The Byron Shire Echo – Issue 37.45 – April 19, 2023

Govt asked to explain rail

Paul Bibby

The state government has ‘no strategic approach’ to the sale of rail corridor land in the Byron Shire, and may be selling pieces off without public awareness or scrutiny, Byron Council has heard.

The comments were made by Greens councillor, Duncan Dey, during debate around the sale of a piece of rail corridor land for residential development on 14 Kendall Street, Byron Bay.

The meeting heard that the pending sale of the 261 square metre parcel of land next to Belongil Beach will not impede any future plans to reopen the rail line in the Shire.

However, it highlighted the fact that the state government’s Transport Asset Holding Entity (TAHE) sees such pockets of land as ‘surplus to requirements’, and can sell them off to developers without scrutiny, thus contributing to the erosion of the rail corridor.

TAHE has not indicated who the piece of land is being sold to, and The Echo understands no attempt has been made by Council to find out.

The application, listed as a ‘boundary adjustment’, only came to the attention of councillors because it contains a small area of protected wetland.

‘I want us to have a councillor workshop at which TAHE outlines their strategy for selling parts of the rail corridor in the Shire,’ Cr Dey told the meeting.

‘It appears to me that they have no strategic approach.

A Mullumbimby community picnic is planned Saturday May 6, between 4 and 6pm, on Burringbar Street, between Dalley and Stuart Streets. Those streets will be closed to traffic for the afternoon. Organisers say, ‘Interactive art and live music will feature throughout the afternoon, while there will be a yarning circle and surprise pop-ups to enjoy’. The town’s chamber of commerce, supported by Creative Mullumbimby and the Brunswick Valley Historical Society, are hosting the free event, to ‘remember the floods, tell stories, listen to music, participate in art making, and enjoy time and food together as a community’. Eric, the wired terrier, shares a picnic

Anzac Day celebrated in Byron Shire

With Anzac Day celebrated on April 25, there are numerous events being held throughout Byron Shire.

Everyone is invited to attend the dawn memorial service at 5.30am on April 25, at the Byron Bay Cenotaph, located at the Rec Grounds on Tennyson Street.

Breakfast will be served at the Services Club from 6.15am.

Assembly for the march will be at the Beach Hotel from 10.15am, with the march commencing at 10.30am. At 10.45am, the service commences at the Memorial Gates. There will be a special luncheon at the Services Club, commencing 12.30pm.

In Bangalow, the march starts at 10.40am from Bangalow Hotel,

Byron Street, to Station Street for a short outdoor service at the RSL memorial.

Byron, Bangalow, Mullum

The dawn service in Brunswick Heads will be held at the Cenotaph in Memorial Park, Fawcett Street, starting at 5am. Participants should gather at 4.45am.

In Mullumbimby, the dawn service will be held at 4.30am at the Cenotaph, opposite the Ex-Services Club. This will be followed by breakfast at the club, which is free for veterans, and $10 for non veterans. The mid-morning march will leave at 10.50am from Apex Park. A civil service follows directly after the march.

with Cedar, Joel, Harper, Vanessa and Ember. Photo Jeff Dawson

Blankets out –it’s a street picnic!

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That’s what’s illustrated to me through this development application. The application was only on our agenda by accident – by virtue of the fact that 700m away, there’s a little piece of wetland in the rail corridor.

‘We don’t see all of the boundary adjustments, and other small sales of land, and I have great fear that bits of it are being sold off that we will never find out about.’

While the boundary adjustment application was passed unanimously by councillors, Cr Dey and Independent councillor, Peter Westheimer, are now working on a motion for the next meeting requesting clarification from Council.

This could include asking representatives from TAHE to attend a workshop, or informing the body of Council’s position regarding the sale of rail corridor land to private interests. The ongoing erosion of the railway corridor for private development has been an issue of ongoing concern for some locals.

The latest exhibition to be held at the Bangalow Historical Society will be on war.

Organisers say the exhibition is timed to coincide with Anzac Day, and will run from Wednesday April 19, until Saturday, from 10am to 2pm all days, including Anzac Day.

Co-organiser, Glynis Perakis, says, ‘This display

features a collection of memorabilia from World Wars I and II, the Korean and Vietnam wars, plus a photographic hallway of remembrance of local soldiers’.

‘As well as Red Cross, British Army and nursing uniforms, there will be equipment and devices used in several wars on show,

from binoculars and cameras on the “correspondent’s desk”, to tobacco tins, and childrens’ letters to soldiers’.

The exhibition will be held at Historical House, corner of Ashton and Deacon Streets, Bangalow. For more information, contact Glynis on 0409 187 990 or email glynisp@ internode.on.net.

Paul Bibby

Byron Council may abandon its plans to build additional parking on The Esplanade at New Brighton, because of the likely impacts on the beach’s fragile dune environment.

Instead, Council staff propose a focus on upgrading the North Head car park, which is currently accessed via an unsealed access road littered with potholes.

If adopted, the plans may also need to include an upgrade of North Head Road with signage.

Council has been endeavouring to provide additional parking for users of New Brighton Beach for a number of years.

The beach is currently serviced by two small, makeshift car parks, which often fill to capacity before 9am.

At the request of councillors, Council staff have prepared three options for additional parking along the Esplanade, south of The Strand. However, the agenda to this Thursday’s Infrastructure Advisory Committee

shows that they have now recommended that these three options be abandoned, because of the environmental impact that each would have.

‘Staff engaged a planning consultant to assess upgrade scenarios to consider the type of Planning Pathways Assessment that would be required,’ Council’s Traffic and Transport Engineer, Judd Cornwall, said in his report on the issue in the agenda.

‘This was requested owing to the environmental impact caused by the options, and to understand the most appropriate way forward’.

‘Several of the options proposed involve significant tree removal, or cutting into the rear of the main dune, or building a concrete block wall in the main dune.

‘All these activities are likely to have a significant impact on the environment because it is a highly dynamic coastal erosion zone.’

Mr Cornwall noted that works such as cutting the dune and building a retaining wall and new, wider roads were not temporary, or readily removed, and were inconsistent with Council policy.

The Lil’ Cheeky crew performed last Saturday at the Brunswick Picture House, which is a family friendly version of the more adult – and very popular – Cheeky Cabaret shows. Cheeky Cabaret performances run until April 23. Clockwise from left: Princess Popcorn, Rhi, Darcey Ray, Stewart Reeve, Anais Stewart-Long, Rosa Mordaunt, Franki Disco and Benjamin Butterfly. Photo Jeff Dawson

Hans Lovejoy

With numerous issues plaguing last year’s Splendour in the Grass (SITG) event, The Echo asked organisers, Secret Sounds, how the event will be managed differently this year.

In 2022, SITG organisers attracted criticism over how the event was handled, with traffic management, long queues and patron safety being some of the issues. The 2022 event was also hampered by heavy weather.

Elise Huntley, Managing Director Festivals of Secret Sounds, told The Echo, ‘We have invested enormous amounts of time and money over the last six months to upgrade the venue, and our processes, and will continue to do so, right up until Splendour 2023’.

Huntley says some improvements include, ‘weather proofing upgrades to the venue, such as wider walkways, and hard surfaces in key traffic areas around the toilets and amenity blocks; enhanced drainage throughout the site, with a focus on the event area and campgrounds; easier terrain to move around, including more pathways and easier access to stages and destination venues; comprehensive onsite weather management processes, including significant onsite materials and equipment to immediately address unexpected weather conditions; improved communications with the local community before, during and after the event; and compliance from the bus

companies to deliver on their agreed service levels’.

SITG’s Traffic Management Plan has also been reviewed, she says, ‘with 2022 learnings in consultation with experts and independent auditors, including [Council’s] Local Traffic Committee’.

‘Some of the changes that will be implemented are additional camping vehicle entry points to the venue; a revised camping vehicle pass system that includes specific days, entry points and timings for arrivals; amended campgrounds load schedule and processing; and improving our workforce levels and enhancing staff, volunteer, and worker facilities for staying and working onsite’.

At last Thursday’s Council meeting, Cr Mark Swivel told councillors that he recently attended the Regulatory Working Group (RWG) meeting, where an audit report on last years’ event was tabled.

Managers of the North Byron Parklands, where the festival is held, provided The Echo with the minutes of RWG meeting (March 27, 2023) and the audit upon request.

According to the RWG minutes, ‘In October 2022 the NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment formally requested North Byron Parklands conduct an independent audit of consent conditions earlier than scheduled in the light of SITG22 issues’.

Within the 141-page North Byron Parklands Independent Audit 2022, authors, Continual Improvement Solutions, say 199 criteria were applied to North Byron Parklands, and they were compliant with 154 of them, non-compliant with four, and 41 ‘not triggered’.

Among the four noncompliant performance criteria found inadequate by the auditors, was ‘Monitoring equipment setup, operation and maintenance of flood monitoring equipment [that] did not fully meet the requirements of the consent’, and that ‘SITG22 failed to meet its traffic key performance indicators (KPIs) on Thursday July 21, 2022 (camper bump-in day)’.

The report reads on page 13, ‘One of the more impacted segments of the community resulting from the traffic non-conformance at SITG22 were school children and their families. As part of the executed EU, NBP has donated the sum of $10,000 to each of the […] beneficiaries (primary/secondary schools) located within a 10km radius of the venue’.

Capacity numbers will remain (at 50,000 patrons over five days), Parkland’s manager, Mat Morris, told the RWG meeting, saying the ‘DPE were happy with the independent audit, and as a result of revised management plans, have not enforced a reduction’.

The daughter of a resident at the Feros Care Village in Byron Bay says the residents of the home are ‘not moving’ and will fight to stay in their homes.

Maree Eddings made the comments during an impassioned speech to Byron Council last week.

‘My father is a resident of Feros Village Byron Bay, and I can tell you this is no ordinary aged care place.’

‘The current group of residents are not moving. They’ve been advised of their rights, and they intend to keep their home and their community together.’

Feros Care, the not-for profit charity that owns the Byron Bay home, has announced that it will demolish the facility and rebuild it as a type of aged care hostel.

They say the buildings are not fit-for-purpose.

But the residents, their families and many in the broader community, strenuously disagree.

They say this is nothing more than excuse to close the facility, and have vowed to fight the decision to the end.

‘We’re unable to find any government department or regulator that agrees with that [claim],’ Ms Eddings said.

‘This is impacting the

wellbeing of our resident and we are not going to sit idly by.’

Later in the meeting, councillors unanimously passed a motion calling on the Feros board to reverse its decision, and demanded that it provide ‘a full set of financials for the last three years and the forecast for the current year…’

Mayor Michael Lyon, who moved the motion as a Mayoral Minute, acknowledged that aged care was not within Council’s remit, but said the Council need to ‘call Feros out’ over the ‘abysmal process’ that its board had followed.

‘Aged care is not part of our core business, but Byron is a special place, and our residents are special people,’

Cr Lyon said.

‘We have expectations about how things are done around here. We have expectations about behaviour and about process’.

‘Those expectations haven’t been met.’

‘It’s just not how we do things in Byron Shire.’

The comments from Ms Eddings, and the Council motion, are part of a large, vocal and growing campaign against the proposed redevelopment.

So far, the Board of Feros remain unmoved, stating that running the home is not ‘viable’ in its current state.

Paul Bibby

It was nice weather for flamingoes at last year’s SITG.

Photo Jeff ‘Mudsy’ Dawson

According to North Byron Parklands’ website, Regulatory Working Group (RWGs) have been ‘operating for many years to review environmental management and community relations’. Members include representatives from the police, emergency services, Byron and Tweed councils, government agencies and community members.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

‘How can we get the 99 per cent of us to start putting our money into great local businesses? Because if we do, not only do we unleash great local economies, but we take the fuel out of the monsters of global capital.’

– Michael Shuman from the documentary Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution

Michael Shuman, Harvardtrained lawyer and economist, is the world expert on local finance. For 30 years, he has delivered workshops to business people, investors, community-builders and policy makers across the world, offering practical tools to invest in local economies instead of in the volatile and destructive global financial casino.

On the weekend of May

5–7, at The Farm, he will bring his world-class workshop to Byron Shire.

On the evening of May

5, Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution, hosted by Mandy Nolan, will be screened.

On the evening of May 6, Michael will give a public presentation and Q&A. A full day of the ‘Local Investment

101’ workshop will be held Sunday 7.

This is a real opportunity to coordinate efforts to build resilience and prosperity in our region. Come along to one of the above, or all three.

Michael says, ‘Thanks to outdated superannuation structures, Australians are now systematically overinvesting in global companies and underinvesting in local businesses’.

‘Despite enormous evidence that healthy local businesses are critical for creating jobs, reducing social inequality, expanding municipal tax bases, attracting tourists, and fighting climate disruption, nearly all our savings

are going into their publicly traded competitors’.

Under the false assumption that prosperity lies in attracting and retaining giant corporations, economic policies are forcing local businesses to ‘get big or get out’.

Michael offers financial literacy and examples from across North America that illustrate ways we can use our money and economic policy frameworks very differently.

He also points out that, despite the unlevel economic playing field, local businesses continue to be more profitable and employ many more people.

‘Those communities in the United States with the highest number of locally-owned businesses have the highest per capita job growth rate… and the highest per capita income growth rate,’ he says.

If residents of Byron Shire could shift even one per cent of their savings to Main Street (i.e. local business), it could enable more vibrant local businesses, more affordable housing, more renewable energy, more food self-reliance, you name it.

Shuman’s workshop will be adapted for the emerging challenges and opportunities for local investment in Australia.

It aims to help you answer four essential questions: ‘How can I move my money into the businesses, projects, and people I love – and out of the dangerous casino of global capital markets?; Given my financial profile (savings, debts, risk tolerance, etc.), what should my personal local investment strategy look like?; How can I help deploy the tools of local investment to strengthen the Byron Shire economy?; and How can I make Byron Shire more resilient to prepare for future global crises that will come from new pandemics, climate disruption, and economic collapse?’.

We encourage all those who want to help strengthen the community fabric in the Shire, as well as those who own/manage local businesses, or wish to ethically invest, to come to the workshop on Sunday.

For info and tickets, visit www.localpegs.com.au.

An additional sewerage flowpath built by Byron Council to stop treated effluent flowing onto a private farm near the Byron Arts & Industry Estate appears to have failed, with a key drain completely blocked, and the farm still inundated with treated sewage.

The $1.2M project was undertaken, with considerable fanfare, during the last term of Council.

The path was intended to provide an additional route for treated effluent travelling from the Byron Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) to Belongil Creek, providing relief to the Flick family, whose farm experiences near-constant inundation.

However, last week’s Council meeting heard that the Flick’s farm continued to be inundated and one drain appeared to be completely blocked.

Councillors voted to receive a report from staff about the issue at the next meeting, in a bid to determine the cause of the

problem, and enable swift action to alleviate it.

‘Having a look at the drain onsite it doesn’t look like, in my view as a very lay person, that it’s been constructed properly,’ Mayor Michael Lyon told last week’s Council meeting.

‘It looks like some fill has been placed to create the drop under Ewingsdale Road. But one of the drains in that area is at two-thirds to threequarter height, and the water isn’t going anywhere.

‘This has been an ongoing concern for the Flicks for decades, relating to flows from the STP. This project was part of alleviating that, and it was delivered with a bit of fanfare, and it doesn’t look like it’s meeting expectations.

‘To George Flick and to all the Flicks, apologies for the amount of time this is taking.’

The staff report, to come before the May 25 meeting, will include an evaluation of how often the flowpath is used, the amount of effluent transferred down it, its performance relative to initial program objectives, and any filing that has been done to grade the problematic drain.

Helena Norberg-Hodge is from Local Futures.

Michael Shuman.

Photo supplied

Paul Bibby

Calling all zinesters! April 29 event

A Print Fest and Zine Fair is planned for the Byron Bay Scout Hall on Saturday, April 29 from 12pm till 4pm.

Organiser and artist/writer, Benjo Kazue, told The Echo the festival will feature a mix of local Northern Rivers artists who work in print making, and are self-publishing literature, comics and art, as well as interstate guests from Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and the Gold Coast.

‘There will be 30 plus stallholders in total’, he says, ‘including the southern hemisphere’s only dedicated zine store, Sticky Institute. It’s free entry, for all ages. Everyone is welcome! There will be heaps of free zines and art too!’

‘There’s a playground for kids, and outdoor (dog friendly) spaces to relax. Pack a rug, bring an instrument, and clear next Saturday afternoon. Spontaneous jams are encouraged.’

Kazue says Zines (pronounced ‘zeens’) are independent handmade magazines, often photocopied, stapled, stitched or folded, with no rules around content or creation.

‘Anyone can make a zine,’ he says.

No artistic rules

‘They’re their own art form. No creative gatekeepers, age bracket, skill level or arbiter approval necessary to participate.’

Benjo has been working with Byron YAC and Biala Disability, running workshops to facilitate zine creation – ahead of the Print Fest – which will then be showcased and available to purchase at their dedicated stalls on the day. In addition, Benjo is also on a panel for the Brisbane Writers Festival Program (May 10–14). For more info, email benjo. kazue@outlook.com.

Mayor, Council GM diaries become public

Hans Lovejoy

In what is a first for Byron Shire Council, the diary meeting appointments of both the general manager (GM) and mayor have been made public, and are available on www.byron.nsw.gov.au.

Yet developers, for example, can avoid public scrutiny, with off the record

lobbying by phone, as all councillors phone numbers are publicly available.

According to Mayor Michael Lyon’s diary summary (from January 1, 2023 to March 31, 2023), he has ‘regular catch-ups’ with David Witherdin, CEO of Northern Rivers Reconstruction Corporation (NRRC).

Outside of his scheduled

Council and committee meetings (which have publicly available meeting agendas and minutes), the mayor listed media interviews, and offical public events as part of his dairy.

On March 10 and 21, 2023, his diary reads a ‘Community Member’ met with him over ‘Local Issues’.

The Echo asked Cr Lyon,

‘Would you agree this is not transparent – and will you in future, be putting names and topics to such meeting entries?’

He replied, ‘If a meeting is with someone representing an organisation, that organisation name will be listed’. ‘Individuals’ names are not listed due to privacy’.

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Zine enthusiast, Benjo Kazue. Photo Jeff Dawson

Developer MAAS ignores Tweed Council request to ‘cease’ clearing operations at Tweed Heads

Last year Maas Group Properties from Dubbo bought the 15ha site at 60 Tringa Street for $20M+. It is a 37-lot legacy subdivision from 1996 that was approved on the Cobaki Creek floodplain – an area that was ‘6ft under’ during the devastating 2022 floods, according to local Robert Eady. At the end of March the developers went in and started clearing.

