Byron Shire Echo – Issue 29.28 – 23/12/2014

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The annual reading of the credits These are the people who’ve contributed to The Echo this year, by generating the income to keep it going, writing stories, designing ads, working in IT or delivering the papers. Thanks to all and apologies for any inadvertent omissions.

Adam Geoghegan, Adam Van Kempen, Alex Mitchell, Alex Olup, Alison Harman, Anara Carroll, Andrea Herraman, Andrew Jennings, Angela Cornell, Angela McDermott, Anja Schuhmann, Brefney Ruhl, Brendan Dudgeon, Brian Mollet, Cameron Warren, Carla Zipper, Cate Feldman, Cath Hughes, Celia McPartlin, Charles Boyle, Chris Chandler, Chris Dobney, Clint Cassell, Cristina Sharratt, Daniel Sage, Darren Coyne, David Lovejoy, Dominic Klein, Doug Manning, Errol Beaumont, Eve Jeffery, Even Dawn, Felicity Gaze, Florian Stotz, Frank Mazzer, Geoff and Fay Collins, Gordon Haynes, Greg O’Brien, Guy Mason, Hans Lovejoy, Helen Luna, Ian Rogers, Ingrid Ouwerkerk, Janice Dutton, Jarrod Warren-Clarke, Jayne Bradbury, Jeff Dawson, Jennifer Dallimore, Jenny and Blake Mazzer, Jo and Wayne Stubbins, John Buchan, John Campbell, John Dailhau, Josh Bassett, Julie Jarvie, Julie Ray, Karen MacCrae, Kate Boyle, Kathryn Sefton, Kathy Pascoe, Katie Dailhau, Kay Groves, Kay Wearne, Ken Burgess, Lachlan Cornell, Lachlan Stubbins, Lilith Rocha, Luis Feliu, Lynne Adams, Mandy Nolan, Margaret and Alan Serone, Margaret Cox, Margo Kingston, Marie Clibbins, Marj Davey, Mark Robinson, Mary Gardner, Matthew Michaelis, Megan Lewis, Mel Hargraves, Melanie Tongmar, Melinda Saxe, Michael Asange, Michael Johnson, Michael McDonald, Michele Grant, Mungo MacCallum, Nigel Dornan, Nighean O’Brien, Nina Bishop, Noven Purnell-Webb, Paul Headley, Penny Bagshaw, Peter Couldwell, Peter Mills, Rachael Shea, Rachel Stone, Ray Baker, Ray Draper, Russell Geggie, S Sorrensen, Schuyler Dallimore, Seymour Walters, Sharon Shostak, Sheila Kenney, Simeon Michaels, Simon Adams, Simon Haslam, Sophia Marles, Stephen Berriman, Stewart Hughes, Stuart Amos, Tasman Lindsay, Tiago Schardong, Tony Sinclair, Tracey Bourke, Tracey McCrae, Tuppy Lang, Vicki Burke, Vicki Ouwerkerk, and Ziggi Browning.

See front cover credits on back page.

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The Byron Spirit Festival, to be held in Mullumbimby from March 20 to 22 next year, have secured Mercan Dede, ‘one of the five greatest world music acts’, to perform.

Creative director Kate Little says he is renowned for his pioneering links between Turkish Sufism and western electronic music.

A large range of workshops, concerts, kids’ activities and market stalls are also planned.

Ceramicist Pauline Ross oversaw the new seats while Aoife Gordos and Misty Fahy helped Tickets are available at with the tiling. The Flora and Fauna seat is the second in ten planned for Tweed Street www.spiritfestival.com.au.

Brunswick Heads; the first is Suvira McDonald’s red seat near IGA. Photo Jeff Dawson

Byron Park and Ride launched to ease traffic The park and ride Magic Bus will run from Byron Regional Sport and Cultural Complex on Ewingsdale Road into town from December 29 to January 4.

All-day parking will be available at the complex for $5 per car.

Mayor Simon Richardson, says the famous bus will travel via a dedicated bus lane into town, and ‘residents can be part of a solution to a well- known [traffic] problem.’

Additionally, a free shuttle will have two bus services each hour and operate between 10am and 8pm and up until 10pm on NYE.

‘We had more than 6,000 park and ride patrons last year and the feedback was very supportive,’ he says. ‘Each year, Council is aiming to build on the uptake.

It’s fun, fast, and sure beats the pain out of sitting in traffic and then circling town trying to find a car park.’

Special Parking Areas And like last year, a Special Event Parking Area (SEPA) will be in place during the same time.

Time limits will apply for Belongil and Wategos and the streets west, east and within the town centre.

‘Most streets in the SEPA area are residential, where no time limit is signed; however, during SEPA, a 2P time limit will apply for each 24-hour period. If you live within the area, exemption parking permits will be available to residents (and their guests), workers and accommodation providers.’

Collect your SEPA permit from the Mullumbimby Council office until 24 December, or the Byron Regional Sport and Cultural Complex until December 23 and from December 29 to January 4.

Find out more at www.byron.nsw.gov.au or call 6626 7000.

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Farewell to Wendy Lovejoy Wendy Lovejoy, who was a member of the founding generation of Echo people, died peacefully at her home in Ocean Shores on Saturday.

The only child of a carpenter named Frank Avery and his wife Sylvia, Wendy grew up in Carrum, a seaside suburb of Melbourne, and attended Prahran Art School. Like many of her fellow students, the psychedelic experiences of the era led her to question conventional wisdom and embark on a spiritual quest.

After a brief early marriage dissolved, she hit the road and in the summer of 1971 arrived in Sydney with her guitar, an open attitude and a passion to explore life’s meaning.

In a dilapidated Surry Hills terrace styled as an ‘ashram’ she found an answer to her quest. The teachings of the guru Maharaji, centred upon the practice of meditation, remained with her for the rest of her life.

In Surry Hills she met and married David Lovejoy, then general secretary of Maharaji’s organisation in Australia, and their first child, Hans, was born in 1972.

A daughter, Claire, followed in 1975, and later that year the family set off for England, her husband’s homeland, where she and David lived in the guru’s communes until the restructuring of his organisation.

In 1977 Wendy found herself back in Australia with a young family to look after.

David got a job with a small publishing company, which required moving to Brisbane, and then lost the job, which required Wendy to help with the family finances.

Together they formed a graphic art company and Wendy went back to her first love, illustration, creating memorable covers for Queensland Arts

Council publications.

In 1985 Wendy decided that Byron Shire was a healthier place than Brisbane to raise children, and the family moved here.

The next year, when David and Nicholas Shand decided to create a newspaper, Wendy supplied professional graphics for the baby Echo.

Vital contribution Throughout the early days, Wendy’s contribution was vital. In addition to defining the look of the paper and designing the ads, she gracefully agreed to a second mortgage on the family home when the fledgling publication needed additional finance.

This was extremely generous as she had designed the house herself, down to the smallest detail, and it was one of her dearest projects.

Wendy remained an ‘Echo drudge’ for most of the paper’s history, only ceasing

work there a few years ago, long after her divorce from David. Subsequently she met and settled down happily with another Englishman, David Roupell.

Her music was important in the early stages of her life but as time went by she concentrated more on art, and produced exceptionally accomplished paintings, prints of which, signed ‘Wendy

Blake’, are to be found in galleries and Echo offices.

In recent years the arrival of three grandchildren added greatly to Wendy’s life, and it is sad that her golden grandmother period was to be all too short. Fortunately, not long before she fell ill she paid a visit to Greece, a country for which she felt a deep affinity.

It gave her great joy to realise a long-held dream and skim across the water in a speedboat from Lefcas to Ithaca.

Wendy was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer just two months ago, and although that is a dangerous and intractable illness, noone expected she would be taken from us so soon.

Those of us who knew her well will remember a loyal friend, a generous mother, a clever and humorous artist, a knowledgeable proponent of alternative medicine, a devoted follower of her spiritual path, and above all a woman of uncommon wit and beauty.

Wendy is survived by her partner David Roupell, children Hans and Claire, and grandchildren Sunny, Ivy and Emily. She was 67.

There will be a celebration of Wendy’s life at South Golden Beach Hall from 3pm on Sunday, December 28.

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The Byron Shire and the Byron Youth Service (BYS) are about to lose ‘Links to Learning’, a valuable program which helps youth in the area.

Byron Links to Learning co-ordinator Karen Ford told The Echo, ‘Links to Learning helps re-engage young people in either education or employment training and has been running over eight years servicing in-school students and early school-leavers.’

Change in funding ‘There has been a change in the funding for next year and it’s now just solely for inschool students.

‘We had really good success with our early schoolleavers.’

Director Jonathan Edwards says BYS has been closely involved with the community over 27 years.

‘Its work has particularly supported young people at risk or in crisis through the provision of healthy, alcohol- and drug-free activities and events.

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The Department of Education has funded the Byron Youth Services for a number of years and says a new Links to Learning program would have a ‘different focus’.

Karen says that there is nothing to replace the lost program. ‘At this point there is nothing for those students at risk’, says Karen.

‘It’s a huge loss.’

Friends of BYS established With severe cuts in government funding, and future funding uncertainty, Byron Youth Service (BYS) is increasingly becoming reliant upon community support.

As a result, a Friends of BYS register is being compiled.

Co-ordinator Stephanie Sims says, ‘People experienced in business might want to roll up their sleeves, get involved with the service and mentor

identified projects. We are looking for social entrepreneurs who want to put a bit of effort in for youth, with a positive return to our community.

‘Funding has become tighter with the loss of two of our major funding contracts. If you are able to help us fund these costs, you are helping us to keep our service alive!’

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Local News New book features plight of local koalas

Puppets to make a splash at Falls

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Pictured is one of the puppet creators, Mia Robinson, with Valley Lipscer, co-ordinator of the parade. Photo Jeff Dawson

Over the last five days, a group of local artists have been working with a team of volunteers to create murals, parade floats and large-scale

puppets for the New Years festival to be held at Falls Festival. A massive parade is planned for the last day of the festival.

NSW Greens move to ban holiday letting Chris Dobney

NSW Greens MLC and former Byron Shire mayor Jan Barham have taken exception to the council’s holidayletting strategy and tabled a motion in state parliament to ban the practice except in defined tourism zones.

The current Byron draft holiday letting strategy has been shepherded through Council and a community consultation process by Greens mayor Simon Richardson. The plan has moved away from its original zoning strategy towards allowing holiday letting throughout the shire contingent on conditions.

But Ms Barham said the practice is ‘eroding communities’ and has vowed to campaign against it, including by legislation when parliament returns following the state elections in March.

Ms Barham told The Echo the proposal ‘makes a mock-

ery of the process of strategic planning’.

‘It’s ironic when you consider that West Byron was approved by the state owing to the “housing crisis” in Byron Shire. The fact that dwellings previously approved in residential zones to meet residential population needs are now being used for tourism is of great concern for the future character and community of the shire.

‘A change in the LEP would further diminish the supply and affordability of residential housing with the use made permissible in any zone,’ she said.

‘This would mean that the recently approved West Byron development could become a holiday-let area,’ she added.

Ms Barham said recent legal judgments, including one examining the practice in Gosford on the central coast, ‘prove that the use is prohibited in residential zones; it also

makes it clear that Council has a responsibility to address it’.

But she said previous attempts to address holiday letting in residential zones in Byron Shire had been ‘thwarted’.

‘In previous councils there was an inability to gain a majority of councillors willing to resolve to take legal action.

‘Then when Council did act it was a case of premises who received notice of legal action, ceasing the use. The requirement for notification… has meant that notice is given to the owners and they avoid legal action.’

Mayor reacts Byron Greens mayor Simon Richardson said he was initially attracted to the precinct model.

‘It logically makes the most sense in terms of providing clarity in letting people know what they can do and where. If you live in an area that allows holiday let-

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But he added that ‘any time you draw a line on the map there are some natural injustices and inequalities’.

‘It’s easy for me or anyone not affected to just draw a line but if you live on the wrong side you might find yourself in a holiday precinct that you never wanted, or you might have to sell out [if you were an investor].

‘Many people found [the precinct model] way too arbitrary and with the state government responding negatively, many people found it just too punitive.’

Cr Richardson said the new aim of ‘improving the management of holiday letting and increasing requirements for it’ would ‘encourage some people to let their properties long term instead’.

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Eateries urged to go dementia friendly Luis Feliu

A Brunswick Heads cafe owner is doing his bit to create a dementia-friendly environment for the community, while also spreading Christmas cheer.

Edgar Bogic and his staff at the Dolphin Cafe generously put on a free Christmas brunch for Byron Shire Respite Service clients on Wednesday last week, in a bid to make the popular cafe even more welcoming for the whole community.

Respite Service care manager Barbara Chambers said support by local businesses for the service and its work in the community was much appreciated.

‘Businesses could be looking at appropriate signage,

Dolphin Cafe owner Edgar Bogic (centre rear) and Byron Shire Respite Service care manager Barbara Chambers (right) enjoy Christmas brunch at the cafe with day-program participants Morlene Templeman (left), Tom Armstrong and Diana Pysden (second right).

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lighting and colours to make it easier for people with dementia to remain engaged in their community,’ Mrs Chambers told The Echo.

‘We hope that increased

community awareness about dementia will support people to continue with the activities they enjoy and reduce isolation that a lot of people with dementia and their carers

experience. All people need to have value and purpose in their lives. Social stigma can have a devastating impact on the lives of people with dementia and their carers.’

Walls of Echo’s office adorned Suspected drowning at North Wall Darren Coyne

The Echo’s Mullum office wall is now an artscape thanks to local street artist Superwetpaint (Glenn Case).

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The body of a man in his 60s was pulled from the ocean at Brunswick Heads Tuesday morning.

Local surfers helped pull the body from the water a short distance from the north wall about 8.15am.

Surf Life Saving Far North Coast duty officer Jimmy Keogh told media the deceased was a middle-aged man who most likely drowned while swimming.

‘We’ve had several drownings at this location this year, and coming into the busy holiday period we want to urge people to not take risks, swim between the flags and watch out for your mates,’ said Mr Keogh.

A man drowned in February and another in March in the same location.

Police are attempting to identify the man and locate his next of kin.

Anyone with information please call 1800 333 000.

Broken Head Quarry rejection welcomed Byron Bay’s Bundjalung people released a statement last week commending Council’s decision to reject a proposed residential subdivision of land at the Broken Head Quarry site near Suffolk Park.

The quarry site is located within the boundaries of their ongoing native title claim, which was lodged in 2001, and within the tradi-

tional country of the Byron Bay Bundjalung people.

‘As traditional owners and custodians of their country, the claim group has significant concerns about the impact of any development at this location on their sacred women’s site at the nearby TiTree Lake (Taylor’s Lake), and other sites of importance to them,’ the statement read.

‘Ti-Tree Lake is of extreme past, present and future importance to the members of the claim group.

Sacred site ‘Accordingly, the claim group have opposed and continue to oppose any development of this type in the area, and would oppose any future development or rezoning of

land which would have the potential to impact [upon] the integrity of Ti-Tree Lake.

‘The claim group believe that, when extraction at the Broken Head Quarry finishes, the site should be rehabilitated in accordance with their elders’ instructions, and that measures should be put in place to ensure that the site is not disturbed into the future.’

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Graham Richardson and The Happy Hatters meet to rehearse each Monday at the Mullum RSL. The group of senior musicians played the recent Uplift festival. Photo Jeff Dawson

Patients waiting too long at Ballina Hospital: ALP Chris Dobney

Waiting times at Ballina Hospital’s emergency department are too long and the state government is to blame for ripping up to $3 billion in funding out of the health department.

That was the message of shadow health minister Walt Secord and Ballina Labor candidate Paul Spooner when they visited the hospital last week.

In addition, Mr Secord criticised the federal government for failing to honour its promise to provide $4.5 million to upgrade the hospital’s emergency department, an extra operating theatre and expand its medical imaging department. Last month Echonetdaily reported that federal funding to upgrade the hospital’s antiquated and overcrowded emergency department – the result of an election promise

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Hogan – would still leave the community short, according to Ballina mayor David Wright.

Mr Wright called on the Northern NSW Local Health District (NNSWLHD) to make up the shortfall, but CEO Chris Crawford said any extra funding would have to come from the Commonwealth. Last week, Mr Secord and Mr Spooner said state cuts had placed pressure on Ballina Hospital and its emergency department.

Bay FM 99.9 announces new management Seven new committee members have joined the management team of Byron Shire’s own local community radio station, Bay FM. Newly appointed president, Oliver McElligott, says new members are Rachael Torise, Michael Lyons, Ange Kent, Nicky Fisher, Teeya Blatt, Xavier Hanckel-Spice and Michael Schubert.

They join previous committee members Quentin Watts, Rudiger Wasser and Deb Sharp.

‘The 2015 management committee bring a range of business skills and experience to the team that will help to move the station into multimedia platforms and tap into Byron Shire’s youth market.

‘Bay FM has been on air for 25 years with the vision to be a globally recognised and respected independent media outlet, capturing the character of Byron Shire.

‘The station is a not-forprofit organisation and relies upon 120 enthusiastic volunteers, funds from our local sponsors, subscribers and grants,’ Mr McElligott said.

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Keep Phone Tower Microwaves Away The proposed Phone Tower at Player Pde. Ocean Shores is within 500m of dozens of homes and a public school This close proximity appears to contravene prior governmental recommendations for application of the internationally recognised "precautionary principle".

Accredited scientists have associated the following Adverse Effects with microwave installations: Chronic fatigue, irritability, headaches, nausea, loss of appetite, sleep disturbance, depression, reduced concentration, loss of memory, visual impairment, dizziness, ringing in the ears, skin disorders, reproductive abnormalities, and cardiovascular problems.

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Children and pregnant women are reported to be most at risk, including genetic damage that can be passed on for generations. The World Health Organisation classifies electromagnetic radiation as "possibly carcinogenic".

How will this tower affect the wellbeing of nearby residents and their property values? Can we rely upon industry to reveal the whole story? Would not visitors to Byron Shire prefer to enjoy a relaxed natural environment unaffected by citylike levels of airborne electro-pollution?

The applicant is proposing to build their tower on Council, or nearby private, land. Once construction has begun, it may be too late to object. Periodic "upgrades" could increase its visual impact and radiated field. Now is the time to get the facts and consider voicing your opposition.

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Local News Sun Bistro opens on Bayshore Drive From last Tuesday, the Sun Bistro on Bayshore Drive, Byron Bay was open for business.

One of the features of the bistro are artworks by Suvira McDonald and Susie Olsen.

‘It was one of those projects that fell into place easily,’ said Suvira McDonald of the Sun Garden Seat, which he constructed for the bistro.

‘In keeping with the theme of the Sun Bistro, everything is recycled, from the old railway sleepers to the historical recycled steel.’

At the pre-launch gathering on Monday, Jeremy Holmes announced Elements of Byron as the new name for

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North Byron Beach Resort, which is currently under construction and due to open December 2015. ‘Mother Na-

ture was the creative director for the brand and our overall vision. It all came together very organically.’

Fluoride dosing plant protests The first in a series of major campaigns to halt the construction of four proposed dosing facilities in the northern rivers kicked off Monday morning in Clunes.

Campaigner Al Oshlack said, ‘Notwithstanding the overwhelming scientific documentation of adverse health impacts of fluoridated water to the the community, a recent spill in Dungog [in the upper Hunter region] has

highlighted the the dangers that fluoride poses to the environment.

Spill at Dungog ‘The spill at Dungog was investigated by the EPA, who have not proceeded with any prosecution of the culprit, Hunter Water.

‘This shows that the authorities are disregarding any regulatory responsibility to bring to heel blatant acts of

pollution. There is no safety in these plants and over the last 12 months the dosing plant at Casino has had numerous breakdowns.

Mr Oshlack says a blockade camp will be set up at Corndale, where construction of the biggest dosing plant has commenced.

Byron Shire is not included in the fluoridation plans.

For more email al.oshlack@ijan.com.au.

Fifth artist announcement for Bluesfest Just before Christmas, Bluesfest has added more artists to its growing 2015 lineup.

On the heels of Lenny Kravitz, newly added artists include Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires, Augie March, Donavon Frankenreiter, Melbourne Ska Orchestra, Justin Townes Earle, Diesel ’n’ Dub, Ash Grunwald, Blue King Brown, The Beautiful Girls, Steve Smyth and Karl S Williams.

Festival director Peter Noble says, ‘We are presenting Bluesfest with a contemporary look to the superstars of blues and roots music of the future – featuring Paolo Nutini, David Gray, Ben Howard, The Alabama Shakes, and many more… and now with our latest announcement containing a spicy mix of overseas and Aussie artists, we add yet another layer of topping to what is beginning to look like our best Bluesberry cake yet!’

The festival will be held over the five-day Easter long weekend from April 2 till 6, 2015 at the Tyagarah Tea Tree Farm. For more info visit www.bluesfest.com.au.

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Hurrah for ICAC, right? The NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption.

It’s an elite crime-fighting outfit that exposes serious and ‘systemic corruption by public officials’ in NSW. It even says so on its website.

In the past year alone, more than nine coalition MPs have seen their public careers implode over dodgy dealings and it seems the state’s watchdog can do no wrong.

But after the ferocious investigation of respected Sydney-based senior counsel (SC) prosecutor Margaret Cunneen, her son Stephen and his girlfriend Sophia, cracks are now appearing in what seems to be a politically motivated and weak case.

The charge is trying to pervert the course of justice; it is alleged they advised Sophia to fake chest pains to avoid breath testing after a serious car accident.

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systemic corruption; indeed ICAC have not even given the courts any compelling evidence why this should be pursued. Ms Cunneen vehemently denied the charges, and in response, has launched her own proceedings to stop ICAC’s investigations.

So far she’s won, and the

not beholden to any minister, Fairfax reported that the person who does have some clout – ICAC inspector and former supreme court judge, David Levine QC – launched an audit of the Cunneen inquiry last November.

All this is in the context of ‘a parliamentary inquiry into

ICAC’s unlawful powers According to its 2013–14 annual report, investigators use all the typical spook toys: listening devices, tracking devices, optical surveillance devices and/or data surveillance devices. But ICAC can also obtain approval under the Law Enforcement (Controlled Operations) Act 1997 for the ‘conduct of operations that would otherwise be unlawful.’

And further to being totally outside the law, investigators can also use false identities under the Law Enforcement and National Security (Assumed Identities) Act 2010.

final round is expected in the High Court in March.

According to a brief press release on ICAC’s website, the decision in Cunneen v ICAC ‘fundamentally alters the basis of the commission’s powers’.

Could this setback to its ‘powers’ be a turning point in pursuing public officials?

While the watchdog is

the number of prosecutions arising from its investigations, which may result in a change to its statutory powers.’

And wide-ranging support for Ms Cunneen also comes from the NSW Bar Council, who according to Morry Schwartz’s The Saturday Paper, say she was recently re-installed to the bar, ‘with

the second-highest number of votes after the president.’

At 56 years of age, she has presided over cases of rape, paedophilia and murder for more than 30 years.

Speaking to The Echo, Ms Cunneen confirmed she worked with current ICAC commissioner, Megan Latham, for many years in the 1980s and 90s, however stopped short of explaining more of that relationship.

She believes the ‘source’ relied on by ICAC for her case is a malicious family member.

‘Sophia’s blood-alcohol reading was 0.00, the accident was not her fault,’ she said.

‘There was never any interest in investigating the matter on the part of the police and she was already in the back of the ambulance when I arrived.’

She said of the ICAC investigation, ‘Who will now wish to offer their lives to public service – as I have done – if they think they could be dragged through this, for something which occurs in people’s family lives all the time’.

ICAC refuses to comment on West Byron While it’s standard practice to not comment on ongoing legal cases, there appears a general ‘no comment policy’ with the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC).

Their media spokesperson refused to answer questions from The Echo last Friday regarding why the West Byron development was never investigated after it was referred to them by MLC Jan Barham.

Ms Barham questioned ‘irregularities’ dating from when the site was defined in

2009. The Echo asked why ICAC will not comment, considering the question was not defamatory, nor before the courts and is in the public interest.

The spokesperson replied, ‘The Commission does not confirm or deny if it has received complaints. Nor do we comment on referrals. This is to protect the integrity of the Commission’s investigative work.

‘Without referring to specific matters, the general exception to this is if a matter

proceeds to a public inquiry and/or report.

‘The Commission has no further comment to make in regard to this matter.’

Public interest?

But Section 12 of the ICAC Act says: ‘Public interest is to be paramount’.

It reads, ‘In exercising its functions, the commission shall regard the protection of the public interest and the prevention of breaches of public trust as its paramount concerns’.

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Compassionate moves The Baird government is to be congratulated for establishing a trial to investigate the benefits of cannabis for the terminally ill – even though some of the terminally ill have already experienced the benefits for themselves.

It’s a move which even the law-and-order loonies of the Murdoch press cannot damn.

Labor and Greens MPs have expressed the view that it is well past time for a trial and the evidence is already in. The government is protecting its own legal interests and the doctors their own proprietorial interests in medicine by going down this route, but it may help to demystify cannabis and its benefits for those who believe implicitly in authority.

Perhaps more importantly it will take the heat off those who use medical cannabis and those who supply them.

Under new guidelines, police will have the discretion to not charge terminally ill cannabis users and the carers who assist them. I assume the police will have the common sense to exercise that discretion and their commanders could reinforce the need to do so. There is no merit in arresting a dying person or those helping a child with epilepsy whose seizures have been greatly relieved by cannabis.

The research by child neurology epilepsy specialist Dr John Lawson and other doctors will be of particular value in revealing that not all aspects of currently prohibited drugs are bad.

Before the current wave of paranoia, helpfully established by the United States last century, research into another drug, MDMA – not the debased shit sold on the street as ‘Ecstasy’ – demonstrated its benefits in alleviating the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.

No doubt the government will take its time in ‘establishing protocols’ for medical cannabis use and the pharmaceutical industry will see an opportunity to ‘regularise’ control of it. In the meantime individuals will see fit to continue administering cannabis to their suffering friends and family.

Had we but world enough and time, to quote the English MP and poet Andrew Marvell, we might see a more enlightened attitude develop towards perception-altering drugs and their role in revelation and medicine properly appreciated. Until then, cannabis remains illegal for the healthy, so don’t go blowing your mind without government approval.

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inally one barnacle has been removed just in time for Christmas.

After months of procrastination Arthur Sinodinos has been informed that his resignation as assistant treasurer has been accepted, whether it was offered or not. And to seal the compact, the resignation was leaked immediately just in case there could be any second thoughts.

The embattled senator, it will be recalled, was invited to the ICAC to shed some light on the shenanigans involving Sydney Water Holdings, the dodgy company promoted by disgraced entrepreneur Nick Girolamo and his ally Eddie Obeid. The Commission was particularly interested in the fact that large sums of money had been remitted from the firm to the federal Liberal Party, and felt that Sinodinos, in his joint role of SWH director and Liberal Party treasurer, might be able to help.

But alas, Sinodinos knew nothing – an important qualification for a front-bench position within the Abbott government. And he is convinced that, in the end, he will be vindicated and indeed reinstated.

He may be right: the only certain things against him are plausible denial and insensate greed, the latter from the hope and expectation of a multimillion-dollar windfall from a shonky deal he was pushing on behalf of SWH. As far as his political colleagues are concerned, these are certainly not serious offences – indeed, they are more matters for congratulation.

But in the meantime Josh Frydenberg takes over as backup for Joe Hockey, recently crowned in the polls as the worst treasurer in a generation: something of a poisoned chalice, but a chalice nonetheless – prospective ministers can’t be choosers. And Sussan Ley gains

promotion, but mainly through headlines reporting her as a second token woman as female company for Julie Bishop – Abbott has played the gender card again. There is some movement among the junior ranks, but at the top it looks more like a case of rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic. The big loser is David Johnston, dumped in spite of Abbott’s fulsome (in the correct sense of the word) praise just a fortnight ago. Kevin Andrews and Peter Dutton have been moved to Johnston’s politi-

edge. Well, among some journalists and politicians, certainly, and perhaps even among some lawyers. But among the voters?

I very much doubt it.

If they considered the 18-year-old case at all, it was probably in the context of a stitch-up by the Abbott government. The Royal Commission into the unions was in itself seen as something of a witch hunt used to damage the ALP, but at least that could be justified in the light of thuggery and bullying in the workplaces

Sinodinos knew nothing – an important qualification for a front-bench position within the Abbott government.

by Mungo MacCallum cal death zone of Defence and Scott Morrison’s demolition area of Immigration respectively and Morrison himself gets Social Security with an opportunity to prove that he can be as brutal with welfare recipients as he has been with refugees. And so the ship founders on.

Sinodinos must be hoping to emulate Julia Gillard, who has now been officially cleared not only of criminal conduct but also of knowledge of criminality by the Heydon Royal Commission into the trades unions.

And this, in the words of The Australian’s chief prosecutor Hedley Thomas, is where the AWU slush-fund saga reaches its natural end.

Or at least where it should end. But Thomas, who has pursued the former prime minister with an obsessive diligence worthy of a better cause, is still reluctant to let it go. There will be great differences of opinion, he avers, among voters, lawyers, politicians and journalists about Julia Gillard’s role and knowl-

Dear Man, You are the active pole on earth and needed like the sun – shining with honest care, in love, on to a woman.

She is like the earth – she receives, she gives, she knows. We are this beautiful life. In this self-made world man learned to show off, it is easy for you but are you brave enough to stand up for love? Be true – be simple and give your honest love and care and make sweetly and rightly love to her. It is a woman’s delight and need to grow with you and glow in love. It is your most fulfilling task. For this to be, you will have to give up selfish, restless sex. Be still, drop your demand, enjoy moment to moment life.

Love life.

Do you excite yourself with sex-thought? It overstimulates you. It makes you dishonest in love, so you just take, but you should ask and learn to give right love. We are influenced as a child... take a drug, get used to sex, be sexy, show off, be greedy, give your attention to the newest invention, get excited... nothing will be good enough for long and such greediness supports the sex business. Worldwide he manipulates young women to play sexy for him, to be his sex object and if she makes sex with such a selfish demanding ungiving man it makes her like him.

Infected and made discontent, both feel dependent on stimulation, for in truth they have not made love and so they say ‘let’s have some fun with a drug...’ Hey man, give up, you can’t just take what you want, you can’t just take love! You have to give to a woman. Life’s love is her gift to you, if you have earned it.

A woman today can be honest to man. If he is not honest, do not give to him, wait until he demonstrates true love. If you are honest, moment to moment and give to what is good and right, you simply feel well from the inside. With such a woman of love, you will listen to her carefully. Love is easily broken, it has to be made fresh, new, no other body belongs to you. Each of us has to stand up for love. Life felt inside is reflected in beautiful earth, universe – I belong to you.

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– although it also needs to be said that many of the employers were willing accomplices in paying out the money allegedly extorted. After all, they could, and usually would, pass the cost on to their customers.

But to attempt to embroil Gillard in the process was naked spite and vindictiveness. And after all the sound and fury, all the accusations and innuendo, it failed: the worst Gillard was found guilty of was a bit of ‘casual and haphazard’ work as a young solicitor – a bit of legal jaywalking which, she admits, she would in retrospect like to have had her time again. No doubt she would; no doubt she now regrets hooking up with Bruce Wilson, who was the instigator of the apparently illegal slush fund, in the first place. But a romantic misjudgment is hardly a criminal offence either.

Gillard also says that she would like an apology from Abbott and his ministers who, under parliamentary privilege, accused her of committing

a crime. She is unlikely to get one, which might be a matter of premonitory concern to Sinodinos. After all, if political payback is to be the norm, what is to prevent a future Labor government from setting up its own royal commission into Liberal Party rorts and fronts to launder political donations which, the ICAC found, were administered during the time Sinodinos was the party’s federal treasurer?

