Byron Shire Echo – Issue 29.01 – 17/06/2014

THE BYRON SHIRE Volume 29 #1 Tuesday, June 17, 2014 Phone 02 6684 1777 Fax 02 6684 1719 editor@echo.net.au adcopy@echo.net.au www.echo.net.au 23,200 copies every week

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Was democracy the winner on Thursday? – p9

Mullum Markets’ 25th – p20

Writersfest book reviews – p22

The Thorne experiment – p24

The Trip To Italy – p29

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Grrrrrrr, it’s a wild spag circus Planning MP now asked to be ‘satisfied’ with West Byron Hans Lovejoy

While many circuses in Australia are moving away from using wild animals in their shows, Spaghetti Circus are happy to embrace their inner beast. Remo the lemur and Nina the cheetah were out of their cages just prior to going into the ring for Saturday’s performance of ’The Forgotten Circus.’ Photo Jeff ‘Caged Since 1986’ Dawson

Rail trail study recommends removing track It’s good news for rail trail enthusiasts, but not for those wanting light rail: a state government-commissioned study released Friday gives a strong case for a regional rail trail but suggests removing existing track to accommodate foot and cycle traffic, ‘in a majority of locations’.

The Casino to Murwillumbah Rail Trail Study comes in at 68 pages, cost $80,000 according to the deputy premier’s office, and estimates a rail trail will cost $75.5 million and that it would add 88,320 visitors the region per annum.

Consultancy company Arup was commissioned after the Casino to Murwillumbah Transport Study was released in 2011.

But that study, which cost an astonishing $2m and totalled 130 pages, inexplicably omitted light rail as an option, only surveyed a small percentage of the entire line, bloated costs and estimations which were at odds with previous studies, and largely ignored Byron Bay’s traffic congestion and exceptionally high tourist numbers.

$750k spent on lines And while the state government and rail contractor John Holland refused to disclose to The Echo the cost and quality of rail maintenance work – if any – being undertaken in the area, the new rail trail study claims that there is an ‘approximate

annual budget of $750,000 allocated for the purpose of maintaining the corridor.’

Byron a focal point The report suggests removing the existing track to accommodate foot and cycle traffic, dashing the hopes of the line co-existing with light rail.

‘In a majority of locations,’ the report says, ‘the removal of track, sleepers and ballast material will be required, where a trail cannot be economically formed adjacent to the existing line and remain within the existing railway corridor boundary.’

But it’s not all bad news; the study says, ‘Byron Bay forms the continued on page 2

Mayor Simon Richardson’s plans for how Council should respond to the state government over the contentious West Byron development were trumped by Cr Sol Ibrahim at Thursday’s Council meeting.

The mayor – supported by the Byron Residents’ Association – was seeking to ask the the state government to defer rezoning West Byron over what they say are inadequate traffic and acid sulfate soil studies.

Additionally, Cr Richardson asked that any decision be held off until the Byron Coast Comprehensive Koala Plan of Management (KPoM) and the soon-to-be-completed Local Growth Management Strategy (LGMS) is released. The mayor also called for a baseline assessment of the Belongil Creek and estuary to be completed.

Instead, a watered-down motion

by Cr Sol Ibrahim will see Byron Shire Council request that concerns regarding one of Byron Bay’s largest ever urban developments be addressed to the minister’s ‘satisfaction’.

Crs Dey, Richardson and Cameron voted against (Cr Spooner was absent).

The motion by Cr Ibrahim and seconded by Cr Wanchap reads: ‘That due to concerns raised by members of the local community, Council will write to the planning minister Pru Goward requesting that prior to making a decision regarding the rezoning of the West Byron Urban Release Areas the following matters will have been ad-

dressed to her satisfaction: ‘1. The traffic study has followed RMS guidelines and reasonably considered all the likely impacts of the traffic generated by the proposed residential and commercial developments.

‘2. The Acid Sulfate Soils Study has been produced and considered in accordance with the Department of Planning’s Acid Sulfate Soils Planning Guidelines.

‘3. That all koala habitat on the site has been identified in accordance with SEPP44 procedures and that it will be protected from damage and disturbance.

‘4. That all other environmental and ecological aspects have been considered in the rezoning.

‘Furthermore Council will seek funding for a baseline assessment of the Belongil Creek/Estuary from appropriate government departments, including from Minister Goward’s.’

Disgusted: Cr Woods During debate, the mayor said that the development is something that has waited ten years, and should wait a little longer. ‘This is about respecting the community’s wishes for it to be a clear, transparent and a trustworthy decision.’

But Cr Di Woods spoke against the mayor’s deferment. ‘You say ten years in waiting – that is disgusting’.

‘We should be able to determine developments much sooner. Under the previous mayor it was refused, and Council said we didn’t have the resources. The developers said they continued on page 2

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continued from page 1 will supply the resources but it was still refused. I have seen people who own that land go bankrupt. It’s not the proponent’s fault that this is with the minister. Acid sulfate and traffic can be dealt with – let’s work with them, get the zoning and move on.’

Gallery objects At that point, the full gallery murmured ‘shame’, prompting Cr Ibrahim to say it was unacceptable for the gallery to interject.

Cr Ibrahim then moved his amendment and spoke in favour of the development while also expressing a desire for due process and environmental protection.

When asked later why a regional growth strategy was not included in his motion, Cr Ibrahim told The Echo, ‘The mayor’s motion asked for a deferment until the strategy was completed. It was always going to be very unlikely that the minister would agree after the years that have been spent on this project. Anyway, the minister’s office will already have considered the regional growth strategy in place which includes Byron.

‘Secondly, with the workload already stacked up for councillors and staff, I doubt that a new strategy will be

Environmentalist Dailan Pugh addresses the public meeting on West Byron last week. Photo Jeff Dawson

completed in the term of this council. Thirdly, the fundamental debate about growth that is being played out regarding WB (West Byron) will be repeated for the growth strategy. So it will be a political decision anyway.

‘Finally, the WB lots will be released slowly over a decade or more. Despite the inaccurate claims that our water and sewer won’t cope, we will still have time to plan for expansion if it is required.’

As for how the community will have an adequate say in this or any development, Cr Ibrahim said, ‘Firstly, through their elected representatives.

Through submissions about draft planning instruments (LEP, DCP, KcPOM etc).

Through objections to DAs. Byron’s community is never shy on expressing their objections to developments.

‘It happens every week, and in many instances I have opposed development approvals (Mullumbimby, Bangalow, KFC etc).

‘I am currently fighting to have our Development Control Plan (DCP) conditions fully applied in a Bangalow development. We have a legal system which allows a court challenge just about any decision of a council.

Confident in DCP ‘Expecting some sort of guarantee from councillors is unreasonable. However, I am confident that our DCP, coupled with other statutory instruments and plans of management, can produce a great outcome.

‘So far, it has been my experience that if Council negotiates in good faith with a developer from the outset, very

positive results are achieved (North Byron Beach Resort for example).

‘Council has already expressed to the minister that we want to apply our own DCP to the site.

‘I wholeheartedly agree with this position. We are all waiting and hoping that she will grant this wish. This matter was not raised in the mayor’s motion or mine because the request has already been made.’

Cr Ibrahim says the minister’s decision ‘is quite limited in scope’ and that, ‘All the other details, lot sizes, density, roads, setbacks, construction etc will come to Council within a series of DAs.’

No faith in DCP During the meeting, Cr Richardson spoke against Cr Ibrahim’s amendment.

‘My motion gives more details: this has no consideration of planning or local growth management; this doesn’t mention a koala plan of management but instead is vague and broad.’ And in Cr Richardson’s right of reply, he acknowledged the need for housing and jobs, but said that the, ‘DCP is useless as the state government has gutted it; it only has to be considered.’

‘To put faith in that is staggering.’

Northern rivers rail trail study released continued from page 1 focal point for the rail trail and it would be logical to consider Byron Bay as the starting point for the rail trail development.’ Additionally, the ‘section from Murwillumbah to the shire boundary at Yelgun could be timed for delivery to coincide with a similar progression north from Byron Bay.’

Grab The Rail supported Surprisingly the report supports the Grab The Rail proposal, which is at odds with mayor Simon Richardson’s advice and position.

Grab The Rail, made up largely of residents likely to be adversely affected by a Butler Street bypass, is promoting, ‘an alternative vehicular bypass through Byron Bay town centre utilising a section of the rail corridor from the existing Shirley Street level crossing to Old Bangalow Road level crossing, a length of approximately 2.5km.’

Unlike other sections of

the 130km track, it is ‘considered likely that a shared corridor could be laid out that meets the needs of both a rail trail and road bypass.’

Byron’s light rail Ironically, the fossil fuel sector is leading the charge for light rail in Byron Shire.

QLD-based coal mining baron and owner of the North Byron Beach Resort, Brian Flannery, has plans to establish a railmotor service ‘between the existing Byron Bay station and the proposed North Byron Beach Resort located to the north of Bayshore Drive.’

Entitled ‘Byron Bay Community and Tourist Rail Shuttle’, the report says that as the corridor width is ‘generous’, it will be ‘likely allow for both rail and trail to co-exist for the majority of the proposed operating route.’

Meanwhile, ‘Tweed Shire Council are promoting the connection between Murwillumbah Station and the Tweed Regional Gallery as the ideal “pilot” for the devel-

opment of the trail.’

Remarkably the report, authored by James Robinson, suggests that the northern rivers region partner with its ‘emerging gas industry’ to help fund the project. ‘For example BHP Billiton contributed over $200,000 to the Victorian Coast to Crater Rail Trail.’

Funded by gas?

But local state MP Don Page (Nationals) told The Echo, ‘The rail trail will be in no way coming from anything to do with gas.’

‘It will be funded by state and hopefully federal government. I’ve done the submission to the state government and I’ve been talking to [fellow Nationals federal MP] Kevin Hogan regarding a federal contribution. The state government announced on Friday a Regional Tourism Fund which contains $110m, [and] I expect after Treasury checks out the Arup report they will indicate the state government’s response financially. I expect this to be positive.’

As for operating and main-

tenance costs, the report’s author estimates between $6,800 to $8,900 per annum per km. ‘At 130km, this indicates an operating and maintenance cost of $884,000 to $1,157,000 per annum’.

Meanwhile Greens NSW MP, Dr Mehreen Faruqi MLC, slammed the study as a ‘blatant exercise in justifying a pre-determined outcome.’

‘The estimated cost of the rail trail will be $75 million, which comes to around $600,000 per km’, Ms Faruqi said. ‘Railway lines in regional Victoria have been reinstated at half the estimated cost per kilometre of this rail trail.’

The report can be found at http://bit.ly/TXZ9RM.

Rally at Don’s A snap action rally is planned this Wednesday morning from 9am at Don Page’s Ballina office (7 Moon Street), and will include members from TOOT (Trains On Our Tracks), Northern Rivers Greens and Northern Rivers Guardians.

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Horse Riding Classes run rain, hail or shine in our all-weather arena • Fully accredited instructors & fantastic school horses • Kids’ birthday Pony Parties now available! • Private lessons by appointment • Agistment & indoor school hire also available.

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Last Friday, the winners of the 2014 Northern Rivers Business Awards were announced at a Byron at Byron gala event.

Nine awards were presented by the NSW Business Chamber, and three Byron Shire businesses were among the winners.

Byron Beach Cafe were the recipients of the Excellence in Small Business (less than 20 full time employees), while Stone & Wood Brewing Company were awarded the Excellence in Business Award (more than 20 full time employees).

Mullumbimby-based mobile, landline and internet service provider, TelcoGreen, received two nominations; one for the company’s Angela Tchoulak for The Young En-

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trepreneur of the year, and another for Excellence in Business Ethics, which they won.

Award winners will compete at the NSW Business Chamber state awards, to be

held in Sydney at the Pavilion, Darling Harbour on Friday November 28.

NBN tower opposed in Rosebank Rosebank residents are opposing a NBN wireless tower – planned for later in the year – with resident Steven Davies claiming that a petition so far has over 140 locals saying ‘no’ to the tower and only five in favour.

He says he and fellow residents are battling the ‘relentless spin-doctoring of [telecommunications and information and communication technologies service company] Visionstream. ‘Visionstream have no idea which homes will even be reached by the tower,’ he says. ‘In Rosebank, one of the most heavily populated parts of rural Australia, a high percentage of its residents will be battling to run businesses from home with the slowest imaginable connection

speeds. Small business will suffer.’ ‘Health and environmental costs are readily dismissed by NBN – studies highlight deleterious effects on vulnerable species and this ignores local values for this important wildlife corridor. ‘They avoid mentioning the 2011 WHO classification of electro-magnetic radiation (EMR) as Group 2B – “possibly carcinogenic,� or more recent independent studies on how EMR triggers the human brain into responding to it as day-light – even at night. Some family homes lie within 50 metres of the tower. ‘This is one of the most densely populated parts of Rosebank. It won’t be NBN Visionstream that sleeps uneasy.’ ‘And all this for third rate broadband.

‘Ironically, Rosebank already has fibre to the exchange on the corner of Repentance Creek and Dunoon Road. Despite taunting many bypassed homes, there has been no cost benefit analysis for delivering fibre direct in Rosebank. Why? Because – as the consultants confirmed – NBN Visionstream only delivers towers to rural Australia.’ He says despite this and criticism from NBN’s own minister, Malcolm Turnbull, ‘NBN seems determined to deliver low-quality broadband to this highly populated rural community.’ The proposed location is 191 Rosebank Road. To get involved, simply like the Facebook page: RosebankNBNActionGroup.

Inghams to quit Byron Bay operations Eve Jeffery

Eighty-six locals will find themselves out of work when Inghams Byron Bay closes its doors in late October.

The chicken processing factory had been operating the Byron Bay plant since it acquired the assets of Sunnybrand Chickens on April 30, 2011.

A media release from the company said that they have recently completed a review of their facilities in QLD and northern NSW, with a focus on assessing existing production facilities to meet increasing customer demand for a wide range of fresh pre-prepared or ‘value added’ poultry products.

Mike Rozen, Inghams’ group executive general manager, says the latest review has focused on the Byron Bay production facility’s ability to

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meet this changing demand. ‘With this older and less efficient facility currently functioning at its structural limits, it is unable to competitively produce the full range of poultry products increasingly sought by consumers in the Australian marketplace.’

Site safety Mr Rozen said that Inghams is currently assessing its options in relation to the Byron Bay property and will review remediation requirements in the lead up to the October 2014 closure. ‘We will continue to maintain the safety of the site and all environmental requirements.’ The site closure will occur in two main stages.

In stage one, onsite live bird processing will cease.

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plied from the Murarrie processing plant until closure, allowing ‘a smooth redirection of production volumes.’ A total of 86 employees, including 21 casuals, located at the Byron Bay processing plant will be affected. Several contract service providers will also be impacted and Inghams say they ‘will work with them through the closure process.’

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Local News Mullum gardens office destroyed by fire Recently Jeanette Martin was all smiles as one of the recipients of this year’s World Environment Day Awards.

But last week she was dealing with a fire-gutted office at the Mullumbimby Community Gardens, which burned to the ground on Thursday night. Jeanette is waiting for police to examine the site to establish the cause of the fire, but she told The Echo some smaller fires had also broken out at the gardens on the same night.

‘Losing records, files, a colour photocopier and other valuable equipment at a time when the many volunteers

Jeanette Martin inspects the remains of the Community Gardens office. Photo Jeff Dawson

are gearing up for this year’s Living Earth Festival is devastating,’ said Ms Martin.

‘We are hoping there may be some community support for rebuilding our office.’

Donations, which are tax deductible, can be made to the Bunya Sustainability Fund via www.mullumbimbycommunitygardens.org or ring Janette on 0412 322 255.

Wealth divide widening: report The widening gap between the prosperity of Australia’s regions that have benefited from the mining boom and those that have not is a key finding of the 2014–15 State of the Regions Report, Regional Development in a Globalised Economy.

The report was produced

by National Economics for the Australian Local Government Association (ALGA), and launched at ALGA’s annual Regional Cooperation and Development Forum in Canberra. For more visit http://alga.asn.au.

Junkie needles: a parent’s worst nightmare Eve Jeffery

In a perfect world, all public toilets would have junkie needle disposal boxes.

Then again, in a perfect world, we wouldn’t need them.

Horrifically, it is not a perfect world for a trio of youngsters who found a bunch of used syringes in a public toilet in Mullumbimby last week. They and their parents now have to wait an agonising six months to see if they have been infected through needle punctures acquired while playing with them.

One of the boys’ mothers contacted The Echo in the hope of at least warning other parents about the dangers in the hope they will educate their children and avoid the trauma that she is going through.

The woman, who wished to remain anonymous, said that the boys, aged 11 and 12 years, were playing in the toi-

let behind the IGA when they found the syringes above the sink. They had no clue as to the deadly nature of the needles and began to play with them – her son was definitely stuck by a needle and the other boys are not sure.

Traumatised During the visit to the hospital, all three lads were made aware of the possibilities and all left severely traumatised.

The mother says now it is a six-month wait and hope that the next batch of tests come back negative.

She says she has spoken to police who have told her that the particular toilet the boys were in was a well-known haunt of needle users.

‘They were very supportive and I had three different officers ring me’, she said.

‘They told me they cannot understand why Council has not provided disposal units in

the facility.’ She says the police told her she should go to Council and demand action.

‘When I went to Council to make them aware of the situation and ask why there were not sharps boxes installed, they were quite dismissive.

They said that if I felt strongly about the issue I should lobby councillors.’

Council replies Director of Council’s infrastructure services, Phil Holloway, said, ‘To date, there has not been a problem with needles at the [Station St] carpark toilets. The toilet block is cleaned twice daily and is locked at 5pm each day. Following the reported incident, the toilet block will be assessed to consider a sharps bin being placed in the building.’

Mr Holloway urged the community to immediately report to Council if needles are found lying on the toilet

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Local News Lawyers salivate over Crown Lands changes The establishment of Crown Lands as a possible public trading enterprise has prompted a corporate law firm to advertise its services to prospective corporations and individuals wanting to maximise ‘the return to the government and the community from the use of Crown land.’

Australian corporate law firm Clayton Utz says on its website that, ‘For the private sector, the reforms have the potential to open up new business and operational opportunities.’

Shift in use The law firm’s webpage, ‘NSW Crown land – a field of opportunities’, spruiks the recommendations in the state government’s White Paper, which is now on public submission.

They say it demonstrates, ‘a shift in the use of Crown land towards private entities.’

‘Tenants under Crown land are currently bound by certain provisions of the

Crown Lands Act which make it impracticable to operate standard business and development models.

‘Removing restrictions to enable leases to be granted on terms and conditions more regularly found in commercial leases will provide greater flexibility in the use of Crown land.

‘Roughly 42 per cent of land in NSW is Crown land (not including national parks and state forests), with a total value of over $11 billion.’

The law firm says apart from the public trading enterprise aspect of Crown lands, the new legislation will provide for the payment of market rent as the default position under leases of Crown land (with rebates and waivers applied where appropriate); standardise the way in which Crown land is valued (having regard to the hypothetical value of the land as if it were a freehold parcel); require an entity administering Crown land to

evaluate the expected return to be provided to the government and the community when permitting the use of an asset (and taking into account the opportunity cost of allowing an asset to be used in such a way); and implement stronger compliance and enforcement provisions which will provide penalties for damage and unlawful use of Crown land.

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Submissions NSW Trade & Investment says on its website that the changes are part of a ‘commitment to cutting red tape and updating legislation to improve outcomes.’

Public submissions in response to the White Paper are open until June 20.

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Police charged over Ballina station bashing Six former and serving NSW police officers have been charged with perjury and assault after lying to the police watchdog over the ‘violent’ arrest of a young man.

The charges come after Ballina Magistrate David Heilpern referred the matter to the Police Integrity Commission (PIC). He found wthe footage from the police station did not show Corey

Barker throwing a punch.

The PIC found the north coast officers subjected then23-year-old Mr Barker to ‘brutal and violent’ treatment.

The PIC found that senior constable David Hill and constables Lee Walmsley, Ryan Eckersley and Luke Mewing used excessive force against Mr Barker.

Mr Barker’s assault case was also thrown out of court.

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North coast National Party MPs, who went into a partyroom meeting last week vociferously opposing a sell-off of the state’s electricity distribution assets, have failed to scotch the plan but now argue they have achieved a reasonable compromise.

Under Liberal premier Mike Baird’s ambitious proposal, 49 per cent of the state’s electricity distribution assets would be leased for 99 years following the next election to fund a one-off $20 billion infrastructure building boom.

Essential Energy, which is responsible for electricity distribution in the northern rivers, will not be sold.

Centrepiece of the plan would be a new rapid transit rail network for Sydney, including a second Harbour rail crossing and Western Extension, which the premier said, ‘will unblock a major train bottleneck and transform [the] city’.

Funds for regions But up to 30 per cent of the sale funds would be earmarked for the regions, the premier said, including a $1 billion Regional Roads Fund, a $1 billion Regional Water Fund and a statewide $2 billion Schools and Hospitals Building Fund.

Deputy premier and NSW Nationals leader Andrew Stoner said, ‘This reform pro-

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Clarence Nats MP Chris Gulaptis who, like his Ballina counterpart Don Page, went

to the meeting firmly opposing the sale of the assets, said the outcome was a reasonable compromise.

‘I walked into the party room opposed to the sale of poles and wires. I emerged opposed to the sale of poles and wires but at the end of the day there have been some compromises made that will ensure regional people are protected,’ he told ABC radio.

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Local News A most exciting Thursday spent Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!

– Allen Ginsberg Hans Lovejoy

1930s US journalist and satirist H L Mencken once told the internet that democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

Debunking that theory was Council’s meeting last Thursday morning – Mencken would have found it hard to get a seat it was so packed.

There was plenty of fodder apart from West Byron (see page one story), with ALDI’s Byron liquor-licence application, North Byron Parklands noise monitoring, the future use of our rapidly deteriorating railways, the recent corporate Clarkes Beach party and declaring the region gasfield free. Cr Chris Cubis also contributed a motion to abolish the mayor’s park-and- ride pet project (lost by the mayor’s casting vote), while Cr Duncan Dey dragged up the awkward episode of Cr Alan Hunter’s warehouse or distribution centre in a rural zone (Cr Dey lost; it will not be excluded from an LEP amendment).

Again it was a gruelling and long day, made slightly easier with the offer by Cr Wanchap of chocolate in a break at around 2pm. Innocent bribes aside, the meeting did threaten to descend into anarchy at around 4pm when some councillors erupted into a tit-for-tat over whispering comments between factions.

What a bunch of babies.

Anyway, on with the show, which mainly consisted of agreeing – or not – to write lots of letters and sign submissions.

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If Fast Buck$, aka John Anderson, decided to retire from pestering councillors, who would they turn to for moral guidance? Photo Jeff Dawson

Gasfield free The top brass in state government – ie premier and relevant ministers – will be soon receiving letters calling on them to review and consider revoking all Petroleum Exploration Licences (PELs) and Petroleum Special Prospecting Applications (PSPAPP 55) in the northern rivers region.

They will also be asked if we can pretty please be declared Gasfield Free. Another letter will ask the Aboriginal Land Council (ALC) ever-so politely to withdraw the PEL application that covers the region.

All were in favour.

A submission from Council will be made to the Independent Liquor and Gaming Authority (ILGA) objecting to the proposed liquor licence for Aldi supermarket in Byron Bay. The submission will outline community concern about alcohol issues and the potential increase of alcohol availability, especially cheap alcohol.

Mute on new liquor licences Council will also write separately to the Office of Liquor Gaming and Racing (OLGR), ‘pointing out that the Byron Bay Alcohol Action Plan is mute on the issue of new liquor licences and should deal with it…’

Crs Cubis, Woods and Hunter voted against.

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Byron United’s president, Michael O’Grady, told his members via email that, ‘We mostly discussed the CCTV installation and the rail corridor.’

‘Council indicated that as a result of their investigations, the corridor was not an option and a vote was made at Council some time ago to remain with the Butler Street alignment. We are asking for a copy of the information that was provided to councillors to enable them to make this decision.’ As for CCTV, Mr O’Grady says it, ‘looks more

of a possibility, but Council flagged concern about the $80k annual maintenance costs. It is considerable but one we hopefully can afford.

$80k for CCTV maintenance ‘Regardless, any lighting enhancement will be welcome.

‘Also discussed was the recent corporate event staged at Clarkes Beach, which attracted passionate debate. The event was approved by Council; the business involved followed all protocols and should therefore be excluded from the debate. It has opened discussions about our foreshore use. Let’s see what evolves. Personally – if a big corporate entity wants to

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enjoy our beach space for such an evening with our town getting something tangible from it – one street de-potholed? – I’m okay with that.

‘The board attended the Byron Residents’ Association meeting regarding the West Byron development on Wednesday night. Notable are recent comments coming from Macquarie Street which could indicate where this is heading. Our planning minister suggested that we all have to “get used to living with less space” – in both cities and regional areas.

‘I personally would love to keep Byron Bay as it is, but most coastal locations continue to grow as more people flee the crowded cities.’

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Local News Removing regional barriers to creative industries Anneli Knight

The northern rivers has the highest concentration of arts and creative industries outside the cities, and highprofile members of Byron Shire’s creative community have declared it’s time to remove regional barriers so that creative industries can expand and thrive. A panel of northern rivers creatives, including Byron Bay International Film Festival director Jaimee Skippon-Volke and head of Arts Northern Rivers Peter Wood, spoke on a panel last week at Australia’s largest festival, Vivid Sydney.

Faster broadband Skippon-Volke says faster and more reliable broadband access in the region is a major hurdle for growth in creative industries. ‘There were days in the lead-up to the film festival when we were at 15 per cent of our productivity – upload speeds are killing us,’ she says.

Skippon-Volke says that while some businesses are finding inventive ways to get around the slow broadband, many are losing significant productivity because of limited upload speeds.

In another issue, a clear desire has been articulated by creative industries in the region to have more opportunities for collaboration and Skippon-Volke says television and film projects could facilitate this. ‘The beauty of film and television is that it’s a creative medium that employs people across many fields: sound, makeup, music, actors, writers, set photographers. Once a big job comes in it can hire lots of people that have lots of skills bases – and that makes it unique.’

Funding Arts Northern Rivers’ Peter Wood says another factor holding the issue back is funding. While the region punches above its weight in terms of arts funding, the high concentration of artistic and creative people here means there is tough competition.

Wood is calling for Byron Shire to be recognised nationally for its exceptionally high concentration of creative talent. ‘If we are recognised as a creative industries hotspot it will bring more strategic support to the area. We need more grants,’ he says.

Wood says it is positive

that the region’s local councils understand the benefits of creative industries both to wellbeing and as an economic driver. ‘This doesn’t necessarily translate into funding, but half the battle is done because the councils understand it,’ he says.

Regional Development Australia supported Byron’s presence at Vivid Sydney, and CEO Kimmaree Thompson says it is important to let the rest of the country know about the concentration of creative industries talent in the region.

More custom ‘By showcasing the work of our creative professionals to the people in Sydney, our region can attract more national and international clients for our local businesses,’ Thompson says. ‘We are working on a number of projects that will link creative businesses in our region with sources of work from corporates and startups across Australia,’ she says. ‘To be a sustainable creative industries hub, we have to build businesses so that they employ local people,’ she says.

Stirring the brew on Friday 13

Jodee Sydney, Rachael Star and Jodie Gray got into some Friday 13th full-moon saucery at the Mullum High canteen. Photo Jeff Dawson

BU brekky dishes up finance with a twist Byron United, Byron Bay’s chamber of commerce, are hosting a business breakfast, ‘Fat Stacks – Dishing up the Dirt on Money Matters’.

Guests can expect a finance breakfast with all the ingredients of the nitty gritty and the juicy. The most current information will be divulged tackling the budget in layman’s terms, end of financial year, the truth about

banks, business with lifestyle, and a disaster story or two.

Among the expert speakers will be Clayton Oates from QA Business, Campbell Korff from Yellow Brick Road, recently returned to northern rivers after a distinguished international career in finance and the law, and freelance journalist and author of Flirting with Finance Anneli Knight.

Phil Daly from BAY FM’s Byron Business will chair the panel and guests will have an opportunity to ask questions during Q&A. The breakfast will be held on June 18 at the Byron at Byron. Cost $25/$35 members/ non-members (breakfast included).

Further info and tickets at www.byronunited.org.au or call 0401 592 114.

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Scotty brings home beer awards for Byron Bay Brewery The Byron Bay Brewery has been celebrating over the last couple of weeks the best way they know how, by drinking Scotty’s award winning Draft beers.

Seven beers five medals The Brewery entered seven beers in the Australian International Beer Awards and took home five medals.

The Byron Bay Premium Ale won Silver, Byron Bay Pilsner Bronze, Byron Bay Pale Ale Bronze, Byron Bay Red Belly mid strength Bronze and Scotty’s Seasonal Beer Wicked Wit took a Bronze in the Best Belgium Wit Beer category.

This was a great effort as this category had no Gold medal winner.

The Australian *nternational Beer Awards (AIBA) is the second largest beer awards in the world and attracts many international competitors and breweries.

In 2014 the AIBA received a record 1,560 entries from more than 294 brewers from 31 countries.

The diverse range of styles were assessed by an expert panel of 40 judges during a week of judging at the Melbourne show ground.

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beers and of course makes his usual seasonal wonders.

Scott is a qualified BDcredited member of the Institute of Brewing and Distilling based in London.

moment but the way the locals and visitors are drinking it, Judges from across Australia Scotty will be back in the were joined by international brewery to Crew up another judges from China, Vietnam, batch sooner rather than later.

New Zealand, Belgium, Brewery Pwner Barry Schadel Ireland, Canada and the United said, “It was a great pleasure States who came together to Chilli beer for winter to sit with Scott and his wife assess beers and award the Nicole at the brewery awards One of his classics is the medals and trophy winners. and witness firsthand the Imperial Choc Chilli The awards were held over a respect and comradeship that Schwartzbier Fire Face.

Gala dinner with Neals created the other well known Crewers This Crew has large amounts of by renowned chefs Scott Picket have for Scott’s ability as a malts and a Dhoc roasty and Chris Badenoch, over 800 professional consummate intensity on the palBte with a industry guests and master brewer and all round great good serve of fresh chilli to give brewers enjoyed the many craft guy. Scott is a terrific it that warm belly for winter. beers that were matched with ambassador for our brands the meals.

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Immoral govts plan Ag-gag laws While a murder of lawyers – under the direction of federal attorney-general-bigot Brandis – combs over legislation in an effort to limit personal freedoms and extend corporate ones, our own coalition state government is joining in the fun.

According to Fairfax, NSW primary industries minister Katrina Hodgkinson (Nationals), has instigated a joint federal/state crackdown on ‘agri-terrorists’, or those who trespass onto intensive animal farm industries and film the activity.

As such, the NSW Primary Industries Legislation Amendment (Biosecurity) Bill 2012 is up for amendment.

Barnaby Joyce (federal Nationals) is also keen to help keep people ill-informed and dumbed down about what they eat and is joining the fray at the national level.

Clearly the effort by activists is to stop or reduce the appalling way in which some animals are farmed. If better legislation were enacted to improve the conditions of animals subjected to intensive farming, would there be a need for these laws?

It’s like introducing a bad law to prop up bad behaviour.

Regardless, the 2008 US doco Food, Inc. is a good place to start if you want to be informed about intensive large-scale animal farming. It posits that corporate agribusiness produces food that is unhealthy, environmentally harmful and abusive of both animals and employees.

While free speech works in mysterious ways, it generally only favours those who write the legislation. Thankfully there’s still public submissions. The state legislation is open for public comment until June 27 and is available at www. dpi.nsw.gov.au/biosecurity/legislative-review.

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ur increasingly irascible treasurer, Joe Hockey, has raised an old Liberal Party demon in his latest efforts to persuade the voters to control their nausea over his budget offering.

His critics, he told a gathering of the elite at the conservative Sydney Institute, were indulging in class warfare, and that was obviously a bad thing.

Why, it was the rhetoric of the 70s. Obviously it was simply unAustralian to even suggest that there were classes in our wide brown land, let alone that they could have their differences.

This is not a new theme: indeed it was the mantra of his party’s founder, Robert Menzies, in his landmark manifesto of 1942. ‘In a country like Australia,’ proclaimed the great man, ‘the class war must always be a false war.’ He did not deny the existence of class altogether – far from it.

Certainly there were the rich and powerful, who could look after their own interests.

And then there were the mass of unskilled people – government did have a role in providing them with security and improving their conditions, although this was more the job of their own trades unions.

And most importantly, there were the forgotten people – the middle class, a group of which he went on to claim both membership and ownership – he appeared to believe he had personally discovered it, if not actually fathered it. But we did not have classes here as in England.

Well, no; there is no established aristocracy. Tony Abbott is yet to make his knights and dames hereditary titles. But there are certainly individuals and even families referred to, not in total irony, as Australian aristocrats – think the Macar-

thur-Onslows or the BaillieuSymes. Such families inhabit the same exclusive suburbs and estates, belong the same clubs, go to the same parties and frequently intermarry and interbreed.

