The Byron Shire Echo – January 24, 2018

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VERY DECENT EXPOSURE SINCE 1986

Mungo’s take Second instalment Intentional on snag ’n’ flag of the Bruns carnival communities day – p10 mural protest – p4 – p7

More rail land to be flogged off by bureaucrats

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Another parcel of valuable railway land is now in the process of being prepared to be sold, owing to its being ‘surplus to requirements’ of Transport for NSW staff.

The large railway corridor is located in the heart of Mullumbimby, opposite Tony Carsburg, and runs along Prince and Argyle Streets.

It’s the second sale flagged by the department in recent weeks; sale of a 611sqm parcel of railway land behind the Wollongbar Motel on Shirley Street in Byron Bay is underway.

While the confirmation by Transport for NSW drew the ire of local MP Tamara Smith (Greens), The Echo is yet to hear from locally based MLC Ben Franklin (Nationals) on whether he supports the sale.

The Echo asked the government department, ‘Is this a decision by an elected official or by staff ? Is there a potential buyer, how large is the area’, and, ‘will this mean that no train will ever return to this line?’

A Transport for NSW spokesperson replied, ‘The land is owned by Transport for NSW and surplus to our requirements. We are in the early stages of putting the land up for sale.’

Expressions of interest They continued, ‘The land is not needed to keep the corridor viable.

The land will be put out for expressions of interest at some time in the future. The total area is still to be determined.’

Local state MP Tamara Smith told The Echo, ‘Our rail corridors belong continued on page 2

Lumberjack Simon Bennett belts it out at the Brunswick Heads Woodchop Carnival, which was held last weekend. Regarded as the biggest woodchopping event outside the Sydney and Brisbane shows, it draws international contestants from New Zealand and the USA. Full roundup in sport, page 46. Photo Jeff Dawson

Online in netdaily Ballina council considers legal action against Wardell Hotel www.echo.net.au/ballina-councilconsiders-legal-action-wardell-hotel

West Byron, traffic chaos and political support: developers reply With a development application (DA) for a massive 108-hectare housing/commercial estate closing for public submissions soon, The Echo has asked for reconfirmation of the landowners’ identities and ask why their DA is submitted without a clear path to reducing Byron’s traffic issues.

The 387-lot West Byron proposal, situated on Ewingsdale Road near Byron Bay, has seen longtime opposition by residents, and the latest attempt to get approval comes without clear traffic management or environmental safeguards, and is presented without a clear path to completion.

Despite repeated requests, local Nationals MLC Ben Franklin is yet to reply to The Echo’s questions but has previously said he is concerned with the development’s potential impacts.

A spokesperson for the group said the West Byron development is made up of nine holdings – in no particular order, they are Tony Smith, Alan Heathcote, Peter Croke, continued on page 3

Pokies to be removed from Beachie Paul Bibby

Byron’s Beach Hotel is set to become the first licensed venue in the Shire to get rid of its pokies in a bid to reduce problem gambling.

In a move that anti-gambling advocates hope will inspire other local venues, the incoming owners of the hotel have pledged to start

shutting down its 15 machines from the moment they officially take over on February 26.

It comes as new figures show that people in the Shire pour about $138 million into the pokies each year, losing about 10 cents from every dollar they drop into the slot.

Daniel Madhavan, the CEO of the Impact Investment Group (IIG),

which is leading the syndicate of new owners, said it was clear poker machines were bad for individuals and bad for the community.

‘They’re designed to be addictive, and that’s exactly what they are,’ Mr Madhavan said.

‘We simply don’t see how poker machines in local communities can be reconciled with what we

consider responsible.

‘So with the Van Haandel family, who run the Beach Hotel, sharing our vision, we can do our bit by closing the door to the gaming room once and for all.’

With 429 poker machines across 20 clubs and pubs, the Byron Shire is not as pokie-drenched as some local continued on page 2

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How pokies affect the Shire

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The Woolbank family – J J Dean, Laqicia, Zara and Rena – set out from their Terania Creek farm on Sunday to ride to Cabarita. The posse passed through Mullum on Monday and expect to reach the Caba by Wednesday. Photo Jeff Dawson

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to the community and are held in trust by the government of the day. Communities in our region (and my ancestors) lobbied for decades in the late 19th century for rail transport on the north coast to support regional economies and bring connectivity between communities in the northern rivers.’

Fossil-fuel reliant Ms Smith continued, ‘When the government of the day decided that rail was no longer financially viable, they removed that connectivity and left us utterly reliant on cars and fossil fuels.’

‘The idea that they can now sell up that public land

and place it in the coffers of a government that has leased to private corporations more than 80 per cent of our state infrastructure should disturb us all very much.

Sold the farm ‘There seems to be no end to the greed of the NSW Nationals and Liberals, who having already “sold the farm” in terms of our poles and wires, is selling off our precious public land at an unprecedented rate.

‘Our foremothers and fathers paid in blood, sweat, tears and taxes over many decades to get rail in our region. The corridors belong to the community and we decide what happens to that

continued from page 1 government areas in NSW. However, figures from the Independent Liquor & Gaming Authority (ILGA) show that those who gamble on pokies in the Shire still lost $12.8m last financial year on the one-armed bandits.

That equates to $34,794 per day.

Our per capita losses of $388 per person per year puts us roughly on par with the other shires in the northern rivers, except for Tweed, which is way higher thanks to its mega-clubs.

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‘If the current government won’t support public transport along our currently disused rail corridors, then give them to us to manage and support us with grants to restore the connectivity and regional commerce that we once had.’

The manager of the Northern Rivers Gambling Counselling Service, Emma Ryan, said that the majority of problem gamblers who came to the service were poker-machine users, and a significant proportion came from the Byron Shire.

‘We see people from Byron, from Brunswick Heads, it’s across the board – any age, socioeconomic background and pretty much equal numbers of men and women,’ Ms Ryan said.

She said poker machines were addictive because they offered an escape.

‘It gives people a way of zoning out of life by putting them in an altered state,’ Ms Ryan said.

‘It’s not about winning big, it’s about buying more time to be in that bubble.’

Public asset sale

The main players

The Echo asked Mr Franklin, ‘Do you support this public asset sale and if so, why?

Shouldn’t politicians make these types of decisions instead of unelected bureaucrats? Are you concerned this trend would lead to no train ever being able to return to the railway line?’

The Echo did not receive a reply by deadline.

Byron’s licensed clubs are, not surprisingly, the biggest pokie purveyors in the Shire.

Mullumbimby’s Ex-Services Club tops the list with 74 machines, followed by the

Mullum railway land to be sold

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POKIES IN THE BYRON SHIRE Number of pokies:

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Annual turnover:

$138.8M Annual losses:

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$34,794

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Byron Bay Services Club (60 machines).

Clubs NSW has consistently stated that without poker machine revenue, its members would have to cease providing services to the community such as sponsoring local sporting teams and offering reasonably priced meals and entertainment.

However, Stephen Mayne, a spokesman from the Alliance for Gambling Reform, said clubs often grossly overstated their community contributions.

‘The reality is that most of the revenue from poker machines gets spent on a club’s own operations,’ Mr Mayne said. ‘Most clubs throw a few crumbs to the community to justify the massive harm they cause through poker machines.’

Refurbishment Impact Investment Group says getting rid of the Beach Hotel’s poker machines is part of a broader plan to transform the hotel into a more ‘socially conscious space’.

The Echo understands it is planning to spend $800,000 to turn the existing poker machine area into a small bar with a ‘local’ theme that will

feature local produce, drinks, art and music.

A further $1m will reportedly be spent on renovations including environmental improvements designed to cut the pub’s carbon footprint by 39 per cent.

There is also a plan to reduce the venue’s water use and general waste.

‘We did an audit, again working closely with the Van Haandels, and there are big opportunities to bring down LPG use, and to bring down grid electricity consumption,’ Mr Madhavan said.

‘There’s a lot of roof space for solar panels, and if necessary, we could top it up with high-quality local offsets.’

Seeking investors Since agreeing on a sale price of $70m with the current owner, businessman Max Trigg, last September, Impact Investment Group has been actively seeking investors to join the syndicate of owners.

The Echo understands that they have had considerable interest from both local and international investors and that final settlement of the property will take place as planned on February 26.

January 26 – program of events Australia Day/Survivial Day in Byron Shire will see many free community events throughout the towns.

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In Brunswick Heads, Services of Brunswick Valley will hold a breakfast in the park from 7am till 10am at the Housie Tent. There will be free Australian flags, live music, singalong. Cost is $5.

Byron Bay Byron Bay’s breakfast event will be hosted by the Rotary Club from 7.30am till 11am next to the Byron Bay Surf Club on Main Beach. There will be light refreshments, free Australian flags and live

entertainment. At 10am there will be an Australia Day Paddle, hosted by the Byron Bay Surf Club. Registration for the paddle is from 8am.

cake, drinks, free Australian flags, children’s entertainment and music.

Survival Day

The official ceremony – by invitation – will be held at the Ocean Shores Country Club from 11am till 1pm.

It will include speeches from the Australia Day ambassador, community awards and a citizenship ceremony.

At the Ocean Shores Public School from 5pm till 7pm there will be a free sausage sizzle, ice pops, cake, drinks, Australian flags, music, mullet-throwing championship, singalong and a rainforest walk.

No event is scheduled in Mullumbimby.

A celebration of the survival of Indigenous culture will also be held in Byron Bay’s Main Beach park from 11am till 3pm. Hosted by the Sisters for Reconciliation, the alcoholfree event will feature music, dancing and kids’ activities.

Suffolk Park Suffolk Park residents are invited to gather at Gaggin Park, Alcorn Street, from 12 noon till 4pm, where there will be a free sausage sizzle,

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Local News SGB Hall fundraiser Friday The South Golden Beach Hall will be raising money for future youth and community events this Friday January 26 from 5 till 8pm, with live music, entertainment and food.

Local student bands Ratmongers, The Dunes and Ebony and Jolina will be playing alongside the band Sugar Rush. Organiser Lotje Boer says, ‘We will also have Inspire Dance troupe from Billinudgel performing. We are raising money for a projector so that we can continue with our movie nights as well as working with the Byron Youth Centre (BYS) to start up a variety of activities for young people.’ For more info visit www.southgoldenbeachcommunitycentre.com.

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Traffic plans The Echo asked, ‘Presumably these local landowners have local interests at heart?

‘Why then would they submit a DA that is clearly flawed in traffic management alone?

‘Their own traffic report appears to have no answers to the increased traffic that will result from this project.

‘How will the West Byron voluntary planning agreement (VPA), which will result in presumably less than 4km of road, adequately address an

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‘Traffic consultants Veitch Lister say to complete the project, ‘up to 300,000m3 of fill will be required to complete the site formation across the whole [West Byron area], in order to achieve the desired flood immunity.’

‘These traffic consultants admit in their report they are ‘unsure how VillaWorld plan to implement their initial works within the western stage one precinct.’ Why would this DA be presented without a clear path to completion?’

The spokesperson replied, ‘It’s important to differentiate between what West Byron can control and the contributions it can make versus the government decision-makers.’

‘The current VPA requires West Byron to contribute $7,000 per lot towards traffic solutions for the area.

‘It is the minister who determines how that money is spent – and that is currently towards Byron Council’s own plan (albeit 30 years old) for the bypass. Were Council and the minister to determine that there was a better solution, the West Byron landowners would be very happy to redo the VPA for the moneys to go to the newly identified traffic solution. Similarly, the West Byron landowners cannot control what VillaWorld do.

‘The VillaWorld project has been mentioned in the West Byron DA, as it is clearly significant in how Council assesses the West Byron application, but the West Byron landowners cannot control it,

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nor can they force VillaWorld to share plans with them.’

The Echo also asked, ‘There appears no politician willing to speak up who is supportive of this proposal.’

‘It was approved by Liberal Pru Goward, who never bothered to come here to inspect it herself when she was planning minister. Is there a politician in support of this project the landowners can name other than the former planning minister?’

The spokesperson replied, ‘All the West Byron landowners can do (and have done) is make applications under the current legislation and ask for that to be assessed.’

‘Ministers and councillors change and they have an opportunity to change laws moving forward if they don’t like what’s been done, but it’s not West Byron’s responsibility to be popular with the cycle of elected representatives.

‘West Byron has written to every new planning minister to offer briefings; they have made the same offer to MPs Ben Franklin (Nationals) and Catherine Cusack (Liberal).

West Byron has also sought to engage with Byron Council officers and councillors at all stages of the project to date and will continue to seek constructive relationships and work towards the best outcome for all parties.

‘There’s very little political mileage for a politician to come out in favour of something that’s already been approved – much easier to be silent or to indicate that you’d have done something different.’

Two large separate West Byron DAs are up for public comment: 10.2017.661.1 and 10.2017.201. Email Byron Shire Council at submissions@byron.nsw.gov.au.

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West Byron landowners reply to DA questions David O’Connor, Garry McDonald, Warren Simmons and Kevin Rogers.

All seven landowners are local, says the spokesperson, except Mr Rogers.

‘The lands that were originally owned by Crighton Properties and then acquired

by Terry Agnew are no longer part of the West Byron project. What is now known as The Harvest Estate is being managed by [QLD construction company] VillaWorld, in a joint venture arrangement with Terry Agnew and have nothing to do with West Byron.

‘The West Byron lands are the subject of a DA we submitted to Byron Shire Council in November 2017.

‘The DA applies for these lands (approximately 58 hectares) to be subdivided into 31 hectares zoned for conservation and 27 hectares to be zoned for low- and mediumdensity housing, light industrial and a neighbourhood centre.’

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Second community action called over sexualised mural at carnival Paul Bibby

Locals calling for the sexualised image of a woman on a children’s ride at Brunswick Heads to be changed will gather for a second community action today (Wednesday).

As debate continues over the image on the Sport Stars ride at the annual Brunswick carnival, those opposed to it are planning to meet in a nearby park with their children to call for a ‘safe community’.

The image depicts model and actress Liz Hurley standing in a provocative pose wearing a bra and suspenders.

A spokeswoman for the group said the action was about giving a voice to those who were concerned about the portrayal of women.

‘I’m supporting this event to draw people in our community together who care about the effects that objectification of women has on our children and our culture,’ the spokeswoman said.

The owner of the carnival, Glen McGregor, declined to comment on the action.

However Mr McGregor has previously stated pub-

Bruns Carnival Sport Stars ride with the image of Liz Hurley covered up. Photo Paul Bibby

licly that neither he nor his family members ‘have a problem with’ the mural, and that he believes the broader community supports the Carnival.

He has also stated that he feels ‘bullied’ by the public criticisms of the ride, many of which have been directed toward him as the owner.

These criticisms have been part of a fiery online debate over the image following a column on the topic by The Echo’s Mandy Nolan and a community action three weeks ago in which local men stood silently in front of

the ride. Mr McGregor has now partially covered up the image with a ‘fun and safety guide’ for the ride.

However, those opposed to the image feel that it needs to be changed completely.

The social media page for the community action says that it will begin at 4pm in the park that runs adjacent to The Terrace, and will involve community members placing their painted handprints on a large page to show their support for the cause.

This will be followed by a speaking circle and live music later in the evening.

Nine arrested in drug-dog swoop Police say nine people have been charged with drug offences, following a drug-dog operation in Byron Bay over the weekend.

One man, who was arrested as part of the operation at around 1.10am on Saturday (January 20) at a pub, was allegedly found with a com-

mercial quantity of drugs.

Police say the 49-year-old was searched after being approached by a drug-detection dog.

MDMA Police allegedly located 20 x 3,4-MDMA pills (6.29g), 20 x methamphetamine pills

(4.9g), 1x diazepam pill, 2x dexamphetamine pills, 1x sildenafil pill, 0.7 grams of MDMA powder and a knife.

The man was subsequently arrested and charged at Byron Bay Police Station.

He was refused bail to appear at Tweed Heads Bail Court on January 21.

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Drone used to rescue Lennox swimmers Lifeguards used a drone to rescue two swimmers caught in heavy surf at Lennox Head yesterday in what has been described as a world first.

The lifeguards were undergoing training in the use of drones when a call came through that two swimmers were in trouble in the surf.

Lifeguard supervisor Jai Sheridan, the 2017 NSW Lifeguard of the Year, was piloting the drone at the time and was able to locate the swimmers within minutes of the initial alert.

Mr Sheridan used the drone, named Little Ripper, to drop a flotation device

to the swimmers, who were then able to make their way back to shore.

Shark mitigation The lifeguards are being trained to use the drones as part of the NSW government’s $16 million shark mitigation strategy. The government is investing $430,000 in drone technology on the north coast.

Deputy premier and minister for regional NSW John Barilaro said Thursday’s rescue proved that the government’s investment was paying off.

‘It’s quite incredible to see

that the NSW Government’s investment in this technology has already resulted in two people having their lives saved,’ Mr Barilaro said.

Northern NSW parliamentary secretary Ben Franklin thanked the lifeguards for their incredible efforts.

‘It took only 70 seconds from when the Little Ripper drone was launched to when it dropped the pod into the ocean for the rescue, a task that would usually take a lifeguard up to six minutes to complete,’ Mr Franklin said.

‘This was an extraordinary rescue with the very best possible outcome.’

Vinnies operations: a closer look Robin Osborne

Every day around ten tonnes of discarded clothing and piles of sundry household items are placed in, or less happily beside, Vinnies collections bins throughout the north coast and other parts of NSW. First dibs on this mountain of material goes to the Vinnies shop volunteers who sort through the donations and set aside clean, undamaged items for sale in one of the 27 shops between Tweed Heads in the north and Laurieton in the south.

Angelo Grande, the Society’s recycling & waste management facilitator says, ‘After some sprucing up these firstquality items go on sale in local Vinnies shops, including Byron Bay, Brunswick Heads and Mullumbimby.’

A small quantity of goods, soiled or damaged, must be sent to landfill, with the re-

mainder being transported to the Vinnies recycling centre in Goonellabah.

The centre, occupying 1,600 square metres, is named after Matthew Talbot, the 19th century Dublin ascetic who is an inspiration for ex-alcoholics worldwide. It is the largest such facility in regional NSW, handling one-fifth of the state’s total clothing donations. Toys, household goods and other recyclable wares are sent to the Vinnies Buy Back Shop, next to the recovery centre at Murwillumbah tip.

Some items – from luggage to car-seat restraints – are sent overseas, mainly to Papua New Guinea, Australia’s nearest neighbour.

PNG, along with several east African countries, is also a destination for the tonnes of reusable clothing that the centre reprocesses.

Angelo Grande’s team of twenty, many on JobStart or

other supervised programs, start with sorting wearable clothes from clean but tattered items that, shorn of buttons and zippers, will be blade-shredded and sold in 5kg or 10kg packs known as ‘Vinnies Bag O Rags’. These are a mainstay for painters, mechanics, car detailers and DIY home improvers.

The bulk of the usable clothing is folded and bundled together for compacting into 210 kg bales using a converted wool press, one of the facility’s cannily adapted pieces of equipment.

These huge packs are moved by forklift to waiting trucks that will take them to shipping containers on the docks and on to outdoor markets in PNG and Africa where the recycled donations will be sold to local people at affordable prices.

Robin Osborne is from Vinnies.

No issue with defecation at Main Beach: Council The Echo was contacted by concerned residents after they became aware that they and several other swimmers at Main Beach, Byron Bay, had recently had eye and ear infections.

They believed these were potentially caused by runoff from cleaning around the shower area at the Main Beach carpark where they understood some late-night drinkers regularly defecate.

However, Byron Shire Council have informed The

‘There have been thousands of people swimming at Main Beach every day over the last month and there have been no complaints to Council and no notifications to the North Coast Area Health Acting general manager Service about eye and ear inMark Arnold said staff have fections,’ Mr Arnold said.

‘If someone is genuinely reported that because there are clean toilets that operate concerned about the cause of 24 hours a day in Apex Park, the eye and ear infection they and public toilets behind the should see a doctor for treatswimming pool there is not ment and ask for tests to pingenerally a problem with point exactly how they may people defecating in the area. have contracted it,’ he said.

Echo that the greywater from the showers and general cleaning ‘goes into two drains which do not feed into the ocean.’

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Skinny dippers cop $500 fines Chris Dobney

The Brunswick Heads tradition of a quick skinny dip appears to be on the way out after a second pair, in their 60s, in a fortnight have been slapped with $1,000 in fines.

Jane McLean told The Echo that she and her male partner walked to a deserted stretch of beach for a quick naked dip on Monday, January 8, as they often do.

But soon after they emerged from the water, a police 4WD vehicle drove up and officers issued them each with a penalty notice for ‘offensive behaviour’ at the maximum fine of $500.

Police now conduct daily patrols of the strip of beach between Elements Resort and Brunswick Heads, following complaints about sexual harassment of women on the beach.

The area set aside for nude bathing by Byron Shire Council has also been reduced to an 800-metre strip commencing 200 metres south of the Grays Lane car park.

Asked whether police should be issuing warnings rather than infringements for first-time offences,

Brunswick Heads Nature Reserve. Photo NPWS

Tweed-Byron inspector Luke Arthurs told The Echo ‘now signage is up, people bathing naked elsewhere will be infringed’ [sic].

Signage dispute But Ms McLean disputes that there is signage warning that nude bathing is not allowed south of Brunswick Heads or informing of any penalties, saying the only sign she could find in the town that precluded nudity was at Torakina.

She said that she and her partner would pay the fines ‘because you’ve got to have a lot of money to challenge something like this in court’ but joked that their only offence was ‘exposing our sixtyyear-old bodies’.

Ms McLean says she has been bathing naked on isolated beaches ‘since I was taken to one by my aunty when I was four years old’.

She and her partner have been living at Brunswick Heads for four years and have been bathing naked regularly undisturbed on quiet sections of beach all of that time.

‘It’s a local thing to go walking along a quiet stretch of beach, take your clothes of, go for a swim and come back,’ she said.

‘Before [the incident] I’ve never seen police drive past.

I had no idea it was illegal, to be honest, or that it was considered offensive behaviour.’

‘If I had money I would [challenge the fine] because it needs to be done – it needs

to be clarified.

‘So far I haven’t met anybody who said “I’m glad they arrested you because that’s disgraceful behaviour”. Most people say “really, I do that too – thanks for letting me know”.

‘It’s common everywhere for people who love nature, isn’t it?’

Ms McLean said she thought the issue was ‘a grey area for police’.

‘There’s a swim in Manly on one of its most populated beaches every year where 1,000 people run naked into the water in an absolutly public part of the beach.

‘The same thing happens in Hobart – and even V Day on Main Beach in Byron Bay.

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Out of step ‘We live in different times now; the policing is out of step with the sensibility of the majority of the community – and no-one I’ve spoken to knows if it’s okay to be topless. They’re driving along the beach trying to get sexual predators but they pick on these two people who happen to be emerging from the water, who obviously would be the last people [to be in that group],’ Ms McLean said.

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Restrictions on cannabis use ‘ridiculous’ North coast people ‘sick of the ridiculous restrictions’ on the use of medicinal cannabis are being urged to join a protest in Canberra on the first day of parliament next month.

Nimbin’s HEMP Embassy is once again sending its giant inflatable mascots, the Big Joint and the LGTB (Lovely Giant Tincture Bottle), to Canberra on Monday February 5.

Embassy president Mi-

chael Balderstone says,‘We welcome anyone who is sick and tired of the ridiculous restrictions on cannabis use to join us.’

‘We’ve been saying for decades this is a miracle medicine, and now the evidence is in, but we are hunted the same as ever.

‘Something has to change, and soon.

‘Our health minister Hunt keeps saying it’s legal, but the

truth is that only applies to people on their deathbed – if they’re lucky!

‘How about we try using cannabis before that point?

Californian experience ‘Why don’t we take notice of California and what’s happened there over the last 20 years?

‘We will not let up on this

serious injustice that is based on lies and misinformation that the powers that be now know.

‘The results from legalising cannabis in some American states cannot be ignored forever and in every case they point to a win-win for everyone.

Except the pharmaceutical industry,’ Mr Balderstone said.

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Palestine friends to target north coast MPs, ABC offices Luis Feliu

Byron Shire’s supporters of Palestine are ramping up their protest against Israel with planned actions against federal MPs on the north coast in coming weeks.

ABC News offices around the states also will be targeted by the Byron Friends of Palestine in the face of what they say is a lack of coverage

by Australian media of the Palestinian struggle against Jewish state occupation.

The group will also lobby for the release of 6,300 Palestinian political prisoners via a petition to the federal

government at a street stall outside Byron Bay post office on Saturday, February 3.

Friends spokesman Gareth Smith said they would lobby for the release of 16-year-old Ahed Tamimi, her mother and aunt, who were arrested

by Israeli military after the girl slapped and punched Israeli soldiers who had injured her brother with a rubber bullet.

Imprisoned ‘Since 1948 about one million have been imprisoned,’ Mr Smith told The Echo.

‘Currently, there are about 400 Palestinian children incarcerated mainly in the Ofer and

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Megiddo prisons and many of these have been tortured.’

Much of the issue of young prisoners is documented under the US campaign ‘No Way To Treat A Child’ (nwttac.dci-palestine.org).

He said details would soon be announced about the actions against Lismore’s and other statewide ABC offices ‘given the dearth of coverage of the Palestinian struggle by our media’.

‘The Turnbull government and the Shorten opposition do not seem overly concerned about Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land so therefore they ought not to be too upset

about the occupation of federal MPs’ offices by Palestinian supporters,’ Mr Smith said.

‘It is proposed to occupy Justine Elliot and Kevin Hogan’s offices in the near future.

Palestinemobile ‘We will also be regularly parking our Palestinian flagfestooned Palestinemobile at Byron’s Main Beach and other parking spots in Byron Bay, Mullumbimby, Ballina and Nimbin. Maxine and I would welcome any comments or suggestions regarding these proposed actions and whether you would be prepared to join us.’

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Local News Council junkies get Feb 1 hit Byron Shire councillors and staff will be facing the community and thrashing through a 529-page agenda on February 1 from 9am.

Up for discussion and voting is the future development of the Cavanbah Centre (including primitive camping grounds and markets), the return of the Byron Rec Grounds POM, and the Mullum Hospital site acquisition and remediation. Oh, and if anyone was interested in a transparent process for selecting a new general manager after Ken Gainger waves us goodbye, you will be disappointed as that’s confidential.

To offset the secrecy, an item called ‘Effective Community Engagement and Participative Decision Making’ will be tabled.

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Half way to 100 Youth assault plainclothes police in Apex Park

Happy 50th Mandy ‘Marilyn Monroe’ Nolan! Ocean Shore Country Club was transformed into an 80s-themed disco on Saturday night in celebration of Ms Nolan’s grand milestone. Apart from a funky dance perfomance by the Cassettes, Mandy’s son Charlie managed to steal the show with his quirky video tribute, which featured her family. Here’s to the next 50! Photo Jeff Dawson

Private landowners encouraged to ‘make up logging shortfall’ Chris Dobney

The North East Forest Alliance (NEFA) has hit out at calls from the Department of Primary Industries (DPI) for up to 18,000 north coast farmers to consider logging their properties.

Last week’s call from the DPI followed a $750,000 project that surveyed more than 600 landholders, wood processors and contractors, and mapped more than five million hectares of north coast forests.

According to a department media release, ‘three quarters of the private native forests (PNF) on the north coast are commercial forest types that can be sustainably managed for timber,’ but it added that ‘forest productivity is well below what it could be’.

The project team has developed a model that rates larger blocks of forested land according to their forestry importance. The model takes account of forest size, type and productivity, terrain roughness and distance to wood processing facilities.

Prime sites identified On the far north coast the principal areas targeted for logging are: in Byron Shire Upper Main Arm, Goonengerry and Broken Head; in Ballina Shire the high-quality koala habitat near Wardell and Coolgardie; in Lismore LGA the Mackellar

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Logging in proximity to endangered species on private land at Whian Whian in 2013 sparked widespread protests from environmentalists and locals, resulting in a police guard. Photo supplied

and Koonorigan Ranges; and in Tweed Shire around Mount Warning and Doon Doon.

NEFA argues the motivation for the project appears to be to identify private forests for loggers to target for sawlogs ‘as supplies from public lands continue to rapidly decline’.

According to NEFA spokesperson Dailan Pugh, ‘DPI surveys of both millers and logging contractors attest to the degraded nature of northeast NSW’s public and private forests owing to overlogging, with supplies of highquality sawlogs rapidly declining across the forest estate.’

‘Regrettably 80 per cent of private landowners are reported as having little understanding of or interest in the logging rules, with 67 per cent of contractors believing most landowners are only interested in maximising short-

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term income,’ he said.

‘The government needs to do more than just help loggers identify and flog the best stands remaining; they have a responsibility to identify and protect old-growth forests, the habitat of threatened species, endangered ecological communities and other special values. These too need to be mapped.’

Koalas targeted Mr Pugh said the NSW Government is ‘targeting the best koala habitat left on private land for intensified logging, with the promised koala strategy nowhere to be seen’.

‘There is nothing sustainable about forestry as currently practised, and the government’s current proposals to increase logging intensity while slashing the few protections for threatened species

and stream buffers on both public and private lands will just increase its unsustainability,’ he said.

Incentives ‘For those landholders who want to do the right thing the government should be providing incentive payments for management of forests to protect threatened species, improve stream quality, enhance rainfall, and store everincreasing volumes of atmospheric carbon as they age. This is to the benefit of all of us.

‘For those landholders who don’t care, the government needs to ensure that the logging rules for private lands are improved to limit the ongoing degradation, introduce meaningful protection for threatened species, and improve protection for streams,’ Mr Pugh said.

Two Byron Bay 18-year-olds have been charged with assaulting police, resisting arrest, and affray after an incident in Apex Park in the early hours of Sunday morning.

At around 1.10am, plainclothes police were in Apex Park, at the corner of Bay and Jonson Streets in Byron Bay and say they witnessed a woman, who was being restrained by an unknown male, standing in the middle of Bay Street, screaming profanity and threats of violence in the direction of Apex Park.

The two senior constables say they approached the woman, holding out badges and photo ID cards towards the group. They spoke with the female and male, introducing themselves as police officers.

Despite preliminary attempts to pacify the hysteri-

cal female, within seconds of their arrival to assist with the situation, both police were set upon by a group of five or six males who began questioning police involvement.

The situation was becoming volatile and police were quickly surrounded by about six males, plus the accused pair, all of whom ignored police directions to disperse.

The two accused and some of the others present then assaulted the officers, who received lacerations to their heads and faces.

The two offenders ran from the scene but were arrested shortly afterwards by a police dog and handler.

One officer had to be treated at Byron Central Hospital for his injuries.

Witnesses are urged to contact Tweed Heads detectives or Crime Stoppers.

Wollongbar melee ends with fractured skull, arrests A youth has been charged after allegedly hitting another with a golf club during an altercation at Wollongbar on Saturday January 20.

Two groups of teenage males arranged to meet each other at Rifle Range Road at about 2am, following an alleged fight in Alstonville, during which two girls were assaulted and a car was damaged. A 16-year-old youth was allegedly armed with a golf club and two other youths were armed with a machete and baseball bat.

During the second fight, the 16-year-old allegedly struck a 17-year-old youth in the head with the golf club, causing a deep laceration and a fractured skull.

Another male then stomped on the 17-year-old’s head.

The victim was taken to hospital for treatment.

