The Byron Shire Echo – Issue 36.08 – August 4, 2021

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Next week is Homelessness Week 2021, and local cafes, Allpress Espresso Byron Bay and Three Blue Ducks, are taking part in CafeSmart (2–8 August) to help raise funds for their local homeless charities. To support the cause, simply purchase a coffee at your local CafeSmart cafe on Friday August 6, or donate the cost of a coffee online. For more info, visit www.streetsmartaustralia.org/cafesmart. Pictured is Stephanie Brodeur from Three Blue Ducks. Photo Jeff ‘Triple Shot Since 1986’ Dawson

m É ëſōĶëŔĕŕƐ şǔ Īşſ ë ŔşŕƐIJǽ ƱĶƐIJ ĪƖōō żëƷ With COVID-19 cases surging across Sydney and defence forces being deployed in the city, NSW Parliament put out a brief statement last week saying MPs will not sit in the month of August ‘owing to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in NSW’.

It reads, ‘The Presiding Officers are mindful of the public interest and the safety and health of all people who attend Parliament House’.

The Echo asked local NSW MP Tamara Smith (Greens) why Zoom, or other options weren’t explored instead, given it is now 18 months into the pandemic; and whether MPs were still on full pay while not sitting in August?

Ms Smith told The Echo, ‘It is

unacceptable that in this day and age, the parliament is unable to resume in a virtual capacity during the greater Sydney lockdown’.

‘The Federal Parliament was able to offer hybrid parliamentary sittings since the middle of last year, yet the NSW Parliament are saying that it would take a further 12 more months from now for the kinds of back end changes needed to support virtual parliamentary sittings’.

Virtual Budget estimates She says the Greens have made a ‘number of submissions to the LNP on how to hold virtual Budget estimates scheduled for next week, but they have not been taken up’.

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‘Given the unprecedented police, budgetary and emergency powers of the LNP during lockdowns, I think we should be very concerned that there is no democratic oversight for at least another four weeks.

‘The time to start preparing for virtual parliament was nearly 18 months ago and the LNP in NSW have done nothing towards that end’.

When asked to clarify that MPs were still to be paid in full while not sitting in August, Ms Smith replied, ‘Yes, although for lower house MPs, we all continue to run our offices and staff in our electorates’.

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Byron’s weekly farmers’ market may return to its traditional home in Butler Street Reserve after detailed soil testing found that the park was less contaminated than was feared.

After months of discussion and debate over the future of the site following the discovery of acid sulphate soils, consultants hired by Council have found that it is, in fact, suitable for certain community uses.

‘No polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) of public open space healthbased criteria were reported in all the samples collected from the former site surface and/or landfill material,’ the consultants, Cavanbah Consulting, said in their report.

‘The site is considered suitable for the proposed community use for open space, market place and car parking.’ These findings have been forwarded to the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) for a final review.

However, in the meantime, Council staff are developing a proposal for the staged return of community uses to the reserve, including the weekly farmers’ market.

Stage One of this proposal would

Will the farmers’ market return to Butler Street? Photo supplied

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see a return of the weekly farmers’ market to a small grassed section of the reserve. Stage Two would see a return of the entire reserve to community use for a ‘mix of markets, parking and green recreation space, factoring in any constraints or exclusion zones required by the EPA’.

In a press release issued last week, interim Byron Mayor, Michael Lyon, described the latest consultant’s report as ‘positive news’.

Cr Lyon had previously described suggestions that any market could return to Butler Street as an ‘incorrect assertion’, on the basis that the site is too contaminated.

Meanwhile, Council staff are preparing a development application (DA) for the monthly Community Market to be relocated to Railway Park in the centre of town.

This market is currently located in the park next to Byron’s Main Beach. The Community Market was only meant to remain in this temporary home until October.

However, Council staff have now indicated that 90 days is needed to assess the DA, meaning that the relocation will be delayed until at least December 2021.

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ſĕëŊ ëŕĎ ĕŕƐĕſ ëƐ Ʒſşŕ !ĶŕĕŔë A 21-year-old male remains in custody after being apprehended for allegedly breaking into the Palace Cinemas Byron Bay, at 4.20am, Sunday August 1.

Police released a detailed description around the incident, saying that the accused picked up ‘a piece of concrete and broke through the glass and gained entry to the cinema’.

‘The accused remained inside for some time before leaving through the same broken door with a small white bin filled with food

items. The accused walked down the external stairs towards Jonson Street with these items and then returned a short time after.

‘He re-entered the cinema several times before walking to a shop undergoing refurbishment. The accused pulled away one of the boards and left it on the ground’.

Police say he again reentered the cinema as security arrived on the scene. ‘As the accused attempted to exit the cinema, he was confronted by security who took hold of him and called police’.

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Nature-based intervention on şǔ ĕſ Īşſ ëƐȒſĶƆŊ ƷşƖŕī żĕşżōĕ As the trickledown effects of COVID-19 continue to hit our most vulnerable, not-forprofit groups are saying they are overwhelmed.

Suicide is the leading cause of death for Australians aged between 15 and 44, with young Australians more likely to take their own life than to die in a car accident.

Andy Hamilton is the Founder of Human Nature Adventure Therapy, a not-forprofit providing nature-based mental health interventions for at-risk young people across the Northern Rivers.

‘Our work is with those who have years of trauma, so it takes a depth of intervention to really turn their lives around’, explained Andy.

‘We target young people who without this kind of support the consequences could be suicide, homelessness, juvenile detention or drug rehab. We try and get them before they go off the cliff’.

Programs offered by Human Nature are centred around bush adventure therapy, which uses nature and a combination of individual counselling, group work and physical challenges to support healthier motivation and life choices.

‘There is a huge demand for our service, and every dollar counts’, said Andy.

In 2015, Peggy Flannery, who owns Elements of Byron Resort, along with her husband Brian, called Andy after hearing about his work.

They were already supporting numerous organisations in the Byron region including The Buttery, Byron Youth Service and SHIFT. That phone conversation led to an ongoing financial relationship that has been the backbone

Peggy Flannery with Andy Hamilton, Founder of Human Nature Adventure Therapy.

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‘We were running on the smell of an oily rag, getting out there and running programs on next to nothing’, said Andy. ‘For many years, it’s been a struggle to get those most at-risk young people the support they need.

‘The support from Peggy and Brian over the years has allowed us to become a well functioning organisation that is able to grow and meet the need across the extent of the region.

‘This kind of gifting allows our work to be flexible and responsive, providing young people in need with individualised support for as long as it’s required.

‘Without wonderful philanthropists like Peggy and Brian we wouldn’t have been able to continue, let alone flourish. It’s not an exaggeration to say that supporting charities like

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¨şƖſĶƆƐ ĈëćĶŕƆ ƆōëƐĕĎ Īşſ ¨ëŕĎƷƆ dëŕĕ An application for four, one bedroom tourist and visitor accommodation cabins at 150 Tandys Lane, near Uncle Tom’s Pies, is recommended for approval, subject to conditions, by Council staff in this week’s Council agenda.

DA 10.2019.343.1 attracted 26 signatures in opposition, and the staff report says concerns ranged from ‘visual impact, scale, amenity, traffic generation, environmental impact, perceived non-compliance with planning controls and alleged

unauthorised development’.

Staff say the 24.5-hectare rural property, owned by by owners Mr S L Eakin and Ms K Amos, is located at the end of Tandys Lane on the eastern side of the Pacific Highway and lies adjacent to Simpsons Creek. While the RFS [Rural Fire Service] initially refused to issue a Bush Fire Safety Authority, staff say the ‘RFS changed their policy position and issued a BFSA on April 26, 2021’ Councillors will vote on the DA on Thursday.

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Push to create temp accom at Lot 22 Paul Bibby Should the Council-owned plot of land in Mullumbimby, known as Lot 22, be used for temporary accommodation for those at risk of homelessness, as a matter of urgency?

This is the latest proposal for the site – located next to Mullum’s community garden – which will be debated at this week’s Byron Council meeting.

Interim Mayor, Michael Lyon, (Independent and former Green) is proposing that Council submit a development application (DA) for a ‘Transitional Supported Accommodation’ development on part of the site.

This would involve housing to help bridge the gap for those in insecure housing or at risk of homelessness, until they can find a more permanent home.

Individuals and families would stay for no longer than two years in the accommodation, and would benefit from the site’s close proximity to existing housing and social support services in the centre of Mullumbimby.

‘We are not talking about social housing… we need to leave that to State and Federal Governments,’ Cr Lyon said.

‘Nor are we talking about those people whose circumstances allow for wrap-around services and interventions to occur, such as those in acute domestic violence situations.

‘We are talking about a model which is underpinned by people who have the finance to pay

At approximately 29.2 hectares, Lot 22 is Council-managed land, located at the southern edge of Mullumbimby. It is one of four sites, collectively known as the Saltwater Creek Precinct, which have been identified in the Draft Residential Strategy as ‘investigation areas for future housing’.

Photo from 2020 staff report. for accommodation in a ‘normal’ market, including pensioners, key workers on minimum wage, single parents etc.’

The motion is the latest attempt by Cr Lyon and others to address what they have termed the Shire’s ‘housing emergency’.

Recent proposals to use caravan parks for crisis accommodation and to turn Council-owned land into safe spaces for those sleeping in their cars or vans, hit the skids when staff pointed out that there was no Council land where this was considered a ‘permissible use’.

Cr Lyon believes that transitional supported accommodation is a permitted use on Lot 22, even though the site is currently zoned for public recreation – RE1.

This view is backed up

by Council’s Director of Sustainable Environment and Economy, Shannon Burt.

In written comments accompanying the report,

Ms Burt said that, as well as the RE1 zoning, the site had a Plan of Management that provided for affordable housing on part of the land.

‘As such, and as per the recommendation, a development application can be prepared and submitted for Transitional Supported Accommodation, made under existing definitions in the Local Environmental Plan 2014, on Lot 22.’

However, this is unlikely to convince the vocal group of Mullum locals who oppose any housing development on Lot 22.

In his notice of motion, Cr Lyon argues that the extent of the crisis requires urgent action. He writes, ‘The time for talk and imposing barriers is over, we need to see a change of approach, which is about enabling solutions and actions implemented on the ground,’ Cr Lyon said.

‘What needs to be clearly understood here is not just the extent of the emergency we are currently in, but that we are not even close to the peak of this crisis’.

According to a 2020 staff report on Lot 22, the site adjoins wetlands and contain areas that are ‘deemed developable when considering the impact to the regional flood levels and the development controls with regards to flooding on new land release areas’.

They write on page 5, ‘A cut to fill balance may be achievable; however, its viability is dependent on the soil quality onsite, which is currently unknown’, and, ‘Some channel works may be required to achieve the development footprint proposed – these have not been considered in the costing…’

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Flooding issues They point out that the site has significant flooding issues – as evidenced by the March 2017 floods – and claim that this renders it unsafe and unsuitable for housing.

It is also argued that the site is a precious piece of open space that effectively forms a ‘commons’ for the town of Mullumbimby.

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Police unsupportive of political press release over break and enter Following the receipt of a media release by Council candidate Alan Hunter regarding a break and enter in Byron Bay, The Echo contacted local Byron Bay Police to confirm the details of the theft and criminal escapade at a local camping store and a nearby home.

Detective Chief Inspector, Matt Kehoe said, ‘I can advise that police did respond to a break and enter in Jonson Street, Byron Bay about 3am Thursday, July 29’.

‘Property was stolen from this location, including some camping

gear and cash. This did include knives and other items’.

‘Police also attended a property in Butler Street shortly after, and spoke with a resident who reported a suspicious male in the front yard of his property.

‘Police have retained a number of items for forensic examination and it is believed the offender may have cut his leg.

‘The offender is described as 20–25 years old wearing black khaki chino style pants, a grey hoodie and a large backpack.

‘The police investigation is ongoing and we are asking for anyone with information to contact Byron Bay Police or Crime Stoppers,’ he said.

‘In regards to the other issues raised in the “media release” [by Cr Alan Hunter], police do not support any of these assertions,’ he told The Echo. Cr Hunter’s highly emotive press release on July 29 claims the reserves around Butler Street ‘have been known in prison as “safe places” to hide once on parole’.

He writes, ‘The few local

residents left in Butler street know it as the “shooting gallery” owing to the thousands of discarded syringes left in the scrub’.

‘A supposed nature reserve and conservation area, avoided

by Council and State Government alike, is better described as a hub of prostitution, shooting up, a place for kids to drink, and a great halfway house for criminals near the beach. Now, it is also an escape path for knife-wielding criminals’.

Mr Hunter said, ‘We waste thousands on unwinnable court cases

and unfundable train rebuilds, but when a community member points out a real issue that impacts them, it isn’t media-grabbing enough to [get] help [from] this Council.

Maybe this will wake them up’.

He continued, ‘The streets are so empty being over half Short- Term Accommodation Rentals (STARs), this criminal was particularly unlucky to have been caught. The neighbourhoods are mostly empty and a perfect place for bad people to hide. That would change if STARs were required to have caretakers’.

Byron Shire now included in north coast catchment CMP

Work underway on the development of the Richmond River Coastal Management Program (CMP) now includes parts of the Byron Shire, say Council.

Council staff say, ‘In the past, a Coastal Zone Management Plan focused on the management of the Richmond River in the Ballina, Lismore and Richmond Valley council areas’.

‘This time, the plan is for a “whole of catchment approach” to the Richmond River, recognising how

the health of the upper catchments affect the lower reaches of the river’, Peter Boyd, Biodiversity and Agricultural Projects Officer, said.

Richmond drainage ‘Just under half of Byron Shire drains into the Richmond, with waterways including Coopers Creek, Wilsons Creek and Byron Creek flowing into the Wilson River and then to the Richmond’, he said.

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Lennox takes minor premiership in rugby

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The Lennox Head Trojans have finished the regular season on the top of the ladder, after a string of strong wins in the Far North Coast rugby competition.

Last weekend, the Trojans beat Lismore City 26–0 and the week before they downed Casino 90–10.

On August 14, they will line up against secondplaced Bangalow, in a game that will decide the first team into the grand final, held on August 28.

Bangalow also had a strong finish to the regular season, and came in just four

competition points behind Lennox Head, who finished on 51.

In the run home, Bangalow beat Wollongbar Alstonville 41–29 at home last week, Ballina the week before 40–33, and ran in a cricket score against Lismore City in round 12, winning 101–3.

The Trojans also topped the table in second grade on 50 points, with 10 wins from 12 starts. Ballina (39), Casuarina Beach (39) and Wollongbar Alstonville (33) rounded out the top four finalists.

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Will the border ‘bubble’ zone burst owing to COVID-19 cases in QLD?

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A person who has been in an area of concern, ‘must, after arriving in NSW, immediately travel directly to the person’s place of residence or a suitable place to reside in…’

‘The person must not leave that residence except with a reasonable excuse for 14 days after they were last in the area of concern’.

The state of the so-called ‘border bubble’ zone allowing Northern Rivers residents to cross back and forth over the Queensland border is unclear given the August 8 extension to Qld’s lockdown.

The border ‘bubble’ zone permits those who reside in northern NSW local government areas (LGAs) to travel to Qld, under certain circumstances.

Included in the border zone, according to www.qld. gov.au, are Council areas from Tweed and Byron, down to Clarence Valley Council, and as far west as Bourke Shire Council.

Anyone in NSW who has been in one or more of eleven particular Queensland local government areas since July 21 is required to follow ‘stay at home’ rules, ‘or until the notice is revoked’, authorities said on Saturday.

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ǔĕĈƐĕĎ ëſĕë The state of Queensland from June 16 is considered ‘affected’ area, .

To travel into NSW, a person over 16 years of age who has been in an affected area within the previous 14 days, ‘must substantially

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Areas of concern As for areas of concern (identified from July 21), they include ‘City of Brisbane, City of Ipswich, Gold Coast City, Lockyer Valley Region,

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Will Tweed Council remove final option for RLSC in Tweed Shire?

At its upcoming Council meeting, the Tweed Shire Council is seeking to remove the option of Rural Land Sharing Communities, which includes multiple occupancies and community title.

Cyclist dies in collision after refusing police request to stop – Casino A cyclist has died following a collision with a vehicle after police asked him to stop.

Two missing persons alerts on Northern Rivers Police are asking the public for help finding two people reported missing in the Northern Rivers.

The great Ballina Library book sale This Friday and Saturday will see booklover’s dreams materialise in Ballina when the library holds their Library Collection Overhaul and Book Sale.

Open-air artwork by the river at Murwillumbah completed The Northern Rivers is listed in the top 35 of the world’s biodiversity hotspots and recognising the importance of this Earth Learning have funded the Ages of the Tweed mural which was recently completed on the levee wall on the Murwillumbah riverside.

Joyride tears up Chinderah golf course fairway Police say that three youths were caught joyriding on golf club vehicles at Chinderah late last Friday evening.

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Aslan Shand The Save Alstonville Aquifer Group have raised concerns over potentially including the water source as part of Rous County Council’s (RCC) Integrated Water Cycle Management Plan (IWCM).

In response, Chair of Rous County Council, Keith Williams says, ‘Water NSW have recently agreed that the deepest aquifer accessed by the Rous test drilling program is no longer part of the Alstonville Plateau system at all, and will be assessed as a new application into the much larger ClarenceMoreton sand aquifer below’.

‘This aquifer is more than 250m below the surface and sits underneath the fractured basalt layers of the Plateau that make up the Alstonville system’, he added. ‘[Utilising] the deep bores in the Clarence-Moreton basin would be an excellent outcome for agriculture on the plateau, as it would enable the removal of existing shallow bores (40–80m) that do impact on rural users in dry times’.

Mr Williams says, ‘There are currently 1.2 Gigalitres

A typical geological cross section of the Casino, Lismore and Alstonville area. Photo supplied (GL) of public water supply licences in the Alstonville aquifer. This compares to more than 8GL in private licences in the aquifer on which there is currently no metering’.

Mr Williams pointed out that ‘The NSW Chief Scientist highlighted this lack of metering as the primary source of uncertainty regarding the sustainability of the Alstonville aquifer in his 2018 report.’

Meanwhile, Peter Coombes, Chair of Engineering at Southern Cross University told The Echo, ‘First, the sustainability and resilience of the groundwater needs to be investigated.’

‘Alstonville aquifers are a complex system with multiple different layers that take different time periods to replenish,’ he highlighted.

‘If [Rous County Council] are seeking a licence, then the licencing process, both at a State Government and Commonwealth Government level, would require proper studies and processes to ensure there is an adequate re-charge rate. The recharge rate needs to be significantly higher than the rate of use.

‘The NSW chief scientist might be able to say that the particular amount being removed from the region in general will be okay, but the

issue is that the ground water aquifers are highly variable across space, time, and depth.’

Mr Coombes had previously pointed out that ‘There are shallow aquifers that respond immediately to rainfall, and deeper aquifers in the soil that have much older water in them, and take far longer to respond. When you use artesian basin water you may not be getting it back for a millennium or two’.

‘When you get to the small scale, you need to find out if it is sustainable in its community – what the impacts are on the local aquifer,’ Mr Coombes said.

‘You can have a situation where you are withdrawing say 100 Megalitres a year, and across the region it seems like nothing; but on a local community level, the impacts on nearby creeks, streams, local farmers – then you get to see those local impacts of the water extraction’.

Private bores Currently there is no metering on private bores in the Alstonville aquifer, with Water NSW proposing to introduce metering on private bores from 2023–24.

Mr Williams said, ‘Given the level of public concern expressed about ground water extraction from the Alstonville aquifer in the recent community consultation conducted by Rous, I would invite the Save the Alstonville Aquifer group to join with me in calling for the State Government to bring forward its metering program, to ensure the community can have confidence that the 8GL of privately held licences in the Alstonville aquifer are being properly observed’.

But Mr Coombes highlighted the need to watch the impacts from the local bore field.

‘Colleagues have told me that there is not enough measuring and monitoring currently to determine what would happen if you begin to withdraw large amount of water from the system’.

Meanwhile, Mr Williams said, ‘The Dunoon Dam [proposal] is not the solution for an additional 1GL of permanent water supply, needed for the Rous system by 2024’.

‘There is no possibility a dam could be completed prior to 2029’.

IPC fails at reducing emissions: report A NSW planning commission tasked with assessing large fossil fuel projects has been found to have ‘comprehensively failed’ in mitigating greenhouse emissions, according to a report published by Griffith University Emeritus Professor Ian Lowe.

Professor Lowe writes that, based on the most generous overall assessment, The Independent Planning Commission (IPC) ‘has only implemented conditions that could lead to the abatement of 7.7 million tonnes out of a total of 1,387 million tonnes of all greenhouse emissions from the eight projects’.

Consideration of conditions to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions is a requirement of all IPC decisions about coal mining and coal seam gas projects in NSW. However, Professor Lowe’s report shows the IPC has recommended a ‘hodgepodge of vague, mostly unenforceable, conditions that have done little or nothing to abate operational emissions despite measures being available to prevent them’.

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Professor Lowe said, ‘This report reveals the NSW Government is comprehensively failing to tackle direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions in the mining sector’.

He described the inaction as ‘utterly irresponsible… to do next to nothing to mitigate almost 90 million tonnes of operational emissions produced locally from these new mining projects’.

Lock the Gate Alliance NSW spokesperson, Nic Clyde, said, ‘The people of NSW should not be left bearing all the costs of climate change in the form of devastating bushfires, droughts and heatwaves, while the mining industry pollutes and profits with abandon’.

He added the cosy relationship between coal companies and the NSW Government results in government pretends in meaningless conditions of consent.

Professor Lowe’s full report, Emissions from recently approved fossil fuel projects in NSW can be accessed via https://bit.ly/3xjCcLg. www.echo.net.au

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Circus HQ gets a makeover A Showground Stimulus Fund grant of $236,600 from the NSW Government has facilitated much-needed renovations at the Mullumbimby Showground.

Spaghetti Circus management say the Show Pavilion, ‘has received an upgraded floor, new walls, five new awnings, new cupboards, a lick of paint and planter box seating in the sun’.

Spaghetti Circus General Manager, Alice Cadwell, says the upgrades were made possible by the tireless work of volunteers Mark Ward, Ross Tucker, Leone McRae, Cr Basil Cameron, Wayne Moff, David Brown, Manager Owen Trembath, and previous manager, Kelly West.

Nimbin shooting Emergency services were called to Thorburn Street, Nimbin, at around midday Friday July 30, after reports of gunshots.

Police say, ‘Upon arrival, police located a man in his 20s with a gunshot wound to the leg.’

The man was treated at

the scene by NSW Ambulance paramedics, before being airlifted to Lismore Base Hospital in a stable condition.

‘His injuries are not considered life-threatening,’ said the spokesperson. Officers from Richmond Police District say a man has been charged over the shooting.

