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proval for the redevelopment under a policy introduced two years ago by the An onsite court hearing over the con- former Labor government to boost aftroversial proposed redevelopment of fordable rental housing. the Brunswick Heads squash-centre complex into a boarding house of 34 Council supports units will take place late next month. residents concerns Byron Shire Council is defending Mayor Jan Barham said the policy, its refusal last year of the development in Teven Street in the Land and which gives developers concessions such as fewer parking spaces and Environment Court (LEC). The owners of the property, Mur- smaller room sizes to encourage afray and Julia Stebbing, later lodged fordable rental housing, was designed an appeal against the councillors’ 8–1 more for high-density metropolitan decision last June. The plan involves areas rather than regional centres. Cr alterations to the existing gymnasium, Barham said approval would have set squash courts and indoor swimming a precedent for an unacceptable level pool and change of use into a board- of density which could destroy the village’s character. ing house. The court hearing starts on April 19 The appeal, to be heard on April 19–20, is regarded as a test-case for a at 9.30am on site at 14–16 Teven Street contentious state policy on affordable with an inspection by the LEC commissioner and continues afterwards rental housing. The refusal by council supported a at the Ballina Court House in River campaign by residents who saw it as Street, Ballina. Residents who made All women from all stages and ages of life will be given a chance to tell their story at this year’s Red Tent Festival. Ready to share theirs are Pollyanna Darling, Winifred Weir and Suzanne Weir. A non-profit event under the auspices a major overdevelopment of the site submissions against the proposal wishwhich would have ruined the character ing to give evidence are being asked by of the Northern Rivers Maternity Coalition, this year’s festival promises workshops, talks, activities, birth films, info council lawyers to attend at 9am on and market stalls and an intimate evening of birth stories. The festival will be held at the Mullumbimby Civic Hall on of the village and amenity. But staff had recommended ap- the first day. Saturday March 31. Visit www.redtentfestival.com for details. Photo Eve Jeffery. Luis Feliu

Byron Shire Council’s internal squabbles go public The staff notes also say that the initial complaint ‘is one of three comIt has emerged that mayor Jan Bar- plaints made by female staff memham has been accused of code of con- bers… with two of those complaints having been subsequently withdrawn.’ duct breaches by Council staff. In response, Cr Barham has slapped general manager Graeme Faulkner GM and mayor embroiled The complaint against the general with a complaint to the local governmanager was lodged with the department authority. And the cost of legal fees to rate- ment of Local Government by solicitors acting on behalf of Cr Barham. payers? $18,279.10 to date. Additionally, Cr Barham has reA report on the matter has been prepared by Sydney lawyer Kath Roach af- quested reimbursement of $4,471 ter another Sydney lawyer stood aside. spent on solicitors to defend code of The report’s conclusion is described conduct complaints made against her. Fellow Greens councillor Tom Tabart by two sentences, saying the allegations are ‘not sustained’ and it has ‘no has weighed in to the fray, telling The recommendations’ in regards to fur- Echo that a complaint was originally ther action. No mention of the report’s ‘made by a senior manager on behalf outcome is included within Council of an administrative officer upset by staff notes in the upcoming agenda, the mayor’s reaction to the selection of Ed Ahern as Citizen of the Year in 2011.’ and it was not marked confidential. Hans Lovejoy

Additionally he claims Council’s agenda notes on the current code of conduct review read more like comment than background notes. ‘It includes largely irrelevant material and editorial comment generally pejorative to the councillor complained against,’ Cr Tabart says.

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budsman by the mayor. Cr Tabart says evidence before the reviewer was withheld from Cr Barham and that ‘correspondence on this was not included in the staff report. ‘The GM continues to get away with this behaviour – some councillors are cheering him on and others are too ill-informed or gutless to stand up.’ However, Mr Faulkner told The Echo however, ‘Council has no knowledge of any claim about how evidence that was before the reviewer was handled, nor of the substance of any complaint to the ombudsman.’

What is irrelevant, however is the general manager’s concern – tabled within the agenda – that he ‘has not been advised as to the detail of the complaint or the outcome of the investigation and is concerned that such action could be perceived as intimida- Code under review tion relating to his decision to refer this Byron Shire Council is not alone matter for independent investigation.’ with claims that the code of conduct But perhaps the most damning is being misused. claim is that the lawyer’s report was It is currently being reviewed by the delayed by a complaint to the om- state government for the second time

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in six years. Minister for Local Government, Don Page, said the review of the code was due to several incidents of ‘inappropriate’ use recently. The government is expected to draft legislation changing the code soon. Last year, Liberals MLC Marie Ficarra in parliament accused Tweed Shire Council general manager Mike Rayner and Tweed Cr Dot Holdom of using the code in a campaign of vilification and politically motivated complaints against former mayor Joan van Lieshout. Tweed Greens Cr Katie Milne also was subject to what she said was politically motivated code of conduct complaints against her which were not sustained. Council will meet on Thursday March 22. It could well be an entertaining public meeeting with lots of complaining.

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Local inventor Ric Richardson settles legal case with Microsoft

An eight-year legal battle between Byron Bay inventor Ric Richardson and software giant Microsoft has been settled out of court. The dispute arose over a patented anti-piracy technology invented by Richardson and his company Uniloc. Microsoft spokesman David Cuddy told Bloomberg News last week that the two parties had reached a ‘final and mutually agreeable resolution.’ The Echo understands the

deal is a licensing agreement. Richardson’s technology was designed to deter software piracy and was developed in the early 90s. In April 2009, a US court found Microsoft had used Richardson’s technology without his knowledge or permission, and ordered Microsoft to pay compensation of $US388 million (then worth more than $530 million). The award was one of the highest in US patent history.

Remembering Margaret Whitlam

Men threaten bus passengers with ‘gun’ Police on Wednesday escorted passengers from a Premier Motor Services bus at the Ballina bus interchange after they were threatened by two men on the bus, with one of them allegedly holding a gun. It is believed one of the passengers alerted police to the incident via a mobile phone.

Police arrived at about 6.15pm after reports that two men had been acting in a threatening manner towards the 20 to 30 passengers on the bus. Police boarded the bus, handcuffing the two men and taking them into custody. Police also removed what they believe to be a replica pistol from the bus.

Cotton research boosted by $35m, but where’s the hemp subsidies?

It has been revealed that the CSIRO does not fund hemp research or production, despite a report by the Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries (Qld) indicating its high yield potential. It comes in light of CSIRO and Cotton Seed Distributors announcing a five-year,

$35 million extension to their existing agreement, running since 2007. Byron Bay hemp farmer Paul Benhaim says he is ‘required to fund his own research’ for breeding hemp. ‘I guess they need the money to fund subsidies for cotton growing that uses 30 per cent of the world’s pesticides on three per cent of the world’s crop.’ The Echo has contacted the federal minister Kim Carr, who is responsible for funding CSIRO’s $700 million a year budget. His office says it will reply to The Echo next week.

Rusty Miller has dug up his photo of Margaret Whitlam in the wake of her passing last week. ‘I took it just weeks after Gough was elected in 1972,’ he told The Echo. ‘They came to an ALP thank you dinner at Murwillumbah – a busload of us from Byron attended, and Byron Bay Labor stalwart Tony Kibblewhite was the master of ceremonies. ‘I was publishing the first alternative paper then, The Byron Express, with David Guthrie. ‘When Margaret chose to walk from the court house to the town hall instead of taking the limo, I ended up walk-

ing alongside them and at one point it was just Gough and me chatting. I was so stoked he pulled out of Vietnam and freed detained conscript opposers. ‘After just coming from the USA where they had just shot Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, I though this place was politically the “second coming” and I decided I wanted to be part of this great nation state of Australia. ‘I still do believe we can be the greatest democratic nation. ‘I think Margaret’s spirit was all about egalitarianism and social justice. Hail to her good example and way.’

Mental health centre future still uncertain Luis Feliu

ally funded rehabilitation program at the cottage, told The Echo it is currently in talks with the Northern NSW Local Health District (NNSWLHD) in a bid to continue running the program at the cottage.

The organisation running a day-to-day living program at Mullumbimby’s Tincogan Cottage for up to 45 people with mental illnesses from around Byron Shire says it will meet with carers and clients soon to Currently in talks On Track’s chairperson Ken address fears the cottage could Lee said that until those talks soon close its doors. On Track Community Pro- had concluded, the services at grams, which runs the feder- the cottage would ‘continue to

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remain fully operational’. The health district, which owns the building, recently tried to hose down rumours that it would close the cottage, telling The Echo that ‘no decision’ had been made to sell it. But clients and their families are concerned moves are afoot to close down the cottage as they said other similar centres, including one at Coffs Harbour, had recently been closed down.

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CSG Moratorium Bill fails State resources minister Chris Hartcher has called on Greens’ Jeremy Buckingham to apologise ‘for failing to respect the processes of the House.’ The minister became upset at the Coal-Seam Gas Moratorium Bill 2011, put forward by Mr Buckingham. It failed to pass the Legislative Council last week. Mr Hartcher said, ‘It

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seeks to pre-empt the findings of an Upper House inquiry. ‘The coal-seam gas industry in NSW is now subject to the toughest controls in Australia. ‘Although a new member of parliament, Mr Buckingham should know better than to second guess the findings of a committee of which he is deputy chair.’

In return, Mr Buckingham condemned the NSW Liberal and National government for ‘ignoring the pleas of the Northern Rivers community to protect their environment and economy from the impact of coal-seam gas exploration and production.’ Byron Shire’s state electorate is held by Nationals’ member Don Page.

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A yacht ran aground at Brunswick Heads on Wednesday evening with no-one aboard, after it had floated empty halfway across the Tasman. At about 6.15pm the New Zealand vessel Scotch Bonnet was found stranded in the surf zone a kilometre south of the Brunswick bar on main beach. It turns out the vessel was abandoned on the Tasman Sea, mid-way between Australia and New Zealand, in November last year. The vessel was de-masted and had other hull damage when local police found it, ac-

cording to Tweed-Byron LAC spokesperson Sgt Alan McKittrick. ‘Surf rescue did a search around the area but didn’t find anyone,’ he told The Echo. Westpac Rescue Helicopter spokesperson Therese Shier said the chopper was tasked with assisting in the search on Wednesday night but failed to find anything. The yacht had been sailing from the Bay of Islands in New Zealand’s North Island to Sydney in November last year when the occupants got into trouble and were rescued in the Tasman Sea. But the vessel was considered not recoverable and abandoned.

It was sighted again on December 11 by cruise ship Sun Princess, which stopped and searched it but found no-one aboard. The ship requested permission to abandon the boat and continue on its cruise to Brisbane, which was approved by the Rescue Co-Ordination Centre. ‘Water police will try to float the vessel and tow it to safety,’ Sgt McKittrick said. ‘It will then be a matter for International Marine Courts, because the vessel was abandoned on the high seas, unless the owner or insurance company takes responsibility for it. Photo Jeff Dawson

National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) says it has stopped laying poison baits to control foxes in the Brunswick Heads Nature Reserve south of New Brighton. An NPWS spokesman said the service did not lay any 1080 bait outside the boundaries of the nature reserve nor had it done so in the reserve since December last year. The NPWS statement was in response to fears the use of 1080 poison baits along the beach Bay Fm volunteer Teaghan Hughes was part of the Byron Shire near New Brighton beach had volunteer expo, held at the Community Centre on March 15. killed wildlife recently. Photo Nicky Fisher A reader told The Echo they saw a dead possum in the area NEW recently and suspected it may have taken one of the baits. The COCKTAIL reader said warning signs along LIST the beach south of New Brighton indicated the use of baits.

Council bullying investigations ‘ongoing’ while WorkCover apologises over Echo story Hans Lovejoy

NSW Work Health has revealed its ‘ongoing investigation’ into a workplace bullying incident in Byron Shire Council. Additionally the department has sought to clarify an ‘internal action’, not an ‘investigation’, initially took place. It relates to the story, Bullying in Council: former manager loses job after speaking up, which ran on August 9, 2011. In a letter obtained by The Echo, NSW Work Health and Safety general manager John Watson apologised to Byron Council’s general manager Greame Faulkner over incorrect information provided to this publication. Mr Watson says in his letter, dated December 22, 2011:

‘Please accept my apologies that WorkCover staff provided incorrect information to The Echo concerning action taken by Council in response to Ms [Jocelyn] Mitchell’s claim. ‘Workcover mistakenly advised The Echo that BSC (Council) had investigated the claim. ‘Work Cover’s investigation in response to Ms Mitchell’s complaint had actually found it was the insurance company, StateCover Mutual Limited, that had investigated the allegations of bullying and harassment as part of Ms Mitchell’s claim.’ WorkCover’s media spokesperson this week echoed Mr Watson’s statement: ‘WorkCover was advised by Council that action was taken internally to address the issues substantiated by StateCover Mu-

tual Limited in relation to the ing’ after a ‘second complaint workers compensation matter.’ about bullying’ was received in October 2011. Former manager Former Council manager Ms Mitchell told The Echo last unable to return August she was looking for But the media spokesperson other employment or study opalso added that another inves- tions, and says she was unable tigation into the case is ‘ongo- to return to work at Council.

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Sailing the Pacific garbage patch Central coast environmentalist Tim Silverwood is visiting Mullumbimby and Lismore as part of a nationwide tour after sailing his boat through the North Pacific Gyre, aka Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Tim will be giving presentations next week in Lismore and Mullumbimby about what he saw. He’ll also be showing the award-winning documentary Bag It to raise awareness about the consequences of plastic pollution and encourage people to make their lives ‘a little less plastic’. Tim is a co-founder of ‘Take 3 – A Clean Beach Initiative’, an organisation that asks each visitor to our beaches and waterways to simply take three pieces of rubbish with them when they leave. Take 3 was awarded the Inaugural Taronga Zoo Green Grant in April 2011. In July 2011, Tim spent three weeks sailing over 5000km from Honolulu to Vancouver with scientists, environmentalists, artists and filmmakers as part of the expedition co-

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ordinated by Algalita Marine Research Foundation. What he discovered horrified him. ‘If it were a floating island of trash it might be feasible for us to go and clean it up but unfortunately it is more like a plastic soup.

Plastic soup ‘Larger plastic items like bottles, bags, buckets and crates don’t retain their structure for long as the sun’s rays beat down and the waves toss them around; they break apart into millions and billions of plastic fragments

that then remain in the ocean. They don’t biodegrade though, that’s the scary part. ‘There is this notion that when we throw “away” the growing amount of silly singleuse plastic items we use in our lives that they just go “away”. ‘Unfortunately, “away” isn’t always landfill or a recycling centre; a huge amount of our waste ends up in the environment and a growing amount ends up in the ocean.’ Tim says the Bag It film explains this major environmental issue in a light-hearted way.

‘The main character first examines his own “dependence” on plastic bags but also uncovers the frightening world of plastics, the impact plastic is having on the environment, our oceans and even our own bodies,’ Tim said. ‘Take 3 are developing educational resources and ongoing initiatives to raise awareness of plastic pollution in our oceans but we need lots of help. ‘We need funding, volunteers and pro-bono help to develop our organisation. We want to make sure that every Australian knows what is happening out there and what they can do to help,’ Tim said. The event in Mullumbimby is being supported by the Say No To Plastic Bags group and Transition Byron Shire and will be held today Tuesday March 20 at Byron Region Community College from 6.30pm. The event in Lismore is being supported by Lismore City Council and Lismore Community Sustainability Forum and will be held at Lismore Workers Club Thursday March 22 from 7.30pm.

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Robertson said Thursday that ‘according to his own electoral return, Geoff Provest broke the law by pocketing $2,500 from The Power Property Trust in March last year’. ‘In addition, Mr Provest also breached the cap on donations from companies, which at the time he received his donation was $2,000.’

The NSW opposition has called for the National Party’s Tweed MP and parliamentary secretary for police Geoff Provest to be sacked after it was revealed that he had breached the law on political donations by accepting a $2,500 donation from a property developer. Political candidates in NSW elections are banned from ac- Irregularities Mr Robertson further accepting donations from propcused Mr Provest of attempterty developers. ing to cover up the donation Cap on donations by lodging three different disMr Provest was promoted closure documents, each listto the parliamentary secretary ing the property developer as position when his predeces- donating different amounts. ‘Unfortunately for Mr sor, then Clarence MP Steve Cansdell, resigned after ad- Provest, the donor clearly stated mitting to having filled in a on their electoral donation disclosure form that the donation false affidavit. Opposition Leader John was $2,500,’ Mr Robertson said.

Council sets trap for feral animals

Byron Shire Council has recommenced feral animal trapping, a program which is likely to run until spring. The program coincides with the breeding season for wild dogs and baiting programs being undertaken in a number of National Parks. Council trapping will take place on private properties with the consent of landholders at Main Arm, The Pocket, Upper Coopers Creek, Goonengerry, Federal and Tyagarah. Council’s natural environment team leader, Angus Underwood, said the trapping program was an important part of Council’s attempts to protect native flora and fauna. ‘Favourable conditions over the last couple of years have seen wild dog numbers increase, most likely as a result of increases in the wildlife which wild dogs prey on.’

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But Mr Provest said he did not know the donor was a developer. ‘I did not realise that Power Industries and/or (managing director) James Power may have been prohibited donors,’ he told parliament. Mr Power, a Brisbane-based businessman and longtime friend of Mr Provest, is a for-

‘Having now investigated the issue it appears that there are some irregularities in the returns submitted on my behalf. I am disappointed that this has happened and have today revoked the appointment of my agent,’ he said. Mr Robertson said it was the second time a parliamentary secretary for police had broken the law under the O’Farrell government.

Much loved pianist David Helfgott took a shine to Tom Sercom when they first met during the release of rehabilitated turtles at Byron last December. Tom has since begun learning piano and was over the moon after seeing Helfgott’s performance with Yantra de Vilder at the Byron Community Theatre last Saturday. Photo Jeff ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’ Dawson

and at the same time ‘seek to have Mullumbimby Cemetery vested in Council as is the case with each of the other cemeteries within the Shire.’ Mr Richardson says ‘financially, it is cost neutral to Council and financially risk free to the Byron Community Centre and Natural Death Centre (NDC).’ He added ‘It will be the only Aquamation service in Australia, and leads the way in green technology.’ For more visit www. aquamationindustries.com.

Councillor-MPs to choose between their state parliament and council roles Local government minister Don Page has announced the NSW government will seek to remove the potential for conflict of interests between state and council matters. He plans to introduce legislation to ensure that a person can only serve in one elected position in either state parlia-

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Aquamation proposed for cemetery A water-based alternative to cremation is being tabled at the upcoming Byron Shire Council meeting on March 22. Cr Simon Richardson’s motion asks Council to ‘agree in principle to the establishment of the proposed Aquamation facility within Mullumbimby Cemetery and provide the land required at a peppercorn rent to the Byron Community Centre.’ Approval for the lease with the department of lands would need to be sought, he says,

mer general manager of the now-defunct daily newspaper, the Tweed Daily News. Late Friday, Mr Provest issued a statement denying the company was a property developer in NSW, but admitted the amount breached the cap and that as a result he had sacked his volunteer ‘agent’ handling the campaign returns.

ment or on a council. Mr Page said the proposed legislation would bring NSW into line with other states including Queensland, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia, where it is already prohibited to serve concurrently as a state MP and a councillor.

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Seniors Week 2012 Byron Shire Council is encouraging senior community members to ‘Live Life’ as part of NSW Seniors Week 2012. The official opening to Seniors Week was held in collaboration with Brunswick Heads

Public School last Monday; however, there is still plenty of Seniors Week activities, which can be found on Council’s website – www.byron.nsw.gov.au – and from Council’s community access points.

Byron tops state hotel prices Chris Dobney

Byron Bay accommodation is the most expensive in the state, according to a Hotels Price Index (HPI) developed by accommodation aggregator website Hotels.com. The Hotels.com HPI is based on bookings made on the Hotels.com site and tracks the real prices paid per hotel room, rather than advertised rates. Despite outstripping even Sydney hotel prices, Byron rates did not record any increase in 2011, while the national average

increase was nine per cent. While it is not a scientific survey, as it doesn’t include all properties in any destination, a spokesperson said Hotels.com had a wide range of inventory both in Byron Bay and across the board, ranging from twostar to five-star. The news comes hot on the heels of figures released by Destination NSW last week, showing Byron visitor nights increased 40 per cent in the year to September 2011, with a remarkable 2,021,000 visitor nights recorded. www.echo.net.au

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Move to overturn Lennox land sale Luis Feliu

Ballina shire councillors will decide this week whether to go ahead with its controversial plan to sell prime beachfront blocks of community land at Lennox Head to an adjoining caravan park. A rescission motion to try to overturn the move to sell the blocks opposite the Lennox Surf Club carpark to the adjoining Lake Ainsworth Holiday Park has been lodged and will be debated on Thursday, March 22. Council resolved at last month’s meeting to sell the blocks of vacant land at 2–4 Ross Street, with Crs Jeff Johnson and Sue Meehan opposed. A move by Cr Sharon Cadwallader to sell the land and allocate the money instead for

the redevelopment of the surf club was defeated. Lennox Head Chamber of Commerce president Louise Owen appealed to councillors at the meeting not to sell the blocks, saying they were the only council-owned blocks in the area and should be retained for future development of the community’s amenity needs.

No consultation Ms Owen said the $1.3 million price for the blocks was ‘a joke’ and well under what the land was worth. She also questioned where the idea to sell it came from, for whose benefit and why there had been no consultation. Cr Johnson said it was vital council kept the ‘strategic’ blocks of land as the area was one of the most congested in

the shire and would only get busier as Lennox grew. He said council had plans to close the Eastern Road beside Lake Ainsworth, resulting in the loss of car parking spaces. ‘These blocks of land could provide much-needed additional car parking in the future, or other community facilities such as a children’s play area or open space. ‘Projected plans show that Lennox’s population will double over the next 20 years. This growth doesn’t even include the controversial Cumbalum A and B planning proposals that may add an extra 10,000 people. We need to stop the continuing push to commercialise public land in areas that can provide much-needed amenity to local residents and visitors.’

Public input urged for massive Ballina housing development Luis Feliu

Ballina shire residents have been urged to lodge submissions in the next two weeks on the controversial massive housing development planned for north of Ballina.

House up to 10,000 In one of the largest public meetings seen in Ballina for years, up to 300 people packed the Lennox Head Community Centre last Saturday week to hear Ballina shire planners explain what’s proposed in the subdivisions known as Cumbalum A and B precincts. The proposed subdivisions in the hinterland behind Lennox Head is Ballina shire’s largest residential expansion to date, with the two villagestyle developments planned to house up to 10,000 people. Plans are currently on exhibition and if approved by the state government would see hundreds of hectares of rural

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and agricultural land rezoned for around 3,300 low- and medium-density dwellings over the next 30 years. The Department of Planning and Infrastructure has told Ballina Shire Council that it wants the proposals for both precincts, owned by over 50 different landowners, finalised soon. Ballina Council is welcoming submissions from the public in relation to these proposals until the end of March. Steve Barnier, one of Ballina Council’s strategic planners, gave the meeting an outline on the process involved in the rezoning and on the size and scope of the proposals.

