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Mourning the Byron Bypass

Aslan Shand Calls to stem the tide of short-term holiday letting in Byron Shire have finally been heard. NSW planning minister Anthony Roberts has announced a ministerial direction allowing Byron Shire Council some degree of determination over how holiday letting is implemented locally. New planning rules (a shortterm rental accommodation (STRA) act was passed by the current NSW government in August 2018) are set to apply from late 2019. These will allow absentee landlords to rent their regional properties for up to 365 days per year. Regional councils will be able to impose a 180-day limit per year.

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Mourning the ‘critical habitat of endangered species’ that will be destroyed when the Byron Bypass is built over local wetlands locals came together to mark World Wetland Day on February 2. ‘I am shocked that in this day and age when it is beholden on civil authorities to take responsible action on climate change, that our council is set to destroy any wetlands at all,’ said Ms Rosie Lee from under her veil of mourning. ‘At what point in zero emissions Byron by 2020 is destruction of wetlands a NO GO OPTION? Conservation of forests and wetlands is one of the top ten actions we can take to ameliorate the impacts of climate change. The “offset” they are claiming is already a gazetted wetland conservation area.’ Photo Jeff Dawson

Will government force Bluesfest to quit Byron? Chris Dobney Byron Bluesfest director Peter Noble has threatened to move the iconic festival interstate if the Berejiklian government refuses to withdraw its draconian new festival policy. The policy came about in response to two drug-related deaths at Defqon.1 in Sydney in

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September last year. But Bluesfest, which annually attracts tens of thousands of mostly middle-aged visitors to Byron, has been deemed a ‘highrisk’ event by the state government despite never having had a drug problem. Mr Noble warns the ‘poorly thought-through new policy’ is set to ‘decimate the industry’ and cost

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hundreds, if not thousands, of jobs. ‘Tens of millions of dollars, a lot of it spent rurally, will no longer be generated,’ he said. Under the new rules, festivals would be required to fork out for the cost of policing ‘at whatever price they levy’, Mr Noble said, and would only be able to sell midstrength alcohol. He estimates the cost to the

festival and the impact on income would run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The latest in the Berejiklian government’s swathe of nanny-state rules is set to ‘destroy the industry in NSW’, he said. Just days ago, Mountain Sounds ▶ Continued on page 2

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Mr Roberts, speaking outside Byron Shire Council Chambers on Monday, said that if re-elected a Liberal-National government would introduce caps of 180 days per calendar year to apply when the host is not present in STRA properties in metropolitan Sydney and some regional areas. He then said that Byron Shire had exceptional circumstances and, following advocacy from Nationals senator Ben Franklin, he had ‘decided to issue a ministerial direction which invites Byron Shire to lead the way by proposing 90-day thresholds in the most impacted towns of the LGA (local government area). Council can now begin the preparation of a planning proposal to make this happen.’ ▶ Continued on page 4

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was ‘requesting all major state events ministers to get in touch. We are ready to bring Australia’s favourite festival to your state as the leaders of NSW don’t want us – and in fact are legislating us out of business’.

festival was forced to cancel, citing ‘impossible’ conditions. Yet another event, PSYFARI, was abandoned last week. In an open letter sent out yesterday, Mr Noble wrote, ‘I ask the premier, ministers for the arts, tourism and major events, and EVERY sitting politician, why do you seem to be hell bent on destroying our industry?’

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No consultation ‘Why have we been given zero recognition in this government’s actions? ‘Our 30-year-old business is to be seriously damaged in a new policy imposed… by a government who has rushed to judgment of our industry without full consultation of stakeholders or meetings with entertainment industry professionals. ‘I charge the government with a systemic failure in fairness and implore all politicians from all parties to quickly become involved

Bluesfest director Peter Noble with his Keeping the Blues Alive award. The international award-winning event may soon have to move interstate. Photo supplied with what is a serious injustice. ‘We provide culture to the people of this state and Australia through our good works. Most festivals haven’t had drug deaths and contribute greatly to our society through presenting well-run, professional, world-class events. ‘Should our government

not see good sense, then I am saying now: Bluesfest will leave NSW – we have no choice, it’s a matter of survival. ‘Will the last festival to leave NSW please turn out the light of culture in this soon-to-be barren state.’ And, in case the NSW government doesn’t get the message, Mr Noble said he

Labor’s candidate for Ballina, Asren Pugh, told The Echo it was ‘absolutely astonishing’ that Bluesfest had been declared a highrisk festival’. ‘Labor, for the first time, has a [shadow] minister for music and the night-time economy. We are passionate about supporting live music right across NSW, particularly on the north coast, which is the centre of the festival scene in Australia. ‘It is astonishing and bewildering that they would put an iconic festival like Bluesfest at risk by these outrageous impositions and additional costs on their operation,’ he said.

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Nearly 100 locals gathered in Mullumbimby to have their say about plans for an affordable-housing development next to the town’s community gardens last week. The site, known as ‘Lot 22’, has been earmarked for affordable housing as part of Byron Council’s attempt to address the Shire’s worsening affordability crisis. But a large and determined group of local homeowners strongly oppose any development at the location, citing flooding issues and the loss of much-needed recreational space.

These opponents were out in force at the meeting last Wednesday night, accounting for 14 of the 17 speakers and the vast majority of those in the gallery. ‘The flood risk was definitely a common theme among many of the speakers,’ said Sandra Kessler from the Mullumbimby Residents’ Association. ‘There is a real concern that in a significant flood event the new houses could end up being cut off or even under water.’ Located about 10 minutes’ walk from the centre of Mullumbimby, the 22-hectare site is owned by Byron Council, meaning that there is an opportunity for housing there to be genuinely affordable rather than entirely driven by profit. A draft concept plan for the site prepared by local housing group Social Habitat features three hamlets of 50 tiny homes, each with its own village green, solar-powered shed, and food garden. The council has begun the process or rezoning the site from recreational open space to general residential and held the meeting as part of the public consultation process. The biggest impediment to the proposal, as many of

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those at the meeting pointed out, is the flood-prone nature of the site.

Unacceptable risk In a written and verbal statement to last week’s meeting, the NSW State Emergency Service opposed the proposal on the grounds that any houses built on the site would be cut off during a one-in-100-year flood event. ‘If the proposed rezoning is approved, the resulting development will increase the population exposed to unacceptable flood risk and is likely to result in unsustainable social and economic costs to the community as a consequence of flooding,’ the SES said in its submission. ‘It will also result in transferring the risk to the future occupants and the NSW SES to have to potentially conduct rescues where occupants have not evacuated prior to access roads being closed by floodwater.’ Residents at the meeting also cited the loss of accessible open space as a reason for opposing the plan. ‘There’s a lot of passive recreation that takes place there,’ Ms Kessler said. ‘On any given day there are people walking dogs, people on bikes and trikes – it’s a very well used spot.’ But not everyone was opposed to the plan.

Desperate for housing David Brown, a local architect and member of the Mullumbimby Masterplan Guidance Group said the community needed to give the proposal a go because of the ‘desperate need for more affordable housing’ in the Shire. ‘I agree that there is definitely a flooding issue and unless it’s resolved through careful planning and design the precautionary principle should apply,’ Mr Brown said. ‘But I think there are intelligent solutions available, and we should fully investigate those and get a really clear sense of the flooding situation, not just for that site but for the entire town, before writing it off.’ Mr Brown said that doing nothing about affordable housing was not an option. ‘We have a crisis in this Shire,’ he said. ‘We have a situation where our essential frontline workers – teachers, nurses, council staff – are driving long distances on dangerous roads to get to work because they can no longer afford to live in the Shire. ‘If we want to call ourselves a sustainable community in the truest sense of the word then we have to seriously consider options like Lot 22.’

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Culture and jobs on country key Aslan Shand Candidates and their parties are putting their ideas out there for us to make a decision on how we will vote in the March 23 state elections. Local Labor candidate Asren Pugh has said Labor will put forward $100,000 for the long-awaited Arakwal Cultural Centre Masterplan. ‘We expect and demand a lot of our local Arakwal and when I went to them and asked what they need they said “jobs for our own people on country” and an Arakwal Cultural Centre is a way of providing this and giving something back,’ said Mr Pugh. Making the announcement local Labor spokesperson for Aboriginal Affairs, David Harris, said, ‘The Cultural Centre will be a shot in the arm for the local economy and provide sustainable jobs and sustainable income for the Arakwal people.’ Talking to The Echo Mr Harris confirmed that Labor was committed to the funding announcement if they

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Labor candidate for Ballina Asren Pugh, Labor spokesperson for regional development and Aboriginal affairs David Harris, Arakwal director Rhonda King, native title claimant Norm Graham, general manager of the Arakwal corporation Sharon Sloane, Annette Kelly, chair of the Arakwal corporation, and Rita Roberts. Photo Jeff Dawson were elected regardless of whether their candidate was elected in the seat of Ballina. ‘Since 2001 the cultural centre has been in the making,’ said Sharon Sloane, general manager of the Arakwal Corporation. ‘This funding will give us the opportunity to develop a full masterplan around what we want as the Arakwal community integrated with Byron town and the lighthouse.’ ‘It would be great, after all these years, to be able to tell our stories,’ agreed native title claimant Norm Graham whose mother Yvonne Graham was one of the original claimants with

Aunties Lorna and Linda. ‘This will give us the chance to be able to tell our stories our way of where we come from, how we belong to this land, and to pass on our culture.’ The funding would be a kick-start to the planning process for the cultural centre that is envisioned to be a link not only between the town of Byron and Cape Byron lighthouse but also a key to ensuring that local culture and stories are told and understood. ‘It is about us and what we can give in our stories,’ said Annette Kelly, chair of the Arakwal corporation.

‘We can take people on a walk around on country and explain our stories, talk about respect and caring for our country. It’s going to work if we work together.’ In previous surveys, more than 50 per cent of visitors to the region said cultural tourism was a key reason they chose to visit the north coast. ‘Labor has a proud history of supporting the Arakwal people and helping deliver local jobs, including through the joint management of Cape Byron. This centre will create more jobs and ensure the Arakwal see some benefits from the local tourism boom,’ said Mr Pugh.

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The Mullum Market – a classic Mullum experience Aslan Shand Mullumbimby’s original community market is more than just a market, it is a way for the local community to come together, sell goods, and listen to great local music. It is also how the gathering of local stories and history is supported as it is a way for the community to raise money to keep the local museum funded. There are a great range of activities and stalls from local produce including fresh bread and local honey to the mini-record fair that takes place at each monthly market. ‘We’ve got lots of locally designed products, up-cycled and retro stalls, and we currently have space for some more local food producers,’ said Sarah Newsome from the Brunswick Valley Museum. In fact they have been encouraging local ‘spray free’ food producers to come and sell their produce at the markets and are keen to have more ‘really 5.30PM WEDNESDAY 20 FEBRUARY 2019 SHAWS BAY (VIA POP DENISON PARK) EAST BALLINA E: rrdbccommittee@gmail.com P: 0408 776 171

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Mullumbimby’s original Post Office. It is open throughout every Saturday market ensuring there is plenty to discover. While there are travelling exhibitions and a treasure trove of local history and plenty of ‘old school’ machinery on hand it is important not to be scared off by the work being done on the operating table. In fact it may just make you glad that medicine has advanced after all! The money that is raised by running the local Mullum Market goes 100 per cent towards keeping the museum open and able to continue to tell the local stories from the area – even down to the making of local snakeskin boots! ‘Once people discover the best kept secret in Mullumbimby they are blown away with what they find,’ said Susan. Check out the classic local Mullum Market this Saturday from 8am till 2pm and enjoy the fun tunes of local band Broadfoot. Located at the Museum on the corner of Stuart and Myocum Streets.

Was it clay or septic dumped at Broken Head? Paul Bibby The material dumped by a sceptic removal truck in bushland at Broken Head last week contained traces of E-coli, Byron Council says. Residents were shocked to discover a Clarence Valley Septic truck dumping its load into bushland off Taylors Lake Road last Thursday. Testing carried out by Byron Council has allayed initial concerns that the material was raw sewage. However, the testing did find traces of E-coli, a

dangerous bacterium associated with multiple infections ranging from diarrhoea to meningitis. ‘The material was cleaned up quickly and as a result the public health risk and longterm impacts on the environment were minimised,’ a council spokesperson said. ‘Staff are, however, still continuing their investigations into the incident.’

Call to prosecute Local resident and former Byron Shire mayor Jan Barham renewed her call

for the council to prosecute Clarence Valley Septic over the incident. ‘Even if there hadn’t been any E coli, the dumping of any material in high-diversity bushland like that is wrong and illegal,’ Ms Barham said. ‘A prosecution is necessary because operators have to know that we have certain standards and expectations in the Byron Shire and that they need to meet those standards. ‘As far as I can tell there is very little that Council needs to investigate. The residents

saw it happening, the company admits that it dumped the material. ‘Council needs to get on with it and issue the fine and let’s get people treating the Byron Shire with the respect it deserves.’ Clarence Valley Septic previously stated that the material dumped was not septic waste. The company was contacted for comment following the discovery of E coli in the dumped material, but declined to return The Echo’s call.

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‘We cautiously welcome the announcement,’ said acting Byron mayor Michael Lyon. ‘Zero days of short-term holiday letting is not on the table for current precincts. We were listened to in relation to new housing developments. Where new developments go ahead there may be the

opportunity to exclude holiday letting,’ he said.

wŕĕ ƆĶǀĕ ĎşĕƆŕȜƐ Ǖ Ɛ Greens MP for Ballina Tamara Smith has welcomed the decision by the NSW Government to reverse its ‘one-size-fits-all holiday letting legislation’. ‘This is great news for residents of Byron Shire who have been so dramatically affected by the large numbers of whole houses available for short-term letting, forcing long-term renters out,’ said Ms Smith. ‘The minister is using words like “bespoke” and phrases like “self-determination” but there is no indication that our community will have a complete say on what limits will be placed on shortterm holiday letting. There’s also no indication that this issue will be resolved before the election.’ This position was

supported by local Labor candidate Asren Pugh who said, ‘This is just policy on the run by a desperate Berejikilian government.’ ‘Labor has been consistent [in] that we need a registration scheme to be able to actually make evidence-based decisions rather than making it up as you go,’ he said. Ms Smith has called for a comprehensive community consultation on the maximum number of days that Byron Shire should allow unregulated holiday letting. ‘Given the industry uncertainty around this issue, I urge Council to consider an interim 90-day cap because we do not want to see compliant operators go out of business while proper consultation takes place,’ she said. ‘Consultation should not be rushed. We need to get the balance right, but neither do we want to see all our approved operators go down

the gurgler while the politics play out,’ said Ms Smith. ‘The National and Liberal members in the upper and lower houses all, without exception, voted for the legislation that would allow all-year-round holiday letting in Byron Bay and voted against the Greens’ amendments seeking to let local councils decide. The NSW government should not now be expecting the people of Byron and Ballina shires to be grateful for fixing the mess that they made in the first place,’ said Ms Smith. Acting Byron mayor Michael Lyon said, ‘What we’ve been advocating all along is for our local council to have the power to regulate short-term holiday letting according to our needs.’

