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Shanyse, India and Ebony say what they love the most about Shelter is the view, the chai, the sun.

And today – not having to get their coffee in a take-away cup.

Photo & story Eve Jeffery You can feel the excitement across the Northern Rivers – as from Monday June 1, restaurants and cafes opened their doors and went back to the closest thing to normality.

After two months of closure and social isolation rules, businesses can allow up to 50 patrons into their premises, as long the required social distancing rules are applied.

Director of Shelter in Lennox Head, Andrew Love, says he is happy and relieved to be able to get back in the swing of things after a difficult period.

‘The main difficulties have been adjusting as quickly as possible to the regulations – changing from a restaurant to a takeaway/general store, back to ten seats and now back to 50, has involved a lot of new challenges and fast pace thinking.’ Mr Love also says he is looking forward to being able to cater for more people who are looking forward to a dining experience, not just takeaway food.

Take-home meals ‘It’s been a good challenge for us and has prompted a few new ideas, like the take-home meals which have been selling well. ‘We will continue to do those.’

David Heilpern’s life inside the magistrates’ tent ▜ p2

Mr Love says he is so happy to be opening back up this morning for 50 seats. ‘We won’t be able to fit the full 50 inside, because of the spacing requirements, but we are lucky we can fit the remainder outside,’ he said. ‘We are happy to go back to a full Ă la carte menu, and be able to service tables again.’ Mr Love says the Lennox community has really shown its strength in supporting Shelter and other restaurants. ‘For that we are grateful – it’s also the reason we can open our doors again, without it we would have struggled.’

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From June 29, nearly 100 regional newspapers, owned by US citizen and multi-billionaire Rupert Murdoch, will cease print operations.

News Corp announced they will move the (mostly free) titles to behind an online paywall.

Locally this includes the Byron News, the Northern Star, the Ballina Advocate and the Tweed Daily News.

Some communities will now be without a local newspaper for the first time in generations.

A longtime journalist for a local News Corp newspaper, who asked to remain anonymous, said, ‘What happens when a local paper disappears?

Whether paid or free, the common thread is lost – communities lose a point of connection for finding out anything; from the most mundane of meetings, to major events such as festivals or sporting results. ‘For a lot of these communities, it’s their paper – they feel as though they own it. It’s okay for them to bag it, but to have someone come in and take it away is a blow’.

Tania Philips is another writer who has seen the publications she works for axed. ‘Big business has been the death of newspapers, and social media has taken the ball, because they had to – you can’t read those micro-stories anymore – it wasn’t appearing – and that’s why people are looking to social media not the other way around’, Tania said.

Regional News Corp sales departments are also hit. One of the sales reps for a regional paper, who also asked to be anonymous, said the axing came out of the blue.

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Both Tania and her colleagues believe that many in the community will struggle with a digital format. ‘The older demographic will definitely struggle without a print version. The biggest winners out of this will be the politicians. If you do a story on a politician and expose them in print, it tends to hang around a lot more. They worry more about what goes in ink on paper’.

They said they worry for journalism’s future when the focus is just on subscriptions. ‘It’s all click-bait. We have been told to go for ‘listicals’, which for example, is the ten best local coffees‌ that’s not really journalism.’ The News Corp journo believes there is a space for a communityowned, independent paper. ‘I wouldn’t be surprised is there were a lot of pop ups. But it will be hard to sustain. Metro papers are never going to cover the region’.

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Another employee, who wished to also remain anonymous, is a single parent. They said, ‘I felt like my job was secure. I had a car loan, a personal loan and I live alone. It will impact me heavily. I don’t know if I can get another job, or if I have to move in with my mum.’

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Becoming a magistrate was never part of David Heilpern’s plan.

As an advocate for, and defender of, disadvantaged groups, he had always been happy working outside the system – writing books and articles, teaching students, and representing those in need.

Then, at age 35, a meeting with the then NSW attorney general Geoff Shaw – while negotiating electoral preferences – opened up an unexpected path.

‘It came out of the blue really,’ Heilpern says of the 1997 meeting and subsequent invitation to apply for the position of magistrate.

‘I’d already seen a lot of injustice and I suppose I thought I’d better try sitting inside the tent, pissing out for a while, rather than pissing in from the outside.’

Twenty-one years later, after a colourful and impactful career, Mr Heilpern has just hung up the gown for the last time.

Freed from the restrictions of office, he is finally able to open up about his precedent-setting decisions, vicarious trauma, and the state’s ‘nonsensical roadside drug-testing laws’.

ëżƐĶƆŔ şĪ Ǖ ſĕ As a progressive barrister and academic who was, at the time, the youngest person to be appointed to the bench in NSW, Mr

Heilpern was immediately in the spotlight.

‘My appointment was met with a lot of negative press, particularly from the Daily Telegraph [News Corp], the Police Association, and the shock jocks,’ Mr Heilpern says.

‘Until the day I was sworn in, I was half convinced the government was going to back out.

‘But Shaw remained steadfast, and the decision went through cabinet.’

The young magistrate’s first posting was to Dubbo, where he was immediately confronted by the extraordinary overrepresentation of Aboriginal people in the justice system.

‘There were times where the entire court list would be Aboriginal,’ he says.

‘It really was appalling.

‘I made a couple of decisions that again meant that I was in the firing line personally and subject to attack from the conservative media.’

One of these key decisions is the so-called ‘fuck case’.

For years the police had been able to charge people – including a disproportionate number of Indigenous Australians – with ‘offensive language’ for directing that expletive toward police, leading to thousands of arrests.

However, when a case came to Dubbo Court in which a young Indigenous man told two police to ‘fuck off’ after they sought to take his bike, Mr Heilpern threw it out. The decision had huge

implications, not only for Dubbo but the entire state.

‘What I saw was just a massive reduction in these cases coming before the court,’ he says.

‘My daily list suddenly shrank, because police stopped charging people with offensive language.’

¨IJĕ !ëſſ !ëƆĕ The other, perhaps even more crucial, case also had to do with offensive language, but was far wider in scope.

The accused, a man known as Carr, was also arrested for telling the police to ‘fuck off’.

‘When they told him he was under arrest he went spare,’ Mr Heilpern recalls.

‘He threatened them, resisted arrest there was some push and shove, and he ended up being charged with the quadrella – resist police, intimidate police, assault police, and offensive language. The thing was – the arrest for offensive language was completely unnecessary.

‘To deprive someone of their liberty for something that carries the maximum penalty of a fine is ridiculous.’

In a crucial decision, the magistrate found that because the original arrest was unnecessary, the subsequent charges also did not stand, because the evidence that resulted was illegally or improperly obtained.

But the matter didn’t end

there. The NSW Director of Public Prosecutions challenged the decision, taking the matter all the way to the NSW Supreme Court.

In a judgment with very significant and lasting consequences, the Supreme Court upheld Mr Heilpern’s decision.

‘I think it opened the door, not only in the Aboriginal community, but elsewhere, to a different kind of policing,’ Mr Heilpern said.

The decision received widespread acclaim from those concerned with social justice, but the conservative media had a field day.

‘It was the era of a lot of judicial criticism from politicians because of cases like Mabo.

‘Obviously my piddling little decisions were not in the same category as that, but they fitted the same cloth for attack.

‘So I suppose I felt in the first few years, pretty permanently in the spotlight.

‘But I don’t think I could have slept at night without doing whatever I could to address the relationship between police, Aboriginal people and the courts.’

As challenging as the criticism from the conservative media and politicians was, there were more serious hurdles to come, including some which threatened the physical security of Mr Heilpern and his family.

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Fresh new gateway for Mullum Many locals were sad to see the old totem pole at the Mullum Gateway disappear a few months ago.

Little did the public know that the entire site was being updated by a team of Mullum Gateway elves who have been working hard on the restoration and refurbishment of the local landmark.

A rejuvenated gateway and rotunda for Mullum is now complete, incorporating symbols sacred to the Arakwal and Bundjalung people and local history.

Local artists and volunteers, led by Richard Mordaunt, have erected a new 15 metre high Uplift Totem, with claims it is one of the tallest carvings made in Australia.

It replaces hand-carved poles that were erected in 1988 as a bicentennial project, in collaboration with Council, local artists and woodcarvers.

Sadly, they say they were unable to restore the old poles, that had succumbed to the ravages of time.

Mordaunt says a local Mt Jerusalem Tallowood tree was carved by Tonu Shane,

Photo Jeff Dawson and the totem incorporates sacred Arakwal and Bundjalung symbols – the goanna, the whale, the dolphin, the turtle, and Kabul the carpet snake. ‘During the 2013 Uplift

Festival, the handprints of hundreds of participants were carved onto the totem, honouring our fundamental unity with each other and all of life. The sculpture was donated by the founders

of Uplift, and it has been cleaned and refined by local sculptors Greg Bowering, Paul Hinchey and Jason Morning, and painted by well known Indigenous artists Digby Moran, who sadly passed away in January, and Richard Clarke’.

Meanwhile, the Gateway Rotunda has been relocated and has new artwork within that celebrates our local history and our First Peoples heritage. Mordaunt says, ‘The site will be solar lit at night and become an even more impressive landmark for the whole community to enjoy, welcoming people to Mullumbimby’.

The project was funded by the NSW government, in association with the Mullumbimby Gateway Association Inc. ‘Many thanks go to Essential Energy for their assistance and support. Support has also been received from the Northern Rivers Community Foundation, NSW Community Building Partnerships, the Bruns Valley Historical Society, the Mullum Chamber of Commerce and many other businesses which have sponsored in a range of ways’.

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A march for ‘freewill and rejecting all forms of tyranny’ is planned Friday June 5 from 3.30pm in Mullumbimby.

Mullum’s Million March organisers say they will march from Byron Shire Council to the proposed 5G tower next to the post office, and then past the police station and Memorial Centre. Co-organiser Woody Sampson says Mullum’s Million March is a protest against ‘medical tyranny, environmental tyranny, religious and economic tyranny’.

Yet health authorities are reminding the public of the 1.5 metre physical distancing rules. When asked about the march, Northern NSW Local Health District (Northern NSW LHD) chief executive, Wayne Jones told The Echo, ‘When groups of people gather together in close contact it’s easy for COVID-19

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to spread. As restrictions are gradually lifted, it’s important to remember that our progress in NSW has been owing to the efforts and sacrifices of many people, and we need to respect their efforts’.

Asked if he accepts that COVID-19 exists, march coordinator Sampson replied, ‘It is one of many viruses we hear about, with a low mortality rate.

Hypocritical ‘There was never a lockdown’, he said. ‘Public buses and trains kept running. It’s all arbitrary and hypocritical.

‘The question is why can’t we peacefully protest, when stores like Bunnings traded throughout, and police congregate without observing social distancing measures?’

Sampson, who describes himself as an ex-vaxxer, is also calling for ‘mainstream media (MSM) distancing’.

‘Many MSM reporters are documented liars. How do we trust them? I lived in China for seven years. There were reports of lockdowns everywhere, but that never actually happened anywhere… except some, voluntarily’.

Sampson claims the corporations and governments cannot prove vaccines are safe. Referring to the NSW government’s ‘no jab, no play’ immunisation laws that came into effect on January 1, 2018, he says, ‘The US supreme

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court says that, “vaccines are inherently unsafe”, yet the government continues to remove the enshrined premise of personal property rights and bodily autonomy with forced vaccines’.

He is also calling for an Australian vaccination injury compensation tribunal.

Others exist in other Western countries such as the US. A Department of Health spokesperson told The Echo, vaccines are included on the National Immunisation Program (NIP), ‘after they have been rigorously tested, evaluated and approved by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) to ensure they meet stringent safety and efficiency guidelines’.

They said, ‘Vaccines continue to be tested after their introduction, via additional clinical trials, surveillance and monitoring of vaccine adverse effects.

‘Vaccines, like any other medicines, can have side effects; however, all vaccines used within Australia provide benefits which greatly outweigh their risks’.

Sampson adds, ‘According to the WHO, there are over 300 new adult vaccines ready to be rolled out, once global mandates are in place. This includes no jab no pay/play, no jab no job, no jab no travel, and no jab no bank account, no jab no house and property insurance’.

Byron Shire Council looks set to exceed last year’s residential building approvals, with 169 approvals given in the July–March period of the financial year so far.

Last year’s annual total was 219, according to profile.id.com.au/byron/ building-approvals.

According to the data, this financial year’s approvals could be the highest since 2001-02, when there were 279 residential building approvals. By comparison in Lismore, a shire with roughly the same population as Ballina Shire (and 7,000 more

than Byron Shire), had only 73 residential approvals in the year to date, compared to 197 in Ballina and 169 in Byron.

The Echo asked Shannon Burt, Director Sustainable Environment and Economy, why Council are exceeding last year’s residential building approval figures.

She replied, ‘Planning and building approvals each year fluctuate, owing to a number of factors that are generally out of Council’s control – for example development applications can be for houses, secondary dwellings, multidwelling housing, alterations

and additions to houses (e.g. patios, pergolas, car ports, minor extensions).

‘The statistics are those submitted to the ABS and or DPIE as per their reporting requirements, keeping in mind that development consents may have been issued at any time in the last five years’.

COVID-19 impacts When asked if there were impacts from COVID-19, she replied, ’At this stage, the impact of COVID-19 on development applications appears to be minimal’.

Lennox Head vision before public Aslan Shand The reimagining of Lennox Head has been an ongoing process since 1997, and it is now coming to fruition.

At last Thursday’s Ballina Shire Council meeting, the Lennox Village Vision was endorsed by councillors and placed on public exhibition for comment.

‘This is the culmination of an extensive community engagement process that had local representatives attending multiple workshops to come up with a consensus model,’ councillor

Jeff Johnson told The Echo.

Weekend workshops were held with community stakeholders in March, and further information was gathered on parking during last summer.

Under the vision, Ross Park will become a community hub in Lennox Head.

CBD and beach link Mr Johnson said, ‘Removing car parking spaces and converting a large section of the road to a shared zone provides the ideal link between the CBD and the beach through the park.

‘The addition of street

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furniture and shade trees and improved pedestrian access and bike infrastructure turns the focus away from cars, and creates a more vibrant space.’

Cr Keith Williams said, ‘Local business is keen to see these works move ahead quickly. This project is ideal for state or federal stimulus funding. We should be knocking on those doors now.’

Councillors endorsed the project timeline that will see the redevelopment completed for the centenary of Lennox Head in December 2022.

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Roadside drug testing ‘nonsensical’, Water mining banned in Ballina says retired magistrate Aslan Shand

Paul Bibby A recently retired Northern Rivers magistrate has described the state’s roadside drug-testing laws as ‘nonsensical and cruel’, revealing that they were a major factor in his decision to hang up the gavel (see page 2).

In a scathing attack on the controversial testing regime, David Heilpern told The Echo he had struggled to enforce the laws in ‘good conscience’ because he saw them as ‘extraordinarily unfair’.

‘I did what I could within the limits of being a judicial officer to ensure that the unfairness of it all was reduced to the extent that I could,’ Mr Heilpern said.

‘But it became increasingly difficult for me to apply a law that I saw as unnecessarily destroying people’s lives.

‘Under the State’s roadside drug testing laws, first introduced in 2006, drivers face an automatic loss of licence if they record a positive test, regardless of when and why they used the drug,

and whether or not their driving was affected.

‘There’s 200,000 roadside drug tests that will take place in NSW this year,’ Mr Heilpern said.

‘Very few, if any, will detect people who are adversely affected by drugs.

‘It’s a detection based on minute quantities that bear no relationship with being affected.’

Mr Heilpern, who worked as a magistrate in the Northern Rivers circuit for many of his 21 years on the bench, said that the laws unfairly impacted hundreds of thousands of people who used cannabis for medicinal purposes.

‘To punish these people for taking either prescribed or non-prescribed medicine is absurd,’ he said.

‘Every week in court, I would have people literally crying because, as we know, loss of licence in the country can mean loss of job, loss of income, loss of family.

‘It is catastrophic for many people, and yet you don’t lose your licence for

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rape or murder, for assault or family violence offences.

‘I’ve got a friend who’s dying of cancer and he says the worst thing is the loss of freedom to be able to drive around because he’s on a prescription for cannabis for his nausea.

‘He doesn’t want to die a criminal in court.’

The state government has, to date, been unable to provide any solid statistics demonstrating that roadside drug testing has reduced the road toll.

Last gasp of prohibition ‘Where would the loss of political capital be in excluding those who’ve got a prescription for cannabis from the prohibition on driving with a detectable level?’

Mr Heilpern asked.

‘The only real justification that I can see is a last gasp of prohibition.

