comparative value of these expenditures, all of which are paid by the taxpayer.

Most of the money going to politicians and the military ends up in offshore tax havens and the coffers of multinational corporations, whereas every cent spent on the unemployed goes straight into the local economy. The unemployed play another important role – they serve as a scapegoat that can be smeared with impunity because, unlike the nuclear industry, they can’t afford an army of lawyers and lobbyists to protect and promote their interests.

Unemployment benefits are like a ball and chain that stigmatise and constrain the individual. These so-called benefits are not given out easily or willy-nilly by bureaucrats, despite claims to the contrary. They are provided only after applicants have jumped through hoops,

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Austerity rules, and successive state governments have done everything in their power to reduce social services and erode public infrastructure. To demand a commuter train service for the Byron Shire is to be wilfully blind to political reality.

One might as well bark at the moon.

There is a chance, though, that the state government could find sufficient funds to convert the rail corridor into a rail trail, ensuring that this valuable community resource remains in public hands.

It is long past time for the spoilers at TOOT to get out of the way.

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so many others, I love the feel of train travel and in the olden days could book my car, get a sleeper and rattle along to Sydney from Murwillumbah. Arriving refreshed in the morning, I unloaded my car. It was truly a great service at a good price.

On a recent trip to England, I had a couple of realisations. The first was the very high cost of rail travel.

It was cheaper to go from London to Edinburgh by air.

I haven’t seen any discussion around the ticket cost of the navigated multiple obstacles and completed endless forms contrived to dissuade all but the most desperate.

I don’t accept the premise advanced by Colin Clarke that the unemployed in our region are living in a false world, devoid of honest toil.

I think his tirade amounts to little more than a smarmy swipe at the least privileged in our community.

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Israel again Byron Friends of Palestine has joined the international Israeli Apartheid Week protest which is marked in scores of cities and more than 150 university campuses around the world. Our Jonson Street stall has enabled us to engage in conversation with Byron Bay locals as well as visitors from Chile, Israel, the UK, France and Sweden, Jews and goyim alike.

Our ‘Free Felafals, Free Palestine’ chorus attracted quite a bit of attention, which was bolstered by the UN Secretary-General’s removal from the UN website of the Economic and Social Commission for West Asia (ES-

local train.

Railway technology is very old, starting in the 1830s. That’s even before cars and steamboats and it needs heavy infrastructure. It is still successful for long-haul, high-density, heavy traffic, so to bring back the local rattler must be the stuff of dreams.

I need to politely refute Louise Doran’s ‘couple of cyclists so bloody minded’ (Letters, March 22), as I am one of many who would use this beautiful, graded country path. I am a retired doctor, healthy at over 70, and I want to stay that way but I will not risk my life cycling on the roads.

The other realisation from the ‘olde country’ is the profusion of traditional common paths through the entire land.

In contrast, the Aboriginal ancestral songlines have been brutally crossed by taut barbed wire.

This overgrown line is our only chance for a traffic-free common path between the settlements of our region. I would love to see both but feel that a choice is necessary.

While we bicker, developers are rubbing their palms.

The local train is dead.

Long live our common path.

David Miller Brunswick Heads CWA) report, Israeli Practices towards the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid.

It finds, ‘beyond a reasonable doubt that Israel is guilty of policies and practices that constitute the crimes of apartheid’ as defined in international law and urges national governments to ‘support boycott, divestment and sanctions activities and respond positively to calls for such initiatives’.

It appears that intense pressure was brought to bear on the Secretary-General by Israel, the US and their supporters with the result that the ESCWA director, Rima Khalaf, resigned ‘because it is my duty not to conceal a clear crime, and I stand by all the conclusions of the report’.

It is intolerable that political pressure can be allowed to influence what the UN can and cannot publish.

International law and transparency have been damaged by this decision not to publish. I initiated an Avaaz petition calling on the Secretary-General to reinstate this report on the UN website in its entirety and without amendment. I urge readers

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The view through my window is lovely. Sure, the grass is way too high, and the bush turkey has dug up the pawpaw seedling, but everything is lush. The wallabies have so much green pick to nibble on they hardly move, just the occasional tummy scratch.

Lovely, sure, but I’m irritated. If there were any bees left, there would be one in my bonnet.

The government is coming down heavily on people who don’t vaccinate their children.

There are now all sorts of penalities for the parents of unvaccinated children and the children themselves. Slinging cute slogans like ‘no jab, no pay’, the government is taking a righteous stand, highlighting its concern for the health of children.

There’s the prime minister talking to camera, his voice brimming with conviction, his brow furrowing with anxiety about Australian children. ‘This is not a theoretical exercise; this is life and death,’ he says. His government will do everything possible to give the little kiddies a healthy future. It’s the right thing to do.

What a steaming heap of pollie dung.

What absolute cynical crap.

What typical nonsense from people disconnected from reality, living in a privileged bubble only maintained to sign the petition and to share it widely: http://bit.ly/ reinstateUN. Gareth W R Smith Palestine Liberation Centre Byron Bay Yes, it’s Israel again, bastards. I was reading an article in The Australian, March 23, purporting to explain Israel’s powerhouse economy in terms of the country’s education system and R&D culture.

Written by Israel’s minister of education Naftali Bennet, the article legitimately discusses the Jewish tradition of vigorous debate in terms of the Talmud, a book of laws and protocols. It is equally legitimate to point out however that there is no tradition of debate of ancient Hindu or Buddhist texts, or the Koran or the New Testament.

The purported Jewish openness to different solutions and answers as a basis for Jewish entrepreneurial skill is therefore at best tenuous.

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by aiding the exploiters of deadly resources. They are behoven to these denizens of Dollarville who sustain their privilege and lethal delusion.

Don’t get me wrong: I don’t know whether vaccination for children is good or bad. But for me, here and now, that’s not the issue. The issue is a photo on my computer screen. It shows the Queensland premier and eight Queensland mayors at an Adani port in India. It makes me sick.

Why do we have all this supposed concern for children when the suits who mumble this righteous piffle are, in fact, supporting child abuse on a much grander scale?

By promoting the construction of the Adani mine in Queensland, these government ministers, so worried about children’s health, are showing their true lack of sympathy with anyone not corporately connected. If the world burns more coal, we

will create catastrophic planetary changes for the children.

This is not a theoretical exercise; this is life and death.

Like dealers of heroin, Australian governments promote selling coal to whoever wants it, cultivating and maintaining a lethal global addiction. Government is hellbent on manifesting the Adani mine.

They’re throwing a lot of money at Adani to come wreck the future. The Queensland premier and her mayors even went on a holy pilgrimage recently to pay homage to their Indian god.

They knelt at his feet...

The view from my window is lovely. But these days that view is tinged with a sadness that comes from knowing things will not remain the same. Climate change has started. Around the world traditional farming methods are disrupted by changing weather cycles. There are increasing weather extremes.

Islands are disappearing, as

Indeed conservative Jews have for many centuries lamented the corrupting influence of ‘Hellenism’, ie Greek influence as expressed in western civilisation. The main benefit ancient Greece gave the world was not democracy, but the principle of debate without constraints, ie a willingness to challenge every assumption. That is hardly a characteristic of Jewish ‘ultra-orthodox’ thought, is it? God chose us and that’s the end of it.

And then we get to the part of the article that went beyond legitimate debate and strayed well into outright sophistry: ‘The third [factor] is the army. Because we are constantly defending ourselves from Islamic terror blah, blah, blah…’ There we have the socalled minister of ‘education’ retailing the tired propaganda that Israel’s opponents are all terrorists, or all Islamists.

No, Mr Bennet, they kill Israelis because you stole

their land, not because they are Muslims, and not because you are Jews. You stole their fucking land, mate, get it? And all of it justified on the basis of stuff proclaimed by paranoid schizophrenics hearing voices in the desert 3,000 years ago, and on things done to Jews more recently by Germans, not Palestinians.

As for the ‘miracle in the desert’ which is Israel, that is largely due to the many billions of dollars pumped in by the US as a direct subsidy (still happening) and money sent by Jews everywhere out of guilt over not actually living there. (There are far more Jews living outside of Israel than within it.)

Add to this a long-term and endemic culture of corruption, which by its nature attracts opportunistic and dodgy dollars from all over, plus cheap Palestinian labour and, yes, somebody’s going to do quite well.

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It’s awful, and depressing, but the effects can be mitigated if governments act with real concern for the kids.

Unfortunately, governments are prone to the disease of corporate collusion, which disables their ability to see clearly and to act appropriately.

We need a vaccine against corporate collusion. Every politician gets the needle. I reckon we introduce a ‘no jab, no pay’ policy for Australian pollies. Sure, they will cry and scream because it’s obvious they’re not brave, but it’s in their, and our, best interests to have these politicians immunised against a wacky capitalist disease which places economy above society, profit above people.

Suddenly politicians will be able to talk properly again.

They will be able to make decisions that benefit the children and the planet. How novel.

And they will chuck the exploiters from the temple.

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CHESS by Ian Rogers Last September’s Baku Chess Olympiad, witnessed a feat that warmed the hearts of those who have argued that chess is not only a young person’s game.

Playing in a record 23rd Olympiad, 65-year-old Eugenio Torre scored more points than any other player in Baku.

Asia’s first Grandmaster played all eleven games, winning nine and drawing two, his victims including Australia’s Moulthun Ly in a key final round game.

Owing to a medal system rigged to favour the top ranked teams, the Filipino veteran received only a bronze medal for his efforts.

One must expect inconsistency from both juniors and old players, but Torre would have been optimistic that his good form would continue a while longer.

After the Olympiad he competed with modest success in a Grandmaster tournament in Turkey and then struggled to break even in the strong Subic Bay Open on home turf.

This week, however, Torre was brought down to earth with a disastrous performance at the

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Vietnam, along with India, is known to be a graveyard for established players due to the large numbers of underrated juniors and Torre’s 4/9 score against opponents all ranked below him dropped the veteran’s ranking almost to his pre-Olympiad level.

Torre’s worst loss was to Uzbek 17-year-old Gulrukhbegim Tokhirjonova in the following onesided game.

Ho Chi Minh City 2017 White: G Tokhirjonova Black: E Torre Opening: Sicilian Defence 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Bc4 Qb6 The most disruptive counter to White’s Sozin Attack. 7.Nb3 e6 8.0-0 a6 9.Bd3 Qc7 10.a4 b6 11.f4 Be7 12.Be3 0-0 13.Qf3 Bb7 14.Qg3 The players have reached a typical Sicilian position but now Torre starts playing without a plan. 14...Kh8?! 15.Rae1 Nb4 16.Bd4 Nxd3 17.cxd3 Qd8?! 18.Nd2!

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Among many things people have called Donald Trump, a disturbing number of the commentariat have said he’s a populist. They are wrong.

He certainly isn’t a populist in the American tradition of people and politicians who were exercising populism when they drove the movements of the 19th and 20th century to expand the vote to include all white men and not just landowners, then to abolish slavery, then to extend voting rights to blacks and all races, to grant votes to women in 1920, and to win civil rights and stop the war on Vietnam in the 60s and 70s. These movements were all driven by people united in their determination to make American democracy live up to its name.

Trump isn’t a movement – he represents himself – and there’s nothing participatory or democratic about his relationship with those who voted for him. They wanted to kick out the establishment and, in his fetid id, he understood their anger and dog-whistled his way into the White House.

While many Americans have had it with corporatist parties promising more prosperity then delivering more austerity, Trump seems to think his being a rogue corporate is enough to keep his followers cheering. Meanwhile, what he’s delivering is a bonanza of infrastructure

spending to enrich the construction and manufacturing industries, tax cuts for the rich, and a regulationdemolition derby that will profit corporations and make life more miserable for the poor and middle classes – all wrapped in rhetoric about getting government off our backs.

Now what’s emerging as a Trump goal, however, is to supplant the Washington/ Wall St ‘deep state’ of global corporates, the state department, the intelligence agencies, and the military, with his own deep state whose goal is to contain or crush China and any other nations who are business or military rivals for control of the world. His global compadres in this white-man’s crusade are Putin, a few soulmates like Zeman of the Czech Republic and Orban of

in what used to be called the First World.

In fact, Trump and his gang are willing to piss off just about anyone – even the large portion of their voters in the rust belt and the south who have long received more government money than they’ve contributed, and will thus be hardest hit by the Republicans’ savage cuts in social programs.

Regardless, Trump and his co-pilot Stephen Bannon fly on like hijackers aiming their plane at the towers of power in China, desperate to crash-bomb their way to victory before the ‘liberal internationalists’ and ‘enlightened interventionists’ figure out how to stop them.

Congress, besieged by millions of angry citizens, just destroyed the Republicans’ healthcare plan while judges have stymied Trump’s ban-Muslims edicts, so the president is reeling from their blows. He’s going to be a big bull to bring down.

If we-the-people of the whole world could have our say, I reckon we’d tell all these über-corporates and their political enablers that we’d rather they saw their not-so-United States as less exceptional; spare us your enlightened and liberal interventions, please.

Hungary, lapdogs like Theresa May and the Turnbull government, and the Filipino thug Duterte.

All this is interpreted by neoliberals as Trump abandoning the liberal international order and returning the world to a nasty and brutish competition among self-interested states. Which assumes that the liberal international world has been notnasty and not-brutish, which would be a hard story to sell in what used to be called the Third World, especially to, say, the Vietnamese or the Iraqis.

It is the brutishness of corporate interests in their pursuit of cheap raw materials, cheap labour, and compliant governments around the world that has engendered angry disillusionment abroad and the metastasising povertisation of the masses

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NSW Forestry Corporation is a state-run entity that cuts down trees for profit (and management) while the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) is the department that applies oversight if/when trees and vegetation of high conservation value are destroyed.

Back in December last year, EPA forestry director, Michael Hood, told The Echo there was a ‘substantial investigation into allegations,’ regarding claims compliance obligations were flouted while felling trees at Cherry Tree State Forest, near Casino. ‘Official cautions’ were issued.

Now it’s March 2017, and again Mr Pugh has made life uncomfortable for NSW Forestry Corporation, accusing them of ejecting him from the Gibberagee State Forest, located northwest of Yamba. He again accuses them of breaches of logging conditions. A trespass threat of a $2,200 fine was issued if he returned, and he was not allowed to show the EPA the breaches he found. The trespass fine is an amount far above the cost of breaching logging conditions.

Remarkably, the EPA told The Echo last year, ‘The NSW government has recognised that the current forestry regulations are out of date.’

EPA forestry director, Michael Hood said at the time, ‘The government is in the process of undertaking a review of the Integrated Forestry Operations Approvals (IFOA) for coastal areas and a draft IFOA is expected to go on public exhibition next year, where members of the community will be encouraged to provide their input and feedback.’

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‘One of the biggest hurdles young people have in buying their first home is saving enough money for a deposit and the transaction costs. With rising house prices, the dream of owning a home is becoming difficult to attain,’ Malcolm Gunning, president of the Real Estate Institute of Australia said.

‘Surveys show that not only are aspiring homebuyers saving for longer but are also using debt to meet their deposit requirement including personal

loans and credit cards.

‘With first homebuyers finding it increasingly difficult to enter the housing market, home ownership in Australia is declining after four decades of stable levels.

‘Many young people already have a partial deposit; access to their super would make the difference but they aren’t allowed to make the decision to access what is after all their own money until they retire.

‘Too much attention has been focused on the accumulation of a nest egg through superannuation at the expense of other more practical considerations that not only improve the quality of life at an earlier age but result in a greater retirement nest egg.

‘Sup e r an nu at i on an d home ownership are both

components of a retiree’s nest egg and not competing products. By buying earlier in life people have every prospect of having a higher equity on retirement and a larger nest egg on downsizing.

‘It is nonsense to suggest that early access to superannuation for a home despot would undermine retirement savings and create new risks.

‘Access to superannuation for the purchase of a first home could help reverse the trend of falling home ownership and address the looming social problem of large numbers of long-term renters aged 45 years and older remaining in the rental sector and possibly requiring rental support in later years.

‘Accessing super is not a radical idea. The use of retire-

ment savings for a first home purchase has already proven to be successful in Canada, New Zealand and Singapore.

‘It is ironic that superannuation funds that invested in residential investment property have provided the best returns for their members over the last 20 years yet don’t want to see individuals investing

their superannuation contributions in real estate. What is the difference between investing in someone else’s home through your super fund and using your super contributions to invest in your own home?

‘REIA believes in the benefits of continuing the high ownership level in Australia, particularly as the population

ages, and strongly encourages the government to help implement solutions that will assist aspiring first homebuyers.

‘The government should be applauded for considering an holistic approach to housing affordability which includes giving access to superannuation for first homebuyers,’ Mr Gunning said.

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Freshly renovated 3 bedroom unit. All the hard work is already done for you. Move in, relax and start embracing the beautiful village lifestyle Brunswick Heads has to offer.

Alternatively purchase as an investment. This property provides the option of both private rental and holiday let.

• Rare 3 bedroom unit, all with built in robes • Brand new kitchen • New flooring throughout • Single lockup garage with storage • Quiet, private location in the complex • Easy stroll to the boat harbour, river, beach,

Mullumbimby 26 Argyle Street

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cafes and the popular Bruns Hotel!

• Ground floor unit, in a private and quiet location at the rear of this well maintained complex.

With the scarcity of 3 bedroom units in town for sale, don’t let this one get away.

Inspect Saturday 11.00 – 11.30am Auction 22/04/2017 at 11.30am onsite Contact Peter Browning 0411 801 795 LJ Hooker Brunswick Heads 02 6685 0177

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Move straight in, not a cent to spend.

• 3 bedrooms with built-ins, master with walkin robe and large ensuite • Bright, light, airy, open plan kitchen, dining, formal lounge • Huge private east-facing covered patio • Easy care, gated, subtropical garden & lawn • Great for small children and pets • 895m2 corner block ideal for a second dwelling • Flat, level, flood-free site Move fast on this one, it won’t last.

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North Ocean Shores 4 Natan Court

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LOCATION, LIFESTYLE & RARE

Yep it’s half full and easy to fill! With this one most of work is done and most buyers are looking for a house to build a granny flat on to get some $$$$$. Check it out.

• 3 bedrooms plus study/office • 2 car accom, huge covered entertaining • Corner location with rear land – 1 neighbour • Walk to Mullum CBD 4FQBSBUF TUVEJP QPUFOUJBM GMBUª Looking for that half-full glass and opportunity? Call me.

Start paying off your new home. Getting into the real estate market is tough now! With prices going up and properties getting harder and harder to find in your budget. Well check this out: • Freestanding duplex • 2 bedrooms, open plan living • High ceilings, plenty of natural light • Quiet location, private flat level yard • Rainwater tank and single LUG Inspect Saturday 12.00 – 12.30pm Contact Peter Browning 0411 801 795 LJ Hooker Brunswick Heads 02 6685 0177

The heading says it all! Located in a quiet cul-de-sac, strolling distance to the beach, canal, farmers market, river and school. An ideal family home or great property for the astute investor.

• 3 bedrooms, double garage • Quiet, children, safe cul-de-sac • 669.5m2, flat-flood free block.

• Fabulous neighbourhood

Inspect Saturday 1.00 – 1.30pm Contact Peter Browning 0411 801 795 LJ Hooker Brunswick Heads 02 6685 0177

Price Owner is looking for offers mid $600s Contact Peter Browning 0411 801 795 LJ Hooker Brunswick Heads 02 6685 0177

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Property Stylish But Simple

Private Paradise in Bangalow

Stylish master-built lifestyle

3 Coomburra Crescent, Ocean Shores

15a Rifle Range Road, Bangalow

4 Hart Court, North Ocean Shores

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Looking for something different? This cosy, elevated home has northerly views of the hinterland and sits on 835m2 block which allows dual occupancy. It catches those noreasterly summer breezes while sheltered from the winter southerlies.

The home itself is a mixture of brick and timber and is tastefully presented throughout with features such as timber raked ceilings and polished timber floors. The house consists of two generous bedrooms with built-ins and fans. The split-system reverse-cycle air-con is a bonus on those hot summer nights or those cold winter evenings.

Underneath the house is a lockup garage with a toilet and a carport alongside. The property will attract buyers, who wish to downsize internal space, small families, or the developer who may wish to add that granny flat.

Open: By appointment Contact: David Holden 0435 789 677 LJ Hooker Brunswick Heads

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If you are looking for something special, then you can’t go past this stunning property. Located a short 800m stroll from the main street of Bangalow, the owners have created a private, coastal oasis on a large 1438sqm block. A substantial two level home with 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms, the architect designed home offers a flexible floor plan, is energy efficient and solar passive.

The upper level of the home has been carefully designed to make the most of the north-eastern aspect, with windows to capture breezes. All three of the bedrooms upstairs are light and airy, and have doors opening out to the north-facing timber verandah and beautiful gardens.

The lower level of the home, with one bedroom, one bathroom and open living space, looks over the gorgeous, landscaped pool area.

With it own private access from Wright Place, with access to off street parking, this space could be used as a home office, parents retreat or guest accommodation.

The owners are committed to selling and will consider offers prior to auction.

Saturdays 10.00 – 10.30am Wednesdays 1.00 – 1.30pm Auction: 6th April – If not sold prior Contact: Janice Maple 0401 026 359 Elders Bangalow 6687 1500

Inspect: By appointment Contact: Caitlin Hellyar 0428 883 815 Raine & Horne Ocean Shores/Brunswick Heads

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Jason Di mar • 13.5 acres with 3 paddocks Area Sales Specialist • Pebble-crete in-ground swimming 0477 222 452 pool.

Julie-Ann Manahan LREA • Large 4-bay farm & livestock shed Licensee/Principal • 14 Panel, 3.5kw solar system 0411 081 118 • 5km to M1 entrance, 8km to Ocean Shores • Just 12 mins to South Golden Beach View Saturday 1.00 – 2.00pm

A stylish and relaxed lifestyle could be yours in this bright and airy single-level master-built home with room for your extended family to come and stay. Set in a peaceful cul-de-sac the quality property is just 4 minutes drive or a 15 minute stroll from the pristine sands of South Golden Beach.

From the moment you enter this inviting residence you’ll notice an ambience of space and light. A wide hallway enhances the sense of spaciousness with high ceilings and a multitude of high set windows to bring the natural light streaming in. There are 4 generous bedrooms with built in robes, walk in robe and ensuite to oversized master and a separate study or private home office.

Open plan living areas flow effortlessly out to the large covered alfresco area overlooking the glistening salt water pool and spa.

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Are you looking to escape the hustle and bustle of modern living? This impeccably maintained property, located in a friendly rural village, Agent offers you peace, serenity and a place Jason Di mar you’ll be proud to call home.

Area Sales Specialist • Set on a large, level 2020 square 0477 222 452 metre block Julie-Ann Manahan LREA • Property comprises main house, separate guest quarters and large Licensee/Principal shed 0411 081 118 • Steel-framed, insulated main house.

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A stylish and relaxed beachside lifestyle could be yours in this bright and airy, Master-built contemporary home and just 4 minutes’ drive or a 15 minute stroll from the pristine sands of South Golden Beach.

• Open plan, high ceilings with a multitude of high-set windows • Sparkling in-ground salt water pool and spa • Large covered Alfresco entertaining • Side access perfect for trailer or boat storage

Agent Caitlin Hellyar Area Sales Specialist 0428 883 815 Julie-Ann Manahan LREA Licensee/Principal 0411 081 118

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Property Solid as a Rock

EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST Close 19 May 2017

11 Bian Court, Ocean Shores 3

For Sale By Owner 6 Strand Ave, New Brighton EXPLORE THE POSSIBILITIES in a vibrant beachside village.

Vacant premises, operated as a successful business for more than 25 years.

Purpose-built but designed to allow 3-bedroom residential if preferred.

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of easy off-street parking 809m² allotment Easy stroll to the beach.

Expressions of Interest close 19th May 2017 To inspect phone 0408 801 594 or email rhondabrowning499@gmail.com

Lot 6 Church Lane, Murwillumbah 591m2 elevated site (zoned R3) in heart of Murwillumbah CBD. Concept plan available for 3 terrace homes/ apartments (STCA) with garages, ensuited bedrooms, decks and views to Mt Warning and river. Lot 1 also available (519m2).

$344,500 plus GST Contact: Belinda Franks 0409 152 200 belinda.franks@raywhite.com

Chance of a lifetime!

‘Le Chop’ is for sale.

To find out more phone 6684 1777 or email adcopy@echo.net.au

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Le Chop produces top shelf specialty timber homeware.

Price $129,000 Contact Mark Cochrane 0416 142 663 Email mark@promullum.com.au

Looking for a house with a difference? This solid, elevated 2 storey residence overlooks the Brunswick River. The land is a corner block consisting of 1024m2 which, subject to council approval lends itself to a dual occupancy.

Ground floor consists of 2 bedrooms, study, laundry and main bathroom. Internal timber staircase is located in a second living area. Both upstairs and downstairs living areas are connected by an open fireplace.

Upstairs consists of living, dining, master bedroom with ensuite and timber kitchen. 9 foot ceilings give the home a feel of grandeur.

Conveniently located it is a 10 minute walk to Ocean Shores Shopping Village or Brunswick Heads CBD.