About 4.20pm the same day, police raided a home

on Opaki Place, Wollongbar, where they arrested a 16-year-old, who was taken to Lismore Police Station and charged.

He was granted conditional bail to appear at Ballina Children’s Court on Monday, February 19.

About 5pm the same day, police say they arrested an 18-year-old who was taken to Lismore Police Station and charged with malicious damage and breach of bail in relation to the prior incident at Alstonville. He was refused bail to appear at Lismore Local Court on Sunday, January 21.

Inquiries are continuing and police say further arrests in relation to the incidents are likely.

Police are urging anyone with information in relation to this incident to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or use the Crime Stoppers online reporting page www.nsw. crimestoppers.com.au.

Rocks block swimming hole Byron Shire Council staff say they are investigating the unauthorised placement of rocks across the carpark for the popular swimming hole at Keys Bridge, Federal.

Staff say the carpark is on Council’s road reserve and the swimming hole is on Crown land. They say they are also aware locals are concerned about the amount of rubbish being left in the area by people

who are using the swimming hole. Director sustainable environment and economy Shannon Burt said, ‘I have also raised the problem of rubbish dumping in that area with our Waste and Resource Recovery team. I never cease to be amazed that people go to these beautiful spots to relax and enjoy the magic of nature and they then leave their rubbish there.’

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Articles The rich history of intentional communities Mairead Cleary

The birth of intentional communities in this region goes back to the early 70s.

Carol Perry remembers arriving in the area a couple of years before the legendary Aquarius Festival to start the still-existing Dharmananda community in Terania Creek and finding that there was already a community existing in Mullumbimby.

Of course, after the festival the intentional community movement took off in a big way. People came in their thousands from all over Australia for the event and many decided to stay. Low land prices meant people could buy large properties and create new communities around ideals of freedom, harmony and sustainability. Carol remembers blocks being advertised at the time as ‘well stocked with marsupials.’

One of the post-festival communities that survives to this day was Bodhi Farm.

After meditating his way through Asia in the early 70s, John Seed moved to the area and helped create the Bodhi Farm community 30km from Lismore.

‘It was a time when there were a lot of intentional communities forming, going back to the land, growing organic food, delivering our own babies, burying our dead and catalysing social change in the region where we lived.’

Legal framework In reality, bringing together large inexperienced groups of people to start these new utopian communities brought several challenges.

Firstly people had to choose a legal structure in order to own their land.

‘Communities need a legal

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structure because it provides a framework within which governance can be taken,’ says Wroth Wall, who has worked as a lawyer with different types of communities for more than 40 years. He has delivered more than 100 intentional communities in conjunction with local planner Rob Doolan.

‘A legal structure provides each person’s entitlements in relation to the property. It outlines bylaws that set boundaries in relation to behaviour.

It defines the decision-making process, dispute-resolution mechanisms, default mechanisms and exit mechanisms. It includes provisions that govern how money is raised, managed and in some cases borrowed. If you don’t have these things in place, you end up with anarchy and people’s personalities take over. And this leads to resentments. You need to have clear agreements in place.’

‘Working out effective governance was and continues to be one of the main issues facing communities,’ says Wroth. ‘It involves finding a balance between decisive governance and participation. You don’t want a totalitarian situation but you also don’t want to be caught up in endless meetings.’

Then of course there was

the clashing of strong personalities as people vied for power and control over how things were done.

‘Nothing’s going to happen if people can’t resolve the issues that are in front of them,’ says Carol, who became a dispute mediator.

‘No group activity can happen without harmony.

There has to be good communication. Otherwise all the energy gets used up with conflict and complaining’.

Demographic changes As the years have passed, maintaining affordability has emerged as an ever-growing issue. Wroth has learned that ‘If you can’t maintain affordability, you need to decide what the culture of the community is and ensure its integrity in maintained. Because a person buying into a community today at $1m is culturally very different from someone who bought in 35 years ago for $20,000.’

In terms of economic challenges for communities, local activist Helena Norberg-Hodge says, ‘It’s not an easy thing to establish a completely localised economy inside the dominant eco-

nomic system. The pressures of the dominant economy are multiple. They encourage hyper-individualism. But once something gets started it goes from strength to strength.’

Many of these challenges haven’t changed over time, but the resources available to respond to them have.

Working with the benefit of hindsight, we can learn from the experiences of other communities before us.

Helena maintains that ‘what comes together and works well is intergenerational communities. Fragmenting age groups doesn’t.’

‘I’m seeing that what’s most effective is the focus on local food. Community energy initiatives have also taken root. Setting up a local fund is something eco-villages can do with other communityminded people. Local light industries can also be quite successful. Localising creates interdependence,’ she says.

‘It’s community building.’

At the end of the day, the most important glue in the community fabric is that people can get on with each other.

‘I’ve found the most useful way through conflict is to focus on feeling the body,’ says Carol.

Bus trial needs more time – Greens MP More time is needed for Byron Bay to Lismore bus trials, says Greens MP for Ballina Tamara Smith.

She made the comment after riding the 640X bus from Ballina to Lismore to find out what the new bus service being trialled for six months is like.

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Bluesfest director wins major US blues award Byron Bay Bluesfest director Peter Noble has been awarded one of the most iconic awards in blues music worldwide.

Mr Noble travelled to Memphis, Tennessee, to accept the Keeping the Blues Alive Award from The Blues Foundation on Friday January 19.

Bluesfest said in a statement that it was ‘a huge honour for Mr Noble and the Festival to be awarded this accolade by the premier Blues organisation in the USA’.

Blues Foundation president and CEO Barbara Newman said that the 2018 Keeping the Blues Alive Award recipients ‘are all wonderful examples of blues flamekeepers, each working in their own sphere of influence to move the genre forward while honouring its past’.

Mr Noble said, ‘I accepted the award on the behalf of everyone who has worked on and performed at the festival over the past 29 years.’

Bushwalker winched off Wollumbin A No Sand Mine for Lennox protest at the McGrearys site. Photo supplied Chris Dobney

A group opposing the further development of sand mines in Lennox Head is accusing the developer of one of the mines of threatening to make extinct a colony of endangered frogs if its application to substantially expand its mine is not approved.

McGrearys Quarries has a development application before Ballina Shire Council that would see up to 1.9 million tonnes of sand excavated over a 30-year period.

The environmental impact statement (EIS) for the McGearys Quarry proposal states that if the new quarry is not approved rehabilitation works under the existing rehabilitation plan or plan of management approved in 1995 will be completed, but will result in the extinction of threatened frog species and

loss of high-conservationvalue vegetation.

Under the terms of the rehab plan, the applicant would be required to fill the existing pond at the quarry, where the endangered frogs have taken up residence, ‘back to farmland’, according to the applicant’s planner Steve Connelly of Planners North, effectively making the frogs homeless.

approval requires rehabilitation of the site back to farmland.

‘Fact three: With an expanded quarry, the extent of shallows will increase and we anticipate that the threatened frog species population will increase.

‘There is no threat, real or implicit, in any of the EIS facts,’ Mr Connelly said.

Perverse

Clearly a threat

Mr Connelly told The Echo it was ‘really very perverse for objectors to the McGearys Quarry proposal to say that the EIS “threatens to make two frogs extinct if their new sand mine is refused”.’

‘The EIS is a document that sets out facts,’ he said.

‘Fact one: We have found threatened frog species on the site. They live in the shallows near excavations.

‘Fact two: The current DA

But No Sand Mine for Lennox spokesperson Amelia Hicks says the claim contained within the EIS ‘is very clearly a threat’ and in the way it is written it certainly appears one is at least implied.

Clause 6.1 on page 66 of the Environmental Impact Statement states, ‘In the event that this application is refused then the prescribed rehabilitation works will be completed. Such works will

result in the total loss in biodiversity at the site and cause the local extinction of the vulnerable wallum froglet and the wallum sedge frog as well as significant loss of high-conservation-value vegetation.’

Ms Hicks told The Echo she was sure there would be room to move on the rehabilitation plan in the event that the DA were refused.

‘The rehab plan was written 25 years ago. It is not to be slavishly followed if it will cause a local extinction.

‘An application to amend the rehab plan would be welcomed by the council and the community,’ she said.

The site has been mined by McGearys since 1995, but the company’s existing DA has expired.

The new DA is currently on exhibition and open for public comment until January 29.

Choirs offer low-cost sessions The director of Raise the Roof Choirs is offering 18 new low-cost choir places for those who are 50 and older and have financial barriers, thanks to a grant awarded by Family and Children’s Services’ Sing Your Age program.

‘New singers are always welcome to join Raise the Roof,’ says director Jessie Vintila, ‘but this grant means we can welcome new singers who have financial barriers stopping them coming. There are so many joys and benefits of being in a choir – you make new friends, stimulate your brain, improve your physical health and immunity, and experience the bliss of singing simple but glorious harmonies!

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The Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter was tasked to the Wollumbin (Mount Warning) track at lunchtime Monday after reports that a 40-year-old female walker had suffered a lower leg injury while descending the mountain.

Police, SES, VRA and NSW Ambulance personnel were all involved in the recovery of the walker.

A critical-care paramedic was successfully winched

down to treat the walker and establish the most appropriate recovery method.

Helicopter staff subsequently conducted a winch recovery of the walker from the track.

The patient was treated for lower leg fractures and was flown to Uki sportsfield, where she was transferred into a road ambulance and driven to Murwillumbah Hospital in a stable condition.

Tallow Creek investigated after odour reported The breakdown of vegetation is believed to have caused a bad smell and discoloured water in Tallow Creek, Suffolk Park.

Council staff say they have taken water samples at different locations along the creek after members of the public reported it last week.

Acting manager Infrastructure Services Phil Warner said Council’s Environmental Health Officer inspected a large section of Tallow Creek and has taken water samples that have been sent for testing, but at this stage Council believes the odour and water discolouration are a natural event.

‘Our Environmental

Health Officer is very experienced and he thinks the problems could be owing to the breakdown of vegetation, which can sometimes create a bad smell and an oily sheen on the water. The milky colour in the water can be owing to the oxidation of acid sulfate soils that occurs when water levels drop and rain and water flows are low,’ Mr Warner said.

‘This type of natural event is not unusual in waterways such as Tallow Creek when weather conditions are hot and dry,’ he said.

Council’s Water and Sewer staff say they checked the pump stations and equipment in the area and they are all working properly.

Richmond River dredging funded contributors to the group, in a safe and fun environment.’

The four weekly Raise the Roof sessions are held on Mondays 6.30 till 8.30pm in Uki, Tuesdays 1 till 3pm in Suffolk Park and then Tuesdays 6 till 8pm in Brunswick Heads, and Wednesdays 11am till 1pm in The Channon. Ms Vintila says occasionally they perform as a mass choir at

community events such as Mullum Music Festival and Bangalow BBQ Bluegrass Festival. Raise the Roof sing gospel, folk, jazz, bluegrass and more.

To apply for a subsidised place, contact Jessie by January 30 on 0417 277 211 or info@raisetheroofsinging.com. ‘Carpooling may be possible so don’t let transport barriers stop you getting in touch.’

The long-awaited dredging of the Richmond River mouth at Ballina and nearby North Creek will go ahead after the state government and Ballina Shire Council each lobbed in around a quarter of a million dollars towards the project.

Lands minister Paul Toole and northern NSW parliamentary secretary Ben Frank-

lin were joined by Ballina mayor David Wright at North Creek on Wednesday January 18 to announce the funding.

Mr Franklin said the dredging project will be funded to the tune of $230,700 under the NSW Liberal and National government’s Rescuing Our Waterways program.

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Dispatches from the Adani frontline Firsthand account of anti-coal activism and the effects on community in north-central QLD Story & photos Mia Armitage

Forget ‘clicktivism’, where concerned citizens take a stance through social media: antiAdani protesters from all over Australia, millennial through to baby-boomer and beyond, are taking direct action.

Twelve environmental activists have returned to the northern rivers from Bowen, in north-central QLD, where they participated in a protest camp partly aimed at stopping the proposed Adani mega-mine.

The pilgrimage began in Coffs Harbour for some, before protesters from the Byron and Tweed shires climbed on board a repurposed yellow school bus last week destined for Camp Nudja, about eighty kilometres southwest of Adani’s coal export port at Abbot Point.

Protesters included a naturopath in her forties from Bangalow, a filmmaker and a worker, both in their twenties and from Mullumbimby, and a former schoolteacher and former builder in their sixties living in Pottsville.

Activists charged Liisa Rusanen described herself as a mother of two from Coffs Harbour who had never ‘locked on’ in protest before.

But last week she joined other anti-coal protesters to discreetly plan a very public anti-Adani protest: a temporary shutdown of the company’s coal-export operations at Abbot Point.

‘We knew how to stop the conveying belts before we got there,’ said Ms Rusanen.

‘We were locked on for about six or seven hours in the end.

‘The first thing police did when they arrived was take our food and water, and they told us we were welcome to have food and water if we released ourselves, but they weren’t going to give it to us as long as we were locked on.’

QLD police arrested Ms Rusanen and four other protesters locked to the conveyor belt on Thursday.

Danny Skerret, 31, a carpenter, and sister Ella Skerret, a 26-year-old artist, both from Coffs Harbour; nurseryman John Ross, 68, from Coramba, near Coffs Harbour; and Townsville resident Megan Armstrong, 47, are due to appear alongside Ms Rusanen in the Bowen

Liisa Rusanen, Danny Skerret and Ella Skerret, all from Coffs Harbour, will face court in February after locking on to an Adani coal conveying belt at Abbot Point Port.

courthouse in February.

They are charged with trespass, interfering with a port’s operations, high-risk activity and not obeying police direction. Mr Ross told The Echo before the lock-on he was aware of and willing to accept the legal consequences of his actions.

Paid protesters missing in action Paris, a young woman working in Bowen, who did not wish to have her last name published, said she understood protesters at the camp were ‘highly paid’ to be there.

But Mr Ross said it was costing him money to protest and nobody at the camp was paid.

The Echo spoke to around fifteen protesters at Camp Nudja, where up to thirty people camped in mid-January.

Most said they were employed; three were retired; one said he was a student.

All protesters interviewed said they were giving up time and money to be at the camp.

Mr Skerret said his mission locking on was to generate media interest in an issue and ‘how important it is to act now’.

He said the lapse in coal export activity during the lock-on effectively cost Adani money, and ‘investors will be taking note of that; it’s an incentive for them not to invest in dirty coal companies’.

Whitsunday Region councillor Mike Brunker, who reportedly once worked as a coal miner for eight years and wants more development at Abbot Point Port, has previously said, ‘Coppers babysitting these protesters’ meant police resources from Townsville would be stretched.

But Mr Skerret said aside from the police cutting team,

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there were ‘three or four’ officers ‘just standing around,’ at Abbot Point Port on Thursday.

‘We made it clear to police that if they have any other issues to deal with, we’re very happy to be dealt with after the more important issues,’ Mr Skerret said.

‘We don’t want to take up police resources, that’s not the aim of the action.

‘We’re happy to stay there.

We’re not in real danger and we’re happy to be there.’

Mackay district police inspector Steve O’Connell has said ‘policing arrangements are in place to deal with what they undertake’.

Lyn Dickinson, 67, and Dave Norris, 63, paid for a ride on an non-airconditioned bus from Pottsville to Bowen in the QLD summer. They say they want to stop Adani mine because it will exacerbate climate change and affect the koala populations.

and a desire to see Australia’s natural resources exploited.

The unemployment rate in the Whitsunday local government is 5.3 per cent, QLD government data showed.

Jobs, jobs, jobs The region is home to the Collinsville coal mine, which returned to full-time operations in 2016–2017, but less than seven per cent of employed Whitsunday residents in the same period

worked in mining.

The figure represents roughly a thousand people, while the QLD government recorded another 495 fly-in fly-out workers in the area spread across various projects including solar farms.

Hospitality was the main employment industry, with nearly 16 per cent of employed people working in accommodation or food services, followed by retail (9.5 per cent), farming, forestry

and/or fishing (9.3 per cent).

Construction made up more than seven per cent of all employment, in a year when three solar farms were built in the area and the post-Cyclone Debbie recovery began.

Mango farmers in the region are enjoying a bumper summer crop too.

A spokesperson for Farmers for Climate Action said he has not met ‘a single farmer in support of Adani’, mostly owing to disputes over groundwater access.

Inspiring week Ms Rusanen added that after being released from police custody in Bowen, the group went to buy snacks and a local stopped us. ‘He recognised us from the news that morning and he stopped us to tell us how grateful he was on behalf of many locals in the Bowen area who aren’t happy with what Adani is doing. He wanted to make sure that we knew there were lots of locals like him who didn’t support Adani and were really grateful that the protest camp was there.’

Community divided Cr Brunker is also on the record saying the people of Bowen ‘despise’ anti-Adani protesters camped in the area, while member of parliament for Burdekin and state shadow minister for mines and resources, Dale Last, has called for the people of north QLD to unite in support of mining.

But The Echo spoke to a disability services worker in Bowen who said many people in the town shared her antiAdani views.

Like Paris, the woman wished to remain anonymous owing to her fear of possible confrontation with other Bowen residents.

She said while she welcomed protesters, their support would not encourage anti-Adani Bowen residents to speak out because, ‘we have to live here’.

Few people in Bowen agreed to go on the record with comments on Adani and protesters, but responses seemed evenly divided.

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January 24, 2018

Accidental wealth Being a ‘local’ does not automatically mean you will act in the best interest of the community you inhabit. Or are the best person to lead, develop or plan for this Shire’s future.

For example, if you bought Byron Bay real estate in the 1980s and sat on that asset, you would now be financially very secure.

Byron is full of accidentally wealthy baby boomers who have lived here for many years. Some are content to lie low, while others want more. And more. And MORE! Over many years, The Echo has reported on the overwhelming public opposition to the West Byron residential/commercial proposal. Last year, the state government intervened to make it happen for them by changing Council’s planning instruments.

It’s a massive project that has changed over time, and is now led by seven individuals, plus Sydney developer Terry Agnew and Queensland-based Villaworld (see page 1).

When asked, these seven ‘local’ individuals did not give any reassurance that their proposal can handle the traffic it will create; in fact their own traffic report appears to have no answers to the increased traffic that will result.

It’s worth repeating: The landowners have no answers to the increased traffic that will result from their development.

Neither have they offered anything innovative. It’s a bog standard, unimaginative, high-density, wetland-destroying traffic-inducing clusterfuck – and everyone knows it.

The landowners have explained they are only interested in doing what’s legally required – but is that good enough?

Do these landowners want Byron Bay to improve or not?

New greenfield developments such as West Byron only occur because of weak state government legislation and absent Council policies; there’s no affordable housing component or mandatory recycled wastewater requirement, just for starters.

The only conclusion we can reach is that the Liberal and National parties, along with the landowners, want to punish Byron Bay for being different. For wanting something better.

So – to West Byron landowner ‘locals’ Tony Smith, Alan Heathcote, Peter Croke, David O’Connor, Garry McDonald, Warren Simmons and the non-local Kevin Rogers – here’s hoping you all have an sudden last-minute epiphany and realise that your existence is fleeting, that your reputation and legacy are important (in the short term anyway), and that the best thing you can do with your accidental wealth is to do good things for this place rather than to destroy it.

Two separate West Byron DAs are up for public comment now: the local landholders’ development application – for the bulk of the site – is on exhibition until February 7 (DA 10.2017.661.1), while the Villaworld DA has been re-exhibited and is on exhibition until February 21 (DA 10.2017.201).

Unfortunately these DAs are not easy to find on Council’s website as they are listed as ‘various properties’. Also remember to quote the DA number in your submission.

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ichard di Natale is wrong. Changing the date of Australia Day should not and will not be the top issue of 2018.

But Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten are equally wrong: it cannot be dismissed as a nonissue either.

It may well be a low priority among all the numerous crises, genuine and confected, that bedevil the Commonwealth; most Australians, including many Indigenous Australians, have more important things to think about.

But every time our national holiday comes around there is more controversy, more division.

As the conservative Ian Macfarlane admitted last week, he did not feel comfortable being told to rejoice in dispossession and massacres, and an increasing number are equally concerned that Australia Day will eventually have to be changed.

Few have arrived at a conclusion; there is still to be a major debate about how, when and just what, if any, alternative is to be worked out. But as Macfarlane points out, the problem will not go away and it cannot, as Turnbull might hope, be wished out of existence.

That approach has not worked to remove Tony Abbott and it won’t work this week either.

Turnbull’s talking point, assiduously promoted by most in the coalition party room, is that Australia Day is a celebration of our Indigenous heritage, our British foundation and our multicultural character.

Well that may be his ideal, but in fact the day is nothing of the kind.

The 230th anniversary of Captain Arthur Phillip’s landing on January 26, 1788 celebrates nothing more or less than the implementation of a decision of the English parliament under a demonstrably insane monarch to dump its unwanted surplus

convicts at an unwanted outpost at the other end of the earth.

It had nothing to do with Australia; Australia did not exist for another 113 years.

It may have been a significant date as part of the British foundation, but hardly the most important one: Lieutenant James Cook had landed in the same harbour 18 years previously, and had presumed to declare the continent a possession of Great Britain (his orders included the

about fake news.

If political correctness can be defined, it must surely mean that clinging to a real or imagined past at all costs, the obstinate refusal to admit that the times have changed and opinions have moved on.

Real political correctness is conservative, even reactionary.

But it appears to be the fallback position for those opposing change, perhaps because they realise that there are actually no

Actually Australia Day was not even declared an anniversary at all until 1938, did not become official until 1946 and did not become a national holiday until 1994

by Mungo MacCallum proviso ‘with the consent of the natives,’ but as became the practice for at least a couple of centuries, the natives were not consulted – as usual, they were expected to suck it up).

And if we are to be pedantic, he was not the first Englishman to ‘discover’ the great southern land; that distinction, if it can be called such, belongs to the pirate William Dampier who dropped in on the west coast in 1688.

To conflate the establishment of a convict colony with celebration of nation’s past, present and future is frankly delusional.

In his guise of Captain Goodvibes, Turnbull may exhort the masses to wave flags and cheer patriotically as they choose between the beach and barbie on their day off; but the historians and sceptics will not be impressed, and they will certainly not be assuaged by the knee-jerk sneers that it is just another case of political correctness – that now all but meaningless phrase which has come to signify any views the elitist commentators of the right do not share, rather like Donald Trump’s ranting

serious arguments in favour of the current date – other than the fact that change is favoured by the progressives, and must, by definition, be unAustralian.

An amusing example came from our citizenship minister Alan Tudge, who seems to think that the main purpose of his portfolio is to defend January 26 as the permanent and sacrosanct moment that defines our country and its culture.

Actually it was not even declared an anniversary at all until 1938, did not become official until 1946 and did not become a national holiday until 1994, but you can’t expect a junior minister to know very much history.

Tudge is inventing a tradition, not upholding it.

However, Tudge says that it is a terrific day, and adds that some Indigenous Australians have been awarded the title of Australian of The Year, for which he apparently imagined they should be pathetically grateful, perhaps harking back to the days when his forbears festooned compliant collaborators with shiny medallions and called them

chiefs and even kings.

So even if we ignore the bunyip in the room – the invasion, the stealing of the land and the children, the destruction of the culture, the systematic trampling of the many nations that once made up the continent – there are copious reasons to question whether our national festival of nationalism and booze is, to use one of Turnbull’s favourite words, appropriate.

Many have urged that we should wait for the inauguration of a republic to make the switch, but given that Turnbull is prepared to procrastinate indefinitely to delay or frustrate that ambition, it may be more sensible to at least consider other possibilities – obviously January 1, when Australia actually came into being as nation is awkward given that it is already a public holiday (where would we get the extra fireworks?) but perhaps July 9, when in 1900 Queen Victoria gave real assent to the constitution, or May 9, when the Australian parliament first sat on the following year, would make some sort of sense – certainly more than the setting up of a convict colony.

And there is another reason to abandon January 26: It is also India’s national day, when the population finally won the struggle for independence over Britain and became a proud and independent republic.

Rather more salutary than the landing on that fatal shore.

The real news is that the latest polling shows that a clear majority of Australians don’t really care what the precise date should be, as long as there is a national holiday.

So really, there is no sensible reason not to change the date – except that to do so would enrage the ignoramuses, the bigots and the ranters of the right.

And Malcolm Turnbull could never let that happen, could he?

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Affordable developments David Brown’s excellent article last week outlines the issues facing the area with proposed change of use of our rural surroundings.

Development is a funny word – desecration and destruction are also funny words but we all understand opportunity and greed and sloppy regulations.

Sitting at Lulus last year I overheard (actually I strained to hear every word and wished that I had a recording device) two smartly dressed young blokes in conversation about Mullumbimby and the Council development application (DA) process.

They thought it hilarious and talked of being able to fire a cannon through the loopholes just by repeating loudly the two magic words: ‘sustainable’ and ‘affordable’.

Put them together they roared and Bingo, anything is possible here; and not only that – the developers’ contributions are waived! Fantastic said one, where’s your map? Wow, look at all those minor roads, perfect for subdivisions but don’t forget the magic words!

These concepts are dear to our hearts, we want folk to be able to afford their own bit of dirt and we want housing to leave a small footprint.

Large-scale brick-andtile estates should be kept to city edges but it will be increasingly difficult to prevent developments that are inappropriate or too big, unless those two magic words are disregarded.

Don’t be fooled, our land is precious and should be protected for the future.

Carole Gamble Mullumbimby

Q The hot topic of an affordable-housing crisis has never been more critical. Despite decades of discussion on this topic, the current council is demonstrating the most support and encouragement to prioritise this issue that I can remember.

The Housing Summit in early 2017 is a case in point when they called for expressions of interest for landowners and the community to propose new affordable-housing concepts and models. Despite all the goodwill, we are yet to see some concrete outcomes but it is important that we all support the eventual outcome; these things take time and great will.

After reading the facts on the Saddle Road proposal of 200 house sites solely dedicated for affordable housing, I feel encouraged that creative solutions are being found.

I’ve felt confused by some points published from those opposed, which only seem to be coming from a few individual landholders on Saddle Road.

While I have empathy for the changes that this may bring to your road, I have way more empathy for the people who need an affordable home to live there and the Saddle Road idea has great merit in terms of environment and social outcomes.

To feel fully informed, and rather than only hearing from detractors, I would love to see our council put the Saddle Road proposals and other affordable housing proposals on public exhibition and let the whole community consider the affordable-housing offers like this one and more that this Council has initiated.

Jannine Barron Mullumbimby

Parking revenue The push to ensure Byron’s parking revenue stays in Byron Bay reminded me of some petty schoolyard politics.

As a ratepayer I trust the council to use funds where appropriate throughout the Shire and would expect a similar honest and reasonable attitude from elected councillors.

In case Councillor Spooner hasn’t noticed, tourists use facilities shirewide with the north of the Shire also being heavily impacted by tourists.

It would be rather unethical and silly for any councillor to not consider this in the financial management of the wider Shire and the maintenance of infrastructure.

Where was Councillor Spooner when the community asset of the Roundhouse site in Ocean Shores was stolen from the community, sold for a pittance and then on sold for ridiculous profits? Then the council have the audacity to increase our rates and impede the establishment of paid parking in Brunswick and Bangalow.

After the dodgy Roundhouse debacle I have to question the financial management skills of elected representatives.

Ratepayers expect revenue raised to be spent where necessary and not for some personal or political agenda of any councillor or to appease business groups.

Rod Murray Oceans Shores

Standing Stones Mullumbimby Recently attempts to hold a community meeting at Mullumbimby to address standing-stone arrangements at Saddle Road village, Brun-

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by Byron Shire Council who used the Aboriginal card and the ILUA (Indigenous Land Use Agreement) between Byron Shire and Arakwal Corporation as their reason.

P r e s e nt l y Nat i o n a l Parks adn Wildlife Service (NPWLS) under the ILUA are writing the fictitious history of the Arakwal people as having occupied this area for 22,000 years.

My great uncle, Douglas Cook, told me they (Arakwal) came here in 1893 as descendants from the Tweed Heads, Gidabul and Ngarakwal country north of Tweed Heads.

The mayor of Byron Shire advised the Arakwal corporation and the Tweed Byron Land Council to register their interest with the Brunswick Valley Eco-Village on Saddle Road so they would be consulted during the planning process, but failed to advise other original-peoples stakeholders. I believe the mayor has a conflict of interest in relation to how he has handled this situation both currently and historically.

Their plan is to have the five farms on Saddle Road rezoned for a high-density residential project. The standing-stones site is firmly positioned on the Saddle Road near Uncle Tom’s.

The Cook family and Nyangbul people invite family, extended family, tribal leaders, elders and community to meet on January 25 at Durrumbul Hall, Mullumbimby. The Standing Rocks and Star Lores will be discussed on that day with those who are ready to meet and share knowledge and form remedy as to the future of

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rubbing their hands with glee at our division.

Late last year a small group of us from Suffolk Park cycled along the Otago Rail Trail in New Zealand. The distance from Casino to Murwillumbah is approximately the same: 150km.

The Otago trail links a string of old gold-mining towns that first flourished well over a century ago and the creation of the rail trail is bringing these historic gems back to life. Everything seems to be in renovation mode, from the classic stone Victorian architecture of Clyde to the fantastic art deco expressions of Ophir and Ranfurly.

The food was terrific, the accommodation clean and reasonably priced, the views breathtaking. Along the way we fell in with an informal continued on next page

Rail truce?

I support Tim Shanasy’s letter (January 10) calling for an end to the war between TOOT and rail-trail advocates. With the proposed sell-off of part of the railway corridor behind the Wollongbar Motel (prime Byron real estate) the alarm bells are ringing louder than those at the adjacent road crossing ever did.

While we dither about trains versus trails a rapacious state government and their developer mates are

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of Sweden’s leading open tournament but she took her opportunity with both hands. In her nine games, Nguyen played only opponents rated 197 or more points above her, yet achieved a 50 per cent score and secured a Women’s International Master ‘norm’ with a round to spare.

Giang’s best win came against Indian teenager Kulkarni Ojas, a player who had stunned the chess world in 2016 by gaining a record 400 rating points in just over a month.

by Ian Rogers While the Open team for the 2018 Batumi Chess Olympiad almost selects itself, the selectors will have a much harder time choosing the five women players to travel to Georgia.

The arrival of two women Grandmasters in Australia over the past two years was thought to lock up two Olympiad places, yet many local female players have responded by raising their game to new heights.

Heather Richards’s sensational 2017 has received plenty of coverage, with the Gladstone resident and leader of Australia’s 2016 Olympic women’s team this week headed for the Gibraltar Masters, a competition which includes stars such as Aronian and Nakamura, as well as many of the world’s best female players.

Canberra’s Emma Guo is now back in Australia after solid performances in England and Spain, but it was the performance of Adelaide’s Giang Nguyen in the Rilton Cup in Stockholm which drew greatest praise.

Nguyen had to ask for special dispensation from the organisers to be allowed into the top group

Stockholm 2018 White: G Nguyen Black: K Ojas Opening: Alekhine’s Defence 1.e4 Nf6 A dangerous choice against Nguyen, who often uses Alekhine’s Defence herself with Black. 2.e5 Nd5 3.c4 Nb6 4.d4 d6 5.f4 The dreaded Four Pawns Attack, White’s most aggressive option. 5...dxe5 6.fxe5 Nc6 7.Be3 Bf5 8.Nc3 e6 9.Nf3 Be7 10.d5 exd5 11.cxd5 Nb4 12.Nd4 Bd7 13.Qf3 c5 14.dxc6 Bxc6 15.Qg4 N6d5 16.Bf2 Qa5?! Risky play, which pays off for a while. After 16...0-0, Black should be fine. 17.Bc4! Nxc3 18.bxc3? After 18.0-0!!

