The Byron Shire Echo – Issue 35.08 – August 5, 2020

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5G complaint squashed by telco watchdog Paul Bibby The communications watchdog has refused to investigate alleged breaches of telecommunications law by Telstra in relation to the installation of 5G technology in Mullumbimby. In response to a complaint from anti-5G campaigners who detailed a raft of alleged breaches, the Australian Communications Media Authority (ACMA) said it had made ‘preliminary enquiries’ and concluded that this is ‘not a matter that the ACMA should investigate’. ‘During our enquiries we sought, and obtained, information from Telstra about their compliance with the Deployment Code,’ ACMA Telecommunications Engineer, Andrew Sabo, said in an email to anti-5G group Northern Rivers for Safe Technology. ‘We used this information as the basis upon which we assessed their compliance in relation to their proposed upgrade at this site.’ The response is a slap in the face for the members of Northern Rivers for Safe Technology who have been fighting to stop 5G being installed on Telstra’s tower at 95 Dalley Street. They have maintained 24/7 monitoring of the site for the past 15 weeks in a bid to ensure that Telstra does not undertake the installation when no one is looking. In an extended complaint to the watchdog they set out a range of alleged breaches of the Deployment Code, the key law relating to the installation of telecommunications infrastructure.

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They alleged that the limited pubic notification published by Telstra, failed to provide an adequate description of the proposed facility. ‘It is Telstra’s usual practice, when proposing to upgrade towers to 5G, to state in their public notification that “5G antennas� will be installed,’ the complaint said. ‘However, in this instance, “5G� is notably absent from the description of the proposed works.’ The campaigners further alleged that Telstra failed to provide accurate contact details for public feedback. ‘The public notice provided the following address for submissions: PO Box 2777, Brisbane, QLD, 4001.’

Petitions returned by Telstra unopened ‘During the submissions period, we sent a parcel of 268 signed petitions to that address. Although Australia Post’s tracking shows the parcel was delivered to that PO Box address, it was subsequently Returned to Sender. ‘If our parcel was returned to sender, how many other community submissions that were sent to this address were not received by Telstra?’ There were a range of other complaints, including that the telco ignored its obligation to consider comments received from the community, and that they failed to respond to reasonable requests for information. But ACMA declined to accept any of the complaints â–ś Continued on page 2

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It was a glorious day for the first Byron Bay Market by the beach since the COVID-19 shutdown. Roy, Benjamin, Odem, Zohar and Keshet enjoyed a little hangout at Hat Empire. Photo Jeff Dawson

Byron Council’s operational budget approved Executive Council staff are yet to explain why there were scant details attached to their proposal to approve $27m in two loans in the 2020/21 Operational Plan and Budget. The budget/plan, with amendments, was adopted unanimously by councillors at last Thursday’s meeting, with Cr Cate Coorey’s motion reading in part, ‘Council notes that possible loan borrowings for projects identified in the budget will only be undertaken after all feasibility studies have been done, public exhibition has occurred and a Council resolution

passed that supports the progression of each project’. During morning public access, 2021 Greens candidate Matthew O’Reilly, resident Anthony Stante, John ‘Fast Buck$’ Anderson, and former mayor and state MLC Jan Barham all spoke about the $12m loan for Council’s Myocum solar farm project on Dingo Lane. When asked to comment on Ms Barham’s concerns, Council staff replied to The Echo that ‘Ms Barham’s question was presented to the Council and all information on the budget was available at

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www.yoursaybyronshire.com.au’. Their reply also included Cr Cate Coorey’s motion that was adopted by councillors. Amendements to the motion include $100,000 to kick start shared paths in Bangalow, which will assist the elderly at Feros. Staff will also be asked to ‘Provide a quarterly update report on the outcome of discussions with State government and agencies about the multi-use of the rail corridor, including any policy developments and funding opportunities identified’.

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Five of Irene’s eight great grandchildren; Sienna Dunlop, Felicity Smith, Zac Dunlop, Lachlan Dunlop and Keira Smith. Photo Jeff Dawson Irene Mavis O’Hara, mum to councillor Jan Hackett, celebrated 100 years last week. Ms Hackett said her mum was born in Glen Innes. ‘She met dad, Arthur Hackett, when she was just 17, when he was appointed to Glen Innes while working for the Bank of NSW. Dad was born in 1917 and bred in Byron Bay – he was the grandson of William Flick. ‘Dad’s mother was Win

Flick, and his father, Simpson Hackett. Sim worked for Norco, and was the longterm secretary of the Literary Institute and town coroner during the war years, among other things. ‘Mum and dad married in 1940, when mum was just 19, and lived briefly in Casino and Mullumbimby, before moving in with my dad’s parents in Shirley Street, Byron Bay, until the war was over.

‘After the war, they moved to Lismore and lived there for 11 years, before the bank moved (us) on – Hobart, Sydney, Bangalow, Newcastle, and Sydney. I was born in Lismore. My mum lived alone after dad’s death in 2001 in Sydney until she was 96, when I brought her up here to Feros Village Byron Bay after she fractured her back and could no longer care for herself’.

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Councillor and mayoral wages will remain at just above the Newstart allowance – and without superannuation – after the tribunal that considers expenditure within local government rejected Council’s request to be reclassified as a regional centre. Instead, Byron Shire Council will remain in the regional rural category, which attracts a lower pay grade for councillors and the mayor. At last Thursday’s meeting, councillors voted for Cr Sarah Ndiaye’s motion to respond to the Local Government Remuneration Tribunal and write a letter of disappointment to local representatives. All were in favour, except Nationals Party aligned councillor Alan Hunter, who voted against, without explanation. According to a staff report, ‘The Tribunal deemed that Byron’s population of 35,081 was significantly below the indicative population of Regional Centre councils and Council was considered not to have met the criteria to warrant inclusion in the Regional Centre group’. The staff report says councillors’ wages are capped at $20,280 pa, while the mayor receives a maximum of $44,250 pa. Locally based upper house MLC Ben Franklin (Nationals) was asked whether he would support reclassification and legislation amendments, but instead deferred the question

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to the Minister for Local Government. The Echo asked him, ‘Do you support Byron being reclassified as a regional centre, given it accommodates at least 2.2m annual visitors? Is the framework around classification of LGAs distorted in terms of impacts that visitors have? ‘Are you amenable to introducing amendments to the LG Act (or the relevant Act) to parliament so that the Tribunal would consider visitor impacts, and not just population numbers when it comes to the classification?’

a year, and burgeoning resident and business growth, it is hard to understand the decision. Yet again, we see our lived experience as a tourist destination, not captured by the cookie cutter indices used by government to classify communities. ‘We expect a lot from our councillors, and we want them to do a good job of protecting our community and to safeguard our beautiful environment. They have an enormous responsibility to the community. But how realistic is that, when they are being paid less than the old Newstart! It is a joke. Council directors [staff ] are earning more than ten times what councillors are earning. ‘Councillors in Byron Shire need to be paid a living wage for the large volume of work that they are expected to do. Greens NSW have long advocated for reasonable remuneration for all councillors in local government. The government has the power right now to take visitor impacts, and not just population numbers, into account when it comes to regional classifications’.

What do MPs earn? According to www. parliament.nsw.gov.au, as a member of the Legislative Council, Ben Franklin receives a base salary of $203, 030 plus an electoral allowance of between $60,000 and $80,000. Meanwhile, local MP Tamara Smith (Greens) told The Echo, ‘It is an appalling and near sighted decision by the Local Government Remuneration Tribunal not to reclassify Byron Shire as a regional centre. ‘With 2.2 million visitors

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The pelican came down, the rotunda was restored and the vision was formed. ‘We knew we wanted to celebrate our Indigenous heritage,’ said Richard. ‘We have worked with Delta Kay for the last year, and Daniel Hend has painted a panorama for the rotunda. We hope we have created a new cultural space by going into our Aboriginal heritage. ‘We tried to do it 30 years ago, but we didn’t manage it. This time, we had quite a big Indigenous team – the totem is carved with all the animals of the Indigenous people of this region – and that has been painted by Digby Moran and Richard Clarke. Very sadly, Digby died in January, having just completed his work on the pole. All the bright colours are Digby’s colours. He was a local

man and an internationally regarded artist’, says Richard. Richard was aware of what happened in Byron Bay with the ‘Disco Dong’ sculpture, and admitted that the public’s reaction to it made the gateway committee nervous.

Sculpture wary ‘I think what happened in Byron was so sad. All these people climbed out from under rocks to attack and attack, whether right or wrong, it was something not great to do to someone in a public space’, he said. ‘The whole of our team is local, and 70 per cent of what we have done is Indigenous – it is very inclusive – it has been paid for through the community – we got a big NSW grant and a NRCF grant, you’d be amazed by how

many people have given.’ The pelican has been replaced by a 15 metre totem, carved by Tonu for the Uplift Festival. This was donated to the gateway by the founders of Uplift in 2018, and Delta Kay agreed to lead a small team of Arakwal artists, so that the gateway rotunda would become a celebration of this region’s First People. ‘We decided to paint the new totem – it had been sitting in a paddock for seven years – it was carved by people and elders from all over the world. We wrote to Barat at Uplift and asked if he would donate it, to which he graciously agreed’. He added, ‘It you don’t paint it, it will deteriorate.’ An inauguration for the gateway is planned for August 30.

5G complaint squashed by telco watchdog ▶ Continued from page 1 as reasonable grounds to conduct a detailed investigation. ‘We do not agree that the ACMA’s assessment was in any way biased or unreasonable and maintain that all appropriate regulatory functions have been conducted in the appropriate manner,’ Mr Sabo said.

for regulating the same companies, represented a conflict of interest. ‘Locals aren’t even being considered by ACMA,’ Ms

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The Mullumbimby Gateway Committee have been busy working towards creating an inclusive welcome structure that reflects this very extraordinary little town and its story. And now it’s ready for the community to enjoy. Richard Mordaunt was involved in the first Gateway project in 1987, and he has also been part of the committee that has driven the current re-imagining of the Uncle Tom’s turnoff. He says, ‘The first gateway involved Bob Gray, Jim Nutter, Roger Garlic and Ruby Collins. All that original team are up on the board at the Rotunda.’ As a filmmaker and local resident, Richard believes that a gateway is an integral part of how a person enters a town. ‘A gateway should tell the story of who we are, and what our spirit is as a town. ‘It slowly started to look like an old church yard that no one had looked after, and we realised we had to renew it’, said Richard. ‘In February 2019, Essential Energy lifted the old totems out of the ground, only for the committee to discover white ants had eaten their way through. And so a new vision was born. So Richard filled in the forms and a completely new team was gathered to refresh the Gateway – along with Richard, that team included Richard Hughes, Sunita Bailey, and Greg Aitken with assistance from Maggie Brown.

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Rare plant species makes a comeback Doof party held in Indigenous lake area A dance party with at least 100 people was held at the Aboriginal lake area between Suffolk Park and Broken Head Saturday night/ Sunday morning, breaching COVID-19 guidelines. Detective Chief Inspector Matthew Kehoe confirmed that police ‘were called to a noise complaint in that area on Saturday night’, although he said he believed the party could not be located. A resident told The Echo that cars, many with interstate number plates, filled

MacGregor, Alcorn, Clifford, Hayter, and Bryce streets, with taxi drop offs from 1am. ‘The next morning, generators, fuel, speakers and mounds of rubbish were observed being removed’. They said, ‘It is offensive to the local Indigenous custodians, and damages this environment, wildlife, and impacts on local residents’. The Echo asked DCI Kehoe if there were sufficient resources to respond to such events. He replied, ‘We have

sufficient resources at Byron Bay Police Station, although there are clearly difficulties when two police respond to a party involving hundreds of people that we try to disperse’. With regards to who to contact in future about similar parties, DCI Kehoe said, ‘We would ask people contacting us about noise complaints and these types of parties to provide sufficient information to identify the site. Often the locations are remote and difficult to find’.

Black Lives Matter address for Byron Writers Fest Dianne Brown of SoS and John Nagle of LLS planted a Coastal Fontainea, back in 2010. It is now five metres tall. Photo supplied The population of a critically endangered plant species, that is only found in the littoral rainforest area around Lennox Head, has leapt from ten to more than 1,500 trees, in just a decade. It’s the result of work from ‘clear-thinking scientists, government funding and the community’, says project officer Dianne Brown. She is part of the NSW government’s Saving our Species (SoS) program, which means the species – Coastal

Fontainea – now has a far better chance of surviving. ‘In 2010, we had just ten adult trees left – only one of which was female – and genetic testing on the seedlings showed inbreeding. Safeguarding Coastal Fontainea’s future was critical,’ she said.

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the ten remaining trees and planted in small clumps across private and public land. ‘Coastal Fontainea is a small evergreen tree which grows to around eight to 10m in height and is only found on volcanic soils in the littoral rainforest near Lennox Head. It has shiny dark-green leaves and small white flowers’. Find out more about threatened species in the SoS program at www.environment.nsw.gov.au/SOS.

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One of Australia’s most eminent Indigenous academics and advocates, Prof Marcia Langton, will deliver the Byron Writers Festival 2020 Thea Astley address. The address, named in honour of one of Australia’s most influential and distinctive novelists, has been presented annually at the Festival since 2005 by some of Australia’s best writers and intellectuals. Thea Astley, who died in 2004, wrote The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow in 1996. The novel is based on a violent event that took

Prof Marcia Langton place on Palm Island, QLD in 1930 perpetuated by a white superintendent of the settlement. He was eventually shot dead by one of the Indigenous inhabitants, under orders from the white

deputy superintendent. Professor Langton says, ‘I hope Thea Astley in the other world has watched the last few weeks of the Black Lives Matter movement, and pondered on the history of Palm Island. It seems that every generation needs to be told why black lives matter. ‘Here we are again’. The speech will be available via podcast from Wednesday August 5 at www.byronwritersfestival. com/digital and the full transcript will be published by The Conversation at www.theconversation.com.

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Local News Economic output plummets nearly 80%: Bluesfest Hans Lovejoy The Northern Rivers has lost around $163m of revenue and 745.3 full time equivalent (FTE) jobs as a result of Bluesfest being cancelled last April owing to COVID-19, according to a new report by Reuben Lawrence Consulting. Bluesfest director, Peter Noble OAM, told The Echo that the findings were compiled from patron surveys, ticket statistics, and were compared to Destination NSW data for like events, in terms of average spend per person. ‘The consultants are an independent firm, whose reports are accepted and referred to by official authorities’, he says. The report found a substantial decrease of 78.5 per cent from the level of expenditure in 2018/19, which was ‘$163m in the Northern Rivers and $277m in NSW’. Additionally, flow-on impacts from Bluesfest 2019 to other industries across Byron Shire were substantial, and include ‘$25.7 million for arts and recreation services, $20.8 million for accommodation and foods services and $14.3 million for retail trade’. Mr Noble says, ‘The report clearly denotes the loss of both employment and gross revenue to the Northern Rivers community, and NSW. ‘The comparisons in employment levels and income, as well as gross revenue, owing to the festival not occurring in 2020 compared to when it did in 2019, are alarming’. Yet despite the pandemic still unfolding, and unknown future impacts on the industry, Mr Noble is adamant he will find a way to present the multi-award winning festival in 2021. ‘We will work towards 2021’, he says. ‘It’s not how big you are, it’s how good you are. Next year will have to be safe and good’. With 2021 planning

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COVID-19 planning Bluesfest organisers say they are working closely with health officials and even epidemiologists. ‘We found a company that could put a COVID-19 plan together; I believe no other festivals are doing that yet. ‘We have an incredible close knit team of 17 – we haven’t let any of our staff go,’ he says. ‘I can’t do that to people’. Another positive, he says, is that, ‘Ticket sales are great – people want us to come back!’ While the entertainment sector was promised a federal arts package on June 25, Mr Noble says he is ‘yet to see the details’. He says, ‘According to the federal government’s own stats, the entertainment industry is worth $111b, yet includes all ticketed events such as sport. I am reliably told that while sport and music are similar in size, the music sector is slightly larger. ‘It’s worth adding that these stats are not fully

accepted across the industry’. While Bluesfest is a significant event, attracting the world’s top artists, it is also one of the few which remains proudly independently owned and operated, having presented the planet’s most well known and talented musical acts for 32 years.

Sector dominated by multinationals In recent years, Mr Noble says a number of Australian promoters and events companies have been bought out by a handful of US-owned corporates. Mr Noble says competing against a handful of well resourced foreign owned corporates is a challenge, given their model includes squeezing competitors by paying more for overseas artists, for example. ‘We have been approached to be bought out’, he says. ‘But we aren’t about selling out’. The most powerful entertainment corporates include AEG entertainment group, headed by US oil billionaire Philip Anschutz. Another US corporation, TEG, claims to be ‘Asia Pacific’s leading live

entertainment, ticketing and technology business’. It also owns Ticketek, which claims to be, ‘Australia’s number one ticketing company’. Live Nation, also based in the US, is another well known large operator, and owns a majority stake in Splendour in The Grass and Falls Festivals. While Mr Noble says he doesn’t ‘deny their right to exist’, he says smaller independent operators should be protected. ‘My hope is that the federal arts industry package doesn’t land in the laps of the corporates, and is instead spread around to other key smaller players’. Despite all the challenges, it’s about the music and the enthusiastic crowds, many who travel to Byron Shire to take part in the iconic Bluesfest event. ‘After their Bluesfest show a few years ago, Earth Wind and Fire band members told me in the dressing room they wanted to take the audience with them to their next gig! ‘They said it was the best audience they had played to for years. When you hear great music, it hits ya’. For more information visit www.bluesfest.com.au.

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Tales of urbanisation in rural landscapes Story & photo Eve Jeffery A development planned for Eureka has some of the locals pretty upset at what they see as Byron Shire Council breaking their own rules to accommodate the construction of 15 ‘rural living lots’ on what is currently farmland. The DA, lodged by EGS Investments Pty Ltd, is for 149 Federal Drive, Eureka, and seeks to convert what the locals see as ‘a viable operating macadamia orchard and cattle grazing property’ to a Community Title (CT) development. Hilarie Dunn’s residence will be in full view of two of the five, three-dwelling clusters and she is at a loss to understand why they are going ahead. ‘The DA is seeking to replace a large macadamia farm and cattle property with 15 residential blocks. It is completely at odds with the Council’s own strategy for the Byron Shire – in particular the Byron Rural Land Use Strategy (RLUS) 2017 and the Byron Local Environment Plan.’ Ms Dunn says she feels the development will rob the Shire of prime agricultural land forever. ‘I want the Council to follow its own guidelines and reject this proposal. At the very least, reduce the scale of it maybe to five or six.’ Ms Dunn says the residents of Eureka have made numerous submissions that have clearly stated why this development is too big for Eureka. ‘Our objections seem to have made no impression on Council.’ The residents also feel

Hilarie Dunn and Geoffrey Cotton and the site of the development in the middle distance. it is unfair that most of the councillors spent time at the property, yet they were only given five minutes to speak to Council themselves. They say that their submissions were summarily dismissed and that no community consultation took place. The agenda for a Council planning meeting about the DA, dated May 16, 2019, does appear to have responses for most of the two dozen submissions which opposed. But on the question of the lack of community consultation prior to lodgement, the agenda reads: ‘While community consultation prior to lodgement is ideal, it is not a legislative planning requirement.’ Another resident, Geoffrey Cotton, says that the land is State Significant Farmland, and should be protected from competing uses like residential development. ‘There are two big

problems here. The first is the loss of top-quality agricultural land and the second is the issue of the responsibility of development applicants to provide full and honest information, and to support any claims they make’.

