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The 28th annual Blues festival came to a close Monday night with thousands joining Neil Finn in an impromptu group choir for an impressive rendition of his 1992 hit, Four Seasons in One Day. Thankfully the five-day event experienced only one season over the five days – it was an Indian summer with fine weather bringing punters out in their droves. While numbers were up and with many of the bars almost running dry, according to police at the event the overall conduct at the festival precinct was commendable. Duty inspector Gary Cowan, who was in charge of the onsite policing,

was impressed. ‘It was really good,’ he said. ‘Over five days we had absolutely no problems. The event was really well run and we were really happy with it.’ Rise Above the Flood organiser Ilona Harker was also thrilled with the support for the northern riverswide fundraiser to aid people affected by the recent disaster.

Patti Smith donation While musician Patti Smith graciously donated $10,000, festival patrons showed a similar generosity. Harker said, ‘people gave very generously. There were lots of $50s. And people were giving this to our collectors on their way into the festival, day after day.’ The total amount

raised is expected to be announced by Thursday this week. Festival director Peter Noble echoed the sentiment with the goodwill of patrons and performers, who all helped create another successful Bluesfest. ‘If there’s been a better Bluesfest, I can’t remember one,’ Noble said. ‘I couldn’t be prouder, I couldn’t be happier.’ Perhaps the highlight for me was at the Mojo on Sunday afternoon at Playing for Change, when 23-yearold new-generation Yolngu man Yirrmal from northeast Arnhem Land sang Stand By Me, alongside the fiveoctave genius of Ellis Hall. It was a goosebump moment, and something you get only once.

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Hospital demolition fears spark community rally Residents have been outraged to learn of plans by NSW government bureaucrats to demolish the Mullumbimby and District War Memorial Hospital and have organised a community rally for Sunday April 23 from 11am at the hospital site. So far, local Ballina MP Tamara Smith, Dawn Walker MLC and mayor Simon Richardson have confirmed they will attend the rally, which is being organised by Mullumbimby Hospital Action Group (MHAG). North Coast Nationals MLC Ben Franklin has told The Echo he is ‘definitely going to try to make it.’ A report within the upcoming Mullum Chamber of Commerce agenda claims there has been no community consolation on a proposal to demolish the decommissioned hospital later this month.

Three little butterflies were spotted among the throngs of punters at the Bluesfest, held last weekend. For more pics see page 15 or www.echo.net.au. Photo Jeff Dawson

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No asbestos report Additionally, an asbestos report – which presumably would give impetus for the planned demolition – has not been released to the public. Residents claim that all asbestos in the original building has been managed with spray-on cement, which was deemed safe and enabled the hospital to continue to be used for many years. A statement from the Ocean Shores Community Association (OSCA) reads, ‘The demolition of the Mullumbimby hospital buildings in April was confirmed by Hugh Halpin of Government Property NSW.’ ‘Speaking with OSCA member Jan Mangleson, he stated that NSW Health had a responsibility to remediate the site of asbestos contamina-

tion. It is claimed this was discovered in all the buildings including the 1993 non-asbestos Suzanne Jamieson birthing unit, according to the Final Contamination Report and Remediation Action Plan. This report has not been released to the public. ‘No notice has been given of pending asbestos removal works to adjoining neighbours, including Coolamon Villa, or to the general public.’ Following a public meeting on September 17, 2015, MHAG called for the Mullumbimby hospital land be transferred from the NSW minister for health to the NSW minister for family and community services and social housing for aged care and social housing uses. MHAG spokesperson Cr Basil Cameron says his group is calling on the Byron Shire community to come and help save the hospital site from a government sell-off. ‘MHAG calls on the NSW government to immediately provide full information on the justification for demolition of the hospital buildings. MHAG also calls the NSW government to meet its obligations to consult meaningfully with the community prior to any action being continued on page 2

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undertaken to remediate, develop or sell the site.’ MHAG member Mike New told The Echo that he spoke to a NSW health department worker who was standing outside the hospital. ‘He said it is due to be demolished in April, although as there is no announcement it could be delayed.’ He says he rang chief executive of Northern NSW Local Health District (NNSW LHD) Wayne Jones and they took a message. ‘[Staffer] Benjamin Jeong rang me and clarified my questions.’ The Echo sought clarification from Property NSW over the comments from OSCA, and a spokesperson replied that given the late notice they will try to reply Wednesday.

Valuable resource OSCA says that, ‘If remediation is possible, the hospital buildings could be a valuable resource for community uses other than housing.’ ‘In December 2015, the chair of the NSW Local Health District Board Dr Brian Pezzutti stated the community would be consulted about the future use of the Mullumbimby hospital site. The health

board in April 2017 has now declared its intention to sell the land. Community consultation has not happened.

Consultation ‘Ocean Shores as well as the entire Brunswick Valley community had been waiting for this community consultation. The hospital site is seen by the public as an ideal place for much-needed quality affordable accommodation. ‘There is an urgent need for seniors assisted care and independent living accommodation in the Valley, especially affordable good quality rental accommodation. ‘OSCA is aware of vulnerable elderly people paying $250 and more rent a week for substandard space. ‘Our seniors are forced to go to Tweed Heads, the Gold Coast or Ballina. In their old age, they have to leave their own community. ‘In 2009 the then trustees of the Mullumbimby Hospital Site Trust commissioned a report for a seniors living residential village on residual land of the “Hospital Hill” site, next to the Coolamon Villa seniors care facility. ‘The Trust asked the De-

partment of Lands permission to continue its investigation. In 2010, the Trust was sacked and the site passed into NSW Health ownership. ‘The land had been a Community Site Trust since 1900. It wasn’t until 1968 that a hospital was finally built on Hospital Hill. ‘The Valley residents had spent long years raising funds and lobbying governments to achieve their goal. ‘Many local organisations are now uniting in an alliance to have this land returned for community use.’ NNSW LHD declined to answer the question by The Echo: ‘Is NCAHS aware of the demoition plans, and if correct, are they supportive of the land being returned to the community?’ Additionally NNSW LHD declined to answer whether they would support reinstating the Trust.

Urgency motion Greens Cr Jeanette Martin will table an urgency motion at the upcoming April 20 meeting, which calls for a halt to any planned works, further consultation and a return of the asset to community control. Q Editorial page 8

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Byron Shire Council will next week consider returning public open foreshore land controversially encroached on by the town’s government-run holiday parks back to the wider community. Councillors have been called on to support a notice of motion at Thursday’s meeting proposing what locals say is a fairer outcome for residents dealing with noise, traffic, parking, access, overcrowding and other major amenity issues not addressed by the park managers in their plan for the parks’ future. The move, according to members from the Foreshore Protection Group and town’s progress association, ‘retains public land for public use’ and addresses longrecognised constraints such as preserving the historic use and protected WWI memorial trees at Terrace Park. The community has for years opposed the encroachment of park boundaries into public space and the foreshore, calling it a ‘land grab’, as well as some major elements of new plans for the upgrade of the three parks (Ferry Reserve, MasseyGreene and The Terrace). The NSW Crown Holiday Parks Trust (NSWCHPT) claims it will comply with setback regulations and reinstate public access obstructed by park activities, which Council licensing requires.

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The Trust, according to its CEO, has complied by the rules. CEO Steve Edmonds said the 2005 regulation stipulated park boundaries should have a 10-metre setback from a road and three metres from any other boundary. ‘The river is any other boundary. The large road setback is because of line-ofsight issues,’ Mr Edmonds told The Echo. ‘We are giving 10 [metres] on all boundaries. This is an additional seven metres we are giving. If we came back to the rules the riverbank would be three,’ he said. But campaigners say Byron Shire Council (BSC), in exchange for the setbacks, will allow the trust to resume and redevelop ‘encroached’ public lands. Longtime Brunswick

Heads community activist Michele Grant says this is ‘hardly a win/win for the community but a very good deal for the trust’. ‘In fact the community is not getting “more foreshore open spaces”, we have less public open space overall with the loss of half of ferry foreshore with the inclusion of Riverside Crescent road reserve in Ferry Park, the loss of Lot 7005 and the southern area of Terrace Park,’ Ms Grant told The Echo. She said that the trust was ‘pushing for inclusion of all encroached land’ in their proposed new agreement with council. The notice of motion identifies previous resolutions endorsed by Council that specifically address proposed boundary issues. Ms Grant said in the years between 2012 and 2015 Council ‘consistently resolved to restrict commercial activity on contentious encroached lands at Ferry foreshore, Lot 7005 at Massey Greene and in the southern section of Terrace Park’.

BSC ignored But she said the Trust’s latest concept plans ignore BSC’s ‘myriad’ resolutions and includes ‘virtually all disputed lands within the operational boundaries, claiming “continuous existing use rights” under division 10 s107 and 109 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979’. ‘Clearly there is significant disagreement between Byron Shire Council and the Trust as to “legal continuous use” of disputed lands. ‘The trust has finally conceded to implement the legally required 10-metre setback for built structures along the riverbank in Terrace Park and Massey Greene and will reinstate public access along Simpsons Creek, which was a Council requirement repeated ad-nauseum since 2000. ‘So the deal is the Trust will comply with setback regulations and reinstate public access obstructed by park activities; in exchange Council will allow them to resume and redevelop “encroached” public lands. ‘The notice of motion recommendations do not accord with the Trust’s proposal to maximise park profits. ‘The motion proposes a fairer outcome for local residents dealing with noise,

traffic, parking, access, overcrowding and other significant amenity issues not addressed in any concept drawings. ‘It retains public land for public use and reflects the long-recognised constraints on land use – from flooding at Ferry, lack of public space at Massey Greene and the historic use and protected trees at Terrace Park. All matters of significance to our local community if not NSWCHPT.’

Tenuous case Longtime Brunswick and District Progress Association member Patricia Warren said lobbying councillors before Thursday’s notice of motion was critical to the preservation of foreshore parklands. Mrs Warren said the trust ‘is leveraging their claims to Lot 7005 in Massey Greene, the grassed foreshore at Ferry and the whole of the WWI Memorial Pine Park on the Terrace on “continuous use rights”.’ ‘Their case is tenuous at best. Their evidence dismisses documented decades of opposition to their illegal encroachments onto these parklands,’ she said. ‘It also dismisses Byron Council’s licences given in good faith to allow the caravan parks to continue to operate while plans of management were prepared and continues to leverage its argument that it is planning its development within “agreed boundaries.” ‘Photographic evidence used by NSWCHPT to justify their claims is poor and again would not pass independent scrutiny.’ Ms Warren challenged the Trusts claim of “continuous use rights” by referring to the the southern section of the Terrace, which was planted out as a WWI Memorial around 1918. ‘Illegal caravan park encroachments were identified by Council in 1988 and it has endeavoured to address these primitive camping encroachments.’ After Council was dismissed as managers in 2006, the government, ‘not only changed the use to short-term sites, but during the Clause 45 Sewage Moratorium, installed a “temporary” amenities block at the southern end for the 2007 Christmas. They added to the sewerage load and extended the area of the operation of the caravan park.’

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Vale, Gerard Verroen An Empire rises again Terri Wheatley

Gerard Verroen lived a full life. He was born in 1930 in Rotterdam with war literally exploding on his doorstep. As a young boy at age 12 he was sent to survive the war in the countryside with his brother John. This is where he learnt to work farms and had the good fortune to meet a ‘red-headed Jew’, as he called him, who was a teacher hiding from the Nazis. This gentleman spent months educating Gerard while surviving the war – his father was put in a camp. After the war Gerard decided to become a cadet and sail – and sail he did. His illustrious career in sailing culminated in his being a captain in the merchant navy, and his lust for knowledge never left him. He studied philosophy for fun, and always enjoyed a good discussion. After his sailing days he managed a shipping port, where he met Jennifer – the love of his life. In the 1980s they left the USA, settled in Cedar Road, Mullumbimby, and became entrenched in the local life. Gerard is survived by his two children Hans Peter and Tharina. His happiest days were with Jen (‘she who must be obeyed’), doing all the tasks Jen promised others he would do – they were very involved in early Echo days, with wildlife caring and the Mullum Museum; they ran the Mullum Market for a decade and never missed a market! They loved entertaining. Nine years ago Gerard, having nursed Jen back to life after she had experienced a stroke, finally lost the

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love of his life – it was not Gerard’s plan! After this loss Gerard’s health deteriorated and for nine long years he has rallied for as long as he could – always wanting to be fiercely independent with a bright ‘hello and I’m always fine’ kind of attitude. Gerard was a particularly kind and decent person whom I feel fortunate to have known and call a friend.Vale, Gerard! Q There will be a celebration of Gerard’s life at 21 Cudgerie Court, Mullumbimby, from 5pm on Tuesday 25 April. All who knew Gerard are welcome.

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Mullumbimby’s Empire Cafe reopened its doors last week after a brief hiatus. The Empire is one of the Shire’s longest-running businesses, established as a cafe in 1945. The new owner operators are a local family, with Elke Lowe returning to her home town with her partner Kevin Higgins. Photo Ziggi Browning

Planning minister threatens intervention on West Byron While West Byron developers have submitted a development application (DA) separate from a development control plan (DCP), it’s emerged that NSW planning minister Anthony Roberts (Liberal) has threatened Council to personally intervene unless a DCP is produced to his liking. The West Byron Urban Land Release Area encompasses a 108-hectare site located 2.5 kilometres west of Byron Bay on Ewingsdale Road. From a letter within Council’s upcoming April 20 agenda, Roberts wrote to GM Ken Gainger saying, ‘The proposed [DCP] amendments, if pursued, would likely result in significant land-forming works and clearing to enable drainage, and a loss of dwelling yield across the site.’

In reply, Cr Catherine Coorey told The Echo, ‘Pru Goward rezoned West Byron without ever coming here and now Anthony Roberts MP is forcing us into making a DCP that is totally inadequate.’ Coorey claims the current DCP is ‘inadequate’ and needs amending. ‘The previous council was happy to accept the DCP put forward by the developers. ‘It ignored the major issues with the site: koalas, endangered frog habitat, acid sulfate soils, flooding and traffic. Apparently contributing to the demise of a species isn’t even an issue in this DCP; a road goes straight through endangered frog habitat. ‘The DCP also gives the developers sections of our road reserve to build an

acoustic barrier rather than building it on their own land. ‘This is crazy. How water moves through West Byron is fundamental to the site.

Housing yields v waterways ‘The minister shows more concern with housing yields for the developers than the health of our waterways and the safety of the town. ‘Byron Bay missed the worst of post-cyclone Debbie. We may not be so lucky next time. Water on this site – with all its hard surfaces – is going to have to go somewhere. ‘If proper drainage across the site is not included in the DCP then we may have a battle in getting the developers to put it in.’

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Lismore cafe beneficiary from Will Ballina get the ‘holy grail’ of shark deterrents? Newrybar flood relief effort Darren Coyne

Has the private company Shark Shield found the holy grail of shark deterrents? It’s a device that boasts being not just effective for a few metres, but for around a 100 metres. Ballina’s mayor David Wright is excited, and hopes that’s the case. With growing concern at the number of non-target species being caught by the NSW Department of Primary Industries shark net trials on Ballina beaches, Cr Wright has a dilemma. On one hand, he is happy that tourists have flocked back to Ballina during the recent school holidays, no doubt feeling safer in the knowledge they had less of a chance of encountering a shark (despite the nets only being in the water for 16 days of the month). But the latest by-catch statistics show yet another of Ballina’s beloved bottlenose dolphins died in the nets, along with stingrays, turtles and all manner of sea crea-

tures including ‘non-target’ shark species. It’s not a good look. So imagine a device, floating on a buoy out at sea, which effectively repulsed any shark that came within cooee of it. It would be a game-changer, and the mayor knows it.

new Labor government is implementing a $200 cash rebate for consumers to buy shark shields… because it works. ‘These are safety products that are proven. The surf version is $599, so in WA that would cost $399, and $749 for the dive version.

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That’s why last week Mayor Wright was locked in talks with DPI and Shark Shield company representitives. The company’s CEO Lindsay Lyon later confirmed to The Echo that research has been underway for some time into a device able to transmit electromagnetic fields through the water. ‘We know sharks react to electromagnetic fields and we’ve worked with a physicist from France, who is also a biologist,’ Mr Lyon said. ‘We have been able to create a significantly larger electromagnetic field… which provides a significantly longer range to repel sharks. ‘It’s taken 20 years for people to believe that shark shields work, yet Western Australia’s

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Mr Lyon believes the new technology has the potential to remove shark nets from the ocean completely. He also believes Lighthouse Beach, near North Wall, could be a good trial site, or indeed any of the beaches along the north coast. ‘We just need someone interested in putting it in,’ he said. Mr Lyon suggested the QLD government may also be interested. He said that if the devices were installed along QLD’s heavily netted coastline, the expected reduction in the annual number of sharks killed in the nets would show whether the devices were successful.

A combined effort from Byron Shire businesses over the past week have created a pot of around $20,000 for those in Lismore who were left with little or nothing after Cyclone Debbie. Moira Waterfall from Harvest Newrybar says the fundraising efforts went way better than expected. ‘It is with humble hearts we share the news of our fundraising success. It has been decided to donate $10,500 to Lismore’s Flock Espresso & Eats so they can reopen their cafe. This is the exact amount they will pay for bond on their new place.’

‘The remaining $9,500 of funds will be distributed to the public through a community project. ‘It all began with the Harvest Deli coffee cart’s gold coin initiative, which was $500.

$1,200 in tips ‘The restaurant staff raised $1,200 in tips in four days! ‘As a team, we all wanted to do something more, so we put it out to Newrybar to get something together in the Bakery. ‘Within one day we had a plan, within two days we had a ton of sponsors, and within three we had created

an incredible event! ‘Everything on the night was sponsored: food, drinks, staff, space, raffle prizes, lighting, music, glassware, ice, the auctioneer, incredible prizes, etc. ‘The local paper and BayFM worked with us to quickly get the word out to the community. We expected 50 to 70 people and perhaps a $5,000–10,000 gain. ‘In the end we had 150plus people join us to help Lismore. People opened their hearts and their pockets and the result was incredible. This is community and hospitality at its finest!

Bestiality charges withdrawn Rodney Stevens

The seriously indictable charge of bestiality has been withdrawn against two men who allegedly killed chickens and raped a pig at Nimbin last year. Reece Parke appeared at Lismore Local Court Tuesday morning via video-link from Junee prison while his co-accused, Bradley Pres-

bury, did not appear in court but was represented by his solicitor Tom Ivey. Parke, 22, and Presbury, 20, both face two counts of torturing, beating and causing the death of an animal and one count of bestiality. It is alleged the pair went to the Djanbung Gardens permaculture farm, on Cecil St, on the night of December 13 and

inflicted the brutality and torture on ten heritage chickens and 12-year-old Polly the pig. The court heard that the seriously indictable charge of bestiality against both men was to be withdrawn. Solicitors for both men then entered not guilty pleas to two counts of torture, beating and causing the death of an animal. The case continues.

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Tailored elderly exercise program leads to decreases in falls Robin Osborne

A local research study into the benefits of tailored exercise programs for aged-care residents is confirming what most people would regard as common sense: it is far better to engage in resistance and balance training than to spend every waking hour in a chair or bed. Yet the study by physiotherapist and PhD candidate Jennie Hewitt is the first of its kind ever undertaken in Australia or internationally, and it is showing remarkably positive results. According to Jennie, who is the Positive Living co-ordinator for Feros Care in the northern rivers, falls have been reduced markedly among members of the participating groups, while balance, mobility and walking speed have been much enhanced. Jennie has been working with a group of 221 residents in northern NSW and SE Queensland ranging from 70 to 101 years of age. So far her research, part of a PhD through the University of Sydney, has shown improvements of up to 50 per cent in mobility and falls-reduction. Support for the exercise programs is provided by

Sydney University final-year physiotherapy student Mike Hosseini helping Feros resident Audrey Kelly with her aquatic exercises. Photo supplied

facility staff as well as finalyear physiotherapy students whose practicum placements are coordinated by the University Centre for Rural Health North Coast. The UCRH arranges placements for physio and occupational therapy students in aged care and primary schools in Byron Shire, Ballina, Lismore, Casino and Kyogle as an essential part of their degree work. Jennie said, ‘While it is generally accepted that exercise is more beneficial than

passive treatments, it is not enough, and indeed can be dangerous, to simply ask residents to get up out of their chairs and walk.’

High-tech equipment ‘Studies that used this approach returned an increase in falls rates. It is important that individualised, progressive strength and balance work be prescribed.’ Central to the program is a range of high-tech exercise

equipment for seniors provided free of charge by leading Finnish company HUR. The equipment was loaned for the duration of the trial, with three aged-care facilities going on to purchase it after seeing the benefits provided to their residents. Jennie Hewitt hopes the final results of the study will provide an impetus for older people in the broader community to be encouraged and helped to participate in appropriate exercise programs. ‘It is not just people in residential aged care who spend inordinate amounts of time either sitting or lying down,’ she said. ‘Many elderly people at home are in similar circumstances and should be able to derive comparable benefits from undertaking properly planned and assisted exercise. ‘But they can’t do it on their own, and require support to access the professionals and services to assist them manage their wellbeing.’ Robin Osborne is editor of GPSpeak: www.nrgpn.org.au. Q

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Mullum digs deep for Lismore flood relief Last Tuesday April 11, hundreds of Mullumbimby locals flocked to a pizza night fundraising event in support of Lismore flood relief. C o-organis er L anie Loughlin says the Rise Above event was initiated by Jose Raez of Almond Road Bakery, with produce, desserts and services donated by nu-

merous local businesses. ‘The Byron Food Hub carpark became a makeshift pallet dining room where people gathered under a full moon, enjoying tasty pizza and the music of talented local musicians, among them Stu and Amber of Mullum Uke. ‘The team turned out 300 pizzas over three hours, rais-

ing more than $4,500, which will be donated to the Lismore ‘gofundme’ campaign, set up by Lismore Council.

300 pizzas ‘I was grateful for the support of the community, and the enormous amount of people who turned up on the night,’ said Jose.

Police investigate theft of ATMs A police strike force has been established to investigate the theft of an ATM at Lennox Head, and similar thefts in Brunswick Heads and southern QLD. Police are appealing for the assistance of the public following the thefts. The Lennox Head theft happened about 2:30am on Wednesday February 8, when a man broke into a cafe in Ballina Street and stole an ATM. On Sunday March 5, detectives recovered the ATM (and a trolley) from a river in the Tweed Heads area; it is

currently undergoing forensic investigation. Strike Force Feodore was established to investigate a series of commercial break-andenter offences targeting ATMs in the Richmond and Tweed/ Byron Local Area Commands.

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Richmond Local Area Command crime manager detective acting inspector Mick Smith said police suspect there are people with information that may be able to assist police with their inquiries. ‘We are appealing for anyone with information to please contact police, and we would like to remind the public that they may be committing an offence if they conceal a serious offence,’ said Inspector Smith. ‘All information supplied to police will be treated in the strictest of confidence.’

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Anti-vaxxer group forced to produce fundraising records Chris Dobney

Bangalow-based anti-vaccination group the Australian Vaccination-skeptics Network (AVN) will be forced to produce records of its fundraising activities as part of a Fair Trading investigation confirmed last week. The group lost its charitable status back in March 2014 after then Fair Trading minister Stuart Ayres said an investigation had ‘highlighted a number of potential concerns.’ The following year the group launched a High Court challenge against the federal government’s controversial No Jab, No Pay policy and, despite the ban, called on donations to help them fund it. In October 2016, AVN’s president Tasha David wrote

to members informing them, ‘our fundraising at this point stands at just over $160,000,’ according to The Australian newspaper. But by the end of the year the group had abandoned the challenge after apparently being advised it would fail. At that stage the total cost of advice, according to emails sent to members, amounted to $72,500, the report said.

Fair Trading has now served papers on AVN, meaning they must produce ‘various records in relation to their fundraising activity,’ according to Better Regulation minister Matt Kean. ‘There has been sufficient concern about AVN’s potential breaches of the Act to warrant a thorough look at the group’s fundraising activity,’ he said.

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‘I make no apologies for taking whatever action is necessary to ensure this group – and any other brought to my attention – complies with the Act. ‘If you seek public donations for a charitable purpose, there are circumstances where you need an authority to do so, and I’m focused

It continued, ‘the AVN suggested the remaining funds would be put to uses such as pursuing the Therapeutic Goods Administration for “misfeasance in public office” or lobbying MPs for a royal commission into vaccinations.’

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on making sure this group is obeying the law. ‘Members of the public make charitable donations in good faith. ‘The law is there to protect them and I can assure the community that breaches will not be tolerated,’ Mr Kean said.

Fundraising A spokesperson for the minister told The Echo that the investigation would look into all aspects of AVN’s fundraising practices and not merely focus on the High Court challenge. Breaches of the Charitable Fundraising Act 1991 may constitute a criminal offence. The Echo has approached AVN for comment but has yet to receive a response.

Council to consider expansion of Tyagarah Airfield Chris Dobney

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This Thursday (April 20) Byron Shire councillors will consider whether to allow the expansion of Tyagarah Airfield to include a proposed heliport development. The decision, which would require a change to the 2014 Byron Local Environment Plan (LEP), has been strongly criticised by members of the Saddle Ridge Community Action Group and councillor Cate Coorey. The group says the proposal would allow up to ten flights a day from the airport and adds that the noise from the choppers would be louder than a jumbo jet. The report before Council acknowledges that the current LEP provisions prohibit heliports and ‘restrict the

ability to subdivide land.’ ‘The amendment will allow Council to consider the future use of the airport by helicopters and subdivide the land so that it is more suitable for a range of future aviation-related land uses,’ the report states. Part of the recommendation would be to excise an area of the airport land containing core koala habitat and rezone it as community land. But Saddle Ridge Community Group president Matthew O’Reilly said that, if accepted, the decision would ‘pave the way for a private helicopter company to set up scenic helicopter joy flights out of Tyagarah airfield.’ ‘Byron Council’s own modelling predicts a minimum of six helicopter joy flights on each weekday and at least 8–10 joy flights per

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had next to no public engagement and very few people even know of the looming disaster we face,’ Mr O’Reilly said. Cr Cate Coorey has a separate motion that would see development of a heliport put on hold until an assessment of noise impacts is made and a full income and expenditure and profit and loss statements of the airfield are prepared, among other provisions. Cr Coorey said there was a significant difference between the term heliport, which could include a terminal and hangars, and helipad, which would be a simple landing place not open to the public. She told The Echo, ‘I can’t believe the previous council saw fit not to consult the community when they were proposing to increase air traffic over Byron in this way.’