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‘The EOI was opened on 20 December 2020, and over 500 applications were received by its closing in February 2021’.

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Economic loss from cancelled 2021 Buesfest $225.4M: report A Reuben Lawrence Consulting report that analysed the March 2021 cancellation of Bluesfest has found the total cost to the economy was estimated to be $181.2M, plus job losses of 897 [FTE] totalling $44.2M for a combined loss of $225.4M. After the first Bluesfest was cancelled in 2020 owing to a NSW Public Health Order, Bluesfest planned a COVID-19 Safe Bluesfest 2021, yet was shut down a day before the event by another NSW Public Health Order.

Photo Jeff Dawson A crowd-funding effort to raise $16,500 to finish the build of Uncle Lewis Walker’s gunyah (home), is underway.

The aim is to give the much beloved elder a comfortable and warm place to live and do his work from.

According to the Go Fund Me webpage, ‘Uncle Lewis has done much to support both black and white communities in the Northern Rivers and Australia wide. Uncle recently had a snake bite on his foot that turned septic’.

‘After being admitted to hospital he had a major five hour surgery to correct blood

clots in the veins to his legs – 89 stitches and six weeks in hospital in total.

Snake bite ‘He has just been released from hospital into rehab – physio and hydro therapy to recover from his surgery.

‘Uncle Lewis’s gunyah is on the beautiful Rock River near Tabulam.

‘The Rocky is the most sacred river in the Bundjalung nation – a healing river and a place of lore.

Uncle’s gunyah is only half built. Tarps for walls that let in the cold, wind and rain.

‘Australia has never seen public waste on ƐIJĶƆ ƆĈëōĕȁ mĕƱ ǔīƖſĕƆ ƆƖīīĕƆƐ ƐIJëƐ ȧǧǩ ćĶōōĶşŕ Ķŕ `şćbĕĕżĕſ ƱëƆ ƆżōëƆIJĕĎ şŕ ǔſŔƆ ƱĶƐIJ ſĶƆĶŕī ĕëſŕĶŕīƆȁ ¨IJëƐțƆ ĕŕşƖīIJ ŔşŕĕƷ Ɛş ćƖĶōĎ ë Ďşǀĕŕ IJşƆżĶƐëōƆǼ ëŕĎ Ŕşſĕ ƐIJëŕ ƐIJĕ ĪĕĎĕſëō īşưƐ ƆżĕŕĎƆ şŕ żƖćōĶĈ ƆĈIJşşōƆț Tweet by Andrew Leigh MP (Labor)

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‘A dirt floor and no separate kitchen, a hole in the roof for the smoke to go out all make the space dusty and smoky.

‘Your contribution will be used to finish Uncle’s gunyah, to create a healthy and comfortable living environment for him to heal, rest, live and work from.

‘Your contribution will be spent on the following: walls and windows, flooring, adding a kitchen room, adding a veranda and electrical wiring’.

The crowdfunder is at https://bit.ly/3rRvBqo.

Heartbroken Bluesfest Director Peter Noble OAM says, ‘We were heartbroken when we first got cancelled in 2020, but the last-minute cancellation in 2021 was catastrophic’.

Mr Noble says that although he will ‘never believe Bluesfest 2021 at Easter should have been cancelled, owing to one positive case of COVID-19 from a non-festival ticket buyer, who lives 35 minutes’ drive time away from the event, you can’t change the past’.

He says, depsite the combined loss of $225.4m, ‘We still created economic

output of $33.8M and wages valued at $7.4M!’ ‘We lost so much when Bluesfest was cancelled less than 24 hours out by NSW Public Health Order.

‘Our entire industry was traumatised, yet we picked up the pieces, put ourselves back together, paid our bills, including significant payments to the cancelled artists and still delivered major numbers to the economy of NSW in economic output and job creation.

‘In the end, we move on, because we believe our industry, the live music industry, will come back stronger than ever. There is simply nothing that equals the experience of live music.

‘Live music will return and we will be at the forefront’.

Mr Noble says, ‘The direct and total economic impacts associated with Bluesfest Festival 2021 on the Byron Shire, the Northern Rivers and NSW in 2020/21 include: ‘Total output of $14.2M in Byron Shire, $17.9M in the Northern Rivers, $27.4M in NSW and $33.8M in Australia.

‘Estimated total income (wages and salaries) of $2.1M in Byron Shire, $3.2M in the

Northern Rivers, $5.7M million in NSW and $7.2M in Australia.

‘Approximately 33.4 fulltime equivalent [FTE] employment positions in Byron Shire, 53.6 [FTE] in the Northern Rivers, 84.5 [FTE] in NSW and 103.4 [FTE] in Australia.

‘An estimated contribution to GRP of $6.9M in Byron Shire, $9.4M in the Northern Rivers and $14.5M in NSW and $18.6M in Australia.

‘By comparison, in 2019 Bluesfest generated 858 full time equivalent jobs in the Northern Rivers, 1,436.1 in the State of NSW, and 1,556.8 in Australia, whereas in 2021 Bluesfest generated only 53.6 jobs [FTE] in the Northern Rivers, 84.5 jobs [FTE] in the State of NSW and 81.9 jobs [FTE] in Australia, due to the fact the festival was ordered not to go ahead the day prior to its opening’.

The full Economic Impact Reports (2019, 2020, 2021) commissioned by Bluesfest and undertaken by Reuben Lawrence Consulting, an independent consultancy firm whose reports are accepted and referred to by official authorities, can be downloaded from https://bit.ly/2VpQ8pQ.

dşĈëō dëćşſ l ſĕżōĶĕƆ Ɛş ćëĈŊǖĶżƆ şŕ neg gearing, more tax cuts for wealthy With the federal Labor Party’s recent backflip on stage three tax cuts and negative gearing reform, The Echo asked local Labor MP Justine Elliot how such polices align with Labor values, given this supports the Nationals and Liberals’ ideology of only helping the wealthy.

According to the ABC, ‘The “stage 3” tax cuts will see everyone earning between $45,000 and $200,000 paying 30 per cent in tax from 2024’.

‘The changes scrap the 37 per cent tax bracket for those earning above $120,000, making those earners the biggest winners from the cuts’.

It will reduce government funds by $19 billion a year, say the ABC. Ms Elliot told The Echo, ‘The next federal election is very serious. It’s not a joke or a game and there is so much at stake for our community’.

‘The only sure-fire way to make your vote count is to vote for Justine Elliot and Labor so that Labor can form government to get rid of Scott Morrison.

Greens can’t form govt ‘Don’t waste your vote on Mandy Nolan and the Greens. The fact is the Greens can’t form government and they can’t get rid of Scott Morrison.

‘In terms of tax cuts, an Albanese

Labor Government will deliver the same legislated tax relief to more than nine million Australians as currently legislated.

‘Labor in government will maintain the laws on personal income taxes and the existing negative gearing and capital gains taxes.

‘Labor is providing certainty and clarity to Australian working families as we continue to support our country and citizens during these uncertain COVID-19 times. Our focus is on making sure Australia emerges from this pandemic stronger and more resilient – with an economy that works for working families not the other way around.

‘When it comes to the economy, the next election will be a referendum on Scott Morrison’s dangerous and costly vaccines and quarantine failures.

‘His failures on vaccines and quarantines have caused lockdowns 18 months into this pandemic, and those lockdowns are causing billions of dollars in damage to the economy.

‘Over eight long years in government, the Liberals and Nationals’ record is clear in the lives of everyday Australians: stagnant wages, insecure jobs, increased costs for health care and childcare, longer waits to see a GP, and a trillion dollars in debt.

‘Their own Budget forecasts a decline in real wages over the next four years and independent analysis by the McKell Institute shows that Mr Morrison’s policies have made the average worker $13,000 a year worse off.

‘Improving the Budget is all about growing the economy, cracking down on waste and rorts, creating more opportunities for more Australians across all parts of our country, and creating a society that is stronger after COVID-19 than it was before.’

It also means ensuring our broader tax system is fair and sustainable, especially when it comes to making sure that multinational corporations pay their fair share of tax and we will have more to say about that.

‘After delivering eight deficits – including the largest in Australia’s history – the Morrison’s government’s only legacy will be generational debt without a generational dividend’.

Justine concluded, ‘At the next election, make your vote count and vote Justine Elliot and Labor first to actually change the government and improve our community and our country’.

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Bruns boat harbour upgrades The Bruns boat harbour is about to be upgraded, says Transport for NSW Maritime, ‘to improve safe access to the waterway’.

According to its website, Transport for NSW Maritime, ‘The priority for this project is to provide a modern facility that meets current safety and accessibility criteria’.

‘As part of the planning and design phase, Transport for NSW will engage with harbour users, adjacent landholders and the community throughout the project, including the planning, design, and construction stages.

‘TfNSW has engaged surveyors to determine boundaries, depths and existing layout of the harbour. This

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data will be used to develop design options for the onwater infrastructure upgrade and will be presented to key stakeholders.

‘TfNSW is in the process of identifying utility services and will complete minor repairs and public amenity

improvements to the landbased infrastructure along the harbour that will support the upgrade work.

‘TfNSW has also commenced a review of existing berth licensing arrangements with current berth licensees.

TfNSW will establish a wait

list for people wishing to berth their vessels at Brunswick Heads Boat Harbour’.

Transport for NSW say it was recently appointed as the Crown Lands Manager for the harbour; previously it was managed by the Department of Planning, Industry and Environment – Crown Lands (DPIE – Crown Lands).

The department say it is ‘reviewing relevant investigations, concepts and community feedback from previous work completed by Crown Lands for the Draft Masterplan, and will inform this upgrade project’.

For more info, phone 1300 066 965 or email BrunswickHeadsMarina@transport. nsw.gov.au.

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Saddle Road proposal seeks temporary accom cabins Paul Bibby Could farm stay accommodation be built for the express purpose of providing temporary affordable housing for agriculture students in the Byron Shire?

This is the question Byron Council is set to explore when an application for development in Brunswick Heads comes before this week’s planning meeting.

Proposed by Matthew O’Reilly, who is standing for The Greens at the upcoming December 4 Council elections, the development is for six cabins and a central facility at 219 Saddle Road.

Each of the cabins will have one bedroom, a kitchen, living room, bathroom, verandah, rainwater collection and solar panels.

Mr O’Reilly’s application indicates that the cabins and central facility are proposed to be used for supplying accommodation to students to supplement their study in relevant agricultural, sustainability, natural resources and conservation courses.

It is stated that the intent is to provide short-term

accommodation ranging from two weeks to three months.

If not in use by students, the cabins would be available for temporary and short-term visitors and guests.

Mr O’Reilly has set out a series of proposed conditions in a bid to achieve the goal that 80 per cent of the development will be used for temporary affordable rental accommodation for students.

However, this plan appears to have hit a roadblock.

Tourist vs residential Council staff responsible for assessing the application say that planning rules do not allow for affordable housing on a farm stay.

‘Despite the applicant’s references to “affordable housing”, farm stay accommodation is a form of tourist and visitor accommodation’, Council staff say in their report on the application.

‘It is not a form of residential accommodation.’

But Mr O’Reilly said in an email to councillors that staff have failed

to distinguish between ‘temporary’ and ‘short-term’ accommodation and that his proposal was permissible under planning laws.

He says Koresoft Pty Ltd, the company that he represents, ‘believes that temporary accommodation is permissible for farm stay accommodation and it is distinct and different to short-term accommodation’.

‘Koresoft Pty Ltd believes that rural tourism accommodation is separately defined in the Byron DCP 2014 and clearly ONLY allows short-term accommodation and NOT temporary accommodation, whereas farm stay accommodation specifically allows temporary accommodation as well as short-term accommodation’.

The application is another example of an attempt to find solutions to the region’s housing crisis that are permissible under NSW’s rigid and restrictive planning rules.

While the NSW Government has made significant changes to these rules during COVID-19 to encourage construction of housing for middle to high income

earners, it has failed to adapt the planning framework to the pressing need for more affordable housing.

Repeated attempts by Byron Council to achieve this second aim have fallen by the wayside owing to the nature of the existing planning regime.

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Local leadership vacuum The delays in holding Council elections are frustrating, the more so because what we have seen during the long period since the last vote has been an experiment in governing by the zen method of no government.

The staff are professionals, councillors argued, so we should allow them to do their jobs, unfettered by community concerns about overdevelopment or environmental degradation.

Council’s Planning Department can be trusted to make the best decisions, and contending with greedy developers is a never-ending drain on our finances, so it is not worth fighting them in court.

In some ways, the experiment appears to have been successful.

Given that we are all paying twice as much in rates as we did a few years ago, there has been money to tackle potholes, warped bridges and washed-out roads, and some worthwhile projects, and some controversial ones, have been mounted.

The residents who, with their objections routinely ignored, found new buildings looming over them with views into their gardens and windows may have felt differently, ecologists who track the health of our natural systems may not agree, and perennial ratbags like Fast Buck$ will never be satisfied, but the incumbent Council can say it had a consistent policy: Don’t interfere with the smooth running of the bureaucracy.

However, running smoothly is not always running well.

Never mind the lack of planning controls attuned to community expectations, never mind the eyesores and the surrenders to wealth. Local government that is not responsive to the culture of its residents can produce painful cognitive dissonance.

As a small but telling example, just consider the tonedeafness required in a council for it to label its vehicles with the word ‘Enforcement’.

There is ‘Parking Enforcement’ for the parking inspectors; there is ‘Animal Enforcement’ for the dog catchers; and there is ‘Community Enforcement’, which elicits a WTF response from anyone not mesmerised by bureaucratic jargon.

Notoriously little power resides in the office of councillor.

If the staff choose to be obstructive, they can Yes Minister the crap out of any attempt to get the things done that you were elected for. But councillors should nevertheless try to exercise some supervision, and they should have a plan for preventing the spirit of Byron Shire being buried under a crass built environment.

The departing councillors failed in these aims; indeed the majority of them did not even espouse them and spent most of their time arguing with themselves and their critics.

On top of that, the pandemic has twice extended the life of the current Council beyond what any of us can bear.

It is truly time for change.

David Lovejoy, Echo co-founder

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t’s really easy to look at the news around Australia’s covid nonstrategy and be caught up in the many head-scratching details.

So much of the recent sound and perfectly-justified fury around the official handling of the pandemic has been directed toward the NSW Premier, Gladys Berejiklian, and her fast-unravelling relationship with Prime Minister Scott Morrison over who is most at fault for NSW’s lockdown.

The daily caseload is yet to reduce while the government sidesteps the issue of whether it has been prioritising business demands over medical advice.

There are many questions about the messy rollout of vaccines, and the sudden implementation of the military patrols in Sydney’s less-wealthy suburbs.

These questions come on top of still unanswered questions about the deals to secure vaccine doses, why we didn’t have more vaccine options, why the original timeline for the vaccinations wasn’t met, why private companies were tasked with the rollout, why there’s been barely any community outreach, and whether or not there’s actually a ‘national vaccine stockpile’.

Yet being too caught up in the details can mean that we are distracted – we need to step back to ask the bigger question of why we’re at this point at all.

The COVID-19 pandemic is an ongoing disaster and no country has handled it perfectly; but Australia had every possible advantage – low early cases, a successful lockdown which bought us valuable time, a largely centralised population in a wealthy industrialised nation, a country that is notoriously girt by sea, and state and federal governments and parties making an early commitment to work in united purpose.

This even manifested in the coalition government taking counsel from the union movement and Labor to create JobKeeper, a federal income support system to ensure that people weren’t rendered destitute during the countrywide lockdown.

But what if the government then didn’t squander all that amazing early unity by using the pandemic to enrich their allies and punish political adversaries (and the states they governed)?

What if they’d looked at what had worked, and what had not, and acted accordingly?

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Andrew P Street Here’s how things could very, very easily have gone instead, had Morrison chosen to take a rather less re-electionfocussed approach: While the government negotiated with multiple companies for vaccines, understanding that some may have weaknesses, and it was best to have options, they realised that outbreaks were being traced to casual workers and people on visas doing shifts in quarantine hotels.

This drew an urgent and immediate response: everyone in Australia was made eligible for JobKeeper, regardless of their visa or employment status, and multiple dedicated quarantine hubs were built in order to get people out of the hotel system that wasn’t designed to contain a virus.

This was especially necessary, because there were still tens of thousands of Australians trapped overseas, and the government had promised to bring them home by Christmas, so needed to work rapidly to be able to accommodate them apon their return.

Once the first vaccines arrived, things stepped up a gear.

With most of Australia no longer even under public health restrictions, it was the perfect time to ensure that people got jabbed.

A massive national advertising campaign launched, encouraging people to get vaccinated for Australia, accompanied by a suite of laws similar to those around our National Immunisation Program schedule.

A handful of anti-vax voices sprang up within predictably opportunistic corners of the government, but were shut down by a PM who understood that this was too important an issue to let things turn into a dumb culture war flashpoint.

And because of the goodwill he’d built up with the opposition and minor parties, it was understood that they would support the government in

making this vital public health message overpower the bleating of a handful of cranks and frauds.

While the very first jabs went to frontline workers, aged care and disabled facilities, and Indigenous communities, mass vaccination hubs were set up in the cities by the state health departments so that everyone else could easily book and receive a timely vaccination.

By mid-2021, the government felt Australia was in a position to offer doses to struggling neighbours like Indonesia – helping prevent new variants coming into the country, while also doing some very valuable and long-overdue international diplomacy, especially given that China had been filling that void.

There was widespread confidence that by the end of 2021, international travel could resume. Holidays to other hubs were back on the cards (including a vaccinated and grateful Bali), and Australia was looking back at that hard national lockdown in March 2020 as a moment that united Australia.

No matter the state, everyone had gotten through it together, knowing that when the chips were down they could rely on the Australian government to have their back.

What’s more, the deft handling of the pandemic had set Morrison up for a political term to rival that of Menzies – who could deny him another term after demonstrating such strong and capable leadership?

Of course, this is all a fantasy.

And sure, had the above actually happened, there was the risk of the Morrison government being punished for making COVID-19 look like it wasn’t that big a deal, much as the Rudd government experienced after saving Australia from the Global Financial Crisis.

So at least Scott had one win; when the history of 2020–22 is written, it’s absolutely certain that no one’s going to accuse Morrison of having done too good a job.

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Letters The right decision I would like to say ‘congratulations!’ to musician Lisa Hunt, but really, for what? It was a relief that court magistrate Karen Stafford made the right decision by throwing out the fine and to record no conviction. However, Lisa has had months of unnecessary stress and is now on a good behaviour bond for two years! Owing to this she says she has decided to leave Byron Bay, and we are all much poorer for that loss.

What about fining the licensing police for their behaviour and their lack of care at that concert? One has to wonder what their beef about Lisa really was – ? Ugh, I hate to think.

As Mandy wrote last week, these COVID times are particularly hard for artists as they are not being very well supported, if at all, by the government and many are falling through the cracks.

Our art scene is being eroded, and who is standing up for the artists? Whenever there is a fund-raiser, musicians are asked to play for free and visual artists invited to give their art away. Many are very generous, but the care should go both ways.

There are cultures that have killed off the artists, and we can see that [in those places] quality and enjoyment of life is very much impoverished as a result. The least we can do is support our artists. If they put on a show that has to be cancelled, maybe we could consider gifting them the cost of our ticket rather than taking it back. They already lost a lot of money, not to mention heart. Life without music, art, singing and dancing could become a reality if our society keeps hitting artists where it hurts, especially for no good reason.

Good luck Lisa and please, keep up the good work of uplifting us. We love you!

Magenta Appel-Pye Mullumbimby

Sticking to facts Thanks to The Echo for reporting scientific facts around the pandemic and not relying on social media ‘research’. Also a big thanks to Mandy’s Soapbox for articulating a compassionate response to mask wearing and social behaviour.

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While conspiratorial ‘facts’ are being pumped from Mullum’s delusional rabbit holes, the Walkabout Creek Hotel’s licensee, McKinlay (near Mt Isa), has a far greater respect for peer-reviewed science and the health of its customers, demanding QR check-in or there’ll be no beer for you mate.

While Mullum’s conspiracists are shouting ‘denial of freedom’ (demanding a freedom that can quickly spread the disease) McKinlay’s bush folk see it as their freedom to obey good rules to help preserve a disease-free environment.

Aren’t humans an interesting bunch?

John Millard Mullumbimby (on the road) Cartoon by Paul Pattie on relationships. Whatever we do will ripple through society and affect each of us.

Things may be inconvenient at the moment but for the good of the whole, wear a mask when needed, and for those that see that a vaccine is the only way out of this pandemic mess – go and get vaccinated.

Roger Cotgreave Byron Bay

Byron, buildings & TV I left Bondi in 2013 to escape the steel cranes sprouting out of the demolished 1930s homes, to settle in quiet, natural Sunrise in Byron. The sounds of the sea and birds only to be heard in the early morning and evening. Early morning now brings the sounds of the tradies.

The Bondi developers have birthed a bunch of hipsters that are invading Byron. Building heights and floor/space ratios are not something to stick to; they are there to argue about. The term ‘boarding house’ has been redefined from a large building with five bedrooms where tenants shared the kitchen, bathroom and lounge amenities – to undersized apartments in buildings with tiny rooms and facilities with the provisional objective of low-cost rental. But it doesn’t look like low-cost rental to me.

In 2002 I unsuccessfully offered $1.4m (with three other couples) on a block of flats in Bondi. Unsuccessfully because the agent told us we were competing with Kerry Packer who had already

proffered $1.9m for the units.

They were to be in a NINE TV program about four couples renovating them for a prize.

They managed to do cheap DIY renovations, got their five minutes of fame and disappeared. It made a lot of money for NINE and they’ve had about 12 shows in the series.

NINE owns major newspaper and media platforms and wants to make money in Byron. They are looking to buy five houses in Sunrise Boulevard. I belive it’s true because if you ask the neighbours there, they will say, ‘No comment’!

Dorothy May, who spoke to The Echo last week, is well placed to be complaining, if that’s the case. She will have tradies in the five houses next to hers for all hours, every day, for months. The ‘stars’ will do only so much in TV time and the builders will do the skilled work later.

Advice to homeowners: if you are going to sell to NINE, ask for double the current value of your home.

Not the puny circa 2002 $500,000-above-marketvalue. They can afford it.

Raphael Lee Cass Byron Bay

The Echo detailed all ingredients in COVID-19 vaccines in the 21 July issue (p 20) on online (www.echo.net.au), yet the misinformation virus continues to spread.

A car seen parked around Mullum has a large sticker claiming vaccines contain aluminium, formaldehyde, latex, aborted foetal cells, mercury, and Polysorbate 80 & 20.

The first five things are just not in covid vaccines.

Preservative Thimerasol, containing mercury, was removed from all vaccines (except for Q Fever) in Australia in 2000(https://bit. ly/3imhJBk).

