The Byron Shire Echo – Issue 34.12 – August 28, 2019

ALL THE BURNING ISSUES The Byron Shire Echo • Volume 34 #12 • Wednesday, August 28, 2019 • www.echo.net.au

Local demonstration against Amazon catastrophe

The Amazon is burning and several hundred members of Byron Shire’s Brazilian community and friends joined worldwide protests on Sunday to express their distress and anger over the devastating fires. The aim was to send a message to right-wing Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro’s administration who recently declared the Amazon open for business, leading to massive burning of vegetation to clear land for farming. Photos Jeff Dawson

Man turns himself in over hit and run Time to move on the that caused Tim Watkins’s death Uluru Statement While the Mullumbimby community is still grieving the loss of Tim Watkins, police say a man has been charged with dangerous driving causing death, amongst other offences, after the hit-and-run on Sunday June 23.

Tim Watkins was only 22 years old when he was hit by a car while riding his bicycle home along Wilsons Creek Road, Wilsons Creek, at 12.45am.

He was found fatally injured on the roadside by a passing motorist who called emergency services; however, he died at the scene.

At about 9.15am on August 20 a 51-year-old man handed himself in to Coffs Harbour Police Station and was arrested.

The man, Stuart Charles Newman, who has spent time in

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Wilsons Creek, faced Coffs Harbour Local Court on August 21. Magistrate James Gibson refused Mr Newman bail. The matter is listed for October 23 at the Tweed Heads Court.

A search warrant was executed at a home in Bellingen and a vehicle, mobile phone and car parts have been seized and taken for forensic examination.

Tweed/Byron crime manager, Detective Chief Inspector Brendon Cullen, thanked the community for their assistance during the investigation.

‘I know the death of this young man has had a significant impact on his family and the local community,’ said Detective Chief Inspector Cullen.

‘Tweed/Byron detectives have worked extremely hard on this case

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and have received and processed a great deal of information throughout the investigation.

‘As a consequence, we now have a man to face court on very serious charges, and I thank everyone involved for their support and assistance,’ he said.

Tim’s family are understandably relieved but say it’s also quite surreal. The family says they are not ready to comment and have requested time and privacy to process the news.

Detectives from the Tweed/ Byron Police District attended the Coffs Harbour station and charged the man with: Dangerous driving occasioning death; Negligent driving occasioning death; and, Fail to stop and assist after a vehicle impact causing death.

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Aslan Shand When Australia voted on the referendum to give Indigenous Australians the vote they did so overwhelmingly.

Advocate Thomas Mayor believes that if Australians were given the chance to vote on accepting the Uluru Statement from the Heart they would once again support the Indigenous people of this land.

The Uluru Statement from the Heart was the united outcome in 2017 of the nationwide First Nations Dialogues run by the Referendum Council that sought two outcomes.

Firstly, that a First Nations voice (a representative body to give advice to parliament) is enshrined in the Constitution; and secondly, that

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a Makarrata commission should be formed to supervise a process of agreement-making between governments and First Nations, and truth-telling to the nation.

Since the Uluru Statement from the Heart was presented on 26 May 2017, Thomas Mayor has been travelling Australia talking about what this means not only for Indigenous Australians but more broadly about how important it is for this country to be able to move forward and heal.

He was in Mullumbimby last week at Politics in the Pub explaining that the Uluru Statement is an appeal to the Australian people.

‘I haven’t stopped since the Uluru Statement from the Heart was put forward,’ he told The Echo. ▶ Continued on page 4

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Paul Bibby Just eight months after the striking edifice first emerged from the Bayshore Drive roundabout, the ‘Disco Dong’ has been consigned to the annals of history by Byron Council.

In a unanimous vote at Thursday’s full Council meeting, councillors decided to decommission the structure and sell off the 5,000 individual metal birds that make up its construction in a bid to recoup some of the costs of the failed project.

‘A lot of lessons have been learnt,’ said Greens councillor Sarah Ndiaye, the chair of the Public Art Panel, which selected the sculpture’s design.

‘It was fraught with difficulties from the start.

There was no time to allow a full and proper process; installation could have been better managed… the artist better informed about our requirements.

‘They’re the kind of things you have to learn the hard way.’

The decision to decommission the controversial sculpture followed a recent investigation by an engineer, which found significant structural and safety issues.

It is understood that these included the safety risks associated with people climbing the sculpture, stopping on the road to take selfies, and some underlying structural issues.

However, the exact nature of these problems is set to remain a mystery, with a bare majority of councillors

electing to keep the report under wraps.

The meeting heard that the artist, Corey Thomas, had suffered significantly as a result of the controversy surrounding the sculpture.

‘I’ve never seen anything like it,’ Cr Ndiaye said.

‘He’s had to shut down his website. He’s lost his next two commissions and there’s been a serious impact on his mental health.

‘He’s suffered a crushing from this community.’

Labor councillor Paul

Spooner said the council needed to release the engineering report to put an end to the secrecy that had surrounded the project.

‘I don’t think when mistakes are made you bury your head in the sand,’ he said.

‘We can’t do things better when we keep a cloak of secrecy. It’s about the wider reputation of the Shire. We need to change the things we’re doing, to send a message to people that we’re above board.’

Councillors voted to sell

off the 5,000 individual bids that made up the sculpture for $20 each.

The proceeds will go to covering the costs of decommissioning the sculpture, estimated to be between $11,000 and $13,000, with the remainder going to remediating the roundabout or a homelessness initiative.

A timeframe for taking down the sculpture has not yet been set.

▶ Why the Dong should stay – see page 19

Keeping the kids safe in the surf

Over 200 people ran and walked in the Byron to Bruns fun run on Sunday to collectively raise more than $4,000 to help children learn surf safety through Nippers. The annual event is a fundraiser for the Brunswick Heads Surf Club, that has recently won approval from the Byron Shire Council for major upgrades. Money raised will buy new boards and cozzies for nippers learning to swim, surf, and help others on the beach. Photo Jeff Dawson

Water wise 160L Challenge winners Discovering the top watersaving ideas to reduce the average daily consumption per person from 194 litres to 160 litres a day was the challenge set by Rous County Council earlier this year.

Five winners from across the region were presented with more than $5,000 in prizes, including a waterefficient household appliance, Wet’n’Wild passes, and rainwater tanks.

Over 50 entries were judged on their innovation, effectiveness, and ease of implementation in reducing personal water use to under 160 litres per person per day.

Rous County Council general manager Phillip Rudd said the entries reveal people are willing to adapt their water-use habits in the long term, but that there is still work to be done and the challenge is not over.

‘The range of ideas were

impressive. They included water-efficient home and landscape designs, rainwater harvesting, and everyday water-saving measures that have a long-term impact. It was especially encouraging to see households adopting simple changes to their water use.’

Lismore’s Samuel and Cynthia Bacon took home the main prize of a waterefficient washing machine or dishwasher to the value of $1,500 for their sub-surface irrigation system. Other Challenge winners were Sally Butler, the Casino Community Garden Project, Southern Cross Public School, and Kate Giddy.

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Aslan Shand The Commonwealth Department of Environment and Energy (DoEE) has confirmed with The Echo that they are currently ‘in contact with the Byron Shire Council regarding their obligations under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act’ (EPBC) in relation of the construction of the Byron bypass.

This is owing to the fact that Council did not refer themselves to DoEE in relation to the bypass’s potential impact on a matter of national environmental significance, that is, the impact it may have on the critically endangered Mitchell’s rainforest snails.

The Echo asked if the Commonwealth was ‘required to ensure that the council stops work or changes their approach to ensure that no further damage to the potential habitat of endangered species is incurred’. A DoEE spokesperson said, ‘The proponent [Byron Shire Council] will bear all risk if work continues at the site and a significant impact is identified.’ While Council has stated that ‘the work Council has undertaken on the bypass has been in keeping with the protocols and guidelines set out by the NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment (formerly OEH)’, the permission to go ahead from the DoEE

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Independent survey The impact of the Byron bypass on the critically endangered Mitchell’s rainforest snail is being investigated by the Commonwealth Department of Environment and Energy. should have been approved prior to the NSW state approvals of the OEH. ‘If the Mitchell’s rainforest snails are present that throws into question the possibility that under the current biodiversity-offset laws that offsetting this with 40ha of degraded swampland may not be possible,’ says Ballina MP Tamara Smith.

Meeting accepted The Byron Shire mayor’s invitation for another briefing for Ms Smith on the bypass has been willingly accepted. ‘The meeting this week will be the fourth or fifth time I have discussed my concerns about the bypass with the Byron Shire mayor,’ she told The Echo.

‘I’ll be asking for an independent survey. The precautionary principle embedded in the government’s planning laws demands that no stone remain unturned in terms of identifying accurately species that a development will impact upon. With a Greens-led council the community’s expectations are of course much higher,’ she said. ‘The community have legitimate expectations that with a Greens-led council and the emphatic Greens policy that does not support biodiversity offsetting that those councillors would be doing everything possible to identify correctly and transparently what species are there and their status. ‘I have had hundreds of constituents talk to me about this issue and it is incumbent on me to pursue these environmental concerns. In an era of extinction of species nothing less is expected of me as a Greens MP.’

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!ëōō Ɛş żſşƆĕĈƖƐĕ şưĕſ Ǖ ƆIJ ŊĶōōƆ Byron Shire Council say that staff, in consultation with NSW government agencies including NPWS, NSW DPI Fisheries and the Marine Park Authority, are continuing to investigate the recent fish kill at Tallow Creek to improve entrance-opening protocols to try to minimise the chances of it happening again.

Tallow and Belongil creeks are Intermittently Closed and Open Lakes and Lagoons (ICOLLs).

Council’s coastal biodiversity coordinator Chloe Dowsett said no-one wants to see a repeat of the fish kill that happened in June, and while Council and agencies improve protocols relating to the future opening of Tallow Creek, the community should be aware that the mouth of the creek has closed. ‘Water levels behind the sandbank at the creek mouth are starting to rise, and are currently sitting at two metres,’ said Ms Dowsett.

At the meeting on 27 June 2019 Council resolved that its preference is that no further openings of the Tallow Creek ICOLL be undertaken without the agreement of Arakwal Corporation, NPWS, and Cape Byron Marine Park, and unless there is a low

probability of a fish kill at the proposed opening time.

Local conservationist Dailan Pugh is demanding NSW Fisheries prosecute Byron Shire Council for knowingly and cruelly killing hundreds of thousands of fish when they opened Tallow Creek estuary in June. This is based on reports obtained under freedom of information that he says prove Council were repeatedly warned of a fish kill and refused to take recommended mitigation actions.

‘The reports by Council’s own consultants Australian Wetland Consulting (AWC) clearly identify in three monitoring reports since 2017 (when there was another massive fish kill), that the principal cause of these fish kills is the decanting of oxygenated surface waters when the estuary is opened leaving deoxygenated subsurface waters behind,’ says Pugh.

‘Suffocation is a horrible, slow, and cruel death as fish are unable to breathe in the water and gasp for air on the surface or pull themselves out of the water onto the shore in desperate, but futile, attempts to survive.’ ▶ Read more in Echonetdaily www.echo.net.au

Lucky orchid time of year

Alyssa Luck was last year’s runner-up in the novice section of the Byron Orchid Society’s annual orchid show. It’s that time of the year again and the orchid society hopes for even more entrants vying for the coveted Ken and Chris Wood Trophy for best novice grower this year. Deliver your orchids to the Mullum Ex-Services Club for judging on Thursday September 5 between 4 and 5pm.

The Orchid Show is open September 6 and 7.

Photo Jeff ‘that’s a little awkward’ Dawson

Uluru Statement gaining momentum ▶ Continued from page 1 ‘There has been a great shift coming for a long time that is gaining momentum.’

However, as with previous attempts at seeking justice and recognition for Indigenous people of this country, the Liberal/National government has rejected the statement.

‘Nationally there has been overwhelming support,’ says Mr Mayor, ‘but the government is so comfortable in its status quo there are some of them that are quite ignorant in their objections – objections that are based on lies.

‘One of the great flaws of our democracy is that a few loud voices in parliament are holding up this long-overdue reform.

‘We are not asking for a third chamber in parliament,’ he said. ‘We are asking for constitutional recognition so that they [the government] can get the policy affecting our people right. Even a conservative former chief justice of the High Court has acknowledged that we are not equal and a constitutionally enshrined First Nations voice is reasonable and achievable.

Leadership needed ‘It requires leadership from parliamentarians. If they take the leadership they can make it happen.

‘But if the leadership isn’t there then the people need to vote them out. The opposition and the Greens have supported the Uluru Statement from the Heart in full.

‘But the Liberal/National party government – they have walked away recently and I hope voters will walk away from them.

‘I encourage supporters to take initiative; that is the

key,’ says Mr Mayor, who is encouraging everyone to take action at all levels, big and small.

‘I am working at all levels I can. I’ve taken it to the remotest communities in Australia and the Torres Strait, to big cities, to people on the left and the right. We have support across the political spectrum; these are the ingredients for change. We need our supporters to take the time and have the courage to have conversations with the unconverted. Help us build this movement.’

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Wear It Purple for LGBTIQA+ youth opportunity to use her voice to work towards an equal and safe future.

Eve Jeffery It’s hard enough being a teenager without the added trauma of being bullied for your sexual or gender identity.

Since 2010 high school and university students have been showing support for their LGBTIQA+ brothers and sisters on the last day of August by wearing purple to celebrate diversity.

Local woman Kiri Woods says she has seen her LGBTIQA+ friends suffer at the hands of bigotry and she’ll definitely be wearing purple this Friday.

‘I feel that as a young, straight, Aboriginal woman my existence carries a responsibility to advocate

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Kiri Woods wearing purple in support of her LGBTIQA+ brothers and sisters. Photo Tree Faerie for those who aren’t in circumstances to have a voice,’ she says. ‘As a race, a community, and as individuals, it is our duty to work towards a brighter,

safer, equal, and accepting future and culture for the greater good.’

Kiri says she feels privileged to be in the position that gives her the

‘We all have a voice; how you choose to use it is entirely up to you. Let’s act with kindness and love, let’s arm our youth with knowledge and education, let’s teach them the way to a greater future where those who are LGBTIQA+ can flourish and live a life that excludes fear and ridicule. I stand and will always stand for all members of the community to ensure they have the same privilege that I have. Act with love not fear.’

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Indonesian Day IJĕōĎȞëƐ IJĕëſƱëƐĕſ The two-day Indonesian culture celebration at Shearwater Steiner School last week marked Indonesian Independence Day, which is commemorated on August 17; and World Orangutan Day, celebrated on August 19.

The program featured Gamelan workshops, dance performances, weaving, cooking, and storytelling, as well as an environmental focus on orangutans and the loss of their rainforest habitat.

Connections An assembly allowed for performances and various talks including one in which the Indonesian consul-general Heru Subolo presented a new set of 28 Angklung to the school.

Local environmental group, Rainforest 4, sponsored one of our guests, Pak Panut, founder and director

of the Orangutan Information Centre (OIC), to do a tour in Australia. Panut spoke on the incredible importance of the Leuser region, also known as one of the key lung regions in the world. He was awarded the prestigious Whitley Award on April 29, 2015, for his remarkable contribution to orangutan and forest protection in Sumatra.

Kelvin Davies and his partner Diana Rivers, from Rainforest 4, financed the planting of 200 rainforest trees at the school.

A key understanding brought to the children was that reforestation and regeneration has helped create and assist Panut’s community. For those Class 7 students taking part in the planting of the 200 rainforest trees, the reality of deforestation was given deeper contextual meaning through this cultural exchange.

EMR and 5G meeting Byron Shire residents are getting together tonight, Wednesday, 28 August, to discuss the rollout of 5G and its impact on the local area and in schools. The meeting will take place at Wilsons Creek Hall from 6pm.

The meeting, organised

by Environment and Community Safe From Radiation (ECSFR), will be looking at a

potential legal action against the NSW department of education and the impact of the planned Main Arm tower.

They also plan to make an announcement about the 5G rollout Australiawide.

ECSFR have begun a crowdfunding campaign at www.gofundme.com/ecsfrs.

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Butler St Reserve to be retained for recreation and markets Paul Bibby Byron’s Butler St Reserve will be spared from major commercial development after Council voted to take this option off the table.

Considerable controversy had surrounded what would happen to the former landfill site after the construction of the Byron bypass.

Council had previously discussed the possibility of building a three-storey carpark there to accommodate traffic coming into town via the new road.

However, at Thursday’s council meeting, councillors voted unanimously to retain the reserve for ‘passive recreation, parking, and community uses including markets’.

It also voted to ‘remove the option of an expansion of the three-storey commercial zone from the consideration of the future use or zoning of

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the Butler St Reserve site’.

‘There’s no way in hell we’re going to build a three-storey carpark on that site,’ Byron mayor Simon Richardson said. ‘We didn’t realise until recently how much contamination there was on that site.’

Council’s manager of Assets and Major Projects Phil Warner said preliminary investigations of the site had found that the council could go forward with surface activities, though even this would require further monitoring.

‘Any option [involving work] that goes beneath the surface is very costly,’ Mr Warner said.

‘When remediation was considered by Transport NSW it was found to be very, very costly because it’s on a former landfill. The investigation we’re currently determining is the extent of that landfill.’

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Bruns surf club redevelopment approved by Council Paul Bibby After more than a decade of lobbying and fundraising, the Brunswick Heads Surf Life Saving Club has had its $3.8m redevelopment approved by Byron Council.

Around a dozen senior surf club members burst into cheers and applause on Thursday after councillors voted unanimously to approve construction of the new building, which is more than three times the size of the existing structure.

With the state government already having promised and budgeted for the cost of the redevelopment, it is

understood the first stage of construction could begin by the end of the year.

‘We often get seen as a council of No – it’s nice to kick this meeting off by being a council of Yes,’ Labor councillor Paul Spooner said.

The project is set to completely transform the beachside site.

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Have you ever thought of becoming a Mullumbimby Show Ambassador? Entries are open, and boys and girls are all welcome to join in.

‘This year we have organised a lot of great experiences for the entrants to ensure they have all the skills, knowledge, and confidence to succeed,’ said Mullumbimby show ambassador coordinator Hayley Walker.

‘We are seeking young locals from the Byron Shire who are interested in representing our area. This is a great experience to share your knowledge, talents, and passions. Entrants will be interviewed at an afternoon tea hosted by last year’s Showgirl winner Ashleigh Hartley. They will be presented on stage and enjoy a sit-down lunch and dinner

bringing hundreds of extra visitors to the town every week in the warmer months.

In the public access section of Thursday’s meeting, Michelle Grant from the Foreshore Protection Group said the project was an overdevelopment that was at risk from coastal erosion.

‘I’d like to know what happened to planned retreat,’ Ms Grant said.

‘Have we forgotten that the previous surf club was washed away?

‘We’re not talking about a new Colorbond shed for the jet skis and the rubber ducky.

This has got a commercial

kitchen, a function room, bars. It’s much more than a cosy club for members.’

But Ray Linabury, chairman of the club’s rebuilding committee, said the new premises were badly needed and would make a huge difference to the club and the community.

‘Our hope is that this will attract new members and that means more people who are potentially able to patrol the beach,’ Mr Linabury said.

‘And there’s another big advantage: this will not cost Council or the community anything because the state government has agreed to pay for it.’

with the judges at various events.’

Entrants for the Primary Show Ambassador are aged 7–13, the Junior Show Ambassador’s are aged 14–17 years and Senior Showgirl entrants need to be 18–25.

‘There are lots of great prizes to be won in each category from local businesses.

The winner of the Senior Showgirl competition will also win the opportunity to attend a personal development course in preparation

for zone finals,’ said Hayley.

‘If successful at zone, the winner will have the opportunity to compete in The Land Royal Sydney Showgirl Competition at the Royal Easter Show in Sydney.’

All entrants get to enjoy an action-packed show weekend full of great activities. If you are interested in becoming a participant then contact Hayley on 0434 566 034 or email: mullumshowgirl@hotmail.com. Entries close September 15.

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Local News Help Kobya raise funds for devastated Mozambique Celebrating BV VIEW Two cyclones have caused devastation in Mozambique leaving schools and bridges destroyed and communities split, says local Australian Mozambique musician Kobya Panguana. In the wake of the devastation Kobya has come together with other Australian musicians to hold a fundraiser here in Byron Bay to raise funds to help rebuild schools and bridges in Mozambique.

‘The fundraiser is in memory of my partner Kooka, who died when we were both hit by a vehicle in Nimbin. That is why we have called it Oz4Moz as she was from here and I am from there,’ says Kobya.

Having been pronounced dead himself after the incident, but then returning to life, Kobya says that it is now his mission to help his homeland of Mozambique to

recover after the cyclones.

Kobya says that the Mozambique government is struggling to help its people and so he has decided to ‘take the initiative by helping people in their time of stress’.

Fundraiser The fundraiser is taking place this Saturday August 31 from 11am at KulchaJam, 1 Acacia Street in the Byron Arts and Industry Estate. It is

$15 entry with children under 12 free. Hubcap Stan, Luke Vasella, Nahinni, The Hottentots, The Shooflys, and Dr Baz will be among some of the great musicians who are donating their time to support Kobya’s Mozambique benefit. If you can’t make the day then you can go on line and donate money via their gofundme campaign at: www.gofundme.com/f/ oz4moz.

What are your icons of Brunswick Heads?

Eve Jeffery The judges want to know what you think are the Icons of Brunswick Heads, which is the theme of this year’s annual Simple Pleasures photo competition, the annual snap of what’s happening in and around town.

If you’ve taken a shot of iconic Bruns in the last twelve months you are eligible to enter the competition. The aim is to highlight the town with a selection of entries chosen to appear in a glossy calendar and postcard series.

Paul Begg is an icon of the competition itself; he

Keeping it iconic, Paul Begg says staying focused on the theme is a good tip for winning the Bruns photo competition.

Photo Michelle Begg

was the overall winner in both 2010 and 2012 and was the Over-55s winner in 2015.

Paul has also had numerous calendar appearances.

Focus on theme Paul says staying focused on the theme is important.

‘Keep thinking of the theme when you find something you want to take a photo of,’ says Paul.

‘Does it fit the theme?

Is the photo in focus? Look at the depth of field – can I recognise Brunswick Heads in my photo?’ he suggests.

‘It’s fun, it gets you thinking, and it’s an opportunity to look at Bruns in a different

way. It’s a great community event, especially seeing all the photos in the shop windows.’

Entries for the comp close on August 31 and are on display around the village until 20 September

Brunswick Valley VIEW club celebrated its 34th birthday with the show Wedding Daze and raising money to support seven underprivileged Australian children through school.

They meet on the second Thursday of the month for lunch and a guest speaker, and have a ‘friendship morning’ on the third Thursday of the month. Ring Brenda on 0419 629 680 to join in. Photo supplied

with the Awards Ceremony on Sunday 15 September at the Bruns Bowls Club.

For more information from the links at www. brunswickheads.org.au, or email events@brunswickheads.org.au.

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Byron Shire Council Notices PUBLIC EXHIBITION OF DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS

COUNCIL CONTACT DETAILS

HAVE YOUR SAY

Council Administration Centre 70 Station Street, Mullumbimby Opening hours 8.30am to 4.30pm Phone 02 6626 7000 Email council@byron.nsw.gov.au Website www.byron.nsw.gov.au Emergency after hours 02 6622 7022 Works Depot 02 6685 9300 SES Controller 02 6684 3444 Rural Fire Service 02 6671 5500 Byron Resource Recovery Centre 1300 652 625 Cavanbah Centre 02 6685 5911

DRAFT BYRON SHIRE RESIDENTIAL STRATEGY

ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING & ASSESSMENT ACT, 1979

Council is inviting submissions to our draft Byron Shire Residential Strategy (strategy) which is on display from 28 August to 11 October 2019.

The following development applications (DA) have been received by Council and require exhibition in accordance with Development Control Plan 2014 (A14). The DAs may be viewed online at Council’s website www.byron.nsw.gov.au/find-a-DA or by using the Online Kiosks at Councils Customer Service Centre during normal office hours.

In Byron? Customer service for general enquiries now at Byron Visitor Centre, 80 Jonson Street, Byron Bay. Monday to Friday, 9.00am to 12.00pm and 12.30pm to 4.00pm or phone 02 6626 7000. Card only payments accepted at this location.

Documents on exhibition are available for viewing at the customer service centre in Mullumbimby and on Council’s website at www.byron.nsw.gov.au/Public-Notice.

MAKE A SUBMISSION Submissions may be made to Council in the following ways: Online:

www.byron.nsw.gov.au/Council/Make-a-submission

Written: Address to: General Manager, Byron Shire Council, PO Box 219, Mullumbimby NSW 2482 Email:

submissions@byron.nsw.gov.au

Please be aware that all submissions will be made public in accordance with Schedule 1 Part 3 Clause 1(a)(vi) of the GIPA 2009 Regulations as applicable including both the substance of the submission and the identity of the author. For further assistance please contact our Records team on 02 6626 7113.

The strategy is a 20 year policy framework for the provision of residential land and urban housing in Bangalow, Byron Bay, Brunswick Heads, Mullumbimby, New Brighton, Ocean Shores, South Golden Beach, Suffolk Park and Sunrise.

It explores the possibilities and potential of infill (additional housing in existing neighbourhoods) and new land release. The strategy is about enabling our residents to feel part of a community where there is a choice of homes to suit their current and future needs – all in a town or village that reflects its own unique identity and local character.

The strategy will affect everyone in the community. Families, singles, home-owners, renters, share-households, business owners, future residents, people who live here and work somewhere else and people who work in the Shire and live somewhere else.

How you can be involved: • Take a look at the draft strategy and supporting information at www.yoursaybyronshire.com.au/draft-res-strategy • Talk to a Council planner at one of our information stalls in early September – details on website • Make a submission – for information on making a submission, and where to address it, refer to the “Make a submission” section of Council’s weekly advertising.

Submissions close: Friday 11 October 2019 Enquiries: Natalie Hancock on 02 6626 7169

Apply for a job at Council. For current vacancies refer to www.byron.nsw.gov.au/Council/Working-at-Byron-Shire-Council/ Current-vacancies.

REQUEST FOR TENDER NO: T2019-0052 Byron Shire Council (Council) invites tenders for a contract to undertake road renewal and upgrade works to Arakwal Court Byron Bay. Details of the proposed contract and the assessment criteria requirements are set out in the Request for Tender documentation referred to below.

If you are making a submission, there are requirements in relation to the disclosure of political gifts and donations. Refer to Council’s website to satisfy yourself that you are complying with your disclosure obligations prior to lodging a submission www.byron.nsw.gov.au/Political-donations-disclosure.

Please quote the development application and property description when making a submission.

EXHIBITION CLOSES 4 SEPTEMBER 2019 10.2019.384.1 – Ewingsdale, 246 Woodford Lane (Lot 27 DP 858323) Matt Walker Town Planning, Change of Use from Equestrian Centre to Chocolate Manufacturer (Rural Industry) with Ancillary Retail Premises and Cafe

EXHIBITION CLOSES 11 SEPTEMBER 2019 10.2017.547.3 – Myocum, 11 Muli Court (Lot 4 DP 830652) Mrs E Douglas, S4.55 to Modify Design of Cabins and Delete Condition 45 Prohibiting Laundries in Cabins

DEVELOPMENT CONSENTS

CURRENT VACANCIES

ARAKWAL COURT TURN AROUND RENEWAL (BYRON BAY HIGH SCHOOL)

DA submissions can be lodged using an online form via Council’s eServices Portal. Once you have viewed a copy of the DA, select ‘Make a Submission’ to lodge a submission directly with Council. Information on making a submission is available at www.byron.nsw.gov.au/Make-a-submission-on-a-DA.

