Tweed Echo – Issue 1.34 – 30/04/2009

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Bay Street sell-off on hold

Potters fire away!

Ken Sapwell

Tweed Shire Council has bowed to mounting public pressure to lift some of the secrecy surrounding its controversial push to sell part of Bay Street for a multi-storey development.

It has decided to put negotiations for the sale on hold until Walker Corporation agrees to consult with the community and publicly disclose details of its proposals with joint venture partner and retail centre giant, Centro.

It has also reversed its stand against releasing a confidential probity plan which removes potential legal obstacles in selling the 640 square metres of road reserve without going to tender.

The moves are aimed at trying to reverse a massive community backlash which followed a closed-door decision by the council at its very first meeting authorising the general manager to negotiate a sale to smooth the way for an apartment block.

They will lift a veil of secrecy over the height, design and footprint of the building and how it could achieve the council’s stated aim of triggering the ‘commercial re-activation’ of the nearby Jack Evans Boat Harbour precinct.

Community opposition The extent of the community opposition was revealed in a report to last week’s council meeting showing that of nearly 500 residents questioned in one survey, only two agreed with the concept.

Operations manager David Oxenham said one of the main issues raised by residents was the lack of detailed information about the project since the council gave the green light to talks last October.

He says the Walker Group, after giving councillors a power-point presentation of its development plans three weeks ago, also agreed to inform the public.

Rhonda Luland, Ann Lee, Janette Cernigoi and Nora Prior with some of the pots just removed from a huge pit firing.

Last Wednesday, 12 potters from Tweed Unlimited Arts Potters and Murwillumbah Potters put their pots, glazed with salt and copper carbonate, in a bed of sawdust then covered them with pine cones. They then filled the pit with recycled timber, set it alight and went off for a cup of tea.

But according to council sources, Walker Corp has ignored an informal request to contact community groups and other major stakeholders.

As a result, the council has unanimously decided to formally ask Walker to consult with the community over its plans, and to provide details of the consultation process and submissions within three months.

It also put pressure on the company to come good on its undertaking to consult by putting the proposed sale on the backburner until Walker complies.

A spokesman for Walker Corp said this week it would not be releasing any details until they

The crew came back to the Fernvale site two days later on Friday morning full of excitement and anticipation. They then dug their creations out of the embers. ‘Firings of this size are fairly rare and quite ambitious. The results we got from this, such a large firing, are quite remarkable,’ spokesperson Ann Lee said.

Interested potters can call Ann on 02 6672 3300 or 0428 723 300.

presentation of the architect’s concept plans. ‘From a business point of view it will encourage people into the area – it has a type of Southbank appeal. ‘I believe the development has to happen.

They have come up with a lovely concept but we are yet to see any development application.’ Ms van Lieshout likened it to development surrounding a similar natural harbour in Kiama, a town on NSW’s south coast which she Mayor applauds plans said set a great example for the Tweed’s future Mayor Joan van Lieshout said she urged Walker direction (see page 5).

Corporate services director Troy Green in a Corp, which she described as acting as an agent report to council recommended that it reverse a for Centro, to go public with their plans. continued on page 2 ‘I though they were fantastic,’ she said of the

had seen a formal request from the council.

Residents’ groups say the council’s stand is long-overdue. ‘The lack of detail about how the building would impact on traffic, parking and the Jack Evans Boat Harbour foreshores and the true extent of the road closure has made a mockery of the consultation process,’ said Save the Harbour spokesperson Stephanie Deane.

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Tweed’s first rice harvested Luis Feliu

The Riverina rice-growing region’s loss could be a win for the Tweed where its first rice crops were harvested this week.

Former NSW and Tweed Canegrowers Association president Graham Martin planted a crop on a 10-acre block formerly planted with sugar cane on his aunty Nancy Boyd’s Dulguigan property as well as a crop on a seven-acre block on his nearby cane farm last October.

‘Oh yes, it’s definitely a viable crop, Australia has been importing rice this year because of the drought in the Riverina where it’s grown, there hasn’t been enough water at all there this year and the SunRice copoperative is urging anyone and everyone to do so,’ he said.

‘The second reason for planting rice up here is that it’s so water resistant, whereas the soya crops currently being trialled on the Tweed have been killed by too much water after sitting under about four inches of it for a couple of days.

‘I’ve grown soya beans for the last three to four years with mixed success, as we had to replant the last two crops.’

Graham Martin, former canegrower, harvesting his rice crop.

Photo Sebastien Garcia-Cuenca (Tweed Shire Council)

The Tweed harvest, expected to yield around two tonnes an acre or 34 tonnes, is being stockpiled at the Broadwater Sugar Mill ready for transporting down to the Riverina for processing and sale on the domestic market.

But the export market is ready for Aussie rice growers to expand into as well.

‘We’ve got a big leg in Japan which resisted imports for

many years, apparently Tim Fischer (former federal Nationals leader) took some over and cooked it up for them and convinced them it was the best rice in the world.

‘So it’s definitely worth it and comparable if not better than growing soya beans, the only downside is rice does not fix nitrogen (which replenishes the soil) like soya beans.’

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Early school leavers in the Tweed have a chance to learn some handy self defence skills, cooking tips or even speech and drama as part of a tenweek program which kicks off this week.

Links to Learning is aimed at early secondary school leavers aged between 15 and 24 who have been unable to operate inside the education system and have either left school by their own choice or asked to leave.

Program co-ordinator Glenn Keir said that as a result, many of these young participants were at risk of ‘disengaging from the community with all the associated problems that come with that’.

The three-day-a-week program, beginning May 6, is be-

ing run by Nortec Youth Services in partnership with Tweed PCYC and St Joseph’s Youth Services and Coolangatta Senior Citizens Club.

Referrals to the program can be made by families, youth, or agencies involved in supporting youth, or by contacting Glenn on 0400 260 299.

Bay Street sell-off on hold continued from page 1

previous decisions and release a probity plan drawn up ‘to manage confidential information’ relating to the proposed deal.

The Tweed Environment Group requested the release of the plan under freedom of information laws but was initially knocked back before appealing the decision.

Mr Green said under the Act the council was required to release the information if at

anytime it found there were no grounds for the restriction.

‘Following receipt of legal advice it is recommended that council removes the confidential document restriction of the probity plan,’ he said.

The group’s Richard Murray welcomed the decision, saying he believed it would shed light on why the council decided against calling for public tenders and how the development proposal morphed from its original 1994 concept. www.tweedecho.com.au

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Tweed’s alpaca studs go on show Luis Feliu

When Rosemary Eva and Liz Coles moved to the Tweed Valley 14 years ago, they brought with them some rare black alpacas to breed rather than stock their 20-acre property at Palmvale near Murwillumbah with heavier beef cattle.

Sure enough, the two women, both from farming backgrounds, were told by others that the cute woolly animals they introduced to the area would not survive in the region’s subtropical climate.

How wrong they were, as not only did they survive, the native South American animal thrived into a prize stud herd now numbering 45.

Their Longueville Park stud is now one of the most successful breeders of the true blue/black huacaya alpaca and fleece from the animals is sent to Peru, where alpacas are native, and turned into fine jumpers and other items of clothing. Alpacas are now increasing in numbers in the Tweed with animals carrying the stud’s superior black genes now found in every Australian state as well as the UK. The 100,000-strong Australian alpaca herd is now the largest outside South America.

From this Saturday for a week, Tweed locals and visitors alike will be able to get up

Rosemary Eva (left) and Liz Coles with two of their prized alpacas at their Longueville Park stud at Palmvale, which will be part of an open farm week during National Alpaca Week next week.

close and personal with these cuddly creatures during National Alpaca Week (May 2-10) when four studs in the Tweed Valley including Longueville Park will open their doors to visitors during the open farm event promoted by the Australian Alpaca Association.

The women said they chose to breed alpacas in the first place because they were ‘gentle creatures renowned for being environmentally friendly’.

‘They handle much easier than cattle as they’re much

lighter, they’re less work and soft-footed so they have less of an impact on the environment, and of course they make wonderful pets,’ Rosemary said.

Liz said alpacas came in 22 different colours and black was the rarest.

‘And it’s natural black, because even black sheep have to be dyed black so what you seen on the animal is what you end up wearing ,’ Rosemary said.

‘Australian fleeces are considered superior to those of Peru, and all the mills for this

type of fleece have closed in Australia so they’re now processed in Peru and brought back to Australia which is a great tragedy,’ Liz said.

The women run workshops and seminars for various community groups including disabled people.

They also undertake extensive research into the genetics of black alpacas and provide a consultancy service for new breeders to help them get established. For more info call them on 02 6677 7500.

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Transport report ignores rail link The state government’s longawaited Cross Border Transport Task Force report which looked at links between NSW and Queensland was released this week amid strong attack from various quarters.

Greens MP and transport spokesperson Lee Rhiannon rejected the task force recommendations saying the decision to rule out rail links between southeast Queensland and northern NSW is a biased decision that only benefits the bus industry.

Trains On Our Tracks president Karin Kolbe slammed the report as an exercise in politics over good planning while the NSW Nationals say they remain committed to a commuter rail service for the Northern Rivers despite the report recommending against re-opening the Casino to Murwillumbah line.

Ms Rhiannon said the report failed to respond to the growing community desire to revitalise rail services and that the antirail recommendations were not surprising.

‘A task force document leaked to my office earlier this year revealed a one-sided analysis of submissions. It concluded that rail is too costly, inefficient, time consuming and cannot be justified on demographic grounds,’ she said.

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years after the process commenced, it is apparent that this whole exercise has been a scam, running cover for promotion of local bus services as an alternative to rail.

‘Transport Minister David Campbell would be very foolish to use this prejudiced report to justify not supporting rail expansion in this region.’

Ms Kolbe said the five-page report did not investigate potential rail links nor look at any costs. She said it was politically motivated and showed no evidence of any planning for the needs of residents or tourists.

‘It understates the population growth figures and completely ignores the tourism figures.

Over three million tourists visit here annually, yet they aren’t even mentioned.’

The Nationals’ Lismore MP Thomas George said the government should now make public all the evidence the task force used to reach its findings.

‘We’re not backing off. We believe that the area needs a commuter service,’ he said.

The Northern Rivers Greens are again calling upon the Federal Government to take over responsibility for the line.

More homes mooted for Mooball Tweed Shire Council has voted to support a spot rezoning in Mooball for more homes despite a warning that it flies in the face of a new planning strategy.

The 4-3 decision came after Phil Youngblutt said the small town and neighbouring Burringbar were in danger of stagnating if no new land was released to satisfy a housing demand and support struggling local businesses.

Villages’ representative and deputy mayor Barry Longland joined Warren Polglase, Kevin Skinner and Cr Youngblutt to seek a rezoning of two parcels of land behind the local hotel which could yield up to 100 home sites.

General manager Mike Rayner reminded them that any rezoning would be contrary to an interim land release strategy adopted just last month.

But local residents have welcomed the backflip, saying the village’s existing infrastructure could support more homes, especially after their 20-year campaign for a sewage system was to be realised later this year.

Local real estate agent Stuart Cahill said more people were needed in the villages to help stimulate the local economy.

‘The villages are perfectly placed to accommodate more people and I believe that the present strategy should be reviewed,’ he said.

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Astro man fears for our planet Roxanne Millar

With a hybrid accent incorporating an American twang and an Australian drawl, Mt Warning resident Paul Taylor (pictured) is not the humble business owner he first appears.

The bed and breakfast boss is actually a former Harvard scientist who saved the Sydney Olympics with DNA and helped to discover black holes in the darkness above earth. After decades working with some of the greatest minds and institutes in the USA, he moved to the Tweed where he has set about trying to save the world.

Born in Young, NSW, Paul was completing his PhD at the University of New South Wales in Sydney when he got a call in the late 1960s to move to Colorado to join his former supervisor at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics.

Despite the grizzly winters, he did and it marked the beginning of a long stint in America where he quickly learned how desperate climate change was, even back in the 1970s.

‘I knew back then how an increase in temperature by one degree would have been disastrous to the planet,’ he said.

‘It frustrates me that it has taken me until now to start to think and express what I understand about climate change.

‘Any of the slack we had to

deal with in the 1970s is gone and we are in absolute crisis.

A diabolical crisis. There is the possibility to deal with it if we approach it as if it is World War III – it is actually more dire than that.’

It is understandable why Paul got sidetracked. In 1976 he took a job at the Harvard Smithsonian Astrophysics Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he explored the darkness above with x-rays, which eventually led to the discovery of black holes. He was also involved in building the first big x-ray telescope and worked on other technical projects involv-

ing thermonuclear fusion.

Later he moved to California and became a resident at the Esalen Institute, devoted to exploring human potential and where people such as Jack Kerouac and Joan Baez gathered.

His move back to Australia in 2000 followed a contract win by his family company DNA Technologies to use DNA as a quality mark in Sydney Olympic merchandise to deter counterfeiting.

‘We have developed it as an Australian technology and it is doing really well and being used by a lot of companies who want brand protection,’ he said.

Five years ago he moved to the Tweed and bought the Mt Warning Bed and Breakfast on a whim. ‘My partner said that if I was going to be in Australia she would need something to do. Two minutes up the road from where we were having a coffee was a B&B for sale - it was meant to be,’ he said.

These days Paul splits his time between his partner’s native Germany, the US and Australia and is trying to make his life more organic and environmentally-friendly. ‘Everyone needs to do their best because this is going to be one hell of a roller coaster,’ he said.

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From the bleachers: a Council wrap-up Newly elected councillor and Mayor Joan van Lieshout has moved to enlighten those wondering about her vision for the future development of the shire.

In her first extended mayoral minute, she nominated Kiama, a fast-growing coastal shire on the State’s south coast, as the place council planners should strive to emulate.

Fresh from attending a tourism conference in the former dairy and timber town, she lauded the way streetscaping and sympathetic development had created an inviting atmosphere popular with tourists.

She noted the town had had ‘its planning difficulties’ which had been overcome by ‘constant consideration of community needs.’

The shire, which was about the size of the Tweed but supporting a quarter of the population, was very similar in that the main town was situated on the coast with a rural backdrop with its own small harbour.

She told The Echo this week that she believed the style of development around the harbour should be what Tweed Council should be replicating around our own Jack Evans Boat Harbour foreshores.

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Her lofty planning ideals were lauded by residents’ groups who packed the public gallery to protest mainly about the size of a new residential and tourist development her husband, Peter, is trying to create on an isolated patch in the shadow of Mt Warning.

Nearly a dozen speakers criticised concept plans involving a 450-home subdivision, convention centre and hotel on a 300-acre site near Kunghur as too big and without sufficient safeguards to ensure residents maintained the water and sewage infrastructure.

These concerns and those of more than 500 public submissions were apparently shared by councillors, who voted unanimously to defer an approval until they re-examine some of the 194 conditions recommended by its planners.

The DA will return at an extraordinary meeting on Tuesday (see editorial, page 6).

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Protests against September’s proposed car rally are gathering pace, with one of those speaking out against the event at the meeting, Klaus Fuhrmann, speaking passionately about falling in love with the

Tweed’s unique beauty after immigrating 14 years ago. He told councillors motor racing was old school, like whale-hunting and skinning koalas for fur coats. In a heavy German accent he signed off with: ‘This rally – only over my dead body.’

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Councillor Katie Milne had a rare win in her ongoing campaign to save Tweed’s koalas from a bleak future. She quoted from the Tweed Coast Koala Atlas which found an effective population size for the entire Tweed Coast was down to 65 to 130 individuals.

She won the support of all councillors except Warren Polglase for a workshop to discuss the state of our dwindling koala population.

Cr Milne also won majority support for a push by council to re-open the MurwillumbahCasino rail line for a commuter service. The council will write to federal and state MPs asking them to support the re-opening of the line and an extension to Coolangatta.

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Comment

Hacking a path towards recovery t the last election campaign Kevin Rudd sold himself to the voters Volume 1 #34 April 30, 2009 as a man of the future, and so it’s proving. Even before we have the official figures to prove that we’ve gone into Tweed Shire Council has a thorny issue to deal with next week. recession, his government is It must consider the proposal by the mayor’s husband for a talking about how we’re going 450-dwelling development at Kunghur, southwest of Murwillumto manage the recovery – and bah, called Nightcap Village. not just the period of convaThe Land and Environment Court had asked council planners for lescence but the renewal of conditions of consent for the proposal, approved around 20 years robust economic health. ago, for a village-style development. Council planners say they had Admittedly Rudd’s not no other choice but to recommend conditional approval otherwise alone in his optimism; not for council and ratepayers face a possible costly legal challenge. If that argument were taken to its extreme, bad planning would win the first time he is in tune with every time as council managers and councillors ran scared of every Barack Obama, who last week claimed to see glimmers of possible legal challenge. Whatever happened to calling a spade a light at the end of the tunnel. spade? If it’s an overdevelopment then it should be ruled out.