Ncd5 19.a3! White would be well on top. 18...

Nc2+! 19.Kd2 Nxa1 20.Rxa1 Bd7? 20...g6! was solid and strong. 21.Bxf7+! Kxf7 22.Qxd7 Qxe5 23.Re1 Qf6? The final error. After 23...

Rfd8! 24.Qxb7 Rab8 25.Qf3+ Qf6, White would have to work hard to hold the game. 24.Qd5+ Kf8 25.Ne6+ Kf7 26.Bd4! Qh6+ 27.Ng5+ Kg6 28.Qf7+ Kxg5 29.Be3+ 1-0

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Get naked: get a $500 fine A word of warning, folks.

A shark attack isn’t all you have to fear from a visit to our local beaches. A paddy wagon is now making regular patrols south of Brunswick Heads beach.

What are they looking for? People who have walked more than a kilometre down the beach, respectfully out of sight of anyone else, who have slipped in for a swim wearing only their skin.

With no-one else around to be affected by our ‘offensive behaviour’, the police, on a quiet part of the coastline are fishing for easy fines, they themselves have been ‘offended’ (admittedly, we are well past our prime), and issued us with a hefty fine.

Why are there no obvious signs at Brunswick Heads to alert locals and visitors alike to this kind of aggressive policing?

Jane McLean Billinudgel

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Q In Franco’s Spain police officers carried rulers to check the length of women’s skirts.

Here in Byron our brave young officers have been whipped into a moral frenzy over rules on sunbathing.

Last week, friends of mine, married grandparents in their sixties, took a healthy beach walk and on a deserted stretch dared to cool off in the Pacific – without a cossie on!

From the empty horizon officers zoomed up and with the fervour of primary school nuns, scolded them for immorality and fined them $1,000 threatening criminal records

continued from page 11 peloton of people from all over the world: families, kids, even grandparents with their electric bikes found the easy gradient of the old rail line more than manageable.

This was low-impact tourism at its best. No motors, no noise, no carbon footprint, no pollution. Just old buildings: derelict pubs, tumbling down railway stations, lodges, even former schools and farmers’ cottages are being renovated and turned into places to eat and stay.

On a holiday weekend the pub at Chatto Creek, with its quaint collection of antique guns, bullets and hand grenades (once on the verge of bankruptcy) now serves up to 200 meals for lunch.

Imagine the boost that places like Eltham, Stokers Siding, Mullumbimby, even Casino and Murwillumbah (as starting and end point

if they dared to disagree.

They claimed there is a new policy of ‘zero tolerance’ for skinny dipping or showing a buttock on a towel.

The adage is that police are here to protect us, not control us. I don’t need protecting from glimpses of a saggy bottom.

Robert Easton Billinudgel Q I have nothing against nudity and I sympathise with those who have been fined for doing nothing more than being nude.

Sadly though, reality for a single woman at Tyagarah is scary. There are so many men (yes it’s true) on that beach twisting nudity into horribly misguided assumptions that a female, alone on the beach, is out there to be sexually intimidated, harassed and threatened.

As a female in my 20s I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve been approached for sex or lewdly confronted when I’ve been running, swimming or sunbathing (fully clothed or in swimmers).

While jogging along the beach, I’ve regularly had men with erections (naked or with speedos on) change direction and make a beeline towards me at speed.

I’ve had men masturbate at me while watching me run/sunbathe. I’ve been asked whether I want to have a ‘fun time’, and when I say no, they’ve made inappropriate comments about my body.

I’ve had a man sit down next to me, a body width

hubs) would get if the rail trail ever went ahead?

But I live in a fantasy that we are ruled by enlightened politicians who could glimpse the cost benefit analysis of the paltry few million it would take to make our own rail trail a reality – mere pocket money compared to the billions to be spent on sports stadiums!

Paul Davies Suffolk Park Louise Doran is at it again, assailing us with her acerbic harangue (Letters, January 17).

She is one of a noisy few who are constantly banging on about the train that stopped running fourteen years ago.

They believe the train stopped running because a corrupt government starved the line of funds. It’s pretty hard to engage such polemics without being sullied by it. They have accused anyone who doesn’t agree with them

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away, and as I packed up my belongings he exposed his erect penis.

I have witnessed male-onmale sex, male threesomes, male-on-male blowjobs and more, in blatantly public areas.

Writing this makes me sad. I wish I could go to my local beach for a run or swim and not keep looking over my shoulder.

I believe it’s unfair for people to be fined for being nude.

But if it is being fined for sexual harassment I’m all for it.

Having the police there makes me feel safer. I fear that if these predators are allowed to get away with sexual intimidation it may escalate into something worse.

Most nudist beaches are secluded areas, perfect for sad sexual predators.

L Offen Mullumbimby Q As a representative of both Safe Beaches Committee and the Byron naturists group, I’ve been involved in issues arising from lewd and inappropriate behaviour.

Working with local police, council, naturists groups and our local community we have come together to ensure that Tyagarah and Belongil beaches are safe again.

We have witnessed a huge difference in behaviour recently at these beaches.

Over the Christmas/New Year season I spoke to many couples who’d confirmed that they now felt safe and many who had no hesitation in bringing their children back to these spots.

of being in cahoots with the corrupt government.

If you would like to see the disused corridor opened up for use as a trail, you’re accused of wanting to ‘rip up the rails’. But whereas there is plenty of community support for the rail trail, as evidenced by the success of the recent fundraising campaign, support for the Casino to Murwillumbah train is token at best.

Most people don’t really care what happens to the disused rail corridor. In truth, the train fanatics don’t have much community support. But for as long as there’s a platform happy to air their agenda, we won’t hear an end to it.

John Scrivener Main Arm

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A range of naturists groups are now helping to be guardians of our beaches for future generations to enjoy.

Our clothing-optional beaches are now drawing many naturist couples, families and many genuine naturists single, including males, who are there to enjoy being nude as nature intended.

For those who wish to join us in promoting a safe naturist lifestyle and becoming guardians of Tyagarah and Belongil beaches, please go to Byron Naturist Facebook page for further information on family-friendly social gatherings.

Nude not lewd.

Debra Conomy Byron Naturists We are a local couple who are frequent users of Tyagarah nude beach. We have been to the beach several times already in 2018, including last weekend, and have not found it to be a sinister place.

On each visit the beach had a positive and safe vibe and other couples or small groups were in the majority.

Any solitary males were minding their own business.

We welcome the police presence at Tyagarah, even if it is occasionally over-zealous, because it has reduced antisocial behaviour at both the beach and at the Grays Lane lake.

We encourage all locals to head down with their partner or a friend and check out the situation for themselves.

O Redman & M Swift Byron Bay Q

Court Ocean Shores (5004).

The electrical equipment that controls this 5004 has been raised above flood level on a galvanised steel structure but the pump station well is installed at ground level.

The lids on this well are not watertight so what will happen during flood events to this pump well? Stormwater infiltration, more power used to run the pumps to pump stormwater, the sewerage treatment plant gets inundated with stormwater.

Why hasn’t the pump well been raised above the flood level the same as the electrical equipment?

Alan Dickens Brunswick Heads Sewage is not sexy but it is directly related to public health and any problem(s) with the Shire’s sewerage treatment works (STP) continued on next page

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Changing Council and premises Thirty-one years have passed since Nicholas Shand dreamed up this newspaper and gathered a band of fellow dreamers to help him make it real. In those 31 years The Echo has grown, like a magic beanstalk, far taller than we ever imagined, and it is now a feature of Shire life. Our ongoing series on the history of our beloved rainbow rag continues this week, written by the newspaper’s longest-serving drudge, David Lovejoy.

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y the election of September 1995 most people had had enough of Cr Ross Tucker and his crew. Although at that stage the evidence of the colossal mismanagement of Council’s planning and finances had yet to emerge, it was clear that most of the current councillors had no idea what the electorate wanted.

This time round The Echo had no doubt that the future of the Shire depended on candidates who would put long-term community and environmental matters above short-term development interests. It is not always easy to identify such candidates but at least ones with an opposite agenda are not hard to spot. This time the swing away from the conservatives was clear, and although Ross Tucker increased his personal vote, Ian Kingston easily won the mayoralty.

Finally Kingston was no longer a lame duck mayor opposed by a conservative majority in the chamber.

The vote for progressive candidates was about sixty per cent, and this was repeated in subsequent elections. A Gang of Six was now Kingston’s to command, although, as is traditional, the progressives argued among themselves much more than conservatives did, resulting in some inconsistent decisions.

The mood at the newspaper, as in most of the community, was one of relief and expectation. We looked forward to a change of direction for the Shire, and a change of culture in the Council bureaucracy. Community consultation was the new compass bearing, and sustainable development the chart.

Nicholas took the opportunity of this lull to take three months’ long-service leave at the end of the year and visit England and South Africa.

While he was gone The Echo from previous page should be taken seriously.

As a former member of the Brunswick Valley Wastewater Steering Committee, circa 1998, readers can be assured that community members were taken aback with how their persistent concerns over the infiltration problems into the collection system, particularly the earthenware

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made the last (to date) of its many moves by transferring to a rented office on the other side of Village Way. The old restaurant had, alas, been converted into a stationery shop, but the landlord was building another storey and invited us to design the space expressly for a newspaper office. We sold the tiny sweatshop we had worked in since 1989 and moved into much more salubrious premises.

opinion was already catered for in the Byron News. The Star collapsed after the 1999 election and shrank to a burned-out shell, appearing once a month in a format of twelve half-A4 pages.

The Star was to prove no problem to us, but the continuance of Max Eastcott in his job as general manager did blow up into a lengthy shitfight.

Alternative views While The Echo settled into its new headquarters, Ross Tucker, stung by the electoral defeat of 1995, and perhaps convinced that we had engineered it, started a newspaper himself, in the hope of influencing the 1999 Council elections. Together with his developer friend Harold Ross he launched the Mullumbimby Star as an A4 weekly in 1997. Some time later the paper changed its name to the Saturday Star when it moved up to tabloid size and shirewide circulation.

Of course there was no room for three weekly papers in a population of less than thirty thousand, especially when minority right-wing

In December 1995, shortly after Nicholas left on his sabbatical, local activist Fast Buck$ bought a page in The Echo to make a closely argued attack on the mayor, claiming he was incapable of reining in the Shire’s notorious general manager.

As the piece had substance I let it run, although a little uncomfortable at apparently conniving in criticism of a friend of Nick’s (and by then of mine too). Ian Kingston did not respond to Fast Buck$’s attack. Instead he visited me at home on Christmas Eve with a more-in-sorrow-thananger reproach.

I could only defend our publication on general free speech grounds – in common with most people I

felt that the recent electoral victory had terminated the Eastcott-Tucker regime. And yet I was a little confused in my response, partly because one of the new councillors had already told me he was worried by Ian’s lack of action over the general manager’s excesses, and partly because when the mayor and his lady called I was acting as a guinea pig for one of the recipes in my then partner’s soon-to-be-published Cannabis Cookbook.

Events developed quickly at the beginning of 1996. Fast Buck$ published another full page, this time about Max Eastcott, subtitled ‘Confucius say, thing which look like bullshit, smell like bullshit and sound like bullshit unlikely to be cherry blossom’.

Then he had a stroke of luck. A developer in Byron Bay, motivated by jealousy or civic duty, forwarded to one of the recently elected councillors a file of papers he had put together showing that the owner of the recently renovated Cavanbah Arcade in Jonson Street had received preferential treatment in the matter of development contributions due to Council.

The fight was on.

gravity mains, to the then STP were dismissed.

Management said they were not part of the scope of works for the new Brunswick Valley Sewage Treatment Plant (BVSTP). They argued that illegal connections from households were largely to blame for the infiltration problem.

Letters were sent to identi-

fied households to have their connections repaired.

At the November 23, 2017 Council meeting I asked for evidence and locations of the follow-up inspection reports on these repairs. I received the data by email on December 13, 2017 and noted that it wasn’t, as is protocol, in the agenda for the next Council meeting.

The information received

identified the dwellings that were smoked tested 2008/09.

The evidence of follow-up inspection reports on repairs was missing.

Collections systems are expected to be ‘closed’ so that what comes out of your households goes to the STP. A ‘normal’ household generates approximately 590 litres/day. continued on page 14

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Challange to sexist carnival-mural at Brunswick riles locals Q I have a 14-year-old daugh-

ter whose body, at this point, looks like the scantily clad woman on the show-ride mural in Brunswick Heads.

She has a slim frame and big breasts. She is a child and wants to run, jump off the bridge and swim with her friends.

We went swimmer shopping and ended up at specialist swimware shops so we could find a swimming costume that was for a child so that she could still be a kid, and comfortable – not sexy – for a bit longer.

After a few failed attempts at finding a supportive swimsuit for a size eight frame with large breasts, my daughter stated ‘I have big boobs, they are never going to fit in anywhere!’ The mural supports this idea: If you are big breasted, then you are just a sex object objectified everywhere!

My daughter’s comment on the Bruns Carnival mural was, ‘that’s random, why are continued from page 13

Dry weather is a good indication of the flow of waste and averaged over dry weather conditions is called Average Dry Weather Flow (ADWF).

In anticipation of development within the BVSTP, the plant was designed and licensed for an ADWF of 3.8ML/day. This is equivalent to 15,780 people or 6,441 households.

The utilities manager at BSC has suggested that ADWF is currently 1.3ML/ day. If the collection system is ‘closed’ then during wet weather events we shouldn’t expect much variation from the 1.3ML/day.

However, daily inflow figures to BVSTP over 15–31 March 2017 gives evidence of the large scale of the infiltration problem. The lowest flow was 4.1ML/day and the highest 18ML/day, well above the design capacity of 3.8ML/ day. In engineering terms, the BVSTP is hydraulically overloaded.

During these wet weather events sewage is not treated to its ADWF standard and is discharged into the Brunswick River.

Seventy days after the 5–31 March 2017 recording period, the BVSTP had still not returned to ADWF. I can’t begin to imagine the waste in extra power costs involved in pumping what is principally stormwater to be treated at an STP!

her boobs hanging out?’

While my daughter and I eventually found swimmers that were age appropriate, unfortunately the mural in Brunswick Heads continues to send the message that women should just ‘get their tits out!’

Name withheld Q As a recent visitor to Byron

Shire, I couldn’t help noticing the kerfuffle about the image of Liz Hurley at the Brunswick festival.

Mandy Nolan illustrates everything that’s wrong with gender politics and feminism.

The politicisation of the image has everything to do with this distorted philosophy and nothing to do with human experience.

Sexual desire is a normal human urge, but it’s different for men than it is for women.

It is not cultural or political, but resides deep in the human instinct to procreate.

Despite Mandy’s protestations, the images of the men Their solution? BSCs Water and Sewage Department want to transfer raw sewage from Ocean Shores STP, and build a ‘wet weather storage pond’ to store raw sewage and stormwater rather than address the infiltration problem into the gravity main.

Patricia Warren Brunswick Heads

Australia day options Fremantle Town Council took the brave decision last year to move Australia Day celebrations to Saturday, January 28. The mayor was moved by how the local Indigenous community felt about commemorating the start of colonisation.

The council stood firm, despite significant opposition from many quarters. Three Melbourne councils – Moreland, Darebin and Yarra – have followed suit this year.

Twenty-four years ago, Fremantle Council was the first to fly the Aboriginal flag on a public building.

The ‘One Day in Fremantle’ event started with several hundred people attending a smoking ceremony at a site where thousands of Indigenous people had been imprisoned and died.

People from all over Australia attended, including a mob from Musgrave Park, Brisbane. Then more than 15,000 people – mainly families – packed Fremantle Esplanade to enjoy various art workshops and activities.

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on the hoarding are every bit as idealised and sexualised as the female image – they are all men of action with bulging biceps and A-frame physiques.

Is this what those men who stood in front of it were really upset about? The image of Liz Hurley hints at sexual availability and willingness, because that’s where women’s power really resides.

Ask the millions of women daily prostituting themselves on the internet. Or ask Ms Hurley, who’s made millions out of her looks.

But Mandy already knows all this – she put out her own poster of herself in her undies, and she did it for the same reason as the man who owns the ride – to attract attention. It’s not about politics, it’s just advertising. Sex sells – none of us are immune to it.

Just because Mandy did it ‘ironically’ is that supposed to make it alright?

As far as I can see, by the laws of political correctness that are fast choking the life

and fun out of every facet of Western culture, nothing makes it alright, Mandy. Isn’t that the message we’re supposed to get from all this?

Mark Sutherland Tewinga I am appalled by Mandy Nolan’s hypocrisy in her recent column Extreme Tits regarding an offending image in a fairground mural.

While I agree that sexualised images of adult women are out of place in a fairground attended by children I have to point out the obvious: being a woman in the entertainment industry is an extreme sport requiring extraordinary determination, courage and resilience so at least the category is correct.

Apparently, the offending image depicts Alpha males and females but only the female stereotype is causing offence. I have a problem with that, especially given the contribution to rape culture by male sportsmen and the ide-

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Shoot signage by Byron Shire Council.

The year 1842 brought the first white settlers to this area when the cedar cutters and their families sailed into Ballina under the guidance of my ancestor the renowned Steve King. It was isolated and lonely country and Queensland was still a part of NSW. Steve grazed his bullocks on Tintenbar Flats just north of Snake oil sales I can’t agree more with your Ballina where the only native contentions regarding ‘appro- grasses existed at that time.

The beautiful red cepriated culture’ in this place.

It’s a timely warning. Snake oil dar logs were hauled along salesmen and women abound roughly hewn tracks by bullhere. The Shire is simply full ock teams to Tintenbar and of shonks, shysters and smil- floated down Emigrant Creek to Ballina. ing assassins of all ages.

As the cutters pushed furSome may appear that way but have full and open hearts. ther into the Big Scrub toThey deserve our blessing wards what is now Byron and and if we keep an ‘eagle eye’ Bangalow it became more convenient to shoot the logs they are easily seen.

Knocking off or misappro- from certain points off the priating other people’s culture ridges to the valleys below, and intellectual property ap- where bullock teams then pears to have had its roots in hauled them to the surf to the markets where it seems to wait for the logging schooners. The points of the ridge have been a free-for-all.

Delta’s warning should be from where the logs were taken seriously – remember discarded became known as death sits just behind your ‘shoots’.

At the time of my greatright shoulder.

David Hancock grandfather’s land selection Byron Bay at Coopers Shoot, the exact location of a shoot is clearly shown on his title deed as beName of a place J Rose of Mullumbimby (Let- ing opposite his slab hut on ters January 10) hits the nail the eastern side of Coopers on the head about the correct Shoot Road. In fine hand print location of St Helena and the it reads ‘To Coopers Shoot’.

George Cooper was then all-too-frequent distortion of our European history such at the helm for the disposal of as the removal of McLeods logs at this shoot along what The whole day went without a hitch. Fremantle are repeating it this coming January 28.

Byron Council also has a history of making courageous decisions. I hope that it and the community will choose to celebrate next year on an alternative day.

Julie Pirotta Mullumbimby

alisation of male body image that so many young men fail to emulate but this is hardly worthy of mention?

The offending image supposedly depicts actress Liz Hurley. Let’s celebrate Liz Hurley’s success as a bodypositive woman who, at the age of 52, sends a strong message that you can be a successful, independent woman who, because she cares about her health, also happens to look extremely fit. What a great role model for young women!

Counter that with a local comedian who, paradoxically, wishes to be taken seriously but stoops to using age-old sexist tropes such as the black magic concept of the sacrifice of virgins to peddle a comedy show and encourages children to use terms such as cunt and fuck in her recent column (terms for which a child has no informed concept of) as well as polluting our billboards with posters depicting her in her underwear.

There is a difference between irony and hypocrisy and the line has been crossed.

Why not encourage Liz to cover up those extreme tits, lobby the (often female run) women’s magazines that perpetuate unobtainable body ideals and the objectification of women, and the film and television industry that engages in and produces the same kind of garbage our daughters are exposed to?

Hassle the women who get paid to perform in pornographic films. Most importantly address the fact that women are complicit in these industries, they consent to participate, are paid for it and are therefore at the core of the problem.

I guess that would be too demanding. Better to attack a fairground ride than make a real difference? I think not. I am reminded of Don Quixote tilting at windmills.

Duncan Shipley-Smith Byron Bay

is now the road named in his honour, Coopers Shoot Road.

On the nearby northern slopes overlooking Byron Bay and the Belongil sit two more logging shoots, namely Skinners Shoot and McLeods Shoot.

The far north coast of NSW Big Scrub area between Ballina, Lismore, Mullumbimby and Byron Bay has a unique and largely untapped early history.

How sad it is to have it rewritten at the hands of politicians and bureaucrats.

John Hayter Tintenbar

hospital; however, the whole issue seemed to fall on deaf ears.

Would the committee of Mullumbimby hospital undertake to consider housing for single mothers and children? Other communities have tackled the problem.

The Indigenous community in the Great Lakes Shire addressed this issue successfully. They recognised that ,like Byron, the rise of illegal holiday letting was compounding the lack of suitable housing stock.

There are ghastly stories of women having their children taken by authorities for raising them in the only safe and affordable way… in cars.

We note in the article that there is a ‘constant flow’ of people suffering who are fleeing, homeless, living between refuges. We are aware that at least two women a week are murdered as a result of domestic violence in Australia.

Every murdered woman costs the community more than $1.5 million. Housing and refuges would save lives.

I guess it takes real political will to exercise real humaneness in Byron. There are just so many developers to deal with whose demands must be met and big bucks speak such a universal language.

I am disgusted with the current lack of social policies in Byron.

Jo Faith Newtown

Cover photo The front cover photo of young boys flipping backwards off the bridge into the Brunz river brought a chill to my spine.

Just recently a friend lost a close family member when he did this at another location. There was a young man who died at the quarry three years ago doing this. Putting this photo on the cover promotes this dangerous activity and seems irresponsible.

Sue Harrison Ocean Shores

Byron’s underclass Thenk you for writing about Byron’s growing underclass.

Representation was made to Council for a refuge and low-cost housing to be established in the Byron vicinity.

One councillor responded suggesting Mullumbimby

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Encore Performance Studio

After an enormously successful year in 2017, with Encore Performance Studio celebrating their 5th year of trade, outstanding achievements at competitions and a large growth in the enrolment of students, we cannot wait to open our doors again in 2018 to new and returning students!

Our two beautiful purpose-built dance studios, with mirror, barre, sprung floor, surround sound system and A/C are the perfect setting for students to thrive and achieve. With a passionate and dedicated team of teachers to guide each student through an array of dance styles, we guarantee each student will feel challenged yet comfortable and nurtured at Encore Performance Studio.

For more information please visit www.encoreperformancestudio.com.au or email director@encoreperformancestudio.com.au.

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Bangalow Physiotherapy

We offer treatment to all sport and musculoskeletal injuries, but we also have a focus on dance physiotherapy. There are two components to dance physiotherapy: there is the prevention and proactive screening of dancers, and then there is the treatment of dance injuries and management of their rehabilitation back to full dance capacity.

Screening of dancers is commonly utilised prior to or at the commencement of placement into a dance school or company, and prior to the adolescent dancer going enpointe.

Dance injuries can occur anywhere in the body but predominantly occur in the lower extremity. Kim Snellgrove, our principal physiotherapist, has extensive experience working with dancers and looks forward to assisting the dancers of the northern rivers with all of their dance physiotherapy needs.

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Byron Music School

Byron Music School will return in 2018 to offer tuition for guitar, drums, bass, piano, vocals, flute, violin/viola, didgeridoo, studio and music production, and more.

Our tutors are all experienced and accredited educators (with WWCC) and are committed to bringing out the musical goodness of each individual student.

Lessons are available for children and adults from beginners through to advanced across a range of styles.

Fees are $35 per half-hour casual or $300 per 10-week term. Gift vouchers now available!

Byron Music – Sales | Repairs | Education | Hire Visit the store at 144 Jonson St, Byron Bay. Phone us 6685 7333.

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Ninja Dance Byron , Bay s newest elite dance studio

FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE will be back Friday Feb 9

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One Vision Productions is excited to announce Friday Night Live is back in 2018! Friday Night Live is a free weekly youth event for aspiring creatives!

Come and learn instruments, hip-hop music, DJing and music production from some of Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most renowned artists. We are also excited to announce our NEW individual and group tuition platforms. Enrol now for DJ, Ableton Live, songwriting, vocal training, digital music production, and a wide range of acoustic instruments.

OVP offers you the chance to be part of a creative, family environment using state-of-the-art equipment and the chance to perform live!

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to live your dream!

Get on board with OVP! Friday Night Live at the creative hub is a drug- and alcohol-free event. Where: 4/10 Wollongbar Street, Byron Bay Will be back on Friday 9 Feb from 5pm till 8pm Enquiries/enrolments: businessmanager@onevisionproductions.com.au

Does your child LOVE to dance?

Nina Jeftic, director of Ninja Dance, is excited to announce a new direction for her dance studio. Former director of Funky Moves, Nina Jeftic would like to refocus and expand her classes within Byron Bay and Clunes. While offering classical ballet exam work for all age groups, Ninja Dance will invite directors and principal artists into the studio regularly to teach well-known repertoires from famous ballets. We will also invite the best in the industry to choreograph and mentor Ninja Dance students wanting to be the best dancers they can be in all styles of dance.

Funky jazz, hip-hop, classical ballet, contemporary dance, pointeworke, acro and core strength classes as well as pilates, stretch and dance fitness.

Ninja Dance will also offer the chance to be in a performance group or to enrol for a private lesson for the dedicated or soloist wanting choreography or help with HSC dance.

Check out our website for timetable and enrolment details: ww.ninjadancebyronbay.com or phone Nina on 0408 412 788 or email nina@jeftic.com.au. Sign-on day is Saturday 27 January 10amâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;1pm at the Byron Studio â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Unit 4, 102â&#x20AC;&#x201C;104 Centennial Cct, Byron Bay.

Spaghetti Circus

High Kick Dance Bangalow is the small school with BIG heart! Offering a personalised and professional dance education right in the heart of Bangalow, High Kick has been situated in Station Street for more than 10 years.

HK Dance is a lively, creative dance studio with lessons tailored to all levels and abilities. Each student is given individual attention, while promoting equality amongst the pupils. Miss Holly and her team strive to make dance fun for their students, while learning in a safe and exciting environment.

Enrolments now open for 2018, offering classes to all ages 3â&#x20AC;&#x201C;18 years â&#x20AC;&#x201C; boys and girls welcome.

Jazz, hip-hop, cabaret, lyrical, contemporary and more.

Specialising in recreational and competitive group work, as well as eisteddfod solo, duo and trio.

Contact Miss Holly for more information: 0413 857 021 / highkick@outlook.com.

Find us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ highkickdance.

Want to try our new circus classes?

Circus is the fastest-growing after-school activity. Want to know why?

It combines a fun physical activity with performing arts in a non-competitive environment. It builds resilience and confidence â&#x20AC;&#x201C; it can even make you better at maths. Risk taking is supported; hard work and persistence pay off.

Spaghetti Circus is a leading not-for-profit communityowned performing-arts company based in Mullumbimby.

Family and community are central to everything we do; supporting young people to excel and having a great time doing it is our priority.

We have a unique Mullumbimby culture, which is why more than 350 people attended our circus classes in 2017.

Free Circus open day Saturday 3 Feb. 9amâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;12.30pm.

Register for your place at spaghetticircus.com.

Term 1 2018 starts Monday 5 February. Earlybird discount available now.

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DYNAMIC Barre

Dynamic Barre is an exciting new specialised class that tones, strengthens and lengthens those muscles using a combination of dance fitness, pilates and strength, all at the ballet barre. Classes are low impact high intensity and run for 45 minutes.

Showers available for those who have to dash off to work after class.

Held at the Dance Dynamics Byron Bay studio in the Arts & Industry Estate every Monday, Wednesday and Friday 6.15am and 7.15am with MORE class time slots coming!

Dance Dynamics also has some fab dance classes for adults that you can check out on their website: www.byrondancedynamics.com.au.

For more information phone 6680 7250 or email info@byrondancedynamics.com.au.

Byron Bay Dancewear

Go back to your dance class with confidence knowing Byron Bay Dancewear can stock you up! A new and muchneeded dancewear shop, located in the heart of Byronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exciting arts and industry precinct. Stocking dancewear for three years to adults in Capezio, Studio 7, MDM Dance, Bunheads, Balera, Urban Groove and Weismannâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, all of your dance requirements are provided for in one location (7/84â&#x20AC;&#x201C;86 Centennial Circuit, Byron Bay).

Byron Bay Dancewear opening hours for the school term: 11amâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;6pm Mondayâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Thursday, 11amâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;4pm Friday, Saturdays 9amâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;12noon. Byron Bay Dancewear will soon be launching their new online store (www.byronbaydancewear.com.au), making shopping for your dancewear even easier. Stay tuned!

In the meantime, follow us on Instagram @byronbaydancewear.

Enrol now for Afternoon Art Club

Afternoon Art Club returns in 2018, inviting school-aged artists to the BSA studios for creative afternoons. BSA especially encourages participation by high school students who wish to further their creative development through the visual arts. Art Club allows students the freedom to explore their own style and interests while investigating a variety of materials and techniques, providing a unique opportunity for young teens to establish a solid foundation from which to begin art studies in their senior years.

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INTOUCH YOGA TEACHER TRAININGS 2018

All yoga teacher trainings are not equal! Do you place a high value on authenticity, depth, and maintaining the wisdom inherent in the ancient science of yoga? Primary teacher and yoga therapist Flo Fenton has a vast array of skills and depth of knowledge gained thousands of hours of training with the giants of yoga, and more than 20 yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; consistent teaching experience. You will be taught how to work with yoga not just as a physical exercise, but as a way of accessing prana, the life force. This approach enables you to personalise your own practice, and make your teaching accessible, beneficial and unique to each student.

This training actually equips you to teach, confidently and beneficially! Part time, (one day a week, Thursdays) Level 1 begins 1 March in Broken Head, and Level 2 (one day a fortnight, Wednesdays) runs Marchâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Sept in Suffolk Park and Lennox Head.

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Dance Dynamics

Dance Dynamics Byron Bay is the longest-running dance school in the Shire and is very excited about 2018 being their 19th year of operation! â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;We are a school that was built on strong values of developing students from the inside and out, promoting self-esteem, inclusiveness, dedication, commitment, self-belief, friendship and kindness. These values are what have kept our school going for so long, as well as fresh ideas and creativity,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x201C; director Kate Histon.  A year ago Dance Dynamics expanded, making their new homebase a professional bespoke centre in the Arts & Industry Estate. Comprising two dance studios, both with intricate sprung flooring system, inviting foyer, special dressing room upstairs with full bathroom facilities, kitchen, homework table, lounge, daybed and smart TV (for very special occasions).