Infrastructure and impact concerns Cr Jeff Johnson, who had spearheaded the move for the public meeting, told The Echo that people at the meeting expressed clear concerns over funding and delivery of infra-

structure for the subdivisions and the impacts of the development on nearby Lennox Head. ‘Many people raised concerns about the social impacts on Lennox Head. Obviously if you create a new development of over 8000 people, it is going to have an impact on the amenity of Lennox and put additional pressure on the infrastructure. These questions need to be addressed before a rezoning can take place,’ Cr Johnson said. ‘The council report has identified the need to upgrade Ross Lane to four lanes and build a roundabout at the Coast Road junction. Who is going to fund this and what is the time frame? These questions need to be answered.’ Submissions on the proposals will be accepted by Ballina Shire Council until 4.30pm on Friday, March 30. For inquiries call Simon Scott, from the council’s strategic and community services group, on 6686 1284.

Access to lake ‘not affected’ Luis Feliu

Claims that the sale of two public beachfront blocks could cut off access to Lake Ainsworth have been refuted by Ballina shire general manager Paul Hickey. Brunswick Heads residents who have battled to protect public foreshore land after the takeover of their local caravan parks by the state government says the Lennox Head sale would cut off public access to Lake Ainsworth. Spokesman Sean O’Meara told The Echo ‘that’s what happens when North Coast Holiday Parks (NCHP) gets their hands on public Crown land, a total monopolisation of public space’. Mr O’Meara said NCHP has restricted Brunswick Heads residents’ access to their parklands and waterways by ‘giving tourists exclusive use of all Crown land right up to the waterline and allowing them to use public beaches as their own private boat harbours’. ‘They now plan to erect fences denying residents any access to rivers and parks they have used for generations. The state government and North Coast Holiday Parks will do the same to Lake Ainsworth unless residents and council take action

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now,’ he said. Mr O’Meara said the Terrace Reserve, a riverside stretch of parkland used by Brunswick families for over 100 years, was currently being fought over by the state government and the local community. ‘In a similar situation to the Lennox Head plan, the state government did a backroom deal with council to buy land at a tenth of its value to then use it for supposed “public purpose recreation’’. What the plans really intended, was the commercial development of this parkland into a year-round upmarket tourist resort that would fence off and exclude residents from parkland and swimming areas they had used all their lives.’ But shire GM Paul Hickey

said there was ‘no risk’ the lake would be cut off from general public access as there was an existing road to the lake, Pacific Parade. Mr Hickey said the public also has access to the popular sport and recreation camp at Lake Ainsworth. Mr Hickey also refuted a claim by an Echo reader that he had a conflict of interest in the matter because he was a longtime friend of NCHP manager Jim Bolger. ‘We once rented a unit together, as we both worked for Byron Shire Council for many years; he is now with the state government and I’m with local government,’ he said. ‘In the end our property guys have been dealing with this, so there’s no conflict of interest.’

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Was New South Wales intended as a hemp colony? Photo and story Luis Feliu

It’s a radical new theory but Brisbane author Dr John Jiggens is convinced NSW was originally intended to be a hemp colony for the British Empire and not the convict settlement we’ve all been taught about in history books. In his new book, Dr Jiggens argues that Australia’s settlement was for the purpose of growing and exporting hemp, and the convicts were just a cover story to mislead Britain’s rivals. And he says the much-maligned fibre today is often confused with the drug variety of cannabis commonly known as marijuana (cannabis indica), yet 200 years ago hemp, or cannabis sativa, was the most important plant on the planet. Its use as the basis for sail and rope in the ‘Age of Sail’, as well as banknotes and textiles, was as strategic as oil is today. Dr Jiggens, who visited Byron Shire this week to promote his latest book Sir Joseph Banks and the Question of Hemp, is passionate about the subject, saying Banks was not just Australia’s most famous botanist, but one of Britain’s

most eminent and influential figures of his time who was obsessed with hemp, becoming an authority not just on hemp but alternatives to the muchused fibre.

Banks and hemp Banks deemed it vital to secure and dominate supplies of fibre hemp for the British navy and economy and conducted trials on the plant in the colonies. Subtitled Hemp, Sea Power and Empire, 1776–1815, it’s the third book Dr Jiggens has written in a series dealing with both types of cannabis. The other works are titled Marijuana Australiana and The killer cop and the murder of Donald Mackay, which also provides a fresh new theory on the killing of the anti-drugs crusading MP. Dr Jiggens will give a talk at the Nimbin Mardi Grass in May on his new theory. The author said he knew Australia had ‘a fabulous history on cannabis’ before 1938, when the plant was prohibited, but couldn’t write a book on it until he had finished his PhD. It was while going through a book by US amateur historian on cannabis Jack Herer called

The Emperor Wore No Clothes that he learnt America’s founding fathers and presidents had written essays on hemp ‘which was extremely important early in the history of the US’. While researching the subject, he discovered Banks was most keen on hemp and how he wanted to secure supplies of the fibre and boost trade for Britain at the time when it ruled much of the world through its sea power.

Hemp’s US history Dr Jiggens said Banks was not just a botanist who financed the scientific side of Captain James Cook’s Endeavour expeditions around the world, but also the head of the Royal Society, a member of the Privy Council, a close friend of King George III and ‘adviser to just about everything to the British King and his government’. He came across Banks’s file on hemp in a book by one of Banks’s first biographers, Joseph Maiden, so he ordered a copy from the library at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, London, once also run by Banks. He said research on the sub-

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ject was tricky also as Banks’s collection of letters were scattered all around the world. ‘The three main points I wanted to make in this book are that Australia was founded as a hemp colony, that hemp was as strategic as oil is today (the Russians dominated the hemp trade at the time) and that hemp is not marijuana, because it’s banned on the pretext that it is the drug marijuana, and I want to create debate on the many species of the genus cannabis, of which I think there are many,’ he said. ‘What comes out of this story is that Banks attempts to solve the question of hemp and he does this by growing hundreds of acres of marijuana in India, because he doesn’t recognise the difference, and he’s very puzzled by it as the drug cannabis was just unknown in Europe.

‘In India of course it was a sacred plant and known as an intoxicant but not used as a fibre crop because it wasn’t that, just as hemp is not a drug crop.

Sacred in India ‘Hemp never had the chemical or psychological properties of marijuana. Banks was a great hemp expert but had no idea there is a drug use in it.’ Dr Jiggens said Banks only learnt of the drug cannabis when the British consul of Tangier, Morocco, James Matra, who was a former friend and midshipman on the Endeavour expedition to Botany Bay, sent him a sample of cannabis indica in hashish form. ‘We’re very backward in our knowledge of the genus cannabis because governments have been destroying cannabis in the wild for a long time, claim-

ing it to be a drug plant. ‘Cannabis plants have been grown for thousands of years in Africa, the Middle-East and Asia for food, fibre and medicine. Over this enormous time and distance, the genus has evolved to become several different species,’ he said. Dr Jiggens said hemp was a vital strategic material in the 18th century which, as such, was ‘kept secret just as oil supplies to this day are. ‘For the past 10 years or more, wars have been fought in the Middle-East and presented to the public as a series of humanitarian interventions, but it’s really a long war to do with the strategic control of oil, so when it’s strategic it’s covered in secrecy.’ Dr Jiggens’s books are available online at www.drjiggens. com.

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Brisbane author Dr John Jiggens visited Byron shire this week to promote his new book on the history of hemp in Australia with its controversial new theory that Australia’s founding fathers planned New South Wales as a hemp-growing colony for the British Empire.

A recent grant of $100,000 by the state government to help Tweed Shire prepare protection plans for its foreshore is welcome, but the council will need much more money to secure its beaches from erosion, the council’s natural resource spokeswoman Jane Lofthouse has told local media. Environment minister Robyn Parker announced last week that Tweed would receive $25,000 to update information on coastal hazards in line with predicted sea-level rise and $75,000 to review coastal zone management strategies and action in light of the coastal erosion at Kingscliff over the last two years. The grant was the most generous of the almost $900,000 handed to coastal shires to help them with planning to cope with erosion and sea-level rise. By comparison, Byron Shire

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received just $25,000 and Ballina received nothing. But Ms Lofthouse said much more will be required if council is to be able to hold back erosion at Kingscliff. ‘If we go down the track of protection of the foreshore, council doesn’t have enough money to do that on its own and we would be asking for state and probably federal assistance,’ she said. Last Tuesday at an extraordinary meeting, councillors voted to spend $238,392 for 6,300

tonnes of rocks to build an extension of the existing wall in front of the surf club. The wall is to protect the Kingscliff Beach Holiday Park – where a big slice of dunal land was lost to recent erosion and several cabins had to be relocated – and join up with the wall in front of the Kingscliff Bowls Club. The money will come from Tweed Coast Holiday Parks Reserves Trust income. The project is expected to cost $469,734 in total.

Lithium trialled for cannabis withdrawal A clinical trial examining whether a short course of lithium can help reduce the withdrawal symptoms that may be experienced after stopping regular cannabis use is currently being conducted at Riverlands Drug and Alcohol Centre in Lismore.

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Will climate change lead to Human 2.0? ington since 2006, according to the Center for Responsive Politics (www.opensecrets. org). The brothers and their private company help fund Heartland’s efforts to create a school curriculum which will sow doubts about the legitimacy of climate science.

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A seed of optimism in the face of climate change might be contained in the recent SBS series Becoming Human. No, it’s not the teenage vampire series; it’s the one about President of Mullumbimby and Ocean Shores Community Gardens, Greg humankind’s early days some Dutton, has a few more credentials to establish before his ambitious three million years ago. The plan to establish a Mullum community IGA supermarket gets legs. first episode could have taken After the announcement two weeks ago, he has impressed many half the time – the budget for with his idealism and leadership aspirations. He wants to establish a CGI was obviously low, and co-op hybrid model that gives the community a chance to own its several sequences had to be reown supermarket. Mayor Jan Barham speaks highly, saying that she is ‘impressed’ by what Mr Dutton and partner Sarah-jane have done with peated several times – but one the Ocean Shores gardens and with the permaculture youth challenge. of the interesting suggestions from anthropologists was that Internet searches yield very little of Mr Dutton’s previous life humans evolved a big brain to before the Shire; however, he told The Echo he purposely deleted deal with rapid climate change. his online profiles in 2007 after a family separation. He says he was The brain remained stable and a venture capitalist and a principal stakeholder/investor in Netfire (now Netfira: www.netfira.com.au) from 2001 until 2007. Since then, small for a few million years he says he has been working with 11 Aboriginal communities in NSW. and then Africa was beset by a Perhaps what is most interesting is his capacity for leverage and variety of different climates in wedge. Fronting yourself on behalf of the community wedges you rapid succession. Our ancesagainst any other private interests and, well, anyone who might disagree. tors had to get smart to adapt Quotes by the mayor and others have been leveraged on the to rainforest, savannah, desert project’s website which boosts his personal association cred. and whatever else. But let’s not forget this is also a business proposition for Mr Will the effects of sea-level Dutton and his team. They hope to be re-imbursed for the work they rise, wild weather and other are trying to achieve. Concerns have been expressed to The Echo climate predictability be the over the high-acquisition budget, but to be fair, it all appears to be catalyst for Human 2.0, woken evolving and a cautious approach is understandable. from the sleep of reason in He has also told The Echo he stands to lose personally a substantial amount if it fails. While he brims with confidence, what the community front of the plasma TV? Or will we be the lesser species is now waiting for is the concrete business plan. That is supposed that Human 2.0 finds expedito include a co-operative or public unlisted company structure and ent to remove for the safety of then a shareholder agreement. But pledges have come in, with now the planet? Or will the climate $600k in virtual dollars by 392 supporters being registered on www. change be so rapid that none ourmullumbimby.org. And let’s not forget a well-run community asset is a highly desirable but the cockroaches stand a asset. A means of empowering our localised economy suits any chance? progressive community such as ours. We’ll wait until it all checks out. Forces other than climate Hans Lovejoy, editor change could have been at work on our brains, of course. For instance the late psychonaut, Terence McKenna (1946–2000), Established 1986 put up the ‘Stoned Age’ theory Publisher David Lovejoy of evolution in his book Food Editor Hans Lovejoy Of The Gods, not to be conPhotographer Jeff Dawson fused with H G Wells’s novel Advertising Manager Angela Cornell Nicholas Shand of the same name. According Accounts Manager Simon Haslam 1948–1996 to McKenna the addition of Production Manager Ziggi Browning Founding Editor the ‘magic’ mushroom Psilo© 2012 Echo Publications Pty Ltd – ABN 86 004 000 239 cybe cubensis to the human diet Mullumbimby: Village Way, Stuart St. Ph 02 6684 1777 Fax 02 6684 1719 Byron Bay: Unit 5, 6 Tasman Way, Arts & Industry Estate. Ph 6685 5222 about 100,000 BC improved Printer: Horton Media Australia Ltd visual acuity and gave us the Reg. by Aust. Post Pub. No. NBF9237. mental edge. As with evolution

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This plastic skull in a dry creek bed provides evidence of Mattel Man, his time in history characterised by poor hunting skills and massive consumption of pointless goods.

in general, there are all sorts of random factors in action but it’s a good bet that climate, and our adaptability to its variability, played a major role in our development, our exodus from Africa and our colonisation of most of the Earth’s solid surface. Some geneticists believe that further human evolution is not possible, that we’ve already got all the goodies to work with. ‘Are We Still Evolving?’, an essay by Peter Tyson, is available at www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ evolution/are-we-still-evolving.html. ■ ■ ■ ■

Meanwhile, back at ‘reality’, the main furore of recent weeks has not been about the massive release of methane plumes in the Arctic but the actions of American scientist Peter Gleick, who worked on such issues as the impact of climate change on water resources and, somewhat poignantly given the ruckus surrounding his intrigue, scientific ethics. In mid February Dr Gleick resigned from the American Geophysical Union Task Force on Scientific Ethics and a few days later confessed he had obtained and distributed documents from the Heartland Institute under a false name.

The Heartland Institute (http://heartland.org), whose basic philosophy is let the free market rip, bugger the consequences, has found great glee in the exposure of Gleick’s actions and launched an antigreen campaign called ‘Fakegate’. The documents in question reveal that the Heartland Institute is secretly funded by corporations out to discredit climate science. (Not to mention their support from Big Tobacco.) Gleick had a distinguished role with the Pacific Institute (www.pacinst.org) and really shot himself and the cause of climate science in the foot with his subterfuge. Some commentators have argued that the ends justify the means, that he uncovered the worst of deceptions in the name of money, while other scientists have decried Gleick’s lack of ethical behaviour. Among the Heartland funders are the Koch brothers, Charles and David, whose company Koch Industries (www.kochind.com) is big in YOUR petroleum and natural gas, L A LOC has a checkered environmental record, and has spent over $50 million IST WashECIAinLlobbying

The real news of the week, perhaps of the millennium, is brought to us by the Arctic Methane Emergency Group (http://ameg.me). The scientists have issued a Declaration Of Emergency: ‘We declare there now exists an extremely high international security risk from abrupt and runaway global warming being triggered by the end-summer collapse of Arctic sea ice… and release of huge quantities of methane gas from the seabed. Such global warming would lead at first to worldwide crop failures but ultimately and inexorably to the collapse of civilisation as we know it. ‘This colossal threat demands an immediate emergency-scale response to cool the Arctic and save the sea-ice. The latest available data indicate that a sea ice collapse is more than likely by 2015 and even possible this summer (2012). Thus some measures to counter the threat have to be ready within a few months.’ Quick, form a committee!

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Underwater paradise ■ Okay, I admit it. I have, at times, been a climate change sceptic. I was initially suspicious that the whole subject was raised by the nuclear lobby to sell a new generation of reactors – and it seemed to be working fine until Fukushima. However, being sceptical is not necessarily a bad thing. I mean, whatever happened to ‘Peak Oil’ that was scheduled to destroy civilisation back in 09? The task of the Green movement is to educate, not alienate.

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Durrumbul ■ The climate-change deniers should be proud of themselves as we pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at ever increasing rates, raising air and sea-surface temperatures by around one degree, and sealevels by 21cm, since Europeans colonised Australia. With temperatures projected to rise by up to five degrees by 2070, the extreme weather events we have experienced in recent times will dramatically

Tom’s apology

My letter (Echo, March 6) has raised more than the ire of Ms Petroff. Cr Ross Tucker has also fired back with a separate communication saying that I ‘lied’ ... twice: Firsly that my statement that Ross voted against the Ewingsdale S and R Complex was incorrect – he is correct that I got it wrong (refute lie) and I apologise. Secondly that Ms Petroff was downgraded from second place on his 2004 how-to-vote slip. On election day (the only day that counts) she was not preferenced No 2, so Ross is correct again and I apologise. I would, however, be interested in Ms Petroff ’s take on this. I note Ms Petroff ’s autohagiography (Letters, March 13), acknowledge that she is an energetic community worker and hope that some day she will reap an appropriate reward. As to my own humble record on Council that Ms Petroff finds so lacking, I will leave the judgment to Posterity (my aunt who lives on the Gold Coast). Tom Tabart

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Fair go for Twiggy

Entertained as always by Mungo’s column, and loath as I am to defend a super-rich mining magnate, I would not personally lump Andrew Forrest with Rinehart and Palmer. His so-called ‘Australian Employment Covenant’ to provide 50,000 jobs to Indigenous Australians has genuine legs and he

intensify. We can expect more humans to die because of heat stress and many others to be traumatised by the intensifying droughts and floods. Thousands of other species will be wiped off the planet this century by climate changes and ocean acidification. While we may now have a carbon tax, we have counteracted its possible benefits with our dramatically escalating coal and gas exports and proposals to burn native forests for power. So the best we can hope for is to cope with the escalating impacts. A classic example of poor adaptation is being played out at Kingscliff where over one million dollars has so far been spent replacing the eroding beach with sand bags and rock walls. These have just made the problem worse by accelerating erosion in front of them and at their end. Now Tweed Council wants NSW taxpayers to fork out $7 million to establish an artificial beach in front of their wall.

has done a fair bit of work off his own bat to prove it, not just throw money at it. It’s arguably better than an apology with no backbone. Yes, the guy’s a salesman, yes he is getting rich extracting resources which add to global warming, yes he opposed the mining tax, but does that put him the same category as extreme right-wingers and Sydney talkback favourites Rinehart and Palmer? I think upon closer analysis he deserves a fairer shake than that. Hamish Broome

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Mr Anderson (aka Fast Buck$) was not present in Council for the debate on the Dispute Resolution Committee (DRC). His view on the matter appears to be have been formed by the opinion of another non-attendee, David Lovejoy. The public has no facts to go on due to the decision of the Echo editor Hans Lovejoy, who was present but did not report any of the substantial discussion. There is no sound argument to retain the undemocratic, outdated and irrelevant DRC. Of immediate concern is that the policy (unused for eight years) gives power to as few as two councillors to determine disputed development applications. A matter could be referred to the DRC and determined without the knowledge of the whole council. This could include referral by the general manager who is also a member

sible to achieve this objective. dose of Don Watson, Julian Adolf the Horrible as well? Reality dose: crusades to Thoughtful, well-reasoned dis- Burnside and George Orwell. J Rose the Holy Land kicked off in cussion might. Cr Basil Cameron Mullumbimby 1096 and wound up by 1291. This may last until the next Goonengerry Muslims of a particular type major storm. Half a job endlessly go on about them to Rising sea levels will neces- Water torture It’s a no-brainer really. When reinforce a sense of persecuted sitate more and more sand and We are ratepayers in the Byron we employ, contract or even victimhood which justifies agmoney to replace the beach Shire with a property in Pat- elect someone to do a job we gression, as with A Hitler and with increasing frequency un- erson Street. My partner and expect them to do the whole his claims about oppressed til it is no longer tenable. Sea I recently received a water bill job – not half a job. Right? Try Germans in Czechoslovakia levels are expected to rise by from the council stating that an saying to your employer ‘Yeah, and Poland. over a metre this century, so it amount of $1,925.76 is owing well, I know that you hired me Muslim conquests started won’t take long. because there here had been to work a full week and that you in 622, and it’s worth rememMy concern is that the King- incorrect meter readings done are paying me for a full week, bering Muslims conquered scliff scenario is being played in the previous four quarters. but I can only be here half the Spain, sacked Rome, tried to out all along the coast. We need Council had subcontracted time because I’m working for hold Italy, and were defeated to be cleverer than throwing someone to do the readings and that other mob for the other attempting to conquer France good money after bad. We I heard on the grapevine that half.’ Seems we have about 29 hundreds of years before the need to adapt wherever pos- this contractor subcontracted politicians who have pulled that crusades ever happened. sible as we will need every cent someone else who apparently one off. As late as the 1820s the Ottowe have to cope with intensify- if he couldn’t see the meters did Hugh Ermacora man Empire was still attempting natural disasters. Byron Bay ing to overrun Hungary again, not bother looking for them. Dailan Pugh Now with an amount of more and Constantinople isn’t called Byron Bay that $317.16 already paid, they Muslim conquests Istanbul because of a plebiscite. also want the above amount on Are people nuts? M Mizzi is Invasions of Egypt, Persia, ■ What’s all the fuss about By- top of that. Usually the year- quoting Osama Bin Laden Palestine, Anatolia, Libya, Inron Bay anyway? In a hundred ly average for the property is (Letters, March 13) as an his- dia, Morocco, Spain, Italy, Sicyears it will be under a metre or around $1,070. torical authority? Why not ily, France, Greece, the Balkans, three of water. continued on page 13 We have complained to the throw in Pol Pot, Jim Jones and Atlantis Pacificus. Imagine NSW Ombudsman but we have the myths about naked bike not had a response so far. We riding in the lost city. Anyone rent the property to wonderfor scuba diving down Jonson ful people so we will be doing Street? all we can to have this unfair Sapoty Brook amount changed. Mullumbimby As we live in Sydney and only Come and celebrate keep up with Byron news spoof the DRC. Legal advisers and radically, we don’t know if any Byron Bay’s SATURDAY planning consultants for propo- noise has been made of this by MARCH 24 from 1pm new artistic hub nents would be able to put their others. Kyria & Paul Frame arguments directly to the DRC. Four combined businesses: Byron Music, Studio 9, Randwick This would happen in secret Doublebassment Studios and Byron Movement are and lack the public scrutiny exopening their doors for a public open day. pected in a democratic process. Mind the language Around 2004, Council re- Fire Brigade Captain Josh solved to improve on the over- Rushton was quoted (Echo, sight of legal matters by the March 13) as saying, ‘My initial DRC, replacing it with regular concern was that it would imOLD NORCO BUILDING direct reporting to Council on pact on the fence, potentially 144 JONSON ST, BYRON BAY all compliance and planning spreading.’ opposite Mitre 10 Surely, he was not quoted accases. This is also more informative, open and accountable curately (in other words, your than the DRC. Since that time reporter verballed him), as the the range of mediation op- inelegant, indeed ugly, verbosity Starts at 1pm with free musical demonstrations/workshops, live bands tions available in disputes has ‘impact on’ appeared. He must from 2pm, open tours of two recording expanded and there have been actually have used the simple, studios and Byron Movement’s head many examples in recent years direct, unpretentious ‘hit’. office. Door prizes, food. If, indeed, he did use ‘impact where residents and others in dispute with Council have suc- on’, then I would suggest a stiff cessfully put their claims directly to councillors. Critically, the stated objectives of those councillors prosecuting Mr Anderson’s position in Council can be achieved THE RAILWAY FRIENDLY BAR, BYRON BAY through existing mediation 6685 7662 THE FAMOUS RAILS kitchen policies. For example, Council’s policy on dispute resolution in Wednesday 21st development applications (polMARSHALL – 7pm icy 5.53) provides for the option of a committee similar to the Thursday 22nd DRC that features greater acTOM RICHARDSON countability and oversight by all Friday 23rd councillors. I believe that the best interTHE HOMBRES 5pm FREE BAR SNACKS • 5:30pm FISHING CLUB ests of our local democracy are MEAT & SEAFOOD RAFFLE • 6–7pm complimentary served by open and accountwine raffle ticket with drink purchase • 7pm SOCIAL able decision-making processes CLUB DRAWS free to enter, must be present to win where councillors determine Saturday 24th how legal and other important DALI BOB & PAPERBAND matters are handled. Browbeating will never change my assessSunday 25th ment of whether my decisions BON SCOTT as a councillor are the best pos-

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Saving Sumatran tigers, one at a time Russell Eldridge

They don’t know how many days she lay in the forest, her right leg stretched above her, snarled in a steel snare set by poachers. But the agony was extreme enough for the young tigress to start chewing off her own foot. The story does get better. A bit. And there’s a Byron connection. Dara, as the three-year-old tigress has been named, was discovered in late February by conservation guards on regular patrol in the western forests of Sumatra, inland from Bengkulu city. These patrols have been set up by Indonesia’s Nature Conservation Agency, BKSDA, with the assistance of international NGOs. Their job is to stem the trade in wildlife and body parts of endangered animals – and tigers are at the top of the illegal shopping list. The global market for exotic pets and body parts now includes the internet, and the booming trade is estimated anywhere between $US10 billion and $US20 billion a year. Illegal animal parts are being sold on leading online auction sites, against the policies

of those sites. But offline, China is the biggest market for tiger parts. A healthy young Sumatran tigress like Dara is worth up to $US50,000 once her skin, bones and organs are sold. Not that the desperate poachers would see much of that. Despite Chinese legislation banning the trade of tiger parts, the market thrives in that country. It may not be widely known, but there are more tigers being farmed in China than exist in the wild. Estimates of up to 5,000 tigers are bred on these tiger farms and it is believed they are slaughtered primarily for use in a tonic known as tiger wine (New York Times 12/2/10).