AstraZeneca contains Polysorbate 80. This is in many food products, cosmetics, shampoos and drugs. It is a surfactant or emulsifier, to stop the ingredients from separating.

Polysorbate 80 can be a skin irritant for some sensitive

Dunoon Dam Being a Rous County councillor must be a hard job. The workload of reading reports must be enormous and keeping communities informed must be exhausting. I am convinced that all eight councillors do their utmost to serve their community in the best way they can. Otherwise they wouldn’t be there.

In view of that, I believe

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How ironic. While the conspiracy-science-deniers of Mullumbimby are refusing to respect the well-founded health protection requirements against COVID, far away in remote west Qld, furthest from any COVID outbreak in Australia, the health-rules are strict, and willingly obeyed.

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the decision on 21 July by five of the eight councillors to keep the Dunoon Dam off the table was exceptionally courageous.

They were faced with a well-funded campaign to gather signatures in favour of more studies on the Dunoon Dam, and the rejection of all permanent water sources apart from dams. These five councillors knew that this was the exact reverse of ‘all options on the table’ and would put their community at risk.

They noted the numerous water authorities who recommend that diverse water option are the only way to secure future water. They noted that not a single report, study or speaker advocated the concentration of water supplies in a single source. ▶ Continued on next page

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people. It is possibly the cause of the headaches or rashes some get after vaccines.

The other ingredients are salt, sugar, lipids, amino acids and ethanol (0.005 per cent compared to five per cent in beer). Science, not emotive misinformed opinion, must prevail.

Susan Skyvington Mullumbimby

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North Coast news online

How do we reconcile with truth in a fake news world?

Q Duncan Shipley-Smith’s stance unwittingly confirms the case portrayed in Mandy Nolan’s 21 July Soapbox column. She has put a human face on the divisive impact of the social media posts and overt behaviour of the ill-informed in Mullumbimby, a once sleepy little village. Labelling people

according to whether they are vaxxers or anti-vaxxers is unhelpful, but I’d still rather be a ‘Sheeple’ than a ‘Goatle’.

The threat from the virus is real. The means for prevention exist. All that is lacking is kindness and consideration for one another and polite acceptance of differing opinions. Those who demand

‘freedom to’ jeopardise the lives of those who desire ‘freedom from’.

Meg Pickup Ballina Q I found Mandy’s account of Mullum’s apparent ungluing gut-wrenching. For years, my friendships with those who have alternative vaccination views have survived because when you’ve got identical postcodes, kids in the same school, a mutual love of the area and, importantly, aren’t a total twat, it’s important to navigate differences. But now, alas, we are all wearing our heart on our

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CHESS by Ian Rogers The name Harry Press may not ring many bells outside Canberra, but locally the 23-year-old has already become something of a Street Chess legend.

However, last week’s win of the Winter Open, Press’ first victory in an internationally ranked open tournament, will be noted around the country.

Indeed Street Chess – Canberra’s famed outdoor allegro tournament played every Saturday morning in Civic, Covid permitting – for the past 25 years, may be connected to Press’s recent success.

Like many young players, the pandemic offered Press more time for chess study but the chance to play over the board on a regular basis has been absent in most cities. However, Street Chess has continued, albeit with interruptions, through the pandemic and Press has been able to test his study material in practice.

Nevertheless, the Winter Open featured ACT Champion Junta Ikeda, the Australian number six.

Ikeda outrated the second seed Fred Litchfield by more than 250

They stuck to their previous no-dam decision because the weight of evidence that had influenced them the first time had not changed.

Moreover, they stood up for the Widjabul Wia-bal people, whose clearly expressed wishes have been so notably excluded from every pro-dam letter, article or speaker.

It is not the job of the councillors to put aside their own carefully considered views and vote in accordance with the views expressed in a petition. Bowing to this kind of pressure would be irresponsible and would lead to decisions being dictated by whoever could fund the biggest campaign.

These councillors have the admiration of many because they did their job – they looked after their community. They knew that they could lose votes in their re-election bids but they

sleeve via the mask (or lack of) on our face.

The tacit agreement to not ask, and not tell, or to do so and move on, has crumbled or is harder to avoid. I get it, it’s important and current, but it’s not everything.

Last week, I met someone and learnt within two minutes that they’d never wear a mask, or get vaccinated.

Where do you go from there?

A conversational cul-de-sac ending either in an echo chamber, if you agree, or an arena if you don’t.

Luckily, in Mullum we can find safer conversational ground because there are

plenty of things to jointly care about: Potholes, Alfred’s whereabouts, recycling properly, what’s going on in the old bamboo shop and the paucity of zebra crossing or bike lanes, to name a few concerns. As a town with two local comedians pursuing political careers – a fact I’d love to see broadcast as extensively as the ‘anti-vax capital’ label – we could even chat about the lighter side of life: your favourite Shanti outfit or IGA busker, or work out your three degrees of separation from a Dustesky or Cassette.

A thousand ties bind

Q Many more letters were recieved on Mandy’s Soapbox. They will appear on The Echo online www.echo.net.au/ letters through the week.

followed the accepted science, the water experts and their consciences. For that they deserve our respect.

Nan Nicholson The Channon

consequences of lockdown.

There shouldn’t be one more case allowed to slip through. The communities of Australia should not have to fear this happening again.

I ask our politicians to do more to protect our communities and make quarantine security perfect. Haven’t heard of anyone breaking out of jail lately. There must be a way.

Beth Shelley Booerie Creek

does provide some valuable insights. But I also can’t help but take note of the advice from Professor Allen Cheng, the Co-chair of ATAGI. ‘Eventually, everyone is either going to get infected or they’re going to get vaccinated’ (SMH 25 July).

In the meantime, let’s hope that we don’t lose what it is that we all cherish in this special corner of the world.

Hugh Ermacora Byron Bay

Paradise lost?

Who approved this?

‘Take your masks off!’ yelled the young scruff at my companion and me, as he speared his skateboard between our coffee table and the shop front. Meanwhile, around the corner at Main Beach strollers were enjoying the sun and the magic view we all know so well. Yet hardly a face mask to be seen!

What drives this madness? Some warped sense of ‘freedom’? Mandy Nolan’s brilliant Soapbox last week

No longer will the peaceful cul-de-sac of Oodgeroo Gardens be peaceful. On an average day there are 6–10 trucks blocking our way out onto Bangalow Road.

Somehow approval was given to build three monstrous houses on a block of land that for so many years was home to wallabies and a family of plovers. This is sheer greed and ugliness and our little street just isn’t ▶ Continued on page 16

Letting COVID in...

How does covid keep sneaking through quarantine security? Anyone in the least connected to quarantine security should be extremely well paid, very well trained and skilled, with great support systems.

There has been so much suffering for the people of Victoria and NSW because of the breaches that were often found to be by people who weren’t particularly well paid, trained or supported.

Apparently the NSW government MPs have just voted to give themselves an extra $192,000 per year in allowances. That money should be going to people on the frontline who are protecting the people of NSW from the difficult and devastating

rating points, making him an unbackable favourite.

Press met Ikeda in the third round, and after early difficulties fought back, induced Ikeda to sacrifice a pawn, and showed admirable technique to convert that pawn into an endgame win.

Press went into the sixth and final round with a half point edge over Ikeda.

Built for tomorrow

Q In the diagrammed position Press, Black, has

used his pieces in optimum fashion to set up a checkmating attack, yet Lo could sill have survived had he found 41.Qd1!, with the idea that 41...Bf3+ loses to 42.Qxe2! Bxe2 43.d7. Instead Lo tried 41.Qc5? and after 41...Be4+ 42.Kg1 Ng3! Lo realised that there was no good way to stop 43...Rg2 checkmate! The game concluded 43.Qf2 Rxf2 44.Kxf2 Bc6 0-1

Thus Press took home the $1,000 first prize outright, with Ikeda having to settle for second.

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us: to unravel them so you can over-identify with a vaccination/mask stance is ludicrous. Being part of a healthy community requires cultivating relationships that persist in spite of different beliefs. Remember this, or accept you have a hand on the stake being driven through the heart of our biggest little town.

Sam Leader Mullumbimby

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Richard Gates It’s very clear that the State government’s push for population growth is the main driving force behind the proposed revisit of the Dunoon Dam proposal with Ballina Council mayoral aspirant Sharon Cadwallader its advocate, and Richmond Valley Council Mayor, Robert Mustow, who is also on Rous County Council (RCC), a cheerleader (see The Echo online 23 July 2021).

Population mantra Yes, climate change will most likely reduce catchment flows and impact water supply for the future given the ‘runaway train’ that climate changee is, but population growth has always been the mantra of the major parties in NSW and is the real driving force behind the Dam being put back on the agenda.

If you complain about growth you are accused of being a NIMBY (not in my backyard) or against ‘the future of grandchildren who will never be able to live here’; a specious argument at best but an old sawhorse often cited by proponents for all kinds of inappropriate development.

Before any further money is wasted, yet again, on the Dunoon Dam matter, Rous Council and decision-makers might like to revisit the Discussion Paper, A Region of Villages published in 2001 and supported by local councils and promulgated by the Northern Rivers Regional Strategy Secretariat.

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Deathly silence Richmond Valley Council started holding workshops with the local community with keen developer, the late Cr Sullivan, leading the charge. The workshops came to an abrupt halt when it was discovered that there was an error in the ‘carrying capacity’ calculation. A real ‘whoops’ moment. Once corrected it was clear WE’RE ALREADY PAST THE CARRYING CAPACITY OF THE LAND. Nothing more was heard of the paper and its concepts. The workshops ceased. The keen supporters disappeared into the ether!

Deathly silence.

What’s interesting to observe is that when the data supported growth, all those with a developand-be-damned mentality wholeheartedly embraced the evidence. But when the evidence didn’t fit their partisan view of the world,

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Top: Channon Gorge, threatened by proposed Dunoon Dam. Above: Gorge area that would be impacted by the dam wall.

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The push for growth continued. Such is the quality of decision-making in our political world.

We need to revisit the concept of population growth as the Region of Villages Discussion Paper did 20 years ago and ask ‘Do we really want or need a 37 per cent growth in population on the north coast and if so, can the country sustain such growth?

This is a matter which is in our hands. Macquarie Street needs to stop imposing its developer-driven nonsense on us and future generations, and if it wants to be useful – do a proper analysis on the carrying capacity of the

land and propose a strategy for the future of the north coast that is not just loudlytrumpeted pages of empty rhetoric and glossy pictures without hard evidence, as is so often the case with government ‘strategies for the future’.

There are limits to growth, and consequences if you ignore them. Take a look at what’s happening in the rest of world, or perhaps parts of the Far North Coast which are already under the yoke of inappropriate development creating new demands for water supply.

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Storylines – Growing hope for the future Story & image Belle Budden

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ope is a fragile thing in 2021. With the current pandemic and the uncertainty in so many aspects of life, our hope is being shadowed by fear. It is profoundly affecting our humanity. Our community is being divided by the behaviours that once united us; our dissent and willingness to question authority, and willingness to fight to protect our freedoms and the marginalised in our community. Our children are watching and they are learning from our example. Their sense of hope is drowning in a sea of negativity and hedonism that is constantly flooding their worlds through social media.

In Aboriginal culture our elders are our links to our cultural past and our young people are our links to our future. The fragility of hope among the younger generation is detrimental for a sense of safety and wellbeing required to create the solutions for navigating the contemporary world they will inherit. People need to feel safe to participate in

community, cultural practice and creativity. Safety comes before bravery, and bravery is the place that the innovative solutions come from.

Relationships Aboriginal people are relational people, when we meet we talk about who we are and where we are from to establish how we relate to one another. Our culture is based on relationships – relationships to country, to culture, and to community.

Relationships within our tribal groups and with our neighbours were critical to our ability to care for country, to ensure all life was cared for, constantly respecting the interconnectivity and interdependency of all life.

How do Aboriginal people find the time to grow hope in our young people while protecting country against endless pressure from development and industry, while advocating for the needs of our underresourced community and doing our best to survive economically, while also educating the broader community to restore equity to our people, and all while passing on our continued

cultural practice? How do we choose a priority? We have been dragged into the world of timeframes, outcomes and outputs along with everyone else and at the expense of our cultural integrity. We need time to reflect on the seasonal patterns of country, to propagate and plant out native bush tucker to support native birds and animals, to share the songs and ceremonies for the increase of our totems, and

teach all this to our children.

These are our cultural responsibilities.

Individuals and culture Survival under colonisation has forced Aboriginal people to become focussed on ourselves as individuals, undermining our cultural framework of caring and sharing for family and community. The pressure

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I am really shocked and disappointed at the onesidedness of The Echo reporting on the COVID-19 vaccination debate. Any dissenters are dismissed as selfish whackos who are gullible enough to believe right wing propaganda and don’t want to wear a mask.

Whereas the truth is that many, maybe even most of those of us opposed to the vaccination, don’t really mind wearing masks, don’t have a problem with social distancing, are prepared to put up with lockdowns, but don’t want to be injected with something that hasn’t gone through the usual clinical trials (my understanding is that it will be the end of 2023 before the testing period is finished) and that has never before been approved for use in humans.

Here are some things I’m led to believe: COVID-19 has a 99 per cent overall survival rate; children and young healthy adults are almost

of walking in two worlds, fulfilling our responsibilities to country, community, and culture while surviving economically has created a culture of being too busy to connect and show kindness and foster a sense of hope.

Today I stood on the breakwall in Brunswick Heads and was grateful to have the ocean to draw hope from. The increase in the whale population represents a hope that we can create change that will have lasting impact. When I was growing up, whales were on the brink of extinction. International cooperation and immense change has seen the population being restored.

This morning I saw a pod of twenty dolphins cooperatively fishing, herding fish into a circle and sea eagles diving into the centre to share in the catch. Aboriginal people all along the coast were part of this inter-species cooperative approach to life. We know how to cooperate, we know how to be sustainable, and we know how to share.

It is a difficult time for our planet and people who live closely with it. We are fortunate to be living through a certain to experience nothing more than mild symptoms.

Never in human history has the testing of healthy asymptomatic individuals been conducted en masse to attain the numbers to declare a pandemic.

Mandy talks about division in the community, but seems to have little tolerance for anyone who questions ‘the party line’.

Just when did she decide to become a mouthpiece for the government and big pharma? Myself and many of my cohort, are not anti-vax for others, if that’s what they choose for themselves. We just don’t want to be part of the trial. And we don’t want to be penalised for that choice. Vaccine passports will never be acceptable. We demand the right to access flights, venues, public transport etc. Those who choose vaccination should have confidence in their choice and know that they are protected. Otherwise, what’s it all about?

Rachael Terry South Golden Beach

The unmasked!

I am thankful for all the unmasked folk out there; they are the ones who smile and make eye contact.

The unmasked bolster my

time where we are reaping the benefits of the seeds planted by our ancestors.

The fight for the rights of Aboriginal people is starting to see some meaningful change, and this is most evident in the education sector. We have much still to achieve but there has never been a better time to be a solid ally and work alongside Aboriginal community to protect country, community and culture – especially through the justice system and Aboriginal housing sector. I am beginning to witness some serious change from individuals who are committing to change on a personal level. This is where change starts, through individuals working to affect change in their personal spheres of influence. Personal commitments to protect country or community, with no immediate benefit to the self, is what is needed to grow hope for the future.

Q Storylines articles are published in The Echo online www.echo.net.au/storylines and are made possible by the support of Ninbella Gallery in Banglow.

immune system.

Mandy Nolan, you are not correct in thinking the unmasked don’t think critically nor believe in science.

Many scientists, immunologists, medical doctors, and health practitioners have grave reservations about the jab. They have seen the data and have come to their scientific conclusions. They are not conspiracy whackadoos.

Science also shows that a mask does not actually prevent the transmission of a virus. If you feel the mask blues wandering around Mullumbimby, perhaps it is time to move?

Sarah Seaward Suffolk Park

The Shapeshifter The already botched COVID vaccine rollout has now reached farcical status; how bad is it when Labor ex-PM Kevin Rudd had to intervene by contacting, on behalf of Australian businesspeople, the head of Pfizer in an effort to increase supply. Just what is this rubber-mouthed Morrison’s claim to fame besides rhetorical double-speak, deflection, distraction and virtually anything but the truth?

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Bioenergy beats biodiversity in Byron Story & photo David Lisle

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yron Wetlands is a vibrant bird sanctuary, alive with birdsong and the thrum of insects. But it is scarcely wilderness. Construction noise and Ewingsdale Road’s traffic hum mingle with the great egret’s guttural honk and such spirited vocalists as the varied triller.

The wetlands form part of Byron’s sewage treatment plant (STP) and are nestled between the Cavanbah sports fields and the industrial estate. The part of the industrial estate currently expanding towards this precious wildlife habitat is the poetically named Habitat.

Wetlands are among the world’s most vulnerable ecosystems. When the STP was built two decades ago, an area was set aside as a wildlife sanctuary — a quid pro quo of sorts, in recognition of the industrial incursion into a delicate coastal ecosystem.

Now Council has plans to construct a bioenergy plant adjacent to the wetlands and STP. The development application (DA) is on exhibit until 10 August Feedback is encouraged.

financial than environmental.

Electricity is expensive, as is creating landfill, and carting organic waste and sewage sludge interstate for processing. The hope is to secure grant funding from government agencies, such as the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), and that Byron Shire Council (BSC) can borrow the money. The project will apparently help us towards ‘net zero’, create three jobs, and pay for itself in 10 to 20 years. Rates won’t rise.

methane, a potent greenhouse gas – diverting organic material from landfill offers real environmental dividends.

But how much diversion will occur because of the bioenergy plant is uncertain. Project manager, the affable John Hart, hopes the plant will stimulate commercial organics collection and prompt Council to address landfill contamination with reinvigorated education campaigns. Council has nothing planned though.

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The STP is Council’s largest single consumer of electricity.

The proposed plant would use a process of dry anaerobic digestion to transform sewage sludge, grease trap waste, domestic green waste and commercial food waste into biogas for electricity to power the plant. Surpluses will be exported into the grid. A rich compost byproduct, to be sold to local farmers, is touted as an additional revenue stream.

Indeed, the impetus for the plant, which is expected to cost $15–20 million, is perhaps more

Curiously, Council currently collects ‘green bins’ weekly from households and trucks the organic material to Queensland. Now it will be trucked to the wetlands and become ‘renewable energy,’ replacing renewable energy from the grid.

The green bin waste stream was created by Council six years ago to keep organics out of landfill. These days, 30 per cent of domestic ‘red bin’ waste is organics. Byron’s restaurants dump most of their food waste in landfill. All up, half of this ‘green’ shire’s landfill is organics!

Burying organics is a source of

The proposal presents as an innovative, climate friendly solution to our organic waste management woes. But there are murmurs in the community about basic flaws in the project’s fundamentals, and the process by which it is being pursued.

I wonder about the creeping industrialisation, and whether Council values bioenergy over biodiversity? Will a 14-metre-tall addition to the STP, and the attendant truck movements – at least ten in, and out, daily – impact negatively on the wildlife using the refuge? Will

excuse-conjuring and shameless denial, that he thinks he can get away with anything, and to date he probably has. All we’re getting from this blatherskite and his sidekick (Greg Hunt), who are like regurgitating parrots defending the botched vaccine roll-out is: ‘We’re hitting our vaccine marks and we’re getting this done’. What marks? The ones we’ve already missed by many months? At this rate we’ll be in lockdowns forever.

It seems that Morrison’s modus operandi is keeping us totally confused with his incoherent waffle, and shapeshifting ability. When politicians like Morrison can make Teflon appear sticky, overconfidence can be their downfall; when the long suffering voters finally awaken to this ‘menacing wallpaper’, www.echo.net.au

all hell could be unleashed with brutal consequences. If any other Aussie PM besides this serial obscurantist had tried this, they’d have been shamed, tarred and feathered and run out of office long before now.

Keith Duncan Pimlico

Bravo Mungo Mungo’s Crossword last week was, for me, both challenging and charming. Echos of the great man’s wit and erudition rang through this most enjoyable of his legacy cryptic puzzles.

21 down linked writer and commentator Bob Ellis (the cruciverbalist’s contemporary and leftie comrade) with one Havelock Ellis, who Google revealed was an overachieving and controversial pioneer of social science.

I found prophetic

connections that caused me to reflect on the setter’s recent passing.

Across and Down in solutions and clues, a BITTER END; the beginning of December; and IN MEMORIUM touchingly appear.

I laughed out loud when CHRISTOPHER PYNE turned up! He was an anagram of pinch other’s prey. The Liberal pollie we loved to hate – matched with CABINET MINISTER (a closet cleric).

A humorous brace of 15 letter 2 word solutions! Such were the TREASURES (25 Across) I uncovered in puzzle N397. Bravo Mungo.

Robert Gibson Byron Bay

Cosmos and Echo Just a quick thank you. The pairing with Cosmos, Australia’s leading science magazine was such a welcome

birdlife, already stressed by human activity, be further marginalised?

A local conservation group, Byron Bird Buddies, has been monitoring the wetlands for 15 years.

Their monthly surveys, undertaken on Council’s behalf, provide a rich source of data about the wetlands’ winged residents and visitors.

Two hundred and forty bird species have been observed in the wetlands, including 24 listed as threatened. Those in danger include the black-necked stork, aka Jabiru; a large, striking bird and Australia’s only stork.

Eighty migratory species visit the wetlands, including the Latham’s snipe, an epic journeyer who breeds and spends the northern summer in Japan, and then flies here for our summer.

ÉĕƐōëŕĎƆ ŇƖƆƐ ë țćƖǔĕſȜ Council takes great pride in the wetlands. Its grandly named Byron Bay Integrated Water Management Reserve is described as an ‘award-winning example of how good resource management can minimise the impact of the sewage treatment plant on surrounding

addition to this week’s Echo.

Thank you Echo!

It means so much to know that you guys respect the hard work our scientist do.

Rob McWhinnie Bangalow

ecosystems and create a wonderful, natural habitat for the support of local flora and fauna diversity.’

Yet in the DA, the wetlands are characterised as a useful ‘buffer’ around the development. Council’s focus is the plant’s impact on the neighbours at Habitat, not on actual habitat.

They consider adverse biodiversity impacts ‘unlikely’, because no threatened species are located on the proposed development’s actual footprint (aside from the troublesome Mitchell’s rainforest snail, which will be relocated) and will happily ‘offset’ any impact by paying into the state’s biodiversity conservation fund.

The range of shorebirds and waterbirds visiting the wetlands is in decline. The exact reasons are uncertain. But it is clear that in the Anthropocene, non-human life gets squeezed. Time for a reminder that habitat loss drives extinction?

Byron Bird Buddies’ convenor Jan Olley knows the site intimately, and urges caution. Her group fears the bioenergy plant will add further pressure to this beautiful, fragile site. The disturbance from trucks bringing ‘feedstock’ into the plant along a road to be built beside the ponds is of particular concern.

