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LOCAL & INDEPENDENT

P’ville shopping centre plan goes off the boil

Tweed goes to the dogs for the RSPCA

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Bonnie and Sandy Oswald, Benny and Jeanette Whiteley and Fudge, Tori and Harvey Bishop are all looking forward to this Sunday’s Million Paws Tweed residents and their four-legged Walk for the RSPCA. Photo Jeff ‘Houndog’ Dawson Kate McIntosh

friends will be pounding the pavement this Sunday, May 15, to help raise funds for the RSPCA. Now in its 18th year, the Million Paws Walk is the RSPCA’s major annual fundraiser and will be held across Australia at different locations. Tens of thousands of people and pets take part in the event to help provide support for animals in the RSPCA’s care.

Local organisers are expecting a turnout of more than 350 people and

their pets, with ex-RSPCA dogs and their owners to lead this year’s walk.

There will be a wide range of activities on the day including dog washing, bone toss competition and live music, as well as demonstrations by police bomb-detection dogs.

Vet services including desexing and pet products will also be auctioned on the day.

This year’s Million Paws Walk will

take place at Jack Bayliss Park, Marine Parade, Kingscliff Beach. Registration opens at 9am, with the walk to get underway at 10.30am.

All funds raised will go towards improvements at the RSPCA’s Tweed Heads adoption centre.

Nationally, the RSPCA cares for more than 2500 animals each week and each year investigates thousands of claims of animal neglect.

Commission of inquiry on Cobaki called for A leading Tweed environmentalist has called for a commission of inquiry into the approval of the Cobaki estate subdivision west of Tweed Heads as well as other major developments in the pipeline.

Last night (Wednesday) the Joint Regional Planning Panel (JRPP), was set to hear community concerns about the major project for around

5,000 homes, proposed by Gold Coast-based Leda Group, headed by billionaire developer Bob Ell. The concept plan for Cobaki and Leda’s other major subdivision at Kings Forest, west of Bogangar, were approved by former state planning minister Tony Kelly last year.

Leda recently lodged development applications for the first 932 lots to

be built in the first stage of the estate.

Caldera Environment Centre’s coordinator Paul Hopkins said before the meeting yesterday that he would call for a commission of inquiry into major Tweed projects approved in the past year.

‘There are a range of issues of concern not just for Cobaki but Kings continued on page 2

A shopping complex which residents from Pottsville and its booming Seabreeze housing estate had expected to be built appears to be off the drawing board altogether.

Developer of Seabreeze, Metricon, recently backed off plans for even a small-scale supermarket on land it owns despite a lengthy and expensive battle to have a larger, full-line one approved there.

The Queensland-based developer, which has several major housing developments underway around Tweed Shire, now wants to use the land for more housing. That has annoyed some locals who had bought into the estate expecting a shopping centre and high school would be built eventually to service the fast-growing coastal township.

Two years ago, the developer took on Tweed Shire Council in the Land and Environment Court after council knocked back its plan for a full-line supermarket for the land because it didn’t fit in with the shire’s retail strategy. The court rejected the bid, but it cost ratepayers around $600,000 to defend.

Last year, the developer revived the plan for a supermarket, with then mayor Warren Polglase backing Metricon’s bid, saying it had to make a commercial decision on whether to develop the still vacant ‘Stage 8’ land for housing or to keep on pursuing a shopping centre.

But without support from a majority of councillors, it decided to quietly drop the plans for any supermarket

on the site and use the land for more housing.

Pottsville Residents Association president Chris Cherry this week told The Echo that ‘the small-scale supermarket proposal is no more’.

‘As Metricon could not get their full-line centre approved, they have now gone ahead with a residential rezoning of this area and the blocks are on sale or already sold,’ Ms Cherry said.

‘A major flaw’ ‘As far as I am concerned this withdrawal of promised local services to residents who have bought in according to the masterplan is a major flaw in developmental legislation.

‘Surely there should be some accountability to build what you promise you will.

‘It has also happened with the land initially set aside for a school there. It has now been rezoned residential and so lost as a potential site (or at least been made cost prohibitive).’

The state education department, which decides where to build new public high school, does not have any plans for a high school for the Potsville area in the near future.

Parents of school-aged children say there is a need now on the southern Tweed Coast catchment for a high school and were disappointed to see land they thought had been earmarked for a high school was set to be used for more housing.

Requests by The Echo this week for Metricon’s NSW development manager Dale Scotcher to comment were repeatedly ignored.

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Billy cart racing rolls into Tweed Kate McIntosh

The upcoming Tweed Billy Cart Grand Prix promises to be the most fun you can have while on wheels.

Event organiser Colin Louwen said the event is open to all sections of the community from grandfathers, families and pre-schoolers.

‘The idea of the event is for families and friends to join forces and work together on a project – the design, the scrounging of parts, the manufacture and then finally a chance to test it out on the track is what makes this day so special,’ he said.

Mr Louwen encouraged people to be as creative as they wanted, with previous designs including a coffin on wheels, mini bathtub, SES mini rescue car, as well as a mini fire engine and more traditional racerstyle carts.

There will be three main racing events held on the 370-metre track, with a wide range of prizes to be won including the

Billy cart racers in action during last year’s event. Photo supplied

best dressed team. A billy cart box derby for pre-school students is also planned.

The Billy Cart GP started in 2008 as a community project to raise funds for local charities and last year attracted more than 180 participants.

All profits from this year’s event will be donated to the Tweed Life Education van and the Volunteer Rescue Association.

The event will be held next Sunday, May 22, at the grounds of the Tweed Valley Adventist

College, Hall Drive, Murwillumbah, from 10.15am. Cash prizes range from $75 to more than $500.

More information is available at www.tweedbillycartgp. com.au or by calling 02 6672 2922.

Right: Tweed mayor Kevin Skinner, general store proprietor Nola Crockett and Stokers Siding and District Community Association’s Peter Holmes celebrate the village’s plastic bag free status with Stokers Siding Public School students.

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Tweed villages Stokers Siding and Crabbes Creek have become the fourth and fifth communities in NSW to officially go plastic bag free.

Tweed now boasts four plastic-bag-free villages, with four more to follow.

Stokers Siding general store proprietor Nola Crockett said the initiative would be great for the village.

‘I haven’t bought plastic bags since I came here six years ago.

Anyway, people already reused their plastic bags and recycled,’ Ms Crockett said.

The village-by-village approach to plastic bag reduction was developed in response to a Tweed Shire Council decision in October 2009 to investigate options for minimising plastic bag usage in the Tweed.

To help village retailers go plastic bag free, council provides a one-off supply of reusable shopping bags that are

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sold in store to cover the cost of the next order of bags.

Tweed mayor Kevin Skinner said this helped minimise the costs to retailers – a major hurdle in going plastic bag free.

Cr Skinner said the initiative

by Stokers Siding and Crabbes Creek retailers would mean a reduction of about 5,000 check-out bags annually.

The Stokers Siding bag design features the new village slogan ‘Celebrating Nature.

Cultivating Community’, which was developed out of the Stokers Siding and District Community Project.

Both Chillingham and Tumbulgum have already gone plastic bag free, with Burringbar, Uki, Mooball and Tyalgum to follow later this year.

Council said the only other village to go plastic free outside the Tweed that it was aware of was the Kangaroo Valley, southwest of Sydney.

Cobaki inquiry sought (from page 1) Forest and other big developments at Terranora and the planning involved really needs to be looked at by an independent inquiry,’ he told The Echo.

Environmentalists say Tweed’s sustainable future is at stake with all these major developments, as well as wildlife corridors, koalas, water quality and conservation. The need for a new dam at Byrrill Creek has also been been questioned, de-

spite pro-development councillors pushing for it on the basis that it is needed to service future population growth.

The public meeting at the Tweed Heads Civic Centre last night was to be addressed by developer, environmental and council representatives.

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Cr Milne threatened over ‘stooges’ jibe Luis Feliu

Several Tweed Shire councillors have threatened to use the council’s notorious code of conduct against Greens Cr Katie Milne for calling them ‘stooges’ in a letter to newspapers.

Ironically, one of those councillors, Cr Phil Youngblutt, who famously labelled ratepayers as ‘morons’, says Cr Milne (pictured, right, in the council chamber) should be forced to step down temporarily for her ‘unacceptable’ name calling.

The code has been used several times in the life of the current council and has come under attack for being used as a political weapon. Cr Milne has previously been cited under the code for releasing information which other councillors felt should stay secret.

Code breached More recently Cr Warren Polglase was found to have breached the code for telling a member of the public attending council meetings to ‘get a job’.

In her letter to The Echo, Cr Milne said a move by Cr Polglase on a planning matter had been backed by the ‘three stooges’, referring to Crs Youngblutt, Skinner and Dot Holdom, who usually vote in a bloc against Cr Milne.

She also wrote that Cr Polglase ‘calling me ignorant and making sexist remarks apparently is also not an issue, but

my comment that Cr Polglase seemed to be running this council agenda unleashed a tirade from the mayor’.

Cr Youngblutt told media a code of conduct complaint should be lodged and that in his opinion she should be stood down as a councillor for some time.

The National Party supporter said he planned to ask Lismore MP Thomas George, a fellow member of the party, to ‘have a word to [Ballina MP]Don Page, who is Minister for Local Government’.

Cr Skinner told media he found the remark offensive and said he would now drop Cr Milne from a visit to Sydney to meet the new state environment minister. Cr Polglase also warned further action could be taken against Cr Milne.

Crs Polglase, Skinner and Youngblutt vote in a bloc more than other councillors and have been described by council observers as the ‘pro-development faction’.

The council of which Cr Polglase was mayor of in 2004 was sacked by the state government in 2005 after an inquiry found the majority on council at the time were ‘puppets’ of developers.

Cr Milne, a passionate defender of the local environment and outspoken on planning and conservation issues, complained about the reports on her comments to the local daily newspaper, which she says often shows a bias against her.

Newspaper bias ‘In your articles, you did not cite the the sexist comment, the petulant child comment, or the repeated references as “ignorant” directed at me, in the council meeting.

Instead you only cited my three stooges comment that I made after all these above comments were made to me,’ she wrote to the editor.

‘You made two stories the focus of how offensive mayor Skinner had found my com-

ment, without one reference to his repeated overruling of my numerous points of order, allowing numerous highly offensive comments to me in the council meeting, that I highlighted in my letter.’

In a letter to the paper yesterday, Cr Milne apologised for her ‘three stooges’ comment, asking why mayor Skinner could not ‘see his outrrageous double standards’.

The secretive conduct review committee which hears complaints under the code has also had its fair share of controversy in its short life with one of its original members, a former local police commander, quitting before its first hearing.

When established during the early life of the current council, the code came under fire because of concerns the process could be hijacked for political purposes.

Both Cr Milne and former mayor Joan van Lieshout have been subject to a string of complaints from colleagues since the present council was elected almost three years ago.

Cr Milne, who was elected with the highest primary vote, and Cr van Lieshout, who was a surprise choice as mayor, found themselves in hot water in those early days after making statements to the media, some critical of council.

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The resulting fumes and smoke annoyed nearby residents who complained to council.

Not deliberate Some thought waste was being burned off deliberately, as in the past when the practice was legal. Current pollution laws now prohibit it.

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A council spokesperson said that while contractors were advised not to collect any hazardous waste, ‘sometimes items can be collected unknowingly’.

Council will host a chemical drop-off day in July where hazardous household waste can be delivered to the Stotts Creek facility.

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Artist explores climate change impacts Tweed River Art Gallery is currently showing an exhibition that addresses the community’s growing concern about the impact of climate change, in the leadup to World Environment Day on June 5.

Vorsorgeprinzip? From Bali to Copenhagen is an exhibition of drawings by Southport artist Roslyn Taplin that explores the drivers and impacts of climate change. It continues till May 29. Gallery director Susi Muddiman said that in her exhibition, Taplin aimed to raise questions of ethical responsibility.

‘The work is a reaction to the inertia in political decisionmaking on climate change and addresses the challenges of implementation of the Vorsorgeprinzip, or “Precautionary Principle”, which remains the foundation of environmental policy and law,’ Ms Muddiman said.

‘The United National Environment Program states “Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation.”

‘The focus on words and language in Ros Taplin’s work is a response to political rhetoric on climate change. Taplin

uses hand-printed and written text as an image-making device and appropriates text from speeches on climate change and from other sources that discuss water needs,

food and biodiversity loss.’

Taplin’s drawings of rural petrol bowsers in coastal and outback landscapes in NSW are inscribed with messages from the 2007 Bali UN Climate

Conference. Other drawings focus on the 2009 Copenhagen Conference, the speeches delivered and issues raised there, and the conference’s outcome, the Copenhagen Accord.

Paintings inspired by beachcombing

This painting called ‘Resorption’ by well-known Tweed artist Hobie Porter, who grew up in the shadow of Mt Warning, is featured in a display of some of his works inspired by the local environment at the Tweed River Art Gallery till July 31. The display, to coincide with World Environment Day on June 5, includes seven of Hobie’s seascapes featuring local beaches from Kingscliff to Byron Bay. ‘This is a rare opportunity to showcase part of the collection locally before it disappears into private ownership’, said Hobie. Photo supplied

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Barry Mossop, a member of the gallery’s installations team, with one of Roslyn Taplin’s drawings in her exhibition entitled ‘Vorsorgeprinzip? From Bali to Copenhagen’ which is on display till May 29. Photo Jeff Dawson

A regular annual survey by wildlife officers at the Border Ranges National Park last week has identified nine species of small mammals.

National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) ranger, Stephen King, said that the week-long survey, which aims to monitor key species in the World Heritage reserve, ‘continues to show an exceptionally high diversity of species’.

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sity, including the presence of a number of endangered species,’ Mr King said.

The survey was first held in 2000, following the discovery of the Hastings River Mouse near the park.

Thought extinct ‘The Hastings River Mouse species was formerly thought to be extinct until it was rediscovered in 1969 at Warwick in Queensland.

‘Since then it has been found in a few other isolated populations. It is one of the rarest small mammals in Australia and we need to ensure that

the national park continues to support the drier type of forest which is its habitat,’ he said.

‘We have also found two other threatened species during the surveys, the Common Dunnart and the Eastern Chestnut Mouse. Common species found include the Bush Rat, Swamp Rat and Antechinus.

‘This year’s survey found Hastings River Mice in an area that was recently burnt to control weeds and reduce the risk of wildfires. The survey allows us to investigate the response of small mammals to fire and habitat change.’ www.tweedecho.com.au

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Grace set for colourful business future Kate McIntosh

Grace Stewart (pictured) might still be at high school, but that hasn’t stopped her getting a head start on running her own business.

The Tyalgum teenager began experimenting with different tie dye techniques last year as a hobby and has since set up her own online business – Grace’s Tie Dyes.

‘Mum bought me some dye for my birthday, so I started doing little sales bit by bit and it just grew from there,’ she said.

The 17-year-old Mount St Patrick College student now dyes a range of items on demand, including shoes, tshirts, dresses, undies and even a formal suit.

The business has taken off, largely through word of mouth and Grace is hoping to develop it further once she finishes school.

In the meantime, she continues to experiment with a number of different techniques and materials, including hemp, rayon, wool, silk and cotton.

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Grace says the concept has actually been around since ancient times and was utilised by a variety of cultures all over the world.

One of the unique things about tie dye, she says, is that no one pattern can be exactly reproduced.

The daughter of artists, Grace is also an aspiring photographer and circus performer.

She has been learning trapeze and acrobalance since she

was three years old and is hoping to be accepted in to the National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) in Melbourne after graduating.

Grace has also been named as a finalist in this year’s prestigious Olive Cotton award for excellence in photographic portraiture.

Grace describes the photo, which captures her niece and two nephews in a spontaneous moment, as a ‘happy snap’.

She says she was inspired to

take up photography by her parents, who are both talented photographers.

‘The house is full of photography books and we have literally a hundred photo albums in our house,’ she said.

‘My brother and sister are also keen photographers too.

So I’ve been brought up in a house full of photos.’

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Photo Jeff ‘Rainbow’ Dawson

M’bah business chamber head told to ‘get a life’ Luis Feliu

A community lobby group has questioned the leadership of Murwillumbah’s business chamber after its president attacked people who were opposed to the world rally motor race run through the Tweed almost two years ago by trying to link them with a drug lawreform rally.

Murwillumbah and District Business Chamber president Toni Zuschke was quoted in the local daily last week saying the 18th annual Nimbin MardiGrass cannabis law reform rally and festival held last weekend had created a stream of traffic through Murwillumbah, but to no benefit.

According to the paper, Ms Zutschke suggested the hemp festival, which drew thousands of people to the area, might

even have hurt wildlife and that many Tweed people who attended the hemp festival were the same people who protestesd against the rally in 2009.

Ms Zuschke said she doubted any eateries in Murwillumbah benefited because the MardiGrass atrracted ‘an undesirable type of people’.

The comments sparked a backlash in this week’s letters (see page 10).

The Northern Rivers Guardians (NRG), a new environmental watchdog organisation formed after the No Rally Group disbanded, said Ms Zuschke should ‘let go and get a life’.

‘Ms Zuschke does herself and the Murwillumbah Business Chamber no favours by gratuitously insulting the many community members who opposed the rally,’ spokesman Michael McNamara said.

‘While Toni yearns wistfully for the smoke and noise of the rally, others in the community have moved on. She would do better to address the serious issues that confront our community now.

Threat from mining ‘NRG does not participate in Nimbin’s MardiGrass festival.

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‘Yet Toni seems hung up on the rally. This is really sad for the business community of the Tweed – where is the leadership they deserve?’

Mr McNamara invited Ms Zuschke and the business chamber to ‘get behind’ the broadly based community campaign opposed to coal-seam gas mining and participate in the rally on the issue to be held this Saturday, May 14, at 11am in Murwillumbah.

‘I would love to walk through the streets of Murwillumbah with Toni expressing our shared concern about the potential destructive impact of coal seam mining,’ he said.

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Terranora teenager Poppi Meeves is getting an early induction into the inner workings of politics.

The 16-year-old Lindisfarne student (pictured, right) has been selected to represent the Tweed at the YMCA NSW Youth Parliament in Sydney in July.

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The youth sitting will be televised within parliament and sitting MPs are also expected to attend.

‘The whole thing is very authentic. It’s the same structure in parliament as when they’re actually passing a real bill,’ she said.

In preparation, Poppi last month attended a training camp in Sydney, where participants learnt about parliamentary etiquette, political jargon and legislative processes before being divided into teams to develop bills for their respective portfolios.

Poppi will act as Shadow Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and will table a bill with the aim of improving Aboriginal representation in parliament.

Under the bill, two seats in the NSW Parliament would be reserved for Indigenous MPs, with only Indigenous constituents able to vote on their preferred representatives.

Poppi said the bill would help ensure Indigenous people have a voice on important political issues affecting them.

A keen public speaker, Poppi says she is enjoying the opportunity to gain insight into political processes, as well as debate on a wide range of important, topical issues.

sive travels in Oceania, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

She has previously considered a career as a filmmaker, photographer and ambassador.

However, the high-achieving teen remains uncertain about whether she will pursue a career in politics in future.

Skate competition reaches out to youth Kate McIntosh

An upcoming skate competition is helping reach out to youth in the area.

The Beachside Skate Comp will be held this Saturday (May 14) at Cabarita skate park.

Organised by Pottsville’s Beachside Church, the event is now into its sixth year and aims to provide a supportive, drug and alcohol free environment for youth.

As part of its outreach work,

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‘Being involved in debating controversial issues reignited an underlying passion for these sorts of major issues,’ she said.

A keen writer, she is currently working on her first novel and learning to speak Italian.

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the church also puts on a sausage sizzle at the skate park every Wednesday at 4.30pm.

Organiser Pedro de Jesus said young people area had actively campaigned to have a skate park built in the area and the competition was a way to keep youth engaged.

‘There’s so many bad influences in society, so this is a good way to reach out to them,’ he said.

As part of the event, local skate shops Gold Coast skater Aimee Massie, 18, is an inhave entered spiration to other young female skateboardteams in a super ers. Aimee will be at this Saturday’s skate jam competi- comp at Cabarita Beach. Photo Jye Barkley tion, showcasing some of the area’s most promisThere are various divisions ing young skaters. for under 18s as well as an open Sydney-based professional competition. Sign-on starts at skater Sid Tapia will also be 9am, with the first heat getting MCing on the day. underway at 11am.

Pedro said the event had Entry is $10 and all combeen well supported in the past petitors receive a free goodie and organisers are hoping to attract a strong turnout again bag. Prizes up for grabs include skate decks, accessories, this year.