LOCAL HERITAGE PLACES GRANTS NOW OPEN 2019/20 Owners of heritage properties in the Byron Shire can apply now for grants to help restore their pride and joy. The Local Heritage Places Grant program aims to raise awareness of heritage conservation, with a funding contribution from the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage.

In accordance with Section 4.59 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (as amended), notification is hereby given of the following development consents granted by Council. The consents listed are available to view Online at Council’s website www.byron.nsw.gov.au/find-a-DA. Information relating to these applications as required by Schedule 1, Division 4, Clause 20(2) of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (as amended) is also available online

APPLICATIONS APPROVED 10.2019.264.1 – NEW BRIGHTON, 8 Park Street Alterations and Additions to existing Dwelling House

Byron Shire Council has grants between approximately $1,000$3,000, depending on applications, for projects that will enhance individual places, buildings and historic streetscapes and will promote appreciation of Byron Shire’s history.

10.2019.310.1 – MULLUMBIMBY, 1 Tyagarah Street Alterations and Additions to Existing Dwelling House 10.2019.312.1 – MULLUMBIMBY, 6 Lorikeet Lane Dwelling House and Secondary Dwelling

For further details please contact Daniel Strzina at dstrzina@byron.nsw.gov.au.

The focus for the 2019-2020 Local Heritage Places Grants is conservation works that enhance individual places, buildings and historic streetscapes including buildings in conservation areas that will in turn promote and foster the community’s and visitors’ appreciation of the Shire.

A mandatory tender briefing/site inspection will be held at 10:30am on Tuesday the 10th of September 2019 at Byron Bay High School (2 Arakwal Court, Byron Bay).

Successful applicants will need to contribute one dollar for every dollar provided by the grant, and the restoration work must be completed by 30 March 2020.

10.2019.415.1 – BRUNSWICK HEADS, 72 Tweed Street Patio Roof to Existing Dwelling House

Tenders close at 2.00pm on 24 September 2019.

To find out more about the Local Places Heritage Grants program go to www.byron.nsw.gov.au/local-places-heritage-grants.

Request for Tender documents may be obtained by contacting Tenderlink at www.tenderlink.com/byron. If you experience difficulties accessing the website, please call the Tenderlink helpdesk on 1800 233 533.

Council invites any person willing to fulfil the requirements of the proposed contract to submit a tender to Council by the deadline specified in this advertisement and in accordance with the Tender Documents referred to above.

The canvassing of Councillors or Council staff in relation to this tender will disqualify tenders from the tender process.

SPS 2000 AND SPS 1003 REFURBISHMENT WORKS REQUEST FOR TENDER NO: 2019-0049 Byron Shire Council (Council) invites tenders for a contract to refurbish two existing sewer pump stations, one in Bangalow and one in Brunswick Heads. Details of the proposed contract and the assessment criteria requirements are set out in the Request for Tender documentation referred to below.

Request for Tender documents may be obtained by contacting Tenderlink at www.tenderlink.com/byron. If you experience difficulties accessing the website, please call the Tenderlink helpdesk on 1800 233 533.

For further details please contact Michael Chamberlain at mchamberlain@byron.nsw.gov.au.

A mandatory tender briefing/site inspection will be held on 5 September 2019 at 10.30am located at SPS 1003 approximately 100m west of property 29 Lismore Rd, Bangalow. The briefing will then move to SPS 2000 located to the South of the Brunswick Heads Bowling Club adjacent the Sporting fields.

Tenders close at 2.00pm on Thursday 19 September 2019 Council invites any person willing to fulfil the requirements of the proposed contract to submit a tender to Council by the deadline specified in this advertisement and in accordance with the Tender Documents referred to above.

The canvassing of Councillors or Council staff in relation to this tender will disqualify tenders from the tender process.

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10.2019.321.1 – MULLUMBIMBY, 4 Shearwater Lane Dwelling House

10.2019.377.1 – BRUNSWICK HEADS, 69 Fingal Street Shed 10.2019.416.1 – BRUNSWICK HEADS, 59 Hyrama Crescent Storage Shed

10.2019.325.1 – COORABELL, 521 Coolamon Scenic Drive Secondary Dwelling

Applications close on 23 September, 2019 at 4pm.

10.2019.337.1 – BANGALOW, 3 Paddys Court Relocated Dwelling House and a new Secondary dwelling

General Enquiries: Noreen Scott 02 6626 7062 or Nancy Tarlao on 02 6626 7000

10.2019.376.1 – BYRON BAY, 27 Ruskin Street Swimming Pool and 2.6m High Side Pool Fence

ERRATUM Please be advised that the below Erratum appeared in the NSW Government Gazette No88 of 9 August 2019, to correct the misspelled ‘Sharpcott’ Lane to ‘Shapcott’.

Roads Act Naming of Roads ERRATUM In the notice published in NSW Government Gazette No 82 of 14 October 2016, page/number 2803, the words “Sharpcott” is replaced with “Shapcott”. This notice corrects that error.

The gazettal date remains 14 October 2015.

Phillip Holloway, Director Infrastructure Services, Byron Shire Council

NOTICE OF PROPOSED ROAD NAMES Submissions close 4.30pm Friday 27 September 2019 There are two branches of Thomas Street in Bangalow, and with the creation of Charlotte Street the numbering of Thomas Street is not in accordance with current addressing standards. These issues may impede the delivery of emergency and other services.

Council proposes to rename and renumber the branch of Thomas Street that travels south-west from Robinson Street as a continuation of Charlotte Street, and invites written submissions. For information on making a submission, and where to address it, refer to the “Make a submission” section of Council’s weekly advertising.

Enquiries: Deanna Savage and Renae Fegent 02 6626 7000

10.2019.114.2 – BYRON BAY, 2 Gallagher Street S4.55 to Modify Condition 5 of Consent relating to Completion of Building Works 10.2018.564.2 – SUFFOLK PARK, 64 Corkwood Crescent S4.55 to Modify Condition 6 Regarding Biodiversity Offsets 10.2017.187.3 – EWINGSDALE, 48 Scenic Vista S4.55 for Use of Bathroom Addition to Shed

APPLICATIONS REFUSED The following applications have not been granted approval by Council, but are listed for the information of the community: 10.2019.246.1 – SUFFOLK PARK, 10-12 Redgum Place Secondary Dwelling

DEFERRED APPROVAL APPLICATIONS 10.2019.326.1 – MYOCUM, 239 Tyagarah Road Use of Unauthorised Building Works to Existing Dwelling House and Relocation of Carport

NOTIFICATION OF HERBICIDE USE BINDII CONTROL SPORTSFIELDS Council wishes to advise the spraying of the selective herbicide Crest® to control Bindii at Bangalow sportsfields and Brunswick sportsfields and that the pre-emergent herbicide Pennmag® will be applied at Cavanbah Centre fields and Bob Bellear Sportsfield.

Application will occur during the fortnight beginning in the last week of August 2019, depending on weather conditions.

Signage will be posted at the location on the day of application.

Enquiries: Andy Erskine, Technical Officer, Open Space & Reserves, 02 6626 7240

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Don’t miss out on the Chinny Charge! $200 respectively. The Echo and Chemsave Pharmacy will be awarding prizes to the first three local women and men across the line with $250, $175 and $75 prizes.

Other awards include the Reg Burns Shield (the first oldest female across the line) and Dr Suresh Shield (the first oldest man across the line).

The Kevin Moran Shield is awarded for special effort and encouragement of others.

David Lowe Over half the places have already been snapped up for this year’s Chinny Charge, so register soon if you don’t want to miss out on this once-a-year opportunity to run or walk up Mullumbimby’s piece of paradise, Mount Chincogan.

The date for this year’s event is 21 September, with the main race starting at 2pm. We’re reliably informed

by Jenelle Stanford, president of the Mullumbimby Chamber of Commerce, that the weather will be perfect this year.

A maximum of 500 people are allowed up on the day.

Registration closes on 20 September, but if previous years are anything to go by, if you leave it to the last minute you will miss out. It costs $40 to enter as a runner.

Are you over 12?

Importantly, competitors have to be 12 years and over to run or walk up the mountain. There will be a separate Children’s Challenge to the base of the mountain, which leaves before the main event, at 1.30pm (entry $15).

The beautiful views you get as you walk up Mt Chincogan as part of the Chinny Charge are worth the effort even if you don’t go all the way to the top. Photo Ziggi Browning The race will start and finish outside the fire station, and NSW Fire and Rescue Station 388 will also be assisting with first aid.

Because the Chinny Charge crosses private property, and for insurance reasons, no-one will be able to go up the mountain without being registered.

Dalley Street will be closed for the event in front of the Ex-Services Club, with Mullumbimby Primary School doing delicious food.

To avoid traffic jams near the summit, there will be separate ascent and descent

routes on the steepest section.

Organiser Jenelle Stanford describes the Chinny Charge as ‘a very community event’, with strong support from the Mullumbimby Ex-Services Club, Historical Society, The Echo, and the Chamber of Commerce among others.

ſĶǀĕƆ şŕ şǔ ĕſ There are some serious prizes on offer. The first woman and man across the line will receive prize money of $500 each while second and third will get $300 and

Not all about speed The speed of the fastest athletes in this event is quite extraordinary. The race leaders will make it to the top and back while mere mortals are just reaching the foothills, but walking is another great way to enjoy Mullumbimby’s mountain.

If you are into a beautiful social walk with your community up and down a local icon, it’s only $20 to enter as a walker this year (kids aged 12–18 are $10).

This year’s Chinny Charge will be a green event, with no plastic on the mountain.

There will be red frogs and water available however – look for the volunteers in green!

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Council decisions you probably never heard about Paul Bibby Council meetings can be dry affairs, especially after the ‘big ticket items’ that attract dozens of locals to the gallery are finished and the meeting meanders off into the afternoon.

But while those of us still present start to think about what to cook for dinner, proposed policies, rules and regulations with the potential to impact on our daily lives are discussed, debated, and quietly passed into law.

For instance, only the very keen-eyed council watcher will have noticed that over 100 new alcohol-free zones across the Shire came into being.

Now granted it may not

be that you are partial to a midday tipple on the frontal dune at Belongil Beach, but if you’re walking Ralph or fancy a sunset picnic on the beach on New Years Eve it might just mean a more peaceful eve.

Another quiet but important development was the council’s decision to appeal the recent Land and Environment Court decision over the tourist hotel development at 4 Marvell Street, Byron Bay. On June 27 the court upheld an appeal by the developer, giving it permission to increase the height and floorspace ratio of the development above and beyond the current rules for the Byron CBD. This is significant because

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at a time when developers are consistently pushing the envelope with development applications for this part of town, it sets a precedent for future proposals.

Council’s decision to fight on is a decision to fight overdevelopment, even if it costs tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees.

Sculpture goes While news of the Disco Dong’s demise stole the show last week, there was another public-art decision that barely rated a mention, even though it involves a greater financial expenditure.

Regular readers of The Echo might remember the plan to build an $80,000

sculpture in the new-andimproved Railway Park (keep in mind that the Dong cost $55,000).

The sophisticatedly titled Memento Aestates was to be a brushed-metal sculpture of a pandanus plant pod.

I say ‘was’, because the council has now quietly resolved to ‘remove’ the sculpture from the Railway Park plans.

Could the teetering shadow of the Dong be looming over this project?

Are Council perhaps a little gun-shy about forking out for another piece of public art?

The answer is likely to be found in those late-afternoon Council discussions at which the minutiae of Shire life are quietly determined.

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Pandering to power fails the people The Byron Shire Echo Volume 34 #12 • August 28, 2019

All aboard the Extinction Express Something has changed in the climate crisis argument.

Those who think nothing can be done, those who think nothing should be done, and those who deny there is any reason to do anything at all now have to make those arguments against the background of raging fires in the Amazon and northern boreal forests.

There is nowhere to hide if your preferred position is to continue business as usual. It means admitting a cold-blooded disregard for the consequences.

So the strategy now is not to deny, it is to glory in the destruction we are wreaking on the world. A kind of insanity has taken over the leaders of Australian parties and mining corporations. They don’t know how to run a world where the organising principle isn’t exploitation, so they have stopped trying to mitigate the problem of runaway ecological collapse and intend to aggravate it instead.

They are like those warped people who hold dinners where only endangered species are on the menu, and whose ambition is to eat the last specimen of an animal that has been driven extinct.

Those in power refuse to even consider planning the changes that need to happen quickly if we are to avoid planetary disaster; instead they are planning how to suppress public protest at their lack of action, how to evoke increasingly vicious law and order campaigns to maintain their position, and no doubt how to sneak away to prepared doomsday bunkers when the time comes.

It is impossible to trust any mainstream politician. Both major parties are supporting massive increases in coal mining, the coalition because it is owned by the fossil-fuel industry and the ALP because it has cravenly submitted to what it thinks is electoral realism. The Labor government in Queensland has even embraced the Joh Bjelke-Petersen model of lies and propaganda to demonise those who protest against its support for Adani.

We have already seen greedy and malevolent males with a sense of entitlement, control of the media, and the levers of power sneering at school children when they protest against the destruction of their future. It will get worse now the gloves are off.

David Lovejoy, Echo founder

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cott Morrison’s gee-up to the public service last week was, as usual, that of a dodgy marketeer trying to assure a sceptical customer that he and only he could be trusted to deliver the goods.

The corporate cliches flowed like sullage: respect and expect, agile and responsive, clear lines of accountability, seamless and efficient, emphasis on outcomes, with a few wildly inappropriate and in one case incomprehensible references to the footie thrown in for light relief.

But underneath the meaningless pollywaffle, there was the guts of a message: You’re working for me, and don’t you forget it.

Morrison’s view of the bureaucracy is apparently based on TV satire, the British Yes Minister and the Australian Utopia.

Both portray the relationship between the executive’s agenda and those charged with implementing it as a battle between gormless ministers and ambitious public servants determined to frustrate the will of what they call their political masters – a term clearly coined more in ironic contempt than reverential awe.

Hence our prime minister sees the shiny bums as corruptible freeloaders, bludging meals, drinks, and God knows what else from the self-interested lobbyists who constantly duchess them around the fleshpots of the national capital.

This is, of course, nonsense, although it may provide an insight into Morrison’s own method of operating when he was a spruiker for the NSW tourist industry, a position from which his own minister sacked him.

In fact, in Canberra almost all the serious duchessing takes place within Parliament House, where hundreds of carpetbaggers enjoy free and unrestricted access to the corridors of power and ambitious ministers lobby them for lucrative retirement jobs.

The bureaucrats have already been warned off by the draconian penalties they risk by incurring the wrath of their ministers, and in any case, as Morrison says correctly (for once) they are not the decision makers. The cabinet calls the tune, as it should and it must: public servants are called servants for a reason, and they must always defer to the wishes of the elected government.

To that extent Morrison is right but in practice the reality is rather more complex and subtle than the bald demand: Do as I say. The way it should work – the

way it once used to work – is best illustrated by a story from back in the 1950s.

Not long after Robert Menzies became prime minister for the second time he decided to make a major economic statement, so he called his top economic bureaucrats into his office to inform them of his intentions. Richard Randall, Roland Wilson, and HC (Nugget) Coombs obediently listened in silence as he outlined his plan.

The rot really set in as the guiding principle of permanency of tenure was eroded.

Mungo MacCallum There was a brief pause, until one of them responded: ‘Prime Minister, you have just told us what you wish to do. Now let us tell you what you are able to do.’ And they did, and this time he listened and amended his program accordingly, after which the mandarins went back to their bureaus and instructed their departments to implement the revised version promptly and meticulously.

The point of this story is not only that the system worked, but that the three econocrats had not been Menzies’s selections; he inherited them from his predecessors, John Curtin and Ben Chifley. They were three of the legendary Seven Dwarfs who had devised the great reforms that produced postwar reconstruction, much of what Menzies had opposed at the time.

And they were anything but Menzies Liberals; Coombs, for example was a lifelong socialist for whom much of the new government’s policy was anathema.

But he, like the others, was a man of unquestioned integrity, and Menzies knew it. He trusted them and they never let him down – indeed, a good measure of his early political success could be attributed to their efforts on his behalf.

He did not have to warn them to keep their noses clean, to stick to the straight and narrow; these were givens.

And the idea that he would harangue the bureaucracy about its role would never have occurred to him.

Even when Gough Whitlam came to

power after 23 years of conservative rule, he accepted the independence of the permanent heads whom most of his colleagues saw as enemies to be purged. A couple of incoming ministers insisted on changes, but almost all the incumbents were given the benefit of the doubt: innocent until proved guilty.

In retrospect, Whitlam was perhaps naïve – he did not receive the cooperation for which he had hoped. But for most of his stormy three years there was little if any deliberate sabotage; that only set in during the traumatic events known as the loans affair.

But there was always tension, and the rot really set in as the guiding principle of permanency of tenure was eroded.

When John Howard came to office in 1996, he sacked a full third of what were still called the permanent secretaries; it became known as the night of the long knives. And it meant that the entire service was effectively on notice. This of course meant that the old mantra of frank and fearless advice no longer applied. The bureaucrats did not morph into yes men overnight, but they were severely constrained. The policy options offered to their ministers became, in many cases, an attempt to second guess (or in some instances simply follow) what were known to be the ministers’ preferences, which were, and are, inevitably more about political self-interest than the national good.

This is the kind of subservience for which our authoritarian leader yearns.

But it is unlikely to bring the results he would like to boast, as the last few years have so lamentably shown. So one more instructive parable, this one from the 1952 Communist Party Congress of the USSR. Nikita Khrushchev, the new general secretary, was addressing the delegates on the iniquities of the dictatorship of Josef Stalin. As he detailed the atrocities, a voice rang out from the audience: ‘And what did you do about it?’ Khrushchev thundered back: ‘Who said that?’ There was dead silence, and after it had dragged on for a little while, Khrushchev continued. ‘Yes, comrade, and that was what I did too.’

Such intimidation may be beyond Morrison – yet. But we can fairly say that his formula to keep the bastards in check is unlikely to produce good government for his quiet Australians, or for anyone else. Silence may be consent, but it will never entail the approval he craves.

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Letters A rose is a rose Oils ain’t oils. And Greens aren’t green. There are many shades of green – on a spectrum from Heritage (conservation, authentic, real, true) green, to Naive (inexperienced, gullible) green, to Greenwash (fake) green.

But which green is Byron Shire coloured?

Susan Skyvington Mullumbimby

Pave paradise‌?

Byron Shire Council should have listened to Joni Mitchell’s Big Yellow Taxi. Railway Park may not have been paradise but they sure are paving it. I really fail to see how sealing more of the surface of the earth with metres and metres of concrete can be regarded as an improvement of facilities.

David Gilet Byron Bay

ƖƆƆĜĕ !wNJ There is an often repeated bald-faced lie about Australia’s contribution to global CO2 emissions that needs to be comprehensively and decisively quashed.

Politicians, shock jocks, and other lackeys of the fossil-fools industry say that Australia contributes only one per cent of emissions and therefore our making big reductions would be insignificant if the ‘bigger polluters’ don’t do so first.

Putting aside that basically everyone else is actually doing much more to reduce emissions than we are, let’s debunk this one per cent bollocks.

That one per cent of emissions puts us around 16th in the world, which is an appalling rank for a country ranked around 55th in population.

Compare emissions per capita and it’s even worse, with our ranking being around 12th behind mostly small island nations and the Arab states who are burning a crap load of fossil fuels to make it possible to live in difficult, isolated locations.

But if you think about it in realistic terms of where the CO2 originally comes from, Australia is much worse than that.

The world is busily burning fossil fuels that were dug up or pumped out of the ground from somewhere, and a huge chunk of them came from right here.

Australia is a massive

Cartoon by Holly English – www.hollyenglish.com exporter of coal and gas – we export more coal than anyone else. And what is the most polluting fossil fuel of all? Coal of course.

In terms of country of origin for CO2 emissions, Australia is the third biggest carbon producer in the world with a massive 1.1Gt annually.

There is a climate-change catastrophe unfolding around us. We Australians are contributing more to the problem than almost anyone. As the original source of so much CO2 and also as one of the world’s wealthiest peoples, we have both an opportunity and a responsibility to act decisively.

Ziggi Browning Mullumbimby

None but the brave Your last issue showed the bravery that it takes to run ANY print media today in the face of the seeming impossibility of prying anyone’s eyes away from their computer.

You have chosen excellence as your standard rather than simple local event reporting (which you also do well!). Excellence in features, excellence in guest content, excellent regular columns, and excellence in photography.

But last issue, as I discern, was a sign of more courage – courage beyond the mere economics of any free newspaper.

Taking a stand unequivocally to use your publication to actively educate and stimulate us on climate change is brave. It’s brave because you rely on advertising to survive: and not all of your advertisers think the same way about climate change.

I know that you know that, and so your decision to be in

the vanguard rather than the reporter of climate action is in my opinion, awesome.

The news items you posted in the last issue in your new Climate Change feature are enough for anyone to wonder what they can do, or for them to feel deep and aching pain for this planet. And yet the earth has seen many apparently hopeless situations turned around when the critical mass of like minds exert their power through singular action.

It seems to me that generally speaking most us are burdened with analysis paralysis which (conveniently) means that because we can’t work it out, we retreat into the latest downloaded movie, or another session of Fortnight.

You haven’t done that.

You have stepped up and placed everything on the bet that standing up, speaking out, publicising and repetitively reminding us to do something, anything except sit on our butts. But this, but that. Fake news. Antifa.

Our world view and world abundance are poised on the edge of their death throes.

When the effects begin, people will rise up to protect what they see as their rights, which in truth are simply privileges. I’m not talking about people like Extinction Rebellion. I’m talking about the climate deniers.

When that happens the effect of that uprising anger will, I hope, be softened for us all by people and organisations like The Echo.

Ian Blair Hamilton Myocum

Activism blind spot According to my information you have a blind spot re activism and the fact that we live in world that consists of

equals and opposites such as an equal and opposite point of view. I see you are still going on about Rupert Murdoch [Editorial August 7, 2019].

I can’t prove it of course but I’ve been told that one monolith, Rupert Murdoch, equals countless selfrighteous independent newspapers around the world all fighting with words for truth, justice, and the Australian, British, US way of life. It’s never going to happen.

Whether you like it or not you have been as responsible as Mr Murdoch for the mess we are all in and the only course of action from here is to step into Mother Nature’s womb, formerly known as the creative side of the brain, swapping activism for zero-ism and leave the rest to your own personal internal god.

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Last week’s Vlissingen Open in the Netherlands was a genuine blast from the past with victory going to US Grandmaster Gata Kamsky.

In 1987 the 13-year-old Kamsky and his father were made an offer too tempting to refuse at the World U/16 Championships in Austria, Kamsky moving from the Soviet Union to the United States in 1989 to become the best hope for a US World Champion since Bobby Fischer.

Despite an upbringing which gave Kamsky a love/hate relationship with chess – the young Kamsky was disciplined by his father after losses – Kamsky steadily rose up the rankings to become the FIDE world title challenger in 1996. (‘I can’t believe that someone who hates chess so much can play so well,’ said one of Kamsky’s seconds that year.)

After a clear match defeat by Anatoly Karpov, Kamsky managed to convince his father that brain surgeons earned more than chessplayers, and so gave up chess to study medicine. He then changed his field of study to law and enjoyed eight years with barely the sight of a chessboard.

When Kamsky finally returned to chess in 2004 he was an independent adult, no longer scared to lose a game or voice his opinion, and in his 30s made his way back into

For North Coast news online visit the world’s top 20. However, he just failed to win the right of playing Viswanathan Anand for the world title, and despite winning three more US champion titles his chess career gradually wound down.

Kamsky’s victory in Vlissingen was a reminder of just how good the now 45-year-old used to be. In a field of 185 including nine grandmasters, he conceded only three draws and won six games.

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▶ Continued from page 13 and homeless. Where are the Christian values in that?

Carl, you are right: ‘religious freedom’ is already protected. But, Christians are responsible for their actions, in particular to ‘live in harmony …’.

You say, ‘We walk through the short tunnel that is our life’. We Christians believe that belief in Christ gives us eternal life, so this phase, short though it is, is only a small part.

So, Carl, I agree: ‘Let others be …’, do unto others ... and, if you choose, enjoy your short life.

Have a good day, enjoy God’s country.

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At last our mayor says something sensible backed up with some research…

Sadly one suspects it will not therefore happen.

But for ages many have complained about our Council’s use of old fashioned omni-directional street lighting preventing sky observation for an unnecessarily large distance from the lights and also their continued use of old HPS lamps – LEDs are used everywhere else in the [advanced] world ... they pay for themselves in a very few years.

That’s why Cape Byron lighthouse switched to LEDs years ago!

May I suggest an alternative to reduce the street-lighting ‘on’ times instead of using ‘time switches’ or ‘daylight sensors’ is to use movement detectors – these too are used in other countries on their main roads.

The concerns about pedestrian safety are correct as there are so very few footpaths even in Byron Bay so pedestrians are often forced to walk and push strollers on the road amongst the traffic!

This is a fact.

A radical solution would be building some footpaths instead of waiting for decades for ‘developer contributions’ to be received randomly and in random locations.

Robin Buckley Byron Bay

Long overdue Further to the long overdue report on embezzlement and mismanagement at Byron Central Hospital – to some extent it is overdue because nurses are gagged – told emphatically by nurse managers they are not to speak of these matters. I hope The Echo now stands by the wonderful motto ‘the job of a newspaper is to comfort the afflicted (nurses and patients) and afflict the comfortable’ (health ministers, CEOs, nurse managers).

Mr Jones seems to need reminding that this is not an internal staff matter that he will investigate when appropriate. It would be reasonable for him to investigate breaches in codes of conduct, professional ethical behaviour, and moral standards expected of staff employed in positions of trust and paid by public moneys. As I understand, his job description would not extend to his being expected to have the knowledge, experience, and ability to conduct a criminal investigation.

The community needs to know details of how much

money has been stolen from us, over what period of time has this been going on, what has been done to prevent further crime. Have the people involved been stood down without pay during proceedings, hopefully being conducted by police? This does seem to be an appropriate time and important enough issue.

Mr Jones could possibly spend time looking into why he was unaware of this activity for so long. Does he need to implement weekly reports from those responsible for submitting timesheets for payment etc, and what security measures are in place regarding password access to computer systems?

Tamara Smith has received regular emails raising concerns but what has she done?

The buck stops here?

After working 25 years in this oppressive system, I am ungagged.

MJ Crompton, B HealthSc (Nsg), Grad Cert Gerontology Mullumbimby

Saddle Road I totally oppose the inclusion of property between Saddle Road and Gulgan Road into the council’s business and industrial land strategy.

The first proposal put forward by Skai and Kelvin Daly was for this land to be used as an eco-village with the environment and affordable housing as its justification. When this was knocked back they proposed that they turn the land into an industrial park.

Forget about the environment, concrete the lot. If this proposal gets knocked back perhaps they should consider

turning the land into a coal mine. At least that gets federal government support.