Numbers dwindle Nor does the illegal trade take into account the critically endangered status of these creatures. A century ago, there were still an estimated 100,000 tigers roaming Asia. That number is down to about 3,000. And the Sumatran tiger, a genetically separate subspecies, numbers only 400. If Dara had been killed, it would be the equivalent of two million humans dying in one incident.

for the local wildlife. ‘They show tremendous compassion, and will report if an animal like a rhino, elephant or tiger is trapped. There are very stiff penalties, too, for trafficking. Dara wasn’t caught in a local hunting snare – it was a heavy-duty poacher’s trap targeting big animals like rhino, whose horns are prized as an oriental aphrodisiac.’

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Dara, the three-year-old tigress, as a rescue team found her caught in an illegal snare in the forests of Bengkulu Province in western Sumatra. Photo by Indonesia Nature Conservation Agency, BKSDA.

But she didn’t die; and she now desperately needs help to ensure her future. It took six days for the rescue team to get Dara out of the forest. A local wildlife vet, Dr Yanti, had to trek in and anaesthetise her and amputate part of her foot to remove the snare. She then had part of her other foot amputated where she had chewed in her agony. Dara was then carried out in a specially constructed box on poles. Enter the Byron connection. Dr Claire Oelrichs is a Newrybar-based vet and also chair of the respected SIES fund (Save Indonesian Endangered Species). Dr Oelrichs and SIES have for several years been at the forefront of wildlife conservation projects in Borneo, Bali and Sumatra. ‘I was contacted by Pak Mugi, a BKSDA conservation officer who helped bring Dara out of the forest,’ says Dr Oelrichs. ‘They have little money and nowhere to keep Dara other than a small bamboo cage at the back of the office at Bengkulu. She’s eating seven chickens a day and needs constant medication and care.’

The illegal trade does not take into account the critically endangered status of these creatures. A century ago, there were still an estimated 100,000 tigers roaming Asia. That number is down to about 3,000. And the Sumatran tiger, a genetically separate subspecies, numbers only 400. SIES has sent over enough money to care for Dara for about six weeks. There is international support, but funds are scarce and it will require public donations to ensure her long-term survival. SIES is running a Dara Rescue appeal, with a target of $50,000 (for donation details, see end of story). If fundraising by SIES and other organisations is successful, the momentum could help establish Indonesia’s first tiger sanctuary proposed by the recently formed Sumatra Tiger Forum (Forum Harimau Kita). ‘At the moment, all captured tigers in Indonesia are sent to Taman Safari Zoo in Java. It’s like a huge cattery,’ says Dr

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Oelrichs. ‘So the plan is to establish a sanctuary in Bengkulu province, where the tigers can live in semi-natural conditions and retain their hunting skills. Hopefully, they can one day be released back into the wild.’ The main problem is diminishing habitat, and conflict with humans. Dara was snared in what is called a production forest, an area of natural forest where people can farm, hunt for meat and fell timber. ‘The local people live off these forests,’ says Dr Oelrichs. ‘They have little in the way of modern amenities. ‘And contrary to what many outsiders may think, the villagers by and large really care

Dr Oelrichs conducts conservation tours to Indonesia up to four times a year. She says there is a new wave of thinking in Indonesia, with a strong vision and commitment to wildlife conservation. The head of conservation in Bengkulu Province, Pak Amon, and his conservation officers strongly support a tiger sanctuary. If that sanctuary dream becomes a reality, its first resident could be a young tigress named Dara. And it could well be a family affair, because Dara may be pregnant. To make a donation to the Dara Rescue Appeal: Account: Save Indonesia Endangered Species fund. Bank: Summerland Credit Union, Bangalow. Account number 22273 8931. BSB 728 728 Dr Oelrichs can be contacted on claireoelrichs@siesfund. org SIES website: www.siesfund. org Supporting organisations: www.fauna-flora.org/”www. fauna-flora.org www.australiazoo.com. au/”www.australiazoo.com.au www.taronga.org.au/”www. taronga.org.au www.panthera.org/”www. panthera.org www.hsi.org.au/”www.hsi. org.au w w w. a l e r t i n d o n e s i a . wordpress.com (You can see Dara on YouTube. Search for Dara the tiger.)

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Caucasus, Tartary, Turkmenistan, Bulgaria, Austria, all followed the conquest of Arabia. Bin Laden was a dickhead.

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Leave the kids alone

From the period of the ancient Greeks and throughout history there have always been educators in the background who have implored the society not to load the child with the knowledge of the society, but allow the child to just be. Rudolf Steiner, for example, said that teachers were to act as midwives to what the child brings to the world. Most children in formal education throughout history for most of the time have been forced to learn what they did not want to know at that particular time of their lives. The force prematurely removed their innocence by taking them too early out of the now; the present moment; the state of being lived in by human infants and all other animals. The result was to contribute to the creation of human adults who suffer a permanent emotional hollow that is futilely attempted to be filled with the stuff of the world. Mind (Echo, February 21, page 7) is living in the now. Mindfulness does not need to be taught to children. It is their natural, perfect (holy) state.

If adults want children to remain mindful for as long as possible, they need to allow them to just be. This is the education revolution, rather than the virtual education revolution proposed by David Tow (Echo, January 17) which can be seen merely as the continuation of the race for knowledge devoid of wisdom. Geoff Dawe

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For those in Byron Shire wishing to extend their oppositional activities to the greatest potential scourge to natural systems in our region since the cedar cutters attacked the Big Scrub – CSG – weekly meetings are taking place in Lismore with direct action high on the agenda. Training is offered in nonviolent direct action. Contact csgfreenr.lismore@gmail.com. Jill Keogh Federal

Choice

Life is all about vibration at the moment. Will this choice raise my vibration or bring me down? Every day we make choices like what I’m going to watch on TV, what I’m going to shove in my mouth, who am I going to talk to today, will I squeeze a swim in and lie in our glorious sun – and the list goes on. Now our Earth is raising her vibration very rapidly and if we wish to ascend with her in

The turd world

People accessing one of Byron Shire’s beautiful beaches at Belongil were greeted last week with this revolting sight. A fetid overflowing bin full of stinking dog-turd bags, filthy food waste and valuable recyclables. Well done, Byron Shire, we’ve certainly outdone ourselves this time. If waste like this is unable to be properly removed in a timely manner before overflowing, then what hope do we ever have of keeping our Council and waste collectors, beaches clean and wildlife safe? get your act together! This is The next storm and we will see pathetic. Simon Clarke some of this garbage inevitably Brooklet washed into the sea. Come on,

our physical form we need to keep up. So what you feed your body, mind and spirit is going to make a difference. I had a very clear dream that showed me we have to stop drinking alcohol of all kinds at this time because it is connected to a history of pain and suffering. What we focus on at this time connects our energy to it and feeds that creation; we are very powerful beings. So, for example if you watch the horrors on the news and start getting emotionally affected by this not only are your vibrations going down you are connecting yourself to the creation of the old Earth and keeping it here. Now is the time to

practise detachment, deal with what’s in your face with as much love as you can, because we are all part of each other. If you have to walk away, do so, at least you haven’t fed someone’s drama play. If you still feel you have emotions building up inside you deal with them. It’s good to have a cry for it will release you. Go and have a yell out to the universe. Let’s enjoy this ride of ascension, I know it’s challenging but we all chose to come down here at this magic time on our beautiful Earth. Have faith in yourself and make kindness be your way. Yahndi Dee-Nay

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Byron Shire has a reputation 34 3% 2.3%* A few more for thought-leadership on On Foot or Skating walkers green issues, but do we ecowalk our eco-talk? Bicycles 152 14.5% 2.7%*** Five times more cyclists This Echo investigation does not attempt to provide a com- Scooters & 8 1% 3%** One third the plete answer, nor does it pen- Motorbikes motorbikes etrate the activities of some 226 21.5% 31%** 50% fewer small of the big footprints in the Small Cars cars Shire – government, industry 342 33% 23%** 50% more and agriculture. We enquired, Medium Sized medium cars in a not-particularly scientifi- Cars, Vans & SUVs cally rigorous way, but with Large Cars, Utes 207 20% 20%** Same percentage sufficient accuracy to provoke & 4WDs of large vehicles thought, into the eco-perfor7% 18%* Less than half use Public transport 74 (in this case, bus mance of the ordinary people passengers were estimated) public transport of Byron Shire as we go about our daily lives. Specifically, school buses contained less person per year. According to why eco-education initiatives how eco-conscious we are in than five kids apiece. Eco Walk Byron Shire Council’s Sustain- are struggling to gain tracability Snapshot, our shire re- tion. They tend to focus on our transport, electricity usage, vs Eco-Talk: 0–1 . cycled 42 per cent of our waste the importance of saving the and recycling? in 2011. However, the national environment and ways to reElectricity average is 52 per cent.**** By- duce our footprint. Perhaps Transport According to Essential En- ron Shire’s ten per cent short- they’re barking up the wrong In the absence of other data, ergy’s figures, there are 14,359 fall in recycling means an extra tree. We’re already convinced we sat outside Macs Café on households on the grid in 210kg of waste per resident per the environment is important. Bangalow Road, tallying ve- the Byron Local Government annum. We already know how to rehicles at ‘peak hour’ between Area, on average utilising 6.278 duce our footprint. 8.30am and 10am on a week- Kilowatt hours per day (ex- Walk vs Talk We just think that all those day: 1,009 vehicles and 34 pe- cluding units fed back to the eco-educational messages So how does our walk com- must be directed at someone destrians were recorded. grid). The average for houseByron’s commuters are se- holds across Essential Energy’s pare with our talk? The Echo else, who isn’t us, ’cos we’re doriously underperforming in entire network is 6.738 kWh surveyed 18 Byron household- ing it all already. their choice of transport. The per day, meaning Byron Shire ers. Each participant was asked Of course this phenomenon bright spot on the radar is the households use 6.8 per cent to self-assess on the above three may not be restricted to Byron cyclists, five times the average, less electricity than Essential criteria, compared to what they Shire. We may not only be a rebelieved was the national aver- gion, but a nation, of eco-crits. although they did come in a Energy’s national average. rush of colour and bare skin Byron Shire is also shines in age. A pattern emerged so raparound the time that classes solar photovoltaic installations, idly that further research was ■ Sources: * Australian Bureau of Statistics: ‘Journey to Work’ start at Byron’s English Lan- with 14 per cent of all houses deemed unnecessary: There is a chasm between statistics. ** Roads and Mariguage Schools. feeding a total of 2,400 MWh Kudos also to the three sets back to the grid. It’s a positive how well we think we are doing time Services vehicle registraof parents cycling to work/ result, but still only 2.66 per and how well we are actually tion data supplied on request. doing. As individuals we think *** Premier’s Council for Acschool with their brood. In all cent of our consumption. we’re doing awesomely. Collec- tive Living 2008: ‘Cycling in other categories, results range tively, we’re performing poorly. NSW: What the data tells us’. from poor to appalling. Most Recycling The truth is that we’re full of **** Department of Environsignificant is the oversupply of Australians produce a skin- it, and now we know it. ment, National Waste Report medium sized cars, almost 50 Which perhaps explains 2010 Fact Sheet. per cent higher than the state crawling 2,100kg of waste per average, while the number Much better A bit better Average A bit worse Much worse of small cars is almost 50 per Byron than average than average than average than average cent lower. Seems that Byron residents think they are: has bitten the SUV bug harder 33% 39% 17% 5% 5% than most. Also significant is Electricity the under-utilisation of pub- Use lic transport: of the six buses Fuel Use 17% 28% 39% 5% 11% that passed, only two were Waste 72% 17% 11% anywhere near capacity. Three

Take care around breeding shorebirds: BBB Annually at this time of year, thousands of migrating shorebirds and terns prepare for departure from the shorelines of Australia. They make journeys of thousands of kilometres along the East Asian–Australasian Flyways stopping over to replenish food supplies in Indonesia and foreshores along the Yellow Sea before reaching breeding grounds as far west as the Gobi Desert, as far east as northern Japan and as high as Siberia, the high Arctic tundra and Alaska to breed. This cycle of existence has been happening for thousand of years. Members of Byron Bird Buddies continue to be amazed by the ability of these birds to

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make such a journey, specifically now as human activity is having such a major impact on their habitats. Some birds have already departed but as the remainder of the migrating birds head off, Byron Bird Buddies would like to thank the people of Byron Bay and Brunswick Heads for their sensitivity in allowing the birds a bit of space to coexist on their and our beaches: ‘At Brunswick Heads they have had the relief of not having dogs constantly chase them and for the first time we witnessed the Bar-tailed Godwits feeding along the shoreline where there was once a dogoff leash area. ‘Some birds however, such as the Pied Oystercatchers,

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Beach Stone-curlews and the little Red-capped Plovers are resident shorebirds and they live and breed at the mouth of the river estuaries and along the beaches all year round. ‘Once again at Brunswick Heads the Beach Stone-curlew fledged a chick and the three breeding pairs of Pied Oystercatchers fledged four chicks between them during this 2011–12 breeding season. ‘Unfortunately the Pied Oystercatchers’ breeding attempts at the Belongil estuary were unsuccessful due to a combination of both human disturbance and weather conditions. ‘The Little and Common Terns continue to feed along our beaches but there has been no attempt of the Little Tern to

again breed in the area. ‘The Byron Bird Buddies would like to thank Byron Council and the National Parks and Wildlife Service for their support during the year, and particularly Birdlife Australia and Byron Beach Suites for assistance in the funding of the shorebird signs both temporary and permanent. ‘If you would like to know more about the birds, you can contact us through our website www.byronbirdbuddies. com.au. ‘You can also help by remembering it is particularly important for the birds to rest during this period of the migration as any disturbance can deplete energy supplies and prevent a successful journey.’ www.echo.net.au

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the Gollan Hotel, a teenage runaway Kelsie, and a man in ALL ABOARD WITH NORPA THIS WEEK 40s who’s moved here to ‘find himself’. All have their NORPA UNVEIL THEIR MOST ANTICIPATED his own reasons for going to Sydney. There is also Anna – she NEW WORK, RAILWAY WONDERLAND. THE was an Italian proxy bride who wants to go home for the last time – but she is here to catch the train. Through her ECHO SPOKE WITH DIRECTOR JULIAN we travel back in time to unleash the memories that the LOUIS ABOUT CREATING THIS VIBRANT station holds. NEW THEATRE PIECE. What are the kind of stories that you are trying to Julian, why have you chosen to create a story around tell? Taking the theme of ‘hellos’ and ‘goodbyes’ as our trains? Lismore train station may no longer be in use but emotional touchstone we devised a magical mystery tour people’s memories and experiences there are so deep – that jumps across time and into the secret melodramas for some it is was where they met their husband, lover, of everyday lives – the sorts of things you only dare tell to wife – and the station plays a huge role in the history of complete strangers you know you will never see again. the region. People arrived here with boxes of belongings. What process did you use to create the script? Two The trains brought the people who started the Aquarius years ago NORPA, with the help of the Northern Rivers Festival in Nimbin – hippies arrived on the train for Writers’ Centre, asked the public to submit short stories the festival and many of them didn’t leave. I felt it was about railway journeys or events that occurred at the important to celebrate the space that has witnessed time railway station. We also looked at train movies from and major changes in people’s lives – it is the site that has the 1940s to the present day, listened to train songs brought the beginnings and endings for many people. and researched the arrival of migrants to the area – Why do you think we romanticise that form of public particularly the Italian community – who mostly arrived transport over, say, buses? There’s something innately in the region on trains. Through a series of workshops romantic about trains and I think part of it is because at with actors and dancers we have now created the script any moment you could get on that train and go further – into the mix we have added dance, projection design, a than you thought, or not get off at the stop you planned, live band and a nine-piece choir! or meet someone. There’s something about not being in It’s very ambitious staging a show at the train station control, about the rhythm and traversing the landscape, – how are you overcoming the staging problems? I that is romantic and exciting. My own connection to know – it’s big! We have had to construct a scaffolded railway stations as a boy was catching a train every day to seating bank to hold 200 seats per night. We can control school – I would often see girls down the platform whom the lights and of course we’re adding lots of effects and I would fall in love with but would never speak to! projectors – we can’t control the weather but there will be cover in case it rains! Trains tend to be very working class – or used by people who are struggling economically… (I caught How has script development been for you? It’s been a it many times and can verify this!); are these stories fantastic experience. Its the third project I’ve worked on of working-class people? Yes, at the heart of the work is with Janis Balodis. Working with the cast in developing the working class – there are certainly characters we will the content has also been hugely productive. The show identify with! In the fluorescent glow of the waiting room has developed in the most amazing way for me – in fact we watch four characters waiting for the bus to Casino this process has been ideal. The project has been in the (all heading to Sydney) – Garry the karaoke champion of making over two years so we have been able to involve a

whole range of people with different talents and insights. What have been the biggest challenges in creating this show? One of the biggest challenges has been to create the movement sequences inside the waiting room. – I’ve always been interested in how to make something as mundane as ‘waiting’ interesting and entertaining – you’ll have to see the show to see how we have achieved it – songs, dance and interesting character stories have helped! How do you hope to attract people from a wider region? We’re finding that even people who are not usually into theatre are attracted to Railway Wonderland because of its unique setting and it’s a different, fun thing to do. NORPA audiences do travel from all over the region to Lismore for our shows. We’re also running a return shuttle bus from Byron Bay to Lismore for the Thursday 29 performance of Railway Wonderland – if it goes well it’s something we’ll look at continuing for other shows and expanding the run to other areas. What should audience members expect? Magic on the stage of the Lismore train station platform – the show is highly entertaining and surprising – and at times quite moving. The whole night will be an event – we’ve got live music, a bar and a pizza oven set up in the carpark so people can hang out before the show too. Railway Wonderland presented by NORPA, Tuesday 27 March to Sat 31 March, 8pm (live music, bar and wood-fired pizza from 6pm). Lismore train station, Union St, Lismore. Tickets A$37, C$30, under 18 $16.50. For bookings www. norpa.org.au or call NORPA BOX OFFICE Mon–Fri 1300 066 772. (Byron Bay theatre shuttle: Thursday 29 March, leaving Byron Bay Info Centre, Jonson St, at 6.30pm and returning at 10.45pm. $10 per passenger. Bookings through NORPA essential.)

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even better when they’ve been cleaned. They’re like the public phone boxes of the toilet world. See Mandy live at It’s all about catering for the www.echonetdaily.net.au lowest common denominator. It’s like councils assume that we SKIP TO THE LOO are going to smear our faeces over the wall, smash the mirror You can tell a lot about a town shit. Enjoy your meal.’ and kill ourselves. If there’s a by its toilets. McDonald’s has I have often wondered why made such a huge impact in toilets need to be locked in the piece of polished steel in the place of a mirror, I get scared. regional areas not just for cheap first place. Apart from having burgers but for the consistent sex, injecting drugs and licking What kind of people use these facilities? Should I be expecting supply of modern clean toilets. the bowl clean there’s not that They don’t even have to much you can get up to in a loo. a day tour from Grafton prison to pull up? If you’ve ever tried advertise the fact: it’s common After you’ve scribbled on the knowledge. A piss in a McToilet back of the door that you were to apply lipstick by using the smudgy sheen of the metal is McHeaven. Even people here and declared that some square you know my dilemma. like myself who view such chick who rejected you is a slut, Entering a public toilet is like multinationals as corporate it gets a bit dull. evil are prepared to swallow diving under water. One must No, Maccas has the toilet thing hold one’s breath. The stench our personal politics for a pee. They don’t call them the ‘golden covered. It’s the obvious way of human waste is putrid. Then to capture a market. You don’t arches’ for nothing. there’s the tension of what lies behind the door: a turd hiding And what better way to capture even need good food, they’ve made it pretty clear you can under a soggy wad, a seat that’s a travelling public – to provide sell any old shit because as been ripped off its hinges, a the comfort of disease-free Confucius say: man who has pervert. If you find a toilet with a bladder release, without any seat in a cubicle with a door and nasty signs threatening eviction weed is up for a feed. Public toilets frighten me. a door with a latch you have mid-poo: ‘Toilets for Patrons Especially the ones with blue won public toilet lotto. Then if ONLY’. They don’t even lock them up. There’s nothing more lights. They put them in there so you have toilet paper, you have you can’t find a vein. Great, now achieved the impossible. humiliating than having to I can’t find the seat. Or the toilet I judge people’s hygiene carry a toilet key attached to paper. Public toilets are these an anvil past the other diners. standards by the state of their One might as well declare ‘Hello brutal places that are hosed toilets. On a larger scale people everyone, I’m about to take a out once a week – it’s never judge your town by the state

of your loos. Ironically there’s problem because I was on a a constant catchcry in town toilet anyway. It was a voice that we need more tourists. recording of someone reading We need them to stay longer Clancy of the Overflow. It really and spend more money. helped me loosen up. All day In Byron our toilets give a those who relieve themselves in wonderful message to our Gunnedah are treated to poetry. visiting public. They say ‘We don’t care, scumbag. Fuck OFF.’ In fact having a weak bladder in that town just makes you more The least you could do is offer cultured. some sort of hand sanitation at the entrance and maybe an Why don’t we do the same immunity booster. here? Use something about Recently I travelled to our integral nature to theme Gunnedah in north-western our loos? Themed with surfing NSW, an agricultural town on perhaps, so that cubicles could the precipice of another mining be dedicated to our local boom. Clearly when they get tourists they don’t want them to legends like George Greenough leave. I ducked into their public and Rusty Miller. Or they could toilets, located in the middle of be healing toilets that not only town. My first shock was that vibrate and give you a chakrathey were clean. Then that they balancing massage but also were new. Then that there was provide an automatic enema. no graffiti. Then that each door We could be the first papercarried the name of a bush poet free toilets in Australia with with a verse. Being in the ladies’ our mantra I got a few verses of Women of inscribed at the West. Wow, I could pick a poetry-themed door for my piss! the entrance: ‘Welcome to On sitting, a man’s voice Byron… Let boomed out. I nearly shat Yourself Go’. myself, which wasn’t such a Read more of Mandy in her new book, What I Would Do If I Were You, available at all good bookshops.