‘It’s all about the kids having clothing and an electric skate fun,’ he said. ‘It wasn’t ever in- board worth more than $250. tended to be a big competition, All profits from the event help it’s just about the kids enjoying support the church’s outreach work. skating.’ www.tweedecho.com.au

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SPIN CYCLE 1: The only good journalist is a read one Michael McDonald

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Taking out the bin Something felt wrong last week.

The US acted out a schoolyard tit-for-tat imperialistic whoopass on bin Laden and we are supposed to feel grateful.

Celebrating public assassinations is a dangerous direction for any society, but that didn’t stop world leaders and the media from applauding the act.

Activist Noam Chomsky summed it up well, and was one of a few who questioned the ethical implications of the operation: ‘We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W Bush’s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic. Uncontroversially, his crimes vastly exceed bin Laden’s, and he is not a “suspect” but uncontroversially the “decider”…‘ Even Jon Stewart from The Daily Show, a notable Liberal intellectual, treated bin Laden’s demise as a football touchdown.

In interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, both left-leaning pundits dismissed whether it was a staged event – due to the lack of evidence – with, ‘That’s not the America I know.’

It appears even the most progressive minds in the US feel a sense of vindication for 9/11, and simplistic patriotic sentiment still reigns over asking why he existed in the first place.

Chomsky says that in societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. ‘There is much talk of bin Laden’s “confession,” but that is rather like my confession that I won the Boston Marathon. He boasted of what he regarded as a great achievement.

‘There is also much media discussion of Washington’s anger that Pakistan didn’t turn over bin Laden, though surely elements of the military and security forces were aware of his presence in Abbottabad.

‘Less is said about Pakistani anger that the US invaded their territory to carry out a political assassination.

‘Anti-American fervour is already very high in Pakistan, and these events are likely to exacerbate it. The decision to dump the body at sea is already, predictably, provoking both anger and scepticism in much of the Muslim world.’

We remain unsatisfied – not because we are told to be happy that he’s dead – but because the reasoning behind the West’s ‘enemies’ is never examined with much depth by the mainstream media or politicans.

It takes research, time and investigation to learn about politics, imperialism, economics, religion and military strategy.

The next disenfranchised group to emerge will no doubt share the same anti-US sentiment, born from predator drone strikes and the commodification of their culture.

The prerequisite, as always, is having no economic/military power and an attractive natural resource portfolio.

A reasonable test of our self-proclaimed righteousness would be explaining the US assassination of bin Laden to an eightyear-old child.

As Mango McColumnmeister pointed out last week, senior Labor figure Lindsay Tanner takes aim at spin in his new book Sideshow.

‘The creation of appearances is now far more important for leading politicians than is the generation of outcomes,’ wrote Tanner in The Australian (theaustralian.com.au) last week. ‘Winning today’s micro-argument is all important, and tomorrow can look after itself… The symptoms of this shift are on full display.

‘A dramatic growth in porkbarrelling, driven by backbenchers hungry for positive local media coverage. Growing misuse of parliament for juvenile stunts that are designed to win momentary television coverage.’

It has perhaps its apotheosis in continual images of Tony Abbott running, cycling, swimming and looking manly among blokes in hardhats. If he stopped, would his spring wind down?

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Also in The Australian, Paul Sheehan had the NSW Liberals in his sights: ‘Among the swollen ranks in the government benches, none will be more polished, or have a more secure seat, than Gabrielle Upton, an eastern suburbs corporate lawyer.

‘After her victory in Vaucluse, Upton told the local newspaper the huge swing against the Labor government had been a message: “It’s about the fact the voting public want honest, transparent government.”’

Sheehan goes on to analyse the branch-stacking for preselection in Upton’s own seat.

It’s a story of factional triumph which almost lives up to the machinations within La-

bor. Upton garnered the support of Liberal heavyweight Michael Photios, also lobbyist for the Australian Hotels Association, the largest donor to the Liberal Party last year. Change the party brand but you still get business as usual…

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Economists are often overlooked as part of the commentariat but they often have provocative opinions on matters which affect us all. Take the witty Alan Kohler, for example, who livens up my viewing of ABC TV news with oddball graphs. ‘Treasurer Wayne Swan needs to dump the surplus promise as soon as possible,’ thunders Kohler online, ‘the alternative is either a nonsensical budget strategy or a damaging one, as spending is cut and taxes raised to meet a fabricated political target.’

Kohler runs Eureka Report (www.eurekareport.com.au) which tells you more about the investment industry than any sane person really needs to know. But it does tackle spin, which after all gave us ‘subprime mortgages’ and ‘collaterised debt obligations’.

See also Ross Gittins, who

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If God were a socialist, he would have commanded the Bible to be written by Bob Ellis. Eloquent, lofty, sweeping in style, unaffected by reality. Bob is still at it, banging away on

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And the last word on spin this week must go to that wonderful golfer Jack Nicklaus: ‘When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.’ It’s the only way to keep up.

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For the young and the young at heart, the observation of spin runs hot at Hungry Beast (http://hungrybeast.abc.net. au). The segment ‘Things We Think Might Be Bullshit’ neatly sums up the nature of spin. You can also learn more about the cockroach than is strictly necessary. Any Gen Xs,Ys or Zs who can think of other media spin exposé websites suitable for those under 40, email the URLs to editor@echo.net.au.

the ABC’s The Drum (www. abc.net.au/thedrum) about the imminent death of capitalism.

‘Wild weather in the last four months has already killed the insurance industry, and capitalism itself may not long survive it,’ declaims Ellis. ‘Socialism is back and sorting things out worldwide: money that should have come from insurance is coming, in trillions, from government to reconstruct and refinance the devastated regions, and rightly so.

‘For this is what government is for: to save lives, ease pain, lessen sorrow, cure sickness, feed, rebuild and solace those whom the Shafts of Fate have rendered helpless and, in Chifley’s grave words, without hope.’

Despite Bob’s rolling phrases, capitalism lingers on, and manages to shaft folks with Fate – what I like to call ‘free enterprise’ – at every available opportunity.

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writes for The Sydney Morning Herald and has appeared at the Byron Bay Writers Festival.

There is even an entire website devoted to ‘correcting’ every opinion of Gittins: http://rossgittins.info.

The late, great American economist J K Galbraith tells us much about the ready acceptance of spin in one sentence: ‘The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.’

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Judicial murder

Is it just me – or does anyone else feel a little bit of unease about the issues surrounding Osama Bin Laden’s death?

That the well established ‘law and order’ method of justice was subsumed by the revenge driven ‘terminate with extreme prejudice’? That the majority of our own Westminster brand of governance was in whole-hearted agreement?

We have been treated to the spectacle of the president of the United States, his secretary of state and his military and civilian security advisors sitting down and watching, what was in essence, a ‘snuff ’ video beamed live. The exalted ranks of those present became twenty-first century technovoyeurs.

Such is the value of the currency of truth in the US political and military bureaucracy that when the president of the most powerful country in the world says that Bin Laden is dead, immediately people everywhere say ‘I wonder what the truth is?’

My personal take on this is, Bin Laden is dead. Maybe.

If he isn’t, he soon will be.

No, I am not cheering at his murder. My own preference would be for him to have been brought to trial and judged by his peers.

But somewhere, someone in the US decided that such an action was not in the US’s global interest. Bin Laden was not going to be dragged into the light of democracy and judicial fairness. ‘We’, the world, were not going to have the opportunity to test his guilt or innocence. Instead the issue was brought to its conclusion in darkness and obfuscation and secrecy.

And the wars go on and on and on.

William K Collins

Murwillumbah

The use of fear

I have been contemplating the use of fear a lot lately.

Fear seems a powerful tool as it can get you what you want by forcing others to do what you want. This seems good. While the use of love will allow another to make their own choice and it may not mean you get exactly what you want.

But if you yourself were forced to do something that you didn’t like, you wouldn’t like it, in fact you would feel quite angry that your free will and humanitarian rights were being violated.

That’s why it is important to re-educate ourselves that what continued overleaf

Read these letters, grandchildren Your local news report: ‘GM denies “sceptic” tag’ (May 5) got me thinking about sceptics, believers and defenders of the faith.

Sceptics admit that climate change is real, but reject the decree of the 1992 Rio Earth Synod that the term ‘climate change’ refers only to manmade change. Most sceptics admit a human influence on climate, but foolishly imagine that the sun and other natural forces are greater than man. As in the days of Copernicus and Galileo, these heliocentric heretics must be identified and vilified.

The self-appointed chief inquisitor for the Tweed neoorthodoxy is Paul Hopkins, coordinator of the Caldera Environment Centre. He identified Mike Rayner as an ‘avowed sceptic’ and, based on ‘council’s recent history on green initiatives’ as judged by his Caldera Church standards, rejected Mr Rayner’s denial of scepticism.

Cardinal Hopkins further determined that the GM was therefore ‘not equal to the task of proper administration.’

The GM’s unpardonable sin was refusing Councillor Milne’s demands for the ‘Tweed Link to explain the science of climate change to the community.’ It took Tim Flannery over 300 pages to do that

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in The Weather Makers; and my comprehensive critique of his book is even longer. I discovered 23 misinterpretations, 28 contradictory statements, 31 untraceable or suspect sources, 45 failures to reflect uncertainty, 66 over-simplifications or factual errors, 78 exaggerations and over a hundred unsupported dogmatic statements, many of them quite outlandish. I wonder how well Katie Milne understands the science.

Paul Hopkins claims there are ‘just four in every 100 Australians who deny that climate change is manmade’. If so, why waste ratepayer’s funds trying to enlighten so few? Cr Milne wants council and Tweed Link to help stamp out all heresy and opposition to the Green indulgences (carbon tax) being peddled to prevent the prophesied apocalypse.

Wes Allen

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than Labor’s, to the tune of $30 billion and is funded by the taxpayers and not the polluters? Abbott keeps talking about Direct Action but nobody knows what it means or what services will be cut to fund it.

Abbott has also not outlined how the lost billions from the mining tax which he refuses to collect will be replaced or again, what services will be cut.

The Liberals took a carbon tax to the 2007 election and had one up until 15 months ago when Abbott knifed Turnbull.

Their hypocrisy on this is unbelievable!

Ray Armstrong

Tweed Heads South ■ Believe it or not, energy con-

version generators like solar, nuclear, geothermal, wave or wind power can never digest and cleanse CO2 air back into life sustaining oxygen, as did the once great global forests.

The more the great forest trees are cleared away the less oxygen will there be.

That’s the bottom line reality all generations must face eventually in the coming future.

■ Both Abbott and Gillard have exactly the same climate change policy. They both believe in climate change and that pollution is caused by mankind, and they both have a Alan Boucher policy to reduce carbon polluBanora Point tion five per cent by 2020 – but you wouldn’t know it!

■ ‘Climate change’ and ‘global Why do we never hear of warming’ have been debated Abbott’s carbon pollution plan ad nauseam – untold hours for which is much more expensive decades. Because these ideas

are based on predictions, postulations, modelling and extrapolations they lend themselves to be questioned and quibbled over over endlessly until eyes glaze over, minds tune out and years tick by without results.

Whether or not we have anthropogenic climate change does not really matter. What matters is that we do have an undeniably man-made mess: pollution, contamination, acidification, salinity, toxicity, degradation, erosion, irradiation – all documented and quantified, all highly visible.

We are all standing in it!

Don’t waste time debating ‘climate change’. We have messed up – so we must clean up! And we must stop messing up. Now! There are alternative sources of energy, all proven and at our fingertips; all have been used in other countries for years.

Let us shout it from the rooftops: there is no need for fossil fuels! We have alternatives, along with new jobs, lucrative new technologies, clean air and independence from the Middle East – and an improved climate to boot!

All we need is the political will – and willing pollies.

Helga Boehme

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you cause another to experience, you yourself will at some time have to experience. This one change to all of our interactions would and can change humanity for the better quicker than any other action.

Loving energy out, loving energy back in – the circle is complete.

Dave Burdon

Calling names in council It’s a bit rich for council’s Three Stooges to threaten Cr Milne with a Code of Conduct citing for calling them the Three Stooges when the rest of us know she was merely attempting to appear complimentary.

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greater. However, governments currently use a figure of only 21 times in their climate change estimates.

While coal seam gas production is not identical to shale gas production it is similar technology, drilling for the same natural gas, which is mainly methane, and with fugitive emissions and hydraulic fracking in common.

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If Corinne Pennay really wants to help the dying who are in deeply terminal suffering then she should have her own Christian party convince our government to change the laws that would put an end to their suffering without the fear of pain.

Corinne would find millions of people in Australia and many of them would be Christians hoping you and your new party succeed, and of course that’s only if Corinne wants to help those who are suffering badly when dying.

Kerry Foxwell-Norton’s independent study of coastal use in Bogangar/Cabarita Beach on ABC radio on April 21, it is easy to see he will ignore that research as petty (he referred to the Griffith University doctor of research as ‘that lady’… petty?).

He implied he will ignore the 350 opposing submissions, out of the 377 submissions received

by LPMA… petty?

He misled us when stating that the land at South Cabarita Beach had been zoned for a

‘caravan park’ for years, when it is actually zoned ‘Open Space’ (or is he just ignorant of his council’s own land zonings?)… petty?

Yes, Kevin, it is easy to ignore when one is ignorant… hey look at that – they are almost the same word. Fancy that, Kevin. Or ignore it as petty.

How reassuring to know we are being governed by the ignorant.

is one demographic that are avid users of our ‘threatened’ public toilets (see The Echo, May 5).

At the other end of the spectrum are seniors with urinary and mobility problems. In between are the ‘ordinary’ folk (residents, ratepayers and visitors) who are grateful users of the Tweed public toilets.

Many of the older buildings have architectural and heritage merit, being built from pressed clay bricks and concrete roofs. The plumbing infrastructure represents a significant investment by previous councils. If funds are so scarce then savings should be made in other less essential services. Road and riverside mowing, flailing and poisoning could be curtailed, petunias and other exotic flower beds could be weeded out, and multi-million dollar water and sewerage extravaganzas could be scaled down in favour of onsite self-sufficiency and wiser water use.

Would tourism benefit more from convenient and time-tested toilets than the unproven million dollar annual funding of ‘Destination Tweed’?

If wheelchair accessibility is the problem, a simple addon/clip-on complying unisex cubicle could be constructed adjacent, or in close proximity, to existing toilets. Why threw the baby out with the bath water? Closer but cruder analogies come to mind, but you get the drift, or flow.

were one of the very few businesses which reported profits over the rally weekend.

All the reasons Toni Zuschke complains about lend weight to the argument that small grassroot festivals celebrating the local community work. The MardiGrass brings in thousands of tourists, something the rally failed to do.

Isn’t it wonderful that all the roads to Nimbin were jammed with traffic for this fun-filled community festival? As for the wildlife, Tweed Valley Wildlife Carers and Northern River Wires would have rescued any injured wildlife over this weekend, but sadly for you, Toni, none were reported, unlike the animals that were killed because of the rally.

Sad for our community that all of your observations were based only on assumption. It might have paid you to put your bias aside for a day or two and got your bod out there to see how this community got it so right, while you got it so wrong.

The only jobs produced by the rally were voluntary.

How stupid to think an event that comes only every second year for five days could produce real jobs. Tourism in the Tweed following the rally is down. What happened to all those thousands of overseas visitors that were supposed to arrive for the event, and the even more that were supposed to follow?

Why, even after producing photographic evidence for the police of rally drivers, support teams and their fans illegally overtaking on double lines on blind corners, were the drivers never charged? Why when rally fans were clearly visible to police drink driving, throwing bottles of water and eggs at locals legally protesting did they not do anything?

Are you really so naive to believe that only people from Nimbin use drugs? You better be careful before you start talking of double standards, Toni! Seems to me, every time you open your mouth you put your foot in it. Get over the rally, and start doing something constructive.

Hop E Hopkins

Caldera Environment Centre

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Pottsville got over the loss of the rally and instead learned from the Toilet blues experiences around her?

Many economists believe that She complains Murwila larger population gener- lumbah didn’t make money ates more wealth. Certainly from the MardiGrass festival a larger population requires recently held in Nimbin. Permore services, but in Tweed haps it wasn’t meant to, but I Shire it is proposed to halve am sure the business houses the number of our public toi- in Nimbin are laughing all the lets as a response to a rapidly way to the bank, and so would increasing number of resi- the Kyogle Shire. dents and hoped-for tourists.

She complains that this The achievement of former festival celebrates drug use, councils evidently cannot be etc but fails to mention the sustained by the current ad- enormous amounts of alcohol ministration. consumed over the weekend Parents with young children of the rally. The local hotels

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Does the environment have rights?

Mark Byrne

Bolivia may be known around the world for the beauty of Lake Titicaca, but it has been ravaged by mining companies and is now, with the warming of the atmosphere, suffering a loss of snow and ice on the Andes which farmers and villagers rely on for fresh water.

The tiny, poor, landlocked South American nation was in the spotlight this month when it was announced that it would enact laws granting nature equal rights to humans. According to The Guardian, which first ran the story, the new laws ‘will establish 11 new rights for nature. They include: the right to life and to exist; the right to continue vital cycles and processes free from human alteration; the right to pure water and clean air; the right to balance; the right not to be polluted; and the right to not have cellular structure modified or genetically altered.’

This is not quite a first. In 2008 the neighbouring South American nation of Ecuador included similar rights in its constitution. Both nations are responding to a resurgent indigenous American spirituality focused on Pachamama, the Andean ‘mother of all’.

Evolution of rights Recognising rights of nature represents a significant milestone in the evolution of rights.

They were first applied to basic political and civil rights for humans, such as the right to life, free speech and habeas corpus (the right not to be held illegally).

Next came economic, social and cultural rights such as the rights to health, work, education, and to raise a family. Both of these classes of rights are protected by United Nations conventions and supposedly by laws in every nation that ratified these conventions, which is about 90 per cent of them.

Animal rights have also been part of the ‘rights discourse’ at least since the publication in 1975 of Peter Singer’s Animal

Rally against coal-seam gas mining A public rally against coal-seam gas mining at Murwillumbah this Saturday, May 14, will be addressed by the head of the Australia-wide Lock the Gate Alliance which has been fighting for a ban on the controversial method of gas extraction which threatens underground water supplies.

The rally, organised by the Northern Rivers Guardians and Caldera Environment Centre, begins at 11am at Knox Park with a march through the CBD, returning to Knox Park for speakers at noon.

Drew Hutton, the president of Lock the Gate Alliance, and newly elected Greens MLC, Jeremy Buckingham, are the keynote speakers, while environmental activist and singersongwriter Paul Joseph will perform his anti-fracking song.

An organiser said the event ‘provides an opportunity for ordinary community members to make their voices heard alongside those of Tweed, Lismore and Kyogle councils, Rous Water, Destination Tweed and other organisations that have called for a moratorium on coal seam gas mining’.

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Liberation, although Australian law does not yet grant or recognise rights as such to animals.

There are, though, legal protections for farm and domestic animals, such as the prevention of cruel treatment, including the need to provide adequate food, shelter and veterinary treatment.

Wild animals are theoretically protected by laws which conserve their habitats, ban their killing or live export, and so on. But accelerating extinction rates bring the effectiveness of animal protection laws into question.

Some commentators find the whole rights discourse problematic. After all, if we humans are granting rights to animals and nature in general, doesn’t this just reinforce the fact that we have more rights than they do? Another problem with rights for nature is where they stop. Could Bolivians soon be jailed for killing malarial mosquitoes that alight on their skin? Highly unlikely, but the law struggles with such notions.

Leaving aside such philosophical issues, two questions arise. One, can it work in Bolivia? It’s hard to say without knowing how the new laws will relate to existing developments and other laws, especially with mining accounting for onethird of the country’s foreign earnings.

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Two, could it work here? The Commonwealth can only make laws for the matters specified in the Constitution, and the natural environment isn’t one of them. Our national environmental laws are valid because the Constitution gives the Commonwealth the power to enter into treaties, so if we sign up to a treaty on, say, migratory birds or the export of hazardous wastes, the government can (indeed, must) enact national laws to put these treaties into effect.

Efforts stalled So the Australian government could only make a law giving rights to nature if we had signed a treaty also doing that. There is no such treaty on the books at present. Efforts to table even a much more limited but still comprehensive International Covenant on Environment and Development in the UN have stalled in the last decade, and more ambitious ‘soft law’ initiatives like the 2000 Earth Charter currently stand little chance of being turned into binding treaties.

The states and territories aren’t hamstrung in this way by their constitutions, so it could happen more easily in NSW. How could it work? Perhaps like the human rights laws which the former Rudd government had a committee headed

by Father Frank Brennan ex-

plore a couple of years ago for their potential to introduce nationally. Basically, it would have required new legislation to pass through a filter to check that it protects particular rights, and any Bill or government decision that didn’t comply would’ve been sent back for review.