Then they send their offspring to the same schools so they can be part of the same networks when it is time to move on, frequently into the family business – until recently the great newspaper families of Syme, Fairfax and Packer were known as dynasties.

by Menzies to help them out of it. Not only that, the inequality gap is widening, and widening fast. It is perfectly true, as Hockey avers, that while the rich have got richer, so have the poor – what used to be called the trickle-down effect.

But the figures that worry the sociologists who compiled the ‘Advance Australia Fair?’ report released last week show that the rich are breaking well clear of the pack in terms of both.

At the end of the 1970s – ironically the time of Hockey’s

The ‘Advance Australia Fair?’ report shows that the rich are breaking well clear of the pack.

by Mungo MacCallum This was the old Australian establishment, alive and kicking in the 70s and still not entirely defunct. But as numerous authors, notably Craig McGregor, have pointed out, there is still class in Australia – not as sharply defined and certainly more mobile than it used to be, but class nonetheless.

The upper class was, and is, identified by Menzies simply as the rich and powerful: a good pedigree is still no handicap, but wealth is the keystone.

In neo-Marxist terms, these are the capitalists, the ruling class. And at the bottom are the underclass: the increasing numbers living on or below what is accepted as the poverty line.

These days they are seldom starving (although many are hungry) but they are, unmistakably, the downtrodden.

And the present government apparently believes that it is entirely their own fault, and that they are not even entitled to expect the trades unions invoked

class warfare rhetoric – Australia was one of the most egalitarian countries in the world; for almost all the previous fifty years incomes at the bottom of the scale had risen faster than those at the top.

This was what Australians meant when they boasted of the land of the fair go. But things have changed. The richest fifth of Australian households now account for 61 per cent of net household worth, while the poorest fifth hold just one per cent. And the income share of the top one per cent has doubled, while the income share of the top 0.001 per cent – just 230 of the super-rich – has more than trebled.

This is a shift not just in the distribution of money, but also of power: the ability of wellorganised wealth to influence government policy has become more blatant in recent times – the mining industry being the most obvious case study, but there have been others and

there will be more.

To draw attention to the problems, as those unhappy with the Abbott-Hockey approach have done, is hardly class warfare. And in any case, it is not the critics who started the fight but Hockey himself.

Not content with producing a budget which has done about as much to promote national harmony as the Cronulla race riots, the man John Howard once described as his ‘great big bear’ of a man has gone out of his way to spruik in the most inflammatory terms possible.

It was Hockey who divided us into lifters and leaners, Hockey who claimed (absurdly) that every wage earner was labouring for more than a month each year to buy welfare for someone else, Hockey who assured us only 45 per cent of us paid tax to cover more than $6,000 worth of entitlements for every man woman and child in the country: us against them, not the haves versus the have-nots, but the workers versus the bludgers.

This is pure Tea Party: if you’re poor, you are guilty. So get off your arse (or out of your wheelchair) and do a bit of heavy lifting.

Class warfare indeed.

Hockey reckons it’s all a misconception driven by envy, but consider: is there a single supporter of the budget on an income less than about $150,000 a year? Just one? And it must be said that the critics are rather more diverse.

Sure, the victims are the noisiest, but they have been joined by a number of very well paid commentators, and such former Liberal luminaries as John Hewson. And I suspect that, from his grave, Sir Robert Menzies is giving them the thumbs up.

Not much class warfare there.

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Keep our valuable rail asset on track Despite the thousands who rallied on stations, 8,250 signatures on petitions and promises of train services and funding from state and federal governments, we now face the significant threat of legislation being passed in state parliament this week which will lift the protection the rail corridor has under present legislation and allow the 132 kilometres of line to be ripped up, despite around 50 per cent of the line being in reasonable condition.

This will pave the way for the state government to potentially sell off the very valuable rail corridor to developers for a quick profit.

Even though 85 per cent of the population of Byron and

Lismore local government areas live within 5km of the line and have easy access to a train service, this will mean the end of any chance of the northern rivers community ever getting the trains they have been asking for.

The story we are being told is that this change to legislation is necessary to allow a rail trail to be built and that this rail trail will be the greatest thing since sliced bread for the northern rivers economy!

Well, we know there’s no way a rail trail can provide the economic, social or environmental benefits for the same cost as the train service the community wants and needs.

It has been reported that initial estimates suggest a

rail trail will cost $18m for the Murwillumbah to Byron Bay section and $38m for the complete trail from Murwillumbah to Casino. That is, $38m+ of taxpayer money for a piece of infrastructure for the exclusive use of a few bike-riding enthusiasts.

In contrast to the cost of a rail trail, studies have shown that the Casino to Murwillumbah line could be restored for less than $30m and that a commuter train service would be well patronised. The Victorian government’s ‘Reviewing the Last Decade of Public Transport Infrastructure Projects in Australasia’ survey 2011 shows the cost of restoring similar lines in Victoria is between $0.124m and $0.265m

per kilometre. Even at the higher figure of $0.265m per kilometre the cost of restoring the 132km of line from Casino to Murwillumbah would be less than $35m.

Does the state government really believe that this community will sit back and allow this very valuable public asset be destroyed (or worse, sold off) for the dubious benefits of a rail trail which could easily cost taxpayers much more than the train service, which would not only benefit the whole community but also the 1.5m tourists who visit every year?

If so, they must also believe in the tooth fairy.

Louise Doran Ocean Shores

Steady state economy

a post-industrial world, there is no such thing as unemployment. Similarly, there is no ‘growth’, for the whole thing becomes a Steady State Economy where the current population and future generations are supplied but there is no surplus; no profit.

World leaders currently lack imagination. Albert Einstein commented, ‘Imagination is more important

than knowledge.’

Jobs and growth currently revolve around the excessive use of energy which leads inevitably to a dead planet. A Steady State Economy comes to terms not with the need for energy, but with the neediness of its citizens.

Employment/unemployment, as now, in a Steady State Economy is linked to the needs of its citizens. As

needs reduce to those just required by humans rather than machines, so excessive toil and the need to be employed reduces; something the Industrial Revolution was never able, or likely, to produce.

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The prime minister of Canada Stephen Harper says, ‘No country is going to undertake actions on climate change, no matter what they say, that are going to deliberately destroy jobs and growth.’ (The Daily Telegraph 12/6/14) Then there needs to be closer examination of ‘jobs and growth’. In a potentially green economy that occupies

Koala gulag I am shocked by Cr Rose Wanchap’s apparent lack of understanding of planning processes and support for continued on page 15

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Future proofing West Byron inundated by the sea, and the entire Brunswick Valley will be a saltwater estuary. There are children alive today who may be around to see this happen. And it won’t end there, with as much as a twentymetre rise over the coming millennia.

We can forever argue the pros and cons of the proposed West Byron development, but like a rising tide, global warming won’t listen.

People buying into the estate might reconsider when they realise they can’t even bequeath their properties to their grandchildren.

The state of Victoria has a climate change development plan (CCCAC) which restricts development on regions predicted to be inundated by the rising sea level (see http://bit. ly/coastalpdf). Byron, and the whole world, needs such a plan. These aren’t some whacko doomsday predictions. This is current science, which always tends to err on the conservative side.

Michael Balson Upper Wilsons Creek

In the twenty years I have lived in Byron Shire, the sea level has risen around six centimetres, about the length of an egg, and this rate of rise is conservatively expected to double over the coming decades. Scientists predict a rise of around 60 centimetres by the end of this century. This means Byron’s surrounding melaleuca wetlands, including the proposed West Byron development, will become tidal mangrove swamps with king tides regularly inundating Byron CBD. But there is an exponential component to climate change. The poles are heating much faster than the tropics, thawing permafrost and unlocking vast amounts of frozen methane, a greenhouse gas far more potent than carbon dioxide. The North Pole and Greenland icecaps are melting before our eyes, and a growing body of scientists believe sea level by the end of this century may rise as much as two metres.

This means Ewingsdale will become the new foreshore, Cape Byron will be an island, Byron CBD, Brunswick Heads and Mullumbimby will all be

Q Adrian Gattenhof has written kind remarks about a let-

ter of mine (Letters, June 10).

I wish to say of Adrian’s comments regarding law enforcement, and Mary Gardner’s piece on the back swamps, that these people have shown us the way forward.

Haven’t you looked at the low lands west of Byron Bay and thought: ‘Why on Earth don’t we turn this back into habitat?’

Everyone who goes fishing, everyone who loves birdlife, and everyone who stands to make a buck out of tourists walking along nature trails through a huge wildlife park (plus an unspecified number of non-humans) will surely welcome such a thing. So will the state of NSW, the nation, and the Earth. So that is the goal. Let us achieve it. Honestly, should it not have been done 30 years ago? Thanks to Mary Gardner for trumpeting the charge.

Mr Gattenhof has drawn our attention to the ‘Writ of Mandamus’. A writ to compel action in accordance with the law sounds handy. Overall, what is required is compulsion of governments to act, and this can indeed be done by the population. Look how

continued from page 13 locking our remaining koalas up in a compound for tourists to gawk at.

The minister for planning is poised to approve a zoning plan for West Byron that specifically identifies where various types of development can occur, as well as a detailed Development Control Plan (DCP) that specifies the form and density of that de-

velopment. It is all over at that stage bar the shouting.

Council will have extremely limited ability to alter any proposal that complies with the zoning and DCP. Rose is naive if she believes that Council will be able to direct how this subdivision will look as it is the zoning and DCP that decide that; Council will just be a rubber stamp.

Given that Rose is now

supporting the rezoning of a third of the core koala habitat, along with 70 per cent of the needed buffers, for housing and shops, it will be all over for the koalas too.

I find Rose’s alternative of putting the surviving koalas in a ‘sanctuary’ as a tourist attraction repugnant. I am particularly disgusted that it now seems that the dominant continued on page 16

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mayor Smiling Simon is now seeking to delay the housing estate he was so much in favour of so recently. How about pressuring him until he changes his tune on illegal letting too?

But there is more. Two massively corrupt political gangs, Labor and the coalition, have lost all credibility.

Mike Baird has resorted to simple bribery to get re-elected: he will sell off our electricity infrastructure to buy votes in Sydney. Has there ever been a better time to organise and slam these gangsters?

Ultimately, as Jan Barham said, the holiday-let battle requires NSW government action to be won. Now, as Dailan Pugh has pointed out, West Byron could become a glorious park or a horrific suburb at the minister’s whim. Or not.

A statewide rising on a simple agreed agenda: to destroy corruption and strengthen communities, to reverse population increase and cease wasting money on corrupt projects. This is our best chance.

Matt Hartley Byron Bay

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Letters continued from page 15 development bloc in Council intends to vote down the Byron Coastal Koala Plan of Management in favour of rounding up our surviving koalas into this compound.

Our council seems to be reaching record lows.

Dailan Pugh Byron Bay

Methane threat The editorial in last week’s Echo would be perhaps the first editorial in any Australian newspaper to ever mention the threat from Arctic methane, resulting from warming oceans.

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Peter Olson Goonengerry

More booze It is with alarm that the residents of Byron Bay read in the local papers that our Aldi

supermarket has applied for a liquor licence.

Byron Bay is already flooded by an oversupply of liquor outlets putting us consistently at number one for the most violent place in the state.

Byron Bay ranks number one in DUI offences for the last 15 years.

The other supermarkets will try to do the same if this goes through.

The Byron police are already run off their feet with alcohol-related domestic violence incidents, so much so that if called for a noise complaint from an out-of-control holiday let, they will say they are too busy with domestic violence calls.

Byron residents and visitors struggling with the over-

consumption of alcohol will be offered wine 50 per cent cheaper and beer at 30 per cent less. Is this fair for the residents and others in Byron Bay? Is this what we want in our society?

Please do not allow this to go through!

L Ward Byron Bay

Holiday letting On Wednesday night, June 11, I heard mayor Simon Richardson speak most convincingly at the West Byron meeting about the need for ‘due process’, ‘democratic process’, ‘community engagement’, and the need to inform community at the beginning of a process and not after the event.

I couldn’t agree with him more. But I wonder whether

he and his fellow councillors are applying those same principles when it comes to the proposed holiday letting precincts plan? Few residents seem to be aware that large sections of areas currently zoned residential are to become approved holiday letting precincts.

The time for the community to be fully informed is now, not later in the year as proposed by Council. Council should be publishing the maps of proposed holiday letting precincts so that residents of the Shire can see just how they will be affected and can then make informed decisions. That is true ‘democratic process’.

Louise Andrews Byron Bay

he has failed to blame illegal tourists for the destruction of kola habitats!

So tell me, Matt, if a few members of my family or perhaps a group of friends come and stay in my house (I have a beaut house with a few spare rooms and I love company), are these the sort of (non) people you would like to oust, particularly if they spend their money on (non) food and unreal clothing?

It’s great to see the Rails providing quality entertainment and it looks like Byron Council is also working towards a friendly approach to holiday accommodation (article p2 Echo) but let’s be positive – perhaps we can pass the hat and fund a trip for Jan and Matt. How about a refugee camp in the Middle East?

I believe that, even though they have almost nothing in these camps, they are very friendly, warm and sharing.

Howie Hughes Lennox Head

What a contrast. On p11 Echo June 3, lower right, the Rails advertises great music and entertainment for locals and visitors but right next to that, Jan Barham and Matt Hartley want to oust tourists. Matt blames our tourists for everything from the destruction of our main street (wherever that is?) to the annihilation of our very community. This vitriol deserves a name: perhaps ‘touristaphobia’ would work. There is only one thing Matt has left out:

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balance between tourism and the local community has always been a fraught topic, not just here in Byron.

Locals don’t want to live in tourist enclaves and tourists want to be part of the local homegrown ambience. continued on page 18

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It is with great alarm that I see calls for more rules and regulation as opposed to more cooperation and negotiation to manage the issues that inventibly arise in a tourist town.

I strongly believe holiday letting precincts would be a retrograde step in the very unlikely event the department of planning would allow them – unless as a segue to highrise.

Zones would be the first step towards unruly ‘anything goes’ ghettos where locals would be forced out.

I have heard counter-claims that there are no local residents left in Wategos, Suffolk Park or the grid but this is denied by surprised and indignant locals. A few facts and a chill pill all round.

If the claim is we are not capable of managing holiday letting now, how will zoning help?

Dorothy Mullins Byron Bay

The US today faces a host of vile enemies, not foreign but domestic. Their ruling elite, the national security state or shadow government, is clearly intent on destroying the states in pursuit of global empire.

The US has become the most violent nation on Earth.

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They have the highest gun murder rates in the world, the highest rates of imprisonment, police violence and military spending. Despite being only five per cent of the world’s population, America has the most prisoners and spends more on weapons and war than the rest of the world combined.

The ruling elite in America has the world’s worst reputation for violence and lawlessness. They routinely flout their constitution and inter-

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tling in environmental and planning policy to find the Byron character reassuringly quixotic and colourful as it always was. Our neighbourhood is bubbling with young and old enthusiasm, overshadowing any negatives. Some of the older folk maintain a tenuous hold on their properties by topping up their pensions with occasional holiday letting.

Yes, there are noisy parties (sometimes ours) but as our 80+ neighbour says, ‘That’s life. They usually run out of steam or the cops come. It’s no big deal.’

I understand some locals have had a torrid time with rowdy holiday lets. The general opinion seems to be this is the exception, not the rule.

Owners, agents, Council and police should work together to minimise the problems.

With permanent holiday lets Council could certainly ask for a DA for the use (homebased activity) and impose conditions.

Most importantly the ‘chill out’ message should be reinforced more actively,

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Treasurer needed Mullumbimby Senior Citizens Autumn Club seeks the assistance of a treasurer for the club – simple bookkeeping, writing cheques and treasurer’s report at monthly meetings. Enq Keith Basing 6684 2916. Thank you.

Autism meeting The Far North Coast Centre for Autism monthly meeting is on Friday 27 June at 23 Commercial Rd, Alstonville, 10am–12. Enq 6628 3660.

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Moondogs Gipsy Blues Band playing live. Help celebrate our 25th year with Spaghetti Circus and Mullumbimby’s Biggest Little Town Choir. See www.

Women’s group Facilitated sharings, meditation, ritual and fun. Next meeting 19 June 6pm.

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Artworks needed Everyone who is creative is invited to enter works in the Ocean Shores Art Expo. Prizes amount to more than $5,000. Enter online at osartexpo.com by 3 August.

End-of-life choices To learn how to make the right decisions about your end-of-life choices, come to the meetings held quarterly.

Narcotics Anonymous Narcotics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem. We are recovering addicts who meet regularly to help each other stay clean. For information and meetings 6680 7280.

Museum volunteers Bangalow Historical Society Museum & Tea Room are looking for volunteers to assist in various areas of their operation: admin, food prep, front of house and gardening. If you feel you can make a difference please contact Wendy or Trisha on 6687 2183 or drop

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The full extent of America’s criminality is concealed from the world by an army of sophists and censors who strive to confuse and deceive the public with blatant lies, censorship and sophisticated propaganda.

The inevitable outcome of America’s current trajectory is the dissipation of US superpower status and the degeneration of US society toward poverty and destitution. The ultimate losers will be the middle classes of western nations and their nominal leaders.

The winners will be those who oppose the promotion of military aggression and the violent imposition of Western hegemony.

John Scrivener Main Arm

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Lions meeting Lions Club of Brunswick-Mullumbimby meets every 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month at the Ocean Shores Country Club at 7pm. Phone 0417 019 343 for more information or write to PO Box 12, Mullumbimby 2482.

Brunswick Heads Dunecare Brunswick Heads Dunecare along with Envite will be hosting a free workshop this Sunday 22 June. Learn tips on coastal dune bush regeneration and weed-control techniques. Meet north side of the surf club 8.30–11.30. Free barbecue. Enquiries Greg 0414 457 346.

Maternity services The northern rivers branch of Maternity Coalition is now offering 2-hour information sessions for expectant parents about all maternity services in our region. More information: Check the events page at Maternity Coalition Northern Rivers’ Facebook page.

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Thursday 19 June 11am. No booking required. Salt Breezes – An evening of poetry and music with Dangerously Poetic Press and Kim Banffy.

Wednesday 25 June 5.30pm. Bookings essential. Phone library on 6684 2992.

Mullumbimby Craft and Quilt Show to be held at Mullumbimby High School 19 July 9am–2.30pm. Money raised to the Special Needs Unit at the high school and the Sunshine Bus for the

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here are some books you read that have a curious way of finding their way into your mindset. One of the books that flipped my burger was Hunter S Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey into the Heart of the American Dream.

Its rollicking drug-inured stupor blends fact with fiction, pioneering what was to become known as gonzo journalism.

As a student of journalism myself with a penchant for taking too much LSD and failing my exams, Hunter S offered a doorway through to a rabbit hole of writing and perception that aligned with my rather peculiar and irreverent take on life. So when I picked up Poe Ballantine’s memoir Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere I was immersed in this strange nostalgia. I had heard

this voice before. But it had changed, softened somewhat, grown up, lost some fury but retained the insight.

Love & Terror, like Fear and Loathing, is also a kind of treatise on the American Dream, but this one is told away from the bright lights of Vegas, and generally without drugs. In Chadron, Nebraska, the writer, a disenchanted member of the intelligentsia who flips burgers, drinks beers with yokels and writes astounding essays like Free Rent at the Totalitarian Hotel, at the same time writes a sort of memoir around Ballantine’s own enquiry into the investigation of the disappearance of a local maths professor, Dr Steven Haataja.

This is a narrative of alienation from contemporary America, where Ballantine admits that many times he had almost given up, thought it was time to end it all, but picked up and started again.

His talent is obvious, his opportunities not so many. His Mexican wife Cristina, 18 years his junior, is alienated in her new American life, not only struggling to learn English but having to take the lesser role of cleaner in place of her usual

and more prestigious occupation of dentistry. The couple’s young son Tom is probably autistic. Ballantine’s identity and understanding of ‘the outsider’ gives him a significant and at times quite astounding comfortability with his young son’s nonconformist and often left-of-centre thinking.

There is a gorgeous passage where Ballantine relates his son’s concept that his ‘heart’ is a square.

Girls have hearts, boys have squares.

In a popular culture that pushes towards conformity, and sameness, it’s somehow charming to be invited into the very raw and real lives of these fringe dwellers.

Ballantine talks honestly of his relationship difficulties, and the memoir moves the couple to a closer understanding of themselves, and in a way of each other.

But not in that peachy romantic way. Nothing really changes; they

just decide not to fight so much.

Ballantine has an unpretentious candour that draws you in, and he’s really funny. I love his perspective on male/female difference in relationship, and this is perhaps my favourite quote from the book: ‘Marriage was more like falling down a rabbit hole at the bottom of which an archaic Romanian dialect was spoken and all the rules of physics had been changed’.

Ballantine talks about god, and life, and love and death and conformity and happiness and suicide and meaning and food and sex and children and autism. It’s rather chaotic in a way, but in being chaotic, it becomes a very interesting memoir/narrative, doing the thing that few memoirs achieve, and that is to sustain suspense to the last page.

This man has a very very interesting mind.

Courage among culture change

Crime sets the scene at festival

Review by Josie Huntsman, 12, Byron Bay Public School

One of literature’s most popular genres, crime writing, will feature strongly at the 2014 Byron Bay Writers Festival.

‘This year’s festival has attracted an impressive cast of talented, specialist crime authors,’ says festival director Edwina Johnson.

‘The festival session A Murder of Crime Writers includes number one international bestselling US thriller writer, Karin Slaughter, former NSW detective P M Newton, celebrated storyteller Tara Moss, bestselling screenwriter and debut novelist Terry Hayes and the north coast’s own Martin Chatterton. It will explore all aspects of creating gripping stories within this hugely popular field.’

Another festival session True Crime: Monsters or People Like Us? brings iconoclastic US author Poe Ballantine together with Virginia Peters and Australia’s exponent of gonzo filmmaking, author John Safran, in a session led

by Marele Day.

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ave you ever felt like you don’t belong? Well, try moving away from your home country, having to leave your friends and venture into a new country where you are faced with an enormous language barrier. On top of that, imagine having to spend what seems to be an eternity sharing a room with a cousin who is downright horrible. Still think you don’t belong? Meet Penny (aka Little Pumpkin) in Sally Rippin’s book Just One Wish.

Although Penny had a perfectly happy life back in Shanghai, China, her parents decided that moving to Australia would provide her with more opportunities for her future. Unfortunately, Penny’s cousin Betty is determined to make Penny’s life in Australia miserable so she can stay the centre of attention.

On Penny’s arrival, her beloved ‘Nai Nai’ provided her with a gift of one wish that could change her life forever.

Will Penny use it? If you had just one wish, what would you wish for?

Though only a quick read, this book has an immense layer of depth, resulting in readers pondering over

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many thoughts. Penny soon befriends Mr Whitehorse, a deaf teacher, and proves that language differences are no barrier to friendship. If only Cousin Betty could understand this…

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and I loved learning about a young person’s perspective on having to face such a big culture change.

Penny is an inspirational role

model for children and opens up your eyes to courage and bravery in its simplest form.

This book proves that a story does not have to be long to leave a reader inspired and fulfilled. I would strongly recommend it to those who love reading about change, bravery and learning that being different does not make you less human than anyone else.

‘From the howling plains of Nebraska, to the sports fields of Lismore and back to America’s Deep South, the panellists will explore a series of baffling and complex headline crimes that fascinate writers,’ says Johnson.

When filming his TV series Race Relations, John Safran spent an uneasy couple of days with one of Mississippi’s most notorious white supremacists. A year later, Safran heard that the man had been murdered, a tale culminating in the brilliantly innovative truecrime story Murder in Mississippi. Safran’s acclaimed live stage show will feature at the Byron Bay Community Centre on the festival Saturday. Tickets to this brilliant performance are selling fast.

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tion with Richard Fidler. The book examines the intriguing story of his neighbour, a college maths professor who disappears and whose mutilated body is found three months later.

In February 2005, German backpacker Simone Strobel went missing in Lismore. Six days later her naked body was discovered, crudely hidden beneath a palm tree. With the agreement of the police, Virginia Peters analysed the evidence and uncovered new lines of investigation. Ultimately, she tracked down and questioned the prime suspect.

Peters says she travelled to Germany, wanting to solve the case. ‘In Germany it was as though no one wanted to know what happened to Simone, and the subject of murder appeared forbidden.’ Have You Seen Simone? will be launched on the Saturday afternoon.

The festival runs at North Byron Beach Resort from August 1 to 3 with workshops commencing on July 28. For more festival information and feature event tickets, visit www.byronbaywritersfestival.com.au or call 1300 368 552.

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The Tender Thorne SHE’S BEEN LAUDED FOR HER UNIQUE VOICE, HER POETIC LYRICISM AND HER TENDER-TO-GUTSY GUITAR. LUCIE THORNE SPOKE WITH THE ECHO ON THE EVE OF HER MULLUMBIMBY SHOW WITH SPECIAL GUEST JIMMY DOWLING. How do you approach songwriting? Do you tend your lyrics like a careful gardener, or do you like to let a few weeds run wild?

Songs nearly always start for me with a melodic idea, and then I’ll often noodle around humming vowel sounds till a phrase or two present, and from there… it depends.

Sometimes the text arrives in a steady stream; often most of the text will land like that, and then it’s a matter of playing around with it till it shapes up.

I love the storytelling element of song form, and also the space for poetic ambiguity. And how playfully shifting even just a few words seems to lift a whole lyric. It’s curious to me how often a particular turn of phrase seems to plant itself firmly into a certain melody, and the rest grows from there…

How do you make decisions when you are creating music?

It seems to me that every song could go 100 ways. Which way is the right way? Can you ever know?

This can certainly be a conundrum when it comes to recording.

Although most of the time the song usually leads the way pretty clearly.

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When I’m working on new songs I’ll sometimes try them out in a bunch of different ways before they ‘land’, and then again it’s good to remember that they are little living breathing creatures, and can keep shifting around.

Tell me a little about your creative collaborations with Pieta. How do you know when you meet another singer/songwriter that you are collaborators rather than adversaries…?

It’s a beautiful thing to find someone with whom you have a really instant and strong musical chemistry.

That was certainly the case with Pieta. Especially with regards our singing together. That kinda effortless sweet feeling when we first sang harmonies together. That was really strong for both of us, so we were both very inclined to follow that, and see where it might take us, and what we might come up with together. It’s been a really fun side project for both of us, and I’m sure there’ll be another instalment of that somewhere down the road… but for now Love Over Gold is on the backburner for a little while, while we both get cracking on our respective new solo albums…

What are the books that you have read along the way that have stirred your interest as a songwriter?

Well I sure love to read. And have an awful lot of favourite writers, that I’m sure have filtered through in their various ways to influence my writing, although I don’t think of it as being a very direct correlation. Willa Cather, Toni Morrison, Truman Capote, Alice Walker, Eric Beach, Machado de Assis, Gerald Murnane, Dorothy Porter… the list could go on and on.

What should we expect for your upcoming Mullum show?

I’ve got a whole bunch of new songs that I’ll be trying out – ahead of making a new record a little later in the year – so the friendly northern rivers listeners are gonna once again be my guinea pigs as I test out this new material. And of course I’ll be dipping in to the back catalogue, and playing a bunch of old faves. Support for the night comes from one of my favourite local treasure – the one and only Jimmy Dowling! There’s a really good chance that we might even swing a duet or two for a finale… never know your luck, eh!

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then clearly, using their subjective reflection, they will be experiencing a nine or a ten. But it could be a stitch. Or a bad bout of blasto. Or a twisted bowel.

How would you know?

In fact, fuck is the word that provides passage of pain from the body into the ether. People use fuck for pain all See Mandy live at the time. For instance, if you stub your www.echonetdaily.net.au toe on the leg of the kitchen table you’ll go ‘Fuck fuck fuck fuck’. Now this is clearly fucking painful, but it would Now if a woman who’s given only be a two in the numerical scale. If Pain is subjective. Some people you were riding your bike and you got birth to six kids in her yurt with only can handle pain, and others can’t. nudged by a car onto the pavement, affi rmations and a hot pack, that pain We all know at least one sook who this would be a ‘Fucking Hell!’ Now I may be given a two. Unless her leg needs morphine to have a Band-Aid reckon that could be a five. removed. That’s why I think the ‘1–10 has been severed at the thigh, she’s Pain Scale’ needs to be replaced with going to rate most pain pretty low. It’s And, for instance, if you were some of my innovative and more the same pain, and its rating is purely walking in a paddock in the dark effective ways of clearly establishing dependent on that person’s previous and tripped and fell anus first onto a a true evaluation of a person’s pain. experience and reaction to intense star picket I reckon that would be a Let me first explain the 1–10 pain. I am no doctor, but I think that’s F——U——C——K. And then you’d pain scale. This is the question about as effective an assessment pass out because you had clearly well that doctors, nurses and health technique as saying, ‘If your pain and truly fucked yourself up right professionals ask you during the were a piece of fruit what would it royally by transforming yourself into triage process if you present with be? Considering a blueberry is the a shish kebab. I reckon if you arrive at ‘pain’. Just say a person presents least painful and the watermelon is a accident and emergency with a star to a local emergency room with motherfucker.’ picket shoved up your arse, piercing abdominal pain; the nurse will your bowel, and someone says, ‘can That’s why I have pioneered the ‘Fuck’ generally ask, ‘Can you rate your pain you rate this 1–10 on the pain scale?’ scale for measuring suff ering.

Pain is from one to ten, with ten being the then you’d be excused if you told emotional – anyone who has heard most extreme?’ them to ‘Go fuck yourselves’. a woman give birth will attest that Now at face value this seems fairly you can ascertain how she is going We all avoid pain. It’s part of the efficient, and it’s a clear way to or where she is up to by the tone of human condition, but it’s long been monitor a person’s pain’s increasing her voice. The most common used true that suffering has always allowed or diminishing. But if the presenting us access to some deeper and more person has never experienced intense expletive in any painful situation is the word fuck.

Fuck is the most mystical connection to the human pain before, and this is the most sensational conduit for emotion. spirit. Suffering can be sacred; it can extreme they’ve ever experienced,

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be a passage to enlightenment.

Look at Frida Kahlo; she got impaled on a tram and then went on to paint some pretty impressive work.

Most thinkers, artists, musicians and geniuses experienced some sort of pain or other, be it physical, mental, or both. I guess it supports the thesis that while happiness is the desired ideal, happy people individually are dull and don’t ever do anything remarkable with their lives. They don’t need to, because they are happy.

My other idea is that patients should present poetry to their doctors, or sculptures, or paintings, or dance it out, or maybe invoke just sound or moaning or perhaps bring a guitar to the surgery and bang out a Nirvana tune such as You Know You’re Right screaming, ‘Pain Pain Pain’. It would just make the whole assessment process not just more effective, but like an audition for Australia’s Got Talent. And who knows, if you get someone who’s really suffering, they might be actually worth watching.

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The north coastâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own sons of rock, the Wilson Cooper Band, kick off their winter Big Night Out at The Middle Pub this Saturday. Front man Gaz has sung up a storm from Hayters Hill to Honolulu.

Lead guitarist Royâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rock career started in the US when he saw his first live band, The Who, and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never looked back. He has played with many great north coast bands Afromoses is back by demand from the mid 70s, and has relocated to the to Cafe Oska and will perform north coast. The rhythm section features the another fantastic dinner show monstrous bass tones of JJ La Moore and the with help from Jason Burns boys are stoked to feature local drummer Matt and other exciting guests! behind the kit as regular drummer. Junior is off This amazing artist, playing 14 to Canada for a rock sabbatical. Wilson Cooper different instruments himself, kicks off at 7.30pm. has recently released a new track recorded in his home country Ghana, so keep your ears and eyes open for some groovy African flavour in the Byron shire. Limited space, so secure your ticket for the show at Cafe Oska on Saturday.

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PERKS & CHARLES Tex Perkins has played a key role in Australian music, with a career that has taken in everything from the ground-breaking experimental punktonica of Sydney mid-80s noiseniks Thug to the lilting, dark country of his recent material with The Dark Horses.

From the hard-edged pub rock of the Beasts of Bourbon, to the evocative soundscapes of The Cruel Sea, Tex has heralded the emergence of an entirely original yet archetypically Australian sound. In the early 90s Perkins joined forces with the legendary Don Walker, Cold Chiselâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pianist and master songwriter, and Charlie Owen, previously Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bestkept musical secret, for the unforgettable Tex, Don & Charlie.

Teaming up with Tex for this intimate show will be none other than his good friend Charlie Owen. This is a night not to be missed. Friday 27 June. Doors open 7.45pm; support: Jamie Lockhart from 8.30pm.

Tickets: $30pp. Tickets can be purchased online at www.ballinarsl.com.au or at the box office at the Club or on 6686 2544.

SHAKING UP THE SHACK This Saturday at the Sheoak Shack catch Rod Murray and Steve Dixon when they present a contemporary edge to classic jazz piano ballads as well as acoustic blues guitar with a touch of jazz and light rock.

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SUNDAY AT THE BYRON COMMUNITY CENTRE. TICKETS ARE AT WWW.BYRONCENTRE.COM.AU

THE MUSIC OF JOSH PYKE

JOSH PYKE IS ONE OF THE COUNTRY’S MOST SUCCESSFUL MUSICIANS, A UNIQUE SINGER/SONGWRITER WITH A POET’S PENCHANT FOR A TURN OF PHRASE. His career has taken him around the world, but right now he’s going back to the heart of his work, touring solo around Australia with an upcoming show at the Byron Theatre.