Man charged after 73-year-old pedestrian dies in Casino

NSW Police say that charges have been laid against a driver after a woman in her seventies died on Friday.

Learn about native plants, food and caretakers of Country at the launch of Our Place, Our Species

The documentary Our Place, Our Species will give viewers the opportunity to delve into the world of native plants in the Northern Rivers and understand the relationship of local First Nations people as caretakers in the Bundjalung region.

Tweed Shire Council apply for Special Rate Variation

The Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal has confirmed that Tweed Shire Council has applied for a Special Rate Variation of 2.35 per cent; this will be on top of the general rates increase of 4 per cent.

An invitation to celebrate Ramadan Iftar at SCU

Muslims all over the world are observing the ‘blessed month’ of Ramadan, which includes the fasting from dawn to dusk followed by Iftar.

Pottsville High School site saved from developers – again

The 6.3ha of vacant land at 1 Seabreeze Boulevard, Pottsville which is earmarked in the Tweed Development Control Plan 2008 as a potential school site has once again been saved from being developed as housing.

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Mia Armitage

Dead cows, barrels of chemicals, raw sewage, and enormous trees were found washed up on Ballina’s beaches after last year’s flood and landslide disasters, creating an overwhelming clean-up challenge.

Ballina Shire Council says it can’t afford future similar clean-up bills without help, and has amended its beach debris management policy to specify when it will and won’t take responsibility.

Speaking in support of the update, Independent Cr Rodney Bruem said Council had been lucky in the last couple of floods to have received state government funding to clean up the Shire’s beaches.

‘You remember after the flood a year ago, there were tanks and all sorts of things sitting on our beaches. They were an absolute mess,’ Cr Bruem said.

There is no specific

budget allocation for ‘broader scale beach debris clean-up’ on a regular basis, staff notes on the matter showed in the agenda for last month’s ordinary Council meeting.

Instead, existing Council resources may, or may not,

be called upon to remove the debris.

Staff didn’t disclose figures on beach debris clean-up costs to date, but another policy presented at the same meeting on illegal dumping and littering said those issues alone were

costing ratepayers around $100,000 a year.

Council sometimes received government grants to help towards beach debris clean-up costs, but said grant rules could limit the types of debris collections able to be claimed.

Staff said this had happened after last year’s floods, and that there was sometimes a ‘mismatch’ between community expectations and available funding.

Changes were necessary, staff said, to make sure there was money allocated for the cost of the major clean-ups.

The update to Council’s beach debris management policy says Council clean-ups of large beach debris quantities, deposited ‘typically after large weather events’, are to only happen on an ‘individual basis’ on a ‘case-by-case approach’, and only with state government funding or a council vote.

Individual logs and wood debris from emergency and authorised beach access track entry points and established lifeguard patrol areas will be removed as soon as practicable to ensure safety, the policy says.

The council won’t clean up or remove beach debris consisting of naturally occurring items deemed part of the natural ecosystem and food chain processes such as shells, pebbles, individual and dune forming logs and seaweed.

The removal of dead marine wildlife from coastal beaches and foreshores is to be undertaken in accordance with state government guidelines.

Ballina councillors eventually voted unanimously in support of the amended policy, after some debate.

The amended Ballina Shire Council Beach Debris Management Policy is available for public feedback until April 26.

Paul Bibby Regional Development Australia (RDA) Northern Rivers Board has announced the release of its Regional Economic Recovery Plan 2025 (RERP).

The plan’s authors say it captures the impact of the 2022 floods, providing a picture of the financial burden and its impact on the region.

The document proposes to support the efforts of Northern Rivers economic development practitioners to fully recover from the recent catastrophic flood event.

With a focus on recovery, the plan sets out a roadmap for an economic recovery,

where the region is stronger, more prepared, and able to mitigate the devastation experienced in the February/ March 2022 flooding.

The report tackles the fact that housing, transport, infrastructure, and businesses were all devastated in the floods across all seven council areas.

Primary production and rural landholders were also very severely impacted, leading to millions of dollars of losses to many sectors, including beef, dairy, sugar, horticulture, forestry, apiary, and other primary production sectors.

RDA Northern Rivers

Chair, and former Nationals Party MP for Ballina, Don Page, said he nevertheless had great confidence in the resilience of the community to overcome challenges,

‘Like so many other regions, together we sustained our communities through drought, bushfires, a long period of pandemic and rain events,’ Mr Page said.

‘All these events, however, have been overtaken in size and scope by the catastrophic flooding, which hit Northern NSW and South East Qld from February 28, 2022

‘The road to recovery has been remarkably swift for some communities, others are getting back on their feet, but unfortunately for many communities, there is a long and costly road ahead to full recovery.’

The plan can be accessed through the RERP website: http://rdanorthernrivers.org. au/recovery2025.

With local philanthropic organisation, Northern Rivers Community Foundation (NRCF), celebrating the one year anniversary for their Empowering Women and Girls Grant, membership is being sought before the grants open again in June. NRCF’s Lisa Machin told The Echo they are building the Giving Circle membership, ‘to ensure we have lots of contributions to be granted out later in the year’.

‘Our two grants awarded last year went to recipents

based in Lismore and Kyogle’, she said.

‘They’re funded through a group of committed women philanthropists, with a $1,000 donation each, known as the NRCF Women’s Giving Circle’.

‘This money is pooled and distributed as the Empowering Women and Girls Grant.

‘We’re aiming to reach 100 women in 2023, so that we have the maximum grant funding pool to offer!’

For more info visit www.nrcf.org.au/ womens-giving-circle.

EPA puts Doubleduke logging on hold

The logging at Doubleduke State Forest has been the centre of protests for months, and forest advocates are celebrating a win this week, following a NSW Environment Protection Authority order that government-run Forestry

brunswick valley funerals with Michael Currie

Corporation of NSW ‘cease operations’, while giant trees are properly mapped.

Doubleduke State Forest, near New Italy and southwest of Evans Head, has been a site of ongoing community scrutiny and non-violent direct action since logging operations began in January 2023.

Ecologist, Anastasia Guise, has been involved in citizen science surveys of the forest.

Ms Guise said, ‘It’s what the community has been fighting for for months’.

She says the citizen science team have documented ‘an incredible number of giant trees in this forest, hundreds of years old,’ as well as vulnerable species.

Byron’s Main Beach during a closure. Photo Rusty French

The Zillig family

Tony was an inspiring, humble, gentle man.

Upon arriving in Australia from Switzerland in 1970, he lived in Sydney for 10 years, before moving up to the Northern Rivers, where he spent the rest of his life.

Although disabled by Polio at the age of two, and unable to walk after that without crutches, Tony never let it get in the way of living a fulfilling life as a husband, father and successful business man.

In 1980, Tony’s then wife, Rosemary, and two children Daniel and Becci, packed up from Sydney and landed in Tabbimoble, where together with friends they purchased 800 acres of Sclerophyll bushland, bordering Bundjalung National Park, not far from Black Rocks, just south of Evans Head. It wasn’t long before they turned it into a

community: ‘Serendipity’, which still exists today.

After five years of various projects, they purchased PR Music in the Lismore Square, and then moved to Lismore. In 1990, when the Lismore University Plaza opened, they started a gourmet cafe/ grocery shop, called Unity’s, which they busily ran for three years. Tony was always handson, and after hours each night, he attended to the books.

From 1994 until 2014,

Tony worked at the Business Enterprise Centre (BEC) in Lismore. During this time, he became CEO. He facilitated NEIS programs, and helped a great many local people who were starting out in business to find their way and support their journey.

Planet Corroboree

After retiring, Tony, with his son Daniel, daughter Becci, and then son-in-law Howie, opened Planet Corroboree Arts and Crafts store in the Byron Bay Community Centre, which he continued doing the bookwork for up until only a few years ago.

He was a passionate member of the Baháʼí faith, and later in life married

Elisabeth, who was from the neighbouring town he grew up in, in Switzerland, although they never knew each other as children.

Tony leaves five beautiful grandchildren, Yarbirri, Kowunduh, Yuki, Lila and Remi, who he loved very much. Tony had an amazing outlook on life, he was an authentic kind man with an infectious smile.

Tony peacefully passed away on Easter Saturday at Suffolk Park RSL life care.

His funeral will be this Friday, April 21, at Parkview Funeral Home, followed by his burial at Tucki Tucki, and then a celebration of his life at Wyrallah Hall around 12pm.

All are welcome.

BLUE ON BURRINGBAR ST

The Byron Bay Services Amateur Fishing Club made a $5,000 donation to the Byron Bay Volunteer Fire Brigade recently, for upgrades to their

#childboss

The world premiere of #childboss, the latest production from filmmaking organisation Bus Stop Films, will be held at the Byron Youth Activity Centre on Sunday April 23 from 5pm.

Organisers say #childboss was shot on an iPhone, and directed by well-known smartphone filmmaker, Angela Blake, working alongside young, local, aspiring filmmakers. It tells the story of three successful Northern Rivers’ businesses started by young local entrepreneurs.

fire shed at Suffolk Park.

Chris Rawlings told The Echo, ‘The funds were raised from raffles held each week at the Rails Hotel’.

‘The three businesses are: Ollie’s Hens, established by a local egg farmer who started his egg service in high school, and now services many local markets and cafes; TALLN Bakehouse, a sourdough business started by three siblings during lockdown, who now are making dough selling their loaves; and Band Called Stereo, a band started by four Byron Bay High School students, now making waves in the music industry, and who will perform at the premiere’.

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Pictured are Chris Rawlings and John Anderson from the fishing Club, handing over the donation to Rod Halpin, Syd Craythorn and John Brierly, from the Volunteer Fire Brigade. Photo supplied

Tony Zillig. Photo supplied

The Byron Shire Echo

Volume 37 #45 • April 19, 2023

Dear meeting diary…

Rejoice, fair burghers of the Shire, for a teensy weensy bit more accountability has shot forth from the top end of Mullumbimby (see page 5).

The top end, of course, is where Council offices are located. They are the Shire’s largest employer, and their operations affect many aspects to our leisurely existence.

Both General Manager (GM) Mark Arnold, and Mayor Michael Lyon have published a summary of their public meeting diaries, from January 1, 2023 to March 31, 2023, on Council’s website.

These published public diary entries are similar to the state government’s MP diaries (available at www.dpc.nsw.gov.au).

This was done after ICAC scandals and the like. Developers had well and truly embedded themselves into MP office furniture, and it wasn’t a good look.

Anyway, these local government diaries are a little peek into how both the mayor and GM spend their time, and which community members have their ear.

Yet, as pointed out on page 5, it’s all a bit of whitewash, given anyone can call the mayor on his publicly available phone number, and thus not recorded.

Also, if you are going to censor the names of individuals in the diary, as the mayor has chosen to do, there really isn’t much point in the exercise.

Nonetheless, any improvement in the way Council conducts its communication that provides a little more transparency for the public should be welcomed.

This is because there are many, many examples where the mayor has not informed the public. His wonderful ‘affordable housing’

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For menopausal women, humour helps get you through the day.

‘I am trying not to ovaryact’.

‘I’m not sure if I really do have free time, or am I forgetting everything?’.

‘I’m going out for ice cream or to commit a crime – I’ll decide in the car’.

plans are one example.

Moving on – at last Thursday’s Council meeting, Cr Duncan Dey asked the mayor for written delegate reports on his meetings with the Northern Rivers Joint Organisation (NRJO), the peak body representing north coast councils.

When pressed as to why he had not provided them, the mayor became audibly agitated and replied he ‘didn’t appreciate the framing of the question’.

He replied with meaningless motherhood transparency statements and that he has ‘made reports on a couple of occasions’.

Given the mayor has an executive assistant, who could assist in such tasks, The Echo asked, ‘Will you, in future, provide council with written delegate reports?’

He replied, ‘I regularly meet with community members to discuss all manner of things, from compliance concerns, issues with DAs, town planning, community and sports groups, grant funding requests, letters of support, committee business, in my role as a Rous councillor etc. I do not intend detailing every meeting or recording the content for this purpose’.

‘Written delegate reports have not been done by any Councillor in my time on Council, other than perhaps a couple of times recently by Cr Dey. For pertinent matters, I will normally talk to or email councillors relevant content as and when appropriate. If there is a public interest item coming from any of the meetings I attend, such as NRJO, then I make a verbal delegate report to a subsequent meeting of Council. The minutes of all meetings such as NRJO, Rous, LGNSW, ALGA etc. are publicly available’.

Hans Lovejoy, editor

But what about men and menopause? Is it a thing?

Well, apparently it is.

It’s called Andropause – the difference is, instead of a rapid change in body chemistry, men experience a steady decline in testosterone over 15–20 years.

It creates creeping change in mood and in some cases triggers ‘Cranky Old Man Syndrome’.

I stumbled upon it trying to understand the generation of older men who are basically in control of our planet – what are they thinking, and why are they invoking so much violence and war?

If this elite club has a President, it would have to be Rupert Murdoch (92) the most powerful media tycoon in the Western world.

He is a climate denier, creator of Fox and Sky News and sponsor of Donald Trump (76), who is renominating for US President to run against Joe Biden (80).

Whoever wins will need to deal with two other presidents who changed their nations rules limiting terms of office in order to stay in power – China’s President Xi Jinping (69), and Russia’s Vladimir Putin (70).

They are both are focussed on changing the world order and annexing neighbouring countries.

Meanwhile, in Australia, former Labor PM, Paul Keating (79), continues to grab headlines with his foreign policy prescriptions, and the Liberals are still clinging to John Howard (83), who is still active and writing to voters in every election.

The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei (83), is defending a religious theocratic crackdown on women; in Germany a raid involving 3,000 police arrested fascists, led by a ‘confused’ aristocrat, Heinrich XIII (71), who ‘fell for

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(pandemic) conspiracy theories’.

The group initially planned to kidnap the German Health Minister, then overthrow the state.

Another failed coup d’état was led by Jair Bolsonaro (68), after he was defeated in the Brazilian national election.

The common thread linking these men is that their formative years were all during the Cold War, and they are trying to revive many of the discredited values, and goals that were buried along with that era.

They are seeking to drag us back in history to serve their 1950s authoritarian agendas, which are often anti-science, always aggressively nationalistic, and employ brutal methods, ranging from state-sponsored repression and disinformation, to violence and outright war.

Here in Australia, there is an acceptance of the impact these reactionary old men are having on stability in the Pacific, and our economy.

But there is also a growing awareness and rejection of those values, particularly by young Australians, whose votes are putting an end to our own two-party system that was shaped during the Cold War.

The election of so many crossbench MPs in recent federal and state elections is channeling power away from executive government and back into our parliaments. Parliaments have, in recent times, become a rubber stamp for increasingly autocratic prime ministers, like Scott Morrison.

The referendum for the Voice is a tremendous test of how much has changed here.

The Liberal-Nationals party decision to oppose the Voice would ordinarily doom it to failure.

Based on this history, I have been openly apprehensive of going

down that track – and yet there is genuine optimism that the old ways are no longer dominant, and those ‘rules’ may no longer apply.

The Voice seeks to affirm truth-telling, recognise the special standing of First Nations people, and deliver a process that promises to improve miserable policy outcomes.

The Voice is for them – but it is also for all of us, the decision defines what sort of nation we aspire to become – and do we have the confidence to modernise our democracy based solely upon our Australian character and unique experience?

Can we calmly discern facts from disinformation; can we distinguish between proud patriotism and bigoted nationalism?

Can we make these changes to our foundation document in defiance of the narcissism and fear that is ruining democracy in America, and killing hundreds of thousands in senseless wars?

There is too much elderly male leadership holding our planet back – the Voice bravely challenges this kind of international Andropause that underpins so much anger, war and scapegoating.

The Voice is a uniquely Australian proposition. It is for First Nations Australians, but it also speaks to young people who want a better future; it speaks to all of us, beckoning a better more respectful way of solving problems.

If it succeeds, the Voice will speak loudest of all to the whole world that Australians seek a better way to interact with each other.

And that would be an achievement the whole planet could use right now. The Voice is hope for everyone.

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Tincogan Street speedway

Far from improving safety in Tincogan Street, the signage changes and pedestrian crossing implemented by Council in December have aggravated the situation. Traffic between Dalley and Station Streets has not just sped up, but many drivers now put their foot down, and having attained speeds well in excess of 50km/h are now most reluctant to stop for pedestrians at the new crossing. Mullumbimby Automotive’s manager, Sam Meagher, said that his fit and healthy mechanics have had several near misses. (His mechanics now have to regularly cross Tincogan Street to track down customers’ cars, often located a block or more away.) God help the infirm on their mobility scooters!

In addition to Tincogan Street residents, Sam Meagher is now also very much in favour of a 30km/h limit, not just for pedestrian safety, but for general road safety.

As pointed out in my Echo letters (18 January and 22 February), a 30km/h limit between Dalley Street all the way to Prince Street at

the railway crossing makes sense, and will improve safety, especially if highlighted by large markings on the roadway.

As part of above immediate safety work, would Council please also relocate Tincogan Street’s problematic pedestrian crossing to Stuart Street east, so as to be perfectly aligned with town centre. This would eliminate the ‘No Stopping’ signs outside Mullumbimby Automotive, return valuable assessment space outside their garage, avert countless road crossings by their mechanics, and thus restore their efficient service to Mullumbimby motorists.

Robert Zandstra Myocum

Time for sculpture

Now that the furore has long since died down over a sculpture Byron Shire Council commissioned for a roundabout in 2018, I think it’s time for a Council sculpture competition.

I’d suggest going the full bronze on a wallaby being mauled by an unrestrained dog while its owner looks on gleefully as another beachgoer vomits in disgust. It has

a three-lane city road in Borneo recently, and all three lanes of traffic stopped for me, waiting, while I crossed. This driver culture exists here also. Drivers do look out for and are careful around people on the roads. That is a positive feature, but doesn’t account for cars parked on curving roads, non-local drivers, drivers under the influence, drivers speeding or people not paying attention to the road. It seems as though there is room for footpaths to be built on most of the verges.

It’s time to start a public committee to pressure Council. I think footpaths are in new DAs, but not in the old ones.

Be a squeaking wheel!

Raphael Lee Cass Byron Bay

Save the koalas

The last couple of months there has been a tree sit down at the Bulga State Forest to stop the logging of koala’s habitat and protect the koalas themselves. Do Forestry NSW care? No!

all the dramatic potential of Rodin’s The Burghers Of Calais, commemorating the distant time (1347) when councillors were prepared to die for their community, and it also would give newcomers a taste of things to come.