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drummer Tony Buck lives in Berlin, and he likes to escape the winter there, so we try to schedule our Australian tour each year to coincide. Last September we did a North American tour, and in November we did a really big tour of Europe. We meet up wherever in the world we need to be. It’s funny when all three of us show up for the start of a tour from different locations. How are you received overseas? It’s just as positive as it is here. Tony moved o/s in 1991 and it wasn’t till 1998 that Why do you think reaching a state of emptiness helps he told us from Europe that he thought the audiences What should we expect for your Byron show? Three you be more responsive when improvising? Actually, there would really like what we do. Up until then we guys on stage with acoustic instruments summoning the I’m not sure I’d say a state of emptiness is best, rather a weren’t sure it would ‘translate’. So he set up a great run spirits. state simply where one is not over-finessing the decisions of 17 or 18 shows and the response was really strong. that arise. Contrary to some people’s understanding, Byron Bay Community Centre, Wed 28 March, 7.30pm People ‘got’ where we were coming from musically, yet improvising music can often require a lot of attention $25/$28. Bookings: http://byroncentre.com.au/whatsin the same breath told us they hadn’t heard anything to the nuts and bolts. Sometimes I’ve taken the stage on/details/179?xref=285. Phone 6685 6807. else like it. Same with North America when with The Necks in an incredibly distracted state, and the we later started touring there. So we’ve just resulting music has been some of the best I think I’ve been building on that. Next month we do our come up with. first show in Japan, which will be interesting. Sometimes the state of emptiness is reached, not before It’s at All Tomorrow’s Parties, curated by Jim the performance, but during it, when things start to get O’Rourke, formerly of Sonic Youth. We’ve really orgiastic and hallucinatory. always known we have a following there, but the offers just haven’t come along at the right It sounds a bit like spiritual practice… do you think time till now. there’s something intrinsically Zen about what you do… does it stay with you off stage; I mean does the way you create music filter into how you live your life… are you more responsive to situations rather than reactive? I don’t know a The Necks whole lot about Zen, but I do Wed 28 March 7.30pm think playing in The Necks has $25 presale / $28 on the door subtly affected my outlook over Sonic Temple – Presented the decades. I’m definitely more by Resonant Temple & Seed fatalistic these days. Maybe that’s Sat 31 March doors open 6pm merely a natural consequence of $25 growing older, but in many ways I think The Necks are very fatalistic Wings of Sound Eurythmy about the creative process. We Ensemble – Sonnets and Songs try to write ourselves out of the Monday 9 April 7.30pm Add your unique voice to Byron Shire’s own and only radio creative equation and just let that $30 / $25 conc / $60 family of 4 station, BayFM 99.9. something, whatever is it, take over. Harmony Day I don’t know which feeds which March is submission month for the Winter period! Sat 14 April 2pm though. Probably a bit of both. Our presenters will have fresh ideas, great music, quality $10 on the door I have listened to The Necks and presentation and something to share with the community. when it’s really happening, it Menopause The Musical® Past and aspiring presenters can pick up program always reminded me of being in IN CONCERT the slipstream – is it as effortless submission forms at BayFM, upstairs BCCC Fletcher Wednesday 18 April 8pm as it looks? That’s the state we try $55 Street during office hours or you can download from our to get in, and it’s wonderful when Community Table Cafe & Bar now open an hour before all events website at bayfm.org. it happens to be effortless, but Byron Theatre Closing date for applications: Friday March 30, 5pm. if it doesn’t, we have to focus on Byron Community Centre creating a situation where it can 69 Jonson Street Byron Bay start to happen. Box Ofﬁce hrs: 10am–4pm Phone 6685 6807 Your media release says you YOUR COMMUNITY RADIO STATION have returned home… where for tickets & more info have you been exactly? Our www.bayfm.org Phone: 6680 7999 www.byroncentre.com.au

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Music On Paper AFTER RECORDING THEIR NEW EP IN A SWISS STUDIO, DALI AND THE PAPER BAND PREPARE FOR THEIR BYRON SHIRE LAUNCH. How would you describe the kind of music that you play? It’s funk, folk, dance and groove with a thin layer of pop and reggae icing on top! How did the band come into being? I started writing songs when I had nothing left to play. After performing solo, I realised how much fun writing and playing your own songs is. So I gathered some musicians together and the Paper Band was born! The band has had a few different members come and go over the passing years, but the present group we have is the best so far. Is it true: are good drummers who don’t spontaneously combust (as in Spinal Tap) hard to find? I don’t know if I could sleep at night if it was! But Alf (the Paper Band drummer) does look like he is going to combust at times! If you could create your own super-band casting from dead and living musicians, who would be in the lineup? Flea on bass, Jeff Buckley on guitar and vocals, and Carter Beauford on drums. I think that would be an awesome band. That is if they got along! What is it about your sound that makes you unique? It’s hard to say what’s unique. Because every band is unique, none is the same as another. But we perform standing on our heads, and sip cups of tea between songs. Haha! Where did you record your EP? Who produced it etc.? The EP was recorded in Zollikofen, Switzerland. It was produced by Robert Aeberhard and me, mixed by Rob and mastered by Don Bartley, Sydney. What did you set out to achieve with the recording? We really wanted to have a professional CD that we can use to get our music out there as much as possible and know that when people listen to the CD they won’t be disappointed! How did you feel about the results? Everything can always be better, but I am very happy with how it all turned out! Tell me what to expect for your forthcoming launch? Eargasm, urges to dance, strong urges to buy our EP, and then a good night’s sleep after the show, cause you are so tired from having such a productive evening. Dali and the Paper Band play Lu Lu’s Café in Mullum on Saturday at 11am and then launch their EP at the Rails that same day at 8pm. CDs will be on sale for $10.

AUTOCRATS AT THE BEACH Steve Lane and the Autocrats are seasoned musicians who deliver heartfelt odes to everyday life. Their debut album, The Romance Of Communication, was released in late 2011 to sterling reviews. Rapidly gathering a reputation as a live act not to be missed, you couldn’t ask for a band with a better music pedigree. It includes frontman Steve Lane (voicepopfoible), a prolific musician and music producer; the ‘Earl Of Bass’ Edmondo Amendola (Augie March); ‘Gentlemanly Purveyor Of Beats’ Dave Williams (Augie March, Dan Kelly); co- conspirator Jimmy Williams (Paul Kelly & The Dots, The Shedshakers) and ‘Rhythmic Axeman’ Pete Slater (Dalriada). Beach Hotel on Friday.

MR CASSIDY IN THE TREE

When fate brought together Emilie Owen and Danni Carr, two former musicians turned mums and housewives, it seemed perfectly logical to the duo that they would soon DIRTY THREE AT STAR CO URT be headlining major country music THEATRE IN LISMORE festivals together as ‘Mr Cassidy’. Part ON FRIDAY toothless Deliverance-style bluegrass, KNIGHT AND DAZE AT THE part Dolly Parton (minus the chest), and BUDDHA BAR citing influences such as Gillian Welch, Kellie Knight and The Daze are an Kieren Kane and Patty Griffin, Mr Cassidy are exciting new north coast music outfit yet to secure the festival headline gig they that is currently tearing up north coast are so sure is just around the corner, but it’s music venues with its tight, high-sheen clear: they have the chops to get there. take on dance-oriented funk and soul. The duo had separately earned their musical Fronting the band is Diva Kellie Knight, stripes more than ten years ago – Emilie had a singer of exceptional authority, range much success in punk rock outfit Luxedo, and power, who brings tangible soul their tracks becoming JJJ and European hits, and raw emotion to their sound. The but walked away from rock star ambitions to very cool and groovacious rhythm raise a family with husband Scott Owen of section consists of Keith Hammond The Living End. Danni’s past life in much(drums) and Paul Brewer (bass), while loved Melbourne folk band Sweet Painted local guitar hero Steve Mcleod soars Ladies also took a back seat to beginning a into the sublime on electric guitar. family with bluesman Ash Grunwald. To round out this knock-out funk E BEACH TH AT K A chance meeting while their husbands AN M E TH machine, local veteran music master AY were jamming in Byron Bay saw the pair HOTEL ON FRID Barry Ferrier (Dr Baz) brings his hatch a plan for country music world intriguing multi-instrumental skills domination. ‘Emilie and I hadn’t even heard each other play but to the mix, weaving in surreal sounds by the end of our first conversation we decided that we would and jazzy riffs on keyboards, flute, guitar and accordion. The form a band and storm the country music circuit’, laughs Danni. Daze have crafted a classic, timeless sound, combining the best Mr Cassidy was formed that day, and has seen the pair develop aspects of every R&B style into a unique groove. They deliver a rich and eclectic blend of smoking dance tunes, ranging from the a swag of edgy country music songs that will see them become exciting soul workouts of Dee Dee Bridgewater to vintage Stevie firm favourites in the hearts of music lovers across Australia, and almost certainly get them that slot on the main stage very soon. Wonder and James Brown, through to sophisticated free-form grooves of Herbie Hancock and Miles Davis, and occasionally Mr Cassidy will play their very first show at the The Treehouse throwing in some fun disco classics to keep their audiences on Belongil, Thursday – entry is free and there will be some very dancing up a sweat. Byron Brewery Buddha Bar on Saturday. special guests appearing!

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The Lismore Jazz Club presents local group Casino Street at the Lismore City Bowling Club on Sunday from 2pm to 5pm. Casino Street is led by Sally Gwynne on vocals, a woman with a long association with the jazz scene, first in Sydney where she has worked with some of the greats of Australian jazz, most prominently jazz legends Julian Lee and Craig Scott, whom she regularly performed with in trio and quartet lineups. Since relocating to the north coast several years ago Sally has sought out well-known local musicians and has been doing gigs around the local circuit. For thisgig, Sally will have Frank Williams on sax, Don Peterson on bass, John Derkley on keyboard, Ben Rogers on guitar and Tim Burrell on drums. Admission is members and students $10 and nonmembers $15.

In what is sure to prove a cracking combination, local purveyors of sexy pub rock Shybaby are oiled and ready to show Brunswick what they’ve been missing out on. They know the people want to dance and party so they pump out hits from all eras in a sultry yet supercharged show designed to get you moving. It’s sure to be the best party the Bruns has had in some time so put on your dancing shoes and get along to the Hotel Brunswick, this Saturday from 7.30pm.

Greetings dear dubbers and minds alike!! Here’s a local and independent event not be missed with 7 hours of quality and conscious bass music by some of the country’s finest producers of Dub/ Dubstep/D’nB music as well as a first time ever live mixing & recording of Australia’s biggest roots reggae band Fyah Walk by the legendary UK producer “Mad Professor” in Dub”! Come join us for an exclusive night of both earth grounding and mind/body lifting tunes and visuals! This Saturday night from 8pm to 3am at the Northern, Byron Bay. Tickets from $35 available through Greentix , Oztix and a bit more on the door. Positive vibes only event! :)

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This week’s Sun joining Mercury, Uranus and end-of-week new moon in Aries ignites a burst of inspired ideas, fiery interactions, unfiltered opinions and lively debate…

 ARIES: With Mercury, Uranus, the sun and new moon in Aries, this week heralds a renaissance of your confidence, originality and creativity. A birthday thought for 2012: Aries’s birthstone is the diamond, which is in essence a piece of charcoal that has learned to handle stress with extreme brilliance.  TAURUS: In this week of the great leap forward the gift is in the shift: in not playing the game as you always have. So allow your thinking to undergo a radical transformation if it needs to, and remember that most magic happens outside the comfort zone.  GEMINI: Powerful forces are operating which need you to slow down and be more thoughtful. Contacts are very important right now because any one could lead to future opportunities, so offer only constructive criticism and avoid making the usual assumptions. This week’s people are likely to surprise you.  CANCER: According to Cancerian literary futurist George Orwell, during times of universal deceit telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act – and this week, ready or not, the truth will out. So best not ask anyone’s opinion unless you’re ready for the blunt, upfront, unvarnished version.  LEO: A planetary surge in the feisty sign of new moves and original thinking reboots your majesty’s

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entrepreneurial enthusiasm for dealing with present but they aren’t all available yet – you’ll have to live unrelenting changes. This week delights in cheek, with questions a while longer. Really do the maths on chutzpah, inventiveness, ingenuity and spontaneous any major life changes you’re contemplating; wait till innovation – and if that’s not your style then I’ll eat my you know the time is really right for that important ephemeris. move forward. VIRGO: Regarding this week’s Mars retro in your sign:  CAPRICORN: As enterprising types with adventurous Virgo best-seller Paulo Coelho suggests resigning from ideas and progressive propositions enter your orbit, the post of General Manager of Life. And Virgo Don this week’s scene is ripe with opportunities for selfMiguel Ruiz advises: Don’t take anything personally. marketing. About which, some notes to self could Nothing others do is because of you. It’s a projection include: Giving in gracefully without arguing every of their own reality. little point, and practising deep listening as opposed to selective hearing. LIBRA: Anyone who attended Libran epigeneticist Bruce Lipton’s recent talk at Mullum Civic learned  AQUARIUS: A fun week for Aquirkians, brainstorming that human evolution’s furthered by cooperation, your effervescent ideas, progressive thoughts and not competition. You knew that, but balancing this mischievous opinions with uncensored directness. But week’s independent tendencies, pass-ag reactions and why squander all your energy on talk, when there’s childish behaviour will road test your skill at putting also a gung-ho go-ahead push to begin something this belief into action. you’ve been procrastinating about for who can remember how long? SCORPIO: A bold, in-your-face week of exuberant enthusiasm and of course Scorpios want to know  PISCES: Are present celestial mechanics shaking your about their sex life – sorry, love life. Spunky Venus in world up, down and all around? Then remember you Taurus is down-to-earthy rather than up-in-the-mindy, can’t solve problems with the same kind of thinking which suggests a lot more actually happening than that created them. Meanwhile, this week takes the the usual fantasies. angst out of at least one difficult decision by making it for you… SAGITTARIUS: This week thinks it has the answers,

MUSIC WITH BALLS After being officially Unearthed by Triple J just over a year ago, Ball Park Music have become one of Australia’s must-see musical outfits. With widespread airplay the catalyst for a touring regime that doesn’t seem to let up, Ball Park Music are the band that the masses are talking about. As of last week, Ball Park Music can add another accolade to the ever-growing list, with two entries in Australia’s most widely renowned musical democracy – Triple J’s Hottest 100. It’s Nice to Be Alive and All I Want is You appeared at #31 and #38 respectively.Their record Happiness… received nominations for Album of the Year in both Triple J’s J Awards and the Rolling Stone Awards. It was also voted the 10th-Best Album of 2011 in Triple J’s listener poll. Ball Park Music have become one of the most cohesive creative units in the country. Now, the bar is set as they embark on their biggest national outing yet. Hotel Great Northern on Friday.

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GETTING DOWN WITH THE DIRTY THREE

The Dirty Three have just released their remarkable new album, Toward the Low Sun , their first since Cinder in 2005. Originating in Melbourne back in 1993, first playing as a pub act with Warren Ellis strapping on a guitar pickup to his violin for a distorted feedback-drenched tone. From that point on they grew in stature within the Melbourne music scene until the release of their demo Sad and Dangerous. The album, along with subsequent tours with Sonic Youth, John Cale, and again Pavement, led to a record deal with Chicago’s Touch and Go.The Dirty Three then toured the US and throughout Europe and the UK, releasing their seventh major album Cinder back in 2005. This was the first album to feature vocals. Dirty Three’s last tour of Australia was in 2009 when they performed their album Ocean Songs in its entirety as part of the Don’t Look Back classic albums series – a run of shows that sold out across the country. Dirty Three play Lismore’s Star Court Theatre on Friday.

E IN THE TREEHOUS MR CASSIDY AT AY SD UR TH Electric Forest will be returning N O BELONGIL to the source this March holding space for the Techquinox cyber tribal MANKY MUSIC gathering on Saturday at Kohinur Hall, making this the first The Sunshine Coast might be home to the Big Pineapple, but the transformational dance music event of 2012, from the crew latest noise looking to make a mark on the map is much louder that brought you Earthdance 2004–2011, Electric Buddha, Maya than a giant bright yellow-and-green piece of fruit. Solstice Festival and countless standout dance events over the A heady brew of production smarts and live energy, The Mank’s last fifteen years. Electric Forest is the longest-running dance five-piece crew is creating a flavour that is a soul-soaked mixed music production hub in the Byron Bay region determined to bag of beats from the vinyl jungle and real songcraft… A soulful grow into the new millennium with outstanding production values and cutting-edge tunes for the discerning electronic dance mix of electronica, hip hop, funk, reggae and downbeat. Friday at the Beach Hotel. music freak. There will be stunning projections and state-of-theart audio from multidimensional media artists Crystal Grid, decor MAMAS ARE COOKIN’! by the legendary TrancEnhance, lighting design by Tyndall Seems having a booming music career is only the tip of the Effect and more installation artists to be announced. Featuring iceberg for Kathryn Jones, who has mustered up a posse of wild DJ Magu and DJ Pob, two of the Byron Shire’s most popular fillies for a show that she says will ‘blow your mind’. Following on and well-known DJs. Vegetarian feast catered for by Vego Gone from her successful 2011 Mothers In Music workshop, Kathryn has Troppo, delicious samosas, spring rolls, salads, cakes, coffee and personally mentored a group of four aspiring women-in-music

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bass-driven, conscious and entertaining dub/reggae mixing/ recording live experience!’ The musical integration for this event will be combining one of the world’s few remaining pioneers of live reggae/dub recording and mixing, legendary UK producer Mad Professor and Australia’s biggest roots reggae band Fyah Walk, followed by a lineup of solid local and interstate support acts including Dakini, Si-Fixion, 3rdEye, Lubdub and MaRz Sound System. Saturday at the Hotel Great Northern. TOM RIC HARDS ON AT THE RAILS O N THURSD AY

who will present their work in a dynamic performance showcasing their original songs. Saturday 31 March at St Martin’s Anglican Church in Mullumbimby.

MAD PROFESSOR MEETS FYAH WALK IN DUB Creators of the Mad Professor meets Fyah Walk show say, ‘Our vision in this project is to bring together the essential and complementary elements that make up a high-quality,

Mungo’s Crossword

STAYING IN THE LOOP WITH TOM If Bob Marley surfed his way across to Mississippi and stopped in at the crossroads for a cup of tea with the devil before heading over to Fiji for choir practice, you would be left with something that resembled Tom Richardson. After spending the past year focusing on his full band, the Tom Richardson Project, releasing his debut double studio album, Guide Your Ship, Tom is spending March showcasing his new solo show. Using the latest in loop-pedal technology, Tom creates a wall of sound, overdubbing four-part vocal harmonies, complicated percussion grooves and lead and rhythm guitar parts, all live on stage. Thursday at the Rails.

BEAVIS IN BANGA Bangalow gets a chance to catch Brisbane blues at its best when Jimi Beavis plays the Bangalow Hotel on Sunday. Beavis and his guitarist Dave McGuire will be hitting the stage for a lunch session, playing some originals and some old classics in their jazzinflected old-school blues style. Many of the songs played at the Bangalow will be recorded soon, with some brandnew compositions, featuring some swing, some dirty shuffles and even a Latin-infused drinking song. 12.30–3.30pm.

Quick Clues

Cryptic Clues

ACROSS 1. Emblem of a clan or tribe (5) 4. Male head of a family or tribe (9) 9. Hateful, disgusting (9) 10. Donkeys. Dopes (5) 11. Revoke, particularly at cards (6) 12. Australia’s public health system (8) 14. State of gloomy preoccupation (5,5) 16. Injure, hurt (4) 19. Relaxation, comfort (4) 20. Attribution, allegation (10) 22. Rude, cheeky (8) 23. Rhythm, tempo (6) 26. Foreign, very strange (5) 27. One who equips expeditions (9) 28. One who hears admissions of guilt, also King Edward I (9) 29. Consent, concur (5) DOWN 1. Not too bad, able to be endured (9) 2. Tutor, teach (5) 3. Reddish brown colour, also timber (8) 4. Raised rear deck of a ship (4) 5. Great, very large (10) 6. Sloping style of typeface (6) 7. Cult originating in the West Indies (9) 8. Speed, urgency (5) 13. To do with the pistils and anthers of flowers (10) 15. Overwhelming influence or concern (9) 17. Collection of animals for exhibition (9) 18. Church, usually domed (8) 21. Brief and often furtive look (6) 22. Abraham’s son (5) 24. Bury, put in a tomb (5) 25. Agitate, mix (4)

ACROSS 1. Carry male clan emblem (5) 4. Do repairs around transposed tune; right for Abraham, perhaps (9) 9. Salome: hot, wild and disgusting! (9) 10. Stupid animals, like emergency workers (5) 11. Revoke and remove publicity from deserter (6) 12. Reject LSD in simple health system (8) 14. Investigation of Tom? It’s a serious and depressed state (5,5) 16. Injure hot limb (4) 19. Relax each quarter (4) 20. Setter is placed at a charge – that’s the allegation (10) 22. Broke, lacking five – it’s rude (8) 23. Flannery, one no good for control of tempo (6) 26. Foreign article contains a deliberate untruth (5) 27. Unpopular metalworker, a supplier of equipment (9) 28. Edward, for one, defiantly scorns foe (9) 29. A king with ease; we hear and concur (5) DOWN 1. Lore confused in list; it’s forgivable (9) 2. Transport retinue (5) 3. Quite a few surround a pig – it’s reddish brown (8) 4. Either way, it’s crap (4) 5. Very big fashion about a measure – ring America (10) 6. The font of Rome? (6) 7. Variable star, distant one – could be a cult (9) 8. Antipathy covers sulphur and speed (5) 13. Mast collapses in murky Ouse – it’s all about the filaments and anthers! (10) 15. Alumnus class is a dominating influence (9) 17. Blokes on silver lake? A collection of animals! (9) 18. Herb in charge with a church (8) 21. Good weapon, a batsman’s stroke (6) 22. Newton is a top Australian award (5) 24. Bury among ... (5) 25. ... jail disturbance (4)

Last week’s solution

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AT THE BALLPARK MUSIC RTHERN NO T EA GR L TE HO ON FRIDAY

UKE WORKSHOP & SHOW

Lionel ‘The K’ Hubert (creator of the Paris Uke Fest) will be holding a workshop, Improvisation and Creativity, at the A&I Hall in Bangalow on Wednesday with Bosko and Honey. Says Lionel: ‘During my many years of experience as a musician, producer and arranger, I have often come across people who feel “blocked” in their musical creativity… perhaps because of their preconceptions, uncertainties or lack of confidence. Music is much more than just a story of styles, instruments, techniques or even of particular notes… Let’s talk about dynamics, articulation, rhythm, listening…! This fun and entertaining workshop is an ideas laboratory… a musical brainstorming session designed to inspire! Let’s find the other musician inside you.’ Suitable for anyone with musical aspirations. Concerts start at 8pm. For more details and tickets see www.ukemullum.com.