And we cannot finish the week, or indeed the year, without a mention of the Martin Place siege. For my money, the police behaved impeccably. All too often they can be impetuous, even reckless: a matter of shoot first and ask questions afterwards, and if there any accusation of impropriety, lock the bastards up and throw away the key. But this time, they did it by the book: secure the area and try to wait it out. And for 16 long hours, it seemed to work.

In the end, of course, it ended in tragedy – but it probably always would have. At least the cops did their level best. If they had stormed the place immediately it might have come to a climax sooner, but it would almost certainly have produced the same result, if not a worse one.

There is now, inevitably, a series of inquiries and soulsearching, including arguments about whether or not the gunman was really a terrorist, and whether he was insane. Frankly it hardly matters. He was an evil and dangerous man who was never going to become reconciled with the country in which he had chosen to live. Whatever his motives and psychology, he was always going to end badly – as it does with all of those nurturing hatred, bigotry, delusion and a lack of human empathy.

For all of them, bah humbug.

For the rest of us, season’s greetings: I’ll ride with you.

Are you a responsible, peaceful, joyful, simple and supportive man who is willing to serve in the restoration of love on earth? I have seen the Light so very bright. Honesty and Love make us grow and glow in consciousness.

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Letters Helping hands Mullumbimby Loves Refugees received so many gifts for the children detained on Nauru that we needed extra help with transport. The management and staff of StarTrack were very happy to help, taking a pallet load of over 40 boxes from here to Melbourne. Thank you so much, StarTrack.

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Cycling round Josh Scott-Jouirâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recent letter expounding the benefits of cycling around our beautiful region raises important issues and explodes some myths. After riding most days for ten years on our beautiful backroads it astounds me how few people cycle. Fear of being hit by a car is real.

But in my experience drivers are courteous and increasingly so. In ten years of daily

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commuting, often between Byron and Bangalow, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve come off once and that was my own fault. I got caught in a summer thunderstorm at night and a pothole I swear wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t there in the morning consumed me.

When you cycle, with a bit of regularity, this is what happens: you get fit; you feel amazing; you see things youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never seen before but should have; you have time to reflect; you arrive at your destination calm, balanced and, I would argue, a better person. Join me.

Luke Roberts Byron Bay

Weed steaming Thanks to Barbara Stewartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s letter last week regarding weed control and that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a complex issue.

The service I provide with steam weeding is not a silver bullet; however, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heartening to see senior Council staff now support this, as it proven to be highly effective in sensitive areas such as playgrounds, waterways and open spaces.

My interactions with Council staff have been very positive. They have a tough job in balancing the publicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s expectations on chemical-free weed control and

The GM responds to his critics In a front page story labelled â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Steamrolledâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; The Echo states that I had refused to explain why a chemical-free steamweeding trial â&#x20AC;&#x201C; operated by a contractor â&#x20AC;&#x201C; is not being given the opportunity to produce the best outcomes.

This article is misleading on a number of levels. Firstly, I did not receive a request from The Echo. A request was made to Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s communications officer who directed the request to the infrastructure director, the senior staff member responsible. Secondly, the steam-weeding trial was adopted by the council after Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budget had been adopted and the budget did not include any funding for the trial, so staff had to

cobble a trial together utilising scarce resources â&#x20AC;&#x201C; it was this factor which significantly limited Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ability to fund the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;extraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; work requested by a local contractor.

Thirdly, the article expresses bewilderment that Council would seek to embed chemical-free weed control into its programs and train staff in steam weeding. Surely the recognition that environmentally friendly weed control is to be embedded by Council is a matter for celebration â&#x20AC;&#x201C; not bewilderment.

In Letters of December 16 John Anderson alias â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Fast Buck$â&#x20AC;&#x2122; waxes lyrical about how I have single handedly â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;removed nearly all mention of legal matters from the

agendaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. I â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;the GM aloneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; am also charged with removing public question time from the public access sessions that precede Council meetings.

These allegations have been consistently plied by Mr A in a series of letters to The Echo.

It seems the old adage â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;never let the facts get in the way of a good storyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; rings true.

While one could become a little light-headed at the exalted rank bestowed upon me, in fact both matters were determined following workshop discussions by councillors where Council was seeking to streamline Council meetings and adopt a new meeting procedure.

Question time was deleted from a new draft meet-

ing procedure that was duly exhibited publicly for 28 days then resolved in open Council. The council also decided that in the less litigious environment that now prevails in Council it was no longer necessary to publicly report such matters at Council meetings.

Instead staff were asked to prepare regular memorandums summarising the status of current legal issues for the information of councillors.

Council reports these legal matters in its annual report and non-confidential legal information is discoverable through the normal GIPA/ FOI channels.

Ken Gainger General Manager Byron Shire Council

balancing the books.

Not only does steam weeding achieve chemical-free results, it can also be used to disinfect and spotlessly clean playground equipment and barbecue areas.

Paul Sommers Wilsons Creek

wildlife corridor that links the coastal nature reserves with the hinterland Wollumbin World Heritage rainforests. Tens of thousands of Falls Festival patrons will trash one of the most biologically rich environments in Australia and line the festival developerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pockets with millions of dollars.

We do not need to trade the environment for festivals.

We can have both by moving the festivals to a location that is not biologically rich. We have a petition on Change. org (search for â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;move festivalsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;) asking the government to tell the festivals to move (also accessible via CONOS Inc Facebook page).

As the state government has granted these festivals a five-year trial period, you would expect that the fes-

tivals are on their best behaviour. However they have been unable to follow some of the governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most important rules, particularly in terms of noise (as residents up to 10km away will testify).

If this is their best behaviour, we dread any permanent approval to hold numerous festivals up to 50,000 people!

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Festival failings Once again the festival mentality will descend upon the

thanks to all for an amazing year. wishing you peace, love, joy and good health.

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Letters continued from page 17 community and environment groups that will not fundraise there on an ethical basis, and others that similarly refuse to be involved there (musicians, artists, potential volunteers etc).

Festivals can be moved.

An important wildlife corridor and 50 threatened species cannot.

Bob Oehlman Conservation Of North Ocean Shores Inc

Brunswick memorial pine plantings Thank you for running the Terrace Park trees story last week. In 1919, locals decided to plant a memorial avenue of trees for those who served in WWI. That meant a long nurturing phase, with many adults and children participating, for decades.

By plan or accident, the species planted was Coastal Cypress, a tree declared an endangered species today. A hundred and more people were involved in the planting/ caring, and I would appreciate any info about their work, photos, any notes.

I believe that the first designer, Arthur Beckinsale of Bangalow, knew that the Coastal Cypress Pine was an unusual species and decided

North Coast news daily: to preserve it as a memorial avenue. I would appreciate any info about those trees and their maintenance. Contact me on belongilswamp@ gmail.com or 0408 440 243.

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legislative, technological, and commercial constraints that tie us to fossil-fuel-based energy and agriculture. We must rush urgently towards a survivable society.

Sapoty Brook Tyagarah

Miserable

Showground woes

What a miserable mob we have on Byron Shire Council.

They can spend thousands of dollars on Schoolies but can’t put up a Christmas tree in Byron town centre or help one of the local churches to arrange Carols By The Sea. Bah, humbug.

Tony Duffy Byron Bay

I live quite near the Mullumbimby Showground and have been a constant dog walker there for several years. It has been a great pleasure to see the remarkable transformation of the Showground in recent times – grass mown, the whole area kept clean and looking inviting – and as a result being much more used.

All of this was due to the hard work of the two caretakers, Keith and Margaret.

It is with total dismay that I have learned that these two admirable people have left the Showgound. It will be difficult to replace them.

Ilma Woodward Mullumbimby

Catastrophes Winning the global fight against CO2 emissions slowly is the same as losing. We will be overrun by accumulating and quickening climate and ocean catastrophes.

The ocean is warming at depths of 500 metres. There, methane hydrates stored under pressure are melting at increasing rates. If only a small fraction of the vast reservoir of sea-floor methane escapes into the atmosphere then we are fkd.

We must accelerate the pace of lifestyle change. We must throw out the habitual,

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Traffic improvements I would like to thank Byron councillors for voting to implement the improvements at the Shirley Street/Lawson Street roundabout. I think it will improve traffic flow through town, especially for locals not heading for the

beach. We will have a separate lane leading us through town to the various car parking options available. It won’t fix everything but it’s going to be a help!

What will also help and possibly reduce traffic into town are more parking options on the periphery of town, possibly around Kendall Street. If there were signs out on Ewingsdale Road approaching town advising people that the Main Beach car park was full then I’m sure many people would consider a ten-minute walk from around Kendall Street into town or a three-minute walk across the rail lines to the beach a more desirable option. Even more desirable if this peripheral parking were cheaper and for a longer stay and signed as such.

I know this will cost a heap and again may not be the perfect option but car parking revenue can be put toward it and will be another step in the right direction.

Stuart Baird Ewingsdale

Diesel dreaming The long awaited update on glossy non-recycled art paper arrived from the anonymous North Byron Beach Resort team. It proudly describes

the 1940s diesel technology they plan to use as transport from the resort to Byron Bay. This diesel puts fine particulates into the air and presents problems for children, asthma sufferers and is carcinogenic. The update says they will eventually convert to solar power. I assume this at the same time that brush turkeys become rainbow coloured.

Manager Jeremy Holmes says in The Echo that fares will be $3 each way. If the service starts mid 2015 it won’t be long before fares are $7.50.

The noise pollution borne by residents in Sunrise, Belongil and Byron Bay beaches may just have to be addressed.

The city-to-city train service was daily. This one, if it starts, will be one every 30 minutes seven days per week.

I wonder if Jeremy is up for spending millions on glass sheeting along the railway line to keep the noise in. Of course this is a NIMBY complaint. But if this looks like going ahead, the OMDB Inc [Over My Dead Body Incorporated] will be actively – for as long as possible – doing everything, including lying on the tracks, to stop this disgusting old technology transport system.

Jeremy, you could easily buy 200 bikes for about

netdaily.net.au $40,000. What a fantastic way to solve this problem. There is a bike path all the way to Byron. It’s a ten-minute ride and I’m sure your guests would love to ride a bike, stay fit and relieve us local residents from taking actions against diesel locomotive proposals.

With any luck, maybe Jeremy just won’t want to spend the excess of $1,000,000 for his ‘not light rail’ (but lighter than heavy rail) that is going to take a long time to recoup.

Or maybe money grows on those trees next to Bayshore Drive.

Lee Cass Byron Bay

Some fanfare Rose Wanchap wrote in the Byron Shire News Thursday December 18 that the resolution for the permanent second lane into Byron passed with little fanfare in Council on Thursday December 11.

The route devised will create a permanent second lane into Byron along Shirley Street (where it starts was not explained), over the rail line to the roundabout, with a left turn lane through the Lawson Street North carpark linking to Bay Street beside the swimming pool.

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Sri Lanka Boxing Day Tsunami 2004 Story & photo Ian Cohen

I decided that the perfect escape would be to return for a surf trip to Sri Lanka after 28 years. I arrived in Colombo at 3am, hoping to get a vehicle to Hikkadua. The alternative was a local train the next morning.

A direct minibus took me to my accommodation on the beach. On arrival I found that my booking had been given to another and I was moved to the jungle side of the railway line. I was most put out. The next day tourists died in those bungalows on the beach and over a thousand died in the morning train.

I could not sleep. I was unaware that wild animals were restless. In the east elephant herds moved inland.

Earthquake The Sri Lankan navy upanchored and moved offshore, having been notified by other SE Asian naval authorities that an earthquake off Sumatra had unleashed a massive tsunami that was travelling across the Indian Ocean. They neglected to inform other authorities or the media.

I walked the beach early, surfboard under arm and dressed for surfing a tropical reef. Waxing up, I looked seaward and noticed the sea had retreated.

Then it hit, the water rose on the deck where I was standing, the sky went grey, water flowed up to my waist.

I held onto a coconut verandah pole for protection from masonry, broken from the wall at front, now capable of breaking bones. I entered a room but as the water rose to chest height a crack appeared in the wall, so out to the coconut pole once again, climbing and using it as a narrow shield.

Still I did not know what it was. The sea remained high for what seemed like 30 minutes. It suddenly receded. I went down to the beach looking for casualties. There was an eerie emptiness.

Then the wall of water came in again. Unaware that tsunamis come in two waves I had no idea that I was witnessing a global disaster.

Hundreds of people died in a market a kilometre away, unable to swim, women dressed in long, flowing saris. Further on, the morning train was derailed. Barred windows and locked doors trapped thousands. The disaster was made worse as the inshore reefs had been mined for construction,

The bus station at Galle after the tsunami.

reducing resistance.

Traditional housing with coconut poles survived best.

Concrete buildings had walls blown in as if bombed. Buddhist temples became refuges for those who had lost all.

People talked of those who had bad karma being victims.

Religion was turning my stomach.

People’s Republic of China tents sprang up but they were little more than advertising.

Mainstream political parties vied for relief-supply badging and advantage with devastated communities.

the transaction. I was clawing the walls.

Eventually solutions were found. The embassy was able to donate a security fence for the compound to balance the ledger. One of the major problems was bands of men preying on the residents at night.

Sambodhi was re-opened with great fanfare two weeks after the disaster.

It was a month of abject failure as an escape. I survived and learnt much about another society, the best and worst of humanity in a state of anarchy and how effective international aid could be if representatives are on the ground in disaster areas.

After I returned home, the Byron community raised over $100,000 for tsunami victims.

Q Ian Cohen is an encironmental activist, former Greens MP and author of Green Fire – An Account of the Australian Environmental Protest Movement.

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Greens SL I came across Greens SL, a Gandhian style group which supplied food, pumped and cleaned contaminated water tanks. We travelled to Galle where Russian sniffer-dog teams were searching house to house in the vain attempt to find survivors.

The Green Team took me to Sambodhi, a public level disability centre where 50 residents drowned. Survivors stayed in their wooden beds with foam mattresses floating them to the ceiling. The grounds were caked in mud and debris. Smashed wheelchairs were piled up against the walls from the weight of the water. It was a stinking bizarre scene of carnage.

We cleared the grounds with a bulldozer. Inside teams washed and painted floor to ceiling.

I undertook to go to Colombo and seek financial support from the embassies. The Australian ambassador was very helpful, supplying funding to purchase 50 new beds, mattresses and mosquito nets at Sri Lankan prices.

First snag: the Australian government could not give relief money to me or my organisation directly. It had to go through the Southwest Disaster Relief Department which demanded ten per cent of any funds to just hand it over. On top of that the Australian government would not release funds if any profiteering was part of

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Tracking the cycles of the natural seasons Story & photo Mary Gardner

A calendar is a traditional holiday gift. The original Latin is linked with Roman accounting systems. So is the practice of counting out months of the year. The first calendar was reformed by Caesar in 46BC and then by Pope Gregory in 1582.

Billions of people tally their lives according to this Christian calendar, one of nine in use today. But apart from these is still another practice in timing: tracking cycles of seasons. The very word â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;seasonsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, from the Latin â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;to sowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, is deeply tied to understanding the nature of a place. Here in the coastal subtropics, we shrug off images of any snowy British Christmas and ponder replacements.

Tim Entwistle, a botanist, suggests we rethink how we link our experiences of seasons with the Christian calendar.

Working with Indigenous calendars and from within the central eastern coast, he proposes five seasons. Autumn, from the first of April is followed by Winter, start-

ing with first of June. This season lasts only two months because August opens with the first wave of native plants blossoming. This is Sprinter, becoming Sprummer on the first of October. The second wave of blossoming begins.

The first of December is summer, which goes to the end of March.

From Sydney, Entwistle marks summer with the blossoming of the Hyacinth Orchid (Dipodium punctatum).

But Andrew Murray, a north-

ern rivers botanist, suggests our coastal subtropic marker could be the Durobby tree (Syzgyium moorei). This rainforest tree is a type of myrtle unique to this area. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lillipilli also called the Christmas parrot tree. Once, people saw flocks of parrots drunk on nectar from these blossoms.

The tree has become rare, but maybe the spirit of local gift shopping might include seedlings for those with land enough for nurture a 40 metre tree. The brilliant pink to

orange flowers grow directly from the main stem or tree trunk.

Birth of koalas Adding to such festivities are the births of koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus).

Nativities in Byron Bay are even more secret than the fabled one in Bethlehem. New mums will grow tiny infants in their pouches for the next six months. Others may have a half-grown joey on their back. They teach them local

lore about managing a home range of trees in the subtropics. The daytime trees are for snoozing. Each evening, they travel to their night trees.

Koala browsing eventually makes a treeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leaves more toxic. So over the year, they shift their feeding rounds so that half of the trees are â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;restedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and become more palatable again the following year.

Throughout Byron, people tell of individual koalas they know because they regularly cross paths with them in their daily migrations.

Our koalasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; favourite food trees are those eucalyptus with moist leaves, fed in turn by roots reaching into a shallow water table or drainage channels. In Byron, these are wetland trees, especially from Lilli-Pilli to Tyagarah through Sunrise and West Byron. Maybe koalas dream of hundreds more trees growing up throughout the drain networks. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happened for centuries before.

They depend on the growth of such wild housing estates.

Meanwhile, in the coastal sea connected to the coastal land, dolphins are also being born. The female blue spotted

stingrays are ovulating. They use the sperm they stored from their embraces with males during sprinter. Inside their wombs, they nurture their babies first with yolk and then with a unique form of milk. The pups, miniatures of their parents, are born live.

Symbols of time As the sea water warms, the leopard sharks return to cruise Byron Bay. They can be our own symbols of Father Time. The Old English and Proto-Germanic/Norse origins of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;timeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; relates to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;marking the tide, the feast-day, the seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Also matching this old meaning, spinifex seedheads tumble across sand into our coastal lagoons.

The solstice on December 21 links place with solar system. In that shortest night, look up. The ancestral people are visible in the Milky Way as the Magellan Clouds, spiral galaxies over 150,000 light years away. On some vast scale of seasons, now they spin closer than ever to us, connected by tides of hydrogen. Beyond, a dizzy 96 per cent of the universe expands with unknowable dark matter.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to PROTECT the COMMUNITY Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let Holiday Letting erode our community If you love Byron Shire and appreciate how much the community has been the force that has protected the environment, respected the Aboriginal community, supported the cultural lifestyle, stopped high rise and unwanted development, volunteered and provided friendships, neighbours and the sense of belonging, the familiar face, the big hug and so much more. WELL much of this could be lost if Council allows ALL or any dwellings in the shire to be holiday let on a permanent basis.

Changing the LEP & DCP to allow holiday letting â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Council is proposing changes to allow approved residential dwellings to be used for tourism permanently, throughout the whole shire â&#x20AC;&#x201C; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;open modelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Tourism is currently PROHIBITED in residential zones, except for managed B&B establishments and casual letting eg less than 90 days.

NO Social Impact Assessment has been done to consider the loss of housing stock, social capital and long-term impact. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vital as we know well the corrosive impact of party houses on quiet residential areas. Management responds to noise BUT you or your children are already woken/ disturbed â&#x20AC;&#x201C; NOT fair.

DAs would not be required for some exempt and complying development â&#x20AC;&#x201C; say NO to this! Say NO to the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;open modelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Take the time to read the fact sheets and strategy document. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a proposal that could change Byron Shire dramatically.

See http://www.byron.nsw.gov.au/new-forward-planning.

Current situation â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Council estimates 900 houses being used for holiday let, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s approximately 2,000 people not able to live in the shire, contributing to the lack of housing supply and unaffordability. The state government recently imposed the West Byron development on the community owing to the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;housing crisisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; but will that become holiday let too? Secondary dwellings provided more housing â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T lose that win.

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Our community has had to subsidise the impacts as well as well as suffering the well-demonstrated social disruption.

Legal action â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a number of Land & Environment Court cases have found that the use is prohibited. 2013 Gosford decision determined that holiday letting was prohibited in residential zones on the grounds that the use was QRW VXIÂż FLHQWO\ ÂłSHUPDQHQW WR FRPSULVH D ÂľGZHOOLQJ houseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; for the purposes of the relevant zoningâ&#x20AC;?. Council took some legal action but the current council ceased action on this â&#x20AC;&#x201C; SHAME. Submissions â&#x20AC;&#x201C; if we have to accept some holiday letting then it must be with a DA, safety guaranteed AND they must pay their way.

Say â&#x20AC;&#x201C; NO WR ÂľRSHQ PRGHOÂś UXUDO ]RQHV JUDQQ\ Ă&#x20AC; DWV RU XQLWV Âą QR RSSRUWXQLW\ IRU JUDQQ\ Ă&#x20AC; DWV WR EHFRPH D KRPH ZLWK PDLQ KRXVH KROLGD\ OHW Say â&#x20AC;&#x201C; YES WR GHÂż QHG DUHDV Âą ZH PXVW SURWHFW RXU QHLJKERXUKRRGV DOO PXVW SD\ FRPPHUFLDO UDWHV DQG '$V IRU DOO If you care about the future of our community and how it will be to live without neighbours in the future, HAVE YOUR SAY. Submissions closed on 22nd December but donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let that stop you. Make your views known to your councillors â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Write a letter, email or phone â&#x20AC;&#x201C; talk to them! BE HEARD. Contacts available at www.byron.nsw,gov.au.

Authorised by Jan Barham MLC Broken Head â&#x20AC;&#x201C; for the protection of our most valuable asset â&#x20AC;&#x201C; YOU, the community.

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Chrissie comes but once a year – thank gawd for that!

Story & image John Campbell

Another Christmas.

To say how quickly it has come around is surely the mother of all clichés – but it has, hasn’t it? Or, as the years pass, does time become compressed?

One thing is for certain – there’s no stopping it.

Meaning that December 25, arriving as it does with the screaming subtlety of a Scud missile, now only serves to give me the heebie-jeebies while I wonder dolorously how many I have left in the bank.

As further portent of the final curtain that awaits me, this summer’s festive season is getting underway with seminal figures from politics, sport and the arts having given up the ghost. Legends departed, they coloured my youth, they informed my understanding of the world, and they will be forever synonymous with a whole slab of personal history. Boot Hill, everybody’s ultimate destination, has in 2014 found a place of repose for the good and the great E G Whitlam (Gough’s 1972 win was my first elec-

tion), for the magic dragon, Reg Gasnier (he opened my eyes to the art of footy) and for the undecided Jim Keays (if only I could have got my hair to go like his).

The trio’s passing has forced me to enter that unforgiving room of mirrors.

I might still kid myself into posing as a hipster in my swashbuckling prime, but my attitudes and everything I do suggest otherwise, dude.

For a start, I’ve taken up golf with a few other old farts and look forward for days ahead to my weekly afternoon of happy hacking and convivial ales at the nineteenth; the lists of songs and performers’ names on

the current pop charts (I know they’re not called that any more, but bear with me) might as well be Linear B inscriptions from Knossos for all the sense they make to me (and for all I care); tablets and iThingies hold not the slightest appeal (what exactly is it that all of those zombies walking around staring at their palms are communicating?); and as for tatts – well, they are now about as iconoclastic as wallpaper, and why so many young people disfigure themselves like that is beyond me.

So if my opting out of all things ‘now’ seems perverse and typically reactionary, I can assure you that there is

guile in my grumpiness.

It harks back to a character that I came upon in a forgotten novel … I think it was by Graham Greene. This bloke had found himself in what we might now refer to as his ‘bucket list’ years and, like most of us of a similar vintage, he was not looking forward to the end of his allotted days with any degree of wild enthusiasm. So he hit upon what suddenly appears to me a brainwave that, if not foolproof, is at least worth considering.

He reasoned that time flies at warp speed when you are enjoying yourself or totally immersed in stimulating activity. To counter this, he

decided to commit himself to only pursuing boring pastimes – the ultimate was doing nothing whatsoever – in order to lengthen the hours.

The Catch 22, of course, is that, by its very nature, boredom is … well … boring (and as Yossarian dryly observed, ‘that’s some catch’).

The saving grace of Christmas week is that it is invariably boring in itself, so there is some payback for the undue haste with which it lobs. As well as the mawkish hypocrisy of religious observances, there is way too much eating of other people’s weird food (whoever came up with the idea of the ‘bring a plate’ party should be condemned to a lifetime of store-bought hummus); sweaty relatives

with revolting children pull into the driveway only to confirm your reasoning for putting five-hundred miles between you and them in the first place; you can’t get a park even in Mullum; and there’s not a damned thing on TV! (Not that there ever is, I suppose.)

As the Everest of ennui, nothing is more mindnumbingly awful than Carols

by Candlelight, so, by rights, I should plonk myself down in front of the box when it’s on, with a cask of De Bortoli as painkiller. But not even I am that masochistic.

I’ll probably opt for an old favourite, Spartacus or Jaws, maybe, to see me through all the joy.

Have a good one.

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I am 50. I wear makeup. Not a lot, but that doesn’t matter because I don’t care whether you approve or not. I have never spent a lot of money on my makeup, or time on myself, and I don’t really know why I choose to wear makeup most days. Self-analysis takes courage, which I’d like to think I can occasionally muster, and time, which is little harder to manifest between working fulltime and trying to be a reasonable mother, wife, lover, daughter, sister and friend. However, sometimes things don’t take much analysis to uncover. They are literally, as is the case here, right in your face.

It has come to my attention that now at the age of 50 my basic makeup items have names like Rewind, Revitalise, Renew, Age RePerfect or my personal favourite, Renovage (which I guess alludes to an attempt to renovate your visage). When you’re not 50 these products are called things like Ravish, Sublime and Dream. If you choose to buy into the sub-

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by Ian Rogers Play at Byron Services Club, Mon 7pm Although Magnus Carlsen remains World Champion, 2014 could be seen as the year of Viswanathan Anand.

The Indian veteran, who turned 45 last week, had won only one classical tournament in the five years leading into 2014.

However, this year he won three major events, in Bilbao, London and, most remarkably, the World Championship Candidates event in Khanty Mansiysk.

This triumph against the odds earned him a title challenge against Carlsen which ended in failure but earned Anand respect, most notably from Carlsen who admitted that early in the World Championship match he wrongly believed his title defence would be a piece of cake.

Carlsen’s 2014 was certainly not a failure, with titles in Zurich and Shamkir, but his year will be more remembered for a second place in September’s Sinquefield Cup behind Fabiano Caruana, who started the event with an amazing 7/7 and finished three points clear of Carlsen.

In Australia the younger generation took out almost every major title, with Max Illingworth capturing the Australian Championship, Moulthun Ly the Sydney International Open and 13-yearold Anton Smirnov starring on his Olympic debut.

Q The following game from the current Australian Masters tournament sees New Zealand teenage Olympian Luke Li end Max Illingworth’s hopes for a third and final Grandmaster ‘norm’.

Melbourne AUS Masters 2014 White: M Illingworth Black: L Li Opening: Nimzo-Indian Defence 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.f3 d5 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 c5 7.cxd5 Nxd5 8.dxc5 f5!?

8...Qa5 is standard. 9.e4! fxe4 10.Qc2! 0-0 10...exf3 11.Nxf3 is risky for Black. 11.fxe4 Nf6?! A new idea but rather passive. 11...Qf6 is the critical line. 12.Nf3 Nbd7 13.c6 Nc5!?

14.e5 Ng4 15.Be2! bxc6 16.Bg5 Qa5 17.h3?

Missing a stunning counter-attack. Had this move been prefaced by 17.0-0!, White would hold all the trumps. 17...Nxe5!! 18.Nxe5?

The humble 18.0-0 was still playable. 18...

Nb3!! 19.Qxb3 Qxe5 Now Illingworth looked around to discover that his extra piece was no insurance against Black’s threats. 20.Be7 Ba6!

21.Ra2?! 21.0-0-0 was the last try to avoid being blown away, though after 21...Rfb8 White is struggling. 21...Rab8 22.Bb4 c5 23.c4 cxb4 24.axb4 Bxc4! A fitting finish. 25.Qxc4 Rbc8 26.Ra5 Qg3+ 0-1

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fanfare as the residents present all groaned, the mayor presented a valid three-minute reply saying that it was short-sighted, without vision and an expensive exercise, given that the Master Plan is currently being prepared by intelligent humans who have an overarching vision for the town. (My words) Also the resolution only passed by five to four votes.

This was interesting in itself, as Sol Ibrahim had just voted for the Master Plan which was passed by five to four votes, then immediately voted against this plan by support-

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text, it is saying we were better when we were younger, that we need to recapture our youth because our current status is less than desirable, less worthy even. It strikes me that generally as a society we don’t want to see old people and perhaps therefore many of us don’t want to be old.

I was in the waiting room at my local medical centre the other day and there was a fellow sitting there who struck up a conversation with me. His name was Jack.

I asked him how he spends his time and he explained that he lives in a cottage on

his daughter’s property and he spends his time painting, making things from wood.

He was currently working on a set of blocks for his twoyear-old granddaughter.

He mentioned that he loved spending time with her and watching her learn and how as a father he had missed out on on that time with his own children as he was busy working to provide for his family. He also shared how he had started to feel negative after his wife of many years passed away and as inevitably happens when you get older, your friends begin to die. He

ing Rose’s ‘road to nowhere’ idea. This was a complete contradiction to sense and sensibility to say the least!

So we now have a two-lane incoming road turning towards the beach and the swimming pool so that the excess carbon monoxide can spread over the pool where children swim and parents gather. The cars can then keep going on to the end of the surf club and choose whichever of the two roads and roundabouts they would like to circle again, and so round and round they will go with nowhere to park.

The beach access will become a car-gridlocked area and will be a futile, mundane

exercise for all those who are stuck in their cars. It will also enhance the whole aspect of the beachfront – bumper to bumper cars.

Truly, Rose, I hope you don’t have any more clever ideas for this town. One questions what your ulterior motive might be for this brilliant plan. And with respect to the fanfare – on the voting front, only three other people supported it, so yes, there was little fanfare for your road.

Robbie Winter-Blick Byron Bay

Excise the evils Of the tragedy in Sydney, and the terror cells before the courts, and the plotters being arrested, many say, ‘Not all Muslims are like this. These people are a minority, and other creeds have dangerous ideas, too.’

Yes. These things are true.

It is nonetheless also true that the Qur’an and hadith collections of Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim endorse and insist upon terror, violence, and war, and Muhammad engages in all of these. This is a Muslim problem, deriving from an adherence to those texts. For those who wish to equate all cults consider this: Jesus, myth or legend or not, reportedly advised turning the other cheek, and was

was about 80 at that time and confessed that he had started to ask himself, how long have I got? He stopped living and was just waiting to die.

Thankfully his son-in-law passed on a few strategies and rather than waiting to die, he decided he was going to live to at least 100. He is 90 now and enjoying his family, his art, his life.

I gained a lot from my chance encounter with Jack. It was not only a small glimpse into his life, but I was given impetus to consider my own beliefs around ageing and how we choose to spend our days. He told me of his love for his wife and how she was a woman who was liked by everyone, how she had sunshine in her face, ‘just like you do’, he said. How lovely!

That compliment made me feel wonderful. That’s another lesson from Jack: don’t be afraid to say nice things to people; it can make a real difference. It got me to thinking, how much better would it be if when I picked up my makeup the products were called Sunshine, Embrace or Wisdom? crucified. Muhammad, it is said in those books, advised reconciliation, but he also crucified people, tortured people, enslaved, massacred, beheaded, and invaded.

I will never criticise a religion. A political person must respect the separation of church and state. But evil is not religion. It is time all cults were required to excise their own evils. Enough beating around the bush. Ban the evil books, not the burqa. Child pornography is not spirituality. Hate speech is not acceptable as spiritual guidance.

Genocide is not acceptable as divine guidance. End of story.

Matt Hartley State candidate Byron Bay

Good work A great big thankyou to the principal Peter King and all his staff at Byron High. Over the last six years that our son has been at Byron Bay High School it has grown in numbers and reputation.

