Tweed Echo – Issue 3.27 – 17/03/2011

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Village sewerage hits funding snag Murray Simpson

The gospel according to Jessie Kate McIntosh

For Northern Rivers musician Jessie Vintila the gospel is something worth singing about.

The singer-songwriter first fell in love with the uplifting musical style nine years ago and is now hoping to start a weekly gospel choir in Tweed.

Jessie said anyone was welcome to join, adding choirs helped provide safety in numbers.

‘It brings back the tradition of singing together, which is lovely way to connect with other people and enjoy making music, without the pressure of getting up on a stage,’ she said.

Jessie started her first gospel choir in her hometown of Denmark in

Local musician Jessie Vintila is hoping to start a gospel choir in the Tweed.

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Western Australia, which went by the name ‘The Serious Rebels’.

As the granddaughter of freethinking atheists, starting a gospel choir marked somewhat of a departure for Jessie.

‘I felt quite rebellious starting a Sunday morning gospel choir in their town,’ she says.

‘I’m not religious either, but I am very open to spirituality and find this music incredibly uplifting.’

Jessie has been performing since the age of two, when she began singing German nursery rhymes at her mother’s folk gigs in Germany.

Growing up she studied classical and jazz flute and performed alongside her mother and grandfather – a professional opera singer – at folk festivals across WA. She currently fronts the Northern Rivers-based folk/pop four-piece ‘The Lucky Wonders’.

The band was well received on a 40date national tour last year and was one of six local acts selected to take part in Arts Northern Rivers’ industry brokerage program, which aims to provide professional development and industry networking opportunities.

After a hiatus to concentrate on other musical projects, Jessie says she is now looking forward to getting back into gospel and has already started a weekly choir in Byron Bay. ‘I’m so excited to be getting back into gospel singing. I still think it’s one of the best musical highs there is,’ she says.

Jessie plans to run the Tweed choir on Tuesdays from 11am, or on Monday evenings, depending on which time gets the most interest from the community. For more information contact Jessie on 0417 277 211 or contact@theluckywonders.com.

Tweed villages of Mooball and Burringbar will be carrying the can for a while yet after Tweed Shire Council deferred a start to their long-awaited sewerage scheme for four months.

In a heated debate at Tuesday’s council meeting, the deferral was opposed by councillors Warren Polglase and Phil Youngblutt who demanded an immediate start, saying villagers had waited ten years for the scheme and overflowing septics were causing environmental damage and endangering the local platypus population.

The hitch has been in a funding grant from the NSW Office of Water under the country towns water supply and sewerage program which was to have contributed up to $2.8 million of the $9 million project.

But the Office of Water has told the council there is no money available till June 2014 and successful applications for funding may not see a cent till 2018.

Six months to process The Office said it was currently taking six months to even process a funding application.

The council narrowly (with a 4-3vote) overturned a motion from Cr Polglase for an immedate start and opted for a deferral till July by which time it is hoped the funding application would be complete and the availability of funding would be known.

The council’s director of community resources David Oxenham said a letter from state water minister Phillip Costa made it clear if the council went ahead and called tenders without the minister’s approval then the council would not be eligible for the funding grant.

But Cr Polglase said the letter did not amount to much.

‘Mr Costa won’t be around in two weeks [after the state election],’ he said.

Mr Oxenham warned a deferral might lead to a cost blow-out in the scheme.

The council first approved the sewerage scheme in February last year but, more than a year later, not a sod has been turned.

Further delays Tenders have been received and assessed but cannot be awarded till the council gives the final go-ahead.

Mr Oxenham said further delays would be badly received in the community; contractors may have to increase their prices and they may not have the resources or key personnel available if work does not start till July.

What’s more, the loan funding has been obtained for the project and drawn down and interest will be paid on it during the four-month delay.

Mr Oxenham said there was a good chance of the grant funds not being available and even if they were, by the time they were received in 2018, the $2.8 million asked for may be worth only $2.4 million in today’s terms.

Council general manager Mike Rayner said villagers had been levied about $300 a year for the past ten years in anticipation of the scheme.

But this only covered a small proportion of the cost and reticulation would still cost $70,000 per tenement – a cost to be carried by the ratepayers in general. That was why it was felt important by the staff to make a pitch for the grant funds.

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A federal senator told a rally for rail transport in the Tweed this week that the best chance to get a commuter train service up and running was for the electorate to become a marginal seat in this month’s state election.

Senator-elect Lee Rhiannon, a former NSW Greens MLC, told the latest Trains on our Tracks (TOOT) rally at Murwillumbah railway station that the coalition parties had broken their promise on restoring rail services to the Tweed and Northern Rivers and a new tactic was needed to fight for them ‘because there’ll be government promises broken’.

Ms Rhiannon told the 60plus people at the rally, including Nationals’ Tweed MP Geoff Provest, who holds the seat by a three per cent margin, that 25 years ago the two major parties had fought over the seat of Balmain believing the Greens were poised to win ‘but suddenly you had one [a light commuter rail] built in the area’.

‘Why? Because it was marginal and the Greens were likely to win,’ she said.

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just the way to go,’ she urged.

‘These are broken promises by the Coalition on the major issue of public transport, so a great deal of cynicism is needed when they promise yet another study.

‘How many times now have you heard about another study?

The best bet is if you’re a marginal seat.’

Greens ‘clear’ She said unlike the Nationals’ broken promise a state election ago (of $100 million for a light rail service linked to the Gold Coast with six services a day), the Greens’ position was ‘clear’.

‘We want a long-term commitment to return rail commuter services to the north coast, and for that you have to pin the candidates down.’

Sitting Tweed MP Geoff Provest told the rally the Coalition was committing $1 million for a study and that he had been in talks with the Queensland government over ‘reconnecting NSW to Queensland’ via a link from the Tweed to the proposed Gold Coast light rail, with its hub at Coolangatta airport.

‘I believe it’s viable but there’s been a lack of planning for it

from this government which as a result missed out on Infrastructure Australia funds, yet over the border they got $300 million for the beginning of a light rail service,’ he said.

Mr Provest said the issue was now more important because Tweed Council had approved around 15,000 new homes for the area over the next ten years and the Tweed would ‘lose its competitive advantage’ without a vital infrastructure connection and that was why he was ‘committed’ to rail services for the Tweed.

But Mr Provest’s proposed study came under fire from other speakers including Ballina Greens’ candidate and councillor, Simon Richardson, who warned voters to be ‘very, very alarmed’ if the Nationals could not make a firm commitment other than a study.

Cr Richardson said the Price Waterhouse Coopers report on the issue had been around for seven years and it had concluded that $30 million was needed to upgrade the track.

‘Then four years ago in the state election, the National Party promised $100 million to get six daily commuter services up

and running; now all we have is $1 million for a study. We should be very, very alarmed if we’re now not getting this commitment,’ he said.

Cr Richardson said youth in the region were greatly disadvantaged with no decent public transport system with many parents struggling to drive their children to sport training and other activities.

No transport access Greens candidate for Tweed, Andrea Vickers, told the rally the Tweed had a large population of older and disadvantaged people with no access to public transport and many could not drive cars.

‘I agree the Queensland link is vital, but we need real commitment from the incoming government,’ she said.

Independent candidate for the seat of Ballina and founder of TOOT, Karin Kolbe, said $30 million was ‘chicken feed’ compared to the ‘huge amounts’ of money ‘rolling into this area’ for major highway bypasses.

‘This is chicken feed, so all the XPT [heavy-gauge train service] figures are completely irrelevant to this argument.’

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Senator-elect Lee Rhiannon with Greens’ candidates Simon Richardson (Ballina) and Andrea Vickers (Tweed) at Murwillumbah railway station on Monday. The overgrown rail tracks make their own statement. Photo Luis Feliu

Tweed returning officer Len Sparreboom prepares candidates’ names for the ballot paper draw. Sitting National Party MPs, Geoff Provest in the Tweed, and Thomas George in Lismore, each drew the lucky Number 1 spot which tends to attract the ‘donkey vote’.

In the Tweed draw, the Greens’ Andrea Vickers took second spot, Labor’s Reece Byrnes third, and fourth on the ballot was Corinne Pennay from Fred Nile’s Christian Democratic Party.

In Lismore, Labor’s Andrew Moy drew second, Christian Democrats’ Margaret Kay, third, Murwillumbah-based Independent Russell Killarney fourth and the Greens’ Sue Stock fifth.

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Controversial Chinderah subdivision gets green light Murray Simpson

Tweed Shire Council has been forced to bite the bullet and approve a controversial Chinderah subdivision after the developer threatened legal action.

The subdivision in Ozone Street had sparked fierce public opposition because it was feared it would pave the way for a major highway truck stop to be built in the quiet riverside village.

The outcry had prompted the council to defer a decision last month but moves by the developer to take the matter to the Land and Environment Court brought the matter to a

head this week.

Councillor and former mayor Warren Polglase said it was sad there had to be winners and a losers but the council had placed itself in this position by constantly deferring the matter.

Hard decisions ‘I’m sorry for the people but we’re elected to make hard decisions and we’ve had to make this decision to avoid landing in court.’

Cr Joan van Lieshout, who had campaigned hard on behalf of the community, said she would like to arrive at a win-win solution but it was not always possible.

‘We would like to explore all options but time is not on our side,’ she said.

The convoluted history of the development began in 2009 when town planners Planit Consulting applied on behalf of Wareemba Investments for a four-lot subdivision on industrial land, which would involve running a road down the Ozone Street road reserve and concreting over a waterway in the process.

An outcry by residents in the Tweed Heritage Caravan Park helped stall the application so developers came back with an alternative access route past the Royal Pacific Caravan Park.

This amended route was the truck stop it was far from cer- RTA has taken to the Tweed one approved by the council tain that such a project would Shire Council. go ahead. this week.

‘The roundabout at the Mayor Kevin Skinner said highway exit is very dangerSecret RTA plans he remained deeply opposed ous. Traffic has been seen goOpponents to both routes to any truck stop that would ing round it the wrong way,’ stumbled across plans by the mirror the BP station at King- he said.

Approval for the subdiviRoads and Traffic Authority scliff on the southbound side sion was passed 5-2 with Crs (RTA) to build a truck stop for the highway.

‘And I’m strongly upset by van Lieshout and Dot Holdom northbound traffic on Crown land adjacent to the subdivi- the roughshod approach the voting against. son.

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Dirty water in two towns drives complaints ‘Thankfully I wasn’t using the washing machine at the time.’

The council yesterday confirmed the problem arose from developer works to extend the water supply off Valla Street.

‘The connection work caused the failure of existing restraints to the live main, resulting in a significant quantity of water escaping.

‘This altered the normal flow patterns, resulting in scouring of the mains and led to a number of dirty water complaints.’

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A flood of complaints about dirty water kept Tweed Shire Council on the hop last week.

Murwillumbah residents were bemused by a strange green tinge to their water, while out at Pottsville’s Seabreeze Estate, water was contaminated due to a malfunction while developers were working on the mains.

The president of the Murwillumbah Ratepayers Association Robyn Lemaire said she noticed her water had gone a strange yellow-brown.

‘My daughter would not take a bath because the water looked “pissy”,’ she said.

‘So I rang the council and they sent someone out who agreed it did not look good.

‘It seems the new water filtration system does not filter out the manganese that turns the water that colour.’

A council spokeswoman said yesterday the problem was an issue at the council’s new $75 million Bray Park water treatment plant in dealing with the manganese sediments in the raw water supply.

‘It’s a common problem after heavy rain,’ she said.

‘Although manganese is easily treated, it is a difficult

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process to manage.

‘The soluble manganese is oxidised to the insoluble form, where it is easily removed by the filters.

‘The problem is dosing the correct amount to oxidise the manganese when the levels of manganese in the raw water are highly variable.’

Meanwhile Seabreeze Estate resident Julie Edwards said they had an anxious time after their 14-year-old daughter drank a glass of peculiar looking water.

‘You didn’t notice it when it

came aerated from the tap but when it was allowed to settle the colour became apparent.

‘By then it was too late, my daughter had drunk it.

‘I rang the council but they said it was not their fault. The problem had arisen from a developer working on the mains.

‘The council did not seem to think it was its role to issue a general alert to residents in the area.

‘They just said to run the water for a while and it would come right.

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in categories including aged care, community, health, arts and environment.

The awards were presented at ‘an enchanted tea party’ last week hosted by the Tweed Shire Women’s Service at the Murwillumbah RSL. Ms Lollback told The Echo she was honoured to receive the award.

‘The women in the room that day were truly inspiring and to be included, given their accomplishments, was a privilege,’ she said.

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Ms Lollback has long been involved in women’s issues. A qualified midwife and president of the Zonta Club of Southern Gold Coast/Tweed, she helped spearhead the group’s regular ‘knicker’ nights.

The underwear collected is distributed to victims of abuse via the Women’s Refuge and Tweed Sexual Assault Service.

‘When you work in community health you see the shortfall that services are able to

provide,’ she said. ‘Supplying knickers was something tangible and needed.’

While the group recently donated 159 pairs, Ms Lollback said that sadly assaults for the year outnumbered the amount of knickers.

As part of work at Tweed Community Health she also helps provide support to clients in order minimise the harmful effects of illicit and legal substances to mothers and newborns.

This year’s award winners also included manager of Murwillumbah Community Centre Wendy Constantine; Tweed wildlife campaigner Mary Grant; school music teacher Vikki Armour and Murwillumbah-based doctor Betty Marks.

Thirteen-year-old Girl Guide Samantha Tucker was named Young Woman of the Year for her volunteer work with elderly nursing home residents.

The awards attracted 25 nominations across nine categories, with nominees including Richmond MP Justine Elliot and women’s surfing champion Stephanie Gilmore.

Tweed Shire Women’s Service says the awards aimed to raise awareness of women’s issues and celebrate the achievements of women locally.

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Majority support voluntary euthanasia Luis Feliu

Most Australians support voluntary euthanasia, especially in the Tweed with its high proportion of elderly residents, according to renowned voluntary euthanasia campaigner Philip Nitschke.

Dr Nitschke, the founder of Exit International, told a forum attended by around 150 people at Tweed Heads Civic Centre last Friday that a recent survey found 85 per cent of people in Australia now support ‘the principle that terminally ill people, under strict conditions, should be able to choose a peaceful death rather than a painful and drawn-out one.’

He said the legalisation of voluntary euthanasia was an important issue for Tweed.

‘After a long struggle for legislative reform, I think it’s possible that it will come about soon in Tasmania, where the Greens and Labor may finally bring through legislation to protect the rights of terminally ill people to choose a peaceful death.

‘This legislative change should be inevitable in a modern democracy. Progressive countries like Switzerland and

Tweed’s ageing population means families will often shoulder much of the burden when it comes to caring for loved ones with a serious illness.

Statistics also show that the age group of those suffering a life-limiting illness is lowering, therefore affecting families much earlier on.

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North Coast MLC Ian Cohen told the forum that unlike the two major parties, the Greens in NSW unanimously supported the voluntary euthanasia campaign, saying he believed it was one of the last human rights issues in modern technological society ‘and we need to deal with it.’

‘If the Coalition has an outright majority, or Fred Nile

and the Shooters Party have the balance of power in the Upper House, I would suggest that puts back any chance of reform, not just for voluntary euthanasia, but many other social and environmental issues will also suffer,’ he said.

Mr Cohen urged the forum participants to consider this when casting their vote in the Upper House.

Greens Tweed candidate Andrea Vickers said it was ‘clearly

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Health care professionals will speak on a broad range of issues, including advance health care directives, grief and loss and navigating the health system.

Palliative care program officer Tahnny Houston said it’s hoped the event would help empower people dealing

an issue of broad concern for people in Tweed, especially as it contains the second highest proportion of people over 65 of any electorate in NSW’.

‘The Greens have consistently supported the rights of the terminally ill, supporting legislation at the state and federal levels. Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann will again introduce a private members’ bill to legalise voluntary euthanasia in the next term of NSW Parliament,’ she said. n Vietnam veteran succumbs

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with the many complex issues around palliative care.

‘Compared to other areas of our size, our elderly population is a lot higher and often it’s the families that have to step in and care for these people when they become sick,’ she said.

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A plan detailing how Australia can switch to renewable energy within a decade is the subject of a public talk in Murwillumbah next Tuesday, March 22.

Organised by Tweed Climate Action Now (CAN) and the Caldera Environment Centre, the talk will be presented by Mark Ogge, the director of Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE).

The climate solutions thinktank teamed with experts from the University of Melbourne

Energy Research Institute to produce the Zero Carbon Australia 2020 report released last year.

The paper’s authors say Australia could power itself entirely by renewable energy within a decade using existing technologies, halving the country’s greenhouse gas emissions.

According to the report, replacing the fossil fuel energy industry in northern NSW and Queensland with renewables would create 40,000 jobs – twice the number currently

employed by the energy sector.

Tweed CAN’s Dr Paul Taylor said, ‘No matter where you stand on the environmental debate, it’s obvious that some day in the future we will have to switch to 100 per cent renewable energy,’ he said.

‘Come and hear how we can do it sooner rather than later.’

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out the funding grant.

The council rejected all four tenders for the plant as ‘not representing value for money’ and decided to do the job itself.

Mr Oxenham said work has progressed to such a stage that

further delays were not an option.

‘The water treatment building has been constructed and negotiations completed for delivery of treatment plant process components.’

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Leaders founder in popularity stakes

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as Australian politics ever been more depressing?

Volume 3 #27 March 17, 2011 If the polls are to be believed (and there’s no cogent reason to reject them) both major parties are now led by people we find increasingly distasteful, The majority pro-development faction on Tweed Shire Council so much so that we would far is at it again: smoothing the way for their developer mates, this time by removing a further potential impediment to the massive rather return to their predeCobaki housing development. The impediment was the preserva- cessors – the men dumped by their respective factional bosstion of koalas. es. Julia Gillard is now running Councillor Katie Milne is often ridiculed by this faction and a clear second to Kevin Rudd conservative council watchers whenever she tries to raise subamong the mass of voters, jects they either don’t understand or don’t care about; of course while Tony Abbott is even furthey’re usually to do with the environment. ther behind Malcolm Turnbull.

So it comes as no surprise that the majority of councillors this In Gillard’s case just a third week refused her motion even to consider investigating the of those surveyed by the Nielspotential for a koala recovery plan for the north of the shire, as it en poll want her as head of the would take in the proposed 5,500-home Cobaki estate.

ALP, four per cent less than Cr Milne said she was moved to do something after scientific plump for Rudd; her only conadvice suggested koalas could become extinct in the shire in solation is that the front runaround five to ten years, and the Cobaki area may be the only ners from the next generation, viable recovery site in the north of the shire due to the adjaGreg Combet and Bill Shorten, cent large expanse of protected habitat.

She says Gold Coast City Council has advised that the proposed are a long way behind on nine per cent each. first two subdivisions of the estate are in and around a critical At first glance, Abbott’s pobio-regional corridor running from Currumbin, along the state border and directly into the Cobaki Broadwater. Gold Coast plan- sition is even worse; not only is his net approval rating well ners have recommended a 500-metre wildlife corridor, but the down at minus nine (Gillard’s developer’s current application shows a corridor of less than 100 is now a flat zero) but Turnmetres along large parts of this border area.

The plight of the iconic Australian marsupials along the eastern bull has 37 per cent support as leader to his own 31 per cent, seaboard has been well documented and their survival on the and Joe Hockey is running a Tweed, where they were a common sight in some areas 20 years very respectable third with 25 ago, is wholly dependent on council planners and councillors per cent. accepting this fact and doing something about it, as Cr Milne is But the truth is that neither trying to do. leader is in any immediate danKoala protection, through habitat conservation, is popular in every coastal local government area except this one. It seems our ger, because a lot of the surge councillors prefer survival of that filthy-rich species, the develop- for their rivals comes from those on the other side of poliers, than preserving endangered native wildlife. Predictably, our tics. Among supporters of their development-at-all-costs faction didn’t even bother to consult own parties, Gillard and Abbott the community on the recovery plan. both have comfortable leads of 19 per cent, and in fact the adTweed Shire Echo vantage is even greater because Publisher David Lovejoy they are elected not by their Editor Luis Feliu Advertising Manager Angela Cornell parties as a whole, but by their Accounts Manager Simon Haslam parliamentary party rooms.

Production Manager Ziggi Browning In spite of Gillard’s awful ‘The job of a newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.’ – Finley Peter Dunne 1867–1936 polls, there is no inclination in © 2011 Echo Publications Pty Ltd the Labor caucus to return to PO Box 545, Murwillumbah 2484 Rudd; in his time as leader he Phone 02 6672 2280 made too many enemies and email: editor@tweedecho.com.au Printer: Horton Media Australia Ltd since being deposed he has

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made little attempt to mend the fences. Indeed, he has probably alienated the party room still further by maintaining a high public profile; for Rudd to be so clearly relishing his role as foreign minister and making such a success of it is seen almost as a mark of disloyalty at time when his successor continues to flounder in the role of Prime Minister.

And Abbott is even safer;

In spite of Gillard’s awful polls, there is no inclination in the Labor caucus to return to Rudd.

by Mungo MacCallum while he may be personally on the nose with the electorate, his party as a whole is not; the same polls show that the Coalition’s lead over Labor is actually widening as Abbott’s own popularity shrinks. With an eight point lead after preferences, the Libs are not about to move for a spill. So much as we may dislike them and prefer their eagerly available alternatives we are stuck with the odd couple for the foreseeable future. And that’s the good news. The bad news is that we are also stuck with their policies, which in Gillard’s case are unsaleable and Abbott’s case untenable.

We are, of course, talking about climate change, which increasingly is the only political game in town. The commentators are quite right when they say Gillard will stand or fall by her ability to impose a carbon tax, not only because of the intrinsic importance of the issue, but because she has nothing else to offer; there are no other significant reforms within sight. The only pos-

climate change is real and man-made emissions are a major cause. Even Abbott now admits this – or at least claims to. The only remaining deniers are people like former TV entertainer Clive James and former reactionary Senator Nick Minchin, both of whose populist ravings are treated by a credulous media with the same respect accorded to climate scientists who have made a career-long, rigorous study of the available evidence and pronounced it more compelling with every year.

Climate change cannot be prevented altogether, let alone reversed, but it can be limited, and sane governments will do what they can to limit it – as is increasingly happening. It is no longer a matter of Australia leading, but of keeping up. Even China, for so long a recalcitrant, is now coming to the party.

And the Gillard plan, the first step towards a market-based trading scheme, is both simple and logical: tax the polluters, but give some of it back as a

subsidy to those whose ability to compete on the export market would be affected. The others will put up domestic prices to protect their profits, so most of the remaining tax will be distributed to consumers as offsets. But this, scream the neo-conservative economists, amounts to a redistribution of income from the rich to the poor. True, but it’s a relatively minor one, and given that the trend has been massively the other way in recent times, the rich can hardly complain. Any money left over will be spent on developing renewable energy, the long-term solution.

Abbott’s unwavering line is that a carbon tax will push up the cost of living; well, it will push up the cost of carbon, but that is the point. His own, far more costly, alternative is to throw huge sums of taxpayers’ money at selected polluters and unproven carbon storage projects in the hope that they will achieve the same emission reductions as the government plan.

Expert opinion is that they won’t, but that isn’t the point: Abbott does not need a genuine policy, just a political response.