The industrial feel of the wetlands befits its entwinement with a sewage facility. Whether the bioenergy plant and its truck movements deter avian visitors and residents is an open question.

Council and its consultants assure us there will be no impact.

The Byron Bird Buddies are less sanguine, but will continue harvesting data from the field. In time, we’ll get a sense of how bioenergy and biodiversity cohabit.

Q David Lisle’s partner is a member of Byron Bird Buddies.

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Council’s disregard So it does seem, to many a ratepayer and resident of our Shire, there is glaring disregard by our Council to having sound functional infrastructure.

As our Council continues to approve massive development applications (DAs) there have not been any improvements or expansions of infrastructure to support these. Rather, a complete ignorance of good or even logical town planning.

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The Palestinian vs Israeli debate continues

There was not enough room to print all letters on this topic in the paper. They will appear online over the next week.

Q When the point scoring dies down there’s no question that since the British colonial occupiers of Palestine decided to enable a Jewish State in that land that it has been a disaster for the resident Palestinians.

In 1948 the United Nations declared the new State of Israel under defined boundaries stimulated by the horrors of the holocaust in Europe. The new State of Israel defeated attacks from neighbouring Arab states and then set about forcing the removal of the existing non-Jewish Palestinians.

In the years since, Israel has expanded its borders to occupy large tracts of Palestinian lands not originally designated as Israel by the

UN agreement. They have imposed discriminatory practices, built large ‘settlements’, demolished the houses of locals, imprisoned and killed many, including innocent women and children. They have denied the democratic rights of inhabitants of the occupied territories while their neighbours, Jewish ‘settlers’, get to vote in Israeli elections and drive on roads designated as out of bounds for Palestinians.

Israel must accept responsibility for rectifying the situation they have created just as Australia must accept responsibility for the impact of colonisation on the original inhabitants of this country.

Jenny Bush Wilsons Creek

Q In reference to the letter from Rick Molly (28 July) the books that you have recommended are purely one sided and purely critical of Israel, so how is that balanced?

Israelis in general feel compassion for the Palestinians, and yes, there are some Jewish Israelis who are against the Israeli government but it is very easy to also find far more Palestinians who hate Hamas and the Palestinian Authority (PA) and know that their blood thirsty policies and incredibly tight control of the Palestinian people.

Simple internet searches will give you factual evidence from such Palestinians as Mosab Yousef, who is the son of one of the Hamas

founders, Hasan Yousef. He lives in the West and it is his life’s goal to save the Palestinian people from Hamas, stating that Israel must assassinate all top Hamas leaders including his father.

Why was he forced to leave Gaza? Simply because people in Gaza, who are opposed to Hamas, are murdered, and if their families are not Hamas members, they are also murdered, in an effort to terrorise the population into total submission, which has worked well.

This point alone shows the difference between the two governments. In Israel, people have the democratic right to be vocal in every way against the government and nothing will happen to them.

In Gaza and the PA, you and your family will be murdered for speaking out, let alone for writing books.

In reference to the letter from Subhi Awad, it is sad to see yet another letter from you that suggests nothing but complete hatred for Israel.

Hamas has never accepted a peace deal with Israel under any circumstances and wants the land of Israel to be completely ethnically cleansed of Jews.

They make this very clear. In their typically cowardly way, every single time they create military conflict with Israel, such as last April / May 2021, Hamas fires its complete arsenal of rockets at Israeli civilian areas (over 4,300

huge, deadly rockets), and then cries ‘ceasefire’, with their only intention being to rearm and continue.

I won’t even go into the ‘details’ of your letter, since they are so farfetched, and are akin to blaming America for bringing Japan into the Second World War because they aggressively shot down Japanese aircraft that just happened to be flying over Pearl Harbour. Subhi, help us save the beautiful Palestinian people by helping them to get leaders who see them as more than lives to be wasted in their quest to destroy Israel. Shalom Salam Subhi, Shalom Salam.

Danny Wakil Billinudgel

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not the only controversial DA). Anybody driving past the West Byron land after a heavy rain period can see the pervading waters over all of that low lying area. Gladys, our esteemed Premier, personally said on news that NSW no longer abide by building on flood prone, low lying land. I think she forgot to tell Byron Shire Council, or maybe the memo got lost?

Come on Byron, who in the

Shire has had no response to complaints about our notable lack of infrastructure? Here in Bayside Bruns I am appalled by the complete lack of action by our Council. Let’s not forget our representatives who have done nothing for Bayside in relation to the inadequate process in passing a DA that does not meet the standard of what I would call legitimate, good town planning.

This DA included a disastrous lack of off road parking in an area that lacks good working infrastructure to cope with added approvals; on a site that desperately needs large amounts of infill to raise dwellings above the risks of flooding.

We can see so much lacking in the planning and maintenance of our infrastructure yet Council and councillors continue to approve devlopment. Voice concerns, we need to speak up for better outcomes.

Annie Radermacher Brunswick Heads

the duty of care (eg notifing relevant authorities), seems to reside with developers. A recent report by Dailan Pugh reveals what was in my opinion negligence of the total ecological rights of nature in the Elements site.

Left alone, developers are incapable of self-regulation and this report further points to the lack of guidance and genuine care by Byron’s ‘Green’ Council.

If we speak of governance upholding the rights of nature in this situation we can see that nature’s rights do not exist. Indeed, indications point to power (market relations) holding ascendancy over all nature.

This is a total tragedy. Byron is contributing directly to the collapse of ecological systems by dismissing the rights of nature, and as further development is mooted in this area a greater loss of nature is ensured.

Basil Cameron has displayed the most balanced representation over many years on Byron Council. He is legally trained, modest, earnest and deeply committed to the Byron community and its environs and maintains a progressive and achievable vision for the Byron Shire. The total package for leadership.

Jo Faith Newtown

town and in remote places.

If I wear a mask I do not risk the virus travelling.

It is a simple thing to do and one get’s used to wearing a mask. I worked for years, as a nurse, with infectious people. I know that me wearing the protective gear worked because I did not fall sick, and we all know how quickly a flu spreads among family and friends. While we wear a mask we can protect, nurture and support each other.

As nurses we shower and change our clothes when we come home. We measure body temp and if its over 370C we stay home. Our visitors wear masks too.

A medical mask is supposed to be used once.

Wearing a washable mask does NOT protect against the Delta varient – but every mask helps to certain degree.

I have not come across a doctor or a nurse who has chosen not to wear a mask while being among people who are close to death (possibly highly infectious). To me (who held those sick and dying people in her arms) being able to wear a mask is a gift.

Sick and healthy people go shopping, go to the petrol station and go to work, which they should NOT do with any mild flu like symptoms. They should get a test. We can show love and care with and without a mask on because you can see the smile in my eyes. It is best we wear a good mask now, and if we have a confirmed outbreak here put the protective mask on. It can be worn all day if need be and people can sleep in different rooms to prevent a whole family falling sick at the same time.

Elke Kuhlmann Mullumbimby

letters here. There would seem a great deal lacking in good town planning and we all have noticed many changes to the Local Environment Plan (LEP). Not just good ones.

So many things have been questionable: the round house land sell off in Ocean Shores, the construction of a road leading to West Byron – a most controversial site (and

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Thank you Basil Cameron (28 July) for alerting readers to the ecological problems that must be addressed in the Belongil catchment.

Particularly dying trees and the excess of water in the Belongil system.

Addressing climate change and species loss needs a totally holistic approach to be given to remediating the Belongil. This area is a totally unique area that has rapidly degraded over the past thirty years.

It is an area where migratory birds once seasonally colonised. Residents could hear the arrival of these birds. Such delightful sounds no longer emanate in the atmosphere. Moderations of the site to accommodate tourists have impacted on bird habitats.

This area has been noted as deserving of national significance under federal laws. The Environmental and Biodiversity Protection Act legislation confirms that any alteration to the environment must be addressed directly. However,

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The oldest living culture in Australia got nearly wiped out by the influenza virus.

These days they can handle the flu better. If we wear a good, environment-friendly, tested, virus protecting, professional, washable, breathable mask we protect the land, and the people, in

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’m reliably informed that in the wake of Trump’s victory following the November 2016 US election, a small but vocal section of the audience at an event held at Mullumbimby’s Drill Hall cheered wildly. ‘He’s won!’, one joyful supporter bellowed across the hall.

When told of this, I simply refused to believe it. ‘They must have been joking around, right?’, I ventured.

‘Oh no, they were gloating that Hilary got beaten’, replied my equally bemused friend, as if beating Clinton was all that mattered.

To be honest, I still have trouble coming to terms with this. Right here, in good old alternative Mullumbimby, there were (and are) folk willing to laud a narcissistic misogynist, racist, accused sex offender, serial liar, self-interested billionaire, and failed businessman.

Here is someone who, during the course of his four turbulent years in office, dog whistled his way toward autocracy, trashed the most basic democratic processes, and ultimately sought to tear down a democratically elected president. This is a person whose mental health has been seriously questioned, who fires staff at will and alienates his few friends and family. His attacks on women, people with disabilities, and on black and brown people are the stuff of infamy.

None of this comes as a surprise to those who have followed the career of this would-be tyrant.

Nonsensical responses Mandy’s Soapbox a couple of weeks ago made a lot of sense and predictably provoked some nonsensical replies, like the suggestion that it was Mandy’s ‘emotional attachment to mask wearing’ that was stopping her visiting her favourite cafe.

More likely it was her realisation that none of us know that we, or any of the people around us, do not

Julian Baggini will be appearing via Zoom at the Mullumbimby Ex-Services Club on Tuesday 14 September, 6.30–9pm.

His election should have shocked all the Drill Hall folk that day, but it didn’t. Instead, it was an opportunity to celebrate Trump’s triumph over a war-mongering opponent, even though the Trump (mal)administration would go on to stoke hatred against asylum seekers, migrants and Muslims (leading to more hate crimes), and further impoverish the poor and working class (by gifting tax cuts to the rich at the expense of welfare programs). To boot, the catastrophic damage done to the climate, to human rights and multilateralism through ‘America first’ policies has been incalculable.

So, what exactly is going on here? How come some people in our community and beyond think Trump is a good guy (even heaven sent, supposedly, to upend the ‘deep state’, ‘socialists’ and ‘unbelievers’)?

have COVID-19, and that masks substantially reduce the risk of catching covid or passing it on to someone else.

There may be no covid in our area, but we don’t know that for sure, and if that clown who got off a plane in Ballina with covid a few weeks ago and drove north to the Gold Coast had decided to stop off in Mullumbimby for a coffee, we might all be in home

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Experts are regularly ‘discredited’ by self-anointed citizenscientists passing off half-baked conjecture, intuition and oddball ideas as ‘the real truth’. The end result is a miasma of confusion

isolation by now.

As for division and disharmony, at least Mandy can go back to her favourite cafe when this is all over. After spending my money there for over 20 years I have been permanently banned from my favourite cafe for having the temerity to tell the current owner that I would not be back while she and her staff were not wearing masks.

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that has distracted us from the big issues that demand the attention of cohesive social movements – the climate emergency, ecological destruction, economic inequality, corporate corruption and censorship, and the erosion of democracy.

An understandable distrust of power, along with a sense of disconnection and powerlessness has led many to seek answers to many of today’s problems in some of the most unlikely places. A cult-like devotion to exposing the machinations of secretive cabals has given rise to some perplexing claims, exhibited most glaringly perhaps in the aberrant nonsense peddled by QAnon.

Friendships and families have been torn apart by this stuff. Those who oppose the ‘new knowledge’ orthodoxies are labelled ignorant, stupid sheeple complicit in the repressive order of things.

'ĕĕżĕŕĶŕī ĈſĶƆĶƆ This sort of polarisation is perhaps understandable in a polarised, disconnected world.

Let’s face it, many of us struggle with making sense of the what’s happening around us. We find it increasingly difficult to achieve common ground, making effective dialogue more elusive. As politics becomes increasingly factionalised, there is clear evidence of a deepening crisis in the democratic process. Polarised narratives have proliferated, with ‘fake news’ and ‘alternative facts’ now part of the ‘post-truth’ information landscape.

Medical government The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, Article 20: ‘Everyone has the right to peaceful assembly and association’. The police commissioner says: ‘anyone planning to attend a COVID lockdown protest in Sydney will be arrested’.

They have replaced our democracy with a ‘Medical Government’, de-prioritised elections

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Many of us are losing faith in the traditional virtues of ‘truth’ and ‘reason’, and their capacity to help us through these troubled times.

In an upcoming series titled Critical Conversations, participants are invited to consider the following questions: How do we make sense of the many competing knowledge claims before us?

Who can we believe or trust? How might we engage in ‘intellectual self-defence’? What roles do our emotions and social identities play in the denial, or affirmation, of certain bodies of knowledge?

The first speaker off the rank is the highly respected British philosopher, and author of A Short History of Truth – Consolations for a Post-truth world, Julian Baggini.

Julian will address various aspects of the challenges we face, and how we might navigate our way through them. Participants will have an opportunity to ask questions, comment and debate, listen, share, learn. Julian’s presentation will be live from the UK via Zoom at the Mullumbimby RSL, Tuesday 14 September, 6.30–9pm.

The event will be introduced

by Richard Hil and MC’d by Mandy Nolan. There are three seminars in this series focused on truth (What is the role of truth in an era of radical uncertainty?), reason (How can we make ‘sense’ of the world around us in the face of constant change, political manipulation, and information overload?) and freedom (What does ‘freedom’ mean in a so-called ‘free society?’).

and emphasised medical control, to replace our previous freedoms.

The situation will be stable until eventually, the protesters become too numerous and their numbers will increase with every

added restriction, and over time this political situation is not for a few more short years, but for the rest of our lives. CO2 output will diminish.

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Soil: The incredible story of what Spice it Up: consistently good Thai keeps the earth, and us, healthy Simon Haslam

Sandra Haslam Matthew Evans is a restauranteur, farmer, food activist and author, best known for his SBS series Gourmet Farmer.

He is also one of the writers who was to feature at the Byron Writers’ Festival. While he is very disappointed that it couldn’t go ahead this year, fortunately we can still access his most recent, wonderful ideas via his latest book Soil.

It is the story of how we have treated soil like dirt, when in reality it is an unsung hero that needs to be wholly understood and cherished.

Evans first became interested in how food is grown when he worked as a chef and food critic. He realised that it didn’t matter how much technique and fluff went into a fancy plate, it was the produce that played the vital role in flavour. This led him to grow his own food on a smallholding in Tasmania where, through passionate investigation, and some chance meetings with well qualified buffs, he discovered the vital importance of soil, and the intricacies of how good soil creates flavoursome, nutritious and sustainable food and food systems for the good of ourselves and the Earth. According to Evans, ‘We really haven’t been paying proper attention to soil’.

The book is a trove of well researched information presented in a straightforward, conversational tone with splashes of humour. He explores the increased recognition of the soil microbiome; the living bit of soil. Evans explains, ‘A shovelful of soil is more biodiverse than the entire Amazon rainforest’. He describes these micro-organisms, their importance in the transformation of nutrients to make them more available to plants, and how there is an incredible synergistic back-and-forth relationship between soil microbes and plants.

There is also an account of branching filaments of certain fungi that actually break down rocks. He debunks some common practices such as aerating the soil by turning the soil over and ploughing; these actions are harmful to some of the important living elements in the soil, particularly the ones that are incredibly important for healthy soil structure and carbon storage.

As well as describing the amazing exchanges in the underground ecosystem that are facilitated by these living organisms, Evans reveals that there is an astounding role played by certain soil

Matthew Evans: ‘We really haven’t been paying proper attention to soil.’

microbes in the creation of rain, snow and hail. It has even been shown that there is a soil microbe that boosts serotonin and norepinephrine in humans, causing antidepressant effects.

The book casts light on the latest research, fascinating data is explained and interesting experiments are recounted. One experiment Evans cites comes from an Italian trial, in which a panel of professional tasters identified increased flavour in wheat that was grown with a certain beneficial fungal strain. This outcome has been repeated for other produce in different investigations.

There are also some fun experiments outlined in Soil that you can do at home, including a quick, basic ‘Soil Composition Test in a Jar’, and another called the ‘Soil Your Undies’ test – to check how vibrant and biologically active your soil is.

The story of Soil moves from wonder to tragedy as Evans uncovers the peril of the ‘magic bit’, our topsoil. Evans explains how thin the topsoil really is, that it takes 1000 years to make one centimetre of topsoil, and that we have lost half of our topsoil since the onset of European farming practices in Australia. As well, he explains what happens when we use conventional (petrochemical) agricultural applications and how ‘we

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imperil an incredibly complex ecosystem that we’re only on the cusp of fully understanding, but upon which we all rely.’ We are not left in a tragedy however; he goes on to explain how we can rehabilitate the land and how healthy soil can be regenerated.

Evans shows links between soil, plants, diet and health. He discusses common deficiencies in soil and how those deficiencies are passed on to humans via food, as well as the hidden aspects in soil that really increase the nutrient density of plants and also increase the yield. The result, for human and soil health, of a lack of variety in modern produce is also a revelation.

He outlines research that shows ‘if you eat 30 or more different plant products a week (and some of this can be as minor as a fresh herb in a dish), you’re less likely to have autoimmune disease than people who only eat ten a week’. So instead of the usual handful of fruit and vegetable varieties, Evans recommends that we should buy and grow a much more diverse range of produce.

The book is a wonderful saga of history, myth and truth, tragedy, humour and ultimately a heroic sciencefact love story about the wonderful benevolence of Earth and her vibrant and vital life force – the soil. This is a great book for anyone who is interested in growing (on any scale), wellbeing, food flavour, sustainable wisdom and the amazing interconnectedness of life.

Soil : The incredible story of what keeps the earth, and us, healthy. By Matthew Evans (Murdoch Books)

You have to be doing a lot of things right consistently to run a successful restaurant in different locations for over 22 years in this area, and Spice it up Thai is one of those places that just seems to have a formula that appeals to a wide range of people. It’s as popular as ever now it’s back in its original home territory, virtually on my doorstep in Mullumbimby, where, 15 years ago, it first became such a hit when it was housed in the Mullumbimby Golf Club.

However, the story goes back even further than that, with Head Chef and owner Matt initially doing his apprenticeship with Arn in the very busy River Thai restaurant, that occupied the now abandoned buildings on the banks of the Brunswick River, before the new bridge was constructed. Matt still remembers being sent out as an apprentice to scale the snapper on the sandflyinfested riverbanks! When Arn sold, Matt moved with him to Red Hot Thai in Kingscliff, before opening his own place in Brunswick Heads in 1999, which he sold in 2004 and went to work, again with Arn, on Koh Chang Island at Arn’s Saffron by the Sea resort.

As a westerner producing Thai food in the resort’s kitchen, Matt says ‘My every step was scrutinised, right down to my freckles’, but the experience honed even further his knowledge of Thai cooking, and it was also where he met his wife Elle. One of the regular guests at the resort was Joe Cummings, who created the first Lonely Planet guidebook for Thailand in the early ‘80s.

In 2006 Matt returned to Australia with Elle, enthused with what he still calls the ‘culinary joy’ of creating fabulous Thai dishes, and shortly afterwards they took over the kitchen at the Mullum Golf Club and their popularity took off. After our children were born, my wife and I found that they loved pad thai, they loved making a mess, and they loved roaming around the Golf Club, particularly the most dangerous bits.

I developed a new style of eating, specifically to shovel as much Thai into myself as possible before I leapt up to wrangle children – to this day I find it hard to linger properly over my favourite vegetarian dishes; the Pad Prik Sod – chilli, vegetables, basil, tofu or the Som Tum – Thai green papaya salad. Those dishes are still on the menu, as Matt says, ‘Our aim is to keep the dine in and takeaway product that we’ve been providing for

over 15 years consistent – it makes people confident that we will provide bring those mouth-watering flavours they expect.’

Whilst they later moved to the Bowling Club, and then to the Ocean Shores Country Club for a while, they are now back in Mullumbimby and their new location is what they have dreamt of for some time, slightly downsized to a 40-seater restaurant. ‘It’s perfect for us to do what we do best’, says Matt, ‘deliver fresh traditional Thai flavours cooked by professionally trained chefs and brought to your table by the locally trained front of house team.’

Matt said he feels blessed to receive so much support from locals and overseas visitors over the years, but at the end of day he thinks people just follow the dishes they love: like the very popular

Whole Snapper with Dry Curry sauce, or a Pad Thai Tofu or Beef Massamun.

‘Our number goal is that the customer is happy,’ says Matt. All the dishes can be served mild (great for kids), medium or hot. Hot is, in my opinion, seriously hot. All the curries and salads are GF, and there are many vegan options available, making it easy for everyone to be happy. Also, the restaurant is very well set up for takeaway, making it a natural choice for locals in these times when a lockdown could strike at any moment – keep a good Riesling, Vouvray (chenin blanc), Gewürztraminer or Pinot Gris in the fridge door to go with your Thai food, just in case.

Spice it up Thai 6684 1383 103 Stuart St Mullumbimby Open from 5pm Wednesday to Sunday.

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Adam Liaw at Sample Food Festival: Sunday 4 September Northern NSW’s premier food event, Sample Food Festival is returning to the Bangalow Showground on Saturday 4 September 2021, but if this news is triggering your lockdown-related-festivalcancellation anxiety disorder, don’t worry – in the event of a cancellation, refunds will be issued.

The 10th Anniversary edition of Sample Food Festival will feature a lineup of special guests, along with a selection of the region’s best restaurants, breweries, distilleries, local market stalls, and a series of workshops and pop-up events to be announced. The festival has also introduced a number of initiatives this year to allow visitors to plan ahead and enjoy a safe and comfortable festival experience.

For the first time, Sample Food Festival will be offering three ticketed time slots to

the event with pre-purchased tickets available along with pre-order menus and QR menu ordering options.

Limited capacity picnic experiences will also be on offer for groups of up to six and include festival entry, a reserved picnic spot in the main food precinct with Wandering Folk picnic rug, and umbrella hire. There will be extra room around the festival site for attendees to bring their own

picnic rug too.

This year’s headliner is Australia’s number one vegan chef, Shannon Martinez, owner of prolific plantbased businesses; Smith & Daughters and Smith & Deli, who will be joined by recent announcement Adam Liaw – cook, columnist, and host of the popular television series The Cook Up with Adam Liaw and Destination Flavour. Byron Bay’s own Magdalena Roze

will also be joining the lineup of special guests.

Sample Food Festival was established in 2011 to showcase the incredible produce, chefs, restaurants and creative talent that makes northern NSW so unique. Ten years on, it’s become even more essential than ever to invest in quality, local produce and support local farmers, restaurateurs, makers, artists and communities.

