The Byron Shire Echo – Issue 35.10 – August 19, 2020

BEHIND EVERY FACE THERE IS A MASK, AND BEHIND THAT A STORY – MARTY RUBIN The Byron Shire Echo • Volume 35 #10 • Wednesday, August 19, 2020 • www.echo.net.au

Reforest Now – planting the seeds for the future Byron Council ignores

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A new nursery and volunteer space for local tree planting NGO, Reforest Now, will go a long way towards helping the group plant upwards of 150 species of native subtropical trees, shrubs, and vines in the Byron area and surrounds. Giving the babies some lovin’ are Reforest Now co-founders, Maximo Bottaro and Zia Flook, with nursery staff Romey Vassell, Kate Pritchard, Madeline West, and Josh Fry-Hall. Anyone can donate trees to be planted in the Byron Shire region – visit www.reforestnow.org.au. Photo Tree Faerie

Housie shed in Brunswick Heads being boarded up Aslan Shand What happens when you are homeless, are moved on, and have nowhere to go? You move to another spot, in the public domain, and set up yet another temporary place to call home.

That is what happened when the group of homeless people who had been camped at the Brunswick Heads Nature Reserve opposite the Surf Life Saving Club were moved on. Five to six members of the group accepted offers of housing outside Byron Shire in a mix of

Tweed, Ballina, and Lismore shires.

However, the rest, who say they were not offered housing, moved to the Housie Shed in Banner Park, Brunswick Heads.

Following complaints of antisocial behaviour, intimidation, and drug and alcohol use in that location they were told last Thursday by representatives from Reflections Holiday Parks and the local police, that they would be moved on the next day. ‘The site is within an alcohol free zone and accessed by the general community and children, and

In response, Reflections have now boarded up the Housie Shed in Brunswick Heads stating that, ‘We understand that several community groups utilise this shed, however, concerns surrounding the usage of this area and possible consequences in this era of COVID-19, has â–ś Continued on page 5

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sadly this small group rendered the location unusable,’ said Matt Kehoe, Detective Chief Inspector and Officer in Charge of Byron Bay Police Station.

Boarded up

Byron Council will forge ahead with its plan to investigate using large areas of land in the Shire’s north for business and industrial use, in defiance of the NSW Planning Department.

During a heated planning meeting last week in which Mayor Simon Richardson tried unsuccessfully to limit the debate, a majority of councillors voted to continue with the proposed Business and Industrial Lands Strategy (BILS), ignoring the department’s concerns.

The BILS involves earmarking more than 40 hectares of land across the Shire for possible industrial development.

Around half of this is contained within three separate areas, known as the Gulgan Road precincts, located on vacant land near Mullumbimby, Tyagarah and Brunswick Heads.

In a recent letter to Council, the NSW Department of Planning said that it did not approve the investigation of these precincts for industrial use.

In a similar argument to that made by local opponents of the BILS, the department noted that ‘the estimated yield in the endorsed investigation areas and existing vacant industrial areas will exceed the 8–12ha total projected demand, which Council estimates will be needed by 2040’.

But at last week’s meeting, a majority of Byron councillors voted to follow a recommendation from their own staff to the effect that Council should dismiss this advice from the department.

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Councillor Alan Hunter said there was nothing wrong with Council including extra land in the strategy. ‘We’ve lost jobs in this Shire and we’ve lost investment because we haven’t had parcels of industrial land big enough to meet the requirements of businesses,’ Cr Hunter said. ‘There’s no cost to having more land in the investigation stage of the process than we need. ‘The more we can equip ourselves for the future, the better off we’re going to be.’

žĆ?ĂŤÇ” ŔĜƆſĕşſĕƆĕŕĆ?ĂŤĆ?ÄśĹ&#x;Ĺ• However, Matthew O’Reilly from the Saddle Ridge Local Area Management Planning Association said that Council staff had misrepresented how much land was needed by failing to include existing vacant industrial land in their calculations. ‘I think you [the staff ] should be ashamed at how this is represented in this report,’ said Mr O’Reilly, who is planning to stand for Council at the next election. ‘It’s very [Donald] Trump-like: if we say the false thing enough, people will believe us. Well, the department is not going to believe you, and neither is the community.’ Council staff defended the report by saying that a significant proportion of the Shire’s vacant industrial land was no longer deemed suitable for use, and so it was not useful to include this in future projections.

Independent councillor, Cate Coorey, did not accept this argument and moved a motion that â–ś Continued on page 2

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ƷĎŕĕƷ ĈşƖżōĕ Ǖ ŕĕĎ şưĕſ $11,000 following dog attack The Sydney-based owners of an American Staffordshire terrier were fined $8,000 and ordered to pay vet bills and legal costs of $3,334 after a fatal dog attack at Suffolk Park in December 2019.

The matter was heard at the Byron Bay Local Court this week.

‘This attack was horrific for the owners of a dachshund, which was on a lead, and set upon by an unrestrained American Staffordshire terrier on 29 December,’ said Byron Shire Council’s legal counsel, Ralph James.

‘The Staffordshire terrier bit the owner of the dachshund on the leg and then attacked the smaller dog, inflicting fatal wounds.

‘It took two people to pull the Staffordshire terrier away from the dachshund, with the owner in charge of the attacking dog at the time, later allegedly describing the incident as “no big

deal”,’ Mr James said.

‘The Magistrate obviously thought it was a big deal, noting not only the seriousness of this attack but the fact that the owner of the dog showed no remorse or respect.’

One month earlier, on 30 November 2019, the Staffordshire terrier had been involved in two separate attacks on dogs at Maroubra in Sydney.

The Staffordshire terrier was euthanised following the attack at Suffolk Park.

‘The large fines imposed on the defendants in this case is an indication of the seriousness of this attack,’ Mr James said.

‘There is no place in the Byron Shire, or anywhere for that matter, for dangerous dogs. The judgement sends a strong message to people about the need to manage and control their dogs in public areas.’

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Lennox Head artist Angus McDonald, has submitted his portrait of the author and activist Behrouz Boochani to the prestigious 2020 Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW. To paint the piece Mr McDonald spent five days in New Zealand with Behrouz, a Kurdish-Iranian journalist who was held in the Manus Island Detention centre in Papua New Guinea from 2013 until 2017. It was here that he wrote his celebrated memoir No Friend But the Mountains and smuggled it out via text messages. ‘Whatever happens, I was privileged to stay five days in NZ with this courageous, talented and beautiful man who embarrassed me with his hospitality and kindness. It’s an honour to paint him,’ said Mr McDonald. Photo supplied

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permitted under Council’s code of meeting practice, Council’s legal counsel, Ralph James, advised that it was not.

While this allowed debate to continue on the amendment, it made little difference to the final outcome.

Greens councillors Simon

Richardson, Michael Lyon and Jeanette Martin joined with Cr Hunter and Labor’s Paul Spooner in voting down the amendment and supporting the motion recommended by staff.

Cr Coorey, Cr Basil Cameron, and Cr Sarah Ndiaye (Greens) voted against.

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However, Mayor Simon Richardson then intervened, in a bid to prevent any debate on the amendment, using his position as chair of the meeting to immediately put the amendment and the original motion to a vote.

When Cr Coorey questioned whether this was

let complaining of ‘raucous cabaret’ and ‘foot-stomping rock shows’ at the venue.

At last week’s Byron Council planning meeting unanimous approval was granted for the works, which include a new wheelchair accessible toilet block, new office and back stage areas, a new roof with solar array, new seats, and air conditioning.

The meeting heard that the renovation works, funded via a state government grant, would not increase the capacity of the venue, nor the number of shows taking place there.

But the owner of four holiday units next to the venue, Paul Hoy, said granting permission for the renovations would encourage the inappropriate activities taking place at the Picture House.

‘Two rock shows a day

during the middle of the school holidays is completely unacceptable in a residential area,’ Mr Hoy said during the public access at the meeting.

‘The street continues to be choked with traffic... they’re getting 1,000 people through in a weekend.’

But the co-owner of the venue, Brett Haylock, said the impact on immediate neighbours had been a central consideration from day one, and would continue to be so.

‘In the 12 months prior to COVID we averaged 2.6 ticketed events per week,’ he said.

‘These works are absolutely integral for the viability of the business.

Romantic venture ‘It’s a rare thing for a couple of romantic shmucks to come and reopen a facility

such as this.’

Councillors appeared to agree, with Mayor Simon Richardson describing the Picture House as ‘an international standard venue that has completely engaged the wider community’.

‘I found the public access illuminating,’ he said.

‘We had one commercial operation, that led to a decrease in permanent residents, trying to stop another operation that is much loved by the community, because it was impacting on its commercial interests.

‘I think if we doorknocked Bruns and said what was happening here, I think we would have been told very quickly what the community thinks.’

The renovation works are expected to start before the end of the year.

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Local News Are the forests, koalas, and wildlife worth saving? Red Rebels say ‘Yes’ Aslan Shand Logging koala habitat that was severely burnt out during the recent and devastating Black Summer fires appears to be in opposition to the NSW Environment Minister Matt Kean’s statement that, ‘Koalas are the most iconic example of our mismanagement of the environment, and we’ve got to say “enough is enough”.’

Yet once again the NSW Forestry Commission is heading to burnt out forests with the intention to log. This time it is in the Myrtle State forest, that includes significant koala habitat, located 40km south of Casino, and Monday, 24 August is the start date.

‘Myrtle State Forest is part of 5,000 ha over three burnt State Forests within the Banyabba Area of Regional Koala Significance (ARKS) that the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) approved for logging last February,’ said North East Forest Alliance (NEFA) spokesperson Dailan Pugh.

The Northern Rivers Red Rebels were joined by 70 other concerned citizens in Myrtle State Forest on Monday to highlight the impact of planned logging on the local koala population.

Photo Chibo ‘Rebel Yell’ Mertineit ‘The Banyabba ARKS was one of the worst affected by the 2019/20 bushfires, with 83 per cent of its modelled 71,000 ha of “likely” koala habitat burnt in the wildfires, with the apparent loss of 80–90 per cent of koalas from burnt areas. This was a huge impact on an already declining population.’

Bearing witness to both the devastation of the fires and to the future devastation that the planned logging will

have on both the forest and the koala population Northern Rivers Red Rebels (NRRR) joined with other Australians last Sunday to mark their concern.

Fragile ecosystems ‘We were there to bear witness,’ said Cindy Lou Vallet of the NRRR .

‘We go in and are part of the forest; sending love and peace into the forest.

We were there to make a

statement about the [forest’s] importance and how needed these trees are. This forest has been logged and then ravaged by fire. There is so little left. We go in and walk in slow motion and express our feelings in the hope that some decisions will be changed.’

Marie Reilly from Extinction Rebellion highlighted how fragile the ecosystem in this area is as a consequence of the drought that was then

followed by the unprecedented Black Summer fires.

‘With drought, bushfires and decades of logging – the Banyabba koala population is barely hanging in there.

This forest desperately needs regeneration and care, not logging,’ she told The Echo.

‘It is reprehensible that the EPA approved this logging without first assessing the fire impacts on the Banyabba ARKS or the koalas within the logging areas,’ said Mr Pugh.

‘This population has been so badly affected that all surviving koalas are vital to rebuild it, they can’t afford to lose anymore.

‘Koalas are one of the many threatened species affected by both logging and wildfires that need our help

to recover, not to be hit again with what could be a fatal blow.’

Ms Reilly says logging of all public native forests needs to stop so that the forests can recover and ‘continue to provide vital habitat, carbon sequestration, and water vapour cycles. This will help reduce climate chaos and lessen the likelihood of triggering climate “tipping points”,’ she said.

This Sunday, 23 August a group of concerned citizens will be returning to Myrtle State Forest to set up camp to ‘peacefully resist’ the resumption of logging in the area.

‘All those who want to give our koalas a future are welcome to come,’ Mr Pugh said.

Koalas are on the move –time to slow down Aslan Shand As the weather warms up with the advent of spring, humans aren’t the only ones who get a spring in their step.

It also signals the time when koalas are on the move, both trying to find a mate and to set up a territory.

The death of a koala this week is just one of the many reminders to locals and visitors to slow down and take care on the roads. Young male koalas in particular are on the move looking for mates, and Lismore based Friends of the Koala (FoK) have said they have already seen a ‘huge spike in vehicle

This male koala was found on Mill Road, Goonengerry this week, and the local who found it has asked everyone to remember to slow down. Photo supplied strikes’ and ‘the number of dog attacks’ this season.

‘Our hospital has been overwhelmed by trauma cases both night and day,’ said FoK president

Susannah Keogh.

Ms Keogh reminded drivers of the importance of stopping if you hit an animal as it can mean the difference between them surviving

or not. She highlighted the story of a man who had stopped after he hit a koala, he called FoK and waited for the recue team to arrive.

His actions saved the life of the joey.

‘Put our phone number in your phone so that if you see a sick or injured koala, you can call us. Some of these cases are very time sensitive and every moment counts in ensuring the koalas are seen by our experienced clinical staff,’ said Ms Keogh.

‘Our hotline – 6622 1233 – is 24 hours, 7 days a week and we encourage you to call if you have any concerns for a koala’s welfare.’

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Will it be movie studios for Ballina and COVID Safe shooting for the region?

Aslan Shand The idea of making the Ballina – Byron region the next place for movies to be shot and produced is gathering momentum with the latest feasibility study for the idea soon to be under way.

The study will look at

the feasibility of at least two studios at the Southern Cross industrial estate next to the Ballina airport ‘The feasibility study is to elaborate on an independent feasibility study we did a couple of years back, to discover the impact a film industry establishment could

have on a regional centre like Ballina. The focus of the study will be on estimating how many jobs would be created from the project and the economic multiplier effect on businesses in the region,’ William Gammon from Byron Studios told The Echo.

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‘There are so many different elements that go into making movies, from set building, location logistics, catering, actors, directors,

design, animation, editing, etc, and so many other local services that will be needed, from accommodation, to local restaurants and cafes, to drivers, and consultants, the list just goes on and on,’ said Ballina Councillor Jeff Johnson. ‘At a time when many businesses are doing it tough, the thought of such a job intensive industry setting up a major footprint in Ballina is something that will be a major boost.’ Ballina Shire Council

Mayor, David Wright, told The Echo that the study would be funded equally

by Byron Studios, Ballina Shire Council, and the State government. ‘They will each put in $30,000 so it is $90,000 all up.’

COVID Safe shooting ‘It’s such an exciting prospect for Ballina given the large number of jobs that it will create. Early estimates are for 250 full time jobs and up to 1,300 part time or

casual jobs,’ said Councillor Johnson.

Mr Gammon from Byron Studios also highlighted the fact that ‘the spotlight is on Australia (Byron/Ballina region in-particular) as the new COVID Safe shooting location. ‘Byron Studios [based in the Byron Arts and Industry Estate] is hitting the accelerator on setting up an interim stage to cater for the influx of import productions and also local productions,’ he told The Echo.

Lennox Head surfers take top two spots in NSW Grommet Titles Ross Kendall Local girls Juniper Harper and Ocea Curtis have won first and second place respectively in the U/14 division of the 2020 NSW Grommet State Titles held at Maroubra, in Sydney, over the weekend.

The Under-14 final saw the two Lennox Head surfers taking on two surfers from the Illawarra region.

All four surfers showed glimmers of promise over the course of the heat, however Harper was able to gain the win, thanks to a handful of impressive backhand turns which netted her a 9.84 two-wave heat total.