Thomas Fleming Brunswick Heads

Stone the crows Check this out – If you drive your car and test positive for pot you will get jail, bail, lose licence, $600 fine, lose points, criminal conviction for a victimless crime.

Now, a female surfer speaks to a bad-mannered male surfer, which results in her being held under water until she blacks out. The last part is recorded on a mobile and is used as evidence.

Cops involved. Bloke charged with aggravated assault causing actual bodily harm, goes to court, convicted and gets 300 hours’ community service.

Police said he expressed no remorse.

Stone the bloody crows!

Where is the justice in this?

I refuse to believe that this young woman didn’t suffer PTSD as a result of this person being unable to manage his anger.

Hard to believe that the prosecution didn’t push for a sentence worthy of the crime and can’t understand how the judge could be so lenient in his sentencing.

Maybe they both would benefit from a good hard look at the misogynistic tendencies.

Maybe six months in Goulbourn jail may teach this little boy that this sort of stuff is just not on. After all it’s nearly 2020 where we all will have the chance to see all if we choose.

Veet Mayo Main Arm

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he first thing that people usually say when the subject of my veganism comes up is ‘Where do you get your protein from?’.

Actually that’s not totally true – usually, the first thing people say is ‘but what about bacon?’, and to be totally honest, when I was an omnivore that was a question I asked.

The protein comment usually comes second and I could pretty much almost guarantee that just about every vegan has been asked this question.

I’m not going to acknowledge the first question which is more about hurting someone’s feelings than about the taste of charred pig flesh, but I can address the second.

The simple facts are we don’t actually need tonnes of protein every day; we do need some, but making animals suffer for a pound of flesh is not necessary, and in the 21st century we are smarter, and I hope more compassionate than that.

żōëŕƐȒćëƆĕĎ ĎĶĕƐ You can eat a plant-based diet and get plenty of protein.

Most people don’t realise that a lot of fruit, vegetables, nuts, grains, seeds, and soy contain protein; and like any balanced diet, if you eat properly you will get all the nutrients you need.

The meat and dairy industry has whole advertising campaigns centred around protein. They are constantly reminding us that if we don’t get plenty of protein into us every day we will implode.

They also like to suggest that the best source for getting this is from the meat and dairy industry.

Marketing plays a huge part in this. Quite often advertisers will show you animals happily frolicking in paddocks all the while suggesting how good roast pork is for you; they don’t show you the process from the paddock to the plate.

They show you cows munching on grass in sunny fields but they neglect to show you their superfluous babies who have been shot and carted off in a wheelbarrow, or bottle-fed powdered milk until they’re old enough to eat grass, at which time the males become part of the beef industry and the

females continue the cycle in the dairy industry.

Most people would be surprised to know that gram for gram hemp seed actually contains more protein (31.53g per 100g) than beef (26g per 100g) – the meat and dairy industry certainly wouldn’t want you to know that either.

But as my sister, Rachel Jeffery, who is an Accredited Practising Dietitian (APD),constantly reminds me, you probably wouldn’t eat 100g of hemp seed a day.

True.

But, hemp seed liberally sprinkled over salads and breakfast cereals certainly goes a long way to help.

LşƱ ŔƖĈIJ żſşƐĕĶŕȃ So without dwelling on the negative, let’s look at the positive. How can you get enough protein and be a vegan?

Rachel says that protein is in all cells in our body. ‘Proteins in the body are continually being broken down and rebuilt (protein turnover), so it is important that everyone has protein in their diets each day.’

It turns out that protein is made up of building blocks called amino acids. ‘There are around 20 amino acids and nine are considered essential amino acids: essential because our bodies cannot make them so we need to eat them,’ says Rachel.

‘Foods containing the essential amino acids are called complete proteins.

These foods are primarily from animal products including meat, milk, fish, and eggs.

However, for vegans, complete proteins are also found in soybean (including tofu) and quinoa. ‘Other plant-based foods do contain proteins, but not all are complete,’ says Rachel.

‘So to ensure you are obtaining good sources of amino acids each day, it is important that you have the right mix of plant proteins including wholegrain breads, cereals, legumes, dried beans, nuts, and seeds over the day.’

Rachel, who is not a vegan, certainly helps me find the best food choices to support my ethical choices

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example, a 70kg female needs that 0.8g times 70 which amount to 56g,’ says Rachel.

‘Protein requirements will change depending on stages in her lifecycle – pregnancy, breastfeeding, growth, recovery post major trauma or injury, and in times of illness, for example, cancer.’

Babies up to one year need approximately 1.5g per kg of body weight and children up to 18 years need approximately 1g per kg of body weight. ‘There are plenty of plant-based foods containing protein that can help you get your required daily amounts. Tofu, tempeh, edamame, lentils, chickpeas, nutritional yeast, spelt and teff, green peas, spirulina, amaranth, and quinoa. All of these things are just a starting point. There is also plenty of protein to be found in soy milk, oats, wild rice, chia seeds, many nuts and seeds, and there are small amounts of protein in fruit and vegetables including broccoli, spinach, asparagus, artichokes, potatoes, sweet potatoes, Brussels sprouts, guava, mulberries, blackberries, nectarines, and bananas.

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Éĕ ŕĕĕĎ ćëōëŕĈĕ One thing dieticians will all agree on is the need for balance. A healthy diet has a diverse range of foods with smaller amounts of certain food groups – those being sugars, fats, and salts. Again, we do need some of those things, just not an abundance of them.

One of the positives about being a vegan is that you are more aware of your food, you are more conscious of what you put into your mouth, and overall this does lead to better health.

Although, some people seem to think vegans are all skinny – some people forget that potatoes and oil have nothing to do with animal products It’s the nature of the (vegan) beast that vegans, certainly for the foreseeable future, are going to have to constantly explain their food choices and how they get what is required. So remembering some solid information about protein is going to help you out at Christmas when you bring out a nice juicy seitan stuffed with nuts and almonds with a side of crispy tofu and roast veges for lunch.

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At the next council elections, for the first time, I’ll seriously consider voting Greens, because the Greens councillors have demonstrated a willingness to engage with reality in a way their state and federal colleagues never have.

Warren Kennedy Mullumbimby Q The bypass issue is very complex but doesn’t need to be. It’s simple: we just need to check what’s there before it’s destroyed.

Council’s unwillingness to listen to community and expert concerns and deny permission for investigation and open processes has become farcical. The refusal (twice) to allow an independent vegetation survey to determine if lowland rainforest is present is explained by saying that the process in 2014 /15 was rigorous, despite no survey in the disputed area.

So why did Council produce a 2017 map that shows subtropical rainforest in the bypass route? They say it was only desktop and photo analysis. Will they deny it was ground-truthed as rainforest?

And, why deny further investigation, why would

a council that states a commitment to being open and transparent, not be?

Why isn’t all documentation on the website? In April I requested Council defer the contracts to explore the concerns raised by David Milledge but they ignored that request. Over the last few months I attempted to gain answers privately.

Councillors have refused to answer my emails and staff haven’t answered requests for information. I’m disturbed by this but unwilling to give up on investigating the truth.

Jan Barham Broken Head Q Is it time to bypass the ‘BS’ Council, form a new grassroots unified movement and ethos formed to prevent the destruction of towns and environments like ours. If the new leadership really are so soulless and callous it’s time to drain the swamp, or is this obstructionism part of a greater career plan?

What if Byron Shire Council became so swamped, dysfunctional, and indebted to the state govt that it had to merge with Tweed and / or Ballina? A blue-green re-branded as a ‘sustainable green super shire’?

How many senior BSC staff have worked or lived in these areas previously? Who would be the perfect blue-green mayor / GM combo then?

Then who better for the Nats to send to the senate than a couple of sellout ex-greenies, proven, untrustworthy, keen to serve.

Let’s remind the budding leaders that power comes best from the roots. Maybe

let your neighbourhood networks prepare for en masse rates abeyance action in order to redirect the rates resource to where it is needed, not where Byron tourist industry businesses want it.

Darren Smith Mullumbimby Q Yes it’s on, the blockade to protect the Cumbebin Swamp Wetlands at Butler Street Byron Bay. Under legislation these wetlands and all wetlands in New South Wales are supposed to be protected by the Act. Byron Shire Council and the mob at Macquarie Street, Sydney, see fit to disregard the protection act.

These two bodies have made a decision to create a bypass along Butler Street.

The purpose of this is to take pressure off the gridlock along Ewingsdale Road but if the gridlock is still coming to the town then how is an extension of Butler Street going to stop this, eh?

I’d like to talk to the mastermind at Council/State Planning who thought this would work. Of course it’s not going to work; the real reason for the so-called bypass is not being told to you the public; it’s a hidden agenda. We should ask more questions: why this is being done and why does Cumbebin and wetland have to be destroyed?

Please ask why the rail corridor isn’t being utilised instead. Put it beside the rail tracks.

Paul Brecht Evans Head

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The counterculture: far more than Woodstock, and still runnin’ Phillip Frazer

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his year is the 50th anniversary of the three-day music festival near Woodstock, 90 minutes outside New York City; also inside the city gay patrons of the Stonewall bar in Greenwich Village stood up to cops who felt free to bash gays, and a movement was launched.

Also in 1969, new president Richard Nixon signed America’s first environmental laws, driven by a surge of young people joining the Sierra Club and other groups demanding ecological protections.

lşƐIJƆ Ɛş ǖ ëŔĕƆ That was what was going on in America in 1969, and their mainstream media flew as moths to flames to Woodstock or anywhere else where ‘the kids’ might bare their chests, while ignoring or demonising the ‘protest movements’ that were popping up all over.

And so it is to this day; the American commentariat is jacked up to new heights of vacuity right now, calling Woodstock the defining moment of a generation and equating it with the counterculture, when it was mostly three days of music in the mud.

Okay, it had its moments, which I and most of my generation gathered from the triple album and the movie, and I’d nominate Jimi Hendrix’s psychedelic version of The Star Spangled Banner as the moment destined to change the most consciousnesses among America’s youth, because Hendrix took the national anthem, which celebrates ‘the bombs bursting in air’ and is usually played by quasi-military bands on holidays or sung by earnest patriots at football games, and injected it with a devil’s juice, using feedback till it came out sounding like four cats being stretched in a dungeon of torturers’ racks.

It was countercultural because it took the old culture by the neck and re-framed something fundamental to Amerika’s reality... but it wasn’t The Counterculture.

Meanwhile in Australia We didn’t have a Jimi Hendrix in Australia, but we did have a slew of movements on the move by 1969, talking between the joints and the sheets, raising each other’s consciousnesses, cranking manifestos out of mimeograph machines in

Fast forward 50 years from 1969 – Some Boomers like Benny Zable are still fighting the good fight. Photo Tree Faerie backrooms and bedrooms across the country – all desperately seeking to remake our nation’s cultures, so many of which were leftovers of a colonial past that had been challenged but not defeated by earlier generations who didn’t have the numbers or the mimeographs to change it all.

I was born nine months after the Americans dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima, May Day 1946, which is as close to the birthday of the baby boom as you can get, and when I and my mates (of all genders) got old enough to live in a group house we launched ourselves into a radical regeneration of politics, religion, spirituality, social organization, sex and gender, global ecosystems,

the arts (all of them), fashion, manners, business, food, and surfing.

What Boomers?

We didn’t think of ourselves as baby boomers – that was a demographers’ term that came to represent a cohort of consumers, trendsetters, and nowadays real estate hoarders.

No, we were the counterculture.

My mob’s speciality was putting out magazines with nationwide distribution, because back then very few of the separate movements had enough members to support a national paper, and no internet, so our social media were magazines at the national level and pubs at the local.

We started with GoSet (1966–75), which was mostly a pop music weekly but it gave off sparks that lit subversive impulses in pubescent brains and bodies, and our staff of 25 scattered across the nation were all just a couple of years older than our 100,000-plus teen and early-twenties readers.

Then when the times were seriously a-changing, from 1968 to the mid seventies, we published the monthlies Revolution, High Times, and The Digger.

There were other mags of course, notably Oz and Living Daylights, both produced by Richards Neville and Walsh and lit up by the acid art of Martin Sharp. They did lively satire with a tendency toward countering the culture of private boys’ schools and the boys’ clubs of business, courtrooms, and politics into which the posh students graduated – and they did a splendid job of countering that culture with wit and the bent wisdom that Neville, especially, collected and concocted.

Fast-forward more than 50 years Over the half-century since then, hundreds of organisations, streetwise gangs, and circles of friends by the

hundreds of thousands have collectively transformed Australia into a more tolerant, more informed, and more adventurous community, built around a social premise that has been vying for ascendancy over individualist and autocratic impulses since, well, the Enlightenment.

The sixties’ counterculture was fired up to pursue social equality and justice through collaboration.

Now, in 2019, some baby boomers with too much power and wealth are threatening to crush the social impulse as a matter of faith, but their very destructiveness is laid bare today in the fires, floods, and ecosystem collapses around the world, and a new wave of collaborators are young enough to see the existential threat and who’s behind it, and to see that they are in a race against time to survive.

We culture-counterers who’ve collected ourselves into the Byron Shire need less it’s-all-fucked despair, more cheering on those who will teach each other how to live with the eternally restless continental plates.

And may the MeFirstAlways boomers learn that no amount of sandbags will stop a tsunami.

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t’s saddening to once again watch Byron Bay show its dark side in rejecting the Bayshore Drive Roundabout sculpture.

Our town appears to be thick on the ground with philistines, wowsers, and Facebook trolls who appear to take a visceral delight in savaging a hapless artist and his work.

The local Facebook pages are littered with faux outrage, the ‘step aside I’m an art critic and I know good art when I see it’ types, which has seen trolling of this artist

taken to an absurd, vicious, and hurtful level. I’m amazed they haven’t placed him in stocks and organised a ISISstyle public stoning.

In the past two decades, the world has watched in horror as first the Taliban and then ISIS dynamite and tore down millennia-old works of art from depths of our civilisation. Hey Taliban, come on down, your cousins live here.

They say that Guy De Maupassant, the 19th century French writer, had lunch every day in the restaurant at the base of the Eiffel Tower.

He famously remarked that

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he hated the structure so much, it was the one place in Paris where he could safely dine without having to look at it. Today, 130 years later, it remains one of the world’s most loved public sculptures and the symbol of Paris.

Ditto those naysayers who hated Jackson Pollack’s Blue Poles when Australia’s National Gallery acquired it in 1973 for $3m but now it’s worth an estimated $350m.

Back in 2001, I thought we had reached a low point when we drove Bob Dylan out of town and into the welcoming arms of Ballina.

Bob had stayed in Byron Bay

before and had specifically requested to play here. But no, our evergreen nimby hippies have to be in bed by 8pm and couldn’t bear even the noise of an electric razor within 20 metres, never mind allow a performance from an iconic 60s rock legend.

As a community, do we really want to be famous for banning Bob Dylan and tearing down a work of art after a Facebook pile-on? Could we not even wait one year to see if we could fall in love with this sculpture, just one year, just a little bit?

Not satisfied with publicly shaming and defaming this

poor unfortunate artist to within an inch of his life, some councillors propose to do an even better job of destroying the man: break his art up into little pieces and flog it off by the kilo.

This is truly shameful. At the very least our community should show some regard for the moral and artistic ownership that still lies with this artist.

This work has an intrinsic artistic value and therefore some commercial value.

In my view, if Council has no further use of it, it must be disposed of in accordance with standard local

government procedures for the disposal of any valuable property including works of art. This should include disposal in its entirety by public tender or expressions of interest.

C’mon Byron Shire, we can do better than this. I beseech Council to desist with its removal for three months or at least until such time as other parties can tender for the sculpture or pay for its removal as an entire work of art. You never know; after its enormous success with the Bob Dylan concert, Ballina Council may even buy it.

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I went to the most memorable evening in the pub.

Thomas Mayor gave a talk about the Uluru Statement from the Heart; organised by Megan Edwards in conjunction with Ngara Politics in the Pub. Thomas is articulate, grounded, goodlooking, and a gently persuasive Indigenous man of Torres Straight Island origin, who was brought up in Larrakia country, Darwin. He is a wharfie, unionist, activist, and advocate of Uluru Statement from the Heart; after its rejection by the then PM Turnbull, he has travelled around the country garnering grassroots support. ‘We cannot take No for an answer,’ he said. ‘If we continue to build public support, we will get there.’ The Statement unanimously passed the Mullum pub test with a standing ovation after Thomas Mayor recited it. The energy in the room was palpable, expansive, and will no doubt catalyse discourse to have Voice, Treaty, and Truth recognised and honoured.

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CLIMATE CRISIS UPDATE

What’s been happening with the ongoing climate catastrophe this week?

Australia is the third-largest exporter of COÎ… in fossil fuels As the biggest exporter of coal in the world (the most polluting of all fossil fuels), Australia is behind only Russia and Saudi Arabia in terms of COÎ… emissions produced from exported fossil fuels according to a report produced by the Australia Institute.

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Hopefully Byron Council, the NSW state government and residents of Belongil are all taking note.

Time is of the essence. The time to speak up, protest, and act on the climate crisis is now!

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I think he’d make a great prime minister.

The Statement and a clip explaining it can be seen on www.1voiceuluru.org/.

Deborah Lilly Mullumbimby

station enough missiles to intercept shipping between Australia and the west coast of America. I wonder if the clowns in Canberra have thought of that?

Matthew Lambourne Mullumbimby

Too much ash

Ding-ding-ding for the dong

Last Monday I was playing tennis at the Mullum courts when the sugar-cane crop around the McAuleys Lane turn-off on Myocum Rd was burned.

I was shocked to see this kind of eco travesty/vandalism is still allowed in Byron Shire.

Soon the ash started falling on the courts, sometimes big sometimes small, with who-knows-what burnt fertilisers and pesticides in the air, with kids on the other courts breathing in all kinds of unknown chemicals, while others were at the skate park and others just walking dogs. Later I went to Woolies where I noticed ash on the bonnets of cars.

I remember writing a letter here maybe 12–13 years ago about the same story, about the runny noses and itchy throats half of Mullum seem to experience whenever the sugar was burned.

How is possible that a farmer can spread ash and poison over the whole town and nothing happens?

Might I suggest that if anyone is feeling any ill effects that they go to the doctor so their complaint is recorded for some future possible legal class action.

Mark O’Brien Tyagarah

Town (island) bully It is said that you can choose your friends but not your family. The small island states in the Pacific have just found that their family includes a bully who is prepared to trash their hopes for the future for his own perceived benefit.

Not all is lost though; their people can still benefit from picking the bully’s fruit, and maybe work in his sugar industry (that could be called Blackbirding 2.0), although what they are supposed to do when their own country has been drowned is not clear – perhaps they could all be sent to Manus.

Alternatively, they might, in the current terminology, ‘have a go’, and invite a friend to build them some new islands (China is quite good at that). Of course, China would want some return on their investment – maybe an island of their own on which they could

The council spent a pile of ratepayer money, after disregarding the results of minimal community consulation, on the Disco Dong, with only an artist’s concept drawing to go on. It has now spent more to discover that someone might climb it and fall off. Big surprise!

Did no-one at Council look at the drawing and have this thought? Really? So, the council will pay even more to have it removed, presumably to avoid their inability to defend themselves should they be sued following an injury. The ratepayer winds up more than $80,000 out of pocket, with nothing to show except a recurring storage fee.

Or we could buy a ‘bird’ as a ‘memento’ – of what?

Our council’s incompetence?

Seriously, they should give them back to ratepayers – we’ve already paid for the bloody things.

The only way I’d pay $20 for a ‘bird’ if I could hang it around the council’s collective neck, like an albatross, through until the next election.

Dean Chalker Mullumbimby Creek

A bit about dog poo I walk my dog many times a week at Brunswick on the dog beach there. I take a bag with me to pick up rubbish as I walk, but rarely is there rubbish.

What there is, again and again, are people who ‘do the right thing’ and put the poo in a doggy bag – and then leave it there!

I’m sure people tell themselves they will pick up on the way back, but more often than not, that doesn’t happen.

A load of poo in a doggy bag is just not going away – better, the poo is left and nothing done! (Like a certain Mullumbimby gentleman who allowed his huge dog to poo and then, with his friend shrugged their shoulders and kept on walking along the sand.)

We can all do so much better. I take an old backpack, put others’ uncollected poo-bags in a plastic bag in my backpack till I reach the bin. With such a beautiful beach, a wonderful place

to let our precious loved fur kids to meet and greet, it seems like some respect and gratitude are missing at times.

Let’s just make more of an effort. There is so much happening in the world that is out of our control – this isn’t!

Sunny Jatara Mullumbimby Creek

Learn anything?

Byron Council will decommission the roundabout sculpture. Congratulations – if only in the name of road safety.

Will Council learn anything from this stupidity?

Roger Seccombe Bangalow

More on Barrio Several statements made by Brandon Saul, the developer of Habitat, are inconsistent with the lodged DA documents. The DA requests an expansion of Barrio’s licensed area from 279m2 to 696m2.

The DA states ‘The application seeks‌ an expansion‌ for the purpose of a “licensed restaurantâ€?’. Under the current liquor license alcohol consumption is only permitted indoors.

The DA is not clarifying outside seating numbers. It’s an avenue the developer is using to gain permission for alcohol to be consumed in the outdoor area.

We are astonished by the developer’s claim that the courtyard could hold 1,000 patrons and still comply with noise standards!

The sound tests he referred to showed the noise of just 100 inside patrons was only 5dB below the legal threshold. We’re concerned it’s only a matter of time before another DA seeks to increase patron numbers further.

We are also confused by the developer’s statements about delivery vehicles. He says trucks and vans will now stop in a shielded area farther away from neighbours but the DA indicates vehicles will continue to unload at Barrio’s back door.

This area is just 50m from bedroom windows and Council imposed an 8am starting time on deliveries last year, but Habitat now want to roll this back to 6.30am. This is despite the existence of two loading zones on their site that are out of earshot of our properties.

We urge Council to reject the DA because it will disrupt the fine balance between business activity and neighbourhood amenity.

Gael Nash Sunrise

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BUSINESS MATTERS

A quite remarkable and genuinely unexpected thing happened this past week At a gathering of CEOs from many of the top corporations in the US, they collectively signed a document. Wow huh.

Before I lose your attention completely though, allow me to clarify that this was not just any document…

It was the latest public release of the Business Roundtable (BRT) Statement.

This is the document which, back in 1997, set in stone that the primary purpose of a corporation was to increase shareholder value.

The establishment of this original version of the statement became the officially sanctioned and legally defensible underpinnings of much of the corporatesponsored environmental and social destruction we have since witnessed.

However, when the BRT group reconvened this week to sign an updated version of the statement on the purpose of a corporation, the results were starkly in contrast…

Largely credited to pressures brought by the conscious-consumption practices and social-(media)-activism of a younger generation, the new statement reads (paraphrasing):

Sustainable, Regenerative and CircularEconomic practices, to Triple-BottomLine or ‘Three Ps’ Conscious Capitalism: People, Plant, Profit.

‘We commit to… delivering value to our customers… investing in our employees… dealing fairly and ethically with our suppliers… supporting the communities in which we work… [and] generating longterm value for shareholders.’

I’m well aware that we as a community are not always huge fans of capitalism over all, but many in our regional business ecosystem are role-modelling that an entirely new form of Conscious Capitalism promises to actually be a significant part of the solution.

This updated statement – signed by 181 top American CEOs – signals a fundamental turning of the tide in corporate responsibility. It is also likely symptomatic of the transition of Generation X into many of those corporate top jobs.

It is also easy at times to lose heart in our modern world, that things will ever really change, but take this as an example of our true power to effect change – by voting with our dollars for the kind of society we want, every time we make a purchase.

The reason I felt it relevant to dedicate our quarterly Byron Bay Chamber of Commerce editorial to this topic is that we as both a business and wider community are one of the world leading regions for progressive ideas: from

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Because, when enough of us are doing that, those CEOs can no longer afford not to listen.

Todd Sotheren President Byron Bay Chamber of Commerce

Todd Sotheren

More Power to You Juno Energy is Byron Shire’s most experienced commercial solar project manager. Partnering with great technology providers including LG, Sunpower, and SolarEdge means installations that make more power for every square metre of your roof used.

Completed projects in Byron Shire include Byron Bay Library, Brookfarm, Byron Bay Services Club, Beach Suites, Knox & Aya, Byron Bay Health Foods, The Cellar Bangalow, The Cellar Byron Bay and more.

All of our projects use high performance panels including LG and Sunpower.

During the month of September we are offering a free in-depth analysis of your bills and demonstration of why power optimisation is a great technology to consider when you are thinking about solar.

Power optimisation with SolarEdge means higher

performance, longer warranties, better safety, and an integrated battery solution arriving this summer So if the idea of investing in an above-average solar system for your business and or your commercial building sounds good to you call us on 0425 256 802.

Office 8 20/1 Porter Street, Byron Bay 0425 256 802

Professional Packaging and Labelling Solutions Synergy Group offers professional packaging and labelling solutions for all businesses in the Northern Rivers and Gold Coast regions. Synergy Group is also a not-for-profit organisation that proudly delivers a quality service for its customers while creating much-needed supported employment opportunities for people with a disability.

Working from their ACO- and HACCP-certified facility, and with a large client base including the food, beverage, and cosmetic industries, they have experienced teams delivering packaging, label and sticker application and fast, flat-pack assembly at competitive rates, low minimum orders, and quick turn around times for businesses large and small.

‘Our team of supported employees never cease to amaze me on what they can achieve; it’s all about the individual’s ability, not the disability,’ says quality assurance supervisor Shane Wolfe.

‘At Synergy Group, we understand it can be difficult for some people living with a disability to secure or maintain a job in open employment. Our success has come for ensuring our ability to offer a variety of jobs in a safe and supported working environment. This supports our employees to gain new skills and experience and for those able accredited TAFE qualifications.’ says Synergy Group’s general manager, Sarah Green.

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Mullum — time to discover your own backyard You know that feeling when you look at your backyard and, rather than seeing what you’ve always seen, you suddenly see the hidden beauty, delight, and potential?

Mullumbimby, the Byron Shire’s backyard. It’s very familiar; you think you know what it has to offer, yet it has so much more; interesting, exciting – both established and new there is always something worth experiencing…

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MULLUM CREEK NATIVE NURSERY They supply the largest range of native plants in the Byron Shire. Over 500 varieties.

Wed–Fri 10am–4pm, Sat 9am–1pm.

See their list at mcnativenursery.com.au.

6684 1703 110 Yankee Ck Rd, Mullumbimby Creek.

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Linen House has something for every room of your house. Quilt covers, sheets, towels, cushions, and more.

All up to 70 per cent off from a family brand you can trust.

6684 6452

Milk and Honey is a casual restaurant offering delicious, artisan, wood-fired pizzas and a frequently changing menu showcasing the highest-quality and freshest seasonal, locally sourced produce available. milkandhoneymullumbimby.com.au 6684 1422

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BYRON BAY PORK

Low-cost practical advice – to help you make good decisions. Mondays at Byron Community Centre. Tuesdays at Mullum Neighbourhood Centre. To see Mark Swivel or Fiona Spencer email: book@barefootlaw.net.au 6684 1286 barefootlaw.net.au

Mullum’s own original music shop! As well as some of the best-known brands in both acoustic and electronic gear, they also specialise in world instruments and locally made musical creations.

Shop 1 / 31 Burringbar St, Mullumbimby 6684 1742 | sonofdrum.com.au

A local, family-owned business that sources premium quality pork, beef, lamb, and goat from their family farms.