Josh, What do you get from the experience of performing your work solo that you might not with a band, or at least one or two other players?

For me it’s a level of intimacy between myself and the audience. It’s more like having a conversation with someone, rather than there being that separation of ‘musicians on stage’ and ‘punters in the audience’ thing that you sometimes get with bands. When you’re playing with a band, you get camaraderie with the other musicians… when you’re playing solo, you get that camaraderie with the audience.

You are a very intriguing lyricist. Where do you draw your inspiration: poetry? novels? other songwriters?

All of the above! Also just life experiences. I like to sing about things that many people might be thinking or dealing with, but maybe they can’t articulate it in a way that communicates what they’re going through. So I like to take those things and tell the stories with lots of imagery and metaphor so that it becomes more universal.

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But really inspiration can be from anywhere at all.

Your lyrics could stand alone as poetry. Are you a lover or hater of poetry? Are songwriters our modern-day bards?

I hugely respect poets and poetry, but I’m fairly ignorant when it comes to it too. I never sat around writing poems… just noodling on the guitar and writing lyrics is how I come up with my words. My wife loves poetry and is quite a buff on the subject, and I’m sure she’d say that poets are still occupying that territory, and while there’re always crossovers, they’re pretty different skills.

What is it that love, heartbreak etc seem to have to teach us or share generation after generation, century after century? Is the heart always the muse?

Wow, that is a tough question! I think if I knew the answer I’d stop writing songs! So maybe the answer is that love teaches us to always keep searching.

I particularly love Feet of Clay; not sure why – it just sticks. Can you tell me about that track in particular?

It’s kinda just a simple song about acknowledging your weaknesses, but instead of using weakness as an excuse for bad behaviour, it’s a call to arms to myself to try to be better.

Can you tell me about the White Album concert that you are collaborating on?

We will be doing the whole White Album, start to finish, with a 17-piece rock orchestra! It’s going to be epic! We did the same show five years ago, and it was so much fun, so I’m really excited to get back on the bus again!

How has the music of the Beatles influenced you?

What are the particular songs that stand out for you?

The Beatles were a huge influence on me as a kid. I would say the Beatles and the Beach Boys were my favourite bands till I was about 11, and then Guns ’n’ Roses took over. I always especially loved A Day In The Life – such an amazingly well told story, so sad, and told from different perspectives in such an empathetic way.

What should we expect for your Byron Show?

Well it’s solo, so expect just me! Also I will be using my mostly trusty loop pedal for some extra sounds, and I’ll be covering tracks from all the way through my career. It’s going to be fun!

DJ LADY K, 1ISAMURAI AND VONNSTAR ON SATURDAY FOR DELICIOUS AT THE LISMORE CITY BOWLING CLUB

DELICIOUS BIRTHDAY BEATS Delicious is turning four! To help celebrate their incredible four years at the Lismore City Bowlo, Frou Frou welcome to the dancefloor none other than DJs Lady K, Craig Wilson aka 1iSamurai and super special guest Vonnstar ‘live’ on sax. So come on down to the Lismore City Bowlo, Saturday. Doors open 9pm, and the show goes till 2am. Entry is $15

ELECTRIC FOREST SOLSTICE CELEBRATION This Saturday Electric Forest presents the 2014 winter solstice celebration in their favourite venue, Kohinur Hall. Featuring DJ Magu and DJ Pumpernickel, Electric Forest events create a unique festival atmosphere where self-expression, freedom and personal journeys can meld into a positive life-affirming experience through dance within an immersive multimedia environment. From 7pm.

THE SOUND OF STONE Ku Promotions are soon to present Lou Van Stone. With a sound that is constantly evolving, Lou combines soaring, ethereal vocals and lush

harmonies with ambient instrumentation.

A classically trained soprano, she has also performed with some of Australia’s leading names in jazz. Lou merges different styles and influences to create a unique sound that’s inspired by her love of mantra and sacred sound. Lou has recorded seven albums, including Awakening To Big Nature Feelings, produced by Rick Price, and All Is Well with producer Leonardo Guardo. Lou is currently in the studio, completing her latest album Line To Divine with producer Michael Worthington, due for release in June 2014. Kulchajam, Byron Arts and Industry Estate from 7pm on Friday 27 June. Tix: $15 (+bf), $20 door.Available www.kupromotions.com.au.

Live culture FULL MARKS FOR GROUCHO

Frank Ferrante recreates his international triumph as the legendary Groucho Marx in this fast-paced comedy packed with songs, stories and inspired audience interaction.

Groucho Marx and the Marx Brothers revolutionised the world of comedy.

From vaudeville to Broadway to film, they made millions laugh. In fact Groucho is today considered the father of modern comedy, whose influence extends from Jerry Seinfeld through to Woody Allen.

Irreverent, satirical, social comment that was always cutting edge, dangerous and ahead of its time. Catch this remarkable show at the Byron Theatre on Friday 27 June at 7.30pm.

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E ARIES: If you’re treated unfairly this week, do yourself a favour by being restrained, reasonable, dignified. Along with calm, courteous, considerate and careful how you handle differences of opinion.

Respect other people’s beliefs, needs and feelings, even if they’re the polar opposite of your own.

Especially then…

F TAURUS: Situations altering at short notice or taking extra time and effort owing to circumstances beyond anyone’s control mean you’ll need to be flexible around this week’s unexpected complications.

Meanwhile, essential chemistry between Mars and Venus ignites sparks of the highly agreeable variety.

G GEMINI: If Mercury retrograding to Gemini has you chasing in a dozen different directions, having to repeat things with double, even triple, handling, what to do? Plenty. Like slow down, simplify, streamline, prioritse and relax. Tread carefully, proceed warily, find ways to make delays work in your favour.

H CANCER: With retro Neptune and Mercury muddying this week’s waters, emotions can overwhelm logic and objectivity. Yes, it’s difficult to focus on positive outcomes amid more tweeting, gossiping, grizzling and grumbling than cooperation, but resist negative thinking. State your case calmly; don’t be goaded into reactive mode.

As Mercury retrogrades from Cancer to Gemini and ideas override feelings, this week accidents can happen so don’t rush, do take care…

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1. Chopped salmon, fowl and fruit – that’s mad! (1,3,4,2,5) 9. Heroic first course cut short – still the focal point (9) 10. Mother holds a note – hot stuff! (5) 11. Owing money for a broken tin bed (2,4) 12. Haggard, allow it can be run or thrown down! (8) 13. Rogue artist’s state (6) 15. Counter without number includes politician – a clever counter! (8) 18. Tropical foliage plant with (Latin) a boy setter thrown in (8) 19. Bury the tree man with an old doctor (6) 21. Independent senator has a rare gas about acidity (8) 23. Narrow, small characteristic (6) 26. Open shirt after balls (5) 27. Rambling speech to equip mother for the part (9) 28. Flabby thirteens are mad, like 1 across (4,2,3,6)

1. What a really confused person is as mad as (1,3,4,2,5) 9. Point of origin of an earthquake (9) 10. Molten rock (5) 11. Owing money, obligated (2,4) 12. Glove thrown as a challenge (8) 13. Villain, scamp (6) 15. Electronic calculator (8) 18. Tropical foliage plant, often seen indoors (8) 19. Bury, inter (19) 21. Independent senator Nick (8) 23. Narrow passage of water (6) 26. Frank, open (5) 27. Long rambling speech, usually incomprehensible (9) 28. Another proverbially crazy gathering of wildlife (4,2,3,6)

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1. Workshop dined and left, that’s right (7) 2. Epic from 151 in the year of our Lord (5) 3. Bit above the waterline costs nothing for food and lodging (9) 4. Report of stolen instrument (4) 5. Drama on the hill – send for the girl in charge of 15 across! (8) 6. To Germaine’s delight, they gained victory over the Middle East! (5) 7. Take an opera, or let it go to pieces (9) Last week’s solution N022 8. Spanish man consumes French D O T T E D L I N E pastry as an hors d’oeuvre (7) A H L A U A 14. Tired out covering advance, but still T H E S E U S M I N beaming (9) U O P C B C 16. Make your way in, and babble M A R C H H A R E I E A L R E about the electronic web (9) P I T O N A R S E N 17. Tyrant of the motor pool? (8) R I T T 18. Rooster’s rake, they say – a A L C O H O L I C M conceited dandy (7) N E E O A K A R M A I M P O R 20. Power source for 28 across? (7) S E D S P I 22. Little singer of the 60s (5) T A B L E A U I N N 24. Unsympathetic, a backward idiot (5) E E D R C E R O L E P E R E G R 25. Thus ascends Shrek (4)

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B O M B L A D I N G V A N E R T E I C A L R L O O S E M T A N T G U I N G S O K I N E S

M SAGITTARIUS: If this week presents a niggly edge, placate touchy situations before they blow out of proportion. And if you find out more than you bargained for about someone – the good, bad, ugly and wonderful all in one package – don’t just complain; aim for a positive outcome.

N CAPRICORN: This week benefits from your solid, sensible, no-nonsense approach to problem solving and conflict resolution. For you personally it’s a good time to reflect on all the changes, great and small, you’ve synthesised and integrated lately, and acknowledge yourself for what you’ve achieved.

O AQUARIUS: Something you thought was already taken care of could reappear this week.

Be aware that situations can escalate quickly, so keep communications straightforward and uncomplicated. Slow down, tune into others and base important decisions on long-range benefits rather than short-term gain.

P P ISCES: It might sound like child’s play, but speaking slowly, clearly and simply will minimise misunderstandings this week. If readjustments in your personal life or the wider world have you feeling fatigued, then rest up and replenish your energetic reservoir, especially during late-week Pisces moon.

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I LEO: Unfinished business resurfacing for resolution this week may involve having to backtrack, review, revise and refine – all worthwhile to prevent the same scenarios happening again. If someone you haven’t seen in a while shows up with welcome news, use the opportunity for celebration – this week needs light relief.

J VIRGO: This is one of those weeks when small things can cause big trouble. Fortunately you’re already more aware than anyone of the importance of details, and Venus in compatible Taurus brings warm, reliable, problem-solving support, as assistance you’ve given in the past is readily returned.

K LIBRA: Certain things you took for granted mightn’t be what they seem. This week’s for questioning, investigating, discussing, evaluating and reviewing before starting something new. Does an unresolved issue need clarifying and finalising? If so, be advised this isn’t best approached till the beginning of next month.

L SCORPIO: If you’ve been entertaining less-thanfabulous thoughts and feelings, remember the antidote for dissatisfaction is gratitude, a word sharing the same root as grace and gratis, meaning free – or in this case liberating yourself and others from the frustration of things not going the way you want.

PETER WILL BE APPEARING WITH MANDY NOLAN AND NICK PENN. SHOW STARTS AT 8PM. TIX AT THE VENUE.

BERNER FOR YOU

HE’S DARK. HE’S TWISTED. HE IS PISSFUNNY. PETER BERNER LETS RIP WITH HIS SIGNATURE SARDONIC SNARL, AS HE GIVES THE FINGER TO THE WORLD AT COMEDY CAPERS AT CABARITA BEACH SPORTS AND BOWLS CLUB THIS SATURDAY. What annoys me most about using public transport is… paying for it. I mean, they’re already going where I want to go. Just drop me off.

When I was a kid I thought the world… a mean place full of homework and detention.

My mother always told me… to make sure the getaway car had a full tank.

This month comedy lovers are in for a treat when the monthly BellyLaugh Open Mic takes place in the Byron Brewery beergarden. This free comedy night sees comedy hopefuls, professionals with new material, and those bitten by the comedy but get up and give it a shot on the open mic.

Hosted by Fiona McGary, a comic who brings her everyday observations to light. Fiona has performed all over the country alongside Australia’s best comics and appeared on the ABC, The Comedy Channel, and Seven’s FMVTV comedy series.

Brilliant, insightful, and falldown funny. Byron Brewery 8pm on Thursday. Free As I’ve got older I’ve learnt not to trust… experts.

I think that God is… probably shorter in person than people expect.

Tony Abbott should… No. I think Tony Abbott shouldn’t.

When it comes to doing my bit for the environment… I’m eating fewer baked beans.

What annoys my wife the most about me is… I’m not George Clooney.

I have never told anyone this, but… I’ve had plastic surgery to make my feet the same size.

Something I think about often is… how do they get shampoo and conditioner in the same bottle.

The weirdest thing that ever happened to me on stage was…

I accidentally took all my clothes off.

Driving in Sydney has taught me… how to get angry very quickly.

If I could script my perfect night at home it would include… several rewrites.

If I could star in any TV show, past, future, present, it would be… Real Housewives of New Jersey.

At school I realised… one day my life would be password protected.

The surprising thing about the world is… if the date of the Big Bang theory is correct then the world is a Gemini.

What I like to give people when I’m on stage is… a good reason to be sitting in rows in the dark.

The jewellery and metal artists of Hammer and Hand are holding their much-anticipated winter exhibition opening night. This winter’s theme is ‘Exhibit A’ – each of the 12 members of the eclectic collective will be showcasing something from their new collections. The collective has been running for five years, supporting and showcasing local jewellery and sculpture artists. Come and enjoy mulled wine, hot soup and live music by the Moondog Gypsy Blues band. Friday at Hammer and Hand at the Byron Bay Arts and Industry Estate at 5pm.

THE UNITED STATES OF AMNESIA Gore Vidal has possibly had a more profound effect on the worlds of literature, film, politics and historical debate than any other twentiethcentury writer. Anchored by intimate one-on-one interviews with the man himself, Nicholas Wrathall’s multi-award-winning documentary is a fascinating and wholly entertaining portrait of the last lion of American liberalism.

Commentary is by those who knew him best, and blends with many years of fascinating footage from Vidal’s legendary on-air career to remind us why he will forever stand as one of the most brilliant and fearless critics of our time. Winner of many awards and also Best Documentary at the recent Byron Bay Festival.

Don’t miss it. There will be a Q&A with the director.

Screening as part of Travelling Flicks at the Drill Hall in Mullumbimby on Saturday.

Film tickets: $15/13 Mullum Bookshop.

6.30pm – hearty hot soups / chai / cake, 7.15pm film.

THE NUTCRACKER CRACKS

The Royal Ballet’s production of The Nutcracker was a huge success during its first screening in Australian cinemas late last year, so much so that encore screenings are being presented in select cinemas.

Key scenes include a fierce battle between the toy soldiers and the army of Mice led by the Mouse King, and the famous dance of the sugar plum fairy, danced by Royal Ballet principal dancer Laura Morera, with Federico Bonelli as the prince. The Nutcracker screens at Palace Byron Bay Cinema at 1pm on Sunday and 11am on Wednesday 25 June. Tickets $21–24 available at the Palace box office, phone bookings 6680 8555, or online at www.palacecinemas.com.au.

THE RETURN OF THE KING Academy Awardwinning film director Sam Mendes (Skyfall, American Beauty) returns to London’s National Theatre to direct Simon Russell Beale (NT Live: Timon of Athens, Collaborators) in the title role of Shakespeare’s epic tragedy, King Lear.

When the ageing Lear decides to divide his kingdom among his three daughters according to which of them is most eloquent in praising him, his favourite, Cordelia, says nothing; Lear’s world descends into chaos. The National Theatre’s King Lear screens at Palace Byron Bay Cinema on Saturday at 1pm.

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CINEMA REVIEWS

There is something increasingly disturbing, creepy even, about Tom Cruise. As his blockbuster career bludgeons its way ever deeper into the nether regions of febrile male fantasy, you can’t help but think that the brain of the bubble-boy hero, infected with the mumbo jumbo of Scientology, has gone with it. Hollywood’s invincible champions of justice and the American way, a dime a dozen, have never been known for their fallibility or introspection, but the contemporary audience’s taste for irony has gradually led to a softening of their steely hubris – the wonderful Bruce Willis has led the way by introducing self-parody to the hard man’s repertoire.

Tom has not had a bar of this evolution. Instead he gives the impression that he actually believes the malarkey that his characters embody, that he [ITALIC]is[/ITALIC] that awesome avenging angel. This time he is Cage, an at-first reluctant warrior encased from head to toe in a ridiculous, Transformertype full-metal uniform with guns protruding everywhere from it. He and Rita (Emily Blunt), similarly decked out, are leading the fightback mission that will liberate Europe from the terror of an omnipotent invading force – it goes without saying in the movies that engagement with outer-space organisms, when it comes, will be bellicose. The aliens, multilegged dragon things, have the temperament of rabid dogs and, boy oh boy, Tom’s really got his work cut out for him – it’s just as well he has Rita and dishevelled professor Noah Taylor on his side. The brain-strain that you must negotiate before you get to the ultimate Big Fight concerns the ability of Omega, the enemy’s core, to wind the clock back to re-start time whenever events run against it. This means that poor Tom gets shot in the scone by Emily every time he makes a blunder, leaving him to wake up afresh at the beginning of the ACTION PACKED adventure. It’s a bit like [ITALIC]Ground Hog Day[/ITALIC] meets [ITALIC]Slaughterhouse Five,[/ITALIC] with neither the humour of the former nor the wisdom of the latter. ~ John Campbell

THE TRIP TO ITALY

If, like me, you loved [ITALIC]The Trip[/ITALIC] (2010), in which director Michael Winterbottom followed Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan, playing themselves, on a restaurant-hopping tour of England, you can rest easy knowing that this re-run of the format has arrived as a welcome relief from the bogus heroism of Cruise and the vile ‘humour’ of MacFarlane. With Winterbottom again at the helm, the boys are in sunny Italy, living la dolce vita – but are they? In so many ways, this outing is identical to its predecessor, but the tone is darker,

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GODZILLA

soldiers firing into the impregnable hide, head-banging noise etc. He has, however, revived its relevance by having the monsters’ (there are more than one) survival dependent on a diet of the nuclear waste and radiation that our civilisation has inadvertently produced for them.

Man’s activities’ being responsible for his own eradication from the planet is not an uncommon theme, but when the point is hammered home as hard as it is here there is at least some chance that the question of clean, renewable energy might be taken seriously by the Mob. Edwards also strokes the prevailing cynicism by (of course) having Travelling Flicks the authorities not release the truth of the disaster that is looming until the reality of Godzilla is self-evident to the howling masses. Needless to say, it is expertly done, with plenty of great visuals – the monster swimming under the Q&A with aircraft carrier, like the shark Director under Robert Shaw’s boat in Nicholas Jaws, is beautiful, and it was a Wrathall sight to savour when it ate the 6.30 pm Hot Soup & Deserts submarine – but, as a fan of 7.15 pm Film Juliette Binoche, I was terribly Film tickets: $15/13 Mullum sad to see her cark it in the first Bookshop, travellingflicks.com five minutes.

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more pensive. Though frequently hilarious, always companionable and at times derisively, almost perversely up-beat, the journey is stalked by death – or, if that is wandering too far into hyperbole, let’s say it is unable to escape the shivering self-awareness that engulfs the stars as they are made to think of their own mortality. The obvious jokes are done with in the first few scenes – both actors concede that sequels are never as good the originals but they’ll make one anyway, each man does his Michael Caine impersonation, and the camaraderie of two blokes in a car driving through the countryside sets us firmly on the right footing. But something goes awry in the happy campers’ mood. Coogan especially is more withdrawn, less inclined to be compulsorily cheery for the camera. Brydon soldiers on, delivering the bulk of the dialogue and unleashing his vast repertoire of brilliant impressions (Connery, Pacino, Hugh Grant) as they pass through the most gorgeous countryside and have mouth-watering meals presented to them. The high-gloss superficiality is intoxicating, as is intended, but the circumstances of their real lives – work and family – are getting closer to the surface all the time.

Out of the blue, Brydon crosses a line that is discomfiting for its shocking truthfulness and, at Pompeii, Coogan’s soul is touched when he confronts the calcified victims of Vesuvius’s temper. It’s an incredibly moving scene, and he takes succour in Byron: ‘Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest’. John Campbell ~ John Campbell

DRILL HALL THEATRE

~ John Campbell

Context isn’t everything, but it’s a long way ahead of what comes second in the arts in general – cinema in particular. The original Gojira (1954) was made by Ishirô Honda at a time when the horror of Hiroshima and Nagasaki would have still haunted the collective Japanese memory. The subject of a city and its population being annihilated was too real to be seen as just another offering in what has evolved as a quasi-comic, gonzohysterical genre. It’s more difficult to ascertain how audiences back then might have reacted to the screen monster, but to punters these days such CGI creations are a dime a dozen – nobody is scared of them.

Director Gareth Edwards’s reworking of the story doesn’t break any new ground as far as structure and development go – there are the usual mysterious events leading up to the revelation of what’s going on, the mandatory scores of hapless

REFUGEE WEEK FILM SCREENING Refugee Week is Australia’s peak annual activity to inform the public about refugees and celebrate positive contributions made by refugees to Australian society.

The ultimate aim of the celebration is to create better understanding among different communities and to encourage successful integration, enabling refugees to live in safety and to continue making a valuable contribution to Australia. Join in awareness raising in your local community at the Byron Community Centre on Wednesday for guest speakers and the screening of some short films and the feature film Mary Meets Mohammed. The funds raised will allow St Vincent de Paul to organise an excursion for local refugees in to Byron Bay to visit the beach and lighthouse.

Although Byron Bay is not very far from Lismore, the reality is that for a lot of people from refugee background transport is a real issue. Byron Theatre Wednesday at 7pm.

Tix: $15 / $12 conc. www.byroncentre.com.au.

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22 JUMP STREET (MA15+) (No Free Tix) Thu 19, Fri 20, Mon, 23, Tue 24: 2.00, 4.20, 7.00 Sat 21: 1.55, 4.20, 7.00 Sun 22: 1.55, 4.20, 6.50pm Wed 25: 2.00, 4.20, 6.30pm TRIP TO ITALY (M) (No Free Tix) Tue 17, Wed 18: 11.45, 2.00, 6.35 Thu 19, Fri 20, Mon 23, Tue 24: 9.25, 2.15, 6.45 Sat 21: 11.00, 1.50, 6.45 Sun 22: 11.30, 4.00, 6.45 Wed 25: 9.00am, 2.00, 6.45pm HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (PG) (No Free Tix) Thu 19, Fri 20, Mon 23, Tue 24: 9.20, 11.50, 4.15 Sat 21: 9.00, 11.35, 5.00pm Sun 22: 9.00, 11.00, 1.45pm Wed 25: 9.20, 11.35, 4.15pm EDGE OF TOMORROW (M) Tue 17, Wed 18: 2.05, 4.10, 8.50pm Thu 19, Fri 20, Mon 23, Tue 24, Wed 25: 9.00pm Sat 21: 9.25, 9.20 Sun 22: 9.30, 9.10pm A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST (M) Tue 17, Wed 18: 4.30 Enjoy our licensed bar

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NT LIVE: KING LEAR Sat 21: 1.00 POB: THE NUTCRACKER Sun 22: 1.00pm Wed 25: 11.00am GRACE OF MONACO (PG) Tue 17, Wed 18: 9.30, 11.50, 7.00pm Thu 19, Fri 20, Mon 23, Tue 24: 9.35am Sat 21: 9.25am Sun 22: 9.15am THE FAULT IN OUR STARS (M) Tue 17, Wed 18: 9.15, 4.00, 9.00pm Thu 19, Fri 20, Mon 23, Tue 24: 11.40, 4.25, 6.30 Sat 21: 3.55, 6.30 Sun 22: 4.15, 6.30 Wed 25: 9.40, 9.10pm MALEFICENT (M) Tue 17, Wed 18: 9.00, 1.50, 6.45pm Thu 19, Fri 20, Mon 23, Tue 24: 2.05, 9.05 Sat 21, Sun 22: 11.50, 9.05 2D X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (M) Tue 17, Wed 18: 11.10, 9.15pm Thu 19-Tue 24: 9.00pm TRANSFORMERS AGE OF EXTINCTION (CTC) Wed 25: 12.15, 3.15, 6.15, 9.15 All sessions are correct at the time of publication.

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WEDNESDAY 18 Q GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL, BYRON GAVIN DONIGER

Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON RICHIE WILLIAMS

Q BYRON COMMUNITY CENTRE 7PM NORTHERN RIVERS REFUGEE FUNDRAISER MARY MEETS MOHAMMED Q FRANKIE BROWN, BYRON 7PM JESSE MORRIS BAND Q BYRON BREWERY 8PM OPEN MIC Q COCOMANGAS, BYRON DJ JIMMY D Q WOODY'S SURF SHACK, BYRON DJ DANIMAL Q BALLINA HOTEL 6PM OPEN MIC WITH RHYTHM SHIFT Q TATTS HOTEL, LISMORE 8PM OPEN MIC WITH CHRIS FISHER Q UNIBAR, LISMORE HIT THE DECK OPEN MIC

Q ROUNDHOUSE TAVERN, MURWILLUMBAH 7.30PM ADAM BROWN Q TATTS, LISMORE 7PM ACID BLEED Q UNIBAR, LISMORE 8.30PM DJ PUMPERNICKEL, WELL BUTCHERED, SLAVO & BOARDER

Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 5PM

Term 2

YACROCKCAFE For details on shows go to: facebook.com/YACROCKCAFE

SAFE LEARNER DRIVER COURSE 20 hours credit in your Logbook!

Call Phil: 0414 809 330 www.steerproject.org.au

PARENTING TEENAGERS PROGRAM

BYRON YOUNG MUMS GROUP For mums and expectant mums (25 & under). Friends and family welcome to come along.

Every Friday at 10.30am for free.

Contact Lotte on 0477 591 555 or byronyoungmums@gmail.com

WILD MARMALADE AT THE BREWERY ON SATURDAY

Q BALLINA RSL 8.30PM PINK ZINC Q PLAYERS THEATRE, BALLINA 8PM BALLINA PLAYERS PRESENT BYE BYE BIRDIE Q ELTHAM HOTEL 7PM NICOLE BROPHY Q LISMORE WORKERS CLUB 7PM WENDY MATTHEWS & THE WHITE HORSE BAND Q TATTS HOTEL, LISMORE 5PM BELLE & JOHN 8PM THE SINKING TEETH Q YAMBA SHORES TAVERN 8.30PM THE DIRTY CHANNEL Q MURWILLUMBAH RSL 7.30PM CHRIS COOK BAND Q RIVERVIEW HOTEL, MURWILLUMBAH 8PM MONSTER GUITARS Q UKI HALL 7PM MURRAY KYLE & TJ QUENTIN & AHLIYA KITE Q CUDGEN LEAGUES CLUB 7PM BILL JACOBI Q KINGSCLIFF BOWLS CLUB 7.30PM JASON DELPHIN Q SALTBAR, KINGSCLIFF 8.30PM NICKY CONVINE Q CURRUMBIN RSL SOUNDLOUNGE THE AUDREYS W BRENDAN GALLAGHER Q SOUTH TWEED SPORTS CLUB 6PM NALLY JAY Q T WIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS 8.30PM BONEY M

SATURDAY 21 Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 9PM DJ LONGTIME

Q GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL, BYRON TRANSVAAL DIAMOND SYNDICATE, MARSHALL O’KELL, ELECTRIC LEMONADE

Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON TIM STOKES BAND

Q BYRON BREWERY 8PM WILD MARMALADE FEAT TIJUANA CARTEL'S PAUL GEORGE Q WOODY'S SURF SHACK, BYRON 8PM DJ SANCHEZ Q CAFE OSKA, BYRON AFROMOSES Q FRANKIE BROWN, BYRON AYSHA & DR BAZ Q COCOMANGAS, BYRON DJ JIMMY & QC Q PIZZA PARADISO, SUFFOLK PARK 6.30PM VIKKI GRANT Q TREEHOUSE, BELONGIL 7.30PM JILL BETH W ANGHARAD DRAKE Q BANGALOW HOTEL 7.30PM SLIM PICKENS Q HOTEL BRUNSWICK 7PM LOOSE ENDS Q BRUNSWICK SURF CLUB 1.30PM PROTECT OUR WATER PROJECT CEREMONY & MUSIC Q LULUS CAFE, MULLUMBIMBY 11AM CASSIE ROSE & ALEX MCLEOD Q DRILL HALL, MULLUMBIMBY 7.15PM GORE VIDAL: THE UNITED STATES OF AMNESIA Q ST MARTIN'S HALL, MULLUMBIMBY 8PM LUCIE THORNE & JIMMY DOWLING Q MIDDLE PUB, MULLUMBIMBY WILSON COOPER BAND Q MULLUM MARKETS MOONDOG GYPSY BLUES BAND, SPAGHETTI CIRCUS, MULLUMBIMBY'S BIGGEST LITTLE TOWN CHOIR

Q KOHINUR HALL, MAIN

Q THE EATERY, BYRON 4PM

ARM 7PM MAYA SOLSTICE FESTIVAL WITH DJ MAGU & DJ PUMPERNICKEL Q BILLINUDGEL HOTEL 8PM BILL JACOBI Q BALLINA RSL 6.30PM GLEN MASSEY DUO Q PLAYERS THEATRE, BALLINA 8PM BALLINA PLAYERS PRESENT BYE BYE BIRDIE Q LISMORE LANTERN PARADE 5.30PM THE SAMBABLISSTAS Q LISMORE CITY BOWLING CLUB 9PM DELICIOUS W LADY K, 1ISAMURAI AND VONNSTAR Q TATTS HOTEL, LISMORE 8PM INHAILED, AZREAL, DECRYPTUS, SIV Q MARY G'S, LISMORE ROCHELLE LEES BAND Q SHEOAK SHACK, FINGAL HEAD 3PM ROD MURRAY DUO Q CABARITA BEACH SPORTS 8PM COMEDY CAPERS W PETER BERNER, NICK PENN & MANDY NOLAN Q CHINDERAH TAVERN 6PM ADAM BROWN & THIERRY FOSSEMALLE Q COOLANGATTA HOTEL 8PM THE ANGELS Q SOUTH TWEED SPORTS CLUB 3PM WIL SARGISSON QUARTET 7.30PM ON THE MOVE Q SEAGULLS, TWEED HEADS 7PM SONIQUE Q T WIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS 8.30PM DRAGON, THE TRILOGY CONCERT

SUNDAY 22

DJ KAYCI

Q TREEHOUSE, BELONGIL 2.30PM FUNDAY DJS 6PM MR SUNDAY Q BANGALOW HOTEL 1PM BLIND WILLY WAGTAIL Q BANGALOW BOWLING CLUB 2PM NORTHERN RIVERS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PRESENTS MUSIC FUNDRAISER WITH RUSSELL MORRIS Q HOTEL BRUNSWICK 4PM KINGFISHA Q CLUB LENNOX 2PM HOLLEY SOMERVILLE Q PLAYERS THEATRE, BALLINA 2PM BALLINA PLAYERS PRESENT BYE BYE BIRDIE Q ELTHAM HOTEL 2PM CHRIS COOK & ROB RENFREW Q SPHINX ROCK CAFE, MT BURRELL 1PM JESSE MORRIS Q RIVERVIEW HOTEL, MURWILLUMBAH 2PM DAVE CAVANAGH Q T WEED HEADS GOLF CLUB 1PM SMOKEHOUSE COUNTRY MUSIC Q SEAGULLS, TWEED HEADS 12.30PM PHIL GUEST

MONDAY 23 Q GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL, BYRON SHORT STAFFED INDUSTRY NIGHT Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON 7PM BILL JACOBI Q BYRON BREWERY 6PM BREWERY DJ Q WOODY'S SURF SHACK, BYRON 8PM DJ JON Q GINGER PIG, BYRON BOOM FAYA CREW

TUESDAY 24

Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 4:30PM BEC LAUGHTON 8PM SAFARI DJS Q GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL, BYRON THE SWAMPS Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON JACK O'LEARY BAND Q BYRON BREWERY 6.30PM DJ BANGO Q GINGER PIG, BYRON BRACKETS & JAM W ZAHLU & ROHIN Q BYRON COMMUNITY CENTRE JOSH PYKE Q BYRON GOLF CLUB 2PM LIVE MUSIC

Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 7:30PM OPEN MIC NIGHT

Q GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL, BYRON MARSHALL O’KELL FAREWELL GIG Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON ZIGGY ALBERTS Q BYRON BREWERY 6PM BREWERY DJ Q BANGALOW HOTEL 7.30PM OPEN MIC NIGHT Q PLATINUM LOUNGE, LISMORE WORKERS CLUB 7.30PM LAURA NOBEL & FRIENDS

WHAT’S ON + Refugee Fundraiser Sponsored by St Vincents de Paul Society NSW Wednesday June 18, 7pm Tickets : $15 / $12

The Audreys Tour Presented by Premier Artists Thursday, June 19, 8pm Tickets: Presale $33/ Doorsale $38

Last Paradise Movie Final Screening!

Sat 21 June, 6.30pm Tickets: $20 Adults / $15 Conc

CREATIVE ARTS COLLECTIVE FREE WORKSHOPS Learn how to make handmade art books and jewellery.

Then make profits by selling your work through local shops!