CHESS by Ian Rogers Play at Byron Services Club, Mon 7pm The 46th Begonia Open in Ballarat produced a surprising result. Three players tied for first place: Melbourne seventh seed Domagoj Dragicevic, Italian visitor Patrick Scharrer, the 10th seed, and, most surprising of all, Queensland teenager Brodie McClymont, seeded 14th. For George Xie the tournament was disappointing: his draw against 12-year-old Karl Zelesco (pictured) and loss to Australian Junior Champion Alistair Cameron moved him even further away from the rating he needs to become Australia’s fifth ever Grandmaster. Half of the 131 player field at Ballarat were juniors, with the outstanding performances coming from the under 15s. Justin Tan and Bobby Cheng, both 14, finished just half a point from first place, while Zelesco and Yi Liu, 14, finished another half point further back. Tan, Cheng and Liu have been part of Australia’s Youth Olympiad Squad and will likely represent Australia in Turkey later this year.

ROUND MOUNTAIN GIRLS AWARDED FOR EXCELLENCE Rabbit Robinson, fiddler for the Round Mountain Girls, came back from Tamworth Country Music Festival this year as proud as punch, and why wouldn’t he be: the Byron Shire-based outfit took out an impressive three Golden Fiddle awards. ‘We won a Golden Fiddle for the best band featuring a fiddler. I got best fiddle teacher, and the lifetime achievement award.’ Fiddling is something Rabbit knows how to do with finesse, and it’s at its finest with the Round Mountain Girls. If you haven’t THE HOTEL had the pleasure then you SHYBABY AT AY ON SATURD certainly should – catch them BRUNSWICK at the launch of their new CD at Casuarina Sand Bar with special guests like Ilona Harker, Mandy Nolan and many more! It’s going to be one hell of a shindig! Saturday from 7.30pm.

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YOU CAN’T STOP THE COMEDY…

One Night Stand Up at Woody’s Surf Shack kicked off to a full house last Thursday, proving that the lust for comedy is alive and well in the Bay. In fact patrons were not just impressed with the quality of the standup, they loved the venue. The love child of two bearded Canadian dudes, Woody’s pays homage to the surfing culture of Byron, creating a venue that celebrates its coastal location as a key part of its identity. One Night Stand Up is a weekly standup comedy room hosted by a professional MC with six spots available for emerging comedians. There is even a wild spot for an audience member who is keen to give it a go! Coopers have got on board with the whole comedy idea and are helping people get on their bikes by giving away a smashing Coopers Green cruiser. To be in the running you need to be at the weekly free comedy nights on Thursdays from 8pm. Every week Woody’s gives away a $50 bar tab, so with the free comedy, the bar tab giveaway, and the bike, everyone’s a winner! Be there this Thursday and welcome back Mandy Nolan as MC.

THE COMEDY OF ERRORS STARRING LENNY HENRY British actor and comedian Lenny Henry stars as Antipholus of Syracuse in Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, presented by the National Theatre as part of its NT Live series and screening at Dendy Cinemas. Two sets of twins separated at birth collide in the same city

■ This week’s game is a tactical tour de force by one of the five winners of Cappelle la Grande. Cappelle la Grande Open 2012 White: M Kravtsiv Black: R Aloma Vidal Opening: Sicilian Defence 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.e5 Nd5 4.g3!? A sensible alternative to the main line 4.Nc3. 4... Nc6 5.Bg2 d6 6.exd6 e6 7.0-0 Bxd6 8.d4 0-0 9.dxc5 Bxc5 10.Qe2 Bd7 11.Rd1 Qe7 12.c4 Nf6 13.Nc3 Rad8? The wrong rook. After 13...Rfd8 14.Bg5 Black can calmly reply 14...Qf8! when 15.Bxf6 gxf6 16.Ne4 Be7 gives Black little to fear. 14.Bg5! h6 15.Bh4! Nb8 Already a sign of desperation. However, 15... g5 16.Nxg5! hxg5 17.Bxg5 is crushing for White. 16.Ne4 Bc6 17.Nxf6+ gxf6 18.Ne5!! Bxg2 19.Ng4! Bd4 20.Kxg2 Simple and effective, though 20.Rxd4 Rxd4 21.Nxf6+ Kh8 22.Qc2! Be4 23.Qc1! would have decided the game even more stylishly. 20...Qc5 21.Nxf6+ Kh8 21... Bxf6 22.Bxf6 Rxd1 23.Qg4+ is hopeless. 22.Qc2 Qf5 23.Qxf5! Simple and strong – Black loses too much material. 23...exf5 24.Nd5 1-0

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E N T E R T A I N M E N T US SINGER-SONGWRITER AND SON-INLAW TO MEL GIBSON, KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD IS ONE OF THE INTERNATIONAL ACTS FRONTING BLUESFEST THIS YEAR. SEVEN CAUGHT UP WITH KENNY ON THE EVE OF HIS AUSTRALIAN VISIT.

Music In The Blood

What influence did your father’s job as a music promoter have on your musical development? I was exposed to many different genres of music and live shows. As a result it all played a role in influencing my musical identity. Can you tell me a little about the effect meeting Stevie Ray Vaughan had on you as a kid? Meeting Stevie was profoundly inspirational. From that moment I was driven to learn how to play guitar with fire, intensity, passion and feeling. You were self taught – how did you do this? you were very young to create a strategy for learning an instrument. I play by ear, so I would listen to songs and sound them out one note at a time. It was a very tedious process, but it worked. How does playing the greats help you become a better player? Every time I have the honour to share the stage with great musicians it inspires me to play better and push my limits. I always try to learn something from the greats so that I can continue to progress.

without meeting for one crazy day, as multiple mistaken identities lead to confusion on a grand scale. Captured live at the National’s Olivier Theatre, Shakespeare’s furiously paced comedy is staged in a contemporary world, into which walk three prohibited foreigners who see everything for the first time. UK theatre critics love this new production directed by Dominic Cooke, with London’s Mail on Sunday awarding it five stars: ‘Fabulous fun… Dominic Cooke’s imaginative, superbly acted contemporary production’. The Comedy of Errors screens at Dendy Byron Bay Cinemas at 1pm on Saturday and Sunday. Tickets are $23–$25, children $15. Phone bookings to cinema on 6680 8555.

When did you make the jump from other people’s compositions to your own? Somewhere between the ages of 11 and 13 I began writing original songs. I knew that in order to have my own identity as an artist I would have to make the transition from playing other people’s music to creating my own. What is it about blues music that ignited the passion in your playing? The passion and feeling that is necessary to play the blues is what drew me to it. When I listen to the blues I feel something deep inside and it feels good. I’ve never seen ‘Blues from the Backroads’, but can you tell me a little about what inspired that project? Were you trying to archive great players that could be lost once they pass on? How successful was it a project for you? Were there still people you wanted to hunt down? ‘10 Days Out’ Blues From the Backroads was a project born out of my love for blues music, its artists that have inspired me, and the blues fans that continue to support the genre. The idea was to play with some of my musical heroes and also play with some other artists for the first time… To give a unique project to the blues community as a thankyou for the inspiration and support it has provide me for so many years. It was extremely successful and I believe it will continue to be a relevant piece for generations to enjoy. There are always more artists out there to seek out and play with, and we have considered doing a

follow-up to it maybe one day. What for you are your three most memorable live performances? 1. The first time I played with BB King at age 15. 2. Playing to 80,000 people every night while on tour opening for the Eagles’ ‘Hell Freezes Over’ tour in Europe. 3. The ‘Howlin’ for Hubert’ show we just did in New York at the Apollo Theatre. I was paying tribute to a mentor and a dear friend, and also got to share the stage with Eric Clapton for the first time. How I Go was released last year – as a seventh album, what are the places that you go now that you wouldn’t have dared 10 years back? I don’t know really. I feel that I have always been willing to experiment with my music and take chances while always maintaining the integrity of the music. I feel like the biggest difference is maturity that has come with playing live concerts and recording albums for 20 years. And can you tell me what we can expect for your 2012 Bluesfest performance? There will be a mix of songs from most of the records we have put out over the years, along with some cover tunes that we love to play. Easter long weekend in Byron Bay. For more program details and ticketing info go to www. bluesfest.com.au.

BLACK & WHITE & SEX SCREENS FRIDAY AT THE DRILL HALL IN MULLUMBIMBY

DRAGON ART 2012 is the Year of the Water Dragon. In Chinese mythology the dragon represents power, strength and good luck and is believed to be able to control the weather. In the Water Dragon years, water is believed to have a calming influence on the fearless temperament of the dragon. The dragon needs lots of calming this year! Tweed River Art Gallery is hosting the exhibition ‘The Dragon’s Back’ by Sue Fraser, Louise Fulton and Ruth Park. Sue recently won Byron Shire’s Acquisitive Award at the Byron Art Classic with a blue-andwhite porcelain horse sculpture. The works include Sue Fraser’s horses, Louise Fulton’s wall sculptures and cauldrons and Ruth Park’s moon jars, all exuding elements of the dragon of oriental mythology. Opening Friday at Tweed River Art Gallery from 6pm.

SEX IN MULLUM SUE FRASER’S WORK IS PART OF THE Mullum Flicks presents Black & THE DRAGON’S BACK EXHIBIT FROM White & Sex. This independent FRIDAY AT TWEED RIVER ART GALLERY Aussie film, directed by John Winter, takes us into uncharted territory where Angie, a sex worker, is played by eight different women. Candid and seductive, Angie is determined to set the record straight about sex. As she reveals herself, layer by layer, she also exposes the man who is interviewing her. This daring film is shot in dazzling black and white; however, we learn that sex is anything but black and white. Drill Hall, Mullumbimby on Friday. Desserts, cakes, drinks 7pm with film at 8pm. Tickets: $14/12. Mullum Bookshop and door. www.travellingflicks.com

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Tour de Force: In Case of Emergency Break Glass Tour de Force: In Case of Emergency is a project developed by artisan and Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, curated by Megan Bottari and toured by Museum & Gallery Services Queensland. The exhibition tour is supported by Visions of Australia, an Australian Government program, and the Visual Art and Crafts Strategy, an initiative of the Australian Government and state and territory governments

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Personal Space: Contemporary Chinese and Australian prints A Manly Art Gallery & Museum Touring Exhibition. Curated by Michael Kempson

PUBLIC PROGRAM (DST) Fri 23 Mar 5pm Preview talk: Tour de Force with exhibition curator Megan Bottari Fri 23 Mar 6pm (for 6.30pm speeches) Official Opening: Tour de Force, The Dragon’s Back and New Acquitisions to the Collection. All are welcome to join special guests, artists and Gallery staff for the official opening celebrations April Holiday Creative Workshop brochure for Children - Available Now!!

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ROLL UP! ROLL UP! ROLL UP! Come and have fun at the circus!

Circus Olympics Olympics

A carnival day for the whole family Sat 24th March 10am – 2pm Circus shows, kids games, extreme circus, funny races & scrumptious food. Heaps of prizes to win, come dressed up as a circus star!

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Cinema Review A Separation Politics, prejudices and patronising endorsements sometimes play more than just an insignificant part in determining the winner of an Academy Award for best foreign film; writer/director Asghar Farhadi’s superb drama proves that a riveting story with great performances need be the glittering prize’s only essential criterion (it and The Artist make up the Oscars’ best double in yonks). It opens with Nader (Peyman Moadi) and his wife Simin (Leila Hatami) speaking directly to camera – to you. Stating their case for divorce before a judge, both claim the right to keep their young daughter, Termeh (Serena Farhadi). The couple is in intractable

Separation has been made on a shoestring, relying solely on plot, dialogue and characterisation (the performances are brilliant). External scenes have been shot with a hand-held, obviously hidden camera – it is unlikely that there would have been more than one take for any of them – and the rawness of the technique adds to the realism. Not that the movie should be regarded as mere agitprop. Dealing with women’s rights and the (to us) almost medieval underpinnings of Iran’s judicial system, it is certainly that, but far and away its primary concern is the human condition and how circumstance and self-interest conspire, how we tell little lies and half-truths to justify our actions, how responsibility confounds and love confuses. A wonderful, unmissable movie. ~ John Campbell

opposition, and when Simin leaves the household Nader employs pregnant Razieh (Sareh Bayat) to help care for his Alzheimer’s-striken father. A misunderstanding and an apparently minor accident result in tragedy. The perplexing thing for the audience is that nobody is clearly right or wrong in what they do and say. How often are we led – browbeaten in many cases – to favour one side over the other? Mainstream cinema is so dominated by the adversarial paradigm of good versus bad, with heavy-handed music prodding our responses, that thinking about what we are seeing has largely become an optional process. Compared with the green-screen megaduds that arrive week after week in the multiplexes, A

21 Jump Street I spent a lot of the time in this loud and coarse teen flick wondering if the bloke who played Eric was James Franco. It turns out that it is younger brother Dave Franco. I was similarly distracted later when a police officer in bikie drag revealed himself as Johnny Depp – or was it? Yes, it was, and he gets a cameo because he starred in the late-eighties TV show that is being spoofed (I’d never heard of it. But then again, I’d also never heard of Gotye, whose dial was on the cover of last weekend’s Spectrum magazine. Whither am I drifting? I ask myself). At high school in 1995, Schmidt (Jonah Hill) was a tubby loser who bleached his hair and dressed like Eminem. The dumb jock who mocked him was Jenko (Channing Tatum). They both ended up at the police academy where each helped the other graduate. On the beat, their ineptitude led to them being transferred to Jump Street, a division that specialises in sending undercover cops into educational institutions. It is more than just a bit of a stretch to see Hill and Tatum passing themselves off as teenagers, but the story is not aimed at Rhodes Scholars, so what the hell. The first half-hour is typically idiotic, but once you have become acclimatised to the oafishness and the fucken language, dude, there FULLY AIR-CONDITIONED

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Martin Scorcese has made a great movie, even if it is a little bit prosaic in the stretches that aren’t breathtaking. The setting is Paris, 1931, and Hugo Cabret (Asa Butterfield) is living with his drunken father at one of the city’s vast central railway stations, where they tend to the clocks. He is fascinated by the nuts and bolts, the levers and pulleys, the coils and springs of all the contraptions around him. Reconstructing a discarded automaton, Hugo is befriended by Isabelle (Chloë Grace Moretz), the granddaughter of an elderly shopkeeper at the station who turns out to be the onceprolific and groundbreaking filmmaker Georges Méliès (Ben Kingsley). His constant adversary is the lame Station Inspector (Sacha Baron Cohen), whose mission is to be rid of the gamin. This is Scorcese’s humble homage to cinema’s largely forgotten giants of the past, his most endearing achievement being to highlight the genius of Méliès by contrasting it with today’s state-of-the-art 3D technology. Scorsese steps back and leaves centre stage to the French pioneer’s hand-tinted masterpiece, Le Voyage Dans La Lune (1902). Shown in full, it is a beautiful and moving segment.

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1. Johnny Depp has a supporting role in the excellent Cuban drama Before Night Falls (SBS2, Saturday, 9.35pm), based on the autobiography of Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas. It charts his success as a writer and his oppression by the Cuban government before escape to the United States and eventual suicide at age 47 in New York. Javier Bardem earned an Oscar nomination for his role as Arenas. A constant theme in Arenas’s work is the condemnation of the Castro government, not to mention the Catholic Church and US culture and politics. 2. An inhabitant of the Mesozoic checks out the landscape in the new series Australia: The Time Traveller’s Guide (ABC1, Sunday, 7.30pm). This is an ambitious Australian production starting with the formation of our planet and the life-free surface of Australia as part of the Gondwana supercontinent, until the arrival of plants in the Cambrian, the precursor to our great coal deposits, and on to the evolution of Clive Palmer. There’s a groovy interactive website for the program at www.abc.net.au/tv/timetravellers.

WEDNESDAy 21 ABC 1

4.00 The New Inventors 4.30 Can We Help? 5.00 Gardening Australia 5.30 Catalyst 6.00 ABC News 9.30 Business Today 10.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Big Ideas 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 National Press Club Address 1.30 E2: Transport 2.00 Parliament Question Time 3.00 Kids’ Programs

10.30 World News Australia

11.05 Movie: The Silence (M 2010) German crime 1.15 Movie: The Flower Of Evil (M 2003) French drama 3.05 Weatherwatch

SBS 2

5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News

6.00 Global Village 6.35 Come Dine With Me 6.00 Restoration Home Greece 7.00 ABC News 7.35 Rex In Rome 7.30 7.30 8.30 The Killing (M) 8.00 Woodley 9.40 Movie: Little Girl Blue (M 8.30 Adam Hills In Gordon St 2007) Czech drama Tonight 11.25 Movie: Cockles And Mussels 9.30 Agony Uncles (M) (M 2004) French comedy 1.05 10.00 At The Movies Weatherwatch 10.30 Lateline

9.35 24 Hours In Emergency ABC 1 (M) 4.00 The New Inventors 4.30 Can We Help? 5.00 Gardening Australia 5.30 10.30 World News Australia

11.00 Movie: The Hills Have Eyes (AV 2006) US horror. Kathleen Quinlan, 11.00 Stripped (MA) 12.30 The Fixer Vinessa Shaw 1.15 Omnisport 1.30 I (MAV) 1.25 Movie: Memories Of Fish 2.30 Serie A Football Highlights Murder (MA 2003) South Korean 3.00 Arsenal Football mystery 3.45 Weatherwatch

7.00 Spicks And Specks 7.30 Doctor Who 8.30 The John Robinson Story 9.30 Kitchen Cabinet Tanya Plibersek 10.00 Sunday Best

11.25 Britain’s Missing Top Model (M) 12.25 Jack Osbourne (M) 1.10 Heartland 1.50 ABC News 1.55 Close

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4.00 Lateline 4.30 The Business 5.00 Newshour 6.00 ABC News 9.30 Business Today 10.00 ABC News 12.30 National Press Club Address 1.30 ABC News 2.00 Parliament Question Time 3.30 Afternoon Live 5.30 Capital Hill 5.45 Consumer Quarter 6.00 The Drum 6.45 Culture Quarter 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Grandstand 8.00 ABC News 8.30 The Business 9.00 The World 10.00 The Drum 10.45 Culture Quarter 11.00 ABC News 11.30 7.30 12.00 ABC News 12.30 Lateline 1.00 BBC News 1.30 Newsline 2.00 Newshour 3.00 BBC World News 3.30 7.30

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5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 1.00 Insight 2.00 Dateline 3.00 Letters And Numbers 3.30 World News 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Global Village

6.00 Letters And Numbers 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Wildest Africa Congo 8.30 Arctic Norway 9.30 Empire

6.00 The Project 7.00 The Biggest Loser 8.00 Australian Swimming Championships LIVE 8.30 Talkin’ ’Bout Your Generation 9.40 The Good Wife (M)

10.50 The Business 11.20 Museum Of Life 12.20 Parliament Question Time 1.20 The Clinic (M) 2.10 River Cottage 3.00 Western Australian Football League

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7.00 Spicks And Specks 7.30 Doctor Who 8.30 The Marngrook Footy Show 9.30 Arrested Development (M) 10.00 Grandma’s House (M) 10.30 Portlandia

Championships LIVE 9.30 Movie: Basic Instinct 2 – Risk Addiction (AV 2006) German thriller. Sharon Stone, David Morrissey

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5.30 Today 9.00 Mornings 11.00 Home Shopping 12.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 1.00 The View 2.00 Days Of Our Lives 3.00 Entertainment Tonight 3.30 11.55 M*A*S*H 12.25 Black Gold Kids’ Programs 4.30 NBN News 5.30 1.25 Omnisport 2.00 Pro Bull Riding Hot Seat 3.00 Bundesliga Football – Borussia 6.00 NBN News Dortmund v Werder Bremen 7.00 A Current Affair

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6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 8.25 Lotto 11.30 Seven News 12.00 Movie: First 8.30 The Mentalist (M) Daughter (M 1999) US comedy. Mariel 9.30 Unforgettable (M) Hemingway, Doug Savant 2.00 Dr Oz 10.30 CSI: Miami (M) 3.00 Surf Patrol 3.30 Kids’ Programs 11.30 Weeds (MA) 12.00 Dark Blue (M) 4.30 Seven News 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 1.00 Entertainment Tonight 1.30 Home Shopping 3.30 Good Morning America 6.00 Prime News 5.00 Early Morning News 6.30 Seven News

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Catalyst 6.00 ABC News 9.30 Business Today 10.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Restoration Home 12.00 Midday Report 6.00 NBN News 12.30 Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes 7.00 A Current Affair PRIME 1.30 At The Movies 2.00 Parliament SBS 2 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 7.30 Earthflight Question Time 3.00 Kids’ Programs 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News 11.30 Seven News 12.00 Movie: 8.30 CSI (M) 6.00 River Cottage Our House (M 2006) US drama. Doris 9.30 NRL Footy Show (M) 6.00 Global Village 7.00 ABC News Roberts, Judy Reyes 2.00 Dr Oz 3.00 11.00 AFL Footy Show (M) 12.45 6.30 Come Dine With Me 7.30 7.30 Surf Patrol 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Damages (M) 1.45 Michael Bolton Greece 8.00 Catalyst 2.00 Infomercials 3.30 Good Morning Seven News 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 7.30 Maids And Bosses 8.30 The Straits (M) America 5.00 Early Morning News 6.00 Prime News 8.30 Dish (M)

7.00 Home And Away 7.30 My Kitchen Rules 11.05 The Business 11.35 Laurence TEN 8.30 Please Marry My Boy Leung’s Unbelievable: Ghosts 12.00 6.00 Breakfast 9.00 The Circle 11.30 9.30 The Amazing Race Moving Wallpaper (M) 12.30 Parliament The Workers 12.00 Dr Phil (M) 1.00 The 10.30 How I Met Your Mother Doctors 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00

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Championships LIVE 9.00 The Game Plan 10.30 M*A*S*H

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6.00 Seinfeld 6.30 Excess Baggage 7.30 Top Gear 9.00 The Big Bang Theory 9.30 Movie: You Don’t Mess With The Zohan (M 2008) US comedy. Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider

11.50 South Park (M) 12.10 Howie Do It (M) 1.00 Reno 911 (M) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 Green Acres 5.30 The Flintstones

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6.00 Today 9.00 Home Shopping 10.30 Alive & Cooking 11.00 Friends 12.00 Movie: Just Desserts (G 2003) US comedy. Lauren Holly, Costas Mandylor 2.00 Sea Patrol 3.00 Birds Of A Feather 3.30 Bless This House 4.00 Excess Baggage 5.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show

6.00 Friends 7.00 The Zoo 7.30 The Great Barrier Reef 8.30 Movie: About Schmidt (M 2002) US comedy. Jack Nicholson, Kathy Bates

11.10 How Clean Is Your House 12.00 Conan (M) 1.00 Seaway 2.00 Home Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 Bless This House 5.30 Today

11.00 Laid (M) 11.30 Peep Show (M) 11.50 The John Robinson Story 12.50 Pete Versus Life (M) 1.15 The Marngrook Footy Show 2.15 ABC News 2.20 Close

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4.00 Lateline 4.30 The Business 5.00 Newshour 6.00 ABC News 9.30 Business Today 10.00 ABC News 12.30 Newsline 1.00 ABC News 2.00 Parliament Question Time 3.30 Afternoon Live 5.30 Capital Hill 5.45 Rural Quarter 6.00 The Drum 6.45 Technology Quarter 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Grandstand 8.00 ABC News 8.30 The Business 9.00 The World 10.00 The Drum 10.45 Technology Quarter 11.00 ABC News 11.30 7.30 12.00 ABC News 12.30 Lateline 1.00 BBC News 1.30 Newsline 2.00 Newshour 3.00 BBC World News 3.30 7.30

