The Byron Shire Echo – Issue 32.46 – April 25, 2018

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Adequate management and safe removal of radioactive sand from the Mercato shopping mall development in Byron’s CBD has been defended after residents called into question compliance over the site, which is a known former mineral sands mill. The questions were prompted by Byron Environment Centre (BEC) and a prominent Council watcher, who say their calls for information about possible radioactive dust pollution during excavation were falling on deaf ears. While Council replied to The Echo that ‘Council is assessing the application’, BEC John Lazarus claims his freedom of information request (GIPA) to Council is yet to be replied to, some five weeks later. In November last year, Jo Faith said she followed a truck full of spoil from the excavations at the Mercato site, which she said was only partially covered with a tarp and had the potential to spread radioactive dust ‘from Byron Bay to QLD’, where she believes the fill was destined to be tipped. The Echo understands some of the radioactive tailings were buried at the site when the (then) Byron Plaza shopping centre was built in the 1980s. Yet despite concerns expressed by local traders four years ago about their potential for exposure to radioactive dust during excavations, Byron Council focused instead on Mercato’s ‘Green Star rating’. After following that truck out of

town, Ms Faith began inquiring from the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) what protocols should be followed in the disposal of excavated material that might contain heightened levels of radioactivity.

EPA wipes its hands Inquiries by Ms Faith to the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) were also eventually replied to, she says, which handball responsibility back to Council. ‘Any matters relating to worker safety should be directed to Safework NSW,’ it read. A spokesperson for the Mercato development confirmed with The Echo that a specific DA was required for the radioactive waste extraction and removal and all the terms of this DA were complied with. They said, ‘The builder complied with the EPA and the requirements of Byron Shire Council DA in every aspect. The builder was diligent in monitoring this and responding as required. Appropriately qualified, independent scientists and technicians were onsite to oversee the work.’ ‘The field screening showed generally very low results across the entire excavation site, with limited areas of exceedances of several times the residential criteria of 0.7 ÎźSv/hr (micro-Sieverts per hour).’ The Echo all also asked, ‘Were trucks monitored leaving the site and what steps were taken to prevent toxic tailings or polluted soil becoming windborne? The Mercato spokesperson replied, ‘A low percentage radioactive continued on page 5

The prayer for sunshine worked! Many happy folk assembled for Spirit Fest at the Cavanbah Centre and Elements of Byron resort last weekend to take part in yoga, dance and workshops aimed at reaching a higher consciousness. Pictured is Spirit Fest co-organiser Alex Grant. Photo Jeff ‘Blue Skies And Sky Dives’ Dawson

A powerful culture appropriation speech kicked of this year’s Spirit Fest, ushering in a new paradigm in social awareness over the exploitation of traditional cultures for commercial gain. On Friday, local Arakwal representative Delta Kay gave a Welcome to Country at the Cavanbah Centre, and told the audience, ‘It is time to take a stand with native nations across the globe to move beyond colonialism.’ ‘The colonisation of native peoples globally has incited the endless theft of our mother lands, resources, the assimilation of native communities, our way of life, culture and more recently, the theft of native traditions. ‘It is time to reclaim and protect our cultural heritage, to protect and preserve our ancestral lands,

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sacred sites and unite our community. This must be done by “us� the native people, we have the wisdom and teachings in us from our elders and ancestors to enforce our lore, L.O.R.E, to protect our culture, country and community. ‘Non-native people, you are our supporters, you have the important role of allowing native people a platform to practise and protect the integrity of our culture against cultural appropriation.

Education, awareness ‘I, Delta Kay, stand alongside elders from across the world to bring an end to appropriation of native cultures. ‘I support and encourage the education and awareness required to help those who still feel that another

person’s culture is a viable way to gain attention and wealth. ‘Since reading The Proclamation on the Protection of Ceremonies by Chief Arvol Looking Horse, 19th Generation Keeper of the White Buffalo Calf Pipe, the teachings of my mother, Linda Kay Vidler of the Arakwal Bumberbin Clan has inspired me to speak out and stand with native elders local and globally to decolonise.’ Kay ended with, ‘I call on each and every one of you to stand with us to move beyond the appropriation paradigm, decolonise your minds, to embrace your own ancestry and heritage, listen to your innate wisdom and knowledge so we can unite with honour, respect, peace and love.’ The full speech is available at www.cultureaware.org.

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Harmony Day comes to Mullum Harmony Day is coming to Mullumbimby this year for the first time on Saturday, April 28 at the Civic Hall and surrounding gardens. Everyone is invited to a day and evening of multicultural performances, food and celebration of harmony. Co-ordinator Judy Shelley said, ‘You will see 200 exciting multicultural performers onstage plus chefs cooking up an exquisite international cuisine all day and night in the name of harmony, inclusion, diversity and anti-racism.’ Starting with the meditative kirtan music of Micotsuki Shivamoon with Shivam at 11am, there will be dance performances from Bollywood to the hilarious Balinese Mask Dance and first ever Dayak Dance from Kalimantan. The delights will continue throughout the day with mu-

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sic, drumming workshops and free vegan food as well as some great holiday activities for the kids. There will be ‘Aboriginal

activities, spinning, drumming, dancing, face painting, juggling, crafts and heaps of kids’ groups onstage,’ said Ms Shelley.

Everyone is reminded that this is a waste-free event so you need to bring your own plates and cups. A washingup station will be provided.

Youth theatre to explore life in a tourist town Paul Bibby

Byron Youth Theatre is set to explore what it’s like for local young people to grow up in a tourist destination in a new play that created through innovative writing and research methods. Based on research from Southern Cross University (SCU), Our Home Holiday Town will explore the challenges of growing up in the constant flow of Byron Shire. As part of the process of writing and producing the play, the members of Byron Youth Theatre (BYT) will conduct interviews, create surveys and research under the guide of professional researchers from SCU’s Centre for Children and Young People. They will then combine this with

their own personal experiences to produce the play. BYT director Lisa Apostolides said she was excited about the possibilities the project had for exploring academic research into the effectiveness of youth theatre in a social-action context. ‘I am keen to give young people a voice in our community where they can become active agents of change,’ Ms Apostolides said. ‘We hope that Byron Council and Destination NSW will be on board to support this project and that the outcomes may be incorporated in strategic planning concerning tourism in our region.’ The idea for the play came from the research of SCU researcher Dr Antonia Canosa, who explored the experience of the 2,800 local youth growing up in the

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Shire and found that many had a lovehate relationship with their hometowns. Dr Canosa found that while young people often love and identify closely with the region’s incredible natural beauty, their sense of belonging is jeopardised by the continuous waves of visitors temporarily living in the Shire. ‘Young people who grow up in a holiday destination like Byron Bay are witnessing that kind lifestyle on a regular basis – people having fun, relaxing, partying,’ Dr Canosa said. ‘They don’t always understand that these people go home to a much more normal lifestyle – a nine-to-five working week. ‘That can skew a young person’s perspective of life in their community and their experience of living there.’

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Castles in the sky still require Council DAs Hans Lovejoy

Enthusiastic participants in local government affairs took to their popcorn and cushions in the Mullumbimby chambers last Thursday to hear soaring oratory rhetoric of varying degrees of competency by our beloved councillors. But it wasn’t about them; it was about what they voted upon. With 1,032 pages of agenda, the meeting was actually short by comparison to other marathons. It was all over by 4pm.

Byron skate park Mayor Simon Richardson will call on councillors to start the ball rolling on establishing the Sandhills area as a location for a Byron Bay skate park. Public feedback will be sought, as well as support from the state government. Reports will follow. He told the chamber that there is support for the location and it is consistent with the Byron Bay Town Centre Masterplan projects. And while no budget was identified in the motion, Cr Richardson says Council has allocated and committed $300,000 and through community fund-

raising, a $500,000 budget could be achieved. This amount could be matched by the government.

Council housing Council’s contentious affordable housing project next to the Mullum Community Gardens and unimpressed neighbours got a step closer after all councillors agreed to request a gateway determination from the state government. Further studies and a public exhibition of the planning proposal will proceed, and a staff report has been requested to ‘consider amending SEPP 70, LEP 2014 and the Byron Development Contributions Plan in relation to affordable housing provisions.’

Treehouse reprieve The Byron Bay Massinger Street treehouse may stay! Councillors resolved to ask the neighbour, who wants to be responsible for it, to provide public liability, an arborist report and engineering certificate. And just because it’s bureaucracy, she will be offered a 12-month lease for $1 on the land if that’s all ticked off. Hooray for bureaucracy!

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Bruns Parks It’s now a case of duelling ecologists between Council and the North Coast Holiday Parks Trust (NCHPT) over a push to formalise lucrative camping in the southern end of the Terrace Reserve in Brunswick Heads. It’s been a difficult road for the state-owned corporation to liberate pots of gold from the riverfront land – locals have detailed the history which indicates it was a public memorial park. It should return as a public space, they argue, so that vunreable coastal pines can recover from their slow demise under past NCHPT and (perhaps)

Council managment. The latest in the longrunning saga saw an arborist, employed by NCHPT, address councillors in morning access. Claims by Council’s independent ecology report were refuted of course, and what’s left of the protected Coastal Cypress Pines could easily co-exist with camping and carefully placed 4-wheel-drives. They promise to look after the pines. Promises? Oh purrrleeease. Like a disease masquerading as its own cure, NCHPT have now a sudden interest in actually protecting the pines instead of butchering them, as they have done in the past. Are they to be believed? Can anything be

done to ensure compliance? It’s anyone’s guess, but regardless, mayor Simon Richardson told the gallery later in the day that there’s no point trying to fight this. Yup, Council is a puppy that has to roll over and show its fluffy vulnerable belly to an oversized pitbull state government. Pity there’s no independent legal knowledge tabled to support that view. Anyway, another interesting angle to this never-ending series of a public to private wealth transfer was NCHPT’s arborist telling The Echo that their ecology report was provided to staff two weeks prior to Thursday’s meeting. Turns out that report was only handed to councillors the day before the meeting! As a result, any decision on what to do was correctly deferred by councillors, yet

questions to staff by The Echo remain unanswered, like who was the staff member that withheld the report. And why.

Let’s be a corp! Councillors supported Cr Spooner’s motion in becoming a foundation member of Byron Community Land Limited, a project that aims to roll out affordable housing projects. Yet to make sure it’s all legally tight, the acting general manager will need to be satisfied that section 358 of the Local Government Act 1993 is not contravened. Limited space permits covering anything further; however, there are a lot of great questions with some answers from staff in the minutes from the April 19 meeting. Visit www.byron.nsw.gov. au/Council/Council-meetings for more info.

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material was found to a depth of 1.2 metres. This material was removed from the site in covered trucks and transported to an approved site in QLD. The site was excavated

to a depth of approximately seven metres. The bulk of the excavated soil, which was natural sand, was disposed of for beneficial reuse under a specific NSW EPA resource recovery order.’

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‘The property is close enough to the town centre for people to walk and ride their bikes and also remote enough to minimise any impact of events on the local community. ‘Traffic generated by the project will be managed by a remodelled site entry, a slip lane turning in and out of the property and provision of a pedestrian cycleway to town. ‘Many guests will arrive by airport shuttle and then bike into town reducing the impact on traffic.

Yoga and Meditation space designed by Charles Wright Architects purpose built for the consciousness movement. the inner journey. It will be a place for reflection and contemplation. It is open to the seeker of the truth. ‘The growth of the business will be staged over five years with the maximum capacity of guests staying onsite capped; made up of 150 people doing yoga, 50 people on spa programs and 100 people on meditation retreats.

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‘Guests will be welcomed to the land with an orientation program which will honour the land, the local Indigenous peoples, the community and the immediate neighbours. ‘Healing the land is healing the self. It will be a place of giving where guests will be invited to participate in an environmental program of rehabilitation and beautification of the land. ‘Mullumbimby is my home. I have been living here for over 10 years and visiting family here since 1986. I cherish and respect being a member of this community and only want to bring a positive and nurturing project to this area.’

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Footwork for a worthy cause Ballina Shire Council accused of failing to protect old fig tree

Centre in blue dress is Esther Zellweger, with Ruth Russell, Kellie Quigley, Nikki Muling, Elsa Torresi, Natalie Strain, Cath Beamer and Hayley Walker pictured behind. Photo Jeff Dawson

The annual Stars of Byron Shire dance competition to raise money and awareness for the Cancer Council is on again. Hannah Brooks, who is organising the event said, ‘The Cancer Council’s gala fundraising event, Stars of Byron Shire Dance For Cancer, will showcase local business owners, paired with local dance professionals, unleashing their “inner dance diva” for a panel of judges and the

wider community.’ You will be able to see notable Byron characters taking on styles such as tango, hiphop, pole dance, salsa and more as they shimmy and sashay their way across the stage at the June gala event. This year’s stars include Elsa Torresi, Hayley Walker, Kellie Quigley, Natalie Strain, Nikki Muling and Ruth Russell, who are all looking at ways to raise money for cancer.

Last year’s contestants raised $8,386.60 and Elsa Torresi from Main Arm Mechanical has already announced a range of fundraising activities, including dancing, signing and drama classes on April 22 at St John’s Hall and a speeddating event on April 28 at Club Mullum. To get involved, email Elsa at elsaf66@hotmail.com.au. More info is available at www. everydayhero.com.au/event/ starsofbyron2018.

Ballina Council has not followed their own planning legislation to assess the environmental significance of a Lennox Head fig tree slated for removal, according to local planner John Sparks. Yet a press release by Ballina Council on Friday says that with multiple specialist reports being commissioned, all options to retain the tree on Castle Drive have been exhausted. It reads, ‘All identified options presented to Council were cost prohibitive and provided no assurance of success.’ Yet Sparks told The Echo he is requesting Council lodge a Development Application for vegetation management, ‘as required in chapter two of their Development Control Plan (DCP) and by their Local Environmental Plan (LEP) 2014.’ He’s also calling for the significant tree to be included in their Heritage Register ‘and change the zoning around the tree from R2 Low Density Residential to RE1 Public Recreation, similar to their zoning around other fig trees in the area.’

Independent Ballina councillor Jeff Johnson told The Echo, ‘Back in December, I lodged an urgency motion with Ballina Shire Council requesting further investigations in an attempt to save this 200-year-old fig, which is the standout natural feature of the Castle Drive locality.’

Poor planning decisions ‘We are in this situation owing to poor planning decisions in the past that allowed a concrete-slab-on-ground house to be constructed underneath the fig’s canopy. ‘The area around the tree should have been declared a public reserve so that we wouldn’t be in this situation. ‘Something similar is now proposed with the new subdivision at Skennars Head where a 100-year-old pine tree is facing the axe owing to the developer not placing a value on these significant trees and the public’s desire to protect them.’ Sparks added, ‘The Ballina Environment Society would

like to see this tree to act as a plaintiff against the Ballina Shire Council, based on the rights of the tree to defend itself and its significance to the natural ecosystem it has created over the last 200 years.’ The claim against Council and their insurance company would be for the costs of replacing the natural services and resources provided by this tree for the next 200 years of its life.

Tree v Council ‘The Council decision to remove the fig tree relies on the laws of liability, both public and private, their rights of ownership and physical enjoyment of their environment as desired by the individual property owners. ‘We are considering its options and may speak as guardians on behalf of the tree. Legal advice has been sought from the Environmental Defender’s Office (EDO). ‘We would like to hold a ceremony to honour the spirit of the tree and take cuttings from the tree to transplant these so that the spirit of the tree lives on.’

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A project to eradicate lowlevel fish barriers on the Brunswick River is so important to river health and fish breeding it has been dubbed ‘Bringing back the Brunswick’ by Byron Shire Council. It is described as one of the most significant environmental projects ever undertaken in the Byron Shire, with Council receiving grant funding from the NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) to reinstate fish passage in the Brunswick River. The half-million-dollar program, made possible by a $274,600 grant from the NSW DPI Flagship Fish Habitat Grants Program, equally matched by Byron Shire Council, will see two causeways in the mid-reaches of the Brunswick River upgraded. It complements another grant from the DPI Habitat Action program, which will see the removal of three other low-level fish barriers in the river. But locals who drive cattle, cycle and use the route over the low-level causeways for exercise have concerns about their removal.

In 2009 Council did a community survey that clearly identified the route was regularly used by locals but nonetheless closed the route to traffic. However, after the collapse of the culvert under a garbage truck in August 2017, they have had to allow residents to use the alternative route that takes in one of the culverts slated for removal.

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‘If they had removed the causeway in 2009 like they originally said they would, all the residents between the first and second culverts on Durrumbul Road wouldn’t have been able to get out for the last nine months,’ said one local who didn’t want to be named. The Echo understands that while two of the culvert bridges are being replaced, three

smaller causeways will not, forcing farmers and cyclists to take longer and potentially more dangerous detours. Farmers Garry and Bob Hampson said they need Durrumbul Road to remain accessible ‘so that we can move cattle from paddock to paddock, without having to drive the cattle along Main Arm Road’. Mayor Simon Richardson has said Council is ‘keen to work with the local residents to look at the feasibility of building a footbridge for pedestrians and cyclists, if this was important to them.’ ‘I understand that some local people, particularly children, still use these old causeways when riding their bikes, and several farmers sometimes use them as well but these are Council-owned assets that have been slated for removal for years.’

Tweed Council rejects Adani Tweed Council has joined Byron and Lismore councils in rejecting dealings with the Adani Carmichael mine. Councillors last week voted in favour of limiting Council’s engagement with entities that have business dealings with the Adani Carmichael mine.

The Notice of Motion requires ‘all civil construction tenders to disclose any direct contractual agreement to construct or operate the mine’. Mayor Katie Milne and Crs Cherry, Cooper and Byrnes voted in favour, while Crs Polglase, Owen and Allsop voted against.

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Catholic corp eyes former Mullum hospital site Paul Bibby

Residential accommodation for older people is emerging as the most likely future use for the old Mullumbimby Hospital site, following a survey of locals and a number of expressions of interest. After the state government offered to sell the 13-acre site to Byron Shire Council for $1 plus the considerable cost of remediation last May, there has been much discussion and debate about the best use of the site and how to pay for it. A survey of around 200 locals conducted on behalf of the Mullumbimby Hospital Site Project Reference Group has found that the vast majority of respondents felt that some form of accommodation for older people was a top priority. The chair of the reference group, Greens councillor Jeanette Martin, said it was ‘very strong from the community point of view that we need a diverse range of senior’s living’. ‘It’s still early stages but that is definitely where the community is at,’ Cr Martin said. Cr Martin said that respondents indicated they were less interested in having a new library or a creative centre built on the site as had previously been suggested. Other ideas, such as an innovation hub or a childcare centre, also appear to be of less interest to the community based on the survey data. ‘I think there may be a bit of a lack of understanding in the community about some of the ideas for the site, but it’s pretty clear that accommodation for older people is the favoured

The Mullum Hospital closed in 2016 when the new Byron Central Hospital opened.

option,’ Cr Martin said. Accommodation for older people has also dominated the formal expression of interest process for the site.

Three proposals All three proposals for the future of the site that have been submitted to the reference group have focused on seniors’ living and aged care. The only other proposal relates to a history project that does not propose a specific future use. Cr Martin, deputy mayor Basil Cameron and reference group member Gil Lomath confirmed that Catholic Health Care had formally expressed its interest in expanding its Coolamon agedcare facility in the future to include residential aged-care accommodation.

No comment When contacted by The Echo, Catholic Health Care refused to provide any details about the proposal, or to even confirm that it had made one. However, councillor Jeanette Martin said the existing Coolamon facility was in ‘desperate need’. ‘Their proposal is for something broader, bigger

and newer,’ Cr Martin said. The other two proposals, from the Mullumbimby Hospital Action Group (MHAG) and the local community housing collaboration Social Habitat, both focused on alternative models of accommodation for older people. Gil Lomath, a longstanding member of MHAG, said that her group’s proposal recognised older people’s desire to be autonomous and independent. ‘People in their 60s and 70s and 80s have still got a lot of energy,’ Ms Lomath said of the MHAG proposal, written by Dr Sonia Laverty, a local resident who has both academic and hands-on experience in the aged-care sector. ‘People don’t want to to be locked away in an institution. They want to age in a place that feels like a real home.’ ‘We’re also hoping that by providing suitable accommodation for older people on the hospital site we can free up houses in town for families to live in. The Social Habitat proposal also diverges significantly from the mainstream ‘aged care’ model. It’s architect, Malcolm Price, has envisaged a villagestyle community that is com-

pletely open to other locals. ‘I started working with an idea based on a spider’s web,’ Mr Price said. ‘At the centre is a community facility – that might include a re-imagined library that is more like a co-working space rather than just a book suppository, an holistic health centre. ‘People who have less mobility and maybe need a bit of help sometimes live closer to the centre, and those with full mobility who are completely independent live further out. ‘The whole area is completely open and accessible to the community – not some closed-up, gated community or facility where older people live away from everyone else.’ Mr Price suggested that rather than expanding, the existing Coolamon facility could become a facility for the very last stage of life, allowing people to remain active and engaged in the world for as long as possible. Funding remains a significant challenge for those seeking a more innovative approach. Catholic Health Care has an advantage in this respect owing to its cash reserves and ability to obtain finance. However, the possibility of a mixed-use arrangement featuring commercial and community uses remains on the table. Deputy mayor Basil Cameron emphasised that all of the submissions were being considered. ‘We haven’t finished our investigations yet,’ Cr Cameron said ‘Once we’ve done that we’ll start pulling it all together and developing a clear plan.’

Legalising cannabis makes BYS facilities needs refurb Byron Youth Service’s large, open-space activity room sense, says Lib Dem senator The Mullumbimby Cottage, which out the back, with long tables NSW Liberal Democrats senator David Leyonhjelm last week congratulated the federal Greens party on adopting his party’s ‘long-held position’ on legalising recreational marijuana. Senator Leyonhjelm said, ‘More than one in three Australians has used cannabis, yet almost 80,000 cannabis-related arrests are made nationally each year.’ ‘A study released by the government’s Australian Institute of Health and Welfare last month found that illicit drugs were responsible for just over two per cent of Australia’s total disease burden, of which cannabis accounted for less than one in 10 cases

within that category.’ Meanwhile, organisers of Nimbin’s upcoming 26th annual MardiGrass (May 4–6) say this year is being seen as the beginning of the end of cannabis prohibition. President of Nimbin’s HEMP Embassy Michael Balderstone says, ‘It looks like the argument is pretty much over as to whether cannabis is a medicine or not; it’s just about who gets to make all the money from it now.’ It comes as former conservative US Republican John Boehner took a board position on one of America’s largest cannabis corporations, Acreage Holdings, according to Forbes.

supports young people mainly referred through the local high school, is an old building and in dire need of some love, say youth service staff. Deb Pearse says, ‘A single decrepit toilet serves the 40 or more young people who attend the cottage every week, and queues are common.’ ‘There are concrete troughs to wash up and one cramped room for activities. Local people built the cottage for a widow and her boys after her husband was killed in the World War 11. When the boys grew up, she returned it to the community. She says staff would like to see two toilets and modern washbasins installed, with a

and storage cupboards – and they’re asking for your help. ‘Young people here have completed amazing projects over the years,’ says Pearse. ‘Please support them by visiting bit.ly/2vihZuG. Young People Matter!’

Family fun in Bruns, April 28 The Brunswick Scouts will be holding a free family friendly fundraiser ‘Friends for Life’ on Saturday April 28 from 11am with bands, raffles, great junior acts and some fun kids activities at the Terrace Reserve Sound Shell in in Brunswick Heads.

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Local News The middle-aged women’s manifesto Aslan Shand

I had picked it up and taken it to bed in the hope of a quick read (I’d finish the book another day) before falling into a happy slumber with the book on my face – but it was egg on my face as I kept telling myself I’d just read one more chapter… Then there was my poor partner who had to put up with whole body-shaking laughter next to him in bed. And of course I couldn’t resist poking him during my adventure of Mandy’s and Ellen’s lives and try haltingly – as there were times when I couldn’t get more than two words out between the hysterics – read him exerpts from their book Women Like Us. Comedy duo Ellen Briggs and Mandy Nolan have taken their comedy skills and woven them into a fantastic blend of humour and insight. There were moments when I closed the pages and reflected on lives that weren’t mine. As Ellen and Mandy narrated their lives through the pages of Women Like Us I felt I got to know many of their greatest and most devastating moments. Having read the book I

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poking my partner as I regaled him with yet another laughter splattered reading from Women Like Us – and he sweetly told me he was a little pissed off at the fact I’d taken Ellen and Mandy to bed and not him. Finally, when I had failed to find any more words and agreed to turn out the light my lovely partner said to me ‘I hope to enjoy ramming your head into the kitchen bench some day too.’ We both laughed – but you’ll have to read Women Like Us to find out why. Women Like Us hits the street on May 1 at your local bookstores. A Mothers Day show at the Beach Cafe in Byron is on May 13. Tickets can be booked on 6685 8445 or get their the full schedule, visit www.womenlikeus.com.au.

wasn’t sure I needed to speak to these amazing women – I felt like they had told me all their deepest secrets and already revealed their most intimate moments. Nonetheless they had plenty to share. ‘Everything we do is about bringing women who feel they have become invisible and voiceless to the table,’ said Mandy. Ellen followed up saying, ‘We’ve built a following outside of the mainstream media and entertainment industry, which isn’t interested in middle-aged women. But there are so many of us! We laugh that it is not just a comedy show, it is a movement!’ It was the early hours of the morning before I stopped

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Bring your cup and plate. Local sustainability festival Renew Fest will deliver its third waste-free event in a row this year, with support from some passionate young Americans. Cheyenne Clarke and Teresa Fishman are sustainability students with the School of International Training’s study-abroad program, and will be Renew Fest’s zerowaste ambassadors leading up to the festival. Festival director Ella Rose Goninan said Teresa is fine-tuning the design and implementation of Renew Fest’s Zero Waste protocols for 2018, while Cheyenne will present at the festival on Zero Waste Travel. She says, ‘Cheyenne is collecting all of her non-recyclable waste in a little bag and will kindly take it back to America with her. ‘Renew Fest’s zero-waste commitment is one of our proudest achievements,’ she said. ‘It really raised some eyebrows when we decided to be a zero-waste event. But we have proved that it is possible, fun and easy and actually not as difficult or deterring as many people imagined. ‘In our experience, it’s also actually been really popu-

Renew Fest’s Zero Waste ambassadors Cheyene Clarke with Teresa Fishman with some of the waste Cheyenne will take back to America with her. Photo Jeff ‘Waisting Waste’ Dawson

lar with our patrons. There’s always a happy empowered buzz around the Water Lily Wash Pod.

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‘The focus of Renew Fest is to create a juicy and rejuvenating festival space within which we deeply call to account the much-needed renewal of our ways. ‘Being zero waste is our first mass “getting real” action that we are going full activist on. We’re asking people to join us in this simple yet pow-

erful behavioural change, and demonstrate to the Shire and to the world that a zero-waste festival with a thriving marketplace is totally possible, in an ongoing sustainable way.’ Teresa Fishman says she works with festivals in America, ‘so I’m looking forward to sharing Renew Fest’s experiences with them.’ Cheyenne Clarke added she is grateful to have the opportunity to share her experiences with zero waste and conscious travel. ‘Aussies love to travel, and

I think it’s really important that young people in the West take full responsibility for the impact their overseas adventures have. Zero Waste is just one way we can express the responsibility that the planet is calling for right now. ‘And at the end of the day, I want to show that with a bit of mindfulness, it’s just not that hard,’ she said. Renew Fest takes place at the Mullumbimby Showground May 19–20. For more information go to www.renewfest.org.au.