9 x Wednesday afternoon sessions 4 – 6 pm 30 April to 25 June To enrol, call Gisela on 0410 161 747

Josh Pyke ‘Lone Wolf’ Tour Presented by Music Feeds & Spotify Sunday June 22, 7pm Tickets: Presale $38 / Doorsale $43

An Evening with Groucho Marx Presented by Jally Productions & Ripe Friday 27 June, 7.30pm. Tickets: Full $35 / Conc $28 / Child U16 $20 / Family (2+2) $100

Meeting rooms for hire +

Courtyard Bar open before all events +

Workshops, Training, Conferences & Functions

69 Jonson Street Byron Bay

2 – 100 people

Box office hours: 10 am – 3.30 pm

Byron Youth Activity Centre (YAC) is managed by Byron Youth Service (BYS)

Facilities: Wifi, Projector, Whiteboard, Air-con

1 Gilmore Crescent Byron Bay • bys.org.au

Phone 6685 6807

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This program will focus on skills and information that may assist you to improve your relationship with your teenager!

Mondays 1–3pm from May 5 to June 23 To book call Rosalie on 0431 524 044

p: 6684 1777 f: 6684 1719 e: gigs@echo.net.au

FRIDAY 20

SCOTT DAY-VEE DUO 9:30PM MR SPEAKER Q GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL, BYRON FAIT ACCOMPLI, THE RUMOURS, LEPERS & CROOKS, DEAD BEAR Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON THE SOULSHAKERS Q BYRON BREWERY 8PM BEATEN BODIES Q FRANKIE BROWN, BYRON THE SWAMPS Q CAFE OSKA, BYRON BALEARIC FUNK Q COCOMANGAS, BYRON DJ JIMMY D & DJ QC THURSDAY 19 Q AQUARIUS BAR, BYRON Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON 8PM OPEN MIC NIGHT HIT THAT HIT MUSICAL Q GINGER PIG, BYRON BINGO FROTHING ON FRIDAY W DJ ANTON Q GREAT NORTHERN HOTEL, BYRON THE HARD-ONS Q WOODY'S SURF SHACK, BYRON DJ SANCHEZ Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON NIEKO Q HAMMER & HAND, BYRON A&I 5PM GROUP SHOW Q BYRON COMMUNITY EXHIBIT WITH MOONDOG CENTRE THE AUDREYS W GYPSY BLUES BAND BRENDAN GALLAGHER Q TREEHOUSE, BELONGIL Q BYRON BREWERY 7.30PM ANDREW MORRIS BEERGARDEN 8PM Q

PIZZA PARADISO, SUFFOLK BELLYLAUGH OPEN MIC PARK 6.30PM DINKUM COMEDY W MC FIONA BOHOS MCGARY; 8PM TIPPA IRIE (UK) W KING KRAZY, OREN Q BANGALOW BOWLO 8PM WELL SWUNG DADDIES SELECTA, SOLIDARITY GANGSTER ORCHESTRA SOUND, BAPTIST Q BANGALOW HOTEL 7.30PM Q COCOMANGAS, BYRON SURF REPORT CLUB LATINO Q HOTEL BRUNSWICK 7PM Q GINGER PIG, BYRON GUY KACHEL DJ ROB BANGO Q

D RILL HALL, MULLUMBIMBY Q FRANKIE BROWN, BYRON 7PM KIM BANFFY STATE HELL & WHISKEY OF BLISS CD LAUNCH Q WOODY'S SURF SHACK, Q ST MARTIN'S HALL, BYRON CLUB RAIDERS MULLUMBIMBY 6.30PM Q TREEHOUSE, BELONGIL HOUSE OF BLISS 7.30PM GARRETT KATO & HEARTS ON FIRE COMMUNITY CHANTING Q HOTEL BRUNSWICK 7.30PM SOCIAL NIGHT W MILAN Q OCEAN SHORES TAVERN MARTIN 7.30PM JOCK BARNES Q MIDDLE PUB, Q LENNOX HOTEL 9.30PM MULLUMBIMBY JAM NIGHT ODYSSEY

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GIG GUIDE DEADLINE 12NOON FRIDAY

Tickets & info: byroncentre.com.au

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Bangalow Dining Rooms

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

6687 1144

Enjoy our balcony restaurant, intimate dining room and generous bistro food in the pub. With reasonable prices our menu reflects the wonderful local and fresh produce of the region.

SMH GOOD PUB Large groups welcome.

FOOD GUIDE We also offer off-site catering.

2013 AND 2014

BRUNSWICK

Dominic’s Ristoranté

$16 FOR A LARGE TAKEAWAY PASTA BEFORE 7PM.

BYRON BAY

Standard pastas only – seafood not included.

Italian

Breakfast/Lunch: 7 days from 7am Dinner: from 5.30 pm Tuesday - Saturday Winter Special: 20% off all food ordered by 7.30pm Tuesday - Thursday Coffee all day, bar open from lunchtime.

Cafe/Restaurant 11 Marvell Street

Byron Bay 6680 9960 targabyronbay.com

Mad Racks Rib Shack

RIBS

MAD RACKS RIB SHACK Delivers succulent Byron Bay pork and Casino beef ribs direct to your front door.

Our ribs are local and organic cooked slow and low with all produce sourced from our very own farmers market.

Free delivery with orders over $40

4pm - 9pm Thurs to Sun 3/31 Lawson St (opposite Aquarius Backpackers) Delivery and pick up ribsbyronbay.com.au 6680 8881

Luscious Foods

MON-FRI 7.30am–3pm Closed Thurs and Fri nights over winter.

Thanks for all your support. We’ll be back when the weather warms up again.

Contemporary & Middle Eastern flavours - Breakfast & lunch - Wood-fired pizzas Fresh juices - Great coffee

1/6 Tasman Way, Byron Arts & Industry Estate 6680 8228 www.lusciousfoods.com.au info@lusciousfoods.com.au

FRESH PIZZA – BYRON STYLE Check us out on

Legend Pizza Open 7 days 9am till after midnight Shop 1 Woolworths Plaza 90-96 Jonson Street 6685 5700

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

ON HOL

Traditional Thai Dinner every evening 5.30-9.30pm 5/2 Fletcher St, Byron Bay 6685 5151

O-Sushi Byron Bay Woolies Plaza, Jonson St 02 6685 7103 Coolangatta Showcase on the Beach 07 5536 5455 Broadbeach The Oracle, 12 Charles Ave 07 5570 2166

Open for Dinner & Cocktails 7 days from 6pm till late Next to the Beach Hotel Bay Street 6680 7055 italianatthepacific.com.au

6680 7798

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WINTER TRADING HOURS TUESDAY TO SATURDAY FROM 5PM

Fabulous food, superb service and live music.

Hog’s Breath Cafe’s menu just got better with some mouth-watering new steaks, salad, pasta and an abundance of delicious dessert selections. As usual, the diverse menu also offers chicken, seafood, snacks, burgers, ribs, kid’s meals, a range of Lite Options, plus their famous Prime Rib Steak – slow cooked for up to 18 hours for maximum flavour and tenderness. Kids eat free Mon – Wed nights and you can grab lunch for just $9.90, so there’s something to please the whole family.

Multi-award-winning restaurants “Australia’s Favourite Japanese Restaurant” twice running in the I Love Food Awards and “Best Asian” in Northern NSW in the Restaurant & Catering Awards for Excellence, continuing a string of 13 awards. Eat in, takeaway, licensed. Open 7 days 11am–late.

Modern & traditional wholesome Japanese

Italian at the Pacific provides a bustling atmospheric restaurant, dishing up contemporary inspired Italian cuisine and some of Byron’s finest cocktails and wines.

NEW WINTER MENU only $10 All your favourites every lunch and dinner Experienced Thai chefs cooking fresh delicious Thai food for you.

Fully Licensed and B.Y.O. for wine.

Welcome for lunch, dinner and take-away. www.facebook.com/pages/Success-ThaiFood/237359826303469

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

Enjoy ocean views and our new beachstyle cuisine available breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Happy Hours 4-6pm week days Cnr Jonson St & Lawson St, Byron Bay 6680 9666 www.balcony.com.au

Enjoy breakfast, lunch or dinner with the best views from our first floor balconies in the heart of Byron Bay. Authentic tapas menu from midday till late every day.

Why not stop in for one of Byron’s best cocktails or a glass of wine from our award winning wine list. Relax on a comfy daybed with a cool ocean breeze and the coolest vibe in the Bay. Please view our menus and make a reservation online www.balcony.com.au

Aquarius Dining and Café

Come and enjoy our freshly renovated beach vibe dining with head chef Patrick Hobbs and his team.

Just a short stroll from the beach, in Byron Bay’s shopping centre, Pizza Bar Byron opens from 5pm with a full menu of pizzas, pasta, cocktails, wine and more.

Breakfast/Lunch 7days 8am – 3pm Dinner Fri & Sat from 6pm 16 Lawson St 1800 028 909

Great value fresh tasty food with cold beer on tap, and a selection of cocktails and wines available.

Overlooking the beautiful Wategos Beach, Rae’s Fish Cafe is the mustvisit restaurant while you’re visiting Byron Bay. WINNER OF Join us for our lunchtime special with CHEF'S HAT 2 courses and a glass of wine for $45 Mon to Fri.

North Coast news daily: www.echonetdaily.net.au

www.fishheadsbyron.com.au

Located in the heart of Byron Bay, Pizza Bar Byron presents traditional Italian pizza in a chic, contemporary setting.

Can cater for larger parties, families or intimate dinners for two.

7 nights from 5.30pm Fully Licensed BYO Wine Shop 10, Feros Arcade, Jonson St, Byron Bay 6685 6737

Phone 6680 7632 functions@fishheadsbyron.com.au

GOOD FOOD GUIDE 2012

Here the ambrosial meals are cooked to order and the scrumptious cocktails and mocktails thrust you into a land of wonderful tales.

Red Bamboo @ Byron

TRY OUR NEW WINTER MENU

Italian at the Pacific

The Balcony

Open 7 days From 5pm with full menu, cocktails and more.

95 Jonson St Byron Bay Book: 6685 5009 Takeway: 6685 5010

Dinner 7 days Lunch Fri, Sat, Sun Wategos Beach, Byron Bay 6685 5366 raes@wategos.com.au

Open 7 Days, 11.30am-2.30pm Dinner from 5.30pm 9/4 Jonson St, Byron Bay 6685 5320 www.hogsbreath.com.au

Dinner 7 days from 5pm.

3/109 Jonson St, Byron Bay

Here the curry pastes are freshly pounded to leave your palate dumbfounded.

Pizza Bar Byron

Rae’s Fish Cafe

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Hog’s Breath Cafe

Mon-Fri 12-3pm

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.

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32 Lawson St Byron Bay 6680 7474 www.facebook.com/ Frankiebrowncafe

Success Thai

facebook.com/byron. legendpizza Scan code for our menu!

BYO Home delivery 7 days

Enjoy for dinner.

Open seven days Coffee – breakfast – lunch dinner – functions and weddings.

Byron Bay – 1 Jonson St www.facebook.com/ Fishheadsbyron.com

Frankie Brown Café and Music

EARLY BIRD SPECIALS

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

Fishheads

BYRON BAY CONTINUED

BANGALOW

GOODTASTE

VIETNAMESE AND CHINESE CUISINE Specialities: Rice Paper Rolls Vietnamese Pho (noodle soups) Red Bamboo Shoot Salad From the Wok: Szechuan style Good choices for vegetarians and vegans

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The Treehouse on Belongil Open Mon-Sun 7.30am-11pm Woodfired pizzas - share platters - cocktails - licensed restaurant - bar 25 Childe St, Byron Bay 6680 9452

Happy Chilli Garden Open Mon-Sat 12pm till late Sunday 5pm til late Byron St (opp Aldi) Byron Bay P 6680 9191 F 6676 4869 M 0403 516793 happychilligarden@hotmail.com

Dinner special: duck confit, spiced puy lentils, creamed carrots, red wine glaze and glass of Pinot Noir $29.

OPEN FIRES, FOOD TO HEAT THE BELLY AND MUSIC TO WARM THE SOUL! Our all new winter menu includes hearty soups, daily specials and the full cocktail bar also features our famous mulled wine. Presenting incredible original music in Byron’s most intimate atmosphere.

Check our website or facebook for the gig guide. www.facebook.com/treehouse.belongil www.treehouseonbelongil.com

Hong Kong chef specialising in Chinese and Malay foods YUM CHA all day Special $10 menu includes soft drink/water BYO Dine in and takeaway Home delivery available

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Cicchetti Byron Bay

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Venetian for “tapas”, the recently opened Cicchetti Byron Bay is your gateway to the indulgences of Italy.

Modern fit out, traditional Italian cuisine, extensive Open 7 days wine and cocktail list. Our menu changes every Mon-Thu: Dinner 5:30pm - late 3 months and features handmade pastas, a large Fri-Sun: Lunch 12pm to 3pm, Fri-Sun: Dinner 5:30pm - late selection of entrees, mains like our 1KG pig roast and delicious house made desserts 6685 6677 Banquet Menu available for large bookings.

108 Jonson St, Byron Bay Weddings & Functions for up to 120 people. www.cicchetti.com.au

Open 7 nights Lunch on weekdays Shop 3/17 Lawson Arcade Phone orders welcome 6680 8443

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.

What are your opening hours? Our cafe is open from 10am until 8.30pm and our bistro opens for lunch from 12 noon to 2pm and for dinner from 6pm to 8.30pm.

What is your most popular dish? There are two really: slow-braised pork ribs and grilled corn is a favourite with the guys and the ladies like the salmon.

st elmo dining room & bar

St Elmo is a place where you can enjoy great company, first-class food, sophisticated cocktails and an extensive Mon-Sat: 4pm till late wine list. St Elmo is plating up modern Spanish cuisine Sun: Lunch & dinner 12-10pm to be enjoyed amongst friends and family. Our menus Cnr Fletcher St and Lawson change regularly and feature daily specials.

Lane, Byron Bay SUNDAYS we have live music 1.30pm–4pm.

6680 7426 www.stelmodining.com

Cafe Oska

Global Cuisine & Specialty Coffee

1 Carlyle St, Byron Bay

‘The most fantastic curries’ Mon–Tues 8am–4pm Wed–Sat 8am–10pm Sun 10am–4pm

Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner 0416 887 884 www.cafeoska.com

Ginger Pig

• Locally sourced sustainable produce • Serving modern Mediterranean cuisine; sharing or traditional dining cooked by award winning team • Local and international craft beers and wines • Locally roasted coffee from Ground Control • Happy hour 4-6 every day, $5 Coopers, $6 wine and $10 cocktails facebook – instagram gingerpigrestaurant.com.au • Live music or DJ every night; see the Echo gig guide

KINGSCLIFF

Breakfast , lunch and dinner 7 days Cnr Marvell and Jonson Sts, Byron Bay 6685 7320

DJ AQUA IS BACK! Live global tunes every Friday night from 6pm in the Fins Cocktail Bar.

GOOD FOOD GUIDE CHEFS HAT EVERY YEAR SINCE 1998

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

LENNOX HEAD

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GOOD FOOD GUIDE CHEFS HAT EVERY YEAR SINCE 1998

Celebrations Catering By Liz Jackson

41 Pacific Parade, Lennox Head 2478 6687 7757 info@foamlennox.com facebook.com/foam.lennox twitter.com/foamlennox

Celebration cakes Personal catering services Event co-ordination and management

Pizza Volante Party caterer 40 - 250+ pizzas 0438 118 992 Find us on Facebook www.pizzavolante.com.au

Who/what is your greatest influence?

Tim Smith, the Executive Chef from Potato Head Beach Club in Bali. He has incredible self-confidence and he’s really inspiring.

What advice have you been given that has served you well in the kitchen? Stay humble. I also know that you only get out what you put in.

What is the most rewarding thing about what you do? It’s really good when the staff enjoy working together. It’s good when there’re some laughs through the service and someone on staff says at the end, ‘that was a good night tonight’.

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

GLEN MASON IS FROM NEW ZEALAND. HE TRAVELLED FOR SEVEN OR EIGHT YEARS WORKING IN CANADA AND LONDON, THEN CAME TO BYRON FOR BLUESFEST AND HAS NEVER LEFT.

The team behind Fins have just launched their new POP UP restaurant IZAKAYA. Izakaya serves Japanese Street Food, designed share style. Menu priced from $7–$22.

Extensive Sake, Japanese cocktails and wines to choose from.

Located beside Fins.

Breakfast & lunch: Wednesday to Sunday from 7.30am Dinner: Thursday /Friday / Saturday from 6pm Ocean views / weekly menus / contemporary & innovative cuisine, wine & drinks

La Table 72 Burringbar St, Mullumbimby 6684 2220 www.latable.com.au www.facebook.com/ la.table.byron

Spice It Up Thai Restaurant Open Wednesday-Sunday Dine-in or Takeaway 5:30pm 6684 2209 Mullumbimby

Japunumop E: liz@celebrationsbylizjackson.com.au W: www.celebrationsbylizjackson.com.au P: 0414 895 441

Are your customers mostly locals or visitors? Most of our patrons are locals but we get loads of visitors too, especially in the holidays. Families can come and the adults relax knowing the kids are close by and still having a great fun time. It works for all the generations.

How do you cater for diners with special requirements? We have a good selection of alternatives and can cook to suit. One popular dish is the grilled haloumi salad with chargrilled tea-soaked raisins.

Is there any feedback that your customers consistently give you? Since I’ve taken over I’m pleased to be getting plenty of good feedback. Diners seem to really love the variety and the menu changes.

Byron Services Club is open every day and located at 132 Jonson St, Byron Bay. Organic Botero coffee served with organic milk • Artisan coffee merchants, take home whole beans or freshly ground • Extended selection of daily baked savoury & sweet treats • Private licensed area for business meetings & group functions Special event dinners or La Table can come to your table!

Reviewed & recommended in SMH Good Food Guide since 2009 NEXT MONTHLY DINNER: Saturday 5th July

Come and spice up your night.

Experience the real taste of Thailand.

Using local produce, local staff.

Free courtesy bus provided for pick up and drop off!

20 years’ experience in the art of Thai cooking.

NEW

28 Burringbar St, Mullumbimby CLOSED MONDAYS

good vibe... smooth coffee... friendly prices TAROT READINGS with Marilyn Thursdays 1-5pm.

BOUTIQUE MOBILE WOODFIRED PIZZERIA

Yum Yum Tree Café

Northern Rivers leading party specialist… we bring Italy to you.

Australia’s largest mobile traditional pizza oven.

Backyard parties, corporate events, festivals, weddings.

Breakfast & Lunch 7 days from 8am Dinner (DURING SUMMER ONLY) Fuly licensed 6680 3368

What is your personal favourite? I like coming up with our specials boards. I get to play around and try new things; and trying to introduce people to new tastes.

MULLUMBIMBY

Lemongrass

How would you describe your restaurant?

This is a community-based licensed club welcoming locals and visitors. Price is a factor with us but food doesn’t have to be out of a deep-freeze to be cost effective. It’s not hard to make good honest fresh food at a reasonable price.

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. www.yumyumtreecafe.com.au

NEW BRIGHTON

BYRON BAY CONTINUED

GOODTASTE

Free Wi-Fi Sustainability Friendly Service Office Space Comfortable Lounge

House-Baked Organic Produce Specialty Coffees Daily Specials Cold-Pressed Coffee Quality Food

BREAKFAST & LUNCH: 7 days from 7am | DINNER: Thursday - Sunday | Closed for dinners during June 18 Jonson St, Byron Bay NSW 2481 | Ph: 02 6680 7994 | theeateryonjonson.com | facebook.com/theeateryonjonson 32 June 17, 2014 The Byron Shire Echo

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Please supply display ads 85mm wide, 28mm high. New display ads will be placed at end of section.

Ads appear every day in Service Directory pages on Echonetdaily at www.echonetdaily.net.au

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• New digital antennas • Reception problems * • Extra TV outlets • Phone sockets • Pensioner discounts

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Landscaping .....................................35 Lawnmower Repairs .....................35 Lighting ...............................................35 Locksmith ...........................................35 Motoring .............................................36 Osteopathy ........................................36 Painting ...............................................36 Pest Control .......................................36 Pet Services .......................................36 Photography .....................................36 Physiotherapy ..................................36 Picture Framing ...............................36 Plastering ...........................................36 Plastic Welding ................................36 Plumbers .............................................36 Podiatry ...............................................36 Printer Toners & Cartridges .......36 Printing & Copying Services .....36 Removalists .......................................36 Roofing ................................................37 Rubbish Removal............................37 Scrap Metal Merchants ................37 Security Services.............................37 Septic Systems .................................37 Sewing & Alterations ..........................37 Sewing Machine Sales & Service ....37 Solar Installation ............................37 Swimming Pools .............................37 Tiling .....................................................37 Travel ....................................................37 Tree Services .....................................37 Upholstery .........................................37 Valuers .................................................37 Veterinary Surgeons .....................37 Video Production ...........................37 Water Filters ......................................37 Water Tanks & Tank Cleaning ...37 Web Design Services.....................37 Welding ...............................................37 Window Tinting ...............................37

For fast service call

0402 022 111

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ACCOUNTS & BOOKINGS: 6684 1777

Accountants ......................................33 Acupuncture .....................................33 Air Conditioning & Refrigeration 33 Airport Transfers .............................33 Antennas & Installation ..............33 Appliance Repair ............................33 Architects............................................33 Audio Production ...........................33 Bathroom Renovations ...............33 Building Trades ................................33 Car Detailing .....................................33 Carpet Cleaning...............................33 Chimney Sweep ...............................33 Chiropractic .......................................33 Cleaning ..............................................34 Computer Services.........................34 Concreting & Paving .....................34 Counselling........................................34 Curtains, Blinds & Awnings .......34 Decks, Patios & Extensions ........34 Dentists................................................34 Design & Drafting...........................34 Driveway Maintenance................34 Earthmoving & Excavation ........34 Electricians.........................................34 Fencing ................................................35 Floor Sanding & Polishing .........35 Garage Doors .............................................35 Garages & Sheds ......................................35 Garden & Property Maintenance .35 Garden Design .................................35 Gas Suppliers.......................................35 Glaziers ................................................35 Graphic Design ................................35 Guttering ............................................35 Handypersons ..................................35 Health ...................................................35 Hire ........................................................35 Interior Design .................................35 Ironing..................................................35 Kitchens ...............................................35 Landscape Design ..........................35

SERVICING THE BYRON SHIRE FOR THIRTY-FIVE YEARS

Friendly & Reliable

PHONE NO: 02 6684 6635 BRUNSWICK HEADS LICENCE NO: 225906C wrightbuilders@bigpond.com www.aawrightbuilders.com

Quality Cabinets & Renovations Kitchens and cabinets – co-designed with you.

Bathrooms, timber features, custom-made projects.

Owner-builder friendly.

References and inspection of work available.

Lic 84399C Don 0418 650 608 or Piers 0431 184 315

ARCHITECTURAL TIMBERS JACK MANTLE

0408 740 480 / 07 5590 5696

0422 668 582

DIGITAL TV EXPERTS • FAST SERVICE •

0401 190 960

STAIRS

INTERNAL / EXTERNAL OPEN / CLOSED RISERS

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• New Homes • Alterations & Additions • Decks & Pergolas • Painting • Maintenance 0412 214 112 • bbl.building@gmail.com

APPLIANCE REPAIR

• Fencing • Decking • Structural Pine & Hardwood • Landscaping Timber • Logs & Sleepers • Lattice – Privacy Screens • Alternative Treated timbers for Vegie Gardens & Playgrounds

DIGITAL ELECTRONICS REPAIR & SERVICE TV. Audio. Antennas .........66843575 or 0414 922786

Ph 6686 7911 Fax 6686 9047 admin@bbtimbers.com.au www.bbtimbers.com.au 110 Teven Road, Ballina

CAR DETAILING WE COME TO YOU SATISFACTION GUARANTEED FULLY INSURED We even bring our own power and water!

Call Shane or Julie on

0418 129 051

For a full list of our services visit

ACCOUNTANTS ACCOUNTANT Paul Mayberry .............................................................................................66847415 ACCOUNTANT – BANGALOW Hudson Accounting Services .............................................66872960 ACCOUNTANT BOOKKEEPER Small business accounting. Your one stop

• Lic 43264

ARCHITECTS

www.carcare.net.au

CARPET CLEANING CARPET, UPHOLSTERY & more. No chemicals. www.mintsteamclean.com................0425 707687

FRANK STEWART ARCHITECT Reg. 6075. www.frankstewart.com.au ...........................66856984 APEX CARPET CLEANING www.apexcarpetcleaning.com.au ........................ Nathan 0412 926441 JOSE DO Sustainable Architecture. Reg. 7647. www.josedoarchitect.com....................0424 062096 HEALTH PROTECT INTERNATIONAL ............................................................................0408 540467

accounting shop, tax returns, MYOB, Reconciliations, XERO.....................................Gail 0401 884231

ZAHER ARCHITECTS Reg 7872. www.zaherarchitects.com.au.............66849408 or 0414 974088 AMORE CARPET CLEANING & UPHOLSTERY CLEANING .................66807721 or 0429 726999

CLOUD business specialist – fixed price online solution – software, support, bookkeeping,

GRAEME BARR ARCHITECTS Reg 4244. www.graemebarr.com .......................................66877973

TLC

BAS, payroll, compliance, CFO, advice – BIZWIZZ – www.bizwizz.com.au .........................66875883 OCEANARC ARCHITECTS Reg. 6042 www.oceanarc.com.au .............................................66855001 ACCOUNTS ADMIN/BOOKKEEPER Bank rec, BAS, PAYG, payroll, accounts .......................0418 202627 UP2DATE BUSINESS SERVICES – Individual Tax Returns from $110, Small Business from $180 Partnerships, Rentals, Capital Gains, Companies, Trusts, SMSF Returns. BAS. GST. Quickbooks, MYOB, Xero etc. Accounting, Bookkeeping. Phone Edward ........................0423 763053 ACCOUNTANT – MARTIN McCARTHY ...............................................................................66874026 ACCOUNTANT/BOOKKEEPER Small business accounts – profit, debtors, cashflow, Software setup & training. MYOB/Xero/Excel .....................................................Debbie 0437 846552 BOOKKEEPER 20 years experience city professional, all areas accounting. Mea ...........0417 660793

EXPERIENCE COUNTS FOR YOUR ACCOUNTS Bookkeeping & BAS Services Call Steve Miller now on

0427 272 853

www.easybooks.net.au BAS Reg# 88352003

ACUPUNCTURE ACUPUNCTURE CHINESE HERBAL MEDICINE M Collis .................................................66842559

AUDIO PRODUCTION

FRANCHISE OF THE YEAR!

ALLCOAST SHOWER REPAIRS High temp steam cleaning, leaks fixed, bathroom BATHROOM SPECIALISTS Blue Dolphin Bathroom Renovations. Lic 105283C .............0405 148536

BUILDING TRADES

(02) 6684 1001

Green & Clean Carpet and upholstery cleaning, urine extraction, rust removal, heavy traffic areas, deodorising and sanitation.

makeovers, grout cleaning. Lic 1875C..................................................................................66808646

Far North Coast NSW John & Teresa

0408 232 066

DINGO DEMOLITIONS & ASBESTOS REMOVAL ................................66834008 or 0407 728998

Cleans deeply, dries in 1-2 hours Commercial / Domestic / Insurance

CHIMNEY SWEEP

CARPENTER All jobs. Michael Dow. Lic 147675C ...................................66291169 or 0412 967677

BUILDER – JOHN McGAURAN Personalised Service. Lic 170208C ......66884215 or 0415 793242 BLACK’S FIREPLACE INSTALLATIONS (3rd gen.) AHHA member, Insured, 20 yrs exp ..... 66771905 CARPENTRY/JOINERY Renos, kitchens, bthrms, small jobs. Lic 157823C. Paul .... 0423 658885 or 66845273 ADDITIONS & RENOVATIONS Peter Alexander. Lic 177579C ........................................0417 499023 BRICKLAYER Quality work, reasonable quotes. Lic 164155C..................0437 135483 or 66849102 FABRICA JOINERY Quality kitchens/timber doors/windows. Lic 244652C.........................66808162

ACUPUNCTURE www.marlenefarry.com Facial rejuvenation, general practice ................66842400 STAINLESS WIRE BALUSTRADING Supplies and installation................66809409 or 0419 758821 ACUPUNCTURE Mullumbimby & Bangalow. Mary-Ellen Young ....................................0403 477972 BUILDER/CARPENTER Peter Bergin. Renos/maintenance. Lic 147887C .....0432 060110 or 0432 788394 ACUPUNCTURE Mullumbimby. Health Fund Rebates. Jamie Bellamy ..........................0432 034202 BUILDER CARPENTER Extensions, renos, new homes, insurance, all jobs. Lic 19953Q ...... 0403 458177

AIR CONDITIONING & REFRIGERATION

Kevin & Margaret Bower

BATHROOM RENOVATIONS

P & L GUY TILING AND BUILDING Lic 55115C ......................................66846930 or 0418 255599

CARPET CLEANING

TENDER LOVING CARE Specialising in household carpet cleaning Speedy Drying

AUDIO & VIDEO RECORDING & Live production, crystalgrid.com.au .........................0421 661910

BATHROOM RENOVATIONS Peter Alexander. Lic 177579C .........................................0417 499023

Truck Mounted Machine

CARPENTER Insured & qualified. Homes, extensions, decks, free quotes. Lic 231104C......... 0431 674377

THE ORIGINAL CHIMNEY SWEEP YOUR CHIMNEY NEEDS TO BE CLEANED ONCE A YEAR! • Avoid dangerous chimney fires • Improve fireplace performance

FIREPLACE INSTALLATION & REPAIRS BE WISE BE SAFE

6688 4375 • 0405 350 682

CHIROPRACTIC

BUILDER / CARPENTER Ben Asher. All jobs. Lic 121822C .....................................................0401 872400 COOLMAN AIR CONDITIONING 23 years experience. Lic 178464C AU30147 .............0412 641753 BUILDER CARPENTER DP Construction Building Solutions. All jobs. Lic 236035C ........0427 849445 BAY FAMILY CHIROPRACTIC Peter Wuehr 17 Bangalow Rd Byron Bay .............................66855282 rbacarpentry.com.au New & reno work, decks & pergolas. Lic No 243918C ..............0407 330326 WAVE OF LIFE NETWORK CHIRO (lowforce) 8/9 Fletcher St, Byron Bay. Andrew Badman .66858553 ORANGE STAR CARPENTRY Decks, pergolas etc. Lic 266174C......................................0427 196962 MICHAEL SCHWAGER & SHAUN CASHMAN Chiropractors 108 Stuart St, Mullum ........66841962 BRENDON POWELL Exclusive GC & Bris airport transfers. Luxury hybrid vehicles .......0404 988222 BUILDER/CARPENTER Landscaping, design, renos, studios, yurts. Lic 248355C ..........0449 559445 MULLUM CHIROPRACTIC Massage, chiropractic & fitness. 110 Dalley St........................66841028

AIRPORT TRANSFERS

ANTENNAS & INSTALLATION

BRICK & BLOCK LAYING Lic 173697C. Top quality work. Any size job. Phone Bob .......0431 792260 BYRON BAY CHIROPRACTIC CENTRE Bruce Campbell. 1/12 Tasman Way, A&I Estate ...66858159 BUILDERS Ian & Eric. All areas of construction, exp & affordable. Lic 210293C .............0429 777966 CAPE BYRON HOLISTIC CHIROPRACTIC Shane Eade. 6/14 Middleton St ....................1300 858842

NORTH COAST ANTENNAS Digital TV & satellite specialists ............................................66841234 BUILDER / CARPENTER Quality work with 40 years experience. HIA Lic 501442 .........0410 442188 MARVELL ST CHIROPRACTIC Lindon Garske www.marvellstchiropractic.com.au ...........66857771 JP DIGITAL ANTENNAS Reception problems, new antennas, extra TV points, all areas ....0432 289705 STONEYS BUILDING CREATIONS Lic 268404C..........................................Phone Dave 0417 654888 CHIRO CHRIS Chris Stathis, Suffolk Park – www.chirochris.com.au ..............................0410 122048

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Service Directory

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CLEANING

DESIGN & DRAFTING

WINDOW & PRESSURE CLEANING Professional work. Free quotes. Ph Steve .............0421 797210

BAREFOOT BUILDING DESIGN www.barefootbuildingdesign.com .........Bob Acton 0407 787993

CHERRYTREE CLEANING Simply the best. Free quotes. Great rates..............................0413 190266

DAVID ROBINSON DRAFTING Renovation, design & plans........................................0419 880048

CLEAN AS ITâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BEEN TEAM Home, Bond back, anytime, references..................................66882372

BYRON ENERGY EFFICIENT DESIGN & DRAFTING www.beedad.com.au...............0432 531448

DONE & DUSTED CLEANING Going the extra mile, professional, dependable .............0498 731447

SPACIAL ART Houses and small space design................................................................0429 989839

GREEN ROCKET CLEANERS Bond, office, builders clean, window cleaning................0405 437431

DRIVEWAY MAINTENANCE

QUALITY HOUSEKEEPING Cleaning & decluttering..............................................Julie 0410 799686 HOME ASSISTANCE Housekeeping, gardening, organising. Rebecca de Gail ................0413 166314

macskillz

DIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CLEANING SERVICE Quality & efficient. O.Sh, SGB, NB, Mullum & surrounds .......0414 408723

one on one apple mac tuition

FIVE STAR HOME CLEAN Detailed & fast ......................................................................0435 066604

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SAGE Declutter your space .............................................................................................0466 544953 PROPERTY WASHING All window cleaning & pressure washing and painting ............0419 789600

CARPARK & DRIVEWAY MAINTENANCE CONCRETE EDGING

0418 156 909

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BYRON ECO WINDOW CLEANING Pressure washing & house washing. Free quotes ...0434 539979

EARTHMOVING & EXCAVATION

ACTION WINDOW & PRESSURE CLEANING

A NORTHERN RIVERS TRENCHING 65HP chain trencher, 1.7 tonne excavator, tipper.0402 716857 BRUNSWICK BOBCAT HIRE Good rates, very experienced operator. Ilan .....................0414 300012

â&#x20AC;˘ House washing â&#x20AC;˘ High pressure or soft wash â&#x20AC;˘ Window cleaning â&#x20AC;˘ Driveways, paths & roofs â&#x20AC;˘ Gutters & ďŹ&#x201A;yscreens â&#x20AC;˘ Water efďŹ cient â&#x20AC;˘ Free quotes Phone Joe or Helen 6684 4018 or 0412 495 750

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RAZZLE DAZZLE Professional Window Cleaning â&#x20AC;˘ Byron Bay Residential â&#x20AC;˘ Retail â&#x20AC;˘ Commercial OHS, insured, police clearance cert.