‘It is designed, in truth, to limit illicit drug use, but the measure is just extraordinarily unfair.’

A plan to extract millions of litres of water from the two large aquifers below the Alstonville Plateau began the campaign to remove water mining from the Ballina Shire Council’s local environment plan (LEP).

And at last Thursday’s council meeting, it finally met with success.

Local MP, Tamara Smith, told The Echo, ‘I commend the Save Alstonville Aquifer group (SAA), run by a collective of farmers on the Alstonville Plateau, who organised an amazing campaign in response to a development plan to extract millions and millions of litres of water from the plateau to sell to soft drink companies overseas. Their efforts with the broader community resulted in the development application (DA) being withdrawn’.

Unchecked licences According to Ballina Mayor, David Wright, Council received over 1,000 submissions relating to the removal of water extraction for commercial purposes such as bottling.

Mr Wright pointed out that ‘during the last drought farmers that have bores reported that they began to run dry. There are so many licences that have been granted that haven’t been checked on.’

During the meeting, councillors ‘unanimously adopted changes to the Shire’s Local Environment Plan (LEP) to modify the definition of rural industry to exclude commercial water harvesting. This has led to what is effectively a ban on water mining across Ballina Shire,’ said councillor Keith Williams.

Overlapping shires However, the Save Alstonville Aquifer group have pointed out that the Alstonville aquifer still needs further actions to ensure it is secure into the future.

They say the bordering shires, like Lismore, also need to change their LEPs to ensure that water bottling operations can’t take place there.

SAA member Bryan Douglas also highlighted the importance of the NSW Department of Planning, Water and Environment improving enforcement

measures ‘as illegal extraction from the aquifer is occurring, and large users are exceeding their limits.’

Inadequate aquifer information The report by the NSW Chief Scientist and Engineer on groundwater resources in the Northern Rivers recognised that there is a lack of understanding of the aquifers across the Northern Rivers region. This includes the hydrogeology around Alstonville and the impact of bore water extraction. It clearly acknowledged that the low level of monitoring meant that it was unable to determine what the impact of large scale extraction would be on the various aquifers in the region. Nonetheless it said that commercial water extraction would not have a major impact.

‘It was very disappointing that the Parliamentary inquiry into water mining conducted by the NSW Chief Scientist did not determine any potential adverse impacts from large extractions of aquifer water on farmland,’ said Ms Smith.

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It closes on June 30.

Everyone is invited to capture a ‘Wish You Were Here’ moment in Brunswick Heads and send them in.

Michelle Begg, member of the competition team said, ‘This year, we are running a simple photo comp, with Facebook, Instagram or emailed photo entries, and it’s free to enter!’, she said.

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Flow Hive gets modernisation funding Federal funding for locallybased honey and beehive manufacturer Flow Hive has been announced by Richmond MP, Justine Elliot, (Labor).

The $100,000 manufacturing and modernisation fund will ‘upgrade and add two

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Council Round Up

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Is it Armageddon yet? Dispatches from the Council bunker Hans Lovejoy Fires, plagues and the collapse of civilisations.

Makes great news copy, but it’s not exactly an ideal situation. Unless you happen to want that, as those who believe in Revelations seem to.

Many who control the unwashed masses across this small blue dot seem to be revelling in the current chaos.

Australia’s predicament is that its leader’s religious faith appears to support Revelations and glorifies selfishness and greed.

His cabinet is captured by the coal mining industry, which leads to more fires and an unstable climate.

Will we look back at the end of this year and think fondly of these times?

Meanwhile, in a little northern NSW coastal town last Thursday, local governance persevered.

Nine elected councillors and executive Council staff held court in the Mullum chambers. So what did they say, and what was approved?

During public access, former Greens mayor and NSW MLC Jan Barham asked if a recording of public access could be made publicly available.

The community would benefit from that, she said.

She also asked if public questions and answers could be included in the meeting minutes.

The Echo asked Greens Mayor, Simon Richardson, if he will ask staff to do this, but is yet to receive a reply.

On the other hand,

The Battle of Armageddon (Revelation 16). Artist unknown councillors later in the day approved a draft policy – written by staff – to manage unreasonable customer conduct. Should no submissions be made, it will be adopted.

Fish kill PR exercise A significant meeting highlight was how councillors managed the recent debacle around a 12 tonne fish kill at Tallow Creek in June last year.

They were presented with a staff report that couldn’t be ignored; Council was slapped with a wet lettuce $1,000 fine for breaching its licence by artificially opening the creek’s entrance, which was also too wide.

A press release from staff was released subsequently, and it seemed reasonable – admit the mistake and demonstrate what procedures will improve future management of the creek. As staff said, the whole episode was, ‘significant and extremely distressing for everyone, including Council staff’.

‘Council can be seen as a monolithic uncaring entity to those who are ignorant’ – Greens Mayor Simon Richardson Yet to get to that point, councillors (mainly Greens) subjected the chamber to debate that could be described as less than magnanimous.

Perhaps they need training in how to minimise public relations disasters.

Didn’t they learn anything after the Disco Dong fiasco?

Or the bypass? Or all the masterplanning fiascos that occurred early on in their term under the previous general manager?

It all started in morning access after environmentalist, Dalian Pugh, challenged Council’s lack of transparency around his freedom of information request.

He explained how his requests for monitoring

reports, correspondence and meeting minutes were rejected for being ‘unreasonable’ by staff. A figure of $3,000 was mentioned for the info.

Pugh then launched at staff, claiming, ‘Council chose to open [the creek] on June 14 in a dry period, against expert advice… there were warnings.

It was reckless. No staff were held to account… I’ve only observed fish kills when it is open. If you open it without a rainfall, you kill fish’.

Responses to this outburst gave an insight into how much councillors understand their temporary role within Council.

Does every attack upon staff need to be met with aggression? Why would you defend well paid bureaucrats who know way more than you do? Surely they can defend themselves (and they do).

Alas, we are faced with a current Greens majority that appear to have emerged from a viper’s nest, and are easily triggered if they, or staff, are critiqued.

Greens Cr Michael Lyon’s voice rose in anger and

frustration as he tried to crossexamine Pugh and defend staff. He explained how Pugh didn’t know the inner workings of the Council tent.

Later, when Cr Lyon moved to adopt the staff recommendation on the fiasco, he lavished praise on staff and said it was only a ‘few in our community who seek retribution and blame’.

‘Blaming people when they are not to blame is out of order’, he chided.

Ahem.

There was no hint of irony here – last year he publicly accused Butler Street resident Paul Jones of defacing his precious election posters.

Independent Cr Cate Coorey, meanwhile, moved an amendment to make the creek monitoring reports publicly available and apologise to the community.

‘Blaming doesn’t help, but acknowledgment does’, she said.

But apologies, as we just found out with the federal government’s Robodebt fiasco, are not generally forthcoming from most political actors.

Cr Richardson spoke at length against Cr Coorey’s amendment, yet didn’t really make a convincing argument either way.

At one point he said, ‘Do apologies only go one way?

Will Friends of Tallow Creek offer an apology [to us] for their emotive outbursts? …

For saying staff don’t care or don’t give a damn?’

wƐIJĕſ ƆƐƖǔ Moving on from this rather detailed essay on how councillors are eroding public trust – other stuff happened.

‘There’s not much art in my body’ – Cr Alan Hunter (when speaking on the draft Arts and Cultural policy) Q Q Q Q

Perhaps the largest corporation on the planet, which doesn’t pay taxes, has offered Council $1.3m for some of the former Mullum Hospital site. Councillors resolved to ‘defer consideration of the sale’ to Catholic Healthcare until a workshop is held, ‘outlining potential activities on the whole site’.

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As part of approval conditions for the Byron Bay bypass project, Butler and Burns Street homes and businesses will soon have ‘noise abatement private works’ carried out on their properties.

Q Q Q Q

A draft Arts and Culture policy will go on public exhibition. Part of that policy aims to ‘recruit a fully qualified arts administrator to facilitate, plan, coordinate and manage the arts and culture sector’.

Funding will be identified from ‘appropriate funding sources to be included in the 2020/21 budget’.

Q Q Q Q

Regarding the COVID-19 crisis, Council have waived ‘all rent and licence fees to businesses affected and identified in the report from March 15 to June 30, 2020.’

Q Q Q Q

These are by no means the only items voted on by councillors last week. For more info visit www.byron.nsw.gov.au.

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Aslan Shand The most hotly debated item at last week’s Ballina Shire Council meeting was the development application (DA) for three additional house blocks inside the buffer zone of the Gap Road quarry and asphalt plant in Alstonville.

The subdivision was approved on a property that was subject to a restriction on title to prevent subdivision.

The impact of the asphalt plant, run by Boral, on the local area has been the subject of ongoing debate.

Some residents feel that the impact of the odour and chemicals from the plant

has an adverse impact on their homes and lives. These include reports of nose bleeds, nausea and headaches from the fumes and odours. The quarry has not been operating for a number of years, but Boral recently extended their lease for the asphalt plant on the site for another five years.

No legal advice Cr Keith Williams opposed the staff recommendation for approval, arguing that even if the DA was approved, Council should not remove the restriction on title until the asphalt plant was no longer operating at the quarry. An amendment to

defer and seek legal advice was defeated.

Mayor, David Wright, said he had lived in Alstonville for many years, from 1975, and believed that the issues with the asphalt plant had only arisen in the last few years.

‘There can be neighbours who live next door to one another where one says there is an issue and the other has their windows open and says there isn’t a problem,’ he told The Echo.

‘I’d say half the people are in favour. They know that if the plant closes, all the land around Panorama Estate will be developed.’

Mr Wright told The Echo that the NSW Health and the

EPA have both said that the asphalt plant is complying with current regulations.

While he said he wasn’t sure why the restriction on subdividing had been put in place on that lot, the neighbouring property had ten houses approved on it last year.

‘I voted to approve the DA because it was recommended by staff and is consistent with other approvals in the area.’

The final vote on the DA was split five votes in favour and five against, with the mayor using his casting vote to change the status quo and approve the controversial DA.

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Byron Shire Council Notices DEVELOPMENT CONSENTS

PUBLIC EXHIBITION OF DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS

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.

ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING & ASSESSMENT ACT, 1979

COUNCIL CONTACT DETAILS We are here to help.

Call us or check our website for current opening hours and temporary service changes.

Phone 8.30am–4.30pm Website Email Emergency After Hours Office Address Works Depot SES Controller Rural Fire Service Byron Resource Recovery Centre Cavanbah Centre

02 6626 7000 www.byron.nsw.gov.au council@byron.nsw.gov.au 02 6622 7022 70 Station St, Mullumbimby 02 6685 9300 02 6684 3444 02 6671 5500 1300 652 625 02 6685 5911

Documents on exhibition are available for viewing on Council’s website at www.byron.nsw.gov.au/Public-Notice.

MAKE A SUBMISSION

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 10.2020.8.1 – Byron Bay, 36 Cowper Street Strata Subdivision One (1) into Two (2) Lots 10.2020.143.1 – Myocum, 6 Mountain Blue Court New Dwelling to Create a Dual Occupancy (Detached) 10.2020.233.1 – Bangalow, 26 Palm-Lily Crescent Swimming Pool

Submissions may be made to Council in the following ways:

10.2020.121.1 – Mullumbimby, 24 Hottentot Crescent Use of Alterations and Additions to Existing Dwelling House

Online:

10.2020.191.1 – Bangalow, 2 Terrara Court Swimming Pool

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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.

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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 5 of the Habitat development in the Byron Arts and Industry Estate.

The proposed amendments are to reflect the current Development Application 10.2020.87.1, which proposes a Mixed Use Development.

A marked-up version of the draft DCP 2014 Chapter E5, showing changes in red, is available for comment until 29 June 2020 on Council’s website.

10.2020.95.1 – Ewingsdale, 156 McGettigans Lane Storage Shed including Home Office 10.2020.210.1 – Bangalow, 9/231 Fowlers Lane Swimming Pool 10.2020.192.1 – Bangalow, 9 Wattle Place Shed 10.2020.39.1 – Byron Bay, 2 Acacia Street Change of Use Recreation Facility (Indoor) 10.2020.76.1 – Mullumbimby, 11B Parakeet Place Expanded Dwelling House, Studio and Swimming Pool 10.2020.147.1 – Byron Bay, 90-96 Jonson Street Change of Use to Amusement Centre 10.2019.153.3 – Byron Bay, 27 Ruskin Street S4.55 to Modify Internal Layout and Window Locations for Secondary Dwelling 10.2018.440.2 – Ewingsdale, 11 Scenic Vista S4.55 for Modifications to Stage 1 Dwelling House 10.2016.233.3 – Ocean Shores, 76 Rajah Road S4.55 to Delete Proposed Stage 2 Demolition of Toilet Block to Create New Access and Construction of Replacement Toilet Block 10.2019.153.4 – Byron Bay, 27 Ruskin Street S4.55 to Correct Council Error in Condition 1

DEFERRED APPROVAL APPLICATIONS 10.2019.640.1 – Byron Bay, 39 Lilli Pilli Drive Alterations and Additions to Existing Dwelling House and Conversion of Existing Building to Secondary Dwelling 10.2019.560.1 – Byron Bay, 3/75 Bangalow Road Stage 1: Use of Alterations and Additions to Existing Dwelling House Stage 2: Alterations and Additions to Existing Dwelling House and Swimming Pool 10.2019.600.1 – Brunswick Heads, 150 Tandys Lane Swimming Pool 10.2020.137.1 – Mullumbimby, 29 Morrison Avenue Use of Secondary Dwelling

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.

SUSTAINABILITY AWARDS 2020

Submissions close: 29 June 2020

NOMINATIONS ARE NOW OPEN!

Enquiries: Rob van Iersel 02 6626 7054

PUBLIC EXHIBITION DRAFT AFFORDABLE HOUSING CONTRIBUTIONS POLICY The draft Affordable Housing Contributions Policy and accompanying procedure are available for public comment from 3 June to Friday 17 July 2020.

The draft policy provides a framework to facilitate and manage affordable housing contributions. It provides a mechanism to secure land and/or monetary contributions to deliver affordable housing on certain land identified in the draft Residential Strategy and Byron Bay town centre.

A draft procedure has also been developed to assist with the implementation of the policy and provide more detail on how Council intends to operate the contribution framework in Byron Shire.

Your feedback is important to us. The draft Policy and Procedure, along with further information, are available on Council’s website at www.byron.nsw.gov.au. Submissions can be made online or emailed to submissions@byron.nsw.gov.au.

Submissions close: Friday 17 July 2020 Enquiries: Sam Tarrant 02 6626 7216

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Byron Shire Council would like to announce that nominations for the 2020 Sustainability Awards are now open.

Byron Shire is renowned for its passionate community of people doing amazing things for our environment, and we want to celebrate those of you who are taking action to protect and enhance our natural wonders.

Nominate your organisation or an inspiring individual or community group to share in the celebration and promote a project or initiative.

Nomination is simple and can be in any of the following four categories: • Sustainability • Biodiversity • Waste • Water To nominate, visit Council’s website at: www.byron.nsw.gov.au/sustainability Nominations close: 5 June 2020 Please note: the nomination period has been extended. Watch this space for further info and updates on the awards ceremony.

Contact: Julia Curry 02 6626 7295 or email sustainability@byron.nsw.gov.au

The following Development Applications and the supporting documentation are available online at www.byron.nsw.gov.au/ DAs_exhibition. You can also view them online using the electronic kiosks at Council’s Customer Service Centre during normal office hours.

For further information on these applications, contact the relevant planning officer whose details you can find on the DA Tracker. To make a submission, select the ‘Exhibition Details’ tab when viewing the application on the DA Tracker and use the online form.

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.

Note: Should you make a submission, there are requirements in relation to the disclosure of political gifts and donations. Refer to www.byron.nsw.gov.au/Political-donations-disclosure for further information.