This year Sample Food Festival has received support from the NSW Government’s Regional Events Acceleration Fund to help make the event more exciting than ever. Event Director, Rose Taylor, is thrilled that the festival is returning to the Northern Rivers in 2021: ‘There are so many incredible new restaurants and businesses who have opened since Sample 2019 and we couldn’t be prouder to showcase them amongst so many of our

long-standing favourites. We understand planning can be tricky in COVID-19 times and we have been busy making Sample 2021 as safe and fun as ever. The event may look a little different this year, but we have made sure there will be so many more opportunities to connect with your friends and family at the event; sample our region’s finest, and get your hands dirty with some incredible workshops. We can’t wait to welcome the community to the Bangalow Showground to celebrate Spring and our local chefs, restaurants, distilleries, producers, brewers and creatives; who have continued to work so hard to be there for us throughout these challenging times.’

Sample Food Festival 2021 attendees can look forward to $5 and $10 tasting plates showcasing the menus from some of the region’s finest restaurants including;

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BALLINA

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Wharf Bar & Restaurant Ballina 12–24 Fawcett St, Ballina 6686 5259 wharfbarballina

MONDAY HALF PRICE PIZZA Enjoy our delicious, Italian wood-fired pizzas for half price every Monday. Dine-in or takeaway. www.wharfbarballina.com.au

Bowlo Kitchen

Family friendly, tradies’ local, restaurant quality.

Wednesday to Friday happy hour, midweek specials, excellent wines, foodies delight, creative cocktails, 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.

The Bowlo, Bangalow 6687 2741

Come along to the Bangalow Bowlo and find out.

BRUNSWICK HEADS

Honour Brunswick Heads 4/16 The Terrace Brunswick Heads www.honourbrunswickheads.com

Specialising in good times & mighty fine wines Weekly seasonal market menu.

Dinner from 5pm Thursday, Friday & Saturday.

Drinks & bar snacks from 3pm.

Online booking recommended.

Walk-ins welcome.

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Chupacabra

Fresh authentic Mexican in a relaxed atmosphere.

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

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

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

Success Thai

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

Harvest Newrybar, Shelter Lennox Head, Beach Byron Bay, No Bones, Forest Byron Bay, Karkalla Byron Bay and Mercado Juarez. In a new initiative for the festival, the Hunter Valley restaurant Muse Kitchen and head chef Josh Gregory will also be attending as a special guest restaurant this year. Palate cleansers from Stone and Wood Brewery, Treehouse Cider, our beautiful Cellar wine bar & local boutique distilleries. Over 100 lifestyle stalls will be featured at this year’s festival, celebrating the region’s creative makers and producers. Live music and children’s activities will be announced closer to the event, alongside workshops and pop-up events.

For information on tickets, further announcements, festival workshops and updates visit www.samplefoodevents.com.

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

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

All your favourites, every lunch and dinner.

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

BYO only Welcome for lunch, dinner and takeaway.

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Daughter in Law

Not your typical Indian joint.

Jessi Singh’s ‘unauthentic coastal Indian’ cuisine using local Northern Rivers ingredients.

DJ’s spin 80s and 90s tunes, @dil_byron www.daughterinlaw.com.au and self-serve fridges for cocktails, Reservations via website, and half of wine, and beer Mon–Sun 4pm–late 22 Fletcher Street, Byron Bay

the restaurant is reserved for walk-in’s

Barrio

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

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

Monday–Sunday 7am–3pm Book via our website for lunch and dinner in the Aperitif hour restaurant at www.barriobyronbay.com.au.

Wednesday–Friday 3–5pm Walk-in tables available.

Dinner Booking via our website barriobyronbay.com.au Wednesday–Friday 5pm–Late 1 Porter St, North Byron

Saltwater Social Club A gathering place for all 32 Jonson St, Byron Bay saltwatersocialclub.com.au

No Bones Vegan Bar and Kitchen.

11 Fletcher Street 6680 7418 Book online: www.nobonesbyronbay.com.au

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

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.

GOOD TIMES ~ HIGH VIBES ~ LATE NIGHTS ~ HIGH TIDES

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

HAPPY HOUR EVERY DAY 5–6PM $6 BEERS / $12 COCKTAILS / $7 WINES Open every day from 5pm till late For any events of up to 30 people please email nobonesbyronbay@gmail.com

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Are you a mycophile or a mycophobe?

Considering we have such a reputation for clean, green, environmentally responsible farming of nutrient rich food, it’s surprising that there is a field of sustainable agriculture that Australia isn’t at the forefront of.

As it happens, in terms of mushroom cultivation, we are ‘still in nappies’ says Gary Miller of Wollumbin Gourmet Mushrooms.

‘We have a long way to go to catch up to Europe and Asia who have a different cultural attitude,’ Jamie Gibson from Byron Bay Gourmet Mushrooms explains.

‘These countries underwent times of political upheaval; they have a reverence for mushrooms because they could forage for them when other food

was unavailable’.

‘Australians tend to be more suspicious and see them as potentially dangerous. Now, though, we are seeing a renaissance in mushroom cultivation and we in the Northern Rivers can take advantage of this.

‘There is a change in the understanding of the value of a forest. A forest is not only valuable if it can be cut down for timber; with mushrooms you can farm in a forest!’

There is also the potential to train mushrooms to break down plastics, contaminants, hydrocarbon even cigarette butts. ‘Nutrition and medicine are one aspect of an unexplored mega science,’ says Jamie.

From one petri dish, through a process of

Gourmet mushrooms are a nutritious and sustainable food that you can even farm in a forest. With greater knowledge comes greater appreciation. From the left: Frankie, Jamie, Kai and Toby sell their fabulous fungi at our local farmers’ markets. expansion, Jamie and his team will grow up to 1200 kilos in a 13-week period.

Located in Rosebank they

grow in a sterile and highly meticulous process. They sell mixed seasonal Oysters; White, Golden, Pink, Black

Pearl, King Oyster, Pioppino/ Sword Belt, Lion’s Mane, Reishi and Shitake.

Gary from Wollumbin Gourmet Mushrooms oversees a different cultivation process. From his acre on a steep sided gully in Uki he grows his Shimeji, Shiitake, King Oyster, Blue Oyster, White Oyster, and Pink Oyster in an outdoor forest environment. Gary agrees with Jamie that we are only scratching the surface of fungi potential and that Australians are unlike Europeans who will just pick what they would like to eat from the ground. He believes knowledge is all we need to get on board and is enjoying seeing the growth in mushroom microbusinesses.

Gary sells only at the farmers’ markets as his

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Kiki On Byron

Yaman Mullumbimby

Good Vibes. Live Music. Beach Views.

Cocktails. Mexican Cuisine.

Byron Bay

62 Stuart St, Mullumbimby 6684 3778

Come and join us for some yummy cocktails by the beach, delicious Mexican food and groovy tunes.

Open Tuesday–Sunday Happy Hour 3–5pm

14 Bay St ( opposite Main Beach Surf Club) www.kikionbyron.com @KIKIONBYRON

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

The Empire

The Italian Byron Bay

20 Burringbar St, Mullum

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

Lord Byron Distillery

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

mushrooms are naturally susceptible to the challenges of nature: drying winds, the sun and lunar cycles. ‘It means fungi is very seasonal produce. I follow the moon and sun cycles but then there will be an equinox or a solstice and everything will change again. We have micro seasons, so I sell what I harvest each week.’

You can purchase new varieties and learn more about gourmet mushrooms when shopping at your weekly farmers’ markets. You can also pick up starter kits.

Byron Gourmet Mushrooms are at Mullum Farmers Market, Friday 7–11am, and Wollumbin Gourmet Mushrooms are at New Brighton Farmers Market 7–11am Tuesdays.

6684 2306 Mon–Fri 9am–3.30pm Sat, Sun 9am–3pm FB/Insta: EmpireMullum empiremullum.com.au

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Loft Byron Bay

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

4 Jonson Street, Byron Bay 6680 9183

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

Book online: www.loftbyronbay.com.au

1 Jonson Street, Byron Bay 6680 7632

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

Open every day from 4pm till late.

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A SOBERING TALE

I love a glass of wine.

6pm is wine o’clock.

It’s how I turn off from the day. There’s nothing I love more than a glass of red while I’m making dinner. Except, it’s never one glass, rarely two. More like three, sometimes four. If I am out socially, it’s more like seven. Who knows – I often lose count. I am a good time girl. I’m the life of the party.

I’m outrageous, and funny and rude. I love to talk. A lot. And repeat myself. And dance. And laugh. Not so big on listening though. They should put that in the adverts ‘Warning: alcohol affects your ability to listen’.

For me drinking is social. It’s hanging out with the girls. It’s dinner. It’s on the balcony enjoying the dusk with my husband. It’s Christmas Day. It’s Boxing Day. It’s Friday night. I’m not an alcoholic… yet – although I reckon if alcoholic was midnight; I’d be quarter to 12.

Like most people I know alcoholism is in my genes. My father was an alcoholic. He drove drunk into another car, killed himself and an innocent man. He was 30.

I’m 53. I’ve not drunk for long periods of time. I’ve never woken up hanging out for a hair of the dog. I’m not a day drinker. I don’t sneak booze. I’m socially acceptable, so I must be okay. Mustn’t I? Alcohol dependence can sneak up on you. It’s part of every occasion. It’s part of Australian culture. It’s part of our daily routines. You’re not judged for having a glass of wine. It’s classy. It’s what ladies do.

It’s easy to fall into bad patterns with your social drinking. Particularly when you’re busy. It’s an easy way to slow down and relax when you’re running at pace. It’s a boozy weekend away for your brain. A delicious inebriated fuzz.

Except, you pay. You pay with your energy levels. You pay with your poor sleep and your 3am wake ups where you conduct a shame audit on what you said to who, who you repeated a story to ten times, and who you fell asleep on.

I stopped once for a few years. I had gone through a long period of unhappiness and had got into a habit of having a bottle of wine when the kids went to bed and

STARS BY LILITH ARIES: With Venus and Mars in clean up your act mode, little things mean a lot right now; meaning fuss and bother if you don’t attend to them, appreciation and reciprocation if you do.

In business, since you can be generous to a fault, don’t embark on anything new by undercharging.

TAURUS: If you’ve been doggedly holding onto a particular POV, and feeling somewhat boxed in, there’s nothing at all to stop you widening your mind’s horizon. Or opening up to new, unusual or untried ideas. Don’t engage with trolls, time wasters and energy vampires this week; do something daring.

And caring…

GEMINI: Look who’s thinking big, spending generously, and attracting attention with their entertaining presence! But be warned it’s a combustible week, full of drama-queeny behaviour and egos on parade. Sure you’re ready to gun the engines and blast off, but with five slow-moving outer planets in retrograde, a measured approach works best.

CANCER: The Lion’s fiery drive adds a dose of outgoing oomph to this week’s fortune cookie, inviting you to life outside the Crab cave. Weekend new moon encourages expanding your options by letting go of constricted or limiting expectations, because right now existence just isn’t in the mood to cooperate with boring, ordinary wish lists.

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ringing friends for a chat. Drink dialling. The iPhone could do with a blood alcohol app so that it locks out after .05. If you can’t drive, you also shouldn’t phone. After one night I rang my friend sheepishly and confessed: ‘I don’t remember hanging up’. She said ‘That’s because you talked for about an hour and when I said something you fell asleep.’

So I’ve stopped. It’s not hard actually. I’m not struggling. It’s been two weeks and I already feel clearer. I am sleeping better. I feel more relaxed. I’m getting up for a sunrise walk most mornings. I’m more efficient in my workday. I haven’t felt a single twinge.

I have tripled my water intake. I’m enjoying being sober. I approached it as something I was going to do that was positive for my health, and I don’t feel like I’m missing out.

Like most people I know alcoholism is in my genes. My father was an alcoholic.

He drove drunk into another car, killed himself and an innocent man.

He was 30. I’m 53.

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The only thing I would like is another word for sober.

It means serious, solemn. And I don’t like ‘straight’ either. I might as well say I’m boring. And I actually feel a lot less boring.

When I go out now I shut up and I listen to people. Of course, most of the people I am listening to are drunk.

But I can’t complain. I feel, in some strange way, that it’s my karma.

This week’s Sun, Mercury and weekend new moon in Leo want to do it big, Mars and Venus in Virgo want to do it right…

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LEO: Sun, Mercury and annual new moon in Leo sashay down the astral catwalk this week putting your talents on display and giving you permission to shamelessly self-promote. During which, you may question a deeply held belief. Does it need releasing for something that better fits the person you’ve become? Time to raise the bar?

SAGITTARIUS: With Jupiter retrograde in the sign of groups don’t be surprised if some collaborations cool, while others come up for consideration and assessment. But don’t let this stop you from engaging with people in whichever parts of the world you’re able to, and connecting with like-minded friends, even at a distance.

VIRGO: As Mars and Venus in Virgo continue dealing you romantic realists the charm card, why not take advantage of their energetically sexy and affectionate vibes? Leave aside all the heavy lifting and emotional processing you’ve being doing lately, and take some personal space to enjoy this super-simpatico synch-up in your sign.

CAPRICORN: The current transit asks Capricorns ‘Could you go farther faster by teaming up, by merging your assets and resources?’. And it comes with a caution about projecting your own standards onto others… If this week aggravates your natural stubbornness, that will only limit your enjoyment of this fun-loving transit, so stay negotiable.

LIBRA: This week’s astral mandate is aptly expressed by Libran author Ursula Le Guin: Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

Use this time to streamline your routines, your budget and schedules and for creating new habits to keep you balanced…

AQUARIUS: Plenty of positive possibilities and exciting potential on this week’s Aquarian storyboard. But Augusts’ vibes are quite fixed, and when the planets dig in their heels, humans tend to follow suit. If people are too strongly committed to their own agendas – best you don’t join them, lest stubbornness become a stumbling block.

SCORPIO: As this week’s romantic antics exercise your theatrical talents, admiring fans might find you so dramatically attractive that small acts of humility may be necessary to counteract ego-inflation. Should someone pry into your private life or invade your boundaries (so not your favourite thing), advise them kindly what’s not up for discussion. Resist using the sting

PISCES: Mars and Venus in Virgo, your opposite sign on the zodiac wheel, help Pisceans employ their emotions and feelings more effectively. Pisces like to be of service, and as a mutable sign you excel at shifting things around. This week your practical application of love might be moving someone’s viewpoint.

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SAE OPEN DAY INCEPTION + A/V SHOW RETRO-POP AND EPIC ROCK CLASSIC Popular Byron Bay entertainer, Jon J Bradley can deliver anything, from middle-of-the-road easy listening to live energetic party music in the form of retropop and epic rock classics.

Jon’s earthy acoustic renditions exhibit strong, versatile vocals with warm harmonica and rhythmic guitar. His spontaneity sets him aside as Jon often likes to encourage audience participation in his shows. His solo act has him playing pubs, clubs, parties and functions of all descriptions. Jon is located in Byron Bay and playing regular gigs all over the far north coast of NSW and southern Gold Coast.

You can see Jon J Bradley at The Rails on Thursday.

Three Lords are back with another spectacular A/V show to celebrate Christopher Nolan’s masterpiece: Inception, in which a thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O. Three Lords have collaborated with local artists for this mind-bending A/V show.

Guided by an immense appreciation for Christopher Nolan’s groundbreaking vision and storytelling, Three Lords ‘couldn’t resist’ bringing this sci-fi thriller adventure film back to the big screen, as well as creating a unique audio visual installation for your senses to experience.

August 14, 2021, 7.30pm. Byron Theatre https://byroncentre.com.au Full $35 | Group of 4+ $30 | Student/ Concession $25

DELPHIN QUEST Jason Delphin believes people will never be deprived of their right to listen to music. ‘Music will always be a part of everyone’s psychology. It links in ways that science will never understand and ways that the “powers that be” will never be able to regulate. It’s our only freedom; taking it away would mean dismantling the enchantment that makes us unique, as well as robbing us of what little happiness we have in these difficult times. I will continue my quest for the people indefinitely!’

Join Delphin on his quest. Monday at the Rails.

If you’re considering a career in the creative media industry including animation, audio, design, film, games, web and mobile and virtual reality, then the SAE Open Day is your best bet this Sunday.

At the Open Day, you will discover how SAE structure their fast-track courses ensuring you graduate sooner; how their small class sizes and collaborative workspaces encourage creative ideas and development – with no exams!

Discover how SAE’s unique work placement program provides Bachelor students the opportunity to hone their skills in the real-world; and how theirexperienced lecturers will help guide your development through practical learning using industry-standard equipment and remote learning options.

Visit the SAE campus or the virtual event this Sunday – resister at sae.edu.au/open-day.

WHAT’S ON POMPEII: SIN CITY A cinematic journey in one of the world’s most famous archaeological sites Wednesday 11 August, 3pm

NO MAN’S LAND - NT LIVE ENCORE Ian McKellan & Patrick Stewart star in Harold Pinter’s comic classic Saturday 14 August, 11.30am

INCEPTION A Three Lords Special Event Featuring live AV show by Dashboard Animals Saturday 14 August, 7.30pm

BUDJERAH Debut EP Australian Tour Support: Sam Windley Monday 16 August, 7.30pm

Arrive early and enjoy a drink at the Theatre Bar Byron Theatre & Community Centre 69 Jonson Street, Byron Bay byrontheatre.com byrontheatre

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CÉZANNE: PORTRAITS OF A LIFE A unique cinematic exploration of the life and times of Paul Cézanne.

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WEDNESDAY 4 Q HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON BAY, 7PM MATTHEW ARMITAGE Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, SIMON MEOLA Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 5PM JOCK BARNES, 7.30PM JASON DELPHIN Q FOXY LUU’S, BYRON BAY, 5.30PM WEDNESDAY REGGAE AND RAINBOW FEAT. BOMBACLOCK Q MIDDLE PUB, MULLUMBIMBY, 6.30PM MUSICAL BINGO

THURSDAY 5 Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, JON J BRADLEY Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 5PM JASPER AND NELSON, 7.30PM 3 PLAY Q WANDANA BREWING CO., MULLUMBIMBY, 5.30PM OPEN MIC

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Q LISMORE WORKERS CLUB 10.30AM SEBASTIAAN – MORNING MELODIES, Q MARY G’S, LISMORE, 9.30PM DJ IN THE BEER GARDEN

Q MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES CLUB 6.30PM DJ CHRIS Q KINGSCLIFF COMMUNITY HALL 6PM REST IN THE GARDEN – SONG DYNASTY Q KINGSCLIFF BEACH HOTEL 7PM LUKE YEAMAN Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS, THE STAGE 9PM VENUS ENVY Q COOLANGATTA HOTEL 5PM RICK BARRON, 9.30PM STRICTLY ACOUSTIC

SATURDAY 7 Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, SILK & OAK

Q REGENT CINEMA, MURWILLUMBAH, 6PM YOUTH POETRY SLAM

Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 2PM KARUAH, 4PM JOSH LEE HAMILTON, 6.30PM BEN WALSH, 9PM ANIMAL VENTURA

Q LENNOX HOTEL HOTEL STAGE 8.30PM JAM NIGHT

Q HOTEL BRUNSWICK 7PM HARRY NICHOLS

FRIDAY 6 Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, SOUL’D Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 3PM LOKI HOUGH, 6PM JESSE WHITNEY, 9PM MICKA SCENE BAND Q HOTEL BRUNSWICK 6PM SARAH GRANT Q BYRON ENVIRONMENT CENTER 1PM JOHNNY GUITAR SURF SHOW Q WANDANA BREWING CO., MULLUMBIMBY, 4.30PM DJ ARUANDA Q COURTHOUSE HOTEL, MULLUMBIMBY, 8PM LEMON CHICKEN

Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, WRITERS AT THE RAILS

A LITTLE NOSTALGIA ON THE TWEED

Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 12PM TIM STOKES, 3.30PM MAJESTIC KNIGHTS, 7.30PM ADAM BROWN DUO

Hot on the heels of the Tweed Theatre Company’s highly successful comedy, A Red Plaid Shirt, comes The Fabulous ‘40s and ‘50s – an evening for the entire family, packed with thirty-nine tunes to sing and dance to.

Q BYRON THEATRE 4PM SACRED EARTH

The production is seen through the eyes of an elderly couple ‘watching’ the show on television, providing comic relief as they follow twenty years of some of the best melodies ever written.

The team responsible is largely the same as the one which brought A Brown Slouch Hat to life two years ago. Written by Tweed Theatre’s president, Doug Williams, The Fabulous ‘40s and ‘50s features musical direction by Julie Burnett and choreography

by Cherie Goosey. The only difference this time around is that Gary Johns will be directing, assisted by Doug and the energy of fifteen talented performers committed to providing patrons with one of the most enjoyable nights out they’ve had in a long, long time.

For many months COVID-19 has been a blight on the entire entertainment industry and if patronage at TTC’s Plaid Shirt is anything to go by, members of the public are definitely ready to come back to live theatre. To that end, you can rest assured that TTC is committed to providing a COVID Safe environment, strictly observing all public health regulations.

Group bookings are encouraged, with excellent discounts for large parties available. Check out the web site at www.tweedtheatre.com.au or email enquiries@tweedtheatre.com.au for details. You won’t be disappointed.

Q HOTEL BRUNSWICK 4PM SALT AND STEEL Q WANDANA BREWING CO., MULLUMBIMBY, 3PM PHIL HOWLER Q DRILL HALL THEATRE, MULLUMBIMBY, 3.30PM & 7.30PM TIL OUR DYING DAY – WOMEN’S THEATRE PROJECT, REGENT CINEMA, MURWILLUMBAH, 1PM WORLD MUSIC SESSIONS WITH VASUDHA HARTE Q COOLANGATTA HOTEL 4PM EPIC Q CLUB LENNOX 4PM JOE CONROY

MONDAY 9

Q MEMORIAL HALL, BRUNSWICK HEADS, 6PM REST IN THE GARDEN – SONG DYNASTY

Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, JASON DELPHIN

Q WANDANA BREWING CO., MULLUMBIMBY, 4PM DJ DELABOSS

Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, JAMIE ASHFORTH

Q DRILL HALL THEATRE, MULLUMBIMBY, 7.30PM TIL OUR DYING DAY – WOMEN’S THEATRE PROJECT Q MARY G’S, LISMORE, 8PM ISAAC FRANKHAM DUO Q KINGSCLIFF BEACH HOTEL 7PM KIT BRAY

Q WEMOVE, MULLUMBIMBY, 8PM ECSTATIC DANCE MULLUMBIMBY WITH DJ WILD HONEY

Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS, THE STAGE 4PM CLICK, CLICK, BOOM, 9PM RECKLESS ROULETTE

Q BALLINA RSL LEVEL ONE 8PM ADAM ECKERSLEY & BROOKE MCCLYMONT

Q COOLANGATTA HOTEL 5PM STEVEN MICHAEL, 9.30PM ALTER EGOS

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* At the time of going to print, this gig was cancelled and replaced with the Jock Barnes Duo.