Nats assist drug addicted youth The Buttery has received $257,000 to assist young people aged 10 to 19 with drug and alcohol problems to help them get earlier access to treatment. The Buttery’s Chris Benaud said there are a number of pro-

grams for people in the community, ‘but this is an issue in this area and this will give us the opportunity to reach more people in the community.’ The announcement was made by local National and

Liberal members last week who highlighted that ‘Every young person deserves to feel loved and supported and have the opportunity to succeed in life.’ MPs Thomas George, Ben Franklin, Chris Gulaptis and Geoff Provest said, ‘We are committed to tackling alcohol and drug misuse and ensuring that our young people receive the same quality healthcare as anyone else in the state.’ The new services will focus on young people who are experiencing moderate to severe substance use, or who are homeless, have mental health concerns, or are of Aboriginal

and/or Torres Strait Island descent and those who have had contact with the justice system. The services will provide tailored care, including medical and mental health services and housing and employment support, as well as help young people reconnect with family where possible. ‘The need is for continuity of care – a way to keep in touch, counselling and to ensure they are connected. It is often the lack of connection that is at the heart of addiction,’ said Mr Benaud. ‘We use an holistic approach and this will form a part of the broader program.’ HICAPS EFTPOS

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Vegan yoga camping ground DA heats up Hans Lovejoy

The proponent of a 239-lot camping ground/events site near Mullum has defended his proposal and claims that Council staff unfairly placed his development application (DA) before the public before all reports and documents were completed. Located on Coolamon Scenic Drive just north of Mullum opposite the SES HQ, residents have been active in highlighting potential impacts on traffic, amenity, along with fire and flood risks. But property owner Mark Franklyn told The Echo that potential impacts on traffic, amenity, along with fire and flood risks, are all adequately addressed in his DA, including his vision for a ‘vegan camping ground.’ He says it would cater largely to nonresidents seeking spiritual healing/awakening. As they would be mostly bussed in from airports, Franklyn says that will help reduce the impact on traffic. Remarkably Franklyn says that after receiving a letter from Council staff on March 10 requesting more information on his DA, it was then advertised almost immediately for public submissions. ‘Presenting to the public an incomplete DA has created a lot of angst, he said, adding he provided all the information within 21 days, as requested by staff. Franklyn says traffic and flooding concerns have now been addressed in the updated DA, which also includes a short connecting bike path to the town. With public submissions

closing on April 26, The Echo asked Council staff for confirmation of Franklyn’s claims and whether there will be an extension to public submissions, given the additional information was supplied later. Acting director sustainable environment and economy Sharyn French told The Echo, ‘It is standard practice to exhibit all DAs as soon as possible.’ She said, ‘The onus is on the applicant to provide all the required information at the time of lodgement. More information can be requested before or after a DA is exhibited and up until the DA is determined. Staff also extended the period for submissions for an additional two weeks for this development application.’ Franklyn told The Echo there won’t be ‘casual camping’ on the property, and denies the size and scale is too large for the area. He said, ‘All campers will undergo a “presentation process” and this space will only be for people on the inner journey. It’s aimed at attracting events such as Spirit Fest, the Path of Love and Rainbow Yoga, the largest organisation of its kind in Australia. The visions is to offer a range of accommodation for these organisations.’ ‘The land has dictated this development – it’s not me,’ he said. ‘There creek that runs through is overgrown with camphor, and I want to invite people to come here and do karma yoga, which helps with rehabilitation. This will be a vegan site, which means there is no ingestion of sorrow, which is a result from eating and killing animals.

Regarding the main yoga building, Franklyn said it designed ‘so 150 people can do yoga in one place,’ and will be soundproofed and air-conditioned. He said, ‘There is a quantum leap in consciousness going on across the planet right now. And while Franklyn says there will be around 450 capacity, a neighbour told The Echo, ‘239 campsites by law is capable of accomodating 2,800 people’. ‘He can’t believe the town are against it,’ they said. ‘It sounds more and more like it’s a commune.’ Franklyn told The Echo he held a very constructive meeting with around 30 residents last Sunday, yet Missy Moore, who attended, told The Echo, ‘He had an expectation that everyone would accept his vision, but when that was clearly not going to happen, he became unhappy when asked questions.’ ‘There is a lack of transparency of what is going on,’ she said. ‘When we were trying to understand what is in it for the community, he said, “You will be able to drive past and see how beautiful the place is.” Local solicitor Wroth Wall provided The Echo with an objection he prepared for a neighbour, which supports the claim of the number of visitors that could be accommodated. He wrote, ‘Up to 2,868 visitors could be entitled to stay, along with those in the cabins and staff dwellings. In other words, almost as many people would be entitled to stay on this land at any one time as the number of people that currently reside in Mullumbimby.’

Additionally, local architect/urban planner David Brown challenged the DA’s claim it is ‘small scale rural tourism’. He told The Echo, ‘It’s in a RU2 Rural Landscape zone. Council’s Local Environment Plan (LEP) states one objective is “…small scale rural tourism uses associated with primary production and environmental conservation…”’

Small scale? ‘Can anyone explain how 239 camping and caravan sites, a large yoga hall, a day spa, six cabins, a kiosk, around 70 separate visitor parking spaces, substantial excavation and grading and an oversized “manager’s residence” could, even in the wildest imagination, be considered small scale? Brown also took aim at the planner’s report in the DA that concludes with, ‘It is recommended that Council approve this blending development which does not alter the rural character of this area…’ ‘Please, give me a break! What does “blending development” mean? Is it just another “buzz word” intended to bemuse the public and assessing officers alike?’ As for the applicant’s $1.8 million cost estimate, Brown said he suspects it is ‘well short of reality’. ‘DA 10.2018.110 for 1897 Coolamon Scenic Drive is a bad, inappropriate development. It must be rejected and, if necessary, Council must strongly defend its decision if Land & Environment Court action is a consequence.’ The DA is available at https://bit.ly/2HpxOUX.

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DA submission template If you like public places such as beaches, then here is a template submission for a proposal by five wealthy individuals that aims to protect their private property on beach frontage with rocks. Those rocks will slowly erode the beach, which will result in a loss of public amenity and a transfer of wealth. Public submissions close April 27! Dear Coastal Panel, I wish to lodge the following submission against all five coastal Development Applications CP 17 006, CP 17 007, CP 17 008, CP 17 009 and CP 17 010 for various locations labelled in Don and Childe Streets, Byron Bay (all Byron Shire Council LGA). Please acknowledge receipt of this submission and advise you will take it into account when assessing this proposal. Firstly these DAs should be re-exhibited with adequate advertising to ensure full public awareness. There was minimal advertising (The Echo, page 43, 7 March, 2018) and these DAs are not easy to find online at the OEH website. Public trust is eroded when there is a lack of transparency and access to information. There is no assurance that these DAs will not erode the beach completely because the applicants have avoided complying with legalisation. It is well documented throughout the DAs that these applicants can ignore legislation which enhances and maintains Belongil beach. Most of these DA applicants struck a secret court agreement with Council’s insurer in 2016. It is well established that building rocks on beaches erodes beaches over time. That’s why mitigation is included in the Coastal Protection Act 1979, with which these DAs should comply. These works should not be permitted on the basis of secret court agreements; these DAs should be assessed in the public interest. This DA should be refused because it is located at least partially on public land. The public have not been asked whether they are willing to yield this land up for private use. It appears the word ‘repair’ is skewed by a court interpretation in these DAs and is closer in meaning to ‘upgrade’. The applicants claim that amenity and public safety will be improved by these structures. Yet those who know the history of this saga will be aware that almost all these landowners never had consent authority for works in the first place and there was a long-held Council policy of planned retreat. A sensible approach to coastal hotspots like Belongil is to allow continuing benefit from occupancy of property as is, while at the same time preventing investment beyond the odd coat of paint. This will prevent the real driver of problems, which is not nature but greed. The latter could be satisfied by assigning lucrative uses such as Holiday Let to affected properties, so that current investors realise a gain not based on upping the capital value of waterfront mansions. This DA should be refused to make way for such an approach: maximise income until the day that nature needs its space back. A positive side to this approach is that holidaymakers will easily vacate during storms, reducing the burden on emergency service volunteers and any future liability. Yours sincerely [including full name and address], The DAs are available via www.environment.nsw.gov.au at bit.ly/2IXzDFL. Submissions close April 27 and can be emailed to coastal.panel@environment.nsw.gov.au, faxed to 02 9995 5939, or posted to Chair, NSW Coastal Panel, c/- Office of Environment and Heritage, PO Box A290, Sydney South NSW 1232. Political donations (including donations of $1,000 or more) also need to be declared – visit https://bit.ly/1JTIt6x to download the disclosure form.

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would be summoned before a committee where they could obfuscate, dissemble and mislead while politicians looked stern. And there were always APRA and ASIC, which had all the powers necessary. Or we have been told they have; there has been very little evidence of it to date. But Morrison, with the aid of the bankers, devised his very own you-beaut Commission, and although he had said that it was a waste of time and money and would undermine confidence in the financial system and put the economy at risk, now he was in charge, there was

the revelations might have been embarrassing and alarming, at least they would have been out of the way before the next election. But as always, our prime minister stubbornly insisted that he could ride it out. And as always, this has led to yet another potential disaster. The dust is a long way from settling, but it appears that Turnbull and Morrison are determined to persevere with the Enterprise Tax Plan – to hand over some $65 billion to the godfathers and capos of the mob. It is not all for the banks, but this hardly matters: they will be major beneficiaries, and de-

…It appears that Turnbull and Morrison are determined to persevere with the Enterprise Tax Plan – to hand over some $65 billion to the godfathers and capos of the mob by Mungo MacCallum absolutely no cause for alarm. The four pillars were as sound as ever, strong, stable and of course immensely profitable. Well, yes, rather like Cosa Nostra, actually. And this is the political morass in which the government has found itself. It resisted the demands of first the Greens, then Labor, and finally a number of its own backbenchers for a Royal Commission for years before finally caving in to the numbers and acting, but too little and too late. They were not to know the scale, scope and effrontery of the depredations, but they knew there was a lot bubbling away: after all, just about everyone either had a horror story about the banks or knew friends who had; everyone knew the banks were bastards. If Turnbull had been prudent, he would have moved to initiate surgery a couple of years ago and then, although

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for change and reform beyond the immediate financial services sector. This is not about a few rotten apples: this is about a culture that has rotted to the core and it will require drastic and continuous reform. Just for starters, it will be a lot more difficult to deny the need for a national corruption commission along the lines already implemented in most of the states; Turnbull has already signalled that although he is not really in favour of it he may have to consider it. It would be another big backdown, but what the heck; no doubt Morrison will be able to explain it away. And he will apologise to nobody, not for the opponents he slandered, the public he ignored, even the mavericks from his own side: George Christensen and Wacka Williams need not expect acknowledgment. And, like everyone else, they can forget about transparency, consistency or even a basic level of honesty from our treasurer. Which is not good news as the last pre-election budget looms. The Royal Commission on the unions was devised as a deliberate political tactic and to a certain extent it worked: Offences were uncovered and the opposition leader was marginally damaged in the process. But it was not the blockbuster Kenneth Hayne is progressively unloosing at the government and its financial and political allies. Malcolm Turnbull used to find the idea of a Royal Commission akin to treason. When it was forced upon him, he still called it regrettable. As the atrocities mount up and the deadline for the election draws nearer, it is starting to look more like Nemesis – a Nemesis brought about by his own stubbornness, short-sightedness and sheer lack of nous.

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Letters After 30 years of protecting our local coastal environments and defending our beaches we are confronted with development applications to build rock walls at the Belongil. Spare a few moments of your surf stoke and check out the ad in this week’s Echo [p 7] and write a short letter to the Coastal Panel. Globally beaches are being destroyed by marinas and development. If the rock walls go in we lose the iconic Belongil Beach. Hard engineering causes increased erosion of the beach, and private property is protected but the public and nature pay the price. Spare a moment to punch out a clean line on the iPhone and follow it with a beautiful Byron session – clear water, clear conscience. Ian Cohen Broken Head

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Hands off our beaches Congratulations, community, a record number of submissions on West Byron megadevelopments. Now we face the potential of losing our beaches, so it’s urgent to do another submission. This time it’s applications for rock walls at Belongil beach that will put at risk the future of our coastline. The five development applications are being assessed by the NSW Coastal Panel Council. See the ad in this paper [p 7] or view the Byron Resident Group’s FB site for info on submission writing. For over 30 years Byron Shire has had a policy of no rock walls under the Planned Retreat policy. It was recognised that the coastline is threatened by cyclones, storms surges and sea-level rise. We will not be able to

hold back the ocean; erosion is inevitable. The 1988 policy of planned retreat provided clear advice to landowners, prior to purchase, that there was a known risk from coastal erosion. It was part of the policy that homes were able to built back from the erosion escarpment but if the erosion came close, then the approval lapsed and relocation was required. The landowners have challenged Council for decades, but lost so many cases. The state government has always been required to be involved as the beaches belong to the people, held in trust by the state as Crown land. Together Council and the state defended the planned-retreat policy. Over time, more councils and governments around the world have adopted this approach, particularly as

climate change has become more real. So if you want to walk along the beaches of Byron and enjoy the right to access the public space that is the beach, then you must do a submission. We must defend our right to protect our beaches and environment from the risk of degradation by a few landowners who don’t accept that they bought land with full knowledge of the risk. Please take the time to do this. If this isn’t stopped then our other beaches could be subjected to rock walls too. The beach is public, it belongs to all of us, it isn’t private, so hands off to landowners who think they have the right to take that away from all us. No rock walls on our beaches! Jan Barham Broken Head

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by Ian Rogers In a remarkable week for youngsters, a 17-year-old blitzed a world class field in the Sharjah Open while a 12-year-old was victorious at a Grandmaster tournament in Greece. Parham Maghsoodloo first came to notice when he and other teens took Iran to a top ten finish at the 2016 Baku Chess Olympiad. This week he stamped himself a genuine star by winning his first seven games in the Sharjah Open, four of his opponents being high level Grandmasters. Though missing winning chances in the eighth round against another GM and drawing, Maghsoodloo nonetheless won the event with a round to spare, the biggest pay day of his life. Meanwhile in Greece, Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa secured his second Grandmaster ‘norm’ by winning the Fischer Memorial tournament undefeated in Heraklion. Praggnanandhaa is now just one high level performance away from becoming the second youngest Grandmaster in history, although one should not

forget Australia’s own 17-yearold Anton Smirnov, who became a Grandmaster by winning the Fischer Memorial in Heraklion last year. This week Smirnov has been battling for first place at the Thai Open, the event where two years ago he lost a last round game to highly ranked German GM Jan Gustafsson. However, this year Smirnov enjoyed sweet revenge in the game below, to take the tournament lead after six rounds. Cha Am Thai Open 2018 White: J Gustafsson Black: A Smirnov Opening: Queen’s Gambit Declined 1.Nf3 d5 2.d4 Nf6 3.c4 c6 4.Nc3 dxc4 Gustafsson admitted that he was unprepared for the Slav Defence main line, expecting 4...e6. 5.a4 Bf5 6.Ne5 e6 7.f3 Bb4 8.Kf2? Avoiding the sharp 8.e4 Bxe4! lines but walking into something worse. 8...Bc2! In an earlier game Smirnov had missed this chance and played 8... Nbd7. 9.Qd2 Bb3 10.e4 b5 11.axb5 cxb5 12.Qg5?! Bxc3?! 12...0-0! immediately was stronger 13.bxc3 0-0 14.h4? Played after 25 minutes thought yet missing Black’s threat. 14.Qg3! puts White back in the game. 14... Nxe4+!! 15.fxe4 f6 16.Qg4 Desperation, but 16.Qe3 fxe5+ 17.Kg3 exd4 18.Qxd4 Qxd4 19.cxd4 Nc6 20.Be3 Rad8 offers little hope for White. 16...fxe5+ 17.Kg3 exd4 18.Qxe6+ Kh8 19.cxd4 Qxd4 20.Ba3 Qxa1 21.Bxf8 Nd7! 22.Bd6 Nf6 23.e5 Qe1+ 24.Kh2 Bd1! 0-1

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The whole initiative started in December 2017 and in four months has collected over 140 million containers in NSW. That is like a million containers a day and yes, we do have a problem, Houston. The recycling technology is not (yet) available in Queensland; it will not take wine bottles or containers with liquid in them. It won’t take soy milk and other longlife milk containers; I tried. Great for kids to get them involved in understanding their footprint… and earn some pocket money like it was 1985. Andrew Crockett Mullumbimby

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The current ‘administration’ of our council has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that the green in their platform and performance is the kind of green that has nothing to do with sustainability, natural resources, the environment, the amenity of local residents or wildlife, and has everything to do with the Green that folds neatly into a back pocket. From one land release to the next, one development and mega-development to the other, one botched blockade of public and private land after the other, not to mention the demise of our market grounds and the assassination of the Belongil via overt financial wrangling and mismanagement. How can one maintain any trust or confidence in Council considering these misdirections? Byron Shire used to be an oasis of calm far from the madding masses of the planet, grappling with despotic capitalism and heartless widespread greed… or has it been here all along lurking in the bushes waiting for the drum circle to be shut down and banned? David Coyne Coorabell

Ditch Facebook I did what Facebook said and downloaded all my data and what did I find – everything. It had about 200 numbers, including the washing machine repairer. It had every email address and every phone call including the recipient, date and duration. Why would anybody want to know how long I spoke to the washing machine repairer? It’s time for Facebook to provide some answers rather than 457 pages of data. Dennis Fitzgerald Melbourne

Wolf in sheep’s clothing I’ve recently become an active GetUp! member, and I’m trying to help get the new LNP foreign donations bill withdrawn. Heard of it? It’s a bill that would see community groups and charities in Australia prevented from advocacy work and making any public statements about politics. It makes sure groups can’t speak out about laws or reforms relating to the people they help. Democracy? The more you look, the more the line blurs. If this is relevant to your group, please email me at susie@byronbaymultimedia. com.au and sign a statement of opposition. Our GetUp! action group will take them to MP Justine Elliot’s office. Last month we met with Justine to deliver 16 statements of opposition to the bill from local charities. She went on to talk about our contact with her and Labor’s opposition to the bill in Parliament. The bill is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. It means that any charity, community organisation or civil society organisation could face fines of up to $50,000 per day if they are non-compliant, seeing their financial directors jailed for ten years, and anyone donating more than $4.80 per week to the charity needing to sign a statutory declaration to prove they are Australian citizens. It doesn’t even stop overseas companies from donating to political parties – all they have to do is be incorporated in Australia, and they can donate as much as they like. The bill is being hotly debated in the public sphere and still hasn’t been passed. Susie Forster Ocean Shores

Tourist overload Recently on north coast ABC radio, NSW state tourism minister Adam Marshall responded to questions as to why Byron Shire ratepayers were being overwhelmed by backbreaking tourist numbers. He said that the tourism burden had been imposed on Byron by the too successful effort by Byron itself to attract tourists! A ludicrous and ignorant response! Over the nearly three decades I have been a ratepayer in Byron Shire I have never heard of a ratepayer-funded campaign to attract tourists to Byron Bay. I have, however over the last 12 months, been subjected to an increase in my rates by one third, the highest increase in the state by far! I have also repeatedly

seen a refusal by the NSW government to allow a local area tax on tourists (via a bed tax). I have also seen and heard numerous attempts over the years, directly and indirectly, by the department that Adam Marshall heads, to spend many million of dollars to attract tourists to NSW headlining Byron Bay in their promotions. Adam Marshall is not simply a politician being parsimonious with the truth; he is simply wrong! Governments at both state and federal levels have been successful in attracting tourists to Byron Bay. Certainly the ordinary ratepayer has not been directly involved in the effort! Many coastal councils in NSW suffer with the problem of a huge tourist strain on local infrastructure and an insufficient revenue base for them to respond adequately. Adam Marshall is in the chair; he and the government he is part of have promoted the problem and it’s their responsibility to deal with it. He cannot simply blame ratepayers and walk away. Dr Paul Gannon Coopers Shoot

Raise the flood level L Cronin’s letter (April 28) drew attention to the amount of fill necessary to raise the level of the land above the 100-year flood level. Surely adding that much fill to these wetlands will result in surrounding areas becoming more floodprone and subjected to worse flooding. If this is the case it should be sufficient to stop the project, as proposed, in its tracks. Others should not suffer increased flooding if this project is approved. A solution would be for the council to specify that only Queenslanders (houses built on high foundations) can be built in the West Byron project area. The land would still flood so the surrounding areas would not be made more floodprone but the houses would not be affected by the rising water. As someone living in such a property whose home was like an island in a lake during last year’s flood I can testify that Queenslanders do keep houses dry in floods if they are high enough. This would be a fair compromise (though it would not solve other issues of increased traffic along Ewingsdale Road or the capacity of the sewerage works to handle the additional effluent). Warren Kennedy Mullumbimby

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Venice and Byron The essence of a recent article in The Australian (April 17, 2018) titled Mass tourism seen as the main culprit in the steady demise of Venice forebodes a sticky end to a lot of cities and towns around the world that are being sucked of their authenticity and life by an excess of tourists. Byron Bay is not immune. Local residents are being levered out of a lot of communities all in the name of the tourism. Which poses the riddle… tourists flock to places to experience the essence of a place but the only essence left is the structure created to accommodate the tourists. So why go? It is after all a mere tourism Disneyland. Venice, once the world’s greatest maritime powerhouse, is now denuded of maritime industries and also the craft industries. And yet the tourists keep flocking to admire these mirages of hiscontinued on page 18

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Jerusalem Syndrome Newspaper reports claim he may have suffered Jerusalem Syndrome, a condition afflicting pilgrims to the Holy Land who experience delusions of spiritual grandeur. Some believe they are biblical figures. Dr Moshe Kalian, an expert on Jerusalem Syndrome, believes McAfee had â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;some kind of religious experience in the desertâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; resembling the syndrome; which is less a discrete ailment than an aggravation of chronic mental illness catalysed by biblical surroundings. Those afflicted are often found preaching in the streets of Jerusalem. But not McAfee. A short documentary about his disappearance aired on Israeli television in January. It compared his vanishing to that of Christopher

McCandless, the young pilgrim who was found dead in a bus in the Alaskan wilderness in 1992. Another â&#x20AC;&#x201C; though still tenuous â&#x20AC;&#x201C; parallel might be Everett Ruess, a twenty-yearold who disappeared in the southern Utah desert in 1934. The last confirmed sighting of Ruess was on November 21 that year. He was never found. The talented artist and aspiring writer had been undertaking epic solo journeys through the wild American southwest for the best part of five years. His disappearance haunted his parents and brother to their graves, but spawned a cult following. As Hugh Lacy wrote in 1938: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Wherever poets, adventurers and wanderers of the Southwest gather, the story of Everett Ruessâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s will be told. His name, like woodsmoke, conjures far horizonsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Speculation about Ruessâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; fate continues to this day. Oliver McAfeeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brother Matt travelled to Israel in late February to liaise with search teams and police. He ended a press conference at the British Embassy in Tel Aviv hinting at the anguish of not knowing: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Best case scenario for us now is obviously that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s found alive: or heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s found. Worst case scenario is we never knowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.

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Emblazened across his chest ‘nature’ and her arm ‘planet’ encircled with two pythons and an eagle. The dreamcatcher bounces along the road swinging like a pendulum determining which beach they will cruise into for the night. A cactusgrown wetsuit hangs on the back along with the designer hoodie. They have chosen their camp spot in the nature reserve of course and now can afford their organic activated almonds. Out jumps Rainbow, rescued from a dogs’ home and therefore entitled to free range all night on the beach. She can channel the endangered little terns and wallabies warning them she will chase them, but just for fun. They sit and meditate next to their illegal fire and then send a pic to their friends on insta with a deeply earth-loving quote – nature so precious so blessed to be in Byron.

So many people are blessed to be in Byron. They are coming in droves. They all deeply love nature, have dreamcatchers, are free spirits and, it seems, just can’t read signs. Sunrise is #glorious as they head off after blessing nature with their ablutions. They know how to do this ethically and stack little sticks around their offering like a shrine. Shrines are popping up all over the Shire in carparks, nature reserves, locals’ front yards with their white toilet flags like the Tibetan silk flags. Surf ’s up – they speed up the road just missing the resident nature, a python and some plover birds. At night around the carparks, shampoos in hand, they prowl, hair wash and conditioner blessing the ocean with their products. Dave loves Byron. True Blue the dog is with him off to nature but he can’t get a park and after driving from Queensland he is entitled to a

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spot. He uses his entire grunt and pulls out the ‘No Standing’ sign and nudges ‘gently’ his love deeply into the rainforest. If Byron were your partner you fell in love with her because of the trees, pristine rainforest, biodiversity, clean beaches, lack of commercialism, artisans, healers, nature, alternatives, give a damn people that kept it free of large-

scale developments and highrise that makes it the same as everywhere. Why then are you dumping on our true love? Our nature reserves are being trashed by the constant free camping and violation of rules designed to protect and respect them. Dogs where owners know they are not allowed, dumping of rubbish after a holiday or backpack-

ing trip – yes mattresses all over the Shire. It is greed beyond belief when trees are cut down to squeeze another few rooms onto a development. Do you really need to squeeze that fourth bedroom into your development at Suffolk and rip out the trees, or could you be blessed just to partake in such a lifestyle and perhaps give as well as receive?

No camping means no camping. Showers at the beach are for rinsing off and not doing your washing. No dogs means no dogs at all. Buy the dream-catcher made by a local rather than in China and consider your paid parking well worth it considering what you get. Take your joint butts with you rather than jamming them into the picnic tables. If a guest, consider that your neighbour might be a nurse or a parent and need to go to work tomorrow, so turn down the volume. This is our home, we work hard to keep it Byron by sitting up late at night, when we could be with our partners or kids, writing submissions to stop West Byron, protect Belongil beach, slow down unthinking visitation numbers to our nature reserves – so we can protect and conserve what we have. Show some respect. Engage, protect and point your white feather in the direction of true love for Byron’s sake.

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Missiles, Monash, and War No More! Phillip Frazer

Missiles A week after the alleged chemical attack in Douma on April 7, the British journalist Robert Fisk walked the streets of this Syrian town in which fundamentalist Jihadists had recently been overpowered by government forces. Fisk interviewed a doctor named Assim Rahaibani, who had been in the underground clinic when the ‘gassing’ victims were treated. Rahaibani told Fisk that those videos of children being hosed down and given oxygen were real but that people were gasping for air because they live in dirt tunnels under buildings pulverised by bombs, and the air was more deadly that day because of ‘wind and heavy shelling that stirred up a dust storm’. Whether it was gas or the toxic dusts of war, this was an event, among probably a million events since this war began, that killed people, most of them not guilty of anything but trying to survive. And this event was used to ignite a burst of outrage among people watching their screens in the US, UK, France, Australia and other countries whose leaders claim that Syria’s government led by Bashar al Assad is exceptionally evil in the way it fights war. And so Trump, May and Macron launched missiles to blow up buildings they say house chemical

Britannia called, and swift ere the trumpets echoes died away, From Ice-bound shores and India’s burning strand The gathering forces of her children marched in stern array, From wave-tipped Isles and Austral’s sunny land, To do or die they came, Brave Heroes of the Dardanelles. weapons. It seems they tipped off the Russians to lower the chances of triggering retaliatory missiles. Inflaming outrage among citizens of nations closest to the USA, and scaring the governments of nations who aren’t, sent the price of stocks in US weapon-makers Raytheon, Northrup Grumman, and Boeing, into the smoke-filled stratosphere. Ratheon charges US taxpayers $1.8 million for each Tomahawk missile, the newest of which are extremely accurate and can be fired from beyond the range of most countries’ air defence systems. Just ten years ago missile strikes like this risked war planes being shot down and pilots captured, leading to

huge diplomatic and intelligence ‘issues’. The new technology means the only heat they feel is hot air from those of us who are crazy enough to demand an end to war-fighting.

Monash Anzac Day commemorates the Aussie and Kiwi troops who were obliged to fight for the British Empire against the German one, from 1914 till 1918. This war over whocould-win-a-war left 17 million people killed in battle zones, including at least 60,000 Australians, and as many again who died of war wounds after the armistice. Anzac forces – 30,000 of them – were stuck on a beach cliff at Gallipoli, Turkey, for eight months, un-

der fire, in a botched attack planned by British navy commander Winston Churchill, who thought he had friends in Turkey who might support Britain. In fact, they had already signed a secret deal with Germany, and half the Anzacs lost their lives – for what? The core battles of World War I came after Gallipoli, when literally millions of young men from opposing countries were stuck in trenches in fields of France and were expected to leap out and run at each other shooting rifles until everyone in that charge was dead. Then do it again. A breakthrough came when a major-general in the British forces, who was an engineer, proved that distracting the other team by attacking their trenches with planes and tanks before going man-to-man was far more effective, and saved lives by the shipload. This officer was unusual not just for thinking outside the box but also for being a colonial – Australian – and Jewish. Top British toffs were obliged to overlook these negatives and get their King George (Kaiser Wilhelm’s first cousin – yep, aristocracy is insane) to knight the engineer right on the battlefield in France, making him Sir John Monash. After the war, despite being dissed by our official war historian as ‘a pushy Jew’ and by Rupert Murdoch’s father Keith because he couldn’t manipulate him, Monash created the Victorian State Electricity Commis-

sion, a successfully grand enterprise until it was privatised by the coffeeaddled Liberal premier Jeff Kennett.

