Byron Shire Echo – Issue 20.01 – 24/05/2005

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THE BYRON SHIRE ECHO Advertising & news enquiries: Mullumbimby 02 6684 1777 Byron Bay 02 6685 5222 Fax 02 6684 1719 editor@echo.net.au adcopy@echo.net.au http://www.echo.net.au VOLUME 20 #01 TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2005 22,300 copies every week $1 at newsagents only

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Fowl pong on the way out Public outcry over the continuing smells produced by the Sunnybrand Chicken plant appears to have pushed the company and the Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) to take decisive action. A community meeting last Thursday organised by Freedom From Fowl Odour Org (FFFOO) drew over 100 people, mostly residents of Sunrise Beach, as well as representatives from Sunnybrand, Byron Shire Council and the DEC. FFFOO member Len Bates told The Echo ‘the saddest part of the meeting was that I honestly don’t believe Council, Sunnybrand or DEC know how bad the smell is. FFFOO feel the smell should stop now. There is no justification for any factory to be so close to residents. We should not have to put up with one more day of odour.’ Sunnybrand general manager

Andrew Young said on Friday that they were ‘reacting to odour complaints and were taking positive steps to reduce the odour’. From Monday May 23, Sunnybrand will be removing foul smelling sludge from the plant on a daily basis instead of the current twice weekly arrangement. Mr Young admitted that the sludge has been a source of bad odours. ‘By Friday May 27 the 16 settlement [waste water] tanks will be taken out of the system. We hope that this will also help to eliminate the smells,’ he added. Two years ago, in May 2003, Council approved a development application from Sunnybrand to upgrade the inadequate and outdated waste water treatment ponds at the Ewingsdale site. It has taken Sunnybrand two years to decommission the water treatment ponds, believed to be partly responsible for the offensive smells. They are

Sunnybrand owner Sam Gilmore, above left, and Byron Shire Mayor Jan Barham, right, in heated discussion over the prolonged odour problems at the Ewingsdale chicken plant at the FFOOO public meeting last week. Len Bates, centre from FFOO attempts to cool down the debate while Sunnybrand general manager Andrew Young looks on. Photo Jeff ‘Free from fowl odour’ Dawson

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only now lodging a construction certificate with Council to begin work on the approved artificial wetland to replace the treatment ponds. Council’s planning director Ray Darney said that once they receive the construction certificate Council will be working with the DEC to fast track the go ahead. A deadline of December 31 this year has been set by the DEC for completion of Sunnybrand’s $2.5m waste water treatment upgrade, a date which Andrew Young says they will be ‘be making its best endeavours to meet’. Coincidentally, the completion of the West Byron Sewage Treatment Plant upgrade is also due around the end of this year. Sunnybrand approached Council two or three years ago to dispose of its effluent at West Byron once the plant was upgraded and at the time say they were given a quote of $1.8m to connect. This estimate has now risen to $7.6m which Andrew Young says has made the company reassess its options. ‘At this stage were are not intending to apply to connect to the West Byron STP. Our consultants assure us that the new system will treat waste to a level consistent with Council’s plant and we will be reusing 60% of the water on site,’ said Andrew Young. Last week the DEC amended Students Domini Forster (above right) and Malinka Colley entertained visitors to Sunnybrand’s licence to instruct the Cape Byron Steiner School open day on the weekend. Photo Jeff Dawson the company to complete an odour audit by June 17. Mr Young says the process will identify the sources of the odour and any remedial In an attempt to change the mood have the power to confiscate action needed. of New Year’s Eve in Byron Bay, unopened beer cans or bottles, but major changes are being mooted to could only act if the alcohol was the night’s program. open and being consumed. Mayor Jan Barham announced Drinking would be permitted and Buck$ in 2001. The following year a Supreme Court jury found this week that drinking could be only in pubs and restaurants Cancelling the BayFM dance The Echo had defamed Tucker, but banned on the streets, parks and beaches on New Year’s Eve and party in Lawson Street is also being not Ross. The jury concluded that Buck$’s bottleshops forced to close their canvassed to discourage revellers from entering the Bay. Last year wide-ranging defence of Potts car- doors to prevent illegal drinking. The move was raised after a the dance party contributed ried two defamatory meanings: that Tucker acted dishonourably in meeting with Byron Bay Police $150,000 in revenue to the night’s his negotiations to settle a claim for inspector Owen King. During last balance sheet. compensation by a for mer year’s festivities wide scale drinking Cr Barham said she wanted to employee in that he made an offer in the streets was reported. Police see New Year’s Eve become a famcontinued on page 2 said at the time that they did not ily event.