Juniper Harper on her way to second in the NSW School Titles held at Sawtell, Coffs Harbour in early August.

Photo Josh Brown Juniper also won her semifinal heat with two good rides while Ocea, came a

close second in her semifinal.

The win for Juniper followed an impressive run in the NSW School Surfing Titles held earlier in August at Coffs Harbour, where she claimed second spot in the U/16s.

Juniper won her semifinal but in the last round she couldn’t get a high scoring wave and was beaten by Rosie Smart.

Lennox Head surfer Nyxie Ryan also came fourth in the U/18 Girls division in the NSW Junior State Titles, held alongside the School Surfing Titles.

Nyxie had a good contest winning her heat, quarter and semifinal, but couldn’t get over the last hurdle.

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Local News Frustration mounts as hard border closure impacts locals Closing the Queensland border with NSW is creating havoc in people’s lives, affecting their health, and damaging local industries.

Local Councils across the Northern area of NSW have been working with the Cross Border Commissioner in an attempt to secure an effective border solution but there is significant frustration at the lack of response from the Queensland government. ‘The closure of the QLD border – without

consultation – has impacted on hundreds of people’s lives and livelihoods,’ said Ballina MP Tamara Smith. ‘My office has been inundated with requests for assistance from people in really dire circumstances. ‘We welcome the changes that the CEO of the Area Health District, Wayne Jones and the Cross Border Comissioner, Mr James McTavish have been able to secure for people travelling across the border for essential medical

appointments. ‘The situation last week was outrageous with stories of people recovering from heart surgery and cancer patients not able to access their specialist appointments.’ The frustration has been echoed by Ballina Mayor David Wright who pointed out that there have been no cases of community transmission in the Northern Rivers. ‘The Tweed/Byron police have been short by around

80 police officers who live in Queensland. There are doctors and nurses who can’t get to work and industries sufferine,’ he told The Echo.

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Richmond MP Justine Elliot has written to the NSW premier urgently requesting that the QLD/NSW border checkpoint be moved south to create a NSW COVID-free zone.

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Homeless in Bruns ▜ Continued from page 1 led to its closure while the country works through the pandemic.’

‘The number of people who are not able to afford to pay rent or find housing at all is at a record high.

There is 10 year waiting list for social housing across the state, and 15–20 years on the north coast. This is simply unacceptable and requires genuine leadership and a willingness of the government to put into action what the community housing sector is telling us we need.’ Inspector Kehoe has confirmed with The Echo that, as yet, they have not moved any persons on from Brunswick Heads’ Banner Park.

Police, Byron Shire Council, and housing agencies are continuing to work with the group to find appropriate housing solutions. ‘Police are conscious of the plight of local homeless persons and continue to work towards a solution, but also have a responsibility for maintaining a safe environment for the whole community, and action will be taken if offences are committed,’ he said.

Housing solutions There are a number of issues at play, from lack of temporary and long-term housing availability in Byron Shire to the fact that some of the homeless people have dogs, and there is only one temporary housing facility in the region, in Nimbin, that accepts dogs. ‘Over the next 20 years rental housing will be the norm for an increasing number of younger and older households and a lot will rent for life. Where the focus of affordable housing in the past has centred around buying a home, the government needs to pivot to supporting people to access affordable and secure rental properties, and to have the option to stay in the same rental property for greater lengths of time,’ MP for Ballina Tamara Smith told The Echo.

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On behalf of Michael, and their family, I would like thank Byron Bay hospital for their wonderful kindness and caring they gave to Valerie.

We will miss Valerie dearly, she gave us strength, courage, motivation, wisdom, and lots of laughs.

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Byron Bay Football Club had a 3-all draw with the Goonellabah Hornets in round three of the Far North Coast Premier Division.

Fourth place on the ladder was on the line in the shortened competition, and each team knew the importance of not losing.

The Rams took an early lead when Diego Vazquez opened the scoring as he directed a cross into the bottom right hand corner.

Following the Hornets’ equaliser, it was again Vazquez who gave the home team the lead when he hit a cracking shot from outside the box into the top corner. It was a beautiful strike and a goal worthy of a half-time lead, but it was not to be, as Goonellabah equalised in the final minute of the half.

Their goal turned out to be a game changer as the Hornets took the lead themselves only five minutes after the break. Looking to hold their lead, the Hornets had to withstand attacks from a hungry Byron Bay forward line who couldn’t quite get the equaliser they needed.

Just when all hope looked lost, the ball struck the hand of a Hornets

Ram, Lisandro Luaces, crossing the ball in. Photo Dogwhistle defender, with just five minutes remaining, and the referee pointed to the penalty spot. Jonathan Pierce calmly converted the spot-kick to share the points.

Wildcats dominate Hornets Byron Bay FC continued their strong start to the Women’s Premier Division season with a thumping 9–0 victory over Goonellabah Hornets.

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Cape Byron Distillery’s gin wins big in UK Who wouldn’t want to have an award-winning gin named after them? Martin Brook (aka ‘Brookie’ of Brookies Gin) and son Eddie Brook – CEO, co-founder and distiller at Cape Byron Distillery, are celebrating Brookie’s Gin’s wins in 2020.

Cape Byron Distillery won a barrel of awards this year at the International Wine & Spirit Competition held in London, not the least of which was a gold for their Brookie’s Byron Slow Gin, laced with the flavours of locally grown Davidson plum. They took out silver for both Mac. by Brookie’s, and Brookie’s Byron Dry Gin. Read more at www.echo.net.au.

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Up Wilsons Creek – without $1,000 – after illegal doof A Wilsons Creek man has been fined $1,000 after hosting a doof last month that had up to 1,500 more guests than the current health restrictions allow.

The man has been issued an infringement notice for ‘Not Comply Noticed Direction, Sect 7/8/9 (COVID-19).’

The unauthorised party, was held on Saturday, 4 July,

2020 at Wilsons Creek.

Following numerous community complaints regarding the illegal gathering, that was in contravention of the NSW Health Minister’s Public Health (COVID-19) Directions, officers from the Tweed-Byron Police District attended the remote party location about 3am on Sunday, 5 July.

Following an investigation, officers from Tweed-Byron Licensing Police identified a male who attended Byron Bay backpacker hostels prior to 4 July promoting the event.

Last Friday, August 14, police issued a 50-year-old Wilsons Creek man, who is the owner of the property where the event occurred,

with the fine.

The police are reminding the public that parties on private properties are limited to a maximum of 20 guests (excluding those people who reside at the location).

Inquiries are continuing with Byron Shire Council regarding further breaches relating to this party.

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$200,000 in grants for local Landcare Federal and Goonengerry Landcare groups have secured $200,000 in grants to improve, restore, and protect the Byron Shire hinterland’s biodiversity values.

The grants are part of the NSW Environmental Trust’s Restoration and Rehabilitation program and will run for three years.

Federal Landcare group president James Mayson said that this is their first major grant.

The primary aim for both Landcare groups will be to

use best practice bush regeneration to convert bushland dominated by noxious and environmental weeds into biodiverse, lowland, subtropical rainforests.

‘A large part of Federal Landcare’s project involves tree plantings to enhance and increase critical koala habitat in and around Federal village, whilst also working to protect other threatened species in nearby corridors and waterways,’ said Mr Mayson.

Some of the properties included in the Goonengerry

Landcare project are cattle farms and they will be working with the owners to reduce the negative impacts of livestock on our fragile ecosystems and encourage regenerative agriculture.’

Mr Mayson said both grants will work with local landholders and community properties over the term of the project, and beyond, and include partnering with Byron Shire Council and its North East Hinterland Restoration Project for further tree planting and awareness-raising events.

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There has been a lot of speculation in recent months about the future of trade in Brunswick Heads – it has been suggested that there would be an economic upturn come spring, enough to validate the installation of parking meters in the town.

Even if those theories were true – theories which the local businesses disagree with – the resurgence of COVID-19 is having a severe impact on small businesses’ confidence and the Brunswick Heads Chamber of Commerce says it’s hard to see any return in confidence until the curve in Victoria is flattened, and any hotspots in NSW are controlled.

Spokesperson for the No Paid Parking Group, Kim Rosen, said that their own COVID Impact survey in June showed 220 jobs were lost and that 250 employees are on JobKeeper.

‘Nearly half of our businesses said it would take at least a year to recover from the coronavirus impacts,’ she told The Echo.

‘Now it could be even longer, and some businesses may not survive a second wave. With 66 per cent of our businesses relying on

the JobKeeper lifeline, the situation in Brunswick Heads is even worse. Simon Richardson has said the pandemic has delivered a “triple whammy” to the Byron Shire and that it’s a really dangerous time for us.

‘We agree! The upcoming reduction in JobKeeper payments and the possibility of a second wave is uppermost in our businesses’ minds.

So how could our mayor even contemplate adding further stress by pushing for paid parking in Bruns before Christmas?’

Businesses at risk Ms Rosen said that research commissioned by the Tourism and Transport Forum, and presented to the COVID-19 Commission, said that without JobKeeper, there was a risk many small and medium-sized tourism, transport, and hospitality businesses may close for good because they were not viable at 30–45 per cent of their typical demand.

‘Byron Bay’s Mercato shopping centre has stopped charging for parking to support its retailers. Parking meters were switched off by the Gold Coast and Sunshine

Coast councils. Gold Coast CEO, Dale Dickson, said their move was part of an effort to support local business and employees.

‘Both Woollahra and Waverly councils have also turned off their parking meters as part of their relief and recovery packages to support businesses.

‘The signage on Double Bay’s parking meters shows Woollahra’s commitment to softening the economic impact of the crisis on local businesses and helping businesses remain viable.

‘We need our Council to work with us, not against us,’ said Ms Rosen. ‘We want them to take note from the other councils who, by turning off their parking meters, have clearly shown that they care about businesses and their employees.’

‘The No Paid Parking Group is calling for the mayor to withdraw his rescission motion.

‘Our businesses don’t need this added pressure right now. Take paid parking discussion off the table until next year, so that our businesses can focus on surviving the pandemic and recovering from its impacts.

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WE'RE CELEBRATING 1 YEAR OF POI ACCREDITATION

You can be confident shopping at Santos Organics knowing that we check every single product before it is stocked on our shelves, to ensure that it aligns with our strict Ethics Procurement policy and also meets our Palm Oil Certification standards and requirements.

Join us in celebrating our POI Accreditation anniversary this month, and Happy World Orangutan Day for August 19th.

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Careful – what you say on social media could land you in court Ross Kendall The NSW state government is updating defamation laws to try and minimise payouts and reduce the number of trivial claims going to the courts, but your best defence is to show restraint when posting on social media.

‘Australia’s defamation laws were enacted before social media and online news coverage,’ NSW Attorney General, Mark Speakman, said in July.

‘Social media has resulted in an explosion of minor cases over minor personal slights, clogging courts with costly litigation out of all proportion to the actual complaint.’

Modern era His new reforms ‘will bring defamation laws into the modern era, improving the balance between protecting reputations and free speech,’ he said.

The defamation law review process was partly informed by a report into ‘digital defamation’ by the UTS Centre for Media Transition, released in 2018 (Trends in Digital Defamation:

Defendants, Plaintiffs, Platforms, UTS Centre for Media Transition, 2018).

This showed that the number of defamation cases Australia-wide was roughly the same in 2017 as 2007, but the number that involved digital subject matter (social media posts, texts, emails and websites) almost tripled, from 17.2 per cent to 51.3 per cent of the total number.

The report also showed that only 21 per cent of the plaintiffs in judgements could be considered public figures, and only 25.9 per cent of the defendant ‘publishers’ were media companies.

Over a three-year period to 2017, 38 of the 87 awards for damages were for $100,000 or more.

Local case A local case in point was determined in April when the Supreme Court ordered Gillian Norman to pay two developers $200,000 each in defamation damages.

The men had tried to develop an intentional community north of Nimbin. Ms Norman was an investor in the failed project and criticised both men in articles

prepared to go to court and defend yourself – and this costs money.

‘The difficulty here is that people think they can say anything about anyone on social media. To stay out of reach of defamation laws, you need to check yourself before you type. Don’t say anything that is untrue or disputable about another person or organisation,’ she said.

Did I just press send?

Photo www.flickr.com/ bionicteaching published to blogs and in the local newspaper.

Social media has become a forum where ‘everyone is an author, and a publisher,’ Jeanti St Clair, lecturer in Media at Southern Cross University, said.

Not sure?

Then don’t hit send ‘Truth is the key defence in defamation, but as the defendant you have to prove that what you say is true.

And that you are justified in sharing this information because it is in the public interest to share it.

‘But you still have to be

soon as possible after they become aware of it. The limitation period (usually one year) will start from the first publication of the damaging information, ending the potential for limitless liability for defamation when old publications are

re-accessed online.

‘I’m sure the new defamation framework won’t have much impact on how people behave on social media,’ Jeanti St Clair said. ‘That’s up to an individual to develop some restraint on their behaviour.’

Low level slurs The new legislation introduces a serious harm threshold that will help stop what are considered ‘low level or trivial’ social media slurs from going to the courts.

The new laws also try to reduce the likelihood of massive payouts by clarifying the cap on damages for non-economic loss.

They also try to bolster the speedy and non-litigious methods of resolving disputes. The new reforms make it mandatory for an aggrieved person to issue a concerns notice to the publisher prior to commencing any court action.

A person must also raise a defamation claim as

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Keeping seniors connected – Bangalow groups combine forces

$50K in Community Grants Open to All!

Trisha Bleakley and Simon Harriott from Heritage House, and Bangalow Men’s Shed president Brian Mackney (standing centre), with diners enjoying last week’s Fish ‘n’ Chips lunch. Photo Tree Faerie Eve Jeffery A new type of ‘support’ group has started up in Bangalow with the help of the local Men’s Shed and the Lions Club. BASICS, Bangalow Addressing Social Isolation In COVID-19 for Seniors, is providing all types of helpful services for seniors, like delivering shopping, firewood and home-made

meals, taking out the weekly rubbish bins, driving seniors to appointments, mowing lawns, reading to an elder, playing chess with them, or just sitting down for a cuppa and company, to name a few.

The Men’s Shed, in collaboration with the Lions Club, was successful in obtaining funding from the State government to address increasing social isolation

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amongst seniors in the community.

One of their current projects is supporting Heritage House as they serve up delicious meals for a seniors social lunch.

If you are in need of support, or know someone who needs support, or can offer support, call David on 0403 899 255 or email bangalowbasics2479@gmail.com.

We want to help our community even more and are delighted to announce that we’re tripling our contribution this year. With a total of $50,000 to be awarded, we’ve opened applications up to support individuals, families, businesses and community groups which fall within eight categories because now more than ever, our community needs us.

Proudly supporting the small, the big and the even bigger, turn dreams into reality.

Applications close 30th September 2020, eligibility criteria applies*

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Southern Cross Credit Union Ltd. ABN 82 087 650 682 AFSL & Australian Credit Licence 241000. *We aim to make the application process simple and give every applicant an equal opportunity to produce a quality application. Application must be submitted addressing the selection criteria, outlining the amount you are applying for as the SCCU Grants Program provides between $1k and $20k to successful applicants, awarded amount limits stated are subject to change without notice. Applications close 30th September 2020.