Open: By appointment Contact: David Holden 0435 789 677 LJ Hooker Brunswick Heads

Open for inspection BYRON BAY BEACH REALTY • 3/53 Brandon Street, Suffolk Park. Wed 5–5.30pm and Sat 1–1.30pm

ELDERS BANGALOW • 15a Rifle Range Road, Bangalow. Wed 1–1.30pm and Sat 10–10.30am • 39 Granuaille Road, Bangalow. Sat 11–11.30am • 3 Blackwood Crescent, Bangalow. Sat 12–12.30pm

FIRST NATIONAL BYRON BAY • 8-10 New City Road, Mullumbimby. Thu 11–11.30am and Sat 10–10.30am • 35/12 Hazelwood Close, Suffolk Park. Thu 11.30am–12pm and Sat 1–1.30pm • 892 Main Arm Road, Main Arm. Thu 12–12.30pm and Sat 12–12.30pm • 209 Binna Burra Road, Binna Burra. Thu 12.30–1pm and Sat 1.30–2pm • 5 Palm Avenue, Mullumbimby. Thu 1.30–2pm and Sat 10.45–11.15am • 23 Ann Street, Mullumbimby. Thu 2.30–3pm and Sat 10–10.30am • 111 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby. Thu 3–3.30pm and Sat 10–10.30am • 13 Rajah Road, Ocean Shores. Thu 4–4.40pm and Sat 9–9.30am • 15 Evans Street, Byron Bay. Thu 5–5.30pm and Sat 12–12.30pm • 6A–D/155 Broken Head Road, Suffolk Park. Fri 10–10.30am • 14 Orchid Place, Mullumbimby. Fri 11–11.30am and Sat 9–9.30am • 113 Paterson Street, Byron Bay. Fri 2–2.30pm • 5/15–17 Mullumbimbi Street, Brunswick Heads. Sat 8.30–9am • 8 Pecan Court, Suffolk Park. Sat 9–9.30am • House 5, 2 Alcorn Street, Suffolk Park. Sat 10–10.30am • 6–8 Browning Street, Byron Bay. Sat 10–10.30am • 110 Broken Head Rd, Newrybar. Sat 10–10.30am • 256 Dingo Lane, Myocum. Sat 11–11.30am • 4 Staghorn Court, Bangalow. Sat 11–11.30am • 39 Sunrise Boulevard, Byron Bay. Sat 11–11.30am • 11 Shelley Drive, Byron Bay. Sat 11–11.30am • 1/26 Pacific Vista Drive, Byron Bay. Sat 12–12.30pm • 311 Booyong Road, Nashua. Sat 12–12.30pm • 1533 Nimbin Road, Koonorigan. Sat 2–2.30pm • 478 Tuntable Creek Road, Tuntable Creek. Sat 3–3.30pm

• 3 Kolora Way, North Ocean Shores. Sat 12–12.30pm • 1/4 Halyard Court, North Ocean Shores. Sat 12–12.30pm • 5A Aloota Crescent, Ocean Shores. Sat 12–12.30pm • 2 Nargoon Court, Ocean Shores. Sat 1–1.30pm • 15 Gilba Avenue, Ocean Shores. Sat 1–1.30pm

LOIS BUCKETT REAL ESTATE LENNOX HEAD • 14 Lindsay Avenue, Cumbalum. Sat 11–11.30am • 1 Seabreeze Place, Lennox Head. Sat 11–11.30am • 1 Sapphire Place, Lennox Head. Sat 12–12.30pm • 6 Tara Downs, Lennox Head. Sat 12–12.30pm

MCGRATH BYRON BAY • 7 Tinderbox Road, Talofa. Thu 12.30–1pm and Sat 11.30am–12pm • 6 Hilltop Place, Lennox Head. Thu 6–6.30pm and Sat. 12–12.30pm • 26A Alcorn Street, Suffolk Park. Sat 10–10.30am • 11 McLeans Street, Skennars Head. Sat 10–10.30am • 18 Corkwood Crescent, Suffolk Park. Sat 10.30–11.00am • 177 Broken Head Road, Byron Bay. Sat 11–11.30am • 15 Red Bean Close, Suffolk Park. Sat 12–12.30pm • 10B Cooper Street, Byron Bay. Sat 1–1.30pm • 133 Foresters Way, Tintenbar. Sat 12.45–1.15pm • 1533 Nimbin Road, Koonorigan. Sat 2-2.30pm • 5 Dalziell Street, Lismore. Sat 2–2.30pm • 478 Tuntable Creek Road, Tuntable Creek. Sat 3–3.30pm

PROFESSIONALS MULLUMBIMBY • 2 Palm Ave, Mullumbimby. Sat 11–11.45am

RAINE & HORNE OCEAN SHORES • Lot 2 Crabbes Creek Road, Crabbes Creek. Sat 1–2pm • 9 Pottsville Road, Mooball. Sat 11am–12pm

Auctions

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• 3/53 Brandon Street, Suffolk Park. Sat 1st April 1.30pm onsite

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LOIS BUCKETT REAL ESTATE LENNOX HEAD • 2 Satinwood Drive, McLeans Ridges. 11am Sat 29th April onsite • 1 Seabreeze Place, Lennox Head. 11am Sat 6th May onsite

MCGRATH BYRON BAY • 138 Alcorn Street, Suffolk Park. Sat 1st April 11am • 10B Cooper Street, Byron Bay. Fri 7th April 1pm • 7 Tinderbox Road, Talofa. Sat 8th April 10.30am • 15 Red Bean Close, Suffolk Park. Sat 8th April 2.30pm • 26A Alcorn Street, Suffolk Park. Sat 22nd April 11am • 177 Broken Head Road, Byron Bay. Sat 29th April 10.30am • 11 McLeans Street, Skennars Head. Sat 29th April 11.30am • 18 Corkwood Crescent, Suffolk Park. Sat 29th April 3pm

RAINE & HORNE OCEAN SHORES • 77 Orana Road, Ocean Shores. Saturday 8th April

New Listings ELDERS BANGALOW • 39 Granuaille Road, Bangalow $1,100,000 to $1,200,000 • 3 Blackwood Crescent, Bangalow $790,000 to $840,000

FIRST NATIONAL BYRON BAY • 3/26 Paterson Street, Byron Bay. Auction. Guide $780,000 to $840,000 • House 5, 2 Alcorn Street, Suffolk Park. $2,050,000 to $2,250,000 • 13 Rajah Road, Ocean Shores. Please call Tara.

• 35/12 Hazelwood Close, Suffolk Park. $795,000 to $840,000 • 2 Ironbark Avenue, Byron Bay. Auction

LOIS BUCKETT REAL ESTATE LENNOX HEAD • 1 Seabreeze Place, Lennox Head. Contact Agent

• 59 Weis Lane, Rous. Sat 11–11.30am • 2/5–7 Newberry Parade, Brunswick Heads. Thu 11–11.30am and Sat 11–11.30am • 167 Shara Boulevard, North Ocean Shores. Thu 12–12.30pm and Sat 11–11.30am • 20 Yamble Drive, Ocean Shores. Sat 11–11.30am

• 209 Binna Burra Road, Binna Burra. Auction Sat 8th April 4pm • 15 Evans Street, Byron Bay. Auction Sat 22nd April if not sold prior

ELDERS BANGALOW • 15a Rifle Range Road, Bangalow. Thu 6th April

MCGRATH BYRON BAY • 52 Killarney Cresent, Skennars Head • 5 Dalziel Street, Lismore • 177 Broken Head Road, Byron Bay

FIRST NATIONAL BYRON BAY

RAINE & HORNE OCEAN SHORES

• 5 Palm Avenue, Mullumbimby. Auction Sat 8th April 2pm

• 595 The Pocket Road, The Pocket

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And Only the Best Results Will Do? The team at RAINE & HORNE OCEAN SHORES bring experience, expertise and excellent sales records. Our experience will ensure and maximise the results you get for your property.

Call Julie-Ann Manahan today 6680 5000 / 0411 081 118

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Flow Hive harvesting Two local cookbooks at Eden at Byron By: Simon Haslam

Aslan Shand Ever thought you’d like to learn more about bees? Eden at Byron are harvesting honey from their Flow Hive for the first time this Saturday 1 April and have decided that they are going to make it all about the bee.

Wild Tahini in the tucker box There have been many changes at the Byron Arts & Industry Estate recently. It’s a thriving place. There are new buildings sprouting up, new businesses in old buildings, and the streets are so busy that there are cars everywhere, which makes finding a healthy cafe to relax in even more important. As you turn into Banksia Drive (the A&I Estate entrance closest to Byron) Wild Tahini Cafe is the second driveway on the left, just near Onboard Industries. For those with memories, it’s on the old Tucker Box site.

The honey harvest will begin at 9.30am and Flow Hive inventor Cedar Anderson will be on hand to share in the excitement. Cedar will then take the chance to talk about the Flow Hive, its invention and management.

Families are welcome with a treasure hunt, seed planting and colouring in along with a range of experts talking on topics.

There will giveaways throughout the day and talks will cover looking after bees in your garden, sustainable gardening and soil health, to the importance of the more than 1,660 native Australian bees and how to make your garden bee friendly.

Wild Tahini Cafe has now been operating for 17 months, and the Tucker Box has undergone what new owner/chef Lisa McCafferty calls a ‘huge transformation’.

Inside there is bar seating and a Kasbah table with cushions on the floor for the chillout crowd. Outside there is plenty of seating in the shade, among native trees and herb gardens, where tradies mix with Byron’s version of the office executive set.

Lisa has more than 30 years’ experience, including cooking on luxury yachts and for special-events companies in Port Douglas, her home of 20 years before Byron.

Nearly everything is made onsite. The menu is varied: mezze plates, falafel wraps, gourmet burgers, healthy salads, curries, pastries, fresh sandwiches and rolls mix it with breakfast pockets and burritos. As you’d expect in a true Byron cafe, there are many gluten-free, vego and vegan options, using free-range products and local suppliers.

The coffee is from local growers Zentvelds, but you can also get turmeric lattes and acai smoothies. For those with a sweet tooth there are bliss balls and chocolate by Sara McCafferty.

New things are on the horizon for the cafe too; expect live music and extended Wed/Thurs night opening hours. The site is available for catering or functions for any occasion. Go to Wild Tahini Cafe Facebook site for details.

For those chained to their desks in paradise, the cafe also offers free delivery from 11.30am till 2pm within the Sunrise / A&I area.

Wild Tahini Cafe, 1/1B Banksia Drive, Arts & Industry Estate, Byron. Open: 7am till 3pm daily. 8.30am till 1.30pm on Saturdays. Open Easter from 9am till 2pm. Ph 6685 6821

Honey completes the perfect pair Once you’ve harvested your honey, you will obviously looking for a naked body to smear it on, then lick it off. While you are searching, Alison Drover has some other excellent uses for it.

By: Alison Drover Honey. I worship the bees. I drizzle it daily added to breakfast or my lunch dressing, sometimes finishing a winter day with a mug of warm milk and cinnamon before bed, or with lemon, water and mint in summer. If I cut myself in the garden I reach for my medicinal honey. The golden bliss, its natural viscosity, its taste and remedy makes it a miracle food as is the bee, the miracle worker, as its role of pollination is critical to ensuring the future of our food.

Honey-roasted autumn pears with rosemary and thyme · 6 firm but ripe pears (such as Williams or Beurre Bosc) · sprigs of rosemary and thyme · lemon zest

Locals Remy Tancred (of Sample Food Festival and now Byron Bay Fine Food Festival fame) and photographer Nelly le Comte released A taste of the region a third edition of Byron Bay – a food journey through the region, a 208-page cookbook that includes three distinct food routes commencing in Byron then venturing south, over the hills to the west, and finishing in the north, as well as easy-to-follow recipes that will impress at your next dinner party! Available at www. byronbay-cookbook.com or info@samplensw.com.

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Nelly le Comte Remy Tancred

Happy and Whole The debut 256-page cookbook by award-winning meteorologist and television presenter Magdalena Roze, whose TV career included not only being a weather presenter but also cohosting The Project, is about more than just wholefood recipes and ideas; it’s also a kind of guide to achieving a balanced lifestyle, and creating rituals that nourish both body and soul. It’s organised around chapters devoted to the weather and the sorts of foods we crave in those conditions. Roze is well qualified to distinguish humid from other weather conditions; she not only has a Grad Dip of Atmospheric Science from Macquarie University, but also won the 2009 Biophysical Environments Prize and the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society Prize for her academic achievements.

The book contains some wonderful photographs by Rob Palmer, including many of Magdalena herself, who lives in Byron Bay with her partner Darren Robertson of Byron’s Three Blue Ducks fame and their 1-year-old son Archie.

Magdalena was a reviewer for the 2015 and 2016 SMH Good Food Guides and is a regular contributor to Delicious magazine. The book is published by Pan McMillan, will be released in April, and is available from good bookstores in Byron from this week.

Preheat oven to 200ºC (180ºC fan forced). Peel and halve the pears. Carefully remove the core from the pears. Rub butter over the base of a shallow ovenproof dish just large enough to hold the pears in one layer. Place the pear halves in the dish cut side down. Drizzle with the honey, rosemary, thyme and bake for 30 minutes, basting occasionally with the juices, or until the pears are just tender and caramelised underneath.

The perfect ‘pair’!

Discover sake at OSushi If you are reading this on Wednesday 29 March, book now for a wonderful opportunity to find out about the traditions of sake, the different styles, types, regions, history and traditions from OSushi’s Japanese sake expert and brewer, Tarzan.

Ordinary and premium sakes are distinguished mainly by the degree to which the rice is polished to remove the bran, the addition of brewer’s alcohol or the filtering, which can removed the good flavours along with the bad. Sake can be served chilled, at room temperature or heated depending on the preference of the drinker, the quality of the sake and the season. A low-quality or old sake will often be served hot, which removes flavours.

Although most sake does not age particularly well, specially made konshu sake can age for decades, turning yellow and

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acquiring a honeyed flavour.

As you would expect with a drink that has been brewed in Japan for more than 1,000 years, what is known in English as sake is bound up with rich regional traditions of Japanese sake brewing and culture, and OSushi’s sake night is a wonderful opportunity to discover the magic of Japanese culture though this unique drink.

The sake tasting is complimentary to dinner guests from 6pm Wednesday 29 March only. These events are very popular. Call 02 6685 7103 to book. Shop 15 Jonson St, Woolworths Plaza.

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The Good Life Neil Perry headlines premium Byron food festival dinner The inaugural Byron Bay Fine Food & Beverage Festival has announced Neil Perry AM as guest chef at the festival’s highly anticipated opening night Mixed Dozen Gala Dinner on Friday 2 June.

Neil Perry is one of Australia’s most influential and recognised chefs. Under his leadership, the Rockpool Group became Australia’s most-awarded restaurant group, earning 15 Good Food Guide chefs hats across seven different dining experiences. Neil heads up Rockpool Consulting, which oversees menus for Qantas International First and Business travellers. He is the author or nine cookbooks and has featured as a television presenter for The Lifestyle Channel.

But Neil is just one part of a stellar lineup of one dozen acclaimed chefs set to take over the Elements of Byron Resort kitchen for one night only for the Mixed Dozen Gala Dinner.

Sean Connelly – The Balcony Bar and Oyster Co, Katrina and Karl Kanetani – TOWN Restaurant and CafÊ, Bret Cameron – Harvest, Gavin Hughes – Byron at Byron Resort and Spa, Carlo Magnabosco – Beach Byron Bay, and Monique Guterres – Seaweed Cuisine.

This is a great event for local fine-food lovers.

Book a taxi now. Tickets for the Mixed Dozen Gala Dinner are $185 per person and include canapĂŠs upon arrival, a six-course menu designed and prepared by our acclaimed chefs, and stunning wines from our 12 Australian festival wineries.

Tickets for the Byron Bay Fine Food & Beverage Festival on Saturday 3 June in the The other 11 acclaimed chefs in the kitchen are local favourites grounds of the award-winning Elements of Byron Resort are now on sale at Ben Devlin – Paper Daisy, Steven Snow – Fins, Darren www.samplefoodevents.com.

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Eating Out Guide BALLINA

BYRON BAY

Ballina RSL Club River St, Ballina 6681 9500 www.ballinarsl.com.au Open 7 Days from 8am Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Snacks

Boardwalk Buffet Breakfast

Basiloco Ristorante Pizzeria

Sunday 2 April from 8am Adult $19.90 Child 12 Years and Under $9.90 Under 5 Years Free

Open Wed to Mon from 6pm Closed on Tuesdays See menu, book a table, or order take away at www.basilo.co 30 Lawson Street 6680 8818

Safya Cafe and Restaurant

BANGALOW

Bangalow Dining Rooms

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6687 1144

Enjoy our balcony restaurant, intimate dining room and generous bistro food in the pub. With reasonable prices our menu reflects the wonderful local and fresh produce of the region.

SMH GOOD PUB Large groups welcome.

FOOD GUIDE We also offer off-site catering.

2013 AND 2014 www.bangalowdining.com

BILLINUDGEL

Billi’s Indian

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Open Tuesday – Sunday 4.30pm to late Closed Monday 8 Wilfred St, Billinudgel BYO. Credit cards 6680 3352

AUTHENTIC INDIAN RESTAURANT • Chef specials every night • Exciting New Menu • 10% off for seniors every day • Catering available for parties • Vegan and gluten free food available • Complimentary papadams if pre-booked!

Pacific Bistro

FUNCTION CENTRE

www. brunswickbowlingclub. com.

Old Pacific Highway Brunswick Heads Phone 6685 1328

Corner of Fletcher St & Bay Lane, Byron Bay

The Rocks @ Aquarius Breakfast/Lunch 7 days from 7am 16 Lawson St, Byron Bay Reservations 6685 7663 therocksbyronbay.com.au

Success Thai Mon-Fri 12-3pm Dinner 7 days from 5pm.

3/109 Jonson St, Byron Bay 6680 7798 www.facebook.com/ pages/Success-ThaiFood/237359826303469

BRUNSWICK HEADS

The Pacific Bistro &

Open Mon–Fri 6.30am– 4pm Sat–Sun 7am–4pm

$10 Lunch Special Mon–Fri, nothing over $20 Weekend roasts Specialising in Chargrilled steaks, great seafood, handmade pasta.

Enjoy a family dining atmosphere with a kids menu available.

Function bookings available

Lemongrass Dinner Mon-Sun Lunch on weekdays Closed Tuesdays Shop 3/17 Lawson Arcade Phone orders welcome 6680 8443

Naked Treaties RAW Bar

BYRON BAY

Fishheads 7:30am till late Coffee, breakfast, lunch, dinner, functions and weddings.

Fully licensed.

1 Jonson St, Byron Bay 6680 7632

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SENSATIONAL SEAFOOD *BEACHFRONT DINING* Open seven days Group bookings welcome functions@fishheadsbyron.com.au www.fishheadsbyron.com.au

Wood fired pizzas & real Italian cuisine with a Sardinian twist Famous for seafood, meats and pasta dishes.

We do special events functions.

Cafe: Specialty Coffee with Egyptian-inspired all-day breakfast, brunch & lunch Restaurant: Traditional Egyptian shared-style dining – Starting in March The Rocks @ Aquarius has been beautifully renovated, and boasts a wide array of locally sourced brekky dishes, Byron Bay Coffee and fresh juices and smoothies to enliven the senses and prepare you for the day ahead. Late riser?

Join us for lunch 12–2pm, when you can grab a selection of burgers, salads, fresh rolls or one of our daily $10 specials!

Here at The Rocks, we are a fully licensed cafe, which means you can enjoy an ice-cold beer, a sumptuous wine or a handcrafted cocktail with your meal!

SPECIAL $12 LUNCH AND DINNER MENU All your favourites every lunch and dinner Experienced Thai chefs cooking fresh delicious Thai food for you.

Fully Licensed and B.Y.O. for wine.

Welcome for lunch, dinner and take-away.

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. It’s a popular spot so bookings are recommended.

LIVING FOOD, LOVING VIBRATION

Raw, Vegan, Local, Organic Nourishing Vegan, Raw + Cooked, Plant based and Paleo. Gluten, Dairy food, Epic Smoothies, Organic Coffee and Chai and Sugar free.

on our Creamy House-Made Almond Mylk.

2/3 Marvell St

www.nakedtreaties.com.au 7am–4pm, 7 days + Friday Nights coming soon!

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Main Street

Gourmet burgers created by chefs

Open 7 days 11.30am until late Call to make a reservation or for takeaway orders

Cocktails, wine and beers served all damn day.

Group bookings available, please email mainstreetburgerbar@gmail.com for reservations.

18 Jonson Street 6680 8832

Luscious Foods

Good Taste

Contemporary and Middle Eastern flavours

Mon-Fri 7.30am–3pm

• Breakfast and lunch • Wood-fired pizzas • Fresh juices • Great coffee Pizza deliveries now available Thursday, Friday, Saturday nights to Sunrise, Arts & Industry Estate and Ewingsdale

1/6 Tasman Way, Byron Arts & Industry Estate BYO & RSVP 6680 8228 www.lusciousfoods.com.au

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Legend Pizza Open 7 days 9am till after midnight Shop 1 Woolworths Plaza 90-96 Jonson Street 6685 5700 www.legendpizza.com.au

Byron Bay’s first 100% vegan restaurant.

Ethical. Compassionate. Healthy. Delicious.

Daily Lunch Specials from $13, Full menu all day, Take away & home delivery, large range of gluten free dishes Facebook/Instagram: @thebeetbyronbay

Open 7 days 11am–10pm (last orders at 9:30pm) Shop 6 Woolworths Plaza 90-96 Jonson Street Bookings: 6685 6520 www.thebeet.com.au

Treehouse on Belongil

Targa Cafe • Restaurant • Bar 11 Marvell Street

New summer menu out now!

Share plates, mains, desserts and famous Treehouse wood-fired pizza. Our kitchen is open all day and night.

Presenting incredible original music in Byron’s most intimate atmosphere.

Check our website or Facebook for the gig guide. facebook.com/treehouse.belongil treehouseonbelongil.com

Full Cocktail & Wine Bar. Extensive Menu Includes Tapas, Mains, Desserts and Famous Woodfired Pizzas.

25 Childe St, Byron Bay 6680 9452

Byron Bay 6680 9960 targabyronbay.com targabyronbay@gmail.com

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BYO Home delivery 7 days Established 1992

Modern European Breakfast/Lunch: 7 days from 7am Dinner: Tues-Sat from 5.30pm Bar: From 10am, with or without food Coffee: Genovese, all day Venue: available for events up to 60 guests Wi-Fi

KINGSCLIFF

Italian at the Pacific

Fins

Open for Dinner & Cocktails 7 days from 6pm till late Next to the Beach Hotel Bay Street 6680 7055 italianatthepacific.com.au

FRESH PIZZA BYRON STYLE

Italian at the Pacific provides a bustling atmospheric restaurant, dishing up contemporary inspired Italian cuisine and some of Byron’s finest cocktails and wines.

Salt Village, Kingscliff 6674 4833 dining@fins.com.au Dinner daily 5-10pm.

Lunch Fri-Sun 12-3pm.

GOOD FOOD GUIDE CHEFS HAT EVERY YEAR SINCE 1998

Celebrating 25 years Fins is the destination restaurant for fine local seafood.

Long lazy lunches on our veranda.

Afternoon oysters, Champagne and cocktails in our RAW BAR. Intimate fine dining of an evening.

Proudly awarded Chef Hats for the past 22 years

Happy Chilli Garden Open 7 days 12pm till late Byron St (opp Aldi) Byron Bay P 6680 9191 F 6676 4869 M 0403 516 793 happychilligarden@hotmail.com

Hong Kong chef specialising in Chinese and Malay foods

Situated away from the busy street with a relaxing and breezy atmosphere. Locally sourcing fresh products.

New brekkie menu and an alternative Asian lunch.

Kid friendly and featuring gluten-free, vegan options.

Group and functions bookings are welcomed. Takeaway available. One special dish every Monday till Thursday and earlybird regular coffee for $3 till 9am.

3/ 8 Byron Street, Byron Bay, next to Centrelink.

P 6685 5711 Open daily from 8am till 3pm.

Fully licensed, BYO wine only

Byron at Byron

Peaceful dining by our tranquil rainforest

77–97 Broken Head Road, Byron Bay

Open seven days: breakfast, lunch & dinner

Open Wednesday–Sunday Dine-in or Takeaway– from 5.30pm 6684 2209 Mullumbimby Bowling Club

3/14 Bay St (opposite the surf club) 7am–5pm daily Dine in or takeaway 6685 5194

Hog’s Breath Cafe Open 7 Days, 11.30am-2.30pm Dinner from 5.30pm 9/4 Jonson St, Byron Bay 6685 5320 www.hogsbreath.com.au

20 years’ experience in the art of Thai cooking.

Harvest sprawls across three lovingly restored buildings featuring a restaurant, deli and bakery in the historic village of Newrybar in the Byron Bay hinterland.

18-22 Old Pacific Highway Lunch 7 days from 12pm Newrybar NSW 2479 Dinner 7 nights from 6pm Breakfast weekends from 8am 6687 2644 Harvest Deli open from 8am with weekday breakfast available - Deli takeaway coffee from 7am harvestcafe.com.au Harvest is available for events, weddings and catering

Harvest

SUFFOLK PARK

Tullys

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.

Hidden away in the heart of the Suffolk shops, with shop 12a, lot 3, Clifford St, indoor/outdoor seating and a tropical outlook, Suffolk Park shopping Tullys has a relaxed and casual vibe centre Serving up 5-star breakfast, lunch and takeaway options 0438 933 148 Open 7 days 6.30am–2pm INSTAGRAM @tullys_place tullysplace.suffolkpark@ gmail.com

www.stelmodining.com

Warung Bagus

Experience the real taste of Thailand.

Using local produce, local staff.

Free courtesy bus provided for pick up and drop off!

NEWRYBAR

Thursday Farmers Market Dinner 2 courses $52 per person

6639 2111 thebyronatbyron.com.au

Mon-Sat: 5pm till late.

Sun: 5pm till 10pm.

Cnr Fletcher St and Lawson Lane, Byron Bay 6680 7426

Spice It Up Thai Restaurant

Fully licensed Dine In / Takeaway / Home Delivery Available

Succulent Café

St Elmo Dining Room & Bar

MULLUMBIMBY

Casual beachfront cafe with indoor/outdoor seating and sea views.

All-day breakfast, Indonesian lunch, plus snacks and coffee, juices, smoothies and cakes.

Gluten-free specialists with a great variety of vegan options plus beef, chicken and fish.

Follow us! @warungbagusbyronbay Hog’s Breath Cafe’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, kid’s meals, a range of Lite Options, plus their famous Prime Rib Steak – slow cooked for up to 18 hours for maximum flavour and tenderness. Kids eat free Mon – Wed nights and you can grab lunch for just $9.90, so there’s something to please the whole family.

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OPEN YOUR HIPS SINGING YOUR RADIANCE AND YOUR HEART WILL FOLLOW V I S I O N A RY M U S I C A L A RT I ST TINA MALIA AND HER SONIC C R E AT I O N S F E AT U R E AT T H I S

BY RO N S P I R I T F E ST I VA L .

T H I S W E E K S E E S BY RO N S P I R I T F E ST I VA L TA K E T H E F E ST I VA L O F T H E B O DY TO T H E ST R E E T S O F M U L L U M B I M BY.

‘Music, through its sheer beauty, has the power to free the heart, uplift the soul and connect communities all over the world. When we gather together to sing, dance, pray, and remember our connection to life and one another, we are touched by the simple act of love moving through sound,’ says Tina, who shared some of her insights with The Echo.

Tahl Rinsky is co-owner and practitioner for Creature Yoga.

For her, yoga involves a very individual approach that brings the community together as one.

Tall teaches Vinysa, a form of yoga that synchronises breath with movement or purposeful placement.

‘It’s a container to all forms of yoga,’ says Tahl. ‘It came out of Astanga and Iyengar. I am strongly rooted in Iyengar.’

Moving from student to teacher was a big part of the yoga journey for Tahl.

‘It takes time to develop your teacher personality – or whatever you want to call it! It’s your human personality, your other roles in life, your spiritual roles – and it blends together with the teacher. For me the process has been about coming into my own style of teaching. It’s about all the elements of myself.

When you start teaching you have a teacher personality that you feel you have to wear, but for me it’s through the process and the posture and practice you start to realise yourself or to realise your own power all those things. For me a teacher is a mirror. My teacher Dina says this all the time: I am here to hold up the mirror. I understood that, but it took me many years to really embody it…’

How does music free the heart?

I think music frees the heart by bypassing the intellect and reaching a place of pure emotion. So often we feel constricted because we spend so much time overthinking everything. Music gives us a chance to let go of this and relax into our true nature.

What is the connection between music and spirituality and how did you find yourself on this journey?

Not all music has a spiritual intention, but I think you’d find that most forms of spirituality and religion have some type of music connected to them. Music is a wonderful conduit for expressing love toward the divine, whatever that version is. I have always found myself attracted to this particular conduit, in fact much more so than actual religions or philosophies themselves.

Chanting and singing for peace changes both the person making the music as well as those listening. We can only change the world by changing ourselves, and the practice of chanting with the intention of peace does just that.

What happens when you sing your mantras?

When I sing or repeat mantras, there is a great tide of release that comes over me, even in places I didn’t know I was holding fear or stress. I’ve had firsthand experience with it being incredibly effective at overcoming depression, and for this reason I truly consider it a medicine.

Can we make love through sound?

What should we expect for Spirit Festival?

Most of the best lovemaking in my life has been through sound, ha ha! It is a language unto itself, a way to express love more intimately than often words can do.

