The Byron Shire Echo – Issue 35.44 – April 14, 2021

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Holiday letting policy Women’s project needs new home adopted by NSW govt But still no plans for Byron Shire Hans Lovejoy, Mia Armitage with Fernando de Freitas New state rules on short-term holiday lets (STHL) for NSW, announced late last week, won’t be introduced to the Byron Shire until as late as February next year, as the local housing crisis intensifies.

Byron Shire Council asked the government for a 90-day per year cap in an attempt to retain the rapidly diminishing rental stock, which has seen many locals forced out of their homes.

According to Friday’s press release from the Department of Planning, Industry and Environment (DPIE), the STHL policy will come into force on July 30 and requires ‘Minimum fire safety standards’, and comes with a previously announced code of conduct for hosts, guests, online booking platforms and agents.

On Friday, NSW Planning Minister, Rob Stokes, also announced extra time for Council to propose where, exactly, it would like a 90-day annual cap on holiday rental properties to apply.

Council have until January 31, 2022 to submit a proposal, Mr Stokes said, after Byron’s temporary exemption from a statewide 180-day annual cap was first announced in February 2019.

Council staff notes sent to councillors over the weekend said the proposal process was ‘complicated’, Greens Byron Shire Councillor Sarah Ndiaye told Bay FM’s Community Newsroom on Monday.

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DPIE asks for economic impacts for Byron letting industry, not community While the notes didn’t refer to economic impacts on people seeking long-term rentals in the Shire, Cr Ndiaye said she expected staff would include recent reports of the effects the Shire’s housing shortage was having on the ability of businesses to find workers.

Meanwhile, Nationals Member of the Legislative Council (MLC) Ben Franklin, still based on the far north coast after failing to win the Ballina electorate in the 2019 state election, said the new deadline for the Byron Shire Council was a ‘terrific outcome’ as it gave staff time to ‘get all of the information, the background documents and all the arguments able to be done’.

He told The Echo, ‘I will be doing all I can to achieve [securing the 90-day cap per year]. If there is no resolution by this time, non-hosted STRA in Byron Shire LGA will be limited to 180 days’.

Mr Franklin did not reply to the question regarding the new policy; The Echo asked, ‘It appears there is no set limit to the number of persons per bedroom, and hence the number per holiday let ▶ Continued on page 2

Linen SHIFT project co-founders Julie Wells and Anne Goslett.

Photo & story Eve Jeffery On Monday, a valuable asset to the Byron community disappeared, but hopefully temporarily, and not permanently.

With a vision to disrupt the cycle of women’s homelessness, the Linen SHIFT project was created to provide unique individual support and education for at-risk women in a safe residential environment.

The Linen SHIFT opened its doors in March 2020 during the height of COVID-19. Against all odds, it provided employment for more than 14 women transitioning from welfare to wellbeing. The project is the only on-site commercial laundry in the Byron Shire – the closest similar on-site service is in the Tweed.

Co-founders Anne Goslett and

Julie Wells hoped that by fostering emotional and physical wellbeing, women would be empowered to regain their lives, reconnect with community and achieve their full potential. And for over 12 months they had watched as their hard work and determination made their vision a reality.

But last Monday they were forced to close their doors after receiving an email about the termination of their lease, giving one months’ notice to vacate.

Managing director of the project, Ms Goslet, said, ‘It’s a big challenge to relocate in a short time, but it’s only through facing challenges head-on that we’ve come this far. We’re determined to save the laundry and the employment opportunities we have created

for vulnerable women at risk of homelessness’.

Both of the women say they were shocked to receive one month’s notice to close down the business and relocate.

‘After months of relentless and unsubstantiated complaints from one neighbour, the matter is being solved by terminating our lease – on a loophole.’

Ms Goslet says that now more than ever, with inflated rents and a lack of affordable housing, homelessness is threatening women of diverse socio-economic backgrounds.

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The notes reportedly said staff found out in December last year that Council must submit a detailed economic impact assessment to the DPIE of the effect the cap could have on hosts and operators.

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Local News Holiday letting plans for Byron still to be adopted ▶ Continued from page 1 allowed. ‘Doesn’t this conflict with the government view in the 2019 public exhibition that there should be two people of any age, per bedroom, up to a maximum of six bedrooms allowed?

Won’t the result be excess overcrowding?’

Meanwhile, the elected MP for Byron and Ballina Shires, Tamara Smith MP (Greens) told The Echo, ‘While we wait for the outcome for Byron’s 90-day limit, this is part of a bigger picture where genuine affordable housing for the region needs to be addressed’.

‘Unfortunately, even with a 90-day limit, those wealthy enough will leave their Byron properties empty for most of the time, and rent them out for the big festival events and holidays.

Policy reform needed ‘Genuine affordable housing includes reforming state planning policies like the State Environmental Planning Policy (SEPP) that provides developers massive concessions. The SEPPs don’t provide any tangible affordability and were written for

city developments’.

As for pursuing legal action over breaching regulation around holiday letting, Cr Ndiaye said the costs were too high to end in successful prosecution.

Cr Ndiaye said the onus on staff of gathering evidence was too timeconsuming and therefore expensive, despite their ability to initially find local shortterm holiday providers via their online host platforms.

The proposal for a 90-day annual cap in parts of the Byron Shire was aimed, instead, at deterring property owners from excluding dwellings from the longterm rental market.

Yet the region’s rising popularity beyond traditional peak holiday and prepandemic festival seasons suggest holiday property owners could, for example, rent dwellings out almost every weekend in a year for a bigger return than a longterm lease would typically attract under a 90-day cap.

Recent figures quoted by Mr Franklin showed more than half of Byron Bay’s rental properties were used

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‘Reports will be prepared for the information of the Coroner’.

A new picture book that helps kids connect with their living world, has recently been published by locals Zanni Louise and Tiff Bollhorn. Zanni says, ‘Wonder Earth takes kids on a journey through their Earth home, exploring aweinspiring facts about the planet, as well as introducing kids to some scientific concepts like cycles, photosynthesis and metabolism’. For more info visit www.zannilouise.com/ wonder-earth. for short-term holiday lets.

‘There’s no question that governments of all persuasions haven’t really provided enough social housing,’ Nationals MLC Ben Franklin told Bay FM’s Above the Fray host, Fernando de Freitas, after the government’s STHL announcement last week,

‘Absolutely no question at all’.

The NSW coalition government marked ten years in power at the end of March, and Mr Franklin has held his position in the upper house since 2015.

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Owners of the Beach Hotel, Moelis, say they undertook extensive repairs and updates to the tune of around $6m after COVID-19 forced closure and limited trading last year.

Moelis Australia Hotel Management CEO, Dan Brady, told The Echo, the result of the renovations and improvements was a result of listening to what staff, locals and customers wanted.

‘We knew the first job at hand was on crucial maintenance, to get the building back to its former glory’, Mr Brady said.

‘We wanted to create a space that the community could be proud of again.

‘There was a lot to do, but our staff and customers really helped us to prioritise the areas that we needed to focus on first, like the bathrooms, which 95 per cent of our staff said should be tackled immediately. We’ll continue to listen to them and invest in what needs to be done.

‘From the outset, we have been focused on listening.

‘Listening to what the community wants, understanding their needs and ensuring we bring openness and inclusivity to the community and also to Australia as an iconic venue.

Extensive research ‘This has included everything from extensive area research, focus groups with locals and visitors, meetings with other hospitality owners and local businesses, and of course, listening and acting on the feedback from our guests and staff.

‘Staff satisfaction is a major part of the company’s success’, he said.

‘We have created, and we nurture an environment of trust, so our team have clarity of purpose and feel

Chief Executive Officer at Moelis Australia Hotel Management, Dan Brady. Photo supplied enriched, empowered, energised and valued, which is a product of us living our values of ‘Care, Collaboration and Courage.

‘We are grateful to have built great relationships with local tradespeople and suppliers who have worked incredibly hard over the past year to get the venue looking amazing. The native fauna and foliage is really coming to life now, and beautifully connects the pub to its natural surroundings’.

Music also remains a focus for the hotel, and since reopening in June, Mr Brady says they have been ‘committed to investing in as many gigs as we possibly can to support the local music industry devastated by the pandemic’.

Music focus ‘We have hosted 655 live music performances from 134 different acts, and currently there are 18 live music shows per week. This means we have put $310,000 back into the hands of local performers’.

Yet the lack of housing for

staff in Byron remains a real challenge for all venues, Mr Brady says.

‘As the cost of living and accommodation has escalated, supply [of staff] in general is down’.

‘But it is part of our DNA to treat our employees well, and support them to learn, grow and develop a career.

‘We are always trying to think of new ways to attract the best talent, so we have purchased a shuttle bus that can bring our team members who have to live outside of Byron easily into work.

‘We really want the Beachy to be a great breeding ground for world class

hospitality talent, so we take our role as leaders in the space very seriously’.

As for future plans, Mr Brady says, ‘We don’t want to rush our longer-term plans for The Beachy’.

‘The people, the environment, the community and the Bay’s history are too special to implement a quick fix. It’s about creating a destination that is truly representative of Byron and reflects the very fabric of the community. There are still conversations to be had, as we don’t want to rush the process, so we will consult with the community before we lodge the DA’.

Food Harvest Food Trail returns The Northern Rivers Food Harvest Food Trail will be held on the weekend of May 1–2, with 26 local food and beverage companies offering an array of activities.

Organisers say the weekend includes tours, seasonal farm-gate produce, grower talks, classes, distillery tours, tasting sessions, regenerative farming talks and demonstrations from the region’s most celebrated chefs.

‘For those without a car, or less keen to travel, there are two tours. Playing with Fire Native Foods and Explore

Byron Bay have joined forces to offer Indigenous tours in the Bangalow Parklands’.

Organisers say, ‘Delta Kay will take guests along the stunning Byron Creek to discover bush tucker plants, as well as plants used for natural medicine, jewellery, fibre, tools and weapons’.

‘There are opportunities to learn some Bundjalung language and some may be lucky enough to see Binging the river turtle or Junbung the platypus’.

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Councillors move to create alternative housing market Paul Bibby Byron Council is aiming to make 10 per cent of local housing genuinely affordable within the space of a decade, under a brave and ambitious plan to implement a Community Land Trust (CLT) model across the Shire.

But some councillors are concerned that the model Council has chosen for the Trust will limit its ability to access finance and deliver housing efficiently.

Following an extended debate at last Thursday’s planning meeting, councillors voted to significantly extend the scope of the proposed CLT and penned some of the details for how it will work.

With staff having initially proposed a venture with the relatively modest goal of putting affordable housing on two Council-owned sites in Mullumbimby, councillors are now effectively proposing an alternative housing market.

During the course of the meeting, it emerged that this more ambitious plan had in fact been under discussion within the corridors of Council for some time, including meetings with state government ministers and advisers to help smooth the way.

‘It’s time for a new option in land ownership in the Byron Shire,’ Labor councillor Paul Spooner said. ‘We must do things differently, because the investment of the globally wealthy in this Shire has created a housing crisis.

‘Most people on low-tomiddle incomes in the Byron Shire will never own property here. We need to create a new housing market to give them a chance.’

Illustrative structure plan of Council’s proposal at lot 22, Mullum.

Image from Council’s Nov 19, 2020 meeting agenda report

The CLT model Under the CLT model being pursued, a Councilcontrolled company, Byron Shire Council Community Land Trust, would hold land for the development of local housing that meets the needs of the community.

Unlike profit-driven private developers, the trust would be constitutionally required to serve the community.

As a land-holding trust, it would be able to offer housing for rent or purchase at a rate that is affordable for those on low to middle incomes.

This would be based on the widely used benchmark that a household should not have to pay more than 30 per cent of its income on rent or mortgage repayments.

Council would be the majority shareholder of the trust but with an independent board to be appointed through an Expression of Interest (EoI) model.

‘The board would be responsible for all aspects of running the trust including the development of a comprehensive business plan with an annual report

to Council on achievement of the trust’s objectives and affordable housing outcomes,’ the resolution passed at last week’s meeting states.

Delivery and Ǖ ŕëŕĈĶŕīȃ However, Greens councillor Sarah Ndiaye expressed concern that this model might limit the trust’s ability to access finance to obtain land and build houses.

She quoted Mike Myers from the Brisbane Housing Company – a leading provider of affordable housing – who said of Byron’s proposed model, ‘It could work, but the structure and arrangements make delivery and financing harder than it needs to be, and I guess that will be reflected in the cost, speed and efficiency of delivery’.

Of particular concern, Cr Ndiaye said, was the possibility that the trust’s structure might prevent it from accessing funding and support from the National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation, a government-controlled corporation designed to help increase housing supply

across the country.

‘I think we really need this clarified by those people who provide this type of funding,’ Cr Ndiaye said.

‘Because if we get ministerial approval for this model, and we set it all up and then we discover that we can’t get finance, well then we’re just setting ourselves back.’

But this argument was rejected by the mover of the motion, Cr Paul Spooner, and mayor Simon Richardson.

‘The bottom line is that we need to get this going,’ Cr Richardson said. ‘We need to do every single thing within our realms of possibility to get affordable housing for our community.

‘The tweaks can occur as we move on. Let’s start.’

Mayor Richardson also said that he and Council staff had met with ministers and senior advisers to get them on board, a comment echoed by Council’s head of Planning, Shannon Burt, who indicated that staff had spoken to ministerial advisers and the Office of Local Government in developing the proposed model.

When combined with Cr Spooner’s comment that the CLT had been ‘in discussion for five years, albeit behind closed doors,’ it became clear that the project was far from a spur-of-the-moment plan to address the housing emergency, but has been quietly brewing for some time.

With the majority of councillors, except Cr Alan Hunter, voting to support the proposed model, Council will now seek approval from the minister for Local Government to set up the Byron Shire Council Community Land Trust.

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HuskeeSwap launches in Lennox An exciting initiative to keep coffee cups out of landfill launched in Lennox Head yesterday.

Ballina Shire Council is backing the HuskeeSwap program with free coffees at different cafes in Lennox this week, for coffeeholics keen to try a new solution to a growing problem.

Police are investigating an armed robbery last week at a licensed club on Marvell Street, Byron Bay. Police say shortly after 8pm on Tuesday night (April 6), a 25 year old female employee working behind the bar was approached by three men – all with their faces covered.

‘One of the men threatened the woman with a machete, while all three

demanded cash. They took a sum of cash before fleeing the scene’.

Tweed/Byron Police District officers attended a short time later, and established a crime scene.

Anyone who may have seen or heard anything suspicious in the nearby vicinity or who may have CCTV or dashcam footage is urged to contact Byron Bay Police or Crime Stoppers.

Sprung!! over the holidays Sean Tonnet and Simon Dubois will feature at the upcoming seminar called, Re-ignited: professional connections in the mental health space. Photo Jeff Dawson

New film celebrates getting back outside Free From Lockdown: Back Out in Nature is a new short film in which a group of disabled and non-disabled performers from the Northern Rivers celebrate being in nature after the COVID-19 lockdown.

Getting the right stuff in your bins in the Tweed Tweed Council is asking residents to be more careful with what waste they put in which bin – a surprising amount of the area’s refuse, both recycling and landfill, ends up in the wrong receptacle.

Murwillumbah Arts Trail coming in May The sixth Murwillumbah Arts Trail is all set for the weekend of 29–30 May 2021. From its beginnings in 2015, the arts trail has grown to be a major festival for the visual arts, as well as a vibrant community event.

Council crews working hard to repair potholes Tweed Shire Council road maintenance crews are out across the Tweed’s road network repairing potholes and other damage caused by the recent prolonged rainfall and previous flood events.

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Sance theatre company Sprung!! is currently holding a holiday intensive program at the Tintenbar Hall. Sprung!! provide workshops and specialised dance and theatre training for people with disability. Renowned producer/ director, Hollie Andrew, pictured centre, says the focus is on learning about each individual participant, understanding their strengths and abilities, then exploring and storytelling through the genre of musical theatre. Photo Jeff Dawson

An event hosted by the Byron Shire’s Mental Health Professionals Network (MHPN) is planned for Tuesday April 20 at the Byron Bay RSL. Co-organiser, clinical director and psychologist, Simon Dubois, says, ‘After being relegated to the personal confines of our practices by the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Byron Bay MHPN is inviting health professionals with a particular interest in the mental health

space to re-establish their relationships with likeminded professionals’.

‘If you are a GP, nurse, OT, psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, counsellor, educator, work in emergency services, researcher, speech pathologist, intern or a health care professional interested in this field and would like to know and connect to the colleagues in your Shire, please come along’.

Relationship therapist,

educator and clinical supervisor, Sean Tonnet, is the guest speaker for the evening.

‘Specialising in relationships, Sean has over 10,000 case hours working with couples. He melds creative, relational Gestalt methods and contemporary psychotherapy, neurobiology and mindfulness practices within a safe and sacred space’.

To get involved, visit www.mhpn.org.au/ members#/Meeting/21430.

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The Lennox Head Lions Club’s annual Lens On Lennox competition is on until May 23, with $500 on offer for category 1 and $100 for category 2.

Byron Bay’s Francis Cloake is one of two Northern Rivers photographers named as a finalist in the prestigious Living Memory: National Photographic Portrait Prize.

Ms Cloake told The Echo she’s loved photographing people since she was a teenager.

‘I went to art school in Adelaide, but found the curriculum constraining so didn’t finish my degree’, she said.

‘Instead, I travelled through the Middle East and Africa in the mid ’80s photographing the people.

‘I ended up having to sell my camera in Nairobi to pay for a plane ticket to London.

I lived in London in the late ’80s and early ’90s and exhibited my work.’

Eighteen years ago, Francis Cloake moved to Byron Bay to raise a family. She took a break from photography for a while, but then inspiration struck again, and people soon started taking notice.

She remembers, ‘I picked up my camera again about four years ago and started shooting. My limited edition fine art print series “Surf”

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Categories The category 1 theme is ‘Lennox Head, then and now’, while category 2 is

‘Disappearing Landmarks and endangered natural features’. All submitted photos should be identifiably Lennox-based.

Publicity officer for Lennox Head Lions Club, Paul Bryant, says ‘all funds raised support our local community’. To get involved visit www.lennoxheadlions.com/photo/.

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Francis Cloake. Photo supplied has sold in several galleries across Australia.’

Ms Cloake has been represented in numerous solo and group exhibitions in London and Australia, and was also a finalist in the Olive Cotton Portrait Prize in 2019.

She’s currently working on a new series, Close to Home, shooting people in and around their homes, and those living on the streets of Byron Bay. For Francis Cloake, ‘Portraiture is intimate…

when you catch that fleeting, unguarded moment of your subject. This is the stuff that lights my fire’.

‘I usually spend an hour shooting a portrait, it’s a very short space of time to get to know the person, so every moment counts.

‘You don’t want to show the bullshit. You want to show what’s beneath the skin,’ she said.

You can see more of Francis Cloake’s work at www.franciscloake.com.au.

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Get ya dancing shoes on – it’s Seniors Festival Slight DA change to large A free, five day program of events and workshops will be held April 19–23 at the Byron Community Centre, and is tailored to the needs of our diverse local senior community.

Seniors activities co-ordinator at Byron Community Centre, Pippy Wardell, says it is the only festival of its kind in the Northern Rivers region that brings together a range of seniors organisations and activities under one umbrella.

Poppy says,‘The Byron Shire Seniors Festival is a free event that attracts seniors from all over the region to have fun and to connect them with local service providers and group activities in their area’.

The program will facilitate opportunities to connect seniors with local organisations and services through workshops and presentations.

Through the provision of a variety of events, presentations and workshops, the festival seeks to create a more inclusive, healthy, active and connected community for our seniors.

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Seniors enjoy freestyle dancing at the end of the weekly drumming session with Gareth Jones, at the Byron Community Centre. A drumming circle will feature on Tuesday at 10.30am, as part of next week’s Seniors Festival. Photo Jeff ‘Senior Since 1986’ Dawson ‘Seniors will be able to participate in creative and fun activities such as drumming, chair yoga, art therapy, poetry, drama and printmaking’.

Informative workshops ‘Informative workshops and presentations will be held by local organisations including: Safety for Seniors,

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Life Death and Loss with Zenith Virago, Healthy Eating While Ageing, and many more’.

She says the festival is focused on reducing the social isolation and loneliness experienced by many in our older population.

‘The event empowers older people to connect with each other through sampling active, creative and social activities at the festival’.

‘Many of these activities are offered throughout the year within the Byron Shire.

‘All of the seniors leave with big smiles on their faces’, says Pippy.

‘I have seen real friendships grow and deep connections made through our weekly activities program.

‘We believe that growing older is just another phase of life and should be lived to the fullest’.

Residents say they are disappointed at the minimal amendments and short exhibition period of just seven days for a large boarding house in Bayside, Brunswick Heads, with the issue remaining around the lack of a promised neighbourhood centre.

Revised plans for The Corso, a mixed-use commercial building with a 38-room boarding house, eight shop top flats, and a small cafe and grocers in Bayside, Brunswick Heads will be before Byron Shire Councillors at a public access meeting on Thursday April 22, 2021.

The Echo understands that following a compulsory conciliation meeting and subsequent Council meeting in March, the developer, Oniva Pty Ltd, was asked to improve the design integration, increase the proportion of business/commercial and retail uses, further supplement transport options to the site and exhibit the plans for a period of 28 days.

After expressing, at the Council meeting, a desire to reach a mutually beneficial outcome with a significant

retail offering, residents are disappointed at the minimal amendments and short exhibition period.

‘The retail space now totals just over 11 per cent of the entire development, meaning it still fails to meet the LEP Zone Objective – B1 Neighbourhood Centre’, explained resident Dave Carnovale.

‘For well over 20 years, the land has been earmarked for a much-anticipated neighbourhood centre, with retail to support this growing estate, set to double in size. The development compromises the planning of this precinct, and still fails to integrate into the neighbourhood as required under its zoning.

‘While an electric share car space has been added, two car parking spaces have been removed, compounding our parking and safety concerns. Further, the amended DA fails to address pedestrian amenity and active transport links as requested by Council, given the fact Bayside offers no public transport or amenities’, concluded Dave.

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Local News Lilac coloured home sparks petition after Council orders a repaint EPA grant assists with illegal Eve Jeffery The plight of a Mullum resident faced with Council fines for not repainting her home in line with heritage requirements has touched the hearts and injustice buttons of people far and wide.