A Charter of Rights would also have meant that if a person believed that their rights had been violated by the government or a public official, they could have brought the matter to the attention of the court. If a similar system operated for the rights of nature, kangaroos and bats would have needed others to bring infringements of their rights to the court on their behalf, of course.

Even that relatively modest proposal was too much for Australia, the only Western democracy without a Bill or Charter of Rights. But the bottom line is that the Bolivian and Ecuadorian laws are about recognising that nature is a living being, akin to James Lovelock’s Gaia.

Whether or not we can legislate for that in Australia, it’s a timely reminder.

■ Mark Byrne is education officer at the EDO Northern Rivers. For more information or help about this or any other environmental law issue, please call 1300 369 791 or email edonr@edo.org.au.

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PETER ROGERS – FINE WINE CONSULTANT Let’s talk wine. The notion of having a wine expert on hand at the local bottleshop didn’t die with the growth of supermarket-owned outlets. There are still a few bottleshops around with hand-selected wine ranges. I suppose that’s where I come in. I am a wine consultant employed by Taphouse Cellars and Hotels, but I prefer the title ‘wine freak.’

From exciting little quaffers to cult and back vintage premium and super-premium wines from around the world, I’m here to provide a bit of expertise for your wine enjoyment.

My vision for wine in our community is to provide a range of wines at a broad range of prices from around our country and around the world with a focus on wines of regional expression, purity and clarity of character. I have a penchant for the clean, expressive wines being made organically and biodynamically because not only do they taste bloody good but I firmly believe we have a responsibility to support producers who are environmentally focused.

Based at our fine wine store Taphouse Cellars Coolangatta, I oversee the fine wine range at Taphouse Cellars Kingscliff, write the extensive winelist at our Kingscliff restaurant, Babalou, and the lists for the bistros at Kingscliff Beach Hotel, Chinderah Tavern and Coolangatta Sands Hotel.

I’m not just here to hand-select the wines that we carry but to offer educational and consulting services to our community. I run a number of informal wine education classes, dinners with winemakers and a custom cellar consultancy service.

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The Yearlings AFTER KICKING UP THEIR HEELS AT MULLUM MUSIC FESTIVAL LAST YEAR, THE YEARLINGS ARE COMING BACK TO PLAY TWO LOCAL GIGS, AT THE DRILL HALL AND MT BURRELL’S SPHINX ROCK CAFE. What is it about a Yearlings’ live show that keeps people coming back? Oh I’m not sure too many folk do come back. But the ones that do really enjoy the simplicity of the sound, the warmth of the sound, the intensity of the sound, and the sensitivity and chemistry of our playing together. And of course, the witty banter and bad jokes.

What’s your songwriting process? How do you shape your songs before they reach the stage or a recording? Writing songs is a solitary thing. We join forces if we get stuck or need an opinion or we need to edit. When we first start playing a new song together it’s kind of a magical time: it’s all so new and you have to have the tape rolling to get those uninhibited ideas down or they can be lost.

Before you ‘know’ the song too well is when you can come up with really good ideas for parts. Then when you’re playing live you have to know the song so well that so you can play without thinking about the arrangements and bring something new to it each time.

What music or musicians do you find the most inspiring or influential? I love organic music, songs and a sound that just seems to spring from the well, without too much thought or planning, when musicians are good enough the sound is formed naturally. I love the blues and music inspired by the blues.

In your nine years together how have things changed for you in The Yearlings to those first years? How do you maintain healthy band relationships? When our first record came out in 2002 we were very much an acoustic folk / country style of band and we travelled as a duo for many years.

Since then we have naturally formed a sound that works for us and it has evolved over all those years; it’s become freer and looser in approach, funkier I guess.

Playing now more and more as a three-piece with BJ Barker on drums really has opened the sound up and the instruments seem to have their place in the mix.

We maintain our healthy band relationship by paying our drummer first.

Like in a love relationship, great bands are all about chemistry and a certain synchronicity (like you all need to be available at the same time). How do you know when you’ve found the ‘one’ or ‘ones’? Well you know Rob and I are pretty synchronised naturally, and she’s such a great songwriter I would have been crazy to miss playing guitar and singing with her. We play all the time together at home so we are usually in sync.

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As for BJ, our drummer, he came up to us after a gig in Adelaide once and said ‘You need me to drum for you guys’, so that was that. I guess the only real way of knowing that stuff, really, when it comes down to it is whether you like playing

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with someone or not; that’ll tell you.

Do you do all your recording in your home studio? Well, we did Sweet Runaway there and recorded a Big Joe Williams’s song, called Juanita, that came out on a tribute album. That’s it so far for Yearlings’ material that has been released, but we will certainly record our next album there and bring it out on vinyl as well.

What do you think your studio brings to your sound as compared with big commercial setups? I guess it’s like playing your instrument really: the more you use it or practise, you get better and it’s the same with the studio, so we are developing ‘our’ sound which is individual to us. The studio My Sweet Mule also has limitations (Emmylou Harris once said that your style or sound is formed by your own limitations, and she’s right) – it’s an eight-track one-inch tape machine, so there is no room for layers and layers of stuff, so your own performance becomes very focused.

You’ve just recorded Sara Tindley at your studio. How did that end up going?

It was great, a very organic approach again. Sara’s such a great singer and the songs came out beautifully, it was so cool to get her to record there with us. We put a band around her, which was basically The Yearlings with double bass and piano accordion.

We didn’t rehearse too much before recording; in fact it’s good the players don’t know what’s going on too much, so we just sit around the kitchen table and work through the arrangement, then straight in and record, done.

The Yearlings and Laneway are appearing this Friday at Sphinx Rock Cafe, Mt Burrell, 7pm. Tix $10 Bookings 02 6679 7118 www.sphinxrockcafe.com and at Unplugged in the Basement, Gold Coast Arts Centre on Thursday May 19.

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Soap Box

OPENING A CAN OF WORMS Mandy Nolan

I REMEMBER going to a friend’s house when I was a kid and spying an electric can-opener. I was gobsmacked. I’d never seen anything so remarkable. This gleaming countertop white good was the most stateof-the-art appliance I had ever seen.

use to pry open cans. ‘Really? You didn’t use a sharp rock like the other cavegirls?’

In retrospect I see my mother was right.

Electric can-openers are a classic example of over-design. Opening a can with a regular opener was always far more efficient then fussing with a clumsy benchtop device. And My mum still made her cakes with a whisk really, unless both your hands are crippled and refused to succumb to the seduction of by arthritis, using it is the equivalent level of the crockpot. She thought the electric frypan consumer overkill as a walking person using was too fancy and was the only woman at the a wheelchair.

Tupperware party to leave without a Lettuce I don’t think I’ve even seen another electric Spinner. She was anti-gadget. can-opener since the early eighties. They’re But how could she resist the electric canburied deep in a time capsule marked opener? It was cutting edge. Space age! It ‘Embarrassments in Design’ along with blew my tiny mind. Wow, if the tops of cans electric plate-warmers, Betamax videos and a could be removed by an electric device crate of polaroid Le Specs. without the hardship of manual labour, These days I can’t seem to find a can-opener then the future that I was going to occupy that actually works. It would appear that was going to be amazing! How lucky was we can send a space shuttle into orbit, we I to be born into an era where all difficult can map the human genome, but we can’t tasks, like the opening of a can, had become manage to create a simple handheld device mechanised! that will remove the lid from a can. It’s I went home to my mother and declared ‘Julie amazing.

Wesling’s family is rich’. My mother looked Design itself has almost made the need for unimpressed. ‘Can we get an electric canany sort of opener obsolete. The ringpull can opener?’ She looked at me sadly and shook is the lazy person’s friend. I’ll pay $2 more her head. ‘I’m sorry, darling, but we just can’t for a product just because it’s got a ringpull. afford it.’ And so our family was relegated to the manual opening class.

I dream of finding an opener that can give me that smooth opening action that I used All through my childhood I envied little to get in the seventies. It’s a sad fantasy, but girls whose parents had electric openers. I imagined them enjoying the whizzing purr of at night when confronted with an unyielding can of coconut cream, if a magic genie were their slick machines as I suffered the nightly to appear and grant me three wishes, one of chore of opening cat food tins with the butterfly opener. My mother assured me that them would be for a fricking can-opener! I it was in fact state-of-the-art compared to the might sound old when I say this, but they just church-key hand-operated device she used to don’t make can-openers like they used to.

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Suicidal Tendencies were never afraid of a little controversy. The godfathers of crossover thrash and creators of skate punk have dedicated their careers to delivering the middle finger salute to anyone who opposed their views – which included LA authorities who banned them for playing in the city for six years.

Unbelievably influential, without Suicidal Tendencies you would not have the myriad of thrash metal and vicious hard-core bands that permeate the modern musical landscape.

Delivering the fast-paced, aggressive and raw sound they pioneered, Suicidal Tendencies will be getting psycho on their Australian tour which makes its next call at the Coolangatta Hotel Thursday.

Master of songcraft Eric Bibb, international folk-blues master of songcraft, is returning to his Australian fans – new and longer term alike – to perform a series of inspirational concerts. In duo mode for this Australian tour, Eric will be accompanied by beautiful Swedish guitarist Staffan Astner, (Celine Dion) who is also featured on a new live CD (called Troubadour Live!)

Eric will showcase material from his latest full length studio release – Booker’s Guitar – an incredible album inspired by the opportunity Eric had to play a 1930s guitar owned by blues

Saying it with Flower Dave Flower’s song writing presents an individual style, topical and emotive, a touch feisty with social commentary but undeniably groovy with lots of rhythm and energy. A faithful acoustic guitarist throughout his musical journey, David’s sound is warm and earthy flowing through various styles, while engaging audiences with his lyrical delivery and catchy harmonica melodies.

The soundscape is complete with a dynamic rhythm section of bass, drums, percussion and vocal harmonies inspiring and entertaining both the listener and the dancer with the bands trademark free spirited show. Established as an Aussie festival favourite and always on the move David Flower has released two albums with a third to be released later this year. See David at the Patch Lounge Friday.

Sultry and soulful

Kaffene are a sultry, soulful and dynamic classic rock, rhythm and blues, funk and pop duo.This effervescent act is the product of generations of music. The years of experience in the music industry is apparent in their performances. The spontaneous chemistry on stage captures and holds audiences all night long. program guide Kaffene has an energy that is fun, fresh and contagious. This THURSDAY duo are professional musi6am Planet Luv Glitter 9am Arts Canvass Karena cians and have credentials and 11am The Bohemian Beat Riddhi experience a mile long and are 12pm Juke Joint Tony Parker 2pm Audio Chocolate Rich well versed in all the modern 4pm Future Classics Matt Meir nuances of music production 6pm Crossroads Paul Martin 8pm Cruisin For A Bluesin and entertainment.

The Honeydripper The huge sound of Kaffene is 10pm The Booty Call Lainie WINTER driven by soaring lead vocals MAY 1 – OCTOBER 31 FRIDAY and harmonies, brilliant guitar 6am That Friday Feeling Nicky MONDAY 9am The Spin Cycle Karin Kolbe 6am Morning Mix Kabes work and the latest in digital11am Page Turners Pip Morrissey 9am The Lighthouse Lounge audio technology and they Andy Travis 12pm Whirled Music Phil Hurst 11am Belly Belly Sisters 1pm Mystery Train Mary Cannon perform songs from the 60s 12pm Pregnancy Birth & Beyond 2pm Grooveyard Teesha & Nilesh through to current and cover all Nicole Foder 4pm Strictly Vinyl (Happy Days) Inchie 1pm Theme Park Lyn McCarthy 6pm Chop-Suey Rachi styles including the best in R&B, 2pm Q’s Jazz and Blues Quentin Watts 8pm Submerged/Rotation/Down & 4pm Cruizy Beats DJ Cruizy funk, and 70s disco, retro, right Out Si Clone/ POB/Slinky 6pm Grailey Whole Celtic Show 10pm Blazing Tunes DJ Blaze through to the most current top Margaret Wyatt 8pm Sounds of Africa Brian Reichmann 40 hits. Currumbin RSL Friday SATURDAY 10pm Freedom Run Jimmy & Callum

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Booker’s Guitar has gone on to recently win the 2010 DownBeat Critics Poll for best Blues Album!

While an artist that has been inspired by pre-war Delta blues music, Eric Bibb has CORNERSTONE brought the acousROOTS CURRMBIN tic country-blues SOUNDLOUNGE sound into the THURSDAY new century with Booker’s Guitar.

The New York Post explains the genesis of the new album, ‘After a London gig, a fan approached Eric to see if he wanted to play blues legend Booker (Bukka) White’s vintage guitar, which he had acquired.

White was B.B. King’s older cousin, and a master of slide acoustic guitar Delta blues. The experience playing that blues relic fired up Bibb.’ See Eric at Currumbin Soundlounge Friday.

Full information can be found on our website rawtalentquest.com.au or Facebook www.facebook.com/currumbinrslclub

TUESDAY 6am Clockwise Gary Street 9am Under Construction Sarah & Gina 11am Byron Business Phil Daly 12pm Soul Faya Switch 2pm The Music Garden Michael Brereton 4pm The Sandpit Danny Salfield 6pm Post Modern Backlash Hudson 8pm Radio Mundial Steve Snelgrove 10pm Shel’s Place Shel Kronich WEDNESDAY 6am Catch and Grab DJ Holly Holster 9am 2481 Undone Nicqui Yazdi 11am Go Earthcare Ros Elliott 12pm Suara Indonesia Francesca & Kirana 1pm Afternoon Tea Party Adelaide French 2pm The Junkyard Stuey 4pm Cowgirl In The Sand Mel 6pm Bongo Gum Brett Diemar 8pm B-boymixers Elixir 10pm All Funked Up Rich Mann

Bay Rock Tark Musical Kaleidoscope Jill Cowboy’s Sweetheart Carrie D Blues From The Bay Anthony & Ken Paris Cat Alley Lou Intersecting Cultures Angela Justice & Miss Chi Justine & Ancika Random Rhythms Ashgirl Diggin In The Archives Undertaker & Joan of Ark 10pm In the Vaults Matt Wardle 6am 8am 10am 12pm 2pm 4pm 5pm 6pm 8pm

SUNDAY 7am Astro Alchemy Iris & Michael 8am Colours of Byron Des 10am Jazz Moods Jean Brown 12pm Omnibus RG Pedicini & Les Schmidt 2pm Radio Latina Yolanda, Salvador & David 4pm The Bay Lounge aqua 6pm Roots & Culture DJ Selector 8pm Ice Cream Truck Fulton Hobbs 10pm The Space Between Max Zoesar

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Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay area, Dirt Nasty started rappin’ on karaoke machines at the age of 14. He grew up listening to Too Short, Geto Boys, Black Sabbath, Metallica, Terence Trent D'Arby, and Sade.

Never having a father figure to look up to, he learned about the game, the streets, and the ladies from his record collection.

In time he moved to Hollywood and established himself as an actor, appearing in television shows such as Baywatch and

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Gig Guide

TWEED AND GOLD COAST THURSDAY 12 TWEED

■ CLUB BANORA 6PM LONE WOLF ■ CUDGEN LEAGUES 6PM GLENN BRACE ■ IVORY TAVERN, TWEED HEADS 7PM FRETFEST ■ NIMBIN HOTEL 6.30PM BILL JACOBI ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 6PM VEENIE’S – SMOOTH & GROOVE

GOLD COAST DAVID FLOWER PATCH LOUNGE FRIDAY

Felicity as well as films such as Scary Movie 3 (2003) and National Lampoon's Pledge This! (2006). He also served as an MTV VJ for a brief period. Now Hollywood is his home, where he found and started the three-man group Dyslexic Speedreaders (which included Mickey Avalon and Andre Legacy).

Dirt Nasty produced their cult hit My Dick and has produced tracks for well-known artists such as The Living Legends, Mickey Avalon, Lil’ B, Andy Milonakis, and Andre Legacy (just to name a few). Yup... he’s a producer too. Dirt just wrapped up touring alongside his pal Charlie Sheen where he both performed as Dirt Nasty and hosted/interviewed Charlie during the show.

Get Dirty on Saturday at the Coolangatta Hotel.

■ BILAMBIL SPORTS CLUB OPEN MIC AND JAM NIGHT ■ COOLANGATTA HOTEL 8PM SUICIDAL TENDENCIES ■ THE PATCH LOUNGE COOLANGATTA 8M LINCOLN HILLARD ■ KIRRA SPORTS CLUB 8PM PHIL EIZENBERG’S OPEN MIKE NITE

FRIDAY 13 TWEED

■ AUSTRALIA TAVERN 9PM CABOOSE – ANGELS & DEMONS ■ BILAMBIL SPORTS CLUB 8PM KING LOUIE ■ CABARITA BEACH SPORTS Keep it to a whisper CLUB 8PM BLUESVILLE One of Australia’s finest tributes to John Farnham, featuring STATION Australia’s Got Talent performer Mike Vee and a five-piece band ■ CABARITA BEACH BAR 9PM complete with female vocalist and use of all the modern technolNITESTAR ogy available to reproduce the full Farnham sound that fans have ■ CLUB BANORA 7PM MIKE come to expect.

WINKWORTH Songs you will hear in the show include, The Voice, Reasons, Help, ■ CUDGEN LEAGUES 7PM PAUL Age of Reason, Chain Reaction, Touch of Paradise, That’s Freedom MULQUEEN ■ LUFFLEY CAFE 6PM RIGHT and yes they’ll perform Sadie if you ask for it.

LEFT OF CENTRE Mike Vee, ‘The Voice’ of John Farnham, has been performing for ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH BOWLS over two decades and in that time he has built up a reputation CLUB 7.30PM HIGH NOON as a truly dedicated entertainer with an amazing voice. As a solo ■ MARTY’S AT CABA, CABARITA performer he has opened shows for international artists such BEACH 7PM SURF REPORT as Foster and Allen and Keith Urban. He has sung the National ■ MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES Anthem for the NRL in front of 25,000 people on 10 occasions!

CLUB 6.30PM DARREN RAY

The Whispering Jack Show at Currumbin RSL Saturday.

Getting into the rock’n’roll zone Well, for any of you rock’n’roll buffs who have been missing the rock scene... miss no more – it’s back! Every Sunday in May and June, Currumbin RSL will rock the house. Well, Currumbin RSL won’t, the bands they’ve booked will. This Sunday Atmosphere THE WHISPERING JACK SHOW CURRUMBIN RSL 7PM SATURDAY

■ POTTSVILLE BEACH SPORTS CLUB 7PM PHIL GUEST ■ SALT BAR KINGSCLIFF FOSSIL ROCK ■ SPHINX ROCK CAFE 7PM YEARLINGS WITH LANEWAY ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB NOON MARCO 7.30PM WACKED OUT TRIO ■ UKI HALL 8PM GLO DANCE WITH ALI BABA & DJ PULSE

GOLD COAST ■ CURRUMBIN SOUNDLOUNGE ERIC BIBB ■ CURRUMBIN RSL 7PM KAFFENE ■ PATCH LOUNGE COOLANGATTA 8PM DAVE FLOWER

SATURDAY 14 TWEED ■ AUSTRALIAN TAVERN 4PM JACK HALLIGAN – EX 8 BALL WORLD CHAMPION ■ CABARITA BEACH SPORTS CLUB 8PM BAGMAN ■ CHINDERA TAVERN 3PM MOHINI COX ■ CLUB BANORA 7PM THE DARREN J RAY QUARTET ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH BOWLS CLUB 7.30PM HIGH NOON ■ MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES CLUB 6.30PM MARTIN WAY ■ POTTSVILLE BEACH SPORTS CLUB 6PM PAUL MULQUEEN ■ SHEOAK SHACK 7PM PHIL EIZENBERG & FRIENDS ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 7.30PM TONY PANTANO WITH THE PETER BLOWES BAND

GOLD COAST ■ CCOOLANGATTA HOTEL DIRTY NASTY WITH KID MAC & DJ KILLER CAMERON & MASTA CRAFT ■ CURRUMBIN RSL 7PM THE WHISPERING JACK SHOW

■ PATCH LOUNGE COOLANGATTA 8PM I LOVE THE 80S WITH DJ ALFIE ROMEO ■ TWIN TOWNS 8.30PM BRIAN CADD AND RUSSELL MORRIS N

SUNDAY 15 TWEED

■ BABALOU, KINGSCLIFF HOTEL, 3PM ANDY ■ CHINDERA TAVERN MARSHALL ■ CLUB BANORA 11.30AM LISA SHAH 12.30PM GLENN BRACE ■ MARTY’S AT CABA CABARITA BEACH 2PM MARK FERRIS ■ POTTSVILLE BEACH SPORTS CLUB 4PM BILL JACOBI ■ RIVERVIEW HOTEL MURWILLUMBAH 2PM BROADFOOT ■ SPIHNX ROCK CAFE 1PM LOREN ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 5PM CRAIG SHAW

GOLD COAST ■ COOLANGATTA HOTEL 8PM GYPSY & THE CAT ■ CURRUMBIN RSL 1.30PM ATMOSPHERE ■ NEVERLAND COOLANGATTA EASY SUNDAYS ■ PATCH LOUNGE COOLANGATTA 3PM NICK MUIR ■ SURFERS BEER GARDEN SUNDAY SESSIONS

MONDAY 16 TWEED ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH BOWLS CLUB 12 NOON ROBBIE ROSENLUND ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 6.30PM ROBBIE ROSENLUND N TUESDAY 17

TWEED ■ MARTY’S AT CABA CABARITA

BEACH 7PM JAM NIGHT WITH ANNETTE ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 6.30PM NOEL PARLANE

GOLD COAST ■ COOLANGATTA HOTEL 8PM A DAY TO REMEMBER & UNDEROATH (PICTURED)

NWEDNESDAY

TWEED ■ CLUB BANORA 6PM JAYNE HENRY ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 11AM CRAIG MARTIN AND THE SWING BAND

THURSDAY 19 TWEED ■ CLUB BANORA 6PM LONE WOLF ■ CUDGEN LEAGUES CLUB 6PM DAVE CAVANAGH ■ IVORY TAVERN, TWEED HEADS 7PM FRETFEST ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 6PM VEENIE’S – HOT FUDGE

GOLD COAST ■ BILAMBIL SPORTS CLUB OPEN MIC AND JAM NIGHT ■ CURRMBIN SOUNDLOUNGE CORNERSTONE ROOTS ■ KIRRA SPORTS CLUB 8PM PHIL EIZENBERG’S OPEN MIKE NITE

The Tweed Echo has the most comprehensive entertainment gig guide in the area.