Call in and see their friendly team.

Open Monday till Saturday.

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MULLUMBIMBY ENGINEERING

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CHINCOGAN STORE

The Cactus Hill Project creates unique stories for your home and life. Designer furniture, handcrafted ceramics, decorative objects, treasured textiles, accessories, and art are all curated in collaboration with local and international artisans.

6684 6110 cactushillproject.com.au

For expertly fabricated structural steelwork see Noel and the professional team at Mullumbimby Engineering. Established more than 30 years and committed to 100 per cent customer satisfaction. mullumbimbyengineering.com.au 6684 2325

Sunshine Alley houses carefully curated local art, jewellery, ceramics, body products, and beautiful clothing. Owner and jewellery designer Susie Cadsky is happy to discuss jewellery custom designed just for you.

0429 191 106 Insta: sunshine.alley

Local family owned milk bar, providing fast and fresh food that is value for money. Pop in and try something out of their new fresh display cabinet. Selections changed daily.

6684 2214 | 5.30am – 8.30pm 33 Burringbar Street, Mullumbimby

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MULLUMBIMBY CIVIC HALL

There when you need them. Highly trained staff offering expert advice. Your health needs are first and foremost. Latest health and beauty products that make you feel and look great. Last-minute gifts... they’ve got you covered!

6684 4888

Small-batch handcrafted natural body products and homewares from Byron Shire’s creatives and ethically made products by communities around the world. @In the Raw.Byron Bay | 0413 446 578 Shop 3/78 Dalley Street, Mullumbimby

Great ideas for Fathers Day instore now, from lotto, socks, chocolate, bamboo keep cups to puzzles galore. Check them out – best newsagency in town with the best service.

6684 2127 44 Burringbar Street, Mullumbimby

John Cleary comes to Mullum Civic Hall! 12 October Monster Concert at Mullum’s iconic venue. Concerts, events, weddings, classes, presentations, workshops, and more!

Call 0488 609 774 for hall hire. www.mullumcivic.com 55 Dalley Street, Mullumbimby

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Named as one of the top three farmers markets in Australia, this is the place to be on a Friday morning. Fresh produce, live music, breakfast, coffee, and kids’ activities.

Mullumbimby Showgrounds, Fri 7–11am. www.mullumfarmersmarket.org.au

Over 40 years’ experience, Lambruk is your first choice for cabinet making in the Northern Rivers. Offering high levels of workmanship, quality materials, and a strong focus on customer service. sales@lambruk.com.au | 6684 1066 lambrukjoinersandcabinetmakers.com.au

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CHINNY CHARGE

Mullumbimby Show

21 September 2019 www.mullumbimby.org.au/chinny-charge-2019

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KIN ARTISAN COLLECTIVE

THE WATER SHOP

SCRATCH PATISSERIE

Sally Green, founding member of Kin, makes her glass beads in her home studio in The Pocket and then creates her unique pieces instore. Bespoke jewellery made for you.

FB/Insta: @kinartisancollective 70 Burringbar St, Mullumbimby

The Water Filter Experts – now in Mullumbimby. For home, office, or commercial water filters. Countertop, gravity-fed, undersink, whole-house systems. Located upstairs from Punch & Daisy Cafe.

105 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby 6680 8200 thewatershop.net

Celebrate the start of spring with your fling!

From 3rd till 7th September bring along a friend, buy a coffee and get theirs free (equal or lesser value).

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Mr Simple is the home of great quality classic men’s clothing. Style that lasts the test of time is the antithesis of fast fashion and they use organic cotton in more than 80 per cent of their products.

You’ll also find a great range of watches, wallets, sunglasses, and more. The Department by Mr Simple in the Habitat development features a barbershop and a great range of drinkware, eskys and footwear.

02 8215 0723 Habitat: Suites 39–41 248 Bayshore Drive, Byron Bay and 4/15 Fletcher St, Byron Bay mrsimple.com.au

Treat Dad at Byron at Byron Featuring a 3-course meal and a Stone & Wood beer or a glass of sommelier choice wine on arrival, a relaxed long lunch is the perfect way to make your dad feel special this Fathers Day. For something a little different, make your dad’s day with a spa treatment or gift voucher. The one-hour Absolute Man package is specifically designed with the male in mind. It includes a Certified Organic Mukti facial using indigenous active ingredients, followed by a soothing foot massage. Designed to purify and cleanse, it’s the ultimate indulgence.

1300 554 362 77–97 Broken Head Rd, Suffolk Park thebyronatbyron.com.au

Spoil dad this Fathers Day at El Camino Cantina Byron Bay. We have a Fathers Day feast on offer (minimum two people, $39pp) which includes a complimentary beer or ‘rita for dad, wings to share, two tacos of choice each, plus a shared sizzling steak and chicken fajita.

With all kids’ meals purchased on Fathers Day, kids will receive free kids’ churros! There will also be limitededition moustache sombreros available on Fathers Day! 108–110 Jonson Street Byron Bay 02 9259 5600

Come fly with us !

Be among the first to experience a Balloon Aloft hotair-balloon flight over the spectacular coastal town of Byron Bay. As Australia’s most easterly point and the first place on the Australian mainland to see the sunrise each morning, Byron Bay is the perfect destination for a balloon ride at dawn with picturesque views to the coast and hinterland.

Balloon Aloft will officially launch its Byron Bay flights this Fathers Day weekend. Local couple Taylor Miller and Emiliano Cataldi are heading up the Balloon Aloft team and are inviting locals and visitors alike to enjoy a romantic flight over the rainbow region.

All Byron Bay experiences meet at The Farm and include a sunrise flight followed by a gourmet breakfast at the Three Blue Ducks restaurant.

To celebrate the new flight location, Balloon Aloft is offering $75 per person off for their opening weekend flights. Fly on either Saturday 31 August or on Fathers Day, Sunday 1 September, to receive the special price.

Please use code Aloft75 when booking online at balloonaloft.com or call 1300 723 279.

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‘I enjoyed the flight enormously. Pretty cruisy for the straight flying part, enjoyed the scenery and being able to see so much of the countryside from a totally different perspective. I haven’t experienced aerobatics or anything like them before. That part of the flight was an incredible adrenalin rush.’ John Lowry, Canberra.

Book now. Gift vouchers available.

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Great gift ideas for Dad at Ballina Fair

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Treat your dad this Fathers Day. There is a great range of gift ideas your dad will love, available all under the one roof at Ballina Fair. From watches and men’s jewellery to sunglasses, jeans, shoes, and more! For that extra-special memento, you can also have your gift engraved at Mister Minit.

Cnr Fox and Kerr Streets, Ballina 6686 8555 ballinafairshopping.com.au

Wallace & Co Wallace & Co are celebrating Fathers Day 2019 with their fabulous selection of worldclass brands including Blazer, Gazman, RM Williams, Nautica, Industrie, and many more. Dad is going to love a gift from Wallace & Co. Don’t know what to buy him?

Grab a gift voucher and bring Dad in and one of the friendly helpful staff will look after you.

Open seven days a week with free parking.

109 River Street, Ballina 6686 2081

HAPPY FATHERS DAY Treat your Dad to a gift from Ballina Fair this Fathers Day. So many choices to choose from: - Watches - Wallets - Sunglasses - Belts - Shoes - Engraved moments - Jewellery - Jeans - Jumpers

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Targa with Dad !

Fathers Day Sunday September 1

Join us for Fathers Day this Sunday September 1 for a family gathering with live music and a 2-course lunch of Targa favourites plus dads drink of choice.

Rod Murray plays keyboard and acoustic guitar classic and contemporary songs with a jazz and bluesy feel for a relaxed and special Sunday vibe.

Children are more than welcome.

11 Marvell St, Byron Bay targabyronbay.com 6680 9960

Looking for somewhere a little different to celebrate this Fathers Day? Why not treat Dad to a fantastic family feast at Billi’s Indian restaurant in Billinudgel.

Our family-friendly, family-run restaurant offers an authentic Indian menu catering for all tastes.

Go as spicy or as mild as you like.

Open for dinner from 5pm on Sunday 2 September.  Bookings recommended so that you don’t miss out!

8 Willfred St, Billinudgel 6680 3352Â

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With our Italian stallion 3-course Fathers Day menu they have the region’s best Italiano chefs, Danny Trimarchi, Alessandro Pizzolato, Martina Murè.

September 1 – $55 per person – table service includes a complimentary house beer or wine or espresso for dad.

Primo • Served with home baked focaccia • Porcini mozarella arancini • S&P calamari • Caprese – heirloom tomatoes, basil, bocconcini, extra-virgin olive oil Secondo • Milano risotto, parmigiano, • Pork belly pappardelle • Smoked beef rib, parmesan polenta Shared sides • Italian leaves, pear, walnut • Italian fries, pecorino and rosemary Dolce • Sweet sharing platter • Classic tiramisu • Sticky date, salted caramel, vanilla creme gelati • Gelati – Nutella, pistachio Kids’ menu available Bookings essential Byron Bay Golf Club / 0405 885 885 tuktukbyron@gmail.com www.thaibyronbay.com.au

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Come in and see our friendly staff for a choice of local, grass-fed, organic and free-range meats – all antibiotic and hormone free.

Our smallgoods range includes locally produced smoked leg ham, salami and a variety of gluten-free sausages.

Make Dad happy this Fathers Day with premium-quality hormone-and-antibiotic-free pork. Byron Bay Pork has been in production for over 15 years, owned and operated by the pioneering Singh family, who have been farming the Northern Rivers since 1897. Their pigs are hand raised in Eco Pens incorporating best work practices and animal health standards to guarantee hormone and antibiotic free, premium quality and taste.

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Dads Day on the Lawn at Raes Following the wonderful success of last year’s Dads Day on the Lawn at Raes, this Fathers Day, Dad can be treated to a sumptuous picnic menu designed by Jason Saxby.  The menu includes porchetta pannini prawn rolls, salads, lemon-myrtle-ade, and delicious gelato.  Umbrellas (by Sunday Supply) and towel/rugs (by The Beach People) are supplied and each dad gets a Balter Beer compliments of Raes.  Just when you think it couldn’t be any more idyllic, what picnic would be complete without family-friendly lawn games and activities for kids?

This isn’t a ticketed event; you just buy your food when you’re there. All food is served from the Cellar Bar and Terrace and can be enjoyed on the lawn.

6/8 Marine Parade, Byron Bay raes.com.au 6685 5366

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The Macadamia Castle The Macadamia Castle is the perfect destination for a fun-filled family day out this Fathers Day. Show Dad how special he is with a two-course lunch and visit to their Animal Park.

Meet the animals, take in the many activities, and challenge Dad to a round or two of mini-golf, then settle in for a delicious lunch. They are licensed.

Adults $38 Choice of beef rib-eye fillet or crispy-skin salmon with blueberry baked cheesecake and macadamia vanilla ice-cream Children $17 Selection of children’s meals and macadamia ice-cream dessert Pacific Highway, Knockrow 6687 8432 macadamiacastle.com.au

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PRIMO SERVED WITH HOME BAKED FOCACCIA • porcini mozarella arancini • salt and pepper calamari • caprese - heirloom tomatoes, basil, bocconcini, extra virgin olive oil SECONDO • milano risotto, parmigiano, • pork belly pappardelle • smoked beef rib, parmesan polenta SHARED SIDES • italian leaves, pear, walnut • italian fries; pecorino and rosemary DOLCE SWEET SHARING PLATTER • classic tiramisu • sticky date, salted caramel, vanilla creme gelati • gelati – nutella, pistachio kids menu available Bookings essential 0405 885 885

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‘The vibe is casual enough to bring the boys in for a beer and a couple of cheeky tacos,’ says Chupacabra coowner and chef Evan White. ‘Families can come in and share a whole fish and it’s also a great spot for a date.’

Chupacabra, tucked in at the back of the Suffolk Park shopping area, is about to head into its second spring of serving good food sourced locally.

‘I don’t bang a gong about it,’ says Evan. ‘But we source almost everything from within a thirty-kilometre range.’ Evan, who garners his experience both from high-end restaurants and the streets of Mexico, makes most of his produce in house. ‘Our tortillas are handmade and no marinades are brought in from elsewhere,’ he says.

A common misperception of Mexican food is that it is intrinsically high on heat. ‘Nothing’s really spicy, either here or in Mexico,’ says Evan who, as you might guess, makes his own sauces. ‘What’s hot is the sauces on the table so the heat is all in your control.’ So you can dial up the heat if you want or leave the food as it comes for flavour without the bite.

Currently, Chupacabra is open for coffee and pastries on weekdays from 7 till 11am and then dinner every day except Sunday.

Saturdays are the day to go for lunch at the moment, but look out as the weather warms for more lunch openings.

‘Some people are put off by the idea of eating Mexican food other than in the evening, until they find out that avocados – our favourite brunch food – are from Mexico!’ says Evan.

Check out Chupacabra’s specials nights: Margarita Mondays, Taco Tuesdays (of course), Charcoal Chicken Wednesdays, and the brand-new, smoky-focused Fuego Fridays, featuring smoked meats and smoky mescal margaritas.

The name Chupacabra (pronounced ‘choopa-cubra’) comes from a mythical creature; it is also the colloquial name for late-night taco stands in Mexico City and, as Evan explains:

‘It’s kind of code for “I had a good night”.’

Chupacabra, 12A, 3 Clifford Street, Suffolk Park. 0448 077 401 www.chupacabra.com.au.

Join us to celebrate Dad this Sunday, 1st September.

LUNCH 12-3PM

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By S Haslam Unlike the historical situation of denizens of ‘country’ areas who had to make do with one Chinese and a pizza shop for gastronomic variety, the modern diner in the Byron region can sample a variety of cuisines, and experience some of the culture behind the dishes, every day of the week.

One of those chefs with an interesting cultural background is Francisco Smoje, who will be cooking at the sold-out Sample lunch on Friday 6 September alongside Federico Zanellato (Lumi Dining), Jason Barratt (Paper Daisy), and Alastair Waddell (Harvest Newrybar).

Francisco Smoje grew up in Argentina with three Italian grandparents and one Croatian grandparent. ‘That’s a pretty normal mix in Argentina,’ says Francisco. ‘At least where I grew up in Buenos Aires there were more Italians than people of Spanish heritage. Italian food is ingrained into Argentinian culture. But my restaurant in Byron is called Barrio, a Spanish word for the neighbourhood; in Buenos Aires like Byron there is a mix of cultures.

‘Rather than a particular dish, what to me brings back memories of home is cooking over coals. In Buenos Aires people love to cook steak, and have little V-shaped parilla grills with coals, even on the balconies of apartment blocks you can see them cooking with little bits of coals. You can smell the aroma in the streets of animals burning being cooked over the fire.

‘One dish I like to make, that I’ll be serving at the Sample lunch and on Saturday at the festival is faina, a crunchy flatbread made of chickpea flour that is served everywhere in Argentina on top of pizza, for example on top of a margarita. It is gluten and dairy free, so I’ve found it’s very popular over here.’

Francisco will be making his own chorizo, with charred onions cooked over coals, and salsa with green

Mt Chincogan behind the Leagues field and the pizzas!

Pizza in the big backyard

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Top: Francisco (centre) with some of the Barrio crew. Below: the food. peppers and jalapeño for the opening lunch. And for the Saturday at the Barrio stall he will have traditional corn and beef empanadas, with some charcoalcooked chicken and delicious sauces.

He has a simple style, trying not to manipulate the food too much, but concentrating on flavour and highquality produce. He came to Australia as a 21-year-old and worked at Rockpool, then started working with David Thompson at Darley Street Thai, but after travelling and working around the world decided that Australia was where he wanted to live, and raise his children.

For Francisco the festival is ‘an opportunity to let people know who we are, to let people know what I’m about’.

So, what is he about? ‘In our restaurant we have managed to create a warm environment. Unlike a lot of Byron places where there are backpackers serving you who are just passing through, we have a front-of-house crew who really care about serving people.

The smokiness and the warmth are other special things at the restaurant that are hard to replicate at home. I think in Byron you really need the support of the people who are regulars. We have really busy lunches and we really feel honoured that we have people who come back so often; that’s important in a tourist town.’

Whether you are a local or a visitor, you can meet Francisco Smoje at Sample or drop in to his restaurant Barrio any time in the Byron Arts and Industry Estate. barriobyronbay.com.au

One of the great options when you live in a ‘country town’ like Mullumbimby, as opposed to the big smoke, is that you can get outside and enjoy the space, dining outside as the weather warms up. With the wood-fired pizza night every Saturday night at the Leagues Club, you can enjoy top-quality wood-fired pizza, and a glass of wine or a beer, while the kids range around safely on the playground (great for the little kids), or the sportsfields for those with more energy. The bigger kids can even vanish down to the river.

What’s more, there is the spectacular sunset backdrop of Mt Chincogan. As the view of Chincogan from more Mullum backyards becomes obscured by their neighbours’ granny flats, the Leagues Club seems like a great communal backyard, but one where you don’t need to cook. It’s only going to get nicer here on Saturday nights as the evenings warm up.

All the pizza magic is taken care of by Zohar Flantz and the crew from Luscious Foods, with years of experience making fine wood-fired pizzas in their oven in the Byron Arts & Industry Estate. Last weekend we tried the vegan special, which for a small extra fee came on a delicious gluten-free base (because we’re from Mullum), but there were plenty of options for meat lovers too.

Zohar also takes his operation to the Ocean Shores Community Centre on Tuesday and Fridays 5–8pm for takeaway pizzas.

The mobile pizza makers are even prepared to bend their principles to make a traditional Aussie ‘ham and pineapple’ if you ask nicely. Funnily enough, our children, raised on the area’s top-notch pizzas, seem to opt for margarita, which got the thumbs up, spurning the Hawaiian that was all the rage when we were kids. Times change, but a simple family dinner outside is always fun.

Mullumbimby Leagues Club wood-fired pizza every Sat 5–8pm (fully licensed) Ocean Shores Community Centre: Tues & Fri 5–8pm Phone orders: 0487 673 516.

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Sample: 7 September Sample Food Festival has released the lineup Īşſ ĶƐƆ ëŕŕƖëō ĕưĕŕƐǽ Ɛş ćĕ IJĕōĎ şŕ ëƐƖſĎëƷ Ǯ September at Bangalow Showgrounds.

In its ninth year, the festival welcomes some of Australia’s best chefs including celebrity chef Matt Moran. Festival favourite Luca Ciano, author and chef, will also be back at this year’s festival.

The one-day event will celebrate the diverse and rich produce, chefs, artisans, and producers the Northern Rivers of NSW is renowned for.

Since 2011, Sample has evolved into the largest gastronomic gathering on the northern NSW calendar, attracting over 16,000 locals, travellers, guest chefs, and food lovers alike.

The opening lunch on Friday 6 September is, as usual, already sold out, but there are a range of other events leading up to the festival and of course on the day itself everyone is welcome to enjoy the $5 and $10 tasting plates showcasing the menus of local restaurants,

including La Casita, Raes on Wategos, Harvest Newrybar, Bang Bang, No Bones, Barrio, Shelter, Yulli’s, Federal Doma Cafe, and Balcony Bar & Oyster Co, more than 100 market stalls, designers, and producers, live music, and children’s activities, while cooking demonstrations from attending chefs will come to a head at the TAFE Celebrity Cook-off. To help cleanse the palate over the day, award-winning Byron Bay brewery Stone & Wood will serve a range of beers, alongside offerings of local wines from Jilly and spirits from Lord Byron Distillery, Cape Byron Distillery, and Husk Distillers.

Sample Food Festival Date: Saturday 7 September, 2019 Time: 8am until 4pm Location: Bangalow Showgrounds, 1 Market Street, Bangalow 2479 Cost: Tickets upon entry are $5 per person and children are free.

Visit samplefoodevents. com/samplefood-festival/ for more information as well as tickets for the Sample season of events leading up to the festival.

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

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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.

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With a menu the whole family will love, One Green Acre is committed to sustainable and ethical food, that is a great price and locally sourced.

Specials: Tuesday: Stone and Wood curry night Thursday: Chook night Sunday: Full roast

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

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Green Room Byron Bay

Cocktail lounge showcasing an all local food & beverage menu.

Wednesday – Sunday from 4pm till late 1 Bay Lane, Byron Bay 6685 6402

Late night happy hour from 9pm – $12 cocktails

Steak & Seafood Restaurant Open 7 days 11.30am till late (11pm). Serving food all day Bookings – 5628 7070 www.beefandbeach.com. au/byronbay

$2 oysters & $12 cocktails 4–6pm

Success Thai

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BYO only Welcome for lunch, dinner and takeaway.

Mon-Fri lunch & dinner closed Sundays Dinner from 5pm.

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Sun: 5pm till 10pm.

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Beef & Beach Byron Bay

Bar & Dining in the Beach Hotel Warm up your winter with a mulled wine over charcuterie, oven baked mussels or wood fired pizza in front of the open fireplace.

St Elmo Dining Room & Bar

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

Menus available on Facebook

Targa Modern European Cafe • Restaurant • Bar 11 Marvell Street

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White Wolf Bistro & Bar Open 7 days, 11.30am till late (11pm) serving food all day.

Bookings 0416 870 644

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

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

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Chupacabra Eat in or take out.

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This is slow ‘fast food’ with all produce sourced locally.

Margarita cocktails, Oaxacan mezcal, micheladas and Mexican blend Moonshine coffee.

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NEW SEASONAL MENU! Join us at the Rocks on Lawson for some delicious winter warmers! We have a range of fresh, locally sourced breakfast and lunch options at affordable prices. Why not try one of our scrumptious health bowls, house-made burgers or our signature brekkie salad. Warm yourself up with a Byron Bay coffee or a super smoothie! Cosy indoor seating and heating outdoor dining available.

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

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

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

Now open later on Fridays for happy hour & burgers!

We’re Staying open Friday nights, serving up happy hour and bar snacks 4 – 6pm and burgers 6 – 8.00pm.

The Empire is where it’s at!

Something for all tastes from epic burgers to vegan delights. Enjoy delectable treats and good vibes at this Mullum icon.

Traditional weekend country breakfast Long lunches on the garden verandah Weekly changing Wild Harvest foraged dinner menu

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Just off the sand at famous Main Beach and centrally elevated above bustling Jonson Street and Bay Lane, Loft has the ultimate Byron Bay vibe.

Wander up from the beach any day after noon and enjoy impressive food, irresistible cocktails and plenty of beers.

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4 Jonson Street, Byron Bay 6680 9183

We are in the new Mercato complex upstairs next door to Palace Cinema.

If you are going to see a movie we can fit you in for a very quick meal and beverage.

Just let us know when you arrive and we’ll make it happen.

A 5-minute drive from Byron Bay, Barrio brings together the local community Mon–Sat 7am–9pm in a relaxed environment for all-day dining. Wood1 Porter Street, fired oven, charcoal grill, veges, meat, fish, salads, North Byron natural wines, local beers, cocktails and St Ali coffee.

No reservations. Bookings Eat in or take-away over 8 email: gather@ www.barriobyronbay.com.au barriobyronbay.com.au @barriobyronbay

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An extensive menu catering to all tastes, light meals/grazing, and kids welcome.

Barrio Eatery & Bar

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.

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Lunch 12–3pm daily / Dinner 6–10pm Wednesday–Sunday / Weekend breakfast 8–11am Harvest Deli is open daily with take-away pastries, sandwiches and salads Harvest Deli: Mon–Sat 8am–5pm / Sun 8am–4pm Coffee cart 6.30am–2pm daily Harvest is available for events, weddings and catering

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Beachfront land released buyers, a sense of What is believed to community is already be the last remaining forming’. beachfront residential land parcel on the east One buyer, Anastasia coast has just been Dexter, lives with her released. Aureus, a partner Jay Huggins 34-hectare parcel and son Herbie of land overlooking in Byron Bay. ‘We Sharpes Beach at wanted to stay in the Skennars Head, was area’ said Anastasia, officially released on who works as a nurse Byron Bay residents 12 August. at Byron Hospital.

Anastasia, Jay and Herbie ‘Jay is from Murwil‘It’s been a real joy selling to locals,’ said are moving to Aureus. lumbah originally and Aureus sales associI’m from Myocum. We ate Sarah Cobb, who has lived her had gone for a drive around Ballina life in Lennox Head. ‘Ninety per cent and driving home we saw Aureus. of sales to date have been to NorthI love Sharpes Beach and the walk ern Rivers residents. Locals know along there. Jay called them and what they are getting by purchasing within a week we put a holding their piece of this magnificent coast- deposit on a block of land. line. There is such a buzz among the ‘It’s so close to the water and they

The Aureus site at Skennars Head. are creating a community village centre so you don’t have to go into Ballina or Lennox. The fact that you can have a beer or wine at the end of the week overlooking the water, that was really appealing to us. We are going to give our son Herbie the opportunity to have a healthy lifestyle like we had growing up. It’s really important to us. These days there’s so much technology, kids

Guests at the recent Aureus launch. don’t spend as much time outside.

Jay has this vision – when Herbie finishes school he’s going to be able to have a swim every afternoon.

‘We would have been devastated if we missed out. Aureus is awesome.

It’s about it being done in the right way. We feel like Intrapac is trying to do that’.

Bounded to the east by the Pacific Ocean and to the west by 700

metres of coastland wetland, 30 per cent of the land within Aureus has been set aside as green space through a mixture of coastal reserve, park reserve, wetland rehabilitation, and wetland buffer.

Land currently available at Aureus ranges in price from $499,000 to $607,000 for home sites between 451m2 and 582m2. www.aureus.com.au

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Set on a rolling green acre with 90m of permanent creek reserve frontage, this property offers a wealth of features: established gardens and fruit trees, four-car garage, and a big family home.

Constructed of double brick with terracotta tile roof, the solid 2-storey house will accommodate a growing family or multigenerational living.

Open-plan kitchen and dining areas have views over the property and allow the cooling breezes right through the home. 4 good-sized bedrooms all with built-in wardrobes are part of a floorplan that lends itself to easy living. Downstairs has a large rumpus room with high ceilings and bathroom, which could easily be used for guest accommodation or shared living. There is also a 2-bay carport, perfect for storing vehicles and or machinery.

This is walk-to-town convenience with room to move and grow.

Tonnes of space for chooks, gardens, and pets. This property has fantastic bones and oodles of potential.

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Proudly stationed at the welcome gates to Mullumbimby, the property is set on a 746sqm allotment, overlooking picturesque paddocks giving the feel of ‘farm life’ but without all the hard work.

Gorgeous timber cottage (circa 1920s) with panoramic views of the Koonyum Ranges, Mt Warning and Mt Chincogan. Walk to town, cafes and only 6 minutes to the beach. This unique residence is perfectly positioned for passing trade and would suit a home business. • Panoramic views over paddocks with spectacular mountain vista • Gorgeous 1920s circa timber character cottage • High ceilings, ornate feature, timber floors • Covered timber decks, outdoor rooms, yesteryear features • Air conditioning, gas cooking, heat pump • NBN internet connected, town water, fenced yard • Privacy, views and 6 minutes to beach By appointment Open: Contact: Fiona Johnson – 0400 418 886 Elders Brunswick Valley

Situated at the end Potential view of a country road ‘Mirambeena’ is just 300m from the entrance to the stunning Goonengerry National Park. Set back from the road the original hardwood farmhouse is perfectly private, elevated over 370m above sea level and enjoys views over the property down to the two spring fed dams. There is also a DA in place to build your dream home on the ridge on the highest point of the property to take advantage of the sweeping views down to Julian Rocks and The Bay over the stunning Byron hinterland. Miles from anywhere yet only 15 mins from Mullumbimby and just 25 to the beaches of Brunswick Heads, this property will make a great lifestyle change for those looking for an antidote to the hustle and bustle of city life. Call Gary to arrange a time to view this impressive lifestyle property!