Nicole Haberecht was served with a Byron Shire Council ‘return to work’ order demanding she repaint the house on the grounds that the lilac colour she paid a professional painter $10,000 to put on her house does not comply with the

Non-Indigenous Heritage provisions of 2014 Development Control Plan (DCP).

Ms Haberecht said that the response to The Echo story has been immense.

Grateful & humbled ‘I am very grateful and humbled by everyone’s support. When I moved here I wasn’t wanting any attention, but then I painted the house lilac’.

Ms Haberecht said she has heard nothing more from Council, yet mayor Simon Richardson has made a

comment about the story on The Echo’s Facebook page.

‘I support the owner,’ said Mr Richardson. ‘I’m sick of those believing heritage means painting something in dreadful colours because they did it 100 years ago – the most beautiful heritage building in Mullum is the light pink one – thank goodness the heritage police didn’t hold sway on that’.

The response from the public has only made Nicole more resolute in her position.

‘Everyone has been so

supportive and more. People I don’t know are messaging me privately offering their support.

‘No-one ever has said to me to change the colour.

Everyone loves it’.

Several of the messages have suggested that Nicole start a petition and that is exactly what she has done.

If you would like to show support for the current colour of the lilac house, you can sign the petition at www.change.org/p/byronshire-council-help-save-thepurplicious-house.

dumping campaign Byron Shire Council staff say efforts to reduce illegal dumping has resulted in a $119,000 grant from the NSW Environment Protection Authority’s (EPA) Combatting illegal dumping: clean-up and prevention program.

A press release says, ‘In 2019/2020, Council’s costs associated with illegal dumping were in excess of $150,000 and 593 illegal dumping incidents were recorded’.

‘Illegal dumping causes environmental harm by

contaminating and degrading land, plant and animal habitats and polluting waterways.

The funding will go towards a courtesy trailer to assist residents with transporting large items to the Resource Recovery Centre.

Byron Shire mayor Simon Richardson said, ‘This funding will help us intensify our efforts through smarter surveillance and monitoring, improved signage, plus better educational and communication tools’.

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Unauthorised dwelling capital of the world!

Could Main Arm’s title as the Unauthorised Dwelling Capital of the World be under threat?

It’s hard to believe, I know.

However, it appears that while Main Arm bore the brunt of Byron Council’s ill-fated crackdown on unapproved homes last year, such dwellings have been spawning like medicinal mushrooms in Byron’s Arts and Industry Estate (AIE) for years.

And it also seems that, much like Main Arm, attempts to bring these miscreants back into the regulatory fold have been far from successful.

Well, that’s the suggestion from Council aspirant, and the president of Community Alliance Byron Shire, Matthew O’Reilly.

During the pubic access section of last Thursday’s council planning meeting, Cr O’Reilly (oops, sorry, ‘Mr O’Reilly’) declared that moves to regularise unauthorised dwellings in the AIE had been a ‘failure’.

You see, when the Shire’s 2014 Development Control Plan (DCP) was introduced, it included a provision allowing essential managers and caretakers who worked in the estate to have their dwellings there.

This was an attempt by Mayor Simon Richardson, and others on Council, to encourage those naughty folk living illegally above their kombucha factories to get approval.

All they had to do was submit a DA for their slightly fermented dwellings and, assuming the plans were compliant, everything was tickety-boo.

But six years and thousands of Lycra-clad yoga classes later, it seems barely anyone has applied to join Cr Richardson in the land of the legal.

‘I’ve gone through the development applications for the Arts and Industry Estate since 2014 and there have been very, very few, if any, development applications to regularise unauthorised dwellings there,’ Mr O’Reilly said.

‘From what I can see, the only DAs for caretakers’ residences and managers’ dwellings have been for new industrial facilities.’

Meanwhile, the estate has become not only a source of delightfully nourishing cold-pressed juices, but also a residential estate.

‘At the last census, the numbers were between three and four hundred people living permanently in the estate in Byron,’ Mr O’Reilly said.

‘We’re due to have another census this year and it’s very likely those numbers will have drastically increased.

‘We’re not just talking about single-bedroom dwellings, we’re also talking about two- and three-bedroom dwellings.

‘A consequence of this is that the Arts and Industry Estate has become a suburb as large as many other suburbs within the Shire, but without the requisite infrastructure and facilities such as footpaths, schools, parks and so on.

Mr O’Reilly concluded the lesson by setting Council staff some homework: ‘Could Council staff advise how many ancillary [essential] caretaker and managers’ dwellings have been approved in industrial and business zones since the commencement of the Byron 2014 LEP, and whether development contributions for dwellings were paid for those approvals?’ he asked.

Unsurprisingly, staff did not have the answer immediately to hand, but promised to submit their assignment via email.

Guest editorial by Paul Bibby

Where announcements masquerade as action

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he great secret about government in Australia is this: no-one wants to know about government in Australia.

Our wide brown land contains multitudes, as diverse as our many, many regionally specific words for swimming costumes. But whether we wear bathers, togs, cozzies or wet-times stretchy pants, we are united in one thing above all else: a passionate desire to not think about what the government is up to, under any circumstances.

And that makes things great for this government, because it means it can carry on doing, whatever things it fancies doing without any of that annoying ‘transparency’ or ‘accountability’ stuff that would otherwise make it awkward to, for example, appoint failed political candidates to incredibly lucrative gigs with the Fair Work Commission. Isn’t that right, Sophie Mirabella?

Unfortunately, when the unwilling Australian public is forced to pay attention to the government, it historically doesn’t end well. And with the vaccine rollout falling 3.4 million doses short of its four million dose target, Scott Morrison has ensured that his government has Australia’s full attention.

If this were a single large screw-up by an otherwise solid government, the rollout would probably not be the political crisis it’s shaping up as being.

But it’s not a one-off, and that’s why everyone’s now talking about the next election being at risk for a government that seemed on track to walk to an easy win as recently as three months ago.

It’s merely the latest in a series of rolling disasters, all characterised by the Morrison government’s reliance on announcements masquerading as action, a seeming lack of interest in successfully managing problems as they occur, and an emphasis on angrily insisting that it’s anyone else’s fault when the crisis inevitably becomes public.

It’s a strategy that has worked with bushfires (it’s arsonists!) and the collapse of the Centrelink site (it’s hackers!) and the Ruby Princess debacle (it’s a state responsibility!). And that’s before we

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Andrew P Street mention the reports of abuse against women within the government which Morrison is attempting to sidestep while refusing to do anything as radical as, say, investigate MPs accused of stalking or sexual violence.

And that accumulation of scandals has been teetering on the precipice, just waiting for the weight of one major catastrophe to tip it into an avalanche of voter fury. And… say, can you hear that distant roaring sound?

Up until very recently, the government had been able to tout their success at keeping Australia’s COVID-19 impact at a level below much of the rest of the world. But now, with a vaccine rollout that rivals nobody but Botswana, it’s starting to look less like the product of good federal management and more like swift border control and population testing by the state governments, and a handy amount of pure luck.

We’ve seen this reflected in the thumping returns of governments in Queensland and WA, likely to be repeated shortly in Tasmania, whereas the feds have spent the last year demanding states open their borders (including an aborted High Court challenge to the WA government) and failing to protect residents in Commonwealth-run aged-care facilities.

This means that the bungled vaccine rollout isn’t a typical Morrison political embarrassment that’s of interest to Twitter but with little wider impact on the community – like, say Energy minister Angus Taylor using a fake document to smear Sydney Mayor Clover Moore and never providing a sensible explanation.

The government’s failure means we

risk more public health and economic crises, as the longer Australians go unvaccinated against a fast-mutating virus, the more lockdowns, travel restrictions, event cancellations, lingering illnesses and potential deaths we have to endure.

The recent three-day pre-Easter lockdown has been estimated as having cost Brisbane literally billions in lost revenue: a huge loss to the local economy and a massive political snafu for a federal government desperate to improve their electoral prospects in the state.

And now the government has abandoned even setting a vaccine target, along with any thought of holding an election this year. Obviously, the plan from here is to wait it out and hope the public gets bored and dozes off again.

But the longer a rollout takes, the longer Australians are separated from overseas friends and family members, and the greater risk every city and state faces of further snap lockdowns and border closures – all of which will now be laid at the federal government’s door.

And hey, maybe everything will go great from here on. Maybe all those doses Morrison claims to have secured will actually appear, the bureaucratic confusion for GPs and patients will diminish, and it’ll be smooth sailing to our nation’s glorious post-COVID future.

But the longer that Morrison fails to provide a competent government, the more likely it is that the public will replace it with one they can more safely ignore.

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Letters Ɩǔ şōŊ żƖŔż ƐſëĈŊ On behalf of the Suffolk Park pump track’s affected neighbours and 300–400 petitioners and letter writers, we request Council NOT to continue to bulldoze the large fenced-in section of Linda Vidler Parkland adjacent to Baz and Shaz’s shop, close to the houses on three sides.

We request an immediate recission motion, given the local shock and horror at the size and effect of the Stage 2 Extended Pump Track, management of which was handed straight to Suffolk Park Progress Association on December 17.

The Suffolk Park Progress Association (SPPA) are not the main or only contributors and users of this park. They do not represent the community at large.

The neighbours strongly object to the way this development, and a large slab of Section 94 money earmarked for Suffolk Park, was handed to the SPPA for what we consider an inappropriate development and intrusion into our beloved shared park and essential green space.

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We strongly deny that the stated years of community consultation about such an impactful project as Stage 2 ever occurred.

We expected ‘kiddies on bicycles’ not ‘beginners to advanced’ and youths from everywhere.

We also note that nothing was said about the total cost of this one, small-interest project, the details of the

tender, the involvement of bike clubs and adults, or why one project swallowed up so much of the money yet would change our lives and quiet space forever. Note that the people pushing it do not live alongside it.

We request a stay of bulldozing and tree removal, and commencement of authentic community input and feedback, before you create very real distress, schisms, and unhappiness in this community.

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Letters ▶ Continued from page 11 We have been so blessed where we live, in so many ways, and in particular with regard to COVID cases.

Whether you are a conspiracy theorist or not... whether you are a local or a tourist... how hard is it to wear a mask while you are temporarily in a public place and to treat the people working in those venues with some courtesy?

The number of people who argued, swore, or walked out when politely asked to put on a complementary mask (thank you, NSW health) for the few minutes required to place an order was astounding!

We put in the long hours, wore masks all day, each day, only to cop abuse from customers. How hard is it to show a little respect and follow a few rules for four days instead of putting other people and businesses at risk of fines, or potentially creating extended restrictions that affect us all. How incredibly selfish.

Anonymous Byron Bay

The Bluesfest blues Q With the cancellation of Bluesfest now would be a good time for the NSW state government’s ‘local’ wannabe rep Ben Franklin’s pic

to appear in the paper along with the big announcement of the federal and state governments’ assistance packages for all the small business and sole traders that missed out on Easter trade. It is a huge slug to the local economy and spirit.

And just one week after the end of JobKeeper payments.

This is the time to step up for a regional economy.

Martin Corben Lennox Head

One case and a $100 million festival is crushed and all the little plebs can pick up the pieces and tough luck. So, the UN, WTO, WHO global Agenda 2030 rolls on, in all its world-saving glory, and the ‘anti-establishment’ Byronites just pop another Quaalude, pray for world peace, wet the bed, and roll over. Bluesfest indeed.

Edward Kent Suffolk Park

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I’m surprised that a part of David Lowe’s online article of March 15 slipped under the fact-check radar (‘Tamara Smith Calls for More Fairness’) in relation to electricity charges in caravan parks. In the interests of transparency, I too am a resident of the park.

Here are some fun facts from a person who has paid electricity in this park for more than 20 years: The assertion that the park was making $3,000 a week on top of the electricity charged is preposterous.

That’s $120 per month per household: enough for pitchforks and pikes in the streets.

My bill at the time? Around $40 per month.

Five barristers? A look at the judgment on the case-law website cites one

hipsters of Byron Bay figured out how the new global establishment party at Davos has played them for fools all these years?

They don’t care about saving the Earth and they never will; it’s just been a ruse to whip up passionate mobs demanding global governance and regulatory overkill at the expense of sovereign power through endless do-good treaties by which every government in Australia is now enslaved, and thus we are too.

So, one case of Coronavirus and the premier of NSW is given 45 minutes of primetime to promote irrational fear, jabs, and all the rest of it under the headline ‘Covid-19 Crisis’.

(What would 100 cases be, time to book a padded cell?).

Electricity ‘fun facts’

counsel and one solicitor for each party. And power costs down 50 per cent is arrant nonsense, but I will get to that later.

The Supreme Court decision highlighted deficiencies between implementation of state residential park and Commonwealth energy legislation and was critical of poorly drafted laws that retained definitions in one act and omitted those definitions from others.

No wonder, then, the park operators were adrift on what should be charged, even with written confirmation of the rates from Fair Trading and Origin Energy.The result from all this meddling in the Supreme Court was that the park operators handed over electricity billing to a thirdparty retailer, which they were required to do if they could not introduce systems required by law, ie effectively act as an energy retailer, with the requisite red tape if they chose to.

The retailer now engaged offered the standard rate if residents did nothing, or a discounted rate if residents signed a form. Residents could also have sought an alternative electricity retailer.

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Fernandez – internet handle Luck is my Skill – has become The O2C Doeberl Cup was won the most creative defender on

by Australian Grandmaster Justin the Australian chess scene, with Tan on a tiebreak from England’s his standout save coming in the diagrammed position.

Daniel Fernandez.

Yet Tan’s win, Fernandez’s Cheng (White) has threats on both sides of fighting spirit when all seemed the board, while Fernandez was far behind on lost, and the failure of the hot the clock and playing on 30 second per move increments. Most players would have folded, favourite and defending Cup but Fernandez simply makes the position more winner Hrant Melkumyan were confusing. 32...c3!! 33.Qxb5 33.bxc3 was simbarely noted by overseas cover- pler, with the point that 33...Bc4 34.Qh7+ Kf8 age. The only newsworthy matter 35.Ba4! is good for White. 33...cxb2! 34.Rd1? seemed to be the fact that 330 An unlucky square. 34.Rb1 or 34.Rcf1 were both players had gathered together in good enough. 34...Rxc2! 35.Qxe8 35.Rxc2 the same playing hall – for most loses to 35...Qxd4+!! 35...Rxf2 36.Kxf2 a4! the Black pawns are runners and countries a dream of what post- Suddenly worth as much as White’s extra rook. 37.Qe2 pandemic chess life might one a3 38.Qc4 Qf6+ 39.Kg1 Qf3! 40.Qc2? Cheng: day be.

‘I saw that 40.Rf1 was still a draw, but wanted Open tournaments, the finan- more’40...b3! 41.axb3 a2! 0-1 ‘I felt physically cial lifeblood for most chess pro- sick after this game,’ admitted Cheng. fessionals below the elite, have been wiped out by the pandemic, so the Doeberl Cup was a sign of hope that the chess circuit might one day resume.

Curiously, despite closed borders, the 2021 Cup was one of the strongest in the series, due in no small part to Europe-based Grandmasters Tan, Fernandez and Melkumyan all having found themselves in Australia when the pandemic began.

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Midwife quits

as one person in the story asserted? No, thanks to all the perceived injustices of those involved, I’m lucky if my bill is under $70 a month.

So much for ‘we won’.

Anonymous Ballina

It’s become untenable for me to continue working in hospitals. I have quit. I will be deregistered soon by my own choice.

Working with lies and deceit at all levels has led me to despair. I am very good at my job as a midwife. You would want me to take care of you. You would be very safe in my care.

‘The jab’ cannot be called a vaccine. It will kill, and it will make people very sick with autoimmune disease, which will manifest in many types of diseases. Please do not acquiesce.

Deb Walsh Fernleigh

Poor Council drains In response to and in support of Kerry Gray’s and Robin Gracie’s letters Echo 31 March, the McGoughans Lane blocked drains are the tip of the iceberg in the water-management system in town. Take a short stroll from Burringbar St in any direction and you will notice the blocked drains on every street and laneway.

Forested with weeds, blocked pipes, or completely filled in by backyard developments and not to mention the stench of stagnant water.

Places are struggling with Council approving dwellings owing to a backflow of flooding from the street.

Lift your game, Council, and drain the drains.

Mullumbimby is more likely to win a Tidy Slum Award than to show any resemblance to a Tidy Town Award recipient of bygone decades.

Kate Anderson Mullumbimby

Coalition criticised The NSW coalition seems to be hellbent on outdoing their federal counterparts when it comes to the denigration of women and protection of the fossil-fuel industry.

This is brought into sharp relief with the impending by-election for the Upper Hunter seat, previously held by a minister who thought it was appropriate to be sexting someone while sitting in the chambers of the NSW parliament.

His recent statement on a parliamentary-funded

website page rejects these ‘serious allegations’ and then goes on to to state that he is ‘an imperfect human’ but still feels the need to remind us that the ‘needs of the electorate come first and that is the approach [he] has always taken, often at great personal sacrifice’.

Insert your own expletive here.

In response to this fiasco and the likelihood of losing the by-election, old mate Pork-Barilaro quickly realised his recent endorsement in Parliament of the appointment of Malcolm Turnbull as chairperson of the Green Energy Advisory Board was not going to fly with coalition backbenchers who value incumbency over fighting climate change. When is the time to own up to the failings and inappropriate standards of so many (male) parliamentarians? When is the time to enter the new paradigm of renewable energy and the associated massive job creation knock-on?

I suggest to you it is now, 2021, and not a moment later. Voters of the Upper Hunter please send a clear message to the NSW parliament.

Mat Morris Bangalow

COVID conspiracy?

From what I can understand, Poppa Veet Mayo’s letter seems to imply that this latest COVID scare is a government conspiracy.

To suggest that COVID is a myth is a direct insult to families of the million people who have died as a result of this terrible disease and the health professionals who watch people die every day.

Perhaps Poppa might be happier with Trump’s American response, or Brazil’s, or Turkey’s, or India’s? They are all run by extreme right-wing COVID deniers who prioritise profit over people and whose countries account for around 85 per cent of deaths.

This sort of thinking is dangerous. It is ideological, never fact driven, and believed by a lot of people.

A lot of people believe this shit simply because someone, without qualifications, has told them so. Or they find it on their 4G- or 5G-enabled computers.

The gullibility is astounding.

This is extreme right-wing thinking loved by Trump and his cohort and it needs to be stopped.

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Articles The ghost in the archives #3: Sexism, legal discrimination and ‘the game of bastadry’ Michael McDonald

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f prejudices we’ve had a few, but not too few to mention.

Of those verging on the misanthropic we may include now-retired magistrate Pat Caldwell’s.

In January 1991 His Honour fined AIDS sufferer Leiff Falconer $500 for possessing marijuana. Leiff later claimed that he was dobbed in by a neighbour who found having a person with AIDS living nearby distasteful, and that the Byron Bay police ‘treated me like rubbish’.

A popular and witty man among friends, Leiff was successful in having his convictions overturned in the Lismore District Court in March that year and his appeal was partly funded by donations from supporters. His solicitor was Richard Moloney, he of trivia night, croquet, and chess tournament fame.

Five hundred dollars was a lot of money 30 years ago and as Leiff noted, ‘If I had tried to pay the $500 fine from out of my pension, it would have put me straight into the pet food aisle of the supermarket.’

Leiff left the Bay and found a good home in a weatherboard house in Stuart Street, Mullumbimby.

It was there he lived and died, cared for by friends.

Mr Caldwell’s unhealthy attitude got a mention in 1996 at The Ernies, the awards given to men for outstanding misogyny. His remark to a female defendant, ‘Come back when your

© 1988 Michael McDonald

Fools rush in where wise men were last week IQ is as high as your skirt’, seemed a worthy contender.

You can read more in The Ernies Book: 1,000 terrible things Australian men have said about women, by Meredith Burgmann and Yvette Andrews. Irrational prejudices and fragile masculinity linger on, unfortunately.

Sexism and violence towards women is still rife, drugs such as cannabis are still demonised by alcoholswilling law-and-order populists, and people who choose not to identify as male or female get pilloried for being different, as if ‘the norm’ has created a healthy society.

The mention of Byron Bay solicitor Richard Moloney in the news report on Leiff’s case stirs many memories. Among them the

chess tournaments Richard organised on the first-storey terrace outside his office, next to The Echo’s Byron Bay office in Jonson Street at the time. Echo co-founder David Lovejoy, a champion chess player, occasionally took part.

Richard was also a fan of croquet, known as ‘the game of bastardry’ – an appropriate sporting outlet for lawyers – and I ran a couple of reports aimed at recruiting players for the Byron Bay club. Trivia nights also took advantage of Richard’s skillset. He was an urbane and witty MC, glass of whisky in one hand and a firm control on proceedings. The nights benefited many community groups and proliferated like lantana across the Shire.

The Echo had a team called the Echologics and often ranked in the top three. Having some grasp of a range of disconnected information, I was a team member until the long nights began to pale. One of the important events of 1991 was the release of council planner David Kanaley’s draft rural settlement study, which aimed to bring some order to a piecemeal approach to residential development.

Since then various councils and state governments have done their darndest with coconut oil and a crowbar to squeeze as many people as possible into a small and under-resourced Shire, disregarding the messages about ‘minimum ecological impact’. Nicholas Shand wryly noted that the study had ‘a somewhat strange origin.

Council asked for any rural landowners who wished to have their land examined for possible rezoning (how about cutting the old property up into nice blocks, eh?) to contact Council.’

Nicholas also pointed out there were various other studies under way – the Broken Head study, an urban study, a village study – and that to consider these studies one by one was ‘ludicrous’.

‘What they collectively amount to is a major revision of the whole Shirewide plan with new goals and targets for population expansion well into the next century.’

Now the next century is here, and planning is still at the mercy of state governments and their bureaucrats.

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Three interwoven narratives depict the lost gospel of Mary Magdalen, the destruction of the ancient world’s greatest library and the find at a modern archeological site that the Curia is desperate to keep secret. The link between David Lovejoy’s stories is the young woman Hypatia, who gets dangerously involved in the church politics of fourth century Alexandria.

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dëŔĕŕƐĶŕī ƐIJĕ ōëĈŊ şĪ ëǔ şſĎëćōĕ IJşƖƆĶŕī Q Well may councillors lament the lack of ‘affordable housing’ in Byron Shire but they need to acknowledge it isn’t as much a planning issue as it is a deliberate mismatch between what is happening in the financial sector and what is happening in people’s lives.