For your free listing, email gigs@tweedecho.com.au or phone us on (02) 6672 2280.

Deadline is noon Tuesday prior to Thursday’s publication.

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 19 Karen Avenue, Mermaid Beach 4218.

(07) 5554 5019 info@19karen.com.au www.19karen.com.au.

CAFÉ D’BAR GALLERY 275 Boundary St, Coolangatta 07 5536 2500 • Open every day

COMMUNITY PRINTMAKERS MURWILLUMBAH (CPM INC) 33-35 Kyogle Road Bray Park, Murwillumbah • 6672 8276 CAROLYN JOHN STUDIO 241 Cudgen Rd, Duranbah 0431 533 676 Wed-Sun 10 am CURIOUS ART GALLERY 94a Chinderah Bay Drive, Chinderah 6674 5340 • 10-5 Wed-Sat, Sun 12-5 GALLERY VISION U4b/18 Stuart St, Tweed heads 07 5536 1699 GOLD COAST ART GALLERY 135 Bundall Road Surfers Paradise gallery@gcac.com.au 07 5581 6567

ERIC BIBB CURRUMBIN SOUNDLOUNGE FRIDAY

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Free admission Gallery open Wed-Sun 10am - 5pm

Tweed Heads 07 5524 2109 • 9-4 every day except weekends SHEOAK SHACK GALLERY CAFÉ 64 Fingal Rd, Fingal Head 07 5523 1130 Wed-Thurs: 11-5, Fri-Sat: 11-10:30, Sun 9:30-5 STOKERS SIDING POTTERY 224 Stokers Road, Stokers Siding 6677 9208 Open 7 Days from 9:30-5 SHELENA RUSSELL GALLERIES 36 Griffith St, Coolangatta 07 5536 6559 Open: Mon-Fri 10-5, Sat 10-2, Sun 10-12.30 SEAN SCOTT PHOTOGRAPHY Shop 3, 110 Marine Parade, Reflections Tower Two, Coolangatta 07 5599 1150 Open Mon-Sun 6.30-5 TUMBULGUM GALLERY 110 Riverside Dr, Tumbulgum 02 6676 6234 Open 11-4 Wed-Sun

KENITA’S DECORATIVE ARTS 15 Coolman St Tyalgum 6679 3339 • 10-4, 6 days (closed Wed)

THE WAY OF DESIGN GALLERY 2/792 Pacific Parade, Currumbin Beach • 07 5534 1530 Open Tues-Sat 9.30-2.30

MINJUNGBAL ABORIGINAL CULTURAL CENTRE Cnr Kirkwood Road & Duffy Street, South

TWEED RIVER ART GALLERY 2 Mistral Rd , Murwillumbah 6670 2790 Open Wed-Sun 10-5

Dennis Nona Naath (Dugong hunting platform) (detail) shown in Freshwater Saltwater exhibition

On display until 29 May

CPM National Print Awards 2011 Mother of All: Karla Dickens and Ishta Wilson Vorsorgeprinzip? from Bali to Copenhagen: Roslyn Taplin Sun 15 May 11am Free floortalk: Mother of All with Karla Dickens and Ishta Wilson

On display until 7 August

Freshwater Saltwater - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prints Australian National Maritime Museum Travelling Exhibition

From 13 May

Valley of the Tweed: works from the Collection

shown alongside a work by Elioth Gruner on loan from the Art Gallery of NSW Wed 11 May 10.30am Free floortalk: Natalie Wilson Assistant Curator, Art Gallery NSW

On display until 16 October

The Australian Character: works from the Collection (02) 6670 2790 | 2 Mistral Road Murwillumbah NSW 2484 | www.tweed.nsw.gov.au/tweedart

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Sheoak Shack

Chinderah Tavern

The ‘Chindy’ is an ideal place to bring family and friends of all ages for a real country pub experience. Kick back and watch the kids play on our brand new playground while you enjoy an ice cold beer and a dozen of our famous $12 oysters on the deck overlooking the Tweed river. Open 7 days for lunch and dinner, with afternoon entertainment on the weekends. Come and see why everyone is talking about the new Chinderah Tavern.

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Winner of the ‘Favourite Japanese Restaurant all over Qld’ in the I Love Food competition 2010 Eat in or takeaway. Licensed.

Open 7 days 11am till late.

O-Sushi is a modern Japanese restaurant guided by a philosophy that incorporates traditional values of providing the best possible service combined with fresh wholesome food. www.osushi.com.au

Saltbar Beach Bar & Bistro

Join us for Sunday breakfast From 8.30am every Sunday in May. Hot and cold buffet $14.95 adults/7.95 kids Bookings highly recommended Winner – Best Club Restaurant 2007, 2008 and 2009 (Clubs QLD Awards)

The Beach Shack

Mon-Thurs 9 to 5 Fridays 9 to 4 OPEN TO THE PUBLIC 3/7 Brigantine Street, Byron Arts & Industry Park (02) 6685 5685 66 Chinderah Bay Drive, Chinderah Ph 02 6674 1137 www.taphouse.com.au Open 7 days Lunch 12pm-2.30pm Dinner 5.30pm–8.30pm

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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

Alleys Currumbin RSL Club Currumbin Creek Road, Currumbin Open 7 days lunch and dinner 07 5534 7999 www.currumbin.com.au

echoGOODTASTEguide will have you rockin’ in ya boots. They have performed around Australia at some of Australia's most popular venues and have supported acts such as The Drifters, John English, John McSweeney, Chad Morgan, and The Mentals. Formed over 13 years ago today Atmosphere are one of Australia’s most popular four-piece blues and rock cover bands. These guys have a lifetime love of music with a large repertoire of crowd toe tapping, get down and boogie favourites. Currumbin RSL Sunday.

64 Fingal Rd, Fingal Head Ph 07 5523 1130 Wed & Thurs 11am-5pm, Fri & Sat 11am-10pm & Sun 9.30am-5pm www.sheoakshack.com

Salt Village, Kingscliff 6674 4833 dining@fins.com.au Dinner 7 days Lunch Fri, Sat & Sun

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.

COOKING CLASSES WITH STEVEN SNOW Wednesday 1st June ‘Secrets of Saffron and other Spices’. $109 per person including food and wine.

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

Shop 5, 60 Marine Parade, Kingscliff (next to Subway) 6674 5822 Open 7 days 9am-5pm

Mount Warning Hotel

FINGAL HEAD

Small enough for personal care, large enough to offer competitive prices. Santos has been supplying high quality biodynamic, organic, natural foods, and healthy products since 1975. We continue our commitment to sourcing as locally as possible. Santos is the home of Rainfed Rice–zero irrigation, certified biodynamic, as local as you can get, and the most delicious rice you’re likely to find. Visit rainfedrice.com.au for more info, or visit our online store at santostrading.com.au. Eat well.

KINGSCLIFF

Santos Trading Warehouse

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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Mt Warning Hotel

One of the region’s great old country pubs. Delicious Open 7 days 10am till late food, bistro open for lunch everyday from 12-2pm, dinner Thursday to Sunday from 6-8pm. Children’s Bistro open daily playground, relaxing beer garden. Curry night on 1497 Kyogle Rd, Uki Thursday, raffles and member’s draw on Friday, 02 6679 5111 punter’s draw on Saturday and on Sunday there is a delicious roast.

The wanderer and the feline As 2010 closed Gypsy and the Cat released their debut album Gilgamesh, which in a short period became one of the most regarded and talked about albums of the year. It has been followed by a summer of hugely attended festival appearances including national berths on both the Big Day Out and Future Music Festival where the band was a standout for many. Three songs from the album made the Triple J’s Hottest 100 chart, the equal most for any artist this year. Add to that a tip from the fabled NME end-of-year poll that rated Gypsy and the Cat in the world’s Top 20 most likely new artist to break in 2011. The May tour will follow the band’s slot on the prestigious Coachella Festival in the US and a short UK tour.

And all of this comes on the eve of their national run as main support to the iconic Kylie Minogue in June. See them at the Coolangatta Hotel Sunday.

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The ability to evolve and push boundaries has never been more important than it is now. While the mainstream becomes safer, the dynamic, genre-bending acts are driven underground, to be discovered by a whole new generation of music fans not content with the identikit bands pushed at them through the major media. It is this hallowed place that A Day to Remember has not-so-subtly taken over, from stereos to mosh pits across the world. With their latest album What Separates Me From You, they have maintained their locomotive-like momentum, pushing their love of extremes to new heights. The hooks are their most melodic yet, in contrast to their breakdowns that are more crushing and medieval than ever before. For the six men in Underoath, whose members have evolved and thrived during a decade-long progression that has elevated them into one of heavy music’s biggest successes, change has been ubiquitous. Overcoming what many consider their most significant line-up alteration yet, Underoath have experienced an artistic rebirth in the form of Disambiguation. See them both at the Coolangatta Hotel Tuesday.

Crossing the Tasman for you With a strong lyrical approach to their music, Cornerstone Roots comment on vital global issues and the development of personal self-awareness. Their approach to music is about being of value and connecting with people from all walks of life. With their fusion of Jamaican, New Zealand/ Pacific Island and soul-inspired musical influences, the band has produced an original sound that is uniquely Cornerstone Roots. The line-up has evolved many times since its humble beginnings, and now features six members including founders Naomi Tuao and Brian Ruawai, along with their 11-year-old son Reiki. Being no strangers to Australia, Cornerstone Roots have crossed the Tasman more than 24 times over the last seven years playing countless club and festival dates.

Their music has also reached Japan and Brazil, Europe and the United States as well as their home country. The band returned from an eight-week European tour in 2010 with an astonishing response from central European countries. They have supported many a heavyweight reggae act including Burning Spear, Toots and the Maytals, Sly and Robbie, along with Michael Rose, Jimmy Cliff, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and Mad Professor. See Cornerstone along with NZ’s Tui Sound System and some special guests at the SoundLounge Thursday May 19.

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FRIDAY 13

1. Ricky Gervais sees dead people to comic effect in Ghost Town (Prime, Friday, 8.30pm). Nothing like being hassled by folk on the other side.

2. Baby boomer boy wet dream Sophia Loren stars alongside Anthony Quinn in the 1958 comedy/ drama The Black Orchid (ABC2, Saturday, 10.10pm), preceded by the film of Kurt Vonnegut’s play Happy Birthday, Wanda June.

3. Jim Carrey gives multiple personality disorder a bad name in Me, Myself & Irene (Eleven, Sunday, 8.30pm).

Here he sleeps with a mug shot of Renee Zellweger, as you would.

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4.00 The Bill 5.00 Can We Help? 5.30 The Cook And The Chef 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.30 Business Today 10.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Catalyst 11.30 One Plus One 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Midsomer Murders (M) 2.10 World’s Greenest Homes 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Grand Designs Revisited 6.50 Minuscule 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 Collectors 8.30 Jonathan Creek (M) 10.00 Lateline 10.45 Headcases (M) 11.10 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 Capital Hill 6.00 ABC News 6.05 The Drum 6.45 The Quarters 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Contact Sport 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 Capital Hill 12.00 ABC News 12.20 Lateline 1.00 BBC News 1.30 Contact Sport 2.00 BBC World News 2.30 The World This Week 3.00 Lateline 3.40 The Quarters

ABC 2 6.00 Kids’ Programs 7.00 Spicks And Specks 7.30 Chopper Rescue 8.00 Wild Rides 8.30 Being Human (M) 9.30 The Tudors (M) 10.20 The Wire (MA) 12.20 Code Geass (M) 12.45 Important Things 1.10 FM (M) 1.30 Close

ABC 3 6.05am to 5.35pm Kids’ Programs 6.00 Total Drama Action 6.30 Prank Patrol 7.05 The Slammer 7.35 Stoked 8.00 Stay Tuned 8.30 Degrassi: The Next Generation 9.00 Close

SBS 1 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 1.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia 1.30 Insight 2.30 Journos 3.00 Living Black 3.30 Letters And Numbers 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Global Village 6.00 Letters And Numbers 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 The Secret History Of Eurovision 8.30 Eurovision Song Contest 10.45 Crazy Horse (MA) 11.45 Movie: Sex, Parties And Lies (MA 2009) Spanish comedy 1.45 Entourage (M) 2.15 Shameless (M) 3.10 Weatherwatch

SBS 2 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News 6.00 Giro d’Italia Cycling

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ABC 1

ABC 2 6.00 Kids’ Program 7.00 Dog Whisperer 7.30 Meet The Natives USA 8.30 Movie: Happy Birthday, Wanda June (M 1971) US comedy. Stars Susannah York 10.10 Movie: The Black Orchid (PG 1958) US drama. Stars Sophia Loren 11.40 True Stories (M) 12.30 I Know What I Saw 2.00 Close

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5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 1.00 San Remo Song Festival 3.00 Saved By Music: The Wallfisch Family 4.00 Eating Art 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Who Do You Think You Are? 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Eurovision Song Contest 9.45 RocKwiz (M) 10.30 FA Cup Final LIVE – Manchester City v Stoke City 2.30 Weatherwatch

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WITH LILITH

Yes, the shadow side of life is scheduled to show its shady face this Friday the 13th, but instead of getting all jittery, why not meet its mischief with your own sassy magic…

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TEN 6.00 Early 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 Infomercial 3.30 Masterchef 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News 6.30 6.30 With George Negus 7.00 The 7pm Project 7.30 Masterchef Australia 9.00 Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution 10.00 Law & Order (M) 11.00 6.30 With George Negus 11.30 Late News 12.00 Sports Tonight 12.30 The Late Show 1.30 Infomercials 5.00 Religion

ARIES: As your ruling planet Mars moves to the sign of money honey, this week’s focus is on asset management. A tough decision could miraculously materialise some funding, and a surprise windfall isn’t out of the question either. Unexpected recognition also delivers a juicy boost.

TAURUS: Your personal appeal and initiative are peaking right now, so focus on a new perspective – it’s hard to be fresh with a load of old reactions operating. When Thursday’s Mars joins the Sun in Taurus your year takes off and others want you on their team.

GEMINI: This week says in personal concerns, stop keeping score. And attend to unfinished business: those loose, dangling threads that could trip you up down the track. Not as yawn-makingly

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6.30 Neighbours 6.00 Prime News 7.00 Everybody Loves 6.30 Seven News Raymond 7.00 Home And Away 7.30 So You Think You Can 7.30 Better Homes And Dance Gardens 9.30 Sex And The City (M) 8.30 Movie: Ghost Town (M 10.40 The Late Late Show 11.30 2008) US comedy. Stars Cheers 12.00 Roseanne 12.30 Ricky Gervais Sabrina The Teenage Witch 1.00 10.45 That ’70s Show 11.15 AFL Mork & Mindy 1.30 Happy Days Premiership Season: Geelong v 2.00 The Love Boat 3.00 Diagnosis Collingwood 3.00 Home Shopping Murder 4.00 Touched By An Angel 5.00 7th Heaven

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6.00 NASCAR Nationwide Series 7.00 NRL Game Plan 8.00 AFL Game Plan 9.00 Major League Baseball – LIVE 12.00 Serie A Football 12.30 OneAsia Tour Golf 1.30 World Championship Triathlon: Sydney 2.30 Pro Series Drag Racing 3.30 Omnisport 4.00 Escape With ET 4.30 Emergency Search & Rescue 5.00 WWE Experience 6.00 Bondi Rescue 6.30 Emergency Search & Rescue 7.00 Airline 7.30 Megastructures Breakdown 8.30 Movie: Broken Arrow (M 1996) US action. Stars John Travolta 10.40 Sports Tonight 11.10 UFC 89 1.10 Major League Baseball 3.35 Omnisport 4.05 Championship 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The Netball: Queensland Firebirds v Brady Bunch 8.30 Neighbours Waikato-Bay Of Plenty Magic 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 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show Roseanne 4.00 Family Ties 4.30 Mork 11.30 Seven News 12.00 Movie: & Mindy 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 The Half Light (M 2006) US drama. Stars Demi Moore 2.30 Dr Oz 3.30 Kids’ Brady Bunch Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.30 Deal 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Or No Deal Witch

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(M 1966) Western. Stars Yul Brynner 2.00 Xena Warrior Princess 3.00 Hercules 4.00 Malcolm And Eddie 4.30 Newsradio 5.00 The Drew Carey Show 5.30 According To Jim 6.30 My Wife And Kids 7.00 That ’70s Show 7.30 AFL Premiership Season LIVE – Geelong v Collingwood 11.15 Crash Scene Investigators 12.30 Cops, Cars And Superstars (M) 1.00 The Sopranos (AV) 3.00 Quincy ME 4.00 Hercules 5.00 McHale’s Navy 6.00 Kids Time 7.30 Martha Stewart 5.30 Home Shopping Show 8.30 Sons & Daughters 9.00 Home & Away 9.30 Shortland Street 10.00 Coronation Street 10.30 Emmerdale 11.00 Hollyoaks 11.30 5.30 Today 9.00 Kerri-Anne 11.00 Deal Or No Deal 12.00 Desperate Infomercials 12.00 The Ellen Housewives (M) 1.00 Grey’s Anatomy Degeneres Show 1.00 The View (M) 2.00 Murphy Brown 2.30 2.00 Days Of Our Lives 3.00 Alive Welcome Back Kotter 3.00 Perfect And Cooking 3.30 Magical Tales 4.00 Strangers 3.30 Dancing With The Kitchen Whiz 4.30 Afternoon News 5.30 Hot Seat Stars 6.00 Evening News 6.00 Bargain Hunt 6.30 A Current Affair 7.00 Harry’s Practice 7.30 Friday Night Football LIVE 7.30 Are You Being Served?