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Local school calls for more classrooms Coorabell Public School is facing being cut from 125 students to 47 under recent legislation implemented by the NSW Department of Education who claim there are nine classrooms within 15km of the school to take students. Parents are asking why a successful school like Coorabell, that ranks in the top one per cent for NAPLAN in the country, is having student numbers cut rather than being given extra permanent classrooms. ‘They [the education department] are saying that they do not anticipate any growth in the region,’ said Sybil Anderson a spokesperson for the P&C. ‘There are over 50 residential lots being released in our school zone in the near future. How can they say there is no growth anticipated?’ Sybil pointed out that between the students currently accommodated in demountables at Coorabell and Main Arm Upper Public schools seven of the nine classrooms they claim are free to

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Students at Coorabell Public School are calling for better planning for education in the region. Photo Jeff Dawson take students would already be full. ‘That leaves two classrooms free for all the area’s student growth,’ she said. In response to what they believe to be the education department’s shortsighted policy for the region Coorabell P&C are organising a rally on Friday, February 22 after school.

‘We are inviting the minister and shadow minister for education, and local candidates for Ballina in the upcoming state election,’ said Sybil. ‘We’re asking the NSW Department of Education to properly plan for the future growth in this region and make our four demountable classrooms permanent.’

Freemasons help Byron roll along with new wheelchairs If you’re a hospital, you can never have too many wheelchairs and Byron Central Hospital (BCH) has just received five new chairs thanks to a donation from the local Freemasons Lodge in conjunction with their Grand Charity MasoniCare. Freemasons Grand Master

for NSW and the ACT, Derek Robson AM, travelled to Byron Bay to present the chairs to the hospital staff. One of the wheelchairs will be used at the hospital entrance to assist incoming patients. The others will be used in emergency and inpatient unit.

BCH deputy director of Nursing Tracey Brooke said the five chairs will make a huge difference. ‘We’re thrilled to be receiving another donation from Freemasons Byron Bay who have supported us for a number of years. ‘New wheelchairs aren’t

cheap at about $500 each, and having even a few more means we can move patients around the hospital much more efficiently and safely. ‘Just today we used one of the new wheelchairs to take a patient from their bed to get some fresh air and sunshine outside.’

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environment by focusing on three key campaigns: freeing hens from battery cages; protecting our national icon the kangaroo; and taking urgent action to address climate change by protecting our existing native forests and marine habitats, setting a renewable energy target and investigating and introducing more sustainable agricultural systems. ‘A vote for the AJP will send a strong message that people do care about animals and the environment. ‘Our goals are to provide stronger protection for animals and the environment, and to hold the government accountable over their treatment of both.’

Without rain soon farmers and graziers will have to start walking away from what has been their livelihoods. This reality was driven home to Mullumbimby Chamber of Commerce members on their recent visit to deliver animal feed and other necessities to the people of the Gwydir Shire in the New England region of NSW. ‘Some of the people have 5,000 acres and now have no animals on the land; another person I spoke to said if the rain doesn’t come they will walk away in May,’ said Mullumbimby Chamber president Jenelle Stanford. The Mullum Chamber estimates they have spent around $20,000 assisting

drought-stricken farmers in the Gwydir Shire with another load of necessities costing around $10,000 being taken up last week.

Local community digs deep At the pre-Christmas trivia drought fundraiser the Mullum chamber raised around $3,000 and filled well over a truck with bales of animal feed. Needing another 170 bales to fill the second truck of animal feed being sent up Jenelle sent an email to chamber members asking them to come on board to fill the truck. ‘I was overwhelmed by how many people responded and donated bales and

money – so our loads were well and truly full,’ she said. Finally two trucks and a trailer were packed tight and ready for the delivery run starting out from Mullumbimby’s Coop. The convoy of trucks headed off around 5am followed a little later by the cars. After a 6.5-hour drive they arrived at the farm being used to coordinate the distribution of donations. ‘As we arrived at the farm Monte the bull got a whiff of the feed on the trucks and followed us in and we also got to see a few of the calves that we saved by sending out calf milk,’ said Jenelle with a huge smile. Mullum Chamber also took up a range of fresh food, clothes donated by Mullum

InStyle Living, hampers and care packs. ‘We over spent a bit on sending up the last convoy, so we are still fundraising to cover the final costs as well as continuing to support these farmers in need,’ said Jenelle. ‘All the farmers were so grateful we are helping and continuing to do so.’ If you are interested in donating to the drought relief fund you can deposit money into the Mullumbimby Chamber via BSB: 722744, account number: 100125743, or look out for the donation buckets at local shops. ▶ Read more online at: www.echo.net.au/droughtsupport-little-help-goeslong-way

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The University of the Third Age (U3A) is a worldwide voluntary, self-help, learning and social movement for mature-aged people that began in France in 1973. In 1994 U3A Ballina/ Byron Inc to the delight of many of our elders. Despite the name, U3A has nothing to do with the the usual expectations of tertiary education; the idea of the group is more about people wanting to continue to learn in the good company of others, making new friends, sharing common interests and socialising. U3A offers low-cost learning opportunities that include many different activities. A sub-group of the original Ballina / Byron chapter has been established in Mullumbimby

to assist those who find it difficult to travel to classes in Ballina. The classes meet at the Ex-Services Club, Dalley Street, Mullumbimby twice a month. Every first Tuesday of the month the group enjoys poetry, where you can learn about a different poet every month. Every third Tuesday of the month they present music appreciation. The morning is devoted to classical and contemporary music, composers, singers, famous instrumentalists – listen to glorious music and enrich your life. Upcoming sessions include Sergei Prokofiev, Tango Rhapsody, Percy Grainger, Beethoven’s 9th choral classic, and more. For enquiries ring Gerti Krebs 6680 7350 or 0434 043 645.

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Local News Life can end in a moment: now is your only chance to live Everyone has a bucket list – don’t they? Brunswick Heads author Emma Scattergood does. Emma was introduced to the world of travel when, at the age of one, she was thrown into the back of a motor caravan and transported from England to Australia along the ‘scenic’ route via Afghanistan and India. Once planted here, she grew up on a Mullumbimby commune, with all its peace, love and mungbeans, and she became one of the first hippy children to attend Mullum High.

Dreaming of escape Rather than have a big white wedding, Emma convinced her husband Darryl to elope to Thailand together with their two children. Much to their surprise, they found themselves backpacking through Vietnam and other Asian countries with young children – so much like her own childhood. Emma’s passion for travel has never abated, and for the past twenty years a laminated bucket list has lived in her wallet. Emma’s first book Bucket Lists and Walking Sticks explores reasons for having

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Adventure of a lifetime With their priorities rearranged, Emma and Darryl pulled out the old laminated bucket list and set off on the adventure of a lifetime. A trip around the world ticking off list items: from drinking Singapore Slings to viewing ancient Petra, kissing Ireland’s Blarney Stone and looking for the home of

Doc Marten. Meandering throughout Asia and then Europe, Emma describes their adventures on the high seas and in highspeed trains, in mouth watering detail, pulling the reader headlong into the sights, life, culture and beauty of each place they visit. This journal, offering one couple’s unique perspective on the experience of seeing the world, might just make you want to follow in their footsteps. Bucket Lists and Walking Sticks is available from local Byron Shire bookshops and online.

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PUBLIC EXHIBITION OF DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS

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Council Administration Centre 70 Station Street, Mullumbimby Opening hours 8.30am to 4.30pm Phone 02 6626 7000 Email council@byron.nsw.gov.au Website www.byron.nsw.gov.au Emergency after hours 02 6622 7022 Works Depot 02 6685 9300 SES Controller 02 6684 3444 Rural Fire Service 02 6671 5500 Byron Resource Recovery Centre 1300 652 625 Cavanbah Centre 02 6685 5911

ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING & ASSESSMENT ACT, 1979

Byron Shire Council is the consent authority for this Development Application for Designated Development and Integrated Development.

In Byron? Customer service for general enquiries now at Byron Visitor Centre, 80 Jonson Street, Byron Bay. Monday to Friday, 9.00am to 12.00pm and 12.30pm to 4.00pm or phone 02 6626 7000. Card only payments accepted at this location. Documents on exhibition are available for viewing at the customer service centre in Mullumbimby and on Council’s website at www.byron.nsw.gov.au/Public-Notice.

MAKE A SUBMISSION Submissions may be made to Council in the following ways: Online:

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Written: Address to: General Manager, Byron Shire Council, PO Box 219, Mullumbimby NSW 2482 Email:

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Please be aware that all submissions will be made public in accordance with Schedule 1 Part 3 Clause 1(a)(vi) of the GIPA 2009 Regulations as applicable including both the substance of the submission and the identity of the author. For further assistance please contact our Records team on 02 6626 7113.

CURRENT VACANCIES Apply for a job at Council. For current vacancies refer to www.byron.nsw.gov.au/Council/Working-at-Byron-Shire-Council/ Current-vacancies.

PROPOSED LICENCES FOR PROPERTIES AT 8 STATION STREET BANGALOW (PT LOT 1 DP 36810) AND BURRINGBAR STREET MULLUMBIMBY (LOT 321 DP 755692)

The following development applications (DA) have been received by Council and require exhibition in accordance with Development Control Plan 2014 (A14). The DAs may be viewed online at Council’s website ‘www.byron.nsw.gov.au/ﬁnd-a-DA’ or by using the Online Kiosks at Councils Customer Service Centre during normal ofﬁce hours. DA submissions can be lodged using an online form via Council’s eServices Portal. Once you have viewed a copy of the DA, select ‘Make a Submission’ to lodge a submission directly with Council. Information on making a submission is available at www.byron. nsw.gov.au/Make-a-submission-on-a-DA. If you are making a submission, there are 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-disclosure. Please quote the development application and property description when making a submission.

EXHIBITION CLOSES 20 FEBRUARY 2019 10.2019.23.1 – UPPER COOPERS CREEK, 321 Coopers Creek Road (Lot 11 DP 622586) Byron Bay Planning & Property Consultants, Demolition of Existing Dwelling House, Shed and Carport and Construction of Two (2) Rural Tourist Cabins, and Three (3) Expanded Dwelling Modules 10.2019.24.1 – MAIN ARM, 22 Johnstons Lane (Lot 2 DP 1010894) Byron Bay Planning & Property Consultants, Use of Existing Structure as a Tourist Accommodation Cabin and Use of Two (2) Existing Swimming Pools 10.2019.16.1 – BANGALOW, 18 Pioneers Crescent (Lot 1 DP 1154192) Ardill Payne & Partners, Proposed Mixed Use Development Comprising Eco Tourism Facilities, Recreational Facilities, Environmental Facility, Agricultural Produce Industries and Associated Retail Outlets, Garden Centre with Restaurant/Cafe 10.2019.40.1 – THE POCKET, 789 The Pocket Road (Lot 9, DP 618234) Wybalena Investments Pty Ltd, Four (4) Bedroom Accommodation Building to Existing Rural Tourist Facility 10.2017.78.2 – OCEAN SHORES, 10 Dandaloo Way (Lot 270 DP 238455) L.I Miller & E.M. Walters, S4.55 to Allow for Use as Recreation Facility (Indoors)

Council proposes to licence the Bangalow Scout building at Lot 1 DP 36810 and the Mullumbimby Scout building at Lot 321 DP 755692 for a period of twelve months to Scouts Association of Australia NSW Branch, for the purpose of scouting and associated activities.

10.2019.20.1 – BYRON BAY, Bangalow Road (Lot 14 DP 792128) Ardill Payne & Partners, New Medium Density Development Comprising 7 x 2 Bedroom Single Storey Dwellings & Above Ground Plunge Pools

In accordance with Section 47 of the Local Government Act 1993 interested parties are invited to make submissions about this proposal within 28 days.

10.2018.621.1 – BINNA BURRA, 955 Friday Hut Road (Lot 2 DP 860507) Linda McLeod C/-Elixinol Pty Ltd, Intensive Plant Agriculture and Rural Agricultural Produce Industry

Submissions should be in writing and addressed to the General Manager, Byron Shire Council, PO Box 219 Mullumbimby 2482 or sent by email to submissions@byron.nsw.gov.au. Emailed submissions to this address only will be acknowledged. Submissions open: 14 February 2019. Submission close: 14 March 2019. Enquiries: Paula Telford Leasing Coordinator 02 6626 7300 All submissions will be made public in accordance with schedule 1 clause 4(i) of the GIPA 2009 Regulations as applicable including both the substance of the submission and the identity of the author. For further assistance contact the Records Team on 02 6626 7113.