Councillor replies The Echo contacted all of the Byron Shire councillors. Cr Alan Hunter is so far the only one to respond. Cr Hunter said he reviewed his notes, conditions of consent, and the staff recommendations in relation to this DA to further confirm Council’s decision. ‘There is an expectation by some in the Byron community that neighbours have a right to veto a neighbouring development application. That is not the case. Neighbours and the broader community are invited, through the public exhibition process, to raise

with our professional planning staff their concerns about the likely impacts of such development. ‘Council rarely hears from anyone happy with a development application, most accept the process and get on with their life. ‘In this case, many issues were raised, but the issue most concerning to Council was the use of the 15 dwellings, and to not allow holiday letting and the associated negative impacts to become an issue in the future, so that was addressed in the resolution. ‘It is a large block of land and now more families can enjoy a rural lifestyle in the highly sought after coastal hinterland environment’. Yet the residents don’t see it that way. Ms Dunn says, ‘I can’t afford to fight this by myself. Council needs to protect our countryside and agricultural land’.

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David Lowe After a vocal community response to Rous County Council’s Future Water Project 2060, the water utuility board is considering extending public comments on its proposal for an extra month at an extraordinary meeting this Friday. The deadline is currently August 12. The new 50 GL dam planned downstream of the current Rocky Creek Dam, is the centrepiece of Rous County Council’s plan for the future drinking water supply for the shires of Byron, Ballina, Lismore and Richmond Valley, but there have been calls for alternative approaches to be considered, including desalination, use of purified recycled water and greater efficiency.

Business as usual? Former Byron Shire Councillor Duncan Dey (and the leader of the local Greens ticket for the forthcoming local elections) told The Echo the problem is that ‘it’s a business-as-usual plan’ which is based on sourcing new water from a new dam to meet anticipated new demand. ‘Limiting supply has never been a serious option for Rous,’ Mr Dey said. He points to the example of Sydney Water using a demand management approach, in which there’s a variable price for water depending on the level of Warragamba Dam, providing an incentive for customers to use less piped water. Mr Dey suggests Rous could manage demand by simply telling the four councils that it won’t expand the

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Rocky Creek Dam supplies water to four north coast shires. Photo www.rous.nsw.gov.au supply of new fresh water. ‘Rous’s current bulk sources could supply drinking water for ten times the current population, if it actively encouraged the use of other supplies for uses where the water is not ingested by people. ‘A human only drinks two or three of the 160 litres allocated per person, per day, by Rous. Using drinking water to flush a poo is ludicrous,’ he said. Whatever happens with the Dunoon dam, it’s clear that with climate change biting, Australians need to re-think their attitudes to water. Modelling suggests that there will be less water available in the future, and more extreme weather events. According to Mr Dey, ‘Byron Shire could take a stand and lead the way, by capping its draw to a share that matches the current secure supply. We would then drought-proof ourselves by other means, and there are many. ‘One example is that an average house has an impervious roof that sheds more water per year than the household beneath it uses in a year.’ Mr Dey said, ‘If a decent

price were asked of Rous for the environmental damage of its dam proposal, then the numbers would crunch towards a different proposal – a sustainable one that we could all be proud of.’

Desalination Goonellabah environmentalist, Daniel Peterson, told The Echo that another dam could be avoided if Byron Shire’s water supply needs were decoupled from the other three councils and the region received its water from a renewable energy powered desalination plant. He has calculated that ‘we need 2.5 hectares of standard solar farm to generate enough water to satisfy Rous Water’s alleged need for an additional five gigalitres per year,’ pointing out that the proposed Dunoon Dam, by contrast, would have a 240 hectare footprint. Mr Peterson said that with desal for Byron, the remaining councils could then have their water needs met, into the future, by the existing Rocky Creek Dam. He suggested that if the desal plant was run on renewable energy all year round, instead of just at times of drought, then the problems identified by Rous

Meanwhile, Rous County Council Chair Keith Williams told The Echo that groundwater, desal and recycled water each come with significant price tags. ‘The dam is put forward on the basis that it’s the lowest cost per unit of water produced in the future. It’s a large upfront capital cost, but you don’t have to keep spending a lot of capital on it once you’ve built it.’ Cr Williams said Rous County Council is ‘knocking on every State and federal politician’s door that we can’, looking for support. But Duncan Dey argues that the time has come for Australia, and the Northern Rivers, to begin weaning ourselves off fossil fuels, and also ‘to stop stealing fresh water from a beleaguered environment and throwing partially treated sewage into our creeks, rivers and oceans. ‘The means are there but the will isn’t yet,’ he said.

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Bruns park op licence refused over ĶŕƆƖǔ ĶĈĶĕŕƐ ĶŕĪşſŔëƐĶşŕǼ !şƖŕĈĶō Paul Bibby Reflections Holiday Parks (RHP) has hit back at suggestions that its legal dispute with Byron Council over the Terrace Reserve caravan park relates to an attempt to expand the park’s boundaries. The state-owned corporation has taken the Council to the Land and Environment Court over the ‘deemed refusal’ of its new activity application to operate the park, located in Brunswick Heads. The Echo understands that

the activity application was submitted by RHP last year. It was previously reported in The Echo that RHP may have been attempting to change the boundaries of the park as part of the application.

Standard licence But last week, the corporation’s CEP Steve Edmonds strongly denied this. ‘The court action that Reflections has taken is simply about reissuing a standard licence to operate for Terrace Reserve,’ Mr Edmonds said.

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‘It does not include any new activity, nor are there any expansion of boundaries – simply a licence to operate the park as it has done for decades.’ In a statement to The Echo, Byron Council said it would contend in the case that the application ‘should be refused because insufficient information has been provided to enable a proper assessment of the proposed activity’. The Echo has requested court documents to seek further information about the nature of the dispute. ƖīƖƆƐ Ǭǽ ǩǧǩǧ The Byron Shire Echo 7

Byron Shire Council Notices 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

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OPEN FOR FEEDBACK ADDITIONAL INVESTIGATION AREAS – DRAFT RESIDENTIAL STRATEGY Following the public exhibition of the draft Residential Strategy in August to October 2019, submissions were received to have additional lands included for potential residential development. The submissions were considered by Council at the 18 June planning meeting where the decision was made to include 6 additional ‘investigation areas’ in our Residential Strategy. We invite your feedback on the inclusion of the additional lands which are: • Part of 20 Prince St Mullumbimby • 152 Stuart St and 124, 127, 130, 132, 134 Station St, Mullumbimby • Part of Lot PT32 DP 1169053 located east of Tuckeroo Avenue, Mullumbimby • 31 Ballina Road Lot 2 DP 1260751, Bangalow • Part of Lot 350 DP 755695 located on Ewingsdale Road, Byron Bay (corner of Kendall Street) • Part of 64 Corkwood Crescent, Byron Bay Further information and location maps are available on Council’s website, where you can make a submission online. Submissions close: Friday 31 August 2020 Enquiries: Natalie Hancock 02 6626 7169

PROPOSED LEASE OF A PUBLIC ROAD RESERVE TO THE LAND OWNER ADJOINING 77 MASSINGER STREET BYRON BAY FOR A PERIOD OF ONE YEAR Council proposes to lease a portion of unused road reserve adjoining 77 Massinger Street Byron Bay for a period of 1 year for the purpose of a children’s tree house. In accordance with Section 154 of the Roads Act 1993, interested persons are invited to make submissions about this proposal within 28 days. Submissions should be in writing and addressed to the General Manager, Byron Shire Council, PO Box 219 Mullumbimby 2482 or sent by email to submissions@byron.nsw.gov.au. Emailed submissions to this address only will be acknowledged. Submissions open: 29 July 2020 Submissions close: 26 August 2020 Enquiries: Paula Telford 02 6626 7300

AUGUST COUNCIL MEETINGS The following Council meetings are scheduled for August 2020:

13 August 2020 – 11.00am – Planning Meeting 27 August 2020 – 9.00am – Ordinary Meeting Agendas are available one week prior to the meeting on Council’s website at www.byron.nsw.gov.au/Agendas-Minutes. In response to COVID-19, several protocols will be in place for the August meetings. Council meetings are live streamed via www.byron.nsw.gov.au/livestream. In order to meet current public health orders, members of the public will not be permitted to attend unless speaking on a matter listed on the agenda. Council encourages public access participation via Council’s online webinar platform, submission of a pre-recorded video or audio recording, or in writing to be read out on your behalf. To register for public access please visit our website www.byron.nsw.gov.au/public-access. Registration closes noon Wednesday prior to the meeting. Enquiries: Jazz Hardy 6626 7051

PUBLIC EXHIBITION OF DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING & ASSESSMENT ACT, 1979 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.

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LOCAL HERITAGE PLACES GRANTS NOW OPEN 2020/2021 Owners of heritage properties in the Byron Shire can apply now for grants to help restore their pride and joy. The Local Heritage Places Grant program aims to raise awareness of heritage conservation, with a funding contribution from the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage. Byron Shire Council has heritage grants opportunities up to $3,000, depending on applications, for projects that will enhance individual places, buildings and historic streetscapes and will promote appreciation of Byron Shire’s history. The focus for the 2020-2021 Local Heritage Places Grants is conservation works that enhance individual places, buildings and historic streetscapes including buildings in conservation areas that will in turn promote and foster the community’s and visitor’s appreciation of the Shire. Successful applicants will need to contribute one dollar for every dollar provided by the grant, and the restoration work must be completed by 30 March 2021. To find out more about the Local Places Heritage Grants program go to www.byron.nsw.gov.au/local-places-heritage-grants. Applications close: 4.00pm 21 August 2020 General Enquiries: email council@byron.nsw.gov.au or contact Noreen Scott 02 6626 7062 or Nancy Tarlao on 02 6626 7000.

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10.2020.343.1 – Myocum, 5/296A Tyagarah Road (Lot 5 DP 285430) Byron Bay Planning & Property Consultants, Alterations and Additions to Existing Dwelling House Comprising a Gym and Cabana Including Use of Existing Works 10.2020.334.1 – Myocum, 303 Tyagarah Road (Lot 4 DP 567379) Byron Bay Planning & Property Consultants, Use of Existing Dwelling to Create Dual Occupancy (Detached) and Use of Alterations and Additions to Existing Dwelling

EXHIBITION CLOSES 19 AUGUST 2020 10.2020.329.1 – Byron Bay, 2/4 Oodgeroo Gardens (Lot 1 SP 94881) Ms P J Lamaro, Use of Garage as Studio/Office, Proposed Swimming Pool and Replacement Car Parking 10.2020.358.1 – McLeods Shoot, 194 St Helena Road (Lot 11 DP 1017165) Ardill Payne & Partners, Primitive Camping Ground consisting Eight (8) Sites with Ancillary Ensuites and Onsite Sewage Management Disposal System 10.2020.355.1 – Byron Bay, 2 Jonson Street (Lot 6 DP 255629) Ardill Payne & Partners, Demolition of Existing Building and Construction of Three (3) Storey plus Basement Building containing Two (2) Retail Floors/Levels, a Roof Top Restaurant and Eight (8) On Site Car Parking Spaces 10.2020.309.1 – Byron Bay, 5 Fern Place (Lot 67 DP 261642) Newton Denny Chapelle, Mixed Use Development comprising Six (6) Industrial Units and a Takeaway Food Premises including associated Civil Works, Car Parking and Tree Removal and Demolition of Existing Structures

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‘How is a development application accepted by Council that was never completed correctly, [yet] went through Council processes until a resident pointed this out?’ – Resident Wayne Byrne

The Land and Environment Court (LEC) has rubber stamped an agreement between a developer and Byron Council regarding a controversial ‘affordable housing’ proposal, leaving residents greatly disappointed about the outcome, and the process by which it was achieved. The matter was taken to the Land and Environment Court by developers Phillip Agnew and Adam Band after their Sunrise townhouse Development Application (DA) was not assessed by Council within the statutory time limit. They asserted that this amounted to a deemed refusal of the application. Before reaching the LEC, compulsory mediation was held, leading to an agreement. Residents claimed that they were not privy to the negotiations, nor did they know the final conditions of approval, despite making submissions and asking Council staff at the time. During the compulsory LEC mediation, the developers offered to reduce the dwellings from eight to six, while reducing the scale and size of the proposal. With those concessions, Byron councillors delegated authority to General Manager Mark Arnold to approve the development, subject to certain conditions. That approval occurred soon after and was formalised in a judgment from LEC Commissioner, Peter Walsh, on July 15. Commissioner Walsh imposed a number of conditions on the development, in keeping with the agreement between the two parties. This included that for the next ten years, the dwelling must be ‘used for the purposes of affordable housing’. However, under the state’s affordable housing laws, only 20 per cent of a development must be affordable – in this case, only one of the six units.

Commissioner ÉëōƆIJ ƆëƐĶƆǕ ĕĎ ‘I am satisfied that jurisdictional pre-requisites have been met, and the parties’ decision is one that the Court could have made in the proper exercise of its

functions,’ Commissioner Walsh said. ‘In making the orders to give effect to the agreement between the parties, I was not required to make, and have not made, any merit assessment of the issues that were originally in dispute between the parties.’ As a result of the LEC judgment, developer, The Kollective, is now free to proceed with its plan to build six two-bedroom town houses at 6 Julian Rocks Drive, despite strong opposition from residents. ‘I felt like… they just went through the formal process to get the DA signed, sealed and delivered,’ local resident Cathy Stavert said.

Waste of time ‘It was a waste of residents’ time preparing and presenting submissions via phone linkup conference. It was a futile pursuit’. Another Sunrise resident, Sandra Heilpern, said her concerns went beyond the process by which the development was approved. ‘There is a very important factor in the ongoing ‘kollectivisation’ of Sunrise, and that is that the planning instruments that Council has to abide by in their decisions re DAs are woefully inadequate in protecting the Sunrise community from such inappropriate developments,’ said Ms Heilpern. Fellow resident Wayne Byrne said the Council’s decision to reach an agreement with the developer had ‘destroyed a neighbourhood street’. ‘How is a development application accepted by Council that was never completed correctly, and [yet] went through Council processes until a resident pointed this out? Council’s answer? Ring the developers up and get them to come in and sign and tick the right boxes.’ In voting for approval, councillors supported staff’s position that there was no legal basis to oppose the development.

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Local News Crowds, buskers dispersed in Byron Sydney based medics to be screened: Health dept Police say they stopped buskers and broke up a large crowd at Apex Park, Byron Bay, around 5pm on Saturday August 1. The police report reads: ‘Several people were warned about consuming alcohol in the park and ceased. A 48-year-old man from Byron Bay refused to comply with the police direction, and assaulted police. ‘He was arrested and conveyed to Byron Bay police

Station and charged with Assault Police and Resist Arrest. He was conditionally bailed to Byron Bay Local Court on August 24’. Additionally, an urgency motion was passed at last week’s Council meeting which extends the ban on busking in Byron Shire. All councillors voted in favour of the mayor’s motion. Mayor Simon Richardson said, ‘As an old busker, it breaks my heart, but we have to keep strong’.

Aslan Shand The Echo was contacted anonymously last week with concerns relating to trainee students who were coming from Sydney to train in the local area health facilities, including local hospitals, without quarantine. Director of clinical operations for the Northern NSW Local Health District (NNSWLHD), Lynne Weir, responded to these

concerns, telling The Echo, ‘Junior doctors coming to NNSWLHD from other locations in NSW or interstate are subject to self-isolation and/or health screening requirements as with all staff working for NSW Health. ‘Anyone directed to selfisolate for 14 days, including health staff, must do so under the Public Health Orders and are not permitted to travel. ‘Northern NSW Local

Health District has undertaken screening and risk assessments for all junior doctors coming on rotation to our hospitals this term. ‘We will also be conducting additional assessments during orientation on Monday, August 3 to ensure our medical officers are complying with the most recent NSW and QLD hotspot advice, including the need to self-isolate if required.’

Missing Person’s Week Missing Person’s Week is the first week of August, and aims to raise awareness of the significant issues surrounding missing persons. According to police, about 38,000 people go missing every year and there are more than 2,600 long-term missing persons cases. Local police say they have 24 long-term missing persons cases and three active recent cases.

New heatmaps show homeless rates Aslan Shand Eight hundred people were considered homeless in each of the federal government electorates of Richmond and Page, according to the census data from 2016. That was before the impact of Black Summer bushfires and the COVID-19 pandemic. The rate of homelessness is now being severely impacted by the job losses since the beginning of the pandemic. Research by the Gratten Institute put job losses at 8.4 per cent for Richmond electorate, and 9.7 per cent for Page. This week is homelessness week (August 2–9) and the Everybody’s Home campaign is highlighting the needs of everyday Australians who are struggling with homelessness and housing stress. Homelessness Australia and Everybody’s Home, have released interactive heatmaps that show the high level of homelessness across the country. They are calling for the federal government to commit to increasing the capacity of social housing across Australia, and particularly in hard hit areas like the Richmond and Page electorates.

Tourist-based economy Speaking to The Echo, national spokesperson for Everybody’s Home campaign, Kate Colvin, pointed out that tourist-based economies don’t generally provide highly paid work. For desirable locations like the north coast, the high cost of housing often leaves many people in a state of housing stress; that is, they are paying more than 30 per cent of their income on housing. ‘A lot more people are

now at risk of homelessness in these electorates. This is likely to be made worse by the upcoming reduction of social security payments. That will mean that people already experiencing housing stress will be unlikely to be able to keep up with their rent,’ said Ms Colvin. As part of the Everybody’s Home campaign, they are calling on the Morrison government to fix the national social housing shortfall and give Australia’s economy a much-needed boost by creating construction jobs as a stimulus. ‘During the global financial crisis (GFC), the government grew GDP by $1.30 for every $1 they spent on social housing,’ Ms Colvin pointed out. ‘So we were disappointed to see the federal government put so much money into HomeBuilder as part of their stimulus package. These are people who already own a home, and can afford a significant renovation. There are 10,400 people homeless on any given night in NSW outside Sydney, and that money is desperately needed to provide housing for people who don’t have a home. ‘This is data from before both the Black Summer bushfires and COVID-19.’ Everybody’s Home is calling on people to contact their federal MPs to sign a social housing pledge, committing to investment in social housing to help end homelessness, and also delivering urgently needed jobs in local communities. ‘The lack of housing that people can afford is not only the biggest cause of homelessness, but it also prevents people escaping from homelessness.’ The interactive map can be viewed at www.everybodyshome.com.au/heat-maps.