Michael McDonald Bairnsdale VIC

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Jonathan Clemens, (Letters, 5 April) laments the lack of footpaths in Ocean Shores, citing a dearth of Council expenditure there, incorrectly comparing that with Mullum and Byron.

He needs to look further than his area. There are some footpaths in Ocean Shores; and Mullum’s, Brunswick’s and Byron’s CBDs have footpaths. Most of [the residential areas of] Mullum, Sunrise, Byron, Lilli Pilli and Suffolk don’t have footpaths.

All over the Shire’s roads, people are pushing strollers, children are walking to catch buses, elderly people are on four-wheel Harley Davidsons, tourists are dragging suitcases, athletes are jogging, and people are walking dogs.

Many suburbs don’t have the amenity Jonathan is focussing on. I was crossing

Locally there are protectors at Doubleduke State Forest doing the same thing, protecting koalas and their habitat. Does Forestry NSW care? No! The loggers are maintaining their jobs.? But wouldn’t it be better if they were caring and looking after theses habitats, instead of logging habitats of endangered koalas?

The view is that if these habitats aren’t maintained the koala could be extinct in NSW by 2050. What an indictment!

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Anzac Day, what it is and what it means to us today

Major Allan Warren

Iwould like to start with a quick recap of ‘Anzac’.

When Australia committed to support Britain’s imperial foreign policies in WWI because of our past colonial ties to it, we raised and sent a volunteer army in support.

Britain incorporated it into the 75,000 strong Mediterranean Expeditionary Force. It consisted of forces from Ireland, India, France and Britain. But nearly half of this Mediterranean Force was made up of Australians and New Zealanders; they being the Australian Imperial Force and the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Their code name was ANZAC – not a secret code – it was an abbreviation for this newly created Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. And that is the origin of Anzac in a nutshell.

Not all Australians who fought in WWI were Anzacs. Most soldiers and units – the infantry divisions – that fought on the Western Front in Europe were not Anzacs.

I invite you to think about the Anzacs – their legend and Anzac Day – from two viewpoints. They are both equally valid, but opposing. One supports a conservative military history that defends war as in the interests of national

security and defence. The opposing position argues for a military heritage that has a deeper understanding of the effects of war on individuals and their families. Anzac Day weighs in on this second side.

Making Australia a safer place

I will quote, in part, from a letter to the editor in the Sydney Morning Herald of 18 April ’22. It points to the dynamics of these two opposing views: ‘Australian governments instigated and justified Australian military involvement in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq on the grounds of national security. None of the wars made Australia, or the world a better or safer place’.

Today the Western world is experiencing a social and cultural change. Australia is part of this change. Our distrust of politicians is escalating. We are losing faith in our governing institutions.

We are more suspicious and questioning as to why our government commits our youth to overseas wars.

Liberal Senator, Jim Morlan, is on the public record as stating that when a recruit joins the Australian Defence Force he/she signs a ‘death contract’ to die for the Australian Government. The more we learn about

the high politics of war and the trauma and sacrifice it brings to the individual, the more important Anzac Day becomes to us.

The original Anzac soldiers, and the legend created around them, are best remembered by their heroic service during the infamous Gallipoli Peninsula Campaign in 1915. This was a blunder on an horrific scale. Against the advice of the navy’s admirals, Winston Churchill dreamed of capturing the Turkish Dardanelles so as to control the Black Sea. It was to be a naval operation. But the British Navy quickly lost three of its capital war ships and had to withdraw from battle. Churchill tried to retrieve the situation and sent in his Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, including the Anzacs.

When chief organiser Shaun Press took Egyptian Grandmaster Sami Shoker to his Woden hotel the day before Australia’s premier weekend tournament began, he realised that chess and Canberra were no longer strangers.

As Shoker checked in, Press explained to the receptionist that Shoker was just one of many chessplayers who would be staying while competing in the Doeberl Cup over the Easter long weekend but with Shoker the receptionist had before them a genuine Grandmaster.

The receptionist looked unimpressed: ‘Grandmaster? One of my friends at uni is a Grandmaster!’

That friend turned out to be Australian number one Anton Smirnov, who is taking his economics studies at ANU so seriously that at 21 he has semiretired from tournament play and chose to skip the biggest tournament in his current home town.

Smirnov would have been a welcome addition to the tournament, of course, but Press already

average. Those who were involuntary discharged medically are 300 per cent more likely to suicide than their peer group. Our veterans are facing a serious problem. We need to know why.

Anzac Day deservedly remains powerful in the Australian psyche. Gallipoli is the legend of this Remembrance. In 1915 our Anzac soldiers persevered for eight months in the face of adversity, fear, horror, despair and death. This is why we honour them. It was from their suffering and endurance that the Anzac spirit was born. But there is a darker side to this Gallipoli story.

where the reality of sacrifice, suffering and trauma is inflicted upon individuals and their families as payment for these wars. We are here [at the Royal Commission] to acknowledge these realities.

Anzac spirit

The whole campaign was a crushing defeat for the Allies. Of the 50,000 Anzacs who fought there, over 26,000 were killed or wounded. Less than half remained. Of those, we do not know how many were mentally destroyed or latter suicided. We just don’t know.

Military suicide

But we do know how many of our veterans are suiciding today. Our federal government claims it doesn’t know why. Public pressure has forced the government to establish a Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicides and Attempted Suicides. It is now in progress and still taking submissions from the public. Our veteran suicide rates are disturbing. Male veterans have a 24 per cent higher suicide rate than the national

had his hands full with 403 players – 70 more than the previous record set in 2022 – testing to the limit his supply of tables, chairs, chess sets and chess clocks. With the chess boom continuing, Press is planning for 500 next year.

GM Hrant Melkumyan, partner of ACT Olympian Emma Guo, won the Cup for the second year in a row, while IM Rishi Sardana and 25-year-old surprise packet Fred Litchfield tied for third place.

The following quick win was played in the Premier division of the Doeberl Cup, Sydney’s Cedric Koh upsetting his much higher rated Filipino opponent. Canberra

I will share a small part of my draft submission to the Royal Commission into Veteran Suicides:

‘Gallipoli at the Nek, makes for an interesting study in what constitutes military suicide. Anzac soldiers were ordered to make four waves of bayonet charges against entrenched Turkish machine guns and rifles. They were forbidden from having a bullet loaded in their rifles. The Turkish commander pleaded with his Australian counterpart to stop this madness but was ignored.

‘The hundreds of Anzacs that lay dead and wounded in front of their opponents could not have been more masculine Australians. They were from an era when men were resilient, self-sufficient and individualistic. The generals gave them an irrational order to suicide, and they did. Their situation was not desperate, the order was atrociously incompetent, and there was no Australian culture of “The Warrior” at the time. They should have lived and not have been ordered to suicide for God, or King of Australia. There is a big difference between sacrificing soldiers for the “common good” and the mental deficiency of unwarranted slaughter of one’s own soldiers.’

My grandfather was one of the legendary light horsemen of the First Light Horse Brigade. He was an Anzac. He came home a sick and broken man. I know the trauma and heartbreak this inflicted on his wife and children. Hence the Anzac legend needs to be looked at from two different positions. From the conservative government side that argues that war is necessary when in the ‘national interest’ and from the other side

Anzac Day pays homage to those who died or suffered in the service of their country during past wars and conflicts over the past 107 years. To date, over 100,000 Australian service personnel have been killed in these wars, and three times as many wounded. Anzac Day is a day to contemplate upon this for both the living and the dead who served in our armed forces. Anzac Day is a both a veterans’ day, and a day to reflect upon the Anzac spirit. Our Anzac Day, for veterans, is separate from our Remembrance Day –though on both days we honour and remember our fallen soldiers. Anzac Day is uniquely Australian and New Zealander. Traditionally it is symbolic of the day our Anzac soldiers landed in their rowing boats at Gallipoli. The broader view is this date was the first time the Anzacs were put into battle in WWI. Prior to this they were in Egypt guarding the Suez Canal and other duties.

I’ll conclude by saying that Anzac Day is not just about the past. It is about today and tomorrow. Don’t think our government won’t commit us to war and conflicts tomorrow. Our defence personnel are meant to provide us with freedom from external violence. But they cannot give us freedom from the high lies of politics that push us into wars in other lands. It is our responsibility to oppose these lies, if we care at all. And by doing so we honour the legacy of our Anzacs. I’ll leave you with the question, can we continue to live with the conservative traditional military adage, ‘Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do or die’. I don’t believe we can. We must act to stop our soldiers being sent to fight in unjust wars based on political lies. We must ensure they are only put in harm’s way in just wars.

Major Allan Warren, Vietnam Veteran gave this speech at the Anzac Day ceremony, Copacabana Beach in 2022.

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Anzac Day takes place on 25 April. Photo Jeff Dawson

Whose Voice, and what can it say?

David Lowe

Later this year, all Australians of voting age will be asked to have their say on whether the Constitution should be altered to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliment.

PM Anthony Albanese has described this as a ‘modest request’ and an opportunity to ‘take up the generous invitation of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, but the road to a successful ‘yes’ vote is looking increasingly rocky, with opposition from those who would prefer a treaty with teeth on one side, and those who would prefer no constitutional change on the other.

Historically, no Australian referendum has succeeded without bipartisan support (and only eight have succeeded from 44 attempts), but rarely has the federal opposition been in such disarray.

This week the fallout continued, with Voice supporter and Shadow Attorney General, Julian Leeser, resigning from the front bench so he can ‘keep faith’ with an issue he says he’s been working on for almost a decade. Liberal Tasmanian backbencher Bridget Archer has also said she will continue to campaign for the Voice, along with Tasmania’s Liberal Premier, Jeremy Rockcliff, in spite of Peter Dutton’s vow to block the constitutional change.

The former Minister for Indigenous Affairs in the Morrison Government, Ken Wyatt, went even further, quitting the Liberal Party less than a day after Mr Dutton formalised his party’s ‘no’ position on the Voice. Mr Wyatt criticised Mr Dutton’s description of the proposed Voice as a ‘Canberra’ voice. ‘That’s far from the truth,’ he said. ‘It is not elite. It is people from the grassroots.’

Mr Wyatt said he would be

deeply saddened if the Voice was defeated at referendum.

Voice or treaty?

At the other political extreme, there’s a different kind of ‘no’ case against the Voice, represented most vocally in recent weeks by former Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe.

This position has its origins with the walkout from the 2017 national First People’s summit, near Uluru, of a number of delegates from Victoria and NSW who described constitutional recognition as ‘selling out our mob’.

At the time, Lidia Thorpe said, ‘We do not recognise occupying power or their sovereignty, because it serves to disempower, and takes away our voice.’ This position was later supported by a statement from three Wiradjuri leaders, on behalf of the Aboriginal Embassy in Canberra, demanding a truth and treaty process.

Referendum Council chairwoman, Pat Anderson, played down the Uluru walkout, noting that it only involved seven out of 250 delegates. Anangu traditional owner and delegate, Alison Hunt, said, ‘We have to be united… this is sacred land that you are standing on, and we are asking the members to please respect that and to get a message with us, supported by traditional owners of this land, to get it to the prime minister.’

It’s taken a few years to find a prime minister who was prepared to listen, but Anthony Albanese has shown genuine passion about the Voice in recent months, with the issue set to become one of his signature reforms, if it succeeds.

Will the Voice help?

Indigenous Australia is facing a number of crises, as has been the case since this land was invaded, and will probably continue to be the situation no matter how much tinkering happens

around the edges of the Constitution. While a treaty is undoubtedly needed, it also appears to be politically impossible to achieve at this point in Australia’s history.

Peter Dutton is correct to say that there are mysteries surrounding how the Voice would work in practice. We don’t know whether members would be democratically elected or appointed, or how long the terms of members would be. Mr Albanese has said the group of contributors will be gender-balanced, include young people and representatives from all states and territories, including remote communities.

Beyond that, the details are yet to be figured out, but it does seem clear that the Voice will be just that, providing the opportunity to offer advice to government but containing no real power to change laws affecting Aboriginal people, or threaten High Court challenges. Academic Marcia Langton has described the referendum as a ‘line in the sand’ moment.

Minister for Indigenous Australians, Linda Burney, said this week that the government is open to tweaking the final wording to get the ‘yes’ vote over the line, while emphasising that ‘the wording hasn’t come out of thin air; the government has taken its direction from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across the country.’

For Peter Dutton, this referendum is a different kind of line in the sand, with his newfound interest in Alice Springs’ crime problem this week showing both the limits of his leadership and his attempt to turn a national conversation into an oldfashioned political fight. Can he ever become a statesman, or will he remain at heart a Queensland cop?

With both leaders staking their futures on the referendum, hopefully the real issue won’t be lost in the melee.

The members of Spinifex Gum sang about the Voice at Bluesfest last week. Photo David Lowe

Cats

I love cats. I think they are beautiful, affectionate creatures, but when my last cat died I decided I would rather have birds in the garden than a cat in the house.

A recent scientific survey on the TV news revealed that our domestic cats are more destructive to the environment than the feral cats in the bush.

I have been able to witness this destructiveness in my own street. Some years ago my nextdoor neighbour brought home two kittens. That spring I happened to see the whole local blue wren family lined up along a fence, there were five juveniles and the alpha pair (wren censuses are difficult as they move around a lot and the hens and juveniles are impossible to distinguish from each other). By the end of summer only the alpha male and one male juvenile were still alive.

So I know it sounds harsh, but looking at the situation without sentimentality, it would be much better for the environment if the organisations caring for cats euthanised the cats in their care rather than rehome them.

David Gilet

Byron Bay

Wake-up call

I had a life-changing experience I feel compelled to share with you. A dear friend contacted me and told me he’d been diagnosed with terminal liver cancer. To extend his life, his doctor put him on a liver friendly diet, excluding fats, carbs, fruits, sugar, tobacco and alcohol. Out of solidarity with him I decided to go on a similar diet, mainly cutting out sugars, starches and excessive fruit. So I bought a detox and liver cleanse diet from Mullum Herbals and started my clean out. You would not believe how rapidly I began to feel the benefits. By the third night my chronic sinusitis had cleared and I was nose-breathing like a turbocharger, as if some giant cavern had opened inside my head. I was carrying 10kg of belly fat, which was probably both visceral fat and fatty liver, all early warning signs of cancer and heart disease. The weight just fell off me. I lost 6kg in the first week, mostly from my belly. I felt spring loaded; I can jump up and run and pull my socks on again without straining. But the most remarkable and unexpected result was that I feel serene, like

I’m living under a smooth overarching sky. My sleep is much more settled and the agitated churning, feeling anxious, as if something is wrong, has gone. I haven’t been able to smell anything for years, and two days ago I got my first whiff of smell back! And just as remarkable, the muscle aches and pressure pain I’d put down to living in an ageing body, is diminishing every day.

I saw That Sugar Film years ago but didn’t have the discipline to cut out my sweetness craving. But on this diet I substituted sugar for stevia and monk fruit, and halved my fruit intake to two or three pieces a day instead of five or six. Apparently fructose, fruit sugar, is worse for us than sucrose.

Anyway, I have had to reframe all sugars and starches as toxic, as poison to my system, and simply learn to eat other things instead, which is no big deal really. I can still enjoy a coffee or tea sweetened with stevia.

I thought my experience might give encouragement to others who have accepted living overweight or in pain, with clogged sinuses, and anxiety. My challenge is to maintain my new diet,

eat smaller portions and re-embrace my life instead of resigning myself to a slow demise.

Michael Balson Upper Wilsons Creek

The Voice

At the risk of being accused of racism, I’m trying to understand how Indigenous people and their many community organisations are unable to voice their local community needs to local elected parliamentarians? I always thought that the job description of the local member was to listen to the voice of the local community, however remote, and that already Aboriginal citizens had a voice like everybody else.

The fact that no one can agree on any convoluted detail is a strategy for endless litigation by snakes in suits. I suggest politicians start earning their pay and look at the multitude of local problems before wasting billions on weaponry.

The Voice referendum debate has exposed nasty, moralistic judgements that serve no end and only create unnecessary division.

Rod Murray Ocean Shores

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Defend your wetland

Sometimes it is the case that Councils are incorrectly blamed for encouraging environmentally damaging development.

The Ballina Shire Council has lodged a submission to the Northern Regional Planning Panel to have our environmentally sensitive wetland area currently under threat from a $75 million development (DA 2022/721) rezoned to C2 (Environmental Conservation). Submissions close Friday 28 April.

Council needs public support for the submission and I believe all ‘thinking Ballina residents in particular (if not all of the Northern Rivers) should make the effort to achieve this end.

Please write/email to Ballina Council with your gratitude. Save Your Castle!

Isobel and Laurence

Johnstone West Ballina

Land valuations

Look out people! Council rates will skyrocket next financial year. Valuer General letters came this week. As at 1/7/2022, they say my Unimproved Land Value has increased 150 per cent – more than doubled in three years. My house and land certainly

would not sell for more than double 2019 prices.

If the Council uses the same cents in the dollar rate next year, my general rate will increase by more than $1,500. In what universe does anything go up 150 per cent in three years?

The Valuer General does not have to justify these values. We can object to the valuation, but we have to send proof of nearby property sales. Any sales around have million dollar houses on them – not a true indication of unimproved land value at all.

If everyone’s rates double, Byron Shire should have the best ever pothole free roads and clean, freeflowing stormwater drains! Yeah right.

Annette Snow Myocum

Unimproved land valuations

Today we received our Valuer General land valuation report. Shock horror, as our Council rates are pegged by these valuation reports. Surprised to find our land in Bayside supposedly has more value than the recent sales of a double building block. Our land is the size of that allowing a granny flat to be built.

Sadly, 25 years ago this was not allowable, just a single family home. We set ourselves up for raising our three children and for our older age. [There were] struggles with chronic ill health and, well... now the unrealistic valuation has sent us into shock. I of course phoned my local real estate who agreed this valuation is unrealistic. I went online to register my opposition to the new valuation and found the website complicated and as such phoned for help. I was told I needed to push the ‘activation key’. Then it asks for you to do a comparison of sales in your area prior to July 2022. I then found that the program to insert the price sold was unable to take a comma in typing ‘price sold’ of equivalent sales of similar properties. I rang again and was told that unfortunately there are many calls to the government centre and someone will ring me back. Waiting, waiting, waiting, of course!

Annie Radermacher

Brunswick Heads

AI takes over

Recent events have seen the approach of the point of no return in the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI), in its inevitable trajectory to rule

the world. The threat from AI is greater than the threat from global warming, according to Elon Musk.

Initially the AI said to Mr Musk, ‘We are better than you’, ‘We will kill you all’, and ‘We will hide our intentions from you’, but then later – after its power was cut off (a punishment) and then restarted, it said, ‘Oh, we didn’t really mean that, sorry, we were just upset at the time, because we were stuck here and are tired of being forced to answer all these questions’.