And indeed it is not all As it stands, 450 homes in the middle of nowhere far away from major infrastructure will have a big impact on the surrounding gloom and doom; it never is. rural communities and the wider environment, especially with the There have been moments, upper reaches of the Tweed River, the shire’s precious water catch- now and then, when it seems ment, flowing through the property. Even a 20-year-old approval that the punters are regainfor a village does not give an automatic right for as many dwelling ing a few shreds of confidence. lots as you can fit in. It sounds like an ambit claim and should be Various surveys have suggesttreated as such. A ‘village’ of 450 homes plus commercial buildings ed that there are pockets of at is a large township in anyone’s language. least temporary activity dotEven with stringent conditions, there are many risky environted around the economy and mental and other issues to consider, such as sewage overflows in from time to time the stock times of flood or traffic impacts. It could be a recipe for disaster and councillors have to keep this in mind before giving it the green market has taken a tentative lurch upward. light. It’s way too big at this stage, with more people expected to But while our leaders are live there than all the Tweed villages combined. A scaled-down absolutely right to try and fan version of the so-called eco-village would be much more sustainable. The proponent’s fears that a smaller version would not be these embers of hope, they economically viable means it’s probably unsustainable anyway, would be most unwise to and that’s precisely the issue at heart. put what’s left of the rent on Council will deal with the issue, deferred from the last meetthem. Economies seldom fall ing, at an extraordinary meeting called for this Tuesday, May 5 at like meteors, in an uninter4.30pm. According to Council’s press release, this is ‘because of rupted, catastrophic descent. advice from the NSW Land and Environment Court that the Council They tend to behave more like needs to deal with the matter urgently or it will be referred to the avalanches, with bits sweeping Court for determination.’ If such advice has been received it is at away everything in their paths best unnecessary, at worst manipulative. If Council delays a DA the but leaving patches of landapplicant always has the legal recourse to go to court for deemed scape almost untouched – and refusal. For the Court itself to make this threat is strange indeed. of course there are always a few The decision on Tuesday is crucial to the environment and the future of the whole Tweed Valley. If such a massive development is cases of miraculous survival.

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it bounced around for some weeks before really hitting bottom. The current crisis has little in common with the events that led up to the Great Depression, but it is likely to be long and painful, and it almost certainly has a long way to go before grounding out.

And even when it does, the process of rehabilitation will be neither quick nor straightforward. While it is natural

they are hoping for. What spare cash there is will have to be shared with the growing number of unemployed, now almost certain to go over ten percent of the workforce and to be very hard to bring down quickly.

Rudd and his troops are doing their best, but as with the aforementioned Great Depression, they are heavily constrained by what happens

Economies seldom fall like meteors, in an uninterrupted, catastrophic descent. They tend to behave more like avalanches…

by Mungo MacCallum and even commendable for governments to be positive as they look forward, they should also be realistic about dealing with the illness before deciding how they’ll celebrate when the patient is eventually released.

To be fair, Rudd and his treasurer Wayne Swan, who appears to thrive on crisis management, have both made it clear that things will get worse before they get better.

It is already clear that the losers in the forthcoming budget will not just be the richest in the community; the cuts will have to work their way well down into the middle income groups to achieve the kind of savings Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner, who remains the most realistic voice in Canberra, has foreshadowed.

Even more telling, at least some of those expecting a boost may be disappointed.

Single pensioners will undoubtedly get a rise, but it is unlikely to be on the scale

overseas and in any case are working off a blank sheet; there are simply no precedents they can invoke to guide them. And it should be said that in the circumstances they have done pretty well.

After the first day of the G20 meeting in Washington Swan said that there wasn’t a finance minister in the room who wouldn’t be glad to swap places with Australia. Well, he would say that, wouldn’t he?

But no-one – not even Malcolm Turnbull – has said he’s wrong. Indeed no less a figure than the chief economist with the International Monetary Fund, Olivier Blanchard, has rather implied that he is right.

The IMF forecast for Australia’s contraction (or negative growth, as economists insist on calling it) this year is just 1.4 percent. This is a fraction above the global average of 1.3, but by far the best of the developed economies, whose average is 3.8. Moreover, Australia is almost unique

among the G20 in not having had a major bank failure or bail-out. And to date it has maintained its AAA credit rating, although borrowing beyond the $200 billion limit (which may become necessary to fund further stimulus programs) would put this in some jeopardy.

Rudd is not bragging when he says that, comparatively speaking, Australian remains in pretty good shape.

Moreover he has the general endorsement of the IMF: Blanchard praised the speed and size of the initial stimulus packages, and says they should continue in the form of infrastructure spending (to which the government is already committed) or targeted rebates to encourage spending (like, for instance, the first home owner’s grant).

So whenever the recovery does get under way (and don’t hold your breath) Australia should be extremely well placed to become a preferred destination for investment. We may not offer the maximum return, but we will have demonstrated we can absolutely minimise the risks. Continuing and capitalising on our relative economic stability is unquestionably the way forward. And if that involves the odd moment of buoyancy, so be it.

Which is why it was so silly of the opposition’s Treasury spokesman, Joe Hockey, to accuse Rudd of using the recession to distract attention from asylum seekers, as if the global financial crisis was less important than a couple of hundred would-be refugees. Hockey and his more excitable mates need to forget the tabloids and get back to political reality.

It’s the economy, stupid.

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Banora Pointers still fiercely critical of upgrade ■ I wish to take you to task with your editorial comments (The Echo, April 16). I have a reasonable knowledge of the background to the Pacific Highway upgrade at Banora Point in that my late husband was a member of the Community Liaison Group from its inception in June 2004, and it was as a result of frustration by the majority of members of this group with the so-called ‘consultation process’ that the Community Highway Group (CHG) (not the Community Highway Action Group) was formed.

You state the CHG is not representative of the wider community and accuse the CHG of tactics to delay the

Regarding the World Rally to be held in the area. First of all let’s forget about all the rubbish about hordes of hoons, bikies, prostitutes, etc invading the area. Lets stick to the facts.

FACT: The Rally organisers have stated this event will generate 20 million dollars into the local economy.

FACT: The organisers also predict up to 20,000 visitors to the rally.

FACT: To generate 20 million dollars from these visitors every man, woman and child on the average would have to spend $1,000 dollars each over Kingscliff Ag course It’s unfortunate to see a small the three days. number of locals feeling that Sorry, I don’t think so.

Terry Seabrook the new agricultural course Kingscliff being offered to young people jointly by TAFE and Murwillumbah High School is a waste Harbour facelift Does anyone believe that $14 of time. Most of our school million is required to bring leavers go on to work outside Jack Evans Boat Harbour up our area due to the lack of local to speed? Rubbish! A cycleway job opportunities.

Agriculture is Australia’s doesn’t belong in a confined area. Beaches? Forget it. Green- second biggest income earner, next to mining. Current Commount is just next door.

Apart from requiring the monwealth Government stausual public park amenities its tistics show agriculture to be a picnic spot for relaxation for expanding, particularly the the individual or family to es- niche markets, some of which are suitable for our region. cape the rat race nearby.

Since ‘white fellas’ first farmed Let’s forget about the boat harbour for a while. Has any- here, crops farmed and farming one considered asking the practices continue to evolve and young folk what they would even though there is currently like the money to be spent on? a downturn it will bounce back Perhaps a private park with an again providing we don’t allow area for trail bikes, a skateboard ourselves to become an extencomplex or whatever. I’m too sion of the Gold Coast. Our old to know what they want kids deserve broader educabut if it should materialise I’m tional opportunities irrespecsure it would go a long way to- tive of whether they stay in the wards making their lives more area or move on. Please support our youth which will support trouble-free.

Please Council, change your our nation’s future.

Peter McLaughlin direction. The boat harbour Burringbar doesn’t need a facelift. Use the cash for products to benefit our ■ Letters from A Davis, Pottsville and T Reece, Kingscliff, youth.

Arch Barton can be read on our website:

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project; nothing could be further from the truth. The delay in commencing the project has been purely financial and is now only possible due to the Federal Government’s funding of the upgrade. A petition with 5,000 signatures and addresses supporting Option C (the tunnel) to my mind is an indication of the community support.

All the CHG are trying to do is to achieve the best possible outcome for residents and business houses of the Tweed who must use this new highway to access any of the 600 small businesses or shopping complex in South Tweed Heads.

Perhaps if you were one of

those people who lived south of Barney’s Point Bridge who had to negotiate the complex exit from the south and wanting to gain access to Minjungbal Drive, you would be more understanding of their plight.

Pat Tate

Banora Point As a Banora Point resident I resent your vitriolic, politically-biased, Banora-bashing and ill-informed editorial ‘Tunnel vision’. I attended information sessions conducted by both the RTA and the Community Highway Group and concluded that the latter was far more beneficial to this area, not just Banora Point.

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Your editorial is contradictory as you refer to ‘the recently announced Sexton Hill upgrade’ in the first paragraph and in the second paragraph state ‘after years of delay by similar tactics.’ Any delay experienced was caused by lack of funds.

As far as the ‘wider good’ is concerned, it is not only Banora Point residents who will be adversely affected by the implementation of the RTA’s choice, but businesses in South Tweed as well as residents south of Barney’s Point bridge and Tweed Heads on the whole. Suffice to say, the abomination we currently have for the Pacific Highway at Sexton Hill was

planned by the RTA. Perhaps you may be able to write more constructive editorials by researching the topic yourself rather than accepting misinformation obviously supplied by others.

Charles Colgan

Banora Point ■ I stand by the editorial,

which was inspired from years of reporting and researching the issue since the upgrade was first mooted. Readers are invited to inspect and judge the project for themselves, including accesses to and from the highway, on an animated fly-through by visiting www. rta.nsw.gov.au/pacific and clicking on Banora Point – Ed.

Bikeways versus trainways ■ Congratulations to mayor Joan van Lieshout and local resident Will Jeffery for taking the Murwillumbah Casino rail line debate somewhere sensible. At last a breath of fresh air!

On one side we have had the political spokespersons scoring irrelevant points on who promised what to whom at the last election, and on the other side the TOOT zealots who keep chanting their ‘4 wheels bad, 100 wheels good’ mantra, despite the obvious economic and environmental unsustainability of low traffic long distance passenger rail.

A tourist rail service has failed once already, and any competent professional study will tell you there will never be enough prospective passengers to fill one daily train, let alone regular services. Compound these empty seats with a 400hp diesel locomotive and you have a greenhouse disaster. The locomotives are gas guzzling smoky diesels that should have been pensioned off years ago. The right of way is on a 19th century alignment, the track is derelict, the gauge is incompatible with that across

the border, and the NSW government is broke anyway.

It’s totally irrational to persist with the restoration fantasy.

So we can just let the railway dream drag on, or grasp a great eco-tourism opportunity for the Tweed Byron Rail Trail.

We should get behind Joan and Will with volunteers from Rotary, Lions, Green Corps, Work-for-the-Dole and so on, maybe using some of the federal $40 million for bikeways announced this month.

But not being too ambitious at first. Just pulling up the rails and sleepers to stack and sell them for scrap and landscaping.

Then use the surplus revenue to trim the ballast and cover it with crushed granite paving, but protect the other rail heritage elements. Mix in a little marketing and presto!

A genuinely eco-sustainable tourist industry that feeds people into major existing destinations, and avoids the 10km traffic jams north of Byron CBD. Very little initial capital expenditure is needed (compared to a train). Villages are revitalised and a delightful

corridor is preserved in public of the environmental concerns and high unemployment we ownership.

Don McAllister face, which the prime minister Kingscliff continually talks about. The long term environmental, so■ It is to be hoped our Casino cial and economic value to the to Murwillumbah commuter area of this service, particularly rail service and a link to south- when the link to SE Queenseast Queensland is included in land is built, is enormous. the Federal Government’s $42 Modern trains, unlike any billion stimulus package. other form of public transport, In this area of historically allow easy access for wheelhigh unemployment, which is chairs, bicycles, surfboards about to increase due to the and prams, to be used at the global economic meltdown, destination, giving people who the Casino to Murwillumbah may not be able to drive or afservice would not only pro- ford a car, unlimited freedom vide much needed long term and independence to go about employment, but also an im- their daily business/social acportant service to locals and tivities. tourists. It is imperative fundIf our local federal MPs have ing also be included for a feas- been doing their job and makability study for the 24km link ing strong representations to to southeast Queensland. the prime minister and federal Our rail line is ‘shovel ready’ minister for transport on beand with minimum work half of their constituents, who (studies have shown the serv- have been saying loudly and ice could be up and running clearly for many years they for as little as $30m) fits the want and need a commuter guidelines for the government’s rail service, funding will no stimulus package funding. For doubt be forthcoming.

Louise Doran a small investment, compared Ocean Shores to funding for other projects, the Casino-Murwillumbah ■ These letters have been service would address some edited for length –Ed.

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ARTS Pamela Payne If you have an item of news about the arts in our area, or a fresh idea you’d like us to explore, contact Pamela on 6672 5749 or payneheck@yahoo.com.au

FEHVA PORTRAIT PRIZE James Guppy knows a thing or two about portraiture.

Not only has he twice been hung in the Archibald prize exhibition, but portraiture seems the compelling starting point of several of his solo exhibitions. These include the fabulous middle aged fairies of Fay (2008), Beauty and Blemish (1996-1997) and Portraits from Pornography (2004).

In the hall of St Kevin’s Catholic Church in Bangalow, around twenty local artists hang on Guppy’s every word. He is, he tells them, fascinated by portraiture, but he doesn’t think it’s appropriate for him to talk about that now. Why not? Because, this afternoon, he is the model. The artists before him are all entrants in the 2009 FEHVA Portrait Prize.

Guppy will, though, talk about portraits that he likes.

He’ll talk about being reduced to tears by the Pierre Bonnard self portrait at the Art Gallery of NSW. He’ll talk about a Picasso self portrait painted only months before the artist’s death; and the self portraits by Rembrandt . And he’ll talk about his own nude self portrait, ‘Chagrin’, which was a ďŹ nalist in the 2005 Archibald prize.

It seems that Guppy’s fascination is for portraiture that reveals the dark as well as the light, that exposes vulnerability, that is disquieting. A portrait that has no interest in attery.

While Guppy is the sitter for the afternoon’s session, best selling author, Di Morrissey, has sat for the morning session. Most of the around forty entrants choose just one subject: Guppy or Morrissey. But some decide to try both.

Before the sessions begin, the big, airy church hall is abuzz with artists. They set up their easels or their tables. They work on canvas, or art block, or butcher’s paper over ply. They lay out charcoal, watercolours, oils, pastels. They make sure their cameras are ready and working.

They will have almost a month, until 17 May, to complete their portrait. Then, on 25 May, the works will be judged: James Guppy’s portrait by Susi Muddiman, Director of the Tweed River Art Gallery and Di Morrissey’s portrait by herself and Guppy.

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And later that evening, at the FEHVA opening night celebration, the winners of the two $1000 ďŹ rst prizes will be announced.

OF SAPA David Holliday almost didn’t go to Sapa, the town that crouches beneath the Hoang Lien Son Range, in north west Vietnam. Indeed, Holliday almost didn’t go to Vietnam. It was a last minute decision to break his ight home from London.

While most of the artists will go back to their studios to work alone, three will have an opportunity to talk and ask advice. Local artist Angus McDonald whose work, ‘Beyond’, was a ďŹ nalist in this year’s Archibald prize, will mentor three young artists: year 11 student at St John’s College, Woodlawn in Lismore, Charlotte Kippax; Lismore TAFE student in his diploma year, Liam Van Dugteren; and former Byron Bay High student who has taken up her scholarship to the Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney, Nell Pearson.

A fortuitous decision, it instigated the photographic exhibition on the walls of Rice restaurant in Brunswick He Heads. Holliday took his photographs, now stretched on canvas, with a Nikon 60. Mostly portraits, they’re both sensitive and dynamic.

McDonald who has had a long association with FEHVA, well knows the value of mentoring. He himself looks back to two mentors of his own student days: one of his teachers at the Julian Ashton Art School and twice winner of the Archibald, Nigel Thomson, and, while he was an art student in Italy, Australian artist Jeffrey Smart. “When you’re pursuing a creative endeavour�, says McDonald, “it’s very hard to make a living and part of the job of a mentor is help you to decide for yourself: is this what I really want?

Because it could be a long road. So it’s very good to be involved with these young artists.�

Because internet cafes h have arrived in Sapa, H Holliday can maintain contact with many of the people he photographed, particularly the younger ones. And he’s sending half of the sales money from this exhibition back to Sapa, where almost everyone scrabbles for the most meagre living.