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The rewards of being uncompromised Happy birthday, James Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987). As one of the more obscure figures who championed human rights, his activism spanned race, sexuality, and class, which contributed to major political movements of the ’60s. Apart from his novels and plays, he is notable for simply being a superbly articulate public speaker. Every word mattered, every phrase and pause was deeply considered and passionate, and it was coupled with a powerful subject matter; the real lived experience of being gay and black in a society that accepted neither. His message is timeless, and of great importance where discourse and trust is collapsing, integrity is in retreat, and leadership vacuums are filled by shallow game show hosts. From an impoverished childhood in Harlem, he overcame adversity by educating himself. He said of books, ‘You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive’. Baldwin eventually left for France, arriving penniless. Yet he said of his native country, ‘I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticise her perpetually’. Baldwin is perhaps best known for his debate with conservative William F Buckley in 1965 at the University of Cambridge (available on Youtube). The topic was, ‘The American Dream is at the expense of the American Negro’. ‘It comes as a great shock around the age of five, or six, or seven’. Baldwin declared during the debate, ‘to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance, along with everybody else, has not pledged allegiance to you’. After he spoke, he received a standing ovation. Everything Baldwin spoke about decades ago relates to right now, with regards to the Black Lives Matter movement. Prof Marcia Langton will deliver the Byron Writers Festival 2020 Thea Ashley address on that topic. It is available as a podcast at www.byronwritersfestival.com/digital. Hans Lovejoy, editor

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nother month, another setback – several, unfortunately – with preparations for the budget being finalised in an atmosphere of quiet desperation. COVID-19 is now clearly out of control – what Health Minister Greg Hunt snidely terms ‘the Victorian second wave’ is rampant, and the borders of the other east coast states have been breached, although at the time of writing not yet overrun. The mad sovereign citizens are on the move, their immediate target is the compulsory wearing of masks, but the more demented anarchically demand to do whatever they like and bugger the rest of us. The embattled Victorian premier, Daniel Andrews, has been reduced to lurching between imposing ever more draconian restrictions and pleading for his constituents to do the right thing. Some are simply confused by the mish-mash of often contradictory edicts, but it has become alarmingly obvious that an increasing number of citizens just aren’t listening. Too many have become denialists, recalcitrants or just plain crazies. They see their selfishness and perversity as some kind of higher morality whereby their imaginary ‘sovereign citizenship’ transcends the common good. Darwinian evolution – survival of the fittest – will presumably cull quite a few of them, but that is a very long term solution to what is an immediate crisis. The brawl over nursing homes is getting nastier – the age-old impasse of federalism, with the commonwealth making the rules and the states having to manage them, has come to a head over the graves of the old and infirm. State border controls are being constantly revised, with exemptions seen by many to be unfair and partisan – and much the same applies to most of the restrictions being switched on and off in defiance of Scott Morrison’s ukase that this simply cannot happen. As a result, no one is quite sure what is going on; let alone whether it is sensible or effective policy. And the assurance that all will be revealed in October, when our resident magician pulls the numbers out of his budget hat, has not proved encouraging. The latest dire statistics show that the country has fallen into deflation for only its third time in history, and that

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So, as well as the obvious concerns about health, housing and education, the terrible suicide rate becomes an issue front and centre, as do the rates of imprisonment and domestic violence. And interestingly, the less direct disadvantage of the decline and disappearance of some First Nations languages is to be addressed, along with increased emphasis on securing land and sea rights within the over-complicated process. Achieving outcomes will be a long and tortuous business, involving debate and probably some conflict. There is already a problem with Morrison saying that there will not be a bucket of money; many participants regard it as essential that they can assess their own budgetary requirements, and that will inevitably require increased funding. And Indigenous politics are no less rancorous than the version in Canberra; there are bound to be divisions between those inside the tent, and those who feel excluded. Noel Pearson, Megan Davis and Roy ah-See, whose credentials as serious and credible leaders are unquestioned, have all expressed doubts about the ability of the peak bodies to negotiate with communities. They are worried that some of the targets are insufficiently ambitious. And they point to the primacy of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, which was and is the key to genuine reconciliation. These are legitimate concerns and they should be addressed. But they do not detract from the significance of the agreement signed off last week. The diligent negotiator Pat Turner – whose credentials are equally impeccable – has brought to the concord all three levels of government: the commonwealth, all the states, and local. This is an opportunity not to be missed. And it can work in concert with The Uluru Statement – in fact it can it enhance it. The big breakthrough is that Morrison, pushed by his Indigenous Affairs Minister Ken Wyatt, is prepared to confront the obvious truth: there can be no real progress until those who have suffered under the centuries-old regime of failure can be given power and responsibility to repair the damage. And they too may fail, we may be faced with more generations lost to misery and despair. But at least they will be given a chance on something resembling a level playing field. And that’s the good news. But now, back to the pandemic…

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the national debt is now well on the way to hitting a trillion dollars – that’s $1,000,000,000,000. Now that’s a really eye-watering number. Josh Frydenberg may well be weeping and wailing, but is showing no real signs that he has a clue what to do about it all. But to be fair, he is hardly Robinson Crusoe – the rest of the world seems similarly bereft as the pandemic continues to fill the graves, body-bags and refrigerator trucks in the many countries less fortunate than Australia.

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Letters Wear masks With an Australian case fatality rate of 1.1 per cent for COVID-19, it is tempting to suggest that SARS-CoV-2 is not that serious and that the actions of politicians are disproportionate to the threat the virus poses. However, in a survey of 1,600 non-hospitalised COVID-19 patients, the Dutch respiratory group LongFonds, found that nine out of ten reported difficulties with basic daily activities three months after initial symptoms. One prospective study found 55 per cent of patients with COVID-19 had cardiac damage on the basis of echocardiography (Dwek et al). Using cardiac magnetic resonance another study found evidence of cardiac involvement in 78 per cent and new-onset, persisting myocardial inflammation in 60 per cent (Puntmann et al). A study examining asymptomatic passengers from the Diamond Princess found that over 50 per cent had CT changes in their lungs (Inui et al). While it has received little attention, SARS-CoV-2 can damage Leydig cells in the testes potentially causing permanent testicular atrophy (Yang et al). A significant proportion of those with mild disease exhibit persisting long term malaise, respiratory impairment, cardiac damage, neurological damage, and new-onset psychiatric disorders. While knowledge of long-term effects is evolving, the literature increasingly suggests a large percentage, perhaps even a majority, are left with permanent disability the appearance of which is not necessarily linked to the severity of initial symptoms or age. There is growing evidence that repeat and recurrent infections occur and suggestions that herd immunity may not evolve spontaneously. Studies suggest 50–80 per cent of spread is from minimally symptomatic or

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Cartoon by Melany Barsony pre-symptomatic disease which is why mask wearing by all is advisable and that masks are able to reduce spread by around tenfold. Consistent mask-wearing in conjunction with other measures has the potential to eliminate the virus or avoid serial lockdowns and outbreaks as is occurring in Victoria. Public wearing of masks should be preemptively mandated in other states before numbers accelerate. A reactive approach is inadequate. If disposable masks are in short supply, they should be recycled after allowing the virus to inactivate for a few days. For example, in the heat on the car dashboard. As a previous science-based microbiologist and immunochemist, I suggest that a mask that is moist from day-long use is still better than no mask at all. There are patterns available on the internet. There has been strong emphasis on the need to maintain the economy, with which I agree. However, the countries with the least economic damage are those with low rates of infection. I advocate elimination of the virus, which could have been achieved after the last lockdown if masks had been widely adopted. Few complain that

prohibiting drink-driving or mandatory car seatbelts threaten liberty. We all should accept masks as the new norm and aim to eliminate this virus. COVID-19 could be this generation’s polio if not taken seriously. Dr John Langford-Smith West Ballina

Future of the world I can’t control most events in my life, but I can choose how I react to them. More than any outward event, my focus dictates my future. The neck turns the head to view an object, just as your will directs your attention. Choosing your focus. Holding your focus. Your focus is your rudder; you hold it the way you want to go – the way you want to be. Through tide and tempest. Till the mighty bulk of the rest of you, much hidden below the water line, some maybe damaged – begins to turn. I am the captain of my ship. John Kersten Mullumbimby

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o sail or to stay? That was the decision that Craig Plummer and Claudia Schick from Bangalow had to make when the COVID-19 pandemic hit and they sailed into an Indonesian port, from Thailand. ‘After clearing out of Thailand on 16 March we set sail to West Sumatra, where we intended on staying for five months surfing and exploring,’ said Claudia and Craig. ‘While at sea we had no knowledge that Indonesia had closed and shut down its borders, so when we arrived we were not permitted to leave the boat; and in addition the boat was not allowed to leave the harbour.’

Risk to stay, or leave They quickly decided that they would prefer to take their chances and leave Indonesia and head back to Australia on their 42 foot sailing vessel Gallivant if they could, rather than being stuck, indefinitely, in an Indonesian port. ‘After five days of negotiations we were released without paperwork on the

condition we would traverse [back] to Australia.’ The Australian mainland was about 3,000 nautical miles (5,556km) away and their homeport of Yamba was too hard to reach in southeast trade wind conditions. There was no other option but to try and head east to reach safety. ‘We felt like fugitives on a buccaneering mission, when all those years of piracy jokes eventually turned into reality,’ says Claudia. Their first plan was to sail down the West Sumatran coast in Indonesia, possibly stopping to refuel at Christmas Island. Then the plan was to try and head to Darwin or Broome – anywhere in Australia – where the adverse winds this time of year were blowing them. ‘But the conditions were changing as fast as a sandcastle built on a low tide,’ they told The Echo. ‘The weather wasn’t cooperating, and the winds weren’t blowing the right way, so all travel plans changed from day to day, and sometimes from hour to hour.’ Instead of travelling

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CHESS by Ian Rogers Radoslaw Wojtaszek has won the first elite face-to-face tournament since the coronavirus crisis forced the abandonment of the Candidates tournament in March. The 33-year-old Pole’s victory in Switzerland at the 53rd Biel Chess Festival – played with plexigalss barriers between the players – owed much to the peculiarities of the tournament’s scoring system. Wojtaszek’s main rival Pentala Harikrishna dominated the main – slow time limit – event, winning his final four games including a key battle against Wojtaszek. However, Biel is run as a triathlon, with results from rapid and blitz tournaments also counting towards a player’s final tally, and this year Wojtaszek scored so heavily at the faster time limits that he ultimately edged out Harikrishna 37 to 36.5. Yet for the first half of the tournament, the two top seeds had a rival – the lowest rated player in the field, 15-year-old Vincent Keymer. Five years ago Keymer was called the greatest German talent since Emanuel Lasker,

finishing second in the Vienna Open at 11 and then winning the Grenke Open in Karlsruhe two years later in a powerful field where he was seeded 99th. Leading at the halfway mark, Keymer was asked if he thought he could win the tournament and his response was blunt: ‘My chances are tiny – there are too many strong players here!’ Indeed Keymer was then knocked over by English veteran Michael Adams, ultimately finishing a highly respectable fourth. The following attacking effort was typical of Keymer’s play. Biel 2020 White: V Keymer Black: D Anton Opening: Nimzo-Indian Defence. 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 Bb4 5.e3 0-0 6.Bd2 Quiet play, luring Black into a false sense of security. 6...b6 7.cxd5 exd5 8.Bd3 Bb7 9.0-0 Nbd7 10.Qc2 a6?! 10...Re8 was stronger. 11.Ne5! c5 12.a3 cxd4 13.exd4 Bxc3 14.Bxc3 Ne4 15.Bb4 Re8 16.f3 Nef6 17.Rfe1 Rc8?! Obvious and wrong; now White’s attack gathers pace. 18.Qf2! Nf8 19.Bd2 N6d7 20.Ng4! Qc7 21.Ne3 Ne6 22.Nf5 Ndf8 23.Rac1 Qd7 24.Qg3 Rxc1 25.Rxc1 Ng6 The knight on f5 dominates the board and Black’s position soon collapses. 26.h4! h5 27.Nd6 Rd8 28.Nxf7! Qxf7 29.Bxg6 Qf6 30.Kh2 Qxd4 31.Re1 Bc8 32.Rxe6!! 1-0 After 32...Bxe6 (32...Qxd2 loses to 33.Qd6!!) 33.Bc3 Qc5 34.Bh7+! forces checkmate.

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Left: Claudia stitching up a damaged sail. Above: The Gallivant on a sunset sea. Photos supplied across the Indian Ocean to get back, they had to head through the Sunday Strait into the Java Sea, Bali Sea, Flores Sea, Banda Sea and last, but not least, the Timor Sea.

Dark dealings ‘Anchoring to catch up on sleep became tricky due to the increasing hostility from the locals. We always waved to the locals – if they waved back they were friendly, if they didn’t, we moved on. Bad news travels fast, even in remote areas of Indonesia! ‘Luckily there were a couple of safe havens along the way where people understood our plight and offered sanctuary (and diesel if needed). But we were never allowed to step off the boat – which we didn’t want to do anyway for our own safety.’ In fact, many of their dealings with locals for food and diesel had to take place under the cover of darkness. ‘When we had to fuel up etc, as we travelled, we had to do all our dealings after dark and in hiding. The locals could be ostracised by their local communities for helping us. So people were hiding

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in the bushes after dark with drums of fuel for us to bring onboard.’ They, and the people they were dealing with, all ‘masked up’ and were very careful when getting fuel or food, even under the cover of darkness. ‘There were some days and nights we made good ground; other days the wind and tides would push us backwards,’ said Claudia. ‘We encountered many tropical storms, ripped sails, and were constantly fixing things that would break and restitching sails and covers by hand that were torn.’ But there were also highlights on the long road home, said Claudia and Craig. They sailed past Bali on a full moon, watched whale sharks near busy ports, and had the delight of dolphins surrounding the boat, as well as the bioluminescent plankton, at night, in their wake. ‘The best part though was once we cleared East Timor,’ they said. ‘The persistent southeast trade winds were supposed to turn east for four days, which would give us a great weather window for making

Darwin. At 10.30am just southwest of Leti Island, while battling with a strong southeast wind, it suddenly changed, as predicted. We decided to chuck a right and head for Australia. Luckily, for the next four days and nights we were close hauled, cutter rigged on a 20–25 degree lean, and just clawing onto the rhumb line that we knew would get us home.’

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4001, have been addressed and apart from some maintenance holes, which are yet to be lined, the work is complete. The data available on Water and Recycling’s website showing the flows into Brunswick Valley Waste Water Treatment Plant (BVWWTP) would seem to contradict the SPO’s report going to the committee. The inflow figures showed into BVWWTP are: 23 July – 1,351.82 kilolitres (kL); 24 July – 2,527.84 kL; 25 July – 5,295.65 kL; and 26 July 12,007.97 kL. One of the contractor’s employees was asked by a Mullumbimby resident how would they know if the relining had been successful? The employee answered, ‘We won’t until it rains’.

On 30 July, the Water, Waste & Sewer Advisory Committee will meet. The agenda contains a report from the System Planning Officer (SPO) on the remediation work that has been carried out by a contractor in Mullumbimby on the sewer gravity mains and the stormwater system. The contract was to rectify identified Inflow/Infiltration (I/I) problems. Mr Duncan Dey, a longterm member of this committee, has stated previously in a letter to The Echo that the worst identified areas in Mullumbimby would be fixed first. The SPO has included in this report that the high-risk areas, in Mullumbimby, upstream of catchment area

We’re the lucky ones It was an epic 73-day journey ducking and weaving through Indonesia on a sailing boat, but Claudia and Craig say they are the lucky ones who made it back, arriving in Darwin on 28 May. ‘There are so many boats who are, or have been, in a similar situation,’ explained Claudia. ‘We met another couple who had sailed from the Philippines. They had sailed all the way out, far into the ocean, to avoid pirates on their way back to Australia. There are still many people and boats stuck in ports overseas. They are relying on locals to provide them with food. In Bandar Ache there is one couple we spoke

to recently who were finally allowed off the boat to go shopping for food. That was the first time, after three months of being stuck in port on the boat, that they were allowed off their boat. ‘There is real concern about what will happen to people who are stuck in ports in Indonesia when people’s visas run out. We are not sure what will happen to them. Ports in Malaysia, Thailand, India etc are all shut. And if there are adverse wind conditions – then you can’t go anywhere.’ Claudia and Craig are currently still in Darwin waiting for the weather to change. When it does, some time in September/October, they will begin their journey back down the east coast of Australia. ‘We have no ill feelings for the Indonesian people and wish them all the best for whatever the future holds for them. Without the ones that hid in the bushes and came to our rescue under the cover of darkness with fresh food and fuel, who knows where we would be now! Maybe in Davy Jones’ Locker...’ These figures seem to indicate the relining of the mains has had no impact on the I/I problem at all because if it had then the inflow figures into the BVWWTP would be in the order of 1,300 kL. It should be a major concern to this community exactly how much money has been spent on this I/I problem over the last thirty years and continues to be spent, for what? Alan Dickens Brunswick Heads

Informed consent In response to Asren Pugh (Letters, 24 July) you can’t question vaccines without throwing medical sense out the window. You can question vaccines and still be discerning about the source ▶ Continued on page 14

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Conduct Complaints Against Greens and GM – Double Standards Called Out – BY FAST BUCK$ The behaviour of elected councillors and council staff is governed by the Code of Conduct. The behaviour of people making submissions to Council is governed by the Code of Meeting Practice. Events at Council meetings are also influenced by a little speech which the Mayor gives at the commencement of every meeting: “For those addressing the meeting today the Code of Meeting Practice requires that you refrain from disorderly conduct such as making any insult, allegation, defamatory comment or personal reflection against any person, present or not at the meeting, during the course of your address to Council and any answers that may be given in response to questions from Councillors. The Code of Meeting Practice provides for the withdrawal of your right to speak or expulsion from the meeting should you engage in disorderly conduct.” The above is purported by staff to be a summary of the Code of Meeting Practice but is actually a distortion which Mayor Richardson then further distorts to protect staff from legitimate criticism. There is nothing in either Code that prevents criticism of any person in terms of their professional performance. Whatever the Mayor may think.

The following is a proposed Code of Conduct complaint against several Council officers Some relevant phrases from the Code: “Fairness and equity”, “ consider issues consistently” “abuse of power”, “obtain a private benefit”, “established procedures”, “non-discriminatory manner”, “irrelevant matters”, “omission”, “belittle or humiliating comments”, “reasonable management action” “create a hostile environment”, “bring the council into disrepute” I bring a total of six complaints against the four councillors who are Greens members, and one against the General Manager. The conduct complained of occurred during Public Access at the 18 June Ordinary (Planning) meeting.

Complaints 1–4 My primary complaint against Crs Martin, Lyon and Ndiaye is that they deliberately spoke amongst themselves during the whole time I was making a submission, or at least they pretended to be so speaking. The video shows Crs Martin and Ndiaye leaning in toward Cr Lyon (in breach of social distancing) while the latter gazed at some spot on the horizon. They maintained that position throughout my speech.

a council meeting to punish a member of the public for criticism levelled against them by that person at time and place unrelated to council proceedings. The Greens don’t own the Council. My primary complaint against Mayor Richardson is that he failed to restore order or to otherwise intervene as his role demands. He cautioned neither me nor any councillor, which gives rise to a suspicion that he was an active participant in the planned disruption. ߻

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Cr Lyon’s subsequent behaviour made it plain that he was very angry with me over a large advertisement I had placed in that week’s Echo newspaper, which was highly critical of the Mayor. I point out that the matter I was addressing at Council had nothing whatsoever to do with either the Greens or said advertisement; rather it concerned the controversial Scarabolotti’s restaurant development. The critics of that development (including myself) were as a result of said disorderly conduct denied a fair hearing.