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day on weekends and holidays,’ Mr O’Reilly said. ‘It also leaves open the possibility of a heliport offering regular helicopter transport between Byron and Gold Coast Airport and Ballina Airport.’ ‘The possibility of a helicopter flying school has also been raised. ‘Monitoring of aircraft noise at Chinderah from the Gold Coast Airport by the Aircraft Noise Ombudsman indicates that helicopter noise is louder than the noise from Boeing and Airbus jumbo jets taking off and landing,’ Mr O’Reilly said. The group has called on residents who are concerned about the prospect of the heliport to email to Byron Shire councillors. ‘The whole proposal has

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Community v faceless bureaucratic ambitions It’s clear that political intervention is desperately needed to prevent the NSW department of health from flogging off the Mullum hospital land. It was political intervention that saved Suffolk Park land from being sold by the NSW education department last November. Then-education minister Adrian Piccoli [Nationals] intervened after the ‘surplus’ land was earmarked for sale that had for a long time been recreational public space. He said at the time, ‘After strong representations from Ben Franklin [Nationals MLC] regarding the importance of the land remaining available to the community, I have withdrawn it from public sale and have instructed the Department of Education to negotiate a sale with Byron Shire Council instead.’ That was a great win for community and obviolusly rude behaviour by government bureaucrats who appear to need a shorter leash. And so it’s the same with the hospital. Part of the game of politics is making sure your team appear united and that local members are seen to have gravitas, or influence. In turn, the community will perhaps think, ‘Gee whiz, maybe a climate-wrecking, big business-funded dinosaur party really does have my interests at heart.’ Cynicism (or realism) aside, let’s hope Mr Franklin has the same influence with new health minister Brad Hazzard (Liberal) as he did with Piccoli. After all, it’s the outcome that counts. A similar example of where activation, unity and hard work by residents paid off was reported by Domain (Fairfax) on March 17 with the headline: Community saves $30 million prime beachfront hospital site in Collaroy from developers’ clutches. Comedian and broadcaster Wendy Harmer was part of that community effort and told Domain, ‘It was hard. We made a lot of noise and finally the site will now have an unbroken record of helping people regain their health.’ It was estimated to be worth $25 million to $30 million, and Domain reported that the ’15-year community battle has triumphed to keep it in public hands forever.’ Meanwhile at this Thursday’s Council meeting, all eyes will be on councillors to see how they will vote on the longrunning dispute over public lands, which Brunswick Heads residents say has been subsumed by the NSW Crown Holiday Parks Trust (NSWCHPT). NSWCHPT were given the town’s three highly profitable caravan parks to manage after disgraced Labor MP Tony Kelly took them away from Council control around ten years ago. Luis Feliu reports that councillors have been called on to support a notice of motion proposing what locals say is a fairer outcome for residents dealing with noise, traffic, parking, access, overcrowding and other major amenity issues not addressed by the park managers in their plan for the parks’ future. Hans Lovejoy, editor

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he most depressing aspect of the very public stoush between cabinet ministers and their claques over house-hunters to access their superannuation for deposits is that it has happened at all. And that is not just my view – you can bet it is Malcolm Turnbull’s as well, because it represents yet another failure of his leadership. He made his opinion clear as far ago as 2015 – a thoroughly bad idea, no ifs and no buts – forget it. Of course he was not yet prime minister, and the issue was not considered a vital one – just one of the recurrent thought bubbles the libertarian right puts up when it has nothing more exciting to propose. But now Turnbull is the leader, and unlike so many of the fervent positions he has been forced to recant to get the job (perhaps the lunatic fringe forgot to include it in its reactionary manifesto), he appears to be holding on to it: even on part of his passage to India he made it clear that he had not changed his mind – at least, not yet. But the question is rapidly becoming yet another ideological flashpoint on the long war between the Liberal factions and despite Turnbull’s opposition it is not yet clear how it will be resolved. It should have been killed off before it even got into the headlines, and if not then, definitely last week after a daylong session of the Expenditure Review Committee – the prebudget razor gang. And the fact that it wasn’t shows just how precarious Turnbull’s dwindling authority has become. Under normal circumstances the leader’s word would have been law: the prime minister may tell his colleagues that he is simply primus inter pares among his cabinet, a chairman

to mediate the disputes, but in practice it is rare indeed for arguments of this kind to break into the media. It can happen; the passionate campaign by Paul Keating to impose a consumption tax – the then-treasurer’s beloved option C – bubbled along for several days, but in the end his prime minister, Bob Hawke, kyboshed it, and that was that. Hawke was genuinely attracted to the idea, but in the end it was too electorally fraught. So Keating backed down, and in the end campaigned equally passionately against

there is no magic bullet, and the process of reform, if it comes at all, will take years – certainly well beyond the next budget and beyond. Having discouraged prospective house buyers as far as possible, he goes on to talk about the joys of renting. This, of course, is hardly compatible with encouraging a premature grab at super; renting is always risky, a lease-to-lease proposition, and it becomes downright perilous when age catches up and retirement looms. When the job ends, the income from super and the pension is generally all

Morrison is reduced to the prospect of tinkering at the edges, a policy which even he admits is all but pointless. by Mungo MacCallum what became the GST. But Scott Morrison is quite prepared to break the unwritten rule. He wants – indeed, he desperately needs – a win to give at least some substance to what has become the key budget issue of housing policy. Morrison’s quandary is that he is hopelessly circumscribed by the Commonwealth’s ability to intervene in the area. Having dismissed the biggest lever available to Canberra, negative gearing, on the grounds that Labor thought of it first, and with the other serious tool, capital gains tax, teetering in the balance because the right hates the idea of losing that perk even more than it likes the idea of dismantling superannuation accounts, Morrison is reduced to the prospect of tinkering at the edges, a policy which even he admits is all but pointless. He is already warning of failure, warning the public that

that’s left to pay the landlord. If it has been spent on a concrete purchase of accommodation, well and good; but if it has just been blown on a deposit with no real prospect of being able to pay off both the interest and the capital, it can be disastrous. The libertarians do not see that as a worry: as far as they are concerned, people are entitled to use their own money however they like, and if they stuff up, tough titty. After all, superannuation is no more than institutionalised theft – a bit like taxation, really. But of course it is a bit more complicated than that. Super is supposed to be a form of compulsory saving, which means that if it is spent prematurely, not only do the savings dissipate, but the interest on them ceases to exist. Even if super remains untouched for the full period in which it accumulates, it is still mostly considered inadequate

for a comfortable retirement, which is why Keating, who set up the system, has tirelessly argued that the rate should be increased from the current figure of 9.5 per cent to 12 per cent. However, the current government has deferred any increase until 2025, which will be too late for yet another generation of pensioners – who will, as a result, need topping up from government coffers. This is no doubt one of Turnbull’s objections to Morrison’s pleas, and it is one which every serious economist supports. But that means nothing to the ideological right, which is now shamelessly defying Turnbull on every level. Naturally Tony Abbott is front and centre of the rebellion, with most of the usual suspects on the backbench. But what matters is that ministers, both senior and junior, have joined the push, among them Barnaby Joyce and Matt Canavan of the Nationals and even blow-ins like Michael Sukkar among the Liberals. For them to be airing their views in public is unconscionable, but who said anything about conscience? Others, notably Christopher Pyne, are striking back, but it has all become very messy. And just how messy has been revealed by the astonishing report that the prime minister has turned to Peter Dutton (who, perhaps surprisingly, does not favour the Morrison scheme) for support: he has ordered (or perhaps implored) his treasurer to talk to his minister for immigration and border protection, who has absolutely nothing to do with housing policy and, it can be argued, very little to do with anything these days apart from naked ambition. Pathetic, if not farcical. Or perhaps, once again, simply depressing…

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Letters Bruns park boundaries Proposed boundaries for Brunswick Heads Holiday Parks are on Council’s agenda this week (20/4). Notice of motion (noM) 9.3 identifies previous resolutions endorsed by Council that specifically address boundary issues. Between August 2012 and December 2015 BSC consistently resolved to restrict commercial activity on contentious encroached lands at Ferry foreshore, Lot 7005 at Massey-Greene and in the southern section of Terrace Park. NSWCHPT’s latest concept plans ignore BSC’s ‘myriad’ resolutions and include virtually all disputed lands within the operational boundaries, claiming ‘continuous existing use rights’ under Division 10 s107 and 109 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979. Clearly there is significant disagreement between BSC and NSWCHPT as to ‘legal continuous use’ of disputed lands. A key element of the NSWCHPT proposal is the ‘provision of more foreshore open space’. The Trust has finally conceded to implement the legally required 10m set-

back for built structures along the riverbank in Terrace Park and Massey-Greene and will reinstate public access along Simpsons Creek – a Council requirement repeated ad nauseam since 2000. So the deal is the Trust will comply with setback regulations and reinstate public access obstructed by park activities, and in exchange BSC will allow them to resume and redevelop ‘encroached’ public lands. Hardly a win/win for the community but a very good deal for NSWCHPT. In fact the community is not getting ‘more foreshore open space’; we have less public open space overall with the loss of half of Ferry Reserve foreshore with the inclusion of Riverside Crescent road reserve in Ferry Park, the loss of Lot 7005 and the southern area of Terrace Park. The NoM recommendations do not accord with NSWCHPT’s proposal to maximise park profits. The motion proposes a fairer outcome for local residents dealing with noise, traffic, parking, access, overcrowding and other significant amenity issues not addressed in any concept drawings. It retains public land for public use and reflects the long-recognised constraints on land

use – from flooding at Ferry, lack of public space at Massey-Greene to the historic use and protected trees at Terrace Park. All matters of significance to our local community if not NSWCHPT. So contact councillors and encourage them to stand firm and support Notice of Motion 9.3 at Council’s next meeting on Thursday. Michele Grant Brunswick Heads

Different agendas The council agenda for April 20 contains several motions from councillors that are intended to change or amend recommendations of previous or current staff reports. The staff involved are required to comment on the councillors’ motions and have invariably sought to oppose the councillors and reassert their original report. This would be understandable if the staff reports were all complete, coherent and logical, but in my opinion this is unfortunately not the case. Possibly bureaucratic solidarity with other government entities may play a part in their presentation. The long-running saga of the Brunswick Heads caravan parks is one example where the council planning director

instructive as to their closeness to, and confidence in, the GM’s staff. Tom Tabart Bangalow

gives undue support to the devious NSW Holiday Parks NGO which has been seeking to annex our public land over many years. The same council bureaucrat has reasserted a defence of the latest plan to redevelop the Tyagarah airstrip complex. This plan, which lacks any financial projections (among other deficiencies), revolves around someone’s desire to develop a heliport (fully serviced air terminal), which was a mysterious upgrade from a helipad (marked landing place) in the original version that went to Council. These are only two examples that raise questions about the role played by the council executive. Haven’t they noticed that the new council is of a very different political persuasion from the last? How the councillors vote on these motions will be very

Down the rabbithole Are folks stunned by the strange juxtapositions resonating globally and locally? Or are we dining at the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party down in the rabbit’s warren zonked by the strange ingredients in the cake? I was struck by The Don’s wee tale that he shared when the merchants of death whispered in his ear that missiles had been launched on the human tragedy that is Syria. He was entertaining the president of China who was eating ‘the MOST PERFECT slice of chocolate cake’, stated The Don. The emphasis on the cake was all-consuming. I guess

when one is the CEO of the universe it is imperative that cake eating with secondary CEOs be treated with reverence! Let the missiles fly like cracker night. Attempting to get away from cake metaphors I got to page 10 of The Echo, grabbed by the headline, ‘West Byron developer ignores community; 290-lot DA lodged’. It seems that the change of NSW premier and planning minister in Cake Village, Macquarie Street, Sydney, has created the heady opportunity to circumvent the DCP. A DCP is a specific planning instrument for the site, and aims to address specifics such as traffic and the endangered koala and frog habitats, so it is a very serious instrument. The NSW planning department suggested submitting the DA, while Council continued on next page

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Letters continued from page 9 staff also encouraged them to do more on the project. Our endangered frogs such as the Wallum Sedge frog and other Wallum-dependent frog species are to be ‘captured and relocated’ by these Cake Eaters utilising ‘an accepted approved methodology’ called ‘slabbing’. (God, another cake metaphor.) Inconvenienced by Mother Nature’s hand the Cake Eaters will physically move the sweet species to another area. Dailan Pugh has been trying to get Council to implement the protection for the nationally vulnerable frog. Mayor Richardson, who leads the green team, was unavailable for comment. ’Tis a pity. Maybe he was eating cake. It is very depressing to bear witness to the rights of nature and humanity being destroyed by the megalomania of Cake Eaters. It is argued by these developers ‘that the (community) battle has been lost… the land has been rezoned.’ No, Cake Eaters,

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Money talks An SMH article on April 10, 2017, ‘F6 planners told to ignore public transport, build roads,’ tells the story of a planning choice by the NSW government to ignore a railway proposal between Wollongong and Sydney that would have meant consumers’ travel time would’ve been cut from 90 minutes to 60 minutes. Instead the government chose to fund a road that cost $10 billion more. The article states, ‘An option (the railway) along the lines highlighted would reduce road congestion’. The cost estimates for each option are excised from

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the document released, but it says the difference between the two is of ‘a magnitude that cannot be ignored’. The difference is ‘sufficient to construct the equivalent of almost three Snowy Mountains Hydro Schemes’. This is clear evidence of a situation that has been happening for a long time where companies’ donations to Liberal and Labor election campaigns have meant roads win over rail every time. Australia is now the most car-dependent country in the whole world. The same thing has happened in northern NSW where billions are being spent on roads while the railway has been closed down and both major parties have colluded in ignoring community needs while giving their political donors what they want. It’s time to end the corruption. Beth Shelley Booerie Creek

Coorabell dangers Over two years ago the Shire’s local traffic committee directed Council to undertake a formal safety audit of Coolamon Scenic Drive and install centreline marking and any other recommended safety improvements. This followed from our

2014 submission on safety issues. Residents had been fed up with actual and near-miss head-on incidents caused mostly by impatient speeding locals overtaking slowmoving tourists at unsafe locations. Our road has a high crash rate. Council is yet to undertake the safety audit. We have waited for action for 30 months. In the meantime, Council amazingly agreed with RMS to signpost an extension of Tourist Route 28 from the old highway right the way along, bringing even more tourists to our substandard local road. Residents were not consulted on this extension to the tourist route. Mayor Richardson has recently taken up the cause with his council officers. The response has been consistent. There are no funds for this now or any time soon. Apparently not even funds for an officer to meet us onsite. Residents have also consulted with RMS, seeking Black Spot funding to assist Council with the work. Residents fully support attracting more tourists to the area but demand overdue safety measures to be installed as recommended many months ago by our local traffic committee.

In the meantime, we keep getting run off our local road, our school buses and kids are put in danger by impatient speeding drivers. It’s a popular tourist route also used by many impatient locals. How many more incidents or worse will it take to get well-overdue action from Council? Anthony Stante Coorabell Q Council responded to Mr

Stante’s letter on Echonetdaily: ‘Byron Shire Council’s director of infrastructure services, Phil Holloway, said Mr Stante’s requests for works on Coolamon Scenic Road are part of the 2017/18 budget proposal. If approved, the $30,000 will provide a speed review of the 11-kilometre stretch of road and help fund the review outcomes such as signage and line marking. Mr Holloway said whilst he understood Mr Stante’s frustration, if the proposed budget for 2017/18 was adopted, the work could commence.’ – Ed

Strange sorcery What strange sorcery is it that manifests upon Tincogan Street and causes so many drivers to experience momentary amnesia at the intersections of both Dalley and Stuart Streets? Is it some

sort of magnetic anomaly, causing every tenth driver approaching from the south to forego their right of way and pause mid intersection for no apparent reason? Or is it perhaps a localised application of HAARP technology, casting a cloak of invisibility over opposing traffic and seducing eastbound drivers into thinking they are clear to turn right? Is this actually what chemtrails do? Albert Moses Mullumbimby

Rum factory I have looked into some of the details of this rum factory’s DA for Middle Pocket. It appears that currently the land has an annual existing ‘irrigation’ right to 53 million litres of water from the creek and the ground. This has never really been used to date, but if the DA is approved they could use every drop. For residents who only have the creek water, this is obviously devastating. The residents and properties who use bore water in Middle Pocket, The Pocket, Billinudgel and Yelgun (and whereever else this groundwater goes), will be severely affected. A resident in Middle Pocket who relies solely continued opposite

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Staying in the E until the words finish speaking They speak their own language, musicians. ‘I’m starting here, pedalling it,’ the bass player says, demonstrating as he speaks, ‘then I’m moving to the sixth.’ His fingers are tentacles on the fretless neck of the double bass. ‘Starting with the major...’ the guitarist says, shaping some jazz chords around that bottom-end melody. He has a 1968 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop slung at his hip. A beautiful thing. The drummer shimmers a cymbal and nails the swinging rhythm, brushing the snare drum. The saxophonist blows noiselessly through his instrument, breathing life into it, his fingers pushing the keys, warming it up. The guitarist continues: ‘And then to A minor...’ He strums a sequence ascending to the change. The band follows the directive and kicks up to the new chord – a chord flavoured with the sweet melancholy that minor chords can evoke. The saxophone suddenly and mournfully comes to life, wailing like a human

attending great loss. It seems to cry for our mortality, for love lost, for the dying reef, the poisoned sea... The music, sepulchral but euphoric, lifts me from my chair (metaphorically, of course – I have a cast on my leg, and crutches are pinionless), taking me out of the neat suburban house. I’m soaring on thermals of harmony, flying above the roofs of Ocean Shores that roll in tiled tempo towards an ocean sparkling under a prodigal sun. ‘Wait, wait,’ the bass player says. The band stops. I’m back in my chair.

‘Do you think that the sax should come in after the words? Maybe in the minor?’ ‘Okay, let’s try it,’ says the saxophonist. ‘So, stay in the E till then?’ asks the guitarist. ‘Yeah,’ says the bassist. ‘Until the words finish.’ ‘Then that run, to intro the hook,’ says the saxophonist. ‘Then the sax solo,’ says the bassist. ‘Let’s try it,’ says the drummer, clicking his sticks together, counting. The band starts again. Four bars in, I feel it’s my time. This is why I’m here – I have the words.

Sitting in a wooden chair, a typed page in my hand, a microphone at my mouth, and at a glance from the bassist, I speak my words. They sound different to the inner voice of their creation. There’s new phrasing shaped by the music. The words and music are bedding together, their mutual fertility creating something – ‘Stop,’ the bassist says. ‘This is where we should do that run,’ the saxophonist says to the guitarist. ‘Let’s practise it. Two, three, four –’ As one, the four articulate an intro to the hook. At the intro’s end, in an empty space where only the last ripple of a tremolo-ed guitar chord lingers, I speak the hook phrase. It sounds just right. ‘Now, from the top,’ someone says. I’m not singing; I’m speaking. But this is not poetry with background music; this is our attempt to create something more than that. The words are coming alive, forced from the page by the music, like punters from their seats at a gig, to boogie with the beat, to move to the melody. This newborn euphony is already graceful, elegant – and ours. Art is all I have left.

on bore water has already bought water four times in the last six months; any extra pressure on this source will have negative results. If this development goes ahead the new owner just has to apply to the Department of Primary Industries to change the usage from ‘irrigation’ to ‘industrial’ and every drop of

this water will be used. Objections can be placed with the department once the application has been placed, but we will need a lot of them. I am also concerned that this may turn into a Mallams to Woolies event. Where someone gets the DA approved and on-sells it to a multinational alcohol com-

pany, and I don’t want drop bears in my valley. As it is, I have to put an orange witch’s hat out on the nature strip to let the bus know my kids are coming to school, as they have to stay at least 20m inside the property as the road is way too dangerous for the kids to wait on the nature strip. My family have

all been hit with loose gravel when the cars pass each other. On the traffic and road concerns, our road is a dead end, local traffic only. Only locals understand our road, her bumps and curves and wet bits; she can be unforgiving to the novice. I can’t see the visitors continued on page 12

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by Ian Rogers In the week when the world’s top woman player Hou Yifan lost a challenge match in Shenzhen against evergreen veteran Vassily Ivanchuk 1-3, ABC Radio Canberra decided to explore the topic of why there were so few world class female players. Australian Women’s Champion Heather Richards explained that fewer girls play the game than boys so one could hardly expect as many female world-beaters to emerge. World Chess Federation (FIDE) figures indicate that the situation is worse in Australia than in most countries, with women making up fewer than five per cent of Australia’s internationally ranked players. (Richards, the highest rated female player in the country, comes in at number 37 on the general Australian list.) Yet, as ACT arbiter Shaun Press pointed out during the radio discussion, at primary school level the balance between the sexes is closer to 50/50. The drop-off rate of female players between primary and high school is dra-

matic in Australia – ten times the rate of boys. Press attributed this in part to the obnoxiousness and aggressive competitiveness of pre-teen boys, as well as to a general male propensity to follow time-wasting activities such as watching football, video games and chess. Richards, who grew up in the UK, noted the absence of role models for girls and also felt chess needed to become culturally acceptable for females. It was her related point about the general attitude to women playing chess in Australia which rang truest. Not long ago this writer witnessed one of a State’s best girl players, aged around 13, in tears because, she said, her friends had told her they wouldn’t be her friends any more if she continued playing competitive chess. It will probably take a chess version of Bend it Like Beckham or a female prodigy as good as Anton Smirnov before attitudes start to change, after which girls might regard chess as socially acceptable and the chances of finding a female Australian Grandmaster will increase dramatically.

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A big thanks to all of the Ocean Shores Preschool families, children and the wider community for their support and donations. In the last week of term one we began a donation drive for pets and animals for people of the our local and wider community affected by Ex-Tropical Cyclone Debbie. The community response was amazing. Mayor Isaac Smith of Lismore promoted our initiative along with Northern Rivers Animal Service, Ballina Veterinary Hospital, The Honey Wagon, Newrybar, and Kate from 100.9 ZZZ FM. We had people travelling from Pottsville, Byron Bay, Mullumbimby and surrounds to help our preschool participate in rebuilding the community. We aimed to ﬁll a wrapped gold box in our foyer and by Friday we could barely open the front door from all of their generosity. In the four days the initiative ran for we were able to raise more than $1,000 worth of animal food, animal accessories (eg new collars, leashes, kitty litter etc) along with multiple bags and bags of towels and bedding for our four-legged friends.

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This year, Rolling Stone magazine is celebrating its 50th year on American newsstands. It’s also 45 years since I launched the Australian edition, still going strong. Back in 1967, I was publishing a pop-music tabloid called GoSet, selling 70,000 copies a week across Australia. America had no nationwide music paper until late that year

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Thoughts on Rolling Stone magazine’s turning 50 publish an Australian edition, launching in January 1972. Working out of a group house in Glebe, a few mates and I coaxed the Aussie Stone toward sustainability then, in 1976, I sold the Australian franchise to a trio of Sydney gonzo publishers and moved myself to New York. My interests were in political, environmental, and cultural upheaval, all of which I was in favour of, so I kept up with Rolling Stone during my New York decades through occasional encounters with Wenner and by reading the infrequent outside-the-box political stories he published. On this 50th anniversary of Rolling Stone, these few major stories from the archives stay with me:

Radical chic Tom Wolfe’s radical chic. When I arrived at the Wenners’ home in 1970, that night’s real dinner guest was Tom Wolfe, the writer of four books with long titles such as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Jann and Tom talked about The Brotherhood of the Right Stuff, a story about American astronauts that Tom was writing for an upcoming issue of Stone, with photos by Annie Leibovitz on the biggest assignment of her nascent career. Wolfe’s stories, dubbed ‘New Journalism’, were rich in lively descriptions of characters, places, and cultures in motion, and major critics of media and literature loved that he inhabited the tripping brains of the heroes while containing them in a wellwoven story. Given where we are now in terms of fact/ fiction/faction, Tom might have been a mixed blessing to journalism. Fear and Loathing. When

we launched the Aussie Stone, Hunter S Thompson, the chain-babbling trasher of all cultures, was cranking writing genre-bending up a notch with his epic reports on the 1972 US election and on convention events in Las Vegas. HST and his Samoan attorney (actually Mexican) famously travelled with suitcases of booze, pills and white powders, while attempting to unravel white racism toward Latinos. Thompson did a great job of trashing the suitwearing, over-eating, knownothing guys who run much of America, but his ferociously first-person reportage also may have inspired a million online ratbags. The reporter who died after killing the General’s career. In 2010 Michael Hastings, a 30-year-old freelance writer, spent time on the road with General Stanley McChrystal, who President Obama had put in charge of the

US war against the Taliban in Afghanistan. McChrystal and his support crew let Hastings into diplomatic meetings, late-night booze-ups, and heavily armed visits to alienated Afghans and disillusioned GIs. Hastings’ story for Rolling Stone faithfully reproduced the General’s no-bullshit repartee with everyone, making it stunningly clear that McChrystal and his fellow top brass were appallingly full of shit – also ignorant, arrogant, crazy violent, and destined to fail at saving Afghanistan.

continued from page 11 on their way to this factory negotiating the crater-size potholes, the one-lane blind corners, slowing down for the long-paddock grazing, or fully pulling over off the road for the school buses or even knowing pulling over is the law. The only people who can safely use a road like ours are residents. If we have extra traffic, mini-buses from the backpackers, or the random 10am rum tasting, cane-delivery trucks, molasses trucks, lemon trucks, employees, large freight trucks bringing in empties and re-

moving product, inevitable accidents will occur. Sounds like it would be more suitable in an industrial estate? Or what about in the event of an industrial accident while we are all flooded in? The fire trucks will have no access. This part of the road is cut off more than three times a year. How they can store a highly flammable liquid, in and area assessed by Council as ‘constrained by bushfire’ in a rural residential area with a road totally unsuited to a retail/wholesale/manufacturing plant of this size? This facility is going to

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CIA and cars After Obama read the article, he fired McChrystal and backed away from his ‘strategy’ of having troops occupy villages to hunt down insurgents while uplifting the good citizens. US military and intelligence honchos don’t like being discredited by journalists

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(or black Harvard-educated presidents), and they may have had a role in Hastings’ violent death in June 2013. Last month WikiLeaks leaked documents on how the CIA can remotely control recentmodel cars. Hastings’ Mercedes hit a pole at full speed on a suburban street in LA at 4:25am. Yes, there is a theme in all this – it’s all about men behaving badly, sometimes the writers themselves. Jann always tilted his magazine strongly toward men as contributors, and readers (66 per cent male). In a list of ‘50 notable current and former staff of Rolling Stone’ on Wikipedia, there are only three women. One is a music journalist, one was a publisher for seven years and is not well remembered by the company, and the third is Sabrina Erdely, who wrote the notorious Stone investigative piece titled A Rape on Campus in 2014, which was subsequently adjudged profoundly flawed, costing Wenner Media millions of dollars in multiple defamation and libel cases (still ongoing). I put Hastings’ revelations about just how crass the Masters of War really are at the top of Rolling Stone’s journalistic achievements. Me, I’m a little bit glad Wenner has published Stone for all those years – and glad I didn’t. Footnote: Jeune Pritchard interviews Phillip on ABC TV in January 1972, about the showdown with Rupert Murdoch’s Southdown Press over the launch of the Australian Stone at http://bit.ly/philstone.