FEBRUARY COUNCIL MEETINGS Come and see democracy in action. Council’s meeting schedule for 2019 includes a 12 month trial to separate planning matters from the Ordinary Meeting. The following Council meetings are scheduled for February 2019: 21 February 2019 – 11:00am – Planning Meeting 28 February 2019 – 9:00am – Ordinary Meeting 28 February 2019 – 2:00pm – Byron Shire Reserve Trust Committee Meeting Council meetings are held in the Council Chambers at Station Street, Mullumbimby. Agendas are available one week prior to the meeting on Council’s website at www.byron.nsw.gov.au/Council/Council-meetings/AgendasMinutes and at Council’s administration centre in Mullumbimby. Enquiries: Heather Sills 02 6626 7171

BYRON SHIRE COUNCIL ROAD CLOSURES PROPOSED ROAD CLOSING UNDER SECTION 38B ROADS ACT 1993 In pursuance of the provisions of the Roads Act 1993, notice is hereby given that Byron Shire Council proposes to close the unused section of council public road reserve listed in Schedule 1. Schedule 1: • Part unused sections of road reserve namely Dingo Lane adjoining Lot 1 DP 627510 and Lot 5 DP 608260 Coorabell Upon closure of the road, Council intends to give as compensation to the adjoining land owner for the purposes of road realignment. All interested persons are hereby invited to make submissions concerning the proposal to the General Manager Mark Arnold, Byron Shire Council, PO Box 219 Mullumbimby NSW 2482, within twenty eight days of the date of this advertisement. Please note that under the provisions of the Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009, such submissions may be referred to third parties for consideration. Once the submission period is completed, Byron Shire Council will consider all duly made submissions before deciding whether to continue with the road closure proposal. Enquiries: Deanna Savage 02 6626 7000 This document will be available on Council’s website at www.byron.nsw.gov.au/Public-Notice. Submissions close: Friday 15 March 2019 4.30pm

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The abovementioned development application has been lodged with Byron Shire Council. The proposed development is designated development and integrated development. The development application and the documents accompanying the application including the Environmental Impact Statement are to be exhibited from 14 February 2019 to 14 March 2019 (submission period) and may be inspected at: • Via the online Kiosk located within Byron Shire Council offices, Station St, Mullumbimby between the hours of 9.00am and 4.00pm Monday to Friday (public holidays excluded) or on Council’s website (www.byron.nsw.gov.au/PublicExhibition) and • the Department of Planning & Environment, located at 22-33 Bridge Street, Sydney, Monday to Friday (public holidays excluded). Contact phone number (02) 9228 6333 or fax number (02) 9228 6555 or Level 3, 49 Victoria Street, Grafton, phone number (02) 6641 6600 or fax number (02) 6641 6601 Any person during the abovementioned submission period may make written submissions to Council concerning the development application. If a submission is made by way of objection, the grounds of objection must be specified in the submission. The integrated development approvals that are required and the relevant approval bodies for those approvals are: • An approval under the Rural Fires Act 1997. Please quote the abovementioned development application number and parcel number when making a submission. The submission must be received by 4.00pm on the final day of the submission period. Any person who makes a submission by way of objection and is dissatisfied with the determination of the consent authority to grant development consent may appeal to the NSW Land and Environment Court. However if the Planning Assessment Commission conducts a review, the Minister’s determination of the application is final and not subject to appeal. If you are making a submission you may be required to lodge a “Political Donations and Gifts Disclosure Statement”. It is your responsibility to ensure you meet your obligations to disclose reportable political donations and gifts. A failure to meet your obligations is an offence. Links to information and resources are available from Council’s website at www.byron.nsw.gov.au/ political-donations or from Council. All Political Donations and Gifts Disclosure Statements will be public documents. Submissions will be made public in accordance with Schedule 1 Part 3 Clause 1(a)(vi) of the GIPA Regulations 2009 as applicable including both the substance of the objection and the identity of the objector. For assistance with this please call Council’s Records Coordinator on 02 6626 7113. Enquiries: Heidi Hutchinson 02 6626 7317

HAVE YOUR SAY: PUBLIC EXHIBITION PLANNING PROPOSAL TO AMEND BYRON LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN 1988 – CHANGES TO STRATA SUBDIVISIONS ON URBAN COASTAL LAND The above Planning Proposal will be on public exhibition from 13 February to 13 March 2019. It will amend Byron Local Environmental Plan (LEP) 1988 by changing the wording of part (5)(a) of Clause 32, which applies to all land zoned 7(f2) Urban Coastal Land. The amendment is to clarify that strata subdivision of land within the 7(f2) zone can only be undertaken in relation to existing lawfully erected buildings, where such subdivision will not result in the creation of any vacant lots. A copy of the Planning Proposal can be viewed on Council’s website at www.byron.nsw.gov.au/public-notice. Please note that in this instance the Minister for Planning and Environment has not authorised Council to exercise delegation to make this LEP amendment. For information on lodging a submission, and where to address it, refer to the “Lodging a submission” section within Council’s advertising. Submissions close: 4.30pm Wednesday 13 March 2019 Enquiries: Rob van Iersel 02 6626 7054

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Community survey: a mixed report for Byron Council

Gauging what a particular party or representative can bring to the table is a key element in deciding how to cast your vote. There will be several meet-the-candidate opportunities between now and the state election on March 23. The first of these is taking place at the Macadamia Castle where you can hear

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DEVELOPMENT CONSENTS In accordance with Section 4.59 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (as amended), notiﬁcation is hereby given of the following development consents granted by Council. The consents listed are available to view Online at Council’s website www.byron.nsw.gov.au/ﬁnd-a-DA. Information relating to these applications as required by Schedule 1, Division 4, Clause 20(2) of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (as amended) is also available online

APPLICATIONS APPROVED 10.2018.601.1 – BRUNSWICK HEADS, 2 The Terrace (Lot 12 DP 1188947) Use of Alterations and Additions to Existing Restaurant including Outdoor Servery Area 10.2018.636.1 – GOONENGERRY, 186 Repentance Creek Road (Lot 2 DP 252384) Swimming Pool 10.2018.633.1 – MULLUMBIMBY, 22 Chinbible Avenue (Lot 1 DP 262578) Shed 10.2019.49.1 – MULLUMBIMBY, 2 Cedar Street (Lot 1 DP 372733) Tree Removal Five (5) Trees 10.2019.25.1 – MCLEODS SHOOT, 16 Browns Crescent (Lot 1 DP 248805) Swimming Pool 10.2019.45.1 – BYRON BAY, 46B Ruskin Street (Lot 2 DP 812192) Alterations and Additions to existing Dwelling House 10.2018.489.1 – MULLUMBIMBY, 34 Tuckeroo Avenue (Lot 16 DP 1169053) Secondary Dwelling 10.2018.477.1 – BYRON BAY, 50 Julian Rocks Drive (Lot 101 DP 777329) Alterations and Additions to Existing Dwelling House, New Secondary Dwelling, Swimming Pool and Removal of Five Trees 10.2017.571.2 – BANGALOW, 18 Granuaille Road (Lot 2 DP 854915) S4.55 to Modify Roof Plan & Connecting Structure 10.2005.759.2 – BYRON BAY, 26 Burns Street (Lot 6 Sec 40 DP 758207) S4.55 Modiﬁcation of Consent Single Storey Dwelling House including Single Carport, Modiﬁcation of Condition No.1 The following applications have not been granted approval by Council, but are listed for the information of the community:

Most students get their report cards at the end of term, but Byron Council has been given its marks early this year in the form of results from its bi-annual community satisfaction survey. And it’s fair to say there will more than a few things to discuss come parentteacher night. Let’s start with the good news. A solid 64 per cent of the 400 respondents to the survey were ‘at least somewhat satisfied’ with the overall performance of Council over the past two years. And 68 per cent of residents who made the effort to personally contact Council over that period said they were ‘at least somewhat satisfied’ with the way their contact was handled. Unfortunately that’s

about as good as it gets. The overall level of satisfaction with the council fell five per cent from the last survey in 2016, which isn’t great when you consider that that survey covered one of the most tumultuous periods in the council’s recent history.

Satisfaction down The new satisfaction rating of 2.76 out of 5 is, in the words of the authors of the survey report, ‘significantly lower than the NSW regional benchmark and the all-of-NSW benchmark’. While there was an increase in satisfaction in one area of Council’s operations – coastal management – satisfaction fell in eight other areas, including roads, future planning, tourism management and recycling. No gold star for guessing which aspect of Council’s activities were deemed most

important: the region’s roads remain at the front of many locals’ minds. However, financial management was a somewhat surprising entrant into the top three concerns, with affordable housing close behind, providing yet more evidence that the affordability crisis is really starting to bite.

Sound management Deputy mayor Michael Lyon said he believed financial management was at the forefront of people’s minds because of the council’s recent rate increase. ‘Through the special rate variation process the backlog of infrastructure became known,’ Cr Lyon said. ‘People started to question whether our financial management was sound. ‘I believe it is sound, and I think the fact that we introduced the rate variation

is actually evidence of that because we were dealing with a financial situation we inherited.’ Councillor Lyon also defended the council’s record on providing basic infrastructure such as roads. ‘As was noted in the report, the type of issues we’re facing in the Byron Shire, things like tourism management and a severe housing affordability crisis, are issues you’re more likely to find in a city council rather than a regional council,’ he said. ‘There is a very specific set of circumstances that have created these issues, but unfortunately we haven’t had the recognition or funding at state or federal level to deal with them. ‘Having said that I think we as councillors, and Council staff, are doing a pretty good job of meeting the needs of residents.’

Council failed to engage community over transport hub say residents The Byron Bay Residents’ Group called three times for the opportunity to discuss the proposed transport hub and interchange on exhibition for the site opposite Byron Bay Railway Station. They claim they were actively refused the opportunity to contribute to the proposal. ‘This is a dreadful indictment on Council,’ said Paul Jones, president of the Butler Street Community Network. He claims that Council refused the community’s attempts to engage on the project and that they left

residents out of the planning process. ‘We were blindsided,’ he said of the latest plans that are on exhibition by Transport for NSW. Residents called a meeting last week to see how they could be included in the discussion. Both Greens member for Ballina and Labor candidate Asren Pugh attended to hear the community’s concerns.

No right of appeal According to Mr Jones the only way that the residents now have to contribute is through Heritage NSW.

‘We have no rights of appeal in relation to the proposal put forward by Transport for NSW,’ he said. ‘Our only avenue now is through Heritage NSW because they must give aproval for the development to go ahead.’ While the residents believe that there are better options for the transport hub they have decided to look at how the bus interchange could be better located in the railway precinct. They are asking for it to be moved 100m north of the currently proposed site. ‘We are asking for positive

intervention that improves both local and traveller experience with moving this site to this new location,’ he said. Responding to questions from The Echo MLC Ben Franklin said he had taken advice from Council on what the community wanted in relation to the transport hub and even taking mayor Simon Richardson to Sydney to meet with relevant ministers including minister for Roads Melinda Pavey. ‘My view is that we worked closely with Council and we have listed to them as the voice of the community,’ said Mr Franklin.

APPLICATIONS DEFERRED 10.2018.472.1 – OCEAN SHORES , 62 Balemo Drive (Lot 792 DP 240399) New Dwelling and Associated Works to Create Dual Occupancy (Detached)

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The dice are loaded The Regional Planning Panel (RPP) booked the Byron Theatre last week in order to give local people the opportunity to let off steam with verbal objections to the West Byron development proposal. However, when the meeting began the agenda had changed. The panel had already decided, after considering Council’s arguments, to reject one of the two DAs covering the land, subject to the applicants’ response. In the event it was the applicants’ representative who let off steam, criticising Council for political rather than scientific decisions, and framing the residents’ 2,500 or so written objections as lacking the technical knowledge to be relevant. The decision of the panel was as unexpected as it was welcome. Most of us remember that when this planning authority was set up ten years ago (and known then as the Joint Regional Planning Panel), it was a notorious state government boondoggle stuffed with retired politicians and designed to override local councils that had legitimate concerns about unsound developments. Fortunately the system has moved on since 2009, the act it operates under has been amended to give more transparency, and membership is now based on expertise rather than political nepotism. It is still a mechanism for the furtherance of development rather than conservation, but it can make the occasional responsible decision. After all, if this grotesque example of developer greed and heedless environmental ruin isn’t worthy of rejection it is hard to imagine what is. The struggle is not over, with a court hearing still to come, the second DA to be determined, and all avenues of appeal likely to be taken by the applicants. However, a win is a win; Council is to be thanked for their planners’ report and the community congratulated on a rare victory of common sense over cash. But even if West Byron is spared, the Shire will continue to suffer the death of a thousand cuts. Planning processes are stacked in favour of developers, no matter how environmentally irresponsible or socially destructive their plans might be. Live in Sydney, buy an investment property here and instead of renting it out, replace it with a block of units that spoils the street’s amenity with height, shadow and traffic issues. Council will ignore your neighbours’ objections and petitions. If there is the slightest legal loophole to justify your profiteering, you and not the objectors will be given the benefit of the planning decision. And the affected residents will wait in vain for councillors to call out the DA for individual determination. This story is unfortunately a recurring one. Planning instruments are insufficiently strong, and almost invariably interpreted in favour of change rather than the status quo. Councillors, with a few honourable exceptions, consider it proper to defend staff decisions blindly rather than examine them. And God forbid if Council is called upon to spend ratepayers’ money in court defending sensible planning against the arrogant demands of wealth. Last week’s favourable outcome was owed to the absurdity of the development under scrutiny, but it is hard to avoid a general sense that in planning matters the dice are loaded, the cards marked, and the game already bought and sold. David Lovejoy, co-founder of The Echo

ho could have predicted that Kenneth Hayne would turn out to be such an old softie? For months the stern, uncompromising judicial figure has presided over his royal commission with imperial authority, a veritable Judge Dredd inspiring fear and trepidation among scores of witnesses ever wary that at any moment he could reach for the black cap. And when his verdict was delivered, it was appropriately full of fire and brimstone, excoriating the pit of depravity that is the banking system and all those associated with it. At least, those were the words, but the reality turned out to be something so reassuring that bank shares across the board leapt in relief. Kenneth Hayne was actually a pussy cat. The malevolent elephant in the room, identified by Paul Keating (who else?) – the integration of financial products and the advisers who spruik them – remained untouched. But more importantly for the public was what happened to those who ran the conspiracy, which involved, as has been revealed, years of lies, fraud, theft and associated offences that would have landed normal people in jail for years. Some were admonished with a slap on the wrist and a warning not to do it again. Others, like the NAB’s dynamic duo Andrew Thorburn and Ken Henry, were given a more severe tickle with the Hayne feather; he was not convinced of their understanding and contrition, naughty boys. This was reported as a terrible tongue lashing, which self-evidently it was not. In the end the miscreants left their current positions, lugging bucket loads of ill-gotten gains while they contemplated their next depredations. A come down, especially for Henry, once regarded as the hero who rescued Australia from the GFC, but hardly the kind of punishment the victims expected and demanded. And, as one cartoonist suggested, he can always fill in the time by offering mortgages to his beloved hairy-nosed wombats. Hayne did mention the possibility of criminal proceedings, but if they are to occur it will be through APRA and ASIC, the two toothless poodles Hayne had already dismissed as failing to do their job – we are not holding our breaths. It is hard not to believe that if Hayne

were a judge at the Nuremberg trials, he would have let off Rudolf Hess as a first offender. In the short term this can be seen as deeply disappointing, even a cop out. But the longer-term danger is the message it gives to the other fat cats of the system: if you are a blue-collar crook you will be arrested, charged and imprisoned, but if you are rich and powerful, you won’t really have to worry; your elitist peer group will look after you. Too big to fail, too big to jail.

