The Byron Shire Echo – Issue 34.35 – February 5, 2020

REPUTEDLY The Byron Shire Echo • Volume 34 #35 • Wednesday, February 5, 2020 • www.echo.net.au

Massive 148 lot Bruns subdivision open for comment

Ladies hit the shed

The shedding workshop was held on Sunday in Mullum, and Xavier, Jacqui, Jo and Jannine show how it's done. The workshop encouraged the sharing of skills as well as building. For more info email shedding.communityworkshop@gmail.com. Photo Jeff 'Unsharpened Tool In Shed Since 1986' Dawson

Pothole update! Roads report spruiks improvements Paul Bibby Grumbling about the poor state of the roads is so common in the Byron Shire it could almost be considered our favourite pastime.

So it might be surprising to learn that the roads have actually improved significantly over the past five years.

Well, according to a new Council road assessment anyway.

Alana joins ‘royal family’ of dancers â–ś p6

The assessment, made using a cutting edge (and in Council’s words ‘very expensive’) laser profilometer system, found that the proportion of the Shire’s road network in good condition has doubled over the past five years from 19 to 38 per cent.

At the opposite end of the spectrum, the percentage of the network found to be in poor condition has fallen from a suspension-crushing 41 per cent, to

Byron Shire Council Notices ▜ p10

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an annoyingly-jolting 22 per cent. ‘The overall road network has improved since 2015 owing to increased investment on the sealed roads,’ Council staff say in the assessment, which went to last week’s Transport and Infrastructure Committee meeting. ‘However, significant long-term investment is still required to maintain the road network condition.’ The report also noted that there

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was a significant increase in the different types of data about the road network collected this time around, which may also have contributed to the improved result.

This was facilitated by the high-tech road profiling system, which uses a vehicle with eight roof mounted cameras, digital laser profilers and an ACD laser unit to measure pavement cracking, â–ś Continued on page 2

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A new suburb for the southern end of Brunswick Heads is up for public comment, and residents have already flagged environmental threats to koalas, bushfire risks, traffic safety, a lack of public spaces, and over-development issues.

The subdivision development application (DA) at Bayside is to create 145 residential lots, one medium density lot, two ‘lifestyle lots’, two public reserve lots, associated roads and other infrastructure, over seven stages of development.

Lot sizes range from around 457m2 to 600m2, and include a handful of larger lots at around 800m2.

According to the bushfire report within the DA, the property is approximately 31ha in area and is ‘bordered to the east by Simpsons Creek, to the south by coastal heath and scrub within general rural lands, to the west by the buffer to the Pacific Highway, and to the north by existing residential developments. The land form is generally flat with a slight fall towards Simpsons Creek’.

The developers are Ian Fraser and Daniel McLaughlin from Codlea Pty Ltd, and the cost to complete is estimated at $4,805,684.

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Drunk woman ĈſëƆIJĕƆ Ĉëſ ƱĶƐIJ ĈIJĶōĎ şŕ ćşëſĎ Police say a woman has been charged after she was allegedly caught high-range drink driving – with a child in the car – following a crash in Kingscliff.

The report says that at about 8.40pm on Sunday, officers were called to Kingscliff Street after her sedan crashed into a parked car.

The 41-year-old woman suffered minor cuts and the child was uninjured. A roadside breath test returned a reading of 0.324, say police.

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lƖōōƖŔ ǖ şşĎ ŔĕĕƐĶŕī żōëŕŕĕĎ Īşſ Dĕć Ǟǟ A public meeting to discuss Council’s recommendations in its North Byron Flood Study and how they may affect Mullumbimby is planned for February 12 at the Ex-Services Club auditorium from 6 till 8pm.

Mullumbimby Residents Association (MRA) are organising the event, and its convenor Sonia Laverty told The Echo 'Residents on Council’s Flood Committee will provide input at the evening meeting. We are hoping this

will encourage residents to make submissions on the recommendations and options in the study.

‘The study and report, over 700 pages, is difficult to access and absorb in a short time frame.

‘To aid in understanding, a public meeting has been organised. We will discuss key recommendations and options in the study that will assist residents in the preparation of submissions to Council, due 21 February 2020'.

Development creep around Butler Street bypass?

Will ecologically sensitive areas surrounding the Butler Street bypass project eventually be rezoned and developed?

It appears future councillors could explore the possibility, despite Greens mayor Simon Richardson claiming there are no plans presently to do so.

His Greens councillor block have justified the ecological destruction of the protected wetlands, in part, owing to the project only taking up a small percentage of the area.

The Echo asked Greens mayor Simon Richardson whether he was concerned that the area, known to contain highly vulnerable species, could be opened up for future development.

The Echo also asked, ‘Can Council ensure that this project will not open up the surrounding areas to development?’

The mayor replied, ‘It would be next to impossible to change an environmental zone into a commercial one, unless there was no environmental value and councillors

recommended exploring this’.

‘There is no current conversation, intent, view or desire, nor has there ever been within council staff or any councillor body of which I have been a part, over 11 years, to rezone areas in the Cumbebin swamp area for development.

‘I have no idea of every conversation of nearly 300 staff, but I have never heard of, or learnt of any conversations between staff and councillors, or between councillors, on changing any of this environmental zone to

a commercial zone.

‘The zoning is the zoning, and would have to go through all the same processes to change an E-zone down to a commercial one, and that is extremely difficult, nigh impossible, and that is only after a majority of councillors decided they wanted to explore it.

‘There is no mention of it in the masterplan, there is no strategic planning reference of any kind. Anything can happen in theory, but in reality, it is a fear without substance’.

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Local News Swimmer dies at Kings Beach Police say a man has died after being pulled from the water on Sunday.

At about 5pm, emergency services were called to Kings Beach at Broken Head, about 10km south of Byron Bay, following reports that a man was unconscious. Police were told he was swimming with two other men when they were swept into deep water.

The other two men were able to swim back to shore, where they pulled the third man out.

Witnesses commenced CPR until police arrived.

Paramedics were winched down to the remote beach by the Westpac Rescue Helicopter and continued treatment.

The man, believed to be aged 40, died at the scene.

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Mullumbimby’s WeMove dance studio will host movement and performance art February 7, 8 and 9, and will feature artists from across the region and the globe. Pictured, are artistic co-ordinators of the Bimby Body Un/Knowledge weekend, Tiana Hemlock-Yensen, Alona Rosenberg and Meggie Danielson. Photo Jeff Dawson

Following from Council’s plan to regulate rural weddings and events in late 2018, staff will be available for an information session on what's now proposed, at the Bangalow A&I Hall this Tuesday February 11, from 5.30 till 7pm.

Alongside the planning proposal, Council staff say they have prepared a new Chapter D9 of the Development Control Plan 2014 (DCP) for rural event sites, to outline the planning controls.

After the original proposal was exhibited, staff say it has been ‘amended as a result of two changes determined by the NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment (DPIE)’.

Specifically, the reference to permit rural events on land zoned RU1 Primary Production was removed, along with ‘many of the detailed provisions,’ which are now included within an amendment to the Byron Development Control Plan 2014 (DCP).

What’s proposed?

The aim is to provide ‘an approval mechanism to permit Rural Event Sites in the RU2 Rural Landscape zone, allowing a maximum of 20 events per calendar year over a period of three years and 150 attendees per event. The subject-toapproval, rural event sites would be able

to seek a further three year approval.

‘A rural event site holds weddings and other similar gatherings and/or events for commercial purposes.

'The planning proposal does not address one-off private events within the rural area, for which approvals are not required’.

The planning proposal and draft DCP Chapter D9 changes are on exhibition for four weeks, until February 28.

Submissions can be made via email: submissions@byron.nsw.gov.au.

Staff add that, ‘All submissions will be made public in the meeting agenda when reporting feedback to Council.’

Roads report spruiks improvements traverse the entire sealed road netwook.

Meanwhile, it looks like the Shire will finally get its hands on the $25 million promised by the state government for roads and infrastructure in the lead up to the last election.

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since Ben Franklin, the Nationals’ candidate for the seat of Ballina, and Nationals leader John Barilaro, pledged to set up a $25m fund to help manage the impacts of tourism in the Shire.

The state government stipulated that 80 per cent of the money had to be spent on roads, with Byron Council

having a say in how it would be allocated.

For much of the year following the announcement, Council staff and government bureaucrats engaged in protracted negotiations over the nuts and bolts of the fund.

It appears the two sides may now have reached agreement.

Council staff told The Echo, 'Council has continued productive discussions with the state government to work through the details in relation to the $25 million tourism impacts infrastructure funding.

'We anticipate an announcement will be made soon.'

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The arrival of a large package at Pearl Whitfield's home in Mullumbimby did not pique her interest initially.

'I just thought it was another of dad's tools,' the 13-year-old says.

But the year 8 student quickly discovered that the seemingly boring box contained something magical.

Packed neatly inside were 85 shiny new copies of her first novel, Meya, a fantasy novel for 10-to-13-year-olds.

'I was just really excited when I realised what it was,' she says.

'I didn't realise what it would look like as an actual book.'

The Israeli soldier sits with his head in his hands, exploring deep trauma from his past for the first time.

As two therapists sit close by, the man breaks down and – finally – ‘unfreezes’.

It is a breakthrough moment that has been achieved with the help of an unconventional treatment for PTSD – psychedelic medicine.

Could this be a major breakthrough treatment for this and other mental health issues?

‘My brain had been numb, covered in dust… and MDMA waxed and polished it,’ the man says.

This scene comes from a new film Trip of Compassion, being shown at Byron Theatre on March 7.

The film explores the use of psychedelic medicine to treat Israelis suffering from PTSD, and is the first feature documentary to show footage from within psychedelicassisted therapy sessions.

Given the Shire’s long association with the use of psychedelics for both recreational and medicinal purposes, Trip of Compassion

DĶſƆƐ şĪ ë ƐſĶōşīƷ Written over the course of two years, including numerous afternoons after school, Meya is the first part of a trilogy that Pearl is writing.

'It tells the story of a shape-shifter who makes friends with a fairy,' the 13-year-old says.

'It kind of just came into my head and so I started writing it.

Pearl Whitfield. Photo Jeff Dawson 'I didn't think it was going to end up being a published book.'

Pearl helped design the cover and raised the funds to publish the book through a GoFundMe campaign, with every donor promised a copy.

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Meanwhile, Pearl has already started writing the second instalment.

It might not be too long before another big brown box arrives on her doorstep.

Pearl's fundraising page is http://gf.me/u/xg7y3f.

is likely to generate considerable interest among locals.

‘PTSD is a rising mental illness and one that’s extremely debilitating,’ says the head of Mind Medicine Australia, Tania de Jong.

‘But there’s really not a lot of new treatments evolving in mainstream medicine.

‘Psychedelics are being used to treat mental illness right now in many different places around the world, with amazing results'.

The event will include a panel discussion and Q&A with a number of experts and campaigners in the field of psychedelic medicine, including local Steven McDonald.

McDonald is an ex-soldier who treated PTSD and depression using psychedelics to great effect.

‘Documentaries like this one, which show the direct experience of people undergoing treatment, are extremely important in raising awareness,’ McDonald said.

‘They are also a great way to dispel some of the myths around these therapies,’ he said.

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ÉIJëƐȜƆ ƐIJĕ m É ƖƆĶŕĕƆƆ !IJëŔćĕſȜƆ żşƆĶƐĶşŕ şŕ ĈōĶŔëƐĕ ĈIJëŕīĕȃ Hans Lovejoy Given Roy Morgan research suggests that 26 per cent of Australian businesses have been impacted by recent bushfires, what is The NSW Business Chamber’s position on climate change?

The Echo asked the chamber, ‘Does the chamber believe there is a connection with anthropogenic (human induced) climate change and the current bush fires? If so, what is the chamber doing to address this?’

Chamber CEO Stephen Cartwright replied, ‘The NSW Business Chamber is currently focussed on the short-term mission of helping the estimated 26,000 small business owners throughout our state, and their staff, to survive and then recover from the impacts of the recent fires and those impacted by the crippling drought. Many regional towns rely upon these small businesses to function, and we will do all that we can to help them recover.

!IJëŕīĶŕī ĈōĶŔëƐĕ ‘The Chamber understands that Australia, as nation and as part of the global community, must continue to grapple with the impacts of the changing climate and we intend to be a constructive contributor to that important conversation.

‘The Chamber is pleased to note the increasing level of business investment and commitment to the development of smarter and more sustainable ways of operation, and we fully support the continued exploration

CEO Stephen Cartwright. According to his LinkedIn profile, he was a QLD mining engineer cadet for the Coal Association from 1982 to 1985, and then went on to practice law. Photo NSW Business Chamber of new and innovative ways to solve future challenges. Indeed, we believe that it will be the business community that will drive this innovation’.

According to The NSW Business Chamber’s website, its corporate partners include Wetpac, QANTAS, PWC, Destination NSW, and NRMA. Its board includes members who have held positions on various other chambers and corporate boards.

As for emissions reductions, the chamber says on its website that they have included an Excellence in Sustainability award within their annual Business Awards program.

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Tourist-looking Byron DAs rile neighbours Two large DAs near the Byron Butler Street bypass project have ruffled the feathers of locals wanting to maintain their street heritage.

A DA for 12 Burns Street proposes demolishing a post-war cottage and erecting four townhouses, all two storey, as well as four swimming pools.

The Echo understands that the owners, who live on Butler Street, are in negotiations with developer Sasha Hopkins prior to Council consideration. Similarly, The Echo understands a proposal to demolish a dwelling at 91 Wordsworth Street also includes an agreement between the property owner and Hopkins.

The heritage report within the Burns

Street DA admits that, if approved, it ‘would result in changes to the fabric and setting of the Burns Street Conservation Area.

‘However, these changes are not considered to be of significant detriment to the heritage character or value of the Burns Street Conservation Area’.

Butler Street resident, Paul Jones, told The Echo the Burns Street proposal encroaches the building height plane and is at odds with ‘the heritage listed “character area” of single storey pitched roof cottages set in generous gardens.

‘The proposal is effectively a medium density development in a low density R2 heritage zone’.

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Detective Inspector Matt Kehoe of Byron Police told The Echo he and other officers arrived at the Goonengerry doof the morning after a night of partying had taken place to discover

around 150 patrons who were drug and/or alcohol affected, 50 cars and a significant amount of rubbish.

‘Patrons were directed to leave the area and a generator was confiscated,’ Det Insp Kehoe said.

‘Police also spent significant resources trying to locate a missing patron, including the recall of a Land Search and Rescue co-ordinator, Brunswick Valley Rescue Squad, the

dog squad and the Westpac Rescue Helicopter.

‘The missing Korean female was later located safe and well in Byron Bay. ‘Given the dangerous and isolated locations, illicit drug use and no access to support or medical care, it will only be a matter of time until we have a patron seriously hurt or killed at such an event.

‘This is obviously a concern to police.’

Det Insp Kehoe said police were working closely with the National Parks and Wildlife Service to disrupt and target the events, which cause ‘significant ecological damage to pristine native forest areas and cause noise issues with neighbouring properties.

‘I have spoken with my National Parks colleagues to commence a co-ordinated response to target the organisers and prevent future events in our Shire,’ he said.

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It’s not easy to become part of a royal family, particularly a talented royal family, but that’s just what local dancer Alana Frazier has achieved in New Zealand.

Home in Mullum after a hectic week of auditions, Alana was one of 100 candidates (including 40 current family members) to try-out at the Palace Dance Studio. After a gruelling trial schedule, Alana was the only new dancer chosen for the world championship winning Royal Family Dance Crew, a mega-crew based in Penrose, Auckland.

Now almost 21, Alana started dancing at the Brunswick Valley School of Dance with (Miss) Carly Connors when she was just four. She studied ballet, jazz, tap, contemporary and hip-hop and has been part of the school’s award-winning dance troupes for 10 years.

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‘We are so proud of Alana,’ said BVSD principal Ruby Jeffery.

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We are looking forward to seeing what her future holds and her work with the Royal Family.’

After finishing high school in Mullum, Alana got a Diploma of Dance and a Diploma of Musical Theatre at RAW in Brisbane, and last year she spent nine weeks in the US studying various styles of hip-hop.

Frazier decided to audition for the Royal Family in 2019, but director/

choreographer Parris Goebel didn’t take on any new recruits and she came home not knowing what was next.

‘I was pretty disappointed when I didn’t make the cut last year,’ says Alana.

‘But after the auditions I was told by one of the choreographers that the biggest mistake I could make would be to not come back and try again this year.

‘So I spent 12 months working really hard and getting new skills and I went

back to Auckland in January.

The year in between was so worth it. I am the only new dancer in the family, and I am just so happy to be a part of such a great dance crew. I’m really excited about moving to New Zealand and a life of full-time dance.’

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Aslan Shand The impact of the bushfires on local water supplies has led Rous County Council (RCC) to develop a targeted raw water sampling program in consultation with NSW Health and industry experts to identify potential contaminants.

Scientists from Southern Cross University (SCU) have recently discovered that when bushfire temperatures reach 1,000 degrees, the naturally occurring, safe, chromium-3 in surface soil can turn into the toxic, cancer-causing chromium-6.

Chromium 6 is the substance spotlighted by renowned American

environmentalist Erin Brockovich, who blew the whistle on high concentrations in the water supply of her home town in southern California.

No chromium detectable ‘Around 20 per cent of the Rocky Creek Dam catchment is affected by fires,’ said a spokesperson for RCC. ‘Before and after the recent rain event, RCC staff have undertaken sampling and testing of the waters coming into Rocky Creek Dam for chromium and other potential contaminants. No Chromium or Chromium 6 was detectable in any of the

samples analysed from this first round of sampling.’

Rous County Council, in consultation with NSW Health and industry, will continue to assess the need for further sampling.

‘As part of Rous’ Drinking Water Monitoring Program, which is in place all the time, regardless of the fires, chromium (total) is monitored within the treated water (at the end of the treatment plant process), which is in accordance with the Australian Drinking Water Guidelines.

‘If chromium (total) is detected, we would then conduct further sampling and testing for chromium 6,’

the spokesperson explained.

Rous County Council has a number of treatment barriers in place including ensuring there is a significant body of water between the inflow streams to the Rocky Creek Dam and where they draw the water off for treatment.

This is then followed by an advanced water treatment including ozonation and biological activated carbon filters which are effective at removing chromium from water supplies.

In consultation with NSW Health and industry, RCC will continue to assess the need for further sampling over the next few weeks and months.

ƖƆIJǕ ſĕ ĶŕžƖĶſƷ ëŕŕşƖŕĈĕĎ ȑ ƱIJëƐȜƆ Ķŕ ƐIJĕ ¨w ȃ A six-month independent expert inquiry into the 201920 bushfire season has been announced, which aims to provide input ahead of the next bushfire season.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian (Liberal) announced that it will be led by former NSW Police deputy commissioner, Dave Owens, and former NSW chief scientist Mary O’Kane.

The terms of reference (TOR) for the inquiry have been supported by environmental group the Nature Conservation Council (NCC), who say it appears a ‘thorough, independent inquiry into the causes of, and response to, the 2019-2020 bushfires in NSW.’ The wide-ranging terms of reference include considering bushfire responses, including

‘resourcing, co-ordination and deployment,’ as well as ‘overall human and capital resourcing’.

Climate change role Point one of the eleven point TOR reads that the inquiry will consider, ‘The causes of, and factors contributing to, the frequency, intensity, timing and location of, bushfires in

NSW in the 2019-20 bushfire season, including consideration of any role of weather, drought, climate change, fuel loads and human activity’.

NCC chief executive Chris Gambian said, ‘The [NSW] premier’s announcement suggests we will get a thoughtful and smart inquiry that is informed by experts.

That’s very good news.’

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Saying no to violence – ÈȒ'ëƷǽ Dĕć Ǟǡ Aslan Shand Women, children and men of Byron Shire will be gathering at dawn on February 14 at Main Beach, Byron Bay to dance and raise awareness about violence against women.

V-Day is a global action that sees one billion people across the world rise up and recognise and resist violence against women.

Local organiser Zenith Virago said, ‘The truth is shocking – according to the United Nations, one in every three women will be physically or sexually abused in her lifetime – that’s one billion women across the world.’

This will be the eighth consecutive year that V-Day has been marked in Byron Bay. It will be followed by evening performances of the Vagina Conversations on Friday 14 and Saturday 15 February at the Byron Community Centre.

Proceeds will go to the Women’s Resource Service, Byron Escape Fund. Tickets can purchased at the Byron Community Centre.

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V-Day co-organiser Zenith Virago. Photo Jeff Dawson ‘Every February, women and others rise in countries across the world to show our local communities and the world what one billion people looks like,’ said Zenith.

Main Beach at dawn ‘In Byron Bay, women, men and children will gather at dawn on Main Beach, in solidarity with women around the world. We rise

through dance to express joy and community and celebrate the fact we have not been defeated by this increasing violence.

‘We rise to show we are determined to create a new kind of consciousness – one where violence will be resisted until it is unthinkable. We will dance in defiance on V-Day. The ‘V’ stands for Victory,

Valentine and Vagina.’

Put on your favourite red clothes and join in the V-Day celebrations at Byron’s Main Beach. Everyone will gather at 6.30am to prepare for the dance at 7am.

Everyone is welcome to be loud, counted, make a sign and join the dance.

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ŕĎ ƐIJĕ DōĶĈŊĕſĪĕƆƐ ƱĶŕŕĕſƆ ëſĕǾ With Mullum Flickerfest wrapping up its three day event of crafted short films, from Australia and the world, on the weekend, awards and prizes were presented for best locally-made films.

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Best short film was Home, which was written, directed and produced by Jahvis Loveday and Joy Ben Hur. SAE’s jury award for emerging talent went to the film Roulette, which was written, directed and produced

by Bella Kronberger and Freya Berentsen.

Southern Cross Credit Union’s audience award for best short film went to the film Wine Lake. It was written and produced by lead actress Ailís Logan and director/producer Platon Theodoris.

Local film-makers at last weekend’s Flickerfest in Mullum. Apart from prizes, all award winners also received a Screenworks membership and a season pass plus one to Mullum Flickerfest 2021. Photo Jeff Dawson

ĕōşŕīĶō !ſĕĕŊ żëſƐĶëōōƷ şżĕŕĕĎ Īşſ ǕƆIJ Council workers partially opened the Belongil Creek mouth on Monday in expectation of rains which fell on Tuesday, hoping to reduce the chance of a fish kill.

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Belongil Creek is one of three Intermittently Closed and Open Lakes and Lagoons (ICOLLs) in the Byron Shire.

The others are Tallow Creek and Taylors Lake.

Byron Shire Council’s Infrastructure Planning Coordinator James Flockton said, ‘We’ve been monitoring Belongil Creek and Tallow Creek intensely in recent months, owing to the drought conditions and the factors that we know increase the potential of a fish kill occurring.

‘Unfortunately many fish kills have been occurring in surrounding shires and catchments, and all over

Australia, in fact.

‘With the rain expected this week, we have an opportunity to scrape the sand berm at the Belongil Creek mouth just enough to allow for the natural opening of the lagoon to the sea if sufficient rains fall, providing the fish and marine ecosystems with the best chance of survival.

‘Despite water levels at Belongil Creek being above our trigger for some weeks, we have avoided any opening owing to the risk of fish kill.

‘We expect Tallow Creek to naturally open itself if sufficient rainfall occurs because the sand berm is

currently just above our trigger level.

‘We will be closely monitoring this situation now and with rain on our side, our hope is that any impacts on fish and marine life will be minimised for all of our ICOLLs,’ he said.

ōĶīŕƆ ƱĶƐIJ ƆƐſëƐĕīƷ When asked if this work aligns with a recent draft strategy, Council staff replied, ‘The work aligns with the strategy, while being in accordance with our current licence.

‘The strategy goes to Council in February for adoption’.

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A second case of the coronavirus was confirmed on the Gold Coast on January 30.

Both the male and female were part of a tour group from the city of Wuhan.

They were isolated in the Gold Coast University Hospital (GCUH), and are stable.

The seven other people from the same tour group remain in isolation in GCUH. Other passengers on Tigerair flight TT566 from Melbourne to the Gold Coast on January 27 should call 13HEALTH (13 43 25 84) for advice.

Additionally, if you have travelled to China in the last 14 days, and are unwell, you should call the same

number.

As of Tuesday February 4, confirmed global cases have passed 20,000 with 425 deaths, according to The Guardian.

Twelve cases of the virus have been confirmed in Australia.

‘The novel coronavirus (also called 2019-nCoV) is a new strain of coronavirus affecting humans,’ QLD Health said in a press release.

‘Some coronaviruses can cause illness similar to the common cold and others can cause more serious diseases such as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory

Syndrome (MERS).’

The World Health Organisation (WHO) also declared a global health emergency in relation to the virus on Friday, January 31.

Eōşćëō IJĕëōƐIJ ĕŔĕſīĕŕĈƷ ‘The main reason for this declaration is not what is happening in China, but what is happening in other countries. Our greatest concern is the potential for the virus to spread to countries with weaker health systems which are ill prepared to deal with it,’ said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

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Local News Council’s holiday letting survey open to corruption: Ballina MP Mia Armitage The integrity of Council’s survey on short-term holiday letting (STHL) has been called into question, after it was revealed that it can be taken repeatedly, and does not require proof of residency in the Byron Shire.