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tially he was told to approach the Israeli authorities for permission to leave, which is like referring a Jew in the Third Reich to the Nazis! His brother, Moustafa, was killed by the Israeli military and he himself was imprisoned and tortured for simply protesting against Israel’s land grabbing, settler-led destruction of crops and violent intimidation of both adults and children. The Department of Immigration and Border Protection stated that it ‘has recently been made aware of continued opposite

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Prime Miner Malcolm Turnbull, the world is headed for on-average ten degrees C higher temperatures by 2050 and all the ice is going to melt, drowning coastal cities – https://skepticalscience. com. Ideal conditions for quick-thinking cephalopods. And it’s not like this hasn’t been foretold. It’s written large and creepily in the work of H P Lovecraft (1890–1937) – hplovecraft.com. In the hothouse bell jar of weird fiction, it’s a common theme that eldritch tales foretell the arrival of the unwanted. ‘Something wicked this way comes,’ as Shakespeare’s witch noted. (Could it be that Shakespeare was written by octopodes? It’s a better theory than some of the others in circulation.) Lovecraft nailed it in what Why is it that Bassam Tamimi representing oppressed Palestinians living under Israel’s brutal apartheid regime is denied freedom of speech in Australia while his oppressor, Benjamin Netanyahu, is ecstatically greeted by the Turnbull government and, shamefully, by many members of the Australian Labor Party, the Greens and independents? Gareth W R Smith Palestine Liberation Centre Byron Bay

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in this case is incorporated in the octopus’s gene-editing tools. There are varying views as to what inspired Lovecraft to imagine Cthulhu, other than prescience. One contender is Tennyson’s lovely irregular sonnet The Kraken – poets. org/poetsorg/poem/kraken – itself inspired by an Icelandic saga. In any case I’d be prepared, if I were you. I for one will be out there on the seashore at Main Arm Upper Upper with the other worshippers chanting, ‘Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.’ (‘In his house at R’lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.’) After several mojitos, of course.

profit ethics. While the fittest thrive, the demise of the weakest accelerates. But don’t blame individual investors. They are merely responding to the rules of the system. The gridlock is a result of practices, traditions, laws and ethics that predate the Roman empire. None of the parties professing to have solutions have sufficient detachment from personal gain and corrupting influences to create equitable solutions. But the situation is critical now. People are perishing on the streets. It requires a Radical Evolution, that is, a REvolution. This time a peaceful one in tune with the new millennium. So let the REvolution begin: that means self-help by mass participation. Many keen local groups are working on the basics of food, accommodation, health and the handicapped. For effective results it may be smart to assume there will be

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eteran environmental campaigner and former Greens senator Bob Brown has previously pointed to Adani’s proposed Carmichael coal mine as the new Franklin River of environmental protest in Australia. Yet the future of this ‘climate bomb’ hangs in the balance. The ongoing contest over the mine’s approval is about to get very heated. Prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has declared that native title claims would not impede the approval process, and that Adani would press ahead with its plans to seek A$1 billion in funding for the rail line needed to transport coal to Abbot Point for export. The consequences of going ahead with the mine are almost incalculable. This is not simply because of the emissions it will produce, but from the fact it promotes and normalises the insanity that coal can still be ‘good for humanity’.

Absurdities Here’s my list of the ten most absurd things about the Adani mine. 1. As the largest coal mine in the Australia when completed, Adani will legitimise the idea of mining all of the coal in the Galilee Basin. If extracted and burnt, this will get the world one-third of the way toward 20C of global warming. The Adani mine alone will see up to 2.3 billion tonnes of coal extracted from an area five times the size of Sydney Harbour over 60 years. This is equivalent to putting out 7.7 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases. The global budget is now less than 500 billion tonnes in order to have an 80 per cent chance of keeping global average temperature rise to less than 20C. 2. The mine lies adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef. The heaviest risk to the reef ’s future is a continued increase in greenhouse gases. You couldn’t invent a greater insult to the beloved reef than to begin mining operations that amount to an affront to those who have begun to mourn for its imminent death. 3. After years of bashing renewables as unviable without government subsidy, contemplating a $1 billion subsidy to the mine by the

In March 2015 Murrawah Johnson of the Wangan and Jagalingou people presented a Declaration of Defence of Country to Queensland’s Speaker of the House Peter Wellington outside Parliament House in Brisbane. The W&J people announced they had refused Adani and the QLD government a land-use agreement for the Carmichael coal mine. See the ongoing protest at http://wanganjagalingou.com.au. AAP Image/Dan Peled

Fossil-fuel companies already receive $2,000 in rebates and subsidies for every $1 they donate to Australia’s major political parties. The additional subsidy to Adani makes a mockery of any serious attempt to tackle climate change. Turnbull government is quite perverse. Fossil-fuel companies already receive $2,000 in rebates and subsidies for every $1 they donate to Australia’s major political parties. So, this additional subsidy makes a mockery of any serious attempt to tackle climate change. 4. With climate-change-induced extreme weather events exacting billions of dollars of damage across Australia, and especially in Queensland, the idea that public money would be used to increase these damage bills by injecting even more energy into the world’s climate system by accelerating greenhouse gas emissions is absurd.

Cyclone impact Cyclone Debbie – a category-four cyclone – actually impacted on the areas of the mine itself, and delivered more peak rainfall than Cyclone Yasi, which was a category-five cyclone only six years ago. Since 2006, insurers have paid more than $6.8 billion in cyclone- and floodrelated claims in Queensland alone. Debbie is expected to add another $1 billion. 5. That the Northern Australia Infrastructure Fund could be used to subsidise the mine is in contempt of any claim to responsible cli-

mate – and financial – policy. That such a fund could be so directly controlled by so few people and have such enormous impact on greenhouse concentrations is a travesty. 6. The argument that the royalties from the mine would benefit Australia are not supported by the recent revelations that Adani has set up an elaborate network of subsidiaries and trusts that are ultimately owned and controlled from the tax haven of the Cayman Islands.

Jobs, jobs, jobs 7. That the Queensland Labor government could buy into a jobs campaign around the mine when renewable technologies can carry the promise of even more jobs, and without risk to the Great Barrier Reef that is threatened by the dredging associated with the mine, and therefore is a danger to the tourism industry, is outrageous. Adani’s own consultants have suggested the mine would produce fewer than 1,500 full-time jobs. This amounts to a public subsidy of $683,000 per job. 8. Adani’s argument that somehow the mine will be lifting Indians out of poverty is a PR disguise for a company that has been accused of blatant human rights abuses. This argument, invented

by the now-failed Peabody Energy and most famously popularised by Bjorn Lomborg, has also been a favourite of coalition MPs. This argument is thoroughly patronising – not simply because India itself has declared renewables to be more important than coal, but also because it is the oppressive legacy of colonialism that underdeveloped third-world countries in the first place. 9. The desperate plea by resources minister Matt Canavan, mounted in the face of a greater lunacy, that the coal Adani would export is ‘clean coal’ that would actually cut emissions, has been dismissed by analysts at the International Energy Agency.

Bad biz 10. To commit to a mine that it supposed to run for 60 years as the price of coal continues to be devalued in the face of investment moving to renewables is business suicide. It does not even take account of what the world’s climate will be like in 35 years. With the equator in a permanent heatwave and so much more storm-feeding energy in the system, coal won’t just be the new tobacco. It will become the grim reaper we see in our rearview mirror. Q David Holmes is senior lecturer, communications and media studies, Monash University. He thanks Tahnee Burgess for research assistance on this article.

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Enrol now for Term 2 classes available in all styles. Classes on offer for all ages will be in classical ballet, contemporary and lyrical commercial jazz, hip-hop, acro and core, and technique classes. Troupes for 12s, 15s and opens for the dedicated and committed. The faculty are experienced, professional and full of energy, giving you the best choreography in the region! The brand-new Lismore and Clunes studios are also offering many amazing classes. Phone Nina on 0408 412 788.

Art classes by Magic School Dynamic after-school art and craft classes for 7–12-year-olds. A space for curious, creative and inquisitive young minds that love to create and play! Mullumbimby 8-week course 3.30–5pm Drill Hall, Wednesdays from 3 May. $20 per class includes materials Qualified teacher Contact Miss Mac / Soph 0411 203 508 or sophmacken@ gmail.com.

Little Shearwater Preschool now enrolling for 2017 Shearwater, The Mullumbimby Steiner School, is an independent, co-educational school for children from Kindergarten to Year 12, with a preschool, playgroups, trade skills centre and a biodynamic farm. Widely recognised for its unique, holistic approach to learning, a Shearwater education is exemplified by engaged students and a contemporary learning program that balances academic pursuits with the development of the entire being. Shearwater’s beautiful new Early Childhood Centre is now open with places still available in our Preschool for children turning four this year (two days per week) and for children turning five (three days per week). A tour of the Preschool will be held on Friday 28 April at 3.30pm. Bookings can be made by calling the Shearwater Office on 6684 3223. Please visit the Shearwater website www.shearwater.nsw.edu.au for information on enrolling your child, or contact Enrolments Coordinator Kate Hamilton – enrolments@shearwater.nsw.edu.au.

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Art Classes! After school art and craft classes for 7 to 12 year olds. Children are given the opportunity to explore and express their creativity while also having fun. 8 week course, 3.30–5pm Drill Hall Wednesdays from May 3rd Bookings limited. $20 per class, includes materials. THE MULLUMBIMBY STEINER SCHOOL

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Call or text Miss Mac / Sophie 0411 203 508

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PEGASUS PARK EQUESTRIAN CENTRE

WEEKDAY BEACH RIDE ON ISOLATED SEVEN MILE BEACH BETWEEN BYRON AND LENNOX.

Spaghetti Circus discount on term classes

Lessons & Pony Rides for as young as 2 years + Nervous adults and beginners are our speciality

Enrol for Term 2 by the end of the holidays to grab your $30 earlybird discount!

Book now 02 6687 1446 Check out pegasuspark.com.au

Spaghetti Circus classes are open to the community and provide foundational training in aerials, tumbling, acrobalance, mini-tramp, juggling, hula hoops and much more!

Swim For Your Life

They are designed to be fun, social and supportive for participants who are just starting or returning from a break as well as offering long-term circus training for kids as young as two to adults. Every child enrolled in a Term 2 class will have the opportunity to perform in the Spaghetti Circus Annual Show on 2, 3 and 4 June. This yearâ€™s theme is A Spaghetti Retro-Active, celebrating 25 years of great circus at the iconic Mullumbimby arts organisation. Term 2 begins Monday 24 April (Spaghetti Circus will be closed for Anzac Day 25 April). Earlybird $30 discount applies to online enrolments paid by Sunday 23 April. Find out more and enrol online at spaghetticircus.com.

We are back in the swim! Swim For Your Life, Billinudgel, is back in business. Thank you to our community for your support, patience, encouragement, and working with us around our mess at times.

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Our first class swimming lessons are continuing for all ages and abilities, six months to adults. The progress our students have been making is amazing and learning to swim through the cooler months is even more important now to be ready for a great summer of fun in the water. Our pool is heated, our classes are small, and our teachers love what they do. Come and learn to swim with us and develop great technique and a love of the water. Check out our website: www.swimforyourlife.net.au.

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Musical theatre Cecchetti Ballet Contemporary ballet exams Hip - Hop Lyrical jazz Tap Byron Studio 4/102 Centennial Cct

Lismore studio Level 2/39 Woodlark St

Clunes studio

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Can you laugh and smile with confidence? David Stanford Smith Adv Dip. DP (Syd), Dip. DT (Syd)

Internationally Trained Lower Denture Suction Techniques Technical & Clinical Excellence Finely crafted for comfort • Customised Precision Dentures

PEARL DENTURE STUDIO Unique • Individual • Beautiful MULLUMBIMBY Suite 5/97 Stuart Street, Phone 6684 3677

CASINO 125 Barker Street, Phone 6662 1137

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$99 Package 1/2 head of foils (regrowth only), cut and blowdry

$130 Package includes 1/2 head of foils (regrowth only), cut treatment, eyelash tint or eyebrow wax and blowdry.

1/1a Park Street, Brunswick Heads

6685 0448

Two experienced female GPs and skin cancer doctors, now offering services in aesthetic medicine. TREATMENTS AVAILABLE TO IMPROVE • Age related volume loss, ﬁne lines and wrinkles • Surgical, acne and trauma scars • Stretch marks • Skin laxity All new patients are seen in a 45-minute consultation where an holistic plan is constructed to achieve each individual's desired aesthetic goals.

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UNDERSTANDING ECZEMA

Do you wear a denture? Did the Christmas season leave you with a smile on your face or did your denture let you down again?

At Pearl Denture Studio they offer full denture services from the smallest repair, relines or even complex oral prosthetic rehabilitations. They are registered providers for all health funds, Veterans Affairs, and require no referral.

Many children suffer terribly from the irritation of eczema and so often struggle with the aspect of not being able to scratch their skin and being told constantly not to scratch. They struggle to rationalise the link with scratching, which can actually be making the itch worse. This frustration is transferred to the parents via the stress of not knowing what will help this terrible disease; however, with children the greatest course for eczema is food. Many parents will try this food and that food and finally giving up in despair, not realising they are partially correct in their endeavours. This is where the Good Skin Clinic has done all the groundwork for them and is now making it possible to see dramatic improvement often within 6–12 weeks of beginning our program.

For queries or appointments please contact them on 6684 3677 and one of their friendly staff members will be able to assist you.

To arrange an appointment to experience this lifechanging program, please call 1300 956 566 or view our website goodskinclinic.com.au.

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David Smith, dental prosthetist, is well known and respected in everything dentures and can help you with broken teeth or clasps, pain, discomfort, loose dentures, slow eating, inability to eat foods you enjoy or inability to eat the foods that provide health benefits.

For the past 5½ years The Doll House has brought ammonia-free hair colouring and organic products at amazing prices to Brunswick Heads. Jessica and Jodie are passionate about giving people a friendly experience while also producing quality haircare for the people of or visitors to our beautiful shire. We are also invested in our community and support all the local schools and sporting clubs along with partnering with the local high schools to give local kids traineeships and apprenticeships. Come in and see our fantastic team for our unbeatable packages, amazing products and just allround comfortable and fun atmosphere while being pampered. What could be better than than that, really. 1/1a Park Street, Brunswick Heads, 6685 0448

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To better reflect our identity we have changed our name to Organic Beauty by Kamon. We use organic certified products and have created an eco friendly, organic and sustainable salon in Byron Bay. Kamon is an internationally experienced beauty therapist with extensive knowledge in skincare and beauty therapy. She brings an in-depth understanding of all skin types with her and can prescribe a personalised La Clinica skincare program to address your individual needs. Kamon’s eyebrow shaping is famous locally and abroad; her attention to detail leaves you looking and feeling your absolute best. Kamon also provides the ultimate treatment in manicures and pedicures, and her application of Shellac and Bio Sculpture is of an outstanding quality. Kamon’s gentle touch and serene nature will have you floating until your next visit. 1 Acacia Street, Byron Bay, 6685 5545

COASTAL COSMETICS Coastal Cosmetic Doctors is locally owned and operated by two experienced female general practitioners and skin-cancer doctors who are now offering services in their passion area of aesthetic medicine. As doctors first and foremost, Dr Omera and Dr Zaki have an ethical obligation to practise evidence-based and ethically oriented treatments. They are open and transparent about the care they can povide, the costs that will be involved and the timeframe for expected results. Examples of the type of treatment offered include anti-wrinkle injections, dermal fillers, natural plateletrich plasma therapies and micro-needling using medical-grade approved Dermapen3. All new patients are seen in a 45-minute consultation where an holistic plan is constructed to achieve each individual’s desired aesthetic goals.

Skin Clinic 70-72 Rajah Road Ocean Shores 0499 756 088 www.coastalcosmeticdoctors.com

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JULIET’S BEAUTY is proud to announce we are now using Juliet’s Spa Organics product for our facials and body scrubs. We are also selling and using for our pedicures Byron Bath Organics, a great Mothers Day gift. We also offer all your waxing needs. Brazilian $30, full leg and bikini $40, facial $45, pedicure $40, body scrubs $45, relaxation massage $50… and more.

Mullumbimby Podiatry now offers laser therapy – the latest and most effective treatment for stubborn fungal nail disease. The clinic also uses state-of-the-art 3D digital foot scanning to produce high-quality custom orthotics.

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Their experts can treat all foot injuries and footrelated conditions. They combine traditional podiatric techniques with advanced technology, delivering outstanding results for your foot health.

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To find out more about laser therapy, 3D foot scanning or other treatments provided, look at their website:

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www.kingscliffpodiatry.com.au or give them a call on 6674 2933 to book an appointment.

Indulge yourself with a special treat. BEAUTY BLISS offers a range of holistic and personalised facial packages to pamper your body and soul. Our deeply relaxing facial massage will enhance your natural collagen, tones and brightens your skin. We believe in the beauty of nature and use organic/ natural and vegan skincare. Look and feel your best, naturally! For bookings and enquiries call Annette 6680 5519. www.facebook.com/beautyblissoceanshores

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After running a successful clinic for a number of years in Adelaide, Sonya Wilkin has relocated to Byron Bay and opened a clinic in Suffolk Park offering expert and professional treatments in electrolysis, the PERMANENT removal of unwanted hair on the face and body.

At Mullumbimby Dental Centre, each of our patients experiences unparalleled care in our tranquil and relaxing environment.

After more than 125 years, electrolysis still remains the only 100 per cent effective method of permanent hair removal for all skin and hair types. Other services provided are: facial red veins (broken capillaries) therapy, skin tag and milia removal and luxurious anti– ageing and collagen facials that help firm, tone and plump up your skin.

Each of our four surgeries overlooks peaceful tropical gardens, and our practice has been built to provide the ultimate comfort and care for our patients. We have invested in the finest dental technology and equipment to support the delivery of our state-of-the-art dental treatments.

This clinic uses the latest electrolysis equipment available (Apilus Platinum Pure). Treatments are far more comfortable with faster results.

We now treat Nail Fungus with the latest safe and effective LASER technology. We also treat all other Podiatry complaints and offer 3D digital foot scanning technology for custom orthotics.

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www.kingscliffpodiatry.com.au 02 6674 2933 Meadows Medical Practice 123 Dalley St Mullumbimby

Unwanted facial hair? TRIED IPL OR LASER WITH NO SUCCESS? Electrolysis is the only solution for PERMANENT hair removal, any hair colour, any skin shade. Using the latest Apilus technology to offer you more comfort and faster results... BEAUTY BIZ ELECTROLYSIS CLINIC 20 Beachside Drive, Suffolk Park Ph 0411 022 621

Juliet’s Beauty Specials is proud to announce we are now using Juliet’s Spa Organics product for our facials and body scrubs. We are also selling and using for our pedicures Byron Bath Organics, a great Mothers Day gift. We also offer all your waxing needs. Brazilian $30 full leg and bikini $40 facial $45 pedicure $40 body scrubs $45 relaxation massage $50 and more. Visit us on Facebook at Juliet’s Beauty

43 Morrison Ave, Mullumbimby 0434 141 572

At Mullumbimby Dental Centre our dentists have a keen focus on patient education and strive to help each of your family members achieve optimal oral health.

Beauty Biz Electrolysis Clinic. Phone Sonya 0411 022 621 for an appointment.

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Janice Maple shines at Elders Real Estate Awards Janice Maple, co-principal of Elders Bangalow, recently received two awards at the Northern NSW and Qld state awards.First she made it to the Elite salesperson category; second she received an award as the Number 2 Auction Lister in the state. Property Insider caught up with Janice to find out why she is so passionate about the auction process.

Why do you believe using auction for sale is the best way for people to sell? I think auction is a very good way to sell properties in our area as a lot of our buyers are coming from out of town, many from Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, where they are very used to the auction process.It is a program with a structured timeframe.

It requires genuine buyers to act within this timeframe. If properties are marketed with a price range according to what is happening in the market at that particular time, the process can generate a lot of interest and subsequently provide a competitive platform to then gain the best price possible for that particular property. It is particularly good to use this method in a changing market, when prices are going up and expectations are being exceeded with each sale. The market in Bangalow has risen dramatically over the past 18 months and it has been difficult keeping up with the demand. Auction is the only way to know what the market is really prepared to pay for a property and there are many sales being achieved by the auction process, which highlight this fact.

Tom Russo, General Manager of Real Estate and Janice Maple, Elders Bangalow.

What do you think your clients appreciate most about using auction? This is a testimonial from the owner of my most recent auction process sale. It was a fabulous result, sold prior

to auction. ‘I bought an investment property through Elders Bangalow 15 years ago and it seemed a natural progression then to ask them to manage its rental. This was the conduit for my first meeting

Janice when she joined Elders as a principal. She remained very accessible and supportive around rental issues so she was my first choice when the time came to sell the property. It was through this sales process that she really came into her own. She gave the ‘go to market’ strategy a good deal of thought, shared her ideas with me and executed brilliantly. From the site photographs and property description, which unquestionably underscored the property’s positive features, through to the inspiring negotiation skills she exhibited when offers started flowing. Thanks to Janice, the outcome was well above my expectations and I have no hesitancy at all in recommending her to anyone looking to buy or sell a property in the area.’

How did you feel when you won the award? When people decide to move I see my job as helping them get the most they can for their property so they have as many options as possible when they take the next step. I really love doing that and I love auctions. I tell my clients that. I love the structure. There is a set format with the auction process and once you understand what you are trying to achieve, then it often works like clockwork. You work with people, help them sell, help them buy, and they talk to other people and you help them… and before you know it even though you weren’t expecting it you’ve won an award. It’s not why you do it, but of course it is pleasing to be recognised by your peers.

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Nestled on the banks of beautiful Marshalls Creek, is this stunning 1.27 acre property. This contemporary masterpiece is sure to strike a chord with its eclectic mix of native timbers, stone and handcrafted features · Four oversized bedrooms, master with ensuite. Main bathroom features a deep freestanding tub, stone basin and quality timber vanity. · Gourmet chefs kitchen with European appliances

· Polished concrete benchtops and a stunning 5-metre River Gum island bench · Recording studio including double-glazed windows & quality soundprooﬁng. Acoustic insulation in the ceilings, walls & doors. · Hoop Pine ﬂooring procured from the property and milled locally · Internal wine cellar, pizza oven and 5.2kW solar panels

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Property Panoramic Valley Views

Spacious Beach House

A Symphony of Style & Space

47 Coorabell Road, Federal

1 Pacific Esplanade, South Golden Beach

New Brighton

$620,000

Just Listed

You will be excited by the wonderful valley views from this 3 bedroom timber cottage and the opportunity to join the vibrant Federal community. Set 5 minutes from the village with its well known store and cafe, community preschool and school bus stops it is perfect for a young family or couple. The easily maintained 1589sqm block has a perfect north easterly aspect and overlooks rolling farmland. Enjoy the spacious living area with wood flooring opening onto a big deck that takes full advantage of the view and the summer breeze. The open plan kitchen is centrally located so the cook can join in the conversation! The main bathroom has a separate toilet and there is a second toilet in the self contained studio on the lower level. Two of the three bedrooms have built-ins and there is a small study/sunroom taking in the view.

Set on a corner block just 20 metres from the surf and sand, this two-storey beach house offers the ideal seaside escape, located in a peaceful, idyllic location 15 minutes from Byron Bay. Upstairs you’ll find open plan living and dining, polished timber floors, raked ceilings and timber kitchen offering stainless steel appliances. There are two bedrooms on this level with built-in robes and main bathroom with spa. Downstairs, you’ll find a large double garage with loads of storage/ workshop space, laundry with shower and toilet, plus a multipurpose room with external access. You have a choice of outlooks to enjoy your beautiful surroundings including an upper deck/crowsnest lookout with ocean views. If you’re seeking the ideal beachside weekender, attractive holiday let or would like to relocate permanently to this pristine part of the world, contact Julie-Ann Manahan on 0411 081 118 today.

Open: Saturday 11.00 – 11.30am Contact: Scott Harvey 0412 296 872 Scott Harvey Real Estate

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Nestled on the banks of beautiful, serene Marshalls Creek, this stunning, earthy contemporary masterpiece is sure to strike a chord with its eclectic mix of native timbers, stone and handcrafted features. This incredible, unique property has been designed with privacy in mind. The 1.27-acre property is located in a quiet cul-de-sac and is fully fenced with an electric security entry gate. Your living and dining areas are completely open plan with over-sized glass sliding doors opening back to encompass a wide timber deck. A glass balustrade showcases uninterrupted views of the pristine creek, providing the ideal setting to kick back and relax or entertain friends with the beautiful watery vista as your backdrop. A superb 5-metre River Gum timber island bench forms the centrepiece of your gourmet kitchen with quality European appliances. Inspect: By Appointment Auction: 6 May 11am onsite – if not sold prior Contact: Caitlin Hellyar 0428 883 815 Raine & Horne Ocean Shores/Brunswick Heads

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Be part of Byron Bay’s new retail destination on Bayshore Drive ·The first mixed-use development of its kind in Byron Bay · A range of retail tenancies from 36sqm to 300sqm+ · Affordable rent with generous introductory incentives · Ample staff and customer parking · Onsite licensed café and food outlets · Lush landscaped central courtyard

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Property Hidden sanctuary, prime position Iconic Mullum Business For Sale 4/55 Brandon Street, Suffolk Park 2

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What is included in the purchase of land? Basking in the tranquillity of its tropical setting, this state of the art remodelled luxuriously appointed townhouse is a captivating sanctuary. The property features an ultra-modern kitchen with gas cooktop and plenty of storage, seamless open plan layout featuring polished concrete floors, plantation shutters and vertical blinds throughout, good sized bedrooms, the main opening onto a breezy private deck, plus two immaculate bathrooms, ensuite featuring a spa bath, new reverse-cycle air-con and ceiling fans in all of the rooms, outdoor shower, remote control garage and a second allocated car space. It provides an idyllic lifestyle opportunity on a north to rear facing block in a desirable position within an easy walk to the local bakery, shops and tavern and footsteps from the popular Tallow Beach.