Our lack of affordable housing is the consequence of the 1990s deregulation of the banking sector. At the same time the Reserve Bank had land values deleted from

the Consumer Price Index.

The effect was to take out the greatest monthly cost in household budgets, understate inflation, and keep interest rates down.

Thus, Australia has been in a structurally engineered property bubble for the last 30 years as the financial sector continues to separate itself from the real economy, leaving ‘affordable housing’ lying in the dust.

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manipulating interest rates in the bond market and is resolved to do so for the next three years. It has recently provided $160b of credit to the banks at near-zero interest rates for home mortgages. Interest rates are now at an historic low and banks are sloshing in deposits. Mortgage lending is 6–8 times household income and 60 per cent of income is servicing that loan.

Household debt in Australia is the highest in the world while wage growth has been virtually stagnant since 2012.

The mayor’s recent meeting with the minister for Planning to discuss the lack of ‘affordable housing’ is unlikely to solve the problem, leaving ‘affordability’ a fictitious notion in Byron Shire.

Patricia Warren Brunswick Heads Q For those of you who haven’t been living under a rock, I’m sure you are aware of the ever-increasing housing shortage crisis in Byron Shire, recently made much worse by the influx of city folk escaping the rat race.

For those of you who

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aren’t aware, five million dollars of our hard-earned tax dollars is being spent on a campaign to encourage even more people to move to regional areas, and Byron Shire is included as a preferred destination.

The genius behind this is Liz Ritchie of the Regional Australia Institute.

The reasons for moving to this area, she states, are because it’s so much more affordable, the jobs are plentiful and you’ll be able to spend much more time with your family owing to the reduced commuting time.

Ah, well, sure, if you have a ten-minute drive to your high-paying job from your very ordinary $million-plus house, then good for you. For the rest of us, however, we often find ourselves in the situation of having to travel an hour or so to work, just to be able to afford the rent or mortgage. I urge those of you that can see the flaw in this otherwise brilliant plan, to contact the seemingly ill-informed Liz Ritchie (regionalaustralia.org.au/ home/contact), tell her how it really is, and encourage her to spend our money on something that will actually benefit someone somewhere.

Kai Beijerbacht Mullumbimby

Hanging points Many thanks to The Echo for printing ex-magistrate David Heilpern’s remarkable article articulating the ongoing tragic situation surrounding Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in NSW prisons, and the gross negligence of NSW Corrective Services in failing to remove ‘hanging points’ in NSW Prisons 21 years after the Nagle Report demanded that they be removed!

This omission supports the mythical social belief that First Nations peoples (who are the most incarcerated people globally) have a tendency to ‘commit suicide’ once they are incarcerated.

If this is so, why it necessary for a First Nations person, who is brain dead, to have their feet chained to the hospital bed when they are on a life-support machine after coming to prison for a weekend to pay off a debt, and consequently receiving a hit on the head?

Why is it that the grieving family are told that they ‘have only 10 minutes to view the body, as the machine will be turned off, and

Q Population growth in this Shire is inevitable, like it or not. Those who are being pushed out by the unfolding housing tragedy are long-term locals and their children along with their skills and small businesses, which is resulting in a rapid erosion of the traditional social fabric of this society.

The crisis is not going away and while emergency response is imperative we should keep our focus on finding real and affordable housing solutions.

Council’s recent planning proposal, submitting rural CT and MO communities to a de facto prohibition on secondary dwellings comes across as prejudicial and ill thought out in the current climate.

With so much housing stress in the Shire and the mad scramble to construct secondary dwellings in towns and on rural freehold properties, why close down this option on communities?

Managing change holistically means that we have to re-examine old concepts, controls, maps, and measures that were historically adequate, and assess them afresh. We need to look at what is available locally, can be easily implemented in the short- and medium-term with minimal dependency on high-level government.

Rural intentional communities with their environmental repair and enhancement obligations and their history of providing socially inclusive, affordable accommodation seem well-placed to be part of a comprehensive solution. Singling them out from other rural properties for a restriction on the ability to construct secondary dwellings is unproductive and there appears to be little compelling argument to do so.

In agreement with Heather Martin Echo 7 April) it is imperative that secondary dwellings do not end up as holiday lettings.

While in recent years Council has placed consent conditions on secondary dwellings that stipulate that they not be used for the purpose of short-term holiday letting, in many cases this has been abused, in part for lack of external monitoring.

CT and MO communities with their well-established self-governing mechanisms are well placed to implement and monitor this restriction effectively, thus ensuring that whatever potential housing stock can be provided would be available to the sector most in need.

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their organs removed’. No paperwork is presented. The total is now 450 First Nations people dead in custody.

Much darker stories will one day surface. Are Australians prepared to really understand how very racist our nation is?

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everywhere in North Coast rural and urban settings and regularly in Byron. A study has been done by research scientist Dr Bradley Law, with audible recordings of male breeding calls, suggesting populations healthy and widespread.

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On reading Dailan’s ‘Koala Wars’ I felt compelled to introduce the readers to an interesting debate about the health and numbers of koala populations. At colonisation koala populations were low, healthy, and in balance owing to 20,000 years of Indigenous burning. The precolonial forest was, on the main, large mature trees with little leaf growth of the type eaten by koalas, and so they had large territories.

Post-colonial koala populations increased in areas with dense regrowth forest because of more food, and in these high-feed forests they suffered population collapse in drought or fire. Personally, I am delighted to see koalas

I was saddened by the plight of our paramedics and their union’s frustrated attempts to seek a pay rise from NSW’s IRC, (Echo, 31/3), especially given the stresses and dangers of this essential service.

Along with other workers in aged care, preschools, hospitality, retail, agriculture, and the gig economy, our state and federal conservative governments have continued to stifle adequate wage increases, largely contributing to low domestic spending.

Last year’s increase in the minimum wage did nothing to increase disposable income. Little has been done to combat wage theft.

The casualisation of

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Articles/Letters Methane-eating microbes! Cool cool, ok? The return of the prodigal son explored at research study lead by Murwillumbah’s Gallery DownTown Southern Cross Uni-

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versity (SCU) scientists has discovered an unlikely microscopic ally in the battle to reduce the amount of methane gas in the atmosphere.

In a world-first, published in Nature Communications, Australian researchers reveal the unique, methane-eating microbial communities living in the bark of a common Australian tree species (Paperbark, Melaleuca quinquenervia).

Dr Luke Jeffrey conducting wetland research. Image: SCU Importantly, these microbes of Science and Engineering made the discovmitigated a large proportion of the methane ery while on a field study in wetlands on the released from the trees, consuming about far north coast. one third of total methane emissions.

‘When we first saw large amounts of Methane is a very potent greenhouse gas about 45 times more so than carbon dioxide. methane coming out of the bark of Melaleuca trees, we wondered whether there might While trees help lock up carbon dioxide during photosynthesis, this discovery reveals be bacteria residing in bark making an easy living by eating the abundant methane. Now some trees also play an important role in we know,’ said fellow team member, Profesregulating the methane gas cycle. sor Scott Johnston.

‘This is a ground-breaking discovery that Professor Damien Maher added: ‘It took opens up a whole new area of research about novel microbes living in the bark of trees and more than three years of careful experiment design and systematic method development their role in regulating methane. It suggests to identify the microbes and resolve their that our scientific understanding of the role in consuming methane. It represents an global methane cycle may need a re-think,’ exciting new frontier in our understanding of said Dr Luke Jeffrey, lead author.

The scientists from the University’s Faculty how trees influence methane.’ our workforce continues to grow, offering little financial security for many families and a decent retirement age for lower-income workers.

Add the effects of COVID-19 within our economy and the future looks bleak for those who have lost their jobs.

Conservative governments argue that wage rises would threaten jobs, yet we didn’t see any increase in positions when penalty rates were denied for hospitality workers. Trickle-down economics is a farce.

I grew up in a much fairer, more equitable society with access to tertiary training and education, permanent job opportunities, and lower house prices.

Despite my working-class background, I gained a scholarship that allowed me to enter a career backed by an active union and equal gender rights. Industry superannuation allowed me to retire at a decent age. I was a lucky post-WWII baby boomer!

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Under neoliberal policies, our once fairer, egalitarian society has declined, with fewer opportunities, unless your parents are wealthy.

This would be a contributing factor to the rise of domestic violence.

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Save the planet ‘Over population’ is seen by some as the main destructive driver causing many crises besetting the planet today.

From global warming, climate change, biodiversity loss, species extinction, loss of natural habitat and deforestation to over-consumption of natural resources.

This needs to be put in its rightful context. Fossil fuels, specifically coal, were primarily used pre-capitalism for domestic heating, so fossil-fuel use was tied to population size.

With capitalism factories developed and expanded, as a way of disciplining workers and regularising production.

International naturalist David Attenborough’s A Life on this Planet documentary provides a powerful ‘witness account’ in lucid detail regarding continuing ecological decline and degradation.

Attenborough rationally does not follow some ‘populationists’ in advocating legal restrictions on reproductive rights, such as the ‘one-child policy’.

Attenborough’s key issue as a natural historian is human population as a driving force causing global ecological crises.

In the last 200 years, global population has grown by a factor of roughly 7.3, while global emissions have risen over 100 times as fast.

The uncoupling of carbon dioxide emissions from population is the problem.

Today, one-sixth of the world population, all low-income people in the global south, make no net contribution to global greenhouse gases. The global discrepancy in energy use, currently, is significantly

Gallery DownTown, the annexe of Tweed Regional Gallery, is presenting a new exhibition by regional artists.

Sons & Daughters embodies two artists’ visual reflections exploring the transformative journey of motherhood.

Artist Trish Tait will exhibit artistic depictions of sons alongside depictions of daughters by artist Meli Axford.

Trish Tait’s paintings feature detailed portraiture and simple compositions, surrounded by negative space.

She draws inspiration from her daily life, which was enriched in 2020 when her sons returned home during the uncertainty of lockdown.

Sons explores this time; her observations of her boys as they adjust to their ‘new normal’, and their inevitable longing to return to the old.

‘I was inspired to preserve some of these moments, for me a kind of painted record of the inspirational adult the child had become, and perhaps a celebration of a mother’s sense of accomplishment. I would like to invite the audience to pause, ponder and reflect in their own way,’ she said.

Meli Axford’s art reimagines the Australian landscape with her family in it.

Like Tait, Axford explores a deeply personal maternal relationship, visualising her higher than 1,000-fold.

Population, contrary to Attenborough and the Malthusians, is not the problem.

‘Humanity’ is not to blame for climate change.

Stepping away from the pernicious social construct of ‘individualism’ and towards recognising the power of the interconnected collective as a social species is a move towards reclaiming our need to fight these insidious and destructive ideas and practices.

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unconditional love and hopes for her young adult children.

Daughters showcases paintings from Axford’s pool series, which radiates a deliberate sense of calm and optimism that we are ready for whatever happens.

‘Motherhood is a labour of love. I wanted to paint my children to share the indescribable intensity of my love, to capture the perfection that love had created and nurtured,’ she says.

‘I’ve always believed that “love will conquer all” and “all you need is love” – everything was, is and will be fixed with love.

‘We are thrilled to present these two Northern Rivers artists as part of the Community Access Exhibitions Program at Gallery DownTown,’ said Tweed Regional Gallery Director Susi Muddiman, ‘Tait and Axford share a visual language, communicating a strong connection through life experience that I’m sure audiences will really engage with.’

Sons & Daughters continues until Sunday 13 June 2021.

The Gallery DownTown is the annexe of one of the State’s most recognised regional galleries, Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre. An initiative of Tweed Shire Council, the gallery aims to act as a driver of creative and economic development in the heart of Murwillumbah’s CBD.

find that this is not the case.

Although migratory, the most common local finch is the red browed finch, but I have never observed these birds feeding on this plant.

The closest I have come to observing any birds feeding on it was one very dry year when I observed a small flock of double barred finches who had moved to the coast owing to the dry conditions pecking rather disconsolately at the seed heads but not eating them. However this grass forms an excellent environment for frogs.

But the way sprays are

used is also incredibly dumb.

They spray along the margins of the paths for both bitou and Nyasa grass; this results in an ugly scar of dead vegetation running through the park and achieves sweet FA. Glyphosate is a defoliant and doesn’t kill seeds, and the sprayed areas are bordered by unsprayed areas, so seeding can also proceed from there. Altogether you’d have to say they are trying to push shit uphill as it means areas have to be resprayed every year.

David Gilet Byron Bay

I have long been dismayed by the use of glyphosate by Parks & Wildlife in Arakwal National Park.

I am particularly dismayed by their war on nyasa red grass.

When I first started walking in the park I thought that surely their long millet-type seed heads must feed some native birds. Since then, after 21 years of observation, I

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The genesis of the business comes from its founders; one a born and bred Parisian with fond memories of enjoying delicious patisserie (pastries) and boulangerie (bread) with their morning coffee, and the other who has a passion for travel and exploring local food cultures. ‘We wanted to create the luxurious 5-star hotel experience of breakfast in bed, but make it available to everyone,’ explains Emma. ‘Some of my happiest memories are from holidays in Europe, where I could enjoy breakfast and a good book without having to change out of my pyjamas!’

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The Northern Rivers Food Harvest Festival has run each year since 2016. Owing to the COVID lockdown last year the festival was forced to cancel. This year Northern Rivers Food have announced an exciting evolution and have returned to deliver a highly-anticipated Harvest Food Trail self-drive event across the Northern Rivers on the weekend 1–2 May. With 26 food and beverage participants, including two tours, an abundance of

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Please note ticketed events are expected to sell out quickly so don’t delay in purchasing tickets to your favourite events.

Dining at loft Modern, relaxed dining ideal for intimate dinners, groups and special occasions. Menu by Head Chef, Craig Mcfarland.

Our ‘set menu’ option is perfect for groups - enjoy our chef’s selection of dishes.

View our menu online.

Open every day from 4pm - Late

@loftbyronbay

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- Loft dining -

7 dishes $39 pp

9 dishes $55 pp

for groups of 4+

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BALLINA

BYRON BAY

Wharf Bar & Restaurant

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Main Street

EVERY DAY

HAPPY HOUR

Ballina

4–6PM Dine in and takeaway Great summer menu www.wharfbarballina.com.au

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

Cocktails, wine and beers served all damn day.

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

18 Jonson Street 6680 8832

The Rocks @ Aquarius

BANGALOW Family friendly, tradies’ local, restaurant quality.

Wednesday to Friday happy hour, midweek specials, The Bowlo, Bangalow excellent wines, foodies delight, creative cocktails, 6687 2741 local produce, massive kids’ space, welcoming staff, Open Wed–Fri 12–2.30pm & 5–8.30pm; and COVID Safe.

Sat 12–8.30pm; Sun 12–7pm.

Club open Wed–Sun from 12 noon www.bangalowbowlo.com.au bangalowbowlo @thebowlo

Come along to the Bangalow Bowlo and find out.

Success Thai

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

CELLAR DOOR – TASTINGS & TOURS Naturally Better!

MAKE YOUR OWN BOTTLE OF GIN

Happy Hour | Every day 4–6pm $6 Loft lager or wine, $10 Aperol Spritz, $14 Margarita

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

St Elmo Dining Room & Bar Open Thursday–Sunday 5–10pm Cnr Fletcher St and Lawson Lane, Byron Bay 6680 7426

1 Porter St, North Byron Booking via our website barriobyronbay.com.au

Espresso Martini Nights | Every day 9–11pm 2 for $25 Classic Espresso Martini

77-97 Broken Head Rd, Suffolk Park 6685 4969 www.crystalbrookcollection. com/byron/forest

@forestbyronbay

Oma Food and Wine

Open every day from 4pm till late.

32 Jonson St, Byron Bay saltwatersocialclub.com.au

GREAT SUMMER MENU

Indulge in one of our new creations!

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

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

6 Lawson Street, Byron Bay 8960 7478 www.omafoodandwine.com

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

Open every day from 5pm till late

Book online: www.nobonesbyronbay.com.au

For any events of up to 30 people please email nobonesbyronbay@gmail.com

Karkalla Byron Bay

Seasonal, local & native indigenous inspired menu.

Brunch Thursday–Monday 8am–2pm Dinner Wednesday–Monday from 5pm

Café, Bar & Restaurant

Corner of Bay Lane and Fletcher St, Byron Bay

Thursday Night ‘Locals night’ 5.30–7pm $35 curry & glass of wine.

5614 8656 www.karkalla.com.au @karkallabyronbay

Seafood & Champagne $200 per couple.

Deluxe fresh & cooked seafood platters & glass of Bollinger Champagne.

Bookings via our website.

The Italian Byron Bay The Italian, Byron Bay, provides a bustling 21, 108 Jonson St, atmospheric restaurant, dishing up contemporary Byron Bay inspired Italian cuisine and some of Byron’s Open 7 days from 5.30pm finest cocktails and wines.

5633 1216 www.theitalianbyronbay.com

Set next to a lush rainforest oasis, Forest celebrates sustainability working hand-in-hand with local farmers, growers and artisans.

Serving breakfast, lunch, dinner and just-drinks… the perfect place to feed your soul.

Stay awhile.

As a Byron Bay Crystalbrook Local you get to enjoy 15% off food and drinks when you sign up online.

Check us out on

HAPPY HOUR EVERY DAY 5–6PM $6 BEERS / $12 COCKTAILS / $7 WINES

11 Fletcher Street 6680 7418

Fresh authentic Mexican in a relaxed atmosphere.

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

BYO Home delivery 7 days Established 1992

Join us on our expedition to save the Earth one Brussels sprout at a time.

Vegan Bar and Kitchen.

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.

FRESH PIZZA BYRON STYLE

GOOD TIMES ~ HIGH VIBES ~ LATE NIGHTS ~ HIGH TIDES

No Bones

Enjoy! The Fishheads Family

Oma & Co is back this Sunday 18th April with Melbournes’ much loved chef, Casey Wall, taking over the kitchen. He’ll be serving up some dishes from his epic venues, Bar Liberty, Falco Bakery, & Capitano. Oma’s head chef, Mark Hannel, trained under Casey many moons ago so they dance a very special and magical dance in the kitchen which is not to be missed! Book now.

Lazy weekend lunches with sandy feet, rowdy dinners with family and friends, and late night drinks and DJs are the standard. Laid back vintage vibes and classic coastal style create an eclectic feel, complemented by our menu of shareable snacks, locally-sourced salads and hand-stretched sourdough pizzas, as well as beers on tap, organic wines and hand-crafted cocktails.

A gathering place for all

This is food made with love, all produce sourced locally.

Eat in or take out.

Margaritas and tacos all night long!

Shop 12A, 3 Clifford St, Family friendly, totally GF menu.

Suffolk Park DINNER 5pm–9pm 6685 3059 WED–SAT www.chupacabra.com.au Book via Resy @chupabyron

Forest Byron Bay

Open 4pm until late Monday through Sunday for sundowners, dinner, and late-night drinks.

Saltwater Social Club

www.stelmodining.com

Chupacabra

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

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

Book via our website for lunch and dinner in the restaurant at www.barriobyronbay.com.au Walk-in tables available.

7am–3pm Mon, Tues, Sat 7am–8.30pm Wed, Thurs, Fri

- book online. Gin Making Gift Vouchers available.

LORDBYRON.COM.AU LordByronDistillery

4 Jonson Street, Byron Bay 6680 9183

Menus available on Facebook.

Barrio

Free from added artificial flavours and colours.

Loft Byron Bay

Book online: www.loftbyronbay.com.au

www.facebook.com/ pages/Success-ThaiFood/237359826303469

Handcrafted spirits using locally sourced ingredients.

Incredible cocktails, locals beers & all-day snacks and food to share, with ocean views.

All your favourites, every lunch and dinner.

Experienced Thai chefs cooking fresh, delicious Thai food for you.

BYO only Welcome for lunch, dinner and takeaway.

Mon-Fri lunch & dinner closed Sundays Lunch 12 noon–3pm Dinner from 5–8.30pm 3/31 Lawson St, Byron Bay

BYRON BAY

Lord Byron Distillery

Our Rocking New Brunch Menu Come and join us at the Rocks for some light brunch options or hearty breakfasts. We offer a range of home-made, locally sourced produce at affordable prices, including our delicious new loaded halloumi or chorizo tacos, vegan nasi goreng and our signature Rocks Big Brekky which will keep you going for hours! Fresh juices, Byron Bay coffees and healthy smoothies available too. The Rocks is registered as COVID Safe, and is practicing all NSW health guidelines.

Brunch 7am–12 noon Mon–Fri 7am–1pm Sat & Sun 16 Lawson St, Byron Bay 6685 7663 – Menus at therocksbyronbay.com.au

Bowlo Kitchen

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Gourmet burgers created by chefs

Open 7 days 11.30am until late Call to make a reservation or for takeaway orders

MVP 7/7 Lawson St, Byron Bay Booking via our website mvpbyronbay.com.au

Probably the world’s best pasta* Open for Dine in + takeaway + delivery Thursday – Friday – Saturday – Sunday – Monday To book, order takeaway or free pasta puns visit mvpbyronbay.com.au Or dm slide@mvp_byron_bay *Internal staff poll

LENNOX HEAD

Krill Bar Lennox Head 47 Ballina St, Lennox Head www.krillbar.com.au 6685 5538 KRILLBARANDRESTAURANT

Open Thursday 5pm–10pm; Friday 3pm–11pm; Saturday 12pm–3pm, 5pm–11pm; Sunday 4pm–9pm Amazing cocktails, fabulous local food, a la carte and bar menus all with super friendly service.

Head Chef Minh Le was a finalist for Australian Chef of the Year in 2016 and has owned multiple hatted restaurants.

Come in and experience his fine food in the stylish decor.

Happy Hour Thursday–Saturday 5–6pm Online booking preferred

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Good Taste MULLUMBIMBY

Yaman Mullumbimby 62 Stuart St, Mullumbimby 6684 3778 www.yamanmullumbimby.com.au

Open 7 days from 9am–8pm Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

The Empire 20 Burringbar St, Mullum

6684 2306 Tues–Fri 8.30am–2.30pm Sat, Sun 9am–2pm FB/Insta: EmpireMullum empiremullum.com.au

Paséyo Corner of Stuart and Tincogan Streets Mullumbimby

0498 010 881 Monday–Friday 7.30am–3pm Saturday 8am–2pm

Coffee, Malawach Rolls, Pita Pockets, Falafel, Traditional Yemenite spices and all your favourites always freshly made.