After that he can rely on the big polluters (pretending, dishonestly, to speak for the entire business community) to back him in what is a purely negative campaign. And he is winning it, and will continue to do so unless and until Gillard and her climate change minister Greg Combet, who is both smart and persistent and also his side’s best hope, get off their arses and take off the gloves.

Against Abbott, logic and reason will not prevail; they are a necessary start, but in the end only an all-in maul will suffice. And who knows? Winning it might even push Gillard ahead of Rudd. Wouldn’t that be something.

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Secrecy fetish

‘Teflon’ Mike, council’s admin supremo, has secretly managed to get his pay packet increased from $209,000 to $300,000 over the last four years. An average increase of 22.5 per cent per annum. To pay for this and other great needs ‘Teflon’ came up with a seven-year plan some years back which is still currently compounding our rates from the pre-2006 base.

The present compounded increase is about 78 per cent when last year’s special rate increase of 3.8 per cent (to cover council wage increases) went on top of the annual sevenyear plan increase. And it’s not over yet, there are still two more annual seven-year plan increases to come.

So if we have to pay Mike so much why does he refuse to make public his performance assessment? Are we not at least entitled to know if our expensive general manager is meeting his contract performance standards?

Apparently not. In fact we’re not even allowed to know what Mike’s performance standards are!

After five months of battle, the information commissioner finally wrote to council stating, ‘the documents should be released because there was no overriding public interest against disclosure.’

Yet our supremo’s righthand man ‘Humphrey’ Green last week misled this community by stating to The Echo, ‘At the end of the day, the general manager elected to provide access to much of his personal information, though he was not required to do so.’

Isn’t that a breach of council’s Code of Conduct?

What had really transpired was that 40 pages of totally redacted (blacked out) documents were forwarded in comported compliance, being ‘Humphrey’ Green’s new idea of providing the required documents, but not the information – pretty tricky, eh!

The matter’s again back before the information commissioner. Mike’s performance, however, remains top secret; in fact everything about our Mike is ‘commercial in confidence’ – perhaps that why he’s known as ‘Teflon Mike’.

Terry Sharples

Tweed Heads

Silly development

The meltdown in the Tweed property market has now made it to The Weekend Australian, and apparently to Channel 7’s Sunrise.

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New school urgently needed

■ As a Tweed Shire resident and parent, I would like to express my concern and growing anxiety over the lack of high school options for our kids and the apparent lack of planning by the NSW Department of Education in providing an accessible high school on the lower Tweed coast.

There is land earmarked for a high school in the Seabreeze estate at Pottsville. It has wide community support as we saw recently when a much higher than expected number of locals turned out for a meeting and photo shoot on the site. Given the speed of development in this area, we need urgent action to secure the site.

A Pottsville high school would reduce travel times for Pottsville, Bogangar and surrounding students who can spend up to three hours a day on the school bus, plus it would take the population pressure off Banora Point, Tweed River High and one of the state’s largest schools, Kingscliff.

Based on current enrolments at Pottsville Beach, Bogangar and Burringbar primary schools alone, a high school in Pottsville could potentially have 920 students.

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claiming that all was well and one developer has just had the ‘best week’. I guess it’s a good week when a fire sale can generate a few dollars. Too bad about the crashing of the values of nearby properties owned by residents who are now losing equity hand over fist.

What a different world we would have if developers, councillors and government ministers were required to offer personal guarantees over properties they were responsible for approving, constructing and selling – instead of whacking up unwanted stuff, taking their profits and running, then leaving unsuspecting buyers to deal with the consequences. That would put an end to the type of ridiculous, unwanted and unneeded speculative development we are having imposed on the Tweed.

If the Queensland floods, the Christchurch earthquake and now the Japanese tsunamis haven’t woken up those who continue to promote silly development on the coast, and in coastal reserves, I guess Armageddon isn’t that far away.

J Boyd

Hastings Point

Build the dam!

For those with an ounce of grey matter between their ears, it is easily understandable why this dam will be built. Remembering that this has been a very wet year, consider the options.

1. Water tanks: as we farmers and rural people well know, even in ordinary years we can run out of water regularly.

in one of the fastest growing regions in the state, with huge developments such as Kings Lake coming online. There will surely be a need to cater for a lot more students.

I call upon our local member Mr Geoff Provest to pursue the issue with the Minister for Education and Training, Ms Verity Firth MP, as well as the shadow Minister for Education, Mr Adrian Piccoli MP, to get this important issue on the agenda for the upcoming NSW state election.

scliff High is getting too crowded and Banora Point and Tweed River High are well above the state average in student numbers. What are we going to do when the Casuarina precinct STEP X STEP and Kings Forest developments Shiraz, Shiraz/Grenache, are finished, let alone the esChardonnay, Sparkling tates of Black Rocks, Seabreeze and Koala Beach? These are not Any two for pie in the sky plans. These residential areas are filling up fast and it is young families that are moving in.

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Cabarita Beach Karen Freeman Pottsville ■ From Pottsville to Kingscliff is a 30-minute ride on the school Your Regional bus and from Pottsville to MurEmployment willumbah is over one hour on & Training the school bus. Why do our kids have to travel for hours a day Services Provider on a school bus to attend high MURWILLUMBAH 50 Main Street Ph. (02) 6672 6712 schools that are overflowing?

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3. Raising the Clarrie Hall Dam headwall by eight metres: you cannot alter the fact that if in dry years it can not fill right up now, then how on earth can it increase its capacity from the same limited catchment area just by raising the headwall?

Obviously it cannot!

4. The Byrrill Creek dam will treble the catchment area. It will mean all our eggs are not in the one basket, guaranteeing greater future water security for everyone well after we have gone to ‘greener pastures’.

The ‘Plan B’ argument of protecting valuable food producing land is a no goer. The land is poor, the annual frosts are ferocious and apart from one organic farmer perched on the top of a hill out from Tyalgum, no vegetable growing farmer in their right mind would touch it. Clearly, in the light of reason there is no alternative.

This election is not just about the Byrrill Creek dam. We need a candidate who will speak out for us on the many other issues that concern us, not just the Byrrill Creek dam.

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While watching TV images of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami this week, I was reminded of a science fiction movie that I saw in Tokyo early in January 1974. The English continued overleaf

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shown two PowerPoint presentations by myself: one on environmental issues, the other on dam and council decision issues. Furthermore, he was also given a CD that included a detailed 75-page submission on the Byrrill Creek dam that had already progressed through the NSW Department of Water and the Department of Environment and Climate Change.

On the CD also were the two PowerPoints presented at that meeting.

Because of indecision on this matter, all of the above information was also forwarded to the leaders of the Coalition, Andrew Stoner and Barry O’Farrell, in January, and recently to Catherine Cusack (the Liberal’s Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Environment) and to Katrina Hodgkinson (National’s Shadow Minister for Natural Resource Management). The Nationals have plenty of information to come to an informed decision… they just need to make a decision!

Thomas George also states the dam is not on his election agenda, and sees the Murwil-

lumbah Hospital as the main local issue. I agree that the hospital is of importance; however, it is not up to him to decide what is of main concern to us, the local residents. Does he stand for the protection of the biodiversity of this region or does he endorse a dam at Byrrill Creek?

We request his view on the dam (avoided again at the recent Lismore ‘Meet the Candidates’) and a statement or policy from the Nationals right now.

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grey nomad sector, year-round users of holiday parks.

The letter from Ashley Baldry of the Cabarita Beach Bogangar Residents’ Association (March 10) implies that our association used rubbery figures in our recent survey of support for the holiday park. He refers to the number of businesses in the high street as 35 and questions how 56 signatures were obtained. Neither business nor our membership is confined to the high street. The figures and the terms of reference in the survey are correct. His use of the term ‘dodgy survey’ is highly offensive.

While loathe to suggest hypocrisy, we do question Mr Baldry’s labelling the proponent’s use of a ‘submission’ as ‘completely inappropriate during the consultation process’. Was his association’s use of the media to promote and report on their ‘rally’ appropriate and was the public use of documents that allegedly ‘fell off the back of a truck’ also appropriate?

Mr Baldry has accused the proponents of the development of driving a wedge through the community. Perhaps Mr Baldry should consider his association’s role in this. We have comments from both residents and business people that they fear intimidation if they publicly declare their support for the development.

to bring the Queensland rail system after it reaches Coolangatta airport into NSW, to service the growing population of the Tweed coast.

So far that is all we have, a letter of intent! No concrete proposals as to where this new railway line is to run, because a right of way has not been set aside, or who is to operate this railway and pay for the construction. If this railway is ever to become a reality at least a right of way must be reserved now, extending from the Gold Coast airport along the coast via the centres of population to at least Byron Bay and perhaps Ballina airport. If we wait until the railway in Queensland is extended to the Gold Coast airport, at last report, 2031, there will not be any clear right of way for the extension into NSW to reserve; it will all be built on!

I see no reason why a right of way for the proposed railway should not be reserved forthwith, to show good faith by whichever parties form government in NSW, after the March 26 election.

Sir, through your paper I would ask the candidates standing in this upcoming state election to say whether they support the foregoing, and what they will do to facilitate a railway linking the expanding coastal population areas of the Tweed and Byron shires with the Gold Coast airport.

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Kingscliff

translation of the movie title was Japan Slides into the Sea. The movie was amazingly prescient when viewed from the perspective of last Friday’s events.

There was a scene in the film where Japanese officials went around the world asking other nations to accept refugees. In Canberra an official said, ‘We don’t have enough room to take a million people. Most of our land is desert’. As the only foreigner in the theatre, I assumed that all eyes were upon me. I felt like jumping up and saying, ‘I am from New Zealand. We have more compassion’.

Those of us who live near the coast are constantly reminded of the changing moods and power of the sea. We are aware of the dynamic nature of the coastal system and know that it is crazy to build permanent structures on the dunal system.

Temporarily we have prevented Kingscliff from ‘sliding into the sea,’ but the images of that science fiction movie will remain in my mind’s eye for just a few more years.

Neville Jennings

Kingscliff

Holiday park needed

Last week another business closed its doors in Cabarita Beach and we are aware of at least two others who are contemplating similar action. Another business reported that its turnover dropped by 40 per cent at the end of the recent holiday period.

It is an indisputable fact that Cabarita businesses rely on the support of tourists and visitors for their survival. The proposed holiday park will cater for the 8 March 17, 2011 The Tweed Shire Echo

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Joanna Gardner

Uki

■ So National Party MP Thomas George refuses to be drawn on the issue of a rejected Byrrill Creek dam proposal (The Echo, March 10); he will make comment at the ‘appropriate time’.

Now usually what happens in the lead up to an election is that MPs and candidates reveal to the public their policies and position on issues relevant to their constituency or in the public interest. Why then is Mr George not communicating openly and honestly on this matter and the issue more broadly of water conservation and manage-

John Ryan

Show good faith for rail Prior to the last state election, the then premiers of NSW and Queensland met at the border and signed a letter of intent

ment across Northern Rivers?

Is it because he secretly supports population increases? Is it because he supports subsequent inappropriate and unsustainable development, eg Cobaki, Kings Forest, Bilambil Rise? Is it because he supports particular Tweed Shire councillors in their dogged attempts to develop council owned land and dam Byrrill Creek? Is it because he supports gas exploration in the region and a process known as ‘hydraulic fracturing’ which ultimately will impact heavily on local water supply both below and above ground?

All of these issues are of top priority and concern to local residents and will place at significant risk the natural environmental assets of the entire region and interstate.

So you will excuse me for speculating, Mr George, but in the absence of any open and transparent communication from you, residents from Murwillumbah and rural communities residents have higher expectations than this.

Steve Tate

Stokers Siding

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■ All letters had to be edited

for length this week, and yet many still had to be left out.

Do keep your letters coming, but please observe our preferred length! – Ed

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Vietnam veteran succumbs to disease Former Tweed man and Vietnam veteran ‘Mad Mick’ McGuire (featured in The Echo in August last year) passed away earlier this month after years of suffering from motor neurone disease. His mate, Byangum farmer Mike Yarrow, shares his thoughts on Mick’s passing, and the unnecessary ‘Mad Mick’ McGuire got his suffering of it.

Mick McGuire, that colourful former Tweed character who lived for some time in Uki, is no more, drawing his last breath last March 9. At last his suffering is over.

To put you all in the picture: Mick succumbed to motor neurone disease (acquired from being regularly doused with Agent Orange when serving in Vietnam), a disease that creeps up on you, removing the use of legs and arms as it slowly works its way up the body. As my sister, a retired nurse said, it’s like being set in concrete.

So tonight as you lie in bed, just for one minute try to experience what Mick had to endure. Just lie still, do not move a leg, an arm, a hand, a finger, your head. Can you begin to imagine what five years of this disease would be like? He spent the last year completely paralysed, a peg fitted into his stom-

nickname by defusing enemy bombs, but chemicals dropped by allies cut short his life.

ach so that he could be fed a liquid diet as he could no longer swallow, a machine connected to his arm to pump medicine in to dry the saliva in his throat so that he didn`t drown, a catheter fitted to permanently drain his bladder.

You can’t scratch yourself, and every second of every minute you need someone there to do these little things that you once did without thinking. In his last six months, his speech deteriorated dramatically; how I admired his courage as he still kept trying to communicate with us. That is something I will never forget.

For months Mick had said to me, ‘I’ve had enough… I want to die’. To sit by a friend and see them suffer like this, and not be able to help them fulfill

their last wish has been tough.

Before his illness, Mick used to be an angry man. But thanks to his wife’s dogged determination, unbelievable kindness and devotion, his anger left him and I found it a real pleasure to sit with him.

Mick wanted to die, it was his right. I don’t give a damn what you God-fearing people say, you sit for months beside a close personal friend who is coughing and spluttering, unable to move in any way, unable to tell you exactly what they want done… it ripped my heart out. But what are you going to tell your friend? It’s ok mate, the doctor says it’ll only take a few months! And yes, mate, trust in God! God is only a figment of your imagination, religion only a handrail to support those who want it. Mick didn’t believe in

God, so why did he have to suffer, to endure the prolonged torment of this life, just because a bunch of you do?

One day the Euthanasia Bill will get passed. And then, those who really do wish or need to take this step, like my friend Mick, can do so, quietly, serenely, peacefully, surrounded by their closest friends. Death can then be a celebration of a life lived, a beautiful way to leave this life.

Maybe one day, you antieuthanasia people will finally understand, when death creeps up on you too, and you find yourself all alone, at night, shut off in a room in a hospital to die, only to find, as you realise life is slipping away, that there is no- one there to hold your hand when you need it most.

May our spirits meet again one day, Mick.

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Television Guide 1. We thought they said ‘erection’ but they meant ‘election’. Anyway, Robbie the Robot, pictured, is far sexier than any of the droids in My Sex Robot (SBS1, Friday, 10.05pm).

2. Some bright spark at Eleven had the sense to program Election (Saturday, 8.30pm), a high school comedy in which Reese Witherspoon shines.

3. It’s a toss-up between The Big One: Keneally v O’Farrell (Prime, Sunday, 7.30pm) and Austin Powers – The Spy Who Shagged Me (GO!, 9.30pm). Oh Kristina, behave!

FRIDAY 18

ABC 1

1

ABC NEWS 24

4.00 Can We Help? 4.30 The Cook And The Chef 5.00 Something In The Air 5.30 Dog Whisperer 6.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Catalyst 11.30 One Plus One 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Movie: Paris When It Sizzles (PG 1964) US comedy. Stars Audrey Hepburn 2.35 Ladies Of Letters 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 My Family 6.30 Dog Whisperer 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.30 New Tricks (M) 9.25 Whitechapel (M) 10.15 Lateline 11.00 Teenage Kicks 11.30 rage (M)

4.00 ABC News 4.05 The Quarters 4.15 The Drum 5.00 ABC News 5.15 The Quarters 5.30 Newsline 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 ABC News 9.30 Business Today 10.00 ABC News 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Newsline 1.00 ABC News 2.00 Midday Report 2.30 One Plus One 3.00 Afternoon Live 5.30 One Plus One 6.00 ABC News 6.05 The Drum 6.45 The Quarters 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 ABC News 8.30 One Plus One 9.00 The World 10.00 ABC News 10.05 The Drum 10.45 The Quarters 11.00 ABC News 11.30 Contact Sport 12.00 ABC News 12.15 Lateline 1.00 BBC News 1.30 Australian Network News 2.00 BBC World News 2.30 The World This Week 3.00 Lateline 3.45 5.30 Can We Help? 6.00 ABC News The Quarters Breakfast 9.00 Kids’ Programs 7.00 Spicks And Specks 7.30 Pilot Guides Madrid City 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 8.30 Being Human (M) 6.45 UEFA Europa League LIVE 9.30 The Tudors (M) – Liverpool v Braga 10.30 The Wire (MA) 9.10 World News 1.30 Insight 12.25 No Heroics (M) 12.50 How Not 2.30 World News 3.30 Letters And To Live Your Life (M) 1.20 Massive Numbers 4.00 The Journal 4.30 (M) 1.50 Close Newshour 5.30 Global Village

ABC 2

SBS 1

ABC 3

SATURDAY 19

6.00 Letters And Numbers 6.30 World News Australia 6.05am to 5.35pm Kids’ Programs 7.30 Coast 6.00 Trapped! 6.25 Escape From 8.30 As It Happened World War Scorpion Island 7.05 What Do You II Know? 7.35 Dance Academy 8.05 9.30 World News Australia Dani’s House 8.30 Degrassi: The Next 10.05 My Sex Robot (M) Generation 9.00 Close 11.00 Movie: Trash (MA 2009) Spanish drama 12.35 Entourage (MA) 1.10 Shameless (M) 2.10 Weatherwatch

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SBS 2 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News 6.00 Global Village 6.30 Hairy Bikers’ Food Tour Of Britain 7.30 More Than A Fiesta 8.00 China 21 8.30 Shanghai Tales 9.30 Movie: Nang Nak (MAV 1999) Thai romance 11.25 Movie: Exiled (M 2006) Cantonese action 1.20 Weatherwatch

TEN 6.00 Ten News 6.30 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Ten News 10.00 The Circle 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Judge Judy 3.30 Infomercial 4.00 Good Chef, Bad Chef 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News 6.00 6pm With George Negus 6.30 Ten News 7.00 The 7pm Project 7.30 Biggest Loser 8.30 Undercover Boss 9.30 Blue Bloods (M) 10.30 6pm With George Negus 11.00 Late News 11.30 Sports Tonight 12.00 The Late Show 1.00 Infomercials 5.00 Religion

ELEVEN 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The Brady Bunch 8.30 Neighbours 9.00 Touched By An Angel 10.00 7th Heaven 11.00 The Love Boat 12.00 Diagnosis Murder 1.00 Jag 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 Cheers 3.30 Roseanne 4.00 Family Ties 4.30 Mork & Mindy 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 The Brady Bunch

ABC 1

ABC NEWS 24

SBS 2

5.00 rage (PG) 11.00 Cooking The World: Japan 12.00 Francesco’s Mediterranean Voyage 12.30 Australian Story 1.00 Foreign Correspondent 1.30 Carbon Cops 2.00 Movie: Fiddler On The Roof (PG 1971) US musical. Stars Norma Crane 5.00 Australian Open Bowls 6.00 Can We Help?

6.30 Gardening Australia 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Doc Martin 8.20 Coalition Announcement 8.30 Strike Back (M) 10.00 Graham Norton Show 10.50 Durham County (M) 11.40 rage (M)

4.00 ABC News 4.05 The Quarters 4.15 The Drum 5.00 Q&A 6.00 7.30 6.30 Behind The News 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Contact Sport 8.00 ABC News 8.45 The Quarters 9.00 ABC News 9.45 The Quarters 10.00 ABC News 10.30 7.30 11.00 ABC News 11.30 7.30 12.00 Big Ideas 12.30 7.30 Select 1.00 Big Ideas 2.00 ABC News 2.30 7.30 3.00 ABC News 3.30 Foreign Correspondent 4.00 ABC News 4.30 Behind The News 5.00 ABC News 5.30 One Plus One 6.00 ABC News 6.30 Australian Story 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 Select 8.00 Four Corners 8.45 The Quarters 9.00 ABC News 9.30 State To State 10.00 ABC News 10.30 7.30 Select 11.00 ABC News 11.30 Foreign Correspondent 12.00 Landline 1.00 BBC World News 1.30 7.30 3.00 BBC World News 3.30 7.30

5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News 6.00 Here Comes The Neighbourhood 6.30 Sarah Wiener’s Culinary Adventures 7.00 UEGA Europa League 8.30 Fairy Tales Exposed 9.30 Movie: Crossfire (M 2008) French mystery 11.15 Movie: Black Butterfly (M 2006) Peruvian drama 1.20 Weatherwatch

ABC 2 6.00 Kids’ Program 7.00 Dog Whisperer 7.30 Adam Hills In Gordon St Tonight 8.30 Movie: Paris Blues (M 1961) US drama. Stars Paul Newman 10.05 Movie: Murder By Decree (M 1979) Sherlock Homes.

Stars Christopher Plummer 12.05 Movie: Stranger On The Third Floor (PG 1940) US drama. Stars Peter Lorre 1.10 Conviction (M) 2.10 Close

SBS 1

TEN 6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.00 Hit List TV 12.00 Landed Music 12.30 The Hit Rater.com 1.00 Movie: Two Brothers (G 2004) French adventure. Stars Guy Pearce 3.00 Life Is Wild 4.00 Canine Angels 5.00 TEN News 5.30 Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals 6.00 Ten News 6.30 Movie: Mrs Doubtfire (PG 1993) US comedy. Stars Robin Williams 9.00 Movie: The Day The Earth Stood Still (M 2008) US drama. Stars Keanu Reeves 11.10 Movie: Lost In Translation (M 2003) US drama. Stars Bill Murray 1.05 Zero Hour 2.00 Infomercials 4.00 Religion

5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 1.00 Django Reinhardt: Gypsy jazz guitarist 2.00 The Royal Ballet In Cuba 3.30 Masterpiece: Views On Vermeer 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Prototype This 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Monster Moves 8.30 Iron Chef 9.20 RocKwiz Rewind 10.05 Movie: Volver (M 2006) Spanish drama. Stars Penelope Cruz 12.10 SOS (M-MA) 1.15 Cannot Buy 6.05am to 5.45pm Kids’ Programs 6.05 My Soul (M) 2.45 Drawn Together (MA) 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The Brady Bunch 8.30 Everybody Loves Stoked 6.35 Prank Patrol 7.00 Serious 3.15 Weatherwatch Raymond 9.00 Touched By An Angel Andes 7.30 Good Game SP 7.50 The 10.00 7th Heaven 11.00 The Love Tribe 9.10 Close Boat 12.00 Diagnosis Murder 1.00 Jag 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 Cheers 3.30

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With Mercury and Uranus joining Jupiter in Aries, sign of the rambunctious Ram, expect a week of uncensored directness and dynamic creativity: impulsive, blunt, creative and inspirational…

ARIES: This week’s pumping with exuberance and enthusiasm but certain cautions are in order. You’re in overdrive, others may not be; so if your plans or opinions are challenged, be advised the three things that won’t work in your favour are venting, interrogating or issuing ultimatums.

TAURUS: There’s both astral and practical support for your current plans, while Venus in an unusual mood suggests expressing the wilder side of your personality this week. And exploring your spiritual side, which in the case of some Taurans means accepting that yes, you do have one.