I would like to acknowledge the continued hard work and dedication of the teachers and staff. The extra time and effort they put in is appreciated. I would also like to thank Robyn Peters and the staff of the canteen for providing wonderful food and a welcoming

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Is it hot enough for ya yet?

Mandy Nolan

This past week I had a terrible realisation. As we fail to meet our carbon emission reduction targets it puts me right on schedule with experiencing being menopausal in a time of global warming.

It reminds me of that book, Love in the Time of Cholera, except it’s The Change in the Time of The Change.

Bloody hell. It’s an emergency. If we’d been in charge this wouldn’t have happened. Please put middleaged women at the steering wheel right now. We’d crank the temperatures down quick bloody smart. None of this fluffing around with reduction targets.

The Barrier Reef has experienced severe bleaching with just a 0.4 degree Celsius rise in water temperature. I really relate to coral. Global carbon emissions continue to rise at around three per cent a year and if we exceed a climate increase of two degrees then we’re stuffed. Violent weather events, sea-level rises, salination, the destruction of the food bowl and it will be fricking hot!

No menopausal woman is going to tolerate a temperature increase of two degrees.

No, you let us have a good environment for volunteers.

We are very lucky in the Byron Shire to have such great options of schools to send our children to. Keep up the good work.

Rona McDonnell Byron Bay

Planet favour

It’s that time of year to do the planet a favour. And one thing you can do in this area is cut yourself a Christmas mas tree from the roadside.

Radiata and slash pines are environmental weeds spreading fast in Byron and Tweed.

Chop one, decorate it and then chip it and the native trees will thank you. See www.northcoastweeds.org. au/pine-radiata.

Paul McKey Federal

The rail debate choofs on

I was present at a lecture many years ago where a medical expert said that we should be telling our patients that there is a ‘magic pill’ that will help them live longer, cause or maintain weight loss, reduce blood pressure, improve HDL (the good cholesterol),

old-fashioned crack at carbon management and I promise you in the next few years we’ll have us slipping into a very refreshing ice age. Why, just the other day during a hot flush I lay on the floor at the Woolies deli and wondered if I could get into the bottleshop coolroom. Just this week I was so hot I was certain I was about to die. I don’t ever recall feeling this hot. I have to sleep with a wet flannel on my face.

Tonight if it happens again I’m going to run a tub of cold water and sleep in there. Or break into the local swimming pool for a midnight dip.

Right now millions of menopausal women are cursing capitalism and the climate-changing scourge of industrialisation. At this point I’m happy to go back to the

spinning wheel and simple rock-based technology. I’ll sleep in a cave and go naked; just turn down the heat.

I just don’t think we’re doing enough. For a start I don’t think the Copenhagen Accord took menopausal women into account when listing critical impacts of climate change. If we get expected temperature rises then menopausal women might very well become extinct. Imagine a world without cranky old women!

I’m starting to develop my own climate change conspiracy. I’m not saying that the government invented it to sell solar panels and sunscreen; no, I’m not a climate change denier. Anyone lying in a pool of sweat gasping for air would be a fool to deny the planet is heating. My con-

reduce the risk of stroke, heart attack, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, arthritis, osteoporosis. It will prevent and treat depression, anxiety and improve self-esteem. It will improve their sleep, sex life and socialisation.

So what sort of magic pill is this? Well of course it’s exercise. I’ve been telling people this ever since.

Ten million people in Australia have bikes; it is likely 40 per cent of locals have one too. Most are rarely used. The proposed rail trail would allow us to get on them safely in beautiful surroundings.

The group working towards the rail trail (not me) are absolutely clear that the rail corridor will not prevent a train being reintroduced in future, that the corridor will remain in public hands and that it could cater for safe small vehicles to carry those (like the elderly) who cannot cycle. Why is it that when an option exists for us to exercise more that there are so many petty, NIMBY arguments against it? Let’s see the positives.

Graham Truswell Coorabell

Q It seems to me that we could actually do something about our disused rail corridor these holidays. Why not spend some time with your family or friends weeding/ clearing/loving up part of the tracks. Have a working bee with your neighbours. Let’s make a show of using this amazing space. Use it as a conduit to connect the community (isn’t that what it was designed for?).

If we make a show of just how useful this space can be and how important it is to us, perhaps it will kickstart some action. Have fun!

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spiracy involves a theory that it’s a patriarchal strategy to rid the world of middle-aged women.

Once we’ve fulfilled our hot lusty breeding years we’re really just in the way, and as we tend to go off sex entirely, live longer than men, and complain about stuff. Let’s face it, we are a drain on the system and we’re not even hot any more. Well, temperaturewise we are, but that’s it. What better way to cut down our numbers than to crank up the oven a few notches. Overly emotional menopausal women dropping off like flying foxes in Casino.

Like the frog and the flying fox, menopausal women are an indicator species. In a cool environment they thrive, but heat just knocks them out. Injured animals have WIRES or Greenpeace to care for them, but who out there is raising money for a menopausal-women shelter – like a giant air-conditioned Ikea. Except it can’t be airconditioned. Because airconditioning is part of the emissions problem.

Prepare for the worst, my menopausal sisters. This calls for a carbon revolution. It’s time to unplug. You go first.

I just need ten more minutes in front of the fan. ridor couldn’t be better right now. The rail trail ticks all the boxes. Low-cost implementation. Minimal ongoing costs.

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A view to a krill: the deep south’s fragile wildlife tica have many different reasons for wanting to partake in this extreme form of tourism, the overarching impression is of wildlife – of animals that are so engrossed in the activities of daily life that they have little fear of, or interest in, the humans who come and go.

Having visited many different penguin colonies and cruised blissfully in inflatable boats through picturesque, ice-bedecked waterways, it became alarmingly evident how few penguin nest sites were occupied, and how few

Story & photo Rosy Whelan

This time last year, as our ship steamed north from the Antarctic Peninsula – one of our beleaguered planet’s few remaining wilderness areas – four fishing ships hove into view. With calm waters and clear skies, the ships stood out like monstrous invaders from an alien world. Perhaps they answered a question that had been forming in our minds – where have all the animals gone?

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and far between were sightings of seals – crabeater, Weddell, elephant, fur and leopard. Never before had we needed to ‘queue’ to see a lone seal basking on an ice floe.

Our ship’s Automatic Identification System (AIS) supplied the names and call signs of the fishing ships, their GPS locations and their proximity to Smith and Snow islands in the South Shetland group. A quick check of the website of The Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), whose global headquarters is located in Hobart, confirmed that the four ships were licensed krill-fishing vessels, two Norwegian and two Chinese.

Nevertheless, we were left wondering when and where these ships are permitted to fish, and for how long. There was no doubt that their position was well within the crucial foraging range – an area constrained for nesting penguins – at peak time during the breeding season.

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At first sight, the Antarctic food chain seems short and simple. Its keystone is krill, Euphasia superba, a tiny shrimp-like crustacean with intricate compound eyes, two antennae, seven pairs of thoracic legs used for feeding and grooming, and five pairs of swimming legs. These krill reach sexual maturity at the age of two and live for about five to seven years. While most krill are one to two

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people to enjoy while getting to where they want to go, and when they want to get there. Scenery along the way that is world class and will be impossible to keep a secret. An increasingly viable soft-wheeled arterial for us and our future generations, well away from the highspeed featureless RTA road system.

All this is simply do-able, but we all need to secure this state funding now for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become a reality.

Who could possibly stand in the way of this ultimately unifying geographic infrastructure of the future? Well, people that, even after ten years, still pray for trains that no government sees as feasible, let alone affordable.

We’ve all got way too much to lose if we don’t

A gaunt chinstrap penguin.

centimetres in length, others can grow to between six and 15cm. Externally visible gills help to distinguish krill from shrimp.

Krill reproduce in summer, their eggs sinking through the water column to some 1,000m before hatching and evolving through five larval stages to reach maturity the following spring. The complicated lifecycle of these tiny creatures has developed over millennia to cope with the rigours and challenges of the Southern Ocean environment, including dramatic fluctuations in the availability of sea ice, daylight and food.

Appealing On reaching the adult phase, krill swarm in schools of thousands, which might offer protection to the individual, but sadly makes them particularly appealing to the fishing industry.

The ever-growing global market for krill has made it increasingly commercially visupport this wonderful rail trail proposal, because if the funding lapses due to some Byron councillors’ political overrun, then the corridor will be further overgrown and ruin the real likelihood of eventually being sold off, never to return again for public use. Unless you’re a property developer, who would want that? Let’s get on our bikes and secure our corridor from indecision.

Tim Shanasy Byron Bay Q So, the North Byron Beach Resort’s costings for restoring the rail line from Byron to Belongil for their proposed shuttle train service coincides with what the community has been saying for many years.

According to the report in The Echo (15/12) they say it will cost around $300,000 to repair one kilometre of line.

able for ships to travel from anywhere to the bottom of the world. Krill is used as food by the aquaculture and livestock industries, as fish bait, pet food, for human consumption and by the ‘health’ industry. But at what cost? For more than four decades, based on tonnage, the Antarctic krill fishery has outstripped all others in the Southern Ocean.

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much speculation about krill numbers prior to the commencement of last century’s whaling industry, complicated by decades of scientists labouring with falsified whale capture figures.

Interestingly, CCAMLR was established as a ‘multilateral response to concerns that unregulated increases in krill catches in the Southern Ocean could be detrimental for Antarctic marine ecosystems particularly for seabirds, seals, whales and fish that depend on krill for food’.

Real risk It is optimistically believed that the annual krill harvest is well below the catch limit, but there is a risk that localised excessive fishing will impact on the animals that depend on krill for food, particularly during the short summer breeding season. There is much overlap between the fishery and the breeding grounds of seals and penguins in particular.

During the next few Antarctic seasons, it will soon become evident whether or not last season’s paucity of wildlife was a one-off occurrence. Distant as it may seem to be, the destruction of Antarctica’s intricate food chain has far-reaching implications for us all. The good new is, as independent consumers, we can decide whether or not to buy krill-based products.

The estimated biomass of krill varies dramatically – from 60 million to 25 billion tonnes – depending on the method of calculation employed. In spite of a significant amount of research having been undertaken to identify how much krill is consumed by warm-blooded animals – such as whales, seals, penguins and birds – the reality is that the amount consumed by fish and squid is even more challenging to estimate with any degree of accuracy.

Furthermore, there is

Q Rosy Whelan is a freelance writer and a veteran Antarctic expeditioner.

This means 130 kilometres of line will cost around $40m to repair! Even if you double that to account for replacing bridges, repairing the line for a train service will not cost much more than ripping it up for a cycleway.

Over the years more than 13,000 people have signed petitions demanding a commuter train service on the Casino to Murwillumbah (C–M) rail line, and continue to sign. Thousands have also attended rallies demanding Trains On Our Tracks. They know the inflated costings for restoring the C–M line in the Casino to Murwillumbah Transport Study 2013 the state government wasted $2m of taxpayers’ money on is rubbish.

Destroying critical public infrastructure will only make it more expensive and difficult to get decent public transport for our communi-

ties. People who constantly undermine the community with silly schemes such as ‘sharing the tracks’ and ‘shuttles with soft wheels’ and ‘trackless trains’ do not help. None of these things will provide public transport for anyone. Certainly not for the thousands of Byron Shire residents who have to travel around the region, and beyond, daily to work.

People who have bothered to do their research know that traffic congestion, which is destroying Byron Bay, could be significantly reduced if only some of the 1.5m tourists could come here by train. This applies particularly to day trippers and almost 40 per cent of people who arrive at Coolangatta Airport and then drive south. Wasting $10m on a bypass will do nothing.

Louise Doran Ocean Shores

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In search of 16mm lost, up in them thar hills Sharon Shostak

About ten years after we buried my mother on someone else’s land, I was gripped by the somewhat sacrilegious urge to dig up her bones. I wanted Helen closer, and fantasised about re-burying her remains on the land my brother and I inherited from her. Though we had already complied with burial regulations that stated we hadn’t enough acreage for a gravesite, ignoring the rules was stock-in-trade where I grew up.

Mine is a long history in Mullumbimby, having relocated here with my mother in 1973. My brother and I were in tow as Helen went barefoot from man to man and settled with one on ex-banana land in the furthest reaches of Upper Main Arm. She may have been exultant with her liberation from suburban housewife confines, but this nine-year-old wasn’t able to make much sense of the experimental culture around me. Ironically, at the age of 50 I’ve now been asked by our local historical society to make a documentary film on the history and legacy of the hippies

Mullumbimby from the air, Mt Chincogan in the background. Photo Ziggi Browning

from them thar hills.

It’s an obvious choice, I suppose – I’m a filmmaker, and I was around in the early days with the formative players of the Main Arm valley.

And of course Helen urges her way into the story: within a few weeks of beginning the interviews and looking for leads, a new friend I’m beginning to spend time with mentions that her long-agoex, then a student filmmaker, was up here from Melbourne in the late 70s shooting the hill-dwellers on 16mm film.

After she tracked him

down, my new friend reminds me of an extraordinary coincidence: I realise her ex is the one who encountered Helen riding a motorcycle down the windy dirt road, frangipanis in her dark hair flying unrestrained by any helmet, a pillion passenger balancing a rainbow umbrella over their heads. I can picture the shock of colour against the verdant green of the rainy season, the magnetism of her lovely smile, and why he was so taken by the image.

For some reason this shot was never re-enacted for their

improvised film; instead my mother had urged me forward with tales of my teenage prowess as a puppeteer. This evolved into a setup where I played a hitchhiker that the main actors pick up and are entertained by, via puppets whisked from my bag in the back seat.

We shot the scene on the southern end of Coolamon Scenic Drive, in those days still treeless, and I was impressed how their long lens could encompass the progress of the car on the sinuous road winding up the moun-

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tain in one stable frame.

But the tableau of the cameraman suctioned to the bonnet of their car as he shot the scenic entrance to Mullumbimby particularly enthralled me. It’s no surprise that this was one of the very early images I captured with my own first movie camera – an Elmo Super 8 – some five years later: the seminal travelling shot of Mt Chincogan rising out of the road in all its sudden grandeur and lush beauty.

Much to our disappointment it turns out the ex may have binned the unfinished film, negatives and all, in an overwhelm-moment years ago. There’s a slim chance that an ‘assembly edit’ may be stored somewhere, so we are yet to hear the final outcome

of this peculiar serendipity.

The lingering verdict is that my past, as well as my present, is inextricably woven into this history that I am beginning to document.

Already it’s summoned my mother’s image back in Technicolor; one that inspired a fellow filmmaker, who then gave me my first taste of being part of a film crew. It reminds me that bones aren’t what are left of my mother. It’s her story – at once epic and ordinary, and ultimately far more appealing than digging up a grave.

The feature documentary Mullumbimby’s Madness – the legacy of the hippies is anticipated for release this time next year.

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Sharon’s Super 8 image of the view into Mullumbimby.

Walking south down Jonson St takes you away from the beach to the calmer southern end where the locals shop and hang out. There is plenty of parking on the street, in the carpark between Palace Cinemas and Woolworths and behind the shops. From here you can explore some of Byron’s best loved, locally owned businesses.

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A night of nights for two long-suffering footy tragics John Campbell

I met my old mate Washington Minor at Abdul’s in Surry Hills. Six hours ’til kick-off.

We were on the razor’s edge.

Over falafel, tabouli and a couple of long-neck VBs, we wondered what might happen later that night at the Olympic Stadium. For two Rabbitoh tragics, the prospect of defeat in the grand final was out of the question … but it was there nonetheless, gnawing away at us like a rat in a drainpipe.

Minor and I have been through the thick and the thin with Souths. From the days of Satts and Simms and big Bobby McCarthy, to when Tugger Coleman was guiding the boys around the paddock in a strip that led us to refer to them as Mario and the Minties.

We were at the Football Stadium for the Charity Shield of 2002, when the Bunnies made their triumphant return to the NRL after News Ltd’s grubby ‘global vision’ saw them as surplus to the competition’s requirements, and we were at the same venue in 2006 when, before a crowd of barely more than a few dozen, the Warriors flogged them by 66–0. It was the most humiliating defeat in the club’s proud history. We witnessed it in bitter silence.

Now, after being knocked

out in the penultimate playoff in the previous two years, we were in sight of the Holy Grail, our first premiership since 1971. And I say ‘our’ without hesitation – lifelong devotees always refer to their team in the first person plural. We share the journey for every minute of every season.

If Minor and I were riddled by doubt and anxiety, there was one thing on which we heartily agreed: we’d both had enough of Johnny Sattler and his broken jaw. It was ‘Groundhog Day’ gone troppo.

High time, we decided, that the Cardinal and Myrtle created a new legend. Little did we know …

On the train from Central

to Homebush, it became apparent that the mob would be with Souths. Canterbury supporters decked out in blue-and-white swarmed aboard at Strathfield, but redand-green dominated. I’ve never seen so many people wearing the colours. We were a host of pilgrims hungering for salvation – and if you’ve never loved a footy team, you’ll never understand that.

Outside the mighty stadium, if security had been bulked up to respond to any threat of political violence, it was not evident. Instead there was palpable expectation, joy champing at the bit, a mood festive – but not quite. There was, after all, a game of rugby league to be

won and lost, against an opponent well versed in taking no prisoners.

We found our spots overlooking the southeastern corner post. The tickets weren’t cheap, but the next price down would have had us in the nosebleeds. We were close enough to feel the grunt when it was near.

I know, I know. Every year in the Christmas edition I bang on about surf life saving clubs and the importance of beach safety, and I am going to bang on this year and probably every year for as long as The Echo will put up with me.

After yet another tragic drowning on the far north coast, we urge swimmers and surfers to be aware of the dangers of swimming unfit, unprepared or alone on our beaches over the break.

Last week’s editorial by Michael McDonald was published just hours before the sad news of another human

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People, please! Swim between the flags, watch the tides and be aware for dangerous condiitns, and if you are on the beach Christmas Day, remember to show your appreciation for the volunteer who is giving up his or her time to guard your life.

SLSC patrols for Byron Bay this festive season: Thursday 25.12.2014. PATROL NO 13: 9am–5pm Kim Chappel PC, Grace Hamilton APC, Zoe Heiniger, Ela Heiniger, Dan Andrew (D,J/S), Ian Heiniger, Brand Hunt, Jack Traynor, Brooke Yopp, Ben Martin, Andrew Cameron, Gabriel Crescenzo, Friday 26.12.14. PATROL NO 6: 9am–5pm Sarah Beadman PC(D), Jamie Bridgman APC (D), Nikki Rountree, Keith Renders, Joe Avery, Vicki McCain, Andrew Houlder, Max Hulbert, Roger Beadman (D,J/S) Ian & Liz Callan,

the colossal Georgie Burgess bashed his way across the line a wave of euphoria swept through the red-and-green faction. There was still a way to go, but in our hearts we knew we would prevail.

The rest is history. Playing with a cheekbone smashed in the first minute, Sam Burgess was awesome, as were his twin brothers, and young Alex Johnston, and ancient Lote, bopping around like a spring chicken, and Benny Te’o … Kirisome … Reyno … GI and his goanna … the list goes on.

The fulltime siren brought with it rapture and relief in equal measure, tears and high-fives – the little old Indigenous lady hugged me. I hugged her back.

Was it the greatest night in the history of the Universe?

I’m leaning towards the affirmative on that question, but what I do know for sure is that I felt like all of my Christmases had come at once.

Still do.

Player Profile – Moonshiners Name – Dillon Pyne

Nickname – Weeman Team – Mullumbimby Moonshiners Number – 11 Age – 23 Eyes – Blue Height – Tall enough Birthday – 17.07.1991 Position – Wing Years in sport – 4 Favourite colour – Blue Career highlight – Winning the 2013 Minor Premiership Motto – ‘Work hard, play harder’

Be surf safe this Christmas Eve Jeffery

Day turned to night and electricity shot through our veins as the floodlights kicked in. Driving power chords from Led Zeppelin’s Physical Grafitti ratcheted up the atmos, putting us all on the edge of our seats. When Johnny Sutton led the good guys on to the field his team was greeted by a deafening outpouring of passion and urgent desire. The little old Indigenous lady behind me, so demure for so long, roared with the rest of us – and kept it up for the full eighty minutes. ‘Get off him, ya mongrel!’ she wailed whenever James Graham tackled one of our boys.

Half-time arrived before we knew it.

Souths held a deserved 6–0 lead, but the Dogs were not the sort of outfit to roll over and let us have our way.

‘Are you confident?’ Minor asked.

‘Yes,’ I lied.

Canterbury pulled it back to 6–all and briefly gave us cause for concern, but when

Robert Brown, Robert Siebert (D), Gai Coleman Saturday 27.12.14. PATROL NO 18: 9am–5pm Kelli Stevens PC, Michael Stevens APC (D), Alex Byrne (D), Ziggi Jacks, Luke Mewing, Andrew Crawley, Jed Morrison, Roggrio Gaglianone, Johnny Valladares Gonzales, Nic Hornery, Riley Buckley, Dean Templeman, Lachlan Holmes Sunday 28.12.14 PATROL NO 9: 9am–5pm Garry Timperley PC (D), Jo Kay APC , Bob Kay, Isabella / Will Jones, Alicia Beale, Jy Timperley, Tracey Timperley,

Steve Moore, Gabi Kay, Madeline Adams, Scout Hembrow, Alex Barnes, Talli Hooper, Lucy Guye, Brad Smith, Moby McMullin, Stephen Martin/ Grant (D) x2 Thursday 1.1.2015 PATROL NO 2: 9am–5pm Paul Pattison PC, Paul Irwin APC (D), Jack Phelps, Karen Irwin, Tim Peacock, Grace Pattison, Alan Teurquetil, Ron Land, George Graham, David Packer Saturday 3.1.2015 PATROL NO 3: 9am–5pm Jake Napoli PC, Cody Prasser APC, Ian Mathieson, Andrea/Ronny Monks (D),

Jason Michan, Beau/Christian Monks, James Gibson, Neil Cameron (D), Bruce Campbell, Andrew Hall, Joe Kerrigan Sunday 4.1.2015 PATROL NO 16: 9am–5pm Jimmy Keough PC (D), Michio McMullen APC, Gary Khan, Alistair Mactier (D), James Hawley, Matt Dowling, Col Mustoe, Kim Wilson, Kane Ridley, James Kitchner, Matt Larsson, Anthony Barchard, Todd Seymour, Tom Lee Lewis.’

Have a very merry and safe break – we love you all way too much to lose you.

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Sustainable design at Vast Interior Ballina At Vast Interior Ballina, we believe in the importance of sustainable living and are guided by the ethos reuse, recycle, replant. Our signature ranges have been constructed with ethically sourced materials such as mango wood, a plantation hardwood harvested from sustainably managed forests.

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comes from mango plantations where the trees are grown for their fruit.

When a mango tree reaches 20 to 30 years of age, it no longer bears fruit and is cut down and replaced with a young tree.

This month we would like to talk about the part of our product range that is made from mango wood.

Mango wood is a renewable resource.

The mango wood used in Vast furniture

These days mango farmers can earn extra income by selling their unwanted mango timber to people

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of gorgeous pots in all colours, shapes and sizes.

The very best wood from the barren trees is then reborn into handcrafted furniture – the essence of sustainability and perfect for furniture production.

Customers often ask why we use mango wood rather than more traditional timbers like oak or mahogany. In the past, discarded mango trees were often left to rot, adding to Co2 emissions.

A heartfelt thankyou and Christmas wishes to all our customers and suppliers from everyone at the Choices team:

Chris, Sharon, Lisa, Karly, Joe, Dwayne, Michael, Jay, Corey and Justin. Have a safe and happy festive season and a great new year.

Choices Flooring closes 19 December and reopens 5 January. If you’re planning to rejuvenate your flooring in 2015 then stay tuned for our January ‘Affordable Flooring’ promotion with 20 per cent off selected flooring styles.

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Eden At Byron Eden at Byron is full of great ideas to decorate your home and garden for the festive season, as well as lovely gifts.

You’ll find beautiful plants, including bonsai, bromeliads, orchids, water lilies, carnivorous plants, succulents, flowering plants for inside and out, as well as edible ones like fruit trees, chili bushes and herbs.

We have lots of other garden goodies too – bird baths, statues, and a huge selection

With hassle-free parking, complimentary gift wrapping, and gift vouchers available, there’s no better place to do your Christmas shopping.

like us. With 75 million tons of juicy mangos produced in India every year, that’s a lot of mango wood once those trees reach maturity and lose their fruit bearing ability. No two pieces of mango wood are exactly the same and that’s another reason we love it.

With a wide variation of grain and a kaleidoscope of colours, we can create many of our signature hardwood pieces. So come into our showroom and have a look at some of these stunning creations.

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Safe Summer in the Bay 29 December to 4 January * No drinking in the streets

* No beachfront events on New Year’s Eve

* No fireworks * Additional Police

Park and Ride - beat the Byron Bay traffic queue blues 10am to 8pm each day - 10am to 10pm on New Year’s Eve Jump on at the Byron Regional Sport and Cultural Complex, Ewingsdale Rd - on the northern side of town. At least two buses each hour. Check web for details.

Dedicated bus lane into Byron Bay. It’s a fantastic way to beat the summer traffic. Plus, it’s FUN! Park for only $5 per car per day and Ride the shuttle bus for FREE! Look out for the Magic Bus and join the crew for a musical, colourful and whacky trip into town.

Departs on the hour. Plus everyone who jumps on board gets a Summer Pass featuring 7 fantastic Byron Bay deals over the 7 days.

With thanks to our Summer Pass sponsors

All days Depart Arrive Arrive Depart Arrive Bus BRSCC Surf Club Woolworths Surf Club BRSCC Magic Bus 10:00 10:20 na 10:30 10.50 640 10.55 na 11.10 na na Magic Bus 11:00 11:35 na 11:45 12.00 Red decker 11:30 12:05 na 12.15 12.30 Magic Bus 12:00 12:35 na 12:45 1 00 1.00 641 12.05 na 12.20 na na 640 12.15 na 12.30 na na Red decker 12:30 13:05 na 13.15 13.30 Magic Bus 13:00 13:35 na 13:45 14.00 Red decker 13:30 14:05 na 14.15 14.30 641 13.45 na 14.00 na na Magic Bus 14:00 14:35 na 14:45 15.00 Red decker 14:30 15:05 na 15.15 15.30 Magic Bus 15:00 15:20 na 15:30 15.45 645 15.10 na 15.15 na na Red decker 15:30 15:50 na 16.00 16.15 640 15.40 na 15.55 na na Magic Bus 16:00 16:20 na 16:30 15.45 Magic Bus 17:00 17:20 na 17:30 17.45 Magic Bus 18:00 18:20 na 18:30 18.45 Magic Bus 18:45 19:05 na 19:15 19.30 Magic Bus 19:30 19:50 na 20:00 20.10 NYE additional services Depart BRSCC every 30minutes from 10am until 940pm.

Depart surf club every 30minutes from 10.30am until 950pm.

Last bus to depart town - 950pm surf club, 10pm from 'Soul Street' 4-10pm bus stop for 'Soul Street' will operate Lawson/Jonson St

Special Event Parking Area (SEPA) will apply 29 December 2014 to 4 January 2015 inclusive and applies a 2P parking time limit to all untimed roads and road related areas that exist between the Belongil Bridge (Ewingsdale Road) on the north side (west of town) through to the north side of Seaview Street, which is the street immediately south of the 'Green Garage' roundabout at the intersection of Bangalow Road, Tennyson Street and Browning Street.

The 2P time limit applies unless other parking laws apply - for example 1P or another time limit or restriction (eg No Parking) is signed, or you are a “Permit Holder”. Please take note of all parking signs.

During the SEPA time period, timed parking restriction will extend, where signed, to midnight in the town centre (ie currently they end at 6pm) and will be signed. Evening workers are encouraged to use the 4 hour Council car parks or to park in an area that normally has no time limit restrictions, and display permit.

Those who reside or will stay, or work, within the SEPA are eligible for a SEPA Permit. Permits are available for collection weekdays from Council’s Mullumbimby office 1-24 December and BRSCC 15-23 December and from 29 Dec to 4 Jan. One person can collect permits on behalf of their household, place of accommodation or workplace. When correctly displayed, the SEPA permit provides an exemption from the 2P SEPA time limit

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Road closures Road closures in Byron Bay for New Year's Eve include: t no parking from 6am 31st December 2014 in Lawson Street South car park and in Bay Street between Jonson and Middleton Streets; t Jonson Street will be closed between Lawson and north of Marvel St from 1pm, 31st December 2014 to facilitate the market stalls and Soul Street NYE event.

All closures will conclude by 7am 1st January 2015. Signed detours will be available and delays can be expected. The taxi rank will move, for the duration of the road closure, to just south of the northbound bus stop (outside Medicine Wheel) near Marvel Street.

only, noting that other parking laws and signs still apply and must be obeyed.

FREE all day parking at the Butler Street Reserve from 6am to 6pm from 29 December to 3 January.

Belongil Wategos

Lighthouse

SEPA is from east of the Belongil Creek Bridge

Main Beach Clarkes

SEPA is from north of Seaview Street

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NEW YEARS EVE in JONSON ST + RAILWAY PARK from 4pm

New Years Eve in Byron Bay this year will be a family friendly event again! Bring the kids and family out from 4pm onwards and venture through Jonson St which will EH IXOO RI EXVNHUV ÂżUH WZLUOHUV GUXPPHUV $UWLVDQ VWDOOV food stalls, craft activities and face painters.

There will also be a music stage infront of The Community Centre with numerous music acts + bands for most of the evening. Dont forget to check out the Circus shows in Railway Park and try out the Silent Disco. There will also be a jumping castle and childrens activities galore.

Come down to the heart of Byron and celebrate with your community and visitors. This will be an alcohol free event to help keep our streets safe, family oriented and in support of Byronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vision of reclaiming the streets on New Years Eve.

Dandyman The Pitts Family Circus Annie Plummer Sparks + Embers Megan Donnelly Ukelele Kids Sam + Nick Flamenco Guitar Kids Kyle Lionhart Samba Blisstas Drummers King Tide Band Cassette Flash Mob Dance Roving Chalk Art Spaces Helium Balloon Lady Spaghetti Circus Workshops Roundabout Theatreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s - Lolka Mojo Juju + TBone FunMakers Silent Disco Playful Public Art Sculptures The Amazing Flea Circus Beat Boxer Triple Nip Fire Twirling Show Spectral Boogie Safety First - Teeter Board Show BAY FM Live Broadcasting Crafty Market Stalls and Great Selection Of Food Stalls

NEW YEARS DAY at MAIN BEACH 5.15am-10am 7KH HDUO\ ELUG FDWFKHV WKH ÂżUVW 681 Come and be part of our early morning, family friendly event at Main Beach. Join us for our Community Intention, Crystal Bowls and Silent Sunrise Meditation with Katie Connolly at 5.15am sharp! Concluding with the wonderful sounds of Avishai Barnatans Sunrise Sound Shower DV WKH ÂżUVW JOLPSVH RI WKH VXQ EUHDNV WKURXJK WKH skies. You are invited to partake in free yoga with Claire Evans or Qi Gong with Shirsha Marie on the grass. :H ZLOO DOVR KDYH D SUD\HU Ă&#x20AC;DJ FUHDWLRQ DFWLYLW\ LQ WKH park! This is a way to celebrate the true Spirit of Byron Bay â&#x20AC;&#x201C; peaceful, happy, healthy and inclusive.

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WELCOME TO THE HOTEL CARAVÃNA.

IT CAN TAKE BEING AWAY FROM HOME, LONG HOURS SPENT IN TRANSIT, A LACK OF SLEEP, AND LANGUAGE BARRIERS TO MAKE YOU REALISE HOW GOOD OUR LIVES ARE IN AUSTRALIA Riding the highs and lows of touring, Caravãna Sun, you could say, had a big 2014. They were just back from gruelling European tours, had a band member retire and replaced by the almighty Ken Allars, and the band are taking it all in their stride, finishing the year with a gig at the Hotel Brunswick.