EXHIBITION CLOSES 10 JUNE 2020 10.2020.219.1 – Binna Burra, 160 Binna Burra Road (Lot 5 DP 255525) Mr G A Cochrane, Use of existing Deck 10.2020.221.1 – Upper Wilsons Creek, 251 Upper Wilsons Creek Road (Lot 1 DP 814747) Planners North, Use of Structure as a Shed 10.2020.561.2 – Byron Bay, 1/6 Byron Street (Lot 1 SP 47095) Ms F Brown, S4.55 to Modify Approved Recreation Facility (Yoga Studio) 10.2020.220.1 – Brunswick Heads, 30 Fingal Street (Lot 13 Sec 7 DP 758171) Planners North, Alterations and Additions to Existing Entertainment Facility (Brunswick Picture House)

EXHIBITION CLOSES 17 JUNE 2020 10.2020.230.1 – Mullumbimby, 156 Stuart Street (Lot 22 DP 1073165) Ms S Y Mainsbridge, Nursery Structure

EXHIBITION CLOSES 24 JUNE 2020 10.2020.251.1 – Byron Bay, 27-31 Fletcher Street (Lot 1 Sec 26 DP 758207) Mr C Lonergan, Use of Take-Away Drink Premises 10.2018.591.2 – Mullumbimby, 28 Argyle Street (Lot 1 DP 21743) Argyle Street Developments Pty Ltd, S4.55 to Modify Condition 6 of Consent relating to Development Contributions

COMMUNITY INITIATIVES PROGRAM (SECTION 356) OPEN FOR APPLICATIONS Council’s Community Initiatives Program aims to improve community wellbeing and quality of life for Byron Shire residents.

Council invites applications for community driven initiatives that address a specific community need, which builds a sense of community, and aligns with Council’s goals.

Guidelines, including the assessment criteria, and an application form, can be downloaded from Council’s website at www.byron.nsw.gov.au/Community/Supporting-communities/ Grants-and-funding/Community-Initiatives-Program.

Applicants need to: • read the guidelines to understand if their organisation and project are eligible for funding; • show a matching contribution to the proposed project as outlined in the guidelines; • complete an application form on the template provided.

To assist applicants in developing their application, in lieu of a Funding Workshop, a range of online resources and tips can be accessed via Council’s website www.byron.nsw.gov.au/Community/ Supporting-communities/Grants-and-funding/CommunityInitiatives-Program. It is strongly recommended that potential applicants view the workshop resources to assist with their application.

Applications close: 4pm Friday 3 July 2020 Enquiries: Joanne McMurtry 02 6626 7316 or jmcmurtry@byron.nsw.gov.au Please note: The canvassing of Councillors or Council staff in relation to this funding program will automatically result in disqualification of offending applicants.

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Galactic Imperial Empire dumps regional print All Echo employees empathise with local News Corp employees who face an uncertain future.

US billionaire Rupert Murdoch and his overpaid News Corp CEOs believe that locally, the Byron News, the Northern Star, the Ballina Advocate and the Tweed Daily News are not worth the effort to print. They are some of the nearly one hundred titles that will no longer be published free, in glorious ink and paper. They will all sit behind a paywall from next month.

It’s yet another unconstrained ‘free market’ decision that seeks to maximise profit at the expense of the wider population.

AAP news wire estimate the national job losses to be around 620, effective June 29. Ironically, AAP is part-owned by News Corp and is also scheduled to close.

It’s worth noting that the Lismore Echo, which was started by The Echo in 1991, then sold on to its employees in 1993, eventually ended up as a Murdoch asset. From next month, it will no longer exist at all.

Would that organ still exist if it were still independent?

The sacking of media employees across the nation without warning should be recognised as a sign of the failure of government policy, diminishing media diversity and the dumbing down of the population.

It’s ruthless behaviour that the Liberal and National government encouraged through loosening cross-media ownership laws.

It is devoid of empathy, and does not serve the common good.

But hopefully that’s for the short term – the hundreds of Australian regional towns that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp has just abandoned will hopefully, in time, find their own voice.

It’s a rare opportunity for ambitious individuals in those communities to create their own independent print media.

A cornerstone of media is sharing and connecting by hyper local community stories. From there, advertisers can trust that their product and service is well read by all.

Independent media also holds the powerful to account.

Arguably, News Corp is unable to do that effectively because of its strong links to governments and other big businesses.

Unlike Murdoch’s mastheads, The Echo’s website is free to visit, and free of compromise and corporate interference.

We have been independently owned since 1986.

With the print vacuum created by Murdoch the Merciless, The Echo is now planning to expand its print news coverage to include more Lennox and Ballina stories.

Ballina businesses are encouraged to support us – there will always be value in print, especially from an independent voice that has been part of the Northern Rivers for more than 30 years.

This is the time for an independent media renaissance, and a renewed focus on reporting on, and analysing, the governing and corporate classes.

Hans Lovejoy, editor

cott Morrison’s Press Club speech last week was almost drowned out by the rustling of olive branches and the cooing of doves.

If he is to be believed, he is willing, even eager, for everyone to put down the weapons, to lay down his sword and shield, down by the riverside, and study war no more.

A new era of peace will be ushered through the economy, throughout the country, and we will all live happily ever after.

But even at his most evangelical, ScoMo must know that it doesn’t work like that. The distribution of power, the demarcation of rights and responsibilities, are inherently adversarial in their nature; if they weren’t, there would be no need for politics in the first place.

At the end of every contest, there has to be a winner and a loser, and while the combatants may shake hands in a civilised manner and declare a temporary armed truce, this will not lead to eternal harmony.

But of course this does not mean that last week’s initiative is not worth pursuing, and the amenable, but somewhat wary acceptance of it, by a union movement that has been berated and attacked for years, decades by the conservatives, is encouraging.

However, it is not wise to get overexcited about it.

The commentators have correctly pointed out that this is not like the deal Bob Hawke implemented in 1983; a comprehensive deal in which wage increases were traded off for the social wage, public spending in areas like health, education, infrastructure and welfare. And the differences were far more extensive than the pundits seem to remember.

Morrison is reacting to an emergency, taking some advantage of a situation in which some kind of a reset will be inevitable, as the economy staggers back to its feet.

And he is smart enough to realise that he can use his success in leading an agenda of inclusion – we’re all in this together – as the way to go.

He is, and always has been, a partisan player, a fierce and compromising (and frequently unscrupulous) political warrior of the right. This is why he is trying to shore up his credentials as a

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good faith mediator by dropping his union-busting Ensuring Integrity bill.

His direct appeal to the unions, and in particular to the canny, but accommodating ACTU secretary, Sally McManus, is at least as much about his own self-interest as it is about a desire to produce some kind of industrial utopia.

Hawke was ëōƱëƷƆȝĎĕƐĕſŔĶŕĕĎ Ɛş żſşĎƖĈĕ ëŕ şƖƐĈşŔĕǼ Ɛş ćĕ ëćōĕ Ɛş ƱëōŊ ëƱëƷ ƱĶƐIJȝëȝĎĕëōȁ Mungo MacCallum Hawke, by contrast, was the great negotiator; respected by both sides, and chummy with at least some employers – too much so – according to some of his union colleagues. One of his successors, Martin Ferguson, said pointedly that the idea should be not just to settle disputes, but to win them.

But Hawke was always determined to produce an outcome, to be able to walk away with a deal. His modus operandi was to bring the parties together and tell them they would not be leaving the room until they hammered out some kind of agreement.

This, essentially, was the way he approached his 1983 summit.

And he had an agenda ready. While Morrison is making a virtue of not offering his own shopping list, Hawke arrived with the guts of his accord already agreed by the unions. Long before he became prime minister, he had gone past the three-word slogan of Recovery, Reconciliation and Reconstruction. He and the highly regarded union leader, Bill Kelty, had devised the formula which was put to the meeting.

Some of the employers felt they had been ambushed – but they could hardly walk away – although, over drinks, one group talked about forming an escape committee; and nominated the militant maverick Builders Labourers supremo Norm Gallagher as its president.

And if they attempted flight, Hawke was there to keep them on the job. Even when he was not physically in the chair

(and he usually was) his presence, his authority, was all-pervasive.

This won’t happen to Morrison, partly because he will not be there.

The four working groups proposed will be serially chaired by the Industrial Relations Minister, Christian Porter, who will take the fall if the whole idea collapses.

Which it easily may; having declared universal disarmament, Morrison has thrown away the big sticks, and is essentially relying on the goodwill of the protagonists to do the same.

This involves a leap of faith, touching in a Pentacostalist, but seriously risky for a hardened politician.

Morrison may not have a shopping list, but both business and the unions have already prepared recipes of their own. Whether these will admit to compromise will be the big question when the exercise wraps up in September.

This will entail something of a headlong rush to produce concrete results in time for the budget in October. The pressure is on, but there are advantages in the rushed timetable, and Morrison has at least hinted that if consensus, or something like it, cannot be achieved, then his government will reluctantly go it alone, and try to bulldoze what it calls reform through the parliament.

That may well fail too, but he could say that he tried, and if the antagonists refused to co-operate, that was hardly his fault, and he did his best, offering concessions and conciliation.

Then, he will just have to revert to his default position of relentless union bashing.

Whether the electorate will buy that is problematical, but Morrison has finally built a store of political credit through his deft and lucky handling of the COVID-19 crisis, and obviously believes that as long as he keeps moving, there is a fair chance that the punters will forgive him for a few mishaps.

And if he stumbles, at least he has the wherewithal to buy his way out of trouble. The JobKeeper miscalculation may have been unfortunate, but any innumerate marketer can make a numerical error.

And look on the bright side: $60 billion will buy you a shitload of doves and olive branches.

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Microchip babies Seventy years ago I could walk down to a red box on a street corner, pop a penny into the box, dial a number and speak to an actual human being.

These days I must first spend a week’s salary on a super sophisticated little computer that knows everything. Then I can talk to a virtual person who knows next to nothing, doesn’t understand plain English, and is more likely to tell me the weather on Mars than whether it will rain today.

I’ve seen people talking to their wrist-watches.

Next year’s miniaturization will probably get it down to the shirt button on your collar. After that, who knows?

Perhaps a microscopic chip, inserted into the brain of every baby born, will render getting out of bed in the morning entirely superfluous.

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CHESS by Ian Rogers Tatjana Lematschko died in Zurich last week after a long illness.

During the 1970s and 80s, she was among the strongest female players in the world, being three times a World Championship Candidate, though never managing to qualify for a world title challenge.

Born in Moscow, but growing up in what is now the Ukraine, Lematschko won the Russian Women’s Cup at 22 but two years later, in 1972, became the first top female player to leave the USSR, headed for her then-husband’s home nation of Bulgaria.

Lematschko played four Chess Olympiads for Bulgaria and won the Bulgarian Women’s Championship five times. At her debut Olympiad in Medellin in 1974, she helped Bulgaria to a bronze medal, winning an individual bronze on board three as well.

However, while representing Bulgaria at the Lucerne Olympiad in 1982, Lematschko asked for and was granted political asylum in Switzerland. She went on to play 11 Olympiads for

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Switzerland and win the Swiss Women’s Championship a record 10 times. She picked up a complete set of bronze, gold and silver individual medals in her first three Olympiads for Switzerland.

Q During her long career Lematschko claimed plenty of big scalps, but none greater than John Nunn – at the time just outside the world’s top 10 – at the Lugano Open in 1984.

In the position below Lematschko, Black, appears to be hopelessly placed but generated counterplay with 26...b3! Nunn responded 27.cxb3 although 27.Qb2 was safer. Then after 27...Nc5 28.Ra5 Nxd3 29.Qc2 Qd8 Nunn was forced to weaken his kingside with 30.f3.

Lematschko, still down in material, chose the tricky. 30...Rc8!? and was rewarded by 31.Rd1? Nunn misses 31.Bc3! when White is still better. 31...Rxc4!! 0-1 Nunn didn’t wait to see 32.Qxc4 Qb6+ 33.Kh1 Nf2+ 34.Kg1 Nh3+!

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of fantasy.

What would you expect when the committee is stacked with people from the gas industry? Angus Taylor, the responsible minister, Don Quixote-esque, continues to tilt at windmills. He prevaricates, wasting valuable time needed to tackle the increasingly damaging impact of carbon emissions on the environment.

Meg Pickup Ballina

sure rubbish is tidied up?

Many tourist towns are effectively condoning a form of prostitution. The tourists pay their money, f… the town, and then leave the mess to be cleaned up by the madam (council), funded here by the residents’ rates!

Neil Matterson Byron Bay

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Corona calm?

If someone has a panic attack and re-breathes their own air via a paper bag placed over their nose and mouth until they’re calm.

Does that mean that people covering their lower faces with masks during this awful corona thing are actually re-breathing and calming down?

Hannah Grace Ocean Shores

Develop, develop, develop?

What is the Byron Shire Council (BSC) doing to Eureka? The peaceful rural location near Federal is at risk of becoming a development nightmare with a development application (DA) currently before Council that seeks to replace a large macadamia farm and cattle property, at 149 Federal Drive, with 15 Community Title residential blocks.

The project is completely at odds with the Byron Rural Land Use Strategy (RLUS) 2017 and the Byron Local Environment Plan (LEP). Most of the proposed residential lots would be located on land zoned RU1 (for the uninitiated, that is primary production). Meaning that 40–50 hectares of agricultural land would be lost. Forever.

If that’s not bad enough, many of the proposed lots are on a prominent ridgeline, which again completely contradicts the Byron Development Control Plan (DCP).

Among the DCP aims are ‘to minimize the visual impact of development when viewed from adjacent land, public reserves, public areas and waterways…’ and ‘to ensure that development does not occur on or near any ridgeline unless no alternative location is available’.

Many families in Eureka will be negatively affected by any building on the ridgeline, as well as the general scale of this proposed development.

For the many visitors to our area they will be greeted with urban sprawl, instead of the gentle hills and quiet

Cartoon by Melanie Barsony country roads so loved by everyone.

The BSC has spent significant time and resources to produce very clear strategies and guidelines to protect the agricultural land and beauty of the Shire from detrimental development. These documents are empty words if the Council is unwilling to follow through and put a stop to the wrong kind of development.

Councillors, be on the right side of history.

Hilarie Dunn Eureka

recognition computer program, not so difficult, as sharks glide through the water while cetaceans undulate when swimming. This, in turn, could be connected to an automatic alarm system.

Since writing this letter I have had the opportunity to discuss this idea with a computer savvy friend and she is convinced that the system would work, as am I. Such a system could protect both people and marine wildlife.

David Gilet Byron Bay

Fools and fanatics

Go natural

Lucas Wright (Letters, 13 May) made a number of excellent points that I agree with wholeheartedly.

Lucas doesn’t come across as incurious or opposed to questioning authority, so I’m puzzled by his reaction to my observation that some people eschew critical thought and fear diversity of opinion.

Or was it my impudence in wanting to urge others to seek out the sort of news that gets banned by Youtube? (altCensored.com).

Either way, I think his letter is an invaluable contribution to the conversation, and I’m glad my missive inspired him to join with the ‘fools and fanatics’ in expressing himself through the pages of The Echo.

John Scrivener Main Arm

I was delighted to receive a letter from Greens MP, Tamara Smith, today reminding people to exercise, spend time in nature, take time away from devices, and care for their mental health. It’s very similar to what natural healthcare practitioners have been recommending for years.

It’s a shame the Greens don’t support the practice of natural medicine, considering one in five people in Australia use natural medicine – it could even win them some votes!

Gabi Giacomin Ocean Shores

Shark detection Some time ago when there were a number of shark attacks in the Ballina and Byron area I wrote to The Echo suggesting that buoys, equipped with radar, could be installed along beaches.

The radar could then be connected to a species

Snap-back The government preferred ‘snap-back’ has started its jarring journey into Byron Bay. For a month and a bit, the lawn area at Main Beach was in pristine condition, both in its verdancy and lack of rubbish.

The last week however, heralded the influx of those who don’t care. Or don’t understand. Why do (mainly) tourists see entertainment in feeding the seagulls, but don’t see responsibility in making

Yay! The plastic bags containing mashed up paper are no longer to pollute our roads, paths and ultimately the Bay. The real-estate-and-tiredre-hashed-news from the Byron Shire News is finished.

I feel sorry for the staff if they lose their jobs, but surely there’s an opportunity for Christian Morrow (if he still works there) to bring his advertisers and his multiple skills to The Echo and help with The Echo’s longevity?

Raphael Lee Cass Byron Bay

Caring, a sackable şǔ ĕŕĈĕȃ Shock, horror: a bureaucrat who worked at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s (DFAT) Agricultural Development and Food Security section follows the social media pages of animal protection groups! Dr Julie Delforce – a senior sector specialist in DFAT’s agricultural and food division – has resigned from the Department after being stood down for ‘following’ her son’s website, Aussie Farms.

In a year of budgeting bungles and dubious funding allocations, we should be pleased to learn that Dr Delforce is well-educated in aspects of animal welfare.

As fair-minded Australians, we should support the employment of compassionate, informed people in our public service. Their insight might just help prevent the routine abuse of animals on Australian farms – the sort that would be illegal if enacted on household dogs or cats – and which often stays undocumented due to coercive ag-gag laws.