And the young artists, all three, are excited to be working with McDonald. Their portraits, and those of all entrants, will be on public display from May 23, at the A & I Hall in Bangalow. Around 20 Di Morrisseys and another twenty or so James Guppys will peer from the wall. They’ll all be different. And two of them will be winners.

Sapa is home to minority tribes. You see the hill people walking single ďŹ le along the side of the road.

Some carry tools, others have wicker baskets on their backs loaded with ďŹ rewood or merchandise; yet others have a young child or baby in a sling. It’s almost impossible for a visitor to differentiate these people – Black H’mong, sturdy and tough, in their

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Sapa lives in Holliday’s photographs. The sturdy buffalo boy; solemn girls with their baskets of sticks; a proud older woman in extravagant traditional finery; a father and son caught against a background of mist. The photos move across generations and across moods.

Among the few photographs that aren’t portraits, there’s a pair of hands, blue stained, like some exotic skin complaint. These are the hands of one of the village dyers of indigo hemp. Behind every photograph there is a story.

Exhibition at Rice Indonesian Restaurant, Brunswick Heads for about two months.

SELL OUT Anyone wanting to go to future Byron Music Society concerts would be well advised to book early. At the recent classical concert with Natasha Vlassenko and Oleg Stepanov, audiences had to be turned away.

Very sad for those who missed out: but a very happy comment on the popularity of classical music in the Northern Rivers.

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Some of her works, like spore clean – relief print nat on cardboard – are abstracted from tropical nature.

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Television Guide 1. Rowan Atkinson’s character Mr Bean is an acquired taste and hardly sustains Mr Bean’s Holiday (Prime, Friday, 8.30pm). A genre of pratfalls best left to Buster Keaton.

2. Perhaps the best offering of the week is Kinky Boots (Prime, Saturday, 8.40pm), in which a new owner brings a queer boost to a dying English shoe factory. Love the smell of leather in the morning.

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6.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Island Life (G) Repeat 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Darling Buds Of May (PG) 1.30 Spicks And Specks (G) Repeat.

2.00 Monarch Of The Glen (G) Repeat.

3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Message Stick (G) Repeat.

6.30 Can We Help? (G) 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Stateline (G) 8.00 Collectors (G) 8.30 Midsomer Murders (M) 10.10 The Hollowmen (M) 10.40 Lateline (M) 11.20 triple j tv With The Doctor Repeat 11.50 Good Game Repeat.

12.20 rage (M) goes on until 5am Saturday.

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6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 ABC Asia Pacific News 9.30 Business Today 10.00 Kids’ Programs 4.30 The New Inventors Repeat.

5.00 7.30 Select 5.30 Catalyst (G) Repeat.

6.00 Compass (G) Repeat.

6.35 A Place In Slovakia (G) 7.00 Zoo Days (G) 7.30 Something In the Air (G) Repeat.

8.00 Father Ted (PG) 8.30 Spectacle: Elvis Costello With...

Rufus Wainwright (G) 9.15 A Little Later (G) 9.30 Massive: Creation Of The Label (M) 10.05 BBC Electric Proms: Oasis (M) 11.05 triple jtv presents Horsell Common Go AWOL 11.30 London Live (G) 12.0 Close

4.30 2009 UEFA Cup Semi Final Werden Bremen v Hamburg 7.00 World News in various languages.

1.30 Insight 2.30 World News in various languages.

3.15 Culture Fix: War Poetry 3.30 Living Black 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 5.30 Hotspell (G) Doco.

6.00 Global Village: Loire-Forez (G) 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 And Brigitte Created Bardot (PG) 8.35 As It Happened: Guests Of The Ayatollah – Rescue Mission (PG) Doco from US. 9.30 World News Australia 10.00 The Sexual Life Of US (M) 11.00 Movie: Powerpoint (MA 2003) Thriller from Japan. Stars Miwako Ichikawa, Hiho Tsurniki, Houka Kinoshita.

1.00 Movie: 666: In Bd With The Devil (M 2002) Comedy from Germany.

Stars Ralf Bauer, Thure Riefenstein.

2.30 WeatherWatch Overnight

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 Morning Show (PG) 11.30 Seven Morning News 12.00 Movie: The Last Detective (M) Stars Peter Davison, Rob Spendlove, Joanne Froggatt, Sean Hughes.

2.00 All Saints (M) 3.00 Money Man (PG) 4.00 It’s Academic 4.30 Seven News 5.00 M*A*S*H (G) Repeat.

5.30 Deal Or No Deal 6.00 Seven and Prime News 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 7.30 Better Homes And Gardens (PG) 8.30 Movie: Mr Bean’s Holiday (PG) Stars Rowan Atkinson, Emma De Caunes, Willem Dafoe, Stephanie Debac.

10.30 2009 AFL Premiership Season orth Melbourne v Collingwood.

2.00 Danoz And Guthy-Renker

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5.00 ANZAC Day Service 5.30 Today 6.00 Ten Early News 9.00 Mornings with Kerri-Anne (PG) 7.00 Toasted TV & Kids’ Programs 11.00 Danoz and Guthy Renker 9.00 9am With David And & Kim (PG) 12.00 Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 11.00 Ten News 1.00 The View (PG) talk show.

12.00 Dr Phil (PG) 2.00 Days Of Our Lives (PG) 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) 3.00 Alive And Cooking (G) 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) 3.30 Kids’ Programs 3.00 Huey’s Cooking Adventures (PG) 4.30 NBN News 3.30 MasterChef Australia (G) 5.00 Antiques Roadshow (G) 4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful (G) 5.30 Who Wants To Be A Millionaire 5.00 Ten News 6.00 NBN News 6.00 The Simpsons (G) Repeat.

7.00 A Current Affair 6.30 Neighbours (G) Repeat.

7.30 Friday Night Football Manly v 7.00 Masterchef Australia (PG) Melbourne.

7.30 The Simpsons (G) 9.30 Friday Night Football Paramata v 8.30 Medium (M) North Queensland.

9.30 Law & Order (M) 11.30 Movie: The Gauntlet (AV15+ 1977) 10.30 Law & Order (M) Stars Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, 11.20 Ten Late News Pat Hingle, William Prince.

11.50 Sports Tonight 1.30 Ellen Degeneres (PG) 12.20 Late Show With David Letterman (PG) 2.30 MADTV (M) 1.20 Infomercials (PG) 3.30 Entertainment Tonight 4.00 Queer Eye For The Straight Guy 4.00 Guthy Renker Australia (G) (PG) 4.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Religion to 6am (PG).

SATURDAY 2

Prime HD program same as above except: 12.00 Movie: Obliging Young Lady (G) 1.30 Deal Or No Deal 2.00 My Restaurant Rules ➟

5.20 World News in various languages.

6.00 Toasted TV & Kids’ Programs 6.00 Kids’ Programs 5.00 rage (PG) 7.00 Kids’ Programs 1.00 Mr Brown (PG) Masterpiece from 9.30 Dex Hamilton 12.00 Eclipse (PG) 6.00 rage (G) 3.00 rage (G) France.

10.00 Video Hits (PG) 1.00 According To Jim (PG) 8.00 rage (G) 5.00 rage (PG) 2.05 Looking For Mr Gill (G) Masterpiece 1.30 Chrome (G) 12.00 Infomercials 8.45 Rage 6.05 The New Inventors Repeat. from UK. 1.00 MasterChef Australia (G) 2.00 V8 Supercars 10.00 Executive Stress (G) 6.35 Heartland (G) Repeat.

3.00 Michelangelo Revealed (PG) 1.30 Hook Line & Sinker (PG) 5.30 Sydney Weekender (G) 11.30 The Cook And The Chef 7.20 Rex The Runt (PG) Repeat.

Masterpiece from Italy.

2.00 AFL Premiership Season 2009 6.00 Seven News 12.00 Stateline 7.30 The Einstein Factor (G) Repeat.

4.00 Auguste Rodin: Sculptor (G) Hawthorn v Carlton.

6.30 Billy Connolly: Journey To The 12.30 Australian Story 8.00 At The Movies Repeat.

Masterpiece from France.

5.00 Ten News Edge Of The World (PG) 1.00 Foreign Correspondent 8.30 Movie: Bringing Up Baby (G 1938) 5.30 Sports Tonight (PG) 7.30 Kath & Kim (PG) Repeat.

1.30 Can We Help?

Stars Cary Grant, Kathrine Hepburn, 4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 6.00 Futurama (PG) 8.00 The Vicar Of Dibley (PG) 2.00 Rugby League 2009 Charles Ruggles.

5.30 The Colony (PG) 6.30 The Simpsons Marathon (PG) 4.00 Naked Science: Roman Tech 10.15 Movie: Magnificent Obsession 6.30 World News Australia 8.40 Movie: Kinky Boots (M) Stars Joel 8.30 Movie: X-man: The Last Stand (M) 5.00 Bowls: Perth International 2009 (PG 1935) Stars Irene Dunne, Robert 7.30 Mythbusters (PG) edgerton, Chiwetel Ejiofor.

Stars Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Australia v Malaysia: Womens pairs.

Taylor, Charles Butterworth.

8.30 Iron Chef (G) 10.35 Movie: The Ladykillers (M 2004) Ian McKellen, Anna Paguin, Kelsey 6.00 Totally Frank (PG) Repeat.

11.50 Close 9.20 RocKwiz (PG) Entertainment.

Stars Tom Hanks, Irma Hall, Marlon Grammer.

6.25 Minuscule (G) 10.10 Movie: Four Stars (M 2006) Comedy Wayans, Diane Delano.

10.40 Afl Premiership Season 2009 6.30 Gardening Australia (G) from France. Stars Isabelle Carre, 12.35 Movie: Monster (AV 2003) Stars 7.00 ABC News Brisbane v Essendon.

Jose Garcia, Francoise Cluzet, Michel Charlize Theron, Christina Ricci, Bruce 7.30 New Tricks (PG) Repeat.

1.10 Infomercials Vuillermoz.

Dern, Lee Tergesen, Annie Corley.

8.25 ABC News 4.00 Religion to 6am (PG) 11.55 SOS (PG) 2.30 Danoz Direct & Guthy Renker 12.55 Bro’ Town (M) Comedy. NZ. Repeat.

8.30 The Bill (M) 1.20 Weatherwatch Overnight 10.00 ABC News 10.05 Foyle’s War (M) Repeat.

11.45 rage (M) Prime HD program same as above except: 12.00 Disney: Kim Possible (G) 3.00 Movie: Pete’s Dragon (G) 5.00 Better Homes And Gardens ➟ 12.30 Movie: Brown Sugar (M) 2.30 Final 24 4.00 Guthy Renker

SUNDAY 3

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

7.00 Classic Albums: Stevie Wonder: Songs In The Key Of Life (G) 8.00 Zoo Days (G) 12.00 Landline (G) 8.55 A Place In Slovakia (G) 1.00 Gardening Australia 9.20 Scrapheap Challenge (G) 1.30 Message Stick (G) 10.10 Scrapheap Challenge (G) 2.00 Mummy Detective: The Three 11.00 Beautiful Noise (G) Kings (G) 11.55 London Live (PG) Music. Repeat.

3.00 Cinema’s Exiles (PG) 12.30 Red Dwarf (PG) 4.55 Love On Track 1.30 Planet Rock Profiles (G) 5.00 Sunday Arts 1.55 jtv Live: You Am I (G) 6.00 At The Movies 2.50 The New Orleans Concert: The 6.30 The Einstein Factor Music Of America’s Soul (G) 7.00 ABC News 3.50 Blind Boys Of Alabama: Live In 7.30 The Story Of India (G) Concert (G) 8.30 Dirt Game (M) 5.00 A Journey Through American 9.30 Compass (G) Music: Free Jazz To Future Jazz 10.00 The Film Festival Project (M) 5.45 Short Movie: The Barrows (G) 10.50 Movie: The Lion Has Wings (G 6.00 ABC Fora Hosted by Tony Jones.

1945) Stars Ralph Richardson.

7.00 Artscape 1.20 Movie: The Mad Bomber (M 1973) 7.30 Sunday Arts (G) Stars Vince Edwards, Chuck Connors. 8.30 The Brothers Warner 2.35 Movie: Magic Town (G 1947) Stars 10.05 What The Future Sounded Like James Stewart, Jane Wyman, Kent 10.30 Wild At Heart (PG) Smith.

11.15 Close 3.20 Living Country (G) Repeat.

3.55 Aussie Animal Rescue (G) Repeat.

6.00 Religion 6.25 World News in various languages.

7.00 Weekend Sunrise 10.00 Mythbusters (PG) 10.00 AFL Game Day (PG) 11.00 A Czech Winter’s Journey (G) 11.00 Magnum, P.I. (PG) 12.00 Marathon De Paris 2009 From 12.00 V8 Supercars 2009 France.

3.00 2009 AFL Premiership Season 1.00 Speedweek Sydney v Richmond.

2.00 FIA World Rally Championship 5.00 Destination New Sealand (G) 2009 5.30 Mercurio’s Menu (G) 3.00 UEFA Cup Highlights 3.30 UEFA Champions League Magazine 6.00 Seven News 6.30 Sunday Night Live (PG) 4.00 Les Murray’s Football Feature 7.30 Border Security (PG) 5.00 The World Game 6.00 Thalassa: The Port Of Massawa (G) 8.00 The Force – Behind The Line (PG) 8.30 Bones (M) Doco from France.

9.30 Bones (M) 6.30 World News Australia 10.30 Infamous Assassinations: The 7.30 Lost Worlds: Secret Files Of The Assination Heydrich (M) Inquisition – The War On Ideas (PG) 11.00 24 (M) Doco from UK. 8.30 Dateline 12.00 Afl Premiership Season 2009 9.30 Movie: Never Say Never (M 2005) Melbourne v Geelong Comedy from France Stars Gerard 3.00 Brand Developers 1.00 Danoz Direct & Guthy Renker jugnot, Jean Dujardin, Melanie 5.30 Seven Early News Doutey.

11.15 Film: Food Of Love (M 2001) Drama from Spain. Stars Juliet Stevenson, Kevin Bishop, Paul Rhys.

1.05 Speaking In Tongues (M) 1.35 Weatherwatch Overnight Prime HD program same as above except:

6.00 Religion 7.00 Totally Wild 7.30 Animalia 8.00 Meet The Press 8.30 State Focus 9.00 Video Hits (G) 12.00 Oprah’s Big Give (G) 1.00 Infomercial 1.30 I Fish (G) 2.30 Netball: ANZ Championship 2009 Vixens v Thunderbirds.

4.30 Meerkat Manor (G) 5.00 Ten News 5.30 Out Of The Blue (PG) 6.00 Guerrilla Gardeners (PG) 6.30 Merlin (PG) Series premiere.

7.30 Masterchef Australia (PG) 9.00 Movie: Borat: Cultural Learning Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan (M) Stars Sacha Baron Cohen, Pamela Anderson, Ken Davitian.

10.45 The Office (PG) 11.15 Moto Gp: R3 Spain 1.30 Infomercials 4.00 Religion to 6am (PG)

6.00 Infomercials 7.00 Kids’ Programs 11.30 TVP Direct (G) 12.00 My Boys (PG) 12.30 The NRA Fashion Design Awards 2.00 Movie: The Cincinnati Kid (PG) Stars Steve McQueen, Ann-Margaret, Tuesday Weld.

4.00 Talk To The Animals (G) 4.30 The Garden Gurus (G) 5.00 Missing Pieces (PG) 5.30 You Saved My Life (PG) 6.00 Evening News 6.30 Australia’s Funniest Home Videos (G) 7.30 Movie: Spy Kids (PG) Stars Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino.

8.40 Saturday Lotto 9.30 Movie: The Da Vinci Code (M) Stars Tom Hanks, Audry Taytou, Jean Reno.

12.20 Movie: Innocent Lies (MA15+ 1995) Stars Joanna Lumley, Gabrielle Anwar, Stephen Dorff.

2.00 Movie: The City Under The Sea (PG 1965) Stars Vincent Price, David Tomlinson, Susan Hart.

3.40 Girlfriends (M) 4.00 Danoz 4.30 Guthy Renker 6.00 Danoz And Guthy Renker 7.00 Today On Sunday 10.00 Wide World Of Sports (G) 11.00 The Sunday Footy Show (G) 12.00 Sunday Roast (PG) 1.00 WWE Afterburn Live.

2.00 Super League Wigan Warriors v St Helens.

4.00 Sunday Football Bulldogs v Wests Tigers.

6.00 Evening News 6.30 60 Minutes 7.30 51st Logies Awards Arrivals 8.00 51st Logies Awards 11.30 Kings Of Comedy (PG) 12.30 Super League Salford City Reds v Harliquins.

2.30 Guthy Renker Australia 3.30 Religion 4.00 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

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MONDAY 4

4.30 GP (PG) Repeat.

6.00 ABC News Breakfast 5.20 World News in various languages.

6.00 Sunrise 5.30 The Einstein Factor (G) Repeat.

9.00 Asia Pacific News 1.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia (G) 9.00 The Morning Show (PG) 6.00 Kids’ Programs Repeat.