Open: By appointment Contact: Sharon McInnes 0408 659 649 McGrath Byron Bay

This well-loved family business is a local institution established and serving the community since 1978. Provides quality camping equipment, travel products, work wear and a range of footwear such as Red Back, Rossi, Keens and Crocs with room for expansion in this area. This delightful business can easily be operated by a two-person team with no additional staff. Consider taking advantage of the north coast’s rapid expansion and the opportunity to acquire a stable business with excellent turnover.

Have you ever bought a property thinking that a particular item was included, only to find that it had been removed at settlement? The misunderstanding is a result of the distinction between fixtures and chattels (or personal items). The starting point is the ‘degree of annexation test’ – that is, the physical relationship between the land and the disputed object: 1. When the item is fixed to land in a manner other than by its own weight it is presumed to be a fixture; and 2. Where the item is simply resting on the land by its own weight it is presumed to be a chattel. Therefore, consideration of the intention at the time the item was fixed is required. If the item is placed with the intention of better enjoying the land, then it is likely to be a fixture. If the item is placed with the intention of better enjoying the item, then it is likely to remain a chattel. If there is an item at the property that you expect will be included or excluded as part of the sale, it is crucial that you inform your lawyer to avoid an unnecessary dispute at settlement.

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Contact: Rod 6684 2967

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For those who crave privacy, seclusion and peace, this is paradise found! This 101-acre forested property with two council-approved dwellings is located at the end of a quiet road between Murwillumbah and Kyogle. • Residence 1 is a 12 x 6 metre open-plan timber co age with substantial veranda. • Residence 2 is a sculptor built stone studio with loft, ideal for guest accommodation. • The co age is powered by a quality 1.5kW solar system with ba ery storage and a rainwater tank provides water via pressure pump.

88 Twin Pines Road, Barkers Vale Art with Stone and Wood

Agent Jason Di mar Area Sales Specialist 0477 222 452

• Low maintenance family home suited to investors, downsizers and first home buyers • Private block set back from main road • Bamboo flooring and contemporary finishes • Large north-facing entertainer’s deck • 2kW Solar system • Separate guest studio offering impressive yield of up to $1,200 per month • Convenient location within walking distance of shops, schools, transport and golf course • 3 mins to The Esplanade and New Brighton Beach, 20 mins north of Byron Bay, 30 mins south of the Gold Coast Airport

Price guide: $545,000 - $585,000 Contact Gary Brazenor on M: 0423 777 237 or E: gary@greatrealestate.com.au

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Booyong - Clunes asking price $950,000 (sold in conj)

Coorabell Breeze - Coorabell asking price $1.35 - $1.45 million

Willanna - Federal asking price $1.95 - $2.15 million

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Titijaru - Broken Head asking price $4.2 million

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Coolamon - Coorabell asking price $1.495 million

Fig Tree Lane - Myocum asking price $1.95 million

Coorabell House - Coorabell asking price $1.5 million

Mont Rouge - Rosebank asking price $1.25 million

R & R Ranch - Bangalow asking price $4.5 million

Hillcrest - Eureka asking price $2.95 million

Galloway - Bangalow asking price $2.25 million

Friday Sabai - Tintenbar asking price $2.35 million

River Cottage - Wilsons Creek asking price $925,000

All information herein is from sources Great Real Estate consider reliable. However, interested parties must rely on their own enquiries. Vendors may remove a property from sale at any time and pricing can be subject to change.

Hamam Eden - Fernleigh asking price $1.375 million

Sky Nest - Wilsons Creek asking price $1.65 - $1.85 million

We currently have high numbers of interstate and international buyers looking to secure their ‘Unique Estates’. Call Gary to discuss your property sale. Specialising in selling ‘Unique Estates’ in the Byron Shire hinterland and with over 15 years of industry experience, Gary will maximise your results through strong negotiation, unique branding & targeted marketing.

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Selling at $1,445,000

Broken Head

Selling at $2,950,000

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BRUNSWICK HEADS 3 BR UNIT 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,

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LOCATION LIFESTYLE & OPPORTUNITY 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 Thurs 11.00 – 11.30am and Sat 9.00 – 9.45am Auction 22/04/2017 at 11.30am onsite Contact Peter Browning 0411 801 795 LJ Hooker Brunswick Heads 02 6685 0177

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.

Contact Peter Browning 0411 801 795 or David Holden 0435 789 677

LJ Hooker Brunswick Heads 02 6685 0177

Mullumbimby 26 Argyle Street

Brunswick Heads 15 Booyun Street

Brunswick Heads 13 Coral Court, Bayside

Ocean Shores 20 Yamble Drive

GLASS IS HALF FULL

FLATS PLUS DA EASTSIDE BRUNSWICK HEADS

NATURE RESERVE FOR NEIGHBOURS

THIS HOME WOULD APPEAL TO A LARGE FAMILY

• 3 Flats, 2 x 2 bedrooms and 1 x 1 bedroom • 1012m2 with DA for subdivision. • East Tweed street location, rear lane access • Long term tenants • Opportunities are knocking!

Located in a quiet cul-de-sac, strolling distance to the sports fields, bowling club, river and town.

Situated in a quiet street on a 904m2 block facing north, it offers:

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

Owners are inviting offers

• 3 bedrooms, double garage • 2 living spaces • Flat, flood free block • Fenced yard, family friendly street • Abundance of wild life out the back Owner is looking for offers.

Looking for that half-full glass and opportunity? Call me.

• 4 bedrooms with built-ins, main with ensuite • 2 bathrooms, separate toilet • Timber floor, cathedral ceilings, back covered deck and vegie garden • More accommodation downstairs • Move fast on this one, it won’t last This property needs to be inspected as there is so much more.

Contact Peter Browning 0411 801 795

Inspect Strictly with agent Contact Peter Browning 0411 801 795

Inspect Wed 11.00 – 11.30am Contact Peter Browning 0411 801 795

Inspect Thur & Sat 11.00 – 11.30am Contact David Holden 0435 789 677

LJ Hooker Brunswick Heads 02 6685 0177

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whatever home means to you, weâ€™ll help you find it

T U C K O M B I L 83 Shaws Lane

$1.65 million 4

B R O K E N H E A D 135 Broken Head Reserve Road Annette Santin 0447 904 692

$2.5 million

14.9 acres / 6.07 hectares

+ Impressive north facing, architect designed double brick home sits on the edge of a 5 acre dam + The main living room and kitchen is 95 sq metres & opens to the verandah overlooking the dam /DUJH SULYDWH JUDQQ\ Ă€DW 67&$ LQ JURXQG SRRO $ JURYH RI WLPEHU PDQGDULQ WUHHV + Located only 5 mins to Alstonville and 15 mins to Lennox Head. Seclusion and serenity

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Katrina Beohm 0467 001 122 2

666m2

Quality master built modern beach house designed to take in the northern light & cooling breezes High raked ceilings, 3 large open living spaces, bi-fold timber doors & louvre windows Spacious bedrooms with built-ins, 2 large bathrooms & an ensuite. Outdoor hot & cold shower Easy walk to Broken Head beach & approx 10 mins to Byron Bay. Agent declares interest

High exposure opportunity for Byron Shire properties

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Over the last 12 months 100,482 people searched for Byron Bay listings on realestate.com.au Some other suburbs in the Shire received only 3% of those total searches If your suburb isnâ€™t Byron Bay, you simply wonâ€™t appear on the potential buyersâ€™ search results We currently have sole rights to list ANY property as the Byron Bay EXCLUSIVE SHOWCASE which will appear on all pages and attract any potential buyer in the Shire directly to your home

Contact Katrina to discuss this opportunity further katrina@kbrealestate.com.au | 0467 001 122 6 MarvelÂ? Street, Byron Bay 2481 0467 000 222 26 April 19, 2017 The Byron Shire Echo

Koonyum Range 170 Boogarem Road $2.75 million 4+

29 acres / 11.74 hectares

Absolutely Captivating Stylish, spacious & private with majestic views to Mullumbimby, Brunswick Heads and beyond. Open SODQ OLYLQJ KLJK UDNHG FHLOLQJV EHDXWLIXO WLPEHU Ă€RRUV sunken lounge, expansive patio. Spectacular kitchen, European appliances.

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Private Living with Views to Nightcap Ranges

EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST Close 19 May 2017

46 Baldock Drive, McLeans Ridges Zoned Rural Residential with potential for dual occupancy (STCA) Bespoke, master built, split level home, Located only 10 mins from Lismore and easy care 6.3a, overlooking Eltham Alstonville and 30 minutes from the Valley beaches of Byron Bay Spotted Gum timber floors, loads of natural light, high raked ceilings, quality Price guide: $1,150,000 – $1,180,000 finishes Inspect: Saturday 1–1.30pm Contemporary open-plan kitchen, Contact: Lois Buckett 0428 877 399 modern appliances, gas cooking Vicki Heathwood 0432 247 264 5th bed has private entry – perfect for home office or teenagers/guests Large covered deck flows from living space; saltwater pool with glass fencing pm 2.30 2–1 1 y rda Satu

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Immaculate Rural Haven in Mcleans Ridges 2 Satinwood Drive, McLeans Ridges Master built family home on 2.7acres, expansive rural outlook Hardwood flooring, contemporary finishes, 5m ceilings, o/sized beds Modern kitchen + timber benchtops and 2 pac finish, light filled interiors Spacious study has private access and entry – perfect for home office 1 bed self-contained studio located away from main house

Resort style i/g pool, large sheltered entertaining deck area Storage for machinery/vehicles – multiple garages and bays away from house Auction: 29 April On Site Inspect: Saturday 11–11.30am Contact: Lois Buckett 0428 877 399

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Commercial Freehold Property 6 Strand Ave, New Brighton Located in an enviromentally nurtured coastal village, 25 minutes’ drive from Byron Bay and 10 minutes’ south of the festival site of North Byron Parklands. High set with timber decks, purpose built in 1991 to allow conversion back to 3-bedroom residence if preferred. Street appeal with good parking and turning bay at rear.

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Stunning Rural Property

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6 Tara Downs, Lennox Head Zoned R2 Low density – scope for secondary dwelling/granny flat (STCA) 3 bed solid home on 1132m2 near level Located only moments from Lennox block, end of quiet cul-de-sac village, beach, lake and schools. Split level home: beds on entry level and living spaces on lower level Price guide: $650,000 to $715,000 Inspect: Saturday 12–12.30pm Large enclosed screened room at rear Contact: Angela Proudman 0455 552 093 of home offers extra living space Backs onto expansive, open and lush public reserve – tranquil outlook Keep as is, renovate/expand or rent out

1 Seabreeze Place, Lennox Head I/ground pool, 2 x fully fenced large grass areas, est. easy care gardens Substantial family home on elevated In popular area of Lennox, close 1145m2 corner block to Lennox village, beach, lake and Main bed has views to Boulders, WIR, schools. ensuite, access to covered deck AUCTION: 6 May 11am On Site Lge living/family area enjoys ocean outlook, breezes and loads of light Inspect: Saturday 11–11.30am Modern kitchen with ample bench Contact: Lois Buckett 0428 877 399 space, flows to NE facing deck area natural light Spacious self-contained 1 bed studio + study on lower level with private access

Level 809m2 lot is in between surfing beach and tidal river and walk to golf course. Successfully operated as a business for more than 25 years; now vacant. IMAGINE THE POSSIBLITIES (STCA) For Sale by Expressions of Interest, closing 19th May 2017 To inspect phone owner 0408 801 594 or email rhondabrowning499@gmail.com

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Good-sized spring fed dam and 50,000L, 10,000L and 22,000L existing tanks. The property comes with a springwater bottling licence, providing the opportunity for an onsite business. Auction: Onsite Sat 22 April 2.30pm Price guide: $850,000–$930,000 must be sold on the day Inspect: Sat 22 April from 2pm Contact: Krystal Rees 0411 172 849

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FIRST NATIONAL BYRON BAY • 110 Broken Head Road, Newrybar. Thu 10–10.30am and Sat 10– 10.30am • 1/26 Pacific Vista Drive, Byron Bay. Thu 10–10.30am and Sat 10– 10.30am • 2 Ironbark Avenue, Byron Bay. Thu 12–12.30pm and Sat 11–11.30am • 6A–D/155–159 Broken Head Road, Suffolk Park. Thu 2–2.30pm • 12 Burns Street, Byron Bay. Thu 3–3.30pm and Sat 11–11.30am • 14 Orchid Place, Mullumbimby. Fri 9–9.30am and Sat 9–9.30am • 35/12 Hazelwood Close, Suffolk Park. Fri 11–11.30am and Sat 11–11.30am • 21 Gordon Street, Mullumbimby. Fri 11–11.30am and Sat 11–11.30am • House 5, 2 Alcorn Street, Suffolk Park. Sat 10–10.30am • 13 Coral Court, Byron Bay. Sat 10–10.30am • 6–8 Browning Street, Byron Bay. Sat 10–10.30am • 11 Shelley Drive, Byron Bay. Sat 11–11.30am • 15B Bangalow Road, Byron Bay. Sat 12–12.30pm • 311 Booyong Road, Nashua. Sat 12–12.30pm • 14b Alcorn Street, Suffolk Park. Sat 1–1.30pm • 1533 Nimbin Road, Koonorigan. Sat 2–2.30pm • 8 Pecan Court, Suffolk Park. Sat 2–2.30pm

LJ HOOKER BRUNSWICK HEADS • 13 Coral Court, Bayside, Brunswick Heads. Wed 11–11.30am • 2/5–7 Newberry Parade, Brunswick Heads. Thur 11–11.30am and Sat 9–9.45am • 20 Yamble Drive, Ocean Shores. Thur 11–11.30am and Sat 11–11.30am • 15 Gilba Avenue, Ocean Shores. Thur 11–11.30am and Sat 11–11.30am

LOIS BUCKETT REAL ESTATE LENNOX HEAD • 14 Lindsay Avenue, Cumbalum. Sat 11–11.30am • 1 Seabreeze Place, Lennox Head. Sat 11–11.30am • 2 Satinwood Drive, McLeans Ridges. Sat 11–11.30am • 6 Tara Downs, Lennox Head. Sat 12–12.30pm • 1 Sapphire Place, Lennox Head. Sat 1–1.30pm • 200 North Creek Road, Lennox Head. Sat 1–1.30pm • 46 Baldock Drive, McLeans Ridges. Sat 1–1.30pm

MCGRATH BYRON BAY • 5 Dalziell Street, Lismore. Wed 1.45–2.15pm and Sat 3.30–4pm • 29 Myocum Downs Drive, Myocum. Thu 4–5pm and Sat 10–10.30am • 6 Hilltop Place, Lennox Head. Thurs 5–5.30pm and Sat 12–12.30pm • 11 McLeans Street, Skennars Head. Sat 9.30–10am • Lot 10/213 Coorabell Road, Coorabell. Sat 10–10.30am

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• 17/2 Rajah Road, Ocean Shores. Sat 10–10.30am • 133 Foresters Way, Tintenbar. Sat 10.45–11.15am • 177 Broken Head Road, Byron Bay. Sat 11–11.30am • 7 Tinberbox Road, Talofa. Sat 11–11.30am • 4/55 Brandon Street, Suffolk Park. Sat 11–11.30am • 7 Evans Street, Byron Bay. Sat 11–11.30am • 8 Sallywattle Drive, Suffolk Park. Sat 12–12.30pm • 133 Foresters Way, Tintenbar. Sat 12.30–1pm • 1533 Nimbin Road, Koonorigan. Sat 2–2.30pm • 52 Killarney Crescent, Skennars Head. Sat 2.30–3pm

PROFESSIONALS MULLUMBIMBY • 25 Riverside Dr, Mullumbimby. Sat 11–11.45am

RAINE & HORNE OCEAN SHORES • 88 Twin Pines Road, Barkers Vale. Sat 10–11am • Lot 2 Crabbes Creek Road, Crabbes Creek. Sat 12.30–1.30pm • 404 Middle Pocket Road, Middle Pocket. Sat 2–3pm • 1 Pacific Esplanade, South Golden Beach. Sat 11am–12pm

Auctions FIRST NATIONAL BYRON BAY • 8 Pecan Court, Suffolk Park. 22nd April 2.30pm onsite. Guide $880K to $965K • 15 Evans Street, Byron Bay. 22nd April onsite if not sold prior • 12 Burns Street, Byron Bay. 6th May onsite if not sold prior • 13 Coral Court, Byron Bay. Saturday 6th May 10am onsite • 1/26 Pacific Vista Drive, Byron Bay. 13th May 9.30am. Guide $1.4M to $1.5M • 21 Gordon Street, Mullumbimby. 13th May 11am onsite

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

MCGRATH BYRON BAY • 10B Cooper Street, Byron Bay. Friday 21st April 3pm • 26A Alcorn Street, Suffolk Park. Saturday 22nd April 12pm • 5 Dalziell Street, Lismore. Saturday 22nd April 4pm • 177 Broken Head Road, Byron Bay. Saturday 29th April 10.30am • 11 McLeans Street, Skennars Head. Saturday 29th April 11.30am • 8 Sallywattle Drive, Suffolk Park. Saturday 6th May 11am • 52 Killarney Crescent, Skennars Head. Saturday 13th May 12.30pm • 29 Myocum Downs Drive, Myocum. Saturday 20th May 1pm

Spacious Townhouse – Walk To Main Beach 5/118 Bangalow Road, Byron Bay Immaculately presented townhouse in small complex Great downsizer, rightsizer or investment Light and spacious layout with two large bedrooms Just walk in and start living or earning

Easy walk to town and beaches Price: $820,000 View: As advertised or by appointment Contact: Andrew Hall 0414 996 490 More info: www.propertyspot.com.au

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New Listings FIRST NATIONAL BYRON BAY • 21 Gordon Street, Mullumbimby. Auction 13th May 11am • 6/24 Bay Street, Byron Bay. $1,600,000 • 15B Bangalow Road, Byron Bay. $840,000 to $900,000 • 89 Wordsworth Street, Byron Bay. Contact Agent

LOIS BUCKETT REAL ESTATE LENNOX HEAD • 46 Baldock Drive, McLeans Ridges. Guide $1,150,000-$1,180,000

MCGRATH BYRON BAY • 17/2 Rajah Road, Ocean Shores • 9 Corella Crescent, Mullumbimby • 29 Myocum Downs Dive, Myocum

PROFESSIONAL MULLUMBIMBY • 751 Left Bank Rd, Mullumbimby. $1,029,000 • 113 Stuart St, Mullumbimby. $880,000

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Jiminy Crickets By Vivienne Pearson

The delicious looking cupcake in front of me would have been eaten ages ago, had I not known its full ingredient list. Instead, I hesitate while a battle of logic versus instinct wages in my brain. It’s neither the buckwheat flour nor the maple syrup that have caused me to pause; it’s the crickets that make me hesitate. Yes, crickets.

There are no legs or antennae sticking out of the cake. The crickets are powdered. Farmed for three months, lured into hibernation by lowered temperatures, frozen (at which point they die), then washed, baked and ground. But, however finely ground they are, there is no getting round the fact that there are crickets in my cake. Insects. Crunchy in their natural state. I don’t eat insects, unless you count the odd fly during a bushwalk. I have contemplated crickets as a food source before – but it doesn’t really help me in my cake-eating mission – as they were a food source for my pet frogs. I am not a frog and, as I might have mentioned, I don’t eat insects. But, truth is that there is only around three grams of powdered cricket in the cake staring up at me. I reason that such a small amount is not going to be noticeable and I am right. I enjoy my delicious cake. This initial hurdle over, I move onto the actual powder. It’s worth being clear that no-one is expected to eat the cricket powder neat. The idea is to include it in smoothies and baked dishes, or sprinkled over granola or a salad.

In the name of thorough research, I will not Vivienne contemplates a cricket-powered cupcake. stop until I’ve tried the powder in its pure form.

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‘People say it tastes like almond, or popcorn,’ says Pedro. I try it and disagree with him. I find the smell earthy and the taste like a stale spicemix. These are not sensations I would seek out, but are far less disagreeable than I had feared. The big question is, why? Why, apart from giving yourself psychological challenge (or being on Survivor), would you choose to eat insects? The answers are surprisingly plentiful. Eating insects, a normal part of life in some parts of Asia and Africa, is potentially part of the solution to many of the world’s problems. Crickets can be farmed in incredibly low-impact ways compared to other animals. [I can attest to the fact that they eat hardly anything (a fresh piece of carrot daily sustained them nicely until they were fed to my frogs). You eat every part of them (like nose-to-tail eating but let’s get technical and call it antennaeto-ovipositor eating). They are a rich source of protein – 15g of powdered cricket yields 10g of protein (about the same as an egg) – and are high in Vitamin B12. A vegetarian who restricted their diet to avoid the environmental impact of farming meat might consider adding crickets to their diet. Maybe, as well as pescatarians and lacto-ovovegetarians, we’ll one day have insectarians? Pedro has used himself as a tester. ‘I eat a diet that is pretty much plant-based plus crickets,’ he says. ‘Because I train a lot – jiu-jitsu, strength training and surfing – I eat more than 50g of crickets a day. A year on, I feel great.’ Pedro is one quarter of Grilo (which means

‘Good evening!,’ he said, smiling disarmingly. ‘Do you think that the piano’s out of tune?’ ‘Ah, well,’ I said, as I often do when stumped, and coughed wetly.

cricket in Portuguese), all of whom hail from Brazil and live in Suffolk Park. They have created two products additional to the ‘neat’ cricket powder – Go Greensect (crickets plus spirulina, chlorella, turmeric and other) and Cacao Hopper (crickets plus cacao – ideal for bliss-balls, according to Pedro). They also make energy bars and have a growing number of cricket-based recipes on their website for you to try at home. I have now eaten crickets. Would you? [* More than 900 species, I later learn. The one I have just eaten is Gyllodes sigilatus.] Grilo is at www.griloprotein.com.au and local stockists include Baz & Shaz, Fundies, Herb Wisdom, Bangalow Gym and Cross Fit Byron Bay.

Pizza Relief

By Robert Dessaix

Just as I was finishing my mulligatawny soup in the hotel dining room, the small, crumpled pianist who’d been thumping out Cole Porter on the upright in the corner – or was it America from West Side Story? Rachmaninoff? Impossible to tell. Suddenly he appeared by my side.

Three-quarters of the Grilo team: Camila Meyer, Pedro Silva and Martina Meyer

Last Tuesday, 11 April, hundreds of Mullumbimby locals flocked to a ‘pizza night’ fundraising event in support of Lismore flood relief.

‘A chhota peg of sinful delight…’ his book The Himalaya Club and Other Entertainments from the Raj has been called. It’s a rollicking good read, still in print, that I can’t recommend too highly.

India. Snooker was invented in Ooty by bored British army officers. Nowadays the clientele at the Taj Savoy, where I put up, is hardly top-notch – riotous English tour groups from places such as Stoke-on-Trent, the odd New Zealander, and a few Indian families all chatting loudly in English – but very friendly.

You go to a hill station because it is not something rather than for something, as ‘The problem is, you see,’ he went on, you might in the case of Paris. It’s not hot, moving in closer and lowering his voice not flat, not squalid and not Calcutta, let confidentially, ‘you can’t get a piano-tuner alone (God forbid) Meerut. There’s nothing You can get all that in Katoomba, though, you might object – trees, cool air, chocoup here in Ooty.’ much there as a rule, just the odd vista late and really nothing to do. But Ooty is ‘None about?’ when the mist rises (if indeed it does), but Indian – that’s the point. Nowhere else at least it’s not wherever it is you usually ‘No-one you’d trust. The nearest one’s makes me feel so alive. Other places are live. In Ooty, apart from the roses in the in Chennai.’ He ran his fingers through as beautiful, as historically fascinating, but Botanical Gardens, there’s nothing much his oddly orange hair. ‘And then there’s nowhere else makes me feel so hungry to to see, which is precisely what you want the climate to consider. Up here in Ooty, live. Nowhere else – yet – has my heart. in a hill station. ‘It resembles Switzerland, ’ you see, we’re liable to extremes. It plays the Collector of Coimbatore wrote in 1819, havoc with the strings.’ Robert Dessaix is the past presenter of ‘with the hills beautifully wooded and ‘Ah,’ I said. the ABC program Books and Writing. He is a fine strong spring… in every valley.’ It ‘I would love to discuss my repertoire with doesn’t in the least resemble Switzerland, the author of several memoirs, essay colyou later, by the way,’ he said, heading lections and novels, including Night Letactually, it resembles a hill station in the off for a cup of tea to refresh himself for a Western ghats, but it’s picturesque and ters, A Mother’s Disgrace, and What Days new attack on the Broadwood, ‘if you have the air is blue in a certain light. In Ooty, as Are For. He lives in Hobart. His next book the time.’ It’s for moments like these that I in any hill station of quality, you want to The Pleasures of Leisure is due out in May. come to India. loll about somey Chai where dripping Udhagamandalam, or Ooty as it’s more with faded charm, affectionately known, is one of those hill y Coffee somewhere well stations perched up high in the Nilgiri above the rather Hills that the British and well-to-do Indiy Hot Chocolate ramshackle town ans have been flocking to for relief from y Milkshakes the heat for a couple of hundred years. It’s down round the market, to enjoy the at about the same elevation as the top of y Chocolates Mt Kosciuszko. I love hill stations – Shimla, cool, eucalyptusy Fudge scented air (it never Darjeeling, Manali and others. The first gets above the low Australian-born writer, John Lang, died in y Light meals a hill station. Indeed, his grave can still be 20s), and eat the local chocolate, visited in the Camel’s Back Cemetery in 1/53 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby which in Ooty’s case Mussoorie, which offers the living exten0406 422 465 y www.puremeltchocolate.com sive views of the Lower Western Himalaya. is famous all over

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The event was initiated by Jose Raez of Almond Road Bakery, with produce, desserts and services donated by numerous local businesses. The Byron Food Hub carpark became a makeshift pallet dining room where people gathered under a full moon,

enjoying tasty pizza and the music of talented local musicians, among them Stu and Amber of Mullum Uke. The team turned out 300 pizzas over three hours, impressively raising more than $4,500, which will be donated to the Lismore Gofundme campaign set up by Lismore Council. ‘I was grateful for the support of the community, and the enormous number of people who turned up on the night’, said Jose.