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Ross Tucker takes The Echo to court The second leg of Byron Shire Councillor Ross Tucker’s longrunning defamation case against The Byron Shire Echo commenced in the NSW Supreme Court yesterday. Tucker, who publishes the Saturday Star newspaper, is suing over an article by activist Fast Buck$ in The Echo nearly six years ago on December 7, 1999. Buck$’s article was a response to

an editorial published in the Star in October 1999 which blamed Leanne Potts, a former Star employee, for the paper’s temporary closure. The Star article appeared shortly after Potts succeeded in her claim that she had been underpaid by the newspaper’s proprietors, Tucker and Harold Ross. Tucker and Ross began defamation proceedings against The Echo

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Local News Tucker goes to court

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of settlement which, after it was accepted by the former employee, he refused to honour; and that he is a domineering employer in that he abuses employees by belittling them and shouting at them and using obscene language. The Echo is defending the allegations against Tucker on the basis that they are true and that the paper acted reasonably in publishing them. The case, which is expected to take a week, is being heard by Acting Justice Patten. A decision on damages, if any, will be reserved.

Byron Probus Probus meet on Thursday May 26, 9.30am at the Byron Bay Bowling Club. Enquiries 6684 8131.

Three Byron Shire Celts, now newly Naturalised Aussies, Rachel Bending, Grace Knight and Niamh NiAodha (left to right), and about 20 others affirmed their Sheilahood last Friday. Rachel and Niamh were modelling the latest Slingfings retro playsuits in the great Australian tradition of taking the piss out of a traditionally rather stuffy ceremony. Jeff ‘Artificialised’ Dawson

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Lesley Patterson Paid parking in Byron Bay is back on the agenda, with Council considering proposals this week to expand the area serviced by pay and display ticket machines. Despite attempts by the Byron Bay Chamber of Commerce to bury the issue, Council have kept the scheme alive saying it is a method of improving parking availability for residents and raising revenue from tourists. Currently pay and display ticket machines are operating in the car parks at Main Beach and north and south of Lawson Street near the railway crossing. Under the new proposals, ticket machines would be installed in six streets in the town centre including Jonson Street (between Bay and Marvel), Lawson Street (between Jonson and Middleton), Bay Street (from First Sun Caravan Park to Middleton Street), Fletcher Street (between Bay and Marvel), Middleton Street (between Bay Street and Bay

Lane) and Byron Street ( b e t we e n Jo n s o n a n d Fletcher). Residents would be exempt from paying for parking, however, time limits would apply to prevent all day parking. Revenue from the existing ticket machines was $223,326 for the 10 month period to the end of April, however no income projections have been supplied for the expansion of the scheme. Council staff have provided four options for paid parking and say full costings will follow once Council have chosen their preferred option. Business interests are already gearing up to oppose the expansion of paid parking. Barry Wallace from Byron Business Group wrote to Council recently expressing his group’s concerns about the proposals. ‘Our 350 members in the CBD have strong links to the Chamber of Commerce locally and nationally, the vast majority of whom are totally opposed to paid parking on the CBD streets. We are very disappointed with

council management that despite our co-operation with Council during the trial period and the losses we and our staff incurred, and after giving the Council accurate feedback that no effort has been made to include the commercial, cultural and social implications of revisiting this disastrous folly,’ Mr Wallace wrote. He added that 70% of c o m m e r c i a l o p e r at o r s recorded a downturn in trade on average of 21% during the trial. Council staff say that paid parking offers a benefit to the community stating that the parking trial from December 2003 to May 2004 ‘increased availability and turnover of parking and improved trafďŹ c congestion especially entering from Ewingsdale Road’. Another criticism of paid parking has come from workers, many of whom object to the inconvenience of walking further to car parks on the town’s perimeter and have expressed concerns about security after dark. Parking

within the town is limited and Council staff say that providing all day parking for workers is difďŹ cult. Changes to the current arrangements to provide ‘worker friendly parking areas’ have been suggested however Council says that ‘workers and businesses have to realise that not all workers can be accommodated, as there are simply not the resources available’. These changes include ending time restrictions in the Lawson Street south car park after 3pm to allow cars to be moved closer to work before dark, and allowing all day parking in the Byron Street car park. At Tuesday’s Council meeting Councillors will have to decide whether to proceed with the expansion of paid parking in the Bay. The issue is bound to be a heavily debated one requiring the balancing of commercial opposition with the benefits to residents of improved parking and the long sought ďŹ nancial income stream from tourists.