John Anderson (JA): It could be a good idea to listen, councillors, I’m here to be listened to … This is a pre-arranged thing is it? … We’ll just talk while he gets up?… Look at them…! Not long ago the Mayor declared that the Greens were a “private organisation” which was not subject to scrutiny at a Council meeting. Accordingly he should have understood that Byron Shire Council is a separate legal entity to the Greens and that a Council meeting is not a platform for any display of party solidarity or other private benefit. The Greens have no right to use

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Complaint 7 Towards the end of the Public Access session at the meeting referred to above, the Mayor ruled that I be expelled. I refused to depart on the basis that one act of civil disobedience deserves another ie. what is good for the goose is good for the paté. The Mayor called for a break and I went outside and spoke to GM Mark Arnold, asserting that I would go back inside after the break. I then offered a compromise: I would leave if Council voted that I should do so. The Mayor conceded the point and Councillors Richardson, Lyon, Nadaye, Martin, Hunter and Coorey voted to expel me. Crs Cameron, Spooner and Hackett voted against expulsion. I then left the meeting as agreed.

Accordingly the second leg of my complaint against the four named councillors is that they were wilfully negligent in allowing their anger to override their wider obligations. Even if their anger was justified, such anger was clearly irrelevant to the proceedings then in train, self-indulgent and self-serving.

RES 20-268 – Resolved that Mr John Anderson be expelled from the Chamber due to the coronavirus protocols in place and a misuse of the Code of Meeting Practice.

Complaints 5 & 6

Byron Shire Council General The stated reasons are The Code of Meeting Practice says that Manager, Mark Arnold nonsense; Coronavirus was individual councillors have the right to not mentioned at all during the ask questions of anyone who makes a confrontation, nor did the Mayor offer it as a reason submission. The obvious and legitimate purpose in his initial decision. The audio indeed reveals that I of such questions is to clarify matters raised by guffawed at the Mayor’s cynical opportunism. Ample the person making a submission – and that is what social distancing was available in the public gallery at councillors have generally done. Cr Lyon, however, the time, because I was the only one present, duh! If the on the day in question suddenly snapped out of his Mayor is concerned about social distancing he should apparent reverie and asked me a smug question about check Byron CBD on a Friday or Saturday night. how the offending advertisement was paid for. In the days that followed I received a letter from the Mr Arnold inviting me to make a submission as to why I Extract from the record: should not be banned from personally attending future council meetings. I replied that I was not prepared to Michael Lyon (ML) – Thanks for your submission, you make a defence against unspecified allegations – in bring up bush fire safety and I note that in The Echo other words I said that he had neglected to establish a recently you posted an ad about it. You seem to have case to which I might respond. a fairly cosy relationship with the paper and you’ve posted several ads recently and I’m just curious what arrangements you have with them in terms of the cost Complaint: of those ads, do you pay for them in whole, what sort of 1. Mr Arnold denied me procedural fairness by making discount do you receive? What’s the arrangement there a decision affecting my entitlements without stating between the two of you? any credible allegation against which I might defend JA – Is that relevant to my submission? myself. The Council resolution was disingenuous and in any case vague. ML – Yeah you brought up bush fire safety. JA – No, no, You cant just use this as an opportunity to cross-examine me on any issue you feel like mate. You’ve done it before and got away with it because the mayor won’t close you down, but I will close you down ML – So you don’t want to answer my question? JA – The people at the Echo aren’t my close buddies as you Greens are with staff, nothing like it ML – Sorry, I didn’t mean to upset you [gloating tone].

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My second complaint against the Mayor is that he again failed to intervene in terms of disallowing Cr Lyon’s improper, insulting and irrelevant question. The Mayor is by contrast quick to intervene when he perceives me to be crossing his boundaries of propriety.

2. Mr Arnold reneged on the agreed resolution. After I refused to leave, the Mayor called for a break. During that break I went outside and negotiated with Mr Arnold. I said I would leave if Council voted that I should. I went back into the meeting unchallenged and the said vote took place. I left as promised. Mr Arnold later abused his power and acted in bad faith by re-agitating an issue that had already been resolved via negotiation and agreement.

ii) You mentioned fire safety in your submission just now

3. While the GM in not allowed to speak at a Council meeting unless invited to do so, he had an obligation to advise the Mayor that the Codes were being breached by Greens Councillors. By failing to do so contributed to confrontation and dysfunction. For this we pay him $5,500 per week.

iii) Therefore I am entitled to ask about your financial arrangements with The Echo.

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Yes I was very angry at Lyon’s bear-baiting tactics, but somehow I managed to stay on message. Note Cr Lyon’s logic: i) Your Echo ad was about fire safety

Planet Greens is a strange place! Thus my second Code of Conduct complaint against Cr Lyon is that he again used Council as a platform to improperly promote a private interest, being the Greens party, by setting out to demean both me and The Echo.

I propose to separately write to the named parties advising them not to use Council’s lawyers or other Council resources or Council connections to prepare their defence. Any rorting of the process will be appealed. I’ve had enough.

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Letters/Articles ▶ Continued from page 12 and its scientific literacy. However, when your ability to question vaccines is censored, shouted down and labelled, or when your ability to make an informed choice is manipulated or made under duress; that is the true danger. I draw your attention to the unlawful restrictions AHPRA places on medical practitioners surrounding communicating vaccine risks. Let’s look at pregnancy. AHPRA requires midwives to promote vaccination during pregnancy. Midwives can be reported and prosecuted if they provide information such as: ‘safety and effectiveness of (vaccine) have not been established in pregnant women’, or ‘there are no adequate and well-controlled studies of (vaccine) in pregnant women’; even though these statements are taken from the product inserts of vaccines used in pregnancy. What you are witnessing is the relabelling of informed consent as ‘misinformation’. Here, you see the practitioner leashed, and vaccination promoted on ‘misleading, misrepresented, and incorrect information’. This line of corruption runs from product manufacture, through policy, and ends with the patient. The Australian Vaccination Network (AVN) is performing a critical role in capturing real stories

of vaccine injury. Perhaps watch a few, because if the facts have changed, wouldn’t you want to know? Nina Woods Ocean Shores

Skeletal remains The headline on the front page of The Echo on July 22 ‘Skeletal remains not believed to be Theo Hayez’ introduces an unfortunate, if unintentional, bias. We would all like closure on the tragic story of the young Belgian backpacker. However, the story behind the headline is equally sad and involves a young woman; Thea Liddle. While the article does cover Thea’s history, the headline implies that one death is more important than the other. Missing and murdered women are a tragic reality in many societies; articles and headlines should give this subject appropriate weight. David Henry Suffolk Park

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For North Coast news online visit they earned their funding; it wasn’t a gift. May I also point out that jobs created by the drama ‘Windmill’; for script writers, producers, directors, actors and production crew, will be lost if funds are not available. I also notice that another ‘Windmill’ was not mentioned – the exposure of corruption and injustice by shows like Four Corners. Lyle Clarke East Ballina

Community voice Me think it a bit rich that you decry the Murdoch influence and at the same time espouse The Echo as ‘the voice for our whole community’. As editor, and I assume the arbiter of final comment taken to print in the columns of The Echo, your views and perennial left wing persuasions are starkly obvious in your articles and sanctioned authors and letters. Your moulding of the content has the same insidious intention of indoctrinating the impressionable public as the tabloids you mention. Ever critical of the Morrison government, local council rulings, decrying any National Party funding initiative for the region as pork barrelling. Mate, you and yours can do better than waste public funds posting full page ads for the local Federal ALP member – ad nauseam and

in absentia (never present or showing initiative). One would expect The Echo to critically examine some of the more immediate issues of democracy and persecution such as that we are seeing from the CCP in China. Human rights abuses and expansionism associated with Tibet, Uighurs, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India, nations of the Sth China Sea are one small step away from Byron Bay. This regime has no legal system for redress, no due process, Habeas corpus does not apply and one can be arrested for saying, reading, or tweeting critical views. Starkly obvious in its omission is the outreach of support for the potential true refugees of Hong Kong. Lighten up and be a voice for the whole community, perhaps consider giving us a break from the constant slagging and dirge of Mandy and Mungo to boot. Greg Cooper Lennox Head Q The Echo has never sanctioned anyone’s views and is unapologetic in standing up for those who are held under the boot of tyranny, and yes tyranny comes in many forms – Editor.

Answer: love Mick and Deborah Stacey believe love is the answer, (Letters, 22 July). To love and be loved is sublime.

To physically and mentally abuse and express hatred to control others is bullying and evil. We are reminded that the first atomic weapons test was held in 1945. In 1982, thirty-seven years later, one million people demonstrated in New York Central Park against nuclear weapons and for an end to the cold war arms race. Another petition by ICANW now will not bring nuclear disarmament closer. The cold war did come to an end, but distrust in territorial ambition in our part of the world indicates we could be involved in an Asian cold war. Hence Australia’s $270 billion defence announcement. It is not surprising to see the level of hate politics being peddled by foreign influencers and the political ‘factual information’ offered by those who seek to control us and our way of life. Councils’ stretched staff and funding resources should be employed locally. John Youdan Ocean Shores

Boycott HP In 1898 Herman Hollerith invented the Hollerith punch card and sorting machine and founded IBM in Germany. This machine could process 24,000 cards per hour bringing unprecedented organisational efficiency which the Nazis exploited.

The machines needed servicing once a month so a corps of IBM technicians travelled through Germany and Romania, even visiting concentration camps. Hollerith machines enabled the Nazis to industrialise genocide. Census data was analysed to produce lists of Jews, Gypsies (Roma) and other so-called untermensch or sub-humans who were then rounded up and entrained for extermination in notorious killing centres like Auschwitz. Today, Hewlett-Packard (HP) runs the BASEL access and control system installed in Israeli military checkpoints through which most Palestinians have to pass daily. It consists of biometric sensors which afford unrivalled surveillance and control over the civilian Palestinians. For example, Palestinian homes are carefully monitored for any fluctuations in gas, electricity or water usage, which may indicate changes in the household compositio, and so a raid is initiated. HP also provides the Israeli navy with advanced electronic infrastructure which enables it to aggressively harass Gazan fisherfolk, maintain Israel’s siege of Gaza, and to illegally intercept humanitarian aid flotillas like the Mavi Marmara in international waters. Boycott HP products! Gareth W R Smith Byron Bay

Keep your word on koalas Minister Kean The EPA (environmental protection authority) issued a stop work order at Wild Cattle Creek State Forest on the Dorrigo plateau on 18 July, nine days after they found the NSW Forestry Corporation had illegally logged two giant trees. Local ecologist and spokesperson from North East Forest Alliance (NEFA) is now calling for the ‘Environment Minister Matt Kean to stump up, by protecting important koala habitat from further logging, and ensuring that the EPA prosecute the Forestry Corporation for flagrantly breaking the new logging rules by cutting down giant trees and recklessly endangering the survival of other giant hollow-bearing trees and koala feed trees.’ On 26 July Environment Minister Matt Kean claimed he wanted to see koala populations doubled by 2050, stating ‘Koalas are the most iconic example of our mismanagement of the environment and we’ve got to say “enough is enough”.’ Following the stop work order NEFA experts did a brief audit at Wild Cattle Creek State Forest. They found a further 12 breaches of the logging rules, including two more felled giant trees, damage to four giant hollow-bearing trees and

The EPA issued a stop work order at Wild Cattle Creek State Forest. Photo supplied six koala feed trees. ‘The felled giant trees were around 1.5 metres diameter, and the giant hollow bearing trees damaged by logging machinery driving over their roots and bashing their trunks were 1.5 to 2 metres diameter,’ Mr Pugh explains.

Koala habitat ‘These massive, awe-inspiring trees are the height of 10 storey buildings and 300–500 years old. They provide the large hollows that many of our iconic animals depend upon. They pre-date European settlement, yet the Forestry Corporation are recklessly felling and damaging them. This has to be stopped,’ said Mr Pugh. ‘These forests have also been

identified as being outstanding koala habitat. In 2017 the Office of Environment and Heritage identified the logging area as part of the largest cluster of resident koala populations (Koala Hubs) on the Dorrigo Plateau. Last year the Department of Planning Industry and Environment identified it for protection as part of a greatly reduced Great Koala National Park to “provide a feasible and strategic balance between increasing protections for koalas, while minimising impact to forestry operations”. ‘The pitiful 10 koala feed trees per hectare the Forestry Corporation are required to retain are only 40 per cent of the number recommended by the Expert Fauna Panel and the EPA, and even these they are recklessly and carelessly damaging. ‘While it is important that the Forestry Corporation are prosecuted for their flagrant breaches of the new logging rules, if Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Environment Minister Matt Kean are fair dinkum about reversing the decline of koalas, the first thing they need to do is stop logging their homes and feed trees. ‘Premier, enough is enough. Time to stump up Minister Kean,’ Mr Pugh said.

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ou can’t really miss it – it’s right there, in the middle of a paddock just as you approach Mullumbimby from the east: the word LOVE, displayed in enormous white capitalised letters. Though bold and certainly impressive, I’m not quite sure if this simple, yet potent, symbol is meant as a public declaration of what abounds in Mullum, or if it’s a terse instruction to try harder – or indeed, whether it’s a simple reminder of what life should be about. Fair enough, you might think. But being a cynical old sod, I found myself wincing at this cheesy aesthetic. It reminded me of the sort of thing you might see in the Robina Shopping Centre, or above the entrance to a high-priced retreat in outer Sydney. The more I contemplated LOVE, the more I questioned its meaning, especially when applied to the good denizens of Mullumbimby.

The weird and wonderful folk As we all know, there are many weird and wonderful folk in this neck of the woods – I’m in the weird category. We all reside in what is a complex and contradictory place; halfway between an intentional community and a psychiatric hospital. It’s why people LOVE it. After all, why hang around one of those dreary Gold Coast beach suburbs when you can pay a million bucks for a shack, and then roam the potholed streets of nirvana chatting to the locals? Sadly though, like most towns that attract droves of pilgrims in search of paradise, Mullum is becoming something of a mystery – a

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GOT THE OVERPRICED WHOLEFOODS BLUES? Photo Simon Haslam parody in search of authenticity. Don’t get me wrong, I still LOVE the place and many of the people in it, but as a mishmash of variegated and often transient groupings it feels more like Berlin, the city of exiles, than the Garden of Eden. All the yoga studios, colonic irrigation clinics, astrological signs and rainbows suggest it’s Aquariuscentral, albeit diluted by an influx of cashed-up retirees, eco-squillionaires, worldrenowned creatives and any number of psychotherapists prepped to mop up the residues of discontent – yes, even here. I’m not going to recite the history of Mullum – that’s been done ad nauseum, and often without any mention of the traditional custodians of this land. But it’s clear that successive migrations have shaped the town’s character. The bold declaration of LOVE is in many ways emblematic of this character: a fusion of new age, hippiedom, Buddhism – whatever. It’s a handy gloss for a place that remains oddly oblivious to those troubling ‘shadow places’ that somehow evade our consciousness, but which define our experience of place. The horrors of

invasion and colonial settlement are of course just as much part of Mullum’s history as is the overlay of ‘alternative’ lifestyles.

Really that special? But if LOVE is meant to reflect the transcendent wonders of this place, how accurate is this claim? I’ve lived here for nearly six years. It’s been an interesting experience. Ultimately though, it depends, doesn’t it, on who you meet and what’s going on in your own life, right? I’ve met hundreds of people here. That’s because the locals are more amenable to conversations than they are, say, in the city, and because many locals like to talk – a lot. There seems to be more time for such things. That said, once you get into the innards of everyday relationships, you come to realise that Mullum is in many respects like any other place – despite all the kaleidoscopic colours and drum beats. One key difference, however, is the more frequent mismatch between what people profess to be, and how they routinely behave. This applies to most of us, of course, but I think it’s more pronounced here simply

because there are more ethereal claims to higher states of being. I’ve been tongue lashed on more than one occasion by supposedly peaceful, enlightened folk. I know of others who’ve come a cropper at the hands of those professing love and gratitude for all things. It’s rather bewildering. And then there’s the invective heaped on prominent local figures in the local newspaper, with one individual taking out an advertisement to vent his spleen against the Shire’s mayor. I know of organisations that have fallen apart as a result of internal bickering, hecklers whose sole purpose is to elevate their status at the expense of speakers, groups that exclude potential members for any number of reasons, those who scream and shout at others during meetings, and so on. There’s nothing unusual about any this. It’s called life. And for every troubling act, there is genuine kindness and compassion too. Life’s messy. But if LOVE is meant to signal some sort of exceptionalism, then it’s offkey. If it’s a call for LOVE IN ACTION BROADLY IN ACCORDANCE WITH POSITIVE INTENTION, then I’m all for it!

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Articles The age of a querelous conversation: Jean Kitson on ageing parents Mandy Nolan Ageing is not a subject anyone wants to talk about. It’s uncomfortable. It reminds us of our mortality, of our frailty, and our loss of independence. Too often we avoid conversations with our ageing parents, or having them with our children because we fear what is ahead. But not having a plan, not putting everything in place, actually puts you more at risk of losing your agency – that’s why comedian turned author Jean Kitson has written We Need to Talk about Mum and Dad. Jean wrote this book in response to her experience of navigating the terrain with her elderly parents, now in their 90s.

Complex journey ‘Trying to help our elders and stay ahead of the game so you aren’t in crisis mode is really, really difficult,’ says Jean. ‘So I wrote a book that I need myself‌ I have written it for my children‌ I have written it for my kids to look after me!’ The system is complex and confusing and people often find themselves feeling disempowered and disheartened by the process. Many also experienced grief over not getting the right outcomes for their ageing parents. ‘Every time I talk to someone

about their experience with their elderly parents I was confronted with the grief that they mainly felt. Not grief over loss, but grief over the difficulty they faced in finding the right care for them, and trying to do the right thing. It was guilt whether they were as happy as they could have been in this stage of their lives’ says Jean.

their creativity, and their gene pool to the fabric of our community,’ says Jean.

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Chat and chat again The real block to ensuring that older people are getting the best they can in their lives is to not just have ‘the’ conversation – but to have conversations over years. ‘We don’t sit down and have the conversations we really need to have,’ says Jean. Hence the title of the book. ‘We need to sit down and talk to our elders and ask how they see this stage of their life and where they would like to be. Those conversations are ongoing, and they happen over years. ‘The main thing you need to do is have them at the centre of the conversation.’

Not a burden Jean believes that having your elders at the centre of the discussion is something vital and everyone needs to be to be very aware of this. ‘Often kids come in and start dictating to their elders what they

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Author Jean Kitson has written We Need to Talk about Mum and Dad. Photo supplied think needs to be done, because they want to protect them. So they come in and say “oh my gosh you need this and you need that�. But we can’t make them feel helpless. We can’t make them feel like a burden.’ This sense of the older community being a burden is a pervasive

part of the narrative that Jean believes needs to be erased. ‘They are not a burden – to us, to their families, to their communities. They are not a burden to our economy, and they are not a burden to our country. They are people who have added their productivity, their thoughts and

In her book, We Need to Talk About Mum and Dad, Jean has created a practical and relatable guide to parenting our ageing parents. The book isn’t just accurate, incredibly well researched, well explained, and relatable – it’s funny. Somehow Jean has managed to inject humour with humility. It’s a wonderful, pervasive quality throughout her work. For anyone struggling to navigate the system, or feeling overwhelmed by the enormity of it all, this book is a key tool that you need to help your parents have the best end-of-life experience they can have. The whole book, and the approach, is permeated by one recurring philosophy: ‘We have to start by putting them at the centre of our conversations and finding out what they want‌ To be informed is to stay in control and have as much independence as you can.’ Q Mandy Nolan spoke to Jean Kitson as part of the Byron Writer’s Festival podcast series. To listen to this conversation, and access chats with other authors go, to www.byronwritersfestival.com.