GEMINI: With your planetary ruler Mercury in Aries, nothing could stem the effervescence of your ideas and opinions this week, though unsubstantiated

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3 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 6.30 Neighbours 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond 7.30 So You Think You Can Dance US 10.00 Sex And The City (M/MA) 11.10 The Late Late Show 12.00 Roseanne 12.30 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 1.00 Mork & Mindy 1.30 Happy Days 2.00 The Love Boat 3.00 Diagnosis Murder 4.00 Touched

By An Angel 5.00 7th Heaven

ONE HD 6.00 Bundesliga Football – Bayern Munich v Hamburg 8.00 The Game Plan 9.00 Kitesurfing 9.30 Drift 10.00 Real NBA 10.30 NBA Basketball – LIVE 3.30 Championship Netball: West Coast Fever v NSW Swifts 5.30 World Tour Beach Volleyball 6.00 Escape With ET 7.00 Sports Tonight 7.30 I Fish 8.00 NBL Basketball LIVE – Townsville v Perth 10.00 Pro Series Drag Racing 11.30 Sports Tonight Late 12.00 UFC Countdown 128 1.00 Omnisport 1.30 Bundesliga Football 2.30 Serie A Football 3.00 Arsenal Football

PRIME

7.30 Better Homes And 7.30 Gary Unmarried Gardens 8.30 Reaper (M) 8.30 Movie: The Green Mile (M 9.30 Movie: Role Models (MA 1999) US drama. Stars Tom 2000) US drama. Stars Hanks Seann William Scott 12.30 Movie: Never Die Alone (AV 11.30 Australia’s Greatest Athlete 2004) US action. Stars David Arquette 12.30 Cops, Cars And Superstars (M) 1.00 Magnum PI 2.00 Airwolf 2.05 Home Shopping 3.00 Quincy ME 4.00 Hercules 5.00 Baywatch

7TWO

6.00 Kids Time 8.30 Sons & Daughters 9.00 Home & Away 9.30 Shortland Street 10.00 Coronation Street 10.30 Emmerdale 11.00 Hollyoaks 11.30 Passport To The Sun 12.00 Murphy Brown 12.30 Desperate Housewives (M) 1.30 Grey’s Anatomy (M) 2.30 Movie: The Interns (PG 1962) US drama. Stars Michael Callan 5.00 Head Of The Class 5.30 Growing Pains 6.00 Bargain Hunt 7.00 Are You Being Served?

7.30 Neil Diamond Solitary Man 8.45 Escape To The Country 9.45 60 Minute Makeover 10.45 Living In The Sun 12.00 Movie: Rocky II (PG 1979) US drama. Stars Sylvester Stallone 2.20 Movie: The Interns 4.30 Coronation Street 5.00 Emmerdale 5.30 Passport To The Sun

7MATE

NBN 5.30 Today 9.00 Kerri-Anne 11.00 Infomercials 12.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 1.00 The View 2.00 Days Of Our Lives 3.00 Alive And Cooking 3.30 Hi-5 4.00 Kitchen Whiz 4.30 Afternoon News 5.30 Hot Seat 6.00 Evening News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 Friday Night Football LIVE – Parramatta Eels v Penrith Panthers 9.30 Friday Night Football Brisbane Broncos v Canberra Raiders 11.30 Movie: Honkytonk Man (M 1982) US comedy. Stars Clint Eastwood 1.45 Movie: Plenty (M 1985) UK drama. Stars Meryl Streep 4.00 Danoz 4.30 Good Morning America

GO!

6.00 Wagon Train 7.30 The Virginian 8.30 McHale’s Navy 9.00 NBC Today 11.00 Quincy ME 12.00 Magnum PI 1.00 Airwolf 2.00 Baywatch 3.00 Xena Warrior Princess 4.00 Hercules 5.00 The Drew Carey Show 5.30 According To Jim 6.30 Scrubs 7.00 That ’70s Show

Roseanne 4.00 Family Ties 4.30 Mork & Mindy 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 The Brady Bunch 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 6.30 Everybody Loves Raymond 7.30 Frasier 8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond 8.30 Movie: Election (M 1999) US comedy. Stars Matthew Broderick 10.30 Angel (M) 11.30 Cheers 12.00 Roseanne 12.30 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 1.00 Mork & Mindy 1.30 Happy Days 2.00 The Love Boat 3.00 Diagnosis Murder 4.00 Touched By An Angel 5.00 7th Heaven

5.30 According To Jim 6.30 Engineering Disasters 6.00 Kids’ Programs 7.00 Weekend 7.30 Air Crash Investigations 8.30 Zero Hour Sunrise 9.00 Kids’ Programs 12.30 V8 Supercars LIVE – Clipsal 9.30 The Universe 10.30 Movie: Out For A Kill 500, Adelaide (AV 2003) US action. Stars 5.30 Sydney Weekender Steven Seagal 6.00 Seven News 12.30 Stag (M) 1.00 The Sopranos 6.30 Movie: Bedtime Stories (MA) 2.00 Wagon Train 3.00 Magnum (G 2008) US comedy. Stars PI 4.00 American Hot Rod 5.00 Adam Sandler Airwolf 8.35 Movie: Cast Away (M 2000) US drama. Stars Tom Hanks 11.40 The First 48 (M) 12.40 Home 6.00 Danoz 7.00 Weekend Today 9.00 Saturday Kerri-Anne 10.00 Shopping Kids’ Programs 2.00 Ladies Day Horse Racing LIVE 6.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Better 4.30 Extraordinary Animals 5.00 NBN Homes And Gardens 10.00 The News 5.30 Antiques Roadshow Great Outdoors 11.00 The Travel 6.00 NBN News Bug 12.00 A House In France 12.30 6.30 Australia’s Funniest Home No Opportunity Wasted: Canada 1.00 Videos How To Blow A Billion 1.30 Weekend 8.00 ICC World Cup Cricket Kitchen 5.00 New Zealand On A Plate Australia v Pakistan 5.30 Man About The House 8.40 Lotto 6.00 Mind Your Language 11.30 ICC World Cup Cricket 6.30 Born And Bred continues 7.30 Heartbeat 4.00 Infomercials 8.40 Inspector Morse (M) 11.00 Kingdom 12.00 The Knock (M) 1.00 The Travel Bug 2.00 Weekend 6.00 Kids’ Programs 1.00 Get Smart Kitchen 5.30 Harry’s Practice 2.30 Here’s Lucy 3.00 Green Acres 3.30 The Dukes Of Hazzard 4.30 Hellcats 5.30 Unnatural History 6.00 Wagon Train 7.00 The Virginian 6.30 Movie: Willy Wonka & 8.30 McHale’s Navy 9.00 NBC Today The Chocolate Factory 11.00 Quincy ME 12.00 Zoom TV (G 1971) US fantasy. Stars 12.30 Fifth Gear 1.00 Monster Garage Gene Wilder 2.00 Car Sharks 2.30 Fifth Gear 3.00 8.30 Movie: Big Daddy (PG American Hot Rod 4.00 Monster 1999) US comedy. Stars Garage 5.00 The Drew Carey Show Adam Sandler

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gossip could have repercussions you’re likely to regret. Good news? Enterprising types with adventurous ideas and progressive propositions are entering your orbit as we speak.

CANCER: While Cancerians are into tradition, current situations call for completely new solutions. This week’s concerns encompass both home and away, suggesting you’ll be deciding whether to either renovate and revamp, make a whole new move, or else hit the highway for a liberating change…

LEO: How you handle this week’s confidential information and unsolicited disclosures either enhances or damages your reputation. If audiences aren’t adequately receptive during late-week Leo moon, an expectation adjustment might be in order. Big isn’t necessarily

GEM

6.00 Today 9.00 Alive & Cooking 9.30 The Zoo 10.00 The Nanny 10.30 Friends 11.00 Murder, She Wrote 12.00 Movie: Baby And The Battleship (G 1956) UK comedy.

Stars John Mills 2.00 Hoarders 3.00 McLeod’s Daughters 4.00 As Time Goes By 4.30 The Golden Girls 5.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 6.00 The Nanny 6.30 Friends 7.00 The Zoo 7.30 Antiques Roadshow 8.30 The Mentalist (M) 9.30 Harry’s Law (M) 10.30 Law & Order (M) 11.30 Conan (M) 12.25 Murder, She Wrote 1.20 McLeod’s Daughters 2.15 The Mentalist (M) 3.10 Law & Order (M) 4.10 Movie: A Ticklish Affair (G 6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.30 1963) UK comedy. Stars Shirley Jones Entertainment Tonight 11.00 TMZ 11.30 Get Smart 12.00 Here’s Lucy 12.30 Green Acres 1.00 Seinfeld 1.30 The Hills 2.00 Dukes Of Hazzard 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Movie: Aloha, ScoobyDoo (PG 2005) Animation

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.30 Seven News 12.00 Movie: Desolation Canyon (M 2006) Western. Stars Patrick Duffy 2.00 Dr Oz 3.00 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 6.00 Prime News 6.30 Seven News 7.00 Home And Away

6.00 Serie A Football 8.30 ATP World Tour Tennis 9.00 NBA Basketball 11.00 NBL Basketball 1.00 World Tour Beach Volleyball 1.30 I Fish 2.00 Cape To Cape Mountain Bike Challenge 3.00 Omnisport 3.30 Championship Netball LIVE – Southern Steel v West Coast Fever 5.30 WWE Experience 6.30 M7 Multisport 7.00 Sports Tonight 7.30 Asia Pacific Ironman Championship – Thailand 8.30 Stoked (M) 10.00 Pulp Sport (MA) 10.30 UFC Countdown 128 11.25 Drift 12.25 World Rally Championship 1.25 Bundesliga Football LIVE – Freiburg v Bayern Munich 3.20 Omnisport 3.50 MotoGP Qualifying LIVE – Qatar 5.00 Serie A Football

7.30 Movie: A Cinderella Story (PG 2004) US comedy. Stars Hilary Duff 9.30 Movie: Hellboy (M 2004) WWII drama. Stars Ron Perlman 12.00 South Park (M) 12.30 Reno 911 (M)1.30 Movie: And Starring Pancho Villa As Himself (AV 2003) Western. Stars Antonio Banderas 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Get Smart 5.30 The Flintstones

PRIME

NBN

7TWO

GO!

10.30 Movie: Grind (M 2003) US drama. Stars Mike Vogel 12.45 Movie: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (AV 2003) US thriller. Stars Marcus Nispel 2.40 The Dukes Of Hazzard 3.35 Hellcats 4.30 Green Acres 5.00 Unnatural History

GEM 6.00 Movie: Baby And The Battleship (G 1956) UK comedy.

Stars John Mills 8.00 Movie: Carry On Sergeant (G 1958) UK comedy. Stars Shirley Eaton 9.30 Movie: Geordie (G 1955) UK comedy. Stars Alastair Sim 11.30 Friends 12.00 Movie: Never So Few (PG 1959) WWII drama. Stars Frank Sinatra 2.30 Movie: Robin And The 7 Hoods (G 1964) US comedy.

Stars Frank Sinatra 5.00 Getaway 6.00 The Nanny 6.30 Movie: My Best Friend’s Wedding (PG 1997) US comedy. Stars Julia Roberts 8.45 CSI (M) 9.45 CSI: Miami (M) 10.45 CSI: New York (M) 11.40 Conan (M) 12.35 Movie: Robin And The 7 Hoods 2.55 Movie: Never So Few 5.20 Alicia Keys 5.30 The Nanny

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better, so why inflate small annoyances into major war crimes?

VIRGO: This inventive, enterprising week can’t help but vamp up your love life, while the social scene’s ripe with opportunities for self marketing. Sure, there’ll be interpersonal niggles, but you’ll get the best results on all levels by following your curiosity rather than sticking to a plan.

LIBRA: If burdensome world news, apocalyptic thinking and emotional overload has you longing for light relief, this week could produce it in the form of an adventurous someone with forwardthinking propositions. And if life hands you the proverbial golden citrus, break out the tequila and phone a friend.

SCORPIO: You’re definitely this week’s

magnetic aphrodisiac, but powerful forces are operating which need you to slow down and reflect before you act.

Lean into the present existential curves and forget about stubborn, because anything less than flexible will only cause frustration to you know who.

SAGITTARIUS: This week’s bound to have you fired, wired and inspired by Mercury’s move to your house of revelry, and it suggests farewelling whatever’s finito by throwing a darn good party, or celebrating in your own inimitable Sagittarian style closure, change and exciting new beginnings.

CAPRICORN: Relationships? Saturn will keep on demonstrating what doesn’t work anymore until you come up with something that does. Defuse this week’s emotional hot spots by not taking

yourself seriously, because if you can laugh at you know who you’ll never cease to be amused…

AQUARIUS: With your boss planet Uranus moving into your house of communications for the next seven years, the cosmic lottery hands you some promising options. Sure, you’ll have to live with a few question marks, but this assertive, decision-stimulating week’s already on the case…

PISCES: The pushy red planet in your sign could bring a jolting glimpse of financial realities for some Pisceans. You may have to say goodbye quite suddenly to an old way of behaving and move into an evolutionary phase of resource management which protects your longterm interests.

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ABC 1

ABC NEWS 24

SBS 2

5.00 rage (PG) 6.30 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Insiders 10.00 Inside Business 10.30 Offsiders 11.05 Asia Pacific Focus 11.30 Songs Of Praise 12.00 Landline 1.00 Planet Earth 2.00 Crime And Punishment 3.05 Olafur Eliasson 3.55 Dianne Reeves 5.00 Art Nation 5.30 Mr Bean 5.40 Doctor Who 6.30 Wild Life 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Arctic Life in the deep freeze 8.20 ALP Announcement 8.30 Midsomer Murders (M) 10.00 Compass Clare Bowditch 10.30 The Street (M) 11.35 Mask And Memory 12.30 Movie: The Human Factor (M 1979) UK drama. Stars Richard Attenborough

4.00 7.30 5.00 Big Ideas 6.00 7.30 6.30 Behind The News 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The World This Week 8.00 ABC News 9.00 Insiders 10.00 ABC News 10.30 7.30 11.00 ABC News 11.30 7.30 12.30 Offsiders 1.00 Big Ideas 2.00 ABC News 2.30 7.30 3.00 ABC News 3.30 Australian Story 4.00 ABC News 4.30 Behind The News 5.00 ABC News 5.30 Inside Business 6.00 ABC News 6.30 Foreign Correspondent 7.00 ABC News 7.30 One Plus One 8.00 Insiders 9.00 ABC News 9.30 Asia Pacific Focus 10.00 ABC News 10.30 The World This Week 11.00 ABC News 11.30 Australian Story 12.00 Landline 1.00 BBC World News 1.30 7.30 2.00 Big Ideas 3.00 BBC World News 3.30 7.30

5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 6.00 Designer People 6.30 Hairy Bikers’ Food Tour Of Britain 7.30 Ninja Warrior 8.00 Unbeatable Banzuke 8.30 The Phone 9.15 Amsterdam Vice (M) 9.45 Movie: Family Tree (M 2010) French drama 11.25 Movie: The Story Of My Life (M 2005) French comedy 1.00 Weatherwatch

ABC 2 6.00 Kids’ Programs 7.00 At The Movies 7.30 Forger’s Masterclass 8.00 The Jazz Baroness 9.30 Art Nation 10.00 Catherine Tate Show (M) 10.30 Hamish Macbeth 11.25 Absolutely Fabulous (M) 11.55 Boy Meets Girl (M) 12.40 Video Killed The Radio Star (M) 1.05 London Live 1.30 Close

ABC 3 6.05am to 5.30pm Kids’ Programs 6.00 Escape From Scorpion Island 8.30 Degrassi: The Next Generation 9.00 Close

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ABC 1 4.00 Hymns Of Glory 4.30 The Cook And The Chef 5.00 Something In The Air 5.30 The New Inventors 6.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Landline 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Monarch Of The Glen 1.30 Cheese Slices 2.00 Parliament Question Time 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 My Family 6.30 Dog Whisperer 6.55 Greens Announcement 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 Australian Story 8.30 Four Corners 9.15 Media Watch 9.35 Q&A 10.30 Lateline 11.05 Lateline Business 11.35 Wire In The Blood (M) 1.00 The Clinic (M) 2.00 Parliament Question Time 3.00 Australian Open Bowls

ABC 2 5.30 Can We Help? 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 Kids’ Programs 7.00 Spicks And Specks 7.30 Full Metal Challenge 8.00 Absolutely Fabulous 8.30 Rake (M) 9.30 Deadwood (MA) 10.25 Teachers (M) 11.15 Being Erica (M) 12.00 Love Soup 12.30 Home Time (M) 1.05 London Live 1.30 Close

ABC 3 6.05am to 5.30pm Kids’ Programs 6.00 Trapped! 6.30 Escape From Scorpion Island 7.05 What Do You Know? 7.35 Dance Academy 8.05

SBS 1 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.35 World News 10.30 UEFA Europa League 11.00 Football Feature 12.00 UEFA Champions League 12.30 Speedweek 2.00 Nerds FC 2.30 Two Of Us 3.00 Desperately Seeking Doctors 4.00 Little Mosque On The Prairie 4.30 Living Black 5.00 Cycling Central 6.00 Thalassa 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 A History Of Scotland 8.30 Dateline 9.30 Casino Jack And The United States Of Money (M) 11.45 Movie: The Accursed Kings (M 2005) Part 3 of French drama. Stars Gérard Depardieu 1.30 Movie: Jet Lag (M 2002) French romantic comedy 3.05 Weatherwatch

Dani’s House 8.35 Degrassi: The Next Generation 9.00 Close

ABC NEWS 24 4.00 ABC News 4.05 Big Ideas 5.00 ABC News 5.15 The Quarters 5.30 Asia Pacific Focus 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 ABC News 9.30 Business Today 10.00 ABC News 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Inside Business 1.00 ABC News 2.00 Question Time 3.30 Afternoon Live 5.30 Capital Hill 5.45 The Quarters 6.00 ABC News 6.05 The Drum 6.45 The Quarters 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 ABC News 8.30 Lateline Business 9.00 The World 9.30 Q&A 10.30 ABC News 11.00 The Drum 11.45 The Quarters 12.00 ABC News 12.30 Lateline 1.00 BBC News 1.30 Australia Network News 2.00 BBC World News 2.30 7.30 3.00 Lateline 3.35 Lateline Business

SBS 1 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 1.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia 1.30 Dateline 2.30 Insight 3.30 Letters And Numbers 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Futbol Mundial 5.00 The Crew 5.30 Living Black 6.00 Letters And Numbers 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Mythbusters 8.30 Man v Wild 9.30 World News Australia 10.00 Ugly Americans (M) 10.30 South Park (MA) 11.00 The Mighty Boosh (M) 11.30 The World Game 12.30 Living Black 1.00 Movie: In Your Dreams (M 2005) French drama 2.50 Weatherwatch

TEN 6.00 Religion 7.00 Kids’ Programs 8.00 Meet The Press 8.30 All 4 Adventures 9.00 Oz Made 10.00 Hit List TV 12.00 Go Forth And Multiply 1.00 Festival Of Stars Netball 2.00 Championship Netball LIVE – Queensland Firebirds v NSW Swifts 4.00 Everybody Hates Chris 4.30 Great Aussie Drive 5.00 Ten News 5.30 Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals 6.00 Ten News 6.30 The Biggest Loser 7.30 Modern Family 8.00 Bondi Rescue 8.30 Hawaii Five-O (M) 9.30 NCIS: Los Angeles (M) 11.30 Movie: Dickie Roberts – Former Child Star (M 2003) US comedy. Stars David Spade 1.30 Infomercials 2.55 125cc, Moto2, MotoGP – Qatar

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6.00 Sabrina 6.30 Neighbours 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond 6.00 Global Village 7.30 Futurama 6.30 Singapore Flavours 8.30 Supernatural (M) 7.30 Is There Life On Mars?