TUESDAY 10 Q EWINGSDALE HALL 8PM ECSTATIC DANCE BYRON BAY WITH DJ DANCING TIGER

WEDNESDAY 11 Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, SARAH GRANT DUO Q FOXY LUU’S, BYRON BAY, 5.30PM WEDNESDAY REGGAE AND RAINBOW FEAT. BOMBACLOCK Q MIDDLE PUB, MULLUMBIMBY, 6.30PM MUSICAL BINGO Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS, THE STAGE 3PM ROUTE

THE SOUL OF NORTHERN NSW Soul’d has been playing Australian Soul, in Northern NSW for over 15 years. They are a big live music rock band featuring ten musicians. Soul’d is famous for recreating the retro sound of the golden era of music, from soul to funk, R&B to blues, swing and more. Music to get you moving on the dance floor.

The band features a horn section, female and male vocalists and a cookin’ rhythm section. Based in Byron Bay, Soul’d performed regularly at all Byron Bay venues.

Soul’d performs the classics from the legendary artists heard on the Atlantic, Stax, Motown and Savoy labels of the late ’50s,’60s,’ and70s. Soul’d also plays selections from Joe Cocker, Chicago, Blood Sweat & Tears, The Blues Brothers and The Commitments.

You too can be sold on Soul’d on Friday at the Rails.

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ROSS WILSON

When the likes of Jimmy Barnes, Michael Gudinski and Sir Elton John call out a song as ‘one of the great Australian rock ‘n’ roll songs’, ‘one of the greatest songs of all time’, and ‘one of my favourite tracks’, then you know it was and still is, a hit.

50 years ago, Daddy Cool’s first single ‘Eagle Rock’ topped the charts for months on end. It became a genuine cultural phenomenon, and the group’s debut album Daddy Who? went on to break every sales record in the book; between the two of them, the single and the album had a combined 17 weeks at Number #1.

To celebrate fifty years of Daddy Cool and ‘Eagle Rock’, composer and Daddy Cool frontman, Ross Wilson, is set to undertake a tour that will include Bluesfest. Seven had a chat with Wilson on the weekend from his home in Port Melbourne.

Firstly, how are you coping with lockdown? Are you getting to do some fun things?

Well, the worst thing about lockdown is that it’s happening all over the place. I’m doing this 50th anniversary tour and we are supposed to be up in Queensland, but we’re not going there next week.

It’s a bit unsettling. That’s been going on for the last eight months. You never know what’s going to happen next. It’s like walking on quicksand, you’re kind of hoping you’re going to be okay.

The 50th anniversary of a song, that’s a long time – how does that feel?

Well, it feels great, actually. Because, how many songs last that long and have an abiding affect on the people in your neighbourhood? So I’m pretty proud of that song. I think it sounded good back then. It still sounds good. When I hear it on the radio, the original one, I go, ‘Well, how did we do that?’ It sounds like about six guys playing and there was only four.

Has it had many resurgences over the 50 years?

It has. Particularly in New Zealand. It was a hit when we played there in the early days, and it was a hit at the same time in Australia, but then around 1990in New Zealand the song got a second run and got higher [in the charts] than it did the first time. In Australia, it had a resurgence because Molly [Meldrum] was a big fan and he was also DJing.

He got a 12 inch copy made and was playing it, and then plugged it on Countdown and it got another chance there.

So yay, great!

Is it finding a new audience now?

Everybody seems to know it. I mean, there’s things like I did with the Wiggles, so little kids hear it. I did that about 15 years ago. I was a character called King Mondo Me and we played ‘Eagle Rock’. And then I did it again with the new Wiggles about three years ago. And they did a version with a banjo and bagpipes and stuff. Pretty wild. ‘Eagle Rock’ seems to be everywhere. Young people are still playing it at their 21sts. I get a lot of feedback from people who have played it at funerals. They say ‘It was my dad’s favourite song’. It’s a song for all occasions – it was also in the movie Wolf Creek, and that’s about the most violent movie ever.

Can you remember back 50 years ago to when you wrote it?

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I finished it off in 1970. I started writing it when I was in England. While I was there I started writing the riff. I was trying to teach myself finger picking on guitar and I came up with the riff, and I’m thinking ‘That’s pretty cool’, then I thought ‘This is really good’ and I would play it to other people and ask them if they had ever heard it before, because I thought maybe I’d pinched it, you know? They’d say ‘No, I’ve never heard it before – but it’s pretty good’.

It’s well documented that I saw a photo in a magazine of some black people in America and the caption said they were ‘cutting the pigeon wing [meaning to execute intricate dance steps gracefully] and doing the Eagle Rock’ and I was like, “I think I’ll call this one ‘Eagle Rock’,” because it was really kind of funky… Doin’ the Eagle Rock.

Then I finally made it back to Australia – the first part was written in England, and the chorus was written back here in Australia – I slammed the two together and had a song.

At the time did you think ‘This is really something that is going to go off?’.

Yeah, I did. Particularly when I started playing with the Daddy Cool guys, because I swear that was just the greatest thing that ever happened, because there are no other people who play that song as well as Daddy Cool did. I’ve played it with other people and, and I’ve heard other people do it… And there are some terrible versions. There are some good ones too. I mean, Jimmy Barnes just posted one today on his Facebook. He’s singing a whole lot of Australian anthems for the Olympic teams. And he’s dedicated this one to them and to me, and the 50 years anniversary.

Oh! You might find it in the charts again next week…

Well, they don’t have charts like they used to, but it is up to 35 million streams on Spotify. So that’s a pretty good indication about staying power. And you know, going up another million or so every month – it’s out there.

When people request it do you roll your eyes and think ‘I can’t sing this song anymore’?

Well, we always save it till the end of the night. Yeah, so people who know me know the whole ritual. We build up to it and then we finish off with ‘Eagle Rock’. And then they get into singing along with it and then I do a little bit of a reprise and jump around. And then we make something out of it. It’s good. Now I love playing it. I love it.

So what what’s your band looking like for Bluesfest?

It’s slightly expanded. Usually I just have bass, drums, keyboard, and guitar. But this time, I’ve got that plus an extra guitar. I’ll be playing a little bit more Daddy Cool stuff than I usually do – quite a few songs, which I haven’t played for a long time, particularly the do-woppy ones with lots of vocals.

So it’s good to have the extra players because we can do all the harmonies and the guitar work. It’s great having two guitars that you can really dig in and and get that sound.

Are you still maintaining your energy levels – clearly not from when you were 25, but how are you going on stage?

I’m pretty good. The stage is where I really come alive. That really still energises my whole life. I’ve always loved performing and lockdown has been a real drag in that way. But I have a personal trainer twice a week and I’ve got little dumbbells at home and all that, I go walking too, so I’m pretty fit.

Will you have new music at Byron?

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Saturday 7th August 7.30pm and Sunday 8th August 3.30 and 7.30pm Feminine Archetypes Theatre Performance The Drill Hall Theatre, Mullumbimby Tickets $30 trybooking.com/BSQGO In support of The S.H.I.F.T. Project

It’s going to be hard to fit everything in, but I do have some new songs and a couple that I’ve been doing live that go down really, really well – I’ll slip one or two in there as well.

They’re Bluesfest style songs. There’ll be some very cool stuff that I haven’t played for a long time and there’s gonna be a couple of surprises that no-one will expect at all.

Have you looked at the Bluesfest lineup?

Well, this is an all Aussie lineup – the first time ever – and so it’s like everybody you ever wanted to see is going to be there. I think I’ll be a guest on a few stages at Byron and I’ll be having guests as well. I look forward to seeing you in October.

Bluesfest is on from 1–4 October.

Tickets at https://www.bluesfest.com.au.

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TIL OUR DYING DAY The Women’s Theatre Project explores the archetypes of Mother, Lover, Priestess, Warrior, Crone and Seeker in their new production ’Til Our Dying Day ; looking at how these characters appear in our own lives and psyche makes for rich material.

The play was devised and written by the group using process work, improvisation and creative writing and is directed by Philippa Williams.

Williams has been running ten-week long ‘Empowering Women Through Theatre’ courses since 2015, firstly through the Byron Community Centre and more recently in Brunswick Heads through the Theatre of Life. The course started out being for women with a lived experience of domestic violence and abuse, but soon became open to all women who wanted to dive deep, find solidarity, and have fun at the same time.

Williams does alternating terms of play/ process/ improv work and production/ performance work, which formed the basis of the Women’s Theatre Project.

She says that creating something artistic

together is an amazing thing to do and gives a strong sense of community. ‘When we devise a piece we use our own stories so it becomes an intimate process that is also full of play as we uncover and explore the different threads and themes of our lives. The group is new each time, although some women continue weekly for several years, and includes women with theatre training and women who have never done any theatre at all.’ ’Til Our Dying Day is the story is of a young woman in crisis searching for meaning in life and asking the age old question ‘Who am I?’ And wondering which of her internal archetype characters should she follow? And what to do about ‘The System’?

She goes on a journey with a group of friends as they find their way towards acceptance, gratitude, surrender and freedom. The performance includes poetic text, original choreography, a fabulous soundtrack, and lots of singing.

Williams says the course has always run during the school term for three

hours on a Friday morning, although the group have been working on this current production for 15 weeks. ‘I have been working with the theme of Feminine Archetypes on and off for many years as they provide rich dynamic material to explore, both within our own psyche and also as fantastic characters with extraordinary multicultural stories that span the ages. I offer ways to bring these characters to light within ourselves through movement, creative writing, improvisation and biographical work. We see how they interact with each other – sometimes jostling for position – and how they can both hold us back and empower us.’

Williams says this has been a tricky year.

‘The upheavals of life in various forms have meant that this project has lost some women along the way over the last weeks.

One of these was the woman playing The Great Mother, the archetype who inspired the title of the play. In exploring the multidimensional aspects of Mother we named the very long list of fauna of Australia that have become extinct since

European settlement. This list includes such wonderful creatures as the paradise parrot, the sharp-snouted torrent frog, the Victorian grassland earless dragon and the desert rat-kangaroo. The overwhelm that is present in many of us in regard to the state of our beautiful planet can feel disempowering but we can make a difference – ’Til our dying day.’

Any profits from this production will be donated to The SHIFT Project in Byron Bay that supports women moving from homelessness to independence. Find out more at www.shiftproject.org.au.

‘We hope the audience will be warmed and uplifted by our colourful show in these challenging times,’ says Williams.

‘And just so we’re clear, men are also warmly invited!’

There are three performances of ’Til Our Dying Day on August 7 and 8 at The Drill Hall Theatre, Mullumbimby. Tickets from https://fb.me/e/LyCjVkc0 The theatre will be at half capacity. Masks will need to be worn unless exempt.

Everyone will need to sign in.

CINEMA POMPEII: SIN CITY – ART ON SCREEN PRESENTED BY BYRON THEATRE A cinematic journey through one of the world’s most famous archaeological sites. Discover the secrets, the stories, and the masterpieces between eros and myth.

Pompeii is a unique, enchanting place in the world, drawing over four million visitors a year from all over the globe. It was a city enlivened by violent passions and endowed with a flair that was in a class of its own. The power games, sexual appetites, unrestrained ambition and creative genius could be felt in the streets, breathed in the temples and admired in the frescoes that survived the tragic eruption of 79 AD. Pompeii: Sin City is a journey back in time, to two thousand years ago, laying bare the myths and characters that helped make this site extraordinary, and rendered it timeless. From the love story between

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Dionysus and Ariadne, the ambiguous relationship between Leda and the Swan, the bloodlust satisfied by the gladiator fights, to Poppea Sabina’s desperate search for immortality, this documentary film stages and analyses the secret, rather insalubrious side of the city.

Leading us through its cobbled streets is the extraordinary narrator: Isabella Rossellini, directed by Pappi Corsicato with visionary talent. Her presence and voice accompany us on a journey, showing how the myths and works uncovered there have enchanted and influenced artists worldwide, including the likes of Pablo Picasso, Giorgio De Chirico and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Pompeii: Sin City performs a delicate balancing act across the thin invisible tightrope that separates legend from reality, crossing the centuries to inspire the contemporary world.

August 11, 2021, 3pm.

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New partnership at Ray White Byron Bay Ray White are thrilled to announce that Damien and Jodi Smith have recently become partners at Ray White Byron Bay Real Estate. They join David Gordon, a Premier Sales and Business Leader and fourth generation agent, with over 38 years’ experience.

Renowned for consistently raising the benchmark in real estate, Ray White Byron Bay is the longest established real estate agency in Byron Bay, serving the local community for over four decades.

This new partnership takes Ray White from being owned by one local family, to now being owned by two local families, and will

allow for growth in sales, residential and commercial property departments.

You can rest assured all your real estate needs will be nurtured and met with expert local knowledge and expertise from their 17 full time staff, they say.

Together Damien and Jodi bring over 18 years and a wealth of experience and knowledge to the business, both in residential sales and residential property management, and are very well respected within the industry.

Damien is an Elite Salesperson being in the top 1 per cent of Ray White nationally, and consistently achieves record sales with his outstanding local market knowledge.

Jodi’s exceptional results in all areas of property management, have made her a trusted advisor to their landlords.

David, a Premier Business Leader, is a wellknown and respected all round sales performer with numerous awards, who will now be focusing more on his passion for commercial properties and residential property management.

Together David and Damien are a dynamic duo.

They aim to continue to be at the forefront of the Byron Bay property landscape, maximising results for their clients and progressively building relationships in our thriving region. Property is their passion, but it is the people

David Gordon, Brooke Gordon, Jodi Smith and Damien Smith (pictured left to right) that drive them to succeed.

Complementing Ray White’s success in the

industry is the company’s dedicated commitment to giving back to the

community. They are passionate supporters of the Byron Bay Football Club as well as actively supporting, sponsoring and participating in a diverse range of groups, charities and schools within our local region.

Ray White Byron Bay look forward to working together in bringing a fresh new approach, enriching their team, and continuing to provide excellent customer service and maximising results for their clients.

Please join them in welcoming Damien and Jodi into the Ray White family.

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The only way is up This new build in Byron Shire is designed to withstand lockdowns of up to two years, pour boiling oil on sick people, and has a small slot in the bottom to receive The Echo each Wednesday.

Ruth has recently completed her first solo quarter with great results trading under her own banner of Ruth Russell Realty. She brings over twenty five years of property experience to her satisfied clients.

Known for her great communication skills, extensive local knowledge, and her dedication to excellence in her service, whilst fulfilling her desire to help people move.

She works tirelessly, going that extra mile to safeguard and enhance her seller’s real estate experience, while ensuring

her buyers find the perfect property to suit their lifestyle in the Northern Rivers region.

As a long-term resident of this friendly, close knit community, her reputation, expertise and insight have proven time and time again to be an asset to her vendors.

Ruth would like to thank her loyal clients, past, present and future for their support in her new venture.

Call Ruth to find out what your property is worth in this current crazy market... you will be pleasantly surprised.

Phone – 0402 855 929.

Although not all the news is getting better, we are trying to get The Echo to as many new arrivals as we can – our distribution has now increased to 24,500 per week from this week.

RUTH RUSSELL

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Ruth Russell Realty

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Coastal Mid-Century Luxe – Minutes to Tallow Beach • Newly built and resting on 660m2 of land, 8 Pacific Vista Drive is the dream coastal

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quartz waterfall edged island benchtop which offsets the polished concrete floors • The open plan living flows seamlessly to the covered balcony offering hinterland and

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sunset views - this large and private balcony adjoins the pool • Located a short stroll to the white sand and crystal-clear water of Tallow Beach

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• This home is positioned perfectly in Byron Bay’s most tightly held precinct, offering breathtaking views to the hinterland and Mt Warning

• High ceilings and an open plan layout takes full advantage of the ample natural light and an expansive use of glass frames the spectacular vistas

• Unique dual living design, offering two completely self-contained levels • Eco-designed home has been finished to the highest standard, utilising a

• Multiple indoor and outdoor living areas makes entertaining easy anytime of the year

beautiful blend of timbers to create a warm and inviting atmosphere

• Scope to add a pool or further develop the garden (STCA)

• Quiet and peaceful, yet only moments’ walk to Byron’s town centre and beaches

19 Cape Vista Drive, Ewingsdale

62 Kingsley Lane, Byron Bay

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Price: Contact Agent

Open: Saturday 7th August, 11.30am – 12pm 35 FLETCHER ST, BYRON BAY NSW 2481 PH: O2 6685 8466

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Luke Elwin 0421 375 635

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• 4 bedrooms upstairs all with built-ins and downstairs allows for a home office

• Only a select few homes offer such truly breathtaking ocean views!

• Stunning coastal panorama which stretches across the Brunswick River to Byron Bay Lighthouse and Julian Rocks • Set on a large 784m2 block with guest accommodation, resort style living and inground pool, all within a 10-minute walk to New Brighton Beach • This remarkable home is unique in its dual living design, offering a completely self-contained 2-bedroom home on the ground floor

9 Scotts Wood Grove, Mullumbimby

3 Kanandah Court, Ocean Shores

Koonyum Range, Mt Boogeram and the surrounding hinterland • Just minutes to Mullumbimby’s eclectic township and Steiner School • Highly versatile floor plan features an oversized lounge area • North facing kitchen and dining that overlooks the outdoor deck and pool

Price: Contact Agent Price: $2.5m – $2.75m Open: Saturday 7th August, 9.30am – 10am Tara Torkkola 0423 519 698

Auction: Saturday 7th August, 10am – Onsite

Open: Saturday 7th August, 11.30am – 12pm

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home is perfect for families, first home buyers or those looking to invest

• Multiple living areas spread across two floors provides versatile spaces, the first-floor rumpus room is ideal for the kids escaping the activity and life below

• The floorplan is simple and effective with gorgeous open-plan kitchen and living • Stroll to the weekly farmers markets at Mullumbimby Showground where you can

• Various decks give a treehouse feel, with every position providing a leafy outlook

stock your kitchen with the finest fresh local produce

• Let your imagination run wild to build, renovate and re-create (STCA)

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41 Hyrama Crescent, Brunswick Heads

1/5 Chinbible Avenue, Mullumbimby Price: Contact Agent

Price: $2.45m – $2.69m

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Opens: Friday 6th August, 11am – 11.30am Tara Torkkola 0423 519 698

Saturday 7th August, 10.30am – 11am Auction: Saturday 7th August, 11am – Onsite

Paul Prior 0418 324 297

Lee Grimes 0400 462 312

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Character Filled Home – Sensational Views – 1 Acre • Beautifully renovated and lovingly maintained, this private and secure 1940’s

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a beautiful wooden deck area and a large undercover alfresco dining space • Stunning pool and fire pit area, this is an ideal entertaining space all year round

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covered, wraparound timber deck to enjoy quintessential Australian alfresco living • Downstairs is a double-sized garage with secure storage for leisure equipment

• Stunning rural acreage like this is hard to come by with 28 acres including a flowing creek, iconic windmill and stunning native established forest selection of schools in both Lismore and Mullumbimby • The modern home is perfect for the entertainer and families alike, with every bedroom and living space offering private access to the wraparound timber deck

30 North Head Road, New Brighton

59 Tickles Road, Upper Coopers Creek

Auction Guide: $1.9m – $2.05m

Price: $1.55m – $1.65m

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

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• The modern home is perfect for the entertainer and families alike, boasting a

Opens: Saturday 7th August, 10am – 10.30am

Katie Teague 0417 006 667

Su Reynolds 0428 888 660

Olivia Coates 0408 966 098

Opens: Saturday 7th August, 1pm – 1.30pm

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Lee Grimes 0400 462 312

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Pinnacle of Peace, Privacy and Prestige with Uninterrupted Ocean Views

78 Owenia Way, Broken Head Expressions of Interest, Closing 18 August at 5pm Scan for Listing

Phone for a Private Viewing Karin Heller 0409 177 659 Kim Jones 0414 629 924

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One of just three homes that grace the ridgeline of this elite 144 acre enclave, offering unrivalled and uninterrupted coastal views and privacy. Never to be built out, these panoramas stretch endlessly before you, where you can watch the whales as they migrate or the surf breaking against the shore. It’s also a sanctuary of tranquillity, spoiling you with mesmerising sunsets over the Byron hinterland.

The heated pool with cabana is another ideal place to soak up the seascape, while indoors, views follow you throughout the contemporary residence. Featuring bespoke finishes, gleaming polished concrete floors combine with the warmth of timber to add a modern ambience, while large slider doors peel back for a seamless integration between the handcrafted kitchen, lounge and dining zone and the outdoors.

Do You Want a Premium Price?

Anyone can sell your property in this market, but not all agents have the connections to achieve a premium price. Kim Jones and Karin Heller operate under the banner of Kollosche, a boutique agency serving high net worth clients across Northern NSW and Queensland’s Gold Coast.

As prestige property specialists, Kim has been working with clients across Sydney’s most prestigious postcodes for the past 30 years while Karin courts an active pool of high-end Melbourne-based buyers. Together we’ve got Australia’s East Coast covered with buyers looking to purchase in the Byron Shire. Would you like to know what our buyers are prepared to pay for your property? Call us for an appraisal and more information on our variety of sales strategies including off market.

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It’s in the bag The time to speak up, act up and protest is now. We are in a climate crisis!

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Gary Brazenor

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Tara Ta ara w was a delight to work with. She is great with communicating in a timely fashion and managed to sell our property for the price we wanted very quickly. We highly recommend working with h her. he er.

Negotiating strong results for my sellers for over 20 years

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REAL SERVICE REAL SOLUTIONS REAL ESTATE

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TARA TORKKOLA SALES MANAGER / SALES

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Vanessa Coles 0433 836 755

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Byron & Beyond Real Estate

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• 1 Hulls Road, CrabbesCreek. Sat 10–10.30am • 38 Waranga Crescent, Burringbar. Sat 11–11.30am Elders Real Estate Brunswick Valley

• 3/33 Fingal Street, Brunswick Heads. Sat 10.30–11am • 209 Howards Road, Burringbar. Sat 10.30–11am • 157 Billinudgel Road, Billinudgel. Sat 11.30am–12pm First National Byron Bay

This freehold block of 1225m2 located in the booming Arts and IndustrZ estate is ripe for future redevelopment while securing a solid rental return from two long term established tenants in the meantime.

Even with approximately 535m2 under the roof and 10 car parks, the block is somewhat underutilised with vacant space available for expansion STCA. Access and exposure are optimised by an enviable corner position.

This ideally positioned property will suit an investor looking for cash flow and long-term gains.