– Canterbury Bulldogs v St 8.45 Escape To The Country George Illawarra Dragons 9.45 60 Minute Makeover 10.45 Living In The Sun 12.00 Movie: 9.45 Friday Night Football Penrith Panthers v Brisbane Mambo Italiano (M 2003) Canadian Broncos comedy. Stars Paul Sorvino 2.00 Movie: The Yes Men (M 2003) US doc- 11.45 Movie: Flight Of Fury (AV umentary. Stars Andy Bichlbaum 4.00 2007) UK action. Stars Steven Seagal Coronation Street 4.30 Emmerdale 1.30 Movie: Convoy (M 1978) US action. Stars Kris Kristofferson 3.30 5.00 The Charm Of Britain Entertainment Tonight 4.00 Danoz 4.30 Good Morning America

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6.00 Six Million Dollar Man 7.00 The Virginian 8.30 McHale’s Navy 9.00 NBC Today 11.00 Quincy ME 12.00 Movie: Return Of The Seven

10.30 90210 (PG 2004) US action. Stars 11.30 Cheers 12.00 Roseanne 12.30 Jessica Alba Sabrina The Teenage Witch 1.00 Mork 8.45 Movie: Pirates Of The & Mindy 1.30 Happy Days 2.00 The Caribbean – At World’s Love Boat 3.00 Diagnosis Murder End (M 2007) US adven4.00 Touched By An Angel 5.00 7th ture. Stars Johnny Depp Heaven 12.00 Movie: I Heart Huckabees (M 2003) US comedy. Stars Jude Law 2.20 Home Shopping 6.00 NASCAR Sprint Cup 7.00 Australian Rally Championship 8.00 Pro Bull Riding 9.00 Major League 6.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Better Baseball – LIVE 12.00 This Week Homes And Gardens 10.00 The In Baseball 12.30 ATP World Tour Great Outdoors 11.00 Queensland Tennis 1.00 I Fish 1.30 Omnisport Weekender 11.30 Desert Island 2.00 AFL Premiership Season LIVE Chefs 12.00 A House In Spain 12.30 – North Melbourne v Melbourne Passport To The Sun 1.00 To The Limit: 5.00 Omnisport 5.30 Australian Daniel MacPherson 1.30 Weekend Superboats: Newcastle 6.00 WWE Kitchen 5.00 No Leave, No Life 5.30 Experience 7.00 Before The Game Man About The House 7.30 AFL Premiership Season 6.00 Mind Your Language LIVE – Sydney v Port 6.30 Born And Bred Adelaide 7.30 Heartbeat 10.30 MotoGP Qualifying: France 8.40 Inspector Morse (M) 12.00 WRC Access All Areas 1.00 11.00 That’s My Boy 11.30 Please Sir British Touring Car Championship 12.30 The Knock (M) 1.30 Man About 2.00 Serie A Football LIVE – Lazio v The House 2.10 Passport To The Sun 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The Genoa 4.00 Championship Netball: 2.40 Weekend Kitchen Brady Bunch 8.30 Everybody Loves NSW Swifts v Northern Mystics Raymond 9.00 Touched By An Angel 10.00 7th Heaven 11.00 The Love 6.00 AFL Premiership Season: Boat 12.00 Diagnosis Murder 1.00 Jag 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 Cheers 3.30 6.00 Kids’ Programs 7.00 Weekend Geelong v Collingwood 8.30 McHale’s Sunrise 9.00 Kids’ Programs 12.30 V8 Navy 9.00 NBC Today 11.00 Quincy Roseanne 4.00 Family Ties 4.30 Mork & Mindy 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 The Xtra 1.00 Fujitsu Series Motorsport ME 12.00 Zoom TV 12.30 Fifth Gear 2.00 Room For Improvement 2.30 1.00 Monster Garage 2.00 Fifth Gear Brady Bunch Movie: Step Up 2 The Streets (PG 3.00 American Hot Rod 4.00 Monster 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage 2008) US music drama.

Stars Briana Garage 5.00 Drew Carey Show 5.30 Witch Evigan 4.30 What’s Up Down Under According To Jim 6.30 Everybody Loves 5.00 Eukanuba Extraordinary Dogs 6.30 Built From Disaster Raymond 5.30 Sydney Weekender 7.30 Air Crash Investigations 7.30 So You Think You Can 6.00 Seven News (PG/M) Dance 6.30 Movie: Fantastic Four 9.30 Unsolved Mysteries (M) 8.30 The Biggest Loser

TEN

6.05am to 5.45pm Kids’ Programs 6.05 Stoked 6.30 Prank Patrol 7.00 Serious Ocean 7.30 Good Game SP 7.50 The 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News Tribe 9.10 Close 6.00 Giro d’Italia Cycling 6.30 Hairy Biker’s Food Tour 7.30 Find My Family

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6.30 Catherine’s Italian Kitchen 7.00 A Matter Of Taste 7.30 More Than A Fiesta 8.00 So Frenchy, So Chic (M) 8.35 A Royal Family 9.35 Movie: Black House (MAV 2007) Korean mystery 11.25 Movie: Dumplings (MAV 2004) Cantonese horror 1.05 Weatherwatch

8.30 The Day Before (M) 9.30 Movie: District B13 (MAV 2004) French action 4.00 ABC News 4.05 The Quarters 4.15 The Drum 5.00 Q&A 6.00 7.30 11.05 Movie: Lolita’s Club (MA 2007) 6.30 Behind The News 7.00 ABC News Spanish drama 12.50 Weatherwatch 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 6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.00 Hit List TV 11.00 ABC News 11.30 7.30 12.00 ABC 12.00 Landed Music 12.30 Hit Rater.

News 12.30 7.30 Select 1.00 Big Ideas Com 1.00 Hook Line & Sinker 1.30 2.00 ABC News 2.30 7.30 3.00 ABC Everybody Hates Chris News 3.30 Foreign Correspondent 4.00 2.00 AFL Premiership Season ABC News 4.30 Behind The News 5.00 LIVE – North Melbourne v ABC News 5.30 One Plus One 6.00 ABC Melbourne News 6.30 Australian Story 7.00 ABC 5.00 Ten News 5.30 Jamie’s Thirty News 7.30 The World This Week 8.00 Minute Meals Four Corners 8.45 The Quarters 9.30 6.00 Ten News State To State 10.00 ABC News 10.30 6.30 Bondi Vet 7.30 Select 11.00 ABC News 11.30 Foreign Correspondent 12.00 Big Ideas 7.30 AFL Premiership Season LIVE – Sydney v Port 1.00 One Plus One 1.30 7.30 2.00 BBC Adelaide World News 2.30 7.30 3.00 BBC World 10.30 Movie: Sleepers (M 1996) News 3.30 7.30 US action. Stars Brad Pitt 1.15 Infomercials 4.00 Religion

ABC NEWS 24

5.00 rage (PG) 11.00 Cooking The World: China 12.00 Collectors 12.30 Australian Story 1.00 Foreign Correspondent 1.30 The Trophy Room 2.00 Pilot Guides: The Netherlands 3.00 Shute Shield Rugby Union – LIVE 5.00 Moama International Bowls 6.00 Can We Help?

6.30 Gardening Australia 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Doctor Who 8.30 Spooks (M) 9.30 A Quiet Word With Catherine Tate 10.00 Graham Norton Show (M) 10.45 Durham County (M) 11.35 rage (M)

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boring as it sounds, because it frees up megawatts of energy for interesting new pursuits.

CANCER: This week percolates with sensual possibilities, intimate adventures and lush indulgences, any or all of which could restore your spiritual bling. But Black Friday’s vibes suggest spending it wherever you feel secure, with trusted others or on your ownsome with a bunch of comfort accessories.

LEO: If you’re hot to help a worthy cause or crusade, don’t hesitate to pull strings and call in support from connections in high or low places. Then having charmed donations from the disinterested, this week suggests indulging animal appetites, so go ahead and feast the beast.

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VIRGO: Friday excepted, this week’s good for patching up misunderstandings in the heart department because, no doubt about it, it’s your kind of seriously sexy week. Travel, either in the internal world of ideas or externally, is likely to provide answers to some pressing questions.

LIBRA: Your ruling planet Venus and financial advisor Saturn both work this week’s money matters to your advantage.

If Friday’s discordant vibes make decisions difficult with others not on the same page, website or planet, then just do what you do best and look for mutual benefits.

SCORPIO: This week’s dance-off is between support and opposition.

Caution’s advised, because acting impulsively could mean expensive damage control later on. The key to this

10.30 Mega Disasters 11.50 The Universe 12.30 Stag (M) 1.00 The Event (M) 2.00 The Sopranos (AV) 4.00 American Hot Rod 5.00 Quincy ME

NBN 6.00 Danoz 7.00 Weekend Today 10.00 Saturday Kerri-Anne 11.00 Kids’ Programs 2.30 Movie: Diamond Head (PG 1962) US drama. Stars Charlton Heston 4.30 The Garden Gurus 5.00 NBN News 5.30 Antiques Roadshow 6.00 NBN News 6.30 Australia’s Funniest Home Videos 7.30 Movie: Get Smart (PG 2008) US comedy. Stars Steve Carell 8.40 Lotto 9.45 Movie: Yes Man (M 2008) US comedy. Stars Jim Carrey 11.50 Movie: City Heat (M 1984) US action. Stars Clint Eastwood 1.50 Movie: Avalon (PG 1990) US drama.

Stars Aidan Quinn 3.50 Rod Stewart 4.00 Infomercials

GO! 6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.30 Entertainment Tonight 11.00 TMZ 11.30 Married With Children 12.00 Here’s Lucy 12.30 Spin City 1.00 The Hills 2.00 Dukes Of Hazzard 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Movie: Scooby-Doo In Where’s My Mummy? (PG 2005) Animation 7.30 Movie: Shrek 2 (PG 2004) Animation 9.25 Movie: The Matrix (M 1999) US/Australian action.

Stars Keanu Reeves 12.00 Fringe (M) 2.00 Reno 911 (M) 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Married With Children 5.30 The Flintstones

GEM 6.00 Today 9.00 Alive & Cooking 9.30 The Zoo 10.00 Friends 11.00 Murder, She Wrote 12.00 Movie: Our Man In Marrakesh (G 1967) UK comedy.

Stars Tony Randall 2.00 Chopping Block 3.00 McLeod’s Daughters 4.00 Relocation, Relocation 5.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 6.00 Friends 7.00 The Zoo 7.30 Antiques Roadshow 8.30 Movie: The Aviator (M 2004) US biography. Stars Leonardo DiCaprio 11.30 Conan (M) 12.30 Murder, She Wrote 1.20 McLeod’s Daughters 2.15 Movie: The Hand Of The Night (M 1966) UK thriller. Stars Diane Clare 4.00 Movie: The Third Man (PG 1949) UK mystery. Stars Orson Welles

12.10 Survivor: Redemption Island 1.10 Vampire Diaries (M) 3.05 Bridezillas (M) 4.00 Dukes Of Hazzard 5.00 Cribbs 5.30 Green Acres

GEM 6.00 Movie: Our Man In Marrakesh (G 1967) UK comedy. Stars Tony Randall 8.00 Movie: The Big Job (G 1965) UK comedy. Stars Sid James 10.00 Movie: The Yearling (G 1946) US drama. Stars Gregory Peck 12.40 Movie: Bombers B-52 (G 1957) US drama. Stars Natalie Wood 2.50 Movie: None But The Brave (PG 1965) WWII drama. Stars Frank Sinatra 5.00 Getaway 6.00 The Nanny 6.30 As Time Goes By 8.45 CSI (M) 9.45 CSI: Miami (M) 10.45 CSI: New York (M) 11.40 Conan (M) 12.35 Movie: Bombers B-52 2.35 Movie: None But The Brave 4.35 Dangerman 5.35 The Garden Gurus

GO! 6.00 Kids’ Programs 1.00 Married With Children 2.30 Here’s Lucy 3.00 Green Acres 3.30 Spin City 4.30 The Dukes Of Hazzard 5.30 Wipeout USA 6.30 Top Gear 7.30 Two And A Half Men 8.30 Movie: The Lord Of The Rings – The Two Towers (M 2002) US/New Zealand adventure. Stars Elijah Wood

whole week is stringency. Not feeling it?

Then focus on the galaxy of ways you could operate without maxing the plastic.

SAGITTARIUS: During May, your month of Doing Too Much, it’s vital not to neglect your health. For your charismatic enthusiasm to have maximum impact, don’t overstretch your body elastic till it runs out of snap. Even more importantly, connect every day with the flirty, playful side of life.

CAPRICORN: Necessities, obligations and responsibilities making you just want to couch potato? Too bad, because with this month’s planets in your house of fun and favorite things, out of town guests or overseas visitors enrich your existence and do wonders for your exuberance, prestige and street cred.

AQUARIUS: A gaggle of planets roosting in your fourth house of home base activate hibernation hormones to recharge flat batteries and depleted chi – so far, so fab. This week’s only bugbear is stubbornness. Yours. Unthinkable!

But is it? Not to those dealing with your unwavering determination.

PISCES: All the constructive restructuring you’ve been doing lately should be showing results by now. Yes, exotic possibilities with splendid potential are available, but they require constant reality checks: like being thoroughly examined, modified if necessary, then either discarded or acted on before they go stale.

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ABC 1 5.00 rage (PG) 6.30 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Insiders 10.00 Inside Business 10.30 Offsiders 11.00 Asia Pacific Focus 11.30 Songs Of Praise 12.00 Landline 1.00 Megafalls Of Iguacu 2.00 Arctic Exposure 3.00 Women’s International Football: Australia v New Zealand 5.00 Art Nation 5.30 Mr Bean 5.45 Doctor Who 6.30 Wild Life 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The Great Rift Africa’s Wild Heart 8.30 Movie: Moby Dick (M 2010) Part 2 of German adventure. Stars Ethan Hawke 10.05 Compass 10.30 The Street (M) 11.35 Order In The House 12.35 Movie: Sherlock Holmes And The Woman In Green (M 1945) US mystery. Stars Basil Rathbone 1.45 Movie: Best Of The Badmen (PG 1951) Western. Stars Robert Ryan 3.10 Meet The Natives

ABC 2 6.00 Kids’ Programs 7.00 At The Movies 7.30 Art Race 8.00 Intangible Asset No 82 9.30 Art Nation 10.00 Gavin And Stacey 10.30 Graham Norton Show 11.20 Hamish Macbeth 12.10 Edge Of Darkness (M) 1.00 Live From Abbey Road: Seal, Imelda May, Sugarland 2.00 Close

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ABC 1 4.00 The Bill 5.00 Art Nation 5.30 The Cook And The Chef 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.30 Business Today 10.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Landline 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Monarch Of The Glen 1.30 Cheese Slices 2.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Grand Designs Revisited 6.50 Minuscule 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 MDA (M) 12.25 The Clinic (M) 1.20 Movie: A Matter Of Life And Death (PG 1946) UK drama. Stars David Niven 3.00 Moama International Bowls

ABC 2 6.00 Kids’ Programs 7.00 Spicks And Specks 7.30 The Urban Chef 8.00 Absolutely Fabulous 8.30 Swingtown (M) 9.30 Deadwood (MA) 10.15 An Englishman In New York (M) 11.30 Being Erica 12.15 London Live: Mark Ronson, Biffy Clyro, Feist, Groove Armada 12.45 Live From Abbey Road: Fleet Foxes, Manchester Orchestra, PJ Harvey And J (M) 1.35 Close

ABC 3 6.05am to 5.30pm Kids’ Programs 6.00 Total Drama Action 6.30 Prank Patrol 7.05 The Slammer 7.35 Stoked

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ABC 1 4.00 The Bill 5.00 Travel Oz 5.30 The Cook And The Chef 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.30 Business Today 10.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Big Ideas 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Time Team 1.30 Meerkat Manor 2.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Grand Designs Revisited 6.50 Minuscule 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 Foreign Correspondent 8.30 My Family’s Crazy Gap Year (M) 9.25 QI (M) 10.00 The Future Of The Book 10.30 Lateline 11.05 Lateline Business 11.30 Four Corners 12.15 Media Watch 12.30 Movie: Knight Without Armour (PG 1937) UK adventure. Stars Marlene Dietrich 2.25 Bloodlines 3.00 Big Ideas

ABC 2 6.00 Kids’ Programs 7.00 Spicks And Specks 7.30 Dirty Jobs 8.30 Good Game 9.00 The Warehouse Comedy Festival (M) 9.30 Being Human (M) 10.30 Angry Boys (M) 11.00 Ideal (M) 11.30 10 Items Or Less 11.55 The Warehouse Comedy Festival (M) 12.25 Billable Hours (M) 12.50 Live From Abbey Road: Green Day, Bat For Lashes, Starsailor (M) 1.35 Close

French-Canadian drama 1.30 Movie: Boat 12.00 Diagnosis Murder 1.00 The Best Of Me (M 2007) Spanish drama Jag 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 Cheers 3.30 Roseanne 4.00 Family Ties 4.30 Mork 6.05am to 5.35pm Kids’ Programs 3.00 Weatherwatch & Mindy 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 The 6.00 Dani’s House 6.30 Trapped!

Brady Bunch 7.00 Jinx 7.25 The Wannabes 8.10 Majority Rules 8.30 Degrassi: The 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch Next Generation 9.00 Close 6.00 Giro d’Italia Cycling 6.30 Hairy Bikers’ Food Tour Of 6.30 Everybody Loves Raymond Britain 7.30 America’s Next Top Model 4.00 7.30 5.00 Big Ideas 6.00 7.30 6.30 7.30 Ninja Warrior 8.30 Movie: Me, Myself & Irene Behind The News 7.00 ABC News 7.30 8.00 Unbeatable Banzuke (M 2000) US comedy. Stars The World This Week 8.00 ABC News 8.30 The Phone (M) Jim Carrey 9.00 Insiders 10.00 ABC News 10.30 9.20 Skippers 10.50 Smallville (M) 11.40 Cheers 7.30 11.00 ABC News 11.30 7.30 12.00 9.50 Movie: Could This Be 12.10 Roseanne 12.35 Sabrina The ABC News 12.30 Offsiders 1.00 Big Love? (PG 2007) French Teenage Witch 1.00 Mork & Mindy Ideas 2.00 ABC News 2.30 7.30 3.00 romantic comedy 1.30 Happy Days 2.00 The Love Boat ABC News 3.30 Australian Story 4.00 11.25 Giro d’Italia Cycling LIVE 3.00 Diagnosis Murder 4.00 Touched ABC News 4.30 Behind The News 5.00 2.25 Weatherwatch

By An Angel 5.00 7th Heaven 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 6.00 Religion 7.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Story Of The FA Cup 7.00 Focus 10.00 ABC News 10.30 The World 8.00 Hook Line & Sinker 8.30 All 4 Sportscar Series 10.00 NASCAR This Week 11.00 ABC News 11.30 Adventures 9.00 Oz Made 10.00 Sprint Cup Qualifying 11.30 World Australian Story 12.00 Landline 1.00 Hit List TV 12.00 Seas Of Life 1.00 I Of Free Sports 12.00 World Tour Big Ideas 2.00 BBC World News 2.30 Fish 2.00 Movie: Material Girls (PG Snowboarding 12.30 Pro Bull 7.30 3.00 BBC World News 3.30 7.30 2006) US comedy. Stars Hilary Duff Riding 1.30 Australian Superboats: 4.00 Meet The Press 4.30 The Bolt Newcastle 2.00 Champion-ship Report 5.00 Ten News 5.30 Jamie’s Netball LIVE – preliminary final 4.00 Thirty Minute Meals Omnisport 4.30 Pro Series Drag 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.35 World News 6.00 Ten News Racing 5.30 I Fish 6.00 The Final Siren 10.30 UEFA Europa League 11.00 6.30 Merlin 7.00 125cc, Moto2, MotoGP FA Cup Final Highlights 12.00 UEFA 7.30 Masterchef Australia Motorcycle Racing LIVE Champions League 12.30 Speedweek 8.30 Hawaii Five-O (M) – France 2.00 Fiest India 2.30 E2 Energy: 9.30 NCIS (M) 11.10 Serie A Football LIVE – Chievo Harvesting The Wind 3.00 Egypt’s 10.30 MotoGP Turkey v Udinese 1.00 Omnisport 1.30 Animal Mummies 4.00 Little Mosque 12.30 Infomercials 4.00 Religion Australian Rally Championship 2.30 On The Prairie 4.30 Living Black 5.00 NASCAR Sprint Cup LIVE – Dover Cycling Central 6.00 Thalassa 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Eurovision Song Contest Brady Bunch 8.30 Everybody Loves 11.15 Movie: C.R.A.Z.Y. (MA 2005) Raymond 9.00 Touched By An Angel 10.00 7th Heaven 11.00 The Love