If more of us could see the way that animals bellow for their stolen children, suffer intense confinement, and fight for their lives, we would go vegan today. We can all support Aussie farmers by purchasing healthy, climate-friendly and crueltyfree ingredients from fruit and vegetable producers, and transition away from cruel animal ‘products’ immediately.

Mimi Bekhechi PETA

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Burning trees for electricity is not ‘green energy’ Marion Riordan The horror of recent drought and bushfires has made the urgency for action on climate change ever more apparent to most Australians. Our continent is expected to suffer more than any other.

The intense logging that is happening right now in the small patches of state forest that have survived the recent bushfires is appalling. These trees are the only habitat left for the wildlife that has survived. It is estimated that over one billion animals perished in NSW fires alone.

Logging increases ćƖƆIJǕ ſĕ ſĶƆŊƆ Yet there are plans to significantly increase logging of our native forests.

There are some who claim this is in order to combat climate change, regardless of the fact that it has been scientifically proven that logging increases the risk of more intense and devastating fires (https://go.nature. com/2U0Idvm).

Right now, Australia’s renewable energy agency

He has asked ARENA for a ‘Bioenergy Roadmap’ which he hopes will include forest hardwood pellets to be burned as a ‘renewable energy source’.

Under this premise taxpayer dollars will be used to subsidise logging operations to take more trees from the forest to be burned for electricity in repurposed coal furnaces and co-gen electricity plants – like those in our region.

The burnt out Girard State Forest near Drake. It is currently marked up for logging in areas where there is almost nothing left alive. Photo Jo Evans (ARENA) is consulting with industry groups and the general community on whether to allow native forest timber to be classified as a renewable energy source.

The logic being: trees contain carbon, which is released into the atmosphere when you burn them, but more trees can grow in their place sucking up carbon once again – therefore making the whole process ‘carbon neutral’.

Most people will recognise the missing links in this logic around the length of time

it takes for trees to re-grow, and removal of carbon sinks, as well as the impact of increased fire danger. Essentially ‘carbon neutral’ means there is no added benefit and it merely maintains the current situation rather than being sustainable and working towards an improved future.

Burning forests not renewable energy Federal energy minister Angus Taylor is not perturbed by this implausible concept.

One million tonnes per annum to be logged in NE NSW The figures quoted by NSW Forestry are huge. They expect to log one million tonnes per annum in North East NSW alone (400,000 tonnes of this from our state forests). How much of this is incentivised by convenient calculations that equate forest-derived biomass with genuine renewables like solar, wind, wave and thermal energies? How many dollars will be diverted away from genuine renewables if we go down this slippery path?

Raise your voice Submissions are open until the end of this week at: https://arena.gov.au/ knowledge-innovation/ bioenergy-roadmap/ The Nature Conservation

Council have a comprehensive submission on their website. You can sign on to support this at: https://www.nature.org. au/get-involved/take-action/ dont-allow-forests-to-beburned-for-power.

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New bottled-water mining banned on the Tweed One of the most contentious issues in the Tweed Shire in recent years has been the mining of water to be sold for bottling in plastic bottles.

As of last Friday, new groundwater water extraction facilities are no longer permitted in rural areas (RU2) of the Tweed Shire.

This follows the completion of a planning proposal process started by Tweed Shire Council in late 2018.

An amendment to remove the clause in the Tweed Local Environmental Plan (LEP) 2014 that allowed water extraction facilities in the RU2 Rural Landscape Zone came into effect when the amendment was published on the NSW Legislation website on Friday, 29 May 2020.

Overwhelming support for removal The draft Planning Proposal was publicly exhibited from 20 August 2019 to 17 September 2019.

Three hundred and forty-three submissions were received in response to the exhibition. Three hundred and thirty-eight were in support of the proposal and five were opposed.

lëƷşſ ƐIJëŕŊƆ !şƖŕĈĶō ƆƐëǔ Īşſ īſĕëƐ ƱşſŊ Mayor of Tweed Katie Milne, said she wanted to thank Council staff for their great work and perseverance to provide a very wellreasoned justification for this planning proposal, based on the precautionary principle, after it was initially rejected

by NSW Planning.

‘Water extraction has been one of the most contentious issues we have seen in Council.

‘It has been a very long and difficult chapter over many, many years and I’m sure the community will be thrilled with the news.

‘The community is to be commended for their outstanding campaign of sustained and concerted advocacy to protect the significant rural and environmental values of the Tweed,’ said Mayor Milne.

Deputy Mayor: welcome news Deputy Mayor, Chris Cherry also welcomed the news. ‘This has been an

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outcome long sought after by the current Council and the community. It is a big step towards achieving the community’s desire to move away from being known as the water bottling capital of NSW,’ she said.

‘The proposal was thoroughly examined in light of the Chief Scientist’s Report into the sustainability of commercial water extraction in the Tweed Shire, which highlighted how little is known about our hydrology and the underground connections which exist.

‘This change will help to protect our natural water resources in the Tweed Shire for future generations.

‘Amending the local planning laws sends a strong message out there with regards to the community’s sentiment on the water bottling industry,’ said Cr Cherry.

Existing approved water bottling facilities are allowed to continue their operations on the properties where they are currently approved, as required by the State government.

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the Greens who supported me in the recent pre-selection, and congratulations to Duncan Dey on his win.

Affirmative action is a cornerstone principle of the Greens party. It helped us to see Jan Barham, and many other women, elevated within the structures of the political paradigm. The details of its application were voted on by the Byron Greens prior to the preselection process, almost unanimously, with just one dissenting voice. The gap between Matthew O’Reilly’s vote and my own equates to seven of 129 people who put him first, and me last, not the 46 in John Anderson’s public submission to Council.

Given the relentless attacks, leaks, and narrative of discontent manufactured and perpetuated by some, and the smear campaign and calls-to-arms by the editor of this paper, I feel like that’s an incredible result. Clearly there has been some division within the Greens, but this is a ticket we can work with.

While I generally seek to ignore his destructive antics, I will not be perturbed or shamed by a hostile, irrelevant, curmudgeon with too much time on his hands. I’ve worked hard and am proud of the things we have achieved in this term of council.

Cr Sarah Ndiaye Mullumbimby Q Further to my advertisement in last week’s Echo I can confirm that Sarah

Ndiaye did take advantage of the Greens’ affirmative action policy to jump a place for the election ballot, even though the guy she jumped, Matthew O’Reilly, was certainly a superior choice – as indeed reflected in the Greens’ own voting.

In my opinion, in a situation where a male and female candidate are roughly equal in talent, affirmative action was intended to give women a leg-up, not a permanent gerrymander. Sarah had four years to strut her stuff and was found wanting.

I note that at least half of local Greens members are women, so what exactly is the beef?

And when I spoke at last week’s Council meeting, Sarah got up to leave while I was speaking. As she passed the lectern, she gave me a faint smirk of victory, probably about her success in the pre-selection. Somehow, I doubt it’s a victory for the Greens.

Of course, Sarah is too obtuse to perceive the irony of what she’s done. The Greens vote will undoubtedly go down significantly at the next election, and the third position on the ballot paper must therefore be in doubt.

Now that she’s elevated herself to number two position, however, she is much safer – even though she herself has been a major cause of the Greens’ fallen credibility.

Sarah does not appear to be big on accountability.

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Kan and Goy Kingkaew and are happy to be opening their doors post-lockdown. Photo Tree Faerie Eve Jeffery Goy and Kan Kingkaew have literally come full circle in the community they have come to call home.

Both born in Thailand, Goy was a secretary and Kan was a building contractor in Bangkok. It was the newlywed Kan who first came to Australia following his mother Pramuk, who was a chef at the famous Lemongrass Thai Restaurant in Melbourne.

To say that Kan and Goy have done the rounds in Byron is an understatement. When Pramuk moved to Byron Bay she worked at Byron Thai, which was the very same shopfront that Success Thai now has on Lawson Street. It was here Kan got his first taste of the restaurant business under Pramuk’s guidance, and he also began to become part of the Byron Bay community. When the building was sold, the restaurant closed, and he worked at a Thai restaurant in Ballina, and Koy was able to join him.

Their next move was into their own place in a new partnership in the Feros Arcade, called Thai at Byron, where they enjoyed six years of getting to know the locals and deepening their connection with the town. Sadly, their business partner passed away. Goy and Kan branched out on their own with their first Success Thai in Jonson Street, opposite the old Woolworths. Success Thai Food was the perfect name for the couple’s business, which grew, as did their family – with three beautiful boys helping them become even closer to the community through playgroups, schools and soccer teams.

Success Thai thrived for seven years before moving back to Lawson Street, where they have been for two years.

In all their moves their regular customers have followed, enjoying their wonderful food. ‘For nearly 17 years our customers have kept coming back,’ says Goy. ‘Many of our regulars don’t even need to say what they want! They just come in and smile and we know what their “usual” is. They come back for the same thing every time.’

Goy says that they pretty much keep the menu the same – because that’s what the customers keep coming back for.

They have many vegan options. ‘We occasionally do some special meals and something new, but we find our regulars enjoy their favourites, so we stick to what they love. Pad Thai is a really popular one, and the Chilli Jam stir fry is another favourite, but really, we sell a lot of everything on the menu, so we don’t often change. It’s what the customers want.’

Goy says they generally sell more curries during the winter months, in particular the traditional slow-cooked beef Massaman.

Goy really appreciates the support of the locals and is grateful they still came out during the pandemic. She and Kan are really happy and excited to have reopened their doors on Monday for seated customers and to have returned to their pre-lockdown opening hours. ‘We want to thank everyone so much for supporting Success Thai, and we look forward to welcoming you back.’

Q Call Success Thai on 0421 902 855 to make a booking to eat in or to order takeaway, and follow them on Facebook: Success Thai Food.

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Good Life for takeaway, or they can be enjoyed in the wonderful Habitat courtyard.

The Barrio team are excited to be back on deck and are looking forward to welcoming their favourite customers back through the doors, as well as new diners venturing out.

Barrio is also taking enquiries for private lunch or dinner parties in the restaurant: gather@barriobyronbay.com.au Q Barrio is open 7am–3pm Monday–Thursday, and 7am– 7pm Friday, with aperitif hours from 5–7pm featuring $10 plates + drinks.

LëſưĕƆƐ mĕƱſƷćëſȞ Barrio is back!

It’s like spring – restaurants are opening their doors like flowers blooming in a garden. And patrons are in for a treat when they venture into the post-lockdown Byron Bay. Why not come down for a sunset aperitif at Barrio on Friday from 5–7pm?

Barrio is Spanish for neighbourhood, and down at Habitat, the neighbourhood eatery and bar has reopened once again, and at Barrio’s Canteen, they have an exciting new type of takeaway menu, inspired by locally sourced produce with a Moorish cuisine twist. You can expect daily bakes, breakfast cakes, classic sandwiches, vibrant salads, smoked fish, and grilled meats. All of these scrummy menu items are available

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Those in the know have a favourite hang, out in the hills at Newrybar; Harvest Restaurant. This week it will be reopening, and it will be cosy and warm by the wood-fired oven down in the historic bakery in the evenings. Locally owned since 2007 Harvest has grown over the years to include a bakery – with a 116-year-old wood-fired oven, and an artisan delicatessen with adjacent edible garden. Showcasing the wonderful diversity of the region, Harvest Newrybar creates fabulous fresh food. Their bakery and deli present exquisite seasonal foods made with ingredients sourced from artisan producers, their own edible gardens and native Australian ingredients.

The Harvest team have been busy over the lockdown period and are excited to open their doors again this week.

The menu will change weekly to reflect the seasonal ingredients available from our local Byron farmers and producers.

Q Harvest will be open again from 4 June for lunch and dinner Thursday to Sunday. Arrive early and take a tour of the Newrybar village shops, or snack on oysters and bubbles from 3pm. For bookings phone 6687 2644, or visit www. harvestnewrybar.com.au.

Ballina FB/Insta: wharfbarballina 12–24 Fawcett St, Ballina 6686 5259

Lord Byron Distillery

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

We are thrilled to announce that Wharf restaurant is now open to the public!

It is important to us that we support the community as best we can, and do our best to uplift spirits with delicious seafood and welcoming customer service.

As part of our reopening, we have also launched a new restaurant and takeaway menu!

Book now while tables are still available

St Elmo Dining Room & Bar Mon-Sat: 5pm till late.

Sun: 5pm till 10pm.

Cnr Fletcher St and Lawson Lane, Byron Bay 6680 7426

BYRON BAY

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

Fishheads Byron Bay 1 Jonson Street, Byron Bay 6680 7632 FISHHEADSBYRON

Success Thai Mon-Fri lunch & dinner closed Sundays Lunch 12 noon–3pm Dinner from 5–8.30pm 3/31 Lawson St, Byron Bay www.facebook.com/ pages/Success-ThaiFood/237359826303469

Barrio 7am–3pm Mon–Thu 7am–7pm Fri 1 Porter St, North Byron No reservations. Bookings over 8 email: gather@ barriobyronbay.com.au

To thank you for your support.

On Saturday 13 June one lucky diner will...

WIN A YEAR’S SUPPLY OF FISH AND CHIPS! Come and join the party.

Dine in or takeaway to enter the prize draw. Come and see us at 109 Jonson St (opposite Woolies) hunkydory.com.au | 6680 7985

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We are thrilled to announce that Fishheads restaurant is now open to the public!

It is important to us that we support the community as best we can, and do our best to uplift spirits with delicious seafood and welcoming customer service.

As part of our reopening, we have also launched a new restaurant and take away menu!

Book now while tables are still available.

www.harvestnewrybar.com.au @harvestnewrybar

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

Free from added artificial flavours and colours.

MAKE YOUR OWN BOTTLE OF GIN

- book online. Gin Making Gift Vouchers available.

LORDBYRON.COM.AU LordByronDistillery 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.

HARVEST RESTAURANT, DELI + BAKERY Lunch: Thurs – Sun 12–3pm Dinner: Thurs – Sat from 5.30pm 3 courses from the wood-fired oven in the historic bakery Friday from 3pm: Oysters + Bubbles Sat + Sun 8–10am: Baked goods at Sourdough Weekends Sunday 4–6pm: Chook Night

MULLUMBIMBY

The Empire 20 Burringbar St, Mullum 6684 2306 Open Tuesday to Sunday FB/Insta: EmpireMullum empiremullum.com.au

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.

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NEWRYBAR

Harvest

Barrio’s canteen takes its inspiration from locally sourced produce with Moorish cuisine.

Offering daily bakes, breakfast cakes, classic sandwiches, vibrant salads, smoked fish, grilled meats.

Aperitif Hours Friday 5–7pm: $10 plates + drinks Private Dining: Now taking private party enquiries for lunch and dinner with your closest friends: gather@barriobyronbay.com.au

Handcrafted spirits using locally sourced ingredients.

www.stelmodining.com

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

BYO Home delivery 7 days Established 1992

Menus available on Facebook

CELLAR DOOR – TASTINGS & TOURS

The Empire is open for takeaways for breakfast and lunch!

It might be a tough time right now, but with some kindness and a positive attitude we’ll get through it!

The Empire kiosk is still doing what we do: serving up delicious vittles to help you get through the day.

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

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BYRON SCHOOL OF ART STUDIOS ARE ALIVE AGAIN Byron South Physiotherapy

Cyd Crossman Certified Somatic Sexuality Educator and Coach in the field of Somatic Sexology.

I offer the sex education you never got.

Informed by embodied therapy, mindfulness and neuroscience, I support you to develop more pleasure, embodiment, deeper presence, awareness and understanding of what is going on in your sexuality and body.

Online private sessions and classes available. cydcrossman.com 0414 810 630

Now that the Bay is slowly regaining its physical freedoms as we ease out of this phase of COVID-19, Byron South Physiotherapy is here to assist you with a seamless transition to a full range of movement and treatment for injuries new and old.

1 Bryce Street, Suffolk Park. Open 9am – 5.30pm, Monday to Friday. byronsouthphysio.com.au (02) 6685 3511

Past Collections, our Sales Store will open 10am-5pm Frid-Mon and by appointment only Tues-Thurs.

For all of our safety we will continue with social distancing, a maximum 10 people in store and hand sanitising on entry.

Bangalow 66871605 Byron Bay 66809600

The next exhibition at the BSA Drive-in Gallery is by Maggie Schreiber and Michael Donnelly, starting Saturday, 6 June. Open 24/7.

OZKAT CLOTHING are CLOSING our Nimbin Shop!

June 12–14 (Fri, Sat, Sun) Sunday June 14, 2020 will be our final day of trading.

It’s the end of an era! ozkat.com Mob: 0423 368 603

Foxy Luu’s Open 7 days with full menu for lunch and dinner from 11.30am–8pm.