ANZAC Day Monash also organised the building of the iconic Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne. It is at the heart of Anzac Day solemnity, which celebrates appalling carnage set up by British supremacists. We Australians have added our own injury to that British insult by promoting an idea that the nightmare of Gallipoli, above all else, made our nation. This may be because we have not looked hard enough to find what has made our nation, or because we don’t believe we’ve really made it yet. All of which suggests we could help make our nation better if we got over this worship of a travesty by using a day or a year to re-evaluate who screwed whom across the 230 years since the first British mob came here – and who stood up for a fair go for everyone, including the mob who were here for 60,000 years before the new mob came. Everyone who went to war should be acknowledged, and so should people who had the courage to not go on principle, and those who fought from the 1950s through to today against the many American wars on poor nations seeking independence from, well, rich Americans. Q Phillip Frazer pisses into the wind on www.coorabellridge.com.

Warm oceans good for fast-growing baby sea urchins but bad for reproducing adults The boosting effect of a warmer ocean on the growth rate of baby sea urchins is proving to be a silver lining of a much darker cloud by the time these spiky marine creatures reach adulthood. Southern Cross University Associate Professor Symon Dworjanyn and University of Sydney Professor Maria Byrne have found that the acidification caused by ocean up-

take of carbon dioxide is stunting the gonads – or sex organs – in adult sea urchins, which could have significant effects on future population numbers, and a detrimental impact on the ‘uni’ industry in Japan. Tripneustes gratilla, the lamington (also known as collector) urchin involved in the study, along with other species are harvested and grown for their gonads which in

Japan is called ‘uni’, a highly-prized sushi. ‘This research shows that for [these] species of sea urchin a warmer ocean may in fact bolster their ability to cope with an acidifying ocean. ‘The sting in the tail is that although we may get bigger urchins in the future they will struggle to reproduce in large numbers,’

said Dr Dworjanyn. ‘Urchins in conditions simulating the turn-of-the-century ocean conditions had smaller gonads meaning they were likely to be less successful in reproducing.’ This is the first study to rear a major marine invertebrate calcifying species from the tiny juvenile through the growth stage transition to the mature adult in near-

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Not World War III – yet John Hallam

It might be too early to tell for sure if the world has survived the attack on purported Syrian chemical weapon installations without turning into WWIII. It would be nice to think we have. I have plans for the coming week that a global nuclear apocalypse would ruin. However, though the apocalypse does not look imminent (I hope), Russia has vaguely threatened ‘consequences’. Even assuming nothing happens in the short term, Russia is sufficiently angry with the West that a deterioration in relationships seems inevitable. continued from page 14 tory. Venice will hang on as a destination because of the vast collection of art and creative architecture. Byron Bay only has two things in common with Venice – water and tourists. Once the locals go completely Byron Bay will have a greater fight to stay afloat because there is no history or cultural edifices to admire. The Belongil rock wall?... abysmally designed apartments with a paucity of appeal?... I doubt it. Venice is just one place that is the reminder that councils and government instrumentalities need to heed these warnings and make important decisions for the future regarding what exactly are we on Earth, and in these towns, for. So when Byron loses its arts, crafts and hipness then the tourists will be destined to just sit on the beach and stare at the incoming ocean

It’s doubtful that the Assad ‘regime’ has learned anything at all from the incident. And the worst is that Donald Trump may draw the lesson that he can tempt fate, dice with the possibility of WWIII – and ‘get away with’ it. We have humiliated Russia at a time when it is the last thing we should be doing. Our relations with Russia desperately need improving. The strike has done nothing to help those who have been harmed by Assad’s use of chemical weapons. It may have marginally degraded Assad’s capability to manufacture those weapons, but it’s not apparent it has affected his calculus in employing them.

Finally, it has been a spin of the Russian and American (nuclear) roulette wheel. Whatever the temptation to posture and grandstand, policies of restraint and wisdom are called for where the use of nuclear weapons comes into play. Nobody has been displaying any of those qualities. Instead there is chest thumping and foolish bravado. Countries will be meeting from 23 April till 4 May at the UN in Geneva in the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) Committee meeting, and on 14–16 May at the UN in New York in the High Level Conference on Nuclear Disarmament. These meetings are an op-

portunity to take essential steps to lower the risk of an accidental (or otherwise) nuclear war, and finally to take the apocalypse completely off the agenda by universal signature and ratification of the Nuclear Prohibition Treaty. If there are no nuclear weapons, there can be no nuclear apocalypse. We urge all governments to take immediate steps to lower nuclear risk and to eliminate nuclear weapons completely.

before they’re forced to move off and dine in an ever increasing number of franchise food outlets staffed by people from their own country. Maybe I’ve got it wrong. Maybe for the tourists it’s all about feeling secure. Neil Matterson Byron Bay

you (young people) proud. For a start: Take a leaf out of the New Zealand textbook. Elect a young leader like Jacinda Arden. And the same goes for all the other tired old politicians of yesteryear. Replace them with young and forward-thinking cleanskins with a real stake in the future. Say goodbye and good riddance to the baby boomers once and for all. Julian Scantlebury Burleigh Heads

understanding of local community values and a contempt for the spirit of the law governing development control in NSW. While we welcome the overdue new hospital, we call on Geoff Provest MP to revisit his government’s location decision, and review the 29 discarded sites with the intent of joining with the community in selecting a more appropriate site – one that meets community expectations and statutory compliance, yet does not undermine the hard-won development standards that have been achieved for the Tweed coastal villages. Alma McAllister Secretary Tweed Heads Branch ALP

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Your editorial, Dear young person, was so excellent, I have to congratulate you and briefly respond. The best thing about my frequent flying visits to Byron is picking up a copy of The Echo. Long live Mungo, still the most cogent and hilarious political commentator in Australia. Congratulations on your editorial urging young people to get active and lobby the oldies in charge for a cleanenergy future, let alone a future worth living. Better still, get rid of the old farts. They have not done

Tweed hospital site At its April meeting the Tweed Heads branch of the ALP unanimously resolved its opposition to the use of statesignificant prime agricultural land to site the much-needed new Tweed Hospital. Our members felt strongly that selecting this Kingscliff site ignores the prohibitions expressed in the NSW Government policy and the Tweed Shire LEP. It also shows a deep mis-

The dream of a bike path It was good to read the article on the need for public support for bike tracks in the Shire. I ride most days but often I find the existing bike tracks to be almost unusable and sometimes downright dangerous! Take for example the bike track that leads from Myocum Road, winds through the Ewingsdale intersection and ends up at the cement works on the road into Byron Bay. You can see what it looked line last week in this photo. The Shire – or in this case it might be the RMS since it seems to be part of the high-

way infrastructure – might want to review their maintenance programs for bike tracks already in place. In my experience, once

built they tend to get neglected and sometimes become unusable as a result. Michael Singleton Tyagarah

John Hallam is attending the Geneva NPT and delivering a statement from NGOs on reducing nuclear risks. He will then attend the High Level Conference in New York.

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Q I am appalled that the Richmond Federal MP Justine Elliot has stuck her nose into this matter. Health Infrastructure called for Expressions of Interest (EOI). I believe there were around 30 submitted. The criteria from Health Infrastructure was 15km from the coast, easy access to the M1 and flood free. I would imagine any EOI that did not meet these requirements didn’t make the cut. Are these people who didn’t make the cut now doing this as revenge? I recommend everyone go to the latest on Tweed Valley Hospital Site at: http://www. tweedvalleyhospital.health. nsw.gov.au/WWW_Tweed/ media/TweedValey/180413_ FAQs-Tweed-Site-Selection_ FINAL.pdf. By the way, I bet the other landowners did not know approval was already in place for 30 house lots on the site. Marianne Melnikas Banora Point

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Articles/Opinion Mullumbimby starts the ‘Shedding’ movement Aslan Shand

There’s the Men’s Shed, there’s the Women’s Shed and now Mullumbimby is taking that one step further with the Shedding movement. ‘Shedding’? Yes. It is about creating a place for anyone who wants to tinker in a shed and it’s the brainchild of local carpenter and architect graduate Sophie Wilksch. ‘For me, as a woman – I love to tinker, but the Men’s Shed is not the place for me! For me it is about “shedding”, doing “shed-stuff ”, regardless of age or gender. ‘It is also about shedding our preconceived ideas as to who belongs in this space. It’s for those who share a passion for carpentry and building, and everything in between. Sophie has secured a workshop space at Mullumbimby Commons where she is

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bringing her idea to life. In fact Sophie was originally a student of Mullumbimby’s own Patt Gregory of Woodwork For Women fame who recently spoke on the Makers Panel at the Woodfestival held in Federal. ‘Sophie did my furniture-making

workshop and we became firm friends,’ said Patt. ‘Her enthusiasm is through the roof, she’s organised and is passionate about making these skills available to everyone. And I’m passionate about supporting her.’ Patt has already donated a bunch of tools and they are hoping others will donate tools, time and get involved. ‘For me, to share these skills that I have learnt brings me joy,’ said Sophie. Sophie has already started running children’s workshops. ‘I believe there’s a real need for Shedding. I aim to create an inclusive space, for our community to learn. Contact Sophie at shedding.communityworkshop@gmail.com or through her Facebook page. Q Read more on Echonetdaily

Byron Train – a view on viability of Byron Bay and childcare investments. The train is a not-for-profit company. It means the train is financially isolated from Elements, doesn’t pay income tax, and any profit made must go back into the train business. It could be employing locals and enriching Byron. Asking for volunteers means only one thing. The business is not financially viable. The train is a delightful ride through beautiful Byron. Like other trains, Puffing Billy and Zig Zag in Lithgow, it is there for tourism. It isn’t serious public transport. Serious transport would have seen it travel from at least Byron Hospital to Byron Bay with a station at Cavanbah Centre . Blanch’s bus service from Sunrise to Byron has low patronage. One morning the bus had one passenger but would no doubt pick up more on its way. The train had five passengers, with no stops before Byron town. The Byron Train’s claim that the train would reduce the traffic on Ewingsdale road, made without any surveys whatsoever, can safely be disputed. At a generous estimate, there is an average of three cars parked near the station during train opera-

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My jaw dropped in amazement when Byron Bay Train asked for volunteer train drivers and attendants. The requirements for these jobs were incredibly stringent. Train driver applicants needed availability for flexible work arrangements, to train others, to know all OH&S matters, do office work, maintenance work and many others. Volunteer Passenger Attendants needed just as much. An exceptional ask for volunteers. The owner of Byron Bay Railroad Company Ltd is ultimately Brian Flannery, who declared the train open on December 16, 2017.

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tions. Even if there were 20 cars parked there per hourly train trip [160 cars], this would have little effect on Ewingsdale Road’s 20,000 cars per day [RMS 2004]. In its second week of January 2018, Byron Train announced it had taken 10,000 passengers in 19 days. Assuming they didn’t include those riding free on the December 16, 2017 launch day, this works out to 32 passengers every trip. Go and watch the train’s. Thirty-two passengers is a rare occurrence. I have travelled on the train many times. I observe passenger movements at the stations. I have never seen the train full (100 passengers). I have heard staff voice concerns about low patronage. If I reasonably estimate 20 passengers per trip for the seven-day service, 2,640 per week, at $3 per pas-

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senger, I get $411,840 income for the year. A train driver, with enormous passenger responsibility, earns around $95,000 per year. Byron Train has at least two professional drivers – that’s half the income used. Maybe it’ll increase with the writers festival and other events. Or change the tickets to tourist prices, say $10 per trip, and then it’s $1.4M. With its call for volunteers, low patronage, non-reduction of traffic on Ewingsdale Road, its claims to be a solar train, will the train be running in 2019? Or will it seek a government handout to keep its ‘public transport’ operating?

Q Raphael Lee Cass is president of Sunrise Progress Association, who have objected to the solar train from its inception.

Coastal Zone Management Plan Byron Bay Embayment Eastern Precincts Have your say... Public Exhibition 26 April to 25 May 2018 The draft CZMP and Emergency Action Sub Plan (EASP) for the Eastern Precincts of the Byron Bay Embayment (from Cape Byron to Main Beach) is available for public comment at Council’s Administration Offices, Mullumbimby, between the hours of 8.30am and 4.30pm, Monday-Friday. The CZMP describes proposed actions to address priority management issues relating to: • managing risk to public safety and built assets • pressures on coastal ecosystems • community uses in the coastal zone. The EASP details Council’s actions before, during and after a coastal erosion emergency to minimise and manage risks to beach access, recreational amenity and public safety. Have your say: • View the draft CZMP and EASP online at www.yoursaybyronshire.com.au/czmpeastern-precincts-byron-bay-embayment • Make a submission by 25 May

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Who will pay for Queensland’s ‘Linc stink’? Mia Armitage

Poisoned land, workers told to drink milk to prevent burning their stomach linings, nearby farm pigs allegedly dying from the ‘Linc stink’ and a $23M clean-up bill. Former gas company Linc Energy is guilty on five counts of wilful and unlawful environmental harm, a Queensland District Court jury found in early April, but the case for farmers and taxpayers is far from over. At least one appeal, a separate criminal case hearing against former Linc directors and a possible class action against the Queensland government are still to come.

Guilty but free: corporate law saves Linc The company entered liquidation in May 2016, ten weeks after it was committed to stand trial, and was not required to defend itself in court. District Court judge Michael Shanahan said it was a ‘somewhat unusual criminal trial’ and entered a not guilty plea on Linc’s behalf. The court heard workers at the underground coal gasification (UCG) site in Hopeland, near Chinchilla, almost 300 kilometres west of Brisbane, were told to line their guts with milk and yoghurt to prevent acid burning, not to drink onsite tank water, and were given bottled water. A former Linc manager told the court he warned then CEO Peter Bond in 2007 the site should be shut down. The former Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage Protection (DEHP) issued an environment protection order (EPO) against Linc in May 2016, demanding the company keep ‘critical infrastructure onsite, conduct a site audit and undertake basic environmental monitoring’ – in other words, start cleaning up. But liquidators from PPB Advisory had by then disclaimed the site. Linc’s liquidators won a Supreme Court appeal against the DEHP in September 2017, freeing Linc from having to comply with the EPO. ‘Here in Queensland we’ve got grave problems… where companies fail to comply with the law and clean up and then, in far too many cases, go into liquidation and the public purse has to pay,’ Environmental Defenders Officer

Queensland CEO Jo Bragg told Bay FM reporter Dr John Jiggens in early April. But the QLD government persisted, working through new ‘chain of responsibility’ laws passed a week after Linc entered voluntary administration in April 2016. The laws allowed the government to chase a person ‘related to’ a company with an EPO. Online information from the Department of Environment and Science (DES), said the EPO required a person ‘to take steps to decommission most of the site’s dams and provide a bank guarantee of $5.5 million... The recipient of the EPO has appealed to the Planning and Environment Court’. Court documents showed former Linc CEO Peter Bond as the related person appealing the EPO, with the matter being adjourned until the Linc verdicts are taken.

Australian BRW rich list and bought Dunk Island in far north Queensland for a reported $10 million. Investment news website 4-traders.com listed Mr Bond as a director of more than 40 companies around the world at time of print, nearly half of them with Linc in the company name.

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Minister for Resources and Energy, Martin Ferguson (back) and Mr Peter Bond, CEO and founder of Linc Energy in 2011. AAP Image/Andrew Taylor.

absolutely nothing for the landholders in terms of the contamination on that site. [Cleanup] money will only be spent at the site.’

Qld govt takes No compensation ownership for neighbours A DES press release in Jan‘We call it the Linc stink,’ Hopeland resident Helen Bender told Bay FM reporter Dr John Jiggens in Feburary. ‘This odour would make you sick. It would knock you out.’ Ms Bender said her family’s farm was ‘six kilometres, as the crow flies’ from the former Linc mine. ‘We’ve suffered significant deaths within the piggeries in association with those odour events. The pigs would be gasping for air and they would basically just die of a heart attack, still-borns, pigs aborting.’ Her father, George Bender, famously fought mining companies including Linc for years and sought government action over suspected pollution before suiciding in October 2015. A family statement at the time said Mr Bender ‘did not suffer from depression or mental health issues… [he] died from a broken heart, at witnessing first hand the tragedy unfolding around him’. Ms Bender said her mother was the lead claimant in a possible class action against the Queensland government. ‘Not only did [the government] actually approve the mine, at the start they were actually joint venture partners to get the actual plant off the ground,’ Ms Bender said. ‘It didn’t even go through an environmental impact statement. The Queensland government is doing

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uary said, ‘contaminant gases were detected in soil in the Hopeland region’ in February 2015 but ‘recent testing… has shown a decline’. News of the environmental scandal broke when ABC reporters Mark Solomons and Mark Willacy uncovered a secret government report detailing an investigation by consultants Gilbert and Sutherland with help from University of Queensland scientists. The ABC also found ‘four departmental investigators were hospitalised with suspected gas poisoning during soil testing at the site’. The DEHP shared the Gilbert and Sutherland report with Linc but neighbouring landowners were denied access and told not to dig within two metres of a 320km2 excavation caution zone (ECZ). When Linc’s liquidators disclaimed the mine site more than a year later, the QLD government took ownership. ‘In February 2017, an investigation area was established after ongoing testing revealed contaminant gases in the soil at levels below two metres, outside the ECZ,’ the DES press release said. Separate DES information said, ‘The Department of Natural Resources and Mines and Energy (DNRME) now has responsibility.’ The ECZ was in effect for nearly three years until January this year.

Former environment minister Steven Miles told press the part-contamination of Queensland’s so-called food bowl on the Darling Downs was the biggest pollution event in the state’s history. Natural Resources and Mines minister Anthony Lynham announced a statewide UCG ban in April 2016. Criminal charges against five former Linc directors are due to be heard in Brisbane Magistrates Court in mid-July.

Bond: ‘No environmental damage’ ‘We manage everything in such a way that there is no environmental damage,’ Mr Bond told an ABC Landline reporter in April 2011. Setting fire to underground cracks in coal may have seemed new and exciting to investors and politicians at the time, with a report in The Australian a year earlier calling UCG the ‘next big thing’ in energy markets. A 2004 CSIRO report had found ‘no critical issues… likely to prevent’ UCG in Australia and in 2008 the country’s peak scientific research body awarded scientist Dr John Wright a business excellence medal ‘for technology transfer to support the commercial development of the underground coal gasification industry’. But 2006 slides from a joint CSIRO/Carbon Energy presentation list UCG groundwater impacts as ‘shortages for other users… eg agricultural’ and possible ‘high gas losses... contamination’. The presentation appears to have been prepared for an audience in Kolkata, India, with federal government

backing via the Asia Pacific Partnership Coal Mining Task Force.

Bond with Adani Lincs Gareth Hutchens interviewed Mr Bond about his business success for The Sydney Morning Herald in 2011. Mr Bond said he started by selling discarded coal to a brick factory in the 1980s, earning $17,000 in a month. ‘I went from a kid with $500 and a ute to being a millionaire by 26,’ he told Mr Hutchens. He took over Linc Energy in early 2005 before announcing the company’s partnership with US-based Syntroleum Corporation to start turning coal into liquid fuel at Linc’s Chinchilla plant. Mr Bond featured in Channel Nine’s Secret Millionaire in 2009, spending a week volunteering for charities in the Sydney suburb of Redfern, an experience he described as humbling. He launched his own TV production company two years later but Rough Diamond Media is yet to publicly release anything besides a trailer for Where It All Began, a reality show sharing inspirational struggle and success stories of other Australian multimillionaires. In 2010, Linc sold its Carmichael coal tenement in central Queensland to Adani for $500 million and royalties for the first twenty years of production, valued at around $2.4 billion. By 2011, Linc was reportedly worth more than $1.3 billion. That same year, Mr Bond’s personal wealth was estimated at more than $570 million; he was tenth on the annual

The DES press release said ‘testing continues to confirm that human health is not impacted and neither are local drinking water supplies, air quality or agricultural products’. ‘The Queensland Government will continue to offer farm health assessments for landholders across the region’. A DES spokeswoman said the department was unable to facilitate an interview request. Environment minister Leeanne Enoch said the Linc investigation was ‘the largest and most complex’ in the department’s history but did not respond to an interview request in time for print. Lock the Gate Alliance campaigner Drew Hutton spoke to Bay FM reporter Dr John Jiggens for Community Newsroom in 2015, with a prophetic warning on Linc’s Hopeland site: ‘In my view, it’s going to be a poisonous legacy for the people of Queensland and future governments are going to be faced with cleaning this mess up.’

QLD’s Greens MP Queensland’s first and only Greens MP Michael Berkman said there was ‘a long way to go in making Queensland’s environmental laws robust enough to actually protect [its] environment, community, and existing land uses, and to protect the state from liability when environmental vandals just walk away’. ‘The Linc story makes me angry about the state of our environmental approvals process. The damage that company has caused to the environment and the Chinchilla community is frankly disgusting.’ Mr Berkman said Queensland’s Palaszczuk government had introduced a new mining finance bill in 2018 that was ‘an important step in the right direction’ but didn’t go ‘far enough’, he told The Echo.

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heaters or fireplaces and never leave unattended. • If you use a clothes dryer make sure you clean the lint filter each and every time you use it. • Only use one appliance per power point and switch off when not in use. • Always extinguish candles or any other open flames before going to bed. • Always handle candles or any other open flame with care. • Store matches or lighters in a secure place not accessible to young children. • Avoid the use of outdoor heating and cooking equipment inside your home. The use of this type of equipment indoors could lead to the build up of carbon Monoxide which could be fatal.

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Timber and stone home on 2.8 acres. Its unique design with stained glass windows has real appeal, and sits comfortably on the fully fenced block. With sympathetic clearing already done, this family home is ready to move into. The sunken lounge with stone feature wall is sure to appeal through summer with its natural insulating properties, while giving the perfect place to spend winters with the warmth of an open fire. Outside, the block is fenced into two and has a barn come shed, which could be converted into a perfect art studio for the creative. There is a dam, fenced for safety, gardens, mixed fruit trees, mixed citrus, bird and wildlife abundant. The Hamlet of Woombah is located 10 minutes’ drive from the seaside village of Iluka, with world-class beaches. View: Saturday 21st April 10–10.30am Auction: Friday 4th May 12.30pm Yamba Bowling Club, Riverboat Room Contact: Angus Suttor 0436 006 717 LJ Hooker Maclean 6645 2222

Elevated and northeast facing with views to Mt. Chincogan and Hinterland is this immaculate house plus studio. The bright and airy home is in pristine condition featuring upstairs three bedrooms, one bathroom, open plan kitchen /dining /living area with decks to the north and east. Downstairs there is another shower and toilet, a sizeable storage / workshop space and a single garage. There is also a fully self-contained studio which feels very spacious with its high ceilings and clean lines and makes a great art studio / home office or be used as a rental. Perfect for the extended family or for the home owner who looks for that extra income. Located high up near the end of a cul-desac there is hardly any traffic. The land measures 863 m2 with beautiful established gardens. Call now or see me at the open house on Saturday. Open: Saturday 10.45–11.30am Contact: Ernst Mayr-Reisch 0428 842 387 ForSaleByAgent

Th is spacious home has recently been redecorated throughout and is ready to be moved into and enjoyed! The fully renovated kitchen has light stone-effect laminate bench-tops/work surfaces with 2-Pak white panel doors and is complemented with new appliances that include a dishwasher. The bathroom consists of a shower cabinet and vanity unit with a separate toilet and laundry. The home has two generously sized, carpeted bedrooms with mirror-door robes and ceiling fans. At the rear of the home is a fully fenced and low maintenance landscaped garden, making it an ideal home for your 4-legged companion. A carport adjoins the home that has been partitioned to provide a screened outside entertaining area and space for one vehicle.

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26 MOUNT WARNING RD, MOUNT WARNING NSW 2484 This property at the foothills of Mount Warning - the first point in Australia to catch the morning sun. This Oasis travels from the Bushland ridges down to its base on the Tweed River. Recognised Tourism Destination - Mt Warning. The property has untold water, wildlife and birdlife abound. For the first time in almost 30 years this piece of paradise is being offered for sale. A wonderful opportunity awaits for its new owner who can take this property to its next levelâ&#x20AC;Ś

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Elegant in style in the golden mile is this residence which has undertaken a major renovation by award winning builder Todd Knaus. Boasting panoramic views from the beaches enveloping Byron Bay through to Cape Byron lighthouse, Julian Rocks and the hinterland hills. This is one of the best parcels in the area, being a level 1.3 acre plateau with views, just minutes to Byron, private and quiet at the end of a no through road. Designed with family and entertaining in mind, this beautifully proportioned home is matched with a warm and welcoming mood. A stunning open plan living, dining and kitchen domain seamlessly connects to the covered wrap around deck. The lap pool edged with tiles from Turkey is 2.5m x 16m with a 3m x 3m spa, both pool and spa are heated by solar with electric pump boosters. Stringybark timber floors, high raked ceilings, ducted A/C, solar power and a gas fireplace add to the appeal. Saturday 9.30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10am Open: Contact: Tara Torkkola 0423 519 698 James Young 0419 856 840 Byron Bay First National

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On the market for the first time in 37 years is this serene & private 10 acre parcel with spectacular views, offering versatility & abundant potential, this truly is â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;a needle in the haystackâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;! Renovate or design & build your dream home on the ridge of this highly sought-after location less than 15 minutes to Byron & 8 minutes to Bangalow. Surrounded by lush rolling hills, this is the ultimate blank canvas. The existing modern (25 year old), immaculate 3 bedroom brick & Colorbond home & double garage are positioned on one of several perfect building sites taking advantage of the sensational views & breezes to the east & south. Vast rolling lawns bathed in northerly sunshine - make this the perfect getaway for weekends & holidays but with pockets of forest & established gardens alike, you will inevitably want to stay all year round. Open: By Appointment Contact: Mary Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connor 0418 462 849 Denzil Lloyd 0481 864 049 Bangalow Real Estate & Byron Hinterland Properties

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Property Open for Inspection BANGALOW REAL ESTATE • 399 Friday Hut Road, Possum Creek. Sun 11am–12pm ELDERS BANGALOW • 12 Thomas Street, Bangalow. Sat 10–10.30am • 15 Meadows Close, Bangalow. Sat 11–11.30am • 1 Corlis Crescent, Bangalow. Sat 12–12.30pm ELDERS BRUNSWICK HEADS • 14 Strand Avenue, New Brighton. Sat 12–12.30pm FIRST NATIONAL BYRON BAY • 13 Kalemajere Drive, Suffolk Park. Thu 12.30–1pm • 451 Coopers Shoot Road, Coopers Shoot. Thu 1–1.30pm • 31 New City Road, Mullumbimby. Thu 1–1.30pm • 5 Somerset Lane, Byron Bay. Thu 1–1.30pm • 43 Browning Street, Byron Bay. Thu 3–3.30pm • 30 Cedar Crescent, East Ballina. Thu 5–5.30pm • 2/6–8 Daniels Street, Byron Bay. Fri 11–11.30am • 1635–1651 Coolamon Scenic Drive, Mullumbimby. Fri 12–12.30pm • Lot 2/20 Azalea Street, Mullumbimby. Fri 1–1.30pm • 2/92 Rajah Road, Ocean Shores. Sat 9–9.30am • 5/37 Bottlebrush Crescent, Suffolk Park. Sat 9–9.30am • 43 Alcorn Street, Suffolk Park. Sat 9–9.30am • 55 Bay Vista Lane, Ewingsdale. Sat 9.30–10am • 68 Massinger Street, Byron Bay. Sat 10–10.30am • 106 Paterson Street, Byron Bay. Sat 10–10.30am • 30 Cedar Crescent, East Ballina. Sat 10–10.30am • 16 Dinjerra Place, Mullumbimby. Sat 10–10.30am • 2/43 Kingsley Street, Byron Bay. Sat 10–10.30am • 2/6–8 Daniels Street, Byron Bay. Sat 11–11.30am • 3/23 Poinciana Street, Mullumbimby. Sat 11–11.30am • 50 Cowper Street, Byron Bay. Sat 11–11.30am • 48 Ruskin Street, Byron Bay. Sat 11–11.30am • 451 Coopers Shoot Road, Coopers Shoot. Sat 11–11.30am • 21 Plantation Drive, Ewingsdale. Sat 11–11.30am • 123 Yankee Creek Road, Mullumbimby. Sat 11–11.30am • 45 Parrot Tree Place, Bangalow. Sat 12–12.30pm • 36 Beachcomber Drive, Byron Bay. Sat 12–12.30pm • 24 Grevillea Avenue, Mullumbimby. Sat 12–12.30pm