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First home buyers and construction industry the big winners Julie-Ann Manahan, principal of Raine and Horne Ocean Shores/ Brunswick Heads shared this information for first home-buyers regarding the new stamp duty exemptions for first home buyers: First home buyers and the construction industry will be the big winners under a targeted boost, which will eliminate stamp duty on newly built homes below $800,000 and slash thousands of dollars for properties up to $1 million. To be eligible for an exemption or reduction in the amount of duty payable you will need to be a first home buyer who purchases a new home, or a vacant block of land on which you intend to build a new home. For the full exemption to apply, the value of the new home must be no more than $800,000 and the value of a vacant block of residential land must be no more than

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$400,000. A concessional rate of duty will apply to homes valued at more than $800,000 but less than $1 million and for a vacant block of land valued at more than $400,000 and less than $500,000.

Under the changes the threshold above which stamp duty is charged on new homes for first home buyers will increase from $650,000 to $800,000, with the concession reducing on higher values before

phasing out at $1 million. The government forecasts more than 6,000 first home buyers will benefit from the changes, saving eligible first home buyers thousands of dollars. Under the changes, the stamp duty threshold on vacant land will rise from $350,000 to $400,000 and will phase out at $500,000. The change to the thresholds will only apply to newly built homes and vacant land, not to

existing homes, and will last for a 12-month period, commencing on 1 August, 2020. Other purchases will continue to benefit from existing schemes. The government calculates the changes could save first home buyers stamp duty of up to $31,335 on a new $800,000 home. The NSW Government will also continue to offer a $10,000 First Home Owner Grant, which is available to people buying a new first home, worth no more than $600,000, or buying land and building a new first home worth no more than $750,000 in total. The changes are part of the NSW Government’s COVID-19 Recovery Plan and will support the property and construction industry, which employs one in four people in NSW and is essential to keeping jobs and investment in the state.

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Now is the perfect time to purchase your premium dream land at an affordable price. Just 12 blocks will be offered for sale, so you’ll need to be quick. (Six now sold). This is certainly the best quality land available in the area, is elevated with gorgeous views across local farmland, the nearby valley and beyond. Get ready to live the lifestyle you’ve always wanted in this brand new estate close to shops, schools, recreational facilities and just 30 minutes to Ballina’s beaches. The estate offers plenty of level building options and lovely wide culde-sac streets, which are fully streetscaped. You can’t beat the location, close to two shopping centres, which include Woolworths and Coles plus a range of specialty stores, the indoor aquatic centre and gym. Several local primary and high schools are located nearby, plus sporting fields. This fabulous land suits first home buyers, family home buyers, those downsizing from a larger property or property investors. • Quality land ranging from 483 square metres up to 825 square metres • Level blocks, easy to build on, with no retaining walls required • Water and electricity connected • Close to Southern Cross University, local primary and high schools • Nearby Kadina Park is great for kids to run, play and enjoy time with friends • House and land packages available – ask for details • This a dream opportunity for savvy home builders

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Positioned on a prominent corner in the coveted seaside haven of Ocean Shores, this wellpresented brick and tile family home offers generous proportions. Beyond the spacious entrance, you’ll discover multiple living zones including a sunken living area, large dining area with bay window and home office/media room or children’s play/rumpus room.

• Large laundry with shower and toilet, 1.5 kW solar panels

• King-sized master bedroom with ensuite and private deck

• Private, fully-fenced yard with easy care gardens

• Renovated family bathroom with deep bathtub • Renovated kitchen, 900mm gas stove top and dishwasher • Timber decks on both levels, bar on lower level deck

• Loads of storage throughout, including shelving under the stairs • Double garage with work bench and storage area • Great outdoor entertaining area

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Nestled on a tree lined street close to one of our pristine local nature reserves and walking trail, this immaculate, split level, family lifestyle home offers stylish coastal living. Separate granny flat (STCA), four spacious bedrooms + two generous living zones and separate retreat. Spacious front deck, with views to Byron Bay light house. • Master with ensuite, ocean views and air con • Open plan living/dining/kitchen with ocean views • Lovely east facing deck, 777 square metre block

• Loads of storage, separate laundry, solar hot water • Low maintenance landscaped gardens with water feature & pond • Loads of storage, separate laundry 15 minute walk to South Golden Beach, cafe and playground. Byron Bay is just 25 minutes drive to the heart of town

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• Spacious, well designed home in the prime location of “the golden grid” • Open plan modern kitchen/dining/living area, separate family room, large media room • First floor features magical view to the hinterland, master suite and private balcony • Wide back veranda and patio overlook the large and private backyard • Separate building out the back with modern finishes, bathroom and two rooms • Large, private and convenient home or beautiful, low maintenance holiday retreat • Great location with short stroll to the end of the street to Clarkes Beach

• Great location, ideal horse property on 5 acres with magnesium pool • DA for second dwelling (STCA) • White-washed raked ceilings creating a huge living space filled with light • Large covered patios stretching along both sides of the house • Good sized bedrooms, the master with walk-in-robe and ensuite • Glorious sun-drenched established gardens with stunning cacti plus 2 orchards • 10 minutes to Byron Bay, Mullumbimby, Brunswick Heads and Bangalow

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• North facing 754m2 (approx) block with laneway access

• Fully renovated single level duplex with yard in quiet location

• Tidy brick veneer home features 3 bedroom

• Located at the sought-after Northern end of Armstrong Street

• Covered outdoor area plus a very generous yard

• Bright and airy open plan living space and brand new kitchen

• Second garage could be converted to bedroom or office with separate access (STCA)

• New bathroom featuring stylish tile work and large free standing bath

• Approx 150m to beach and 500m to shops

• 200m stroll to Tallows Beach, 5 minute walk from the Suffolk Park village

• Fantastic opportunity for investors, owner occupiers and developers alike

• 100% move in ready - nothing to do but relax (Lease at $850pw until November)

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• Under Instructions from the Public Trustee and Guardian • Character timber and stone construction in need of some repair • Prime agricultural paddock, lush rainforest and rich creek flats • Panoramic northern vistas with complete privacy assured • Long Boomerang Creek frontage, two spring fed dams, plus town water a bonus • An ideal project for a handyman to reimagine the beauty and craftsmanship • Quiet country lane location, handy to Lismore CBD and Byron coast.

• Elevated level site situated within an easy walk to Byron’s Beaches and CBD

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Stone Haven – 272 Arthur Road, Corndale

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• Private east facing property providing endless possibilities • Large approved shed and DA approval for dual occupancy • Renovate, build, or just move in and start enjoying the picture perfect setting • Neat and tidy main house with 3 bedrooms all with built ins • Fantastic garden with beautiful established trees • 3 x 22000L water tanks, with two at the main house and one at the shed • 12 minutes to Ballina Airport and Lennox head, and 25 minutes to Byron Bay

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Everything is alive and wild for Vicki Veranese Eve Jeffery It was after doing a clay cleanse and fasting that Alive and Wild’s Vicki Veranese found herself scouring raw food porn and getting excited about a new way of ‘doing’ food, and the possibilities of making the flavour match the presentation. ‘At the time, I had (and still have) a school of consciousness and I would cater to the experientials, and people kept saying: wow, you should sell this deliciousness.’ This is when Vicki’s hobby became a business. Varanese set up Alchemia in Byron in 2010 – the first of its kind at the time. ‘I remember doing nut mylk coffees and being told, “that won’t sell”. It was primarily takeaway with a small eat-in section. I was front-ofhouse a lot which really isn’t my bag – think Soup Nazi from Seinfeld – and I burnt out.’ Veranese relaunched under the name of Alive and Wild a couple of years ago after someone suggested to Santos that she was a great source of vegan cheese. ‘I supply Santos, and a few of the platter girls in the area, and people can buy direct from me on the website – and we have expanded into platters and pantry boxes too, it’s really opening up into a fun creative adventure.’ Vicki says she is being approached to stock businesses Australia-wide but says she is an artisan and doesn’t want to go into mass production. ‘I prefer the hands-on skilled craft of it all, and I want to make it something you get, or is associated with,

One of the many delicious plant-based cheese platters available from Alive and Wild. Photo by Emily Read.

“when you come to Byron”.’ Vicki loves the combination of art and alchemy in her food. ‘I love the look of someone tasting the food as it awakens a jaded palate or satisfies the “hangry” with a plant-based meal – it inspires and excites people to the variety and possibility of including more vegetables, and meat-and-dairy-free options, in their diet.’ Veranese makes fresh-to-order and uses high-quality ingredients. She makes most things from scratch and the recipes are original, so it’s usually something different from previous experiences or expectations people might have. Vicki says she got busier with pantry boxes during the lockdown restrictions – she says it’s been an exciting time, inspiring lots of new ideas.

Recently Vicki has started a collaboration with Emily Read. ‘She is a powerhouse of creativity and enthusiasm, and is helping me in the kitchen and with the event planning of Plantgasm Gastronomy.’ You can either book Alive and Wild to create a unique luncheon at Retreats Byron Bay; featuring their plant-based menu, and added activities such as energy reading, tarot, astrology – a consciousness experiential – great for an intimate get together with friends, hens or a gaggle of goddesses, or they can deliver you a Plantgasm platter to add to your catering, or as the main event. Q For more information visit the Alive and Wild website: www.aliveandwild.com.

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Our world has changed dramatically in the last few months… When COVID-19 hit, Harvest in Newrybar decided to focus on what they thought was appropriate, and their strength: food. Harvest’s Blair Beattie says, for the last few months they have been working closely with local growers procuring weekly local and seasonal vegetable and fruit boxes for delivery or pick up. The experience has been quite extraordinary. ‘We are creating a community of people connected to their food’, Blair says. Harvest are passionate about food security and the opportunity to promote local producers directly to customers. ‘This created a silver lining in a challenging time for the whole community. As people went into isolation, we were able to remain relevant and keep staff employed by shifting to an online business, with the chefs cooking

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up frozen meals, preserves and take-home dinners, and we kept the coffee cart open to ensure caffeine was still accessible.’ Harvest became a haven for locals, and on Saturdays would have a fleet of staff delivering food to homes from Ballina to Ocean Shores, and scores of people lined up (1.5m apart) to pick up their boxes and pantry essentials. Beattie says at times it was gruelling. ‘At the heart of it, we wanted to show up for the community, while ensuring our people were safe from harm and supported. It was a time none of us will easily forget – and it is not over yet.’ Through adversity, Harvest found an opportunity, and now have birthed a new and vibrant small business that has great potential for our local growers. ‘Our connection to the community is stronger, our relationship with suppliers is healthier, and our business continues to survive in times uncertain.’ Vege and fruit boxes are procured weekly, subject to what is available locally and seasonally during the year. None of this produce sees a synthetic chemical, herbicide or pesticide – instead they are lavished with compost teas, biochars and compost. Blair says that their customers keep coming back thanks to these growing practices that result in super tasty food harvested just hours before delivery. Every box contains some recipes and ideas, as well as a description of the more obscure vegetables (not found in Australian supermarkets) like cassava, Okinawa spinach, and warrigal greens. ‘We especially enjoy dropping in samples of native foods from Peter Hardwick, sample products from local businesses aligned with our vision, or cuttings to ‘eat then plant’ so people are growing at home. We have a wonderful group of loyal weekly customers and hope to encourage more. ‘Our growers are amazing humans; farmers are not revered as they should be, we know them personally and have walked their land to experience their work. All have healthy growing practices – most are regenerative, which means healthy soil. The grand vision is to help

shift our local food system to regenerative practices; helping transition producers and empower consumers, collaborating with stakeholders and suppliers and supporting biodiversity, drought resilience, soil rejuvination, and enhancing ecosystems. ‘We look forward to expanding the experience for our customers to workshops, education and farm visits in the near future, when and where possible. ‘Thank you to all who have supported us through this journey’, says Blair. Q To find out more about Harvest, visit their website: www.harvestnewrybar.com.au.

TV chef Miguel showcases Byron Farmers Market The effervescent Miguel Maestre, chef extraordinaire from The Living Room, recently visited Byron Farmers Market with his film crew, seeking ingredient inspiration – and he wasn’t left disappointed! Miguel says the Northern Rivers is one of the most beautiful places in Australia, and that the food grown here is absolutely stunning. ‘I couldn’t not visit one of the best farmers’ markets there is – in Byron Bay,’ he said. Georgina Inwood, of Table Under a Tree, a business that delivers meal kits using locally sourced ingredients, led Miguel on a tour of Byron Farmers Market and introduced him to our local farmers and producers.

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‘We had an absolute blast filming with Miguel for The Living Room,’ said Georgina. ‘Miguel’s food knowledge was amazing, and his curiosity about Northern Rivers’ ingredients and producers was genuine and went way beyond filming. He’s the real deal.’ Ms Inwood said she felt lucky to have the chance to talk with Miguel about the local producers and about the beautiful food they grow and make. ‘That’s what Table Under a Tree has always been about,’ she said. ‘Connecting all of us with the people who make, grow and raise the food we eat.’ Miguel and Georgina sourced a number of local ingredients from

Miguel with Jed Henderson from Esperanza Farm. Jed and Miguel hit it off talking about pork and soccer. Photo Kylie McGregor the market – including macadamia nuts, olives, olive oil, cheese, butter, milk and spices – to whip up a ‘pumpketta’, Miguel’s vegetarian twist on the Italian classic, porchetta. Not only was the pumpketta a hit, but shopping for the ingredients was also eventful, with much fun had as the eccentric Spanish/Australian chef

made his way around the market. The whole pumpketta episode is streaming online – head to 10play.com.au/ the-living-room to catch Miguel showcasing local produce from our farmers. Byron Farmers Market is held every Thursday 7am–11am at the Cavanbah Centre, and every Saturday morning 7–11am behind the Bangalow Pub.

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The notso-grumpy Tim Stone, of Grumpy Grandma’s Story & photo Kate O’Neill

If you’ve been shopping at the local farmers’ markets for a while, you’ll remember Denyse Hodgson, aka, Grumpy Grandma; the no-nonsense lady with the best olives in town. She and husband Alan retired a few years ago, but to the relief of their many loyal customers, their stall and products remained at New Brighton and Mullumbimby Farmers Markets. Rosebank couple Tim Stone and Lynne Ziehlke are the new Grumps, and have stayed true to the formula that has made Grumpy Grandma so successful. They use the same methods and processes as Denyse to make the delicious olives, olive oil and olive products Grumpy Grandma’s is known for. Tim, a former TV producer, says he and Lynne were thrilled when the chance to buy the business arose. ‘We’d been coming to the markets for ten years and knew exactly what the product was, so we saw it as a great opportunity.’

Tim also saw it as a way to spend more time on the property he and Lynne moved to a decade ago. For the first five years he had continued to commute to Sydney for work. ‘Getting on the plane each week became more diff icult as time went on. It was such a shame to have to leave every Sunday.’ Their Rosebank farm is now Grumpy Grandma’s headquarters, home to Tim and Lynne’s olive grove, and the place where the magic olive curing process happens. Unlike mass-produced commercial olives, which are often processed using lye, or caustic soda, Grumpy Grandma’s are cured using just salt, water, vinegar and fermentation. It’s a slower process, but one which results in a much better flavour. The farm is also where Tim and Lynne make other goodies, like wood-smoked olives, and their incredibly moreish semidried olives.

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I MISS FUN COVID-19 is a killjoy. We’ve talked about the devastating health and economic impacts, but what about fun? Fun is so pre-2020. Fun has been either postponed or cancelled. If the virus doesn’t kill us first, the boredom just might. People are so desperate for a live show they’ve taken to throwing tantrums in Bunnings about wearing masks. That’s a very boring show. Just wear a mask and eventually we might all be able to go to real shows like the Phantom of the opera. He would wear a mask in Bunnings. But then, he’s not a ‘living woman’.

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All the fun stuff isn’t COVID Safe. Like standing up at the pub. Pre-COVID I didn’t realise how much I loved standing up. You got excited to get a seat. Now we are forced to sit I long for a standing chat. Standing has become dangerous. If we are not careful, post-COVID we will forget how to stand. Then there’s dancing. That’s gone. Nothing like engaging with a hard-core band from your chair. Remember the mosh pit? Tightly packed sweaty bodies passing around a drunk fuckwit. I really miss that. I never thought I would. But passing-the-drunk-parcel is the signature of a pre-pandemic paradise. The world where you could go to a festival like Splendour or Bluesfest. Now you have to pitch a tent in the backyard in the middle of a downpour and listen to Patti Smith on Spotify. Alone. I also loved having bacteria all over my hands. And touching handrails. Then I’d touch my face and go shake someone else’s hand. And nothing happened. No one looked at me like I was a super-spreader. Pre-COVID, a super spreader was a sitting position June Dalley Watkins advised young ladies against. I’ve washed my hands more in the last six months than I have in my entire life. I miss hugging people I don’t know. You know – the people who know you, who you pretend to know, so you just go along with the hug. I even miss hugging people I love. Elbow greetings suck. It’s like being greeted by a big improvised arm tit. Can’t we smash bums together instead? A kind of tra la la boomsie day! version of a COVID Safe greeting?

THE MULLUMBIMBY CLAYWORKERS GALLERY HAS REOPENED Freshly curated with an updated collection of members’ work that includes both functional and sculptural ceramics. Located in the Drill Hall complex, the gallery is currently opening Fridays and Saturdays 10am–2pm. Drop by and support local arts!

Dark Science returns to The Quad this August. Last year Dark Science burst out of the blocks offering a packed weekend of arts and science experiences throughout the Quad. In 2020, owing to COVID-19, Dark Science will be more stealth-like in its activities, existing online and with some limited public events that will require registration if you would like to attend. The event will be focusing on Indigenous Astronomy, night-time critters, deep-sea marine life and plant regeneration strategies around our region. Current Exhibitions include Ross Manning’s Dissonant Rhythms until 16 August, and Paulette Hayes’ powerful installation Control. Abuse. Kill. She’ll Be Right, Mate! addressing the normalisation of domestic violence through the dominant culture of toxic masculinity. Her show runs until 23 August. For more info go to lismorequad.org.au

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THE RAILS GIGS These are strange days indeed but you can still have a beer and a tune, as you have always done, at Byron’s iconic Railway Hotel, aka The Rails. You still can’t dance, but you can have a boogie in your seat with Matt Armitage on Thursday, sway to the reflective tunes of singer-songwriter Jamie Ashforth on Friday and jiggle your jubblies with Devil’s Kiosk on Saturday. Sunday’s player is still to be announced, but Jax Haze plays on Monday, Tuesday is Jason Delphin, and Wednesday is Simon Meola.

You can’t bonk security guards anymore, or travel to Melbourne to steal handbags. We all know the best handbags are in Melbourne. And the best security guards apparently. You can’t have a one-night stand on Tinder – the closest COVID-compliant casual liaison is a 14-day quarantined love-in at the Travel Lodge using hand sanitiser as lube.