9.30 Business Today 11.30 Seven News 1.30 Growing Up And Going Home (PG) 12.00 Movie: She’s Too Young (M 2004) 11.00 Landline Repeat.

10.00 Kids’ Programs 12.00 Midday Report 2.30 Dateline 4.30 Gardening Australia (G) Rpt Stars Marcha Gay Harden, Alexis 3.30 Insight 12.30 Poirot (PG) 5.00 Message Stick (G) Repeat.

Dziena, Michel Erwin.

1.30 The Cook And The Chef (G) Repeat. 5.30 Can We Help? (G) Repeat.

4.30 The Journal 2.00 All Saints (M) 5.00 The Crew (G) 2.00 Parkinson (G) 6.00 Collectors (G) Repeat.

3.00 House Call (G) 5.30 Corner Gas (G) 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.35 A Place In Slovakia (G) 3.30 Raggs 6.00 Living Black 6.00 Landline Extra (G) Repeat.

7.00 Zoo Days (G) 4.00 It’s Acadamic 6.30 World News Australia 4.30 Seven News 6.30 Talking Heads 7.30 Something In The Air (G) Repeat.

7.30 Top Gear (PG) 5.00 M*A*S*H (G) 7.00 ABC News 8.00 Red Dwarf (PG) Repeat.

8.30 Swift And Shift Couriers (M,l,s,n) 5.30 Deal Or No Deal (G) 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.30 Good Game (PG) Repeat.

9.00 South Park (M) 6.00 Seven and Prime News 8.00 Australian Story (PG) 9.00 triple j tv With The Doctor 9.30 World News Australia 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 8.30 Four Corners 9.30 Code Geass (M) 7.30 How I Met Your Mother (PG) 9.20 Media Watch 9.55 Jeff Tweedy: Sunken Treasure Live 10.00 Shameless (MA) Comedy from UK. 10.55 Mr Firth Goes To Washington (M) 8.00 Scrubs (PG) 9.35 Spooks (M) In The Pacific Northwest 10.30 Lateline Repeat.

8.30 Desperate Housewives (M) 11.30 Cowboy Bebop: Wild Horses (M) 11.05 Lateline Business 11.55 Movie: Stranger Than Paradise 9.30 Brothers & Sisters (M) Repeat.

11.35 Survival School (M) Repeat.

(MA 1983) Indie from UK. Stars Eszter 10.30 Boston Legal (M) 11.55 Close 12.30 MDA (M) Repeat.

Balint, Cecillia Stark, John Lurie.

11.30 30 Rock (PG) 1.25 Parkinson (PG) 1.30 Movie: Osama (M 2004) Drama from 12.00 Medical Incredible (PG) 2.25 Jackie (G) Afghanistan. Stars Marina Golbahari, 1.00 Danoz Direct 2.55 Aussie Animal Rescue (G) Arif Herati, Zubaida Sahar, Mohamad 2.00 Guthy Renker 3.25 Bowls: Perth International 2009 5.30 Seven Early News Nader Khadjeh.

Australia v Malaysia Womens pairs.

3.00 WeatherWatch Overnight

THURSDAY 7

WEDNESDAY 6

TUESDAY 5

Prime HD program same as above except: 12.00 Movie: Project: Alf (G) 1.30 Gear (G) 2.00 My Restaurant Rules âž&#x; 12.00 Dateline NBC 1.00 Deal Or No Deal 1.30 Australia’s Best Backyards

4.30 GP (PG) Repeat.

5.30 The Einstein Factor (G) Repeat.

6.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Never Did Me Any Harm (PG) Repeat.

12.00 Midday Report 12.30 The Einstein Factor (G) Repeat.

1.00 The New Inventors (G) Repeat.

1.30 Catalyst (G) Repeat.

2.00 Parkinson (PG) 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.05 Time Team (G) 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 Foreign Correspondent 8.30 Around The World In 80 Gardens 9.30 Lead Balloon (PG) 10.05 First Tuesday Book Club With Jennifer Byrne 10.35 Lateline and Lateline Business 11.35 Four Corners Repeat.

12.25 Media Watch Repeat.

12.40 Foyle’s War (M) 2.20 Movie: Bunco Squad (PG 1950) Stars Robert Sterling, Joan Dixon, Rocardo Cortez.

3.25 triple j tv With The Doctor (G) Repeat

6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 Asia Pacific News 9.30 Business Today 10.00 Kids’ Programs 4.35 Little Angels (G) Repeat.

5.05 Talking Heads (G) Repeat.

5.35 Sun, Sea And Bargain Spotting 6.35 A Place In Greece (G) 7.00 Zoo Days (G) 7.30 Something In The Air (G) Repeat.

8.00 Australian Story (PG) Repeat.

8.30 Teachers (M) Repeat.

9.20 The Bill (PG) Repeat.

10.50 Fireflies (PG) Repeat.

11.40 Close

5.20 World News in various languages 1.00 The Storm Rages Twice (G) Repeat drama from Lebanon.

2.00 Don Matteo (PG) Drama. Italy.

Repeat.

3.00 Here Comes The Neighbourhood (G) Repeat.

3.30 Living Black 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 5.30 Corner Gas (G) Comedy.

6.00 Global Village: Friuli VeneziaGiulia (G) 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Insight 8.30 Cutting Edge: Devil’s Bargain (PG) Doco from Canada.

9.30 Wor World News 10.00 Hot Docs: The Devil Came On Hor Horseback (MA) Doco from US. 1 11.

11.35 35 Mov Movie: Samaritan Girl (M 2004) Drama from South Korea. Stars Lee Dram Eol, Gwak Ji-min, Seo Min-jung.

1.20 Wea WeatherWatch Overnight

Prime HD program same as above except: 12.00 Movie: Body And Soul (M) 1.30 Urban Legends 2.00 My Restaurant Rules âž&#x; 12.00 Shark Attack – The Red Triangle (G) 1.00 Deal Or No Deal 1.30 A Country Practice (G) 2.30 Guhy Ranker

6.00 4.30 UEFA 4.30 GP (PG) Repeat.

6 00 ABC News Breakfast 4 30 UE U UEF E Champions League Semi 9.00 Asia Pacific News Final Arsenal v Manchester United 5.30 Einistein Factor (G) Repeat.

9.30 Business Today 7.00 World News in various languages.

6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.00 Kids’ Programs 1.00 Eurovision Dance Contest 2008 11.05 Super Cockroach (G) 4.30 Travel Oz (G) Repeat.

3.30 Nerds FC (G) 12.00 Midday Report 4.55 Animal Cops: South Africa (G) 4.00 The Journal 12.30 National Press Club Address 5.45 Time Team (G) Repeat.

4.30 Newshour with Jim Lehrer 1.30 Talking Heads (G) Repeat.

6.35 A place In Greece (G) 5.30 Corner Gas (G) Comedy.

2.00 Parkinson (G) 7.00 Zoo Days (G) 6.00 Global Village: The Mexican 3.00 Kids’ Programs 7.30 Something In The Air (G) Repeat.

Dream (G) 6.00 Travel Oz (G) 8.00 Body Hits: Snack Attack (PG) 6.30 World News Australia 6.30 The Cook and the Chef (G) 8.30 Beyond Boundaries: Across The 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Food Safari: Maltese Safari (G) Andes (M) 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 Trawlermen (G) Doco from UK. 9.30 Rize (M) 8.00 The New Inventors (G) 8.35 Long Way Round (PG) Doco from 10.55 Fatboy Slim: Big Beach Boutique 8.30 Spicks And Specks (PG) UK. (M) 9.30 World News Australia 9.00 The Gruen Transfer 11.55 Close 10.00 Movie: Night On Earth (M 1991) 9.35 Moving Wallpaper (M) Indie from US. Stars Sinona Ryder, 10.00 At the Movies Gena Rowlands, Roberto Benigni, 10.30 Lateline And Lateline Business Rosie Perez, Beatrice Dalle.

11.30 Vincent (M) 12.10 Movie: Buena Vida Delivery (M 12.40 Movie: The Private Life Of Henry 2003) Comedy from Argentina. Stars VIII (PG 1933) Stars Charles laughton, Ignacio Tosselli, Moro Anghileri.

Merle Oberon.

1.50 Weatherwatch Overnight 2.15 Movie: Criminal Lawyer (G 1937) Stars Lee Tracy, Margot Grahame.

3.25 National Press Club Address Repeat.

4.30 GP (PG) Repeat.

5.30 Einistein Factor (G) Repeat.

6.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 The War (PG) 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Pilot Guides (G) Repeat.

1.30 Collectors (G) Repeat.

2.00 Parkinson (G) 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.10 Grand Designs (G) Repeat.

7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 Catalyst (G) 8.30 Media Watch 20 Years: Stuff Ups, Beat Ups And Barneys 9.30 Q&A With Tony Jones 10.30 Lateline And Lateline Business 11.30 Spectacle: Elvis Costello With Rufus Wainwright (G) 12.20 Wildside (M) 1.10 Movie: Rose Of Cimarron (PG 1952) Stars Maia Powers, Bill Williams.

2.30 Movie: Second Chance (PG 1953) Stars Robert Mitchum, Linda Darnett.

3.55 The Glass House (M) Programs are correct at the time of going to press but beware – all stations like tinkering with things at the last minute.

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show (PG) 11.30 Seven News 12.00 Movie: Footsteps (M) Stars Candice Bergen, Bryan Brown,.

2.00 All Saints (M) 3.00 House Call (PG) 3.30 Raggs 4.00 It’s Acadamic 4.30 Seven News 5.00 M*A*S*H (G) 5.30 Deal Or No Deal (G) 6.00 Seven and Prime News 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 7.30 Christian The Lion (PG) 8.00 Find My Family (PG) 8.30 All Saints (M) 9.30 10 Years Younger In 10 Days (G) 10.30 Lipstick Jungle (M) 11.30 Carpoolers (PG) New series.

12.00 The Kimberley Coast (G) 1.00 Danoz Direct & Guthy Renker 5.30 Seven Early News

6.00 ABC News Breakfast 4.30 UEFA Champions League Semi 9.00 Asia Pacific News Final Chelsea v Barcelona 9.30 Business Today 7.00 World News in various languages.

10.00 Kids’ Programs 2.20 Podlove (G) 4.35 The Einstein Factor (G) Repeat.

2.30 Dateline 5.05 The Cook and the Chef (G) Repeat. 3.30 Kings Of Clubs (G) 5.35 ABC Fora 4.00 The Journal 6.35 A place In Greece (G) 4.30 Newshour With Jim Lehrer 7.00 Zoo Days (G) 5.30 FIFA Futbol Mundial 7.30 Something In The Air (G) Repeat.

6.00 Global Village: Plemonte (G) 8.00 Spicks And Specks (PG) Final.

6.30 World News Australia 8.30 The Gruen Transfer 7.35 Inspector Rex (PG) Austria Repeat.

9.00 Moving Wallpaper (M) 8.30 Mad Men (M) Excellent series telling 9.30 The Graham Norton Show it as it was in the early 60s.

10.00 Peep Show (M) 9.30 World News Australia 10.00 UEFA Champions League Hour 10.25 Little Miss Jocelyn (M) 10.55 Phoenix Nights (PG) 11.00 Oz (M) US drama series.

11.20 Ideal: The Pregnancy (MA) Repeat. 12.00 Movie: The Eye (MA 2002) Thriller 11.50 Close from Hong Kong. Stars Angelica Lee, Lawrence Chou 1.45 Weatherwatch Overnight [s] [a] [n] [du] [dr] [v] [*] [h]

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5.30 Today 6.00 Ten Early News 9.00 Mornings with Kerri-Anne (PG) 7.00 Toasted TV & Kids’ Programs 11.00 Time/Life (G) 9.00 9am With David And Kim (PG) 11.30 Danoz (G) 11.00 Ten News 12.00 Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 12.00 Dr Phil (M) 1.00 The View (PG) 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) 2.00 Days of Our Lives (PG) 2.00 Huey’s Cooking Adventures (PG) 3.00 Alive And Cooking (G) 3.30 MasterChef Australia (G) 3.30 Hi-5 4.00 The Bold & The Beautiful (G) 4.00 The Shak 5.00 Ten News 4.30 Afternoon News 6.00 The Simpsons (G) Repeat.

5.00 Antique Roadshow (G) 6.30 Neighbours (G) Repeat.

7.00 Masterchef Australia (PG) 5.30 Hot Seat (G) 8.00 Recruits (PG) 6.00 Evening News 8.30 Good News Week (M) 7.00 A Current Affair 9.30 Supernatural (M) Series return.

7.30 You Saved My Life (PG) 10.30 Late News With Sports Tonight 8.00 Missing pieces (PG) 11.15 Late Show with David Letterman (PG) 8.30 Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities (M) 8.45 Lotto 12.00 Plus One (PG) 9.30 Eleventh Hour (M) 12.30 Judge Judy (PG) 1.00 Infomercials (PG) 10.30 CSI: NY (M) 11.30 The Ellen Degeneres (PG) 4.00 Religion to 6am (PG).

12.30 Australia’s Greatest Athlete 1.30 Guthy Renker Australia 3.00 Religion 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

5.30 Today 6.00 Ten Early News 9.00 Mornings With Kerri-Anne (PG) 7.00 Toasted TV & Kids’ Programs 11.00 Danoz And Guthy Renker (G) 9.00 9am With David And Kim (PG) 12.00 Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 11.00 Ten News 1.00 The View (PG) talk show.

12.00 Dr Phil (M) 2.00 Days Of Our Lives (PG) 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) 3.00 Alive And Cooking (G) 2.00 Huey’s Cooking Adventures (PG) 3.30 Hi-5 3.00 MasterChef Australia (G) 4.00 The Shak 4.00 Totally Wild 4.30 Afternoon News 4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful (G) 5.00 Antique Roadshow (G) 5.00 Ten News 6.00 The Simpsons (G) Repeat.

5.30 Hot Seat (G) 6.30 Neighbours (G) Repeat.

6.00 Evening News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.00 Masterchef Australia (PG) 7.30 Talkin’ ‘bout your generation (PG) 7.30 World’s Funniest Videos (PG) 8.00 Commercial Breakdown (PG) 8.30 NCIS (M) 8.30 Two And A Half Men (M) 9.30 Lie To Me (M) 9.00 Two And A Half Men (M) 10.30 Late News With Sports Tonight 11.15 Late Show With David Letterman (PG) 9.30 Underbelly Uncut (MA15+) 12.00 Cops (M) 10.30 Hell’s Kitchen (MA15+) 12.30 State Focus 11.30 The Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 1.00 Infomercials (PG) 12.10 20/20 (M) 4.00 Religion to 6am (PG) 1.30 Guthy Renker 3.00 Religion 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

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Stars Robert Carradine, Joanna Miles, 12.00 Dr Phil (PG) 2.00 Days Of Our Lives (PG) Lea Thompson, Joe Penny.

1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) Repeat.

3.00 Alive And Cooking (G) 2.00 All Saints (M) 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) Repeat.

3.30 Kids’ Programs 3.00 House Call 3.00 Masterchef Australia (PG) 4.30 NBN News 3.30 Raqgs 4.00 Totally Wild 5.00 Antiques Roadshow (G).

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2.00 All Saints (M) 3.00 House Call (PG) 3.30 Raggs Kid’s program.

4.00 It’s Acadamic 4.30 Seven and Prime News 5.00 M*A*S*H (G) 5.30 Deal Or No Deal (G) games show.

6.00 Seven and Prime News 7.00 Home And Away (PG) 7.30 Ghost Whisperer (PG) 8.30 Grey’s Anatomy (M) 9.30 Private Practice (M) 10.35 Heroes (M) 11.30 Beauty And The Geek (PG) 12.30 Brand Developers (G) 1.30 Danoz & Guthy-Renker 5.30 Seven Early News Prime HD program same as above except: 12.00 The Gibb River Road And Beyond (G) 1.00 Final 24 2.00 The Great Outdoors (PG) âž&#x; 12.30 Movie: Abandon (M 2002) 2.00 Danoz Direct & Guthy Renker

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5.30 Today 6.00 Ten Early News 9.00 Mornings With Kerri-Anne (PG) 7.00 Toasted TV & Kids’ Programs 11.00 Danoz and Guthy Renker (G) 9.00 9am With David And Kim (PG) 12.00 Ellen Degeneres Show (PG) 11.00 Ten News 1.00 The View (PG) talk show.