The

Good Life

Sprout lovers

Drop in for an authentic atmosphere, dine-in or takeaway.

The Empire is where it’s at!

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

Takeaways and lots of grab-and-go goodies available. Phone orders welcome – call ahead and avoid the queue.

Healthy, fresh, balanced and nutrient dense meals that create a sensory delight for our customers.

Buddha bowls, smoothies, coffee, cold-pressed juices, and so much more.

NASHUA

Frida’s Field 76 Booyong Road, Nashua Open 12–4pm Sat, Sun 6.30–10pm Fri Bookings via our website www.fridasfield.com

Long Lunches & Friday Dinners Contemporary country dining from award-winning chef.

Seasonal produce-driven set menus with multiple dishes shared amongst your booking.

Beautiful eco-farm location, just 10 minutes from Bangalow.

BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL.

NEWRYBAR

Harvest 18-22 Old Pacific Highway Newrybar NSW 2479 02 6687 2644 www.harvestnewrybar.com.au @harvestnewrybar

HARVEST RESTAURANT, DELI + BAKERY Culinary creativity that harnesses the connection between food and nature.

Lunch: Wed–Sun 12–3pm Dinner: Wed–Sat from 6pm Baked goods at Sourdough Weekends : Sat + Sun 8am until sold out Deli 7am–3pm daily

POSSUM CREEK

The Hut 471 Friday Hut Road, Possum Creek

Open Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 12pm À la carte Mediterranean menu Book online www.thehutbyronbay.com.au Info@thehutbyronbay.com.au

ALCOHOL SUPPLIERS Sun Bistro Bottleshop and Home Delivery 61 Bayshore Drive, Byron Bay

02 6685 6500 www.thesunbistro.com/ deliveries deliver@thesunbistro.com

At the Sun Bistro Bottle Shop you will find a hand curated range of quality wines, spirits and beers.

RARE AND NATURAL WINE • CRAFT BEER • HANDCRAFTED SPIRITS • TEQUILA AND MEZCAL • HOME DELIVERY Open 7 Days 10am–8pm Monday to Sunday

CATERING

CELEBRATIONS Celebrations Catering By Liz Jackson

BY LIZ JACKSON

Celebration cakes Personal catering services Event co-ordination and management

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

FOOD DELIVERY BYRON BAY – CUSTOMER

Delivery Byron Bay DELIVERYBYRONBAY@ GMAIL.COM 0421 414 664 0481 259 296 www.deliverybyronbay.com

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Your favourite Byron restaurants delivered to your door.

We’re your number one local food delivery company covering Suffolk Park to Ewingsdale.

Check out our website for the full list of participating Byron restaurants and takeaways.

Contact-free delivery available.

Sprouts can sometimes be overlooked on the weekly grocery list… except for those in the know, of course!

So what exactly is there to know about sprouts?

Mullumbimby naturopath Ruth Hanrahan, who grows a variety of legume sprouts for the Sproutlovers stall at Mullumbimby Farmers Markets, says there’s a huge increase to a seed’s enzyme level when it sprouts.

Sprouting also makes a seed easier to digest, which means our bodies are better able to absorb the goodness it contains.

The good news is sprouts grow in all seasons!

Sproutlovers stock a full range of sprouted legumes through winter and Ruth suggests upping your consumption of fenugreek sprouts through this time to help with immune system and digestive health and clearing congestion from colds.

‘Some people find they eat less fresh, raw food or less salad through winter, so sprouts are a good booster to your diet,’ Ruth says.

‘Toss them in at the end of a stir fry or use a topping for soup like miso or Asian noodles.’

Other uses include adding a fresh, nutty

crunch to any hot dish (just don’t heat completely through, so as to retain their nutritional value); or added as nibbles to a lunchbox (sprinkle with dukkah or seasoning for extra flavour).

Ruth’s partner Michael runs the Sproutlovers stall and also works locally as a landscaper, so he appreciates the connection the community.

‘It’s been great being at the Mullum Farmers Markets and getting to know people over the years… . There’ve been some great conversations,’ Michael says.

A favourite memory is impromptu music around the sprout stall.

‘We’ve shared in creating songs with customers and sprout stall neighbour ‘LucUkulele’; this is all unique to the market and makes it so enjoyable,’ Michael says.

‘We like to be part of a thriving sustainable community. We’re living off grid – caring for endangered ecology around our home – and providing fresh nutrient-rich food to very appreciative customers,’ he says.

To add some flair to your dishes this season, or any season, visit Sproutlovers, and get creative!

Perfect Mothers’ Day gift Stone & Wood and Brookie’s Gin have come together to ensure that on Mothers’ Day 2021, you’re going to be the favourite child.

Delivered in a picture-perfect giftbox, Stone & Wood’s The Gatherer is nestled beside Brookie’s Slow Gin, ready for Mothers’ Day and the pouring of The Pink Pam cocktail.

Exceptional for sharing and easily made, The Pink Pam is a thing of beauty. With a blush hue, flower garnish, and served in Brookie’s glass jars, it’s the ideal refreshment to mark a special occasion.

But golden child beware! In order to get a Pink Pam in your mum’s hand on time, you need to be the proactive present buyer you’ve always wanted to be and order your gift early.

Toss aside the tired Mothers’ Day cliches of choccies and slippers and embrace your status of #1 offspring when you present the final flourish of the gift by pouring The Pink Pam cocktail for her. Viola!

Visit the Stone & Wood website to place your order, and watch their instructional clip.

Contents: 1 x 4-pack The Gatherer (375ml Cans), 1 x 350ml bottle of Brookie’s Byron Slow Gin, 2 x Brookie’s Jam Jar cocktail glasses, 2 x Straws, 1 x Sachet of dried rose petal garnish, 1 x Recipe card. www.echo.net.au

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THE NEW RESILIENCE Resilience is dead. The word has been overused. Some may say the word is no longer resilient. We broke it. It’s unfortunate because it was a really good word.

I was really into building it. In fact it’s about the only thing I’ve ever been able to build. Coming from domestic violence, growing up in housing commission with a single mum, I was bloody well breast fed on the stuff. I ate resilience for lunch.

Resilience was what we called pass the parcel when we handed around a bunch of newspaper with nothing in the middle. Just disappointment. You didn’t win a prize. No kid growing up in Shittown did. You won the ability to thrive on very little.

Like a pot plant in a share house.

Resilience has been eroded by our constant need to develop it in ourselves and others. Our call to action in marketing documents where we promise outcomes such as… resilience! Meaning you can cope when things don’t go your way. That you don’t drop to the floor on the supermarket and thrash like a spoilt bastard.

A Facebook friend made the comment on one of my posts that there needs to be a new word and I felt a little hurt. Then I realised he wasn’t talking to me, he was just making a comment, and it occurred to me that I probably wasn’t very resilient either. Perhaps I need a new word too. It’s probably the most enduringly handy personal attribute to develop. Better than perfect boobs or a genius IQ. But have we broken resilience?

What should we call it?

Flexibility? That just doesn’t sound tough enough. It doesn’t have the grunt of resilience. Sounds like someone who can be manipulated into anything. Someone who bends a little too easily. Flexibility is going to be hard to market. It’s already out there, and while we like people who have lots of flex, sometimes they shit us because they’re so bloody flexible they won’t make a decision. They just adapt. Boring.

We could have a crack at durability. Although that just means you endure. That you exist in tough circumstances. You want condoms to be durable, not people.

Durability can imply that you can weather any shitshow but you won’t do anything about it. I just don’t think durable has the balls, or the labia, of resilience.

You could rename resilience vagina. Because vaginas are pretty tough. There’s a great quote attributed to Betty White: ‘Why do people say grow some balls? If you wanna be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.’ Anyone with a vag will attest that it’s true. I pushed out an 11 pound baby in an hour and a half, and twenty minutes later I was making a cup of tea.

DREAMING BIGGER FOR LISMORE YOUTH Dream Bigger is presenting Lismore Youth Festival in partnership with numerous organisations in Lismore. Dream Bigger connects established artists with potential future artists to make their ideas a reality through engaging workshops and collaboration. The Echo spoke to Mitch King from Dream Bigger.

What is your focus for the Youth Festival?

Lismore Youth Festival’s focus is to engage young people in community activities again, post COVID lockdown, and provide opportunities to showcase the many talents of our young people.

How do you manage to engage the diversity of interest?

The events are designed by young people for young people, with many activities providing multiple engagement opportunities.

How do you think we could better engage with our young community members?

By having young people involved in the conversation, and a providing opportunities for them to be a voice for what they want in our community. Also, by services and community engaging with young people to provide participation and engagement opportunities as a response to young people’s ideas and input.

How much of what you do is ‘youth’ led?

Anything we have ideas on are provided to our Youth Reference Group for input.

They also assist and support in the event planning, including designing flyers and promoting events to family and friends, and delivery of the day’s events.

What are some of the highlights?

JK-47 is a young Aboriginal artist who is headlining at our event. There will be many young people performing their own music and the festival will be providing activities for young people from 12 April to 16 April in the Lismore and Goonellabah areas.

How can people find out more?

Check out our Dream Bigger Facebook page, and our Instagram account @dreambiggernr.

I’m making it official: Vagina is the new resilience. And if there’s any place in our country that needs some vagina at the moment it’s Parliament House. All those big sooks feeling sorry for themselves for being called to account. Who’ve got into trouble for taking dirty photos or sexting hookers, or allegedly raping schoolgirls.

Who’re sulking about their lost careers. I suggest they all grow a vagina and maybe we might see some empathy AND some decent leadership.

Now that’s my kinda resilience. (Scotty, you might need to ask Jen how it’s done.)

STARS

BY LILITH

ARIES: For this week’s grand finale of Aries’ fiery month in the sun your intellectual firepower’s peaking, so what part of your life do you want to reorganise or start over? Pro tip: keep it simple, stick to no more than three key points. Don’t be amazed or fazed at oppositional power plays. You rock!

TAURUS: Too much is just enough could be this week’s mantra as sweet Venus enters your sign for her annual homecoming. Venus in Taurus has an appetite for beauty and earthy pleasures, so indulge in some luxury – doesn’t have to be expensive. Pamper yourself and spoil the ones you love.

GEMINI: As April showers of inspiration continue to download, especially during weekend Gemini moon, you may as well tell others. Share great ideas around, because you can’t sell a secret, and what have you got to lose? One caution though: don’t impulsively promise something this week you might regret having to deliver.

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Savvy readers will use this energetic Aries week for taking action on what’s important to you before world events intensify again and options narrow…

CANCER: This weekend two action-driven planets, assertive Mars and outspoken Jupiter, in highly emotional zones of your chart could bring something you’ve been keeping inside pouring out. Bearing in mind you may be extra sensitive, avoid putting yourself in aggressive situations and resist the urge to people-please, or pressure to say yes.

LIBRA: Although you Venusians hate confrontation, if you need to discuss the unequal power balance in a partnership, this week could ease the angst of Having The Talk. A face-to-face exchange can clear the air, dissolve misunderstandings and heal hurt feelings, especially executed Libran style: with beautiful food and vino, table flowers, mood lighting…

LEO: Been jettisoning a lot of dead weight in recent weeks? Feeling lighter and brighter? Then don’t stop. Keep up the good work by doubling down while the astral force is still with you – there’ll be plenty of time to kick back when next week Mars settles into power-save mode for a couple of months.

SCORPIO: Ready for an emotional transformation?

This weekend’s planetary trine (cooperative alignment) between forthright Mars and Jupiter in the most personal zones of your chart could open up something that’s been nagging at you for some time, and blast through to a breakthrough – perhaps a new opportunity concerning home with someone in your inner circle.

VIRGO: Relationships with people, places and situations could transition swiftly this week.

Treat this as something positive happening for you rather than to you, because supportive transits like these often provoke what looks initially like a deal-breaking revelation that, when addressed, can clear the way for even deeper connection.

SAGITTARIUS: If this week brings heated exchanges, practise expanding beyond the current conversation into empathy for everything we’re all dealing with. The good news is that these fiery astrovibes also torch your creativity and the funloving part of your chart – and what gregarious Sagittarian doesn’t love to kick up their heels?

CAPRICORN: Potent dwarf planet Pluto heading into a five month slowdown in your sign initiates a powerful cycle for self-examination and soul growth, because the gifts of retrogrades are a kind of existential recycling. Think words beginning with re: like remind, retrieve, restore, rectify, reassess, rework, revive, and reinvent.

AQUARIUS: It might be impossible to keep things bottled up with assertive Mars and outspoken Jupiter aligning in communicative air signs, one of them yours. As Jupiter peels away some outdated personality versions into a newer, truer you – open, genuine, and generous – this week’s about doing the right thing rather than the easy thing.

PISCES: Current stellar energy helps you adjust to lifestyle changes and confidently plot your forward course. Take a hard look at something you’ve been ignoring, then step away from timewasting theatrics, histrionics, and melodramas so you can work your personal soothing magic: first on yourself, then for this week’s more flammable citizens.

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E N T E R T A I N M E N T THE LITTLE MERMAID The Little Mermaid is a new work in the Victorian State Ballet repertoire. The ballet follows the narrative based predominantly on the story by Hans Christian Andersen.

This widely known and much-loved story presented an opportunity to bring to life an underwater world inhabited by myriad sea folk and lively characters.

The choreography by Michelle Cassar de Sierra is a stunning display of classical ballet with elements of physical theatre that magically tell the tale.

The story unfolds in another world where a young mermaid dreams of a life beyond the sea.

Come and see the magnificent costumes full of vibrant colour, sets and props accentuating the beauty and splendour of this magical place, together with the outstanding skill, artistry, and technique of the artists of the Victorian State Ballet.

At the Byron Theatre Friday 23 April at 7pm and Saturday 24 April at 2pm. Book on byroncentre.com.au.

The Little Mermaid at the Byron Theatre.

TLC DANCE THEATRE SHOW TLC presents the Dance Theatre show – an exploration of loneliness, connection, and the spaces in between. It’s at the Drill Hall Theatre in Mullumbimby on Sunday 2 May at 2pm. Tix are $20/25. One show only. Tickets on drillhalltheatre.org.au.

GIG GUIDE WEDNESDAY 14 Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, JOCK BARNES Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 5PM LEIGH JAMES, 8PM SARAH GRANT Q KIKI ON BYRON 6PM JAM NIGHT Q SALTWATER SOCIAL CLUB, BYRON BAY, 8.30PM MARK CHAPMAN Q MULLUMBIMBY EX-SERVICES CLUB 7PM ‘B’ UKE NIGHT Q THE QUAD, LISMORE, LISMORE YOUTH FESTIVAL

THURSDAY 15 Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, SARAH GRANT DUO Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 5PM TWO MOONS Q BYRON THEATRE 6PM APRIL HOLIDAY WORKSHOP SHOW PRESENTED

BY BRIGHT LIGHTS PERFORMANCE SCHOOL Q KIKI ON BYRON 6PM JORGITO SABROSO Q SALTWATER SOCIAL CLUB, BYRON BAY, 8.30PM OOZ Q THE QUAD, LISMORE, LISMORE YOUTH FESTIVAL

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TLC Dance Theatre show at the Drill Hall in Mullumbimby on 2 May.

Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, THE WHISKEYS Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 3PM JESSE WHITNEY, 6PM WILL HENDERSON Q BYRON THEATRE 8PM CCR + FRIENDS – CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL SHOW Q HOTEL BRUNSWICK 6PM ARCHIE RYE Q BRUNSWICK HEADS PICTURE HOUSE 7PM BRUNS DOES BURLESQUE Q YOUTH ACTIVITY CENTRE (YAC), BYRON BAY, 5.30PM MINI QUEER FILM FEST! Q KIKI ON BYRON 7PM THE MAJESTIC NIGHTS Q SALTWATER SOCIAL CLUB, BYRON BAY, 8.30PM MAX HOORN Q OCEAN SHORES COUNTRY CLUB 6PM LOCO LOVE & THE FURRY CARDIGAN Q WANDANA BREWING CO., MULLUMBIMBY, 4.30PM DJ JORGE PATRICINIO Q ST JOHN’S SCHOOL HALL, MULLUMBIMBY, 7.30PM ECSTATIC DANCE – DJ WILD HONEY Q MULLUMBIMBY EX-SERVICES CLUB 8PM KILLER QUEEN EXPERIENCE

Q BALLINA RSL BOARDWALK 6PM SARAH GRANT Q THE QUAD, LISMORE, LISMORE YOUTH FESTIVAL Q LISMORE WORKERS CLUB MAIN LOUNGE 7.30PM SEBASTIAAN Q MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES CLUB 7.30PM CARLY & ROO Q RIVERVIEW HOTEL, MURWILLUMBAH, 8PM MATTY ROGERS BAND Q KINGSCLIFF BEACH HOTEL 7PM PETE C & DR BAZ Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS, THE SHOWROOM 8PM TAPESTRY, THE STAGE 8PM DJ TRADEMARK Q COOLANGATTA HOTEL 5PM BRAD JONES, 9.30PM MARK SHEILS

SATURDAY 17 Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, MARSHALL OKELL Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 4PM SUNDAY LEMONADE, 6.30PM HAYLEY GRACE & THE BAY TRIO, 9PM ANIMAL VENTURA Q BYRON THEATRE 2PM BUNNY RACKET Q BRUNSWICK HEADS PICTURE HOUSE 7PM BRUNS DOES BURLESQUE Q KIKI ON BYRON 1PM NOY BEN AMI, 7PM MOSES PARKER JAZZ TRIO Q FOXY LUU’S, BYRON BAY, 4.30PM GROOVE & BAO – GIGI VIBES Q SALTWATER SOCIAL CLUB, BYRON BAY, 8.30PM MARK CHAPMAN Q WANDANA BREWING CO., MULLUMBIMBY, 3PM DJ OREN SELECTA & DJ MATTY P Q MULLUMBIMBY CIVIC HALL 5PM HOUSE OF BLISS FEAT’ EDO KAHN Q DRILL HALL THEATRE, MULLUMBIMBY, 6PM THIRST Q BALLINA RSL BOARDWALK 6PM DENNIS WILSON Q MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES CLUB 6.30PM ADAM BROWN Q KINGSCLIFF BEACH HOTEL 7PM NOY BEN AMI Q SHEOAK SHACK, FINGAL HEAD, 7PM ANIMAL VENTURA Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS, THE STAGE 7PM ANTHOLOGYS, THE SHOWROOM 8PM THE ROBERTSON BROTHERS Q COOLANGATTA HOTEL 5PM JUSTIN JONES, 9.30PM CHAD AGENT 77 SOLO

SUNDAY 18 Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, PHIL & TILLEY Q HOTEL BRUNSWICK 5PM OOZ Q KIKI ON BYRON 12PM SAFIRE, 3PM TASH BREEZE Q SALTWATER SOCIAL CLUB, BYRON BAY, 8.30PM FELIX Q DRILL HALL THEATRE, MULLUMBIMBY, 3PM THIRST Q WANDANA BREWING CO., MULLUMBIMBY, 3PM WILL HENDERSON Q UKI BUTTERY BAZAAR MERKET, ATMASPHERICS & CRUISE LANE Q RIVERVIEW HOTEL, MURWILLUMBAH, 2.30PM YOLAN Q THE MURWILLUMBAH CITADEL 5PM NASSNER/ FENNELL ENSEMBLE Q COOLANGATTA HOTEL 5PM LISA HUNT

MONDAY 19 Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, LEIGH JAMES Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 5PM LUKE YEAMAN, 8PM HAYLEY GRACE Q SALTWATER SOCIAL CLUB, BYRON BAY, 8.30PM MAX HOORN

TUESDAY 20 Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 3 PLAY Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 5PM ALEX TILLY, 8PM HAYLEE COULTER Q SALTWATER SOCIAL CLUB, BYRON BAY, 8.30PM MARK CHAPMAN Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS, THE SHOWROOM 10.30PM BACK TO THE TIVOLI Q EWINGSDALE HALL 8PM ECSTATIC DANCE – DJ ISHWARA

WEDNESDAY 21 Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, BENNY WHISKEY Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 8PM JOCK BARNES Q SALTWATER SOCIAL CLUB, BYRON BAY, 8.30PM ISAAC FRANKHAM Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS, THE STAGE 10.30PM BACK TO THE TIVOLI

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THE WISE WITT OF JEAN KITTSON

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with, and everything goes quiet – in a good way.

Do you think what is happening now will change anything? What would you like to see happen?

Things have changed. The response to Brittany Higgins’ courageous speaking out has been swift and in many ways extraordinary. As of this week, sexual harassment in the workplace is officially set to become grounds for dismissal. And MPs and judges will now be subject to the Sex Discrimination Act. I would hope this means that women in any workplace shouldn’t have to risk their jobs for the right to go public.

What do you think this tells women of Australia about how we are regarded?

Women of Australia should be encouraged by this development. Remember, most politicians aren’t a public menace to women. But for those who are, it is a loud reminder that women also vote.

The Dalai Lama said, ‘The world will be saved by Western Women’. Western women can change the world; we have the resources, we have the opportunity, and we have the responsibility. The responsibility to argue for equality for all women in all workplaces – including financial equality – and for the right to respect, and the right to feel safe and to be safe.

We should speak up.

In your ideal world, Jean, what would Australian politics look like?

I would like to see less political bias, less team support, and less point scoring when it comes to listening to women and hearing women. No, it is not okay to abuse or stalk or belittle a woman simply because she represents the other party or works for the other party. When it comes to equality and safety, all women deserve to be heard regardless of their politics.

Why do you think patriarchy is broken?

I think we should ask any number of women if the patriarchy is broken – perhaps Christine Holgate this week. The patriarchy seems to be going strong.

Andrew Laming ‘upskirted’ a woman by taking a photo of her bending over stacking a drink fridge, saying he was taking a photo of a woman working hard.

If we had restorative justice in place, what would you like to see happen to him?

Exactly what has happened to him. He has been given the contents of his desk and invited to examine the outside of the doors of Parliament. He has lost his job before he could lose his seat, and any credibility he may have had.

Okay, Prime Minister Kittson, who would you make The Minister for Men? Naturally it should be a woman. I am going back to Christine Holgate here. I would like to see her take a big swinging broom to the big swinging dicks. They seem to be asking for it.