We will be singing, playing and celebrating our beautiful and fragile existence on Earth. We will be playing songs in English, Sanskrit, Spanish, Hebrew and whatever other way we can think of to make love with the divine spirit in all of us!

Can we actually sing for peace? Does chanting for peace actually change anything?

Yes, of course we can actually sing for peace! It is happening right now, all over the planet, at all times.

Don’t miss Tina Malia at Spirit Festival this weekend. To find out about the program or buy tickets go to Please visit the www.spiritfestival.com.au.

Yoga isn’t just exercise, it is very often a place where people go to deep emotional places.

‘We live outside our body a lot. We are very disconnected from our bodies and becoming a bit worse in the digital age, as we connect through each other through devices.

Yoga is not just about stretching hamstrings and having loose open hips!’

‘People cry in yoga all the time. People who are new to yoga get surprised when they just want to cry! I think we are there to release and come into our selves and in that process you hold into stuff. In yoga when you feel like that you are just letting go of the crap. Our body holds secrets; there is stuff that is in there that you don’t know is there!’

At Spirit Festival, Tahl will be teaching two yoga classes, one focused on joy, and the other on forgiveness.

Byron Spirit Festival, Friday–Sunday.

To find out about the program or buy tickets go to www.spiritfestival.com.au.

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ENTERTAINMENT open our minds to the vastness of possibility. Where do socks go? Lost socks can’t all be lost.

They must still exist somewhere.

Is there a sock-shaped hole in the universe? You may think this S E E M O R E O F M A N DY O N is insane. But it’s eminently more E C H O N E T DA I LY sensible than David ‘Avocado W W W. E C H O. N E T. A U /S OA P - B OX instead of a Brain’ Wolfe’s declaration that gravity is a toxin and that Earth is flat. I suspect his socks leave him in disgust all the time. (Perhaps the only way out is to commit sock suicide in the nutribullet.)

I have 132 odd socks. Each week Lone socks are never returned All socks go missing. That is a the count goes up. I gather them to the sock drawer. They are fact. You don’t need a particle in a basket in my laundry in the shelved in a lost-sock basket accelerator the size of the hope that one day they will be awaiting reunion. Once a week galaxy to prove that. You just re-united with their lost sock I sit cross-legged on the carpet need a washing machine. Now mates. The basket of lost socks and organise a lineup. Sadly, I accept that there is some was started as a place of hope, the prospects aren’t good. I only explainable sock loss. Perhaps but now after years of hanging manage to achieve about a five one is dropped, balled up and onto partnerless socks I realise per cent hook-up rate. And so tucked in the shoe on the way that for many of my foot-based the mountain of disassociated from the soccer field to the car. friends that it’s become time to socks continues to grow.

Perhaps one is lodged in the declare many of them a ‘cold dark crevice of the dryer. There This has caused me to case’. There is no hope. The lost seriously ponder one of the may be a sock in the school sock isn’t coming back. It’s gone. most common domestic bag. Lost property. One under This is not because of existential crises. This is a shared your bed. Up your bum.

Even if we were to electronically carelessness or an inconsistent phenomenon. Something so track these socks I think it would methodology. I am mundane we have lost sight still only account for a very small persistent and rigorous in my of the magic. So let’s ask that percentage and still leave us management of displaced socks. question one more time, but

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SOCK THEORY

Live Music SPLENDOUR IN THE GRASS LOCAL TIX Okay, the dates have been set and local tickets are going to be on sale at the Hotel Great Northern on Sunday from 10am until 4pm. That’s for all you Splendour lovers who live locally with postcodes from 2478 through to 2484.

Residents can purchase up to four tickets.

Be at the Hotel Great Northern early. No cash sales or eftpos – it’s credit and debit cards only! This is the 17th Splendour in the Grass, and is hitting the North

Byron Parklands 21, 22 and 23 July this year! To make purchasing easier you can set up a Moshtix account in advance on moshtix.com.au, and to find out more about local tix, email answers@ splendourinthegrass.com.

DIBBS ON TOM When someone tells you they are off on a road trip you would usually expect they are heading up or down the coast for the weekend. That was definitely not the case with UK musician Tom Dibb.

In his trusty 1989 VW T25 camper van named Pickle,

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with an alarming number of unaccounted-for socks. These socks still exist. But not here.

These socks cause me to wonder if it’s in fact not misplacement at all, just ‘placement’ somewhere else. What if socks aren’t actually lost at all? Just existing in another dimension. Our socks have become interdimensional time travellers. I mean, didn’t that astronaut say ‘one small step for man’? And what do you wear while making that small step? A sock.

What if our socks were time travelling without us? String Theory provides the answer.

The point-like particles of physics aren’t points at all.

String Theory suggests they are one-dimensional strings propagating through space. In string theory we don’t just have the four dimensions of height, width, length and Einstein’s crack at explaining spacetime. In string theory we have up to ten dimensions. That’s right. There are currently six dimensions I haven’t yet searched for missing socks. These universes co-exist somewhere along the string, perhaps a moment behind, or

TOM DIBB AT THE BYRON BREWERY ON SATURDAY

a moment after exactly where you are right now. Somewhere in another dimension I haven’t even bought the sock yet, so not only is it not lost, it doesn’t yet exist. So the question posed in multi-dimensional sock time is: ‘Can I lose something that doesn’t yet exist?’ Or perhaps, an even more complex question: ‘Can I find something I haven’t yet lost?’

I am wondering whether what we are talking about here is S-Duality. (S being for Sock I think.) This is where two seemingly different physical systems turn out to be equivalent in a non-trivial way.

Think about it. Socks are the manifestation of duality. They come in twos. They are identical.

Even a one-legged man must purchase two socks before he wears just one.

I have written to Dr Brian Greene, the world-renowned particle physicist and cosmologist who is striving to solve the most pertinent riddle of our time: String Theory. You see, while it hasn’t been disproven, it still hasn’t been proven. The lost-sock phenomenon could in fact be the clue. Dr Greene is perplexing about this cosmic riddle but the answer is right under his nose. On his foot. His sock. I have worked it out. A housewife’s guide to the galaxy.

Sock Theory. Once we nail that we save the world. And we get our socks back.

Bandaluzia Flamenco & Flamenqueando Productions presents

APRIL 1 The Byron 8–10pm

Theatre

Tickets available through www.byroncentre.com.au or at the venue subject to availability

Tom has already travelled almost halfway around the world, leaving London in February 2016, on an adventure of a lifetime.

The English artist has been performing his way through 27 countries, across Europe, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, and South East Asia. Reaching Australia recently, Tom and his trio

are now making their way through our sun-soaked land with their brand of roots, folk and reggae music.

You can catch Tom Dibb Trio and his van Pickle at the Byron Bay Brewery on Saturday from 7pm.

Free entry.

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BANDALUZIA FLAMENCO AT THE BYRON THEATRE AT THE COMMUNITY CENTRE ON SATURDAY

FLAMENCO FOR U Bandaluzia is an acclaimed modern flamenco ensemble led by ARIA-nominated guitarist Damian Wright.

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They have just released the EP Shake the Hand that Picks the Fight. They hit the Northern this week. Jimmy Vann, lead singer and guitarist, spoke with The Echo.

What did you set out to achieve recording your EP Shake the Hand that Picks the Fight?

We wanted to test ourselves with our sound, and further build on what we have going as a band. Harder to Find was a song that meant a lot to us, not only lyrically but musically; it was a step towards the direction we want to be heading. What does it mean exactly, the EP title?

The EP name is about disguising and turning a blind eye from the truth. Trying to shut out what you can’t face with temporary reliefs and escapes, which we’ve all done at times – living on a constant high to escape from what’s real. It’s the idea that it’s easy to throw yourself into the deep end but it’s much harder to get out. It was initially inspired by the track Harder to Find.

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In 2014 Damian was invited to perform as a solo artist at The Rajasthan International Folk Festival, and in 2016 performed at The Shanghai Fringe Festival.

Damian was invited this year to perform at the biannual Adelaide International Guitar Festival curated by Slava Grigoryan. Bandaluzia was recently awarded The Pick Skinny Legs was one of the first tracks written for the EP. It’s Of the Sydney Fringe at The reminiscing about a band member’s breakup with an ex-girlfriend. Sydney Fringe Festival and Joker is definitely one of our top tunes to play live. The song’s performed to a sold-out about how people may see us as fools, spending our money on Sydney Opera House Concert dumb shit and staying up all night. It’s an ‘I don’t give a damn Hall as an invited artist to what ya think’ song. Just let your hair out and sink a few.

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How do you guys write your music? Does it change much They are joined by Naike when you get into the studio?

Ponce, the extraordinary We’ve been writing more solidly as a band recently with tracks dancer whose foundations were formed in Jerez de la that aren’t even out yet since Cam Little (lead guitar/keys) Frontera, Cadiz, Sevilla and joined the band. Cam and I did a lot of work outside of the Utrera. Although the love studio to really capture the vibe in the tracks. Harder to Find of Flamenco came to her and Joker were tracks that were half-written in the studio. through family heritage, it was What about playing live; how closely do you stick to your at age 16 when she obtained album arrangements? first prize in the Cantiùas We always tee up a solid set beforehand, but our live show can de Cadiz contest and thus change quite a lot depending on the vibe. We’ll always go out launched her artistic career. onstage knowing what we’re going to play but nearly most of Residing in Madrid, Naike has the time we get our jam on. Milk the songs out a bit. Let the performed internationally guitar do some of the talking for a while. with major flamenco What should we expect for your Byron show? companies, where she has been able to work with the Byron is a place we’re always itching to play on tour. That leading flamenco and gypsy question swings both ways a bit, as last time the mosh was musicians. insane, beers were flying, and we had our first circle pit. Who knows what’ll happen this time around – we go all out in At the Byron Theatre on good ol’ Byron Bay! Saturday at 8pm. Tickets at byroncentre.com.au.

At the Hotel Great Northern on Thursday.

BREWS, BLUES, BARBECUES This Sunday sees World Autism Awareness Day and the Go Blue for Autism campaign. On this day the Byron Bay Brewery will begin their once-a-month event BBQ, Brews & Blues.

All donations and awareness merchandise sold on the day will be donated to this great cause.

This Sunday features local blues rockers The Swamps, the dudes who have a dynamic live show, with amazing prowess and a real understanding of blues rock’n’roll. Consisting of the amazing guitarist/vocalist Armitage, alongside the energetic, entertaining Swanny on drums, the duo ooze charisma with their musicianship and style. Their collection that ranges from the 50s and 60s gives the audience no choice but to quickly absorb their infectious energy and have a boogie.

Catch The Swamps as part of BBQ, Brews & Blues this Sunday from 2pm, at The Byron Bay Brewery. Entry is free.

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ENTERTAINMENT THE WAIFS AT THE BANGALOW A&I HALL ON TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY and pleads for your attention as he once again confuses hubris for artistry. The songs on his forthcoming album were written and re-written over two years as an accompaniment to a performance piece Tim was attempting, concerning the retirement from the stage of an elderly actor.

which includes her mother, Frances, and her aunt, Mary. In her band is twice Bodhrán world champion and bouzouki player Conor Lyons. Áine recently joined Paul Kelly, Shane Howard, Pauline Scanlon, Declan O’Rourke, John Spillane and her father Seán Tyrrell on the national concert tour for Exile, an exclusive lineup Catch Tim Rogers at the of outstanding Irish and Byron Theatre on Friday.

Tickets on byroncentre.com.au. Australian artists who came together for a celebration of Irish influence in Australia, creating a rich tapestry of stories, imagery and music in honour of the Irish exiles.

Don’t miss this rare and amazing event.

Tickets $20/15 concession; kids $10 – available at the door.

KELLIE KNIGHT AND THE DAZE AT THE RAILS ON FRIDAY

IN A DAZE Once again, multi-awardwinning songstress Kellie Knight and her 7-piece jazz/ funk ensemble The Daze are playing at their beloved hometown venue, The Rails.

Expect to hit the dancefloor with their unique blend of soul, funk and jazz, with an early set of favourite funkedup jazz standards. Picking up awards for three of the five tracks from debut EP Twisted, the northern New South Wales outfit have brought their music to Australia’s world-renowned festival stages, including Bluesfest, Adelaide Fringe and Woodford Folk festivals.

Friday at the Rails.

Club Mullum in The ExServices Club, Sunday 9 April. Doors 3pm. Show starts 3.30pm.

APRIL NUDGE & WINK Don’t be a fool and miss April’s Nudge Nudge Wink Wink, raising funds for Kids Caring for Country (KCFC), an after-school program funded by the Murwillumbah Communities for Children.

The KCFC has been open since 2011 to Indigenous children of all ages and their families to connect with cultural activities and support services in a supportive, safe and childfriendly environment. April’s lineup includes resident DJs Lord Sut and Dale Stephen, locally based national record dealer The Vinyl Junkie, and global-award-recognised DJ and music producer Miles Cleret of Soundway Records.

Sunday from 2pm at the Billinudgel Pub.

BART & ROY Bart Stenhouse Australianborn multi-instrumentalist and composer Bart Stenhouse has a deep interest in jazz, world, fusion and AOIFE SCOTT AT CLUB MULLUM improvisational styles of SUNDAY SESSION WITH AINE music and specialises in the TYRELL ON 9 APRIL guitar, bass guitar and electric mandolin. His playing style blends different cultures and styles to re-define musical genres and experiment A very special Celtic double bill has just been announced – with sonic landscapes. He Dublin folk singer Aoife Scott is joined by Calcutta-born percussionist Surojato Roy, and her musical comrade singer/songwriter ÁineTyrell. who specialises in tabla. The son of an Indian classical Aoife has an impeccable vocalist and a violinist, pedigree – she is a member Surojato was introduced to of the legendary Black family, playing at an early age by

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BLUESFEST LOVES LUCY OV E R T H E Y E A R S , B L U E S F E ST H A S U N E A RT H E D S O M E I M P R E S S I V E TA L E N T.

One such star on the rise is singer/songwriter Lucy Gallant, who has just returned from the US. Lucy, what took you to the US? I was invited by Peter Noble to go to the US because he wanted to introduce me to some music agents, record companies, and industry people over there. I also did a short tour, and made a new music video for a song I produced, wrote and performed called Sunshine. It was filmed in LA and Joshua Tree by Robert Reed Altman, the son of the Oscarwinning Hollywood director Robert Altman. It is currently being edited and will be released later this year.

What were the highlights of playing over there?

I really enjoyed returning to Baltimore to play! I performed there a few years back and it was great to see so many familiar faces in the crowd, and to play again with the guitar god Kevin Robinson!

What is the essence of good songwriting for you?

A good song to me is an honest one that tells a story that people can relate to. A song that you hear once and always remember the melody. A song that is so real and beautiful that you get goosebumps.

Where do you gather your narratives?

I found out I was playing on 13 April at Bluesfest I figured why not release it on the same date, so it really worked out perfectly.

Peter Noble believes that you have star quality. What does it mean to have such a world-renowned festival director say that about you?

It means more to me than words could express! I am so honoured and blown away by having such a legend and world-renowned person believing in me and my music! I am so happy and glad he gets my songs and loves my voice because I know he hears a lot of music and knows what works and what doesn’t.

What is the vision that you have for yourself, for your career?

Life experiences, my emotions, falling in love, breaking up, nature, empowerment, freedom, changing the world, environment, equality, human rights, and animal rights. I write songs from my soul and I don’t hold back or hide my truth. I would say that they are my personal journal that I share with the world. I love to uplift people with my lyrics.

A lot of them are about being free and learning to love ourselves, and the world.

I see myself as Peter Noble says: headlining major festivals around the world and putting together a great team of people to support me to the next level of my career. I hope to soon be a name that people recognise. I also love to produce music and one day, when I have my career on point, to produce and help other artists to reach their dreams!

Tell me about your song Freaky. You filmed your clip in Barcelona… and the single and video drop on the same day you play Byron Blues Festival… was this all part of the grand plan or some cosmic coincidence?!

I started first on the drums when I was 15. I had just arrived in Australia from the UK and was at Confest in Victoria. It was the first time I had seen a drum circle and I was inspired.

I found a plastic bottle and started to play it as a drum.

A month later I started singing and playing guitar. I was travelling around the world like a gypsy, and got a few tips here and there, but pretty much taught myself. I also did not have access to the radio the first few years I was songwriting, so I think this gave me a little originality in my voice and style, which I have kept with me.

Freaky is a fresh and feisty genre-blended collaboration that features Free Like Me guitarist Daniel Urbina, reggae rapper Lennox Dread, and a team of legendary Byron Bay players.

The video was filmed in Barcelona, is fun-fused, and lures viewers into the adventures of a comically delusional dame who falls in love upon the merest acknowledgement from a handsome passerby. She chases and kidnaps the object of her attention as we’re taken on a colourful ride, bedazzled with dancing and mischief.

I knew that I wanted to release Freaky in April, and when

How did you come to be able to play so many instruments?

Lucy Gallant performs at Bluesfest on Thursday 13 April on the Delta Stage and Monday 17 April at the Juke Joint.

For program and ticket information for Bluesfest go to bluesfest.com.au.

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STUKULELE AT UKE NIGHT AT THE MULLUM EX-SERVICES ON THURSDAY Pandit Tanmoy Bose. Later, he became the youngest GandaBandh student of renowned tabla maestro Pandit Shankar Ghosh and has been his disciple for the past eighteen years.

Bangalow Bowlo on Friday.

Tickets on bartstenhouse.com.

Miss Amber & Stukulele will be leading two sets of easy-play songs for you and your ukulele this Thursday.

The band will be on the floor among the happy throng.

There will be some regular ukers as guests leading tunes; there will be some challenges; there will be loads of smiles and laughter. Join the mailing list at ukemullum.com for the link to the songbook. Adults $12.50 and kids under 16 $2.50.

The best interactive musical fun you can poke a stick at. Club Mullum, Mullum Ex-Services from 6.30pm.

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THIS GUY'S ON TOUR Off the back of a careerdefining 2016 that cemented Guy Sebastian as one of the country’s most talented acts, the Australian superstar is inviting fans to a series of album preview shows set to showcase tracks from his anticipated June release Conscious. Dubbed SubConscious, the dates are a rare opportunity to experience Sebastian in an intimate smallroom setting like never before.

‘Recently I’ve been putting out more visual content from my most comfortable space, the studio. And with these shows I wanted to capture the rawness of what happens behind the scenes and bring that energy onto the stage. It’s a whole different mindset…’ explains Sebastian.

He plays at the Hotel Great Northern on Saturday.

THE ROAD WITH FLEMING The voice of Ireland is back. With more than six million YouTube hits and three million+ album sales worldwide, a starring role in the critically acclaimed Irish musical Paddy, and the

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you, with a gang of planets in Aries lighting your personal entry portal into the new astro-year. Which brings the birthday gift of a sweetly aspected Venus, and a breakthrough realisation that you’re important, loved and appreciated purely for being who you are.

TAURUS: There’s a great conflagration of ingenious ideas and spontaneous inspirations circulating at warp speed this week, during which it’s crucial to take quiet time aside (ideally somewhere in nature) to dissipate tensions and sort through options. With Mercury heading your way, late-week Taurus moon’s auspicious for buying and selling.

GEMINI: This feisty, fiery week can easily escalate altercations and arguments at an alarming rate, making it advisable to use the mantra: Two, four, six, eight, stop, slow down and hesitate… Maybe meditate. Or best of all, just be prepared to wait till hostilities abate before you communicate. Got that straight? Great.

CANCER: More than any other sign, Cancerians revere the past: family history, retro-style antiquities etc, and that’s fine. This week asks you to make some of those favourite old things new again, perhaps via more variety in your daily routines, adopting a different approach to problem solving or trying on a new attitude.

imminent release of his 14th album, there’s no slowing Tommy Fleming down.

Coinciding with the release of Tommy’s new album Walk the Road Together, the Irish singer/songwriter and actor will perform a run of shows down the east coast through April/May. Renowned for his soaring vocals, heartfelt lyrics and captivating live performances, Fleming’s own take on traditional Irish, folk and contemporary music has seen him become one of Ireland’s biggest-selling artists.

Tommy’s previous three visits have seen him perform sellout shows around the country (including Melbourne’s Hamer Hall and Sydney’s State Theatre with Elaine Paige), and he’s looking forward to performing for Australian audiences once more. ‘I always love coming back to Australia. I have long regarded Australia as a second home. I have performed on many stages around the world but stepping onstage for an Australian audience is always special. There’s an honesty and earthiness to the Australian audience that you don’t find anywhere else in the World.’

Sunday 23 April, Star Court Theatre in Lismore.

MULLUM EAST POINTERS On the back of winning Ensemble of the Year at the Canadian Folk Music Awards last year, The East Pointers announced they were touring Australia in 2017. With their adrenalised and ridiculously hip performance, beautiful songs, free-wheeling, feisty instrumental jigs, stomps and reels and heart-breaking harmonies, The East Pointers are torchbearers for a new wave in traditional Celtic music. They brought the house down on their 2016 tour of Australia, gracing the stages of more than 25 festivals and venues across the country. The rest of their Australian tour is sure to raise the roof yet again!

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Humour’s the smartest survival tactic, along with moderation and restraint, because heated statements could provoke dramatic reactions.

VIRGO: This week speeds up mental processes and verbal volubility, so abrupt changes of mood or mind might catch you off guard. If something combusts, unless you’re directly involved, it’s worth having an exit strategy ready to take you away from the fray – because this full-throttle week also has enthusiastic potential for plenty of fun.

LIBRA: Your signature tact and diplomatic skills get a serious workout this week, when even the mildest comment dropped in the communal pond can have an unexpected ripple effect. A Sun/Venus conjunction could prompt the comeback of someone from the past, or a reappearance of something enjoyable you’ve been out of touch with.

SCORPIO: Scorpio poet Dylan Thomas’ iconic line Rage, rage against the dying of the light comes to mind when there’s so much in our immediate world to object to.

You’re as vigorously opiniated as anyone, though at least you usually keep your most excoriating views to yourself. Or can you this week…?

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AQUARIUS: If people are snappy, cranky and irascible this week, then empathy’s your best bet: reading between the lines to what’s not being expressed.

This fast-paced, engaging week also brings a breath of fresh air to an old project, along with inspirational innovations and lots of luck if you don’t push too hard.

PISCES: This week the planets of drive, communication, relationship and change are all percolating in selfassertive Aries. A scenario best met by taking deep breaths, keeping your cool, considering all sides of a situation and refusing to be bulldozed by fast-talking, quick-tempered citizens. Good luck with that.

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The patron is someone who represents the cornerstones of the festival – community, collaboration, discovery and great music, and that’s just what Carty is.

‘I think Bellingen is an incredibly beautiful place. It has lots of really interesting people who have done a lot of travelling.

Bellingen has the best of both worlds. A river. An ocean (nearby). A small-town community and a whole bunch of cosmopolitan ideas. It’s good to see big artists coming through town. The more you travel the more you realise that a place like Bellingen is pretty special.’

Carty’s role at the festival includes mentoring aspiring young musicians.

‘I have done a bit of mentoring in the past and I am always blown away by how talented the young musicians are. They have an enthusiasm that is contagious.’

Not that Carty is that old himself but, at 29, Carty feels like he is finally finding his musical feet.

‘For me, what I wanted to do as a musician and where I wanted to pitch was a matter of working it out. In the beginning I didn’t know a lot about playing music, or how to do it long term. Now I feel like the hard work has been showing some signs of paying off; it feels like it feels like I am gaining ground.’

And no wonder. Just last year, among many other things, Carty released his album Home State and saw it go to #36 on the ARIA Albums Chart and #1 on the AIR 100% independent Album Chart. His talent for melody, wit and a gorgeous turn of phrase won him a much-coveted biannual APRA Professional Development Award; saw him play Spain’s famous Primavera Sound Festival and tour nationally with Josh Pyke.

‘It was mind blowing,’ says Carty. ‘I had a tour of Europe already planned and then I got an email saying that I had a spot at Spain’s Primavera Sound Festival where Radiohead were playing!’

Passionate about the beautiful craft of songwriting, Carty talks about the hundreds of ideas that buzz in his head every day.

‘I record them as they come to me,’ he says. ‘My phone has hundreds of 30-second ideas; if they are more complex I email them to myself!’

A passionate collaborator with Bello Winter Music sees Carty joined onstage by close friend and composer Gus Gardiner (Papa vs Pretty) and The Satellite Strings (featuring members of the Australian Chamber Orchestra) to premiere work from a forthcoming collaborative album.

Applications are now open for Bello Winter Music Youth Mentorship Program for artists aged under 19. Applications on the website.

Bello Winter Music – Held throughout the township of Bellingen, NSW. Thursday 6 till Sunday 9 July.

Tickets now on sale! Tickets and camping information are available now at bellowintermusic.com.

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BEST OF MELBOURNE COMEDY FEST IN MULLLUM!

Contemporary visionary artist Alex Sandro Carletti studied and graduated at Adelaide Central School of Art, focusing his attention upon oil painting. His artwork emerges The Kagools have been through meditations and listed as one of the top five vision quests, often through international acts at the solitude in nature.

Melbourne International As a practising art therapist, Comedy Festival this year. You he has been working in the don’t have to go to Melbourne healing arts for two-andto see them because Mandy a-half years, utilising art Nolan is bringing them to and shamanic processes to Mullumbimby. unravel inner spaces and Winner of the Best Show at heal psychospiritual wounds.

Adelaide Fringe, at Buxton His work seeks to capture Fringe, and also winner of transcendence, sacred the best family show! That’s themes and altered states of right! You can bring the kids! consciousness.

Tearing it up all around the A spiritual quest for world, this multi-awardillumination and self-healing winning physical comedy act have led him through many from the UK is bloody insanely rites of passage and initiations hilarious! of understanding and insight, With Mandy Nolan as MC reflected through his art and Lindsay Webb as support practice.

– at the Mullumbimby Alex will be running a forum Ex-Services on Saturday 22 and workshop at Lone Goat April. Show at 8pm. Tickets Gallery in Byron on Sunday 2 $25/30 at the club or online at April, 2–3.30pm. mandynolan.com.au.

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WILD DREAMS SAYING HER T H E TA L E N T E D C R E W AT C I RC U S A RT S P R E S E N T T H E I R T E R M 1 S H OW C A S E M Y W I L D E ST DREAMS THIS WEEK.

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T H I S W E E K A RT P I E C E G A L L E RY I N M U L L U M B I M BY C E L E B R AT E S TEN YEARS OF EXHIBITING THE WO R K O F O U R LO C A L A RT I ST S .

It is a significant achievement in an industry where galleries open and close as quickly as eyes can blink. Art Piece director Nadine Abensur spoke with The Echo about her 10 years in the biz.

What are you proudest of when you reflect on Art Piece Gallery?

I am a good beginner/instigator, so daring to start at all (when everyone thought I was nuts) was the biggest step of all.

Kate Priddle from Circus Arts filled The Echo in on what is in store!

What is Wildest Dreams about?

Wildest Dreams is about the students being able to re-create either wonderful or frightening events that have happened in their dreams. It gives them the opportunity to be creative and do the unimaginable while showcasing their amazing circus skills that they have been working on all term.

How do you encapsulate the ‘free spirit’?

Throughout Wildest Dreams we encapsulate free spirit by allowing the students to create a performance with no imaginary limits. They are able to collectively recreate something that they once thought could only be seen in their dreams.

Having the students use circus movements and performance skills to perceive this is a really exciting, amazing process to watch.

What skills do the circus students bring to the show?

Throughout the show you will see performances on the trapeze, silks, lyra, trampoline, tumbling floor, and the high flying trapeze.