• 1980 Coolamon Scenic Drive, Mullumbimby. Sat 12–12.30pm • 13 Kalemajere Drive, Suffolk Park. Sat 12.30–1pm • 115 Bangalow Road, Byron Bay. Sat 1–1.30pm • 22 Palm-Lily Crescent, Bangalow. Sat 1–1.30pm • 31 New City Road, Mullumbimby. Sat 1–1.30pm • 853 Bangalow Road, Bangalow. Sat 2–2.30pm • 211 Old Byron Bay Road, Newrybar. Sat 2–2.30pm • 43 Browning Street, Byron Bay. Sat 3–3.30pm FORSALEBYAGENT • 16 Gardenia Ct, Mullumbimby. Sat 10.45–11.30am • 21 Palmer Ave, Ocean Shores. Sat 12.15–1pm KATRINA BEOHM REAL ESTATE • 27 Cemetery Road, Byron Bay. Sat 11.30am LJ HOOKER BRUNSWICK HEADS • 5 Bower Street, Brunswick Heads. Sat 11–11.30am • 25 Royal Avenue, South Golden Beach. Sat 11–11.30am • 2 Napelle Court, Ocean Shores. Sat 11–11.30am • 41 YallaKool Drive, Ocean Shores. Sat 12–12.30pm • 21 Orana Road, Ocean Shores. Sat 12–12.30pm • 39 Helen Street, South Golden Beach. Sat 12–12.30pm

New Listings BANGALOW REAL ESTATE • 132 Upper Wilsons Creek Rd, Upper Wilsons Creek. $1,250,000 ELDERS BANGALOW • 592 Booyong Road, Booyong ELDERS BRUNSWICK HEADS • 2B Bayside Way, Brunswick Heads FIRST NATIONAL BYRON BAY • 451 Coopers Shoot Rd, Coopers Shoot. Auction 19 May • 19a & 19b Gordon Street, Byron Bay • 31 New City Road, Mullumbimby. $797,000–$875,000 • 13 Kalemajere Drive, Suffolk Park. $1,650,000– $1,800,000 • 55 Bay Vista Lane, Ewingsdale McGRATH BYRON BAY • 12 Old Byron Bay Road, Newrybar RAINE & HORNE OCEAN SHORES • 10 Mayes Hill Road, North Tumbulgum • 54 Helen Street, South Golden Beach

McGRATH BYRON BAY • 33/12 Hazelwood Close, Suffolk Park. Sat 9.30–10am • 34/31 Hayters Drive, Suffolk Park. Sat 10–10.30am • 51 Prince Street, Mullumbimby. Sat 10–10.30am • 16 Left Bank Road, Mullumbimby. Sat 10.30–11am • 9 Coogera Circuit, Suffolk Park. Sat 11–11.30am • 231 Fowlers Lane, Bangalow. Sat 11–11.30am • 14 Hakea Crescent, Suffolk Park. Sat 12–12.30pm • 34 Yalla Kool Drive, Ocean Shores. Sat 1–1.30pm • 11/3 Pecan Court, Suffolk Park. Sat 2.30–3pm

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RAINE & HORNE OCEAN SHORES • 7 Rajah Road, Ocean Shores. Sat 9.30–10.30am • 4 Elfran Avenue, Pottsville Beach. Sat 11am–12pm • 29 Natan Court, Ocean Shores. Sat 11–11.30am • 4 Wahlooga Way, Ocean Shores. Sat 12.30–1pm • 11 Hardy Avenue, Ocean Shores. Sat 12.30–1pm • 25 Goonengerry Road, Goonengerry. Sat 12.30–1pm • 11 Pottsville Road, Mooball. Sat 1.30–2pm • 124 Balemo Drive, Ocean Shores. Sat 1.30–2.30pm

McGRATH BYRON BAY • 16 Left Bank Road Mullumbimby. Sat 28, 11am onsite • 11/3 Pecan Court Suffolk Park. Sat 28, 3pm onsite

FIRST NATIONAL BYRON BAY • 451 Coopers Shoot Road, Coopers Shoot. Auction 19 May If Not Sold Prior – No Price Guide KATRINA BEOHM REAL ESTATE • 62 Sunrise Boulevard, Byron Bay. Auction Sat 28 April 10am onsite • 27 Cemetery Road, Byron Bay. Sat 28 April. Open Home 11.30am

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The Good Life

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Byron Bay beer and cider festival By S Haslam More than 20 breweries will be in Byron for a really big day for craft beer and cider ‘enthusiasts’ this Saturday 5 May, as the very first Byron Craft Beer and Cider Festival takes place on the rolling lawns out the back of the Sun Bistro. More than 80 different craft beers and ciders will be available, along with the sort of food and entertainment that goes with beer, well more precisely (for any oldies expecting pies and Sky Racing) the sort of classy food trucks (gourmet popcorn, vegetarian and smokehouse barbecue) and upmarket familyfriendly entertainment that complements the modern craft beer and cider demographic.

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Not every craft beer enthusiast is a hipster, but if you to happen to have the right stuff (ie a beard) then Bronson Barber of Brunswick Heads will be bringing his chair and trimming beards at the festival, and might help shape yours into a winner of the inaugural Beard of Byron competition. Yes, there will be a prize at the end of the day for the ‘craftiest beard’ of the festival, and that’s not a typo. The whole festival is organised by a group of locals: Rob (who has a background in marketing) and his brother-in-law Paul (an ex-Macquarie exec and ‘wanna-be chief brewer who brews all his own beers’), both from Ocean Shores, other brother-in-law Johnnie, from Suffolk Park (‘an ex-creative from Saatchi’ who looks after the social media and logos), and another bloke from Dunoon, together with Julez, the manager of the craftbeer-friendly Sunrise Bistro bottleshop. Most of the breweries are bringing special brews, because the festival is for people who want to try something special that may not be available in their local bottleshop. ‘This is the place to come if you want to try something special,’ says Rob. ‘There is a lot of beer that is, in fact, unique to the festival, to show people beer that has not been tried before. This is about the “craft” side of craft beer, not the commercial side of craft beer.’

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Local brewer Stone & Wood said that they were really looking forward to the first craft beer and cider festival in the region. They will be offering all their usual beers, including Cloudcatcher that some may not have tasted, plus they will be serving special pilot batches such as the Prequel, which they call the ‘father of Pacific Ale, at 6.6 per cent and with heaps of Galaxy hops like a punched-up Pacific Ale’, as well as the Gatherer, a wheat beer with watermelon, mint and sour cherry flavours.

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Head Brewer Alastair with the Dragontail Ale

Byron Bay Brewery have a Dragontail Ale brewed in their brewery on Skinners Shoot Road, Byron. Alastair Gillespie, head brewer, teamed up with Jungle Juice from the Byron Bay Farmers Market to create a Berliner Weisse, a German wheat beer infused with dragonfruit, strawberry, passionfruit and lime. The result is a pinkish-coloured refreshing, sessionable beer, with mild tartness and tropical fruit undertones.

The technical details: With your ticket ($38) you will get a reusable cup and four free sampling tokens (you can buy more for $2.50 each at the event); you will be able to meet the brewers of the majority of breweries; and for those who really want to get the inside information, see the live brewing demonstration and experience the vibe. You can buy tickets through their website, or at the gate until it’s sold out.

‘It’s our first festival, and we’re really excited,’ says Rob. ‘The food and entertainment are local, and the majority of the brewers are local, and we also have the pick of the regional craft beers, but the event has attracted brewers from almost all the other states, so there’s a lot on offer.

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The Good Life

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Culture shift: Hotel Great Northern A real culture shift has occurred in the restaurant at the Hotel Great Northern. The iconic old pub, situated right in the middle of the most happening part of modern Jonson Street, is typical of NSW’s modern pub scene. While still essentially serving enough pub food and schooners to keep regulars happy, a Tetsuya-trained chef is putting much more thought into the ingredients and presentation of meals and there’s a definite trend towards providing the good but friendly service to bring in more customers. The recent renovations were a real hit with return travellers, and have created an easygoing space, with kid-friendly booths but with plenty for the adults that makes it easy to enjoy time in Byron. Love the exposed red brick with the plaster left in an irregular shape to add that allimportant credibility. In addition to the booths, there are proper tables for dinner, comfortable couches to kick back in, or you can sit in the window catching the sun in the late afternoon. There are a lot of different aspects to this venue. If you want to sit back and be waited upon with cocktails, wines and a threecourse meal there is a special Twilight Dining, which is three courses and a drink for $50, giving you the opportunity to try the entire menu. With the menu, it’s ‘simple, fresh quality food done really well’, says restaurant manager Hal Smith, whose team have created the culture shift at the pub. ‘We’d like people to feel free to

come and be waited on. This might be a change for longtime locals to receive this kind of service,’ he said.

depending on the crowd.

The menu has received a makeover, with the emphasis on provenance of food, making everything inhouse and changing the menu every 6–8 weeks, with chef Chris Hancock not afraid to vary the dishes to take advantage of the best local produce.

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What’s the vibe? ‘Sunny open pub dining in the day, classy dinner environment for dinner, then to almost like a nightclub after dinner,’ says Hal.

While the food still has the pub favourites such as burgers, it’s been taken up the notch that people expect. ‘We get a lot of “That’s the best burger I’ve had in years” comments,’ says Hal. One of the standout dishes is the crispy skin pork belly with smoked maple syrup and polenta. Another is the chargrilled kangaroo striploin with fig jam, wild rice, basil and rocket (pictured). ‘One of the benefits of having a relatively open kitchen is that people can just come up and give you feedback,’ says chef Chris Hancock. ‘I know something is a favourite as people keep telling me it’s great.’ Cocktails are also getting the ‘housemade’ treatment, with all the syrups and infusions for the rums and cocktails being made in the kitchen by the chef. When to go? The Friday and Saturday nights, right in the heart of Byron, are not unexpectedly the busiest time at the bar. Wednesday night there’s live local jazz. The kitchen Wednesday till Saturday, if it’s busy, will often be serving food until 10pm, and they’ll keep the bar open until 2 or 3am,

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

Level One Café Special Enjoy our Level One Brisket Beef Burger with a schooner of Iron Jack Lager for just $15 11am to 8pm daily. We practise the responsible service of alcohol.

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St Elmo Dining Room & Bar Mon-Sat: 5pm till late. Sun: 5pm till 10pm. Cnr Fletcher St and Lawson Lane, Byron Bay 6680 7426

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.

www.stelmodining.com

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

Finn Poke Restaurant 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

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_

Happy Chilli Garden

BYRON BAY

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

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 6 days - closed Sundays Byron St (opp Aldi) Byron Bay P 6680 9191 F 6676 4869 M 0403 516 793 happychilligarden@hotmail.com

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

The Italian Byron Bay 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

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No Bones

Targa Modern European Cafe • Restaurant • Bar 11 Marvell Street

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

Elixiba Open 12pm–Late Every day Shop 10, Feros Arcade 23 Jonson St 6685 6845

Fishheads

OPEN - Tuesday to Saturday evenings 7 days breakfast & Lunch All day menus, licensed bar APERITIVO happy hour AFTERNOONS 4–6pm daily $12 Cocktails, $7 beers, $8 wines, $12 Moet

BEACH FRONT DINING Fish & chips by Byron Main Beach Or indulge in our ULTIMATE SEAFOOD PLATTER 6685 6011

1 Jonson St, Byron Bay 6680 7632

functions@fishheadsbyron.com.au www.fishheadsbyron.com.au

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

11 Fletcher Street, Byron Bay

6680 7418 IG – @nobonesbyronbay

Main Street

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. Nachos & Beer or Kombucha $20 every Monday Promotions every Wednesday Dine in/Takeaway/Catering/Functions

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

Legend Pizza

Open 7 days from 5pm

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

Fins Salt Village, Kingscliff 6674 4833 dining@fins.com.au Dinner daily 5-10pm. Lunch Fri-Sun 12-3pm.

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

Success Thai Mon-Fri 12-3pm Dinner 7 days from 5pm. 3/109 Jonson St, Byron Bay 6680 7798 www.facebook.com/ pages/Success-ThaiFood/237359826303469

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

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

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

Hidden away in Byron’s iconic ‘Eat street’ Bay Lane, The Hideout Cafe and Bar offers indoor, outdoor and deck dining

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

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!

Relaxed dining by the beach. Food that celebrates local produce served with a healthy dose of good tunes and good vibes. All welcome. 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

Open 7 days M–F 9am–5pm, S,S 9am–3pm Dine in and takeaway Licensed FB/Insta: EmpireMullum 20 Burringbar St, Mullum 6684 2306

Mullum’s iconic Empire Cafe serves up an exciting menu with something for everyone. Indulge yourself with a delicious brekky, the best burgers in town, or if it’s more your style enjoy healthy superfoods like acai bowls and buddha bowls plus loads more. If you need a treat there’s a selection of cakes and also healthier dairy-free, refined sugar-free treats. The house-made organic coconut ice-cream is a must try. Plus of course, great coffee, delightful teas, shakes, smoothies and all the rest. Enjoy the good vibes and satisfy your cravings!

The Branches Coffee Roasters

Funky warehouse cafe + boutique coffee roastery nestled in Mullum’s Industrial Estate.

Unit 7, 9–11 Towers Drive Mullum Industrial Estate Mon–Fri 6.30am–3pm 6684 6167 www.thebranches.com.au @thebranches

- All day breakfast + lunch - Fresh roasted single origin, direct trade/organic coffees - Vegan friendly + healthy options - Kid + pet friendly - Good tunes + vibes baby! - Specialty teas, tonic herbs + smoothies

The Empire

NEWRYBAR 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 and Dinner 12noon–11pm daily Weekend Breakfast 8am–11am Newrybar NSW 2479 Harvest Deli is open daily with take-away pastries, sandwiches 02 6687 2644 and salads. Mon–Sat 8am–5pm / Sun 8am–4pm www.harvestnewrybar.com.au Coffee Cart 6.30am–2pm daily @harvestnewrybar Harvest is available for events, weddings and catering.

Harvest

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

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

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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

MULLUMBIMBY

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!

Slo-mo Joes

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Cocktails, wine and beers served all damn day. Group bookings available, please email mainstreetburgerbar@gmail.com for reservations.

LENNOX HEAD

A 5-minute drive from Byron Bay, Barrio eatery at Habitat brings together the local community Mon–Wed 7am–3pm; in a relaxed environment for all-day dining. Thur–Sat 7am–9pm Wood-fired oven, charcoal grill, veges, meat, fish, 1 Porter Street, salads and St Ali coffee. North Byron Eat in or take-away No reservations. Bookings www.barriobyronbay.com.au over 8 email: gather@ @barriobyronbay barriobyronbay.com.au

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

Gourmet burgers created by chefs

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Barrio Byron Bay

The Rocks @ Aquarius

We strive to always use the freshest organic local produce. Our al fresco cocktail bar sets the tone for our laidback yet elegant dining space. A perfect setting for a romantic dinner for two, friendly gatherings or special occasions.

KINGSCLIFF

Trattoria Basiloco Open 7 days for Dinner starting 5.30pm See menu, book a table, or order takeaway at www.basilo.co 30 Lawson St, Byron Bay 6680 8818

No Bones offers innovative plant based food and cocktails.

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CELEBRATIONS Celebrations Catering By Liz Jackson

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CELEBRATING CUL TURAL DIVERSITY I N OUR COMMUNITY, THE HARMONY FESTIVA L IS AN IMPORTANT EVENT THAT BRINGS COM MUNITY TOGETHER TO CEL EBRATE WITH FOO D, MUSIC AND DANCE. THE ECHO SPOKE WITH JUDIT H SHELLEY, THE NATIONAL CO ORDINATOR FOR A USTRALIAN INDONESIAN ARTS ALLIANCE, ABOUT THE HARMONY FESTIVAL, WHICH M OVES FROM BYRON TO MULLUMBIMBY TH IS YEAR. Why did the Harmony Festival move to Mullumbimby this year? What does Mullum have to offer to your event’s growth? (Ironically Spirit Festival just moved from Mullum to Byron and you’re doing the opposite!) There are so many reasons why Byron Harmony Day has decided to move to Mullum this year. The Byron Harmony Festival is the only public event celebrating multiculturalism in Byron Shire so after 11 years in Byron we felt it was time to share the love with one of our other major Byron communities – here in Mullum. Mullumbimby is also home to some of our most inspiring schools and community groups such as Shearwater and Mullumbimby High plus Mullumbimby Neighbourhood Centre and Rainbow Vegans, who are supporting Harmony Day this year. Byron Harmony Day is a FREE, non-profit, grassroots community festival compared with the majority of festivals taking place around Byron, which are privately owned, therefore we are free to relocate according to our philosophy of sharing. In this case we have always loved the spiritual atmosphere and vibe at Mullum Civic Hall, one of the most beloved venues of Byron Shire… and with Byron Spirit Fest moving to Byron it left an empty space we decided to fill in order to enjoy the beautiful relaxing energy that is generated in the lovely gardens there and to share the Byron Harmony love and amazing multicultural feel that is always created when we bring 150 ethnic and cultural artists to share their cultures with the community. The street life and atmosphere in Mullumbimby is community and local compared to Byron which is overwhelmed with tourism – leaving us residents in the minority. We don’t have a ‘business plan’ or ‘growth plan’ as we just want to create harmony and celebrate multiculturalism wherever we can; it was an intuitive decision more than anything and time for a refreshing change! What is the guiding philosophy for Harmony Festival? Equality and Sharing. Harmony Day is the national day for celebrating multiculturalism across Australia. Harmony Day is officially held on the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and is celebrated in communities, schools and workplaces across Australia, often presented by local councils or migrant services. Here in Byron Shire we noticed that there was no celebration of Harmony Day

so we decided it was an event that really had to take place, and 12 years later we are still going. The policy of multiculturalism celebrates and recognises the value of cultural diversity and we feel it’s really important to stay strong in support of equality and anti-discrimination for all people everywhere. How has the event grown? Our event has grown along with the natural growth of our multicultural community, gradually expanding to include new ethnic communities. Many people are aware of new residents arriving in Byron area and have noticed the Japanese community, Brazilian, Israeli, Thai and Filipino communities growing in numbers. So this year we have even more beautiful, traditional cultural performances from Japan, Thailand and Brazil than ever before. There has been a great flow-on effect from Harmony Day, which inspired the creation of the Byron Wagakki Band last year. From there the Japanese community went on to create the first ever fabulous Japan Festival, which was held in November 2017, and from there we have been blessed to have many new Japanese performers joining in for Harmony Day 2018 with eight new Japanese groups joining our program for the day – especially the beautiful Sakura dance group in full traditional costume and makeup, Kizuna Taiko Group and Wadaiko Sho coming all the way from the Gold Coast. Also don’t miss the exciting Brazilian women’s drumming group Meninas da Lua as well as Abada Capoeira and Brazilian DJ set. What kind of engagement have you seen from the community? Local Mullumbimby community groups and schools have been great in coming onboard to help us launch our first event in Mullum. For example the Rainbow Vegans are sponsoring us as well as holding an animal rights-awareness stall, Mullumbimby Neighbourhood Centre is providing the courtyard space, and The Hub will be set up as a green room for the performers. St Vincent De Paul and Anglicare migrant workers will be sponsoring the event and also present the info stall on the day to promote their services. The Japanese community has been a fantastic help in bringing lots of performances, stalls, food and activities, and the Thai community are bringing adult and children’s dance groups all the way from the Gold Coast.

Why do you think the Harmony Festival is important? I remember one day I was visiting the Sydney art gallery and there were a few men on soapboxes in the Domain – one was promoting an end to sexual-harassment law – so I stopped by to destroy his arguments, then the next bloke was handing out leaflets and promoting racist political groups such as Reclaim Australia and One Nation. So I stopped by to have a chat with him, and asked him, ‘Why are you promoting racist groups? Are you a racist?’ He told me he is from the southern suburbs and he was upset about the Chinese community ‘taking over Hurstville’. So I said, ‘Actually I am originally from Hurstville area and Hurstville shops were my local shops. I really like it that it’s like Chinatown there now because I really like being able to buy some of my favourite foods locally.’ I chatted for a while then finally mentioned nonchalantly, ‘And also by the way my daughter is part Chinese… ’ his jaw dropped to the floor: ‘Really… is she really Chinese?’ ‘Yes she really is Chinese!’ Children are the most vulnerable members of society and the most frequent victims of bullying including racism; unconscious bias, subtle or not-so-subtle racism has devastating long-term effects. Even just going to school feeling different, being the only Asian kid in class, is hard to cope with on a daily basis. There is no doubt that in recent years racism has been growing in Australia and white supremacy is sitting in seats of power here in Australia and elsewhere. It’s up to every person who cares about equality to stand up against the influence of racism and support multicultural activities such as Harmony Day. This year we will again support Asylum Seeker Awareness by holding fundraising for refugees and speakers such as Gunela Astbrink from

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Ballina Region for Refugees. Local social issues such as West Byron will also be on the program with speakers such as Cate Coorey and the West Byron Song from the Byron Lighthouse Band. What should we expect from this year’s event? Lots of fun – a really amazing day of brilliant colourful music and dance! This year the program for Harmony Day will be bigger and more exciting than ever with many performing groups arriving in Mullum who have never performed with us before – such as Kizuna Taiko Drum group from the Gold Coast, Sakura Japanese dancers, stunning Thai dancers, new group Byron Lighthouse Band, an exciting new Mullum group called Mullum Folk, as well as our incredible bellydance groups Veil of Dreams and Spirit Belly Dance, and some of our usual highlights El Bari Flamenco, Gabriel Otu and Bollywood Sisters. This year for the first time we will be focusing on creating a multicultural market with all kinds of handcrafts, food trucks, clothes, healing sanctuary featuring Japanese Shiatsu and Thai massage plus new activities such as spinning, calligraphy and Aboriginal activities, plus raffles and silent auction. Many local community groups will be sharing on the day such as the Rainbow Vegans with free cakes and snacks, refugee fundraising stall and more! Byron Harmony Day will be a great event to top off school-holiday fun for the kids throughout the day with Aboriginal activities, spinning, drumming, dancing, face painting, juggling, crafts and heaps of kids’ groups onstage! This event is supported by Byron Shire Council to be waste free so please bring your plates and cups and washing-up station will be available! For more info or stall booking phone Judy 0405 463 663. Saturday at the Mullumbimby Civic Hall | 11am – 9pm

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SLEEP WITH ME Most nights I sleep around. Not how I used to in my twenties; these days when I sleep around it’s just me bed hopping around the house. I don’t remember the last time I went to sleep and woke up the next day and it was morning. That would have happened well over two decades ago. But not any more. I never appreciated how truly delicious going to bed and waking up was. I call it sleep porn. I constantly fantasise about it but I don’t believe it’s ever going to happen. No matter how well intentioned I am, how focused, I can’t achieve sleep. And I don’t even have babies any more. I remember thinking that when my babies grew up I’d sleep again. I didn’t know this torture would continue for the rest of my adult life. I remember in my twenties reading magazines full of women complaining they couldn’t achieve orgasm. That’s easy. I can achieve orgasm. I can put on the kettle, crack out a multiple and still have time to make a cup of tea. What I can’t achieve is one solid good night’s sleep without waking up a trillion times, having to put the cat out, or let the cat in, responding to a 2am text from one of my kids, or just lying there staring at the ceiling panicking about how tired I am going to be in the morning. That always seems futile.

TWO DUOS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE! Local girls Hussy Hicks are teaming up with UK duo Z-Star Delta for a night of ‘unplugged’ blues and roots at the Mullum Drill Hall this Saturday. After a solid three months of national touring for both bands, this will be the final Australian date for Z-Star Delta and, after two legendary Bluesfest full band sets, an opportunity to get up close and personal with Julz and Leesa and Tracy as they play a stripped-back set of acoustic tunes. Bookings are essential as tickets are limited, so head over to the www.hussyhicks.com tour page to secure your seat. Mullum Drill Hall on Saturday with doors open at 7pm. $25 presale / $35 on door if available | Tickets at: www.trybooking.com/book/event?eid=352702&

LOUNGE UKE This month the UKE NIGHT theme is Lounge – swingin’ 50s and 60s hits, smooth bossanova with the occasional psychedelic trip-out. With Steve Russell on keys, Jaime Pattgalin on drums and Kate Gittins on wind instruments, this will be another amazing evening of great music and good ol’ fun Thursday at Club Mullum from 6.30pm. Don’t be square, be Hep Cat!

MAMA AT MIDNIGHT Mama Kin Spender is a lightning-bolt moment between two longtime friends, co-writers and mischief-makers: ARIAnominated Mama Kin and producer Tommy Spender. It’s a stripped-back duo of brooding guitars, primal drums and howling harmonies, illuminated by a chorus of singers arranged by Virginia Bott (Brighter Later, First Chorus Band of Singers). Mama Kin Spender’s songs rattle, roll and tremble, from block party to heart-rending ballad. With a sound that is as raw as it is joyful, Mama Kin Spender will challenge you to raise your voice in defiance of the status quo. Join them as they celebrate the release of their debut album Golden Magnetic with Mullumbimby’s own Mullumbimby Midnight Choir. Watch this space next week for a full interview with Mama Kin! Get tickets now. This show will pack it! Wednesday 9 May at 8pm. Mullumbimby Civic Hall. Tix and info at redsquaremusic.com.au.

Rationally you know the time spent panicking about fatigue could be better spent actually sleeping. But it’s hard to sleep when you’re freaking out. Or even when you’re not freaking out – when you’re awake because your stupid brain won’t stop firing. Last night was typical. I go to bed at 10. That’s reasonable. My phone is always beside my bed because I have adult children who call at odd times. My 17-year-old son is in Byron on his first night of work. I drift off. The phone buzzes. It’s a text from Charlie telling me they’ve been busy and he’s going to be later so he’ll text me when he leaves. I fall asleep again; half an hour later my good son tells me he’s on his way. Now I just drift, because I’m anticipating his car pulling up. There’s an undercurrent of constant anxiety when you have young people on the road. But I must have fallen asleep while waiting because next thing I know there’s a 6-foot-4 bloke standing at the end of my bed whispering ‘Mum I’m home’. I get up walk out into the kitchen give him a hug and ask about his night. Then I trail back to bed. It’s after 11. Let’s remember I went to bed at 10, a pretty reasonable time. I have another crack at going to sleep, but this time I feel a bit queasy. I’ve made a Mediterranean lamb salad for dinner and the fat in the lamb makes me feel a bit gross. I get up and have some water. Then I go back to bed. I’m restless now. I can feel the tension in my neck and shoulders making it impossible to find a comfortable position. I start thinking of everything I have to do tomorrow. It makes the queasy feeling worse. Anxiety and lamb are a potent mix, so I get up and heat up a wheat pack. It’s midnight now and I’m standing there basking in the dull glow of the microwave as it whirls for two-and-a-half minutes. I take my wheat pack back to bed and place it on my shoulders. I fall asleep but I should never sleep on my back because since I broke my nose and can’t breathe out one side, I snore. My husband wakes me: ‘You’re snoring’. I roll over. I pick up my phone and check the time. It’s 1.35. I shuffle around and go back to sleep. Then there’s someone else in the room. It’s Ivy. She’s had another bad dream. She appears like a ghostly apparition beckoning me. ‘Mum can you sleep with me till I fall asleep?’ Sure. I grab my phone and go to Ivy’s room. I crawl into bed with her. On the way I check the phone. It’s 2.15. Shit. I leave my luxurious king-size bed to crawl in with Ivy. I’ve got Toby the velveteen dog under my arse and a giraffe in striped PJs staring at me with what feels like malice. I fall asleep despite the giraffe psyching me out. I wake up around 3.30 with no bedcovers and think about going back to my bed but I don’t have the energy. I peg the creepy giraffe at the door. I pass out. I awake to the dog barking. There’s a hot air balloon in the neighbourhood and he’s intent on bringing it down. I don’t get up for this. I pretend not to hear it, so John can deal with it. After all he’s had the nice long sleep in the king-size bed: Alone! I fall asleep. Then there’s a crash. It’s about 5.45am and Ivy is up looking for her camera. She puts the light on. I groan and beg her to look for it later. I have my alarm set for 6am because I know I have to write this and send it off by eight. The alarm goes off. I hit snooze. It goes off again. I hit snooze again. I have this tag team of 7-minute microsleeps until finally at 6.30 I struggle out into the light. The army have used this technique for years to break people during interrogation. They don’t need Guantanamo Bay. They should just send people to my house. Their spirit will be broken in a week.