Open: By appointment Contact: Gary Brazenor 0423 777 237 Byron Shire Real Estate

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Painting the sublime

After long months in her Mullumbimby studio exploring the abstract complexity of the forest floor, artist Emma Walker reveals her most recent works in her latest exhibition The Dark Sublime.

What is it about the forest floor that we overlook? Have we missed something integral that has existed right under our feet?

There is so much going on down there beneath our feet! Like many, I used to see forests as being collections of individual trees that were all competing for sunlight and nutrients. After reading The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben, I came to understand that, beneath the surface,

trees are connecting, communicating, and bartering with each other via their root systems and the networks of mycelium that act as intermediaries between them all.

What effect did reading The Hidden Life of Trees have on you?

It really captured my imagination, this notion of interconnectivity.

It is a very heartening and beautiful thing to consider.

It seems to me that nature has a lot to teach us about how we could live. Also, a reminder that we are not separate from nature – we too are part of this whole thing.

While reading the book, I found myself trying to imagine what it might be like down there, in the darkness of the soil. Perhaps silent and airless but also busy and so full of life.

Something about the fact that it is invisible to us and still largely unknown, that there is still mystery here, this too is somehow lovely to contemplate.

What’s the process of painting towards an exhibition like for you?

It usually star ts playfully and experimentally and ends with an

explosion of deadline-related stress. But working towards a show gives me a kind of framework that brackets an idea and a period of time in my making history.

Is The Dark Sublime a comment on our exploitation of nature or perhaps our inability to see the natural world in its complexity? Do you try to impart meaning in your work?

It could be… but I don’t really want my work to be didactic. I like the idea that the viewer can take what they want from it. I do not want to impose meaning. For me the inherent nature of abstraction is the openness of it. I’m a bit suspicious of certainty; I like ambiguity.

What kind of emotional journey do you go through painting your works? Is it a bit of a discovery for you?

It is always a process of search and discovery, as I do not plan my paintings.

They come about through the evolution of process. It is usually an emotional rollercoaster, as I am constantly flailing around in the unknown. This can be both exhilarating and scary as hell.

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Your abstractions have such an organic feel – it’s like looking under the skin. How hard is it as an artist to find unseen spaces?

Well, I think it’s both hard and easy. On one hand there’s little that hasn’t been done and yet each artist’s or person’s view and perception of the world will be different and unique. We only need to peer inside our own minds to find unseen spaces.

What painting are you most satisfied with? Why? I am seldom satisfied. Mick and Keith could have written that song for me.

Tell me about this exhibition. How many pieces, how long it’s hanging, where it goes next?

There are only about six paintings in the show but there will be other elements in the space to accompany them. The show will be held at the Lismore Regional Gallery and runs from 31 August till 20 October.

After that it will head down to Arthouse Gallery in Sydney with more inclusions that I have yet to paint.

Emma Walker’s exhibition The Dark Sublime is on show at Lismore Regional Gallery 31 August till 20 October with the official opening on Friday 13 September at 6pm. She will deliver an artist talk Thursday 10 October at 11am.

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ANOTHER LEFTY RANT

Apparently being called a leftie is a personal slur.

Whenever commentary is dismissed by someone of an opposing ‘non-leftie’ political mindset it’s usually with a statement like: ‘typical leftie rubbish’. It’s a reductionist technique meant to discredit what are usually logical or factual arguments.

I don’t think of myself as particularly left. I don’t think civilians need guns. Or drug prohibition. I think people should have the right to die if they want to. I think we need economic reform. That governments need to stop making global trade treaties.

I don’t think it’s leftie. I think it’s common sense. In fact, most of my beliefs are around conservation, so I’m quite literally a true conservative. Resource ripping, ocean poisoning, forest destroying, and war mongering seem much more radical than my quiet commitment to peace and sustainability.

My values and my beliefs aren’t formed at some secret meeting of beret-wearing bohemians trying to subvert the dominant paradigm with menstrual cups filled with kombucha. They’re formed from talking to people. From reading beyond the mainstream media. And from my experience and my deep belief in social justice, in equity and in fairness.

I like to think my beliefs are formed because I think about things and then I ask questions. I am naturally suspicious of vested interest, both corporate and government, but I’m not a subscriber to conspiracy. Except I do think it’s a bit too coincidental that Jeffrey Epstein hanged himself and Prince Andrew was implicated in a child-sex ring.

I believe every human has a responsibility to ensure the wellbeing of their fellow humans and their planet. Is that leftie rubbish? Sounds more Christian to me. Although I’m not a Christian.

I find the majority of Christians disappointing. Wouldn’t a truly Christian nation or government abhor the cruelty of offshore detention for refugees? Isn’t that what the good Samaritan was about? Or did I read it wrong? Wasn’t it a parable about crossing the street to give assistance to a stranger? I think if you judge people by a book you should probably read it and have a crack at living by its values. George Pell, I’m looking at you when I say that.

I don’t recall any Bible stories where women and children are locked away behind barbed wire. Or where Jesus gave the green light to paedophiles. And what do some people have against trees? Why have we made our forests the enemy? Good luck breathing in the future. As I write this our lungs are on fire. The Amazon provides 20 per cent of the earth’s oxygen, and currently it’s burning.

Fires aren’t unusual in forests. It’s part of a regeneration process. But right now there are thousands of fires raging through the Amazon with Brazil experiencing 74,000 fires this year alone – that’s double last year. Deforestation in the Amazon is fuelling the sharp increase in forest loss. It makes the region drier – spurring even more deforestation. Less rain equals fewer trees equals less oxygen for the planet.

I have never understood the corporate antagonism towards forests. Surely everyone needs to breathe? Even CEOs need air. If right-to-lifers are so concerned about the sanctity of human life then why aren’t they chaining themselves to trees? Instead of fronting anti-abortion rallies why isn’t Mr ‘Life is Precious’ baby-making Barnaby going door to door with seedlings? And why did Pauline suddenly need to climb Uluru? Was it a deep connection to country or just colonial belligerence? Either way getting stuck 40 metres up and having a sook about not being able to get down was delicious justice.

Entitlement is the new black. Just ask the untouchable Mr Jones. Alan’s ‘stuff a sock down her throat’ missives about Jacinda Ardern brought into focus just how extreme his levels of violence and misogyny are and how men like him view powerful ‘lefty’ women. Compassion and intelligence seem to be her only crime. And making our PM look like a total loser.

The fact 2GB still endorses Alan’s Jonestown is a telling moral barometer for this country. Jones subscribers beware. Remember what happened to the original Jones followers. Maybe it’s time Australians stopped drinking the mass-media Kool Aid. Oh, maybe that’s just a leftie rant. Forget I said anything.

Drink up. And please make sure Pauline gets a glass.

MULLUM: WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE Stamp your musical passport at Mullum Music Festival this year with bands and musicians from Chile, South Africa, US, UK, Ethiopia, Canada, and the Solomon Islands playing alongside a powerpacked local and national lineup. Now in its 12th year, Mullum Music Festival’s defining characteristic is its ability to offer a genre-diverse lineup for a multitude of music lovers. This is an inclusive festival for everyone from two to 82.

This year’s program features Wagons, hot on the heels of their long-awaited 2019 comeback album Songs From the Aftermath, the perfect melodic and lyrical blend between Americana and alt pop – you’ll be seduced by the alluring dark vocals of Henry Wagons.

Mojo Juju cleaned up at the National Indigenous Music Awards this year with Native Tongue claiming both album of the year and song of the year. Mojo Juju is proof that some of the best music in the country right now is being made

by First Nations people.

Conjuring an immersive and psychedelic sonic landscape both live and on record, Steve Gunn (US) is known for telling other people’s stories, but on his breakthrough fourth album, The Unseen In Between, he explores his own emotional landscapes with his most complex, fully realised songs to date.

The heady vocals of Rachel Baiman have you hooked from hello. Her smoky tones move effortlessly between bluegrass and folk, old time and country.

Mullum offers quiet places to listen and wild places to dance. In fact, if there’s ever a place you can truly let loose on the dancefloor, it’s Mullum Music Festival.

People there LOVE to dance. This year the call to the floor is from Dereb The Ambassador bringing Ethiopiantinged soul beats and dirty rhythms to the fore.

Mullum 2019 also welcomes Nano Stern, Kent Burnside, Ruby Boots, Joe Pug, and Allensworth from the US, Z Star Trinity and Blair Dunlop from the UK, Sibusile Xaba from South Africa, and Alysha Brilla from Canada.

The local region is well represented with Russian middleaged boy band Dustyesky, Alfalfa, Mr Rhodes, and former Mullum Youth Mentorship Program winners Loose Content among others making up 30 per cent of the bill. They play alongside national musical treasures such as Harry James Angus, Hat Fitz & Cara, Husky, Claire Anne Taylor, and Hussy Hicks – all making their pilgrimage to Mullum Music Festival stages.

It’s like a farmers market of musical produce, rich, juicy, home-grown, and free of industry modifications. This is independent music, uncompromised, fiercely organic, and best of all… it’s music that’s good for you!

14–17 November. Tix at mullummusicfestival.com.

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MUSINGS FROM MERRYN JEANN Back in 2016 Merryn Jeann won CSDEM: Original Song of the Year with Aloha, a collaboration with French DJ Mome. Pretty extraordinary for a girl who found her musical feet while a student at Cape Byron Steiner School.

These days she’s a woman of the world, living and working in Paris: a city that she has always a great affinity with. ‘I have been attracted to Paris since I was a kid,’ says Merryn, who is now 24. ‘I realised that living in Europe was an option for me because I hadn’t entirely bonded with Australia. My grandfather is Swiss, my grandmother is French Canadian, my dad was born in the UK, and my mum, well she’s very Aussie!’ Merryn’s work has an ethereal confidence.

An understated simplicity that seduces the listener into leaning in, careful not to miss a thing.

Her solo debut was created here at Museagency with Gyan and Simon Greaves, dubbed a ‘masterpiece’ in reviews, it simply is. Merryn’s self-titled offering was four years in the making with the album evolving in the studio on every visit. ‘It was a really beautiful process for me,’ says Merryn. ‘It took up to four years to finish because I didn’t have a deadline, and that meant working with Si so he got to really understand what we were doing; he wanted to get to know me and my music.’ It certainly shows on the album. ‘I am so lucky. I get to view my work as unique and important. In the time I spent recording over those four years I came to find my art and believe in doing what I

want to do. Gyan and Simon pushed and encouraged me to believe in my ideas.

Over that time I realised I had grown as an artist and as a woman. It’s quite rare!’ Merryn exudes a confidence in her work, a sense that she knows who she is. ‘I don’t think I should ever have to sound like anyone; that’s my voice, and that’s what I sound like. I have this weird ego thing. Sometimes I have no confidence and other times I know I am doing a good thing. There were times in the recording when I knew this was something special. I imagined it would have been like that for Radiohead or someone like that during the process. When you don’t feel a need to conform and know what you are doing is good. I truly believed it and I’m proud of our result. ‘We recorded mostly in a house in the lounge room for the demo. We came back and did about 50 takes and then went back to the beginning! The first takes are often the best.’ Originally Merryn was only planning a quick visit home from Paris to surprise her mum for her 60th birthday. ‘But Simon and Gyan said come and do some gigs! We will have a cello, a clarinet, and a choir, and there will be a double

bass and Angie Hudson is playing too and Ruby and Bella who have a band called Alfalfa. I have a choir on the album; it’s the St Maryanne Choir – it’s a Leonard Cohen tribute.’ As a songwriter Merryn is a huge Cohen fan, but only really from seeing him with Simon and Gyan who took her to his Brisbane concert. ‘I thought the poetry of his music was off the chain. I think Suzanne is one of the

most incredible songs ever written!’ Merryn’s quite the songwriter herself.

Even the songs she wrote at 16 like See Saw still stand the test of age! ‘It was one of the first proper songs I wrote; I love it!

I wrote that song and didn’t know what it was about until some time after!’ Merryn Jeann launches her debut album at the Byron Theatre on Friday 6 September at 7.30pm. $20/25. Tix at byroncentre.com.au

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MOUTHING OFF Blindmouth are a 4-piece indie alt rock band hailing from Mullumbimby. They have been honing their sound playing gigs in the local area since their conception in 2016, playing supports with a range of artists such as Walrus and the Carpenter, A Little Province, and Raku O’Gaia and playing the prestigious Mullumbimby Music Festival in 2018. With three songwriters, Blindmouth’s eclectic style fuses genres from rock, jazz, punk, and blues (just to name a few) with rich 3-part harmonies to make for an interesting and diverse live show. 2019 saw the release of Blindmouth’s debut EP What Have I Done in May and since then they have been playing regular gigs in the Brisbane music scene.

They play the Court House in Mullumbimby on Friday. Free entry.

A ROCK & ROLL WARMUP Everyone’s favourite little Mullum laneway hang, Rock & Roll Cafe, is celebrating 10 years and to thank everyone they are hosting a birthday festivity called Warm Up – a charity event in aid of the Mullumbimby Neighbourhood Centre. With local music maestros DJs Stephen Allkins, Mr Ha Yes, Abel el toro, Cinco Cinco Cinco, Milk, The Italian Chef. Featuring Tashmeen live vocals.

Free entry by an item of canned food will be collected and donated to the Mullum Neighbourhood Centre.

At the previous event over 200 much-needed canned food items were collected and donated to the centre.

DJs will be playing across all formats; records, CDs, and digital. Music selection is eclectic: reggae, soul, funk, hip-hop, disco, house, and techno for the crescendo later on.

5–11pm on Saturday 31 August. Bar snacks and drinks available. Rock & Roll relaunch dinner service Thursday 12 September!

There’s nothing quite like singing together. 1000s of Northern Rivers locals have experienced the joy of a collective singfest with Shire Choir bringing music to the pub at the Bangalow Hotel. Join the crew when they celebrate their first birthday with cake, drinks, prizes, and surprises PLUS learn a classic pop/rock song in three-part harmony with 100+ others.

Choir mistress Melia Naughton says: ‘These monthly gatherings have been so soul nourishing and uplifting as a community comes together to belt out a song! Singing is good for us on so many levels and because we’re in a dark room with a drink in hand there is no obligation or expectation; it’s an experience for singers and non-singers alike – everyone who has a voice.’

Sally Schofield, the choir organiser, agrees. She says: ‘It’s been incredible seeing such a diverse mix of humans come together to sing. Many arrive looking apprehensive, or exhausted after a long day, but by the end everyone is transformed. Bright eyes, big smiles. They leave feeling a whole lot lighter. It’s the best therapy!’

ONE-NIGHT ONLY FUNDRAISER FOR

Earlybird tickets are still available to the third annual Byron Bay Guitar Festival at the Byron Bay Brewery 12 & 13 October. Right now you can secure a bargain ticket of $50 for one day or $90 for two days to the biggest little festival in Byron!

Getting change from two pineapples and seeing legends like Frenzal Rhomb, The Delta Riggs, Chris Tamwoy, Nathan Cavaleri, Nicole Brophy, Minnie Marks, Peter Northcote, The Soul Movers, Fergo & The Burden, and many more PLUS guitar markets, displays, and demos, PLUS mega sales through Byron Music, PLUS intimate masterclasses in much-loved live music venue like Byron Bay Brewery over two days is an absolute BARGAIN! Check out the website: byronbayguitarfestival.com.

Thursday 5 September at the Bangalow Hotel. Tix $12 at the door or on www.facebook.com/theshirechoir.

BIGGEST LITTLE TOWNES… No stranger to the southern hemisphere, the formidable singer/songwriter Justin Townes Earle is coming to play Mullum Ex-Services. Yep, Townes will play our biggest little town. He’s touring on the back of his brilliant new album The Saint of Lost Causes. He loves coming out here and says: ‘Australia is one of my favourite countries to tour, and my fans there have always come out and supported my shows and my new music. I’m really looking forward to coming back for what will be my biggest Australian tour to date.’ He’s supported by the delightful Emily Lubitz of Tin Pan Orange.

That’s quite a double bill!

Wednesday 11 September 8pm. Tix and Info: www.redsquaremusic.com.au

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO SHIRE CHOIR

GUITAR FEST IS COMING!

GET OUT OF RANGE IN THE SUNSHINE Local band Out of Range head for the Sunshine Coast this weekend to play at Maleny Festival, where they will be showcasing a fantastic new lineup (including Rex Carter on drums, Julian Smith on double bass and Cameron Smith on trumpet) and a host of new songs. They will be singing about extinction rebellion, homelessness, and other political issues, with their inimitable upbeat, humorous, and genre-fluid style. They played to a packed house at Mullumbimby festival last year and promise the same joy on the Sunshine Coast. So get away for the weekend and join them. Maleny festival is family friendly with kids under 12 going free. Friday 30 August till Sunday 1 September. www.malenymusicfestival.com

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FRIDAY 6TH SEPTEMBER, 6PM PALACE CINEMAS, BYRON BAY TICKETS $30

TICKETS INCLUDE COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS AND CANAPÉS ALL PROFITS RAISED ON THE NIGHT WILL SUPPORT SHELTERBOX AUSTRALIA

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FLESH AND BONE: AN ART INSTALLATION WITH A DIFFERENCE

Ever wanted to be part of a rolling art installation? Well you can. Forest Art’s latest exhibition Flesh and Bone Experiment is an immersive experience from the minute you arrive until you leave. Held at the Forest Art Studio of Brendan Kelly and Claire Yerbury, Forest Art is dark, surprising, and endeavours to push creative boundaries. The Echo spoke to Brendan about what’s in store for the fourth studio exhibition.

Tell me the concept for Flesh and Bone – what kind of experience do you want to give people at Forest Art this time?

B: We theme the shows so we have a cohesive body of work to exhibit, but everyone’s take on the theme is different, resulting in an eclectic, diverse, and unique experience. The shows are one of a kind.

Is this exhibition about selling art?

B: No. It’s about ‘showcasing’ art. It’s closer to a catwalk fashion show than a typical art exhibition. We ask contributors to show their ‘exaggerated selves’ and not to worry about whether they sell or not. Having said that, there’s plenty of work for sale at very reasonable prices.

What is it about immersive art that excites you?

B: Well… being immersed in it! We’re not the kind of people to dangle our toes in the water… we jump in!

Tell me about the other exhibiting artists.

B: We send cryptic invitations to various artist friends offering them a spot in the show. All sorts of amazing people producing amazing art come together on the night. They get really excited by the whole experience and it shows in their work. There are over 30 people involved in the coming show.

How are you going to make this a ‘complete’ flesh and bone experiment?

B: We really feel our way in the dark producing these shows. No-one is doing anything like this so it’s an experiment from the get go. Not-knowing makes for real creativity.

Are there any surprises?

B: Yep. Elements of painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, film, photography, theatre, performance, comedy, and drama are laced with surprises. There’s a fair bit of Willy Wonka going on…

Tell about the charity you are raising money for this time and how people can donate.

B: We’re raising money for Rainforest 4 Foundation, who look after the earth’s flesh and bones. People can give a donation within their budget or buy a raffle ticket to win a surfboard shaped by Australian surfing icon Wayne Lynch.

It’s an adventure just getting to your art studio. How do people find out how to get there?

B: It’s only 10 minutes from Mullumbimby along Wilsons Creek Road, not that bad really.

Email for more details: forestartshow@gmail.com.

Friday 13 September 5–10pm. www.echo.net.au/byron-echo Byron Shire Echo archives

COMEDY FOR KOALAS On Wednesday 11 September, Jimeoin and fellow comedian Dan Willis, both recently returned from the Edinburgh Fringe festival, will take to the stage at the A&I Hall in Bangalow to raise money for local koala habitat. They’ll be joined by MC Mandy Nolan, whose rapid-fire observations about the human condition and exotic life forms around Byron make her an instant hit.

Jimeoin, Dan, and Mandy have all volunteered their time to help Bangalow Koalas give our furry friends a home – more trees! 7pm. Tix $40 at banglowkoalas.eventbrite.com.au

OPEN MIC WITH MANDY Mandy Nolan heads up Comedy at the Court House this month with a full quota of wannabe funny people. Shooting the breeze on current topics, reflecting on personal flaws, engaging in some audience interaction… it’s all part of a robust night of comedy in the raw. Open Mic is where new comics get a chance to shine – to grow their onstage persona in front of an audience! Come be part of the thrills, the spills, and watch them kill!

DUSTYJOKES Once again the Ocean Shores Country Club delivers firstclass funnies with September’s offering featuring Dusty Rich. Hailing from South Africa, Rich found his comedy feet as the support act for Trevor Noah! Rich is a comedic space-warrior riding a living volcano of red-hot comedy material flowing off the stage and out into the crowd delivering wave after warm wave of hilarity for those in the room.

His meteoric rise in the comedy industry is owing to the fact he had learnt to ride meteors at a very early age – a mind meteor, smashing through the atmosphere of the mediocre and mundane.

Each of Dusty’s shows is unpredictable and hilarious, leaving audiences gasping for air.

Truly original, manic, and full of impact. The dark art of comedy runs through his veins, sliced with his razor-sharp wit and delivered like a perfectly crafted raw Japanese delicacy to his audience starving for more fresh and tasty original comedy treats.

Supported by Ashwin Segkar with Mandy Nolan as MC at the Ocean Shores Country Club this Tuesday. Admission is Free. 7pm

CULTURE CONTINUED ON P44

Thursday 5 September at the Court House Hotel in Mullumbimby, 8pm. Free.

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CULTURE CONTINUED

SPRING WRITERS Writers at the Rails first-day-of-spring show will feature award-winning poet and host of Poets Out Loud, Sarah Temporal, winner of 2018 Nimbin Poetry Cup and Lismore Poetry Cup plus the recent Byron Writers Festival Poetry Slam, together with the iconic performance poet and wordsmith Phil Free.

Show starts on Sunday at 2pm at the Rails, along with invited readings and a poetry slam.

GIRLS’ OWN ADVENTURE Palace Cinemas, Byron Bay, present The Women’s Adventure Film Tour screening Friday 6 September.

This event invites the community to enjoy a collection of highly anticipated short films from some of the most extraordinary women in adventure.

The evening will be hosted by ShelterBox – an international charity that travels around the world to provide emergency shelter and aid to families who have lost everything to natural disaster and conflict.

The event begins at 6pm for guests to enjoy complimentary drinks and canapés. Attendees will also have the chance to win some fantastic prizes, kindly donated by Osprey, Stone & Wood, Atmosea, The Farm, Pukka, Blundstone, Pikt, Braer, and more.

Tickets to the event are $30 and all profits raised will go towards ShelterBox’s ongoing responses around the world. Right now ShelterBox is supporting communities in Syria, Paraguay, Cameroon, and Nigeria.

Go to palacecinemas.com.au for tix.

TALKING ABOUT MURKY SEX AT THE PUB This month’s art in the pub features Amber Wallis talking about her new show Murky Sex Paintings, opening in September at Edwina Corlette Gallery.

She will discuss her past and current painting practice, touching on topics of failed architectural models, sex, and navigating a painting practice as a mother. She will be joined be joined by Amanda Maxwell, who will read and discuss her short story being published alongside Amber’s exhibition.

Monday at the Court House Hotel in Mullumbimby.

6pm for 6.30pm start.

THE MAGIC TOYSHOP! The Victorian State Ballet very proud to present this wonderfully enchanting classical ballet treat in Byron!

With a cast of internationally recognised artists, The Magic Toyshop will bring excitement and ballet splendour to the stage, performed by the superb and highly skilled artists of the Victorian State Ballet. The wonderful storyline and vibrant choreography by VSB’s director Michelle Sierra bring an unforgettable experience to ballet lovers young and old. Don’t miss out on seeing the dolls come to life after midnight in the magic toyshop! Wonder at the dynamic Can-Can dolls, the Ballerina dolls, the Cossack dolls, the Porcelain dolls, the mesmerising pas de deux and more! Victorian State Ballet’s production of The Magic Toyshop is delightful, featuring the finest of classical moments in ballet. The Magic Toyshop is one of the world’s most-loved children’s ballets, with its colourful and exciting musical score that has audiences on the edge of their seats from beginning to end! The story is told through excellent staging, simple and direct mime, superb classical ballet technique and choreography, which bring to life an altogether magical theatre experience.

Saturday 31 August at the Byron Theatre at the Community Centre at 2pm and 6pm. Then on Sunday September 1 September at 11am and 2pm.

Tickets available now at byroncentre.com.au

6 September – 17 November 2019

$10 | $5 for Friends of the Gallery

Help celebrate the opening of the exhibition Love, curated by Gallery Director Susi Muddiman OAM.

Live entertainment and refreshments

Wear your heart on your sleeve and come dressed for romance.

Heart on Your Sleeve Party Friday 6 September, 5–8pm

Bookings: trybooking.com/BEERK Image: Sophia Hewson, ‘Artist kisses subject’ (detail) 2014, oil on board, 48 x 62.5cm. Private collection.

Courtesy of the artist and MARS Gallery.

T (02) 6670 2790 W artgallery.tweed.nsw.gov.au 2 Mistral Road, South Murwillumbah

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STARS

BY LILITH

ENTERTAINMENT THIS WEEK MERCURY JOINS MARS, VENUS, SUN AND NEW MOON IN THE SIGN OF LITTLE THINGS MEAN A LOT – AS IN BOTHER IF YOU DON’T GET THEM RIGHT…

ARIES: Pushy Mars plus four other planets in your house of organising efficiency could have you stressy, fussing, and critical of others, but don’t go there. Instead, use this week’s incisive energy to get crystal clear about your working relationships in terms of timelines, commitment, returns for outlay, and divisions of labour.

WOODSTOCK REVISITED The Drill Hall Theatre Company is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Woodstock with a Woodstock screening on Fathers Day so that you can throw on the paisley pants and throw back to peace, love, and music. Mercifully it is three hours of fun, not three days of fun!

Come as you were – and if you are too young to remember come as you would like to be remembered!

At 1969 prices ($10) and with limited seating, bookings are essential at the Drill Hall Theatre website, or Mullumbimby Bookshop. Beverages will be available (hashtag cookies aren’t the same, but hey, the thought’s there) and what better way to spend Sunday arvo (2pm film, with doors open at 1pm to get in the mood) on this special Fathers Day screening? Hey man it’s going to be far out!

TAURUS: Feeling something deeply? Then do something positive. During this transit of rejigging things, Mercury has you in the mood for frank discussions on what’s not working, why not and how it could. Do you just need to hit the refresh button, or is it a knock-down/new-start scenario? Take off the filters and go there.

GEMINI: As your celestial ruler joins the gang of planets in a fellow Mercurial sign, family and base of operations take centre stage for the coming fortnight with significant changes, or even a move on the cards. Feelings are likely to be sensitive and emotions raw, so take this chance to talk about how you really feel.