Jean Kittson appears in conversation with Fiona O’Loughlin and Mandy Nolan in No Eggs For Breakfast, the Sunday morning brekkie and chat at The Byron Comedy Fest – Sunday 16 May. Tickets and program info to byroncomedyfest.com.

WHAT’S ON CCR + FRIENDS CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL SHOW Friday 16 April, 8pm Single $44.50 | Family of 4 $89

BUNNY RACKET LIVE!

Saturday 17 April, 2pm Single $20 | Family of 4 $65

THE LITTLE MERMAID VICTORIAN STATE BALLET

Fri 23 April, 7pm & Sat 24 April, 2pm & 6.30pm Adult $40 | Conc $35 | U16 $28 | Family of 4 $120

A TASTE OF IRELAND THE IRISH MUSIC & DANCE SENSATION Sunday 25 April, 7.30pm VIP $89.90 | Adult $74.90 | Conc $69.90 Child U14 $59.90 | Group of 10+ $64.90

GRIGORYAN BROTHERS A BOY CALLED SAILBOAT

Thursday 29 April, 7.30pm Full $45 | Conc $40 | Student $25 | Family of 4 $120

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Comedian, writer, and social commentator Jean Kittson has the ability to distil complex ideas into commonsense. Jean is one of the national treasures in conversation with Mandy Nolan and Fiona O’Loughlin at No Eggs for Breakfast, a comedic chat themed around life beyond fertility! It seemed remiss not to ask Ms Kittson on her take on the debacle that is federal politics and gender equity.

Jean, can you tell me how events unravelling in Canberra regarding our government’s treatment of women has affected you?

This is a bipartisan, tripartisan all-parties sleazathon.

There are really only two parties in Parliament House, the members and the help, and the help has the same protection against abuse and lechery as a chain gang.

You know, none. According to my source, there are ten thousand helpers in all the Australian parliaments and no HR. No-one to hear their complaints except the member and the chief of staff, who lift a corner of the nearest rug and call for a broom. It is appalling to think that our parliaments are worse for women than a football club. I hope these new laws and regulations will make it easier for victims to complain, and harder for predators to get away with anything.

Have you experienced similar treatment in your life?

I have not experienced anything as traumatising as Brittany has experienced.

My first experience of sexual harassment was in school.

In year 8 there was a boy called Zack. Zack’s hormones and psychosis must have kicked in early because he spent the whole year crushing girls up against the corridor wall and sticking his fingers up our dresses. He left school in year 9 to become an apprentice carpenter and I heard that he lost two fingers on a circular saw.

Justice. Happy ending.

An early mild-by-comparison workplace sexual harassment was as a young actor in my first television role, which was on the soap Young Doctors.

I had a walk-on part. I had to provide my own dress and, because I was playing a sex worker (say it ain’t so), I wore my blue, pure nylon toga-style frock, tied on one shoulder – so, no bra – with a split up the side. The costume department thought it was highly suitable, and nervous and slightly clammy I walked onto the studio floor and into Bunny’s Bar. The studio is not only cold, but hundreds of cables and lights made the entire atmosphere highly charged and my dress immediately clung to my body like I had just dived into a pool. I looked like I had entered the wet toga competition. As I tried to peel my dress off my skin, I looked up at the television monitors all around the studio, and on every one of them was a close up of my breasts. My fingers came into the shot giving a vigorous two fingered salute. The costume department appeared at a run and fluffed talcum powder up my dress to stop the static while the makeup department came in and sprayed water up my dress. So, with a light coating of clag, and feeling like a piece of KFC, I did my scene and had to be unstuck from the barstool.

I think the set department used metho.

Why do you think we are finally being listened to?

There’s a difference between heard and listened to. We are heard because brave women have fronted up to a microphone and cameras and gone public and loud.

But we will only know we’ve been listened to when the MPs and their male staffers learn how to behave, and how to respect the women they share their workplace

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E N T E R T A I N M E N T IF I WERE A CARPENTER… AND YOU WERE A PLUMBER

COMEDY AT BANGALOW BOWLO Last month The Bangalow Bowlo launched Comedy on the Green – a free night of comedy that happens on the third Wednesday of every month. Happy punters packed the room – enjoying a laugh and good company and the freedom of being out and enjoying live entertainment.

This month MC Mandy Nolan presents comedian Mick Neven, a voraciously topical comic who has a genius for weaving humour into dark places. He is supported by UK comedy firecracker Nicky Wilkinson.

Show is on Wednesday 21 April at 7pm and it’s free, but you need to register for a ticket. Go to bangalowbowlo.com.au.

After many years plying their trades as plumber and carpenter respectively, old schoolmates Simon Cullum and Stuart Cook have decided to get creative with Form Wood Copper. Stuart, also an artist, sculptor, and the creator of Sun Cow Designs, has returned to beautiful Australian timber to once again create amazing indoor and outdoor furniture. Simon started creating artisanal shower, tapware, and bathroom accessories as Brooklyn Copper Co nearly five years ago. Since then, his creations have become a sought-after feature for modern outdoor spaces.

Form Wood Copper is all about bringing their work to the North Coast for a few days. They will be exhibiting beautiful furniture, showers, and artwork from their design collection – and everything is for sale. Most of Stuart’s pieces of furniture are one-offs, so if unique pieces are your thing, please drop by. Simon will be displaying and selling pieces from across his range and will be happy to chat about any custom orders you have in mind.

Form Wood Copper is on show 10am daily at Newrybar Community Hall, 15–18 April.

Stuart Cook’s exhibition Form Wood Copper at Newrybar Community Hall 15–18 April at 10am daily.

BE A BRIDGE OF LIGHT

THIRSTY WORK Thirst is a two-act theatre performance original work with acoustic music – guitar, banjo, piano, stomp box, blues harp, and vocals – as well as a bag full of stories and projections that tell the story of Stan Adams. Stan was an officer in the Australian Merchant Navy in the 1950s and ’60s. He had a good life, great job, a lovely wife and two great kids in Sydney.

Stan walked away from everything; he had to live rough on the streets, to drinking rum and cough mixture with two of his navy mates, eating and surviving from garbage bins and the goodwill of those he met. This is the story of the share house he came to live in and the impact he had on the people there.

Written and performed by Deebee Bishop. Saturday at 6pm and Sunday at 3pm.

Tickets are $20 at drillhalltheatre.org.au.

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Aiden Gentle Queer Family director with Queer Family – one of the films screening at the Mini Queer Film Fest at the Byron YAC This Friday.

MINI QUEER FILM FEST! To kick off Youth Week 2021, Conscious Movie Club will be teaming up with local not-for-profit Queer Family Inc to bring you something a little different.

Not just one movie, but a whole Mini Queer Film Fest!

Byron Youth Service and Queer Family have teamed up to respond to a need for greater support for queer youth in the region. ‘Events like these are so important to show our queer youth that there is a thriving and vibrant queer community here,’ explained Queer Family director Aiden Gentle (they/them). ‘It’s equally valuable that the broader community get involved too, because it shows our youth that they are loved and celebrated here in the Shire.’

Queer Family reduces social isolation and improves mental health by creating safe spaces for LGBTQIA+ people and allies to connect and form community in the Northern Rivers. Queer Family are a peer-led, volunteer community group. If you’d like to get involved, you can find them on Facebook, their website, or email queerfamilynorthernrivers@gmail.com.

The Mini Queer Film Fest will feature queer shorts, a new Australian documentary Why Did She Have To Tell The World?, a panel discussion about current queer issues, and finally a special cult classic film. All proceeds from the event will go towards supporting the Byron Youth Centre and Queer Family.

Friday, with doors open at 5.30, including a tasty barbecue, so bring your appetite and a picnic blanket for the outdoor cinema experience. We will move indoors if it rains.

Suggested ticket donation – $15 adult or $10 for under-18s. For tickets bys.org.au/movieclub.

The Divine University, a global spiritual services organisation offering new education and transformation products, invites you to join them during the powerful Wesak Full Moon period for their 3-day Be a Bridge of Light Retreat, from Saturday 24 April till Monday 26 April 2021; and their 3-hour Wesak Full Moon Global Meditation on Tuesday 27 April 2021, at the Mullumbimby Civic Centre. Throughout the Be a Bridge of Light Retreat and the Wesak Full Moon Global Meditation, they connect with others from around the world to step together into a new cycle of light, ‘to empower our energy system and light force, and anchor our light in the world over the next 12 months’.

‘Wesak is a very special time each year to utilise the light coming through the full-moon portal to sustain us with the light we need for our spiritual year ahead, for our service to our family, our community, humanity, all beings, and Mother Earth.’

The 3-day Be a Bridge of Light Retreat, Saturday 24 – Monday 26 April 2021.

The Wesak Full Moon Global Meditation is 3-hour guided meditation that will focus on enhancing your light through a great love and light balance from your previous 12 months so that you may move gracefully into the new spiritual year with the greatest grace and blessing of light. The Wesak meditation will be presented

by The Divine University teacher AmaYa Ma, as she guides your journey to the Wesak Valley in Tibet to receive the blessings of the Wesak light at the moment the full moon peaks.

Wesak Full Moon Ceremony Global Meditation at Mullum Civic Centre.

27 April 2021, 10.45am–2pm For the livestream of the 3-day event go to www.wesak2021.com.

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S E V E N CIN– EMA WHILE AT WAR

SPAIN COMES TO BYRON

The Moro Spanish Film Festival was missed last year because of COVID restrictions but this year it’s back with some of the program that was missed, along with some brand-new titles, offering a cinematic journey across Spain and Latin America.

Screening nationally from 20 April, the following films are a sneak peek into the program, which will screen nationally at Palace Cinemas, including in Byron.

From Spain, the selection includes:

And highlighting the Australian–Spanish connection is Latigo, in which Australian comic and filmmaker Simon Palomares visits Cuba to explore the universal joy of laughter in a film heralded as ‘The Buena Vista Social Club of comedy!’

Internationally acclaimed director Alejandro Amenábar’s (The Others, The Sea Inside) exposé of the 1936 Spanish coup While At War (Mientras dure la Guerra). Filmed across Spain and Argentina, it reveals the personal side of politics through the eyes of writer Miguel de Unamuno.

THE PLAN

Trapped inside a small apartment where hidden secrets slowly rise to the surface, The Plan (El plan) sees three friends forced to confront revealing truths in this biting comedy featuring Spanish stars Antonio de la Torre and Raúl Arévalo.

Raúl Arévalo also stars in The Europeans (Los europeos) opposite Juan Diego Botto in an unforgettable romantic holiday adventure set in the wild world of 1950s Ibiza, where dreams sometimes carry a sting in the tail.

THE EUROPEANS

And the dream of home ownership takes an unexpected turn in One Careful Owner (El inconveniente) when a young woman must wait for a property’s current elderly owner to die in this offbeat tale of women’s friendship.

From Latin America comes: ONE CAREFUL OWNER

Adults: Stud/Conc: Senior: Child:

HEROIC LOSERS

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FAMILY FILMS PETER RABBIT 2 (G) Daily except Sat, Sun: 11:45AM, 2:00, 4:20, 6:45PM Sat, Sun: 11:00, 2:00, 4:20, 6:45 RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON (PG) Daily: 11:45AM, 2:10PM TOM & JERRY: THE MOVIE (G) Daily: 11:50AM, 2:15, 5:00PM ANTOINETTE IN THE CÉVENNES (M) NFT Daily: 12:00, 2:15, 4:30, 7:00 GIRLS CAN'T SURF (M) Daily: 2:15PM JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH (MA15+) Daily except Sat, Sun: 2:10, 4:15, 6:40PM Sat, Sun: 4:15, 6:40PM NOBODY (MA15+) Daily except Sat, Sun: 4:45PM Sat, Sun: 12:20PM

SPECIAL SCREENINGS MORTAL KOMBAT (R18+) Adv Screening Wed: 6:45PM OPERA DI ROMA: RIGOLETTO (CTC) Sun: 1:00PM Wed: 11:00AM

Heroic Losers (La Odisea de los Giles), the number-one Argentinian film of 2019. Heroic Losers is a homespun Ocean’s 11 featuring superstar Ricardo Darín, and his son Chino, in a comedy heist rich in local colour and unforgettable characters.

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The 2021 Moro Spanish Film Festival will take place at the Place Byron from 20 April till 16 May. Check the program on palacecinemas.com.au.

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GODZILLA VS. KONG (M) Daily: 11:45AM, 4:30, 6:50PM NOMADLAND (M) Thu, Fri: 11:50AM, 1:45PM Sat: 1:45PM Sun: 4:15PM Mon, Tue: 11:50AM, 1:45, 6:40 Wed: 11:50AM, 2:00PM PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN (MA15+) Daily except Sun: 4:15PM SUPERNOVA (M) Daily except Wed: 2:15, 4:30, 6:45 Wed: 11:00, 2:15, 4:30, 6:45 THE COURIER (M) Daily: 4:40, 6:40PM THE FATHER (M) Daily except Sun, Wed: 11:40AM, 7:10PM Sun: 11:00, 7:10 Wed: 7:10 THE UNHOLY (M) Daily: 12:00, 7:00PM VOYAGERS (MA15+) Daily: 2:30PM

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THE New Short Courses Enrolling Now Visit our website for more information byronschoolofart.com

Artists in focus at Tweed Regional Gallery

Kelly Leonard and Julie Briggs Curation of Shadows (process), 2020 Photo: Vic McEwan

Handmade jewellery by CRISTINA cristina_art_silver |

The talents of some of Australia's most accomplished textile artists have been brought together for a new exhibition at Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre -Tension(s) 2020: Tamworth Textile Triennial. Tension(s) 2020 is on display until Sunday 2 May. The exhibition is touring from Tamworth Regional Gallery and is supported by

the Australian Government's Visions of Australia program.

On Friday 30 April, 5.30-7pm, visitors are invited to join guest curator and exhibiting artist, Vic McEwan, to gain insights into the exhibition.

The event is free, however bookings are required. Go to: tensions2020floortalk.eventbrite.com.au

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Have you ever wanted to learn the skills to create a portrait painting?

Join Portrait Artist Brett Belot for this fun and practical workshop. Brett will guide you through a series of exercises to help you understand proportions and anatomy, mixing skin tones, tonal values, and how to create a three-dimensional effect. The workshop is suitable for all skill levels.

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Come and enjoy the wonderful array of sculptures, site specific installations, performance and sound scapes by 40 local and interstate artists. Works are curated to create intrigue, surprise and take you into the landscape to discover works that address local and environmental concerns.

There will also be walks and talks by artists, Byron Bird Buddies, Explore Byron Bay and a tree planting day by Brunswick Valley Landcare.

Save the Date: September 22–28, 2021

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Creative Mullum is calling all sculptors of the Northern Rivers region to submit expressions of interest for an $8,000 Public Art Commission.

Presented with support from the Northern Rivers Community Foundation and private sponsors, an exhibition of maquettes, small scale sculptures will be held at the Mullumbimby RSL on July 3 and 4.

One lucky sculptor will be chosen for the major RGoL prize of $8,000 toward the construction and installation of the full scale work, which will be displayed on the Mullumbimby Sculpture Walk for five years.

This is an amazing opportunity for the chosen local sculptor to create their work for a public place and for us all to enjoy in the years to come!

For entry forms and information visit the website: creativemullum.org.au

LAST CHANCE TO BOOK! CREATIVE NON-FICTION ONLINE WORKSHOP Director’s Choice

from the Tweed Regional Gallery collection

26 March – 13 June 2021 M | Arts Precinct Cnr Proudfoots Lane & Brisbane Street Murwillumbah NSW 2484 Mon to Fri 10am – 3pm, Sat 10am – 2pm

Creative non-fiction relies on the personal connection between author and subject for its narrative drive and emotional heart.

But how much of ourselves should we put on the page? And what are the ethics when we do? Where is the line between truth and a good story? And how do we make a good story great?

Byron Writers Festival presents Creative Non-Fiction: Putting Yourself on the Page, a two part online workshop with awardwinning Australian novelist and nature writer Inga Simpson, whose most recent work Understory: a life with trees, chronicles her decade spent living inside a south east Queensland forest, and was shortlisted for the Adelaide Writers Week Award for Nonfiction.

Facilitated online from 10.30am–12pm Saturday 17 and 24 April. Bookings essential via : byronwritersfestival.com/whats-on

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Saturday 8th May 2021 Ignite Studios, 60 Crane St, Ballina 9.00am – 3.00pm Cost: $180 (includes all materials and morning tea)

Suitable for all skill levels.

Register by phone 0448 182 342 or email bbelot25@gmail.com

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Are you a Northern Rivers artist who would really benefit from attending an arts-based workshop, but may not have the funds to sign-up?

Non-profit community arts group c.a.s.e. is sponsoring ten grants up to $300 each, to attend an art workshop/course to further professional development and skills.

All applicants, workshops or courses must be based in Byron, Lismore, Ballina, or Tweed Shires.

This initiative will circulate funds raised locally by c.a.s.e.

Other c.a.s.e initiatives are The Post Card Show, Art in the Pub and Face to Face. caseartspace.com

MELT: FESTIVAL OF QUEER ARTS AND CULTURE From solidarity through storytelling to confetti-covered cabaret, MELT has torn the wrapping off a spectacular program of events and performances at Brisbane Powerhouse from 20–30 May 2021.

The program features more than 15 inspiring and entertaining events over 11 days, spanning genres including cabaret, music, theatre and visual arts and starring an eclectic mix of home-grown heroes and Festival favourites.

Returning for its sixth year, Queensland’s most exciting celebration of LGBTIQ+ arts and culture gives the community an excuse to kick up its heels after COVID-19 forced MELT’s cancellation in 2020.

‘MELT belongs authentically to the local community and is our most creatively diverse event; from big and bright largescale works to intimate, honest and deeply personal shows.’ ~ Artistic Director Kris Stewart meltfestival.com.au

BANGALOW MUSEUM ART EXHIBITION There’s nothing better than fossicking around in a museum, being enriched by local history, unless it’s also viewing some outstanding work by two well-known artists at the same time.

Combine that with delicious cakes and coffee and you have an afternoon well spent.

Bangalow Heritage Museum has mingled its collection with paintings of local relevance

by Karena Wynn-Moylan and Simon Harriott.

The exhibition is open Tuesday to Sunday 10am-4pm until May 2.

And for extra insight into the creative process there will be an Artists Talk with Karena and Simon, combined with the Museum Cafe’s famous High Tea! Book now: Artists Talk and High Tea on Saturday 17 April at 1pm: 6687 2183 / 0429 882 525 Contact: Karena Wynn-Moylan 0414 822 196 www.echo.net.au

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The Jewel in the Crown There is an amazing property for sale on the Newrybar escarpment.

The Jewel, 448 Old Byron Bay Road, with its unsurpassed views and privacy is on the market for the first time in almost 20 years. This discreet property features luxurious and character-filled accommodation set amongst superb mature tropical gardens.

Owner Rick De Leede knew that this special property deserved a distinctive and creative marketing campaign and when he read a story on the front page of The Echo about local artist Maddy Hill, he knew he had found just the right person for the task.

Maddie spent over 100 hours creating, then

painting, the fantastical map of the Northern Rivers showing The Jewel as the centerpiece. Maddy’s artwork was shown to great advantage in the centre pages of last week’s Echo when The Jewel was first advertised in the centrepage spread.

Janis Perkins, owner of Real Estate of Distinction, is the agent for the property. ‘It is a privilege to be the agent for The Jewel

of Byron, 448 Old Byron Bay Road. Seldom does a property of such distinction come to market. We are pleased with the level of interest so far. The property is very private and sits on the best piece of flat land atop the escarpment.

It is the envy of anyone fortunate enough to have been there. Now a new owner can either keep the understated elegance of the existing buildings

or build something contemporary.’

When Rick was asked what he has enjoyed most about living at The Jewel, he said, ‘I was a publican in Sydney’s inner west for ten years. Moving here allowed me to take a step back. The sublime beauty of this property, the view that greets you each day can restore even the most jaded soul.’

The Jewel is a truly unique

property; superb as is, and yet with so much potential.

To see the full photo gallery and the details visit thejewelbyronbay.com.au.

The closing date for expressions of interest is 7 May through Janis Perkins Real Estate of Distinction, 0438 841 122.

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Golden Grid Opportunity on 1012sqm with Views and DA Approval • This 1/4-acre block (1,012sqm) has to be one of the last remaining elevated blocks with DA

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approval ready for re-development in the centre of Byron Bay • Construction certificate approx 85% complete, this project comes with architectural DA approved plans to build TWO luxury 5-bedroom, 3-bathroom, double garage homes with pools

Address:

35 Browning Street, Byron Bay

Auction:

Auction – 1st May at 10am. Guide $4.5m – $4.95m

Open:

Saturday, 17th April 9.00am – 9.30am

Enquiries:

Tara Torkkola 0423 519 698, Denzil Lloyd 0481 864 049

that take in the best of the views from this coveted position • Dual access and address on both Ruskin Lane and Browning Street • Encompassing views over the bay, across to the Nightcap ranges towards Mount Warning

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• Presenting a rare opportunity to become part of this exclusive waterfront enclave offering spectacular ocean views on one of Skennars Head most sought-after locations, only a 2-minute stroll to the beach • Living space features high raked timber-clad ceilings with exposed timber trusses and brilliant natural light and enhance the cross-flow ventilation • Kitchen will cater for any occasion and includes ample storage, vast counter space and large island which leads to the large elevated deck

• Set on an elevated street in central Byron Bay located in an exclusive position • Created by a local builder alongside 2 Japanese craftsman, the timber home features soaring raked ceilings with stunning gardens • Upstairs there is a main bedroom retreat with ensuite, walk-in robe plus a private veranda with views to Broken Head • The easterly aspect allows summer breezes to cross-ventilate the home and wood burning fireplace warms the house in the cooler months

Address:

6 Killarney Crescent, Skennars Head

Address:

91 Paterson Street, Byron Bay

Price:

$1.95m – $2.150m

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Contact Agent

Open:

Saturday, 17th April 12.00pm – 12.30pm

Open:

Saturday, 17th April 12.00pm – 12.30pm

Enquiries:

Tara Torkkola 0423 519 698, Oliver Aldridge 0421 171 499

Enquiries:

Su Reynolds 0428 888 660, Luke Elwin 0421 375 635

35 FLETCHER ST, BYRON BAY NSW 2481 PH: O2 6685 8466

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10 Acres with Panoramic Views at the top of Tandys Lane • Supremely private and elevated position with ideal north facing aspect and breathtaking views to the

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ancient volcanic twin peaks • There is access to the paddock on the property where you can have the horses and animals

Address:

163 Tandys Lane, Brunswick Heads

Auction Guide:

$3.5m

Open:

By Appointment

Enquiries:

Tara Torkkola 0423 519 698

• The floorplan takes full advantage of the magical vistas with the 2 living spaces both opening out to the balcony - a perfect platform to take in the beautiful sunsets • Lush tropical gardens encompassing 2 pools built amongst giant granite boulders which are connected by a charming waterfall, plus a Japanese style walk bridge and gazebo • Short drive to beautiful beaches in Brunswick Heads and Mullumbimby

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• Easy 17 minute walk or 4 minute drive into Mullumbimby town centre

• Building offers a great opportunity to invest in the Byron industrial area • Lots of natural light, freshly painted, recently strata title, 1 car space allocated to Unit 2 (not on title) • Potential to receive a fantastic return or occupy for your own business.