Now open again, Clay Organic Beauty Mullumbimby offers a complete Day Spa experience.

It is a beautiful, quiet place to relax, unwind and nurture yourself.

Following social distancing regulations you can come in now for facials, waxing, massage, nails, makeovers, spray tans.

Opening Wednesday to Sunday, midday to late.

We use Dr. Hauschka, Eco Tan, Elemis, Inika Organic and Pevonia Botanica products.

2 The Terrace, Brunswick Heads. 66851305

clayorganicbeauty.com.au 6684 6532

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The wait is over. Our doors are open with a new look interior for you to enjoy.

Specialising in:

Lazybones Brunswick Heads is open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 10am–4pm. To respect physical distancing rules we are allowing four people in-store at a time, which means super personalised customer service.

Online store open 24 hours, 7 days a week.

Endometriosis PCOS Infertility Conception Health Thyroid Issues Lymphatic / Therapeutic Massage Suite 2, 95 Molesworth Street, Lismore 02 6622 5477

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Try our famous bone broth soup or the new vegan laksa, mouth watering baos, salads and dumplings.

Half price dumplings, from 4–6pm are back on.

Drop in for a relaxed, nutritious meal, take away or UberEat.

DIVINE ecodyedsilk

Toy Kingdom New Lego and Puzzles in store now!

Still here for you 7 days a week Mon–Fri 10–5pm Sat 9–5pm Sun 10–2pm Have you seen our new website? Why not take advantage of click and collect!

New products loaded weekly mytoykingdom.com.au 6680 8811 Follow us @mytoykingdom

Naturally hand dyed with botanicals silk and cashmere Designer eco fashion We are now available to share unforgettable ocean experiences on our guided, informative and intimate tour.

New capacity restrictions and risk reduction procedures ensure everyone remains safe and healthy.

Guaranteed sightings and memories to last a lifetime. Don’t miss out!

Book online at wildbyron.com.au

Clay Organic Beauty

with a thirst !

Come on down and sip some wonderful cocktails, drink some fabulous craft beer, and eat some incredible food with amazing people. Enjoy Bruns’ best location overlooking the Simpson Creek.

Available at ecoglitz.com.au or local retailers Santos, Rainbow Shop, Essentially Byron and Brunswick Health Foods.

Happy days!

Shelley Robinson (B.Nat) Naturopath Medical Herbalist

The Humpback whales are back on their annual migration!

Old woolies car park, next to the bottle shop.

is opening!

Trawlers

Handcrafted with certified organic Australian plant ingredients, food-grade preservatives and shimmering crystals, all ingredients are cosmetic grade for use on sensitive skin, and wash off just with water.

All about Health Natural Medicine Clinic

Wild Byron Whale Watching

Seen at local markets Certified Australian handmade Textile Artist Angela Cook has OPENED A NEW STUDIO in the Myocum countryside.

Open 6 days per week, Tuesday to Sunday 10am–4pm.

Phone Angela on 0403 272 912 for private viewing divineecodyedsilk.com.au 20% OFF in JUNE

Castrikum Adams Legal Your local legal people:

Trawlers is now open.

is a unique plastic-free vegan glitter cream, in over 20 vibrant colours, for sparkle lovers of all ages.

After 10 years of retailing in Nimbin we have made this decision due to the pandemic.

We will continue trading ONLINE with a smaller collection.

Opening times: June 5–8 (Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon)

Island Luxe

The BSA Studios are starting to buzz again with students gradually returning to campus.

Term 3 dates for BSA’s popular Short Courses have been confirmed and enrolments are open online.

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To thank you for supporting our small business we are offering you 50% OFF STOREWIDE!!!

We are thrilled to reopen our Bangalow and Byron Bay stores 7 days pw from 10am-5pm.

*EcoGlitz®*

Conveyancing Leases Building Contracts & Disputes Aged Care Contracts Wills & Estates Family Provision Claims Trusts & General Commercial Our virtual boardroom is open for business via a number of online platforms, and we still offer good old-fashioned telephone advice.

To make an appointment, call 0411 180 907 or email: enquiry@castrikumlegal. com.au

Are you looking for a new normal?

Curious about starting an online business and embracing a new challenge, passionate about personal development and helping others, a motivated go-getter looking for flexibility in a business that works around your lifestyle, and wanting to realise your true potential?

~ Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

If your life goals include travel, adventure, fun, more family time, visit: kimecook.com/newnormal-ec

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The Little Details Balloon Aloft Byron Bay Hot Air Balloons have returned to the Byron hinterland skies!

Private VIP flights are now available, and group bookings from 13 June.

Ballooning is a great outdoor and fresh air activity to help emerge from the COVID cocoon.

Bookings include breakfast at the Three Blue Ducks and can be made online at balloonaloftbyronbay.com

FREE WHOLEFOODS DELIVERY! Rider’s friendly local service delivers to your door the most affordable organics, wholefoods and ethical household items – everywhere from Ballina to South Golden, and from Lismore to Main Arm. Echo readers also receive free delivery with their first order!

Discount code ECHO. Check out the low prices and premium product range at riderau.com

BYRON MARKETS Shop local – support your community!

The famous Byron Markets are now online and welcome customers to continue shopping at their favourite market stalls.

Search the new online directory to find over 400 of your Byron local businesses and quality products.

Visit the Byron Markets Online Directory here: byroncentre.com.au/byronmarkets-online-directory

Cleaning is an essential service for many people. We have continued operating in Byron Shire; wearing protective gear for the safety of our clients and staff.

Experienced, local, high-end professional cleaners.

Bespoke cleaning services.

Attention to detail, high-quality finish. Eco friendly products.

Fully insured with a police check.

Call us today for a free consultation: 0408 713 318. enquiries@littledetails.net.au

Ozone Beauty & Medi Spa is stronger than ever and proud to announce the celebrity endorsement of Kerry Armstrong: ‘Since I’ve had Hifu I’m being asked questions about what my secret is. It’s simple, my secret is HiFu with Kirsty.’

Beauty Therapy, Brows, Waxing, Spa Facials, Massage, Ozone Steam, Ozonated Oils, Oxygen Breathing, Hifu FaceLift TGA Approved.

0266851145 24/7 online booking: ozonebeautyspa.com.au

iKOU on Lawson Street is open again!

Find new ways to feel good with home spa and wellness rituals.

Explore our sensory range of organic skincare, bath and body products, herbal teas and aromatherapy home fragrance.

All proudly Australian-made by iKOU. Open Wednesday–Sunday 1–4pm.

We look forward to welcoming you back! iKOU.com.au 1/8 Lawson St, Byron Bay 6680 8803

Linen House Mullumbimby Your one-stop Shire shop for on-trend bed linen and homewares is officially open with a COVID-safe shopping environment:

Dreamers & Drifters Dearest dreamers, our beautiful boutique is open again! Drop in Mon-Sat, 10am-3pm. Wander through our rails of eco-friendly, slow fashion designed in Australia, inspired by Byron Bay’s alternative culture and magical 70’s nostalgia. Timeless styles, dreamy prints, soft all-natural fabrics and laid-back bohemian colours. Feel good supporting a locally owned small business. dreamersanddrifters.com.au Shop 1, 120 Jonson Street, Byron Bay

Beautiful Brunswick River Cruises with Byron Bay Eco Cruises & Kayaks, re-opening Friday 12June LOCALS PRIVATE CRUISE SPECIALS – COVID safe Available to 31 August.

Max 10 people.

Morning $500 – includes delicious morning tea.

Sunset $700 – includes tapas + 1 complimentary drink.

Locally owned business.

Amazing scenery, marine life & wildlife. Local stories.

Get your Locals Discount on our Night Vision Walk.

Painted Earth is open again 7.30am–4pm Mon–Fri & 10am–2pm Sat Look after your lungs and the health of our planet by using modern low VOC paints and finishes when renovating areas of your home or business.

Order online at painted-earth.com.au or text your order on 0431 721 073

Hand sanitiser at the ready, limited customers in store, safe-distancing layouts, all high-touch areas are regularly cleaned.

We’re thrilled to welcome our beautiful community back.

Drop in to 33 Burringbar Street, Mullumbimby.

6684 6452

For one year we are giving locals a massive 30% discount on our patented Night Vision Walk. Imagine exploring the Australian rainforest at night, searching for nocturnal wildlife, but instead of wielding a torch you’ll wear special night vision goggles.

To book go to visionwalks.com.au and use promo code: LocalNight Call: 0405 275 743.

RED GINGER RED GINGER would like to thank our very loyal local customers for continuing to support us through this very uncertain time. Both stores are now fully open again.

We are so proud to be able to supply the Shire with all their exotic and hard-to-find ingredients and lots of our delicious dumplings for you to cook at home. redginger.com.au

byronbaycruises.com.au 0410 016 926

STUDIO STAV A good music mix seeps deeper into the heart and soul of the listener, while making all the elements of the track feel more confident.

Byron Bay Pork & Meats

OSushi OSushi is now open for dine in, takeaway and home delivery.

is now offering free delivery to Mullumbimby and surrounds.

Call Wed–Sun from 11.30am to book or order takeaway.

Or order online for takeaway orders for pick up or delivery.

Open Wednesday to Saturday 12noon–8pm and Sunday 12noon–7pm.

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Stav cut his teeth at Sir George Martin’s AIR Studios in London.

Stav will go anywhere to record, but likes to mix at StudioStav on a console he designed.

We look forward to offering you our best selection of sushi, sashimi and hot Japanese fusion.

Call Stav to talk about sounds.

osushi.com.au 6685 7103

studiostav.com Mob 0403 441 848

Locally sourced premium quality pork, beef, lamb and goat from their family farms.

Specialty sausages, including a gluten-free variety, smoked leg hams, free range chickens and ducks. All meats are antibiotic and hormone free.

Call the shop to place your order. Open Mon–Sat. 6684 2137 70 Dalley Street

Bun Coffee roastery door is still open 7am–4pm Mon–Fri (takeaway only) Please phone ahead for pick up or for $5 (Byron Shire only) we will deliver fresh locally roasted coffee to your door.

6680 9798 1A Banksia Drive, Byron Industrial Estate Thanks for supporting our family business.

Take care, from Jenny and David and the team at Bun Coffee.

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Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre will re-open on Wednesday 3 June.

AHPRA Registered.

We’re thrilled to be open again!

Gluten and dairy free

The Gallery, shop and cafe will be open Wednesday to Sunday.

Session times: 10–11.30am 12–1.30pm | 2–4pm Cashless payments are encouraged.

Book online: trgmoac.eventbrite.com.au

STAPLES: Flax Crackers Activated Seed Bark Pizza Bases $35 TREAT: Raw Chocolate Sour Cherry Slice or Salted Caramel Peanut Slice $40 CHEESE: Fermented Cashew Brie Macadamia Cheddar Shards Creamy Nut Ricotta $45

More details: artgallery.tweed.nsw.gov.au Instagram: @ tweedregionalgallery Image: David Sandison

DELUXE: all of the above $120 (choice of slice)

Takeaway and home delivery* in Mullumbimby

Macadamia Castle Animal Park

ALIVE and WILD Plant based pantry boxes!

Free entry. Pre-booked tickets are required with a limited number of visitors attending each session.

Recently separated or thinking about separating?

Karl Farren Shiatsu, Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine

Combining close to thirty years experience in practice with compassion, empathy and professionalism, Karl enjoys treating people of all ages and diverse backgrounds, addressing a wide range of both acute and chronic health issues. Detailed information at: karlfarren.com for appointments or enquiries:

Staff have been working throughout lockdown to care for our animals, and we’re excited to welcome visitors back – in a careful and responsible way.

Finding yourself lying awake at night wondering,

how do I get divorced?

Unsure what to do next?

An outdoor animal park is one of the safest places to visit.

You do not have to deal with this alone.

We hope to see you soon!

Save money on legal fees and contact Deborah Bruinsma (BSSW), an experienced divorce coach, for guidance and support on 1300 84 84 78 or make a booking via: howdoigetdivorced.com.au help@howdoigetdivorced. com.au

macadamiacastle.com.au 419 Hinterland Way, Knockrow (02) 6687 8432

0423 611 935 5 Stuart St, Mullumbimby karlfarren@icloud.com

Pick up Myocum Local delivery $10 0412 400 085

Coffee, handcrafted Malawach, Falafel, Pita Pocket, traditional Yemenite spices… and all your favourites delivered to your doorstep…

Or come and pick up your flavours from Yemen and experience the vibe of Mullumbimby.

Open every day from 9am–8pm. *Delivery Sun–Fri, 4–8pm.

Mullumbimby only.

Free delivery for orders from $39.

Call to order 6684 3778. yamanmullumbimby.com.au

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¨ĶŔĕ Ɛş ëĈƐ Īşſ ëōō ƐIJĕ żĕşżōĕ All understanding begins with our not accepting the world the way it appears. ȑȞ ƖƆëŕ şŕƐëī Story & image Mary Gardner

T

he moment I see the clouds march from the Byron lighthouse like a beacon, I snap the photograph. I watch the rain falling like a message on the sea.

The surf is a movement changing the very ground on which I stand.

Reflections and variations play on the interface of sand and water.

What is this tide?

Early afternoon on the 14 May 2020 means this is a changing tide.

The moon is in the last quarter.

It is weeks into the pandemic lockdown, months since the last wildfire and drought here, and years into climate change.

The Grattan Institute reports that 17–28 per cent of the Australian workforce is unemployed. The usual democracy is suspended; the work of governing now done by select high level groups. Only coalition members are included.

Not one of the Federal opposition or cross party members. This excludes about half of our elected representatives.

On 25 March, 2020, Prime

Minister Morrison created a National COVID-19 Coordination Commission (NCCC) with the aim of ‘mobilising a whole-of-society and whole-of-economy effort, so we come through this unprecedented health crisis.’ This team (two women and thirteen men) represents the interests of big fossil fuel companies and large corporate industries. Only one member works with a union.

No one represents Aboriginal interests. No one is conversant with sectors such as ecology, education, medicine, or the many service industries. No one stands for the children, old people, artists, casuals, refugees or temporary visa holders.

ǕīIJƐĶŕī ĪƖƐƖſĕ ĈIJëŕĈĕ On 28 March 2020, Australia’s Commission for the Human Future held a round-table discussion and published Surviving and Thriving in the 21st Century (www.humansforsurvival.org/sites/default/ files/CHF_Roundtable_Report_ March_2020.pdf).

Of their fourteen board members, half are women. All are experienced across many of the gaps found in the NCCC Commission.

One is a young woman involved with the youth climate justice movement.

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Their report lists ten risks to human survival including: ecological losses, climate change, pollution, food insecurity, weapons of mass destruction and pandemics. The last one is ‘national and global failure to understand and act preventively’. They promote a holistic approach to a science and psychology of survival and wellbeing. They see not only research, but careers across the board, all ‘towards a safer, more sustainable human future... [with] collaborative... positive change.’

Over the years, the Climate Council has stubbornly proven its worth. In May 2020, it released the report Primed for Action. Rather than expand an export economy based on gas, the report explains how Australia can supply ‘zero emissions energy, products, minerals and services’ (www.climatecouncil.org.au).

Representatives for the Uluru Statement from the Heart are still ready to engage with both the government and the people of Australia. They seek constitutional recognition, a legislative change to ensure creation of just agreements, and the establishment of the Makarrata Commission for truthtelling (www.ulurustatement.org).

Of several such groups, The Australian Institute for Disaster

Resilience appears to be exceptional. Their knowledge-hub online brings together expertise from specialists, for communities to access.

Together with the Rural Fire Service and State Emergency Services, they can prepare us for beyond COVID19, into the next fire and flood seasons (www.aidr.org.au).

In the recession and recovery ahead, the NCCC has no need to ‘go it alone’. Nor is it desirable. What we can easily have is a widely representative consortium, including leaders from these groups, and maybe others wherever a gap is found. A joint co-chair, a cross-cultural partnership, can begin to address how we should continue in reconciliation with each other and our land and waters, both sweet and salty.

Let’s challenge the NCCC to objectively assess their representativeness. Let’s urge them to accept reports and include delegates from at least these groups I’ve mentioned and begin a genuine ‘wholeof-society and whole-of-economy

effort’. They can step up – and to not fail in their brief – they surely must.

In a world like ours, appearances matter so much, and nothing is as it appears. Our dark sense of crisis can fade with sunshine on the surf.

You may see yourself as a small person overlooked by government, quietly reading the rant of an old sick woman.

But much as I am an experienced researcher, and a determined community activist, you are a vital, able-bodied member of a growing Australia-wide awareness of our options for survival. Move into positions that enable you to act on this. Pass on your messages, and expand your experiences. How about writing to the NCCC? NCCCEnquiries@pmc.gov.au In spite of road-signs, the headland’s true name is Walgun.