When queried, a Council spokesperson said staff would be checking responses at the ‘back end’ and would notice any ‘accidental’ double-ups of email addresses.

Survey responses and submissions closed January 30.

Council planning staff, under the direction of Shannon Burt, have also come under scrutiny after the draft policy ignored the invitation by the state government of a 90 day cap per year, across Byron Shire.

Instead, letting every day of the year is proposed in some areas. Additionally, those taking the survey, who were invited to specify caps on Council’s map, were not required to make a pecuniary interest disclosure.

Greens NSW MP Tamara Smith told Bay FM’s

Community Newsroom last Thursday, ‘We’re talking about massive corporations that have vested interests, as well as some politicians that have vested interests in allowing unfettered holiday letting and open slather for the shared platforms.

‘I think [the survey] opens it up to corruption from those corporations and vested interests, and I do not think they should get to have a say in our community.

‘I commend Council for seeking engagement from the community’, Ms Smith said, but added, ‘an email address does not verify whether someone lives in the area’.

‘If you’ve got multiple email addresses, how does that marry with the crosschecking? It’s disappointing that it’s going to skew the results of this.’

The state member for Ballina said in her submission ‘absolutely nothing should be allowed over 90 days’ for short-term holiday letting in the Byron Shire.

‘We can’t stop people from applying for a DA to operate a commercial

accommodation facility, or share their home above 90 days’, the Greens member said, ‘but at least then they’re paying commercial rates; they’re paying section 64 contributions’.

Ms Smith was particularly vocal against suggestions for STHL approval of 365 days per year for properties in Wategos, Belongil and Shirley Street, which she said were worth a median price of $1.2 million.

‘I think it will drive them into going, “you know what, let’s just get in a local longtime resident”,’ she said.

‘The idea that people can just run holiday lets for 365 days a year and not pay commercial rates, or any compensation to the community is just unacceptable,’ said Ms Smith. ‘Ninety days is three months a year a person has to live next to a holiday let,’ she said.

When asked for comment, Greens mayor Simon Richardson replied, ‘I’m looking into the question of multiple submissions’.

Q Mia Armitage is a member of Bay FM.

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DĕćſƖëſƷ Ǭǽ ǩǧǩǧ The Byron Shire Echo 9

Byron Shire Council Notices COUNCIL CONTACT DETAILS

DEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL

DEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL

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

Byron Shire Council is the consent authority for this Development Application for Designated Development.

Byron Shire Council is the consent authority for this Development Application for Designated Development.

Exhibition / Submissions close – 10 February 2020 (4pm)

Exhibition / Submissions close – 10 February 2020 (4pm)

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.

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

SIGN UP TO OUR COMMUNITY E NEWSLETTER Visit www.byron.nsw.gov.au/enews or use your phone camera to access the sign up page using this QR code.

CHANGE TO CUSTOMER SERVICE From Monday 2 March 2020, you can contact our Customer Service team in Mullumbimby from Monday to Friday (excluding public holidays) as follows: • Come and see us at 70 Station Street, Mullumbimby 8.30am to 4.00pm • Give us a call on 02 6626 7000 8.30am to 4.30pm • Send us an email: council@byron.nsw.gov.au

LOVE BYRON HALLS Do you love where you live?

Do you want to meet new people?

Do you want to make things happen locally?

Do you want to create new connections?

CALLING FOR COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO HELP MANAGE COMMUNITY HALLS Council is calling for nominations for additional members to the following hall committees: • Brunswick Valley Community Centre Management Committee • Ocean Shores Community Centre Management Committee • Suffolk Park Community Hall Management Committee Love Byron Halls is an initiative to celebrate your halls and venues as spaces to get together. Community involvement in managing community facilities provides better outcomes for locals while engaging and including local people and providing an opportunity to participate in local community life. Halls are at the heart of our communities.

Nomination forms, further information such as Terms of References, the ‘Halls and Venues Guidelines for Section 355 Management Committees and Boards’ and past meeting minutes can be found on Council’s Web site at https://www.byron.nsw.gov. au/Council/Committees-and-groups/Section-355-Committees-andBoards-of-Management To apply, please complete a nomination form available from the website.

Nominations close: Friday 21 February 2020 Enquiries: Joanne McMurtry, Community Project Officer, 02 6626 7316, jmcmurtry@byron.nsw.gov.au

10 The Byron Shire Echo DĕćſƖëſƷ Ǭǽ ǩǧǩǧ

DA / Parcel No.

Applicant Property Description Proposal (Amended)

10.2019.630.1 Kaisa PR2540, Pty Ltd PR2550

7 Brownell Drive Byron Bay (Lot 4 DP 112343) 9 Brownell Drive Byron Bay (Lot 5 DP 112343)

Demolition of Two (2) Dwelling Houses and Construction of Dual Occupancy

The abovementioned development application has been lodged with Byron Shire Council. The proposed development is designated development. The development application and the documents accompanying the application including the Environmental Impact Statement are to be exhibited from 10 January 2020 to 10 February 2020 (submission period) and may be inspected at: • Via the online Kiosk located within Byron Shire Council offices, Station St, Mullumbimby between the hours of 9.00am and 4.00pm Monday to Friday (public holidays excluded) or on Council’s website (www.byron.nsw.gov.au/PublicExhibition) and • online using Council’s application tracking website www.byron.nsw.gov.au/datracker and clicking on Applications on Exhibition under the Applications menu, and • the Department of Planning & Environment, located at 22-33 Bridge Street, Sydney, Monday to Friday (public holidays excluded). Contact phone number (02) 9228 6333 or fax number (02) 9228 6555 or Level 3, 49 Victoria Street, Grafton, phone number (02) 6641 6600 or fax number (02) 6641 6601 Any person during the abovementioned submission period may make written submissions to Council concerning the development application. If a submission is made by way of objection, the grounds of objection must be specified in the submission.

Please quote the abovementioned development application number and parcel number(s) when making a submission. The submission must be received by 4.00pm on the final day of the submission period.

Any person who makes a submission by way of objection and is dissatisfied with the determination of the consent authority to grant development consent may appeal to the NSW Land and Environment Court. However if the Planning Assessment Commission conducts a review, the Minister’s determination of the application is final and not subject to appeal.

If you are making a submission you may be required to lodge a “Political Donations and Gifts Disclosure Statement”. It is your responsibility to ensure you meet your obligations to disclose reportable political donations and gifts. A failure to meet your obligations is an offence. Links to information and resources are available from Council’s website at http://www.byron.nsw.gov.au/ political-donations or from Council. All Political Donations and Gifts Disclosure Statements will be public documents.

Submissions will be made public in accordance with Schedule 1 Part 3 Clause 1(a)(vi) of the GIPA Regulations 2009 as applicable including both the substance of the objection and the identity of the objector. For assistance with this please call Council’s Records Coordinator on 02 6626 7113.

Enquiries: Jordan Vickers 02 6626 7313

HAVE YOUR SAY DRAFT TOWARDS ZERO BYRON SHIRE’S INTEGRATED WASTE MANAGEMENT AND RESOURCE RECOVERY STRATEGY 2019-2029 Council is inviting submissions to our Draft Towards Zero Byron Shire’s Integrated Waste Management and Resource Recovery Strategy 2019-29 (strategy) which is on exhibition from 18 December 2019 – 7 February 2020.

The Strategy details four main objectives: 1. Empower the community to increase avoidance, reuse and recycling 2. Optimise and enhance solutions to recover, treat and dispose of residual waste 3. Work with business and the tourism sector to reduce waste to landfill and explore circular economy opportunities 4. Support and lobby State and Federal Governments to facilitate change in waste outcomes.

DA / Parcel No.

Applicant Property Description

10.2019.643.1 Newton PR2560 Denny Chapelle

11 Brownell Drive BYRON BAY NSW 2481 (Lot 6 DP 251131)

Proposal Demolition of Existing Dwelling House and Construction of Dual Occupancy (Attached) and Two (2) Swimming Pools

The abovementioned development application has been lodged with Byron Shire Council. The proposed development is designated development. The development application and the documents accompanying the application including the Environmental Impact Statement are to be exhibited from 10 January 2020 to 10 February 2020 (submission period) and may be inspected at: • Via the online Kiosk located within Byron Shire Council offices, Station St, Mullumbimby between the hours of 9.00am and 4.00pm Monday to Friday (public holidays excluded) or on Council’s website (www.byron.nsw.gov.au/PublicExhibition) and • online using Council’s application tracking website www.byron.nsw.gov.au/datracker and clicking on Applications on Exhibition under the Applications menu, and • the Department of Planning & Environment, located at 22-33 Bridge Street, Sydney, Monday to Friday (public holidays excluded). Contact phone number (02) 9228 6333 or fax number (02) 9228 6555 or Level 3, 49 Victoria Street, Grafton, phone number (02) 6641 6600 or fax number (02) 6641 6601 Any person during the abovementioned submission period may make written submissions to Council concerning the development application. If a submission is made by way of objection, the grounds of objection must be specified in the submission.

Please quote the abovementioned development application number and parcel number(s) when making a submission. The submission must be received by 4.00pm on the final day of the submission period.

Any person who makes a submission by way of objection and is dissatisfied with the determination of the consent authority to grant development consent may appeal to the NSW Land and Environment Court. However if the Planning Assessment Commission conducts a review, the Minister’s determination of the application is final and not subject to appeal.

If you are making a submission you may be required to lodge a “Political Donations and Gifts Disclosure Statement”. It is your responsibility to ensure you meet your obligations to disclose reportable political donations and gifts. A failure to meet your obligations is an offence. Links to information and resources are available from Council’s website at http://www.byron.nsw.gov.au/ political-donations or from Council. All Political Donations and Gifts Disclosure Statements will be public documents.

Submissions will be made public in accordance with Schedule 1 Part 3 Clause 1(a)(vi) of the GIPA Regulations 2009 as applicable including both the substance of the objection and the identity of the objector. For assistance with this please call Council’s Records Coordinator on 02 6626 7113.

Enquiries: Rebecca Mercer 02 6626 7215, rmercer@byron.nsw.gov.au

INVITATION TO SUBMIT COMMENT DRAFT AMENDMENT TO DEVELOPMENT CONTROL PLAN (DCP) 2014 CHAPTER E5 CERTAIN LOCATIONS IN BYRON BAY AND EWINGSDALE HABITAT DEVELOPMENT Council has received an application to amend Chapter E5 of Byron Development Control Plan (DCP) 2014 in relation to Stage 4 of the Habitat development in the Byron Arts and Industry Estate.

The proposed amendments are to reflect the current Development Application 10.2019.517.1, which proposes a Mixed Use Development.

How you can be involved: • Take a look at the draft strategy and supporting information at www.byron.nsw.gov.au/Draft_Towards_Zero_Strategy • 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.

A marked up version of the draft DCP 2014 Chapter E5, showing changes in red, is available for comment until 14 February 2020 on Council’s website.

Submissions close: 7 February 2020

Submissions close: 14 February 2020

Enquiries: Danielle Hanigan 02 6626 7084

Enquiries: Rob van Iersel 02 6626 7054

Your feedback is important to us. For information on lodging a submission, and where to address it, refer to the “Make a submission” section within Council’s advertising.

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‘The commercially zoned Jonson Street is a wide boulevard that provides clear lines of sight for both motorists and pedestrians, it is a safe option and should be used.

‘Access via Jonson Street makes more sense, particularly as the Byron Bay bypass becomes operational and the masterplan is implemented, both of which will reduce through traffic in the heart of the Bay. ‘We paid for our own traffic report, which says Ruskin Lane access is problematic,’ she added.

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Developer Graham Dunn has defended the proposal, which is located on the corner block opposite Mitre 10 and Byron Music.

The traffic report within the DA claims that, if approved, there would be just under 1,000 traffic movements in the laneway each day. In 2018, Dunn’s first DA was rejected by the Northern Regional Planning Panel, while Council staff supported approval.

Submissions for the latest DA close February 7.

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Echo, ‘Byron Shire Council engaged and paid a specialist Transport, Traffic and Parking Engineering firm from Lismore to conduct a review of the 139 Jonson traffic and car parking plans, in 2018. The assessment concluded that four amendments be made to improve the overall traffic design. All of these were incorporated, the most significant being limiting traffic to only

turning left into Ruskin Lane, and only turning right exiting onto Browning Street’.

Dunn, who says he is a longtime local, told The Echo he and his team thanked the community for their input to date.

‘My family is proud to be behind Byron’s first mixed use project that provides for all permanent residential accommodation with no short-term

accommodation at all.

‘Cars accessing the property would travel eight metres up Ruskin Lane only, along the boundary of one property. Trucks would travel up to 38 metres of the 175 metre laneway, along the boundary of two properties. 139 Jonson have proposed, however, to refurbish 53 metres of Ruskin Lane. The remainder has already been refurbished by Byron Shire Council’.

BSRG’s Annette Feletti maintains that a genuine independent assessment is required, which would take into account the impact ‘on residential amenity of putting 1,000 daily car and truck movements only six metres from residential land.

‘We look to fairness from the Council in this regard,’ she said. ‘We are not opposing a development that conforms with the LEP.

‘That means putting up with the excavation of a two storey underground carpark, and building noise that will go on for about 18 months.

‘However, we oppose the commercialisation of Ruskin Lane, which will ruin our residential amenity and create serious road safety issues,’ she said.

A BSRG Facebook page called Hands off Ruskin Lane has been created, ‘So locals from the Bay can comment and discuss this DA. ‘I would urge anyone who feels strongly about preserving the residential character and history of Byron Bay to voice their objections to DA 10.2019.616.1 by emailing submissions@byron.nsw. gov.au by the cut-off date of February 7,’ Feletti said.

Q The developer has also created www.139jonson.com. au to explain his proposal.

PUBLIC EXHIBITION OF DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS

PUBLIC EXHIBITION OF DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS

DEVELOPMENT CONSENTS

ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING & ASSESSMENT ACT, 1979

ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING & ASSESSMENT ACT, 1979

The following development applications have been received by Byron Shire Council and may be viewed on Council’s website at www.byron.nsw.gov.au/development-applications-on-exhibition, or at the Council administrative centre during ordinary office hours.

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 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.

Development Application No: 10.2020.24.1 Property Address:

15 Torakina Road BRUNSWICK HEADS (Lot 13 DP 1251383)

Applicant:

Codlea Pty Ltd

Proposed Development: Subdivision to create One Hundred and Forty-Five (145) Residential Lots, One (1) Medium Density Lots, Two (2) Lifestyle Lots, Two (2) Public Reserve Lots, Associated Roads and other Infrastructure over Seven (7) Stages Byron Shire Council is the consent authority, and the Northern Regional Planning Panel has the function of determining the application pursuant to State Environmental Planning Policy (State and Regional Development) 2011 and Schedule 4A of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979.

The application will be on exhibition for a period of four weeks from 30 January 2020 to 26 February 2020.

Any submissions made in respect of the application should be made to Byron Shire Council, but will be provided to the Northern Regional Planning Panel and may be viewed by other persons with an interest in the application.

For further information on making a submission please refer to the factsheet ‘Making a submission on a development application’ available at council or on line at www.byron.nsw.gov.au/ submissions-on-development-applications.

There are also 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 at www.byron.nsw.gov.au/political-donations.

Please quote the development application and property description when making a submission. To enable Council to provide you with further correspondence in relation to your submission, please provide an email address.

DINGO LANE SOLAR FARM PROJECT, MYOCUM You’re invited to learn more about the proposed solar farm at 1 Dingo Lane, Myocum. The Dingo Lane Solar Farm project page on Council’s Your Say website is now open for community feedback until 28 February, 2020. Council would like to hear your thoughts and ideas on the project and will consider these as part of the project’s detailed feasibility assessment stage. Go to www.yoursaybyronshire.com.au/dingo-lane-solar-farm1 or email council@byron.nsw.gov.au.

Submissions close: 28 February 2020 Enquiries: Project Manager, Andrew Swan aswan@byron.nsw.gov.au

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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. 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 7 FEBRUARY 2020 10.2019.616.1 – Byron Bay, 137 Jonson Street, 139 Jonson Street, 3 Browning Street (Lot 21 DP 247289, Lot 5 Sec 51 DP 758207, Lot 60 DP 1256365) Mr M Scott, Demolition of Existing Buildings and Construction of Mixed Use Development

EXHIBITION CLOSES 12 FEBRUARY 2020 10.2020.4.1 – Mullumbimby, 4 Towers Drive (Lot 44 DP 1232486) Newton Denny Chapelle, Three (3) Retail Outlets, Recreational Facility (Indoor) and Ancillary Caretaker’s Dwelling 10.2020.18.1 – Brunswick Heads, 9/7 Fingal Street (Lot 9 SP 48157) Expanse Brunswick Heads Pty Ltd, Change of Use to Recreation Facility (Indoor) 10.2019.666.1 – Byron Bay, 12 Burns Street (Lot 4 Sec 41 DP 758207) Ardill Payne & Partners, Multi-Dwelling Housing comprising Four(4) Townhouses and Four (4) Swimming Pools 10.2020.23.1 – Ewingsdale, 23 Sunrise Lane and 23A Sunrise Lane (Lot 12 DP 1023942, Lot 11 DP 1023942) Town Planning Studio Pty Ltd, Reconstruction of Existing Restaurant 10.2016.625.2 – Mullumbimby, 35-37 Burringbar Street (Lot B DP 302891) Mr B J Lawless, S4.55 Minor Modifications to Design and Conditions

EXHIBITION CLOSES 19 FEBRUARY 2020 10.2019.665.1 – Bangalow, 59-61 Clover Hill Circuit (LOTS: 51 and 52 DP 1252223) Mr F P Macchia, Multi-Dwelling Housing Comprising Six (6) Dwellings

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 10.2019.549.1 – Mullumbimby, 5 Shearwater Lane Dwelling House 10.2019.597.1 – Brunswick Heads, 10 Omega Circuit Dwelling House 10.2019.607.1 – Mullumbimby, 14 Lorikeet Lane Dwelling House 10.2019.642.1 – Brunswick Heads, 9 Torakina Road Shed 10.2019.365.1 – Ocean Shores, 14 Rajah Road Stage 1: Strata Subdivision Two (2) Lots Stage 2: New Dwelling to Create Dual Occupancy (Detached) 10.2019.431.1 – Byron Bay, 39-41 Lawson Street Alteration and Additions to existing Residential Flat Building 10.2019.493.1 – Ocean Shores, 11 Woggoon Terrace Secondary Dwelling 10.2020.9.1 – Bangalow, 9 George Street Alterations and Additions to Existing Dwelling House 10.2019.595.1 – Bangalow, 7 Station Street Alterations and Additions to an existing Class 6, ancillary building 10.2019.536.1 – Mullumbimby, 28 Corella Crescent Subdivision Two (2) Lots 10.2019.561.1 – Byron Bay, 1/6 Byron Street Change of Use to Recreation Facility (Indoor) 10.2019.542.1 – Byron Bay, 104 Paterson Street Dwelling House and Swimming Pool 10.2019.636.1 – Bangalow, 10/226 Fowlers Lane Stage 1: Dwelling House, Stage 2: New Dwelling house, Swimming pool and Conversion of Stage 1 Dwelling house into a Studio 10.2019.503.1 – Byron Bay, 49-53 Tennyson Street Alterations and Additions to an Existing School 10.2018.551.2 – Skinners Shoot, 280 Skinners Shoot Road S4.55 to Modify Stage 2 Construction of Additional Rooms to Dwelling House 10.2018.411.2 – Ocean Shores, 151 Shara Boulevard S4.55 to Modify Carparking Arrangements 10.2018.581.2 – Byron Bay, 28 Beachcomber Drive S4.55 to Modify Layout of Studio

DEFERRED APPROVAL APPLICATIONS 10.2019.611.1 – Suffolk Park, 43/31 Hayters Drive Use of Sauna 10.2019.539.1 – Ocean Shores, 70 Balemo Drive Use of Expanded Dwelling

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Who listens to smart peeps anymore?

Arab mathematician, astronomer and physicist of the Islamic Golden Age, Ibn al-Haytham (965-1040 CE), said, ‘The duty of man who investigates the writings of scientists, if learning the truth is his goal, is to make himself an enemy of all that he reads and… attack it from every side. Ibn al-Haytham paved the ‘He should also suspect way for the modern science of himself as he performs his physical optics way back when critical examination of it, so that the English didn’t understand he may avoid falling into either basic hygiene. prejudice or leniency.’

If only critical and disciplinary thinking underpinned political and mainstream media discourse – like it does within the scientific community.

In 1620 – 400 years ago – Francis Bacon first formalised the scientific method. The English philosopher and scientist argued against relying on syllogistic logic alone for scientific synthesis.

A syllogism is not the latest awkward twerk-like craze – it’s one of the most used ways to establish reason and fact and still pretty useful.

Aristotle, or the Stoics before him, were thought to have come up with the syllogism, which is a conclusion drawn from two given, or assumed propositions (premises). A syllogism has a major and minor premise followed by the conclusion.

The all-time famous syllogism is: All men are mortal (major premise), Socrates is a man (minor premise), therefore Socrates is mortal (conclusion).

Here’s one that is not a syllogism: God is Love. Love is blind.

Steve Wonder is blind. Conclusion: Steve Wonder is God! Or this – Elephants live in Africa. Africa is hot. Carmen Electra is hot. Therefore, Carmen Electra is an elephant.

Syllogisms are deductive reasoning, as distinct from inductive reasoning. Induction concludes with probability, while deduction concludes with necessity. So deduction can be a basis of a scientific method, while induction is not.

Apart from expanding and refining deductive reasoning, Bacon also tackled the babble that passes in modern day political rhetoric and analysis – cognitive bias!

Subjective reality has been normalised to the point where politicians argue with confidence on anything. It allows them to support positions they once railed against. Cognitive bias includes believing it is appropriate to influence elections by using taxpayer money to boost marginal seats with sports and infrastructure bribes.

Likewise, US Republican senators last week have effectively provided the 45th president with dictator status by supporting his brazen bribery and not allowing witnesses in his impeachment trial.

So, in these perilous times, it’s up to an informed public. There is little hope of being adequately informed by mainstream media – they are part of the elite cabal. Viva la revolution 2020!

Hans Lovejoy, editor

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cott Morrison is nothing if not a marketeer. Or, to put it more precisely, he is nothing except a marketeer.

His sole area of expertise consists of convincing the gullible to buy stuff they don’t need, and generally don’t want, and his success can be measured by the extent that he can persuade them that they can’t do without it.

His triumph, of course, was the 2019 election, in which a relentless campaign of spin, revolving around the two great motivators of greed and fear, overwhelmed any serious debate over policy.

And for this he became something of a demigod to his troops, who had been resigned to the idea that their manifest divisions and incompetence were finally ready to catch up with them. If substance could be abandoned, and bluster enshrined, it would save them a lot of trouble – when problems multiply and the situation becomes hopeless, just unleash the master marketeer. He will have a quick word to the powers above and produce another miracle.

It all sounds very convenient, but there is a catch: Morrison is not actually invincible, even within the narrow parameters he prefers. His marketing record is, to say the least, patchy.

He was ignominiously tossed out of the prize gig of Tourism Australia, and while he has rehabilitated himself within the less demanding environment of the Liberal Party, this has led to instances of hubris and impulsiveness. In particular, he has a tendency to over-egg expectations – or if he doesn’t, those around him are always keen to do it for him.

His immediate staff seem to have taken up ideas way above their station – it sometimes appears that they see him more of a puppet than a prime minister, a useful logo to be deployed as a sort of ersatz messiah to neutralise crises, in the belief that what worked two years ago can be repeated at will.

Fine if it works. But if it doesn’t – if the expectations cannot be matched – there is a risk not only of disillusionment among the electorate, but a mounting anger and resentment that they have been conned. And if it happened once, perhaps it also happened in the past, and can be anticipated in the future.

Which brings us to last week’s National Press Club address. In the days preceding it, the battalion of boosters

belched forth a barrage of ballyhoo. This was to be the prime minister’s first major speech of the year, the one that fixed the agenda for 2020 and beyond. It would be a complete reset, the prelude for initiative, innovation and action on a scale seldom envisaged in Australian politics.

Will the PM’s emergency powers include conscription, rationing, censorship, and night-time blackouts?

Mungo MacCallum Why, there was a rumour (clearly deliberately leaked) that climate change was in the recipe, that our woefully inadequate Paris accord targets were to be ramped up to more credible levels. There was even a suggestion that some form of carbon tax could be on the table. That one had to be hosed down quickly and decisively, before the compost in the party room burst into spontaneous combustion.

But still, the optimists hoped that at last something might be offered other than bluff and bluster. However, the hope was, as so often, extinguished by the pitiful reality.

The first half of Morrison’s lecture was pure self-congratulation, a list of his government’s so-called achievements over the last twelve months. Then we indeed moved on to dealing with climate change – but not really.

The key words were adaptation and resilience – we just needed to adapt and resile like buggery, and all would be well.

As for emissions reductions – the usual evasions, denials and procrastinations. We are only 1.3 percent, we are doing our bit, will meet and beat our pathetic promises, we won’t destroy our economy, if we don’t flog fossil fuels some other bastard will, it’s our coal and we will bloody well do what we like with it so those interfering foreigners can shut up and piss off.

But there had to be, what is delicately described as, an ‘announceable’ – so Generalissimo ScoMo was going to ring in legislation allowing him to declare a state of emergency, not the kind the British did to actually confront

climate change, but to pretend that he is doing something when the continuing and worsening disasters stemming from it emerge in the near future. He wants to be able to send in the troops.