Open:

By Appointment Contact: Michael Gudgeon – 0419 495 494 Matthew McCormack – 0400 468 857 Ray White Byron Bay

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• 9 Scotts Wood Grove, Mullumbimby. Wed 11–11.30am • 1/5 Chinbible Avenue, Mullumbimby. Fri 11–11.30am • 34 Marvell Lane, Byron Bay. Sat 9–9.30am • 9 Scotts Wood Grove, Mullumbimby. Sat 9.30–10am • 30 North Head Road, New Brighton. Sat 10–10.30am • 54 Carney Place, Knockrow. Sat 10–10.30am • 1/5 Chinbible Avenue, Mullumbimby. Sat 10.30–11am • 189 Federal Drive, Federal. Sat 10.30–11am • 62 Kingsley Lane, Byron Bay. Sat 11–11.30am • 41 Hyrama Crescent, Brunswick Heads. Sat 11–11.30am • 3 Kanandah Court, Ocean Shores. Sat 11.30am–12pm • 19 Cape Vista Drive, Ewingsdale. Sat 11.30am–12pm • 580 McAuleys Road, Tumbulgum. Sat 12.30–1pm • 27 Bulgoon Crescent, Ocean Shores. Sat 12.30–1pm • 8 Gira Place, Ocean Shores. Sat 12.30–1pm • 6 Driftwood Avenue, Byron Bay. Sat 12.30–1pm • 59 Tickles Road, Upper Coopers Creek. Sat 1–1.30pm • 81 Dixons Road, Burringbar. Sat 1–1.30pm Harcourts Northern Rivers

• 2/5 Henry Philp Avenue, Ballina. Sat 9–9.30am • 2/602 Ballina Road, Goonellabah. Sat 10–10.30am • 15 Ahern Circuit, Cumbalum. Sat 10–10.30am • 8 Liffey Avenue, Cumbalum. Sat 11–11.30am • 216 Pearces Creek Road, Alstonville. Sat 11.30am–12pm • 4 Summerhill Crescent, Cumbalum. Sat 12–12.30pm • 63 Survey Street, Lennox Head. Sat 1–1.30pm • 6 Lillipilli Place, Lennox Head. Sat 2–2.30pm

Raine & Horne Ocean Shores/Brunswick Heads/ Murwillumbah

• 3 Warroombool Road, Ocean Shores. Sat 9–9.30am • 400 Racecourse Road, Tygalgah. Sat 9–9.30am • 4 Terrara Court, Ocean Shores. Sat 10–10.30am • 41 Tuckeroo Avenue, Mullumbimby. Sat 10.30–11am • 32 Gloria Street South Golden Beach. Sat 11–11.30am • 6077 Tweed Valley Way, Burringbah. Sat 11.30am–12pm • 2 Kanandah Court, Ocean Shores. Sat 12.30–1pm • 19 Buchanan Street, Ballina. Sat 1–1.30pm Tim Miller Real Estate

• 149 Friday Hut Rd, Coorabell. Wed 12.15–12.45pm • 149 Friday Hut Rd, Coorabell. Sat 12.15–12.45pm

New Listings First National Byron Bay

• 81 Dixons Road, Burringbar. Contact Agent • 160 Lighthouse Road, Byron Bay. Contact Agent

Auction Elders Real Estate Brunswick Valley

• 3/33 Fingal Street, Brunswick Heads. Sat 21 August First National Byron Bay

• 9 Scotts Wood Grove, Mullumbimby. Saturday 7 August, 10am onsite • 1/5 Chinbible Avenue, Mullumbimby. Saturday 7 August, 11am onsite • 27 Bulgoon Crescent, Ocean Shores. Saturday 14 August, 11.30am onsite

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Property transactions with us are easy.

We offer you a competitive price for both New South Wales and Queensland conveyancing, making us a great first choice when you are looking to buy or sell in either state.

We use an innovative approach to communicating with our clients, often without the need to visit our office.

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Peter Smith is pleased to pass the baton to Adam & Simon van Kempen, but will stay on as a consultant and Gay and Kimberly continue to be integral to the practice.

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FINANCE

BUYING and SELLING REAL ESTATE Dave Bosselmann 0431 100 097

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ACCOUNTS & BOOKINGS: 6684 1777

• 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).

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

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Digital TV ALL Antenna Installations & Repairs ALL Electrical Work

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

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 Transport ......................................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

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

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

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

BAS * TAXATION * ACCOUNTING saltwateraccountancy.com.au ...............................02 66874746

ACUPUNCTURE

Licensed builder, specialising in Bathroom renovations.

0417 654 888

Quality workmanship, and reliable and personalised service.

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

ALL CARPENTRY WORK FULLY INSURED

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UNWANTED CARS

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

DINGO DEMOLITIONS & ASBESTOS REMOVAL ................................. 66834008 or 0407 728998

6684 5296

BUILDER – JOHN McGAURAN Personalised Service. 20 yrs exp. Lic 170208C .............0415 793242 BUILDER Renovations, maintenance, 30yrs exp. mchughdesign.com.au Lic 29792C....0408 663420

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

HAVEN BUILDING All aspects of building. Lic 326616C ...............................................0432 565060 FABRICA JOINERY Quality kitchens/timber doors/windows. Lic 244652C .........................66808162 LELAND CARPENTRY All carpentry – small renovation specialist (under $5K) Jesse ...0458 968290

CASH ON THE SPOT GUARANTEE

ACCOUNTANT Paul Mayberry..............................................................................................66847415

Lic: 317362C

AUTOMOTIVE

CAR BODY REMOVAL

ACCOUNTANTS & BOOKKEEPERS

CALL BRETT 0414 542 019

ANTIQUES/RESTORATION

Lic No: MVTC157416

INDEX 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 ............................41 Chimney Sweeping........................41 Chiropractic ..................................41 Cleaning .......................................41 Computer Services ........................42 Concreting & Paving ......................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 ...............................43 Health ..........................................43 Hire ..............................................43

BUILDING TRADES

Lic. 266174C

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ANTENNAS & INSTALLATION

$50 - $1000

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

WE BUY UNWANTED CARS, UTES & VANS

BUILDER SKILLS Carpenter’s rates. 25 years exp. Lic No R84001 ..................................0422 069632

EMAIL: enquires@adrians.com.au

CARPENTRY, DECKS, INSULATED PATIOS Lic No 253288C ..........................................0432 228980

PHONE 0466 113 333 24/7

CARPENTER All home repairs, Ballina Shire. Insured. 40yrs exp. Lic R87978.................0429 869769

ACUPUNCTURE CHINESE HERBAL MEDICINE M Collis.............................................0490 022183 MARLENE FARRY Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine marlenefarry.com .........0416 599507

BUSH REGENERATION & WEED CONTROL

ACUPUNCTURE & acupressure massage. Ph Dr. Derek Doran .......................................0414 478787

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

AIR CONDITIONING & REFRIGERATION

Cars, SUV, 4X4, Van, Truck, Ag and Industrial Onsite 35 De Havilland Crescent, Ballina NSW. 2478. ballinatyrepro.com.au

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

CARPET CLEANING FRANCHISE OF THE YEAR!

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SHOWCASE DEALER SHOWROOM

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AIR CONDITIONING & REFRIGERATION

PLEASE CALL 6680 9394 artisanair.com.au AU 37088

Mullumbimby Refrigeration & Airconditioning Services 45 Manns Road, Mullumbimby Lic: 299433C ARC: AU40492

Lic 246545C

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

6684 2783

COOLMAN AIR CONDITIONING 23 years experience. Lic 178464C AU30147 ..............0412 641753

Far North Coast NSW John & Teresa

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Cleans deeply, dries in 1-2 hours

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CHIMNEY SWEEPING 1/84 Centennial Circuit Byron Bay

6680 0 8862

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CURTAINS

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

CHIROPRACTIC PLANTATION SHUTTERS

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

CLEANING

AWNINGS

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NORTH BYRON BLINDS For all your window furnishings................................................ 0404 421518

BRICKLAYING

RAINBOW REGION AIR CONDITIONING ARC AU36141. Lic No. 264313C.....................0487 264137 BRICK/BLOCK LAYING Contractors. Lic 291958C. Phone Mark ........................................0409 444268 CLIMATE CONTROL AUSTRALIA Lic 362019C AU 27106... JARREAU.............................0421 485217 BRICK & BLOCK LAYING 15 years exp. Reliable & competitive. Call Andrew for a quote ..0423 151092

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Green & Clean

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

ACTION WINDOW & PRESSURE CLEANING 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 495 750

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CLEANING (continued)

Coast to Country Asphalt Specialising in

5 Stars

CLEANING SERVICE

Phone Mick 0409 009 024

For a Free Quote Call Now

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DETAILED CLEANER/GUEST HOUSE MANAGER All natural products 4.8 Stayz rated ..0410 723601 BEYOND CLEANING GROUP Quality focused. Bruns to Ballina from $49.90-$59.99ph..0451 102239

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GARDEN & PROPERTY MAINTENANCE

ALL ASPECTS OF ASPHALT & BITUMEN SERVICES

6677 1859

AIRBNB TURNOVER CLEANING ...................................................................................0450 162699

COMPUTER SERVICES

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

CONCRETING & PAVING

CRETE EDGIN

SERVICING THE EAST COAST OF THE NSW NORTHERN RIVERS

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All aspects gardening & mowing Enhancive garden makeovers

EARTHMOVING & EXCAVATION

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TINY EARTHWOR

SALISBURY

DARYL 0418 234 302

Over 25 yrs local experience. All forms of concreting.

Residential • Civil • Industrial

Est. 2010

Philip Toovey

Lic.136717c

CONCRETING

0409 799 909

various implements available for limited access projects

PRE PURCHASE CONSULTATION • LAND CONSULTATION • DRAINAGE DESIGN AND WATER HARVESTING • DRIVEWAY CONSTRUCTION • VEGETATION MANAGEMENT • WATERWAYS & CREEK CROSSOVERS • GENERAL EXCAVATION

CONCRETING

Zac Asherovitch

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ANDREW FLANAGAN CONCRETING & EXCAVATION Lic 12363889.............................0401 968173

Auger attachment Driveways Shed Slabs Holes Drilled Phone: 0431 678 130 sbakerconcrete@yahoo.com.au

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

ELECTRICIANS

AH

02 66 804 173 All Jobs Small or Large

Domestic Commercial

ANDREW FLANAGAN CONCRETING & EXCAVATION Lic 12363889.............................0401 968173

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.

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0455 573 554

DECKS FREE QUOTES

Call Mark 0498 115 182 THE DECK DOCTOR Sanding & refinishing, cable balustrading. Free quotes. Richard ...0407 821690 SPECIALIST DECK SANDER (raised nail heads no prob), deck oiling, etc by FCR ..........0419 789600

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

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

ACES LANDSCAPED GARDENS Renovations & maintenance. Ph Sam..........................0477 851493

PAUL’S MOWING Local & reliable. Mullum, Bruns, O. Shores, Byron & Bangalow.........0422 958791 A GREEN EARTH Garden restoration, maintenance, tree & rubbish removal ................0405 716552 TIP RUNS & RUBBISH REMOVALS 4m3 trailer..............................................................0408 210772 BRUSHCUTTING Rubbish, Property Maintenance, Lawns.............................................0412 469109 RICK’S PROPERTY MAINTENANCE Mowing, brushcutting, gardening, hedging.........0424 805660 GREEN DINGO for all your mowing and gardening needs. Ph Michael .........................0497 842442 GW GARDEN MAINTENANCE Mowing, brushcutting, trees & hedges, trailer ..............0408 244820 POLLEN GARDENS Lawn & garden maint’. Professional & reliable. Dip. Hort. Dave ......0438 783645 360earth.com.au Conscious earthworks, general excavation. 6t excavator, 4t Posi. Zac ..0468 344939

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GARDEN DESIGN

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

RONNIE SPINKS Everything electrical. Lic 27673 .........................................................0429 802355 www.simplybeautifulspaces.com.au FENG SHUI / GARDEN DESIGN .........................Lyn 0428 884329

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

GAS SUPPLIERS

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 CSE BYRON 20 years of local experience. Small job specialist. Lic 213497C ..................0457 248597 JR ELECTRICAL Licence no. 339794c. Call Josh on .........................................................0475 346608

FENCING BYRON & BEYOND FENCING Any fence, any time, prompt quotes....... 66804766 or 0439 078549 EDL FENCING Installations & repairs. Prompt service. ..................................................0432 107262 FLOW FENCING Pool fencing, timber/colourbond, local, professional and reliable.......0416 424256

DESIGN & DRAFTING WE DESIGN & BUILD HEALTHY MOULD FREE HOMES! ASK US HOW. 0413 252 115 | mick@livinghouses.com.au WWW.LIVINGHOUSES.COM.AU

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

FLOORING

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CARPET • TIMBER LUXURY VINYL RIGID / HYBRID LAMINATE

BYRON ENERGY EFFICIENT DESIGN & DRAFTING www.beedad.com.au ...............0423 531448 FENG SHUI DESIGN CONSULTANT Lizzie Bodenham .......................livingbalancedesigns.com.au

Byron Bay - 02 6685 5503

borrelldesign.com.au Design & drafting. Residential & commercial..........................0412 043463

12/70 Centennial Circuit, Byron Bay.

NORTHFACE DESIGNS www.northfacedesigns.com.au..............................Cody Greer 0434 272353

Locally Owned Est 18 years

No Rental Reliable

www.brunswickvalleygas.com

0408 760 609 GRAPHIC DESIGN Graphic Design / Print Branding / Websites Tutoring

www.thinkblinkdesign.com

We have the expertise to meet all your flooring needs.

Free quote and measure.

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

Free Delivery

FLOOR SANDING & POLISHING

BRUNSWICK HOLISTIC DENTAL CENTRE.......................................................................66851264 THE FLOOR SANDER New & old floors, decks, non-toxic finishes, special effects, free quotes..0407 821690

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

JIM LABELLE ELECTRICAL O.Shores, Mullum, Byron, Brunswick. Lic 176417C..............0415 126028 Lic No 142383C

www.fullcirclerefinishing.com

ELECTRICAL Steve Nicholls ph: 0455 445 343 lic: EC28753

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

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

24 HOUR SERVICE

0439 624 945

Murray 0434 244 310 | mc_mower@hotmail.com

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

NORTHERN RIVERS TRENCHING 65hp chain trencher, excavator, cable locating & tpr.0402 716857

0424 876 155

MC MOWER LAWN, GARDEN & PROPERTY Aeration & lawn renovation. Residential, commercial & acreage mowing. General gardening, mulching, pressure washing.

CONSCIOUS EARTHWORKS

ALL AROUND

Lic No. 337066C

24 hours. All-inclusive and local. $2100 .........................................................................1300 585778

0467 482 948

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

Excavator & Tipper Hire, Concreting.

NORTHERN RIVERS DIRECT CREMATIONS Personal service, female-led exceptional care

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

CLEANS: Holiday, Residential, Bond, Commercial, Spring

Free Quotes

FUNERAL SERVICES

Lic: 154293c

Byron Bay

DRIVEWAY MAINTENANCE

www.choicesflooring.com.au

GUTTERING

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SPOTLESS GUTTERS. Gutter Guard Specialists. Ph........................................................0405 922839

www.echo.net.au

Service Directory PLUMBERS NEED A PLUMBER? DRAINER? GASFITTER?

BUILDING SERVICES

Chay 0429 805 081

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

24 hr response time guaranteed

HANDY MAN SERVICES

0414 210 222

Fully Insured

paul.munten@bigpond.com.au

YVES DE WILDE

A.S.A.P. All renos, carpentry, plastering, painting, studios & bathrooms .......................0405 625697 AWESOME REPAIRS Professional, commercial & domestic. Wayne...............................0423 218417 www.duluxaccredited.com.au

Blocked drain specialists Everything plumbing, drainage & gasfitting SHANE

GOOD NEWS HANDYMAN Carpentry, home repairs/renovations etc. Jesse..................0458 968290

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KEEN HANDYMAN SERVICES Repairs, maintenance, gardening, odd jobs ..................0428 679704

HEALTH

30 years experience

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

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

MR AMAZING All jobs, fast and reliable MR AMAZING................................................0438 785083

20 YEARS LOCAL SERVICE

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

HANDY ANDY Carpentry, plastering, welding ......................................... 66884324 or 0476 600956 ABSOLUTE HANDYMAN. Repairs, renovation, maintenance, painting. Call Mark ........0402 281638

QUALITY PAINTING SERVICES

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

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

REMOVALISTS

ACUPUNCTURE & COSMETIC MEDICINE Dr Adam Osborne ...........................................66857366 MULLUMBIMBY HERBALS Naturopathy, Ayurveda, Massage, Herbs. .............................66843002 MOVE TO NURTURE PILATES STUDIO & mat classes. Lennox Head ............................0404 459605 AYURVEDA, NATUROPATH, Herbs, Jacinta McEwen – Om Healing ..............................0422 387370 EAST COAST PILATES STUDIO Brunswick Heads Ph Judy .............................................0408 110006 THERAPEUTIC MASSAGE. Mark. Ph..............................................................................0448 441194

KNIGHTSBRIDGE PAINT & DECORATE

INTERIOR & EXTERIOR

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

Lic. 213034C

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

LLOYD SHERLOCK

0411 784 926

CL PAINTING & DECORATING - painting/colour design/wallpapering Lic 363935C.....0432 776959

PEST CONTROL

HIRE 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

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

02 6681 6555

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

Free quotes on active termites Environmentally safe

YOUR PEST & TERMITE SPECIALISTS

LANDSCAPE SUPPLIES

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

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

PHOTOGRAPHY

6684 2323 / 0418 663 983

Tree Faerie Fotos

1176 Myocum Rd, Mullumbimby (just past golf course)

LANDSCAPING

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

www.treefaeriefotos.com • 0417 427 518

PHYSIOTHERAPY

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 Calls always returned

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

0409 917 646

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Byron Coast Removals SERVICING THE NORTHERN RIVERS AND BEYOND.

Competitive rates and packing supplies available.

0432 552 067 | 6684 5481 | byroncoastremovals@gmail.com MAN WITH A VAN/TRUCK Reasonable rates. Phone Don ............................................0414 282813 BENNY CAN MOVE IT! .................................................................................................0402 199999

ROOFING DOMESTIC • INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL

466 Main Arm Road, Mullumbimby.....................................................................................66845288 ANTHONY D’ORSOGNA Physiotherapy, acupuncture, hydrotherapy Suffolk Park 1 Bryce St ... 66853511 OCEAN SHORES PHYSIOTHERAPY Manual therapies, dry needling, custom orthotics,

EXCAVATION & TIPPER HIRE Concreting & landscaping. Phil or Steve ........................0499 359702 shock wave therapy, real time ultrasound. Nigel Pitman, Ilse V Oostenbrugge....................66803499 PELVIC FLOOR PHYSIOTHERAPY 88 Byron St, Bangalow with Lisa Fitzpatrick on

LOCKSMITH

Wednesday and Thursday. Home visits also available. ...................................................0422 993141

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

OSTEOPATHY

0429149 533 Est 2006

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

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

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

MONTYS METAL

ROOFING

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

PICTURE FRAMING

RESIDENTIAL / COMMERCIAL NEW ROOFS / RE-ROOFS INSULATED ROOF PANELS FASCIA & GUTTERS REPAIRS & MAINTENANCE

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

NORTH COAST OSTEOPATHY Jodie Jacobs. Tues/Thurs/Fri .............................................66857517 BILLINUDGEL CUSTOM PICTURE FRAMING. 7/1 Wilfred St. Call for appointment ......66803444

PLASTERING

PAINTING • DEPARTMENT OF FAIR TRADING INFO: When dealing with home owners, painters are required to quote a licence number only for external work valued over $5000.

BYRON BAY

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

0438 784 226 • 6685 4154

www.echo.net.au

Lic No 189144C

ALL-WAYS PAINTING

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HANDYPERSONS

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SUNRISE PLASTERING. No job too small. Renovations + patchworks. Gtd sat. Free quote ....0418 992001 ALL ROOF CLEANING & PAINTING by Full Circle Refinishing. Ph Oliver .......................0419 789600 J. RAY PLASTERING 30 years experience. Quality workmanship. Ph John ....................0467 598038 I PAINT ROOFS 30 years experience ......................................................................Paul 0499 373117

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North Coast news online

RUBBISH REMOVAL

TRANSPORT

OCEAN SHORES SKIPS Mini skip specialists ......................................... 0412 161564 or 66841232 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 TIP TOP TIPPING RUBBISH REMOVAL Trade, domestic, garden .................................0422 017072

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

BYRON BUS Co

arrive@byronbuscompany.com.au

Door to Door Charter Services Call 0490 183 424

TREE SERVICES

SELF STORAGE

BBSS

Mon to Fri 9am–5pm

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

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

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

CHOPPY CHOP TREE SERVICES

Find The Echo

The Fully Insured Professionals

Service Directory

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

online anytime at

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

SEPTIC SYSTEMS

echo.net.au/service-directory

Mungo’s Crossword

Lic 312643C

Home sewage solutions Commercial wastewater treatment Rainwater tanks concrete and plastic

WINDOW CLEANING

Airpor t Transfers | Tours | Nights Out | Beach Walks Events | Par ties | Weddings | Corporate | Festivals

TIP ME HAPPY Rubbish removal. 1 tonne tipper, ute 4 hire, tip runs, deliveries, pickups .0488 297768

BYRON BAY SELF STORAGE

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Northern Rivers Pty Ltd • plumbing.td@bigpond.com 0418 754 149 • 07 5523 9930 • 1300 Taylex • www.taylex.com.au

TRINE SOLUTIONS Local sewerage specialists. Plumbers, drainers & gas fitters. Lic 138031C. 0407 439805 ON-SITE WASTEWATER Management Reports. Professional environmental reports & advice. . 0484 993990

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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

SNAKE CATCHERS

JACK HOGAN

0411 039 373

SOLAR INSTALLATION

0427 347 380

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Pioneers of the solar industry

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.

Electric Lic 124600c

0400337758 @trunkmonkarb

SUMMERLAND TREE SERVICES ............................................. Call Tim 66813140 or 0417 698227 PETER GRAY Grad. Cert. Arb. AQF8. Consulting arborist................................................0414 186161

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

BYRON TREE SERVICES Qualified, insured. Call Alex ....................................................0402 364852 MARTINO TREE SERVICES ..............................................................................Martino 0435 019524 LEAF IT TO US 4x4 truck/chipper + crane truck. Local, qualified, insured. Free quotes .......0402 487213 OUT ON A LIMB outonalimbtreeservices.wordpress.com................................. Call Lucas 0402 191316

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

INSTALL SERVICE: TV, Wi-Fi, AV, special pensioner/concession rate. .............. Damian 0414 741233

VALUERS

TILING

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

FRANCHISE OF THE YEAR!

Far North Coast NSW John & Teresa

0408 232 066

TILE & GROUT CLEANING

Servicing the Far North Coast for 20 years.

Free quotes. Experienced local technicians.

ChemDry’s patented cleaning systems.