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Mungo MacCallum Justice is not seen to be equal – indeed, it is not even seen to be justice. And so the ethical desert, the moral vacuum, prevails, and the lesson will not be lost on our political masters: whatever it takes, whatever you can get away with. Which leads us to the gold medal shonkery of Tim Wilson’s so-called inquiry into Labor’s policy on removing tax refunds for those who do not pay tax. From the start this exercise was mean and tricky; parliamentary committees were established to analyse and examine major issues of policy on behalf of the parliament and, by definition, very few of these will involve promises from the opposition. Wilson’s travelling roadshow is not remotely interested in examination or analysis; it is a populist Liberal campaign, pure and simple. It could fairly be described as an updated version of Scott Morrison’s blue bus tour, equally vacuous and equally phoney. But in fact it is far worse than that; the taxpayer-funded jaunt does not have even a veneer of justification. There is no agenda, no witness lists; the idea is to scare self-interested and largely uninformed victims into voting for the Liberal Party. And if there is any doubt about it, they are to be handed out party applications, and urged to contribute to the party coffers.

Well-heeled lobby groups have been co-ordinated to reinforce the meetings, and others have been formed to pretend that they are grassroots movements resisting a tax grab. There have been accusations that Wilson has handed out confidential information from the electoral roll to assist them, but he denies that – obviously it was pure coincidence. However, there is to be no serious debate at the meetings, and definitely no dissent: one objector who correctly described the party rally as a sham and a scam was summarily ejected. Your taxes at work. The idea is to distract from the uncomfortable fact that a large majority of those who benefit from the concession devised by Peter Costello are the wealthy; in spite of the best efforts by the Murdoch mob to unearth some battlers in their ranks, these are hard to locate. On one occasion they targeted the long-time Liberal party apparatchik Jon Gaul, who is not short on either the ideology or a few bucks. And those who trouser the loot are invariably described as hard-working Australians who have saved all their lives in order to save the taxpayers the expense of taking a pension. Well, perhaps; but lining up the taxpayers for this unique perk hardly qualifies them as ‘self-funded’ retirees. If you are after a government benefit, it doesn’t really matter to which department you apply, the effect on revenue is precisely the same. And the tax concession destroys the whole point of retirement income as funding retirement; whether it is shares or superannuation or both, the idea was that funds should be drawn down as needed for living expenses, not squirrelled away for the kids’ inheritance. This is not providence, but a tax lurk. But such niceties are not for Wilson’s circus, and perhaps we should not be surprised. He is, after all, a celebrated alumnus of the Institute of Public Affairs, the secretly funded right-wing lobby group that calls itself a think tank but whose principal purpose is to push the Liberal Party to yet wilder extremes. As they say, you can take the boy out of the IPA, but you can’t take the IPA out of the boy. It would be interesting to hear Kenneth Hayne’s take on Tim Wilson. He might at least murmur, ‘tut tut’.

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Dealing with grubs I wish to bring to the attention of the public that there is lawn grub in many lawns across the Shire. What is happening is that people go to the store, and buy a product that says with big letters on the label: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;lawn grub killerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. DANGER: this is extremely toxic for you, your family, and the environment. In particular magpies, butcherbirds, pee-wees and other grub-eating bird species. In Belongil alone over the last week we found over

40 dead magpies, 24 dead butcherbirds, and three dead pee wees. Heartbreaking! Marsupials like echidnas and bandicoots are also dying in big numbers; personally we found seven. Anywhere lawn-grub killer is used near waterways, many fish die. PLEASE spread the word, there are safe non-toxic alternatives available in most hardware stores and landscaping stores near you. They can kill lawn grub without killing hundreds of

other animals. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not forget the safety of your family. Juud Addison Byron Bay

A changing climate Recently I have been listening to TED talks about climate change, how threatening it is to us all, and how we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t talk about it very much at all, though we should. Our lives are threatened and we are silent. I agree it can be hard to use it as a conversation starter,

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a couple has donated $40k for the rehire of the administrative worker. The Neighbourhood Centre provides essential frontline services to any number of adults and children requiring meals, showers, everyday living items, mental health and crisis support, and access to safe houses. Astoundingly the Centre isn’t fully funded by government and has to apply for other buckets of money simply to open its doors. Although there is a suggestion that a new model of funding will be considered

by the state government, I’d like an assurance from our current politicians, and those planning to run for parliament, that funding for services will be at the forefront of their minds, today and after the state election. Why are our most vulnerable citizens being put at risk? Abelia Hissink Mullumbimby

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they are the main concerns of Australians. Really? What about electricity, childcare costs, flogging our natural resources and infrastructure to foreign nations? Let’s start with our own refugees – the homeless! About 117,000 to be exact – men, women, and children. Charity starts at home! Often you hear the word refugees in the media. How many times these past 12 months have you seen someone from the Red Cross, Salvation Army, Streetsmart, soup kitchen talking about the plight of the homeless? How would you like it if you were a homeless person or child living on the streets, freezing cold, then got news that some offshore refugees arrived in the city today with a package a homeless person could only dream of: free housing, medical, dental, white-goods package, free car, and a cash bonus. Check the Freedom of Information act! I am not saying that is right or wrong, however. Would the same privileges be available for our homeless? Now I want to make it quite clear I have empathy for all displaced peoples of the world, and volunteer a considerable amount of time and funds to the less fortunate in this wonderful country. It’s about time this current government, newspapers, social media, all media local and national did more – excluding the Reason party who leads by example for the homeless. Congrats to Fiona Patton. Let’s do more. C Pruul Ocean Shores

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Given that we are facing climate disaster it seems we would be wanting to make actions that mitigate extremes as a wise move? Watching two healthy local-habitat gums disgracefully become mulch last week had me enquire into Council policy and the allowance of this now daily tree felling that thoroughly disturbs the quiet enjoyment of my home. Surely it is time to be covering our land with as many forests as possible to catch the cooling shade, give shelter to the wild things, and replenish our dirty air? It seems not. Our greenwash council does not see fit to employ an arborist to make sure the professionals aren’t just drumming up business for themselves. This lays the way open for tree hooligans to cut down even healthy trees. They don’t need a DA as they can loophole through compliance. This to me is sordid and unfair and leaves our once-green Shire and world open slather to destruction, as it is daily. So if trees help to keep the soaring summer temperatures down and rehabilitate our ailing atmosphere why are Council allowing trees to be plentifully butchered? Why are we not planting huge forests on private and public land ongoingly? And as for contacting Council regarding the legitimacy of local tree felling I am still awaiting a call from last week. Poor show, Council, on your integrity and I find your attitude to our environment relentlessly reckless. You are definitely part of the problem. Turiya Bruce Ocean Shores

Byron Council in conjunction with several other councils has taken a huge step backwards in the way recycling is done. It is an excellent idea to have a regional approach to recycling. Why then have the councils opted for restricted recycling as opposed to handling the Dirty Dozen? In the face of other countries not accepting our refuse this is Australians’ time to be innovative. In April of last year Josh Frydenberg, the minister for Energy and Environment, told the Australian people that by the year 2025 or earlier all packaging in Australia will be recyclable or reusable. As a community we need to spend our dollars wisely and send a message to the businesses that we frequent that we no longer wish to see items on shelves packaged in material that is not recyclable. Unfortunately for us that has become near to impossible now. Recycling is never going to be simple here given the volume of packaging that has just become only good enough for our red bins. What has happened to the processing plants that were accepting our Dirty Dozen items? All those items that are smaller than a credit card that were able to be recycled are now thrown away. What is Byron Council going to do to make a positive change for our region, our country, and the world? Barbara Nicholls Goonengerry

However, with Britain due to leave the European Union, next year’s Gibraltar Chess Festival may encounter the possibility of lengthy border delays, of the type seen when relations between Spain (which claims Gibraltar) and England are poor. (As recently as 2017, for a few days Spain decided to demand criminal checks for all those crossing the border, leading to three-hour delays.) To avoid incurring Spain’s wrath, Britain has agreed to special agreements with the country on topics such as police cooperation and tax evasion (Gibraltar’s lax banking system is used by criminals around the world). The claim by the Spanish leader Pablo Sanchez that ‘Once the UK has left the EU, Gibraltar’s political, legal and even geographic relationship with the EU will go through Spain,’ is likely to be disputed by the UK, and the result could easily be more gridlock on the border, let alone airspace shutdowns as have also happened previously. Since most players in the Gibraltar Chess Festival could not afford to participate if they had to stay in Gibraltar rather than Spain, the numbers at the 2020 Festival may drop dramatically. The Gibraltar Festival will no doubt survive, but its status as one of the world’s best open tournaments might be in doubt.

Durrumbul bend This morning there’s been yet another collision on the notorious Durrumbul bend in Main Arm Road, just outside Durrumbul Hall. This stretch of road is now averaging at least one serious accident per month – always in the same place. It’s Council’s responsibility to keep our roads safe, if not always adequately maintained. This is a basic shire council design fault from the 1970s – wrong camber, wrong angle. Check the records of accidents, Mayor – surely this stretch of road qualifies for Black Spot

funding. C’mon, Council, you’ve got to fix this before someone else is injured or dies. You have been notified; this is now urgent. C Boyle Durrumbul

Yours, mine, ours Lot 22 is community land. I own it. You own it. We own it. It is THE COMMONS. I do not consent to The Commons being privatised. The SES have given irrefutable reasons why flooding precludes development. The Office of Environment and Heritage say Lot 22 contains freshwater wetland, subtropical coastal floodplain forest and potentially swamp sclerophyll forest because of its broadleaved paperbark trees. Let’s preserve and protect our biodiversity and habitat. Affordable housing can go elsewhere but our wetlands and unique forests can’t. Byron Shire Council is strapped for cash and want to sell it. I will pledge my support to restore this special place. When Gold Coast sprawl surrounds Mullumbimby, 22 hectares of open space, wetlands, and forest in its heart will provide succour from the bosom of Mother Nature. Deborah Lilly Mullumbimby

Call to residents I am tired of the repetitious and inaccurate arguments made against Tyagarah clothing-optional beach. I urge opponents to engage with the current situation and cease repeating historical grievances ad nauseam. My partner and I spent many hours at the beach over the summer and the atmosphere was consistently positive and safe – both with and without the life savers. There is a massive contradiction between the experiences of actual beach users and the negative claims made by anti-beach crusaders in their relentless campaign. I call on the Tyagarah Community Association to relinquish their obsession ▶ Continued on page 16

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Renew Fest is regenerating and re-calibrating to re-emerge Wendy Champagne One of Australia’s best-loved eco-festivals – Renew Fest – is taking a year off to replenish, restore, and re-calibrate with the plan to re-emerge in 2020 as a power source for ecological, economic, and social renewal across the

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Buddhists have this great image and spiritual practice of turning the wheel – they call it the dharma wheel. It signifies action in the world that generates harmony with oneself and the world. If turned with clear mind and heart eventually that wheel turns itself. This is the vision of the director of Renew Fest, Ella Rose Goninan, to create a self-sustaining movement towards global renewal. ‘It’s time to do some heavy lifting. The moment has come to re-organise and expand our festival and build resilience into our local and global community in this time of quickening crisis. We see our role at Renew to provide the foundation and wisdom to action real world change, to embolden clear, audacious vision for this planet, and in order to do that our organisation needs time to regenerate.’ Life made that vision and determination crystal clear

for Ella at the end of last year with the death of her friend’s son. Her grief and her role in supporting her friends in their grief brought home the fact that renewal is a precious and invaluable process and requires our full attention. ‘We human beings need to be working together to be successful in restoring our collective health and our impact on the planet,’ says Ella. Ella continues: ‘In December last year my friend lost her son in childbirth. The harrowing grief that prevailed for her, her partner, her family, and everyone present has changed and is continuing to change every fibre of my being. I spent the whole next month living in their home, providing constant and intimate grief support, co-ordinating rosters of community helpers with food and homecare. ‘There was a core team of us who dedicated ourselves to making sure communal support flowed and many

who participated in providing daily care. ‘I don’t yet know the full impact of this experience but I am certain I have to allow it. I recognise the importance of remaining close and available to them through the ongoing process of their tragic loss. It’s a deep honour to be able to make this choice to offer care in this way.’ In light of this experience Ella is announcing a change of pace this year, with a Deep Renew Weekend, focused on grief and elderhood in a time of climate crisis. The Deep Renew Weekend will feature two events with international author, founder of Orphan Wisdom, griefwalker and elderhood teacher Stephen Jenkinson, on both Friday evening 10 May and Saturday 11 May. This will be followed by a deep-listening Vigil For Grief in the fig-tree grove of Mullumbimby Showgrounds 11–12 May with the live immersive music-scape of

HHAARRPP, spoken-word meditations from festival director Ella Rose Goninan and guests, and the quiet contemplations of all those that attend. ‘We are buoyed by all the organisations and individuals who committed and expressed interest in Renew Fest 2019 and we encourage them and many more to join us when the bigger festival returns in 2020,’ says Ella. ‘In many ways my passage through this grief and support process parallels that for our festival. Connecting to grief within our human experience, including the grief for our impact on the earth, is a powerful resource for renewing our service to life. ‘Renew celebrates individual and collective desires for regenerating and caring for the planet and our human societies. It speaks to all of us.’ For more details bout the Deep Renew Weekend, go to www.renewfest.org.au.