9.30 Dexter (AV) 8.30 The Moon 10.40 The Late Late Show 11.30 9.30 The World Game Cheers 12.00 Roseanne 12.30 10.30 Movie: Ghost In The Sabrina The Teenage Witch 1.00 Shell (M 1995) Japanese Mork & Mindy 1.30 Happy Days animation 2.00 The Love Boat 3.00 Diagnosis 12.00 Weatherwatch Murder 4.00 Touched By An Angel 5.00 7th Heaven

SBS 2

TEN

7.15 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Ten News 10.00 The Circle 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Judge Judy 3.30 Infomercial 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News 6.00 6pm With George Negus 6.30 Ten News 7.00 The 7pm Project 7.30 Glee 8.30 House (M) 9.30 Good News Week (M) 10.30 6pm With George Negus 11.00 Late News With Sports Tonight 11.30 Late Show 12.30 Ally McBeal (M) 1.30 Infomercials 4.00 Religion

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SBS 2

ABC NEWS 24

Tuesday 22

ONE HD 7.15 NBA Game Of The Week 9.45 NASCAR Sprint Cup 1.00 Drift 2.00 Festival Of Stars Celebrity Netball 3.00 Omnisport 3.30 Real NBA 4.00 Sports Unlimited 5.00 M7 Multisport 5.30 Championship Netball LIVE – Melbourne Vixens v Waikato-Bay Of Plenty Magic 7.05 Sports Tonight 7.30 Championship Netball LIVE – Adelaide Thunderbirds v Northern Mystics 9.30 One Week At A Time 10.30 The Pro Shop 11.30 Sports Tonight Late 12.00 Rally World 1.00 Omnisport 1.30 Asia Pacific Ironman Championship – Thailand 2.30 World Tour Beach Volleyball 3.00 Serie A Football – Lazio v Cesena 5.00 Bundesliga Football – Freiburg v Bayern Munich

6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The Brady Bunch 8.30 Neighbours 9.00 Touched By An Angel 10.00 7th Heaven 11.00 The Love Boat 12.00 Diagnosis Murder 1.00 Jag 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 Cheers 3.30 Roseanne 4.00 Family Ties 4.30 Mork & Mindy 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 The 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show Brady Bunch 11.30 Morning News 12.00 Movie: At

6.00 Trapped! 6.30 Escape From drama 1.10 In A Dream (M) 2.35 Scorpion Island 7.05 What Do You Weatherwatch 4.00 Sleuth 101 4.30 The Cook And Know? 7.35 Dance Academy 8.05 The Chef 5.00 Something In The Dani’s House 8.35 Degrassi: The Next Air 5.30 Dog Whisperer 6.00 Kids’ Generation 9.00 Close 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News Programs 11.00 Big Ideas 12.00 6.00 Global Village Midday Report 12.30 Time Team 6.30 At The Table With Michael 1.30 Meerkat Manor 2.00 Parliament 4.00 ABC News 4.05 The Quarters Smith Question Time 3.00 Kids’ Programs 4.20 The Drum 5.00 ABC News 5.15 7.00 New Latin Cuisine 6.00 My Family The Quarters 5.30 Newsline 6.00 7.30 Egypt’s Animal Mummies 6.30 Dog Whisperer ABC News Breakfast 9.00 ABC News 8.30 Convoy War for the 6.45 Coalition Policy Launch 9.30 Business Today 10.00 ABC News Atlantic 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Newsline 9.30 Movie: Accused (MA 2005) 7.00 ABC News 1.00 ABC News 2.00 Midday Report 7.30 7.30 Danish drama 2.30 7.30 Select 3.00 Afternoon Live 11.35 Movie: Jar City (MAV 2006) 8.00 Foreign Correspondent 5.30 Capital Hill 5.45 The Quarters 8.30 How Earth Made Us Icelandic drama 1.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 ABC News 6.05 The Drum 6.45 9.30 QI (M) The Quarters 7.00 ABC News 7.30 10.05 Artscape 10.35 Lateline 11.10 Lateline 7.30 8.00 ABC News 8.30 Lateline Business 11.40 Four Corners 12.25 Business 9.00 The World 10.00 ABC 6.00 Ten News 7.00 Kids’ Programs Media Watch 12.40 Parliament News 10.05 The Drum 10.45 The 9.00 Ten News 10.00 The Circle 12.00 Question Time 1.40 Interview With Quarters 11.00 ABC News 11.30 Dr Phil 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show 2.00 A Poltergeist (M) 2.30 Catalyst 3.00 Newsline 12.00 ABC News 12.30 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Judge Judy Lateline 1.00 BBC News 1.30 Australia 3.30 Infomercial 4.00 Good Chef Bad Big Ideas Network News 2.00 BBC World News Chef 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful 2.30 7.30 3.00 Lateline 3.35 Lateline 5.00 Ten News Business 6.00 6pm With George Negus 5.30 Can We Help? 6.00 ABC News 6.30 Ten News Breakfast 9.00 Kids’ Programs 7.00 The 7pm Project 7.00 Spicks And Specks 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 7.30 Talking’ ’Bout Your 7.30 In Search Of Perfection Generation 1.00 Movie: We Shall Overcome (M 8.00 Black Books 2005) Danish drama 3.00 Living Black 8.40 NCIS (M) 8.30 Good Game 3.30 Letters And Numbers 4.00 The 10.40 6pm With George Negus 11.10 9.00 The Librarians (M) Journal 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Global Late News With Sports Tonight 11.40 9.30 Being Human (M) The Late Show 12.35 Ally McBeal (M) Village 10.30 Horne And Corden (M) 1.30 Infomercials 4.00 Religion 6.00 Letters And Numbers 11.00 Little Miss Jocelyn (M) 11.25 6.30 World News Australia Black Books 11.50 Father Ted 12.15 7.30 Insight Later… With Jools Holland 1.15 8.30 Wonders Of The Solar 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The London Live 1.45 Close System Brady Bunch 8.30 Neighbours 9.30 World News Australia 9.00 Touched By An Angel 10.00 10.05 Hot Docs (M) 7th Heaven 11.00 The Love Boat 6.05am to 5.30pm Kids’ Programs 11.35 Movie: Breath (M 2007) Korean 12.00 Diagnosis Murder 1.00 Jag

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6.00 Serie A Football – Lazio v Cesena 7.00 Cadillac Championship Golf 8.00 Asia Pacific Ironman Championship – Thailand 9.00 World Tour Beach Volleyball 10.30 Pro Series Drag Racing 12.00 MotoGP Qualifying – Qatar 1.00 Festival Of Stars Celebrity Netball 2.00 Championship Netball LIVE – Queensland Firebirds v NSW Swifts 4.00 Central Pulse v Canterbury Tactix 6.00 NBL Basketball LIVE – Melbourne v Gold Coast 8.00 Sports Tonight 8.30 Doco: Barassi 10.30 Doco: Tackling Peace 12.00 NASCAR Sprint Cup 12.30 Omnisport 1.00 Serie A Football 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The LIVE – Inter Milan v Lecce

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Brady Bunch 8.30 Everybody Loves Raymond 9.00 Touched By An Angel 10.00 7th Heaven 11.00 The Love Boat 12.00 Diagnosis Murder 1.00 Jag 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 Cheers 3.30 Roseanne 4.00 Family Ties 4.30 Mork & Mindy 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 The Brady Bunch 6.00 Sabrina 6.30 Everybody Loves Raymond 7.30 NZ’s Next Top Model 8.30 Movie: Aliens 3 (M 1992) US action. Stars Sigourney Weaver 10.40 Smallville (M/AV) 12.30 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 1.00 Mork & Mindy 1.30 Happy Days 2.00 The Love Boat 3.00 Diagnosis Murder 4.00 Touched By An Angel 5.00 7th Heaven

2.00 MacGyver 3.00 Cheers 3.30 Roseanne 4.00 Family Ties 4.30 Mork & Mindy 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 The Brady Bunch 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 6.30 Neighbours 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond 7.30 The Simpsons 8.00 Futurama 8.30 Raising Hope 9.00 The Office 9.30 Nurse Jackie (M) 10.05 Californication (MA) 10.40 The Late Late Show 11.30 Cheers 12.00 Roseanne 12.30 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 1.00 Mork & Mindy 1.30 Happy Days 2.00 The Love Boat 3.00 Diagnosis Murder 4.00 Touched

By An Angel 5.00 7th Heaven

ONE HD 7.00 The Pro Shop 8.00 One Week At A Time 9.00 NASCAR Nationwide Series 10.00 NBL Basketball 12.00 Real NBA 12.30 ATP World Tour Tennis 1.00 Championship Netball Game Of The Week 3.00 Omnisport 3.30 World Tour Beach Volleyball 4.00 Sports Unlimited 5.00 Pro Bull Riding 6.00 Escape With ET 7.00 Sports Tonight 7.30 Ice Road Truckers 8.30 Ax Men 9.30 RPM 10.30 World Football News 11.00 Sports Tonight Late 11.15 Liverpool Football 2.15 NASCAR Sprint Cup 3.15 Omnisport 3.30 AFL – Carlton v Richmond 2009

PRIME 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.30 Morning News 12.00 Movie: Romy And Michele’s High School

3.00 125cc, Moto2, MotoGP Motorcycle Racing LIVE – Qatar

8.30 McHale’s Navy 9.00 Million Dollar Catch 9.30 V8 Extra 10.00 AFL Game Day 11.00 Ocean Force 12.00 Magnum PI 1.00 Australia’s Greatest Athlete 2.00 Car Sharks 2.30 Fifth Gear 3.00 American Hot Rod 4.00 6.00 Religion 7.00 Weekend Sunrise Monster Garage 5.00 The Drew Carey 10.00 The Amazing Race 11.00 True Show 5.30 According To Jim Beauty 12.00 Minute To Win It 6.30 The Amazing Race 1.00 V8 Supercars LIVE – Clipsal 7.30 Gene Simmons Family 500, Adelaide Jewels 5.30 Drive Thru Australia 9.30 Movie: Wanted (AV 2008) 6.00 Seven News US action. Stars James 6.30 Sunday Night McAvoy 7.30 The Big One: Keneally v 12.00 Lost (M) 2.00 The Sopranos O’Farrell (MA) 3.00 Wagon Train 4.00 American 8.30 Bones (M) Hot Rod 5.00 Airwolf 9.30 Castle (M) 10.30 Australia’s Greatest Athlete 11.30 The First 48 (M) 12.30 Home 6.00 Danoz 7.00 Weekend Today Shopping 5.30 Seven News 10.00 Wide World Of Sports 11.00 The Sunday Footy Show 12.00 The Sunday Roast 1.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Home And Away 11.30 3.00 The Farmer Wants A Wife Harry’s Practice 12.00 Movie: The 4.00 Sunday Football LIVE – Pathfinder (PG 1953) Western. Stars Sydney Roosters v Manly George Montgomery 1.50 Movie: 40 Sea Eagles Carats (PG 1973) US comedy. Stars 6.00 NBN News Liv Ullmann 4.15 Movie: Fly Away 6.30 Customs Home (PG 1996) US adventure. Stars 7.00 Send In The Dogs Jeff Daniels 6.30 All Creatures Great Australia And Small 7.30 60 Minutes 7.30 Bargain Hunt 8.30 The Mentalist (M) 8.30 Escape To The Country 9.30 Harry’s Law (M) 9.30 60 Minute Makeover 10.30 Restaurant In Our Living Room 10.30 CSI: Miami (M) 11.30 10 Years Younger 12.00 Movie: 11.20 The Guardian (M) 12.15 The Pathfinder 1.45 Movie: 40 Super League 2.15 Slash 2.30 Carats 4.00 The World Around Us Home Shopping 4.00 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News 5.00 Home Shopping

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Pro, France 2.00 Here’s Lucy 2.30 Green Acres 3.30 The Dukes Of Hazzard 4.30 Hellcats 5.30 Wipeout USA 6.30 Top Gear 7.30 The Big Bang Theory 8.00 The Middle 8.30 The Big Bang Theory 9.00 Mike & Molly 9.30 Movie: Austin Powers – The Spy Who Shagged Me (M 1999) US comedy. Stars Mike Myers 11.30 South Park (M) 12.00 Reno 911 (M) 1.00 Dukes Of Hazzard 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Hellcats 5.00 Green Acres

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6.00 Religion 6.30 Movie: CarltonBrowne Of The FO (G 1959) UK comedy. Stars Peter Sellers 8.25 Movie: The Sleeping Tiger (PG 1954) UK drama. Stars Dirk Bogarde 10.10 The Nanny 10.40 Movie: The Dove (G 1974) US true story. Stars Joseph Bottoms 12.45 Movie: Betrayed (PG 1954) US drama. Stars Clark Gable 3.05 Movie: Designing Woman (G 1957) US comedy. Stars Gregory Peck 5.30 Birds Of A Feather 6.00 The Nanny 6.30 Antiques Roadshow 7.30 As Time Goes By 8.00 Allo Allo 8.30 Movie: Zodiac (M 2007) US drama. Stars Jake Gyllenhaal 11.45 Movie: Betrayed 2.00 Home Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 Adventures In Rainbow Country 5.30 Today 6.00 Wagon Train 7.00 The Virginian 6.00 Kids’ Programs 12.00 The City 12.30 Cribs 1.00 Surfing: Quiksilver

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Risk (M 2010) US drama. Stars Andie MacDowell 2.00 Dr Oz 3.00 Medical Emergency 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 6.00 Prime News 6.30 Seven News 7.00 Home And Away 7.30 My Kitchen Rules 8.30 Conviction Kitchen 9.30 Brothers & Sisters (M) 10.30 My Shocking Story 11.30 The First 48 (M) 12.30 Parks And Recreation (M) 1.00 Home Shopping 5.30 Seven News

Airwolf 2.00 Baywatch 3.00 Xena Warrior Princess 4.00 Hercules 5.00 The Drew Carey Show 5.30 According To Jim 6.30 My Wife And Kids 7.00 That ’70s Show 7.30 How I Met Your Mother 8.30 Family Guy (M) 9.00 American Dad (M) 9.30 Family Guy (M) 10.00 American Dad (M) 10.30 Scrubs 11.30 CNNNN (M) 12.00 The Sopranos (MA) 1.00 Magnum PI 2.00 Airwolf 3.00 Quincy ME 4.00 Hercules 5.00 Baywatch

7TWO 6.00 Kids Time 9.30 Shortland Street 10.00 Coronation Street 10.30 Emmerdale 11.00 Hollyoaks 11.30 Passport To The Sun 12.00 Murphy Brown 12.30 Desperate Housewives (M) 1.30 Grey’s Anatomy (M) 2.30 Movie: Mrs Winterbourne (PG 1996) US comedy. Stars Shirley MacLaine 5.00 Head Of The Class 5.30 Growing Pains 6.00 Bargain Hunt 7.00 On The Buses 7.30 Heartbeat 8.30 Jonathan Creek (M) 9.40 Mrs Bradley Mysteries (M) 11.40 Minder 12.45 Movie: Mrs Winterbourne 2.45 Dr Oz 3.40 Passport To The Sun 4.00 Coronation Street 4.30 Emmerdale 5.00 Home Shopping

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NBN 5.30 Today 9.00 Kerri-Anne 11.00 Home Shopping 12.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 1.00 The View 2.00 Days Of Our Lives 3.00 Alive And Cooking 3.30 Magical Tales 4.00 Kitchen Whiz 4.30 Afternoon News 5.30 Hot Seat 6.00 NBN News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 Two And A Half Men 8.25 Lotto 8.30 The Million Dollar Drop 9.30 Harry’s Law (M) 10.30 Crime Scene Investigation (M) 11.30 Til Death 12.00 Super Rugby Extra Time 1.00 Super League 2.00 Infomercials 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

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6.00 Wagon Train 7.00 The Virginian 8.30 McHale’s Navy 9.00 NBC Today 10.00 NBC Meet The Press 11.00 Quincy ME 12.00 Magnum PI 1.00

6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.30 ET 11.00 TMZ 11.30 Get Smart 12.00 Here’s Lucy 12.30 Green Acres 1.00 Seinfeld 1.30 The Hills 2.00 The Dukes Of Hazzard 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30

Reunion (M 1996) US comedy. Stars Lisa Kudrow 2.00 Dr Oz 3.00 Medical Emergency 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 6.00 Prime News 6.30 Seven News 7.00 Home And Away 7.30 My Kitchen Rules 8.30 Winners & Losers (M) 9.30 Parenthood 10.30 Cougar Town 11.00 Keeping Up With The Kardashians (M) 11.30 10 Years Younger 12.30 Mercy (M) 1.30 Home Shopping 5.30 News

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Kids’ Programs 6.00 Seinfeld 6.30 Movie: Big Momma’s House 2 (PG 2005) US comedy. Stars Martin Lawrence 8.30 The Big Bang Theory 9.30 Movie: Don’t Mess With The Zohan (M 2008) US comedy. Stars Adam Sandler 11.50 Pushing Daisies (M) 12.50 Mad 1.00 The Hills 1.30 Cribs 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Get Smart 5.30 The Flintstones

GEM 6.00 Today 9.00 Alive & Cooking 9.30 The Zoo 10.00 The Nanny 10.30 Friends 11.00 Murder, She Wrote 12.00 Movie: Pacific Destiny (G 1956) UK drama. Stars Denholm Elliott 2.00 Domestic Blitz 3.00 McLeod’s Daughters 4.00 As Time Goes By 5.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 6.00 The Nanny 6.30 Friends 7.00 The Zoo 8.00 Send In The Dogs 8.30 Gordon’s Great Escape (M) 9.30 Movie: Blood Diamond (AV 2006) US adventure.

Stars Leonardo Di Caprio 12.15 Murder, She Wrote 1.10 Gordon’s Great Escape (M) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 Adventures In Rainbow Country 5.30 Today

1.30 The Hills 2.00 Pushing Daisies (M) 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Seinfeld 6.30 The Middle 7.00 Australia’s Funniest Home Videos 7.30 Hellcats 8.30 Pretty Little Liars (M) 9.30 Movie: Blade – Trinity (AV 2004) US action. Stars Wesley Snipes 11.50 Hellcats 12.50 Mad 1.00 Pretty Little Liars (M) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Get Smart 5.30 The Flintstones

6.00 Wagon Train 7.00 The Virginian 8.30 McHale’s Navy 9.00 NBC Today 11.00 Quincy ME 12.00 Magnum PI 1.00 Airwolf 2.00 Baywatch 3.00 Xena Warrior Princess 4.00 Hercules 5.00 The Drew Carey Show 5.30 According To Jim 6.30 My Wife And Kids 7.00 That ’70s Show 7.30 How I Met Your Mother 8.30 Family Guy (M) 9.00 American Dad 9.30 Family Guy (M) 10.00 My Name Is Earl 11.00 Scrubs 12.00 The Sopranos 6.00 Kids Time 9.30 Shortland Street (AV) 1.00 Magnum PI 2.00 Airwolf 10.00 Coronation Street 10.30 3.00 Quincy ME 4.00 Hercules 5.00 6.00 Today 9.00 Alive & Cooking Emmerdale 11.00 Hollyoaks 11.30 Baywatch 9.30 The Zoo 10.00 The Nanny Passport To The Sun 12.00 Murphy 10.30 Friends 11.00 Murder, She Brown 12.30 Desperate Housewives Wrote 12.00 Movie: Golden Ivory (M) 1.30 Grey’s Anatomy (M) 2.30 5.30 Today 9.00 Kerri-Anne 11.00 (PG 1954) UK adventure. Stars Robert Movie: A Bullet Is Waiting (PG 1954) Danoz 12.00 The Ellen Degeneres Urquhart 2.00 Domestic Blitz 3.00 US drama. Stars Jean Simmons 4.30 Show 1.00 The View 2.00 Days Of McLeod’s Daughters 4.00 The Zoo Welcome Back Kotter 5.00 Head Of Our Lives 3.00 Alive And Cooking 4.30 Send In The Dogs 5.00 The Ellen The Class 5.30 Growing Pains 3.30 Magical Tales 4.00 Kitchen Whiz Degeneres Show 4.30 Afternoon News 5.30 Hot Seat 6.00 The Nanny 6.00 Bargain Hunt 6.00 NBN News 7.00 On The Buses 6.30 Friends 7.30 Some Mothers Do ’ave ’em 7.00 A Current Affair 7.00 The Zoo 7.30 The Big Bang Theory 8.10 Are You Being Served?

7.30 Homes From Hell 8.00 Top Gear 8.50 To The Manor Born 8.30 Hoarders 10.00 Adults Only 20 To 1 (M) 9.30 Going Straight 9.30 The Closer (M) 10.10 Hale And Pace 10.45 Movie: 11.00 Kitchen Nightmares (MA) 12.00 10.30 Sensing Murder (M) Carry On At Your Convenience (PG 20/20 1.00 Entertainment Tonight 11.30 Friends 12.00 Hoarders 1.00 1971) UK comedy. Stars Sid James 1.30 Infomercials 3.30 Good Morning The Closer (M) 2.00 Home Shopping 12.40 Movie: A Bullet Is Waiting America 5.00 Early Morning News 4.30 Religion 5.00 Adventures In 2.30 Dr Oz 3.30 Passport To The Rainbow Country 5.30 Today Sun 4.00 Coronation Street 4.30 Emmerdale 5.00 Home Shopping 6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.30 Entertainment Tonight 11.00 TMZ 11.30 Get Smart 12.00 Here’s Lucy 12.30 Green Acres 1.00 Seinfeld

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4.00 Talking Heads: Paula Constant 4.30 The Cook And The Chef 5.00 Something In The Air 5.30 Dog Whisperer 6.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Big Ideas 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 National Press Club Address 1.30 The Trail Of Genghis Khan 2.00 Parliament Question Time 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 My Family 6.30 Dog Whisperer 6.45 ALP Policy Launch 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 The New Inventors 8.30 Adam Hills In Gordon St Tonight 9.30 Hungry Beast 10.00 At The Movies 10.30 Lateline 11.05 Lateline Business 11.30 Dolphin Murders 12.20 Parliament Question Time 1.20 Movie: A Bucket Of Blood (M 1959) US comedy. Stars Dick Miller 2.30 The Cook And The Chef 3.00 Big Ideas

6.05am to 5.30pm Kids’ Programs 6.00 Trapped! 6.30 Escape From Scorpion Island 7.05 What Do You Know? 7.35 Dance Academy 8.05 Dani’s House 8.35 Degrassi: The Next Generation 9.00 Close

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4.00 ABC News 4.05 The Quarters 4.20 The Drum 5.00 ABC News 5.15 The Quarters 5.30 Newsline 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 ABC News 9.30 Business Today 10.00 ABC News 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 National Press Club Address 1.00 ABC News 2.00 Question Time 3.30 Afternoon Live 5.30 Capital Hill 5.45 The Quarters 6.00 ABC News 6.05 The Drum 6.45 The Quarters 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 ABC News 8.30 Lateline Business 9.00 The World 10.00 ABC News 10.05 The Drum 10.45 The Quarters 11.00 ABC News 11.30 Newsline 12.00 ABC News 12.30 Lateline 1.00 BBC News 1.30 Australia Network News 2.00 BBC World News 2.30 7.30 3.00 Lateline 5.30 Can We Help? 6.00 ABC News 3.35 Lateline Business Breakfast 9.00 Kids’ Programs 7.00 Spicks And Specks 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 7.30 Marngrook Footy Show 8.30 Blood, Sweat And T-Shirts 1.00 Movie: Every Other Week (M 2005) Swedish romantic comedy 9.30 Britain’s Missing Top 2.40 The Market 3.00 mY Generation Model (M) 3.30 Letters And Numbers 4.00 The 10.30 Sex: The Revolution (M) 11.15 The British In Bed 12.00 My Journal 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Global Teen’s A Nightmare (M) 12.45 London Village 6.00 Letters And Numbers Live 1.15 Close 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Inspector Rex

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8.30 Big Love (M) 9.30 World News Australia 10.05 Movie: Kings And Queen (M 2004) French drama.

Stars Emmanuelle Devos 12.40 Movie: Machuca (M 2004) Chilean drama 2.50 Weatherwatch

SBS 2 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News 6.00 Global Village 6.30 Sarah Wiener’s Culinary Adventures 7.00 Korean Food Cult 7.30 Dateline 8.30 Closing Down Guatanamo 9.30 Movie: 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days (MA 2007) Romanian drama 11.25 Movie: Tickets (MA 2005) Italian comedy 1.20 Weatherwatch

TEN 6.00 Ten News 7.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Ten News 10.00 The Circle 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Judge Judy 3.30 Infomercials 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News 6.00 6pm With George Negus 6.30 Ten News 7.00 The 7pm Project 7.30 The Biggest Loser 8.30 Seriously Funny Comedy Gala (M) 10.30 6pm With George Negus 11.00 Late News With Sports Tonight 11.30 Overtime 12.30 The Late Show 1.30 Infomercials 4.00 Religion

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6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The Brady Bunch 8.30 Neighbours 9.00 Touched By An Angel 10.00 7th Heaven 11.00 The Love Boat 12.00 Diagnosis Murder 1.00 Jag 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 Cheers 3.30 Roseanne 4.00 Family Ties 4.30 Mork & Mindy 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 The Brady Bunch 6.00 Sabrina 6.30 Neighbours 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond 7.30 The Simpsons 8.00 Futurama 8.30 The Simpsons 9.00 The Cleveland Show 9.30 Bob’s Burgers (M) 10.00 King Of The Hill 10.30 The Late Late Show 11.30 Cheers 12.00 Roseanne 12.30 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 1.00 Mork & Mindy 1.30 Happy Days 2.00 The Love Boat 3.00 Diagnosis Murder 4.00 Touched By An Angel 5.00 7th Heaven

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.30 Morning News 12.00 Colombo 2.00 Dr Oz 3.00 Medical Emergency 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 6.00 Prime News 6.30 Seven News 7.00 Home And Away 7.30 My Kitchen Rules 8.30 Criminal Minds (M) 9.30 City Homicide (M) 10.30 I Shouldn’t Be Alive (M) 11.30 My Name Is Earl (M) 12.00 Parks And Recreation (M) 12.30 Home Shopping 5.30 Seven News

ONE HD 6.00 Serie A Football 6.30 Bundesliga Football 7.30 World Football News 8.00 RPM 9.00 MotoGP – Qatar 11.00 NBA Basketball – LIVE 4.15 Omnisport 4.30 Eddie’s Day 5.30 Kitesurfing 6.00 Escape With ET 7.00 Sports Tonight 7.30 Extreme Fishing 8.30 The Game Plan 9.30 The WWE Experience 10.30 Sports Tonight Late 10.45 Overtime 11.45 The Game Plan 12.45 NBA Basketball 2.45 Pro Series Drag Racing 4.30 Omnisport 5.00 Serie A Football – Inter Milan v Lecce

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6.00 Wagon Train 7.00 The Virginian 8.30 McHale’s Navy 9.00 NBC Today 11.00 Quincy ME 12.00 Magnum PI 1.00 Airwolf 2.00 Baywatch 3.00 Xena Warrior Princess 4.00 Hercules 5.00 The Drew Carey Show 5.30 According To Jim 6.30 My Wife And Kids 7.00 That ’70s Show 7.30 How I Met Your Mother 8.30 Family Guy (M) 9.00 American Dad 9.30 Movie: The Heartbreak Kid (MA 2007) US comedy.