Dance Dynamics offers quality training for dance in classical ballet, contemporary, jazz/funk/hip-hop, national character, tap, acro, musical theatre, and are now introducing our new â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;just funk itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; class for a more fun and fresh hip-hop style. For the recreational dancer to aspiring professional, Dance Dynamics is a welcoming, fun place to be. The school has two locations too: one in the heart of Byron Bay in Marvell Street and the new headquarters in the Arts & Industry Estate â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 7/84â&#x20AC;&#x201C;86 Centennial Circuit.

Enrol online today: www.byrondancedynamics.com. au or phone 6680 7250 for enquiries.

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the mighty byron magpie juniors The Mighty Byron Magpie Juniors are part of the Northern Rivers Junior League and AFL QLD. We call on beginners and experienced players to be part of a club focused on positive culture, health and fitness, teamwork, and respect.

Welcoming girls and boys U7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;U17 to come and play Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s greatest game, we also encourage parents, grandparents and friends to get involved in our football community. We are looking for coaches, first aid, canteen and match-day helpers.

Match days are Sundays (from 29 April).

Training days are Wednesday arvo/evenings.  Our first training session will be focused on fun, games, parents v kids match and a barbecue! So come along and see what itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all about.

Visit byronbayjuniorafl.com for more info.

red hot tennis Red Hot Tennis offers professional coaching for beginners through to tournament players.

With a focus on a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;learn through playâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; philosophy, TA Club professional coach Justin de Candia provides a platform for both children and adults to learn valuable life lessons through sport.

Red Hot Tennis is a registered provider of the NSW Governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Active Kids initiative, which offers $100 vouchers for participation costs.

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The not-for-profit Wu-Chi School of Art trains in concepts practised more than 5,400 years ago in ancient China. The martial art content is made up of the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;eight ultimatesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Pa Chi, some of which are Wu-Hsing Ultimate Body, Hsing-I Body/Mind & Pa-Kua eight changes. Skilled teachers are focused on building your kung-fu to the highest level.

Call 0421 555 062

mullumbimby wu chi kung fu Kung Fu is the ultimate martial art, combining traditional Chinese health-development exercises, combat drills, internal power and pad/partner work.

Teens / Adults classes: Monday 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7am & 5.45â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7pm.

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Try it in 2018!

Contact Sifu Gavin Cook on 0423 539 518.

MBVFC ready for the 2018 season Preparations for another exciting season of football are well underway at Mullumbimby Brunswick Valley FC. The AGM will be held at 7pm on Monday 22 January at Brunswick Bowling Club â&#x20AC;&#x201C; all welcome. There are many opportunities for community-minded people to get involved with the winner of Football Far North Coastâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2017 Club Championship Award!

Player registration is now OPEN â&#x20AC;&#x201C; sign up before the end of February to take advantage of earlybird discounts and secure your spot on a team: http://www.mbvfc.com.au/2018-sign-on.html. Also, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forget there is a NSW Office of Sportâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Active Kids $100 voucher discount for all school-age children signing up this season.

General senior womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s training has already begun.

Female players of all abilities from age 14 to 100 are encouraged to come along to Pine Avenue on Mondays from 6.30pm till 8pm.

What are you waiting for? Sign up, dust off your boots and get down to Pine Avenue to prepare for the great season ahead! Website: www.MBVFC.com.au PH: 0413 777 163 E: info@MBVFC.com.au

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8 1 0 2 s n O n g i S t r Spo BRUNSWICK VALLEY

JUNIOR AFL CLUB OPEN & SIGN ON DAY

shores united soccer club

the brunswick valley bulldogs

Shores had a great 2017 in junior and senior football.

Three of our four senior teams stormed into grandfinals; 7ths took out the silverware. We’ve retained the services of Dave Burgener, our excellent 1st division coach, for 2018. Shores now uses the new state-of-the-art facility at Shara Boulevard.

The club urges all junior and senior players to sign on for Shores for what promises to be another exciting year in our club’s history. Juniors from U6 to U16 and at least four senior men’s teams.

Online registration opens 1 February at www. shoresunited.com.au – and follow the prompts.

We’re having an information day on 10 February at 10am–12 noon at New Brighton Oval. Seniors training begins 27 January.

Enquiries: 0420 989 151 between 9 and 5 weekdays.

Northern Rivers Junior AFL Club of the Year is passionate about the importance of kids in the north of the Byron Shire having their own footy club. It gives them both belonging and connection to their community. The call is out for new players, boys and girls aged six to 15. Get on board with a club committed to AFL, family, community and healthy, active kids.

Sign on opposite the Brunswick Hotel (Banner Park) Saturday 10 February 10am till 1pm or on Club day sign on at Stan Thompson Oval, Brunswick Heads, Feb 24th 11am till 2pm. Give AFL a go!

suffolk park football club SPFC is a fun and inclusive club. Join in for fitness, friendships, or the beautiful game. Our players range from school age to 60 plus, with kids’, adult men’s and women’s teams. Active Kids funding means you receive $100 towards each child’s registration fee. Contact us for details.

Interested in coaching or joining our committee for 2018?

Committee members receive a 50 per cent discount on fees.

Come to the Park Hotel on 10 or 11 February, from 11am till 1pm, or go to www.suffolkparkfc.com to register.

Kick-arounds start in February. All welcome. Check our Facebook page for details.

Thanks to our wonderful sponsors The Park Hotel, Byron South Physiotherapy, Baz & Shaz Fruit & Veg and Tim Tetley Solicitors.

Email: info@suffolkparkfc.com Web: suffolkparkfc.com Facebook: SuffolkParkFC

The biggest little football club in the Shire

join the netball revolution Have fun, learn skills and make new friends. Registrations for five years and older open on 1 February for the 2018 season. All games are played on Saturday afternoons in Mullumbimby. Use your Active Kids rebate vouchers ($100) towards your child’s registration.

Visit our website www.brunswickbyron.nsw.netball. com.au or our Facebook page @brunsbyronnetball for more information and registration details.

SAT 10 FEBRUARY 10AM THROUGH TILL 1PM BANNER PARK OPPOSITE THE BRUNSWICK HOTEL

KIDS WILL HAVE FUN, MAKE FRIENDS AND LEARN INVALUABLE TEAM SKILLS

COME ALONG AND GIVE AFL A GO! BRUNSWICK BYRON

NETBALL ASSOC. INC. CLUB SIGN-ON

Sign-on is available via www.netsetgo.asn.au for those aged between 5 and 10 years and through www.mynetball.com.au for those aged 11 years and older.

BANGALOW: Wed 7th & 14th Feb. 3.30 to 5.30pm at Bangalow Bowling Club.

Contact Ellie 0429 855 399 or Gillian 0406 725 789

BYRON BAY: No sign on day. All registrations are now online.

Opens 1st Feb closes 16th Feb Contact Kelly 0405 923 927

MAIN ARM: by 24th February. Contact Noreen 0438 181 219 or Chelsea 0403 822 525 MULLUMBIMBY:10th February 9 -11am at Brunswick Byron Clubhouse Contact Narelle 6684 3870

bangalow rebels rugby union club Bangalow Rebels welcomes new players of all ages and levels of experience.

Under-7s play touch footy and all junior games are played on Friday nights. It’s easy for juniors to get to Bangalow by bus for training after school.

With both 1st and 2nd grade senior teams and top-level coaches, we provide opportunities for all players. www.facebook.com/bangalowrugby

OCEAN SHORES: No sign on day. All registrations are now online.

Opens 1st Feb closes 25th Feb Contact Ryan 0434 148 090 or Jo 0401 352 371

JOIN BANGALOW REBELS RUGBY UNION IN 2018!

Players wanted for all junior and senior teams from under 7s to 1st Grade • First and second grade senior teams • Family friendly club with rugby played in the right spirit • -XQLRUV SOD\ RQ )ULGD\ QLJKW ZLWK PRGL¿ HG UXOHV • Under 7s play touch footy Register your interest now and receive more information by email bangalowrugby2018@gmail.com Or call: Dave Phillips (Club President) 0412 080 614 www.facebook.com/bangalowrugby

A friendly community club welcoming senior players of all ages and juniors 6-9 years.

Juniors receive Active Kids funding this year - $100 per player!

A community driven, not for profit sports club catering for all ages and all levels of skill.

SIGN ON NOW ONLINE All info at www.MBVFC.com.au 0413 777 163 or info@MBVFC.com.au MBVFC is on fire! Volunteers, ideas people, and family participation are welcome at our busy little club.

Register now for ‘Early Bird’ specials

SIGN-ON 10–11 Feb, 11am-1pm at The Park Hotel, or go to our website.

All welcome - Kick around starts in February, Sundays from 5.30pm. Beech Drive, Suffolk Park. info@suffolkparkfc.com | suffolkparkfc.com |

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From Steam Whistle to Top Shed

By Raymond Howells

As the world of craft brewing continues to grow and evolve, it seems every man and his dog wants to get in on the act. It’s not something that can be said about Greg Cromwell; no Johnny Come Lately, Greg has been heavily involved in the craft beer scene since its initial explosion in North America in the 80s.

Back in 1985, he’d heard through family connections that Frank Heaps was starting one of the first microbreweries in Canada, Upper Canada Brewing in Toronto. As he was finishing up at university, Greg started to sell sweatshirts and branded merchandise for them. Then, after he graduated in September the following year, he started working for them, initially as a sales rep then rising to vicepresident of business development and helping take the company public before it came to a screeching halt.

‘Merchant bankers had become involved and they had big ideas to take it to the next level,’ Greg recalls. ‘Basically, instead of being an entrepreneurial organisation it would become what they had hoped would be a money-making machine for them and I didn’t fit into the equation, having a very lucrative six-plus-figure salary and wielding a bit of power. They said, “Okay, let’s get this pooch out of here”; so, I was fired.’

As he walked out of the brewery, he said to himself: ‘I’m going to start another one’. So, a year and a bit later, two of his other mates – Greg Taylor and Cam Heaps, son of Frank Heaps – who worked at Upper Canada Brewing were also fired and so, sitting around a campfire, they laid out plans to start their own brewery.

They each put some money in and, spying a good deal, bought a secondhand brewery from a brewery in Montreux before they’d even found a location. They originally considered calling the brewery Three Fired Guys, to be abbreviated to 3FGs but, before launching, they found an old vacant railway roundhouse in the downtown core of Toronto.

Greg says: ‘Greg and Cam, my partners, were out driving around looking for a space and saw this lease sign and said, “Oh, this could be good”. Before we knew it, we took over this hundredyear-old railway roundhouse that had been abandoned and the name Steam Whistle then evolved.

‘That was back in 1998; twenty years later it’s one of the largest craft breweries in Canada.’

Inspiration was taken from another Canadian startup called Creemore Springs which, at the time, says Greg, ‘only had the one beer style and had a waiting list of customers’. So when Greg got the chance to restart in brewing, he followed that blueprint and came up with the strategy that would define the brewery: do one thing really, really well. The trio picked the pilsner style, made it all that Steam Whistle brewed – and it remains the only thing they’ve brewed since.

Greg’s entrepreneurial vision didn’t end with beer. While on honeymoon, he developed some business connections that eventually led to the Australian Boot Company.

‘I obtained the distribution rights after we came back from our honeymoon in 1993,’ he says. ‘I got the rights to Canada for RM Williams boots and, through this mate on our honeymoon, we sourced Blundstones out of Tasmania and we opened a little store, selling boots out of our basement, and we’ve been doing that for almost 25 years now and sell more than 200,000 pairs a year.’

In 2001, Greg moved to Australia for a year with his Australian wife Alison and two of his daughters, Aubrey and Morley. They’re still here now, along with another daughter, Bella, born here in 2002.

The original plan had been to launch a Steam Whistle brand here in Australia, a road down which he travelled a considerable distance before discovering he didn’t have the full support of the board. It was a costly mistake that saw Greg step away from the brewing world as he licked his wounds.

As he recalls: ‘I kinda laid low for eight or ten years and then watched the whole craft beer thing take off in Australia, going, “Oh we were so close, we’d have killed it, we’d be killing it”’.

Over time, he found himself drawn back into the beer world, initially doing some web work for the guys at Stone & Wood, getting to

know the team there and thinking about how their business wasn’t too dissimilar from the dream he’d had for Steam Whistle in Australia.

Fast forward to two years ago and Greg found himself sitting in his farm’s top shed with a couple of rugby mates when the idea came up to brew some beer together. Initially, it was to be homebrew but momentum kicked in and the entrepreneurial spirit fired up again. The result is the Top Shed nano-brewery, now based on his Goonengerry farmstead in the Byron Shire hinterland.

Subsequently, in the little town of Morpeth, he chanced upon a little brewery located in the Commercial Hotel. He tried the beer, met the brewer Dave Allen, and invited him to brew beer for him. Then, on another trip to Newfoundland for his daughter’s wedding, Greg fell for the cream ale at Yellow Belly in St Johns and suggested to brewmaster Liam McKenna that they collaborate; soon afterwards, the Top Shed East Coast Cream Ale – its name a nod to St Johns being the most easterly point of North America and Byron Bay the most easterly point of Australia – was born.

‘Liam came up with a unique brewing profile for our cream ale and we’re still tweaking it,’ says Greg. ‘He’s just finished his fourth batch [and] it’s one of their best sellers.’

Having relocated to a new farm, Top Shed is currently in the process of regaining its commercial licence after relocating from its original location on Friday Hut Road just outside Bangalow, with Greg having big plans for the brand.

‘Well, I would like to think that my vision for Steam Whistle that didn’t quite happen is that I see Top Shed having operations in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the US,’ he says. ‘I see it being a global craft brand but not on a big scale – still on a very boutique, artisan scale.’

Greg admits he’s not a brewer. ‘I have homebrewed in university and I did one other batch after that but I do not have a passion for brewing beer; I am definitely not a brewer,’ he says. ‘I know about it but I am a branding and marketing guy. I’m not a designer, more of a barking leader, and I just don’t necessarily have any particular talent other than I’m not afraid to try something and I believe that shit can get done.

‘I surround myself with people much smarter than I and let them have a go. Not saying I’m not interested in brewing beer but that’s not my passion; I love drinking beer and experiencing different beer and really like bringing new things and new ideas to the market.’

Instead Greg leaves the brewing to Liam McKenna as head international brewmaster and consultant with the hands-on brewing in Australia to be carried out initially with the assistance of Byron Bay Brewery and wholesaling out of the Goonengerry site. Together, they’ll be refining East Coast Cream Ale then developing new recipes.

First, however, the main aim for Top Shed is, as with Steam Whistle, to do one thing really, really well.

Fruit salad in a Brunswick River sauce. Photo Jeff Dawson

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Healthy lunches Cancer Council NSW has launched a brand-new website that will make the task of preparing a healthy school lunch for the kids a whole lot easier.

The Healthy Lunch Box website (healthylunchbox.com. au) includes simple, tasty recipes and ideas for lunches, healthy snacks and family meals – and it features an interactive lunch-box builder that enables parents and their kids to plan a healthy lunch box at home, or on the move with their smartphone or tablet.

With only seven per cent of children eating enough vegetables and 22 per cent of children overweight or obese, adding fruit and vegetables to the lunch box every day is a simple way to ensure children get the benefits of eating a healthy and balanced diet.

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Easy Savoury Muffins

Food with a different view

By Vivienne Pearson A new year’s sojurn to Victoria found me re-contemplating my Food with a View story (published in this esteemed paper January 2016).

I enjoyed a meal at the Portsea Pub in the early days of 2018 (like many pubs it is known by its nickname but does have a formal name – Portsea Hotel).

The pub is dubbed iconic, not unreasonably given that it was built around 1870, but really for two other reasons.

If you can afford to live in Portsea (which is home to the likes of Lindsay Fox and has one of the highest mean incomes of all Australia), you have bought the right to call it your local.

Intrepid visitors, however, must survive the traffic sprawls of elsewhere on the Mornington Peninsula to finally reach the last watering hole before Tasmania.

Apart from the possibility of mixing with the polo set, a large part of the appeal is the location. The pub is

waterfront in the best possible way – there is no road between it and the waters of Port Phillip Bay, but it is far enough up a sloping grassy lawn to give slightly elevated views, including of the Portsea Pier. The views are even better if you are young or fit enough to climb the substantial trees that provide a natural playground for hungry kids.

The pub is close enough to the water that you can wander onto the beach between drinks to cool your toes. At least you could when I first visited a few (ahem, read many) years ago as a teenager.

For all is not rosy at the Portsea Beach, and therefore the pub. Sand erosion, blamed by many on channelwidening dredging around a decade ago, has seen the natural beach replaced by a sandbag wall. As one online commentator notes: ‘There is still plenty of sand at Portsea Beach,

just well stored in bags’.

There are now plans now for rock walls to stem the tide of further erosion (sound familiar?).

You can still wander down to the water between drinks (and the small amount of remaining sand if there at low tide) but this will involve some sandbag rock-hopping (an excellent activity for hungry kids who aren’t into tree climbing or lawn cartwheels) and negotiating an industrial platform and staircase.

All this is hidden from the pub’s dining areas (not deliberately, just because of the natural fall of the land) so it is still possible to enjoy a meal with a view. The food is great quality at inflated-but-not-outrageous Porstsea prices – I shared a pan-fried crispy salmon served with bok choy, baby corn, Asian herbs and a dashi miso broth, and a 350gm dry-aged tbone steak served with confit roasted

sweet potato wedges, sautéed broccolini and red-wine jus.

And, for a meal with a view in our own backyard? Since January 2016 new venues with views are worth noting: Shelter in Lennox Head (separated from the beach by a road but not a busy one), the Ocean Shores Country Club new front deck and the Cape Byron Lighthouse Café deck that is great for larger-scale sea views.

If you want a view of the pool try Graze at Elements; if you want a view of the street action try The Balcony or Ryce on Jonson St. Or, choose a picnic (bring your own or take advantage of the growing number of picnic-basket businesses in the Shire), for endless options to find your own top spot for food with a view.

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Good Taste

Serves: 12 | Preparation time: 15 minutes | Cooking time: 20 minutes Ingredients: – 1 tbsp olive oil – 1 medium onion,diced – ½ cup self-raising flour – 2/3 cup polenta – 1¼ cup grated reduced-fat cheese – 1 1/3 cup milk – 4 eggs – 30g butter, melted – 1 tomato, chopped (or use dried) Method: Preheat Oven 200ºc. Pan fry onion in a small amount of olive oil until brown. Combine all ingredients in a mixing bowl and pour into paper-lined cupcake baking tray. Bake for about 20 minutes or until muffins rise slightly and are lightly browned.

Variation: For added veges, add a handful of baby spinach, one grated carrot and half a teaspoon of dried thyme when browning the onion. Sprinkle the top of the muffins with ¼ cup pepitas (pumpkin seeds) prior to baking for a crunchy top.

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BYRON BAY

BALLINA

Ballina RSL Club

Valentine’s Day Dinner

1 Grant St, Ballina 6681 9500 www.ballinarsl.com.au Open 7 Days Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Snacks

Wednesday 14 February Spinnakers 3 Course Menu $55 Sittings available from 6pm Complimentary beverage on arrival Bookings Essential

Wharf Bar & Restaurant

WATERFRONT DINING Come watch the boats go by and the dolphins play whilst you take in one of our SENSATIONAL SUNSETS

Open 7.30am Daily.

Open till late Thurs–Sun Coffee, breakfast, lunch & dinner, functions & weddings. Fully Licensed.

12-24 Fawcett St, Ballina 6686 5259 / 6685 6011

WharfBarBallina@gmail.com.au www.WharfBarBallina.com.au

Trattoria Basiloco Open Wed to Mon from 5.30pm Closed on Tuesdays See menu, book a table, or order takeaway at www.basilo.co 30 Lawson St, Byron Bay 6680 8818

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

The Hideout Cafe

BANGALOW

Butcher Baker Coffee / Breakfast / Lunch 7 days from 7am Dinner Friday & Saturday Nights 13 Byron Street, Bangalow 6687 2088

HAPPY HOUR every Friday & Saturday 5–6.30pm $12 tapas share plates and $5 tap beer & cider Offering a relaxed atmosphere in one of Bangalow’s beautiful heritage buildings, Butcher Baker has a fresh local menu, in-house bakery with freshly baked sourdoughs, sweet treats and fantastic local coffee. Fully licensed with Australian local craft beer on tap and a carefully curated wine list. www.butcherbaker.com.au @butcherbakerbangalow

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Breakfast and Lunch 7 days a week from 7.30am Shop 6/13 Lawson Street 6680 9300 FB thehideoutbyronbay insta @thehideoutbyronbay

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

Fully licensed.

1 Jonson St, Byron Bay 6680 7632

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

We do special events functions.

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.

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!

Hidden away in Byron’s iconic ‘Eat street’ Bay Lane, The Hideout Cafe and Bar offers indoor, outdoor and deck dining With a fresh, funky, relaxed vibe, generous serves, cruisey staff and 10am licence, come and find us for ‘Byron’s BEST breakfast’ all day…

Takeaway available Vegetarian,Vegan and gluten free options available Kids menu

GREAT AUSSIE BBQ DANCE BY THE POOL WITH OCCA ROCK 25th January 2018 Tickets essential 6685 6011 functions@fishheadsbyron.com.au www.fishheadsbyron.com.au

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Success Thai

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Open every day From 11am till late Corner of Fletcher St and Bay Lane, Byron Bay

6685 7502 IG - @slomojoes

Legend Pizza

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.

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

3/109 Jonson St, Byron Bay 6680 7798

Slo-mo Joes

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DAILY HAPPY HOUR FROM 3 TILL 5 PM Slow down & chill out!

Immerse yourself in Slo-mo Joes relaxing vibes while you enjoy live music & delicious flavours inspired from around the world.

There’s something for everyone; from slow-cooked meats to mouth-watering burgers and nutritious salads.

Guaranteed to leave you wanting more!

Main Street Open 7 days 11.30am until late Call to make a reservation or for takeaway orders 18 Jonson Street 6680 8832

Luscious Foods

Mon-Fri 7.30am–3pm Open Friday nights 6–9pm Live music and BYO 1/6 Tasman Way, Byron Arts & Industry Estate BYO & RSVP 6680 8228

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

25 Childe St, Byron Bay 6680 9452

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

Contemporary and Middle Eastern flavours • Breakfast and lunch • Wood-fired pizzas • Fresh juices • Great coffee www.lusciousfoods.com.au

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

Lunch Fri-Sun 12-3pm.

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Williams St 50 Pacific Parade, cnr of William St, Lennox Head 0476 892 194 insta @williamst.lennox

The Empire Mon–Sat from 8am, Sun from 9am Nights Thurs, Fri, Sat Dine in and takeaway FB/Insta: EmpireMullum 20 Burringbar St, Mullum 6684 2306

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

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

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

Open 7 days 11am till 8pm Fri & Sat 11am till 8.30pm Shop 5, 8 Fletcher Street, Byron Bay 02 6685 8156 Take away available

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

Targa Modern European Cafe • Restaurant • Bar 11 Marvell Street

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

Elixiba Open 11am–Late 7 days Shop 10, Feros Arcade 23 Jonson St 6685 6845

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Our opening hours are 6.30am–2.30pm, 7 days for Breakfast + Lunch Thursday, Friday, Saturday for dinner.

Sunday Tapas & Happy Hour Specials till sundown

Mullumbimby’s iconic Empire Cafe serves up an exciting menu with something for everyone. From delicious and healthy superfoods like acai bowls and buddha bowls, to decadent treats like burgers and buffalo wings, and heaps heaps more. Come in and satisfy your cravings.

Open Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings with a selection of shareable plates, delicious meals, cocktails and great vibes.

NEWRYBAR

Harvest

A short ride from Byron Bay, Harvest Restaurant, Bakery and Deli offers country charm and fresh, seasonal, organic food sourced from local artisan producers and Harvest’s own gardens.

18-22 Old Pacific Highway Lunch 7 days from 12pm Newrybar NSW 2479 Dinner 5 nights from 6pm Breakfast weekends from 8am 02 6687 2644 Harvest Deli open from 8am with weekday breakfast www.harvestnewrybar.com.au available – Deli takeaway coffee from 7am. @harvestnewrybar Harvest is available for events, weddings and catering.

St Elmo is a place where you can enjoy great company, first-class food, sophisticated cocktails and an extensive wine list. St Elmo is plating up modern Spanish cuisine to be enjoyed amongst friends and family. Our menus change regularly and feature daily specials.

SUFFOLK PARK

Tullys

Fresh Healthy Delicious

Hawaiian and Japanese flavours Signature Poke Bowls • High-quality diced raw fish, vegetables, sauces & spices • Vegetarian - Vegan options Any Poke Bowls $15.95 | Tuna Poke Bowl $17.95 www.finnpoke.com.au FB Finnpokebyron IG @finnpoke_

CATERING

CELEBRATIONS Celebrations Catering By Liz Jackson

Hong Kong chef specialising in Chinese and Malay foods Fully licensed Dine In / Takeaway / Home Delivery Available

CLOSED FROM JAN 28 – FEB 5

Hidden away in the heart of the Suffolk shops, with indoor/outdoor seating and a tropical outlook,

shop 12a, lot 3, Clifford St, Tullys has a relaxed and casual vibe Suffolk Park shopping Serving up 5-star breakfast, lunch and takeaway options centre Open 7 days 7am–1pm Dinner - Friday–Sunday 5.30pm–10pm 0448 077 401 INSTAGRAM @tullys_place hello@tullyscafe.com.au

www.stelmodining.com

Finn Poke Restaurant

Relaxed dining by the beach.

Food that celebrates local produce served with a healthy dose of good tunes and good vibes.

All welcome.

MULLUMBIMBY

Open 7 days from 6pm The Italian Byron Bay provides a bustling atmospheric Sunday Lunch from midday. restaurant, dishing up contemporary inspired Italian cuisine and some of Byron’s finest Next to the Beach Hotel cocktails and wines.

Bay Street 6680 7055 italianatthepacific.com.au

Mon-Sat: 5pm till late.

Sun: 5pm till 10pm.

Cnr Fletcher St and Lawson Lane, Byron Bay 6680 7426

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

Long lazy lunches on our veranda.

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

Proudly awarded Chef Hats for the past 22 years

LENNOX HEAD

New summer menu out now!

The Italian Byron Bay

St Elmo Dining Room & Bar

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BYO Home delivery 7 days Established 1992

KINGSCLIFF

Gourmet burgers created by chefs Cocktails, wine and beers served all damn day.

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

FRESH PIZZA BYRON STYLE

BY LIZ JACKSON

Celebration cakes Personal catering services Event co-ordination and management

E: lizzijjackson@gmail.com P: 0414 895 441

OPEN 7 days and nights throughout January all day menus, licensed bar APERITIVO happy hour AFTERNOONS 4–6pm daily $12 Cocktails, $7 beers, $8 wines, $12 Moet Valentines Day Eve y LIVE MUSIC with Tim Stokes

Elixiba Plant Based Restaurant and Bar A delicious vegan dining experience.

Tapas, mains and heavenly desserts all house made and gluten free.

Exclusive craft beers, herbal elixirs, exquisite cocktails and a unique atmosphere.

Dine in/Takeaway/Catering/Functions

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Property Property Insider Confessions of a Shedaholic Part 5 Property Insider has been following the progress of confessed Shedaholic, Kate LeMessurier, as she builds her 5-bedroom, 2-bathroom shed-home from go to whoa.

The Kitchen fitout Kate had one of her luckiest finds when visiting Red Ned’s Salvage and Secondhand Yard at South Tweed Heads. ‘A secondhand kitchen, which was exactly what I had envisaged in my original kitchen plan. The one I found at Red Ned’s has stone benchtops and included all the appliances.’

The appliances that were included were: • Smeg 900mm gas cooktop • 900mm electric fan-forced oven • overhead exhaust fan

1 Red Ned kitchen before dissassembled by Red Ned’s

• Smeg microwave • Asko dishwasher • stainless-steel sink and mixer tap.

Kate paid a small deposit to Red Ned’s and took all the measurements and photos of the kitchen, then worked with Ian Godwin her builder to see if the dimensions would work in the space planned for the kitchen.

It took a bit of wrangling and a lot of remeasuring to make the kitchen fit in the space. This was because the configuration of the kitchen included an island bench containing the sink, dishwasher and drawers on either side. This was transferred to be put against the wall with the large window, allowing Kate to look out over the trees. The main section of the Red Ned’s kitchen with the

2 delivered all in pieces

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cooktop and oven with overhead cupboards was able to fit against the wall already built. In the end the only thing that was added was a corner cupboard to join the two sections (see pics). Kate was also able to create a butler’s pantry out of the extra fulllength cupboards. How clever is she?!

Finally after a week of lots of discussion and measuring and coming up with our plan Kate arranged for the kitchen to be picked up from Red Ned’s and delivered by her most trusted removalist, Benny. ‘After the delivery Ian quickly got to work and assembled all Benny my favourite the different removalist

pieces and the whole kitchen was basically installed within two days.’

Kate explains that she tunes things along the way and one of the best changes from the original plan for the kitchen was being able to move the dishwasher from the original space under the sink to a space that was originally a cupboard for a small fridge under the microwave.

This meant that the dishwasher was higher off the floor and easier for the plumbing. ‘It’s fabulous! Much easier to access and no more bending down to clear the dishes.’

The final touch for the kitchen is Kate’s island bench. ‘I found some timber from an old bridge at AJ Magnay’s at Lismore and my favourite cousin made it into a 2m x 0.9m benchtop for me. It’s going to have two sets of drawers matching the other kitchen

drawers. I ordered them as a flat pack and Ian will assemble it when it arrives. ‘ Kate paid $4,200 for this kitchen from Red Ned’s, including all appliances, and when finished she will have the kitchen she originally designed for a fraction of the cost.

‘After the refitting by my builder Ian Godwin and adding extra cupboards, the island bench and the tiled splashback the final cost will be approximately $7,000. The final picture shows what it looks like fitted out. The island bench is still to be be installed. ‘It’s amazing what you can find in secondhand yards; you can have a quality kitchen at a fraction of the cost of buying it new and have it look fabulous. I can’t tell how thrilled I am with it. It’s not quite finished but nearly there,’ beams Kate.

3 kitchen semi-installed by builder Ian Godwin

4 nearly there

5 fully installed with tile splashback still some work to do

POSTION & POTENTIAL & adjoining Park & Reserve to the rear!

A 2 bedroom villa or duplex offering a low maintenance lifestyle & capturing leafy views, coastal breezes & the sounds of the ocean as you sleep. With the living areas offering a rear deck & leafy rear yard which flows into cleared open spaces for friends, kids & pets which could easily be fenced should you desire.

The opportunity to update should you wish, however a clean, neat & tidy home for someone with a busy lifestyle not wanting high maintenance.

Two double bedrooms with built-ins, a two way bathroom, breakfast bar, internal access to the lock up garage & laundry complete this package.

In the now highly sought after Sunrise Estate which is undergoing a transition - easy walk to supermarket & shops, tavern, Habitat development of Cafes & businesses & the Industrial Estate –whilst the option to cycle or jump on the new Solar rail into Byron. Or take a 5 minutes stroll to one of Australia’s most beautiful beaches.

Priced for a quick sale - this is a must to inspect.