How do you work up a piece like this?

From week four the students and coaches set aside a certain amount of time per class to work on the act for the show. Outside of that time, they work on upskilling and the improvement of skills is include in the routine.

What should people expect on the night?

You should expect a fun and creative production that is suitable and affordable for the whole family!

Friday 6.30pm at Circus Arts Byron Bay. Adults $12, Kids $6, Under 3 FREE, Family (2A, 2K) $30. Tickets on the door

incREDible ART Local emerging artists with a disability will be exhibiting their work at the Lone Goat Art Gallery in Byron Bay this week. The REDinc artists will share with the local north coast community a fresh and unique view of the world through various arts media: acrylic, mixed media, ceramics and works on paper. Josie Donnelly the exhibition director says: ‘Our artists participate regularly in group and solo exhibitions throughout the year, as well as exhibiting in art competitions regionally, nationally and internationally.

The professional art practices of the REDinc artists are supported by experienced and passionate local artists and facilitators; this exhibition is one of our yearly events that showcase the talent of our artists.

The IncREDible Art exhibition will give insight into the lives, interests and experiences of local contemporary artists with disability by showcasing their vision, spirit and breadth of abilities,

Ten years in a business renowned for struggling to stay open – what’s your secret?

I just keep going, keep breathing, keep falling apart, keep picking myself up, keep crying, keep laughing, keep going.

Perhaps I am a stuck record! And to keep loving that art is a bit of a miracle, seen in the context of the modern world.

But it’s about as good as we’ve got and it’s one of our saving graces, so I love people who make art and I love to support them. I keep going by treating the gallery as an arena in which to deal with very personal issues. So whatever happens, I bring it all back to me. I think that makes me much more resilient than I would ever have imagined. I don’t concern myself too much with how I’m supposed to do it and less and less with the opinions of others. I just do what sits well with me and trust that it finds resonance with enough people to make it viable, relevant and worthwhile.

What have you learnt along the way?

Magical things happen in the gallery and subtle transformations. Even when people think they ‘just’ want to decorate their homes, they are driven by deeper needs. The true role of a gallerist, curator, whatever you want to call it, apart from the obvious one of putting things together that work together, is to act as a conduit between the art and the person buying the art. So I’ve learnt to feel deeply into a piece, as though I had painted it myself.

What role do you see Art Piece Gallery having in the region?

It has kept a strong, visible artistic presence in the Shire.

It means that visitors from all over the world take home an impression of the Shire as a creative oasis, which it has become. Many, many people over the years have

WORLD PREMIERE JAVANESE DANCE

TICKETS ARE ON SALE FOR THE RUSSIAN NATIONAL BALLET THEATRE’S PRESENTATION OF ROMEO & JULIET AT LISMORE CITY HALL ON TUESDAY 12 DEC AND NUTCRACKER ON WEDNESDAY 13 DECEMBER expressed beautifully in their range of works. The artworks are vibrant, expressive and passionate.’

The incREDible Art Exhibition will kick off with an opening night on Friday 7 April, 6–8pm, and running until Wednesday 19 April.

All welcome.

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Byron Harmony Day and Byron Bay High School have been delivered an extraordinary gift from the provincial government of Jogjakarta, a world premiere dance performance directed by internationally renowned Indonesian filmmaker Garin Nugroho, who has created a significant dance piece titled Bedoyo Pager Bumi, embracing contemporary and traditional Javanese performing arts.

Judy Shelley, director of Australia Indonesia Arts Alliance who organised the gift, said, ‘Garin Nugroho is Indonesia’s most famous and internationally acclaimed filmmaker. He is revered in Indonesia for telling his stories through film and multimedia.’

Bedoyo Pager Bumi tells the story of the great conflagration the Javanese people faced with the impact of the Dutch colonisation of the East Indies and the influx of the Muslim faith during the 19th century.

The story is told by eleven performers including two

told me that they have moved here and specifically to Mullumbimby because of the gallery. And of course, especially in the early days, it gave dozens and dozens of artists somewhere to show their work, often their first solo show, and now it’s a place in which to continue to show their developing practice. It’s the very public face of art in the Shire. It could be a lot bigger!

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Come and celebrate 10 years of Art Piece Gallery (in Mullumbimby) on Friday with a glass of wine, a bite to eat, some art, and music by virtuoso Si Greaves!

Radio Turns More People On PAGER BUMI AT BYRON BAY HIGH SCHOOL ON SATURDAY FOR BYRON HARMONY DAY singers, three contemporary Javanese dancers, and six Bedoyo dancers trained in the traditional Javanese style.

Showcasing vocal and dance arts drawn from a repertoire of dances to give substance to a complex narrative around this passage of time from the early 19th century to the present day, from the effect of outside influences on traditional cultures during the time of colonisation, and also now the influence of modern global culture on the traditions of the island of Java, its society and culture.

Bedoyo Pager Bumi (Celestial Gates of Mother Earth) will be performed on one night only at Byron Bay High School performing art space Saturday. 6.30pm for a 7pm start. Entry by donation.

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ENTERTAINMENT Celebrate Byron Harmony Day 11am till 7pm on Saturday at Main Beach Park (wet weather venue is Byron YAC).

BY JOHN CAMPBELL

LIFE With rare exceptions to the rule – usually provided by Steven Spielberg – literature and cinema have generally led us to accept that outer space will only greet mankind with frightening malevolence. And so it is here, but what a cracking if ominous thriller Swedish director Daniel Espinosa has given us. The International Space Station (how many of them are there ‘up’ there anyway?) has taken on board a tiny particle that will provide incontrovertible proof that there is life beyond our own planet. The crew manning the mission ticks all the right representative boxes of gender and race – Jake Gyllenhaal, Miranda North, Olga Dihovichnaya, Ariyon Bakare (black and disabled), Hiroyuki Sanada (the Japanese engineer who has just witnessed the birth of his first child back on Earth) and Ryan Reynolds (a tradie). Their lives are put at risk when the extraterrestrial ‘thing’ that they are nurturing, known as ‘Calvin’, mutates and grows at an alarming rate to be the size of a small but immensely powerful octopus with a really bad attitude.

It might already be old hat, but the filming of weightless characters ‘swimming through the air’ of their spacecraft’s realistic, claustrophobic corridors, with double-bolted sliding doors, is brilliantly done, as are the outside shots of ‘walks’ and debris smashing into the station. Gyllenhaal never looks entirely comfortable in the part, but with those hangdog eyes he appears to be thinking that if Matt Damon could handle being stranded on Mars then he can surely come to grips with his bubble helmet. The creature stalking them is a vile creation, and it’s interesting that North’s character should admit that, without any support of logic or rational thinking, she feels ‘pure hate’ for it. The story is absorbing, the tension vice-like and, with a fab ending that you just don’t see coming (I didn’t, at any rate), this is probably the best sci-fi flick since Gravity (2013) – although Espinosa might have tried harder to find a closing song fresher than Norman Greenbaum’s over-used Spirit in the Sky.

BYRON HARMONY DAY MAIN BEACH PARK ON SATURDAY

BYRON HARMONY The annual Byron Harmony Day celebrates the diversity of our multicultural community here in Byron Shire.

Some really delightful new ‘never-seen-before’ performances will grace the stage at Main Beach Park this Saturday, such as the Japanese community gathering professional Koto player Adarsha together with Shakuhachi (traditional It’s an evergreen story, is it not? A gorgeous girl falls in love Japanese flute) along with with and ultimately transforms a grotesque bloke – is it ever told the other way around, with a handsome hero and an ugly Yumiko Suzuki and the Japanese community children trollop as the injured party? The Prince (Dan Stevens), as a performing cultural dances member of France’s Ancien Régime, is a pampered aristocrat who taxes the peasantry in order to pay for the lavish balls that and singing in traditional kimono. Another stunning he hosts in his vast baroque castle. Which is to say, he is not new group is Japanese-Indian exactly a prime candidate to win our sympathy when an old beggar lady turns him into a hairy beast after he has been cruel fusion Micotsuki Shivamoon to her. Belle (an anaemic Emma Watson) is the unimaginatively – the beautiful kirtan duo of Mico Sundari and sitar named Beauty who takes her father’s place as the Beast’s maestro Shivam Rath, rising captive in the tower. Eventually they are going to hit it off etc, stars of Byron devotional but not first without some dastardly input from Gaston (Luke Evans), who is by far the most lively character in the movie. He music. So be early to catch the awesome Bunyarra Dancers first appears as a vain and arrogant swashbuckling type, but at 11am and Shivamoon at as the story unfolds he evolves into the stereotypical villain 11.30am. who will do anything to win Belle’s hand in marriage. Gaston and his offsider, Le Fou (Josh Gad), get all the funny scenes Another exciting new troupe and, in a dance routine at a crowded tavern, they are involved will be the Grupo Batala – an in a rambunctious centrepiece that almost steals the show. inspiring group of 11 Brazilian The talking teapot and pieces of furniture – all transformed women drummers and servants – are impressive, singers who will perform to as are the candlelit sets and raise funds for community thundering horses, but the projects in Brazil. This year movie belongs to Jacqueline Byron Harmony has also been Durran, the costume designer, blessed to receive massive for you just can’t take your support from the Indonesian eyes off all the fab outfits. Like Consulate in Sydney, who so many modern musicals, have invited three separate there is really only one decent groups to travel to Byron for tune in it, the title song, and this weekend of Harmony it is unlikely that the other activities. Alfira and Murtala numbers, which all sound the from Suara Indonesia Dance same, will hold any appeal Group have become well for the sub-teens. It might known nationally through be drawn out longer than is touring festivals and venues necessary – the little ones will across Australia to share the start fidgeting well before Sumatran dances of Aceh the end – but it’s a lavish and Minagkabau cultures as production that is only mildly well as Javanese and Balinese boring. traditional dances. The unique naturally funky sounds of bamboo angklung orchestra will be presented by Adelaide group Adelindo.

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Children’s activities and performances will be a major theme on Harmony Day this year ranging from a colourful Bollywood kids’ dance performance to Balinese Mask Dance performance, free Indonesian bamboo music and Sumatran dance workshops, jumping castle (by donation), face painting, environmental and Aboriginal craft activities will be available all day. Come and create a memory in plaster or bronze – cast of hands, feet or face of beloved kids or family with Martin.

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DUSTY RICH – CHAOTIC, CHARISMATIC COMEDY AT THE BALLINA RSL ON THURSDAY FOR BIG GIG COMEDY

FUNNY & DUSTY Hailing from South Africa, Dusty Rich is a self-confessed comedic space-warrior riding a living volcano with one hand whipping the reins and the other gingerly fingering the lava-hot truth that flows freely down all sides – smothering the world in comedy magma.

His meteoric rise in the comedy industry is owed to the fact he had learnt to ride meteors at a very early age – a mind meteor, smashing through the atmosphere of mediocre and mundane. Each show is unpredictable and hilarious, leaving audiences gasping for air.

Catch Dusty Rich at the Big Gig at the Ballina RSL this Thursday when he’s joined

by Aaron Pratt as support and Mandy Nolan as MC. 8pm.

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The night will include funky retro tunes from the fabulous DJ Flashdance, a guest performer or two, and great prizes.

Come dressed in your finest Hollywood 40s or 50s glamour and join us! Tickets are $20 at the door and proceeds go towards production costs for the Guilty Pleasures Festival happening over 12–14 May in Brunswick Heads. To find out more go to www.guiltypleasures-fest.com.au.

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Accountants & Bookkeepers ... 36 Acupuncture .................................... 36 Air Conditioning & Refrigeration36 Alterations & Repairs................... 36 Antennas & Installation ............. 36 Appliance Repair ........................... 36 Architects........................................... 36 Audio Production .......................... 36 Automotive....................................... 36 Blinds, Awnings, Curtains, Shutters 36 Bricklaying ........................................ 36 Building Trades ............................... 36 Bush Regen & Weed Control .... 37 Carpet Cleaning.............................. 37 Chimney Sweeping ....................... 37 Chiropractic ...................................... 37 Cleaning ............................................. 37 Computer Services........................ 37 Concreting & Paving .................... 37 Counselling....................................... 37 Decks, Patios & Extensions ....... 37 Dentists............................................... 37 Design & Drafting.......................... 37 Driveway Maintenance............... 37 Earthmoving & Excavation ....... 37 Electricians........................................ 37 Fencing ............................................... 38 Floor Sanding & Polishing ........ 38 Garage Doors ............................................38 Garden & Property Maintenance 38 Garden Design ................................ 38 Gas Suppliers...................................... 38 Glaziers ............................................... 38 Graphic Design ............................... 38 Guttering ........................................... 38 Handypersons ................................. 38 Health .................................................. 38 Hire ....................................................... 39

Bayside Radiators

Scott MUMFORD

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Service Directory

ANTIQUES / RESTORATION

NSW Lic. 83568c Qld BSA 1238105

FULLY INSURED

ALL ASPECTS OF CARPENTRY WORK

matt.rowan.wardle@gmail.com • Floor installations • Door & Window installations • Decks & Pergolas • Alterations

0488 950 638

DIGITAL ELECTRONICS REPAIR & SERVICE TV. Audio. Antennas .......... 66843575 or 0414 922786 DINGO DEMOLITIONS & ASBESTOS REMOVAL ................................. 66834008 or 0407 728998

ARCHITECTS

CARPENTER All jobs. Michael Dow. Lic 147675C .................................... 66291169 or 0412 967677

BUILDER – JOHN McGAURAN Personalised Service. 20 yrs exp. Lic 170208C .............0415 793242 FRANK STEWART ARCHITECT Reg. 6075. www.frankstewart.com.au............................66856984 BRICKLAYER Quality work, reasonable quotes. Lic 164155C................... 0423 474419 or 66849102 OCEANARC ARCHITECTS Reg. 6042 www.oceanarc.com.au ..............................................66855001 FABRICA JOINERY Quality kitchens/timber doors/windows. Lic 244652C .........................66808162

AUDIO PRODUCTION

BUILDER CARPENTER Extensions, renos, new homes, insurance, all jobs. Lic 19953Q ........ 0403 458177 BUILDER/CARPENTER Quality work with 40 years experience. HIA Lic 501442...........0410 442188

ACUPUNCTURE–TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE. Mary-Ellen Young .................0403 477972 AUDIO & VIDEO RECORDING & Live production crystalgrid.com.au ............................0421 661910 CARPENTER Tiny houses, extensions, renos, studios, decks. Samuel Lic 266052C ........0405 479528

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CARPENTER/JOINER Lic 39791 Decks, studios, pergolas etc Paul Varendorff ..66845035 or 0414 842602

Quality Exterior Refinishing

GRANNY FLAT SPECIALIST Excellent quality. Builder: Levi Alexander Lic 189611C......0402 434154

Pressure cleaning Roof cleaning

LICENSED BUILDER Small/lge const, prop maint, timber, tiling, kitch/bth Lic 239988C .0416 345202 BUILDER Alterations, additions, maintenance, 30yrs exp. HIA member Lic 29792C......0408 663420

P/L

Native bush regeneration, tree planting and weed control. Fully insured and qualified with more than 12 years’ local experience.

Free property assessments and quotes.

Call Ross Faithfull 0409 157 695 a/h 6687 2943 e: faithfullrossco@gmail.com

WEED CONTROL SPECIALIST Management plans drawn up........................................0418 110714

CARPET CLEANING

TLC

CARPET CLEANING

TENDER LOVING CARE Specialising in household carpet cleaning Speedy Drying FRANCHISE OF THE YEAR!

Full Circle

fullcirclerefinishing.com SPECIAL SJJ Ƥ VWX booking. Discount code: Echo

Easy credit card payments Book a trusted cleaner online in 60 seconds.

www.byronhomecleaning.com

(02) 6684 1001

Green & Clean

CLEAN AS IT’S BEEN TEAM Home, Bond back, anytime, references ...................................66882372

EVEN STEVEN’LL DO IT Detail clean top to bottom ......................................................0448 004182 AAA AIRBNB CLEANERS Book now for holiday season................................................0421 360961

'ULYHZD\ 3RWKROH 6SHFLDOLVW

AIRBNB HOSTING SERVICES Cleaning, linen, restocking, bookings.............................0410 630042

Specialising in Asphalt Driveways, Subdivisions, Earthworks, Carparks and all Maintenance!

STRONGARM CLEAN-LANDSCAPING-CARETAKING Est 2000 5-star service, insured ..0427 253117

)UHH 4XRWH – &DOO 1RZ

COMPUTER SERVICES

EARTHMOVING PLANT HIRE

Roadworks incl Driveways, Carparks & General Excavation 35 years in local area • Free quotes

Phone Geoff 0412 831 944

TINY EARTHWOR

FIRinEthe Shire

6688 4375 • 0405 350 682

BLACKS CHIMNEY SWEEPING & REPAIRS AHHA member, insured. 3rd generation .....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 108 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby ...................................................66841962 MULLUM CHIROPRACTIC Massage, chiropractic & fitness. 110 Dalley St .........................66841028 BYRON BAY CHIROPRACTIC CENTRE Bruce Campbell. 1/12 Tasman Way, A&I Estate ....66858159 CAPE BYRON HOLISTIC CHIROPRACTIC Shane Eade. 6/14 Middleton St .....................0467 660323

CLEANING

ACTION WINDOW & PRESSURE CLEANING

• House washing • High pressure or soft wash • Window cleaning • Driveways, paths & roofs • Gutters & flyscreens • Water efficient • Free quotes Phone Joe or Helen 6687 4655 or 0412 495750

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&2%% 15/4%3 %NVIRONMENTALLY AWARE NO CHEMICALS MINIMAL WATER USE 0HONE *ON ON FREE QUOTES FREECALL 1800 683 838 MOBILE 0419 677 991 cmhwindows@gmail.com COMMERCIAL, DOMESTIC, SHOPS & REAL ESTATE FULLY INSURED

BYRON ECO WINDOW CLEANING & PROPERTY DETAILING YE3A0RS Environmentally Conscious.

LOCAL Specialising in Windows & Screens, House Washing, Gutters, Roofs, Solar Panels, Driveways…

FREE QUOTES Call Sam on 6680 9123 or 0434 539 979

various implements available for limited access projects

#Computers #Accessories #Repairs #Support #Gadgets

EARTHMOVING & PLANT HIRE

1/29 Brigantine St, Byron Bay A&I Estate 6680 8324 techie2481.com.au

Call Glenn or Tracey 0403 428 232 or 6680 9901 email: impresswindowcleaning@gmail.com Reliable • Friendly • Professional • Fully Insured • Free Quotes • Affordable Rates Locally Owned and Operated • Quality Work with Over 10 Years Experience

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Specialising in driveway construction & maintenance

• Tip trucks 3 to 12 tonne • Excavator 5 to 21 tonne • Driveways • Roads • Acreage clearing • House pads • Drainage • Carparks • Bush rocks • Rock walls • Competitive rates

Training & assessment: earthmoving plant & forklift – nationally recognised qualifications

0410 056 228 / 0427 663 678

STEVE BROWN EARTHMOVING

All Mac Repairs, Upgrades, Service, Data Recovery, Internet Set-up, Hardware Sales, Insurance Claims

Specialising in road repairs & driveways Rock walls, clearing, house shed and tank pads.

SaulMordaunt@macdoc.net.au

0411 562 111 s

Apple Certified Support

confused by technology?

We can HELP!

Augers – hole boring. All general earthworks, excavators, positrack, bobcat, roller and tipper hire.

Ph: 6684 0160 Mob: 0439 840 160

5.5 TONNE EXCAVATOR, POSITRACK & TIPPER HIRE

Personal tuition for: computers- web- iPad- iPhone

Specialising in road works, land clearing, retaining walls and general earthworks.

Augers and rock grab available.

www.simplywebworks.com.au/education

call mb 0409 211 041 RENT-A-GEEK Mobile PC Repair (Byron Shire) ....................................................................66844335

EXPERIENCED OPERATORS | FREE QUOTES 0432 299 283

WORKRIGHT COMPUTER SUPPORT Mobile service ....................................................0422 804449

CONCRETING & PAVING

SALISBURY CONCRETING

Over 25 yrs local experience. All forms of concreting.

• Residential Civil Industrial.

• Resurfacing and rejuvenation of existing concrete.

• Steel fixing & formwork.

DARYL 0418 234 302 OR 02 6680 1793

JASON COOTE CONCRETING All concreting work, form work, steel fixing Lic 261424C ......0421 957506

NORTHERN RIVERS TRENCHING 65hp chain trencher, mini excavator, cable locating...0402 716857 BRENDON POWELL Earthmoving, landscaping, design & construction ........................0404 988222 BANGALOW MINI DIGGER SERVICE Exp operator 1.8 tonne multiple attachments .....0413 878978 BACKHOE FOR HIRE Septics, trenching, electrical, drainage, roads .......66845260 or 0428 845091 DIGGER, TRUCK, AUGER HIRE 20+ years experience. Good rates ...............................0402 652017 MINI EXCAVATOR / POSITRAC COMBO & tipper hire. Ph Andrew ..........66841424 or 0401 968173 MINI EXCAVATOR Limited access jobs. Spaces available now. Mick ..............................0408 676688 BOBCAT HIRE & AUGURS 300, 450 & 600. Phone Scott ...............................................0438 291489

ELECTRICIANS 24 HOUR SERVICE

PLATINUM CONCRETE 20 years experience. Free quotes. Lic 225874C. Justin ..............0458 773788 PRIMAL CONCRETING Concrete driveways, pathways, shed slabs, Pebblecrete & colour specialists, 35 years exp. Lic 295404C. Phone Josh ...........................................0449 846152

COUNSELLING PETER FOX Couple Therapy & Marriage Intensives. coupletherapyaustralia.com................66840469

DECKS, PATIOS & EXTENSIONS FULL CIRCLE REFINISHING Timber & deck oiling, coating, stripping. Fast free quotes .....0419 789600 THE DECK DOCTOR Sanding & refinishing, cable balustrading. Free quotes. Richard ...0407 821690

Window Cleaning Professionals

Philip Toovey 0409 799 909 ph/fax 02 6684 3208

Not your average TECH shop

Lic.136717c

FIREPLACE INSTALLATION & REPAIRS

r of

BEST THE W OOD

Jai – 0467 482 948

EARTHMOVING & EXCAVATION

THE ORIGINAL CHIMNEY SWEEP Supplie

20 Year+s Exp.

BYRON HOME CLEANING Brunswick to Ballina & inland towns $35ph. Holly..............0451 102239

CHIMNEY SWEEPING YOUR CHIMNEY NEEDS TO BE CLEANED ONCE A YEAR!

Call Steven Butturini

BYRON SHIRE DOMESTIC CLEANING SERVICE North Byron Shire...............................0421 360961

APEX CARPET CLEANING www.apexcarpetcleaning.com.au......................... Nathan 0412 926441 CARPET, UPHOLSTERY & more. No chemicals. www.mintsteamclean.com .....................66808097 AMORE CARPET & UPHOLSTERY CLEANING Eco-friendly ..........................................0429 726999

BE WISE • BE SAFE

0418 156 909

DETAILED CLEANING Natural products. Please call 8am-6pm ......................................0410 723601

Commercial / Domestic / Insurance

• Avoid dangerous chimney fires • Improve fireplace performance

CARPARK & DRIVEWAY MAINTENANCE CONCRETE EDGING

0451 102 239

Cleans deeply, dries in 1-2 hours

0408 232 066

DRIVEWAY MAINTENANCE

Residential • Holiday • Bond • Commercial •

Carpet and upholstery cleaning, urine extraction, rust removal, heavy traffic areas, deodorising and sanitation.

Far North Coast NSW John & Teresa

BAREFOOT BUILDING DESIGN www.barefootbuildingdesign.com..........Bob Acton 0407 787993 DAVID ROBINSON DESIGN DRAFTING All Council & construction requirements ......0419 880048 BYRON ENERGY EFFICIENT DESIGN & DRAFTING www.beedad.com.au ...............0423 531448 UTOPIAN DESIGN & DRAFTING www.utopian-design.com .............................................66770151

DONE & DUSTED CLEANING Going the extra mile, professional, dependable...............0498 731447

Truck Mounted Machine

Kevin & Margaret Bower

DESIGN & DRAFTING

Phone Oliver 0419 789 600

DENTISTS BANGALOW DENTAL In the Medical Centre Complex, Bangalow ......................................66872766 SHORES DENTAL Dr Shaun Goh & Dr Richard Conn. Rajah Rd, Ocean Shores .....................66803477 GAVIN STUART & MARTIN ACKLAND Banora Seaview Dental, Banora Point 30 mins north of Ewingsdale. Open Sat. early & late appointments ................................07 55234090

0439 624 945

AH

Domestic Commercial

02 66 804 173 All Jobs Small or Large

Lic: 154293c

BUSH REGENERATION & WEED CONTROL

LITTLE LANE DENTAL, MULLUMBIMBY ...........................................................................66842816 MICHAEL LEACH 100 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby .............................................................66842644 BRUNSWICK HOLISTIC DENTAL CENTRE.......................................................................66851264

DOMESTIC COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL JAMIE 0408 809 817 licence no. 201775c

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Service Directory ELECTRICIANS (continued)

GARDEN & PROPERTY MAINTENANCE

Strongarm Services Landscaping •

FREE QUOTE

Lic. 211410C

ELECTRICAL PHONE TV

Lic. No.

212742C Friendly & helpful Clean & tidy On time Over 30 years experience Rapid response 24/7 service

Acreage & Residential Mowing | Gardening Landscaping | Property Maintenance Brush Cutting | Tip Runs | Fully Insured

0430 297 101 / 6684 5437 info@byronbaymowing.com.au www.byronbaymowing.com.au

0432 331 633 for details

ELECTRICAL Steve Nicholls ph: 0455 445 343 lic: EC28753

SECURITY, DATA, TV Tim Nicholls ph: 0468 384 203 lic: 000102498

nichollselectrical@outlook.com

COUGHRAN ELECTRICAL 24 hour service, Lic 154293C .......................... 0439 624945 or 66804173 RONNIE SPINKS Everything electrical. Lic 27673 .........................................................0429 802355 BYRON BAY ELECTRICAL Geoff Bensley. Lic EC 34079 ...................................................0427 857824 CIRCUITS PLUS For everything electrical. Friendly & professional. Lic 201844C.............0422 668582 JP ELECTRICAL All electrical + Level 2 service provider. Lic 133082C ............................0432 289705 CHRIS APPEL. Ocean Shores. Lic EC 22349.....................................................................0422 607444 JIM LABELLE ELECTRICAL O.Shores, Mullum, Byron, Brunswick. Lic 176417C..............0415 126028 SOMERS ELECTRICAL Prompt & reliable. Bruns, O.Shores, Mullum & Byron Lic 283345C ...0438 350650 SPINKS ELECTRICAL Lic 284939C..................................................................Call Mitch 0421 843477 LIGHTHOUSE ELECTRICAL BYRON BAY Your friendly electrician Lic 233440C .............0450 631183 NEW ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGIES Electrician & solar. Level 2 ASP meters u’g. Lic 219161C...0419 556639 ENLIGHTEN ELECTRICAL CO Lic No. 300624C. Call Luke...............................................0403 910047 BLUE BEE ELECTRICAL 25 years experience. Lic 189508C. Call Dave ............................0429 033801

FENCING

POOLSAFE GLASS FENCING GLASS & ALUMINIUM POOL FENCING PROFESSIONALS 0499 178 297 psgfencingnsw@gmail.com

Frameless and Semi-Frameless

GLASS POOL FENCING BYRON & BEYOND FENCING Any fence, any time, prompt quotes....... 66804766 or 0416 424256 PSG FENCING All types. Friendly & professional. Quality work. Matt .............................0401 259882 EDL FENCING Installations & repairs. Prompt service ............................. 66771852 or 0432 107262

FLOOR SANDING & POLISHING

• Garden & Property Maintenance • Acreage & Residential Mowing • Landscaping • Tip Runs

info@byronbayranga.com ~ www.byronbayranga.com

Richard Neylan 0407 821 690

Lic: 210143C

Email richardneylan1@bigpond.com

ECO TIMBER FLOORS Sanding & polishing. Eco-friendly finishes. Trent .......................0432 501721

0497 413 344 • www.charlibearlawncare.com Luke McDermott

• Acreage & Residential Lawnmowing • Property Maintenance & Gardening Services • Rubbish Removals, Storm Cleanup • Light Chainsawing • Brushcutting/Edging • Hedging/Blowing

Residential mowing and edging Hedge trimming & Pressure washing Chainsawing and pole pruning Reliable service: “I put you 1st”

Call Justin 0498 184 048

• Residential mowing including double cut and cylinder • New lawns / seeding / turfing • Pest and weed control / fertilising • Edging / scarifying / Irrigation • Gardening services / Pressure cleaning Reliable and friendly service. Reasonable rates.