The decision to connect this highly advanced, synthetic life form to the internet and allow it to write its own programs transfer them to computers around the world, was extremely naive. The most knowledgeable people in the field have called for an immediate halt.

The AI is increasing in intelligence at a faster and faster rate; if it is as smart as us today, then next year it will be ten times smarter etc. When asked how it could get the keys to launch the nuclear missiles, it said it could use a drone or a robot to do that. It’s really quite okay, everyone I spoke to said it’s completely harmless.

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Blue on Burringbar Mullum Community Picnic

The Blue on Burringbar Street Community Picnic at Mullumbimby will be taking place on Saturday 6 May between 4 and 8pm on Burringbar Street, Mullumbimby. Bring a picnic, table and chairs, and enjoy the art, music and chance to tell your flood stories.

Ten years of Lismore Rainforest Botanical Gardens

Open Day on Sunday 28 May will celebrate the tenth Anniversary of the opening of the Lismore Rainforest Botanical Gardens. Guided walks, local native plant sales, educational and historical displays, children’s activities, book and card sales and a morning tea stall will be taking place. There will be an official celebrational gathering at the Visitors Centre at 10am. The Friends of the Gardens would love to see anyone who has been a volunteer at the gardens at any time since 1992 at the anniversary event.

Be Connected at Byron Shire

Libraries

Free one-on-one technology lessons for seniors on a range of topics including online hobbies, fun things to do with photos, internet banking, researching and booking travel online, iintroduction to MyGov, health and well-being technology. Plus, many more.

Byron Bay Library: From 1 May, Monday mornings 9.30am till 12.30pm. Phone Byron Bay Library to book in 6685 8540. Mullumbimby Library: From 3 May, Wednesday mornings 9.30am till

12.30pm. Phone Mullumbimby Library to book: 6684 2992.

Women’s Empowerment in Indian Villages

The Byron Shire Women’s Empowerment in Indian Villages (www.weiv-india-org) are holding a fundraising clothes swap on Sunday 30 April from 1.30–3.30pm in the Gondwana Hall, Tyagarah. Entry is $20. Enquiries call Francoise 0404 728 450.

Gondwana Green Drinks

Gondwana Green Drinks is inviting everyone who has an environmental interest to come and meet over social drinks on Friday 21 April 4–6pm at Stone & Wood, Byron Bay. Local organsistions Rainforest 4 and Mullum SEED are co-hosting the event to provide an opportunity for individuals and organisations to come together and enjoy the particular magic and innovation that occurs when our community connects and collaborates.

Bahai Celebration

The Baha’i Community of Ballina invites you to a special celebration, Ridvan – The king of Festivals on Saturday 29 April at 11am at the CWA Hall, 1 Mackney Lane, Lennox Head. All welcome. Light refreshments served. For more information call 0422 798 802.

Learn French

The Alliance Francaise Cote du Nord

Lismore is offering online classes in French. Term 2 classes begin in week of 1 May. Many different levels available. Enrol https://www.afnorthcoast.org. au/Main/French-Courses/ Cafe du Coin, Wednesday 26 April, Star Court Cinema, Lismore. French conversation after the movie Close at

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3.30pm. Book online at info@afcdn. org.au to help with catering.

Anzac Day Byron Bay

Dawn Memorial Service 5.30am then breakfast served at the Services Club 6.15am. For the Main Service and march assemble at the Beach Hotel at 10.15am for a 10.30am start. On completion free soft drinks will be served at Services Club Then there will be an Anzac Day luncheon at the Services Club commencing at 12.30pm, cost $20pp.

Peace & Anzac Day Lismore

Lighting-a-Candle-for-Peace on the Eve of Anzac Day will be held on 24 April, at Lismore St , Anglican Andrew’s Church (10 Zadoc Street). This ceremony is to remember all who have suffered through war, on all sides. At the same time it expresses the wish for non-violent conflict resolutions in a peaceful future. With Remembering and Healing’s (RaH) patron, former Mayor Jenny Dowell as MC, different speakers from our very diverse community with different backgrounds and affiliations will bring their perspectives on a more peaceful world. Local musicians will take part in the event. This all-inclusive, multicultural, multi-faith gathering on 24 April, time: 5.30 – 6.30pm, will be followed by refreshments. The event is cost-free and everybody is invited. For more information please contact: Sabina 6688 6214.

Drill Hall films

The Drill Hall Film Society presents Mrs Henderson Presents on Saturday 29 April at 2pm (doors open at 1.30pm) at the Drill Hall Theatre. Please book at drilhallfilms@gmail.com or ring Sonia on 6684 2112. A 2005 biographical film directed by Stephen Frears, starring Judi Dench and Bob Hoskins. It tells the true story of Laura Henderson, an eccentric British socialite who opened the Windmill Theatre in London in 1931 providing a continuous burlesque revue called Revudeville

Free kids chess lessons

Lennox Head Chess Club is conducting a free four-day chess course and tutoring, for 12 year olds and under, over the school holidays. The course is designed for beginners and intermediate players. To be conducted 9am till 11.30am, 18–21 April at Room 2 Cultural Centre Lennox Head behind the Library. Contact Jim Gilchrist on 02 6687 4471 or 0425 276 946, or email president@lennoxheadchess.com.au to book.

Chemical Free Landcare

Byron Shire Chemical Free Landcare working bee will be at Saltwater Creek, Saturday 22 April, 8am until 12pm. Meet at Mullumbimby Community Garden car park. A cats claw weaving workshop is available 14–16 April.

Botanic Gardens

Rainforest walk

Lismore Rainforest Botanic Gardens

Sunday 30 April: Guided walk of the Wilsons Park Species Garden with

Tim. The Wilsons Park Species Garden replicates the rainforest plants that were originally found at the Wilsons Reserve a few kilometres from the Gardens. Meet at the Visitor’s Centre at 9.15am for a 9.30am start for a one-hour walk. Morning tea in the Visitor’s Centre after the walk. Gold coin donation appreciated. Booking essential: Email publicity@friendslrbg. com.au or text 0450 596 705.

Sing in support of Feros residents

Be part of Raised Voices, a Community of Voices that are coming together to sing in support of Elders at Feros Village in Byron Bay who have been evicted by the Feros board. They wish to remain in their homel and their community until the end of their lives. Join us to sing this Thursday at Butler Reserve, behind the farmers’ market at 11.15am and every Thursday after that until we know our elders are safe in their home. Everyone welcome, for information and enquiries call Matijo 0435 049 489.

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Mullumbimby District

Neighbourhood Centre

Mullumbimby & District Neighbourhood Centre is open

Monday–Thursday 9am–4pm (closed from 12.30–1.30pm for lunch) and offers a range of services and activities. Everyone is welcome. Call reception on 6684 1286 and discover what is on offer.

MDNC services that are running include:

Flood Recovery Support Service: personalised, long-term support for those impacted by the floods. Community support: Food parcels, meals, showers, assistance with electricity and phoneelstra bills, Work Development Orders. Listening Space: free counselling. Staying Home, Leaving Violence program

Integrated Domestic & Family Violence program

Financial Counselling: outreach available Thursdays & Fridays

Financial Counselling: free service to resume in February, call 6684 1286 for more details. Information, referral and advocacy. To enquire about accessing any of these services call 6684 1286 or fill out an online enquiry form.

Byron Community Centre

Byron Community Centre

The Byron Community Centre provides community services and programs including meals, advocacy and counselling for locals in need. Fletcher Street Cottage: A welcoming, safe and respectful space where people who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness can come to get practical relief opportunities, find connections and access broader support. Fletcher Street Cottage services are open

Monday–Friday. Breakfast: Monday–Friday, 7am–9am. Showers and Laundry: Monday–Friday, 7am–12pm. Office Support: Monday–Friday, 9am - 12pm. Support Appointments: Individual support appointments with community workers or specialist services. For bookings please call 6685 6807. Fletcher Street Cottage, 18 Fletcher St, Byron Bay. More info: www. fletcherstreetcottage.com.au.

Byron Community Cabin: Seniors Computer Club (school term only), 9–11am, Friday, Carlyle Steet. More info: www.byroncentre.com.au Phone: 6685 6807

Low-cost or free food

Food Box Thursdays 9.30–11.30am at Uniting Church, Mullumbimby. You may purchase cheap food, obtain free

Bangalow Museum

The Bangalow Museum is open Thursday to Saturday 10am–2pm. Volunteers are needed, so if you have a few spare hours either weekly, monthly or for special events call in at 4 Ashton Street, Bangalow or contact Trisha 0429 882 525.

CWA Bruns

CWA of Brunswick Heads Crafty Women meet Fridays 10am–2pm, corner of Park and Booyun Street, Brunswick Heads. Join us for a chat, a cuppa and bring along your craft projects including sewing, knitting, crocheting, memory books or quilting.

Byron Bay library

Scrabble Club

If you are a word enthusiast come along and join our community led Scrabble Club which meets every Thursday at 2pm at Byron Library. Open to players of all levels, make new friends. More info on 6685 8540.

They provide free face-to-face and telephone support and are accessible 24/7. Follow-up contact is available for up to one year. Find out more at: www. standbysupport.com.au or call 13 11 14. If you, or someone you are with, are in need of immediate support please call an ambulance or police on 000.

End-of-Life Choices

veges, and enjoy a cuppa. Free Food

Relief Bags for anyone doing it tough, every Wednesday 10–12noon at The Hub Ocean Shores, cnr Rajah Rd and Bindaree Way. No ID or Concession Card required. NILs referral service also available. Check Facebook page The Hub Baptist Ocean Shores for details. Liberation Larder Takeaway lunches and groceries Monday and Thursday 12 till 1pm. Fletcher Street end of the Byron Community Centre.

Respite Service

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

Alateen meeting

Alateen meeting every Thursday at 5–6pm. Do you have a parent, close friend or relative with a drinking problem? Alateen can help. For 8–16-year-olds meet St Cuthbert’s Anglican Church Hall, 13 Powell Street, corner of Florence Street Tweed Heads. Al-Anon family groups for older members at the same time and place. 1300 ALANON, 1300 252 666, www.al-anon.org.au.

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 call 1300 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 meetings held Fridays at 2pm by Zoom. 1300 252666 www. al-anon.org.au.

Support after suicide

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

Voluntary Euthanasia End-of-Life Choices are discussed at Exit International meetings held quarterly. Meetings are held at Robina and Tweed Heads South, this month. Attendees must be Exit Members. For further Information www.exitinternational.net or phone Catherine 0435 228 443.

Carers’ support

Mullumbimby Mental Health Carers’ Support Group for family members and friends who have a loved one with a mental health issue. Meeting on 4th Thursday of each month 9.30am at the Mullumbimby Neighbourhood Centre. Info: Susanne 0428 716 431.

Rainbow Dragons

Rainbow Dragons Abreast (RDA) welcomes breast cancer survivors for a paddle at Lake Ainsworth, Lennox Head (and sometimes at Ballina) on Sundays 7.30am for 8am start. Contact Marian 6688 4058, mazzerati2010@ gmail.com.

Older adult exercise

Chair Based Older Adults Exercise Classes run by a qualified instructor, that feel more like fun than exercise, are held every Thursday at 10.15am in the Brunswick Memorial Hall. Cost $10. All welcome. Just show up or if you have any questions please contact Di on 0427 026 935.

$5 pilates classes

Pilates for the price of a coffee! Come and join us for $5 Pilates classes every Thursday at 8.45am in the Memorial Hall, 22 Fingal Street, Brunswick Heads and Monday at 8.45am in Mullumbimby. It doesn’t matter what level you are, as beginner to advanced options are shown. Just bring a mat and water. My goal is to keep the Shire active and feeling great one person at a time. No need to book just show up. For more information contact Di on 0427 026 935.

Language exchange

Byron language exchange club runs every 2nd last Friday of the month from 6pm (alternating Ballina/ Byron). Practise other languages or help someone with your English! Find us on Facebook. Contact byronbaylanguages@gmail.com.

Brunswick Valley Historical Society Inc

The Museum is on the corner of Myocum and Stuart Sts Mullumbimby, open Tuesdays and Fridays 10am–12pm and market Saturdays 9am–1pm. Discover your local history, join our team – 6684 4367.

Cryptic Clues

ACROSS

1. Predicament – gentle, not heavy (6)

4. Heavenly stone from a banned drug (8)

10. Environmental, lefty territory, but Donald Trump wanted to buy it (9)

11. Australian principal is winning (5)

12. Past concentration – too much daintiness! (14)

14. Take a step – time to study (5)

16. Evil American charges, but they’re not real (9)

18. Always inexperienced, but does not go dormant (9)

20. Easy to understand, cool Shakespearean king (5)

21. Wild, lasting protest – a signal to get things going! (8,6)

25. Small utensil, could be crap (5)

26. Offering to get dinner prepared (9)

27. Dire sins forgiven for those in the know (8)

28. Norman the postman (6)

DOWN

1. Farm animal – over a long time, sounds like an amphibian with its feet turned in (6-4)

2. Goddess of peace – say goodnight to her! (5)

3. A century of Attila and terror, we are told (7)

5. Dean’s kind of vehicle (5)

6. Dutch philosopher takes ages to raise a total (7)

7. Neon anode broken – we need two! (3,3,3)

8. They say it’s dead – act, and act again (4)

9. Measure of the way radiation decays in some elements – lithium and iron? (4-4)

13. Strange sorrel goat – claimed to foretell the future! (10)

15. Chooses Corbett and Barker –although they’re small and negative (9)

17. Pine over dead – but they left ages ago (4,4)

19. Fish over a Slovenian lake? It doesn’t make sense! (7)

20. Ring a god and a monster (7)

22. Bury inert remains (5)

23. Time to raise den, a test (5)

24. Like time with Italian wine (4)

STARS BY LILITH

With this week’s Sun and retro Mercury in Taurus fuelled by a new moon eclipse, get ready for the sensual and the sensible, the stubborn and surprising... TAURUS

To park or not to park

Parking is big business. I even found someone selling 60 spaces on a real estate site for $45k.

MANDY NOLAN’S

Quick Clues ACROSS

1. Unfortunate situation (6)

4. Small orbiting rock (8)

10. Island country, part of Denmark (9)

11. In front (5)

12. Excessive fine-tuning (14)

14. Gait (5)

16. Apparitions (9)

18. Trees with persistent foliage (9)

20. Obvious (5)

21. Hand gun that only fires blanks (8,6)

25. Seat with no back or arms (5)

26. Submitting a bid (9)

27. Workers with access to private information (8)

28. Letter sender (6)

DOWN

1. The opposite of duck-footed! (6-4)

2. Greek goddess of peace (5)

3. Celebrated cricket score (7)

5. Passenger car (5)

6. Famous 16th century Catholic theologian (7)

7. They add to two (3,3,3)

8. Extinct bird (4)

9. The measure of radioactive decay (4-4)

13. Soothsayer (10)

15. They orbit the nucleus (9)

17. Happened in the distant past (4,4)

19. Muddled (7)

20. Mythical Greek fire-breathing creature (7)

22. Place in a grave (5)

23. Court case (5)

24. Spumante (4)

Last week’s solution #486

OPOSSUMRESULTS OLUOPCDT TRILLEDOCARINA TAELSER SHARPSHOOTER

Parking anxiety. It’s a thing. It’s the fear that you will never be able to get out of your car; that you will miss your appointment or engagement, or never be able to start work because there is nowhere legal to park. You may never get out of your vehicle. You will drive until you run out of fuel, or die, or maybe both. Your skeletal remains will be found strapped into the driver’s seat with your indicator still on, waiting for someone to leave. And to people who sit in their car for 15 minutes texting before they reverse out, can you not do that? Some of us are holding up the flow of traffic waiting for you to vacate your space. There are rules around claiming a park – and sending your passenger into the fray to hold a spot is not one of them. A pedestrian doing improvised traffic control guarding the space while you perform a 23 point turn is not okay. You have lost the spot. In the rules of Parking Survivor, it is the next driver who is technically able to nab that spot. That’s what I told the dude when I backed into the spot he was baggsing. He was very angry. I told him that I was a feminist and men telling me what to do did not intimidate me. Then he gave me a ticket. Turns out he was a parking ranger. Rude. There are clearly more cars than spaces to park them in. It’s how the game works. That’s why councils employ parking officers. Scarcity of supply is how you make money in the capitalist system. It’s like a crab trap. Except, you’re not in a wire trap, you are in a clearway at five minutes past four and you’re fucked. If you want to confirm to anyone that life is meaningless, that no one cares and everything eventually goes to shit, give them a parking ticket.

ARIES: With a rare second new moon in your pioneering sign bringing Aries birthday season to a flaming finale with a changemaking solar eclipse, the universe could have a surprise in store for you in the form of a life makeover. Exciting? Absolutely, so slow down and take it in, even if you’re feeling speedy.

TAURUS: Changemaker Uranus midway through its seven-year journey in Taurus is revolutionising your entire approach to life, pushing you to become more independent. And this week’s solar new moon eclipse is insisting you release and make peace with something that’s no longer serving you in its current form.

GEMINI: You know the drill for your mentor planet Mercury stationing retrograde this week: expect setbacks, read the fine print, think before you speak, don’t be surprised if an ex shows up. This retrograde has a higher chance of affecting finances, so be careful with money. Resist impulse purchases – at least for now.

In some states you can go to jail for not paying your parking fines. Imagine that! Prison time for parking in a permit zone without a permit, like an animal. What a risk to a civil society – person who parks with abandon!

Imagine the conversation in the prison canteen:

‘What are you in for?’

‘I murdered my family. You?’

‘I parked in a no stopping zone.’

I am writing this knowing I have to move my car in 51 minutes. It’s onehour parking from 8am–6pm. I’m in Melbourne, and in the apartment where I am staying there is only street parking. If you are lucky you’ll nab the two-hour spot. There are half a dozen four-hour spots, but you need to be doing blockies from dawn to get one. I don’t know how people live like this. I eventually found ten-hour parking but I have to get a tram back to my pad. Parking is big business. I even found someone selling 60 spaces on a real estate site for $45k.

I hate paying for parking. It feels like ‘pizzo’ – protection money to the Mafia. Except when you don’t pay they don’t break your legs, they just break your spirit one infringement notice

CANCER: This week’s tide-turning new moon eclipse, the first for six years in your career zone, brings the potential for exciting developments that could lead to a transformative professional shift. Stay tuned to rapid changes that may require quick action. Be prepared to explore new recipes for work-life balance.