• Boutique complex made up of only 4 units.

• Use the unit as is or develop to suit your needs (STCA).

• Stone and Wood Brewery and The Hive as neighbours.

Address:

36 Garden Avenue, Mullumbimby

Address:

2/83 Centennial Circuit, Byron Bay

Price:

$1.4m to $1.54m

Auction:

Auction Friday 30th of April @11am – Unless Sold Prior

Open:

Saturday, 17th April 11.00am – 11.30am

Open:

Wednesday, 14th April 3.00pm – 3.30pm

Enquiries:

Helen Huntly-Barratt 0412 332 232, Oliver Aldridge 0421 171 499

Enquiries:

Paul Banister 0438 856 552

multi-use rooms within a versatile floorplan • The lounge/living area has a wood combustion fireplace and sliding door access to an inviting large covered alfresco space and stunning in-ground pool • Approved studio adds versatility and value to this desirable home package

35 FLETCHER ST, BYRON BAY NSW 2481 PH: O2 6685 8466

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Vanessa Coles

Helene Adams

0433 836 755

0412 139 807

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Delightfully charming renovated cottage on a picture perfect five acre block with original semi converted dairy, 18 minutes from both Bangalow and Ballina.

47 Tuckombil Road Tuckombil

Vanessa Coles 0433 836 755

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5 Dalley Street Mullumbimby

Vanessa Coles 0433 836 755

4 bed | bath | 1 car

4 bed | 2 bath | 2 car Contact Agent

Stunningly restored & renovated 1920s character cottage located in one of Mullumbimby’s best streets.

DA approved studio at the rear of the property with lane access.

Helene Adams 0412 139 807

Forthcoming Auction

Helene Adams 0412 139 807

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70 Foxs Lane Tyagarah 8 BED

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Tuscan-style hinterland home; Views, orchard and acreage Picturesque family home with spectacular 360-degree views of rolling green mountains, separate accommodation/s, well-established exotic orchard and only a short distance to Byron Bay and Mullumbimby.

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Michael Coombs 0407 980 443 michaelcoombs@atlas.com.au

Jacqui Wansey 0402 448 383 jacquiwansey@atlas.com.au

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Cumbalum 34–36 Summerhill Crescent Charm of Yesteryear “Summerhill House” is the original farm house, renovated in a beautiful sandstone exterior. The property sits on a superb elevated and practically flat park like 1 acre plus allotment.

Located in a prestigious and elevated location just 3km’s from Ballina’s CBD the property enjoys year round coastal breezes and fantastic north east aspect. Large walk through landscaped aviary, significant tree house platform with partial views to the ocean and river, established fruit trees and two Magnificent century old fig trees.

The home is beautiful, High Ceilings with ornate features, polished timber floors and leadlight panelling are just some of the attributes & charm of this beautiful home. Big open plan living areas, 3 large bedrooms + study, good sized laundry and second toilet.

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Call Shane Tasker M 0431 191 323 E shane.tasker@harcourts.com.au

Cumbalum 11 Pacific Heights Drive Charming country estate with sweeping hinterland views - Situated on a generous 1.45ha block with sweeping views of Ballina’s hinterland, only minutes drive to Ballina CBD and close proximity to Byron Bay - Large covered alfresco area that flows onto a sparkling swimming pool and deck - Entertainer’s gourmet kitchen with quality appliances and Caesarstone benchtops - Formal dining and living areas with timber floors, bay windows offering a scenic outlook - Second living area or rumpus room and a country style main bathroom with separate WC - Large master bedroom with well-appointed ensuite and walk-in robe, leading to covered veranda - 4 additional bedrooms all with built in wardrobes, ceiling fans and hinterland views

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Open Home Saturday 17th April, 2021 12.00pm – 12.30pm Price Guide Contact Agent - Wrap around verandas to soak up the views of the manicured gardens - Large shed/workshop has plumbing and electricity and can easily accommodate a large caravan - Huge potential for secondary accommodation while still maintaining privacy (STCA)

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Little Yargai Island Woombah Little Yargai Island is approximately 4 acres on land situated within the Clarence River system approximately 10kms by boat to the mouth of the river between coastal havens of Yamba and Iluka. The short trip by boat is so pleasant and when you arrive at this sanctuary you know all the logistical hard work has already been done. There’s a comfortable 2 bedroom home already built, complimented by additional shedding, two jetties and a boat ramp. The delightful walkway from the jetty to the home is a magical welcome to the site.

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Rare opportunity to purchase an affordable 2 bedroom home ideally situated next to a delightful garden area with no close neighbours on one side.

Like to entertain, then this home can offer you indoor/outdoor living with a glass sliding door leading you directly to the full width undercover paved courtyard area.

Spacious open plan vinyl timber planked lounge/ dining area with split system air conditioner and a glass sliding door for easy access to the outside area.

Original kitchen is in good condition with near new stainless-steel appliances.

Two generous sized carpeted bedrooms with built in wardrobes with mirrored sliding doors & ceiling fans.

The bathroom is a good size consisting of a shower, large vanity with mirror and a separate toilet as well as an internal laundry.

Banksia Waters is set in 110 acres with its own lake stocked with fish and home to black swans and many other varieties of bird life. The landscaped gardens offer a tranquil lifestyle in a village community environment.

Retirement living at its best without the associated costs of exit fees and No stamp duty. Sorry, no pets permitted.

Inspect: By appointment Contact: Kelvin Price 0423 028 468. Mr Property Services

A stylish, contemporary designed home, located in an elevated position giving it spectacular views over Woodford Island and the Clarence River. The design is all about easy living and utilizing the outdoor spaces to create a lifestyle that is in tune with the perfect climate that the Clarence Valley offers.

The home is light and airy with natural timber flooring in the living area creating a warm and appealing space. The open plan design of the fully equipped galley style kitchen and living, dining area is what sets this property apart from others. It gives you an inclusive feeling no matter whether you’re preparing meals or just relaxing.

The outdoor entertaining deck is the place you’ll feel yourself gravitating to on a regular basis, and with views that go on and on.

The main bedroom is large and comfortable with an en suite and private balcony. The remaining two bedrooms are of good size and are conveniently located opposite the main bathroom.

Open: View Saturday 9.00am–9.30am Auction: On Site Saturday 8 May, 11.30am Contact: Angus Suttor – 0436 006 717 LJ Hooker Maclean – 6645 2222

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11 Halyard Court, Ocean Shores. Sat 10–10.30am 5 Kingsford Drive, Brunswick Heads. Sat 11–11.30am 23 Tandys Lane, Brunswick Heads. Sat 11–11.30am 24 Omega Circuit, Brunswick Heads. Sat 12–12.30pm

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• 2/10 Halyard Court, Ocean Shores. Thu 4–4.30pm • 2/10 Halyard Court, Ocean Shores. Sat 10–10.30am • 4/90 Rajah Road, Ocean Shores. Sat 10–10.30am First National Byron Bay

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110 Youngs Road, Limpinwood 8 Edinburgh Court, Pottsville 38 River Street, New Brighton 8 Mimosa Ave, Cabarita Beach 22 River Street, New Brighton

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• 25 The Serpentine, East Ballina. Sat 11.30am–12pm • 11 Pacific Heights Drive, Cumbalum. Sat 12–12.30pm First National Byron Bay • 34–36 Summerhill Crescent, Cumbalum. Sat • 2/83 Centennial Circuit, Byron Bay. Fri 30 April, 12.30–1pm LJ Hooker Brunswick Heads

• 36B Waranga Crescent, Burringbar. Sat 11–11.30am

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• Panorama Estate, 2981 Kyogle Road, Kunghur. Wed 2–4pm

• 100 Hills Estate, Murwillumbah. Wed 4.30–5pm

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11am • 35 Browning Street, Byron Bay. Sat 1 May, 10am onsite • 6 Killarney Crescent, Skennars Head. Forthcoming Auction • 43 Myocum Downs Drive, Myocum. Forthcoming Auction

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ACUPUNCTURE CHINESE HERBAL MEDICINE M Collis.............................................0490 022183 LINE ADS: $99 for 3 months or $340 for 1 year prepaid.

MARLENE FARRY Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine marlenefarry.com .........0416 599507 For line Service Directory ads email classifieds@echo.net.au.

ACUPUNCTURE & acupressure massage. Ph Dr. Derek Doran .......................................0414 478787 DISPLAY ADS: $68 per week for colour display ad. Minimum 8 week booking 4 weeks prepaid.

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SHOWCASE DEALER SHOWROOM

SUNSCREENS

AIR CONDITIONING & REFRIGERATION

ACCOUNTS & BOOKINGS: 6684 1777

66 680 0 8862

INDEX

ACCOUNTANTS & BOOKKEEPERS ACCOUNTANT Paul Mayberry..............................................................................................66847415 BAS * TAXATION * ACCOUNTING saltwateraccountancy.com.au ...............................02 66874746 BECK THE BOOKKEEPER All platforms, BAS & Payroll. beckthebookkeeper.com.au ....02 66084372

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CURTAINS

PLANTATION SHUTTERS

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SPECIALISTS IN HOM E AUTOM ATION

AIR CONDITIONING & REFRIGERATION

PLEASE CALL 6680 9394 artisanair.com.au AU 37088

Mullumbimby Refrigeration & Airconditioning Services

Lic 246545C

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

45 Manns Road, Mullumbimby

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BRICK/BLOCK LAYING Contractors. Lic 291958C. Phone Mark ........................................0409 444268 BRICK & BLOCK LAYING 15 years exp. Reliable & competitive. Call Andrew for a quote ..0423 151092

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

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

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

LICENCE NUMBER 344531C

SERVICING THE BYRON SHIRE

CLIMATE CONTROL AUSTRALIA Lic 362019C AU 27106... JARREAU.............................0421 485217

CALL BRETT 0414 542 019

ANTENNAS & INSTALLATION

0439 624 945

AH

ROLL BLINDS

BRICKLAYING

6684 2783

Lic: 299433C ARC: AU40492

02 66 804 173 Friendly Reliable Prompt Local

Digital TV ALL Antenna Installations & Repairs ALL Electrical Work

JP DIGITAL ANTENNAS Reception problems, new antennas, extra TV points, all areas .....0432 289705

Lic: 317362C

Licensed builder, specialising in Bathroom renovations.

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

APPLIANCE REPAIR

0417 654 888

Quality workmanship, and reliable and personalised service.

www.stoneysbuildingcreations.com

ARCHITECTS

Complete Home Maintenance Solutions

OCEANARC ARCHITECTS Reg. 6042 www.oceanarc.com.au ..............................................66855001

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

AUTOMOTIVE

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

LEGENDARY OFFROAD TYRES

Mobile Panel, Paint & Bumper Repairs FREE QUOTES • Scratch & Dent Repairs • Rust Repairs • Pre Sales Tidy Ups • Car Park Dents • Accident Damage

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

Bumper to Bumper Repairs | Cory 0403 918 831

CASH PAID FOR UNWANTED CARS

6684 5296

Lic. 266174C

COFFEE MACHINE SERVICE & REPAIR coffeetechbyron.com.au Phone Stuart ............0407 395263

Lic No: MVTC157416

Accountants & Bookkeepers.............................. 41 Acupuncture ....................................................... 41 Air Conditioning & Refrigeration ...................... 41 Antennas & Installation ..................................... 41 Antiques/Restoration ......................................... 41 Appliance Repair ................................................ 41 Architects ............................................................ 41 Automotive ......................................................... 41 Blinds, Awnings, Curtains, Shutters .................. 41 Bricklaying .......................................................... 41 Building Trades ................................................... 41 Bush Regen & Weed Control .............................. 41 Carpet Cleaning .................................................. 42 Chimney Sweeps ................................................. 42 Chiropractic......................................................... 42 Cleaning .............................................................. 42 Computer Services ............................................. 42 Concreting & Paving ........................................... 42 Counselling ......................................................... 42 Decks, Patios & Extensions ................................ 42 Dentists ............................................................... 42 Design & Drafting ............................................... 42 Driveway Maintenance ...................................... 42 Earthmoving & Excavation ................................ 42 Electricians .......................................................... 42 Fencing ................................................................ 42 Floor Sanding & Polishing ................................. 42 Flooring ............................................................... 42 Funeral Services.................................................. 42 Garden & Property Maintenance ...................... 42 Garden Design .................................................... 42 Gas Suppliers ...................................................... 42 Graphic Design ................................................... 42 Guttering ............................................................. 42 Handypersons ..................................................... 42 Health .................................................................. 43 Hire ...................................................................... 43 Insurance ............................................................. 43 Kitchens ............................................................... 43 Landscape Design .............................................. 43 Landscape Supplies ............................................ 43 Landscaping ....................................................... 43 Locksmith ............................................................ 43 Osteopathy.......................................................... 43 Painting ............................................................... 43 Pest Control ......................................................... 43 Photography ....................................................... 43 Physiotherapy ..................................................... 43 Picture Framing .................................................. 43 Plastering ............................................................ 43 Plumbers ............................................................. 43 Removalists ......................................................... 43 Roofing ................................................................ 43 Rubbish Removal ................................................ 44 Self Storage ......................................................... 44 Septic Systems .................................................... 44 Snake Catchers.................................................... 44 Solar Installation ................................................ 44 Television Services ............................................. 44 Tiling .................................................................... 44 Tree Services ....................................................... 44 Tuition ................................................................. 44 Upholstery .......................................................... 44 Valuers ................................................................. 44 Veterinary Surgeons .......................................... 44 Water Filters ........................................................ 44 Water Supplies .................................................... 44 Welding ............................................................... 44 Window Cleaning ............................................... 44 Window Tinting................................................... 44

1/84 Centennial Circuit Byron Bay

ALL CARPENTRY WORK FULLY INSURED

NSW Lic. 83568c Qld BSA 1238105

• Floor installations • Door & Window installations • Decks & Pergolas 0488 950 638 matt.rowan.wardle@gmail.com • Alterations Builder / Plumber Residential & Commerical Landscaping Earthworks - 12 Tonne Excavator Sandstone Retaining Walls

Luke Davidson 0413 626 117

www.downtoearthbyronbay.com.au

DINGO DEMOLITIONS & ASBESTOS REMOVAL ................................. 66834008 or 0407 728998 BUILDER – JOHN McGAURAN Personalised Service. 20 yrs exp. Lic 170208C .............0415 793242 BUILDER Renovations, maintenance, 30yrs exp. mchughdesign.com.au Lic 29792C....0408 663420 HAVEN BUILDING All aspects of building. Lic 326616C ...............................................0432 565060

A B S O L U T E LY F R E E

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

CASH ON THE SPOT GUARANTEE

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

CAR BODY REMOVAL $50 - $1000

WE BUY UNWANTED CARS, UTES & VANS

PHONE 0466 113 333 24/7 EMAIL: enquires@adrians.com.au

CARPENTRY, TILING, DECKING ...................................................................................0498 064825

CARPENTER Insured & qualified. Renos, decks, small jobs, free quotes. Lic 231104C ...0431 674377

BUSH REGENERATION & WEED CONTROL

ACCOUNTANT BAS, bookkeeping & tax. Call Mel ...........................................................0455 302137 BAYSIDE RADIATORS Windscreens & air-con. Billinudgel. AU29498 .................................66802444 WEED CONTROL SPECIALIST Lawns – bindii weeds – Army worms – grass grubs .....0418 110714

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CARPET CLEANING FRANCHISE OF THE YEAR!

DESIGN & DRAFTING

BAREFOOT BUILDING DESIGN www.barefootbuildingdesign.com..........Bob Acton 0407 787993 THE FLOOR SANDER New & old floors, decks, non-toxic finishes, special effects, free quotes..0407 821690

Green & Clean

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

Far North Coast NSW John & Teresa

0408 232 066

FLOOR SANDING & POLISHING

Cleans deeply, dries in 1-2 hours

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

FENG SHUI DESIGN CONSULTANT Lizzie Bodenham .......................livingbalancedesigns.com.au NORTHERN RIVERS DIRECT CREMATIONS Personal service, female-led exceptional care BORRELL DESIGN Drafting & design. Commercial, retail, residential, shop fit-outs .....0412 043463 24 hours. All-inclusive and local. $2100 .........................................................................1300 585778 NORTHFACE DESIGNS www.northfacedesigns.com.au..............................Cody Greer 0434 272353

Commercial / Domestic / Insurance

GARDEN & PROPERTY MAINTENANCE

DRIVEWAY MAINTENANCE

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

CHIROPRACTIC

Coast to Country Asphalt Specialising in

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

• Asphalt Driveways • Sub-divisions • Earthworks • Carparks • and all Maintenance!

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

For a Free Quote Call Now

CLEANING

0467 482 948

oast Asph alt st C Ea

ACTION WINDOW & PRESSURE CLEANING

All aspects gardening & mowing Enhancive garden makeovers

ALL ASPECTS OF ASPHALT & BITUMEN SERVICES

0430 297 101 / 6684 5437 livingearthgardens.com.au

6677 1859

actionjoewindow@gmail.com

&

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

Byron Bay

FUNERAL SERVICES

BYRON ENERGY EFFICIENT DESIGN & DRAFTING www.beedad.com.au ...............0423 531448

CON

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Est. 2010

SERVICING THE EAST COAST OF THE NSW NORTHERN RIVERS

G

Burringbar

MULLUM.MOWING@gmail.com. Ride-on, large lawns & acreage. Ph Peter................0423 756394 GUTTERS CLEANED Solar panel cleaning, all areas, free quotes, fully insured ... 66841778 or 0405 922839

EARTHMOVING & EXCAVATION

A-Z Lawns & acreage, trees & hedges, clean ups & tip runs, all gutters ..........................0405 625697 ACES LANDSCAPED GARDENS Renovations & maintenance. Ph Sam..........................0477 851493

5 Stars

TINY EARTHWOR

CLEANING SERVICE

LEAF IT TO US Specialists in acreage mowing, garden, tree maintenance .....................0402 487213 PAUL’S MOWING Local & reliable. Mullum, Bruns, O. Shores, Byron & Bangalow.........0422 958791

Philip Toovey

A GREEN EARTH Garden restoration, maintenance, tree & rubbish removal ................0405 716552

0409 799 909

CLEANS: Holiday, Residential, Bond, Commercial, Spring

Phone Mick 0409 009 024

TIP RUNS & RUBBISH REMOVALS 4m3 trailer..............................................................0408 210772

various implements available for limited access projects

Email: mickbhl@gmail.com

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

RICK’S PROPERTY MAINTENANCE Mowing, brushcutting, gardening, hedging.........0424 805660 GREEN DINGO for all your mowing and gardening needs. Ph Michael .........................0497 842442

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

GW GARDEN MAINTENANCE Mowing, brushcutting, trees & hedges, trailer ..............0408 244820

MINI DIGGER!

PROFESSIONAL LOCAL CLEANER excellent references, good rates. Shire wide. Ph Krissy ..0410 860330

COMPUTER SERVICES

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

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

LOCAL, QUALIFIED & RELIABLE

GAS SUPPLIERS

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

NORTHERN RIVERS TRENCHING 65hp chain trencher, excavator, cable locating & tpr.0402 716857 GRADER HIRE All road construction, driveways, pads, horse arenas. Adrian ................0428 845091

CONCRETING & PAVING

ELECTRICIANS

SALISBURY

Lic No. 337066C

All Jobs Small or Large

ELECTRICAL Steve Nicholls ph: 0455 445 343 lic: EC28753

CONCRETING

www.brunswickvalleygas.com

0408 760 609

02 66 804 173

Domestic Commercial

ALL AROUND

Free Quotes

AH

Reliable

GRAPHIC DESIGN

Lic: 154293c

DARYL 0418 234 302

Over 25 yrs local experience. All forms of concreting.

Residential • Civil • Industrial

0439 624 945

Locally Owned Est 18 years

No Rental

24 HOUR SERVICE Lic.136717c

CONCRETING

Free Delivery

Graphic Design Print Branding Websites Tutoring

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

www.thinkblinkdesign.com

Call Daniel

0424 876 155

nichollselectrical@outlook.com

PLATINUM CRETE CONCRETING Lic 225874C. 20 years exp. Free quotes. Justin .........0458 773788

Residential & Commercial Electrician Renovations, New builds, Service calls & Maintenance

COUNSELLING COUNSELLING & LIFE COACHING Get unstuck & reclaim life purpose. TracieAnne.com .. 0437 174804

DECKS, PATIOS & EXTENSIONS • Deck restoration, sanding and oiling • Special sanding machine removes old coatings, not timber • Fantastic over raised nails and screw heads • Timber oils & coatings that dry in minutes and last years Call Oliver for a free quote and assessment.

www.fullcirclerefinishing.com

•

0419 789 600

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

Robert Moore Call or SMS

0438 535149

Lic: 228999C parallelpower.com.au

DENTISTS

AAA GUTTER GUARD Over 17 years of gutter protection in the region.