Stars Ben Stiller 12.00 The Sopranos (MA) 1.00 Magnum PI 2.00 Airwolf 3.00 6.00 Kids Time 9.30 Shortland Street Home Shopping 4.00 NBC Today 10.00 Coronation Street 10.30 5.00 Baywatch Emmerdale 11.00 Hollyoaks 11.30 Passport To The Sun 12.00 Murphy Brown 12.30 Desperate Housewives 5.30 Today 9.00 Kerri-Anne 11.00 (M) 1.30 Grey’s Anatomy (M) 2.30 Danoz 12.00 The Ellen Degeneres Movie: Prince Of Pirates (PG 1953) Show 1.00 The View 2.00 Days Of US adventure. Stars John Derek 4.30 Our Lives 3.00 Alive And Cooking Welcome Back Kotter 5.00 Head Of 3.30 Magical Tales 4.00 Kitchen Whiz The Class 5.30 Growing Pains 4.30 Afternoon News 5.30 Hot Seat 6.00 NBN News 6.00 Bargain Hunt 7.00 A Current Affair 7.00 On The Buses 7.30 The Big Bang Theory 7.30 Heartbeat 8.00 Mike & Molly 8.40 Pie In The Sky 8.25 Lotto 9.45 Murphy’s Law (AV) 10.50 The Sweeney (M) 12.00 Minder 8.30 The Farmer Wants A Wife (M) 1.00 Passport To The Sun 1.30 9.30 RPA Where Are They Now? Coronation Street 2.00 Emmerdale 10.30 Embarrassing Bodies (M) 2.30 Harry’s Practice 3.00 Home 11.30 ICC World Cup Cricket Shopping 4.00 NBC Today 5.00 LIVE – Quarter final Home Shopping 4.00 Skippy 4.30 Entertainment Tonight 5.00 Early Morning News

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6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.30 ET 11.00 TMZ 11.30 Get Smart 12.00 Here’s Lucy 12.30 Green Acres 1.00 Seinfeld 1.30 The Hills 2.00 Hellcats 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Seinfeld 6.30 The Middle 7.00 Funniest Home Videos 7.30 Bear Feeding Frenzy 8.30 V (M) 9.30 Movie: Friday The 13th (AV 1980) US thriller. Stars Sean S Cunningham 11.30 South Park (M) 12.00 V (M) 1.00 Bridezillas (M) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Get Smart 5.30 The Flintstones

GEM 6.00 Today 9.00 Alive & Cooking 9.30 The Zoo 10.00 The Nanny 10.30 Friends 11.00 Murder, She Wrote 12.00 Movie: Picking Up & Dropping Off (PG 2003) Canadian comedy. Stars Amanda Detmer 2.00 Domestic Blitz 3.00 McLeod’s Daughters 4.00 Homes From Hell 5.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 6.00 The Nanny 6.30 Friends 7.00 The Zoo 7.30 What A Year 8.00 The Golden Girls 8.30 Trouble In Paradise (M) 9.30 Movie: Dead Calm (M 1989) Australian thriller.

Stars Nicole Kidman 11.30 Conan (M) 12.30 Friends 1.00 Murder, She Wrote 2.00 Home Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 Rainbow Country 5.30 Today

Please note: The Echo takes great care producing this guide, but unfortunately TV stations like to tinker with things at the last minute and sometimes make changes after we have gone to print.

2.00 MacGyver 3.00 Cheers 3.30 Roseanne 4.00 Family Ties 4.30 Mork 4.00 National Press Club Address 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News & Mindy 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 The Brady Bunch 5.00 Something In The Air 5.30 6.00 Global Village 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Dog Whisperer 6.00 Kids’ Programs 4.00 ABC News 4.05 The Quarters 6.30 Food Investigators Witch 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Denzel 4.20 The Drum 5.00 ABC News 5.15 7.00 Chef At Home South 6.30 Neighbours And Pascoe 2.00 Parliament Question The Quarters 5.30 Newsline 6.00 America 7.00 Everybody Loves Time 3.00 Kids’ Programs ABC News Breakfast 9.00 ABC News 7.30 Insight Raymond 6.00 My Family 9.30 Business Today 10.00 ABC News 8.30 Django Reinhardt Gypsy 7.30 The Simpsons 6.30 Dog Whisperer jazz guitarist 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Newsline 8.30 Stargate Universe (M) 7.00 ABC News 1.30 ABC News 2.00 Question Time 9.30 Movie: Maria Full Of 7.30 7.30 3.30 Afternoon Live 5.30 Capital Hill Grace (M 2003) Columbian 9.30 Star Trek – Next Generation 8.00 Catalyst 5.45 The Quarters 6.00 ABC News drama 8.30 Turn Back Time 6.05 The Drum 6.45 The Quarters 11.15 Movie: Madame Satã 10.30 The Late Late Show 9.30 The Graham Norton Show 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 ABC (MA 2002) Brazilian drama 1.00 11.30 Cheers 12.00 Roseanne 12.30 Sabrina 1.00 Mork & Mindy 1.30 News 8.30 Lateline Business 9.00 Weatherwatch 10.00 Getting On (M) Happy Days 2.00 The Love Boat 3.00 The World 10.00 ABC News 10.05 10.30 Lateline Diagnosis Murder 4.00 Touched By 11.05 Lateline Business 11.30 The Drum 10.45 The Quarters 11.00 Spectacle With Bruce Springsteen ABC News 11.30 Newsline 12.00 6.00 Ten News 7.00 Kids’ Programs An Angel 5.00 7th Heaven 12.15 Parliament Question Time ABC News 12.30 Lateline 1.00 BBC 9.00 Ten News 10.00 The Circle 12.00 1.15 Movie: He Walked By Night News 1.30 Australia Network News Dr Phil 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show 2.00 (PG 1948) US drama Stars Richard 2.00 BBC World News 2.30 7.30 3.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Judge Judy 7.00 The Game Plan NRL 8.00 The Basehart 2.35 Movie: Gulliver’s Lateline 3.35 Lateline Business 3.30 Infomercials 4.00 Good Chef Bad Game Plan AFL 9.00 NASCAR Sprint Travels (G 1939) Animation Chef 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful Cup 10.00 NBA Basketball 12.00 Arsenal Football 3.00 Omnisport 5.00 Ten News 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 6.00 6pm With George Negus 3.30 ATP World Tour Tennis 4.00 Skateboarding US Open 5.00 Drive 5.30 Can We Help? 6.00 ABC News 1.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia 6.30 Ten News 5.30 BMX Games Canberra 6.00 1.30 Supermom 2.30 Dateline 3.30 7.00 The 7pm Project Breakfast 9.00 Kids’ Programs Escape With ET 7.00 Sports Tonight Letters And Numbers 4.00 The 7.30 The Biggest Loser 7.00 Spicks And Specks 7.30 AFL Premiership Season Journal 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Global 8.30 The Good Wife (M) 7.30 The Trophy Room LIVE – Carlton v Richmond Village 8.30 Party Down (M) 9.30 Law & Order: SVU (M) 6.00 Letters And Numbers 9.00 Lowdown (M) 10.30 6pm With George Negus 10.30 Sports Tonight Late 10.45 6.30 World News Australia 9.30 Graham Norton Show 11.00 AFL Premiership Season: Carlton MotoGP – Qatar 12.45 NASCAR 7.30 Italian Food Safari 10.20 Hungry Beast v Richmond 1.30 Infomercials 4.00 Nationwide Series 1.45 OneAsia Tour Golf 5.45 Omnisport 10.45 The League Of Gentlemen (M) 8.00 Oz And James Drink To Religion Britain 11.15 Later… With Jools Holland 1.20 8.30 Heston’s Feasts London Live 1.50 Close 9.30 World News Australia 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 10.05 Movie: To Love Someone Brady Bunch 8.30 Neighbours 11.30 Morning News 12.00 Movie: (M 2007) Swedish drama 6.05am to 5.30pm Kids’ Programs 9.00 Touched By An Angel 10.00 Imagine Me & You (M 2006) US com6.00 Trapped! 6.30 Escape From 11.45 Movie: Import Export 7th Heaven 11.00 The Love Boat edy. Stars Piper Perabo 2.00 Dr Oz Scorpion Island 7.05 What Do You (MA 2007) Austrian drama 2.10 12.00 Diagnosis Murder 1.00 Jag 3.00 Medical Emergency 3.30 Kids’ Weatherwatch

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Cryptic Clues ACROSS 1. Car pop blurt isn’t needed – use this instead (6,9) 9. Making heavy weather of Iran! (4,5) 10. Alternatively, the German system (5) 11. Character of the physical world (6)

PRIME

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From The Week

21. Merman is covering the matter, a very tenuous concept (8) 23. Soldier comes back to John’s houses (6) 26. America follows the fate of the flower of India (5) 27. Yankee girl bounding – going flat out! (9) 28: You own it – make voter pay per trip (7,8)

DOWN 1. Unfairly assigns the blame back to the vegetable (7) 2. Constructed only about 49 (5) 3. One with opposite directions requiring action for rebel (9) 4. John, time’s up for the instrument (4) 5. A royal majesty cares desperately for the military build up (4,4) 6. A hundred and one 12. The Scorpion, perhaps – and a holy books – saint rises, rich crook (8) impassive (5) 13. Glue a large light shade!

7. Command one to 15. Wind instruments for small infiltrate the artillery! (9) sheilas? (8) 8. Trends in public opinion 18. English following the cricket about God produce venue can be a traditional vehement speeches (7) Australian aid to sleep (8) 14. Meal at the pigs’ 19. Protection discerned about swill (9) credit (6) 16. Oasis or Kata Juta?

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(4,5) 17. Tie up specialist viewpoint (8) 18. Bowler’s task: circle to cover! (7) 20. Sniff queer bouquet (7) 22. Hairstyle for a star – unusual (5) 24. Very large, that is right for a willow tree (5) 25. Clumsily utter an insult (4)

Quick Clues ACROSS 1. Busses, trains, trams etc (6,9) 9. Downpour, squall (4,5) 10. Command, edict (5) 11. Personal traits, characteristics (6) 12. Spider, scorpion or mite (8) 13. Light or delicate colour (6) 15. Egg-shaped wind instruments (8) 18. Bed time drink, taken with warm milk (8) 19. Protect, hide (6) 21. Flimsy, tenuous (8) 23 Inuit houses (6) 26. National flower of India (5) 27. Running like a horse (9)

Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 6.00 Prime News 6.30 Seven News 7.00 Home And Away 7.30 How I Met Your Mother 8.30 Grey’s Anatomy (M) 9.30 Desperate Housewives (M) 10.30 Private Practice (M) 11.30 30 Rock (M) 12.00 The Whistleblowers (M) 1.00 Home Shopping 5.30 Seven News

7TWO 6.00 Kids Time 9.30 Shortland Street 10.00 Coronation Street 10.30 Emmerdale 11.00 Hollyoaks 11.30 Passport To The Sun 12.00 Murphy Brown 12.30 Desperate Housewives (M) 1.30 Great British Journeys 2.30 Movie: Brother John (PG 1971) US drama. Stars Sidney Poitier 4.30 Welcome Back Kotter 5.00 Head Of The Class 5.30 Growing Pains 6.00 Bargain Hunt 7.00 On The Buses 7.30 Movie: Hercules (G 1997) Animation 9.30 Movie: The Eagle Has Landed (PG 1976) WWII drama. Stars Michael Caine 12.15 Movie: Brother John 2.10 Harry’s Practice 2.40 Dr Oz 3.30 Passport To The Sun 4.00 Coronation Street 4.30 Emmerdale 5.00 Home Shopping

7MATE 6.00 Wagon Train 7.00 The Virginian 8.30 McHale’s Navy 9.00 NBC Today 11.00 Quincy ME 12.00 Magnum PI 1.00 Airwolf 2.00 Baywatch 3.00

28. Personal possessions, what belongs to an individual (7,8) DOWN 1. Root vegetable (7) 2. Constructed, erected (5) 3. Rebel, invader (9) 4. Implement, instrument (4) 5. Contest between nations to secure superior weapons (4,4) 6. Impassive, unyielding (5) 7. Decree or sacrament (9) 8. Diatribes, denunciations (7) 14. Type of pasta (9) 16. Band such as the Rolling Stones (4,5) 17. Enmesh, tie up (8) 18. Cover, with a bit extra (7) 20. Posy, bouquet of flowers (7) 22. Jamaican cultist (abbrev) (5) 24. Willow tree (5) 25. Insult, disparage (4)

Last week’s solution

Xena Warrior Princess 4.00 Hercules 5.00 The Drew Carey Show 5.30 According To Jim 6.30 My Wife And Kids 7.00 That ’70s Show 7.30 Mighty Ships 8.30 Man Made Marvels 9.30 Super Factories 10.40 Breakout (M) 11.30 The Sopranos (MA) 12.30 Cops, Cars And Superstars (M) 1.00 The Sopranos (MA) 2.00 Airwolf 3.00 Quincy ME 4.00 Hercules 5.00 Baywatch

NBN 5.30 Today 9.00 Kerri-Anne 11.00 Danoz 12.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 1.00 The View 2.00 Days Of Our Lives 3.00 Alive And Cooking 3.30 Magical Tales 4.00 Kitchen Whiz 4.30 Afternoon News 5.30 Hot Seat 6.00 NBN News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 RBT 8.00 Getaway 8.30 CSI (M) 9.30 The NRL Footy Show (M) 11.15 The AFL Footy Show (M) 1.00 Entertainment Tonight 1.30 Skippy 2.00 Infomercials 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

7.30 The Big Bang Theory 8.00 The Middle 8.30 The Big Bang Theory 9.00 The Inbetweeners (MA) 9.30 Movie: 10 Things I Hate About You (PG 1999) US comedy. Stars Heath Ledger 11.30 South Park (M) 12.00 The Inbetweeners (MA) 12.30 The Hills 1.00 Starsky & Hutch (M) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Get Smart 5.30 The Flintstones

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6.00 Today 9.00 Alive & Cooking 9.30 The Zoo 10.00 The Nanny 10.30 Friends 11.00 Murder, She Wrote 12.00 Movie: Good Guys And The Bad Guys (PG 1969) Western. Stars Robert Mitchum 2.00 Domestic Blitz 3.00 McLeod’s Daughters 4.00 What A Year 5.00 Ellen Degeneres Show 6.00 The Nanny 6.30 Friends 7.00 The Zoo 7.30 As Time Goes By 8.00 The Golden Girls 8.30 Hoarders 9.30 Embarrassing Illnesses 10.30 Wife Swap USA 11.30 Conan (M) 12.30 Murder, She Wrote 1.30 As Time Goes By 2.00 Home Shopping 6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.30 4.30 Religion 5.00 30 Minute Menu Entertainment Tonight 11.00 TMZ 5.30 Today 11.30 Get Smart 12.00 Here’s Lucy 12.30 Green Acres 1.00 Seinfeld 1.30 The Hills 2.00 Starsky & Hutch (M) 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Seinfeld 6.30 The Middle 7.00 Funniest Home Videos

CHESS

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by Ian Rogers Play at Seagulls Club, Thurs 6-10pm At the end of 2011 Marc Lang, a little known German FIDE Master, will attempt to break Miguel Najdorf’s 1947 record by playing 46 games simultaneously blindfolded.

That’s right – 46 games at once without seeing any of the boards.

When Andre Philidor played three games simultaneously blindfold in 1783, the organisers obtained affidavits from the participants because they feared that the outside world would not believe that such a feat was possible.

Subsequently, simultaneous blindfold records were slowly increased, though Lang seems intent on taking blindfold chess into new territory.

In November Lang, 41, completed a 35 board simultaneous exhibition, scoring above 70 per cent in 23 hours and shattering the 34 board record of the great George Koltanowski.

However, unlike Koltanowski, Lang took no short draws and his opposition was considerably stronger than Koltanowski’s.

Having played more than 300

blindfold simultaneous exhibitions myself – though never attempting more than 12 games simultaneously – I can only view Lang’s achievement with awe. (The Soviet Union went so far as to ban simultaneous blindfold record attempts, for fear of mental health consequences.)

The hardest part about a blindfold chess exhibition is ordering the boards in your mind – remembering that a particular position was board seven and not board nine.

Lang has developed a clever way to aid his memory; he sits facing the players and tries to link a face to a board number and position. (The pieces are hidden from his view by a barrier.)

Najdorf ’s 45 games in Brazil in 1947 – played in order to get the news to his family in Poland that he had survived WWII – was considered so outrageous that until recently the legitimacy of the record was doubted. (Later record claims, by Flesch and Bjelica, were definitely fraudulent.)

Lang has already broken Koltanowski’s record and there seems no reason to doubt that he has the skill, memory and determination to reach his goal of 46 games.

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Seniors WEEK LIFT-OUT SPECIAL!

SENIORS WEEK PROGRAM 20–27 March 2001

SUNDAY 20 MARCH

WEDNESDAY 23 MARCH

Launch of Tweed Shire Seniors Week 2011 – Official launch of Seniors Week, entertainment and afternoon tea at Noble Lakeside Park. Special guest Ambassador for Ageing – Noeline Brown. Time: 2 – 4pm. Cost: FREE. Location: 34 Monarch Dr, Kingscliff. Bookings: Don Reid ((02) 6674 3013.

Tasting Life – Because It’s Delicious – A guided walk, tai chi, gentle exercise, healthy cooking and nutrition plus local activity information.

Come for one or all activities! Time: 8–11am. Cost: FREE. Location: Jack Bayliss Park (northern end) Marine Parade, Kingscliff. Bookings: Not Required. Info: Tanya (02) 6670 2442.

Tweed Valley Tai Chi – Come and try a Tai Chi lesson in the park. Pottsville Beach Neighbourhood Centre – Digital camera Time: 9 – 10.30am. Cost: FREE. Location: Southern end of cricket oval workshop – Time: 10–12pm. Cost: FREE. Mobile phone workshop opposite shops at Pottsville. Bookings: Not required.

– Time: 1–3pm. Cost: FREE. Location: 12a Elizabeth St, Pottsville Beach – old school buildings. Disabled access and parking. Bookings: Drew TUESDAY 22 MARCH Stevenson (02) 6676 4555 and admin@pottsbnc.ngo.org.au.

Chinderah Lifeball Group – Come along and have a try of Lifeball.

Time: 9.15–11.30am. Cost: FREE. Location: Tweed Supersports Centre – Chinderah Bay Dr, Chinderah Bookings: Not required. Info: G Shipley (07) 5524 4558.

Murwillumbah Public School: Senior Citizens Concert and Morning Tea – Time: from 9.30am. Cost: FREE. Location: Murwillumbah P.S Hall – new hall in Riverview St. Entrance under covered area off Riverview St. Info: Robyn or Vikki (02) 6672 1467.

Tweed Historical Rainforest Cruise – 2 hr cruise around the Terranora Inlet and Tweed River. Time: 9.30 Qld. Cost: $25 Location: Tweed Marina – 2 River Terrace, Tweed Heads. Bookings: Tweed Endeavour Cruises (07) 5536 8800.

Twin Towns Friends Association Inc: Rock’n’Roll Dancing Exhibition with light luncheon. Time: 11.30am. Cost: $5. Location: Tweed Heads Civic Centre – Brett Street Tweed Heads. Bookings: Doreen Welsh (07) 5524 1841.

Twin Towns U3A Open Day – Visitors can observe some current classes and view displays on an extensive range of activities. Time: 9.30 – 1.30pm. Cost: gold coin donation to flood relief. Location: PCYC – Florence St, Tweed Heads. Bookings: Not required.

Tweed Heads Croquet Club Inc: Come and try – Golf Croquet – Have a go at croquet. Bring hat, flat shoes, sunscreen. Time: From 9.30am. Cost: $5. Location: 39 Recreation St, Tweed Heads. Info: Juliet (07) 5536 7019 or (02) 6672 2521.

Greenhills Lodge Ladies Auxillary: Cent Auction – lucky door prizes, hundreds of dollars of prizes to be won, free entertainment.

Devonshire tea $3, sausage sizzle $2. Time: 9.30am. Cost: FREE. Location: Greenhills Lodge – 437 Tweed Valley Way, Murwillumbah.

Bookings: Not required. Info: Terri Perry (02) 6672 3435.

Condong Public School: Seniors Week Celebration – Show and tell from past with morning tea. Time: 9.45am. Cost: FREE. Location: 77 McLeod St, Condong. Bookings: (02) 6672 2390.

Richmond Tweed Regional Library (Tweed and Murwillumbah): Income Streams – Centrelink presents an income stream talk in language you understand. @ Tweed Library – Time: 10am. Cost: FREE. Location: Tweed Heads Public Library – Brett St, Council Civic Centre.

Bookings: (07) 5569 3150. @ Murwillumbah Library – Time: 2pm .

Banora Point Community Centre: Comedy Morning with a Twist Cost: FREE. Location: Murwillumbah Library – Tumbulgum Road, Council – Light lunch will be provided. Time: 10 – 1pm. Cost: Gold Coin. Civic Centre. Bookings: (02) 6670 2427.

Location: Banora Point Community Centre. Cnr Leisure and Woodland Banora Point Community Centre: Mobile Phone Workshop Dr, Banora Point. Bookings: Preferred. Ph Lyn Porter (07) 5523 2030.

– Local youth give you guidance on using your mobile phone. Time: Ocean View Banora Point: Fun James Bond 007 Theme Morning – Time: 10 – 12.30pm. Cost: Gold Coin. Location: Ocean View Banora Point – Leisure Centre. 2 Terranora Rd, Banora Point. Bookings: Preferable. Ph Shelley (07) 5506 0888.

Twin Towns Radio Yacht Club Learn to Sail Day – Learn to sail 3–5pm. Cost: FREE. Location: Banora Point Community Centre. Cnr radio controlled yachts. Time: 10 – 2pm. Cost: FREE. Location: Kimberly Leisure and Woodland Dr, Banora Point. Bookings: Essential. Ph Lyn Lake – Winders Pl, Banora Point. Bookings: Not Required. Info: Richard Porter (07) 5523 2030.

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Banora Point Community Baptist Church: Just For You – Mini THURSDAY 24 MARCH Expo and Art Exhibition – Info/displays/presentation and morning Tweed Historical Luncheon Cruise – 4.5 hr cruise down the Tweed tea. Time: 10 – 12 noon. Cost: $5. Location: Church Community Centre River to Tumbulgum. Enjoy morning tea, spectacular bird feeding – Corporation Cct, Tweed Heads South. Info: Win 0431 370 511. show and the history and mysteries of the Tweed all while enjoying a Twin Towns Services Club – Johnny Cash and June Carter–Cash delicious surf and turf lunch. Time: 9.30 Qld. Cost: $45. Location: Tweed Tribute Show. Time: 10.30 – 12 noon Qld. Cost: FREE. Location: Twin Marina – 2 River Terrace, Tweed Heads. Bookings: Tweed Endeavour Towns Services Club – 2 Wharf St Tweed Heads. Info: 1800 014 014. Cruises (07) 5536 8800.