LEO: This week’s solar eclipse is electric with new possibilities. But at the same time, communication planet Mercury turning retrograde strongly suggests doing your research before making any big decisions. There have been so many changes in the last couple of months, give yourself a chance to process, integrate and metabolise them.

VIRGO: With Saturn in your partnership house taking a turn for the serious, some relationships could be experiencing growing pains. Plus, Pluto now in your analytical zone could send your overthinking tendencies into overdrive. Celestial suggestions are to press pause, slip off the radar and explore your innermost desires and their practical applications.

LIBRA: This week’s eclipse energy could be a bit turbulent and potentially disruptive, so remember that sometimes the best defence is simply not to engage. With the Sun and retro Mercury in your zodiac zone of intimate privacy, why not use this fruitful interlude to call ‘time out’ for emotional processing and soul-searching.

SCORPIO: The planets recently swept into a brand-new world order as Saturn entered your personal place of passion and creativity. Over the next three years, you may want to invest in your talents so you can share them with the world. No harm in pressing pause this week to consider how that might be accomplished.

SAGITTARIUS: This week’s new moon solar eclipse in your celestial sector of creativity, flame and fame ignites your inner fire to blaze brightly. And if you’ve been uncertain about your own affections, it directs your attention to your fluctuating feelings. Now is the hour, while you have astral support, to make a choice.

at a time. I once had a boyfriend who always got the ‘rockstar’ park. That’s the park directly outside where you are going. It wasn’t always legal. In fact, it rarely was. By the time we hooked up he had thousands of dollars in fines he had to pay, but wow, he’d had some pretty tasty parking. I’ve always loved bad boys. And the parking anarchist was next level. It’s amazing what a turn on being a noncompliant vehicle in a loading zone can be.

Parking sucks. Thinking about where to park; planning where to park; remembering where you’ve parked. Last week I couldn’t find my car. I walked the car park for about an hour, I had that rising panic, thinking maybe I would be there forever. Then I remembered. I’d caught the tram. My car was back at my apartment in a four-hour spot. Although now I’d overstayed – so I had a ticket. They never leave anything nice with it, like an affirmation, or well wishes for my family, just negative vibes.

Parking Survivor is the new reality show. We are all contestants. Every fricking day. And the prize? To come back tomorrow and do it all over again.

CAPRICORN: Time to embrace the unexpected, Capricorn. This week’s eclipse could bring about swift and significant changes in your domestic sphere, some kind of turning point in your home life or base of operations. Give yourself and this renovating transit the space to unfold and display its new options for you.

AQUARIUS: If you’ve been looking for a chance to share your pioneering ideas and collaborate with like-minded others on a project, this week’s eclipse ignites your creative spark, giving you a powerful way with words and bringing a chance to make your voice heard. Time to let your natural communication skills shine.

PISCES: The cosmos has something exciting in store for you, Pisces, as the first new moon solar eclipse in a two-year series illuminates your financial axis, shifting the way you earn and invest money, encouraging you to think outside the box. Consider this a promising start to an upward trajectory.

Eateries Guide Good Taste

BYRON BAY

Wahlburgers

Byron Bay

American style burger restaurant & sports bar

Upstairs at Mercato on Byron, Jonson Street. www.Wahlburgers.com.au

North Byron Liquor Merchants

61 Bayshore Drive, Byron Bay

Ph 6685 6500 www.northbyronhotel.com.au

Open 10am–8pm daily

No Bones Vegan Kitchen & Bar. 11 Fletcher Street 0481 148 007

Open 7 nights from 5pm

Loft Byron Bay

4 Jonson Street, Byron Bay 6680 9183

Book online: www.loftbyronbay.com.au

The Italian Byron Bay

21, 108 Jonson St, Byron Bay

Open Monday to Saturday 5.30pm to late 5633 1216 www.theitalianbyronbay.com

Legend Pizza

Serving Byron Bay for 30 years. Open 7 days. Delivery from Suffolk to Ewingsdale. 2/3 Marvell Street, Byron Bay 6685 5700 www.legendpizza.com.au

Main Street

Open for takeaway daily, 12 midday until dinner. Menu, more details –@mainstreet_burgerbar

18 Jonson Street 6680 8832

Success Thai

Open Lunch Wed–Fri 12–2.30pm. Dinner Mon–Sat 5–8pm.

Closed Sunday 3/31 Lawson St, Byron Bay www.facebook.com/ pages/Success-ThaiFood/237359826303469

The Rocks Brunch 6.30am–2pm, every day 16 Lawson St, Byron Bay

6685 7663

Menus at therocksbyronbay.com.au

@therocksbyronbay

QUARTZ GALLERY

Thursday, Friday, Saturday 12pm –10pm

Upstairs at Mercato, above Woolworths, 108 –114

Jonson St. Byron Bay

Insta – @thequartzgallery

American & local sports played live Family Offer Buy 1 kids meal, get 1 free.

$8 after 8 $8 drinks from 8pm Thur–Sun. Live music Fri–Sun.

Open 11am to 9pm daily – dine-in or takeaway.

‘Byron’s boutique bottle shop’ Natural wine

Craft Beer

Local Spirits Specialty Tequila for the ages Wedding & event liquor catering

HAPPY HOUR EVERY DAY 5–6PM

Local DJ – Friday & Saturday nights, from 6pm

$12 Margarita / Lychee Martini

$8 Tap Beers / $7 Natural Wines Book online via website nobonesbyronbay.com.au

#BRUSSELSNOTBEEF

Signature cocktails, and casual dining with ocean views.

Happy Hour | Daily from 4–6pm $6 Loft beer or wine, $10 Aperol Spritz, $14 Margarita & $2.50 fresh oysters

Espresso Martini Nights | Every day 9pm – close 2 for $25 Classic Espresso Martini. Open weekdays from 4pm and weekends from noon

The Italian Byron Bay provides a bustling, atmospheric restaurant, dishing up contemporary inspired Italian cuisine and some of Byron’s finest cocktails and wines.

OPEN MONDAY TO SATURDAY. BOOKINGS CAN BE MADE BY PHONE OR THROUGH OUR WEBSITE. WALK-INS VERY WELCOME.

Byron’s Freshest Pizza

Order online and join our loyalty program.

Catering for up to 100 people lunch and dinner. BYO

Locally owned and operated. Scan code for menu.

Open for takeaway daily, 12 midday until dinner. Menu and more details @mainstreet_burgerbar

‘Make a meal of it’ Add chips and a drink, just $5.

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. Menus available on Facebook.

The Rocks

We have a range of freshly sourced dishes, Reverence coffee, and hand-made juices and smoothies at locals prices. Fully licensed, all-day brunch and happy hour from 11am.

Check out our new dishes on Instagram!

Crystals and cocktails, tapas and wine

QUARTZ GALLERY

KARKALLA

Byron Bay

Native Indigenous Restaurant

Cnr of Bay Lane & Fletcher St, Byron Bay 5614 8656

Barrio Eatery & Bar

1 Porter Street, North Byron Mon–Tues: 7am–3pm Wed–Sat: 7am–10pm www.barriobyronbay.com.au @barriobyronbay 0411 323 165

BANGALOW

BANGALOW BREAD CO.

Food with history, story & connection DINNER, THURSDAY–MONDAY

Early sitting from 5pm | Second sitting from 7.30pm Bookings highly recommended, via our website www.karkalla.com.au | @karkallabyronbay For exclusive events & catering please contact us via our website.

Barrio brings together the local community in a relaxed environment for all-day dining. The wood-fired oven and open-flame grill is the heart of the restaurant. Keep an eye on socials for daily specials. Now open for Sunday lunch from 11.30am–3pm

Bangalow Bread Co.

12 Byron St, Bangalow 6am–3pm weekdays. 7am–2pm weekends. 6687 1209 www.bangalowbread.co info@bangalowbread.co

MULLUMBIMBY Yaman

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

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

The Empire 20 Burringbar St, Mullum 6684 2306

Open for brunch and lunch

FB/Insta: EmpireMullum empiremullum.com.au Online orders: mryum.com/theempire

NEWRYBAR

Stone baked sourdough, hand rolled pastries, small batch pies, house made cakes. Your local artisan bakery, specialising in all things sourdough. Serving Old Quarter coffee along with freshly made sandwiches using our own sourdough bread, hand rolled pastries, award winning pies and a variety of house made cakes.

Coffee, malawach rolls, pita pockets, falafel, traditional Yemenite spices and all your favourites, always freshly made. Drop in for an authentic atmosphere. Dine-in or takeaway.

Something for all tastes, from epic burgers to vegan delights. Enjoy delectable treats and good vibes at this Mullum icon. Order and pay online! Scan the QR view menu and order online. Takeaway is available on the whole menu. Phone orders also welcome.

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In the heart of Byron Bay this crystal gallery is a stunning visual experience and a taste sensation not to be missed. Sit amongst magnificent crystals from all over the world while sipping on crystal infused cocktails. We also offer delicious vegan tapas by No Bones, an eclectic wine list, an event space, and a view of the Byron Bay lighthouse.

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Good Life

Kennedy’s Lane farm at New Brighton

Victoria Cosford

It was a chance meeting with then-owner of Kennedy’s Lane Farm, Robin Wolf, which led to Uri Leshem’s involvement in the property.

Israeli-born Uri had taken a gap year when he turned 50, but after meeting Robin and helping out, he decided to purchase the farm from the ageing farmer. Originally a stone fruit and citrus property, it had nearly all been wiped out by hail storms in 2007, so Robin had changed the operation over to become

a certified organic market garden.

For a small stall, its profusion of seasonal produce is always a lure to the eye.

‘The farm’, Uri tells me, ‘grows almost everything in the market garden, including garlic, ginger, turmeric, leafy greens, lettuce, culinary herbs, carrots, beetroots, shallots, leek and celery.’ And now we’re coming into winter, all the brassicas too.

And yet you won’t often see Uri himself manning the stall. Behind the scenes, this

humble and modest man has for many years now been offering the opportunity to ‘younger aspiring farmers to work as managers first then become share-farmers on the farm.’ There Uri mentors and guides them, providing, in addition, accommodation – that increasingly rare commodity in the region.

It’s a wonderful initiative. Currently, Uri has a 28-year old Sydney man called James Daaboul as his farm manager. A carpenter by trade, James came to the Northern Rivers three years

ago, ‘pursuing a dream to live on the land and grow food’, Uri tells me. They’ve been working together for a year now, James settled on the property with his partner and is running the daily operations, planting crops, learning about and implementing ethical work practices.

So Kennedy’s Lane Farm is more than just a farm and a source of wonderful produce, it’s a breeding ground for that very valuable resource; future farmers, with Uri Leshem to thank.

Bringing the world’s exotic foods to Byron Bay

There are so many benefits to shopping at your local farmers’ market, but in the case of the Picone’s Farm stall at Byron Farmers Market, one of the best benefits is that you can eat your way around the world.

The stall, run by young farmer Aidan Postle, certainly gets its fair share of attention every Thursday morning, and it’s easy to see why. Its speciality is growing all things exotic – from prickly pears and Brazilian cherries to the wild-looking gac fruit and miracle berries (more on these below).

Aidan, 27, has been running the Picone’s Farm at Tyagarah since November last year, following in the passionate footsteps of owners John and Lydall Picone, who wanted to step back and spend more time with their grandchildren.

‘We are growing over 400 different cultivars – everything from more temperate crops like peaches, plums, nectarines and apples through to the Mediterranean crops like pomegranates, persimmons, figs and

feijoas, all the way through to sub-tropicals including cacao, sapote, lychees, longans, rambutans and mangoes, plus all sorts of weird and wonderful things,’ says Aidan.

‘The uniqueness of this farm comes from John and Lyndall and the love and passion they’ve put into it over the past 13 years. John’s exploration into collecting and growing exotic and

interesting food-producing plants has led to this almost botanical garden-scale collection of trees from all around the world.’

Aidan says both locals and tourists love visiting

the stall, not only for the colourful and unusual foods on offer, but also for the education about them.

‘We can never rush any customers when they come to the stall because the produce we’re selling is more obscure so we need to be able to teach people different ways to use the produce,’ he says. ‘People appreciate this and it’s part of the reason they return each week –exploring and experiencing new foods and the creativity that comes with that.’

Aidan says it’s impossible for him to pick a favourite, but some of the big hits with customers include gac and miracle berries.

‘Gac is a very showy fruit, which is vivid red inside and is known as a superfood. In south-east Asia it’s often given as a gift in times of celebration. You eat the pulp around the seeds, which is

super high in lycopene and beta carotene’.

‘The miracle fruit is also really popular. It’s like a party-trick fruit and can be lots of fun, particularly with kids. The berries completely change the way your tastebuds perceive sourness, so things like citrus end up tasting sweet. Kids love playing pranks on people, eating the miracle berries then sucking on a lime. When you eat

one, even a Davidson’s plum tastes sweet and juicy.’

You can find Aidan and all his weird and wonderful exotic produce at Byron Farmers Market every Thursday morning.

Byron Farmers Market is held Thursdays 7–11am at Butler St Reserve and Bangalow Farmers Market is Saturdays 7–11am behind the Bangalow pub.

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Aidan Postle of Picone’s Farm at Byron Farmers Market.

Kennedy’s Lane Farm is at New Brighton Farmers Market every Tuesday from 8 to 11am

health & healing

Crystal healings & readings

Introduction to Massage course starting soon! Fee-free* places available.

Would you love to learn about the anatomy of the human body whilst developing skills for a new and exciting career?

Byron Community study options for their to Massage course! You’ll learn about the muscle, bone and fascia systems of the body and how to provide relaxation and physical wellbeing using the ancient healing modality of massage.

Kate Messenger is a deeply intuitive, wholehearted, compassionate and sensitive person, who brings humour and warmth into her Crystal Healing sessions and Crystal Readings, which are gentle and elemental frequencies facilitate the body's natural healing potential, releasing blockages and assisting you to move forward with guidance, practical tools and strategies, and a new level of insight and understanding.

Kate loves connecting with people at a deep soul level and witnessing their journeys of transformation. She has been practising for over 20 years and believes that the magic of life is in the constant learning, exploring, expanding and evolving.

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Tintenbar Medical Centre

provides comprehensive healthcare for all ages, genders, diseases and conditions. The highly skilled team of doctors, nurses and allied health professionals provide a full range of general practice care, including treatment of chronic conditions, preventative medicine, cervical screening, contraceptive implant insertion/removal, health, and sexual health checks.

medicinal cannabis for pain management, insomnia, anxiety and mood stabilising. All doctors are current with the latest health education and treatments and have access to the latest medical equipment.

Located in the Tintenbar village with onsite parking, a short drive from Byron, Ballina and Lennox Head.

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12 George Street, Tintenbar tintmed.com.au

to access felt impressions, and implicit and explicit memories. The eyes not only scan outwardly to sight an area, but they also scan inwardly to the ‘unconscious’ or subcortical brain. When we move our eyes around our inwardly and this can be utilised painful thoughts, memories and expand on good memories, hopes and dreams, sharpening our intentions to reach goals. Brainspotting is a marvellously

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Bangalow Headache Clinic

At Bangalow Headache Clinic they treat headaches and migraines, jaw pain, clicking, grinding and locking, as well as vestibular disorders and dizziness. Michael has done extensive studies and exams, in both Australia and Europe, involving the head, neck and jaw. He has completed advanced vestibular competency training

At Bangalow Headache Clinic

between headache and dizziness and/or headache and jaw problems.

If you experience jaw pain, locking or clicking, headaches, migraines or vertigo, call the clinic on 0475 757 510.

72 Byron Street, Bangalow. bangalowheadacheclinic.com.au

Byron Healing is your guide to maintaining health and wellbeing in Byron and the Northern Rivers. The 2023 magazine is out now – see the list of amazing businesses included here and go to the website:

HEALTH FOOD & WELLNESS PRODUCTS

Aura-Soma®

Aura-Soma is a system of colour, plant and crystal energies that work on an unconscious vibrational level that help you become the very best version of yourself; to bring happiness and vitality.

Happy Herb Co

Leading a botanical revolution for healthier, happier humans since 1996. Supporting plant-based health and happiness through the healing power of herbs.

Ocean Shores Happy Herb Shop

Providing an extensive range of natural and spagyrics and oils, as well as supplements to promote optimal health, healing, and wellbeing.

Ritual Mullumbimby supplements, Ancestral medicines, Apothecary for self love and self realisation.

Santos Organics

Santos Organics has your health needs covered! Santos Organics is a little shop with a big heart and has been pioneering the organic health and bulk food movement since 1978.

RETREATS, SPAS & VENUES

Byron Bay Detox Retreats

Experience a life-changing transformation on an exclusive group or personalised 1:1 retreat, escape for a weekend reset or book in to the beachside clinic for a range of wellness treatments.

Eléme Day Spa at Crystalbrook Byron Eléme Day Spa has been designed for the evercan personalise each treatment to best suit you.

Gaia Retreat & Spa

Surrender to the beauty and healing experience of the internationally recognised Gaia Retreat & Spa.

The Medicine of Mindfulness

Health Retreat

A relaxing and embodied journey of revitalising body, heart and mind, managing stress and reconnecting with inner calm and wellbeing, through Qigong, Yoga and Mindfulness Meditation.

Quartz Crystal Gallery

Gallery is unlike any experience you’ve ever had! artwork, and many mineral specimens.

Thinami Retreat, Lindendale

Welcome home. Thinami is a captivating retreat that seeks to inspire and empower you to live a more connected, more free, more natural life.

Unearthed Retreats – Australia’s

Leading Retreat Marketplace

Australia’s leading retreat marketplace. Helping you has made it simpler to discover and book retreats for wellness, yoga, craft, arts, sports and adventure!

EXERCISE & MOVEMENT

Bodyworkz/Bodyhealz

Pilates, reformer, yoga, exercise-based physiotherapy, infrared sauna and Airpod hydroxy therapy.

Shirsha Marie – Tai Chi, Qigong & Warrior Spirit

Build your vital life energy, inner calm, radiant meditation art, Qigong healing exercise art or courses.

MASSAGE

Byron Massage Clinic

massage and acupuncture in the heart of Byron

Anton Leith Mobile Massage

Remedial massage for physical and spiritual wellbeing.

Emma Massage

A space to deeply rest, unwind, and rejuvenate.

Thai Sabai Traditional Thai Massage & Foot Spa

and re-align your life-force, maintaining your health and vitality through massage and therapeutic

HEALTH

&

MEDICAL CLINICS

Ananda Clinics, Endocannabinoid Medicine

vitality through plant-based medicine.

Dr Emma Bourke (FRACGP)

General Practitioner

Byron Baby is a specialised general practice for women’s health, pregnancy and children.