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BELLO IS THE CARTY PARTY! Following the announcement of another stellar lineup, Bello Winter Music organisers have again named Bellingen-bred and nationally renowned singer/ songwriter Jack Carty as the official patron of the unique little festival that takes over his hometown. ‘I’m so excited to be a part of Bello Winter Music as patron for the second year! One of my favourite festivals in the world, in my favourite town,’ said Carty. Musically is has been another huge year for Jack, fresh from a massive run of UK and Australian album launch shows. Awardwinning songwriter Jack Carty and former Papa vs Pretty bassist Gus Gardiner will bring their brandnew album Hospital Hill to Bello Winter Music in 2018. Hospital Hill has been described as a coming together of poetry and playfulness via two of Australia’s most exciting young composers, living on opposite sides of the world. As festival patron, Jack will again have an unmissable presence, per forming throughout the four days of music, workshops and street performance that surprises and delights and unites thousands of attendees each winter. Festival director Glenn Wright recalls the moment he chose Jack as festival patron. ‘Jack Carty is a rare artist, more like a painter in some ways than a songwriter. His music is everything it should be but there is more, and there is a sense of depth that comes from an artist rather than a technician. It was the second year of the festival and I was starting to think about who would be a fitting choice for the Patron role. I was looking for somebody who represented us and what we were trying to achieve through Bello Winter Music. I was in the Diggers

Tavern and Jack was across the bar drinking with some locals. He was laughing and he just screamed out as a local-made good bloke, back on his home turf. We had a beer and chat and I knew he would be the perfect choice for Bello. He’s got Bellingen in his boots, and that’s why I like him.’ When asked about Bello Winter Music, Carty reflects, ‘… having grown up in a small town before moving to the city and diving headlong into a world of independent artists, the two constants in my life so far have been music and community. They coexist in a perpetual cycle, each informing and fostering growth in the other. I can’t think of a better expression of that than Bello Winter Music – a collaboration with, and celebration of, the community I still call home today.’ With another album under his belt, Jack can surely look upon his young career with pride. His album Home State was independently released in Australia in August 2016

and debuted at #36 on the ARIA Albums Chart and #1 on the AIR %100 Independent Album Chart. His talent for melody, wit and a gorgeous turn of phrase won him a muchcoveted biannual APRA Professional Development Award, saw him play Spain’s famous Primavera Sound Festival and tour nationally with Josh Pyke. Jack Carty will perform on opening night as well as Saturday and Sunday with Gus Gardener and Friday with Satellite Strings. Bello Winter Music (12–15 July) is a small, family-friendly event that takes over the streets, cafes and halls of the NSW mid-north coast town of Bellingen. Bello Winter Music is the lovechild of spring’s Mullum Music Festival and has sold out each year, so book early. Tickets and camping information are available now at bellowintermusic.com.

GET YOUR TROPICAL BRAZILIAN! After a slight absence from the Bay area, Zambabem return to take you on a free musical ride to Brazil, with a night of samba rock and tropical surf music! They’ve performed on stages all over for the February Carnival celebrations, Zambabem, and this Saturday will bring their well-rehearsed Brazilian party flavours to Byron Bay Brewery beergarden. Pronounced ‘zamba-beng’, the group plays upbeat popular Brazilian music from their homeland. The samba/ swing/surf group is led by energetic and engaging frontman Rodrigo Ferraz on vocals, guitar and harmonica. Get ready to jump, party and swing as you are taken to the dancefloors of São Paulo’s downtown dance halls. April 28 | 7pm | Free entry.

Although regarded as Australia’s finest guitar duo performing much of the instrument’s standard classical repertoire, the Grigoryan Brothers’ passion is to expand their horizons through new arrangements, their own compositions and commissions. This ambition can be heard as the brothers take the classical guitar into genres such as jazz, folk and contemporary music. There are no boundaries, only new frontiers to cross. In concert, mix it all together and you have a dimension to guitar-playing rarely seen in the musical world. For this performance The Grigoryan Brothers will be performing works from their latest release, which sees a return to classical repertoire. The album will include songs by composers such as Bach, Elgar, Dvořák, Rachmaninoff, Faure, De Falla and Ponce all masterfully arranged for them by their father Edward. This familial collaboration is not new, with Grigoryan senior arranging the music of Tchaikovsky’s suite for piano, The Seasons, for his sons’ critically acclaimed 2012 release. The program will also include other works highlighting Slava’s and Leonard’s diverse skills: their deep appreciation of a broad spectrum of musical styles has resulted in many collaborations involving music, both written and improvised. Combine this with their classical training and the result is a unique sound incorporating all these influences. It is not classical, not jazz, not world music; it is the Grigoryan Brothers. Saturday at the Byron Community Centre. Tix at byroncentre.com.au.

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FEELING GHOST MODERN Ghost Modern is an exhibition of recent works by locals artists, sculptor Hayden Mathrick and painter Jake Jaquiss. The exhibition features moody pieces made with dark contemplation and organic inspiration. The exhibition opens on Friday at 6pm and runs through until 10pm. Also open on Saturday from 10am till 2pm at 45 Argyle Street, Mullumbimby. All are welcome!

ARTISTS OPEN THEIR STUDIOS A group of local artists of different genres are opening their own working studios to the public so that people can discover and experience the diversity of an artist’s craft and work. The inaugural Open Studios – Ballina, Byron & Beyond will be held over two weekends, Saturday 5 May, Sunday 6 May, Saturday 12 May and Sunday 13 May. Coordinator Paul Button says, ‘The sixteen working studios are generally located in the Ballina, Byron and Lismore local council areas

ENTERTAINMENT and include a fascinating spectrum of arts such as painting, drawing, ceramics, pottery, metal sculptures, wood-carving, etching, jewellery, textiles, printmaking, mixed media, mosaics and other visual arts practices.’ Learn more about the creative and production process, discover original creations or sign up to a workshop. Where feasible, the public may be offered the opportunity to try their hand at the production process, or experience demonstrations or talks by the artists to discover what’s involved in being a visual artist. ‘It is also an excellent opportunity to buy a painting or piece of art direct from the artist,’ Paul says. ‘With Mothers Day on 13 May, why not buy something special for her or better still take Mum for a drive in our beautiful area to experience it herself.’ Supported by the sponsorship of McGrath Real Estate in Ballina/Byron, the intention of the event is to welcome the public into the many studios across our region. This area is rich with artistic talent with emerging, established and award-winning and internationally collected artists. The Open Studio hopes to raise public awareness of our region’s outstanding artistry and craftsmanship and to introduce more locals and visitors to the artistic diversity of the region. A brochure on the artists with a map of the open studios is available at the Tourist Information Offices in Ballina, Byron Bay and Lismore, Art Aspects and Serpentine Gallery in Lismore, Artisans Gallery in Ballina, McGrath offices in Ballina and Byron Bay, and Macadamia Castle at Knockrow. Details are also available on Facebook: Open Studios – Ballina, Byron & Beyond.

WRITERS IN THE STREAM Sydney Writers Festival brings the world’s finest authors and esteemed thinkers to Byron Bay in real time through the Live & Local project. Streamed LIVE and delivered locally by Byron Writers Festival, Live & Local promises an afternoon of new ideas, debate and enthralling discussion. Held on Saturday 5 May at the SAE Theatre, Session One kicks off at 11.30am and will see foreign correspondent Peter Greste discuss his novel The First Casualty with Hugh Riminton.

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING PRUDENT Lyall Brooks has received three Green Room award nominations for his performances. In A Prudent Man he takes on a challenging role as a political psychopath; it’s a oneman-show that drills down into the very marrow of the man, artistic director of Lab Kelpie, a production company dedicated to performing work by new Australian playwrights. A Prudent Man promises to be something special. Lyall, what drew you to a career in the performing arts? As a boy I always wanted to be a performer, but never pursued it formally because I never considered it a viable career choice. (It’s amazing how influential those wellmeaning, responsible adults’ voices can be in souring dreams in a kid!) After working in ‘real jobs’ for a couple of years, I threw it all in and plunged into performing. I completed a full-time dance course (I’d never danced before!) and then just went from gig to gig, from dancing to acting to singing to voiceovers to whatever came my way, until I realised that’s actually

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what a ‘career’ in the performing arts looks like. And I couldn’t be happier. There’s something about being involved in the artistic exploration of what it means to… be human, I guess, and simultaneously sharing that with others, engaging people to do the same. Every single person has a role in the arts, and it’s a special delight when you see people discover that fact for themselves. Was there a particular event that caused the idea for A Prudent Man to crystallise?

Definitely for the playwright, Katy Warner. It was one particular family dinner back home in Perth, during which opinions and barbs from both ends of the table (and the political spectrum) were thrown, many tears were shed… and politics was forevermore banned from the Warner family dinner table. Tell me about how the concept evolved? After that barney, Katy asked herself how two intelligent and otherwise close (in this case related) people can have such strong, seemingly incompatible opinions… and

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Greste spent two decades reporting from the frontline in the world’s most dangerous countries before making headlines himself following his incarceration in an Egyptian prison. Session Two at 1.30pm invites four of the festival’s brightest minds – Masha Gessen, Alexis Okeowo, Mohammed Al Samawi and Sarah Krasnostein – to examine our evolving relationship with power. Entry to both sessions is FREE for Byron Writers Festival members or $10 for non-members. Tickets available through Byron Writers Festival |6685 5115 | www.byronwritersfestival.com/whats-on.

SATURDAY PICNIC WITH THE SCOUTS An exciting Saturday afternoon awaits families coming to Brunswick Heads this weekend. This Saturday Brunswick Heads Scouts are hosting a free, family-friendly and community event Friends for Life at the Terrace Reserve over 11am–4pm. Event coordinator Sean Tonnet, a local relationship therapist, is a parent volunteer with Brunswick Heads Scouts and talked to The Echo about the fundraiser. ‘Friends For Life is the theme of next year’s Australian Jamboree (January 2019), and I think epitomises the significance of Brunswick Scouts in our community. It’s a place for young people to celebrate diversity, culture and most of all friendship.’ Tonnet believes scouts still hold important opportunities for our children. ‘They are learning a lifespan of skills and camaraderie. For most scouts the attendance at the jamboree is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and a highlight of their scouting experience.’ Families are encourage to bring a picnic lunch or enjoy the fabulous treats, meals and shopping from our local business sponsors positioned across the road from the event site.

both utterly believe they, and only they, are right. So she set about devouring all the information she could to try to understand – memoirs, speeches, policies, interviews, things she never thought she would read (and never wants to again) – and created a character that held all these things to be true: a character who inadvertently comes face-to-face with the consequences of those beliefs. She wrote the role for me, which felt like such an honour until I realised it’s just because I play a good bastard! Did you self-censor in the fear of increased attention from ASIO or the FBI? Hahaha! I hope the character’s identity is ambiguous enough to avoid undue scrutiny! Is there a moral to the story? What I (and audiences) love about Katy’s writing is that although she asks herself strong, intriguing questions and leaves no stone unturned in her pursuit, she doesn’t come up with any neat answers. She’s wonderfully, refreshingly undidactic. People more often than not leave the theatre fighting amongst themselves about what they have seen and heard, what it all means, and how their feelings about our country, our elected leaders and, more

Snow White, a fairytale loved by both the young wand old, will spring to life in a full-length ballet spectacular at the Byron Theatre on 4 and 5 May. The Victorian State Ballet Company will be returning after their recent successful visit to Byron of Beauty and the Beast, which delighted local audiences. Yvonne Hall, the director of Byron Ballet, is currently auditioning some young ballet dancers for a role in the upcoming Snow White. ‘We are looking for dancers between approx 10 and 12 years to perform in a court dance at the king and queen’s wedding. ‘Two lucky students will also get to perform a solo as the young Snow White!’ said Yvonne Hall. With a cast of internationally recognised artists and enchanting choreography by Michelle Sierra, this performance promises to be a ballet treat for all. The lead role of Snow White will be performed by the well-known Robyn Begg, who is also training for the lead role of Sleeping Beauty in the Australian Ballet’s Storytime tour. ‘The Victorian State Ballet company is renowned for its artistry and excellent ballet technique and gives many up-and-coming young performers wonderful opportunities.’ To find out more about the opportunities for young dancers, email Yvonne at byronballet@gmail.com and for tickets to Snow White go to byroncentre.com.au.

BRUNS BUBS’ CLUB The Brunswick Picture House is keen to make itself an asset to the local community – and it’s certainly doing just that with a Bubs’ Club. This is a Saturday morning screening of a classic kids film and The Big Picture House Storytelling with big pictures up on the screen as the authors read. This Saturday you can drop the kids inside and enjoy a coffee at the Ballyhoo Kiosk with The Wizard of Oz onscreen! A classic film in the vintage surrounds. Saturday from 9.30am. Bus Clubbers can enjoy The Graduate on Wednesday at 11am for just $15 – and the buses are free! (To watch the film that is!) For more info go to brunswickpicturehouse.com.

widely, our place as citizens of the world have been challenged and changed. How do people relate to your character? What dimensions did you want to show? Is he relatable? Is he a monster? I absolutely love playing despicable characters; finding their charm, fleshing out their realness, making them sympathetic and recognisable. I want to make this ‘Man’ (he has no name in the play) both such a monster and so relatable that people feel really disconcerted at his almost mundane normality. I want them to feel unnerved – maybe a little frightened of themselves. What should we expect for your performance in Lismore? A tight, darkly comedic political thriller that will make you leave the theatre inspired and thinking and talking and maybe even arguing with your friends. I can’t stand theatre where you walk away with eyes half-glazed and saying, ‘That was nice, where should we go for coffee?’ because what’s the point?! Thursday–Saturday, 3–6 May at The Studio, NORPA at Lismore City Hall | $25/$36 | Bookings norpa.org.au or call 1300 066 772.

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ENTERTAINMENT GLOVER AND SORRENSEN AT COUNTRY CLUB COMEDY Alan Glover has been cracking ’em up throughout Australia since 1983. With a almost 35 years’ experience delivering gag at gigs he’s grown standup comedy routines that are at times personal, at others ridiculous, but always engaging and funny. His subject matter can range from the forests of Australia to the jungle of Canberra and into the rocking chair on his expansive veranda in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales. Internationally, Alan’s honest Australian-ness has given foreign

audiences a very funny and educational experience. He’s performed many times in Singapore, Canada, the USA, Ireland, the Netherlands and New Zealand, and at the beginning of this century he spent a year in London, the busy comedy hub of the UK. These days Alan is a regular on the folk festival circuit where he performs with his comedy buddy S Sorrensen, the two creating a kind of hippy version of the two old blokes in the stalls in the muppet show. He’s smack bang in comedian, poet

and writer S Sorrensen’s backyard so it seemed only fitting that S should join his mate Alan as support at Country Club Comedy at the Ocean Shores Country Club as MC. MC Mandy Nolan is away on a book tour this month and so she carefully handpicked a comedian who knows how to work the crowd. S lives nestled in the hills of Nimbin and when he’s not chilling out in his sarong he’s onstage or overseas. Sorensen and Glover are joined by Matt Ford as support. At the age of 24 Matt has been performing

standup comedy since he was a teenager after winning the 2010 National Class Clown Competition in his last year of high school, and has since appeared regularly at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Brisbane Comedy Festival, and Adelaide Fringe. Since 2016 Matt has toured with the Aboriginal Comedy Allstars performing sold-out shows nationwide and appeared on ABC, NITV and SBS. Country Club Comedy: fast getting a reputation for a cracking good night! | Tuesday at Ocean Shores Country Club | 7pm. Free.

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HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED ‘WHO MADE MY CLOTHES?’ SOCIAL ENTERPRISE FASHION REVOLUTION HAS JOINED FORCES WITH LOCAL BUSINESSES BAY ACTIVE, GREEN SQUARE APPAREL, AND THE SHIRE SEAMSTRESS TO HOST THEIR ANNUAL EVENT AT THE BREWERY THIS FRIDAY. ALONGSIDE ANNETTE DUFFIELD FROM GREEN SQUARE APPAREL AND SATISHA YOUNG FROM THE SHIRE SEAMSTRESS, HELEN O’CARROLL FROM BAY ACTIVE IS ONE OF THE ORGANISERS WHO IS EXTREMELY PASSIONATE ABOUT MAKING ETHICAL FASHION. Helen, as a designer yourself what turned you on to being conscious about environmental issues to do with clothing production? How is that reflected in your clothing line? The shift started for me when I had retail stores. We were selling iconic Australian brands and our own brand, so knew the realities of costs associated with production. With the advent of fast fashion about 15 years ago, I started buying cheaper brands for the store thinking we were all winning. Prices actually went way down with the ‘quick to market’ products, but I realised over time we were not winning for the right reasons. For example, simple maths tells you that it’s just simply not possible to sell a pair of jeans for $49 unless they’re made in conditions of slavery. The fast-fashion model relies on the continual movement of bulk, cheap product made to impossible deadlines. The quality of these fast-fashion brands is marginal, and therefore they fall apart very quickly. We’re losing the skills or motivation to mend, so we throw it away and go out and buy more. When we ‘throw it away’ the ‘away’ bit is the earth! Was it hard to create ethical fashion? Yes but not prohibitively. Because we had made the commitment to be 100 per cent transparent, we needed to make sure we had all of the information from field to finished product so that was a lot of research and development. The factories we work with are externally audited and certified. Finding GOTS (Global Organic Textile Standard) certified organic cotton with the touch I wanted was tricky but organic was not negotiable. Fashion is not the easiest industry but it’s what I’ve always done, so

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jumping through hoops is sort of second nature to me. There is a shift back to production onshore; we do all of our sampling here in Byron, pre-production in Sydney, and have produced our bulk in Fiji in the past but have been working with a great team in Sydney, so our next collection will be done onshore. We’re also currently sampling in a factory in Cambodia with women from extremely marginalised backgrounds. These are the areas of the industry we are interested in partnering with, where we can drive change via our product. The ultimate satisfaction for us is that it’s not just the end user who benefits from our collections, but everyone in the supply chain. Can individuals make a difference? How do we create real change? The only way things will change is if we start asking our brands ‘Who made my clothes?’ Support apps such as Good on You that audit and offer transparent information on brands and their supply chains. Support Fashion Revolution and Baptist World Aid for the tireless work they do. We need to be prepared to buy less but pay more so the makers are not squeezed to impossible deadlines for a pittance. Australians are now dumping 25–30kg of textiles per person every year. So as a country, that’s 500,000 tonnes every year, 400 per cent more than at this time about a decade ago. Bearing in mind that most of fast fashion is made of plastic; the earth just cannot break it down. Tell me about the social enterprise Fashion Revolution and the businesses who have joined forces? Fashion Revolution is a global movement that came into being after the collapse of Rana Plaza in 2013, where 1,038

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people lost their lives and thousands of others lost their loved ones, became incapacitated and/or unemployable. It was an enough-is-enough moment for a couple of people to start this movement in the UK. It shines a light on the industry and forces us to think about the realities of what we are contributing to and offers tools for us to make change. The partnering businesses in this event are BAY Active, a women’s lifestyle brand of basics, active and yoga apparel. BAY Active is made with certified organic cotton, organic linen, bamboo, Merino and regenerated fabrics in an ethical, transparent supply chain. Green Square Apparel is a dedicated end-to-end manufacturer experienced in Australian and offshore production. They offer a range of ethical and sustainable solutions and services in the fashion and apparel industry. The Shire Seamstress is Satisha Young, whose passion is re-fashioning. After decades in the industry, Satisha saw an opportunity to inspire people to mend, reinvent and better care for their clothing; she is motivated by the social and environmental impact of the fashion industry. What is the film The True Cost about? Who are the designers leading the way? The film is a story about clothing. It’s about the clothes we wear, the people who make them, and the impact the industry is having on our world. Tell me about the people on the panel for the Q&A. We have a panel of change-makers who have committed their careers to the mitigation of humanitarian and environmental fallout within and outside of the fashion industry. Sally Townsend from Outland Denim – A denim brand that employs women who have been rescued from the sex trade who have changed their lives and those around them via the opportunity of training and employment. The CEO of Outland Denim was a welder in a previous life and could not bear to see this continue under his watch, and decided if there was something he could do save just one girl, he would do it. They now have a full-scale operation in Cambodia with a team of about 38. Outland Denim have just been awarded an A+ by the global ethical index Baptist World Aid. Carlie Ballard is CEO of the brand Carlie Ballard. Carlie is inspired by the beauty and heritage of artisanal handwoven textiles. Carlie is also a sustainable-fashion advocate and a founding director of Clean Cut Fashion Association, Australia’s Ethical and Sustainable Fashion Association. The CCFA is the Australian fashion industry body addressing the future of fashion through sustainable and ethical practices. Karl Goodsell is the CEO of Positive Change For Marine Life, founded in 2012. PCFML’s mission is to empower local communities across our focus areas to ensure practices and systems are geared toward conserving vital marine ecosystems, while creating viable livelihoods for the people who depend upon them. Be at the Byron Brewery on Friday from 6pm for The Fashion Revolution!

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AUSTRALIA’S NEXT TOP FASHION SHOW WOMEN LIKE JULIA WILSON By far the toughest woman in comedy Julia Wilson is a ruthless comedy animal, tearing people and venues apart, and that’s just when she’s onstage. Offstage, this ex-convent schoolgirl and bouncer, enjoys scrabble, long walks on the beach and, wait for it, likes to play gridiron. ‘Offensive Centre’, no less… I mean, how many women do you know who play American Football just for fun? Just that is a good enough reason to come along and see Julia tear her way through the patient and polite Ballina RSL crowd, but wait – there are even more reasons. What is there not to be excited about by a comedian who lives life on the edge between danger and pain, who’d rather glean her comedy material from a life of wounding and scaring than from a life spent safe and sound inside the comfort zone. Julia’s humour refuses to be pigeonholed and her personality can’t be ignored. It’s Julia’s love of rough action on and off the stage that drives her comedy to new heights of rough and tumble; she is always on the lookout for a dangerous kind of fun that we mortals shy away from but that give meaning to Julia’s insatiable, larger-than-life comedy. Supported by Ellen Briggs and MCed by Mandy Nolan just days ahead of their national book launch of Women Like Us. With free comedy onstage and books, signed by the girls, ahead of Mothers Day! April 26 | 7.30 | FREE

IN TH E LAST DECADE BYR O N BAY H AS MADE ITSELF K N O W N AS A BR AN D SYN O N YMOUS WITH H IP IN DIVIDUALISM AN D STYLE. IT SEEMS ONLY R IGH T TH AT ALO N GSIDE ALL TH E FESTIVALS THAT BYR O N SH O ULD H AVE AN EVEN T TO SHOWCASE TH E FASH IO N IN DUSTR Y, AN D W E DO . THIS YEAR MAR K S TH E FO UR TH BYR O N BAY IN TER NATIONAL FASH IO N FESTIVAL AT ELEMEN TS O F BYRON – WITH R UN W AY SH O W S, TO P MO DELS W ALK ING DESIGNER CO LLECTIO N S, LO CAL LABELS, IN TER N ATIONAL LABELS, AN D A DAY AN D N IGH T PR O GRAM OF INDOOR AN D O UTDO O R EVEN TS. H EAD H O N CH O CLINT H UR R ELL SPO K E W ITH TH E ECH O AH EAD OF THIS YEAR ’S EXCITIN G AN D IN N O VATIVE SPE CTACULAR! What is it about Byron Bay as a brand and as a place that adds uniqueness to your fashion festival? Byron Bay has a booming international reputation as a fashion trendsetter. Fashion influencers and bloggers have made music festivals the runway of the youth. How do you source designers? Who is featured this year? We research the latest trends and then invite designers to participate. We have a local designer in the swimwear section: Solsoya by Birralee Jean – Byron, in the evening section is Jenny Jazz Designs by Jenny Jazz – Byron and POL from Nimbin. International designers include swimwear designers

from South Africa and Russia and resort-wear designers from Nigeria and France. Should fashion be wearable? Beautiful fashion should be wearable inasmuch as beautiful food should be edible! Is couture meant to be artistic and inspirational? Couture is definitely artistic. Artists find company in each other’s work, and choose whom they are inspired by. How does that then translate down the line to what we see in the street? Often street styles work their way up the line to inspire couture.

Where are the models from? Mostly all the models are from agencies and some from recommendations. They are local, interstate, and international. specially this year USA, Mongolia, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Sunshine Coast, Canberra. Tell me about the concept for the whole day. Fashion is Art! What should people expect? State-of-the-art fashion film, runway shows, dance performances, hosted in a beautiful resort atmosphere. At Elements of Byron on Sunday | For more info go to www.bbiff.com.au.

YOUNG GUNS OF COMEDY In the last decade standup comedy has flourished with lots of new voices finding their way onto the circuit. The Young Guns of Comedy features young, funny comedians from Sydney and the central coast showcasing their talent. Edgy, unconventional and raw, many of the acts you will have seen with the comedy roadshows, but the Young Guns show gives a chance to see them perform a longer set. ‘There’s not been anything like this before,’ says comedian and organiser Pat Doherty. The comedians, although young, have a huge depth of talent in their ranks with Billy Darcy competing in the national finals of a national comedy competition at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Wednesday 9 May at the Byron Brewery.

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WHILE PLUTO RETRO IN CAPRICORN REASSESSES RESPONSIBILITIES, SUN IN EARTHY TAURUS SAYS LISTEN TO THE NATURAL RHYTHMS, AND VENUS IN LIVELY GEMINI INVITES US ALL OUT TO PLAY…

ARIES: Welcome to Chiron in your sign, Aries, as this week kicks off an extended cycle of mending relationship fractures, finding closure on painful past rifts, and a softening of ancient scar tissue. It’s a deeply personal transit, so don’t assume others feel the same way – this week’s healing is for you.

TAURUS: You like regularity, but get ready for a week of delightful surprises as the sun sashays into your sign for Happy Birthday Taurus month, plus midweek Venus in her busiest, buzziest, friendliest, flirtiest and most social mode ushers a bonanza of pleasurable attention your way, including some influential connections. GEMINI: There really isn’t any downside to a think-before-you-speak and plan-before-youact approach to this week, whose upside has excellent aspects for health initiatives and constructive improvements. Venus twinkling midweek into the sign of your Twinship makes others notice you, and shopping practically mandatory – two superplusses. CANCER: With Saturn and Pluto doing major makeovers in your connections section, all forms of partnerships are up for an in-depth pressure test, a deep rethink. Plus some of the other re- words applicable to retrogrades: reformatting agreements, rearranging priorities, rehabilitating what’s gone awry. Sounding a touch dull? Then make it fun… LEO: What can’t be accomplished in one grand Leonine sweep this week can definitely be achieved via a sequence of small steps, during which be selective. Take your time. Listen to the wise voice of past experience. Don’t repeat the mistakes of speaking when you’re angry, making promises when you’re happy or decisions when you’re sad. VIRGO: The present retrograde climate’s amenable to renovating, with a particularly potent focus on major reformation of beliefs and attitudes towards people, pleasure and creativity. Not a bad thing really – could be a fun kind of rebirth. Just as midweek Virgo moon could be a sweet spot if you let it…

LIBRA: This week unbudgable others could give your Libran mediation skills a workout: mainly in the home and family zone, where various shifts in priorities and perspective are taking place. Yes, change can be stressful, but also exciting: which is most likely with Venus in chatty, sparkling Gemini and Friday’s Libra moon. SCORPIO: As late April’s energies pull back on the throttle, your softer, sensitive side comes out to play. Not comfortable with that? Then try empathetic and intuitive. This is an intense transit, so choose simple pleasures. Don’t let stubbornness be a stumbling block to expansion, or prejudgments get in the way of understanding.