Ant Beard is still catching his breath from the whirlwind that was 2014.

‘It’s been a pretty amazing year – it was our third trip to Europe. It was full on but really nice. Although it’s great to be back here; we have such an appreciation and gratefulness for our country and how lucky we are.

‘We had a few amazing experiences,’ said Ant. ‘In Vienna we were supported by a band from Austria with eight horns playing this authentic polka-styled music. When you get that really authentic music it’s incredible.’

Caravãna Sun could be from anywhere – their music traverses Spain, Greece, Mexico – anywhere the people really know how to party! ‘The reaction was awesome. Each country has its own culture of live music, from the Netherlands at outdoor festivals where they go crazy or in Austria where they are more reserved; the appreciation you get from people is awesome. The highlight was probably our last gig in Portugal at this tiny fishing village; we didn’t start till 4.30 in the morning! Even now online I think 80–90 per cent of the interest is coming from Portugal. It’s amazing to be here and have this huge market of people enjoying our music!’

Ant credits the magic of Caravãna Sun with the very natural way it all came together.

‘It all happened pretty organically and the actual band has been together for four years. It’s hard to underpin the chemistry. I could try and describe it in words but it’s hard.

I think what comes through is that we have this respect for each other and the music. The four of us are walking in and dealing with other people’s energy so you have to stick together and look out for each other. I think you can see the respect and the love is a passed-around thing.’

The band are currently working on their third album.

‘We are in the process of getting all the songs together.

In a way they are writing themselves. A lot are a bit more Australian themed, taking a look at what it means for us to be Australian after touring for four years, and focused on contacting and being part of these small communities.’

The band are particularly excited about playing Hotel Brunswick this New Years.

‘I am sure this has been a well said thing among musicians around Australia, but anyone who has the pleasure of gracing the stage at Brunswick would have to agree: the connection with the crowd is amazing. I am trying not to talk it up too much, but this is a New Years that is hard not to talk up! It’s going to be a great gig!’

At the Hotel Brunswick on New Years Eve with Pierce Brothers. Doors open from 6pm and tix are $50.

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A VERY FUNNY NEW YEARS EVE – FINDING OUT ABOUT

JOEL OZBORN! One of the weirdest things I’ve ever seen is…

Akmal getting punched in the head by a woman in Rockhampton.

Every new year I… make a New Year resolution I’ll never see through.

What I wanted to stop doing last year was… making New Year resolutions.

Apparently my most annoying habit is… not getting questionnaires done on time.

I love it when… I complete questionnaires.

My mother always says… why put off today what you could have done two weeks ago!

THE HUNT FOR NEW YEAR

DUBBED AS ‘THE PARTY’, THE NEW YEARS EVE EVENT AT THE BYRON AT BYRON RESORT FEATURES LISA HUNT AND HER FOREVER SOUL SHOW PERFORMING UNDER THE STARS. ‘I am very excited to be playing at The Byron at Byron this New Years Eve,’ said Ms Hunt. ‘It’s been more than a decade since I’ve done a hometown New Years gig. We’ve always been snapped up by the high rollers on the Gold Coast very early in the year. The setting is like a dream: under the stars, lush greenery, top-notch cuisine. Oh yeah, it’s going to be a fun but classy affair.’

The night of decadence offers two dining options. Tickets $175 including buffet dinner or $240 including degustation dinner. Price includes complimentary drink upon arrival, dinner and Lisa Hunt’s Forever Soul show. A Blanches Bus service is operating during the evening, dropping off and picking up outside The Byron at Byron Resort.

From 7pm Wednesday 31 December. Dress to impress.

For bookings and enquiries 6639 2105 or reservations@ thebyronatbyron.com.au.

The biggest disappointment for me was… wow, how long you got?

When I dance… I’m alone.

I am most comfortable when… I dance.

I would describe myself as… a human being.

My wife/partner would describe me as… her boyfriend.

My perfect day is… yet to happen.

My best gig involves… people laughing.

My worst gig involves… people not laughing.

I have nightmares about… not being able to get to sleep.

If I could choose the soundtrack for my own funeral the playlist would feature… Warren Zevon’s Keep Me In Your Heart My greatest regret is… not doing something.

The world would be a better place if… we all just got along.

Tony Abbott is… the prime minister of Australia.

I am most passionate about… indifference.

If I could be a world leader for a day I’d… pull a sickie.

When I’m old I am going to… get discounted public transport!

When I wonder who I am… I’ll fear it’s the early onset of Alzheimer’s.

The wisest thing I’ve ever heard is… don’t believe everything you read.

Love is… all you need.

My greatest fear is… fear itself.

Next year I am going to… Guatemala!

Hear more of Joel Ozborn’s unique comedic world view – catch him at the Ballina RSL for the NYE Comedy Festival with Akmal, Greg Sullivan and Mandy Nolan.

With a two-course dinner and music by Lou Bradley.

Doors from 6.45pm.$64.90pp or table of ten (10): $62.90pp. Phone 6681 9557.

CASHING IN

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Cashville pays tribute to Cash and covers his lengthy career across various styles and periods of music including the many duets he performed with the love of his life, June Carter. 4–7pm at Club Byron this New Years Eve. Free

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FALLS FOR YOU PHOTO KURT PETERSEN’

WELL IT’S OFFICIAL, ALTHOUGH IT’S JUST IN IT’S SECOND YEAR BYRON FALLS FESTIVAL HAS SOLD OUT. FOR THOSE LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE THE HOTTEST TICKETS IN TOWN THEN IT’S TIME TO START PLANNING YOUR FESTIVAL….AND HEY, IF YOU ARE IN BYRON FROM OUT OF TOWN, WHY NOT CHECK OUT THE BEST AND BRIGHTEST FROM OUR LOCAL MUSIC SCENE. SEVEN GOT THE FALLS LOW DOWN WITH FIVE VERY UNIQUE LOCAL ACTS.

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SHAKSHUKA

What is your opinion of the local music scene?

It’s great! A really artistic and cultural melting pot. Also being a prime destination for travelling and overseas acts we get to enjoy some fantastic music from around the world, right here on our doorstep.

Why do you think Byron is a good location for Falls? Last year was the first time we’d played at Falls Fest, and the first time I’d been to the festival. It had a really nice vibe, not too hectic like some of the big festivals can be. It seemed to suit Byron Shire’s laidback but artistic feeling.

VERNA’S KEEP

What is your opinion of the local music scene?

Thriving despite constant pressure to turn artists into entertainers.

What is your opinion of the local music scene?

It’s this vibing bubble of goodness. So many artists from all walks of life can share their art and Why do you think Byron is a good location someone will fall in love with it. for Falls? Coz it’s a snug fit with what Falls is Why do you think Byron is a good location about – having a hoot and creating memorable for Falls? The beauty and culture of Byron, alone moments in a stunning natural setting with a is ridiculous. So when the art and music of Falls salty dipper near at hand.

Fest are nestled into the hills of Byron, it’s Heaven Who are the artists or musicians who on Earth. influence you? Like everyone today we’ve got Who are the artists or musicians who an almost conflicting list of influences – from influence you?

Asgier, Bon Iver and Cold Play to Santana, Miles Pat: Steely Dan Davis and Dr Dre to Eric Clapton, Gary Clark Jr Noah: Joey Bada$$ and Robert Johnson – it’s ridiculous.

Louie: Erlend Øye Merryn: Nai Palm (Hiatus Kaiyote) Who are you looking forward to seeing at Falls? Salt N Pepa and Moses Gunn Collective, Who are you looking forward to seeing at Baby!

Falls? Jamie XX, Joey Bada$$, Glass Animals, Tora, SBTRKT. Yeah Dawgs. It’s crazy.

What are you most looking forward to about What are you most looking forward to about performing at Falls? The performance – the playing at Falls? To share our music in heaven preparation and practice, butterflies and the with angels who are yet to know our music. It’s willies, and plain old super-fun… but mostly going to be some holy shit. we’re looking forward to artist catering!

Who are the artists or musicians who influence you? Too many to name! Any musician with big heart, big soul, big integrity and the ability to express all of that through music.

Who are you looking forward to seeing at Falls? I always love wandering around without checking the program, happy to be surprised, and discovering artists I didn’t know about.

What are you most looking forward to about performing at Falls? Looking forward to playing our set of gypsy style music on NYE! Had such a great dancing crowd last year – always heaps of fun to inject some gypsy passion and high energy into the masses!

DUSTYESKY

What is your opinion of the local music scene?

Not bad, you know. Nothing a little Russian male voice a capella won’t fix. Da? Why do you think Byron is a good location for Falls? Resemblance to suburbs of Vladivostok quite unmistakable. Hence great success!

Honestly is uncanny.

Who are the artists or musicians who influence you? Alexander Solzhenitsyn and the Splendid Pussy Riot. Also that Khrushchev for most excellent shoe percussions.

Who are you looking forward to seeing at Falls? All the lovely peoples and livestock we met at Mullumbimbygrad, and Sting. Cannot be waiting for that.

What are you most looking forward to about playing at Falls? Sharing a thermos of Bundy and Borscht with other very world-famous artisanal choristers and camp followers. Very much. Spasiba!

TORA

What is your opinion of the local music scene?

The music scene here is cranking, so much talent coming in and out of this place. On top of the awesome venues locally, we’re lucky enough to have three of Australia’s major festivals in our shire.

Why do you think Byron is a good location for Falls? A summer festival needs a beautiful beach nearby to make it perfect.

Who are the artists or musicians who influence you? I think every bit of music we listen to influences our music in some way or other. We’re constantly finding new music, but we spend most of our time looking for ways to sound different. If you were to ask me this a year ago I would have said James Blake.

Who are you looking forward to seeing at Falls? Alt J, Jamie XX, Glass Animals, Asgeir, Joey Bada$$, Movement, Safia, Sticky Fingers…

What are you most looking forward to about playing at Falls? I’m looking forward to the sound each time we finish playing a song.

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New Years Eve at Falls is all about dressing up and having a laugh.

This year’s theme is DEEP SEA DISCO. The best fancy dressed patron on New Years Eve has a chance of winning a custom made Bernina sewing machine!

Keep your eye on the Falls Festival Facebook page for the competition. If you miss out, don’t worry - you can crack out the outfit again for the massive Fiesta Parade on Jan 2nd. This is one time you can come as the raw prawn!

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12.00

SASSY BONES

12.00

THE TWOKS

12.00

POTATO POTATO

11.30

SAMBA BLISSTAS

1.30

THE TWOKS

1.30

BUTTON COLLECTIVE

1.30

GREG SHEEHAN COLLECTIVE

12.00

THE TWOKS

3.00

WARREN EARL BAND

3.00

WARREN EARL BAND

3.00

THE UNDERSCORE ORKESTRA

1.30

WOOHOO REVIEW

4.30

BULLHORN

4.30 11.00

THE UNDERSCORE ORKESTRA

4.30

BUTTON COLLECTIVE

3.00

GREG SHEEHAN AND FRIENDS

SHAKSHUKA

11.00

WOOHOO REVIEW

4.30

WARREN EARL BAND

12.30

CRUCIAL D

6.00

BUTTON COLLECTIVE

6.00

THE UNDERSCORE ORKESTRA

7.30

DJ CRUCIAL D

9.30

BUTTON COLLECTIVE

11.00

THE UNDERSCORE ORKESTRA

11.00

WOOHOO REVIEW

12.30

DJ BEN

Along with the music there is a world of whacky, weird and wonderful to discover at The Village including performances by (check the blackboards each day): Acts of Absurdity, Bertie Page Clinic and the Swingin’ Saloon Dolls, Bollywood Dancers, Captain Ruin and Bam Bam, Ciel

by Gabrielle Griffin, Kellie O & Mick Dick, Kiki and Pascal, Kiki Bittovabtisch, Leif Lyall - The Captain Syphilis Experience and Dr. Seth Greengil, Liam Power, Mae Wilde, Marion Conrow, Miss Belle Benét & Miss Josephine Benét, Miss Friby, Mr Boxman, Russia’s Best Kept Secret, Safety First, Samba Blisstas, Shep Huntly, Stafford ‘Ivory’ Smith, Suzy Leigh, The Cassettes and the Mixed Tape Crew 80’s Flashmob, The Governess, The Great Dave, The Houndstooths’ Drawing Parlour, The Valentines by Roundabout Theatre, Trent Morris 10minute disco.

4.30-5.15

DJ FLETCH AND TWERKSHOP INTRO

5.15-6.45

DJ WOODY ‘Hip Hop is 40’ AV show

7.00-8.00

BADBADNOTGOOD

8.15-8.45

TWERKSHOP

9.00-9.45

CLIENT LIAISON

10.00-10.45

SALT N PEPA

11.00-12.00

ALISON WONDERLAND

12.15-12.45

TKAY MAIDZA

1.15-2.00

KIM CHURCHILL

2.30-3.15

VANCE JOY

3.45-4.45

COLD WAR KIDS

5.15-6.15

JAGWAR MA

6.45-7.45

THE TEMPER TRAP

8.15-9.15

THE PRESETS

9.45-10.30

LA ROUX

11.00-12.00

EMPIRE OF THE SUN

12.20-1.00

HOCKEY DAD

1.30-2.10

THE KITE STRING TANGLE

2.40-3.20

STICKY FINGERS

3.50-4.40

MILKY CHANCE

5.10-6.10

SPIDERBAIT

6.40-7.30

CLOUD CONTROL

8.00-8.50

SBTRKT

9.20-10.30

JOHN BUTLER TRIO

11.00-12.00

ALT-J

2.30-3.15

FISHING

3.45-4.30

THELMA PLUM

5.00-6.00

KINGSWOOD

6.30-7.30

MEGAN WASHINGTON

8.00-9.00

DAN SULTAN

9.30-10.30

DZ DEATHRAYS

11.00-12.00

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12.00-12.45

MOSES GUN COLLECTIVE

1.15-2.00

MOSMAN ALDER

2.30-3.15

ART OF SLEEPING

3.45-5.30

TORA

12.00-12.30

JIM LAWRIE

1.00-1.45

SAFIA

2.00-2.45

COMEDY - Urzila Carlson + Tommy Dassalo + MC Daniel Townes

3.00-3.45

REMI

4.15-5.00

ASGEIR

5.30-6.15

GEORGE EZRA

6.45-7.30

THE BLACK LIPS

8.00-8.45

MOVEMENT

9.15-10.15

RUN THE JEWELS

10.45-11.30

BIG FREEDIA

11.00-11.30

AIRLING

12.00-12.45

WOLF ALICE

1.00-1.45

COMEDY - Luke McGregor + Damien Power + MC Harley Breen

2.00-2.45

DMAs

3.15-4.00

GLASS ANIMALS

4.30-5.30

TYCHQ

6.00-6.45

TENSNAKE

7.15-8.00

BLUEJUICE

8.30-9.30

JOEY BADA$$

9.40-10.40

JAMIE XX

10.50-12.00

TODD TERJE live

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12.15

CC THE CAT

10.00

CAI LAPLAW

10.00

WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER

10.00

LOUIE AND PATRICK

1.30

KELSEY STRASEKBARKER

11.15

MERRYN BOLLER

11.15

BERTIE PAGE

11.30

CC THE CAT

2.45

BERTIE PAGE

12.15

IT IS

1.00

DAN HANNAFORD

1.00

MERRYN BOLLER

4.00

CAI LAPLAW

1.45

MERRYN JEAN BOLLER

2.30

LOUIE AND PATRICK

2.30

MERRYN BOLLER

5.15

WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER

3.00

CAI LAPLAW

3.30

LOUIE AND PATRICK

3.45

LOUIE AND PATRICK

6.30

SAHARA BECK

4.00

CC THE CAT

5.15

CC THE CAT

5.00

IRIS

5.15

CC THE CAT

6.30

IRIS

11.30

WOOHOO REVIEW

12.00

BITCHIN HOT FAT

12.00

BUTTON COLLECTIVE

10.00

UNDERSCORE ORKESTRA

10.00

UNDERSCORE ORKESTRA

10.00

BERTIE PAGE

1.15

TORA

11.30

SOY DIVISION

11.10

VERNA KEEP

11.30

POTATO POTATO

2.30

UNDERSCORE ORKESTRA

1.00

TWO AGE

1.00

TESLA COIL

1.00

TORA

3.30

THE TWOKS

2.30

SHAKSHUKA

2.15

BULLHORN

2.30

UNDERSCORE ORKESTRA

5.00

COMEDY HOUR

3.45

GREG SHEEHAN COLLECTIVE

3.45

WOOHOO REVIEW

3.45

THE TWOKS

6.30

THE WOOHOO REVIEW

5.00

COMEDY HOUR

5.00

COMEDY HOUR

4.30

DUSTYESKY

6.30

SAHARA BECK

6.30

THE TWOKS

5.00

COMEDY HOUR

8.30

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SKETCH THE RHYME

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CRUCIAL D

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THE TWOKS

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BULLHORN

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TORA

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WOOHOO REVIEW

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CLOSED XMAS Friday 26 Dec

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THE HARRY NICHOLS BAND Sunday 28 Dec

DEVILS KIOSK Monday 29 Dec

MARSHALL & THE PRIDE Tuesday 30 Dec

A LITTLE PROVINCE Wednesday 31 Dec

DAN HANNAFORD + LEPERS & CROOKS Thursday 1 Jan

CAMELTONES Friday 2 Jan

WELL SWUNG DADDIES Saturday 3 Jan

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GOT TO LOVE A WOMAN WITH SOUL What is the vision for Soul Street?

The lack of other local businesses seeing the value in supporting the event has been a real eye opener and pretty disappointing. We are trying to get the message across to them that a happy, drama-free NYE does affect the whole summer tourism vibe in this town and we need to make it enticing to families and the more chilled-out visitors and discourage the more unpleasant ones. If we achieve this, their businesses will benefit. I think these types of events really set the tone for this outcome.

We wanted to create a fun, safe, familyfriendly, alcohol-free event for locals and visitors.

Who do you think are going to be the highlights?

We have the kooky Dandyman, The Pitts Family Circus plus Spaghetti Circus doing fab circus entertainment, King Tide, Mojo Juju, Kyle Lionhart, a lovely new discovery Annie Plummer, Flash Mob Dancers and an Amazing Flea Circus as well.

MOUCHE PHILLIPS IS THE CREATIVE DIRECTOR FOR SOUL STREET, BYRON’S FREE NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY RUNNING IN THE PARKS AND BEACHFRONT OF BYRON THIS YEAR. MOUCHE TALKS WITH THE ECHO ABOUT WHAT’S IN STORE.

You have acts like Dandyman, King Tide Band and Mojo Juju that would usually attract a big ticket price, but this is free!

How many people do you have capacity for where you have set up?

How has the community got behind Soul Street?

Members of the community are so grateful there is something they can bring their families to as most have avoided NYE in town for years. So they are pretty excited.

But to be really honest, we have had only about 10 local businesses who really saw the value and importance of this type of event happening and they have come out well to financially back it.

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CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT IT’S POSSIBLE TO BRING LARGE GROUPS OF PEOPLE TOGETHER DANCING WITHOUT ANY NOISE? That’s what is planned for Byron’s Soul Street this New Years Eve when Silent Disco Avishay leads music lovers in the world’s most considerate dance party.

Can you tell me what happens at a silent disco?

Funmaker Silent Disco is a new way of having pure sober fun. I have it all set up in my 1981 HiAce van. A roof that opens up with 400 glowing headphones – three DJ decks inside the van and a lot of soul and passion in our music and funmaking. You get your headphones on and you get into a world of happiness. You can switch in between three different DJs who play three different kinds of music and you dance whereever you want. Literally! It’s silent. Our dancefloors are everywhere: Main Beach, parks, festivals, outdoor or indoor you name it. Beside the silent disco parties, I’m developing Funmaker – The First Social Technology Enterprise.

Where we invent new technologies to unite people instead of technologies that separate us from each other.

GOONS OF GREAT NORTHERN The Goons of Doom are joined by Ocean Alley, The Badlands and DJ Chris Bradley at the Hotel Great Northern this New Years.

A gig for people who like their music with a little edge. Here are some things you may not know about the GOD: The Goons of Doom are four childhood buddies from Sydney’s northern beaches who met on the very first day of school: Ozzy Wrong, Killerwhale, Vaughan Deadly and The

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Crimson Baquero, also known as Cowboy. All four enjoyed lengthy suspensions and ruthless canings for various indiscretions at school. And did you also know – the Goons of Doom have been ripping the fuck out of live shows for 10 long years. They’ve toured the world a dozen times and played at festivals such as Big Day Out, Falls and SXSW and they’ve also toured with, opened for or been on the same bill as a diverse range of acts including The Presets, Wolfmother, Hole, The Beautiful Girls, The Rakes, Pennywise, The Ground Components, Angus & Julia Stone, The Gingers, John Dillinger

It’s really exciting to be able to offer up great entertainment to people free of charge. I especially feel great for parents as we all know how much it costs to take kids out for a night. We had such a big turnout last year I decided to put the stage out in the middle of the street in front of the Community Centre, put the circus tent in Railway Park and Samba-Blisstas at the Clocktower.

How did you start doing it and where did they originate?

I came from Israel two years ago with many dreams. One of them was travelling with a van and making music that reflects my experiences along the way. I asked Uri Nicholls, my dear friend/brother, to help me and build a music van. He took a pencil and measureming tape and a few weeks later, after many stages and improvements, we finished.

The van was fitted, the headphones were on their way to Byron, the energies were great and we wanted to try it out. So we showed up on Main Beach on a Sunday night – it was my dear friend Tomas Schon’s Birthday. We celebrated his day and tried out the gear. It became an unforgettable night. I stood on the roof looking at a 100 people dancing freely and realised I had something pure with heaps of potential in my hands.

What do people get out of participating?

They get to meet people. They get to peel off some of the fear they have around social encounters and the fear of dancing. They get to connect with nature. They get to feel SOBER partying. They go back home and think, ‘I did something today. I affected someone’s life and my own. I grew.’

What kind of music will you be playing?

We play all genres. Electro swing, Motown, gypsy and balkan, hip-hop, dance and house, trance, 50s–90s, and any requested music out there.

Who else has supported Soul Street?

The volunteers at the Community Centre have been helpful as usual, finding all the bits and pieces needed to make it special, and the two new girls at Council, Marissa and Claire, have been great. It’s wonderful having people now in Council who have event and producing backgrounds.

It has made our job at BCC a lot easier. Tess, who runs the markets, is organising the stalls for the event and is such a joy and is my sanity when it comes to programming. She lets me know if my ideas are good or crazy.

Paul Spooner, of course, for allowing us the opportunity to take the challenge.

What should we expect for NYE 2014?

Entertainment from 4pm onwards in a street full of colour, movement, music and performance from Byron artists and some out-of-towers who just love performing here.

We want the town to be able to reclaim their streets on NYE, be able to relax, watch the fun and have a gorgeous night in the heart of Byron.

Music for me has no age or timeline. It’s eternal. Some people love nostalgia in their music and some love innovation and new releases. Some love a specific genres that makes them dance and some just like it all.

No ages, no religion, no differences. People having fun.

Tell me about your NYE Silent Disco in Railway Park? What should people expect?

We usually party on Main Beach, Byron Bay. You can connect to our Facebook page (Funmaker) and see when and where our parties take place and also watch some videos and pictures.

On Christmas Day, if the weather is good, you can find us on Main Beach as well.

NYE is a whole different story. Like last year, when we did it next to the roundabout, this year will be at Railway Park. In the heart of all the wonderful activities that the Community Centre plans, we will be there to make 2015 sweeter happier. Three DJs, three channels, heaps of headsets and the option to dance in a 500m range around the van. Everywhere.

We are always looking for people to interact and brainstorm with. So if you want to play music in one of our channels or you have an idea for us and want to join the global fun network, feel free to come and give us a hug.

Look out for NYE Silent Disco in Byron at Railway Park this New Years Eve – one of the incredible experiences available free as part of Soul Street.

Escape Plan, Damien Marley & Nas, Mariachi El Bronx, and a whole bunch of other fucks too! Oh, and another thing: The Goons of Doom’s tattoos suck.

Cowboy has a tattoo of rain but no clouds. Ozzy Wrong has a tattoo of stitches and dinosaur bones.

Vaughan Dead has a tattoo that says ‘I went to the tattoo shop and all I got was this lousy tattoo’.

Killerwhale has a tattoo of his dog’s name ‘Fizzy’ on the roof of his mouth. Do something you won’t regret and catch them at the Hotel Great Northern this NYE. $20 plus b/f.

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Have you ever tried to cook more than two courses for more than four people? In this day and age it seems that everybody has an interest in Japanese

food and cooking. There’s kind of an obsessive energy around the stuff we pop into our mouths.

When I was first doing food writing, there wasn’t the intensity, the voyeurism Italian

@ the Bowlo 18-20 Marvell St, Byron Bay Dinner from 5:30pm – Wednesday to Sunday We thank our customers for their support and wish everyone a safe and happy holiday season.

We are closed Xmas day. All the best for 2015!

Come on a celebratory journey of love and share the passion for this legendary food of the gods

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you find today. Food programs almost entirely relied on a static host, a talking head, usually a personality cook the likes of Bernard King or Peter Russell Clarke, with the camera on.

They’d predictably cook and chat looking straight down the barrel of a lens. ‘Food just isn’t sexy,’ I was told by an executive producer of a powerful TV production company (at the time Jamie Oliver was a child and Poh from Masterchef was a kid), as I pitched one of the forerunners of today’s foodiestyle shows. The first really interesting demonstration of good food productions came from Maeve O’Meara and Joanna Saville in the Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia and Food Safari

EatDrink Catering – winner of the 2014 WEOA, Awards for Excellence, Wedding Catering (QLD).

that’s still going strong with Maeve at the helm. There’s such an eclectic selection of food programming running simultaneously on television and on the internet that it’s hard not to be influenced from your loungeroom chair.

The point I make here is that whether it’s a voyeuristic sort of interest, or it’s just the challenge of cooking like the chefs, the general public are much more armed with

Eat and drink-in top-end catering Having returned to Australia from travelling across Europe and discontent with the thought of resuming as a caterer and stylist to the well-heeled Sydney set, Simon Ruffell, the owner of EatDrink Catering, was given an opportunity to work with a film-catering company in Byron, and jumped at the chance. ‘My time with this company was invaluable, and it showed me the fantastic and developing wedding market that Byron is now renowned for. I realised that with my top-end Sydney background in catering and food styling, and my love of service and all things food, I was well suited to the world of weddings,’ Ruffell explains. And so a couple of years passed and EatDrink Catering began.

‘We travel far and wide, continually

expectation. I truly feel for the ardent caterers of today.

These courageous folk not only have the pressure of creating a memorable meal, but they’re having to also live up to the new and quite tricky foodie ideals placed upon them at times by the foodie gen. In fact, we’re all bombarded with foodie titbits on a daily basis (I’m not one to talk of course!).

There are some exceptional caterers from what

create new dishes, and get to work in some truly stunning venues. Catering really begins with the first chat with the client. Hearing their first thoughts, talking through options, seeing them start to place their trust in me, and a great working relationship starts to grow. Menus are then tailor-made and their catering event or wedding day starts to take shape and develop its own personal style. This is the real beauty with EatDrink Catering – it’s not a carbon-copy menu; it’s designed completely in line with the clients’ style,’ Simon said.

‘Hand-made menus mean regularly researching for new ideas, studying what’s hot in the industry, testing new recipes, and nutting out the logistics for cooking onsite. It’s challenging, stimulating, and a great way to develop and expand the team’s and my skills,’ Simon added.

I’ve seen in the Byron Shire and surrounding northern rivers and, yes, again we’re the ones spoilt for choice in these gorgeous hills, seascapes and country settings.

Here’s a small selection of some of our local and fabulous caterers with more from them and less from me. It’s a broad brush to take into 2015 and keep as a reference for those coming functions and events you may have earmarked.

Q EatDrink Catering: winner of the 2014

WEOA, Awards for Excellence, Wedding Catering (QLD). Phone 0411 182 602, email info@eatdrinkcatering.com. au, web: www.eatdrinkcatering.com.au.

Reap the rewards of a quality Harvest There are becoming fewer and fewer people who are unaware of this quality foodie establishment. It’s really becoming hard to recommend. ‘Have you tried Harvest,’ I’ll suggest; the reply is getting too familiar: ‘Of course, we love it!’ I admit, we’re spoilt for choice in our area, and some operators the likes of Harvest are offering and delivering the whole ‘bag and dice’.

I’ve grabbed takeaway coffee here, oven-fresh bread from the rustic century-old bakery and on a Saturday

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I’ve partaken of a fabulous and skilled luncheon and I’m doing dinner soon.

The Harvest is a cafe, a bakery, a deli and a fine restaurant all sprawling across three lovingly restored buildings in the historic village of Newrybar in the Byron Bay hinterland. There, I’ve said it again, just in case one or two of my readers haven’t yet heard…

What they’re also very good at is catering – onsite, or in your setting.

You can let the Harvest kitchen and events team design a special event at a location that suits – your own home or a private location perhaps. The chefs will work with you to create a menu in true Harvest style using organic produce sourced locally where possible.

Harvest catering is a quality option for larger gatherings from weddings through to corporate events.

‘Whether you’d like to take a handson approach to planning, or simply leave the details to the Harvest team, we’ll be there to make sure everything runs smoothly on the day,’ Tristan Grier, from Harvest, said.

You can make an enquiry or download a wedding-and-events package by visiting their website below.

Q Harvest Catering and Events: Catering descriptor: for events functions and weddings large and small, offsite or onsite. Harvest: 18–22 Old Pacific Highway, Newrybar Village, Byron Bay hinterland. Open 7 days from 8am for breakfast and lunch.

Dinners on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings. Wheelchair access / family-friendly (baby chairs and toy box). Phone 6687 2644, email events@ harvestcafe.com.au, web: www. harvestcafe.com.au.

Bangalow Catering Bangalow Catering operates from the Bangalow Dining Rooms at the Bangalow Hotel. The restaurant itself is an awarded establishment, having been recognised two years running in the SMH Good Food section. Jo and husband Adam Thornton (chef) take care of business here and it’s their care and attention to detail that assures a successful function from kitchen to plate whatever the catering need.

‘We’re able to cater for functions whether it’s a casual daytime canapé affair, a cocktail party or a formal wedding at venues from Ballina north to the Gold Coast. Flexible and creative menus are designed around and tailored to the event to suit the client’s individual taste and style.

‘We’re also happy to recommend florists, wedding-cake bakers, decorators, musicians and hire companies that we have successfully worked with in the past,’ Jo said.

‘Our catering service can include canapés or sit-down functions; canapés are all bite- or sip-sized finger food beautifully presented on platters with napkins. Canapés can be served almost anywhere – from a house pool-side, to a paddock. Shared food or tapas, entrees and main menus are professionally cooked and presented, and all of our wonderful dishes have been thoroughly enjoyed in our restaurant too. We also have a cake and

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Below: The Bangalow Dining Room Catering’s black-pepper crusted yellow fin tuna with shaved fennel and orange.

You can RELAX when you next entertain.

Catering by Sharon for any occasion large or small.

Providing a fresh innovative approach in delivering fabulous food and exceptional service.

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Above: EatDrink Catering serve up feasts include platters of delectable food to share.

Left: The Crusta Woodfired mobile catering team cater for just about every occasion.

wedding-cake service. All menus are based on fresh seasonal ingredients and therefore change regularly. We work with each client individually on a menu that will suit them. We’re committed to serving the best food and to showcase the wonderful produce that the northern rivers is renowned for,’ Jo added.

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Restaurant: Bangalow Dining Room at the Bangalow Hotel, 1 Byron Street, Bangalow. Lunch: 12–3pm; Dinner: 5.30–9pm; Counter meals: All day from midday. Phone 6687 1144, email eat@bangalowdining.com, web www. bangalowdining.com.