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The Good Life Commercial Boutique Hotel:

pay tribute to local and Australian brewers and winemakers.

just one reason to visit Tenterfield. resurgence of Tenterfield as a treechange getaway, or as a ‘romantic escape’, or ‘winery weekend’ destination. The decision to forswear gambling facilities is a result of ‘a desire to be a socially positive venue with a progressive outlook’. Doesn’t regional Australia need more places like this? The Commercial Boutique Hotel Tenterfield is a renewed vision of the original 1940s Art Deco Commercial Hotel, reopened in September 2014 after being closed for eight years. The careful renovation by the Sibley and Dillon families aimed to give the hotel a new lease on life through restoration and transformation. The result is a beautiful hotel (with no gambling facilities!). The original intriguing features of the building have been enhanced, such as the ceiling cornices in the lounge area, the bare hardwood floors, and the beautiful original open fireplace

in the lounge has been recommissioned. There are numerous fulllength mirrors in the upstairs hallway, allowing the original silky-oak architraves to remain intact while creating more natural light, and of course giving the guests every opportunity to look their best. The original 1941 construction plans along with local photos of the era and some original hand-painted in-room advertisements are on the wall in the bar and lobby. The Sibley and Dillon families are obviously committed to shaping the

Luxury getaway Where Peter Allen spent much of his childhood, Tenterfield is 200km by road from Byron, and just 20 minutes from Queensland’s Granite Belt wine region, which includes Ballandean and Stanthorpe. The CBH has eight luxury bedrooms, including one beautiful wheelchair-friendly and pet-friendly room (pets must be preapproved).

Eating and drinking There are leather couches by the open fire in winter (or air-conditioning in the summer), Art Deco architecture, craft beer and wines that

The CBH aims for a quality dining experience, wherever possible sourced from local producers, in particular local beef, free-range eggs, fresh fruit and vegetables, and from time to time even Tenterfield heritage-breed chickens.

Historic Tenterfield The hotel is in the heart of old Tenterfield; you can connect with Peter Allen’s childhood by visiting the Tenterfield Saddler, explore the unexpectedly stunning countryside, play a round of golf at one of Australia’s premier country clubs, visit local wineries and craft breweries, discover the history at the Sir Henry Parkes Museum, or venture into the Boonoo-Boonoo National Park and cool off in the rockpools with a picnic lunch to follow. One natural attraction not to be missed is Tenterfield’s own Bald Rock – the largest exposed granite boulder in the southern hemisphere. The Commercial Boutique Hotel Tenterfield is at 288 Rouse St, Tenterfield. Phone 02 6736 4870 or visit thecommercialboutiquehotel.com.

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Billi’s Indian 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!

7:30am till late Coffee, breakfast, lunch, dinner, functions and weddings. Fully licensed. 1 Jonson St, Byron Bay 6680 7632

Basiloco Ristorante Pizzeria 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

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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

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Harvest general manage Moira Waterfall said, ‘The fundraising began with the @harvestdeli coffee cart’s gold coin initiative that raised $500. The Harvest restaurant staff raised $1,200 in tips in four days, As a team, we all wanted to do something more, and because of the support of so many sponsors the event was terrifically successful. This is community and hospitality at its finest.’

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Thank you to all the people who saw the publicity in The Echo and went to Harvest in Newrybar. $20,000 was raised for Lismore flood victims. $10,500 has gone to @ FlockEspressoLismore so they can reopen their cafe. This is the exact amount they will pay for bond on their new place. The remaining $9,500 of funds will be distributed to the public through a community project.

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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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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

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

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 NOW OPEN for dinner from Thursday to Sunday 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.

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

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Warung Bagus

The only exclusively Vietnamese restaurant in town, this intimate space spilling out into a courtyard offers up fabulous dishes packed full of herbs, spices and varied textures. The traditionally light and healthy style of cuisine ensures the freshness and natural tastes of food are preserved as much as possible. Itâ€™s a popular spot so bookings are recommended.

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The Beet Vegan Restaurant Open 7 days 11amâ€“10pm (last orders at 9:30pm) Shop 6 Woolworths Plaza 90-96 Jonson Street Bookings: 6685 6520 www.thebeet.com.au

Treehouse on Belongil Full Cocktail & Wine Bar. Extensive Menu Includes Tapas, Mains, Desserts and Famous Woodfired Pizzas. 25 Childe St, Byron Bay 6680 9452

Fins 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

Contemporary and Middle Eastern flavours â€˘ Breakfast and lunch â€˘ Wood-fired pizzas â€˘ Fresh juices â€˘ Great coffee Pizza deliveries now available Thursday, Friday, Saturday nights to Sunrise, Arts & Industry Estate and Ewingsdale

Spice It Up Thai Restaurant Open Wednesdayâ€“Sunday Dine-in or Takeawayâ€“ from 5.30pm 6684 2209 Mullumbimby Bowling Club

The Empire Open from 8am daily 20 Burringbar Street, Mullumbimby facebook.com/ empiremullum

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Mullumbimbyâ€™s iconic Empire Cafe is back! The Shireâ€™s longest-established cafe has reopened with new local owners. Come in and meet the new team and enjoy the awesome coffee, fantastic food and great vibes. Open daily for breakfast and lunch.

Harvest

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

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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 6.30amâ€“2pm INSTAGRAM @tullys_place tullysplace.suffolkpark@ gmail.com

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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.

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ALL YOUR NORTH COAST ENTERTAINMENT So how do you get so damn funny without saying a word? The Kabobs are Claire Ford and Nicky Wilkinson; they spoke with The Echo ahead of their show at the Mullum Ex-Services on Saturday. Why physical comedy? Ninety-three per cent of language is nonverbal – according to some professor somewhere. For us, coincidentally we found that we were both good at being idiots without words so we naturally leant towards it. What is the difference in engaging an audience with using dialogue or words? Because we don’t speak, it’s very important for us to be able to connect visually with the audience as a two-way engagement. And we need to be able to see where the audience’s drinks are so we can steal them. What are the challenges of working with two of you and still getting audience connection? Early on we learnt to make sure to throw the focus back and forth between us so the audience knows where to look. If we were both trying to get attention all of the time, it would just be a mess. So we do know when to pull back, but no, we mostly throw that out of the window and just compete for the biggest laugh. How did you two end up working together? We met in drama school in North London 10 years ago. We both wanted the comedy roles because they were more fun – who wants to play Juliet when you can play the nurse?! She’s got all the best lines. About five years later after a lot of unemployment, and zero nurse roles, we started messing about with ideas. The Kagools was a little skit we used to do in our one-hour sketch shows and we always kept them in because they were the most fun. Is it true: are women with a good sense of humour more attractive than those without? Ha! Well, it depends if they’re telling the joke or laughing at it. Women are probably more attractive to men if they laugh at the men’s jokes, sure. But it’s not always the same for the woman who tells the joke… That doesn’t stop us. We’ll just stay single forever and never find love and then die alone, no biggie. What is your new show actually about? It’s more of an experience than a story… It’s two idiot friends who wear raincoats (Kagool is a British word for a type of raincoat) and we… agh, it’s too difficult to explain. We’ll leave it up to the audience to decide. Everyone has their own personal take on it and some people have told us it’s all about aliens. It’s not. What are the benefits, do you think, of working without language? We can play to any audience in any country of almost any age. The only criterion is that they have to be able to see. Well, not quite everyone, but it does cover a wide demographic. We also think that the benefits of working without spoken language create a special shared experience in the room. I was going to tell people the show was family friendly but I was worried it might put them off… do people bring their kids? You can bring anyone. To be clear, it’s an adult show, and

5 STAR UK COMEDY

T H E Y H AV E B E E N B R I N G I N G A U D I E N C E S TO T H E I R K N E E S A RO U N D T H E WO R L D, W I T H S E L LO U T S H OW S A N D F I V E STA R R E V I E W S F O L LOW I N G I N T H E I R WA K E . we do play late-night comedy clubs, but this show is also for any age as there’s no swearing. It was written in mind for adults, so it does have adult themes, but we’ve found that children enjoy it on a different level and those themes are only implied. Parents often comment that they don’t usually get to all come out together and laugh at the same things their kids are laughing at and then look across and Gran is wetting herself too. Most people find it funny or interesting but babies think we’re terrible. What’s the perfect show conditions for you? An audience who is willing to relax into it and trust the twoway experience; nice loud music; good lighting so we can be seen anywhere on the stage; and lots of alcohol strewn about unattended. What have been the highlights of the Aussie festival circuit for you so far? We’ve had such a lovely time this year in Australia with our new show. Many people who saw us last year in Adelaide came back to see us again, which is the highest compliment. Everyone’s been up for having a good time and, on top of that, we won an award for best comedy in Adelaide. We’re currently in Melbourne working hard gigging (partying).

What is your wildest night of crazed applause and worship? Well we have had a few standing ovations but people tend not to recognise us afterwards when we have our hoods down. Plus, as we said, nobody ever tries to chat us up… Though we’ve heard the people from Mullumbimby are open minded? Our favourite gig probably still has to be when almost all the audience was deaf. They got on board so quickly and connected straightaway. There was so much love in that room. Not even fickle one-night love. Real. What’s the weirdest thing that has happened at a gig? The audience started throwing jam at us. We do encourage interaction but that’s a sticky situation to be in. What can we expect for your upcoming show here in Mullum? Expect something a bit different, fun, silly, surprising at times… and lots of marshmallows. The Kagools are at the Mullum Ex-Services on Saturday. Tickets $25/30 at the club, at the door or on mandynolan.com.au. Doors open at 7pm, show at 8pm. MC Mandy Nolan and support by the brilliant Lindsay Webb. This promises to be quite a show!

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ENTERTAINMENT hard work you do. A goodlooking person will swoop in and get that. However, your job, unattractive people, is still important. Because if you didn’t exist, then being beautiful S E E M O R E O F M A N DY O N would be meaningless. If E C H O N E T DA I LY everyone were beautiful, then W W W. E C H O. N E T. A U /S OA P - B OX no-one would be. Beautiful people only exist because of the ugly default. They need us. Beautiful people find it hard to get other beautiful people to do things Good-looking people get away who’s in jail. I don’t want to be for them. That’s why their cruel, but there ain’t no faces with more than ugly people. marriages never work. Look at It’s a fact. The only people who from Australia’s next top model Brad and Ange. All that radiant pressed up against the glass. wouldn’t agree with this are gorgeousness deflecting off Nope. beautiful people. But that’s the other, and neither of them because they’ve been batting Sorry, ‘not beautiful’ people, ever managing to put the bin their long lashes and getting out. Beautiful people need it’s not enough being ‘ugly’ away with murder for years. In and spending your life feeling plain people so someone else can take the blame; they get to fact if they do want to murder overlooked; turns out you move the boxes, to make the someone, beautiful people have to work harder as well. bed, to bury the body. That’s generally just hire an ugly Oh, and you won’t be paid as person to do it. Have a look at well. Or get the credit for all the right, fellow ugly people. Grab

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THE BEAUTY RORT

Live Music HENRY & HARMONY

Bangalow local Matt Henry launches his debut album Love Without Co-Dependency at Treehouse on Thursday. It has been a long haul for Matt, who finally released his first album at 41 years of age after first picking up the guitar at 16. In January Henry played to packed rooms at the Tamworth Country Music Festival and was featured in The Australian for his memorable performance at Australia’s premier Americana showcase Late Nite Alt. Joining Matt on the tour is one of Australia’s finest songwriters, Harmony James.

THE ECLECTIC CHERRY An explosion of filthy primordial guitars, liquid rhythms and primal voodoo jams, The Cherry Dolls are

that shovel and start digging. You will always work harder and get less credit than the beautiful people. It’s why ageing used to be such an awesome thing. It was the great leveller. Beautiful people lost their beauty. They joined the ranks of the plain and the passed-over and suddenly had to get useful. For some it came as a bit of a shock to find a book at 40 but now there’s Botox they’re no longer needed. Thanks to plastic surgery, and injecting more fillers than a bean-bag factory, beautiful people can remain useless forever! Beautiful people say naff things about being beautiful all the time – pretending it doesn’t mean anything to them. It’s a lie. It means everything to them. They just don’t want the ugly people

A phenomenon in their

Empowering women° through theatre

more positive personality traits such as intelligence and kindness; they are also given unfair advantages in both the workplace and legal proceedings. Apparently beautiful women also have an easier time taking advantage of men financially. (Beautiful women have been informally conducting that research since Cleopatra got Mark Antony to kiss her asp.) It’s not exactly clear why we behave differently towards attractive people; perhaps it’s that we are more open to unfair offers from attractive people or deep down we all believe inner beauty is for fat people. Or perhaps it’s just that at the end of the day we let beautiful people get away with stuff because we’re after a root. Although I wouldn’t know. I’m too beautiful.

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the pied pipers of those in search of the endless party and the eternal weekend. With two critically acclaimed EPs under their belts and more broken guitar strings and tour-damaged gear than they’d care to recall, the Dolls have delivered another sonic missile Slave in advance of their highly anticipated debut album. Recorded in a frenetic blast of activity while the rest of town was sleeping off their New Year hangovers, Slave saw Alex Markwell of The Delta Riggs sitting in on production duties to capture a blistering live favourite on record. Giving Iggy Pop a run for his money Slave channels primal despair fuelled by a thunderous riff and frustration distilled into a tightly coiled track that explodes from the speakers.

who do shit for them to wake up to the beauty rort. The genius Jennifer Lopez has been quoted putting her spin on the adage ‘beauty is only skin deep’. JLo goes on to say, ‘I think what’s really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit’. Well, that’s a load of bullshit. If I want insight on the subject, I turn to an ugly woman such as Dorothy Parker. This thinlipped social commentator, satirist and poet nailed it with her quip ‘Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bones’. Sounds nasty? Nope. Parker was speaking from experience, and decades later we’ve followed it up with a study that actually proves that life favours attractive people. It’s called the ‘beauty bias’ and it means attractive people are not just ascribed

JONNY FRITZ AND JOSHUA HEDLEY AT THE COURT HOUSE ON MONDAY

JONNY & JOSH

hometown of Melbourne as one of the biggest live drawcards, the band have been making waves nationally with an everincreasing fanbase packing out sweat-soaked venues and taking cues from The Cherry Dolls’ lyrical maelstrom of

star-crossed lovers, broken hearts and hitting the bottle until dawn. If you are in the mood for an evening of stellar homegrown rock delivered with refreshing bursts of swaggering firepower, they play the Hotel Great Northern on Saturday.

For more than seven years Jonny Fritz (US) and Joshua Hedley (US) have been treading the boards of the world with their sensational brand of song, dance and good times. Jonny Fritz’s latest album Sweet Creep is a modernday classic. Produced by My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, it contains the musical wonderings of a very colourful man trapped in the modern time: tales of motel

love, small dogs and drinking for happiness. Joshua Hedley has spent many years as the sideman to Jonny, playing fiddle and background vocals and the cuddly bear. He has recently stepped into the spotlight with his own tunes and become one of the most exciting artists to emerge from Nashville for a long time. Combine these two heroes and you have one very special night of music. At the Court House in Mullumbimby on Monday. 6pm. Tix and info redsquaremusic. com.au 6684 6195.

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FEAR & LIDDIARD & A TRIP TO RIO There are lots of clichés around travel and discovery but, for Drones frontman Gareth Liddiard, his trip to South America ended up being more significant than he’d imagined. Especially Rio. ‘It’s hectic,’ says Liddiard of Rio. ‘It’s up there with Baghdad when it comes to danger! There’s razor wire around the compounds. It’s full on. People are getting stabbed and kidnapped or shot. It’s a dangerous place. ‘A gun goes off and you get out of the way; you have to use your common sense. If you read about it you would think I am not going there, but when you get there it’s okay. You just have to be aware of your surroundings.’ Perhaps it was easier for Liddiard, because as it turns out he is a quarter Brazilian. ‘My grandmother was born in Buenos Aires. My grandmother and grandfather met in Rio. My dad grew up there. But he ended up going to school in England.’ Until this trip, Liddiard had never been to South America, and he hadn’t really considered his heritage or his connection to this place full of danger, gangsters and intrigue. Perhaps it’s the key to the relaxed anarchy that underpins most of Liddiard’s work. ‘There was a lot of familiar stuff – all the weird ornaments and the cutlery and stuff – it’s all the shit I grew up with. ‘Rui who used to be in the Drones was born in Mozambique and he was a refugee, and he grew up in Rio as well, so when I was there I had all these connections to the place. ‘It’s a different thing being in a place that is dangerous,’ says Liddiard. ‘We went to somewhere that is pure anarchy, but everyone is very warm when they are close to being killed!

CULTURE ENTERTAINMENT AKMAL ACTING OUT One of Australia’s most respected and accomplished comics, Akmal draws on his Arabic heritage, his experiences migrating to Australia at the age of 11, and his disillusionment with religion and the modern world to deliver a standup show that is fresh, honest and ridiculously funny. He is doing a test show to run new material at the Byron Bay Community Centre on Friday 28 April. Tickets at the venue.

HUG ME

You make friends very fast. In Rio you walk into She is known for her cuddles. a bar and it doesn’t take very long before you Her big full-bodied embrace make a bunch of friends, you walk into a bar of unconditional love. No, and they exclaim: You didn’t get killed!’ not your mum: Amma. The Having South American blood in his veins Indian guru whom I recall possibly aided the camaraderie. seeing years ago and hearing ‘I never really owned it before. I thought if I some strange back-story did I was trying to be cool… my great-great- from her interpreter about great-grandparents were fully Indigenous her knowing she was called people in South America. It is such a to the work when she fell privilege to have that in my past. They were over in a field and a cow the real people.’ brought her biscuits. I may Liddiard wasn’t born to the brick and tile. He have misremembered that abides the cancer he calls ‘boringness’. bit. But I do remember the In fact, it’s in catastrophe that Liddiard says he line waiting for a hug went for hours. . The woman has feels most at ease. hugged entire cities. If you ‘I am a musician and I am neurotic and need some love, then pop up anxious, and I have lots of neurotic and to the Goldie to see Amma at anxious friends. When disaster happens in the Gold Coast Recreation the world it’s like the world catches up with Centre on Sunday from 7pm. the endless sense of dread that I feel all the It’s free. She is also conducting time. Life is fucked up and you should be a For more information go to shitting yourself!’ ammaaustralia.org.au. Liddiard is currently touring solo. ‘Just me and an acoustic guitar. I just kind of talk shit between songs. I just see where it goes, something happens on the day and I see what happens; the songs are really heavy too. I am not into earnestness. I don’t want to be the earnest guy just playing his songwriting chops. I like to make people laugh in between. There was something recently that proved people who get humour have a higher IQ so I guess if you don’t laugh at my jokes, you aren’t that smart!’ There’s nothing beige about Gareth Liddiard. He plays at the Byron Theatre at the Community Centre on Thursday. Tickets at byroncentre.com.au.

CIRCUS OZ PRESENT MODEL CITIZENS FOR NORPA AT CITY HALL IN LISMORE ON MAY 12 & 13, & WORKSHOPS FOR SCHOOL & PUBLIC THURSDAY 27–SATURDAY 29 APRIL. FOR MORE CREATIVEPROGRAMS@NORPA.ORG.AU health, and human-rights issues. Their upcoming workshops Empowering Women Through Theatre commence on Friday 28 April and are held every Friday at the Community Cabin, Carlyle Street, Byron Bay during school terms. 9.30am–12.30pm, $150 (subsidies available). 28 April–30 June, Contact Philippa Williams 0422 882 319 or email contact@ publicacttheatre.com.

PLASTIC SEA

Join Sea Shepherd Byron Bay for the much-anticipated feature-length documentary A Plastic Ocean, described by Sir David Attenborough as ‘one of the most important films of our time’. A Plastic Ocean features an international team of adventurers, researchers, and ocean ambassadors who go on a mission around the globe to uncover the shocking truth about what is truly lurking beneath the Public Act Theatre is a socialsurface of our seemingly arts theatre company based at the Community Centre and pristine ocean. A Plastic Ocean brings to light the Theatre in Byron Bay. Public consequences of our global Act Theatre partners with community health and service disposable lifestyle and shows organisations, forming theatre never-before-seen images of marine life, plastic pollution, ensembles with community and its ultimate consequences members, many who have for human health. never participated in theatre or performed onstage before, Wednesday at the Byron people facing challenging Theatre at the Community social, cultural, economic, Centre at 7pm.

WOMEN IN THEATRE

SASSY SALSA

Sassy Salsa presents Friday Fiesta, a monthly Latin night at the Mullumbimby ExServices Club, on Friday. Daniella and the Sassy crew muster up a community vibe with help from local Latin dance teachers and dancers. There will be a FREE Latin dance class at 7.30pm for those who have never tried partner dancing. Local DJs and dancers sharing their favourite Latin tunes as they inspire you with the rhythms of salsa, bachata, kizomba and zouk.

BIG 10 YEARS Ten years ago JK Rowling released the final book in her Harry Potter series, Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone, and the Ballina RSL launched The Big Gig Comedy night. For 10 years now on the last Thursday of the month the Ballina RSL has been bringing laughter to the region with this free night of national headline comedy. This month to celebrate 10 years Big Gig lovers are in for a treat with not one but two headline comedians. International headline comedian Jonathan Atherton and one of Melbourne’s top up-andcoming comics Tom Siegert. With MC Mandy Nolan and cake! Thursday 27 April at 8pm. Free!

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ARIES: Been motoring full throttle these last few volatile

s r a t S with Lilith Venus and Neptune pairing up in Pisces recommend compassion, understanding and forgiveness for making this weekâ€™s world a more gracious placeâ€Ś

weeks? Now itâ€™s time to pace yourself and integrate all the body, mind, heart and soul alterations youâ€™ve been experiencing â€“ especially the new take on relationships. Potential looks very promising in the coming month if you apply yourself to admin and follow-up.

TAURUS: Though retro Mercury in your sign sets up no shortage of personal misunderstandings, mechanical glitches and electronic mishaps, this weekâ€™s silver lining is your mentor planet Venus turning the j-curve to serve some generous windfalls into your relationship court, along with the glowing sun in your sign for the coming month. GEMINI: As this weekâ€™s sun heads towards securityminded Taurus, you can reasonably expect a pleasant helping of support for your ideas â€“ the sensible ones, anyway. Which assists in laying a past issue to rest for closure and finalising â€“ after which something lost, forgotten or ignored is likely to reappear. Resist spending on non-essentials.

CANCER: As Venus heads direct again in watery Pisces, life flows this week with less unsettling instability, more satisfyingly rewarding time spent with friends and social groups. Yes, thereâ€™s the usual retrograde frustrations, but they can actually make bonds stronger if participants remain light-hearted, humorous and pragmatic rather than playing into drama.

HELLO COUTURE! BYRONâ€™S FASHION INSPIRATION

April 29 sees the third Byron Bay International Fashion Festival come to Elements of Byron Resort. The festival will be showcasing more than 24 established and emerging designers from interstate and international labels along with a team of top models and stylists working to create a cutting-edge fashion spectacular. Simone Ellis of Byron Arts & Industry-based La Studio 352 is a local designer who is presenting for the third year running. â€˜The first year I had three pieces, second year two pieces and this year I have a collection â€“ a total of 12 pieces in the presentation,â€™ says Simone. As a designer Simone works intuitively. â€˜What I try to do,â€™ she says, â€˜is go by feel. For me it is what the piece feels like. When you put on a show you have to make it big â€“ you donâ€™t hold back in that regard â€“ so I get an idea; I am not a draw or sketch-out kind of person. I will wake up in the morning and I have an idea and I start! Itâ€™s a lived way of creating.â€™

SAGITTARIUS: While the present retrograde cycle may appear to escalate problems, it also makes conditions available for resolving them. Saturn retrograde in your sign tests rules, structures, discipline and commitment, which this week is about how honestly youâ€™re prepared to examine errors and how willing you are to learn from them.

CAPRICORN: Although itâ€™s more of a Sagittarian analogy, retrogrades behave somewhat like archery: the more time you take to draw back, focus and steady your aim, the more accurate your impactâ€™s likely to be when you send your intentions into the world. And the coming weekâ€™s more of a draw-back than a let-fly cycleâ€Ś

LEO: Try not to let minor distractions and irritating disruptions scramble this weekâ€™s plans. Though if you do find yourself having to head back to the drawing board, itâ€™s likely to be precisely what was needed. Present circumstances are also suggesting you consider giving something up in order to get something better. VIRGO: Venus turning direct in your relationship zone brings a cycle of warmth and accord, plus a personal message for you this week, Virgo. Which is: Youâ€™re not responsible for fixing everything thatâ€™s broken. You donâ€™t have to try to make everyone happy. You do have permission to take a break. LIBRA: Sure itâ€™s difficult balancing edgy, oppositional retro energies, but isnâ€™t that the premier area of Libran expertise? Direct this weekâ€™s planetary twists and turns by taking problems up a notch towards the promising, thriving, upbeat power you know lies in union and cooperative collaboration and presto! Wasnâ€™t it worth the effort? SCORPIO: Uranus breaks things down. Venus retrograde takes inventory of emotional and material resources, estimating whatâ€™s worth saving and repairing, whatâ€™s not. And Saturn restructuresâ€Ś All of which makes this week primo for retracing steps, recognising past mistakes and revising works in progress with a view to remodelling ideas, attitudes and plans.

SACRED EARTH MUSIC FOR YOUR INNER PEACE

Jethro and Prem Williams make music for inner peace. In it for the long haul, the couple have toured the world with their three children in tow, performing their signature brand of contemporary mantras and selling nearly a quarter of a million albums in the ambient genre. Finding their way into â€˜sacred earth musicâ€™ was a natural evolution for the two musicians. 'I was in my early 20s bumming around playing music and exploring. Prem had been in a successful band called Tribal Trance. We werenâ€™t sure what we wanted to do so we studied to be yoga teachers. We let go of playing music because our daughter was four at the time, and thatâ€™s when the change of direction musically came along, and we got introduced to mantras and what our souls were singing. We wanted not to be the performer that was there for the glory but to really enter into that stream of depth that is available in sacred music.â€™ The couple had struck on something unique. â€˜It was an amazing time,â€™ says Jethro, â€˜and we were able to just explore it. Rewind 18 years and there wasnâ€™t anyone really doing anything like this. We made bold declarations that we werenâ€™t going to play where anyone is drinking, so we took our music to

AQUARIUS: Venus direct in your money zone is an auspicious time for buying â€“ though because of retrogrades youâ€™ll need to do in-depth research, compare prices and read the fine print before brokering the best deal. Purchasing not on your agenda? Then this week buys you extra time for making an important decision â€“ use it wisely.

PISCES: When new technologies and ideas crash against old methods and habits, it can be a challenge to adapt. With change a constant on planet Earth, and this weekâ€™s retrogrades presenting a kind of cosmic crunch time, the deal is keeping it real. Good news is this is simple â€“ though not necessarily easy.

the markets and we sold tens of thousands of albums playing up and down the coast. It was the heyday of the CD â€“ there were no digital media, so we used to sell hundreds of albums in the morning, and when you played to people from Eumundi markets you had such a mix, always international people on holidays; we were in London and a lady came up and told us sheâ€™d bought our CD at the Eumundi markets!â€™ Prem and Jethro feel that their music has really come into its own. â€˜Right now is fantastic.â€™ says Jethro, â€˜We have been though different seasons with our work. Itâ€™s quite an amazing time right now.' Sacred Earth plays at the Byron Theatre at the Community Centre on Saturday 29 April at 7.30pm. Tickets and information at byroncentre.com.au.