Throughout the Shire, all of you know power is from people coming together, shining like beacons.

Now go.

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MANDY NOLAN’S

SOAPBOX UNIVERSAL WAGE There’s nothing more humbling than lining up at Centrelink.

Standing in the queue is an immediate admission of your financial vulnerability, your hope the system can provide you, or a loved one, with support. And public confirmation that financially things aren’t going very well for you. You never feel like a winner at Centrelink. Every time I step through those automatic doors I feel like a loser. It’s not the fault of the staff. I have always found them to be immensely helpful and courteous, but they are bound by bureaucracy, and a permeating narrative that correlates Centrelink recipients with hopelessness and dependence.

It’s a punitive system that punishes people with poverty for being unworthy capitalists.

If you need Centrelink payments – because you are elderly, or disabled, have a mental health issue, or are unemployed, you will live below the poverty line.

You will be dehumanised; you will have a number. You will have a MyGov account.

You become a number – a stat – in the report card of economic growth for the incumbent government.

It’s in their interests to make sure you’re not there. Using long wait times and impossible compliance, termed ‘mutual obligation’, they have the ability to ‘disappear’ you, both from the system – and the culture. Terms like ‘dole bludger’ are never far from the lips of the average working Australian who still perceives Centrelink recipients as some sort of scourge on tax payers.

I had to go to Centrelink recently. COVID regulations meant the queue was relegated to the street, so while we were socially distanced, we also experienced some kerbside public shaming. Wheeled office chairs were assembled on the sloped pavement so that we could wait the hour-and-a-half with some degree of dignity. I joked that this was in fact a swifter way to bring down the numbers; the office chairs seemed to want to take us down the pavement and onto the road. ‘It takes too long for poverty to kill us. This is a much more effective technique!’

Of course COVID has changed a lot of things. Many who have never stepped foot inside Centrelink have had to apply for JobSeeker. A sudden loss of income, a sense of powerlessness, and an uncertain future have become the new normal for once financially secure Australians. Perhaps this circumstance can provide an economic and empathetic insight into what it means to be unemployed.

STARS

GEMINI THE TWINS This weekend’s dramatic full moon eclipse pulls focus to the crossroads where we all stand, knowing that the choices we make now are crucial…

BY LILITH

ARIES: This week offers a unique and visionary opportunity to reset your internal compass for the rest of the year. Ask yourself how best you might work in alignment with your creative source to give yourself and others the greatest joy and inspiration. In what new ways can you share your original and inspiring gifts?

LEO: This week’s planetary shift s, which include an eclipse, could cause a certain swirl of erratic energy and agitation. But not to worry – if volatile situations crop up, keep repeating the mantra: Be cool. Be smart. Be calm, my heart… It’s definitely a week for avoiding the drama hook, especially those dangerous ones of your own making.

TAURUS: Best eclipse protocols? Simplify routines and commitments, avoid extra stress. Don’t rush. Stand back and observe what happens around you, most importantly your own emotional reactions. Your attention will be drawn to things you previously didn’t notice (or perhaps hadn’t wanted to) during this peak week for asking the hard questions.

VIRGO: If recent events have put some of you through life’s food processor, this week’s heart-opening full moon eclipse brings the possibility of taking a great leap, if not in your immediate circumstances, then in expanded understanding. And perhaps reaching out to people you haven’t connected with for a long while, estranged relations or friends.

GEMINI: The coming weekend’s lunar eclipse in fiery Sagittarius activates an explosion of opinions, which will uncover some not so obvious truths. You may be raring to move, but don’t pressure yourself into a decision before you’ve done due diligence.

Be ruthlessly honest, especially with yourself.

And especially about how you’re feeling…

CANCER: Eclipses tend to get bad press, but their changes can be very positive. As this week’s snakes and ladders game takes members of the Crab clan up, down and all around the shop, expect a rapid growth spurt with some projects and players being mysteriously deleted, while new ones emerge.

LIBRA: This week’s full moon offers a potent eclipse portal for important questions like: Is a spiritual practice necessary? Are you being true to your essential, authentic self?

Despite current drawbacks, does being alive delight you? If yes, then enjoy your wild week.

If not, what do you intend doing about that unlived slice of your life?

SCORPIO: Some people find eclipses scary. Others, perhaps you among them, view them as two planets making love and wanting some privacy. Whatever, as all the private soul-searching you’ve done recently starts falling into place and making more sense, it’s worthwhile discussing issues with others this week, even if you’re not in the mood.

BIG GIG AT BALLINA RSL IS BACK! After two months in iso Mandy Nolan is chomping at the bit to get back up on the Big Gig stage. With social distancing in place, and numbers limited to 50, this will give her most dedicated fans the chance to get back in the room and off bloody Zoom! Mandy will be presenting a full hour of Nolan at her finest – with the two-months of downtime having given her ample opportunity to craft some new gear that she’s keen to try on the Big Gig crowd! While many have been sorting out their sock drawer, Nolan has been busy – you might have seen her narrating the segment about Dustyesky on Australian Story earlier this week? She has run an online comedy course for women, and every two weeks she’s been popping up on the Ballina RSL Facebook page for a 15-minute download! The wait is over! The laughs are back on! Show is at 8pm, 25 June, and even though it’s still free, you will need a ticket; go to ballinarsl.com.au to get yours – it’s strictly limited to 50 – so get yours now!

AQUARIUS: Although eclipse transits can blitz your thinking and make it hard to maintain a coherent plan, they can also expand your understanding and capabilities on many levels: getting you back to basics, pruning non-essentials, and increasing your appreciation of what you already have – so have fun with this highly creative week.

PISCES: In traditional astrology, eclipses are believed to highlight what’s no longer needed, along with what might be a better fit for your current reality. So tune into the weekend’s potent full moon for clues to more creative and supportive ways of handling continuing planetary change, and those blips on your personal relationship radar too.

The Community Event of the Year 2020. PAJAMAS #3 presents a live DJ mix and stream; featuring Cunning Stunts resident DJs Lord Sut and Dale Stephen. There’s a prize for the best dressed – in your jammies – so put a photo on the Cunning Stunts Facebook page, or on their Pajamas Event page – get on and chat with the Cunning Stunts Community, turn up the music, and dance with your friends and family at home!

Saturday 6pm–9pm. Free. The event will be streamed live at www.facebook.com/cunningstuntevents/live/

BEACHY MUSIC Live music is back on at the Beachy this week! Everyone’s favourite beachfront hotel has its beer flowing and the doors are open.

Get out and support your local businesses and musicians; this Saturday catch Sarah Grant at 1pm, the fabulous Jon J Bradley at 4.30pm, and Ragga Jump Trio at 8pm.

THE MACCA CASTLE IS OPEN Macadamia Castle has reopened! The Animal Park and Café Macca are now open seven days a week from 9am–4pm.

During lockdown they upgraded the building and the grounds, replacing the 20-year-old medieval paintings on the outside of the building with images from their Animal Park – so it’s like a whole new park! They have also extended the expiry date for existing passes to the Animal Park by 70 days!

When the JobSeeker and JobKeeper subsidies expire – why not continue with a Universal Basic Income? This would be a guaranteed unconditional minimum income for every Australian. This isn’t a new idea. Philosopher Bertrand Russell argued for this in the early 1900’s – asserting that it combined the advantages of socialism and anarchism, and fulfilled the moral right everyone had to the means of subsistence. No one in our affluent Australia should have to live in poverty.

Homelessness could be abolished overnight. If the average citizen was given a basic wage of $25k per year, everyone could access a reasonable standard of living. Poverty could be eradicated.

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CAPRICORN: Eclipses tend to shake things up, and this week’s could provide, or provoke, a sudden insight which sends you on an unexpected path. Once digested, initially unwelcome news could lead through relief and release into a more vibrant quality of life, and possibly a new direction more aligned with your deeper dreams and capabilities.

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Right now the poorest people in Australia are being given the dignity of having their income doubled. While mine has reduced significantly, even with a government subsidy, it gives me some joy to know that this might be a chance for the vulnerable to catch up – to have a reprieve from the endless judgement and struggle. Perhaps this is when we, as a nation, can make the decision to move away from the punitive notion of castigating the underprivileged for being underprivileged.

Where we no longer need to use money to confirm we are more righteous, or more legitimate, than any other citizen.

The argument against this is that it would encourage laziness, and people wouldn’t work as much, therefore reducing taxable incomes to pay the basic wage. I think the COVID lockdown has shown that many people actually miss working. People have worked from home. They have worked long hours without the paternalistic structures of boss and master monitoring their every move. Many find meaning and connection in what they do. We need to change how we view the economy and the purpose that it serves. In the US, public health expert Jeffrey Levi has said that Trump ‘views people as collateral damage to salvage the economy.’ What is the point of democracy if it means being thrown under the bus?

The people are not there to serve the economy. The economy is there to serve the people… and I don’t mean as a dish in the capitalist kitchen.

SAGITTARIUS: If your notorious optimism’s taken a buffeting lately with that worst case scenario for Archers – not knowing what’s going on – full moon eclipse in Sagittarius presses the let-go-of-everythingunimportant-and-get-back-to-what-reallymatters button. This week’s best aff irmation?

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INDEX

ACUPUNCTURE CHINESE HERBAL MEDICINE M Collis..................................................66842559 MARLENE FARRY Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine marlenefarry.com ..............66842400 ACUPUNCTURE & acupressure massage. Ph Dr. Derek Doran .......................................0414 478787

Accountants & Bookkeepers.............................. 26 Acupuncture ....................................................... 26 Air Conditioning & Refrigeration ...................... 26 Antennas & Installation ..................................... 26 Antiques/Restoration ......................................... 26 Appliance Repair ................................................ 26 Architects ............................................................ 26 Automotive ......................................................... 26 Bathroom Renovations ...................................... 26 Blinds, Awnings, Curtains, Shutters .................. 26 Bricklaying .......................................................... 26 Building Trades ................................................... 26 Bush Regen & Weed Control .............................. 26 Carpet Cleaning .................................................. 26 Chimney Sweeps................................................. 26 Chiropractic......................................................... 26 Cleaning .............................................................. 27 Computer Services ............................................. 27 Concreting & Paving ........................................... 27 Decks, Patios & Extensions ................................ 27 Dentists ............................................................... 27 Design & Drafting ............................................... 27 Driveway Maintenance ...................................... 27 Earthmoving & Excavation ................................ 27 Electricians .......................................................... 27 Fencing ................................................................ 27 Floor Sanding & Polishing ................................. 27 Garden & Property Maintenance ...................... 27 Garden Design .................................................... 27 Gas Suppliers ...................................................... 27 Graphic Design ................................................... 27 Handypersons ..................................................... 27 Health .................................................................. 28 Hire ...................................................................... 28 Kitchens ............................................................... 28 Landscape Design .............................................. 28 Landscape Supplies............................................ 28 Landscaping ....................................................... 28 Locksmith ............................................................ 28 Osteopathy.......................................................... 28 Painting ............................................................... 28 Pest Control ......................................................... 28 Photography ....................................................... 28 Physiotherapy ..................................................... 28 Picture Framing .................................................. 28 Plastering ............................................................ 28 Plumbers ............................................................. 28 Pools .................................................................... 28 Removalists ......................................................... 28 Roofing ................................................................ 28 Rubbish Removal ................................................ 29 Septic Systems .................................................... 29 Solar Installation ................................................ 29 Television Services ............................................. 29 Tiling .................................................................... 29 Tree Services ....................................................... 29 Tuition ................................................................. 29 Upholstery .......................................................... 29 Valuers ................................................................. 29 Veterinary Surgeons .......................................... 29 Water Filters ........................................................ 29 Water Supplies .................................................... 29 Water Tanks & Tank Cleaning............................. 29 Welding ............................................................... 29 Window Cleaning ............................................... 29 Window Tinting................................................... 29

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AIR CONDITIONING & REFRIGERATION

6680 9394 AU 37088

Mullumbimby Refrigeration & Airconditioning Services

Lic 246545C

– Sales – Installation – Repairs – All Commercial Refrigeration – Residential & Commercial Airconditioning – Coolroom Design & Construction – Freezer Rooms

6684 2783

45 Manns Road, Mullumbimby Lic: 299433C ARC: AU40492

COOLMAN AIR CONDITIONING 23 years experience. Lic 178464C AU30147 ..............0412 641753 RAINBOW REGION AIR CONDITIONING ARC AU36141. Lic No. 264313C.....................0487 264137

AH

COMPASS CURTAINS

Custom made curtains, blinds and decor items We come to you, wherever you are: Byron, Lismore, The Clarence and beyond…

Barbara Wilson

0435 954 212

compassinteriors@optusnet.com.au

YOUR LOCAL BLIND MAN at North Byron Blinds .................................................. Amos 0404 421518

BRICKLAYING BRICK/BLOCK LAYING Contractors. Lic 291958C. Phone Mark ........................................0409 444268

BUILDING TRADES • DEPT OF FAIR TRADING: A licence is required for all residential building work where the reason-

• RELIABLE TRADESMAN • DECKS & PERGOLAS • TIMBER SCREENS & DOORS • GARAGE CONVERSIONS LICENCE NUMBER 344531C

02 66 804 173

SERVICING THE BYRON SHIRE

CALL BRETT 0414 542 019

Friendly Reliable Prompt Local

Digital TV ALL Antenna Installations & Repairs ALL Electrical Work

23 years and going strong!

able market cost of the work to be done (labour and materials) exceeds $5000 (including GST).

ANTENNAS & INSTALLATION

0439 624 945

ROLL BLINDS

NSW Lic. 83568c Qld BSA 1238105

IWIRE

ANTENNAS

• New digital antennas * • Reception NO FIX NO CHARGE problems For fast service call • Extra TV outlets

0402 022 111

David Levine iwireantennas.com.au

FULLY INSURED

ALL ASPECTS OF CARPENTRY WORK

matt.rowan.wardle@gmail.com • Floor installations • Door & Window installations • Decks & Pergolas • Alterations

0488 950 638

Creative Carpentry

*conditions apply

JP DIGITAL ANTENNAS Reception problems, new antennas, extra TV points, all areas .....0432 289705 ANTENNAS PLUS. TV, WiFi, Electrical. Reliable. Call Norm ............................................0422 668582

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

APPLIANCE REPAIR

Decks, pergolas, verandahs, balconies, big & small renos and all other carpentry & building needs. Servicing The Bay for over 25 years.

0427 196 962

orangestar02@gmail.com

Lic. 266174C

SERVICE DIRECTORY RATES, PAYMENT & DEADLINE

For North Coast news online visit

DINGO DEMOLITIONS & ASBESTOS REMOVAL ................................. 66834008 or 0407 728998 BUILDER – JOHN McGAURAN Personalised Service. 20 yrs exp. Lic 170208C .............0415 793242 BUILDER Renovations, maintenance, 30yrs exp. mchughdesign.com.au Lic 29792C....0408 663420

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

ARCHITECTS

HAVEN BUILDING All aspects of building. Lic 326616C ...............................................0432 565060 RENOVATION SPECIALIST Customised Service. Builder: Levi Alexander Lic 189611C ..0402 434154 FABRICA JOINERY Quality kitchens/timber doors/windows. Lic 244652C .........................66808162

OCEANARC ARCHITECTS Reg. 6042 www.oceanarc.com.au ..............................................66855001 ATELIER LUKE – Luke Hayward architect, Reg. 10438 www.atelierluke.com ...............0401 875535

AUTOMOTIVE

CARPENTER HANDYMAN FB Greg’s Handyman Services Byron Bay Lic No 1039897....0414 109595

BUSH REGENERATION & WEED CONTROL WEED CONTROL SPECIALIST Lawns – bindii weeds – Army worms – grass grubs .....0418 110714 EAST COAST BUSH REGENERATION Tree planting, weed control. Call Rossco Faithfull.0409 157695

CARPET CLEANING • Tyres • Batteries • Wheel Alignments MULLUMBIMBY TYRE SERVICE Dalley Street, Mullumbimby 6684 2016

LEGENDARY OFFROAD TYRES

BAYSIDE RADIATORS Windscreens & air-con. Billinudgel. AU29498 .................................66802444

BATHROOM RENOVATIONS

FRANCHISE OF THE YEAR!