CANCER: With five planets in your busy mind sector, look who’s buzzing with cutting-edge ideas. This is a highly social period, so network the heck out of it by experimenting with creative ways to interact, communicate and expand digital platforms. The perfect concept for precisely the right project could be heading in your direction…

LEO: If you were ever going to have That Talk, especially one concerning work and/or finances, you couldn’t find a more auspicious time than the next fortnight with verbal Mercury at its most expressive in your economic sector, backed up by the sun, new moon, motivating Mars and convincing Venus.

You’re welcome…

VIRGO: Been waiting for the perfect time? Welcome to the year’s most brilliant fortnight, Mercurians, with Mars and Venus canoodling in your sign and Mercury handing you the mic. This week’s existential exercise, besides wildly enjoying Virgo new moon’s charisma enhancement, is expressing yourself authentically without offending anyone.

. LIBRA: This week’s clean-up-your-act transit could activate unplanned soul searching, an unexpected emotional release, a healing transition or pivotal turning point. Is it time to let go of a festering resentment, ancient grief, habit that’s run its course, activity that’s lost its lustre or exhausting high-maintenance acquaintance?

SCORPIO: There’s a time to do it your way, and a time to put on your team player hat: and the key to this week’s success is strategic partnering and staff selection for Team Scorp. Seize the day while you may, because astral forces are currently favouring group projects and communal endeavours.

SAGITTARIUS: With this week’s process-oriented gang of planets nudging your career, public recognition, and longterm planning sector, it’s definitely worth tweaking, updating, streamlining, or modernising business methods to fit current conditions. Give those traditional tried-and-true methods an overhaul: think bigger picture and wider horizons.

CAPRICORN: Why play by the old rules – haven’t you had enough of that? Now spring’s officially sprung away from gloomy Eeyore thinking, a plethora of optimistic planetary energy is suggesting you swap the comfort zone for the route less travelled and new experiences. Why not – what have you got to lose?

AQUARIUS: Uh-oh, watch out, world! As Mercury, Mars, Venus, sun, and new moon gang up to press your passion switch you’ll be at your most uninhibited, heading into a spring-fever immersion in whatever you love. No more lingering in limbo as finances, creativity, personal and public life all kick into higher. gear…

PISCES: This week’s Piscean headlines read: Romantic Reboot! Sultry Emotions! Passionate Opinions! Honest Conversations! Intimate Communication! This is your ultimate pairing-up transit, and the force is with you for collaborating. And not just pie-in-the-sky stuff: you’ll need to make dates, plan steps, draw up timelines, and get agreements in writing.

Session Times: Thu 29 Aug - Wed 4 Sep 26 SEP - 13 OCT TIX NOW ON SALE!

A DOG'S JOURNEY 109 min (PG) Daily except Sun: 11:00AM, 12:45PM Sun: 10:20AM, 12:10PM AMAZING GRACE 88 min (G) NFT Daily except Sun: 2:15, 4:15, 6:30, 8:20PM Sun: 1:15, 3:15, 5:30, 8:10PM ANGEL HAS FALLEN 121 min (MA15+) NFT Daily except Sun: 10:50AM, 1:30, 9:00PM Sun: 10:15AM, 12:40, 7:50PM CAMINO SKIES - 80 min (PG) Daily except Sun: 10:45AM Sun: 10:00AM DANGER CLOSE: THE BATTLE OF LONG TAN 118 min (MA15+) Daily except Sun: 1:15PM Sun: 12:40PM DOGMAN 103 min (MA15+) NFT Daily except Sun, Wed: 1:50, 4:15, 6:20, 8:30PM Sun: 1:00, 3:15, 5:00, 7:15PM Wed: 1:50, 4:15, 6:20PM

FAST AND FURIOUS: HOBBS AND SHAW 136 min (M) Daily except Sun, Wed: 8:40PM Sun: 7:30PM IT: CHAPTER 2 170 min (MA15+) Advance Screening Wed: 6:30, 8:30PM LATE NIGHT 102 min (M) Daily except Sun: 11:00AM Sun: 10:30AM ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD 161 min (MA15+) NFT Daily except Sun: 11:00AM, 12:30, 3:00, 4:00, 6:15, 7:15, 8:30PM Sun: 10:00AM, 11:50AM, 2:30, 3:00, 5:20, 6:15, 7:30PM PALM BEACH 97 min (M) Daily except Sun: 10:40AM, 4:15, 6:30PM Sun: 10:00AM, 3:10, 5:15PM THE AUSTRALIAN DREAM 105 min (MA15+) NFT Daily except Sun: 4:00, 6:15 Sun: 3:15, 5:30PM

THE FAREWELL 100 min (PG) Advance Screenings Fri, Sat: 3:45PM Sun: 3:00PM THE KEEPER 120 min (M) Daily except Sun: 1:30PM Sun: 12:30PM THE KITCHEN 103 min (MA15+) NFT Daily except Sun: 1:30, 4:00, 6:10, 8:40PM Sun: 12:40, 2:50, 5:15, 7:50 THE LION KING 2019 118 min (PG) Daily except Sun, Wed: 10:50AM, 1:00, 6:15PM Sun: 10:00AM, 12:10, 5:40PM Wed: 10:50AM, 1:00PM THE NIGHTINGALE 136 min (MA15+) NFT Daily except Sun: 11:00AM, 3:30, 6:15, 8:40PM Sun: 10:15AM, 2:40, 5:10, 7:20PM TOY STORY 4 100 min (G) Daily except Sun: 10:45AM Sun: 10:00AM

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ANGEL HAS FALLEN

Cinema

No-one expected there to be a third instalment in this series and yet here we are with Angel Has Fallen.

Secret Service agent Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) is nearing the end of his career in the field when the president (Morgan Freeman) selects him to be the Secret Service director. After an assassination attempt on the president during a fishing trip, Banning and the president are the sole survivors. Banning is then charged with

the attempted murder of the president, set up by an unknown fugitive. Naturally he has to escape, prove his innocence, and find out who is behind everything.

The plot is nothing you haven’t seen before but the movie does have a more gritty and real feel than the last two. As far as action movies go, it’s hard to keep action sequences fresh and interesting; however, they do have a couple of pleasant scenes that are nicely shot.

You can always expect a good performance from Morgan Freeman, although he doesn’t have a lot of lines. A somewhat surprising aspect to the film is the chemistry between Gerard Butler and Nick Nolte.

Nolte plays Banning’s father, a paranoid Vietnam vet who actually gets to see a lot of action in the film. If you’re a fan of action movies and have been a fan of the series in the past or just want to switch off your brain for a couple of hours then this is the movie for you. ƖīƖƆƐ ǩǯǽ ǩǧǨǰ The Byron Shire Echo 45

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P: 6684 1777 E: gigs@echo.net.au W: echo.net.au/gig-guide

THURSDAY 29 Q HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON BAY FRIEND ZONE Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, NATHAN KAYE Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 8PM THE DETECTIVES Q BYRON BAY SERVICES CLUB 7PM MISS AMBER & STUKULELE’S UKE NIGHT Q TREEHOUSE, BYRON BAY, 7PM 153 EAST Q WOODY’S SURF SHACK, BYRON BAY, UPSTAIRS 9PM THURSDAY TAKEOVER WITH DJ REFLEX + FRIENDS Q OCEAN SHORES COUNTRY CLUB 6.30PM TRIVIA Q MIDDLE PUB, MULLUMBIMBY, 7PM JOSH LEE HAMILTON Q LENNOX HOTEL 9PM JAM NIGHT Q DUSTY ATTIC, LISMORE, 7PM JEFF LANG Q MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES CLUB 6PM PHIL GUEST Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS, THE STAGE 6PM THE BUGGY BROTHERS

FRIDAY 30 Q HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON BAY, CHILLI GOMEZ, SOY, GUS Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, BOHEMIAN COWBOYS Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 5PM LEIGH JAMES, 9PM FAT ALBERT Q BYRON BAY BREWERY 7PM GURL, OLE FALCO, PLAYGROUND Q TARGA, BYRON BAY, 6PM MARTIN LARTIGAU Q THE SUN, BYRON BAY, 7PM MANOA Q TREEHOUSE, BYRON BAY, 7PM TIMBUKTU Q WOODY’S SURF SHACK, BYRON BAY, UPSTAIRS 9PM LIVE DJS Q BANGALOW HOTEL 7PM OOZ Q HOTEL BRUNSWICK 6.30PM JORDAN MCROBBIE

Q BRUNSWICK HEADS PICTURE HOUSE 7PM THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW

SATURDAY 31

Q MIDDLE PUB, MULLUMBIMBY, 7PM KRAPPYOKEE

Q HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON BAY, THE PINHEADS BLISTAR, THE UNKNOWNS

Q MULLUM FARMERS MARKET, MULLUMBIMBY, 8PM RAKU ONE O’GAIA

Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, GOODRICH

Q CLUB MULLUM, MULLUMBIMBY, 8PM PARISSA BOUAS & THE WORLD CITIZENS Q BILLINUDGEL HOTEL 8PM THE EASY BROWNS + CASSOWARYS Q LENNOX HOTEL 10PM THE LYRICAL Q BALLINA RSL BOARDWALK 6.30PM ADAM HARPAZ Q SHAWS BAY HOTEL, BALLINA, 6.30PM THE GARDEN PARTY Q ROUS MILL HALL 7PM ROUS UNPLUGGED Q HOTEL ILLAWONG, EVANS HEAD, 8.30PM MASSIVE Q LISMORE WORKERS CLUB 10AM DEAN DOYLE WITH SOPHISTICATION – MORNING MELODIES SHOW, 10.30AM DEAN DOYLE WITH SOPHISTICATION – COME FLY WITH ME, 7.30PM TWO MEN AND A LADYZ Q DUSTY ATTIC, LISMORE, 7PM ART PLEASLEY’S STRING THEORY Q MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES CLUB 7.30PM JOHN CURTIN

Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 5PM DJ LONGTIME, 9PM NINJA HOUSE Q BYRON BAY BREWERY 7PM THE DEAD LOVE + BAKERS EDDY + FIRST BEIGE + MORE Q BYRON THEATRE 2PM AND 6PM THE VICTORIA STATE BALLET – THE MAGIC TOYSHOP Q THE STICKY WICKET BAR, BYRON BAY, UPSTAIRS JAMES SCOTT

Q SEAGULLS, TWEED HEADS, 8PM HILLBILLY GOATS Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS, THE SHOWROOM 8PM DEAN BOURNE – ROY ORBISON ‘REBORN’, THE STAGE 9PM LOST SAFARI Q COOLANGATTA HOTEL 8PM AUGUSTA, THE LONESOMES, DIE FOR MUSHIES, SHIVVS

SUNDAY 1 Q HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON BAY NICK CUNNINGHAM Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, SQUASH COURTS, 2PM WRITERS AT THE RAILS

Q FOXY LUU’S, BYRON BAY, 6PM ACOUSTIC GYPSY JAZZ WITH BEN JULIAN

Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 4.30PM LATE FOR WOODSTOCK, 8PM DJ REFLEX, 10PM DJ LONGTIME

Q BANGALOW HOTEL 7PM BILL JACOBI

Q BYRON BAY BREWERY 3PM STEVE COUSINS

Q THE ROCK & ROLL, MULLUMBIMBY, 5PM WARM UP @ THE ROCK & ROLL, COMMUNITY CHARITY EVENT

Q BYRON THEATRE 11AM AND 2PM, THE VICTORIA STATE BALLET – THE MAGIC TOYSHOP

Q HOTEL BRUNSWICK 7PM THE LYRICAL Q BRUNSWICK HEADS PICTURE HOUSE 7PM THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW

Q BYRON COMMUNITY MARKET 10AM ROD MURRAY DUO, ATMOSPHERICS, OKA, KOBYA MO’FAYAH, LOU BRADLEY AND BAND

Q MIDDLE PUB, MULLUMBIMBY, 7PM STEPHEN LOVELIGHT

Q TREEHOUSE, BYRON BAY, 12PM SUNDAY SESSION DJS VINNIE LADUCE & JEZZA J

Q BALLINA RSL LEVEL ONE 6PM DAN CLARK

Q THE SUN, BYRON BAY, 5PM OOZ

Q HOTEL ILLAWONG, EVANS HEAD, 8.30PM DJ TWOSINC

Q HOTEL BRUNSWICK 4PM MANALION

Q KINGSCLIFF BEACH HOTEL 7PM ADAM BROWN

Q DUSTY ATTIC, LISMORE, 7PM SHEA BUTTER

Q OCEAN SHORES COUNTRY CLUB 1PM NOW AND ZEN

Q KINGSCLIFF BEACH BOWLS 7.30PM KARAOKE

Q CASINO GOLF CLUB 7.30PM SEBASTIAN

Q SEVEN MILE, LENNOX HEAD, 3PM JOCK BARNES

Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS, THE STAGE 2PM DANIELLE GOULLET PRESENTS, 4.30PM JAKE MEYWES BAND, THE SHOWROOM 8PM JOHN WATERS – BOB DYLAN REVISITED, THE STAGE 9PM LOST SAFARI

Q MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES CLUB 6PM THE MERLIN

Q LENNOX HOTEL SOCIAL SUNDAY

Q CABARITA BEACH SPORTS CLUB 7.30PM FOLLOW THE FOX

Q WILLIAMS STREET KITCHEN & BAR, LENNOX HEAD, 4PM DJ VINYL RICHIE

Q KINGSCLIFF BEACH HOTEL 7PM JON STEVENS

Q HOTEL ILLAWONG, EVANS HEAD, 3PM NATE DANIELS

Q IVORY TAVERN, TWEED HEADS, 8PM KRAPPYOKEE

Q SHEOAK SHACK, FINGAL HEAD, 2PM ORDIO CHIEF

Q ELTHAM HOTEL 4PM BILL JACOBI

Q RIVERVIEW HOTEL, MURWILLUMBAH, 8PM DEVILS KIOSK Q CABARITA BEACH SPORTS CLUB 7.30PM RICHIE WILLIAMS

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WHAT’S ON THE MAGIC TOYSHOP VICTORIAN STATE BALLET

Saturday 31 August & Sunday 1 September Adult $40 | Conc $35 | BT Club $35 Child U16 $28 | Family of 4 $120

We have hundreds of gigs from around the north coast in the region’s BEST online gig guide

RAISING HUMANITY – BOOK LAUNCH PRESENTED BY ERFAN DALIRI Thursday 5 September, 6.30pm Free event

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MERRYN JEANN PRESENTED BY MUSEAGENCY Friday 6 September, 8.00pm Full $25 | Concession $20

Saturday 7 September, 5.00pm & 8.00pm All tickets $36 | Ages 15+

THE PEARL OF HAPPINESS PRESENTED BY BRIGHT LIGHTS PERFORMANCE SCHOOL

Sunday 8th September 3:30pm Adult $13.80 | Child U16 $8.80 | Family of 4 $38

Enjoy a drink at the Theatre Bar Byron Theatre Club Membership now available Byron Community Centre 69 Jonson Street, Byron Bay | www.byroncentre.com.au

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SYDNEY COMEDY FESTIVAL SHOWCASE 2019

Q LISMORE WORKERS CLUB PLATINUM LOUNGE 10.30AM CEDAR GUITAR COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS

Q WOODY’S SURF SHACK, BYRON BAY, UPSTAIRS 9PM HIP-HOP HOORAY LIVE DJS

Q LISMORE CITY BOWLO 2PM BART STENHOUSE TRIO

Q BANGALOW HOTEL 7.30PM BANGALOW BRACKETS – OPEN MIC WITH SLIM PICKENS

Q DUSTY ATTIC, LISMORE, 4PM PADDY MCHUGH & CLAIRE ANNE Q SPHINX ROCK CAFE, MT BURRELL, 12PM MICK ALBECK & HAMISH DUTTON Q RIVERVIEW HOTEL, MURWILLUMBAH, 2.30PM SCOTTY MARRIOTT

Q OCEAN SHORES COUNTRY CLUB 7PM COUNTRY CLUB COMEDY FEAT DUSTY RICH WITH ASHWIN SEGKAR – MC MANDY NOLAN Q LENNOX HOTEL 6PM ROB SARIC

Q KINGSCLIFF BEACH HOTEL 3PM MANOA

Q LISMORE WORKERS CLUB PLATINUM LOUNGE 6.30PM LISMORE PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL

Q CHINDERAH TAVERN 2.30PM PUSH Q SEAGULLS, TWEED HEADS, 12PM MATTY ROGERS

Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS, THE SHOWROOM 11AM THE STORY SERIES – THE GRAND OLE OPREY, THE STAGE 1PM SOCIAL NEW VOGUE DANCING, 6PM JJ ADAMS

Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS, THE STAGE 1PM FLOORBURNERS, 6PM CHRIS COOK BAND Q WARDELL SPORT AND REC CLUB 2PM OPEN MIC AND JAM SESSION

WEDNESDAY 4

MONDAY 2 Q HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON BAY DAN CLARK

Q HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON BAY JAZZ IN THE RESTAURANT

Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, JASON DELPHIN

Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, MANOA

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INDEX Accountants & Bookkeepers ..........47 Acupuncture .................................47 Air Conditioning & Refrigeration....47 Antennas & Installation.................47 Antiques / Restoration ..................47 Appliance Repair ...........................47 Architects .....................................47 Automotive...................................47 Bathroom Renovations..................47 Blinds, Awnings, Curtains, Shutters ..47 Bricklaying....................................47 Building Trades .............................47 Bush Regen & Weed Control ..........47 Carpet Cleaning ............................47 Chimney Sweeping........................47 Chiropractic ..................................47 Cleaning .......................................47 Computer Services ........................48 Concreting & Paving ......................48 Decks, Patios & Extensions.............48 Dentists ........................................48 Design & Drafting..........................48 Driveway Maintenance ..................48 Earthmoving & Excavation.............48 Electricians ...................................48 Fencing .........................................48 Floor Sanding & Polishing..............48 Garden & Property Maintenance....48 Garden Design ..............................49 Gas Suppliers ................................49 Glaziers.........................................49 Graphic Design ..............................49 Guttering ......................................49 Handypersons ...............................49 Health ..........................................49

CARPENTER HANDYMAN FB Greg’s Handyman Services Byron Bay Lic No 1039897....0414 109595 HAVEN BUILDING All aspects of building. Lic 326616C ...............................................0432 565060 RENOVATION SPECIALIST Customised Service. Builder: Levi Alexander Lic 189611C ..0402 434154 CARPENTER All work types, 20 years exp, free quotes, fully insured, no job too small...0473 027848 SURFSIDE BUILDING Decks, Patios, Extensions. Free Quotes. Lic: 182983C. Contact ...0412 551353

BUSH REGENERATION & WEED CONTROL WEED CONTROL SPECIALIST Lawns - bindii weeds .....................................................0418 110714 EAST COAST BUSH REGENERATION Tree planting, weed control. Call Rossco Faithfull.0409 157695

FURNITURE RESTORATION Old/antique, 40+ yrs exp. erwinfurniturerestoration.com ...0412 528454 CAMPHOR CONTROL, rainforest and creek restoration services. Ph .............................0428 715886

Hire ..............................................49 Kitchens........................................49 Landscape Design .........................49 Landscape Supplies .......................49 Landscaping .................................49 Lighting ........................................49 Locksmith .....................................49 Osteopathy ...................................49 Painting........................................49 Pest Control ..................................49 Photography .................................49 Physiotherapy ...............................49 Picture Framing ............................49 Plastering .....................................49 Plumbers ......................................49 Printing & Copying Services ...........50 Removalists ..................................50 Roofing.........................................50 Rubbish Removal ..........................50 Scrap Metal Merchants ..................50 Septic Systems ..............................50 Sewing & Alterations.....................50 Solar Installation ..........................50 Stonemasonry ..............................50 Swimming Pools ...........................50 Tiling ............................................50 Tree Services .................................50 Upholstery ....................................50 Valuers .........................................50 Veterinary Surgeons......................50 Water Filters .................................50 Water Tanks & Tank Cleaning .........50 Welding ........................................50 Window Tinting ............................50

ACCOUNTANT Paul Mayberry..............................................................................................66847415 ACCOUNTANT BANGALOW + BYRON BAY The Office Accountants & Business Advisors ...66872960 BOOKKEEPER Local and reliable .................................. barbarasbookkeeping.com.au 0402 118649

TLC

DIGITAL ELECTRONICS REPAIR & SERVICE TV. Audio. Antennas .......... 66843575 or 0414 922786 ALL MAKES & models: Fridges, washers, ovens. All kitchen/laundry. Fast w/ good rates ..0401 159371

ARCHITECTS

AUTOMOTIVE

LEGENDARY OFFROAD TYRES

0408 232 066

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

BATHROOM RENOVATIONS

CHIROPRACTIC

REVAMP BATHROOMS

BAY FAMILY CHIROPRACTIC Peter Wuehr 17 Bangalow Rd Byron Bay ..............................66855282 WAVE OF LIFE NETWORK CHIRO (lowforce) 8/9 Fletcher St, Byron Bay. Andrew Badman...66858553

Bathroom Renovations and Tiling Repairs

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MICHAEL SCHWAGER 108 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby ...................................................66841962 MULLUMBIMBY CHIROPRACTIC Massage & Chiropractic. 110 Dalley St ........................66841028

Call Jason 0434 177 594

CLEANING

BLINDS, AWNINGS, CURTAINS, SHUTTERS LOCAL

SHOWCASE DEALER SHOWROOM

SUNSCREENS

ACTION WINDOW & PRESSURE CLEANING

• House washing • High pressure or soft wash • Window cleaning • Driveways, paths & roofs • Gutters & yscreens • Water efďŹ cient • Free quotes Phone Joe or Helen 6687 4655 or 0412 495750 1/84 Centennial Circuit Byron Bay

CURTAINS

6680 8862

PLANTATION SHUTTERS

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AWNINGS ROLL BLINDS

BRICK/BLOCK LAYING Contractors. Lic 291958C. Phone Mark ........................................0409 444268

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BUILDING TRADES

0434 539 979

artisanair.com.au

PLEASE CALL

DUFbuild

6680 9394

– Sales – Installation – Repairs – All Commercial Refrigeration – Residential & Commercial Airconditioning – Coolroom Design & Construction – Freezer Rooms

Darren Paxton

0412 497 637

Master Builders Licence No.94573C

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Quality Exterior Refinishing Roof & Pressure Cleaning Roof Painting Deck Oiling

Full Circle

COOLMAN AIR CONDITIONING 23 years experience. Lic 178464C AU30147 ..............0412 641753 RAINBOW REGION AIR CONDITIONING ARC AU36141. Lic No. 264313C.....................0487 264137

ANTENNAS & INSTALLATION

0439 624 945

AH

02 66 804 173

Digital TV ALL Antenna Installations & Repairs ALL Electrical Work

Friendly Reliable Prompt Local

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email: impresswindowcleaning@gmail.com Reliable • Friendly • Professional • Fully Insured • Free Quotes • Affordable Rates Locally Owned and Operated • Quality Work with Over 10 Years Experience

1300 095 393

6684 2783

Lic: 299433C ARC: AU40492

www.byroneco.com.au

Call Glenn or Tracey 0403 428 232 or 6680 9901

build the dream

Lic 246545C

• Window Cleaning • Screens & Tracks • Pressure Washing • House •Roof • Paths • Solar

Window Cleaning Professionals

PRESTIGE BUILDERS

Award Winning Builders • Renovations • Extensions • New Homes

45 Manns Road, Mullumbimby

Commercial / Domestic / Insurance

CHIMNEY SWEEPING

BAYSIDE RADIATORS Windscreens & air-con. Billinudgel. AU29498 .................................66802444

• DEPT OF FAIR TRADING: A licence is required for all residential building work where the reasonable market cost of the work to be done (labour and materials) exceeds $5000 (including GST).

Mullumbimby Refrigeration & Airconditioning Services

Green & Clean Cleans deeply, dries in 1-2 hours

Far North Coast NSW John & Teresa

BRICKLAYING

AU 37088

(02) 6684 1001

Kevin & Margaret Bower FRANCHISE OF THE YEAR!

• Tyres • Batteries • Wheel Alignments MULLUMBIMBY TYRE SERVICE Dalley Street, Mullumbimby 6684 2016

AIR CONDITIONING & REFRIGERATION

AIR CONDITIONING & REFRIGERATION

CARPET CLEANING

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

ACUPUNCTURE ACUPUNCTURE CHINESE HERBAL MEDICINE M Collis..................................................66842559

Truck Mounted Machine

TENDER LOVING CARE Specialising in household carpet cleaning Speedy Drying

FRANK STEWART ARCHITECT Reg. 6075. www.frankstewart.com.au............................66856984 OCEANARC ARCHITECTS Reg. 6042 www.oceanarc.com.au ..............................................66855001 ATELIER LUKE – Luke Hayward architect, Reg. 10438 www.atelierluke.com ...............0401 875535

FREE MEASURE QUOTE

ACCOUNTANTS & BOOKKEEPERS

CARPET CLEANING

APPLIANCE REPAIR

DINGO DEMOLITIONS & ASBESTOS REMOVAL ................................. 66834008 or 0407 728998 CARPENTER All jobs. Michael Dow. Lic 147675C .................................... 66291169 or 0412 967677 BUILDER – 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 CARPENTER Lic 39791 Decks, studios, pergolas etc Paul Varendorff ................66845035 or 0414 842602 BUILDER Renovations, maintenance, 30yrs exp. mchughdesign.com.au Lic 29792C....0408 663420 CARPENTER. Insured & qualified. Homes, decks, small jobs, free quotes. Lic 231104C...0431 674377 CARPENTER BUILDER Extend, renos, cabins, sheds. Peter Bergin Lic 147887C..................0487 101747

Phone Oliver 0419 789 600 fullcirclerefinishing.com

Professional Cleaning Services

Blue Sky

Holiday lets and Airbnb, residential homes and end of lease cleans, bond cleans, builders cleans etc.

Friendly reliable and trustworthy local service.

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BEN FORSYTH, Electrician. Lic:240691C. Ocean Shores & surrounds. No job too small ...0422 136408

FENCING

POOLSAFE GLASS FENCING

0409 799 909

various implements available for limited access projects

COMPUTER SERVICES

EARTHMOVING & PLANT HIRE

Whether Whe er you y need a tech m mentor, advice or just support I’m here to help

Specialising in driveway construction & maintenance

• Tip trucks 3 to 12 tonne • Excavator 5 to 21 tonne • Positrack loader augers 150 to 600mm & rock grab • Driveways • Roads • Acreage clearing • House pads • Drainage • Carparks • Bush rocks • Rock walls • Competitive rates

0431 122 057

Training & assessment: earthmoving plant & forklift

GLASS & ALUMINIUM POOL FENCING PROFESSIONALS 0499 178 297 psgfencingnsw@gmail.com BYRON & BEYOND FENCING Any fence, any time, prompt quotes....... 66804766 or 0422 207299 EDL FENCING Installations & repairs. Prompt service. ...........................66771852 or 0432 107262 FLOW FENCING Pool fencing, timber/colourbond, local, professional and reliable.......0416 424256

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

Philip Toovey

PROFESSIONAL LOCAL CLEANER excellent references, good rates. Shire wide. Ph Krissy ..0410 860330

RONNIE SPINKS Everything electrical. Lic 27673 .........................................................0429 802355 JP ELECTRICAL Level 2 ASP Under-g/O-head lines, Pwr poles, Solar. Lic 133082C ........0432 289705 SPINKS ELECTRICAL Lic 284939C..................................................................Call Mitch 0421 843477

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BOND CLEANING ..............................................................................................................0421360961

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

JIM LABELLE ELECTRICAL O.Shores, Mullum, Byron, Brunswick. Lic 176417C..............0415 126028

SERVICING THE EAST COAST OF THE NSW NORTHERN RIVERS

EARTHMOVING & EXCAVATION

Email: mickbhl@gmail.com

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ALL ASPECTS OF ASPHALT & BITUMEN SERVICES

FLOOR SANDING & POLISHING

0427 663 678 / 0410 056 228

purely support, advice & tech mentorship

5.5 TONNE EXCAVATOR, POSITRACK & TIPPER HIRE

The Floor Sander NEW AND OLD FLOORS AND DECKING

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

Augers and rock grab available.