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2/43 Julian Rocks Drive BYRON BAY $685,000 Inspect Sat 10—11am Lorna Bailey - 0410 609 789 0DU\ 2¶&RQQRU - 0418 462 849 2 bed, 1 bath, 1 garage

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Property Rainforest Sanctuary

The Top House

Unique Opportunity

334 Friday Hut Road, Possum Creek

58a Paterson Street, Byron Bay

94 Yelgun Road, Yelgun

6

3

$2,250,000

2

A true Byron Hinterland escape yet only 15 minutes to the Bay & 7 minutes to Bangalow with Asian influenced botanical garden style grounds of subtropical nature!

Entering the property down a sealed driveway gives you an insight into the diversity of the infrastructure offered.

Winding down past the fenced 5 acre paddock on one side with dam & pontoon, before reaching a split in the drive to reveal 2 homes well apart from each other ensuring privacy.

Both homes feature extensive use of Australian hardwoods and have been built to a high standard without complicated design and showcasing the Australian bush.

Multiple outdoor baths & showers, a heated plunge pool with spa jets, a modern, impressive home office/Yoga/Meditation bungalow.

Open: Saturday 1.00–2.00pm Contact: Mary O’Connor 0418 462 849 Lorna Bailey 0410 609 789 Bangalow Real Estate & Byron Hinterland Properties 6687 2479

3

2

$2.2–$2.4m

2

5

4

$1,595,000

5

This stylish new home is located in one of Byron’s top streets. Architect designed and built by award winning builder, Michael Harris of MRH Build, this home is positioned on an elevated 420m2 lot, just a short stroll to Byron’s beaches, The Top Shop and town.

Upstairs comprises combined living, dining area with custom built kitchen featuring wraparound Caesarstone and European appliances. This area flows seamlessly to over-sized decks with views to the lighthouse and the Nightcap Ranges. With integrated gas BBQ facilities, the rear deck is ideal for entertaining.

Downstairs features three queen bedrooms. Bed 1 & 2 share an ensuite with walk-in shower while the master bedroom has an ensuite with luxe bath.

This large family home (known locally as Yelgun Lodge) is nestled in the Yelgun valley with a pretty little permanent creek meandering through the 1.5 acres.

The home is so spacious with lots of potential. It is currently used as three separate tenancy arrangements (two continuing and one for the owner and guests). There are so many features but the standouts are the very high ceilings, plus the polished concrete and timber floors. The setting is so tranquil with its peaceful outlook. There is plenty of shed space, ideal for a studio and storage. Plus there is an old stables. Brunswick Heads is under ten minutes away and this is a great place where you can have a perfect day at the beach, river, shopping, cafes and pub. At Ocean Shores you can enjoy a great game of golf on the course of the Country Club. But even closer is Crabbes Creek with its general store and primary school. Gold Coast Airport and Byron Bay are both under half an hour away.

Inspect: Saturday 27 Jan 11.30am–12pm Contact: Byron Beach Realty Valerie Williams 0447 006 434 | 6680 8110

Inspect by appointment Open: Contact: Katrina Beohm 0467 001 122 Katrina Beohm Real Estate

Discover the next Byron Bay

settlement house

18 Settlement Road, Main Arm, NSW, 2482 4 2 2 Build size 170 m2 Land size 1,012 m2 3 Open Homes: Thursdays 16:00 - 16:30 & Saturdays 10:00 - 10:45 Price: $780,000 - $820,000

Agnes Water/1770–Surf/Reef/Rainforest 5 hrs from Brisbane – Gateway to the Great Barrier Reef – East Coasts most Northern Surf Beach & Australia’s Best Beach 1770 Headland Residential Land adjoining Nat Park – unique land holding from $399,000 & Balinese Style Ocean View Beachside 3 bedroom Villa from $315,000 Call James on 0410 666 549 james@prd1770.com.au Beachfront land in the heart of Agnes from $235,000 & 1ac beachfront $480,000 & lush 4 acres 5mins from the beach $119k & houses on 4ac from $280,000.

Call Tim on 0428 565 626 tim@prd1770.com.au View more opportunities at prd1770.com.au Book your accommodation to view this beautiful area at accomm1770.com.au

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SECLUDED TRANQUILITY IN THE COUNTRY • • • • •

Recently renovated charming home Separate self-contained studio Dual income potential with high yields Fantastic investment opportunity Generous land parcel surrounded by acreage

• • • • •

Gorgeous hinterland views Sauna and solar hot water system Generous entertaining decks 25 minutes from Byron Bay 7km from Mullumbimby

For more information or to arrange an inspection, please contact: Gary Brazenor M 0423 777 237 E gary@greatrealestate.com.au Denzil Lloyd M 0481 864 049 E denzil@greatrealestate.com.au

www.greatrealestate.com.au 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.

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Property Sunsets of Bangalow

Noble Lakeside Park

Riverdale

Lots 4 & 6 Fowlers Lane, Bangalow Noble Lakeside Park – Kingscliff – Site 59 137 Friday Hut Road, Tintenbar For Sale: $920,000 & $940,000 $379,000 2 1+1 2 4 3 2

‘Sunsets of Bangalow’ is a stunning, semi-rural land release, located in the Byron Bay hinterland, on the doorstep of the historic village of Bangalow and minutes to the beach. Carefully designed to allow 11 exclusive lifestyle lots situated harmoniously amongst over 50 acres of natural forest, the property on 88 acres of rich, red, fertile soil, features 3 permanent creeks and numerous water holes. The common land, available for all owners to use, is home to an abundance of wildlife and represents approx. 50% of the entire property. Services include underground electricity and telephone and a sealed roadway to all lots. Vacant land is extremely rare in the Byron Bay hinterland and this land release represents the best of both worlds, peaceful rural setting, and only minutes to town.

Only 2 lots left in Stage 1 so be quick!

Inspect: Agent on site Saturday 11.00–11.30am Contact: Janice Maple 0401 026 359 Elders Bangalow

This spacious manufactured and immaculately presented home is located just a short stroll to the Lakeside clubhouse, bowling green and swimming pool.

With its expansive paved and covered outside entertaining area, this home would ideally suit those who enjoy an outside lifestyle and like to entertain at home.

This home features a full width enclosed entrance porch with a bullnose roof, spacious tiled open-plan living areas with ceiling fans, and reverse-cycle air-conditioning.

Two good-sized carpeted bedrooms with ceiling fans and built-in robes. Master bedroom has its own split-system airconditioner, plus a study-nook/office. Second bedroom has a verandah door opening to the paved patio.

Tiled bathroom includes a large stylish shower cabinet, a separate toilet and a separate area with vanity unit.

A double garage with remote operated roller door adjoins the home.

This energy efficient home has both a solar hot water service and solar panels with an inverter, plus roof insulation.

A ‘Pet Friendly’ park.

Open:

By Appointment Contact: Kelvin Price 0423 028 468 Mr Property Services

$1.55 million

Set in the heart of the Byron Bay hinterland amid 17 acres of usable land, Riverdale boasts idyllic river frontage and abundant wildlife.

With four spacious bedrooms, three bathrooms, a large ground floor home office and double car port, this property offers vast opportunities to expand or remodel.

Riverdale boasts an expansive spring-fed dam, stocked with bass & silver perch and the elevated fishing platform ensures this property is an angler’s dream. The extensive river frontage has plenty of deep water swimming holes too.

At 20 minutes from Byron Bay and just 10 minutes to the beaches of Lennox Head, Bangalow and the Ballina Byron Gateway Airport, Riverdale is perfectly situated for astute purchasers looking for usable land or a renovation project.

Inspect: By appointment Contact: Gary Brazenor 0423 777 237 Denzil Lloyd 0481 864 049 Unique Estates

whatever home means to you, we’ll help you find it

SKINNERS SHOOT 246 Skinners Shoot Road $1.7 million 3

1

7

beach house in the bush

4067.30m2

Agent: Katrina Beohm 0467 001 122

0467 000 222 North Coast news daily: www.echonetdaily.net.au

+ Rustic charm with large northern timber deck where you can relax in peace with nature & wildlife + High raked timber lined ceilings, wood heater in living room. Beautiful stained glass throughout + Large 7m x 14m Colorbond shed plus separate workshop with 3 phase power +Town water, sealed road, Only a few minutes to the CBD & the beaches of Byron Bay

See more at: kbrealestate.com.au

B Y R O N B AY | L I S M O R E | B A L L I N A

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Property Emerald Falls 753 Wilsons Creek Road, Wilsons Creek $1.7 million 6 4 4

A magnificent rural estate with multiple building sites, this property occupies an elevated spot atop eight hectares of rolling lawns and lush rain forests.

The master residence fronts onto Wilsons Creek and was renovated by the current occupants to incorporate all modern conveniences. In addition to its three bedrooms and two bathrooms, it has an open plan living, dining and kitchen area that serves as the heart of the home.

Emerald Falls also features a two-car garage together with an artist’s studio and a self-contained one-bedroom guest cottage with bathroom and kitchenette.

The second house site has an easily reinstatable DA-approved plan for a five-bedroom single-level home while occupants also have access to two large swimming holes & a golf driving range – complete with green – that lies less than 200 metres away.

The Echo: reaching far more people each week The Audited Media Association of Australia has measured the average weekly print distribution for the six months ended 30 September 2016 as: The Byron Shire Echo: 23,190 The Byron Shire News: 15,534 Delivered to significantly more homes and businesses across a larger area, The Echo is clearly the more effective place for your print advertising.

THE BYRON SHIRE

Inspect: By appointment Contact: Gary Brazenor 0423 777 237 Denzil Lloyd 0481 864 049 Unique Estates

Superb Townhouse Near Byron Town Centre

1 TASHA CLOSE, EWINGSDALE 5

3

2

• Stunning and spacious light fi lled family home • Perfect entertainer with multiple outdoor settings • Separate private garden studio for family and guests

3

Price: $899,000 negotiable

2.5

2+

• Guest quarters and private courtyard attached to main house

• Relaxed living and year-round holiday ambience.

• Large internal laundry with separate guest W/C

• North facing picturesque gardens and courtyards

• Walk to town convenience.

• Two street frontages

• 3 double beds, 2.5 baths, 2 + cars.

• Lockup garage and storage, plus separate driveway to carport for further cars, boat or trailer.

Open:

Saturday, 27th January 12.00 – 12.30pm

Price:

$1,750,000 to $1,875,000

Enquiries:

Luke Elwin 0421 375 635 | Su Reynolds 6685 8466

26 January 24, 2018 The Byron Shire Echo

• All bedrooms with robes, Master with A/C and ensuite.

• Main bathroom with separate bath, shower and private W/C.

• Private fenced level lawn and garden.

• Owner has relocated.

• Open plan living dining with high ceilings, A/C, and direct access to both patios.

Byron Council Rates: $2084 P.A. Strata Levy: $1880 P.A.

Open inspection: Saturdays 10.30am–11.00am from the 17th January 2018 or by appointment.

Contact:

0408 712 885 for full details Private sale.

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Property Open for Inspection BANGALOW REAL ESTATE & BYRON HINTERLAND PROPERTIES â&#x20AC;¢ 2/43 Julian Rocks Drive, Byron Bay. 10â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11am â&#x20AC;¢ 54 Carney Place, Knockrow. Sat 12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;12.30pm â&#x20AC;¢ 334 Friday Hut Road, Possum Creek. Sat 1â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2pm

BYRON BEACH REALTYÂ

â&#x20AC;¢ 58a Paterson Street, Byron Bay. Sat 11.30amâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;12pm â&#x20AC;¢ 17 Edward Place, Knockrow. Sat 10.30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11am

ELDERS BANGALOWÂ

â&#x20AC;¢ 3 Remnant Drive, Clunes. Sat 10â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10.30am â&#x20AC;¢ Lots 4 & 6 â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Sunsets of Bangalowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, Fowlers Lane, Bangalow. Sat 11â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 11.30am

FIRST NATIONAL BYRON BAY â&#x20AC;¢ Lot 6, 155â&#x20AC;&#x201C;159 Broken Head Road, Suffolk Park. Thu 10â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10.30am â&#x20AC;¢ Lot 2/20 Azalea Street, Mullumbimby. Thu 11â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11.30am â&#x20AC;¢ 1635â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1651 Coolamon Scenic Drive, Mullumbimby. Thu 12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;12.30pm â&#x20AC;¢ 871 Main Arm Road, Main Arm. Thu 1â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1.30pm â&#x20AC;¢ Lot 2/20 Azalea Street, Mullumbimby. Sat 9â&#x20AC;&#x201C;9.30am â&#x20AC;¢ 871 Main Arm Road, Main Arm. Sat 10â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10.30am â&#x20AC;¢ 23 Green Frog Lane, Bangalow. Sat 10â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10.30am â&#x20AC;¢ 1/112 Bangalow Road, Byron Bay. Sat 10â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10.30am â&#x20AC;¢ 115 Stewarts Road, Clunes. Sat 10â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10.30am â&#x20AC;¢ 5 Burke Terrace, East Ballina. Sat 10â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10.30am â&#x20AC;¢ 600 Coolamon Scenic Drive, Coorabell. Sat 11â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11.30am â&#x20AC;¢ 2/33 Scott Street, Byron Bay. Sat 11â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11.30am â&#x20AC;¢ 15 Tamarind Court, Suffolk Park. Sat 11â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11.30am â&#x20AC;¢ 13 Tamarind Court, Suffolk Park. Sat 11.30amâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;12pm â&#x20AC;¢ 141 Newes Road, Coorabell. Sat 12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;12.30pm â&#x20AC;¢ 1 Tasha Close, Ewingsdale. Sat 12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;12.30pm â&#x20AC;¢ 478 Tuntable Creek Road, Tuntable Creek. Sat 1â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1.30pm â&#x20AC;¢ 49 Ruskin Street, Byron Bay. Sat 3â&#x20AC;&#x201C;3.30pm

LJ HOOKER BRUNSWICK HEADS â&#x20AC;¢ 7 Rajah Road, Ocean Shores. Thu 11â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11.30am â&#x20AC;¢ 11/10 Balemo Drive, Ocean Shores. Thu 11â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11.30am â&#x20AC;¢ 7 Kiah Close, Ocean Shores. Thu 11â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11.30am â&#x20AC;¢ 41 Yalla Kool Drive, Ocean Shores. Thu 12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;12.30pm â&#x20AC;¢ 5 Weeronga Way, Ocean Shores. Thu 1â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1.30pm â&#x20AC;¢ 32 Coomburra Crescent, Ocean Shores. Sat 10â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10.30am â&#x20AC;¢ 7 Rajah Road, Ocean Shores. Sat 11â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11.30am â&#x20AC;¢ 11/10 Balemo Drive, Ocean Shores. Sat 11â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11.30am â&#x20AC;¢ 7 Kiah Close, Ocean Shores. Sat 11â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11.30am â&#x20AC;¢ 2 Napelle Court, Ocean Shores. Sat 12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;12.30pm â&#x20AC;¢ 16 Berrimbillah Court, Ocean Shores. Sat 12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;12.30pm â&#x20AC;¢ 41 Kallaroo Circuit, North Ocean Shores. Sat 1â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1.30pm

McGRATH BYRON BAY

Rental open times

â&#x20AC;¢ 7/19 Teak Road, Federal. Sat 9â&#x20AC;&#x201C;9.30am â&#x20AC;¢ 19 Coachwood Close, Byron Bay. Sat 10â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10.30am â&#x20AC;¢ 1 Taylors Road, Eureka. Sat 10â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10.30am â&#x20AC;¢ 680 Left Bank Road, Mullumbimby. Sat 10.30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11am â&#x20AC;¢ 114 Alcorn Street, Suffolk Park. Sat 11â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11.30am â&#x20AC;¢ Lot 1, 49 Mullumbimby Road, Myocum. Sat 11.30amâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;12pm â&#x20AC;¢ 133 Foresters Way, Tintenbar. Sat 12.30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1pm â&#x20AC;¢ 478 Tuntable Creek Road, The Channon. Sat 1â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1.30pm â&#x20AC;¢ 14 Bolwarra Circuit, Wollongbar. Sat 1.30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2pm

FIRST NATIONAL BYRON BAY â&#x20AC;¢ 6/21 Cemetery Rd, Lilli Pilli. $680 p/w. Sat 10am. â&#x20AC;¢ 4 Tamarind Crt, Suffolk Park. $725 p/w. Sat 10.30am. â&#x20AC;¢ 22/183 Broken Head Rd, Suffolk Park. $630 p/w. Sat 11am. â&#x20AC;¢ 2/18 Mahogany Drv, Byron Bay. $680 p/w. Sat 11.30am. â&#x20AC;¢ 2/4 Julian Rocks Drv, Byron Bay. $700 p/w. Sat 1.30pm. â&#x20AC;¢ 10/18 Sunrise Blvd, Byron Bay. $413 p/w. Sat 2pm.

RAINE & HORNE OCEAN SHORES â&#x20AC;¢ 12 Beach Avenue, South Golden Beach. Sat 10.30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11am â&#x20AC;¢ 37 Elizabeth Avenue, South Golden Beach. Sat 11.30amâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;12pm â&#x20AC;¢ 11 Hardy Avenue, Ocean Shores. Sat 12.30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1.30pm

New Listings BANGALOW REAL ESTATE & BYRON HINTERLAND PROPERTIES â&#x20AC;¢ 2/43 Julian Rocks Drive, Byron Bay. Priced to sell â&#x20AC;&#x201C; $685,000

FIRST NATIONAL BYRON BAY â&#x20AC;¢ 16 Bayshore Drive, Byron Bay. Expressions of Interest closing 5pm 31/01/18. â&#x20AC;¢ 1/112 Bangalow Road, Byron Bay. $839,000 to $879,000 â&#x20AC;¢ 23 Green Frog Lane, Bangalow. $840,000 to $870,000 â&#x20AC;¢ 4 Waterford Parade, Skennars Head. Auction Pending

McGRATH BYRON BAY â&#x20AC;¢ 19 Coachwood Close, Byron Bay

RAINE & HORNE OCEAN SHORES â&#x20AC;¢ 34 Mia Court, Ocean Shores â&#x20AC;¢ 10 Philip Street, South Golden Beach â&#x20AC;¢ 20/2 Langi Place, Ocean Shores

Auction ELDERS BANGALOWÂ â&#x20AC;¢ 3 Remnant Drive, Clunes. Sat 10 Feb 10.30am

FIRST NATIONAL BYRON BAY

â&#x20AC;¢ 115 Stewarts Road, Clunes. Auction 3 Feb 10.30am. Guide $780,000 to $860,000

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ISSUE# 32.33

JAN 24 – JAN 30, 2018 Editor : Mandy Nolan Editorial/gigs : gigs@echo.net.au Copy deadline: 5pm each Friday Advertising : adcopy@echo.net.au P : 02 6684 1777 W : echo.net.au/entertainment

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TUNING INTO CHANNEL ONE I N 197 9, MI KEY D READ AND HIS BROTHER JAH T BEGAN TO PLAY AT BLUES PARTIES AND LOCAL DANCES, HAVING SPENT MANY YEARS UNDER THE WATCHFUL EYE OF THEIR FATHER, OWNER-OPERATOR OF THE FAMOUS ADMIRAL BAILEY SOUND. CHANNEL ONE’S MISSION IS TO BREAK DOWN BARRIERS VIA REGGAE MUSIC THEY HAVE ACHIEVED THIS BY PLAYING NEW VENUES, NEW FESTIVALS AND DIFFERENT COUNTRIES, TAKING THEIR UNIQUE SOUND TO AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, ISRAEL, TURKEY AND ALL OVER EUROPE.

What does Channel One mean as a name?

Why do you think it was always perceived Channel One Sound System references the as radical or subversive? famous Channel One music studios in Jamaica. Is that spirit imbued by Marley still in the reggae Back in the 70s/80s I used to visit Jamaica and music that gets made today?. cut dubplates in their dubcutting room and We never found the music to be radical or bring them back to play in London. Big reggae subversive. It was just something that we grew up with. Its message was something that we could tunes such as Very Well by Wailing Souls. all recognise and relate to. It’s not big-money Can reggae really unite people? How? music like hip-hop, with lyrics created for a mass Of course. Reggae music can unite people by audience; it’s raw and reflects the time and the the words, sound and power of the music and lives of the people who create it. Bob Marley left a legacy in his music that is still relevant to today. the message of Rastafari.

What is unique about your sound?

Channel One Sound System has been hand built over many years to get the unique sound that people hear today. When we travel overseas, we teach younger sound systems how to tweak their sound systems to get the best sound possible out of it. It’s not just about the bass, it’s about hearing all of the different sounds in the music. As artists, we always champion good reggae music; we know what makes a good record and support new artists from all over. We play new music, but also keep playing artists who have died.

We keep their music alive. Everything we play has a message. Positivity and conscious music only. Strictly roots, reggae and dub!..

What have been some of your gig highlights?

The Red Bull Culture Clash in 2010; we were the underdogs and appeared in a big sound clash, playing up against Goldie with Metalheadz, and Skream and Benga. Nobody expected us to make any impact. We won. We won over the crowd with our music and message.

Beating the more commercial sectors was a

highlight: suddenly people had to take notice of our music and our work. Another highlight for us is the annual Notting Hill Carnival (Europe’s largest street festival with more than a million people on the streets of London).

We’ve played there for 34 consecutive years.

Each year it gets bigger and better; people visit us from all over the world to experience Channel One Sound System on the streets of London. Positive vibes and skanking..

Who are the artists you draw on for inspiration?

Some of the classics: Dennis Brown, Burning Spear, Culture, Bob Marley What do you have in store for your show in Byron?

We’re looking forward to letting the people of Byron know what reggae music is all about, to let them know the spiritual message of Rastafari through the way we play music.

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TIME TO WAKE UP YOUR UKE

BIBBY STILL GIGGING

AUSTRALIA DAY: LOSE THE DATE

I’ve never really got the point of Australia Day. I’ve never felt so much nationalistic pride that I want to put on my flag bikini and listen to some shit middle-of-the-road Aussie music while drinking a beer chanting ‘Aussie Aussie Aussie’. Perhaps we could change the call and response from Oi Oi Oi to Sorry Sorry Sorry. Australia Day always feels like Bogan Day. I’d be happy with a public holiday for that. At least it’s honest and isn’t attempting to be inclusive. As a white woman who lives with whitewoman privilege I don’t feel invested in Australia Day. My friends in Bondi tell me they don’t go out. It’s dangerous.

People get violent. They get violent because Australia Day is basically a nationwide outdoor binge-drinking session followed by a few blues. I love my country, but I love it so much I don’t want to drop beer cans and ciggie butts all over it. I love my country so I want to do something useful to protect it, such as Stopping Adani and saving our reef. I love my country so I want to make it a better and fairer place for all. I don’t wake up on 26 January desperate to dance naked in thongs while eating a sausage sanga to commemorate Captain Cook rocking up uninvited at Sydney Cove. I’ve never felt like putting a flag on my aerial and driving around yelling abuse at migrants and anyone else who isn’t some small-eyed whitey because the English government at the time decided to send their unwanted out here. I find it weird that we celebrate what is ostensibly a break and enter.

Australia Day really is a celebration for the English. It was a successful land grab by their empire. You wouldn’t get away with the whole ‘there was no-one home’ routine these days. We’ve got Facebook. And international law.

You can’t just rock up to other people’s countries and claim it with your silly piece of fabric on a stick. It was their version of Manus Island. So why are we celebrating that? Australia was somewhere else to deal with a social problem the English weren’t prepared to face in their own country. Ironically we celebrate the English stealing a country to send their poorest and most disenfranchised people. The descendants of the poorest and the most disenfranchised are often those celebrating the hardest.

I don’t get it. Right now there’s a campaign to move the date. I say let’s not just move the date, let’s just lose the date. Let’s just can the whole thing. Australia Day is boring. It’s pointless and it’s embarrassing. We haven’t got that much to celebrate. Don’t get me wrong: I’m not against public holidays, but commemorating invasion and the generations of trauma inflicted on Indigenous peoples of this country with a barbecue? That’s just cruel.

If someone rocked up at my place and stole my home and then continued to rub it in every year with a giant ‘how good is my new house’ street party I’d be pissed off. Sure, Australia Day is supposed to be about different stuff now – celebrating who we are as Australians today.

Celebrating ‘diversity’. That’s a joke. If I were ‘diverse’ I would stay inside and lock the doors. Drunk Aussies on Aussie Day have a history of beating up Diverse Australians. And before you start bleating on about our Freedom and being the lucky country, let’s have a good hard look at what’s behind that flimsy curtain of nationalistic fervour. Oh, we’ve destroyed one of the world’s natural wonders – the Barrier Reef – with coal mining and climate change. Oops. Quick, cover it up with a flag and drink a beer on it. There are nearly two women dying at the hands of their partners every week. Shit, we need more flags. And more beer. That’s nearly 100 bodies a year to cover. We abandon the world’s most vulnerable citizens – pushing them into offshore detention centres where we don’t have to see them. More flags to cover the shame and we’re going to have to buy a pub. And then there are our own Indigenous nations living in third-world poverty… Aussie Ausssie Aussie? I don’t feel particularly much like getting out the party hooters.

Can you tell me what exactly we are celebrating here?

Because I, for one, don’t get it.

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Bibby quit his job and went busking when he was 19. After busking for a while he got a few other gigs out of it. He got a high-paid job but lost it eventually because he was always turning up hungover from gigs the night before, so he did more gigs, mostly with Frozen Ocean or F*%#ing Teeth. He’s been doing that for a few years; now he has a troupe of fellows known as the Bottles of Confidence who back him up when he feels the need.

You can back him up at The Northern on Thursday.

The Mullum Uke Club is back for 2018 and it’s time to dust of the ol’ ukulele and get back to making music and having fun. The first point of business is Breakfast in the Park – the Australia Day singalong in the Housie tent at Banner Park, Brunswick Heads, will be a blast.

The Aus Day event will be more fun than a jolly jumbuck escaping a swaggy’s tucker bag as Stukulele with members of the Northern Rivers Uke Orchestra leads Australian songs new and old from 7am.

Brekky is $5. The fun begins at 7am on Friday.

The Mullum Uke Club will be upstairs at The Mullum Ex-Services Club as usual on Monday 29 January from 7pm. ($15)

DON’T MISS THE BUNNY Next Saturday will be your last chance to see Bunny Racket, BUT, you’ll be one of the first to see an episode of their upcoming web series at the show.

his unique brand of rock’n’roll with the younger generation of bunny racketeers and to create the greatest kids’ rock record of all time.

Bunny Racket is rock’n’roll for kids. Pure and simple. King Bunny is a guitarwielding, skateboarding, nature-loving rabbit with a passion to share his love of rock’n’roll. Bunny Racket is born of King Bunny’s fierce love for rock music and a yearning for kid-friendly tunes that are relevant and positive. King Bunny travels the open highways in his old van, seeking collaboration, inspiration and knowledge, and on a quest to share

Bunny Racket is also about to launch a rock’n’roll web series that’s set to inspire and teach kids how to create music and rock out with the whole family.

The Bunny Racket Live show will have the whole family in fits of rock’n’ roll bliss! Just imagine the Ramones and KISS teaming up with the Cat in the Hat and AC/DC. Don’t miss this!

Get down and furry at the Brunswick Picture House at 12pm this Saturday.

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ENTERTAINMENT

THE ORIGINAL BROTHERS OF BLUES The Original Blues Brothers Band is alive and well. Original members hand picked

by John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd have assembled the ultimate rhythm and blues review and have emerged as a powerful entity in their own right. The Blues Brothers Band, best known for the feature films The Blues Brothers and Blues Brothers 2000, and the triple-platinum album Briefcase Full of Blues and the soundtracks from both films.

Blues Brothers is not just great music, it’s serious fun. Everyone in the band has a ‘blues’ name. Like ‘blue’ Lou Marini… according to Blue Lou his name came about when ‘Dan Aykroyd told us that we were going to be in the band and he suggested that everybody had to have a blues moniker of some kind. He also intimated that if we didn’t come up with one ourselves, he’d be happy to supply one, and as you know, especially when Danny goes into the character of Elwood, he can be pretty inventive, and so I thought it best to supply my own nickname before he got to me. There was an old jazz tune that my dad – who was a wonderful teacher and saxophone player also used to love and used to play – had a record that I used to listen to called Blue Lou and so the Blues Brothers Band, the blues… It rhymes. Blue Lou, it was sort of a no-brainer.’

For Marini, it was the gig that skyrocketed him to instant fame.

‘It's funny though, because I remember when my son was 11 or 12 we did the first tour. The first big gig after the record was at Pine Knob in Michigan, outside of Detroit, and there were 20,000 people there. (John) Belushi and (Dan) Aykroyd were at the height of their popularity with Saturday Night Live, and the band had just had a number one record. When Belushi introduced me, my son was onstage standing over by the speakers, and that was the first time that it occurred… but it happens all the time now… and they started going, ‘Blue Lou, Blue Lou’. At first he thought that they were booing me, and I remember he had this stricken look on his face. How could 20,000 people be booing his dad?’

problems. Consequently, I’ve enjoyed a long and varied career, and because I was always open to playing different things is one reason that I think my CV looks the way it does. I’ve luckily been able to play with all these great players, and that’s the main thing that I think about when I look back on all of it. That is really from the time I was about 18 or 19 years old, I’ve been playing with great musicians my whole life, and Of course they weren’t boo-ing – quite the that is a gift and a joy that is just on every opposite! Years on, Marini is still as keen level, as colleagues, as friends, as people to get onstage and play the classic Blues to enjoy making music with, I’ve had a Brothers music as he was in the day.

‘It seems that as I’m getting to the narrower wonderful ride, man. I’m still digging it. We end of it all, there is an increased urgency to have a three-month tour with James Taylor play and enjoy it and savour my colleagues,’ coming up, and we were in Australia the last year with James. I’m still – knock on says Marini. ‘One thing that happens when wood – I’m grooving.’ you have a long career such as I’ve had, and luckily, I’m sort of responsible and I’ve never, knock on wood, had any health

According to Marini, two things underpin the music of the Blues Brothers.

’One is to play this music and to play it right.

The only way to do it right is you have to play full out. When we finish the opening medley of The Blues Brothers, my stomach hurts from playing so hard. It’s like that the whole night. We’re playing full out, and it’s tons of energy and everybody plays that way. Then the other thing is that after all these years and all the crazy stuff that’s happened to us on the road, we always have said that we should’ve had a film crew travelling with us, because the stuff that happens to us is crazier than anything and funnier than anything we ever got in the movies. We are really brothers, and I think both those things the audience responds to.’

The Original Blues Brothers band plays Bluesfest this Easter. For program and ticket info go to www.bluesfest.com.au.

STRAIGHT UP YA CLACKA Tumbling down from the Sunshine Coast, Cloacas are a band who first formed with the intention of making a fortune and ‘getting their money for nothing and their chicks for free’.

However, their first LP Angry Music for Happy People was made of 12 tracks varying from fast 80s American hardcore to slower more Sabbath-like tunes.

Unbelievably, this recording didn’t resonate with the pop charts, leaving them in a worse position then when they started – on the streets, stealing white bread, and broke with no hope. That was until they had the idea of releasing a pop album and taking back from the music industry the money that was rightfully theirs. And that’s when Camp Fire Classics was born. The EP was a great success and all the hard work paid off!

The first track of the EP now has more than 30,000 plays on Spotify and the band has made more than $200 in royalties.