Crusta Woodfired catering Eight years ago Daniel Von Kritter was in Sri Lanka building wood-fired pizza ovens for retreat centres and permaculture farms. This clearly had an impact on his current business model and catering style. Daniel came to the northern rivers and started his popular Crusta Woodfired Catering business, providing mobile catering for parties, weddings and other private functions across northern NSW and southern Queensland.

‘We aspire to fuse nutrition with traditional and contemporary trends, using fresh local organic produce where possible. We select this produce from local farmers, creating minimal food miles, assuring quality and taste and living our passion for delicious, sustainable produce,’ Daniel told me.

The cuisine ranges in style from Italian, Mediterranean, and European, to international wood-fired dishes suitable to all discerning tastes. They accommodate any special dietary requirements, and also list a selection of fresh salads, antipasto platters, and home-baked desserts.

Not only specialising in weddings, the mobile catering team cater for just

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about every occasion – backyard parties, children’s birthdays, 21sts, 40ths, office parties, outdoor picnics, corporate functions, Christmas parties, school fundraisers/events, festivals and more. Staff are available along with a buffet service with the inclusion of buffet table(s), tablecloths, platters, fresh flowers, etc.

‘We’ll set up before your guests arrive and leave quietly once your guests have finished eating. We can serve food to 30 dinner guests from your driveway, 80 birthday-party guests in your house or backyard, 100 children and adults at a family picnic or casual lunch, or 200 wedding guests,’ Daniel added.

Professionally catered weddings, parties and functions from pool-side to paddock.

Serving delicious food prepared from wonderful fresh produce. www.bangalowdining.com/catering

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Gourmet Pizza Catering Weddings, Private and Corporate Functions and Celebrations

Q Crusta Woodfired. Events, functions and weddings. Phone 0434 516 659, email danielvonkritter@hotmail.com, web: www.crustawoodfired.com.

We are the oldest Woodfired Pizza catering in the Bay. We source our ingredients from the farmers market, organic, fresh and local. We are passionate about our products and quality and love what we do.

Passionate organic catering Anthea Amore has been a passionate vegan and gluten-free cook for the past 26 years. Besides cooking, Amore is fast becoming a celebrated author with her popular vegan cookbook Passion – Organic vegan recipes to live for. Along with her husband Caspar Brace, the pair have been catering for more than 12 years in the region (and beyond) for retreats, functions and weddings.

Together they created Byron Bay’s only 100 per cent organic, vegan catering company – Organic Passion Catering – and now they produce delicate and robust catering menus for any event, wedding and retreat, all organic and vegan to boot. ‘Weddings are special. They are at the juncture where love and food meet and mingle. At Organic Passion Catering we’re committed to creating delectable and scrumptious food that has layers of flavour and an uncomplicated continued on next page

Our menu ranges from gourmet woodfired pizzas, fresh and generous salad buffets, traditional antipasti and wood fired starters to lush and mouth watering cheese and charcuterie platters with lots of delicious pestos, dips, fresh breads, chutneys, pickles, fruits and nuts.

Please have a look on www.crustawoodfired.com for prices, menu and a little catering clip or call Daniel on 0434 516 659.

Eat Drink embraces the philosophy that life is to be lived and enjoyed, that the essence of celebration is sharing good times & embracing occasions, be they big or small. Our approach to food is one of abundance, best of season, lovingly prepared.

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underlying nature at the same time,’ Anthea told me. ‘We always use fresh organic produce and ingredients. It’s this base that helps us create menus that just ooze life force. This sort of quality organic produce doesn’t need much doing to it to really dazzle taste buds,’ she added.

‘Retreats are where we see sacred work and play happen. We love creating healthy food offerings that help the retreat program unfold with loving vibrations that nourish the souls and bellies of all the participants.’

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2. Organic Passion Caterers produce delicate and robust organic/vegan catering menus for any event.

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Citrus offers all catering services; from finger food to banquets. Menu includes luscious dessert listings and savoury dishes from the Orient, the Mediterranean, Modern Australia and the Middle East, or choose your favourite cuisine.

The Northern Rivers really lend themselves to outdoor eating and Citrus have food hampers to share with friends, sitting under a tree or at home on the veranda. Everything’s provided, right down to the picnic blanket.

These are also available to send as gifts or welcome hampers.

‘We provide quality food services for all events, big and small with produce and ingredients locally sourced wherever possible. From these great products we create food magic with love and creativity’ Kate Bott, the principal and owner of Citrus Catering, said.

Citrus Concierge & Catering has now added the latest in gourmet barbeques – the ‘BarbieSkew’ - a charcoal fired rotating grill. Originating in South America, ‘BarbieSkew’ is purpose built and can cater for five or 5,000 people. Slow cooked pork, lamb, chicken, beef, whole fish, and vegetables, for festivals, weddings, corporate functions or a special occasion at home. Locations and menus planned according to each occasion and a full staff provided. ‘Or the client can take the reins and enjoy the ease of the BarbieSkew if preferred’ ‘Drop off and pick-up is also a part of Citrus Concierge & Catering service.

The concierge service not only delivers the food to you, we also shop for your food supplies when you have friends arrive or gatherings of family. Let us take the pressure off and have it all there waiting for you to eat, kick back and have a glass of chilled champagne’.

Kate said Q Citrus Catering and Concierge Service. Catering descriptor: hampers, festive fare, functions and weddings, pick-up or delivery service.

Phone 6680 7040 or 0406 746 569, email citrusdeli@gmail.com, web: www. citrusdeli.com, Instagram: citruscateringbyronbay.

Love Chocolate – Love Byron Bay Where would caterers be without chocolate; where would our private lives be without chocolate? Chocolate is the closest thing you’ll get to an emotional food.

Dopamine – and good times are assured.

Alison Campbell, the mastermind behind the brand-new Love Byron Bay Chocolate, has joined forces with Ed Ahern, the owner of Byron Spar, to create a very sexy chocolate brand and shop. This store is about to spin you on your heels and change the parameters of chocolate eating perhaps forever. Beer and wine matching with chocolates? Yes, all this and more; Australian native bush-tucker chocolates, cheese and chocolate pairing – forget the crackers, has Alison gone crackers? No, here you’ll find well known wine brands the likes of Brown Brothers, Tyrrell’s, De Bortoli, wine-infused chocolates sitting alongside New Zealand regional wine chocolates.

Apart from these very different uses of the cacao bean, if you’re doing a dinner party or a wedding, small gift boxes are ready to place your selected chocolates in. Those visiting relatives could benefit from a petit fours à la chocolate, or the surprise spoiling of a personal box on the pillow. You can hand pick singles, or select in quantities for catering and functions. Gifts of freshly dipped fruits, pralines, truffles… or have an onsite hot chocolate made on a unique Belgian couverture choc, white or dark – lick it off the spoon and you don’t need to be gorgeous or rich because the chocolates already are. Chocolate, to me, is the closest thing to love and certainly lends a loving touch to any affair.

Love Byron Bay Chocolate. 10am– 6pm, Sunday–Thursday; Friday, Saturday – 10am–8pm. Next to the Spar grocer – enter Lawson Street (cnr Jonson at roundabout). Phone 6685 7974, email info@lovebyronbaychocolate.com.au, web: www.lovebyronbaychocolate.com.au.

Catering by Sharon Catering by Sharon is located in the rolling hills of Lismore and has been providing uncomplicated yet skilled catering solutions for the past eight years. Sharon Wallwork, the owner and chef, has been a resident of the northern rivers for more than 20 years and knows her stuff along with the lay of the land, venues, food and the blending of the two. ‘I’ve been a chef forever – I’m not just a cook – so you’re in good hands. It’s nice to know that the person organising your food for an event actually knows what they’re doing – it helps,’ Sharon said.

The menus are designed using fresh quality local produce with unique, exciting flavours and skilful presentation. Catering for birthdays, weddings, engagements, christenings, housewarmings, baby showers, farewells, wakes – any occasion.

‘We have put together a comprehensive listing of food and choices whether an occasion requires canapés, fork food, a formal sit-down meal, a table banquet feast or just individual dishes to complement the event. We’ll help to personalise a unique menu that best reflects your individual taste, style, budget and dietary requirements. My dedicated team provide an innovative delivery of fabulous foods and exceptional service. We look forward to offering any event an unforgettable catering experience that will leave guests raving about the food, ’ Sharon added.

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Bookings are essential; $80 per person.

Q La Table. 72a Burringbar St, Mullumbimby. Fully licensed.

Phone 6684 2227, email contact@latable.com.au.

Harvesting the new year spirit Join the consummate team of professionals at Harvest to bring in the New Year.

There’s a five-course fine dining experience in their new restaurant with a glass of champagne on arrival and live acoustic music.

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ings essential; $130 per person.

A four-course summer roast is being served around a shared table in the old bakery with a glass of champagne on arrival from 6.30pm; $95 per person.

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downstairs in the old bakery for the Harvest NYE party.

Old bakery bar open 10pm– 1.30am. With DJ Scooter spinning the classics To make your booking please call Samantha on 6687 2644 or email info@ harvest.com.au.

Vegan White Christmas Slice • 300g cacao butter, finely shaved • 1 cup pistachios • ½ cup macadamias, roughly chopped • 1 cup dried cranberries • ½ cup dried apricots, very finely chopped • ½ cup currants • ½ cup coconut oil • 1 tbs vanilla paste • ½ cup agave syrup • 1 cup desiccated coconut Directions:

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Firstly place the cacao butter in a stainless steel bowl over

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Mix the coconut oil, vanilla paste and agave syrup into the melted cacao butter and combine thoroughly. Pour this into the bowl of fruit and nuts, add the desiccated coconut and mix together.

Spoon into a tin (approx 18 x 28cm) lined with baking paper and evenly spread out the fruit and nuts. Place in the fridge for several hours until set. Lift out onto a

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

6687 1144

BYRON BAY

Get the freshest food straight from the people who grow it.

BYRON BAY every thursday 8 - 11am butler st reserve

every saturday BANGALOW 8 - 11am behind bangalow hotel

Combine all the fruit and nuts in a bowl and put aside.

Bangalow Dining Rooms

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boiling water. Once it begins to melt remove from the heat to allow it to fully melt while you gather the rest of the ingredients.

Ingredients:

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operate Christmas Eve and New Years Eve for these two weeks only.

All other days it is business Thursdays aV usual.

There is no changes to Bangalow Saturday mornings.

I’m dreaming of some white Christmas Makes about 18 squares

As Christmas Day & New Years Day fall on Thursdays. Byron Farmers Market will

Byron Farmers Market

breadboard (leave paper on) and cut with a warm knife, cleaning the knife between cuts. Serve straight from the fridge.

If boxing up for Christmas gifts store in the fridge!

Q Anthea Amore is a partner

with husband Caspar Brace

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 www.bangalowdining.com

Red Bamboo @ Byron 7 nights from 5.30pm Lunch Wed - Sat Fully Licensed BYO Wine Shop 10, Feros Arcade, Jonson St, Byron Bay 6685 6737

VIETNAMESE AND ASIAN CUISINE NOW OPEN FOR LUNCH WEDNESDAY TO SATURDAY Dine-in or takeaway Call us for our Special Lunch Menu Good choices for vegetarians and vegans www. redbambooatbyron.com.au

Cafe Oska 1 Carlyle St, Byron Bay Mon–Sat 8am–4pm From December Wed–Sat 6.30pm–10pm 0416 887 884 www.cafeoska.com

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

TASTY BYTES THE GOOD LIFE ONLINE www.echo.net.au/good-life

Happy Chilli Garden Open 7 days 12pm till late Byron St (opp Aldi) Byron Bay P 6680 9191 F 6676 4869 M 0403 516793 happychilligarden@hotmail.com

St Elmo Dining Room & Bar Mon-Sat: 4pm til late.

Sun: 4pm til 10pm.

Cnr Fletcher St and Lawson Lane, Byron Bay 6680 7426

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

Exotic World Cuisine African and Caribbean Specialities Join us for a flavoursome journey in Byron Bay. Dishes you should try: Fish Kreol, African and Jamaican Goat Curries, Vegetarian curries.

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Hong Kong chef specialising in Chinese and Malay foods Special $10 Menu - Changes Daily -Includes soft drink or water Open every day over Christmas and New Year from 12pm until late BYO Dine In / Takeaway / Home Delivery Available St Elmo is a place where you can enjoy great company, first-class food, sophisticated cocktails and an extensive wine list. St Elmo is plating up modern Spanish cuisine to be enjoyed amongst friends and family. Our menus change regularly and feature daily specials.

www.stelmodining.com

Traditional Thai

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

in Byron Bay’s only 100 per cent organic, vegan catering company, Organic Passion Catering. The cookbook Passion – Organic Vegan Recipes to Live For, is available to purchase online at organicpassioncatering.com.

For more info email info@ organicpassioncatering.com.

@ByronFarmMarket

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Voila! La Table’s tables are set for a sumptuous New Years Eve feast. A three-course meal with an appetiser, entree, main and dessert. See in the New Year with a little spoiling, perhaps?

An appetiser of salmon terrine on brioche toast; herb salad; an entrée of pumpkin and blue cheese raviole, wilted spinach and pea beurre blanc and a choice in mains of seared duck breast, desiree potato confit, snowpeas, cherry glaze; or king prawn ‘vol au vent’, vegetable julienne, bisque sauce;

Dinner every evening 5.30-9.30pm

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

5/2 Fletcher St, Byron Bay 6685 5151

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

Hog’s Breath Cafe

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.

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

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

Fishheads Open seven days 7:30 am till late Coffee, breakfast, lunch, dinner, functions and weddings. Fully licensed.

1 Jonson St, Byron Bay 66807632

Luscious Foods Mon-Fri 7.30am–3pm Friday night 6–9pm 1/6 Tasman Way, Byron Arts & Industry Estate BYO & RSVP 6680 8228

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

Outdoor dining area. Easy parking.

Eat in or T/A, licensed, open 7 days a week.

An award winning Japanese fusion cuisine bringing you the best sushi.

facebook – instagram gingerpigrestaurant.com.au

FRESH PIZZA – BYRON STYLE Check us out on

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

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

BYO Home delivery 7 days

The Treehouse on Belongil

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

Enjoy for dinner.

Full Cocktail & Wine Bar. Extensive Menu Includes Tapas, Mains, Desserts and Famous Woodfired Pizzas.

25 Childe St, Byron Bay 6680 9452

Fig Tree Cafe

BEST BEACH & FESTIVITIES FOR YOUR SPECIAL NEW YEARS EVE

LUNCH: Sun DINNER: Thu, Fri & Sat THURSDAYS: Farmers Market Dinner SUNDAYS: 100 Mile Lunch

Only $120 per person 5 courses & glass of champagne Exclusive use of the table until 1am functions@fishheadsbyron.com.au www.fishheadsbyron.com.au

4 Sunrise Ln, Ewingsdale 6684 7273

Fins

Contemporary and Middle Eastern flavours • Breakfast and lunch • Wood-fired pizzas • Fresh juices • Great coffee Now open Friday night!

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

www.lusciousfoods.com.au

Aquarius Dining and Café

Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner Wed to Sat - 7.30am till late Breakfast/Lunch Sun to Tues - 7.30am till 4pm 16 Lawson St, Byron Bay Reservations 6685 7663

Success Thai

Open 7 Days 12pm till Late 95 Jonson Street, In the Heart of Byron Bay 6685 5009

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Lemongrass Dinner Mon-Sun Lunch on weekdays Shop 3/17 Lawson Arcade Phone orders welcome 6680 8443

Bolo Ma

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

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

Cocktails and tapas hour - All cocktails $12 4.30pm to 6.30pm Wednesday to Saturday

GOOD FOOD GUIDE CHEFS HAT EVERY YEAR SINCE 1998

SPECIAL $10 LUNCH AND DINNER MENU

Bombora Bar & Grill Cafe Open 7 days for Breakfast and Lunch, with Dinner Thursday to Sunday.

50 Pacific Parade, Lennox Head, East Ballina

6687 4333

La Table

Thin Crust Pizzas, Delicious Pastas & Salads Juices & Good Coffee

72 Burringbar St, Mullumbimby Cafe 6684 2220 Resto 6684 2227

Classic & Modern Cocktails Quality Wines

www.latable.com.au www.facebook.com/ la.table.byron

Group bookings & Larger Parties

Spice It Up Thai Restaurant

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.

Open Wednesday-Sunday Dine-in or Takeaway 5:30pm 6684 2209 Mullumbimby Bowling Club

Byron Bay 6685 6202 0487 427 611

Dinner Wednesday to Sunday

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

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Catering By Liz Jackson

Breakfast/Lunch: 7 days from 7am Dinner: from 5.30 pm Tuesday - Saturday

6680 9960 targabyronbay.com

The Balcony

Overlooking the beautiful Wategos Beach, Rae’s Fish Cafe is the mustvisit restaurant while you’re visiting Byron Bay. WINNER OF CHEF'S HAT

ALL NEW MENU FOR SUMMER & LIVE ORIGINAL MUSIC Come and try the all new summer tapas and mains menu with a few old favourites. Fresh cocktails in the bar. And always presenting incredible live music in Byron’s most intimate performance atmosphere.

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

Established in 1981, Fig Tree is Byron Bay’s most iconic restaurant. Perched under an ancient fig tree, which boasts sweeping views across Byron Bay, it is truly an idyllic setting.

Restaurant produce sourced from Fig Tree Gardens Ask us about our ‘Fig Tree Garden Parties’

We have just launched an entire NEW MENU. From Nori dusted sashimi with caviar to Portuguese style seafood risotto, preserved lemon lamb or crispy skin duck breast Full menu on our website.

Every Sunday night in our POP UP Japanese restaurant Izakaya we offer SAYONARA SUNDAY. A set banquet menu (5 dishes) for $29 p. person.

From 5pm New cafe lounge bar and grill in Lennox Head near the beautiful Lake Ainsworth and across the road from the beach. Tables are set amongst the tropical gardens on the front porch with glimpses of the ocean. Fantastic food and refreshments with a convenient takeaway coffee window for your early morning fix.

Great food, drinks and friendly service in a peaceful island style setting. Ease on down to Bombora.

Private function hire also available.

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

French Bistro/Bar every Friday and Saturday NYE FOUR COURSE DINNER $80 PP 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.

CELEBRATIONS Celebrations

Cafe/Restaurant

Byron Bay

Open 8am to midnight Serving food all day from 8am New retro lounge bar Relax and use your FREE Wi-Fi Sit on our deck in the sun all day Live music and DJs: see Echo Gig Guide

Harvest Café, Bakery and Deli sprawls across three lovingly restored buildings in breakfast. lunch. dinner. the historic town of Newrybar, 15 minutes 18-22 Old Pacific Highway from Byron Bay in the Byron Hinterland.

Newrybar NSW 2479 Showcasing the wonderful diversity of our region Harvest create fabulous fresh, 6687 2644 local, and organic food sourced from local artisan producers and the restaurants harvestcafe.com.au own gardens & farm.

END OF YEAR PARTIES & FUNCTIONS Bare Foot Bowls & Dine @ Bolo Ma - functions up to 180 with stage & dance floor in the club.

Italian

11 Marvell Street

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Harvest

Superb Japanese and Italian food.

@ the Bowlo Wed-Sun 18-20 Marvell Street,

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Izakaya

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

All your favourites every lunch and dinner Mon-Fri 12-3pm Experienced Thai chefs cooking fresh Dinner 7 days from 5pm. delicious Thai food for you.

3/109 Jonson St, Byron Bay Fully Licensed and B.Y.O. for wine.

Open Xmas & Boxing Day Welcome for lunch, dinner and take-away.

Closed NYE www.facebook.com/pages/Success-ThaiFood/237359826303469 6680 7798

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BY LIZ JACKSON 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

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Open 7 days 9am till after midnight Shop 1 Woolworths Plaza 90-96 Jonson Street 6685 5700 www.legendpizza.com.au

Holiday opening hours: Open every day except Christmas Day

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Professionally catered weddings, parties and functions from pool-side to paddock.

Serving delicious food prepared from wonderful fresh produce. www.bangalowdining.com/catering

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December 23 – December 30 Editor : Mandy Nolan Editorial/gigs : gigs@echo.net.au Advertising : adcopy@echo.net.au p : 02 6684 1777 w : echo.net.au/entertainment

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BRAND BLUE DAY THOSE WHO HAVE FOLLOWED RUTHIE FOSTER’S ECLECTIC MUSICAL HISTORY KNOW THAT SHE CAN BURN DOWN ANY STAGE WITH HER COMBUSTIBLE BLEND OF SOUL, BLUES, ROCK, FOLK AND GOSPEL. Ruthie’s astonishing voice has taken her on an amazing ride, from humble church-choir beginnings in rural Texas, followed by a tour of duty with the US Navy Band, to today with her third Grammy nomination under her belt for Promise of a Brand New Day, tipped to be a hot favourite.

’Its just incredible to be at the awards ceremony live – you feel like you are at the world’s greatest concert of all times – it’s really cool to watch and it’s a spectacle and it’s awesome. I haven’t worked in TV myself so I geek out on the cameras moving around and the sets and how fast they change the sets… and by the way, there’s the Beyonce!’

Perhaps Beyonce is thinking: isn’t that Ruthie Foster? For Ruthie, every day in the music industry is living the dream.

‘Deep down I always did see myself in music and standing out in some way but what way in particular I had no idea. I knew it was something I really enjoyed and I loved playing piano and guitar.

And it wasn’t just songs; I was a poetry writer and I wrote short stories and songs.’

Ruthie believes that her training has taught her important stagecraft that she still uses to this day.

‘There is a certain aspect that stays the same in every performance and that is knowing how to be present. I have learnt that over the years. I did ‘Even though it’s happened twice before,’ said voice training in music school here in Texas for Ruthie, ‘it came as quite a surprise – it really is. about three years with a woman who is the vocal These guys get so many entries and more and chair at the Toronto university and she was right more every year, and to get recognised is a miracle. on me as a vocalist. I have a training when it comes It really truly is an honour to get picked… and they to presence and learning how to be in your body because that’s a huge deal. I do take that with have a pretty good party!

Being nominated for a Grammy is something pretty wonderful.

me, but a lot of it right now when I am onstage is about getting out of the way. I go on stage and I check out and I let god and the universe and the room do the rest. We show up with a band, we have an outline of what we are going to do, although I constantly change my set list. The band never know what I am going to do especially in Australia! There is something about the energy there at Bluesfest – I never know what is going to happen!’

It sounds weird and it sounds out there, doesn’t happen all the time; sometimes you just show up and it changes, but lately I am really connected to Ring of Fire – the rendition that we do – and a lot of the songs from the new CD.

It was the power of the audience connection at Byron’s Bluesfest that moved her to tears.

Ruthie is pulling back on the touring for 2015 – while she’s got some impressive international festivals to appear at she believes it’s time to cut back on her ‘local shows’.

‘I cried onstage when I was there – it was so much, so much joy and connection and feeling like I am in the right place and doing what I am supposed to do, and the synchronicity that happens when you realise this is incredible.

‘You know I take off my shoes as well because it’s very grounding to feel the stage under your feet.

‘There are moments when I am onstage when I didn’t know what happened, when I have walked off feeling so good it’s like having a good meal! It doesn’t happen all the time but when it does its amazing!

‘I have a great tour manager who leads me where I need to go. I will say yes to anything. I am dangerous when I have had that much joy.

I am always most connected to what I have just done, and that is what I am closest to. I go into the studio and record songs. I spend a lot of time learning how to play songs live before going out to tour, so we have come back.’

‘I have a family and this Grammy nomination comes at a cost to them.

‘I was reading a bedtime story to my three-yearold and she looked at me and said, ‘Ya Ya, you are my heart’. When a three-year-old tells you that you know you are in the right place. It brings you back to reality. I can do wonderful things and have accolades but I come home and I am wiping bottoms or have spittle on the back. It’s real!’

Ruthie Foster is one of the amazing international acts headlining at Bluesfest this year.

For ticket and program information go to www.bluesfest.com.au.

coming soon NYE

WED 24 A TYPICAL CHRISTMAS PARTY THU 25 MERRY CHRISTMAS FRI 26 DROP LEGS, DESMOND CHESSE, DAVE DOG SAT 27 A LITTLE PROVINCE SUN 28 MARSHALL OKELL MON 29 MATT ARMITAGE North Coast news daily: www.echonetdaily.net.au

TUESDAY 30 DEC WAXHEAD, DACHAMBO, THE VOYAGES

GOONS OF DOOM, OCEAN ALLEY, THE BADLANDS, DJ CHRIS BRADLEY 2 JAN LYALL MOLONEY 3 JAN ELEGANT SHIVA 8 JAN BEAUTIFUL GIRLS 9 JAN TROPICAL ZOMBIE 10 JAN ZIGGY ALBERTS & NICK SAXON 11 JAN 360 17 JAN STEVE SMYTH 21 JAN THE GROWLERS 23 JAN THE COATHANGERS

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This Weeks Gigs TUES 23 TH | 7 PM

Their combined CVs credit working with Pete Murray, Marcia Hines, Kasey Chambers, Troy Cassar-Daly, Sara Storer, Bon Jovi, Toni Childs, Tommy Emmanuel and Kristina Olsen to name just a few.

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Join the ranks of our talented graduates including Natalie Pa’apa’a and Carlo Santone (Blue King Brown), Mister Speaker, Kellie Knight, Tora and Tom Avery aka Blakboi.

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WEAR THE FOX HAT SUN 28 TH | 4–8 PM Sunday Sessions

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GETTING YOUR BRAZILIAN Trio Mandala bring you the exciting folkloric dance sounds of forró (meaning ‘for-all’)! An earthy, organic, melodic sound featuring vocals, guitar and sizzling Brazilian percussion! The dance of forró encompasses fun, expressive movements ‘dangerously close together’, that’s now popular all over Brazil!

Come and feel the fever that is forró at Byron Bay Brewery’s Brazilian night! Free entry. 8pm–midnight. Byron Bay Brewery on Saturday.

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One of Canada’s most renowned world festival acts, Dehli 2 Dublin, return to Australia by popular demand following their inaugural appearance at Uplift Festival a year ago in Byron Bay. The tour begins with main-stage shows at the Woodford Folk Festival in December, followed by select club shows on the east coast with renowned Australian support acts Wild Marmalade (with Paul George of Tijuana Cartel), Deya Dova and more.

They play a unique energetic mash-up of Bhangra, Celtic, rock, dub reggae and electronica with club beats and global rhythms, and their high-energy live performances have seen them build a groundswell of loyal fans as they tour constantly across the globe.

KHANAGE

SAT 27 TH | 7 PM

DOUBLIN’ UP ON DELHI

Founded more than seven years ago by Tarun Nayar (of Beats Without Borders cred), Sanjay Seran (formerly of live bhangra act Signia) and Ravi Binning (a

XMAS EVE KNIGHT AND DAZE Kellie Knight and the Daze fuse old-school funk, urban soul and jazz improvisation to serve up eclectic originals and audience favourites alike at Byron’s iconic venue, The Rails, this Christmas Eve. Winners of north coast music industry NCEIA awards for best kazz song of 2014, you’ll be entertained by powerhouse female vocals and groovacious musicianship, unplugged and intimate. Starts at 7pm.

BOXING INTENTIONS Essential Intentions brings you the one and only DAZE MAXIM from Berlin to set things alight and keep our international coverage of quality music to you in Byron Bay this Boxing Day. Joining us will be a fine selection of local and interstate young cats who will be ready to tear the bag out of it to well warmed-up local christmas crowds. $20 at the Byron Brewery from 3pm. Tickets – Earlybirds almost gone! Earlybird $15 (+bf) – limited! Final release $20 (+bf) at Ticketbooth.com.au

professionally trained bhangra dancer and dhol player), they are joined by James Wallace and Jaron Freeman Fox to complete a diverse range of backgrounds and musical influences. At the Byron Bay Brewery 3 January with Deya Dova.

SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW CIRCUS… The Babe Rainbow and Friends present an all-ages gig at the Byron Community Theatre called The Rainbow Circus!

Featuring the brave, the magnificent Daevid Allen (Divided Alien) of Soft Machine AND GONG! Northern beaches original pumphouse gang panthers, Mylee Grace and Ozzy Wrong! Spaghetti-western outlaws, The Family Jordan! The invisible Mike Medlicott! And Nicky C’s FREAK lightshow!

At the Byron Theatre, Byron Community Centre, 69 Jonson Street, Byron Bay on Saturday from 6–10pm. $12 + booking fee Rainbow Circus is a licensed ALL-AGES show. Tickets on sale Monday 8 December at: Byron Theatre box office or online at www. byroncentre.com.au; Moshtix at www. mostix.com.au / 1300 GET TIX.

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cut pumpkin. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Buy your pumpkin pre-cut or let me know and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll fly to Melbourne and cut it for you.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Bad mother. I should have taught her basic kitchen safety. And how to cook. I only managed to knock out a few basic dishes. The good mother in me who regularly audits my failures to comply with minimum standards of mothering reminds Not a stick wedged into a corner of the room. In fact I only just got their rooms looking pretty and me that a good mother would have made her now they are packing their things and leaving me daughter a handwritten recipe book. And taught her how to budget. I have talked about budgeting. with these weird empty ghost rooms, shrines to their finished childhood. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a strange experience I have used sentences such as, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;You know when to see your child pack their belongings. There is an you live out of home you wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be seeing so much air of finality, an acknowledgement that for better of the man who brings the stuff from eBayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. I tried to terrify both daughters with the idea of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;rentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x201C; or worse this part of the mummy job has been this large amount of money that they would have done. to pay EVERY week, not just once. And that they Anything I intended to do for Zoe or Rachel should would have to go without Vodka and trips to the have been done by now. My mental checklist is hairdressers and party shoes. They lost interest endless. I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t finished Zoeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s learner-driver in the topic before Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d even finished the first hours. I doggedly refused to fake a single minute sentence. I guess you shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t give lectures on of the 120 hours that she claims most of her budgeting when they are actually drinking vodka friendsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; parents did and so will fall 16 hours short and opening parcels from eBay. And I suppose of fulfilling the criteria for her to get her Ps. Bad no-one can prepare you for how much life actually mother. She assures me it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter because costs when your mum and dad arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t paying for sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to Melbourne and they have this thing everything. I know weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be getting the phone calls there called â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;public transportâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. I was also going to that start off like â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I miss you so much, Mumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; but teach Zoe how to use knives. My eldest daughter end up with a request for cash. I know because I has a flippant approach to sharp objects and did it. A lot. regularly cuts bits of her fingers off when trying to It took me years to work out that spending all of peel apples or chop fruit. your Austudy in one day, while fun, was a bad The other day she cut a mango in her hand, the knife cut through the mango and also through her finger and resulted in a trip to emergency and three stitches. On the way to hospital I give her a lecture about knife safety for when she leaves home and make her promise to never

in the bottom of their bags. Now they have to look after their own documentation. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve reminded them of the importance of checking the knobs on the gas are pointed off. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t smoke in bed. What am I saying. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t smoke. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do crystal meth.

Please. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wash red with white. Always google before removing a stain. Make sure windows are closed in the rain. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t run on concrete. Oh dear. And I was going to take them on a fabulous holiday overseas â&#x20AC;&#x201C; somewhere like Paris. But that never happened. We had to settle for a week in a caravan at Evans Head. Not really the kind of deposit I was hoping to leave in their memory bank.

Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get me wrong; Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not holding them back.