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MOBILE COMPUTER SUPPORT Home & business workrightcomputersupport.com.au 0422 804449 RENT-A-GEEK Mobile PC Repair (Byron Shire) ....................................................................66844335

NJH FLOOR SANDING Eco oils, hard wax oils & water-based finishes. Nathan .............0420 215716

GARDEN & PROPERTY MAINTENANCE

BETTER CALL SAUL The Mac Doctor. Repairs. Upgrades. Used Macs.............................0411 562111

• Driveways • Landscaping • Rock walls • House & shed sites

CONCRETING & PAVING

Luke Jarrett – 0431 329 630

DARYL 0418 234 302 OR 02 6680 1793

STEVE BROWN EARTHMOVING Lic.136717c

Over 25 yrs local experience. All forms of concreting. • Residential Civil Industrial. • Resurfacing and rejuvenation of existing concrete. • Steel ďŹ xing & formwork.

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

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

6684 0160 | 0439 840 160 | 0421 460 932 NORTHERN RIVERS TRENCHING 65hp chain trencher, mini excavator, cable locating.0402 716857 ALEX EXCAVATION 3.5T Zero Swing & 5T Tipper Rock Grab + other attachments ........0417 920300 CivilTrak Road construction, excavators, rollers, grader & truck hire.............................0499 912459

ALL AROUND

CONCRETING

0424 876 155 0439 624 945

AH

02 66 804 173

PLATINUM CRETE CONCRETING Lic 225874C. 20 years exp. Free quotes. Justin .........0458 773788

All Jobs Small or Large

Domestic Commercial Lic No 142383C

DECKS, PATIOS & EXTENSIONS

ELECTRICAL Steve Nicholls ph: 0455 445 343 lic: EC28753

978 383

THE BYRON BAY GARDEN & LANDSCAPING COMPANY Structural Landscaping

24 HOUR SERVICE

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

FREE QUOTES

Contact Vadi: 0404

ELECTRICIANS

Call Daniel

DECKS

Acreage Mowing Specialist | Mini excavation Toro Dingo with stump grinder, trencher and soil cultivator

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

Lic: 154293c

Lic No. 337066C

• Land clearing • Augers, rock grab & breaker attachments • Free quotes Follow us on

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

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

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

Call Mark 0498 115 182

nichollselectrical@outlook.com

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

• • • • •

THE DECK DOCTOR Sanding & refinishing, cable balustrading. Free quotes. Richard ...0407 821690

LITTLE LANE DENTAL, MULLUMBIMBY ...........................................................................66842816 BRUNSWICK HOLISTIC DENTAL CENTRE.......................................................................66851264

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

Suffolk Park

Lic No: 143433C | ACRS Master Cabler A017916

ELECTRIC BOOGALOO • 24/7 Emergency • Residential, Commercial • Level 2

1800 763 911 | 0417 415 474

DRIVEWAY MAINTENANCE 20 Year+s Exp.

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

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Jai – 0467 482 948

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0414 905 900 Lic no. 141097C

DENTISTS

BOBBY WALKER Licensed Electrical Contractor

0429 366 313

EVERY H ME, EVERY BUILDING, EVERY ROOM, EVERYTHING ELECTRICAL

RESIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL 24/7 SERVICE FREE QUOTES

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Property maintenance All Mowing jobs Landscaping Pressure cleaning Tip runs

0401 458 422

Paola Landscapes Pty Ltd 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

MULLUM.MOWING@gmail.com. Ride-on, large lawns & acreage. Ph Peter................0423 756394 GUTTERS CLEANED Solar panel cleaning, all areas, free quotes, fully insured ... 66841778 or 0405 922839 A-Z Lawns & acreage, trees & hedges, clean ups & tip runs, all gutters ..........................0405 625697 A.C.E. LAWNMOWING & GARDENING Best rates, reliable, guaranteed.............Sam 0438 655763 LEAF IT TO US Specialists in acreage mowing, garden, tree maintenance .....................0402 487213 PAUL’S MOWING Local & reliable. Mullum, Bruns, O. Shores, Byron & Bangalow.........0422 958791

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Service Directory TIP RUNS & RUBBISH REMOVALS 4m3 trailer..............................................................0408 210772

LANDSCAPE SUPPLIES

BRUSHCUTTING Rubbish, Property Maintenance, Lawns.............................................0412 469109

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RICK’S PROPERTY MAINTENANCE Mowing, brushcutting, gardening, pool service, pressure cleaning. Attention to detail at good rates. Ph .................................................0424 805660

1176 Myocum Rd, Mullumbimby (just past golf course)

SAMURAI HEAVY DUTY BRUSHCUTTING. Ph .............................................................0402 733620

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

SOIL

CRACKER DUST

MULCH

ROAD BASE FIRE WOOD

GRAVEL

GAS SUPPLIERS

NEIL A McINTOSH

INTERIOR/EXTERIOR • PLASTER REPAIRS • WALLPAPERING CLEAN & TIDY • ALWAYS ON TIME • ALL AREAS Mobile: 0421 938 104 – 465 Uralba Road, Uralba

18 Lucky Lane Billinudgel Industrial Estate

landscaping supplies Locally Owned Est 18 years

0266 804555

AD PAINTING by John Hand. Lic 13246C ................................................ 0413 185399 or 66841249 ALL WAYS PAINTING NORTHERN RIVERS. Qualified, insured, clean. 0413 401907 or 66805015

PEST CONTROL

LANDSCAPING

Reliable

PAINTER

ABN 48867459605 Lic 33995C

6684 2323 / 0418 663 983

PROBLEM CAMPHORS and woody weeds removed. No fuss-green waste, lantana too! ..0478 779650

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

GREEN DINGO for all your mowing and gardening needs. Ph Michael .........................0497 842442

Free Delivery

Lic 167371C

A GREEN EARTH Garden restoration, maintenance, tree & rubbish removal ................0405 716552

www.brunswickvalleygas.com

6680 1575 or 0408 760 609 Professional Property Protection you can Trust

GLAZIERS

• Targeted treatments for all pests with “no sprayâ€? cockroach treatments • If you have found live termites, do not disturb them and call us for advice!

No cost for quoting on active termites Relax, when safety, reputation and experience matters, we are the experts

6685 4490 or AH on 0414 769 018

24/7 EMERGENCY GLASS 0415 660 801

6685 8588

Mirrors • Security doors and screens Shower screens • Commercial glazing

GRAPHIC DESIGN

ALL ASPECTS OF LANDSCAPING AND DESIGN

DESIGN

02 6681 6555

CONSTRUCT Free quotes on active termites Environmentally safe

PLANT

0421 986 373 www.greenskylandscapes.com.au

YOUR PEST & TERMITE SPECIALISTS

MAINTAIN

www.allpestsolutions.com.au

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

www.thinkblinkdesign.com

LEMONTREELANDSCAPES.COM.AU Liam. Lic No 277154C .........................................0423 700853

DESIGN

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

Tree Faerie Fotos

Print | Branding | Social Media | Websites | Graphic Design

Professional • Commercial • Personal

GUTTERING

www.spotlessgutters.com.au

THE PEST MAN EXTRAORDINAIRE Second opinion / alternative views. 50 yrs exp .....0418 110714

PHOTOGRAPHY

LIGHTING

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

www.sanctuarypest.com.au

30+ years experience in commercial photography and photojournalism

www.treefaeriefotos.com • 0417 427 518

PHYSIOTHERAPY

LOCKSMITH

BANGALOW PHYSIOTHERAPY Manual therapies, acupuncture, mat/reformer, clinical exercise

Brendan Duggan Locksmith. Automotive car keys and lock installation/repair .......0412 764148

OSTEOPATHY

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

HANDYPERSONS

NICK EDMOND Physiotherapy & Acupuncture. Open Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday 466 Main Arm Road, Mullumbimby.....................................................................................66845288

OSTEOPATHY

A TO Z HANDYMAN SERVICES Tip runs, pressure cleaning, gardening, odd jobs ....Andre 66847553 or 0439 495247

at Mullumbimby Comprehensive Health Centre

A.S.A.P. All renos, carpentry, plastering, painting, studios & bathrooms .......................0405 625697

classes, laser, shockwave. Kim Snellgrove, Cally O’Hara .......................................................66872330

ANTHONY D’ORSOGNA Physiotherapy, acupuncture, hydrotherapy Suffolk Park 1 Bryce St ... 66853511 CONTINENCE / PELVIC FLOOR Janelle Angel ..................Bangalow 66872337 & M’bah 66723818 PETRA KARNI Physio, Craniosacral, Alexander Technique. Byron. Open Saturdays.......0403 226858 OCEAN SHORES PHYSIOTHERAPY Manual therapies, dry needling, custom orthotics, shock

HANDY ANDY Carpentry, plastering, welding ......................................... 66884324 or 0476 600956 AWESOME REPAIRS Professional, commercial & domestic. Wayne...............................0423 218417 THE HANDYMAN CAN All home maintenance, repairs, painting, odd jobs etc .............0427 110953

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

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

60 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby | 02 6626 7900

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

BRUNSWICK HEADS PHYSIO. Manual therapy exercise prescription, MC’S HANDYMAN SERVICES Exp. painter, home repairs, odd jobs. Great rates............0412 559509 NORTH COAST OSTEOPATHY Jodie Jacobs. Mon/Tues/Thurs/Fri.....................................66857517 45 minute consults, experienced Physio .........................................................................0419 629333 CARPENTER HANDYMAN FB Greg’s Handyman Services Byron Bay Lic No 1039897....0414 109595

PAINTING

GOOD NEWS HANDYMAN Carpentry, home renovations/repairs etc. Jesse..................0458 968290

PICTURE FRAMING

PPP HOME MAINTENANCE All aspects. Carpentry, decks, painting, repairs etc. Insured. 0434 705506 • DEPARTMENT OF FAIR TRADING INFO: When dealing with home owners, painters are required MULLUM PICTURE FRAMERS Stuart St rear lane behind Mitre 10 ............................0403 734791 BILLINUDGEL CUSTOM PICTURE FRAMING. 7/1 Wilfred St, Billinudgel ........................ 6680 3444 ALL TIMBER REPAIRS Qualified joiner/handyman. Well presented. Andrew ...............0412 293732 to quote a licence number only for external work valued over $5000.

HEALTH • OTHER HEALTH RELATED SECTIONS IN THIS SERVICE DIRECTORY: Acupuncture, Chiropractic, Counselling, Dentists, Osteopathy, Physiotherapy

ALL-WAYS PAINTING BYRON BAY

• Domestic & Commercial • Servicing all areas • Workmanship guaranteed • Attention to detail

0438 784 226 • 6685 4154

ACUPUNCTURE & COSMETIC MEDICINE Dr Adam Osborne ...........................................66857366

451 186

PLUMBERS

HIRE MULLUM HIRE Builders, party and much more ........................www.mullumhire.com.au 66843003

YVES DE WILDE

D HINGED Kitchens & Joinery. Lic 283553C. www.hinged.com.au ....................... Dave 0409 843689

QUALITY PAINTING SERVICES

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

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

C. A. Warwick Lic. No. 114578C ‡ )UHH TXRWHV ‡ *\SURFN À [LQJ VHWWLQJ

SUNRISE PLASTERING. No job too small. Renovations + patchworks. Gtd sat. Free quote ....0418 992001

WWW.EASTCOASTPILATES.COM.AU Judy Leane BSpSc ..............................................0408 110006

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT Garden Design & Property Planning. Andrew Pawsey ..........0478 519804

DOMESTIC & COMMERCIAL

DQQH P ZDUZLFN#JPDLO FRP

MALI’S Therapeutic Chinese Massage Service. In & out calls ..............................................66841790

BEAU JARDIN We design & build beautiful gardens www.beaujardin.com.au Lic 177274C ...0417 054443

PLASTERING CONTRACTOR &UDLJ 0413

MULLUMBIMBY HERBALS Naturopathy, Ayurveda, Massage, Herbs. .............................66843002

KITCHENS

PLASTERING

www.duluxaccredited.com.au

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

NEED A PLUMBER? DRAINER? GASFITTER?

Chay 0429 805 081 20 YEARS LOCAL SERVICE

Licence No. 207479C

HANDYMAN SERVICE BYRON BAY. Local, reliable, insured .........................................0412 395604

Lic No 189144C

ABSOLUTE HANDYMAN. Repairs, renovation, maintenance ........................................0402 281638

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PLUMBERS (continued)

SCRAP METAL MERCHANTS

TREE SERVICES

BYRON CASH FOR SCRAP

CHOPPY CHOP TREE SERVICES

FREE

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

@ BRUNSWICK BYRON AUTO WRECKERS Buying: • Scrap metal • Aluminium • Copper • Brass • Lead • Car Batteries Next to Tyagarah Service Station

PaciďŹ c Highway, Tyagarah 6684 2351

0400 852 141

JARRAH DAVIDSON Plumbing, draining, gas fitting & roofing. Lic 187712C................0438 668025

• Stump Grinding • Bobcat • Cherrypicker • Crane Truck • 18� Chipper

r cars – unwanted cash for som paid e

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

Home sewage solutions Commercial wastewater treatment Rainwater tanks concrete and plastic

Lic 312643C

Blocked drain specialists Everything plumbing, drainage & gasďŹ tting

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The Fully Insured Professionals

SEPTIC SYSTEMS

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Northern Rivers Pty Ltd

• plumbing.td@bigpond.com

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• 1300 Taylex • www.talex.com.au

We provide professional & reliable tree services to make your environment safe and healthy.

BILL CONNORS All plumbing/draining. Lic #1051 .................................. 66801403 or 0414 801403

TRINE SOLUTIONS Local waste specialists. Plumbers, drainers & gas fitters. Lic 138031C .. 0407 439805 HRH PLUMBING Providing a prompt, reliable & efficient service. Lic 220755C ............0402 652017 NEWT wastewater treatment. Septic design, upgrades, maint & intall. Lic 207479C............... 0429 805081 MARK STRATTON All plumbing & emergency. Sewer drain camera/locator. Lic 57803C ....0419 019035

SEWING & ALTERATIONS

ADM PLUMBING SERVICES‌ (NO JOB TOO SMALL)‌ Lic 234528C. ....... Call Adam 0466 992483

PRINTING & COPYING SERVICES

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

REMOVALISTS

Serving Northern NSW since 1998

Call us on 6679 7228

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

Small and Medium Moves, Tip Runs & Deliveries, 1 or 2 Men at Low Prices to Most Areas Based from Byron Bay & Mullumbimby

SHIRE REMOVALS & FREIGHT CO

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

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0409 917646

BYRON BAY’S LOCAL REMOVALIST MOVING THE SHIRE FOR OVER 10 YEARS

Patrick - 0425 256 802

BYRON TREE SERVICES Qualified, insured. Call Alex ....................................................0402 364852

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MAN WITH A VAN/TRUCK Reasonable rates. Phone Don ............................................0414 282813 BENNY CAN MOVE IT! .................................................................................................0402 199999 MAN WITH A TALL VAN (5 star reviews) from $55ph. Call Evan ...................................0410 120777

ROOFING DOMESTIC â&#x20AC;˘ INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL

MONTYS METAL

ROOFING Licence NSW: 30715C Licence QLD: 1227049

Metal RooďŹ ng Installations â&#x20AC;˘ Guttering Downpipes â&#x20AC;˘ Fascia â&#x20AC;˘ Skylights â&#x20AC;˘ Whirlybird Patios â&#x20AC;˘ Repairs â&#x20AC;˘ Leaf Guard

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

RESIDENTIAL / COMMERCIAL NEW ROOFS / RE-ROOFS INSULATED ROOF PANELS FASCIA & GUTTERS REPAIRS & MAINTENANCE

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RUBBISH REMOVAL RUBBISH REMOVALS & TIP TRUCK HIRE Free quotes and same day service .............0451 079060 EVERGREEN TIP RUNS and rubbish removal, 8x5 trailer, heavy duty...........................0427 176771

TALLOW TREE SERVICES Removal, free quote & full insurance .....................................0401 208797 MARTINO TREE SERVICES ..............................................................................Martino 0435 019524 LEAF IT TO US 4x4 truck/chipper + stump grinding. Local, qualified, insured. Free quotes.0402 487213 VERTEX TREE SERVICES. All tree and palm removals. Ph .............................................0428 715886

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

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

Your Local Solar Experts

NORTH COAST VETERINARY SERVICES Dr Lauren Archer .................................................66840735

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

WATER FILTERS

1800 88 68 77 firstsunsolar.com.au 268 Ewingsdale Road, Byron Bay

STONEMASONRY

The Water Filter Experts

STONEMASON Walls and paths. Free quotes. artstorey@icloud.com. Ph Art ................0422 745333

for home, commercial and rural properties

SWIMMING POOLS

6680 8200 or 0418 108 181

ATTENTION POOL OWNERS 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

IN IN H

(opp. Council chambers)

6684 3003 MULLUM POOL SHOP Water testing, eco products, mobile service, construction/repairs....0418 666839 POOL CONSTRUCTION BYRON BAY. Baywater Pool. Lic 206487C.........0419 479921 or 66843489

TILING FRANCHISE OF THE YEAR!

OCEAN SHORES SKIPS Mini skip specialists ......................................... 0412 161564 or 66841232 TIP RUNS & RUBBISH REMOVAL 4m3 trailer................................................................0408 210772

PETER GRAY Grad. Cert. Arb. AQF8. Consulting arborist................................................0414 186161

â&#x20AC;˘ Best Price Promise â&#x20AC;˘ Highest Quality Products â&#x20AC;˘ 10 Year Installation Workmanship Guarantee â&#x20AC;˘ 5 Year Annual Onsite Cleaning and Maintenance included

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

0427 347 380

Lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Good with Solar

www.harttreeservices.com.au

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

www.junoenergy.com.au licence number: 255292C

leapfrogremovals@yahoo.com.au

PRUNING ~ REMOVALS ~ STUMP GRINDING â&#x20AC;˘ 20 years local knowledge and experience â&#x20AC;˘ Fully insured / free quotes â&#x20AC;˘ 19 inch chipper â&#x20AC;˘ Bobcat â&#x20AC;˘ Cherry picker â&#x20AC;˘ Crane truck

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Juno Energy is your local authorised LG energy specialist offering solar and battery solutions for your business & home

0432 334 200 02 6680 8170 Â&#x2021; /RFDO Â&#x2021; &RXQWU\ Â&#x2021; ,QWHUVWDWH

0479 066 311 yourtreefeller.com.au

Electric Lic 124600c

From Middle Pocket to Middle Earth â&#x20AC;&#x201C; just give us a ring

LEAPFROG REMOVALS

1300 384 766

info@evirongroup.com.au www.evirongroup.com.au

â&#x20AC;˘ Tree felling & removal â&#x20AC;˘ Stump grinding â&#x20AC;˘ Chipping â&#x20AC;˘ Pruning â&#x20AC;˘ Clean up work â&#x20AC;˘ Spider lift / cherry picker

Pioneers of the solar industry

Andyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Move & More

0429149 533 Est 2006

Ballina / Byron Bay / Tweed Heads / Gold Coast / Murwillumbah

SOLAR INSTALLATION

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

Calls always returned

AREAS WE SERVICE

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:

Every 5th m2 FREE

Water puriďŹ cation systems Rainwater Filters Fridge water ďŹ lters

$399

FULLY INSTALLED IN YOUR HOME

Phone Chris 0414 229 114

WATER TANKS & TANK CLEANING TANK CLEANING Repairs, installation, first flush diverters, pumps, etc ........................0418 662285

WELDING WELDING & FABRICATION Structural, general, repairs & Aluminium. Call Rod ...........0408 410545

WINDOW TINTING

A1 RUBBISH REMOVAL AND TIP RUNS. 9m3 trailer. Same day service. Best rates .....0413 289443 TILER/STONEMASON/WATERPROOFER Lic 24418C. Phone Karl ...................................66804103 SUNRISE W. T. NO BUBBLES, NO TROUBLES Cars, homes & offices ..........................0412 158478 MAN WITH UTE. RETHINK REUSE RECYCLE. Ph Mark ................................................0411 113300 TILING PERFECTION & WATERPROOFING Free quotes, repairs. Lic 179306C .66801168 or 0409 847653 SURFWAGON - Car/Home/Office tint. Lifetime Warranty. W/sale price .........................0434 875009

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North Coast news daily in Echonetdaily www.echo.net.au

Classifieds

ECHO CLASSIFIEDS – 6684 1777

INDEX Annual General Meetings ...... 51 Birthdays ................................ 53 Business For Sale ................. 52

CLASSIFIED AD BOOKINGS

DEADLINE TUES 12PM

Death Notices ........................ 53

PHONE ADS

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

For Sale ................................. 52 Garage Sales......................... 52 Halls For Hire......................... 51 Health Notices ....................... 51 Holiday Accommodation ........ 52 House Sit ............................... 52 In Memoriam.......................... 53 Life Celebrations .................... 53 Motor Vehicles ....................... 52 Musical Notes ........................ 53 Only Adults ............................ 53 Pets ........................................ 53 Positions Vacant .................... 52 Professional Services ............ 51 Public Notices ........................ 51 Short Term Accommodation .. 52 Social Escorts........................ 53 Thank You .............................. 51 To Lease ................................ 52

6684 1777 AT THE ECHO HEAD OFFICE

Ads may be taken by phone on

RATES & PAYMENT

Village Way, Stuart St, Mullumbimby

EMAIL ADS

$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.

Sat 28th September Stall Registration Open

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

On sale at The Echo

MUSIC, FOOD, SHOPPING & KIDS FUN

BYRON MARKET

Sunday 1 September 8am – 3pm Dening Park, Byron Beach Foreshore

Tradework .............................. 51 Tree Services ......................... 51

EXPLORING THE DRUG OF CHESS

IKEA Deliveries and Assemblies Flat Pack KITCHENS WARDROBE Design and Installation

Tuition .................................... 53 Wanted .................................. 52 Wanted To Lease ................... 52

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Contact Laurent 0405811271

Luke 0410 407 247 | Sarah 0401 880 170

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

Geographical Names Act 1966

PUBLIC NOTICES STREET LATIN dance classes. All ages welcome. Puerto Rican/Columbian Salsa plus more, Tuesday 3rd September, 6.40pm Marvell Hall, Marvell St, Byron.

Have fun while making new friends Txt 0438214212

The Geographical Names Board is seeking public comment on a proposal by Byron Shire Council to amend the address locality boundary between McLeods Shoot and Ewingsdale as shown on map GNB 3744-4A.

DENTURES

LOOK GOOD FEEL GOOD Free consultation. SANDRO 66805002

A copy of map GNB 3744-4A showing the proposed amendment will be on display from 28 August to 28 September 2019 at: • Byron Shire Council Office, 70 Station Street, Mullumbimby • Office of the Geographical Names Board, Spatial Services, 346 Panorama Avenue, Bathurst

THANK YOU

Details of this proposal may be viewed and submissions lodged on the Geographical Names Board website at www.gnb.nsw.gov.au during the above dates. Alternatively email submissions may be lodged with the Secretary, Geographical Names Board at ss-gnb@finance.nsw.gov.au or written submissions to 346 Panorama Avenue, Bathurst NSW 2795.

In accordance with Section 9 of the Geographical Names Act 1966, all submissions lodged may be subject to a Government Information (Public Access) application and may be viewed by a third party to assist the Board in considering this proposal.

Narelle Underwood Chair For more information: visit www.gnb.nsw.gov.au Geographical Names Board PO Box 143 BATHURST NSW 2795

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KINESIOLOGY

AGMs

Clear subconscious sabotages.

BYRON SHIRE TOY LIBRARY AGM Tuesday 10th September, 1.30pm All members welcome. Phone 0423658860

Reprogram patterns and beliefs.

HEALTH

SANDRA DAVEY, Reg. Pract.

TERESA PEZZUTTI 22/08/1924 - 19/07/2019 The family of Teresa Pezzutti would like to thank you for your cards, flowers, phonecalls and expressions of sympathy shown following the passing of our loved Mum, Nan and Great Nan. Special thanks to Byron Central Hospital staff, ambulance, Father David and Mum’s GP Dr Omeara, Ocean Shores Medical Centre. Please accept this as our personal thanks, Patricia, Neville, Bronwyn, Mary, Ray, Bob, Di and families

Restore vibrancy and physical health. De-stress.

Ph 0403125506

HALLS FOR HIRE

COLONICS

IKEA DELIVERY BIG SWEDISH – FLAT PACK BUILDERS

To Let ..................................... 52

DISCLAIMER

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

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

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

BYRON BEACHSIDE MARKET

CLASSIFIEDS THAT WORK ALL WEEK!

Offering colonic hydrotherapy, sauna and naturopathy at our beachside clinic.

Call or text 0458633869 www.byronbaydetoxretreats.com.au

HALL 37 Marvell St, Byron Bay from $20ph. Kitchen, conference/workshop space. Ph 0412665985 or 0468453344 COORABELL HALL WEDDINGS, GIGS, CLASSES

HYPNOSIS & EFT

66871307 www.coorabellhall.net

Simple and effective solutions Anxiety, Cravings, Fears & Trauma.

Maureen Bracken 0402205352

TRADEWORK

3EPTIC 7ASTE 2EMOVAL

MAW Traditional Thai Massage 0478 654 405

3UMMERLAND %NVIRONMENTAL

4HE ,IQUID 7ASTE 3PECIALISTS

BANH THAI 17 Ruskin St BYRON BAY

s 3EPTIC TANK CLEANING s 'REASE TRAP SERVICING s /ILY ,IQUIDS s 0ORTABLE TOILET HIRE s HOUR SERVICE

TREE SERVICES

HYPNOSIS & NLP www.wendypurdey.com.au

Doing Stuck?

Create a plan to move forward and achieve your ultimate mental, physical, and emotional goals.

Resolve addictive patterns and limiting beliefs that hold you back!

Call Wendy today and let’s get started!