Tweed Shire Senior Citizens Seniors Week Committee: Condong Tweed Heads Public School: Senior Citizens Concert and Bowls Club Luncheon – 2 course lunch, entertainment, prizes and Morning Tea – Whole school concert presentation and morning tea. more. Time: 11.30am. Cost: $12. Location: Condong Bowls Club – 1 Time: 9.30am. Cost: FREE. Location: Stuart St, Tweed Heads. Info: Carol McCleod St, Condong. Bookings: Pauline (02) 6672 8051 or Alex (02) (07) 5536 1351.

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Pottsville Beach Neighbourhood Centre – Digital camera Richmond Tweed Regional Library: Investments for Retirement workshop – Time: 10–12pm. Cost: FREE. Mobile phone workshop – Centrelink – presents investments for retirement talk. Time: 10am. – Time: 1–3pm. Cost: FREE. Location: 12a Elizabeth St, Pottsville Beach Cost: FREE. Location: Kingscliff Public Library – Turnock St, Kingscliff. – old school buildings. Disabled access and parking. Bookings: Drew Stevenson (02) 6676 4555 and admin@pottsbnc.ngo.org.au.

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LIFT-OUT SPECIAL! SENIORS WEEK PROGRAM CONTINUED...

Coolangatta Senior Citizens Centre Open Day – Open day to cater for new members. Time: 9 – 2pm Qld. Cost: FREE. Location: Coolangatta Senior Citizens Centre – 2 Gerrard St, Coolangatta. Bookings: Not required.

Tweed River Art Gallery and Friends of the Gallery: A Morning at the Gallery – Create a flower posy, enjoy exhibition talk and morning tea. Time: 10–12.30pm. Cost: FREE. Location: Tweed River Art Gallery – 2 Mistral Rd, Murwillumbah South. Bookings: Susi Muddiman (02) 6670 2790.

Richmond Tweed Regional Library: (Tweed and Murwillumbah): Accommodation Options – Centrelink presents an accommodation option talk in a language you understand. @ Tweed Library – Time: 10am. Cost: FREE. Location: Tweed Heads Public Library – Brett St, Council Civic Centre. Bookings: (07) 5569 3150. @ Murwillumbah Library – Time: 2pm. Cost: FREE. Location: Murwillumbah Library – Tumbulgum Road, Council Civic Centre. Bookings: (02) 6670 2427.

Twin Towns Services Club: Mammy – The Al Jolson Story – Time: 10.30 – 11.45pm Qld. Cost: FREE. Location: Twin Towns Services Club – 2 Wharf St, Tweed Heads. Info: 1800 014 014.

Computer Association Tweed Seniors Open Day – Introduction to computers, questions and answers/hands-on demonstrations. Time: 10.30 – 12pm. Cost: FREE. Location: Seagulls Club – Gollan Dr, Tweed Heads West. Bookings: Noelene Magrath (07) 5599 8939.

Cabarita Beach Sports Club: Live Life Seniors Week Concert – Free entertainment from Encore. $10 lunch menu available. Time: 11.30am. Cost: FREE. Location: Cabarita Beach Sports Club – Cabarita Rd, Bogangar. Bookings: Preferred. Ph (02) 6676 1135.

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Tweed Shire Council: Guided tour of Bray Park Water Treatment Plant – Guided tour by council staff of this award-winning new facility that supplies water to everyone in the Tweed. Morning tea will be served. Lift available. Time: 10am. Cost: FREE. Location: Departs from Murwillumbah Civic Centre car park. Bookings: Cheryl Jackson ph (02) Public School. Charles St, Murwillumbah. Bookings: Not required. Info: 6670 2400.

What’s happening at Banora Point Community Centre? Playing Mark (02) 6672 6781. cards (canasta) starting 9.30am, Stretch your mind starting 9.45am, Gi Gong starting at 11.15am, Scrapbooking at 12pm, Jewellery Making, Scrabble, Art starting at 1pm. Time: From 9.30. Cost: FREE. Location: Banora Point Community Centre – Cnr Leisure and Woodland Drive, Banora Point. Bookings: Preferred. Ph Lyn Porter (07) 5523 2030.

SATURDAY 26 MARCH Murwillumbah Walking Group:Historical walk of Murwillumbah – Gentle historical walk with local walking group followed by light breakfast. Time: 7am. Cost: FREE. Location: meet at Coolamon Cultural Centre, Tumbulgum Rd, Murwillumbah. Bookings: Not required. Info: Noela (02) 6672 2262.

Coolangatta Senior Citizens Centre – Concert for all members and non–members. Time: 1 – 3pm Qld. Cost: FREE. Location: Coolangatta Senior Citizens Centre – 2 Gerrard St Coolangatta.

Bookings: (07) 5536 4050.

ALL WEEK ACTIVITIES… Seniors Week 2011 @ Uki CTC – Mon to Friday – User friendly introduction to digital technologies. Eight computers available for use.

Time: Daily 9am – 4pm. Cost: FREE. Location: The Old Buttery – Shop 3, 1451 Kyogle Rd Uki. Bookings: Not required. Info: (02) 6679 5399 or ctcuki@bigpond.net.au.

Murwillumbah Historical Society Inc – Open Wed, Fri and Sat – Come to the museum and discover the history of your local area.

Murwillumbah East Public School: Grandparents Day. Disabled parking and access. Time: 9.30 – 4pm. Cost: $2 per person.

Celebration of grandparents and their role in families – concert and Location: Murwillumbah Museum – Cnr Queensland Rd and Bent St morning tea. Time: 11am. Cost: FREE. Location: Murwillumbah East Murwillumbah. Bookings: Not required. Info: Carol (02) 6672 1865.

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Tracey Fairclough is passionate about her swimwear which aims to please the mature woman but can suit ages 16 and up.

The swimwear looks fantastic and is super quick to dry but the best benefit of all is the magic of tummy control. Tummy Control ‘irons out the hip area and has a beautiful bustline making the wearer look slimmer and have a great shape,’ says Tracey.

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Set in a secluded location for peace and privacy, with views across the rainforest, this spacious, open plan unit enjoys easy access to the community swimming pool. Internal features include ceiling fans and air-conditioning, separate carport and a 24-hour emergency call system.

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‘Regular social activities play a major role in the health and wellbeing of residents and can alleviate feelings of anxiety and isolation that some residents experience when they first enter aged care,’ Denise said.

Capturing the charm of the historic Raffles Hotel in Singapore, Raffles is a stylish purpose-built facility with 18 highcare and 80 low-care beds.

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• Have you been told you speak too loudly?

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A night at the theatre or cinema, a group meeting, a restaurant dinner, without being able to hear? This is what many adults who lose their hearing partially or completely have to live with every day. Some people lose their hearing within a very short time (from accidents, diseases, illnesses etc.), while for others it is progressive and can take 20, 30 or 40 years. Hearing deteriorates from year to year and the person has to adjust to it. One of the most common causes of progressive hearing loss is work-related noise exposure and presbycusis (agerelated hearing loss), but young people can also be affected. Unfortunately, it is only when the person has already lost a lot of hearing that they consult an audiologist.

ADULT HEARING CHECKLIST • Do you often ask people to repeat what they have said?

Wine, Dine, Relax and Play at Kingscliff Beach Bowls Club. Situated on Kingscliff’s pristine main beachfront we offer uninterrupted views of the Pacific Ocean. We are a family friendly Club with plenty on offer for our members and their guests. Our Blue Pacific Bistro is open seven days for lunch and dinner and also breakfast on the weekend. We also have our Oceans Café which is open seven days with a great selection of light meals, beverages, coffees and cakes. The club hosts daily promotions including Bingo, Raffles, Trivia, plus many more. Enjoy our free live entertainment every Monday lunch, and Friday and Saturday nights.

The Club’s courtesy bus operates 7 days a week with local hourly pick-ups and drop-offs; bookings are essential. Our Bottle Shop offers a wide variety of beer, wine and spirits with monthly specials.

Our three first class bowling greens are available for daily games.

For more information or to book our courtesy bus, please contact the Club on 02 6674 1404.

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JIMMY BARNES TWIN TOWNS ON SUNDAY

Been there and back... and now he’s here

Riding the airwaves Band of Frequencies emerged from the fertile Byron Bay and Brisbane creative communities in 2005 and have been generating a groundswell of support and interest from around the globe ever since. They draw their influences from a wide spectrum of styles and sounds; roots-laden, heavy grooving rock and soul merges into ambient acoustics and electronic influences that then meet blues at the crossroads before moving beyond into to dub styles, psychedelia and live drum’n’bass.

Independently free of any limitations, Band of Frequencies have set their intentions on creating the best sonic tools they can to allow complete expressive freedom to exist within their music.

The lads have all played together for years in the internationally renowned world beat group Afro Dizzi Act, playing major festivals such as the East Coast Blues and Roots Festival, Woodford Folk Festival, Splendour in the Grass, the Big Day Out, Livid, the Kathmandu Jazz Festival as well as having toured the far reaches of North East India. As artists, their passion for exploring new sounds, styles and music from many cultures constantly pushes the limits of their musical expression.

Catch them if you can, Soundlounge Currumbin Friday.

Jimmy Barnes needs no introduction – he has been there and back. And, he says, ‘I’m glad to be back.’ He’s tasted glory as Australia’s favourite rock and roll singer for more than three decades. In the 70s and 80s he was the wildest, loudest and most popular rock and roll star in the country. In the 1990s Jimmy reached mega-stardom with backto-back #1 albums in both soul and rock genres. Then everything went out of control and he came close to losing everything, including his sanity and his life. In the 21st century, after rehab and open-heart surgery, he has climbed back to the top of the charts and the top of his form and he brings it all to the Twin Towns on Sunday.

Top o’ the evenin’ to yas Formed in 1996 2 B Sure has proven to be one of the most popular Irish groups in Queensland. With appearances at top Irish venues including Dicey Reilly’s, Gilhoolies, Harrigans, Fibber Magees, Dublin Docks, RUSSELL MORRIS ALONG The Irish Club, and residencies at Dooley’s WITH DARRYL COTTON AND JIM KEAYS THURSDAY MARCH Irish Hotel, you can expect to hear brilliant 24 AT CURRUMBIN RSL arrangements of recognisable material performed via quality musicianship laced with Irish influence.

This multi-talented duo will perform a mixture of Irish and Aussie favourites with a new and refreshing sound consisting of The Beautiful Girls, exciting rhythms, awesome fiddle, great vocal harmony, guitar, Coolangatta Hotel banjo and mandolin pickin’ that January 14 will keep your toes tapping. Be sure, 2 Be Sure not to miss this talented Irish duo. Currumbin RSL Thursday.

Laneway

Coming Soon

Paul Hannan and Louise O’Reilly met and bonded over an eclectic crossing of folk and country traditions in 2007.

Hannan had been the front man of numerous prominent Brisbane bands; O’Reilly revealed a self-taught guitar and voice that she’d secretly wrought together during an extended stay in Cape York. As Laneway, the pair’s enviable and relaxed attention to old and new combines a love of harmony, a touch of psychedelia and a pop sensibility.

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Get your Burlesque on Burlesque Fever is a new addition to the Coolangatta Hotel’s Ladies’ Night. Held every Thursday fortnight in the Infusion Vodka Lounge from 6 to 8pm, Burlesque Dolls performer and Miss Burlesque Australia-Queensland finalist, Miss Dolly Monroe will have ladies shimmy, shake, bump and grind their way through the sexiest and sauciest of burlesque routines.

Miss Dolly will teach a range of traditional, new and unique burlesque routines, using both classic and new burlesque music complete with props including feather boas, dancing canes and hats. Infusion opens up to the public from 8pm complete with all the Ladies-Only specials.

Bookings are essential as places are limited. Coolangatta Hotel Thursday.

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In the Zone is one of the Coast’s premier corporate music acts and has been entertaining audiences worldwide for over ten years. With their combined musical talents, multi-instrumentalist Tony and lead singer Neridah form the heart of In the Zone. From classics to the latest chart releases, pop-rock to funky dance and laidback dinner music, this Gold Coast-based cover act has a massive repertoire to cater for any mood. Friday Currumbin RSL.

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Starry, starry Nitestar Together Nitestar pump out a great authentic retro rock sound with blistering female vocals, delivering a solid selection of songs that everyone can enjoy, most importantly themselves. The Nitestar story and musical history equals all things Rock and some other twists, but is so vast, just like the corners of the universe that they come from, there is not enough room to write it all. Join Dazzamatazz, Mr D, The Roostar, and Star for Nitestar’s gig at the Australian Tavern Murwillumbah on Friday.

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LOU BRADLEY SPIHNX ROCK CAFE SUNDAY

Serving it up gently Suavemente means ‘gently’ in Spanish – it describes the music. Suavemente share their cute songs, underpinned by a blanket of ambience and soft latin grooves. The band includes David Sykes and Rich Bell (formerly of the Light Activation) on guitars, Salvador Castro on percussion, Shannon River on bass and the understated vocals, spoken and sung, of Andrea Quinn. See them at Sphinx Rock Cafe on Friday.

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YOU LOOK JUST LIKE YOUR MOTHER

Local boy and the Calm Electric Aaron Bishop is a musician and writer from Bilambil Heights. He picked up the guitar nearly 20 years ago and soon after he studied at the Australian Institute of Music. He played as rhythm guitarist for five years in Central Coast band Icarus Eye, who toured the east coast and supported such bands as Silverchair and Frenzal Rhomb.

Aaron played his first solo gig in a terrace house in East London. He lived and worked abroad for many years, playing gigs and recording songs in London, Dublin, Edinburgh and Tokyo.

Planting his feet back on Australian soil in 2005, he recorded the Bishop EP and in late 2008 he completed his debut album The Calm Electric. Aaron’s style blends folk/rock / pop/celtic and world music with a sound uniquely his own. See him Saturday at Marty’s @ Caba.

SUBBY VALENTINE CURRUMBIN RSL SATURDAY

Bringing love to the crew Andy has a reggae swing sound that is as unique as it is uplifting; combining vocals, guitar, bells, kazoo and various percussive instruments he has over 350 shows to his name already. Whether it’s busking the streets or supporting the world music groove of Ozomatli or the hip hop blues of G.Love and Special Sauce, Andy brings his own brand of love to the audience. Sheoak Shack Saturday.

A little bit of Bohemia at Mt Burrell Lou Bradley is well known around Mullumbimby for her bohemian style of country music. Her vivacious performances are based on deep thought and strong guitar rhythms. With two albums to her credit Lou is ready to aim her career star at new heights. Lou is playing this Sunday at the Sphinx Rock Café.

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o-one wants to be told they look like their mother. Especially blokes. It’s very emasculating for a 20-year-old boy to be told he looks like a 50-year-old woman. As a girl it’s not much better. Unless of course your mother is Grace Kelly or Angelina Jolie.

Even then I bet their daughters get the shits when people lay that stupid line on them. Especially Zahara Jolie. She’s adopted from Africa. And as for Caroline looking like Grace, well, Grace is dead.

That’s hardly a compliment.

Lately all my family members have been telling me how much I look like my mum.

They qualify it with ‘as you’re getting older’. Like that’s less insulting. I’ll be all dressed up feeling a million bucks and they’ll hit me with a ‘God, you look like Carol’. Like I’m no longer a person but a flesh and blood homage to my mum.

Kids spend their entire lives trying to establish an identity that is separate from their parents. It seems cruel that your genes conspire to make you look like the very people you’re rebelling against.

That’s like Tony Abbott suddenly starting to look like Julia Gillard. Or Shane Warne starting to look like Simone.

The Godfather of Blues With true heart, soul, rhythm and blues Wiley Reed will entertain you with his varied repertoire and ability to deliver the ultimate performance headed straight for the blues. Born in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1944 he launched his singing career at age nine, singing in the church choir, and progressed to piano studies. He moved to Australia in 1967 and displays his musical stylings of gospel, spiritual, funk, soul and blues to acclaim.

His CD Straight from the Heart has beautiful ballads such as I Put a Spell on You and You Don’t Know Me to the driving rhythms of Muddy Waters. Reed said he selected the songs hoping to touch the hearts of listeners who may have had the blues at some stage in their lives or who have experienced some of the situations he has sung about.

Wiley has three Queensland Recording Association Sunnie Awards for Best Male Vocalist, Best Blues Album and Best Producer. He has twice won Best Blues Artist at the Gold Coast Jazz and Blues Festival. Don’t miss this freight train of talent headed straight for the blues at Currumbin RSL on Saturday.

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Look, I love my mum. As far as 60-yearold women go I think she’s very attractive; she could even qualify as a GILF. My stepdad’s nine years younger, so I suppose she almost qualifies as a cougar. (Albeit a cougar in comfortable shoes and tracksuit pants.)

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She’s well kept, I’ll give her that. She goes to Curves three times a week and she’s a very pretty woman. If I saw her at the gym and she was a complete stranger and someone said, ‘Wow, you look just like that random woman over there on the treadmill,’ I’d say, ‘Really? thanks.’ It would be a compliment.

But I don’t want to look like her. It’s not personal. It’s just that she’s my mother. I want people to say, ‘Wow, you look just like Jennifer Hawkins,’ and then qualify it with, ‘as you’re getting older’. Although as I’m getting older I’m feeling more on the

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I remember looking at my mother as a child. I thought she was beautiful. And soft. And smothery. I remember standing eye height to her butt and thinking wow, that is the biggest bum I’ve ever seen. It was just this massive expanse of arse. I’ve seen photos of my mother’s arse in the 70s. She was tiny. Barely a size 8. I can’t imagine what my own children have thought of my humungous booty.

I don’t imagine they’re any more welldisposed to be told ‘you look just like your mother’ as I was. No gorgeous teenage girl wants to be told she looks like a 40-year-old woman.

Mothers aren’t normal women: they’re mothers. It’s like a whole other species. I know because I am one. Now when I fill in forms that ask male or female, I make a new category called ‘other’. I am no longer a woman. I am a guilt-delivery device. I am a receptacle of judgment. A bottomless cup of conditional love.

Oscar Wilde put it most succinctly: ‘All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.’ It’s ironic that you become the thing that you set yourself up not to be. As a teenager I reduced my mother to tears in an argument by shouting, ‘When I grow up I don’t want to be anything like YOU!’ What a nasty little bitch I was.

Anyway, turns out she got her own back.

I am like her. Just like her. She won. I thought having daughters that I’d get to pull a prize in the genetic lucky dip. I’ve been waiting for people to croon at my beautiful girls, ‘Wow, they look just like you’. They don’t. They say, ‘Wow, the girls are looking gorgeous. They look just like your mother.’

member presents a piece of Australian rock and roll history. They are a unique major Australian rock act and one that should not be missed. Their contemporary approach to their music and life has rewarded them with continuing successes. The show is being enjoyed by audiences of all ages and has an appeal for a generation that looks back with fond memories to a music experience that has earned its place in rock history. A style of music that has not been repeated. Thursday March 24 at the Currumbin RSL.

IVY LUCILLE THE RED PIANO BAR UKI, SATURDAY

Three Australian legends in one huge show Darryl Cotton, Russell Morris and Jim Keays are Cotton, Keays and Morris: three icons presenting a cross-section of the 40 Australian hits they have been responsible for between them! Songs include Wings Of An Eagle, Eleanor Rigby, Elevator Driver, The Real Thing, Same Old Girl, and Turn Up Your Radio, and they live on in our rich musical history. Darryl Cotton, Jim Keays and Russell Morris are proud to be combining their unique blend of talent and musical ability into an event that you will never forget.

Seldom will you have the opportunity to witness such a totally original show where every

Stephen Hawkings side of things. But it’s true. I am starting to look like my mother.

I’m even starting to sound like her. Every now and then I’ll be standing on the back step nagging the kids and my voice will crack into a nasal Queensland Strine and I hear my mother’s voice whining from my lips.