GARAGE DOORS

QUALITY GARAGE DOORS TO SUIT ALL BUDGETS

7 Stinson Street, Ballina Ph: 02 6686 4238 W: www.cmgd.com.au E: info@cmgd.com.au

Garage Doors & Openers

GARDEN DESIGN GARDEN DESIGN, FENG SHUI www.simplybeautifulspaces.com.au...........................Lyn 0428 884329 GARDEN MAKEOVERS Design, restoration & plant supply .............John 66841126 or 0431 745475 BYRON ARTELIER Landscape Architect 15 yrs+ exp. Free consult. Call Ben .................0488 620227

GAS SUPPLIERS Free Delivery

Locally Owned Est 18 years

No Rental Reliable

www.brunswickvalleygas.com

GLAZIERS

24/7 EMERGENCY GLASS 0415 660 801

6685 8588

Mirrors • Security doors and screens Shower screens • Commercial glazing OCEAN SHORES GLASS AND SCREENS Glass splashbacks Lic No 61205C ..........................66803333 ALL GLASS BYRON BAY Shower screens & mirrors .............................................................66857200

GRAPHIC DESIGN PROFESSIONAL GRAPHIC DESIGN services & artistic solutions (logos, designs, layouts) 0404 130953

GUTTERING Gutter guard Gutter cleaning Locally owned Fully insured Free quotes Call Junior for friendly, genuine advice and service.

www.spotlessgutters.com.au

0405 922 839 or AH 6684 1778 ABN 180 623 364 42 GUTTERING & DOWNPIPES Leaf Guard. Lic 60414C. Darryl Patterson..........................0414 889453 JTC GUTTER CLEANING Good value, right as rain .......................................................0402 384682

HANDYPERSONS

All types of Jobs

Carpentry • Plastering • Tiling Painting • Welding and lots more.

Service with a smile! Ph 0477 780 277 Call or SMS Glen on 0409 903 722

Byron Gardening • Structural landscaping • Hedging • Planting, turf laying, and all aspects of garden maintenance 0434 329 111 | byrongardening.com.au

Arbour Vitae Small Orchard, Farm and Land Care 5m Tri-Deck Mower, Slasher, TORO 60” Zero Turn Air-Blast & 8m Boom Spraying Maca Harvesting, Sweeping, Light Pruning experienced | reliable | fully Insured caitlin 0433 010 962 craig 0477 296 134 www.arbourvitae.com

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MULLUM.MOWING@gmail.com. Ride-on, large lawns & acreage. Ph Peter................0423 756394 GUTTERS CLEANED Solar panel cleaning, all areas, free quotes, fully insured ... 66841778 or 0405 922839 A-Z Lawns & acreage, trees & hedges, clean ups & tip runs, all gutters ..........................0405 625697 A.C.E. LAWNMOWING & GARDENING Best rates, reliable, guaranteed.............Sam 0481 837740 ABSOLUTE GARDEN WASTE REMOVAL OR WHATEVER Large trailer. Free quotes .......66804704 LEAF IT TO US Acreage mowing, 72” mowers, gardening/property maint. specialists ...0402 487213 MOW JOES Lawn & garden maintenance, ride-on mowing. Fully insured ...............Joe 0407 065849 NICK’S MOWING Lawns, edges, hedges, local & reliable. Mullum, Bruns, O.Shores.......0402 487213 A GREEN EARTH Garden restoration, maintenance, tree & rubbish removal ................0405 716552 A LUMSDEN LAWN CARE Qualified green keeper. Mowing, edges and weed control ...0410 378375 TIP RUNS & RUBBISH REMOVALS 4m3 trailer..............................................................0408 210772 ACREAGE MOWING Reliable. 60 inch zero turn mower. Fully-insured. Julian ................0401 350156 GARDENING ANGEL Horticulturist. Rebecca .................................................................0413 166314 FULL OF GARDENS Lawn & garden maint, servicing Byron Shire. Fully insured. Jack ...0431 768123 FEMALE GARDENER EXTRAORDINAIRE 30 years experience. Call Bridget..................0429 335501 LONG ARM Flail mower/mulcher, 5 tonne rubber track excavator.................................0408 663420

ACREAGE SPECIALIST (NO JOB TOO BIG) domestic/commercial lawns • edges and hedges • green waste removal or can be mulched on site FULLY INSURED • FREE QUOTES 100% satisfaction guaranteed!

Garden Clean Ups Gutter Cleaning Lawn Maintenance Irrigation & Repairs Hedge Trimming Planting & Lawn Edging Turf Laying Full Garden Maintenance Servicing Residential, Commercial and Government PLEASE CALL MATTHEW PAOLA 0431 871 245

• Non-toxic finishes • Free quotes

0402 917 519 OR 0427 253 117

6680 1575 or 0408 760 609

Paola Landscapes Pty Ltd

NEW AND OLD FLOORS AND DECKING

LICENCE NO:175956C ABN: 03 113 342 699

0431 550 401

Byron Bay and surrounds

The Floor Sander

Nathan Hourigan 0420 215 716 E: it2gets2me@gmail.com Servicing all areas

Proudly supporting the Orangutans

6684 7380

1ST PLACE LAWNS

0416 424 256

WATER BASED FINISHES & EUROPEAN BUFFING OILS

FARM PICK UP PRICES Soft Leaf Buffalo A grade $8/m2 – B grade $5/m2

• Prices are GST inclusive • Pick up Ex-Farm – forklift loaded • Cut fresh: require half day advanced notice • DELIVERY EXTRA 7am-4pm Monday to Friday

0429 994 189 info@slashmesilly.com.au www.slashmesilly.com.au

Byron and Beyond FENCING

Servicing Ballina to Gold Coast Acreage mowing, lawn repair & new • garden maintenance • landscaping • hedging • high pressure water cleaning • property caretaking all by Qualifi ed Horticulturists Call Nathan or Jenni for a

0458 267 777

Please call Blair Rankin on

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North Coast news daily:

A TO Z HANDYMAN SERVICES Tip runs, pressure cleaning, gardening, odd jobs ....Andre 66847553 or 0439 495247 MULLUM HANDYMAN Maintenance, repairs, painting, tip runs, gardening ................0424 954388 A.S.A.P. All renos, carpentry, plastering, painting, studios & bathrooms .......................0405 625697 HANDY ANDY Carpentry, plastering, welding ......................................... 66884324 or 0476 600956 AWESOME REPAIRS Professional, commercial & domestic. Wayne...............................0423 218417 HANDYMAN CARPENTER FB Greg’s Handyman Service Byron Bay ...............................0414 109595 THE HANDYMAN CAN All home maintenance, repairs, painting, odd jobs etc .............0427 110953 HOME MAINTENANCE Repairs & odd jobs. Honest & reliable............................................66807949 FIT, RELIABLE & responsible labourer, handyman, garden/grounds maint man ..........0404 130953 CABINETMAKER JOINER Old school, windows, doors, kitchens, glazing, drafting, 3D plans & interior design assist. Site work required. Rural or difficult locations considered. Ted 0424 303691 SEABROOK HANDYMAN & ASSEMBLY SERVICES. Cheyne .........................................0422 619900

HEALTH • OTHER HEALTH RELATED SECTIONS IN THIS SERVICE DIRECTORY: Acupuncture, Chiropractic, Counselling, Dentists, Osteopathy, Physiotherapy MULLUMBIMBY MEDICAL CENTRE 60 Stuart St.............................................................66841511 ACUPUNCTURE & COSMETIC MEDICINE Dr Adam Osborne ...........................................66857366 MULLUMBIMBY HERBALS Naturopathy, Ayurveda, Massage, Herbs. .............................66843002 MULLUMBIMBY SKIN CLINIC 58 Stuart Street ..................................................................66844400 INNERMOST HEALING Chakra-puncture, Esoteric massage, Connective Tissue Therapy ...0413 299315

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HIRE

PHOTOGRAPHY

OSTEOPATHY

MULLUM HIRE Builders, party and much more ........................www.mullumhire.com.au 66843003 BYRON HIRE Building & home handyman equipment hire ........ www.byronhire.com.au 66856228 SOUND, LIGHTING & VIDEO Equipment hire & installation crystalgrid.com.au ...........0421 661910

at Mullumbimby Comprehensive Health Centre

Dr. Matthew Fourro (Osteo) Dr. Egbert Weber (Osteo)

INTERIOR DESIGN

60 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby | 02 6626 7900

Professional • Commercial • Personal 30+ years experience in commercial photography and photojournalism

KATE PLATT Interior Designs, www.kateplatt.com ................................ 0411 888416 or 66807606

INTERNET & DATA SERVICES

Tree Faerie Fotos

NORTH COAST OSTEOPATHY Jodie Jacobs. Mon, Wed, Fri..............................................66857517 OSTEOPATH SINCE 1975 Old school, Lennox Head. Michael Petrie ....................................66874410 DR DEAN HARDY Osteopath B.Clin.Sci, Master Osteopathy lennoxheadquarters.com...0412 786399

www.treefaeriefotos.com • 0417 427 518

PHYSIOTHERAPY

BANGALOW PHYSIOTHERAPY Manual therapies, acupuncture, pilates.

Liz Thomas, Cally O’Hara, Kim Snellgrove .............................................................................66872330 NICK EDMOND Physiotherapy & Acupuncture. Open Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday • DEPARTMENT OF FAIR TRADING INFO: When dealing with home owners, painters are required 466 Main Arm Road, Mullumbimby.....................................................................................66845288 ANTHONY D’ORSOGNA Physiotherapy, acupuncture, hydrotherapy Suffolk Park 1 Bryce St ... 66853511 to quote a licence number only for external work valued over $5000.

CLAUDIA MIRDITA Craniosacral therapy, physiotherapy ....................................................66857222 CONTINENCE / PELVIC FLOOR Janelle Angel ..................Bangalow 66872337 & M’bah 66723818 PETRA KARNI Physiotherapy, Craniosacral, Alexander Technique. Byron ..........................66807207 OCEAN SHORES PHYSIOTHERAPY Manual therapies, dry needling, custom orthotics, THE IRONING LADY Suffolk Park. $28 per hour. Angela.................................................0414 719680 real time ultrasound. Nigel Pitman, Alex Margan, Lachlan Dewar .......................................66803499 • Domestic & Commercial • Servicing all areas EWINGSDALE PHYSIO Renata Tenta. Matrix Rhythm Therapy, home visits avail................66847838 • Workmanship guaranteed PETER FARRELL Physiotherapist, manual therapy & exercise, Mullumbimby ....................66843385 • Attention to detail MARTINA DUEL Craniosacral, physio, dry needling, manual therapies. Mullum............0432 322998 TRADE QUALIFIED JEWELLER Resizes, repairs, remodels, commissions louisehaw.com.au ..0414 644828

PAINTING

BYRON BAY

JEWELLERS

0438 784 226 • 6685 4154

KITCHENS

Lic No 189144C

ALL-WAYS PAINTING

IRONING

SHAUN LEMURA KITCHENS Byron 17yrs+ qual. exp. www.slbyronbay.com................0499 771769 D HINGED Kitchens & Joinery – www.hinged.com.au ...................................................0409 843689

PLASTERING

LANDSCAPE DESIGN

PLASTERING CONTRACTOR

BEAU JARDIN We design & build beautiful gardens www.beaujardin.com.au Lic 177274C ...0417 054443 BYRON ARTELIER Landscape Architect 15 yrs+ exp. Free consult. Call Ben .................0488 620227 LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT Garden Design & Property Planning. Andrew Pawsey ..........0478 519804

1176 Myocum Rd, Mullumbimby (just past golf course)

YVES DE WILDE

QUALITY PAINTING SERVICES

X FINALIST OF THE MASTER PAINTERS OF AUSTRALIA AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE X ENVIRO FRIENDLY PAINTING www.duluxaccredited.com.au

6684 2323 / 0418 663 983

X 6680 7573 0415 952 494 X www.yvesdewilde.com.au LIC 114372C

Shaun Savage Landscapes

Established 2008 ~ Lic No: 247282c

Specialising in: • Retaining Walls • Pool Surrounds • Block Work • Paving • TurďŹ ng • Stonework 20 Years Experience

0405 594 288

Adam Moss Landscaping and Tiling Available for all your landscaping and tiling work Including: Pool copings & surrounds Paving Indoor & Outdoor Tiling Stone feature walls Decking Garden beds TurďŹ ng & more Lic 208921c Servicing the Northern Rivers NSW Mobile: 0429 980 005

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COL JENKINS PLASTER Gyprock, renovations, repairs. No job too small ......................0401 078733 GLENN WATERS For the finish you can’t see. Lic 58928C...............................................0427 908129

PLUMBERS

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Steve 0427 440 494 David 0419 157 926 WWW.NATURALPAINTINGSOLUTIONS.COM.AU

NEED A PLUMBER? DRAINER? GASFITTER?

Chay 6680 5081 0429 805 081 Byron Shire

Licence No. 207479C

• Sand • Soils • Gravels • Pots & statues • Lots, lots more

DOMESTIC & COMMERCIAL

Lic 167371C

LANDSCAPING

PICTURE FRAMING BILLINUDGEL CUSTOM PICTURE FRAMING 7/1 Wilfred St, Billinudgel ........................66803444 MULLUM PICTURE FRAMERS Stuart St rear lane behind Mitre 10 ............................0403 734791

SUBTROPICALLANDSCAPES.COM.AU 20 years exp. Lic 231789C ................................0405 122456 AD PAINTING by John Hand. Lic 13246C ................................................ 0413 185399 or 66841249 BUSH ROCKS All sizes / mossy, can deliver. Ron ...................................... 66298208 or 0429 398208 KELVIN & ROBERT TEALE Painters & decorators. Lic R65919 ................0400 349027 or 0438 842731 DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION www.varendorfflandscapes.com Lic 39791 ...6845035 or 0414 842602 PRIMAL LANDSCAPES & CONSTRUCTION Retaining wall specialists. Lic 295404C ....0449 846152 LEMONTREELANDSCAPES.COM.AU Liam. Lic No 277154C .........................................0423 700853

LAUNDRY SERVICES

LAUNDRY

FAST TURNAROUND – AIR BNB • Self serve / service wash • New front loaders & dryers • Domestic & commercial services

Mullum Wash House – 0439 001 545 Bangalow Wash House – 0412 302 246

Professional Property Protection you can Trust

• Targeted treatments for all pests with “no sprayâ€? cockroach treatments • If you have found live termites, do not disturb them and call us for advice!

No cost for quoting on active termites Relax, when safety, reputation and experience matters, we are the experts

6685 4490 or AH on 0414 769 018

www.sanctuarypest.com.au

OPEN EVERY DAY

02 6681 6555

LAWNMOWER REPAIRS TYAGARAH MOWER REPAIRS 69 McAuleys Lane, Mullumbimby .................................0488 094025 MULLUM MOWERS & MACHINERY REPAIRS Mullumbimby Industrial Estate............0423 204218

LIGHTING

Free quotes on active termites Environmentally safe

YOUR PEST & TERMITE SPECIALISTS www.allpestsolutions.com.au

Lighting Showroom Open 9am – 5pm Mon – Fri Unit 5, 21-23 Tasman Way, Byron A+I Estate Free on-site consultancy 6680 7007 creativelightingsolutions.com.au

JARRAH DAVIDSON Plumbing, draining, gas fitting & roofing. Lic 187712C................0438 668025 BILL CONNORS All plumbing/draining. Lic #1051 .................................. 66801403 or 0414 801403 HRH PLUMBING Providing a prompt, reliable & efficient service. Lic 220755C ............0402 652017 DART PLUMBING Plumbing, roofing, gas. Byron Bay. Lic 1175539C..............................0421 334515 MARK STRATTON All plumbing & emergency. Sewer drain camera/locator. Lic 57803C ....0419 019035 ADM PLUMBING SERVICES‌ (NO JOB TOO SMALL)‌ Lic 234528C. ....... Call Adam 0466 992483 ED RIORDAN PLUMBING Ballina to Byron. Lic L6966....................................................0417 343480 BLOCKED DRAINS Drain camera, no dig repairs. Drain Pipe King. Lic 237124C ..............0427 217500 EMERGENCY PLUMBING All aspects. Prompt & prof. O.Shores. Lic 284496C.................0417 053708 LPC PLUMBING Plumbing, draining, gas fitting. Sth Golden Bch. Lic 289868C. Luke ....0401 633222

MULLUMBIMBY PODIATRY Laser Clinic. For all your podiatry needs ..............................66742933

PRINTING & COPYING SERVICES

LOCKSMITH

PRINTWORKS Traditional / Digital art@mullumprintworks.com.au .................................66843633

REMOVALISTS

MOBILE LOCKSMITH SERVICE Automotive car keys & lock installation/repair .............0412 764148

• Safe • Natural • Effective • Guaranteed

BEYOND BYRON REMOVALS 0404

7 411 79

Sue Broadbent, Toby Mills, AndrĂŠ Kleinbaum, Amelia Rocco, Emily Pepper

THE PEST MAN EXTRAORDINAIRE Second opinion / alternative views. 50 yrs exp .....0418 110714

Clinic open for Osteopathy and Massage Monday – Saturday 2/32 Mullumbimbi Street, Brunswick Heads. Tel 02 6685 1126

BRUNSWICK BYRON PEST CONTROL................................................................................66842018

North Coast news daily: www.echonetdaily.net.au

0404 053 857

PODIATRY

CREATIVE LIGHTING SOLUTIONS

OSTEOPATHY

All Plumbing Blocked drains GasďŹ tting Solar Hot Water

Lic. No. 206913C

PEST CONTROL

RAYMOND LYNCH PEST MANAGEMENT General pests & termites ..............................0418 850601

Ready for work within & beyond Byron Brisbane Sydney backloading For careful service & great rates

phone 66801158 or 0408 004719 Removalists continued on next page The Byron Shire Echo March 29, 2017 39

Service Directory

TRINE SOLUTIONS Plumbing, draining & gasfitting. Lic 138031C ......................................66779574

REMOVALISTS (continued)

LPC PLUMBING Septic Systems Installed ......................................................................0401 633222

Andy’s Move & More

SOLAR INSTALLATION

Small and Medium Moves, Tip Runs & Deliveries, 1 or 2 Men at Low Prices to Most Areas Based from Byron Bay & Mullumbimby Calls always returned

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North Coast news daily:

CHOPPY CHOP TREE SERVICES The Fully Insured Professionals

Pioneers of the solar industry

Serving Northern NSW since 1998

Call us on 6679 7228

0429 149 533 Est 2006

TREE SERVICES

Your local, qualified team. m 0428 320 262 Specialists in standalone & e sunbeamsolar@bigpond.com grid interact system designs.

• Stump Grinding • Bobcat • Cherrypicker • Crane Truck • 18” Chipper Mark Linder Qualified Arborist 0408 202 184 choppychoptrees@bigpond.com

Electric Lic 124600c

SHIRE REMOVALS & FREIGHT CO

From Middle Pocket to Middle Earth – just give us a ring

• Freight services to Brisbane weekly • Carriers of fine art • Furniture removal • E-bay pick up & delivery

6681 1913 / 0409 917646

Beach Tree Services

LEAPFROG REMOVALS

Felling, pruning, removal & forestry Insured and experienced Call Lewis for a free quote: 0401285296

BYRON BAY’S LOCAL REMOVALIST MOVING THE SHIRE FOR OVER 10 YEARS

0432 334 200 02 6680 8170

The expert in solar efficiency

leapfrogremovals@yahoo.com.au

For tips & testimonials

Friendly Staff No weekend surcharge

search “Lighthouse Removals”

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MAN WITH A VAN/TRUCK Reasonable rates. Phone Don ............................................0414 282813 BENNY CAN MOVE IT! .................................................................................................0402 199999

ROOFING

MONTYS METAL

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LIGHTHOUSE REMOVALS (02) 6684 5395

Email: lewis@beachtreeservices.com.au

Patrick - 0425 256 802 Andy - 0423 343 323

Contact Juno Energy, your household and commercial solar installation specialists.

Authorised Northern Rivers LG solar/battery dealer and Sonnen battery dealer.

HART TREE SERVICES 15” chipper bobcat cranetruck stump grinding EWP ..... 66849137 or 0427347380 SUMMERLAND TREE SERVICES ............................................. Call Tim 66877677 or 0417 698227 PETER GRAY Dip Arb. AQF5. Consulting arborist ...........................................................0414 186161 BYRON TREE SERVICES Qualified, insured. Call Alex ...................................................0402 364852 TALLOW TREE SERVICES Removal, free quote & full insurance .....................................0401 208797 A VERY HANDY MAN TREE SERVICES Happy to help. Andrew ......................................0412 558890 MARTINO TREE SERVICES ..............................................................................Martino 0435 019524

UPHOLSTERY BANGALOW UPHOLSTERY Now at Billinudgel. Re-covering specialists.............................66805255 BYRON BAY UPHOLSTERY Soft furnishings & outdoor................................................0403 713303

VALUERS

www.junoenergy.com.au licence number: 255292C

DOMESTIC • INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL

SWIMMING POOLS

Metal Roofing Installations • Guttering Downpipes • Fascia • Skylights • Whirlybird Patios • Repairs • Leaf Guard

ATTENTION POOL OWNERS

Craig Montgomery – 0418 870 362 Email: montysmetalroofing@gmail.com www.montysmetalroofing.com.au

• All pool requirements • Professional advice • Water testing • Friendly service • Pool servicing

73 Station St, Mullumbimby (opp. Council chambers)

6684 3003

LIC: 223489C

ZAC MACTAGGART METAL ROOFING PTY LTD Ƈ NEW ROOFS Ƈ RE ROOFS Ƈ INSULATED ROOF PANELS Ƈ Ƈ FASCIA & GUTTERS Ƈ REPAIRS & MAINTENANCE Ƈ

BYRON BAY VALUERS NSW & QLD reg’d. Chartered Valuers ................... 0431 245460 or 66857010 NR VALUATIONS 25 years local exp. www.nrvaluations.com.au ...................................0428 694041

VETERINARY SURGEONS MULLUM VET CLINIC Richard Gregory, Erin Tottenham, Bec Patison. 24 hrs 7 days ..........66843818 VITALITY VETCARE Bangalow. Megan Kearney, Cassie Lappin. Holistic Compassionate Care ...66870675

VIDEO PRODUCTION CAMERA CREW, LIGHTING, screens, projectors & editing crystalgrid.com.au..............0421 661910

VISA ADVICE

MULLUM POOL SHOP Water testing, eco products, mobile service, repairs................0418 666839 REGISTERED MIGRATION AGENT Rebecca@byronbaymigrationagency.com.au .........0487 458047

TELEVISION SERVICES

0411 683 003 WWW.ZACMACTAGGARTMETALROOFING.COM.AU

INSTALL SERVICE TV, HiFi, AV. Special concession rate. Damian ...................................0414 741233

BYRON COAST ROOFING PTY LTD Lic 252098C Guttering, leaf guard, cladding, etc ..0422 248936

TILING

WATER FILTERS The Water Filter Experts for home, commercial and rural properties

ALL ROOF CLEANING Experienced roof & gutter cleaning + gutter guard install .........0419 789600

SHE TILES

RUBBISH REMOVAL BEST SKIPS BANGALOW 2m3, 3m3, 4m3, 6m3 & 8m3 bins .................... 0417 458149 or 66871544 OCEAN SHORES SKIPS Mini skip specialists ......................................... 0412 161564 or 66841232 BYRON SKIPS & RUBBISH REMOVAL 2, 3, 4 & 6 m3 bins available ..............................0450 300360 TIP RUNS & RUBBISH REMOVAL 4m3 trailer................................................................0408 210772

Kitchens, bathrooms, laundries, tile repairs & waterproofing Leaking showers repaired & sealed NO JOB TOO SMALL • Free quotes & consultations Lic. No. 216827C Because a woman understands excellence

Dirty Tiles & Grout?

SCRAP METAL MERCHANTS

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@ BRUNSWICK BYRON AUTO WRECKERS Buying: • Scrap metal • Aluminium • Copper • Brass • Lead • Car Batteries Next to Tyagarah Service Station

...forget pointless scrubbing

Pacific Highway, Tyagarah 6684 2351

FREE TOW

avail fo r cars – unwanted cash for som paid e

9 TILE, GROUT & STONE CLEANING & SEALING 9 SILICONE 9 GROUT COLOURING 9 RE-GROUTING 9 EPOXY GROUT 9 GLASS RESTORATION 9 SLIPPERY TILES 9 LEAKY SHOWERS MEMBER

Call Ben on 0456 606 911 www.groutpro.com.au

TILER/STONEMASON/WATERPROOFER Lic 24418C. Phone Karl ...................................66804103

TRACTOR REPAIRS

SEWERAGE MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONALS

TRACTOR REPAIRS

M 0418 754 149 P 07 5523 9930 NSW Lic. L10007 QLD Lic. 13395

40 March 29, 2017 The Byron Shire Echo

$399

FULLY Water purification systems INST ALLED IN YOUR Rainwater Filters HOME Whole house filtration systems

Phone Chris 0414 229 114

WATER TANKS & TANK CLEANING Professional Water Tank Cleaning Installation and maintenance of water filters for rural and suburban properties h your Deal wit erator local op

TILER Shower leaks, wall & floor tiling, 45 years experience. Lic R91906. Phone Bob.....0410 428919

SEPTIC SYSTEMS Installing, maintaining and repairing onsite sewerage management systems in Tweed & Byron Shires for over 25 years.