Okay, that sounds like action: but when and how – and also why and what? Will his emergency include conscription, rationing, censorship, night-time blackouts with the populace sent to the shelters? Presumably not; in almost the next breath Morrison averred that he was a federalist, meaning that the states would be consulted (which they have not always been during the present disaster) and that in spite of the emergency, it would be essentially business as usual, his constantly reassuring slogan as things go to hell in a hand basket.

But this will not work, because Morrison, unwillingly and reluctantly, has been forced to assume a leadership role: having talked up an emergency, and involved the armed forces on a continuing stand-by basis, he has effectively abandoned his old line about the states being the ones with the responsibility.

The public never bought it; as the catastrophe mounted across borders and the news dragged on, worse every day, even the quietest Australians could recognise a national issue when they saw one. They expect, demand, that their prime minister will do the same and will take charge.

So Morrison has to try, even though his immediate response has been, to put it mildly, underwhelming.

But even the long-winded and half-arsed speech last week has raised expectations; don’t you worry, the government has your back, we will get things back under control. But what if we can’t? What if the nostrums offered so far prove to be too little and too late?

This fire season is far from over, and there are two more to confront before the next election. We can all hope that they will not be as frightful as the current one, but they are unlikely to be totally innocuous. And next time, there will be nowhere to hide: Morrison, having been dragged to a leadership role which he did not want, now owns it.

He has already been politically charred; and it will be much harder for him to market his way out of the next crisis. But given that he has no other skills, marketing is his only hope.

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Letters ȨǩǧŔ ſƖŕƆ ' I’m drawing people’s attention to a massive $20 million development application (DA) for Brunswick Heads, which was snuck onto public exhibition during the holidays.

The DA (No: 10.2020.24.1) proposes about 150 residential lots in Bayside Brunswick, including ‘lifestyle’ blocks within a valuable koala corridor. Submissions close on February 26.

The concept plan was approved, with reservations, by the NSW government in 2013. The then Department of Planning (DoP) described the proposed subdivision as being ‘located near an environmentally sensitive area’.

It also said ‘The environmental significance of the site is high... the concept plan may have impacts on the koala corridor’. The site has also been identified as habitat for the endangered Wallum Froglet and the glossy black cockatoo.

In addition, a bushfire report said the site was ‘likely to be affected by bushfires’.

Despite this, and despite submissions from Friends of the Koala and others, the department gave the goahead to the concept plan.

They placed conditions on the subdivision, such as a Wallum Froglet rehabilitation area in a central drain, and a domestic pet ban.

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That approval in 2013 was bad enough, but surely it is now redundant given the dramatic climate shifts of the past few years, with apocalyptic bushfires and extinction threats for a range of wildlife, including koalas?

Other concerns about this DA include the hundreds of extra vehicles trying to negotiate the T-intersection on the old highway, the medium density housing and small lot sizes, lack of parks, and the clearing of vast numbers of trees.

See for yourself on the Council website or at the Council offices.

The clincher is that the Council, which raised its own objections in 2013, will be sidelined. Guess who the determining authority is?

Yep, the good old developor-bust Northern Regional Planning Panel (NRPP).

So far, there hasn’t been a peep from any of our councillors, green or beige.

Russell Eldridge Brunswick Heads

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Her beauty, now is terror BLACKENED… Like the trees…

Gerry Cavanagh (Cabba) Mullumbimby

şĈŊĕƐ ưëŕĎëōĶƆŔ The community tennis court and barbecue area next to the Pocket Primary School have been significantly vandalised. This is on land donated by my aunt, in memory of her husband, Harry Wharton, long term resident of the area.

The facilities were constructed by the local community including a beautiful mosaic tiled depiction of Mount Chincogan, Aboriginal

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Bo Wharton Fannie Bay, NT

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Letters ▶ Continued from page 13 have the stamina, time or opportunity, to digest all the information.

If you have questions, a two hour session has been arranged, by Council, for the authors of the plan to answer them. This session is during normal working hours.

A request by Mullumbimby Residents Association (MRA) to the acting GM of Byron Shire Council to also hold evening meeting/s where key findings of the study will be the focus has been refused by senior staff, due to the costs involved.

The response to Council’s survey following the 2017 flood, and letterboxed by MRA in key areas, is acknowledged as a significant result.

If an evening meeting had been agreed to, MRA offered to letterbox key areas in Mullum affected by the findings of the draft plan. This offer was also rejected.

It would appear that some senior officers of Council do not want an informed community, which is a pity as we are the ones who will be affected by the findings of this management plan. Therefore MRA will be holding an information session on February 12 at the Mullumbimby Ex-Services Auditorium, from 6 till 8pm.

Submissions close on February 21.

Dr Sonia Laverty Mullumbimby

DſëĈŊĶŕī Ǖ ſĕƆ How good for our politicians to see all their wishes come true at once. With the bushfires (a God-sent natural event) destroying so many of our National Parks and wilderness areas, it is a perfect time to reclassify these

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With a record 500,000 Euros on the line in the 12 game match in Vladivostok, Goryachkina equalised the score in the very last game, the first challenger in any world title match to save a match with a final game win.

The players then went into rapid tiebreakers. Goryachkina was on top in three out of four games but failed to convert. But when Ju had a chance in the third game, she put away her Russian opponent to retain her title.

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Ju’s finest moment came in the fourth classical game when she

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I am sure there is enough space for a few thousand of those towers so, if a few fall over in Opal Tower fashion, there will be plenty of spares.

The empty units could be set aside for emergency accommodation for the next fire, flood, or virus event.

And, surprise! Guess what? The Federal government is already leaning on NSW to allow more fracking.

What a fracking surprise.

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DĶſƆƐ ǖ ĕĕƐ January the 26 was just the formalisation of the theft of Aboriginal land.

The First Fleet had already been at Botany Bay between January 18 and 20. As a nation we could celebrate the original inhabitants of this country on January 17, as long as they were accepting of this idea.

David Gilet Byron Bay

DëĶōƖſĕ şĪ Ĉşlş In response to T Petroff (letters January 15), ScoMo is a PM who has failed the Australian people in multiple ways. From corruption, including deals for water as a commodity, to the delusion of a surplus – our economy is rapidly going down hill according to his own department.

Coal subsidies, the lowest mining taxes in the western world, and lack of vision and policies contribute to this.

His attitude towards climate change is a crime against humanity whitewashed with found the subtlest of manoeuvres to win a pawn endgame.

In the position below, Ju, White, exchanged queens, looking 19 moves ahead but knowing that one slight miscalculation would see her lose rather than win.

51.Qxe7+! Kxe7 52.g4! Kd6 If 52...hxg4+ 53.Kxg4, followed by f4-f5, forces a win. 53.gxh5 gxh5 54.Ke4 Kc6 If 54...Ke6 55.Kf4 Kd5 56.Kf5 Kd4 57.Ke6! 55.f4! A waiting move, but also a move which will help White win a later pawn race. 55...Kb5 On 55...Kd6, 56.Kf5 wins. 56.Kd5!

Starting a delicate king dance which Black is doomed to lose. 56...f5 57.Kd6! Kb6 58.Kd7!

Ka5 59.Kc7! Kxa6 Finally Black has run out of options and must take the a pawn since 59...Kb5 loses to 60.Kb7 and 59...Kb4 60.Kc6 forces Black to take the b pawn. 60.Kc6! Ka5 61.Kxc5 Ka6 62.b4! Kb7 63.Kd5 1-0 Goryachkina resigned because after 63.Kd5 Kb6 64.Ke5 Kb5 65.Kxf5 Kxb4 66.Kg6 a5 67.f5 a4 68.f6 a3 69.f7 a2, White has 70.f8Q+! queening with check!

so many lies. He says we can’t risk jobs by taking climate action. Yet jobs in their thousands are being decimated in the tourism industry because few people want to travel in or come to a country on fire and burned out.

I blame him for refusing to listen to or take advice about the predicted catastrophic fire season. No, it is not normal that a fire season lasts half the year and burns right around Australia.

No PM has ever responded to a devastating national emergency by denying it, and saying it’s a state responsibility. Or by absconding to Hawaii in the middle of a disaster, or by waiting months before taking action after vast areas of forest and bush, people, homes, animals and ecosystems are destroyed.

No, it is not normal that we have record-breaking temperatures around the country and an unprecedented drought, however much he would like us to accept that. ScoMo is definitely not my PM – he is an aberration!

Christina Henry Bangalow

ĕŔşưĕ ƐIJĕ ƱĕĕĎƆ My partner, a bush regenerator of 18 years experience suggested that rather than spend money on expensive replantings of rainforest, we could use available funds or raise funds, toward educating people in identification of, and removal of, local weed species.

If replanting, humaninduced regeneration efforts need to be careful that endemic stock and species are used. But it would be better to give nature the

opportunity to show us what is needed.

We need to listen to the expert ecologists and scientists before we make any hasty, potentially harmful, moves.

Tremendous benefits are available by pulling out the weeds. That will give the species that have survived, and the many seeds down in the soil, the best chance to re-establish, without competition from introduced invasive species, or illadvised but well-intentioned actions.

NSW National Parks Association have put together this information on helping with the recovery effort: https://npansw.org/npabushfire-recovery-projectvolunteer-form.

A Campbell Rosebank

ƱĶżĕȈ ƱĶżĕȈ ƱĶżĕ In response (to my response) Tim Harrington I fear will never be convinced that the world is not run by ‘lefties’ regardless of the facts and the overwhelmingly obvious fact that current world powers are run by right wing extremists.

As the right has been in control for some time now globally, shouldn’t they be held largely responsible for our current Armageddon?

In relation to The Guardian being a hub for left wing propaganda, The Guardian along with The Observer (it’s sister paper published on Sundays) won nine Press Awards in 2018 and four in 2019. The Press Awards celebrate the BEST of UK National journalism, that is organised by the The Society of Editors who are ALL obviously left wing ‘deplorables’ as well?

Their journos have won

You’re not being told the truth about the drought and you’re not being told the truth about the Wuhan Coronavirus.

When the truth is told, it is not published.

Peter Olson Goonengerry

ŕëĶō ſĶīIJƐƆ Many people who uphold the rights of nature are not surprised that cosy politics sought the successful ongoing path to extinction of the Mitchell’s Rainforest Snail and its habitat rights. The Byron bypass will go ahead.

Why? Because all levels of NSW government are dominated legally by the fantasy that commercial rights have ascendancy over all other sentient rights. It’s bollocks!

I strongly object to the fact that ‘the market representatives’, those who hold the dollars, appear to have finally ‘won’ in the ongoing battle for the Byron bypass.

A construction to be developed over a wetland area.

This act is violence against nature and all species. It is violence against diminishing communities of persons who not only believe in the rights of nature and community, but as a community actively work for the rights of all sentient beings.

There exists a legal tension in this debate. I submit articles from The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Article 3 addresses the security of persons… Article 12 notes ‘no-one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy/family home or correspondence’.

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Regarding Fairfax media which I detailed in my last letter, it merged with Channel 9. This can hardly be seen as ‘left wing’.

I’m not offended to be labelled ‘left wing’, as you said my comments aligned with those of The Guardian, the ABC, The Echo and Mungo… I have never been so thrilled and honoured.

You put a smile on my face, which I haven’t managed over the past four months of unprecedented bushfires and tragedy. That’s probably a ‘leftie plot’ as well?

If leftie means actively doing something about our environmental crisis, human rights, and escalating social justice issues – then burn me at the stake!

Your side always bleats about the ‘left’ championing these issues and taking the credit, but guess what?

Your side usually does nothing. So yes, I am one of the ‘deplorables’ (nasty language). Kooky enough to believe that logging native forests does not save koalas, that the Great Barrier Reef needs immediate protection (11,000 ships pass through it annually) that the MurrayDarling Basin is stuffed because not enough ‘lefties’ were involved.

There needs to be a huge shift, we’re already in the sixth mass extinction. We can no longer conduct business as usual. Hello! Our planet is our life support system.

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There is no life without water: time to save

This summer, every conversation goes back to the fires and drought. Veterinarian Dr Jonathan Happold spoke for many of us, writing about how he struggles with ‘thoughts of hopelessness and dread’. He worries that, ‘we’re doing bugger all to help this dehydrated land.’

dry in March 2020.

Tenterfield dam is at 35 per cent capacity and the town is quickly drilling a new bore.

Their water also had contamination issues, and many rely on emergency supplies of bottled water. Southern Downs Regional Council is trucking in 100 per cent of their water supply.

Restrictions mean household users must manage with 80L per person, per day.

By contrast, here in the RCC supply region, householders are advised to get down to 160L per person, per day. Tweed is aiming for 144L per person, per day. Both of these require savings of at least 50 litres per person, per day.

Water supply still vulnerable

Water savings actions

Yes, the recent rain is wonderful, but acting on water use restrictions must become our usual way of life, at least until the drought is over. Above average rainfall for months or even a year is needed, not only for our region but also throughout NSW and South East Queensland, to replenish the water table.

The government agency WaterNSW posts weekly updates about regional water availability.

On January 20, active storage supplies for rural supply was 23.4 per cent of capacity. The urban supply totalled 42.6 per cent of capacity. All Sydney supply is averaging 42.5 per cent, while Brisbane is at 56.1 per cent capacity. In spite of recent rain, all show decreases since last week.

Against these sobering numbers, our own figures seem a little better. But at our Rocky Creek Dam, managed by Rous County Council (RCC), the levels are still only 70 per cent of capacity, and Emigrant Creek is only at 64 per cent capacity. Although Laverty’s Gap Weir is overflowing now, this is likely temporary.

Tweed’s supply at Clarrie Hall Dam is at 81 per cent, but the Toonumbar Dam, in the Richmond Valley, is at 19.2 per cent capacity and due to run

Whatever level restrictions are set, how about getting your household to change some routines? Saving water saves you some money and builds a sense of teamwork for everyone.

Water we save here might soon be a supply for somewhere else. How can we make such savings? How can we use even less?

The secret is attitude and buckets. Make the effort. Aim, as much as possible, to use indoor household tap water twice. A bucket per person in the shower will collect at least a full 12–15 litres of water during a one to three minute shower – save it for flushing the toilet. Every bucket holds about four half-flushes.

More savings can be made by delaying the flush of healthy urine, which is sterile. A bucket of shower water might then be freed up for the garden. Ladies, please set up a basket to collect your few squares of toilet paper (which are compostable). Soggy paper can block pipes.

Experiment: more savings can be made with some toilets that can dispose of faeces with a half flush.

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bathtub or laundry sink.

Give everyone a cup for the total amount of tap water they can use for brushing their teeth.

Invent methods for shaving and soaping-up using a maximum of 2L per person, per day.

Collect buckets of shower water to rinse that surfboard or snorkel gear. Tweed has already turned off the public showers on their beaches. Byron Shire is also doing that soon.

More attitude and buckets work in the kitchen too. Learn to use a small basin in the sink for quick washing up. Save that water for a house plant or somewhere in the garden. Use the dishwasher only when it is full.

Cut back on use of the washing machine. Using around 60L per wash, cleaning clothes is a water intensive luxury. Put aside dress-up clothes ‘to go out’.

Around the house, keep laundry at a minimum by using aprons, house dresses and home work-clothes.

Of course, ensure everyone has their own refillable water bottle. Filling up at home or at fountains is healthier, cheaper and is quickly becoming a political message about water conservation.

For all the savings at home, spare a thought for our local wildlife too. Keep up the bird bath or set up a new one. Place dishes of water in quiet parts of the garden for reptiles and insects. Put a few stones in the middle so that smaller animals can perch rather than drown.

Finally, when you visit the beaches or wander along the Tallow, Belongil or other waterways,

remember that many birds, wallabies and other wildlife are stressed. Drought, heat, wind and smoke all worry resident animals.

Many other animals are new arrivals, refugees needing a rest, shelter and food. So keep your cat inside, especially at night. Except in designated off-lead areas, keep your dog on a lead. Nothing poetic about stirring up flocks of weary birds or harassing wallabies to death.

…more than that, they’ll question Why we didn’t make a start They’ll sense the rot went deeper – Melanoma of the heart.

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Press freedom and the art of making democracy great again Juliette Fredonnet

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efore the invention of the printing press, many people didn’t know how to read, even less how to write, and it was too expensive to own a book.

Once the cost of printing dropped, information was available on a scale humanity had never known before.

As the production of booklets and pamphlets skyrocketed, authority, especially the Catholic Church, was greatly affected by the quick spreading of new ‘heretic’ ideologies.

Challenge to authority Because they published material that was challenging the narrative of the Church, many thinkers and scientists were imprisoned or killed. An ignorant population, forced into a very specific understanding of their position in the world, is easy to control.

But as people started to educate themselves, the authority of the Church and eventually the culture of kinghood, were openly

challenged. Authority had to reinvent itself in order to keep its position of power.

When people are free to speak, their ability to gain knowledge and wisdom grows exponentially with their capacity to acknowledge their own value and right to freedom.

Revolts are the result of people being crushed by authority to the point that they feel compelled to have a voice and fight for their rights. This is why one of the first rights given to the people at the creation of any liberal regime is the freedom of speech, and therefore, the freedom of the press.

And it is because the power of voice has such an incredible capacity to destroy oppressive cultures and regimes that it is the first right that is targeted when authoritarianism is crippling information flow.

At the establishment of the United States of America, after a huge revolt against the British, the First Amendment was ratified in order to prohibit Congress from obstructing the exercise of certain individual freedoms; like the freedom of speech

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and freedom of press.

Obtaining and publishing information or opinions without government censorship, or fear of punishment was the right of every American.

Even though the Constitution is still supreme law in the US, unfortunately for Australian citizen Julian Assange, it does not protect publishers outside of the US. The US government has decided it can go after any journalists wherever they are residing in the so-called free world. It is also refusing to grant any foreign journalist the protection of the First Amendment. This should be of great concern to all journalists.

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Five centuries after the invention of the printing press, the internet has brought yet another revolution in our capacity to communicate and share knowledge.

One particularity of this tool is that information can be shared instantly, around the world. On the web, borders are dissolved and the freedoms of speech and press aren’t limited to the physicality of writing and sharing a book or a pamphlet.

Therefore, anyone can publish information to a global audience from anywhere in the world.

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Where does national security stop? Is there a safe-haven for free press anywhere in the world? Or the web?

The Julian Assange case raises the question of the necessity and morality of transparency in the context of a world stage. This stage is run by superpowers whose authority and financial interests would be better preserved if their actions are kept secret from the public.

A terrorist organisation is an organised group of people who use violence, generally against civilians, for political or religious purposes.

Does a government, needing to incarcerate, torture or even murder anyone who has made the public aware of its crimes and corruption, within or outside its borders, also need to be called a terrorist organisation?

Remember the lessons of the past so we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fall into a narrative whose only outcome is to coerce the population into obedience.

History demonstrates that the freedom of press can greatly endanger the

credibility of authority. Only those who challenge repressive and corrupt culture can educate the population on the true nature of the organisation they are supporting with their obedience â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and money.

We must stay open to the possibility that Julian Assange is exposing the crimes and corruption of our world leaders. Keeping Julian Assange, a non-violent journalist, in a maximumsecurity prison simply because he is on remand, is outrageous.

We need to support those who dare to expose the truth, or we will rapidly descend into tyranny at the cost of our most precious freedoms.

It is time to speak up and defend the last remnants of what makes a country free.

Free Assange Assange: No Extradition! event featuring Ciaron Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Reilly, Mandy Nolan, Mark Swivel and Lily Smith.

Wednesday February 5 at the Mullumbimby RSL ExServices Club at 7pm. Entry by donation, profits to the Free Assange Campaign.

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Welcome to the home of the Northern Rivers Tennis Academy Mullumbimby. Fun, friendly and welcoming tennis sessions are open to all ages and abilities. Their venues are Mullumbimby Tennis Centre Stuart St, Mullumbimby, Waterlily Park Tennis courts at Ocean Shores, and Clunes Tennis Courts.

Coaching sessions are available mornings, afternoons and evenings. They also offer Cardio Tennis, competition events for juniors and holiday camps, as well as weekly adult comps and social competitions, with the opportunity for competition travel. There is an onsite canteen and tennis equipment shop.

Evolve Physio & Pilates Byron Bay Did you know that over 90% of your running technique can be improved to help reduce injury and improve performance?

Byron Bay physiotherapist Scott Thomson was a former Australian Cross Country Champion and has a passion for helping others to improve their running technique efficiency.

His workshop is for all levels (joggers to performance athletes), and perfect for anyone looking to sign up for winter sports this year, including kids! Even if you have stopped running due to injury, this is an opportunity to make a start for a safe return. Places are limited, so reserve your spot now!

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Spaghetti Circus Welcome Back!

Spaghetti Circus Term 1 has now begun. Enrol now to learn skills in tumbling, aerials, acrobatics, juggling, mini tramp, handstands and much more.

Spaghetti classes are fun, social, and supportive for all ages and abilities. They offer progressions for students who love coming year after year.

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2020 Byron Ballet Byron Balletâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s classes are designed for the passionate dance student and parents seeking age-appropriate tuition within a holistic environment. They provide solid foundations in classical ballet, contemporary and other genres in a disciplined-yet-nurturing way, cultivating the joyful essence of dance in every body.

Students may also audition for the Byron Ballet Youth Company or one of the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new performance troupes.

During 2019, students performed with the Victorian State Ballet Company, which was an amazing experience for the local dancers. This year, students will get the opportunity to audition for The Little Mermaid, also in association with the Victorian State Ballet Company.

Students have the option of taking ballet presentations with the Royal Academy of Dancing.

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MBVFC ready for the 2020 season Preparations for another exciting season of football are well underway at Mullumbimby Brunswick Valley FC. There are many opportunities for community-minded people to get involved with the winner of Football Far North Coastâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2017 Club Championship Award!

Sign on is now open online and closes on 29 February. Early bird discount applies so register early to save money and to secure your spot on a team.

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Byron Bay Junior AFL The Mighty Byron Magpie Juniors are now recruiting.

Children 6–17yrs are welcome to come and play Australia’s greatest game.

Beginners and experienced players can be part of a club focused on positive culture, health and fitness, teamwork, respect and FUN! Their first training sessions commence Tuesday, 25 February, at Cavanbah Centre from 4pm.

Come and join them for a sausage sizzle and a chat.

Match days begin Sunday 22 March, and run through until August.

Visit byronbayjuniorafl.com to register and keep up to date.

Suffolk Park Phoenix Football Club Get fit, make friends and play the beautiful game.

Phoenix are recruiting players from school age to 100 for their kids, adult men’s and women’s teams. Beginners and experienced players are welcome to join this community focussed club. Keep an eye on their facebook page for fun kick-arounds and training, starting soon at the Suffolk Park Sports field.

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JUNIOR AFL SIGN ON Sunday 9 Feb starting 10am Sunday 16 Feb starting 10am

The Brunswick Valley Bulldogs Sign on with Grand Final winners the mighty Brunswick Valley Bulldogs Junior AFL club!

All girls and boys from 5 to 17 years old are welcome to join the Northern Rivers’ most loved club. They encourage all parents and carers to be a part of this wonderful community, while your children make friends and develop skills, resilience and a team spirit!

Sign on at Stan Thompson Oval on Sunday 9 Feb, starting 10am, or opposite Brunswick Heads Hotel in Banner Park on Sunday 16 Feb starting 10am. Give AFL a go!

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Shores United Soccer Club Shores United had another top year in 2019, with teams from U6 to first division men. Their U12's won the division two crown. Women's football is strong with two girl’s teams in the U12's now playing competition football on the 'big field'.

In 2019 Shores formed their first ever ladies' team, which performed superbly, making the grand final in their opening season! The fifth grade side finished a solid third, and their mighty division one Brown Snakes had their strongest ever finish as runners up in 2019. Shores aim to go one better in 2020 with nomination into the coveted Championship league, after retaining head coach Michael 'Poon' Halpin. For players wanting to trial for championship/first division, training is Tuesdays, 6.30pm at New Brighton oval.

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WILDCATS (Womens & Girls) Wednesdays at 5:30pm from January 29

With generous support from major sponsors Byron Bay Services Club, Spell & the Gypsy Collective, First National Real Estate and Simmos, Byron Bay FC is looking forward to another cracking season in 2020.

2019 was an outstanding year with all competitive teams taking home swags of silverware, and the Club taking out the FFNC Club Championship. The Prems are looking forward to another great season under new coach Belinda Wilson, as are the open men’s and women’s teams. The Miniroos and SAP (Skills Acquisition Program) teams will continue to take the youngsters’ skills to higher levels. Their 12–16s High Performance Program teams and Summer Youth League team are also looking forward to a great year.

womens teams Players from the youth teams (12 and up) and open womans welcome, from the experienced to the novice.

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Opinion/Letters Repair or toss – that is the question Good news, Australians could soon have the ‘right to repair’ their appliances.

Our government is coming under pressure to follow the lead of the EU and some (19) USA states that have passed laws and bills that ensure manufacturers need to stop making ‘unserviceable’ and ‘unrepairable’ products that are destined for landfill about three weeks after their two year warranty expires.

The right to repair movement, also known as extended producer responsibility (EPR) is about making the manufacturers responsible for their broken product. It is basically criminal that these large companies have been able to get away with designing products to fail – but that is changing. Those changes are coming from woke consumers who are raging against ecological waste, unethical consumerism and corporate immorality.