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a problem in the carpark then please stop resisting cameras. Thanks to the council trial there’s now a safe, sublime mainstream beach. Turn left, not right, at the end of Grays Lane – there are kilometres of near-deserted beach for you to enjoy without nudists or alleged sex pests. It is unacceptable that a handful of militant residents want to shut down a nude beach that has been reformed and is working for thousands of responsible people over the course of a year. Nude beach users and residents can co-exist

harmoniously. Ongoing, proactive management rather than prohibition is still the best way forward. David Dixon Byron Bay

infrastructure. Since well before this government decided in 2014 to ignore community opposition and insert a piece of western Sydney into Byron Shire’s Local Environment Plan, at higher densities than the landowners requested, their mantra has been that it is for affordable housing and that they will fund the bypass. No-one believes that West Byron will deliver affordable housing, and Ben’s government placed no constraints upon the development to do so. The developer’s estimate is that there will be a 66 per cent increase in traffic on Ewingsdale Road from West Byron, and yet the bypass will only result in the diversion of some 7–20 per cent of existing traffic around town, most likely 10–15 per cent. Ben has promised $9.5m for the bypass (it could cost more). This money would be more effective in addressing traffic impacts if it went into reducing the impact of West Byron by reducing the scale of the development by buybacks and/or rezoning. The National Party created this mess and they need to propose a solution that significantly reduces the scale of West Byron, as well as its massive impacts on koalas, Wallum Sedge Frogs and the Belongil estuary. Dailan Pugh Byron Bay

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with closing the beach. If an 800m stretch of nude beach offends you then please don’t go there. If there’s

Nats and West Byron Despite Ben Franklin and Premier Gladys Berejiklian admitting (Echo August 22) that their government’s rezoning of West Byron resulted in a ‘scale of that development is beyond what the community’s expectations are’, that is ‘too big to impose on the community’, Ben’s only solution (Echo 6 February) is more

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Gone, but not forgotten – women pay tribute to their fallen Mandy Nolan Last year 63 women were killed by men in Australia. At least one woman a week is killed by domestic violence. Singer/songwriter Ilona Harker and a group of musicians have come together to record Another Woman Gone, a song-and-music video project that aims at raising awareness and also money for crisis relief for women escaping domestic violence. Project co-ordinator Ilona Harker says ,‘We wanted to honour the lives of women who are usually forgotten after they are killed.’ ‘I wanted to show that these women lived and had dreams, families, favourite bands, loving friends, travel plans, and that these women had all of this brutally taken from them. ‘When you watch the music video, you will see emotions in the faces of the people we filmed reacting to the stories of these women’s lives. We chose to show all the women who had been murdered by a man in 2018, as these deaths are still collectively new in our memories.’

țlƷ Ĳşżĕ Īşſ ƐĲĕ Ɔşŕī ĶƆ ƐĲëƐȞĶƐ inspires people to think about ways they can personally help end violence against women.’

Project co-ordinator Ilona Harker adapted an a capella version of Odetta’s Another Man Done Gone to create a choral song to raise awareness and funds for crisis relief for women. The song, an adapted a capella version of Odetta’s Another Man Done Gone, was recorded at Rocking Horse Studios in northern NSW with two local choirs, Raise the Roof and Northern Rivers Folk Choir. Ms Harker also invited in women singers to give voice to this powerful track. ‘We invited a few powerful and amazing women including Ash Constance, Áine

Tyrrell, Cara Robinson, Kodi Twiner, and Sian Evans to take part. ‘There is not one woman I know who hasn’t been affected either directly or indirectly by violence, abuse or harassment. ‘I grew up in an abusive home and ended up having a child to an abusive partner and for years I felt worthless and I didn’t matter. I had internalised that abuse and

so finding my voice was a way to let that out. ‘That’s why I’m so vocal now. I was scared for so many years and it took a long time for me to start feeling more confident. In all honesty I still struggle but it’s the connections I have made that have helped me and so I wanted to invite women to connect, uplift, and support each other.’ With the help of

filmmaker Grace Holt, a short video clip has been created to honour the lives of women killed in Australia. ‘My hope for the song is that it inspires people to think about ways they can personally help end violence against women. ‘Maybe they can help by buying the song so their money goes towards women’s escape funds, or make a donation to a local shelter, or lobby the government to increase funding to DV services or maybe just to be more vocal when they hear hate speech against women. ‘It’s about making small actions every day that will collectively have a big impact. ‘All the funds from the sale of song will go to women’s rescue and escape services. ‘I also wanted to create a song to grieve to.

‘Another Woman Gone is a lament or mourning song; a way to express the sadness and sorrow we have for the deaths of these women. ‘Remember the thousands who gathered at the vigil for Eurydice Dixon? There is so much grief in our communities over violence and we need healthy ways to let it out.’ Another Woman Gone is launching at Vagina Conversations – Byron Theatre, Community Centre. Those attending will be there to witness Ilona Harker and some of the musicians launch the clip before the show commences. That’s Friday and Saturday at the Byron Community Centre at 7.30pm, $23/29 at www.byroncentre.com.au. Q Another Woman Gone will be released digitally at 7pm on February 14. To see the online launch visit the Another Woman Gone YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/ UCX7kEUSUG3E2bqbA3oNMzyg

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How to get rid of the Nationals in the Northern Rivers Ron Priestley

Saturday March 23 – and your vote could make all the difference. After the 2015 election the Nationals led in the Lismore electorate by 53 per cent to 47 per cent, a 2,345 vote advantage, and in Tweed the Nationals also led 53 per cent to 47 per cent but with a 2,577 vote advantage. The Nationals have held the Tweed seat since 2007 while the Lismore seat has been held, with rare exceptions, by the right-wing National (LNP) Party since 1927.

The regional balance of power was tipped in favour of the Greens in 2015: Tamara Smith took the seat of Ballina in the NSW state elections following the wave of anti-fracking and anti-CSG sentiment. The question is, can the same be done in March this year for the seats of Lismore and Tweed? Your final day to enrol to vote for the next state election is Monday, March 4 with polling day set for

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The most recent poll has predicted a general statewide swing of four per cent; yet if only a two per cent swing occurred in the more conservative seat of Tweed then the Nationals would lose 1,616 of their 2,577-vote advantage. This means it would only take an additional 962 votes against them and they would lose the seat. The seat of Lismore is held in an equally close balance.

up of mostly young people who are unlikely to vote for the National Party. While the conservative parties are hoping that they won’t be inspired to enrol to vote in time for the elections they are the future hope of the Greens and Labor campaigners.

Optional preference voting

A solid swing predicted While a solid swing is predicted against the LiberalNational parties across the state it may not be enough to unseat the current Nationals Tweed member Geoff Provest or incoming Nationals candidate for Lismore Austin Curtin. Yet if enough people get themselves enrolled to vote and get to the polling both on the day there is a chance that local issues could tip the balance enough to install a Greens or Labor candidate in either or both these seats. These local issues include discontent with the Nationals’ policies on water mining, fracking, oppressive policing, unjust Random Drug Testing (RDT), Tweed Hospital siting, unemployment and Centrelink issues, pill testing, illegal forestry, poor holiday park management, bad state planning overriding local councils, and environmental concerns such as fish kills.

Cartoon by Alister Lockhart www.instagram.com/caveatscoti The 1.1 per cent swing needed away from the Nationals could easily occur over local-interest-group votes and they are an important feature of the campaign.

Strong protest for local issue The unjust use of RDT and the oppressive police force is just one example of the voting power of a local interest group. The group ‘Nth Coast RDT locations’ has attracted 19,865 members (increasing at 250 monthly). These members have to put their names on the line by signing up to the group. They are not just casual Facebook watchers. The commitment required to sign up to the group indicates its importance. Members suspect they

are deliberately targeted by the police force just because they are members. The 19,865 members represent some 16 per cent of the total 123,256 actual votes in Tweed, Ballina, and Lismore. A significant percentage of the electorate for a local interest group. If only 482 members changed their vote and voted against the Nationals in Tweed the Nationals would lose and it is about the same in Lismore. There is also the potential loss of votes from other interest groups promoting different issues.

The NSW system involves optional preference voting. Either Country Labor or the Greens have the best chance of displacing the Nationals – so use your preferences to include both of these parties in whatever order you like and you can leave out the Nationals altogether. In other words, you don’t need to put the bad guys last – just don’t put them in at all.

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Were Lismore and Tweed to fall to either Country Labor or the Greens there would be a major impact on the NSW state seat tally. The election is predicted to be very tight and if the Greens can hold their current three seats they may even have the balance of power. As was once famously said, ‘If you don’t vote you can’t complain about your politician’s excess and ineptitude.’

Around five per cent of eligible voters are not enrolled and they are made

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Refugee family say they will always call Mullumbimby ‘home’ Three Congolese families arrived in the area in March 2010 with the understanding that white people don’t like Africans, highlighting the dire circumstances that brought them here. The small group of 13 were prepared to live in a country where they might not be accepted rather than a place where they would be oppressed and persecuted. To their delight, the Byron Shire proved them wrong and nine years later the families still love Australia. The largest of the families, Bertin Kabaamba, his wife Eudox and their seven children, moved to Western Australia for greater work opportunities, but they still call Mullumbimby home. Two of the couples who were part of the 2010 welcoming committee, Pam and John Morris and Gill and Barry Lomath, recently went

Back left and right Eudox and Bertin, now living in Perth with six of their seven children. Photo supplied to Perth to visit the Kabaambas and report back to their friends in Mullum. ‘What a joy,’ says Gill. ‘They have taken hold of every opportunity offered to them and are thriving.’ Bertin is working as a FIFO in construction; Eudoxi

has almost finished her nursing training and was also working nights in a spinal unit; Johnathon has joined the army; Bellange is at uni; Belone is in year 12 and wants a career in IT; Benedict, in year 11, is already in the Airforce Cadets

flying planes; Bella is in year 10; and the two younger boys are still at school. Gill says the family own their home and are absolutely thriving. They remain hugely indebted to the Mullum community for saving their lives and want to return here to live one day. ‘One of the other couples, who were both doctors, are now both qualified nurses on the Tweed with three children (two of them Aussies), and the other couple who were both lawyers are looking to go back to university to do legal studies. What a success story. A refugee family reunification meeting, to reunite families in Australia or families who still have members in their home country, will be held on Wednesday February 20, 5.30pm at the Uniting Hall in Mullumbimby.

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Byron Bay Surf fest: foaming at the mouth Expect a mouth-watering lineup of food and drink choices at this year’s Byron Bay Surf Festival. The five-day event (February 20–24) will see tasty opportunities served up by Byron’s best vendors, producers, brewers, roasters, fermenters, and growers. Friday 22 February bring the family, the picnic rug and cushions for Go Pro’s Sunset Cinema and Twilight Surf Art Markets at Dening Park. Leave the picnic basket at home; from authentic pizza, cold pressed juice to aromatic samosas, BBSF has you covered with food and drink vendors to tantalise your every taste. Peruse the markets before kicking back with nutritious delights for a special welcome to country, Roxy’s Byron premiere of Lisa Andersen’s film Trouble and live tunes. For the non-surfers, start early the next morning Saturday 23 February with yoga (8am), a coffee and Farmer Jo’s Muesli by the foreshore at the Surf Art Markets (9am–5pm). An annual favourite, the markets showcase top shapers, artists, designers, creatives, not-for-profit organisations, food, and drink. There’ll also be workshops, live tunes, and not-to-be-missed enviro panels. Stay nourished throughout the day by enjoying a cool creation from The Bucha of Byron, a locally sourced dish from the Three Blue Ducks food stall or a scrumptious treat from the 30 other food and drink vendors who will be attending. The flavour doesn’t stop there. Byron’s local brewer Stone & Wood will be serving their satiating and delicious cold brews at events throughout the festival. Enjoy a Pacific Ale or Green

Coast Lager and live tunes at The Beach Hotel, who will be hosting epic bands, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday night. Prepare your tastebuds for the most delicious Byron Bay Surf Festival yet. For more information, head to the festival’s website – www.byronbaysurffestival.com.au. Founded in 2010, the annual Byron Bay Surf Festival is a non-competitive event with a focus on surf culture, highlighting creativity, innovation, environment, and sustainability. The 5-day event is a fusion of Surf Culture Now. With over 10 free and ticketed events, become immersed in surf sessions, surf shaping, design, art, music, film, fashion, and yoga, while having fun and caring for the environment. The Byron Bay Surf Festival is proudly an ocean-friendly event aiming to set a clear path towards reducing environmental and community impacts of surfing contests. Sustainability is at the heart of everything we do.

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spring onions, and Thai chilis, on a bed of rice noodles, covered with Foxy’s housemade satay sauce (aka liquid gold) and a pile of roasted peanuts. The plate has a balance of healthy natural fats, protein to power backup, alkaline veg for post-workout healing, fibre for improving digestion, and fresh chilis to boost metabolism. Plus she’s dairy free and 99 per cent gluten free! To accompany the gado gado, Leilani recommends her own recipe of chilled lychee and mint tea or Byron’s own fermented living drink, lemon myrtle kombucha from Bucha of Byron. Of course The Cellar bottleshop is always next door for a cheeky beer too. ‘We really wanted to cater to locals’ needs: fresh, affordable, fast bites handmade as much as possible, served up in an arty space with time to chat about the good stuff, like the surf,’ she says. Q Foxy Luu’s. Shop 4A North Byron (Woolies) Plaza, 90 Jonson St, Byron Bay. Next to the bottleshop. Open for lunch and dinner 7 days. Facebook: Foxy Luus

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BYRON BAY

Ballina RSL Club 1 Grant St, Ballina 6681 9500 www.ballinarsl.com.au Open 7 Days Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Snacks

Wharf Bar & Restaurant

Open 7.30am daily, till late every night Coffee, breakfast, lunch & dinner, functions & weddings. 12-24 Fawcett St, Ballina 6686 5259 / 6685 6011

Green Room Byron Bay

Valentine’s Day Dinner Thursday 14 February Spinnakers 3 Course Menu $55 Sittings available from 6pm Complimentary beverage on arrival Bookings Essential

Open daily from 3pm 1 Bay Lane, Byron Bay 6685 6402

St Elmo Dining Room & Bar

TAKEAWAY ONE STOP SHOP Feed your family with a choice of pizza, pezzo pockets, burgers or fish & chips. OPEN 7 DAYS TILL 8.30pm counter orders only

Mon-Sat: 5pm till late. Sun: 5pm till 10pm. Cnr Fletcher St and Lawson Lane, Byron Bay 6680 7426

www.WharfBarBallina.com.au

Open from 5pm weekdays Sat / Sun from midday (closed Tues) 2/26 Mullumbimbi St, Brunswick Heads 6685 1111

Flying Fox Bistro at Club Byron Bowlo Opening hours Mon–Fri 11.30am–3pm lunch and 5–9pm Dinner Sat–Sun 11.30am–9pm

coastal kitchen • mediterranean flavours natural & low intervention wine craft beer • vinyl • the river & you

6680 8703

the.kingswood thekingswoodbrunswickheads www.thekingswood.com.au

Targa Modern European Cafe • Restaurant • Bar 11 Marvell Street

BYRON BAY

Success Thai Mon-Fri lunch & dinner closed Sundays Dinner from 5pm. 3/31 Lawson St, Byron Bay www.facebook.com/ pages/Success-ThaiFood/237359826303469

Treehouse on Belongil Full Cocktail & Wine Bar. Extensive Menu Includes Tapas, Mains, Desserts and Famous Woodfired Pizzas. 25 Childe St, Byron Bay 6680 9452

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All your favourites every lunch and dinner Experienced Thai chefs cooking fresh delicious Thai food for you. BYO only Welcome for lunch, dinner and takeaway. Menus available on Facebook Share plates, mains, desserts and famous Treehouse wood-fired pizza. Our kitchen is open all day and night. Presenting incredible original music in Byron’s most intimate atmosphere. Check our website or Facebook for the gig guide. facebook.com/treehouse.belongil treehouseonbelongil.com

New bar and bites at Beach Hotel using the best local produce Sunset Specials 3pm – 6pm daily $12 Signature Cocktails $2 Oysters

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

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B^b h° B Kitchen

Mim’s Kitchen 62 Broken Head Road, Byron Bay 6685 6470 functions@byronbaygolfclub.com.au

Grab your friends and family This rustic Bistro has all the classics and loads of delicious specials every day and desserts to die for. Take advantage of the large al fresco area which can be booked for a casual Aussie BBQ or private function, great for mates and families. The little foxes are well catered for with our $10 kids menu – Chilled out Byron vibe and the best bar prices in town! See our website for our function menu www.flyingfoxbistro.com.au

OPEN - 7 days breakfast & lunch Dinner Tuesday to Saturday 3 courses $60 All day menus, licensed bar Happy hour AFTERNOONS 4–6pm daily $12 Cocktails, $7 beers, $8 wines, $12 Moet Mim’s Kitchen is perched above the pristine fairways of the Byron Bay Golf Course. Serving classic lunch meals from 11am – 2pm & dinner from 5pm – 8pm Wednesday through to Sundays. Trivia nights on Thursday, Smokehouse BBQ Sundays and live music on the deck where kids eat free with every Traeger Smokehouse plate ordered. A stunning spot to enjoy a meal while the sun goes down or have your next event or party catered for by Mim and her passionate team.