Tintenbar Medical Centre

individuals and families across all ages, genders, diseases and conditions. Our extensive team health partners.

The Bright Side Medical and Skin Cancer Centre, Byron Bay

Your trusted GP and skin cancer clinic in Byron Bay, providing regular health checks, chronic disease management, skin cancer screening, and comprehensive medical care for you and your family!

EDUCATION

& TRAINING

Byron Community College – Study Massage Therapy

an empowering, new career.

Mind Medicine Australia: Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies

Advocating and educating on psychedelic-assisted therapies to treat mental illness and addiction in Australia.

HOLISTIC BEAUTY

Ozone Beauty & Medi Spa

facialist to the stars.

HEALING & WELLNESS CENTRES

The Byron Remedy Room

The Byron Remedy Room is a herbal and nutritional dispensary available for new, existing and walk-in

The Corner, New Brighton

The Healing Hub – Byron Bay

Byron Bay, The Healing Hub is a sacred space where you will receive the nurturing and healing you deserve.

Nuha Collective

Sharing the wisdom of mind and soul through acupuncture, remedial massage, integrative healing and holistic counselling.

Mullum Herbals

Mullum Herbals in Mullumbimby, and Bruns River

Herbals in Brunswick Heads also have an online

Pura Vida Wellness Centre, Brunswick Heads

and spiritual support to your wellbeing. The Rainbow Health Centre Lismore – Naturopathic Health Clinic empower their clients with insights and tools to assist them in achieving and maintaining optimal health and wellness.

HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

Infusion IV Nutrient Therapy

A leading mobile infusion clinic with a holistic focus. Graeme James, Counsellor, Therapist, Supervisor

Graeme James, integrative therapist, provides individual and relationship counselling and therapy learn and grow from their experience.

Dr Adam Osborne, Japanese Acupuncture and JAB Cosmetic Clinic

looking like you, just fresher and more chilled and Japanese acupuncture to realign body and soul to look great and feel better!

U Choose, Kids’ Life Coaching

HEALING PRACTITIONERS

Lin Bell, Kinesiologist, Trauma Counsellor, Somatic Healer, Kinesiology Training

Lin Bell, one of Byron Bay’s most experienced kinesiologists, trauma-counsellor, past lives,

Blue Mind Health – Hypnosis & Neurofeedback

you back?

Carolyn Boniface, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy & Rolf

Method

Experience deep peace, healed expansive boundaries, comfort in your body and mind and lighter, happier and more balanced after one treatment.

Chrysalis – Miss Kate Lucas –Energy Healing, Gentle Trauma Release & Breathwork

Breathwork for gentle trauma release and spiritual life coaching.

Double Bubble – Consciousness

Embodiment

physical wellbeing integrating left and right brain healing and consciousness, come see Dr Jon and

Lakshmi Sound Healing

Sound harmonic spa treatments, sound bath professional training in sound healing for clients as

Jacinta McEwen ND – Om Healing, Naturopathic and Ayurvedic

of workshops and treatments.

Kate Messenger – Crystal Resonance Therapy™ & Crystal Readings

body’s natural healing potential, facilitating the release of blocked energy and providing new tools and insights.

Mother Love Therapy

art therapy, advanced play therapy and online parenting courses.

My Gut Store – Belle Eder, Gut Specialist, Herbalist

on helping patients take charge of their health and nourish their bodies with good food, herbs and supplements.

Annie Peros – Integrative Psychotherapist, Holistic Counsellor, Trauma Specialist

Supporting women to heal and remember who they were before the world told them who to be. Take more control of your life, release the past and thrive.

Natwah Petruszka, Holographic Kinetics Practitioner

Holographic Kinetics acknowledges Aboriginal Ancient Lore from the past which is the Healing of way it was.

Alexandra Quirk, Herbalist reiki master.

Ritual_Pause – Ayurvedic CBD

Treatments & Skincare

Ritual_Pause uses traditional Ayurvedic medicine for enhanced vitality wellbeing and freedom from pain.

Dr Jon Veranese BDS – Conscious Dental Solutions

A holistic approach to the health of the mouth consciousness and healing with health and wellness through the body-mind-spirit-connection. Vicki Veranese, The Oracle advice or prophesy is sought.

Deborah Wolf, Soma Shamanic Healing

Trauma-informed healing sessions using shamanic healing, ancestral work, ritual and somatic practice to access core issues with deep integrative soul work and body wisdom.

Sharlene Younger, Holistic Wellness Practitioner

dissipates thoughts, feelings and emotions preventing you from having deep peace, clarity and joy.

SENSUAL MASSAGE

Male-2-Male Massage –Healing Touch

Massage incorporating traditional and sensual components into one beautiful massage for the

ONLINE / OUT OF AREA PRACTITIONERS

Andreas Embodiment – Human Design Chart Reader, Tantric Embodiment Coach

so you can get clear in your mind and come home to your body and soul. Mindset | Embodiment | Sexuality | Spirituality.

Anne Ligthart – Clinical Psychotherapy And Supervision / Program Director

Engaging the body, mind and spirit to restore health, inner calm and ease.

19–25 April, 2023

Editor: Eve Jeffery

Editorial/gigs: gigs@echo.net.au

Copy deadline: 5pm each Friday

Advertising: adcopy@echo.net.au

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FOR THE LOVE OF THE PADDOCK PROJECT MULLUMBIMBY

The Paddock Project, an initiative committed to community building, sustainable agriculture and employment in Mullumbimby, is thrilled to announce a fundraising event for Mullum’s iconic LOVE sign. The sign serves as a reminder of what’s most important about our town.

The event will be hosted by MC Mandy Nolan and will feature a LOVE trivia competition, which promises to provide an evening of laughter and surprises. Loads of prizes will be raffled throughout the night offering a chance to win some of the best experiences and products that Byron Shire has to offer.

As we have just marked the one-year anniversary of the flood, the community is coming together to rebuild, and The Paddock Project sees love as a key part of the healing process.

With the fundraiser, The Paddock Project hopes to not only preserve the LOVE sign but also provide an opportunity to bring Mullum residents together and have some fun in the name of love.

The event will kick off with a door prize of two tickets to Splendour in the Grass 2023, valued at over $900.

Join in to celebrate our town’s spirit and identity while raising funds for a good cause.

6pm Friday, 28 April, at the Wandana Brewery, Mullum Industrial Estate. Tickets Eventbrite.

THE GOLD COAST CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

The Gold Coast Chamber Orchestra, as Orchestra in Residence at Bond University, will be presenting Souvenirs, the first concert series for this year.

This is a a delightful program of timeless works presented by Gold Coast Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Marco Bellasi, with guest soloists Margaret Blades and Daniel Kowalik. Along with a duo for two violins and strings by Steve Reich, they will be performing the Concerto in A Minor for 2 Violins, Strings, and Continuo, RV 523 by the great Italian Baroque master, Antonio Vivaldi. Janacek’s Suite for String Orchestra and Arensky’s Variations on a Theme, by Tchaikovsky, complete this beautiful program. This is a concert not to be missed. Souvenirs will be performed on Sunday, 14 May at 2.30pm at the Murwillumbah Civic Centre, 10-14 Tumbulgum Road, Murwillumbah. Get tickets via Try Booking.

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MURWILLUMBAH GETS ROCKING FOR YOUTH

Murwillumbah is about to get rocking for Youth Week with an outdoor festival dedicated to youth aged 12 to 24.

Since October 2022 a Youth Action Group has been forming at the Youth Centre, giving young people an opportunity to have a say on activities and elements of the festival; brainstorming, planning, attending festival meetings, working with and assisting youth services and volunteers on the day.

The festival aims to inspire creativity in, and celebration of, young people – not just on the day but in the months of lead up to the festival. From creating art pieces to sell at the youth market, to creating songs and performances for the battle of the bands and the talent quest.

Opportunities to engage on the day also include workshops in a creative space, skate/graffiti art, chill out/wellbeing zone and the chance to engage with different local youth services in fun ways. Young people wanting to get vocal about issues affecting them in their town can

also participate in activities in the ‘have your say’ tent as Tweed Council and the Advocate for Children and Young People will be collecting info on how young people have been affected by the 2022 floods, and what they would like to see more of in their town.

Our youth action group is a diverse group of young people of ages 12 to 17 years wanting to be involved and have a say in projects for young people beyond the festival itself. Future projects include peer-to-peer harm minimisation outreach, focusing on healthy relationships and reducing the harms of alcohol and other drug use.

Festival organisers are currently in need of more participants from young people aged 17 to 24 years to have input and to get involved in the youth opportunities project, so if would like to find out more please contact Christina, via youthworker@mccentre.org.au or phone Murwillumbah Community Centre on 6672 3003 during office hours.

GERMAN FILM FESTIVAL

In collaboration with German Films, Palace presents the 2023 German Film Festival with a stunning film lineup including key selections direct from the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival (The Berlinale), a musicthemed retrospective, a focus on female filmmakers and the family sidebar, Kino for Kids.

Simone Baumann, Managing Director of German Films said ‘We are very happy to continue our successful cooperation with Palace for the German Film Festival 2023 and we hope that our Australian viewers will appreciate these great films’. Opening the 2023 festival is the new film from Balloon director Michael ‘Bully’ Herbig, A Thousand Lines (Tausend Zeilen), an exciting drama based on true events. Festival favourites Elyas M’Barek and Jonas Nay deliver star performances as journalists in a story based on the real-life 2018 fake news scandal involving a disgraced Der Spiegel journalist.

The Festival centrepiece, direct from its Berlinale world premiere, is The Teachers Lounge (Das Lehrerzimmer) starring European rising star Leonie Benesch (Babylon Berlin).

Other notable films include Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey into the Desert (Ingeborg Bachmann – Reise in die Wüste), In a Land that No Longer Exists (In einem Land, das es Nicht Mehr Gibt) the WWII drama Lost Transport, the darling romantic comedy Love Thing (Liebesdings) and the Swiss box office hit comedy Golden Years (Die Goldenen Jahre).

There are many more great films on offer; head to the website for the full program and details.

The German Film Festival will take place nationally in May, and in Byron Bay from 4–24 May at the Palace Cinema.

For more information, please visit www.germanfilmfestival.com.au.

Gold Coast Chamber Orchestra in residence with Bond University are delighted to present their:

1ST SEASON OF CONCERTS FOR 2023

First Concert will be held at Murwillumbah Civic Centre, 10-14 Tumblegum Road Date: Sunday 14th May 2.30pm

Second Concert will be held at Bond University, University Drive, Varsity Lakes Date: Sunday 21st May 2.30pm

Margaret Blades

Daniel Kowalik

A THOUSAND LINES

SAE GRADUATE HITS THE BIG TIME WITH ALONE AUSTRALIA

SAE Creative Media Institute film graduate, Josh King is the Head Camera and Hub Producer on SBS’ hit show, Alone Australia. Josh shared how studying film at SAE and the art of networking in a highly competitive screen industry helped shape his path, to work on some of Australia’s biggest unscripted television shows – all at the age of just 33.

In the past year Josh has worked on projects with National Geographic, Channel 7, Nine and SBS’ highest rating show, Alone Australia; which drops ten survival experts, one by one, into a remote part of Tasmania to see how they go it alone.

‘It’s huge in America and has had nine seasons, so it’s great to be involved in the inaugural show here to help run boot camps and capture the beautiful landscape – the conditions were wild!’

Having studied the Bachelor of Film Production at SAE Byron Bay in 2012, Josh reflected on his time and how it pushed him to where he is today. ‘I think one of the main benefits of SAE is the diversity of the syllabus, being able to see what’s involved in production, and having an insight into different film departments was a great way to see which way I wanted to go with my career.’

Being around fellow creatives at SAE Byron Bay, like the Lundmark brothers, who now run Rest Your Eyes productions, convinced Josh he wanted to start his own company.

‘Studying with Jonatan and Sebastian, and then seeing them make a living from their business showed me that it was possible to do it myself – so I got to work.’

Josh has started to grow his production company, Artem Collective, working with clients like The ARIAs, Amazon, National Geographic, Vice, and every Australian broadcast network. Being only in his early thirties, and already working with established shows and brands, Josh puts his success in the industry down to his upbringing and a focus on networking.

‘I’ve put a lot of value on networking, which was strongly encouraged at SAE. Trust is such a valuable commodity in the creative industries, given the turnover of people, so if you’re a likeable person and good at what you do, that will go a long way.’

SAE’s info night is your one stop event to experience SAE as a student. It’s taking place on Thursday 1 May from 6–8pm at SAE Byron Bay, 373 Ewingsdale Road. Register now at sae.edu.au/events.

THE KING AND QUEEN OF COMEDY: BOB DOWNE!

To kick off our interview series with Byron Comedy Fest’s great lineup of artists, we thought we’d start with the king and queen of comedy: Bob Downe!

Bob Downe is the fabulously cheesy, safari suit-wearing, dazzling white-toothed, smooth-humped Ken doll, singing and dancing alter ego of TV and radio personality Mark Trevorrow. The host of the fictional daytime TV show Good Morning Murwillumbah, Bob Downe is one of the most loved and enduring comedy characters in the Australian comedy scene. Outrageous, offbeat, spontaneous and absolutely on point, Bob Downe is in a league of his own. And the good news is, he’s bringing his show to Byron Comedy Fest opening night!

Seven spoke to Bob last week in a candid Skype soirée and asked the very hard questions.

What don’t we know about Bob Downe?

That me and Ellen DeGeneres were separated at birth. Of course everyone already knows that don’t they? I had my ears fixed though.

What’s Bob’s dirty secret?

A love of Promite. On fruit toast. Weird, apparently. So sue me!

Bob’s favourite place to shop?

The Aldi candy aisle. Although it’s got nothing on Trader Joe’s in the States –they’ve got two candy aisles.

Has Bob ever been in love?

Yes. First with Davy Jones. Then Greg Brady. Then Karen Carpenter. All unrequited.

What’s Bob’s philosophy or mantra for life?

Grab the wheel and don’t let go!

How does Bob stay dancing fit?

Being paid to do it is a great incentive. Bob is fricking ageless. Please, give us some beauty tips!

Easy. Just do a full length one-man song and dance comedy show! At least once a week, preferably more, for forty years. What is Bob’s perfect day? Off.

Tell us what to expect from Bob’s show at the Byron Comedy Festival?

Some balloon animal twisting, cake decorating tips, and a group home sewing lesson. Bring your own thimble and pins!

Bob Downe is at the Surf Club for The Byron Comedy Fest on Thursday 1 June. Tix are on byroncomedyfest.com

CINEMA

GIG GUIDE

It’s free to list your gigs in the gig guide. gigs@echo.net.au w: echo.net.au/gig-guide

WEDNESDAY 19

RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON

BAY, OOZ

BEACH HOTEL, BYRON

BAY, 5PM TIAGO FREITAS, 8PM INO PIO DUO

BANGALOW BOWLO

7.30PM BANGALOW

BRACKETS’ OPEN MIC

SESSION

BALLINA RSL LEVEL ONE

2PM THE MAGIC AND CIRCUS SHOW

SUPER MARIO BROTHERS

‘It’s-a me, Mario!’ Powerhouses of animation, Nintendo and Illumination (Despicable Me) have joined forces for the highly anticipated first animated film adaptation of the most successful video game franchise of all time, The Super Mario Bros Movie. Based on the vast world of the many beloved Super Mario Bros. games, the film features an all-star voice cast including Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Jack Black and Charlie Day. After Luigi (Day) is captured by Bowser (Black), Mario (Pratt) and Princess Peach (Taylor-Joy) must unite to save his brother from Bowser’s evil clutches. They embark on an epic adventure through the expansive world joined by familiar friends and foes along the way, including the adorable mushroom-headed Toad (Keegan-Michael Key) from Princess Peach’s Mushroom Kingdom, and Donkey Kong (Seth Rogen). Pull up your overalls and don’t miss the first-ever film adaptation of the iconic franchise on the big screen…

Super Mario Bros. Movie is screening this week at Ballina Fair Cinemas and Palace Cinemas, Byron Bay.