Ph 0427 648 981 www.aaagutterguard.com

LOCALLY PROVEN QUALITY PRODUCTS

COUGHRAN ELECTRICAL 24 hour service, Lic 154293C .......................... 0439 624945 or 66804173 SPOTLESS GUTTERS. Gutter Guard Specialists. Ph........................................................0405 922839 RONNIE SPINKS Everything electrical. Lic 27673 .........................................................0429 802355

HANDYPERSONS

JP ELECTRICAL All electrical. Level 2 ASP. Solar, data + TV. Lic 133082C .......................0432 289705 JIM LABELLE ELECTRICAL O.Shores, Mullum, Byron, Brunswick. Lic 176417C..............0415 126028 SPINKS ELECTRICAL Lic 284939C..................................................................Call Mitch 0421 843477 BLUE BEE ELECTRICAL 25 years experience. Lic 189508C. Call Dave ............................0429 033801 BEN FORSYTH, Electrician. Lic:240691C. Ocean Shores & surrounds. No job too small ...0422 136408 E4 ELECTRICAL SERVICES Lic 116621c. Solutions made E4 EASY! Phone Jamie ..........0410 502060

SPECIALIST DECK SANDER (raised nail heads no prob), deck oiling, etc by FCR ..........0419 789600

GUTTERING

FENCING

BUILDING SERVICES R E S I D E N T I A L | C O M M E R C I A L | I N D U S T R I A L | S T R AT A | M A I N T E N A N C E S E R V I C E S

HANDY MAN SERVICES

0414 210 222

24 hr response time guaranteed

Fully Insured

paul.munten@bigpond.com.au

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

BYRON & BEYOND FENCING Any fence, any time, prompt quotes....... 66804766 or 0439 078549 HANDY ANDY Carpentry, plastering, welding ......................................... 66884324 or 0476 600956

LITTLE LANE DENTAL, MULLUMBIMBY ...........................................................................66842816 EDL FENCING Installations & repairs. Prompt service. ..................................................0432 107262 AWESOME REPAIRS Professional, commercial & domestic. Wayne...............................0423 218417 BRUNSWICK HOLISTIC DENTAL CENTRE.......................................................................66851264 FLOW FENCING Pool fencing, timber/colourbond, local, professional and reliable.......0416 424256 ABSOLUTE HANDYMAN. Repairs, renovation, maintenance, painting. Call Mark ........0402 281638

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Service Directory HIGHPOINT Repairs & handyman services. Painting, plastering & tiling. Michael ........0421 896796 CARE & REPAIR HANDYMAN. Aaron ............................................................................0428 891682

YVES DE WILDE

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

KEEN HANDYMAN SERVICES Repairs, maintenance, gardening, odd jobs ..................0428 679704 GOOD NEWS HANDYMAN Carpentry, home repairs/renovations etc. Jesse..................0458 968290

HEALTH

QUALITY PAINTING SERVICES

www.duluxaccredited.com.au

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

• OTHER HEALTH RELATED SECTIONS IN THIS SERVICE DIRECTORY: Acupuncture, Chiropractic, Counselling, Dentists, Osteopathy, Physiotherapy

30 years experience

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MULLUMBIMBY HERBALS Naturopathy, Ayurveda, Massage, Herbs. .............................66843002 REMEDIAL MASSAGE: Deep tissue, sports, relaxation. HICAPS avail. Aaron Ovens ......0408 707304 MOVE TO NURTURE PILATES STUDIO & mat classes. Lennox Head ............................0404 459605 AYURVEDA, NATUROPATH, Herbs, Jacinta McEwen – Om Healing ...................................66849422

KNIGHTSBRIDGE PAINT & DECORATE

INTERIOR & EXTERIOR

• Restoration • Free Quotes • Commercial/Domestic • Fully Licenced • Clean & Reliable • Fully Insured

SHANE

0400 852 141 Lic. 213034C

ACUPUNCTURE & COSMETIC MEDICINE Dr Adam Osborne ...........................................66857366

Blocked drain specialists Everything plumbing, drainage & gasfitting

Lic 167371C

LLOYD SHERLOCK

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 MARK STRATTON All plumbing & emergency. Sewer drain camera/locator. Lic 57803C ....0419 019035 ADM PLUMBING SERVICES… (NO JOB TOO SMALL)… Lic 234528C. ....... Call Adam 0466 992483

0411 784 926

REMOVALISTS

THERAPEUTIC MASSAGE Swedish/deep tissue. Paul Daniel ........................................0402 302897 BYRONBAYPAINTINGSERVICES.COM.AU – Reliable. Quality work. Lic#309278C. Ph 1300 255 724 EAST COAST PILATES STUDIO Brunswick Heads Ph Judy .............................................0408 110006

HIRE

PEST CONTROL

Andy’s Move & More

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

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

INSURANCE

Professional Property Protection you can Trust

AUSURE BYRON BAY General insurance. Phone Mick Urquhart .................................. 0428 200310

KITCHENS

• Targeted treatments for all pests with “no spray” cockroach treatments • If you have found live termites, do not disturb them and call us for advice!

No cost for quoting on active termites Relax, when safety, reputation and experience matters, we are the experts

6685 4490 or AH on 0414 769 018

www.sanctuarypest.com.au

02 6681 6555

BEAU JARDIN Landscape plans & horticultural consultations. beaujardin.com.au .................0417 054443

Free quotes on active termites Environmentally safe

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

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

LANDSCAPE SUPPLIES

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

PHOTOGRAPHY

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

6684 2323 / 0418 663 983

Tree Faerie Fotos 30+ years experience in commercial photography and photojournalism

PHYSIOTHERAPY

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

466 Main Arm Road, Mullumbimby.....................................................................................66845288 ANTHONY D’ORSOGNA Physiotherapy, acupuncture, hydrotherapy Suffolk Park 1 Bryce St ... 66853511 LEMONTREELANDSCAPES.COM.AU Liam. Lic No 277154C .........................................0423 700853 OCEAN SHORES PHYSIOTHERAPY Manual therapies, dry needling, custom orthotics, shock wave therapy, real time ultrasound. Nigel Pitman, Ilse V Oostenbrugge....................66803499

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

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

PAINTING

02 6684 2198

Byron Coast Removals SERVICING THE NORTHERN RIVERS AND BEYOND.

Competitive rates and packing supplies available.

0432 552 067 | 6684 5481 | byroncoastremovals@gmail.com

PICTURE FRAMING MULLUM PICTURE FRAMERS Stuart St rear lane behind Mitre 10 ............................0403 734791

OSTEOPATHY

/2&$/ 6<'1(< *2/' &2$67 %5,6%$1( 0(/%2851( TXHULHV#PXOOXPELPE\UHPRYDOV FRP DX

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

MAN WITH A VAN/TRUCK Reasonable rates. Phone Don ............................................0414 282813 BENNY CAN MOVE IT! .................................................................................................0402 199999

PLASTERING

ROOFING

PLASTERING CONTRACTOR

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

Lic No 189144C

ALL-WAYS PAINTING

DOMESTIC & COMMERCIAL

DOMESTIC • INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL

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ROOFING

DQQH P ZDUZLFN#JPDLO FRP SUNRISE PLASTERING. No job too small. Renovations + patchworks. Gtd sat. Free quote ....0418 992001

Licence NSW: 30715C Licence QLD: 1227049

Metal Roofing Installations • Guttering Downpipes • Fascia • Skylights • Whirlybird Patios • Repairs • Leaf Guard

Craig Montgomery – 0418 870 362 Email: montysmetalroofing@gmail.com www.montysmetalroofing.com.au

J. RAY PLASTERING 30 years experience. Quality workmanship. Ph John ....................0467 598038

PLUMBERS NEED A PLUMBER? DRAINER? GASFITTER?

Chay 0429 805 081 20 YEARS LOCAL SERVICE

Licence No. 207479C

• DEPARTMENT OF FAIR TRADING INFO: When dealing with home owners, painters are required

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0409 917646

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www.treefaeriefotos.com • 0417 427 518

0438 784 226 • 6685 4154

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

0432 334 200 02 6680 8170

Professional • Commercial • Personal

LANDSCAPING

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

SHIRE REMOVALS & FREIGHT CO

leapfrogremovals@yahoo.com.au

1176 Myocum Rd, Mullumbimby (just past golf course)

BYRON BAY

0429149 533 Est 2006

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

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

LANDSCAPE DESIGN

Calls always returned

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

ALL ROOF CLEANING & PAINTING by Full Circle Refinishing. Ph Oliver .......................0419 789600 I PAINT ROOFS 30 years experience ......................................................................Paul 0499 373117

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RUBBISH REMOVAL

TREE SERVICES

OCEAN SHORES SKIPS Mini skip specialists ......................................... 0412 161564 or 66841232

CHOPPY CHOP TREE SERVICES

TIP RUNS & RUBBISH REMOVAL 4m3 trailer................................................................0408 210772 MAN WITH UTE. RETHINK REUSE RECYCLE. Ph Mark ................................................0411 113300 THIS IS RUBBISH Tipper truck for hire. Call or text Jono ...............................................0412 871438

SELF STORAGE

BBSS

Mon to Fri 9am–5pm

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• Stump Grinding • Bobcat • Cherrypicker • Crane Truck • 18” Chipper

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Mark Linder Qualified Arborist 0408 202 184 choppychoptrees@bigpond.com

BYRON BAY SELF STORAGE

Self storage with security. Largest choice of sizes.

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

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Home sewage solutions Commercial wastewater treatment Rainwater tanks concrete and plastic

Lic 312643C

SEPTIC SYSTEMS

Sales Installation Service

Northern Rivers Pty Ltd

• plumbing.td@bigpond.com

PRUNING ~ REMOVALS ~ STUMP GRINDING • 20 years local knowledge and experience • Fully insured / free quotes • 19 inch chipper • Bobcat • Cherry picker • Crane truck

www.harttreeservices.com.au

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SNAKE CATCHERS

ALL AREAS OF THE NORTHERN RIVERS & SOUTH EAST QUEENSLAND

JACK HOGAN

0411 039 373

0401 208 797

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

BYRON TREE SERVICES Qualified, insured. Call Alex ....................................................0402 364852

Serving Northern NSW since 1998

Call us on 6679 7228

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

LEAF IT TO US 4x4 truck/chipper + crane truck. Local, qualified, insured. Free quotes .......0402 487213

UPHOLSTERY BANGALOW UPHOLSTERY Now at Billinudgel. Re-covering specialists.............................66805255 UPHOLSTERY & CURTAIN MAKING Free quotes. Phone Rebecca .....................................66840427

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Life’s Good with Solar

Juno Energy is your local authorised LG energy specialist offering solar and battery solutions for your business & home

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

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

VALUERS BYRON BAY VALUERS NSW & QLD reg’d. Chartered Valuers ................... 0431 245460 or 66857010 SIMPSON PROPERTY GROUP - Valuation, Advisory & Asset M/ment. Specialists in: Residential, Rural, Commercial & Industrial. www.simsonproperty.com.au..........0400 134562 or 0427 220976

VETERINARY SURGEONS MULLUM VET CLINIC: Richard Gregory, Bec Willis, Mark Sebastian – After hours avail ...66843818 NORTH COAST VETERINARY SERVICES Dr Lauren Archer .................................................66840735

WATER FILTERS The Water Filter Experts for home, commercial and rural properties

TILING

Far North Coast NSW John & Teresa

0408 232 066

TILE & GROUT CLEANING

6680 8200 or 0418 108 181

Servicing the Far North Coast for 20 years.

Free quotes. Experienced local technicians.

ChemDry’s patented cleaning systems.

WATER SUPPLIES

WINTER SPECIAL:

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

Every 5th m2 FREE info@theshowersealer.com.au

0412 026 441

Leaky showers sealed at a fraction of the cost of re tiling.

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

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

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

WINDOW TINTING

TILER. Small jobs, repairs. Lic R75915............................................................................0468 465344 SUNRISE W. T. 3/19-21 Centennial Cct, Byron. Cars, homes, offices, etc. High quality ..0412 158478 TILING AND BATHROOM RENOVATIONS.....................................................................0498 064825 SURFWAGON - Car/Home/Office tint. Lifetime Warranty. W/sale price .........................0434 875009

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S E R F S E T S E Y E S O N

www.echo.net.au

Classifieds HEALTH

Birthdays ..................... 46

ECHO CLASSIFIEDS – 6684 1777

Caravans..................... 46

CLASSIFIED AD BOOKINGS

DEADLINE TUES 12PM

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PHONE ADS

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INDEX

Garage Sales .............. 46 Halls For Hire .............. 45 Health Notices ............ 45 In Memoriam............... 46 Life Celebration ........... 46 Motor Vehicles ............ 46 Musical Notes ............. 46 Only Adults ................. 46

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

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): $12.85 per column centimetre

Ad bookings only taken during business hours: Monday to Friday, 9am–5pm. Ads can’t be taken on the weekend.

Account enquiries phone 6684 1777.

These prices include GST.

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

Pets ............................. 46 Positions Vacant.......... 46 Professional Services . 45 Public Notices ............. 45 Social Escorts ............. 46 To Let .......................... 46 Tradework ................... 45

Every Saturday 4 – 9 pm RAILWAY PARK, BYRON BAY

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Tree Services .............. 45 Tuition.......................... 46 Wanted........................ 45

Gods and Heroes

Work Wanted .............. 46

DISCLAIMER Advertisements placed in The Byron Shire Echo do not reflect the views or opinions of the editorial staff.

The Byron Shire Echo does not make any representations as to the accuracy or suitability of any content or information contained in advertising material nor does publication constitute in any way an endorsement by The Byron Shire Echo of the content or representations contained therein.

The Byron Shire Echo does not accept any liability for the representations or promises made in paid advertisements or for any loss or damage arising from reliance on such content, representations or promises.

CALL FOR WITNESSES

DAVID LOVEJOY Did Daedalus murder his nephew?

Was it Arion who invented the stage musical? How did Icarus really die?

Did Zeus impregnate Danaë with a shower of gold? And what did Midas do when he lost his golden touch?

From the Mullum Echo office $10

Mullumbimby & District Neighbourhood Centre Connecting the Byron Shire Community

HELP YOUR COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS NEEDED – Baristas – – Gardeners – – Food Sorters – – Cleaners – The team at MDNC are searching for some dedicated volunteers to help us continue to support our community.

Contact Volunteer Coordinator Kaz Wednesday – Friday 6684 1286

Ken Cush & Associates, a law firm in Canberra, are interested in speaking to witnesses about Brother Marcius (also known as Brother Doyle and/ or Brother Marius), a Brother who worked at Marist Brothers, Lismore in the late 1950s and 1960s as well as across Sydney and Queensland.

If you are able to assist, please urgently call Madi Roberts on (02) 6147 3606 or email madi.roberts@kencush.com.au.

PROF. SERVICES

DENTURES

LOOK GOOD FEEL GOOD Free consultation. SANDRO 66805002

HALLS FOR HIRE TYAGARAH HALL – Great for yoga classes or small functions. Ring Karina 0481012051 – $20/hour, min 2 hours COORABELL HALL WEDDINGS, GIGS, CLASSES 66871307 www.coorabellhall.net

Saturday 17th April

DEADSET

8am Silent Dynamic meditation 10am Osho Discourse 12md Osho Nataraj Dance meditation 2pm Osho Nadabrahma Humming meditation 4pm Osho Kundalini Shaking meditation 6pm Osho Evening meditation

mullummarkets.com.au

Call Shahido

& MUSEUM OPEN

THIS SATURDAY 8am – 2pm

Cnr Stuart and Myokum St, Mullum No dogs please

6688 2494

mashahido@gmail.com

DEPLOYMENT CODE: NEWSPAPER NOTICE PROPOSAL TO UPGRADE AN EXISTING TELSTRA MOBILE PHONE BASE STATION AT: 1. WOLLONGBAR CONVERYS LANE: CONVERYS LANE, BRUNXER HIGHWAY WOLLONGBAR 2477 The proposal involves: x x x x x x x

the removal of six (6) existing panel antennas the removal of six (6) existing tower mounted amplifiers (TMAs), and the re-location of three (3) existing panel antennas to existing mounts at elevation 39.12m the installation of three (3) new panel antennas (each antenna measuring 810mm in length) on existing mounts at elevation 39.12m the installation of six (6) new tower mounted amplifiers (TMAs) on existing mounts at elevation 39.12m on the existing 40m steel monopole, and the upgrading of equipment within the existing equipment shelter ancillary works necessary for the effective and safe operation of the facility

2. The purpose of this installation is to provide enhanced 4G services and new 5G services to the Wollongbar area. Telstra regards the proposed installation as a Low Impact installation in accordance with the WKH 7HOHFRPPXQLFDWLRQV /RZ LPSDFW )DFLOLWLHV 'HWHUPLQDWLRQ 6FKHGXOH )DFLOLWLHV DQG DUHDV 3DUW 5DGLR )DFLOLWLHV ,WHP DQG 3DUW /RZ ,PSDFW )DFLOLWLHV ,WHP D based on the description above.

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www.echo.net.au

Clear subconscious sabotages.

Reprogram patterns and beliefs.

Restore vibrancy and physical health. De-stress.

Ph 0403125506 SANDRA DAVEY, Reg. Pract.

WELLNESS CENTRE Brunswick Heads COLON HYDROTHERAPY HYPERBARIC OXYGEN FAR INFRARED SAUNA REMEDIAL MASSAGE + more 66850498

HYPNOSIS & NLP 30 years exp.

Helping you to create positive changes.

Call Wendy today!

0497 090 233 Body Based

Psychotherapy Somatic Practice

Julie Wells Anne Goslett

1. The proposed works includes the replacement of one (1) existing panel antenna, the replacement of four (4) existing combiners with nine (9) new combiners, the removal of two (2) existing Mast Head Amplifiers (MHAs), the replacement of three (3) existing Remote Radio Units (RRUs) with ten (10) new RRUs and ancillary equipment including but not limited to new mounting poles, fibre cabling and equipment within the existing equipment shelter.

Address: Lot 1, Vallances Rd MULLUMBIMBY NSW 2482 Structure: Monopole RFNSA: www.rfnsa.com.au/2482005 Site Reference: S8160 Mullumbimby CBD 2. The proposed works includes the installation of replacement of one (1) existing panel antenna, the replacement of two (2) existing combiners with nine (9) new combiners, the removal of two (2) existing MHAs, the replacement of two (2) existing RRUs with 11 new RRUs and ancillary equipment including but not limited to new mounting poles, fibre cabling and equipment within the existing equipment shelter.

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GARAGE SALES MOVING HOUSE 3 Coonawarra Ct, O/S. Sat 8am. Furniture, leather sofa, bedding, clothes, modem, games, bargains.

HUGE MOVING SALE 1 Pymble Valley Rd, Crabbes Creek, Sat 8am. Trade tools, antiques, lounges, solar panels, washing machines, retro k/ware, h/hold, plants.

Tip Runs & Rubbish Removal 0408 210 772

(nee Mannix)

Dip.Som.Psych, Clinical PACFA Reg.

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

BANGALOW

Address: 2362 COOLAMON SCENIC DR OCEAN SHORES NSW 2483 Structure: Lattice Tower RFNSA: www.rfnsa.com.au/2482001 Site Reference: B0322 Mullumbimby

TRADEWORK

KINESIOLOGY

Beginners Courses

PROPOSAL TO UPGRADE EXISTING MOBILE PHONE BASE STATIONS

6681 3140 Mobile 0417 698 227

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

Maureen Bracken 0402205352

Yoga Yogalates Pilates

Osho Meditation Day

Byron Bay & Surrounding Areas

HYPNOSIS & EFT

www.wendypurdey.com.au

PUBLIC NOTICES

MULLUM MARKET

HAWAIIAN MASSAGE Ocean Shores, Michaela, 0416332886

PURA VIDA

BYRON TWILIGHT MARKET

• Arborist • 15” Wood Chipper • Stump Grinder • Fully Insured

M E N TO R

Mon 6–7pm Hatha slow flow Sat 8.15–9.30am Yogalates Wed 6–7.15pm Yin Rejuv Yoga

SUFFOLK PARK

FOR SALE

MIELE WASHERS Dryers and dishwashers available at Bridglands Mullumbimby. 66842511

ARCHIBALD’S CHEAP QUARRY PRODUCTS Road base, gravel, blue metal and metal dust. ALL SIZE DELIVERIES. Phone 66845517, 0418481617

Mon 10–11.30am Yogalates Wed 6–7pm Yin Yang Yoga Sun 6.30–7.30pm Hatha Fuse Yin Rejuv

BAMBOO PLANTS: clumping, screening, hedging, flowering gingers, bromeliads.

Close to Mullum. 0458535760

SPECIAL: Book in for a month @ $95, try as many classes as you like.

See website for additional classes.

0432 047 221 yogalates.com.au

Local handmade jewellery label

TREE SERVICES LEAF IT TO US 4x4 truck/chipper, crane truck, stump grinding. Local, qualified, insured, free quotes. 0402487213

20 years local experience • 19 inch chipper • Stump grinding • Cherry picker • Crane truck • Bob Cat

Fully insured • Free quotes

3. The purpose of the installation is to increase coverage and capacity of the existing 4G technology on site. Optus regards the proposed installation as a Low-impact Facility under the Telecommunications (Low-impact Facilities) Determination 2020 based on the description above.

0427 347 380

4. In accordance with Section 7 of C564:2020 Mobile Phone Base Station Deployment Code, we invite you to provide feedback about the proposal. Further information and/or comments should be directed to: Reinier Hanekom (CPS Global), 02 9300 1700, Suite 4, Level 17, 215 Adelaide Street, Brisbane City QLD 4000 or submissionsQLD@cpsglobal.com by 5pm on Tuesday 27 April 2021.

• FULLY INSURED • PROFESSIONAL SERVICE • FREE QUOTES

6684 4421 0402 364 852

ACE OF SWORDS JEWELLERY End of Season Studio Sale Sat 17th April 9am - 4pm 4/116 Stuart St, Mullum

HAMBLY’S FIREWOOD Delivery available

Mark 0427 490 038

WANTED SEEKING LEASE for market garden.

Contact Alistair on 0456592161 LP RECORDS: good condition, no op shop crap! Ph Matt 0401955052

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Classifieds MOTOR VEHICLES

WANTED!