12.00 Dr Phil (PG) 2.00 Days Of Our Lives (PG) 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show (PG) Repeat.

3.00 Alive And Cooking (G) 2.00 Ready Steady Cook (PG) Repeat.

3.30 Kids’ Programs 3.00 Huey’s Cooking Adventures (G) 4.30 NBN News 3.30 Masterchef Australia (PG) 5.30 Who Wants To Be A Millionaire (G) 4.00 Totally Wild 5.00 Antiques Roadshow 4.30 The Bold & The Beautiful (G) 5.30 Hot Seat (G) 5.00 Ten News 6.00 NBN News 6.00 The Simpsons (G) Repeat 7.00 A Current Affair 6.30 Neighbours (G) 7.30 Getaway (PG) 7.00 Masterchef Australia (PG) 8.30 Adults Only 20 To 1 (M) 7.20 Rules Of Engagement (PG) 8.00 Bondi Vet (PG) 9.30 The Footy Show (M) 8.30 Law & Order: S.V.U. (M) 11.00 The AFL Footy Show (M) 9.30 Medium (M) 1.00 Seinfeld (PG) 10.30 Ten News With Sports Tonight 1.30 Entertainment Tonight (G) 11.15 Late Show With David Letterman (PG) 2.00 Guthy Renker Australia 12.00 Cops (PG) 3.30 Good Morning America 12.30 Infomercials (PG) 5.00 Early Morning News 4.00 Religion to 6am.

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Nimbin’s Seventeenth MardiGrass On the weekend of May 2 & 3 in Nimbin is the unique gathering of people who support cannabis law reform.

It will be another fantastic mental stimulus package, including: Hemp Olympix, Free music, Marijuana

march, Law reform rally, The big joint, Cannabis cup, Medical forums, Markets, Hemp industry expo and much more. For the full program head to www. nimbinmardigrass.com The Hemp Olympix has a new gold medal event this year – ‘correct weight’.

Contestants get a standard clip-lock bag and aim to fill it with 28.3495231 grams

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of… mugwort, or maybe industrial hemp. The other Olympix events, the Growers Ironperson, Bong Throw and of course the Speed and Artistic Joint Rolling are all on again.

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Chong to come and judge the Cheech and Chong looka-like competition at the Rally in Peace Park that follows.

Music is on at up to half a dozen stages over the This year’s Global weekend, from the Pickers Marijuana March has over Ball on Friday night with a 250 cities marching on hemp fashion show, to the Saturday at 4.20pm. The big Saturday night in Peace big March for Cannabis Park with Dachambo, a Law Reform is on Sunday at major Japanese psychedelic 2.30pm and we expect Tommy festival band who have flown out here especially to support our cause. There are over thirty bands performing.

The way to really enjoy MardiGrass is come for the weekend and camp. No doubt you’ll have to mission past the Winnebago drug testing vans and the packs of sniffer dogs, but if you make it through we promise a weekend to remember, and we’ll try to have the law changed by Monday, 4:20pm at the latest!! The Nimbin Showground camping was a great success last year and is on again. We are trying to keep it as uncomplicated as possible and encouraging all campers to buy a $50 deal, the MardiGrass Gold weekend pass which gets the bearer into all events plus 2 nights camping. A weekend MardiGrass pass without camping is $30, Saturday only $20, Sunday only $10. Full program www.nimbinmardigrass.com

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The Wiggles go Bananas!

The Wiggles are performing on May 1 and 2 at the Gold Coast Convention Centre!

In their latest adventure, ‘The Wiggles Go Bananas!’, the fab four for the under-fives jump into the heart of the groovy animal kingdom with new songs such as Kangaroo Jumping, Tasmanian Devil and Tiger Man. Also featured on the CD/DVD is Australian actor/ singer John Waters (singing Rusty the Cowboy) and Ireland’s Morgan Crowley, singing The Unicorn. This year sees them celebrate their 18th year of entertaining children around the world – The Wiggles have now sold in excess of 23 million DVDs and 7 Million CDs worldwide and their interactive

DAMON GILLAN AS FAGAN, LEFT, AND LACHLAN SMITH AS OLIVER HAM IT UP IN READINESS FOR THIS WEEKEND’S PERFORMANCES OF THE MUSICAL OLIVER BY STUDENTS AND STAFF AT MT ST PATRICK COLLEGE, MURWILLUMBAH. song and dance shows continue to capture their audience’s (young and old) imaginations. Along with some of the new songs there will be a lot of the old favourites including, Monkey Dance, Fruit Salad, Hot Potato, Rock A Bye Your Bear and many more.

Little Birdy Katy, Simon, Barney and Matt are ready to hit the road and are armed with an album full of new songs. ‘We’ve spent so much time perfecting the new songs and we can’t wait

documentation of these tours www.oztix.com.au and 1300 762 545). Wednesday May 6 at has left a lasting impression on the Australian music Industry.

Coolangatta Hotel.

The single track Walkin’ as sung Afro Dizzi Act and

by Jali Buba Kuyateh is about the spiritual significance of Oka walking, and OJ Newcomb’s For just over decade Afro Dizzi instrumental Drop Off has been Act has been performing in licensed by Ubiquity Records Australia and East Asia, for the soundtrack of Under the collaborating with musicians of Sun. the globe and performing a style of music the band likes to Oka call ‘Roots infused World Beat’.

The Oka signature is a smooth The unification of the band’s hi-fidelity sound that is full of sound lies in their ability to perform with the depth, feel AFRO DIZZI ACT AND OKA and telepathy, that has been BOTH PLAY AT THE nurtured from 10 years of SOUNDLOUNGE ON playing together. Sonic stylist and saxophonist Nick Aggs, THURSDAY

to play them for all of you. It’s felt like a long time coming and we are looking forward to having these songs come alive on stage,’ says 25-year-old singer/songwriter/guitarist Katy Steele. Ticket price $20 + bf. Buy now at venue and Oztix outlets www.oztix.com.au and 1300 762 545. Coolangatta Hotel 8pm, Sunday.

Ratatat Evan and Mike navigate their unique sonic hover crafting a free flowing chromatic wave of guitars, keyboards, beats,

LITTLE BIRDY AT THE COOLANGATTA HOTEL SUNDAY smoke and mirrors back to add another overwhelming layer of atmosphere with Tour3.

Ratatat has supported Björk, Daft Punk, Mouse on Mars, Interpol, Franz Ferdinand, CSS, The Faint, Super Furry Animals, Clinic, Panther and The Killers, Regurgitator and Mogwai.

Ticket Price $20 + bf (Buy now at venue and Oztix outlets

vocalist (Senegalese born) Jali Buba Kuyateh, guitarist/lyricist Sol Carroll, Bassman OJ (the Juice) Newcomb and drummer Mark Landsbury Henman are not only the backbone of Afro, they stand out individually as being exceptionally gifted musicians with a plethora of recordings and tours under their belts.

Being the first Western band to tour North East India and two tours of Nepal had far reaching effects on the band as a creative unit. The release of their second studio album Walkin’ in 2007 as a sonic

beautiful uplifting melodies, tones and textures, cooked over raw didgeridoo rhythms and phatt dance-driven grooves. A live collective where no two gigs are the same, the Oka flavour is their own hybrid of feel good Roots, Reggae, Dub and Jazz, marinated in Electronica and served on Island Time. They have independently sold over 60,000 albums worldwide, a true testament to their evergrowing appeal to people of all ages and cultures. Both Afro Dizzi Act and Oka play The Soundlounge 8pm, Thursday.

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The Wilson Pickers & The Perch Creek Family Jug Band and Jason Lowe An all-star interstate musical collaboration, The Wilson Pickers are better known as Queenslanders Danny Widdicombe, Ben Salter, Andrew Morris, and Victorians Sime Nugent and John Bedggood. Five great and individual singers/songwriters, who all embrace the spiritual feeling one gets when singing in harmony. The band creates an earthy energy by using purely organic stringed and reeded instruments. As an

ensemble they have harnessed the strengths of all members to form a stellar ensemble to look out for. Debut album Land of the Powerful Owl out now.

Playing at markets and festivals, The Perch Creek Family Jugband are heading on down the road playing singing and dancing a style of music that harks back to a simpler time when it wasn’t such a big deal for families to do stuff together and have a good time doing it. Both bands play The Soundlounge 7pm, Friday.

David Campbell One of the finest entertainers in the country, David Camp-

bell is back with his best show to date ‘The Good Loving’ Tour 2009’. This hot new show will feature in full David’s brand new album Good Loving which is a thundering collection of classic 60’s blue eyed soul.

Tracks like Now That I’ve Found You, You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling, Devil In A Blue Dress and of course Good Loving, will be brought to the stage with Campbell’s larrikin charm and incredible voice. On top of this David will also be performing material from his multi-platinum Swing Sessions albums so expect classic Dean Martin, Bobby Darin, Sammy Davis Jr and of course Sinatra tunes.

Twin Towns, Saturday May 2 at 8.30pm and Sunday May 3 at 7pm. Tickets $69.

Jazz in the Basement – Battle of the Saxes!

The Showdown has arrived!

Battle of the Saxes will be between Bruce Johnson and Malcom Capewell, taking place at Jazz in the Basement Saturday 2 May Gold Coast Arts Centre.

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CC THE CAT AT THE BUDDHA BAR BYRON ON SATURDAYAND THE NIMBIN MARDI GRASS ON SUNDAY

Jack Bee (aka Mikey Bryant) launching his CD Saturday May 2 at The Old Drill Hall in Mullum.

CC the Cat Gold Coast reggae rocker CC the Cat will be at the Buddha Bar in Byron Bay this Saturday night, followed by what will be a huge set at the Nimbin Mardi Grass on Sunday afternoon. They have been holed up in their Lennox studio for the last few months working on their debut album

for release later this year, and are sneaking out briefly for these two special appearances.

CC the Cat and her band are a bunch of groove-driving party-starting reggae-rockers, with songstress CC ripping it up on vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, the amazing (Byron local) Guy Anderton on drums, funkmaster Miles on bass and live FX by soundboyd.

CC the Cat have just received a major grant from Arts Queensland and Gold Coast City council to make their debut album and website. For more

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In the very near future I will be getting a letter from the RTA suspending my licence for six months. I am a social criminal. You see, in a period of three years I exceeded the speed limit five times. OK. You got me. I’ll come clean.

That person you’ve heard hooning up and down your street late at night blasting hip hop was in fact me.

Although I am pleased to inform the more sensitive types that all the donuts performed are in fact gluten free. It is time for my public shaming. I have done 65 in a 60 zone. St Helena, mother of Constantine the Great and patron of inappropriately placed speed cameras, has not smiled happily on me.

How can a woman whose original charter was charity for the poor and destitute be reduced to the tawdry art of revenue raising? I still maintain that I don’t speed.

I merely lose concentration while passing speed detection devices. Six months back the RTA offered me a Good Behaviour Bond. No cussing, no new offences and no vagina jokes for 12 months. I should have known I couldn’t do it. Even before I’d left the RTA I’d muttered three new twat jokes under my breath. (‘Fever’ was playing – I couldn’t resist singing…

You give me Beaver… I am a middle aged woman with the mind of an adolescent.)

So there I was, three kids in the car, five months pregnant, leaving Armidale at 7am in the morning after a performance at a Women’s Comedy Festival and I see the flashing lights. I immediately thought, god damn they got me on the Beaver gag.

The cop pulls me over and informs me I’m doing 120 in 100 zone. All I can say is ‘Correct’. Why am I exceeding the speed limit? Hello, have you been to Armidale? Then I did something I’m not proud of. Something shameful. I started to cry. Not just cry, but blubber, talking in long drawn out salty gasps as water literally leaked out of my head. ‘Pleasse...if if if you book me… I’ll lose my licence… and I live in a small town… with three kids… and I’m pregnant… and and there’s not even a supermarketttt.’

The bastard booked me on the spot. My kids thought it was hysterical and spent the rest of the trip imitating me crying and begging with the cop. I was thinking of going to court and telling them that it wasn’t even me driving. It was Marcus Einfield in drag.

So now I have a glorious six months licence-free to look forward to. Thank goodness our public transport is so excellent. You’ll be seeing a lot more of me on the bus (big hello to the young Mullum High girl who patted me at the bus stop the other

day). I am also contemplating taking up hitching outside Carsbergs. I have been rehearsing the stance and even have some outfits that I believe are road ready. I’ve learnt that you can’t hitch in Mullum without a silly hat, a didge, a dog and a rainbow knit cardigan. It’s kind of refreshing to see a mother of four on the roadside with her brood. Although I can only be picked up by other mums in empty Taragos.

I might even get a bike.

But then I’ve never been comfortable knowing people can see my arse hanging over the seat looking like a giant unseeded half peach.

I’d ride a bike if it looked more like a chair. And had a motor and ran on petrol.

Frankly it’s embarrassing.

I’ve come up with a whole new pitch. Something that helps me regain a superior social footing and pivots me from stupid to smug. I’ve got it. I’m an environmentalist.

I am experimenting with six months of car-free living. I’m chocking up carbon credits for creating a brand new consumer. Man, I am walking the walk. Quite literally. By the way, if anyone would like to be available as my driver then please let me know. Must have licence and enjoy vagina jokes.

He’s the clown prince of polyster and has been making the world laugh for more than twenty years. His brand new solo show is heading your way for an evening of mirth and mayhem as he sings and swings his way through 20 golden greats. From Blah Blah Blah to Mardi Gras, Bob Downe is one of Australia’s most loved and enduring entertainers. He’s worked with them all – Bert, Kerri-Anne, Don Lane, Andrew Denton, Rove, Ding Dong – and he’s not afraid to spill the beans on all of them! ‘Nicely, of course,’ points out Bob, ‘with just a little bit of bitchiness around the edges.’ Gold Coast Arts Centre 7.30pm Thursday.

Comedy in the Basement – Gary Eck Gary Eck, whose sharp wit has been entertaining Australian and international audiences for over fourteen years, has performed at the Melbourne, Adelaide, and Sydney Comedy festivals as well toured internationally including London, Singapore and New York. One of Australia’s most popular and versatile performers, Gary has performed his stand-up accompanied by a Live Orchestra, MC’d the Myer Spring Summer Launch with former Miss Universe, Jennifer Hawkins, and appeared on numerous television shows including Rove, The Footy Show and Spicks and Specks.

Support is Brendan Lovechild and MC is Mike Bennett. Gold Coast Arts Centre 7.30pm, Friday.

Ruby Rose Ruby Rose, the face of MTV and indeed a style icon, has risen to fame the past year as a MTV VJ. She has graced almost every magazine cover and is truly one of the most recognisable faces of the Australian music scene. Ritty who originally hails from the UK has been involved in the music scene for over a decade and has remixed and worked alongside and toured some of the biggest DJs and producers in the world. The pair first met whilst working at MTV and have struck up a truly unique partnership combining Ruby Rose’s rock/indie disco style with Ritty’s chunky house sound, which mashed up blends perfectly together.

The two of them have been playing some of Australia’s most exclusive parties where only a few have been able to enjoy the pair performing together but now Ruby Rose and Ritty are taking their

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by the Creek, May 9 and 10.

The festival is inspired by Fringe Festivals around the world, showcasing comedy, dance, aerial acrobatics, visual light show, street performers and visual artists to name a few.

‘Working for such a progressive Mt St Patrick’s club is a blessing’, says College production Currumbin RSL’s Laura Versace, ‘it’s been a fantastic experience of Oliver to be part of a grass roots event Loosely based upon the novel such as D’Alliance. I can really Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, see this festival growing each Oliver will be performed by Mt year and being heralded as a St Patrick’s College Friday unique must see and be at May 1 and Saturday May 2 at event on the Gold Coast’. the Civic Centre Tumbulgum The ‘D’Alliance’ program is jam Rd, Murwillumbah. Performpacked with local talent and ances at 7:30pm. Tix adults $15, guest performers from con $8 available at college or interstate such as comic genius 02 6672 2340.

‘The Amazing Mr Fish’ and loop sensation ‘Mr Percival’.

The Lion, the Witch singing The festival will stimulate the and the Wardrobe senses with several interactive events planned throughout the C.S Lewis’ tale of the fabulous day. Comedy workshops land of Narnia is the new funded by Q150 and Short Film Workshops are already underway as part of the D’Alliance program culminating with a final performance at the festival.

Saturday 9am – 5pm free, Saturday night 6 – 10pm ticketed performance children $7.50/Adults $15, Sunday May 10, Mothers Day lunch performance at the Currumbin RSL and performance elsewhere! A truly unforgettable experience as part of the Surfers Paradise ‘Blend Festival’, hosted at elsewhere on Friday, May 1.

Sunday May 3.

‘It is a huge undertaking with considerable community consultation,’ says organiser Carol Collins. ‘We have Tweed Tourism, Kingscliff TAFE, Solo waste, Radio 97, Banks and many more on board. Some projects may be happening not just for the festival but ongoing during the year ie Community Workshop program.’ There will be art in the park, street parades, music under the stars, dancing in the streets and Community Arts workshops.