Green & Clean

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

Far North Coast NSW John & Teresa

0408 232 066

Cleans deeply, dries in 1-2 hours Commercial / Domestic / Insurance

CHIMNEY SWEEPING

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

CHIROPRACTIC BAY FAMILY CHIROPRACTIC Peter Wuehr 17 Bangalow Rd Byron Bay ..............................66855282 WAVE OF LIFE NETWORK CHIRO (lowforce) 8/9 Fletcher St, Byron Bay. Andrew Badman...66858553

North Coast news daily in Echonetdaily www.echo.net.au

Service Directory CLEANING

DRIVEWAY MAINTENANCE

ACTION WINDOW & PRESSURE CLEANING actionjoewindow@gmail.com

â&#x20AC;˘ House washing â&#x20AC;˘ High pressure or soft wash â&#x20AC;˘ Window cleaning â&#x20AC;˘ Driveways, paths & roofs â&#x20AC;˘ Gutters & ďŹ&#x201A;yscreens â&#x20AC;˘ Water efďŹ cient â&#x20AC;˘ Free quotes Phone Joe or Helen 0409 207 646 or 0412 495750

â&#x20AC;˘ Window Cleaning â&#x20AC;˘ Screens & Tracks â&#x20AC;˘ Pressure Washing â&#x20AC;˘ House â&#x20AC;˘Roof â&#x20AC;˘ Paths â&#x20AC;˘ Solar

Call

0434 539 979

www.byroneco.com.au

Quality Exterior Refinishing Roof & Pressure Cleaning Roof Painting Deck Oiling

Coast to Country Asphalt Specialising in

THE FLOOR SANDER New & old floors, decks, non-toxic finishes, special effects, free quotes..0407 821690

GARDEN & PROPERTY MAINTENANCE

â&#x20AC;˘ Asphalt Driveways â&#x20AC;˘ Sub-divisions â&#x20AC;˘ Earthworks â&#x20AC;˘ Carparks â&#x20AC;˘ and all Maintenance!

For a Free Quote Call Now

0467 482 948

oast Asph alt st C Ea

ALL ASPECTS OF ASPHALT & BITUMEN SERVICES

Acreage Mowing Specialist | Mini excavation Toro Dingo with stump grinder, trencher and soil cultivator

Contact Vadi: 0404

6677 1859

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SERVICING THE EAST COAST OF THE NSW NORTHERN RIVERS

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Burringbar

0430 297 101 / 6684 5437

EARTHMOVING & EXCAVATION

livingearthgardens.com.au

Philip Toovey

0409 799 909

5 Stars

various implements available for limited access projects

CLEANING SERVICE

EARTHMOVING & PLANT HIRE

CLEANS: Holiday, Residential, Bond, Commercial, Spring

THE BYRON BAY GARDEN & LANDSCAPING COMPANY Structural Landscaping

Specialising in driveway construction & maintenance

Phone Mick 0409 009 024

â&#x20AC;˘ Tip trucks 3 to 12 tonne â&#x20AC;˘ Excavator 5 to 21 tonne â&#x20AC;˘ Positrack loader augers 150 to 600mm & rock grab â&#x20AC;˘ Driveways â&#x20AC;˘ Roads â&#x20AC;˘ Acreage clearing â&#x20AC;˘ House pads â&#x20AC;˘ Drainage â&#x20AC;˘ Carparks â&#x20AC;˘ Bush rocks â&#x20AC;˘ Rock walls â&#x20AC;˘ Competitive rates

Email: mickbhl@gmail.com

â&#x20AC;˘ Paving â&#x20AC;˘ Stonework â&#x20AC;˘ Timber work â&#x20AC;˘ Retaining wall â&#x20AC;˘ Garden maintenance â&#x20AC;˘ Planting â&#x20AC;˘ TurďŹ ng â&#x20AC;˘ Mulching â&#x20AC;˘ Hedging â&#x20AC;˘ Lawns

Training & assessment: earthmoving plant & forklift

Professional Cleaning Services BOND CLEAN AND BUILDERS CLEAN SPECIALIST

Blue Sky

978 383

TINY EARTHWOR

Phone Oliver 0419 789 600 fullcirclerefinishing.com

Byron Bay

FLOOR SANDING & POLISHING

â&#x20AC;&#x201C; nationally recognised qualiďŹ cations

0427 663 678 / 0410 056 228

0434 329 111

5.5 TONNE EXCAVATOR, POSITRACK & TIPPER HIRE

Friendly reliable and trustworthy service.

MULLUM.MOWING@gmail.com. Ride-on, large lawns & acreage. Ph Peter................0423 756394 GUTTERS CLEANED Solar panel cleaning, all areas, free quotes, fully insured ... 66841778 or 0405 922839 A-Z Lawns & acreage, trees & hedges, clean ups & tip runs, all gutters ..........................0405 625697

DETAILED CLEANER/GUEST HOUSE MANAGER All natural products 4.8 Stayz rated ..0410 723601

Specialising in road works, land clearing, retaining walls and general earthworks.

Augers and rock grab available.

BEYOND CLEANING GROUP Quality focused. Brunswick to Ballina from $39.60ph .....0451 102239

EXPERIENCED OPERATORS | FREE QUOTES 0432 299 283

LEAF IT TO US Specialists in acreage mowing, garden, tree maintenance .....................0402 487213

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A.C.E. LAWNMOWING & GARDENING Best rates, reliable, guaranteed............. Nick 0404 764894

PAULâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S MOWING Local & reliable. Mullum, Bruns, O. Shores, Byron & Bangalow.........0422 958791 PROFESSIONAL LOCAL CLEANER excellent references, good rates. Shire wide. Ph Krissy ..0410 860330 NORTHERN RIVERS TRENCHING 65hp chain trencher, mini excavator, cable locating.0402 716857 A GREEN EARTH Garden restoration, maintenance, tree & rubbish removal ................0405 716552 HOLIDAY CLEANERS Avail now! Domestic, AirBnB, last-minute. Local, exp & reliable .0421 360961 ALEX EXCAVATION 3.5T Zero Swing excavator & bobcat loader & 5T Tipper Rock Grab 0417 920300 TIP RUNS & RUBBISH REMOVALS 4m3 trailer..............................................................0408 210772 BOND CLEANING...........................................................................................................0421 360961 BRUSHCUTTING Rubbish, Property Maintenance, Lawns.............................................0412 469109

ELECTRICIANS

COMPUTER SERVICES

RICKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PROPERTY MAINTENANCE Mowing, brushcutting, gardening, pool service ...0424 805660 GREEN DINGO for all your mowing and gardening needs. Ph Michael .........................0497 842442

02 66 804 173

A1 RUBBISH REMOVAL AND TIP RUNS. 9m3 trailer. Same day service. Best rates .....0413 289443

RENT-A-GEEK Mobile PC Repair (Byron Shire) ....................................................................66844335 BETTER CALL SAUL The Mac Doctor. Repairs. Upgrades. Used Macs.............................0411 562111

0439 624 945

CONCRETING & PAVING

AH

Domestic Commercial

CONCRETING DARYL 0418 234 302

Over 25 yrs local experience. All forms of concreting.

Residential â&#x20AC;˘ Civil â&#x20AC;˘ Industrial

Lic.136717c

SALISBURY

ELECTRICAL Steve Nicholls ph: 0455 445 343 lic: EC28753

All Jobs Small or Large

Lic: 154293c

24 HOUR SERVICE

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

G.W. GARDEN MAINTENANCE. Mowing, whipper snipping, gardening, tip runs ........0408 244820

LAWN MOWING rubbish removal, hedge trimming. Mullum, Bruns, Ocean Shores. Mark ..0437 343348

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

GAS SUPPLIERS Free Delivery

Lic No. 337066C

ALL AROUND

CONCRETING

Free Quotes

Call Daniel

0424 876 155

nichollselectrical@outlook.com

COUGHRAN ELECTRICAL 24 hour service, Lic 154293C .......................... 0439 624945 or 66804173 RONNIE SPINKS Everything electrical. Lic 27673 .........................................................0429 802355 JP ELECTRICAL All electrical. Level 2 ASP. Solar, data + TV. Lic 133082C .......................0432 289705 JIM LABELLE ELECTRICAL O.Shores, Mullum, Byron, Brunswick. Lic 176417C..............0415 126028

Locally Owned Est 18 years

No Rental Reliable

www.brunswickvalleygas.com

6680 1575 or 0408 760 609 GRAPHIC DESIGN

PLATINUM CRETE CONCRETING Lic 225874C. 20 years exp. Free quotes. Justin .........0458 773788 SPINKS ELECTRICAL Lic 284939C..................................................................Call Mitch 0421 843477 FLANAGAN CONCRETING & EXCAVATIONS. Lic 155456C. Ph Andrew.........................0401 968173 BLUE BEE ELECTRICAL 25 years experience. Lic 189508C. Call Dave ............................0429 033801

DECKS, PATIOS & EXTENSIONS FULL CIRCLE REFINISHING Timber & deck oiling, coating, stripping. Fast free quotes .....0419 789600 THE DECK DOCTOR Sanding & refinishing, cable balustrading. Free quotes. Richard ...0407 821690

CIRCUITS PLUS. For everything electrical in Byron Shire. Lic 201844c ..........................0422 668582

FENCING

DENTISTS LITTLE LANE DENTAL, MULLUMBIMBY ...........................................................................66842816 BRUNSWICK HOLISTIC DENTAL CENTRE.......................................................................66851264

DESIGN & DRAFTING BAREFOOT BUILDING DESIGN www.barefootbuildingdesign.com..........Bob Acton 0407 787993

www.thinkblinkdesign.com

BEN FORSYTH, Electrician. Lic:240691C. Ocean Shores & surrounds. No job too small ...0422 136408

Glass, Colorbond & Pool Fencing.

Aluminium Slat Gates & Sliding Gates.

FULLY QUALIFIED & INSURED

DESIGN Print | Branding | Social Media | Websites | Graphic Design

HANDYPERSONS A.S.A.P. All renos, carpentry, plastering, painting, studios & bathrooms .......................0405 625697 HANDY ANDY Carpentry, plastering, welding ......................................... 66884324 or 0476 600956 AWESOME REPAIRS Professional, commercial & domestic. Wayne...............................0423 218417 THE HANDYMAN CAN All home maintenance, repairs, painting, odd jobs etc .............0427 110953

DAVID ROBINSON DESIGN DRAFTING All Council & construction requirements ......0419 880048 BYRON & BEYOND FENCING Any fence, any time, prompt quotes....... 66804766 or 0422 207299 GOOD NEWS HANDYMAN Carpentry, home renovations/repairs etc. Jesse..................0458 968290 BYRON ENERGY EFFICIENT DESIGN & DRAFTING www.beedad.com.au ...............0423 531448 EDL FENCING Installations & repairs. Prompt service. ..................................................0432 107262 ABSOLUTE HANDYMAN. Repairs, renovation, maintenance, painting. Call Mark ........0402 281638 FENG SHUI DESIGN CONSULTANT Lizzie Bodenham livingbalancedesigns.com.au Ph .0431 678608 FLOW FENCING Pool fencing, timber/colourbond, local, professional and reliable.......0416 424256 HIGHPOINT Repairs & handyman services. Painting, plastering & tiling. Michael ........0421 896796

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PLUMBERS

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Lic 167371C

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Chiropractic, Counselling, Dentists, Osteopathy, Physiotherapy ACUPUNCTURE & COSMETIC MEDICINE Dr Adam Osborne ...........................................66857366 MULLUMBIMBY HERBALS Naturopathy, Ayurveda, Massage, Herbs. .............................66843002

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COUNSELLING & LIFE COACHING: Anxiety, Depression, Relationships. TracieAnne.com. 0437 174804

MULLUM HIRE Builders, party and much more ........................www.mullumhire.com.au 66843003

KITCHENS D HINGED Kitchens & Joinery. Lic 283553C. www.hinged.com.au .......................Dave 0409 843689

LANDSCAPE DESIGN BEAU JARDIN We design & build beautiful gardens www.beaujardin.com.au Lic 177274C ...0417 054443

NEIL A McINTOSH

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

ABN 48867459605 Lic 33995C

REMEDIAL MASSAGE: Deep tissue, sports, relaxation. HICAPS avail. Aaron Ovens ......0408 707304

HIRE

Chay 0429 805 081

PAINTER

WWW.EASTCOASTPILATES.COM.AU Judy Leane Ex. Phys ...........................................0408 110006

Mark Wopling

ABN 31 490 733 798 LIC 203196C

Painting & Decorating

24 years experience

Accredited

Mob: 0409 451 518

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

BILL CONNORS All plumbing/draining. Lic #1051 .................................. 66801403 or 0414 801403 HRH PLUMBING Providing a prompt, reliable & efficient service. Lic 220755C ............0402 652017 MARK STRATTON All plumbing & emergency. Sewer drain camera/locator. Lic 57803C ....0419 019035 ADM PLUMBING SERVICESâ&#x20AC;Ś (NO JOB TOO SMALL)â&#x20AC;Ś Lic 234528C. ....... Call Adam 0466 992483

6684 2323 / 0418 663 983

6685 4490 or AH on 0414 769 018

Free quotes on active termites Environmentally safe

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

Established 2008 ~ Lic No: 247282c

Specialising in: â&#x20AC;˘ Retaining Walls â&#x20AC;˘ Pool Surrounds â&#x20AC;˘ Block Work â&#x20AC;˘ Paving â&#x20AC;˘ TurďŹ ng â&#x20AC;˘ Stonework

0405 594 288

THE PEST MAN EXTRAORDINAIRE Second opinion / alternative views. 50 yrs exp .....0418 110714 BRUNSWICK BYRON PEST CONTROL................................................................................66842018

PHOTOGRAPHY

LEMONTREELANDSCAPES.COM.AU Liam. Lic No 277154C .........................................0423 700853

Tree Faerie Fotos

LOCKSMITH

30+ years experience in commercial photography and photojournalism

Professional â&#x20AC;˘ Commercial â&#x20AC;˘ Personal

Brendan Duggan Locksmith. Automotive car keys and lock installation/repair .......0412 764148

OSTEOPATHY

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

PHYSIOTHERAPY

NORTH COAST OSTEOPATHY Jodie Jacobs. Mon/Tues/Thurs/Fri.....................................66857517

PAINTING

BANGALOW PHYSIOTHERAPY Manual therapies, acupuncture, mat/reformer, clinical exercise 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

NICK EDMOND Physiotherapy & Acupuncture. Open Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday 466 Main Arm Road, Mullumbimby.....................................................................................66845288

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

Lic No 189144C

ALL-WAYS PAINTING

MULLUM POOL SHOP Water testing, eco products, mobile service, construction/repairs....0418 666839

www.sanctuarypest.com.au

02 6681 6555

Shaun Savage Landscapes

POOLS

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

LANDSCAPING

0438 784 226 â&#x20AC;˘ 6685 4154

0400 852 141

energyplumbing@gmail.com WWW.ENERGYJETTING.COM.AU WWW.ENERGYPLUMBING.COM.AU

BYRONBAYPAINTINGSERVICES.COM.AU â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Reliable. Quality work. Ph .....................1300 255 724 JARRAH DAVIDSON Plumbing, draining, gas fitting & roofing. Lic 187712C................0438 668025

1176 Myocum Rd, Mullumbimby (just past golf course)

BYRON BAY

Blocked drain specialists Everything plumbing, drainage & gasďŹ tting

mwoplingpainting@hotmail.com

â&#x20AC;˘ Sand â&#x20AC;˘ Soils â&#x20AC;˘ Gravels â&#x20AC;˘ Pots & statues â&#x20AC;˘ Lots, lots more

â&#x20AC;˘ Domestic & Commercial â&#x20AC;˘ Servicing all areas â&#x20AC;˘ Workmanship guaranteed â&#x20AC;˘ Attention to detail

30 years experience

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PEST CONTROL

20 Years Experience

20 YEARS LOCAL SERVICE

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

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT Garden Design & Property Planning. Andrew Pawsey ..........0478 519804

LANDSCAPE SUPPLIES

NEED A PLUMBER? DRAINER? GASFITTER?

ANTHONY Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ORSOGNA Physiotherapy, acupuncture, hydrotherapy Suffolk Park 1 Bryce St ... 66853511 OCEAN SHORES PHYSIOTHERAPY Manual therapies, dry needling, custom orthotics, shock wave therapy, real time ultrasound. Nigel Pitman, Ilse V Oostenbrugge....................66803499 PETRA KARNI PHYSIOTHERAPY & Craniosacral, Manual Therapy, TMJ, Classes.