SBS 1

5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 1.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia 1.30 House Of Food Obsessives 2.30 The Squiz 3.00 Letters And Numbers 3.30 World News 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Global Village

6.00 Letters And Numbers 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Greater Mekong 8.00 Food Safari English 8.30 The Spice Trail

FRIDAy 23 ABC 1

6.00 ABC News 9.30 Business Today 10.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Catalyst 11.30 One Plus One 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Dalziel And Pascoe (M) 2.00 Monarch Of The Glen 3.00 Kids’ Programs

6.00 Grand Designs Revisited 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 QI 8.30 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (M) 9.30 The Shadow Line (M) 10.30 Lateline

6.30 Seven News 7.00 Home And Away 11.30 Movie: Solino (MA 2002) 7.30 My Kitchen Rules 8.30 Grey’s Anatomy (M) German drama 1.40 Weatherwatch 9.30 Desperate Housewives TEN (M) 6.00 Breakfast 9.00 The Circle 11.30 10.30 Private Practice (MA) 9.35 Movie: Black And White (M 2008) Italian comedy

The Workers 12.00 Dr Phil (M) 1.00 11.30 30 Rock (M) 12.00 My Big Friggin The Doctors 2.00 Ready Steady Cook Wedding (M) 1.00 Home Shopping 3.00 Judge Judy 3.30 Good Chef Bad 5.30 News Chef 4.00 Scope 4.30 The Bold And 7TWO The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News 6.00 The Project 6.30 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Home And Away 9.30 Sons And Daughters 10.00 7.00 The Biggest Loser Coronation Street 10.30 Shortland 8.00 Australian Swimming Street 11.00 Martha Stewart Show Championships LIVE 12.00 Hart To Hart 1.00 Parenthood 8.30 Law & Order (M) (M) 2.00 Movie: Hot Blood (PG 1955) 10.30 A Gifted Man 11.30 The Late Show 12.30 Infomercials US musical drama. Cornel Wilde, Jane Russell 4.00 Doctor In Charge 4.30 4.00 Religion Murphy Brown 5.00 Mad About You ElEvEN 5.30 Who’s The Boss? 6.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Dr Quinn 6.00 Bargain Hunt Medicine Woman 10.00 7th Heaven 7.00 Dad’s Army 11.00 The Love Boat 12.00 Charmed 7.30 The Royal 1.00 Jag 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 8.30 A Touch Of Frost (M) Infomercial 3.30 Cheers 4.00 Becker 10.50 Open All Hours 11.30 The Bill (M) 4.30 Family Ties 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 12.30 Mad About You 1.00 Who’s The The Brady Bunch Boss? 1.30 Hart To Hart 2.30 Martha 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch Stewart Show 3.30 Leyland Brothers 6.30 Neighbours World 4.30 Shortland Street 5.00 Home 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond Shopping

7.30 The Simpsons 7MATE 8.30 Star Trek Next Generation 6.30 Kids’ Programs 9.00 NBC Today 10.30 Frasier 11.00 The Late Late Show 12.00 Cash Call (M) 1.30 Happy Days 2.00 The Love Boat 3.00 Charmed 4.00 Dr Quinn Medicine Woman 5.00 7th Heaven

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11.00 Adam 12 11.30 Newsradio 12.00 Crazy Like A Fox 1.00 Baywatch 2.00 The A Team 3.00 Motor Mate 4.30 Monster Garage 5.30 That ’70s Show

6.30 How I Met Your Mother 7.30 Swamp People 8.30 Pawn Stars 9.30 Operation Repo (M) 10.30 Bear Swamp Recovery (M)

6.00 Liverpool Football 9.00 Pro Bull Riding 10.00 NBL Basketball – Adelaide v Gold Coast 12.00 Omnisport 12.30 Lost Prophets 1.30 I Fish 2.30 Airline 3.00 Beach Patrol 3.30 Get Smart 4.00 11.00 Jail (M) 12.00 Crazy Like A Fox Jeopardy! 4.30 Beach Patrol 5.00 I Fish 1.00 Baywatch 2.00 Motor Mate 3.30 6.00 M*A*S*H Newsradio 4.00 The A Team 5.00 Adam 6.30 Get Smart 12 5.30 Home Shopping

7.00 Cops 7.30 Extreme Fishing 8.30 Australian Swimming

4.00 Lateline 4.30 The Business 5.00 ABC News 9.30 Business Today 10.00 ABC News 12.30 Newsline 1.00 ABC News 2.30 One Plus One 3.00 Afternoon Live 5.30 Capital Hill 6.00 Planet America 6.45 Environment Quarter 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Contact Sport 8.00 News Exchange 8.30 One Plus One 9.00 The World 10.00 Planet America 10.45 Environment Quarter 11.00 ABC News 11.30 Capital Hill 12.00 ABC News 12.20 Lateline 1.00 BBC News 1.30 7.30 2.00 Newshour 3.00 BBC World News 3.30 7.30

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12.00 Howie Do It (M) 1.00 Reno 911 (M) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 Green Acres 5.30 The Flintstones

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6.00 Today 9.00 Home Shopping 10.30 Alive & Cooking 11.00 Friends 12.00 Movie: Some Will, Some Won’t (PG 1970) UK comedy. Leslie Phillips, Barbara Murray 2.00 Sea Patrol 3.00 How Clean Is Your House 4.00 Excess Baggage 5.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show

6.00 Friends 7.00 The Zoo 7.30 Friends 8.30 Picker Sisters 9.30 Movie: 28 Days (M 2000) US comedy. Sandra Bullock, Viggo Mortensen

11.40 Conan (M) 12.30 Friends 1.00 Seaway 2.00 Home Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 Birds Of A Feather 5.30 Today

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6.00 NBN News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 Friday Night Football SBS 2 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show LIVE – Parramatta Eels v 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News 11.30 Seven News 12.00 Movie: My Penrith Panthers 6.00 Global Village Mum’s New Boyfriend (PG 2008) US 6.35 Come Dine With Me comedy. Antonio Banderas, Meg Ryan 9.30 Friday Night Football South Sydney Rabbitohs v 2.00 Dr Oz 3.00 Surf Patrol 3.30 Kids’ Greece Brisbane Broncos Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.30 Deal 7.30 Insight 11.30 Movie: Out For Justice (AV Or No Deal 8.30 Dateline 1991) US action. Steven Seagal, William 9.30 Movie: Castaway On The 6.00 Prime News Forsythe 1.30 Movie: The Wicker Man 6.30 Seven News Moon (M 2009) South (M 1973) UK horror. Edward Woodward, 7.00 Home And Away Korean drama Britt Ekland 3.20 Mark Vincent 3.30 11.40 Movie: St John’s Wort (MA 2001) 7.30 Better Homes And Entertainment Tonight 4.00 Danoz 4.30 Gardens Japanese horror 1.10 Weatherwatch Good Morning America 9.00 Movie: It’s Complicated TEN GO! (M 2009) US comedy. 6.00 Breakfast 9.00 The Circle 11.30 Meryl Streep, Steve Martin 6.00 Kids’ Programs 1.00 Seinfeld 1.30

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6.00 Bargain Hunt 7.00 Dad’s Army 7.30 SeaChange 8.40 Escape To The Country

6.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Dr Quinn Medicine Woman 10.00 7th Heaven 11.00 The Love Boat 12.00 Charmed 1.00 Jag 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 10.40 Movie: Mr Jones (M 1993) US Infomercial 3.30 Cheers 4.00 Becker drama. Richard Gere, Anne Bancroft 4.30 Family Ties 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 1.00 Mad About You 1.30 Who’s The The Brady Bunch Boss? 2.00 Movie: Ten Seconds To Hell 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 4.00 Medical Rookies 4.30 Shortland 6.30 Neighbours Street 5.30 Home Shopping

7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond 7MATE 7.30 The Simpsons 6.30 Kids’ Programs 9.00 NBC Today 8.30 Snog, Marry, Avoid 11.00 Adam 12 11.30 Newsradio 10.05 Sex And The City (MA)

10.40 Frasier 11.10 The Late Late Show 12.00 Cash Call (M) 1.30 Happy Days 2.00 The Love Boat 3.00 Charmed 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 4.00 Dr Quinn Medicine Woman 5.00 1.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia 7th Heaven 1.30 House Of Food Obsessives (M) 2.30 Living Black 3.00 Letters And ONE HD Numbers 3.30 World News 4.00 The 6.00 Bundesliga Football – Borussia Journal 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Global Dortmund v Werder Bremen 9.00 Village NASCAR Nationwide Series 10.00 6.00 Letters And Numbers NASCAR Sprint Cup 11.00 Omnisport 6.30 World News Australia 11.30 I Fish 12.30 Black Gold 1.30 The 7.30 Coast Game Plan 3.00 Big Fish 3.30 Get Smart 8.30 God In America 4.00 Jeopardy! 4.30 Beach Patrol 5.00 9.30 Korea The Forgotten War I Fish 6.00 M*A*S*H 6.30 Get Smart

SBS 1

6.00 Seinfeld 6.30 Excess Baggage 7.30 Mike & Molly 8.00 2 Broke Girls 8.30 The Big Bang Theory 9.30 Movie: Superbad (MA 2007) US comedy. Jonah Hill, Michael Cera

A Football Highlights

11.15 Adam Hills In Gordon St Tonight The Workers 12.00 Dr Phil (M) 1.00 The 11.30 That ’70s Show 12.00 Leyland Doctors 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Brothers World 3.00 Home Shopping 12.15 rage (MA) Judge Judy 3.30 Good Chef Bad Chef ABC 2 4.00 H2O – Just Add Water 4.30 The 7TWO Bold And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News 6.30 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Home And 6.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 The Project Away 9.30 Sons And Daughters 10.00 7.00 Spicks And Specks 7.00 The Biggest Loser Coronation Street 10.30 Shortland 7.30 Doctor Who 7.30 Glee Street 11.00 Martha Stewart Show 8.30 The Last Man Standing 12.00 Hart To Hart 1.00 Parenthood 8.30 TBA Brazil (M) 11.30The Late Show 12.30 Movie: 2.00 Movie: Ten Seconds To Hell (PG 9.30 Misfits (MA) The Robber Bride (M 2007) Canadian 1959) UK action. Jack Palance, Jeff 10.20 The Straits (M) 11.20 Being Human (M) 1.15 Root Of drama. Mary-Louise Parker, Shawn Chandler 4.00 Doctor In Charge 4.30 All Evil (M) 1.35 ABC News 1.40 Close Doyle 3.00 Infomercials 5.00 Religion Murphy Brown 5.00 Mad About You 5.30 Who’s The Boss?

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6.00 Kids’ Programs 1.00 Seinfeld 1.30 Entertainment Tonight 2.00 TMZ 2.30 The Nanny 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 Kids’ Programs

12.00 Crazy Like A Fox 1.00 Baywatch 2.00 The A Team 3.00 Fifth Gear 4.00 Monster Garage 5.00 Zoom TV 5.30 Pimp My Ride

7.00 How I Met Your Mother 7.30 Movie: Shark Tale (G 2004) Animation 9.30 Movie: Failure To Launch (M 2006) US comedy. Matthew McConaughey, Sarah Jessica Parker

Entertainment Tonight 2.00 TMZ 2.30 The Nanny 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 Kids’ Programs

6.00 Movie: Hoodwinked! (G 2005) Animation 7.40 Movie: Runaway Vacation (PG 2006) US comedy. Robin Williams, Cheryl Hines 9.40 Movie: Young Guns (M 1988) US action. Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen

11.50 South Park (M) 12.10 Howie Do It (M) 1.00 Seinfeld 1.30 Undercovers (AV) 2.30 Reno 911 (M) 5.00 Bratz 5.30 Tamagotch!

GEM

6.00 Today 9.00 Home Shopping 10.30 Alive & Cooking 11.00 Friends 12.00 Movie: Swallows And Amazons (G 1974) UK adventure. Virginia McKenna, Ronald Fraser 2.00 Sea Patrol 3.00 Picker Sisters 4.00 Excess Baggage 5.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show

6.00 Friends 7.00 The Zoo 7.30 Michaela’s Animal Road Trip 8.30 Law & Order (M) 9.30 Movie: The Cider House Rules (M 1999) US drama. Tobey Maguire, Charlize Theron

12.10 Conan (M) 1.00 Psychic TV 2.30 Movie: Fire Creek (M 1968) Western. James Stewart, Henry Fonda 4.30 Movie: Young Wives’Tale (G 1951) UK 11.30 Scrubs 12.00 Unsolved Mysteries comedy. Joan Greenwood, Nigel Patrick (M) 1.00 Baywatch 2.00 Crazy Like A Fox 3.00 Newsradio 3.30 Adam 12 4.00 Fifth Gear 5.00 The A Team

7.00 Cops 7.30 Whose Line Is It Anyway? NBN 11.00 Movie: Black Ice (MA 2007) 8.30 Stargate Universe (M) 5.30 Today 9.00 Mornings 11.00 Home Finnish drama 12.55 Movie: The 10.30 NBL Basketball Shopping 12.00 The Ellen Degeneres Brothers (MA 2005) Swedish crime Show 1.00 The View 2.00 Days Of Our Melbourne v Perth 2.35 Weatherwatch

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12.30 Omnisport 1.00 UFC 122 (M) 3.00 Lives 3.00 Entertainment Tonight 3.30 Ross Kemp On Gangs (AV) 4.00 Pro Bull Kids’ Programs 4.30 NBN News 5.30 Riding 5.00 FA Cup Classic 5.30 Serie Hot Seat

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SBS 2

5.00 rage (PG) 11.00 Spicks And 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News Specks 11.30 7.30 12.00 Foreign 6.00 A Fork In The Africa Mali Correspondent 12.30 Australian Story 6.30 My Greek Kitchen 1.00 Lake Eyre 2.30 Movie: The Taming 7.30 Who Do You Think You Of The Shrew (G 1967) Italian comedy. Are? Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton 4.30 8.30 A Slum Symphony QI 5.00 Prince Charles’ Other Mistress

Venezuela 6.00 Last Chance To See 9.35 Movie: Before Night Komodo Dragon Falls (MAV 2000) Cuban 7.00 ABC News drama 7.30 New Tricks 11.55 Movie: The Man Who Loves (MA 8.30 Spooks (M) 2008) Italian drama 1.40 Weatherwatch 9.35 Strike Back (M) 10.20 The Jonathan Ross Show TEN 11.05 Thorne (M) 12.15 rage (MA)

6.00 Totally Australia 6.30 Kids’ Programs 9.30 Places We Go 10.00 Hot30 Countdown 12.00 Radar 12.30 6.00 Kids’ Program Bosch Australian Rally 2.30 Biggest 7.00 Woodley Loser US 4.30 All 4 Adventure 5.00 7.30 Adam Hills In Gordon St TEN News

ABC 2

Tonight 6.00 Rules Of Engagement 8.30 Movie: Lucky Miles (M 6.30 Talkin’ ’Bout Your 2007) Australian advenGeneration ture. Hamish Michael, Tevi 7.30 Modern Family Fanning 8.00 Rules Of Engagement 10.10 Movie: The Coca Cola 8.30 Graham Norton Show Kid (M 1985) Australian 9.30 An Idiot Abroad (M) action. Eric Roberts, Greta 10.30 Movie: Amelia (M 2009) Scacchi US biography. Hilary 11.50 Misfits (MA) 12.40 Yes We Swank, Richard Gere

8.30 Movie: Children Of Men NBN (M 2007) US adventure. 6.00 Danoz 7.00 Weekend Today 9.00 Clive Owen, Julianne Mornings 11.00 Kids’ Programs 2.00 Moore Ladies Day Horse Racing LIVE – Rosehill

10.40 NBL Basketball Sydney v 4.30 The Garden Gurus 5.00 NBN News Wollongong 12.40 Omnisport 1.00 5.30 Getaway UFC 123 (M) 3.00 NASCAR Sprint 6.00 NBN News Cup – Bristol

PRIME

6.30 Australia’s Funniest Home Videos 7.30 Movie: Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix (PG 2007) UK fantasy. Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson 8.40 Lotto

6.00 Kids’ Programs 7.00 Weekend Sunrise 9.00 Kids’ Programs 12.00 V8 Xtra 12.30 V8 Utes 1.30 Movie: Gotta Kick It Up! (G 2002) US comedy. Camille Guaty, America Ferrera 3.30 Movie: Beethoven’s The Big Break (G 2008) US comedy. Jonathan Silverman, Eddie 10.40 Movie: Anger Management (M Griffin 5.30 Sydney Weekender 2003) US comedy. Adam Sandler, Jack 6.00 Seven News Nicholson 12.45 Movie: The Howling 6.30 Movie: Wild Child (PG II – Your Sister Is A Werewolf (AV 1985) 2009) US comedy. Emma UK thriller. Christopher Lee, Annie Roberts, Lexi Ainsworth McEnroe 2.30 The Baron 3.30 Skippy 8.35 Movie: Cast Away (M 4.00 Infomercials

2000) US adventure. Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt

GO!

11.35 That ’70s Show 12.05 Movie: No. 6.00 Kids’ Programs 2.30 Spin City 3.30 2 (M 2006) New Zealand comedy. Ruby The Nanny 4.30 Seinfeld 5.30 Wipeout Dee, Mia Blake 2.05 Home Shopping 6.30 Top Gear

7TWO

6.30 Kids’ Programs 8.00 Home Shopping 9.00 Better Homes And Gardens 10.30 The Great Outdoors 11.30 Queensland Weekender 12.00 Great South East 12.30 Creek To Canberra! (M) 1.10 The Wire (M) 2.10 1.00 Formula 1 2012 Qualifying – Creek 1.00 Sydney Weekender 1.30 ABC News 2.15 Close Malaysia 2.00 Infomercials 4.00 Weekend Kitchen 4.00 Adventure Golf Religion 4.30 Bazaar 5.00 Around The World ABC NEWS 24 In 80 Trades 4.00 National Press Club Address 5.00 ELEVEN 6.00 The Benny Hill Show Newshour 6.00 7.30 6.30 State To State 6.00 Kids’ Programs 7.00 The Brady 6.30 Down To Earth 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Contact Sport 8.00 Bunch 7.30 Sabrina The Teenage Witch Weekend Breakfast 11.30 The World 8.00 Family Ties 8.30 Everybody Loves 7.30 Heartbeat This Week 12.00 ABC News 12.45 Raymond 9.00 Country Music TV 11.30 8.30 Taggart (M) Technology Quarter 1.00 Big Ideas King Of Queens 12.00 Charmed 1.00 11.30 Black Sheep Squadron 12.30 2.00 ABC News 2.30 Contact Sport Jag 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 Infomercial Rome (M) 1.30 Movie: Project – Alf (G 3.00 ABC News 3.30 Australian Story 3.30 Cheers 4.00 Becker 4.30 Family 1996) US comedy. Martin Sheen, Miguel 4.00 ABC News 4.30 At The Movies 5.00 Ties 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 The Brady Ferrer 3.30 Movie: The Saint Takes Over (PG 1940) US mystery. George ABC News 5.30 One Plus One 6.00 ABC Bunch News 6.30 Foreign Correspondent 7.00 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch Sanders, Wendy Barrie 5.00 Around The World In 80 Trades Queensland Votes 2012 – LIVE 11.30

7.30 Two And A Half Men 8.30 Movie: Hostage (M 2005) US drama. Bruce Willis, Kevin Pollack

10.50 Alcatraz (M) 11.50 South Park (M) 12.10 Howie Do It (M) 1.00 Bachelor Pad 3.00 Reno 911 (M) 5.00 Bratz 5.30 Tamagotchi

GEM

6.00 Movie: Swallows And Amazons (G 1974) UK adventure. Virginia McKenna, Ronald Fraser 8.00 Infomercials 9.30 Movie: It’s In The Air (G 1935) US comedy. Jack Benny, Una Merkel 11.15 The Zoo 11.45 Movie: Not With My Wife, You Don’t (PG 1966) US comedy. Tony Curtis, Virna Lisi 2.15 Movie: Parrish (PG 1961) US drama. Troy Donahue, Claudette Colbert 5.15 Movie: Moonstruck (PG 1987) US comedy. Cheryl Anderson, Nicolas Cage

6.30 Everybody Loves Raymond 7.30 Antiques Roadshow ABC News 12.00 Q&A 1.00 BBC World 7.30 The Simpsons 7MATE 8.30 CSI: NY (M) News 1.30 7.30 2.00 Newshour 3.00 8.30 Futurama 6.00 Malcolm And Eddie 6.30 Buck 9.30 CSI: Miami (M) BBC World News 3.30 7.30 Rogers 7.30 Ned And Stacey 8.00 9.30 Star Trek: Voyager Home Shopping 9.00 NBC Today 10.30 CSI (M)

SBS 1

5.00 World News 5.05 World News 1.00 Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno 2.45 Anton And The Piano 2.50 Art In The 21st Century 3.55 The Beauty Of Maps 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Is There Life On Mars?