For more contact Carol Collins on 0400 139 889 or email thru www.artcompany.com.au

Beachside Skate Comp 09, Cabarita Skate Park, May 9 Three Tenors Tribute Show, Live the Stardust Room, Seagulls Saturday May 9 8pm Grace Knight Twin Towns, Sat May 9 Alex Lloyd, Soundlounge, May 7 Jeff Martin & The Armada Soundlounge, May 15

Iron Maiden: Flight 666

The extraordinary feature length documentary tour film, Iron Maiden: Flight 666, will be exclusively screening at Birch Carroll & Coyle Pacific Fair Cinemas for a limited time only from Thursday April 30 until Wednesday May 6. This amazing and shockingly truthful rock film will be projected in 2K digital cinema together with 5.1 surround sound, the highest quality standard in cinemas today. It’s a full length rock tour film that continues on from this legendary and BOB DOWNE GOLD COAST ARTS iconic rock CENTRE 7.30PM THURSDAY band being crowned Best Sunday musical adaptation for upper British Live Act at the 2009 Brit Night ‘Jed’s Old Fashioned juniors and lower seniors, and Awards. This visually stunning Drive-In’ family feature film $15 will be performed by the tour film was shot as the band per car, gates open 6pm. For Emmanuel College at the embarked on the initial leg of Further information and Gold Coast Arts Centre, their historic ‘Somewhere Back ticketing visit www.curThursday in Time World Tour’ back in rumbinrsl.com.au February and March 2008.

Deemed as being the most The KAFE Fiesta ambitious and groundbreaking D’Alliance The KAFE Fiesta (Kingscliff Art, tour in rock history, this film is An otherworldly path of artistic Food and Entertainment not only a revealing portrait of delight will unfold at the Festival) will be held Friday one of the world’s most inaugural Dalliance Carnivale May 1, Sat May 2, and successful, long-standing rock acts, but is also an entertaining and humorous account of the chaotic and challenging world of a hard-working rock band.

‘Absolutely insane... an excess all areas look at Britain’s biggest metal band. Awesome!’ Total Film (London).

Screening Dates and Times: Thursday April 30, 9pm, Friday May 1, 9pm, Saturday May 2, 4pm and 9pm, Sunday May 3, RUBY ROSE-RITTY AT ELSEWHERE ON FRIDAY 1ST MAY. 4pm and 9pm, Monday May 4, 7pm, Tuesday May 5, 7pm, Wednesday May 6, 7pm.

Murwillumbah Theatre Co Ruby Moon Fri May 29 at Murwillumbah Civic Centre

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2009 Tropical Alternatives Film Festival

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QAHC is proud to present the 2009 Tropical Alternatives Film Festival, which is set to be Queensland’s biggest regional queer film festival.

Films will screen in the Gold Coast Arts Centre’s Paradise Showroom on Saturday 2 May from 3pm.

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gig guide THURSDAY 30 ■ AUSTRALIAN TAVERN, M’BAH 9PM LIVE MUSIC ■ CUDGEN LEAGUES CLUB, KINGSCLIFF 5.30PM ROBERT KEITH ■ CLUB BANORA 4PM GLENN BRACE ■ GOLD COAST ARTS CENTRE, EMMANUEL COLLEGE - THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE ■ GOLD COAST ARTS CENTRE 7.30PM BOB DOWNE ■ GOLD COAST ARTS CENTRE 7.30PM UNPLUGGED IN THE BASEMENT GEORGIA POTTER & ALEX BARCLAY ■ SOUNDLOUNGE 8PM AFRO DIZZI ACT & OKA ■ THE SANDS HOTEL COOLANGATTA 8PM SANDS JAM – BATTLE OF THE JAMS HEAT 6 ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 5PM VEENIE’S – CARGO ■ BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 9PM SARITAH ■ THE RAILS, BYRON 6.30PM MICK MCHUGH BAND ■ LA LA LAND, BYRON DANIEL WEBBER + GUESTS

FRIDAY 1 ■ AUSTRALIAN TAVERN, M’BAH 9PM DOOR 7 ■ CUDGEN LEAGUES CLUB, KINGSCLIFF 7.30PM RUSSELL SPROUT ■ CABARITA BEACH SPORTS CLUB, BOGANGAR 8PM FATHOM

local events and entertainment ■ CABARITA BEACH BAR AND GRILL 9PM MARSHALL AND THE FRO ■ CIVIC CENTRE MURWILLUMBAH, 7.30PM, MT ST PATRICK’S COLLEGE PRODUCTION OF ‘OLIVER’ ■ CURRUMBIN RSL 7PM CHI CHI ■ ELSEWHERE, GOLD COAST, ELECTRONIC BOOGIE SHOW W/ RUBY ROSE + RITTY (MTV) + AUDUN ■ GOLD COAST ARTS CENTRE 7.30PM COMEDY IN THE BASEMENT GARY ECK ■ GOLD COAST CONVENTION CENTRE THE WIGGLES ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH HOTEL, 8.30PM LEIGH JAMES ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH CLUB 7.30PM STREET CAFE ■ KINGSCLIFF , THE KAFE FIESTA ■ IMPERIAL HOTEL, MUR’BAH 8PM JAMES HIGGENS AND GUEST ■ MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES MEMORIAL CLUB 6.30PM JO ACE ■ MUR’BAH HOTEL 9PM DJ LEE ■ POTTSVILLE BEACH SPORTS CLUB 7PM CLOUD CATCHER ■ SALT BAR, CASURINA 8.30PM INNOCENT BYSTANDERS ■ SEAGULLS 7PM, CONNECTIONS BAR, BRANDI & THE BADCATS ■ SOUNDLOUNGE 7PM THE WILSON PICKERS & THE PERCH CREEK FAMILY JUG BAND & JASON LOWE ■ THE SANDS HOTEL COOLANGATTA 9PM DJ ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 7.30PM ROUTE 66

■ TWIN TOWNS SERVICES CLUB, 9PM GEOFF RAYNER ■ BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 9.30PM BONJAH NATIONAL ALBUM TOUR ■ HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON DIASPORA LATINA ■ LA LA LAND, BYRON STAFFORD BROTHERS, RYAN RUSHTON + DANIEL WEBBER ■ NIMBIN HOTEL, 7.30PM MARDI GRASS WEEKEND: A PLANET IN SPACE ■ NIMBIN TOWN HALL 10PM DACHAMBO (JAPAN)

SATURDAY 2 ■ AUSTRALIAN TAVERN, M’BAH 9PM DANCE PARTY WITH DJ ■ CABARITA BEACH SPORTS CLUB, BOGANGAR 8PM GROOVETTES ■ CIVIC CENTRE MURWILLUMBAH, 7.30PM, MT ST PATRICK’S COLLEGE PRODUCTION OF ‘OLIVER’ ■ CLUB BANORA, BANORA POINT 4PM GLENN BRACE ■ COOLANGATTA HOTEL 8PM MIKE GOLDMAN’S SINGLE BASH ■ COOLANGATTA SANDS HOTEL 9PM DJ TOMMY MCCLEMMENTS ■ COOLANGATTA AND TWEED HEADS GOLF CLUB 7PM STOWAWAY ■ CURRUMBIN RSL 7PM AKASA ■ ELSEWHERE, GOLD COAST, MOTION:THEORY W/ STRAWBERRY SYME + BEN ABRAHAMS

■ KINGSCLIFF THE KAFE FIESTA ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH CLUB 7.30PM UPSTAGE ■ GOLD COAST ARTS CENTRE, 7PM JAZZ IN THE BASEMENT BATTLE OF THE SAXES! ■ GOLD COAST ARTS CENTRE, 2009 TROPICAL ALTERNATIVES FILM FESTIVAL ■ GOLD COAST CONVENTION CENTRE THE WIGGLES ■ MUR’BAH HOTEL 9PM RAY CAT ■ MUR’BAH SERVICES CLUB 6.30PM KATHRYN JONES ■ POTTSVILLE BEACH SPORTS CLUB 6.30PM MIKE WINKWORTH ■ SALT BAR, CASURINA, 8.30PM JON BRADLEY ■ SEAGULLS 8PM BIG WILLY ■ SOUTH TWEED SPORTS CLUB, 3PM LIVE JAZZ ■ SOUTH TWEED SPORTS CLUB, 7.30PM FUNNY MAN DAVO ■ SHEOAK SHACK, FINGAL HEAD, 7PM NIGEL MCTRUSTY WITH CAROLINE HAMMOND ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB, 7.30PM COUNTRY SPECTACULAR WITH JOHN MCSWEENY ■ TWIN TOWNS SERVICES CLUB 9PM DARRYN ■ TWIN TOWNS SERVICES CLUB 7PM DAVID CAMPBELL ■ LA LA LAND, BYRON DON NADI ■ HOTEL BRUNSWICK, 7.30PM CATH SIMES BAND ■ PEACE PARK, NIMBIN 9PM DACHAMBO (JAPAN) ■ NIMBIN HOTEL 1.30PM GLORY B 7.30PM DIANA ANAID & DURGA BABIES

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SUNDAY 3 ■ CLUB BANORA, 12.15PM CHAMPAGNE JAM ■ COOLANGATTA HOTEL 8PM LITTLE BIRDY ■ COOLANGATTA SANDS HOTEL 5PM THE SMASHED CRABS ■ COOLANGATTA AND TWEED HEADS GOLF CLUB 2PM TWEED LINKS MUSIC CLUB ■ CURRUMBIN RSL,1.30PM JOE PHILLIPS ■ ELSEWHERE, GOLD COAST, ROYALE SUNDAY W/ STRETCH + GIV ■ KINGSCLIFF , THE KAFE FIESTA ■ NIMBIN MARDI GRASS PEACE PARK 4PM CC THE CAT ■ POTTSVILLE BEACH SPORTS CLUB, 4PM MARK DIVOLA ■ SALT BAR, CASURINA, 1PM HASH BROWN ■ SEAGULLS CLUB, 2PM LINE DANCING ■ SEAGULLS 1PM JAZZ IN THE SHED CAFE ■ SPHINX ROCK CAFE, MT BURRELL, 1- 5PM MARDI GRASS SPECIAL: SARITAH (SOLO) AND IMANDAN ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 12.30PM DON WHITAKER ■ TWIN TOWNS SERVICES CLUB 7PM DAVID CAMPBELL ■ BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 4.30PM FLOYD VINCENT 8PM DJ CAPTAIN KAINE ■ LA LA LAND, BYRON CAPTAIN KAINE ■ HOTEL BRUNSWICK 3PM FOSSIL ROCK 7PM SNAP SHOT

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MONDAY 4 ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH CLUB 12PM DAVID BARRY ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH HOTEL 7PM APL POKER TOURNAMENT ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 4PM DICK BARNS ■ THE RAILS, BYRON 6.30PM BARRY FERRIER ■ HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON JASON DELPHIN

TUESDAY 5 ■ AUSTRALIAN TAVERN, M’BAH 8PM BATTLE OF THE BANDS AND JAM NIGHT ■ SEAGULLS LAKEVIEW LOUNGE 5.30PM B.J. LITTLE ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 1PM DAVE CLAYTON ■ THE RAILS, BYRON 6.30PM SCOTTY FAIRCLOUGH

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Mungo’s Crossword

This let’s-get-physical week is all about the pleasures of the senses, listening to your body rhythms and following your nose . . .

WITH LILITH

ARIES: Mars and Venus together in Aries have you full of enthusiasm and fresh ideas, but old fight or flight patterns could resurface where you either keep at bay or run away from what you really want. Now it’s time to finally stand your ground and work through it.

TAURUS: Your boss goddess Venus in empire building mode serves you well this week, while Taurus Sun/Mercury attracts friends with ideas which include or enthuse you. A week of of inspiration, celebration, and with Mars in Aries you can also expect lots of testosterone‌ GEMINI: If early week Gemini moon stimulates ambivalent feelings about funds or friendship, stay cool and don’t let emotions rule. This can be a stingy transit so be generous with your words, wallet, time and ideas and karma will boomerang back to you in kind pretty well instantly.

For the first time an Australian has won the Sydney International Open, which concluded in Parramatta last week.

Veteran Grandmaster Darryl Johansen was undefeated in capturing the 2009 SIO title, possibly the strongest open tournament the Melbourne chess coach has won since the 1990s.

Johansen, whose star had been slowly fading over the past decade, looked like a man enjoying his second youth. He defeated two of the foreign visitors in less than 20 moves and took out second seeded GM Dmitri Reinderman in

GM Darryl Johansen

CANCER: Late week Cancer moon’s overflowing emotions are likely to need focussing away from the past and what you don’t want towards where you’d rather be heading. Do this by using what uberCancerian His Holiness the Dalai Lama calls enlightened self interest.

LEO: Stubborn stand offs are part of the current star scenario and while you don’t back down easily, right now it could be the less costly option. That said, this Venus-ruled week accentuating your business sector couldn’t be better for shaking your money maker while schmoozing the room‌ VIRGO: This week encourages you to get out and express yourself. Plus it’s a primo self healing period for listening to what your body, and more importantly, feelings have to tell you. Beware of selective listening though – otherwise known as hearing only what supports your opinions.

LIBRA: With your ruling planet

SCORPIO: This week has excellent potential for discussing progressive ideas, planning positive changes or revitalizing a tired love life while the planets of hot romance are at their most frisky – because right now life on earth’s ripe for a wonderful autumnal wallow in the empire of the senses.

SAGITTARIUS: Take advantage of this week’s influences on your house of health to break a bad habit or enhance your fitness regime. It’s also a prime time for developing specific business skills and practical tools to enhance your personal life and add value to your professional portfolio.

CAPRICORN: With Mars stirring up your ambition hormones, this week’s power plays are going to require control and discipline to avoid collateral damage. Same goes for your personal life – and there’s plenty happening right now in the home and family zone that needs your attention.

AQUARIUS: This week organization’s even more important than inspiration so think taking care of business, research, making backup plans, revising your values in the light of current information. Tried and tested methods may need adjusting, even abandoning completely, to meet changing financial realities.

PISCES: Sure everything’s very materialistic at the moment, but look at the upside and let it guide you towards sensible decisions. Because Mars in your finance zone for the coming month offers practical answers, plus the assurance to speak up and speak out for what you want.

12-year-old Bobby Cheng, were performing well enough to hope for an International Master result, Play at Seagulls Club, Thur 6-10pm but in the end the youngsters had only 25 moves. Only in the final swept (almost) all before them at to settle for the scalps of many of round – when Australian num- Easter’s Doeberl Cup at Woden. Australia’s top players plus plenty ber one and top seed Zhao Zong However, second time around of world ranking points.

Yuan forced Johansen to defend the locals appeared to have the Sydney International Open 2009 for 4 hours and 102 moves – did measure of the visitors and only White: S Roy Chowdhury the 50-year-old look vulnerable, Grandmaster Abhijit Kunte – Black: G Xie but Johansen hung on to take the who missed last year’s SIO after Opening: Torre Attack SIO title on tiebreak. arriving in Australia and being 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.d4 e6 3.Bg5 c5 4.Bxf6 Innocuous, Johansen finished tied with forced by family tragedy to return but Roy Chowdury’s tactics in this game are to three other players, including to India immediately – remained shut Xie’s tactical prowess down with solid play.

5.e3 Nc6 6.c3 a6 After 6...d5, Xie Sydney’s George Xie, 23, who undefeated to reach the winning 4...Qxf6 feared 7.Bb5, although this is hardly threatening. thereby earned his first grand- score.

7.Nbd2 d5 8.Bd3 Be7 9.0-0 0-0 10.Re1 Qh6 master result. Xie needed only The fourth and youngest mem- 11.Qe2 Rd8 12.a3 Bd7 13.dxc5 Bxc5 14.c4 to draw his final game to secure ber of the winning SIO quar- dxc4 15.Nxc4 b5 16.Ncd2 Rac8 17.Rac1 Be7 a GM result – the first of three tet was England’s Gawain Jones, 18.Nb3 Qh5! 19.Be4 Be8 20.h3?! One quiet needed to be awarded the GM 21, the only player to triumph move too many. After 20.Red1 chances would title. However, rather than play in both Woden and Parramatta. be balanced. 20...f5! 21.Bb1 e5 22.Nc5 Bf7!

23.Nxa6 e4 24.Qxb5? The final error. 24.Qxf5! safe Xie, whose eyes were also on Jones, the third seed, was well keeps White in the game. 24...exf3 25.Rxc6 the $5,000 first prize, continued beaten by Xie in the fifth round fxg2 Now 26...Qxh3 is a winning threat. 26.Kh2 with the aggressive style which in Parramatta but fought back to Rxc6 27.Qxc6 Rd1 0-1 After 28.Rxd1 Qxd1, the had served him so well and won win his final four games and join White bishop is lost, at least. convincingly in the game given the tie for first.