Still screwed We have all experienced the nightmare of trying to pull apart a cheaply made appliance when it suddenly stops working. Even if you are organised and have the 128-piece screwhead set, you

▶ Continued from page 14 a right upheld by legal principle. Therefore, arguing for the rights of nature, implicitly contained within this Declaration, creates a ‘voice’ for civil society to uphold the rights of all sentient beings.

The Butler Street community have, with dignity, expertise, and passion been an example for the Byron protectors to uphold; as we now embark upon addressing the total commercialisation of Byron Bay. An ongoing market violation in times of climate change, drought, extinction of a billion species in Australia due to lack of adherence to scientific warnings.

This is not a fait accompi there is a paradigm shift in human consciousness… the debate and struggle continues.

Jo Faith Newtown

Hazard burning Wouldn’t it be better to collect leaf litter instead of back- or hazard-reduction burning?

Most plant litter has the potential to enrich and become nutrients to protect

somehow still don’t have the correctly tapered one for the job at hand. You rarely succeed in pulling appliances apart and fixing them, especially computers, phones and modern cars. This a is deliberate strategy by the manufacturer. Companies want consumers to buy another one, and another.

Manufacturers are fighting against these right to repair laws. And if they are passed, and products have to have basic replaceable components, manufacturers are seeking to own the service and repair businesses.

The manufacturers want to ensure they can charge their customers large sums of money for repairs.

The only way that this will shift and change is with consumer pressure and lobbying of federal government. If that piques your interest, do a search for the ‘right to repair’ movement.

In Australia this movement has mostly sprouted in the suburbs of Melbourne, but it is spreading. The right to repair movement is not simply about avoiding landfill, pointless waste, or about being ripped off by multinationals, it is about the environment.

With an iPhone, for example, Apple estimate that each

phone produces around 70kg of Co2 in its lifetime, and 81 per cent of that occurs during the manufacturing process.

In 2012 in the Massachusetts (USA) general election, where the ‘right to repair’ movement started, 86 per cent of voters said ‘yes’ to a right to repair.

Do you want it to happen in Australia? Locally, the Byron Shire is a beacon of sustainability. There are many fantastic brands and organisations doing pioneering work with sustainable fashion, circular business models and waste management in the region.

For anyone interested in the repair movement, who really wants to affect change, simply ask the question when you buy something ‘is it repairable?’

scorched, burnt out and degraded areas.

Commercial mowers with bagging attachments would be a quick, safe and easy way to collect the leaf litter to spread over the burnt out areas to enrich soil and lockin moisture.

Less danger also of starting fires which can get out of hand.

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supplying information to the Mullumbimby Council office to generate maps of the gravity mains system.

There is a significant library of maps that were generated and stored. I and other staff used them over the years.

The Water, Waste and Sewer Advisory Committee meeting (WWSAC) of January 30 were informed of the relining of the Mullumbimby gravity mains by a company called Interflow. This company relined a sewer gravity main in Blundel Lane in Brunswick Heads as a test case. This main was just over a metre deep and laid in the sand, which was bone dry. The gravity mains of concern in Mullumbimby, as described in an earlier article by hydraulic engineer Duncan Dey, are the deep gravity mains. They are laid between four and six metres deep, in clay that is permanently wet. Council would want a guarantee from Interflow that their system would solve the infiltration problem under these conditions. Will Interflow guarantee this with no provisos?

Alan Dickens Brunswick Heads

Debt of gratitude If ever an offer of a NSW State funeral or Memorial Service was justified, it would be to the families of those three US firefighters who recently lost their lives while on active duty.

The NSW community owes a profound debt of gratitude to these brave men who came from so far to help our people in their hour of need.

Michael J Gamble Belmont

Reinventing sewers Byron Shire Council’s (BSC) Water and Recycling are now saying they don’t have plans of their sewer gravity mains.

As a former sewer operator, we spent ten years

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Repair Cafe Mullumbimby’s Repair Cafe at the Mullumbimby campus of Byron Community College in Burringbar Street is open on Saturdays from 9am till 12 noon. Volunteers will be there to help you fix things that might otherwise end up at the tip, and they can advise you on how to fix things you can’t bring in.

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Valentine’sday Escape to the rainforest Seclusion, privacy and an exquisite natural backdrop make this unique property an ideal setting for a weekend escape, a romantic getaway, or a honeymoon.

There are 13 luxuriously appointed cabins, bungalows, and lodges privately positioned amongst 250 acres of stunning rainforest. Each bungalow contains a king-size bed, fully equipped kitchen, fireplace, and a luxurious double spa bath or solid marble bath; with floor-to-ceiling glass overlooking the rainforest. All of the lodges have plunge pools and the Glass Terrace bungalows have an outdoor shower; on the private deck, allowing you and your partner to really be at one with nature!

Explore the local area on bicycles, stroll along eight kilometres of self-guided rainforest walks, take a picnic pack to the orchard, or simply relax in a romantic hammock for two over a rainforest creek of pure, crystal-clear mountain water.

Crystal Creek Rainforest Retreat 6679 1591 www.ccrr.com.au 201 Booka Road, Upper Crystal Creek

Naturally in love, surrounded by nature.

Celebrate Valentine’s Day with the one you love in a relaxed, intimate rainforest setting at Byron at Byron, a Crystalbrook Collection Resort.

Enjoy a glass of Laurent-Perrier Champagne on arrival, followed by an exquisite four-course degustation dinner featuring produce sourced from the best in Byron Bay. Live, soulful acoustic tunes will help set the scene for a memorable, romantic evening.

For something extra special, why not stay the night?

Nestled in the rainforest, their spacious suites are the perfect setting for a romantic staycation. Dinner and accommodation packages available.

02 6639 2000. www.crystalbrookcollection.com/byron

Relax, Luxury, Rainforest.

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Seclusion, privacy and an exquisite natural backdrop make Crystal Creek Rainforest Retreat the ideal se ing for a weekend escape, a romantic getaway or honeymoon. Nestled at the base of the World Heritage Listed Springbrook National Park, on the NSW/QLD border are just 13 luxurious private cabins, bungalows and lodges hidden amongst 250 acres of stunning rainforest. Each bungalow contains a king-sized bed, fully equipped kitchen, stereo and a luxurious double spa bath or solid marble bath overlooking the rainforest.

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Retro Mao cult charms at Foxy Luu’s

Find Foxy’s off-the-beaten-track, tucked away amongst a row of casual quirky shopfronts, just off Jonson Street.

The streets of Istanbul are vibrant, enchanting and full of the irrepressible forces of life. When Foxy Luu’s owner, Utku, moved to the calm shores of Byron Bay, where everything is ‘sweet’ and hugs are a shared language, he felt it was a big change, but one that he welcomed with open arms.

‘If Istanbul was a speed-dating site with daring pick-up lines and accentuated looks, Byron would be a luscious tantric temple den, sensual and mystic. What’s common is everybody wants their senses to be spoken to’, he says.

Like many of us, Byron’s spiritual pull and beautiful people called him to ‘ground’ here. Utku also owns the Bondi institution Sefa Kitchen, but decided he would break the mould and open a more playful eatery in Byron. An art haven by day with a not-so-seedy red-light district feel by night.

Utku finds that people like to sit back, relax and indulge their senses in all that Foxy Luu’s has to offer. ‘We all want that tantalising feed in a somewhat inspiring, feel-good space, where we can feel welcomed, while preferably spending less than $20 to fill our tummies’, he says.

The restaurant plays host to locals and travellers alike, creating a place where all are welcome. ‘We want to bring the community together; it’s a space where locals can mingle and travellers can refuel with honest food, great vibes and mindful values. Simple pleasures are the best kind and we aim to please.’

You won’t be greeted by the usual whitewashed walls and sustainable. Sometimes that means sacrificing something that vanilla Instagram-friendly interiors at Foxy Luu’s. Instead, was working well for the business, but not sustainable from you’ll find an eclectic mix of Asian inspired décor – red umbrel- an environmental perspective’, says Utku. ‘There are always las line the ceiling and retro Mao Cult propaganda posters line consequences to our actions. We’re happy to play our part in the walls. There are murals by local street-artists and quirky this significant role as a forward-thinking Byron business.’ charms in every corner, it’s an evolvFind Foxy’s-off-the-beaten track, tucked away ing space, always changing under amongst a row of casual quirky shopfronts What’s new at the influences of locals’ feedback off Jonson Street, conveniently around Foxy Luu’s? You can now smash just and staff ideas. It’s colourful, to say the corner from the bottle shop. (Yes, you’ll the least! their decadent bao sliders and be pleased to know Foxy Luu’s is BYO).

Try Foxy Luu’s irresistible Rainbow hand-made dumplings at your It’s a small, cosy affair, that surprisingly Bao Buns or the Gado Gado Salad, ƱĕĎĎĶŕīǼ ƷşƖſ ǫǦƐIJ ćëĈŊƷëſĎ works really well for intimate parties, fierce in flavour and undeniably events and private functions too. There are addictive. Utku says the food is made bash or Vipassana retreat. even live music sessions from emerging to ‘ignite your taste buds and feed talents on Sundays and a fun Happy Hour Yes, Foxy Luu’s is now doing your soul’. The perfect combo. day with the Foxy twist; half-price catering and doing it in a way every Like many of us, Utku and the team dumplings from 4–6 pm. There’s never a ƐIJëƐ ëŕƷşŕĕ Ĉëŕ ëǓşſĎǾ at Foxy’s are doing their part to push dull moment at Foxy Luu’s, we can promise for a sustainable future; everything you that. from the free-range meat by Trevor More info: Foxy Luu’s, Shop 4A North Meads and locally sourced ingredients, to the water filling staByron (Woolies) Plaza, 90 Jonson St, Byron Bay, next to tion and plastic-free environment is part of a well thought out the bottleshop. Open for lunch and dinner, 7 days. and measured exercise.

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Just some of the not-to-be-missed festivities that form part of the 2020 Harvest Festival program: • The return of Brookfarm’s abundant long-table Harvest breakfast.

• Breakfast at the stunning Beach Byron Bay, where sustainability will be the focus.

• A community feast at Barrio, Byron Bay. • Moorish Feast cooking workshop with Open Table Cooking School.

• Table Under a Tree’s expert-led tour of the culinary delights of the Byron hinterland.

• A long lunch on the Clarence River.

• An indulgent lunch in The Spotted Pig’s charming church in Lindendale.

• A special five-course degustation dinner at Hotel Illawong in Evans Head.

• Taverna’s Harvest luncheon on the beach at Kingscliff.

• A Food Photography and Social Media Workshop with award-winning photography superstar, Nelly le Comte.

• Mount Warning Tours Sunset Cruise on the Tweed River.

• A long-table dinner, under the stars, in Kyogle’s amphitheatre.

• Bombay Cricketer’s Club Harvest luncheon, in Casuarina.

• Night food market at M|Arts in Murwillumbah

By: Allison Henry Executive Officer, Northern Rivers Food The Northern Rivers Food 2020 Harvest Festival is just three months away!

A celebration of the Northern Rivers amazing growers, food and beverage producers, chefs and restaurants, the 2020 Harvest Festival program is jam-packed with events across the region from Friday 1 May to Saturday 9 May 2020.

The Festival kicks off with a special Opening Event at the Stone & Wood Byron Bay brewery, where guests can enjoy Australia’s number one beer, Pacific Ale, along with delicious local BBQ offerings from the 100 Mile Table team.

The Harvest Trail returns on Saturday 2 May and Sunday 3 May – a self-drive experience where locals and visitors can pop in to our region’s farms, and food and beverage producers, and have a behind-the-scenes look at how the ingredients of their food and drinks are grown and produced. Wander amongst rows of coffee trees, visit an avocado orchard, pick and sample produce straight from the garden and learn about sustainable and organic farming practices. There’ll also be opportunities to take part in special workshops while on the trail… chocolates, cocktails anyone?

Northern Rivers Food are really excited that this year’s Festival includes events all over the region, with NRF members designing special Harvest menus featuring the finest of local fresh produce – breakfasts, lunches and dinners – from Evans Head to Casino, to Kyogle, Byron Bay and all throughout the Tweed.

The Harvest Autumn Fair returns on Saturday 9 May, a family friendly event focused on educating kids about where their food comes from.

Think fabulous food festival meets country fair! Featuring on-the-farm cooking demonstrations and masterclasses, food competitions, music, animals and fun kids activities throughout the day. There’ll be something for everyone. Also, with sustainability always a focus, this year’s festival will again be a Zero Food Waste event, with zero waste being sent to landfill.

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Mullumbimby Farmers Market will be collecting donations of produce for local bushfire victims this Friday 7 February. Customers are encouraged to add some extra items to their baskets tomorrow, then take them to the drop-off table at the market.

Bushfire victims staying in Brunswick Heads next week, as part of the Bushfire R& R Bruns Project, will receive the food.

The donations will be kept in cold storage over the weekend before it is delivered to the guests, so all items are welcome, except for the most perishable, such as leafy greens.

Market manager Allie Godfrey said the food donations were a way the local community could offer direct help to those in our region who been severely affected by the fires.

The food will go to guests from areas such as Rappville, Wyan, Whiporie, Nana Glen and Casino, who are enjoying a break as part of the Bushfire R & R in Bruns project. Local accommodation providers have donated accommodation, and the wider community have

donated other items such as beachwear, water sports equipment, toys and vouchers. These, and the fresh produce, can be picked up at the Bushfire R & R Bazaar at the Brunswick Heads School gates on Monday.

Ms Godfrey said many farmers had been hit hard by the drought this year, so rather than ask them to donate, customers could add a little extra to their baskets to give to the fire victims.

‘This is a great way to support our farmers who have been struggling with the drought as well as the people who have been affected by the fires.’ The market is also hoping to hear from anyone willing to volunteer their time to help man the stall. If you are able to spare a few hours, contact Allie Godfrey on 6677 1345 or email allie@nbfm.com.au.

The Bushfire R& R in Bruns project also continues to welcome cash donations that will go directly to the fire victims staying in Brunswick Heads in February. To make a donation, contact Valerie Hardy on 0412 042 004.

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ëĈĶǕĈ ōĕ ưşƐĕĎ Ɛşż ĶŕĎĕżĕŕĎĕŕƐ ćĕĕſ Local Byron brewer Stone & Wood’s flagship, Pacific Ale, has been voted champion independent beer in the annual GABS Hottest 100 poll. More than 2500 craft beers were nominated from 290 breweries for the poll, and over 35,000 votes were cast.

The GABS poll is now in its 12th year, and the explosion of interest in craft brewing during that time has meant that the number of breweries competing is now six times larger than in the first year. Despite the stiff competition, beer newsletter, The Crafty Pint, said Pacific Ale ‘now has a record four top-spots spread across the best part of a decade, no doubt a result not just of its reach and longevit, but the importance of independence to some voters who will have pulled their votes from Balter (among others)’.

Gold Coast brewer Balter, in top spot for the last couple of years, but this year number two, sold out in December 2019 to giant brewer CUB, and is now under the same banner as 4 Pines, Pirate Life, and very soon Green Beacon and Mountain Goat.

The Byron brewer, on the other hand has remained independent, and according to Craig Williams, GABS Festival director their success, ‘is a testament both to the beer’s quality and consistency, but importantly to the community and lifestyle they’ve built around the brand’. Stone & Wood thanked the community for their support and said they were ‘proud to have landed our Australian pale ale Cloud Catcher, The Gatherer, and Counter Culture’s Sticky Nectar in the Hottest 100’.

To celebrate the Original Pacific Ale’s win, Stone & Wood are giving away a free coldy holdy – made from sustainably made wetsuit offcuts – to the first 100 people who purchase a carton of Pacific Ale stubbies from their official online store.

In third position in the poll was ACT-based brewery BentSpoke with their India Pale Ale Crankshaft. They had 6 beers in the top 100.

According to BrewsNews ‘The New England (or Hazy) IPA was again a hugely popular beer style in 2019, which, alongside hop-driven Pale Ales and IPAs took up almost three quarters of the list. Easier drinking Lager styles also proved popular, with tart and fruity sour beer styles continuing to emerge’.

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Good Life Half a million plastic items eliminated by Byron Shire cafes Our cafes are leading the way in the fight against single use plastic pollution, with over half a million single-use plastic takeaway items, such as straws, cutlery and coffee cups, having been eliminated by our cafes, Plastic Free Byron’s ‘Make the Switch’ program announced today.

The program, a partnership between Plastic Free Byron, Boomerang Alliance and Byron Shire Council, promotes a community-led switch away from plastics by working with cafes, food outlets and markets to assist them to switch to reusable or 100% compostable alternatives.

‘The key to our success has been personal engagement. We work directly with businesses, as well as Council, suppliers, manufacturers, and waste operators to deliver real solutions to businesses. It isn’t enough to just ask them to remove plastic – there are many barriers, and what they change to, where they get it and where that product ends up, is important as well’, said Clare Sullivan, project coordinator.

For businesses, the free program asks them to work towards eliminating six key plastic items,

selected due to their impact on the environment, and the availability of suitable alternatives.

Reusables alternatives are always preferred, with many program members offering discounts and loyalty cards for customers supplying their own cup, jar, bottle or container. Local reuse network Kuppa Cups is also gaining a lot of traction by providing ‘swap and go’ takeaway cups amongst participating venues.

‘The number of people choosing to ‘BYO’ is growing more and more each year’, said Clare. ‘Our members are telling us they are ordering significantly fewer disposable coffee cups than they did previously. Byron locals are responding to the BYO message, and working with the cafes, to reduce waste. It’s a win-win for the community.’

As part of the push for reusables, the program is also about to roll-out a water refill network so that locals and visitors can easily find places to refill their bottles. The network includes council water points and participating businesses, and will be available next month through the ‘find tap’ app.

To complement the network, Byron Shire Council will be supplying free reusable drink bottles to member cafes throughout the Byron Bay CBD, as part of a trial aimed at the tourist market, to see if they act as a viable alternative to the purchase of single-use plastic water bottles. The trial is set to be rolled out in early February, catching the tail end of the busy summer tourist season.

‘We have shown that by working together, a community can change its plastic habits and improve the health of the environment’, said Clare.

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Eating Out Guide BYRON BAY

BALLINA

Wharf Bar & Restaurant Ballina FB/Insta: wharfbarballina 12–24 Fawcett St, Ballina 6686 5259

EVERY MONDAY HALF PRICE PIZZA Dine in and take away www.wharfbarballina.com.au

One Green Acre

at The Bangalow Bowlo Restaurant, Events & Catering 21 Byron Bay Road, Bangalow 6687 2741 www.onegreenacre.com.au Open Tue–Sun 12 to 8.30pm Seven Miles Coffee, lunch, dinner, events and catering.

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

BILLINUDGEL

billi

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

3/31 Lawson St, Byron Bay www.facebook.com/ pages/Success-ThaiFood/237359826303469

St Elmo Dining Room & Bar

BANGALOW

indian

Success Thai

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

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

BRUNSWICK HEADS

cadeau

Bar & Restaurant 2/26 Mullumbimbi Street, Brunswick Heads 6685 1111

OPENING HOURS Wednesday to Sunday 5pm – 10pm Closed Monday & Tuesday APERITIVO HOUR Had enough of the beach? Dust the sand off your feet and join us for our daily apéro from 5pm – 6pm www.cadeaurestaurant.com.au

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Mon-Sat: 5pm till late.

Sun: 5pm till 10pm.

Cnr Fletcher St and Lawson Lane, Byron Bay 6680 7426

All your favourites every lunch and dinner Experienced Thai chefs cooking fresh delicious Thai food for you.

BYO only Welcome for lunch, dinner and takeaway.

Menus available on Facebook

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

www.stelmodining.com

Byron Bay Olive Company

The Byron Bay Olive Company is based at the start of the Industrial estate.

From our kitchen ‘La Cuisine’ we produce the tastiest 2/29 Brigantine St marinated olives, sweet garlic and tapenades according Industrial Estate Open Mon–Sat/9am–4pm to our French family’s recipes. We also offer a range of the best sandwiches in the bay, gourmet cheeses and 0431 842 340 surprising add-ons to liven up your platters! byronbayolivescompany.com

Targa Modern European Cafe • Restaurant • Bar 11 Marvell Street

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

Loft Byron Bay 4 Jonson Street, Byron Bay 6680 9183

Book online: loftbyronbay.com.au @loftbyronbay

OPEN - 7 days Breakfast & Lunch Dinner Tuesday to Saturday All day menus, licensed bar DINE AT DUSK 2 Course $40, 3 Course $50 – seated by 5.30pm only Happy hour AFTERNOONS 4–6pm daily $12 Cocktails, $7 beers, $8 wines, $13 Moet Live acoustic music – Fridays 6pm

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.

Share plates, mains, oysters and incredible deli boards featuring local and international favourites.

Open every day noon till midnight.

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Lord Byron Distillery

Treehouse on Belongil

Handcrafted spirits using locally sourced ingredients.

Naturally Better!

Open Tuesday–Saturday 12 noon – 5pm 7, 4 Banksia Drive, Byron Bay 8646 4901

GIN MAKING AND COCKTAIL MASTERCLASS

- book online. Gin Making Gift Vouchers available.

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The Italian Byron Bay

Traditional Vietnamese Foods

Located in Woolies Carpark Shop 6/90–96 Jonson St Byron Bay

Pho Beef Noodle Soups, Special Lunch Stir-fries and Vermicelli Noodles

Open 7 days from 6pm Next to the Beach Hotel Bay Street 6680 7055 italianatthepacific.com.au

Winter Trading Hours Lunch – Monday to Friday - 10.30am – 2pm Dinner – Monday to Saturday - 5pm – 9pm

Phone orders welcome 6680 9223 FB phointhebay

Fishheads

GREAT SUMMER MENU

Indulge in one of our new creations!

Byron Bay

Yaman Mullumbimby 62 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby 6684 3778

Enjoy! The Fishheads Family

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No Bones

www.yamanmullumbimby.com.au

Open 7 days.

Mon–Wed: 9am–8pm Thu–Sun: 9am–8.30pm

NOW OPEN FOR BREAKFAST AND LUNCH

Vegan bar and kitchen.

EVERY DAY FROM 8AM UNTIL 2PM Open every day Bacon and egg English muffin with any coffee for $15 Brunch 8am – 2pm Dinner 5pm – 9pm Mi goreng, egg and cheese toastie with Bloody Mary $20 11 Fletcher Street HAPPY HOUR EVERY DAY 5–6PM 6680 7418 $12 Cocktails / $6 beers / $8 wines www.nobonesbyronbay.com.au

Chupacabra Eat in or take out.

Shop 12A, 3 Clifford St, Suffolk Park 0448 077 401 www.chupacabra.com.au @chupabyron

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

Byron Bay Deli 6/25–27 Lawson Street 6680 8700 Open Tuesday to Saturday 9am to 5pm

The Rocks @ Aquarius 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

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

Our Table Byron Bay 18–20 Marvell Street, Byron Bay 6685 6202 0419 217 144 www.ourtablebyronbay.com.au

The Empire Open 7 days: S,S 9am–3pm, Mon–Thurs 8.30am–4pm, Fri 8.30am–8.00pm Dine in, takeaway, licensed FB/Insta: EmpireMullum empiremullum.com.au 20 Burringbar St, Mullum 6684 2306

Authentic Mexican in a relaxed, fresh and bright atmosphere.

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

Mexican blend Moonshine coffee by day, margaritas by night, TACOS all day long!

Family friendly and specials each night.

Coffee: 7am – 11.30am Dinner: 5pm – 9pm Saturday Lunch: 11.30am – 3pm Open Mon – Sat: Closed Sundays

Legend Pizza

Societa Bistro

Located in Mullum Ex-Services Club

58 Dalley Street, Mullumbimby 6684 2533 www.societabistro.com

FRESH PIZZA BYRON STYLE Check us out on

Son of a Taco

facebook.com/byron.legendpizza Scan code for our menu!

BYO Home delivery 7 days Established 1992 Proudly serving the people of Byron and beyond with the finest gourmet food for over 20 years.

Bringing a little bit of the middle east to the bay.

We have everything you want for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Eat in or take home. Let us take the stress out of cooking.

Picnic Hampers – coffee - catering

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

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

Handcrafted Malawach, Falafel, Pita Pocket, Middle Eastern spices… blended with the tradition of Yemen and the vibe of Mullumbimby.

Visit and experience authentic atmosphere and culture.

Dine-in, Takeaway and BYO Vegan & Gluten-Free friendly Special Edition Humus Plate every Wednesday.

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.

Open Friday nights! Friday happy hour 4–6pm Pasta Fridays until 8pm. Serving up homemade pasta with an ever changing menu and vegan options.

The place to go for a relaxed, delicious meal, with a varied menu offering quality dishes made from local ingredients, as well as creative Italian specials.

Tuesday – 2 for 1 shnitzel night Thursday – kids eat free Saturday – pasta and salad buffet $17 Sunday – Sunday roast $17

Authentic Mexican food for the whole family.

Tacos, Nachos, Burritos, Gorditas and more.

Mullumbimby 6684 2209 SONOFATACO son_of_a_Taco

Now doing take away.