BUT – Cloacas couldn’t help but feel guilty for selling out and not staying true to their core roots. So much so that when they toured for the Camp Fire Classics release, they didn’t play a single song off the EP. Now the Cloacas are back and about to release their most core music yet. So core it landed them on Pauly B’s record label, Negative Return Records. The 10-track album is guaranteed to blow your mind and your ears. It will leave you shaking in your boots because it’s so tough. It will leave you turned on as it might be slightly politically incorrect and sarcastic. But most importantly it will leave you wanting to buy a t-shirt and that’s where the real money hides.

The album is entitled Straight Up Ya Clacka and is plastered all over the internet now with the album launch taking place this Saturday at The Northern.

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LIVE MUSIC CONTINUED

I HEAR YA, PREACHER MAN

FROM THE HEART OF AKOVA

SUNDAY IS A SWEET PRESERVE IN BRUNS

The James Street Preachers are on a mission to take the blues back to the street, as a living homage to the blues legend, Wylie Reed, who taught them their craft.

Jamie Kasdaglis and Matt Lye were fortunate enough to learn at the feet of the master, playing in Reed’s backing band off and on for 15 years.The duo began busking on James Street and quickly built up a following that has led to residencies at local bars and cafes along the Gold Coast.

This is blues the way it was played in Maxwell Street, Chicago, back in the day by train-hopping bluesmen surviving on their wits and musicianship.

You can catch that train at the Byron Brewery on Friday from 7.30pm.

Akova’s music is a unique, heartfelt creation that heightens awareness like a gentle tap on the shoulder. He is a compelling storyteller, having the ability to channel his life experiences in thought-provoking music, creating a sound you just can’t help but admire.

This acoustic multi-instrumentalist inspires and uplifts audiences worldwide. Akova’s raw beat-driven music takes over your body, willing you to dance. He enchants audiences with his proficiency in wielding his many instruments, combining vocals, guitars, ukulele, cajon, djembe and ankle bells (often all at once!). You can’t help but feel Akova’s energy lift a room.

Rise up at the Byron Brewery on Saturday at 7.30pm

Get more out of your jam when Wild Marmalade fuse the ancient sounds of the didgeridoo with contemporary dance beats – their sound is a meeting of Si’s synth-style didgeridoo drones with the explosive beats of Matt Goodwin on drum kit.

CULTURE

Drawing on rhythms from all over the world and inspired

by Indigenous sounds and the grooves of the present, Wild Marmalade’s high-energy shows uplift audiences with their display of powerful, joyous and infectiously danceable music.

See them at the Hotel Brunswick from 4pm.

THE BIRDMANN – FINALE In a 25th anniversary show, the man like no man, the internationally infamous, award-winning comic legend, The Birdmann presents the finest collection of classic comedy variety hits in the world! Following ten world tours and a star from the Australian National Circus Festival to the Glastonbury Music Festival, witness the winner of Best Circus at the Melbourne Fringe and nominee for Most Original Comedy at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Be wowed by absurd acts including plastic-bag juggling, interpretive high-heel dancing, interactive origami extravaganzas, bicycle chin balancing, climbing inside a giant balloon – all accompanied by the original music of Egg. For one night only join The Birdmann in Finale and enjoy the weird, the wonderful and fly to the future in a fantastically fun evening of entertainment.

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BOLD AND BRASSY, NOT TO FORGET BAWDY Bev Killick delivers a nonstop energetic set every time. You know she’s onstage by the way as she blasts her way through her hilarious material with her off-the-cuff style. Bold and brassy. From the first minute you know you’re in for a treat. Bev is likeable, bawdy and real.

Bev started making people laugh from the age of ten at family gatherings. Invariably these gatherings would end up with Bev putting on a show. Always the class clown and lunchtime entertainer, Bev’s ability to remember a joke (handed down from her dad at the meatworks) and tell it well, saw her doing standup comedy in the school quadrangle long before she knew that it would be her calling.

You may remember Bev from her appearance in Berlei’s ad for the Uplifting Tour of Australia, which led her to a role in Busting Out! making audiences across the globe laugh their tits off as she got her tits out.

It’s hilarity at its best and most accessible with Bev onstage.

A laugh a second. Don’t miss this opportunity to see her live at the Ballina RSL. Bev Killick supported by Matt Ford with MC Mandy Nolan Big Gig Ballina RSL – Thursday 25 January 8pm

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ENTERTAINMENT

MULLUM FLiCKERFEST – 27th International Short Film Festival & BYRON ALL SHORTS – Northern Rivers Short Film Competition

MULLUM CIVIC HALL – 26–28 JANUARY 2018 ‘Flickerfest – Now That’s A Short Film!’

Flickerfest returns to the Northern Rivers 26–28 January, for its 20th year screening a smorgasbord of the best short films from the Byron Region, Australia and the world, across one cinema-packed short film weekend at the Mullumbimby Civic Hall.

We will also be presenting the Best of Northern Rivers Shorts at the Byron All Shorts screening 16 local finalists, selected from near 50 entries, showcasing a wonderful new collection of creative shorts from our very talented local filmmakers on a range of themes that reflect Northern Rivers life including surfing, music, comedy, love and everything in between starring a host of local identities including Mandy Nolan and Rusty Miller.

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7pm – Opening Night Party 8pm – Best Of Australian Shorts

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‘ALTERNATIVE PRIME MINISTER’ IS A NEW SLIGHTLY-DRUNK-TED-TALK FROM MARK SWIVEL, A C C R E D I T E D N E A R D E A D W H I T E M A L E . TM A S O U R INDIFFERENCE TURNS TO ANGER, MARK HITS THE HUSTINGS TO KISS BABIES AND SIZZLE SAUSAGES. EXPECT BANTER, SINGING, FISCAL RECTITUDE – FULLY COSTED SILLY-BUGGERS THAT STRAYS DANGEROUSLY CLOSE TO COMMON SENSE! SO AS AUSTRALIA DAY APPROACHES LET’S FIND OUT HOW OUR ALTERNATIVE PRIME MINISTER TICKS…

Highlights include the beautifully crafted and creative Australian animation Lost Property Office about Ed its sole inhabitant who in many ways is as lost as the items themselves, and currently short-listed for an Academy ® Award. The dramatic and inspiring Miro, An Australian first, an Aboriginal Western short film staring Mark Coles Smith; Fysh a heart warming and quirky short that tells the story of an old man and the fish that changed his life, directed by Billie Pleffer, who most recently directed the series Deadlock in the Northern Rivers for the ABC; and the delightfully quirky and creatively animated Martha The Monster, starring the voices of actress Rose Byrne and her husband Bobby Cannavale.

SATURDAY 27TH JANUARY 4pm – Byron All Shorts Experience the many amazing films and local stories that are produced in the region each year. Around 16 local short films will screen across this 120-minute program which will celebrate an incredible range of themes and stories. Byron All Shorts is judged by an esteemed jury of local Northern Rivers industry luminaries including award winning producer head of film at SAE Anne Chesher, Executive producer Tim Brooke-Hunt and documentary maker and producer Paul Melville.

8pm – Best Of International Shorts A selection of film gems from our Academy ® Accredited and BAFTA recognised Sydney competition.

Highlights include: the moving and insightful All Of Us (Watu Wote) from Germany based on a true story that sees Christian and Muslim bus passengers

Fri 26th Jan: 7pm Opening Party | 8pm Best Of Australian Shorts, $25/22 Sat 27th Jan: 3pm doors open | 4pm Byron All Shorts, $14/12 Sat 27th Jan: 7pm doors open | 8pm Best Of International Shorts, $16/14 Sun 28th Jan: 7pm doors open | 8pm Shorts Laughs Comedy, $16/14 Season Pass: $55/$45 All sessions approx 110 mins (tickets will be avail online and at the door)

in Kenya face an attack by extremist group the Al Shabaab, short-listed for the 2018 Academy ® Awards, the hilarious An Imagined Conversation With Kanye West And Stephen Hawking from Canada. And the timely and culturally relevant Wren Boys from Ireland recently nominated for a BAFTA that shines a spotlight on the theme of Gay marriage.

SUNDAY 28TH JANUARY 8pm – Short Laughs Comedy Highlights include the hilarious Fern from the UK about a woman who loses her husband and finds a potted plant. Home grown comedy Your Call is Important To Us that confirms our worst fears about call centres when were asked please hold and oddball comedy It’s Complicated from South Africa. When lonely Andy invites a girl who he met online to his apartment he falls head over heals for her despite his flatmate Nigel’s repeated attempts to point out her obvious flaws.

Mullum Flickerfest & Byron All Shorts is a fund-raiser for iQ Inc. FLICKERFEST CAFE opens 1 hour before sessions serving delicious organic treats and drinks.

INFO & PROGRAM: www.iQ.org.au

If I were PM the first thing I would do is… ring Trump, laugh for 90 seconds, ask what it’s like to have such tiny hands. So small. And hang up.

The dumbest thing… is that we are about to replace Malcolm with Bill Shorten, and all our TVs will turn black and white.

Economic rationalism is… The smallpox of our time.

Australia Day is… like Kevin Andrews, unnecessary, out-of-date and creepy.

The national dress should be… worn by the PM on the first day of parliament. A PM needs a good drag name. Judy Free? Julie Noted? Female PMs can suit themselves.

If I were to design the flag I would… use Perspex, or a match. We don’t need one.

Flags are the worst thing about every country.

The national anthem should be… Treaty – Yothu Yindi; Know Your Product – The Saints; orTouch Myself – The Divinyls.

If I were PM I would introduce a public holiday for… public holidays. To celebrate our success as a diverse nation committed to evidence-based history we need a special day.

Prime ministers are best… conceptually.

If I were to create a new party it would be… The Come Together Party. Right now.

Over me.

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The best thing about Aussie politics is… anyone can have a go.

The worst thing about Aussie politics is… um, see above.

Which Aussie politicians living or dead would you invite to dinner… Al Grassby (knew where the bodies were buried, and how to dress); Cheryl Kernot (still have a massive mind/body crush on her); and Fred Paterson (only communist elected to parliament – a lunatic from regional Queensland!).

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CULTURE CONTINUED

WITH LILITH

MARTHA THE MONSTER

BYRON ALL SHORTS: BENT NOT BROKEN – HELEN BENDER JACK AND JILL BEST OF INTERNATIONAL: WATU WOTE: ALL OF US SHORT LAUGHS COMEDY MARTHA THE MONSTER This weekend is the 27th outing of Flickerfest as it returns to the northern rivers, screening everything a film buff and anyone who enjoys great entertainment could ask for.

This much-awaited annual event presents the best short films from the Byron region, Australia and the world, across one cinema-packed short-film weekend at the Mullumbimby Civic Hall.

Flickerfest remains Australia’s leading Academy®-accredited and BAFTA-recognised short-film festival, ensuring that they continue to present A-list short-film programs recognised among the best in the world.

After the highly successful 10-day Sydney festival under the summer stars at Bondi Beach in early January 2018, selected highlights tour Australia to more than 50+ venues until May.

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JACK AND JILL The Flickerfest program includes the Best of Australian Shorts and the Best of International Shorts, curated from the Flickerfest Australian and international programs in competition at Bondi; and Short Laughs Comedy, an offkilter selection of clever comedy shorts from across the world.

Hand picked from 2,500 entries from Flickerfest 2018 in Bondi, the Mullumbimby edition will be screening an entertaining, inspiring and award-winning range of more than 30 Flickerfest short films, many of which are world or Australian premieres.

The festival also features the Best of Northern Rivers Shorts at the Byron All Shorts finalists’ screening of 16 local finalists, selected from nearly 50 entries, showcasing a wonderful new collection of creative shorts from our very talented local filmmakers on a range of themes that reflect northern rivers life including surfing, music, comedy, love and everything between, starring a host of local identities including Mandy Nolan and Rusty Miller.

Mullum Flickerfest & Byron All Shorts is a fundraiser for iQ Inc.

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SO FAR JANUARY’S BEEN DRIVEN

BY DISCIPLINED COMMITMENT TO GETTING THE JOB DONE. WITH THIS WEEK’S SUN AND VENUS LEAVING CAN-DO CAPRICORN FOR WHAT-IF AQUARIUS, THE JOKER’S WILD…

ARIES: Been overdoing it recently to the point of personal power outage?

This week’s electric Aquarian influx replugs the current. Deep-breathe through impatience with complications, resist the urge to do everything yourself. Influential connections and backup support are there for you, so ask for assistance and accept it graciously.

LIBRA: The sun accompanying Libra’s luminary planet, feelgood Venus into genial, gregarious Aquarius (and your flamboyant love zone) has this week oozing with goodwill and forward momentum. An astral boost, which you could use to get some powerfully productive brainstorming going with whom you know about what they know.

TAURUS: January certainly hasn’t been lacking in personal determination; now this week’s sun and Venus quantum leaping into quirky, adventurous Aquarius add a fresher, more innovative energetic. Taurus moon from midweek on is excellent for networking, especially if you open up to wilder ideas than you usually entertain.

SCORPIO: With motivational movers Mars and Jupiter in Scorpio, your powers of observation, expression and timing are likely to be peaking this week. If intellectually progressive Uranian influences download startling flashes of insight, let these brew for a bit. Give them the time they need to connect the dots to the correct conclusions.

GEMINI: Contrary to what you think, committing to sensible choices brings a sense of security, not boredom. This airy Aquarian week needs focus narrowing and prioritising, because saying yes to everything paradoxically means you actually miss out by being so preoccupied you’re not present to the opportunities of the moment. Now read that sentence again…

CANCER: As this week lets up a little on the serious attitude in favour of more fun, it’s worth remembering that progressive Aquarian influences are primarily mental and not particularly sympatico to emotional overflow. Feelings won’t be regarded as facts, because they aren’t. You’ll need to keep a clear perspective on gossip, intrigue and unsubstantiated disclosures.

LEO: If you’ve used the resolute resolve of this year’s first month to instil some healthy habits in Palazzo Leon, then top marks, majesty. If not, and you’re fortunate, this week’s fast and furious celestial energetics could flick the switch on a rush of productive energy for a quick reset or miraculous change of perspective.

VIRGO: Unconventional, try-it-and-see Aquarius directs this week towards new experiences with unusual people off the beaten track. Doing things differently in ways you hadn’t thought of before.

Experimenting with spontaneous improvisation.

Taking a change from your usual routine for the path less travelled – or even considered.

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SAGITTARIUS: Adjustments in expenditure will be ongoing for some time, but your inner resources and personal support system are solid.

While networking brings interesting info for your indie spirit to explore and investigate, resist sarcastic or offhand responses.

You’re looking to build and strengthen new connections, not offend them.

CAPRICORN: The Carnival of Capricornia continues with Mercury, Saturn and Pluto in Capricorn backing authority – yours. Which may be challenged by unpredictable, unexpected, unsettling Uranian/Aquarian alterations: of mind, heart or something you relied on.

Look for positive possibilities and silver linings. Find ways to make changing conditions work for you.

AQUARUS: Sun and Venus in Aquarius make this your week to show off and shine! Team ventures and community projects are rewarding and enjoyable, with plenty of support for your creative inspirations.

If critical feedback fits, use it for course corrections, strategy rejigs or repurposing. If not, simply ignore and move on.

PISCES: Be prepared for a swag of enlightening selfrealisations downloading via your sensitive antennae this week. If something feels off, don’t just gloss over it: address the mess. Have the courageous conversation.

Do whatever it takes to clarify and mend. Or at least to finally be at peace with it.

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CINEMA REVIEWS SWINGING SAFARI I disliked this movie intensely.

Writer/director Stephan Elliott, who gave us the memorably crass A Few Best Men (2011), has stooped even lower in a self-adoring memoir that is loaded with mockery but bereft of empathy (how on earth did he fluke 2008’s lovely Easy Virtue? – maybe because it was written by Noel Coward?).

Set during the Whitlam era (72–75) in a coastal town like countless others on Australia’s east coast, we meet the Joneses, the Halls and the Marshes, three families whose members are all interchangeable, so indistinctly are the characters drawn. One of the sons,

young Jeff Marsh, records their inane activities while making backyard movies with his friends. Among these activities is an evening of swapping partners, at which all the kids are present (go figure). Social mores are observed, but from a great height by a filmmaker who so wants to play the naughty boy but in the end only comes up with cringeworthy crudity. The thing about making a virtue of bad taste is that, even at a time when vulgarity has had its tawdry triumph over wit, bad taste is still on the nose. I’ve never thought myself prudish, but the depiction of one of the teenage daughters as being good for nothing more than giving the local boys blowjobs was not a bit funny.

Establishing the period through clothes, decor and cars etc is accurate, but done to the point where it feels like you’re watching a backto-the-seventies costume party rather than a slice of real life, and though the pace is blistering it only highlights the fact that there is not much of a story being told. Though tacky and undergraduate, the cast do their best – Guy Pearce and Asher Keddie are excellent in a lost cause – but the film is all about ego and smut. The fifteen-yearold I was with summed it up when we left, the ‘joke’ about a tortoise tethered to a post deflating us considerably – ‘that movie is SO wrong’.

BY JOHN CAMPBELL

THE COMMUTER Poor old Liam Neeson is the hardest done-by bloke in cinema today. Tragedy, disaster and low-life crooks keep turning up like bad pennies in his screen life, usually threatening not just him, but his beautiful wife and kid too! This time he is Michael MacCauley, a New York Irishman who has left the NYPD to spend the last ten years selling life insurance.

After getting the sack out of the blue, he finds himself sitting opposite the sexy Joanna (Vera Farmiga) on his daily rail commute home.

Enticing him with a muchneeded stack of money, Joanna has Michael seek out and tag a stranger on the

train (her encounter with him has echoes of Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train). Michael doesn’t know what it’s all about, but his mysterious task soon goes pear shaped and he realises that he is searching for the eye-witness to a serious crime, and that Joanna’s fiendishly intricate, ruthless plan has no concern for collateral casualties. Nearly all of the action takes place on the train as the number of those likely to be the target is whittled down. Nothing is given away in the plot and I had no idea who the witness might be until the reveal.

But before this moment, Liam has to overcome the usual hurdles, including the chestnut that has his fellow travellers think that he is the bad guy. He also has a

humungous fist fight with one of Joanna’s men, and I’ll tell you somethin’ for nothin’: even at sixty Liam can take a punch in the head and return serve with an even heavier haymaker. All the while, the train is rattling along as we get to know those on board (Adam Nagaitis’s conductor provides wisecracking levity) while Liam is bashed and chased and shot at. The inevitable derailment is brilliantly executed and even if the resolution is as clear as mud it doesn’t matter – Sam Neill swans off as the avuncular detective, Liam’s missus gets her wedding ring back and Liam himself is barely scratched. I loved it.

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BRICKLAYING BRICK/BLOCK LAYING Contractors. Lic 291958C. Phone Mark ........................................0409 444268

BUILDING TRADES • DEPT OF FAIR TRADING: A licence is required for all residential building work where the reasonable

CLEANING

CONCRETING & PAVING

ACTION WINDOW & PRESSURE CLEANING

SALISBURY CONCRETING

• 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

market cost of the work to be done (labour and materials) exceeds $5000 (including GST).

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North Coast news daily:

1300 095 393

• RELIABLE TRADESMAN • JOBS UP TO $5000 • DECKS & PERGOLAS • TIMBER SCREENS & DOORS • GARAGE CONVERSIONS

• Window Cleaning • Screens & Tracks • Pressure Washing • House •Roof • Paths • Solar

SERVICING THE BYRON SHIRE

CALL BRETT 0414 542 019 DINGO DEMOLITIONS & ASBESTOS REMOVAL ................................. 66834008 or 0407 728998 CARPENTER All jobs. Michael Dow. Lic 147675C .................................... 66291169 or 0412 967677

Call Sam on

0434 539 979

www.byroneco.com.au

BUILDER – JOHN McGAURAN Personalised Service. 20 yrs exp. Lic 170208C .............0415 793242

Window Cleaning Professionals

BUILDER CARPENTER Extensions, renos, new homes, insurance, all jobs. Lic 19953 .......... 0403 458177 CARPENTER/JOINER Lic 39791 Decks, studios, pergolas etc Paul Varendorff ..66845035 or 0414 842602 EXTENSIONS & RENOVATIONS Excellent quality. Builder: Levi Alexander Lic 189611C ..0402 434154

BUSH REGENERATION & WEED CONTROL

DARYL 0418 234 302 OR 02 6680 1793

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

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 DECK REPAIRS, BUILDING & MAINTENANCE ..........................................................0403 793834

DENTISTS BANGALOW DENTAL In the Medical Centre Complex, Bangalow ......................................66872766 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 BRUNSWICK HOLISTIC DENTAL CENTRE.......................................................................66851264 MICHAEL LEACH 100 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby .............................................................66842644

DESIGN & DRAFTING BAREFOOT BUILDING DESIGN www.barefootbuildingdesign.com..........Bob Acton 0407 787993 DAVID ROBINSON DESIGN DRAFTING All Council & construction requirements ......0419 880048

FABRICA JOINERY Quality kitchens/timber doors/windows. Lic 244652C .........................66808162

BUILDER Renovations, maintenance, 30yrs exp. mchughdesign.com.au Lic 29792C....0408 663420

Over 25 yrs local experience. All forms of concreting.

• Residential Civil Industrial.

• Resurfacing and rejuvenation of existing concrete.

• Steel fixing & formwork.

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

BYRON ENERGY EFFICIENT DESIGN & DRAFTING www.beedad.com.au ...............0423 531448

DIGITAL FABRICATION COMPUTER CONTROLLED CUTTING SERVICES (CNC), wood, plastic and foam . Dave 0429 003683

DRIVEWAY MAINTENANCE

Quality Exterior Refinishing

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

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

CARPENTRY & JOINERY

Phone Oliver 0419 789 600

Full Circle

End of lease & bond cleans, spring cleans & one off cleans, production, event & party cleans, sale cleans & home detailing

SPECIALISING IN PRESTIGIOUS PROPERTIES

TLC

CARPET CLEANING

CLEAN AS IT’S BEEN TEAM Home, Bond back, anytime, references ...................................66882372 DONE & DUSTED CLEANING Going the extra mile, professional, dependable...............0498 731447 DETAILED STEAM CLEANING Natural products. Bathrooms, kitchens, spring cleans .0410 723601 AIRBNB HOSTING SERVICES Cleaning, linen, restocking, bookings.............................0410 630042 BYRON & BEYOND CLEANING Brunswick to Ballina & inland towns from $35ph........0451 102239 CLEAN AS A WHISTLE Consistently good work. Home and office ..............................................0403 585741 HOLIDAY CLEANERS AVAILABLE NOW! Domestic, AirBnB, last-minute. Local, exp & reliable .0421 360961

COMPUTER SERVICES

TENDER LOVING CARE Specialising in household carpet cleaning Speedy Drying

Kevin & Margaret Bower

FRANCHISE OF THE YEAR!

(02) 6684 1001

Green & Clean

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

Far North Coast NSW John & Teresa

0408 232 066

All Mac Repairs, Upgrades, Service, Data Recovery, Internet Set-up, Hardware Sales, Insurance Claims SaulMordaunt@macdoc.net.au

0411 562 111 s

0431 122 057

Commercial / Domestic / Insurance

CHIMNEY SWEEPING

Apple Certified Support Whether Whe er y you need a tech m mentor, advice or just support I’m here to help

Cleans deeply, dries in 1-2 hours

APEX CARPET CLEANING www.apexcarpetcleaning.com.au......................... Nathan 0412 926441

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purely support, advice & tech mentorship

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

CHIROPRACTIC BAY FAMILY CHIROPRACTIC Peter Wuehr 17 Bangalow Rd Byron Bay ..............................66855282 WAVE OF LIFE NETWORK CHIRO (lowforce) 8/9 Fletcher St, Byron Bay. Andrew Badman...66858553 MICHAEL SCHWAGER 108 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby ...................................................66841962 MULLUM CHIROPRACTIC Massage, chiropractic & fitness. 110 Dalley St .........................66841028 BYRON BAY CHIROPRACTIC CENTRE Bruce Campbell. 1/12 Tasman Way, A&I Estate ....66858159 RENT-A-GEEK Mobile PC Repair (Byron Shire) ....................................................................66844335 CAPE BYRON HOLISTIC CHIROPRACTIC Shane Eade. 6/14 Middleton St .....................0467 660323 WORKRIGHT COMPUTER SUPPORT Mobile service. For Home & Business .................0422 804449

38 January 24, 2018 The Byron Shire Echo

Call Steven Butturini

Calmer Organic Cleaning • Fully insured & police cleared • ABN 13 761 054 921 •

Truck Mounted Machine

0418 156 909

fullcirclerefinishing.com

0411 567 844

CARPET CLEANING

CARPARK & DRIVEWAY MAINTENANCE CONCRETE EDGING

Pressure cleaning Roof cleaning

P/L

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

Free property assessments and quotes.

Lic.136717c

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

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Jai – 0467 482 948

EARTHMOVING & EXCAVATION

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

Phone Jeremy 0409 146 052

TINY EARTHWOR Philip Toovey

0409 799 909

various implements available for limited access projects

EARTHMOVING & PLANT HIRE Specialising in driveway construction & maintenance

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

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

0410 056 228 / 0427 663 678

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

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

Ph: 6684 0160 Mob: 0439 840 160 Byron Shire Echo archives: www.echo.net.au/byron-echo

Service Directory FLOOR SANDING & POLISHING

5.5 TONNE EXCAVATOR, POSITRACK & TIPPER HIRE Specialising in road works, land clearing, retaining walls and general earthworks.

Augers and rock grab available.

The Floor Sander NEW AND OLD FLOORS AND DECKING

EXPERIENCED OPERATORS | FREE QUOTES 0432 299 283 NORTHERN RIVERS TRENCHING 65hp chain trencher, mini excavator, cable locating...0402 716857 BANGALOW MINI DIGGER SERVICE Exp operator 1.8 tonne multiple attachments .....0413 878978 BYRON BAY BOBCAT & TIPPER HIRE Driveways, rubbish removal. Ian.......................0412 853479

AAA LAWNMOWING Reliable. Please phone Ray..........................................................0468 814547 PRESTIGE ACREAGE CARE Acreage mowing specialist ...............................................0490 023964

Richard Neylan 0407 821 690

GRASSROOTS PROPERTY CARE Garden maintenance. Acreage & residential mowing .0434 637804

Email richardneylan1@bigpond.com

NJH FLOOR SANDING Eco oils, hard wax oils & water-based finishes. Nathan .............0420 215716

FLOORING GARAGE DOORS

24 HOUR SERVICE

GARDEN DESIGN GARDEN DESIGN, FENG SHUI www.simplybeautifulspaces.com.au...........................Lyn 0428 884329

GAS SUPPLIERS

Lic: 154293c

All Jobs Small or Large

Free Delivery

Locally Owned Est 18 years

No Rental LICENCE NO:175956C ABN: 03 113 342 699

02 66 804 173

Domestic Commercial

STRONGARM LANDSCAPING & GARDEN MAINTENANCE Acreage mowing..............0402 917519

FINISHED FLOORS Premium service at a quality price. 7 days. ..........................Danny 0403 646852

ELECTRICIANS

AH

TIP RUNS & RUBBISH REMOVALS 4m3 trailer..............................................................0408 210772 BIO GARDENS Horticulturist for all your gardening needs. Reasonable rates ...............0459 175729

• Non-toxic finishes • Free quotes

CHOPPY’S BOBCAT & TIPPER HIRE Fully insured. Stump grinder, augurs avail. Col Barton ..0418 991747

0439 624 945

A GREEN EARTH Garden restoration, maintenance, tree & rubbish removal ................0405 716552

QUALITY GARAGE DOORS TO SUIT ALL BUDGETS

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

Reliable

www.brunswickvalleygas.com

6680 1575 or 0408 760 609

Garage Doors & Openers

DOMESTIC COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL

GLAZIERS

24/7 EMERGENCY GLASS 0415 660 801

JAMIE 0408 809 817

6685 8588

licence no. 201775c

Mirrors • Security doors and screens Shower screens • Commercial glazing

ELECTRICAL Steve Nicholls ph: 0455 445 343 lic: EC28753

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

GARDEN & PROPERTY MAINTENANCE

BYRON GLASS & ALUMINIUM Home, Shop & Office. 24 hr/7 days. Lic 313329C ..............66808123

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

nichollselectrical@outlook.com

www.spotlessgutters.com.au

0405 922 839 or AH 6684 1778 ABN 180 623 364 42 JTC Gutter Cleaning www.rightasrainservices.com.au Pressure/window ..................0402 384682

0458 267 777

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!

Lic. 211410C

0497 413 344 • www.charlibearlawncare.com

Suffolk Park

Lic No: 143433C | ACRS Master Cabler A017916

Luke McDermott

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

0414 905 900

COUGHRAN ELECTRICAL 24 hour service, Lic 154293C .......................... 0439 624945 or 66804173 RONNIE SPINKS Everything electrical. Lic 27673 .........................................................0429 802355

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

BYRON BAY ELECTRICAL Geoff Bensley. Lic EC 34079 ...................................................0427 857824

Paola Landscapes Pty Ltd

CIRCUITS PLUS For everything electrical. Friendly & professional. Lic 201844C.............0422 668582

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

JP ELECTRICAL Level 2 ASP Under-g/O-head lines, Pwr poles, Solar. Lic 133082C ........0432 289705 CHRIS APPEL. Ocean Shores. Lic EC 22349.....................................................................0422 607444 JIM LABELLE ELECTRICAL O.Shores, Mullum, Byron, Brunswick. Lic 176417C..............0415 126028 SPINKS ELECTRICAL Lic 284939C..................................................................Call Mitch 0421 843477

GUTTERING & DOWNPIPES Leaf Guard. Lic 60414C. Darryl Patterson .........................0414 889453

HANDYPERSONS A TO Z HANDYMAN SERVICES Tip runs, pressure cleaning, gardening, odd jobs ....Andre 66847553 or 0439 495247 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 THE HANDYMAN CAN All home maintenance, repairs, painting, odd jobs etc .............0427 110953 RELIABLE HANDYMAN SERVICES Michael ...........................................66844970 or 0405 325569 HANDYMAN All services and areas. Reliable and friendly. $35/hour.............................0403 793834 THF SERVICES Home maintenance and general repairs, garden irrigation ...................0402 019625 HANDYMAN CARPENTER FB Greg’s Handyman Services Byron Bay .............................0414 109595 G LANZENI HANDYMAN SERVICE & property maintenance. Byron Bay ....................0412 395604

HEALTH • OTHER HEALTH RELATED SECTIONS IN THIS SERVICE DIRECTORY: Acupuncture, Chiropractic, Counselling, Dentists, Osteopathy, Physiotherapy

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NEW ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGIES Electrician & solar. Level 2 ASP meters u’g. Lic 219161C...0419 556639 BLUE BEE ELECTRICAL 25 years experience. Lic 189508C. Call Dave ............................0429 033801

FENCING

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

Frameless and Semi-Frameless

GLASS POOL FENCING Byron and Beyond FENCING

0416 424 256

• Acreage Mowing Specialist • Irrigation • Landscaping • Rubbish Removal Byron Shire – Ballina Shire • Fully Licensed & Insured

Contact Vadi: 0404

978 383

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www.byronlawnranger.com

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MULLUMBIMBY COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CENTRE 60 Stuart St...............................66841511

• • • • •

Property maintenance All Mowing jobs Landscaping Pressure cleaning Tip runs

0407 065 849

ACUPUNCTURE & COSMETIC MEDICINE Dr Adam Osborne ...........................................66857366 MULLUMBIMBY HERBALS Naturopathy, Ayurveda, Massage, Herbs. .............................66843002 MASSAGE Present, nurturing and loving. Female therapist. Ocean Shores....................0429 535304 WWW.EASTCOASTPILATES.COM.AU Judy Leane BSpSc ..............................................0408 110006

HIRE

MULLUM.MOWING@gmail.com. Ride-on, large lawns & acreage. Ph Peter................0423 756394 MULLUM HIRE Builders, party and much more ........................www.mullumhire.com.au 66843003 GUTTERS CLEANED Solar panel cleaning, all areas, free quotes, fully insured ... 66841778 or 0405 922839 BYRON HIRE Building & home handyman equipment hire ........ www.byronhire.com.au 66856228 A-Z Lawns & acreage, trees & hedges, clean ups & tip runs, all gutters ..........................0405 625697 A.C.E. LAWNMOWING & GARDENING Best rates, reliable, guaranteed.............Sam 0438 655763

KITCHENS

LEAF IT TO US Acreage mowing, 72” mowers, gardening/property maint. specialists ...0402 487213 SHAUN LEMURA KITCHENS Byron 20 yrs+ exp Lic 290290C www.slbyronbay.com ...0499 771769 BYRON & BEYOND FENCING Any fence, any time, prompt quotes....... 66804766 or 0416 424256 MOW JOES Lawn & property maintenance, ride-on mowing. Fully insured ..........Steve 0407 065849 D HINGED Kitchens & Joinery. Lic 283553C. www.hinged.com.au ....................... Dave 0409 843689 EDL FENCING Installations & repairs. Prompt service ............................. 66771852 or 0432 107262 NICK’S MOWING Lawns, edges, hedges, local & reliable. Mullum, Bruns, O.Shores.......0402 487213 ABOVEBOARD KITCHENS, BATHROOMS & ALTERATIONS Lic 80677C ...................0415 661814

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Service Directory

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LANDSCAPE DESIGN

PAINTING

PHYSIOTHERAPY

BEAU JARDIN We design & build beautiful gardens www.beaujardin.com.au Lic 177274C ...0417 054443 â&#x20AC;˘ DEPARTMENT OF FAIR TRADING INFO: When dealing with home owners, painters are required BANGALOW PHYSIOTHERAPY Manual therapies, acupuncture, mat/reformer Pilates classes.