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9.30 Dexter (MA) Business 1.00 ABC News 2.00 Midday 9.30 The World Game 10.40 The Late Late Show 11.30 Report 2.30 Asia Pacific Focus 3.00 10.30 Movie: Empire Of Cheers 12.00 Roseanne 12.30 Afternoon Live 5.30 Capital Hill 5.45 Passion (MAV 1978) Sabrina The Teenage Witch 1.00 The Quarters 6.00 ABC News 6.05 Japanese horror Mork & Mindy 1.30 Happy Days The Drum 6.45 The Quarters 7.00 2.00 The Love Boat 3.00 Diagnosis ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 ABC News 12.20 Weatherwatch Murder 4.00 Touched By An Angel 8.30 Lateline Business 9.00 The World 5.00 7th Heaven 9.30 Q&A 10.30 ABC News 11.00 The Drum 11.45 The Quarters 12.00 ABC 6.00 Ten News 7.00 Kids’ Programs News 12.20 Lateline 1.00 BBC World 9.00 Ten News 10.00 The Circle News 1.30 Lateline Business 2.00 BBC 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 Oprah Winfrey 7.00 Pro Series Drag Racing 8.00 World News 2.30 7.30 3.00 Lateline Show 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 WRC Access All Areas 9.00 Story Of 3.35 Lateline Business Judge Judy 3.30 Infomercial 4.00 The FA Cup 10.00 Championship Everyday Gourmet 4.30 The Bold Netball: preliminary final 12.00 M7 And The Beautiful Multisport 12.30 ATP World Tour Tennis 1.00 MotoGP 3.00 Real NBA 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 6.30 6.30 With George Negus 3.30 Omnisport 4.00 Escape With 1.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia 7.00 The 7pm Project ET 4.30 Emergency Search & Rescue 1.30 Devil’s Bargain 2.30 Insight 7.30 Masterchef Australia 5.00 Airline 5.30 Big Cat Diary 6.00 3.30 Letters And Numbers 4.00 The 8.30 Offspring (M) Bondi Rescue 6.30 Emergency Search Journal 4.30 Futbol Mundial 5.00 The 10.30 6.30 With George Negus 11.00 Late News With Sports Tonight & Rescue 7.00 Airline 7.30 Cops 8.30 Crew 5.30 Living Black 11.30 The Late Show 12.30 Ally An Idiot Abroad (M) 9.30 One Week 6.00 Letters And Numbers McBeal (M) 1.30 Infomercials 4.00 At A Time 10.30 Sports Tonight 11.00 6.30 World News Australia Religion One Week At A Time 12.00 Bundesliga 7.30 Mythbusters Football: Hannover v Nuremberg 2.00 8.30 Man v Wild Omnisport 2.30 AFL Premiership 9.30 World News Australia 10.00 South Park (M) 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The Season 5.00 Serie A Football Brady Bunch 8.30 Neighbours 10.30 Wilfred (MA) 11.00 Ugly Americans (M) 11.30 The 9.00 Touched By An Angel 10.00 World Game 12.30 Living Black 1.00 7th Heaven 11.00 The Love Boat 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show Movie: Little Jerusalem (M 2005) 12.00 Diagnosis Murder 1.00 Jag 11.30 Morning News 12.00 Movie: 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 Cheers 3.30 Jesse Stone – Night Passage (M French drama 2.45 Weatherwatch

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By An Angel 5.00 7th Heaven News 12.30 Lateline 1.00 BBC World 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 Oprah Winfrey News 1.30 Lateline Business 2.00 BBC Show 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 World News 2.30 7.30 3.00 Lateline Judge Judy 3.30 Infomercial 4.00 Everyday Gourmet 4.30 The Bold 7.00 One Week At A Time 9.00 3.30 Lateline Business And The Beautiful AFL Premiership Season: North 5.00 Ten News Melbourne v Melbourne 11.30 6.30 6.30 With George Negus Bundesliga Football 12.30 Liverpool 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World 7.00 The 7pm Project Football 3.30 Omnisport 4.00 Escape News 1.00 Movie: Copacabana 7.30 Masterchef Australia With ET 4.30 Emergency Search & (M 2004) Brazilian comedy 2.40 8.00 Bondi Vet Rescue 5.00 Airline 5.30 Big Cat Diary The Wednesdays 3.00 Living Black 8.30 NCIS (M) 6.00 Bondi Rescue 6.30 Emergency 3.30 Letters And Numbers 4.00 The 9.30 NCIS: Los Angeles (M) Search & Rescue 7.00 Airline 7.30 Journal 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Global 10.30 6.30 With George Negus Ice Road Truckers 8.30 Cops (M) 9.30 Village 11.00 Late News With Sports Tonight RPM 10.30 Sports Tonight 11.00 6.00 Letters And Numbers 11.30 Late Show 12.30 Ally McBeal World Football News 11.30 MotoGP 6.30 World News Australia (M) 1.30 Infomercials 4.00 Religion – France 1.30 Arsenal Football 4.30 7.30 Insight Omnisport 5.00 WRC Access All Areas 8.30 The Story Of Science 9.30 World News Australia 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The 10.05 Hot Docs (M) Brady Bunch 8.30 Neighbours 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show

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PRIME 6.00 Religion 7.00 Weekend Sunrise 10.00 Dancing With The Stars 1.00 Minute To Win It 2.00 AFL Premiership Season LIVE – Western Bulldogs v Richmond 5.00 Borderline 5.30 Mercurio’s Menu 6.00 Seven News 6.30 Dancing With The Stars 8.30 Castle (M) 10.30 Beyond The Darklands (M) 11.30 The First 48 (M) 12.30 Home Shopping 5.30 Seven News

7TWO 6.00 Home And Away 8.30 Ugly Betty 9.30 Flipper 10.30 Full House 11.00 Alf 11.30 Movie: The Running Man (G 1963) UK drama. Stars Laurence Harvey 1.50 Movie: The Horsemen (PG 1971) US adventure. Stars Omar Sharif 4.10 Movie: Sylvester (PG 1985) US drama. Stars Richard Farnsworth 6.30 Fawlty Towers 7.10 Are You Being Served?

7.45 Three In A Bed 8.45 Escape To The Country 9.45 60 Minute Makeover 10.45 Hairy Bikers’ Cookbook 11.30 10 Years Younger 12.00 Rhodes Across India 1.00 Movie: Sylvester 3.05 Leyland Brothers World 4.00 Amazon To Ice 5.00 Home Shopping

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Stars Kurt Russell 10.45 Movie: 7 Seconds (AV 2005) US action. Stars Wesley Snipes 12.40 Crime Invasion (M) 1.10 Behind Bars 2.10 American Hot Rod 4.00 Six Million Dollar Man 5.00 Quincy ME

NBN 6.00 Home Shopping 7.00 Weekend Today 10.00 Wide World Of Sports 11.00 The Sunday Footy Show 12.00 The Sunday Roast 1.00 Kids’ Programs 2.00 Big 3.00 In Their Footsteps 4.00 Sunday Football LIVE – Cronulla Sharks v Sydney Roosters 6.00 NBN News 6.30 In Their Footsteps 7.30 60 Minutes 8.30 The Mentalist (M) 10.30 Harry’s Law (M) 11.30 The Guardian (M) 12.20 Super League 2.20 Billy Thorpe 2.30 Home Shopping 4.00 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

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6.30 The Big Bang Theory 7.00 The Middle 7.30 Top Gear 8.30 Two And A Half Men (M) 9.30 Movie: Lethal Weapon 2 (M 1989) US action. Stars Mel Gibson 11.50 Reno 911 (M) 12.50 Community 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Cribs 4.30 Green Acres 5.00 Top Cat 5.30 Perils Of Penelope Pitstop

GEM 6.00 Religion 6.30 Movie: So Little Time (PG 1952) WWII drama. Stars Marius Goring 8.20 Movie: For Better Or Worse (G 1954) UK comedy. Stars Cecil Parker 10.05 Movie: I Live In Grosvenor Square (G 1945) UK comedy. Stars Anna Neagle 12.25 Movie: The City Under The Sea (PG 1965) UK adventure. Stars Vincent Price 2.20 Movie: Mutiny On The Bounty (PG 1962) US adventure. Stars Marlon Brando 6.00 The Nanny 6.30 Antiques Roadshow 7.30 As Time Goes By 8.30 Movie: The Da Vinci Code (M 2006) US mystery. Stars Tom Hanks 11.30 The Nanny 12.00 Movie: Station Six-Sahara (M 1964) UK drama. Stars Carroll Baker 2.00 Home Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 Adventures In Rainbow Country 5.30 Today

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7TWO 6.00 Kids Time 7.30 Martha Stewart Show 8.30 Sons & Daughters 9.00 Home & Away 9.30 Shortland Street 10.00 Coronation Street 10.30 Emmerdale 11.00 Hollyoaks 11.30 Deal Or No Deal 12.00 Desperate Housewives (M) 1.00 Grey’s Anatomy (M) 2.00 Murphy Brown 2.30 Welcome Back Kotter 3.00 Perfect Strangers 3.30 Growing Pains 4.00 Movie: Tickle Me (PG 1965) US comedy. Stars Elvis Presley 6.00 Bargain Hunt 7.00 Harry’s Practice 7.30 Heartbeat 8.40 Jonathan Creek (M) 9.40 Gil Mayo Mysteries (M) 10.50 The Sweeney (M) 12.00 Minder 1.00 Movie: If You Knew Susie (PG 1948) US comedy. Stars Eddie Cantor 3.00 Leyland Brothers 4.00 Coronation Street 4.30 Emmerdale 5.00 Home Shopping

11.30 Morning News 12.00 Movie: Crimes Of Fashion – Killer Hair (M 2009) US comedy. Stars Maggie Lawson 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 Australia’s Got Talent 8.30 Winners & Losers (M) 9.30 Parenthood (M) 10.30 Cougar Town (M) 11.00 Keeping Up With The Kardashians (M) 12.00 The Philanthropist (M) 1.00 Home Shopping 5.30 News

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6.00 Six Million Dollar Man 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 Airwolf 2.00 Damage Control 3.00 Hercules 4.00 Malcolm And Eddie 4.30 Newsradio 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) 10.30 My Name Is Earl 11.00 Scrubs 12.00 The Sopranos (MA) 1.00 Magnum PI 2.00 Airwolf 3.00 Quincy ME 4.00 Hercules 5.00 McHale’s Navy 5.30 Home Shopping

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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 The Big Bang Theory 8.25 Lotto 8.30 CSI (M) 9.30 CSI: Miami (M) 11.30 The New Adventures Of Old Christine 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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8.30 Sea Patrol (M) 8.10 One Foot In The Grave 9.30 CSI: NY (M) 8.50 Lewis (M) 10.30 Kitchen Nightmares USA 11.00 That’s My Boy 11.30 Hale (MA) 11.30 The New Adventures & Pace (M) 12.00 Movie: Vigil In Of Old Christine 12.00 20/20 1.00 The Night (PG 1940) US drama. Entertainment Tonight 1.30 Home Stars Carole Lombard 2.05 Tombs Shopping 3.30 Good Morning In The Coral 3.00 Leyland Brothers America 5.00 Early Morning News World 4.00 Coronation Street 4.30 Emmerdale 5.00 Home Shopping

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GEM 6.00 Today 9.00 Alive & Cooking 9.30 The Zoo 10.00 Friends 11.00 Murder, She Wrote 12.00 Movie: South Of Algiers (G 1954) UK drama. Stars Van Heflin 2.00 Chopping Block 3.00 McLeod’s Daughters 4.00 Antiques Roadshow 5.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 6.00 Friends 7.00 The Zoo 8.30 Mary Queen Of Shops 9.30 Kitchen Nightmares (MA) 10.30 Wife Swap USA 11.30 Friends 12.00 Murder, She Wrote 1.00 Mary Queen Of Shops 2.00 Home Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 Adventures In Rainbow Country 5.30 Today

GO! 6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.30 ET 11.00 TMZ 11.30 Married With Children 12.00 Here’s Lucy 12.30 Spin City 1.00 Seinfeld 2.00 Charlie’s Angels 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Two And A Half Men 7.00 Australia’s Funniest Home Videos 7.30 The Big Bang Theory 8.00 Two And A Half Men 8.30 Survivor: Redemption Island 9.30 Movie: Bride Wars (PG 2009) US comedy. Stars Kate Hudson 11.20 South Park (M) 11.50 Reno 911 (M) 12.50 Charlie’s Angels 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Married With Children 5.30 The Flintstones

GEM 6.00 Today 9.00 Alive & Cooking 9.30 The Zoo 10.00 Friends 11.00 Murder, She Wrote 12.00 Movie: The First Traveling Saleslady (G 1956) US comedy. Stars Ginger Rogers 2.00 Chopping Block 3.00 McLeod’s Daughters 4.00 The Zoo 5.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 6.00 Friends 7.00 The Zoo 7.30 Secret Dealers 8.30 Hoarders 9.30 The Closer (M) 10.30 How Clean Is Your House 11.30 Without A Trace (M) 12.30 Friends 1.00 The Closer (M) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 Adventures In Rainbow Country 5.30 Today

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ABC 2 6.00 Kids’ Programs 7.00 Spicks And Specks 7.30 River Monsters 8.30 TalHotBlond 9.30 Bleach, Nip, Tuck 10.20 Raising Sextuplets 11.05 Britain’s Conjoined Twins: Hope And Faith 11.55 The Kitchen Job 12.40 Live From Abbey Road: Counting Crows, Melody Gardot, Hockey 1.25 Close

10.05 Movie: Letters To Father Jacob (M 2009) Finnish drama 6.05am to 5.30pm Kids’ Programs 6.00 Total Drama Action 6.25 Deadly 12.00 Movie: Salvador (M 2006) Spanish drama 2.20 Weatherwatch 60 7.05 The Slammer 7.35 Stoked 8.30 Degrassi: The Next Generation 9.00 Close 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News 6.00 Giro d’Italia Cycling 4.00 ABC News 4.05 The Quarters 6.30 Catherine’s Italian Kitchen 4.20 The Drum 5.00 ABC News 5.15 The Quarters 5.30 Newsline 6.00 7.00 A Matter Of Taste ABC News Breakfast 9.00 ABC News 7.30 Deepwater Disaster 9.30 Business Today 10.00 ABC News 8.30 BP: Profits And Disaster 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 National 9.30 Movie: Travellers And Press Club Address 1.00 ABC News Magicians (PG 2003) 2.00 Midday Report 2.30 State To Bhutanese/Australian drama State 3.30 Afternoon Live 5.30 Capital 11.25 Movie: Inugami (MA 2000) Hill 5.45 The Quarters 6.00 ABC News Japanese thriller 1.15 Weatherwatch 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 6.00 Ten News 7.00 Kids’ Programs The World 10.00 ABC News 10.05 9.00 Ten News 10.00 The Circle 12.00 The Drum 10.45 The Quarters 11.00 Dr Phil (M) 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show ABC News 11.30 Newsline 12.00 ABC 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Judge News 12.30 Lateline 1.00 BBC World Judy 3.30 Infomercial 4.00 Everyday News 1.30 Lateline Business 2.00 BBC Gourmet 4.30 The Bold And The World News 2.30 7.30 3.00 Lateline Beautiful 3.35 Lateline Business 5.00 Ten News 6.30 6.30 With George Negus 7.00 The 7pm Project 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World 7.30 Masterchef Australia News 1.00 Movie: Nero (M 2004) 8.30 Glee Part 1 of Italian drama 2.50 It’s My 9.30 Lie To Me (M) Turn 3.00 Parent Rescue 3.30 Letters 10.30 6.30 With George Negus And Numbers 4.00 The Journal 4.30 11.00 Late News With Sports Tonight Newshour 5.30 Global Village 11.30 Late Show 12.30 Ally McBeal 6.00 Letters And Numbers (M) 1.30 Infomercials 4.00 Religion 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Inspector Rex 8.30 East West 101 (M) 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The 9.30 World News Australia Brady Bunch 8.30 Neighbours

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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 The Teenage Witch 6.30 Neighbours 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond 7.30 The Simpsons 8.00 Futurama 8.30 The Simpsons 9.00 The Cleveland Show (M) 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

ONE HD 6.00 Serie A Football 6.30 Bundesliga Football 7.30 World Football News 8.00 RPM 9.00 Major League Baseball – LIVE 3.00 This Week In Baseball 3.30 Omnisport 4.00 Escape With ET 4.30 Emergency Search & Rescue 5.00 Airline 5.30 Big Cat Diary 6.00 Bondi Rescue 6.30 Emergency Search & Rescue 7.00 Airline 7.30 Long Way Round 8.30 Cops (M) 9.30 Sons Of Anarchy (AV) 10.30 Sports Tonight 11.00 The Ultimate Fighter 12.00 Major League Baseball 2.30 Omnisport 3.00 Liverpool Football

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6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.30 Morning News 12.00 Movie: Deceit (M 2004) US drama.

Stars Marlo Thomas 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 Australia’s Got Talent 8.30 Criminal Minds (M) 10.30 Detroit 1-8-7 (M) 11.30 My Name Is Earl 12.00 Style

By Jury 12.30 Home Shopping 5.30 Seven News

6.00 Six Million Dollar Man 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 Damage Control 3.00 Hercules 4.00 Malcolm And Eddie 4.30 Newsradio 5.00 The Drew Carey Show 5.30 According To Jim 6.30 My Wife And Kids 7.00 That ’70s Show 7.30 The Amazing Race 8.30 Jersey Shore (M) 10.00 Movie: Cruel Intentions 3 (MA 2004) US drama. Stars Kerr Smith 12.00 The Sopranos (MA) 1.00 Magnum PI 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Airwolf 5.00 McHale’s Navy 5.30 6.00 Kids Time 7.30 Martha Stewart Home Shopping Show 8.30 Sons & Daughters 9.00 Home & Away 9.30 Shortland Street 10.00 Coronation Street 10.30 5.30 Today 9.00 Kerri-Anne 11.00 Emmerdale 11.00 Hollyoaks 11.30 Danoz 12.00 The Ellen Degeneres Deal Or No Deal 12.00 Desperate Show 1.00 The View 2.00 Days Of Housewives (M) 1.00 Grey’s Anatomy Our Lives 3.00 Alive And Cooking (M) 2.00 Murphy Brown 2.30 3.30 Magical Tales 4.00 Kitchen Whiz Welcome Back Kotter 3.00 Perfect 4.30 Afternoon News 5.30 Hot Seat Strangers 3.30 Growing Pains 4.00 6.00 NBN News Movie: Cactus Flower (PG 1969) US 7.00 A Current Affair comedy. Stars Walter Matthau 7.30 David Attenborough’s 6.00 Bargain Hunt Madagascar 7.00 Harry’s Practice 8.25 Lotto 7.30 Heartbeat 8.30 RPA 8.40 Pie In The Sky 9.30 Big 9.45 Jonathan Creek (M) 10.30 Embarrassing Bodies (M) 11.40 Murphy’s Law (AV) 1.00 11.30 The New Adventures Of Old Coronation Street 1.30 Emmerdale Christine 12.00 Eclipse Music TV 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Leyland 12.30 What Would You Do? (M) 1.30 Brothers 5.00 Home Shopping Home Shopping 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

7TWO

6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.30 Entertainment Tonight 11.00 TMZ 11.30 Married With Children 12.00 Here’s Lucy 12.30 Spin City 1.00 Seinfeld 2.00 Charlie’s Angels 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Two And A Half Men 7.00 Australia’s Funniest Home Videos 7.30 The Big Bang Theory 8.00 Two And A Half Men 8.30 Fringe (M) 9.30 Spartacus (AV) 10.30 Nikita (AV) 11.30 South Park (M) 12.00 V (M) 1.00 Charlie’s Angels 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Married With Children 5.30 The Flintstones

NBN

GEM 6.00 Today 9.00 Alive & Cooking 9.30 The Zoo 10.00 Friends 11.00 Murder, She Wrote 12.00 Movie: Scorched (M 2008) Australian drama. Stars Cameron Daddo 2.00 Chopping Block 3.00 McLeod’s Daughters 4.00 Secret Dealers 5.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 6.00 Friends 7.00 The Zoo 7.30 Extreme Parental Guidance 8.30 Hoarders 9.30 The Closer (M) 10.30 Law & Order (M) 11.30 Conan (M) 12.30 Friends 1.00 The Closer (M) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 Adventures In Rainbow Country 5.30 Today

Thursday 19

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.