While we welcome applications from individuals, businesses, families and community groups to consider applying, unfortunately the following are ineligible for support through this program: • Individual pursuits such as debt repayments, travel or ongoing medical treatment • Events where another financial institution, bank or insurance competitor are a sponsor • Programs that could be detrimental to public health or safety, discriminatory, or offensive to the community • Projects of a political or religious nature • Events that encourage smoking, substance abuse, irresponsible alcohol consumption or gambling • Organisations and events outside the Northern Rivers Region See website for additional T&C’s

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By Byron Shire Mayor Simon Richardson We have kicked off this financial year with a total budget of $162 million of which $58 million is earmarked for capital works. The work we are doing on our roads and bridges is really evident and there will be plenty more of that to come this year.

Croquet has resumed at The Black Rocks Sports Fields (end of Overall Drive) Pottsville. We commence play at 9.30am on Tuesday and 9.00am on Thursday. Please arrive 15 minutes before play starts. Also, with the number of players growing you may have to wait a while before playing, but this gives you a chance to catch up with fellow players. A reminder that Annual membership subscription is now due: $50.

Remember social distancing is in

practice and sanitiser is available. If you feel unwell please stay at home – there is always next week!

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. Calls are welcome, during office hours 8.30am–4.40pm, Monday to Friday on 1300 875 895.

Mullumbimby District Neighbourhood Centre MDNC services that are running include: Community support/emergency relief: Food parcels, meals, assistance

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Red Cross webinars

Computers for seniors

On August 26 and 27 the Red Cross is running two free webinars to help communities cope with the challenging circumstances they have faced in 2020. The webinar will be lead by Natalie Fraser, a psychologist with 25 years experience working with families and children in crisis contexts. To register go to www.redcross.org.au and then make your way to the Bushfire recovery events and webinars section.

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.

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.

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.

Seniors program 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 noon; Wednesdays Choir

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: free service funded by the government, offering advocacy & assistance to find options to address debts.

Information, referral and advocacy.

To enquire about accessing any of these services call 6684 1286 or fill out an online enquiry form.

Byron Community Centre continuing to run services

go up 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 787 552 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.

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

Respite Service

and Ukulele; and Thursdays Studio 55 Drama for Seniors.

For more information visit www.byroncentre.com.au.

meeting held Fridays 2pm. Uniting Church Bangalow – 1300 252 666 www.al-anon.org.au.

Prostate cancer support Monthly meetings of the Northern Rivers Prostate Cancer Support Group will recommence at 11am Wednesday, 19 August at Alstonville Bowling Club, Deegan Drive, Alstonville. Members please note changes to day and time. We will share stories of current health and wellbeing progress during these past few months of coronavirus isolation.

Men diagnosed with prostate cancer and their partners or carers are most welcome to attend the meeting.

Enquiries, phone Gordon (02) 6684 1137 or 0415 664 649

Drug support groups Call Alcoholics Anonymous 1800 423 431 or 0401 945 671 – 30 meetings a week in the Shire – www.aa.org.au.

Are you experiencing difficulties and challenges because of the alcohol or drug use of someone close to you?

Learn coping skills and gain support from others. Narcotics Anonymous is a group of recovering addicts who meet regularly to help each other stay clean. For information and meetings call1300 652 820 or text your postcode to 0488 811 247. www.na.org.au. Are you concerned about somebody else’s drinking? Al-Anon Family Groups

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 face-to-face and telephone support and are accessible 24/7. Follow-up contact is available for up to one year. Find out more at: www. standbysupport.com.au or call 13 11 14.

If you, or someone you are with, are in need of immediate support please call an ambulance or police on 000.

Feel Good Friday A free weekly group for women to access support and relax. Feel Good Fridays happen every Friday from 1 till 3pm at the Byron Community Cabin on Carlyle Street (behind the tennis courts in the recreational grounds). Just drop-in, no bookings or commitment necessary. For any further information and any questions just let me know by calling the Byron Community Centre on 6685 6807.

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

In a Shire like ours you don’t have to look hard to see the great work our volunteers and community groups do, so it’s one of our smaller budget items that probably does some of the greater good in our community.

We’ve allocated $22,900 for five not-for-profit organisations to help them with the work they do in our Shire – the Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter, Brunswick Valley Rescue, Brunswick Volunteer Marine Rescue, North Coast Academy of Sport, and TweedByron Life Education.

Yes it’s a small donation, but it’s recognition of the immense benefit these organisations bring to the community in terms of emergency help, education and sporting opportunities for young people. It also takes the pressure off these volunteers who would normally have to fire up the barbie and flip quite a few snags to get the money for equipment and programs.

We are especially fortunate to have Brunswick Valley Rescue and Brunswick Valley Marine Rescue operating in our Shire and over the years these organisations have saved many lives. This is a very small way that Council, on behalf of the community, can say thank you.

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Local News US election 2020 – America’s greatest tragedy Phillip Frazer Four years ago, as the last presidential election approached, I reported that polls suggested Trump was neck and neck with Hillary, even though mainstream media were saying she was a snap. Also, that even if she got more votes than he did he could win via the state-by-state voting racket called the ‘electoral college’, and thirdly that Republican bureaucrats and thugs would intimidate voters and manipulate voting machines.

All that happened and we got the grotesque presidency of Trump and his gang of mumble-thugs.

And it could happen again this year on November 3, because while Trump has turned out to be more crooked than just about anyone predicted, so has American democracy.

Australians watching the American elections are mostly watching the polls, not the election. If you watched that ABC documentary stroll through America in which the woman Trumplover weeps in gratitude for his concern for her country you might conclude that sincere Americans like her, plus the potbellied AK-47 wielding wanna-be biker-boys spraying spittle in the faces of those who question their right to infect the public’s space with anything and everything they god-damn want… you might conclude that this coalition represents the majority of Americans,

and Trump will win again.

They are not a majority of Americans, and the election of a president and the Congress of the United States of America is not a poll of opinion; it is a bizarre and chaotic way of appointing the bosses of a multi-trillion dollar enterprise called the US Government.

And now, finally, a majority of the people who think in terms of trillions of dollars, including the militaryintelligence bosses, have decided that Trump and his gang are not up to the job, and are in fact bad for business.

Deep State better than Trump?

It is America’s greatest tragedy that the first ever challenge to their Deep State has come from a poly-ignorant sociopath with an obsessive need to trash everyone else. The People may rise up behind Alexandria Ocasio Cortez in 2024, but for now, one more return to the Deep State is better than Trump II. The Boston Globe has just published a series on plans underway to get Trump out of the White House by any means necessary, assuming there is an election, and that he loses it. I hope

that the Deep State also has a plan for making a plausible election happen on November 3, and another plan for blocking Trump from delegitimising the results either in court or by unleashing his gathering army of stormtroopers.

I hope that those plans exist and that they work because (1) the Deep State is a lesser evil than Trump and (2) out of the wreckage of the virusdamaged economy a global movement to rescue the human species has a slim chance of prevailing, and (3) the Deep State is probably the only force presently capable of stopping Trump and his gang and thus giving the rest of us that slim chance.

During these last few months of the American election, if you can bear to watch at all, keep your eyes NOT on the poll numbers for Biden versus Trump (Biden will stay ahead), but on the numbers of voters disenfranchised, polling stations shut down, postal services defunded, mail-in ballots shredded, voting machines disabled, and wars threatened or waged against Iran, China, and the people that Trump calls anarcho-terrorists, also known as the justifiably pissed-off masses of America.

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Sealing Seven Mile Beach Road questioned Aslan Shand The announcement of funding to seal Seven Mile Beach Road, to the Kings Beach carpark, has met with mixed responses.

While some residents have welcomed the reduction in dust and its impact on the Nature Reserve, others have concerns.

Issues around the number of cars using the road, parking, and danger to walkers have been raised for many years. Resident, Alison Drover says they have been meeting with Byron Shire

Council for years to look at ways to resolve the issues.

‘Allocating money prior to delivering a report, which is well overdue, pre-determines the outcome of these consultations,’ she said.

‘The most pressing agenda is to find a way of restricting numbers to Broken Head. Sealing the first section of Seven Mile will effectively entice more vehicles.’

Regarding the strategic traffic and tourism report a Byron Shire Council spokesperson said, ‘Staff are preparing a report which will

be presented at the Council meeting on 27 August, 2020.’

Former Mayor, Jan Barham, who lives in the area said that the sealing of the Kings Beach carpark has been on the books for a long time. However, her concern lies around the lack of forethought and planning that has gone into the grant application for such an environmentally sensitive area.

‘The big issue is the impact on the Nature Reserve,’ she told The Echo.

‘If you don’t do proper drainage in an area like this you will get runoff into the

Nature Reserve. It appears that they haven’t even done the design for the work.

Last time they wanted to take all the trees out on either side of the road to get the machinery in. This is a Nature Reserve, and it has the highest level of protection in Australia because of its ecological significance and scientific status.’

The BSC spokesperson confirmed that, ‘Surveys and design for the sealing of 700m of Seven Mile Beach Road to Kings Beach carpark have not yet been completed.’

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PUBLIC EXHIBITION OF DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS

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ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING & ASSESSMENT ACT, 1979

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

The following development applications (DAs) have been received

by Council and require exhibition in accordance with Council’s Community Participation Plan 2019. DAs may be viewed online www.byron.nsw.gov.au/DAs_exhibition or by using the Online kiosk at Council’s Customer Service Centre during normal office hours.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Local News Bangalow Music Festival in running for Excellence Award Eve Jeffery

10.2020.370.1 – Bangalow, 68 Byron Street (Lots 12,13,14 Sec 6 DP 4358) Ardill Payne & Partners, Stage 1: Change of Use of Existing Building from Residential (Dwelling House) to Commercial (Offices/Shops) including Alterations and Additions to Existing Building and Provision of Car Parking Stage 2: Demolition of Existing Detached Garage Building and Construction of a New Detached Building to be Used for Commercial Purposes and Provision of Car Parking

Nominations for this year’s Art Music Awards have just been announced by APRA AMCOS, and the Bangalow Music Festival is a finalist in the Award for Excellence in a Regional Area category.

APRA AMCOS and the Australian Music Centre say that without question this year’s awards have the most vibrant and surprising line-up of shortlisted artists, works and performances in the history of the awards.

The Art Music Awards celebrates achievements in the fields of composition, performance, education, and Australian art music.

This year’s awards are streaming as a virtual event, premiering on APRA AMCOS’ YouTube channel.

A record 278 nominations were received across 13 national categories, despite the pandemic locking states down just as the entries were about to close. It is the works and artists that reveal the sheer breadth of expression and creative vision in the art music community today.

10.2020.368.1 – Main Arm, 189 Coopers West Lane (Lot 3 DP 203089) Ms R J Lemaire, Use of Alterations and Additions to Dwelling House, Garage, Carport and Swimming Pool

Excellence in a Regional Area

Submissions Once you have viewed the DA, you can use the online form in the ‘Make a Submission’ tab on the DA Tracker or go to www.byron.nsw.gov.au/dasubmission. Further information on making a submission is available at www.byron.nsw.gov.au/Makea-submission-on-a-DA. Political Donations Disclosure There are requirements in relation to the disclosure of political gifts and donations. Refer to Council’s website to satisfy yourself that you are complying with your disclosure obligations prior to lodging a submission www.byron.nsw.gov.au/Political-donations-disclosure.

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

EXHIBITION CLOSES 26 AUGUST 2020 10.2020.363.1 – Mullumbimby, 114C Main Arm Road (Lot 8 DP 258349) Byron Bay Planning & Property Consultants, Tourist Accommodation Six (6) Cabins including Use of Existing Structure as Communal Kitchen and Laundry 10.2020.361.1 – Byron Bay, Gilmore Crescent (Lot 457 DP 1087879) Mr J McKay, Use of Commercial Kitchen 10.2020.354.1 – Skinners Shoot, 104 Yagers Lane (Lot 4 DP 8385) Balanced Systems Planning Consultants, Tourist and Visitor Accommodation Facility

EXHIBITION CLOSES 2 SEPTEMBER 2020

10.2020.384.1 – Coorabell, 9 Newes Road (Lot 6 DP 248897) Matt Walker Town Planning, Use of Secondary Dwelling and Carport and New Pool Cabana 10.2020.366.1 – Goonengerry, 205 Repentance Creek Road (Lot 1 DP 252384) Ms S Druitt, Use of secondary Dwelling, Alterations and Additions to existing Dwelling and New Swimming Pool 10.2020.386.1 – Bangalow, 5 Lismore Road (Lot 17 DP 1227099) Planners North, Change of Use of Shop 1 and Shop 2

In the Award for Excellence in a Regional Area, the Bangalow Music Festival was nominated for its 2019 event, alongside Gillian Howell and Tura New Music for the Fitzroy Valley New Music Project;

Netanela Mizrahi and Guwanbal Gurruwiwi for the Djari Project; and Rae Howell for Bee-Sharp Honeybee.

BMF and Southern Cross Soloists Artistic Director, Tania Frazer, said the Southern Cross Soloists are very excited about the nomination.

‘We are so honoured to have received this nomination, particularly as we are not able to hold [the Festival] this year due to the coronavirus.

‘2019 marked our 18th consecutive festival in Bangalow, which has grown into one of Australia’s most acclaimed classical music festivals.’

Strength to strength Ms Frazer said, ‘The festival has grown from strength to strength due to the close relationship between Southern Cross Soloists and the people of Bangalow, its businesses and its surrounds, as well as many, many more wonderful supporters.

‘This award honours both the festival and the 2019 program, as well as all the amazing community support for Southern Cross Soloists.’

Ms Frazer said organisers would have been prepping now for this year’s event. ‘We are so disappointed that this year’s festival was unable to go ahead – it should have been this weekend – but we are looking forward to our 2021 festival, which will be August 12–15, 2021.’

Submissions close: Friday 31 August 2020 Enquiries: Natalie Hancock 02 6626 7169

LOVE BYRON HALLS Do you love where you live?

Do you want to meet new people?

Do you want to make things happen locally?

Do you want to create new connections?

CALLING FOR COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO HELP MANAGE BANAGLOW A&I HALL Council is calling for nominations for additional members to the Bangalow A&I Hall, specifically for the role of Treasurer.

Love Byron Halls is an initiative to celebrate your halls and venues as spaces to get together. Community involvement in managing community facilities provides better outcomes for locals while engaging and including local people and providing an opportunity to participate in local community life. Halls are at the heart of our communities.

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

DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS DETERMINED LOCAL HERITAGE PLACES GRANTS NOW OPEN 2020/2021

Development Applications determined are available online using the DA Tracker on Council’s website.

Go to www.byron.nsw.gov.au/datracker and navigate to Applications Determined from the menu on the left side of the page.

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.

Notices and accompanying documentation will be available online up to 5-7 days following determination.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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In accordance with Section 154 of the Roads Act 1993, interested persons are invited to make submissions about this proposal within 28 days.

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

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.

Nominations close: Friday 28 August 2020

Applications close on 21 August, 2020 at 4pm.

Submissions Open: 29 July 2020

Enquiries: Joanne McMurtry, Community Project Officer, 02 6626 7316 or jmcmurtry@byron.nsw.gov.au

General Enquiries: email council@byron.nsw.gov.au or contact Noreen Scott 02 6626 7062 or Nancy Tarlao on 02 6626 7000.