Kim Snellgrove, Cally Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hara ................................................................................................66872330 LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT Garden Design & Property Planning. Andrew Pawsey ..........0478 519804 to quote a licence number only for external work valued over $5000.

NICK EDMOND Physiotherapy & Acupuncture. Open Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday

LANDSCAPING

BYRON BAY

â&#x20AC;˘ Domestic & Commercial â&#x20AC;˘ Servicing all areas â&#x20AC;˘ Workmanship guaranteed â&#x20AC;˘ Attention to detail

â&#x20AC;˘ Sand â&#x20AC;˘ Soils â&#x20AC;˘ Gravels â&#x20AC;˘ Pots & statues â&#x20AC;˘ Lots, lots more

0438 784 226 â&#x20AC;˘ 6685 4154

1176 Myocum Rd, Mullumbimby (just past golf course)

Lic No 189144C

ALL-WAYS PAINTING

466 Main Arm Road, Mullumbimby.....................................................................................66845288 ANTHONY Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ORSOGNA Physiotherapy, acupuncture, hydrotherapy Suffolk Park 1 Bryce St ... 66853511 CONTINENCE / PELVIC FLOOR Janelle Angel ..................Bangalow 66872337 & Mâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;bah 66723818 PETRA KARNI Physio, Craniosacral, Alexander Technique. Byron. Open Saturdays.......0403 226858 OCEAN SHORES PHYSIOTHERAPY Manual therapies, dry needling, custom orthotics, shock wave therapy, real time ultrasound. Nigel Pitman, Ilse V Oostenbrugge, Steve Clifford.......66803499 EWINGSDALE PHYSIO Renata Tenta. Matrix Rhythm Therapy, home visits avail................66847838

6684 2323 / 0418 663 983

PETER FARRELL Cold laser, manual therapy & exercise, Mullumbimby ..............................66843385 INSPIRING MOVEMENT Kerrie Hart Feldenkrais method, physiotherapy.....................0499 200622

Shaun Savage Landscapes

PICTURE FRAMING

Established 2008 ~ Lic No: 247282c

Specialising in: â&#x20AC;˘ Retaining Walls â&#x20AC;˘ Pool Surrounds â&#x20AC;˘ Block Work â&#x20AC;˘ Paving â&#x20AC;˘ TurďŹ ng â&#x20AC;˘ Stonework

YVES DE WILDE

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

Bulk and bagged fire wood Call for delivery prices and we will do a deal

0266 804555

landscaping supplies

QUALITY PAINTING SERVICES

www.duluxaccredited.com.au

18 Lucky Lane Billinudgel Industrial Estate

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

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Landscape Design | Construction | Retaining Walls | Pergolas | Paving Dylan 0409 785 584 E: otr.creativelandscaping@gmail.com

EST 2004 | LIC 212479C

â&#x20AC;˘ LANDSCAPE DESIGN â&#x20AC;˘ PAVING â&#x20AC;˘ RETAINING WALLS â&#x20AC;˘ PERGOLAS â&#x20AC;˘ IRRIGATION & DRAINAGE â&#x20AC;˘ DECKS CALL 0415 755 337

info@geckolandscapesolutions.com.au | geckolandscapesolutions.com.au

Accredited

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mwoplingpainting@hotmail.com

AD PAINTING by John Hand. Lic 13246C ................................................ 0413 185399 or 66841249 SUBTROPICALLANDSCAPES.COM.AU 20 years exp. Lic 231789C ................................0405 122456 BUSH ROCKS All sizes / mossy, can deliver. Ron ...................................... 66298208 or 0429 398208

BAY AREA PAINTING Lic No 289979C. Free quotes .......................................................0405 609598

DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION www.varendorfflandscapes.com Lic 39791 ...6845035 or 0414 842602 ROOF PAINTING Repair, clean, repaint metal roofs from $1950. Lic 237105C ..............0414 587884 LEMONTREELANDSCAPES.COM.AU Liam. Lic No 277154C .........................................0423 700853

LAUNDRY SERVICES

LAUNDRY

FAST TURNAROUND â&#x20AC;&#x201C; AIR BNB â&#x20AC;˘ Self serve / service wash â&#x20AC;˘ New front loaders & dryers â&#x20AC;˘ Domestic & commercial services

Mullum Wash House â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 0439 001 545 Bangalow Wash House â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 0412 302 246

PLASTERING

PLASTERING CONTRACTOR &UDLJ 0413

451 186 / 6680 4660

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24 years experience

QUALIFIED â&#x20AC;˘ INSURED â&#x20AC;˘ LOCAL â&#x20AC;˘ FREE QUOTES

Mob: 0409 451 518

PICTURE HANGING

C. A. Warwick Lic. No. 114578C Â&#x2021; )UHH TXRWHV Â&#x2021; *\SURFN Ă&#x20AC; [LQJ VHWWLQJ

ABN 31 490 733 798 LIC 203196C

Painting & Decorating

MULLUM PICTURE FRAMERS Stuart St rear lane behind Mitre 10 ............................0403 734791

DOMESTIC & COMMERCIAL

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Mark Wopling

BILLINUDGEL CUSTOM PICTURE FRAMING 7/1 Wilfred St, Billinudgel ........................66803444

PROFESSIONAL ART, OBJECTS & PICTURE HANGING Phone Lenny ..........................0407 031294

4XDOLILHG Âą ,QVXUHG /RFDO

Lic 308722C

Located: 17 Lawson St, Byron Bay | Open 7 days 11am-6pm Art / Photography / Customised picture framing & Mirrors Phone: Tommy 0414 749 278 Instagram: @byronbaygallery

PEST CONTROL

COL JENKINS PLASTER Gyprock, renovations, repairs. No job too small ......................0401 078733 GLENN WATERS For the finish you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see. Lic 58928C...............................................0427 908129

PLUMBERS NEED A PLUMBER? DRAINER? GASFITTER?

Chay 0429 805 081 20 YEARS LOCAL SERVICE

Licence No. 207479C

NEW ERS

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Soil Mulch Gravel Cracker Dust Road base

Lic 167371C

0405 594 288

20 Years Experience

Professional Property Protection you can Trust

â&#x20AC;˘ Targeted treatments for all pests with â&#x20AC;&#x153;no sprayâ&#x20AC;? cockroach treatments â&#x20AC;˘ If you have found live termites, do not disturb them and call us for advice!

No cost for quoting on active termites Relax, when safety, reputation and experience matters, we are the experts

6685 4490 or AH on 0414 769 018

www.sanctuarypest.com.au

LAWNMOWER REPAIRS TYAGARAH MOWER REPAIRS 69 McAuleys Lane, Mullumbimby .................................0488 094025

LIGHTING

02 6681 6555 Free quotes on active termites Environmentally safe

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

Lighting Showroom Open 9am â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 5pm Mon â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Fri Unit 5, 21-23 Tasman Way, Byron A+I Estate Free on-site consultancy 6680 7007 creativelightingsolutions.com.au

All Plumbing Blocked drains GasďŹ tting Solar Hot Water

0404 053 857

Lic. No. 206913C

OPEN EVERY DAY

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

OSTEOPATHY

OSTEOPATHY at Mullumbimby Comprehensive Health Centre

THE PEST MAN EXTRAORDINAIRE Second opinion / alternative views. 50 yrs exp .....0418 110714 JARRAH DAVIDSON Plumbing, draining, gas fitting & roofing. Lic 187712C................0438 668025 BRUNSWICK BYRON PEST CONTROL................................................................................66842018 BILL CONNORS All plumbing/draining. Lic #1051 .................................. 66801403 or 0414 801403 HRH PLUMBING Providing a prompt, reliable & efficient service. Lic 220755C ............0402 652017 RAYMOND LYNCH PEST MANAGEMENT General pests & termites ..............................0418 850601 DART PLUMBING Plumbing, roofing, gas. Byron Bay. Lic 1175539C..............................0421 334515

PHOTOGRAPHY

MARK STRATTON All plumbing & emergency. Sewer drain camera/locator. Lic 57803C ....0419 019035 ADM PLUMBING SERVICESâ&#x20AC;Ś (NO JOB TOO SMALL)â&#x20AC;Ś Lic 234528C. ....... Call Adam 0466 992483 BLOCKED DRAINS Drain camera, no dig repairs. Drain Pipe King. Lic 237124C ...................66770004

Tree Faerie Fotos

LPC PLUMBING Plumbing, draining, gas fitting. Sth Golden Bch. Lic 289868C. Luke ....0401 633222

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

Professional â&#x20AC;˘ Commercial â&#x20AC;˘ Personal

ZEN PLUMBING Water, drainage, gas fitting, 24hr emergency, maint. Lic 306198C.....0420 797619

30+ years experience in commercial photography and photojournalism

PRINTING & COPYING SERVICES

NORTH COAST OSTEOPATHY Jodie Jacobs. Mon, Wed, Fri..............................................66857517 DR DEAN HARDY Osteopath B.Clin.Sci, Master Osteopathy lennoxheadquarters.com...0412 786399

40 January 24, 2018 The Byron Shire Echo

www.treefaeriefotos.com â&#x20AC;˘ 0417 427 518

COLIN J WILLIAMS PLUMBING & GAS Lic L7990. Water specialist. Mullum/Byron .....0434 273726

PRINTWORKS Traditional / Digital art@mullumprintworks.com.au .................................66843633

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

Service Directory REMOVALISTS

SEWING & ALTERATIONS

TREE SERVICES

Andy’s Move & More

SEWING Repairs & alterations. Byron Bay & all areas. Phone Jan ..................................0427 570812

CHOPPY CHOP TREE SERVICES

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

The Fully Insured Professionals

SOLAR INSTALLATION

0429 149 533 Est 2006

• Stump Grinding • Bobcat • Cherrypicker • Crane Truck • 18” Chipper

Pioneers of the solar industry

Serving Northern NSW since 1998

Mark Linder Qualified Arborist 0408 202 184 choppychoptrees@bigpond.com

Call us on 6679 7228

SHIRE REMOVALS & FREIGHT CO

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

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

Electric Lic 124600c

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

6681 4912 / 0409 917646

LEAPFROG REMOVALS

LdS Silviculture

BYRON BAY’S LOCAL REMOVALIST MOVING THE SHIRE FOR OVER 10 YEARS

Specialising in all aspects of tree work including milling services

0432 334 200 02 6680 8170

Eddy 0477 Karl 0423

leapfrogremovals@yahoo.com.au /RFDO &RXQWU\ ,QWHUVWDWH

/2&$/ 6<'1(< *2/' &2$67 %5,6%$1( 0(/%2851(

02 6684 2198

The expert in solar efficiency

Call 1300 18 20 50 www.saegroup.com.au

TXHULHV#PXOOXPELPE\UHPRYDOV FRP DX

PETER GRAY Dip Arb. AQF5. Consulting arborist ...........................................................0414 186161

MARTINO TREE SERVICES ..............................................................................Martino 0435 019524 OUT ON A LIMB Tree removal, chipping, stump grinding. Free quotes .........................0402 191316

UPHOLSTERY

DOMESTIC • INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL

Licence NSW: 30715C Licence QLD: 1227049

SUMMERLAND TREE SERVICES ............................................. Call Tim 66877677 or 0417 698227

A VERY HANDY MAN TREE SERVICES Happy to help. Andrew ......................................0412 558890

ROOFING

ROOFING

HART TREE SERVICES 18” chipper bobcat cranetruck stump grinding, cherry . 66849137 or 0427347380

TALLOW TREE SERVICES Removal, free quote & full insurance .....................................0401 208797

Electrical License # QLD: 72258 | NSW: 227562C

MAN WITH A VAN/TRUCK Reasonable rates. Phone Don ............................................0414 282813 BENNY CAN MOVE IT! .................................................................................................0402 199999 CAPE BYRON REMOVALS Local. Brisbane-Melbourne weekly. Since 1989...................0413 505893

MONTYS METAL

720 200 396 508

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

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

MIEKOBAGS CUSTOM CANVAS Boat, ute, tonneau covers & repairs ...........................0423 640529

Craig Montgomery – 0418 870 362

Not all solar systems are created equal…

Email: montysmetalroofing@gmail.com www.montysmetalroofing.com.au

LIC: 223489C

ZAC MACTAGGART METAL ROOFING PTY LTD Ƈ NEW ROOFS Ƈ RE ROOFS Ƈ INSULATED ROOF PANELS Ƈ Ƈ FASCIA & GUTTERS Ƈ REPAIRS & MAINTENANCE Ƈ

Patrick - 0425 256 802

www.junoenergy.com.au licence number: 255292C

SWIMMING POOLS

0411 683 003

RUBBISH REMOVAL

VALUERS BYRON BAY VALUERS NSW & QLD reg’d. Chartered Valuers ................... 0431 245460 or 66857010

VETERINARY SURGEONS MULLUM VET CLINIC Richard Gregory, Erin Tottenham, Bec Patison. 24 hrs 7 days ..........66843818

WWW.ZACMACTAGGARTMETALROOFING.COM.AU

BYRON COAST ROOFING PTY LTD Lic 252098C Guttering, leaf guard, cladding, etc ..0422 248936 ALL ROOF CLEANING Experienced, insured & fast free quotes. Call ..............................0419 789600 ROOF PAINTING & REPAIRS Free quotes. Lic 1134084. Joe .........................................0414 587884

Contact Juno Energy, your household and commercial solar installation specialists.

Authorised Northern Rivers LG solar/battery dealer and Sonnen battery dealer.

WATER FILTERS

ATTENTION POOL OWNERS

The Water Filter Experts

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

for home, commercial and rural properties

73 Station St, Mullumbimby

6680 8200 or 0418 108 181

(opp. Council chambers) 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 A UTE LOAD OF STUFF .................................................................................................0408 210772 MULLUM POOL SHOP Water testing, eco products, mobile service, repairs................0418 666839

6684 3003

SCRAP METAL MERCHANTS

TILING

BYRON CASH FOR SCRAP FREfoEr all

ff Drop owashing steel, es and h c ma in ers dry

@ BRUNSWICK BYRON AUTO WRECKERS Buying: • Scrap metal • Aluminium • Copper • Brass • Lead • Car Batteries Next to Tyagarah Service Station

Pacific Highway, Tyagarah 6684 2351

FREE T avail fo OW

r cars – unwanted cash for som paid e

SEPTIC SYSTEMS SEWERAGE MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONALS

...forget pointless scrubbing

9 TILE, GROUT & STONE CLEANING & SEALING 9 SILICONE 9 GROUT COLOURING 9 RE-GROUTING 9 EPOXY GROUT 9 GLASS RESTORATION 9 SLIPPERY TILES 9 LEAKY SHOWERS Call Ben on 0456 606 911 www.groutpro.com.au

FRANCHISE OF THE YEAR!

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

M 0418 754 149 P 07 5523 9930 NSW Lic. L10007 QLD Lic. 13395

$399

Dirty Tiles & Grout?

MEMBER

Far North Coast NSW John & Teresa

0408 232 066

TILE & GROUT CLEANING

Servicing the Far North Coast for 20 years.

Free quotes. Experienced local technicians.

ChemDry’s patented cleaning systems.

WINTER SPECIAL:

Every 5th m2 FREE

TILER/STONEMASON/WATERPROOFER Lic 24418C. Phone Karl ...................................66804103 NORTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT

NEWT

IN IN H

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

WE CLEAN WATER TANKS

•

Call Peter BYRON SHIRE

0487 777 247 www.pristinewater.com.au

WATER FILTERS SUPPLY AND SERVICE

WATER TANK CLEANING/WATER TANKS Concrete tank repairs. All areas .. 66888055 or 0407 002833 SCRUBBED Tank cleaning, repairs & liner installs. Call Matt & Nick....... 0411 425678 or 66884478

WELDING

MD TILING SOLUTIONS Wall & floor tiling, water proofing. Lic 286371C .....................0406 858290 WELDING & FABRICATION Structural, general & repairs. Trade qualified. Rod ............0408 410545 PHI TILING / WATERPROOFING Free quotes. Helpful advice. Lic No 179306C ..................66801168 COST EFFECTIVE LEAKING SHOWER REPAIR Lic 286371C ......................................0406 858290

WINDOW TINTING

TRINE SOLUTIONS Local waste specialists. Plumbers, drainers & gas fitters. Lic 138031C .. 0407 439805 PETE’S TILING PTY LTD Wall and floor tiling, waterproofing. Lic 1186218 .................0447 327536 SUNRISE W. T. NO BUBBLES, NO TROUBLES Cars, homes & offices ..........................0412 158478

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The Byron Shire Echo January 24, 2018 41

Classifieds INDEX

ECHO CLASSIFIEDS – 6684 1777

Birthdays ................................ 44 Businesses For Sale.............. 43

CLASSIFIED AD BOOKINGS

DEADLINE TUES 12PM

For Sale ................................ 43

PHONE ADS

Garage Sales........................ 43

Ads may be taken by phone on

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

Caravans................................ 43 Childcare................................ 42

Halls For Hire........................ 42

6684 1777 AT THE ECHO HEAD OFFICE

Health Notices ....................... 42

Ads can be lodged in person at the Mullum Echo office:

Items under $100 ................. 43

Village Way, Stuart St, Mullumbimby

In Memoriam.......................... 44 Land For Sale ........................ 43 Life Celebrations .................... 44 Lost & Found ......................... 44 Motor Bikes ............................ 43 Motor Vehicles ....................... 43 Musical Notes ........................ 44 Only Adults ............................ 44 Pets ........................................ 44 Positions Vacant .................... 43 Professional Services ............ 42 Public Notices ........................ 42 Removalists ........................... 43 Share Accommodation .......... 43 Social Escorts........................ 44 To Lease ................................ 43 To Let ..................................... 43 Tradework .............................. 43 Tree Services ......................... 43 Tuition .................................... 44 Wanted .................................. 43 Wanted To Rent ..................... 43 Work Wanted ......................... 44

DISCLAIMER 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.

PUBLIC NOTICES MEDIUM DEVELOPMENT COURSE Mullum 4 x Tues nights. Beg Feb 6. www.lizwintermedium.com.au AWAKEN AND RESET A DAY WITH SPIRIT 4 Feb – www.lizwintermedium.com.au

Byron Bay Designer Swimwear & Apparel Label POP-UP SALE PREVIOUS SEASON & 2018 ONE-OFF DESIGNS ALL HALF PRICE Thursday 1st to Sunday 4th February 9am - 6pm.

5/93 Centennial Circuit, Byron Bay Industrial Estate

EMAIL ADS

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

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

THE BYRON SHIRE

$17 for two lines is the minimum charge.

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

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.

BRUNSWICK PICTURE HOUSE CAFE Open every Sunday for homemade jam & 1 hour before show times

Prepayment is required for all ads.

VEGAN MUNCH

cooking demonstrations Learn to make delicious plant-based recipes

Brunswick Heads Woodchop Raffles Boat; 3673 Barry Hall, Murwillumbah.

Chainsaw; 5558 John Holmes, O.Shores.

Thank you to all who supported the raffles.

tattooedbyronvegan.com.au

The Echo office will be closed Australia Day Friday 26/1/18

BYRON ARTISAN MARKET This Saturday 4–9 pm

RAILWAY PARK, BYRON BAY

www.byroncentre.com.au

DEADLINES FOR CLASSIFIED ADS ARE UNCHANGED

DAVID LOVEJOY’S BOOKS

FOOD RELIEF BAGS will be available

THIS THURSDAY from 9 till 11am 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.

Ocean Shores MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN OUR COMMUNITY

www.thehubbaptist.org

BRUNSWICK HEADS MARKETS Saturday 3rd February

MEMORIAL PARK, BRUNSWICK HEADS Phone 6628 4495 No dogs please

MARKET STALLS WANTED FOOD + . RETAIL .

Creative + experienced 5 days/wk monthly renewals . Brunswick Heads . mid-Feb open email: clemsmarketstalls@gmail.com 42 January 24, 2018 The Byron Shire Echo

HEALTH

HYPNOSIS & EFT

Simple and effective solutions Anxiety, Cravings, Fears & Trauma.

Maureen Bracken 0402205352

Body Based

Psychotherapy

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

SONG DYNASTY CHOIRS Term 1 2018 Tropicappella Voices Mon nights, Brunswick Heads Bowling club Rebel Rebel Girls Choir Fridays 4pm to 5.30pm North Ocean Shores janet@songdynastymusic.com www.songdynastymusic.com

CHILDCARE BABY-SITTING I love looking after children and I am a great cook, $15/hr.

Phone 0424025271

PROF. SERVICES

DENTURES LOOK GOOD FEEL GOOD Free consultation. SANDRO 66805002

EATING & BODY IMAGE ISSUES Assessment & treatment of children, adolescents & adults

Carl Moore Psychology Reg no. PSY0001057399 Medicare rebates available

Thurs & Fri | 6684 6336

COLONICS

Offering colonic hydrotherapy, sauna and naturopathy at our beachside clinic.

Call or text 0458633869 www.byronbaydetoxretreats.com.au HAWAIIAN MASSAGE Ocean Shores Michaela. 0416332886 LUXURIOUS MASSAGE strong sensitive hands for deep release & relaxation. 2 hrs of bliss $150. Call Ross 0421399465 THAI MASSAGE With male, 1hr $50, Brunswick Heads. Ph Nui 0413710742 TRADITIONAL THAI MASSAGE $50.

Brunswick Heads. Ph Phim 0449063629 THE WORK OF BYRON KATIE Workshop 27/28 January with Rosie Weekly practice group Fridays 10am www.templebyron.com ALOHA HEALING WITH NAOMI Strength with intuitive depth. Deep tissue & Kahuna 23yrs exp. 0417212540 GRIEF LOSS BEREAVEMENT FREE SUPPORT SERVICE Carl Moore, Registered Psychologist grief.loss.bereavement.byron@gmail. com 0401081713 BEAUTIFUL RELAXING DEEP TISSUE MASSAGE Treat Yourself. Call now 0410395368

KINESIOLOGY

Clear subconscious sabotages.

Reprogram patterns and beliefs.

Restore vibrancy and physical health. De-stress.

Ph 66846914 SANDRA DAVEY, Reg. Pract.

HYPNOTHERAPY & NLP www.wendypurdey.com.au

Treating all your health care needs.

STOP SMOKING NOW! Benefits include increased vitality, better health, wealth, self esteem and confidence.

Call today enjoy being

FREE 6680 2630 27 years experience

Martin Frank

Somatic Practice

Julie Wells Anne Goslett

PHYSIOTHERAPIST Mon–Fri 9am–5pm

(nee Mannix)

You can still email us.

Classifieds: classifieds@echo.net.au Ads: adcopy@echo.net.au The Echo comes out each Wednesday as usual

Are you doing it tough?

netdaily

Cash, cheque, Mastercard or Visa

MADE IN MULLUM Interested in selling your handmade crafts, artworks, photography etc locally from $25 a week? Interested to see what sells and what doesn’t? Contact Facebook: Made In Mullum or email madeinmullum@gmail.com

THE ECHO HOURS Australia Day

CLASSIFIEDS THAT WORK ALL WEEK!

20 Shirley St, Byron Bay

Dip.Som.Psych, Clinical PACFA Reg.

Individual and Couple Therapy Supervision and Coaching

6685 8532

(02) 6685 5138 9 Fletcher St, Byron Bay

Diana Ewing • Yoga • Shiatsu • Massage

5wk Beginners Yoga starts Mon Jan 29, 6-7.30pm BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL M: 0407 455 212 www.dianaewing.com

OVER-50s & Beginners Fitness ONLY

12

$

MULLUMBIMBY EX-SERVICES CLUB Mondays - 10.30–11.30am Friday - 3–4pm All non-members welcome as membership is included with your first class

Call Sharon - 0406 491 002 FB shazumba

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

Inherent Well Being Shift out of dysfunctional patterns Gwen Channer Modern Psychology, Hypnosis, Coaching, Quantum Touch 0401 660 073 inherentwellbeing.com.au

Rolfing® Byron Bay

BRENT VERCO

Are old injuries still hurting?

MULLUM CHIROPRACTIC

Jeremy Sutton • 0407 132 921 rolfingbyronbay.com

HUDSON

PSYCHOLOGY Mondays and Wednesdays in Bangalow.

6687 1683 0433 700 547 www.hudsonpsychology.com.au

CHIROPRACTOR 6684 1028

MON TUE WED THU FRI PM & SAT AM

Study Kinesiology

Nationally accred Diploma HLT52415 Kinesiology Experience 27 Jan, 10–4pm Free Intro Evening 6–8pm 31 Jan Self Care / Diploma 101 – Feb 10/11.

Byron Kinesiology Centre / KSA 66857991 www.wellness.net.au

HALLS FOR HIRE

Fund BAYSIDE ACUPUNCTURE Health Rebates & AND HERBAL MEDICINE Hicaps Available

Becky Martin (Acupuncturist) Women’s Health Children, Cosmetic Acutonics® (Fri & Sat)

Dr David King

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

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

ACUPUNCTURE CHINESE HERBAL MEDICINE MASSAGE ACUTONICS®

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

0488 609 774

bookings@mullumcivic.com

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

Classifieds COORABELL HALL WEDDINGS, GIGS, CLASSES 66871307 www.coorabellhall.net

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

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

COMPOST TOILETS

STARTING AT $960 Green Building Centre 0427701653

TREE SERVICES

SCAFFOLDING Erect, hire & sales.

Aluminium, steel & mobile. 0427774450

BRIDGLANDS

• FULLY INSURED • PROFESSIONAL SERVICE • FREE QUOTES

6684 4421 0402 364 852

NICK HART

TREE SERVICES

• Affordable tree services • Professional tree care • 18" chipper (crane truck)

Fully insured • Free quotes

6684 9137 • 0427 347 380

FREE QUOTES

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

Nick Andrews 0439 849 332

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

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

FOR SALE 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.

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

FIREWOOD DELIVERIES ALL YEAR ROUND

Supplying commercial, wood fired bakeries, pizza restaurants and residential, combustion stoves, open fires, pot belly, kindling. Various load sizes from 4’x 6’ to 4 ton tipper.

PRICES STARTING FROM $95.

VOLUME DISCOUNTS.

Matt 0427 172 684

Buy and sell good quality used furniture Ph 66842511

MIELE WASHERS

Dryers and dishwashers available at Bridglands Mullumbimby. 66842511

BABY & KIDS’ Clothing Sale

Organic cotton. Everything $10.

1 Centennial Cct. Byron A&I. Thurs-Sat 8-6PM. Text 0400484021

SECURE STORAGE BANGALOW Brand new storage sheds 66871500

MOTOR VEHICLES

GOONENGERRY 1 lge room. Beautiful house & property, $120pw + bills. Avail 1 February. Mick 66849460 or 0435346245

CASH PAID FOR UNWANTED CARS

MULLUM beautiful room $185pw. N/s worker. Garden setting. 0484672847

BANGALOW RENT-A-SHED Modern & Secure from $140 p/m Elders Real Estate 66871500

Local reg’d business 66845296 or 66845403

SUNRISE furnished room, $180pw incl bills. From late January. Ph 66856760

BYRON SELF-STORAGE UNITS Clean & secure. Ph 1300762618

2007 VW PASSAT Type 3, V6, SSI 4-motion, sedan. Top of the range, many extras, low km, serviced & garaged, books, $12,500 ono. Ph 0412544712

OCEAN SHORES room + ensuite, BIRS, mature, quiet working person, n/s, d/f $260pw + bills & bond. Ph 0427951010

VR COMMODORE excellent cond, 2 owners, same family since new, $2000 worth of upgrades last 18 months, 3 month rego, $2400 ono. Ph 0421936320

BARGAINS

TO LET BALLINA SELF-STORAGE UNITS Secure from $18pw, 10 cubic mtr shed.

Across 3 locations. Ph 66867011

...........................................................................

AUTO 2006 HYUNDAI ELANTRA 155,452km, low km, fantastic condition. SN0869 ....$5,950 AUTO 1995 NISSAN MICRA 103,408km, low km hatch, rego 3/18. SN1666 ...............$2,750 1998 TOYOTA CAMRY 4 CYLINDER 154,195km, 5 speed manual, fantastic condition 6 months rego. SN3378........$4,490 AUTOMATIC 2004 SUBARU OUTBACK 185,101km, AWD wagon. SN2712 .......$7,495 AUTO 2005 HOLDEN 1 TONNER 168,527km, great work ute, extra large tray. SN0202 .$7,990 2003 NISSAN PATHFINDER ST 4X4 Fantastic condition, logbook history. SN2539 .....$5,490

BARGAINS

ballinacarcentre.com.au

16 ENDEAVOUR CLOSE, BALLINA

Ballina Car Centre

DLN 19950

6686 5586 / 0418 676 274

LOCAL REMOVAL

& backloads to Brisbane. Friendly, with 10 years local exp. 0409917646 MULLUMBIMBY light spacious 2br home, office, 1 bthrm, open-plan living, walk to town, part furnished, covered decks, kitchen garden. No pets. $590pw, incl power & water. Ph 0402230449 MULLUM CK extra large s/c cabin. Priv, sep bathroom/br, incl elect. Suit quiet, n/s, d/f, veg. Views. $350pw Ph 66843467

Brunswick Heads Brunswick Heads Comm Shop 60sqm. $750 PW + GST + Outgoings Ocean Shores 2 x bed 2 x bath unit Water & Elec incl $370pw Elders Real Estate Brunswick Heads 6685 1206

BRUNSWICK HEADS

Flat, 17 Kingsford Dr, Brunswick Heads Open House: Wednesday 24 January 3.30 - 4pm.