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Gig Guide THURSDAY 17

TWEED ■ CLUB BANORA 6PM WAYNE VITALE ■ CUDGEN LEAGUES CLUB SIMONE CUTTING ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH BOWLS CLUB 5PM THE IRISH TRIO – PADDY & GLORI O’BRIEN ■ SHEOAK SHACK 1PM ANDY BURKE ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 6PM VEENIE’S – HOT FUDGE GOLD COAST ■ BILAMBIL SPORTS CLUB OPEN MIC AND JAM NIGHT ■ COOLANGATTA HOTEL 6PM BURLESQUE FEVER, 9PM GLEN ASHLEY ■ CURRUMBIN RSL 7.30PM 2 B SURE ■ CUDGEN LEAGUES 6PM SIMONE CUTTING ■ KIRRA SPORTS CLUB 8PM PHIL EIZENBERG’S OPEN MIKE NITE ■ THE PATCH LOUNGE COOLANGATTA 7.30PM NIC TANGO KICKS

FRIDAY 18

TWEED ■ AUSTRALIAN TAVERN 8.30PM NITESTAR ■ CABARITA BEACH SPORTS CLUB 8PM FATHOM ■ CLUB BANORA 7PM MEMPHIS MOVERS ■ CUDGEN LEAGUES 7PM DAVO ■ LATTITUDE 28 DEG RESTAURANT 6PM PHIL EIZENBERG ■ LUFFLEY CAFE MURWILLUMBAH 7.15PM LUFFLEY’S 8TH BIRTHDAY WITH THE LIVING ROOM QUARTET ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH BOWLS CLUB 7.30PM BIG MUSIC ■ MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES CLUB 11.00AM: MORNING MELODIES - TRIBUTE TO SLIM DUSTY, 6.30PM THE LYRICS MASTER COMPETITION ■ SALT BAR KINGSCLIFF CABOOSE ■ SPHINX ROCK CAFE 7PM SUAVEMENTE ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB NOON MICHAEL 7.30PM DAVID BARRY GOLD COAST ■ COOLANGATTA HOTEL 3PM DARREN FIELD, 7.30PM FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL, 9.30PM DJ MIKE LIFTIN, 10PM THE ACCIDENTS ■ CURRUMBIN RSL IN THE ZONE ■ CURRUMBIN SOUNDLOUNGE 7.30PM BAND OF FREQUENCIES SUPPORTED BY LANEWAY ■ GREENMOUNT SURF CLUB, COOLANGATTA

8.30PM MASON RACK BAND ■ NEVERLAND COOLANGATTA SEDUCTION & SEQUENCE ■ THE PATCH LOUNGE COOLANGATTA 7.30PM MESCALITO BLUES ■ TWIN TOWNS JUNIORS CLUB DAVE CAVANAGH

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TWEED ■ AUSTRALIAN TAVERN 7.30PM MUSICIANS AND FRIENDS ■ CABARITA BEACH SPORTS CLUB 8PM RUSSELL HINTON ■ CHINDERA TAVERN MR TROY ■ CLUB BANORA 7PM PJ CREAMER ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH BOWLS CLUB 7.30PM HAPPY DAZE KARAOKE ■ LATTITUDE 28 DEG RESTAURANT 6PM PHIL EIZENBERG ■ MARTY’S AT CABA, CABARITA BEACH 7PM AARON BISHOP ■ MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES CLUB 6.30PM TOMMY MEMPHIS ■ THE RED PIANO BAR UKI IVY LUCILLE ■ SALTBAR, KINGSCLIFF 8.30PM ONE TOO MANY BAND ■ SHEOAK SHACK 7PM ANDY ■ SOUTH TWEED SPORTS CLUB 3PM SATURDAY JAZZ THE BEATLEGS ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 7.30PM THAT’S CABARET ■ TYALGUM HALL 5PM TYALGUM DANCE SPECTACULAR GOLD COAST ■ BURLEIGH BEARS LEAGUES CLUB 7.30PM AKASA ■ COOLANGATTA HOTEL 9PM AGENT 77, 10PM DJ CHRIS TOFA ■ CURRUMBIN RSL 6.30PM SIDE SPLITTING COMEDY, 7PM THE BEAM ■ NEVERLAND COOLANGATTA DANNY T ■ THE PATCH LOUNGE COOLANGATTA 7.30PM SOUTH PACIFIC SOUND SYSTEM W/DJ ALFIE N

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TWEED ■ CHINDERA TAVERN CRAB RACES & BILL JACOBI

■ CLUB BANORA 11.30AM HENRY RUHL 12.30 ROBERT KEITH ■ IVORY TAVERN, TWEED HEADS 3PM BROADFOOT ■ POTTSVILLE BEACH SPORTS CLUB 4PM DAVE CAVANAGH ■ SALTBAR CHRIS BOYANTAN ■ SPIHNX ROCK CAFE 2PM LOU BRADLEY DUO ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 5PM MICHAEL KING GOLD COAST ■ COOLANGATTA HOTEL 3PM REMEDY, 7PM DJ CHRIS TOFA ■ COOLANGATTA SURF CLUB 2PM RUSSELL SPROUT ■ CURRUMBIN RSL 1.30PM SUNDAY JAZZ, WILEY REED ■ NEVERLAND EASY SUNDAYS ■ SURFERS BEER GARDEN SUNDAY SESSIONS ■ TWIN TOWNS 7.30PM JIMMY BARNES

MONDAY 21 TWEED ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH BOWLS CLUB 12 NOON ROBBIE ROSENLUND ■ SALT BAR KINGSCLIFF 7PM FRETFEST THE SINGER SONGWRITER SHOWCASE ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 6.30PM ROBBIE ROSENLUND N

Cinema Guide

AMC Tweed 6 Cinemas Tweed City Shopping Centre, 54 Minjungbal Drive, South Tweed Heads 07 5523 3321 www.amcmovies.com.au Murwillumbah Regent Cinema 5 Brisbane St, Murwillumbah 02 6672 8265 www.cinemaregent.com BCC, Coolangatta Coolangatta Shopping Resort Griffith St (Cnr Warner St) Coolangatta 07 5536 9300 Cinemax Cinema 60 Marine Parade Kingscliff 02 6674 4422

Art Galleries

19KAREN CONTEMPORARY ARTSPACE

07 5524 2109 Open: 9am-4pm every day except weekends

CAFÉ D’BAR GALLERY

64 Fingal Rd, Fingal Head 07 5523 1130 Open Wed-Thurs: 11am-5pm, Fri-Sat: 11am-10:30pm, Sun 9:30am-5pm

19 Karen Avenue, Mermaid Beach 4218. (07) 55545019. info@19karen.com.au www.19karen.com.a

275 Boundary St, Coolangatta 07 5536 2500 • Open every day

SHEOAK SHACK GALLERY CAFÉ

COMMUNITY PRINTMAKERS STOKERS SIDING POTTERY MURWILLUMBAH (CPM INC) 224 Stokers Road, Stokers Siding, 33-35 Kyogle Road Bray Park, Murwillumbah • 6672 8276

CAROLYN JOHN STUDIO 241 Cudgen Rd, Duranbah 0431 533 676 Open Wed-Sun 10 am

CURIOUS ART GALLERY 94a Chinderah Bay Drive, Chinderah • 6674 5340 Open 10am-5pm Wed-Sat, Sun 12pm-5pm

Tweed Valley 6677 9208 Open 7 Days from 9:30am-5pm

SHELENA RUSSELL GALLERIES

36 Griffith St, Coolangatta 07 5536 6559 Open: Mon-Fri 10-5pm, Sat 10am2pm, Sun 10-12.30pm

SEAN SCOTT PHOTOGRAPHY

GALLERY VISION

U4b/18 Stuart St, Tweed heads 07 5536 1699

Shop 3, 110 Marine Parade, Reflections Tower Two, Coolangatta 07 5599 1150 Open Mon-Sun 6.30am-5pm

GOLD COAST ART GALLERY

TUMBULGUM GALLERY

KENITA’S DECORATIVE ARTS

THE WAY OF DESIGN GALLERY

135 Bundall Road Surfers Paradise,Gold Coast gallery@gcac.com.au 07 5581 6567

15 Coolman St Tyalgum 6679 3339 • open 10am-4pm 6 days (closed Wed)

MINJUNGBAL ABORIGINAL CULTURAL CENTRE

Cnr Kirkwood Road & Duffy Street, South Tweed Heads

110 Riverside Dr, Tumbulgum 02 6676 6234 Open 11am-4pm Wed-Sun

2/792 Pacific Parade, Currumbin Beach • 07 5534 1530 Open Tues-Sat 9.30am-2.30pm

TWEED RIVER ART GALLERY 2 Mistral Rd , Murwillumbah 6670 2790 Open Wed-Sun 10am5pm

TUESDAY 22 TWEED

■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 6.30PM PAUL RENO

WEDNESDAY 23 TWEED ■ CLUB BANORA 6PM SHANDELL ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 6.30PM DON WHITAKER

THURSDAY 24 TWEED ■ CLUB BANORA 6PM DAVE CAVANAGH ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 6PM VEENIE’S SWIZZLE GOLD COAST ■ BILAMBIL SPORTS CLUB OPEN MIC AND JAM NIGHT ■ COOLANGATTA HOTEL 9PM GLEN ASHLEY ■ CURRUMBIN RSL COTTON KEAYS AND MORRIS ■ KIRRA SPORTS CLUB 8PM PHIL EIZENBERG’S OPEN MIKE NITE

DOLLY MONROE COOLANGATTA HOTEL THURSDAY

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Salt Village, Kingscliff 6674 4833 dining@fins.com.au Dinner 7 days Lunch Fri, Sat & Sun GOOD FOOD GUIDE CHEFS HAT EVERY YEAR SINCE 1998

Bells Boulevard, Salt Village, South Kingscliff Open 7 days 1300 725 822 www.saltbar.com.au

Mt Warning Hotel Open 7 days 10am till late Bistro open daily 1497 Kyogle Rd, Uki 02 6679 5111

Comedy

Subby At Side Splitting Subby Valentine is a much sought after radio personality, raconteur, writer and stand up comedian. He’s known for his incredible versatility and ability to adapt to any given situation. He's also rubbed shoulders with some pretty high-profile celebs, and during his time on air at Triple J, Triple M and Mix FM he proved himself both a skillful entertainer and interviewer. He has quizzed Michael Buble, bantered with Billy Bob Thornton, shot the breeze with Owen Wilson, whinged with James Blunt and poked fun at Daniel Radcliffe.

Corporate agencies rave that he’s the best MC they’ve ever worked with. Alongside a pretty punishing media schedule, Valentine headlines comedy festivals throughout Australia, in addition to performances in Singapore, Hong Kong, London and Edinburgh. As a writer he was a big contributor to the highly successful Morning Crew at 2Day FM with Wendy Harmer and Greg Fleet, and Subby has also written and acted in sketch comedies and hosted SBS’s The Men’s Room.

See him with Mandy Nolan and Chris Hague at Side Splitting Comedy Currumbin RSL Saturday.

There’s something about…Mandy MANDY NOLAN AND CHRIS HAGUE, WITH SUBBY VALENTINE AT CURRUMBIN RSL SATURDAY

Saltbar has something for everyone, a large deck, newly refurbished Sports Bar, family friendly Bistro and Kids Korner.

As well as ocean views, there’s always a great atmosphere, daily food specials, a well-equipped children’s area, live music and more. Kids eat free* Mon-Thurs 5.307pm + free kids’ movie 7pm, T-Bone Tues & free trivia, Half Price Wednesday + free Karaoke 7pm. Saltbar is on the absolute beachfront, Salt Village, 15 mins south of Coolangatta Airport. *conditions apply

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Mandy Nolan has performed as a standup comedian for 25 years. She was just 17 when she first found herself on stage, braving wild crowds as a beginner standup. ‘It was terrifying! I was terrible!’ she laughs. ‘Fortunately I have high selfesteem, so I didn’t seem to notice!’ Nolan credits resilience and persistence in paving the way for a standup comedy career that has not only endured – it has had to impress comedic legends, such as Austen Tayshus declaring that ‘she is one of the strongest female talents in the country’.

Mandy’s standup is known and loved for its rapid-fire philosophical philandering and esoteric observations that emerge from the musings of what she describes as ‘a woman whose dilemma it is to navigate the new frontiers in the suburban badlands of human relationships.’

With a penchant for social observation and comment, and a knack of giving even the most challenging subject a comedic slant, Mandy is a favoured MC at conference events in the Byron Shire and beyond.

The wine superstars of Spain are coming to Fins Thursday March 10 Ricardo Perez Palacious and Telmo Rodriguez are hosting an exclusive wine dinner at Fins. $139 (including six courses and 10 wines) Bookings essential

One of the region’s great old country pubs. Delicious food, bistro open for lunch everyday from 12-2pm, dinner Thursday to Sunday from 6-8pm. Children’s playground, relaxing beer garden. Curry night on Thursday, raffles and member’s draw on Friday, punter’s draw on Saturday and on Sunday there is a delicious roast.

‘In terms of my fame – I’m probably an E list celebrity, if you are an F or lower just keep on walking. I’m at the level of getting people saying – “Do I know you? I think I have seen you before? Have we met?” And my reply is usually the same – Jamison and coke please.’ Catch all three at Side Splitting Comedy Currumbin RSL Saturday.

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At Stokers

Great live, local talent, Great atmosphere, great food.

FIRST FRIDAY OF EVERY MONTH. NEXT SHOW 7PM, FRIDAY APRIL 1ST. STOKERS SIDING HALL $12 Variety Blackboard acts and featured act Jazz with Marcus Nassner and Rudi Gerhardt fifteenminutesatstokers@gmail.com

Presenters Wanted Add your unique voice to Byron Shire’s own and only radio station, BayFM 99.9

Chris Hague Chris Hague is one of the regulars of the Brisbane comedy scene, and his home city is his favourite topic, ‘...and if I’m in another city I’ll lie and say that your city is my favourite one’.

‘My comedy is relatable, and sometimes a little dark if I’m feeling mischievous.

I have been told I’m a very charming comic, but do I get any action? No. Not even from rangas or albinos. Don’t think this is an invitation to totally hit on me, because I still have standards; well I do, the booze doesn’t. Let my sobriety be your guide.

BROADFOOT IVORY TAVERN SUNDAY

March is submission month for the Winter period!

Our presenters will have fresh ideas, great music, quality presentation and something to share with the community.

Past and aspiring presenters can pick up program submission forms at BayFM, upstairs in the Community Centre during office hours.

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‘Experience the new taste of modern cuisine by the sea’ Coolangatta Showcase on the Beach 07 5536 5455 Byron Bay Woolies Plaza, Jonson St 02 6685 7103 Broadbeach The Oracle, 12 Charles Ave 07 5570 2166

If you are looking for delicious food, coffee or romantic sunset cocktail on the riverbank, the Sheoak Shack is the beach shack for you with a funky laid back daytime vibe or a party atmosphere with live music on Saturday nights. This gallery/cafe showcases the work of high quality local artists and is available for private functions… more Byron than Byron, in sleepy Fingal Head.

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Wests Tigers v Warriors Saturday 7:30pm Leichhardt Oval

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Rabbitohs v Bulldogs Sunday 2:00pm ANZ Stadium

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Rory Curtis Pay less. Pay cash.

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Paul Taylor Greenmount Beach Club has an exciting new menu out now! Enjoy fantastic meals while looking over the magnificent Coolangatta ocean front.

Greenmount Beach Club Cnr Hill Street & Marine Parade 07 5599 5558

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Carole Goodway Call Carole at Walk on Wheels Tweed Head for all your scooter, mobility and independent living needs.

Walk on Wheels 1/29 Boyd St, Tweed Heads 07 5536 8841 www.walkonwheels.com.au

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Winston Lamont “This week I sold a house in Byron Bay and a luxury apartment in Tweed Heads. If you are selling anywhere in between, I will save you thousands $$$.”

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Phillip Kelly Wine, dine, relax and play at Kingscliff Beach Bowls Club. The best little club on the Far North Coast.

Kingscliff Beach Bowls Club Marine Parade, Kingscliff 02 6674 1404 www.kingscliffbeachclub.com.au

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Greg Swift We may not get the tips right but we’ll tip you onto some great value!

Great range, great prices, great location, Open seven days.

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Chris Graham Don’t forget Currumbin RSL roast nights Tuesdays 5.30pm-8.30pm.

Choice of beef, lamb or pork. Only $9.95, no discounts, what a bargain!

Currumbin RSL Currumbin Creek Road www.currumbinrsl.com.au

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Mark Harriott Quality brand batteries at discount prices. Automotive, industrial, personal, household. Independently owned and operated. Established for over 22 years.

We care, and want you coming back!

Unit 2, 25 Industry Drive, Tweed Heads South • 07 5524 4895

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Peter Cradock Peter has a simple philosophy of success through honesty and hard work.

Consistent feedback and professionalism in providing a complete Real Estate service from beginning to end is also essential.

Peter Cradock, Ray White Tweed Heads 0414 246 998 Tweed Heads peter.cradock@raywhite.com

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Kell Torr Great food, good times at The Beach Bar, Cabarita. Open seven days from 10am till late. Entertainment every Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Bottleshop open seven days with great specials.

2-6 Pandanus Parade, Cabarita Beach 1800 256 911

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Alison Harman Never underestimate the power and hidden talents of a blonde!

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Phil Harris Signfix is a major supplier of sign fixing systems with many of its products approved by road transport departments across Australia. For all your sign fixing needs call Signfix.

Unit 4 / 7 Wheeler Cres, Currumbin 07 5598 4319 • mail@signfix.com.au

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Barry Schadel The Byron Bay Brewery and Buddha Bar/Restaurant is the home of Byron Bay Premium Ale and one of Byron’s newest attractions. Open from lunch until late, seven days a week.

1 Skinners Shoot Road, Byron Bay www.byronbaybrewery.com.au

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Historic Suns Q-Clash Cudgen Nippers win big

Coolangatta Mt Warning Dragon Boat Club is going to the National Titles in Canberra for the first time at the end of March and will be competing at both a club level and at a state level. Thirteen members of the club have been selected in the Queensland State Side and will represent that state in a number of age Divisions including Masters (40-50 years), Grand Masters (50-60) and the Great Grand Masters (60-70).

The opening quarter of the Gold Coast Suns v Brisbane Lions ‘Q-Clash’ was a demonstration of the world of possibilites as the new team stepped onto the paddock for the historic clash of the Queenslanders. The Suns’ defender Jarrod Harbrow was all over the ball in this contest with a pack of Lions during Sunday’s game which eventually saw the felines out-play the rookies: the Lions 16.20.121 to the Suns 7.12.54. Photo Tree Faerie.

SPORT RESULTS

Bronze 9 played at home against Beaudesert and the Men’s section won 3 rinks to 2 and the Ladies won both rinks.

Last round of sectional play [Round 7] has Gold and Bronze 12 playing at home against Mooloolaba and Bronze 9 away at Manly.

Championships: Indoor Singles Semi-finals: John Millington w.o.f.; Mark Howarde d. Roy Nuttall 25/13 on Tuesday night 8 March: Tweed Valley Shield: Results from Round 8 [7 March]: A Division: Pottsville def. Kingscliff 58/26 [7/0]; Coolangatta def Tweed Heads 41/38 [5/2]; South Tweed def Tugun 42/23 [7/0] B Division: Pottsville def Kingscliff 45/42 [5/2]; Tweed Heads def. Coolangatta 39/32 [7/0] and South Tweed def. Tugun 53/27 [7/0].

Current Ladder standings after 8 rounds: A division: Coolangatta 49; Tweed Heads 40; Pottsville 35; South Tweed 26; Kingscliff 17 and Tugun 1.

B division: Tweed Heads 43; South Tweed 35; Pottsville 31; Tugun 25; Kingscliff 21 and Coolangatta 13.

Summer Nines Saturday 12 March Tweed Heads and the home club lost to McKenzie Park [C] 80/86 Carnivals: Social Results: Sun 6 Mar Green 1: Helen and John Reid, Gwen and Max Spencer; r/up: Cynthia and Derek Chapman, Jean and Jim Cowen Green 2: Renee and Tony Laycock; r/up: Joan and Bill Dangerfield Tues 8 Mar Men: Frank Woolstencroft, Chas Turner, Sean Harty, Ken Calvert; r/up: Ken Lock, Tom Reeves, Roger Bell, Gary Pickett.

Wed 9 Mar: Lowest Winning Margin Green 1: John Moon, Norm Picking + 1 on c/b; r/up: Paul Chircop, John Parker-Smith + 3 Green 2: Ron Edwards, Les Hughes + 2; r/up: Ray White, Vern Eves, Rod Stebbins, Kim Stephenson + 4 Green 3: Gordon Wright, John Brabham + 4; r/ up: Terry Sullivan, Ken Calvert + 9.

Green 4: Norm Bradbrook, Gary Pickett; r/up: Haydon Soulsby, Michael Nedjati Fri 11 Mar: Green 1: Andrew Wilson, Tony Nicholls, Bill Davies; r/up: Frank Dawson, Alan Stephen, Leigh Tynan Green 2: Ian Irvine, John Reardon; r/up: John LeBoeuf, Tom Wotton, John Sieben.

Green 3: John Swift, Bill Hagen, Gordon Henshaw; r/up: Paul Chircop, Les Morrison, John Parker-Smith.

Green 4: Don Shoobert, Jack Barnes, Bob Wike; r/up: Mike Goddard, Ken Lock, Max Morris.

Sat 12 Mar: Green 1: Peter Barnes, Frank Parsons; r/up: Al Blake, Fred McIntyre Green 2: Les Hore, Jeff Walter; r/up: Jack Bennett, George Harwood, Bill Grose.

DARTS Tweed Valley Result of games played on Monday 14th March. A Grade Blues 9 def Cgulls 6, Hogan’s Heroes 11 def We’re Back 4, Jokers 9 def Gulls 6 and Lions 9 def Tigers 6. Congratulations to Bill Aitken from Blues, Gary Norman from We’re Back and Richard Scott from Lions who all threw 180 on the night. B Grade Misfits 7 def Moon Guppies 4, Chuckers 8 def Boomerangs 3 and Leftovers 7 def Devils 4.

Point Score subject to confirmation A Grade Jokers 73, Blues 61, Gulls 53, Cgulls 45,Hogan’s Heroes 44, Lions 26 and We’re Back 22. B Grade Tigers 41, Devils 38, Misfits 37, Moon Guppies 28, Chuckers 27, Leftovers 26 and Boomerangs 21.

GOLF Chinderah Seniors Social Results for 7/3/2011 - Stableford. Winner A grade - Dudley Wallis - 38 points(c/back) - new h/cap 4. R/up - John Deering - 38 points - new h/cap 11.

Winner B grade - Keith Simpson - 41 points(c/ back) - new h/cap 17. R/up - Kaylene Toovey 41 points - new h/cap 15.

Winner C grade - Dee Patchett - 40 points new h/cap 23. R/up - Jan Kennedy - 38 points new h/cap 21.Ball r/down to 36 points.

Results for 10/3/2011 - Stableford Winner A

BOWLS Cabarita Beach Men Wednesday 9th March Winners: J Richards and C Klaverstyn, Runners Up: R Tonkin and J Hay, Consolation: B Creedon and C Shepherd.

Saturday 12th March Winners: W Bull, I Wilson and R Maunders, Consolation: J Clarke, R Lee, A Thorpe and J Hammersley.

Monday 14th March Winners: S Goodman and I White, Runners Up: J Cook and G Searle. Consolation: P Craven and M Fletcher.

Cabarita Beach Women Pennant 09.03.11 Grade 2 – Round 3: Cabarita 5 defeated Murwillumbah 0.

10.03.11 Grade 2 – Round 4: Cabarita 4 defeated Cudgen 1.

Grade 4 – Round 4 Section 1: Brunswick Heads 4 defeated Cabarita 1.

Grade 4 –Round 4 Section 2: Condong 4 defeated Cabarita 1. Raffle – Judy Schmidt.

15.03.11 Grade 2 –Round 5: Ocean Shores 4 defeated Cabarita 1.

Grade 4 – Round 5 Section 1: Cabarita 4 defeated Pottsville 1.

Grade 4 – Round 5 Section 2: Cabarita 5 defeated Ocean Shores 0.

15.03.11 Social Bowls: Winning Rink Nancy Dodds, Lorraine Rice, Nancye Bull. Raffles – Kay Thompson, Fran Brady, Joan Bartlett.

Condong Men Wednesday 9th Winners B Ward, S Ward, C Douglas, R/U G Cranny, K Dawson, J McDonald. Raffle winners S Reading, G Cranny, C Sager. The Final of 2011 open Fours played T Scuis, J Knight, B Wicks S Massey, DEF R Bell, C Boyd, R Pilon, B Ayres. Thursday 10th Winner J Knight, P Pluis R/U T Wonka, C Pawlak. Raffle R Thompson, F Simpson, C Pawlak. Saturday 12th 38 bowlers Winners G Cox, J Andrassy, R/U P Conroy, P Meadows. Raffle P Pluis, W Curby, Kooka, . B Grade 4 played T Scuis, P Messing, R Bell, R Pilon, def A Tonell, K Wood, B Elvy, R Fuller. next R Gerds, D Reynolds, R Shoobridge, R Kaehler def J Murrell ,R Thompson, R Fredericks, G Bishop. next K Hall, B McBurney, L Muir, C Douglas def J Thurtell, M Knight, S Keen, K Palmer. Saturday super chalange played Condong 3 rinks Moorooka 2 rinks. Condong now 3rd place.

Cudgen Leaagues Men Tweed River Sea Foods Triples winners S. Archbold, R.(Raffles) McIntosh & K. Hansen, runners up J. Neal, I. Tilly & Coog Pritchard. The first round winners R. Corney, J. Krizman & T. Potocnik and the second game winners J. Clark, M. Bamberry & D. Aldridge. Winners of the losers R. Howard, Doc, Steve Robson. Bradman’s Trophy Teddy Conlon, Ron Toby & Mick Burns.

“A” Grade Singles Championships round 1 J. Turner def J. Neal 31/3 & M. Ryan def M. Van. Social Monday Mixed Mufti winners R. Lowe, B. Wenban, G. Tobin & A. Hansen Wednesday Men’s Mufti Results saw Speedy Murphy, Ray Hall, Ted Conlon & Bob Beattie steal the cash while the losing rink winners were G. Stevens, J. Neal & I. Tilly.