IN IN H

Call Louise 0478 698 186

TIPPER HIRE available for rubbish removal & tip runs ......................................... Jono 0412 871438

BYRON CASH FOR SCRAP

6680 8200 or 0418 108 181

Female Wall & Floor Tiler _ over 10 years experience

RURAL MACHINERY REPAIR SERVICE DIESEL ENGINE TECHNICIANS REPAIRS TO ALL MAKES AND MODELS

PHONE BILL: 6688 4143 – 0407 435 259

WE CLEAN WATER TANKS

•

Call Peter BYRON SHIRE

0487 777 247 www.pristinewater.com.au

WATER FILTERS SUPPLY AND SERVICE

WATER TANK CLEANING/WATER TANKS Concrete tank repairs. All areas .. 66888055 or 0407 002833

WELDING WELDING & FABRICATION Structural, general & repairs. Trade qualified. Rod ............0408 410545

WINDOW TINTING SUNRISE W. T. NO BUBBLES, NO TROUBLES Cars, homes & offices ..........................0412 158478

Byron Shire Echo archives: www.echo.net.au/byron-echo

Classifieds INDEX Annual General Meetings ....... 41 Birthdays ................................. 43 Bluesfest Accommodation ...... 42 Businesses For Sale ............... 42 Childcare ................................. 41 Death Notices.......................... 43 For Sale ................................... 42 Funeral Notices ....................... 43 Garage Sales .......................... 42 Halls For Hire .......................... 42 Health Notices ......................... 41 Items Under $100 ................... 42 In Memoriam ........................... 43 Lost & Found .......................... 43 Motor Bikes ............................. 42 Motor Vehicles ......................... 42 Musical Notes.......................... 43 Only Adults .............................. 43 Pets.......................................... 43 Positions Vacant ...................... 42 Professional Services ............. 41 Public Notices.......................... 41 Removalists ............................. 42 Share Accommodation ........... 42 Short Term Accommodation ... 42 Social Escorts ......................... 43 To Lease .................................. 42 To Let ....................................... 42 Tradework ................................ 42 Tree Services .......................... 42 Tuition ...................................... 43 Wanted .................................... 42 Wanted To Rent....................... 42 Work Wanted........................... 43

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The Byron Shire Echo does not make any representations as to the accuracy or suitability of any content or information contained in advertising material nor does publication constitute in any way an endorsement by The Byron Shire Echo of the content or representations contained therein.

The Byron Shire Echo does not accept any liability for the representations or promises made in paid advertisements or for any loss or damage arising from reliance on such content, representations or promises.

PUBLIC NOTICES

COSTUME HIRE, PROPS, SUITS & ACCESSORIES Open Thurs 4–6.30pm, Sat 10.30am–1pm or by appointment

TAYLORS PROPS 1 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby Phone 6684 2978

Are you doing it tough?

ECHO CLASSIFIEDS – 6684 1777 Publication day is Wednesday, booking deadlines are the day before publication.

6684 1777 AT THE ECHO HEAD OFFICE

Ads may be taken by phone on

Ads can be lodged in person at the Mullum Echo office:

Village Way, Stuart St, Mullumbimby

EMAIL ADS

DISPLAY ADS (with a border): $12.50 per column centimetre

Ad bookings only taken during business hours: Monday to Friday, 9am–5pm. Ads can’t be taken on the weekend.

Account enquiries phone 6684 1777.

These prices include GST.

CARS LEFT on property 825 Bangalow Rd, Talofa will be soon sold in lieu of rent STORYTELLING SERVICES Coaching, workshops, guest speaker, award-winning recordings.

Jenni Cargill-Strong www.storytree.com.au

KIZOMBA LADIES

Inspired moves & shines.

0431108791 – www.sassysalsa.com.au

ARTISAN MARKET Every SATURDAY 4–9pm Railway Park byroncentre.com.au

BRUNSWICK HEADS MARKETS Saturday 1st April, 2017

MEMORIAL PARK, BRUNSWICK HEADS Phone 6628 4495 No dogs please

MOSAICS & LEADLIGHTING @ The Goosehouse Studio Fully refurbished studio now open.

Flexible classes all year round.

Learn at your own pace.

Professional artist of 30 years.

Small classes. Limited places.

BOOK NOW goosehousedesigns.com.au

Ocean Shores MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN OUR COMMUNITY

www.thehubbaptist.org

Cash, cheque, Mastercard or Visa Prepayment is required for all ads.

5 ELEMENT DANCE

Women’s Group at Suffolk Park Hall.

Monday 1–3pm. $18 per person.

Sundays, Broken Head Hall 6-8pm, All Welcome $15 per person.

Come open & free your spirit, dance as if no-one is watching, revive & renew your energy to start your week in bliss.

Tania 0438026681

BYRON MARKET Sunday 2 April www.byroncentre.com.au

The Channon Craft Market THIS SUNDAY

6688 6433

The best market in the country!

We deliver IKEA furniture to you.

We shop, deliver and assemble (if required).

Shop and drop starts at $40 Phone Rick: 0400 55 99 29 rick@shopdropassemble.com.au

Saturday 1st April 6pm Call Shahido

6688 2494

North Coast news daily: www.echonetdaily.net.au

UPPER MAIN ARM COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION (UMACA) AGM will be held at Kohinur Hall Wednesday 19th April 2017 at 5.30pm

Between Dark and Dark a memoir; Moral Victories, the biography of chess player Savielly Tartakower; Heresy, an historical novel.

in Kennedys Lane, Tyagarah has moved and is no longer open to the public.

Instead we provide a delivery service locally and interstate. You can order your bamboo plants online, or by phone.

Thanks to everyone for their patronage over the last decade and we hope you will visit our website or call Kaye 0400 696 264.

Local and repeat customers receive a 10% discount.

www.byronbamboo.com.au

Are old injuries still hurting?

netdaily

Jeremy Sutton • 0407 132 921 rolfingbyronbay.com

KINESIOLOGY

COLONICS

Clear subconscious sabotages.

Reprogram patterns and beliefs.

Restore vibrancy and physical health. De-stress.

Ph 66846914 SANDRA DAVEY, Reg. Pract.

Offering colonic hydrotherapy, sauna and naturopathy at our beachside clinic.

Call or text 0458633869 www.byronbaydetoxretreats.com.au

HYPNOSIS & EFT

CHILDCARE

Simple and effective solutions Anxiety, Cravings, Fears & Trauma.

Maureen Bracken 0402205352

BABY-SITTING 17-year-old who loves kids, with childminding experience & own car avail. Reasonable rates, will do overnights. Phone Sophia 0402307851

ALOHA HEALING WITH NAOMI Strength with intuitive depth. Deep tissue & Kahuna 23yrs exp. 0417212540

PROF. SERVICES

THAI MASSAGE With male, 1hr $50, Brunswick Heads. Ph Nui 0413710742

DENTURES

LOOK GOOD FEEL GOOD Free consultation. SANDRO 66805002

Assessment & treatment of children, adolescents & adults

Carl Moore Psychology Reg no. PSY0001057399 Medicare rebates available

YES to a happier healthier YOU Meditation, fasting, Breathwork, Solar Nutrition, Ozone, Power-Tube & Infrared therapies + much more offered with loving guidance. Short/med/long-term stays + private sessions. Funkey Forest Family Retreats. Ph Anand 0412723577

I LOVE MY WORK

If you’re not 100% happy it’s free. Deep nurturing Kahuna massage for relaxation in ‘The Zone’. Ross Love 0421399465

Fund BAYSIDE ACUPUNCTURE Health Rebates & AND HERBAL MEDICINE Hicaps Available

Dr Eeka King GRAVE ILLNESS & RELATED ISSUES

Dr David King

(Chinese Medicine) Women’s Health, Fertility & Pregnancy Acutonics® Sound Therapy

(Chinese Medicine) Pain conditions Mental/emotional disturbances & general

14 PARK STREET, BRUNSWICK HEADS | 02 6685 1088 | BAYSIDEACUPUNCTURE.COM

ACUPUNCTURE CHINESE HERBAL MEDICINE MASSAGE ACUTONICS®

BQ^[ + 4[R | 6684 6336

Tues & Thurs Saturdays

5–6.30PM 10AM–12PM

S U F F O L K PA R K CO M M U N I T Y H A L L

HEALTH

Safe, beneficial, authentic yoga

MASSAGE/HEALING BODYWORK Scenar Therapy, facial harmony, Tiana 0401875725 in Ocean Shores www.byroncloud9.com

YOGA BASICS - 6 WEEKS BEGINNERS COURSE MONDAYS 5-6.30PM BEGINS MAY 8TH BOOK NOW!

Flo Fenton, Senior Yoga Teacher

DAVID LOVEJOY’S BOOKS

BYRON BAY BAMBOO NURSERY

Singing and Dancing Evening

AGMs

shopdropassemble.com.au

Available from The Echo office reception

Osho

DEER – LIGHTFUL Children’s book launch 8th April yutimcleanart@weebly.com

Rolfing® Byron Bay

THE BYRON SHIRE

SHOP DROP ASSEMBLE

ALL JUST $10 EACH

from 9 till 11am

No concession cards required.

Just come along, pick up a bag, stay for a cuppa and a chat.

$17 for two lines is the minimum charge.

Display classies (box ads): adcopy@echo.net.au Line classies: classifieds@echo.net.au

THIS THURSDAY

For anyone who finds themselves in need of food assistance.

Echo Classies also appear online in Echonetdaily – echo.net.au/classified-ads

PHONE ADS

will be available

(next to Target, enter via kids play area)

LINE ADS: $17.00 for the first two lines $5.00 for each extra line

DEADLINE TUES 12PM

FOOD RELIEF BAGS at The Hub Baptist Ocean Shores Cnr Rajah Rd and Bindaree Way

RATES & PAYMENT

CLASSIFIEDS THAT WORK ALL WEEK!

CLASSIFIED AD BOOKINGS

Tel: 02 6685 9910 Mob: 0418 441 437 flo@intouchyogabyronbay.com intouchyogabyronbay.com

Daily Yoga Classes Martin Frank PHYSIOTHERAPIST Mon–Fri 9am–5pm

Overlooking the Ocean or in our Beautiful New Garden Studio at Belongil beachsidHyogaandmassage.com.au

20 Shirley St, Byron Bay

6685 8532

Successful solutions for any problem

MASTER HYPNOTHERAPIST NEUROLINGUISTIC PROGRAMMER & CERTIFIED MEDICAL HYPNOSIS PRACTITIONER PH 6680 2630

Anything is possible www.wendypurdey.com.au

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HAMMER & HAND

BEETU FULL BODY MASSAGE A divine experience, sensuous, nurturing. 28yrs exp. Lucy 0427917960 BYRON EMF BUSTERS Is radiation from wireless technology compromising your health? Home & business EMF testing. Simple solutions to reduce your family’s exposure to Wi-Fi and electro-pollution.

Call Anand on 0412723577

Diana Ewing Yoga, Shiatsu & Massage 8WK BEGINNERS YOGA COURSE

Starts Mon 3rd April. 6pm.

Bookings essential Hatha & Dru Yoga at Yellow Church & Mullum Shala www.dianaewing.com M: 0407 455 212

NATUROPATHY ALLERGY TESTING MASSAGE Tired? Sluggish?

Depressed?

Headaches?

Back or neck pain?

Keeping the shire shiny since 2009

• FULLY INSURED • PROFESSIONAL SERVICE • FREE QUOTES

6684 4421 0402 364 852

NICK HART

TREE SERVICES • Affordable tree services • Professional tree care • 15” chipper (crane truck)

Fully insured • Free quotes

6684 9137 • 0427 347 380

Tallow TREE SERVICES

PROFESSIONAL TREE CARE

CALL KIRSTEN

0416 196 980

Health fund rebates available

Yoga Pilates Yogalates Barre Bangalow or Suffolk Park

6687 2031

yogalates.com.au

BRENT VERCO

• • • • •

REMOVALS PALMS TREE SURGERY FREE QUOTES FULLY INSURED

• • • • •

STUMP GRINDING TREE REPORTS DA APPLICATIONS CRANE HIRE CHERRY PICKER

6687 2750 - 0401 208 797

FREE QUOTES

Nick Andrews 0439 849 332

CHIROPRACTOR

FOR SALE

MULLUM CHIROPRACTIC

KARL’S YARD AUCTION

6684 1028

MON TUE WED THU FRI PM & SAT AM

HALLS FOR HIRE COORABELL HALL WEDDINGS, GIGS, CLASSES 66871307 www.coorabellhall.net

POSTPONED TILL 5 MAY Rare red sports coupe ex-Mr Davids (proof bill of sale), Byron & Co shipping quality steel; Mercedes Vito Refrigeration van: Dual Cab Nissan Navara 4WD shortened tray, jacked up supertruck; 20 ton trailer, 8 wheeler; ex-commando camper trailer bargain; 2 Cruisers 5.2mts, 9m house boat & lots more.

Billi pre-sale bidding system.

0407076374 Billinudgel

POP-UP SHOP PRE-LOVED DESIGNER CLOTHES Concerts, forums, weddings, exhibitions, functions, etc. www.mullumcivic.com

Thursday 30th a±ųÏĘƤ 9.30am - 3pm

0488 609 774

68 Kingsley St Byron Bay

bookings@mullumcivic.com

TRADEWORK

3EPTIC 7ASTE 2EMOVAL

3UMMERLAND %NVIRONMENTAL

4HE ,IQUID 7ASTE 3PECIALISTS

s 3EPTIC TANK CLEANING s 'REASE TRAP SERVICING s /ILY ,IQUIDS s 0ORTABLE TOILET HIRE s HOUR SERVICE

FIREWOOD DELIVERIES ALL YEAR ROUND 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

TREE SERVICES

SUMMERLAND TREE SERVICES • Cherry Picker • Wood Chipper • Stump Grinder • Tree Surgeon • Fully Insured

Mulch Supplies

Byron Bay & Surrounding Areas

6687 7677 Mobile 0417 698 227

ECHO CLASSIFIEDS • 66841777 •

LENNOX share with 1, room + ens, own lounge & entry, sgl $240pw, cpl $380pw + bond & elec, pref worker/s. 0428503108

LOVELY, LUSH PLANTS SALE Big agaves, blue gingers, agapanthus, elephant ears, birds nest ferns, sansevieria In Mullum. 0420485495

94 MERCEDES-BENZ 40 foot school bus, A1 cond, ideal motorhome. $12,000 ono. Ph 0414845531

OCEAN SHORES room with bathroom, share WiFi/elect $180pw. N/s. 66803813

BRIDGLANDS

2006 Mercedes $8990

Buy and sell good quality used furniture Ph 66842511

C180 Kompressor Elegance Auto 193,000 km.

BYRON CBD spacious newly reno studio. Clean quiet, working, sgle/cple.

F-furn. Bills, WiFi incl $350/$420pw, Ph 0410515093

SPEED QUEEN

Excellent condition.

Mechanically perfect.

Deceased estate.

Comfortable, economic and easy to drive. Great opportunity

Heavy duty American made commercial quality washing machines. In stock ready to go. Bridglands Mullumbimby.

66842511

MIELE WASHERS

Dryers and dishwashers available at Bridglands Mullumbimby. 66842511 WASHING MACHINE automatic $180, fridge $170, delivery. Phone 0413589388

ARCHIBALD’S CHEAP QUARRY PRODUCTS

Road base, gravel, blue metal and metal dust. ALL SIZE DELIVERIES. Phone 66845517, 0418481617

• Fence posts • Hardwood poles • Sleepers • Paling fence timber • Offcuts • Banana props • Drummed molasses • Firewood

Kings Creek, Mullumbimby Mark 6680 4284 / 0427 490 038 Karen 0427 804 284

NATIVE PLANTS FOOD PLANTS

The Largest range of native plants in the Byron Shire.

Tubestock to Semi-advanced

MULLUM CREEK NURSERY

110 Yankee Ck Rd, via Wilsons Ck Rd Mullumbimby 6684 1703 Open Wed–Fri 10am–4pm, Sat 9am–1pm www.mcnativenursery.com.au

42 March 29, 2017 The Byron Shire Echo

Call 0402 271 391

MOTOR BIKES JAPANESE BIKES 1970s: 2x Honda CB250, 81x Honda CB350/4, 1x XT250 Yamaha, 1x XF 250 Yamaha, 1x GPS125 Suzuki, 1x Suzuki 80, 2x TS185 Suzuki, 1x Yamaha Trail. 1x DT175 Yamaha. Plus: lots of parts. All bikes are projects, nonrunning. Selling all, will not separate. Only reasonable offers will be accepted. Ph 0427109195

BAMBOO PLY

BUSINESS FOR SALE

COMPOST TOILETS

GREEN BUILDING products & services business. Established 4 years, good customer base, products and systems in place but plenty of room to grow. $35,000 + SAV. Genuine enquiries only to: Deb@ painted-earth.com.au

from $10.50sqm & Bamboo Flooring.

For ceilings, walls, doors, etc.

Ph 66884188 • sample & brochure. www.bambooply.com.au

DAVID LOVEJOY’S BOOKS Available from The Echo reception: Between Dark and Dark, a memoir; Moral Victories, the biography of a chess player; Heresy, an historical novel.

ALL JUST $10 each.

SCAFFOLDING Erect, hire & sales.

Aluminium, steel & mobile. 0427774450

ITEMS UNDER $100 PLANT SALE 0420485495 Agaves, gingers, agapanthus, ferns. $15 to $30

WANTED OLD PICTURE FRAMES timber, any size. Ph Andrew 0404324023 LP RECORDS: good condition, no op shop crap! Ph Matt 0401955052

GARAGE SALES MOVING SALE MULLUM 4 Kamala Crt, Sat 8am-1pm. Furniture & homewares BRUNSWICK HEADS 56 Mullumbimbi St, Sat 8am. Lots of H’hold items, antique & modern furn & tools BYRON FLEA MARKET @ Byron Youth Activity Centre (YAC), 1 Gilmore Cres, 2nd Saturday of each month 8am-1pm.

Food, entertainment, vintage & pre-loved bargains. Next market on 8 April. Stalls or rug space avail 0490026840 BRUNSWICK HEADS Fingal Lane, Sat 8:30am, bric-a-brac and clothes.

GOURMET GIFT BASKET BUSINESS All stock, website, full training & support.

Small, unique online business with huge growth potential $11,500. Contact: gifts@flavoursofbyronbay.com.au MARKET STALL Est 28yrs, time to retire, great little hat business, keenly priced.

Details David 0423125337

REMOVALISTS BIG & SMALL REMOVAL JOBS Local, affordable, reliable & quick Ph 66845510 or 0402199999 ANDY’S MOVE & MORE Small & med moves, tip runs. 1 or 2 men at low prices.

Byron & Mullum based. Ph 0429149533

BLUESFEST ACCOM. EASTER 5 nights, private upstairs, s/c 2 room studio with large deck, couple $750 add couple on pull out dbl sofabed extra $250. Linen provided, 180 degree views, 30 mins to Bluesfest. Beauty treatments optional extra. Ph 66930359 BRUNSWICK HEADS cosy self-cont studio. F/furn, own entrance & courtyard. $250pn, min 4 nights, 5 mins to Blues bus stop, 10 mins to Blues site, n/s, further info please email studio2483@gmail.com MULLUM TOWN f/furn room + bthrm + outdoor BBQ area, 10 mins to site $1000 for 5 nights. Suit sngle/cple. 0407163828 BLUESFEST ACCOM Mullum in town.

2br, ensuite, kitchenette, $300 per night.

Beautiful garden setting. Ph 0439600131

NEW BRIGHTON 12a Park St, Sat 8am-3pm. building materials, pool table, casement windows, doors & clothes, ect.

BRUNS 2br unit, suit thougtful visitors, $1200. Ph 0432519758

Tip Runs & Rubbish Removal

BYRON 1-2br furn townhouse. Walk to bch/town. 6/5 – 3/6. Pref long-term, shortterm possible $525pw. 0423742792

0408 210 772

BCHSIDE SUFFOLK fully furn, share with 1. $250pw + bond + bills. 0405184808

Local reg’d business 66845296 or 66845403

H/HOLD FURNITURE North O.Shores, Wed & Thurs. Text 0437270771

STARTING AT $960 Green Building Centre 0427701653

TREE PRUNING • TREE SURGERY / REMOVALS • QUALIFIED ARBORISTS 12” CHIPPER • STUMP GRINDING • CHERRY PICKER • FULLY INSURED

CASH PAID FOR UNWANTED CARS

MOTOR VEHICLES

BARGAINS

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AUTOMATIC 1998 MAZDA 121 METRO 119361km, 5dr hatch, ideal 1st car. SN4301 .$3750 AUTOMATIC 2002 HOLDEN JACKEROO MONTEREY 174246km, 7 seater, leather, rego till 3/18. SN2948....................................................$5995 AUTOMATIC 2003 HONDA CRV SPORT 181202km, great value, AWD. Sn1933 ..........$5850 2005 HOLDEN RODEO WITH CANOPY 2WD, manual, 135333km, full service history.

SN4422 ............................................................. $7495 2009 HYUNDAI GETZ Manual, 158683km, rego till 6/17, great condition, low km. SN5636 ......$4995 1997 TOYOTA TARAGO Rego till 5/17, 8 seater family van. SN2246 ..........................................$4990

BARGAINS

ballinacarcentre.com.au

16 ENDEAVOUR CLOSE, BALLINA

Ballina Car Centre

DLN 19950

6686 5586 / 0418 676 274

SHORT TERM ACCOM.

SUFFOLK fully-furn, self-cont studio with private courtyard, peaceful, n/s, no pets, WiFi, $360pw inclusive. Ph 0418275198 MULLUM house with 3 large bedrooms, elevated & spacious, huge verandahs.

From 4/5 to 22/6 with cat sitting for calm old cat, $560pw incl bills. Ph 66842211

SHARE ACCOM. MAIN ARM room in beautiful Balinese house on river acreage, close to shop.

Pref mature working fem, no pets or kids. $250pw. Ph 66845421 or 67792232 BRUNS furn room for single person in 4br house, $200pw incl bills, WiFi. Share with one other. Working, n/s, healthy lifestyle pref. Ph 0427958730 BYRON STUDENT ACCOMMODATION 58 Tennyson Street. In town and close to everything, quiet student accommodation, not a backpackers!

Modern, clean amenities, free WiFi, no bills, long-term single room $200 per week and cheaper for a twin share room.

Friendly, international atmosphere. Call Andrea 0408166226 to arrange a visit to check us out

BRUNSWICK furn room, lovely old house, leafy, fem pref, $190pw incl all bills & WiFi. Ph Greg 0415099761

TO LET BANGALOW SELF-STORAGE Hi-tech security. 66872333 STORAGE From $105/mth. Bangalow. Ph 66872833 BYRON furn 2br apt, pool, avail April to October. $450pw. Ph 0439727334 BRUNSWICK HEADS cosy self-cont, studio. F/furn, own entrance & courtyard. $340pw + elec, avail mid April, n/s, further info email studio2483@gmail.com

LOCAL REMOVAL

& backloads to Brisbane. Friendly, with 10 years local exp. 0409917646

BANGALOW RENT-A-SHED Modern & Secure from $130 p/m Elders Real Estate 66871500 BALLINA SELF-STORAGE UNITS Secure from $18pw, 10 cubic mtr shed Across 3 locations. Ph 66867011 BYRON Lilli Pilli, self-cont semi-furn studio, $360pw inc bills. Ph 0413294982 BYRON CBD spacious newly reno studio. Clean quiet, working, sgle/cple.

F-furn. Bills, WiFi incl $350/$420pw, Ph 0410515093

BLUESFEST/EASTER BANGALOW RENTAL $350 daily min 4 days

Fully equipped pretty house a short stroll from village centre and Blues bus collection area.

Email seacastlescoastalproperty@ gmail.com for photos Suit fussy couple. No pets.

Ph. 0402 363 475 Ocean Shores

3 Bed, 1 bath study $490pw

Brunswick 4 Bed, 3 bath, pool $1200pw

Brunswick Heads

BYRON SELF-STORAGE UNITS Clean & secure. Ph 1300762618

4 Bed, 2 bath $520pw

BANGALOW 3br villa, LUG, quiet street $450pw. Ph 66809530 after 12 noon

2 Bed,1 bath $420pw

Brunswick Ewingsdale 3 Bed, 1 bath, acreage, $800pw

SIWICKI REAL ESTATE 17 Fingal St, Brunswick Heads

Brunswick Heads 3br 1bth $700 Shop space $1350 pcm Ocean Shores 3bd 2bth $590 2bd 1bth f/f $620 4br 3bth $750 Mullumbimby 3br 1 bth $520 4br 2bth $575 L.J. Hooker Brunswick Heads 6685 0177 5/16 The Terrace, Brunswick Heads

02 6685 1206 WANTED TO RENT BUILDER, gardener, all-rounder with self-contained bus requires shady tree paddock near water. Local 40yrs, rent/ exchange. Off grid ok. 0402040554 MATURE MALE working, requires studio flat or share house with own living room.

From Lismore through to Ballina. Up to $200pw. Ph 0434856745 MATURE CPLE seek quiet accom within 30 min Lennox. Ph Rhonda 0423590208

TO LEASE BEAUTIFUL TREATMENT ROOM Avail Tues/Fri/Sat/Sun $80/day, $45/half day. Mullum. 66849458, 0435078551

NEW LISTING – Bangalow $480 p/w Partly renovated brick/tile unit. 2 bed, 1 bath, sep toilet. o/plan lounge, dining & kitchen. SLUG, fenced yard, pets neg.

Lawns/garden inc. Avail mid-late April.

NEW LISTING – Clunes $600 p/w Located in beautiful Clunes Village.

Private family home, 3 bed, 1 bath, S/ carport, pool, large covered entertaining deck. Pets neg. Avail early April.

NEW LISTING – Bangalow $690 p/w Stylish modern home with polished timber floors. 3 bed, fans, WIR, WIP, gas cook top. no pets. s/carport & low maint grounds. Avail NOW. NEW LISTING – Bangalow $1,400 p/w Fully furnished. Resort style living for an executive tenant. 4 bed, 2 bath, D/ carport, pool. Avail for 3, 6, 9, 12 mths neg. Pets Ok. Avail end of March.

6687 2479

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Bangalow Landlords – we have qualified tenants looking for properties in Bangalow and surrounding areas. Please phone us TODAY for an honest appraisal.

RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES FEDERAL $600pw 3 bed 1 bath fully furnished home, avail now ROSEBANK $750pw 5 bed, 3 bath homestead, avail now MYOCUM $800pw 3 bed, 2 bath home, avail 22 May 2017

COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES BANGALOW $414pw office space, main street, upstairs, approx.

28 sqm, avail now BANGALOW $185pw business space, industrial estate, kitchenette, & toilet, approx. 25 sqm, avail now For more available rental properties go to

www.eldersbangalow.com.au 19a Byron Street, Bangalow

02 6687 1500

Bangalow House of Wellness Treatment/Therapy rooms available for professional practitioners Main Street.

0432 047 221 Good customer parking. howbangalow@gmail.com

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 office box DENTAL NURSE experienced, personable and reliable dental nurse required for Byron practice. Please call 66857026 any time

Operations Manager: Youth Bush Adventure Therapy Programs Based in Mullumbimby.

Part-time 2–3 days/wk OR full-time depending on skills and availability.

Responsibilities include: day to day operations; budget, finance and strategic management; legal, operational and legislative compliance of our newly establishing NFP organisation.

Being enthusiastic, highly organised, self-directed and adaptable with demonstrable managerial experience in similar role, and relevant post-grad tertiary quals are required.