The rational part of me is delighted theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just the irrational moody over-emotional bitch that is throwing the tantrum. When you live in a country town you want your adolescents to get out of Dodge. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be mortified if my kids wanted to stay in Mullumbimby forever. I love that they are excited about the world that lies beyond our lentil-encrusted borders. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just that I want to go too. Wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t they be surprised when Mummy turns up! â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Surprise!â&#x20AC;&#x2122; No-one ever tells you that relinquishing control is so bloody hard. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sick of this personal growth thing, I really am. Anyway, I know Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not alone; I know there are mums and dads all over the shire sooking in their kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; empty rooms crying into one of their stinky socks. I guess idea and not fun for 13 days. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been busily getting them ready â&#x20AC;&#x201C; demanding pap smears and the process of dealing with children leaving home tetanus shots and making a first aid kit and files of is to reframe the experience positively; after all todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s empty nest is tomorrowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Air BnB. important personal documents â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the ones that I previously held because young people generally Christ, two rooms â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I could make a killing! Maybe I scrunch bits of paper into balls and shove them should get them to go before Xmasâ&#x20AC;Ś

mandolin and piano) as well as an award-winning songwriter with a big bluesy voice, Kristina has audiences around the world coming back for more.

Her songs range from sassy bottleneck blues, lilting ballads, swing jazz to raunch and roll (as well as her hilarious storytelling), thus the truly memorable live shows.

THE OLSEN TWIN Kristina Olsen fans will be delighted to know that the beloved folk-singing yarnspinning performer is back! Kristina Olsen is one of the most entertaining performers on the international folk circuit. A superb multi-instrumentalist (acoustic guitar, steelbody slide guitar, saxophone, concertina,

Born in San Francisco and raised in Haight-Asbury during the 1960s, Kristinaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s approach to music and life was formed by that environment of vital cultural expression, social activism and diverse musical influences. She is joined by Peter Grayling, her longtime musical collaborator.

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Stars Gratitude and thanks to all readers for their continuing appreciation, with warm wishes for a lush and loving, fabulous and funny, safe and stimulating seasonal smorgasbord…

ARIES: With Uranus changing direction in Aries, go easy on E the stimulants. And if midweek frictions send you straying towards the frayed-temper zone, choose cruise control rather than erupt. As Aries Maya Angelou advises: If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

LEO: Overheating on any level’s your biggest no-no this week, M SAGITTARIUS: Midweek Saturn moving into Sagittarius I

because you fantastic fixers need a cool head, calm heart and for a two-year makeover has to be the best kind of cosmic advanced leadership skills to oversee the rejigging of plans that may go haywire. If this season’s celebrations differ from your usual traditions, make it a good thing by creating new ones.

xmas present. So switch your settings to cruise control, put the hooves up with a glass of sparkly, preferably alfresco, and toast – with all the other rich array of blessings – your imminent new astro-cycle.

VIRGO: It’s time to start thinking about kicking back and TAURUS: Moderation’s not your favourite virtue, but do CAPRICORN: Happy Birthday, Caps! With the planetary J F Nquartet celebrating what you’ve achieved. And what you’re not going balance this week’s rich, sinful festive fare with the occasional of sun, Mercury, Venus and Pluto all in Capricorn, this leafy green, because digestive stress stimulates liverish (read irritable) behaviour and this week needs peacemakers, not agitators. If situations heat up well, you’re an earth sign – go cool down in the great outdoors.

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GEMINI: The forecast for this year’s festivities is intense, so have rescue remedy ready. You’re an air sign: soothe frayed neurons by getting plenty of the fresh variety. As Gemini cartoonist Michael Leunig writes: Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.

to. Aim for divine carelessness this week. Use your brilliant ability to simplify by adopting a truly radical approach: Do as little as possible and enjoy as much as you can.

LIBRA: If this week brings unruly attitudes, wayward K behaviour or radical variations of your celebratory

your attitude. Balance ferocious socialising with time in or near the ocean, which always revives water signs. Consider even a mini-breakation to do things you used to enjoy before life got so busy…

AQUARIUS: With an astrally turbulent week of merrymaking O ahead, safe driving and the dedicated practice of kindness

expectations, understanding works better than outrage and humour than hurt feelings. Try utilising Libran spokesperson Yogi Amrit Desai’s advice: [ITALIC]Do everything with so much love that you never want to do it any other way…[/ITALIC]

SCORPIO: Taskmaster Saturn exiting your sign for happyL go-lucky Sagittarius is the best planetary gift possible. After

CANCER: Take life’s little surprises more objectively, less H personally this week; don’t let someone else’s mood affect

is your week. If others whose week it isn’t make waves, you might want to consider relinquishing micro-managing and letting them do it their way. Less work for you.

are crucial. Don’t triple book. Keep your mind on what you’re doing rather than a dozen other things. The moon’s in your quirky sign of surprises for the x-event, so allow for the unexpected.

PISCES: Assumptions could make unnecessary problems this P week, and hearsay isn’t fact, so check before acting on it. Your

two intense years of maturing like fine vintage wine, you’ll easily blitz this week’s odd squabble, seasonal inconvenience or relational hiccup by remembering that blessed are the flexible, for they shall go with the flow.

humanitarian assignment is to help others enjoy whatever state of divine disorder’s occurring. To seek out niches of goodwill and peace on Earth. Celebrate Earth’s fruitful midsummer bounty. Minimise stress, maximise pleasure. .

ARE YOU READY TO BE A COMEDY STAR?

Wednesday’s child was full of woe…

Every year the Melbourne Comedy Festival scours the country for the best emerging comedy talent. For more than a decade Byron Bay has been a strong contender with local heats producing one national finalist in Ellen Briggs and several state finalists. It seems that the 18 years of comedy courses at the Byron Community College under the tutelage of comedian and humour coach Mandy Nolan has inspired many people to have a crack at having a crack!

THE HEALING STARLIGHT One of Starlight Festival’s daily presenters this year is Delamay Devi.

Delamay’s intention is to create a safe space for personal empowerment that allows you to embody the true essence of your natural self. With a background in dance, it was a natural progression to teaching yoga and delve deeper into the rhythm of the breath, the natural flow of the body and the formlessness of meditation. Originally from Byron Bay, Delamay now divides her time across Australia, Europe and Asia, following the sun and offering themed yoga and movement workshops and intensives, master classes and retreats in many beautiful parts of the world, and she is excited to be part of the Starlight Wellbeing Expo in her local area.

’til she learned that Wednesday would be the day she gets to read The Echo.

The Starlight Festival is a local community event, promoting spirituality, awakening and wellbeing, through participation in workshops and talks with local practitioners and healers.

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January 8–11, 2015 at The Bangalow A&I Hall $15 admission. Locals’ days, two-for-one days, Thursday 8th and Friday 9th.

This year Byron’s heat is scheduled for Monday 23 February at the Byron Services Club – with registrations open now. Who knows what talent we’ll uncover in our midst!.

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After her spellbinding performance in the uniquely beautiful Beasts Of The Southern Wild (2012), it was hard for many of us to imagine where Quvenzhané Wallis might turn up next. She seemed so un-Hollywood.

I certainly would never have envisaged her starring as the eponymous little heroine in a story that, at its core, reflects so timelessly and tediously the American showbiz dream. I had the dubious pleasure of seeing a well-intended performance of the stage musical on which this movie is based at the Gold Coast Arts Centre a few years back.

Even then it seemed dated and, though director Will Gluck’s adaptation has been brought forward to the hip by-ways of New York, 2014, it still feels like a relic from a time when people would believe anything. Not that Annie (Wallis) is the poor little kitten who has lost her mittens – rather, in an attempt to keep up with the times, she is a not entirely likeable wisecracking street kid. Notwithstanding the cloying corniness that can never be extracted from any story about an orphan who makes good (Dickens and Chaplin knew how to handle the subject matter with pathos and wit, but they’d be laughed out of town these days), it is the format that flops. Ever since the unbelievable success of Chicago (2002) – an absolute stinker for the ages – the musical has rallied, but its implausible theatricality appears juvenile and jokey when compared to the hyper-realism with which CGI has now flooded the screens.

A big-name cast will probably help this break even at the box office, but it’s hard to fathom what audience it might find in Australia. Even allowing for the boom in ‘talent’ quests, we are generally less gullible than the Americans. Jamie Foxx as the shonky mayoral candidate and Bobby Cannavale as his adviser do their best, but if you thought Pierce Brosnan had Van Gogh’s ear for music when singing in Mama Mia, you should hear Cameron Diaz in this. Ouch.

ST VINCENT Coming from left field though it may be, and with everybody’s favourite type-cast anti-hero, Bill Murray, as its protagonist, Theodore Melfi’s churchy morality tale is as cheesy and every bit as predictable as Annie.

Vincent (Murray) is an irascible old punter and drinkdriver who is cranky, rude and selfish – but we are meant to like him because he is Bill Murray, and megastar Murray flies the flag for the outsider so many of us want to be.

He reverses his groovy retro car over his own white picket fence (a white picket fence? for Murray?) but lets his new neighbour, single-mum Maggie (Melissa McCarthy), bear the cost of it. Later, he will withdraw all the money from the savings of Oliver (Jaeden Lieberher), Maggie’s son, to bet on a trifecta in the hope of paying off his debts. He is a man of fashionable cynicism but no redeeming qualities, apart from the fact that he regularly visits his dying wife – and is that so exemplary? Oliver, bullied at school, comes under the reprobate’s wing and you can see from a mile off where we’re headed. McCarthy is terrific as the modern woman carrying the world on her shoulders – working double shifts at the hospital to do the right thing by her kid while Vincent pisses the money she gives him to mind Oliver up against the wall. It is so annoying that the script is written to portray Vincent as a saintly character while Maggie’s efforts go unheralded.

Having said that, Murray gives a classic performance as Murray (for mine, an actor of limited range), while Lieberher really is sweet and Naomi Watts clearly has a lot of fun as Daka, the pregnant Russian(?) hooker with a heart of gold (what else?).

The idea that everybody is good if you strip away a few coarse layers is fine, but Vincent does nothing to earn his salvation and, in the end, it’s a bit of a stretch to believe that he is any the wiser.

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TOP TEN MOVIES

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THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN

Who would have thunk it? A Belgian film about country-and-western singers? Director Felix van Groeningen employs time jumps that jar at first but, by the last scene, when the unorthodoxy of his approach has found its rhythm, the story he’s told is devastating. Everybody wants a happy ending, but life has a contrary way of not always co-operating. Fired by passion, Didier and Elise soar to the heights, but, like Icarus, they are destined to come crashing back to Earth.

Incredibly moving, with great music.

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THE LUNCH BOX

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BEGIN AGAIN

Serendipity intervenes in all of our lives. Saajan is a clerk in Mumbai.

His lonely days are all the same until a lunch that he has routinely ordered is not the one that is delivered. Ila, a housewife being cheated on, prepares her husband’s curries and rice with dutiful care – it is a meal she made that arrives on Saajan’s desk. They exchange notes, their communications grow more intimate. An exquisitely sad movie, quiet but sexually charged and beautifully acted by Irrfan Khan and Nimrat Kaur.

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Sometimes your preconceptions are all wrong. Too many movies that wish to address issues such as prejudices against ‘the other’ are burdened by a sanctimonious tone that ends up only preaching to the converted. When a bunch of gays in London join up with striking Welsh miners, the result might easily have been a tiresome diatribe – but it’s not. Set against the backdrop of Thatcherism (it’s not unlike the wonderful Made in Dagenham), the mood is vibrant, the struggle uplifting and the people real. It’s also unexpectedly moving.

THE GREAT BEAUTY

La Dolce Vita fifty years on – none of us is getting any younger, none of us can reclaim what is long gone. But there are compensations, and Jep Gambardella has found new pleasures to cherish, new insights to sustain his affectionate detachment. Director Paolo Sorrentino’s sardonic but forgiving eye sees all too clearly the hollowness of our pretensions, but if we are manacled by our follies we are liberated by our quest for love and beauty. As in Fellini’s masterpiece, the eternal city, Rome, plays its profound part.

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HEALING

Low budget and without imported stars to boost its appeal at the box office, Craig Monahan’s little gem is easily the best Australian movie of the year – by a country mile. Sent to a prison farm, long-term crim Viktor (Don Hany) is assigned the task of looking after injured birds. On the wings of an eagle his dignity is restored. Self-worth finds its natural offspring in compassion, and compassion never fails to lighten the burden of others. A film of great wisdom and warmth – and the eagle is fantastic.

LIVING IS EASY WITH EYES CLOSED

More often than not it’s the Europeans who are most keen to emphasise the importance of the arts in our daily lives, and hence in the society we build. David Trueba has taken as his subject John Lennon and the timelessness of what he wrote. Schoolteacher Antonio, a Beatles fanatic, heads to a coastal village where Lennon is making a movie. On the way he picks up a couple of teenage hitchhikers. Their road-trip through Franco’s Spain is a tutorial in the power of words and the efficacy of their meaning.

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Recent advances in CGI have seen it – in Hollywood, at least – knock narrative for six as the primary concern of many filmmakers. Believing, apparently, that only young blokes who want to see explosions and crashes go to the flicks, studios now expect the rest of us to put our brain into neutral and meekly accept their dross. Matt Reeves puts the effects crew in their place and bucks the trend in a sci-fi epic that is relevant, confronting and ominous. It is, in every way, a worthy descendant of Franklin J Schaffner’s 1960 classic.

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PRIDE

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Maybe it’s just because he has ‘been there, done that’, but writer/director John Carney, as a former member of Irish band The Frames, has made the best mozvie about what it’s like to be a muso since… well, since his own Once (2006). Keira Knightley brains it as the singer/songwriter who will not be bowed by the industry. Scruffy Mark Ruffalo brings a wasted warmth to his down-at-heel record producer.

She’s playing at a bar that he walks into one night and they become each other’s perfect chance encounter.

WE ARE THE BEST

A couple of thirteen-year-old girls in Sweden form a punk band. They’ve got the attitude and the hair, but they can’t play a note. It doesn’t matter, because the most important lesson any of us can learn is to ‘go for it’. They rope in a stitched-up blonde who has been studying classical music, and their journey together, with its peaks and troughs, its jealousies and awakenings, is everything that life has always been about. Poignant, celebratory, triumphant – with remarkable performances and oodles of love.

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DRIVEWAY MAINTENANCE

CONCRETING & PAVING

CARPARK & DRIVEWAY MAINTENANCE CONCRETE EDGING

CONCRETING â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Steve Baker. Lic 143161C.....................................................................0412 272564 FLANAGAN & SONS CONCRETING Lic 155456C. ............................................Ph Andrew 66841424 SALISBURY CONCRETE CONTRACTORS over 20yrs local exp, all concrete, Works Lic 136717C ..0418 234302

0418 156 909

JASON COOTE CONCRETING All concreting work, form work, steel fixing Lic 261424C.....0421 957506

Call Steven Butturini

PLATINUM CONCRETE 20 years experience. Lic 225874C ........................ Justin Myers 0458 773788

COUNSELLING JUSTINE BUCKLEY Relationships, mindfulness, compassion. www.muditaclinic.com ......66846090 PETER FOX Couple Therapy & Marriage Intensives. coupletherapyaustralia.com ...............66840469 DR J MILLER Supportive service for individuals & couples. Lennox. judithcmiller.com.au .. 0404 386399

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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

NG

0432 331 633 for details

1300 639 843

electrical

SERVICES PTY LTD

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

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

ALL ELECTRICAL WORK â&#x20AC;˘ LED DOWNLIGHTS â&#x20AC;˘ TV. PHONE & DATA

24/7 SERVICE

'ULYHZD\ 3RWKROH 6SHFLDOLVW 20+ Years Exp.

Storm Damaged Driveways Etc.

)RU )UHH 4XRWH &DOO 1RZ

Jai â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 0467 482 948

0459 260 008 GOODSPARK E L E C T R I C A L

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GARDEN CLEANUP SPECIALISTS

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

TOTAL PROPERTY MAINTENANCE – CALL BEN 0411 631 655 extremeperfection.com.au eptotalpropertymaintenance@gmail.com

BYRON BAY ELECTRICAL Geoff Bensley. Lic EC 34079 ..................................................0427 857824

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

www.spotlessgutters.com.au Acreage & Residential Mowing | Gardening Landscaping | Property Maintenance Brush Cutting | Tip Runs | Fully Insured

BLUE MTN GUTTERMESH Do it well, do it once..................................................................0418 662285

WEST BYRON ELECTRICAL Lic 145002C Repairs & installations, affordable rates . Jim 0403 747615

0430 297 101 / 6684 5437

NEW GUTTERING Guttermesh, downpipes etc. Lic 26850C ................................................0418 662285

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

info@byronbaymowing.com.au www.byronbaymowing.com.au

CIRCUITS PLUS For everything electrical. Friendly & professional. Lic 201844C ...........0422 668582 SUNSHINE ELECTRICAL SERVICES NSW Competetively Priced. Quality Work. Lic 116938C .0416 043414

CHRIS APPEL. Ocean Shores. Lic EC 22349 ....................................................................0422 607444

ELECTRIC BOOGALOO 24 hour local sparkie. Lic No 141097C ...........1800 763911 or 0422 033757

CALL BEN

0402 823 928

FENCING

micaelangelo245@gmail.com

• PROPERTY MAINTENANCE • LAWN MOWING • EDGE TRIMMING • ACREAGE MOWING • RUBBISH REMOVAL • SMALL TREE LOPPING • GARDENING • ROCK WALLS • QUALITY WORK • BEST RATES

BYRON & BEYOND FENCING Any fence, any time, prompt quotes .....66804766 or 0416 424256

MULLUM HANDYMAN Maintenance, repairs, painting, tip runs, gardening ...............0424 954388 A.S.A.P. HANDYMAN SERVICES Fast, efficient, best solutions for all jobs big or small 0405 625697 DARRIN THE HANDYMAN Long time local, prompt friendly service, 30 yrs exp...........0427 641804 A VERY HANDY MAN for just about anything. Happy to help ...Andrew 66844634 or 0412 558890 RELIABLE HANDYMAN SERVICES Michael ...........................................66844970 or 0405 325569

LITTLE ANT Complete property maintenance, handyman, lawnmowing .....................0437 799811

acreage mowing acreage mowing

E.D.L. FENCING Installations & repairs, prompt service .........................66771852 or 0432 107262

CAPE BYRON PROP MAINTENANCE Tom Scott byronmaintenance@gmail.com ......0418 600576

GREG’S HANDYMAN SERVICE No job too small, free quotes........................................0414 109595

fully insured

GLASS & ALUMINIUM POOL FENCING PROFESSIONALS 0499 178 297 psgfencingnsw@gmail.com BEDNARZ, H & W, FENCING Specialise in pool, Colorbond & timber fencing .............0417 491136

HANDYPERSONS A TO Z HANDYMAN SERVICES Tip runs, pressure cleaning, gardening, odd jobs ...Andre 66847553 or 0439 495247

JIM LABELLE ELECTRICAL O.Shores, Mullum, Byron. Lic 176417C ...............................0415 126028

POOLSAFE GLASS FENCING

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

HANDYMAN All jobs OK. $35/hour ..................................................................... Goran 0403 793834

&& maintanence maintenance

AWESOME REPAIRS Professional, commercial & domestic...............................Wayne 0423 218417

• acreage mowing • brush cutting / edging • light chainsaw work • weed control • green waste removal • tip runs

0427 176 771

HEALTH

HOMESTEAD FENCING Since 1995. Glass & aluminium pool fencing specialists. Lic 227674C .66222886 NOT JUST FENCING Contact Greg..................................................................................0490 062016 BORDERLINE FENCING SOLUTIONS All fencing types .....................0422 589568 or 0402 696158

FLOOR SANDING & POLISHING

BYRON BAY FLOOR SANDING

• OTHER HEALTH RELATED SECTIONS IN THIS SERVICE DIRECTORY: Acupuncture, Chiropractic, Counselling, Dentists, Naturopathy, Nutrition, Osteopathy, Physiotherapy, Podiatry MULLUMBIMBY MEDICAL CENTRE 60 Stuart St ............................................................66841511 ACUPUNCTURE & COSMETIC MEDICINE Dr Adam Osborne...........................................66857366

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

MULLUMBIMBY MASSAGE, CHIROPRACTIC & PERSONAL TRAINING......................66841028 MULLUMBIMBY HERBALS Naturopathy, massage. 79 Stuart St .....................................66843002 MULLUM-MOWING@mullumonline.net. Ride-on, large lawns & acreage.........Peter 0423 756394

0408 536 565

GUTTERS CLEANED Solar panel cleaning, all areas, free quotes, fully insured ..66841778 or 0405 922839 A TO Z GARDEN SERVICES Lawns, acreage, hedges, clear ups, gutters, pressure cleans .0405 625697 A.C.E. LAWNMOWING Best rates, reliable, guaranteed ...............Sam 0438 655763 or 66859754

proud member of

ABSOLUTE GARDEN WASTE REMOVAL OR WHATEVER Large trailer. Free quotes ......66804704 LEAF IT TO US Acreage/residential mowing/gardening, tree lopping, landscaping ......0402 487213

Nathan Hourigan 0420 215 716 Servicing all areas

E: it2gets2me@gmail.com TIMBER FLOOR SPECIALIST

Lic: 210143C

MOW JOES Lawn & garden maintenance, ride-on mowing. Fully insured ..............Joe 0407 065849

SERVICING ALL AREAS

0420 528 373 www.oceanfloors.net.au ECO TIMBER FLOORS Sanding, polishing & repairs..............................................Trent 0432 501721 FLOOR SANDING & PAINTING Decks, verandahs etc. Lic 190593C.....................Kevin 0417 644671

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

ACREAGE BRUSHCUTTING & CLEARING SERVICES Lantana specialists ...................0412 705962 NICK’S MOWING Lawns, edges, hedges, local & reliable. Mullum, Bruns, O.Shores .....0418 792279 SPECIALIST WEED CONTROL CONTRACTORS/CONSULTANTS ...............................0418 110714 HINTERLAND Property Maintenance acreage mowing, servicing Byron Hinterland. Sam ...0429 809363

MULLUMBIMBY SKIN CLINIC 58 Stuart Street .................................................................66844400 MUDITA CLINIC Ayurveda, Counselling, Mindfulness. www.muditaclinic.com .................66846090 HOMEOPATHY Satyaa S Lohmann & Paul Cullen www.dynamichomeopathy.net ........0412 661073 DR JOANNA MADERSKA Brunswick Heads drjoannamaderska.weebly.com ................0416 275999 CRANIOSACRAL BALANCING Najma Ahern, Practitioner, Tutor & Trainer ....................0402 230449

HIRE MULLUM HIRE Builders, party and much more .......................www.mullumhire.com.au 66843003 BYRON HIRE Building & home handyman equipment hire ....... www.byronhire.com.au 66856228 SOUND, LIGHTING & VIDEO equipment hire & installation, crystalgrid.com.au ..........0421 661910

INTERIOR DESIGN

LUSH GARDENS Affordable & Reliable – All aspects of garden maintenance. Joe.......0401 275232 KATE PLATT Interior Designs, www.kateplatt.com................................0411 888416 or 66807606 NORTHERN RIVERS MOWING Acreage specialist. Small/large jobs. Sen/pen rate ......0428 544190 d’ART INTERIORS www.dartinteriors.com.au. Call Patricia ...................0417 336816 or 66884768 YARD MAINTENANCE Lawns, rubbish removal, gardening. ........Mark 66843426 or 0437 343348 DESIGN UNIT Residential & Commercial Interiors .................................................Bree 0403 488127 COMPLETE GARDEN SERVICE Including lawns, tip runs. Experienced & references.....0405 529275 BYRON BAY LAWN MOWING Fully insured garden maintenance & rubbish removal ..0412 263069

IRONING

EVERGREEN ACREAGE MOWING AND MAINTENANCE .....................................Liron 0427 176771 THE IRONING LADY Free pickup & delivery. Fast & friendly service $25/hr. Angela......0414 719680 BEANOS Tree & lawn care service. Tree removal/pruning. Lawn & garden maint ..........0421 508044 GARDENING ANGEL / HORTICULTURIST $30 per hour. Rebecca De Gail .....................0413 166314

KITCHENS

ROCKY BURNETT Lawn & garden maintenance & rubbish removal..............................0431 950522 SHAUN LEMURA KITCHENS Byron 15yrs+ qual. exp. www.shaunlemurakitchens.com.au ....0499 771769 ALL GLASS BYRON BAY Splashbacks .................................................................................66857200

GARDEN DESIGN

C & C KITCHEN SOLUTIONS Kitchens & bathrooms, quality at affordable prices ...............66872275

GARDEN DESIGN, FENG SHUI www.simplybeautifulspaces.com.au ......................... Lyn 0428 884329 D HINGED Kitchens, bathrooms from modest to high end www.hinged.com.au Dave ...0409 843689 LANDSCAPE DESIGN & PLANS Lic no. 39791 www.varendorfflandscapes.com ..........0414 842602 MAGIC RENOVATIONS Specialising in kitchens, bathrooms & full renovations.............0404 893404

LANDSCAPE DESIGN

GAS SUPPLIERS

PH: 02 6628 1376 W: www.cmgd.com.au E: info@cmgd.com.au 3 Hugh Street, Russelton Estate, Alstonville NSW 2477

VARENDORFF LANDSCAPES www.varendorfflandscapes.com Lic 39791 ...................0414 842602

Garage Doors & Openers | Gates | Sales | Service | Installation | Repairs

Free Delivery

GARDEN & PROPERTY MAINTENANCE

No Rental Reliable

Locally Owned Est 18 years

BEAU JARDIN LANDSCAPE DESIGN Call Peter .............................................................0417 054443

LANDSCAPING

www.brunswickvalleygas.com

6680 1575 or 0408 760 609 GLAZIERS OCEAN SHORES GLASS AND SCREENS Glass splashbacks Lic No 61205C .........................66803333 ALL GLASS BYRON BAY Shower screens & mirrors ............................................................66857200

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

1176 Myocum Rd, Mullumbimby (just past golf course)

6684 2323 / 0418 663 983 Byron Shire Echo archives: www.echo.net.au

Service Directory

From the farm to you â&#x20AC;˘ 0424 163 784 â&#x20AC;˘ Eftpos available

www.duluxaccredited.com.au

X 6680 7573 0415 952 494 X www.yvesdewilde.com.au LIC 114372C

â&#x20AC;˘ Landscaping â&#x20AC;˘ Maintenance â&#x20AC;˘ Acreage Mowing â&#x20AC;˘ Rubbish Removal

Nick Southerden â&#x20AC;˘ 0410 868 173 â&#x20AC;˘ 6684 7567

GLENN WATERS For the finish you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see. Lic 58928C...............................................0427 908129

X FINALIST OF THE MASTER PAINTERS OF AUSTRALIA AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE X ENVIRO FRIENDLY PAINTING

Hunky Dory Farm

Medium and coarse chop also available all the same price PRICES START AT $27.50 + GST + DELIVERY â&#x20AC;&#x201C; minimum load 6m

COL JENKINS PLASTER Gyprock, renovations, repairs. No job too small .....................0401 078733

QUALITY PAINTING SERVICES

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Lic 167371C

TEA TREE MULCH

YVES DE WILDE

PLUMBERS NEED A PLUMBER? DRAINER? GASFITTER?

Chay 6680 5081 0429 805 081 Byron Shire

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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 I LOVE PLUMBING Call Steve Lic 148904C ....................................................................0412 916140

Licence No. 230091C

ALAN MALONE

Call Neil Deacon Australian

02 6688 4462 0404 864 741

deacondesign@mac.com

Landscape Design | Construction | Maintenance

SUBTROPICALLANDSCAPES.COM.AU 20 years exp. Lic 231789C................................0405 122456 SHANE TURNER LANDSCAPES Solid, creative, affordable............................................0418 688171 2481 LANDSCAPES Paving, retainer walls, tree removal, fencing, concreting ..............0490 062016

LAWNMOWER REPAIRS BYRON Mower, Bâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;cutter, Châ&#x20AC;&#x2122;saw, all small engine repairs, pickup & delivery .................0429 707286

Licence No 97474

Painter and Decorator Over 30 years experience for a friendly hassle free job

DART PLUMBING Plumbing, roofing, gas. Byron Bay. Lic 1175539C.............................0421 334515

0412 794 364

ED RIORDAN PLUMBING Efficient, honest & reliable. Lic L6966 ..................................0417 343480

Architectural & Landscape Lighting Specialists Free onsite consultancy service

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

BRAD EVELEIGH PLUMBING Blocked drains & maintenance. Bruns. Lic 257153C.......0438 140075 DEREK BULLION PAINTING Free quotes. Lic R98818 ..........................0414 225604 or 66805049 MATT WILSON PLUMBING Lic 10704. All plumbing, draining, gas fitting. Free quotes. ...0408 665672 AD PAINTING by John Hand. Lic 13246C ...............................................0413 185399 or 66841249

PODIATRY

KELVIN & ROBERT TEALE Painters & decorators. Lic R65919 ..............0400 349027 or 0438 842731

KNIGHTSBRIDGE Painters & Decorators. Lic 130781C. ........... Ph Lloyd 66872351 or 0410 871662 COASTAL PODIATRY GROUP All aspects of Podiatry. Lennox Head. Matt Frogley ...........66877717 BYRON PAINTING Immediate starts, great rates. Lic 239832C .....................................0427 669806

PRINTER TONERS & CARTRIDGES

PEST CONTROL

TYAGARAH MOWER REPAIRS Pacific Hwy (next to Bruns Wreckers), Tyagarah ..........0488 094025

LIGHTING

HRH PLUMBING (new business) Prompt, reliable, efficient. Lic 220755C ........Harley 0402 652017

RELAX...

Safe, effective pest control is our business â&#x20AC;˘ Comprehensive management plans & property inspections â&#x20AC;˘ Spray-free cockroach treatments â&#x20AC;˘ Non-toxic termite control

If you have found termites do not disturb them! Contact us for advice.

6685 4490 or after hours on 0414 769 018 â&#x20AC;˘ www.sanctuarypest.com.au

PRINTING & COPYING SERVICES Unit 5, 21-23 Tasman Way, Byron Bay Arts & Ind. Est. (02) 6680 7007 www.creativelightingsolutions.com.au

LOCKSMITH THE PEST MAN EXTRAORDINAIRE ..............................................................................0418 110714

TRADITIONAL & DIGITAL PRINTING %XVLQHVV &DUGV Â&#x2021; )O\HUV Â&#x2021; 3RVWHUV Â&#x2021; 6WLFNHUV art@mullumprintworks.com.au ä&#x2013;˛ 6684 3633

PHOTOGRAPHY

REMOVALISTS

MOBILE LOCKSMITH SERVICE Automotive car keys & lock installation/repair ............0412 764148

Bayside Radiators

Windscreens & Air Conditioning

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Where else would you take a leak?â&#x20AC;?