Submissions Close: 26 August 2020

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LëſĎ ćşſĎĕſ ĈōşƆƖſĕƆ ëǔ ĕĈƐ ōşĈëō ĪëŔĶōĶĕƆ Mandy Nolan The hard border closures between Queensland and NSW have created significant impacts across NSW communities with some residents having to jump ship and move state with just a few days notice.

Byron Shire Mayor, Simon Richardson, has been working with mayors and general managers in the Northern Rivers region to negotiate flexibility with the Queensland government.

‘We had a meeting [last Thursday] and we have another one next week,’ Mr Richardson told The Echo.

‘We are trying to work out a Northern Rivers bubble boundary.’

The current confusion is around the creation of a ‘bubble’ or ‘border zone’.

Those in the bubble can access Queensland, but when they return they cannot leave the NSW border zone area. While Pottsville is in the bubble, if a person

travelled to Byron to take their kids to a soccer match, they would need to quarantine for two weeks before accessing border crossings to Queensland again.

Splitting families These rules have created mayhem for many locals.

One Ocean Shores resident, Mike, has had to leave his family home and relocate to Queensland for an unspecified period of time.

Mike manages a family owned, kitchen-based business on the Gold Coast.

His wife is a senior sales and design consultant for a landscape business, also based on the Gold Coast. They have three daughters aged 10, 15, and 17.

Mike also provides care for his elderly parents who live in Queensland so it is imperative that he is able to both run his business and care for his parents.

‘The stress of trying to work it out has been enormous,’ says Mike from his

sister’s house in Queensland where he is currently residing.

‘The communication from the Queensland government is not clear, so we have had to make pre-emptive moves.

There’s talk in Queensland of [the border closure] going through until Christmas.

‘I can’t imagine how many people have been caught off guard,’ says Mike who believes his pre-emptive action has saved his job.

‘If you didn’t do what I did before [the border] closure you are stuffed. I went to the police station in Southport and even they couldn’t really work it out. It was mixed messages.’

Mike’s wife and two daughters have relocated to Queensland with his elder daughter, doing her HSC, remaining in the Byron Shire.

‘My wife had to fly from Ballina to Sydney then Sydney to Brisbane, and she’s there for the next week. She couldn’t cross in her car because we were in the Byron local government

area. She is in quarantine with two kids at a cost of a few thousand dollars.’

Mike believes the closure has had a sudden and dramatic impact on his family and the uncertainty is taking its toll both financially and emotionally.

‘We didn’t even have time to pack’ he said.

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Intertwined communities Negotiations are ongoing according to Mr Richardson who says that multiple local councils are continuing their conversations with the Queensland government to ensure that appropriate measures are in place.

‘We are looking to put some reasonable proposal to the Queensland government to get over the border. They have a right to not want their residents to get sick, but we need some compromise, especially since there has never been a locallyacquired positive test.’

Byron Council approves ‘ugly’ Wategos DA Paul Bibby It was described by one Byron councillor as ‘pretty ugly’ and ‘very blocky’.

But the dual occupancy development at 11 Brownell Drive, Wategos looks set to go ahead after being granted deferred commencement consent at last week’s planning meeting.

The proposal involves demolishing an existing house and replacing it with two three-storey dwellings, each with three bedrooms, a double garage, roof-top terrace and swimming pool.

In its original form it exceeded development standards in multiple respects, including height, floor space ratio, setbacks, and earthworks.

‘What do I think of the development? I think it’s pretty ugly to be honest,’

Byron Councillor Basil Cameron told the meeting.

‘I think from the side it looks very blocky in particular.

‘How the planning consultant could try to convince us that it’s responding to a coastal environment is beyond me.’

In their report on the proposal, Council staff found that some of the exceedances were ‘supported in the circumstances’ as they were ‘not out of character for Wategos Beach’.

Valuing Mullum This month it was Jordan Deihm of Mullumbimby Bakery who was recognised for ‘putting her neck out’ in the name of customer service in Mullumbimby.

Mullumbimby Chamber of Commerce member, Shane Robins, from Mullum Mac presented this month’s Staff Giraffe to Jordan Deihm for

her outstanding service in her job working at the local bakery.

The Staff Giraffe is a way for the Mullumbimby Chamber of Commerce to regularly recognise the great work of people who go out of their way to help others in the local community.

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However, they said other variations were opposed, and changes would need to be made prior to official consent being granted.

These included changes to building height, floor space ratio and the replacement of two courtyard areas with terraced landscaping and plantings.

Planning consultant Karina Vikstrom, representing the owner of the property, said there was no objection to the application of the extra conditions.

She also said that the design team had endeavoured to create a dual occupancy that was ‘sensitive to the site constraints while at the same time in keeping with the Wategos of today’.

‘The resulting building is considered to be a quality design outcome for the site,’ she said.

However, a planner representing the neighbour to the immediate south of the development said it was ‘not consistent with the predominant character in the locality’.

‘Approval of dual occupancies contravening the building height plane and setbacks would create precedents for mass overdevelopment at Wategos, changing the character of an area that is known for its coastal significance,’ the planner said.

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Defending Planet A The review of Australia’s Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBCA) recently released made it abundantly clear that the laws protecting our environment and species that depend on it in Australia are woefully inadequate. This is compounded by an overriding attitude that we, as humans, have the right to use the ‘resources’ that are just sitting out there doing nothing until we find a use for them.

But those resources are far from ‘doing nothing’. They are ensuring that the planet can continue to support life, including humans. As long as the dominant narrative doesn’t give value to what the plants, animals, soil, and the planet’s atmosphere provide, it allows us to willingly, or unwillingly, be led down a path that undermines life as we know it on Earth.

Over the weekend it was reported that Greenland’s ice sheet, the largest single contributor to ocean levels rising, has melted beyond the point of no return. This should be ringing alarm bells.

There are millions of signs telling us that if we don’t take action now, then we will end up with a seriously depleted planet – not in the lifetimes of our children and grandchildren, but in our lifetimes.

In Australia some of us are aware of the obvious dangers. Protesters have been out at COVID-safe ‘pop-up protests’ on the lack of action to save Australia’s iconic koalas, and on the federal government’s ignorant drive to continue to support coal and gas extraction as a way forward after the pandemic.

It is easy to feel powerless in a world that seems far outside of our control, but there are many contributions everyone can make at myriad levels. For many of us it starts with thinking about what we buy at the shops, for others it is planting trees, or reminding politicians at all levels of government that they should be acting in the best interests of all the world’s citizens.

For others it is laying their lives on the line. A record number of people, 212, were killed in the last year for ‘defending their land and environment’ according to a report in the Guardian on 29 July.

But there is hope – from the quiet dedication of those defending the threatened hummingbird, to the noisier and disruptive actions of activist groups like Extinction Rebellion.

The question is, what action are you going to take?

What choices will you make to shift the balance towards a future that is creating the change we need to see?

The planet will go on without us, but we can’t go on without this planet. We are just one thread in the amazing web that is this small, water-filled planet flying through space. It is so easy to forget how magical that really is.

Aslan Shand, acting editor

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will turn 80 next year, which means that the issue of aged care is rapidly assuming more than academic significance.

I still hope and expect my last years to be spent peacefully at home, but given my declining health I have to accept that it may not be possible – I will have to go into some sort of home. And the prospect leaves me with gloom and apprehension.

This is almost certainly unfair – almost all aged care facilities are doing their best and most are managed, and managing, very well. The ABC’s wonderful series about bringing four year olds into one of them for regular visits shows that with ingenuity and diligence an aged care home can be a place of joy and hope.

Some of my older female friends have taken the plunge. After a usually brief period of assimilation they have found the transition both comfortable and beneficial.

I can’t say the same for my older male friends, because they are almost all dead.

That is another article altogether.

But there is more than enough anecdotal evidence to demonstrate that some facilities are clearly dysfunctional, with neglect not uncommon and even willful murder occasionally revealed.

And sometimes not revealed – covered up – so that the homes can operate to the satisfaction of their owners, often rich entrepreneurs who have built financial empires over the graves of their victims.

So it is not surprising that they are regarded as places of last resort; twilight homes, God’s waiting rooms where the frail and helpless are left to die. Or, that there is community outrage at the lack of adequate supervision, from within the industry or the government.

This was the case long before coronavirus inveigled its way in, but the number of deaths in the last months has forced matters to something of a tipping point. There is a royal commission under way, with the likelihood of reform, although given the complexities of the area it may take quite a while to implement.

And Australian politics being what it is, the blame game is also well under way: is this ongoing disaster the fault of the states, and particularly Victoria, under the socialist dictatorship of Daniel Andrews who is axiomatically responsible for everything, or does the buck stop with the commonwealth, who, as Scott Morrison once admitted with unwonted candour, are the people who can dole out the money?

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Well, as is almost always the case where disputes over federalism erupt, it’s a bit of both. Andrews is stuck with the day to day running of the institutions, which has seldom been optimal, and at times catastrophic. He can pay for whatever Morrison is willing to fund, beyond the fees (frequently exorbitant) levied on the hapless residents, but obviously it just isn’t enough.

‘There is more than enough anecdotal evidence to demonstrate that some facilities are clearly dysfunctional, with neglect not uncommon and even willful murder occasionally revealed.’

Mungo MacCallum It wasn’t before COVID-19 emerged, and it certainly isn’t now. And it is more than disingenuous for the feds to claim that they had a plan ready in the event of a pandemic, and that it was in the process of working. There wasn’t and it isn’t.

Sadly, Brendan Murphy, the newly minted head of the health department, has been drawn into the deception.

Having been promoted, presumably on the strength of his credibility in his role as the government’s chief health officer, he is now pushing spin rather than substance.

His extraordinary intervention in the commission, demanding the right to defend Morrison’s plan, has been more than embarrassing. His line was that the plan must be working – because the death rate in aged care homes in Australia compared with the rest of the population was less than that in England.

And it may be, but it is still more than the rate anywhere else – Australia ranks among the worst in the developed world, depending on how you do the numbers. To claim that as some sort of triumph is as mendacious as anything coming out of Morrison’s office. Even The Australian wasn’t buying it.

But what The Australian was buying, indeed vigorously promoting, was the distraction: the reason for the stuff-up in hotel quarantine restrictions was not only entirely Andrews’ fault, which goes without saying, but could have been avoided; Andrews knocked back an offer from defence personnel who were willing, and probably eager, to take over.

Instead, he installed private contractors who bonked their way through the buildings while the stir-crazed detainees surged out to spread the virus across Melbourne, across Victoria, across the nation. Criminal negligence, if not deliberate sabotage. The man must resign, or better, suffer ritual disembowelment.

According to this theory, the gallant Diggers were ready with every assistance, and Andrews had churlishly refused them: no ifs, no buts. And ScoMo’s Defence Minister, Linda Reynolds, had a timeline to prove it.

Except that she didn’t. What the timeline in fact shows is that there was certainly an understanding between commonwealth and state officials that assistance would be forthcoming, if and when it was required, and that Emergency Management Victoria commissioner, Andrew Crisp, was well and truly in the loop discussing details of how it could be implemented with the officers of the ADF. Initially that was to be limited to transport, specifically collecting those bound for isolation from the airport to their hotels, but extending that to using defence personnel as security once they got there was also on the table. Crisp is firm that those negotiations did not involve Andrews or his office, and that neither the premier nor any of his ministers actually made a request.

This can be dismissed as plausible deniability – or even somewhat implausible deniability. And in hindsight the decision was unwise, although Western Australia pursued the same strategy without unleashing the horrors of the garden state’s second wave. But there is no smoking gun. As is so often the case, we are looking at a stuff-up rather than a conspiracy.

And the same can probably be said about Morrison’s handling of the aged care crisis, which makes his stubborn insistence that his government really did have a plan to prepare for it all the more puzzling. He says he is sorry if his plan did not meet community expectations. But if there was a plan at all, it has self-evidently failed, and he would do better to apologise unreservedly than to continue to try and defend the indefensible.

To admit to an honest oversight makes better political sense than attempting to bluff his way out of it. And it would help to reassure those likely to become the reluctant clients of the homes, which is considerably more important than saving face.

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Letters Industrial land Council resolved last Thursday to ignore NSW Dept of Planning advice and retain land areas around Gulgan Road in the list of areas to be developed under Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Business & Industrial Lands Strategy (BILS).

Three councillors voted against and one was absent.

Amazingly, Council staff were in favour â&#x20AC;&#x201C; they drafted the resolution for Council.

The BILS includes land whose suitability has yet to be proven, for which infrastructure may or may not be feasible, and whose quantum yields a strategy offering four times the 10 hectares predicted by Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own experts as being needed in a high-growth scenario (prior to COVID-19).

A play on words was part of Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s resolution. While NSW Planning says the extra areas are okay for â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;preliminary investigationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, Council just says, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Go!â&#x20AC;&#x2122;.

These areas should not be opened up for speculation but now are. Land values rise when a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;higher useâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is granted for them.

That then raises the pressure on Council to approve.

Community then, once again, has to battle to prevent a disaster. And disappointed developers threaten

court action, which Council avoids like the plague.

On the next Council, Greens will not jump the gun on process; we will heed expert advice; and we will protect the environment and community from poor development.

Poor processes lead to poor outcomes, of which there are enough without inviting more.

Duncan Dey Main Arm

Dunoon Dam It has been proposed to increase the catchment of the Dunoon Dam by erecting another dam near The Channon.

This area has been carefully inspected by Rous Water and local Indigenous elders.

They have noted Aboriginal burial sites and relics. The stone relics can be relocated.

Not so for the scar trees and the burial sites.

If we feel repugnance at the desecration of the Indigenous sites by Rio Tinto recently, then how can we approve the flooding of sacred areas by this dam?

If Black Lives Matter then surely Black Deaths Matter as well.

Cindy Thummel Clunes

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Nukes response I write in response to the article â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Feds push on with plan for nuclear waste facility in Central Ausâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (The Echo, 11 August 2020).

What we are proposing is a National Radioactive Waste Management Facility for the permanent disposal of Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s low-level waste, and temporary storage of our intermediate level waste.

More than 80 per cent of this waste is the by-product of nuclear medicine that two in three Australians will need in their lifetime.

Unlike the proposal considered by the 2015 South

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Australian Royal Commission, the facility will only be used for Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s waste, not international waste, and no high-level waste can be stored at the facility.

These conditions are set in legislation.

The co-location of low and intermediate level waste at the facility has been the basis of the facility proposal since 2015 and the Kimba community was well informed about the proposal, in advance of their local council ballot.

Sixty-two per cent of respondents from the Kimba community supported the proposal moving ahead â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 90.41 per cent of eligible locals participated in the ballot.

39.71 per cent of the Barngarla Determination Aboriginal Corporation voted against the proposal in their own ballot â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 58.38 per cent did not respond.

The intermediate level waste will be temporarily stored at the purpose-built facility for a few decades, until a different type of facility, likely a deep geological one, is sited in a different location.

Progress is already being made on that facility, with Australian science agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), already examining disposal options.

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With respect to heritage, the land at Napandee is privately owned, has been used for farming for 80 years, and there is no Native Title on it.

That said, the government continues to seek the involvement of the Barngarla, who are the traditional owners of the land in the area.

The fact is that Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s radioactive waste has built up over the past 60 years, and is spread over more than 100 sites across the country.

It is not only international best practice but good common sense to consolidate that waste, in a single, safe, secure, and purpose-built facility near a community that broadly supports it.