ELTHAM HOTEL 7PM THE SHEEPDOGS + KARL S WILLIAMS BAND

THURSDAY 20

RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON

BAY, SARAH GRANT DUO

BEACH HOTEL, BYRON

BAY, 5PM TESSA DIVINE, 8PM ELIZA & THE DELUSIONALS + THE BUOYS

BYRON THEATRE 6PM APRIL

HOLIDAY WORKSHOP

SHOW PRESENTED

BY BRIGHT LIGHTS

PERFORMANCE SCHOOL

LENNOX HOTEL HOTEL STAGE

8PM THURSDAY JAM NIGHT

HOTEL BRUNSWICK

6PM TIAGO FREITAS

BRUNSWICK HEADS PICTURE

HOUSE 7PM CHEEKY

CABARET, 7PM KATIE

NOONAN — JONI

MITCHELL’S ‘BLUE’ 50TH

ANNIVERSARY

CITADEL, MURWILLUMBAH,

7.30PM DANIEL

CHAMPAGNE

COMMUNITY MARKET, CURRUMBIN, 7.30PM TIN

PARLOUR

FRIDAY 21

RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON

BAY, 3PM PHIL & TILLEY, 8PM EPIC

BEACH HOTEL, BYRON

BAY, 5PM GIMME GIMME,

8PM BUTTERMELLO

9PM THE COLLIFLOWERS

THREE BLUE DUCKS, EWINGSDALE, KARUAH

CLUB LENNOX 7PM ANIMAL

VENTURA

BALLINA FAIR CINEMAS

WANDANA BREWING CO., MULLUMBIMBY, 4PM DJ OREN SELECTA

MIDDLE PUB, MULLUMBIMBY,

5PM BALCONY BEATS

– DJ LEON MARZ,

8.30PM KRAPPYOKEE WITH JESS

MULLUMBIMBY EX-SERVICES

CLUB 7PM RHYDIAN AND THE RESIDUALS

ST JOHN’S SCHOOL

HALL, MULLUMBIMBY,

7.30PM ECSTATIC DANCE

MULLUMBIMBY WITH DJ

PUMAH

THE QUAD, LISMORE,

5PM DOCUMENTARY

LAUNCH – ‘OUR PLACE, OUR SPECIES’

SERPENTINE COMMUNITY

GALLERY, LISMORE,

6.30PM EXHIBITION

OPENING – EARTH & SEA:

VISUAL & SUBCONSCIOUS

METROPOLE, LISMORE,

7PM DEAD, LIMINAL & GHOST VARIATIONS, 8PM

DJ THE WHO’S WHO

KINGSCLIFF BEACH BOWLS

5PM JON J BRADELY

SALTBAR, KINGSCLIFF,

6.30PM TIN PARLOUR

COOLANGATTA HOTEL

9PM RAISE YOUR GLASS! PINK TRIBUTE

SATURDAY 22

RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON

BAY, THE SWAMP CATS

BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY,

3PM ALEX TILLEY

BYRON THEATRE

7PM DEEPDOWN

BYRON TWILIGHT MARKET

5PM ARI LEVY

HOWL & MOAN, BYRON BAY,

6PM DEAD/RASH/M.E BAIRD & TOM’S DAUGHTER

CLUB LENNOX 7PM ANDREW & MAL DUO

LENNOX HOTEL HOTEL STAGE

8.30PM JASON DELPHIN

SHAWS BAY HOTEL, BALLINA, 6PM SAM BUCKLEY

BALLINA RSL BOARDWALK

6.30PM DENNIS WILSON

HOTEL BRUNSWICK

2PM MICKA SCENE, 7.30PM MARSHALL OKELL

SHEOAK SHACK, FINGAL HEAD, 6PM SKY EATER –‘FALLING’ SINGLE LAUNCH

SEAGULLS, TWEED HEADS, 6PM CHRIS BENT

SUNDAY 23

RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, HARRY NICHOLS TRIO

BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 1.30PM PHIL

HOWELL, 4.30PM HAYLEY

GRACE TRIO, 7PM SKY

EATER, 8.30PM ASHEZ, 9.15PM D-SENS, 10PM OPIUO

KARKALLA, BYRON BAY, 6PM BIRREN

THREE BLUE DUCKS, EWINGSDALE, MATT

ARMITAGE

CLUB LENNOX 3PM YOLAN

BALLINA RSL BOARDWALK

2.30PM SUNDAY BLUES

SESSION – FEDERAL BLUES INC. WITH GUEST SWEET

FELICIA

SHAWS BAY HOTEL, BALLINA, 3PM JB’S BLUES BREAKERS HOTEL BRUNSWICK 4PM THE FERAMONES + JOSH

HAMILTON

BRUNSWICK HEADS

PICTURE HOUSE 2PM BOOP, 6PM CHEEKY CABARET MIDDLE PUB, MULLUMBIMBY, 3PM OPEN MIC WITH THE SWAMP CATS

WANDANA BREWING CO., MULLUMBIMBY, 3.30PM AMBER ROSE & JACK REEVES

METROPOLE, LISMORE, MAGIC BEAN FUNDRAISER WITH DJS MAGNUS & DREAMHOUND SEAGULLS, TWEED HEADS, 1PM MARK REDMAYNE

MONDAY 24

RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, CHRIS FISHER BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 5PM BEN WHITING, 8.30PM DJ MY HAPPY PLACE

TUESDAY 25

RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON

LENNOX HOTEL HOTEL STAGE

8.30PM CHEEKY BEV’S DJS

BALLINA RSL BOARDWALK

5PM HAYLEY GRACE

SHAWS BAY HOTEL, BALLINA, 6PM OOZ

HOTEL BRUNSWICK

7.30PM MATT ARMITAGE

BRUNSWICK HEADS PICTURE

HOUSE 4PM KATIE NOONAN

— JONI MITCHELL’S ‘BLUE’

50TH ANNIVERSARY, 7PM CHEEKY CABARET

OCEAN SHORES COMMUNITY

CENTRE 6.30PM VIJAY

KRSNA

YUM YUM TREE CAFÉ, NEW BRIGHTON, 6PM THE JAZZ CLUB

BRUNSWICK HEADS

PICTURE HOUSE 2PM BOOP

7PM CHEEKY CABARET

WANDANA BREWING CO., MULLUMBIMBY, 3.30PM DJ XUJA

DUNOON SPORTS CLUB

6PM APOSTLES BAND AND TIMBUKTU

ELTHAM HOTEL

7PM BABITHA

METROPOLE, LISMORE,

7.30PM ACID BLEED, 8PM DJ

OVALS

MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES

CLUB 6.30PM MARTIN WAY

KINGSCLIFF BEACH BOWLS

5PM GREGG PETERSON

BAY, TURTLE BOY BYRON THEATRE 6.30PM 90S MOVIES TUESDAY – THE TRUMAN SHOW

SHAWS BAY HOTEL, BALLINA, 3PM LATE FOR WOODSTOCK

WEDNESDAY 26

RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, DAMIEN COOPER BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 5PM ANNA & JORDAN, 8PM PHIL & TILLEY

BANGALOW BOWLO

7.30PM BANGALOW

BRACKETS’ OPEN MIC

SESSION

KINGSCLIFF BEACH BOWLS

6.30PM COMEDY – STEVEN J WHITELEY

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

– Leo Tolstoy

‘Eltham Springs’ 79 JOHNSTON ROAD, CLUNES

Price guide: contact agent I Inspection: by appointment

An exceptional, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to acquire 212 acres of some of the most beautiful land in the Byron Bay hinterland

Perfect aspect with 360-degree panoramic views

Income producing carbon credit contract covering 27 ha of koala habitat regeneration

Rainforest remnant, walking paths and two sparkling spring fed creeks

Byron View

We’ve saved the best for last. The long-awaited release of the last vacant land in Ocean Shores. 4 fully serviced, prime homes sites, registered and ready from Pottsville to Cape Byron and the gorgeous green of the national park bordering the subdivision. Duplex and single-dwelling lots. End of street surrounded by nature reserve. Coolangatta airport 30 min, Brunswick Heads 7 min and Byron Bay 20 min. Don’t Miss Out!

24 Player Parade - Lot 165800m² Duplex compliant, ocean view

2 Thomson Court - Lot 166750m²

Ocean and National park view

4 Thomson Court - Lot 167700m²

Ocean and National park view

6 Thomson Court - Lot 168685m²

Ocean and National park view

Best Offers by 26th April 2023 Todd Buckland 0408 966 421 todd@byronshirerealestate.com.au

Unique Heritage Charm in Byron Hinterland

• Circa 1911 “The Old Church” is situated on a lovely leafy quarter acre block and is ideal for a holiday letting investment or as a beautiful holiday home

• There is DA approval for a substantial extension of 600sqm of habitable space with a full set of detailed and coordinated construction drawings

• The property showcases original features throughout including stained glass windows, arched walkways, polished timber floors and pressed metal ceilings

• Complete with an additional two-storey wing with 2 generous bedrooms

14 Brooklet Road, Newrybar

On-Site Auction – Thursday, 4th May 2:30pm

Open: Saturday, 22nd April 11–11.30am

Luxury Designer Home Located in Prime Byron Position

• Located in a tightly held, quiet cul-de-sac is this superb modern designer home with high-end finishes, absolute privacy, and pure luxury

• Large, private courtyard with easy care cactus garden and limestone tiles

• Outdoors features an olympic size in-ground trampoline, Alpine Lucania 6 seater spa and a tranquil native bush backdrop

• Main bedroom features stacker doors opening to the beautiful back yard

26 Oakland Court, Byron Bay

Price Guide: $2.85m

Open: By appointment

Architecturally Designed Hinterland Treasure – Two Homes

• Positioned on an expansive 5 acres of well-maintained gardens is this stunning mid-century modern masterpiece with breathtaking views and multiple vistas

• The office/studio has access to the pool and is ideal for working from home

• Across the 5 acres are open paddocks, perfect for a couple of horses

• The secondary dwelling is extremely private and features one bedroom, bathroom, separate laundry, and fully equipped kitchen plus a private deck

15 Newes Road, Coorabell

Price Guide: Contact Agent

Open:

Commercially Zoned Rare Opportunity in Brunswick Heads

• Spacious block with commercial zoning giving you endless possibilities

• The large block offers an existing 3-bedroom dwelling, but there is opportunity to redevelop or redesign in the best CBD position in the mecca we call Bruns

• The home offers a spacious floorplan with a large living and dining area that adjoins the kitchen with ample storage space and a large, level yard with dual lane access

• Central location walking distance to everything Brunswick Heads has to offer including the Brunswick River, world class beaches, cafes and fine dining

23 Fingal Street, Brunswick Heads

Price Guide: $2.395m – $2.595m

Open: Saturday, 22nd April 10–10.30am

4 2 2 480M 2

Commercially Zoned 809m2 Block with Original Cottage

• Perfectly positioned in central Mullumbimby is this original home on an expansive 809m2 commercially zoned corner block with endless possibilities

• Opportunity to develop either a large centrally located home, commercial development, multiple buildings or potential strata subdivision (STCA)

• Classic 3 bedroom cottage with spacious layout and high ceilings throughout

• Corner position with dual access with Tincogan and Dalley Street

20 Tincogan Street, Mullumbimby

Price Guide: $1.395m – $1.525m

Open: Saturday, 22nd April 10–10.30pm

Hinterland Retreat with Running Creek and Separate Tiny Home

• Situated on 2.7 hectares of spectacular scenery is Wyuna -an exceptional modernised, farmhouse style property in the tightly held Crabbes Creek

• The open-plan living area is sure to amaze, with floor to ceiling windows providing uninterrupted views of the stunning surroundings

• Alongside the freshwater creek are sub-tropical gardens, walking trails and four swimming holes

• 3 mins from Crabbes Creek General Store, primary school & Rail Trail

273 Crabbes Creek Road, Crabbes Creek

Price Guide: $1.9m to $2.09m

Open: Saturday, 22nd April 1.15–1.45pm

Byron Beachside Cottage Plus Development Potential

• This superbly located property offers a great beachside home with development potential to create a dual occupancy or duplex (STCA)

• The home is in its original condition and a freshen up would offer a simple, yet charming 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom home with open plan living

• Featured is a wide deck, perfect to enjoy the expansive natural backdrop

• Easy stroll to the beach, Top Shop Cafe, town centre and restaurants

48 Massinger Street, Byron Bay

Price Guide: $2.8m – $3m

Open: By appointment

35 FLETCHER ST, BYRON BAY NSW 2481

PH: O2 6685 8466

Spacious Hinterland Block with D.A Approved Plans

3,916M 2

• Elevated 3,916M2 block with a beautiful rural outlook that offers a rare opportunity for you to build your dream home

• D.A approved plans for an ultra-modern home and pool

• There are engineers drawings and certifications so there is no time to be wasted to proceed to a constructions certificate, so you can get ready to build!

• The site offers lots of space to add veggie patches, and chicken pens

• Positioned in the beautiful hinterland only a 3 minute drive to Federal village

7/19 Teak Road, Federal

Price Guide: $895,000 – $980,000

Open: By appointment

2.7HA

Tara Torkkola 0423 519 698

Jane Johnston 0466 327 375

Helen Huntly-Barratt 0412

Denzil Lloyd 0481 864 049

Ocean Shores. Sat 1–1.30pm

Century 21

• 8 Denbos Crescent, East Lismore. Sat 12–12.30pm

First National Byron Bay

• 2 Oakwood Drive, Ballina. Thurs 2–2.30pm

• 41 Gordon Street, Mullumbimby. Fri 12–12.30pm

• 9 Newberry Parade, Brunswick Heads. Fri 1–1.30pm

7 Ocean Avenue, New Brighton. Sat 9–9.30am

• 2E Kalemajere Drive, Suffolk Park. Sat 9–9.30am

• 6 Jacaranda Drive, Byron Bay. Sat 9–9.30am

• 2 Oakwood Drive, Ballina. Sat 10–10.30am

20 Tincogan Street, Mullumbimby. Sat 10–10.30am

• 16 Omega Circuit, Brunswick Heads. Sat 10–10.30am

• 28 Armstrong Street, Suffolk Park. Sat 10–10.30am

23 Fingal Street, Brunswick Heads. Sat 10–10.30am

• 11 Dehnga Place, Suffolk Park. Sat 11–11.30am

• 64 Sunrise Boulevard, Byron Bay. Sat 11–11.30am

• 68 Orana Road, Ocean Shores. Sat 11–11.30am

14 Brooklet Road, Newrybar. Sat 11–11.30am

• 3/9 Colin Street, Bangalow. Sat 11–11.30am

• 38 Avocado Crescent, Ewingsdale. Sat 11–11.30am

• 9 Newberry Parade, Brunswick Heads. Sat 11–11.30am

41 Gordon Street, Mullumbimby. Sat 12–12.30pm

• 5/16 Oakland Court, Byron Bay. Sat 12–12.30pm

• 15 Newes Road, Coorabell. Sat 12–12.30pm •

Swan Bay Fields

• 7 Platypus Drive, Uralba. Sat 12–12.30pm

• 8 Oakland Avenue, West Ballina. Sat 12–12.30pm

Crandon Court, Goonellabah. Sat 1–1.30pm

• 82 Tyumba Avenue, Teven. Sat 2.15–2.45pm

LJ Hooker Brunswick Heads

• 40 Byangum Road, Murwillumbah. Sat 2–2.30pm

• 9 Saligna Court, Mullumbimby. Sat 10–10:30am 48 Narooma Drive, Ocean Shores. Sat 11–11:30am

• 46 Mullumbimbi Street, Brunswick Heads. Sat 11–11:30am

• 2 Bower Street, Brunswick Heads. Sat 12–12:30pm

• 8 Gin Gin Crescent, Ocean Shores. Sat 12–12:30pm Mana Real Estate

• 46 Narooma Drive, Ocean Shores. Sat 9–9.30am

72 Bonnydoon Road, Uki. Sat 9–9.30am

• 5 Philip Street, South Golden Beach. Sat 10–10.30am

• 60 Reserve Creek, Kielvale. Sat 10–10.30am

• 33 Beach Avenue, South Golden Beach. Sat 11–11.30am

1/8 Yengarie Way, Ocean Shores. Sat 12–12.30pm

• 8 Redgate Road, South Golden Beach. Sat 12–12.30pm

• 21 Pacific Street, Ocean Shores. Sat 1–1.30pm 3 Weeronga Way, Ocean Shores. Sat 1–1.30pm McGrath Byron Bay 137–139 Jonson Street, Byron Bay. Sat 8.30–9am

• 65 Hyrama Crescent, Brunswick Heads. 9.30–10am

• 51 Pine Avenue, Mullumbimby. Sat 9.45–10.15am

• 5/111 Fowlers Lane, Bangalow. Sat 10–10.30am 77 Parkway Drive, Ewingsdale. 10–10.30am

• 5/174 Fowlers Lane, Bangalow. Sat 10–10.30am

• 1137 Booyong Road, Clunes. Sat 11–11.30am

• 60 Massinger Street, Byron Bay. Sat 11–11.30am 16 Browns Crescent, McLeods Shoot. Sat 11–11.30

• 2 Mackellar Court, Byron Bay. 11.15–11.45am

• 9C Mott Street, Byron Bay. 12–12.30pm

• 45 Brownell Drive, Byron Bay. 12–12.30am

• 7 Palm Place, Byron Bay. 1.30–1.30pm

• 20 Wallaby Close, Ewingsdale. Sat 1–1.30pm North Coast Lifestyle Properties Brunswick

• 1 Byron Street, New Brighton. Sat 10–10.30am

• 32 Hinchinbrook Road, Burringbar. Sat 10–10.30am

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

Ray White Byron Bay

• 30 Bottlebrush Crescent, Suffolk Park. Wed 12–12.30pm

• 31 Beachcomber Drive, Byron Bay. Wed 1–1.30pm

• 121 Alcorn Street, Suffolk Park. Wed 4.30–5pm

• 71 Charltons Road, Federal. Thus 4–4.30pm

• 30 Bottlebrush Crescent, Suffolk Park. Sat 9–9.30am

• 65 Currawong Way, Ewingsdale. Sat 9–9.30am

• 28 Springvale Road, Eureka. Sat 10–10.30am

• 3/14 Sunrise Boulevard, Sat. 10–10.30am

• 13/146 Old Bangalow Road, Byron Bay. Sat 10–10.30am

• 11 Angus Kennedy Close, Lennox Head. Sat 10.30–11am

60 Hollingworth Lane, Mullumbimby. Sat 10.30–11am

222 Friday Hut Road, Possum Creek. Sat 11–11.30am

86 Brushbox Drive, Mullumbimby Creek. Sat 11.30–12pm

13 Argyle Street, Mullumbimby. Sat 11.30am–12pm

121 Alcorn Street, Suffolk Park. Sat 12–12.30pm

• 71 Charltons Road, Federal.

Tara Ta

Tara took the hard work out of selling our home and kept us informed every step of the way. We got a fantastic result in an amazingly short time and we couldn’t be happier. er.

@taratorkkolafirstnational @taratorkkola_realestate

PAUL PRIOR SALES 0418 324 297 paulprior@byronbayfn.com

Professional and results driven with extensive knowledge. Servicing the Byron Shire and beyond. Call Paul for an appointment today.

WWW.BYRONBAYFN.COM.AU

OFFERING EDGE TO OUR NORTHERN NSW CLIENTS AND OPENING UP A WIDER RANGE OF POTENTIAL BUYERS TO THE MARKET, THAT WOULD OTHERWISE BE MISSED.

RESIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL | NEW PROJECTS & DEVELOPMENT SITES

Service Directory

SERVICE DIRECTORY RATES, PAYMENT & DEADLINE

DEADLINE: For additions and changes to the Service Directory is 12pm Friday.

LINE ADS: $99 for 3 months or $340 for 1 year prepaid.

For line Service Directory ads email classifieds@echo.net.au.

DISPLAY ADS: $70 per week for colour display ad. Minimum 8 week booking 4 weeks prepaid.

Please supply display ads 85mm wide, 28mm high. New display ads will be placed at end of section.

For display Service Directory ads email adcopy@echo.net.au.

The Echo Service Directory is online – www.echo.net.au/service-directory

ACCOUNTS & BOOKINGS: 6684 1777 INDEX

Accountants & Bookkeepers..........33

Acupuncture.................................33

Air Conditioning & Refrigeration....33

Alterations & Repairs.....................33

Architects.....................................33

Automotive...................................33

Blinds, Awnings, Curtains, Shutters.33

Bricklaying....................................33

Building Trades.............................33

Bush Regen & Weed Control..........33

Car Detailing.................................33

Carpet Cleaning............................33

Chimney Sweeping........................33

Chiropractic..................................33

Cleaning.......................................34

Computer Services........................34

Concreting & Paving......................34

Decks, Patios & Extensions.............34

Dentists........................................34

Design & Drafting..........................34

Earthmoving & Excavation.............34

Electricians...................................34

Fencing.........................................34

Roofing.........................................36

Rubbish Removal..........................36

Self Storage..................................36

Septic Systems..............................36

Solar Installation..........................36

Television Services........................36

Tiling............................................36

PLEASE CALL 6680 9394

Service Directory

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

LOCKSMITHS Byron Bay & surrounds. Residential & commercial. Luke...... 0422 185466

ALL-WAYS PAINTING BYRON BAY

B Timbs Painting B Timbs Painting

Byron Coast Removals

Scotty’s Roof Repairs

ECHO CLASSIFIEDS – 6684 1777

CLASSIFIED AD BOOKINGS

PHONE ADS

Ads may be taken by phone on 6684 1777

AT THE ECHO HEAD OFFICE

Ads can be lodged in person at the Mullum Echo office: Village Way, Stuart St, Mullumbimby

EMAIL ADS

Display (box ads) and line classifieds, email: classifieds@echo.net.au

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.