Daz Grant

0400 479 811

dgrant@razzledazzlewindows.biz â&#x20AC;˘ www.razzledazzlewindows.biz

BYRON BAY BOBCAT & MINI EXCAVATOR All areas ..............................................Ian 0412 853479 4 TONNE EXCAVATOR, 8 TONNE TIPPER & BOBCAT HIRE All areas. Ron..66845148 or 0402 823928

CONCRETING & PAVING CONCRETING â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Steve Baker. Lic 143161C.....................................................................0412 272564 CONCRETORS John Flanagan & Sons. Lic 155456C. Ph Andrew.....................................0401 968173 SALISBURY CONCRETE CONTRACTORS over 20yrs local exp, all concrete, Works Lic 136717C ..0418 234302 CONCRETE RESURFACING Covercrete/cleaning & resealing of old & new driveways ...0418 234302

COUNSELLING JUSTINE BUCKLEY Gestalt Therapy, Buddhist Psychology. www.muditaclinic.com .......... 66846090 PETER FOX Couple Therapy & Marriage Intensives. coupletherapyaustralia.com ...............66840469 PSYCHOLOGIST Children, Adolescents & Women. Rebate avail. Linda Casuarina..........0428 884548

CURTAINS, BLINDS & AWNINGS

TINY EARTHWOR Philip Toovey 0409 799 909 ph/fax 02 6684 3208 various implements available for limited access projects

EARTHMOVING ROADWORKS â&#x20AC;˘ PLANT HIRE ALL JOBS BIG AND SMALL 30 years in local area â&#x20AC;˘ Free quotes Phone Dick 6687 8418 / 0412 831 944

DESIGN IT SOFT FURNISHINGS Curtains, blinds & bedheads............................Jane 0432 549953

ELECTRICIANS

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COUGHRAN ELECTRICAL 24 hour service, Lic 154293C .........................0439 624945 or 66804173 RONNIE SPINKS Everything electrical. Lic 27673 ........................................................0429 802355 HALLMARK ELECTRICAL Domestic, small job specialist. Lic EC41467 ..........................0407 416575 LIGHTHOUSE ELECTRICAL BYRON BAY Your friendly electrician Lic 233440C ............0450 631183 BYRON BAY ELECTRICAL Geoff Bensley. Lic EC 34079 ..................................................0427 857824

CIRCUITS PLUS For everything electrical. Friendly & professional. Lic 201844C ...........0422 668582

COMPUTER SERVICES ALL COMPUTER REPAIRS IMAX Computers ..................................................................0418 767774

DENBY ELECTRICAL Solar & Electrical reliable technician. Lic 225484C........................0432 767764 WEST BYRON ELECTRICAL Lic 145002C Repairs & installations, affordable rates . Jim 0403 747615

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JP ELECTRICAL All electrical antennas & data. Hot water & stove repairs. Lic 133082C .....0432 289705

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24 HOUR SERVICE

DECKS, PATIOS & EXTENSIONS

0439 624 945

BYRON BAY FLOOR SANDING For a free quote phone Chris .........................................0408 536565

02 6684 6235

Inspire your lifestyle

AH

Domestic Commercial

02 66 804 173 All Jobs Small or Large

Lic: 154293c

MULLUMBIMBY PC SOLUTIONS Next to Luluâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s .................................................................66841442

SUNSHINE ELECTRICAL SERVICES NSW Competetively Priced. Quality Work. Lic 116938C .0416 043414

DOMESTIC COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL

61 Stuart St Mullumbimby

info@mullummac.com www.mullummac.com

JAMIE 0408 809 817

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Carports | Patios | Verandahs | Shelters | Opening Roof Glass & Screened Enclosures | Insulated Roofing CALL US TODAY for a FREE Design & Quote

All Mac Repairs, Upgrades, Service, Data Recovery, Internet Set-up, Hardware Sales, Insurance Claims

Ballina, Lismore, Casino, Byron Bay

1300 7726 5463

Inspire your lifestyle Eastcoast Building & Renovations BLN 250287C

0458 267 777

SaulMordaunt@macdoc.net.au

Lic. 211410C

Apple Certified Support

The Deck Doctor Specialising in: Sanding and ReďŹ nishing, Repairs and Maintenance, Internal Floors, Timber and Cable balustrading Richard Neylan richardneylan1@bigpond.com 0407 821 690

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DENTISTS BRUNSWICK HOLISTIC DENTAL CENTRE ......................................................................66851264 BANGALOW DENTAL In the Medical Centre Complex, Bangalow .....................................66872766 SHORES DENTAL Brian Donnellan & Richard Conn. Rajah Rd, Ocean Shores ....................66803477 GAVIN STUART & MARTIN ACKLAND Banora Seaview Dental, Banora Point 30 mins north of Ewingsdale. Open Sat. early & late appointments ..............................07 55234090 LITTLE LANE DENTAL, MULLUMBIMBY ...........................................................................66842816 MICHAEL LEACH 100 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby ............................................................66842644

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ELECTRICAL PHONE TV

Lic. No.

212742C Friendly & helpful Clean & tidy On time Over 30 years experience Rapid response 24/7 service

Please call Blair Rankin on

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electrical

SERVICES PTY LTD

0432 331 633 for details

1300 639 843 Electrical and appliance repairs 0427 402 399 24/7 EMERGENCY CALL OUTS NO JOB TOO BIG OR SMALL RELIABLE AND PROFESSIONAL TEAM

Lic No. 262667C

0411 562 111 s

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FENCING

YARD MAINTENANCE Lawns, rubbish removal, gardening. ........Mark 66843426 or 0437 343348 MULLUMBIMBY MASSAGE, CHIROPRACTIC & PERSONAL TRAINING......................66841028

COMPLETE GARDEN SERVICE Including lawns, tip runs. Experienced & references.....0405 529275 MULLUMBIMBY HERBALS Naturopathy, massage. 79 Stuart St .....................................66843002 BEDNARZ, H & W, FENCING Specialise in pool, Colorbond & timber fencing .............0417 491136 ACREAGE MOWING SPECIALIST......................................................Zac 0468 344939 or 66845379 MULLUMBIMBY SKIN CLINIC 58 Stuart Street .................................................................66844400 BYRON & BEYOND FENCING Any fence, any time, prompt quotes .....66804766 or 0416 424256 BYRON BAY MAINTENANCE Lawns, gardens & rubbish removal .........................Sam 0499 118134 MUDITA CLINIC Ayurveda, Counselling, Mindfulness. www.muditaclinic.com .................66846090 E.D.L. FENCING Installations & repairs, prompt service .........................66771852 or 0432 107262 LANDSCAPE DESIRE Women highly experienced, Ryde qual. Sydney & Byron. Kate....0424 176967 MOVE EASIER with Feldenkrais. Orana Rd, O.Shores moveeasier.com.au .....................0404 429271 HOMESTEAD FENCING Since 1995. Glass & aluminium pool fencing specialists. Lic 227674C .66222886

Dr Tamara Justus

byron health & healing-

NOT JUST FENCING Contact Greg..................................................................................0490 062016 BEN’S FENCING Prompt. Reliable. Competitive. 7 day service ......................................0409 983565

COASTALVIEW FENCES

(PhD) B.Sc., Hons., Dip R.T., Dip Arom.

.... where science meets nature

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0408 858 735 02 6688 4651 Federal

Repairs, Free Quotes, Small Jobs, Reliability

Phone Richard 0419 803 549

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HIRE

Coastalview Property Maintenance

MULLUM HIRE Builders, party and much more .......................www.mullumhire.com.au 66843003 BYRON HIRE Building & home handyman equipment hire ....... www.byronhire.com.au 66856228

POOLSAFE GLASS FENCING GLASS & ALUMINIUM POOL FENCING

0499 178 297

psgfencingnsw@gmail.com

FLOOR SANDING & POLISHING ECO TIMBER FLOORS Sanding, polishing & repairs..............................................Trent 0432 501721 N J H FLOOR SANDING Laying. Sanding. Coating. Eco oils.

All other finishes. Contact Nathan ..................................................................................0420 215716

SOUND, LIGHTING & VIDEO equipment hire & installation, crystalgrid.com.au ..........0421 661910

FARM PICK UP PRICES CT-2 Couch – B Grade $2.80 /m2 Soft Leaf Buffalo – B Grade $5.50 /m2

• Prices are GST inclusive • Pick up Ex-Farm – forklift loaded • Cut fresh: require half day advanced notice • DELIVERY EXTRA

Trading hours: 7am-4pm Monday to Friday

6684 7380 GARDEN DESIGN

INTERIOR DESIGN KATE PLATT Interior Designs, www.kateplatt.com................................0411 888416 or 66807606 d’ART INTERIORS www.dartinteriors.com.au. Call Patricia ...................0417 336816 or 66884768 DESIGN UNIT Residential & Commercial Interiors .................................................Bree 0403 488127

IRONING THE IRONING LADY Free pickup & delivery. Fast & friendly service $25/hr. Angela......0414 719680

KITCHENS

SHAUN LEMURA KITCHENS Byron 15yrs+ qual. exp. www.shaunlemurakitchens.com.au ....0499 771769 OCEAN FLOORS Timber flooring expert. www.oceanfloors.net.au................................0420 528373 GARDEN DESIGN, FENG SHUI www.simplybeautifulspaces.com.au ......................... Lyn 0428 884329 ALL GLASS BYRON BAY Splashbacks .................................................................................66857200 LANDSCAPE DESIGN & PLANS Lic no. 39791 www.varendorfflandscapes.com ..........0414 842602 C & C KITCHEN SOLUTIONS Kitchens & bathrooms, quality at affordable prices ...............66872275

BYRON BAY FLOOR SANDING

GAS SUPPLIERS

Quality work from modest to high end

• Free Quotes • Quality Workmanship • Supply & Install Boral Solid Timber Floors • Locally Owned And Operated • Specialty Timber Finishes • All Eco-Friendly Coatings

0408 536 565 proud member of

Floor Sanding & Polishing New & old floors – stairs For a free quote & quality guaranteed North Coast

call Chris Mundey 0422 982 008 Lic 181445C www.cmtimberflooring.com.au

GARAGE DOORS Licence No: 175956C ABN 93 113 342 699

D Hinged

David 0409 843 689 www.hinged.com.au | dhinged1@gmail.com

Kitchens Bathrooms Wardrobes Laundries Cabinets Custom timber furniture Timber sizing All joinery

LANDSCAPE DESIGN GLAZIERS OCEAN SHORES GLASS AND SCREENS Glass splashbacks Lic No 61205C .........................66803333

VARENDORFF LANDSCAPES www.varendorfflandscapes.com Lic 39791 ...................0414 842602 BEAU JARDIN LANDSCAPE DESIGN Call Peter .............................................................0417 054443

ALL GLASS BYRON BAY Shower screens & mirrors ............................................................66857200

LANDSCAPING

GRAPHIC DESIGN

SUBTROPICALLANDSCAPES.COM.AU 20 years exp. Lic 231789C................................0405 122456

TINKER DESIGNS For all design work email deb@tinkerdesigns.com or phone Deb ....0410 628958

SHANE TURNER LANDSCAPES Solid, creative, affordable............................................0418 688171 2481 LANDSCAPES 20 years experience. Free quotes. No job too small .......................0490 062016 MIMOSA ROCKS LANDSCAPES Quality structural landscaping ....................................0457 076713

GRAPHIC DESIGN

STYLE LANDSCAPES Retaining, paving, landscaping. Lic no 41307..............................0427 570076

Logos, branding & promo

Phone 0432 339 066

rachelstonedesign.carbonmade.com

GUTTERING

• Sand • Soils • Gravels • Pots & statues • Lots, lots more

1176 Myocum Rd, Mullumbimby (just past golf course)

6684 2323 / 0418 663 983

THE GUTTER GURU Cleaning, repairs & all your gutter needs. Call Sam for a free quote...0459 821411 PH: 02 6628 1376 W: www.cmgd.com.au E: info@cmgd.com.au 3 Hugh Street, Russelton Estate, Alstonville NSW 2477 Garage Doors & Openers | Gates | Sales | Service | Installation | Repairs

GARAGES & SHEDS Better sheds. Bigger choice

Northern Rivers

Gutter guard Gutter cleaning Locally owned Fully insured Free quotes Call Junior for friendly, genuine advice and service.

www.spotlessgutters.com.au

0405 922 839 or AH 6684 1778 ABN 180 623 364 42

TEA TREE MULCH Hunky Dory Farm

Medium and coarse chop also available all the same price PRICES START AT $25 + GST + DELIVERY

From the farm to you • 0424 163 784 • Eftpos available

Sheds – Garages – Carports Affordable Homes Casino (02) 6662 1805 Lismore (02 6622 0976 Travanne Homes Pty Ltd. Lic 198310C.

GARDEN & PROPERTY MAINTENANCE MULLUM-MOWING@mullumonline.net. Ride-on, large lawns & acreage.........Peter 0423 756394 GUTTERS CLEANED All areas, free quotes, fully insured ............................... 66841778 or 0405 922839

• Gutter Cleaning • Fine Mesh Gutter Guards • 10 Year Warranty • Best Price Guaranteed

0456 084 782 Local, Professional, Reliable HANDYPERSONS

• Structural Landscaping • All styles of Paving • Brickwork • Lawn Area • Water Features • Irrigation Work • Rock Work • Retaining Walls Over 20 yrs experience – Friendly reliable service Ring Dean on 0417 856 212 Lic. 263202C

LAWNMOWER REPAIRS

A TO Z GARDEN SERVICES Lawns, acreage, hedges, clear ups, gutters, pressure cleans .0405 625697 A TO Z HANDYMAN SERVICES Tip runs, pressure cleaning, gardening, odd jobs ...Andre 66847553 or 0439 495247 BYRON Mower, B’cutter, Ch’saw, all small engine repairs, pickup & delivery .................0429 707286 A.C.E. LAWNMOWING Best rates, reliable, guaranteed ...............Sam 0438 655763 or 66859754 CAPE BYRON PROP MAINTENANCE Tom Scott byronmaintenance@gmail.com ......0418 600576 TYAGARAH MOWER REPAIRS Pacific Hwy (next to Bruns Wreckers), Tyagarah ..........0488 094025 ABSOLUTE GARDEN WASTE REMOVAL OR WHATEVER Large trailer. Free quotes ......66804704 MULLUM HANDYMAN Maintenance, repairs, painting, tip runs, gardening ...............0424 954388 LEAF IT TO US Acreage/residential mowing/gardening, tree lopping, landscaping ......0402 487213 HANDYMAN with 25 years carpentry & treework experience............................................66840227

LIGHTING

MOW JOES Lawn & garden maintenance, ride-on mowing. Fully insured ..............Joe 0407 065849 A.S.A.P. HANDYMAN SERVICES Fast, efficient, best solutions for all jobs big or small 0405 625697 A GREEN EARTH Garden restoration, maintenance, tree & rubbish removal ...............0405 716552 GREG’S HANDYMAN SERVICE No job too small. Free quotes .......................................0414 109595 ACREAGE BRUSHCUTTING & CLEARING SERVICES Lantana specialists ...................0412 705962 DARRIN THE HANDYMAN Long time local, prompt friendly service, 30 yrs exp...........0427 641804 NICK’S MOWING Lawns, edges, hedges, local & reliable. Mullum, Bruns, O.Shores .....0418 792279 A VERY HANDY MAN for just about anything. Happy to help ...Andrew 66844634 or 0412 558890 SPECIALIST WEED CONTROL CONTRACTORS/CONSULTANTS ...............................0418 110714 LAWNS & GARDENS Acreage, residential, gardens, brushcutting, tip runs etc ... 0430 297101 or 66845437

HEALTH

HINTERLAND Property Maintenance acreage mowing, servicing Byron Hinterland. Sam ...0429 809363 • OTHER HEALTH RELATED SECTIONS IN THIS SERVICE DIRECTORY: Acupuncture, Chiropractic, LUSH GARDENS Affordable & Reliable – All aspects of garden maintenance. Joe.......0401 275232 Counselling, Dentists, Naturopathy, Nutrition, Osteopathy, Physiotherapy, Podiatry ABOUT BYRON Lawnmowing, houses to acreage, rubbish removal ..Rick 0409 654946/66804476 MULLUMBIMBY MEDICAL CENTRE 60 Stuart St ............................................................66841511

Architectural & Landscape Lighting Specialists Free onsite consultancy service

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LOCKSMITH

NORTHERN RIVERS MOWING Acreage specialist. Small/large jobs. Sen/pen rate ......0428 544190 ACUPUNCTURE & COSMETIC MEDICINE Dr Adam Osborne...........................................66857366 MOBILE LOCKSMITH SERVICE Automotive car keys & lock installation/repair ............0412 764148

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Service Directory MOTORING

PLASTIC WELDING

Micks Roof Restorations

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â&#x20AC;˘ Paint tile roofs â&#x20AC;˘ High-pressure cleaning

LEGENDARY OFFROAD TYRES

PLASTIC WELDING Kayak sales & repairs ........................................................... John 0411 443384

PLUMBERS

â&#x20AC;˘ Repaint tin roofs â&#x20AC;˘ 10 year warranty

0401 821 204

JARRAH DAVIDSON Plumbing, draining, gas fitting & roofing. Lic 187712C ..............0438 668025

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BILL CONNORS All plumbing/draining. Lic #1051..................................66801403 or 0414 801403

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I LOVE PLUMBING Call Steve Lic 148904C ....................................................................0412 916140 HRH PLUMBING (new business) Prompt, reliable, efficient. Lic 220755C ........Harley 0402 652017 RELAX...

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DART PLUMBING Plumbing, roofing, gas. Byron Bay. Lic 1175539C.............................0421 334515 MARK STRATTON PLUMBING All aspects & emergency work. Lic 57803C ..................0419 019035 ADM PLUMBING SERVICESâ&#x20AC;Ś (NO JOB TOO SMALL) Lic 234528C. ...........Call Adam 0466 992483 ALIAS PLUMBING 24hr blocked drains & maintenance specialist Lic 230095C. Terry ...0416 282919 ED RIORDAN PLUMBING Efficient, honest & reliable. Lic L6966 ..................................0417 343480 MATT WILSON PLUMBING Lic 10704. All plumbing, draining, gas fitting. Free quotes. ...0408 665672 DLC PLUMBING Accredited in back flow prevention & maintenance. Lic 219589C ............0427 641804

OSTEOPATHY

NEED A PLUMBER? DRAINER? GASFITTER?

Chay 6680 5081 0429 805 081

BYRON OSTEOPATHIC CARE FOR WOMEN Eve Schoenheimer Mon, Tues, Thur, Fri.......66853660 NORTH COAST OSTEOPATHY Jodie Jacobs & Jamie Bennett. Mon-Fri .............................66857517 OSTEOPATH SINCE 1975 Old school, Lennox Head. Michael Petrie ...................................66874410

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Clinic open for Osteopathy and Massage every day except Wed & Sun 2/32 Mullumbimbi St, Brunswick Heads. Tel 02 6685 1126

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0438 784 226 â&#x20AC;˘ 6685 4154

Lic No 189144C

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0412 794 364

KNIGHTSBRIDGE

Mention this ad for our Winter Special $25 wash/blowdry + free hygiene/clip

~ dog wash ~ quality grooming ~ all breeds ~ Call Rick 6685 4230, 0414 268 102. byrondoggrooming.com.au

PHOTOGRAPHY

â&#x20AC;˘ Interior & exterior â&#x20AC;˘ Renovations â&#x20AC;˘ Free quotes Call Lloyd Sherlock

02 6687 2351 / 0410 871 662 Bangalow Road, Byron Bay Lic No. 130781C

Painting & Decorating

ABN 31 490 733 798 LIC 203196C 24 years experience

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24 HR SERVICE

0416 282919 masterblastas@gmail.com

PODIATRY COASTAL PODIATRY GROUP All aspects of Podiatry. Lennox Head. Matt Frogley ...........66877717

PRINTER TONERS & CARTRIDGES

www.treefaeriefotos.com â&#x20AC;˘ 0417 427 518

PHYSIOTHERAPY BANGALOW PHYSIOTHERAPY Manual therapies, acupuncture, pilates.

Liz Thomas, Cally Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hara, Troy Eady .....................................................................................66872330 NICK EDMOND Physiotherapy, acupuncture. Open Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday Corner Dalley & Burringbar Sts, Mullumbimby ....................................................................66843255 ANTHONY Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ORSOGNA Physiotherapy, acupuncture, hydrotherapy Suffolk Park 1 Bryce St.. 66853511 CLAUDIA MIRDITA Craniosacral therapy, physiotherapy....................................................66857222 CONTINENCE / PELVIC FLOOR Janelle Angel .................Bangalow 66872337 & Mâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;bah 66723818 TRADITIONAL & DIGITAL PRINTING PETRA KARNI Physiotherapy, Craniosacral, Alexander Technique. Byron..........................66807207 %XVLQHVV &DUGV Â&#x2021; )O\HUV Â&#x2021; 3RVWHUV Â&#x2021; 6WLFNHUV OCEAN SHORES PHYSIOTHERAPY Manual therapies, dry needling, custom orthotics, remedial massage. Nigel Pitman, Ilse v.Oostenbrugge, Lachlan Dewar ..............................66803499 art@mullumprintworks.com.au ä&#x2013;˛ 6684 3633 LIBBIE NELSON PHYSIO â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Acupuncture, yoga & therapy, BFL, Herbs, CS. Byron Bay ......0416 369698 EWINGSDALE PHYSIO Renata Tenta. Flexi-Bar Training. Real Time Ultrasound ...................... 66847838 BYRONSHIREPHYSIO.COM Experienced Aust Inst of Sport Physio Judi Sternfeldt, Mullum .. 66846336 MAN WITH A VAN/TRUCK Reasonable rates. Phone Don ...........................................0414 282813

PRINTING & COPYING SERVICES

REMOVALISTS

BILLINUDGEL CUSTOM PICTURE FRAMING 7/1 Wilfred St, Billinudgel .......................66803444 MULLUM PICTURE FRAMERS & MEXICAN ART 75 Stuart Street.............................0403 734791 FINE ART INSTALLATION SERVICES Art & picture hanging systems.........................0403 554288

LOCAL AFFORDABLE Brisbane to Sydney, 20yrs exp. travellingbenny@gmail.com ....0402 199999

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CUSTOM MADE FRAMING

phone 66801158 or 0408 004719

quality art supplies Still @ the centre â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 3 Centennial Ct â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 6685 5808

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professional canvas stretching & giclee printing

PAINTERS & DECORATORS

Mark Wopling

RAPID RESPONSE BLOCKED DRAINS SPECIALISTS SEWER JETTER, DRAIN CAMERA, PIPE & CABLE LOCATION, LEAK DETECTION

Have your pets pampered by a qualified hairdresser & professionals groomer

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6680 9997 â&#x20AC;˘ www.capebyronplumbing.com.au

30+ years experience in commercial photography and photojournalism Lic 184464C

6685 1018 or 0413 666 267

PET SERVICES

Tree Faerie Fotos

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DEREK BULLION PAINTING Free quotes. Lic R98818 ..........................0414 225604 or 66805049 AD PAINTING by John Hand. Lic 13246C ...............................................0413 185399 or 66841249 KELVIN & ROBERT TEALE Painters & decorators. Lic R65919 ..............0400 349027 or 0438 842731 BYRON PAINTING Immediate starts, great rates. Lic 239832C .....................................0427 669806 FLYNNâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PAINTING Professional, friendly, clean. Lic 130521C ...............0410 520647 or 66843542

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BLOCKED DRAIN SPECIALISTS

PLASTERING COL JENKINS PLASTER Gyprock, renovations, repairs. No job too small .....................0401 078733 GLENN WATERS For the finish you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see. Lic 58928C...............................................0427 908129

PLASTERING CONTRACTOR DOMESTIC & COMMERCIAL

Small and Medium Moves, Tip Runs and Deliveries, 1 or 2 Men at Low Prices Byron Bay and Mullumbimby based

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VITALITY VETCARE Bangalow. Megan Kearney .................................................................66870675

LEAPFROG REMOVALS

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BYRON BAY’S LOCAL REMOVALIST MOVING THE SHIRE FOR OVER 10 YEARS

CAMERA CREW, LIGHTING, screens, projectors & editing, crystalgrid.com.au.............0421 661910

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MULLUMBIMBY POOL SHOP Water tesing, Eco products, mobile servicing Lic 39126 ...66844846 POOL MAINTENANCE & RESTORATION All aspects. Lic 170432C ................................0423 378573

6680 8200 or 0418 108 181

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TILER/STONEMASON/WATERPROOFER Lic 24418C. Phone Karl ...................................66804103 CERAMIC FLOOR & WALL TILER R 54797. Phone Peter Forsyth ...................................0428 451265

WATER TANKS & TANK CLEANING

SHE TILES

WATER TANK CLEANING/WATER TANKS All areas ...............................66888055 or 0407 002833

02 6684 2198 ROOFING

EVERYTHING ROOFING Restorations, repairs, gutter cleaning. Free quote. Lic 252254C.....0422 757784

RUBBISH REMOVAL BEST SKIPS BANGALOW 2m2, 4m2, 6m2 bins ......................................0417 458149 or 66871544

Female Wall & Floor Tiler _ over 10 years experience

Kitchens, bathrooms, laundries, tile repairs & waterproofing Leaking showers repaired & sealed NO JOB TOO SMALL • Free quotes & consultations

Call Louise 0478 698 186

Lic. No. 216827C Because a woman understands excellence

OCEAN SHORES SKIPS Mini skip specialists ........................................0412 161564 or 66841232

Dirty Tiles & Grout?

BYRON SKIPS & RUBBISH REMOVAL 2, 3, 4 & 6 m3 bins available .............................0450 300360 TIP RUNS & RUBBISH REMOVAL.................................................................................0408 210772

...forget pointless scrubbing

BUDGET RUBBISH REMOVAL Garden clean ups .................................................Mark 0421 932945

Our unique restoration process will make your dirty tile & grout look

SCRAP METAL MERCHANTS

BRAND NEW again... GUARANTEED!!!

BYRON CASH FOR SCRAP

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Pacific Highway, Tyagarah 6684 2351

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SECURITY SERVICES

TRAVEL

BRUNSWICK VALLEY LOCKSMITHS Shirewide. Master security lic. 047862307 ..........0412 144679 STREETWISE SECURITY Static guards & crowd control. Lic 409807379........................0439 793925

SEPTIC SYSTEMS TRINE

Trine Solutions

Sustainable environmental outcomes Drainage, Gasfitting & Plumbing 6680 2358 / www.trinesolutions.com.au / 0407 439 805

SEWERAGE MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONALS Installing, maintaining and repairing onsite sewerage management systems in Tweed & Byron Shires for over 25 years.

M: 0418 754 149 P: 07 5523 9930

NSW Lic. L10007 QLD Lic. 13395

SEWING & ALTERATIONS

TREE SERVICES SUMMERLAND TREE SERVICES .............................................Call Tim 66877677 or 0417 698227 NORTHERN TREE CARE Consulting arborist, tree surgery ...........................................0414 186161 7 TILL 7 TREE SERVICES Tree removal & pruning & 15” chipper-crane truck ..............0427 347380 TREE CONTROL Safe lopping, removal, 12” chipper, stump grinder. Free quotes ..........0422 767677 OUT ON A LIMB Professional tree services. Free quotes. Low rates. Ph Lucas................0402 191316 A VERY HANDY MAN TREE SERVICES Happy to help ............Andrew 66844634 or 0412 558890 BYRON TREE SERVICES Qualified, insured. Call Alex ..................................................0402 364852 TALLOW TREE SERVICES Tree Surgery & removal, stump grinding, cherry picker ........0401 208797 CHOPPY CHOP TREE SERVICE Bobcat, crane truck, 18” chipper.................................0408 202184 HART TREE SERVICES 15” chipper, bobcat, crane truck, stump grinder..66849137 or 0427 347380 TREE SHAPE Arborist, chipper, 4WD truck. ‘Knows trees, cuts right, good rates’ ...........0428 886297

JIM’S TREE & STUMP REMOVAL • Qualified Arborist • Tree Pruning • Tree Removal • Stump Removal • Mulching • Fully Insured • Same Day Response

131 546

TREE SERVICE

SEWING REPAIRS & ALTERATIONS Byron Bay & all areas. Phone Jan ......................Jan 66849398

Tree Pruning & Removal Services, Stump Grinding

STITCH: For all your sewing needs. Ocean Shores, Mullum & Byron areas. Ph Lindi ......0432 340113

02 6687 7226 0466 643 931

SEWING MACHINE SALES & SERVICE

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A1 SEWING MACHINES – PARTS & REPAIRS Since 1963. Leaders in service...................66847447

SOLAR INSTALLATION

UPHOLSTERY BANGALOW UPHOLSTERY Re-covering specialists ...........................................................66805255 BYRON BAY UPHOLSTERY Soft furnishings & outdoor ........................66853745 or 0403 713303 TRIMMER UPHOLSTERER Car headlinings, furniture, boats. Dave Moody ...................0474 203573

VALUERS BYRON BAY VALUERS NSW & QLD reg’d. Chartered Valuers ........................0431 245460 or 66857010

VETERINARY SURGEONS MULLUM VET CLINIC Richard Gregory, Erin Tottenham, Bec Patison. 24 hrs 7 days.........66843818

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DO IT WELL, DO IT ONCE! Rainwater tanks cleaned, installed, leaks repaired, first flush diverters, Blue Mountain gutter mesh, etc

6629 1212

or 0418 662 285 E: rainwatersolutions@bigpond.com

WEB DESIGN SERVICES WEB BROWSER Quality websites at affordable prices ..........................66803707 or 0423 770799 COAST CREATIVE Graphic & website design....................www.coastcreative.com.au 66877998

WELDING MICK’S MOBILE WELDING All welding & machine maint, metal stair repairs etc ......0407 987290

WINDOW TINTING

MONTHLY MARKETS 1st SAT Bruns Heads 6628 4495 1st SAT Murwillumbah 0417 759 777 1st SAT Lismore Makets 0407 124 991 1st SUN Byron Bay 1st SUN Lismore Car Boot

6685 6807 6628 7333

2nd SUN The Channon 2nd SUN Lennox Head 2nd SUN Alstonville

6688 6433 6686 2139 6628 1568

3rd SAT Mullumbimby 3rd SAT Murwillumbah

Licence No. 158031C

SEWAGE MANAGEMENT SPECIALISTS

Smart Rainwater Solutions

SUNRISE W. T. NO BUBBLES, NO TROUBLES Cars, homes & offices .........................0412 158478

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@ BRUNSWICK BYRON AUTO WRECKERS

Phone Chris 0414 229 114

6684 3370 0417 759 777

3rd SUN Uki 3rd SUN Lismore Car Boot 3rd SUN Ballina

6679 5921 6628 7333 6687 4328

4th SUN Bangalow 4th SUN Nimbin

6687 1911 0458 506 000

5th SUN Lennox Head 5th SUN Nimbin

6687 8618 0458 506 000

SATURDAYS Byron Artisan Market 4-9pm

6685 6807

FARMERS MARKETS Each TUE New Brighton Each TUE Organic Lismore Each WED 7-11am M’bah Each THU 8-11am Byron Each FRI 7-11am Mullum Each SAT 8-11am Bangalow Each SAT 8am-1pm Uki

First quarter June 6 06:40 Full moon June 13 14:12 Third quarter June 20 04:39 New moon June 27 18:19 Day of Sun Sun Moon Moon High tide, month rise set rise set height (m) 1 S 0630 1657 0857 2001 1043,1.34; 2238,1.72 2 M 0631 1656 0939 2053 1125,1.32; 2317,1.66 3 T 0631 1656 1017 2144 1209,1.30 4 W 0632 1656 1054 2236 0000,1.58; 1259,1.31 5 T 0632 1656 1128 2327 0047,1.51; 1353,1.32 6 F 0633 1656 1202 0143,1.45; 1449,1.43 7 S 0633 1656 1236 0019 0243,1.41; 1544,1.43 8 S 0633 1656 1312 0113 0344,1.39; 1634,1.52 9 M 0634 1656 1351 0208 0441,1.39; 1720,1.63 10 T 0634 1656 1433 0306 0534,1.41; 1805,1.74 11 W 0635 1656 1520 0406 0626,1.44; 1850,1.85 12 T 0635 1656 1613 0508 0716,1.47; 1936,1.94 13 F 0635 1656 1711 0609 0808,1.49; 2024,2.01 14 S 0636 1656 1814 0710 0900,1.50; 2114,2.04 15 S 0636 1656 1919 0806 0955,1.51; 2204,2.02 16 M 0636 1656 2026 0859 1049,1.50; 2256,1.95 17 T 0637 1656 2131 0947 1145,1.50; 2350,1.85 18 W 0637 1656 2234 1030 1244,1.50 19 T 0637 1656 2336 1112 0047,1.72; 1343,1.51 20 F 0638 1657 1152 0149,1.59; 1445,1.54 21 S 0638 1657 0036 1231 0255,1.48; 1545,1.59 22 S 0638 1657 0135 1312 0400,1.41; 1642,1.65 23 M 0638 1657 0233 1353 0503,1.37; 1734,1.70 24 T 0638 1657 0330 1437 0600,1.35; 1822,1.75 25 W 0639 1658 0425 1524 0650,1.35; 1906,1.78 26 T 0639 1658 0518 1612 0735,1.35; 1945,1.80 27 F 0639 1658 0608 1703 0817,1.35; 2023,1.81 28 S 0639 1659 0654 1754 0857,1.36; 2100,1.79 29 S 0639 1659 0737 1846 0935,1.35; 2135,1.77 30 M 0639 1659 0817 1938 1013,1.35; 2211,1.72

6677 1345 6628 1084 6684 7834 6687 1137 6677 1345 6687 1137 6679 5530

JUNE 2014

Astronomical data and tides Low tide, height (m) 0442,0.48; 1612,0.66 0521,0.51; 1654,0.70 0602,0.55; 1740,0.74 0646,0.57; 1832,0.78 0734,0.59; 1933,0.81 0824,0.59; 2042,0.80 0913,0.59; 2149,0.76 1000,0.56; 2251,0.69 1046,0.53; 2346,0.59 1131,0.50 0036,0.49; 1215,0.46 0125,0.38; 1302,0.43 0213.0.30; 1351,0.41 0302,0.24; 1442,0.41 0353,0.21; 1535,0.42 0445,0.22; 1630,0.46 0539,0.26; 1729,0.51 0633,0.31; 1830,0.57 0728,0.37; 1937,0.61 0822,0.42; 2050,0.64 0916,0.47; 2203,0.63 1008,0.50; 2312,0.59 1059,0.52 0012,0.54; 1145,0.53 0101,0.49; 1230,0.53 0145,0.45; 1312,0.54 0224,0.43; 1351,0.55 0300,0.42; 1430,0.56 0336,0.42; 1507,0.57 0412,0.43; 1545,0.60

Times are Eastern Standard Time.