Serving Byron Shire

Lot 4 Wilfred Street, Billinudgel â&#x20AC;˘ 6680 2444

â&#x20AC;˘ Tyres â&#x20AC;˘ Batteries â&#x20AC;˘ Wheel Alignments MULLUMBIMBY TYRE SERVICE Dalley Street, Mullumbimby 6684 2016

Lic: AU29498

MOTORING

LEGENDARY OFFROAD TYRES

MECHANICAL REPAIRS, WARREN SIMMONS Byron Bay .................................................66858500 MULLUMBIMBY AUTOMOTIVE repairs, tyres & brakes. 40 Dalley Street .................. Sam 66843034

OSTEOPATHY

Tree Faerie Fotos Professional â&#x20AC;˘ Commercial â&#x20AC;˘ Personal 30+ years experience in commercial photography and photojournalism

BEYOND BYRON REMOVALS Ready for work within & beyond Byron Brisbane Sydney backloading For careful service & great rates

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

phone 66801158 or 0408 004719

PHYSIOTHERAPY

Andyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Move & More

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

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

Call cost save

0429 149 533

CLAUDIA MIRDITA Craniosacral therapy, physiotherapy....................................................66857222 CONTINENCE / PELVIC FLOOR Janelle Angel .................Bangalow 66872337 & Mâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;bah 66723818

PETRA KARNI Physiotherapy, Craniosacral, Alexander Technique. Byron..........................66807207 BYRON OSTEOPATHIC CARE FOR WOMEN Eve Schoenheimer Mon, Tues, Thur ............66853660 OCEAN SHORES PHYSIOTHERAPY Manual therapies, dry needling, custom orthotics, NORTH COAST OSTEOPATHY Jodie Jacobs & Jamie Bennett. Mon-Fri .............................66857517 remedial massage. Nigel Pitman, Ilse v.Oostenbrugge, Lachlan Dewar ..............................66803499 OSTEOPATH SINCE 1975 Old school, Lennox Head. Michael Petrie ...................................66874410 LIBBIE NELSON PHYSIO â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Acupuncture, yoga & therapy, BFL, Herbs, CS. Byron Bay ......0416 369698

SHIRE REMOVALS & FREIGHT CO From Middle Pocket to Middle Earth â&#x20AC;&#x201C; just give us a ring

â&#x20AC;˘ Freight services to Brisbane weekly â&#x20AC;˘ Carriers of ďŹ ne art â&#x20AC;˘ Furniture removal â&#x20AC;˘ E-bay pick up & delivery

6683 4829 / 0409 917646

EWINGSDALE PHYSIO Renata Tenta. Flexi-Bar Training. Real Time Ultrasound .................66847838

PAINTING

PETER FARRELL Physiotherapist/rehab consultant. Discuss best approach. Mullum.........66843385

BYRON BAY

â&#x20AC;˘ Domestic & Commercial â&#x20AC;˘ Servicing all areas â&#x20AC;˘ Workmanship guaranteed â&#x20AC;˘ Attention to detail

0438 784 226 â&#x20AC;˘ 6685 4154

Lic No 189144C

ALL-WAYS PAINTING

PICTURE FRAMING 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

PLASTERING

LEAPFROG REMOVALS BYRON BAYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LOCAL REMOVALIST MOVING THE SHIRE FOR OVER 10 YEARS

0432 334 200 02 6680 8170 leapfrogremovals@yahoo.com.au Friendly Staff No weekend surcharge

B Timbs Painting 6685 1018 or 0413 666 267

ALL WORK GUARANTEED Domestic & Commercial

Friendly & Clean

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PLASTERING CONTRACTOR DOMESTIC & COMMERCIAL

Lic 184464C

Bruce Timbs

I can call u back

ANTHONY Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ORSOGNA Physiotherapy, acupuncture, hydrotherapy Suffolk Park 1 Bryce St.. 66853511

C. A. Warwick Lic. No. 114578C Â&#x2021; )UHH TXRWHV Â&#x2021; *\SURFN Ă&#x20AC; [LQJ VHWWLQJ

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For tips & testimonials search â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lighthouse Removalsâ&#x20AC;?

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Plus Check our website for how to get free boxes and a 10% discount

LIGHTHOUSE REMOVALS (02) 6684 5395

042050 5395

www.lighthouseremovals.com.au

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02 6684 2198

TILING

VIDEO PRODUCTION

SHE TILES Female Wall & Floor Tiler _ over 10 years experience

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

R 4 ROOFING AUSTRALIA Servicing Northern Rivers. Lic 252098C.................. Adam 0422 248936

BRAND NEW again... GUARANTEED!!!

TIP RUNS & RUBBISH REMOVAL.................................................................................0408 210772

RUG CLEANING North Coast Rug Clean Protect your investment

Specialist cleaning for prestigious rugs: Afghan, Oriental, Persian, wool, acrylic, silk, shagpile.

Commercial / Domestic / Insurance

Call Ben on 0456 606 911 www.groutpro.com.au

For all ceramic and stone internal / external wall and floor tiling Q Waterproofing Q Quality Materials Q 14 years local experience

CALL ROBERT 0414 818 169

Drop washing steel, es and machin ers dry

@ BRUNSWICK BYRON AUTO WRECKERS Buying: • Scrap metal • Aluminium • Copper • Brass • Lead • Car Batteries Next to Tyagarah Service Station

Pacific Highway, Tyagarah 6684 2351

FREE T avail fo OW

r cars – unwanted cash for som paid e

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

WEB DESIGN SERVICES WEB BROWSER Quality websites at affordable prices ..........................66803707 or 0423 770799 wordpressit.com.au modern websites logos SEO value rates ..............info@wordpressit.com.au

WELDING

Lic 219684C

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

We stop your shower and balcony leaks without removing tiles!

Specialists in: SHOWERS & BALCONY LEAKS PROFESSIONAL RE-GROUTING MOULDY SILICONE SEALS REPLACED

0417 542 396

BEST PRICES – BEST SERVICE – FREE QUOTES

TILER/STONEMASON/WATERPROOFER Lic 24418C. Phone Karl ...................................66804103 TILER Bathroom repairs, walls & floors. Lic 75915. Andy ...............................................0419 478248 MAGIC RENOVATIONS Specialising in bathrooms, kitchens, laundries, floor & wall.....0404 893404

TRAVEL

SECURITY SERVICES

WATER TANKS & TANK CLEANING SMART RAINWATER SOLUTIONS Tank installation, cleaning, repair etc......................0418 662285

TILER OF THE BAY

SCRAP METAL MERCHANTS

E ll FRoE ff for a

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

McLEAN AUSTQUIP EARTHMOVING & AGRICULTURAL REPAIRS Welding, machining, hydraulics, engineering workshop ................................................0412 065003

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

MONTHLY MARKETS 1st SAT Bruns Heads 6628 4495 1st SAT Murwillumbah 0417 759 777 1st SAT Lismore Markets 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

SEPTIC SYSTEMS

ATAS A10923

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

TRINE SOLUTIONS Plumbing, draining & gasfitting. Lic 138031C .....................................66802358

SEWING & ALTERATIONS

TREE SERVICES

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

131 546

SEWING REPAIRS & ALTERATIONS Byron Bay & all areas. Phone Jan ......................Jan 66849398 STITCH: For all your sewing needs. Ocean Shores, Mullum, Burringbar. Ph Lindi ..........0432 340113

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

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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 MULLUMBIMBY POOL SHOP Water tesing, Eco products, mobile servicing Lic 39126 ...66844846 VITALITY VETCARE Bangalow. Megan Kearney .................................................................66870675

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DECEMBER 2014 Astronomical data and tides

New moon December 22 14:36 First quarter December 29 05:32 Day of Sun Sun Moon Moon High tide, month rise set rise set height (m) 1 M 0540 1929 1412 0142 0434,1.48; 1645,1.48 2 T 0540 1930 1513 0223 0532,1.57; 1750,1.45 3 W 0540 1939 1614 0304 0627,1.66; 1810,1.59 4 T 0540 1931 1715 0347 0717,1.75; 1945,1.42 5 F 0540 1932 1814 0432 0803,1.81; 2034,1.41 6 S 0540 1933 1911 0520 0848,1.84; 2121,1.39 7 S 0540 1933 2005 0610 0930,1.84; 2205,1.36 8 M 0540 1934 2055 0702 1011,1.81; 2248,1.34 9 T 0540 1935 2141 0755 1049,1.76; 2330,1.31 1127,1.70 10 W 0540 1936 2223 0848 11 T 0541 1936 2302 0941 0011,1.29; 1205,1.62 12 F 0541 1937 2338 1033 0054,1.27; 1245,1.54 13 S 0541 1938 1124 0141,1.26; 1329,1.46 14 S 0541 1938 0012 1215 0232,1.27; 1420,1.38 15 M 0542 1939 0046 1307 0329,1.31; 1519,1.32 16 T 0542 1939 0120 1359 0426,1.36; 1623,1.29 17 W 0543 1940 0155 1452 0518,1.43; 1726,1.28 18 T 0543 1941 0233 1548 0606,1.52; 1822,1.30 19 F 0543 1941 0314 1645 0651,1.63; 1913,1.33 20 S 0544 1942 0359 1744 0734,1.73; 2001,1.37 21 S 0544 1942 0450 1844 0818,1.83; 2049,1.41 22 M 0545 1943 0546 1942 0904,1.90; 2138,1.44 23 T 0545 1943 0647 2037 0950,1.95; 2228,1.46 24 W 0546 1944 0750 2129 1038,1.96; 2319,1.47 1128,1.92 25 T 0546 1944 0855 2217 26 F 0547 1945 1000 2301 0012,1.47; 1219,1.84 27 S 0547 1945 1104 2344 0107,1.47; 1313,1.72 28 S 0548 1945 1207 0205,1.47; 1410,1.58 29 M 0549 1946 1308 0024 0306,1.49; 1515,1.46 30 T 0549 1946 1408 0105 0408,1.53; 1624,1.36 31 W 0550 1946 1508 0147 0510,1.58; 1733,1.31

Low tide, height (m) 1037,0.55; 2307,0.36 1147,0.49 0000,0.36; 1252,0.42 0048,0.36; 1348,0.35 0134,0.38; 1439,0.30 0218,0.40; 1525,0.28 0300,0.42; 1607,0.28 0342,0.46; 1648,0.31 0421,0.51; 1728,0.35 0501,0.55; 1806,0.39 0543,0.60; 1845,0.44 0627,0.65; 1927,0.48 0717.0.69; 2011,0.51 0815,0.73; 2100,0.53 0922,0.74; 2152,0.54 1031,0.72; 2243,0.53 1137,0.66; 2331,0.51 1234,0.57 0017,0.48; 1325,0.47 0101,0.44; 1411,0.37 0145,0.40; 1457,0.28 0231,0.37; 1542,0.20 0318.0.35; 1629,0.16 0409,0.35; 1716,0.15 0501,0.37; 1806,0.17 0557,0.41; 1857,0.22 0655,0.46; 1949,0.28 0759,0.52; 2044,0.34 0908,0.56; 2141,0.40 1023,0.57; 2237,0.44 1138,0.54; 2332,0.46

Times are Eastern Daylight Saving 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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2008 Suzuki Grand Vitara 4WD SWB low kms, log books, immaculate. BZ 97 UE ............ $12,500

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TREE LOPPING

HYPNOSIS & EFT

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Tip Runs & Rubbish Removal 0408 210 772 FIREWOOD DELIVERIES ALL YEAR ROUND Supplying commercial, wood ďŹ red bakeries, pizza restaurants and residential, combustion stoves, open ďŹ res, pot belly, kindling. Various load sizes from 4â&#x20AC;&#x2122;x 6â&#x20AC;&#x2122; to 4 ton tipper.

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Rural Machinery Repair Service old-school repairs, parts & restorations to all makes and models onsite service available workshop 72 Charltons Road Federal

6688 4143 0448 881 942 TRACTORS FOR SALE Massey Ferguson 35 with 5ft slasher $4,900 Grey Fergie $1,500

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CAR SERVICE

HOUSE SWAP

BSW MOTORS

AMSTERDAM-BYRON Family home in Amsterdam in return for house in Byron/ Suffolk. 7 weeks from 27 February 2015.

Email mslierendrecht@yahoo.com

Pre-purchase inspection from $40!

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10 Bonanza Dr, Billinudgel. 66804999

BOATS & MARINE 3.7M STESEL plus trailer, both reg’d, 18hp Tohatsu, sounder/fish finder many extras. $3250 ono. Ph 0427291542

CARAVANS VISCOUNT EXPLORER off-road pop-top 4m long - 6m extended, full annex, needs some canvas work, $1200. 0435752701

BUSINESS FOR SALE RAW ECSTASY This unique niche business is operating at 11 local markets per month. Operational with two people.

There is scope to expand into more festivals & wholesaling. Value to you: $25k stock/equipment + $ permanent market stalls + 10 yrs goodwill + training + amazing recipes + making living food with love. enquiries@rawecstasy.com.au

ARTIWOOD EDUCATIONAL TOYS The Boutique Educational Toy Company for Big Imaginations. www.artiwood.com.au Popular eco-friendly toy importer and exclusive national distributor for recognised International brands.

This solid (mostly on-line) business has been established for over 12 years and is ripe for significant expansion.

Employing 2 staff (owner and admin manager) the business has an outsourced warehouse and approx $1.2M turnover pa.

This is a highly efficient and profitable lifestyle operation.

Sales price is $785,000 + SAV Serious enquiries only please to info@artiwood.com.au

SHARE ACCOM. SUFFOLK PARK room avail in great spacious house, $230pw incl bills & internet, plus bond. Ph 0415747067 COOL & CLEAN person to share gorgeous Bali house, walking/biking distance from CBD. $220pw inc bills.

Please call Zoe 0439879612 SUFFOLK PARK 1 room, ensuite, WIR, $225pw + bills incl WiFi. Ph 0425235991 MULLUM 2 bright fully-furn funky rooms avail for rent now in a lovely home in the heart of Mullum. Quiet location, tropical gardens, massive deck, share with 1 fem, needing healthy-living conscious, employed females only, unfortunately no pets. 4 weeks bond, 2 weeks advance $180 & $200 per room per week + bills.

Text Amelia 0411170468

BYRON LILLI PILLI self-contained furnished studio $320pw bills & WiFi included, short term neg. Ph 0413294982 MULLUMBIMBY 3br brick house, very large yard, walk to shops, dog ok, veg garden, fenced yard. Avail 1 Jan. mulllumbimby@hushmail.com LENNOX BEACHFRONT fully-furn 4.5 star, spacious 1br unit, underground secure car park, pool, aircon. Avail now, holiday let or perm (negotiable) incl bills, Austar, WiFi. 0422251858 or 66863909

POSITIONS VACANT

LOCAL REMOVAL

& backloads to Brisbane. Friendly, with 10 years local exp. 0409917646

OCEAN SHORES large 1br self-cont flat with own ent and courtyard, $300pw incl elect + 2 weeks bond. Ph 0406746569

RURAL MULLUM 1 bdrm inside house, outside amenities, $130pw. 0402199999

EWINGSDALE 1br self-cont apartment, suit n/s, single $300 p/w incl electr, internet, no pets. Avail from 17th Jan. Suzie 0412140320

BANGALOW RENT-A-SHED Modern & Secure from $122.85 p/m Bangalow Real Estate • 66872479 CARAVANS & CABINS from $195pw.

Apply in person to Byron Bay Tourist Village, Ewingsdale Road BALLINA SELF-STORAGE UNITS Secure from $16pw. Ph 66867011

Bruns 2br $410 L.J. Hooker Brunswick Heads 6685 0177 5/16 The Terrace, Brunswick Heads

TO LEASE

OCEAN SHORES 1br/1bthrm furn unit, views $270pw NO PETS UNLESS SPECIFIED www.siwickirealestate.com.au Siwicki Real Estate 17 Fingal St Brunswick Heads. Ph 66851206

BRUNSWICK HEADS Mature person to share house, $230pw. 66851368 or 0437030819

BANGALOW SELF-STORAGE Hi-tech security. 66872333

RESPONSIBLE CARING WOMAN with 2 beautiful high school teens and longterm local employment, seeks 3br home for around $400pw. Reliable with exc ref (current Mullum rental 13yrs tenancy).

Contact Lucy 0403695718

SHOP TO LET Mullum. Avail Feb. $220pw. Ring Liz 0437080748

BELONGIL Lge room, share house, suit early riser, furn or unfurn, $230pw inc bills. Email mattharcla@gmail.com

TO LET

WANTED TO RENT

MOVING TO THE SHIRE IN 2015?

3br, ocean views. $550pw. 0439194847

BEACHSIDE SUFFOLK lifestyle change, work from home, immaculate 2br, 2bthrm, garden villa unit, 1 min stroll to Tallow Beach. Ideally configured for allied health worker/prof. Second private entrance with ample parking. Enquiries 0417631251

TYAGARAH share modern home includes own living, 2 bedrooms & bathroom stunning gardens access to pool, $350pw, a must see! 0438478562

STORAGE From $100/mth. Bangalow. Ph 66871500

WARNING The Department of Fair Trading has warned people to be very careful about responding to advertisements offering work at home. Readers should be wary if asked to pay money upfront for employment opportunities and never send money to a post office box INDIAN COOK & THAI COOK required at our busy restaurant.

Full-time, min 2 years experience.

Email: rohit_sharma8886@yahoo.com VOLUNTEERS WANTED Starlight Festival Jan 8-11 in Bangalow Call Rosie 0413270756 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

Flo Fenton’s

intouchyoga teacher trainings

SWIMMING INSTRUCTOR We are looking for an Austswim certified swimming instructor to work Saturdays for 2-3hrs each week in Byron, working one-on-one with children with additional needs. Beginning in late Jan 2015, we are looking for an instructor who is a permanent resident, is reliable & is available every week. Applicants with experience in this area, or who have completed access & inclusion training, or would be willing to complete training, would be highly regarded.

Good hourly rate.

Please send application including CV, Austswim certification & WWC number to: byronrainbowclub@gmail.com

THE ECHO PAPER DELIVERY

The Echo has 2 contract positions to insert, fold, bag (wet weather) & deliver The Echo to the following 2 areas:

200/350 hours part time – one day a week March – December 2015 Suffolk Park, Byron Bay

The successful applicants will have an ABN, a covered area in which to work, a reliable vehicle and ideally they will live in the distribution area. They will receive the papers very early on a Wednesday morning and have delivered all the papers by noon Wednesday. Suit mature or stable persons/couples with a strong throwing arm. Commencing 7 January 2015. Email simon@echo.net.au or phone 66841777 ACCOUNTS & ADMIN ASSISTANT Small Healthcare company req part-time (22.5hrs) admin assistant. Hours flexible.

See job advert and application details on www.reidhealthcare.com.au DYNAMIC PERSON TO ASSIST male quadriplegic exercise, beach, weights & some gardening. Flex hrs daytime, Byron $22/hr ABN. mattharcla@gmail.com

BYRON BAY HERB NURSERY req casual support worker. See ‘jobs’ section of our website: www.byronherbs.com.au

Now offered as both a 200 hour AND a 350 hour course over 29/35 Wednesdays, across 8/9 months. Learn thoroughly about you, yoga, and the teaching of yoga to suit the individual.

LAND FOR SALE FIJI Savu Savu 2000sqm development block, amazing views, 2 min to town, will consider swap $125,000. 0410406334

SUFFOLK PARK, $600PW

REMOVALISTS

Townhouse 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms Available 06/02/15

HIGHLY EXPERIENCED

BARISTAS REQUIRED

BYRON BAY, $1100PW

BIG & SMALL REMOVAL JOBS Local, affordable, reliable & quick Ph 66845510 or 0412363930

House 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms Available Now

SHORT TERM ACCOM.

Ray White Rental Centre 3/47 Byron Street, Byron Bay 02 6685 8911 rwbyronbay.com

BANGALOW Large furnished studio with own bathroom and kitchen. Quiet garden setting. Minimum 2 weeks rental.

Suit single or couple, no pets. Available until end January $850 per week. charlesefrancis@yahoo.com.au SUNRISE single room in family home prefer female, working quiet student $180pw all bills to end Jan. 0401853673

KITCHENHANDS

RETREAT Classy sustainable timber cottage on cert organic farm in rainforest valley by a stream, Byron Hinterland.

Furn, spa, gym, BBQ, spring water, swimming hole, wood heater, air-con, solar energy, fresh eggs, seasonal organic produce. Horse OK. $750pw incl outgoings (ex. comms) and lawn work. KissingCottage@Gmail.Com

HOUSE SIT PROF CARETAKER avail, love animals & gardens, exc refs, empl. 0406335062

We have qualified tenants ready and waiting for properties in Bangalow. Please call us if you are considering renting your property.

Elders Bangalow wish you a very Merry Christmas and a safe holiday period.

For more available rental properties go to www.eldersbangalow.com.au

19a Byron Street, Bangalow

02 6687 1500

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6 Strand Ave, New Brighton 6680 1594 elders new brighton.com.au

LOCAL REMOVALIST Happy to move big, small & in between. Ph 0402199999

HATE IRONING?

Free pick-up & delivery to select areas $25 per hour. Angela 0414719680 Wishing all my beautiful customers a festive season filled with love & laughter

TUITION FRENCH • ITALIAN • GERMAN Eva 66846760 www.languagetuitionbyron.com.au

Analogue Recording Studio SONICALLY SUPERB ARTIST ROSTER INCLUDES: Bourbon Street, Guy Kachel, Rebecca Ireland, Soul Shakers, Dee Lavell, Cameltones and many more.

Demos, albums, mastering.

Call Geoff for quotes + details: 0432 178 971

Food Services Assistant Permanent Part Time

CELEBRATIONS

Enquiries: Melissa Muir (02) 6639 8234 A Celebration Of Wendy Lovejoy’s Life will be held at South Golden Beach Hall from 3pm on Sunday, December 28. You are welcome to BYO food, drink & music

Reference ID: 230028 Closing Date: 30 December 2014 Please apply online by visiting: nswhealth.erecruit.com.au

RENTAL PROPERTIES WANTED

EXPERIENCED HORTICULTURIST for all aspects of gardening. Ph 0429020215

Lucky Boy

North Ocean Shores

OCEAN SHORES $420pw, 3 bed, 2 bath timber home $460pw, 3 bed, 2 bath, double garage $285pw, 1 bed, 1 bath unit Brand New affordable Housing From $220 to $270pw Fully furnished modern units Single people only *Conditions apply

LOCAL GUYS: Odd jobs. Carpenter & tiler 50yrs exp Repair & new. 0432401334

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

info & bookings: www.intouchyogabyronbay.com Ph: 02 6685 9910 flo@intouchyogabyronbay.com

New Brighton

QUALIFIED PAINTER Small jobs OK. Phone Rob 0408900134.

Green Painters Lic No: 242107C

BYRON SOUND LOUNGE rehearsals, recording & PA hire. Ph 66808938

REQUIRED FOR IMMEDIATE START

Bangalow

Walker St, Clunes - $350pw 3 bed, 1 bath family home, SLUG. Avail Now Brooklet Rd, Brooklet - $480pw 2-3 bed, 1 bath, great location. Owner on-site. Avail Now Pine Mtn Rd, Possum Creek - $700pw Large 3-4 bed, 2 bath home w pool avail furn or unfurn. Avail 30th Jan

Window Cleaner

10yrs exp, quality. John 0411842117

Tuner for Planet Music, Studio 301 & SAE College. R. Barkley. 0422221116 www.reubenbarkleypianotuning.com.au

EMAIL RESUMES TO: goodtimes@harvestcafe.com.au

1300 716 707

A1 LABOURING $25 per hour. Builders, property maintenance etc. 0412469109

PIANO TUNING

FAST PACED HIGH VOLUME BIG SMILES

Now registered with Yoga Australia

Large four bedroom home, two bathrooms, two living areas and a large yard. Double lock up garage. $580.00 per week.

Available 05.01.15 Contact: FNC Property Management

WORK WANTED

Z01242

BANGALOW, $510PW

GOOD DRIVERS WANTED NOW Shifts avail for taxi, coach & hire cars.

Full training provided. Min 12 month Aust Licence Required.

Email: info@byronbaytaxis.com

PIANO TUNER Restorer, repairer & retailer since 1981.

Ph Dr Fred Cole 0412216019 or www.specialtypianos.com.au

Byron Bay House 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms Available Now

WAITPERSON Experience necessary for Gringos Brunswick Heads. 0467894795

MUSICAL NOTES

HOUSES FOR SALE BYRON BAY FAMILY HOME ON 2 LARGE BLOCKS in best part of BB, ocean views, $2.5 million www. byron4sale.com Ph 0415953803

RECEPTIONIST part-time for health clinic, must be friendly, reliable, permanent resident, experience in computers, admin, great customer service and communication skills, mature person pref.

Exp in health/medical a bonus. Please email CV to healing@outlook.com

EXP CLEANERS for home or business, $30ph, min 3 hours, ABN. 0457118369

1. MULLUMBIMBY - 900 papers 2. OCEAN SHORES - 1900 papers

OCEAN SHORES HAIR requires a senior hairdresser for Saturdays. Lisa 66804139

Intouch Yoga Level 1 Teacher Training

LANDCARE SUPPORT OFFICER 14 hours per week at Byron Shire Council. Interested applicants email melody.f.valentine@gmail.com Applications close 5pm 1/1/2015

NSW Health Service: employer of choice

Looking for a rewarding career and great lifestyle on NSW’s beautiful North Coast?

Position Early Childhood Teacher

Term 35 hpw Permanent F/T

Salary $63K–$73K per annum

Enquiries Emily Gioules 02 6685 8118

Closing date 4.00pm Friday 16 January 2015

Additional benefits include 9.5% superannuation, access to education and training support, flexible work hours and salary packaging. The job information package is available on Council’s website at www.byron.nsw.gov.au or phone 02 6626 7145.

Byron Shire Council is an EEO employer and committed to the principles of workplace diversity

The Byron Shire Echo December 23, 2014 65

DEATH NOTICES GARRY ADDISON

Passed suddenly from Dengue fever on 15/12/14 in Bali. He was “doing what he loved to do”. All are invited to a paddle out for Addo at Newy on Sat 3/1/15 at 10.30am, and afterwards to the Billi Pub to celebrate his life.

RIP Gary - you were loved

Violet

Can you make Violet’s Christmas special? Beautiful Violet is 6 years young & looking for her new family.

She has gorgeous tabby & white fur, green eyes, & has a delicate little face.

Violet is affectionate to humans but is a bit worried by the other cats in the shelter. She did live with another cat so we’re sure she’d get used to other cats eventually.

Violet wishes everyone a very Merry Christmas & a Happy 2015.

To meet Violet & our other cats & kittens, visit the Cat Adoption Centre at 124 Dalley St, Mullumbimby.

OPEN: Tues 2.30–4.30pm Thurs 3–5pm Sat 10am–12 noon Call AWL 6684 4070

BYRON BAY BEACH BABES Every night after 6pm Outcalls Only. Ph 0497641199 www.byronbaybeachbabes.com SOFT HANDS WARM OIL sensual touch. Mature & discreet. Byron.

0407264343 MEN’S WAXING CLINIC Male therapist 7 days strictly by appointment. Ph 0477927726 menswaxinglismore.com.au EXQUISITE Be impressed with my hot body and warm hands. Tweed area. 0498073208 FOR MEN RELAXING, TANTRA MASSAGE Deeply honouring and sensual.

For body and heart. Sophia 0448250698 TOUCH OF JUSTINE Luscious massage & sensual touch Hot, bi, 33yo. www.bit.ly/mojomassage Tues/Wed only, 9am-8pm. 0407013347 ABSOLUTE PLEASURE Sensual relaxation, dream body, exquisite touch. In/out calls 0407852069

HOT LIKE HONEY, SWEET LIKE CHOCOLATE Caribbean full body massage with a hot ending. www.bit.ly/hotlikehoney Tue/Wed & Sat/Sun. Ph 0407013347

SOCIAL ESCORTS BYRON AREA OUTCALLS. Phone 0421401775 BALLINA EXCLUSIVE wishes clients a Merry Xmas. Closed Xmas & Boxing Day only. Reopen 10am 27th Dec SOPHIA 19 new, Aurora 20 surfie stunner, Mandy 23 new, Sharm 20 stunner, Jess latina 20, Champagne 40 & fabulous 66816038. Open 10am till late.

BALLINA EXCLUSIVE 34 Piper Dr. New owner, new staff.

Open 7 days 10am till late.

Outcalls available. Enq 66816038 SEXY ESCORT Outcalls only. 0478109345

ECHO CLASSIFIEDS • 66841777 •

It’s raining cats & dogs!

- STEVE MARE You were loved by many and we will miss you beyond words. We wish you well on your journey, dear friend.

To close friends and family who wish to say farewell there will be a spreading of Steve’s ashes and ceremony in the New Year at his favourite spot. Time and date will be later advised.

MILLA is an 18 month old desexed female Chihuahua x Mini Foxy who weighs in at 2.9kg.

She is a delightful little lap dog who is wary of strangers at first so will take a couple of days to settle in to a new home.

She plays well with other little dogs and would suit a home with older owners or a family with older children.

If you can give Milla 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.

Well, almost...

Every year many thousand unwanted cats and dogs are born to pets that haven’t been desexed. And sadly, most end up being put down.

So please...

desex your pets!

PETS FOR LIFE ANIMAL SHELTER

FUNERAL NOTICES PITMAN, RUSSELL ‘MARK’ 24.10.1952 ~ 16.12.2014 Beloved soulmate of Claire Eliza. Cherished brother of Chris and Bryan (dec).

Adored father of Shea, Kathi and Russell. Loving friend and former husband of Karolyn.

Mark will be missed by all family and friends.

There is not enough room on this page to describe him in a death notice. His unconditional love will be greatly missed by all who knew him.

IN MEMORIAM In loving memory of Peter and Joan Thomson Peter passed away on the 26th April, 2014.

Joan passed away on the 30th October, 2014.

Loving parents of two daughters and a son, grandparents of two grandchildren.

Peter and Joan were much loved and will always be missed.

Lovers of sailing, their ashes will be scattered at sea.

Here’s ALEX all ready for Christmas. All that he needs now is a real family home.

If you had to say just one thing about Alex it would be that he just adores people.

He will give you all the attention you could ever wish for. He is a young energetic silver tabby with a great personality. Alex is an absolute gem and will be a wonderful companion.

All cats are desexed, vaccinated and microchipped.

Please make an appointment 0403 533 589 Billinudgel petsforlifeanimalshelter.net

ONLY ADULTS BLONDE BEAUTY IS BACK 0413600493 Caller ID required SACRED & SENSUAL Full Body Tantric Massage Outcalls Only. 22 to 28 Dec. www.tantrabyronbay.com 0425347477

LOST & FOUND LOST: READING GLASSES Tortoiseshell frames, green inside, cream arms, no case. Lost Byron last week. Reward 0412140320 FOUND: McTavish surfboard, Broken Head Road. Phone 0428889500

PETS PET SITTER/FOSTER HOME needed from Sun-Fri for Aliki a 6yo Ridgeback X. Jan 5 to March 20. Aliki is a gentle giant and will be staying in your home and keeping you fit with 2 walks a day. All food is provided, full pet insurance plus you will be paid $10/day neg. Ph Madeleine 0422032308

Find Echo Classifieds on Echonetdaily every day

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66 December 23, 2014 The Byron Shire Echo

Community services not coping with demand A new survey of Australia’s community services sector reveals that 80 per cent of frontline agencies are unable to meet current levels of demand with the resources they have. The biggest gaps in meeting demand are in the areas of greatest community need.

The survey of almost 1,000 community service workers from around the country shows that 43 per cent of services are simply unable to meet the needs of people coming to them for help. A further 37 per cent can ‘almost’ meet demand. Only 20 per cent reported being able to meet demand fully.

Alarm bells ‘From the coalface of community work, our findings are deeply concerning and should ring alarm bells for federal government policies that would inflict deeper pain on the people doing it toughest in our community,’ said Australian Council Of Social Services CEO Dr Cassandra Goldie.

‘As a society we simply cannot accept policies that will further erode the living conditions of people on the lowest incomes, or reduce the social services that are their lifeline.

‘We are particularly perturbed about the state of our nation’s community legal and accommodation services, which have reported great difficulty meeting demand: 72 per cent and 51 per cent respectively are unable to meet demand.

‘Yet, despite the urgent need for these services in our community, they have been subjected to federal funding cuts and ongoing funding uncertainty.

‘Services reported they would need to increase capac-

ity substantially to meet current demand levels in these and other vital areas of need.

‘We are troubled by the plight of both young and older people not in paid work and of single parents, with community service workers reporting a noticeable deterioration in their quality of life and levels of stress in the past year.

‘Fifty per cent of on-theground community workers said that quality of life was “a lot worse” for young unemployed people and 56 per cent perceived that life for sole parents was more stressful.

‘Life for both young and older unemployed people has become more stressful over the past 12 months and community workers identified employment and affordable housing as top policy priority issues that urgently need to be addressed.