GOOD, CLEAN CARS FOR $$ CASH $$ BARGAINS

ballinacarcentre.com.au

16 ENDEAVOUR CLOSE, BALLINA

Ballina Car Centre

DLN 19950

6686 5586 / 0418 676 274

North Coast news online WARNING The Department of Fair Trading has warned people to be very careful about responding to advertisements offering work at home. Readers should be wary if asked to pay money upfront for employment opportunities and never send money to a post office box EROTIC MASSAGE STAFF reliable and friendly for Gentlemen’s Relaxation Centre 18+. Tweed. Grace 0418185791 TA X I DRIVERS WA N T E D COMMISION BASED Please send enquiries to operations@ byronbaytaxis.com FRONT DESK RECEPTIONIST for Glen Villa Resort, 86 Butler St, Byron Bay. Must be a hands on, passionate person with very pleasant and professional attitude with excellent customer service skills.

Only apply in person.

CARAVANS

CARER. Reliable, strong, caring, female, 20–45 years old to assist quadriplegic man with personal care and household duties. No experience necessary. 25hrs per week. $34p/h, $44p/h Sat, $54p/h Sun. Mornings 8–11.30am, evenings 5–7pm. Must have Tax File No. Ocean Shores. Please leave a detailed message. wheelgoodservice@hotmail.com

CARAVANS We buy, sell & consign.

All makes & models.

0408758688

BYRON BAY CARE IS SEEKING SUPPORT WORKERS. Must have Cert III or IV in Disability or Aged Care. Email resume info@byronbaycare.com.au

VEHICLES WANTED WE BUY ALL trucks, utes, vans, cars & caravans. Good or bad. 0403118534

SHARE ACCOM. ROOM in houseshare close to Mullum, prefer mat’, single, working fem. $210p/w.

Sorry, no pets. barbwood1959@gmail.com

TO LET

LOCAL REMOVAL & backloads to Brisbane. Friendly, with 10 years local exp. 0409917646 Summerland Storage Bangalow From $105 to $290 per month Call GNF Bangalow 66872833 2 BED BEACH COTTAGE Near New Lennox Head. Ocean views. Refs reqd. $890 p/w incl water, lawn maintenance.

Street parking only. Available 23/4/2.

0432047221 OCEAN SHORES Nice large room in unit, close shops, $240p/w. Steve 0435831164

CLEANERS WANTED for Bay Motel

IMMEDIATE START. Great conditions.

Call 6685 6121

TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS/ TEAM LEADERS ALTUS TRAFFIC - BALLINA Come be part of our team.

We have work available for an upcoming major event and other ongoing work in the Ballina and surrounding shires.

RESIDENTIAL Nth Ocean Shores 4 bed 2 bath $950neg Fern Beach 4 bed 2 bath contact agent South Golden Beach 5 bed 2 bath $850

OCEAN SHORES BAKERY is looking for a qualified baker & apprentice baker to join our team. Willing to pay above the award wages for the right person. Full time work. Resumes to: meganmaree133@ gmail.com SANTOS ORGANICS We are looking for an experienced Assistant Store Manager for our Byron Bay location. To apply and see full job details go to santosorganics. com.au/employment-2/ LIVE IN CARER, low care for mobile lady. Generous income package includes use of SEPARATE APARTMENT, fully furnished or not, own entrance, pool, close to beach, power, water, WiFi. Stairs unsuitable for children. Must be Australian citizen, suits 45 to 61 y/o old lady, without a full pension, with car, needing lifestyle security, paradise for a housewifely, fit homebody who likes gardening, prefer AIN, plenty of time off, some computer skills and refs essential, own cat OK. Central Coffs. Prefer tel. chat after 10am 0488415552 (no sms).

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FUNERAL NOTICES

CARETAKER POSITION SOUGHT Contact Alistair on 0456592161

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

AWL NSW Rehoming Organisation Number: R251000222

Byron Dog Rescue (CAWI)

TOM SHENFIELD Sadly passed away on Wed 7 April.

Loved partner of Robert for 45 years.

Brother of Mavis.

A celebration of Tom’s life will be held on Thu 22 April at 1.30pm at the Ramada Hotel, Ballina.

LIFE CELEBRATIONS

Rubble is

Experienced Professional Trainer • Photoshop • Indesign • Illustrator

MUSICAL NOTES

Everyone is welcome to share a cuppa and a story as we celebrate the life of Ted Kempnich. 10am, Sunday 18 April at the Byron Bay Golf Club.

Jean-Claude Canabou

QUALITY PIANOS for sale, and expert piano tuning. Ph Fred Cole 0412216019 GUITAR STRINGS, REPAIRS Brunswick Heads 66851005

5/16 The Terrace, Brunswick Heads

For Rent

2 bed Beach Cottage Near New Lennox Head.

Ocean views. Ref. req. $890 p/w incl. water and lawn maintenance.

Street parking only.

Available 23/4/21

Medical receptionist position in Ballina and Byron First Light Healthcare is seeking an experienced medical receptionist to work part time (between 18 to 34 hours per week, job share possible) in our busy Ballina and/or Byron clinics. Experience working in a medical centre and working with Best Practice is preferred.

We are looking for someone with a friendly, caring nature, with the ability to work under pressure.

We offer above award wages, and a friendly, supportive workplace, working with some of the Northern Rivers’ most respected medical professionals.

Email your interest and CV to executive@flhealthcare.com.au

WANTED TO LEASE ACCESS TO ACREAGE, dwelling or not.

Prefer 2x2 or 3x3 or similar. Substantial security deposit OK. Pls call 0423218417

POSITIONS VACANT EXP MATURE SWIM TEACHER Casual, ongoing. Immediate start. Established business Ocean Shores. Ph 0448649150.

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

Left this Earth April 2, 2021.

Loved husband of Dianne, father of Jess and Jerome, adored Papa of Phoenix and Billie.

A celebration of his life will be held at Mullumbimby RSL on Friday 23 April at 2.30pm.

“In the jingle jangle morning I’ll come following you.”

LOST & FOUND

0432 047 221

Rubble

a 2 year old desexed male American Bulldog. He would love an owner all to himself - so no other pets - someone who will love him and take time to bring out the best in him. With the right experienced owner he will be a loyal and loving companion and will flourish in the security of a home of his own. If you can give Rubble a permanent, loving home please

contact Pam on 0421 017 461.

Microchip number 953020003054169.

Visit friendsofthepound.com to view other dogs and cats looking for a home.

ABN 83 126 970 338

Brunswick Heads 1 bed 1 bath $400 L.J. Hooker Brunswick Heads 6685 0177

6-year-old female Staffy x Bull Terrier Dekoda is looking for a gentle loving home.

Darling Dekoda lost a front leg in 2016 and has learned to be extremely agile nevertheless.

She has the lovliest nature, is gentle & affectionate and would love another doggie companion.

Please see her full profile on our Byron Dog Rescue website and phone Shell on 0458 461 935 for more info.

MC: 985170002303574

DEKODA

Adobe Tutoring

contact@thinkblinkdesign.com www.thinkblinkdesign.com

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

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WORK WANTED SUSTAINABLE landcare professional seeking long-term position. Experienced and qualified in environmental management and organic horticulture.

Ph 0423154457 or email allanneilson132@gmail.com

If you have a tick list for choosing a cat, we guarantee that this young chap will more than fulfil your wishes. Monty is so affectionate, handsome, fun loving, yet can be relaxed.

He loves to be around people, being fussed over and he is still packed full of kitten fun and inquisitiveness.

To meet Monty, please visit the Cat Adoption Centre at 124 Dalley Street, Mullumbimby.

SUKI 23YO Exotic good looks, sensual erotic body slides and massage. In/out call 0452388978 ANGELA, 20YO. Young and petite. Nuru massage. In/out calls 0415165128

SOCIAL ESCORTS

MONTY

CASUAL SURF INSTRUCTOR. Fully qualified, Level 1. Please email tamjohnston76@yahoo.com

Must have Traffic Control Tickets Good hourly rate + loadings + super + uniform and PPE provided Apply online altustraffic.com.au/careers Or call Annette - 0499 446 070

BIRTHDAYS

LOST: GOLD, 3 DIAMOND antique engagement ring, Mullumbimby or Federal. Reward. 0422253753.

PETS

A very special cat this week for a very special person: Snowy. He has been waiting patiently for that special person, someone who can fully appreciate his striking appearance and personality to match, and his unique quality of being deaf. Snowy lost his home a while ago and now just longs for the comfort and love of human company. A wonderful companion.

All cats are desexed, vaccinated and microchipped.

No: 95301000457491

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SUN, MOON & TIDES TIMES FOR NEXT 2 WEEKS

DAY, SUN MOON HIGH LOW DATE MOON RISE / RISE / TIDES, TIDES, (April) PHASE SET SET height (m) height (m)

14 W

6:03 17:29

7:36 18:48

09:30 1.41 21:59 1.65

03:29 0.46 15:22 0.36

15 TH

6:03 17:28

8:29 19:23

10:00 1.33 22:32 1.64

04:07 0.50 15:50 0.40

16 F

6:04 17:27

9:24 20:02

10:34 1.24 23:10 1.61

04:48 0.55 16:19 0.46

17 SA

6:05 17:26

10:19 20:45

11:11 1.15 23:51 1.56

05:34 0.61 16:51 0.53

18 SU

6:05 17:25

11:13 21:33

11:56 1.08

06:29 0.66 17:30 0.60

19 M

6:06 17:24

12:05 22:26

00:42 1.51 12:57 1.02

07:36 0.68 18:27 0.66

20 TU

6:06 17:23

12:54 23:24

01:46 1.48 14:25 1.02

08:53 0.67 19:48 0.70

21 W

6:07 17:22

13:39

03:01 1.49 15:51 1.09

10:01 0.61 21:15 0.67

22 TH

6:07 17:21

14:21 0:24

04:09 1.54 16:55 1.20

10:55 0.53 22:28 0.59

23 F

6:08 17:20

15:00 1:26

05:07 1.62 17:47 1.34

11:40 0.43 23:28 0.49

24 SA

6:09 17:19

15:37 2:30

05:59 1.69 18:35 1.49

12:19 0.33

25 SU

6:09 17:18

16:13 06:46 1.73 00:21 0.39 3:35 19:21 1.64 12:58 0.24

26 M

6:10 17:17

16:50 07:31 1.72 01:13 0.31 4:41 20:07 1.77 13:36 0.18

27 TU

6:10 17:16

17:30 08:16 1.67 02:04 0.26 5:49 20:52 1.87 14:15 0.16

28 W

6:11 17:15

18:13 09:02 1.58 02:57 0.26 7:00 21:39 1.93 14:54 0.18

Data sourced from Bureau of Meteorology. Times adjusted for Daylight Savings when applicable.

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Survivors of childhood sexual abuse

Bangalow Land and Rivercare presents…

Heartfelt House runs programs for adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. We are running Pathways to Healing, an eight-week program for female survivors of childhood sexual abuse. It is being run at Heartfelt House on Tuesdays, 4 May until 22 June, and Thursdays 6 May until 24 June. All sessions run 10am till 12.30pm. Registrations essential, email: beth.cronin@norwacs.org.au or call 0432 889 665 or 6628 8960.

A free community workshop on The Importance of Rainforest Riparian Restoration with Bob Smeuninx, Director Bushland Restoration Services. Everyone from Bangalow and surrounds is invited to attend.

The workshop will be held on Sunday 18 April, and will provide an overview of why riparian restoration is so important now; including its role in providing habitat for wildlife; we will look at case studies (what can be achieved); and discuss the importance of best practice regeneration techniques. The workshop will involve a walk-and-talk around the Byron Creek restoration site – initially planted in 2014. Meet at Bangalow Heritage House Museum veranda at 10.30am.

Workshop concludes 1.45pm. Tea/ coffee/biscuits will be provided. Visit: bangalowlandcare.org.au for tickets.

BBHS membership drive The Byron Bay Historical Society is seeking new members to join our local history group. We are urgently in need of people who have the desire to research and or transpose into Word documents some of the history we have obtained. You may wish to research and record new aspects of local history. New members don’t need to get involved in committee meetings but instead can direct their energies to expanding and refreshing our website. If you have an interest go to byronbayhistoricalsociety.org.au for contact details or email: president@ byronbayhistoricalsociety.org.au.

Tweed Hospital Aux After a year of COVID restrictions the United Hospital Auxiliaries branch of the Tweed Hospital has begun its activities again. The Gift Shop is operating with restricted hours, raffles will be held, and stalls will appear in shopping centres. The annual fete will be in October. The branch’s annual Night Full of Trivia will be held on Wednesday, 14 April at the South Tweed Community Centre on the Cnr. Heffron Street and Minjungbal Drive. Book a table via John Mills: 0421 085 985.

Circus arts free online performance course A free eight-week online video course designed for kids and adults which teaches the principles and techniques of performing on stage, working with space, music and the audience. Visit: circusarts.com.au.

Tracey Kristiansen Friends of Libraries Byron are once again hosting their annual Byron Shire Book Fair: 2 July to 5 July 2021.

Secondhand or new books in good condition of all genres, such as fiction, non fiction, art, children’s, history, including DVDs and games, all are needed and greatly appreciated to ensure a bigger and better Book Fair for this year. Please call Beryl 6685 3030 or Janene 0407 855 022, who can arrange collection points.

Mullumbimby District Neighbourhood Centre Mullumbimby & District Neighbourhood Centre is open Monday Thursday 9am–4pm and offers services and activities. Everyone is welcome to come for art, music, games, food and more. Call reception on 6684 1286 and discover what is on offer. MDNC services that are running include: Community support/emergency relief: Food parcels, meals, assistance with electricity and Telstra bills.

Listening Space: free counselling.

Staying Home, Leaving Violence program.

Integrated Domestic & Family Violence program.

Financial Counselling: outreach available Thursdays & Fridays Financial Counselling: 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 Homeless Breakfast: 7:30–9am Wednesday. Homeless Showers: Monday and Wednesday 10am–12pm (book in at breakfasts). Women’s Support and Counselling: Friday 1–3pm, Community Cabin Carlyle St. Free Phone Counselling: Call 0415 322 064 10am–2pm. Seniors Computer Club: Friday 9am–11am, Community Cabin Carlyle St. Seniors drumming, yoga, ukulele, art, drama: 66856807 for booking and time details. Volunteer Hub referral: Call 66856807.

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

Free Food Relief Bags for anyone doing it tough, every Wednesday 10–12noon at The Hub Ocean Shores, cnr Rajah Rd and Bindaree Way. No ID or Concession Card required. NILs referral service also available. Check Facebook page The Hub Baptist

Alateen meeting

Feel Good Friday

Alateen meeting every Thursday at 5–6pm. Do you have a parent, close friend or relative with a drinking problem? Alateen can help. For 8–16-year-olds meet St Cuthbert’s Anglican Church Hall, 13 Powell Street, corner of Florence Street Tweed Heads. Al-Anon family groups for older members at the same time and place.

1300 ALANON 1300 252 666 www. al-anon.org.au

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.

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ACA Adult Children of Alcoholic Parents and/or Dysfunctional Families (ACA) help & recovery group meets in Lismore every Friday 10–11.30am, Red Dove Centre, 80 Keen Street. Byron meetings are on Tuesdays at 7pm via Zoom - meeting ID 554 974 582 password byronbay.

Library fun Baby Bounce and Storytime for toddlers and pre-school children have moved online for now. See Richmond Tweed Regional Libraries on YouTube.

Social sporting groups Mullumbimby: Tuesday Ladies Group of Riverside Tennis Club welcomes new

players 9.30am every Tuesday next to Heritage Park, for social tennis, fun and friendship. Info: Barbara 6684 8058.

Byron: Drumming with Gareth Jones at Byron Theatre; Chair Yoga with Pippy Wardell 12 till 1pm. Wednesdays: Choir with Kim Banffy, 10–11am; Ukulele 11.30–12.15. Suggested donation of $10. No bookings needed, information seniors@ byroncommuntycentre.com or call 6685 6807. South Golden Shores Community Centre Women’s table tennis every Monday at 10am. Phone 0435 780 017. Byron Bay Croquet at Croquet Club next to the Scout Hall at the Byron Rec Grounds every Monday at 3.30pm. Ring 0477 972 535. Pottsville Fun Croquet Club at Black Rocks Sportfield. Beginners and visitors welcome. Game starts 8.30am Tuesday and Thursday. $5 per game.

Enquiries 0413 335 941.

Contact Improvisation Contact Improvisation Saturdays 11am-1pm at Gondwana, 23 Prestons Lane, Tyagarah. All levels of dancers welcome. Enquiries 0402 059 564.

End-of-life choices Voluntary euthanasia options are discussed at quarterly meetings, currently online. Attendees must be Exit members. More information on www.exitinternational.net or phone Catherine 0435 228 443.

Carers’ support Mullumbimby Mental Health Carers’ Support Group for family members and friends who have a loved one with a mental health issue. Meeting on 4th Thursday of each month 9.30am at the Mullumbimby Neighbourhood Centre.

Info: Susanne 0428 716 431.

Rainbow Dragons Rainbow Dragons Abreast (RDA) welcomes breast cancer survivors for a paddle at Lake Ainsworth, Lennox Head (and sometimes at Ballina) on Sundays 7.30 for 8am start. Contact Marian 6688 4058, mazzerati2010@gmail.com.

Local sailor triumphs in blustery Brisbane to Gladstone yacht race

Craig Watson on the way to Coffs Harbour. Image supplied Ross Kendal Byron Bay’s Leihani Kaloha Zoric rips it up at Park Beach, Coffs Harbour. Image supplied Lennox Heads’ Juniper Harper finished with third place in the 14-and-under girls division.

Cabarita’s Kyan Falvey finished fourth in the 16-andunder boys division.

Boys and girls divisions

for the event included 8-andunder mixed, 10-and-under, 12-and-under, 14-and-under and 16-and-under.

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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.

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After a Covid-19 hiatus, rugby union on the far north coast kicked off last weekend for the 2021 season with seniors playing across five grades.

In a new combined first and second grade competition, Lennox Head beat

Call Alcoholics Anonymous 1800 423 431 or 0401 945 671 – 30 meetings a week in the Shire – www.aa.org.au. Are you experiencing difficulties and challenges because of the alcohol or drug use of someone close to you? Learn coping skills and gain support from others.

Narcotics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem. We are recovering addicts who meet regularly to help each other stay clean. For information and meetings call1300 652 820 or text your postcode to 0488 811 247. www.na.org.au. Are you concerned about somebody else’s drinking?

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

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.

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Local girls go big at Oz grom cup Byron Bay’s Leihani Kaloha Zoric won her second Billabong Oz Grom Cup title, taking out the 10-andunder girls division at Park beach in Coffs Harbour last weekend.

Zoric did well in the playful sub one-metre waves and surfed well beyond her years in the final exchange, nailing an array of beautiful snaps and carves to finish with a big 16.34 two-wave heat total.

The five-day event, now in its eighth year, catered for over 200 competitors in nine different divisions.

The top four in the 10-andunder girls division included Malia Watson (Tweed) and Henley Smith (Suffolk Park).

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Casuarina 38-10, Ballina topped Wollongbar Alstonville 24-15 and Bangalow defeated Lismore 35-14.

Also new for the season is a combined Wollongbar and Byron Bay women’s 10s team.

However, despite the

enthusiasm of the new team they couldn’t better Ballina who won the first encounter of the year 24-7.

In other women’s results Lismore had a good 51-5 win over Grafton and Casino beat Evans River 32-0.

In reserve grade Mullumbimby, Ballina and Lennox Head all had wins.

In the under 18s Casino, Lennox Head and Lismore all had wins. All were relieved that the season was finally under way.

Local sailor Craig Watson battled near gale-force winds on Coopers to have one of his best ever Brisbane to Gladstone yacht races claiming fourth place in line honours.

‘It was pretty challenging at times but a great race,’ he said.

‘We are a cruising yacht so to get fourth in line honours was incredible.

‘We recorded winds of 40 knots but it apparently got up to 46, that’s near gale-force.

Coopers and her nine crew were one of only 23 yachts to

make the distance out of 48 original entrants.

Racing yacht Black Jack had to retire after breaking her mast.

‘It was an amazing effort by the crew,’ Craig said.

Other accolades claimed

by Coopers in the Easter race included first in performance handicap, first in cruising class and second place in the IRC division two.

Craig keeps Coopers up in Brisbane as it draws too much to cross the local bars.

When he is not sailing he runs Soul Patterson chemist in Mullumbimby.

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Backlash Forget a reality show about vacuous social media ‘influencers’– how about Netflix create its first Australian reality TV about the real local influencers: Byron Council? Last week’s meeting again attracted only a handful of online viewers. Democracy, at all its three governmental levels, appears in real trouble.

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‘He was a fattish, but active man of paralysing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasm – one of those completely unquestioning, devoted drudges on whom, more even than on the Thought Police, the stability of the Party depended.’

– from George Orwell’s 1984.

BREAKING NEWS: Prince Philip is still dead. We cross now, LIVE, to our correspondents in London, Sydney, New York and Tokyo for updates on this developing story. Meanwhile, in less important main stream media news, the Great Barrier Reef is in serious trouble, climate change is real, Indigenous people continue to die in custody and the Morrison government is still engulfed in scandals of incompetence, embezzlement and alleged sexual criminality.

‘Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.’ – Hubert H. Humphrey

electrical licence no. 255292C CEC member since 2010 No joke – Myanmar’s military have reportedly arrested the country’s best-known comedian, Zarganar, as around 80 protesters were killed last week. In early March, SMH reported that Australia suspended military cooperation with our close neighbour and ‘redirected aid to non-government organisations in response to escalating violence’.

The NSW guvmint and Council are yet to spring into action to protect one of Byron Shires’s most precious assests – Main Beach. Photo www.taojonesphotographer.com

‘The last person to trust with power is someone who is dying to have it. The best person to wield power is someone who is reluctant to do so, but who will do it for a while as a civic duty.

That is why term limits should make it impossible to have a whole career in politics’ – Thomas Sowell.

NSW Nationals have announced that a piece of coal, ahem, sorry, David Layzell, is their candidate for the Upper Hunter. His campaign launch was at a coal mine, and given Layzell has no experience in farming, nor governance, presumably if elected, he will be a good coal/Nats lapdog.

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A petition calling for local councils to refuse the proposed Netflix reality show is at www.bit.ly/3ddrqiY. Instead, the petition asks Councils and guvmint to ‘focus on supporting our community to address systemic issues of housing affordability, coastal erosion, increasing unemployment, traffic management challenges, low high school completion rates and high levels of gendered and domestic violence’.

Since the PM botched the vaccination rollout and now can’t provide a completion date, here at The Echo, we would be happy with an election date.

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