Time lags: Ballina Boat Dock: 15 min; Byron Bay: nil; Brunswick River Hwy Bridge: high 30 min, low 1 hr; Mullumbimby: 1 hr 10 min; Billinudgel: 3 hr 55 min; Chinderah: high 1 hr 15 min, low 2 hr; Terranora Inlet: high 2 hr 10 min, low 2 hr 25 min; Murwillumbah: high 2 hr 30 min, low 2 hr 50 min. Tides in bold indicate high tide of 1.7m or more and low tide of 0.3m or less.

Data courtesy of the National Tidal Centre.

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Classifieds INDEX Birthdays ................................. 41 Businesses For Sale .............. 40 Business Opportunities ........... 40 Caravans ................................. 40 Childcare ................................ 38 Clothing & Alterations ............. 38 Death Notices.......................... 41 For Sale .................................. 39 Garage Sales .......................... 39 Halls For Hire .......................... 39 Health Notices ......................... 38 Houses For Sale ..................... 40 House Sit ................................. 40 In Memoriam .......................... 41 Lost & Found ........................... 41 Motor Bikes ............................. 40 Motor Vehicles ......................... 39 Musical Notes.......................... 41 Only Adults .............................. 41 Pets......................................... 41 Positions Vacant ..................... 40 Professional Services ............. 38 Public Notices......................... 38 Readings ................................. 38 Reloctable Cabins ................... 40 Share Accommodation ........... 40 Short Term Accommodation ... 40 Social Escorts ........................ 41 To Lease ................................. 40 To Let ....................................... 40 Tractor Repairs ........................ 40 Tradework ................................ 39 Tree Services .......................... 39 Tuition ..................................... 41 Wanted ................................... 39 Wanted To Lease .................... 40 Wanted To Rent....................... 40 Work Wanted........................... 41

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GRIEF, LOSS, BEREAVEMENT? The Byron Bereavement Group is holding its next gathering on Monday night 23rd June at the Bangalow Health Centre. 7pm.

Warm, sensitive, professionally led.

Enquiries Carl 66779359 bereavedinbyron@gmail.com

SING

Prof tuition www.parissabouas.com FREE YOUNG LIVING ESSENTIAL OILS Presentation hosted by Alison from Raw Passion & Rah from Sprouting Smiles. 3pm Sun 22 June, 6 Minchinbury Pl Suffolk Park. All Welcome. Raw nibbles provided. Info Marion 0415121250

Do you know the benefits of Past Life Regression Therapy?

Clearing energy and beliefs brought through from other lifetimes provides significant mental, physical, emotional and spiritual healing to this life today, easily and naturally.

ACCOUNT ENQUIRIES

A MASSAGE SPECIAL Deep tissue, remedial, relaxation.

Byron. Ph Kay 0410395368

Make it Happen!

Quit Cigarettes IN 60 MINUTES Ingrid 66803827

BYRON herbal THAI MASSAGE

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Debbie Rayfield has 20 years experience as a classically trained homeopath and naturopathic nutritionist. She has been a Registered Nurse since 1974.

Debbie specialises in complementary healthcare for the entire family from preconception, through pregnancy, infancy, childhood, adolescence and adulthood.

Call 0431 168 926 for an appointment byronbayhomeopathy.com.au

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Phone for bookings or drop in anytime

Shop 10, 7 Lawson St, Byron Bay Ph: 6680 8890

byronherbalthaimassage.com.au Monday 9.30–11.30m 3.30–5.00pm Tuesday 9.30–11.30am 5.30–7.00pm Wednesday 7.00–8.00am 9.30–11.30am 5.30–7.00pm

Tuesdays & Thursdays 5–6.30pm Saturdays 10am–12 Suffolk Park Community Hall

READINGS

Safe, beneficial, authentic yoga

PSYCHIC TAROT & HEALING Byron, Phone, Skype.

0468336117 www.karen-grace.com

KINESIOLOGY

THERAPEUTIC OIL MASSAGE Deeply relaxing with results. O.Shores Ph 0423916929

CALMBIRTH

Preparing for birth • Raine 0409534052 FEELING STUCK? Need support to move on? www.byrongestalt.com Deborah Lilly 66843723 THAI MASSAGE 1.5hrs $50, home visit $60. Ekka, 7 days 66804478. Traditional

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Natural Family Healthcare

LOCALS SPECIAL Any 1hr massage $55

Come and enjoy our gorgeous air conditioned retreat above the Cardamom Pod vegetarian in Byron’s CBD

Are your hips tighter on one side?

Shane Eade – Chiropractor 0467 660 323

The locals love us and we love their back

LOOK GOOD FEEL GOOD Free consultation. SANDRO 66805002

Clear subconscious sabotages.

Reprogram patterns and beliefs.

De-stress. Restore vibrancy and physical health. Clear allergies.

SANDRA DAVEY, Reg. Pract. 66846914

EPC / DVA / Health Fund Rebates & WorkCover Clinical Pilates classes starting 1st wk of July: Tues 9.30am & Thur 5.30pm

LEARN SELF-MASSAGE & get massages. Health Rebate. Ph 66803388

DENTURES

HEALTH

Mullum Fitness is welcoming Exercise Physiologist Drew Bettison to the team!

mullumbimbyfitness.com.au 66841028

CLOTHING & ALTRNS

CHILDCARE

Backcare & Restoratives Class (indoor) every Wednesday 5pm Booking essential.

Detox, feel light, clear & vital.

Guaranteed! Colonic hydrotherapy, naturopathy, Chineitsang.

Natalie 0458633869 www.byronbaydetoxretreats.com.au

Simple and effective solutions Anxiety, Cravings, Fears & Trauma.

Maureen Bracken 0402205352

Transformational Hypnotherapy

ED-VIC CLOTHING For all bulk cutting, small or large quantities. Ph Eddie 66845180

www.openairyoga.com.au

TOXIC & TIRED?

HYPNOSIS & EFT

FREE DVD

Every Wednesday 8.30 am, meet at Broken Head Caravan Carpark – cost $16 Call or text Barbara 0412 288 210

phone 6684 1777

HEALING WITH PORTIA 0410606879

‘Being free is not an idea.

It’s a feeling. It emanates from within.’

Prem Rawat To receive a complimentary DVD, please text ‘DVD, name & mailing address’ to 0417200440.

WOPG information line 1300303169

Clinical Hypnotherapist CHt Certified Past Life & LBL Spiritual RegressionTherapist www.gentleawakenings.com.au

TAROT No Frills, no Fuss – 100% Confidentiality $80 – text: 0417427518

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YOUR BODY IS A TEMPLE Fabulous massage!

Kahuna • Lomi Lomi • Therapeutic Byron A&I. Ph Brigitte 0402503603

Call Colleen now on 0410 635 367 (Byron Bay)

PROF. SERVICES

Wednesday 25 June, 2014 11am–noon in the kitchen at Byron Bay Community Centre in Fletcher Street.

For more info please email liberationlarder@gmail.com or call Rachel 0438 026 275.

Combined Nature Walk & Yoga Practice

FOR CLASSIFIEDS THAT WORK ALL WEEK

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Open Air Yoga

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BRENT VERCO CHIROPRACTOR MULLUM CHIROPRACTIC 6684 1028 TUE WED THU FRI PM & SAT AM

REACH YOUR IDEAL WEIGHT IN 60 MINUTES Easy & no fuss! Free Psych-K balance.

Ingrid 66803827

NICK HART TREE LOPPING

ASHTANGA YOGA BYRON Mysore style. Beg welcome. Mon-Fri 7am & 9.30am. Christian 0457722346

Fully insured • Free quotes

ARCHIBALD’S CHEAP QUARRY PRODUCTS

6684 9137 • 0427 347 380

Road base, gravel, blue metal and metal dust. ALL SIZE DELIVERIES. Phone 66845517, 0418481617

• FULLY INSURED • PROFESSIONAL SERVICE • FREE QUOTES

Facials. Chelhie 0409112075

SUFFOLK PARK Chris Stathis, Chiropractor

THAI MASSAGE with m/f, 1hr $50, Brunswick Heads.

Ph Nui 0497790838 or 66771670

6684 4421

BODY BASED sexuality & relationship coaching. Bridget 0416236347 www. embodyecstasy.com

Shiva Shakti Yoga

0402 323 910

HEART SPACE MASSAGE Reflexlogy & Metamorphics Jo Morrish. Ph 0423293995

A VERY HANDY MAN

TREE SERVICES

Sexual Counselling

0413 432 584

Shop 1, 14 Middleton St Health rebates available

Be. Salon & Spa

BYRON’S BEST MASSAGE

17 Centennial Circuit, above Circus Arts Byron Arts and Industry Estate ph 0451 018 144 www.yogainbyron.com

PILATES Fully equipped studio Private and semi-private sessions 6685 9663 byronbaypilates.com.au

Covering all aspects of tree work and tree stump removal (stump grinding)

Alison Rahn qualified sex therapist www.alisonrahn.com.au 0432599812

Experienced climber • Insured • Licensed FREE QUOTES HAPPY TO HELP

HAWAIIAN MASSAGE Ocean Shores Michaela. 0416332886

Call Andrew Wilson 0412 558 890 6684 4634

YES you CAN get over it!

Smoking, phobias, rel. break up, anxiety.

Hypnosis-NLP Sarah Brightwater.

11yrs exp. 0415034024

After hours & emergency service available

Tallow

HALLS FOR HIRE

TREE SERVICES

EWINGSDALE HALL - All functions Day classes welcome. 0421878556

PROFESSIONAL TREE CARE • • • • •

COORABELL HALL WEDDINGS, GIGS, CLASSES 66871307 www.coorabellhall.net Health fund rebates available

REMOVALS PALMS TREE SURGERY FREE QUOTES FULLY INSURED

• • • • •

STUMP GRINDING TREE REPORTS DA APPLICATIONS CRANE HIRE CHERRY PICKER

6687 2750 - 0401 208 797

ECHO CLASSIFIEDS • 66841777

TEMPUR

Bedding now available at BETTA HOME LIVING Mullumbimby 66842511 BICYCLES pre-loved from $50. Repairs.

Ph 66804165 or 0431540579

VACUUM BAGS

To suit most makes & models

BRIDGLANDS Mullumbimby. 66842511

FIREWOOD DELIVERIES ALL YEAR ROUND Supplying commercial, wood fired bakeries, pizza restaurants and residential, combustion stoves, open fires, pot belly, kindling. Various load sizes from 4’x 6’ to 4 ton tipper.

PRICES STARTING FROM $95.

VOLUME DISCOUNTS.

Matt 0427 172 684

NATIVE PLANTS The Largest range of native plants MULLUM CREEK NATIVE NURSERY 110 Yankee Ck Rd, via Wilsons Ck Rd Mullumbimby 6684 1703 Open every Wed–Fri 10am to 4pm or by appointment www.mcnativenursery.com.au

Dr David King

(Chinese Medicine) Certified Acutonics® Teacher

SPEED QUEEN

Commercial grade washing machines Bridglands Betta Home Living Mullum 66842511

in the Byron Shire.

Tubestock to Semi-advanced Buy direct from the grower

BAYSIDE ACUPUNCTURE & HERBAL MEDICINE Health Fund Rebates & Hicaps Available Dr Eeka King

MOBILITY SCOOTER luxury 4-wheel new 2013, never used, cost $4000, sell $2350, can deliver. Ph 0420411021

• Affordable tree services • Professional tree care • 15” chipper (crane truck)

BOWEN/MASSAGE

$29/2 WEEKS INTRO OFFER UNLTD YOGA Arm Balances and Inversions Workshop [O 1\UL°^ 5PJR )YHKSL` :LL ,]LU[Z°

BAMBOO PLY

BEETU FULL BODY MASSAGE A divine experience, sensuous and nurturing, 20yrs exp. Lucy 0427917960

Massage, heated towels & oils.

Bernie 0407431588. 7 days

www.chirochris.com.au

CARPET MATS FROM 50c EACH Ray Towers Carpets - Mullumbimby

from $10.50sqm & Bamboo Flooring.

For ceilings, walls, doors, etc.

Ph 66884188 • sample & brochure. www.bambooply.com.au

HEALING HANDS

0410 122 048

WASHING MACHINE automatic $180, delivery. Phone 0413589388

(Chinese Medicine)

Pain conditions Women’s Health, Mental/emotional fertility & Pregnancy Acutonics® for Children disturbances & general 14 Park Street, Brunswick Heads | 02 6685 1088 | baysideacupuncture.com ACUPUNCTURE CHINESE HERBAL MEDICINE MASSAGE ACUTONICS®

20

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Plants

Statues, Daybeds, Lanterns, Bowls & Showroom Items

20~30% OFF ALL

Waterfeatures Pots

20~50% OFF cushions/paintings NEW TILE STUDIO OPEN SA LE ENDS SUN 29TH JUNE

www.leisurescapes.com.au

TRADEWORK

3EPTIC 7ASTE 2EMOVAL

3UMMERLAND %NVIRONMENTAL

4HE ,IQUID 7ASTE 3PECIALISTS award winning fusion suffolk park community hall corner alcorn street and clifford street bangalow studio and head office 72 byron street, bangalow (parking at rear)

private sessions available call 6687 2031 or visit www.yogalates.com.au

certificate teacher training courses monday

10am - 11.30am 10am - 11.30am 6pm - 7.30pm

Yogalates : mat work Yogalates : prenatal Yogalates : mat work

suffolk park bangalow suffolk park

tuesday

9.30am - 11am 6pm - 7.30pm

Yogalates/Pilates : mat work Yogalates/Pilates : mat work

bangalow bangalow

wednesday 6pm - 7.30pm

stretch with core stability

suffolk park

thursday

9.30am - 11am

Yogalates/Pranayama meditation bangalow

friday

10am - 11.30am

stretch with core stability

suffolk park

8am - 9.30am

stretch and strengthen

suffolk park/bangalow

saturday

Special: unlimited classes for 3 months $199 Award winning DVDs available at our studios

North Coast news daily: www.echonetdaily.net.au

s 3EPTIC TANK CLEANING s 'REASE TRAP SERVICING s /ILY ,IQUIDS s 0ORTABLE TOILET HIRE s HOUR SERVICE

TREE SERVICES

SUMMERLAND TREE SERVICES • Cherry Picker • Wood Chipper • Stump Grinder • Tree Surgeon • Fully Insured

• Fence posts • Hardwood poles • Sleepers • Paling fence timber • Offcuts • Banana props • Drummed molasses • Firewood Kings Creek, Mullumbimby Mark 6680 4284 / 0427 490 038 Karen 0427 804 284

Tip Runs & Rubbish Removal 0408 210 772

BYRON BAY FIREWOOD Year-round Pickup & Delivery Residential and Commercial kindling, bags, trailer loads and by the tonne (up to 30 tonne) Seasoned hardwood from $75 Prompt and reliable service

Michael 0401 739 656

Mulch Supplies Byron Bay & Surrounding Areas

6687 7677 Mobile 0417 698 227

FOR SALE

COMPOST TOILETS Garry Scott • 66843468 SHOWER SCREENS frameless (x2) brand new 10mm glass 1m x 1m $350 each. Ph Jane 0408754486

Miele appliances

Buy the best Bridglands Betta Home Living Mullumbimby 66842511

Wide range to suit a variety of room sizes at the best prices BRIDGLANDS BETTA HOME LIVING MULLUM 66842511 ACROW PROPS Gal x 4, 1.9m - 3.35m $200. Ph 0407821690

SALE

Retro Shop Bangalow Clearance sale starts Wed 18th June 40% Off all stock Shop 1/5 Lismore Road Bangalow FIREWOOD quality, mature, flamin’ hot intense passion. Ph 0427299634 SOFAS 3 & 2 seaters, good condition $350. Phone 0423349991 QUEEN bed (white wood) & matt exc cond + dresser/mirror $250. 0417855825 BYRON MOVING SALE dining, lounge & bedroom furn, top loading washing mach, bar fridge, h’h goods. Call 0423742792 YAMAHA PIANO Upright Very good cond, lovely tone $1500. 0410650290

WANTED OLD MOTORBIKE any make, any year, any cond. Will pick up. 0427109195 SMALL GARAGE OR SHED required as storage for local self-funded charity in Mullumbimby central. Can pay $30pw. Please call 0402732187

GARAGE SALES KATE PLATT FURNITURE AND GARAGE SALE Furniture, fridge, shelves, parquetry flooring, building materials, china, bike, rugs, shutters, beds and lamps.

8am to 12pm, Saturday 21st June.

81 Centennial Circuit, Byron Bay EVERYTHING MUST GO this weekend.

120 Kennedys Ln Tyagarah/Ewingsdale Sat & Sun 8am-2pm. Furniture, tools, antiques, tiled fireplace, electrical, silverware, cast iron garden pieces & more. Phone 0427788626 MEGA SALE 3 Bottlebrush Crescent, Suffolk Park, Saturday 7am

2 GREVILLEA ST, ARTS & INDUSTRY ESTATE, BYRON BAY

OPEN 7 DAYS PH: 6685 6990

RINNAI LP GAS HEATERS

Local online shopping $5.95 Delivery Gift Vouchers Organic Baby Products Composting Disposables Organic/Bamboo Cloth Nappies Teething Herbs & Toys Organic Baby Skincare Browse on line for more... www.natureschild.com.au PH: 1300 555 632

SUFFOLK PARK 18 Wareham Street.

Saturday 8am-1pm, household goods MULLUM rear of 8 Jubilee Ave, garage on Myocum St Sat from 8am rain or shine.

Mt Buggy pram, windsurfer, bike trailer, port-a-cot, balance bike, quality toys & books, huge dolls house & furn, heaps of original & designer clothes, h-hold items MULLUM 3 Orchid Pl. Clothes, books, camping & h-hold goods from 8am Sat MULLUM 7 Gardenia Crt, Sat 8am, Quality toys, baby stuff: wooden & brand names. Pram, Ergo. H’hold. All good stuff!

BYRON 3 Cooper St, Sat 8am-3pm moving sale. Good indoor / outdoor furniture, household goods, whitegoods, carpets, curtains etc. Phone 0423742792 from Wednesday about larger item AMORE MULLUMBIMBY stocktake clearance. Furniture, gifts, clothing etc, new & secondhand. Great bargains from 8am Sat, 12a King St Mullumbimby MOVING SALE 6 Beachcomber Byron, 8am Sat. Quality, loved items SUFFOLK 7 Kalamajere Dr, Sat from 7am kids & adults clothes, bric a brac etc

GARAGE SALE BANGALOW Sunday 22nd June 9am (top of Ballina Road – same street as medical centre and Sikh Temple) Fabulous decorator items, etched glasses, candles, French provincial furniture, antiques. Eftpos available. info@lachinoiserie.com.au

MOTOR VEHICLES

CASH PAID FOR UNWANTED CARS Local reg’d business 66845296 or 66845403 or 0413120970 TOYOTA ESTIMA VAN 4WD 1992 diesel, auto, always serviced, 7 seat, 2 sun-roofs, fully recon’d engine, 4mth QLD reg, Must sell $5800. Ph 0498007262

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$4600 ONO 02 Subaru Forester. Urgent Sale. Very reliable car, mech great, 6 mths rego. Silver, manual, AWD, New tyre/ clutch 286,000km (mainly hwy km). Text 0405837947

CAR RENTALS

Weekly Rates 0401606707

BUSINESS OPP.

BYRON CBD PRIME LOCATION HOUSES FOR SALE

MERCEDES-BENZ 190E 1993, Auto, a/c good drive $1900. Ph 0411709266

BYRON LAKESIDE APARTMENT 3br, 2 bthrm SLUG, pool, BBQ, lake, $420,000.

0410599230. No agents/private sale

TOYOTA HILUX Dual cab diesel ute 1999 $3500. Ph 0411709266

RELOCATABLE CABINS

2004 DAWEOO KALOS silver 4dr sedan, very comfy car, fantastic fuel econo, auto, mechanically A1, 3mth QLD rego, urgent sale $3600. 204,000km, only selling due to needing 4WD. Ph or text 0431702354

CABINS x 3 Fully s-c, 3.4m x 7.4m + large timber decks & roofs, all designed to be easily relocated in exc cond. $27,500 each ono. Ph 66847535 or 0413289443

BARGAINS

2006 Mazda 3 SP23 6spd, Leather Trim, Aqua Blue. Very nice car SME083.................... $11450 1999 Toyota Camry Wagon Auto A/C P/S Log books. Great car AJ07QD.........................$4250 Holden Rodeo 2WD Tray back. Very tidy car.

UMN501 ....................................................$2450 Automatic Ford Laser Hatch A/C P/S Ideal 1st car PUM656 ........................................$1950 2011 4 door Hyundai Getz 61,200kms A/C P/S Air bags etc VBV88J .........................................$8995 1998 Toyota Tarago 8 seater family van. Full log books. Very tidy car. XAB569 ..............$4950

50 CARS UNDER $10,000

ballinacarcentre.com.au

16 ENDEAVOUR CLOSE, BALLINA

SHORT TERM ACCOM. STUDIO furnished quiet retreat. $280pw Sunrise, avail now. Ph 0409844402 SUNRISE furn room for quiet, clean person $160pw. 0409844402 SUFFOLK 1br own bthrm pref 25+ suit student, no bills. $50pn. 0419390498 BYRON 2 lovely f-f rooms in friendly home. $150pw incl, avail 17/6-17/9 & $170pw incl, avail 28/6-13/7 Prefer male applicants. Phone 66856645 MULLUM 1br cottage short walk to town p-furn suit worker $350pw. 0421679015 WANGANUI 4br lovely furn house on acres, July - Aug $350pw. Ph 66840427

6686 5586 / 0418 676 274

BYRON CENTRAL large bedroom, stunning home, verandahs, conscious fem pref $300pw incl bills & WiFi. 0401375900

MOTOR BIKES

McAULEYS LN 2br house avail from 27 June to 29 July $300pw all incl. 66841022

Ballina Car Centre

DLN 19950

TO LET

50 sqm top end Jonson Street.

Phone 0412185558

TOYOTA CAMRY 2002 station wagon reg to Oct $1800 ono. Ph 0410650290

TOYOTA ECHO 2003 70,000kms $5000 registered, good cond. Ph 0404035513

BYRON LARGE ROOM + study, part-furn for tidy person in artistic, beautiful timber eco-house, lovely big trees on 4 acres. Pet free $175pw incl bills. 0412500410

BANGALOW SELF-STORAGE Hi-tech security. 66872333 STORAGE From $100/mth. Bangalow Ph 66871500 BANGALOW RENT-A-SHED Modern & Secure from $122.85 p/m Bangalow Real Estate • 66872479 BALLINA SELF-STORAGE UNITS Secure from $15pw. Ph 66867011 CARAVANS & CABINS from $195pw.

Apply in person to Byron Bay Tourist Village, Ewingsdale Road BYRON 3br, 2 bth, SLUG, tiled through out, huge deck, leafy aspect, great house, $600pw + bond & refs. 0414818169 STORAGE AVAILABLE BYRON Clean & secure. Ph 1300057200 CARAVAN near Durrumbul Hall $100pw.

Suit eco-friendly kind person. 0402199999

LOCAL REMOVAL & backloads to Brisbane. Friendly, with 10 years local exp. 0409917646 NEW GRAN FLAT 5km Mullum, pref sgl fem no kids $250pw no pets. 66843154 MULLUMBIMBY 4br, 2 bthrm family home, 2km from town. Newly painted, open plan, great views, tank water, wood heater, no pets. Bond & refs required. Long term.

0438349901

SUFFOLK 1br unit, brand new, pets considered $350pw. Ph 0424609980 MULLUMBIMBY 2br unit, Stuart St $340pw avail now. Ph 0414883438 MULLUMBIMBY beautiful federation 4br home on horse-friendly 30 lovely acres bordered by the Brunswick River. New kitchen, pool, studio, sheds, 1km to CBD. Avail 20 July, $790pw. Ph 0477172692

YAMAHA XT600 Road/trail 2000 model, rego to 2/15, blue slip, new batt, mature owner, g.cond $2200 ono. 0435752701

CARAVANS 17FT VISCOUNT + good vinyl annex suit spare room, $1650 ono. Ph 0413289443 NEWLAND CARAVAN 17’ needs work $700. Phone 66847620

TRACTOR REPAIRS

TRACTOR REPAIRS

Rural Machinery Repair Service old-school repairs, parts & restorations to all makes and models onsite service available

MULLUM/WILSONS CREEK house, pets allowed, long-term, local professional female, excellent reference. 0407551336

OCEAN SHORES f-f, s-c studio, $200pw incl elec, aircon, courtyard. 0419550282

TO LEASE

MYOCUM EXECUTIVE 6br, 4 car, 360 degrees ocean/mtn views, pool, spa, 10 minutes Byron Bay $1350pw. www. figgybyronbay.com.au. 0414800060

STORAGE - or other, double garage, pest controlled $150/mth. Ph 66871256

SHARE IND UNIT Byron Ind. Est. Approx. 40sqm + kitchen & toilet. No live in. Creative light-filled mezzanine $135pw incl. 0417606818

Ocean Shores 3 bed, 2 bth/r duplex.

Fenced yard. Close to shops. $390.00 per week Brunswick Heads 2 bedroom timber duplex close to town. $450.00 per week

NEW BRIGHTON 3br furn house, walk to beach. Pet friendly $495pw. 0403022356

FNC Property Management

1300 716 707

workshop 72 Charltons Road Federal

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x small, private studio 1 bed, bathroom, kitch. Suit single. $280PW 1 x large, private studio, 1 bed, bathroom, kitch. suit couple. $340PW

6688 4143 0448 881 942 BUSINESS FOR SALE COURIER RUN Hastings Point to Byron Bay $85,000 inc. van. Call Gary 0403374048 WELL ESTABLISHED GARDEN WASTE Collection & Maintenance Business. Over 700 accounts in Byron Shire. Price includes all plant, equipment & service vehicles. Contact owner 0422227267

Find Echo Classifieds on Echonetdaily every day

BYRON working person/student, modern, clean house, pool, close to town & beaches, $200pw bills included. Text only with name 0435935750

66sqm of office space available in the Lawson Arcade. This is an upstairs unit located at the front of the building & has great exposure to busy Lawson Street.

Located upstairs in the extremely popular Lawson Arcade is 135sqm of office space. Great position in the heart of town amidst the shopping precinct.

LENNOX Room in large home, share with working male. Walk to shops/beach, 30 + pref $240pw incl elec + bond. Phone Justin 0410061685, Jane 0427930699

• Front balcony, air-conditioned • Fresh feel, carpeted throughout • On-site parking available

• Exposure to pedestrian traffic • Air-conditioned, on-site parking • Fresh, bright, carpeted • Large rear balcony

OCEAN SHORES pleasant house to share. 2 rooms together, $160pw + bills.

Ring David 66804728

Rent is $480pw + GST

Rent is $980pw + GST

Ray White Byron Bay 02 6685 6222 David Gordon 0418 856 222 david.gordon@raywhite.com Amanda Brown 6685 8911 a.brown@raywhite.com

BYRON CBD room in easygoing house.

Furn/unfurn. $165pw no bills. 0402651639

BYRON STUDIO right in town, cosy f-furn, self-cont. Single $240pw, couple $300pw. Phone 0410515093 LENNOX 2 rooms, 5 min walk to beach & t’port, f-f, $160pw sgl, $300pw cpl each room all amenities inc. 0427721968 FEDERAL fully-furn lge room in lovely mod home, 15/20 mins Byron, 2 bthrm, WiFi, T-Box, decks, view, private $165pw + bills. Ph 66882162, 0409409987 BYRON / SUFFOLK furnished room with bthrm in peaceful family home $180pw incl bills. Ph Flavia 0425873055 SOUTH GOLDEN BEACH 2 rooms f-furn, walk to beach, leafy verandah $150pw ea incl bills & WiFi. Call Mark 0408666486 SUFFOLK PARK 2 rooms in large beach house, own deck, close to beach $165pw each + bond & bills. Phone 0411155018 SUFFOLK PARK room avail in great house, share with 2 others, $200pw + bond, incl bills. Ph 0415747067

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Mullumbimby New 1 b/r studio, walking distance to shops $250 pw 3 b/r house + sunroom walking distance to shops $450 pw

SUNRISE BEACH, BYRON BAY

Suite 2/17 Lawson Street, Byron Bay

BYRON CBD great room in friendly house right in town, f-furn, WiFi, no bills $170pw. Ph 0410515093

EWINGSDALE lovely 1br furn, s-cont apt, $300pw. Ph 0403022356

Julie or Nicci Phone: 6684 3301 79 Burringbar St, Mullumbimby 2482

Suite 1/17 Lawson Street, Byron Bay

BEACHFRONT 2 rooms Suffolk. Healthy happy home with fireplace $230pw each no bills + bond. Ph 0413161964

Byron Bay

Ray White Rental Centre 3/47 Byron Street, Byron Bay 02 6685 8911 rwbyronbay.com

WANTED TO RENT

BYRON STUDIO right in town, cosy f-furn, self-cont. Single $240pw, couple $300pw. Phone 0410515093

Ocean Shores

KALEMAJERE DRIVE, SUFFOLK PARK $650PW Townhouse 3 bed, 2 bath SLUG and 1 car space Available Now McGETTIGANS LANE, EWINGSDALE $675PW House 4 bed, 2 bath Fully Furnished Garden maintenance included Available Now COWPER STREET, BYRON BAY $980PW House 3 bed, 3 bath Fully Furnished, SLUG Available Now SHELLEY DRIVE, BYRON BAY $900PW House 4 Bedrooms, 2 bathrooms Double lock up garage, garden.