11.30 Hot30 Countdown 1.30 The Hit Rater.com 2.00 Cheers 2.30 Becker 3.00 Charmed 4.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 4.30 King Of Queens 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 Everybody Loves Raymond

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6.00 I Fish 7.00 World Of Free Sports 7.30 MotoGP Classic 8.30 NASCAR Sprint Cup – Bristol 11.30 World Of Free Sports 12.00 The WWE Experience 1.00 Beach Patrol 2.00 Black Gold 3.00 11.55 Movie: The Good, The Bad, The Making Tracks 3.30 Airline 4.00 Recruits Weird (MAV 2008) South Korean action 5.00 Places We Go 5.30 Befre The Game 2.15 Weatherwatch 6.30 Formula 1 Qualifying

6.30 World News Australia 7.35 Big, Bigger, Biggest 8.30 RocKwiz 9.15 Mad Men (PG/M)

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SUNDAY 25 ABC 1

5.00 rage (PG) 6.30 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Insiders 10.00 Inside Business 10.30 Offsiders 11.00 Asia Pacific Focus 11.30 Songs Of Praise 12.00 Landline 1.15 Roller Derby Dolls 1.40 South Side Story 2.10 The Ascent Of Money 3.00 Manet 4.30 Margaret Olley 5.00 How Earth Made Us

6.00 Best Of Collectors 6.30 Compass 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Australia The early days 8.30 Waking The Dead (M) 9.30 Fry’s Planet Word (M) 10.30 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (M)

11.10 NBL Basketball – Gold Coast v 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News New Zealand 1.10 Ross Kemp On Gangs 6.00 Rough Science (AV) 2.10 I Fish 3.10 Omnisport 3.30 6.40 Iron Chef Bundesliga Football Highlights 4.00 7.30 Ninja Warrior NASCAR The Ultimate Motorsport 4.30 8.00 Unbeatable Banzuke NASCAR Sprint Cup Qualifying 5.30 NASCAR Sprint Cup LIVE – Fontana 8.30 Carrier (M)

6.00 Kids’ Programs

TEN

PRIME

6.00 Religion 7.00 Weekend Sunrise 10.00 World’s Strictest Parents 11.00 Minute To Win It 12.00 That ’70s Show 12.30 Movie: The Even Stevens Movie (G 2003) US comedy. Shia Labeouf, Christy Carlson Romano 2.30 Movie: Uncle Buck (PG 1989) US comedy. John Candy, Jean Louisa Kelly 4.45 Fawlty Towers 5.30 Mercurio’s Menu

4.00 Big Ideas 5.00 Newshour 6.00 7.30 6.30 One Plus One 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The World This Week 8.00 Weekend Breakfast 9.00 Insiders 10.00 Weekend Breakfast 11.30 State To State 12.00 ABC News 12.45 Finance Quarter 1.00 Big Ideas 2.00 ABC News 2.30 Offsiders 3.00 ABC News 3.30 Kitchen Cabinet: Tanya Plibersek 4.00 ABC News 4.15 Planet America 5.00 ABC News 5.30 Asia Pacific Focus 6.00 ABC News 6.30 Australian Story 7.00 ABC News 7.30 One Plus One 8.00 Insiders 9.00 ABC News 9.30 Tonic 10.00 ABC News 10.30 Inside Business 11.00 ABC News 11.30 State To State 12.00 Landline 1.00 BBC World News 1.30 7.30 2.00 Newshour 3.00 BBC World News 3.30 7.30

SBS 1

5.00 World News 8.30 PopAsia 10.30 FIFA World Cup 2014 Magazine 11.00 Football Feature 12.00 UEFA Champions League 12.30 Speedweek 2.30 World News 3.30 ADbc 4.00 Kick 4.30 Living Black 5.00 Cycling Central

6.00 Thalassa 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 America Before Columbus 8.30 Brave New World

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7.30 Modern Family 8.00 New Girl 8.30 Homeland (M) 10.20 Formula 1 Grand Prix Malaysia

7TWO

6.30 Route 66 7.30 Naked City 8.00 Welcome Back Kotter 8.30 Home Shopping 9.30 Home And Away 11.50 Movie: Lost In The Wild (PG 12.30 Infomercials 4.00 Religion 1977) Australian adventure. Brett Maxworthy, Sean Kramer 1.40 Movie: ELEVEN I Could Go On Singing (PG 1963) UK 6.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Dr Quinn musical. Judy Garland, Dirk Bogarde Medicine Woman 10.00 7th Heaven 4.00 Movie: Nell (PG 1994) US drama. 11.00 The Love Boat 12.00 Charmed Jodie Foster, Liam Neeson 1.00 Jag 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 6.30 Better Homes & Gardens Infomercial 3.30 Cheers 4.00 Becker 4.30 Family Ties 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 7.30 The Food Truck 8.00 North The Brady Bunch 6.00 Sabrina

1999) US comedy. Jason Biggs, Mena Suvari

11.30 Scrubs 12.00 Picture This 12.30 The Jeff Foxworthy Show 1.00 V.I.P. 2.00 Baywatch 3.00 The Incredible Hulk 4.00 Buck Rogers 5.00 Ned And Stacey 5.30 Home Shopping

NBN

6.00 Home Shopping 7.00 Weekend Today 10.00 Wide World Of Sports 11.00 Sunday Footy Show 1.00 Wildfire 2.00 Movie: Arthur (PG 1981) US comedy. Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli 4.00 Sunday Football – Canterbury Bulldogs v Newcastle Knights

6.00 NBN News 6.30 The Great Barrier Reef 7.30 60 Minutes 8.30 The Mentalist (M) 9.30 CSI: Miami (AV)

11.30 The Apprentice 1.30 Spyforce 2.30 Home Shopping 4.00 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

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11.40 Human Target (M) 12.40 South Park (MA) 1.00 Fur TV (MA) 1.30 Reno 911 (M) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 Green Acres 5.30 The Flintstones

GEM

6.00 Infomercials 6.30 Movie: Eight O’Clock Walk (PG 1953) UK drama. Richard Attenborough, Derek Farr 8.30 Infomercials 10.00 Movie: The 14 (G 1973) UK drama. Jack Wild, June Brown 12.10 Movie: They Came To Cordura (PG 1959) US adventure. Gary Cooper, Rita Hayworth 2.40 The Garden Gurus 6.30 Everybody Loves Raymond 8.30 Escape To The Country 3.10 Getaway 3.40 Movie: North By 10.30 Homes Under The Hammer 7.30 The Simpsons 11.45 The World At War 12.45 Movie: Northwest (PG 1959) Hitchcock mys8.00 Futurama Nell 3.15 Movie: I Could Go On tery. Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint 8.30 Movie: I Think I Love 6.30 Antiques Roadshow Singing 5.30 Home Shopping

My Wife (M 2007) US comedy. Chris Rock, Kerry 7MATE Washington 6.30 Buck Rogers 7.30 The Incredible

10.30 Everybody Loves Raymond 11.30 Family Ties 12.00 Becker 12.30 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 1.00 King Of Queens 1.30 Happy Days 2.00 The Love Boat 3.00 Charmed 4.00 Dr Quinn Medicine Woman 5.00 7th Heaven

MAV) 1.05 Living Black 1.35 Natascha 12.30 Omnisport 1.00 Whose Line ABC 1 Kampusch: 3096 Days In Captivity (M) Is It Anyway? 2.00 Serie A Football 4.00 The New Inventors 4.30 Can We 2.40 Weatherwatch Highlights 2.30 FA Cup Classic 3.00 Help? 5.00 Gardening Australia 5.30 Arsenal Football Catalyst 6.00 ABC News 9.30 Business SBS 2 Today 10.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News PRIME Landline 12.00 Midday Report 12.45 6.00 Living Black 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show The New Inventors 1.10 Monarch Of 6.30 New Latin Cuisine 11.30 Seven News 12.00 Movie: The Glen 3.00 Kids’ Programs Dancing At The Harvest Moon (PG 7.00 Made In Spain 6.00 Grand Designs Revisited 7.30 The Odyssey Of Life 2002) US drama. Jacqueline Bisset, Eric 7.00 ABC News Mabius 2.00 Dr Oz 3.00 Surf Patrol 3.30 8.30 The Super Comet 7.30 7.30 Kid’s Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.30 9.30 The World Game Deal Or No Deal 8.00 Australian Story 10.30 Movie: The Young

6.00 Prime News 6.30 Seven News 7.00 Home And Away 12.25 Weatherwatch 7.30 My Kitchen Rules TEN 11.05 The Business 11.35 Spooks (M) 8.30 Revenge (M) 12.30 Movie: Consuming Passion 6.00 Breakfast 9.00 The Circle 11.30 9.30 How I Met Your Mother (MA 2008) UK drama. Jodie Whittaker, The Workers 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 The 10.30 Happy Endings 8.30 Four Corners 9.20 Media Watch 9.35 Q&A 10.30 Lateline

Emilia Fox 2.00 Dangerous Jobs For Girls (M) 2.50 rage

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6.00 Kids’ Programs

7.00 Spicks And Specks 7.30 Doctor Who 8.30 Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends (M) 9.30 The Tudors (M) 10.30 Kitchen Cabinet Tanya Plibersek

11.00 Dragons’ Den 12.00 Sanctuary 12.45 Zoo Days 1.10 Heartland 1.45 ABC News 1.50 Close

ABC NEWS 24

Empress (PG 1956) Austrian drama

4.00 Big Ideas 5.00 Newshour 6.00 ABC News 9.30 Business Today 10.00 ABC News 12.30 Asia Pacific Focus 1.00 ABC News 2.30 Tonic 3.00 Afternoon Live 5.30 Capital Hill 5.45 Finance Quarter 6.00 The Drum 6.45 Health Quarter 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Grandstand 8.00 ABC News 8.30 The Business 9.00 The 8.00 Raising Hope World 9.30 Q&A 10.30 ABC News 11.00 8.30 Supernatural (M) The Drum 11.45 Health Quarter 12.00 ABC News 12.30 Lateline 1.00 BBC 9.30 Being Human (AV) News 1.30 Newsline 2.00 Newshour 10.30 Ringer (M) 11.30 The Late Late Show 12.30 3.00 BBC World News 3.30 7.30 Cash Call (M) 2.00 The Love Boat 3.00 SBS 1 Charmed 4.00 Dr Quinn Medicine 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News Woman 5.00 7th Heaven 1.00 Movie: It’s Hard To Be Nice (M ONE HD 2007) Bosnian drama 2.45 Spacefiles 3.00 Letters And Numbers 3.30 World 6.00 NASCAR Sprint Cup LIVE – Fontana News 4.00 The Journal 4.30 FIFA 9.00 Omnisport 9.30 Pro Bull Riding Futbol Mundial 5.00 The Crew 5.30 10.30 Serie A Football – Inter v Juventus 1.00 Omnisport 1.30 MotoGP Classic Living Black 2.30 I Fish 3.30 Beach Patrol 4.00 6.00 Letters And Numbers Jeopardy! 4.30 Beach Patrol 5.00 I Fish

7.30 As Time Goes By 8.00 Yes Prime Minister 8.30 Movie: Sliding Doors (M 1998) UK comedy. Gwyneth Paltrow, John Hannah

Hulk 8.30 Home Shopping 9.30 The Jeff Foxworthy Show 10.00 AFL Game Day 11.30 2011 AFL Grand Final – Collingwood v Geelong 1.00 Baywatch 10.40 Movie: Private Benjamin (M 2.00 V.I.P. 4.00 My Wife And Kids 5.00 1980) US comedy. Goldie Hawn, Elleen Picture This 5.30 That ’70s Show Brennan 1.00 Seaway 2.00 Home 6.30 Swamp People Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 Rainbow ONE HD 7.30 Hardcore Pawn Country 5.30 Today 6.00 Arsenal Football 9.00 Pro Bull 8.30 Pawn Stars Riding 10.00 World Of Free Sports 9.30 Movie: American Pie (MA 10.30 NASCAR Nationwide Series 11.30

TUESDAY 27 ABC 1

7MATE

11.05 The Business 11.35 Four Corners 12.20 Media Watch 12.40 Hungry Beast (M) 1.10 A Farmer’s Life For Me 2.10 Dangerous Jobs For Girls 3.00 Victorian Football League

ABC 2

6.00 Kids’ Programs

7.00 Spicks And Specks 7.30 Doctor Who 8.30 Good Game 9.00 Pete Versus Life (M) 9.30 Green Wing (M) 10.20 Root Of All Evil (M)

ABC NEWS 24

4.00 Lateline 4.30 The Business 5.00 Newshour 6.00 ABC News 9.30 Business Today 10.00 ABC News 12.30 National Press Club Address 1.00 ABC News 2.30 Australian Story 3.00 Afternoon Live 5.30 Capital Hill 5.45 Culture Quarter 6.00 The Drum 6.45 Indigenous Quarter 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Grandstand 8.00 ABC News 8.30 The Business 9.00 The World 10.00 The Drum 10.45 Indigenous Quarter 11.00 ABC News 11.30 7.30 12.00 ABC News 12.30 Lateline 1.00 BBC News 1.30 Newline 2.00 Newshour 3.00 BBC World News 3.30 7.30

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6.30 Get Smart 7.00 Cops 7.30 Undercover Boss USA 11.05 Movie: To Take A Wife (M 8.30 Cops (M) 2004) Israeli drama 12.55 Movie: The 9.30 Ross Kemp On Gangs Betrayal (M 2005) French drama 2.25 (AV) Weatherwatch 10.30 Rush (M)

6.30 New Latin Cuisine 7.00 Made In Spain 7.30 Lost Worlds Two Men In A Trench 8.30 As It Happened Hitler’s Bodyguard 9.30 Movie: The Country Teacher (MA 2008) Czech drama

6.00 Friends 7.00 The Zoo 7.30 Earthflight 8.30 Extreme Parental Guidance 9.30 Embarrassing Bodies (M) 10.30 Extreme Makeover

12.00 Crazy Like A Fox 1.00 Baywatch 2.00 Motor Mate 3.30 Newsradio 4.00 The A Team 5.00 Adam 12 5.30 Home Shopping

PRIME

12.00 Crazy Like A Fox 1.00 Baywatch 2.00 Motor Mate 3.30 Newsradio 4.00 The A Team 5.00 Adam 12 5.30 Home Shopping

NBN

5.30 Today 9.00 Mornings 11.00 Home Shopping 12.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 1.00 The View 2.00 Days Of Our Lives 3.00 Entertainment Tonight 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 NBN News 5.30 Hot Seat

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 6.00 NBN News 11.30 Seven News 12.00 Movie: 7.00 A Current Affair Sudden Terror – The Hijacking Of 7.30 The Big Bang Theory Schoolbus #17 (M 1996) US drama. 8.00 2 Broke Girls Maria Conchita Alonso, Marcy Walker 9.00 Two And A Half Men (M) 2.00 Dr Oz 3.00 Surf Patrol 3.30 Kids’ 9.30 Top Gear Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.30 Deal 11.00 Kitchen Nightmares USA (MA) 12.00 Eclipse 12.30 Men Of A Certain Or No Deal Age (M) 1.30 Home Shopping 3.30 11.40 Movie: Machuca (M 2004) 6.00 Prime News Good Morning America 5.00 Early 6.30 Seven News Chilean drama 1.45 Weatherwatch Morning News 7.00 Home And Away

TEN

6.00 Breakfast 9.00 The Circle 11.30 The Workers 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 The Doctors 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Judge Judy 3.30 Good Chef Bad Chef 4.00 Totally Wild 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News

7.30 My Kitchen Rules 9.30 Pictures Of You 10.15 Criminal Minds (M)

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7TWO

6.30 Excess Baggage 7.30 Movie: Batman & Robin (PG 1997) US action. George Clooney, Arnold Schwarzenegger 10.00 Movie: Superhero Movie (M 2008) US comedy. Drake Bell, Leslie Nielsen

6.00 Kids’ Programs 1.00 Seinfeld 1.30 Entertainment Tonight 2.00 TMZ 2.30 11.15 Royal Pains (M) 12.10 Stag (M) The Nanny 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 12.30 Sons And Daughters 1.00 Home Kids’ Programs Shopping 5.30 News 6.00 Seinfeld

6.30 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Home And Away 9.30 Sons And Daughters 10.00 Coronation Street 10.30 Shortland Street 11.00 Martha Stewart Show 11.30 Late Show 12.30 Infomercials 12.00 Hart To Hart 1.00 Parenthood (M) 2.00 Movie: Bring Your Smile Along (G 4.00 Religion 1955) US comedy. Frankie Laine, Keefe ELEVEN Brasselle 4.00 Doctor In Charge 4.30 6.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Dr Quinn Murphy Brown 5.00 Mad About You Medicine Woman 10.00 7th Heaven 5.30 Who’s The Boss? 11.00 The Love Boat 12.00 Charmed 6.00 Bargain Hunt 1.00 Jag 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 7.00 Dad’s Army Infomercial 3.30 Cheers 4.00 Becker 7.30 The Vicar Of Dibley 4.30 Family Ties 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 8.30 Father Ted The Brady Bunch 9.00 60 Minute Makeover

11.30 South Park (MA) 12.30 Howie Do It (M) 1.30 Reno 911 (M) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 Green Acres 5.30 The Flintstones

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6.00 Today 9.00 Home Shopping 10.30 Alive & Cooking 11.00 Friends 12.00 Movie: Tarzan And The Jungle 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 10.00 Homes Under The Boy (PG 1968) US adventure. Rafer 6.30 Neighbours Hammer 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond 11.15 House Doctor 12.15 Six Feet Johnson, Mike Henry 2.00 Sea Patrol 3.00 Extreme Parental Guidance 7.30 The Simpsons Under (M) 1.15 Mad About You 1.45 4.00 Excess Baggage 5.00 The Ellen 8.00 Futurama Who’s The Boss? 2.30 Martha Stewart Degeneres Show 8.30 The Simpsons Show 3.30 Hart To Hart 4.30 Shortland 6.00 Friends 9.00 The Office Street 5.00 Home Shopping

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10.40 Frasier 11.10 The Late Late Show 7MATE SBS 1 12.00 Cash Call (M) 2.00 The Love Boat 6.30 Kids’ Programs 9.00 NBC Today 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 3.00 Charmed 4.00 Dr Quinn Medicine 11.00 Adam 12 11.30 Newsradio 12.00 Crazy Like A Fox 1.00 Baywatch 2.00 1.00 Movie: Breath (M 2007) South Woman 5.00 7th Heaven The A Team 3.00 Motor Mate 4.30 Korean drama 2.35 Spacefiles 3.00 ONE HD Monster Garage 5.30 That ’70s Show Letters And Numbers 3.30 World News 6.00 I Fish 7.00 Serie A Football – 6.30 How I Met Your Mother 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Udinese v Napoli 9.00 Pro Bull Riding 7.30 Mythbusters Global Village 10.00 NBL Basketball – Melbourne v 8.30 Family Guy (M) 6.00 Letters And Numbers Perth 12.00 Omnisport 12.30 World 9.00 American Dad (M) 6.30 World News Australia Of Free Sports 1.00 I Fish 1.30 Whose 7.30 Who Do You Think You Line Is It Anyway? 3.00 Beach Patrol 9.30 Movie: American Pie 2 (MA 2001) US comedy. Are? 3.30 Get Smart 4.00 Jeopardy! 4.30 Jason Biggs, Shannon 8.30 Insight Beach Patrol 5.00 I Fish

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11.30 Super Rugby Extra Time 12.30 Damages (M) 1.45 Tony Bennett 2.00 Infomercials 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

8.30 Sports Fever (M) 9.30 Movie: 8 Mile (MA 2002) US musical drama. Eminem, Kim Bassinger

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6.30 Kids’ Programs 9.00 NBC Today 10.00 NBC Meet The Press 11.00 Adam 12 11.30 Newsradio 12.00 Crazy Like A Fox 1.00 Baywatch 2.00 The A Team 3.00 Motor Mate 4.00 V8 Xtra 4.30 Monster Garage 5.30 That ’70s Show 11.30 Law & Order (M) 12.30 Friends 6.30 How I Met Your Mother 1.00 Dangerman 2.00 Home Shopping 7.30 Man V Food 4.30 Religion 5.00 Friends 5.30 Today

4.00 The New Inventors 4.30 Can We Help? 5.00 Gardening Australia 5.30 Catalyst 6.00 ABC News 9.30 Business Today 10.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Big 11.30 M*A*S*H 12.00 24 (M) 1.00 The Ideas 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Q&A SBS 2 1.30 Compass 2.00 Dangerous Jobs For 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News League (MA) 1.30 Omnisport 2.00 I Fish 3.00 NASCAR Sprint Cup – Fontana Girls 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Global Village

6.00 A Farmer’s Life For Me 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 Country Town Rescue 8.30 Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple 10.00 Artscape (MA) 10.30 Lateline

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5.30 Today 9.00 Mornings 11.00 Home Shopping 12.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 1.00 The View 2.00 Days Of Our Lives 3.00 Entertainment Tonight 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 NBN News 5.30 Hot Seat

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6.00 Kids’ Programs 1.00 Beach 6.00 Religion 7.00 Rare Bear 8.00 Volleyball 1.30 Bewitched 2.30 Spin Working Below Zero 9.00 Hot30 City 3.30 Wipeout 4.30 Bachelor Pad Countdown 11.30 Hot30 Live Set: 6.00 Seven News 6.30 2 Broke Girls Taio Cruz 12.00 Biggest Loser US 6.30 Sunday Night 7.00 The Middle 1.00 Dancing For A Dollar 2.00 The 7.30 My Kitchen Rules 7.30 The Big Bang Theory 10.55 The Jonathan Ross Show 11.35 Doctors 3.00 Pushing The Limits 4.00 8.30 Castle (M) 8.30 Suburgatory Later… With Jools Holland 12.35 Meet The Press 4.30 The Bolt Report 10.30 Criminal Minds (M) Megan Washington (M) 1.05 Heartland 5.00 TEN News 11.30 Forensic Investigators (M) 9.30 The Big Bang Theory 1.50 ABC News 1.55 Close 12.30 The Real Seachange 1.00 Home 9.30 Movie: Click (M 2006) US 6.00 The Project comedy. Adam Sandler, Shopping 5.30 News 6.30 Young Talent Time ABC NEWS 24

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10.30 Formula 1 Grand Prix Malaysia

6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Mythbusters 8.30 James May’s Man Lab 9.30 Danger 5 (M) 10.05 The Ricky Gervais Show 10.30 World News Australia

11.30 The Universe 12.30 Unsolved Mysteries (M) 1.30 Malcolm And Eddie 2.00 Ned And Stacey 2.30 Newsradio 3.00 Buck Rogers 4.00 Crazy Like A Fox 5.00 Adam 12 5.30 Home Shopping NASCAR Sprint Cup 12.30 Australian Rally Championship 2.30 Beach Patrol

9.30 Movie: Napoléon (PG 2002) Part 3 of French drama. Christian Clavier, Isabella Rossellini

11.30 Conan (M) 12.20 Psychic TV 1.50 Movie: The Reptile (M 1966) UK horror. Noel Willman, Jennifer Daniel 3.40 Movie: Not With My Wife, You Don’t

6.30 Premiership Season AFL LIVE – Great Western Sydney v Sydney 10.30 Mega Movers

9.30 Movie: Spring, Summer, 3.00 Beach Patrol 3.30 Black Gold 4.30 E-Force 5.30 I Fish 6.00 Big Fish Autumn, Winter… 6.30 Formula 1 Grand Prix Spring (MA 2003) South LIVE – Malaysia Korean drama 11.20 Movie: Life Is A Miracle (M 9.10 Movie: Æon Flux (M 2005) US action. 2004) Bosnian romantic comedy 2.00 Weatherwatch Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand SBS 2

11.30 Movie: Emerald City (M 1988) Australian comedy. Nicole Kidman, John Hargreaves 1.05 Order In The House 11.10 Movie: A Song For Martin 2.05 Waking The Dead (M) 3.00 rage (M 2000) Swedish drama 1.15 Weatherwatch

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7.00 The Zoo 7.30 As Time Goes By 8.00 Yes Prime Minister 8.30 The Closer (M) 10.30 Rizzoli & Isles (M)

11.30 Law & Order (M) 12.30 Friends 1.00 Dangerman 2.00 Home Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 Friends 5.30 Today

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Bangalow Dining Rooms

Bangalow

dining

rooms

Bangalow Hotel Open 7 days Lunch: 12 – 3pm Dinner 5.30 – 9pm All day bistro menu

6687 1144

The Bangalow Dining Rooms at the Bangalow Hotel produces great food using predominantly local produce. The beautiful restaurant space on the high verandah and intimate dining room hosts a modern menu. Enjoy our bistro menu in the pub all day. With reasonable prices, generous portions and a kids menu, our delicious menu will appeal to all. www.bangalowdining.com

Utopia Bangalow

Billi’s Thai

thai restaurant

Open Wed-Sun ED NEW OPENING COVTESRIDE U A O TIME pm ARE Dine in or takeaway Billinudgel Village 6680 3352

Gringo’s Fresh Mex

BRUNSWICK HEADS

BILLINUDGEL

bangalow

Utopia Bangalow provides award winning food by well recognised chefs in a stylish and relaxed atmosphere. Open Breakfast & Lunch Enjoy the elegant setting for your next wholesome 8am - 4.30pm breakfast, gourmet lunch or indulgent snack. The Afternoon cake is on fresh locally sourced produce and our byron bayemphasis 6687 2088 divine Utopia blend coffee.