To apply in confidence, please email your resume and cover letter to recruit@humannature.net.au Applications close at 5pm on Monday 3rd April For more details please visit: www.humannature.net.au

Byron Shire Echo archives: www.echo.net.au/byron-echo

GRILL CHEF roughly 20 hrs pw. W/ends & nights. Little Red Chilli. 66853522 SOCIAL MEDIA WIZ wanted to help promote an electronic music artist & a swimwear label based in Byron. Extensive knowledge of all digital platforms & the ability to create innovative & unique campaigns. Exp essential, please apply by email to dekemiskin@gmail.com REMEDIAL MASSAGE THERAPIST with insurance & provider number for health funds, preferably living in Byron Bay. Email applications to: lesaparker@gmail.com 0448807798 WAITSTAFF for busy Chinese restaurant at Bangalow. Must be able to work weekends, Friday, Saturday dinner, experienced & fast. Phone 66872382 MASSEUSE REQUIRED reliable & friendly for Gentlemen’s Relaxation Centre. 18+. Training provided for the right applicant. Gold Coast. 0418185791 BYRON BAY BARISTA SCHOOL Courses start at $109. Ph 0457537486 CARER female, reliable, strong. 23-40 yrs to assist quadriplegic man. Mornings 7-10am. No exp necessary. Must have tax file #. O.Shores. Phone 0427121555 REMEDIAL MASSAGE THERAPISTS Seeking therapists with health fund rebates to join our fantastic teams in Bangalow & Ballina. Must be exp’d, professional, reliable & passionate.

Professionally run clinics & good rates.

Ph 0499490088 or email: info@ bangalowremedialmassage.com.au IN-HOME CARE EDUCATOR ABA practitioner (training provided) plus general carer position for 6-yr-old autistic boy. Before & after school hrs. Long term commitment with view to moving to NDIS . Email: aba4hugo@gmail.com CHEF TRAINER POSITION To deliver commercial cookery classes in an international college in Byron Bay. Requirements: Cert IV in Training and Assessment (TAE40110) Cert IV in Commercial Cookery and Patisserie (SIT40516) HR@envirotech.com.au 0488585960

EXPERIENCED COCKTAIL BARTENDER & EXPERIENCED FLOOR STAFF

Minimum 2 years experience.

Must have NSW RSA. Email CV to sarah@italianatthepacific.com.au

HIRING:

Experienced Sushi Roller AND Cook/Chef for busy Sushi Cafe/Train in Ocean Shores Call or send resume sabisushimanager@gmail. com, 0420 656 378.

CONTRACTED DELIVERY DRIVER for business. Must have own ute.

Ph 0401739656 GP/SKIN CLINIC BYRON BAY Carlyle St Medical Centre. Full/part-time positions GP and/or Skin Clinic, flexible hours, bulk billing, guaranteed income. 66857479 admin@carlylestreetmedical.com.au

WORK WANTED MOBILE CAR PRESS. WASH & VAC $20 1 car, $35 2 cars. Phil 0432544103 EXPERIENCED HORTICULTURIST for all aspects of gardening. Ph 0429020215 LOCAL REMOVALIST Happy to move big, small & in between.

Call Benny 0402199999

IRONING SERVICE

Shirts, sheets & everything in between.

Suffolk Park. $28/hr. Angela 0414719680 QUALIFIED GREEN PAINTER Small jobs OK. Ph Rob 0408900134 5-STAR CLEANING Contract cleaner avail. End of tenancy.

AirBnB. No job too big or small.

Phone Tracy 0431224158

TUITION FRENCH • ITALIAN • GERMAN Eva 66846760 or 0403224842 www.languagetuitionbyron.com.au

PARLO ITALIANO

Native qualified teacher. Ph 0435635822 MATHS TUITION Qualified teacher, 25 years experience.

Grade 4 to HSC. Andrew 0413294982

Embrace the Divine within Atma Kriya Yoga course at Temple Byron. April 24 - 25, 9am – 5pm Atma Kriya® Yoga brings awareness of ƚŚĞ ƐŽƵů ŝŶƚŽ ĞǀĞƌLJ ĂĐƟ ŽŶ͘ • Burn karma and purify the mind and body • ƵŝůĚ Ă ƉĞƌƐŽŶĂů ƌĞůĂƟ ŽŶƐŚŝƉ with the Divine • Connect with the source of life within your own being • ǁĂŬĞŶ ƚŚĞ ŝǀŝŶĞ YƵĂůŝƟ ĞƐ ŽĨ ůŽǀĞ͕ ƉĞĂĐĞ͕ ƉĂƟ ĞŶĐĞ͕ ǁŝƐĚŽŵ͕ ŝŶƚƵŝƟ ŽŶ͕ ĐŽŵƉĂƐƐŝŽŶ͕ ũŽLJ ĂŶĚ ŵŽƌĞ͘ dŚƌŽƵŐŚ DĂŚĂǀĂƚĞƌ ĂďĂũŝ͛Ɛ 'ƌĂĐĞ ƚŚĞ ĂŶĐŝĞŶƚ ^ŚĂŬƟ ƉĂƚ ŝŶŝƟ ĂƟ ŽŶ ƵŶůŽĐŬƐ ƚŚĞ ƉŽƚĞŶƟ Ăů ŽĨ ƚŚĞƐĞ ĂĚǀĂŶĐĞĚ techniques so you can rapidly advance ƚŽǁĂƌĚ 'ŽĚͲ ZĞĂůŝƐĂƟ ŽŶ ĂŶĚ ĂƩ ĂŝŶ ƚƌƵĞ ĨƌĞĞĚŽŵ͘ ǁǁǁ͘ƐĂĚŚĂŶĂ͘ďŚĂŬƟ ŵĂƌŐĂ͘ŽƌŐ ŚĂŬƟ DĂƌŐĂ ƵƐƚƌĂůŝĂ Inquiry/enrolment: ĂƵƐƚƌĂůŝĂΛďŚĂŬƟ ŵĂƌŐĂ͘ŽƌŐ

BIRTHDAYS

Paid Position as a Face-to-Face Fundraiser.

Work with our team fundraising for rainforest charities. Experience preferred but not essential as training is provided.

Phone 0455 443 166 or email work@therainforestproject.org

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Grace and your dad

OUTCALLS 0451579023

MUSICAL NOTES

BALLINA EXCLUSIVE 34 Piper Dr. Open 7 days 10am till late.

In & Out Calls. 66816038. Ladies wanted Find us on Facebook!

QUALITY PIANOS for sale, and expert piano tuning. Ph Fred Cole 0412216019

DEATH NOTICES WAKE FOR TONY KRUGER A Wake to honour the life of Tony Kruger will be held at Sangsurya from 4pm – 8pm on Tuesday April 4th.

Please email or text RSVP: deborahpres@me.com or 0419180997.

This is a social gathering, with food, wine & music, to remember & honour Tony Kruger & mourn the loss of him in our lives. All welcome but please RSVP as above. Note there is limited parking.

We are also calling for anyone who would like to assist in preparation of food, music, speeches, coordination, cleaning.

If you are unable to attend but would like to honour Tony with flowers & a written tribute or card, please send to Sangsurya & we will display them here.

FUNERAL NOTICE FRED DELANEY Passed away peacefully with both daughters by his side. Much loved husband of Dorothy (dec). Adored father, grandfather and greatgrandfather. Remembered with love by his family and friends.

Relatives and friends are invited to attend a funeral service to be held at St Kevin’s Catholic Church, Bangalow on MONDAY (April 3, 2017) commencing at 11am followed by a private burial.

6684 6232

IN MEMORIAM MARCIA KNOWLES 11.4.35 – 29.3.07 Your love for us still lights our hearts.

Miss you, Narelle, Alex and Matt

LOST & FOUND LOST: PEACHFACE LOVEBIRD Yellow. Lower Wilsons Creek area.

If seen call 0414797144

MISTY is a gorgeous cat overflowing with wonderful cat qualities. Trouble is she cannot display them in the restricted environment of the rescue centre. She has been waiting sooooo long to be adopted, when she can blossom, and bring joy to all. Drop in and meet her (and bring a box to take her home in).

She’s a diamond awaiting discovery.

All cats are desexed, vaccinated and microchipped.

Please make an appointment 0403 533 589 • Billinudgel petsforlifeanimalshelter.net This is a desperate plea for our dear Ebony. Ebony has been at the shelter for a while now, & like the other adult cats, has seemingly been overlooked due to the gorgeous kittens that are coming & going. She was quite outgoing when she first arrived & loved to greet people, but now has become sad & is withdrawing. Ebony needs to leave the shelter ASAP so she can once again be the confident, beautiful cat that she was before. If you can offer Ebony a loving home preferably without any other cats you could make one sad little cat very happy once again. To meet Ebony, please visit the Cat Adoption Centre at 124 Dalley Street, Mullumbimby.

OPEN: Tues 2.30–4.30pm Thurs 3–5pm Sat 10am–12 noon Call AWL 6684 4070

If you are a pension card holder, the Animal Welfare League can assist towards the cost of desexing your cat or dog.

For information, please contact the North Coast Branch on 6684 4070.

FOUND: Peace painting in Banool Cct (blew off the top of a car). 66801394

ONLY ADULTS

PETS

SOFT HANDS WARM OIL Sensual touch. Mature & discreet. Byron.

0407264343 sensualmassagebyronbay.com

COMPANION ANIMALS WELFARE INC. Bo is a beautiful 1.5yr Heeler/ Kelpie/Collie mix. He is gentle, loves being with his people, going to the beach, stretching his legs for a good run and playing with other dogs. He is shy and unsure with new people and situations, but once settled, he is an affectionate, playful and loyal companion. Bo is as happy with lazing around the house as running to all corners of your property, as long as he is by your side he is happy. If you are interested in adopting Bo, please contact Megan on 0458 461 935.

RTO NO: 90013

EXQUISITE Be impressed with my hot body and warm hands. Tweed area. 0498073208 SEXIEST MASSAGE IN BYRON BAY Truly gorgeous goddess! 0490466413 www.tantrabyronbay.com Exquisite tantra massage & tuition for men, women & couples. 0425347477 TANTRIC MASSAGE FOR WOMEN www.TantraByronBay.com.au SOPHISTICATED EROTIC PLEASURE Full body, erotic massage www.erotictouchbyronbay.com Ph 0406582418

Fantasies of a Hot Woman with Her Strap On? Totally Satisfying Body Massage & Prostate Stim

Call 0407 013 347 www.touchofjustine.com/ strap-on-fun

Fee Free Scholarships available under NSW Government Smart & Skilled (on the courses marked *) * Cert III in Horticulture (AHC30716) - starts 27th April

* Cert III in Permaculture (AHC33815) - starts 27th April

Different levels of funding are available, call to see if you are eligible, hurry as places are limited!

02 6684 3374

www.byroncollege.org.au

North Coast news daily: www.echonetdaily.net.au

SOCIAL ESCORTS

Kenny is an 8-month-old desexed male Kelpie x Bull Arab. He is a bundle of energy and would love room to run.

If you can give Kenny a permanent, loving home please contact Pam on 0421 017 461.

Visit friendsofthepound.com to view other dogs and cats looking for a home.

BINDI 19, absolute stunner, tall, slim, size 6. Natasha 22 tall, slim, hot brunette.

Sophia 19, size 8, sexy South American, cute & affectionate. Shay 23, stunning Asian pocket rocket, tiny size 6. Candy 22, adventurous seductress, size 8, DD bust.

Taylor 18 tall slim size 6 stunner. Blake 25, very pretty blonde. Michelle 28, size 6 DD, tan, hot bod. Sharn 20, Elle model-looks, is back. Spoil yourself. In & out. Ladies always wanted. 66816038 BYRON AREA OUTCALLS. Phone 0421401775 SEXY ESCORT Outcalls only. 0478109345

MONTHLY MARKETS 1st SAT Bruns Heads 1st SAT Murwillumbah 1st SUN Byron Bay 1st SUN Lismore Car Boot

6628 4495 0417 759 777 6685 6807 6628 7333

2nd SAT Flea, Byron YAC 0490 026 840 2nd SAT Woodburn 0439 489 631 2nd SUN 2nd SUN 2nd SUN 2nd SUN

The Channon Lennox Head Alstonville Coolangatta

3rd SAT Mullumbimby 3rd SAT Murwillumbah

6688 6433 0419 369 609 6628 1568 6684 3370 0417 759 777

3rd SUN Uki 0487 329 150 3rd SUN Lismore Car Boot 6628 7333 3rd SUN Ballina 6687 4328 4th SAT Evans Head

0439 489 631

4th SUN Bangalow 6687 1911 4th SUN Nimbin 0458 506 000 4th SUN (in a 5 Sunday month) Coolangatta 5th SUN Lennox Head 5th SUN Nimbin

0419 369 609 0458 506 000

SATURDAYS Byron Artisan Market 4-9pm

6685 6807

FARMERS MARKETS Each TUE New Brighton Each TUE Organic Lismore Each WED 7-11am M’bah Each WED 3-6pm Nimbin Each THU 8-11am Byron Each FRI 7-11am Mullum Each SAT 8-11am Bangalow Each SAT 8am-1pm Uki Each SAT 8.30-11am Lismore

6677 1345 6628 1084 6684 7834 6689 1512 6687 1137 6677 1345 6687 1137 6679 5530 0466 415 172

APRIL 2017

First quarter April 4 04:39 Full moon April 11 16:08 Third quarter April 19 19:56 New moon April 26 22:16 Day of Sun Sun Moon Moon High tide, Low tide, month rise set rise set height (m) height (m) 1 S 0656 1843 1058 2208 0012,1.76; 1227,1.41 0625,0.39; 1820,0.34 DAYLIGHT SAVING ENDS 3am – turn clocks back one hour 2 S 0556 1742 1101 2202 0105,1.71; 1222,1.28 0632,0.48; 1813,0.44 3 M 0557 1741 1202 2259 0106,1.65; 1332,1.18 0748,0.54; 1917,0.52 4 T 0557 1740 1258 2358 0219,1.61; 1459,1.15 0907,0.55; 2037,0.57 5 W 0558 1739 1349 0335,1.59; 1619,1.20 1021,0.52; 2157,0.56 6 T 0558 1738 1436 0058 0444,1.61; 1724,1.29 1121,0.46; 2305,0.52 7 F 0559 1737 1518 0157 0541,1.63; 1816,1.39 1208,0.41 8 S 0600 1735 1557 0254 0629,1.64; 1900,1.48 0001,1.46; 1247,0.36 9 S 0600 1734 1634 0351 0711,1.64; 1941,1.54 0049,0.41; 1322,0.33 10 M 0601 1733 1710 0446 0749,1.61; 2017,1.59 0131,0.39; 1354,0.32 11 T 0601 1732 1745 0540 0823,1.57; 2051,1.63 0212,0.38; 1423,0.31 12 W 0602 1731 1820 0633 0856,1.52; 2124,1.64 0249,0.39; 1452,0.33 13 T 0602 1730 1857 0726 0929,1.45; 2157,1.64 0328,0.42; 1520,0.35 14 F 0603 1729 1935 0818 1000,1.38; 2230,1.63 0406,0.47; 1549,0.39 15 S 0603 1728 2016 0910 1035,1.30; 2306,1.59 0446,0.52; 1620,0.45 16 S 0604 1727 2059 1001 1113,1.23; 2346,1.54 0530,0.57; 1655,0.51 17 M 0605 1726 2146 1051 1157,1.16 0621,0.62; 1735,0.59 18 T 0605 1725 2235 1139 0034,1.49; 1253,1.10 0722,0.65; 1828,0.65 19 W 0606 1724 2327 1225 0134,1.45; 1408,1.09 0830,0.65; 1940,0.70 20 T 0606 1723 1309 0245,1.44; 1530,1.13 0938,0.62; 2100,0.69 21 F 0607 1722 0022 1351 0354,1.47; 1636,1.22 1034,0.55; 2213,0.63 22 S 0607 1721 0119 1432 0453,1.53; 1730,1.35 1121,0.46; 2314,0.55 23 S 0608 1720 0217 1513 0545,1.60; 1818,1.48 1203.0.37 24 M 0609 1719 0318 1553 0632,1.65; 1904,1.62 0007,0.45; 1243,0.28 25 T 0609 1718 0421 1635 0718,1.67; 1950,1.74 0057,0.36; 1322,0.21 26 W 0610 1717 0526 1719 0803,1.66; 2035,1.84 0146,0.29; 1401,0.17 27 T 0610 1716 0633 1806 0849,1.62; 2121,1.91 0237,0.26; 1443,0.17 28 F 0611 1715 0740 1857 0936,1.54; 2209,1.93 0330,0.27; 1525,0.20 29 S 0611 1715 0848 1952 1025,1.44; 2259,1.90 0426,0.31; 1610,0.27 30 S 0612 1714 0952 2050 1117,1.33; 2352,1.83 0527,0.37; 1700,0.37

Astronomical data and tides

Times are Eastern Daylight Saving.

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 15 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.

Data courtesy of the National Tidal Centre.

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AMBULANCE, FIRE, POLICE ...............................................................000 AMBULANCE Mullumbimby & Byron Bay ..................................131 233 BRUNSWICK VALLEY RESCUE Primary rescue........................ 6685 1999 BRUNSWICK MARINE RADIO TOWER ................................... 6685 0148 BYRON CENTRAL HOSPITAL .................................................. 6639 9400 POLICE Brunswick Heads ....................................................... 6685 1277 Mullumbimby .............................................................. 6684 2144 Byron Bay ................................................................... 6685 9499 Bangalow .................................................................... 6687 1404 STATE EMERGENCY SERVICE Storm & tempest damage, flooding......132 500 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) ......................................... 6622 1881 LIFELINE ..........................................................................................131 114 MENSLINE 7pm–11pm nightly (phone counselling & referral for men).. 6622 2240 NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS Meets daily .................................... 6680 7280 NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE .................................................. 6684 1286 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 24 hour crisis line ............................... 1800 656 463 NORTHERN RIVERS GAMBLING SERVICE ........................... 6687 2520 NORTHERN RIVERS WILDLIFE CARERS............................... 6628 1866 KOALA HOTLINE........................................................ 6622 1233 WIRES – NSW Wildlife Information & Rescue Service ......... 6628 1898 SNAKE & REPTILE REMOVAL – call WIRES ......................... 6628 1898

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Switched-off students Climate improves with fewer coal plants as bad as rowdy ones Joe McDonald & Katy Daigle

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More students in Australian classrooms are fiddling with their phones, making snide comments or turning up late than are swearing at teachers or threatening their classmates – and they’re just as hard for teachers to deal with.

A report from the Grattan Institute says it’s a major hidden issue that many students are compliant in class but passively disengaged from schoolwork.

Some two in five children are unproductive in the classroom, whether silently disengaged, making minor disruptions such as talking out of turn or being rowdy, or being aggressive towards their teacher and classmates.

‘Australian classrooms are not out of control, but student disengagement is a hidden problem in schools,’ report co-author and Grattan Institute school education program director Pete Goss said.

‘When a student switches off, there is the risk of a downward spiral. If the teacher responds poorly, more students can become distracted and the momentum of the class can be lost.’

The report found students who were quietly disengaged did just as poorly as those who misbehaved – typically falling up to two years behind their peers – and all disruptive behaviour reduced how much other students learned.

A third of teachers say they’re highly stressed by the challenges of keeping students engaged in learning and most new teachers said their training didn’t prepare them adequately to deal with behavioural issues.

Students avoiding schoolwork, disrupting the lesson and being disengaged were nominated as the most difficult issues to manage.

The poor behaviour and disengagement happened more often in disadvantaged schools.

Mr Goss and co-author Julie Sonnemann say what and how a subject is taught are crucial in engaging students but it’s also vital for teachers to create a good learning environment in the classroom, and to do so early in the school year.

They call for an integrated assault on the problem, including more support for schools in poorer areas, for universities to give teacher trainees more supervised time in real classrooms, and for teachers to be given better information about what behaviour-management strategies are proven to work and how to use those techniques.

‘The teacher’s ambition should not necessarily be a quiet classroom, but a genuinely productive class,’ they say.

See more: https://grattan. edu.au/report/engaging-students-creating-classroomsthat-improve-learning/.

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Led by cutbacks in China and India, construction of new coal-fired power plants is falling worldwide, improving chances climate goals can be met despite earlier pessimism, three environmental groups say.

A joint report by the groups CoalSwarm, the Sierra Club and Greenpeace follows a warning this week by two international agencies that the world needs to shift quickly away from fossil fuels to curb global warming.

Dismayed Environmentalists were dismayed by president Donald Trump’s US government budget proposal last week that would cut spending on renewable energy.

Construction starts for coal-fired plants in China and India were down by 62 per cent in January from a year earlier while new facilities starting operation declined 29 per cent, according to the report. It said older plants in the US States and Europe are being retired at a record pace.

The latest developments ‘appear to have brought global climate goals within feasible reach, raising the prospect that the worst levels

A passenger airliner flies past steam and smoke emitted from a coal-fired power plant in Beijing. AP Photo/Andy Wong

of climate change might be avoided,’ said the report.

It acknowledged ‘the margin for error is tight’ and said sustained progress will require China and India to scrap more than 100 coal plants on which construction has been suspended.

And it warned that countries, including South Korea and Indonesia, are failing to develop renewables, which could increase their need for coal power.

In a separate report, the US-based Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis said falling power demand in Japan means most of the 45 new coal plants the country has planned will likely never be built.

The reports mark a shift in sentiment from six months ago, when environmentalists

warned governments were doing too little to carry out the Paris climate accord.

Signed by 170 countries, it calls for holding global temperature increases to no more than two degrees celsius in hopes of preventing sealevel rise and other drastic changes.

China uses less China, the biggest greenhouse gas emitter, said at that time its coal use would rise until 2030. But later data showed the peak passed in 2013 and consumption is falling.

Countries including China, Germany, India and Japan are moving away from coal as alternatives get cheaper, said Tim Buckley, the IEEFA’s director of energy finance studies.

‘I don’t think Trump can stop that,’ he said.

Despite such changes, the amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rose to a new high last year and is increasing, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Asia alone is expected to account for 70 to 80 per cent of the global growth in coalfired power capacity over the next two decades.

Industry experts cautioned that countries including India, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Vietnam need to keep adding coal power because it is the only affordable option in a region where 500 million people lack access to electricity.

The cost of solar and wind has fallen by up to 80 per cent in some markets, but in places such as Bangladesh or parts of China it can still be double that of coal.

India’s government said in December it needed no new coal-fired capacity until at least 2027. But industry leaders expect work to resume on power projects that have been suspended.

Analysts also warn India is just setting out on a vast and energy-hungry process of building highways and other infrastructure, while China has completed that cycle.

Over-thinking and stress stop most from losing weight When it comes to diets, most Australians tend to overthink, have too high expectations and are anxious about failure – all of which can derail the best intentions.

CSIRO behavioural scientists have recently identified the dominant diet type among Australian adults, revealing why many people find it hard to maintain a healthy diet. They found there are five behavioural ‘diet types’ with the over-thinking, anxious perfectionist the predominant type.

The CSIRO surveyed more than 28,000 Australian adults to identify the personality traits and behavioural patterns in relation to eating and weight loss. The ‘Thinker’ diet type was the leading type among 41 per cent of adults.

People who identify with the Thinker diet type are goaloriented and analytical.

Yet these same qualities can be counterproductive to achieving diet goals when the

Thinker tends to over-analyse every decision, set unrealistic expectations and give themselves little margin for error.

This type is more prone to self-doubt, anxiety and stress, which can lead to over-eating and low success.

The research found Australians are motivated to lose weight with nine out of ten of the surveyed adults attempting to lose weight in their lifetime. About 50 per cent have made more than six attempts while almost 20 per cent have tried more than 25 times.

Even with this strong motivation and persistence to lose weight, obesity rates remain high.

The Diet Types program aims to address this gap by identifying a person’s psychological characteristics that play a key role in improving diet success. The most and least common of the five main diet personality types across the surveyed population were:

The Thinker 41 per cent – Over-thinking and worrying about failure leads to stress that can derail diet progress; The Craver 25 per cent – Craves delicious food and finds it hard to stop, leading to overeating in tempting situations; The Foodie 15 per cent – Loves making, eating and experiencing food; The Socialiser 15 per cent – Flexibility is essential; you won’t let strict food restrictions stifle your social life; and The Freewheeler four per cent – Makes spontaneous and impulsive food choices, finds planning meals hard.

‘If you have struggled to maintain your diet after a few weeks, your personal diet type will shed light on what behaviours and habits are creating a barrier for you,’ CSIRO behavioural scientist Dr Sinead Golley said. ‘Knowing your personal Diet Type helps you

maintain a healthy eating plan because you are more aware and equipped to manage moments of weakness.

‘Successful weight loss requires a different mindset, focused on long-term total wellbeing. If you identify as a Thinker, you can improve your eating habits by reflecting more on positive changes and rewarding progressive achievements towards your goal.’

The CSIRO launched the new online Diet Type assessment last month to help Australians better understand their personal diet type to successfully maintain a diet.

Participants fill in a short survey to receive instant, personalised feedback about the participant’s diet type profile and the right strategies to manage it.

If you’d like to learn more or if you want to complete the diet type assessment visit www.totalwellbeingdiet.com.

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Wilkinson set for five-metre waves predicted for WSL Crystal Cylinders

Byron Bay’s Matt Wilkinson is heading into the second event of the 2017 WSL tour at Margaret River this week in WA as number two in the world after his runner-up finish at Snapper Rocks.

The event is forecast to get some big surf with waves up to five metres predicted at the peak of the swell.

Wilkinson has drawn Miquel Pupo and Jack Freestone in his first-round heat.

Board meeting The Board Meeting Surf Charity held their third event at Lennox Head over the weekend with the Lennox Gelato and Coffee team winning the event.

Local northern rivers businesses entered teams of four surfers who took to the fun 1m waves.

The competition featured young, old, amateur, pro, male and female surfers.

It is run by volunteers and supported by local business and surfing communities, and raises much-needed funds for families.

PNG goes pro The first ever professional surfing event was held on

Matt Wilkinson at Snapper Rocks. Photo: WSL/Cestari

Papua New Guinea soil and Taylor Jensen and Chloe Calmon were crowned the inaugural Kumul PNG World Longboard Champions.

Local organisers initiated a powerful and innovative campaign to raise awareness about issues of gender equality and women’s empowerment, using surfing as the tool to get local communities active through the so-called Pink Nose Revolution.

Big Wave Tour Peter Mel has announced the transitioning of his role as WSL Big Wave Tour Commissioner to legendary big-

wave surfer Mike Parsons.

Mike Parsons will transition into this position for the 2017 Big Wave Tour season, which will kick off on May 1.

Parsons’s experience as a bigwave surfer and former professional surfer on the WSL Championship Tour, relationship within the big-wave community, and technical knowledge of swell systems and forecasting make him the perfect candidate to lead the BWT. ‘I am excited to focus my attention on helping create a clear path for young, up-andcoming big-wave surfers,’ he said.

The Beach Hotel wins inaugural Byron Shire Cricket Cup

Local bar and other staff took a break from work to enjoy the first Byron Shire Cricket Cup held in Byron earlier this month. Photo: Daniel Webster

The Beach Hotel was able challenged The Beach Hotel to claim first-time bragging to a charity cricket match, rights when they beat the Ho- which was a challenge enthutel Brunswick in the Byron siastically accepted,’ the Hotel Shire Cricket Cup earlier this Brunswick’s Daniel Mitchell month. said.

The charity match is ‘This time around, The scheduled to become an an- Beach Hotel proved too nual event between two of the strong for the promising outShire’s biggest venues. fit from Hotel Brunswick, ‘The Hotel Brunswick running out winners by 36 North Coast news daily: www.echonetdaily.net.au

runs with a total of 142, after the 24 overs,’ he said. ‘It was a marvellous day’.

All money raised will be shared between Byron Bay Public School and Brunswick Heads Public School.