Bianca Pintan opens her ceramics studio in Byron Bay with original creations available for purchase at wholesale prices. Bianca is inspired by the imperfections inherent in nature and the materials available within the realm of her immediate landscape. Bianca uses the power of uncomplicated simplicity. Some pieces are created to be purely decorative sculptures – others to be vessels of functionality. It is a raw and organic hand shaped ceramics collection, created to anchor us in the here and now. Vases, platters, plates, wine cups (as seen in Luna Wine Store), coffee cups, jewellery bowls, fruit bowls, salad bowls, and more… Bianca’s studio is opposite 5 Evans Street, Byron Bay (a short walk from The Topshop). Find her on Instagram: @beceramicsart

You can’t turn 50 and take your hundred best mates on The Ruby Princess, and get matching t-shirts that say ‘I’m here to get Shipfaced’ and get smashed for four days. You’re reduced to a sedate party at home with 20 people two metres apart on deck chairs listening to Barnesy on Spotify. *YRɸJEGXW EFSYX XLI &]VSR 8LIEXVI

You can’t pass the joint. Remember when we never gave a thought to the health threat posed by the daisy chain of saliva on the filter? Now, it’s not the drugs that will kill us – it’s the spit. In the COVID Safe era, the previously maligned practice of bogarting the joint has transformed into an act of saintly selflessness.

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And while we are on the subject of drugs, I wonder how the dealers are going? Without parties, and clubs, and doofs and festivals – (ostensibly drug trade shows) just how are they getting their goods to market? The government brought in JobKeeper and upped JobSeeker, but they forgot about our black market brothers and sisters. I have written to Scotty to ask him to implement ‘DrugKeeper’ with a corresponding DrugSeeker app. So I will stand two metres behind you. I will wear a mask. I will wash my hands. I won’t go to work when I am sick. I won’t go to Queensland OR Victoria, or the Crossroads Hotel. It would be nice if EVERYONE did this, so we can move on from the stupid pandemic and get back to fun. I can’t wait to get my hands dirty! And pass that joint

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It seems 2020 has redefined how we see the world. The world we once lived in was BC – ‘Before COVID’. We are currently DC ‘During COVID’ – and that being so, things have changed, and a lot of us are trying to adjust the way we live and the way we work to beat this stupid virus. One thing we need to do is look after our mental health; laughter has never been more important – and guess what? No one can dance to comedy, so a comedy show, with one solo comic up at a time, totally meets the social distancing guidelines! And beats the blues too! Last year Mandy Nolan worked with the Beach Hotel to bring free comedy to the stage. It was a huge success, with hundreds of long-time locals coming out for a laugh. The Beach Hotel are keen to reinstate some hug-free humour with a double feature of local legend Mandy Nolan and Sydney-based comedian, Jacques Barrett. Mandy is loved for her ability to work topical humour into her routine. Nolan should have been at Edinburgh Festival now, and while she’s disappointed, she’s over the moon about being back in front of a live crowd again. Jacques Barrett has spent the last two years honing his stagecraft on the world stage with a tour of South East Asia, South Africa, Romania, Prague, Switzerland, Estonia, Finland and a full 12 months on the tough UK comedy circuit. He’s come back a bona fide international headliner with a reputation as the guy who flies and never dies. His defining strength is his ability to adapt to the crowd and throw consistently sharp, relentless comedy blows. Jacques weaves character renditions into social commentary, with strong performance skills and well-written material for some poignant hilarity that leaves crowds laughing long after the curtains have closed. His apprenticeship is complete, he’s a Jedi now, and he’s not to be missed. This is a free show at the Beachy, on the big stage, on Wednesday 19 August 7–9pm. Be there early to get your seat.

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LEO THE LION Venus in security-minded Cancer declares the coming months a vital time for developing strong community groups to weather next year’s economic storms… ARIES: If you can’t make this week’s power ploys into play, then step away. With Mercury moving into a fellow fire sign to ignite your creative passions and Venus currently making home your love-zone, schedule events there with family and friends, especially during weekend Aries moon. Or think renos, home extensions, and DIY projects.

LIBRA: Venus, your galactic guardian, is spending the next few weeks on future planning. And Mercury’s suggesting the best way to do this is by aligning with the hive mind and connecting with your community, because the small window of opportunity from now till the end of the year is crucial teaming-up time.

TAURUS: As expressive Mercury starts loosening up deep feelings, you’re more able to tackle touchy subjects like love, money and coronaprotocols with friends and family members. Even better, Venus spending the next month in your social zone brings more lightness and levity to local happenings and your shared world.

SCORPIO: This week, vivacious Venus throws open the cosmic door for Scorpios to widen their personal viewfinder, and issues a Don’t-Close-Down alert. Especially not with Mercury in your career corner ready to share what’s been brewing for the last however long. Just be prepared to make plot twists work for you.

GEMINI: Your ruling planet Mercury on a networking jag couldn’t be better for brainstorming, mindmapping and connecting with friends to discuss the state of the nation.Try it without phones on the table or beeping alerts; without rushing. Let discussions meander where they will, and they’re likely to take you into profitable territory.

SAGITTARIUS: ith inquisitive Mercury in curious, expansive, adventurous mode, take this opportunity to get out and about. Keep an open mind to what might be possible. And heed the advice of Venus to express your needs instead of playing it cool. Less reaction, and more listening, will increase peace and productivity at home.

CANCER: While Mercury might be suggesting you limit spending, Venus, planet of love, art and money in your sign for the coming month just wants to have fun and showcase the playful, flirty side of clan Crab. This is an auspicious time for a style upgrade. A new look, a new you.

CAPRICORN: Venus is urging you to do something lovely for someone this week. Maybe your best friend? Or even a total stranger. And if what you thought was a done deal hits a roadblock, consider it a blessing and instead of Plan A, look to Plan B. Even better, Plan X marks the spot for unexpected…

LEO: As wordsmith Mercury joins the Sun for its annual visit to your sign, you’ll not only know what to say to who, but when, and how to say it – especially now Venus is making you extraperceptive. Just take care not to lose your audience by being over-dramatic about something that’s not even a…. thing.

AQUARIUS: Mercury encourages relationship conversations this week. As in, restoring accord if – well, let’s just say where – there’s been arguments or misunderstandings. And in your own being as well, because for the next few weeks Venus is all about Aquarian self care: getting your glow on, pumping up your magnetising muscle, and receiving support.

VIRGO: With Venus logging onto your astrological sector of friends and technology, this week could see you suffering Zoom fatigue. So try to connect wherever possible in person. Perhaps entertain at home? Your planet guide Mercury’s recommending holding back on big decisions of the financial variety, as not all the information you need is on the table.

PISCES: Glamorous Venus sashays into your fun and luxury zone this week to bring more pleasure and play into La Vie Poisson. So look to efficient Mercury in orderly, organising mode to help you find savvy, money-saving ways to afford an enjoyable, spirit-lifting splurge on something beautifully Venusian.

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TYRRELL’S CULTURAL SMACKDOWN After living in Australia, for a decade, Irish born singer-songwriter Áine Tyrrell has carved a unique musical path, melding her own Irish roots from the ancient limestone rocks of Country Clare with her respect of the red dirt roads of 60,000 years of Indigenous culture in Australia. It is this longstanding connection between the Irish story and the experience of Indigenous Australia, in regards to colonialism, that Tyrrell calls on in her powerful, gut wrenching call to arms We Call You Now. The 7-minute ‘cultural smackdown’ is a departure in style and tone for Áine, who gathers force in a wildly emotive spoken word rant that is reminiscent of the musical poetry of rock greats like Patti Smith. This is a woman with something to say, and she’s not going to deliver it sweetly in a song where the words might drift by, she’s going to record a few loops, then drop the guitar and give you the full force of her outrage. We Call You Now came about after some backlash I got online about being part of the Black Lives Matter movement. It occurred to me that it was from Australians who identified as being Irish in some way. They came at me with the “all lives matter” argument, which is used all too often to try to derail race issues’ says Áine, who was invited by the Bunyarra Culture Collective to be part of Byron’s Black Lives Matter Protest in early June. She believes the protest had an impact on those in attendance and beyond, because ‘people sat and truly listened.’ ‘They listened to the experience of the local community here, and the broader Indigenous experience. It made people think a lot about their own contribution to the system – the systematic oppression. It was such a peaceful and uniting feeling and showed that we can all do something to dismantle the systems that have oppressed people. The protest was an inclusive conversation – it wasn’t an aggressive message. It felt intimate, and I think when people have intimate conversations like that it touches deeply.’ The feelings from the march, the backlash, and her own experiences as an Irish person in Australia grew in

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loudness in Áine’s head over the weeks that followed, until she finally penned We Call You Now in one sitting. ‘I have dealt with people’s complex emotions over their connection to Ireland and simultaneously have been involved in a lot of Indigenous spaces that share some similar complexities, due to colonisiation. ‘In Ireland we get the stories of people who left. In Australia I learned the stories of those who arrived. Once I began to listen and understand the Indigenous perspective, it became clear to me that there was a part of the conversation on colonisation and racism that was missing. I guess somewhere deep inside I decided I needed to write a seven minute history lesson – an ancestral smack down’, said Tyrrell. ‘I didn’t mean to write the song. My brain was bubbling over with emotion after the protests and online comments, and it just vomited out of me. It wasn’t an intentional moment – it came from deep, and it pushed its own way forward.’ ‘What I am saying in the song is that you can’t claim a part of Irish identity without understanding the wider history. You can’t try a little bit on like “our people were once enslaved too” and then use that as an uninformed argument to not stand with those who are being oppressed today. The song is a call to arms, for not only Irish decendants, but all white people here who have lost their country for all the variety of reasons, to rise up in support, rather than being part of systems that push down the Indigenous community’. We Call You Now was recorded at Harry Angus and Emily Lubitz’s studio with Byron Bay engineer James Boundy. Indigenous singer-songwriter Emily Wurramurra sent through her vocal tracks from where she is based in Tasmania. ‘I owe so much of the song to her because we toured together here and in Ireland, and the track reflects many of the conversations we had together’ said Áine. The track also features the Bunyarra Culture Collective; Dhinawan playing didgeridoo, and two young film makers, Coedie McCarthy and Jayman Leigh Drahm, made the filmclip. The new song and the clip will be released 14 August and the launch will be celebrated with music, dance, art, visual projections and fire ceremony at the Brunswick Picture House with Áine Tyrrell and the Bunyarra Culture Collective on 21 August. Doors open 7pm. Ainetyrrell.com/touring

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ROLL BLINDS

23 years and going strong! 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 0439 624 945

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compassinteriors@optusnet.com.au

02 66 804 173 Friendly Reliable Prompt Local

Digital TV ALL Antenna Installations & Repairs ALL Electrical Work

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

*conditions apply

BLINDS | AWNINGS | SHUTTERS YOUR LOCAL BLIND MAN at North Byron Blinds .................................................. Amos 0404 421518

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

BUILDING TRADES

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

• DEPT OF FAIR TRADING: A licence is required for all residential building work where the reasonable market cost of the work to be done (labour and materials) exceeds $5000 (including GST).

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

• RELIABLE TRADESMAN • DECKS & PERGOLAS • TIMBER SCREENS & DOORS • GARAGE CONVERSIONS

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

ARCHITECTS

LICENCE NUMBER 344531C

SERVICING THE BYRON SHIRE

CALL BRETT 0414 542 019

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

AUTOMOTIVE

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

ALL CARPENTRY WORK FULLY INSURED

NSW Lic. 83568c Qld BSA 1238105

• Floor installations • Door & Window installations • Decks & Pergolas 0488 950 638 matt.rowan.wardle@gmail.com • Alterations

LEGENDARY OFFROAD TYRES

Mobile Panel, Paint & Bumper Repairs FREE QUOTES Lic No: MVTC157416

Accountants & Bookkeepers.............................. 33 Acupuncture ....................................................... 33 Air Conditioning & Refrigeration ...................... 33 Antennas & Installation ..................................... 33 Antiques/Restoration ......................................... 33 Appliance Repair ................................................ 33 Architects ............................................................ 33 Automotive ......................................................... 33 Bathroom Renovations ...................................... 33 Blinds, Awnings, Curtains, Shutters .................. 33 Bricklaying .......................................................... 33 Building Trades ................................................... 33 Bush Regen & Weed Control .............................. 34 Carpet Cleaning .................................................. 34 Chimney Sweeps................................................. 34 Chiropractic......................................................... 34 Cleaning .............................................................. 34 Computer Services ............................................. 34 Concreting & Paving ........................................... 34 Decks, Patios & Extensions ................................ 34 Dentists ............................................................... 34 Design & Drafting ............................................... 34 Driveway Maintenance ...................................... 34 Earthmoving & Excavation ................................ 34 Electricians .......................................................... 34 Fencing ................................................................ 34 Floor Sanding & Polishing ................................. 34 Garden & Property Maintenance ...................... 34 Garden Design .................................................... 35 Gas Suppliers ...................................................... 35 Graphic Design ................................................... 35 Handypersons ..................................................... 35 Health .................................................................. 35 Hire ...................................................................... 35 Kitchens ............................................................... 35 Landscape Design .............................................. 35 Landscape Supplies............................................ 35 Landscaping ....................................................... 35 Locksmith ............................................................ 35 Osteopathy.......................................................... 35 Painting ............................................................... 35 Pest Control ......................................................... 35 Photography ....................................................... 35 Physiotherapy ..................................................... 35 Picture Framing .................................................. 35 Picture Hanging .................................................. 35 Plastering ............................................................ 35 Plumbers ............................................................. 35 Pools .................................................................... 36 Removalists ......................................................... 36 Roofing ................................................................ 36 Rubbish Removal ................................................ 36 Self Storage ......................................................... 36 Septic Systems .................................................... 36 Solar Installation ................................................ 36 Tiling .................................................................... 36 Tree Services ....................................................... 36 Tuition ................................................................. 36 Upholstery .......................................................... 36 Valuers ................................................................. 36 Veterinary Surgeons .......................................... 36 Water Filters ........................................................ 36 Water Supplies .................................................... 36 Wedding Services ............................................... 36 Welding ............................................................... 36 Window Cleaning ............................................... 36 Window Tinting................................................... 36

UNWANTED CARS

BECK THE BOOKKEEPER Xero, MYOB, BAS, Payroll, COVID-19 assistance .....................02 66084372

ACCOUNTS & BOOKINGS: 6684 1777

INDEX

CASH PAID FOR

• Scratch & Dent Repairs • Rust Repairs • Pre Sales Tidy Ups • Car Park Dents • Accident Damage

We come to you. Fully qualified, fully insured and all work is guaranteed.

Bumper to Bumper Repairs | Cory 0403 918 831

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0417 654 888

Quality workmanship, and reliable and personalised service.

Complete Home Maintenance Solutions Bathroom and Kitchen Renovations • General Carpentry • Timber Decks • Home Maintenance RAY GOUGH 0477 005 144 completehome_1@bigpond.com

Lic. 266174C

www.stoneysbuildingcreations.com

Call Glenn or Tracey 0403 428 232 email: impresswindowcleaning@gmail.com Reliable • Friendly • Professional • Fully Insured • Free Quotes • Affordable Rates Flyscreen Repairs • Locally Owned & Operated • Quality Work • Over 15 Years Exp

BOND CLEANING...........................................................................................................0421 360961

COMPUTER SERVICES

0439 624 945

RENT-A-GEEK Mobile PC Repair (Byron Shire) ....................................................................66844335

CONCRETING & PAVING

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

DARYL 0418 234 302

LELAND CARPENTRY All carpentry – small renovation specialist (under $5K) Jesse ...0458 968290

Over 25 yrs local experience. All forms of concreting. Residential • Civil • Industrial

BUSH REGENERATION & WEED CONTROL WEED CONTROL SPECIALIST Lawns – bindii weeds – Army worms – grass grubs .....0418 110714

ALL AROUND

Cleans deeply, dries in 1-2 hours

Far North Coast NSW John & Teresa

0408 232 066

Lic No. 337066C

EAST COAST BUSH REGENERATION Tree planting, weed control. Call Rossco Faithfull.0409 157695

CONCRETING

Free Quotes

Call Daniel

0424 876 155

PLATINUM CRETE CONCRETING Lic 225874C. 20 years exp. Free quotes. Justin .........0458 773788 FLANAGAN CONCRETING & EXCAVATIONS. Lic 155456C. Ph Andrew.........................0401 968173

DECKS, PATIOS & EXTENSIONS

Commercial / Domestic / Insurance

CHIMNEY SWEEPING

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

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

DENTISTS

CHIROPRACTIC

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

ACTION WINDOW & PRESSURE CLEANING actionjoewindow@gmail.com

• House washing • High pressure or soft wash • Window cleaning • Driveways, paths & roofs • Gutters & yscreens • Water efďŹ cient • Free quotes Phone Joe or Helen 0409 207 646 or 0412 495750

Call

0434 539 979

• Window Cleaning • Screens & Tracks • Pressure Washing • House •Roof • Paths • Solar

www.byroneco.com.au

Quality Exterior Refinishing Roof & Pressure Cleaning Roof Painting Deck Oiling Phone Oliver 0419 789 600 fullcirclerefinishing.com

Byron Bay

5 Stars

CLEANING SERVICE

CLEANS: Holiday, Residential, Bond, Commercial, Spring

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

Blue Sky

BYRON ENERGY EFFICIENT DESIGN & DRAFTING www.beedad.com.au ...............0423 531448 FENG SHUI DESIGN CONSULTANT Lizzie Bodenham livingbalancedesigns.com.au Ph .0431 678608 BORRELL DESIGN Drafting & design. Commercial, retail, residential, shop fit-outs .....0412 043463

DRIVEWAY MAINTENANCE

Coast to Country Asphalt Specialising in

• Asphalt Driveways • Sub-divisions • Earthworks • Carparks • and all Maintenance! For a Free Quote Call Now

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0467 482 948 ALL ASPECTS OF ASPHALT & BITUMEN SERVICES

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 SPINKS ELECTRICAL Lic 284939C..................................................................Call Mitch 0421 843477 BLUE BEE ELECTRICAL 25 years experience. Lic 189508C. Call Dave ............................0429 033801 BEN FORSYTH, Electrician. Lic:240691C. Ocean Shores & surrounds. No job too small ...0422 136408 CIRCUITS PLUS. For everything electrical in Byron Shire. Lic 201844c ..........................0422 668582 E4 ELECTRICAL SERVICES Lic 116621c. Solutions made E4 EASY! Phone Jamie ..........0410 502060

FENCING

Glass Fencing, Colorbond Fencing, Aluminium Slat Gates, Pool Fencing, Sliding Gate Specialist FULLY QUALIFIED & INSURED

FREE QUOTES 7 DAYS

0499 156 005 Lic #256735C

• Steel • Pool • ColorbondŽ • Gates • Paling • Picket • Glass Fencing

Call 131 546

www.jimsfencing.com.au

BYRON & BEYOND FENCING Any fence, any time, prompt quotes....... 66804766 or 0422 207299 EDL FENCING Installations & repairs. Prompt service. ..................................................0432 107262 FLOW FENCING Pool fencing, timber/colourbond, local, professional and reliable.......0416 424256

Burringbar

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

SERVICING THE EAST COAST OF THE NSW NORTHERN RIVERS

EARTHMOVING & EXCAVATION

FLOOR SANDING & POLISHING GARDEN & PROPERTY MAINTENANCE

TINY EARTHWOR Philip Toovey

0409 799 909

various implements available for limited access projects

WILSONS

Excavation & Plant Hire

• Tip Trucks 3 to 12 Tonne • Excavators 5 & 21 Tonne • Posi Track Loader • Driveways • Roads • Cleaning • Civil Works • House Pads • Drainage • Carparks • Bush Rocks • Rock Walls • Water Truck

Friendly reliable and trustworthy service.