Self contained one bedroom studio Available 18/7/14 BAY LANE, BYRON BAY $400PW Unit one bedroom, bathroom, partly furnished. Car space security parking Available Now BLACKBUTT PLACE, BYRON BAY $300PW Studio 1 bed, 1 bath Water + Electricity included Available Now

BANGALOW ROAD 4km to town, 2br private rural setting $450pw. 0408666642

AIRY LIGHT unfurn s-cont 1-2br + bathtub. Urgent. Bruns Heads/SGB/NB area $300-350pw. Amrita 0419336291

GOONENGERRY large furnished room, share with 1, suit n/s single working person, 20s, $175pw + bills. 66849138

BYRON BAY studio/flat within beaut furn eco-house. Suit quiet sgl n/s, d/f working person $250pw + bond. Ph 0408445595

BYRON A&I 1br modern studio $270pw + bond. Refs required. Ph 0408666642

O.SHORES 1br f/f cottage, gas fire, sunny garden, own electric, pref working person $240pw. 6 month lease. Refs. 66802415

MULLUMBIMBY 2br house, sunroom, slug $395pw BRUNSWICK HEADS 2br unit, b/ins, v/dah, c/port $350pw 1br unit, b/ins, deck $300pw NO PETS UNLESS SPECIFIED www.siwickirealestate.com.au Siwicki Real Estate 17 Fingal St Brunswick Heads. Ph 66851206

SHARE ACCOM.

SUFFOLK beachside great house, good sized room with BIRs, own bathroom, pref working single $180pw. 0414535225

O.SHORES Top half house, s-cont, u/f 1br, own entry, pitched ceilings, light, charming, quiet, ocean/leafy views.

Close Bruns shops, beach, river. Mature, conscious, considerate, n/s person. Long term $240pw + bills. 0408325599

COORABELL s-cont cabin small (3.2m x 8m) $185pw incl. Ph 66847420

PROFESSIONAL eco-minded couple req 2br home, rural setting close to Mullum.

Long-term $320pw. Carla 0422750060

BRUNSWICK 1br unit in centre of town above shops opposite the river $275pw available now. Ph 0414502222

HOUSE-SIT sought from August. Couple 50yrs+ w/out pets. Refs. Ph 0437562174

BEACHSIDE SUFFOLK Room + internet, suit mature male, n/s, no pets. $200pw includes bills. Ph 0418489017

MULLUMBIMBY / BRUNSWICK HEADS Light, quality new 2 room bungalow, fullyfurn. Single person only, no pets, refs req'd, $275pw. Phone 0413721410

COSY S-C STUDIO in bush setting 5 mins to Byron CBD, Pref working fem. $250pw incl expenses. Ph 0428854800

BYRON STUDIO dog-friendly, very private, suit mature, quiet, respectful, d/f, n/s. $275pw + elec. Ph 0421932945

HOUSE SIT

HONDA VT750 SHADOW 2003 EC with low kms (23,000), nothing to spend.

Comes with fairing and panniers.

Reg to Oct 25. New battery, GC. Selling due to baby. Bargain at $4800.

Ph 0412732465

SUFFOLK S-C UNIT f-furn $350pw inc WiFi, cable TV & bills. Ph 04322624081

4 b/r, two bathroom, huge enclosed verandah, DLUG $545 pw

BEACH PALACE Alcorn St, 1 room avail in light, gentle home. Ph 0412968841 MULLUM HINTERLAND 3br, house, 35 ac, great views, pool/hot tub/sauna $650pw, avail 1/8 for 4-6 wks. 66845336

BEACHES OF BYRON Long-term rentals avail from $320pw, 2 weeks bond, refs req. Ph 66856751

New Brighton STH GOLDEN BEACH $600pw, 3 / 4 bed house, 2 bath, furnished / unfurnished, pool

Hot water and water inc. Elec not inc.

No Pets, No Smokers Available Now Contact Andrew Hall 0414 996 490 See full info on our website: www.propertyspot.com.au.

6 Strand Ave, New Brighton 6680 1594 elders new brighton.com.au

Brunswick Heads 3br house $520 3br + shed $500 1br unit $240 2br $420 (includes water + electricity)

Ocean Shores 3br $420

Tenants waiting – more properties needed.

L.J. Hooker Brunswick Heads 6685 0177 5/16 The Terrace, Brunswick Heads

BYRON A&I EST Warehouse 126sqm, stylish interior. $350pw. 0408010629 ARTISTS WANTED to share studio/ gallery space in Byron Arts & Industry Estate. Tracey 0431092618 or 66845045 BEAUTIFUL TREATMENT ROOM Mullum, avail Tue, Sat, Sun $70/day.

66849458, 0435078551

SECURE STORAGE

Byron Ind. Estate 23-46sqm from $70pw.

Short or long term, commerical or private.

Ph 0422392569. caran060@hotmail.com

FOR LEASE TAKEAWAY FOOD APPROVED 36sqm + 14sqm external and secure car park. Central Byron location. Includes some fit-out.

$2,000 per month.

0415 410 633 LEA

SED

WANTED – MORE RENTAL PROPERTIES! Nashua $250pw Cosy 1 br cottage on working custard apple farm. Lovely hilltop position with garden maintenance incl. Only 5 mins from Clunes. Avail Now! NEW LISTING Eureka $350pw Rustic & charming 1 b/r plus home office or Guest room on a dual occup property. Gas appliances, single carport & pets neg. Avail early July.

Bangalow $525pw Lovely old Queenslander with gorgeous views over Bangalow. Consisting of 3 large beds, 2 baths. Private and spacious. Avail Now!

6687 2479

bangalow realestate.com.au

WANTED TO LEASE SMALL COMMERCIAL UNIT (50/80sqm approx) for long term lease.

Sharing a bigger space is optional.

Very reliable tenant willing to fit out if necessary. Kitchens prioritised.

Phone 0410179378

POSITIONS VACANT

SECURITY GUARDS REQUIRED Must have current valid RSA and licence.

Apply in person at the Great Northern Hotel or call 6685 6454 to discuss.

Full time and casual hours available.

BILLINUDGEL $350pw, 3 bed, 1 bath timber cottage

BRUNSWICK HEADS RETAIL SHOP OR OFFICE TWEED ST 50sqm shopfront $1400/ month incl GST/ outgoings THE TERRACE-ARTHUR ARCADE 28sqm $250pw incl GST/outgoings Siwicki Real Estate, 17 Fingal St Brunswick Heads. Ph 66851206

Bangalow Fernleigh Rd, Brooklet - $550 pw 3 bed + study, 1 bath character home, lawn maint incl. No pets.

Avail Now Rankin Dr, Bangalow - $560 pw Reduced!! 3-4 bed, 2 bath, walk to town, carport. Pets neg. Avail Now Fernleigh Rd, Fernleigh - $575 pw 5 bed, 2 bath rural home w outdoor living. Pets neg. Avail Aug Slatterys Ln, Bangalow - $650 pw 3 bed + study, 2 bath, DLUG, rural aspect, close to town. Avail Now Hillcrest Dr, Tintenbar - $675 pw Expansive 4 bed + home office, 2-3 bath, in-ground pool, dog’s neg.

Avail Now Rankin Dr, Bangalow - $980 Immaculate, fully furnished 3 bed, 2 bath, SLUG. Avail mid July For more available rental properties go to www.eldersbangalow.com.au

19a Byron Street, Bangalow

Housekeeping Supervisor x2 for Nomads Byron Bay and Arts Factory Lodge.

Previous experience essential.

Part time hours incl weekends & holidays.

Please email application and resume to: peggy@nomadsworld.com

02 6687 1500

Byron Shire Echo archives: www.echo.net.au

MODELS 18+ years required. Nude female for Picture and People magazines.

No experience required. All shapes and sizes. Backpackers welcome. Good money. Professional accredited ACP photographer. Ph 0413627846 CLEANER MYOCUM 4hrs pw, $60. 0414883438

CLEANER WANTED for B&B in Byron Bay to start immediately, ABN necessary, no travellers please. Must be able to work weekends & public holidays. Please call 66809134 MASSAGE and/or Beauty Therapists mobile work, must have own equip, car & ABN, min 5 yrs exp. 66872527 leave msg

Experienced Roof Restoration Salesperson

Contact Gary on 6684 4664 or 0404 801 847

We require the services of an experienced roof restoration salesperson to service the many enquiries that are coming into our business by word of mouth and via our website.

Roof Restoration Tradespeople required Own machines required but not essential. Best rates paid in Northern Rivers. Long-term position.

admin@ultimateroofing.com.au | www.ultimateroofing.com.au

Part-Time Farmers Market On-Site Manager

CONTRACTOR POSITION Byron Farmers Market Inc. requires a contractor to act as On-Site Manager at Byron Bay and Bangalow Farmers Markets.

• Thursday and Saturday morning: 6am – 12noon • Must have utility vehicle or trailer suitable for transporting market equipment (some heavy lifting is required with this position) • Current First Aid Certificate is a necessity • Good communication skills are essential • Sound knowledge of WHS compliance For position description contact database@byronfarmersmarket.com.au Applications close 5pm, 30th June 2014.

wickedweasel retail assistant wanted

Wicked Weasel is currently seeking a part-time sales assistant. Roster will be Friday and Saturday.

The successful applicant will enjoy working in a fun environment and will form part of our crew, producing and retailing world-class quality swimwear and clothing in beautiful Byron Bay.

GOOD DRIVERS WANTED NOW Shifts avail for taxi, coach & hire cars.

Full training provided. Min 12 month Aust Licence Required.

Email: info@byronbaytaxis.com

Telesales Closer We are looking for an experienced closer to join our dynamic team at our Byron call centre 8.30am – 3.30pm Monday – Friday. To arrange an interview call Angela 66395020 between 9am–1pm ASSISTANT/ANALYST Psychwire.org is seeking a contracted person for approx 6 months to assist in the general development / user experience of our site + other office duties. Strong analytical mind with meticulous attention to detail essential.

University degree and a min of 7 years professional experience mandatory. $1000pw. Possible full-time employment after 6 months.

Please email resume with cover letter to michael@psychwire.com JAPANESE SPEAKER to work 4 or 5 days pw in Byron with Medical Research Co. Must have good phone, computer & PR skills. Working holiday visas OK. Phone 0449235707 EXPERIENCED HEAD CHEF for busy cafe in Byron. Must be hard working, reliable & able to manage busy breakfast, lunch & dinner service.

Email yatzekb1@yahoo.com.au

SPLENDOUR BAR & CASHIER STAFF required July 24–27

• Willingness to assist with other duties

• passionate about independent news, • proud to represent the world’s best community newspaper and online daily news service, • customer service oriented, • a team player with a sense of humour and a drivers licence.

You’d be paid a salary, super and bonuses but you’d be working more for love than money and you’d also get massages, cake and even chocolate if you’re really good.

Please email your resume and a covering letter to the Sales Manager at positions@echo.net.au

THE BYRON SHIRE

Free pick-up & delivery $25 per hour. Angela 0414719680 EXP CLEANERS for home or business, $25ph, min 3 hours, ABN. 0457118369 CLEANER home, office, windows. Fast, reliable, honest. Tracey 0413682469 HOUSEKEEPER Live in with separate living quarters.

Prefer coastal location. 0458481261 LABOURING $25 PER HOUR Phone 0412469109

TUITION EXPERT SINGING TUITION MMus, 25 yrs experience. All styles.

0468336117 www.karen-grace.com WEST AFRICAN DRUMMING Mullumbimby Scout Hall.

Thursdays 6.30pm, $20/ $15 Beginners welcome. 0424046043

Qual teacher (Ita) All levels 0435635822

Indy is a 12 year old female staffy that just needs a quiet loving home. She is great with other dogs & people. Desexed, vaccinated and chipped.

Phone 0458 461 935 or 0488 415 444.

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DEATH NOTICES COLES, BERYL MAY 06.12.1918 ~ 10.06.2014 Passed away peacefully at

Formerly of Brunswick

Mullumbimby.

Heads. Much loved Mother

HUNTER is a 2 year old desexed

male kelpie x cattle x border collie. He is an affectionate, active boy who is dog friendly and would love space to run or an active family.

If you can give Hunter a permanent, loving home please contact the Friends of the Pound Rehoming Centre on 07 5524 8590 or Pam on 0421 017 461.

Visit friendsofthepound.com to view other dogs and cats looking for a home.

and Mother-in-law of Gary

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and Judy. Loved Wife of the late John Claude.

Beryl will be sadly missed by all family and friends.

Michael Currie Funerals 6684 6232

IN MEMORIAM

SAVE car seats ON.. skeanies

manducas hugabubs wooden toys & much more!

Ph: 6685 5865 The Byron Baby Shop Corner Bayshore Drive & Centennial Circuit ŽŽŬŬĞĞƉĞƌͬ ŽƐƚ ŽŶƚƌŽůůĞƌ

Byron based company is looking for an experienced bookkeeper and cost controller to join our team. 8-16 hours a week, school hours are Įne.

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Advanced skills in QuickBooks BA^ preparaƟon and lodgement Supplier and contractor payments Payroll P&L and balance sheet preparaƟon dax return preparaƟon PAYG Accounts payable

Any experience in scheduling would be well regarded.

Please send applicaƟon including Ϯ page resume and cover leƩer by 30th June 2014 to: jonahgroup@jonahgroup.com.au

MATHS TUTORING Qualified & practising teacher, 20 yrs exp, all levels. Ph Andrew 0413294982

ONLY ADULTS

“Our love, like a circle, has no end”

BEST BODY RUB ANYWHERE Byron area, Tues & Thurs only, in-calls.

No texts, call me. 0459108821

PETS

SOFT HANDS WARM OIL sensual touch. Mature & discreet. Byron.

0407264343

BORDER COLLIE PUPS 8 weeks old 6 black & white $400ea, 2 silver $1500ea.

Cat & family friendly. Jensta 0407629770

SENSUAL TIE & TEASE Discreet Byron Bay. 0407264343

PETS FOR LIFE ANIMAL SHELTER

JAMES FOR THE LADIES Full body sensual service, head to toe for the deserving lady, discreet. 0412191438

Adopt Me

EXQUISITE Be impressed with my hot body and warm hands. Tweed area. 0498073208

MUSICAL NOTES PIANO TUNER Restorer, repairer & retailer since 1981.

Ph Dr Fred Cole 0412216019 or www.specialtypianos.com.au

PIANO TUNING

Tuner for Planet Music, Studio 301 & SAE College. R. Barkley. 0422221116 www.reubenbarkleypianotuning.com.au BYRON SOUND LOUNGE rehearsals, recording & PA hire. Ph 66808938 PIANO $1500, Alex Steinbach, bought new Lismore Music Centre 95. Ideal beginners piano, good condition overall but needs tuning & practice muffler replaced. Piano stool in fair cond included.

Located in Mullum. 0418958467

LOST & FOUND

Looking for gorgeous, black, fluffy twins? Sunshine & Lucky are the boys for you! These two are so affectionate & are the perfect pair to complete a family.

They are playful and yet so smoochy but above all, they love each other dearly.

We’d love to see them go to a loving home together as they’ve never been apart. At 6 months old they have a lifetime of love to give to you and boy, these fellas are good at loving!

To meet Sunshine & Lucky & all their pals, come along to the Cat Adoption Centre, 124 Dalley St, Mullumbimby.

OPEN: Tues 2.30-4.30pm Thurs 3–5pm Sat 10am–12 noon Call AWL 6684 4070

RONALD SWINBOURNE 10.10.1927 - 21.6.2012

Sadly missed by Jacqueline & his family

TANTRA MASSAGE SESSIONS FOR MEN Sensual, relaxing, honouring & Tantra weekends for couples. Live, love & passion. Call Sophia 0448250698

DOBBIE may look like a full grown, ginger cat (which he is), but he has the heart and temperament of a kitten. A very gentle, quiet and playful fellow.

He likes nothing better than a game of chase with the kittens, or any game that a human friend can come up with. Then a nice rest with his new human pal.

Will make for a great companion, with his easygoing, friendly personality.

Adopt Us All cats are desexed, vaccinated and microchipped.

TOUCH OF JUSTINE CLOSED She’s worth the wait. Reopens next Wed

SOCIAL ESCORTS BYRON AREA OUTCALLS. Phone 0421401775 SEXY, BLONDE BOMBSHELL In&outcalls. 0481121491 (caller ID req’d) BALLINA EXCLUSIVE 34 Piper Dr. New owner, new staff.

Open 7 days 10am till late.

Outcalls available. Enq 66816038 SEXY ESCORT Outcalls only. 0478109345

LOST WEDDING RING - REWARD! Gold & Diamond. Byron area. Ph 0401813904

ECHO CLASSIFIEDS • 66841777

North Coast news daily: www.echonetdaily.net.au

22nd June 2008

Happy 6th Birthday our angel boy shining brightly in the skies above as safely in the Lords embrace you are always in our thoughts every single day and you are never forgotten and always remembered. Till we meet again sweetheart, Love Mummy, Daddy, Grandma, Poppy, Nana, Aunties and Uncles and loved ones.

PARLO ITALIANO!

ADVERTISING SALES REP

• confident in sharing the Echo story with business owners in the Byron Shire and beyond,

The Ironing Lady

XAVIER JAMES BAKER WRIGHT

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w i c ke d we a s e l . c o m

• experienced in media sales and have reasonable computer skills,

WORK WANTED

Coolamon Villa,

Applications close Monday, June 23, 2014

Echo Publications is looking for an outstanding sales rep. Apart from being lucky, the successful person will also have to be:

$GRSW 0H

JUNIOR ADMIN FT ASSISTANT Own Laptop required, $35-40K, +1 year experience in similar role. Computer literate with excellent knowledge of MO and mail platforms. Strong attention to detail, Excellent telephone manner and written and communication skills.

Flexible with the ability to take direction and work autonomously. Able to manage own work load and prioritise tasks.

Please email to: jessicacampbell700@ gmail.com

FRENCH • ITALIAN • GERMAN Eva 66846760 www.languagetuitionbyron.com.au

Email: hrm@wickedweasel.com Address: 156 Jonson Street Byron Bay NSW 2481

Permanent Part time

COMPANION ANIMALS WELFARE INC.

BIRTHDAYS

Forward applications with current NSW RSA & previous exp to:

Applicants must demonstrate: • Proven customer service ability • Excellent communication skills (both written & oral) • Basic computer literacy

BEAUTY THERAPIST Must be passionate & experienced.

Great team environment. Send resume to: hairbeauty@sulisbyron.com.au

Please make an appointment 0403 533 589 Billinudgel petsforlifeanimalshelter.net

ALHIA, LELLE, EVA, JESS All gorgeous & sexy. Ph 66816038

The Byron Shire Echo June 17, 2014 41

News Extra

North Coast news daily:

netdaily.net.au

Leard Forest clearing halted for winter Building a village Whitehaven Coal announced last week it would halt its clearing of Leard State Forest until September following an injunction in the NSW Land and Environment Court by the Maules Creek Community Council. The group, aided by the Environmental Defenders Office (EDO), specifically appealed over the fact that many animals in the forest hibernate over winter and therefore were more likely to be killed by clearing during winter months.

The company voluntarily called a halt to clearing just as the court’s decision on the injunction was due, until the results of a full hearing on the matter.

Maules Creek Community Council spokesperson Phil

Laird said, ‘We are pleased that Whitehaven has been forced to respond to our legitimate challenge in the court by today undertaking to stop clearing in Leard State Forest’.

The Maules Creek Community Council is arguing that Whitehaven is in breach of its development consent by winter/spring clearing of the forest. A breach of development consent contravenes the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979.

‘This outcome today sends a strong message to coal mining companies across NSW and to the NSW government: if they will not enforce the law, then the community is prepared to step up and do it themselves’ Mr Laird said.

‘We appreciate the action

EMERGENCY NUMBERS Please stick this by your phone AMBULANCE, FIRE, POLICE .............................................................. 000 AMBULANCE Mullumbimby & Byron Bay .................................131 233 BRUNSWICK VALLEY RESCUE Primary rescue........................6685 1999 BRUNSWICK MARINE RADIO TOWER ...................................6685 0148 MULLUMBIMBY HOSPITAL ......................................................6684 2266 BYRON BAY HOSPITAL ............................................................6685 6200 POLICE Brunswick Heads .......................................................6685 1277 Mullumbimby ..............................................................6684 2144 Byron Bay ...................................................................6685 9499 Bangalow ....................................................................6687 1404 STATE EMERGENCY SERVICE Storm & tempest damage, flooding.6684 3444 AIDS Confidential testing & information (ACON) ................................6622 1555 AL-ANON Help for family & friends of alcoholics ...................... 1300 ALANON ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 24 hours...............................1800 423 431 ANIMAL RESCUE (DOGS & CATS) .........................................6622 1881 LIFELINE .........................................................................................131 114 MENSLINE 7pm–11pm nightly (phone counselling & referral for men)..6622 2240 NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS Meets daily ....................................6680 7280 NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE ..................................................6684 1286 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 24 hour crisis line ...............................1800 656 463 NORTHERN RIVERS GAMBLING SERVICE ...........................6687 2520 NORTHERN RIVERS WILDLIFE CARERS...............................6628 1866 KOALA HOTLINE........................................................6622 1233 GEORGE THE SNAKE MAN.................................................0407 965 092 NSW Wildlife Information & Rescue Service (WIRES)..........6628 1898

42 June 17, 2014 The Byron Shire Echo

taken by Whitehaven today and we will be preparing to vigorously pursue the full legal challenge,’ he added.

The new Maules Creek coalmine project involves a total clearing of 1,664 hectares of forest, which currently provides habitat for threatened species including bats, koalas, forest owls, the Swift Parrot and the Regent Honeyeater.

The Nature Conservation Council of NSW has welcomed Whitehaven Coal’s decision to adhere to the conditions of its development consent.

‘Clear victory’ ‘This is a clear victory for community members who have been working tirelessly to protect this forest and the region’s water resources,’ campaigns director Kate Smolski said. ‘The decision to stop winter clearing does not end the fight to save Leard Forest, but it does at least give hibernating native animals a fighting chance to escape the bulldozers.

‘It is regrettable the NSW government did not enforce the conditions of its own consent for this atrocious mine, leaving Maules Creek Community Council little alternative but to take legal action.

‘State and federal laws have failed to protect this important natural area, demonstrating the need for deep reform to protect important natural places from coal mining.

‘Until that reform occurs, community groups will continue to seek remedy in the courts, and ordinary people will feel compelled to take direct action in the forest.

‘The Maules Creek mine will tear out the heart of Leard Forest, destroy one of the largest remnant areas of

wildlife habitat in western NSW, threaten groundwater resources, and have a lasting negative impact on the local community of Maules Creek.

This project should never have been approved.’

Greens NSW MP and environment spokesperson Dr Mehreen Faruqi has also welcomed the news. ‘This decision… proves community concerns were justified. It is clear that Whitehaven saw the writing on the wall and went for an undertaking before it was ordered to by the court,’ Dr Faruqi said.

‘Unfortunately, much clearing has already taken place. I have seen with my own eyes the section of the forest bulldozed by Whitehaven Coal, presumably in anticipation of a suspension. It is outrageous that Whitehaven Coal was allowed to undertake winter clearing in the first place. This was completely unnecessary.

Right to protest ‘There needs to be an investigation into how these approvals were granted by the NSW government in the first place, as large tracts of endangered ecological communities have been cleared and cannot be replaced or offset.

‘I was also disturbed to see valuable public resources being used to benefit a mining company, with the government ordering police to set up roadblocks on public roads and search cars.

‘The government should be protecting the Leard Forest, not big coal.

‘In a democratic society, the public have the right to protest peacefully and I have been inspired by the activists standing up to protect our environment and our wildlife.’

Q The following game from last week’s elite tournament in Play at Byron Services Club, Mon 7pm Norway shows that even the world #2 can get into trouble fast.

The Queen’s Birthday weekend is 2014 a remarkable one for tournament Stavanger White: A Grischuk chess, with five major events Black: L Aronian being held around Australia.

Opening: English The NSW Open was the largest 1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e6 3.e4!? d5 4.e5 d4 5.exf6 and strongest event, with Hrant dxc3 6.bxc3 Qxf6 7.d4 e5 8.Nf3 Nc6 8...exd4 Melkumyan, the Armenian 9.Bg5 Qe6+ 10.Be2 is dangerous for Black.

Grandmaster and top seed, tak- 9.Bg5 Qg6 10.d5 Nb8 11.h4 Nd7 12.Bd3 ‘I had analysed this but forgot that it was ing the title, though he had to e4? bad,’ admitted Aronian. 12...Qd6 13.Nd2!? Nc5 share top honours with Igor should be fine for Black. 13.h5 Qf5? Logical but Bjelobrk, who beat Australian fatal. 13...Qa6 was necessary, though dangernumber one Zhao Zong Yuan. ous after 14.Bxe4 Qxc4 15.Bd3! (See diagram) In the Victorian Open Chris 14.Rh4!! exd3 Finally Aronian stopped to think Wallis raced to 6/6 but was but too late. ‘I wasn’t thinking about resigning,’ Aronian, ‘but I was thinking about hitdefeated in the final round to said ting myself!’ Trying to save the queen via 14... share first place with the top two Nc5 walks into 15.Bxe4! Nxe4 16.Qe2 with a seeds, Azeri student Kanan Izzat crushing position. 15.Rf4 Nc5 16.Rxf5 Bxf5 and IM James Morris.

17.Nd4 Bd7 18.Kf1 The rest was easy for Olympian Moulthun Ly was Grischuk, though Aronian played on until the probably expecting an easy win time control at move 40. 1-0 a b c d e f g h in the Brisbane Peninsula Open, especially after main rival Brodie 8 McClymont took two early byes. 7 However, McClymont spoiled Ly’s training run and the two were 6 forced to settle for yet another tie 5 for first place. The same applied 4 at the Tasmanian Open, where 3 Bill Kerr and David Small shared top honours, while in Adelaide 2 Goran Srdic was the lone winner, 1 outclassing a modest field.

White to play and win

CHESS by Ian Rogers

John Page

‘This is a very special house.

It’s called the House of Happiness through Communication. People live here like a big family.’

Our guide was 12-yearold Seon Jae, and we were standing in front of an unremarkable-looking 3-storey brick building in Mapo-gu, a district of the high-rise metropolis of Seoul, South Korea. We were there to learn about Sungmisan, an ‘urban village’ that is forging an alternative model of twentyfirst century living. Seon Jae is a student at the Sungmisan School, and was keen to give us her insider’s perspective on the value of community.

‘People have much richer lives when they share them with others,’ she continued, sounding mature beyond her years. ‘They eat together, they play music together, they always have company.’

She’s right, of course. And the overwhelming feeling at Sungmisan – in stark contrast, it must be said, with much of the rest of Seoul – is of people who are connected: both to each other and to the wider community of which they are a part.

Joined forces

operative care of the elderly, a workshop run by a disabled young man, a local radio station and all kinds of arts and music projects.

At the Sungmisan School, now in its eleventh year, the emphasis is on nurturing a deep concern for social and ecological wellbeing. Students learn about climate change, appropriate technology and sustainable agriculture. They build things from wood – useful things – and grow vegetables in the school’s rooftop garden. Always as a team, in partnership.

In a radical departure from the norms of contemporary Korean education, which encourages rote memorisation and intense competition almost literally from the cradle, the emphasis here is on learning through collaboration and mutual responsibility.

Field trips The students themselves organise regular field trips to rural Korea and beyond, forging close links between their urban village and the farmers on whom the village depends for fresh, healthy food.

What’s more, as part of their education they spend an entire academic year living and working on a farm.

This is a people’s movement, and owes little, if anything, to government or other outside help. However, there are indications that the message is beginning to get through to the mainstream.

In 2012, the city government established the Seoul Community Support Centre, whose stated purpose is to facilitate the process of building ‘urban village communities’.

In addition, new legislation was passed, making it easier to set up community-based cooperatives.

Sungmisan is an inspiring experiment, offering profoundly important firsthand lessons in community building and sustainability that are relevant way beyond the limits of Seoul. In a city that, in common with other megacities the world over, seems at times to be bent on its own destruction, it is an oasis of calm, a living, breathing model of social and ecological sanity.

The village was founded in 1994, when a group of neighbours joined forces to set up a local childcare centre. A number of ‘struggles’, as they are referred to, attracted more members – most importantly, a two-year campaign to stop the building of a water supply facility on top of a small wooded hill that gives the village both its name and much of its character. Today, Sungmisan comprises about 700 households, as well as 70 businesses and other institutions – including a food cooperative and restaurant (both one hundred per cent organic), a small theatre, an ecological soap producer, two schools and even a dental practice.

Sungmisan is not defined by geography (though all the village’s members live within a couple of kilometres of each other), but by shared values. Throughout Mapo-gu’s narrow, winding lanes and alleyways, the village weaves an invisible new consciousness: an aware- Q John Page and Helena Norness that the future lies not berg-Hodge are travelling in more consumerism and through Korea, Japan and economic growth, but rather Hong Kong as part of their in healthy, happy and vibrant ongoing work to establish an communities. This translates international alliance for lointo a citizen-run library, co- calisation.

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Email council@byron.nsw.gov.au Web www.byron.nsw.gov.au Emergency after hours 6622 7022 Works Depot 6685 9300 Resident parking stickers Fax: 6684 3018 Sportsfield information line 6626 7111 SES Controller 6684 3444 Rural Fire Service 6684 3662 Myocum Waste & Recycling Centre 6684 1870 BRSCC (Byron Regional Sport and Cultural Complex) 6685 5911 Community Access Points: Documents on exhibition are available for review at the Council Administration Centre (Mullumbimby), Bangalow Post Office, Chincogan Real Estate Ocean Shores, Suffolk Beachfront Holiday Park and Brunswick Heads Library.

COUNCIL MEETING Thursday 26 June 2014 Council meetings are scheduled to be held at Station Street, Mullumbimby.

9.00am – Extraordinary Meeting Reports • PLANNING – Public Exhibition Report – Draft Byron Development Control Plan (DCP) 2014 and related documents • Section 94 Plan • Far North Coast Environmental Zones Review – Submission to Department of Planning and Environment The following two items were deferred from the Ordinary Meeting held on 12 June 2014: • Report of the Biodiversity and Sustainability Advisory Committee Meeting held on 8 May 2014 • Report of the Water, Waste and Sewer Advisory Committee Meeting held on 20 May 2014 The above listed items may change. Meeting agendas are available prior to the meeting on Council’s website at www.byron.nsw.gov.au/ meetings, at Council’s administration centre in Mullumbimby and at community access points around the Shire.

Requests for public access on an item in an agenda must be lodged with the General Manager or Mayor by 12 noon one working day prior to the meeting. Register for public access at either www. byron.nsw.gov.au/forms/public-access-sessions-and-submissions, on 02 6626 7000 or by emailing public.access@byron.nsw.gov.au.

Public Access will be heard at the commencement of the meeting.

Only one presentation for and one presentation against may be made on an item in the Agenda, with a maximum of five minutes allocated to each presentation. More than one speaker for or against an item may share the allotted time of five minutes.

Please note that Public Access sessions are recorded as a result of Council Resolution 08-638.

Enquiries: Joylene 02 6626 7317

DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS DETERMINED AND COMPLYING DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATES ISSUED Section 101 EP&A Act 1979 and Clause 124 and 137 EP&A Regulations 2000 The following development consents and complying development certificates, together with any conditions imposed may be inspected free of charge at Council’s administration centre during ordinary office hours. The validity of these consents cannot be questioned in any legal proceeding except those commenced in the Land & Environment Court by any person within 3 months of this notice.

APPLICATIONS APPROVED 10.2014.264.1 – SUFFOLK PARK 150 Alcorn Street (Lot 19 Sec 5 DP 11632) Demolition of a dwelling 10.2014.232.1 – EUREKA 185 Goremans Road (Lot 23 DP 634771) Alterations to existing dwelling 10.2013.123.2 – MULLUMBIMBY 16 Dalley Street (Lot 33 DP 5046) S96 – modify the design of the approved dwelling 10.2014.201.1 – MULLUMBIMBY 7 Corella Crescent (Lot 55 DP 1190345) Detached dual occupancy development 10.2008.324.3 – COORABELL Mango Lane (Lot 1 DP 123297) S96 – to delete the carport (alterations and additions to a double storey dwelling including part demolition plus swimming pool) 10.2014.186.1 – MYOCUM 118 Lagoon Drive (Lot 16 DP 809822) Construction of a secondary dwelling 10.2014.184.1 – OCEAN SHORES 17 Rangal Road (Lot 35 DP 1006418) Dwelling

www.byron.nsw.gov.au 10.2014.195.1 – BYRON BAY 27 Cemetery Road (Lot 2 DP 1177176) Relocated dwelling, tree removal (one tree) and tree pruning (one tree)

APPLICATIONS REFUSED 10.2012.173.2 – BANGALOW 17 Ballina Road (Lot 2 DP 1086364) S96 – amend staging plan and timing of associated works and minor change to layout (seven lot residential subdivision and one residual lot in two stages)

APPLICATIONS WITHDRAWN 10.2006.51.3 – BANGALOW 13 Marblewood Place (Lot 36 DP 1061460) Enclosing under house

COMPLYING DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATES ISSUED 16.2014.31.1 – OCEAN SHORES 25 Yamble Drive (Lot 128 DP 238450) Inground swimming pool and retaining walls

PUBLIC EXHIBITION OF DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS Environmental Planning & Assessment Act 1979 The following development applications have been received by Byron Shire Council and may be viewed on Council’s website at www.byron.nsw.gov.au/development-applications-on-exhibition, or at the Council administrative centre during ordinary office hours.