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Local News Food festival postponed

Rose’s exquisite art on show at Cape

Artist Rose McKinley with some of her paintings at her Upper Coopers Creek home. Noted for her highly detailed watercolours Rose, who divides her time between Byron Shire and New Zealand, has now changed over to oils for her current exhibition at the Cape Gallery in Byron Bay. The gallery in Lawson Street is open Monday to Saturday, 10am-5pm, and on Sundays, 11am-4pm. Photo Jeff ‘Nicely Hung’ Dawson

The Byron Bay Fine Food Festival, incorporating the Taste of Byron, has been postponed until 2006, ‘to provide adequate lead time to re-establish the event on a professional and creative platform of excellence,’ say the organisers. ‘Unfortunately, the committee believes the time and resources available if the event were to be held in 2005, could jeopardise the quality of the event and has made the decision to postpone it until 2006,’ said Peter Wotton, Taste of Byron Organising Committee Chair. ‘We now have a blueprint for an event the committee believes will provide the foundation for a premium national (and eventually international) food festival.’

New rubbish collection to improve recycling rates Byron Shire Council’s track record on recycling is set to improve markedly with the introduction of a new rubbish collection service from August 1. Separate rubbish and recycling bins will be available to urban and, as an optional service, for rural residents. The current split bin arrangement, is one of the least efďŹ cient recycling methods as rubbish frequently ‘contaminates’ recyclable material. Separate bins for rubbish and recyclables should increase the recyclable component to 83% according to Council. In a move to reduce the amount of total waste going into landďŹ ll, urban residents will have a choice of rubbish bin size. In addition to the

current 140 litre bin, a smaller 80 litre and a larger 240 litre bin will be available at a lesser and greater cost to the standard $150 charge. ‘Council’s decision to offer urban residents a choice of three different size waste bins recognises that different households will produce different amounts of waste depending on their size and how much they can recycle,’ said Byron Shire General Manager Pam Westing. Council has adopted a reduction target of 10% for all waste and recycling materials entering the Myocum tip. Last year the tip handled 25,000 tons of material of which 34% was recycled. An optional rubbish and recycling service is being offered to rural residents at a

cost of $142 a year. Letters have been sent to rural property owners offering a fortnightly collection of a 240 litre waste bin and a 240 litre recycling bin. ‘Our new rural service expands our kerbside recycling program and gives rural residents access to regular waste collections at a much lower cost than the current private service,’ said Ms Westing. ‘There is a $10 a year charge for people who don’t want the service. We would like people to have an environmentally appropriate way of disposing of waste. We don’t want people to dump it, but we realise there are plenty of people out there living low waste lifestyles and have created a system to allow them

to live how they do,’ said Council’s manager of Waste Services Russell Chaplin. Council posted letters to more than 12,000 property owners recently asking for feedback on the type of service they require. Council is a s k i n g t h at f o r m s b e returned by the due date to make sure any new bins can be delivered in time for the new services to start on August 1.

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Local News Eileen Chanin to feature in FEHVA

Local artists gear up for artsCape

From left, local artists Suvira McDonald, Allen Horstmanshof, Trust liaison officer for artsCape Gina Baker, Miriam Dennett, John Dahlsen and Lynne Adams. Photo Louise Beaumont

Excitement is building among local artists and the Cape Byron Trust. artsCape: the Nature of Sculpture, is Cape Byron’s first outdoor sculpture show where the works of over 50 artists will be exhibited, over 30 of

which will be creations of Byron’s local artists. Mix a handful of these artists and a Cape Byron Trust officer, and creative conservation conversations are born. Gina Baker of the Cape Byron Trust says, ‘This