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Lord Byron Distillery

MON-SAT 10AM–6PM Closed Fri Arvo 7, 4 Banksia Drive, Byron Bay 8646 4901

CELLAR DOOR – TASTINGS & TOURS

Luscious Foods

Handcrafted spirits using locally sourced ingredients. No artificial flavours, colours or preservatives.

GIN MAKING AND COCKTAIL MASTERCLASS

- book online. Gin Making Gift Vouchers available. LORDBYRON.COM.AU LordByronDistillery

Located in Woolies Carpark Shop 6/90–96 Jonson St Byron Bay Phone orders welcome 6680 9223 FB phointhebay

7.30am till late Coffee, breakfast, lunch, dinner, functions and weddings. Week Day Happy Hour 4–6PM 1 Jonson St, Byron Bay 6680 7632

No Bones Open every day from 5pm 11 Fletcher Street, Byron Bay

6680 7418 @nobonesbyronbay

Chupacabra Eat in or take out. Shop 12A, 3 Clifford St, Suffolk Park 0448 077 401 www.chupacabra.com.au @chupabyron

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

Main Street

Traditional Vietnamese Foods Pho Beef Noodle Soup and Banh Mi (Vietnamese Salad Rolls) Open from Wednesday 12th December. Trading Hours Lunch – Monday to Friday - 9am – 2pm Dinner – 7 Nights - 5pm – 9pm Lunch Time Special - Free 375mL can with any Banh Mi/Salad Roll purchase. Offer Valid until 31/1/19.

Fishheads

The Italian Byron Bay Open 7 days from 6pm Next to the Beach Hotel Bay Street 6680 7055 italianatthepacific.com.au

6680 7632 functions@fishheadsbyron.com.au

Williams St 50 Pacific Parade, cnr of William St, Lennox Head

0476 892 194 insta @williamst.lennox

Tacos for breakfast, lunch and dinner in a relaxed, fresh and bright atmosphere. This is slow ‘fast food’ with all produce sourced locally. Margarita cocktails, Oaxacan mezcal, micheladas and Mexican blend Moonshine coffee.

The Stro Club Lennox

Coffee and breakfast 6.30–11.30am Lunch 11.30am–3pm Dinner Tues–Sat 5–9pm Sunday long brunch 10am–5pm

10 Stewart Street, Lennox Head 6687 4313 www.clublennox.com.au

FRESH PIZZA BYRON STYLE

The Hideout Cafe Breakfast and Lunch 7 days a week from 7.30am

Our opening hours are 6.30am–2.30pm, 7 days for Breakfast + Lunch Thursday, Friday, Saturday for dinner. Sunday Tapas & Happy Hour Specials till sundown The Stro’s new menu features everyone’s favourite pub grub options as well as some new, tasty dishes. There are gluten free, vegetarian and vegan options available as well as al fresco dining options. Serving Food Lunch | Dinner Monday – Saturday *Limited menu available Monday, Tuesday lunch

MULLUMBIMBY

The Empire Open 7 days M–F 8.30am–4pm, S,S 9am–3pm Dine in, takeaway, licensed FB/Insta: EmpireMullum 20 Burringbar St, Mullum 6684 2306

Wood-fired pizzas & real Italian cuisine with a Sardinian twist Famous for seafood, meats and pasta dishes. We do special events functions.

CHILLED VIBE IN A BEAUTIFUL SETTING Join us at The Rocks on Lawson for lots of summer bites! We have a range of fresh, locally sourced breakfast and lunch at affordable prices. Enliven the senses with a Byron Bay Coffee or super healthy smoothie! Enjoy an Ice-cold beer, wine, or hand-crafted cocktail with your meal! Cosy indoor seating and a beautiful outdoor dining space available.

A short ride from Byron Bay, Harvest Restaurant, Bakery and Deli offers country charm and fresh, seasonal, organic food sourced from local artisan producers and Harvest’s own gardens. 18-22 Old Pacific Highway Lunch 12pm–3pm daily / Dinner 6pm–10pm (Wed–Sun) Weekend breakfast 8am–11am Newrybar NSW 2479 Harvest Deli is open daily with take-away pastries, sandwiches 02 6687 2644 and salads. Harvest Deli: Mon–Sat 8am–5pm Sun 8am–4pm www.harvestnewrybar.com.au Coffee cart: 6.30am–2pm daily @harvestnewrybar Harvest is available for events, weddings and catering.

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$5 SCHOONERS AND $12 COCKTAIL OF THE WEEK

Hidden away in Byron’s iconic ‘Eat street’ Bay Lane, The Hideout Cafe and Bar offers indoor, outdoor and deck dining

Mullum’s iconic Empire Cafe serves up an exciting menu with something for everyone. Indulge yourself with a delicious brekky, the best burgers in town, or if it’s more your style enjoy healthy superfoods like acai bowls and buddha bowls plus loads more. If you need a treat there’s a selection of cakes and also healthier dairy-free, refined sugar-free treats. The house-made organic coconut ice-cream is a must try. Plus of course, great coffee, delightful teas, shakes, smoothies and all the rest. Enjoy the good vibes and satisfy your cravings!

NEWRYBAR

A 5-minute drive from Byron Bay, Barrio brings together the local community Mon–Sat 7am–9pm in a relaxed environment for all-day dining. Wood1 Porter Street, fired oven, charcoal grill, veges, meat, fish, salads, North Byron natural wines, local beers, cocktails and St Ali coffee. No reservations. Bookings Eat in or take-away over 8 email: gather@ www.barriobyronbay.com.au barriobyronbay.com.au @barriobyronbay

Breakfast/Lunch 7 days from 7am 16 Lawson St, Byron Bay 6685 7663 – Menus at therocksbyronbay.com.au

Relaxed dining by the beach. Food that celebrates local produce served with a healthy dose of good tunes and good vibes. All welcome.

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facebook.com/byron.legendpizza Scan code for our menu! BYO Home delivery 7 days Established 1992

Barrio Eatery & Bar

The Rocks @ Aquarius

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

LENNOX HEAD

Trattoria Basiloco Open 7 days for Dinner starting 5.30pm See menu, book a table, or order takeaway at www.basilo.co 30 Lawson St, Byron Bay 6680 8818

Cocktails, wine and beers served all damn day. Group bookings available, please email mainstreetburgerbar@gmail.com for reservations.

18 Jonson Street 6680 8832

Come indulge in one of our NEW creations or just come along for a drink by the sea these Summer Holidays

Happy Hour 5–6pm $11 Cocktails $6 Wines $5 Beers / Ciders Group Bookings / Functions www.nobonesbyronbay.com.au

Gourmet burgers created by chefs

Open 7 days 11.30am until late Call to make a reservation or for takeaway orders

NEW SUMMER MENU

Plant powered Tapas & Cocktails

Contemporary and Middle Eastern flavours • Breakfast and lunch • Wood-fired pizzas • Fresh juices • Great coffee www.lusciousfoods.com.au

Mon-Fri 7.30am–3pm Open Friday nights 6–9pm Live music and BYO 1/6 Tasman Way, Byron Arts & Industry Estate BYO & RSVP 6680 8228

Naturally Better!

Bay Pho

Shop 6/13 Lawson Street 6680 9300 FB thehideoutbyronbay insta @thehideoutbyronbay

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Celebration cakes Personal catering services Event co-ordination and management

E: lizzijjackson@gmail.com P: 0414 895 441

With a fresh, funky, relaxed vibe, generous serves, cruisey staff and 10am licence, come and find us for ‘Byron’s BEST breakfast’ all day… Takeaway available Vegetarian,Vegan and gluten free options available Kids menu

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BYRON ARTS & INDUSTRY ESTATE: creative, small batch, hand-made, state-of-the-art, artisan, innovative, ethical, imaginative, hyper-local, leading-edge, quality, EXPLORE premium, master, handcrafted, accomplished, cutting edge, organic, designer, eclectic DISCOVER ingenious, beautiful, unique, sensational, avant-garde, original, visionary, inspirational, expert, brilliant, gifted, ahead of the curve. YOU wonderful, compelling, THERE experiencing, witnessing, engaging. NOW. 1 ARGENTON Bespoke fine jewellery. Inspired by simplicity, symbols and nature, Lisa Argenton creates pieces to be treasured for years. Open Wed, Thurs, Fri 10am till 5pm or by appointment 2/1A Banksia Drive | 0413 707 642 argentondesign.com

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2 BUN COFFEE Bun Coffee is a specialty roaster of Organic, Fair Trade or Rainforest Alliance blends and 40+ Single Origins. Visit the newly refurbished roastery door for all your local coffee needs. 17/1A Banksia Drive www.buncoffee.com.au 3 BYRON BAY PEANUT BUTTER CO Come visit us at our brand new Peanut Butter Store. Receive 10% off when mentioning this article. Open Wednesday to Friday 10:30am 5:30pm, Saturday 10am - 2pm 16 Tasman Way byronbaypeanutbutter.com.au 4 BYRON FOODIES Byron Foodies Walking Tour will get you feasting on scrumptious delights. Byron Foodies 100% supports the local foodies that are off the beaten track at the Arts & Industry Estate. Tours run Mon–Friday. www.byronfoodies.com

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5 EYE OF HORUS Awaken The Goddess Within with awardwinning cosmetics based on ancient sacred formulas. Developed in Byron Bay, Eye of Horus Cosmetics are naturally formulated with plantbased ingredients and waxes. 9/10 Tasman Way eyeofhoruscosmetics.com 6 FROTH A cute cafe/takeaway servicing the industrial estate with organic coffee, poached eggs, burgers, toasties, salads, pies, pastries, açai bowls, fresh juices and smoothies. Open MonFri 6:30am–4pm, Saturday 8am–2pm. LOTS OF PARKING! 1 Banksia Drive

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7 HONEY HUNT STYLE Wear art, style, and comfort, created in Byron, Australian made. Perfect for yoga, Pilates, chilling, or dolling up – you’ll want to live in them. Twenty-seven unique designs – $79. @Honeyhuntstyle 2/10 Brigantine Street www.honeyhunt.style

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8 INTERIOR MOTIVES BLIND DESIGN Get your shade on and beat the summer heat. Plantations shutters, Roman blinds, shutters, awnings fully motorised whole-house systems. Your window treatments are their speciality. 1/84–86 Centennial Circuit blinddesignbyronbay.com.au 9 KOUZINA BYRON BAY Authentic Greek homestyle kitchen offering locally sourced, seasonal meals, mezzes, salads, sweets, organic coffee, and more. Breakfast/ Lunch 7.30am–3pm ~ Tues–Fri dinner 6–late ~ Thur–Sat Ph: 0451 196 769 1 Acacia Street Instagram: kouzina_byronbay Facebook: Kouzina Byron Bay Greek

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Embodying the Byron Bay lifestyle and everything it represents, Habitat is a fantastic retail, leisure and lifestyle community and destination within the Byron Arts & Industry Estate. Located 5 minutes from the beach or a 10 minute cycle from town. Onsite parking available or jump on the train and be there in 10 easy minutes.

3 10 LIGHT TOUCH SOLAR & ELECTRICAL Your local Tesla Powerwall Two certified installers. Store excess solar to use at night, protect your home during a blackout, and claim your energy independence with Powerwall. Limited stock. 9 Centennial Circuit lightouchelectrical.com.au

11 MASSURI & PELE The studio is a curated collection of stunning, crafted jewellery made of sterling silver and gold, teaming up with ethically crafted fashion made of natural fibres. Timeless and stylish pieces that accentuate the female form. 2/11 Banksia Drive pele.com.au | massuri.com

13 PAINTED EARTH Australia’s largest range of sustainable paints, wood finishes, and renders. Beautiful, durable, and affordable. No smell, no toxic fumes. Once you try them you won’t look back. M–F: 7.30am–4.30pm, Sat 10am–2pm. 1 Brigantine Street house-paint.com.au

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3 FLORIAN BECK Florian Beck has a passion for perfection producing fine custom handmade jewellery, specialising in diamonds and pearls and unique pieces from around the world. Florian Beck has worked in Byron Bay for over 20 years. florianbeck.com

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4 PRAE STORE Prae is your go-to destination for on-trend activewear and luxe natural and organic beauty and wellness products. Stocking Australian brands and beautiful gift ideas. prae-store.com

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15 STONE AND WOOD Drop into our tasting room and brewery for a tour, tasting, or a bite to eat in a space dedicated to beer education. 100 Centennial Circuit stoneandwood.com.au

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16 ZENTAI LIVING Australia’s natural bedding specialist since 1981. Certified organic latex mattresses. All-natural latex mattresses. Traditional futons. All solid American oak bedframes. Bedroom furniture. 1/11 Banksia Drive Shop instore or online at zentai.com.au.