REMOVALISTS

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

SHIRE REMOVALS & FREIGHT CO â&#x20AC;˘ Freight services to Brisbane weekly â&#x20AC;˘ Carriers of ďŹ ne art â&#x20AC;˘ Furniture removal â&#x20AC;˘ E-bay pick up & delivery

0409 917646

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 BENNY CAN MOVE IT! .................................................................................................0402 199999 MAN WITH A TALL VAN Furniture removal services. $60 an hour. Call Evan .................0410 120777

Petra Karni & Andrew Weatherstone. Byron and Suffolk. Mâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;F & open Saturdays. Ph ....0403 226858

ROOFING

PICTURE FRAMING BILLINUDGEL CUSTOM PICTURE FRAMING. 7/1 Wilfred St. Call for appointment......... 6680 3444

DOMESTIC â&#x20AC;˘ INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL

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Full moon 6 June Third quarter 13 June New moon 21 June First quarter 28 June Day of Sun Sun Moon month rise set rise 1 M 0630 1656 1347 2 T 0631 1656 1424 3 W 0631 1656 1503 4 T 0632 1656 1545 5 F 0632 1656 1630 6 S 0633 1656 1721 7 S 0633 1656 1817 8 M 0634 1656 1915 9 T 0634 1656 2015 10 W 0635 1656 2114 11 T 0635 1656 2211 12 F 0635 1656 2306 13 S 0636 1656 2359 14 S 0636 1656 15 M 0636 1656 0050 16 T 0637 1656 0142 17 W 0637 1656 0234 18 T 0637 1656 0328 19 F 0637 1656 0423 20 S 0638 1657 0520 21 S 0638 1657 0619 22 M 0638 1657 0716 23 T 0638 1657 0812 24 W 0638 1658 0903 25 T 0639 1658 0949 26 F 0639 1658 1032 27 S 0639 1659 1111 28 S 0639 1659 1148 29 M 0639 1659 1224 30 T 0639 1700 1301

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5.12am 4.23pm Astronomical data 4.41pm and tides 6.15pm Moon High tide, Low tide, set height (m) height (m) 0105 0358 1.61; 1658 1.48 1029 0.35; 2245 0.53 0210 0458 1.59; 1753 1.63 1116 0.29; 2351 0.46 1200 0.24 0315 0554 1.55; 1845 1.77 0422 0646 1.50; 1934 1.87 0051 0.40; 1244 0.21 0530 0737 1.43; 2022 1.93 0147 0.36; 1326 0.21 0637 0826 1.36; 2108 1.95 0242 0.34; 1408 0.24 0742 0914 1.29; 2154 1.93 0334 0.35; 1449 0.29 0842 1000 1.23; 2238 1.86 0426 0.37; 1532 0.36 0935 1048 1.17; 2321 1.77 0516 0.42; 1615 0.44 1022 1138 1.14 0605 0.47; 1701 0.53 1102 0005 1.67; 1232 1.12 0653 0.51; 1754 0.62 1138 0050 1.57; 1335 1.13 0742 0.53; 1854 0.69 1210 0140 1.48; 1442 1.17 0831 0.54; 2005 0.74 1241 0234 1.41; 1546 1.24 0919 0.52; 2122 0.75 1310 0331 1.36; 1641 1.34 1004 0.49; 2232 0.73 1340 0426 1.33; 1728 1.45 1046 0.45; 2332 0.68 1411 0515 1.31; 1810 1.55 1124 0.41 1444 0601 1.29; 1849 1.64 0023 0.62; 1200 0.38 1522 0645 1.28; 1929 1.72 0108 0.56; 1234 0.35 1604 0727 1.26; 2008 1.78 0150 0.50; 1310 0.32 1652 0808 1.25; 2048 1.82 0231 0.46; 1347 0.31 1746 0850 1.24; 2129 1.84 0314 0.43; 1427 0.31 1845 0935 1.22; 2212 1.84 0358 0.41; 1508 0.33 1947 1022 1.21; 2256 1.82 0443 0.40; 1554 0.36 2051 1113 1.21; 2342 1.78 0530 0.40; 1645 0.41 2155 1210 1.22 0621 0.41; 1741 0.47 2259 0031 1.72; 1313 1.25 0714 0.40; 1845 0.53 0125 1.64; 1422 1.31 0806 0.39; 2000 0.58 0002 0223 1.55; 1531 1.41 0859 0.37; 2118 0.60 0105 0325 1.47; 1636 1.54 0951 0.34; 2236 0.57

Times are Eastern Standard Daylight Savings Time.

Time lags: Ballina Boat Dock: 15 min; Byron Bay: nil; Brunswick River Hwy Bridge: high 30 min, low 1 hr; Mullumbimby: 1 hr 10 min; Billinudgel: 3 hr 55 min; Chinderah: high 1 hr 15 min, low 2 hr; Terranora Inlet: high 2 hr 10 min, low 2 hr 25 min; Murwillumbah: high 2 hr 30 min, low 2 hr 50 min. Tides in bold indicate high tide of 1.7m or more and low tide of 0.3m or less. Data from Bureau of Meteorology.

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POSITIONS VACANT EXPERIENCED Medical Receptionist wanted to join the Admin Team at Meadows Medical Centre. Apply via email at manager@meadowsmedical.com.au

FIREWOOD • Fence posts • Poles • Sleepers • Sawn timber Kings Creek, Mullumbimby Mark 0427 490 038

Mon-Wed, by appointment Thurs/Fri 8am to 4pm | Sat, 8am to 3pm

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25/05/2020–25/03/1960 Athlete, musician, technologist, family man and football fan. The polemicist philosopher always a perceptive optimist.

A businessman, known for Rainbow Technology Centre amongst many others.

Rest assured David is grooving as he progresses on his journey, dancing free above the chaos.

Survived by 4 brothers: Mark, Richard, Matthew & John. 5 sisters: Sally, Jill, Susan, Mary & Annie. 4 children: Krishna, Lucky, Alanna & Chenoa.

In our hearts for infinity.

Ceremony to be held 6 June.

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IN MEMORIAM KYLIE FUNG passed away, aged 50 on 31 May, 2020 at Tweed Hospital. Much loved mother of Zoe McDonald and sister of Sarah and Emmaline. Partner of Benny. Daughter of Neil and the late Ida. A memorial service will be held for Kylie on Friday 5 June at 10.30am on Belongil Beach and after at Suffolk Park.

Kylie made every moment count

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Members of Brunswick Valley VIEW Club are looking forward to meeting again in person in a few months.

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Book fair cancelled

The members of Brunswick Valley VIEW Club are keeping in touch during the coronavirus crisis and are looking forward to meeting again in person in a few months.

VIEW stands for Voice, Interests and Education of Women. The club proudly support The Smith Family’s Learning for Life program, which provides disadvantaged students with financial assistance, emotional support and access to educational programs to help them get the most from their education.

The club usually has a luncheon meeting on the second Thursday of each month, with an interesting guest speaker.

VIEW members make lasting friendships, share ideas and knowledge and enjoy social activities. Regular friendship mornings are held as well as monthly luncheons.

Ladies who are interested in fun and friendship are invited to come to a VIEW luncheon as a visitor. New members are always welcome. Numbers are required for catering purposes. The first VIEW luncheon after easing of the restrictions will be publicised for members and guests. For more information, phone our president, Margaret on 0429 966 894.

Friends of Libraries Byron Shire (FOL) have reluctantly cancelled the annual Byron Book Fair, normally held in July. But, fear not, the thousands of books are safely stored (thanks to Byron Bay Self Storage) and the Book Fair will be bigger and better in 2021. Even though FOL’s major fundraiser will not go ahead this year, they are still supporting the Shire’s libraries. Byron Bay library is using the shutdown to repair some worn out furniture. FOL is providing $4,000 to re-cover a number of the well-used armchairs in the library. And this financial year, they have already provided $11,400 for new books.

Online author events have also become popular. FOL is planning two online book launches in the near future: Georgie Brooks’ A Year in the Mud and The Toast and the Tears, and Alice Achan and Philippa Tyndale’s The School of Restoration.

Visitors Scheme The Community Visitors Scheme is an empowering free service that connects volunteer visitors to senior citizens who are living independently or in residential care.

If you are a senior citizen who feels isolated and would like to connect to someone via letter writing, telephone, email or video chat, call Northern Rivers Community Gateway on 6621 7397.

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

Low-cost or free food Food Box Thursdays 9.30–11.30am at Uniting Church, Mullumbimby. If you have any sort of Centrelink card you may purchase cheap food, obtain free veges, and enjoy a cuppa. Free Food Relief Bags for anyone doing it tough, every 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.

Mullumbimby and District Neighbourhood Centre services are operational MDNC services that are running include: Community support/emergency relief: Food parcels, meals, assistance with electricity and Telstra bills.

Listening Space – free counselling.

Staying Home, Leaving Violence program.

Integrated Domestic & Family Violence program.

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Information, referral and advocacy.

‘We are seeing people who have never had to access a service like ours before’, says the MDNC. ‘We are doing everything we can to ensure people feel valued and have dignity as they access support.

‘We encourage people to call us on 0491 227 306. We can talk to people about what they need, and any items can be collected. In some cases we can organise delivery’, says the MDNC.

Byron Community Centre continuing to run services These programs include: Homeless Breakfast: 7.30–9am Wednesday and Friday.

Homeless Showers: Monday and Wednesday 10–12.30pm (book in at breakfast).

Women’s Support Group: Fridays (women only) 1–3pm at Community Cabins.

Severe Wet Weather Shelter: signs at Byron Community Centre on days when WWS open, with instructions.

Cancer transport Cancer Council NSW’s Transport to Treatment (T2T) is made up of a volunteer driving force. Many of those drivers were over 60, and T2T had to stand down 91 per cent of their drivers as COVID-19 struck. Putting a call out across the Northern Rivers for drivers that are not in a risk category they have been able to train 19 new drivers, and keep their service going.

‘Cancer never stops, not even for a global pandemic. We needed drivers desperately, or put simply; some cancer patients would not be able to access their life-saving treatment,’ said Northern NSW Community Lead, Caitlyn Feldmann.

‘We still have a need for three to five drivers in Ballina/Lismore, and five drivers in Tamworth, so if you’re in these areas, under the age of 60 and have some spare time you’d like to spend helping people in need, please reach out to your local Cancer Council office.’

If you would like to volunteer for, or donate to, Cancer Council NSW go to their website: cancercouncil.com.au.

The Arts Yard, Bangalow We’re an artist collective in the hinterland of Byron Bay known as The Arts Yard and the Illumin8 Gallery, and we are creating some amazing artwork.

Due to all the changes that are happening from COVID-19 we’re also changing and adapting the way we interact with the world and invite you to watch this short video to meet our talented artists and find out what’s on the horizon for us: https://www.youtube.com.

Alcoholics Anonymous All AA meetings are now available online, via a Zoom or Skype platform. For more information call 0401 945 671, 1800 423 431, or 1300 222 222. Find out more from Lonnie at ww.aa.org.au.

Fun Croquet We are returning to play. Our starting dates are: Tuesday, 2 June and Thursday, 4 June at 9.30am.

New guidelines: please bring your own mallet (mallets are still available to purchase), cup, thermos flask of tea or coffee, water, correct

Free Phone Counselling for Byron Residents: Call 0414 322 064, 10am–2pm weekdays to make an appointment.

Emergency Food Delivery: Locals who are physically or financially unable to shop can now phone the Byron Emergency Pantry on 0482 787 552 to request a free food box delivery.

In this time of isolation, Liberation Larder is partnering in this venture to help out the community by providing healthy, freshly cooked meals and fresh produce.

Women’s Counselling: For women needing extra support, leave a message for community worker on 6685 6807.

Respite Service Byron Shire Respite Service Inc delivers high-quality respite care to a broad range of clients throughout the Byron, Ballina and Lismore shires. Donations welcome: Ph 6685 1921, email fundraiser@byronrespite.com.au, website: www.byronrespite.com.au.

Support after suicide StandBy provides support to people who have lost someone to suicide.

They provide free 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.

money ($3) to play. Social distancing requires that you keep 1.5 meters between yourself and others. Hand sanitiser and wipes will be available in the shed and the trolleys. There will be chairs set out under the shelter to use whilst waiting to play, or having a break.

Looking forward to starting to play again. Any questions please ring Jenny on 0413 335941.

Prostate Cancer Support For Members of both the Northern Rivers DAY and EVENING Prostate Cancer Support Groups we are not currently holding normal monthly meetings. Contact will be made with members when these restrictions are waived and meeting places are open once again. If members have any problems contact can be made with the following: Gordon Wright on 6684 1137 or 0415 664 649 or Bob Johnson on 6622 5792.

Community transport The Tweed Byron and Ballina Community Transport (TBBCT) is still operating through the COVID-19 pandemic. TBBCT clients can still call to book a trip, if their transport needs are essential eg, medical appointments that can’t be undertaken by Telehealth.Trips into Queensland can take place for medical appointments. TBBCT is unable to provide transport for people with flu-like symptoms, or who suspect they may have contracted COVID-19. Call your GP for advice.

TBBCT is still taking on new clients and accepting referrals through My Aged Care. They can also assist callers with CHSP and community transport inquiries. TBBCT offices are not accessible to visitors at the moment, but calls are welcome, during office hours 8.30am–4.40pm, Monday to Friday on 1300 875 895.

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1. Takes a position on tripods (6) 4. A loud Fairlane – journalist had the money (8) 9. Princess and employees = of the female kind (7) 11. Saw and listed about 99 (7) 12. Good French leave – that’s the drum (5) 13. A newsroom includes scullers (9) 14. Part of the prize fight, a list where everyone is of equal status (5,5) 16. Gentle mantra, gentle but splendid display (4) 19. Mark of small automobile (4) 20. No odd notes performed – how my hair rose! (5,2,3) 22. Popular, one failure? Hesitation, turn round – he was dictator (9) 23. Taxi – and a line for the conspirators (5) 25. In Bordeaux, Catwater castle (7) 26. They say I collapse in a very little bit of water (7) 27. Carelessly, one names the sea creatures (8) 28. Rip apart, and weep (4,2)

1. Takes upright position (6) 4. Had enough money to pay (8) 9. On the female side (7) 11. Saw, perceived (7) 12. Type of antelope (5) 13. Female rowers (9) 14. Venue without precedence; general discussion (5,5) 16. Ostentatious ceremony (4) 19. Mark from a wound (4) 20. What hair did when owner was frightened (5,2,3) 22. Il Duce (9) 23. Collaboration of conspirators (5) 25 French castle (7) 26. Optical medication (7) 27. Windroses (8) 28. Rip apart (4,2)

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Backlash No, The Echo is not closing.

There has been some confusion because Murdoch’s News Corp announced they are soon abandoning their regional newspapers – see page 1. The Echo is a small independently owned operation, whereas News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch is a US citizen with a family net worth of around $30b.

See page 12 editorial.

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real farmers, real food Our farmers markets will remain open

*With increased hygiene and social distancing

An story about a new wildlife hospital for Byron Bay was mistakenly published too early in The Echo last week.

Crowdfunding for the fully equipped custom-built mobile Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital will officially launch on June 3. It is scheduled to be operational by September. For more info visit the Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital Facebook page.

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Rio Tinto celebrated Aboriginal Reconciliation Week by destroying a 46,000-year-old sacred site in the Pilbarra region for a mining project.

So – a slow clap to the Liberal and National government that allowed it, as well as Rio Tinto’s chairman Simon Thompson, chief executive J-S Jacque, and chief financial officer Jakob Stausholm.

As cartoonist First Dog On The Moon pointed out, these artefacts were destroyed by people who probably don’t know who their ancestors were 300 years ago.

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As riots engulf the US with COVID-19 hanging in the air, activist Cornel West said: ‘It looks like the system can’t reform itself. We’ve tried black faces in high places… Black Lives Matter emerged under a black president, a black attorney general and a black

It’s been one year since young Belgian backpacker, Théo Hayez, disappeared from a Byron nightclub. A community and police search began from June 7, with police suspending their search on July 3. Yet community members continued the search in Byron’s surrounds till September. Théo’s parents said in a statement this week: ‘We would like to thank the public for supporting us through this very difficult year. The generosity of strangers has blown us away, and continues to help us endure this nightmare’. Photo Dylan O’Donnell homeland security [secretary] and they could not deliver’.

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The Echo does not endorse all advertising that is published.

That includes the government’s push to sign up the nation to its COVID-19 app, about which many questions remain unanswered.

Releasing the source code may engender some public trust, yet it would take a lot more than that. The project was led by one of the Liberal government’s worst performers, Stuart Roberts. The military trained spook and Pentecostal friend of the PM gave the nation Robodebt and the 2016 census debacle, just for starters.

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ICYMI the Cape Byron Lighthouse is undergoing renovations, which are expected to take about five weeks to complete.

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