SAGITTARIUS: While this week progresses from a do-it-now to a wait-andsee mindset, Venus in mutable Gemini’s busy promoting business or local community projects, especially via social media. Something you can help along by privately deprogramming old thought forms or beliefs blinkering you to alternative possibilities and realities. CAPRICORN: Mars in your sign is driving and striving, competitive, commanding. But power planets Saturn and Pluto retrograde in Capricorn are in review, realign and reboot mode, connecting the dots between past and present so the best decisions can be made for the future. If you can, take a breakation to refresh, regroup and renew. AQUARIUS: Venus in frolicsome air sign Gemini promises engaging online exchanges, virtual flirting and facetime fun. You’ll be outrageously entertaining, but with Mercury in blurt mode try not to be tactless. Meanwhile, behind the scenes Jupiter and Saturn are revamping Aquarian authenticity, while Pluto deletes nonessentials. Smile, you’re going to love it… PISCES: As this week’s astro-climate cools down from fast and furious to cruisier rhythms, there’s still plenty happening, although most of that’s backstage on inner levels. Which makes this prime time for homework of the self-assessing kind, or revitalising jaded daily routines and lacklustre habits into fresh new stylings.

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cinema review BY JOHN CAMPBELL

THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY What a charming period piece this is. And how heartening to be reminded that there once was a time, before everybody’s eyes were glued to a little screen in their hand, when hardcopy books were appreciated as treasure. Juliet Ashton (Lily James) is a young writer whose work was much appreciated by a reading group in Guernsey during WWII. With the island occupied by German

TRUTH OR DARE Hideo Nakata’s Ringu (1998) has inspired a whole subsection in the genre of teen-horror. Though not in the same league as that

forces, it was the literary society that sustained its members’ morale. In 1946, intrigued by communications that she received from one of those readers, Dawsey Adams (Michiel Huisman), Juliet sailed to Guernsey with the intention of writing a piece for The Times of London. A tragic story concerning the mother of the little girl Kit led Juliet to dig deeper into the local history. There are not really any striking parallels, but the latest offering from venerable English filmmaker Mike Newell had me thinking all the time of AS Byatt’s Possession – maybe it was the idea that you could love somebody from another time, whom you have not met. Newell, who has made some of my fave movies, including Mona Lisa Smile (2003), Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) and Into the West (1992), has an agreeable penchant for the soppy and in this he gives it full reign. The love triangle of Juliet, her American fiancé Mark (Glen Powell) and the pig farmer Dawsey, who may as well have walked out of the pages of Thomas Hardy or DH Lawrence, is a no brainer, but the intrigue concerning the disappearance of Elizabeth is satisfactorily sorted out as the sad truth emerges. James, who does fretting and niceness as though her life depended on it, gives to Juliet an ingenuousness that thankfully falls shy of mushiness, but whether Newell needed to include so many close-ups of her is debatable. Penelope Wilton and Tom Courtenay help steer the movie clear of melodrama and Matthew Goode is typically reliable playing a straight bat as Juliet’s agent and confidante. Japanese classic, Jeff Wadlow’s similarly creepy and unpredictable movie also has an unseen agent of fear driving the narrative. Typically innocuous at the outset, we meet the group of preppy brats who will be subjected to the malevolence as they set off in a brand-spanking-new SUV for a holiday in Mexico, with the sole intention of getting wasted and laid. Things go awry when they are lured to an abandoned mission by a fellow they met at a bar. During a harmless game of truth or dare, the camaraderie among them shows signs of cracking when some probing, narky questions are asked. With the realisation that there are dark secrets that none of them wishes to reveal, the movie suddenly gets interesting. The ‘demon’ has taken a hold of proceedings and it will see to it that an untruthful answer or unwillingness to follow through with a dare results in death. It is cleverly plotted and acted in a histrionic style that is perfectly suited to the nearedge of hysteria that prevails. Another likeable aspect of the production design is the minimal use of CGI – it heightens the tension. The presence of the ‘demon’ is flagged by characters’ faces being transformed to resemble something like the Guy Fawkes mask of the Occupy movement, but apart from that there is very little visual skullduggery. The relationships between the youngsters (a few of the blokes look too old for their parts) is tight and unwavering and, best of all, I had no idea where the story was headed. The circumstances surrounding the suicide of Markie’s father looked to be obvious from a point earlier than Wadlow may have wished, but a resolution remained foggy. This is one of those movies in which, despite your better judgment, you find yourself becoming totally engrossed and, even with the copycat Nakata ending, it is well worth checking out.

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Award Winning Builders â&#x20AC;˘ Renovations â&#x20AC;˘ Extensions â&#x20AC;˘ New Homes

ANTENNAS PLUS

Darren Paxton

0412 497 637

Master Builders Licence No.94573C

YOUR DIGITAL AND PROGRAMMING SOLUTIONS â&#x20AC;˘ Set top box installation and programming â&#x20AC;˘ Surround sound design and installation â&#x20AC;˘ All TV, telephone & electrical installations Call Norm now on

PRESTIGE BUILDERS

Sustainable Construction

Friendly & Reliable

Eco Building Products

0422 668 582

JP DIGITAL ANTENNAS Reception problems, new antennas, extra TV points, all areas .....0432 289705 BYRON ANTENNA SERVICE Call me first for fast service. Richard ..................................0401 190960

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

APPLIANCE REPAIR DIGITAL ELECTRONICS REPAIR & SERVICE TV. Audio. Antennas .......... 66843575 or 0414 922786

ARCHITECTS

2ĆŻFH

1300 095 393

Recycled Materials Community Focused 0418 948 979 | bryce@capricorn.net.au | www.capricorn.net.au | Lic 313403C

Creative Carpentry

Decks, pergolas, verandahs, balconies, big & small renos and all other carpentry & building needs. Free quotes.

0427 196 962

orangestar02@gmail.com

Lic. 266174C

SERVICE DIRECTORY RATES, PAYMENT & DEADLINE

FRANK STEWART ARCHITECT Reg. 6075. www.frankstewart.com.au............................66856984 DINGO DEMOLITIONS & ASBESTOS REMOVAL ................................. 66834008 or 0407 728998 OCEANARC ARCHITECTS Reg. 6042 www.oceanarc.com.au ..............................................66855001 CARPENTER All jobs. Michael Dow. Lic 147675C .................................... 66291169 or 0412 967677

AUTOMOTIVE

BUILDER â&#x20AC;&#x201C; JOHN McGAURAN Personalised Service. 20 yrs exp. Lic 170208C .............0415 793242 FABRICA JOINERY Quality kitchens/timber doors/windows. Lic 244652C .........................66808162 BUILDER CARPENTER Extensions, renos, new homes, insurance, all jobs. Lic 19953 .......... 0403 458177

â&#x20AC;˘ Tyres â&#x20AC;˘ Batteries â&#x20AC;˘ Wheel Alignments MULLUMBIMBY TYRE SERVICE Dalley Street, Mullumbimby 6684 2016

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

LEGENDARY OFFROAD TYRES

BUILDER Renovations, maintenance, 30yrs exp. mchughdesign.com.au Lic 29792C....0408 663420 EXTENSIONS & RENOVATIONS Excellent quality. Builder: Levi Alexander Lic 189611C ..0402 434154

MECHANICAL REPAIRS, WARREN SIMMONS Byron Bay ..................................................66858500 CARPENTER HANDYMAN FB Gregâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Handyman Services Byron Bay Lic No 1039897....0414 109595 BAYSIDE RADIATORS Windscreens & air-con. Billinudgel. AU29498 .................................66802444 BUILDERS SKILLS, carpenters rates. 25 years exp. Lic No. R84001. Ph Greg .................0422 069632

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Service Directory BUSH REGENERATION & WEED CONTROL

Quality Exterior Refinishing

Pressure cleaning Roof cleaning

P/L

Native bush regeneration, tree planting and weed control. Fully insured and qualified with more than 12 yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; local experience. Free property assessments and quotes.Â

Full Circle

EARTHMOVING PLANT HIRE Roadworks incl Driveways, Carparks & General Excavation

fullcirclerefinishing.com

35 years in local area â&#x20AC;˘ Free quotes

Phone Jeremy 0409 146 052

Lighthouse Cleaning

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

Holiday lets and Airbnb, residential homes and end of lease cleans, bond cleans etc. Friendly reliable and trustworthy local service.Â

CARPET CLEANING

Phone: 0449 765 106Â

Truck Mounted Machine

CARPET CLEANING

TENDER LOVING CARE Specialising in household carpet cleaning Speedy Drying

Kevin & Margaret Bower

(02) 6684 1001

CLEAN AS ITâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 HOLIDAY CLEANERS AVAILABLE NOW! Domestic, AirBnB, last-minute. Local, exp & reliable .0421 360961

FRANCHISE OF THE YEAR!

Green & Clean

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

A PROFESSIONAL & PERSONALISED SERVICE Northern Rivers Area..........................0487 013372

COMPUTER SERVICES

Cleans deeply, dries in 1-2 hours

Far North Coast NSW John & Teresa

0408 232 066

Personal tech support for bamboozled ed bip bipeds www.mygeekmate.com.au | mark@digiflip.com.au ip c co

0409 799 909

various implements available for limited access projects

EARTHMOVING & PLANT HIRE Specialising in driveway construction & maintenance

â&#x20AC;˘ Tip trucks 3 to 12 tonne â&#x20AC;˘ Excavator 5 to 21 tonne â&#x20AC;˘ Driveways â&#x20AC;˘ Roads â&#x20AC;˘ Acreage clearing â&#x20AC;˘ House pads â&#x20AC;˘ Drainage â&#x20AC;˘ Carparks â&#x20AC;˘ Bush rocks â&#x20AC;˘ Rock walls â&#x20AC;˘ Competitive rates

Training & assessment: earthmoving plant & forklift â&#x20AC;&#x201C; nationally recognised qualiďŹ cations

0410 056 228 / 0427 663 678

Rock walls, clearing, house shed and tank pads. Augers â&#x20AC;&#x201C; hole boring. All general earthworks, excavators, positrack, bobcat, roller and tipper hire.

A con Any consumer digital device Any An ny digital di project at home

rs or repai No s a l e

Philip Toovey

Specialising in road repairs & driveways

0431 122 057

APEX CARPET CLEANING www.apexcarpetcleaning.com.au......................... Nathan 0412 926441

TINY EARTHWOR

STEVE BROWN EARTHMOVING

Whether Whe er y you need a tech mentor, advice or just support m Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m here to help

Commercial / Domestic / Insurance

CHIMNEY SWEEPING

EARTHMOVING & EXCAVATION

Phone Oliver 0419 789 600

Call Ross Faithfull 0409 157 695 a/h 6687 2948 Â Â e: faithfullrossco@gmail.com

TLC

netdaily.net.au

North Coast news daily:

Ph: 6684 0160 Mob: 0439 840 160

purely support, advice & tech mentorship

5.5 TONNE EXCAVATOR, POSITRACK & TIPPER HIRE

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

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

CHIROPRACTIC BAY FAMILY CHIROPRACTIC Peter Wuehr 17 Bangalow Rd Byron Bay ..............................66855282

EXPERIENCED OPERATORS | FREE QUOTES 0432 299 283

WAVE OF LIFE NETWORK CHIRO (lowforce) 8/9 Fletcher St, Byron Bay. Andrew Badman...66858553 MICHAEL SCHWAGER 108 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby ...................................................66841962

RENT-A-GEEK Mobile PC Repair (Byron Shire) ....................................................................66844335 MULLUM CHIROPRACTIC Massage, chiropractic & fitness. 110 Dalley St .........................66841028 WORKRIGHT COMPUTER SUPPORT Mobile service. For Home & Business .................0422 804449

CAPE BYRON HOLISTIC CHIROPRACTIC Shane Eade. 6/14 Middleton St .....................0467 660323

CONCRETING & PAVING

SALISBURY CONCRETING

ACTION WINDOW & PRESSURE CLEANING

â&#x20AC;˘ House washing â&#x20AC;˘ High pressure or soft wash â&#x20AC;˘ Window cleaning â&#x20AC;˘ Driveways, paths & roofs â&#x20AC;˘ Gutters & ďŹ&#x201A;yscreens â&#x20AC;˘ Water efďŹ cient â&#x20AC;˘ Free quotes Phone Joe or Helen 6687 4655 or 0412 495750

Over 25 yrs local experience. All forms of concreting. â&#x20AC;˘ Residential Civil Industrial. â&#x20AC;˘ Resurfacing and rejuvenation of existing concrete. â&#x20AC;˘ Steel ďŹ xing & formwork.

DARYL 0418 234 302 OR 02 6680 1793

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

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Call Sam on

0434 539 979

www.byroneco.com.au

Window Cleaning Professionals Call Glenn or Tracey 0403 428 232 or 6680 9901 email: impresswindowcleaning@gmail.com Reliable â&#x20AC;˘ Friendly â&#x20AC;˘ Professional â&#x20AC;˘ Fully Insured â&#x20AC;˘ Free Quotes â&#x20AC;˘ Affordable Rates Locally Owned and Operated â&#x20AC;˘ Quality Work with Over 10 Years Experience

46 April 25, 2018 The Byron Shire Echo

DYDLODEOH DW

PLATINUM CONCRETE 20 years experience. Free quotes. Lic 225874C. Justin ..............0458 773788

5.5 tonne excavator & 12 tonne tipper

CRAFTSMAN CONCRETE POLISHING Concrete grinding & polishing, surface prep. Phil ...0402 560382

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Ray Battersby

0438 454 096

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CLEANING

Excavators Bobcats 13tonne tippers Roller Byron | Ballina | Tweed | Lismore Shire â&#x20AC;˘ Construction â&#x20AC;˘ Site Cuts â&#x20AC;˘ Auger Holes â&#x20AC;˘ Rockwalls â&#x20AC;˘ Clearing â&#x20AC;˘ Demolition â&#x20AC;˘ Landscaping â&#x20AC;˘ Farm Roads â&#x20AC;˘ Bitumen â&#x20AC;˘ Concrete driveways. MANY SPECIALITIES Call today for a free quote!

FLANAGAN CONCRETING & EXCAVATIONS. Lic No. 310498C. Ph Andrew ..................0401 968173

â&#x20AC;˘ Driveways â&#x20AC;˘ Landscaping â&#x20AC;˘ Rock walls â&#x20AC;˘ House & shed sites

DECKS, PATIOS & EXTENSIONS

â&#x20AC;˘ Land clearing â&#x20AC;˘ Augers, rock grab &Â breaker attachments â&#x20AC;˘ Free quotes

FULL CIRCLE REFINISHING Timber & deck oiling, coating, stripping. Fast free quotes .....0419 789600

Luke Jarrett â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 0431 329 630

THE DECK DOCTOR Sanding & refinishing, cable balustrading. Free quotes. Richard ...0407 821690 NORTHERN RIVERS TRENCHING 65hp chain trencher, mini excavator, cable locating.0402 716857

DENTISTS

BANGALOW MINI DIGGER SERVICE Exp operator 1.8 tonne multiple attachments .....0413 878978

BANGALOW DENTAL In the Medical Centre Complex, Bangalow ......................................66872766 BYRON BAY BOBCAT & TIPPER HIRE Driveways, rubbish removal. Ian.......................0412 853479 PRIMAL LAND SOLUTIONS 3 tonne excavator with attachments 3 tonne tipper. GAVIN STUART & MARTIN ACKLAND Banora Seaview Dental, Banora Point 30 mins north of Ewingsdale. Open Sat. early & late appointments ................................07 55234090 All earthworks & projects ...............................................................................................0449 846152 LITTLE LANE DENTAL, MULLUMBIMBY ...........................................................................66842816 MINI EXCAVATION HIRE with auger, experienced operator. Sth Golden Beach ............0401 633222 BRUNSWICK HOLISTIC DENTAL CENTRE .......................................................................66851264 MICHAEL LEACH 100 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby .............................................................66842644

CIVILTRAK Road construction, excavators, rollers, grader & truck hire ..........................0418 665905

ELECTRICIANS

DESIGN & DRAFTING

24 HOUR SERVICE

BAREFOOT BUILDING DESIGN www.barefootbuildingdesign.com..........Bob Acton 0407 787993 DAVID ROBINSON DESIGN DRAFTING All Council & construction requirements ......0419 880048

0439 624 945

BYRON ENERGY EFFICIENT DESIGN & DRAFTING www.beedad.com.au ...............0423 531448

Domestic Commercial

DRIVEWAY MAINTENANCE 20 Year+s Exp.

'ULYHZD\ 3RWKROH 6SHFLDOLVW Specialising in Asphalt Driveways, Subdivisions, Earthworks, Carparks and all Maintenance!

)UHH 4XRWH â&#x20AC;&#x201C; &DOO 1RZ

Jai â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 0467 482 948

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02 66 804 173 All Jobs Small or Large

Lic: 154293c

BYRON BAY CHIROPRACTIC CENTRE Bruce Campbell. 1/12 Tasman Way, A&I Estate ....66858159

Byron Shire Earthmoving

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

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

Service Directory ELECTRICAL Steve Nicholls ph: 0455 445 343 lic: EC28753

GARDEN & PROPERTY MAINTENANCE

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

GLAZIERS

24/7 EMERGENCY GLASS 0415 660 801

nichollselectrical@outlook.com

6685 8588

Mirrors • Security doors and screens Shower screens • Commercial glazing BYRON GLASS & ALUMINIUM Home, Shop & Office. 24 hr/7 days. Lic 313329C ..............66808123

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

Paola Landscapes Pty Ltd

Suffolk Park

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

0414 905 900

Lic No: 143433C | ACRS Master Cabler A017916

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COUGHRAN ELECTRICAL 24 hour service, Lic 154293C .......................... 0439 624945 or 66804173

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

THE HANDYMAN CAN All home maintenance, repairs, painting, odd jobs etc .............0427 110953 RELIABLE HANDYMAN SERVICES Michael ...........................................66844970 or 0405 325569 • Acreage Mowing Specialist • Irrigation • Landscaping • Rubbish Removal Byron Shire – Ballina Shire • Fully Licensed & Insured

Contact Vadi: 0404

978 383

byronlawnranger@gmail.com

www.byronlawnranger.com

RONNIE SPINKS Everything electrical. Lic 27673 .........................................................0429 802355 BYRON BAY ELECTRICAL Geoff Bensley. Lic EC 34079 ...................................................0427 857824

www.spotlessgutters.com.au

0405 922 839 or AH 6684 1778 ABN 180 623 364 42

AWESOME REPAIRS Professional, commercial & domestic. Wayne...............................0423 218417

Electrical • Data • TV • Solar • Level 2 •

2 | ' |KPHQ" GNGEVTKECNUGTXKEGU EQO CW| Lic No: 249371C

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

HANDY ANDY Carpentry, plastering, welding ......................................... 66884324 or 0476 600956

NECA Member

ALL JOBS WELCOME

GUTTERING

HANDYMAN All services and areas. Reliable and friendly. $35/hour.............................0403 793834 G LANZENI HANDYMAN SERVICE & property maintenance. Byron Bay ....................0412 395604 CARPENTER/BUILDER Renos, timber decks, pergolas, cabins, fencing. Tori Bergin .....0432 788394 BUILDER SKILLS, carpenters rates. 25 yrs exp. Lic No. R84001. Ph Greg.......................0422 069632

• • • • •

HANDYMAN All services and areas. Reliable & friendly. $35/hr ....................................0403 793834

Property maintenance All Mowing jobs Landscaping Pressure cleaning Tip runs

MC’S HANDYMAN SERVICES Exp. painter, home repairs, odd jobs. Great rates............0412 559509

HEALTH • OTHER HEALTH RELATED SECTIONS IN THIS SERVICE DIRECTORY: Acupuncture,

0407 065 849

Chiropractic, Counselling, Dentists, Osteopathy, Physiotherapy MULLUMBIMBY COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CENTRE 60 Stuart St...............................66841511

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

THE BYRON BAY GARDEN & LANDSCAPING COMPANY Structural Landscaping

GCV ELECTRICAL Domestic, commercial, industrial. Lic No 319893C Phone Craig ........0407 991730

FENCING

• Paving • Stonework • Timber work • Retaining wall • Garden maintenance • Planting • Turfing • Mulching • Hedging • Lawns

ACUPUNCTURE & COSMETIC MEDICINE Dr Adam Osborne ...........................................66857366 MULLUMBIMBY HERBALS Naturopathy, Ayurveda, Massage, Herbs. .............................66843002 WWW.EASTCOASTPILATES.COM.AU Judy Leane BSpSc ..............................................0408 110006 THERAPIST & INTEGRATIVE BODYWORKER www.jessicahallock.com ......................0416 161104 MALI’S Chinese Massage Service. Mullum In & Out Calls. ...................................................66841790

0434 329 111

POOLSAFE GLASS FENCING

Acreage & Residential Mowing | Gardening Non-Toxic Herbicide Spray | Brush Cutting Tip Runs | Fully Insured

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

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

BYRON & BEYOND FENCING Any fence, any time, prompt quotes....... 66804766 or 0416 424256 EDL FENCING Installations & repairs. Prompt service ............................. 66771852 or 0432 107262

FLOOR SANDING & POLISHING

HIRE MULLUM HIRE Builders, party and much more ........................www.mullumhire.com.au 66843003 BYRON HIRE Building & home handyman equipment hire ........ www.byronhire.com.au 66856228

HOT WATER SYSTEMS TWEED COAST ELECTRICAL Hot Water Specialists Lic 214073C....................................0432 728946

IRONING

MULLUM.MOWING@gmail.com. Ride-on, large lawns & acreage. Ph Peter................0423 756394 THE IRONING LADY Ironing Service. Suffolk Park $30/hr. Angela.................................0414 719680

KITCHENS

GUTTERS CLEANED Solar panel cleaning, all areas, free quotes, fully insured ... 66841778 or 0405 922839

A-Z Lawns & acreage, trees & hedges, clean ups & tip runs, all gutters ..........................0405 625697 SHAUN LEMURA KITCHENS Byron 20 yrs+ exp Lic 290290C www.slbyronbay.com ...0499 771769

The Floor Sander NEW AND OLD FLOORS AND DECKING • Non-toxic finishes • Free quotes

Richard Neylan 0407 821 690 Email richardneylan1@bigpond.com

A.C.E. LAWNMOWING & GARDENING Best rates, reliable, guaranteed.............Sam 0438 655763 D HINGED Kitchens & Joinery. Lic 283553C. www.hinged.com.au ....................... Dave 0409 843689 ABOVEBOARD KITCHENS, BATHROOMS & ALTERATIONS Lic 80677C ...................0415 661814 LEAF IT TO US Acreage mowing specialists, all sizes ......................................................0402 487213 AB KITCHENS. Best price guarantee. Lic No 110646C. Steve .........................................0413 281324 PAUL’S MOWING Lawns, edges, hedges, local & reliable. Mullum, Bruns, O.Shores ......0422 958791 A GREEN EARTH Garden restoration, maintenance, tree & rubbish removal ................0405 716552 TIP RUNS & RUBBISH REMOVALS 4m3 trailer..............................................................0408 210772

NJH FLOOR SANDING Eco oils, hard wax oils & water-based finishes. Nathan .............0420 215716 PRESTIGE ACREAGE CARE Acreage mowing specialist ...............................................0490 023964 THE BURBS MOWING All suburban mowing. Andrew .................................................0431 248888

GARAGE DOORS

BEAU JARDIN We design & build beautiful gardens www.beaujardin.com.au Lic 177274C ...0417 054443 LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT Garden Design & Property Planning. Andrew Pawsey ..........0478 519804

LANDSCAPING

BIO GARDENS Horticulturist for all your gardening needs. Reasonable rates ...............0413 166314

LICENCE NO:175956C ABN: 03 113 342 699

ADAM’S ACREAGE MOWING: Acreage Mowing Specialist Please call ..........................0419 813556

• Sand • Soils • Gravels • Pots & statues • Lots, lots more

GARDEN DESIGN 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

LANDSCAPE DESIGN

GARDEN DESIGN, FENG SHUI www.simplybeautifulspaces.com.au...........................Lyn 0428 884329

Garage Doors & Openers

GAS SUPPLIERS

1176 Myocum Rd, Mullumbimby (just past golf course)

6684 2323 / 0418 663 983

Shaun Savage Landscapes Established 2008 ~ Lic No: 247282c

Free Delivery No Rental

Locally Owned Est 18 years

20 Years Experience

Reliable

www.brunswickvalleygas.com

6680 1575 or 0408 760 609 North Coast news daily: www.echonetdaily.net.au

Specialising in: • Retaining Walls • Pool Surrounds • Block Work • Paving • Turfing • Stonework

0405 594 288

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Service Directory YVES DE WILDE

CRACKER DUST

MULCH

ROAD BASE FIRE WOOD www.duluxaccredited.com.au

18 Lucky Lane Billinudgel Industrial Estate

landscaping supplies

OCEAN SHORES PHYSIOTHERAPY Manual therapies, dry needling, custom orthotics, shock

X FINALIST OF THE MASTER PAINTERS OF AUSTRALIA AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE X ENVIRO FRIENDLY PAINTING X 6680 7573 0415 952 494 X www.yvesdewilde.com.au LIC 114372C

0266 804555

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Dylan 0409 785 584 www.otrlandscaping.com.au

Mark Wopling

ABN 31 490 733 798 LIC 203196C

Painting & Decorating Accredited

The ďŹ nishing touch to your home

LEMONTREELANDSCAPES.COM.AU Liam. Lic No 277154C .........................................0423 700853 SHANE TURNER LANDSCAPES 25 years experience. Creative, reliable & affordable .0418 688171

mwoplingpainting@hotmail.com

PAINTER NEIL A McINTOSH

INTERIOR/EXTERIOR â&#x20AC;˘ PLASTER REPAIRS â&#x20AC;˘ WALLPAPERING CLEAN & TIDY â&#x20AC;˘ ALWAYS ON TIME â&#x20AC;˘ ALL AREAS Mobile: 0421 938 104 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 465 Uralba Road, Uralba

AD PAINTING by John Hand. Lic 13246C ................................................ 0413 185399 or 66841249

LAUNDRY SERVICES

DEREK BULLION PAINTING Free quotes. Lic R98818 ......................... 0414 225604 or 66805049 JOSS PAINTING 30 years experience. Free quotes ..................................66846970 or 0421 976843

LAUNDRY

PERMACULTURE

FAST TURNAROUND â&#x20AC;&#x201C; AIR BNB

PETER FARRELL Cold laser, manual therapy & exercise, Mullumbimby ..............................66843385

PICTURE FRAMING MULLUM PICTURE FRAMERS Stuart St rear lane behind Mitre 10 ............................0403 734791 BYRON BAY GALLERY Framing 17 Lawson St. Byron Bay Phone Tommy ....................0414 749278

PLASTERING

PLASTERING CONTRACTOR DOMESTIC & COMMERCIAL C. A. Warwick Lic. No. 114578C Â&#x2021; )UHH TXRWHV Â&#x2021; *\SURFN Ă&#x20AC; [LQJ VHWWLQJ

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DQQH P ZDUZLFN#JPDLO FRP ABN 48867459605 Lic 33995C

VARENDORFF LANDSCAPES Dip. Lscape Des & Hort. Lic 39791..............66845035 or 0414 842602

24 years experience

QUALIFIED â&#x20AC;˘ INSURED â&#x20AC;˘ LOCAL â&#x20AC;˘ FREE QUOTES

Mob: 0409 451 518

SUBTROPICALLANDSCAPES.COM.AU 20 years exp. Lic 231789C ................................0405 122456

EWINGSDALE PHYSIO Renata Tenta. Matrix Rhythm Therapy, home visits avail................66847838

)UHH 4XRWHV \HDUV ([SHULHQFH

Lic 308722C

Landscape Design | Construction | Retaining Walls | Pergolas | Paving

wave therapy, real time ultrasound. Nigel Pitman, Ilse V Oostenbrugge, Steve Clifford.......66803499

BILLINUDGEL CUSTOM PICTURE FRAMING 7/1 Wilfred St, Billinudgel ........................66803444

Lic 167371C

SOIL

PETRA KARNI Physio, Craniosacral, Alexander Technique. Byron. Open Saturdays.......0403 226858

QUALITY PAINTING SERVICES

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 QUALITY LOCAL PAINTER & GYPROCK REPAIRS..........................................Jarrah 0459 351942

PLUMBERS NEED A PLUMBER? DRAINER? GASFITTER?