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Because he knows his audience so well, the baby-man president has rejected stories that he doesn’t like as ‘fake news’. And surprise, surprise… denial of what is before our very eyes has for some unfathomable and boundlessly idiotic reason been accepted by the mob as a legitimate form of dismissal when confronted by an unpleasant reality (what climate change?). The British historian sic David Irving made a name for himself (and a pile of money, one suspects) by repeatedly claiming in his books that the Holocaust was a fabrication – that it never happened. As has been proven time and again, a lie is as good as the truth if somebody believes it and Irving’s warped and hateful re-writing of history found willing disciples. When the Jewish American author Deborah Lipstadt (Rachel Weisz) published a scathing rebuttal of Irving’s argument, he took her to court, accusing her of libel, and the case was heard in London in 2000. Without stooping to give credence to the anti-Semitic bile of Irving, Mick Jackson’s film nevertheless enunciates dispassionately some of the salient points of Irving’s treatise, but he does so in order to have them shot down by Lipstadt’s team of lawyers and researchers. So the movie is not a re-examination of what should be established and irrefutable facts, nor is it a character study of a twisted, self-deluded man (although it was interesting to learn that as a boy Irving idolised Hitler), so much as is it an homage to the British legal system and to rational, objective thought. It is repeatedly made clear that for all her outrage and fiery commitment, Lipstadt must take a back seat to the cool, pedantic approach of the wigs and gowns who are defending her. Spall, terrific in a despicable role, Weisz, Tom Wilkinson as Lipstadt’s barrister and Andrew Scott as his pragmatic solicitor head a marvellous cast in which melodrama is averted – the visit to Auschwitz is chilling but restrained – and justice revered. Essential viewing at a time when our skies are grey with smoke from the pyres of common decency.

THE EAGLE HUNTRESS The things that you’ve never heard about… high on the treeless steppes of Kazakhstan, the tradition of capturing and training golden eagles to be then be used for hunting has survived for time out of mind. Typically, it is strictly a bloke thing – or it had been. This astonishing, uplifting and beautifully shot doco is about a young girl, Aisholpan, and her triumph in breaking into that male reserve. As a thirteen-yearold, cherub-cheeked Aisholpan was nurtured in the craft by her father, Rys Nurgaiv, himself a prize-winning eagle hunter. To take the next step towards fulfilling her dream, she needs to capture and raise her own bird (weighing up to fifteen pounds, they live in their owners’ yurts, along with the rest of the family). Which she does – taking a fledgling from its nest high on a craggy aerie. This sequence is filmed from many angles, so the immediacy and rawness of ‘cinema verité’ is sacrificed, but you get the impression that writer/director Otto Bell has striven for an effect more akin to ‘faction’ than fly-on-the-wall observation. If that is the case, it works a treat throughout. From the festival at which Aisholpan competes with hunters from far and wide to the toughest test of all, when she takes her bird into the wild to hunt fox, it is never pretended that the camera is not there. Certainly Aisholpan is aware of it, and, with a winning smile and honest naiveté, she is a natural before it. The edit is smoothly structured, giving equal time to the politics of Aisholpan’s endeavour – the old codgers of the clique don’t like the idea of her presence among them at all – the loving relationship she has with her dad, who encourages her at every step, saying that ‘girls can do anything that boys can’, and the magnificent eagles. Simon Niblett’s glorious cinematography makes every frame, interior and exterior, a joy to behold in a movie that is relevant in all cultures, upbeat and refreshing.

Sydney-born Brendan Hay, best known for his larger-than-life cabaret personas, has established himself as one of Australia’s up and coming creatives. Comedian Dawn French couldn’t stop raving about him! ‘Brendan Hay IS showbiz! I just love everything about him. He is unique. I love the fun of him! Brendan spoke with The Echo ahead of his performance at the Guilty Pleasures cabaret and burlesque festival. What inspired you to be a performer – and why did you choose cabaret? I come from a performance family: my grandfather was a vaudeville banjo player and his parents were Tivoli performers. The performance gene skipped a generation, but then my mum was insistent that all of her sons should do everything creative -- we all play instruments, dance and sing. I’ve danced since I was four, and sing, and I play the cello and the piano. My dream was to be a composer but I did one day at the Sydney Conservatorium and hated it – it was so dreary and dry. So instead I went to the Australian Institute of Music and studied musical theatre under Jennifer Murphy. She expanded my mind, and as well as performance. I went into costume and design. I chose cabaret as I found musical theatre too binding and you had to fit yourself into someone else’s little box. With cabaret I can choose what I want to do and write my own stuff that suits me. Tell me about your characters There’s Valere, who’s like Marie Antoinette’s best friend, a fabulously spoilt, rich character – a bit like the 17th-century version of the kind of A-list, gossip-girl kind of person. Cruello de Vil is the long-lost son of Creulla de Vil. He came about because I wanted to write myself into Disney, as none of the Disney leads would suit me (and I definitely wanted a lead role!). Playing Cruello was also a chance to explore the dark side, and look at the play between good and evil and how it sometimes can be quite subjective. To Cruello, his mum Cruella isn’t evil – she’s his mother and that’s just how she is. My other character, the Song and Dance Man, is a painted, dandy, top-hat-and-tails-wearing character that gives me a chance to sing the music I truly love to sing and listen to, which is jazz – Frank Sinatra, Blossom Dearie, Frank Bennett and so on. Tell me a bit about your experience in Australia’s Got Talent. I learned a lot. I especially loved Dawn French, who’s a comedy and character actor. Dawn’s advice was pointed, and she really got what I was doing – she always went in to bat for me. Unfortunately, we didn’t get to work as closely as I’d hoped. They make it look like you do on reality TV – but you don’t really get to spend a lot of time with them. The hardest thing about reality TV is the social media side of it, which is uncontrollable and instantaneous: you’re famous for about 10 minutes and then suddenly you’re not. I was lucky out of all of my friends in the show because I was hidden under a character; it was about Valere, not about Brendan – so it gave me a barrier. It was so fast and disappeared quickly – I was in the finals and I was rehearsing for the Grand Final performance, but I didn’t get through and after that you have zero communication with anyone on the show. It’s very strange. What can Guilty Pleasures audiences expect from a Brendan Hay performance? They can expect lots of visual pleasure, where nothing’s taken too seriously. Brendan will be performing his Song and Dance Man on Friday night and Cruello de Vil on Saturday night at Guilty Pleasures Cabaret & Burlesque Festival in the Brunswick Heads Memorial Hall. Book at www.guilty-pleasures-fest.com.au.

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INTERNAL / EXTERNAL OPEN / CLOSED RISERS

ANTENNAS

ANTENNAS PLUS SPECIALISTS IN SMALL BUSINESS BOOKKEEPING, BAS AND TAX. NEW BUSINESS START-UPS. Gail Rundle 0401 884 231 Behind the Post OfďŹ ce in Fingal Street, Brunswick Heads

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Ph 6686 7911 Fax 6686 9047 admin@bbtimbers.com.au www.bbtimbers.com.au 110 Teven Road, Ballina

â€˘ Fencing â€˘ Decking â€˘ Structural Pine & Hardwood â€˘ Landscaping Timber â€˘ Logs & Sleepers â€˘ Lattice â€“ Privacy Screens â€˘ Alternative Treated timbers for Vegie Gardens & Playgrounds NSW Lic. 83568c Qld BSA 1238105

FULLY INSURED

ALL ASPECTS OF CARPENTRY WORK

matt.rowan.wardle@gmail.com â€˘ Floor installations â€˘ Door & Window installations â€˘ Decks & Pergolas â€˘ Alterations

0488 950 638

BYRON ANTENNA SERVICE Call me first for fast service. Richard ..................................0401 190960 DINGO DEMOLITIONS & ASBESTOS REMOVAL ................................. 66834008 or 0407 728998

ANTIQUES / RESTORATION

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

Virtual Bookkeeping Services â€˘ Xero Training Monthly Packages from $99 â€˘ Registered BAS agent

FURNITURE RESTORATION Old/antique, 40+ yrs exp. erwinfurniturerestoration.com ...0412 528454

www.brightcloudbookkeeping.com Ph: 0432 295 661

APPLIANCE REPAIR

Smith WS Wendy Computer Support

p: 0408 377 460 e: wen3300@hotmail.com

Bookkeeping, Payroll & BAS Services Software Support, Sales, Setup and Training Xero â€“ Reckon â€“ MYOB â€“ Microsoft Office

DIGITAL ELECTRONICS REPAIR & SERVICE TV. Audio. Antennas .......... 66843575 or 0414 922786 BUILDER CARPENTER Extensions, renos, new homes, insurance, all jobs. Lic 19953Q ........ 0403 458177

ARCHITECTS

CARPENTER Tiny houses, extensions, renos, studios, decks. Samuel Lic 266052C ........0405 479528 CARPENTER/JOINER Lic 39791 Decks, studios, pergolas etc Paul Varendorff ..66845035 or 0414 842602

FRANK STEWART ARCHITECT Reg. 6075. www.frankstewart.com.au............................66856984 OCEANARC ARCHITECTS Reg. 6042 www.oceanarc.com.au ..............................................66855001

AUDIO PRODUCTION

BAS AGENT / BOOKKEEPER Xero, MYOB, GST. Phone Mark ..........................................0475 125478 BOOKKEEPING GST, BAS, ATO reg. Annette ...................................................................0419 627506

ACUPUNCTURE ACUPUNCTURE CHINESE HERBAL MEDICINE M Collis..................................................66842559 ACUPUNCTURE www.marlenefarry.com Womenâ€™s health, general practice.....................66842400 ACUPUNCTUREâ€“TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE. Mary-Ellen Young .................0403 477972

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AUTOMOTIVE

Bayside Radiators

Windscreens & Air Conditioning â€œWhere else would you take a leak?â€?

Serving Byron Shire Peter Colin Lute â€˘ L4 Wilfred Street, Billinudgel â€˘ 6680 2444

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

AU29498 Lic No: MVRL 46201

ACCOUNTANT BANGALOW + BYRON BAY The Office Accountants & Business Advisors ...66872960

BRICKLAYER Quality work, reasonable quotes. Lic 164155C................... 0423 474419 or 66849102 FABRICA JOINERY Quality kitchens/timber doors/windows. Lic 244652C .........................66808162

ACCOUNTANT Paul Mayberry..............................................................................................66847415 AUDIO & VIDEO RECORDING & Live production crystalgrid.com.au ............................0421 661910 ACCOUNTANT â€“ MARTIN McCARTHY ...............................................................................66874026

BUILDER â€“ JOHN McGAURAN Personalised Service. 20 yrs exp. Lic 170208C .............0415 793242

BUSH REGENERATION & WEED CONTROL

P/L

Native bush regeneration, tree planting and weed control. Fully insured and qualified with more than 12 yearsâ€™ local experience. Free property assessments and quotes.Â Call Ross Faithfull 0409 157 695 a/h 6687 2943 Â Â e: faithfullrossco@gmail.com

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

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TLC

Truck Mounted Machine

CARPET CLEANING

TENDER LOVING CARE Specialising in household carpet cleaning Speedy Drying

Kevin & Margaret Bower

FRANCHISE OF THE YEAR!

(02) 6684 1001

DETAILED CLEANING Natural products. Please call 8am-6pm ......................................0410 723601 BYRON SHIRE DOMESTIC CLEANING SERVICE North Byron Shire...............................0421 360961 EVEN STEVEN’LL DO IT Detail clean top to bottom ......................................................0448 004182 AAA AIRBNB CLEANERS Book now for holiday season................................................0421 360961 AIRBNB HOSTING SERVICES Cleaning, linen, restocking, bookings.............................0410 630042 STRONGARM CLEAN-LANDSCAPING-CARETAKING Est 2000 5-star service, insured ..0427 253117 GREEN ROCKET CLEANERS Excellent service, reliable, efficient. Home. Bond. Builders Clean..0405 437431 THE CLEANING QUEEN Local refs. Thorough & reliable service. Carol ...........................0490 707334

COMPUTER SERVICES

Green & Clean

Commercial / Domestic / Insurance

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

THE ORIGINAL CHIMNEY SWEEP FIREPLACE INSTALLATION & REPAIRS

FIRinEthe Shire

6688 4375 • 0405 350 682

BLACKS CHIMNEY SWEEPING & REPAIRS AHHA member, insured. 3rd generation .....66771905

Not your average TECH shop #Computers #Accessories #Repairs #Support #Gadgets 1/29 Brigantine St, Byron Bay A&I Estate 6680 8324 techie2481.com.au

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

• 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

Window Cleaning Professionals 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

Quality Exterior Refinishing

www.byronhomecleaning.com

CLEAN AS IT’S BEEN TEAM Home, Bond back, anytime, references ...................................66882372 DONE & DUSTED CLEANING Going the extra mile, professional, dependable...............0498 731447

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Ph: 6684 0160 Mob: 0439 840 160

Specialising in road works, land clearing, retaining walls and general earthworks. Augers and rock grab available.

Apple Certified Support

CONCRETING & PAVING

EXPERIENCED OPERATORS | FREE QUOTES 0432 299 283

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

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

DIGGER, TRUCK, AUGER HIRE 20+ years experience. Good rates ...............................0402 652017

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

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 BOBCAT WORK. Phone Simon ......................................................................................0438 446287 MARK STIBBARD EARTHMOVING Excavators, rollers, grader & truck hire ..................0418 665905

ELECTRICIANS 24 HOUR SERVICE

0439 624 945

DESIGN & DRAFTING

DRIVEWAY MAINTENANCE CARPARK & DRIVEWAY MAINTENANCE CONCRETE EDGING

0418 156 909 Call Steven Butturini

20 Year+s Exp.

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

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Jai – 0467 482 948

All Jobs Small or Large

DOMESTIC COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL

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

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

02 66 804 173

Domestic Commercial

DENTISTS

SPECIAL SJJ Ƥ VWX booking. Discount code: Echo

0451 102 239

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

RENT-A-GEEK Mobile PC Repair (Byron Shire) ....................................................................66844335 NORTHERN RIVERS TRENCHING 65hp chain trencher, mini excavator, cable locating...0402 716857 WORKRIGHT COMPUTER SUPPORT Mobile service ....................................................0422 804449 BRENDON POWELL Earthmoving, landscaping, design & construction ........................0404 988222

fullcirclerefinishing.com

Residential • Holiday • Bond • Commercial •

Rock walls, clearing, house shed and tank pads.

SaulMordaunt@macdoc.net.au

Phone Oliver 0419 789 600

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

Specialising in road repairs & driveways

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

Pressure cleaning Roof cleaning

Full Circle

STEVE BROWN EARTHMOVING

5.5 TONNE EXCAVATOR, POSITRACK & TIPPER HIRE

0411 562 111 s

ACTION WINDOW & PRESSURE CLEANING

%XTE HOUSE RIOR W WIN ASH CLEAN DOW

– nationally recognised qualiﬁcations

0410 056 228 / 0427 663 678

Lic.136717c

BE WISE • BE SAFE

Training & assessment: earthmoving plant & forklift

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Phone Geoff 0412 831 944

EARTHMOVING & PLANT HIRE

CHIMNEY SWEEPING

• Avoid dangerous chimney ﬁres • Improve ﬁreplace performance

35 years in local area • Free quotes

various implements available for limited access projects

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

YOUR CHIMNEY NEEDS TO BE CLEANED ONCE A YEAR!

Roadworks incl Driveways, Carparks & General Excavation

Philip Toovey 0409 799 909 ph/fax 02 6684 3208

Cleans deeply, dries in 1-2 hours

0408 232 066

EARTHMOVING PLANT HIRE

TINY EARTHWOR

Carpet and upholstery cleaning, urine extraction, rust removal, heavy traffic areas, deodorising and sanitation. Far North Coast NSW John & Teresa

EARTHMOVING & EXCAVATION

Lic: 154293c

CARPET CLEANING

JAMIE 0408 809 817 licence no. 201775c

ELECTRICAL PHONE TV

Lic. No.

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

Please call Blair Rankin on

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

Tim Knutt

Lic No. 238269C

0417 644 447 Domestic, Commercial, Industrial & Solar A small Family Business with a commitment to efficient, functional, high-quality finishes.

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Service Directory ELECTRICIANS (continued) BEAR ENERGY ELECTRICAL SERVICES PTY LTD

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

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CALL RICK : 0435 809 329 RESIDENTIAL

COMMERCIAL

NEW INSTALLATIONS

REPAIRS

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

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

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

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

Proudly supporting the Orangutans

6684 7380 • Garden & Property Maintenance • Acreage & Residential Mowing • Landscaping • Tip Runs

info@byronbayranga.com ~ www.byronbayranga.com

ENLIGHTEN ELECTRICAL CO Lic No. 300624C. Call Luke...............................................0403 910047

0431 550 401

FENCING

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!

POOLSAFE GLASS FENCING

0497 413 344 • www.charlibearlawncare.com

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

Frameless and Semi-Frameless

0416 424 256

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

Richard Neylan 0407 821 690

Lic: 210143C

Email richardneylan1@bigpond.com

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

LICENCE NO:175956C ABN: 03 113 342 699

QUALITY GARAGE DOORS TO SUIT ALL BUDGETS

Garage Doors & Openers

Call Justin 0498 184 048 Byron Bay and surrounds

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

GARAGE DOORS

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

Paola Landscapes Pty Ltd

The Floor Sander NEW AND OLD FLOORS AND DECKING

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

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

1ST PLACE LAWNS

Byron and Beyond FENCING

WATER BASED FINISHES & EUROPEAN BUFFING OILS

Luke McDermott

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

GLASS POOL FENCING

• 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.

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

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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

6680 1575 or 0408 760 609 GLAZIERS

24/7 EMERGENCY GLASS 0415 660 801

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

Northern Rivers Building Maintenance

caitlin 0433 010 962 craig 0477 296 134 www.arbourvitae.com

GARDEN & PROPERTY MAINTENANCE

LONG ARM Flail mower/mulcher, 5 tonne rubber track excavator.................................0408 663420 STRONGARM LANDSCAPING & GARDEN MAINTENANCE .........................................0402 917519

6685 8588

BLUE BEE ELECTRICAL 25 years experience. Lic 189508C. Call Dave ............................0429 033801

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

netdaily.net.au

North Coast news daily:

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

Carpentry Kitchen Repairs Handyman Doors/Cabinets Plastering Painting/tiling No job too small - 24 hours Prompt Service - fully insured - Reasonable rates

Call Now 0436 462 308 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 www.eastcoastpilates.com.au South Golden Beach................................................0408 110006

HIRE 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

INTERIOR DESIGN KATE PLATT Interior Designs, www.kateplatt.com ................................ 0411 888416 or 66807606

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INTERNET & DATA SERVICES

PHOTOGRAPHY

OSTEOPATHY at Mullumbimby Comprehensive Health Centre

Dr. Matthew Fourro (Osteo) Dr. Egbert Weber (Osteo) 60 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby | 02 6626 7900

Professional â€˘ Commercial â€˘ Personal 30+ years experience in commercial photography and photojournalism

NORTH COAST OSTEOPATHY Jodie Jacobs. Mon, Wed, Fri..............................................66857517

IRONING

OSTEOPATH SINCE 1975 Old school, Lennox Head. Michael Petrie ....................................66874410

THE IRONING LADY Suffolk Park. $28 per hour. Angela.................................................0414 719680

PAINTING

DR DEAN HARDY Osteopath B.Clin.Sci, Master Osteopathy lennoxheadquarters.com...0412 786399

JEWELLERS

Tree Faerie Fotos

www.treefaeriefotos.com â€˘ 0417 427 518

PHYSIOTHERAPY BANGALOW PHYSIOTHERAPY Manual therapies, acupuncture, pilates.

Liz Thomas, Cally Oâ€™Hara, Kim Snellgrove .............................................................................66872330 â€˘ DEPARTMENT OF FAIR TRADING INFO: When dealing with home owners, painters are required NICK EDMOND Physiotherapy & Acupuncture. Open Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday TRADE QUALIFIED JEWELLER Resizes, repairs, remodels, commissions louisehaw.com.au ..0414 644828 466 Main Arm Road, Mullumbimby.....................................................................................66845288 to quote a licence number only for external work valued over $5000. ANTHONY Dâ€™ORSOGNA Physiotherapy, acupuncture, hydrotherapy Suffolk Park 1 Bryce St ... 66853511 SHAUN LEMURA KITCHENS Byron 17yrs+ qual. exp. www.slbyronbay.com................0499 771769 CLAUDIA MIRDITA Craniosacral therapy, physiotherapy ....................................................66857222 D HINGED Kitchens & Joinery â€“ www.hinged.com.au ...................................................0409 843689 CONTINENCE / PELVIC FLOOR Janelle Angel ..................Bangalow 66872337 & Mâ€™bah 66723818

KITCHENS

BYRON BAY

LANDSCAPE DESIGN

â€˘ Domestic & Commercial â€˘ Servicing all areas â€˘ Workmanship guaranteed â€˘ Attention to detail

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

0438 784 226 â€˘ 6685 4154

Lic No 189144C

ALL-WAYS PAINTING

PETRA KARNI Physiotherapy, Craniosacral, Alexander Technique. Byron ..........................66807207 OCEAN SHORES PHYSIOTHERAPY Manual therapies, dry needling, custom orthotics, real time ultrasound. Nigel Pitman, Alex Margan, Lachlan Dewar .......................................66803499 EWINGSDALE PHYSIO Renata Tenta. Matrix Rhythm Therapy, home visits avail................66847838 PETER FARRELL Physiotherapist, manual therapy & exercise, Mullumbimby ....................66843385

LANDSCAPING

MARTINA DUEL Craniosacral, physio, dry needling, manual therapies. Mullum............0432 322998 INSPIRING MOVEMENT Kerrie Hart Feldenkrais method, physiotherapy.....................0499 200622

PICTURE FRAMING â€˘ Sand â€˘ Soils â€˘ Gravels â€˘ Pots & statues â€˘ Lots, lots more

BILLINUDGEL CUSTOM PICTURE FRAMING 7/1 Wilfred St, Billinudgel ........................66803444 MULLUM PICTURE FRAMERS Stuart St rear lane behind Mitre 10 ............................0403 734791

1176 Myocum Rd, Mullumbimby (just past golf course)

6684 2323 / 0418 663 983

X FINALIST OF THE MASTER PAINTERS OF AUSTRALIA AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE X ENVIRO FRIENDLY PAINTING

Established 2008 ~ Lic No: 247282c

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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PEST CONTROL

LAUNDRY SERVICES

Mullum Wash House â€“ 0439 001 545 Bangalow Wash House â€“ 0412 302 246

6685 4490 or AH on 0414 769 018

02 6681 6555 Free quotes on active termites Environmentally safe

YOUR PEST & TERMITE SPECIALISTS www.allpestsolutions.com.au

NEED A PLUMBER? DRAINER? GASFITTER?

Chay 6680 5081 0429 805 081 Byron Shire

All Plumbing Blocked drains GasďŹ tting Solar Hot Water

0404 053 857

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

CREATIVE LIGHTING SOLUTIONS

MARK STRATTON All plumbing & emergency. Sewer drain camera/locator. Lic 57803C ....0419 019035 ADM PLUMBING SERVICESâ€Ś (NO JOB TOO SMALL)â€Ś Lic 234528C. ....... Call Adam 0466 992483

LOCKSMITH

ED RIORDAN PLUMBING Ballina to Byron. Lic L6966....................................................0417 343480 BLOCKED DRAINS Drain camera, no dig repairs. Drain Pipe King. Lic 237124C ..............0427 217500

MOBILE LOCKSMITH SERVICE Automotive car keys & lock installation/repair .............0412 764148

â€˘ Safe â€˘ Natural â€˘ Effective â€˘ Guaranteed

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 COLIN J WILLIAMS PLUMBING & GAS Lic L7990. Roofing & Drainage........................0434 273726

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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 â€“ Saturday 2/32 Mullumbimbi Street, Brunswick Heads. Tel 02 6685 1126

BRUNSWICK BYRON PEST CONTROL................................................................................66842018

North Coast news daily: www.echonetdaily.net.au

PLUMBERS

www.sanctuarypest.com.au

Lighting Showroom Open 9am â€“ 5pm Mon â€“ Fri Unit 5, 21-23 Tasman Way, Byron A+I Estate Free on-site consultancy 6680 7007 creativelightingsolutions.com.au

OSTEOPATHY

COL JENKINS PLASTER Gyprock, renovations, repairs. No job too small ......................0401 078733

Professional Property Protection you can Trust

LAWNMOWER REPAIRS LIGHTING

10 years Byron Shire Small Patch to Architectural Homes

â€˘ Targeted treatments for all pests with â€œno sprayâ€? cockroach treatments â€˘ 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

OPEN EVERY DAY

TYAGARAH MOWER REPAIRS 69 McAuleys Lane, Mullumbimby .................................0488 094025 MULLUM MOWERS & MACHINERY REPAIRS Mullumbimby Industrial Estate............0423 204218

Plastering

GYPROCK PLASTERING SERVICE New homes, extensions, renos, 40 yrs exp. Dave .....0457 117654

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

â€˘ Self serve / service wash â€˘ New front loaders & dryers â€˘ Domestic & commercial services

451 186 / 6680 4660

GLENN WATERS For the finish you canâ€™t see. Lic 58928C...............................................0427 908129

High-quality residential and commercial paving and paving repairs

LAUNDRY

&UDLJ 0413

Sean 0418 216 070 | sean@if-industrialist.com Lic 94766C

Free Quotes

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20 Years Experience

www.duluxaccredited.com.au

X 6680 7573 0415 952 494 X www.yvesdewilde.com.au LIC 114372C

PLASTERING CONTRACTOR

Lic. No. 206913C

Specialising in: â€˘ Retaining Walls â€˘ Pool Surrounds â€˘ Block Work â€˘ Paving â€˘ TurďŹ ng â€˘ Stonework

PLASTERING

QUALITY PAINTING SERVICES

Lic 167371C

Shaun Savage Landscapes

YVES DE WILDE

PODIATRY MULLUMBIMBY PODIATRY Laser Clinic. For all your podiatry needs ..............................66742933

PRINTING & COPYING SERVICES

RAYMOND LYNCH PEST MANAGEMENT General pests & termites ..............................0418 850601 PRINTWORKS Traditional / Digital art@mullumprintworks.com.au .................................66843633

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REMOVALISTS

TRINE SOLUTIONS Plumbing, draining & gasfitting. Lic 138031C ......................................66779574

BEYOND BYRON REMOVALS

SOLAR INSTALLATION

LPC PLUMBING Septic Systems Installed ......................................................................0401 633222

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Serving Northern NSW since 1998

Call us on 6679 7228

Your local, qualiﬁed team. m 0428 320 262 Specialists in standalone & e sunbeamsolar@bigpond.com grid interact system designs.