Follow us on Social Media to get special promotions Open Thursday to Sunday 5pm to 9pm

NEWRYBAR

Harvest 18-22 Old Pacific Highway Newrybar NSW 2479 02 6687 2644

Our Rocking New Fresh Summer Menu Come and join us at the Rocks for some delicious summer bites! We have just launched a new menu, and have a range of home-made, locally sourced meals at affordable prices. Try our new salmon ceviche, sizzling brekkie skillet or our crispy pork bahn-mi roll! Cool yourself down with an iced coffee, or why not try our new nutty date smoothie to kick start your day! Indoor and outdoor seating available. Fully licenced.

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

MULLUMBIMBY

We are proud to say, that for over 20 years, we have been serving the Byron community fresh, local seafood and ingredients.

To improve your dining experience, we have developed a smaller plate menu, designed to be shared, and enabling you to try a greater variety of dishes.

1 Jonson Street, Byron Bay 6680 7632

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

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

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

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

25 Childe St, Byron Bay 6680 9452

No artificial flavours, colours or preservatives.

Bay Pho

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

CATERING

CELEBRATIONS Celebrations Catering By Liz Jackson

BY LIZ JACKSON

Celebration cakes Personal catering services Event co-ordination and management

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

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

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

Modern Australian Cuisine with a heavy influence of local sustainable produce.

Open: Tuesday–Friday 3–8pm Saturday 2–8.30pm Sunday 3–7pm

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Convenient location. Easy parking.

Mon–Fri 6am–1.30pm. oldquartercoffee.com.au 0423 415 980 2/6 Endeavour Cl

Find the perfect gift for your Valentine, in store, or browse their online shop.

Locally owned. Competitive prices. www.theBWH.com.au / 6686 0917 165 River St

discoverballina.com / 1800 777 666 6 River St

5 CARPET ONE Great range, expert advice, professional installation. Residential and commercial.

Tough flooring that stands up to the rigours of day-to-day living. carpetone.com.au/ballina / 6686 3855 3/5 Clark St

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ballinafair.com.au cnr Kerr & Fox Sts

Ballina Visitor Information Centre stocks local products, unique gifts and souvenirs!

Proudly supporting local businesses across the region.

Catering to book lovers in Ballina, Lismore, Grafton and Coffs for over 40 years.

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Ballina Fair is filled with glorious gifts for your Valentine, choose from jewellery to perfume, wallets to champagne, PLUS plenty of parking! It’s your local Ballina Fair!

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6 MY GEEK MATE Need help using technology? Come and see Mark of My Geek Mate – ‘Personal tech support for bamboozled bipeds.’

Free parking and no potholes! www.mygeekmate.com.au / 0431 122 057 1/53 Tamar St

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First home buyers – what exactly ĶƆ şŕ şǔ ĕſȃ One of our local mortgage experts Sharon Clarkson at Mad About Mortgages shared some very helpful ĶŕĪşſŔëƐĶşŕ Īşſ Ǖ ſƆƐ IJşŔĕƆ ćƖƷĕſƆȂ ¨IJĕſĕ ëſĕ ưëſĶşƖƆ şǔ ĕſĶŕīƆ ëưëĶōëćōĕǽ ëŕĎ Ķŕ ƆşŔĕ ĈëƆĕƆ Ǖ ſƆƐ IJşŔĕ buyers ŔëƷ ćĕ ĕōĶīĶćōĕ Īşſ Ŕşſĕ ƐIJëŕ şŕĕȂ

1) First Home Buyers Assistance Scheme

2) First Home Owner Grant (New Home)

3) First Home Loan Deposit Scheme (FHLDS)

This scheme involves a Partial or Full Transfer Duty exemption when purchasing your first home;

A $10,000 grant is available for brand new

This scheme is a government initiative to provide a deposit guarantee for up to 15% of the purchase price of the property;

• It is only available to Australian Citizens & Permanent Residents 18+ years of age.

• A new or existing home can be purchased or vacant land, with the intention to build.

– If it costs under $650,000 – full exemption – If it costs $650,000–$800,000 a partial exemption applies based on a concessional rate.

– It must be processed through your conveyancer/solicitor.

Go to: www.revenue.nsw.gov.au/grants-schemes/ first-home-buyer/assistance-scheme

homes only; • It is only available to Australian Citizens and Permanent Residents 18+ years of age.

• The new home purchase price must be $600,000 or less.

Sharon Clarkson from Mad About Mortgages

• It applies to Australian Citizens only, of 18+ years of age.

• Buyers must have saved a minimum deposit of 5% of the purchase price.

• It is income tested – Singles earning < $125,000, Couples earning < $200,000.

• The price is capped per region – Byron Bay and surrounds (Region ID 4) max purchase price $450,000.

• The Land and Building price should not exceed $750,000

• Buyers must be eligible to obtain a loan for the balance. Loans must be P&I repayments (exceptions apply).

– It must be processed through approved

• The scheme is available through nominated lenders (ask your broker).

agents and lenders

Go to: www.nhfic.gov.au/media/1236/fhlds-fact-sheet.pdf

Go to: www.revenue.nsw.gov.au/ grants-schemes/first-home-buyer/

All properties are for the sole purpose of owner occupation and must be resided in within 12 months.

Contact Sharon Clarkson or your broker for more details.

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This family home is situated in the small village of Main Arm with easy access to Billinudgel and Mullumbimby and only 12 minutes to the beaches of Ocean Shores and Brunswick Heads.

This private home has: • 3 bedrooms • Reverse-cycle air conditioning in living room • 2 bathrooms (inside and out) • Open plan living and dining, 2 studies & breezeway • A spacious rear verandah

Auction Inspect Contact

On-site at 10.00am Saturday 7 March 10.30am Saturday Steven Dale 0412 855 203

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A WORLD WITH VIEWS! GOING, GOING, GOING TO AUCTION Located in a prime position with 180-degree views.

From the hinterland, overlooking the Brunswick River and glimpses of Byron Bay. This versatile home will work for a family, professional couple as well as those just wanting to take in the beautiful views. Set on 1252m2.

With a separate study, swim-spa, sauna and 180-degree verandah that works for any occasion.

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60 Hillcrest Drive, Tintenbar â&#x20AC;&#x153;Salemâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Hebrew for peace. A gorgeous old homestead and dairy bails on a manageable 2 acres. Over 120 years old and getting more alluring with age. The house retains all the features and character of its time and it stands as a magnificent snapshot of yesteryear.

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81B Rajah Road, Ocean Shores Absolutely stunning new home with huge Ocean Views. Discover for yourself this rare, elevated and private location 90m above & away from the street in the heart of Ocean Shores. This home is a class above in design & quality with the latest and finest inclusions.

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1 Left Bank Road, Mullumbimbimby Set on flat and gently sloping 4000sqm, this property has direct creek access. The double brick house is extremely well built with suspended concrete slab, which is rarely seen these days. Open plan kitchen and dining have views over the property with established fruit trees and gardens.

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Located in North Ocean Shores, bordering South Golden beach this property boasts the perfect position just a short stroll from beaches and cafes. The flat block and well situated home have a lovely layout which flow beautifully onto the spacious east facing backyard.

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8 Short Street, Brunswick Heads Tastefully renovated brick three-bedroom house with private tropical garden in one of Brunsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; best streets. Options galore with immaculate, approved self-contained studio with rear lane entry and income.

Office/garage with DA approval for conversion to 2 bed granny flat.

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Pre Auction Guide $3,485,000 418 Friday Hut Road, Brooklet.

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• Superbly positioned nine flat acres, lovely views with expansive lake frontage.

• Main home has approved dual occupancy with two living areas • Inground pool and entertainment deck • Separate studio with ensuite • Lakeside gazebo, solar, spacious undercover parking

North Star Holiday Resort – Hastings Point

Noble Lakeside Park – Kingscliff

20 minutes to Byron Bay, 15 minutes to Broken Head, 15 minutes to Ballina airport, seven minutes to Newrybar and five minutes to Tintenbar General Store.

Open home: Saturday 8 Feb, 10–10.30am Contact Scott: 0412 296 872 or sales@scottharveyrealestate.com.au

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WHAT A VIEW! Price guide: $795,000 Lot 12, 54 Satinwood Drive, McLeans Ridges • Magnificent north facing parcel of land at the end of a peaceful cul-de-sac, on 22 acres.

• Uninterrupted views of the Nightcap Ranges, spectacular sunsets, and a beautiful 2200 tree rainforest separating the land from its closest neighbour.

• Established terraces, suited for citrus, avocados or mangoes, and the land has a few springs, and a bore licence.

• Existing building entitlement positioned at the top of the land.

Just 25 minutes to Byron/Ballina airport and 1 hour to Gold Coast airport, and 30 minutes from beautiful beaches.

Agent on site: 11.15–11.45am Saturday 8 Feb Auction: On site Saturday 22 February Contact: Scott Harvey 0412 296 872

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View over 50 homes at www.mrpropertyservices.com.au Email: kprice@mrpropertyservices.com.au 139 Minjungbal Drive, Tweed Heads South Phone: 07 5523 3431 Mobile: 0423 028 468

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ForSaleByAgent • 22 Main Arm Road, Mullumbimby. Sat 10.45–11.30am

Byron Bay & Hinterland Property

Janice Maple @realty • 19 Blackwood Crescent, Bangalow. Sat 10–10.30am

• 8/11 Korau Place, Suffolk Park. Sat 10.30–10.45am • 19 Blackbean Lane, Federal. Sat 11.45am–12.30pm

Byron Shire Real Estate • 206 Overall Drive, Pottsville. Sat 10–10.30am • 10 Old Pacific Highway, Brunswick Heads. Sat 10–10.30am • 3 Kolora Way, Ocean Shores. Sat 11–11.30am • 81B Rajah, Ocean Shores. Sat 12–12.30pm • 1 Left Bank Road, Mullumbimby. Sat 12–12.30pm • 60 Hillcrest Drive, Tintenbar. Sat 1–1.30pm

This custom-built timber family home has character, individuality and plenty of living space.

A grand formal entry reveals soaring five metre cathedral ceilings, filling the house with light. The ridgeline position ensures magnificent views from almost everywhere in the house. The location is great for privacy, yet just a short walk or ride into Brunswick.

The upper level main bedroom features WIR, ensuite, large living area and adjacent deck with views. The 5-level layout provides room to move and spaces to escape to. There’s also a generously sized study or a fourth bedroom.

The large open-plan entertainer’s kitchen, dining and living area with polished hardwood flooring open out to a large deck with views to Cape Byron and the hinterland.

Every detail of the construction was carefully considered and there is further potential in the design with large areas under roof space ready for extensions or a granny flat (STCA).

Inspect: By appointment Contact: Todd Buckland – 0408 966 421 Byron Shire Real Estate

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Byron Bay First National • 8/33-35 Childe Street, Byron Bay. Thur 1–1.30pm • 7/39 Lawson Street, Byron Bay. Fri 1–1.30pm • 119 Lawlers Lane, Bangalow. Sat 9–9.30am • 81a Stewart Street, Lennox Head. Sat 9.30–10am • 115 Shara Boulevard, Ocean Shores. Sat 10–10.30am • 753 Wilsons Creek Road, Wilsons Creek. Sat 10–10.30am • 68 Caniaba Crescent, Suffolk Park. Sat 10–10.30am • 1/14 Beachcomber Drive, Byron Bay. Sat 10.30–11am • 57 Bangalow Road, Byron Bay. Sat 11–11.30am • 51a Balemo Drive, Ocean Shores. Sat 11–11.30am • 27 Corella Crescent, Mullumbimby. Sat 11–11.30am • 4 Kingsley Lane, Byron Bay. Sat 11–11.30am • 7/3 Beachcomber Drive, Byron Bay. Sat 12–12.30pm • 909 Main Arm Road, Main Arm. Sat 12–12.30pm • 10 Palm Lily Crescent, Bangalow. Sat 1–1.30pm • 8 Coral Court, Byron Bay. Sat 1–1.30pm • 11 Ironbark Avenue, Byron Bay. Sat 1.15–1.45pm • 1 Ribbonwood Place, Suffolk Park. Sat 2–2.30pm • 4/17 Mahogany Drive, Byron Bay. Sat 2–2.30pm • 2/9 Colin Street, Bangalow. Sat 2–2.30pm • 11/174 Fowlers Lane, Bangalow. Sat 3–3.30pm Fiona Johnson @realty • 29 Tweed Street, Brunswick Heads. Thurs 2–2.30pm • 29 Tweed Street, Brunswick Heads. Sat 11–11.30am

LJ Hooker Brunswick Heads • 8 Tindara Avenue, Ocean Shores. Sat 10–10.30am • 7 Moran Close, Main Arm. Sat 10.30–11am • 38 Booyun Street, Brunswick Heads. Sat 11–11.30am • 20 Teven Street, Brunswick Heads. Sat 12–12.30pm • 11 Weeronga Way, Ocean Shores. Sat 12–12.30pm • 6 Teven Street, Brunswick Heads. Sat 1–1.30pm

Raine & Horne Ocean Shores/Brunswick Heads/ Murwillumbah • 31 Warrambool Road, Ocean Shores. Sat 9–9.30am • 9 Buchanan Street, Murwillumbah. Sat 9–9.30am • 56 Helen Street, South Golden Beach. Sat 9.30–10am • 1/1 Jubilee Avenue, Mullumbimby. Sat 10–10.30am • 12 Wagawn Drive, Murwillumbah. Sat 10–10.30am • 1 Kulgun Court, Ocean Shores. Sat 10.30–11am • 51-53 James Street, Murwillumbah. Sat 11–11.30am • 20 River Street, New Brighton. Sat 11–11.30am • 6 The Plateau, Murwillumbah. Sat 12–12.30pm • 27 Bridge Street, Lismore. Sat 12.30–1pm • 117 Kingscliff Street, Kingscliff. Sat 12.30–1pm • 175 The Pocket Road, Billinudgel. Sat 1–1.30pm • 5 Apo Street, Goonellabah. Sat 1.30–2pm

Scott Harvey Real Estate • 54 Satinwood Drive, McLean Ridges. Sat 11.15–11.45am • 418 Friday Hut Road, Brooklet. Sat 10–10.30am McGrath Byron Bay • 9/27 Kalemajere Drive, Suffolk Park. Sat 9–9.30am • 32 MacGregor Street, Suffolk Park. Sat 10–10.30am • 4 little Burns Street, Byron Bay. Sat 10–10.30am • 4a Little Burns Street, Byron Bay. Sat 10.30–11am • 15 Wollumin Street, Byron Bay. Sat 11–11.30am • 31 Prestons Lane, Tyagarah. Sat 11.30am–12pm

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WIL LEGITIMATE – THE KING OF IMPRO AND SOCIAL COMMENT BRINGS IT HOME… Wil Anderson is one of the most prolific comics on the circuit. Able to distill most topics or ideas into a witbased whiskey, he brings his critically acclaimed show Wil-informed to the Brunswick Picture House.

His show comes off the back of his 70 minutes of improvised material at Sydney’s Comedy Store Whatchu Talkin’ Bout WIL? To see Anderson free-form is something to behold, it’s perhaps where he’s at his strongest. It’s a freedom that he loves, but one that can take its toll!

‘When I am performing that show I am not looking at developing material – the show I did for the Comedy Store was the best show I have ever done, I wasn’t looking for material – you can weave and talk to people, you don’t have to move on if you don’t want to. For me it’s fine in the lead-up because you don’t have to prepare, but the funny thing is that those shows are so exhausting! Compared to a normal show they are just mental. The physical work for the brain is hard – it’s hard to remember anything I said – and the weirdest thing is that I get these pregnancy cravings. Ordinarily I could have a salad roll for lunch every day, and I wouldn’t care, but when I am doing the impro show – I get these really specific cravings, for like ice-cream with chocolate sauce or something. ‘

Wil-informed in Brunswick will be the second run outside of Melbourne.

‘I was wanting to have a second look at the show and reimagine it,’ says Wil. ‘It’s about technology and not doing anything about the environment. You don’t want to be boring. You have to find a way that is super entertaining and look for the super comedic moments. It’s definitely a challenge. The show in Brunswick Heads is going to be the essence of what the show was in Melbourne, but with up to 50 per cent brand new material. It’s an extension on the thoughts that were there. It’s the spirit of the original show – but a lot will be brand new.’

Much of Wil’s work is topical – touching on the zeitgeist that underpins so much of our everyday. As host of the Gruen Project he illustrates how seamlessly he moves from observant and witty TV host, to an opinion maker.

He knows how to walk the fine line between his many professional roles.

Wil is also not averse to reading things he may not agree with. For him it’s how you actually get ‘informed’ about the many mindsets and beliefs people are operating from.

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‘One time, men’s rights activists were emailing me – they were all a bit Jordan Petersen – so I went and read it; they didn’t convince me, but I got three minutes of new material!

If you cut yourself off then you are in trouble – you need to understand, you don’t have to agree with every idea out there – you have to listen and be interested, otherwise we have no hope. No one has the perfect answer. You have to know who you are and where you fit in.’

Wil believes that being a comedian offers him the extreme privilege or luxury of being paid to think.

‘Someone concentrating on their job won’t have the same luxury as me to sit around and think about “How?” And “Why?” And what the world says. They don’t have the time to drill down on a source – having the time to research is a luxury and a privilege – sometimes the thinking economy can be dismissive of those who don’t have the time to do that.’

Wil Anderson presents Wil-Informed at the Brunswick Picture House, Tuesday 11 Feb–Sunday 16 Feb, 7pm. Sunday’s show at 5pm. Tix from brunswickpicturehouse.com

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THE COMPASSION CARD Ok hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a little maths problem. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s see if you can do it. Jimmy is a middle-aged man who lives in Sydney. If, over a fortnight, he pays $450 rent, $200 food, $100 on petrol and his car, $50 for phone, $50 for electricity, internet and gas, $50 on smokes, $50 on incidentals like entertainment, or a parking fine, and he receives $501 per fortnight from the government as his unemployment benefit, how much does Jimmy have left?

The Answer is: Jimmy is living in his car. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s long-term unemployed and you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t live in Sydney, or many other places in this country, on $500 a fortnight. Shit you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t live on $500 a week. He smokes a little weed, but he grows it and sells a bit on the side to pay for petrol. What he makes still isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough to afford rent, which means he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get rent assistance. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s homeless.

Consequently Jimmy also has an alcohol addiction â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you too if you were living in your car? Jimmy is unskilled, and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been largely itinerant for the last few years. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s estranged from his family, and his work-history is patchy. His literacy is low, but heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so ashamed by it, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spent most of his life pretending to be literate â&#x20AC;&#x201C; so heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never got the assistance he needs. There was a time when he was on a joist, when he used to pretend to read the paper so he had the appearance of literacy.

His years of employment have been mainly as a labourer on roads and building sites, but as heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got older and his circumstances have become more challenging, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s suffered from poor mental health, which means there are some days when he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t leave his car. He feels like a loser, like thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no way forward.

His car is running out of rego, and somehow he has to find the $1k plus dollars to keep it on the road. He lives with deep shame about his circumstances. He has no sense of a future â&#x20AC;&#x201C; which is probably why his drinking has increased. The long days in the car are fuzzed out by cheap wine, and once a fortnight, on pay-day he goes to his local club, he has a roast, a few beers and he plays the pokies. He plays the pokies because one day he won $2k. That was how he got his car registered last year. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hoping it will happen again, because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the only plan heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got to keep his car â&#x20AC;&#x201C; which is his home, and the only hope heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got of getting to a labouring job that starts at 4am, an hourâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drive away.

I forgot to mention, among a number of reasons why he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do so well at school, was that one of the Brothers at the school he attended called him into the vestry one afternoon â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and he went from being an altar boy, to being an altered boy â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and he has lived with the deep emotional impact of that unaddressed trauma ever since.

Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of many people in their late 50s who have hit the scrap heap. This is probably quite a familiar story for long-term welfare recipients â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the people to whom the Morrison government wants to issue a cashless welfare card.

Indigenous communities in remote parts of Australia have already experienced that indignity â&#x20AC;&#x201C; theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gone back to colonial times with their local store having an absolute monopoly over their agency. When you remove autonomy and selfdetermination, you remove a personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s belief in their ability to manage their own life.

You remove the opportunity for a person to develop the self-confidence they need to overcome their circumstances. Mind you, how do you overcome a circumstance that cannot be reasonably overcome anyway?

Instead of simply increasing Newstart, the government intends to issue a cashless debit card that will cost thousands per person to administer. Shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t those thousands be going to increasing Newstart? The cashless welfare card is a punitive measure that punishes the poor for being on welfare. Imagine the shame when, everywhere you go, shop assistants will know that you are part of the Morrison Governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s underclass. There is no evidence to show that this system works to address any of the causes of long-term unemployment. However, there is overwhelming evidence that housing, support programs, counselling, health services, connection, community and a sense of purpose do work.

So why not save some $ on further isolating and impoverishing the vulnerable, and provide the support for pathways where they may rediscover their purpose and autonomy. Maybe instead of the Cashless Welfare Card we need to start using the Compassion Card.

Fans have been asking singer, songwriter and guitarist (actually multi-instrumentalist) Mat McHugh of The Beautiful Girls whether there was any chance of releasing an album on vinyl, and now, to celebrate the first 20 years of the band, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s done better than that â&#x20AC;&#x201C; heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pulled together his favourite tracks from across all five albums, as well as the debut EP, and thrown in an acoustic version of the 2018 single, Beautiful World. This special compilation, titled Seaside Highlife: Greatest Hits, Volume One was released in December.

Seaside Highlife is representative of a particular era of the band,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; McHugh explains, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;and a stepping-off point for the next one.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why we put Volume One in the title.

To top it off, the artwork has photos from right across The Beautiful Girlsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; career. What I really wanted to do with a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;best ofâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is... I really wanted to create a good introduction to The Beautiful Girls for people, and what better way than to have it on vinyl? If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never heard of the band, and want to hear it at its highest quality and best sound ever, this is the way.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; So, what do you do when you release an album like Seaside Highlife, Greatest Hits Volume One? You take it to the people, large as life, and twice as much fun. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re basically

going play the album â&#x20AC;&#x201C; four sides, double vinyl â&#x20AC;&#x201C; all of it, in order, but weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll also rotate some songs off other records, every night, which will be really nice. So weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re taking out an expanded six-piece lineup; guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, and horn section. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve kept it basic the past couple of years and done it as a three-piece, but a lot of this music has detail and a lot of layers to it, from Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re Already Gone onwards â&#x20AC;&#x201C; there are keyboards and horn sections â&#x20AC;&#x201C; so Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m excited to play that whole arc, from the beginning to the end of the record, to try and cover that in a live set. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;In putting this record together there hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been a corner cut artistically, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m approaching the tour in the same way. I want to really celebrate whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been achieved and have a party before I begin the next volume.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gonna be like the Rolling Thunder Revue!

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be like a travelling circus through Australia in the summertime, which is completely befitting really. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exactly the environment for The Beautiful Girls. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the perfect way to spend summer.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; The Beautiful Girls play the Hotel Great Northern on Saturday, 15 Feb â&#x20AC;&#x201C; full interview next week! Tickets from www.thebeautifulgirls.com

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RATS – REVISITED I often wonder what it’s like growing up with famous parents. Not just famous – but wildly creative people – who have been an integral part of creating culture. Finding your own space must be something of a challenge, and I guess, a rite of passage. As it no doubt has been for Dweezil Zappa – son of the infamous composer and performer, Frank Zappa.

Fifty years ago, pretty well just before Dweezil was born, his dad dedicated his album Holy Rats to him. So this year, Dweezil has decided to do a 50th year celebration.

‘It kind of all made perfect sense’ said Dweezil. ‘A lot of times people sort of make requests and say, “Oh, you should play this song, you should do this album,” but Holy Rats is one that we’ve played a few of the songs from over the years, but we’ve never played all of them, all in sequence. And it just seemed to make the most sense that, on such an auspicious occasion of it being 50 years old, and still so ahead of its time, why not highlight it?

‘It’s one of the records that always tops the list of fan favourites, even though it has only one vocal song on it.

Typically, people respond more to vocal oriented music than straight-up instrumental, but there’s something

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about the sound quality of the album, and the material on it, that it kind of... if you relate it to a movie soundtrack, there’s a lot of feelings of tension and release that happen with it, and you can tell the moments that are in free-form improvisation, and you can tell the moments that have total structure, and it’s that balance between the two that I think really appealed to people when it came out. There wasn’t really a lot of anything like that at that time. Especially with the amount of fuzz-tone guitar and fuzz-tone violin and stuff like that, there was a lot of new and different stuff happening on the record.’

So how does the son of a crazy genius of a man, who died at just 52 (that’s around the same age Dweezil is now), play an album that seems un-performable, and quite simply, unfathomable?

‘Well, the thing about it is, there is enough stuff on the record that has structure to it, and then there’s enough structure to what the improvisational sections are supposed to be, in terms of straight form, but the ability to then have your own voice and improvise on top of it, and have it be in context to the music – that’s what I always take into consideration when I’m playing my dad’s music.

‘So for example, the song Son Of Mr Green Genes, that has a six or seven minute guitar solo on it, but what he played is so pivotal and so specific in the song that I decided to learn that solo, note for note, and I just play it as he played it, or as close as I can make it sound to what he played.

And so, playing the notes is one thing, but then also recreating the texture of the guitar sound

itself, that’s another challenge that I always take on. And so, I feel like with that song in particular, it’s pretty amazing that we are able to recreate all of the textures that are going on in that recording, with just six people.’