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project symbolises the meeting place of art and conservation. Many of the works have a conservation theme, and all have incorporated nature, conceptually and/or actually.’ Each artsCape sculpture was made or chosen to reflect the natural beauty and/or protection of the local environment. The local artists have produced a diverse collection of sculptures that will be seen along the headland walk. Some sculpture sites are precariously placed, leading artists to discuss installation logistics that involve safety harnesses and helicopters. Byron Bay based artist John Dahlsen says, ‘I’ve been involved in numerous outdoor sculpture exhibitions, but this one is unlike any of them.The Cape Byron headland is very inspiring, it is a location with a special energy like no other and this is what sets its apart. ‘I’m looking forward to seeing all the pieces in place and everyone enjoying the artworks and stunning surrounds simultaneously. The sculptures and the site are truly mutually complementary.”’ Fellow local artist Allen Horstmanshof agrees, ‘Cape Byron is an extraordinary canvas with vistas, views and colours that change all the time. Nature on the scale of the Cape excites the imagination and artists.’ The artsCape: the Nature of Sculpture event will run from June 26 to July 11. For more information visit the website at www.artscape. net.au.

Collaboration between cultural events in the Byron Shire is reaching FEHVA pitch with a generous gesture by the Byron Bay Writers Festival sponsoring a session in the forthcoming 48 Hours of Visual Arts July program. The session features an interview by Caroline Baum with author Eileen Chanin, director of Macquarie Galleries and co-writer of the recently published book Degenerates and Per verts. Chanin will give her own background to the first definitive account of the Herald Exhibition of French and Contemporar y Ar t staged in 1939 which created a storm of controversy. At the time it was more than Australia’s art establishment could cope with. Chanin’s book uses Australia’s first blockbuster exhibition as a focus for a consideration of the development of modernism in this country. Her other books include Collecting Art: Masterpieces, Markets and Money. Jill Eddington, director of the Byron Bay Writers Festival said, ‘It is wonderful now we are an established event

to have input with guest speakers with other cultural events where there are such important crossovers like FEHVA 48 Hours of Visual Ar ts. This cooperation between cultural activities

will certainly warm up our winter months with a feast of fine presenters.’ For program information on both events visit www.fehva.com or www.byronbaywritersfestival.com.au.

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Soil expert to visit for symposium ReGenesis farm at Myocum will host Benefits Of Healthy Soil Symposium II on June 7 and 8. The Symposium brings Dr Elaine Ingham, pictured, expert on healthy soil systems to Byron Shire. Dr Ingham is President and Director of Research at Soil Foodweb Inc. worldwide and Soil Foodweb Institute Australia. She is Adjunct Professor at Southern Cross University and President of the Sustainable Studies Institute. Local fir m Footprint Directions and Lismore based Soil Foodweb Institute are working with ReGenesis on the event. The 2005 Symposium is a practical, on-the-farm experience offering both demonstrations and seminars in composting and compost tea brewing, productive farming using compost teas, soil testing and contemporary waste resource management. ‘We want to demystify the science behind compost tea brewing,’ said Greg Hallett,

sustainable development consultant from Footprint Directions. ‘This is our region’s chance to interact with some of the most important land use specialists working today, pioneering in areas of sustainable economic yield, agricultural pollution and run-off, land degradation, public health and nutrition. We are very lucky that Dr Ingham is adapting her research to our climate, produce and soils.’ Dr Ingham’s message is based on 25 years of research proving that to grow healthy,

productive plants we need healthy soil with the right balance of organisms. An eclectic mix including growers, developers, landcarers, geologists, composters, horticulturists and environmental scientists will gather for the Symposium Compost Tea Party. Tickets are available for either one or both days and start at $185, including meals. There is a special price for local industry displayers. For enquiries phone 6688 2324 or email bookings@fo otprintdirections.com.

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Art union takes to the colourful ďŹ eld Rucking and mauling will never be the same after the new Byron Body Art Rugby Union Team hits the field. Unable to decide if their take on the code should be called ‘Art Union’ or ‘Body Union’ the team in the fetching uniforms said they may not know football, but they know what they like. Truth is, after the scrum cleared, a signiďŹ cant goal was scored by the new Byron BodyArt Movement (with its ďŹ rst workshop) at the Arts Factory on Sunday. Pictured here is Zen Player and his team of ‘neotribal’ members in full regalia. The Byron BodyAr t Movement continues to unfold with presentations and art installations at the upcoming ArtsCape and FEHVA events from June

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Below: Karen Hunter (front) from the Brisbane Slow Food Convivium admires Jude Fanton’s peas at a lunch on Saturday at the Seed Savers garden in Byron Bay. The Byron Slow Food Society and the Brisbane Slow Fooders gathered to discuss the Slow Food movement.

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