For further information on making a submission please refer to the factsheet ‘Making a submission on a development application’ available at Council or online at www.byron.nsw.gov.au/ submissions-on-development-applications.

There are also requirements in relation to the disclosure of political gifts and donations. Refer to Council’s website to satisfy yourself that you are complying with your disclosure obligations prior to lodging a submission at www.byron.nsw.gov.au/political-donations.

10.2014.69.2 – EWINGSDALE 81 Parkway Drive (Lot 17 DP 790776) S96 – delete condition relating to gate (secondary dwelling, swimming pool, carport, fence and decks)

Please quote the development application and property description when making a submission.

10.2014.291.1 – BYRON BAY 36 Kingsley Street (Lot A DP 377784) Tree removal – eight trees

10.2014.252.1 – BRUNSWICK HEADS 25 Fingal Street (Lot 5 DP 4694) Chris Lonergan – Town Planner: Removal of existing dwelling and fruit trees, construct a mixed commercial/residential development comprising two shops and three flats

10.2014.279.1 – OCEAN SHORES 2/21A Balemo Drive (Lot 2 DP 84802) Tree removal – five trees 10.2014.88.1 – FEDERAL 828 Federal Drive (Lot 5 DP 607705) Use of existing unauthorised structure as a dwelling, studio and shed 10.2014.274.1 – MULLUMBIMBY 12 Azalea Street (Lot 2 DP 209440) Tree removal – five trees 10.2014.268.1 – SUFFOLK PARK 113-115 Broken Head Road (Lot D DP 406325) Tree removal – one tree 10.2014.220.1 – BYRON BAY 12 Julian Rocks Drive (Lot 38 DP 714410) Change of use from 1 x expanded dwelling module to secondary dwelling 10.2014.270.1 – MULLUMBIMBY 24 Dalley Street (Lot 37 DP 5046) Tree removal – 12 trees 10.2013.13.2 – BYRON BAY 24 Cavvanbah Street (Lot 6 Sec 54 DP 258207) S96 – modification to roof material/colour and garage door (alterations and additions to existing dwelling-house) 10.2014.210.1 – SUFFOLK PARK 5 Tea Tree Court (Lot 41 DP 1140492) Two storey dwelling 10.2014.214.1 – BRUNSWICK HEADS 13 Short Street (Lot C DP 394779) Alterations and additions to a garage and change of use to a secondary dwelling 10.2014.198.1 – BROKEN HEAD 85 Armstrong Lane (Lot 4 DP 632100) Relocate single storey dwelling with alterations and additions 10.2014.218.1 – OCEAN SHORES 16 Natan Court (Lot 1836 DP 262823) Addition of a rear deck and verandah to existing single storey dwelling 10.2014.193.1 – BROKEN HEAD 4/64 Blackbutt Lane (Lot 4 DP 270553) Relocate dwelling and alterations and additions

EXHIBITION CLOSES 23 JUNE 2014

10.2014.278.1 – MONTECOLLUM 45 Monet Drive (Lot 1 DP 1167936) Crystal Castle: Minor alterations and additions to rural tourist facility for toilet facilities

EXHIBITION CLOSES 30 JUNE 2014 No DAs on exhibition for this date

REQUEST FOR TENDER NO: 2014-0004 Management Contract for First Sun Holiday Park & Suffolk Beachfront Holiday Park Byron Shire Council invites tenders for a management contract to manage First Sun Holiday Park and Suffolk Beachfront Holiday Park. Details of the proposed contract and the assessment criteria requirements are set out in the Request for Tender documentation referred to below.

Request for Tender documents may be obtained by contacting Tenderlink at www.tenderlink.com/byron. If you experience difficulties accessing the website, please call the Tenderlink helpdesk on 1800 233 533.

A non-mandatory site inspection will be held on Wednesday 2 July 2014 at 11.00am at First Sun Holiday Park. A non-mandatory site inspection will be held on Wednesday 2 July 2014 at 2.00pm at Suffolk Beachfront Holiday Park.

Tenders close: 2.00pm Thursday 10 July 2014.

Council invites any organisation or person willing to fulfil the requirements of the proposed contract to submit a tender to Council by the deadline specified in this advertisement and in accordance with the tender documents referred to above.

Please note: The canvassing of Councillors or Council staff in relation to this tender will disqualify tenders from the tender process.

The Myocum Landfill will be CLOSED on FRIDAY 27 June 2014 due to essential construction work on the weighbridge Council would like to apologise for any inconveniences caused

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Devils tame Cougars in top-of-table thriller Story & photo John Campbell

After faltering against Marist Brothers at their last venture, Byron Bay was host to the Casino Cougars at Red Devil Park on Sunday in a clash that was bound to be a make-orbreak one for the home side’s push to be a serious NRRRL title contender.

Casino, above Byron on the ladder, would have been likewise motivated, so it was not surprising that, on a spanking sunny arvo, an estimated crowd of 6,112 arrived in anticipation of a white-knuckle contest. That it did not live up to expectations in the first half was a disappointment – both sides seemed over-anxious and were guilty of far too many fundamental errors for any fluidity to develop – but that it came home with a wet sail in the second forty to provide a pulsating finale before a hard-earned 34–28 victory to the Devils was ample reward for the boys who had fought the good battle, and their diehard supporters too.

There were any number of watershed moments in the later stages of an even contest, but none was more memorable than when Hemi ‘Sphere’ Mullen broke Simon ‘Toothless’ Kelly’s head when their skulls collided. Stunned by the collision and wondering why with friends like Hemi anybody should need an enemy, Kelly might have been

perfectly justified in putting on his slippers and settling for tea and scones for the duration. But Byron’s leader of the pack would not have a bar of the soft option. Instead he took it up twice in the next set in an effort that visibly lifted not only the men in red, but everybody in the western bleachers. It was a mighty effort from Kelly, whose unstinting commitment to the cause rallied the boys when they sought it most – you only needed to see the response of the babes, Lachlan ‘Corporal’ Jones and William ‘Peppi’ Goldsmith, in his debut in the seniors’

starting lineup, to appreciate how inspiration works within a footy team.

Casino opened the scoring after a scrum win in the Devils’ twenty. They went wide – as they did all day – to put their winger over in the corner. It looked too easy, prompting ‘you haven’t seen the worst of it yet’ from the Old Bloke, who is a Jeremiah of the highest order.

But tries to reliable hooker Tyler ‘Dubois’ Blanch, captain Ryan ‘The Crab’ O’Connell, with his first touch after entering the fray from the bench, Ben ‘Spider’ Webber and Mullen had the Devils

An emphasis on dominance Dogwhistle

The Park Hotel Rams emphasised their dominance of this year’s FFNC Championships with a comfortable win over Lismore on Saturday.

The reserve grade match was a tough and frustrating affair for the Byron squad.

Despite having the edge over the Workers for much of the match, the Rams finished a goal down after the Lismore keeper stopped a Byron penalty, and the Lismore squad put another penalty into the Byron net.

It was a different story in the Prems with the Rams on the hunt from the kickoff.

A disciplined Workers outfit had no answers to what appeared at times to be a tenman Byron attack and were left reeling under the pressure.

Armers sing victory song in Shand series Brian Mollet

‘Are you looking at me?’ Byron’s James ‘Buddha’ Griffiths gives the Travis Bickle eye to his Cougar opponent at Red Devil Park on Sunday.

Twenty minutes in, James Tomlinson headed a ball back to the boot of Kazahiro Tsukamoto, who buried the first of the Rams’ first-half goals.

Moments later, Tsukamoto served up a pinpoint cross to Connor Cannon, who finished with a deft header for number two. Midfielder Barry Woods bagged two more powerful goals to complete the Rams’ first-half spree.

Byron’s overwhelming dominance continued into the second half, but the Rams relaxed a little in the later stages and allowed Workers to salvage a little dignity with two ‘soft’ goals. James Tomlinson sealed the Rams’ 5–2 win with another slick header.

Midway through the 2014 season, Byron has defeated every team in the compe-

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tition and holds a handy six-point lead over secondplaced Lismore Thistles.

Round 10 sees the Rams travelling to Chickiba Drive in East Ballina on Sunday for their second encounter with the Premier League newbies, Tintenbar.

Reserves kick off at 12.30 and the Prems at 2.30.

ahead by a not entirely convincing 18–14 at intermission.

O’Connell and centre Chris ‘BB’ King combined to put Cameron ‘Teresa’ Green in soon after the restart and the scene was set for Byron to go for the jugular. But the Devils could not quite put away a Cougars outfit that refused to take No for an answer.

Further tries to Peter ‘Facebook’ Flannery and King – from a beautifully worked set piece – got Byron home, to the unbridled joy of the Great Unwashed in the outer. It was fab.

The Devils are on a roll – go with them.

While the billion-dollar squads of the World Cup prance around in purposebuilt stadiums separated from the poor and homeless by barricades and riot police, the priceless sporting champions of the Shand series get down among the famously lush grassroots of Lomath Oval in Mullumbimby.

High flyers the Byron FullTossers took time out from dolphin watching to convoy across the highway and take on the Upper Main Arm cricket collective, the team with 11 captains, none of whom agree with each other.

Rain late in the week saw Lomath Oval slick and greasy as a politician’s handshake so Bucko of the Arm invited Byron to bat on winning the toss.

If you were being kind you would call Main Arm’s new ball attack of Bazza (0–9) and Gazza (0–1) experienced, the other alternative being old.

Jason and birdman Neil of the Tossers had trouble getting much through the field early on as the treacletextured outfield buried anything hit on the ground.

Neil’s aerobatic skills couldn’t get him to the other end in time to beat Baz’s throw and Brian clattered one

into the stumps to give the Arm the upper hand.

Lucas was sticking gamely to everything in the field like a farmer’s friend on a woolly sock.

Jason (31 n/o) came to terms with the attack and the grumpy-old-man atmosphere, pushing boundaries like an experimental artist.

He was a lone showthough as the mesmerising spin of youngster Connor (1–14) and old-stager Bourkey (3–17) unravelled the middle order.

Wayno and Ash did their best but were given little room to move; Byron truncheoned for 103.

Main Arm openers Brian and Eden weathered the greying storm known as John and set about the task sensibly.

Jason hit the target for the first breakthrough but Bazza, Brian (31 n/o) and Dan (16 n/o) set the scene for Kyle (22 n/o) to come in late and end proceedings with some memorable big swipes over midwicket.

Things got worse rapidly as the Armers dusted off their dolorous victory song and began telling outrageous lies about their prowess.

Next week’s Shand match see the wind-bitten Left Bankers will attempt to suppress the followers of St Seymour, the Geckos.

Disappointing trip south for Bay Peter Griffin

Byron Bay rugby’s seasondefining road trip to Grafton was a major disappointment.

The scoreline read 30–0 but in truth the Bay simply failed to turn up.

Byron had beaten Grafton in four of their previous five meetings but their meek sur-

render on Saturday, in the final game of the first round, has put the current campaign on a precipice. Byron has a small squad this year and has suffered injuries to key players.

Moreover, the Bay has not been able to compensate for the departure of quality players such as Dickson, Armstrong, Nuttall and Kitching.

Australian lifeguard season wrap-up The Australian Lifeguard Service (ALS) has concluded its patrols for the 2013/2014 surf lifesaving season which saw more than 273,000 people visit the ten ALS-patrolled beaches from Evans Head in the south to the Tweed in the north.

The season saw more than 844,000 people visit Byron Bay, Byron Shire and Cape Byron Trust beaches and more than 161,000 visit Ballina Shire.

Byron Bay’s main beach continues to be one of the busiest beaches in NSW with 588,094 people visiting over

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the 7-month patrolled period.

This is followed by First Sun beach with 83,577 people.

The Byron region had 100 rescues led by Main Beach with 39 and Wategos with 38, while first aid treatments totalled 432 including 252 at Main Beach and 96 at First Sun. The ALS is the largest provider of professional lifeguard services in the country. ‘The Byron Shire Council as well as the Cape Byron Trust have once again been very supportive this season’, said ALS

Lifeguard Services coordinator Brent Manieri. ‘We look forward to further improving beach safety and working collaboratively with them leading into next season.’

Many NSW councils have realised the benefit of ensuring a total service provision, as the Australian Lifeguard Service integrates with Surf Life Saving’s volunteer patrol structure, statewide support operations network, 24-hour emergency callout system and strategically located Westpac Rescue helicopter services.

The result pitches Byron in seventh place, 12 points behind Ballina who move to fourth after dismantling Lennox Head 30–10 on the weekend. A repeat of First Grade finals football is unlikely but more alarming for Byron is the prospect of losing its shire supremacy for the first time in six years.

Rivals Bangalow accounted for Southern Cross University 55–0 to put the Rebels in fifth place, seven points to the good of Byron Bay. Byron are at home to Ballina this Saturday at 3.15pm.

Byron are in a three-match losing slump and Ballina have won four on the bounce but the contest should hold no great fear for the home side.

Byron’s current season began so promisingly with a firstround away win to Ballina and the Bay did humble their neighbours twice last year.

A big crowd is expected at the Recreation Fields this Saturday to find out where the season is heading. Go the Bay!

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From $224,000 – $272,000 More open space that you can poke a stick at tallowoodridge.com

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58.5 Hectares of vacant land Lot 10 Bundaleer Rd, Broken Head.

Ocean view house site 1.3 hectares.

Nature and farm area 57.2 hectares.

Unprecedented lifestyle opportunity in the world’s most sought after destination.

Inspect today you won’t be disappointed.

1 Corlis Crescent, Bangalow.

Elevated contemporary home in Bangalow designed to capture natural light and air flow A spacious two storey home with high ceilings in a great popular location, block size is 739.3m² Designed by respected local architect Scenic rural views to Newrybar and Coopers Shoot Easy walk to town and close to kids’ playground

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Auction 5.30 Tuesday June 24 at our office.

Contact Owen Lynn 6685 6552.

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126 Grays Lane, Tyagarah.

1.6 acres with 3/4 bedroom home with separate couples retreat and fully furnished and fully equipped Town water and rainwater (5600 gallon tank) 16m ionized swimming pool/Blackbutt timber decks

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Auction 5.30 Tuesday June 24 at our office.

Contact Michele Jackson 0407 906 301.

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Web ID 1P0126.

Contact Mark Kinneally 0429 868 001, Lois Buckett 0428 877 399.

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Well located character home Four spacious bedrooms Light and airy throughout High ceilings reminiscent of the era Timber floors in main living area Enclosed sunroom a bonus Low maintenance garden

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Sales agent Janice Maple 0401 026 359, 6687 1500.

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“We have qualified buyers ready to buy in Bangalow and the Hinterland.”

Paradise found 231 Fraser Road, Mullumbimby.

A must to inspect 5 bed, 3 bathroom modern fresh home Auction 5.30 Tuesday June 24 at our with pool office.

115 acres of total privacy with Contact Michele Jackson 0407 906 301. rainforest, dam and bore Elevated sea and valley vistas through to Byron Bay 10 mins Mullum, 30 mins Coolangatta Byron Bay

Leave the car at home 3/19 Marvell Street, Byron Bay. 2 bedrooms plus office/rumpus or 3rd bedroom, reverse cycle aircon Short walk to Byron Bay Main Beach Open plan living for a seamless range of entertaining options.

Private and peaceful completed with outside spa and courtyard.

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Contact Michele Jackson 0407 906 301.

If you would like to sell your property please call us now to arrange a FREE no obligation appraisal.

Byron Bay

Property in Focus

Majestic 1800s Queenslander Rarely does a property of such character and quality come to market. Built in the mid 1800s the home has many of the classic features of the era. Ornate ceilings, Kauri pine floor & stained glass bay windows are just some fine examples. There are four living areas and large verandahs which overlook a reserve on two sides. The combination of warmth & the natural leafy outlook have provided a haven for the owners over the past 20 years.

This property presents a wonderful opportunity to live in the peaceful surroundings of Lilli Pilli, a real oasis for nature lovers and is well known for its varied population of native birds and wildlife, while only minutes to Byron Bay town centre and Tallow Beach.

• Majestic historic Queenslander located on 900sqm in quiet, unique area that locals love • Separate downstairs living space • Huge storage underneath the house, perfect for workshop /studio • Large wrap around timber verandahs, ideal for entertaining • 4 minute drive from Byron Bay’s town centre • 5 bed / 2 bath / 4 car.

Address: 8 Lilli Pilli Drive, Byron Bay Inspect: Saturday 11am-11.30am Contact: Michael Gudgeon 0419 495 494. michael.gudgeon@raywhite.com. Ray White Byron Bay.

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A short walk to the river, beach and shops making it the ideal location to reside.

3 - 4 bedrooms & a study nook upstairs.

Self contained bedroom downstairs, huge open rumpus/2nd room for downstairs.

4 vehicle accommodation, double garage & double carport.

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Designed with the sun, views, natural lighting & energy efficiency in mind.

Views of Byron & the lighthouse, ocean, hinterland & Mt Chincogan.

High ceilings, timber kitchen, open dining/ living, covered deck/balcony.

Garage with mezzanine/4th bedroom with bathroom.

Land 1113m2, large enough for 2nd dwelling

Auction 11.30am June 28, 2014 at the Brunswick Heads RSL Auxiliary Hall View Saturday 12.00 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 12.30pm Contact Peter Browning 0411 801 795 LJ Hooker Brunswick Heads 02 6685 0177

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Lot 12, 13 & 14 DP 1139221 – 999 The Tunnel Road Lot 16 DP 1018251 – Lucky Lane Rural land with one building entitlement The four lots will be auctioned as a whole package

Open: Prior to auction 11am – 11.45am Auction: This Saturday 21st June 2014 @ 12noon at the Billinudgel Hotel PID No: 729768

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SPECTACULAR SUFFOLK PARK BEACHFRONT LOCATION

139 BANGALOW ROAD, BYRON BAY

125 ALCORN STREET, SUFFOLK PARK Littoral rainforest & dune between property and beach Rare and unique position with direct beach access Walk to beach and Suffolk Village, shops & pub 70’s style character filled beach house on 1011.7m2 Build your dream home in a dream location (STCA) Ideally located 10 mins to Byron Bay, 1hr to Gold Coast It is rare that properties of this nature become available

40 years since this property was offered to the public Situated just 2.5km to the beach & 4km to Byron Bay Land size 5.695HA (approx. 14 acres) easy maintenance Brick residence comprising 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms 300 degree views over Byron Bay Golf Course Littoral rainforest coupled with cleared land Great opportunities for the discerning buyer

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AUCTION: 25th June 5.30pm at Lennox Hotel Function Room. Price guide $1,600,000+ VIEW: Saturday 21st June 1.00-1.30pm WEB ID: 1P0649 CONTACT: Lois Buckett 0428 877 399 Mark Kinneally 0429 868 001

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ELEGANT C. 1928 HOMESTEAD, SUBSTANTIAL ACREAGE, EXTENSIVE INFRASTRUCTURE • Iconic rural property, 12 minutes drive to Byron Bay • Sprawling and gracious homestead • 98 acres of prime grazing country • An outstanding opportunity rarely offered • Uninterrupted northern views to Mt Chincogan • Soaring ceilings beautiful timber Çoors • Several additional sitting rooms • Master bedroom with large parents retreat and palatial ensuite • Impressive list of infrastructure • 18 paddocks all with water and electric fencing • Water supply ensured with 2 dams, 2 creeks and a spring • 25 x 65 metre horse arena and round yard • Our instructions are to sell on or before auction!

MYOCUM Inspection by appointment Duncan Lorimer 0400 844 412

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• Resort pavilion style home • Established tropical gardens • Total privacy, stunning environment • Nearly 6 acres, with frontage to Bennys Creek • Expansive valley views • Caretakers cottage and workshop • Immaculate throughout - ready to enjoy • Great location with easy access to Bangalow

Duncan Lorimer 0400 844 412

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• Older style character family home • Elevated position with views • 18 acres & spring fed dam • Two living areas, studio • Near new in-ground pool • Easy walking distance to Federal Village, Pre School and school buses • Workshop and storage • Inspection should not disappoint!

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Lot 1 Alidenes Road, Mullumbimby

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Nestled in a private, north facing park like setting Beautifully built and appointed family home with 18m pool 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and separate studio/office Big decks, large machinery shed and meditation hut

Thursday, 19 June 2014 11am-12pm Saturday, 21 June 2014 11am-12pm Auction: 12pm onsite – Saturday, 12 July 2014 Enquiries: Paul Prior 0418 324 297

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Open: Mullumbimby

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14 Citriadora Drive, Ewingsdale Interest Over $499,000

Sound investment in the heart of Byron Bay Located in popular Byron Quarter Apartments Open plan living/dining opens out to a private balcony Large kitchen, 2 bedrooms with BIRs and secure parking Agent declares interest

Open: Saturday, 21 June 2014 9.00 – 9.30am Enquiries: Tara Torkkola 0423 519 698

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Auction Interest Over $1,299,000

Magnificent, fully renovated home with pool Open plan indoor and outdoor living State of the art kitchen with Euro appliances Stunning 2081m2 allotment, perfect for the family This property will be sold on or before Auction

Open: Saturday, 21 June 2014 12.00 - 12.30pm Enquiries: James Young 0419 856 840

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Lot 32 Goremans Road, Eureka

113B Beech Drive, Suffolk Park $1,150,000

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Ready to build on acreage with 180 degree views Town water and 3 phase power on site Clean, clear and fertile 11.83 hectares Borders creek, has a bore and water licence 5 mins to Federal village, 10 mins to Bangalow

Open: Agent on site Saturday, 21 June 2014 1.00 – 1.30pm Enquiries: Su Reynolds 0428 888 660 Helen Huntly-Barratt 0412 332 232

Rare parcel of land with DA approved plans 450sqm corner block with north east aspect DA approved 218sqm, 4 bed, 2 bath, 2 garage – eco home Beautiful views over lake and reserve Convenient location, walk to beach and shops

Open:

By Appointment Enquiries: Su Reynolds 0428 888 660

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6685 8466 35 Fletcher Street, Byron Bay

OPEN FOR INSPECTIONS BANGALOW REAL ESTATE & BYRON HINTERLAND PROPERTIES 112 Bangalow Road, Nashua. Sat 12-1pm ELDERS BANGALOW 38 Granuaille Road, Bangalow. Sat 10-10.30am 5 Old Pacific Highway, Newrybar. Sat 11-11.30am ELDERS NEW BRIGHTON / OCEAN SHORES 26 Banool Circuit North Ocean Shores. Sat 11am-12pm FIRST NATIONAL BYRON BAY Lot 1 Alidenes Road, Mullumbimby. Thu & Sat 11am-12pm 12 New City Road, Mullumbimby. Thu & Sat 1-1.30pm 4/8 Byron Street, Byron Bay. Sat 9-9.30am 5/9 Massinger Street, Byron Bay. Sat 10-10.30am 18 Caniaba Crescent, Suffolk Park. Sat 10-10.30am 37 Shirley Lane, Byron Bay. Sat 11-11.30am 14 Citriadora Drive, Ewingsdale. Sat 12-12.30pm Lot 32 Goremans Road, Eureka. Sat 1-1.30pm LJ HOOKER BRUNSWICK HEADS 30 Booyun Street, Brunswick Heads. Sat 10-10.30am 13 Byron Street, Brunswick Heads. Sat 11-11.30am 16 Warrambool Road, Ocean Shores. Sat 12-12.30pm 28 Warrambool Road, Ocean Shores. Sat 1-1.30pm LJ HOOKER BYRON BAY Figtree Fields, Ewingsdale. Daily 10am-12pm 1/24 Oodgeroo Gardens, Byron Bay. Wed 12-12.30pm 3 Oak Court, Suffolk Park. Wed 1-1.30pm 1 Narooma Drive, Ocean Shores. Sat 11-11.30am 1/24 Oodgeroo Gardens, Byron Bay. Sat 12-12.30pm 122 Orana Road, Ocean Shores. Sat 12-12.30pm 119 Piccadilly Hill Road, Coopers Shoot. Sat 12-12.30pm 3 Oak Court, Suffolk Park. Sat 1-1.30pm 1/66 Lawson Street, Byron Bay. Sat 2-2.30pm 2/85 Armstrong Lane, Broken Head. Sat 2-2.30pm LOIS BUCKETT REAL ESTATE 6 Clement Place, Lennox Head. Sat 11-11.30am 1 Corlis Crescent, Bangalow. Sat 12-12.30pm 125 Alcorn Street, Suffolk Park. Sat 1-1.30pm 139 Bangalow Rd, Lennox Head. Sat 2-2.30pm MCGRATH BYRON BAY 142 Parkway Drive, Ewingsdale Sat 10-10.30am 305 Coolamon Scenic Drive, Coorabell. Sat 10.30-11am 2/15 Oceanside Place, Suffolk Park. Sat 11-11.30am Lot 1 Eureka Road, Eureka. Sat 11.30am-12pm 5 Ruskin Street, Byron Bay. Sat 12-12.30pm 70 Lake Street, North Lismore. Sat 3-3.30pm 2 Miriam Street, Wyrallah. Sat 4.30-5pm 5 Ruskin Street, Byron Bay. Wed 4-4.30pm PROFESSIONALS BRUNSWICK HEADS 999 Tunnel Road, Billinudgel. Sat 11-11.45am PROFESSIONALS BYRON BAY 6 Gaggin Street, New Brighton. Sat 10-11am PROFESSIONALS MULLUMBIMBY Lot 1 Alidenes Road, Mullumbimby. Thu & Sat 11-12pm 18 Nurubuan Street, Mullumbimby. Sat 11.15am-12pm 31 Dalley Street, Mullumbimby. Sat 12.30-1.30pm

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RAY WHITE BYRON BAY 166 Broken Head Road, Suffolk Park. Wed 12-12.30pm 6/8 Byron Street, Byron Bay. Thu 2-2.30pm 3/82 Centennial Cct, Byron Bay. Thu 3.30-4pm 93 Bangalow Road, Byron Bay. Sat 10-10.30am 3/82 Centennial Cct, Byron Bay. Sat 10-10.30am 8 Lilli Pilli Drive, Byron Bay. Sat 11-11.30am 166 Broken Head Road, Suffolk Park. Sat 12-12.30pm 6/8 Byron Street, Byron Bay. Sat 2.30-3pm

AUCTIONS FIRST NATIONAL BYRON BAY Auction 2pm onsite Saturday July 12 12 New City Road, Mullumbimby.

Auction 12pm onsite Saturday July 12 Lot 1 Alidenes Road, Mullumbimby LJ HOOKER BRUNSWICK HEADS Auctions 11.30am Saturday June 28 at Brunswick Heads Auxiliary Hall 13 Byron Street, Brunswick Heads 16 Warrambool Road, Brunswick Heads LJ HOOKER BYRON BAY Auction 12.30pm onsite Saturday June 21 122 Orana Road, Ocean Shores LOIS BUCKETT REAL ESTATE Auctions 25 June, 2014 139 Bangalow Road, Byron Bay 125 Alcorn Street, Suffolk Park 1 Corlis Crescent, Bangalow 6 Clement Place, Lennox Head MCGRATH BYRON BAY Auction 1pm onsite Saturday June 21 541 Federal Drive, Federal. Inspect 12.30pm Auction 12pm onsite Saturday June 28 305 Coolamon Scenic Drive, Byron Bay. Inspect 11.30am Auction 12pm onsite Saturday July 5 5 Ruskin Street, Byron Bay. Inspect 11.30am Auction 2pm onsite Saturday July 5 70 Lake Street, North Lismore Auction 1pm onsite Saturday July 12 Lot 1 Eureka Road, Eureka PROFESSIONALS BRUNSWICK HEADS Auctions 12pm Saturday June 21 at Billinudgel Hotel Lots 12, 13 & 14, 999 The Tunnel Road, Billinudgel Lot 16, Lucky Lane, Billinudgel PROFESSIONALS BYRON BAY Auctios 5.30pm Tuesday June 24 at our office Lot 10 Bundaleer Road, Broken Head 3/19 Marvell Street, Byron Bay 231 Fraser Road, Mullumbimby 126 Greys Lane, Tygaragh

PROFESSIONALS MULLUMBIMBY Auction 12pm onsite July 12 Lot 1 Alidenes Rd, Mullumbimby RAY WHITE BYRON BAY Auction 3pm onsite Saturday June 21 6/8 Byron Street, Byron Bay Auction 1pm onsite Saturday June 28 3/82 Centennial Cct, Byron Bay

NEW LISTINGS ELDERS BANGALOW 45 Kings Road. Nashua. $998,000.

409 Ridgewood Road. Rosebank. $1,650,000.

82 Tooheys Mill Road. Fernleigh. $935,000.

1018 Myocum Road. Myocum. Auction 19th July.

106 Eureka Road. Eureka. $1,150,000.

5 Old Pacific Highway. Newrybar. $875,000.

38 Granuaille Road. Bangalow. Interest Over $520,000.

11 Lizray Road. Federal. $1,250,000.

ELDERS NEW BRIGHTON / OCEAN SHORES 9 Hunter Street, Burringbar. $479,000 25 Hardy Avenue, North Ocean Shores. $840,000 LJ HOOKER BYRON BAY 3/52 Lawson Street, Byron Bay. N facing 3 bed apartment in a very popular location of Lawson Street. $1,465,000.

LOIS BUCKETT REAL ESTATE 6 Satinwood Place, Lennox Head $700,000 1/13 Crane Street, Ballina. $327,500 3/18 Gibbon Street, Lennox Head. $550,000 5/42 Barrett Drive, Lennox Head. $549,000 29 Pacific Parade, Lennox Head $1,650,000+ PROFESSIONALS BYRON BAY Gaggin Street, New Brighton – $1.650 Million Legges Lane, South Ballina – POA Lilli Pilli Drive, Byron Bay – $850,000 Main Arm Road, Mullumbimby – $777,000 Bundaleer Road, Broken Head – POA Coolamon Scenic Drive, Mullumbimby – Offers over $650,000 Byron Street, Byron Bay – Offers over $270,000 Seven Mile Beach Road, Broken Head – $750,000 Howards Road, Burringbar – $800,000 Main Arm Road, Upper Main Arm – $649,000 Julian Rocks Drive, Byron Bay – $490,000 Giaour Street, Byron Bay – $2.6 Million Geles Road, Burringbar – Offers over $950,000 Byron Street, Byron Bay – $319,000 Yallakool Drive, Ocean Shores – POA RAY WHITE BYRON BAY 68 Tweed St, Brunswick Heads. Chalet Motel AAA Tourism, 12 rooms.

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Backlash Byron Council will be requesting new planning minister Pru Goward to take a look at some significant issues associated with the proposed West Byron development, including koalas, traffic and acid sulfate soils, suggesting they be addressed to her satisfaction. This doesn’t mean that they will be addressed to residents’ satisfaction, or to the koalas’ satisfaction or to the marine life’s satisfaction if disturbed soil makes its way down the Belongil estuary. Given the track record to date of NSW planning ministers of both political persuasions, Backlash will be happy and surprised if any local concerns are addressed in a satisfactory manner. It’s evident that any proposed growth management strategies for the north coast are languishing in some dusty planning department drawer.

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How urban myths start. Various news sites reported that Chinese teens had taken to walking cabbages on a lead. It was not an eccentric hobby, however, but an art ‘installation’

by Han Bing. The artist has since moved on to The Green Walking Movement, in which 150 cabbage-walking Manchester folk take Savoy cabbages on leashes for a three-hour walk across the city. See more of his work at www.hanbingart.com.

is promising at the next election. The Multi-Modal Aerial Pig Expressway is likely to get up first.

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The current state government seems headed towards a rail trail for the region rather than the return of train services on the Casino–Murwillumbah line. The latest report puts the cost at $75.50m compared to a line rebuild at $900m. Locals will dispute the validity of both figures, given you can weight a consultant’s brief to get the numbers (and the result) you want. Byron Council opted for a bet each way last Thursday, acknowledging that ‘light rail services and the rail trail can co-exist as part of a multi-modal corridor on the Casino to Murwillumbah line’.

It has a snappy ring, doesn’t it? The Multi-Modal Northern Rivers Corridor. Even taxonomists have more imagination than councillors and bureacrats. Whatever is on the wish list, don’t believe what anyone

The ABC had an excellent report on 7.30 last Thursday on the dangers of texting while walking. There was footage of one chap who managed to walk into a moving bus and of others who fell off railway station platforms. Trauma director at St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney, Dr Tony Grabs, described the brain’s condition as ‘just like having alcohol on board; you don’t realise what is going on around you, so the phone is almost like a drug’. See the ABC report at http://bit.ly/ txtbrain. A similar phenomenon which seems popular locally is talking on the phone while driving, which one assumes has a similar effect.

Backlash has noticed talking motorists completely oblivious to their surroundings and driving dangerously close to cyclists and people on pedes-

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Happy Yoga

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Universal Self Defence

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0402 766 966

Seniors Computer Club

Over 50 years

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Zumba Fitness

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Nia Dance

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Kendo Japanese martial art

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Quilting hand & machine

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Taekwondo

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Hall is available Thursday and Friday Mornings Rajah Road, Ocean Shores. For enquiries about hiring the hall, meeting room, kitchen contact the Bookings Officer Helen on 0498 999 1068 or oceanshoreshall@gmail.com.

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