Nationally Recognised QualiďŹ cations

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Professional Cleaning Services BOND CLEAN AND BUILDERS CLEAN SPECIALIST

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

ALL STEEL GATES

BRUNSWICK HOLISTIC DENTAL CENTRE .......................................................................66851264

WAVE OF LIFE NETWORK CHIRO (lowforce) 8/9 Fletcher St, Byron Bay. Andrew Badman...66858553

CLEANING

All Jobs Small or Large

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

LITTLE LANE DENTAL, MULLUMBIMBY ...........................................................................66842816

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

02 66 804 173

ELECTRICAL Steve Nicholls ph: 0455 445 343 lic: EC28753

Lic.136717c

CONCRETING

FABRICA JOINERY Quality kitchens/timber doors/windows. Lic 244652C .........................66808162

AH

Domestic Commercial

SALISBURY

HAVEN BUILDING All aspects of building. Lic 326616C ...............................................0432 565060

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

24 HOUR SERVICE

ECO-FRIENDLY Immaculate, local cleaner. 10+ yrs exp. Exc refs. Domestic/commercial..0449 173056

BUILDER – JOHN McGAURAN Personalised Service. 20 yrs exp. Lic 170208C .............0415 793242

Green & Clean

ELECTRICIANS

HOLIDAY CLEANERS Avail now! Domestic, AirBnB, last-minute. Local, exp & reliable .0421 360961

BUILDER Renovations, maintenance, 30yrs exp. mchughdesign.com.au Lic 29792C....0408 663420

FRANCHISE OF THE YEAR!

EXPERIENCED OPERATORS | FREE QUOTES 0432 299 283

DETAILED CLEANER/GUEST HOUSE MANAGER All natural products 4.8 Stayz rated ..0410 723601 NORTHERN RIVERS TRENCHING 65hp chain trencher, mini excavator, cable locating.0402 716857 BEYOND CLEANING GROUP Quality focused. Brunswick to Ballina from $39.60ph .....0451 102239 ALEX EXCAVATION 3.5T Zero Swing excavator & bobcat loader & 5T Tipper Rock Grab 0417 920300 PROFESSIONAL LOCAL CLEANER excellent references, good rates. Shire wide. Ph Krissy ..0410 860330

DINGO DEMOLITIONS & ASBESTOS REMOVAL ................................. 66834008 or 0407 728998 BETTER CALL SAUL The Mac Doctor. Repairs. Upgrades. Used Macs.............................0411 562111

CARPET CLEANING

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

Lic: 154293c

Licensed builder, specialising in Bathroom renovations.

JIMSTH-2017

Lic: 317362C

5.5 TONNE EXCAVATOR, POSITRACK & TIPPER HIRE

Window Cleaning Professionals

Specialising in Driveway Construction & Maintenance Training & Assessment: Earthmoving Plant & Forklift admin@wilsonexcavationsandtruckhire.com.au Byron Bay 0427 663 678 or 0452 400 565

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

Contact Vadi: 0404

978 383

Acreage & Residential Mowing | Gardening Fire Hazard Reduction | Landscaping | TurďŹ ng Brush Cutting | Tip Runs | Fully Insured

0430 297 101 / 6684 5437 livingearthgardens.com.au

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

Service Directory LANDSCAPE DESIGN

PEST CONTROL

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

LANDSCAPE SUPPLIES

Professional Property Protection you can Trust • Targeted treatments for all pests with “no sprayâ€? cockroach treatments • If you have found live termites, do not disturb them and call us for advice! No cost for quoting on active termites Relax, when safety, reputation and experience matters, we are the experts

THE BYRON BAY GARDEN & LANDSCAPING COMPANY Structural Landscaping

6685 4490 or AH on 0414 769 018

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

02 6681 6555

1176 Myocum Rd, Mullumbimby (just past golf course)

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

6684 2323 / 0418 663 983

0434 329 111

Free quotes on active termites Environmentally safe

LANDSCAPING

YOUR PEST & TERMITE SPECIALISTS

Don’t waste your weekends cleaning your gutters!

www.allpestsolutions.com.au

Let us take care of them for you! • Wet/dry Vacuum cleaning • Safety trained & fully insured

THE PEST MAN EXTRAORDINAIRE Second opinion / alternative views. 50 yrs exp .....0418 110714

• Professional & friendly service

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

Call Phil & Rheu 0480 286 276 or 1300 654 253 www.guttervac.com.au

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

PHOTOGRAPHY

Shaun Savage Landscapes

A-Z Lawns & acreage, trees & hedges, clean ups & tip runs, all gutters ..........................0405 625697

Established 2008 ~ Lic No: 247282c

A.C.E. LAWNMOWING & GARDENING Best rates, reliable, guaranteed. Ph Sam.......0438 655763

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

LEAF IT TO US Specialists in acreage mowing, garden, tree maintenance .....................0402 487213 PAUL’S MOWING Local & reliable. Mullum, Bruns, O. Shores, Byron & Bangalow.........0422 958791 A GREEN EARTH Garden restoration, maintenance, tree & rubbish removal ................0405 716552

www.sanctuarypest.com.au

0405 594 288

20 Years Experience

Tree Faerie Fotos Professional • Commercial • Personal 30+ years experience in commercial photography and photojournalism

www.treefaeriefotos.com • 0417 427 518

PHYSIOTHERAPY

TIP RUNS & RUBBISH REMOVALS 4m3 trailer..............................................................0408 210772 LEMONTREELANDSCAPES.COM.AU Liam. Lic No 277154C .........................................0423 700853

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

LOCKSMITH

BRUSHCUTTING Rubbish, Property Maintenance, Lawns.............................................0412 469109

classes, laser, shockwave. Kim Snellgrove, Cally O’Hara .......................................................66872330 GREEN DINGO for all your mowing and gardening needs. Ph Michael .........................0497 842442 Brendan Duggan Locksmith. Automotive car keys and lock installation/repair .......0412 764148 NICK EDMOND Physiotherapy & Acupuncture. Open Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday RICK’S PROPERTY MAINTENANCE Mowing, brushcutting, gardening, pool service ...0424 805660

OSTEOPATHY

GW GARDEN MAINTENANCE Mowing, brushcutting, trees & hedges, trailer ..............0408 244820 A1 RUBBISH REMOVAL AND TIP RUNS. 9m3 trailer. Same day service. Best rates .....0413 289443 LAWN MOWING rubbish removal, hedge trimming. Mullum, Bruns, Ocean Shores. Mark ..0437 343348

466 Main Arm Road, Mullumbimby.....................................................................................66845288

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

PAINTING

GARDEN DESIGN

ANTHONY D’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

• DEPARTMENT OF FAIR TRADING INFO: When dealing with home owners, painters are required PETRA KARNI PHYSIOTHERAPY & Craniosacral, Manual Therapy, TMJ. Suffolk Park. Ph...0403 226858 www.simplybeautifulspaces.com.au FENG SHUI / GARDEN DESIGN .........................Lyn 0428 884329 to quote a licence number only for external work valued over $5000.

GAS SUPPLIERS

• Domestic & Commercial • Servicing all areas • Workmanship guaranteed • Attention to detail

Locally Owned Est 18 years

0438 784 226 • 6685 4154

www.brunswickvalleygas.com

MULLUM PICTURE FRAMERS Stuart St rear lane behind Mitre 10 ............................0403 734791 BILLINUDGEL CUSTOM PICTURE FRAMING. 7/1 Wilfred St. Call for appointment......... 6680 3444

PICTURE HANGING PROFESSIONAL PICTURE HANGING, also display of art and objects. Phone Lenny ....0407 031294

PLASTERING

6680 1575 or 0408 760 609

PLASTERING CONTRACTOR

GRAPHIC DESIGN

DOMESTIC & COMMERCIAL

C. A. Warwick Lic. No. 114578C ‡ )UHH TXRWHV ‡ *\SURFN À [LQJ VHWWLQJ

www.thinkblinkdesign.com

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QUALITY PAINTING SERVICES

SUNRISE PLASTERING. No job too small. Renovations + patchworks. Gtd sat. Free quote ....0418 992001

X FINALIST OF THE MASTER PAINTERS OF AUSTRALIA AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE X ENVIRO FRIENDLY PAINTING

Print | Branding | Social Media | Websites | Graphic Design

www.duluxaccredited.com.au

A.S.A.P. All renos, carpentry, plastering, painting, studios & bathrooms .......................0405 625697

X 6680 7573 0415 952 494 X www.yvesdewilde.com.au LIC 114372C

HANDY ANDY Carpentry, plastering, welding ......................................... 66884324 or 0476 600956 THE HANDYMAN CAN All home maintenance, repairs, painting, odd jobs etc .............0427 110953 GOOD NEWS HANDYMAN Carpentry, home renovations/repairs etc. Jesse..................0458 968290

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HIGHPOINT Repairs & handyman services. Painting, plastering & tiling. Michael ........0421 896796

Free Quotes – 33 years \HDUV ([SHULHQFH experience )UHH 4XRWHV

BUILDER SKILLS carpenters’ rates, 25 years exp. Lic No R84001 ...................................0422 069632

• OTHER HEALTH RELATED SECTIONS IN THIS SERVICE DIRECTORY: Acupuncture, ACUPUNCTURE & COSMETIC MEDICINE Dr Adam Osborne ...........................................66857366 MULLUMBIMBY HERBALS Naturopathy, Ayurveda, Massage, Herbs. .............................66843002 WWW.EASTCOASTPILATES.COM.AU Judy Leane Ex. Phys ...........................................0408 110006 REMEDIAL MASSAGE: Deep tissue, sports, relaxation. HICAPS avail. Aaron Ovens ......0408 707304 COUNSELLING & LIFE COACHING: Anxiety, Depression, Relationships. TracieAnne.com. 0437 174804

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

KITCHENS

NEIL A McINTOSH

INTERIOR/EXTERIOR • PLASTER REPAIRS • WALLPAPERING CLEAN & TIDY • ALWAYS ON TIME • ALL AREAS Mobile: 0421 938 104 – 465 Uralba Road, Uralba

Mark Wopling

ABN 31 490 733 798 LIC 203196C

Painting & Decorating

24 years experience

Accredited

QUALIFIED • INSURED • LOCAL • FREE QUOTES 7KH À QLVKLQJ WRXFK WR \RXU KRPH

Mob: 0409 451 518

PLUMBERS NEED A PLUMBER? DRAINER? GASFITTER?

Chay 0429 805 081 20 YEARS LOCAL SERVICE

ABN 48867459605 Lic 33995C

PAINTER

HEALTH Chiropractic, Counselling, Dentists, Osteopathy, Physiotherapy

Lic 167371C

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

451 186

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mwoplingpainting@hotmail.com

Licence No. 207479C

No Rental

Lic No 189144C

BYRON BAY

Free Delivery Reliable

ALL-WAYS PAINTING

PICTURE FRAMING

30 years experience Blocked drain specialists Everything plumbing, drainage & gasďŹ tting SHANE

0400 852 141

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

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

AD PAINTING by John Hand. Lic 13246C ................................................ 0413 185399 or 66841249 MARK STRATTON All plumbing & emergency. Sewer drain camera/locator. Lic 57803C ....0419 019035 D HINGED Kitchens & Joinery. Lic 283553C. www.hinged.com.au .......................Dave 0409 843689 BYRONBAYPAINTINGSERVICES.COM.AU – Reliable. Quality work. Ph .....................1300 255 724 ADM PLUMBING SERVICES‌ (NO JOB TOO SMALL)‌ Lic 234528C. ....... Call Adam 0466 992483

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POOLS

SOLAR INSTALLATION

ATTENTION POOL OWNERS • All pool requirements • Professional advice • Water testing • Friendly service • Pool servicing

73 Station St, Mullumbimby

Pioneers of the solar industry

Serving Northern NSW since 1998

Call us on 6679 7228

Your local, qualiďŹ ed team. m 0428 320 262 Specialists in standalone & e sunbeamsolar@bigpond.com grid interact system designs.

Electric Lic 124600c

(opp. Council chambers)

6684 3003

ALL AREAS OF THE NORTHERN RIVERS & SOUTH EAST QUEENSLAND

0401 208 797

SUMMERLAND TREE SERVICES ............................................. Call Tim 66813140 or 0417 698227

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

REMOVALISTS

PETER GRAY Grad. Cert. Arb. AQF8. Consulting arborist................................................0414 186161

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Andy’s Move & More

From Middle Pocket to Middle Earth – just give us a ring

• Freight services to Brisbane weekly • Carriers of ďŹ ne art • Furniture removal • E-bay pick up & delivery

LEAF IT TO US 4x4 truck/chipper + stump grinding. Local, qualified, insured. Free quotes.0402 487213 A VERY HANDY MAN TREE SERVICES................................... Happy to help. Andrew..0412 558890

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PROBLEM CAMPHORS and woody weeds removed. No fuss-green waste, lantana too! ..0478 779650

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SHIRE REMOVALS & FREIGHT CO

Life’s Good with Solar Juno Energy is your local authorised LG energy specialist offering solar and battery solutions for your business & home

Patrick - 0425 256 802

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LEAPFROG REMOVALS BYRON BAY’S LOCAL REMOVALIST MOVING THE SHIRE FOR OVER 10 YEARS

TUITION HARMONIUM TUITION, REPAIRS, SALES. Contact Alice.............................................0427 423723

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

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BYRON TREE SERVICES Qualified, insured. Call Alex ....................................................0402 364852 MARTINO TREE SERVICES ..............................................................................Martino 0435 019524

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VALUERS BYRON BAY VALUERS NSW & QLD reg’d. Chartered Valuers ................... 0431 245460 or 66857010

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OCEAN SHORES SKIPS Mini skip specialists ......................................... 0412 161564 or 66841232 TIP RUNS & RUBBISH REMOVAL 4m3 trailer................................................................0408 210772 A1 RUBBISH REMOVAL AND TIP RUNS. 9m3 trailer. Same day service. Best rates .....0413 289443 MAN WITH UTE. RETHINK REUSE RECYCLE. Ph Mark ................................................0411 113300 THIS IS RUBBISH Tipper truck for hire. Call or text Jono ...............................................0412 871438

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Birthdays ...........................38 Caravans...........................37 For Sale ............................37

CLASSIFIED AD BOOKINGS

DEADLINE TUES 12PM

Garage Sales ....................37

PHONE ADS

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

Halls For Hire ....................37 Health Notices ..................37 In Memoriam.....................38 Lost & Found ....................38 Motor Vehicles ..................37 Musical Notes ...................38 Only Adults .......................38 Personal ............................38 Pets ...................................38 Positions Vacant ...............37 Professional Services .......37 Public Notices ...................37 Social Escorts ...................38 Thank You .........................37

6684 1777 AT THE ECHO HEAD OFFICE

Ads may be taken by phone on

LINE ADS: $17.00 for the first two lines $5.00 for each extra line

Village Way, Stuart St, Mullumbimby

EMAIL ADS

$17 for two lines is the minimum charge.

Display classies (box ads): adcopy@echo.net.au Line classies: classifieds@echo.net.au

DISPLAY ADS (with a border): $12.50 per column centimetre

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To Lease ...........................37

Tuition................................38 Wanted..............................37 Wanted To Lease ..............37

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Wanted To Rent ................37

Advertisements placed in The Byron Shire Echo do not reďŹ&#x201A;ect the views or opinions of the editorial staff. The Byron Shire Echo does not make any representations as to the accuracy or suitability of any content or information contained in advertising material nor does publication constitute in any way an endorsement by The Byron Shire Echo of the content or representations contained therein. The Byron Shire Echo does not accept any liability for the representations or promises made in paid advertisements or for any loss or damage arising from reliance on such content, representations or promises.

PUBLIC NOTICES MULLUMBIMBY RURAL CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY LTD PO Box 87, Mullumbimby, NSW 2482 Ph: 66842239. Fax: 66842811 Nominations are hereby called for four directors of the above society. Retiring directors are John Bashforth & Terence Johnston who are eligible & offer themselves for re-election. Bill Nicholls & Mark Toon offer themselves for election. Nominations must be in the hand of the Secretary by 27 August, 2020. By Order of The Board N. Farquhar, Secretary.

THANK YOU

JOYCE MORRIS The family of the late Joyce Morris would like to express their appreciation to those who offered such kindness, support and messages of sympathy at her recent passing. Your support at this difďŹ cult time was very much appreciated and of great comfort to all of our family. Thank you.

HEALTH

Mullumbimby and District Neighbourhood Centre are looking for a crew of volunteer food recovery van drivers. Requirements for the job are that you must be ďŹ t and able to lift sometimes heavy boxes of food, you must have an unencumbered Drivers Licence. If you like driving and you feel you could contribute to your community and environment please enquire by giving the centre a call on 02 6684 1286 or drop in at 55 Dalley Street, Mullumbimby. Help us to continue this valuable program, keeping good food out of landďŹ ll and in peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bellies. So far we have recovered over 44 Tonnes of food

For full job description and selection criteria please email: ofďŹ ce@byroncentre.com.au Applications close: 11.30 pm (AEST), 14 August 2020

HYPNOSIS & EFT

Simple and effective solutions Anxiety, Cravings, Fears & Trauma. Maureen Bracken 0402205352

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Individual and Couple Therapy Supervision and Coaching (02) 6685 5185 9 Fletcher St, Byron Bay

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MIELE WASHERS 20 years local experience â&#x20AC;˘ 19 inch chipper â&#x20AC;˘ Stump grinding â&#x20AC;˘ Cherry picker â&#x20AC;˘ Crane truck â&#x20AC;˘ Bob Cat

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LOG SPLITTING SERVICE Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll come split your logs into ďŹ rewood. Machine splits 1 cubic metre per hour.

Brunswick Heads 2 bed 2 bth $550 3 bed 2 bth $695 Pottsville 4 bed 2 bth $750 Mullumbimby 4 bed 2 bth $650 4 bed 2 bth $695 Unit & office space contact agent Ocean Shores 2 bed 1 bth $495 L.J. Hooker Brunswick Heads 6685 0177

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WANTED

LOOKING TO RENT A HOME in a safe, quiet environment, close to town centre. Inspect this home today at Glen Villa Resort, 80 Butler Street, Byron Bay. $595pw, conditions apply.

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

WANTED TO RENT

GARAGE SALES

WORKING, RELIABLE, HONEST single person with well behaved dogs. Looking for long-term let in Mullum or surrounds. $400â&#x20AC;&#x201C;$450pw, refs available 0460582703

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

Tip Runs & Rubbish Removal 0408 210 772 CARAVANS

COORABELL HALL WEDDINGS, GIGS, CLASSES 66871307 www.coorabellhall.net

Somatic Practice

Julie Wells Anne Goslett

0402 364 852

Do you love media and making a positive impact? Is working in a highly reputable and fast-paced community organisation at the heart of Byron Bay your perfect job? We are looking for an experienced Media & Content Coordinator to join our highly creative team. The Byron Community Centre is the beating heart of Byron Bay. We are a not-for-proďŹ t organisation that hosts a range of community-based projects with the aim of bettering the lives of people in need within the Byron Bay community. A rewarding opportunity exists for an enthusiastic Media and Content Coordinator to join a creative and hardworking team, based in the heart of the Byron Bay township. We are looking for a self-starter who has experience in copywriting, content production, website management, and social media community management. The role also requires an understanding of digital, traditional media and brand storytelling. If you are a go-getter who knows how to create volumes of engaging content to support social, website, multimedia, print publication and communications needs, we would love you to apply.