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2 HABITAT COLLECTIVE Habitat Collective showcases a beautiful collection of fashion, kidswear, accessories, furniture and homewares from local and independent designers such as Rowie, East Coast General, Byron Bay Hanging Chairs, and Little Winnie. habitatbyronbay.com

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14 GROUNDED LIVING Solutions to your soft flooring needs. The latest summer range takes inspiration from the colours of the Byron Shire. It is the ocean, a walk in nature, the feeling of being at home – and Grounded. Unit 4/4 Banskia Drive groundedliving.com.au

17 FALLEN BROKEN STREET Byron Bay-based headwear label Fallenbrokenstreet has a massive collection at their flagship showroom. Cruise in and say hi 'n' try some hats on. They love what they do and hope u do 2 :) xoxox fallenbrokenstreet xoxox 93 Centennial Circuit fallenbrokenstreet.com

1 AESTHETICA At Aestheticà you’ll be in the hands of medical and dermal professionals. We offer treatments handpicked for their effectiveness – we make skin goals possible. admin@aestheticabyronbay.com.au Follow us FB/IG @aestheticabyronbay 0427 601 903 aestheticabyronbay.com.au

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12 ORGANIC BEAUTY BY KAMON Using natural, organic-certified products, experience Kamon’s ultimate personalised treatments in blissful, intimate, and private surroundings. Waxing, spray tan, eyes, nails, facials, eyelash lifting, and extensions. 6685 5545 | 1 Acacia Street beautybykamon.com.au

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5 NICE MARTIN 'Nice Martin is made for the girl with a handsome aesthetic, who likes to meddle with her rebellious side but also stay feminine! NM upholds individuality and ethicality without bursting the bank.' nicemartin.com 6 KATRINA BEOHM REAL ESTATE Katrina Beohm Real Estate is an independent agency able to offer a bespoke real estate service without the constraints of a franchise structure. kbrealestate.com.au

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Tallowood Ridge – the next stage Cocooned in green with most home sites backing onto forested reserve, Stage 6 is Tallowood Ridge’s most prestigious release yet. This hillside precinct, which offers privacy and quiet owing to no through traffic, provides expansive views to the valley farmlands and Mount Chincogan beyond. And with an unprecedented and never-to-be-repeated average land size of 993m2 there is room for you to breathe. Room for you and your whole family to breathe, create, and be. ‘The beauty of Tallowood Ridge is the diversity of properties,’ said Adam Mangleson from Chincogan Real Estate. ‘There are non-restrictive covenants so it’s very

welcoming and you can let your vision run free. Building advancements have come so far in terms of the thoughtfulness of design for energy efficiency, natural light, ventilation, and living spaces. When you build a new home all this is built into it now and that’s why many have chosen

to sell their existing homes and upgrade to a new home here in Tallowood Ridge. Plus you actually get the home that fits your needs at considerably better value overall.’ With the first homes going up eight years ago Tallowood Ridge is now very

well established. ‘The tuckeroo trees lining the streets are growing, landscaping is filling in, and the facilities that attracted residents are being well used and appreciated,’ said Mangleson. ‘The children’s play park is birthday party central.’ Other facilities include a fullsized football field with cricket pitch overlaid in season, a full-sized tennis court, and halfsized basketball court. Priced from $340,000 to $395,000, Tallowood Ridge Stage 6 is scheduled to be ready to build on in 10–12 months. All home sites are fully serviced including fibre cable NBN internet access. www.tallowoodridge.com.au

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O C E A N S H O R E S 40 Wahlooga Way $1.3 million 6

945m

Katrina Beohm 0467 001 122

+ Council approved to develop into 2 strata lots. Great for the family or live in 1 & rent the other + Two homes in 1! Both with kitchens & renovated bathrooms. Beautiful edible gardens + Covered gazebo. Walk to Shopping Village, medical centre & Tavern. Close to river & beaches + You could purchase half of the home separately, subject to registration of strata

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B Y R O N B AY 11 Shelley Drive $1.75 - $1.9 million 2

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Katrina Beohm 0467 001 122

+ Magical oasis in a prime & quiet sought after location, close to the action of Byron’s CBD + Spacious creative studio space with 2nd bathroom. Plenty of entertainment & relaxation options + Relax in total privacy in the amazing backyard with lush green palm trees, citrus & orchids + Large in-ground saltwater pool. Easy walk or bike ride to cafes, schools & beaches

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33 Rangal Road, Ocean Shores

48 Balemo Drive, Ocean Shores

Inspect Saturday 16th Feb1-1.30pm Price $790,000 to $830,000

39 Yalla Kool Drive, Ocean Shores

Todd Buckland 0408 966 421

Inspect Saturday 16th Feb 11-11.30am Price $960,000 Todd Buckland 0408 966 421

2/26i Coomburra Cres, Ocean Shores Adjoining Water Lily Park, this fabulous modern home is waiting for its new family. Light fills the living areas from the double height gallery windows. Open plan living and dining areas flow out on to the back deck and views over the park and lake.

Inspect Saturday 16th Feb 10-10.30pm Price $695,000 Todd Buckland 0408 966 421

34 Natan Court, Ocean Shores Within a 12-minute stroll of the water’s edge at South Golden Beach, this little gem sits near the canal and reserve in a peaceful cul de sac. A family friendly property with openplan living area, covered outdoor entertaining & fully fenced backyard.

Inspect Saturday 16th Feb 1-1.30pm Price $650,000 to $690,000 Todd Buckland 0408 966 421

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36 Pine Avenue, Mullumbimby The property is waiting for a magic touch. Well positioned on a flat corner block with two street accesses and fenced yard, you’ll find this retro home is practical and affordable. Located opposite the local soccer field within a comfortable stroll of town. Great value.

Inspect Saturday 16th Feb 12-12.30pm Price $1,160,000

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Renovated to new, this impressive family home boasts lighthouse & surf views adjoining bush reserve. The upper level has spacious open plan living, dining and kitchen with highquality finishing. Master suite with WIR, ensuite & its own deck.

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Direct golf course access and views of the lake, fairway & 4th hole make this property special. Enjoy the beautiful views from the verandah. Recent upgrades to the kitchen and main bathroom. Perfect for the modern family or golf enthusiast. Dual occ. potential

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2-minute walk to the sands of South Golden Beach. Open plan living, dining and kitchen areas. The wrap around NE corner deck is a great place to enjoy the tropical mature gardens while swinging in a hammock. Vaulted ceilings, big windows & light filled spaces.

Inspect Saturday 16th Feb 10-10.30am Price $640,000 to $670,000 Todd Buckland 0408 966 421

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119 Balemo Drive, Ocean Shores Council approved dual occupancy. The existing 2 storey home is a great starting point with heaps of room for a family. Great low risk project for someone wanting to get into property development with all the guesswork taken care of.

Inspect By Appointment Price $695,000 to $750,000 Todd Buckland 0408 966 421

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AUCTION

11 Kingsford Drive

Life is Better in Bayside 2

2 Seastar Court, Byron Bay

Beds: 4 Baths: 2 Cars: 2 Landsize: 733.7 m

• 1 of only 3 homes in the street with elevation and perfect northeast aspect. • Quiet cul-de-sac in a great family neighbourhood – Last sold in 1995. Just Perfect. • Elevated, comfortable, spacious, solid double brick fg\e gcXe _fd\ n`k_ k`dY\i Ô ffij% • Just 370-metre walk via Arakwal national parks to “dolphins” surf break on Tallow Beach.

• Located in the sought-after Beachcomber Drive area in tightly held cul-de-sac. • Some may choose to rent while they plan their renovations for what this site truly deserves. • Close to town. Do yourself a favour and come and see what this property has to offer. Open Home time: each Saturday 10–10.30am prior to auction

Valarie Williams www.byronbeachrealty.com.au 0447 006 434

Auction 10.00am Saturday 16 March on site Jeremy Bennett www.byronbaypropertysales.com.au 0401 222 686

* Big block backing onto nature reserve * Approximately 886 sqm, north-west aspect * Scope for extension, pool, secondary dwelling * Rental appraisal $570–$590 per week * Original decor, rock solid house built in 1988 by reputable local builder * Easy walk to corner store, swimming hole, playground * Lilly Pilly Pre-school, bowling club and sportsﬁelds at your door step

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Saturday 10.00 – 10.30am Thursday 1.00 – 1.30pm Auction: Saturday 23rd February 2019 on site

Fiona Johnson 0400 418 886 / 02 6685 1206

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Seconds To Surf

A Beautiful Country Paradise

27 Muli Muli Avenue, Ocean Shores Vacant land 719m2

Pearces Creek $1,050,000

36 Yamble Drive, Ocean Shores $935,000–$975,000 $1.19 – $1.28 million 3 2 1

Located in the tropical north of the Byron Shire at the end of a securely gated estate, we are delighted to offer one of the last vacant beachfront blocks in the Byron Shire. Completely level 858m2 plot and ready to build your dream home on. This outstanding block borders 13 acres of private reserve with its very own private beach access, it will take you less than 350 steps to reach the water’s edge. Few people have the pleasure of falling asleep to the sound of the waves and waking up in beachside paradise. Located among an enclave of substantial, contemporary homes this exclusive address will only get more sought after over time. One of the last beachfront home sites available - Secure gated community of quality homes - Borders 13 acres of private reserve - Approximately 350 steps to the water’s edge - 20 minutes Byron Bay, 30 minutes to Coolangatta Airport

Elevated within the valley is this character filled home, set on 10 lovely acres, with stunning northern views to the Nightcap Ranges. The home has beautiful ornate features, high ceilings, timber floors & windows. A classic country kitchen with large adjoining dining room, a lounge room & separate sitting room – both with French doors to the verandah. The bedrooms are spacious, 2 with built-ins & the master has views. This picturesque property also features a delightful self-contained cottage, extensive 6-bay Colorbond shed, large double garage & store room – as well as excellent horse facilities including a 60m x 20m dressage arena, stables & several paddocks. Only 20 minutes to Lennox Head/Ballina beaches, 10 minutes to Alstonville, close to schools, shops and surrounding villages of the beautiful Byron hinterland. This attractive rural lifestyle property, with all it has to offer and great location is a rare find.

Inspect: By Appointment Contact: Todd Buckland - 0408 966 421 Byron Shire Real Estate

View: Inspection by appointment Contact: Katrina Beohm 0467 001 122 Katrina Beohm Real Estate

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Great leafy street with views of the golf course and lakes. Fall in love with this house on 1005m2 – great for a game of cricket or future development. Beautiful timber floors throughout, vaulted ceilings and tastefully renovated, with a large backyard. This large house has: Upstairs, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, kitchen/ dining, living room, verandah. Single garage, laundry, solar power and water. Wait there’s more... Downstairs, there is a fully self-contained 1 bedroom (with the potential for 2) open plan apartment with its own access You have good access to Brunswick Heads, Ocean Shores Shops and the highway. The block is 1005m2 and can be subdivided or have dual occupancies in the future if DA and council approval is sought and granted. View: Saturday 11.00–11.30am Contact: Steven Dale 0412 855 203 LJ Hooker Brunswick Heads

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BEAUTIFULLY RENOVATED ICONIC COASTAL QUEENSLANDER Beyond the welcoming circular driveway & sumptuous tropical gardens filled with fragrant frangipanis & thriving bromeliads, you’ll find an incomparable home offering the perfect blend of Queenslander-style charm & contemporary coastal chic. Originally built in 2000, this immaculate property has been meticulously renovated, completed 6 months ago. At the heart of the home is the stunning timber kitchen with beautiful 30mm Starlight Black Caesarstone benchtops, breakfast bar, European 900mm oven & gas cooktop, walk-in pantry & dishwasher. • Spacious open plan living areas with stacker doors providing seamless indoor/outdoor living • Fabulous covered outdoor entertaining deck + swim spa with separate deck/pavillion • Gleaming polished timber floors throughout living areas & plush, quality carpet in bedrooms • 1770 square metre block with dual street access, level stroll to beautiful South Golden Beach Auction On-Site 11.30am Saturday 2nd March 2019 (View from 11.00am) View Saturday 2nd March 2019 11.00am Agent

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“Malabar Holdings” Otherwise known as 22-30 Aults Road, UKI History in the making. Only 2nd time on market in 70 years. DA approved for a 4 lot rural subdivision. 900m to the village of UKI 45 mins to Gold Coast (airport) & Byron Bay 30 mins to Brunswick Heads and Kingscliff The village of Uki is signposted ‘where the mountains touch the sky’ and Malabar Holdings with its lush rolling hills and the natural amphitheatre setting, Wollumbin (Mt Warning, Twin Sisters, Mt Uki). The current parcel consist of 2 titles with an area of 129.4413 hectares (ha) (as per DP). With approx. 1.8km river frontage to the Tweed River and a 265 Megalitre irrigation licence with extensive underground irrigation mains. AUCTION 10AM MARCH 9, 2019. Just Perfect: Vacant Land, Rural and Mountain Views, River and Dam Frontage, Useable Land and more….. Auction 9th March 2019 at 10.00 am (NSW time) in the external function room of the Mount Warning Hotel, Uki: Offering a small part (vacant land only) of “Malabar Holdings” - Proposed Lot 2 (approx. 9.44 ha or 23.33ac) in property known as 22-30 Aults Road, UKI

The proposed subdivision has been ‘activated’ in 2 stages with all lots having river frontage, (water licence allocation negotiable), mountain views, natural bush and productive useable land. • Lot 1: 40 Ha approx. “Homestead” 4 bed, 2 bath, 8 car, ducted air cond. gas ﬁre place, studio+ 4 large farm sheds + 30m round and 30m x 30m square arenas. • Lot 2: 9.44 Ha approx. Vacant land with elevated dwelling entitlement and dam frontage. • Lot 3: 40 Ha approx. 4 bed, 1 bath, 2 car, air cond. and combustion ﬁreplace. • Lot 4: 40 Ha approx. Vacant land with elevated dwelling entitlement and dam frontage.