This is clearly going to be one of the concerts not to miss at Bluesfest.

‘There’s a lot of stuff happening on many keyboards where layered sounds are happening, different kinds of organs, or sometimes there’s percussion and other things that are happening at various times. And so there’s three people that are playing different keyboard things at times and then… you’ll see, there’s people picking up different instruments throughout the whole thing.’

Holy Rats is part of the Zappa legacy, and only his son, his flesh and blood – the man to whom the album was dedicated – could extend this musical conversation in a way that is not simply replicating, but also re-inventing the Rats experience.

‘What I like to do in the improvisational sections is play certain things that are either specific phrases that began, or are in the middle, or end, of something on the record, but then I fill in the spaces with my own ideas. But I am using sounds that are so specific and evocative of the record, that I’m able to play in a way that feels it’s all in context to the music. Because I don’t want to take a left turn and suddenly be like, “Oh, this has nothing to do with the record,” – so that’s always one of the big challenges working with my dad’s music.’

Holy cow! Dweezil Zappa playing Frank Zappa’s Holy Rats is going to be amazing! He plays Bluesfest 9–13 April. Tix and program info from bluesfest.com.au

HOT POTATO, HOT POTATO

BOOTCAMP FOR COMPOSERS

Hot Potato Band is a brass band like no other. Beginning their journey as street performers, the ten-piece band from Sydney have been twice around the literal and figurative block. Like a muscle, the festival favourites have exercised their musicianship and showmanship, and for years have left lasting impressions on audiences around the world.

They are incredibly proud of their all-acoustic lineup. An energetic amalgamation of catchy music, cool lyrics, infectious dance moves, engaging interaction and the breaking down of barriers between stage and audience is what sets Hot Potato Band apart. Although difficult to describe their genre, HPB continues to compile their arsenal of songs inspired by pop, funk, ska and reggae, binding them through the classic instrumentation of New Orleans’ brass bands.

The band’s unique sound is built on the backs of three drummers and a sousaphone, along with an array of horns, covering catchy chorus-lines and providing a beautiful harmonic cloud for Ben (the vocalist) to float above. They are not a band who ever shy away from a good time. They play at the Byron Brewery on Saturday at 7pm.

Screenworks’ annual Screen Composing Bootcamp is designed to support the professional development of four regionally-based composers. Now in its third year, this is the first time the program has been opened to composers from anywhere in regional Australia. The program is delivered by Screenworks, with support from APRA AMCOS. Professional screen composers Amanda Brown (Babyteeth, The Secrets She Keeps), Matt Blackman (No Activity, Mr Black), Tim Count (Surfing The Menu, 3rd Night) and Petra Salsjö (Miro, The Telegram Man) will provide one-to-one mentoring to the four selected participants. The mentors will assist with skills development, as well as provide opportunities to increase the experience and confidence of the participants in order to advance their capacity for composing music for the screen. Participants will travel, to shadow their mentors in their studios, meet with other professional composers, attend meetings, and immerse themselves in the business of screen composing.

Screenworks and APRA AMCOS acknowledge the need to address the gender imbalance within the Australian and New Zealand music industry. To help address the significant underrepresentation of women working as screen composers, at least 50 per cent of the selected participants will be female.

Applications close, 1 March 2020.

To apply, visit www.screenworks.com.au.

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PUTTING THE V IN VAGINA

COMEDY DOUBLE HEADER BECKY AND NAZEEM Becky Lucas and Nazeem Hussain make their way to the Brunswick Picture House next week to work on their 2020 Melbourne Comedy Festival Show. It’s been a huge few years for Nazeem. You’d have seen his face pop up on Channel 7 in his own sketch series Orange Is The New Brown, or on his Netflix half-hour special, or perhaps you saw him on The Masked Singer after which he became BFFs with Lindsay Lohan. Or maybe you took a selfie with Nazeem, literally as he was getting caught fare-evading on public transport. What a tight ass. The best place to see him is live – so we got him to finish a few sentences for us…

What I love about mornings is… that I didn’t die in my sleep. And that my phone has full charge.

When I open the fridge and I find… leftovers, I still order Uber Eats.

People always assume… that I don’t take the tea sachets from hotels and airport lounges.

Some nights when I don’t feel funny I… cry myself to sleep and write horrible comments under my own YouTube videos.

At school everyone thought I was… such an amazing guy.

Something people don’t know about me is…

I have committed the entire movie Cool Runnings to memory.

The song I secretly sing loudly to in the car is…

Mysterious Girl. Petre Andre.

I have a secret crush on… answering this question makes it not a secret crush anymore. So, yeah. Next question.

My worst habit is… finishing people’s sentences incorrectly during most conversations.

When I meet new people, they always ask… me to stop finishing their sentences incorrectly.

The health trend that bugs me most is… all of them. They all guilt me.

I am happiest when…

I am performing at the Brunswick Picture House.

At the Bruns Picture house expect… the best show you have ever seen in your life. And after Becky is finished, watch me fall apart…

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Becky Lucas has spent years writing and performing stand-up, and in the last year alone has performed solo shows at the Sydney Opera House, made her US TV late-night stand-up debut on Conan (after opening for him at his first comedy show outside the US at Sydney’s State Theatre in early 2019), and performed at the prestigious Just for Laughs Montreal Festival. She did the same…

What I love about mornings is… the hope When I open the fridge and I find… a body in there, I freak out!

People always assume… that I want them to buy tickets to my show, and they’re right, I do!

Some nights when I don’t feel funny I… am honest about that to the crowd. I can’t pretend.

At school everyone thought I was… this other girl called Ella who looked similar to me (brunette.)

Something people don’t know about me is…

I can make almost anything about me.

The song I secretly sing loudly to in the car is…

I don’t have my licence!

I have a secret crush on… well it won’t be secret anymore, but I love Sam Neill My worst habit is… going out with men When I meet new people, they always ask…

“Why are you in my house?”

The health trend that bugs me most is… intermittent fasting. Just eat when you’re hungry and stop looking at me with those sad eyes.

When I am happiest is when…

I am with my friends, or on holidays.

At the Bruns Picture house expect… to have fun! I’m so excited to perform in the most beautiful place in the world. I love Brunswick Heads!!

Catch Becky and Nazeem at the Brunswick Picture House on Saturday at 7pm. Tix from brunswickpicturehouse.com

Every year, women from around the region gather to tell the stories of their vagina – their loves, their losses, their desires, their heartbreak, their trauma and their triumph.

On 14 February, Zenith Virago leads the morning V-Day flash mob dance on the beach – part of a global movement that recognises the one billion women around the world who have been victims of sexual assault or rape. The evening presentation of Vagina Conversations is the major fundraiser for the Women’s Resource Centre at the Mullumbimby Neighbourhood Centre. The show always sells out, so it now runs over two days. The Echo spoke with Zenith Virago about the Vagina Conversations.

What do you look to make happen every year with the Vagina Conversations?

We make it a celebration of vaginas, of women, and people with vaginas. Those who have been girls or children and have grown up with a vagina, and how that has influenced their life, or how that experience has made them who they are. My intention has been to create an educational, political, intimate show that discusses, informs and revels in all things vagina.

The audience has an incredible time on the nights, but the whole process for the presenters is a totally empowering and transformative experience.

Are there really so many stories of our vaginas to tell?

Yes, there are, every one has a story – we are full of stories that form us. This is the fifth year. It is good for us to hear each other’s stories, so we have broader awareness, but also to feel aligned. Women are hungry for real and healthy vagina-centric events, and to raise funds for women and children experiencing intimate violence who are escaping from that.

How does the audience receive this?

They receive it in their own way. In a way that makes sense, or touches them, it may inspire them, it may make them feel that someone else has a similar story. It may be shocking or deeply touching, it may be enlightening and powerful, it is so wideopen and multifaceted.

Is it what they expect?

I don’t know the answer to that, as people have their own expectations.

It’s easy to see and feel that they are mostly satisfied – during and after. It’s Valentines Day, and it’s always sold out, so that says something. I think those who have been before know the format, and those who are coming for the first time are trusting, and open to the experience.

What have been some of the Vagina Conversation highlights for you?

It’s hard to refer to some of the presenters, as they have all been magnificent. Feather of course, at 82, is the oldest… so courageous and real. Jess Lu, at 17 is the youngest, sharing how she negotiated sex. But I don’t want to single others out, as it is full of highlights – even before the show.

Is this what feminism in action looks like? How does it tie in with the morning action on the beach?

I think this is what feminism in action looks like. Everything I do, I bring my feminism to it. It’s an intrinsic part of who I am, and what I want to contribute to the world.

Who are the women performing this year? What do they bring to broaden the vagina conversation?

Rose Weaver, Sharon Shostak, Ella Noah Bancroft, Freer Bonne, Lisa Sharpe, Parker Lev Dupain, Mira Elliott, Danni Carr, Simi Genzuik, Marissa Treichel. Sequioa Krop. They each bring their unique stories, just as the others have; Indigenous experience, bleeding, strength, courage, wisdom, growth, birth, abuse, music, dance, gender politics, anatomy, and of course, comedy.

What should people expect from the Byron VC, and the morning action on the beach?

This will be the eighth year for the flash mob on Main Beach. It has become an ‘absolute’ on people’s calendars, it is an opportunity to stand up, to be noisy, to find and use your voice. To remind ourselves that violence against women and children is increasing, and that the number of women killed by their intimate partners or family members is at appalling levels. And that we are strong, despite institutionalised abuse, violence and control.

Thursday, 14 Feb V-Day flash mob at Main Beach at 7am – wear red and bring your own placards. Vagina Conversations at the Byron Theatre, Community Centre on Thursday and Friday, 14–15 Feb at 7.30pm. Tix $23/29 from byroncentre.com.au

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VULTURE

THE GIRL WITH THE GOLD BIKINI THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PAUL

IGNITE YOUR INNER ARTIST

One of Australia’s favourite performers, Jonathan Biggins, is Paul Keating – visionary, reformer and rabble-rouser – in the return of the 2019 smash-hit comedy, The Gospel According to Paul. Full of intelligence and wit, The Gospel According to Paul is a funny, insightful and occasionally poignant portrait of Paul Keating, the man who – as he tells it – single-handedly shaped contemporary Australia.

Lismore City Hall, Friday 28 and Saturday 29 February at 7.30pm. The show is written and performed by Jonathan Biggins. Bar and Diner from 6pm.

Make 2020 the year you unleash your artistic self with like-minded creatives!

Ignite Studios in Ballina is offering a new adult evening art course; Introduction to Abstraction, with local artist Imbi Davidson.

Over six weeks this course will introduce participants to the fundamental principles of abstract drawing and painting. Using a range of methods, participants will be guided through mark making and exercises to free up expression. They will learn background and layering techniques, and develop concepts to complete their own abstract painting.

The course runs for six Tuesdays, from 11 February until 17 March, between 6.30pm and 8.30pm at Ignite Studios, Ballina. Ignite Studios is an extension of, and adjacent to, the Northern Rivers Community Gallery – A place to create!

Places are limited, and bookings are essential. For further information contact the gallery on 6681 0530, or book online through nrcgballina.com.au

WITCHES BREWING UP TROUBLE! Tired of waiting for change, creative women around the world are getting ready to stir the political pot – welcome to the CWA! The (dis)organisation everyone’s been waiting for, the Country Witches Association!

Where musician, Áine Tyrrell, and comedian, Mandy Nolan, mix genres in the cauldron to bring dangerous dialogues and uncomfortable collaborations to the boil.

This is angry feminism made fun. Àine Tyrrell says, ‘If you’re not doing something that you would have been burnt for 400 years ago, then you’re not trying hard enough.’ While women aren’t being literally burnt in 2020, Tyrrell and Nolan acknowledge the role the media often plays in ‘burning’ powerful women. ‘We know that if we raise our voices, that we’ll be targets on social media. Look what happened to Julia Gillard when she had an empty fruit bowl!’

The idea came about quite by accident when the two were raising money for a local cause, and while sweeping the floor after a gig joked ‘We’re like the CWA – except we’re the Country Witches Association.’ When Mandy mentioned it on stage (as a joke), someone yelled out ‘Start it!’ And so did another, and another.

Mandy Nolan and Áine Tyrrell present Country Witches Association – back to the Byron Brewery’s Brew House Theatre by popular demand on Friday, 21 Feb, 8pm. Tix are $25 plus booking fee from ainetyrrell.com.

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GOOD FIRE This Wednesday, 5 February at the Mullumbimby Civic Hall, Firesticks Alliance will be hosting Good Fire for Country, an evening of short films and discussion on Indigenous Cultural Fire and ecological management. Organisers say ‘we are creating an opportunity for the public to learn more about the work we do, the benefits of reinstating cultural burning on country, and how, by supporting this, we can protect and enhance landscapes and communities for the long term.’

A panel of guest speakers have been invited to discuss these topics and take questions from the audience. It will be hosted by Leeton Lee (Bundjalung and Thunghutti). Speakers include: Firesticks CEO, Oliver Costello (Bundjalung), Firesticks Director, Sian Hromek (Yuin), Indigenous Ranger, Norman Graham (Arakwal), and fire ecologist, Andy Baker (Northern Rivers local). Short films to be announced. Opening ceremony by Bunyarra Culture Collective. Catering by Rider, Northern Rivers Co-op.

6–9pm (food available for purchase from 5:30). $10 from trybooking.com

Byron Bay author, Lisa Walker, launches her sixth book: The Girl with the Gold Bikini at The Book Room in Lennox, on Thursday 13 February. Her first young-adult fiction features Olivia Grace, an eighteen-year-old detective, inspired by Veronica Mars and Nancy Drew, who is driven by a desire to ‘set things right’ after an assault two years earlier. Set between the bikini-body Gold Coast – where Olivia assists her childhood friend Rosco (former Han Solo to her Princess Leia) at his detective agency – and yoga-mad Byron Bay, where she dives deep into the deceptively complicated case of a sleazy yoga instructor suspected of adultery, The Girl with the Gold Bikini is a screwball romp with a serious side.

Launch kicks off at 6pm.

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GET IT RAW Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s RAW Comedy Competition, Australia’s largest and most prestigious comedy comp has cannonballed some of the nation’s finest funny makers into comedy fame and fortune. Home grown greats such as Hannah Gadsby, Ronny Chieng, Celia Pacquola, Matt Okine, Anne Edmonds, Becky Lucas and Aaron Chen, just to name a few, are all graduates of the RAW comedy competition, and look at them now!

You never know who is going to be getting up on stage, it could be your yoga teacher, your garbo, or that hot hipster barrister who always looks at you with disdain…

The best part of it is they are up there to entertain you. It’s all about you laughing at them, or with them, depending on how deftly their comedy material is selected, written and delivered.

Many have tried, and most have failed, but each year there are some spectacular comedy moments delivered by the most unsuspecting comedians. This is probably the only gig in the world where a comedian can go from zero to hero in one show, well… two or three shows. Still, not too much work. After literally 15 minutes on the RAW stage they could end up on a stage in front of thousands, or broadcast to a live TV audience of tens of thousands becoming famous almost overnight! Don’t miss this folks, the excitement is incredible. Always unpredictable and always hilarious – hosted by that very funny woman, Mandy Nolan.

Heat One is on Monday 2 March, at the Byron Services Club, Heat Two is Monday 16 March, at the Mullumbimby Ex-Services Club. These shows always sell out – so get your tickets now!

Two comedy heats in the Byron Shire: $15 from mandynolan.com.au or at the venue on the night. Doors open at 7pm, show at 8pm.

The BBSF annual Surf Art Markets will be held at the Byron Bay Brewery on Saturday, 15 February, 9am till 4pm, throughout the entire venue, and into the sunny beer-garden at rear where that fabulous giant fig tree makes things all the more special! There will be an assortment of sustainable and eco-friendly surf and fashion brands, as well as surfboard shapers, artists, photographers, jewellers and other purveyors of surf culture and ocean-related goodies. As well as the vendors, there will be an assortment of events in and around the markets; including two stages of free live music (from 9am), with a very talented bunch of musicians.

The music lineup includes Luke Morris, Nick Cunningham, Beach Plums, Josh Lee Hamilton, Dusty Boots, Tyler Nakoa, and Felipe Baldomir, there is also the rumour of a potential music surprise at the epic FallenBrokenStreet Bus set-up, where there will also be a hat-making workshop!

Featuring at the in-house cinema, from 1pm, will be several new and inspiring films including; Happy Sad Man, Crystal Voyager (surf classic), Self Discovery for Social Survival (NYC), and the world premiere of local filmmaker Mick Waters’ new surf film, Outdated Children. Also, at 4pm, there will be a unique opportunity to see a live podcast unfold with the WaterPeople crew, Dave Rastovich and Lauren L. Hill. So much to see and do! And the very good news is that the Markets are weather-proof this year! There will be food available all day, from 9am onward (including vegan options), and cold beer on tap from 11am.

Let’s come together community, and enjoy everything on offer in this wonderful space that is such an easy place to hang out with your friends – with all you need for a quality day, right there!

Any vendors wishing to participate can do so via the BBSF website ‘Applications,’ but due to location, spots are limited, and there are just a handful remaining.

Festival 14–16 Feb, byronbaysurffestival. com.au

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STARS

BY LILITH

Outspoken Mars in forthright Sagittarius, me-first Venus in assertive Aries and interactive Mercury in super-sensitive Pisces suggest ditching flamethrower communications for sweeter speech styles this week…

ARIES: : With Venus in touchy Aries, and Mercury in sensitive Pisces, Rams could be easily upset or offended – especially during the weekend’s combustible and tempestuous full moon, so steer clear of button-pushers and drama hooks. This week favours imagination, contemplation and creation – organisation, interaction and engagement not so much.

TAURUS: Don’t be too fussed if group ventures sizzle, then fizzle, then flutter, then sputter in fits and starts; it’s the nature of this month’s astral weather conditions. Let full moon’s emotional surge and Venus – in impulsive, impetuous Aries – tip you head-overhooves into caring support of others.

GEMINI: Venus embarking on a month-long romp through the mates, friends and community group part of your chart suggests useful connections and helpful contacts are possible through volunteering – especially while Mercury, dialling up your professional ambitions, has you expressing feelings and ideas with the full force of your Geminian expertise.

CANCER: Venus in your house of ambition, and Mercury in adventure-mode has you thinking big this month, so get out there and share – you can’t sell a secret. Brainstorm, but don’t rush to production; think incremental steps. This year requires discipline to navigate its steep learningcurve in acquiring new skills and techniques.

LEO: This week’s annual full moon in your sign says it’s time for the part of you that’s been in hiding to come out. As an old-life cycle continues to fade, with no clearly defined alternative, a new-life direction is calling.

When will it become clear?

Depends on how willing – or resistant – you are.

VIRGO: With Mercury activating partnership conversations, this is a peak week for sorting tricky personal issues or addressing important talks with colleagues before the communicator planet retrogrades next week and the going gets tough. Payoff?

Greatly increased harmony as Venus heats up sensual chemistry and deepens intimacy levels.

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LIBRA: Admin expert Mercury’s currently in excellent form for catching up some of that backlog that’s fallen through the cracks – definitely best done before Murky retrogrades in ten day’s time. With the love planet in your partnership department, Librans will be able to pour some of that soothing Venusian honey on this week’s heated exchanges.

SCORPIO: . Highly motivated Venus in organisational mode agrees with expressive, articulate Mercury’s suggestion that you network the heck out of this week and get agreements in place before next week’s retrograde kicks in. Weekend full moon shines on a professional turning point, which could have you asking ‘What next…?’

SAGITTARIUS: If Mercury in your sensitivity sector has you unusually reticent this month, then enjoy a small inner circle, and perhaps entertain at home away from the fray. With Venus blazing into the perfect place for this year’s makeover and style revival, start thinking a new look, wardrobe refresh, image uplift.

CAPRICORN: Venus in your home zone sets your most enjoyable activities chez vous this month, so think about hosting a local gathering or group meeting.

With convincing Mercury in your conversation corner, others are likely to be hot for what you’re offering, especially with Mars currently buffing up your cred in community affairs.

AQUARIUS: Mercury suggests spending the next ten days taking care of general business; organising finances, negotiating deals and/or getting clear about contractual agreements, and who’s responsible for what, before efficiency takes a backslide. This week’s Venus in your talking corner is Aquarians’ cue to exercise your love language by expressing gratitude, affection and appreciation.

PISCES: This week, Venus suggests doing something beautiful every day for yourself and someone else.

Even if it is just a smile…

Mercury in your sign encourages promoting a pet project, and clearing the ‘pending’ file over the next ten days, before the networking planet heads into reverse for three weeks of hitches, glitches and resets.

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FEDERAL PARASITE This Saturday, Federal Films will be screening Parasite. The winner of more than 150 awards, including the Cannes Palm d’Or and Best Film at the Sydney Film Festival, and with six Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director for Bong Joon Ho, Parasite Is the standout film in what was a great year for cinema. Parasite is a film that defies genre… a comedy, tragedy, thriller and satire rolled into one glorious vision. The film starts at 8pm. The caterers this month are Federal Community Centre. Served from 6.30pm, the Korean-inspired menu will include vegetarian options.

There will also be a selection of delicious home-made cakes, plus teas and coffee at intermission.

For more information – call 6684 9313, or email federalfilmsociety@gmail.com or go online to www.federalfilmsociety.com and www.facebook.com/federalfilmsociety Federal Films – building community through film and food.

JOJO RABBIT During World War II, lonely German boy Jojo ‘Rabbit’ Betzler (Roman Griffin Davis) has his worldview turned upside down when he discovers that his single mother, Rosie (Scarlett Johansson), is hiding a young Jewish girl (Thomasin McKenzie) in their attic. Aided only by his imaginary friend, in the form of an idiotic version of Adolf Hitler (Taika Waititi), Jojo must confront his ideology.

Not many movies turn to the Holocaust, Hitler and WWII for comedic source material. Go figure. In this sense Jojo Rabbit is an ambitious and brave film that manages to dodge the minefield that black comedy can often be.

Humour is supposed to push boundaries, and this film does that in spades.

Director, Taika Waititi pulls this off by telling the story from the perspective of a young boy, oblivious to his surroundings, which is a play on the delusion of the Nazis.

Hitler is played as a slapstick, goof-of-a-man, which is a dangerous line to follow, yet it is a unique way to tell a terrible story from a new perspective. And for this film to work we have to like this boy – we have to believe that at his core he is a good person, and that his obscure and blinded worldview stems from the evil around him.

Session Times: Thu 6 Feb - Wed 12 Feb ANDRÉ RIEU: 70 YEARS YOUNG 153 min (CTC) Sat, Sun: 1:30 NT LIVE: FLEABAG 80 min (CTC) Encore! Sat: 4:00PM LA SCALA: TOSCA 145 min (CTC) Sun: 1:00 Wed: 11:00AM THE DOORS: BREAK ON THRU 100 min (CTC) Wed: 7:00PM THE LEUNIG FRAGMENTS 96 min (M) Advance Screening Wed: 10:30AM PARASITE 132 min (MA15+) Encore! Sun: 7:00PM Mon-Wed: 6:00PM PARASITE (B&W VERSION) 132 min (MA15+) Encore!

Sun-Wed: 3:00PM BIRDS OF PREY 109 min (MA15+) Thu 6:30PM Date Night (incl. Wine & Cheese) Daily except Sun: 11:00AM, 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 8:45PM Sun: 10:00AM, 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 7:45PM 1917 119 min (MA15+) Daily except Sun: 10:30AM, 1:30, 6:00PM Sun: 10:00AM, 12:40, 5:30PM A HIDDEN LIFE 174 min (PG) Thu, Fri: 10:30AM, 8:15PM Sat, Mon, Tue, Wed: 8:15PM Sun: 8:00PM

A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD 109 min (PG) Thu, Fri, Mon, Tue: 10:45AM, 1:00, 3:45, 6:00PM Sat, Wed: 1:00, 3:45, 6:00PM Sun: 12:30, 3:00, 5:45PM A SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE: FARMAGEDDON 87 min (G) Daily: 11:00AM, 1:00PM BAD BOYS FOR LIFE 124 min (CTC) Thu, Fri, Sat: 10:40AM, 8:15PM Sun: 10:00AM Mon, Tue: 10:40AM, 8:40PM Wed: 8:40PM BOMBSHELL 109 min (M) Daily except Sat, Sun: 11:00AM, 4:00, 6:20PM Sat: 11:00AM, 3:30, 6:20PM Sun: 10:15AM, 3:15, 5:40PM DOLITTLE 101 min (PG) Thu, Fri, Sat: 1:00, 6:00PM Sun: 12:45PM Mon, Tue: 1:00 Wed: 1:20PM JOJO RABBIT 108 min (M) Daily except Sun, Wed: 1:20, 3:30, 6:20, 8:40PM Sun: 4:30, 5:15, 7:30PM Wed: 3:30, 6:20PM JUST MERCY 137 min (M) Daily except Sun: 10:30AM, 8:30PM Sun: 10:00AM, 8:00PM

JUMANJI: THE NEXT LEVEL 123 min (PG) Thu, Fri, Mon, Tue: 1:00, 8:40PM Sat: 1:00, 9:15PM Sun: 12:10PM Wed: 1:00PM LITTLE WOMEN 135 min (G) Thu, Fri, Mon, Tue: 3:20, 6:00 Sat: 3:20, 6:30 Sun: 2:45, 6:30 Wed: 3:20, 8:20PM MIDWAY 138 min (M) Daily except Sun, Wed: 3:30, 8:20PM Sun: 2:45, 7:40 Wed: 3:30, 8:40 SEBERG 103 min (M) Daily except Sun: 8:45PM Sun: 8:00PM STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER 142 min (M) Thu, Fri: 3:00PM Sat, Sun: 10:10AM Mon-Wed: 10:30AM THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM 91 min (PG) Daily except Sat, Sun: 1:50, 3:50PM Sat, Sun: 11:00AM, 4:30PM THE GENTLEMEN 113 min (MA15+) Daily except Sun: 1:15, 3:45, 6:15, 8:40PM Sun: 12:30, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40PM THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON 97 min (M) Daily except Sun: 10:45AM, 6:15PM Sun: 10:00AM, 5:30PM

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Critics have been throwing up such bold statements as ‘this is exactly the movie we have needed for a long time,’ and ‘Waititi’s faith in the notion that a child will lead us out of ignorance may be naïve. It’s also deeply affecting’.