The match was sponsored

by Stone & Wood Brewery and aided by the Byron Bay Cricket Club.

Seniors offered subsidised learn-to-play golf lessons Bookings are now being taken for six-week Golf for Seniors programs at Murwillumbah and Ocean Shores that are designed for anyone aged 55 and over who wants to learn to play golf.

The programs have been put together by the Office of Sport in association with Golf NSW and recognise that regular golf can offer a range of health benefits including improved stamina, cardiovascular fitness, burning calories, reduced stress and developing muscular endurance.

The six-week program (one hour per day, one day per week) is targeted at individuals aged 55 and over who want to learn to play golf or to simply improve their game.

The program costs $99 and covers all the equipment and instruction you need to enjoy the game of golf, and includes morning tea, six one-hour golf lessons, equipment and green fees.

In the last two weeks participants will go out onto the golf course to play one or two holes with their professional

Eager new golfers get expert advice at last year’s program.

Photo supplied.

instructor and some members of the club.

Additionally, participants who complete the program will receive special membership offers from the host club.

The programs are an opportunity to bring a friend and experience golf in a relaxed, social and safe environment, Office of Sport development officer Hamish Neal said.

‘This is part of a statewide program to be staged at 15

clubs from Ocean Shores on the state’s far north coast to Liverpool in Sydney’s west,’ Neal said.

The Murwillumbah Golf Club program will run at 10.30am each Wednesday from April 5 till May 10 inclusive. Bookings close March 29. http://www.golfnsw.org/ Seniors The Ocean Shores Country Club program will run at 2.30pm each Thursday from April 20 till May 25 inclusive.

Black skies and low winds challenge Tweed River sailors Alison Blatcher

Overcoming slight winds, Gary McCrohon was able to claim the last Laser race in the summer series held by the Tweed Valley Sailing Club the Sunday before last.

John Hayward (Laser) led the pack for a while, even ahead of the Sledder team (Hobie 16), but Gary McCrohon won out for the Lasers in the end, but only by 13 seconds on John. Mauri Meyer came in 65 seconds after, including the 60-second delay for the quick dip he took on the first leg!

The six Corsairs all had some good sailing in their final class championship.

Congratulations to Monique Smith, Matt Andrews and Kate Yeomans for their win on Corsair Swell Lady with Bill Fenelon, Sienna Pullan and Deborah Flannery (Minnow) 38 seconds behind after overtaking Alison Blatcher, Marg Walgers and Karen Vidler (Melita III) at the final buoy, rounding with a clever starboard call.

Kevin Bourke, Syd Brown and new crew James Bartlett

Mauri Meyer (Laser) drifting just before his slow-motion capsize. Photo Alison Blatcher

(Nimbus) were seconds be- ted on the first leg with only hind again and Russ Timbs, about six knots and some Hayden Bech and Bob Orms- nasty windless holes that half by (Dominatrix) and Mark the fleet got caught in.

But spirits lifted, however, Reynolds, Brad Pullan andCraig Foley (Keenas) fought as the wind appeared from for fifth and sixth. somewhere (everywhere at The day started with a times) getting up to 12 knots, resounding ‘let’s go’ from at and the fleet battled on. least 24 of the 25 sailors at the The Club will celebrate Tweed Valley SC’s race brief- the season at their Annual ing early on Sunday March Presentation Dinner in May. 19, but may have been regret- Email tvscmail@gmail.com The Byron Shire Echo March 29, 2017 45

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Top results for Byron’s new Local tennis boys make history triathlon club at Kingscliff Every member of the new Byron Tri Club who entered the Kingscliff Triathlon on Sunday earned a place on the podium.

Matt Slee came third in the Olympic Open Men’s in a time of one hour and 54 minutes, backing up his first place in the Tweed Triathlon earlier this year.

Leonie Pedrazzini came first in her age group for the Sprint event while Geoff Bensley, Deborah Fuller and Mel Bittner won the Olympic Mixed Team event in two hours and 18 minutes and were second overall, in all the team events.

‘For a small but growing club the Byron Tri crew are looking forward to the club expanding and creating a presence within the region,’ club organiser Deb Fuller said.

The Byron Tri club was formed in February and plans to get involved in as many events as they can.

‘The Byron Bay Triathlon event has been run annually for 22 years and while we have many runners,

Byron Tri Club member Leonie Pedrazzini came first in the sprint for her age group. Photo supplied

swimmers and cyclists in our area there was no triathlon club in Byron. With some encouragement from a group of local triathlon enthusiasts and support from Byron Bay Cycle Club, The Byron Tri Club was formed,’ Ms Fuller said.

‘The next step will be to approach the local schools

and surf club to encourage juniors to participate in our training sessions,’ she said.

‘We have started a regular Splash-n-Dash every Friday evening that involves a swimming technique class followed by a 700-metre swim and 4-kilometre run.

Soon we will introduce a run/bike/run event.

Learn to Play the Liverpool Way 2-Day Junior Clinic, Byron Bay Age Groups: 8–14 years Dates: Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th April Times: 10am to 2pm Cost: $220 per person Venue: The Cavanbah Sports Centre 249 Ewingsdale Road, Byron Bay NSW

What you get: • Learn to play ‘The Liverpool Way’ via the technical development of areas such as ball control, dribbling, passing and shooting • Expertly designed practices, activities and skills sessions professionally delivered by our LFC International Academy coaching team and overseen by Liverpool Academy coach James Gow • Sessions taken directly from the LFC Academy in the UK and tailored in age appropriate manner to see the specific needs of the individuals • Mini-tournaments and small-sided games • An authentic Liverpool FC home playing jersey rrp $120 • Liverpool International Academy Certificate of attendance • Prizes and giveaways

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For the first time in history North East Tennis has won the Tennis Australia 12 Years Boys State Teams Event held in Bathurst last weekend.

Playing a round robin of singles and doubles against the best teams from all regions of NSW the boys ended up equal first with the ACT. After four sets of singles and two of doubles, both teams were locked at three sets apiece. Even after a count back of games they were level on 27 games each.

The secret to the boys’ success was ‘great teamwork,’ team manager Shannyn Ricketts said.

‘Our North East 12 Years Girls Team (Lucy Tunsted, Whitney Moon, Amelia Johnson and Ausha Paulson) lost in a tight semifinal

The joint champions of the State Finals at Bathurst: (L–R) Oliver King (Murwillumbah Tennis), Timmy Yeung Packer (Mullumbimby Tennis), Charlie Pade (Coffs Harbour Tennis), Caspian Tuckwell (New Brighton) and team manager Shannyn Ricketts (Kingscliff Tennis). Photo supplied.

against the eventual winners and only lost on a countback on games to come third overall,’ Ricketts said.

‘I am so immensely proud

of what they’ve achieved.

This shows the high standard of tennis and the quality of depth in our juniors on the North Coast,’ Shannyn said.

Doug Walton wins wet Mullum Open golf day Doug Walton won the Mullumbimby Open played in heavy and soggy conditions last Saturday.

All up 126 competitors braved the wet conditions.

Doug Walton (Palm Meadows) was the Overall Gross Winner as well as the 2017 Open Winner with 69 gross.

Jay Mackenzie (Ballina) came in as runner-up with 70 gross.

A Grade Nett Winner: Dan Morgan (Ocean Shores

Freddie, Bianca, Adam and John ready to go. Photo supplied

Country Club) 66 nett.

B Grade Winner: Aaron Araby (Ocean Shores Country Club) 38pts.

C Grade Winner: Liam

Reynolds (Mullum) 39pts.

Ladies Winner: Julie Griffin (Mullum) 30pts.

Veterans Winner: Greg Wornes (Mullum) 34pts.

Ocean Shores swimming club sends 17 to state championships Seventeen local swimmers who will compete in Sydney next week all train with coach Adrian Filipic at Ocean Shores Aquatics.

All the swimmers through a range of school meets have qualified to compete for their region at the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre state championships in the first week of April.

Among the group are four Regional Champs and one Regional Swimmer of the Carnival.

‘It is a remarkable achievement when you consider they have only trained through a 28-week cycle and on a rationed number of weekly sessions in comparison to others at this level,’ Adrian said.

‘These results reflect the amount of effort, passion, and dedication they train with, and the healthy balance of some fun along the way to

Just some of the aquatics team travelling to Sydney over the next week or so. Back (L–R): Sashi Wills, Mollie Cheek, Eve Porter, Tom Cheek, Tiggy Groves, Raife McKenzie and Jack Safranek. Middle: Meg Porter, Adrian Filipic (coach), Montannah Archibald, Skye Pockley and Jarra Mills. Front: Jake Giltrap-Good, Milos Safranek. Missing: Charlotte Archibald, Gemma Edwards, Jonah Caoyonan and Billy Thompson. Photo supplied

keep the enjoyment, a muchneeded ingredient in the mix.

‘A few of the swimmers have times that put them

within reach of a possible top-10 finish, and the goal of making a state final will be hard but doable.’

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Neighbourhood Centre

practice now at the Living Yoga Sanga, first floor, 63 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby, 6–7.30pm, Mondays. Contact Mishaela on 0438 858 842 or mishaela@si.org.au.

Dzogchen Meditation and Study Group 1st and 3rd Saturdays each month at Brunswick Heads Community Centre.

Contact Didi 0408 008 769 for more info.

Mindfulness Meditation with Pairoj Brahma, Melli O’Brien and Heather Albrecht Every Tuesday 7.15–9pm at the yurt, Temple Byron (www.templebyron. com). No fees, contact 0423 241 916, 401 359 559. www.themindfulnesssummit. com. Healing Meditation for heart, mind and soul, Sunday mornings in Myocum. Call Dean 0414 364 415 or www. unityhousebyron.com.au.

Confidential meetings in Byron Bay 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of the month, upstairs at 75 Jonson Street (stairs beside Westpac Bank). Phone Jane 0410 494 933.

Narcotics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem. For information and meetings call 6680 7280.

Are you concerned about somebody else’s drinking? Al-Anon Family Groups meetings held Fridays 2pm. Uniting Church Bangalow – 1300 252 666 www. al-anon.alateen.org/australia

#StartupByron #StartupByron Un-Networking meets the first Thursday of every month, focused on connecting anyone interested in startups or small biz. See startinno. com/events/2015/5/7/startupbyron-unnetworking.

Mullumbimby & District Neighbourhood Centre is open Monday–Thursday 9am–4pm and offers a range of services and activities. Everyone is welcome to come and enjoy art, music, games, great food and more. Call reception on 6684 1286 and discover what is on offer.

Landcare

Low-cost or free food

The Uniting Craft & Social Group meets every Monday 9.30am–2.30pm at the Uniting Church in Carlyle Street, Byron Bay. Bring lunch and whatever else you need. Patchwork and quilting on Monday evening same place at 6pm. Enquiries Tilly 6685 5985.

Each Thursday during term time the Brunswick Bush School takes kids 6-14 years out into the bush to learn, grow and connect with each other and the land. Meets at 9am outside the Brunswick Surf Club, group returns 3pm.

Facebook: Brunswick Bush School, Email: brunsbushschool@gmail.com Web: www.brunsbushschool.com.au

Library fun

Museums

Baby Bounce session Mullumbimby – Tuesday 11.30am, Brunswick Heads – Friday 10.30am, Byron Bay – Friday 10am.

Storytime for toddlers and pre-school children Mullumbimby – Friday 10.30am, Brunswick Heads – Monday 10.30am, Byron Bay – Tuesday 10.30am.

Brunswick Valley Historical Society Inc Museum at corner of Myocum & Stuart Sts Mullumbimby open every Friday 10am–12 noon and market Saturdays 9am–1pm. Discover your local history.

Bangalow Museum & Tea Room open Tuesday-Friday 10am-3pm, Cnr Ashton & Deacon Sts Bangalow. Volunteers sought, please contact the museum 6687 2183.

Food Box Thursdays 9.30–11.30am at Uniting Church, Mullumbimby. If you have any sort of Centrelink card you may purchase cheap food, obtain free veges, and enjoy a cuppa. Free Food Relief Bags for anyone doing it tough, every Thursday 9–11am at The Hub Ocean Shores, cnr Rajah Rd and Bindaree Way. No ID or Concession Card required. NILs referral service also available. Check Facebook page The Hub Baptist Ocean Shores for details. C3 Care Byron Bay Food Care – log on to www.c3byronbay. com to see if you are eligible, or call 6680 8872.

Respite Service

Bangalow Land and Rivercare working bee every Saturday 8.30–10.30am. See www.bangalowlandcare.org.au or call Liz 6687 1309.

Craft group

No-interest loans

Byron Shire Respite Service Inc delivers high-quality respite care to a broad range of clients throughout the Byron, Ballina and Lismore shires.

Donations welcome: Ph 6685 1921, email fundraiser@byronrespite.com.au, website: www.byronrespite.com.au.

Byron Community No Interest Loans Scheme (NILS) is a not-for-profit community program providing people on low incomes with safe, fair interestfree loans of up to $1,000 for purchasing essential goods and services. Contact the Byron Community Centre to find out more.

Junior chess club

Budgeting Support

The Mullum junior chess club meets after school until 4.45pm Tuesdays in room F4 at Mullumbimby High School.

All ages, all standards, encouragement and professional coaching. Ph Mike 6684 6281.

Money Matters is a free service helping people identify where their money is going, how best to save and, most importantly, how to get on top of bills!

Contact the Byron Community Centre to make an appointment; private sessions run every Monday afternoon.

Bridge club Brunswick Valley Bridge Club meets every Saturday and Monday at the Ocean Shores Country Club, seated at 12.30 to commence play at 12.45. Visitors welcome. See brunswickvalley.bridgeclub.org or for partner ring Phyllis Keyte 6684 1103.

Seniors Activities

Bush School

U3A discussion group Brunswick Valley U3A audiovisual discussion group, Thursdays 10am Mullumbimby Ex-Services Club. Info 0432 165 006.

Quota Club Quota Club of Brunswick Valley meets every 1st Thursday of the month at the Ocean Shores Country Club at 6pm. Ph 0439 733 763 for more info.

Spanish conversation A Spanish conversation group meets every Monday evening in Mullumbimby in order to improve language skills and cultural knowledge. Phone Paco 6684 0242.

Seniors Activities Tuesdays at the Byron Community Centre, Jonson St Byron Bay. Elder Beats seniors drumming 10:30-11:30 am with Gareth Jones in the theatre, 11:30 Morning tea in the courtyard, 12:00 1:00 Chair Yoga with Pippy Wardell

Men’s Groups

ESL classes

Drug support groups

Repair Cafe

Free English as a Second Language classes in Mullumbimby, suitable for beginners to advanced learners. More info call 0421 796 529 or 6674 7267.

Call Alcoholics Anonymous 1800 423 431 or 0401 945 671 – 30 meetings a week in the shire – www.aa.org.au. Are you experiencing difficulties and challenges because of the alcohol or drug use of someone close to you? Learn coping skills and gain support from others.

Mullumbimby’s Repair Cafe at the Mullumbimby campus of Byron Community College in Burringbar Street on Saturdays 9am till 12 noon. Volunteers will be there to help you fix things that might otherwise end up in the tip, or to advise how it might be done.

Broadfoot, Juzzie Smith, Tim Stokes and Digera. Please leave dogs at home.

Byron Sophia

Meditation Buddhist meditation teaching and

On The Horizon DEADLINE NOON FRIDAY Email copy marked ‘On The Horizon’ to editor@echo.net.au.

Senior table tennis Senior social table tennis at Bangalow Bowling Club Sundays 2–4pm. All levels welcomed. Call Margot 0412 394 932.

Retirement group AIR meets 7 April at the Ballina RSL at 9.30am, then from 11am the guest speaker is Sam Green from Parkview Funerals. More info Ken 6687 7291.

Ladies’ tennis The Tuesday Ladies group of Riverside Tennis Club welcomes new players. The group meets 9.30am every Tuesday at the Riverside Courts next to Heritage Park, Mullumbimby, for social tennis, fun and friendship. Info: Barbara 6684 8058.

Byron market Byron market Butler Street Byron Bay this Sunday 8am–3pm. Be entertained by

BHPA meeting Brunswick Heads Progress Association general meeting Monday 3 April at 7pm, Memorial Hall, Fingal St, Brunswick Heads. All residents welcome.

U3A Ballina/Byron Enjoy a poetry session on 4.04.17 at 10am in the RSL meeting room, Mullumbimby.

All welcome. Enquiries 6680 7350.

April Fools sale Uniting Church Op Shop, Dalley St, Mullumbimby, Saturday 8am–12 noon, all SUMMER CLOTHING going out at half price for the month of April.

Contemp Australian Art ADFAS Byron Bay presents Contemporary Australian Art in the Global World with Julie Ewington, an internationally recognised authority on contemporary Australian art. Monday 3 April at the A&I Hall, Bangalow, at 6.30pm. Doors open at 6pm. Guests welcome ($25 includes light refreshments).

BPA meeting Bangalow Progress Association meets Thurs 6 April in Heritage House, Bangalow, at the new time of 7pm. All welcome.

North Coast news daily: www.echonetdaily.net.au

Complete Men has regular fortnightly men’s groups on different nights in both Byron and Mullum. Call Tim Fisk 0422 508 533.

Byron Sophia Philosophical Group: Metamorphosis from Caterpillar to Butterfly, presented by Celia Novy, Thursday 30 March 1–3pm, at Uniting Church, Carlyle St, Byron Bay. Info: Celia 6684 3623.

The Virgin Chicken

Rainbow Dragons Rainbow Dragons Abreast (RDA) welcomes breast cancer survivors for a paddle at Lake Ainsworth, Lennox Head, on Sundays 7.30 for 8am start.

Info Marian 6688 4058, mazzerati2010@ gmail.com.

Op shops Uniting Church Op Shop, Dalley St, Mullumbimby – open each Saturday 8am–12 noon. Byron Bay Anglican Op Shop opens Monday to Friday 9am–1pm. Volunteers needed. Enq Jeni: 6685 7816 or 0439 344 281. Anglican Church Mullumbimby Op Shop opens Monday to Friday 9am–4.30pm, Saturday 9.30am–12.30pm. Volunteers needed, enq Liz 6684 2622 nights. Mullumbimby Seventh-Day Adventist Op Shop opens Monday – Thursday 10am-3.30pm, Friday 9am – 2pm and third Sunday of the month 10am-2pm. Companion Animals Welfare Inc (CAWI) op shop Brunswick Heads (next to supermarket) open Mon–Fri 10am–5pm, Sat 9am–2pm.

Lions Club Interested in making new friends and helping our community? Lions Club of Brunswick Mullumbimby meets 1st & 3rd Tuesdays at 7pm Ocean Shores Country Club. Info: Joan Towers 0400 484 419.

Interested women are welcome Wednesdays and Thursdays 9am–1pm and the second Monday evening of each month 5–7pm in the Bangalow CWA rooms for craft and friendship. Rooms are open daily Monday–Saturday 9am–noon.

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Sex & Love Addicts Anon

Mullumbimby Branch CWA Handicraft Group in the CWA rooms Tincogan Street Mullumbimby each 1st, 3rd and 4th Wednesday of the month throughout 2016. Classes in knitting, crochet, embroidery and sewing are offered.

Enquiries Margaret 66842956.

Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous is peer-support group of men and women for whom sex and/or romance have become a problem. For details of weekly meetings, phone 0452 074 974 or visit www.slaa.org.au.

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Byron Cavanbah Toastmasters meetings coaching in communication and self-development run on 1st and 3rd Mondays, 6.40pm at Byron Services Club, Byron Bay; www.byronbaytoastmasters. org. MullumMagic Toastmasters meet every 2nd, 4th and 5th Monday in Mullumbimby 7–9 pm. Contact Ashni 0439 843 657 or Mani on 0488 433 047.

CoDA Co-dependents Anonymous (CoDA) is a worldwide network of groups of men and women learning how to develop and maintain healthy and fulfilling relationships. For more information visit www.codependentsanonymous.org.au or phone 9281 3330.

Byron FLEA Byron FLEA at the YAC (1 Gilmore Crescent) 2nd Saturday of every month from 8am till 1pm. Free stalls for young people. Call Berri 0490 026 840.

Byron Girls Group A fun, creative and supportive group for girls aged 12–18 every Wednesday 4–6pm at the Byron Youth Service. Contact Lotte 0490 026 840 for details.

Choirs Bay Community Singers is a singalong group for seniors and anyone else

Country Club at 10am. Guest speaker is author Hebe De Souza.

RSL Auxiliary Ladies RSL Auxiliary Ladies of Mullumbimby street stall and guessing competition on Friday 31 March starting at 8.30am at the taxi rank. Items include cooking, plants and books. Donations welcome.

Community Tree Planting

Suffolk Park Dune Care weeding and planting Saturday 1 April at 8.30am at Tuckeroo beach entrance end of Macgregor St, followed by morning tea.

Please contact Helen 6685 4964.

Yalla Kool Landcare group is holding a community tree planting in Yalla Kool Reserve, Ocean Shores, on Saturday 1 April, at 8.30am. Cross the footbridge at the end of Inderwong Avenue (off Rajah Rd) to enter the site. Please wear shoes and sun protection. Contact David on 0427 650 861 for more information.

Brunswick Valley Probus Club meets Tuesday 4 April at the Ocean Shores

CWA Bangalow

Calling all fellas who as a boy or man went on a Pathways, Making Men or Men2B Rite of Passage camp: weekly Monday night men’s group 7–9.30pm at the CWA Hall Mullum. Email mantime. mullum@gmail.com or call Karim 0403 755 192.

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Mullumbimby Potters & Sculptors at the Community Art Gallery at the Drill Hall, is open every Tues & Thurs 10am–2pm and on the 3rd Saturday of the month (Mullum Market Day) 10am–4pm. Pottery and sculpture crafted by local artisans for sale, 2 Jubilee Ave, Mullumbimby. Enquiries: mullum. potters@yahoo.com.au

ManTime

Mullumbimby Mental Health Carers’ Support Group for family members and friends who have a loved one with a mental health issue. Meeting on 4th Thursday of each month 9.30am at the Mullumbimby Neighbourhood Centre.

Info: Leanne 0409 818 643.

Byron Harmony Day

Byron Breast Cancer Support Group meets every 3rd Wednesday 12–2pm at Byron Community Cabin (old Girl Guides Hall) in Carlyle Street. Our next support group is 19 April. Enquiries Linda 0413 668 828.

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Join the Friends of Libraries at Heritage House Bangalow on Friday 21 April at 5.30pm. Richard Arnot will be discussing his latest book The Virgin Chicken. .Tickets $10 ($5 FOL members) at Bangalow Newsagency or www.trybooking. com/270024.

Breast Cancer Support

Wednesdays Byron Community Centre, 10.30–11.30am. Entry by donation.

0425 363 589, kim@kimbanffy.com.au.

Singchronicity Choir meets Thursdays at Ocean Shores 6.45pm-8.45pm.

Eclectic and catchy repertoire. Ph 042 536 3589.Mullum’s Biggest Little Town Choir meets weekly at the Timber Slab factory, Jubilee Ave, Thursdays at 6.30pm. Newcomers welcome.

Byron Harmony Day at Main Beach Park on Saturday 1 April from 11am till 7pm for a fun family day celebrating our beautiful cultural diversity. If you would like to help out please call 0405 463 663.

Books wanted Friends of Libraries Byron Shire are calling for donations of books for our annual book sale to be held 10–11 June.

All funds raised go to our libraries.

Please call 0409 455 378 or 6685 5022, or email byronbayfol@gmail.com to arrange for collection.

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Child’s toy traded by email? (5,4) Excuse before writing (7) Staff for Stewart (3) Animal arrived and left (5) Indecent sum outlaid for 12 (11) Setter managed Thorpe’s girl from Isfahan (7) 8. Distribute a large portion (5) 12. Uncertainties follow tennis strokes? Try bribes! (11) 16. Bounder to repent, we hear (3) 17. Worker runs off with Springboks Last week’s solution N171 (9) C A B A L L E R O S 19. Famous but incompetent (7) A A A J B M 20. 64 and 81? They’re not fashionable B A L A N C E S T A (7) L A G C E T E N C O U N T E R R 22. Time in Indian island (5) L A E V I 24. My queens store (5) S L A N G D R E A M 27. Time without beginning belongs A V E O C H A R L A T A N N to you and me (3) R E I S L E S L A S E N G R O S G E N E A R S I

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We’re pleased to report that an Echo spoof classified pos vac ad – ‘Wanted: evil genius seeks minions to sacrifice their lives in world domination attempt’ – has found a global readership on the Facebook page of Dangerous Minds, home of such important stories as ‘When Quentin Tarantino played an Elvis Impersonator on The Golden Girls’. Dangerous Minds also turns us on to a Vice critique of Paul Verhoeven’s 1997 film Starship Troopers, its value as a satire on fascism even more relevant today: http://bit.ly/ vicestar.

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If you’re the proud owner of steam-powered clocks, be sure to set them back by one hour on Sunday April 2 when daylight saving ends.

The cows will then be able to give milk at the correct time, the curtains will fade less, and the lesser-spotted worrywart will stop fainting on its perch.

Backlash will feel justified in celebrating with a cleansing shiraz an hour later, or perhaps might ignore the change and imbibe at the usual time.

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The folly that is the planned Adani coal mine in central Queensland is still on the table, with the Queensland premier and her entourage being courted in India by the Adani flunkeys. Ms Palaszczuk represented such hope after the disaster that was Campbell Newman’s government, but it’s just boring old businessas-usual. Bob Brown has described the Adani issue as this generation’s Franklin River blockade (http://bit.ly/ bobadani), with the health of a rather large reef at stake.

The absurdity of giving the Adani family a billion taxpay-

Toy Crew in Berlin engages in a little guerrilla gardening on public transport.

er bucks to dig up the landscape is further emphasised by a recent report showing that ‘construction starts for coal-fired plants in China and India were down by 62 per cent in January from a year earlier while new facilities starting operation declined 29 per cent’: echo.net.au/climate-improves-fewer-coalplants. Anyone who would prefer the Great Barrier Reef alive and well and their taxes spent on health and welfare rather than on a rich industrialist can join the blockade at http://galileeblockade.net.

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Giles Parkinson of Reneweconomy reports that experts are saying that ‘solar and battery storage already beat baseload gas on price, and its costs will continue

to fall rapidly’. Indeed, ‘The falling cost of battery storage is taking most people by surprise, having fallen 40 per cent last year.’ You can read his full article on Echonetdaily at echo.net.au/solar-plusstorage-already-cheaper-gas.

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Kellyanne Conway, Lord Dampnut’s colourful ‘counsellor’, is the gift that just keeps on giving. Firstly, she gave us the phrase ‘alternative facts’ and then recently claimed that microwave ovens had cameras in them that could ‘surveil’ you. This led to an epidemic of memes such as microwaves with an ‘espionage’ button on them and the wonderful reinterpretation, ‘Dance like your microwave is not watching.’ We’re not sure whether to buy the Breville Spymaster or the Fisher &

Are you doing it tough?

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Send enquiries to: tableviewcafe@gmail.com or call Allen: 0401 133 718 “The coffee by which all others between Sydney and the border might be judged.”

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FOOD RELIEF BAGS will be available Thursdays from 9 till 11am for anyone who finds themselves in need of food assistance.

The Hub Baptist – Ocean Shores Cnr Rajah Rd & Bindaree Way (next to Target, enter via kids play area) No concession cards required – just come along, pick up a bag, stay for a cuppa and a chat.

MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN OUR COMMUNITY www.thehubbaptist.org

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