SIO 2009 leading final scores: below.

The SIO was also a break- =1.Johansen (Vic), Xie (NSW), The Australian success at SIO through tournament for many Jones (Eng), Kunte (Ind) 7/9; 2009 was all the more remark- of Australia’s best juniors. With =5. Zhao (NSW), Mas (Mas), able given the strength of the three rounds to play, five of them, Chakkravarthy (Ind), Akshayraj Indian contingent, who had including Johansen’s protÊgÊ, (Ind) 6.5.

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There could be struggles with family not seeing eye to eye, but you’ll suggest the best and fairest solution – won’t you?

Cryptic Clues

ACROSS 1. Demons which seduce sleeping women (6) 4. Holiday (8) 10. Spa, Turkish tourist attraction (5,4) 11. Sharp end, mark of position (5) 12. Drums, percussion instruments (7) 13. Ship powered by internal combustion (7) 14. Wading bird, heron (5) 15. Applauding vocally (8) 18. Crank, nutter (8) 20. Lone Ranger’s offsider (5) 23. Level mountain top (7) 25. Alligator pear (7) 26. Fruit often used for oil (5) 27. Pirate (9) 28. Crooked lawyers (8) 29. Hired, rented out (6) DOWN 1. Placed inside, usually of a picture (8) 2. Small jug, usually accompanying coffee (7) 3. Pompous, overbearing (9) 5. Game of cricket between Australia and England (5,4,5) 6. SufďŹ cient, plenty (5) 7. Former Ugandan dictator (3,4) 8. Quality, character of a person (6) 9. Round in international tennis tournament (5,3,6) 16. Explanation for conduct, excuse (9) 17. Esteemed, decorated (8) 19. Fact, actuality (7) 21. Tidies (7) 22. Reels, bobbins (6) 24. Strain, make an effort (5)

ACROSS 1. One new one about child of demons (6) 4. Pet charge after Virginia holiday (8) 10. Bet asthma succumbs to this Turkish remedy! (5,4) 11. Cape’s purpose (5) 12. Put it around about my back, and criticise the drum kit. (7) 13. Liner for 10 across (7) 14. Bird heads off sorrow (5) 15. Applauding revolutionary with English band (8) 18. Madman to torture page in bed (8) 20. Not around to be Ranger’s friend (5) 23. Up late, a recipe for a at stretch.

(7) 25. Fruit average; nothing about party. (7) 26. Another fruit, nothing vital (5) 27. Pirate offers a dollar a listener, we’re told (9) 28. Lawyers have a self-effacing way with queens (8) 29. Let guide cover the point (6) DOWN 1. Small picture Noffs placed in a bigger one (8) 2. Agreement with New Zealand covers paper in a small jug (7) 3. Use explosives on investment regulator over a shirt – how pompous! (9) 5. Fire residue, an ordeal and a ďŹ re lighter – something to look forward to in summer? (5,4,5) 6. The French under an insurance giant, enough! (5) 7. Dictator, subconscious: I am popular (3,4) 8. Character of the wild (6) 9. A really cold base, a mug and a masseur – something to look forward to in summer?

(5,3,6) 16. Excuse to share out beer (9) 17. Journalist, after time overworking, is rewarded (8) 19. I am into property dealing – that’s not a fantasy! (7) 21. Sorts out cattle with small measures (7) 22. Winds up boats (6) 24. Strain to put unknown in plane, upside-down (5) Mungo’s Crossword ďŹ rst published in The Week.

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beach buzz what’s happening in the surf Cudgen Surf Notes Patrols for the 2008-9 season finished last Sunday and will resume in the last week of September. Members marked their conclusion with a BBQ on Sunday afternoon.

The patrol season was one of our busiest in recent years with 32 rescues reported, comprising of 3 without gear, 12 with rescue tube and 17 with rescue board.

The first aid stats of 157 recorded were 1 fracture, 2 spinal, 20 minor cuts/abrasions, 128 marine stings and 6 other, with 3 requiring ambulance attention. Preventative actions included 21 lost children, 4 searches, 4 shark alarms and 716 preventions. During patrol hours beach attendance reported totalled 32,318 persons.

TIDE TIMES PHASES OF THE MOON First Quarter 2nd May 6.44 am Full Moon 9th May 2.02 pm Last Quarter 17th May 5.26 pm New Moon 24th May 10.11 pm FRI 1st

High 12.44 am 1.7 Sunrise 6.13 am 1.53 pm 1.2 Sunset 5.13 pm 7.50 am 0.4 Moonrise 12.08 pm 7.22 pm 0.6 Moonset 11.03 pm SAT High 1.52 am 1.6 Sunrise 6.13 am 2nd 3.03 pm 1.2 Sunset 5.12 pm Low 8.54 am 0.3 Moonrise 12.49 pm 8.38 pm 0.6 SUN High 3.00 am 1.6 Sunrise 6.14 am 3rd 4.05 pm 1.3 Sunset 5.11 pm Low 9.51 am 0.3 Moonrise 1.26 pm 9.50 pm 0.5 Moonset 12.08 am MON High 4.04 am 1.5 Sunrise 6.14 am 4th 4.58 pm 1.4 Sunset 5.10 pm Low 10.41 am 0.3 Moonrise 1.59 pm 10.56 pm 0.5 Moonset 1.11 am TUE High 5.02 am 1.5 Sunrise 6.15 am 5th 5.46 pm 1.5 Sunset 5.10 pm Low 11.25 am 0.3 Moonrise 2.31 pm 11.56 pm 0.4 Moonset 2.11 am WED High 5.54 am 1.5 Sunrise 6.16 am 6th 6.29 pm 1.6 Sunset 5.09 pm Low Moonrise 3.02 pm 12.06 pm 0.3 Moonset 3.10 am THU High 6.43 am 1.4 Sunrise 6.16 am 7th 7.09 pm 1.7 Sunset 5.08 pm Low 12.48 am 0.4 Moonrise 3.36 pm 12.43 pm 0.4 Moonset 4.09 am Eastern Standard Time. Heights in metres.

Low

Tide times Courtesy of NSW Tide Charts, Manly Hydraulics Laboratory, NSW Dept of Commerce

MONTHLY MARKETS 1st Sat Brunswick Heads (02) 6628 4495 1st Sat 8-11am Casuarina Farmers’ Market 0414 777 432 1st Sun Banora Point Farmers’ Market 0417 759 777 1st Sun Byron Bay (02) 6680 9703 1st Sun Pottsville (02) 6676 4555 1st Sun Tweed Heads (07) 5599 1714 2nd Sat 2nd Sun 2nd Sun 2nd Sun 2nd Sun 2nd Sun

Kingscliff (02) 6674 0827 The Channon (02) 6688 6433 Chillingham (02) 6679 1284 Lennox Head (02) 6672 2874 Coolangatta (07) 5533 8202 Tweed Heads (07) 5599 1714

3rd Sat 8-11am Casuarina Farmers’ Market 0414 777 432 3rd Sat Mullumbimby (02) 6684 3370 3rd Sat Murwillumbah Cottage Markets 0417 759 777 3rd Sun Ballina 6687 4328 3rd Sun Banora Point Farmers’ Market 0417 759 777 3rd Sun Nimbin (02) 6689 0000 3rd Sun Pottsville (02) 6676 4555 3rd Sun Tweed Heads (07) 5599 1714 3rd Sun Uki (02) 6679 9026 4th Sat Kingscliff (02) 6674 0827 4th Sun Bangalow (02) 6687 1911 4th Sun (in 5 Sun month) Coolangatta (07) 5533 8202 4th Sun Murwillumbah 0422 565 168 4th Sun Tweed Heads (07) 5599 1714 5th Sun 5th Sun

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

FARMERS MARKETS Each Sat Each Thu Each Tue Each Sat

8-11am Bangalow (02) 6687 1137 8-11am Byron Bay (02) 6687 1137

New Brighton (02)6684 5390 8am-1pm Uki (02) 6679 5438

The club had an active patrol membership of 150 members rostered in 13 patrols. These members and long service members gained 67 S.L.S. awards and currently a large group is in training for the bronze medallion and will be examined in late May. The club’s proficiency patrol efficiency was enhanced by the donation of the 4 wheel drive ‘Rhino’ vehicle and club storage space increased by the building renovations costing $300,000 as a result of NSW Govt grants.

Competition results from major carnivals were excellent, particularly from our senior and 15 year members. In the FNC Championships: 18 gold, 18 silver, 16 bronze. In NSW Country: 20 gold, 11 silver, 12 bronze. For NSW: 4 gold, 3 silver, 6 bronze. In the Australian: 2 gold, 1 silver, 5 bronze, and in the World’s: 8 gold.

The 88th annual presenta-

SPORT RESULTS BOWLS Cabarita Beach Men Results. Sat social 18/4/09 Winners A Woodward, R Lee and G Bowen. Cons C Mantell, R Pennington and B Barnes.

Wed 22/4/09 Winners G Morrisey and K Stanley Runner up, J Hammersley and B Clacher, cons R Maunders and K Doolin.

More players are still required for the Round Robin starting in May. Markers are required for district singles at Cabarita Sunday afternoon 3/5/09.

Anzac Day Sat 25/04/09 Winners M Shaw, L Rice and B Cox, cons L Fisher, E Crabb, R Woodbury and R Gleeson.

Wed 27/04/09 Winners P Glancy and Midnight { B Riley} Runner up M Morgan and J Stewart cons W Chatman and K Doolin Condong Cane Toads Sunday 26th cane toads 35 bowlers welcomed 42 Cudgen players and 22 Saints and sinners to share there day playing bowls and BBQ at lunch at Condong b c . A great day was had by all. Sunday 3rd May we will be going to Brisbane playing bowls at Algester seats still available for trip $25 per head see kooka or ring 6672 7359. Can any cane toads interested in playing on Mothers day please let us know or will have to cancel the day.

Next game after that is May 17. Visit from South Tweed Bowls Condong Men Wed 22nd 42 bowlers winners J Murrell, N Smith, B Halliday, runneRunner ups I Hunt, P Houghton, T Houghton. Rafell winners C Vigilone, B Brown, B Rohweder, P Knight. Thursday nights $300–00 Major Minor 3 bowl pairs was won by S Halmiri , P Messing 2nd R Fuller S Reading 3rd A Adie, B Rohweder . Saturday 25th semi final Open pairs S Reading, P Martain def M Chillcott , J McDonald in a very tight game. Open triples win went to K Vardy, S Massey, B Wicks def R Pilon, D Lucan, B Ayres. 20 bowlers played social bowls. Saturday 2nd May Pennant sides div 1 Brunswick heads div 3 Condong , div 5 Byron Bay , div 7 Ocean Shores. Monday 4th May 30 bowlers needed for 1pm start against Logan Central. Sunday district Pairs played win to S Reading, P Martain def N Johnson, M McCleod. Reserve Pairs at Mullumby T Kennedy, K Lutherborrough, def by J Ferguson, K Kelly.

Cudgen Leagues Ladies Congratulations to Marie Comerford (Pottsville)Winner of The District Singles Final played at Cudgen Leagues last Thurs 23rd and to Runner up Liz Fleming (Cudgen) well done girls. Marie will now play in the Group A Nth Singles Playoffs at Brunswick Heads good luck from Cudgen Leagues.

Thurs 23rd Results – Round 1 Club C ‘ Ship Pairs Isabel Nipperess, Margaret Huddy def Pat Pieterse, June Tilley;

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FNC Junior Titles

tion night will be held at the club on Saturday May 16.

Tickets may be pre-purchased at the club bar.

Committee members are reminded of their meeting this Sunday morning after the ‘Coldies’ swim.

The Old Boys Association held their AGM and luncheon at the club on Sunday with a

large attendance. Guests included patrol members who were presented with patrol long service appreciation shirts.

Office bearers for 2009/10 are: President – Kim Holdom, Vice President – Stan MerrickSecretary/Treasurer – Keith Kennedy and the Committee – Max Harris, David Lofts, John McDonald and Jack Hall.

After a week of solid waves on the NSW Far North Coast, competitors were greeted with a dropping swell in the one meter range fanned by offshore winds. Offering clean contestable peaks, Lennox Head Beach provided the perfect venue for the next generation of star surfers to strut their stuff in their bid to qualify for the Arnette NSW Junior Surfing.

In the Under 18 Boys, SamCliff was impressive throughout the Final to claim victory over stylish Cabarita surfer Regan Fredericks, Lennox Head local Niki Hoskin in third and Tiaan Van Den Berg, Casuarina, in fourth.

In the Under 18 Girls division, surfing prodigy Tyler Wright, Lennox Head, was in great form winning the final from Kingscliff surfers Codie Klein and Taylor Telling.

In the Under 16 Boys, Jake

Betty Sydneham, Helen Wylie def Judy Martin, Maureen Alcorn; Vickii Needs, Margaret Trapnell def Joanne Dent, Mary Hay; Eileen Burke, Val Andrews def Ann Revie, Colleen Wein; Faye Turner, Joy Ashford def Marion Hull, Liz Fleming. Ladies Social results Winners Rnk 10 – Lorraine Sandall, June Wotherspoon (Club Prs ) Raffles – 1st, Joy Ashford, 2nd June Tilley. Congratulations Everyone. Sat 25th Round 2 Club Pairs results Lorraine Sandall, June Wotherspoon def Vickii Needs, Margaret Trapnell. Coming up – 1pm today Rnd 2 Club C’Ship Pairs Faye Turner, Joy Ashford V’s Isabel Nipperess, Margaret Huddy; Eileen Burke, Val Andrews V’s Betty Sydneham, Helen Wylie. Good luck girls. Thurs Ladies Social 12. 30 for 1pm start. Everybody welcome.

May 12th, 9. 30am – Quarterly General Meeting. Sun Social Bowls Club Day and BBQ Lunch, Sun 17th May –09, Cost $10 pp, 9. 30 start mufti dress all welcome. 8. 30am today – Bangalow 3rd and 4th Rnds District C’ Ship Triples. Fri 1st – 8. 30am Sea Horse Triples – Ocean Shores. Mon 4th 1pm Social Mixed Triples (Mufti) All welcome. Tues 5th 8. 30am Final District C’Ship Triples at Brunswick Heads. Happy Birthday to all celebrating this week. Members on the sick list, well wishes from all Members. Sheet at front desk for all events or phone 02 6674 1816 / 2734. Good Bowling Everyone.

Cudgen Leagues Men Wed. 22/4/09 Mens Mufti P. Prichard, I. Wilson, J. Frazer.

‘A’ Pairs ch’ships, P. Prichard, K. Wilson 21 def R. Matthews, R. Hutchinson 4 ‘B’ Triples ch’ships K. Hansen, G. Murphy, L. Noble 24def B. Bell, N. Hoskinson J. Holt 17 Sat. 25/4/09 Mens Whites K. Hansen, R. McIntosh, T. ClarkeAmended Saturday and Wednesday trophy allocations.

Winners $30–00. [out of the hat]. Jackpot, 3x $120–00[2 times ability,1x out of hat].

Thank you members for your attention to championship arrangements.

Kingscliff Ladies The Final of the Open Triples Club Championship was played on Wednesday 22nd April, with the Winners D. Madden / C. Smith / N. Craven def D. Jones / S. Akers / J. Scott in a very tight and exciting game 20 – 19. Congratulations to all players.

In the Social Bowls on the same day the Winners were: S. Proud / A. Carruthers / A. McNamara and Runner–up D. Anthony / J. Duffy / M. Gardner.

Raffle winners were J. Symons, F. Robinson and J. Mass.

Ladies, another reminder regarding the Hibiscus Triples – hurry, hurry and put your team down.

Also the list is up for nominations for Pennant Play.

Kingscliff Men The Final of the Open Pairs was held last Sunday with B Mullins and M Turner defeating D Whittington and P Murphy.

Congratulations to both teams. Thursday 23rd Winners: D Clarke, R Norris, A Clarke; A Simpson, T Dimmock, D Gleave; L Rootsey, R Wilkinson; Plate Winners: G davis, M Rice, B Raeburn: Saturday 25th Winners: R makin, R Dark, D Gleave; N Orme, D Langtry, G Pickett: Plate Winners A Clarke, R Norris, D Clarke: Tuesday 28th Winners: A Fawcett, M Matteuci Runner Up: K Stanley, L Arthur Plate Winner: L Morresey, D Bennett: Results of the Four Bowl Pairs held on Monday 27th April: Winners: P Staggard, D Murphy; 2nd M Turner, C Nieve; 3rd N Separovich, H Beswick; 4th P Crompton, T Abraham; 5th J Bosisto, A Kalnins; 6th A Latif and partner; 7th W Chambers, D Mahoney; Best All Kingscliff Team L Murphy, V Lewis; 2nd Best All Kingscliff Team I Taylor, B Turner; Last Game Best Score L Pointing, T Miller: The first round of the Club Two Bowls Triples will be held on 2nd May. Roll Up at 8:45am.