A bold film, and overall a great cinematic experience.

Worth a watch.

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Phone Oliver 0419 789 600

RONNIE SPINKS Everything electrical. Lic 27673 .........................................................0429 802355

THE DECK DOCTOR Sanding & refinishing, cable balustrading. Free quotes. Richard ...0407 821690

Holiday lets and Airbnb, residential homes and end of lease cleans, bond clean specialist, builders cleans etc.

Friendly reliable and trustworthy local service.

Blue Sky

| Byron Bay

5 Stars

CLEANING SERVICE

CLEANS: Holiday, Residential, Bond, Commercial, Spring

Phone Mick 0409 009 024 Email: mickbhl@gmail.com

DETAILED STEAM CLEANING Natural products. Bathrooms, kitchens, spring cleans .0410 723601 BEYOND CLEANING GROUP Quality focused. Brunswick to Ballina from $39.60ph .....0451 102239 PROFESSIONAL LOCAL CLEANER excellent references, good rates. Shire wide. Ph Krissy ..0410 860330 CLEAN VIEW Prompt, professional, insured. Phone David .............................................0421 906460

COMPUTER SERVICES

JIM LABELLE ELECTRICAL O.Shores, Mullum, Byron, Brunswick. Lic 176417C..............0415 126028 SPINKS ELECTRICAL Lic 284939C..................................................................Call Mitch 0421 843477 BLUE BEE ELECTRICAL 25 years experience. Lic 189508C. Call Dave ............................0429 033801 BEN FORSYTH, Electrician. Lic:240691C. Ocean Shores & surrounds. No job too small ...0422 136408

FENCING

POOLSAFE GLASS FENCING

BRUNSWICK HOLISTIC DENTAL CENTRE .......................................................................66851264

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

DESIGN & DRAFTING

BYRON & BEYOND FENCING Any fence, any time, prompt quotes....... 66804766 or 0422 207299

LITTLE LANE DENTAL, MULLUMBIMBY ...........................................................................66842816

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

EDL FENCING Installations & repairs. Prompt service. ..................................................0432 107262 FLOW FENCING Pool fencing, timber/colourbond, local, professional and reliable.......0416 424256

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

FINANCIAL SERVICES

DRIVEWAY MAINTENANCE

SHARON CLARKSON Senior Mortgage Broker 20yrs exp sharon@sharonclarkson.com..0400 609916

Coast to Country Asphalt Specialising in â&#x20AC;˘ Asphalt Driveways â&#x20AC;˘ Sub-divisions â&#x20AC;˘ Earthworks â&#x20AC;˘ Carparks â&#x20AC;˘ and all Maintenance!

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fullcirclerefinishing.com

Professional Cleaning Services

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

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

Quality Exterior Refinishing Roof & Pressure Cleaning Roof Painting Deck Oiling

All Jobs Small or Large

JP ELECTRICAL Level 2 ASP Under-g/O-head lines, Pwr poles, Solar. Lic 133082C ........0432 289705

DENTISTS

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Domestic Commercial

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Call Mark 0498 115 182

CLEANING

ACTION WINDOW & PRESSURE CLEANING

02 66 804 173

Call Daniel

DECKS, PATIOS & EXTENSIONS

CHIMNEY SWEEPING

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

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PLATINUM CRETE CONCRETING Lic 225874C. 20 years exp. Free quotes. Justin .........0458 773788 COUGHRAN ELECTRICAL 24 hour service, Lic 154293C .......................... 0439 624945 or 66804173

Commercial / Domestic / Insurance

CHIROPRACTIC

0439 624 945

ELECTRICAL Steve Nicholls ph: 0455 445 343 lic: EC28753

Lic No 142383C

FRANCHISE OF THE YEAR!

ALL AROUND

Lic No. 337066C

(02) 6684 1001

Kevin & Margaret Bower

24 HOUR SERVICE Lic.136717c

EAST COAST BUSH REGENERATION Tree planting, weed control. Call Rossco Faithfull.0409 157695

TLC

ELECTRICIANS

Lic: 154293c

BUSH REGENERATION & WEED CONTROL

TINY EARTHWOR Philip Toovey

0409 799 909

various implements available for limited access projects

Acreage Mowing Specialist | Mini excavation Toro Dingo with stump grinder, trencher and soil cultivator

Contact Vadi: 0404

978 383

Acreage & Residential Mowing | Gardening Fire Hazard Reduction | Brush Cutting Tip Runs | Turf Laying | Fully Insured

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EARTHMOVING & PLANT HIRE Specialising in driveway construction & maintenance

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

0427 663 678 / 0410 056 228 5.5 TONNE EXCAVATOR, POSITRACK & TIPPER HIRE Specialising in road works, land clearing, retaining walls and general earthworks.

Augers and rock grab available.

EXPERIENCED OPERATORS | FREE QUOTES 0432 299 283

RENT-A-GEEK Mobile PC Repair (Byron Shire) ....................................................................66844335 NORTHERN RIVERS TRENCHING 65hp chain trencher, mini excavator, cable locating.0402 716857 BETTER CALL SAUL The Mac Doctor. Repairs. Upgrades. Used Macs.............................0411 562111 ALEX EXCAVATION 3.5T Zero Swing excavator & bobcat loader & 5T Tipper Rock Grab 0417 920300 MULLUM.MOWING@gmail.com. Ride-on, large lawns & acreage. Ph Peter................0423 756394 MY GEEK MATE Personal tech support. Phone Mark .....................................................0431 122057 CIVIL TRAK Road construction, excavators, rollers, grader & truck hire .........................0499 912459 GUTTERS CLEANED Solar panel cleaning, all areas, free quotes, fully insured ... 66841778 or 0405 922839

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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 BEAU JARDIN We design & build beautiful gardens www.beaujardin.com.au Lic 177274C ...0417 054443 PAULâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S MOWING Local & reliable. Mullum, Bruns, O. Shores, Byron & Bangalow.........0422 958791 LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT Garden Design & Property Planning. Andrew Pawsey ..........0478 519804 A GREEN EARTH Garden restoration, maintenance, tree & rubbish removal ................0405 716552 TIP RUNS & RUBBISH REMOVALS 4m3 trailer..............................................................0408 210772

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A LUNSDEN LAWN CARE Qualified green keeper. Mowing, edges and weed control ...0410 378375

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

GRAVEL

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ABN 31 490 733 798 LIC 203196C

Painting & Decorating

18 Lucky Lane Billinudgel Industrial Estate

landscaping supplies Free Delivery

NEIL A McINTOSH

1176 Myocum Rd, Mullumbimby (just past golf course)

0266 804555

Accredited

ABN 48867459605 Lic 33995C

BRUSHCUTTING Rubbish, Property Maintenance, Lawns.............................................0412 469109

GREEN DINGO for all your mowing and gardening needs. Ph Michael .........................0497 842442

Lic 167371C

A-Z Lawns & acreage, trees & hedges, clean ups & tip runs, all gutters ..........................0405 625697

24 years experience

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

LANDSCAPING

ALL WAYS PAINTING NORTHERN RIVERS. Qualified, insured, clean. 0413 401907 or 66805015

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6680 1575 or 0408 760 609

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GRAPHIC DESIGN www.thinkblinkdesign.com DESIGN ALL ASPECTS OF LANDSCAPING AND DESIGN CONSTRUCT

Print | Branding | Social Media | Websites | Graphic Design

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

www.spotlessgutters.com.au

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

PLANT

0421 986 373 www.greenskylandscapes.com.au

MAINTAIN

6685 4490 or AH on 0414 769 018 Lic: 208800C

DESIGN

Professional Property Protection you can Trust â&#x20AC;˘ Targeted treatments for all pests with â&#x20AC;&#x153;no sprayâ&#x20AC;? cockroach treatments â&#x20AC;˘ If you have found live termites, do not disturb them and call us for advice!

No cost for quoting on active termites Relax, when safety, reputation and experience matters, we are the experts

SUBTROPICALLANDSCAPES.COM.AU 20 years exp. Lic 231789C ................................0405 122456 LEMONTREELANDSCAPES.COM.AU Liam. Lic No 277154C .........................................0423 700853

LOCKSMITH

Dr. Matthew Fourro (Osteo) Dr. Egbert Weber (Osteo) 60 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby | 02 6626 7900 NORTH COAST OSTEOPATHY Jodie Jacobs. Mon/Tues/Thurs/Fri.....................................66857517

PAINTING

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

HEALTH â&#x20AC;˘ OTHER HEALTH RELATED SECTIONS IN THIS SERVICE DIRECTORY: Acupuncture, Chiropractic, Counselling, Dentists, Osteopathy, Physiotherapy

Tree Faerie Fotos

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

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

PHYSIOTHERAPY classes, laser, shockwave. Kim Snellgrove, Cally Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hara .......................................................66872330

â&#x20AC;˘ DEPARTMENT OF FAIR TRADING INFO: When dealing with home owners, painters are required to quote a licence number only for external work valued over $5000.

NICK EDMOND Physiotherapy & Acupuncture. Open Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday 466 Main Arm Road, Mullumbimby.....................................................................................66845288

ALL-WAYS PAINTING

ANTHONY Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ORSOGNA Physiotherapy, acupuncture, hydrotherapy Suffolk Park 1 Bryce St ... 66853511

Lic No 189144C

HANDYMAN SERVICE BYRON BAY. Local, reliable, insured .........................................0412 395604

www.allpestsolutions.com.au

BANGALOW PHYSIOTHERAPY Manual therapies, acupuncture, mat/reformer, clinical exercise

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

ABSOLUTE HANDYMAN. Repairs, renovation, maintenance ........................................0402 281638

YOUR PEST & TERMITE SPECIALISTS

PHOTOGRAPHY

OSTEOPATHY

at Mullumbimby Comprehensive Health Centre

GOOD NEWS HANDYMAN Carpentry, home renovations/repairs etc. Jesse..................0458 968290

Free quotes on active termites Environmentally safe

THE PEST MAN EXTRAORDINAIRE Second opinion / alternative views. 50 yrs exp .....0418 110714

OSTEOPATHY

THE HANDYMAN CAN All home maintenance, repairs, painting, odd jobs etc .............0427 110953

02 6681 6555

Brendan Duggan Locksmith. Automotive car keys and lock installation/repair .......0412 764148 BRUNSWICK BYRON PEST CONTROL................................................................................66842018

HANDYPERSONS

A.S.A.P. All renos, carpentry, plastering, painting, studios & bathrooms .......................0405 625697

www.sanctuarypest.com.au

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

BYRON BAY

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0438 784 226 â&#x20AC;˘ 6685 4154

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

PETRA KARNI PHYSIOTHERAPY & Craniosacral, Manual Therapy, TMJ, Classes.

Petra Karni & Andrew Weatherstone. Byron and Suffolk. Mâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;F & open Saturdays. Ph ....0403 226858

PICTURE FRAMING

ACUPUNCTURE & COSMETIC MEDICINE Dr Adam Osborne ...........................................66857366 MULLUMBIMBY HERBALS Naturopathy, Ayurveda, Massage, Herbs. .............................66843002

MULLUM PICTURE FRAMERS Stuart St rear lane behind Mitre 10 ............................0403 734791

MALIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Therapeutic Chinese Massage Service. In & out calls ..............................................66841790

BILLINUDGEL CUSTOM PICTURE FRAMING. 7/1 Wilfred St, Billinudgel ........................ 6680 3444

WWW.EASTCOASTPILATES.COM.AU Judy Leane Ex. Phys ...........................................0408 110006

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MULLUM HIRE Builders, party and much more ........................www.mullumhire.com.au 66843003

IRONING

YVES DE WILDE

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

LAUNDRY AND IRONING SERVICE. washingday.com.au Ph Bec .................................0404 347772

KITCHENS www.duluxaccredited.com.au

D HINGED Kitchens & Joinery. Lic 283553C. www.hinged.com.au .......................Dave 0409 843689

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QUALITY PAINTING SERVICES

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NEED A PLUMBER? DRAINER? GASFITTER?

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RESIDENTIAL / COMMERCIAL NEW ROOFS / RE-ROOFS INSULATED ROOF PANELS FASCIA & GUTTERS REPAIRS & MAINTENANCE

Patrick - 0425 256 802

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

Blocked drain specialists Everything plumbing, drainage & gasďŹ tting

RUBBISH REMOVAL

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

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OCEAN SHORES SKIPS Mini skip specialists ......................................... 0412 161564 or 66841232 TIP RUNS & RUBBISH REMOVAL 4m3 trailer................................................................0408 210772 A1 RUBBISH REMOVAL AND TIP RUNS. 9m3 trailer. Same day service. Best rates .....0413 289443 MAN WITH UTE. RETHINK REUSE RECYCLE. Ph Mark ................................................0411 113300

HRH PLUMBING Providing a prompt, reliable & efficient service. Lic 220755C ............0402 652017

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1800 88 68 77 firstsunsolar.com.au 268 Ewingsdale Road, Byron Bay

SEPTIC SYSTEMS

MARK STRATTON All plumbing & emergency. Sewer drain camera/locator. Lic 57803C ....0419 019035

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TILING

Home sewage solutions Commercial wastewater treatment Rainwater tanks concrete and plastic

COLIN J WILLIAMS PLUMBING & GAS Lic L7990. Urgent repairs. Mullum/Byron .......0434 273726 MATT WILSON PLUMBER BANGALOW Lic 10704. All plumbing & gas fitting needs ..0408 665672

POOLS

Lic 312643C

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

FRANCHISE OF THE YEAR!

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

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PRINTING & COPYING SERVICES

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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.

Electric Lic 124600c

GRAPHIC EXPRESSIONS BYRON Digital Printing/Fine Art Prints info@gexprint.com.au..66858226

TILING PERFECTION & WATERPROOFING Free quotes, repairs. Lic 179306C .66801168 or 0409 847653

TREE SERVICES

MULLUM POOL SHOP Water testing, eco products, mobile service, construction/repairs....0418 666839

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

0408 232 066

Servicing the Far North Coast for 20Â years.

Free quotes. Experienced local technicians.

ChemDryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s patented cleaning systems.

TILER/STONEMASON/WATERPROOFER Lic 24418C. Phone Karl ...................................66804103 NEWT wastewater treatment. Septic design, upgrades, maint & intall. Lic 207479C............... 0429 805081

(opp. Council chambers)

6684 3003

Far North Coast NSW John & Teresa

TILE & GROUT CLEANING

REMOVALISTS

CHOPPY CHOP TREE SERVICES The Fully Insured Professionals

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Andyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Move & More

Small and Medium Moves, Tip Runs & Deliveries, 1 or 2 Men at Low Prices to Most Areas Based from Byron Bay & Mullumbimby Calls always returned

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

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MAN WITH A VAN/TRUCK Reasonable rates. Phone Don ............................................0414 282813

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SUMMERLAND TREE SERVICES ............................................. Call Tim 66813140 or 0417 698227 PETER GRAY Grad. Cert. Arb. AQF8. Consulting arborist................................................0414 186161 BYRON TREE SERVICES Qualified, insured. Call Alex ....................................................0402 364852 TALLOW TREE SERVICES Removal, free quote & full insurance .....................................0401 208797 MARTINO TREE SERVICES ..............................................................................Martino 0435 019524

WATER SUPPLIES TRIDENT WATER Remote access delivery, 4WD water truck. Northern Rivers & surrounds ..0412 580 564 THE WATER BOY Water delivery, Byron Shire. From $250 for 9000L .............................0432 734645

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Rural, Commercial & Industrial. www.simsonproperty.com.au..........0400 134562 or 0427 220976 WELDING & FABRICATION Structural, general, repairs & Aluminium. Call Rod ...........0408 410545

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PUBLIC NOTICES

Dynamic Drawing

returns Wed 12 Feb Drill Hall, Mullum 9.30am-12.30pm weekly Come and taste the vibe and see why this is the most popular drawing forum in the Shire. All newcomers welcome.

Contact Ron 0421101220 www.dynamicdrawing.com.au @dynamicdrawingbyronmullum

Care for Emotions

With Parijat Wismer, 30 yrs experience.

First Aid Emotions, Sat 22/2, 10am-5pm Rapid Stress Release, Sun 23/2 Respond to stress with effective protocols. $220 per course. Call 6685 7991

Mullumbimby & District Neighbourhood Centre Connecting the Byron Shire Community

HELP OUR COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER DRIVER REQUIRED Mullumbimby and District Neighbourhood Centre are looking for a crew of volunteer food recovery van drivers.

Requirements for the job are that you must be ďŹ t and able to lift sometimes heavy boxes of food, you must have an unencumbered Drivers Licence.

If you like driving and you feel you could contribute to your community and environment please enquire by giving the centre a call on 02 6684 1286 or drop in at 55 Dalley Street, Mullumbimby.

Help us to continue this valuable program, keeping good food out of landďŹ ll and in peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bellies.

So far we have recovered over 44 Tonnes of food

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Notification n off Proposed d nbnTM Radio o Network k Base e Station n Fa aciliity The National Broadband Network (nbn) is a high speed broadband network designed to reach 100 per cent of Australian premises and provide the communications infrastructure to help us stop falling behind in an increasingly online world. nbn is committed to delivering leading edge broadband services to all Australians by leveraging the three types of technology available â&#x20AC;&#x201C; fixed line, fixed wireless and satellite, depending on location.

As part of the fixed radio (wireless) component of the Network, nbn is proposing to expand the existing radio network base station at Road Reserve adjacent to Western Boundary of Lot 24 DP816227 Fernmount 2454 (RFNSA Site No. 2454004). The works are to provide high quality wireless broadband services to customers in the surrounding localities.

The proposed works on site will involve the upgrade of existing technology upon the facility including and not limited to the replacement and installation of new antennas, radiocommunication dishes and associated ancillary equipment to enhance transmitting technology. Furthermore the works will involve the replacement and addition of equipment shelters/outdoor units adjacent to the facilities. nbn regards the proposed installations as a Low Impact Facility under the Telecommunications (Low-Impact Facilities) Determination 2018. In these circumstances, it does not require planning approval from Council. This notification is undertaken in accordance with the requirements of Section 7 of the Mobile Phone Base Station Deployment Code 2018.

Further information on this specific proposal can be obtained by calling Visionstream on 1300 745 210.

Written submissions can be sent to: nbn Planning Team, Locked Bag 4001, Moorabbin VIC 3189 or via email to nbnwirelessvic@visionstream.com.au.

The closing date for submissions is 20th February 2020.

For general info on the nbn, email info@nbn.com.au, or visit our website at www.nbnco.com.au.

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Notification n off Proposed d nbnTM Radio o Network k Base e Station n Facility The National Broadband Network (nbn) is a high speed broadband network designed to reach 100 per cent of Australian premises and provide the communications infrastructure to help us stop falling behind in an increasingly online world. nbn is committed to delivering leading edge broadband services to all Australians by leveraging the three types of technology available – fixed line, fixed wireless and satellite, depending on location.

As part of the fixed radio (wireless) component of the Network, nbn is proposing to expand the existing radio network base station at 96 The Manse Rd Myocum NSW 2481 (5/748290) (RFNSA Site No. 2481016). The works are to provide high quality wireless broadband services to customers in the surrounding localities.

The proposed works on site will involve the upgrade of existing technology upon the facility including and not limited to the replacement and installation of new antennas, radiocommunication dishes and associated ancillary equipment to enhance transmitting technology. Furthermore the works will involve the replacement and addition of equipment shelters/outdoor units adjacent to the facilities. nbn regards the proposed installations as a Low Impact Facility under the Telecommunications (Low-Impact Facilities) Determination 2018. In these circumstances, it does not require planning approval from Council. This notification is undertaken in accordance with the requirements of Section 7 of the Mobile Phone Base Station Deployment Code 2018.

Further information on this specific proposal can be obtained by calling Visionstream on 1300 745 210.

Written submissions can be sent to: nbn Planning Team, Locked Bag 4001, Moorabbin VIC 3189 or via email to nbnwirelessvic@visionstream.com.au.

The closing date for submissions is 20th February 2020.

For general info on the nbn, email info@nbn.com.au, or visit our website at www.nbnco.com.au.

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Resolve addictive patterns and limiting beliefs that hold you back!

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MOVING HOUSE Full house of furniture.

Stereo, bedroom & lounge, outdoor, BBQ, Makita electric tools, garden tools, lawnmower, brushcutter & much more.

Sat 8am, 7 Coral Ct, Brunswick Heads URBAN ARCHEOLOGY End of Lease closing down. Final Garage Sale this Saturday from 9 am onwards.

35 Burringbar Street, Mullumbimby RAIN OR SHINE! Sat 8am, 2 Newberry Pde, Bruns. Lots of everything! Including quality clothes, k/ware, tools & more!

• FULLY INSURED • PROFESSIONAL SERVICE • FREE QUOTES

6684 4421 0402 364 852

THIS SATURDAY Vintage, second-hand, bric-abrac, clothing, food, live music

8am – 2pm 1 Gilmore Cres. Book a stall at bys.org.au/byronflea

We are. Please keep the local economy strong, support local business.

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0413 192 424 paulawickham@msn.com

BUSH REGENERATION & CAMPHOR/ INVASIVE PLANT ERADICATION

COMPOST TOILETS For tiny houses to commercial Green Building Centre 0431721073

BAMBOO PLY For ceilings, walls, doors, etc.

Ph 0429884188 • sample & brochure. www.bambooply.com.au

Environmentally friendly methods

Call Nrth Rivers Camphor Control

Tip Runs & Rubbish Removal 0408 210 772 MOTOR VEHICLES

CASH PAID FOR UNWANTED CARS

0408 581 445

Local reg’d business 66845296 or 66845403

HEALTH & HEALING WEEKLY CLASS TIMETABLE MONDAY ENQUIRIES BOOKINGS

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6.30-7.30am: CORE SLIDERS (B) 9.30-11am: YOGALATES (BT) 6-7.15pm: YOGALATES (B)

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Classifieds 2015 Holden Commodore wagon Auto. Lovely. S/N237..................$13990

VOLUNTEERS WANTED

Mazda 6 hatch 5 speed A/C P/S Nice car AUE9IN 3/8/20 rego .......$3995

POSITION FOR DOG LOVER

Holden Combo panel van 4CYL manual Great for work or play S/N183 .....$5950

Needed: Voluntary Secretary

2009 Subaru Forrester dual range 5 Spd immaculate ........................$9950

Byron Dog Rescue (CAWI)

2009 Commodore wagon 6CYL auto Perfect for holidays CU62KR .......$7995

BARGAINS

ballinacarcentre.com.au

16 ENDEAVOUR CLOSE, BALLINA

Ballina Car Centre

DLN 19950

6686 5586 / 0418 676 274 SUBARU OUTBACK 2000. 5 months rego. 309,000km, AC, runs well, $1750, Mullumbimby. Ph 0403793834

VEHICLES WANTED WE BUY VEHICLES Good, bad & scrap $100 to $7k. No rego. Call 0403118534

SHARE ACCOM. PERSON TO SHARE beautiful, spacious 3bdr home in Mullum with 1 other. Own private bathroom & toilet, deck & secure undercover parking. Must be working, easygoing & relaxed. Alcohol free. Avail now, $255pw plus bond & bills. Ph Digs 0428736874

TO LET SOUTH GOLDEN BEACH f/furn s/cont aptment suit single + child or couple.

Backs onto Nat. Park, 5 min walk to bch, Rent includes wifi + elec. 0418234302 ROSEBANK cabin to rent. Quiet farm outlook. Suit single $275 or couple. $300pw plus bills. Mark 0419483144 ROOMS TO RENT in beautiful Suffolk Park, Baywood Chase. $270pw inc bills.

Please contact Vanessa 0435863534 2 SEPARATE HOUSES, ONE BLOCK. To be let together. Brunswick Heads, 5 mins town/school, 50m to river. First house is 3bdr with SLUG, second house is 2bdr. Both newly renovated & immaculate. Long term let, no pets. Sublet or Airbnb expressly prohibited. $1300pw.

Email deanjen64@gmail.com TYAGARAH BEACHSIDE Furnished studio $320pw. Suit working single person with references. 0448338707 GRANNY FLAT, BANGALOW. 1bdr, furnished, open-plan, A/C, $350pw all inclusive. Ph 0488534015 WATERLILLY PARK, O/S. Private top floor, spacious master bdr, ensuite, WIR, A/C. Light airy home, open outlook. Share with mature working female. $350pw plus small bills. Refs reqd. Available 5 March.