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Instead of letting one Minister have final say, the government put the decision in the hands of the whole Australian Parliament, the elected officials acting on behalf of the Australian people.

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Masks The Royal Australasian College of Physicians surveyed their members at the start of this month and found that one in five respondents in public hospitals are experiencing inadequate access to surgical masks, and were forced to source their own PPE. Three per cent said they had no access at all.

Meanwhile, slaughterhouse workers, at least in Victoria, are being kitted out in full PPE — gowns, masks and shields — so that they can continue to slaughter terrified animals, to feed this country’s unhealthy addiction to meat;

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something none of us need, and all would benefit from removing from our diets.

If the authorities cannot get their priorities right, then we must. Stop buying meat and the slaughterhouses will close.

This will immediately help our dedicated health workers get the protective equipment they need, and in the longer term reduce the incidence of many human ailments, including heart disease, strokes and diabetes, alleviating pressure from our overburdened healthcare system.

Desmond Bellamy Byron Bay

Govt corruption There was a great letter in The Echo, 29 July, titled ‘Yet another scandal’. It started with ‘Another Coalition government, another pork-barrelling scandal, it shouldn’t surprise anyone,’ and after the blatant sports rorts pork-barrelling scandal perpetrated by Scotty from marketing’s mob prior to the 2019 election, anything regarding the Coalition government’s shady deals is believable.

Yes, they’re at it again. It seems Gladys’ right-hand man, Treasurer Dominic Perrottet is at pains to explain

why two of his staffers were paid by the privatised, but still government-run workers’ compensation agency (icare).

Icare is itself facing allegations of conflict of interest, and swindling injured workers out of payments.

The CEO of icare has already resigned after a three-hour grilling by a parliamentary inquiry, and Mr Perrottet’s chief of staff has now also resigned.

Has someone in the Berejiklian government done something unscrupulous?

Because something stinks to high heaven here, and Mr Perrottet certainly has questions to answer.

Coalition governments are notoriously incapable of dealing with inherited, publicly run institutions that are properly funded and that efficiently serve the public.

They immediately underfund, or privatise them and turn them into inefficient cash cows, run by their business mates.

Michael Kellett Wardell

Conspiracy theories I read S. Toomey’s letter open-mindedly until she talked about the ‘plandemic’… sigh… not another person into

‘Conspirituality’ making scathing generalisations about the rest of us and the grounded efforts being made to control the infection and death rates of COVID-19.

Some alternate people don’t realise they are merging with far right groups and Trump supporters through their belief that the virus is a cover for a plot by dark forces to control the masses, turn them into morons or even kill them through forced mass vaccinations.

Their sources of information are dubious and usually from agenda driven websites or Facebook.

This allegiance is being called Fusion Paranoia – united they fight for their Freedumb, and project their own fears.

Christina Henry Bangalow

5G theories If you put your head in a microwave oven it would boil your brain like a bowl of water. The radiation would penetrate deep into your skull.

5G won’t. Its penetration is, at most, skin deep.

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iving off-grid can teach an individual about living within the limits of their immediate environment.

Some might call it an ‘alternative’ lifestyle, but it can teach us how to live within the constraints of nature – a

CHESS by Ian Rogers Elizabeth Paehtz has a reputation as a person of principle and high ethical standards. The German female number one of the past decade walked out on representing her country in 2019 due to the Deutsche Shachbund’s poor treatment of women players, though subsequent negotiations have improved the relationship between Paehtz and the DSB. However, last week Paehtz was involved in a saga involving online abuse and cheating allegations.

A fortnight ago Paehtz played in the Lichess Online Arena tournament, beating two top Grandmasters, but soon after the event, Lichess gave Paehtz 0 for all 17 games and banned her from its platform – a clear sign that they considered that she had used computer help during her games.

Then a Bahrain player claimed that, a day earlier, Paehtz had racially insulted him and called him a cheat. Others also reported very bad behaviour by Paehtz.

A strange video called ‘The Truth’ then appeared briefly on Paehtz’s Youtube channel. It defended a number of the Lichess

lesson we need to learn as individuals and as a species.

We are well on the way to tipping the Earth beyond its ability to support the myriad lifeforms, including us, that are here.

‘Planetary Boundaries’ refers to the nine Earth System processes that scientists have games, though the voice was not that of Paehtz herself, who was receiving her own online abuse, including threats of harm.

It has since turned out that Paehtz did not play any of the games. While she was away in Paris recording a new video series, one of the technicians who helps run her Youtube, Twitch and other online accounts, had decided to log in as Paehtz and ruin her reputation.

Last week Paehtz issued a statement blaming her own folly: ‘I take full responsibility for failing to secure my accounts adequately, and hope this serves as a lesson not just to myself, but to all my professional chess colleagues.

‘I do not have the words to express my sorrow, regret and sympathy to the recipients of the messages my account sent. I cannot fathom the hurt and distress they must have gone through…

‘My crime was naivety and being trusting of those I considered as loyal friends as well as my aides. For failing to have good digital hygiene, I am paying the price – and will face some sanctions from the DSB and from FIDE. I will not contest or appeal them.’

identified as the limits, or boundaries, which, if transgressed, will push the Earth’s systems into a new, much less hospitable, state.

That means more heatwaves, droughts, fires, floods, and death.

The nine planetary boundaries are climate change, loss of biodiversity and species extinction, ozone depletion, ocean acidification, biogeochemical flows (e.g. phosphorus and nitrogen cycles), land-system change (e.g. deforestation), freshwater use, the amount of aerosols in the atmosphere, and introduced novel entities (radioactive materials, microplastics etc).

Human activities have led to four of these planetary boundaries already being crossed. These are climate change, loss of biodiversity, land-system change, and altered phosphorus and nitrogen cycles.

ĕſƆżĕĈƐĶưĕ Moving to the country and living off a small off-grid power system has given me a different perspective on energy use.

I’ve been made aware of the lack of energy efficiency in the majority of modern appliances. Most of us assume

Our energy is not priced at its real value. Image: Cracks in the pavement there is an endless supply of low cost energy and take it for granted, using and wasting crazy amounts of energy.

Living with constraints on the amount of energy has taught me to appreciate what it takes to generate it, and how the majority of grid-connected urban dwellers have become so disconnected to the real sources of, not only energy, but food, fibres, etc. Many have lost all concept of the real value and cost of these things.

Being yoked to the proportion of the solar budget that my 3kW of solar panels can capture, has awakened my awareness of this disconnect.

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consumers on the grid are far more likely to use energy without regard to its cost (to the planet) or true value, in terms of what it takes nature to create that energy.

We are awash with unrealistically cheap and abundant energy here in the industrialised West. People have become accustomed to having as much cheap energy as they can pay for.

This cheapness and abundance have led to astonishing levels of waste. We don’t value the energy it takes to power our lives, or our civilisation – because our energy is not priced according to its true value. As Buckminster Fuller

said, the cost of energy in our society is much closer to the extraction cost, not the replacement cost.

This isn’t a problem of education but of privilege – many of the most highly educated people think nothing of travelling overseas several times a year, not recognising the burden they are placing on the environment and planet.

Often, there is a massive disconnect between what people do, and what they know is environmentally unsound.

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Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher championed neoliberalism: if the private sector thrived, the trickle-down effect should benefit all. They omitted one critical thing: businesses accumulate money, their ethics are defined by how they disburse that accumulation.

Because monetary capital defines success, intellectual and social capital have fallen into the roadside ditch. We all fell for it.

Fast forward to 2020 where a bit of RNA which isn’t even alive has

▶ Continued from page 16 demonstrating biological harm from microwave radiation,’ but none of them mentions 5G. It is dishonest to conflate 5G with these studies.

A stick of dynamite will kill you but a Tom Thumb firework won’t, even though they both contain explosives.

In my prayers tonight I’m adding ‘Lord preserve us from irrational people’.

Warren Kennedy Mullumbimby

Claps for Andrews Victoria’s Premier Daniel Andrews should be applauded for his government’s unwavering effort to bring the secondwave COVID-19 outbreak under control.

Instead, he has been subjected to an unrelenting witch-hunt by the right-wing Murdoch media and the Liberal Party, for purely political reasons.

defeated all attempts at containing and eradicating it. Because money and ‘me’ have become our primary motivators the virus has swept across the world, with deadly effect.

If we don’t radically change our behaviour it will cost us

If mistakes were made, they certainly all weren’t in Victoria.

At the initial outbreak of the pandemic, the Federal government was far too slow to close Australia’s borders and force arrivals from world hotspots into quarantine, as New Zealand did, stopping community transmission in its tracks.

The Federal government continues to withhold information from the Ruby Princess inquiry.

Infected passengers were allowed to disembark and transport the virus to all corners of Australia.

When the State government eventually brought that under control and some states closed their borders, Scotty from marketing – with Gladys in tow – immediately started to bully those states into prematurely reopening borders, against medical advice.

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We want everything back the way it was, same as before. So in early July we eased the restrictions.

Those with the money were and still are the loudest, ‘Save the economy!’ Then anti-science, utter

Every medical expert warned that prematurely opening the borders and ending the lockdown too soon would lead to a second wave. So, let those free of sin cast the first stone.

Keith Duncan Pimlico

Nuclear weapons We now have 44 countries that have ratified the UN Treaty to abolish nuclear weapons and make them illegal, Ireland being one of the latest.

For those interested, it is worth reading the comments from the Irish Foreign Affairs Minister, Simon Coveney.

It is also worth considering where our so-called defence budget is spent; like Pine Gap, the satellite base in Alice Springs, which enables drones to target innocent victims in faraway lands that many Australians wouldn’t know existed.

nonsense about 5G and COVID denialism weighed in. Selfishness rules. Crowded pubs. Shopping malls. Brainless doofs.

No-mask freedom. It’s just a flu.

Sovereign idiots. The footy!

The evidence is on any number of social media community group pages in northern NSW, full of endless posts about border crossing delays and how inconvenient it is. How inconvenient is dying, a critically ill loved one or a child with lifelong lung complications?

How inconvenient will it be when the frontline workforce is infected and the services just aren’t there? How inconvenient when we run out of child care, retail and service workers, teachers, police,

It seems that the federal government has a practice of using people as collateral damage, as in the victims of COVID-19 in nursing homes at the present.

Mick & Debbie Stacey Ballina

Not my country In light of the decision to approve a mining project to surround Dorothy McKellar’s old homestead and destroy so much of the country she wrote about, I have rewritten her bestknown poem to bring it up to date: I love a dug-up country A land of sweeping mines Of rugged dusty spoil heaps Ground cracks, and tailings dams Coal trains to the horizon A sediment-filled sea No beauty and no terror But dividends for me!

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It won’t affect rich people too much. The poor darlings’ stocks might go down and their franking credits be a little less than last year.

Do you reckon the southern Gold Coast is flooded with rich refugees fleeing to their zillion dollar holiday condos, lying on the declarations just as brazenly as any deluded sovereign citizen at a border checkpoint?

We will be a stronger community for reinventing our lost resilience.

Let’s consider our actions with community in mind; lead by example and remain very careful about what we wish for.

It’s time for a little discipline. It’s not going to be 2019 anytime soon.

Bruns Housie Shed I felt the old rage again this week!

The oligarchy has been at it again, this time wielding its dirty, crooked little penis, I mean stick, at the Shire’s most vulnerable – the homeless.

When I read that Reflections Holiday Parks intended to board up Brunswick’s housie shed – a valuable public asset – to prevent the homeless from seeking shelter from the ails of winter, I saw red in tooth and claw.

Bad look for business, huh? It’s yet another glaring example of a political stunt.

How dare they! Although I’m not a Brunswick Heads resident, I’m often out walking, and how I see it is the housie shed is rarely, if ever used.

Except, of course, for the annual woodchop event!

Fed up to the bone with the actions of the rich

and powerful, I did what any socially-just, mad fucking witch would do and attended my first local Country Witches Association meet.

I’ve signed up for life membership.

Egalitarian democracy my arse!

Bring on the dissent.

Catherine Perversi Mullumbimby

Love Re Richard Hil’s article (Echo, 5 August). Seven days a week I drive past the LOVE letters.

With a chuckle I try to work how many other words I can make: VOLE, VÉLO (French for bike) LEVO (dog’s name), VLEO (Espéranto for want) and made up VŒL seem to be my limit.

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BYS IN ROCKDOWN

MANDY NOLAN’S

SOAPBOX

Byron Youth Service have not let lockdown stop their plan for a revival of their once-pumping music program, and have been offering the Byron Youth Music Sessions via LIVE video stream over Facebook.

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ANNASTACIA’S BORDERLINE DISORDER

The LIVE streams have included more than 15 local artists from the Northern Rivers presenting all original music, and have so far reached an estimated 9,000 people.

The streams have been very well supported and have entertained people of all ages who have been stuck at home during lockdown. These good numbers show the level of community support for our budding musicians.

QUEENSLAND IS CLOSED. Annastacia is showing us she knows how to deliver some serious borderline discipline. It’s a show of strength – perhaps, some might say, a borderline disorder. There’s a state election around the corner (31 October) and she’s not about to let a few hundred NSW cancer patients in need of treatment soften her public displays of tough love for her Queensland constituents.

Local rock goddess, Lindy Lou Smith is hoping to return the YAC to its former glory as a live music venue, and said she has been blown away by the level of talent among the young artists.

This initiative is a partnership between BYS, Byron Music and ACEntertainment, with additional support from the Northern Rivers Community Foundation.

There’s been endless stories of seriously ill people who have been severely affected by the sudden border closures and the quarantining requirements. I even heard the heartbreaking story of a very ill man who had received treatment at a Queensland hospital and was made to cross into NSW to meet his wife by foot. At a local doctors surgery as many as ten doctors can no longer attend. Is that a show of strength Ms Palaszczuk?

The third LIVE stream is on Saturday at 2pm.

Please support local, young and talented musicians and tune in to the Byron Youth Facebook page at 2pm.

For more information on how to get involved you can contact BYS directly.

In the previous border closure earlier this year I knew of people who were able to get border passes for a day trip to IKEA. Just a few months ago we could print a pass and return home with a flat pack. Now we have to beg for chemo. That’s nuts. We don’t even have COVID here. In Northern NSW we’ve become refugees in our own country.

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We are standing at the border knocking, ‘Hey Queensland, you’ve been coming down here every weekend for years now, clogging up our roads, swimming at our beaches, enjoying our kooky hippyesque charm… we don’t want to come in for a holiday, we would like to go to hospital.’

Until COVID, borders were something that only meant something in the State of Origin. Or if someone cut you off on the highway and had a Queensland numberplate you mused it was because of their statewide merging disorder.

For over half the year they’re an hour behind us because of their silly reluctance to take on daylight savings. But now the Queensland border has been sealed shut. They’re sailing into the distance. Who knows how far behind they may be once the border reopens? Will we need passports to enter?

COVID has carved Australia into a quarantine pie, it has made us separate people. It has made Queenslanders distrustful of us. And here in NSW, it has made us suspicious of Victorians.

Every time we see a VIC numberplate we hit down hard on the hand sanitiser. State premiers who previously seemed a tad irrelevant in the big game of politics have become the major players. They get to play Big Daddy or Big Mummy to keep their state safe. I’m not sure what’s happened to Scott Morrison – he appears to have gone to sleep. Every time I turn the telly on, it’s not Scotty’s face I see, it’s Daniel Andrews.