6680 2630

SUMMERLAND TREE SERVICES • Cherry Picker • Wood Chipper • Stump Grinder • Tree Surgeon • Fully Insured

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6687 7677 Mobile 0417 698 227

HEALTH & HEALING WEEKLY CLASS TIMETABLE MONDAY ENQUIRIES BOOKINGS

ph: 0400 558 181 PSYCHOTHERAPY

info@shirshamarie.com www.shirshamarie.com

LOCATION LEGEND (B): Bangalow Yoga Pilates (SP): Suffolk Park Yogalates Barre (BT): Byron Town 6685 5640 byronbay@ heartandsoulhealthclubs. com.au www.heartandsoulhealth clubs.com.au

AWARENESS IN MOVEMENT 6.30-7.30am: BARRE FITNESS (B) 9.30-10.45am: SLOW FLOW (B) 6-7.30pm: YOGALATES (SP)

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

MULLUMBIMBY 8.30-10am: QIGONG

BANGALOW 7.30-9am: QI POWER CLASS 6-8pm: QIGONG & TAI CHI

6.30-7.30am: CORE SLIDERS (B) 9.30-11am: YOGALATES (BT) 6-7.15pm: YOGALATES (B)

THURSDAY BRUNSWICK HEADS 8.30-10am: QIGONG 9.30-11am: TAI CHI

9.15-10.15am: 9.30-11am: BARRE FITNESS (B) YOGALATES WITH 6-7.30pm: PILATES W WEIGHTS (B) YOGA STRETCH (SP)

6am: VINYASA FLOW YOGA 9.30am: VINYASA & 9.30am: AKHANDA 9.30am: VINYASA FLOW YOGA PRANAYAMA YOGA YOGA 6pm: VINYASA YOGA 6pm: PRANAYAMA & 6pm: YIN YOGA YIN YOGA

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY / EVENTS

TAI CHI

QIGONG

SOFT-STYLE MARTIAL ART

HEALING EXERCISE ART

Alignment, Relaxation, Meditation

Breathing, Awareness, Energy Flow

BODY PSYCHOTHERAPY SESSIONS in Byron Bay by appointment

6.30-7.30am: BARRE SPORT (B) 10.30-11.45am: YOGALATES (BT)

8-9.30am: YOGALATES (B & SP) 10-11am: PILATES ALIGN (B)

See web for full timetable and studio locations yogalates.com.au

6am: LED ASHTANGA YOGA 9.30am: STRENGTH 9.30am: YIN YOGA & BALANCE YOGA 6pm: VINYASA YOGA

8.30am: AKHANDA 8.30am: HATHA YOGA & MEDITATION VINYASA YOGA

Fill your classes now!

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COMPOST TOILETS For tiny houses to commercial

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6684 4421 0402 364 852

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BAMBOO PLY

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Ph 66884188 â&#x20AC;˘ sample & brochure. www.bambooply.com.au

WANTED

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GARAGE SALES

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MOVING SALE 25 Natan Crt O/Shores

Tallow TREE SERVICES

PROFESSIONAL TREE CARE â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;˘

REMOVALS PALMS TREE SURGERY FREE QUOTES FULLY INSURED

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STUMP GRINDING TREE REPORTS DA APPLICATIONS CRANE HIRE CHERRY PICKER

6687 2750 - 0401 208 797 FOR SALE FISHING KAYAK + paddles etc, good cond used 3 times $600 ono. 0403569575

MIELE WASHERS

Dryers and dishwashers available at Bridglands Mullumbimby. 66842511 DAVID LOVEJOYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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.

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On our minds you always are As tears fall from our hearts and souls We keep loving you from afar Forever Missed YaYa and Poppy Graham xxxxx Lovingly Remembering Ivy

DEATH NOTICES COOPER, Marianne Patricia Passed away peacefully 22nd Aug 2019 Aged 56 years.

Beloved daughter of Peter and Margaret Loving partner of Steve Much loved mother of Zac, Bronson, Summer and their partners Romi and Oscar. Adored Lala to River and Ella.

Loved sister of Louise, Tony, Bernie and their families A celebration of her life will be held at Melaleuca Station Memorial Gardens, contact 0266743777 for details

LIFE CELEBRATIONS In loving memory

Colin Winter

23/03/1959 ~ 19/08/2019 Beloved husband of Tanya Winter Adored father and grandfather.

A wake will be held at Ocean Shores Country Club September 4, 2019 from 1pm.

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CLARENCE ‘CLARRIE’ JENNIFER (JENNY) MAY OAKLEY 10.02.1952 – 17.08.2019 Passed away peacefully at her home in Kyogle after a brave battle with cancer.

Loving wife of Martin Doley, mother to Kelly Doley, sister of Margaret Gibson, daughter of Mary Elvin nee McInstray and grandaughter to Nancy Muir.

Jenny was laid to rest in a private cremation as per her wishes on Tuesday 20/08/2019. She was deeply creative, a true friend and much loved by many

CHITTICK, BEVERLEY ANN

Late of RSL Lifecare, Suffolk Park and formerly of Brunswick Heads.

Loved husband of Beryl (dec).

Much loved father of Carmel and grandfather to Allison. Clarrie will be sadly missed by all who knew him.

Aged 95 years Family and friends are invited to attend a celebration of his life to be held at the Brunswick Heads Bowls Club on FRIDAY (September 6, 2019) commencing at 11.00am.

Clarrie was privately cremated as per his wishes.

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29-05-1935 ~ 20-08-2019 Much loved wife of the late Keith Chittick. Cherished mother of Jo, Brad, Lesley and Trish. Loved grandmother of Dean, Daniel, Jude and Alex.

Beverley will be sadly missed by her all family and friends.

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AMBULANCE, FIRE, POLICE ...............................................................000 AMBULANCE Mullumbimby & Byron Bay ..................................131 233 BRUNSWICK VALLEY RESCUE Primary rescue........................ 6685 1999 BRUNSWICK MARINE RADIO TOWER ................................... 6685 0148 BYRON CENTRAL HOSPITAL .................................................. 6639 9400 POLICE Brunswick Heads ....................................................... 6685 1277 Mullumbimby .............................................................. 6684 2144 Byron Bay ................................................................... 6685 9499 Bangalow .................................................................... 6687 1404 STATE EMERGENCY SERVICE Storm & tempest damage, flooding......132 500 AIDS Confidential testing & information (ACON) ................................ 6622 1555 AL-ANON Help for family & friends of alcoholics .......................1300 ALANON ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 24 hours............................... 1800 423 431 ANIMAL RESCUE (DOGS & CATS) ......................................... 6622 1881 BYRON COUNCIL: EMERGENCY AFTER HOURS ................ 6622 7022 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 24 hour crisis line ............................... 1800 656 463 LIFELINE ..........................................................................................131 114 MENSLINE 7pm–11pm nightly (phone counselling & referral for men).. 6622 2240 NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS Meets daily .................................... 6680 7280 NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE .................................................. 6684 1286 NORTHERN RIVERS GAMBLING SERVICE ........................... 6687 2520 NORTHERN RIVERS WILDLIFE CARERS............................... 6628 1866 KOALA HOTLINE........................................................ 6622 1233 WIRES – NSW Wildlife Information & Rescue Service ......... 6628 1898 First quarter 6 Sep Full moon 14 Sep Third quarter 22 Sep New noon 29 Sep Day of Sun Sun Moon month rise set rise 1 S 0601 1731 0722 2 M 0559 1732 0802 3 T 0558 1732 0841 4 W 0557 1733 0921 5 T 0556 1733 1002 6 F 0555 1734 1046 7 S 0554 1734 1132 8 S 0553 1735 1222 9 M 0551 1735 1313 10 T 0550 1735 1406 11 W 0549 1736 1500 12 T 0548 1736 1553 13 F 0547 1737 1646 14 S 0545 1737 1738 15 S 0544 1738 1830 16 M 0543 1738 1922 17 T 0542 1739 2015 18 W 0541 1739 2109 19 T 0539 1740 2204 20 F 0538 1740 2301 21 S 0537 1741 2359 22 S 0536 1741 23 M 0535 1742 0058 24 T 0533 1742 0156 25 W 0532 1743 0250 26 T 0531 1743 0341 27 F 0530 1744 0428 28 S 0529 1744 0511 29 S 0527 1745 0552 30 M 0526 1745 0632

1.10pm 2.32pm 12.40pm 4.26am High tide, Moon set height (m) 1931 0940 1.49; 2201 1.83 2037 1028 1.52; 2245 1.68 2142 1117 1.51; 2329 1.50 2245 1211 1.49 2347 0015 1.32; 1311 1.45 0109 1.15; 1422 1.43 0046 0220 1.03; 1537 1.43 0142 0345 0.99; 1643 1.46 0234 0459 1.03; 1737 1.51 0322 0552 1.09; 1822 1.55 0405 0636 1.16; 1901 1.59 0445 0714 1.22; 1936 1.61 0521 0747 1.28; 2010 1.61 0554 0821 1.33; 2041 1.60 0625 0854 1.37; 2112 1.56 0656 0928 1.40; 2142 1.50 0727 1003 1.41; 2212 1.42 0759 1041 1.42; 2244 1.33 0834 1121 1.41; 2319 1.22 0911 1207 1.39 0954 0004 1.12; 1303 1.38 1042 0106 1.03; 1413 1.39 1136 0231 0.99; 1530 1.45 1236 0359 1.03; 1641 1.55 1341 0509 1.13; 1741 1.67 1449 0607 1.25; 1834 1.76 1558 0659 1.37; 1923 1.82 1707 0746 1.48; 2008 1.82 1815 0833 1.57; 2052 1.76 1922 0920 1.63; 2135 1.64

SEPTEMBER 2019 Astronomical data and tides

Low tide, height (m) 0332 0.08; 1525 0.08 0415 0.11; 1616 0.17 0456 0.16; 1712 0.30 0538 0.24; 1815 0.43 0623 0.33; 1930 0.54 0715 0.41; 2056 0.59 0817 0.46; 2219 0.57 0929 0.48; 2325 0.51 1036 0.46 0012 0.43; 1131 0.41 0050 0.37; 1217 0.36 0123 0.32; 1257 0.31 0154 0.29; 1332 0.28 0222 0.26; 1406 0.27 0250 0.25; 1441 0.27 0318 0.25; 1515 0.30 0346 0.26; 1553 0.35 0416 0.28; 1632 0.41 0448 0.32; 1717 0.48 0523 0.37; 1812 0.55 0606 0.42; 1926 0.59 0704 0.46; 2056 0.58 0821 0.47; 2219 0.50 0939 0.42; 2323 0.38 1048 0.33 0014 0.26; 1148 0.22 0058 0.16; 1243 0.12 0139 0.08; 1333 0.06 0218 0.04; 1424 0.05 0258 0.04; 1515 0.10

Times are Eastern Standard Daylight Savings Time.

Time lags: Ballina Boat Dock: 15 min; Byron Bay: nil; Brunswick River Hwy Bridge: high 30 min, low 1 hr; Mullumbimby: 1 hr 10 min; Billinudgel: 3 hr 55 min; Chinderah: high 1 hr 15 min, low 2 hr; Terranora Inlet: high 2 hr 10 min, low 2 hr 25 min; Murwillumbah: high 2 hr 30 min, low 2 hr 50 min. Tides in bold indicate high tide of 1.7m or more and low tide of 0.3m or less. Data from Bureau of Meteorology.

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

Friends of Libraries

Brunswick Valley Probus

Friends of Libraries Byron Shire are hosting Ben Gilmour author, filmmaker well known for his film Jirga 2018 and paramedic in conversation with Mick O’Regan. Ben will discuss his book The Gap, which is a history of his experiences as a paramedic in western Sydney. To be held at the newly renovated Heritage House on 11 September 5.30pm for a 6pm start. Tickets are $10. Join Friends of Libraries Byron Shire for an evening of discussion and enjoy cheese and a glass of wine. Tickets can be purchased at www.byronbayfol.com or Bangalow Newsagency 6687 1396.

Limited seats are available. This is an event not to be missed.

The Brunswick Valley Probus Club meeting is on Tuesday September 3 from 10am at the Ocean Shores Country Club. Guest speaker is Jean Watson talking about living with isolated Tribes in New Guinea.

Inquires ring Margaret on 6680 3316.

Permaculture meetup Byron Shire Permaculture Group meets the first Wednesday of every month as part of the growing movement to reduce our harmful ecological footprint, access fresh food and water, and build resilience through proactive community networks. Meetings are at 7pm at Marvell Hall, Marvell St, Byron Bay. Contact info@permaculture.org.au.

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(8) 23. Old boy, queen over the king of the fairies! (6) 26. Lover, bounder covering a thousand English (5) 27. Infantry latrines, Eastern – irresponsible! (9) 28. Charge journalist after water source in camp shelter – but he meant it for the best! (15)

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The Return and Earn recycling machine in Mullumbimby will provide you with the option to donate your recycling dollars to the Mullumbimby Hospital Auxiliary between 26 August and 24 November. After you’ve put your empty bottles and cans into the recycling machine take the option to donate to not-for-profits and select Mullumbimby Hospital Auxiliary.

The Mullum Auxiliary raises funds to support the Byron Central Hospital and purchase of equipment.

Warm up at the Rock & Roll Saturday 31 August. 5–11pm.

DJs Stephen Allkins, Mr Ha Yes, Abel el’ toro, Cinco Cinco Cinco, Milk, The Italian Chef.

Free entry by an item of canned food that will be collected and donated to The Mullum Neighbourhood Centre.

EMR and 5G 5G and the planned Main Arm tower will be discussed at a meeting at Wilsons Creek Hall on Wednesday 28 August from 6pm.

Global Climate Strike Half of the coral in the Great Barrier Reef has died. The Arctic has lost 75% of its ice. This is really happening. Join the students in the fight for their lives.

On September 20, take the day off work. Close your businesses, at least between 10am and midday, and meet at the Byron Rec Grounds in Carlyle Street to march to Main Beach. Stand up for our future before it’s too late.

Neighbourhood Centre

Alateen meeting

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.

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.al-anon.org.au

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Do you know how to use a tablet/ mobile phone/ internet? If so, would you like to be a digital mentor for seniors? Northern Rivers Community Gateway is offering free training to allow you to support seniors in your community to get online. Training will be done in Lismore, Ballina, and Casino.

Training days are coming up soon: Lismore: Northern Rivers Community Gateway, 76 Carrington Street, Lismore 20 September 9am, Ballina: North Coast Community College, Tamar Village, 24 September 9am, and Casino: Casino Neighbourhood Centre, 27 September 9am. All training is free and includes morning tea and lunch.

Please contact Edith on 6621 7397 ext 133 or email training@nrcg.org.au if you are interested in this opportunity.

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AWL Stall The Animal Welfare League has a street stall on Friday 30 August from 8.30am till 1.30pm at the taxi rank, corner of Burringbar & Stuart streets, Mullumbimby. Items include cakes, plants, books, bric-a-brac, and more.

Please come along and support this very worthwhile cause.

Hearing Voices Group

knowledge, and explore meaning in a safe, accepting space.

Every first Friday of the month. Info call 6687 1111.

Big Ride for Palestine Cyclists in the Big Ride for Palestine in Britain and Australia mark the the 52nd anniversary of Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza strip.

The ride raises raise funds to support MA’AN Development Center, an independent secular organisation in Palestine, for agro-ecology training for farmers at Beit Qad Permaculture Center near Jenin. This helps build food sovereignty in Palestine. Join us at Brunswick Heads foreshore for felafels & hummus and dabkhe dancing Sunday, September 1 from 3pm. Contact: Gareth 0491 107 279.

Our first Hearing Voices Peer Support Group starts 6/9/19 in Mullumbimby.

Anyone with present or past experience of voice hearing (or visions) is welcome.

Offer your experience, gain support,

St Paul’s Evensong

Support after suicide

Choirs

StandBy provides support to people who have lost someone to suicide.

They provide free face-to-face and telephone support and are accessible 24/7. Follow-up contact is available for up to one year. Find out more at: www. standbysupport.com.au or call 13 11 14.

If you, or someone you are with, are in need of immediate support please call an ambulance or police on 000.

Bay Singers meet Wednesdays at Byron Community Centre, 10–11am.

Ukelele class at 11.45am. Enquiries 0425 363 589, kim@kimbanffy.com.au.

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 Uniting Church, corner Dalley Street and Whian 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. Brunswick Valley Choir Monday nights at Bruns Bowlo, 6.30pm ph: Janet 0438 965 397. Picture House Choir - quick sing fix at Brunswick Picture House on Monday mornings 9.30am till 10.30am Ph: Janet 0438 965 397. Rebel Rebel Girls Choir for ages 8 to 12. Meet Friday at 4pm, Ocean Shores. Ph: Janet 0438 965 397.

Time to Sing Sundays, 10am at South Golden Beach Community Hall. Call Linda: 0415 412 514.

Sunday September 1 at 5pm St Paul’s Spirituality Centre 14 Kingsley Street Byron Bay (200 metres off Jonson Street).

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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 Wednesday 10–12noon 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.

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.

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

ACA Adult Children Of Alcoholic Parents and/or Dysfunctional Families (ACA) help & recovery group meets in East Lismore every Friday 10–11.30am corner 215 Dibbs St and Wyrallah Rd in small Quakers hut next to Community Hall.

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 call1300 652 820 or text your postcode to 0488 811 247. www. na.org.au. Are you concerned about somebody else’s drinking? Al-Anon Family Groups meeting held Fridays 2pm. Uniting Church Bangalow – 1300 252 666 www.al-anon.org.au.

End-of-life choices Voluntary euthanasia options are discussed at quarterly meetings 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.

Meditation Buddhist meditation teaching and practice at the living Yoga Sanga, first floor, 63 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby, 6–7.30pm, Mondays. Mishaela, 0438 858 842 or mishaele@si.org.au.

Dzogchen meditation and study group 2nd and 4th Saturdays each month at Mullumbimby CWA Hall. Didi 0408 008 769. Byron Mindfulness-Insight meditation Mindfulness-Insight Meditation Sangha and Pairoj Brahma, and Maggie Clark from 6.45 till 8.45pm.

Tuesdays @ theYurt, Temple Byron www.templebyron.com Contact: Maggie 0409 611 845, Pairoj 0423 241 916. Buddhist meditation and conversation with John Allan, Mondays 6.30–8.30 pm, The Yurt, Temple Byron.

No fees. John 0428 991 189. Byron yoga philosophy club free meditation classes Monday, 6pm, 1 Korau Place Suffolk Park. Go to www.wisdom. yoga or phone Kris 0435 300 743.

Community Yoga Nidra class free, Wednesdays 1–1.30pm at the Bamboo Yoga School, behind The Health Lodge, 78 Bangalow Road, Byron Bay. Matt 0430 008 293. Meditation Collective Mondays 6.30pm at Temple Byron. For more info: www. byronbaymeditationcollective.com.au or call Geo 0431 747 764. Meditation at St Paul’s Spirituality Centre Tuesdays 4– 5pm 14 Kingsley Street, Byron Bay (200 metres off Jonson Street). John Power: 0403 905 543. Free Community Yoga Nidra every Wednesday 1pm at the Bamboo Yoga School behind The Health Lodge 78 Bangalow Road, Byron Bay. Call Matt 0430 008 293. Integral Zen meditation Tuesdays 6–7.30pm at the Pura Vida Wellness Centre, 14a Park St. Brunswick Heads. By donation.

Contact Erik 0418 337 508. Free guided meditation Mullumbimby every Friday from 12-1pm at the Mullumbimby Neighbourhood Centre.

Contact Paul: 0401 926 090 or email: paulebibby@gmail.com.

Breast Cancer Support The Breast Cancer Support Group Byron Bay meets at the RSL Services Club in Jonson St, Byron Bay, 12–2pm, every third Wednesday of the month.

For information about support for partners and families please call 0431 207 453. More info on Facebook: Breast Cancer Support Group Byron Bay or call 0431 207 453.

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 is open Wednesday to Friday 10am till 3pm. Enjoy home style cooking, fresh baked scones and more.

Monthly meeting 1st Monday of each month at Heritage House Bangalow 6687 2183.

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.

Labyrinth Walk Walk the Labyrinth at Byron Bay Uniting Church 1st Sunday of the month between 2.30 and 4pm.

Introductory talk at 2pm. Info: Lauall Greer 0438 608 776.

Lions Club Interested in making new friends and helping our community? Lions Club of Brunswick Mullumbimby meets 1st & 3rd Tuesdays at 7pm Ocean Shores Country Club. Info: Joan Towers 0400 484 419.

Carers’ support Mullumbimby Mental Health Carers’ Support Group for family members and friends who have a loved one with a mental health issue. Meeting on 4th Thursday of each month 9.30am at the Mullumbimby Neighbourhood Centre.

Info: Leanne 0409 818 643.

Rainbow Dragons Rainbow Dragons Abreast (RDA) welcomes breast cancer survivors for a paddle at Lake Ainsworth, Lennox Head, on Sundays 7.30 for 8am start. Info Marian 6688 4058, mazzerati2010@gmail.com.

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 Shona 0457356567 or Bronte 0451567996.

Seniors computer club Byron Shire seniors computer club invites interested seniors to come to learn how to use your photos creatively. Meets at Ocean Shores Community Centre, Wednesdays 1–3pm during school terms. For more information phone Lynne on 0428 665 948.

French Conversation Alliance Française – French Conversation in Lismore. Café Conversation every Thursday at Miss Lizzie’s, Woodlark St, Lismore, 5–6pm.

Come and speak French. For more info: afnorthcoast.org.au.

U3A discussion group Brunswick Valley U3A audiovisual discussion group, Thursdays 10am Mullumbimby Ex-Services Club. Info 0432 165 006.

Time to sing Come sing inspiring songs and make new friends, Sundays, 10am at South Golden Beach Community Hall. Call Linda: 0415 412 514.

Quota Club Quota Club of Brunswick Valley meets every 1st Thursday of the month at the Ocean Shores Country Club at 6pm. Ph 0439 733 763 for more info.

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Young sprinter set Marielou dominates Red Devils beat Brothers for national carnival regional tennis Ross Kendall

Matilda is all smiles at the Olympic Stadium after qualifying for the NSW PSSA team to go to the nationals.

Mullumbimby athlete Matilda Vial has qualified for the NSW Primary Schools Sports Association state team after running her best times at the national qualifiers.

Competing at Sydney’s Olympic Park Matilda came fourth in long jump with a distance of 4.46 metres.

She followed this up by

winning the 100m sprint with a PB time of 13.30 seconds.

Matilda also ran fastest in the 200m with another PB of 27.06 seconds.

She has qualified to be part of the NSW PSSA team to compete at the 12 Years and Under National Track and Field Championships in Darwin in September.

Byron surfers collect Australian titles

Mullumbimby Tennis club junior Marielou Baudoin competed in the Grafton Champion of champions and the Inverell Junior Development Tournament for 12 and under girls and has won them both without losing a set.

‘Marielou has had a very good year with results and has been consistent with her performance,’ coach Steve Gort said.

‘Marielou has matured and has trained at a much higher intensity this year and this is starting to tell in tournaments’ Mullumbimby team mate Onyx Cheung also had a good tournament, coming in third in the boys.

‘Onyx was hampered by a shoulder injury last year but has improved immensely these past nine months. He has now caught up to his rivals,’ Gort said.

‘He shares a real passion for the game and I really think if he continues to practise hard and keep playing

Try-scorer Kuyan Laurie on the charge last Saturday.

Words and pics Deb Milgate

Double tournament winner Marielou Baudin has been dominating the junior development series.

Photo supplied he and Marielou both have a very bright future in the game.’

Fellow team members Amadeus O’Connor and Elzie Bambach will join Marielou and Onyx at two more Australian ranking tournaments in late September.

Brunswick SLSC gives award for 200 hours of patrolling

Neil ‘Freddo’ Cameron getting chaired up the beach.

Photographer: Blainey Woodham/Surfing Australia Crystal Cylinders Byron Bay surfers wrapped up two Australian titles over the past fortnight.

Neil ‘Freddo’ Cameron won yet another national title with his win in the O/60s at the Australian Shortboard Titles at Duranbah Beach as part of the 2019 SAE Group Australian Surf Championships.

Duranbah Beach turned it on with great conditions and hollow 1-metre surf. Cameron dominated the final from the start, clocking up a 13.75 heat total. This made it a clean sweep with his win at the NSW Over/60s titles earlier in the year. Along with his consistent success in surfing competitions Cameron puts a lot back into the sport as Byron Bay Boardriders president and his role over many decades as a mentor to a long linage of younger

surfers in the Bay. Byron Bay’s Mark ‘Mono’ Stewart and Dave Munk came first and second respectively in the Mixed (AS2 / AS3 / SUP) final at the Nudie Australian Adaptive Surfing Titles.

Perfect 0.7 metre wedgy waves gave competitors the perfect platform to show their skills at Leticia Spit on the far north end of Fingal on the Tweed Coast.

Adaptive surfing icon Mark ‘Mono’ Stewart was in first-class form, taking out the Mixed (AS2 / AS3 / SUP) division with two cracking waves, racking up a total of 16.25 points in the final.

‘It’s great to see Surfing Australia putting wave quality first over access to the beach and including us in the Australian Surf Championships. That’s a real step forward for our sport,’ said Stewart.

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Vanessa, Kieren, Benny, Jacqui, Kiri, Ella, and Elyse with their respective SLS awards. Photo supplied Guy Knox The Grey Shield was presented to Patrol Four for the second year in a row at the Brunswick SLSC presentation night held earlier this month.

Two members of the patrol, Bryce Holmes and Igor Kocherga, patrolled more than 100 per cent of their rostered hours, while Bryce actually patrolled over 200 hours during the season.

Award winners Awards included: the Bruns Hot Bread patrol person of the year – Igor Kocherga; the North Coast Trophies best water

competitor – Rob Brown; best beach competitor – Vanessa Thompson; best craft competitor – Rob Brown and Paul Davis; best carnival competitor – Rob Brown.

George Russo was named most promising junior and best cadet, while the training officer award went to Elyse Comeford and the Inflatable Rescue Boat rollover award was shared by Dave Rixon and Kyron Pinxteren.

The junior club person award was presented to Kieren Nugent, while the senior club person award went to Paul Davis and the president’s award went to Damian and Amy Hopkins.

The Byron Bay U/18s won their minor semifinal against Marist Brothers 36–28, playing at Casino last Saturday.

Bringing some confidence, but not complacency, to the match following their win over Murwillumbah the previous week, the Ben Webber Constructions Red Devils opened their account with an early try from team captain Charles Asser.

Marist responded quickly with three tries, converting two to take a 16–6 lead.

Some good passing and quick footwork saw two more Byron tries to take the teams to halftime locked at 16 all.

A fired-up Devils outfit scored three more tries, taking advantage of some Marist errors, seeing them lead 34–16 with 13 minutes to go.

Marist weren’t giving up without a fight and added two quick tries, bringing the score to 34–28 with just six minutes remaining.

But the Devils finished it off with a spot penalty to give them the 36–28 win.

Tries to Charles Asser, Zac Smith, Brady Fuhrmann, Kuyan Laurie.

Byron will be vying for a grand final berth at Murwillumbah next Sunday. They will take on Cudgen, who were defeated 26–20 by minor premiers Ballina last weekend.

Croquet club looking out for new members The Byron Bay Croquet club is one of the town’s oldest sporting clubs at 91-yearsold and is looking to grow membership.

The club meets at their Tennyson Street clubhouse on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays and competes against rival clubs in Ballina for the district pennants competition.

‘In the past Alstonville and Lismore have played in the pennants but now it is just the two Ballina clubs and us. Murwillumbah moved into the Queensland competition,’ club secretary Lee Roberts said.

The pennants are played from June till September and outside these times members play against each other or enter regional and state-based competitions.

‘We are down to 22 members while some clubs in Ballina have a hundred, so we are working to build up membership,’ she said.

Novices are welcome on

Local croquet enthusiasts Max Donati and John Tann.

Photo supplied Mondays from 3pm, and players are welcome on any of the other two days.

Recently local player Max Donati entered the Swiss national golf croquet doubles and won the title.

Also ex-Byron player David Hanbidge was the highest-performing Australian at the latest world golf-croquet championships in London.

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