Chay 0429 805 081 20 YEARS LOCAL SERVICE

Licence No. 207479C

LANDSCAPING (continued)

GRAVEL

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TYAGARAH MOWER REPAIRS 69 McAuleys Lane, Mullumbimby .................................0488 094025

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CREATIVE LIGHTING SOLUTIONS

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LAWNMOWER REPAIRS

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02 6681 6555

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

Free quotes on active termites Environmentally safe

OSTEOPATHY

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

JARRAH DAVIDSON Plumbing, draining, gas fitting & roofing. Lic 187712C................0438 668025 BILL CONNORS All plumbing/draining. Lic #1051 .................................. 66801403 or 0414 801403

OSTEOPATHY

HRH PLUMBING Providing a prompt, reliable & efficient service. Lic 220755C ............0402 652017 MARK STRATTON All plumbing & emergency. Sewer drain camera/locator. Lic 57803C ....0419 019035

at Mullumbimby Comprehensive Health Centre

ADM PLUMBING SERVICESâ&#x20AC;Ś (NO JOB TOO SMALL)â&#x20AC;Ś Lic 234528C. ....... Call Adam 0466 992483

Dr. Matthew Fourro (Osteo) Dr. Egbert Weber (Osteo)

BLOCKED DRAINS Drain camera, no dig repairs. Drain Pipe King. Lic 237124C ...................66770004

60 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby | 02 6626 7900

LPC PLUMBING Plumbing, draining, gas fitting. Sth Golden Bch. Lic 289868C. Luke ....0401 633222 COLIN J WILLIAMS PLUMBING & GAS Lic L7990. Water specialist. Mullum/Byron .....0434 273726

NORTH COAST OSTEOPATHY Jodie Jacobs. Mon, Wed, Fri..............................................66857517 THE PEST MAN EXTRAORDINAIRE Second opinion / alternative views. 50 yrs exp .....0418 110714

PAINTING

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

â&#x20AC;˘ DEPARTMENT OF FAIR TRADING INFO: When dealing with home owners, painters are required

PHOTOGRAPHY

BIRD SPIKES. A safe way to deter unwanted birds. Andrew .........................................0431 248888

to quote a licence number only for external work valued over $5000.

BYRON BAY

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ALL-WAYS PAINTING

Tree Faerie Fotos Professional â&#x20AC;˘ Commercial â&#x20AC;˘ Personal 30+ years experience in commercial photography and photojournalism

www.treefaeriefotos.com â&#x20AC;˘ 0417 427 518

PRINTWORKS Traditional / Digital art@mullumprintworks.com.au .................................66843633

REMOVALISTS

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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

PHYSIOTHERAPY

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BANGALOW PHYSIOTHERAPY Manual therapies, acupuncture, mat/reformer Pilates classes.

SHIRE REMOVALS & FREIGHT CO

Kim Snellgrove, Cally Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hara ................................................................................................66872330

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NICK EDMOND Physiotherapy & Acupuncture. Open Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday 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

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PRINTING & COPYING SERVICES

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Service Directory SEWING & ALTERATIONS

LEAPFROG REMOVALS

SEWING Repairs & alterations. Byron Bay & all areas. Phone Jan ..................................0427 570812

BYRON BAYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LOCAL REMOVALIST MOVING THE SHIRE FOR OVER 10 YEARS

SOLAR INSTALLATION

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0434 391 855

SUMMERLAND TREE SERVICES ............................................. Call Tim 66877677 or 0417 698227

www.byronbaycontainerstorage.com.au

LONG + SHORT TERM CONTAINERS FOR HIRE

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The expert in solar efďŹ ciency

Call 1300 18 20 50

PETER GRAY Dip Arb. AQF5. Consulting arborist ...........................................................0414 186161 BYRON TREE SERVICES Qualified, insured. Call Alex ....................................................0402 364852 TALLOW TREE SERVICES Removal, free quote & full insurance .....................................0401 208797 MARTINO TREE SERVICES ..............................................................................Martino 0435 019524

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ALL PALM & TREE SERVICES Arborist, Free Quotes. Sam .............................................0428 715886

Electrical License # QLD: 72258 | NSW: 227562C

OUT ON A LIMB www.outonalimbtreeservices.wordpress.com Call Lucas ............0402 191316

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

UPHOLSTERY

CAPE BYRON REMOVALS Local, Brisbane, Melbourne weekly. Since 1989 ..................0413 505893

BANGALOW UPHOLSTERY Now at Billinudgel. Re-covering specialists.............................66805255

ROOFING

BYRON BAY UPHOLSTERY Soft furnishings & outdoor................................................0403 713303

VALUERS

DOMESTIC â&#x20AC;˘ INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL

MONTYS METAL

ROOFING Licence NSW: 30715C Licence QLD: 1227049

BYRON BAY VALUERS NSW & QLD regâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d. Chartered Valuers ................... 0431 245460 or 66857010 SIMPSON PROPERTY GROUP - Valuation, Advisory & Asset M/ment. Specialists in: Residential,

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Craig Montgomery â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 0418 870 362 Email: montysmetalrooďŹ ng@gmail.com www.montysmetalrooďŹ ng.com.au

Patrick - 0425 256 802 LIC: 223489C

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0411 683 003 WWW.ZACMACTAGGARTMETALROOFING.COM.AU

ALL ROOF CLEANING Experienced, insured & fast free quotes. Call ..............................0419 789600

MULLUM VET CLINIC Richard Gregory, Erin Tottenham, Bec Patison. 24 hrs 7 days ..........66843818

WATER FILTERS The Water Filter Experts

ATTENTION POOL OWNERS

for home, commercial and rural properties

6680 8200 or 0418 108 181

â&#x20AC;˘ All pool requirements â&#x20AC;˘ Professional advice â&#x20AC;˘ Water testing â&#x20AC;˘ Friendly service â&#x20AC;˘ Pool servicing

73 Station St, Mullumbimby (opp. Council chambers)

OCEAN SHORES SKIPS Mini skip specialists ......................................... 0412 161564 or 66841232

TILING

A UTE LOAD OF STUFF .................................................................................................0408 210772 TIPPER HIRE avail for rubbish removal & tip runs. Jono................................................0412 871438

Dirty Tiles & Grout?

SCRAP METAL MERCHANTS

...forget pointless scrubbing

BYRON CASH FOR SCRAP @ BRUNSWICK BYRON AUTO WRECKERS Buying: â&#x20AC;˘ Scrap metal â&#x20AC;˘ Aluminium â&#x20AC;˘ Copper â&#x20AC;˘ Brass â&#x20AC;˘ Lead â&#x20AC;˘ Car Batteries Next to Tyagarah Service Station

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FREE T avail fo OW

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

FRANCHISE OF THE YEAR!

SEPTIC SYSTEMS SEWERAGE MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONALS 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

NORTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT

NEWT TRINE SOLUTIONS Local waste specialists. Plumbers, drainers & gas fitters. Lic 138031C .. 0407 439805

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

IN IN H

6684 3003

BYRON SKIPS & RUBBISH REMOVAL 2, 3, 4 & 6 m3 bins available ..............................0450 300360 MULLUM POOL SHOP Water testing, eco products, mobile service, repairs................0418 666839 TIP RUNS & RUBBISH REMOVAL 4m3 trailer................................................................0408 210772

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SWIMMING POOLS

RUBBISH REMOVAL

ll ff for a Drop owashing steel, es and machin ers dry

Rural, Commercial & Industrial. www.simsonproperty.com.au..........0400 134562 or 0427 220976

Far North Coast NSW John & Teresa

0408 232 066

TILE & GROUT CLEANING

Servicing the Far North Coast for 20Â years. Free quotes. Experienced local technicians. ChemDryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s patented cleaning systems.

WINTER SPECIAL: 2

Every 5th m FREE

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

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FULLY Water puriďŹ cation systems INST ALLED IN YOUR Rainwater Filters HOME Whole house ďŹ ltration 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

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0487 777 247 www.pristinewater.com.au

WATER FILTERS SUPPLY AND SERVICE

WATER TANK CLEANING/WATER TANKS Concrete tank repairs. All areas .. 66888055 or 0407 002833 SCRUBBED Tank cleaning, repairs & liner insuls. Matt & Nick ............................................66884478 TANK CLEANING Repairs, installation, first flush diverters, pumps, etc ........................0418 662285

WAXING

MD TILING SOLUTIONS Wall & floor tiling, water proofing. Lic 286371C .....................0406 858290 JULIETâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BEAUTY Waxing, facials, tinting & more. Mullumbimby ................................0434 141572 PHI TILING/WATERPROOFING Free quotes. Helpful advice. Lic No 179306C....................66801168

WEB DESIGN SERVICES

TREE SERVICES

TheWebShop.co Affordable website build & digital marketing. hello@thewebshop.co ...66874760

CHOPPY CHOP TREE SERVICES

WELDING

The Fully Insured Professionals

WELDING & FABRICATION Structural, general & repairs. Trade qualified. Rod ............0408 410545

â&#x20AC;˘ Stump Grinding â&#x20AC;˘ Bobcat â&#x20AC;˘ Cherrypicker â&#x20AC;˘ Crane Truck â&#x20AC;˘ 18â&#x20AC;? Chipper

WINDOW TINTING

Mark Linder QualiďŹ ed Arborist 0408 202 184 choppychoptrees@bigpond.com

SUNRISE W. T. NO BUBBLES, NO TROUBLES Cars, homes & offices ..........................0412 158478 SURFWAGON - Car/Home/Office tint. Lifetime Warranty. W/sale price .........................0434 875009

The Byron Shire Echo April 25, 2018 49

Classifieds INDEX Childcare............................... 50

ECHO CLASSIFIEDS – 6684 1777

For Sale ................................ 51

CLASSIFIED AD BOOKINGS

DEADLINE TUES 12PM

Garage Sales........................ 51

PHONE ADS

Halls For Hire........................ 51

Ads may be taken by phone on

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

Businesses For Sale.............. 51

Health Notices ....................... 50

6684 1777 AT THE ECHO HEAD OFFICE

Items under $100 ................. 51

Ads can be lodged in person at the Mullum Echo office:

Life Celebrations .................... 52

Village Way, Stuart St, Mullumbimby

Lost & Found ......................... 52

EMAIL ADS

Motor Bikes ............................ 51 Motor Vehicles ....................... 51 Musical Notes ........................ 52 Only Adults ............................ 52 Pets ........................................ 52 Positions Vacant .................... 51 Professional Services ............ 50 Public Notices ........................ 50 Removalists ........................... 51 RIP Pets................................. 52 Share Accommodation .......... 51 Short Term Accommodation .. 51 Social Escorts........................ 52 To Lease ................................ 51 To Let ..................................... 51 Tradework .............................. 51 Tree Services ......................... 51 Tuition .................................... 52 Wanted .................................. 51

RATES & PAYMENT LINE ADS: $17.00 for the first two lines $5.00 for each extra line $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.

Wilsons Creek Community Market

& Garage Sale This Saturday

10am - 2pm

Cash, cheque, Mastercard or Visa Prepayment is required for all ads.

Sha’heed Circle

a tender exploration of vulnerability & openness & the celebration of divine embodiment in an attuned, empathetic, supportive circle

DISCLAIMER

PUBLIC NOTICES BRUNSWICK PICTURE HOUSE CAFE Open every Sunday for homemade jam & 1 hour before show times

TAYLORS PROPS

DELIVERY

Save Money & Time We shop and deliver from $40. Assembly extra. Ph 0410

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

BRENT VERCO

CHIROPRACTOR

THE BYRON SHIRE

MULLUM CHIROPRACTIC 6684 1028

MON TUE WED THU FRI PM & SAT AM

netdaily

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Qigong (Chi Kung/Tai Chi)

Amanda Phelps

New Term in Bangalow

Yogalates Studio Fridays – 9.30am from May 4th

Independent Care Worker

Lennox Head

Personal training & Healing with Suzanne Rienits (28 years teaching Qigong)

www.bettercaring.com.au/ carer/amandaph

Ph: 6687 5636 New Students Welcome

DENTURES LOOK GOOD

FEEL GOOD Free consultation. SANDRO 66805002

HEALTH ‘seek the nectar, the honey, the wine’ fortnightly Weds 5.30 –7.30 begins May 23, Byron for more information

0413 212 711 Melanie

BYRON ARTISAN MARKET This Saturday 4–9 pm

RAILWAY PARK, BYRON BAY

www.byroncentre.com.au

BEAUTIFUL BLUE EYES I lost your number on Sunday 15th at the Beach Hotel. If you see this ad it’s Mick. Please call 0435 778 695 xx

LIFE DEATH & BEYOND Office of Environment & Heritage

May 7th Byron Bay

Fox and Wild Dog Control Using 1080 Baits and Canid Pest Ejectors To Protect Priority Threatened Species

Soul's Journey Shamanic Wisdom ...filled with hope!

The NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) is continuing its annual program to control the introduced European red fox in Tyagarah and Brunswick Heads nature reserves. 1080 poison ground baits are being laid in both reserves. 1080 canid pest ejectors may also be used if necessary. If wild dogs are detected they will also be controlled.

www.lifedeathbeyond.com

DAVID LOVEJOY’S BOOKS

The fox control program is part of the NSW Saving our Species program for the conservation of priority threatened species, i.e. long-nosed potoroo, beach stone-curlew and pied oystercatcher for these sites. Brunswick Heads Nature Reserve (north of the Brunswick River) and Tyagarah Nature Reserve will continue to be baited from now until 14 December 2018.

Warning: 1080 can be lethal to dogs and other domestic animals. Dogs are prohibited in national parks and nature reserves. Please be aware of the risk of lethal 1080 poisoning to dogs and always keep domestic animals away from baiting areas.

For more information: Please contact NPWS Tweed Byron Area on: (02) 6670 8600 (Murwillumbah office) or (02) 6620 9300 (Byron Bay office)

BLZ136364

Signs have been placed at entrances to reserves where baits for foxes and wild dogs will be laid.

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M: 0407 455 212 www.dianaewing.com

PROF. SERVICES

1 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby Phone 6684 2978

IKEA

Beginners 6pm Mon spaces available.

CHILDCARE

Stallholder bookings: 6684 0299

Open Thurs 4–6.30pm, Sat 10.30am–1pm or by appointment

CLASSIFIEDS THAT WORK ALL WEEK!

BABY-SITTING I love looking after children and I am a great cook, $15/hr. Phone 0424025271

Work Wanted ......................... 52

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.

• Yoga • Shiatsu • Massage

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Wilsons Creek Community Hall Food, games, goods & wares

COSTUME HIRE, PROPS, SUITS & ACCESSORIES

Diana Ewing

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Special intro offer $75 per session or 3 for $200 $95 Colonic + Far Infrared Sauna $175 Colonic, Sauna + Massage

Brunswick Heads 66850498 puravidawellness.com.au

PHYSIOTHERAPIST

20 Shirley St,Byron Bay

6685 8532

HYPNOSIS & EFT Simple and effective solutions Anxiety, Cravings, Fears & Trauma. Maureen Bracken 0402205352 AWARENESS Sessions, Meditation & Art classes. Yvette 0412664846 www.awarelove.com

SUZANNE BOURCHIER psychologist 02 6685 5670

COLON HYDROTHERAPY

Martin Frank

KINESIOLOGY

…feel the difference

VIDA

W ll We llness Centr t e

Mon–Fri 9am–5pm

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

TWO WINGS PSYCHOLOGY

PURA

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BREAK THE CHAIN OF ADDICTIONS NOW! Feeling trapped? Learn how to overcome addictive and limiting behaviours. Stop smoking, weight loss and so much more.

Call today 6680 2630 27 years experience.

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®

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

Tuesdays & Thursdays 5–6.30PM Saturdays 10AM–12PM S U F F O L K PA R K CO M M U N I T Y H A L L

Safe, beneficial, authentic yoga

ALL JUST $10 EACH

Ongoing Workshops, Retreats, and Teacher Trainings. All info on the website!

Available from The Echo office reception

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

Flo Fenton, Senior Yoga Teacher

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

Classifieds HEALTH continued MONDAY

TUESDAY 7.00 YOGA 9.00 NIA

6.30 QIGONG 8.00 GYROKINESIS 10.00 BOLLYWOOD DANCE 16.00 MUSICAL THEATRE JAZZ kids 17.30 JAZZ FLARE

MULLUMBIMBY - Timetable

10.30 FULL BODY STRETCH FLOW

16.00 FLAMENCO 17.30 BELLY DANCE 19.00 ZUMBA

WEDNESDAY

kids

THURSDAY

6.30 YOGA

7.00 YOGA AWARNESS

9.30 PARENT CHILD CREATIVE MOVEMENT

10.45 PILATES 15.30 HIP HOP / STREET DANCE kids

11.00 FELDENKRAIS kids

17.15 CAPOEIRA 18.15 CAPOEIRA

16.30 HIP HOP / STREET DANCE 17.45 CONTACT IMPROV 19.30 ZOUK

19.30 ROOTS’N’MOTION

FRIDAY 6.30 YOGA 9.30 CONTEMPORARY 11.30 OPEN FLOOR-GUIDED 16.00 IMPROV THEATRE GAMES kids 17.30 SOUL JAM SATURDAY 7.00 HIMALAYAN TANTRIC MEDITATION 9.00 WAKE AND SHAKE SUNDAY

COLONICS

KAHUNA & ZENTHAI SHIATSU 90 minute massage for $90. Ocean Shores. Guy 0467625245 THAI MASSAGE With male, 1hr $50, Brunswick Heads. Ph Nui 0413710742 HAWAIIAN MASSAGE Ocean Shores Michaela. 0416332886

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

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FOR SALE For ceilings, walls, doors, etc. Ph 66884188 • sample & brochure. www.bambooply.com.au

0488 609 774

MASSAGE CHAIR Zero-gravity, Astral TS-973. Elegant, black leather, perfect working order. Suitable for personal & professional use. $500 ono. Dyson upright vacuum cleaner, multi-function, reg serviced by Dyson $150 ono. 0403968617

bookings@mullumcivic.com

SEASONED FIREWOOD Phone Karen 0427804284

TREE SERVICES

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

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Tallow

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Dryers and dishwashers available at Bridglands Mullumbimby. 66842511 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. GUITARS, RECORDS, HI FI valiantmusic.com.au 66851005

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.

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BYRON BAY FIREWOOD Pickup / Delivery Seasoned Firewood Kindling, bags, trailer, tonnage (up to 30 tonne). Residential | Commercial | Wholesale Prompt and reliable service.

Michael – 0401 739 656

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

THE

LARGEST

RANGE OF NATIVE PLANTS IN THE

BYRON SHIRE

It’s Planting Time Grevilleas, Dwarf Lilly Pillys, Garden Shrubs, Ferns, Groundcovers, Rainforest Trees, Koala Trees, Coastal Plants, Wetland Plants and Grasses, Bushtucker Plants, Hedges, Bird & Butterfly Plants, hardy Dwarf Lomandras, plus heaps more.

THIS WEEKS SUPER SPECIAL Large Golden Penda in 200mm pots

Were $22.95 now ½ price

$11.50

ARCHIBALD’S CHEAP QUARRY PRODUCTS

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

COMPOST TOILETS

STARTING AT $960 Green Building Centre 0427701653

BAMBOO PLY

For ceilings, walls, doors, etc. Ph 66884188 • sample & brochure. www.bambooply.com.au PIANO Classic older style quality American brand piano: Gulbransen upright. $100 ono (plus removal) Phone 0413105636

Open Wednesday, Thursday & Friday 10 am – 4 pm Saturday 9am – 1pm Cash, Eftpos & creditcard

HOLDEN UTE 2010, auto, 180,000km, black, exc cond. $14,000. 0484607292 AUTOMATIC 2006 FORD FIESTA 145283KM 5 DOOR HATCH LOW KM. SN4323................$4990 AUTOMATIC 2006 HYUNDAI ELANTRA 155452KM GREAT CAR FOR LEARNERS. SN0869..........$5750 2009 HOLDEN BARINA 5SPD MANUAL 82492KM VERY LOW KM 5DR HATCH. SN6993........$5490 2005 MITSUBISHI LANCER 5SPD MANUAL 149643KM VERY HANDY WAGON. SN050..$5495 2005 HOLDEN 1 TONNER UTE AUTOMATIC EXTRA LARGE TRAY READY FOR WORK 168527KM. SN0202.............................$7495 2014 MITSUBISHI TRITON GLX 4WD TURBO DIESEL DUALCAB CANOPY VERY LOW 43071KM SN0926 ...........................................................$25990

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MOTOR BIKES

GARAGE SALES O.SHORES 4 Portla Way. Sat 8am. Combined sale. Clothes, toys, shoes STOCKTAKE SALE & used toys. End of Peter St, South Golden Beach. Sat 8-1pm OCEAN SHORES 8 Flinders Way, Sat 7.30am. Huge garage sale. clothing, shoes, jewellery & homewares. Will be undercover if raining.

SHARE ACCOM. SUNRISE women’s house, lge room, d/f, near shops, train, sea & tranquil, lge garden. $200pw incl. 0432215206 BEAUTIFUL LILLI PILLI room in 3br home, $250pw plus bills, WiFi incl. Avail May. Ph 0405073539 LENNOX beautiful home, ocean views $225pw n/s, d/f, veg pref. 0498443133 OCEAN SHORES share with 2 others in fully furnished home. Quiet, n/s, d/f, worker. $200pw incl bills. 0448874601 BANGALOW large open plan room, kitchenette & sep entry $225pw plus bills. Share bath. Suit sgle female. 0428107341 O.SHORES room in share house, $180pw incl bills. Fem pref, n/s. 0407855273 BRUNSWICK furn rooms incl bills, big garden, close to town. 1 at $190pw, 2 attached rooms $260pw. 0415238408 MULLUM large room, sun filled, breezy, views, n/s, no pets $160pw. 0447676458

SUFFOLK 3br, 2 bthrm, part-furnished house. Beautiful private setting, deck, lush gardens. Long-term tenant. References required. $760pw + exp. Ph 0427275925 SECURE STORAGE BANGALOW Brand new storage sheds 66871500 BANGALOW RENT-A-SHED Modern & Secure from $140 p/m Elders Real Estate 66871500 BYRON SELF-STORAGE UNITS Clean & secure. Ph 1300762618

CURTAINS new, white satin, block-out lining, 2 sets x 3m drop $150 each. 1 set 2.5m drop, $120. Tracks incl. 66802642

CARPORT OR GARAGE In or around Byron Bay for medium size Volvo, used occasionally. Ph Peter 66855240

MULLUM 3br house, 14/5–3/9. $450pw incl WiFi + bills. No pets. Ph 0412073804

STORAGE From $105/mth. Bangalow. Ph 66872833

6686 5586 / 0418 676 274

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

S/C BEDSIT MULLUM suit cple or sIngle. 1-3 nights $100pn. Ph 0407163828

BANGALOW SELF-STORAGE Hi-tech security. 66872333

DOUBLE BED, mattress, wooden frame, good condition. $150. Ph 66872902

WANTED

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TO LET

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• Palings • Posts • Hardwood poles • Sleepers • Molasses • Concrete Posts • Tomato stakes • Cane Mulch

MOTOR VEHICLES

Now is the time to plant native plants & food plants

ITEMS UNDER $100

PROFESSIONAL TREE CARE • • • • •

0408 210 772

TRADEWORK

BAMBOO PLY

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

ADULT

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Tip Runs & Rubbish Removal

BIG & SMALL REMOVAL JOBS Local, affordable, reliable & quick Ph 66845510 or 0402199999

2005 HONDA VTR 250 carbon black, 27,000km goes well, NSW rego to Nov 2018, $2500 ono. 0438976314

BUSINESS FOR SALE FOOD STALL VAN Nachos, wraps, burgers. Perm sites at Byron, Lennox & Bangalow markets. Includes a classic food caravan. Price neg. Ph 0413261133 COMMERCIAL KITCHENWARE Local Market business for sale. Ph 66845137

REMOVALISTS

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& backloads to Brisbane. Friendly, with 10 years local exp. 0409917646 BALLINA SELF-STORAGE UNITS Secure from $18pw, 10 cubic mtr shed. Across 3 locations. Ph 66867011 TALLOWOOD ESTATE MULLUM 4br 2yo home with media room, open plan living & dining. DLUG, covered shed, pergola & patio with vege garden. $680pw. Avail end May. Email loisgenis@bigpond.com with refs & a bit about yourself. Outside pets considered SUFFOLK Alcorn St, opp beach entr. 2br f/furn townhouse, SLUG, references req, $680pw neg, long/sh term. 0401031209 BUSH COTTAGE NR MULLUM Suit wkg cple $400pw + elect. Text 0412153953

BRUNSWICK HEADS Large 3br villa, well-maintained complex. Avail now. Modern, bright, North facing. Solar, a/c, LUG. $550pw. 0433302301 for appt. Photos: www.brunswick-heads.com BEACHSIDE SUFFOLK TOWNHOUSE 3br, 2.5 bthrm, garage, pool, security, refs req, $700pw. accom@byron 0421603564 MYOCUM peaceful new clean studio for veg, drug & alcohol free person/s. $185pw. Email: cmckellar49@gmail.com STORAGE CLUNES Single-car garage, safe, dry, lockable, $150pm. 0418662285 MULLUM private sunny half-house, 1br, living room, bthrm, kitchen, a/c, 5 min Mullum + beach, 12 min Byron, n/s, d/f, working single pref, long lease, $290pw + elect + bond, no pets, not suitable for kids. Ph 66843048 MULLUM light & sunny 3br, 2 bthrm home. DLUG, NBN to premises. A/con, 6 mnths with option to renew, no pets $630pw. Ph 0407455212. OCEAN SHORES Designer modern apartment. 2br, 2 bthrm, balcony, outdoor areas, s/s kitchen, LUG $450pw incl water. Phone Lynne 0418688436 MULLUM 1br f-furn cottage on river (boat incl), full kitchen, wood floors, a/c, carport, 2 min town. Suit working cple/sgle. Refs req. No pets. Avail until mid-Oct. $385pw + elect. Gas, WiFi incl. Ph 0413274990

TO LEASE MULLUM OFFICE Large air conditioned office with reception area & balcony in beautifully restored building in central Mullum. Suit professional looking for sunny & elegant workspace. Flexible rental agreement. Phone 0414832375 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 STUNNING HEALING SPACE In the heart of Mullum approx 8x5m2, f-f for massage/counseling etc, flexible use. contact Clio 0402157933

Prime Retail Space In Bangalow Village on Byron Street. Approx 40 sqm, light & bright, high ceilings & air conditioning. Owner is seeking a long term tenant. $590 p/w inc GST. Available Now.

Bangalow Real Estate

6687 2479

OFFICE / RETAIL SPACE

O.SHORES granny flat, unfurn, carport, courtyard. Suit working single/cple. Cool & comfy, $300pw incl. No pets. 66803176

for lease in central Byron 65 sqm centrally located on Jonson Street

MULLUM 3br 2 bthrm unfurn. Short term neg. Aircon, D/wash, fenced garden & carport. $560pw & bond. 0406370794

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Call Tuc 0412 322 933 Mullumbimby 3br 1bth $480 3br 2bth $550 Brunswick Heads 2br 1bth $395 2br 1bth $410 2br 1bth $450 3br 1bth contact agent South Golden Beach 2br 1bth $490 3br 2bth $650 Pottsville 4br 2bth $750 Myocum 5br 2bth contact agent Commercial – Billinudgel Premium showroom & warehouse space. 445m2. Certified organic. Contact office for details & inspection L.J. Hooker Brunswick Heads 6685 0177

POSITIONS VACANT EXPERIENCED individual plasterer / subcontractor wanted for local plastering business. Need ABN, car & tools. Contact 66804660 LONG-TERM JOB No travellers. Exp. gardener 3-5 days pw for local gardening & mowing business. Pref. long experience with zero-turn mowers, hedging & brushcutting. kerrieferguson@gmail.com WARNING The Department of Fair Trading has warned people to be very careful about responding to advertisements offering work at home. Readers should be wary if asked to pay money upfront for employment opportunities and never send money to a post office box CARPENTER WANTED 5 yrs exp req. on residential construction. 0401753619

5/16 The Terrace, Brunswick Heads

The Byron Shire Echo April 25, 2018 51

Classifieds POSITIONS VACANT continued

GoByron Drivers Wanted Choose your own hours Earn great money Be your own boss Full training provided

COMMUNITY MARKET MANAGER

We are seeking someone to join the vibrant team at Byron Community Centre to be the manager of the Byron Community Market. The role is part-time. The successful applicant will: • Have experience in managing markets and/or events • Have high level communication and organisational skills • Be confident in high pressure, sometimes stressful situations • Work well with a team A position description is available by emailing: byronmarkets@byroncentre.com.au Applications close 2 May www.byroncentre.com.au

Email: info@gobyron.com.au Phone: 6620 9200

LOST & FOUND

ORGANIC FARM HAND Commercial Organic Cert. market garden (Ewingsdale) is looking for experienced operator. Good organisational skills a must, seedlings knowledge an advantage. 30hrs pw.