Licensed/B.Y.O. wine Dine In /Takeaway Open at 5.30 Cnr. Tweed & Fawcett St. Brunswick Heads Call for reservations. 6685 1955

Hotel Brunswick

HOTEL BRUNSWICK

Open daily from 10am Mullumbimbi St, Brunswick Heads 6685 1236

Dominic’s Ristoranté

BYRON BAY

Open for dinner Wednesday to Saturday from 5pm Fingal St, Brunswick Heads 6685 1688

The Aztec Byron Bay

32 Lawson St, 6680 8198 LICENSED MEXICAN RESTAURANT NOW OPEN 7 days Lunch/ Dinner Phone ahead for opening times

For over 17 years Billi’s Thai has re-created the traditional taste of Thailand in Billinudgel. Offering an extensive menu, scrumptious desserts, specials board, and western-style kids’ menu. The whole family will enjoy the relaxed village atmosphere from the covered verandah or inside dining area. Be part of the best-kept secret in the shire! Sip your margarita in our casual covered garden and enjoy the fresh clean flavours of Mexico. Everything home made. Always tasty Not Spicy Hot. Sample some of our house salsas, such as smokey chipotle or fiery habanero. A great selection of Tequilas, imported beers and wine. • Full meals from $15.75 • Banquet menus available.

Two roadside stalls close to each other but with gulfs of difference. As if one were the basic, the other deluxe. The basic was where we stopped first, climbing sandy-limbed out of the car onto Clothiers Creek Road up the old highway end. Tumbles of small wrinkly passionfruit five for a dollar or larger, smoother ones three for a dollar. Bananas – Cavendish, Ladyfingers, straight and slender, fat and phallic, pale lime through to black-pocked gold – alongside them. The rusty honesty tin into whose slot we honestly dropped the correct change before bearing away armfuls of everything.

Lunch and dinner bookings available on request.

Dine in or Takeaway Restaurant wine bar Tapas cocktails Daily specials Tapas Happy Hour from . Friday afternoons All the favourites – Nachos, Enchiladas, Burritos etc Extensive vegetarian options. TWO UP TUESDAY - Buy one main meal and receive a second main meal for FREE from 5.30pm. Inexpensive and extensive cocktail list. $20.00 Group Bookings Menu for bookings of 15 or more Takeways and Childrens Menu available. Conditions Apply. THE ORIGINAL FLAVOURS OF MEXICO.

At Traditional Thai you can discover your new can’t-live-without-it dish among never-get-it-wrong satay skewers and all-time-favourite pad Lunch Friday, Saturday & Thai. It is here that the curry pastes are freshly pounded to leave your Sunday 12-4pm palate dumbfounded. It is here that the ambrosial meals are cooked to Dinner, drinks & nibbles order and the scrumptious cocktails and mocktails thrust you in a land every evening 5.30-9.30pm of wonderful tales. 5/2 Fletcher St, Byron Bay Find us at the beach end of Fletcher St. You can dine-in or take-away 6685 5151 seconds from the water and sand. At Traditional Thai banquet menus for special events and private catering are also a popular demand.

Open 7 days 12.00 till late (very late on weekends) Beach end of Jonson St (under Hogs Breath Café) 66 809 357

VICTORIA COSFORD

The Bruns Brasserie’s newest addition is crispy crust pizzas. Daily selections include fresh grilled snapper, juicy steaks and bangers and mash. Gourmet coffees, Devonshire teas, freshly squeezed juices and delicious desserts are also available.

Traditional Thai

Slice Pizzeria

Bananas and passionfruit

Then, almost at the next bend, a sign we thought said the Greek Stall: open shed, table and chairs out the front, two big blond dogs dozing, the glint of a quietly running stream. Intrigued as much by the ‘Greek’ as the rest we stopped the car again. This was almost a roadside cafe – fancy espresso machine in the corner and two bubbly women smiling at our arrival. Boxes stacked neatly bulged with eggplant and capsicum, zucchini and tomatoes, sweet potatoes and kipflers, onions and cucumbers. Silverbeet spilled like flowers out of a vase; gnarly pumpkins and exotic squash lolled between the displays. While I waited for my skinny latte and while the man I love selected ingredients for our evening meal I chatted to Karen who, despite her dark continental looks, assured me it was the Creek and not the Greek stall; that they had been open since August last year. Enchanted, we left with a box of local produce, inordinately proud of ourselves. The pumpkin and the mushrooms and the cherry tomatoes and the silverbeet and

Slice Pizzeria is Byron’s only authentic stone oven pizza.

Made with top shelf ingredients and ready to be eaten by the slice or whole. Real handcrafted dough, opened in front of your eyes with our bare, trained hands. Italian grown tomatoes and flour. Butcher quality meats. Real, fresh, local produce. Fresh, pure mozzarella (no blends, no substitutes). A simple and unique slow rise process, minimising the use of yeast, therefore giving you a lighter and healthier feeling.

Beach Kitchen Open 8am till late At the Beach Hotel, Bay St, Byron Bay 6685 6402 www.beachhotel.com.au

Enjoy! You just ate something good.

Fishheads Open seven days Breakfast, lunch, dinner Byron Bay – 1 Jonson St 6680 7632 Bangalow – 2 Byron St 6687 2883

Join us for sensational seafood on the bustling beachfront at Byron or enjoy the tranquil setting in the historic town of Bangalow (now offering free Wifi). Enjoy our Summer menu, along with daily specials and ‘fish of the day’.

Pass Café

WhyNot! Breakfast & Lunch 7 days from 6am Cocktails & Dinner Wednesday to Sunday 18 Jonson St, Byron Bay 6680 7994 whynotbyronbay.com.au

Now open Friday & Saturday nights. The newly refurbished iconic Pass Café is open again, Open 7 days from 7am offering value for money dine in and takeaway meals. Breakfast & lunch BYO Fri & Sat bfast/lunch/dinner Local fresh ingredients used in all meals. Come by road, foot or sand to this casual dining experience. Brooke Drive, Byron Bay 6680 8028 Available for hire for private functions. contact@thepasscafe.com.au Bookings essential.

Lemongrass

Thai@Byron

The Restaurant

Open for dinner 7 days. Feros Arcade, Jonson St, Byron Bay 6685 6737

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Take your taste buds on a culinary tour of Thailand! Experienced Thai chefs cooking fresh, authentic Thai cuisine with love! Popular with locals and tourists alike. Dine -in and take-away. Fully licenced bar.

Open 7 nights 5.30pm-9pm Shop 3/17 Lawson Arcade Phone orders welcome 6680 8443

at The Byron at Byron Breakfast, lunch and dinner 7 days 77-97 Broken Head Road Byron Bay 6639 2111

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the garlic and the basil all turned into a glorious pasta bake for our Sunday night supper – leaving my fruit bowl brimming over with the bananas and the passionfruit from our humbler roadside stall. The bananas are already becoming riper and sweeter and softer so will be absolutely perfect for the banana cheesecake I plan to bake this weekend, glazed with syrupy passionfruit. That, however, will only account for two bananas and four passionfruit at the most, so I am obliged – although obligation barely enters as this is one of the most pleasurable aspects of cooking, the determining of a dish by the ingredients at hand – to cook more beautiful things. And so I thought about a passionfruit posset, possibly even going for overkill by serving it alongside the cheesecake. It is, after all, just passionfruitscented cream, the flesh of five passionfruit scooped out into a sieve set over a bowl and pressed so the juice is extracted. Double cream – 450 grams – gently heated with 110 grams of caster sugar until the latter is dissolved, then bubbled on the boil for several minutes. Off the heat and the juice of a lemon, strained, stirred through along with the passionfruit juice – then all of that poured into six glasses. When it’s cooled it’s chilled for six hours before serving – garnished with reserved passionfruit seeds. Then I will make individual, baby banana breads for breakfast and serve them with dollops of passionfruit butter made by whipping together softened cream cheese, icing sugar, lemon juice and passionfruit pulp plus juice. Or maybe banana and passionfruit muffins. A pavlova. A banana cake with passionfruit icing. A passionfruit cake with banana icing. Certainly the following syrup to mix with dry ginger ale or, better still, vodka for a summer’s-end cocktail, a little memory of a beachy Sunday and its fruitful drive home. PASSIONFRUIT SYRUP Combine the pulp from six large passionfruit with ½ cup lemon juice, ½ cup caster sugar and two cups water in a saucepan over high heat. Stir until sugar dissolves, bring to the boil, reduce to a simmer on the lowest heat for 1–1½ hours, or until rich and syrupy. Cool, strain, serve. Beachside breakfast, lunch and dinner right in the heart of town overlooking Main Beach, Byron Bay’ SHARE THE LOVE with our new shared dining options:

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BANGALOW

GOODTASTE

3-courses shared between 2 diners: $45 NEW COCKTAIL LIST - FUNKY ORIGINALS - ALL TIME CLASSICS

The only exclusively Vietnamese restaurant in town, this intimate space spilling out into a courtyard offers up fabulous dishes packed full of herbs, spices and varied textures. The traditionally light and healthy style of cuisine ensures the freshness and natural tastes of food are preserved as much as possible. It’s a popular spot so bookings are recommended. With a focus on fresh local produce, the Restaurant at The Byron at Byron showcases fine food with passion. Dine in style overlooking a spectacular rainforest background and select from the seasonal menu which includes an enticing degustation dinner. Happy Hour: Join us from 4.30-6.00pm Sunday – Thursday for a relaxing drink on the deck with $10 cocktails, $6 wines and $5 beers.

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Rae’s Fish Cafe Lunch & Dinner 7 days Wategos Beach, Byron Bay 6685 5366 raes@wategos.com.au

Muoi’s Feast Lunch: Tues-Sat Dinner: Mon-Sat 11 Fletcher St, Byron Bay Bookings Essential 6685 7557

Wilson’s by The Creek

Discover Wilson’s By The Creek Restaurant tucked away in the Byron hinterland. Newly open to the public, the elegant restaurant offers a truly gourmet experience, accompanied by Peppers renowned personal service. Savour the incredible flavours of the hinterland for a romantic dinner or gathering with friends, as Head Chef Adam Hall inspires you with his seasonal menu brimming with local produce.

Casual relaxed seaside dining overlooking the picturesque Wategos beach. Using the freshest produce and seafood from throughout the region. Rae’s is an iconic restaurant with a reputation as the best in the area.

Fins

DJ Aqua LIVE every Sunday night in the Fins Bar. Join us for cocktails on our NEW SUNSET DECK daily from 5pm.

Muoi’s Feast has created a strong following since opening in 2003. Winning numerous awards for its international cuisine, the Asian section of the menu is the predominant favourite. Enjoy for lunch or dinner.

Fins

Fully Licensed Restaurant and B.Y.O. for wine. Welcome for dine-in or take-away. A sophisticated blend of flavours and textures with an ever changing menu. For breakfast, lunch or dinner and tapas all day, matched by an exciting wine list and arguably the best cocktails in town. Your taste buds will be tantalised and so will your eyes as you look over the streets of Byron and enjoy the eclectic vibe of The Balcony Bar & Restaurant. www.balcony.com.au

Open Fri, Sat, Sun Lunch 12-3pm Dinner 5-10pm 139 Newes Rd, Coorabell 6684 7348 Bookings essential

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

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

FINS is famous for serving the best seafood in Australia. We have now launched FINS EARTH. An exciting menu of the best steaks from Australia’s most premium producers. Choose your cut, choose how you would like it served.

ITALIAN AT THE PACIFIC Italian at the Pacific provides a bustling atmospheric restaurant, dishing up contemporary inspired ItalianCafé:cuisine. DAYS First Café in the shire to offer quality espresso coffee Italian at the Pacific provides a bustling atmospheric La Table Italian at theOPEN PacificSEVEN & organic milk! Modern Wholesome Café food & house restaurant, up contemporary inspired Italian ITALIAN AT THE PACIFIC Italian at thedishing Pacific provides a bustling atmospheric 72 & 72a Burringbar St, Open for Dinner &4PM Cocktails TO LATE We’re introducing a exciting menu of taste plates, antipasti baked pastries. Relax in our tropical courtyard with friendly cuisine. We’re introducing an exciting taste Mullumbimby restaurant, dishing up contemporary inspiredmenu Italianofcuisine. 7 days OPENfrom SEVEN4pm DAYStill late professional service. Resto: Late afternoon – Share a drink plates, antipasti, fresh pastas and main dishes. With our Cafe: 6684 2220 Next Beach Hotel fresh pastas nd main dishes. With our new Ocean View Bar,to taste Evening: Live life deliciously with with something 4PMtoTOthe LATE We’re introducing aBar, exciting menu ofall taste plates, antipasti Mon-Fri 8-4, Sat 9-2 NEXT TO THE BEACH HOTEL, new Ocean View we ensure our guests have the Bay Street our new creative fortnightly changing menu! French Chef fresh pastas ndtomain dishes. With our new Ocean View Bar, Restaurant: 6684 2227 NEXT TO THE BEACH HOTEL, opportunity enjoy some of Byron’s finest cocktails passionately recreates bistro classics using high 6680 7055 weto enjoy ensure all our guests have Wed-Fri the opportunity toBruno enjoy we ensure all our guests have the opportunity from 4pm BAY STREET 6680 7055STREET BAY and wine.6680 7055 quality produce. Reviewed and recommended by SMH italianatthepacific.com.au Sat from 2pm some of Byron’s finest cocktails & wine. Good Food Guide – 3rd consecutive year! italianatthepacific.com.au some of Byron’s finest cocktailswww.latable.com.au & wine. GOOD FOOD GUIDE CHEFS HAT EVERY YEAR SINCE 1998

italianatthepacific.com.au The Byron Bay Pizza Company is dedicated to making

Byron Bay Pizza Co.

OPEN 7 DAYS B’fast & Lunch (8am-2pm) Dinner (from 5.30pm) THE KIOSK @ The Byron Bay Tourist Village (Sunrise Bvd) Ph. 66809773 byronbaypizza.com

Targa

Open 7 days 7am - 10pm Corner Marvell & Middelton Sts, Reservations: 6680 9960

Fig Tree Restaurant

LUNCH: Sat-Sun DINNER: Thurs, Fri, Sat 4 Sunrise Lane, Ewingsdale 02 66 847 273

the best take ‘n’ bake pizzas on the planet from the finest locally farmed and ethically produced ingredients. Come & check out our little pizza factory at THE KIOSK @ The Byron Bay Tourist Village where you can grab a pizza (hot or take ‘n’ bake) as well as fantastic coffee and more! Treat yourself – It’s food you can feel good about.

Café by day, Italian restaurant by night. Targa is dishing up contemporary Italian fare, seven days a week, Genovese Coffee and a small but interesting wine list of local and Italian varietals.

‘Local produce, global flavour’ www.figtreerestaurant.com.au ‘Best BYO Restaurant 2011’

This iconic pie shop is now Byron Shire’s “Little Secret”, still serving a full range of traditional, handmade pies At the Gateway to Mullum with the option of mushy peas and potato. We also Mon-Fri: 6am to 6:30pm do great espresso coffee, fresh sandwiches, salads, Sat: 6:30am to 6:00pm fruit salads and slices. Sun: 7:00am to 6:00pm Come on in for a milkshake, sit down and watch the 6684 4041 world go by. Hope to see you soon. rich@rd.au.com

Spice It Up Thai Restaurant

Breakfast & Lunch 7 days from 8am Dinner: Fri & Sat From 6pm, until March 10 6680 3368 50 River St, New Brighton

Pizza Paradiso

O-Sushi

Winner of the favourite Japanese restaurant in Australia in the I Love Byron Bay Woolies Plaza, Food Competition. In 2011 O-Sushi Jonson St 02 6685 7103 won the best Asian restaurant in the Northern Rivers and New England Coolangatta Showcase on the Beach 07 5536 5455 in the Savour competition. Eat in or takeaway. Licensed. Open 7 days 11am till late. O-Sushi is a modern Japanese Broadbeach The Oracle, restaurant guided by a philosophy that incorporates 12 Charles Ave 07 5570 2166 traditional values of providing the best possible service www.osushi.com.au combined with fresh wholesome food.

Horizons

The Deck

Now open Sundays for breakfast and lunch

Byron Bay Golf Club B’fast: Sun 8.30am-11am Lunch: Wed-Sun 11am-3pm Dinner: Wed-Sat 5.30pm-9pm 6685 6470

Had enough of the rat race in the CBD? Just 3km from the centre of town nestled in the beautiful surrounds of Byron Bay’s golf course The Deck at Byron is fast becoming the hot spot for locals and their families with Friday night entertainment for the kids and great value for money, a wide range of menu options and fresh and exciting specials for dinner. Don’t be the last to find out! Bookings essential.

Santos Trading Warehouse

Treehouse on Belongil

Luscious Foods

25 Childe St, Byron Bay Open daily 8am-11pm 6680 9452

Fully Licensed Restaurant – Bar – Functions Stroll along Main Beach to Belongil Devour our woodfired pizzas, a la carte meals and lush cocktails Enjoy our funky garden bar and casual atmosphere Listen to live music Thursday – Sunday from 7pm

One One One

One One One is now open for dinner!

Red Ginger

6am coffee Mon – Fri Breakfast & Lunch 7 days Dinner Tues – Sat 1/111 Jonson St (opp cinema) 66807 388 cafeoneoneone@yahoo. com.au

From Tuesday – Saturday, our kitchen is transforming local produce into Mediterranean fine dining at cafe prices, made complete with a unique wine and cocktail bar. Don’t miss our Paddock to Plate degustation menu on Wednesday & Thursday nights – a 5-course set menu matched with wines for $75! And of course we are still open for breakfast, lunch & coffee 7 days a week.

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2010 Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide

Open 5 days. Open Wednesday-Sunday FOR THE LOVE OF pm • Dine-in or Takeaway THAI FOOD! 6684 2273 Mullumbimby Golf Club

Earth’n’Sea Pizza and Pasta has been a vibrant part of the Byron dining scene since 1976. Their basic Open every day for lunch & philosophy is to buy the best produce locally and make dinner. 12pm-2.30pm & 5pm. their food from scratch. This family restaurant offers (no surcharge Sundays). great service in a friendly environment. The menu not New location: Cnr Fletcher only has 22 different pizzas – it also has great pastas & Byron Sts. Byron Bay. and salads as well as gluten free options. Fully licensed. www.earthnsea.com.au FREE underground parking available. 6685 6029

www.yumyumtreecafe.com.au

Artisan pizzas hand crafted on the premises using the freshest local produce and the best of traditional and modern styles. Selection of flat breads. Large range of vegetarian pizzas and pastas. Gluten-free base available.

Overlooking the sparkling blue waters of the Jack Evans Boat Harbour at Twin Towns is Horizons restaurant. Enjoy a friendly atmosphere with casual indoor or al fresco dining where you can take in our spectacular views. Bring a friend to Horizons for High Tea available Monday to Saturday in the afternoon from 2.30pm to 4.30pm for an extra special afternoon delight!

TWEED HEADS

Takeaway, dine in and home delivery BYO Open 7 days from 5pm Suffolk Park Shopping Centre 6685 3101

The ‘Yum Yum Tree’ was a traditional meeting place for the first Australians of our area. A place to take sustenance, and catch up with old and new friends. Come notice the extra flair, enthusiasm and personal touch of the Yum Yum Tree Café team, a collection of professional, down to earth people, enjoying their day serving you the tastiest meals and drinks.

Most are aware of the two wonderful Santos healthy food stores on Jonson St, Byron Bay & Burringbar St, Mullumbimby, but did you know that you can also Mon-Thurs 9 to 5 shop at the Santos Warehouse? Small enough for Fridays 9 to 4 personal care, large enough for competitive prices, we OPEN TO THE PUBLIC have been supplying high quality biodynamic, organic & natural products to Byron Shire & beyond since 1975. 3/7 Brigantine Street, Byron Arts & Industry Park We continue our commitment to sourcing as locally as possible. Encouraging community. 6685 5685

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Earth ‘n‘ Sea Pizza and Pasta

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Uncle Tom’s Pies

Yum Yum Tree Café Stunning views overlooking Byron Bay

COORABELL

www.stelmodining.com Enjoy great company, delicious food, tasteful wines and sophisticated cocktails. Our traditional Spanish menu, combining fresh and flavoursome ingredients, goes hand in hand with our extensive and careful selected wine list featuring a unique selection of Australian and international wines. Kick back with friends and share tapas, enjoy a main meal to yourself or relax at the bar. There’s something to please everyone.

KINGSCLIFF

Breakfast, lunch & sunset balcony dining Cnr Jonson St & Lawson St, Byron Bay 6680 9666 www.balcony.com.au

UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT

Opening hours: Mon-Wed: 3pm til late Thurs-Sun: Noon till late Lunch, Dinner, Tapas, Drinks Cnr Fletcher St and Lawson Lane, Byron Bay 6680 7426

MULLUMBIMBY

The Balcony

st. elmo

Experienced Thai chefs cooking fresh delicious Thai food for you.

NEW BRIGHTON

Lunch Mon-Fri 11am-2.30pm Dinner 7 days from 5pm. 3/109 Jonson St, Byron Bay 6680 7798

SUFFOLK PARK

BYRON BAY CONTINUED

Success Thai

Lunch from 11am Dinner from 5.30pm Brunch Sundays from 10am Phone: (07) 5536 2277 or visit www.twintowns.com.au

1/6 Tasman Way, Byron Arts & Industry Estate 6680 8228

www.lusciousfoods.com.au info@lusciousfoods.com.au

Byron Bay: Jonson St (opp. Dendy Byron Bay) 6680 9779 Bangalow: Byron St (behind Aurora) 6687 2808

Luscious Foods aim to provide the freshest, first class quality handmade food for your event. Whether your function is a cocktail party, wedding, conference, picnic or intimate, Luscious is here to help create delicious menus to suit your tastes and budget. All products are handmade using fresh local produce, organic where possible, with an extensive range of global cuisine.

A uniquely Byron uniquely Asian Emporium with everything you need for cooking Asian food – from Korea and Japan though China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, India and even into the Middle East. Spices and rices, groceries, fine teas and teapots, Yum Cha dumplings ready to eat in the store or frozen to take home, fresh noodles and tofu PLUS gorgeous exotic gifts, homewares and furniture.

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Sport

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Nippers call it a year at Byron SLSC The 2011–2012 season drew to an end on Sunday for Byron Bay Junior Surf Life Saving Nippers with their presentation day. Congratulations to all for participating throughout the season and we look forward to welcoming new members along with returning members for season 2012/2013 in September 2012 Champion Boy U8 Tex Hembrow r/u Jude Taylor U9 Diesel Drury r/u Callum Balcon & Alby Kay U10 Angus Rowley r/u Sam Jimenez-Swain U11 Clay Buckley r/u Curtis Cloake U12 Guy Falconer r/u Finley Campbell U13 Jy Timperley & Tom Rowley U14 Dean Templeman r/u Riley Buckley. Champion Girl U8 Aimee Fogarty-Bennett r/u Lilly Cloake U9 Meeka Campbell r/u Grace Eady U10 Hayley Smith r/u India Hembrow U11 Alanah Gorman r/u Emma Clark U12 Isabelle McMullen r/u Ava Buckley & Ava Cor-

mack U13 Gabi Kay r/u Madison Batson U14 Alex Barnes r/u Annie Walkley. Carnival Champion Boys awarded to U8,U9 and U10s – U8 Tex Hembrow r/u Jude Taylor; U9 Callum Balcon r/u

Mullumbimby Hockey Club

Goalies Wanted! Female and Male Call Katherine 0417 427 963

Daily surf reports with Rusty Miller! – echonetdaily.net.au First quarter

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