0403555665 Summerland Storage Bangalow From $105 to $290 mth Call GNF Bangalow 66872833

for Byron Dog Rescue is looking for a person with administrative skills to work as secretary for the group and take a position on the Executive Committee.

Duties include the taking and preparation of minutes and agendas, letters etc.

Computer skills are a must.

Would suit retired person who would enjoy working with a great team for an admirable objective.

Please send your application to cawidogs2483@gmail.com

CLEANERS WANTED for 5 star cleans.

Must have an eye for detail & pride in your work. Reliable, punctual & well presented, own car, living locally. Wanted for local cleaning company. mickbhl@gmail.com

Create Your Future...

Enrol now to study in 2020 • Massage Therapy

If you are retired and can spare a few hours a week to help us with some of our voluntary administrative jobs, please call Jean on 0411 032 905 or email: petsforlifebillinudgel @gmail.com

• Permaculture

• Early Childhood Education & Care

SUPER FUN PROMO CREW WANTED for the raddest solar retro bike rental on the planet.

NSW Government subsidised places available Call to see if you’re eligible

A family owned Medical and Allied Health centre.

5/16 The Terrace, Brunswick Heads

TO LEASE OFFICE 70m2 Byron A&I Est. ac, carpet $400pw incl. GST. Call Baz 0418327731

PETS

WE CURRENTLY HAVE A NUMBER OF POSITIONS AVAILABLE:

No experience necessary.

For further information or if you believe any of these positions are for you and would like to become part of our medical practice’s team in being dedicated to caring for and supporting the health and lives of our community please email your resume and cover letter to:

Fri 21st Feb

• Photoshop For Beginners

• Tech Savvy Seniors • Acrylic Adventures • Communication For Clarity And Connection • Computer Basics

Thu 20th Feb • Build Pallet Furniture • Visual Art - Breathing the Land • Lomi Lomi Massages • Pilates For Beginners

Sat 22nd Feb •Build Pallet Furniture - Advanced • Hemp Education • The Art of Research (for your next book) • Shibori And Indigo Dyeing • Beekeeping - Intro

Sun 23rd Feb •Vegan Nut Cheeses and Milk

Limited places - don’t miss out!

02 6684 3374

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

FULL BODY RESTORATION Fill your tanks & heal through pleasure Ph 0425347477

Lotti

General Practitioner and Allied Health Positions also available.

Mon 17th Feb

• Build Pallet Furniture •Are Solar Panels For You? • Pattern Making • Radio Broadcasting

All cats are desexed, vaccinated and microchipped.

ONLY ADULTS

Junior Receptionist Position

mmcadmin@mullumhealthcentre.com

Wed 19th Feb

CHIHUAHUAS 4 longcoat boy pups: cream, choc, b&w. Vac+chip $1200 ea Breeder: B000766012. Ph 0407181624.

Kitten BUDDY’S turn this week – brother of Betty Lou – ‘A picture is worth a thousand words,’ and this picture tells a story that will unfold for some lucky person who chooses to adopt him, a story of sharing his fun-filled and happy life with you. As cute as he looks.

Permanent Medical Receptionists (part and full time) Experience in Medical Reception or other Reception positions essential.

Sunshinecycles.com.au

• Visual Art - Dreaming in Colour • Crystal Healing Intro • Sewing For Beginners

Visit friendsofthepound.com to view other dogs and cats looking for a home.

DESI FARRUGIA from Brunswick Heads passed away peacefully at Townsville Hospital on 15th December. His ashes will be scattered in the river at the Boat Harbour in Brunswick Heads on 14th February at 12.30pm.

All welcome.

FOUND : on Wed 3.30pm between Casons Ln and Red Hill Rd. Man’s Hat. Ph 0407120307

Must have strong knowledge of Acute Care and Chronic and Complex care.

Brunswick Heads 1 bed 1 bth $400 3 bed 2 bth $560 3 bed 2 bth $850

Microchip number 900113001715382 ABN 83 126 970 338.

GUITAR STRINGS, REPAIRS Brunswick Heads 66851005

LOST & FOUND

Looking for sales driven gorgeous fun crew to showcase our bikes for Byron to Kirra.

W/end work 6-8 hrs + extra for photo shoots.

Cash & commission. Send your Insta bio link to our insta @Sunshine__Cycles.

Tue 18th Feb

L.J. Hooker Brunswick Heads 6685 0177

byroncollege.org.au

Registered Nurse Position

RESIDENTIAL

Ruby is a 3 year old desexed female Kelpie. She is smart and very active and would suit a farm or acreage situation. If you can give Ruby a permanent, loving home please contact Pam on 0421 017 461.

DEATH NOTICES

• Individual Support

Courses starting soon...

Crabbes Creek 1 bed 1 bth $350 inc

MUSICAL NOTES

POSITIONS VACANT SYSTEMS SUPERSTAR wanted for immediate start at Natural Therapy Institute (IICT) in Byron Bay. Full-time, flexible hours. We need a problem solver, data lover, general IT whizz with solid project management skills. We are a close-knit, small team who value creativity and hard work. We like a bit of fun too. Head to www.myiict.com/jobs for information about the role & how to apply.

Applications close Fri 14th Feb at 5pm.

MATHS TUTOR required for year 10 advanced math student. Call 0438601449

SWIM LESSONS group or individual by qualified instructor, specialised with 4-10yr olds, in Mullumbimby. 0419698482

• Horticulture

02 6684 3374

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LIVE DRAWING SESSION Every Thursday in Mullumbimby 9am-12pm, $25. Please ring Sam 0411725500

• Community Services

LOVE ADMIN?

Adobe Tutoring Experienced Professional Trainer • Photoshop • Indesign • Illustrator

RTO NO: 90013

BEACHSIDE LIFESTYLE, beautifully renovated, 4bdr, 2.5 bth, townhouse. Pool, security, SLUG, long lease available, References required. No pets. $850pw accom@byron 0421603564

Mullumbimby 4 bed 2 bth $650

FULL TIME H/HOLD CLEANER. Luxury household cleaning firm requires an experienced cleaner for full time position (4 days/week). Training provided. Local permanent residents only. Email resume and refs to momoproperty@bigpond.com

byroncollege.org.au

CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE LEGEND wanted for an immediate start at Natural Therapy Institute (IICT) in Byron Bay. Fulltime, flexible hours. We need a focussed, independent worker who loves the phone and gets a kick out of helping people.

Join a small, close-knit team who values creativity and hard work. We do like some fun also. Head to www.myiict.com/careers for information about the role and how to apply. Applications close Fri 14th Feb at 5pm.

BARISTA: full-time casual. Town Cafe Bangalow. Experience necessary.

Immediate start. Karl or Katrina 66871010

WORK WANTED ALL HOME MAINTENANCE/REPAIRS Lic No. 60801C. For a free quote call: Paul 0423852559

TUITION

SINGING Professional tuition, highly regarded teacher / performer / recording artist.

Creative Kids Vouchers accepted.

Parissa Bouas. Ph 0421330766

Lotti is an adorable love bug!

She is so affectionate & relaxed despite having just arrived in the shelter. Lotti is a gorgeous calico girl & will be looking for a new family who will reciprocate her love. Hurry in to meet her as she hopefully won’t be here long!

To meet Lotti, please visit the Cat Adoption Centre at 124 Dalley Street, Mullumbimby.

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Byron Dog Rescue (CAWI) LUCY 1-year 8-month old female Amstaff x ‘Lucy’ is a sweetheart.

She has been wellloved & cared for – her jet-black coat literally shimmers.

Lucy is housetrained, has good recall, loves people and is very good with other dogs.

She does need further training, particularly with walking on-leash.

Due to Lucy’s high-strung temperament, BDR placed her with an experienced & chilled foster-carer, who is already achieving wonders reassuring & calming her.

Lucy will make an affectionate, adoring companion or great family dog.

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Library lover’s day

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Byron Bay Library is celebrating Library Lover’s Day with a Biggest Book Club on Friday, 14 February at 2.30pm. Get together to chat about books while raising money for bushfire relief. Come by yourself, or bring your whole book club! Entry by gold coin donation and the local CWA will be serving cake and other refreshments. Bookings essential on 6685 8540.

Mullumbimby branch of the Country Women’s Association (CWA) meets Wednesday, 12 February, 10am at the CWA rooms. Bring a plate for a light lunch. New members welcome. Info: Jenny 0427 847 282.

Seniors fun Fridays Fun Fridays for seniors (60+) at Marvell Hall, Marvell Street East, Byron Bay. Mahjong and 500 at 1.30pm, afternoon tea at 3pm.

Enquiries: Nancy 0498 480 373.

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End-of-life choices Exit International is a voluntary euthanasia group who meet quarterly.

The next meting will be on 13 February.

Meetings are held at the Robina Community Centre. Attendees must be Exit Members. Further information on our website www.exitinternational.net or phone local coordinator Catherine 0435 228 443.

The Northern Rivers Parkinson’s Support Group will meet on Friday, 14 February at Level 1, Crowley Education Building, 154 Cherry Street, Ballina. $5 per person (includes morning tea) RSVP Moya 0427 042 607. The coffee catch-up is on Friday 13 March, 10am at Summerland House Farm (Aruma).

This is a relaxed social get-together.

Please RSVP Yvonne 0429 946 146.

Mullum flood meeting A public meeting looking at the North Byron Flood Study and its recommendations for Mullumbimby is being held on 12 February at the Mullumbimby Ex-Services auditorium, from 6 till 8pm. The meeting is being run by the Mullumbimby Residents Association who say they will discuss key recommendations and options in the study to so that residents can prepare submissions to Council.

Submissions close on 21 February.

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at Brunswick Heads Bowling Club.

Apologies to Maureen on 0408 294 973 or mlightfoot@internode.on.net no later than the Monday before.

Casual members please advise if you are attending. Friendship morning is Thursday, 20 February. The following VIEW luncheon is at Mullumbimby on 12 March.

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Mayor’s morning tea

Join Byron Bay’s free exercise networking group. It is open for all business people. Meet at Clarkes Beach Park carpark every Friday morning at 7.30am to walk or run the lighthouse loop. More information call Sharon on 0400 609 916.

Byron Seniors Festival with Mayor’s Morning tea at the Byron Theatre on 18 February, from 10.30am to 1.30pm.

Free entry. For more information email: seniors@byroncentre.com.au or call 6685 6807.

Retirement investment A free finance seminar is running on retirement reality and investment choices at the Byron Bay Library on Wednesday, 19 February, 10.30am.

Presented by the NSW Department of Human Services as part of the NSW Senior’s Festival 2020. Bookings on 13 63 57 or email fis.seminar.bookings@ humanservices.gov.au.

Dementia carers club Caring for someone with Dementia?

Join our monthly Northern Rivers Carers Coffee Club on the second Monday of every month. Our next meeting is on Monday, 10 February at a café in Mullumbimby, 10.30–12noon.

Call or text Karen on 0412 911 613 or email Karen at: dementiafriendly@ byronrespite.com.au for the location.

Bring your questions, bring your concerns, let other carers know what works for you, meet new friends and expect to get great support.

No fixed address? Lost your housing in the last 12 months? One Roof Byron is looking for local residents interested in joining a long-term accommodation program in this shire. Enquiries: call or text Jenny 0422 455 735, 2–5pm on Monday, Wednesday or Friday.

Ballina coastcare Join us for morning tea to celebrate Ballina Coastcare’s 30th Anniversary on Thursday, 19 March,10.30am. Meet at the North end of Flat Rock car park. RSVP by Tuesday, 19 February via email: cathyjbyrne@gmail.com or phone or SMS Cathy on 0408 668 287.

Please provide a direct phone number for wet weather arrangements. Find out more at: www.ballinacoastcare.org/ourstory.

Get Active Expo The Get Active Expo and registration day at the new Ballina Indoor Sports Centre (BISC) is a free community event that gives sporting clubs the chance to connect with local families and help kids to find out what sports are on offer in Ballina Shire. Fun activities and demonstrations will keep kids entertained. Tour the new sports centre. Register for the Active Kids voucher and receive $100 toward

sport registration. To find out more about Active Kids visit service.nsw.gov. au. Register your club for the Expo by email to communityspaces@ballina. nsw.gov.au or telephone 6681 0599.

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

Rooms are open daily Monday– Saturday 9am–noon.

Probus club Next meeting of Hastings Point, Tweed Coast Probus club will be at Tricare, Tweed Coast Rd, on Tuesday,18 February at 10 am. Speaker, Scott Jones, on a natural solutions to divert everyday food waste away from landfill. Enquiries: Jean 02 6670 4072.

Family history The Richmond-Tweed Family History Society meetings will take place at Players Theatre, 24 Swift Street, Ballina, 2–4pm on the first Saturday in each month. The first meeting is 1 February, with speaker Jane Griffin on My First Family Member in Australia.

Soap Aid saving lives Soap Aid is a not-for-profit organisation recycling and sending critically needed soap to communities facing major hygiene challenges.

Please drop in your partly used household or holiday rental soap to Kim at Raine & Horne, 39 Fletcher Street, Byron Bay. Call 0499 839 566.

All quantities welcome. www.soapaid.org.

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Neighbourhood Centre

Drug support groups

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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Low tide, height (m) 0739 0.65; 2026 0.48 0847 0.71; 2116 0.49 1010 0.74; 2214 0.49 1138 0.70; 2313 0.45 1249 0.61 0008 0.39; 1344 0.51 0100 0.31; 1430 0.40 0149 0.23; 1515 0.30 0237 0.15; 1557 0.23 0324 0.11; 1639 0.19 0413 0.11; 1721 0.18 0501 0.16; 1803 0.20 0554 0.26; 1845 0.25 0651 0.38; 1930 0.31 0759 0.51; 2018 0.38 0919 0.61; 2115 0.44 1050 0.64; 2220 0.48 1214 0.60; 2330 0.47 1317 0.53 0030 0.44; 1404 0.46 0121 0.39; 1443 0.40 0204 0.35; 1516 0.37 0243 0.32; 1548 0.35 0317 0.31; 1617 0.34 0351 0.32; 1645 0.34 0425 0.35; 1714 0.35 0500 0.40; 1743 0.37 0538 0.47; 1813 0.41 0620 0.55; 1845 0.45

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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.

Respite Service Byron Shire Respite Service Inc delivers high-quality respite care to a broad range of clients throughout the Byron, Ballina and Lismore shires. Donations welcome: Ph 6685 1921, email fundraiser@byronrespite.com.au, website: www.byronrespite.com.au.

Alateen meeting Alateen meeting every Thursday at 5–6pm. Do you have a parent, close friend or relative with a drinking problem? Alateen can help. For 8–16-year-olds meet St Cuthbert’s Anglican Church Hall, 13 Powell Street, corner of Florence Street Tweed Heads. Al-Anon family groups for older members at the same time and place.

1300 ALANON 1300 252 666 www. al-anon.org.au

Breast Cancer Support The Breast Cancer Support Group Byron Bay gets together from at the Byron Community Cabin on Carlyle Street, next to the tennis courts, from 12.30pm–2.30pm, every 3rd Wednesday of the month. More info on Facebook: Breast Cancer Support Group Byron Bay, or call 0431 207 453.

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 – Momday, 10am, Brunswick Heads – Monday 10.30am, Byron Bay – Tuesday 10.30am.

Support after suicide 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.

Social sporting groups Mullumbimby: Tuesday Ladies Group of Riverside Tennis Club welcomes new players 9.30am every Tuesday next to Heritage Park, for social tennis, fun and friendship. Info: Barbara 6684 8058. Tuesdays: 10.30am. Byron: Drumming with Gareth Jones at Byron Theatre; Chair Yoga with Pippy Wardell 12 till 1pm. Wednesdays: Choir with Kim Banffy, 10–11am; Ukulele 11.30–12.15. Suggested donation of $10. No bookings needed, information seniors@byroncommuntycentre. com or call 6685 6807. South Golden Shores Community Centre every Monday at 10.30. Phone 0435 780 017.

Bangalow Bowlo Sundays at 3pm. All welcome. Enquiries Margot 0412 394 932. Byron Bay Croquet at Croquet Club next to the Scout Hall at the Byron Rec Grounds every Monday at 3.30pm. Ring 0477 972 535. Pottsville Fun Croquet Club at Black Rocks Sportfield. Beginners and visitors welcome. Game starts 9.30am Tuesday and 2pm Thursday. $5 per game.

Enquiries 0413 335 941.

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National championship win Byron bowlers win District Triples for local RS100 sailor Main Arm resident Duncan Dey, sailing with the Richmond River Sailing and Rowing Club has won the RS100 national championships held at Toronto, on Lake Macquarie, late last month.

Five boats from the RRSRC took part in the championships in a five to 10 knots sou-easter for the first and third day of competition, interrupted by a shifty, light northerly on day two.

Duncan leapt out of the blocks on day one with two firsts and a fifth. Even after a poor second day (fourth and sixth) Duncan held the lead on points in Casper, the friendly ghost.

On day three, Bill Heuchmer fired up in Shachi and easily won races six and seven. Duncan suffered poor-start syndrome until race nine, where he had an average start, and came home first again.

‘The light winds suited me, it was my weekend,’ he said. ‘It was such a pleasure to have boat speed. If I couldn’t catch someone upwind, I’d get them downwind. Sailing the boat flat

Duncan in action on Lake Macquarie during the national championships. Photo Daniel Dey Gomelsky works in all winds over three knots. My concern was that they’d call the races off, due to lack of wind. Luckily that didn’t happen.’

As well as overall champion, Duncan was declared Great Grand Master (over 65 years old).

Second in the series was Mike Boswell from Melbourne.

Bill came in fourth with two wins.

Nineteen of Australia’s 26 RS100s were at Toronto.

RS100s are a much more sophisticated dinghy compared to a Laser.

‘They are a racing machine,’ Duncan said. ‘If you stop concentrating for a second, you go over.’

RRSRC sailor Garry Scott came in 10th, Vince Selleck was close behind in 11th place and Dave Scott (17th) followed.

Cudgen SLSC wins championship Cudgen Headland SLSC has surpassed 33 other NSW country surf clubs to claim its fourth consecutive Country Championship win.

Cudgen’s 200 plus contingent of competitors proved too strong for the rest of the field as they accumulated 1037 points.

The win came despite a solid challenge from South Coast club Warilla-Barrack Point who got to 826 points.

Byron Bay (456) made a late charge to get on top of Lennox Head–Alstonville SLSC (433) to claim third place.

‘We were getting run up there by Warilla on second and we thought we would struggle for the first. It was really rough out there today.

It was such a big team effort,’ Cudgen Headland SLSC president Grant Rogers said.

‘This is a big one for the kids, a lot haven’t come first today. This is all about team spirit and participating together and keeping each other going, and going one better than we have before.

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Byron Bay Bowling Club’s entry into the District Triples Championship won all four of their games in the competition, including the semifinal and final last Sunday at Pottsville.

Jim Clark, Dick de Witt and Bulla Burton won the first game three weeks ago, defeating Ocean Shores.

They went on to beat Kingscliff to make it into the finals.

In the semifinal the team had a comfortable win over Condong, but then played in a tense final versing the home side, Pottsville.

Scores were level at the 23rd end but then each member of the Byron team drew a couple of shots to take an unassailable lead and the 2020 title.

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National coach Steve Glasson coaching Mark Hogan at Mullumbimby last weekend. Photo Michael Burke Australian National Bowls coach visited the Mullumbimby Bowling Club last Saturday.

Glasson is a former world champion singles player, and has won 19 national bowls titles.

Club members had the pleasure of receiving advice and tips from the national

coach as he conducted a bowls clinic at the club. He advised members individually on how to improve their game.

The visit was organised

by Mullumbimby Bowling Club member Wayne Moffatt, who is the Asia and Oceania regional bowls director on the Board of World Bowls.

Records tumble for Mullumbimby swimmers The Mullumbimby Swim club delivered 22 personal best times at the Speedo Sprint Series held in Lismore last weekend.

Swimmers Asha Brittain, Sara Irace, Mira Brittain, Ella Brittain, Flynn Brittain and Natasha Fraser had particularly strong performances,

taking more than five seconds off their personal best times.

Mira also qualified for the Speedo Sprints Finals to be held in Sydney on February 21 for the 50m butterfly.

This meet was part of the Speedo Sprint Series which was run concurrently with

a meet in Taree, and the results merged.

The top four swimmers of the two meets qualify for the Sydney finals.

The Lismore meet was the last chance to acquire qualifying times for the SNC Championships at Port Macquarie this weekend.

Bailey gets barrelled at Pipe

Plenty of nippers got into the action at the country championships held at CudgenSLSC. Photo SLSNSW be back on top in 2021 but we say, c’mon Byron, we’re looking forward to it.

‘Having Country Champs going this well, we’re getting all fired up for State Champs and Nationals. This is a great boost for morale and we’re hoping to take the momentum through,’ he said.

Highlights included the seasoned Cudgen open boys storming home in the teams events on Sunday, stacking the deck in races like the open board rescue, and claiming the first five spots.

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The dream team of Scott McCartney, Jarrad Cain and Kai Onley were too strong for Warilla and were able to claim the open male taplin relay with the club also winning the U/19 male ski relay and open male board relay.

Fifteen year-old Lily O’Sullivan proved to be a machine again, taking out the U/17 and the open female surf race, U/17 ironwoman, the U/17 board, board rescue, the open board rescue, and the open board race with Olissa Onley.

Byron Bay’s Soli Bailey was shot out of some big hollow Backdoor Pipeline barrels at the Volcom Pipe Pro, a WSL Men’s Qualifying Series 5,000 event.

Bailey won the event in 2017 and this time around scored two excellent waves, an 8.53 and 8.00, in the first few minutes of his round four heat, allowing him to lock onto an early lead.

The NW swell continued to build all morning and seemed to jump during the heat to deliver clean barrels that pushed wave face heights above four metres.

‘That was a pleasure to get to surf out there, the heat to dream of for sure,’ said Bailey.

‘I sat and watched a few heats this morning and saw a lot of really good rides go unridden from people sitting underneath and not getting out to them far enough. So that was strictly my game plan, to just go and find

Soli Bailey enjoying himself at Pipeline. Photo Heff/WSL them, I knew they were all there’.

With a mission to hunt the biggest and best right-handers, Bailey’s first Backdoor ride saw him take the high line for a successful shot into the channel. Following this, he swung right into the next barrel, which he described as ‘that perfect Backdoor wave.’

‘It was a proper cone,’ Bailey continued. ‘I was about to stand up and there

was a rib that I had to pump over and then a little foam ball bounced me, and then it was just all joy and fun, just drive the Ferrari through.’

Unfortunately for Soli the final day of competition saw poor conditions and he couldn’t find a good second score in the very difficult waves. Bailey finished in equal 17th place, scoring 1000 QS points and US$1275 in prize money.

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Calling the PM Scott From Marketing is overly generous given he appears useless at marketing and was reputedly sacked from his Tourism Australia marketing gig. Perhaps Scott From Revelations is a better moniker, given his extreme religious views?

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Applications for a $250 Regional Seniors Travel Card are now open for those living in the Ballina and Lismore electorates. Eligible seniors can apply through www.service.nsw.gov.au, by calling 13 77 88 or visiting a Service NSW Service Centre.

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When The Echo asked if the NSW Business Chamber believes there is a connection between human-induced climate change and the current bush fires, CEO Stephen Cartwright only replied that Australia must continue to ‘grapple with the impacts of the changing climate.’ Interesting that the reply is not to the question asked, so it’s unclear whether the chamber believes in human-induced climate change. How does that sit with all the business chambers across NSW? See page 4 for his full reply.

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BYRON BAY WEDDING DJ Call Max on 0427 875 066

www.byronbayweddingdj.biz

In conjunction with SAE Creative Media Institute, Flickerfest director Bronwyn Kidd will be presenting free masterclasses across the country. Kidd will be at SAE Byron Bay on March 4, where she will share insights from her extensive career with budding film-makers and enthusiasts. To book, visit www.sae.edu.au/events.

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Outgoing federal Greens leader Richard Di Natale will be replaced by the equally charisma-challenged Adam

The Byron Surf Festival is on February 14–16, with markets, live music, films, and of course plenty of surfing. Venues include Byron Brewery, Byron Theatre, RVCA Gallery and Wategos beach. For more visit www.byronbaysurffestival.com.au. Photo Jeff Dawson Bandt. Here’s hoping Larissa Waters eventually gets the top job.

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So it takes around $140m, mostly from fossil fuel cash – to win a federal election! Just released political donations data from the AEC shows mining magnate Clive Palmer spent over $80 million at the May 2019 election to help the coalition win. It’s a record spend, says independent publisher Crikey. And who spent the most on the NSW 2019 election? According to AEC data, the NSW Liberals clobbered Labor when it came to spending. The AEC data is also not definitive, given the multitudes of ways donation laws can be circumvented.

And despite the internet age, for some unknown reason, politicians are reluctant to provide real-time disclosures.

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Byron Writers Festival has kicked off its membership drive, which includes prizes and benefits. Director Edwina Johnson says, ‘We receive less than twenty per cent of our revenue from public funding,

so the generous support of those who join our festival family is vital to enabling us to share so many remarkable stories and ideas with our audiences.’ Visit byronwritersfestival.com for more info.

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Of all the dreadful things the swampy reptilians do in the federal fishtank, surely keeping National nutters Barnaby, Canavan and McKenzie off the front bench is a positive?

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