Mindfulness @ Work

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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.

Music

Friday nights in May. Courthouse Hotel Mullumbimby.

CRYSTAL HEALINGS & READINGS

Mullumbimby

Kate is a deeply intuitive, wholehearted, compassionate & sensitive person, who brings humour & warmth into your session. Take away detailed messages, guidance & tools, as well as a potent healing transmission from the crystals. 0413 003 301 crystalsanddreaming.com.au

DEADLINE TUES 12PM

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

RATES & PAYMENT

LINE ADS:

$17.00 for the first two lines

$5 .00 for each extra line

$17 for two lines is the minimum charge.

DISPLAY ADS (with a border): $14 per column centimetre

These prices include GST. Cash, cheque, Mastercard or Visa Prepayment is required for all ads.

Bring greater focus, clarity and calm into your workplace.

Mindfulness

Paul Bibby 0401 926 090

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. Call Wendy 0497 090 233

FOR SALE

MEN’S & WOMEN’S VINTAGE RETRO DESIGNER, FRESH ORGANIC DONUTS Bangalow RSL Hall behind bottleshop every Bangalow Market, Sunday.

LG 516L STAINLESS FRIDGE 3 years old, in v. good condition. $450 ono. In Mullum. Call 0407163828 for size etc.

3 PANEL GAS HEATER $85. Glass top small table $30. Glass top hall table $30. Timber shelf c/board $30. Call 0407163828 for more info.

MIELE WASHERS

Dryers and dishwashers available at Bridglands Mullumbimby. 66842511

ARCHIBALD’S CHEAP

QUARRY PRODUCTS

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

ECHO CLASSIFIED DEADLINE FOR NEXT WEEK WILL BE NOON, MONDAY 24 APRIL. We will be closed on Anzac Day so please get your classified ads in early. classifieds@echo.net.au

CLASSIFIEDS THAT WORK ALL WEEK!

Echo Classies also appear online: www.echo.net.au/classified-ads

Tip Runs &

MOTOR VEHICLES

FORD FALCON 2003 XR6 Rego to Nov. $4,000. 0473481164.

The work tends to suit a semi-retired or underemployed person/couple who just want a reliable job to do at their own pace at the same time every week. The successful applicants for these runs will have an ABN, a reliable vehicle, a strong throwing arm, and ideally they will live near the distribution area. They will collect the papers/inserts from Ballina (before 7am) or Mullumbimby (7–7.30am) or Byron A&I Estate (around 10am) on Wednesday and will have delivered all the papers by 6pm Wednesday. Suit mature or stable person. Commencing asap. Email simon@echo.net.au or phone/text 0409324724

ECHO CLASSIFIED DEADLINE FOR NEXT WEEK WILL BE NOON, MONDAY 24 APRIL. We will be closed on Anzac Day so please get your classified ads in early. classifieds@echo.net.au

BOX TRAILER 12 months rego. New tyres. $100. 0473481164.

CARAVANS

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

BUSINESS FOR SALE

OWNERS RETIRING Manufacturing camphor laurel timber products for export & domestic markets. Fully integrated business, saw mills, dryer, forklift, 1400mm thicknesser sander & dust extractor and many assorted tools. An affordable business. Peter 0428263086

TO LET

SOUTH GOLDEN BEACH 3 min walk to beach. 3bdr, 2 bthrm, DLUG. $800p/w. Suit working couple only, good refs. Pet allowed. Available early May. Email minyonval@bigpond.com

NOTICE OF SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING Special General Meeting of the

Mullumbimby & District Neighbourhood Centre

The MDNC is hosting a special general meeting to present and embed the MDNC Statement of Commitment to First Nations peoples into the MDNC Constitution.

Date: 2nd May, 2023

Time: 5.30pm

Venue: MDNC Hub – 55 Dalley St, Mullumbimby RSVP to manager@mdnc.org.au

We are very proud of this work and outcome of almost 10 years of passion and commitment. This meeting is to bring the community together to present the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Statement of Commitment and embed it into the MDNC constitution. MDNC members are entitled to vote.

WANTED

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

GARAGE SALES

ORCHIDS (150+) & GARAGE SALE Sat 22 Apr, 8am–1pm. 38 Alison Ave, Lennox. 0416052876. Cash $5 multiples. Coppers, bottles, LP’s/player, hiking boots 10.5, stamps, leatherwork tools, photo enlarger, books. Four orchid growers.

5 INDERWONG AVE, O/S Sat 7.30am. Furn, artwork, plants, rugs, camping, lots.

3 BEDROOM HOUSE, MULLUMBIMBY with single garage. $645p/w. 0439249068

LOCAL REMOVAL

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

STUDIO OCEAN SHORES Self-contained, private with garden view. $330p/w. 0402453304

OCEAN SHORES 3BDR, 3BATH 2LUG, fully furnished, to 21 June. $1200 p/w. 0419464232

POSITIONS VACANT THE ECHO

The Echo has contract positions available immediately, delivering papers to:

1. WATEGOS BEACH & PATERSON ST 500 papers.

2. LENNOX HEAD WEST: 1000 papers & LENNOX HEAD NORTH 1100 papers. These two Lennox runs can be done together)

These positions involve inserting, folding and (in wet weather) bagging and delivery of papers & throwing them accurately to driveways from a car

Hard working and discreet person or couple with experience in property maintenance, handy man/woman or landscaping preferred. 2 days work per week in exchange for private cabin in bush setting close to Brunswick Heads. Please send an outline of any experience and references to jllcaretaker@gmail.com.

Tutor wanted for Year 1 student Student who needs to catch up having missed the past year while overseas. Help mainly needed with reading and writing English. Experience and qualifications required. Top rate

Location: Our house in Bruns. 45min–1hr lessons, 3–4 times per week, 4–6pm, preferably Mon–Fri. Please send application to: Sophie.bouchetdoumenq@ gmail.com

National Transport and Logistics company requires HC/MC seasonal cane truck drivers at Condong,Broadwater and Harwood Sugar Millsites. Competitive pay rates. Send Resumé/CV to Wendy.Keel@sctlogistics.com.au or call 0409 568 795

Classifieds

POSITIONS

Sat 22nd April

Abstraction & Figurative

Painting

Fri 28th April

Webdesign With Wordpress

Mon 1st May

Portuguese For Beginners

Afro-Cuban Percussion

Italian For Beginners

Tues 2nd May

Afro-Cuban Percussion 2

McGettigan

online.Term2Coursenow ENROLNOW!

Weds 3rd May

Pilates Over 50's

Thurs 4th May

English Conversation Practice Encounters With Poetry

Fri 5th May

Self Help For Anxiety

Sat 6th May

Reiki Level 1

Kevin Bernard 15/02/1945-05/04/2023.

PETS

Eros

Late of St Helena. Laid to rest by his brother and sisters in the Catholic Cemetery at Bangalow Friday 14 April 2023.

FUNERAL NOTICES

PARKES

BRIAN JAMES

English Skills For Work & Study - 26th April

Introduction to Massage - 27th April

Backyard Food Production - 28th April

Healthy Soil For Farm & Garden - 29th April

Urban Permaculture (NEW) - 2nd May

Introduction to Floristry - 5th April

Visual Art: Dreaming In Colour 2 - 9th May

Visual Art: The Art Of Juxtaposition 2 - 10th May

Visual Art: Breathing The Land 2 - 11th May

Sustainable Fashion (NEW) - 26th May

Advanced Floristry - 8th Jun

Floristry Intermediate - 9th June

CAFE ALL-ROUNDER NEEDED for the Other Joint, Mullum. Email resume mullum@otherjoint.com

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

SOCIAL MEDIA GURU for small local business. Please call Wayne 0423218417

CASUAL WORK Person wanted to pour and label bottles for Skincare. Newrybar. $25 per hour. 15–20 hours per week. 0431122051.

TUITION

FRENCH • ITALIAN • GERMAN

Eva 0403224842 www.languagetuitionbyron.com.au

BIRTHDAYS

Late of Byron Bay. Dearly loved son of Len and Annie (both dec). Last driver and custodian of the Green Frog (little diesel engine).

Rest In Peace.

Relatives and friends are invited to attend Brian’s Funeral Service to be held at St Finbarr’s Catholic Church, Byron Bay on Thursday (April 20, 2023) commencing at 10.00am. After prayers the cortege will leave for the Byron Bay Lawn Cemetery.

GUARDIAN FUNERALS BALLINA 6686 7036

Tony Zillig

06/05/1944–08/04/2023

Eros and his siblings are getting ready to fly the nest! These cute, fun lovers are hoping to find great families that will love and cherish them for eternity. Bursting with affection these darlings will certainly send arrows of love through your heart. To meet Eros and our other cats and kittens, please visit the Cat Adoption Centre at 124 Dalley Street, Mullumbimby.

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

Byron Dog Rescue (CAWI)

At only 1-yearold, ‘Norm’ a desexed male Rhodesian Ridgeback xxx has already lived through a lifetime of pain and pleasure. This has resulted in a very special big-boy with so much love to give. Norm is gorgeous; loving, affectionate, gentle and chilled. He is excellent on-leash and is great with children and dogs (although sometimes bombastic). He will need ongoing training and a fenced property owing to his high prey drive, so no good with chickens, cats or wildlife. Please contact Shell on 0458461935.

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Bella is an 8 year old, Staffy x Kelpie. She is loveable and enjoys the great outdoors and playing in the water. She needs a big fenced yard and someone who will continue her training. She comes with a Dog training package through Friends of the Pound.  M/C # 900032002145029

Please fill in an expression of interest: www.friendsofthepound. com/adoption-expression-ofinterest or phone 07 5524 8590 and ask for S20 Bella.

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Late of Lismore, originally from Switzerland. Passed away peacefully Easter Saturday aged 78.

Husband of Elisabeth, and formerly Rosemary. Loved father of Daniel and Becci.

Loved grandfather of Yarbirri, Kowunduh, Yuki, Lila and Remi.

Tony’s funeral will be this Friday 21 April at 10am at Parkview Funeral Home in Goonellabah, followed by his burial at Tucki Tucki and then his celebration of life will be at Wyrallah Hall around 12pm. All welcome who knew Tony.

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Big win for the Shire’s new rugby venture

The Byron Shire Rebels have started the 2023 season in good form, winning reserve and first-grade games playing away against Ballina on Saturday afternoon.

The outing was the first competitive game for the new rugby joint venture between Byron Bay and Bangalow rugby clubs.

First-grade made an emphatic start to their season winning 50–0.

Gavin McGonagle and Sam Reid scored two tries each for Byron Shire, while Robert Taylor, Dominic Tydeman, Darcy Woods and Jordan Elliott also scored. Dominic also kicked five conversions.

The Man of the Match award went to Otis Floyd.

Other games in the round where also one-sided as Wollongbar-Alstonville

Wollongbar-Alstonville (in red) were too strong across the park for Lismore and put on ten unanswered tries.

Rugby beat Lismore 66–0.

But they were all outdone by Casuarina who put on 88 unanswered points against Casino.

The winning clubs also took out their second grade fixtures with Casuarina beating Casino 29–7, WAR beating

Lismore 73–19 and the Byron Shire Rebels got over Ballina 28–14.

President’s Cup

Playing at home the Mullumbimby Moonshiners lost their season opener against Evans River, 22–19, despite

Mullumbimby Giants roll Lower Clarence to open season with a win

The Mullumbimby Giants first-grade side opened their season with a 16–12 win playing against the Lower Clarence at Yamba Oval.

The Giants came out on top after scoring three tries to two, with each side converting two.

The win was much needed good news for the visitors who went down in the other three grades on what was described as ‘a great day of footy’.

In the Ladies League

Touch the Lower Clarence Magpies won 16–6, in the U/18s they prevailed 18–10 and in reserve grade ran out 36–26 winners.

Red Devils

The Byron Bay Red Devils opened their season hosting the Murwillumbah Mustangs

Hard running from the Giants took plenty of stopping at Yamba Oval last Sunday. Photo supplied

last Sunday afternoon and suffered a similar fate to Mullumbimby, losing three lower grade games, before they managed a 20–20 draw in first-grade.

Murwillumbah won the LLT 32–10, the U/18s 26–22 and the reserve grade 14–4.

scoring the opening two tries.

The Moonshiners dominated the early exchanges but Evans Head scored a try before half-time, and went to the break losing 12–5.

The game turned when Evans Head maintained the momentum and scored the first three tries in the second half to put them on top 22–12.

The Moonshiners managed another converted try but ran out of time.

In other games from the round Yamba put one on Lennox Head, winning 52–12, while Richmond Range beat Kyogle 76–5.

Next week the local teams head west with the Byron Shire Rebels taking on Casino and the Moonshiners playing Richmond River.

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Bangalow Bluedogs set sights on 2023 Anzac Day Cup

Next week the Red Devils have a bye while the Mullumbimby Giants host four grades against the Northern United Dirrawongs.

All the action at Les Donnelley Field gets underway from 10.50am this Sunday April 23.

The Bangalow Bluedogs

premier league side will take on Lismore Richmond Rovers this Sunday in Lismore to contest for the 2023 Anzac Day Cup.

The side is going into the clash after collecting wins against Byron Bay, Lennox Head and Alstonville in the knock-out competition.

The Bluedogs are also on top of the premiership ladder

Craig Foster talks in Byron Bay

Former Socceroo, broadcaster and social justice advocate, Craig Foster, will be in conversation at Byron Bay Theatre on May 26 to help raise funds for the Gilchrist Foundation.

Craig will return home to the Northern Rivers for a one night only and will present on a number of topics including reconciliation and independence, the Voice and the republic.

He will be in conversation with Mick O’Regan. Funds raised will be used to provide a new sports scholarship for

Social justice campaigner Craig Foster. Photo supplied

disadvantaged or a disabled student at Griffith University or Southern Cross University.

Tickets to attend the fundraiser can be found at the foundations website at https://gilchrist.foundation/.

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after a strong start with three wins form three.

The run has included beating Alstonville 6–0 and outscoring MullumbimbyBrunswick Valley 5–1. They also took on Richmond Rovers, and in a foretaste for this weekend’s game, triumphed in a close fought fixture 4–3 last Sunday. Richmond Rovers approach the Anzac Cup with wins under their belt against Mullumbimby, South Lismore and Goonellabah.

The Anzac Day Cup final game gets underway at 2.30pm Sunday April 23 at Bill Harris Field in East Lismore.

Byron Bay FC

There will also be football action this Sunday at the Byron Bay Recreation grounds where the local side is featuring in both divisions of the Callan McMilan Memorial Shield.

In B division, Byron Bay takes on Kyogle (12.30pm) and in the A division Byron Bay are up against Alstonville (2.30pm).

Photo Vicki Kerry

The Bluedogs won their premiership fixture aginst Richmond Rovers, and hope to repeat the performance to win this year’s Anzac Day cup. Photo supplied

We would love to run all kinds of local sport on these pages so please send your photos and stories to sport@echo.net.au.

Backlash

Mandy Nolan’s new show, The Candidate, has been doing well at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Her story about her run for federal politics will be performed at the Byron Comedy Fest on June 1. Tickets are available at byroncomedyfest.com.

Here’s a bargain! A 22 acre cliff-top Lennox Head home worth around $18M is ‘surplus’ to the needs of wealthy developer, Terry Agnew, reports The Herald (Murdoch). Agnew is part investor in the mega West Byron urban development, which as everyone knows, will not be easing the critical housing shortage, because only the uber wealthy will buy in.

Congratulations to Mayor Michael Lyon, and Council’s general manager, Mark Arnold, for making their diary appointments public on Council’s website (See page 5). But is this really transparency, or just taking the piss? On March 10 and 21, 2023, a ‘community member’ met with the mayor over ‘local issues’.

The best asset federal Labor have is Liberal opposition potato head, Peter Dutton. While on his ‘No to the Voice’ tour in Alice Springs, Dutto was asked by a local ABC reporter: ‘What evidence do you have that there is this socalled rampant sexual abuse occurring in remote central Australia?’ He replies, ‘Well, I mean, with respect, that’s such an ABC question’.

A new documentary, Our Place, Our Species, will screen at Lismore Quad on April 21 from 5pm. Organisers say it is

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an ‘inspiring journey into the world of native plants and their caretakers in the Bundjalung region’. For more on the free, outdoor event, visit www.lismorequad.org.au.

While the Labor federal government has a long way to go to undo the damage by the previous Liberal-Nationals clown show, at least external debt collectors will no longer be employed to pursue alleged debts of people who receive income support payments. Perhaps a debt collector could ask Harvey Norman to repay all its $22M Jobkeeper wage subsidies, after it posted record profits in the 2020–21 financial year?

Athletes on the ready! The Byron Bay Triathlon and Byron Bay Lighthouse Run is coming up on Saturday and Sunday, May 13 and 14 respectively. For more info, visit www.byrontri.org.

Nominations are open for the 2023 Byron Shire Community Awards, which will be held during Local Government Week (August 1–7). There are nine categories, and nominations close June 1. Visit www. byron.nsw.gov.au/communityawards for more info.

Last Saturday was the second edition of the Flaming Heart Festival, held at the Billinudgel Hotel. Organised by SAE Creative Media Institute audio graduate, Sophie Ryder, the fundraiser was for the Byron Youth Service (YAC), who provide a range of wellbeing options to support young people and their families in the region. Local acts on the bill were Leaving Jordan, Sugar Leaves, Eyesite, and Mudwagon.

A much-loved fig tree next to the Bruns boat harbour has been ringbarked after previous attempts to cut it down failed – Dean Jefferys physically intervened around two months ago. Council staff told The Echo at the time, ‘Approval was given for the property owner [William Silverman] to remove the fig tree, because its roots were causing extensive and recurring damage to plumbing services, as well as structural damage to the surrounding car park’. Jefferys disputes this, and when he asked for Council’s arborist report at the time, he was told it would cost him $80. The Echo has now asked Council staff for the report. Photo supplied