Open plan flat with separate bathroom/laundry. Covered patio.

Sorry no pets. Available early February. $330.00 per week (no inclusions)

OCEAN SHORES

High set three bedroom, one bathroom home with large covered timber verandas and a separate bedroom and ensuite downstairs.

Available early February. $600.00 per week.

FNC Property Management april@fncproperty.com.au

1300 716 707

MOSQUITO NETS

100% cotton, all sizes, locals discounts.

Ph 66843191 www.1001nets.net TEAK BENCHES 2 new, photo avail, cost $1500 each, sell two $1500. 0412847626 BAR FREEZER silver metallic, 4-drawers, 18 mths old. GC $80 firm; comfy sofa bed, 2-seater, brown. GC, $90. 0427951010

NATIVE PLANTS FOOD PLANTS

Ocean Shores 3-day residential with Dr Arne Rubinstein and his team aimed at giving participants the experience and understanding of how to create a Rite of Passage for their community, family or people they work with.

PROGRAM DATES 2 - 4 MARCH 2018 YarraKoora, Byron Bay NSW

The Largest range of native plants in the Byron Shire.

110 Yankee Ck Rd, via Wilsons Ck Rd Mullumbimby 6684 1703 Open Wed–Fri 10am–4pm, Sat 9am–1pm www.mcnativenursery.com.au

ITEMS UNDER $100 SURFBOARD Mt Woodgee 6'4 Tri-Fin w Traction Tail-pad Good $75. 0409579671

This life-changing Father & Son program supports young men in creating a healthy vision for the future. It addresses the physical, emotional and psychological changes happening in your son's life through a safe and structured Rite of Passage process designed by Dr Arne Rubinstein and his team.

PROGRAM DATES 11 - 15 APRIL 2018 YarraKoora, Byron Bay NSW

02 8003 3905 www.themakingofmen.com info@themakingofmen.com

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There’s only one thing better than owning a cat - that is owning two or more. ALLEY AND MILLY are still kittens, born last year. Not related, but the best of friends. Happy, sociable and adorable. Adopt one of them, or double the joy with both.

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Peppa is a gorgeous playful kitten. You would never guess that he has a small heart murmur because he’s a crazy goofball that has boundless energy & loves to be cuddled.

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COMPANION ANIMALS WELFARE INC. Cawi is looking for Foster Carers CAWI couldn’t save dogs were it not for volunteer foster carers who look after the dogs in their own homes until they are adopted. CAWI is often contacted for help at short notice, but it needs to find a suitable foster home before it can take a dog in, so it’s essential to have a list of volunteers to call on.

The more foster carers CAWI has on its database, the better the chances of being able to contact a suitable one in time to rescue a dog. CAWI will do its best to match a dog up with your requirements and circumstances.

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JANUARY 2018

13:24 09:25 13:17 09:20 Moon High tide, set height (m) 0441 0838,1.87; 2047,1.32 0542 0929,1.95; 2141,1.31 0647 1018,1.98; 2231,1.30 0754 1107,1.96; 2323,1.28 1154,1.89 0901 1005 0015,1.26; 1241,1.77 1107 0110,1.23; 1327,1.63 1205 0211,1.22; 1415,1.48 1301 0318,1.23; 1506,1.34 1356 0429,1.27; 1604,1.23 1450 0533,1.35; 1707,1.17 1543 0627,1.43; 1809,1.14 1635 0713,1.51; 1902,1.15 1727 0753,1.58; 1948,1.16 1816 0831,1.63; 2029,1.19 1904 0907,1.68; 2106,1.21 1949 0943,1.70; 2143,1.22 2031 1017,1.71; 2218,1.23 2111 1052,1.70; 2256,1.24 2149 1126,1.67; 2334,1.24 2225 1200,1.63 2300 0016,1.24; 1236,1.57 2336 0104,1.24; 1315,1.49 0200,1.26; 1402,1.40 0013 0305,1.30; 1500,1.32 0053 0417,1.38; 1610,1.25 0137 0529,1.49; 1726,1.23 0226 0633,1.63; 1839,1.24 0321 0731,1.77; 1943,1.27 0423 0825,1.88; 2039,1.32 0528 0915,1.95; 2130,1.36

Astronomical data and tides

Low tide, height (m) 0143,0.09; 1500,0.25 0231,0.06; 1554,0.19 0320,0.05; 1645,0.16 0410,0.09,1734,0.17 0500,0.16; 1824,0.21 0552,0.26; 1912,0.27 0647,0.38; 2000,0.33 0748,0.50; 2050,0.38 0859,0.60; 2142,0.41 1016,0.65; 2235,0.41 1132,0.65; 2327,0.40 1239,0.61 0014,0.38; 1332,0.54 0057,0.34; 1417,0.48 0135,0.31; 1457,0.43 0211,0.29; 1532,0.39 0245,0.27; 1606,0.36 0320,0.26; 1640,0.35 0355,0.27; 1713,0.34 0432,0.30; 1747,0.35 0511,0.34; 1823,0.36 0553,0.41; 1901,0.37 0641,0.48; 1945,0.39 0739,0.55; 2034,0.39 0851,0.61; 2130,0.38 1015,0.62; 2232,0.35 1140,0.57; 2334,0.30 1255,0.47 0033,0.23; 1358,0.36 0129,0.16; 1451,0.26 0220,0.11; 1540,0.20

Times are Eastern Standard Daylight Savings Time.

Time lags: Ballina Boat Dock: 15 min; Byron Bay: nil; Brunswick River Hwy Bridge: high 30 min, low 1 hr; Mullumbimby: 1 hr 10 min; Billinudgel: 3 hr 55 min; Chinderah: high 1 hr 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 Bureau of Meteorology.

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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Sport

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U/12 swim team shines at Byron Bay surf life saving event

Funding double means a new BMX track for Alstonville

Kirsty Pockley

Xavier Eddington, Cash Cratchley, Suki Alford and Skye Pockley put in a great effort to win gold in the U/12s swim team in ideal conditions at last weekend’s Far North Coast branch junior surf championships hosted

by Byron Bay Surf Club.

The Byron quartet bucked the trend that saw Cudgen and Lennox Head nippers emerge as the strongest competitors on the beach and in the water throughout the competition.

All competitors from all clubs put in an incredible effort in their individual and team events over the two-day event.

The clubs will meet again in two weeks at South West Rocks, where they will join

Dirty Wheelers are happy about $215,000 in new funding for the Duck Creek BMX track in Alstonville, which could be ready to ride in six months. Photo supplied Nippers competed in ideal conditions at the branch junior championships hosted by Byron Bay last weekend.

Photo Rodrigo Gomez

other country clubs for the Country Championships.

The Byron Surf Club plays host again this weekend for the Byron board paddle from Wategos to Main Beach.

All boards are welcome

and it is a fun way to catch up with friends as you paddle the Bay and raise money for the Byron Bay Surf Club.

For more information go to www.byronboardpaddle. com.au.

PM Charity Cup in support of mental health played at Mullumbimby

Years of hard work has paid off for the Northern Rivers Dirty Wheels Mountain Bike Club with dual funding worth $215,00 for a new track coming last week.

First up a $207,000 grant for the construction of eight kilometres of the Duck Creek Mountain Bike Park at Alstonville was made by the minister for racing Paul Toole and parliamentary secretary for northern NSW Ben Franklin MLC. ‘I’m delighted the NSW Government has partnered with Ballina Shire Council and the Northern Rivers Dirty Wheels Mountain Bike Club to deliver this great new sport and recreation facility,’ Franklin said.

‘Once completed, the park will be available to local riders who want to practise their skills and boost their fitness.

It will also be a drawcard for mountain bike enthusiasts and competitors from farther afield, boosting tourism opportunities,’ he said.

Earlier in the week Greens MP Tamara Smith visited the

Bike Park to celebrate that she had facilitated an $8,000 Community Building Partnership grant to help construct a one-kilometre section of track.

All up the grants will build nine kilometres of track that should be ready to ride in roughly six months, Northern Rivers Dirty Wheels Mountain Bike Club president Dave Hegerty said.

‘We should still have room for more track. Depending on how things go it could be as long as 15 kilometres when

it’s finished,’ he said.

The funding was a nice reward for the club that has spent the last seven years, and at least $200,000, building the club and the track to its current state.

The club has 180 members and is still growing. ‘We would like to build up to 250 members so we can cover maintenance and other costs,’ he said.

‘The new bike track will be good for Alstonville. If you don’t play cricket, rugby or soccer there is not much for kids to do there,’ he said.

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A full field took to Mullumbimby Golf Course for the PM Charity Cup. Photo Krystal Fysh and Jess Rider Ross Kendall

Support

A full complement of more than 136 golfers took part in the PM Charity Cup played at the Mullumbimby Golf Club last Saturday.

At least 136 players hit the course filling out all the available spots, organiser Adam Culbert said.

‘It was very social golf, and everybody had a good time on a beautiful day,’ he said.

There were various prizes along the way for competitors. Now in its second year the PM Cup, a four-person Ambrose, supports mental health and this year will donate roughly $5,000 to the Byron Youth Service, he said.

‘The money will be used to deliver new mental health services,’ he said.

The event also received sponsorship from a range of businesses and individuals from Kingscliff and down the coast to Lennox Head.

‘The day isn’t just about raising money for a great cause; it’s about getting people together to have a good time, get away from any negatives in life, socialise and realise how much support and help is out there for anyone who is doing it tough or in a hard place,’ Adam said.

‘A big thanks to photographers Krystal Fysh and Jess Rider, and all-rounder Glenn Abbott,’ he said.

The event is named after Paul Mitchell, a local footballer who suffered from depression.

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Crowds flock to Woodchop Carnival at Brunswick Heads The 58th Brunswick Heads Woodchop Carnival had another successful year and saw two new Australian champions crowned among four days of action.

Everything went to plan and there were plenty of entrants and spectators, event secretary Joy Slater said.

‘As it normally is, it was standing room only on Saturday night,’ she said.

‘A lot of families of axemen come to Brunswick for the woodchopping and to take a holiday so, we try to encourage women and children to get involved in the contest as well,’ she said.

Major results

Among a range of highlights M Argent won the 375mm Standing Block Australian Championship, ahead of J Head and D Ryan.

G Youles took out the 275mm Underhand Australian Championship, ahead of J Head and J Adamson.

Local junior surfers impress

GromSearch champion Nyxie Ryan.

Photo Smith/SNSW

Nyxie Ryan from Lennox Head has achieved a surfing triple play by winning her third Rip Curl GromSearch National Title in as many years.

Nyxie took out the Girls 14 division in pumping twometre waves at Sandon Point.

She was able to post a near-perfect 9.43 wave score in the final, which gave her the upper hand against fellow event standout Cedar Leigh-Jones who had held the lead for a large portion of the heat.

Nonetheless Nyxie dominated the competition and was unbeaten throughout the event.

Jai Glinderman from Lennox Head finished in third place in the Boys 14 division, missing out on a final berth by less than a point.

Nyxie’s younger brother Dembe also did well with a

fifth place finish in the Boys 12 division.

The GromSearch Series started in 1999 as a one-day event at Jan Juc in Victoria.

Since then it has developed into the strongest international series for 16 years and under surfers in the world.

There are parallel Rip Curl GromSearch series in more than 10 countries, and the event has become a crucial stepping-stone in the development of elite junior surfers with more than 5,000 competitors worldwide.

Byron Bay’s Joel Paxton has started his year off with a bang by making the final of the World Surf League-sanctioned Pro Junior Hydralyte Sports Surf Series presented

by Billabong, which is the first event of the WSL International Pro Junior circuit for under-18-year-old surfers.

The finals were held at the primary location of Bells Beach after an increase in

swell overnight that saw onemetre waves at the worldfamous beach.

Paxton finished third in the four-men final, winning $600 and 560 points on the WSL Pro Junior rankings.

Kyuss King from Byron Bay finished in equal 17th place after being beaten by Paxton in a close heat in the round of 32.

Straight after the Bells Beach event Byron Bay’s Joel Paxton and Kyuss King along with Lennox Head’s Jack Murray and Mikey McDonagh moved on to Sydney for the Crave Pro, a QS 1,000 event that is an open-age event.

McDonagh finished in equal 33rd, Paxton and Murray in equal 49th and King in 65th.

These are positive results for our surfers as they look to climb the rankings ladder against much older, stronger and more experienced surfers from all over the world.

Byron Bay second grade has slipped into fourth place on the Coastal League cricket ladder after losing to Lennox Head on Saturday.

Batting at home after winning the toss, Lennox set about building a solid score of 214 with good scores to the top four including: openers B Young (50) and B McPherson (30) as well as N Asser (45) and M McCormack (55).

The Byron side chased Lennox’s total but fell short despite the tail wagging with

Martie 38 not out and Brady hitting 21, batting at 10 and 11 respectively.

After the openers fell cheaply Toby Schott (27), Adam Clark (24), Matt Irwin (20) and Stephen Daniels (16) got the team going in the right direction, but it wasn’t enough and fell 36 runs short.

J Hermann (3/37) and M Duncan (3/34) both picked up three wickets bowling for Lennox Head as did Toby (3/29) and Matt (3/50) for Byron Bay.

The Mullumbimby Brunswick second-grade also had a good win, beating Terranora and lifting them into eighth position on the table.

Playing at home the Mullum Bruns side lost the toss and bowled, holding Terranora to just 81.

Only two batsmen reached double figures and nine scored fewer than five. At one stage Terranora were 8/17.

Mullum Bruns reached the total in the 16th over at 3/82.

Crystal Cylinders Despite falling from the top of his pole in the Tree Event on Saturday afternoon Josh Adamson (Woodford, QLD) continued to compete and finished third in the Australian Underhand Championship. Photo Jeff Dawson

Women’s champion: J Beutel Women’s Handicap Point Score: R Retschlag Men’s Champion: J Head Men’s Point Score: J Argent Junior Axe Person 250mm Underhand Aged 13 & Under: D Stumer

Brunswick Heads Ring Crew Invitation Tony ‘Gobbler’ Kennedy 275mm Underhand: K Steers.

The Queenslanders reasserted their dominance in the team section winning the State of Origin for the second year in a row, after a period of dominance from NSW.

Kingscliff Triathlon takes shape The Tweed Coast Holiday Parks Kingscliff Triathlon is set down for March 18.

The event will host the Queensland State Championships for triathlon and is set

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to bring a robust field from across Queensland and New South Wales. Triathlon clubs as far south as Ballina are eligible to compete for championship places.

High-profile triathletes Adam Gordon and Courtney Gilfillan have already committed to the event in what is predicted to be a competitive race.

Bowlo forges ahead in Byron Byron Bay second XI drops to fourth Bay Twilight cricket Syl Reid

A lusty blow from Chis C gave the Thomas, Noble and Russell side a last-ball victory in their Twilight cricket match against Thomas, Noble and Russell last week.

Mick set up the win hitting 31 for the financial advisers (TNR) in response to a good knock of 30 from Tom batting for PMD. The Byron Bay Brewery Twilight competition is once again in full swing and in other games the Kronix continued their resurgence by defeating the Hot Bread Loafers.

OD got 30 runs to take the Kronix into fifth spot on the ladder but Dylan managed 37 for the Bakers to keep them honest.

The long-awaited return clash of the mighty Bowlo versus T&C happened on Wednesday. T&C were in it for a while but Cam’s high score of the week (45) saw

Adam lays into a cut shot on his way to 36 and victory for Eureka against the Rugby Club. Photo Anthony Smith

the inevitable result go in the Bowlo’s direction.

Andy G’s 2/9 stifled the Boardies with Mitch being the sole bat to get to 30 runs for the team.

The Rip Starters battled it out with the West Tower Windies. But Scoot (44), Laith (38) and Molly (32) hit starters to a win.

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resulted in the Eureka lads defeating the Rugby Club boyos by defending a score of 108. Adam hit 36 for the Eureka side and Joey got 33 for the footballers coming in at last drop, but there was not much he could do after the side slumped to 7/40.

The Bowlo are now three matches ahead on the ladder with a tight field following.

Northern trio named in first SLSC youth team Three young surf life savers from northern NSW have been rewarded for their stellar early-season form with selection in the inaugural Youth Pathway Cup team, who will contest at Sydney’s Freshwater Beach on Australia Day. The Youth Pathway Cup is Surf Life Saving’s newest rep-

resentative competition and will allow the brightest 14 and 15-year-olds to test their skills against Australia’s best.

Lily O’Sullivan (Cudgen Headland) will feature in the U/14s, while Nathan Mackenzie and Maisie Miller, both from Lennox Head-Alstonville, have been selected in the U/15 squad.

In addition Scott McCartney, also from Cudgen Headland, has been named the team’s inaugural head coach after taking charge of the NSW Country squad, which contested the Interstate Challenge last week.

All of the mainland states will field teams of 20 for this new surf sport contest.

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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.

Respite Service Byron Shire Respite Service Inc delivers high-quality respite care to a broad range of clients throughout the Byron, Ballina and Lismore shires.

Donations welcome: Ph 6685 1921, email fundraiser@byronrespite.com.au, website: www.byronrespite.com.au.

Alateen Meeting Alateen Meeting every Thursday at 5–6pm. Do you have a parent, close friend or relative with a drinking problem? Alateen can help. For 8–16-year-olds meet St Cuthbert’s Anglican Church Hall, 13 Powell Street, corner of Florence Street Tweed Heads. Al-Anon family groups for older members at the same time and place.

1300 ALANON 1300 252 666 www.alanon.org.au

Social sporting groups Senior social table tennis at Bangalow Bowling Club Sundays 2–4pm. All levels welcomed. Call Margot 0412 394 932.

Tuesday Ladies Group of Riverside Tennis Club welcomes new players 9.30am every Tuesday next to Heritage Park, Mullumbimby, for social tennis, fun and friendship. Info: Barbara 6684 8058.

Breast Cancer Support Byron Breast Cancer Support Group meets every 3rd Wednesday 12–2pm at NSW Cancer Council rooms 8/130 Jonson St, Byron Bay. Anyone experiencing/ ed breast and gynaecological cancers is most welcome to attend. Enquiries Linda 0413 668 828.

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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. Crystal Meth Anonymous is a fellowship of people for whom all drugs (but especially crystal meth) had become a problem. Meeting held Thursday 6pm, Presbyterian Church Hall, 13 Ruskin Street, Byron Bay. Call 0478 061 479 or visit: www.crystalmeth.org.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 Heritage House Museum & Cafe Open Tuesday–Friday 8.30am–4pm. Cnr Ashton & Deacon Sts Bangalow. Available for event hire and welcome all groups and visitors. Phone 6687 2183.

Indonesian Conversation Klub Ngobrol, Indonesian conversation club to practise Indonesian and learn about Indonesian culture. Meets first Friday of the month, 6–8pm, Byron Services Club. Ph 0405 463 663.

Stress relief Free support service led by qualified practitioner. Join this small group to bring more flow and relaxation into your life. Monday 10.30am till 12.30pm in Mullumbimby. To register please phone 0401 660 073.

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

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Presbyterian Church Hall, 101 Stuart Street Mullumbimby 7–9 pm. Contact Megan 0424 002 636 or Bruce 0418 515 991.

ESL classes Free English as a Second Language classes in Mullumbimby, suitable for beginners to advanced learners. More info call 0421 796 529 or 6674 7267.

Language exchange Byron Language Exchange Club is a free conversation meet up held twice a month in Byron Bay. Contact Paola info@ clacademy.com.au, and don’t forget to mention the language you want to practise. Volunteers welcome.

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 or visit www.slaa.org.au.

Timebanking Timebanking can help you build a network of support within your community through sharing skills. For more: Northern Rivers Community Gateway 6621 7397.

Bridge club Brunswick Valley Bridge Club meets every Saturday and Monday at the Ocean Shores Country Club, seated at 12.15 to commence play at 12.30. Visitors welcome. See bridgewebs.com/brunswickvalley/home.html or for partner ring Phyllis Keyte 6684 1103. Facebook Brunswick Valley Bridge Club. Play resumes Saturday, January 6.

Op shops Uniting Church Op Shop, Dalley St, Mullumbimby – open each Saturday 8am–12 noon. Byron Bay Anglican Op Shop opens Monday to Friday 9am–1pm.

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Riding for the Disabled Ballina and District, 377 Houghlahans Creek Rd, Booyong, is holding a volunteer-training day for continuing and new helpers.

Date: Wednesday 31 January, 8am till 12.

Info: call 0447 005 996.

Beats and Eats: Friday 26 January 5–8pm, live music, entertainment and good food at the South Golden Beach Community Centre. Family-friendly community event.

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Choose from 40 organisations at the volunteer hub at Byron Community Centre. Make a difference in your community, have fun, learn new skills and meet people. Ph 6685 6807 email volunteers@byroncentre.com.au.

Voluntary euthanasia options are discussed at meetings held quarterly on the Gold Coast. For more information phone Elaine 07 5580 8215.

Would you like to have a close-up view of the moon? Join Marie and Philip at Brunswick Heads on Thursday 25 January.

They will be across the river on South Beach Lane from about 7pm. Look out for their large telescope. Enquiries 0413 779 223. Facebook Astronomy in Byron Shire. It’s FREE.

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. Narcotics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women

Byron FLEA Byron FLEA at the YAC (1 Gilmore Crescent) 2nd Saturday of every month from 8am till 1pm. Free stalls for young people. Call Berri 0490 026 840.

Toastmasters Byron Cavanbah Toastmasters meetings coaching in communication and self-development on 1st and 3rd Mondays, 6.40pm at Byron Services Club, Byron Bay; www.byronbaytoastmasters. org. Mullum Magic Toastmasters meet every 2nd, 4th and 5th Monday

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Social Table Tennis South Golden Shores Community Centre every Monday at 10.30. Phone 0435 780 017. Bangalow Bowlo Sundays at 3pm. All welcome. Enquiries Margot 0412 394 932.

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Kenya Op Shop The Education Care Projects: Kenya Op Shop, 1 River Terrace (street behind the Mullumbimby Post Office), has reopened for 2018. All proceeds go to support the education and care of more than 60 disadvantaged children in Kenya.

Free drug support Family drug support is offering a free Stepping Forward information session in Mullumbimby for family members affected by a loved one’s problematic substance use. Clear, practical information provided in a safe place to share and feel supported. January 29, 6.30–8.30pm. Call Chrissie to register: 0484 002 181.

Interested in making new friends and helping our community? Lions Club of Brunswick Mullumbimby meets 1st & 3rd Tuesdays at 7pm Ocean Shores Country Club. Info: Joan Towers 0400 484 419.

Choirs Bay Singers meet Wednesdays at Byron Community Centre, 10.30–11.30am.

Enquiries 0425 363 589, kim@kimbanffy. com.au. Singchronicity Choir meets Thursdays at Ocean Shores 6.45pm8.45pm. Eclectic and catchy repertoire.

Ph 0425 363 589. Mullum’s Biggest Little Town Choir meets weekly at the Uniting Church Hall, Dalley Street, Thursdays at 6.30pm. Newcomers welcome.

Raise the Roof Choir: Gospel, bluegrass & more. 1–3pm Tuesdays, Suffolk Park Hall. 6–8pm Tuesdays, Bruns Uniting Hall.

Weekly Uki & Channon sessions. Info@ raisetheroofsinging.com 0417 277 211.

The Uniting Craft & Social Group Mondays 9.30am–2.30pm at the Uniting Church in Carlyle Street, Byron Bay. Bring lunch and what you need. All welcome.

Do you prefer patchwork and quilting?

Come along on Monday evening same place at 6pm. Enquiries Tilly 6685 5985.

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.

Rainbow Dragons Rainbow Dragons Abreast (RDA) welcomes breast cancer survivors for a paddle at Lake Ainsworth, Lennox Head, on Sundays 7.30 for 8am start.

Info Marian 6688 4058, mazzerati2010@ gmail.com.

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Wellness Walks Free weekly Byron Bay Lighthouse loop walk with local wellness coach. For walking times see Facebook – Byron Bay walking wellness or phone 0411 698 887.

End-of-life choices Voluntary euthanasia options are discussed at meetings held quarterly on the Gold Coast. Next meeting will be held on 8 February. Phone Elaine on 0421 796 713.

Australia Day Australia Day at Ocean Shores Public School from 5pm, Friday 26. A free event where you can try your mullet-throwing skills, enjoy a barbecue and singalong with Ambassador Corey Payne. Enquiries 0431 477 445.

Cheap microchipping Microchipping for companion animals.

Saturday 3 February, 9am till 2pm at the Food Hall, Mullumbimby Showgrounds, Chinbible Avenue entrance. $5 per dog or cat and a discounted registration fee for the first five dogs and cats.

Leukaemia Foundation Volunteer drivers needed in the Lismore region for patient transport program.

A day, a week or a month – all help welcome. Contact Hannah: 1800 620 420.

Food Box closing Food Box will be closed until 25 January.

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Bangalow CWA rooms will be open on Australia Day serving tea and coffee with scones and damper from 9am till 1pm.

Call into the rooms at 31 Byron St.

Ballina Photographic Club meeting Thursday 25 January, 6.30pm at the Kentwell Community Centre, corner of Moon Street and Bangalow Road. New members welcome. Info: Jean 6686 0462.

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Drawing Plein Air with Jennifer. Saturday 3 February, 10–11am. Ten spaces for primary school children with parental supervision.

Bookings essential. Ph 0402 416 782.

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One Vision Productions (12–24): DJ and electronic music production, Thursday 25, 5–7pm; Friday night live jam on 26 January, 5–8pm.

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Seats available on fortnightly Community Transport Shopping Bus from Suffolk Park/Byron Bay to Byron town centre. The door-to-door bus costs $6 and is available to people who can’t access mainstream transport due to age, disability or other reason. Call Amanda 1300 875 895.

Ballina Bosom Buddies Support Group meets the third Thursday each month 10am–12pm at the Ballina Kentwell Community Centre. Contact Julie 0499 550 757 or Karen 0439 438 576 for further information.

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every 1st Thursday of the month at the Ocean Shores Country Club at 6pm. Ph 0439 733 763 for more info.

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Free support service. Carl Moore, registered psychologist. By appointment grief.loss.bereavement.byron@gmail.com 0401 081 713.

#StartupByron Un-Networking meets the first Thursday of every month, focused on connecting anyone interested in startups or small biz. See startinno. com/events/2015/5/7/startupbyron-unnetworking.

Seniors Activities Tuesdays at the Byron Community Centre, Jonson St, Byron Bay. Elder Beats seniors drumming 10.30–11.30 am with Gareth Jones in the theatre, 11.30 Morning tea in the courtyard, 12.00–1.00 Chair Yoga with Pippy Wardell

Ballina camera club

Contact Improvisation Saturdays in Mullumbimby 10–12 noon at St Martin’s, Church Hall, Stuart St Mullumbimby.

All level of dancers welcome. Enquiries 0402 059 564.

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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.

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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.

Free English as a Second Language classes in Mullumbimby, all levels: beginner to advanced. For more information phone 66720834

Volunteers needed. Enq Jeni: 6685 7816 or 0439 344 281. Mullumbimby Anglican Op Shop opens Monday to Friday 9am–4.15pm, Saturday 9am–12.15pm.

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. Kenya op shop, 1 River Terrace (behind post office), Mullumbimby – open Monday to Friday 9.30am - 4pm.

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1. Proverb: never rule anything out for all time (5,3,5) 9. Cut the grass (5) 10. In a dangerous or tricky position (2,4,3) 11. Small fish often caught for bait (10) 12. Masculine (4) 14. Without weapons, unprepared (7) 16. Old type of machine gun (7) 17. One who delivers letters (7) 19. Citizen of Tel Aviv (7) 20. Separate matter, one of a list (4) 21. Intrudes on another’s property (10) 24. Fix one’s position, technically by facing east (9) 25. Silly, vacuous (5) 26. Saying: Put up with hardship cheerfully (4,3,4,2)

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While January 26 is Aussie snag ’n’ flag day for most, it’s invasion day for others.

The 14th annual celebration of the survival of Aboriginal culture will be held on Main Beach, Byron Bay, on Friday from 11am till 3pm. Everyone is invited to celebrate and honour the resilience of Aboriginal people and the strength of their culture with performances and speeches from Billy Smith, Nigel Stewart, Delta Kay, the Bunyarra Dubay dancers, Uncle Pete, Corey Payne and Tony Barry.

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For the full program of the Shire’s Australia Day events, see page two or visit www. byron.nsw.gov.au/australiaday. And to give the date historical and political context, Echo columnist Mungo MacCallum makes his case on page 10.

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Distraction puppet and rightwing extremist senator Cory Bernardi doesn’t appear to have many friends in the arts.

Hilariously Bernardi made up his own ‘Hottest 100’ list of his favourite Aussie music last week after Triple J moved their musical countdown from Australia Day. Problem is, some of those artists on Bernardi’s list didn’t appreciate being associated with his toxic brand of politics. ‘Why would you listen to anything @corybernardi says, especially about music?’ Jimmy Barnes tweeted.

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The backlash against Bernardi by some of the nation’s top musos is unsurprising since political conservatives generally can’t dance, sing, paint, are terrible comedians and enjoy defunding art budgets.

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Local art-activist Howie Cook was so inspired by Mandy Nolan’s recent piece on the Bruns Carnival mural, he thought he would offer a family-friendly alternative.

Readers of Murdoch’s loss leader broadsheet The Australian may have swallowed its Bowen gets its back up as Adani mine protesters hit town. As a counterpoint to mainstream dross, local journo Mia Armitage’s excellent firsthand account of how protesters interacted with QLD locals can be found on page 9.

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Illegal campers watch out!

Setting up camp in public places will continue to be a focus of Council’s ‘enforcement operations’ for 2018, say Council staff, after a whopping 1,119 infringement notices were issued over the Christmas New Year break.

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Is it hot enough yet? According to the Climate Council, 2013 to 2017 was the hottest five-year period ever recorded. Last year was the thirdhottest ever recorded, and the hottest year in which temperatures have not been boosted by an El Niño event. Climate Council CEO Amanda Mc-

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We all know how heartbreaking it is when your companion animal goes missing. Microchipping your companion animal is necessary in order to help find your pet. On the day, there will be no limit on how many companion animals per household (but a limit of one per houshold for the contribution towards registration). Discounted registration fee for the first 5 dogs and 5 cats. Fees are currently $23 concession/ $55 desexed/$201 undesexed. Dogs and cats will be separated but please bring all dogs on leads and cats in carry cages. We will be there to assist and to explain the process, and the Byron Shire Council ranger will be there to answer any questions you may have.

Only $5 per cat or dog Saturday 3rd February, 2018 from 9 am till 2 pm Venue: the food hall – Mullumbimby showgrounds Chinbible Avenue entrance Animal Welfare League NSW North Coast Branch

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