ABC 1

ABC 3

4.00 The Bill 5.00 National Press Club Address 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.30 Business Today 10.00 Kids’ Programs 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Dalziel And Pascoe (M) 2.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Three Men In Another Boat 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 Catalyst 8.30 I, Spry 9.30 Outback Kids 10.30 Lateline 11.05 Lateline Business 11.35 Live From Abbey Road: Stereophonics, Colbie Caillat, Joan Armatrading (M) 12.25 Movie: Dementia 13 (M 1963) UK thriller. Stars William Campbell 1.40 Movie: Stage Door Canteen (G 1943) WWII drama. Stars Judith Anderson

6.05am to 5.30pm Kids’ Programs 6.00 Total Drama Action 6.25 Deadly 60 7.05 The Slammer 7.35 Stoked 8.30 Degrassi: The Next Generation 9.00 Close

ABC 2 6.00 Kids’ Programs 7.00 Spicks And Specks 7.30 Marngrook Footy Show 8.30 Party Down (M) 9.00 Peep Show (M) 9.30 Graham Norton Show 10.15 Hungry Beast 10.45 Later… With Jools Holland: Duane Eddy, Janelle Monae, Steve Miller Band 11.50 Marngrook Footy Show 12.50 Live From Abbey Road: Yusuf, The Fray, White Lies 1.35 Close

ABC NEWS 24 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 Newsline 1.30 ABC News 2.00 Midday Report 2.30 Australian Story 3.00 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 World News 1.30 Lateline Business 2.00 BBC World News 2.30 7.30 3.00 Lateline 3.30 Lateline Business

8.30 Heston’s Feasts 9.30 World News Australia 10.05 Movie: The Trap (M 2007) Serbian mystery 11.55 Movie: Gloss (M 2007) Russian drama 2.05 Weatherwatch

SBS 2 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News 6.00 Giro d’Italia Cycling 6.30 Catherine’s Roman Holiday 7.00 Taste Takes Off 7.30 Insight 8.30 Saved By Music 9.30 Movie: Camarón (M 2005) Spanish biography 11.30 Movie: Miffo (M 2003) Swedish romantic comedy 1.15 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 Infomercial 4.00 Everyday Gourmet 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News 6.30 6.30 With George Negus 7.00 The 7pm Project 5.00 Weatherwatch 7.30 Masterchef Australia 5.15 UEFA Europa League 8.30 The Good Wife (M) Final LIVE – Porto v Braga 9.30 Law & Order: SVU (M) 8.05 World News 3.30 Letters And 10.30 6.30 With George Negus Numbers 4.00 The Journal 4.30 11.00 Late News With Sports Tonight Newshour 5.30 Global Village 11.30 Late Show 12.30 Ally McBeal 6.00 Letters And Numbers (M) 1.00 Infomercials 4.00 Religion 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Italian Food Safari 8.00 Oz And James Big Wine 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The Adventure Brady Bunch 8.30 Neighbours

SBS 1

Eleven

Mungo’s Crossword

Cryptic Clues

From The Week

11. Catatonic states reportedly produced by Buddhist ACROSS monuments (6) 1. Smelt absinthe brewing for the 13. Asphalt man – weird, but arbiters of society (13) imaginary (10) 8. Tax a small bed (4) 16. Rainbow flag (4) 9. Worker with one party, 17. Said to be educated wrong opposed to society (10) (5) (4) 10. Royal in the rump, the queen 18. Sharon, shouts lavish gifts!

-- she is naked! (8) (4,6)

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20. Declare a lock back (6) 22. Twitches after return of disposal of springy materials (8) 24. English climbing around a territory – going up fast! (10) 26. Backblock a Syrian, perhaps? (4) 27. 12 moves past sepulchres (3,5,5) DOWN 1. 12 would usually have couches – nest prepared!

(11) 2. Bird, the French appellation for 12 (5) 3. British have no armour for extortion (9) 4. Meanwhile, bury one thousand (7) 5. Pipes for sockses (5) 6. Former cryptic clues covering four – 12 can be like this! (9) 7. Eat badly? So drink! (3) 12. Rat racists circle – mad, but born to rule!

(11) 14. Public transport carried journalist in Alaskan city to the cathedral (5,4) 15. The garlic, crushed, makes drowsy (9)

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 The Teenage Witch 6.30 Neighbours 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond 7.30 The Simpsons 8.30 Stargate Universe (M) 9.30 Star Trek – Next Generation 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

ONE HD 6.00 Arsenal Football 9.00 NASCAR Nationwide Series 10.00 ATP World Tour Tennis 10.30 NBA Basketball – LIVE 1.30 Championship Netball: preliminary final 3.30 Omnisport 4.00 Escape With ET 4.30 Emergency Search & Rescue 5.00 Airline 5.30 Big Cat Diary 6.00 Bondi Rescue 6.30 Emergency Search & Rescue 7.00 Airline 7.30 Everest – Beyond The Limit 8.30 The Game Plan 9.30 The Ultimate Fighter (M) 10.30 Sports Tonight 11.00 The Game Plan 12.00 NBA Basketball 2.00 OneAsia Tour Golf 5.00 Omnisport 5.30 World Of Free Sports

PRIME

GO!

7MATE

6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.30 ET 11.00 TMZ 11.30 Married With Children 12.00 Here’s Lucy 12.30 Spin City 1.00 Seinfeld 2.00 Charlie’s Angels 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Two And A Half Men 7.00 Australia’s Funniest Home Videos 7.30 The Big Bang Theory 8.00 The Middle 8.30 Vampire Diaries (M) 9.30 Movie: My Ex-Girlfriend (M 2006) US comedy. Stars Luke Wilson 11.30 The Ultimate Fighter (AV) 12.30 Eclipse Music TV 1.10 Charlie’s Angels 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Married With Children 5.30 The Flintstones

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.30 Morning News 12.00 Movie: Nora Roberts’ Blue Smoke (M 2007) US thriller. Stars Alicia Witt 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 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 12.00 Heroes (M) 1.00 Home Shopping 5.30 Seven News

6.00 Six Million Dollar Man 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 Xena Warrior Princess 3.00 Hercules 4.00 Malcolm And Eddie 4.30 Newsradio 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 Made Made Marvels 9.30 Ultimate Factories 10.30 The Imploders 11.30 Auto Theft Task Force 12.00 The Sopranos (AV) 1.00 Magnum PI 2.00 Airwolf 3.00 Quincy ME 4.00 6.00 Kids Time 7.30 Martha Stewart Xena Warrior Princess 5.00 Hercules Show 8.30 Sons & Daughters 9.00 Home & Away 9.30 Shortland Street 10.00 Coronation Street 10.30 5.30 Today 9.00 Kerri-Anne 11.00 Emmerdale 11.00 Hollyoaks 11.30 Danoz 12.00 The Ellen Degeneres Deal Or No Deal 12.00 Desperate Show 1.00 The View 2.00 Days Of Housewives (M) 1.00 Grey’s Anatomy Our Lives 3.00 Alive And Cooking (M) 2.00 Murphy Brown 2.30 3.30 Magical Tales 4.00 Kitchen Whiz Welcome Back Kotter 3.00 Perfect 4.30 Afternoon News 5.30 Hot Seat Strangers 3.30 Growing Pains 4.00 6.00 NBN News Full House 4.30 Columbo 7.00 A Current Affair 6.00 Bargain Hunt 7.30 RBT 7.00 Harry’s Practice 8.00 Getaway 7.30 Doc Martin 8.30 Between The Lines (M) 8.30 The Bill (M) 9.30 The NRL Footy Show (M) 10.40 Movie: Blue Thunder (M 11.15 The AFL Footy Show (M) 1.00 1983) US action. Stars Roy Scheider Entertainment Tonight 1.30 Skippy 12.50 Movie: The Falcon Takes 2.00 Infomercials 3.30 Good Morning Over (PG 1942) US mystery. Stars America 5.00 Early Morning News George Sanders 2.10 Movie: The Saint Strikes Back (PG 1939) US drama. Stars George Sanders 3.30

7TWO

24. Rapidly increasing, intensifying (10) 26. Inhabitant of Syria or Egypt, for instance (4) 27. Highest level of the social hierarchy (3,5,5) DOWN 1. Coats of arms, shields (11) 2. Name, appellation (5) 3. Extortion, threats of exposure (9) 4. Temporary, meantime (7) 5. Flexible water pipes used in Quick Clues gardens (5) 6. Fashionable, limited in number ACROSS 1. Group with power and (9) influence in a society (13) 7. Warm brown drink (3) 8. One who lives north of 12. Members of the nobility (11) 14. Great cathedral of Paris (5,4) Hadrian’s wall (4) 9. Reclusive; opposed to 15. Drowsy, disinclined to work (9) 19. Barren, germ-free (7) communal living (10) 21. Hobo, bum (5) 10. Naked intruder, 23. Small crown, head-dress worn usually at a sporting by nobility (5) event (8) 25. Drunkard (3) 11 Mounds containing Buddhist relics (6) Last week’s solution 13. Imaginary, insubstantial (10) 16. Greek rainbow goddess(4) 17. Legal wrong, such as defamation or negligence (4) 18. Luxuriant entertainments (4,6) 20. Declare, state boldly (6) 22. Springy materials, usually containing strips of rubber (8) 19. Inscribed slab covers royal individual – it’s barren! (7) 21. Public transport leads to parking – walk! (5) 23. 12 gets rid of costs, right? Enough remains to make an appropriate head-dress (5) 25. Drunk needs small volumes (3)

Coronation Street 4.00 Emmerdale 4.30 Home Shopping

NBN

CHESS

by Ian Rogers Play at Seagulls Club, Thurs 6-10pm Indian FIDE Master Akshat Khamparia scored a shock victory in last week’s 2011 Sydney International Open, ahead of a classy field which included six Grandmasters.

The 22-year-old from Madhya Pradesh won his first five games and then held on for draws against his main rivals in the final four rounds to finish half a point clear of a massive chasing pack and secure the $4,000 first prize.

Khamparia was ranked 13th at the start of the SIO and had a good performance at Easter’s O2C Doeberl Cup to his credit, but few would have tipped against one of the Grandmasters taking the fifth SIO title.

For the home fans, the biggest success came from Melbourne 20-year-old Chris Wallis, who reached a tie for second place.

Long overshadowed by his slightly younger peers such as Moulthun Ly and Junta Ikeda, Wallis, the co-winner of the 2010 Victorian Championship, showed that his slow but steady improvement is continuing.

GEM 6.00 Today 9.00 Alive & Cooking 9.30 The Zoo 10.00 Friends 11.00 Murder, She Wrote 12.00 Movie: The Book Of Ruth (M 2004) Canadian drama.

Stars Christine Lahti 2.00 Holiday Showdown 3.00 McLeod’s Daughters 4.00 Extreme Parental Guidance 5.00 Ellen Degeneres Show 6.00 Friends 7.00 The Zoo 7.30 As Time Goes By 8.30 Relocation, Relocation 9.30 Embarrassing Bodies (M) 10.30 How To Have Sex After Marriage (MA) 11.30 Conan (M) 12.30 Friends 1.00 Murder, She Wrote 1.30 Relocation, Relocation 2.00 Home Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 Adventures In Rainbow Country 5.30 Today

n This week’s game sees Andrei

Deviatkin in sparkling form, scoring his second victory in a week over Sydney teenager and Australian Olympic aspirant Max Illingworth.

Sydney 2011 White: M Illingworth Black: A Deviatkin Opening: English 1.c4 e5 2.g3 f5 3.d4!? exd4 4.Nf3 An imaginative gambit, which recently gained credibility when employed by Ukrainian genius Vassily Ivanchuk. 4...Bb4+ 5.Nbd2 c5 Hanging on to the pawn has a poor reputation but otherwise White has too comfortable a position.

6.Bg2 Nf6 7.0-0 Nc6 8.Nb3 d6 9.e3! dxe3 10.Bxe3 0-0 11.a3 Ba5 12.Ng5? Starting an attack which wins material but loses the game. Deviatkin, who has already used over an hour on the clock, was very nervous about White building up the pressure with 12.Qd3 and 13.Rad1. 12...Bc7 13.Bd5+ Nxd5 14.Qxd5+ Kh8 15.Nf7+ Rxf7 16.Qxf7 Ne5 17.Qh5?!

17.Qd5 Bd7 was also ugly but now Black wins by force. 17...f4! 18.Rad1 Unfortunately after 18.Bxf4, Bg4 traps the White queen. 18...Bg4 19.Qxe5 Bxd1 The simplest path – the rest is easy for Black. 20.Qxf4 Bxb3 21.Re1 Ba5 22.Rc1 Qe7 23.Qf3 Ba4 24.Qh5 Be8 25.Qf5 Bc6 26.b4 Rf8 0-1 2011 Sydney leading final scores: 1.Khamparia (Ind) 7/9; =2.Zhao (NSW), Arutinian (Geo), Deviatkin (Rus), Steadman (NZ), Wallis (Vic), Solomon (Qld), Goh (Sin) 6.5.

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Sport

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Rock hopping mad for mojo

David and friends check out the gear he will use on his upcoming rock hopping adventure.

David Solano

The river is a little quiet at the moment, so this weekend, well Saturday morning, I will hit the walls for a little rock hopping. I will be taking with me a backpack full of different lures, but when chasing taylor, the metal slug is the go. They are cheap and they work and can be used in a variety of ways. I will start at dawn on the north wall of the river and cast wherever I can see some action.

SPORT RESULTS

BOWLS Cabarita Beach Women May 10. Social Bowls: Winning rink – Kathleen Dimauro, Fay Wright, Cheryl McMullen, Flo Bosher. Consolation – Robyn Darling, Estelle Crabb, Joan Griffiths. Raffles – Flo Bosher, Marie Andrews, Estelle Crabb. Welcome to Cheryl McMullen and Pam Thorburn New moon

May 3

16:51

First quarter May 11

06:33

Full moon

May 17

21:09

Third quarter May 25

04:52

Day of month 1 S 2 M 3 T 4 W 5 T 6 F 7 S 8 S 9 M 10 T 11 W 12 T 13 F 14 S 15 S 16 M 17 T 18 W 19 T 20 F 21 S 22 S 23 M 24 T 25 W 26 T 27 F 28 S 29 M 30 T 31 W

Sun rise 0612 0613 0613 0614 0615 0615 0616 0616 0617 0618 0618 0619 0619 0620 0621 0621 0622 0622 0623 0624 0624 0625 0625 0626 0626 0627 0627 0628 0629 0629 0630

Sun set 1713 1712 1712 1711 1710 1709 1709 1708 1707 1706 1706 1705 1704 1704 1703 1703 1702 1702 1701 1701 1700 1700 1659 1659 1659 1658 1658 1658 1657 1657 1657

Moon rise 0410 0503 0557 0653 0748 0843 0935 1024 1109 1151 1230 1307 1344 1423 1504 1550 1641 1736 1836 1937 2038 2137 2234 2328 0020 0112 0203 0256 0350 0445

Moon set 1543 1617 1655 1736 1823 1915 2011 2110 2211 2313 0016 0119 0224 0330 0438 0547 0654 0758 0855 0945 1029 1107 1141 1213 1243 1313 1344 1417 1453 1533

The rod is a short Shamano Ian Miller Rod, a ripper of a stick and with a Seana 2500 reel spooled with 20lb braid then 25lb loader (3–4mtrs).

If the walls are not working (north and south) I’ll try the Fingal Headland, but one must be careful as rock fishing is one of Australia’s most dangerous sports. I recommend taking good boots, waterproof as much gear as you can and always check the spot out before you head down there.

The sea is so unpredictable that at suspect spots I’ll check the swell for a good 20–30 minutes, particularly at the causeway at Fingal Lighthouse.

Sunday is the last Kayak Fishing Competition on the Goldy for the year. It starts at Budds Beach 6am. When these tournaments first started I did well, but I cannot seem to catch anything worthy lately.

Maybe my mojo is off.

from Pottsville.

Condong Ladies Tues 26 Apr, Club Triples Championships semifinal, M Hinde, R Thorley, K Edmunds def B Mullan, S Cook,J Blake.

Tues 3 May,Club Triples Championship final, J Glasby, P Flack, M Sweetnam def M Hinde, R Thorley, K Edmunds. Congratulations to the winners, it was a tightly fought final and played in excellent spirit.Social Pairs, E Elvy, E Hunt def

N Worthy, R Ross.H Ross, M Standfield def B Mullan, H Fuller.Winning Rink, M Sweetnam. Club Comp Winner, H Ross.

Condong Men Wednesday 4th 26 bowlers played Winners B Melts, K Lutherborrough R/U C Mummery, M Bennett, Raffle win C Smith, L Muir, S Keen. Saturday 7th Pennant results Div 1 Cabarita 5 Condong 1, Div 3 Bye, Div 4 Cudgen 4 Condong 2, Div 5 Brunswick 5 Condong 1, Div 7 Condong 5-5 M-bah –5.

Cudgen Leagues Ladies Congratulations to Ann Revie and Bev Hall winners of the Club championship pairs final played last Thurs May 5 and to runners up Faye Turner and

20:03

MAY 2011

Astronomical data and tides

High tide, height (m) 0654,1.43; 1916,1.65 0732,1.42; 1949,1.71 0811,1.41; 2023,1.75 0849,1.38; 2058,1.78 0929,1.35; 2135,1.78 1011,1.32; 2215,1.76 1057,1.29; 2259,1.73 1146,1.27; 2347,1.69 1243,1.26 0043,1.64; 1345,1.29 0145,1.61; 1450,1.35 0253,1.59; 1552,1.46 0359,1.59; 1647,1.59 0500,1.59; 1740,1.73 0559,1.59; 1830,1.85 0656,1.56; 1858,1.76 0751,1.52; 2010,2.00 0846,1.48; 2059,2.01 0940,1.43; 2147,1.97 1032,1.37; 2235,1.89 1124,1.33; 2322,1.78 1215,1.29 0010,1.66; 1309,1.28 0100,1.55; 1403,1.29 0154,1.45; 1458,1.33 0252,1.39; 1551,1.39 0350,1.35; 1639,1.46 0445,1.34; 1723,1.54 0535,1.33; 1804,1.62 0621,1.34; 1842,1.69 0704,1.34; 1919,1.76

All times Eastern Standard Time.

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.

22 May 12, 2011 The Tweed Shire Echo

Low tide, height (m) 0100,0.55; 1253,0.51 0138,0.50; 1325,0.51 0215,0.46; 1357,0.52 0253,0.44; 1430,0.54 0332,0.44; 1506,0.56 0413,0.45; 1545,0.59 0458,0.46; 1627,0.63 0546,0.49; 1715,0.67 0640,0.50; 1813,0.70 0738,0.49; 1919,0.71 0836,0.47; 2033,0.68 0931,0.43; 2147,0.62 1024,0.39; 2256,0.52 1114,0.37 0000,0.42; 1202,0.35 0059,0.32; 1250,0.36 0154,0.26; 1338,0.39 0248,0.23; 1426,0.44 0341,0.25; 1515,0.49 0433,0.30; 1603,0.56 0525,0.37; 1652,0.63 0615,0.44; 1744,0.69 0705,0.51; 1838,0.75 0753,0.56; 1938,0.79 0839,0.59; 2045,0.80 0925,0.59; 2152,0.78 1009,0.59; 2256,0.73 1051,0.58; 2349,0.66 1130,0.57 0036,0.59; 1209,0.56 0117,0.52; 1246,0.56

n To contact David, email:

­editor@tweedecho.com.au

MONTHLY MARKETS 1st Sat Brunswick Heads (02) 6628 4495 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 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

WEEKLY FARMERS MARKETS Each Tue New Brighton (02)6684 5390 Each Wed 7-11am Mur’bah (02) 6684 7834 Each Thu 8-11am Byron Bay (02) 6687 1137 Each Sat 8-11am Bangalow (02) 6687 1137 8am-1pm Uki (02) 6679 5438 Each Sat

Liz Fleming,for a game well played.Social bowls, Thurs May 5 winners rink1,C Wein’s team;Raffle F Hall.Round 1, Club championship singles to be played today at 1pm;B Hall V’s M Van Runt marker I Nipperess; F Turner V’s M Ellen marker J Dent;A Revie V’s S Hinks marker J Wotherspoon;P Pieterse V’s P McGill marker C Wein.

Cudgen Men Easter Saturday social results saw V.Schiemer, R. Mathews, D. Lowe & J. Neal collect the cash while the runners up on the day were Coog Pritchard, I. Tilley. C. Lacey & W. Bell Other social results saw Mondays Mixed day go to K. Davey, Speedy & G. Border Wednesdays game A. Reid, G. Tobin & T. King won the money and the losing rink went toR. Tough, G. Ellen & B. Murray, Saturdays Game saw J. Krizman, B. Fraser & T. Potocnic winners on the day.

The first two games in the “A” grade 2 bowl triples have been run and won with the result S. Archbold, R McIntosh & K. Hanson Defeating N. Hoskinson, T. Grimes & J. Neal 25/17 and R. Corney, B. Cusack & C. Pritchard defeated B. Bell, J. Hazel & F. Pieterse 25/17.

Pottsville Men Weekly Results Wednesday May 4 Winners : R. Parker – F. Fielding Runners-up .L Swift – H. Milne Championship: B. Grade pairs semi-final Winners: P. Field – R. Appleton Runners-up: L .Swift – Durro Score 21-20 Pennant Results Division 1. Pottsville v Ocean Shores Pottsville 4-2 Division 4. Pottsville v Brunswick Heads Pottsville 6-0 Division 6. Pottsville v Ocean Shores Pottsville 0-6 Division 7 Pottsville v Byron Bay Pottsville 5-1 Pottsville Women Winners: HWS C. Parker & M. Comerford. Runners up: J. Brammer, L. Rice & N. Bonner. Lucky Bowler C. Moir. South Tweed Men The major single championship was completed with N. Smith def D. Bennett25/15.

Also the minor were completed with B.Henderson side def B. Rowley Side 23/18.