And I have to admit I really feel for him. He has to bring the COVID-19 outbreak under control, otherwise the rest of Australia will blame Victoria for their financial ruin. He does look very tired.

The pandemic has ugly impacts. It has made us territorial.

We are one country – at least we used to be. Our lockdown has sent us to our burrows – it has made us conspiratorial and suspicious. It is causing us to lose trust. When Annastacia created a travel bubble between Queensland and NSW, she cut Mullumbimby and Byron Bay out. I doubt that was an accident with the protractor in the planning department. ‘We ran out of arc’. It’s because people from Sydney come here.

It’s because we’re perceived as loose – after all we’re famous for immunising with a turmeric poultice.

So, farewell Queensland. We’ll see you on the other side.

Or perhaps, we won’t.

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THE TALK BANK

Do ideas excite you? Do you love to hear the e inspiring stories of others?

The simple act of sharing stories is the way human beings have communicated ideas, knowledge, and inspiration, iration, since they first sat around the fire sharing the highlights off the day’s hunt and gather.

The global success of TED talks – simple curated rated talks that speak to our human experience and evolution volution – has shown that human beings love to learn and d hear the ideas and experiences of others. Mandy Nolan lan and Dr George Catsi run Authentic You Masterclasses ses that focus on our diverse experiences and insights hts and how those inform narratives. Moving away way from a dry emotionless approach to learning ng and knowledge, these are carefully crafted dynamic amic narratives from people who work across alll sectors: from scientists to healers, to academics, emics, to dancers, to doctors, to psychologists, to ordinary people who have done extraordinary ary things! Like the woman and her architect husband who almost lost everything, but decided to take their family and secretly live ve a simple life in a tent for a year to save the farm. rm.

These are stories that go deep. The Talk Bank nk is the presentation event for the participants of the he second stage intensive of the Authentic You Masterclasses. classes. Prepare to be inspired, amazed, and moved by these seven-minute presentations by these incredible speakers. The MC will be Mandy Nolan.

WEDNESDAY 19 Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 7PM COMEDY AT THE BEACHY – MANDY NOLAN & JACQUES BARRETT, 9PM MATT BUGGY

THURSDAY 20 Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, ADAM HOLE BAND Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 7PM AL & CASS Q OCEAN SHORES COUNTRY CLUB 7PM TRIVIA NIGHT Mandy Nolan and George Catsi present Talk Bank – an afternoon of inspiring presentations of ideas from participants in the Authentic You Stage 2 Speaking Class, on Sunday 30 August at 1pm at the Byron Theatre.

The Byron Theatre, Sunday 30 August at 1pm.

Tix are $15 from www.byroncentre.com.au.

For more information go to www.authenticyoumasterclasses.com.

FRIDAY 21 Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, STEVE TYSON Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 3PM FINTAN, 8PM JOCK BARNES TRIO Q BRUNSWICK HEADS PICTURE HOUSE 7PM ÁINE TYRRELL & BUNYARRA CULTURE COLLECTIVE

SATURDAY 22 Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, JON J BRADLEY Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 1PM LUKE YEAMAN, 4.30PM COL GERMANO, 8PM HAYAMIND Q BRUNSWICK HEADS PICTURE HOUSE 7PM ÁINE TYRRELL & BUNYARRA CULTURE COLLECTIVE Q MARY G’S, LISMORE, 7.30PM CARLY & ROO

SUNDAY 23

POEMS ABOUT REFUGEE FREEDOM

Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, LEIGH JAMES Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 1PM ROB RHODES, 4.30PM THE DIRTY CHANNEL, 8PM DU EAST

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The annual Ballina Region Refugees Seeking Asylum 2020 Poetry Prize has been extended an extra two weeks.

The poetry competition draws attention to Australia’s treatment of refugees and asylum seekers, who can be held for more than seven years even though they have broken no law. Those who feel strongly about this inhumane treatment of refugees are invited to submit their poem. This year’s theme is ‘Holding Patterns’ – perhaps lives going nowhere, families on hold, dreams on hold – interpret it in any way you like.

Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, FINTAN Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 7PM RICHIE WILLIAMS

TUESDAY 25 Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, SALI BRACEWELL Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 7PM JORDAN MAC

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If you’re taking up the challenge to express your feelings on this topic, entries close 31 August . First prize is a $300 digital subscription to The Saturday Paper, with winning poems to be published in the online journal Coolabah.

Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, CRAIG ATKINS Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 7PM ADAM BROWN

Entry details are at https://br4r.org.au/poetry-comp.

MASTERCLASS SERIES IN MIXING AND PT SESSION TECHNIQUES

Mix engineer Dylan Ely has worked with industry hard hitters such as Jay-Z, Linkin Park, Justin Beiber and Gwen Stefani. In this final chapter of SAE’s three part engineering masterclass series, Dylan Ely refines your knowledge of fundamental mixing techniques that apply to Digital Audio Workstations (DAWS) like Pro Tools, DP and Ableton, to flesh out proper production methods that take a track from inception to completion. As he concludes this masterclass, Dylan will reveal the top take-aways from the sessions, and how you can keep focused on your inspiration and goals into the future.

Thursday 3 September, 4–6pm.

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With this week’s Sun, Mercury and late week moon in meticulous Virgo, little things mean a lot – of bother – if left unattended…

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TAURUS: Plenty of astral support this week for clarifying decisions about home base, or changes to your domestic routines. But don’t do the bull-at-a-gate thing; with the present combination of retrogrades, that’s a recipe for frustration.

Use your patient, slow-but-sure Taurean talents for making an obstacle course into a joyride.

GEMINI: This week Gemini’s ruling planet Mercury balances logical, methodical left-brain Twin with sensitive, empathetic right-brain Twin, giving insight into what’s not being said, and how others might be feeling. Going out of your way to make someone else’s day won’t just bring a dopamine rush, there’ll be boomerang benefits as well.

SAGITTARIUS: If your confidence has had a bit of a smackdown lately – or even if it hasn’t – look beyond the current scenario. Life won’t always be in this holding pattern, so yes, plan new projects, learn new skills, work on those upgrades. Keep shining your light in humanity’s dark night of the soul.

VIRGO: With Sun, Mercury and moon in happy birthday Virgo mode, you’re at your most perceptive, acute and discerning, so tune into Venusian pursuits this week. Do something lovely for yourself, let your playful, sensual side take the lead, experiment with a more flamboyant style. Go on – brighten up your week, and everyone else’s.

CAPRICORN: With three outerplanetary heavyweights currently operating behind the scenes in your sign, a bit of blue sky, big picture thinking won’t go astray.

This week’s most helpful image for Capricorns comes via astrologer Hunter Reynolds: Be the Saturn hermit arising from the Pluto underworld, holding a lantern of Jupiter light.

SCORPIO: Are you ready for a change of direction, or pace, or space? Feel a power move coming on? This week’s celestial energies act as a catalyst to reboot your career goals, plans and ambitions. So team up, tech up, take a tutorial, expand your virtual network, do whatever it takes…

AQUARIUS: The Aquarian paradox involves balancing individuality with collaboration, as in, how best can you bring your unique skills to share with a collective; how to partner up, and with whom? This week’s astral energies suggest finding copilots and colleagues whose skills are different from, but complementary to yours.

PISCES: Take advantage of Mercury’s analytical mood to review contracts and business partnerships, relationships and joint ventures. To iron out differences of opinion and discuss where you go from here. If consensus can’t be easily reached, then agree to disagree. And resist that tendency you have to jump in for the save.

SCREEN ARTISTS ON CALL FOR LIGHTBOX Dashboard Animals, in partnership with North Coast Events, presents In-Side-Out, a pop-up exhibition at a shopfront lightbox in the Ocean Shores Village Carpark, next to Target. They are calling on Northern Rivers artists who use screens and projection in their practice to contribute to three nights of ‘pivoting in light’.

This is an open screen event for 2&3D digital artists, mappers, filmmakers, sound designers, performers, dancers and everything in between. Outside the windows will be a rear-projected canvas. Inside, a ten seat micro cinema for short films. Take your work from the handheld device and let the passers-by stop and watch. No swiping. Audiences can also watch from the carpark; this is a headphone (supplied) experience and will be COVID-safe with social distancing.

From sunset Friday 28 August to Sunday 30 August.

Contact insideout@dashboardanimals.com.au for technical specs and exhibition guidelines and registration.

Bringing art and culture to public spaces – Dashboard Animals in partnership with North Coast Events present In-Side-Out a pop-up lightbox exhibition, at Ocean Shores Village 28–30 August.

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LEO: Stop growling, and start purring, as this week kicks off with your lunar birthday for 2020; the year’s only new moon in Leo. This is your portal for getting clear about what you want to give to, and get, from the rest of the year. So sort it out, write it down, and commit to taking the next steps.

LIBRA: Your lunar report for this week goes something like this; Wednesday’s new moon supports updating your techno sector. Late week Virgo moon helps you power through administrivia, pay bills and tidy up loose ends. You don’t need me to tell you weekend Libra’s moon is for working on an art project, partying and having fun.

CANCER: Motivational Mars is presently giving you plenty of get up and go for networking and connecting about projects both creative and mundane. This week chatty Mercury kicks in to get you out and about, exploring social synergies, meeting new people, listening to financial advice and getting the best deals.

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1. Practical joker (9) 6. Old unit of length (5) 9. Command, edict (5) 10. Popular conveyance sycophants like to get on (9) 11. Short cuts, diversions (7) 12. Unstable, unpredictable (7) 13. Senior police official (5,9) 17. Complete military withdrawal (7,7) 21. Selfish driver (4,3) 23. Work supervisor (7) 25. Type of wallaby (9) 26. Hibernian (5) 27. More rational (5) 28. Woodworker (9)

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Brookfarm: the surf is well and truly up!

It’s exciting times at Brookfarm, with the launch in September of a new all-natural snack.

Pam Brook has been busy in the family kitchen again creating Puffcorn; imagine the light crunchy texture of corn puffs, rolled in coconut butter, and baked with a range of natural ingredients to deliver three moreish flavours: Sea Salty, Sweet & Salty and Spicy & Salty.

Pam uses sea salt and coconut butter in all three varieties then adds maple and hazelnut butter in the Sweet & Salty variety, and ancho chilli and kashmiri chilli in the Spicy & Salty variety – there is something for everyone, a snack the entire family can enjoy.

Featuring artwork by Rachel Urquhart, Brookfarm’s PuffCorn packaging highlights

three of Byron’s most iconic surf breaks: The Wreck, The Pass, and Wategos.

Brookfarm’s Chief Nut, Will Brook, who now runs the family business, is excited to launch the new range, maintaining Brookfarm’s ‘high quality premium ingredients’ approach to snacking.

‘The best part about creating PuffCorn was standing around in mum and dad’s kitchen on the farm and doing the taste tests,’ said Will.

‘My entire family got involved, as did dozens of our Brookfarm crew, until we achieved the perfect balance of natural flavours. I mean – you have to make real sacrifices to achieve the perfect snack!’

Will’s children, Eva and Noah, taste-tested the snackability

and suitability of PuffCorn for their school lunchboxes, and it was a double thumbs up!

‘We’ve had a range of children snacking on the PuffCorn and the feedback has been super positive,’ he said.

‘Making food the entire family can enjoy has always been a focus for Brookfarm, and if my kids are anything to go by, then PuffCorn should be pretty popular for all ages.

‘We love everything about this snack; from the stunning surf art that highlights our magic Byron surf breaks, to the velvet texture aftertaste of the coconut butter rolled in a selection of natural ingredients.

PuffCorn is very Brookfarm – and we can’t wait to share it with the world. Made from Australian non GMO golden

corn, Brookfarm’s PuffCorn is naturally gluten-free, great for vegans and vegetarians and made with absolutely no preservatives or additives.

Baked in Byron Bay, Australia, they are inspired by the eclectic mix of youth and families who visit our town, work in our community, surf our breaks, chill on our beaches, and who care for our environment.

Brookfarm’s PuffCorn varieties are a celebration of the good times. They are to be snacked on with friends, packed in school lunches (in reusable containers of course), taken to parties, or enjoyed at home on movie nights or with a quiet sundowner.’

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Tastes you’re missing out on Story & photo Kate O’Neill About 20 years ago, Rebecca Barnes stumbled across some native raspberries growing wild in the bush.

‘I didn’t even know we had native raspberries. I had no idea at all,’ she said. ‘I thought to myself, “Why can’t I buy these in the shops?”’

This was the beginning of a fascination with Australian native foods, which continues to this day, that has seen Rebecca establish her own successful wholesale native food business, and contribute to the industry’s development as a whole.

Rebecca’s stall, Playing With Fire, at both the New Brighton and Mullumbimby Farmers Markets, is the perfect place to explore some of the

incredible flavours, aromas, colours and textures of Australian native foods.

There are seasonal local rainforest fruits like finger lime, Davidson plum and Bunya nuts, along with teas, jams, sauces, honeys, dried fruit powders, cordials, spices, and native food plants for your backyard.

Rebecca says Australia is home to more than 6000 native food plants, and although there has been a growing awareness in recent years, most Australians would still struggle to name more than a handful.

‘Locally there’s a fair amount of knowledge, but when I go into a city, it’s still like “what is that?”

It’s a shame really, because aside from the tastes we’re missing out on, native foods have some hugely impressive

Is your cafe struggling?

Harris coffee has launched the Harris Cafe Recovery Project – a new scheme for Australian cafe owners nationwide to apply for a share in $1 million worth of support that will assist them in rebuilding, as they return to serving their local communities. Up to 25 cafe owners are eligible to receive a share of the $1 million worth of support.

As part of the Harris Cafe Recovery Project, each successful cafe owner will receive free coffee, based on their current business needs, a free on-loan coffee machine, plus servicing, and free takeaway cups courtesy of Biopak for one year. Additionally, the Harris team will

Native food grower and supplier, Rebecca Barnes of Playing With Fire, at her farmers market stall. nutritional and functional benefits, many of which are only just being recognised.

‘Lemon myrtle is calming, aniseed myrtle is an antidepressant, cinnamon myrtle is really good for your digestive system and helps you sleep, strawberry gum is good for your skin, and on it goes.’ says Rebecca.

Rebecca has combined a selection of these functional ingredients in her newly launched range of herbal teas

made with 100 per cent native ingredients. These include a ‘No Worries’ tea designed to calm and relax, a stimulating ‘Energiser’ blend, and a ‘Dreamtime’ tea to encourage sleep – all of which are now available at her stall.

$1 MILLION WORTH OF SUPPORT. HELPING CAFES DOING IT TOUGH TO GET BACK ON THEIR FEET.

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Naturally, there are terms and conditions that apply. Among other things, if you are successful in your application, you will agree to use Harris coffee as your supplier for a two year period beyond the initial 12 month support package period.

All the details, including the full terms and conditions, can be found at harriscoffee.com.au.

WHAT IT MEANS AT A CAFE LEVEL Up to 25 selected cafes will receive for 1 year: • Free coffee • Free Harris takeaway BioCups sponsored by BioPak • Free-on-loan machine and grinder • Full-technical support • Barista training • $5k value in Marketing Support

To receive support from the Harris Cafe Recovery Project cafes must: • Agree to use Harris coffee and cups • Agreeing to an additional 24 months commercial agreement beyond the first 12 months of free support.

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Eclair at the Bay is a homemade pastry business entirely dedicated to the creation of contemporary eclairs.