Email: oori@bigpond.com

Crystal Castle is seeking a strong, fit, enthusiastic

Grounds Maintenance Assistant to join our team. Tasks include assisting with building renovation, masonry, plumbing, painting & general grounds maintenance. Casual with some weekend work. Minimum 3 years experience. Please send resume and cover letter to markt@crystalcastle.com.au

• The Art Of Research (For Your Next Book)

Thu 3rd May • Social Media For Business

Sun 6th May • Settlements - Sustainable Housing And Appropriate Technology

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Spell & The Gypsy Collective are seeking a fit model to participate in 2-3 hour fitting sessions, 1-2 days per week with our design team. This roles involves you trying on clothing whilst our design team analyse the fit/design of each garment. Why join our family? • Beautiful open plan office space • Great friendly team • Generous hourly rate To be considered, please email a short introduction of yourself, your availability, your measurements and three images of your front, back and side to chelsea@spelldesigns.com. We thank everyone in advance for their application, however only those selected for interview will be contacted.

RTO NO: 90013

Cherry is one of our adorable teenagers available for adoption. She’s a pretty calico cat who has a sweet nature & is very happy around other cats. Cherry is playful & adores chasing her best friend Peppa around the shelter. If you’re a shelter cat, it’s always nice to have a buddy to hang out with. Why not stop by & visit them? You could be their next best friend. To meet Cherry, Peppa & our other cats & kittens, please visit the Cat Adoption Centre at

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52 April 25, 2018 The Byron Shire Echo

– Bruce Cameron

This is a bit of sad deja vu because delightful tortie couple ALLEY and MILLY peeped out of these pages a while back. Despite being such adorable, friendly, smoochable youngsters they are still waiting to greet their special hooman(s), who might just be you. Easy going, undemanding, good looking and super eager to be adopted. All cats are desexed, vaccinated and microchipped.

BELOVED MADHUBALA CHRISTINA It has been one year since you left my arms, That early morning in April. ϐ ǡ ǡ ϐ ǡ Ǥ I know now the taste of grief And how joy can return again. I know that loss is married to love But the Heart never, never dies. My love for you is untainted and sings, Echoing among the stars And your song meets mine Every day, every day. Your Timothee

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MUSICAL NOTES

Starts 18th June

When we adopt a dog or any pet, we know it is going to end with us having to say goodbye, but we still do it. And we do it for a very good reason: They bring so much joy and optimism and happiness. They attack every moment of every day with that attitude.

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LOST: KEYS Mullum car/house, remote unlock, yellow/red string. Ph 0420595655

DOUBLE BASS REPAIRS Setups, Lessons. 0412172089

PIANO TUNING

Reuben Barkley. 0411689604 www.barkleypianotuner.com Second generation family trade QUALITY PIANOS for sale, and expert piano tuning. Ph Fred Cole 0412216019

A LIFE CELEBRATION AND MEMORIAL SERVICE WILL BE HELD FOR Clancy William Saunders Durrumbul Hall Saturday, 28th April 3:30pm – 10pm You are sorely missed and forever in our hearts. Rest In Peace Clancy Bill.

TYSON Tyson is a 4 month old desexed male mastiff x boxer - part of a litter of 5 in care. He is a handsome boy, eager to learn and has some basic obedience training. If you can give Tyson a permanent, loving home please contact Pam on 0421 017 461. Visit friendsofthepound. com to view other dogs and cats looking for a home.

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6688 6433 0419 369 609 6628 1568 0490 329 159

4th SUN Bangalow 6687 1911 4th SUN Nimbin 0458 506 000 4th SUN Murwillumbah 0422 565 168 4th SUN (in a 5 Sunday month) Coolangatta 5th SUN Lennox Head 5th SUN Nimbin

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4th SAT Evans Head 0439 489 631 4th SAT Wilsons Creek 6684 0299

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Community at work Regular As Clockwork DEADLINE NOON FRIDAY Email copy marked ‘Regular As Clockwork’ to editor@echo.net.au.

Neighbourhood Centre Mullumbimby & District Neighbourhood Centre is open Monday–Thursday 9am–4pm and offers a range of services and activities. Everyone is welcome to come and enjoy art, music, games, great food and more. Call reception on 6684 1286 and discover what is on offer.

Low-cost or free food Food Box Thursdays 9.30–11.30am at Uniting Church, Mullumbimby. If you have any sort of Centrelink card you may purchase cheap food, obtain free veges, and enjoy a cuppa. Free Food Relief Bags for anyone doing it tough, every Thursday 9–11am at The Hub Ocean Shores, cnr Rajah Rd and Bindaree Way. No ID or Concession Card required. NILs referral service also available. Check Facebook page The Hub Baptist Ocean Shores for details. C3 Care Byron Bay Food Care – log on to www.c3byronbay.com to see if you are eligible, or call 6680 8872.

Help with bills Program providing people on low income assistance with electricity and natural gas bills. Phone Kristin at Byron Community Centre 6685 6807.

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.

Volunteer hub 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.

On The Horizon DEADLINE NOON FRIDAY Email copy marked ‘On The Horizon’ to editor@echo.net.au.

Market and garage sale The Wilsons Creek Community Hall is holding a market day and garage sale on Saturday 28 April, 10am–2pm, to raise funds for the Hall. Stall sites are $10. Bookings on 6684 0299.

Scouts fundraiser Brunswick Scouts are hosting a free, family-friendly community event Friends for Life at the Terrace Reserve over 11am– 4pm on Saturday, 28 April. Live music, activities and great prizes to delight the young and the young at heart.

BV Probus Club The Brunswick Valley Probus Club meeting Tuesday 1 May, 10am, at The

Cty Shopping Bus 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.

Language exchange Byron language exchange club runs every 2nd Friday from 6pm. Practise other languages or help someone with your English! Find us on Facebook. Contact byronbaylanguages@gmail.com.

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 Monday–Friday 10am–3pm. Corner Ashton & Deacon Streets Bangalow. Available for event hire and welcomes all groups and visitors. Phone 6687 2183.

Drug support groups Call Alcoholics Anonymous 1800 423 431 or 0401 945 671 – 30 meetings a week in the Shire – www.aa.org.au. Are you experiencing difficulties and challenges because of the alcohol or drug use of someone close to you? Learn coping skills and gain support from others. Narcotics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem. We are recovering addicts who meet regularly to help each other stay clean. For information and meetings call 6680 7280. Are you concerned about somebody else’s drinking? Al-Anon Family Groups meetings held Fridays 2pm. Uniting Church Bangalow – 1300 252 666 www.al-anon.alateen.org/ australia. Crystal Meth Anonymous is a fellowship of people for whom all drugs (but especially crystal meth) had become a problem. Meeting held Wednesday 7.30am, Byron Bay Surf Club. Call 0478 061 479 to speak to a local member or visit www.crystalmeth.org.au.

Library fun Baby Bounce session Mullumbimby – Tuesday 11.30am, Brunswick Heads – Friday 10.30am, Byron Bay – Friday 10am. Storytime for toddlers and pre-school children Mullumbimby – Friday 10.30am, Brunswick Heads – Monday 10.30am, Byron Bay – Tuesday 10.30am.

No-interest loans Byron Community No Interest Loans Scheme (NILS) is a not-for-profit community program providing people on low incomes with safe, fair interestfree loans of up to $1,000 for purchasing essential goods and services. Contact the Byron Community Centre to find out more.

Budgeting Support 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 Ocean Shores Country Club. Guest speaker Inta Rudajs. Enquiries Margaret 6680 3316.

U3A Ballina/Byron Term II begins on Tuesday 1 May. David Shaw will present a poetry session. Meeting at the RSL, Mullumbimby, running from 10am till 12 noon. All welcome. Enquiries 6680 7350.

Byron Harmony Day

make an appointment; private sessions run every Monday afternoon.

Breast Cancer Support Breast Cancer Support Group Byron Bay meets at the NSW Cancer Council rooms, 8/130 Jonson St, Byron (upstairs in shop complex next to Byron RSL) at 12pm–2pm, every 3rd Wednesday of the month. Family and friends welcome. Phone Ingrid 0431 207 453.

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.

Free ESL Free English as a Second Language classes in Mullumbimby, all levels: beginner to advanced. For more information phone 66720834

CI Contact Improvisation Saturdays in Mullumbimby 10–12 noon at St Martin’s, Church Hall, Stuart Street, Mullumbimby. All levels of dancers welcome. Enquiries 0402 059 564.

End-of-life choices Voluntary euthanasia options are discussed at meetings held quarterly at the Robina Community Centre. Attendees must be Exit Members. More information on www.exitinternational. net or phone Elaine 07 5580 8215 or 0421 796 713.

Grief support The Good Grief Group meets every Monday 6–7.30pm upstairs at the Mullumbimby Neighbourhood Centre. This is a safe place for people to share their grief and bereavement.

Seniors Activities 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 Friday at Marvell Hall play mahjong, canasta, 500 etc and enjoy a cuppa at 1.30pm. Marvell Street East, Byron Bay. Enqs: Nancy 0498 480 373

Toastmasters Byron Cavanbah Toastmasters meetings coaching in communication and self-development run on 1st and 3rd Mondays, 6.40pm at Byron Services Club, Byron Bay; www.byronbaytoastmasters. org. Mullum Magic Toastmasters meet every 2nd, 4th and 5th Monday Presbyterian Church Hall, 101 Stuart Street Mullumbimby 7–9 pm. Contact Megan 0424 002 636 or Bruce 0418 515 991.

Choirs Bay Singers meet Wednesdays at Byron Community Centre, 10–11am. Ukulele class at 11.45am. Enquiries 0425 363 589, kim@kimbanffy.com.au. Marvell St East, (beyond sportsfield) Byron Bay. Info: Celia 6684 3623.

Op Shop sale This Saturday all summer clothing half price at the Uniting Church Op Shop, corner Dalley and Whain Streets, Mullumbimby. Open Saturday 8am till 12 noon.

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Byron Harmony Day is taking place on Saturday, 28 April at the Mullumbimby Civic Hall from 11am till 9pm to celebrate out multicultural society.

Mullumbimby Hospital Auxiliary Mothers Day raffle. Tickets on sale outside Woolworths 27/28 April and 4 May. Proceeds towards palliative care equipment for Byron Central Hospital.

Ballina Photography Club

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The Ballina Photography Club this Thursday 26 April, 6.30pm at the Kentwell Centre, corner Moon Street and Bangalow Road. New members welcome. Enquiries, Jean 0478 296 242.

Exit International’s (EI) next meeting will be held on 10 May. EI is a voluntary euthanasia group that meets quarterly at the Robina Community Centre. Attendees must be Exit members. Information at www.exitinternational.net or phone Elaine 5580 8215 or 0421 796 713.

Byron Sophia Byron Sophia Philosophical Group: Victoria Thompson, author and lecturer, will discuss the effect food has on our health and the environment. Thursday 26 April, 1.30 till 3.30pm, at Marvell Hall,

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Calling artists! Start preparing your entries for the 2018 Ocean Shores Art Expo. This year’s theme is TREASURES. Entries close 24 July

Singchronicity Choir meets Thursdays at Ocean Shores 6.45pm-8.45pm. Eclectic and catchy repertoire. Ph 0425 363 589. Mullum’s Biggest Little Town Choir meets weekly at the Mullumbimby Civic Centre, 55 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.

Craft group The Uniting Craft & Social Group meets every Monday 9.30am–2.30pm at the Uniting Church in Carlyle Street, Byron Bay. Bring lunch and whatever else you need. 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.

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All ages, all standards, encouragement and professional coaching. Ph Mike 6684 6281.

Potters & Sculptors Mullumbimby Potters & Sculptors at the Community Art Gallery at the Drill Hall is open every Tues & Thurs 10am–2pm and on the 3rd Saturday of the month (Mullum Market Day) 10am–4pm. Pottery and sculpture crafted by local artisans for sale, 2 Jubilee Ave, Mullumbimby. Enquiries: mullum. potters@yahoo.com.au.

Homeschool teens Get together with other teens and their families for regular meet-ups and activities in and around Byron Shire homeschooling families. For more information join our Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/ byronbayteenhomeschool/.

Uniting Church Op Shop, Dalley St, Mullumbimby – open each Saturday 8am–12 noon. Byron Bay Anglican Op Shop opens Monday to Friday 9am–1pm. Volunteers needed. Enq Jeni: 6685 7816 or 0439 344 281. 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, closing sale, 1 River Terrace (behind post office), Mullumbimby – open Monday to Friday 9.30am - 4pm.

CWA Bangalow Interested women are welcome Wednesdays and Thursdays 9am–1pm and the second Monday evening of each month 5–7pm in the Bangalow CWA rooms for craft and friendship. Rooms are open daily Monday–Saturday 9am–noon.

Baby massage At the Mullumbimby & District Neighbourhood Centre. Friday mornings, weekly, baby massage classes for expectant and new parents and carers. Gold coin contribution. Bookings essential. Linda 0411 985 557

Junior chess club The Mullum junior chess club meets after school until 4.45pm Tuesdays in room F4 at Mullumbimby High School. (open for registration mid-June). More than $5,000 in prize money. Visit: www. osartexpo.com for more information. Ocean Shores Country Club Art Competition/Exhibition. Artists: get your paintbrushes out and start painting. Gala Opening and presentation to winning artist Thursday 17 May, 6.30pm at the Ocean Shores Country Club. Three categories: Acrylics/Oils, Watercolour, and Drawing/Pastel will be judged. Entry forms are available online at www. oceanshorescc.com.au. Entries must be received by 4 May – no late entries accepted. Contact Marilyn 6680 4907.

Vegan feast A community lunch will be held on Sunday 29 April, 12.30–3.30pm at Mullumbimby Community Gardens. This is fundraising for the Mullum Food Co-op’s solar coolroom project. Tickets available at the co-op on Tuesdays and Fridays, 10am–1pm, Mullumbimby Bookshop and online via FB vegan feast fundraiser. Please note: This section is intended for the benefit of non-profit community groups.

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.

Mantras Pralad and The Chants are inviting you to join them to chant mantras. Every third Sunday of the month 6.30–8pm at The Yellow Church, 9 Myocum St, Mullumbimby. Enq 07 5590 7746.

Permaculture Byron Permaculture Byron Bay meets 1st Wednesday of every month at Marvell Hall 7.30pm. Ph 0427 862 902

Indonesian Dance Class

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Volunteers sought for Northern Rivers Volunteering, representing more than 100 community organisations. 6621 7397.

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Ocean Shores women Entry period extended Bangalow Rugby on bowlers win pennant for Winter Whales swim top and unbeaten

Swimmers had perfect conditions in 2017. Photo supplied

Ocean Shores Grade 4 Pennant Winners: (back row L–R) Barbara Sprengel, JudyWilliams, Lyn McGowran, JM Quirke, Johnnie Busch, Glenys Johnston (front row) Janine Howell, Margaret Enright. Photo supplied

Ocean Shores has won the grade four Tweed Byron Women’s Bowls Pennant and will contest the regional playoffs in May. Kingscliff finished in second place. ‘Our little club, with limited membership, formed a successful team along with our reserves of Sam Curtis, Dot Gardiner and Marg Wilkes and won the first nine rounds in the competition,’

Ocean Shores secretary Janine Howell said. ‘We did not have it all our own way going down to Cabarita in the last game with minimal margins on both rinks. ‘Overall we managed to obtain 40 points to win the flag for our club. ‘We are now off to Yamba to play in the Regional Pennants playoffs in May,’ she said.

The Winter Whales Swim Committee have made changes to its charity event including an extended signon period The Byron Bay Property Sales Ocean Swim Classic, the Byron Bay Mitre 10 Miniswim and the re-instated elite Superfish category take place on Sunday, May 6. Up until this year the online entries closed at midnight on the Friday night of the swim weekend. This has now been extended to close Saturday afternoon of the Swim weekend at 2pm. Entries in person will be accepted at the Byron Bay

Surf Life Saving Club Function Hall on Friday, May 4, (from 3pm till 5pm) and on Saturday, May 5, (from 2pm till 4pm). Cash or cheque only. Postal entries should be mailed to arrive on the Thursday before the Swim weekend. The Winter Whales have donated over $800,000 to a range of local charities over its 31-year history. All details and further information about race day check-ins, race rules and conditions and the course are on www.byronbayoceanswimclassic.com.au.

Byron Bay Rams continue their winning ways against Lennox Head Words and pic Dog Whistle

The goals came thick and fast when the Apex Digital Byron Bay Rams visited Lennox Head for round two of the 2018 Football Far North Coast Championships. The Reserve Grade Rams set the pace with a resounding six-goal victory over the Sharks. Shaun Packham put away two goals, Will Ennis bagged a hat trick, and Robbie Strachan completed the half dozen. The headline match saw more of the same, with another six-goal spree for the Rams, this time countered by three cracking responses from the Sharks. Byron was first on the board when Aaron Walker rose to a cross from Thiago Priori to nod in the opener. Five minutes later the hapless Lennox keeper punched out a clearance straight to the feet of Jono Pierce who calmly lobbed the ball into the net from the edge of the box. Nineteen minutes in and

New recruit Kris Lane took two goals for the Rams.

a goal mouth clash between Jono Pierce and the Sharks keeper delivered the ball to Rams recruit Kris Lane, who finished cleanly to take the score to 3–0. Late in the first half a powerful drive from Aaron Walker deflected off a defender and left the Lennox keeper no chance.

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Fightback A Lennox counterattack finished with a strike across the Byron goal that slipped inside the far post and the Rams went into the break up 4–0. The Rams seemed to go off the boil early in the second half and Lennox pushed

hard to get back in the game. Harper Hain came off the bench into the Rams defence 20 minutes into the second session and quickly made his mark with goal number five. Five minutes later, Lennox’s Barton brothers pushed forward and took goal two for Lennox, firing up the Sharks’ attack. The Rams responded with renewed vigour and some slick combinations saw Kris Lane take his second and the Rams’ sixth for the day. A valiant Sharks squad fought all the way to the wire and a cracking long-range shot from the Lennox striker finished the day’s goal-fest and took the final score to 6–3. The Anzac Cup Finals over last week brought a break from the main football competition. The Rams next take to the field in the Premiership on Saturday April 28 at home against Lismore Thistles. Reserves kick off at 1pm and the Prems at 3pm.

Bangalow setting a scrum against Southern Cross Uni who they beat in round three. Photo supplied

The Bangalow Rugby Union first grade side are sitting on the top of the competition ladder after making it four from four when they beat Lismore 25–7 on the weekend. The Bangalow Rebels came back strongly in the second half scoring three unanswered tries after they were behind 7–5 at half time. ‘It was a rusty performance in the first half but we came home strongly,’ club captain Tim Mundy said. The side was well led by captain Dan Rawlinson and five-eight Tom Slater had a strong kicking game, he said. ‘The highlight of the match was loose-head prop Sam Rawsthorne making a 40-metre run to score a try that gave us the bonus point,’ he said.

The success so far this year was down to improved fitness, good player numbers and quality young players coming up through the club into first grade. ‘We are really looking forward to playing some of the competition’s top sides over the next month or so,’ he said. Bangalow’s next game is the local derby against Byron Bay at the Recreation Ground in Byron. ‘Both teams should be at their best after a competition bye this weekend. Both teams will be fired up,’ he said. Byron Bay rugby has also had a good start to the season, collecting three wins from four starts. The competition has a rest this weekend before resuming on May 5.

MBVFC beat Ocean Shores in ANZAC Cup

MBVFC picked up bragging rights beating Ocean Shores 5–2 in the ANZAC Cup played in Lismore. Photo Supplied

Ocean Shores came up short against a clinical Mullumbimby, losing the open B final of the ANZAC Cup 5–2 on the wekend. Shores threatened early and scored the first goal, but this spurred Mullumbimby Brunswick Valley into action and they controled the majority of the rest of the game.

‘The game was played in great spirit with the clubs being very friendly rivals,’ Shores publicity officer Michelle Begg said. The MBVFC women’s Premier League team is also having a successful season recording two wins from two games beating Byron Bay (4–2) and Casino (6–3).

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Mullumbimby win Far North Coast waterpolo premiership Mullumbimby has won this year’s Far North Coast Waterpolo championship with a 14–11 win over Southern Cross University at Mullumbimby pool two weeks ago. The secret to the win was a good team culture that could successfully blend old and young players into a good squad, player Paul Bannister said. The win capped off a season that struggled to gain momentum as two local pools were closed. This led to several forfeits and an element of the inknwon. ‘It was hard to gauge how well we were going as several games were forfeited along the way,’ he said. It was a tough finals day including the grandfinal and the semis, meaning back-to-

Mullumbimby on the attack in the waterpole garndfinal played at Mullumbimby Pool. Photo Jeff Dawson

back games for the finalists. The Mullumbimby team is made of several 60-plus-

year-olds and a contingent of young players. ‘Southern Cross Univer-

sity tried to play fast but we used the ball and our heads,’ said Paul. It was a close competitive final with Mullum just in front at halftime with the scores at 9–8. Mullumbimby was able to get the upper hand in the last quarter. Last year the side were contenders as well, but the finals were cancelled after the floods. ‘We had great support from the Mullumbimby Pool, who stayed open so we could train,’ he said. The winning team included: John Dixon, Mark Edwards, Kyle Sharpe, Pim Hendrix, Brian Donnellan, Greg Milham, Shannon Hunter, Scott Harvey, Nathan Deihm Tony Margan and Paul Bannister.

Giants retain the Grant Cook Cup The Mullumbimby Giants rugby league side have kept there unblemished 2018 record with a 22–20 win over Murwillumbah to retain the Cook Cup last weekend. Playing away, the Giants got off to a good start by ‘playing good footy and completing their sets of six,’ coach Dallas Waters said. But ill discipline started to cost the side particularly around the ruck, he said. ‘We gave them back-toback sets of six and invited them into our half and back into the game,’ he said. ‘But we are all very happy to go into round four with three wins,’ he said. Considering how much defending the side had to do the coach was pleased with the defensive effort. ‘We really backed each

other up,’ he said. The Mullum Giants also won against the Mustangs in the first running of the Grant Cook Cup in 2017. Reserve Grade went down 30–12 and in the Ladies League the Giants team lost 20–10 Next week the Giants take on Byron Bay at home on the Les Donnelly Field. The Byron Red Devils have not won a game this season but Waters isn’t taking anything for granted. ‘In local derbies like this both teams have a lot to play for,’ he said. ‘If we can control our penalities we know we can play footy and score points, and our defence is really holding up,’ he said. All the action in Mullumbimby starts from 12pm.

Junior league players make rep Young surfers collect squad ahead of French tour trophies at Oz Grom Cup Nicky Sheridan

Byron Bay Lennox Head Junior Rugby League Club players Zain Mitchell-Dowding, Kolbi Wood and Ben Moyle have been named in this season’s Under-15 representative squad. During the year these young men will participate in the Country Rugby League championships, which will be held in Port Macquarie in September. Zain was also selected for the Titans Development Squad during the off season. Following the local championships two of the boys, Zain and Kolbi, will be travelling to London and France to participate in an international tournament. The Tweed Byron Group 18 JRL have been invited by Federation France Rugby League to take part in the Battlefields Challenge 2018 commemorating 100 years since WWI. The late October carnival will include U/15 rep teams from France, New Zealand and England. This team is the only Australian team to be invited. During game days, the players will also be paying homage to the end of the Great War, where they will visit the preserved battlefields, honour our ancestors and celebrate the friendship

Crystal Cylinders

Kolbi and Zain will be packing their bags for an extensive tour of France and England later this year. Photo supplied

of our allies.

Wreath laying This will also include a wreath-laying ceremony at the foot of the monument at Villers Bretonneux National Memorial and Cemetery in remembrance of our ancestors. This will be a great source of history where everyone involved will learn to understand the contribution made by Australia during the first world war. The tour will culminate with the players spending some time in specialist sports training facilities in the

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south of France, where they will also play against a local school team. The tour will also include many historical sites for all members to visit from Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, Houses of Parliament to the Eiffel Tower, Seine River, Sir John Monash Centre and Disneyland Paris, just to name a few. Byron Lennox JRLC would like to congratulate the boys on such an exciting opportunity to represent our local club, community and Australia in what will be a tour to remember.

Our local groms came home from Coffs Harbour with some trophies from the Billabong Oz Grom Cup after some impressive performances from our future stars. Most importantly all of them had a fun school holiday trip with great waves, beautiful weather and the opportunity to make new friends and be inspired to improve their surfing skills. Byron Bay’s Laihani Zoric finished fourth in the 8-andunder mixed division final after progressing through three rounds of competition. In the 10 Girls Lennox Head surfers Ocea Curtis and Mia Baker finished in third and fourth respectively. Harry O’Brien from Lennox Head finished in equal ninth in the 12 Boys after progressing through multiple rounds of competition. Byron Bay’s Touma Cameron, Lennox Head’s Jack O’Brien and Jai Glinderman finished fifth, seventh and ninth respectively in the heavily contested 14 Boys division.

Longboarders Small clean waves and sunny skies greeted the Lennox Longboarders for their April club round. Standout longboard surf-

Byron Bay’s Laihani Zoric on her way to fourth place in the the Oz Grom Cup. Photo Ethan Smith/SNSW

ing came from new member Jenny Helyer, who achieved a third in the firsts’ final, an awesome result for a rookie performance. The round was won by the returning 2017 Club champion Aaron Smith. Aaron also displayed some surfboard foil riding that enchanted all on the Lennox foreshore with the amazing technology. Lee Middleton was also returning to the club and collected second place in third grade. The conditions held out all morning, though surfing the low tide with small waves made it difficult to

score points. Winner of the voucher from our club sponsor Lennox Surf Shop was Emily Simmonds.

Results Firsts: 1 Aaron Smith, 2 Greg Gover, 3 Jenny Hellyer, 4 Steve Walshe, 5 Una Fahey. Seconds: 1 Emily Simmonds, 2 Terry Kay, 3 Jake Ryan, 4 Wayne Booth. Thirds: 1 Gary Alford, 2 Lee Middleton, 3 Jim Baker, 4 John Eddy, 5 Reuben Greentree. Fourths: 1 Roz Mackenzie, 2 Craig Leete, 3 James Foster, 4 Celine Walshe, 5 Adele Purbrick.

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Want to have your say on whether a handful of Australia’s wealthiest individuals should be gifted public land and a beach for their poor real estate decisions? Submissions for five rock wall ‘repairs’ (read rebuilds) along Belongil Beach have been extended until April 27, say the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH). Yet OEH are yet to explain to Backlash how these DAs were given adequate public exposure given they are hard to find on the OEH website and were barely advertised. One thing is sure – if approved, these structures will eventually erode a world-class surfing beach and guarantee private ocean views for mostly nonlocal millionaires. The DAs are at https://bit.ly/2IXzDFL and a template opposing the madness is on page 12. Q Q Q Q

Ocean Shores residents between Warrambool Road and Bian Court were quick to respond to what appears to be a horrendous development application just lodged for thirteen houses across three residential lots. Surrounding residents have been given just two weeks to review complex technical aspects to the large-scale development application and lodge concerns. Only immediate neighbours were advised by a letter from Council. To see the proposal and campaign against, visit https://bit.ly/2Hjf2iS. Q Q Q Q

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Has Backlash become a posting board for endless DAs by Council and the government? Here’s another: Public submissions for the Brunswick Heads Boat Harbour Master Plan close May 1. Local yachtie Dean Jefferies says

he attended DPI open day last weekend and raised his concern that an upmarket, privatised marina could spell the end of local yachties and fishers being able to afford to moor in the harbour. ‘A major concern is that if they tender out the process to build the floating pontoons to a private company who then can put whatever price they want on a mooring, then it is likely the mooring fees will more than double,’ Mr Jefferys said. Have your say on the draft plans via https://bit.ly/2Ka3PiC. Q Q Q Q

Horray – a peak tourism industry group has admitted that communities who host visitors were often left disaffected. Tourism and Transport Forum Australia chief executive Margie Osmond told the ABC, ‘You’ve got cities like Barcelona and Berlin and others who are electing local governments off the back of an anti-tourism feeling, and that’s a great shame,’ she said.

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Believe it or not, but seismic testing was conducted off the coast of Newcastle recently. According to the Newcastle Herald, the plan to shoot acoustic pulses into the ocean floor in search of gas deposits was opposed by the state government yet approved by the federal regulator. Negative impacts on sealife were unfounded, reassured nice corporation Asset Energy that would benefit if approved for offshore drilling.

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