IN MEMORY OF OUR DAUGHTER RENEE We would like to thank the community and close friends for the kind thoughts and love shown for her at this sad time. Maz, Eddie and Fiona Never to Be Forgotten

VOLUNTEER DRIVER REQUIRED

6684 4421

Media & Content Coordinator

LOOK GOOD FEEL GOOD Free consultation. SANDRO 66805002

HELP OUR COMMUNITY

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RATES & PAYMENT

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

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CARAVANS We buy, sell & consign. All makes & models. 0408 758 688

MOTOR VEHICLES

WANTED!

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16 ENDEAVOUR CLOSE, BALLINA

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DLN 19950

Dryers and dishwashers available at Bridglands Mullumbimby. 66842511

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DAVID LOVEJOYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BOOKS Available from The Echo reception: Between Dark and Dark, a memoir; Moral Victories, the biography of a chess player; Heresy, an historical novel. ALL JUST $10 each.

TO LET

LOCAL REMOVAL

& backloads to Brisbane. Friendly, with 10 years local exp. 0409917646

STUDIO/ROOM for quiet, reliable, mature fem. Long-term refs avail Ph 0410032081

TO LEASE SHOP FOR LEASE 30sqm prime main st retail location 17 Byron St Bangalow. E: bob-rex@live.com.au Ph 0412498353

WANTED TO LEASE OFFICE REQUIRED for couples therapist in Bruns or Suffolk, two days a week. 8 square metre minimum. Home or shared commercial ofďŹ ce considered. Essential access to bathroom. Contact Peter Fox coupletherapyoz@icloud.com ACCESS TO ACREAGE, dwelling or not. Prefer 2x2 or 3x3 or similar. Substantial security deposit OK. Pls call 0423218417

POSITIONS VACANT EXPERIENCED BARISTA. Mullumbimby fast-paced cafe. Minimum 3 years barista experience. Mon, Tues, Wed. Locals only. Email mullum@otherjoint.com

Assistant Store Manager Santos Organics is looking for an experienced full-time assistant manager at our Mullumbimby store. For the job description and to apply go to www.santosorganics.com.au/ employment-2/

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PERSONAL ASSISTANT & DISPATCHER BALLINA

Marlie

A casual PA supporting the Managing Director and Chairman professionally and personally, and assisting with dispatch of skin care products. Experience as a PA needed. Must be trustworthy, reliable and able to maintain confidentiality.

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IN MEMORIAM

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02 6684 3374

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VALE VALERIE WILLIAMS Beloved wife of Aikido Goshinkai Head instructor Michael Williams. Devoted mother to Joelle, Kira, Shani. Stepmother & grandmother. Passed peacefully away on Saturday 1 August, surrounded by family. In peace and in love now, love is all that matters.

LOST & FOUND LOST: RESCUE GREY COCKATIEL from Suffolk Park, 27/7/20. Responds to Jakey Boy. Reward offered. 0432152408

The good news is that dear JACKO from the pound is feeling much happier, so much so that volunteers look forward to his warm greeting and very loving personality. Jacko says he just wants to be saved and get out so that he can have a happy fun life with humans, who he loves to be with.

Please make an appointment 0403 533 589 • Billinudgel petsforlifeanimalshelter.net

WARNING The Department of Fair Trading has warned people to be very careful about responding to advertisements offering work at home. Readers should be wary if asked to pay money upfront for employment opportunities and never send money to a post office box

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contact@thinkblinkdesign.com www.thinkblinkdesign.com

LADIES WANTED, MUST BE 18+ Casual or permanent work available in busy adult parlour. 66816038 for details.

MUSICAL NOTES

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QUALITY PIANOS for sale, and expert piano tuning. Ph Fred Cole 0412216019

A1 LABOURING: Get your jobs done, call A1! From $25ph. All jobs. Ph 0434576922

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6685 6807 6628 7333

PETS Selena is looking for an extra special home where it will be quiet, relaxed and where her new family have lots of patience. Poor Selena was plucked from the pound and is now safely in foster care. She is very timid and is fearful of new people. Goodness knows what trauma this beautiful girl has endured. Selena would be best suited to a single person or a quiet couple. Even the most scared of cats can blossom into confident and affectionate kitties. To express an interest in Selena, please call AWL. To meet our other cats please visit the Cat Adoption Centre at 124 Dalley Street, Mullumbimby.

Selena

OPEN: Tues 2.30–4.30pm Thurs 3–5pm, Sat 10am–12 noon Call AWL 0436 845 542.

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AWL NSW Rehoming Organisation Number: R251000222

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6628 4495 0429 019 407

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Email application to: durrumbul577@gmail.com

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SOCIAL ESCORTS LOTS OF GORGEOUS LADIES available for your pleasure nearby. Spoil yourself. In & out. 7 days. Ladies always wanted. 0266816038. COVID SAFE

MONTHLY MARKETS

No: 953010004408770

DUTIES • General administration • Meeting compliance obligations • Managing assessment and ratings • Working collaboratively with the management committee • Managing business and financial performance • Employing effective communication and leadership strategies with employees, the local preschool/childcare service network and a culturally diverse community • Relief from face-to-face • Responsible person when on site • Conducting weekly meetings with both groups of educators • Educational leadership over programme and curriculum

FRENCH • ITALIAN • GERMAN Eva 0403224842 www.languagetuitionbyron.com.au

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All cats are desexed, vaccinated and microchipped.

EXPERIENCE This is a non-teaching management and administration role also requiring extensive early childhood teaching experience plus thorough working knowledge of NQS and EYLF. ABOUT US Located in a beautiful rural setting we are a notfor-profit community preschool incorporated in 1986. With six educators, a nominated supervisor/educational leader plus support staff and a clerk we have a close knit team and are looking for a committed person to embrace our play based learning philosophy and work with us into the future. We cater for 40 families – 20 children per day and operate according to the NSW school calendar.

EXPERIENCED MATURE SWIM TEACHER Casual, ongoing. Immediate start for the right person. Established business in Ocean Shores area. Phone Ruth 0448649150.

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• Visual Thinking for Trainers and Facilitators

byroncollege.org.au

Devoted to Pleasure Ɔ

Tue 18 August

Limited places available, enrol now!

ONLY ADULTS

microchip no 941000018947015

Visit friendsofthepound.com to view other dogs and cats looking for a home. ABN 83 126 970 338

Face to face and online classes starting soon... Sat 15 August

Marlie is a 4 year old small desexed female American Staffy (20kg). She is very affectionate and has a true staffy nature and particularly likes males. She is quite a dominant girl so best as the only dog so she has her people all to herself. If you can give Marlie a permanent, loving home please contact Pam on 0421 017 461.

F R I E N D S H I P / C O M PA N I O N S H I P A young 74 year old gentleman, financially secure, at 5’9 & 77kg, grey hair & hazel eyes. He enjoys the outdoors, sports, fishing, beach walks, dining out & good conversation. He is looking for a genuine lady in his local area. Please call 1800261848 or 0488200554 www. countrycompanionshp.com.au

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1.58am 2.44am Astronomical data 12.41pm and tides 3.57am Moon High tide, Low tide, set height (m) height (m) 0417 0622 1.16; 1909 1.78 0051 0.43; 1203 0.30 0514 0714 1.19; 1954 1.81 0139 0.37; 1252 0.27 0605 0800 1.21; 2035 1.81 0221 0.33; 1336 0.26 0651 0841 1.23; 2113 1.78 0300 0.31; 1417 0.26 0731 0919 1.24; 2147 1.73 0335 0.31; 1456 0.29 0807 0957 1.25; 2219 1.67 0409 0.33; 1533 0.33 0840 1032 1.25; 2250 1.58 0441 0.35; 1611 0.40 0910 1111 1.25; 2322 1.49 0513 0.37; 1650 0.48 0940 1154 1.25; 2356 1.38 0546 0.40; 1735 0.56 1009 1243 1.25 0624 0.43; 1829 0.65 1040 0036 1.26; 1342 1.26 0706 0.46; 1937 0.71 1114 0127 1.16; 1451 1.30 0756 0.48; 2103 0.73 1151 0234 1.08; 1600 1.37 0852 0.49; 2234 0.69 1233 0350 1.04; 1700 1.46 0950 0.47; 2341 0.60 1322 0500 1.06; 1752 1.57 1046 0.41 1417 0557 1.10; 1841 1.68 0030 0.50; 1139 0.34 1518 0647 1.17; 1926 1.78 0113 0.40; 1228 0.26 1623 0735 1.23; 2010 1.85 0152 0.31; 1314 0.18 1729 0821 1.30; 2052 1.90 0232 0.23; 1400 0.13 1837 0907 1.36; 2134 1.89 0312 0.18; 1447 0.11 1943 0954 1.41; 2216 1.82 0352 0.16; 1535 0.14 2049 1042 1.45; 2259 1.71 0432 0.16; 1626 0.22 2154 1132 1.46; 2343 1.55 0515 0.20; 1721 0.33 2300 1228 1.46 0558 0.25; 1826 0.45 0031 1.37; 1332 1.46 0645 0.31; 1945 0.55 0005 0130 1.20; 1447 1.48 0740 0.37; 2117 0.58 0109 0245 1.08; 1603 1.52 0845 0.41; 2245 0.54 0211 0410 1.04; 1710 1.58 0955 0.42; 2351 0.46 0309 0522 1.07; 1805 1.64 1100 0.39 0402 0618 1.12; 1853 1.68 0041 0.38; 1157 0.34 0448 0704 1.19; 1934 1.70 0121 0.32; 1244 0.29

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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COVID info: aged care For information, or support, regarding aged care issues you can call the Older Person’s Advocacy Network on 1800 700 600 or visit opan.com.au. The Older Person’s Advocacy Network (OPAN) are Australia’s leading advocates for older Australians receiving aged care. OPAN is a free, confidential and independent service.

Mullum CWA After four-month’s break, Mullumbimby CWA branch will resume monthly meetings on 12 August. Under COVID-19 regulations there will be social distancing, hand sanitising, and an attendance register with contact details of

each person present. The meeting will start as usual at 10am at the CWA rooms, corner Gordon and Mullumbimbi Streets, Mullumbimby. For more information contact our secretary, Jenny on 0427 847 282 or email: johnandjen6@gmail.com.

BV VIEW Club A limit of 30 members can attend the low-key birthday luncheon of Brunswick Valley VIEW Club on 13 August, owing to COVID-19 restrictions. The venue is Billinudgel Hotel and members should arrive at 10.30am for an 11am start. Social distancing, hand sanitising, and a register of all attendees will be taken. All members attending must book early to avoid disappointment. Contact Wenda on 0449 563 580 or

email wjhunt@yahoo.com.au as soon as possible. VIEW stands for Voice, Interests and Education of Women. The club supports seven disadvantaged students in The Smith Family’s Learning for Life program, to give them the best chance of a good education. For more information, contact president Margaret Alderton on 0429 966 894.

Free walking group Free 1200 Heart Foundation Walking groups may be restarting in: Ballina, Byron, Kyogle, Lismore, Richmond Valley and Tweed. Search https:// walking.heartfoundation.org.au/ walking/new-south-wales to find a group near you.

Dog trainers Brunswick Area Responsible Canine Owners (BARCO) need more volunteer trainers to support increases in demand. Training takes place on Sunday morning. People will have personal experience in training dogs. They also need to be

happy working with dog owners, as BARCO is really about teaching people to train their own dogs. Contact Eve Sinton at barcodogs@ gmail.com.

the beach, from the Surf Club. For more information see: www. byronshirechemicalfreelandcare.org.

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The Byron Community Centre Seniors Programs has started again. These include: Tuesdays Seniors Drumming with Gareth Jones. Session 1 at 10.30am and session 2 at 1.30pm in the Byron Theatre, Seniors Chair Yoga at 12.00noon; Wednesdays Choir and Ukulele; and Thursdays Studio 55 Drama for Seniors. For more information visit www. byroncentre.com.au.

Byron Bay Community Centre will be running a computer club for seniors at the Community Cabin in Carlyle St on Fridays, 8.30 till 10.30am. Contact the Byron Community Centre on 02 6685 6807, email: beconnected@byroncentre.com. au or go to https://beconnected. esafety.gov.au.

Chemical free Landcare Byron Shire Chemical Free Landcare’s next fortnightly working bee is on Saturday, the 8 August, 9am to 1pm, at the Brunswick Crownland chemical free dunecare site. Meet at the end of South Beach Road, behind the Surf Club. We will be removing seedlings of Bitou Bush on the far southeast corner, 300 metres south along

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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.

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.

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. Financial Counselling – outreach available Thursdays & Fridays. Financial Counselling is a free service funded by the government, offering advocacy & assistance to find options to address debts. Food Recovery. 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. 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

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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.

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.

Volunteer Hub The BCC Volunteer Hub is open for business. For all your volunteer needs, either as a volunteer or an organisation looking for volunteers, contact us through volunteers@ byroncentre.com.au, phone 6685 6807, or apply online via: volunteer@www. byroncentre.com.au. A COVID Safe plan is in use.

CWA Bangalow The CWA Bangalow shop will be open from Saturday, 27 June. COVID-19 social distancing restrictions mean that only three people are allowed in the shop at a time. We look forward to seeing you soon.

Croquet is on Byron Bay Croquet Club has resumed play with COVID-19 awareness. Play days are Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday, or by arrangement. Enquiries from new players welcome. Free lessons. Call Max for more information 0431 906 536. Pottsville Fun Croquet Club has resumed at The Black Rocks Sports Fields (end of Overall Drive) Pottsville. We commence play at 9.30am, Tuesday and Thursday. Please arrive 15 minutes before play starts. Call Jenny on 0413 335 941.

The Ocean Shores and District Garden Club have been enjoying sharing photos of their home gardens and Inspirational gardens. Every day they share photos, sometimes with a theme, and sometimes something more random such as what members love about their garden. We would love new members to join us in the coming months and welcome a phone call to our president Margaret Keating on 0412 246 310 for more information on meeting and how to get involved.

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The Tuesday Ladies Group of the Riverside Tennis Club is back in full swing at the courts next to Heritage Park, Mullumbimby. New players welcome. Contact Barbara on 6684 8058.

Quota Club of Brunswick Valley meets every 1st Thursday of the month at the Ocean Shores Country Club at 6pm. Phone 0439 733 763 for more info.

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Repair Café Mullum Got something that needs fixing? The Repair Cafe Mullumbimby is back. They are opening their doors on Saturday, 6 June from 9am til 12noon. The Cafe is located at the Mullumbimby campus of Byron Community College in Burringbar Street. For more information head to the Cafe, their Facebook page, or email: jonathanhartland@gmail.com.

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End-of-life choices Voluntary euthanasia options. More information on www.exitinternational. net or phone Catherine 0435 228 443.

Community transport The Tweed Byron and Ballina Community Transport (TBBCT) is still operating for medical appointments. Trips into Queensland can take place for medical appointments. Call 8.30am–4.40pm, Monday to Friday on 1300 875 895.

Lions Club Interested in making new friends and helping our community? Lions Club of Brunswick Mullumbimby meets 1st & 3rd Tuesdays at 7pm Ocean Shores Country Club. Information: Joan Towers 0400 484 419.

Timebanking Timebanking can help you build a network of support within your community through sharing skills. For more: Northern Rivers Community Gateway 6621 7397.

Soap Aid saving lives Soap Aid is a not-for-profit organisation recycling and sending critical soap to communities facing major hygiene challenges. Please drop in your partly used household or holiday rental soap for recycling to Kim at Raine & Horne Byron Bay 39 Fletcher Street 0499 839 566. Small and large quantities welcome. https:// soapaid.org.

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Re-opening history Brunswick Valley Historical Society’s Mullumbimby Museum is open Tuesday and Friday mornings 10am till 12noon. The museum and machinery shed are situated on the corner of Myokum and Stuart Sts in Mullumbimby. All precautions have been taken to keep visitors and volunteers COVID-19 safe. Come and visit. There are plenty of ways you can participate and help develop our local history. Volunteers very welcome.

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Given he wants to be the elected representative, locally-based NSW National Party MLC Ben Franklin was surprisingly silent on the appallingly low rate of pay Byron councillors receive. It appears he is fine with receiving a base salary of $200,000 pa, or $3,846 per week. And then on top of that, Franklin recieves an allowance of between $60-80,000 pa! By contrast, Byron councillors are paid just above the Newstart rate at $20,280pa, or $390 per week. See page 2 story. Q Q Q Q

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The NSW Rural Fire Service (NSW RFS) has announced that six NSW Local Government Areas (LGAs) will commence the Bush Fire Danger Period (BFDP) from August 1, owing to prevailing conditions. They are Armidale Regional, Walcha, Uralla, Glen Innes, Severn, Inverell and Tenterfield. ‘Grass growth owing to recent rains could prove problematic over coming weeks and months,’ said Commissioner Rob Rogers. Q Q Q Q

Who will take out the 2020 award for most persecuted victim in the local public arena? Greens Mayor, Simon Richardson, said publicly last week that he plans to censor what Council critic John Anderson, aka Fast Buck$, says in public access in future. Staff read aloud his latest submission during public access at last Thursday’s meeting regarding Council executive staff’s proposal to borrow $27m for the budget, which came without much detail attached (see page 1). Buck$ said, ‘Clearly the staff consider you [councillors] a ship of fools and undoubtedly you will prove them right’. Staff have also moved to prevent him from making submissions in person – see page 5. An ad placed by Buck$ is on page 13. Q Q Q Q

Former resident, writer and activist Harsha Prabhu has penned Love, Death and Revolution in a time of Covid-19 on New Matilda. He contrasts experiences in India’s Goa to Byron. See https://bit.ly/33jJKCj. Q Q Q Q

Apart from the mining sector, the most powerful influence on Australia is the hard rightwing Rupert Murdoch media dynasty (News Corp). Last week, the youngest son, James, left the company over ‘editorial and strategic disagreements’. It’s likely code for James accepting climate change exists and that it is unconscionable to support an insane US president man-baby clown. Unfortunately, older brother Lachlan is known to be just as politically unhinged as the 89-year-old senior Rupert. Or as satrical news site The Chaser put it, ‘James Murdoch resigns to spend less time with family’. The Echo, btw, is 100 per cent locally owned and operated, and remains one of the few printed newspapers in the region after Murdoch withdrew his printed mastheads across the nation. Q Q Q Q

Here’s a thought for the times, by activist Sonya Renee Taylor: ‘We will not go back to normal. Normal never was. Our precorona existence was not normal other than we normalised greed, inequity, exhaustion, depletion, extraction, disconnection, confusion, rage, hoarding, hate and lack. We should not long to return, my friends. We are being given the opportunity to stitch a new garment. One that fits all of humanity and nature’.

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