WINTER SPECIAL:

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. Ph Karl................................0439 232434 TILER. Small jobs, repairs. Lic R75915............................................................................0468 465344

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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

6680 8200 or 0418 108 181

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E S T E R A U T A A G E A M S E L A L I E S

www.echo.net.au

Classifieds INDEX Annual General Meetings . 45 Birthdays ............................. 46

ECHO CLASSIFIEDS – 6684 1777

Caravans ............................. 45

CLASSIFIED AD BOOKINGS

DEADLINE TUES 12PM

Death Notices ..................... 46

PHONE ADS

For Sale ............................... 45

Ads may be taken by phone on

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

Garage Sales ...................... 45

6684 1777 AT THE ECHO HEAD OFFICE

Halls For Hire ...................... 45

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

Health Notices .................... 45

Village Way, Stuart St, Mullumbimby

In Memoriam ....................... 46 Motor Vehicles .................... 45 Musical Notes ..................... 46 Only Adults ......................... 46 Pets...................................... 46 Positions Vacant ................. 46

EMAIL ADS

RATES & PAYMENT

CLASSIFIEDS THAT WORK ALL WEEK!

Echo Classies also appear online in Echonetdaily – echo.net.au/classified-ads

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.

Professional Services ......... 45 Public Notices ..................... 45 Social Escorts ..................... 46 To Let ................................... 46 Tradework ........................... 45 Tree Services ...................... 45 Tuition.................................. 46 Wanted ................................ 45 Wanted to Lease................. 46 Wanted To Rent .................. 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.

HEALTH

COMMUNITY FREE HOT BRUNCH

HYPNOSIS & NLP www.wendypurdey.com Make profound changes in your life. Achieve personal goals and reach your true potential within every aspect of your life.

FIRST SATURDAY OF EVERY MONTH • Sausage sizzle • Hot dogs • Sandwiches • Coffee & tea • Fruit Salad

EVERYONE WELCOME

Saturday 7 August, 2021

MEMORIAL PARK, BRUNSWICK HEADS

Phone 0410 785 554 No dogs please

10am to 12pm

In the Ballina Presbyterian Hall

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 www.echo.net.au

3EPTIC 7ASTE 2EMOVAL

(nee Mannix)

Dip.Som.Psych, Clinical PACFA Reg.

Individual and Couple Therapy Supervision and Coaching

Corner of Cherry & Crane. Just behind the Presbyterian Church.

(02) 6685 5185 9 Fletcher St, Byron Bay

Beginners Courses Yoga Yogalates Pilates BANGALOW

Notification of 1080 baiting in Brunswick Heads Nature Reserve for fox control

Mon 6–7pm Hatha slow flow Sat 8.15–9.30am Yogalates Wed 6–7.15pm Yin Rejuv Yoga

SUFFOLK PARK Mon & Fri 10–11.30am Yogalates Wed 6–7pm Yin Yang Yoga Sun 6.30–7.30pm Hatha Fuse Yin Rejuv

The NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) will be conducting a ground baiting program using dried meat baits containing 1080 (sodium fluoroacetate) poison for the control of the introduced European fox (Vulpes vulpes).

The program will be conducted between 10 August 2021 and 17 December 2021 in Brunswick Heads Nature Reserve (north of the river).

The fox control program is part of the NSW Saving our Species Program for the conservation of priority threatened species such as the beach stone curlew and pied oystercatcher.

Please be reminded that domestic pets are not permitted on NPWS Estate. Pets and working dogs may be affected (1080 is lethal to cats and dogs). Pets and working dogs must be restrained or muzzled in the vicinity and must not enter the baiting location. In the event of accidental poisoning seek immediate veterinary assistance.

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HALLS FOR HIRE COORABELL HALL WEDDINGS, GIGS, CLASSES 66871307 www.coorabellhall.net

TREE SERVICES LEAF IT TO US 4x4 truck/chipper, crane truck, stump grinding. Local, qualified, insured, free quotes. 0402487213

• FULLY INSURED • PROFESSIONAL SERVICE • FREE QUOTES

BEETU FULL BODY MASSAGE A divine exp: Therapeutic, sensuous, nurturing. 28 yrs exp. Lucy 0427917960

0402 364 852

6684 4421

HYPNOSIS & EFT

For further information please call the NPWS Tweed Office on (02) 6670 8600.

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Psychotherapy

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Takeaway most welcome: COVID safe rules apply.

Frozen takeaway meals now available.

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Byron Bay Surf Club AGM Sunday 29th August 2021 at 10.30am.

All members welcome.

ORIGINAL THAI MASSAGE Call Yah 0477594800 REIKI - READING - EFT 30 min or 1.5 hour Powerful insights & chakra realignment Skype available. 0427053141

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Mark 0427 490 038 BAMBOO PLANTS: clumping, screening, hedging, flowering gingers, bromeliads.

Close to Mullum. 0458535760

ARCHIBALD’S CHEAP QUARRY PRODUCTS Road base, gravel, blue metal and metal dust. ALL SIZE DELIVERIES. Phone 66845517, 0418481617

MIELE WASHERS Dryers and dishwashers available at Bridglands Mullumbimby. 66842511 16 ALOOTA CRES, O/S Sat 8am. Adele’s beautiful clothing, jewellery, homewares & guys sports gear.

JARRAH SLAB TABLE 2.2m X 800mm $1.6k. Bob 0448004421 SOLAR ELECTRIC FENCE CHARGER with 40x160cm star pickets, as new, plus tape & clips, $400. AS NEW FARM GATE 3.6m $80. Bob 0448004421

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

GARAGE SALES MOVING SALE All must go. Furniture, household goods. 6 Berrimbillah Crt, O/S. Sat 7 August. 8am–1pm.

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Tip Runs & Rubbish Removal 0408 210 772

KINESIOLOGY

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Reprogram patterns and beliefs.

Restore vibrancy and physical health. De-stress.

Ph 0403125506 SANDRA DAVEY, Reg. Pract.

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MOTOR VEHICLES TOYOTA YARIS 2007 $7000 with 12 months rego. VGC 196,000km. Ph 66801648

CARAVANS CARAVANS We buy, sell & consign.

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Classifieds TO LET Summerland Storage Bangalow From $105 to $290 per month Call GNF Bangalow 66872833 SINGLE ROOMS with ensuite available at the Mullum Motel, Mullumbimby. 1 month minimum stay, $400 pw. No smoking or pets. Please phone Peter 0415742919

LOCAL REMOVAL & backloads to Brisbane. Friendly, with 10 years local exp. 0409917646 BEAUTIFUL ROOM TO RENT in Byron Bay. 0434121979 COORABELL Large 1bdr house with glorious views over Byron Bay. Avail 22 August. Huge living/dining area, mezzanine, study and patio. Bath/laundry, dressing room/ensuite. $675pw. Long lease. Suit couple. Ph Paul 0427795428 SUFFOLK PARK BEACHFRONT 1bdr self cont. granny flat, own laundry. Long lease, furn, n/s, no pets. $450pw plus bond. Ph John 0413905954

WANTED TO RENT PLACE FOR BRAND NEW TINY HOME in the Byron Shire. 7m x 2.4m. Needs power & water/hose. Happy to pay $120pw.

Quiet, single, new to the area. Contact Stuart 0405564523.

WANTED TO LEASE ACCESS TO ACREAGE, dwelling or not.

Prefer 2x2 or 3x3 or similar. Substantial security deposit OK. Pls call 0423218417

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

THE MULLUMBIMBY STEINTER SCHOOL

has the following exciting teaching opportunity available within our primary school for the 2022 school year:

Class 1 Teacher (Full-Time) Applications close at 9am on Sunday, 30th August 2021 For position description and details on how to apply please refer to our website: www.shearwater.nsw.edu.au

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 ADMIN ASSISITANT Experience in Xero, payroll, a/p & a/r, scheduling, crm, excellent customer service, able to work unsupervised. 20+ hours p/w. Casual initially but looking to long term. Swim for your Life, Billinudgel. Contact Ruth 0448649150 LILLY PILLY PRESCHOOL seeking early childhood, casual, relief teachers. Phone Frances 66851621 CHEFS WANTED for occasional catering work. Come and join our friendly wedding catering team and make some extra money. Great rates. Email Leela at info@ yourgourmet.com.au 2 POSITIONS AVAILABLE: EXPERIENCED CLIMBER & EXPERIENCED GROUNDSMAN Good pay. Hart Tree Services.

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The position is responsible for the operation of stalls at farmers markets including set up and pack down, refrigerated van driving and transport, food safety and stock control, as well as communicating with customers.

Knowledge of and enthusiasm for horticulture and customer interaction is essential.

Lexie is a 4.5-year-old desexed female Staffy who craves love and attention from her human so best as the only pet. She is shy at first, but once she gets to know you she will come around and has a sweet, loving nature – she needs a safe, quiet, indoor environment to call home. She is a good walker on a lead, but a little nervous of strange dogs. If you like company, she is the dog for you, she will always be by your side. No children please.

If you can give Lexie a permanent, loving home please contact Pam on 042 1017 461.

Microchip No 953010001061647.

Lexie

It’s winter but a big cat stork has just brought two kittens to the shelter.

Still a bit shell shocked, but already showing their great personalities.

DJANGLE is white and ginger, and bright-eyed DIESEL is tabby and white. They both desperately need loving humans and a nice cosy home. Ready and waiting!

All cats are desexed, vaccinated and microchipped.

Nos: 991003000609140 and 991003000815908

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

Visit friendsofthepound.com to view other dogs and cats looking for a home.

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Byron Dog Rescue (CAWI)

Erin is the most friendly & sweet little cat. She has the most incredible green eyes & her silvery grey coat makes her an absolute stand out beauty. Erin definitely belongs on the catwalk in the cat world. Why not call in & see her strut her stuff? To meet Erin, please visit the Cat Adoption Centre at 124 Dalley Street, Mullumbimby.

18-monthold desexed Kelpie x Border x Hound ‘Harvey’ is desperately seeking a kind, caring forever home.

Harvey is beyond gorgeous.

He’s handsome, elegant, playful, loving and great with kids and other dogs.

He has a lifetime medical condition that can be managed by a specialised feeding technique. Harvey will need someone who’d love a loyal companion, with plenty of time to dedicate to him.

For further info please contact Shell on 0458 461 935.

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3rd SAT Mullumbimby 3rd SAT Murwillumbah

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07:25 1.15 01:53 0.42 2000 1.74 13:01 0.30

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6:24 6:14 17:19 16:53

08:05 1.20 02:28 0.37 2039 1.78 13:42 0.26

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6:23 6:56 17:20 17:54

08:45 1.24 03:01 0.33 2116 1.80 14:22 0.23

10 TU

6:22 7:35 17:20 18:55

09:26 1.28 03:36 0.29 2153 1.79 15:03 0.23

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6:21 8:11 17:21 19:56

10:09 1.32 04:13 0.27 2230 1.74 15:46 0.26

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6:20 8:45 17:21 20:57

10:53 1.35 04:49 0.27 2308 1.66 16:32 0.32

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11:42 1.37 05:28 0.28 2349 1.54 17:25 0.41

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6:18 9:53 17:22 23:02

12:35 1.39

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EMERGENCY NUMBERS Live-in position for maintenance / land manager (hospitality experience a plus) at Blackbird Luxury Accommodation.

An amazing opportunity to live onsite in our vintage caravan and indoor / outdoor living space.

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Peter Lowe

Late of Byron Bay, formerly of Canberra.

Passed away peacefully just after dawn on Tuesday 27 July, 2021, aged 87 years.

Peter was a dearly loved and loving parent, grandparent and friend, a passionate teacher and a composer.

He was a lover of literature–especially poetry–music, nature, body-surfing and Aussie Rules.

He had an inquiring mind and a delightful, whimsical sense of humour.

We will all miss him very much.

Peter’s family would like to thank all of the people who have cared for him over the past few years. The lovely people at Byron Aged Care looked after him with gentleness and compassion for the last two years of his life. More recently, the staff of Byron Central Hospital in the ED and the Inpatient Unit cared for him with great dedication and kindness. Last of all, the staff at the Palliative Care Unit at St Vincents Hospital in Lismore were absolutely wonderful.

Thank you all from the bottom of our hearts.

A private family service was held on Tuesday, August 3.

For further information please contact McGuiness Funerals on 02 6672 2144.

AMBULANCE, FIRE, POLICE ...............................................................000 AMBULANCE Mullumbimby & Byron Bay ..................................131 233 BRUNSWICK VALLEY RESCUE Primary rescue........................ 6685 1999 BRUNSWICK MARINE RADIO TOWER ................................... 6685 0148 BYRON CENTRAL HOSPITAL .................................................. 6639 9400 POLICE Brunswick Heads ....................................................... 6685 1277 Mullumbimby .............................................................. 6684 2144 Byron Bay ................................................................... 6685 9499 Bangalow .................................................................... 6687 1404 STATE EMERGENCY SERVICE Storm & tempest damage, flooding......132 500 AIDS Confidential testing & information (ACON) ................................ 6622 1555 AL-ANON Help for family & friends of alcoholics .......................1300 ALANON ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 24 hours............................... 1800 423 431 ANIMAL RESCUE (DOGS & CATS) ......................................... 6622 1881 BYRON COUNCIL: EMERGENCY AFTER HOURS ................ 6622 7022 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 24 hour crisis line ............................... 1800 656 463 LIFELINE ..........................................................................................131 114 MENSLINE 7pm–11pm nightly (phone counselling & referral for men).. 6622 2240 NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS Meets daily .................................... 6680 7280 NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE .................................................. 6684 1286 NORTHERN RIVERS GAMBLING SERVICE ........................... 6687 2520 NORTHERN RIVERS WILDLIFE CARERS............................... 6628 1866 KOALA HOTLINE........................................................ 6622 1233 WIRES – NSW Wildlife Information & Rescue Service ......... 6628 1898

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Cancer Support Group

Lennox VIEW

The Byron Bay General Cancer Support Group has been running for four years and welcomes new participants. The aim of the group is to provide a safe, supportive and friendly environment for people with cancer to discuss how they are feeling and connect with other people with cancer. The group runs every four weeks on the first Tuesday of the month at 10am. Next meeting on Tuesday, 3 August at the Services Club, Jonson St, Byron Bay. Call Ken on 0411 233 755 or David on 0428 187 025 or email david@davidyoung.com.au or kenconnell46@gmail.com.

Lennox Head evening VIEW club meets on the second Tuesday of each month upstairs at the Lennox Hotel at 6.30pm for dinner at 7pm. Guests welcome.

Owing to COVID restrictions the August meeting will be held on Tuesday 10 August. RSVP to Sue Brennan by Friday 6 August, phone 0409 728 814.

Country Fair The Teven-Tintenbar Country Fair will be held on Saturday, 21 August at the school on Fredericks Lane, Tintenbar, 9.30am till 2.30pm. All welcome to our fun filled family event. Help us celebrate our fantastic community.

BV VIEW Club Brunswick Valley VIEW Club will celebrate its 36th birthday with a luncheon on Thursday, August 12 at 10.30am at Ocean Shores Country Club. Numbers are limited owing to COVID restrictions, bookings essential.

Contact Wenda on 0449 563 580 or wjhunt@yahoo.com.au no later than the Monday before. Info: Margaret 0429 966 894.

Alstonville Aquatic The Alstonville Aquatic Centre reopened on Sunday, 1 August following maintenance. For pool information and opening hours, visit ballina.nsw.gov.au/ community-swimming-pools.

Lismore High School centenary dinner Lismore High School’s Centenary Dinner is on 11 September 2021 commencing at 6pm at the Lismore Workers Club.

Tickets $60, call 6621 7401 or book online at www.lismoreworkers.com.au, or in person. For more information call Helen George 0414 734 313.

Mullumbimby CWA

Op shops

Mullumbimby Country Women’s Association’s (CWA) next branch meeting is at 10am on Wednesday 11 August at the CWA rooms (on the corner of Tincogan and Gordon Streets). New members are very welcome. For more information call 0427 847 282.

Uniting Church Op Shop, Dalley St, Mullumbimby – open each Saturday 9am–12 noon. Byron Bay Anglican Op Shop opens Tuesday to Saturday 9am–1pm. Volunteers needed. Enq Prue Harrington 0420 316 610. Mullumbimby Anglican Op Shop opens Monday to Friday 9am–4pm, Saturday 9am–12noon.

Volunteers needed, enq to shop 6684 4718. Mullumbimby Seventh-Day Adventist Op Shop opens Tuesday to Friday 11am–3pm. Companion Animals Welfare Inc (CAWI) Op shop Brunswick Heads (next to supermarket) open Mon–Fri 10am– 5pm, Sat 9am–1pm, Sun closed.

Bangalow Chamber The Bangalow Chamber AGM 11 August at 5.30pm at the Bangalow Men’s Shed in Deacon Street, Bangalow.

Family History AGM The next Richmond-Tweed Family History Society Meeting is on Saturday 7 August at Players Theatre, 24 Swift Street Ballina from 2–4 pm. This will be the annual AGM. The topic of this meeting will be DNA Lucky Dip. Enquiries to Kerrie Alexander on 6628 1324.

Crafty Women Every Friday, 10am till 2pm, Brunswick Heads CWA hosts Crafty Women. Bring along your craft projects or come and learn to crochet, knit, or quilt. Learn from the experts! Gold coin donation.

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Mullumbimby District Neighbourhood Centre

Byron Community Centre

Mullumbimby & District Neighbourhood Centre is open Monday–Thursday 9am–4pm and offers a range of services and activities.

Everyone is welcome to come and enjoy art, music, games, great food and more. Call reception on 6684 1286 and discover what is on offer.

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.

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. Seniors Computer Club: Friday 9am–11am, Community Cabin Carlyle St (school term only). Seniors drumming, yoga, ukulele, art and drama: 66856807 for booking and time details.

Muslim prayer

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

Friday Muslim prayer. Jumu’ah service held weekly at the Cavanbah Centre at 1:30 pm

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.

Alateen meeting

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

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.

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

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

Learn coping skills and gain support from others. Narcotics Anonymous is a 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 by Zoom. Contact for details’ – 1300 252 666 www.al-anon.org.au.

Support after suicide StandBy provides support to people who have lost someone to suicide. Find out more at: www. standbysupport.com.au or call 13 11 14.

BB FC women close in Ocean Shores FC farewell vice-president on points championship

The Byron Bay Women’s Premiership team after their 2–0 win against South Lismore in round 14. Photo supplied Ross Kendall The Byron Bay FC premier league women’s team have maintained their dominant position on the ladder after a conclusive 4–0 win against Goonellabah, the weekend before last.

The team sits on top of the ladder with 12 wins from 15 games and just one loss against Lennox Head in round nine.

Cancelled game The team was due to play Lennox Head again last Sunday but the game was cancelled owing to new COVID-19 restrictions. The team is set to play Alstonville this weekend in a top of the table clash.

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competition points ahead of Alstonville (34), Lennox Head (30) and Lismore Thistles (21).

With just three rounds of regular competition left to play, the Byron Bay side is just a few competition points away from sealing the points championship.

In their win against Goonellabah the coach was pleased to see that the players had been showcasing everything that the side had been working on during training.

‘The players were on fire during the second half,’ he said.

The Byron Bay side is due to host Alstonville this Sunday, August 8, at the Byron Recreation grounds from 2.30pm.

Last weekend the senior players from Shores United made a farewell presentation to Marc Patten (centre-front) before he heads overseas. Marc served the club as President and Vice-president for over 10 years. The send off began with the Shores United Brown Snakes taking a hard win over Pottsville 4–2. Photo supplied

Westerly winds challenge Tweed Valley sailors Matt Andrews The experience of John Haywood and the other crew members of Capers triumphed in the winter westerlies and run out tide that greeted a COVID-19 depleted fleet in the Tweed River Sailing Club’s winter series, two weeks ago.

The sailors took a beach start that meant a very tight pack left the harbour together, but John and his crew: Gail Bernet and Deb Beard squeezed through a big hole in the breeze, closely followed by Matt Andrews and Kat Barwick

bridge. The rest of the fleet turned for home with the leaders, and together the fleet raced in a tight pack again.

Thinking sailor

Tweed Valley sailors get ready for a beach start. Photo supplied

in Paper Plane while the rest of the fleet was left wondering what they had done wrong.

Paper Plane and Capers engaged in some close racing as they approached the M1

Three lasers all had a go at leading, and the Corsair Nimbus with spinnaker flying also challenged for the lead.

But it was a day for the thinking sailor, and John and his crew again made their way to the front, just in time to sail into the harbour for a deserved win with Paper Plane second and Karen in her Laser coming in for a very close third place.

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Those looking for a different perspective on Byron – apart from David Leser’s recent piece in SMH – travel writer Craig Tansley’s take on his hometown is worth a look at www.traveller.com.au (bit.ly/3rNABMo).

Two councillors who are keen to show how much they are engaged and interested in us have put forward 11 notices of motion for the upcoming August 5 meeting.

Eleven! These motions were penned prior to the election delay of December 4. Will Crs Coorey and Acting Mayor Lyon sustain their interest throughout the three month lead up to the election? See editorial, page 10.

The Labor Party last week backflipped and now supports the Coalition’s stage three tax cuts, which will benefit the wealthiest and impact the poorest. Negative gearing reform has also been abandoned, which adds to the unlikelihood that younger generations will be able to buy their own home. See the local Labor MP’s avoidance of the issue on page 8.

NORPA says it has cancelled its August shows owing to the developing COVID-19 situation. Cancelled shows include The Four Seasons by Australian Chamber Orchestra’s ACO Collective, the musical, Once,

by Darlinghurst Theatre Company and Man With The Iron Neck by Legs on the Wall.

Now that Google and Facebook are requiring their employees to be vaccinated, does that mean plans by Bill Gates to depopulate the planet will finally see the rise of AI bots?

Fingers crossed for Sample organisers, who host the region’s premier food event.

They are hosting Sample at the Bangalow Showground on September 4. A recent lineup announcement includes Adam Liaw. See page 23 for more info, or visit www.samplefoodevents.com. Photo of past Sample event by Jeff Dawson Murdoch’s Sky News (News Corp) just got banned for a week on YouTube (Owned by Google) after spreading misinformation around COVID-19.

Yet freedumb of press is not the issue: According to the (ongoing) 2021 Federal Senate Inquiry into media diversity, News Corp owns nearly 60 per cent of the metro and national print media market.

The National Census is back for August! The last one in 2016 was plagued by a cyber hack and public backlash over plans to retain and expand upon personal details.

Meanwhile, Andrew Denton says if you are non religious, it’s important to mark ‘No Religion’ on the census, because governments shape policy around that data. And no, Jedi is not a registered religion, despite more than 50,000 people putting that on their Census 2016 form.

Congrats to Flow, the local company behind honey

harvesting invention, the Flow Hive, for being recognised for the company’s positive impact on the environment by Certified

B Corporation. Their goal, according to B Lab, who certifies Certified B Corporations, is ‘transforming the global economy for good’.

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