Andy’s Move & More

CHOPPY CHOP TREE SERVICES The Fully Insured Professionals

Pioneers of the solar industry

phone 66801158 or 0408 004719

TREE SERVICES

• Stump Grinding • Bobcat • Cherrypicker • Crane Truck • 18” Chipper Mark Linder Qualiﬁed Arborist 0408 202 184 choppychoptrees@bigpond.com

Electric Lic 124600c

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

0429 149 533 Est 2006

SHIRE REMOVALS & FREIGHT CO

Beach Tree Services

From Middle Pocket to Middle Earth – just give us a ring

Felling, pruning, removal & forestry Insured and experienced Call Lewis for a free quote: 0401285296

• Freight services to Brisbane weekly • Carriers of ﬁne art • Furniture removal • E-bay pick up & delivery

6681 4912 / 0409 917646

LEAPFROG REMOVALS

Call 1300 18 20 50

BYRON BAY’S LOCAL REMOVALIST MOVING THE SHIRE FOR OVER 10 YEARS leapfrogremovals@yahoo.com.au

No weekend surcharge

search “Lighthouse Removals”

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LIGHTHOUSE REMOVALS

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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.

SWIMMING POOLS

MAN WITH A VAN/TRUCK Reasonable rates. Phone Don ............................................0414 282813 BENNY CAN MOVE IT! .................................................................................................0402 199999

ROOFING

ATTENTION POOL OWNERS

DOMESTIC • INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL

Licence NSW: 30715C Licence QLD: 1227049

Metal Rooﬁng Installations • Guttering Downpipes • Fascia • Skylights • Whirlybird Patios • Repairs • Leaf Guard

• All pool requirements • Professional advice • Water testing • Friendly service • Pool servicing

73 Station St, Mullumbimby (opp. Council chambers)

6684 3003

Craig Montgomery – 0418 870 362 Email: montysmetalrooﬁng@gmail.com www.montysmetalrooﬁng.com.au

TELEVISION SERVICES

ZAC MACTAGGART METAL ROOFING PTY LTD

INSTALL SERVICE TV, HiFi, AV. Special concession rate. Damian ...................................0414 741233

Ƈ NEW ROOFS Ƈ RE ROOFS Ƈ INSULATED ROOF PANELS Ƈ Ƈ FASCIA & GUTTERS Ƈ REPAIRS & MAINTENANCE Ƈ

TILING

0411 683 003 BYRON COAST ROOFING PTY LTD Lic 252098C Guttering, leaf guard, cladding, etc ..0422 248936 ALL ROOF CLEANING Experienced roof & gutter cleaning + gutter guard install .........0419 789600

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 TIPPER HIRE available for rubbish removal & tip runs ......................................... Jono 0412 871438

SCRAP METAL MERCHANTS

BYRON CASH FOR SCRAP Drop washing steel, es and machin ers dry

Buying: • Scrap metal • Aluminium • Copper • Brass • Lead • Car Batteries Next to Tyagarah Service Station

Paciﬁc Highway, Tyagarah 6684 2351

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Dirty Tiles & Grout?

...forget pointless scrubbing

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Call Ben on 0456 606 911 www.groutpro.com.au

TILER/STONEMASON/WATERPROOFER Lic 24418C. Phone Karl ...................................66804103

VIDEO PRODUCTION CAMERA CREW, LIGHTING, screens, projectors & editing crystalgrid.com.au..............0421 661910

VISA ADVICE WATER FILTERS The Water Filter Experts for home, commercial and rural properties

6680 8200 or 0418 108 181 IN IN H

$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

TRACTOR REPAIRS

NSW Lic. L10007 QLD Lic. 13395

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

Call Louise 0478 698 186

SEWERAGE MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONALS M 0418 754 149 P 07 5523 9930

VETERINARY SURGEONS

Kitchens, bathrooms, laundries, tile repairs & waterproofing Leaking showers repaired & sealed NO JOB TOO SMALL • Free quotes & consultations

TRACTOR REPAIRS

Installing, maintaining and repairing onsite sewerage management systems in Tweed & Byron Shires for over 25 years.

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

Female Wall & Floor Tiler _ over 10 years experience

SEPTIC SYSTEMS

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VALUERS

SHE TILES

WWW.ZACMACTAGGARTMETALROOFING.COM.AU

@ BRUNSWICK BYRON AUTO WRECKERS

UPHOLSTERY BANGALOW UPHOLSTERY Now at Billinudgel. Re-covering specialists.............................66805255 BYRON BAY UPHOLSTERY Soft furnishings & outdoor................................................0403 713303

MULLUM POOL SHOP Water testing, eco products, mobile service, repairs................0418 666839 REGISTERED MIGRATION AGENT Rebecca@byronbaymigrationagency.com.au .........0487 458047

LIC: 223489C

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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

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Electrical License # QLD: 72258 | NSW: 227562C

0432 334 200 02 6680 8170

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The expert in solar efﬁciency

RURAL MACHINERY REPAIR SERVICE DIESEL ENGINE TECHNICIANS REPAIRS TO ALL MAKES AND MODELS

PHONE BILL: 6688 4143 – 0407 435 259

WE CLEAN WATER TANKS

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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

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Classifieds INDEX Bereavement Notices.............. 45 Businesses For Sale .............. 44

ECHO CLASSIFIEDS – 6684 1777

Childcare ................................ 43

CLASSIFIED AD BOOKINGS

DEADLINE TUES 12PM

For Sale .................................. 44

PHONE ADS

Publication day is Wednesday, booking deadlines are the day before publication.

Funeral Notices ....................... 45 Garage Sales ......................... 44 Halls For Hire ......................... 44 Health Notices ........................ 43 Motor Vehicles ......................... 44 Musical Notes......................... 45 Only Adults .............................. 45 Pets......................................... 45

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

Property For Sale .................... 44 Public Notices......................... 43 Readings ................................. 43 Removalists ............................. 44 Share Accommodation .......... 44 Short Term Accommodation .. 44

$17 for two lines is the minimum charge.

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.

ARTISAN MARKET Every SATURDAY 4–9pm Railway Park byroncentre.com.au

Social Escorts ........................ 45

SHOP DROP ASSEMBLE

To Let ....................................... 44

We deliver IKEA furniture to you.

Tradework ............................... 44 Tree Services ......................... 44 Tuition ..................................... 45

LINE ADS: $17.00 for the first two lines $5.00 for each extra line

Display classies (box ads): adcopy@echo.net.au Line classies: classifieds@echo.net.au

Positions Vacant ..................... 44 Professional Services ............. 43

RATES & PAYMENT

We shop, deliver and assemble (if required). Shop and drop starts at $40

5 ELEMENT DANCE

SANDPLAY Individual, Parent/Child since 1985 Horst Tietze BA HONS 0432 140 204

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CHILDCARE

Work Wanted......................... 44

DAVID LOVEJOY’S BOOKS

BABY-SITTING 17-year-old who loves kids, with childminding experience & own car avail. Reasonable rates, will do overnights. Phone Sophia 0402307851

DISCLAIMER

PUBLIC NOTICES

ANZAC DAY ECHO

The Echo ofﬁce will be open for business as usual on Anzac Day Tuesday 25 April

Between Dark and Dark a memoir; Moral Victories, the biography of chess player Savielly Tartakower; Heresy, an historical novel.

ALL JUST $10 EACH Available from The Echo office reception

FOOD RELIEF BAGS will be available

THIS THURSDAY from 9 till 11am

FRIENDS OF ISLAND QUARRY SOUGHT. Island Quarry (IQ) is community-managed land located opposite the Cavanbah Centre on Ewingsdale Road. It has remained closed for many years. Who knows why? A coronial enquiry into a death there in 2014 will soon be heard in court. What will result? A founding IQ member, Darren Hiller Smith, is seeking public support to actively engage with the existing management. After 15 frustrated years a fresh approach may be needed to open ways of more effectively operating the IQ Reserve land. Hiller Smith: ph: 0481 780 646 iqecodesign@gmail.com.

Assessment & treatment of children, adolescents & adults

Carl Moore Psychology Reg no. PSY0001057399 Medicare rebates available

Are you doing it tough?

at The Hub Baptist Ocean Shores Cnr Rajah Rd and Bindaree Way (next to Target, enter via kids play area)

For anyone who ﬁnds themselves in need of food assistance. No concession cards required. Just come along, pick up a bag, stay for a cuppa and a chat.

BQ^[\ + 4ri | 6684 6336

www.thehubbaptist.org

FLOOD RELIEF BENEFIT

Yum Yum Tree Café, New Brighton NSW April 29th 11am – 3pm by Donation DEADSET – Jammin’ The Grateful Dead Live GABRIEL OTU ORCHESTRA – Afro Beat SLIM PICKENS – Blues And Roots MANOA – Roots Medicine Music

Locals supporting locals – Groovin’ for community!

North Coast news daily: www.echonetdaily.net.au

Phone 0406 181 352

Martin Frank PHYSIOTHERAPIST Mon–Fri 9am–5pm

20 Shirley St, Byron Bay

6685 8532

CHIROPRACTOR

Fund BAYSIDE ACUPUNCTURE Health Rebates & AND HERBAL MEDICINE Hicaps Available

MULLUM CHIROPRACTIC 6684 1028

Dr Eeka King

MON TUE WED THU FRI PM & SAT AM

Inspiring Movement • Physiotherapy • Feldenkrais

(Chinese Medicine) Women’s Health, Fertility & Pregnancy Acutonics® Sound Therapy

14 PARK STREET, BRUNSWICK HEADS | 02 6685 1088 | BAYSIDEACUPUNCTURE.COM

Tues & Thurs Saturdays

24 years experience

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

0499 200 622

Safe, beneficial, authentic yoga YOGA BASICS - 6 WEEKS BEGINNERS COURSE MONDAYS 5-6.30PM BEGINS MAY 8TH BOOK NOW!

Body Based

Psychotherapy Somatic Practice

Julie Wells Anne Goslett

Dr David King

(Chinese Medicine) Pain conditions Mental/emotional disturbances & general

ACUPUNCTURE CHINESE HERBAL MEDICINE MASSAGE ACUTONICS®

Kerrie Hart

Flo Fenton, Senior Yoga Teacher

Tel: 02 6685 9910 Mob: 0418 441 437 flo@intouchyogabyronbay.com intouchyogabyronbay.com

(nee Mannix)

Dip.Som.Psych, Clinical PACFA Reg.

Individual and Couple Therapy Supervision and Coaching (02) 6685 5138 9 Fletcher St, Byron Bay

READINGS

Psychic Readings Kind hearted, non-judgmental. Carol. 0490707334 Byron Bay

HEALTH

HEALING HANDS

Deep tissue & relaxation massage. German trained. 30+ yrs exp. 6 days. Bernie. Suffolk 0407431588

HYPNOSIS & EFT

Simple and effective solutions Anxiety, Cravings, Fears & Trauma. Maureen Bracken 0402205352

Successful solutions for any problem

MASTER HYPNOTHERAPIST NEUROLINGUISTIC PROGRAMMER & CERTIFIED MEDICAL HYPNOSIS PRACTITIONER PH 6680 2630 Anything is possible www.wendypurdey.com.au

Ocean Shores MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN OUR COMMUNITY

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DENTURES

ANXIETY

Kinesiologist & Herbalist 10 years experience

DR ARPANA (retired GP) offering SCENAR for pain treatments at The Health Lodge. M & F (am). 66856445 & at Suffolk Tues, W, Sat (am) 0428853352

PROF. SERVICES LOOK GOOD FEEL GOOD Free consultation. SANDRO 66805002

Clin. Sci.

KINESIOLOGY SPECIAL ﬁnd the cause of your dis-ease & rebalance body mind & spirit with this profound healing modality. 1st session $60/90mins. Kari 0415379757

thinkingwithheart.com

Phone Rick: 0400 55 99 29 rick@shopdropassemble.com.au

Daniel Alexander

THE BYRON SHIRE

Prepayment is required for all ads.

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

Shane Eade – Chiropractor 0467 660 323 Byron Bay, and now in Brunswick Heads

Echo Classies also appear online in Echonetdaily – echo.net.au/classified-ads

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Volunteers Wanted .................. 44

Advertisements placed in The Byron Shire Echo do not reﬂect the views or opinions of the editorial staff. 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.

CLASSIFIEDS THAT WORK ALL WEEK!

YOGA | PILATES | YOGALATES | BARRE • An intelligent injury free Yoga fusion fused with core stability • Learn to relax and breathe at ease • Certified Yogalates Teacher Training & Wellbeing Retreats available Public class timetable see below – all welcome. MON

Daily Yoga Classes Overlooking the Ocean or in our Beautiful New Garden Studio at Belongil

WED

THU

FRI

SAT

BANGALOW CLASS TIMES 9.15am10.15am Pilates Mat

7.15-8.15am Core Yoga Flow

9.15-10.15am Barre Yogalates

9.30-11am Yogalates

10.3011.30am Prenatal 12.30 1.15pm Lunchtime Yogalates

6-7.30pm Yogalates

8-9.30am Yogalates 9.30 - 11am Yogalates

10-11am Pilates Mat

5.30 - 6.30 Core Yoga Flow

SUFFOLK PARK CLASS TIMES 10-11.30am Yogalates 6-7.30pm Yogalates

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TUES

10-11.30am Yogalates

8-9.30am Yogalates

6-7.30pm Pilates Mat

Suffolk Park Hall, AlcornSt | Bangalow Studio, 72 Byron St, Bangalow

award winning 6687 2031 yogalates.com.au

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HEALTH cont. BEETU FULL BODY MASSAGE A divine experience, sensuous, nurturing. 28yrs exp. Lucy 0427917960

KINESIOLOGY

Clear subconscious sabotages. Reprogram patterns and beliefs. Restore vibrancy and physical health. De-stress. Ph 66846914 SANDRA DAVEY, Reg. Pract.

NICK HART

TREE SERVICES

• Affordable tree services • Professional tree care • 15” chipper (crane truck)

Fully insured • Free quotes

6684 9137 • 0427 347 380

COLONICS

Offering colonic hydrotherapy, sauna and naturopathy at our beachside clinic. Call or text 0458633869 www.byronbaydetoxretreats.com.au THAI MASSAGE With male, 1hr $50, Brunswick Heads. Ph Nui 0413710742 A MASSAGE SPECIAL Deep tissue, remedial, relaxation. Byron. Ph Kay 0410395368

• FULLY INSURED • PROFESSIONAL SERVICE • FREE QUOTES

6684 4421 0402 364 852 FOR SALE

HALLS FOR HIRE COORABELL HALL WEDDINGS, GIGS, CLASSES 66871307 www.coorabellhall.net

ANZAC DAY ECHO

The Echo ofﬁce will be open for business as usual on Anzac Day Tuesday 25 April

HAMMER & HAND

Keeping the Shire shiny since 2009

Concerts, forums, weddings, exhibitions, functions, etc. www.mullumcivic.com

0488 609 774

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

TREE SERVICES

Tallow TREE SERVICES

PROFESSIONAL TREE CARE • • • • •

REMOVALS PALMS TREE SURGERY FREE QUOTES FULLY INSURED

• • • • •

STUMP GRINDING TREE REPORTS DA APPLICATIONS CRANE HIRE CHERRY PICKER

6687 2750 - 0401 208 797

A VERY HANDY MAN

TREE SERVICES

Covering all aspects of tree work and tree stump removal (stump grinding)

Experienced climber • Insured • Licensed FREE QUOTES HAPPY TO HELP

Call Andrew Wilson 0412 558 890

After hours & emergency service available

FREE QUOTES

TREE PRUNING • TREE SURGERY / REMOVALS • QUALIFIED ARBORISTS 12” CHIPPER • STUMP GRINDING • CHERRY PICKER • FULLY INSURED

Nick Andrews 0439 849 332

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

MONGOLIAN YURT new, 5m diameter, felt lined, canvas outer, discounted to $11,500. Phone 0431388044

BRIDGLANDS

Buy and sell good quality used furniture Ph 66842511

SPEED QUEEN

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 BICYCLES buy, sell, repair, recycle. Adult bikes from $60. Phil 0413779223

ARCHIBALD’S CHEAP QUARRY PRODUCTS

Road base, gravel, blue metal and metal dust. ALL SIZE DELIVERIES. Phone 66845517, 0418481617

BAMBOO PLY

from $10.50sqm & Bamboo Flooring. For ceilings, walls, doors, etc. Ph 66884188 • sample & brochure. www.bambooply.com.au

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

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.

COMPOST TOILETS

Chance of a lifetime!

O/SHORES stylish 1br cottage unfurn, WiFi. Suit quiet prof, no pets, refs d/f avail 23/04 $300pw + bills 0407119281

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.

Fantastic cash business with high turnover, market stalls, wholesale division, amazing plant and equipment, and top manufacturing premises. Le Chop produces top-shelf specialty timber homeware. Contact Mark Cochrane

LOCAL REMOVAL

SCAFFOLDING Erect, hire & sales. Aluminium, steel & mobile. 0427774450

mark@promullum.com.au

WANTED

PROPERTY FOR SALE

LP RECORDS: good condition, no op shop crap! Ph Matt 0401955052

ROSEBANK 30 min Byron, leafy & quiet, tasteful brick cabin on 4.5 level acres. Friendly roos, koalas, birds. Close to waterfall. $450,000 ono. Ph 0429882058

STARTING AT $960 Green Building Centre 0427701653

GARAGE SALES BANGALOW 8am Sun 1 Parrot Tree Pl, designer clothes, h’hold items, furnishings 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 13 May. Stalls or rug space avail 0490026840 O.SHORES 103 Orana Rd. Sat 8am. Downsizing. Standing desk with treadmill, pink sofa, TV cabinet, Q mattress +++ BRUNSWICK HDS 2 Aurana Pl. Sat 8am. Moving sale. All must go NEW BRIGHTON 7 North Head Rd, Sat 8am. Fabulous stuff, don’t miss it DECEASED ESTATE Saturday 22 April 9am-1pm. General household, kitchen items, glassware and furniture. Unit 59/19 Cooper Street, Byron Bay.

Tip Runs & Rubbish Removal 0408 210 772

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

LITTLE GREEN TRUCK.com.au

Ute & Driver from $30

• DELIVERIES • SMALL MOVES • TIP RUNS 0415 194 654

northernrivers@littlegreentruck.com.au

SHORT TERM ACCOM.

CASH PAID FOR UNWANTED CARS Local reg’d business 66845296 or 66845403

HYUNDAI GETZ 09 88,000kms, 1 owner, reg Feb 2018. $5,500 ono. 0404506644

BARGAINS

BYRON 1-2br furn townhouse. Walk to bch/town. 7/5-4/6. Pref long-term, shortterm possible. $525pw. 0409049835

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 BELONGIL BEACH 1 person to share brand new 2br, 2 bthrm apart, fully-furn, pool, spa, to share with 1 other, $340pw. Phone Angela 0487878712

BARGAINS

BANGALOW SELF-STORAGE Hi-tech security. 66872333

Ballina Car Centre

DLN 19950

6686 5586 / 0418 676 274

BYRON BAY FIREWOOD

EWINGSDALE 2 joined rooms + ensuite. Own entry, ocean views, pool, no bills, n/s, d/f, Avail 24/4, $250pw. 0435904173 LENNOX share house with 1, own lounge & entry, room & ensuite. $240pw + bond & some elect. Pref worker. 0428503108

TO LET

ANZAC DAY ECHO

The Echo ofﬁce will be open for business as usual on Anzac Day Tuesday 25 April STORAGE From $105/mth. Bangalow. Ph 66872833 NEWLY RENOVATED 1br furn aptmt avail 1/5 – 20/10. Sep br, covered outdoor area Mullum. Suit work. person/quiet cpl. No pets $270pw incl. bills. 0417867056

Art & Craft Supplies 1 – Art Glass imported from Murano, Sale incl. stock, mailing list, website and bus. name. Income growing but needs input. Web-based easily run from home, no prior experience necessary. Landed Stock cost approx $25,000 2 – Beads, Findings Sale incl Stock – imported from manuf, website, mailing list & bus. name. Landed stock cost approx $40,000

• 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

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3 – Fashion Jewellery Sale includes Stock (imported from manufacturer), bus name and reg TradeMark. Over 100 styles, approx 8000pcs. Landed cost approx $20,000 For Sale as a package for $45,000+gst includes storage racks display trays etc or can be split as negotiated. Huge potential adding other craft lines.

info@madcowimports.com

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 O.SHORES big house 3br 2 bthrm f-furn avail from 4 May for 6 mths. $570pw bills incl, unlimited WiFi. Ph 0403219720 WILSONS CREEK Large & private 3-5 bedroom home, 2 sitting rooms, sun-room, dining room, ofﬁce overlooking quiet leafy garden. Swimming holes. 10 min to Mullum. No pets. No smoking. $620pw neg. Email: solunaretreat@gmail.com

MULLUMBIMBY

12 Cockatoo Cr, Tallowood Ridge Estate, Mullumbimby Large 4 bedroom, 2 bth/r home with a media room, open plan living and double lock up garage. $590.00 per week. Available 25.04.17 Open House: Thursday 20th April. 5pm - 5:30pm

FNC Property Management april@fncproperty.com.au

1300 716 707

POSSUM CREEK 1-2br furn cottage, avail 01/06-01/07, $380pw. 0401591281

O.SHORES sgl person for spacious 2br highset house. Own bathroom & LUG. $240pw + bills. Ph Leigh 0411561167

16 ENDEAVOUR CLOSE, BALLINA

BANGALOW RENT-A-SHED Modern & Secure from $130 p/m Elders Real Estate 66871500

3brms, 2 bathrooms, double car garage, swimming pool and BBQ area, close to beach and cafe on the corner. Avail for 3-6mths only.

............................................................................... AUTOMATIC 2007 NISSAN TIIDA 178105km 5 door hatch, very roomy ................ SN3295 $5495 AUTOMATIC 2004 MITSUBISHI MAGNA WAGON 152639km fantastic condition ......... SN1795 $5495 AUTOMATIC 2006 NISSAN MAXIMA ST-L SEDAN 159371km low km. luxury motoring ......................................................... SN1322 $6750 2008 TOYOTA RAV4 CV 4X4 manual 144799km great condition, low km ................. SN6905 $12990 2007 TOYOTA YARIS 117941km 5spd manual Fantastic condition, low km ............. SN7544 $5250 1997 TOYOTA TARAGO rego til 5/17, 8 seater family van ........................................ SN2246 $4990

ballinacarcentre.com.au

BYRON SELF-STORAGE UNITS Clean & secure. Ph 1300762618

3 Bedroom Furnished Apartment

MULLUM Acres. QB rm + ensuite. Incl bills/WiFi, $230pw. Fiona 0419390498

TOYOTA COROLLA ASCENT 2006 VGC, 140000km, auto, 6mth reg, $6,250. 66805480; 0478225556

& backloads to Brisbane. Friendly, with 10 years local exp. 0409917646

TYAGARAH cottage, fully-furn. Single or couple only. Walking distance to Tyagarah beach. $375pw water & gas included, Wiﬁ/elect extra. Ph 0437070795

HILLMAN HUNTER 1987 auto 4mths reg $3500, $$$$s off spares, some new. Call 66805032 or 0407952482

BUSINESSES FOR SALE

Michael – 0401 739 656

REMOVALISTS

SHARE ACCOM.

MARKET HAT BUSINESS Est 28yrs. Fantastic potential for enthusiastic buyer. Includes stock at sale & all equipment. A great opportunity & price, selling due to retirement. 0423125337

Kindling, bags, trailer, tonnage (up to 30 tonne). Residential and commercial. Prompt and reliable service.

0416 142 663

MOTOR VEHICLES

Matt 0427 172 684

Pickup / Delivery Seasoned Firewood

‘Le Chop’ is for sale – $129,000

$650p/w

Enquiries to: info@byronlakeside.com

Ocean Shores 4 bed, 1 bath $490pw

Brunswick Heads Flat, 2 bed, 1 bath $360 Flat, 2 bed, 1 bath,1 carport $345pw Flat, 2 Bed, 1 bath, garage $420pw

Ewingsdale 4 bed, 1 bath, acreage, $ 800pw

South Golden Beach 3 bed , 1 bath $410

SIWICKI REAL ESTATE 17 Fingal St, Brunswick Heads

02 6685 1206

Brunswick Heads 2br 1bth $430 3br 2bth $560 Shop space Ocean Shores 2br 1bth $580 3br 2bth $560 3br 2bth $530 Mullumbimby 4br 2bth $550 3br 2bth $650 L.J. Hooker Brunswick Heads 6685 0177 5/16 The Terrace, Brunswick Heads

Bangalow Landlords – we have qualiﬁed tenants looking for properties in Bangalow and surrounding areas. Please phone us TODAY for an honest appraisal.

RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES

EUREKA $520 pw 3 bed, 1 bath home, avail 13 April 2017 CLUNES $580 pw 3 bed, 1 bath home, avail 1 May 2017 FEDERAL $600 pw 3 bed, 1 bath fully furnished home, avail now MYOCUM $800 pw 3 bed, 2 bath home, avail 30 June 2017

COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES

BANGALOW $185 pw business space, industrial estate, kitchenette, & toilet, approx. 25 sqm, avail now BANGALOW $414 pw ofﬁce space, main street, upstairs, approx. 28 sqm, avail now For more available rental properties go to

VOLUNTEERS WANTED PETS FOR LIFE is seeking volunteers to help at our Billinudgel cat shelter. If you can spare a few hours and love cats, ring Graham 0416155895 to ﬁnd out more

WORK WANTED PRACTICAL PETE Ute tip runs, garden maint, deliveries, removals etc. $25/$35ph. Ph 66845321 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

POSITIONS VACANT WARNING: The Department of Fair Trading warns people to be careful 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 CARETAKER single person or couple with own caravan to barter living space for work on beautiful organic macadamia farm, Rosebank. Organic farm experience necessary. Ph 0431388044 MASSEUSE REQUIRED reliable & friendly for Gentlemen’s Relaxation Centre. 18+. Training provided for the right applicant. Gold Coast. 0418185791 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 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 REMEDIAL MASSAGE THERAPIST Seeking a massage therapist with health fund rebates to join our fantastic team in Bangalow. Must be experienced, professional, reliable & passionate. Busy, professionally run clinic with good rates. Ph 0499490088 or email info@ bangalowremedialmassage.com.au

DANCE TEACHERS

Tap, acro-jazz, jazz, musical theatre. Phone 0439681217 BARISTA/SANDWICH HAND must be experienced in coffee, part-time position. Apply in person at Village Bakehouse (next to IGA Sunrise) Byron CARPENTER Req for ongoing work. Rooﬁng & cladding exp an advantage. 0403222641

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

Qualiﬁed Chef We are looking for an enthusiastic, creative and fully qualiﬁed chef to join the great team at Byron Fresh Cafe. • No split shifts, no early morning, no long hours/days • Great working conditions and above award pay • 2.30pm-10.30pm x 5 days pw • 3 years kitchen exp • Excellent communication skills • Food safety and OH&S knowledge

www.eldersbangalow.com.au

• Available weekends & Phols

19a Byron Street, Bangalow

Email resume to byronbayfresh@gmail.com

02 6687 1500

Byron Shire Echo archives: www.echo.net.au/byron-echo

National Marketing Manager Circus Arts Australia Finally your chance to run away and join the circus is here! This friendly and fast-paced team is looking for an experienced marketer to oversee their 4 locations nationally. This position requires excellent writing and communication skills with proﬁciency in graphic design, Photoshop and Word Press. Filemaker experience a bonus. Perm P/T 20 hours a week over 4 days. Visit www.circusarts.com.au/employment/ for further info. Applications close midnight Tuesday 25 April.

BUCKLEY, DAWN Passed away peacefully on 8 April 2017. Beloved wife of Frank. Mother of 7 children & 11 grandchildren. Age 82 yrs. Dawn’s family & friends are warmly invited to attend a celebration of her life at St John’s Church at Mullumbimby on 27 April at 10.30am. Please no ﬂowers.

MONTHLY MARKETS 1st SAT Bruns Heads 1st SAT Murwillumbah 1st SUN Byron Bay 1st SUN Lismore Car Boot

Ph: 6685 6566

Fee Free Scholarships available under NSW Government Smart & Skilled (on the courses marked *)

MADHUBALA Christina Fendel

* 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

made the Great Transition on Wednesday the 5th of April. We will share our Love for her with a celebration this Friday the 21st. For additional info please call Brijbala 0410 535 109

www.byroncollege.org.au

PETS CAPE BYRON RUDOLF STEINER SCHOOL (CBRSS) RECEPTIONIST

Full time (school term time only)

CBRSS is a vibrant and progressive K-12 school dedicated to the educational principles inspired by Rudolf Steiner. The Receptionist role requires a dynamic and enthusiastic person able to meet the demands of a busy front office. The position requires high level multi-tasking and time management skills. Attention to detail and excellent communication both written and verbal are essential. As the Receptionist is also the School First Aid Officer, the successful applicant must hold a current First Aid Certificate and be skilled and experienced at providing first aid care Applicants will hold a NSW Working with Children Check. Applications close Monday 24 April 2017. Position Description and application process available www.capebyronsteiner.nsw.edu.au

MUSICAL NOTES Creative Cook

FEMALE VOCALIST for album recording. Ph Aaron 0458535760

The Crystal Castle has an opening for a Vegetarian Cook - 4 days per week, approx. 8.30-3.30. Must work week ends. The successful applicant will have substantial cooking and short order experience, integrate well into a stable, open and dynamic team, communicates at a high level. Long term applicants only, preferably longer than one year. Please email your cover letter and resume to videha@crystalcastle.com.au

QUALITY PIANOS for sale, and expert piano tuning. Ph Fred Cole 0412216019

BYRON BAY BARISTA SCHOOL Courses start at $109. Ph 0457537486

RICKARDS, WAYNE.

TUITION

Passed away peacefully at home with family and friends at his side. Much loved father of Dale. Very much loved brother of Pam. Loved longtime friend of Deidre.

FRENCH • ITALIAN • GERMAN Eva 66846760 or 0403224842 www.languagetuitionbyron.com.au SPANISH PRIVATE CLASSES For beginners, advanced & children. Native speaker, HSC. Pia 0434485584 GUITAR & DRUM LESSONS 25 years exp. Aron 0458535760 PIANO LESSONS All ages, beg to intermediate. Degree qualiﬁed teacher. Ph Emma 0422807595 MATHS TUITION Qualiﬁed teacher, 25 years experience. Grade 4 to HSC. Andrew 0413294982

ECHO CLASSIFIEDS • 66841777 •

FUNERAL NOTICES JOHN RICHARD EVANS Passed away peacefully at home 9 April 2017, aged 94 years. Family and friends are invited to celebrate John’s life at the family house, 2 Newberry Parade, Brunswick Heads on Friday 21st April at 11am. RSVP Barry on 0455955988

PUPPIES female blue Smithﬁeld, red male. Free to good homes. 0488163676

COMPANION ANIMALS WELFARE INC. Lulu is still looking for her loving forever home. She is a delightful young staffy x ridgeback who is small in size but big in heart! She wants nothing more than to spend her time with you and shower you with affection and cuddles. She loves to play with people, dogs and cats (if they’ll let her), and enjoys trips to the beach to follow her nose and romp in the waves. If you are interested in adopting Lulu, please contact Megan on 0458 461 935. The Easter Bunny didn’t bring chocolate to the shelter this Easter BUT he did bring cuteness in the form of 4 gorgeous kittens! These beauties were sadly left at the shelter door with no note. Thankfully a volunteer found them & brought them in to safety. These new arrivals have meant we are struggling for room & we really need loving homes to be found soon for all our cats & kittens. If you can open your heart & home to these beauties, please visit us at the Cat Adoption Centre, 124 Dalley Street, Mullumbimby. OPEN: Tues 2.30–4.30pm Thurs 3–5pm Sat 10am–12 noon Call AWL 6684 4070

Sally is a 10-year-old desexed female Staffy x. She has a lovely nature, is good with other dogs and children. If you can give Sally a permanent, loving home please contact Pam on 0421 017 461. Visit friendsofthepound.com to view other dogs and cats looking for a home.

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.

It’s raining cats & dogs!

Every year many thousand unwanted cats and dogs are born to pets that haven’t been desexed. And sadly, most end up being put down. So please...

desex your pets! ONLY ADULTS

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 SOFT HANDS WARM OIL Sensual touch. Mature & discreet. Byron. 0407264343 sensualmassagebyronbay.com SOPHISTICATED EROTIC PLEASURE Full body, erotic massage www.erotictouchbyronbay.com Ph 0406582418 HOT LIKE HONEY, SWEET LIKE CHOCOLATE Luscious Bodywork & Sensual Touch Elegant Hot Caribbean Beauty 28yo Wed & Thursday only 0407013347 www.touchofjustine.com

TOUCH of JUSTINE What you came to Byron Bay for...

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SOCIAL ESCORTS

Wayne will be sadly missed by all who knew him. Family and friends are invited to attend Wayne’s funeral service to be held at the Baptist Church, Rajah Road, Ocean Shores on THURSDAY (April 20, 2017) commencing at 10.00am.

6684 6232

North Coast news daily: www.echonetdaily.net.au

NIMBUS is just a year old. A very colourful tortie with green eyes and white, ginger and black colouring. Nimbus is a friendly and loveable young girl who has not yet had a chance to enjoy a normal life. Her days are very long and empty, as she waits for that elusive adoption. She is an easy going cat who will make any family more complete. Remember the saying; “A home without a cat is just a house!“.

All cats are desexed, vaccinated and microchipped.

Please make an appointment 0403 533 589 • Billinudgel petsforlifeanimalshelter.net

6685 6807 6628 7333

2nd SAT Flea, Byron YAC 0490 026 840 2nd SAT Woodburn 0439 489 631

BEREAVEMENT NOTICES

RTO NO: 90013

6628 4495 0417 759 777

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. Michelle 30s, stunning brunette, size 6 DD. Nikki 27, affectionate Asian, tall, slim, busty. Spoil yourself. In & out. Ladies always wanted. 66816038 BYRON AREA OUTCALLS. Phone 0421401775 SEXY ESCORT Outcalls only. 0478109345 OUTCALLS 0451579023 BALLINA EXCLUSIVE 34 Piper Dr. Open 7 days 10am till late. In & Out Calls. 66816038. Ladies wanted Find us on Facebook!

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

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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.

EMERGENCY NUMBERS Please stick this by your phone

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

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Lewin pads up for Australia Ross Kendall

Bangalow’s Lewin Maladay is well on his way to realising his dream of playing international and professional cricket at the highest level after being selected to play in the Australian U/19 side in a home series against Sri Lanka. ‘It’s very exciting to represent my country. I’m very honoured,’ the young wicketkeeper/batsman said from Hobart, where his side had a draw against Sri Lanka in a four-day game. Lewin moved to Bangalow when he was three years old and easily took to cricket. He played for the local side as well as Byron Bay and Lennox Head cricket clubs. He also played for his school, St John’s College Woodlawn in Lismore, as well as Far North Coast representative sides. It was a ‘fantastic accident’ that set up Lewin as a wicket keeper/batsman, he said. He used to be a pace bowler but had a few back problems when he was in the U/14s. At that time in a

‘Epic’ finish to first ultimate disc final

Four ultimate teams that played in the first-ever local competition in Byron Bay. Photo supplied Paul Glennie Former Byron Shire cricketer Lewin Maladay was able to score quick runs for the Australian U/19 side in their series against Sri Lanka. Photo Cricket Australia

school tournament his side didn’t have a wicket-keeper so he stepped into the role, and now finds himself playing in an Australian team. ‘It is my number-one goal to be a professional cricketer. Being selected for the U/19s goes a long way to realising that dream,’ he said. The northern rivers’ most recent Australian cricketer, Adam Gilchrist, was also a

wicket-keeper/batsman. Lewin didn’t really follow Gilchrist when he played, as he was too young, but he has had the opportunity to meet him since then, and was able to take on some good advice. In the first game of Sri Lanka’s tour against Australia Lewin didn’t get to bat in the first innings and scored 17 off 20 balls chasing quick runs in the second innings. He also

took two catches. Australia won the following one-day game convincingly. Lewin scored nine off 15 balls (again chasing quick runs) and again took two catches. Lewin is currently living and working in Sydney after deferring his studies to concentrate on cricket. He plays grade cricket with the University of New South Wales.

Home fans eager for Giants return to Mullum Nothing would be sweeter than a win for the Mullumbimby Giants rugby league team as they take on Murwillumbah for the Grant Cook Cup, in their first home game of 2017 this Sunday. The Giants marked their return to the NRRRL after a year’s absence with an ‘onthe-bell’ loss playing away to Casino before Easter. They now look to their

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first home game of the season to get some points on the competition table. ‘There is a bit of a buzz at the moment regarding our close loss and people are talking of what may come for the rest of the season,’ Giants supporter Steve Butler said. ‘It’s a great sign seeing as how we have sat out a season’. Grant Cook played league for both Murwillumbah and

Mullumbimby before he passed away last year. His parents will be on hand to present the cup to the winning captain. The Giants captain/coach Sam Martin is confident his new-look side can get up for the win, and really just has to stick to the basics. ‘If we can come together as a group and be more clinical in attack, and make fewer

mistakes, we will put up a good fight,’ Sam said. ‘They are a good side so it will come down to who is hungrier on the day,’ he said. The Giants weren’t able to field a Reserve Grade side against Casino, and will assess numbers before the weekend. The action starts from 1.30pm at the Manns Rd, Mullumbimby Rugby League ground.

The Grandpoos won an epic final against the Spectrum team to claim the inaugural Rainbow League ultimate Frisbee competition. The Grandpoos came back from 1–6 down, by scoring seven points in a row, to win 8–6. Unbelievable stuff. It was an agonisingly close loss for Spectrum, who were a severely reduced team without four of their regular players.

MVP in the final was Sam Schlencker. Most Improved: Gus Anderson. Hills Have Eyes claimed bronze, while Refraction came in fourth place. All seven games of the prefinal round robin were hard fought and close. The finals were played on the Monday before Easter. The Hills team brought many new people through – some of them for their first taste of the ultimate. Rainbow League 2017 was a success.

Four men’s teams on the park for Shores United

Glen Bower defends for Shores United 6s. Photo supplied

‘Wilko’ chasing back-to-back titles at Bells Crystal Cylinders

Byron Bay’s Matt Wilkinson got off to an awesome start at the The Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach with a big win over three-time WSL Champion Mick Fanning and Brazil’s Jadson Andre in the opening heat of round one. Wilkinson got an early start with a 6.90 and a 5.83 backup score. Fanning posted two solid 6-point rides, but fell just 0.33 points short of the win. Wilkinson is the defending event champion and, while he is confident, he realises the challenge ahead of him. ‘Defending an event title is really tough, especially when you come up against Mick Fanning in round one.

I’ve been working my whole career to improve my seed so I don’t come up against guys like Mick early and now, after his year off, he’s down in the bottom seeds and I have to deal with him again,’ he said. ‘I’m stoked to get that win. It was a really long wait for the sets, but when they come they’re really fun. That’s what you have to expect at Bells. You just have to manage your patience out there,’ he said. Wilkinson jumped straight into round three, where he has drawn Wiggolly Dantas from Brazil. Lennox Head’s Stuart Kennedy put on a great performance with his trademark forehand swoops, but it wasn’t enough as ex-world champion Gabriel Medina

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Matt Wilkinson powers at Bells Beach. Photo Sloane/WSL

took control of the roundone heat. Kennedy surfed again in round two against Bede Durbidge and, while Stu got off to a good start, he couldn’t improve on his first two rides

and Durbidge ran away with the win. Kennedy finished in equal 25th position. The Bells Beach Pro is Australia’s longest-running and most highly regarded professional surfing contest.

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Shores United’s dreams came true on April 8 when all four men’s teams played at home for the first time. In the first division the Brown Snakes took on expremier league South Lismore, under lights. The match was played at an incredible pace not seen before at Shores. A big crowd saw the injury-affected Snakes involved in a classic arm wrestle with the highly rated Souths. The physical battle raged on with a number of tough challenges, but scores were locked nil all at the half. The Snakes came out in the second half and slowly began to get the upper hand, and, managed to score. The arm wrestle resumed and just when it seemed the

Snakes had done enough, Souths cut through the middle to equalise. The final 1–1 score was a fair result in a cracker of a game. The day kicked off with the mighty 7s far too good for a brave but outclassed Eureka. Goals from Utchy, Hedgy and a hat trick from super Ray sealed the deal: Shores 5 Eureka 2. Next up Shores 6s tackled an organised Lennox Head and went down 3–0. They are improving. In the 4th division match against the poor flooded-out boys from South Lismore, Shores came back from 2–1 down at half time to earn a 3–3 draw. With just seconds to go Kaine was able to bludgeon a cross into the net and share the spoils of the game. A great day for Shores.

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Flood Appeal Linen & Blanket Flood Appeal Lismore & Murwillumbah – Mullumbimby Uniting Church is assisting with the collection. Drop-off points at Sheer Hair & Beauty Burringbar St, Bridglands furniture Burringbar St, Uniting Church Dalley St, Ocean Shores Country Club, Brunswick Bowling Club. For collection please ph 6684 6328 or 0428 846 328.

Compost Central Free public talk with Andrew from Compost Central every Saturday 10am sharp till 11am in April and May at Santos Organics, Bayshore Drive, Byron Bay. Learn about compost buckets, garden ships, The Troff.

Free Biodanza class Biodanza – a beautiful movement system to have fun, restore vitality and connect

Regular As Clockwork DEADLINE NOON FRIDAY Please note that, owing to space restrictions, not all entries may be included each week. Email copy marked ‘Regular As Clockwork’ to editor@echo.net.au.

Neighbourhood Centre 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.

Low-cost or free food 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.

Meditation Buddhist meditation teaching and 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.

Library fun 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.

No-interest loans 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

with yourself and others, Tuesday 6.30pm, Mullumbimby. Contact Jazmin 0401 397 850.

Richard Arnot talk

orphaned wildlife. If you would like to join WIRES and participate in our course on 28 May, please contact us as soon as possible on 6628 1898 or see http:// wiresnr.org/Helping.html.

Friends of Libraries Byron host Richard Arnot, a retired surgeon, who has been the subject of an ABC Australian Story and is the author of two entertaining memoirs, at Heritage House on Friday 21 April at 5.30pm. Tickets $10 include wine and cheese on arrival and are available at Bangalow Newsagency (6687 1396).

Ocean Shores Art Expo

New Spiritual Horizons

Rainbow Vegans picnic

A free soul food taster – learn to use your ESP for good, Wednesdays 19 and 26 April and 3 May at 2pm, Yum Yum Tree Cafe, New Brighton. Bridge 0431 691 562.

Rainbow Vegans’ family-friendly picnic to raise awareness for Humane Research Australia, 20 April, Torakina Park. Bring a vegan meal to share. There will be 500 rainbow blissballs to enjoy. More info at Facebook event Vegan Picnic Time!

Byron Sophia Byron Sophia Philosophical Group: Metamorphosis: From Caterpillar to Butterfly, presented by Celia Novy, Thursday 20 April, 1–3pm, at Uniting Church, Carlyle St, Byron Bay. Info: Celia 6684 3623.

WIRES is recruiting

We invite artists to enter by 24 July for the OS Art Expo, to be held 25–27 August. The theme is ‘Spirit of the Land’. Information at www.osartexpo.com and now on Instagram at ocean_shores_ art_expo.

Upper Main Arm AGM Upper Main Arm Community Association Inc AGM at Kohinur Hall on Wednesday 19 April from 5.30pm.

Chemical Free Landcare

The local branch of NSW Wildlife Information, Rescue and Education Service offers a basic training course that will teach you how to safely rescue and provide emergency care for injured and

Byron Shire Chemical Free Landcare working bee Saturday 22 April, 8.30am– 12.30pm at Brunswick Heads Crown Land Reserve site. Meet at the end of South Beach Road fire track gate. Details 0478 272 300.

essential goods and services. Contact the Byron Community Centre to find out more.

Head, on Sundays 7.30 for 8am start. Info Marian 6688 4058, mazzerati2010@ gmail.com.

Budgeting Support

Op shops

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.

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 to shop 6684 4718. 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.

Bush School 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

Museums Brunswick Valley Historical Society Inc Museum corner of Myocum and Stuart Sts Mullumbimby, open Tuesdays and Fridays 10-12 and market Saturdays 9-1. Discover your local history, join our team – 6684 4367. Bangalow Museum & Tea Room open Tuesday-Friday 10am-3pm, Cnr Ashton & Deacon Sts Bangalow. Volunteers sought, please contact the museum 6687 2183.

Drug support groups 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. 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. We are recovering addicts who meet regularly to help each other stay clean. 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

Men’s Groups Complete Men has regular fortnightly men’s groups on different nights in both Byron and Mullum. Call Tim Fisk 0422 508 533.

Repair Cafe 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.

Rainbow Dragons Rainbow Dragons Abreast (RDA) welcomes breast cancer survivors for a paddle at Lake Ainsworth, Lennox

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Carers’ support 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.

Toastmasters 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

Dying2Talk Dying2Talk with Byron Hospice Service (formerly Amitayus) Wed 19 April, 7pm at Mullum Drill Hall. Cuppa and yummy cake – gold-coin donation. Byron Hospice Service AGM at 8.30pm – you’re welcome to join us for that too. RSVP to info@byronhospice.org.au or 6684 3808 for catering purposes.

Animal Justice Party

Occupy ourselves – Rethinking who we are in a post capitalist world

Animal Justice Party Northern Rivers Supporters Group meets Saturday 22 April at 2pm in Bangalow RSL Hall. All welcome. Enquiries christina_hart1@ hotmail.com or 6687 0607. PETRA KING

Free holiday fun

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Free holiday fun for kids at Byron Bay Library, Friday 21 April: magical storytime and craft session with children’s entertainer Fairy Poppilina. Come dressed as your favourite story character. All ages. Bookings essential: 6685 8540.

Wed 26 April 2017 6:30pm At the Court House Hotel, Mullumbimby NGARA Institute www.ngarainstitute.org.au

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. Mullumbimby 7–9 pm. Contact Ashni 0439 843 657 or Mani on 0488 433 047.

Entry – Suggested donation $10 Delicious, healthy Court House meals available from 5.30pm Also watch out for ‘Beyond the Pub’ series of Post Talk Discussion Groups.

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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.

Choirs Bay Community Singers is a singalong group for seniors and anyone else 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.

ManTime 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.

Sex & Love Addicts Anon 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.

$1,000 GRANTS MARCH/APRIL 2017 PERIOD The Lions Club of Brunswick Mullumbimby are offering

BI-MONTHLY GRANTS up to $1,000 These grants can be applied for by any Not-For-Proﬁt organisation or group which supports our local community within the Byron Shire (except Bangalow who have their own Lions Club) i.e. Church groups, health groups, local charities, service groups, any humanitarian purposes. These grants will be offered every two months. Contact the Lions Club of Brunswick Mullumbimby PO Box 12 Mullumbimby Email: clairejharris999@gmail.com An application will be sent to you. Applications must be received by 14th April 2017. The $1,000 grant for the Jan/ Feb period was awarded to 1st Brunswick Heads Scouts for new equipment Unsuccessful applications do not carry forward, a new application is required. Any questions phone Tony Cornell 6680 2011, Joan Towers 0400 484 419 or Claire Harris 6680 3707.

Cryptic Clues

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1. A gentle pain – be brave! (6) 5. Top salt in wood? (8) 9. Jo holds the drink! (8) 10. Trademark aura damaged – shock! (6) 11. Placid peer wandering – drunk! (5,5) 13. Hell, hot plate (4) 14. Betting journalist ran away (4) 15. Try to lodge complaint about cave dweller (10) 18. Oppose Poles over a time when a choice must be made (10) 20. Happiness is a good shelter (4) 21. Pop group goes both ways (4) 23. Lack of faith, sadly, in tidy life (10) 25. Rub down Jolson’s shoe (6) 26. Music company values Middle Eastern kingdoms (8) 28. Influence spider in weaving (8) 29. Shoot at nothing, Murphy (6)

1. American Indian (6) 5. Peak, mountain top (8) 9. Large container, usually for wine (8) 10. Pain, shock (6) 11. Fermented fruit drink (5,5) 13. Plate, meal (4) 14. Raced, hurried (4) 15. Cave dweller (10) 18. Intersection of two thoroughfares (10) 20. Happiness, joy (4) 21. Swedish pop group (4) 23. Unfaithfulness, especially adultery (10) 25. Open footwear (6) 26. Middle Eastern kingdoms (8) 28. Encouraged, set an example (8) 29. Tuberous vegetable (6)

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2. Mythical musician who freed Hamelin from rats and children (4,5) 3. Cooled, iced (7) 4. Self, sometimes conceit (3) DOWN 5. Yearned. Longed for (5) 2. Bi-coloured pest controller and 6. Conferred the rights of nationality kidnapper (4,5) and citizenship (11) 3. Cold kid hugs the French (7) 7. Given a prize or honour (7) 4. Self worth, for instance; nothing (3) 8. Citrus fruit (5) 5. Longed to nail journalist (5) 12. Grub, a garden pest (11) 6. Conferred citizenship on Stalin – a 16. Eggs, usually within an animal (3) rude shock! (11) 17. Medical regimen, or adaptation of 7. Amazed about a little road – won a book for a film (9) the prize! (7) 19. Become erect; also a type of comic (5-2) 8. Applies soil conditioner to citrus 20. Valorous and courteous (7) trees (5) 22. Strength; also pressed pork (5) 12. Supply medication, a right pest! 24. Demon, devil (5) (11) 27. Small devil (3) 16. Raise restraining order for eggs (3) 17. Pay for staff time for film version of Last week’s solution N174 A R I S T O P H A N E S a book (9) B L T O O N V 19. Break a date with the comic (5-2) A N S W E R S S A D S A C K 20. Irritate the worker – how R O R C E A S E courageous! (7) N I R V A N A D E N S I T Y A A T N T V S 22. Meatloaf shows strength (5) B I N G E I M P L E M E N T 24. Ally abandons resistance, becomes Y N R O a demon (5) J A C K K N I F E P A E A N O A L S R M E 27. 4 politician is a little 24 (3) Y A N K C A E S S E T M A R

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Backlash We received an unusual comment on a development application by way of this note from Phillip M’Bottle: ‘I am riting to say that I am very mush in flavor of the dishtillery at the end of Muddle Picket Road. I enjoy a tipple in the afternoon and a quiet drive home along back country roads after a few rums, and gins, and vodkas sounds like a gr8 way to sphend an afternoon. The council should put a bottle slop at the end of every valley – that way nobody would worry about the poshholes.’ Q Q Q Q

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While on the subject of drugs, we note that Canada is likely to legalise recreational marijuana by July 2018, joining a few other enlightened nations that think ingesting a plant is not a major crime. (Wikipedia offers a map of where marijuana is tolerated under the heading ‘Legality of cannabis by country’. It may need updating.) Read more on Canada’s proposed legislation on Echonetdaily at echo.net.au/ canada-moves-legalise-recreational-pot. Australia still has a broom up its arse, clinging to the old mythology promoted by corrupt US official Harry J Anslinger (1892–1975), despite the best efforts of lobby groups such as the Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation http://adlrf.org.au. And while events such as Mardi Grass in Nimbin (nimbinmardigrass. com) keep the drug-law debate alive – and bring in the tourist dollar – they still tend to stereotype the image of the pot smoker as a colourful (ageing) hippie when in reality people across all social milieus indulge from time to time. Q Q Q Q

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Easter Sunday at Bluesfest just wouldn’t be the same without driver-to-the-stars Max wearing his bunny ears. This year Max brought along buddy ‘Busta’ for the ride to entertain rock stars on their trip to the stage. Photo Tree Faerie

about thinking of the wildlife as well as the humans in the wake of Cyclone Debbie. Now wildlife rescue group WIRES is looking for more volunteers and is running a training course on May 28. Don’t wait, give them a call on 6628 1898 or visit http://wiresnr.org/ Helping.html. Check out the cute pictures as well. Q Q Q Q

The impact of feral animals on wildlife is also significant. And plenty of local farmers and other residents have seen the devastation wild dogs can cause among their livestock and pets. (Not only wild dogs but town dogs allowed to run free at night.) Now there’s the NSW Wild Dog Management Strategy 2017–2021 in preparation and you can have your say until May 5 at http://bit. ly/wildpooch. According to DPI’s invasive species strategy manager, Quentin Hart, ‘the national impact of wild dogs on livestock, including

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