Kingscliff Ladies Wed.9th March. Winners on Rink 18, J.Dalmayer/N.Sherlock/S.Akers, R/U. Rink 13 J.Hanson/A.McNamara, Raffle Winners I.Fuller, I.Azzopardi.

Congratulations to Winner of Open Singles Championship Anne Wonka Def Fay Lean in a close Match. Open Pairs C.Smith/I.Azzopardi def B.Petrie/M.Lincoln, E.Downes/B/Mirls def C.Henry.M.Atkinson, D.Jones/S.Akers def A.Wonka/L.Willoughby, J.Hegarty/R.Fuller def M.McCrindle/M.Brown.

Kingscliff Men Results of the Open Men’s Pairs played on Sunday 13th March: B Raeburn, M Turner d O Simpson, M Richards; J Brinsmead, D Roughley d I Smith, K Liddington; V Lewis, P Murphy d K Dawson, R Lewis. Draw for Sunday 20th March: G Barrack, T King v R Julius, B Turner; K Banks, T Hills v R Graham, M James; W Blackood, J Akers v B Raeburn, M Turner; J Brinsmead, D Roughley v V Lewis, P Murphy.

Roll up 9am. Super Challenge Results: Round 6: Silver Men: Musgrave Hill d Kingscliff. Silver Ladies: Kingscliff shared the rinks with Musgrave Hill and won the game overall. The

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Bronze Men: Coolangatta d Kingscliff. Bronze Ladies: Coolangatta d Kingscliff. The final round will be played this Saturday 19th March.

Silver play Moorooka at Moorooka and Bronze play Moorooka at Kingscliff. Check the board for bus departure time. Results of the Tweed Valley Shield played on Monday 14th March: Kingscliff defeated Tugun in both A and B Divisions. Draw for Tuesday 22nd March: Kingscliff v Tweed Heads at Tweed Heads. Social bowls results: Thursday 10th March: Winners: B Raeburn, S Cupitt, D Roughley; H DeVries, B Massey, N Peacock. Plate Winners: D Adams, D Smith. Saturday 12th March: Winners: A Reid, K Jordan, R Maltby. Plate Winners: M Ryan, K Styles, B Jack. Tuesday Morning Amcal Open Pairs competition: Winners: L Spencer, M Howarde. Runners Up: K Banks, T Hills. Plate Winners: H DeVries, N Peacock.

South Tweed Wednesday, 9/3 AM - PairsWinners: R. Hill &V Giacomi, Runnersup: M.Jaffray &n. Smith, Third T.Muldoon & T.Lee. PM - Social N. Solley,J.Scully, A. Hammond.

Thursday 10/3 PairsWinners R.Hill &V.Giacomi +16, Runnerup J. Chapman & M.Jaffray +11.

Winners of Losers G.Morrisey & M.Halsey +24 Saturday 12/3 Social Winners J. Willey, O. Kinnane, G. Bradshaw. Winners of LosersD.Bateson, A.Potts, A.Reid.

Major Singles Were Played On Saturday and Sunday Winners: A.Fawcett 25 def K.Kingma 15,K.Stanley 25 def K.Haeworth, k.Bonny5 def D.Bateson23 K.Mitchell 25 defI.Ensbey20,K.StanLey 25 def R.Tarreant23 L. Ponting 25 defB. Goff13 J.O,Conner25 defA Fowcett16, M.Jaffray 25def B,Dawson6,N.Smith 25 def B.Coste5, W. Earea 25 defR. Wildash 20, Sunday D.Bennett25 def J. O ,Conner 18, L. Ponting 25 def S.Bonny10 M.Jaffray 25 def N.Jenkins11, k. Stanley 25 def K.Mitchell 20, N.Smith 25 def K. Bonny 21 W.Earea25 def J. Chapman19 Tweed Heads Ladies Tuesday Fours: L. Turner, A. Harris, H. Ramsay, M. Picking def. D. Stewart, S. Jackson, J. Green, P. Houghton. P. Mann, D. Evans, J. Withington, J. Finney def. P. Garwood, K. Robinson, M. Blagborough, J. Wike. B. Bitmead, M. Gwynne, J. Webster, B. Bradley def. B. LeBouef, J. Gilroy, B. Sydenham, M. Gunton. M. Croghan, C. Thatcher, Joan Fisher, D. Kendall def. G. Lock, J. Dodsley, H. Bardsley, W. Grant. J. Ryan, S. Jackson, E. Carter, A. Plowright def. J. Hoffman, D. Turner, R. Wallis, H. Mason.

Tuesday Triples:N. Bell, M. Heydt, P. Henderson def. C. Chapman, D. Hunt, B. Cooper J. Youll, A. Warman, C> Graver def. C. Davis, P. Govett, H. Carter V. Kelly, V. PHilpot, N. Ward def. G. Evans, D., McNamara, S. Ganter.

Wednesday Pairs: P. Mann, J. Finney def. A. Harris, V. Cunningham. D. DUncan, J. GIlroy def. J. Ware, P. Reedy. B. Carmody, D. Spicer def. L. Elsey, P. Griffith. B. LeBouef, N. Bell def. N. Wise, J. Hoffman. A. Ebsworth, M. Wright def. F. Keech, V. Philpot.

Thursday Triples H. Reid, D. Stewart, J. Pearce def. D. Reynolds, R. QUinlan, J. Kerkow A. Vermeulen, E. Titmarsh, M. Kelly def. L. Turner, R. Congdon, S. Jackson V. Philpot, N. Ward, C. Graver def. B. Makin, J. Finney, L. Hodsdon D. Duncan, J. Dodsley, S. Asser defg. J. Youll S. Ganter, M. Gwynne G. Lock, H. Bardsley, P. Govett def. B. Everson, E. Simpson, M. Gunyon J. Ryan, J. Ryman, M. Picking def. L. Spencer, B. Orchard, P. Houghton F. Keech, A. Warman, D. McNamara def. N. Wise, B. LeBouef, R Wallis G. Evans, V. Pridham, J. Webster def. J. Redman, B. Bitmead, P. Henderson, J. Green, E. Bradley deg. N. Bell, E. Joselin Tweed Heads Men Bowls Super Challenge: Results from Round 6. Gold and Bronze 12 played at Musgrave Hill Gold Men lost on all rinks and Gold Ladies lost the aggregate by 3 shots. Bronze 12 Men won on 4 rinks andBronze 12 Ladies won aggregate for a 7/1 win.

grade - Denis O’Hagan - 40 points - new h/ cap 8 R/up - Garry Carey - 39 points - new h/ cap SCR. Winner B grade - John Harrison - 40 points - new h/cap 16. R/up - Barbara Spedding - 38 points(c/back) - new h/cap 14 Winner C grade - Neil Perrin - 40 points - new h/cap 23. R/up - Rose Martin - 38 points)c/ back) - new h/cap 34. Ball r/down to 37 points Hole-in-One - 9th hole - Bette Dunne.

Murwillumbah Sunday 6th March Individual Stableford Medley Women’s Winner B.Blunden 37 pts Members Winner L.Higgins 39 pts B.R.D to 36 pts.

Monday 7th Veterans Individual Stroke Winner W.Bruce 68 nett R.Up R.Kent 69 nett N.Pin 2nd W.Barton 8th A.Parkes 10th W.Mavin 14th W.Bruce B.R.D. 72 nett c.b.

Wednesday 9th March Individual Stableford Winner A.Grade T.Douglas 42 pts R.Up A.Ryder 38 pts B.Grade J.Neil 42 pts c.b R.Up P.Russell 42 pts N.Pin 2nd M.Gardner 8th D.Veares10th J.Walker14th D.Blunden B.R.D. Saturday 12th Individual Stableford in 4 Grades Winner A.Grade C.Paul 44 pts R.Up J.Lindsay 40 pts c.b B.Grade W.Mavin 42 pts R.Up S.Ritchie 41 pts C.Grade.

H.Prichard 43 pts c.b R.Up S.Whitney 43 pts D.Grade P.Van Trier 44 pts R.Up R.Martin 42 pts c.b N.Pin 2nd A.Hardy 8th T.Taylor 10th C.Hyde 14th R.Suttie B.R.D. 37 pts c.b.

SHOOTING Murwillumbah Pistol Club 8-Mar-11; Sports Pistol - G Smith 588, A Uren 555, R Rees 456. Air Pistol - L Allen 489.

9-Mar-11; Air Pistol - A Berry 586, D Reid 571, J Lumsden 553, D Besson 529. Ladies Air - E Reid 319.

12-Mar-11; Sports Pistol - P Cusack 591, R Rees 583, D Edginton 578, K Hansen 572, J Maclanchlan 568, A Uren 567, S Stebbing 565, D Stebbing 558, P Norris 545, S Dundon 540, W Gray 540, J Hoctor 530, J Lumsden 526, D Gazzard 518, P Schlunke 511, R King 508.

Centre Fire - A Berry 607, S Nash 541. Air Pistol - R Cavanagh 610, B Kleem 590. Junior Air L Buggy 384, W Byrne 340.

MONTHLY MARKETS 1st Sat Brunswick Heads (02) 6628 4495 1st Sun Banora Point Farmers’ Market 0417 759 777 1st Sun Byron Bay (02) 6680 9703 1st Sun Pottsville (02) 6676 4555 1st Sun Tweed Heads (07) 5599 1714 2nd Sat 2nd Sun 2nd Sun 2nd Sun 2nd Sun 2nd Sun

Kingscliff (02) 6674 0827 The Channon (02) 6688 6433 Chillingham 0437 041 023 Lennox Head (02) 6672 2874 Coolangatta (07) 5533 8202 Tweed Heads (07) 5599 1714

3rd Sat Mullumbimby (02) 6684 3370 3rd Sat Murwillumbah Cottage Markets 0417 759 777 3rd Sun Ballina (02) 6687 4328 3rd Sun Banora Point Farmers’ Market 0417 759 777 3rd Sun Nimbin (02) 6689 0000 3rd Sun Pottsville (02) 6676 4555 3rd Sun Tweed Heads (07) 5599 1714 3rd Sun Uki (02) 6679 9026 4th Sat Kingscliff (02) 6674 0827 4th Sun Bangalow (02) 6687 1911 4th Sun (in 5 Sun month) Coolangatta (07) 5533 8202 4th Sun Murwillumbah 0422 565 168 4th Sun Tweed Heads (07) 5599 1714 5th Sun 5th Sun

Nimbin (02) 6689 0000 Tweed Heads (07) 5599 1714

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Cudgen Nippers are grinning winners after a stellar effort to come out on top of the heap at the weekend’s NSW Surf Life Saving Championships which they alos played host.

With almost 100 competitors in the Cudgen team, the Nippers proved that thier hard work and training of up to three times a week was well worth the effort.

Photo Jeff ‘Cudgy Cudgy Coo’ Dawson.

The Tweed jack is back David Solano

Jacks back! I spoke last week about getting busted off and losing a few lures to monster bream – well I was wrong, they weren’t bream.

Daybreak Saturday I headed back to the same place. I had been to the tackle shop and replaced the lures I had lost the week before. It was quite freaky as it was like nothing had changed. First cast with the sammy surface lure, bang straight under the lease, then snap there goes the lure, I didn’t even have time to blink! Anyway I straightaway tied on the 8lb leader ditching the six I had used previously and after losing two fish I managed to land one.

This fish took the lure just on the wrong side on the rack; New moon

March 5

07:46

First quarter March 13

10:45

Full moon

March 20

05:10

Third quarter March 26

23:08

I was ready for him and after a small fight I skull-dragged the fish to the net and to my great surprise it was a 41cm mangrove jack!

No wonder these guys had me time and time again. The red devils of the Tweed need to be treated with respect as they have to be one of the dirtiest fighters around.

I finished up with two jacks and lost five. I’d been told the jacks school up but I had never seen it, so there you go – it happens.

PS: I went back on Sunday with ‘Vando’ and they were nowhere to be seen. ‘Vando’ was using his jew rod with 20lb leader. I think he scared them away because of the sound that his uni knot made. The noise had me flinching.

20:03

MARCH 2011

Astronomical data and tides

Day of Sun Sun Moon Moon High tide, month rise set rise set height (m) 1 T 0637 1919 0308 1658 0700,1.59; 1940,1.29 2 W 0638 1918 0404 1734 0745,1.62; 2017,1.36 3 T 0638 1917 0459 1807 0824,1.64; 2051,1.41 4 F 0639 1916 0552 1838 0859,1.64; 2124,1.46 5 S 0640 1915 0644 1907 0931,1.62; 2155,1.50 6 S 0640 1914 0736 1937 1004,1.58; 2226,1.54 7 M 0641 1912 0827 2007 1037,1.53; 2258,1.56 8 T 0641 1911 0920 2040 1111,1.46; 2330,1.56 9 W 0642 1910 1013 2115 1146,1.38 10 T 0643 1909 1108 2155 0007,1.54; 1226,1.30 11 F 0643 1908 1203 2239 0048,1.52; 1311,1.21 12 S 0644 1907 1259 2329 0136,1.48; 1406,1.15 13 S 0644 1906 1353 0235,1.46; 1518,1.11 14 M 0645 1905 1444 0024 0345,1.48; 1642,1.14 15 T 0646 1903 1532 0125 0456,1.56; 1752,1.22 16 W 0646 1902 1617 0228 0600,1.65; 1847,1.35 17 T 0647 1901 1700 0334 0655,1.75; 1936,1.48 18 F 0647 1900 1740 0442 0746,1.83; 2022,1.62 19 S 0648 1859 1820 0550 0836,1.86; 2108,1.74 20 S 0649 1858 1900 0658 0927,1.83; 2154,1.82 21 M 0649 1857 1943 0808 1017,1.75; 2241,1.87 22 T 0650 1855 2028 0917 1109,1.63; 2330,1.86 0045,1.70 23 W 0650 1854 2117 1026 24 T 0651 1853 2211 1132 0019,1.81; 1258,1.35 25 F 0651 1852 2307 1233 0114,1.72; 1358,1.23 26 S 0652 1851 1327 0213,1.62; 1508,1.16 27 S 0652 1850 0005 1416 0320,1.54; 1625,1.16 28 M 0653 1848 0103 1458 0432,1.50; 1734,1.20 29 T 0654 1847 0200 1535 0537,1.50; 1827,1.27 30 W 0654 1846 0255 1609 0630,1.51; 1909,1.36 31 T 0655 1845 0348 1640 0714,1.52; 1946,1.43 All times Eastern Daylight Saving. Time lags: Ballina Boat Dock: 15 min; Byron Bay: nil; Brunswick River Highway Bridge: high 30 min, low 1 hr; Mullumbimby: 1 hr 10 min; Billinudgel: 3 hr 55 min; Chinderah: high 1 hr 30 min, low 2 hr; Terranora Inlet: high 2 hr 10 min, low 2 hr 25 min; Murwillumbah: high 2 hr 30 min, low 2 hr 50 min.

Tides in bold indicate high tide of 1.7m or more and low tide of 0.3m or less.

Data courtesy of the National Tidal Centre.

Low tide, height (m) 0028,0.60; 1343,0.44 0118,0.54; 1419,0.40 0201,0.50; 1451,0.37 0240,0.46; 1521,0.36 0316,0.44; 1549,0.36 0352,0.43; 1616,0.38 0429,0.43; 1644,0.40 0506,0.45; 1713,0.45 0545,0.49; 1743,0.50 0629,0.54; 1816,0.56 0717,0.59; 1857,0.62 0816,0.62; 1948,0.67 0929,0.63; 2058,0.70 1044,0.58; 2217,0.68 1148,0.49; 2330,0.59 1243,0.38 0030,0.48; 1330,0.27 0127,0.36; 1415,0.19 0220,0.25; 1458,0.15 0314,0.19; 1541,0.16 0407,0.16; 1623,0.21 0502,0.18; 1707,0.29 0559,0.25; 1752,0.40 0659,0.33; 1840,0.52 0703,0.43; 1933,0.62 0913,0.50; 2038,0.70 1023,0.55; 2153,0.73 1126,0.55; 2306,0.71 1219,0.53 0009,0.66; 1301,0.50 0100,0.60; 1338,0.47

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HOLDEN BARINA 91, rego 2/8/11, 5dr man, VSV, yellow, mag wheels, $2000 drive away. 66842008, 0431854037 TOYOTA STARLET ‘98 man, 9 mths reg, great cond $4000. Ph 0401738248 TOYOTA COROLLA SECA 93 man, exc 1st car, rego 10/11 $2400 ono. 66845269

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2005 Holden Commodore Wagon auto, A/C, P/S, full service history. Great car. AH 42 GQ....$9,850 Toyota Tarago 8 seater ’97 model, auto, A/C, P/S GB 91 BG ...............................................$4,950 Mitsubishi Magna ‘Verada’ wagon auto, A/C, P/S, 95 model. Drives perfect. AO 80 WG ...$2,650 5 speed Toyota Camry 99 model leather.

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Noticeboard Pottsville meet Pottsville Community Association meets the last Tuesday of every month at 7.45pm. Next meeting Tuesday, March 29, at 7.45pm at Pottsville Community Hall, just next to the oval. Two guest speakers.

First impressions are lasting impressions take a more conservative approach, and have a look at the different cosmetic touches that can be made for an overall improvement. These can include things such as cleaning, painting, decluttering and refinishing. These are the projects that don’t require a lot of money, and yet they make a measurable improvement to the overall look of your home.

Before you take on any fix-up-for-sale projects, take on the mindset that you are sprucing up your home in order to sell it. Don’t think of it as fixing it up for someone else.

You’re trying to create more of an appealing look than you are a perfect home. If you fix up the house with a certain person in mind, you’re limiting your potential market. Limiting your market will usually mean a slower sale and a lower selling price. So instead of tackling a whole mess of huge projects, just focus on making the home attractive, clean, presentable, and well maintained.

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Uki Ball Uki Ball is on Saturday, March 26.

Run by Uki Red Cross, the ball is the first of the Tweed ball series going for 39 years. A great family night with lots of competitions and prizes, old time dancing and dances for the young at heart. The price is adults $10, teens $4 and tiny tots $2. Supper supplied. For info call Pauline 02 6679 5176 or Joy on 02 6679 5297.

VIEW clubs Twin Towns Day VIEW Club’s monthly luncheon is being held at the South Tweed Sports Club on Thursday, April 7, from 11am, cost $22, guest speaker is author Peter Watts whose books will be featured in an international mini series comprising 12 episodes.To book call Freda on 07 55241 357.

Murwillumbah Day View Club is meeting on March 28 at the

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Guest speaker Burt Lankford, a local identity. Next meeting April 18. Visitors welcome. For info call Bernie 02 6672 8640.

Tweed Coast VIEW Club next luncheon meeting at The Beach Hotel, Cabarita on April 11, at 11.30am. Call Heather with guests and apologies.

Foster carers Northern NSW Local Health Network invites all foster carers to attend an information day on Wednesday, March 23, at the Twin Towns Club, Tweed Heads. Morning

tea and lunch provided, but you must register by calling Janet on 6656 7224. Registrations close tomorrow, Friday, March 18.

Weed workshop Learn control techniques for common vine weeds, Saturday, March 26, 9.30am til midday, Kyogle Road, Uki - meet at the park on the Tweed River bank opposite Uki Sportsground. In 2008 Tweed Shire Council received funding through the NSW Environmental Trust to survey and map the extent of the riparian vine weeds Cats Claw Creeper and Madeira Vine in the Tweed River catchment. Other

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After all, a clean, appealing, well maintained home has a greater chance of selling, not just for more, but also faster.

When looking at your house, the thing you need to keep repeating to yourself is that ‘first impressions are lasting impressions’.

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Free concert A free concert will be held on Monday, March 28, at 2pm (DST) at the Coolangatta senior Citizens Centre for all residents of Gold Coast and Tweed Heads area, all visitors welcome. This month’s concert features Susie Jay and Joe Ace. BYO lunch/nibbles, tea/coffee available for $1.50 per bottomless cup. For info call 07 5536 4050 or

call into the Centre at 2 Gerrard Street, Coolangatta.

Mur’bah meeting Murwillumbah Ratepayers and Resident Association will be having its next meeting on Monday, March 21, from 7.30pm at the Autumn Club, Tumbulgum Road (next to the library). All welcome. For info email Robyn at rlemaire@une.edu.au.

Bridge Saturday, April 9, Tweed Bridge Club lessons for new players. Bridge improves your memory while making new friends and having fun.

FGor info call 07 5536 1570.

Life choices For information about end of life choices workshops and meetings that will be held in May, August and November, please call Elaine on 0421 796 713.

Financial info At Richmond-Tweed Libraries.

Centrelink is holding a series of public seminars covering all aspects of investing, managing your money, and preparing for retirement. To make a booking for one of these seminars, call Kingscliff Library 02 6674 1607, Murwillumbah Library 02 6670 2427 or Tweed Library 07 5569 3150.

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Backburner During the TOOT rally on Monday at Murwillumbah railway station, the Greens’ senator-elect Lee Rhiannon told the crowd that voters could only deal with the coalition’s broken promises on restoring rail services with ‘a great deal of cynicism’. She recalled that during the 1990 election, she had asked one of the winning MPs how they did it and was gobsmacked to hear that the political party had a ‘two drawers approach’ for the election: one drawer contained all the populist policies such as public transport and the other drawer had ‘all the policies we’ll implement, like getting rid of services and rail’. That would make anyone quite cynical about the upcoming election as well.

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Labor candidate Reece Byrnes and Greens candidate Andrea Vickers both signed the declaration of support for the ‘Unions NSW Better Services for a Better State 5-Point Plan’ at Jack Evans Boat Harbour last week, but while arranging the photo op, the candidates were asked ‘you’re both right handed, right?’ to which they replied in chorus, ‘No, I’m a lefty’. This meant one candidate had to pretend to be right handed to sign the declaration, printed on two huge signs. Ms Vickers offered Mr Byrnes the opportunity, saying that after all, she was more left than he was. ‘And I thought he was pretending to be left, since the first thing he did was to oppose the Byrrill Creek dam,’ Ms Vickers said. ‘I presume Mr Provest is right handed.’

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Midges haven’t been putting the bite on the Tweed quite so badly this year, according to council entomologist Clive Easton. The nuisance level over the summer months had been below average with only 13 enquiries being received about the little blighters – mainly in the Tweed Heads West and South Tweed areas. He said

Well-known Murwillumbah photographer Trevor Worden with one of his photos on display at the ‘Shutterspeed’ exhibition of contemporary photography at Byron Bay’s Retrospect Galleries till March 31. A preview of the exhibition, which features eight regional artists can be seen at www.retrospectgalleries.com/exhibition-detail/shutterspeed/3207/1. Photo Jeff ‘Nice Work If You Can Get It’ Dawson

canal-breeding midge larval numbers at test sites were generally low due to canal beach replenishment work carried out over the winter and spring.

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A couple of stories in this issue focus on voluntary euthanasia, which is timely given a news snippet we found this week announcing that India’s Supreme Court has ruled that life support can be legally removed for some terminally ill patients. The ruling will allow ‘passive euthanasia’ for the first time. The judgment came during a hearing into the case of a former nurse, who has been in a vegetative state in a Mumbai hospital since being raped and strangled with a chain while at work 37 years ago. A plea by a journalist and friend to stop her being force-fed was rejected by India’s top court on the grounds that the journalist was unable to make the demand on the nurse’s behalf. But the court

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