Wednesday morning pairs Winners were V.Giacomi & r. Hill 36. Runners up went to R.Dunn & B Dawson c/b 34. Third place was R. Havey & D. Maxwell 34.

After noon social triples winners were J. Willey, O’Kinnane,I.Ensbey. Runners up B. Tapper, H. Ackerly J. Evens.

Thursday afternoon pairs winners were I. King & L. Smith 12. Second place was R. Dunn & R. Henson 9. Winner of the losers were G. Woodhouse &D. Piper 14 Saturday afternoon social triples winners were J. Willey, E.Robinson, B. Goldstone. Runners up was B. Coste, B. Wenban,B. Stephens.

Tweed Heads Ladies Overall winners Pottsville G. Moore, m. Commford, a. Swift. 2 44.

Runnersup composite. R. Griffin, b.

Makin, v. Yoing 2 39. Third place composite J. Wotherspoon, b. Sprengel, l.

Fleming 2 36. Fourth place Tweed Heads. S. Hanlon, s. Goldsmith, c. Hawkins, 2 27 Tweed Heads Men Championships – Open Men’s Singles: Final: Roy Nuttall d. John Parker-Smith 25/24 Open Men’s Pairs: Round 2 Saturday May 7: Eddie Hewitt, Jim Bryant d. Steve Ross, Leon Harvey 19/17; George Kendall, Doug Grenfell d. John Sieben, Ian Irvine 29/11; Jason Neville, Mark Howarde d. David Dodge, John Reardon 21/18; David Taylor, Mitch Jackson d.

Keith Downey, John Bailey 22/11; Greg Ash, Roy Nuttall d. Ron Edwards, Vince Leather 24/13Jim Hammersley, John Parker-Smith d. Tony Muldoon, John Strachan 33/20; Dennis Lusby, John Millington d. Gordon Holthouse, Laurie Cooper 20/15.

Carnival: Results from last Monday’s [May 2],Open Classic Pairs are as follows.

Overall winners: Nigel Smith and Neville Jenkins [South Tweed] 6 + 30 Runners-up: Bruce McGregor and Mike Myers [Burleigh Heads] 6 + 6 Third place: Mario Azzopardi and John Sieben [composite] 5 + 22 Fourth place: Jeff Heapy and Shane O’Toole [Burleigh Heads] 5 + 12.

Section winners: Al and John Blake;

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Rob Parella and Maurie Penfold; Peter Duncan and Bill Beach; Arthur Collins and Leigh Tynan; Greg Ash and Roy Nuttall; Nick Separovich and Al Kalnins; John Royan and D. Cramwell; Les Hughes and G. Garbutt; Mike Alder and Ron Taylor.

Mystery Prize: Steve Ross and Leon Harvey.

Social Results Sun May 1: Green 1: David Dodge, John Reardon; r/ up: Sally and John Archer Green 2: Jason Neville, Mark Howarde; r/up: Michael McDonald, Ian Simmonds, Norma and George Craig Tues May 3: Men: Jed Hambleton, Peter Howell, Geoff Dixon, Tom Kelly; r/up: arter, Barry Milburn, Jim Cowen, Ian McLean Ladies: Sue Price, Audrey Harris, Sybil Hambleton, Margaret Picking; r/up: Elsie McGrath, Margaret Marquis, Pat McNamara, Doris McNamara Wed May 4: Highest Winning Margin Green 1: Les Hughes, Ron Edwards + 21; r/up: George Kendall, Doug Grenfell + 18 Green 2: Richard Mills, Stan Loeber, Ross Cali + 17; r/up: George Mynott, Bill Davies + 10 Green 3: Don Shoobert, Graham Simpson + 30; r/up: Ron Hottinger, George Brooks + 14 Green 4: John Asser, Ron Sturrock + 17 on c/b; Mike Alder, Ron Taylor + 17 Fri May 6: Green 1: Bob Trinder, Lol Sables; r/ up: Jeff Badger, Roger Sydenham, Bill Davies Green 2: Jason Neville, Mark Howarde; r/up: Ian McLean, Les Morrison, John Parker-Smith Green 3: John Sieben, John Brabham, Jim A. Smith on c/b; r/up: Bob Chapman, George Gorgenyi, Ian Irvine.

Green 4: Pat Dalley, Con Impellizzeri; r/up: Mike Goddard, George Brooks, Frank Parsons.

Sat May 7: Jackpot Saturday Green 1: Chris Bidwell, Mike Goddard, Roger Graf; r/up: Jeff Badger, Bernie Fletcher Green 2: Jim Hammersley, John ParkerSmith; r/up: Keith Downey, John Bailey Green 3: Trish Dixon, Tom Armour; r/ up: Les Hore, Peter Barns. Consolation winners were Geoff Green and Tony Houghton.

Sun May 8 – Mothers Day. Green 1: Trish Dixon, Ken Calvert, Roslyn and Greg Ash; r/up: Cynthia and Derek Chapman, Jean and Jim Cowen Green 2: Trevor Baverochse, Linda and Tony Kattenburg, Phil Dwyer; Laurina Spencer, Val Philpot, Ben Janovics, Mark Howarde Green 3: Les Wurth, Sylvia and Dennis Lusby; r/up: Jess and Paul Chircop, Pat and John Mann.

DARTS Tweed Valley Results of games played Monday 9th May 2011. A Grade Jokers 11 def Cgulls 4, Gulls 10 def Lions 5, Blues 8 def Hogan’s Heroes 7 and We’re Back 9 def Misfits 6. Congratulations to Brett Duncan from Hogan’s Heroes, Ron Dunn from Blues and Jason Anderson from Jokers who all threw 180 on the night. B Grade Leftovers 7 def Tigers 4, Chuckers 6 def Devils 5 and Moon Guppies received 7 points because Boomerangs forfeited the game against them.

GOLF Chinderah Seniors Social Results for 2/5/11 - Stableford Winner A grade Tom Hyde 41 points new h/cap 10, R/up Terry Sayle 39 points new h/cap 8.

Winner B grade Nanette Wise 39 points new h/cap 15. R/up Barry Walsham 38 points new h/cap 18.

Winner C grade Neil Perrin 38 points (c/back) new h/cap 23 R/up John Mulligan 38 points newh/cap 23.

Ball rundown to 36 points Results for 5/5/11 Stroke Winner A grade Rex Howard net 51 (c/back) new h/cap 11. R/up Kaylene Toovey net 51 new h/cap 12.

Winner B grade Mal Saggus net 47 new h/cap 15, R/up Frank Aaron net 48 new h/cap 16.

Winner C grade Jim Kilborn net 43 new h/cap 21. R/up Keith Dormer net 45 new h/cap 31 Ball rundown to net 49

Note low scores due to 14th & 15th holes being unplayable.

Murwillumbah Sunday 1st May Individual Stableford Medley Women’s Winner L.Ross 35 pts Members Winner P.Aitken 38 pts B.R.D.to 34 pts Monday 2nd May Veterans Individual Stroke in 2 Grades A.Grade C.Hulme 66 nett R.Up R.Masiar 68 nett B.Grade I.Audsley R.Up R.Neil 69 nett N.Pin 8TH k.Blyth 10th H.Axford 14th G.Thorburn B.R.D. 70 c.b Members Winner G.Rathborne 44 pts B.R.D. 37 pts c.b Wednesday 4th Individual Stableford Winner A.Grade L.Reynolds 41 pts c.b B.Grade M.Zwermer 41 pts c.b N.Pin 2nd P.Berryman 10th P.Thomas B.R.D.37 pts c.b Friday 6th May Women’s Winner J.Brooks Members J.Mathiou 40 pts B.R.D. 34 pts Saturday 7th May Individual Stroke in 4 Grades Winner A.Grade S.Walton 67 nett R.Up T.Boorman 68 nett B.Grade W.Townsend 64 nett R.Up L.Travers-Jones 69 nett C.Grade T.Prichard 69 nett R.Up G.Watts 70 nett D.Grade F.Berg 71 nett R.Up B.Murray 72 nett N.Pin 2nd P.Dhillon 8th T.Hindle 10th D.Carpenter 14th G.Nelson B.R.D.75 nett c.b Coming Events Saturday 14th May 2 Person Ambrose Sunday 15th Rous River Open Individual Stroke Medley Monday 16th Open day Individual Stableford Medley & Veterans Individual Stableford Tuesday 17th Individual Stableford Wednesday 18th Individual Stableford & 9 Hole Sporters Thursday 19th Individual StStroke in 3 Grades First Round Mabel MacKenzie Brooch Friday 20th Individual Stableford Medley Saturday 21st Individual Stableford in 4 Grades NETBALL Kingscliff Round 6 – MAY 7 U10 Kingscliff Meteors Defeated Banora Point Finches 5-3.

U11 Kingscliff Sunshines Lost To Saints Jaguars 2-14.

Cadet A Kingscliff Komets Defeated Terranora Taipans 53-18 Division 3 Kingscliff Twisters Defeated Banora Point Roadrunners 36-17 Division 2 Kingscliff Stars Lost To Cudgen Strikers 22-23 Division 2 Kingscliff Astrals Lost To Banora Point Vultures 21-24 Division 1 Kingscliff Avatars Defeated Saints Panthers 36-16 RUGBY LEAGUE NRRRL Round 4 – Saturday May 7 Mullumbimby V Lower Clarence 1st Mullumb 28 D Lower Clarence 12 Reg Lower Clarence 32 D Mullumbi 10 18s Mullumb 18 D Lower Clarence 16 Evans Head V Grafton Ghosts 1st Evans Head 10 Drewew Grafton Ghosts 10 Reg Evans Head 20 D Grafton Ghosts 8 18s Grafton Ghosts 40 D Evans Head 20 Sunday May 8 Kyogle V Ballina 1st Kyogle 52 D Ballina 20 Reg Kyogle 42 D Ballina 0 18s Ballina 52 D Kyogle 0 Cudgen V Casino Rsm 1st Cudgen 30 DCasino Rsm 12 R Cudgen 60 D Casino Rsm 0 18s Cudgen 18 D Casino Rsm 6 Grafton Rhinos V Tweed Coast 1st Tweed Coast 30 D Grafton Rhinos 22 Reg Grafton Rhinos 28 D Tweed Coast 12 18s Grafton Rhinos 30 D Tweed Coast 22 Marist Brothers V Northern United 1st Northern United 43 D Marist Brothers 24 Reg Marist Brothers 44 D Norther Nunited 12 18s Northern United 33 D Marist Brothers 26 Murwillumbah V Byron Bay Reg Murwillumbah 28 D Byron Bay 1 SHOOTING Murwillumbah Pistol Club 7-May-11: Sports Pistol - R Rees 602, R McClymont 595, P Schlunke 588, W Byrne 580, B Kleem 570, W Gray 563, A Uren 505, A Dennison 501.

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Centre Fire - A Berry 564, S Nash 539, N Davis 477.

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RUBBISH REMOVAL OCEAN SHORES SKIPS Mini skip specialist.................................................................0412 161 564

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ADIRONDACK CHAIRS Classic style, natural, $220 or white, $260. Ph 0407580424

BARGAINS Toyota RAV4 5 speed, AC, PS. BK 32 CM .......................$5,950 Mitsubishi Lancer Auto, low kms, tidy car. YFN 447 ............$2,450 2004 Holden Astra Classic Auto, AC, PS, low kms. Full service history.

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HOUSES FOR SALE HASTINGS POINT - BIG 4 North Star Holiday Resort, $119,000 + site fee $135pw + utilities, includes AUSTAR and resort facilities. 3br, 1 bthrm, kitchen/ dining, lounge, 6 x 3m deck, carport - 2 car spaces, 2min walk beach. Ph owner 0427664637

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TO LET TYALGUM spacious 4br rural house, gardens, views, private, no pets, refs essential $380pw Phone 66795088 TYALGUM rural renovated 3br home, large yard, views, pets ok, $360pw incl elect. 0423220799

TO LEASE WORKSHOP/STORAGE 100sqm, high entry, rural setting, private & secure, $110pw, Condong. 0421086502

POSITIONS VACANT

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Would you like to become a carer and work from home? Free training & financial support is provided, to enable you to provide accredited high quality care in a home environment. You will be supported by the largest scheme in NSW. Flexible hours. Childcare benefit available. Phone Northern Rivers Family Day Care for more info on 07 5536 1865.

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As a face-to-face fundraiser, you will be talking to people on the street, at community markets and at events about the work of Rainforest Rescue and offering them the opportunity of donating on a monthly basis. Experience with face-to-face fundraising or direct sales is essential.

Part time and casual positions are available. Email krista@rainforestrescue.org.au for a position description and also to apply with your cover letter and resume.

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Renters forced to splash the cash to secure accommodation Increased competition among Australian renters has led to extreme tactics being used to secure accommodation a real estate report has found.

The new Consumer Insights Report for Rent by realestate. com.au has unearthed some alarming findings among renters who are going to extreme lengths to secure rental accommodation, due to a shortage of quality rental accommodation.

Twenty-three per cent of property seekers looking to rent have admitted to offering between $10 and $20 more than the asking price per week – a four per cent upwards jump from the last report in 2007 – to secure a rental property.

A further 30 per cent of respondents had even offered real estate agents an upfront payment to secure the right rental property, with male

jump in the number of people ing $400 or more a week.’ attending open for inspections While increased competition with more than five people in- and increased rental rates may specting properties in 59 per be daunting for some, Henry cent of cases, up 17 per cent suggests there are a number from the last report,’ he said. of things renters can do to im‘In fact, two out of three prove their chances of secur(65 per cent) Australians are ing that rental property. ‘Doing searching for properties with your research before you leave weekly rents of $300 or more the house is paramount, having – a 25 per cent jump since the a good references and a good last report. While rental rises rapport with the real estate have been consistent among agent helps.’ most states, those living in Realestate.com.au has partNew South Wales (40 per cent nered with 1Form to help rental – a +18 per cent increase) and seekers streamline the applicain Western Australia (41% – a tion process by allowing applirespondents, those living in attributed to a number of mar- lack of quality of stock.

‘According to the report, +26 per cent increase) are now cants to apply online for rental metropolitan areas and those ket forces including a shortage searching for higher-end prop- of properties, seasonality and there has been a significant searching for properties cost- properties. erties ($750 or more per week) more likely to offer an upfront BUSINESS DIRECTORY payment.

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Dotti, a 3 year old, desexed female, Cattle X is looking for a new home.

She is a beautiful girl – friendly, energetic, good natured and well trained; she loves people and gets on well with other dogs. She is used to living with another dog but would be OK as an only dog if there was someone home most of the time.

She likes being inside as part of the family. We need to move Dotti from her current foster carer so it would be great if she could go to a permanent home. If you can offer Dotti a loving home, please contact Yolana at the Friends of the Pound Adoption Information Booth on 07 5524 8590 or after hours on 02 6674 5110.

Visit www.friendsofthepound.com to view other animals looking for permanent homes.

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EMERGENCY ONLY AMBULANCE, FIRE, POLICE............... 000 AMBULANCE Kingscliff, Tweed Heads, Murwillumbah .... 131 233 MURWILLUMBAH HOSPITAL ............................02 6672 1822 EMERGENCY ....................................02 6672 0230 TWEED HEADS HOSPITAL ...............................07 5536 1133 FIRE BRIGADE Kingscliff..........................................02 6674 1271 Murwillumbah ....................................02 6672 8305 Tweed Heads .....................................07 5536 2222 Tweed Rural Fire Service.......................02 6672 7888 POLICE NON-EMERGENCIES 24/7 ............................ 131 444 Tweed Heads .....................................07 5536 0999 Murwillumbah ....................................02 6672 9499 Kingscliff..........................................02 6674 9399 STATE EMERGENCY SERVICE ................................ 132 500 Tweed Heads .....................................07 5524 1349 Murwillumbah ....................................02 6676 7355 LIFELINE .......................................................... 131 114 GOLD COAST HELICOPTER RESCUE SERVICE .....07 5598 0222 TWEED COAST AIR SEA RESCUE......................07 5536 9333 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 24 hour crisis line .............1800 656 463 ANIMAL WELFARE (RSPCA) .............................07 5536 5135 NSW Wildlife Information & Rescue Service (WIRES) .02 6628 1898 WILDLIFE CARERS TWEED VALLEY ...................02 6672 4789 CURRUMBIN SANCTUARY ...............................07 5534 1266 SEA WORLD ................................................07 5588 2222

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Former Tweed model turned singer-songwriter Sarah Archer is launching her debut EP tomorrow, (May 13), at Tugun Progress Hall. The EP, titled Waking Up Tomorrow, will be available on iTunes in late June.

A former Tweed River High School student, Sarah signed with EMI last year and has since worked with hit-song producers. Tickets are available on the door from 7pm.

Left: Lil Smart of Kirra, left, celebrated her 100th birthday on April 28 at Tweed Heads Bowls Club where she is a life member. Though Lil no longer plays, she is well known in Tweed bowling circles, often nicknamed Cannonball Lil, for ‘always taking out the shot’.

Lil held senior positions with the Gold Coast Tweed Ladies District Bowling Association, including president for many years, and played bowls into her 90s. Last weekend, the Tweed Bridge Club also held a special afternoon tea for their life member. Photo Jeff ‘Whippersnapper’ Dawson

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Motorcycle clubs in Australia tend to get some bad press from time to time so it’s good to record that last month members of the local chapter of the Finks Motorcycle Club made an impressive donation of $1,500 to the children’s ward of Murwillumbah District Hospital. The deputy director of nursing at the hospital, Mark Davies, said ‘despite their sometimes colourful character and reputations, motorcycle clubs such as the Finks have traditionally supported hospitals, with children’s wards a particular focus.’ Mr Davies said it was the fifth donation by the club and thanked them on behalf of the hospital and community.

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Speaking of the hospital, a longtime campaigner against its downgrading, Murwillumbah journalist Bob Dow, died there last Thursday night after a long illness. Bob, the 76-yearold former editor of the local daily, was passionate about the hospital and his hometown. In the mid-1990s, Bob helped organise the biggest public protest in the town’s history to save the hospital when it was feared the government would close it down. He was board member of the hospital and chairman of the Murwillumbah Bowls Club for 18 years. His funeral was held on Wednesday at the All Saints Anglican Church in Murwillumbah. A big hats off to Bob, who as a retired former local journalist wished The Echo well when it launched almost three years ago.

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Now it’s time to comment on the services, projects and programs Council intends to deliver over the next four years based on that feedback.

The draft Delivery Program 2011/2015 and Operational Plan 2011/2012 are on exhibition for public comment until Friday 27 May.

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Now in its 11th year, the Tweed Seniors Expo will be held next Thursday, May 19, from 9am to 3pm at the Seventh Day Adventist Centre, Racecourse Road, Murwillumbah. The program includes stalls, information sessions, workshops and entertainment, with television medico Dr James Wright to give a presentation on health and ageing.

Free shuttle buses will run from Murwillumbah town centre, Tweed Heads, West Tweed, Bilambil, Terranora and the Tweed Coast. For bookings call 02 6670 2492. For a full program see the latest Tweed Link newsletter at www.tweed.nsw. gov.au or call 02 6670 2527.

many readers, volunteers and community groups that in future we will reserve space to ensure most notices are published.

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…and while we’re on the subject of readership, advertisers should take note that the Tweed Echo has just been audited by the Circulations Audit Bureau for the six months end-

ing March 31. The audit verifies our claims to advertisers about how many papers are individually home delivered, go to bulk drops, commercial distribution to business owners, etc. Therefore we’re proud to say that, unlike some other weeklies circulating the shire, our figures (of 21,000 per week) are ‘CAB audited’.

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Talk to Council about the direction of the Tweed Last year, the Tweed community outlined its vision and objectives for the Tweed over the next 10 years, through feedback to the Community Strategic Plan.

In our article last week on coalseam gas mining, it was wrongly stated that the data on exploration licences was ‘amassed’ by the Environmental Defenders Office (EDO), when in fact it is available on the Department of Primary Industries website. The EDO is based in Lismore, not Kyogle, and the EDO’s Mark Byrne said the current regulatory structure associated with coal-seam gas exploration was ‘ad hoc’ rather than ‘hopelessly inadequate’ as quoted.

Visit the ‘On Exhibition’ section of Council’s website www.tweed.nsw.gov.au Go to the online forum www.yoursaytweed.com.au/delivery to make a comment.

Visit the information stalls (see times below).

Printed copies can be viewed at Council offices in Murwillumbah and Tweed Heads as well as Kingscliff, Murwillumbah and Tweed Libraries.

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• Specialise exclusively in bamboo flooring for the past 7 years • Ideal renovation product • Green smart and ecologically sustainable • Supply and install or supply only options <echowebsection=Backburner>

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