After losing his job as a chef in a local restaurant, owing to COVID-19, Pavel Stolarsky got to thinking about what he could do that he loved, which was also new and unique. ‘My partner Mary and I came up with the idea to make eclairs, aiming at the highest quality possible, with tradition and authenticity in mind, sourcing fresh and local ingredients. Since then everything has moved so quickly, from the recipes, to marketing, to wholesale and customer delivery.

‘Eclair means “lightning” in French and my idea is to light this town with a new concept of desserts made from choux!’

Pavel has been working as a pastry chef and baker for seven years. ‘My passion for pastry

Pavel and Mary from Eclair at the Bay have something special for you and for your dad. began when I started working in Michelin Star restaurants in London for Gordon Ramsay and Marcus Wareing. Rigour, consistency and creativity were the keywords of those years of experiences; to learn how to make desserts that are not only beautiful, but delicious too.’

Pavel, originally from Russia, decided to bring this knowledge to Byron and create something unique, elegant and tasty.

Hailing from the home of the

eclair, Mary is a graphic designer and founder of Studio Marius, a contemporary creative studio with a focus on branding. She designed the whole brand identity for Eclair at the Bay. Pavel says he has always loved working with the choux dough, which is the base of the eclair. ‘I think the desserts made from choux dough are very delicate in flavour and can be beautifully done as well. The eclair is a classic from this family.

Very gentle, not heavy to eat, the eclairs of today can be decorated and filled with so many flavours – from classic dark chocolate, to a light citrusy filling.’

Both Pavel and Mary also love the delivery side of their new venture. ‘Seeing a smile on a customer’s face when we deliver them the box on Sunday morning makes us

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

Book now while tables are still available

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7am–3pm Mon–Thu Offering daily bakes, breakfast cakes, classic 7am–7pm Fri sandwiches, vibrant salads, smoked fish, grilled meats.

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Open every day from 4pm till late.

Authentic Mexican in a relaxed, fresh and bright atmosphere.

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

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Family friendly and specials each night.

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

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

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

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

Book now while tables are still available.

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

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Eclair at the Bay is preparing an exclusive Trio for Father’s Day with three different chocolate flavours. These are available to pre-order from Thursday for delivery on Sunday 6 September. Such a great idea for all dads and chocolate lovers.

‘We also just launched a new product this week – a box of nine chocolate profiteroles to share with friends and family. That’s available now on our website’.

You can find out more about Eclair at the Bay from www.eclairatthebay.com and check out their mouthwatering Instagram page: @eclair.at.the.bay.

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really happy!’, they say.

Eclairs are visually attractive; they are colourful, delicately decorated with meringue, nuts, and edible glitters. They are also very tasty, delicate and light – filled with creams.

‘We’ve had so many great reviews since we started. Our customers love the taste as much as they like the delivery service. We are very happy with the feedback – we didn’t expect such huge interest in such a short amount of time,’ say Pavel and Mary, who are planning on extending their delivery area to reach a much wider audience.

They are also moving towards events, catering and weddings.

‘We do wholesale to some local cafes and this is something we are in the process of growing. In the future, we hope to open a pastry shop.’

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• Located just minutes to the centre of town • Tastefully updated with open plan living/dining/kitchen • Modern kitchen with gas cooktop and wooden bench tops • Additional living space and wooden floor boards throughout • Great undercover patio area and level yard • Well maintained gardens with beautiful established plants and trees • Separate 2 room studio out the back, garage and rear lane access

• Large, impeccably presented contemporary family home • 6 bedrooms all with ceiling fans, 3 bathrooms, 3 living zones • Fantastic covered outdoor area with pool • Flexible floor plan to suit multiple living options • Downstairs features separate rumpus room, bedroom, bathroom, kitchenette • Granite benchtops in kitchen and bathrooms • Only 700m to Sharpes Beach and 500m to schools

Address:

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Address:

42 Waterford Parade, Skennars Head

Auction:

Thursday, 17th September from 5pm – Unless Sold Prior

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Saturday, 5th September – Unless Sold Prior

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• Perfect ‘lifestyler’ - dream hinterland property with an abundance of wildlife

Address:

245 Friday Hut Road, Tintenbar

Address:

58 Kingsvale Road, Myocum

Auction:

Saturday, 29th August – 10.00am onsite – Unless Sold Prior

Auction:

Thursday, 17th September from 5pm – Unless Sold Prior

Open:

Saturday, 22nd August 10.00 – 10.30am

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Helene Adams 0412 139 807, Vanessa Coles 0433 836 755

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• Solidly built home with high vaulted ceilings and open plan kitchen • Very tidy, easy care acreage with much to offer • Established gardens with mature native trees, fruit trees, vegetable and herb beds • Room for further plantings or a secondary dwelling/granny flat (STCA) • Located 10 minute drive to Mullumbimby and 17 minutes to Byron Bay

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• DECEASED ESTATE UNDER INSTRUCTONS FROM THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE • Prime frost free agricultural country • Solid original home plus adjoining granny flat • Huge machine sheds and separate self contained studio • Abundant spring fed water from dams and creek • Amazing alternate homesite offering privacy and panoramic views • First time offered in 50 years, Spring Hill – a Byron hinterland gem

• Free standing home with single garage on sought-after Paterson Street • Newly renovated kitchen with wooden bench tops and breakfast bar • Entertaining deck under the trees and birds • Ceiling fans in lounge and all bedrooms • Low maintenance outdoor areas, lock-up garage with storage and laundry • Quiet location close to town and walking distance to Tallow Beach • Fabulous family home or investment opportunity

Address:

748 Federal Drive, Federal

Address:

6B/107 Paterson Street, Byron Bay

Auction:

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Open:

Wednesday, 19th August 1.00 – 1.30pm Saturday, 22nd August 1.00 – 1.30pm

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Greg Price 0412 871 500

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Address:

Cloudview – 107 Eureka Road, Rosebank

Address:

14 Roseview Road, McLeans Ridges

Auction:

Saturday, 29th August – 11.30am -- Unless Sold Prior

Auction:

Thursday, 17th September from 5pm – Unless Sold Prior

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Enquiries:

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11–11.30am 6149 Tweed Valley Way, Burringbar. Sat 12.30–1pm 144 The Warra Willows Rd, Burringbar. Sat 2–2.30pm

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6684 2783

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

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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

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

ANTENNAS PLUS. TV, WiFi, Electrical. Reliable. Call Norm ............................................0422 668582

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CALL BRETT 0414 542 019

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LEGENDARY OFFROAD TYRES

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

Accountants & Bookkeepers.............................. 34 Acupuncture ....................................................... 34 Air Conditioning & Refrigeration ...................... 34 Antennas & Installation ..................................... 34 Antiques/Restoration ......................................... 34 Appliance Repair ................................................ 34 Architects ............................................................ 34 Automotive ......................................................... 34 Bathroom Renovations ...................................... 34 Blinds, Awnings, Curtains, Shutters .................. 34 Bricklaying .......................................................... 34 Building Trades ................................................... 34 Bush Regen & Weed Control .............................. 35 Carpet Cleaning .................................................. 35 Chimney Sweeps................................................. 35 Chiropractic......................................................... 35 Cleaning .............................................................. 35 Computer Services ............................................. 35 Concreting & Paving ........................................... 35 Decks, Patios & Extensions ................................ 35 Dentists ............................................................... 35 Design & Drafting ............................................... 35 Driveway Maintenance ...................................... 35 Earthmoving & Excavation ................................ 35 Electricians .......................................................... 35 Fencing ................................................................ 35 Floor Sanding & Polishing ................................. 35 Garden & Property Maintenance ...................... 35 Garden Design .................................................... 36 Gas Suppliers ...................................................... 36 Graphic Design ................................................... 36 Handypersons ..................................................... 36 Health .................................................................. 36 Hire ...................................................................... 36 Kitchens ............................................................... 36 Landscape Design .............................................. 36 Landscape Supplies............................................ 36 Landscaping ....................................................... 36 Locksmith ............................................................ 36 Osteopathy.......................................................... 36 Painting ............................................................... 36 Pest Control ......................................................... 36 Photography ....................................................... 36 Physiotherapy ..................................................... 36 Picture Framing .................................................. 36 Picture Hanging .................................................. 36 Plastering ............................................................ 36 Plumbers ............................................................. 36 Pools .................................................................... 37 Removalists ......................................................... 37 Roofing ................................................................ 37 Rubbish Removal ................................................ 37 Self Storage ......................................................... 37 Septic Systems .................................................... 37 Solar Installation ................................................ 37 Tiling .................................................................... 37 Tree Services ....................................................... 37 Tuition ................................................................. 37 Upholstery .......................................................... 37 Valuers ................................................................. 37 Veterinary Surgeons .......................................... 37 Water Filters ........................................................ 37 Water Supplies .................................................... 37 Wedding Services ............................................... 37 Welding ............................................................... 37 Window Cleaning ............................................... 37 Window Tinting................................................... 37

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Lic: 317362C

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

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CHIMNEY SWEEPING

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

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DAVID ROBINSON DESIGN DRAFTING All Council & construction requirements ......0419 880048 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

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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

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FLOOR SANDING & POLISHING

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FLOW FENCING Pool fencing, timber/colourbond, local, professional and reliable.......0416 424256

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

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0409 799 909

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Contact Vadi: 0404

978 383

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SPINKS ELECTRICAL Lic 284939C..................................................................Call Mitch 0421 843477

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JIM LABELLE ELECTRICAL O.Shores, Mullum, Byron, Brunswick. Lic 176417C..............0415 126028

6677 1859

SERVICING THE EAST COAST OF THE NSW NORTHERN RIVERS

Friendly reliable and trustworthy service.

Call Glenn or Tracey 0403 428 232

JP ELECTRICAL All electrical. Level 2 ASP. Solar, data + TV. Lic 133082C .......................0432 289705

EDL FENCING Installations & repairs. Prompt service. ..................................................0432 107262

various implements available for limited access projects

Window Cleaning Professionals

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

0467 482 948

Professional Cleaning Services BOND CLEAN AND BUILDERS CLEAN SPECIALIST

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

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

FENCING

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

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

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DENTISTS

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

02 66 804 173

ELECTRICAL Steve Nicholls ph: 0455 445 343 lic: EC28753

ALL AROUND

CONCRETING

AH

Lic: 154293c

0439 624 945

DARYL 0418 234 302

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FRANCHISE OF THE YEAR!

CONCRETING & PAVING

CONCRETING

BUSH REGENERATION & WEED CONTROL CARPET CLEANING

24 HOUR SERVICE

BETTER CALL SAUL The Mac Doctor. Repairs. Upgrades. Used Macs.............................0411 562111

DINGO DEMOLITIONS & ASBESTOS REMOVAL ................................. 66834008 or 0407 728998 BUILDER â&#x20AC;&#x201C; JOHN McGAURAN Personalised Service. 20 yrs exp. Lic 170208C .............0415 793242 BUILDER Renovations, maintenance, 30yrs exp. mchughdesign.com.au Lic 29792C....0408 663420 HAVEN BUILDING All aspects of building. Lic 326616C ...............................................0432 565060 FABRICA JOINERY Quality kitchens/timber doors/windows. Lic 244652C .........................66808162 CARPENTER HANDYMAN FB Gregâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Handyman Services Byron Bay Lic No 1039897....0414 109595 LELAND CARPENTRY All carpentry â&#x20AC;&#x201C; small renovation specialist (under $5K) Jesse ...0458 968290

WEED CONTROL SPECIALIST Lawns â&#x20AC;&#x201C; bindii weeds â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Army worms â&#x20AC;&#x201C; grass grubs .....0418 110714 EAST COAST BUSH REGENERATION Tree planting, weed control. Call Rossco Faithfull.0409 157695

ELECTRICIANS

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Bathroom and Kitchen Renovations â&#x20AC;˘ General Carpentry â&#x20AC;˘ Timber Decks â&#x20AC;˘ Home Maintenance RAY GOUGH 0477 005 144 completehome_1@bigpond.com

COMPUTER SERVICES

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Complete Home Maintenance Solutions

Lic. 266174C

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MULLUM.MOWING@gmail.com. Ride-on, large lawns & acreage. Ph Peter................0423 756394

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

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

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

A-Z Lawns & acreage, trees & hedges, clean ups & tip runs, all gutters ..........................0405 625697 A.C.E. LAWNMOWING & GARDENING Best rates, reliable, guaranteed. Ph Sam.......0438 655763 LEAF IT TO US Specialists in acreage mowing, garden, tree maintenance .....................0402 487213 PAULâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S MOWING Local & reliable. Mullum, Bruns, O. Shores, Byron & Bangalow.........0422 958791 A GREEN EARTH Garden restoration, maintenance, tree & rubbish removal ................0405 716552 TIP RUNS & RUBBISH REMOVALS 4m3 trailer..............................................................0408 210772

Established 2008 ~ Lic No: 247282c

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

0405 594 288

20 Years Experience

BRUSHCUTTING Rubbish, Property Maintenance, Lawns.............................................0412 469109 RICKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PROPERTY MAINTENANCE Mowing, brushcutting, gardening, pool service ...0424 805660 GREEN DINGO for all your mowing and gardening needs. Ph Michael .........................0497 842442

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

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

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

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

ALL ASPECTS landscaping, green waste & tree removal. Lic #143161C. Ph Phil ...........0499 359702

PHYSIOTHERAPY

LOCKSMITH

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

PHOTOGRAPHY

Shaun Savage Landscapes

Brendan Duggan Locksmith. Automotive car keys and lock installation/repair .......0412 764148 BANGALOW PHYSIOTHERAPY Manual therapies, acupuncture, mat/reformer, clinical exercise classes, laser, shockwave. Kim Snellgrove, Cally Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hara .......................................................66872330

OSTEOPATHY

GARDEN DESIGN

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

NORTH COAST OSTEOPATHY Jodie Jacobs. Mon/Tues/Thurs/Fri.....................................66857517 466 Main Arm Road, Mullumbimby.....................................................................................66845288 www.simplybeautifulspaces.com.au FENG SHUI / GARDEN DESIGN .........................Lyn 0428 884329 ANTHONY Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ORSOGNA Physiotherapy, acupuncture, hydrotherapy Suffolk Park 1 Bryce St ... 66853511

PAINTING

GAS SUPPLIERS

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

â&#x20AC;˘ DEPARTMENT OF FAIR TRADING INFO: When dealing with home owners, painters are required shock wave therapy, real time ultrasound. Nigel Pitman, Ilse V Oostenbrugge....................66803499

Locally Owned Est 18 years

PICTURE FRAMING

ALL-WAYS PAINTING BYRON BAY

www.brunswickvalleygas.com

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

6680 1575 or 0408 760 609

0438 784 226 â&#x20AC;˘ 6685 4154

GRAPHIC DESIGN

MULLUM PICTURE FRAMERS Stuart St rear lane behind Mitre 10 ............................0403 734791 Lic No 189144C

No Rental Reliable

PETRA KARNI PHYSIOTHERAPY & Craniosacral, Manual Therapy, TMJ. Suffolk Park. Ph...0403 226858

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

Free Delivery

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

www.thinkblinkdesign.com

PLASTERING CONTRACTOR DOMESTIC & COMMERCIAL

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YVES DE WILDE

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

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www.duluxaccredited.com.au

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

GOOD NEWS HANDYMAN Carpentry, home renovations/repairs etc. Jesse..................0458 968290 ABSOLUTE HANDYMAN. Repairs, renovation, maintenance, painting. Call Mark ........0402 281638 BUILDER SKILLS carpentersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; rates, 25 years exp. Lic No R84001 ...................................0422 069632

HEALTH â&#x20AC;˘ OTHER HEALTH RELATED SECTIONS IN THIS SERVICE DIRECTORY: Acupuncture,

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PAINTER

ACUPUNCTURE & COSMETIC MEDICINE Dr Adam Osborne ...........................................66857366 MULLUMBIMBY HERBALS Naturopathy, Ayurveda, Massage, Herbs. .............................66843002 WWW.EASTCOASTPILATES.COM.AU Judy Leane Ex. Phys ...........................................0408 110006 COUNSELLING & LIFE COACHING: Anxiety, Depression, Relationships. TracieAnne.com. 0437 174804

HIRE

NEIL A McINTOSH

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

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

Mark Wopling

ABN 31 490 733 798 LIC 203196C

KITCHENS

Painting & Decorating

24 years experience

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

LANDSCAPE DESIGN

Accredited

QUALIFIED â&#x20AC;˘ INSURED â&#x20AC;˘ LOCAL â&#x20AC;˘ FREE QUOTES 7KH Ă&#x20AC; QLVKLQJ WRXFK WR \RXU KRPH

Mob: 0409 451 518

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

PLUMBERS NEED A PLUMBER? DRAINER? GASFITTER?