Uncertainty ‘More than anything these findings highlight the need to bring to an end the current climate of uncertainty, both in funding for crucial services and for vulnerable groups in our community.

‘The federal government needs to go back to the drawing board on some of its deeply unfair Budget measures, including significant funding cuts for social and community service programs, and proposals such as removing payments for young unemployed people for six months of each year.

‘Already 2.5 million people are living below the poverty line in Australia, including 603,000 children. Now is the time for us to work together as a community to turn this picture around.’

Download the report at http://www.acoss.org.au.

Floodwater warning 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

This summer NRMA Insurance and the NSW SES are urging NSW residents to be aware of the dangers of driving through floodwater, with new research showing that around 30 per cent of us ignore flood safety warnings.

In the past six months, NSW SES volunteers have carried out 108 flood rescues, many of which involved people trapped in their cars by floodwater.

The survey of 1,000 NSW residents also revealed that over 80 per cent of NSW residents don’t know what number to call in the event of a storm or flood emergency – 132 500 – to reach the NSW SES. Lee McDougall, NRMA Insurance community and sustainability operations manager, said holidaymakers need to be particularly careful when travelling during the holiday period. ‘With more people on the roads over the holidays it’s important for people to take

a few simple steps to protect their families and their vehicles against storm or flood risk.’

NSW SES acting commissioner Jim Smith said people should stay updated with the latest weather information in case severe weather strikes.

‘Rivers, creeks and streams can rise quickly during storms so it’s important for people to use common sense and stay clear of these areas in the event of severe storms. If you come across a flooded road on your travels, don’t drive through it.

‘If this means delaying your travel plans, this is a better option than risking your life and the lives of your family. It’s also important for people to be aware of the weather forecast in their area and to have an emergency plan ready if a severe storm hits.

‘A simple way you can get started is by visiting www. stormsafe.com.au for more information,’ said Mr Smith.

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Youth Activities Grants now open: $2K on offer The third annual round of Youth Activities Grants are now open, and Council are seeking applications from community groups who have ideas for projects which empower and support the development of young people in the Byron Shire.

The Youth Activities Grants program was developed to ensure that support provided by Council for youth projects is accessible and transparent for all community members.

Youth Activities Grants provide funding opportunities of up to $2,000 for local community organisations, sports and cultural groups and local high schools to deliver projects which address key areas of need for our local young people.

Youth activities officer Phoebe Lines said, ‘After two years of successful programs, I look forward to seeing what fantastic ideas for projects the local community groups have this year.’

The deadline for submissions is February 12, 2015. Unfortunately, late submissions

will not be accepted. Programs must be delivered by November 30, 2015. Applications are available online at http://www. byron.nsw.gov.au/youth-funding-opportunities.

Criteria Projects should address one the following criteria: • Facilitating activities for young people in their local community; • Providing increased cultural and or recreational events and programs for young people on weekends or outside school hours; • Facilitating events and or programs for youth especially in the North of the Shire (Mullumbimby to Yelgun) or villages; • Promoting a positive image of local young people; • Supporting the development of youth enterprise and ventures; • Delivering harm minimisation in regards to Youth Mental Health or Drug and Alcohol issues.

Nationals mismanaging finances: Greens MP NSW Greens MP Jeremy Buckingham has called on deputy premier Troy Grant and his Nationals colleagues to explain a scathing AuditorGeneral’s Financial Audit of the Department of Trade and Investment, Regional Infrastructure and Services.

He claims 129 reported misstatements in the cluster were identified, and Mr Buckingham criticised the ‘poor quality of financial reporting’ and called on the responsible ministers to ‘implement measures to improve the accuracy of their budgets’.

Mr Buckingham says the audit found 24 significant matters related to ‘financial reporting, valuation, prior period errors, accounting treatment of expenditure on land for public access, lack of controls over revenue and timeliness and quality of work papers’.

‘It also found ‘deficiencies in bank reconciliations, and poor documentation and record keeping of general ledger transactions.’

‘Local Land Services, Crown Lands and the Game Council

came in for particular criticism with the Auditor-General saying in the report that, “A focus is needed on skill sets, ownership of issues and timeliness of actions to make improvement in these agencies.”

‘Troy Grant and his Nationals team have got a lot of explaining to do after this scathing Auditor-General’s report has identified systemic failures in financial management within his portfolio and those of fellow National ministers Kevin Humphries and Katrina Hodgkinson,’ Mr Buckingham said.

An online survey for the independent review of Commonwealth Marine Reserves is now open. The survey builds on the call for submissions that is already underway.

The co-chairs of the review’s Bioregional Advisory Panels, Professor Colin Buxton and Mr Peter Cochrane, invite interested individuals and organisations to fill in the survey with ideas and suggestions on how marine reserves should be managed into the future.

‘We are really keen to hear from as broad a range of people as possible and are hoping those with an interest will complete the survey,’ Professor Colin Buxton said.

‘The review is making sure that its work builds on the feedback and efforts that individuals and organisations have already made.

‘We’re seeking new and additional information that specifically addresses our terms of reference. The government has reproclaimed the outer boundaries of the Commonwealth marine reserve networks and the Coral Sea, so our focus is on their zonation and internal management.’

The review has estab-

lished five Bioregional Advisory Panels (representing the South-west, North-west, North, Temperate East and Coral Sea marine regions) to facilitate consultation with interested parties.

There are a number of ways to join the conversation, including by completing the online survey or providing a written submission. The Bioregional Advisory Panels will also meet in regional locations and with peak organisations representing relevant business and not-for-profit sectors, as well as with relevant government agencies.

‘The online survey provides a quick way for all interested people to give us their views and help focus the work of the Bioregional Advisory Panels,’ Peter Cochrane said.

Details about the online survey and making a written submission can be found on the Join The Conversation page at www.marinereservesreview.gov.au. Written submissions close on February 28, 2015; the online survey will remain open until the end of March.

The terms of reference can also be found at www.marinereservesreview.gov.au.

Confused Nats ‘The Nationals have confused cutting essential services in agriculture, biosecurity and water with good financial management and this report exposes their incompetence when it comes to managing the state.

‘If they spent less time changing the names of departments and more time actually paying attention to the portfolios they are responsible for, then Trade and Investment’s finances would not be in such a mess.’

Youngsters risk lower standard of living: report Older Australians are capturing a growing share of Australia’s wealth while the wealth of younger Australians has stagnated, the Grattan Institute have claimed in a new report.

The institute says The Wealth Of Generations study ( g r at t a n . e d u . au / r e p o r t / the-wealth-of-generations) looked at how the housing boom, plus rapid increases

Online survey now open Reshuffle a chance to for the Commonwealth abandon damaging govt Marine Reserves Review policy measures: ACOSS

in government payments on pensions and services for older people, risks creating a generation of young Australians with a lower standard of living than that of their parents at a similar age.

‘Australia’s tax and welfare system is one of the most tightly targeted in the world.

But the system is much less targeted for older Australians.’

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The Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) has responded to the prime minister’s cabinet reshuffle by calling on the government to seize the opportunity to reset its budget and work with the community, including by engaging with those experiencing poverty and disadvantage, on major reforms.

ACOSS acting CEO Dr Tessa Boyd-Caine said, ‘The community has voiced its strong opposition to the harshest measures in the federal budget. Now is the time for the government to listen to these concerns and bring the community together down a budget reform path which is fair and sustainable.’

‘We look forward to working constructively with minister Scott Morrison and the government in the coming year to ensure effective policy and service delivery, including as it prepares its new families package.

‘The Social Services portfolio is critical to ensure adequate support to people and communities facing poverty and inequality across Australia, and to supporting employment participation. Minister Morrison, and other ministers responsible for health, education and employment, will play a critical role in determining how the government best meets the needs of the many people outside the labour market.

‘When the prime minister took office in September 2013, he said this would be a government for everyone that would “not leave anyone behind”.

This reshuffle is the chance for the government to reset on that commitment and to abandon damaging measures from the 2014 budget such

as withdrawing payments for young unemployed people for six months of each year; restricting access to Newstart to over-25s; freezing family payments; lowering indexation of pensions; further targeting of people on disability support pension; and introducing a GP co-payment.

Growing unemployment ‘We know that frontline agencies are struggling to meet growing demand for services with 2.5 million people now living below the poverty line.

At the same time we’ve seen severe cuts to Department of Social Security funding of around a quarter of a billion dollars. That will reduce our ability to meet increasing need in our community.

Economic downturn ‘In an economic downturn with growing unemployment, we must ensure that our social protection system is robust. It’s not a time to slash these supports and programs.

‘As the peak body for this important sector, ACOSS will continue to provide expert advice to government, grounded in the experience of people and communities living in poverty, and connecting communities with government decisionmaking processes.

‘The former minister Kevin Andrews demonstrated a commitment to meaningful engagement with ACOSS and people with lived experience of poverty and exclusion, even in the face of policy disagreement. We wish him well in his new portfolio of Defence,’ Dr Boyd-Caine said.

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The owner of a 50-foot yacht at the centre of a dramatic rescue off Evans Head last week has hit out at looters who took gear and personal belongings from the stricken yacht and had tried to tow the abandoned vessel.

A merchant vessel helped rescue the four crew from the Red Sky around 19 kilometres off Evans Head after they radioed a mayday call and let off a distress signal when the yacht started taking water in heavy swells on its way to Sydney from the Gold Coast.

But in the aftermath of the rescue, the crew’s possessions were looted, according to disillusioned yacht owner Mike Cramb, who told The Echo how the yacht got into trouble and his despair.

‘After we abandoned, someone has come aboard and tried to tow our vessel: a rope was

found through the anchor,’ Mr Cramb said. ‘One would wonder why they didn’t respond earlier and was it the vessel that didn’t answer my mayday.

‘They also helped themselves to a lot of our gear. I thought the pirates lived in Somalia but it appears you have a few around the north coast.

Devastated ‘We are devastated, we have lost everything, and to think people are looting our possessions makes us sick in the guts.

‘I’m not rich. I worked my guts out underground as an air leg miner, the hardest job on Earth, to save the money to buy this boat. If you’re the person who stole my outboard or dingy or the bottle of Scotch I was saving for my 60th birthday or my other possessions, you can return them to the police or leave them somewhere to be picked up.

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Byron Shire Council Notices COUNCIL CONTACT DETAILS Council administration centre Opening hours: Front counter 9.00am to 4.00pm Switchboard: 8.30am to 4.30pm

6626 7000

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.

LODGING A SUBMISSION Written submissions may be made to Byron Shire Council by post addressed to: General Manager, Byron Shire Council, PO Box 219 Mullumbimby NSW 2482 or sent by email to submissions@byron.nsw.gov.au. Submissions emailed to this address only will be acknowledged.

Submissions will be made public in accordance with Schedule 1 Part 3 Clause 1(a)(vi) within Schedule 5 Part 2 of the GIPA 2009 Regulations as applicable including both the substance of the submission and the identity of the author. For assistance with this please call Council’s Records Coordinator on 02 6626 7113.

WATER METER REPLACEMENT PROGRAM Council is currently rolling out a water meter exchange/replacement program. The water meters that need replacement have come to the end of their service life. Some are hard to read and others do not comply with Council’s backflow prevention policy. The exchange/ replacements will be done on any day of the week and only select meters will be replaced.

In respect of shift workers and sleeping babies, the water operator will not knock on the door, but will only exchange the meter at a time when there is noticeably no usage. The meter exchange is usually fairly quick and the water supply is generally isolated for only a few minutes.

Byron Shire Council apologises for any inconvenience and would like to assure you that our distribution network maintenance and upgrades provide you with a safe and reliable water supply.

Enquiries: Diana Bennett 02 6685 9304

PUBLIC EXHIBITION Draft Byron Shire Low Carbon Strategy The Draft Byron Shire Low Carbon Strategy is on exhibition from 9 December 2014 to 23 January 2015 for a period of 46 days, and is available at Council’s administration centre, community access points around the Shire and on Council’s website at www.byron.nsw. gov.au/public-exhibition.

The Draft Byron Shire Low Carbon Strategy updates and builds on the Byron Shire Greenhouse Action Strategy to showcase actions completed and incorporate peak oil preparedness to Council’s Climate Change mitigation efforts. Actions outlined in the strategy are for Byron Shire Council to deliver over the next three years in collaboration with the community.

Submissions close: 4.00pm Friday 23 January 2015 Enquiries: Kim Mallee 02 6626 7305 For information on lodging a submission, and where to address it, refer to the “Lodging a submission” section within Council’s advertising.

POSITIONS VACANT Early Childhood Teacher 35 hpw Permanent F/T $63K–$73K per annum See the ad in the Echo Classifieds – page 65

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DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS DETERMINED

PUBLIC EXHIBITION OF DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS

(Section 101 EP&A Act 1979 and Clause 124 EP&A Regulations 2000)

Environmental Planning & Assessment Act, 1979

The following development consents, 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 10.2014.665.1 – BRUNSWICK HEADS, 18 Byron Street (Lot 17 DP 1174624) Secondary dwelling 10.2014.647.1 – MULLUMBIMBY, 45 Queen Street (Lot 62 DP 856020) Two storey dwelling 10.2014.705.1 – OCEAN SHORES, 1 Glendale Crescent (Lot 9 DP 863660) Construct roof over garage 10.2014.533.1 – BYRON BAY, 4 Wright Place (Lot 3 DP 258450) Carport and alteration/additions to existing single storey dwelling 10.2014.612.1 – MULLUMBIMBY, 1983 Coolamon Scenic Drive (Lot 3 DP 567115) Use of existing and proposed new alterations and additions to a dwelling house 10.2014.652.1 – BYRON BAY, 16B Pacific Vista Drive (Lot 1 DP 860242) Deck 10.2014.702.1 – BYRON BAY, 64 Carlyle Street (Lot 1 DP 815482) Alterations /additions to existing dwelling 10.2014.664.1 – SOUTH GOLDEN BEACH, 3 Royal Avenue (Lot 67 DP 31166) Alterations/additions to an existing dwelling 10.2014.587.1 – OCEAN SHORES, 13 Mountain View Road (Lot 2 DP 826071) Secondary dwelling 10.2014.650.1 – BYRON BAY, 1 Sandpiper Court (Lot 89 DP 262480) Secondary dwelling 10.2014.579.1 – MULLUMBIMBY, 8 Dinjerra Place (Lot 8 DP 249164) Change of use garage to a secondary dwelling 10.2014.644.1 – OCEAN SHORES, 21 Rajah Road (Lot 1059 DP 241074) Secondary dwelling 10.2014.653.1 – MULLUMBIMBY, 4 Banksia Place (Lot 2 DP 248647) Secondary dwelling 10.2014.690.1 – BYRON BAY, 4 Mackay Street (Lot 3 DP 236959) Alterations and additions to an existing dwelling house (roof to cover existing deck) 10.2014.698.1 – GOONENGERRY, 86 Mafeking Road (Lot 4 DP 611442) Construction of two car garage/shed 10.2014.581.1 – BROKEN HEAD, Seven Mile Beach Road (Lot 1 DP 392188 Lot 1 DP 378068) Additions to dwelling house 10.2014.156.1 – MULLUMBIMBY, 11 Main Arm Road (Lot 1 DP 1070790) Subdivision of land to create two lots 10.2014.197.1 – NEWRYBAR, Lawlers Lane (Pt 15 DP 603097) Subdivision to create two lots 10.2014.542.1 – MYOCUM, 341 Tyagarah Road (Lot 26 DP 791228) Three lot subdivision 10.2014.84.2 – BYRON BAY, 2 Cavvanbah Street (Lot 11 Sec 53 DP 758207) S96 – to alter design and amend/delete conditions 10.2013.111.2 – SUFFOLK PARK, 34 Armstrong Street (Lot 3 DP 259198) S96 – amend approved plans (additions/alterations to an existing dwelling and secondary dwelling

BYRON RESOURCE RECOVERY CENTRE (MYOCUM LANDFILL) OPENING HOURS OVER THE CHRISTMAS/NEW YEAR PERIOD Please note the Byron Resource Recovery Centre (Myocum Landfill) will be closed to the public on: • Thursday, 25 December 2014 • Friday, 26 December 2014 • Thursday, 1 January 2015 There will be no change to the waste and recycling kerbside collection service over the Christmas/New Year period and bins will be emptied as normal. If residents experience any issue regarding missed services or damaged bins, please contact Solo Resource Recovery 02 6687 0455.

The following development applications have been received by Byron Shire Council and may be viewed at the Council administration 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 www.byron.nsw.gov.au/political-donations.

Please quote the development application and property description when making a submission.

EXHIBITION CLOSES – 6 JANUARY 2015 10.2012.407.2 – BYRON BAY 45-47 Lawson Street (Lot 7 DP 1060988) Planners North: S96 – to modify approved development (demolition of existing motel and construction and strata subdivision of a three storey residential flat building comprising nine apartments and associated tree removal, carparking and landscaping)

IMMUNISATION CLINICS Free Immunisation clinics are held in conjunction with the North Coast Area Health Service each month at: • Bangalow Community Health, 35 Granuaille Road, Bangalow Thursday 8 January 2015 (2nd Thursday of each month), 1.30pm-3.30pm; • Brunswick Heads Community Centre, South Beach Road, Brunswick Heads Thursday 22 January 2015 (4th Thursday of each month), 1.30pm-3.30pm.

The following vaccines are provided: Infanrix-Hexa (diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, hepatitis B, HIB & polio); Prevenar (pneumococcal); Rotarix (rotavirus); Menitorix (meningococcal and HIB); Priorix-Tetra (varicella & measles, mumps, rubella); Infanrix-IPV (diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio); MMR (measles, mumps, rubella).

PLEASE NOTE: Appointments are required and can be made by phoning 02 6685 6254. Also bring your child’s immunisation records (Blue Book) and Medicare card.

Immunisation enquiries: contact Community Health Immunisation Co-ordinator 02 6687 0012 or Environmental Services at Byron Shire Council 02 6626 7054.

LONE GOAT GALLERY Seeking Booking Officer and Volunteer Co-ordinator Would you like to assist the management committee with the operations of Byron Shire’s Lone Goat Gallery in Byron Bay? The Committee is seeking persons to assist the Committee with managing its bookings and volunteers.

Further information on the operations of the Lone Goat Gallery and these roles can be found at www.lonegoatgallery.com.

Please forward your Expression of Interest, outlining your skills you can bring to the position, electronically council@byron.nsw.gov.au.

Expressions of Interest close: Friday 9 January 2015 Enquiries: Gayle McCallum 02 6626 7045

HOLIDAY CLOSING Council advises that the Administration offices will be closed from 4.00pm Wednesday 24 December 2014 and will reopen with skeleton staff at 9.00am Friday 2 January 2015. Council will open for business as normal on Monday 5 January 2015 from 9.00am.

For emergencies please contact 02 6622 7022.

Byron Shire Council extends Seasons Greetings to all the community.

Special Event Parking Area - 29 Dec to 4 Jan 2015 Unless signed otherwise (e.g. 1P, 4P), a 2-hour (2P) time limit will apply within the Special Event Parking Area (SEPA) for the 7 days. The 2P SEPA limit will apply to on-street parking in Byron Bay that is east of the Belongil Creek Bridge on Ewingsdale Road; north of Seaview Street and north of Paterson Street and Browning Street intersection. This area covers Belongil and Wategos and the streets west, east and within

the town centre. Most streets in the SEPA area are residential where no time limit is signed; however, during SEPA a 2P time limit will apply for each 24-hour period. Exemption Parking Permits will be available within the SEPA boundary to residents (and their guests), workers and accommodation providers. Collect your SEPA PERMIT from Mullumbimby Council office until 24 December or the Byron Regional Sport and Cultural Complex until 23 December and from 29 December to 4 Jan. Find out more at www.byron.nsw.gov.au

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Liberation Larder lunch Liberation Larder, the crew who provide delicious and nutritious meals for community members out of the Byron Bay Community Centre, will be holding a Christmas Day lunch at the Fletcher Street kitchen. Anyone in need of a meal and company on Christmas Day is welcome at 12 noon.

related material for a new exhibition at the Ex-Services Club Mullumbimby in April 2015. Please email Debby at mullumww1@gmail.com. War Horses – Looking for photos (or memorabilia to photograph) of material related to horses that were part of WWI. Please email Debby at mullumww1@gmail.com.

Bangalow Museum

Red Cross services on call

section, at 80 Jonson Street behind the main bus stop, open every day 9am–5pm.

Lone Goat gallery The gallery has an opening for ambassadors to be trained to assist in welcoming and providing information to visitors. Please register your interest at info@ lonegoatgallery.com.

Repair Cafe

Bangalow Museum and Tea Room will be closed over the Christmas period and will reopen on Tuesday 6 January with a limited Tea Room service throughout January.

Looking for photos

Byron Visitors Centre

War Brides – Looking for photos (or memorabilia to photograph) of war-bride-

The Byron Visitors Centre has a great range of local and national activities, plus a retail

Mullumbimby’s Repair Cafe is closed for a break, reopening on Sat 31 January 9am– 12noon. Volunteers will be there to help you fix things that might otherwise end up in the tip, or to advise how it might be done.

End-of-life choices To learn what your options are when making end-oflife choices, come to the

Red Cross is calling on locals to sign on to two highly valued volunteer programs which bring peace of mind to hundreds of vulnerable, isolated people. More clients and volunteers are needed at a number of locations around the state for its Telecross and TeleCHAT services – connecting people who live alone with a regular friendly voice at the end of the phone.

Telecross clients are called at an agreed time, 365 days a year. In the event of three calls going unanswered in one day, Red Cross begins an escalation procedure to make sure the client is okay.

The TeleCHAT service is also expanding. In this program, friendly trained volunteers call people who live alone and would benefit from a social chat, at an

agreed time generally once a week for an open-ended conversation. People are matched with volunteers based on their interests, hobbies and availability. TeleCHAT is a free service offering people living independently a sense of connection and companionship.

To sign on to receive regular calls or to volunteer contact 1300 885 698 or 1800 827 677.

meetings held quarterly.

Phone Elaine for more details 0421 796 713.

Breast Cancer Support

Bangalow CWA

December Madness

Bookings for our AquaFeldenkrais Wellbeing Program starting 24 Feb 2015 now open. Margie 6685 4873 for all enquiries.

December Madness at the Salvos – all clothes only $2 each item. Volunteers needed for 2015.

Byron Shire Council Notices ADOPTED ALCOHOL-FREE ZONES ENFORCEABLE IN BYRON SHIRE Byron Shire Council adopted (resolution 14-424) to re-establish alcohol-free zones (AFZ) to restrict the consumption of alcohol on specific roads and public car parks within Brunswick Heads, Byron Bay, Mullumbimby, New Brighton, Ocean Shores and Suffolk Park.

Alcohol-free zones are established under section 644-644C of the Local Government Act 1993 and in accordance with the Ministerial Guidelines on AFZ. The Alcohol-Free Zones will apply for a period of four years to re-commence with the updating of existing regulatory signs by 24 December 2014.

Any person who is in possession of alcohol, or who have been consuming (or continue to consume) alcohol within a designated AFZ, is guilty of an offence. These restrictions are clearly signposted and enforceable by NSW Police or enforcement officers. Any alcohol in the possession of a person within an AFZ may be seized and disposed of in accordance with the directions of the NSW Commissioner of Police.

These maps indicate the specific streets and public car parks that will be restricted under the AFZ. Alcohol will still be allowed in relation to approved footpath dining restaurants. For more details please go to Council’s website www.byron.nsw.gov.au/alcohol-free-zones.

Byron Bay

Food For Farmers Food For Farmers Christmas Appeal – non-perishable food items needed for Christmas hampers for farmers out west. New toys and gifts also appreciated. Drop off at Byron Bay Anglican Church Op Shop Mon–Fri 9am– 1pm; Mullumbimby Uniting Church, Dalley St; Bangalow CWA Shop, Main St. Anne Thompson 6629 1041, 0412 910 523.

Free study groups The Northern Rivers Anthroposophical Society offers four ongoing free study groups on the teachings of Rudolf Steiner. Enquiries 6684 5180.

Buddhist meditation Meditation teaching and practice now at the Living Yoga Sanga, first floor, 63 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby, 6–7.30pm, Mondays. Contact Mishaela on 0438 858 842 or mishaela@si.org.au.

Op shop Ocean Shores and New Brighton

Brunswick Heads

Mullumbimby

Suffolk Park

Uniting Church Op Shop, Dalley St, Mullumbimby, open each Saturday 8am–noon.

Is alcohol a problem?

Call Alcoholics Anonymous 1800 423 431 or 0401 945 671 – 30 meetings a week in the shire. www.aa.org.au

Family Drug Support Are you concerned about the alcohol or drug use of someone close to you? Support meetings every Tuesday 7–9pm Byron Bay, upstairs at 75 Jonson Street (stairs beside Westpac bank). Phone Jane 0410 494 933.

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Bangalow CWA is happy to invite anyone who is interested in learning how to knit, crochet or embroider to join us on Wednesdays from 9am till 2pm or the second Monday evening of every month from 5pm till 7pm. Rooms 6687 0617 or Di Campbell 6685 4694.

Toastmasters Byron Cavanbah Toastmasters practise public speaking and leadership skills in a supportive environment 1st and 3rd Mondays 6.15pm, St Finbarr’s school. www. byrontoastmasters.org. MullumMagic Toastmasters meet 2nd, 4th and 5th Mondays at 7pm, Presbyterian Church Hall in Mullum. Call Robyn for more info: 6685 1836.

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.

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.

Co-dependents Anonymous Co-dependents Anonymous (CoDA) is a worldwide network of groups of men and women learning how to develop and maintain healthy and fulfilling relationships. For more information, and meetings in your area, visit www. codependentsanonymous. org.au or phone 9281 3330.

Please note: This section is intended for the benefit of non-profit community groups, not for invitations to free events to be followed up by paid workshops.

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You will fall in love with ‘Glen Isle’ Tallowood Ridge, Mullumbimby

Land from $224,000 Ready to build in the new year

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Your own private waterhole Five minutes to Clunes cafe and shops Council consent for 3 cabins 2 living areas, 11’ ceilings, wood The cattle agistment agreement flooring with renovated bathroom earning $120pw N-facing verandah with stunning views Interest from $745,000.

New shed plus old dairy bails which Contact Sonia Jervis on 0409 033 250. could convert to workshop/studio Coopers Creek frontage New shed, 100 acres

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4 Richmond Avenue, Ballina For Sale $1,600,000 plus

26 Childe Street, Byron Bay For Sale $2,300,000 – $2,600,000

3/19 Marvell Street, Byron Bay For Sale $890,000 plus

Thank you to everyone for all your support, referrals and encouragement for what has turned out to be an outstanding first year for Parkinson Byron Bay. We have made new friends and broken a sales record or two along the way.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank our staff and in particular Karin Heller who has done a tremendous job. We look forward to a new year filled with enormous possibilities and we pledge to remain a little bit different and a whole lot better.

WANTED: Owing to Parkinson’s overwhelming success in 2014 we will be needing help keeping up with demand. We are looking for sales people with the highest integrity to join our innovative and progressive sales team. You will need to be self-motivated, be able to work independently, be customer focused and results driven.

A local social network and friendly yet professional approach will mean you can work your own hours and be paid the highest commission in the real estate industry. For a confidential chat please call Frank Mlikota on 0407 949 246.

On behalf of Parkinson we would like to thank all our clients, past and present, for your support in the last year and we wish you all a safe and happy holiday break and wonderful start to 2015.

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Suffolk Park Exclusive Private Offering 97A Broken Head Road

Immersed JO the native flora and wildlife is the ideal setting to build your dream home. This rare parcel of land, located well away from Broken Head Road, has a private entrance and access to a private walkway through to Tallow Beach. The land size of 3939sqm (almost 1 acre) allows for a prestigious home to blend with the surrounding natural landscape. All services to the land have been connected.

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$1,250,000

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BRAND NEW 183 -203 Broken Head Rd

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• Walk to Beach • Pet Friendly • All gardens maintained by contractor

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We would strongly urge anyone with an interest in any aspect of property in the Byron Area to get in contact with Gail and the team at Byron Coastal ASAP! You will not regret it.”

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For Private Sale Kilrush Estate – A slice of paradise

A thoroughly modern home set on 8.7 hectares, Kilrush Estate commands views that stretch from Ballina to Broken Head.

Front and centre is Seven Mile Beach and the still sleepy, coastal village of Lennox Head.

• Classic federation-style house built in 1993.

• Open plan kitchen/dining/ lounge to suit large family or entertaining.

• 4 bedrooms, master with walk-in-robe and ensuite.

• In-ground, salt water pool.

• Polished timber floors and high ceilings.

• An elevated position that always catches the sea breeze.

• Covered verandahs on all four sides.

• Airports – 10 minutes to Ballina and 35 minutes to the Gold Coast.

For more information www.kilrushparadise.weebly.com To organise an inspection phone Daniel McCaffery 0401 266 728

CLUNES 39-41 Main Street This delightful property in the charming village of Clunes combines a heritage character filled c1918 home with a separate original, romantic c1880 shop to offer endless lifestyle opportunities. Complete with a shed, it occupies 1,063sqm of land in a prime location.

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Le PAradis - Knockrow The essence of the French countryside magically recreated in Byron Bay • Magnificent 3 acre country estate • Limestone construction with imported French doors and many other architectural elements • Beautifully landscaped gardens with feature lighting • 4 bedroom self contained guest house • 4 bedroom main residence with separate study • Expansive undercover terraces and travertine paving throughout • Large climate cooled wine cellar • Floodlit championship synthetic grass tennis court with separate exterior bathroom facilities • Large private tiled pool surrounded by travertine terrace & manicured gardens • 2 x 2 car garages • No expense spared

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Backlash Ocean Shores resident Tina Petroff tells us that this is the first year that lightsforkids. org.au are fundraising for sick kids in Westmead and Randwick children’s hospitals. Anyone with a Christmas light display on their home can register to help. Tina has registered her Christmas lights at Ocean Shores and says you can make a donation online at lightsforkids.org.au. ‘Your generosity with donations will make the festive season extra special and help brighten the lives of young patients and their families,’ she says.

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You may think this is our last issue for the year but we’ve got over our horrible indulgence of taking a week off after the big holiday edition and will be back out on the streets on Tuesday December 30. And in case you haven’t noticed already, we are publishing on Wednesdays in 2015, the first one being January 7.

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Former Tweed-Byron LAC detective Shane Diehm was caught up in a sting by the Police Integrity Commission but it looks like a little internal ruckus might also have been going on. According to the Canberra Times, ‘The Police Integrity Commission has been slammed for using one of its own investigators to bring a private prosecution in Queensland against five serving and retired officers, despite it having no power to conduct prosecutions in any case. The five police officers, including former NSW detective superintendent John Alt and former senior detective Shane Diehm, were investigated by the PIC as part of Operation Ischia, which involved allegations of recreational drug use

The painting on our front cover is from the Fischernetz mural in Hamburg by Innerfields www.innerfields.de. The photo, and the photo above revealing the true scale of the mural, are by Kai Branss. See his film of the mural being painted at www.branss.com.

and supply. The PIC does not have the power to prosecute police officers for offences in NSW or elsewhere but it can refer material to the DPP. In this case, a PIC investigator commenced a “private prosecution” in Queensland in his own name against the officers for drug offences.’ Read the Canberra Times story at http:// bit.ly/PICDiehm.

Hostages killed in Sydney siege last week: two. Number of women likely to be killed

by a partner or ex in 2014: around 45. See the data at http://bit.ly/Ozcrimestats.

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Parents, be on the lookout for cops when dropping off your kids at Mullum High – a mum approached The Echo recently with a no-parking ticket after police photographed her and then sent a $311 fine. Shouldn’t logic prevail and instead this be a drop-off zone? Of course fines of this nature do nothing to endear police to the community. The job of policing is hard enough, and so the question is: why would you make it harder?

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