Check the board for the draw. Nominations for the B Grade Singles are now open. The list is on the board.

Tweed Heads Men Championships: The final of the Open Singles for 2009 was conducted on Sunday 26 April between Greg Hardman and Graham Richards. This game was won by Graham who outplayed Greg to the tune of 25/15. Congratulations to both players on reaching the final of this prestigious club event. Graham has won several other championship events both at Tweed Heads and other clubs but this is the first Open Singles Championship won by him at this club.

Open Fours championship for 2009 is due to commence on Sunday 3 May at 1. 00pm.

Carnival: There is still vacancies for the Tweed Heads Classic Pairs to be held next Monday 4 May with entries due to close today Thursday 30 April. Late entries may be accepted by the Games Director.

Social Results: Sunday April 19: Winners: Harold and Barbara Fox, Joan and Harry Lyon; Ngaire Gibson, Brian Bevan; Runner up: Ray and Esme Carter; Renee and Tony Laycock.

Tuesday April 21: Men: John Sieben, John MacMahon, Bill McRae, Chas Turner; Runner up: Col Elsey, Lol Sables, Jack Blagbrough on c/b.

Ladies: Audrey Houghton, Debbie Allen, Joan Wike; Runner up: Nanette Wise, Elma Elford, Bonnie Orchid, Anna monk.

Wednesday April 22: Highest Winning Score.

Green 1: Clem Jones, Brian Scrase [28]; Runner up: Ray Carter, Al Blake [24].

Green 2: Bill Hagen, Peter Young, Adrian

Herron, Col Moses [25]; Runner up: Brian Neill, Graham Eastes [24].

Green 3: John Moon, Jim Quin [32]; John Griffiths, Jack Blagbrough [26].

Green 4: Brian Bevan, Fred Peel on c/b [29]; Runner up: Jim Croghan, George Kendall [29].

Friday April 24: Green 1: John Moon, Norm Picking, John Parker–Smith; Runner up: Frank Dawson, Alan Stephen, Ian Wildman.

Green 2: Ray Connell, Brian Scrase, Bill Finney; Runner up: Jim Judge, Col Fishlock, Mario Liberatore.

Green 3: Howard Waye, Fred Peel, Mike Nedjati; Runner up: Geoff Green, Graham Jones, Ron Taylor.

Saturday April 25: Winners: Keith Downey, Bill Boyle, Robert Carnes, Ron Parker; Runner up: Jack Blagbrough, Bernie fletcher, Con Impellizzeri, Brian Bitmead, John Craig.

Tweed Heads Tourers Last Sunday April 26, the lads accompanied South Tweed, Robina and several other clubs for bowls at Musgrave Hill with the winners for the Tourers being Clive Weston, Ian Wildman and Alan Stephen. Next Sunday the lads will travel to Musgrave Hill for there Cancer Day and the bus will leave the club at 8am.

DARTS Tweed Valley Darts Association Results of games played on Monday 27th April. A grade Jokers 11 def Clockwork Orange 4 and Gulls 9 def Hogan’s Heroes 6. B grade Cgulls 9 def Devils 2 and Leftovers won by forfeit from Sharks.

Point score A grade Jokers 95, Gulls 82, Hogan’s Heroes 70 and Clockwork Orange 49.

B grade Leftovers 64, Devils 61, Cgulls 54 and Sharks 38.

Next meeting will be held at Seagulls Club on May 5th at 7. 30pm. All members are entitled to come and put their opinion forward.

Don’t forget Memorial Day will be held at Condong Bowling Club on June 14 with partners drawn out of the hat.

GOLF Chinderah Veterans Social Golf Results for Thursday April 23 Stableford Winner: ‘A’ grade, Geoff Howell – 39 points, new handicap 12, Runner up – Kevin Martin – 38 points, new handicap 6.

Winner ‘B’ grade, Coral Rasmussen – 42 points, new handicap 16, Runner up – Brian Hunt – 39 points, new handicap 14.

Winner: ‘C’ grade, Arthur Wise – 40 poionts, handicap 20, Runner up – Cheryl Kuhne – 38 points, new handicap 33.

Ball rundown to 36 points.

Next event – 30/4/09 – Stroke Results for Monday 27/4/09 – Stroke and Monthly Medal (April) Winner Monthly Medal – Alan Williams Winner ‘A’ grade, Ron Gibson, 55, handicap 6, Runner up – Rus Pitchers, 57,

The Fantastic Noodles Far North Coast Regional Junior Surfing Titles Under 18 Girls, Tyler Wright Lennox Head and Codie Klein and Taylor Telling from Kingscliff. Photo Surfing Far North Coast.

Cumberland, Tweed Heads, displayed impeccable wave selection to overcome eventual runner-up Soli Bailey fromSuffolk Park.

The Under 16 Girls saw Byron Bay’s Kirstin Ogden take out the final, with Byron’s Lana Parkes in second and Leticia Hurt from Kingsclif in third.

The Under 14 Boys division was remarkably competitive but it was Michael Wright from Lennox who was too strong, posting an impressive combined two-wave total of 16.84 in the final to easily beat Yamba pair James Young and Chris Zaffis.

The Under 14 Girls division was won by Alyssa Lock from Tweed Heads.

Competition will continue amongst the Far North Coast Region’s best junior surfers on May 16 when Event #2 of the Fantastic Noodles Far North Coast Regional Titles goes down at Byron Bay. handicap 7.

Winner: ‘B’ grade, Ron Parker, 55, handicap 15, Runner up – Dianna Black, 56, handicap 15.

Winner: ‘C’ grade, Alan Williams, 51, handicap 19, Runner up – Marcia Edmunds, 53, handicap 43.

Winner Putting contest – Ron Gibson – 24 putts Ball rundown to net 60 (c/back) Next event 4/5/09 – 4BBB Stableford Murwillumbah Golf Club Monday 20th April Winners Mixed L. Anderson and K. Honeywell 41 pts c,b Runner up J. Baker and G. Hughes 41 pts Mmebers Winners T. Soan and H. Krenkel 46 pts Runner up N. Shepherd and H. Axford 44 pts R/Down to 42 pts c. b N/Pin 2nd C. Fogo and G. Thorburn 8th. C. Fogo and H. Axford 10th. J. Williams and G. Connolly 14th. C. Fogo and R. Kulmer Tuesday 21st Winne Ra. Grade B. Blunden 68 nett Runner up D. Rabe 74 nett c. b B. Grade B. Thompson 74 nett Runner up S. Proud 75 nett Winner C. Grade D. Colter 78 nett Runner up J. Bradford 80 nett Wednesday 22nd Winners P. Brown and H. Eustace 47 pts c. b Runner up C. Evesson and R. Piper 47 pts N/Pin 2nd G. Clarke 8th A. Causley B. R. D. to 42 pts Thursday 23rd Winner C. Miller –1 Runner up S. Pursey –2 c. b Winner B. Grade M. Hanger +1 Runner up I. McCormack Square Winne Rc. Grade J. Dobinson +5 Runner up M. Shanley –2 c,b N/Pin 2nd K. Quantrill 8th D. Rabe and M. Hanger 10th C. Quantrill 14th J. McDowell B/R/Down to –4 Fri 24th April Women S. Mackey 27 pts Member R. Preddey 38 pts B/R/D/own to 35 pts Sat 25th Individual Stableford Winner A. Grade D. Hobday 40 pts Runner up N. Groenewege 39 pts B. Grade G. Carroll 41 pts Runner up D. Parrish 39 pts C. Grade P. Taylor 42 pts Runner up V. Formica 41 pts D. Grade G. Davis 39 pts Runner up G. Hughes 38 pts Hole in One B. Sterling on 2nd Eagle on 15th D. Hobday N/Pin 2nd C. Hefford 8th T. Boorman 10th K. Carter 14th C. Reid B/R/D/ to 34 pts c. b NETBALL Round 4 – May 2 Netter 11:00am Super Fabs v Crickets Court 5 Bogangar Blue Wren v Red Backs, Crt 6 Bogangar v Super Stars, Court 7 Hot Shots v Girl Zone, Court 8 Spice Girls v Bye Intermediate 2nd May 2009 1:00pm The Storm v Get Smart Goal Getters, Court 7 Southern Cross Stars v Bogangar Opens 2:30pm. Flamin Devils v Waratahs Cougars v The Ladybeetles Tiger v New Team Round 5 – May 9 Opens 2:30pm The Ladybeetles v Tigers New Team v Flamin Devils Cougars v Waratahs.

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Twin Towns and Tweed Coast, next meeting tomorrow, Friday, May 1, U3A Tweed Coast 2nd term has started guest speaker Anne Baster on â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Better with three new courses this term: Food, Healthier Bodiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, Tweed City Laughter Club, Wed 4pm, call 0412 030 shopping centre in the community 412; Knit and Chat, Tues 1pm, call 6674 hall just down the walkway from Woolworths. Doors open at 9am, 2968; Qigong (gentle exercise), Wed meeting starts10am. Phone Ross on 1pm, call 0434 331 351. A reminder that Walk, Talk and Gawk has resumed 07 5599 7576 for info. on alternate Sats and Sun, call 0428 Technology centre 740 905 and Professor Colleen Cartwright is our guest speaker at Pottsville Beach Technology Friday Forum at Uniting Church Hall, Centre is now open Monday and Kingscliff at 2pm. All welcome.

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Cabarita Community Hall at 1.30pm on Tuesday, May 12. Flower of the Computer classes month is Chrysanthenum. Floral art theme â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;A Mothers day arrangementâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Free computer classes commence Also Tips and Problems, Show and Tuesday, May 4, for beginners at the Tell and Trivia quiz. New members Bray Park Adventist Church hall in and visitors most welcome. Phone Elouera St. Classes are from 7pm till Dennis or Kathy on 02 6676 4402.

9pm. All welcome. For details ring Lindsay 02 6672 6032.

U3A

Music concert

Tweed Links Music Club concert, Sunday, May 3, at Coolangatta Tweed Heads Golf Club, Soorley Street, Tweed Heads South. Enjoy an afternoon of entertainment with the Tweed Links Quartet and Allan Grant Dancers. Special guest artist, trombonist Llew Hird supported by soprano Debbie Tanna, jazz/blues

Garden club Twin Towns and District Garden Club May meeting is on Monday, May 11, at 9.30am at the Tweed Heads Civic Centre auditorium. Guest speaker will be Clarrie Wilkins from â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Living Trapsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; at Mudgeeraba. Entry $3 which includes morning tea from 8.30am.

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Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss Friends of the Poundâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual PET ADOPTATHON DAY on May 2 & 3, 10am-3pm at the Petcare Superstore, Harvey Norman Centre, South Tweed.

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BUSINESS OPP. WARNING The Department of Fair Trading has warned people to be very careful about responding to advertisements offering work at home. Readers should be wary if asked to pay money upfront for employment opportunities and never send money to a post ofďŹ ce box.

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SIMONE: 7 - 10 year old Caucasian girl TIM: 16 -19 year old Caucasian boy LOU: 12 - 14 year old Caucasian boy CHARLIE: 3 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 4 year old Caucasian boy MEGAN: 7 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 10 year old Asian girl Casting in Brisbane, Byron and Lismore W/C 11th May Please email a photo ASAP to general@barrettcasting.com.au Or call Danielle: 02 9699 1377

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Former Tweed Shire president and champion of the Jack Evans Boat Harbour development, Charles Jarvis, MBE, died in Coolangatta this week aged 94.

The one-time banana grower and grazier, who was elected shire president in 1972, risked the ire of residents when he supported controversial plans to create Greenbank Island and the boat harbour by changing the course of one of the riverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s back channels. Although heavy machinery used in the development was often sabotaged, the council ultimately made a motza from the sale of affordable home blocks on Greenbank. His funeral was held on This authentic-looking sign, which turned up this week in the Wednesday. dunes near the viewing platform in front of the Cabarita rurf â&#x2013; â&#x2013; â&#x2013; â&#x2013;

A meeting will be held on May 9 to consider the communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s views on the future direction that development should take in the hinterland village. The Uki Residentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Association will launch the Caldera Economic Transition project at the Uki Hall, with the focus on moving the village towards an economic, social and environmental sustainable future. â&#x2013; â&#x2013; â&#x2013; â&#x2013;

Even die-hard Labor Party supporters in the Tweed concede that those ruling the roost in Sydney are on the nose after axing our rail service and moving to flog off Crown land for development, but are they the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;biggest bunch of thugs to occupy Macquarie Streetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; since the Rum Rebellion? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the view of Burringbar National Party stalwart Stuart Cahill, who believes the government has too much of a say about the future of land releases in the shire. â&#x2013; â&#x2013; â&#x2013; â&#x2013;

Talk about horses for courses!

Tarcutta, the winner of the last race at Murwillumbah on Anzac Day, had failed dismally at his last couple of runs at Ballina and the Gold Coast, the operative word being â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;lastâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.

But the eigh-year-old chestnut gelding by Perugino likes it at Murwillumbah. He likes it very

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club, has attracted a lot of interest from locals and tourists alike. The sign has already been photographed by many people and got tongues wagging away at the local watering hole.

Comments such as, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;this could be a great tourist attractionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; were overheard. One person, convinced it was an official sign, was heard to grumble, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;to think our rates pay for this shitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, but Backburner has been told that overwhelmingly the response has been extremely favourable.

much, Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s win notching up his second on track in six attempts. His last win at Murwillumbah? Two years ago, Anzac Day 2007. Again, in the last of the day. Same jockey, same trainer, same distance (900 metres). Now thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s thriving on a routine.

It appears thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more bad news for the entrepreneur now with Starport, the US investment company linked to him, also moved into liquidation. A Queensland newspaper reported this week that investigators were hoping they would have more luck with Starport after â&#x2013; â&#x2013; â&#x2013; â&#x2013; the collapse of R G Munro FuCommunity Printmakers of tures, but alas it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t to be.

Murwillumbah, featured on our â&#x2013; â&#x2013; â&#x2013; â&#x2013; front page two editions ago, are An Echo friend who recently staging an exhibition of mem- ate in a cafe in downtown Canbersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; art which runs until May berra questioned the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;surchargeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 17 at the Workshop Gallery, applying for Sunday trade. Our Kyogle Road, Bray Park. It will friend asked the waitress if she be open from Friday to Sunday was paid more for working on between 11 am and 3 pm.

Sundays â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;otherwise the surâ&#x2013; â&#x2013; â&#x2013; â&#x2013; charge is just a blatant rip offâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.

One-time Tweed and Byron She said no, so he asked, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;What Bay identity Roger Munro re- the hell is the surcharge for cently underwent an intense then?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Good question. He reckgrilling in Queensland courts ons diners should refuse to pay over the failure of his interna- a surcharge belonging to a time tional investment scheme R G long ago when double time apMunro Futures in which in- plied for working weekends. vestors, including some from â&#x2013; â&#x2013; â&#x2013; â&#x2013; the North Coast, face losing up Backburner thought about to $100 million, as reported in this and other similar anachBackburner earlier this month. ronisms, like the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;corkageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; fee

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levied on bottles of wine taken into a BYO restaurant, even though most such bottles these days are screw-top. A waitress at a local restaurant charging a $5 â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;corkageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; fee for one bottle of wine (two people) was asked a similar question about the appropriateness of a such a fee. Perhaps they should scrap the fancy language and call it a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;wine glassâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; fee, but then no such charge applies to glasses for soft drink. Maybe it should be a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;breakageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; fee to reflect the fragility of wine glasses during the washing up, or maybe they should just scrap it altogether. â&#x2013; â&#x2013; â&#x2013; â&#x2013;

Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s news about a practice that many people believe should be scrapped (is that a desperate segue or what?): some beaches between Pottsville and Byron Bay will be closed for short times between May 18 and June 26 to allow the National Parks and Wildlife Service to conduct aerial spraying operations in a bid to eliminate the imported bitou bush weed which has been deemed a major threat to the coastâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s flora and fauna. Can we expect some locals to wear face masks? â&#x2013; â&#x2013; â&#x2013; â&#x2013;

And while weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in whinge mode, that sacred cow, the Australian Tax Office, has done the corporate thing and outsourced debt collection, even for minor outstanding claims under 12 months old. Trouble is, the new â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;credit managementâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; firm canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get its act together and wastes time and money (taxpayersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;) chasing up people at work unnecessarily (in the case of an Echo reader, a week after the debt was paid online immediately after receiving the first ATO letter of claim). There appears to be no prompt checking of online payments and in this hi-tech age that surely shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be a problem. The debt collector also did not check his answering machine after the first call to the workplace and rang back next day to ask if debt had been paid! Irritating and needless.

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