Chay 0429 805 081 20 YEARS LOCAL SERVICE

ABN 48867459605 Lic 33995C

Chiropractic, Counselling, Dentists, Osteopathy, Physiotherapy

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

Lic 167371C

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

451 186

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QUALITY PAINTING SERVICES

mwoplingpainting@hotmail.com

Licence No. 207479C

HANDYPERSONS

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

BEAU JARDIN We design & build beautiful gardens www.beaujardin.com.au Lic 177274C ...0417 054443 AD PAINTING by John Hand. Lic 13246C ................................................ 0413 185399 or 66841249 MARK STRATTON All plumbing & emergency. Sewer drain camera/locator. Lic 57803C ....0419 019035 LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT Garden Design & Property Planning. Andrew Pawsey ..........0478 519804 BYRONBAYPAINTINGSERVICES.COM.AU â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Reliable. Quality work. Ph .....................1300 255 724 ADM PLUMBING SERVICESâ&#x20AC;Ś (NO JOB TOO SMALL)â&#x20AC;Ś Lic 234528C. ....... Call Adam 0466 992483

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Service Directory POOLS

SOLAR INSTALLATION

ATTENTION POOL OWNERS

Pioneers of the solar industry

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Call us on 6679 7228

73 Station St, Mullumbimby

Serving Northern NSW since 1998

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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From Middle Pocket to Middle Earth â&#x20AC;&#x201C; just give us a ring

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

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

Lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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

www.junoenergy.com.au licence number: 255292C

LEAPFROG REMOVALS BYRON BAYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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

â&#x20AC;˘ Best Price Promise â&#x20AC;˘ Highest Quality Products â&#x20AC;˘ 10 Year Installation Workmanship Guarantee â&#x20AC;˘ 5 Year Annual Onsite Cleaning and Maintenance included

0409 917646

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

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Small & Medium Moves, Pianos, Artworks, Tip Runs, 1 or 2 Men at Low Prices to Most Areas Based from Byron Bay & Mullumbimby Calls always returned

â&#x20AC;˘ Professional Tree Removal, Surgery & Maintenance â&#x20AC;˘ Stump Grinding â&#x20AC;˘ Weed Control â&#x20AC;˘ Arborist Reporting & Consultancy â&#x20AC;˘ EWP Cherry Picker Hire â&#x20AC;˘ Mulching of Green Waste â&#x20AC;˘ 24 Hour Emergency Call-Out â&#x20AC;˘ Professional, Reliable Service

VALUERS BYRON BAY VALUERS NSW & QLD regâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d. Chartered Valuers ................... 0431 245460 or 66857010

Your Local Solar Experts

SIMPSON PROPERTY GROUP - Valuation, Advisory & Asset M/ment. Specialists in: Residential,

1800 88 68 77 firstsunsolar.com.au 268 Ewingsdale Road, Byron Bay

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

0432 334 200 02 6680 8170

VETERINARY SURGEONS

Lic. 258112C

leapfrogremovals@yahoo.com.au

MULLUM VET CLINIC: Richard Gregory, Bec Willis, Mark Sebastian â&#x20AC;&#x201C; After hours avail ...66843818 NORTH COAST VETERINARY SERVICES Dr Lauren Archer .................................................66840735

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MAN WITH A VAN/TRUCK Reasonable rates. Phone Don ............................................0414 282813 BENNY CAN MOVE IT! .................................................................................................0402 199999 MAN WITH A TALL VAN Furniture removal services. $60 an hour. Call Evan .................0410 120777

ROOFING

TILING FRANCHISE OF THE YEAR!

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

Far North Coast NSW John & Teresa

RESIDENTIAL / COMMERCIAL NEW ROOFS / RE-ROOFS INSULATED ROOF PANELS FASCIA & GUTTERS REPAIRS & MAINTENANCE 0 4 1 1 6 8 3 0 0 3 | Z A C . M A C TA G G A R T @ G M A I L . C O M | L I C 2 2 3 4 8 9 C

RUBBISH REMOVAL 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

Mon to Fri 9amâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;5pm

TILE & GROUT CLEANING Servicing the Far North Coast for 20Â years.

Free quotes. Experienced local technicians.

ChemDryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s patented cleaning systems.

0408 232 066

TREE SERVICES

CHOPPY CHOP TREE SERVICES

Sales Installation Service

Northern Rivers Pty Ltd

0418 754 149 â&#x20AC;˘ 07 5523 9930

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TRINE SOLUTIONS Local sewerage specialists. Plumbers, drainers & gas fitters. Lic 138031C. 0407 439805 NEWT wastewater treatment. Septic design, upgrades, maint & intall. Lic 207479C............... 0429 805081

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WELDING WELDING & FABRICATION Structural, General, Repairs: Steel, Aluminium & Stainless ..0408 410545

WINDOW CLEANING CLEAN VIEW Prompt, professional, insured. Phone David .............................................0421 906460

WINDOW TINTING

The Fully Insured Professionals

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

SUNRISE W. T. 3/19-21 Centennial Cct, Byron. Cars, homes, offices, etc. High quality ..0412 158478 SURFWAGON - Car/Home/Office tint. Lifetime Warranty. W/sale price .........................0434 875009

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

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Lic 312643C

Home sewage solutions Commercial wastewater treatment Rainwater tanks concrete and plastic

WILD WEDDINGS BYRON BAY. Life Celebrant, Jeni Gonzalez ......................................0407 629770

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

Self storage with security. Largest choice of sizes.

SEPTIC SYSTEMS

WEDDING SERVICES

WINTER SPECIAL:

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BYRON BAY SELF STORAGE

8-10 Tasman Way, Byron Arts & Industrial Estate www.byronbayselfstorage.com.au | 6685 8349 | bbss@westnet.com.au

WATER SUPPLIES TRIDENT WATER Remote access delivery, 4WD water truck. Northern Rivers & surrounds ..0412 580 564

SELF STORAGE

BBSS

6680 8200 or 0418 108 181

Mullumbimby & The Northern Rivers 0424 652208 | dean@sunconnectsolar.com.au

Visit www.sunconnectsolar.com.au to get a free energy assessment

Metal RooďŹ ng Installations â&#x20AC;˘ Guttering Downpipes â&#x20AC;˘ Fascia â&#x20AC;˘ Skylights â&#x20AC;˘ Whirlybird Patios â&#x20AC;˘ Repairs â&#x20AC;˘ Leaf Guard

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INDEX

ECHO CLASSIFIEDS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 6684 1777

Birthdays .............................39 Caravans.............................38 Death Notices .....................39

CLASSIFIED AD BOOKINGS

DEADLINE TUES 12PM

For Sale ..............................38

PHONE ADS

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

Funeral Notices ..................39 Garage Sales......................38 Halls For Hire ......................38 Health Notices ....................38 In Memoriam.......................39 Livestock .............................39 Lost & Found ......................39 Motor Vehicles ....................38 Musical Notes .....................39 Only Adults .........................39

6684 1777 AT THE ECHO HEAD OFFICE

Ads may be taken by phone on

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

Village Way, Stuart St, Mullumbimby

EMAIL ADS

CLASSIFIEDS THAT WORK ALL WEEK! Echo Classies also appear online in Echonetdaily â&#x20AC;&#x201C; echo.net.au/classified-ads

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

$17 for two lines is the minimum charge.

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

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

Ad bookings only taken during business hours: Monday to Friday, 9amâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;5pm. Ads canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be taken on the weekend.

Account enquiries phone 6684 1777.

These prices include GST.

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

Pets .....................................39 Positions Vacant .................38 Professional Services .........38 Public Notices .....................38 Social Escorts .....................39

HALLS FOR HIRE

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

TRADEWORK

To Lease .............................38 To Let ..................................38 Tradework ...........................38 Tree Services ......................38 Tuition .................................39 Wanted................................38

David Lovejoyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s novel is a disturbing trip to our collective future and one solitary manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s past.

Work Wanted ......................39

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DISCLAIMER

PROF. SERVICES

Wanted To Lease ................38

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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.

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PUBLIC NOTICES

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HELP OUR COMMUNITY

DENTURES

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TREE SERVICES

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

LOG SPLITTING SERVICE Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll come split your logs into ďŹ rewood.

Machine splits 1 cubic metre per hour.

0401 350 156 20 years local experience

WANTED

HYPNOSIS & EFT

â&#x20AC;˘ 19 inch chipper â&#x20AC;˘ Stump grinding â&#x20AC;˘ Cherry picker â&#x20AC;˘ Crane truck â&#x20AC;˘ Bob Cat

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

Simple and effective solutions Anxiety, Cravings, Fears & Trauma.

Maureen Bracken 0402205352

Fully insured â&#x20AC;˘ Free quotes

GARAGE SALES

0427 347 380

KINESIOLOGY Clear subconscious sabotages.

Reprogram patterns and beliefs.

Restore vibrancy and physical health. De-stress.

Ph 0403125506 SANDRA DAVEY, Reg. Pract.

TWO WINGS PSYCHOLOGY

â&#x20AC;˘ FULLY INSURED â&#x20AC;˘ PROFESSIONAL SERVICE â&#x20AC;˘ FREE QUOTES

6684 4421 0402 364 852

â&#x20AC;Śfeel the difference

SUZANNE BOURCHIER psychologist 02 6685 5670

VOLUNTEER DRIVER REQUIRED

HYPNOSIS & NLP

Mullumbimby and District Neighbourhood Centre are looking for a crew of volunteer food recovery van drivers.

COVID blues, anxiety, depression and isolation.

Weight gain, alcohol abuse.

Need Help?

Call Wendy today.

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.

MIELE WASHERS

Dryers and dishwashers available at Bridglands Mullumbimby. 66842511

ARCHIBALDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CHEAP 3EPTIC 7ASTE 2EMOVAL QUARRY PRODUCTS

LOOK GOOD FEEL GOOD Free consultation. SANDRO 66805002

HEALTH

BAMBOO PLANTS: clumping, screening, hedging, ďŹ&#x201A;owering gingers, bromeliads.

Close to Mullum. 0458535760

0497 090 233

www.wendypurdey.com.au

Body Based

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.

Julie Wells Anne Goslett

Help us to continue this valuable program, keeping good food out of landďŹ ll and in peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bellies.

Individual and Couple Therapy Supervision and Coaching

So far we have recovered over 44 Tonnes of food

(02) 6685 5185 9 Fletcher St, Byron Bay

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DEATH NOTICES Wife, mum, grandma, great grandma, artist; Marjie Dawson has retired to paint sunsets on a greater canvas.

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IN MEMORIAM VALE VALERIE WILLIAMS Rest in peace our fellow warrioress. You had a heart of gold and the fierceness of a lion. May you fly free and run amongst the wild horses and be in peace. Grace us with your presence as you watch over us. It has been a pleasure and a joy to watch you pursue your dreams, from Aikido to Fiji and back to the old Figtree. So loved our horsey adventures together and your wonderful hosting of all the visiting Senseis. You were a joyous and feisty soul Val, who impacted so many, more than you know. As you wrote to me ‘Love is all that Matters’. We will miss you. Yours in Aiki, Aikido Goshinkai.

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FUNERAL NOTICES

Robert Allan Messervy 'Bob' Late of Ocean Shores.

Formerly of Brunswick Heads, Albury, and Sydney.

Passed away unexpectedly on Wednesday 12th August 2020.

Aged 86 years.

Dearly loved husband of Trish 'Pat'.

Loved father to Ian, and Neil and father in-law to Peggy.

Loved step brother to Bob Cain and family.

Family and friends are warmly invited to attend Bob’s Funeral Service to be held at the White Dove Chapel, 16 Mogo Place Billinudgel, on Monday 24th August 2020, at 11.30am.

After the service, the cortege will leave for the Mullumbimby Lawn Cemetery, Poplar St, Mullumbimby.

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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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Backlash Another humpback whale was caught in a shark net in Queensland, this time tangled in a drumline. Calls to remove nets and drumlines during whale migration season have increased. This is the fifth whale to be caught in shark control equipment this year in Queensland.

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If this week you find yourself or your friends expressing something along the lines of ‘I never used to agree with Alan Jones but what he is saying makes a lot of sense’, then maybe it’s time to take a moment to reflect; has he changed, or have you?

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The Dish has been officially recognised for its contribution to Australian astronomy and humankind’s understanding of the universe with its addition to the National Heritage List. We are referring to the iconic Parkes radio telescope that played a key role in receiving the television signals from the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon and sharing this technological feat with 600 million people around the world.

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Speaking of things out of this world – the largest body in the asteroid belt, Ceres, looks likely to have oceans of brine below its surface. Perhaps there are alien sardines after all?

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But back on our own little speck in the universe the latest’s Kids Helpline data has confirmed that the COVID-19 lockdown has impacted on the mental health of Australian children and young people. Kids Helpline reported mental health and wellbeing counselling services have experienced an overall increase of 24 per cent nationally since the pandemic hit.

Nationally, the increased use of technology has seen demand for WebChat counselling increase by 62 per cent over the same period, March to July 2019. If young people want to talk to someone they can call Kids Helpline on 1800 55 1800, email or visit www.kidshelpline.com.au – Facebook: @kidshelpline, Insta @kidshelplineau, Twitter @KidsHelplineAU.

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The Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary has welcomed its sixth Glossy Black Cockatoo chick – definitely an achievement considering the species only lay one egg every two years.

They have also welcomed the arrival of a Brush-tailed Rockwallaby joey to help bolster the population that is currently listed as vulnerable nationally. And last but not least, a baby koala joey has popped its head out to say hello for the first time since it was born six months ago. So perhaps there is hope after all!

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Could it be that COVID is an acronym? Conspiracy Obsessed Voters Ignore Data, perhaps? We’ll have to ask Bill Gates if we want to know for sure...

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The Hurford Hardwood Portrait Prize at the Lismore Regional Gallery is a biennial prize open to artists Australia wide and it is accepting entries. Now in its seventh year and the winner will receive $10,000 in prize money. Find out more on www.echo.net.au.

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