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“The Brief” - Proposed Lot 2 is part of the DA “approved” for the 4 lot rural subdivision as described in the general body of text above or refer to website address below Expressions of interest in the whole parcel or other individual lots will also be considered. Price Guide Proposed Lot 2 ONLY $1,400,000 www.realestate.com.au/property-lifestyle-nswuki-700016530

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Professionals & Mark Cochrane • 5 Argyle Street, Mullumbimby. $995,000 • 632 Huonbrook Rd, Huonbrook. $1,300,000

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KNIGHT ON THE TOWN

She’s got a voice that just leaves you spellbound. Acclaimed for her live performances, Grace Knight is without a doubt one of the finest interpreters of popular music in the country. Ms Knight is also lauded for her high-energy role as frontwoman for the Eurogliders, one of the seminal synth-based pop acts of the 1980s. Now living in Melbourne, until about a decade ago Grace Knight lived here, so coming back for a show holds a special thrill for her. ‘I really do have a sense of home,’ she says. ‘I have such amazing memories. My son’s memories too are connected with Byron Bay. It was a really, really happy time. Whenever I drive over Coolamon Scenic Drive to Federal I love it. I have kept a house there, got to keep a finger in the pie!’ Grace is returning to play a solo gig at the Mullum Ex-Services. It’s something you shouldn’t miss. Especially if you love a super-talented, funny, vibrant woman with a who-gives-a-rat’s attitude and a voice that drips like honey! ‘I am at the age that I don’t give a fuck. I am not going to die wondering, so failure isn’t failure any more; it’s become something that I’ve tried and don’t want to pursue; it’s not a failure, it’s a cue to move on to the next thing… I have never been one who chases perfection; I am not someone who does; I make a lot of stuff whether out of concrete or fabric or paper, the things I love the most are what I didn’t quite get right!’ Grace is incredibly creative, not just onstage but also offstage. She started out in fashion design and the love of fabrics and textiles has never left her! In fact all through the Eurogliders Grace wore her own unique designs. It’s something she still does! ‘I have just come back from Japan where we did a Shibori fabric-dying workshop and I thought I could learn to deconstruct a kimono to make something out of it! I love being creative across fields; it’s like maintaining a garden that you clear up piles but so you aren’t double dipping you just leave that pile there

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and move on to the next thing, create that, and eventually there comes a point where you clear up all the piles and start again.’ One of her creative piles was an album last year. ‘I worked really hard to find a name for it,’ she laughs. ‘I called it Grace! It’s a nice word but I had to separate it from myself and I thought oh, that will do! I have been doing my solo gigs because I am close to the end of my career. It will be whenever I decide, but it’s at the stage now when I am performing where I just do what I want onstage. I’ll sing beautiful Irish songs I remember my mum singing and then we’ll do a Eurogliders song, and then maybe a jazz number… I don’t want to blow my trumpet but it doesn’t give people the time to get bored!’ Not that you would get bored. She’s enthralling to watch. I mention something about being in touch with the Zeitgeist… and she was off… ‘I called an album The Zeitgeist, she laughs! ‘What a stupid name for an album! It went straight down the toilet, was the worst-selling album I have ever made! ‘It was the most unsuccessful project, I think because it had such a stupid name; I take full credit for that. I chose the name because it meant that which encapsulates the spirit of the time! Noone on the radio stations could say it and when they did they would say Zit GIST! Two-and-a-half years later the word zeitgeist becomes really popular and every idiot on the radio is saying it… it was clear I wasn’t part of the zeitgeist!’ One of the highlights for Grace coming back to play a gig in the Byron Shire is hooking up with Dave Sanders. ‘I will also be bringing my music director Sam LeMann.’ Andrew Shaw will be on bass. The day after our interview Grace jumps into the studio with Wendy Matthews, something they’ve both been talking about for years. ‘Tomorrow we put a peg in the ground!… you can’t die wondering!’ I suggest that could be a good album title: Don’t Die Wondering. She laughs, ‘I am writing that down’.

Don’t miss a true national treasure, Grace Knight, performing at Club Mullum, Mullumbimby Ex-Services on Sat 2 March at 8pm. Tix are $35 at clubmullum.com.au.

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LOVE LETTER There is something quite beautiful about a love letter. The outpourings of one person’s heart for another, captured in fragile script, scrawled nervously across the page. A love letter is precious. The vulnerability of the writer that just aches on paper. You can’t do this with a text or an email. Or a dick pic. A proper love letter has to be handwritten on paper, and then delivered mysteriously. I once found a love letter by accident. It was years after a relationship had finished. Wedged in the pages of a book I’d borrowed from him and never returned was this exquisite letter written for me that only found its way to me long after the writer had left. At least I assume it was written for me. It was addressed to ‘Maggie’ but I think that was just his dyslexia. I remember the first love letter I ever received. ‘My name is William Sommerfeld. I wear white. I have seen you on the bus. If you don’t go with me you can get fucked.’ I was 11 years old. I didn’t know William Sommerfeld but I had seen a long-haired boy in white t-shirt and shorts riding up beside the bus on his purple dragster. Once when he licked his lips at me I shook my head at him in disgust, he gave me the finger. A boy had never done that to me before. I was affronted. I had no idea that this was his way of saying ‘I like you. I really like you. Enough to write a note.’ That clearly was William Sommerfeld. The first boy who bothered to pen me a love letter. I wondered where he wanted to go with me? I couldn’t imagine it would be anywhere very good. We lived in a dusty country town in regional Queensland. Where could we go? The creek? The servo? The abandoned cheese factory? I could barely imagine what would happen to a girl who went to a place like that with a boy called William Sommerfeld. I didn’t get the feeling that he’d want to watch the clouds, or talk about Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre (which I must have read eight times by then), nor was I going to show him the secret spot deep in the bush that I had found, with the most incredible clay deposit. I didn’t think he’d be interested in dangling his feet in the cool water, kicking out at the yabbies as we chatted and made clay pots. I didn’t want to go anywhere with William Sommerfeld – so I took up his last option and got fucked. Even at 11 I found this a rather threatening way to win my heart. I was a deep-thinking strangely complex girl who lived in a fantasy world where I quietly pondered a life that existed beyond my stale surrounds. He was the first of many disappointments in love. Although I liked his name. William Sommerfeld just seemed like the kind of character name I read in my books. It fitted well with the misanthropes I was already attracted to at 11. Men like Mr Rochester and Heathcliff. That’s what happens I guess when you have a violent alcoholic father who ends up dead. It gives you a taste for the gothic. If William truly loved me he would have fought for me. He didn’t. He just spent a good week writing rude things about me on the back of my bus and flipping me the bird.

FULL POINTS FOR JONO MA LAN DI N G I N THE B AY ON THU RS D AY, VAL ENTINE’S D AY, F OR THE F I RST TI ME EVER I S THE ONE AND ONL Y FL OATING POI N TS. B OTH AN OU TSTAN DI NG PROD UCER AND A D EEPDI GGI N G DJ, SAM SHEPHERD I S REVERED AS ONE OF THE MOST RESPECTED MU SI CI AN S IN MOD ERN EL ECTRONIC MU SI C. JOI N I N G HI M I N THE LUS H UTOPIA THAT IS L OCURA W I LL B E HI S GOOD F RI EN D JONO MA AKA JAGWA MA. HE CHATS W I TH SAM SHEPHERD AKA FL OATING POINTS . What’s been the most rewarding thing about running Melodies, your record label? I started it because I noticed some of the records I was playing becoming increasingly valuable in secondhand circles. I was in touch with some of the musicians of these records, purely out of adoration. It seemed like a no-brainer to help reissue their records so that they’re not only affordable, but also so the original musician can benefit from it. While you were making your early releases, you were also working on your PhD in neuroscience. When did you find time to sleep? Hah – I enjoyed both so much it was pretty easy… I just spent all day in the lab and then all night in the studio… which happened to be my bedroom too so not much commuting! Can you condense briefly what your PhD was about? It’s been a while, but here it goes: I was interested in epigenetics of pain-sensing neurons, trying to unpick some of the molecular mechanisms that change in the behaviour of DNA and some of the cellular machinery following the initiation of a long-term pain state – such as occurs in neuropathies from diseases like diabetes. Describing these mechanisms uncovers potential new targets for drug developments… I miss science, but I’m sure it doesn’t miss me! Did this influence your music at all or is it simply coincidental that you make electronic music but you also like to split atoms? I never considered there to be any overlap in my processes; however, it was pretty handy borrowing the lab’s soldering iron to make audio cables! How many records do you think you have currently and what is the bulk of it in terms of era, area, and genre? 8–9,000. I’m about to move house so I wish that were a lot fewer; also they’re in no order whatsoever, so there could be techno next to a Brazilian record next to a US soul record… it kind of reflects fairly accurately how I DJ too – it can be all over the place in terms of genre! Sam Floating Points will be playing this Thursday at Locura with support by Jono Ma and local upcoming talent Jai Piccone. Doors at 5pm. $30. locura.com.au

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In the end his letter-writing skills finally won him a girlfriend. I know because when he was riding past my bus giving me the finger there was a girl wedged on his dragster joining in. How romantic, the two of them bound together by their mutual hatred of me! Sadly I lost my favourite letter. It was from a Greek boy who spoke English as a second language. It was full of spelling errors but it was wildly erotic and clear that he’d been reading Anais Nin. He described every part of my body with ecstatic longing and detail. Including my nose , about which he said something about how ‘I could launch ships’. I couldn’t stop laughing. In his attempt to flatter me with metaphors he’d told me I had a big nose. I kind of loved that most of all. One of my now-dead boyfriends once sent me a postcard that read: ‘Weather is here Wish You were Beautiful’. I loved that too. I won’t tell you how he died. But it was an ‘accident’. Thursday is Valentine’s Day. Don’t buy flowers or chocolate. Do something incredibly beautiful and amazing. Write someone you adore a love letter. It doesn’t have to be romantic. It could be for a friend, or a lonely old lady in your street. It might be your child, or your mother. It might be your partner. Or perhaps your secret love. It costs nothing but your time. Just grab a pen and write. Happy Valentine’s Day.

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of so much of what’s happening in our world today, from homelessness to war to climate change. His voice is still as open and honest as it was over 30 years ago, and his guitar finds chord combinations that are all his own. Passion, playfulness and pause for thought: a hearty combination in any gig. He performs at the Byron Theatre on Tuesday 5 March. Tickets at byroncentre.com.au.

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After an emotional final performance with the Beasts of Bourbon, Tex Perkins thought of getting the band’s members, past and present, into a recording studio just to celebrate the band and see what resulted. Sadly, bassist Brian Hooper died a week after the show. But weeks later former Beasts Charlie Owen, Boris Sujdovic, Tony Pola, Spencer Jones, Kim Salmon, and Tex Perkins assembled without a plan, save for the crazy MO employed back in 1983 when the Beasts first recorded The Axemans Jazz in that fateful 8-hour session. As back then, they went at it! Songs weren’t so much learned as ideas thrown together and recorded the moment they coalesced. The result is a collection of pieces with names like Pearls Before Swine, My Shit’s Fucked Up, Drunk on a Train and On My Back in a raucous celebration of their own Beastliness. Spencer was sadly only around long enough to make it onto one track. But what a track – witty observations from the hospital bed entitled At The Hospital. This isn’t The Beasts of Bourbon. It would need to have Jonesy on every track to be that! But loudly and proudly this is… The Beasts Are Still Here. Hotel Great Northern on Friday 1 March | Tickets at thenorthern.oztix.com.au.

Madman and Machine Gun Fellatio frontfella Pinky Beecroft joins last year’s RAW Comedy National Winner Bec Melrose for a Friday night performance as part of Mark Swivel’s Together Conference at the Mullum Ex-Services this Friday night. Remember Pinky? Much loved in the heyday of the mental Machine Gun Fellatio, Pinky is in town with Ryan Adamson to play tunes and spin tales. A regular on The Glasshouse with Wil Anderson, Pinky was too weird for TV, but he’s not too weird for Mullum. The rider is said to include a few grams of something or other, a top hat full of cottage cheese, and a box of Golden Gaytimes! A nice night’s entertainment. Mullum Ex-Services Club this Friday! Doors 7pm Show 8pm. $10 at the door. For the Together Conference.

IN FULL BLOOM The very embodiment of the folk singer, Irish troubadour Luka Bloom has that deep sense of social justice with an uncanny ability to distil contemporary life into the pithiest and most alluring combinations of lyrics and melody lines. His latest album Refuge put a finger on the fractured nature

After travelling the world, and singing and sharing his chants and heart songs from Bhutan and across the world to Europe, Bali, and Thailand, Kevin James returns to his home town Byron Bay to sing it up with our Mullumbimby community before marrying his sweetheart Susana Rodrigez later this month. This Saturday night join Kevin for a beautiful soulful night of chanting and song after curry, chai, and cakes under the poinciana trees at St Martin’s, Mullumbimby, from 7pm. It’s is a fundraiser for the refugee community for a local initiative #To Bali With Love (Facebook) Bali Rumah Detention Centre. Cakes and donations will assist in medical and daily emergencies. Kevinjamesheartsongs.com for tickets $25/ online $30 at the door. Tickets for family and concessions available with ID. Contact Rani Willis, zenshiatsu08 @gmail.com for more info.

GREAT SOUTHERN BAND COMING INTO 2019 RED HOT, THE SOUTHERN RIVER BAND HAVE ANNOUNCED A NATIONAL HEADLINE TOUR TAKING THEIR JAW-DROPPING LIVE SHOW ALL OVER AUSTRALIA – TOUCHING DOWN AT THE HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN ON THEIR GATHER NO MOSS TOUR THIS WEEK! THE ACTIVATION AND INTEGRATION OF LIFE-FORCE ENERGY. What’s the key to a kickarse live set for you guys? Aw, you know, the usual, the will to thrive, let alone survive, and the responsibility that comes with giving anyone in the crowd the greatest night of their lives. That and an open bar. What’s the most memorable gig of the last 12 months? Phwoar, it’s impossible to pick one! Everywhere we go the crowds are absolutely unreal, and we take it upon ourselves to make sure every gig’s as good as, if not better than, the last! How do you keep your energy at full tilt on stage? How does the audience change what kind of show you give? There’s nothing better in the world than looking out into the crowd and seeing people smiling, having a ripper time and not worrying about anything. That right there can keep ya running at full bore indefinitely! Who are the artists who have influenced you? Van Gogh and Da Vinci mostly, but anyone from the late Bronze Age will always have a place in our hearts, and on our walls. What is ahead for 2019? We’ve got our sophomore album coming out, and a shitload of shows to play all around the country! All incremental steps towards universal domination, really. What should we expect for your show at the Hotel Great Northern? An adrenaline rush the likes of which you haven’t felt since the first time you fell in love; in short, the greatest night of your life. Saturday at the Hotel Great Northern. 8pm. Free

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CULTURE SURF LEGENDS LOUNGE

The Byron Bay Surf Festival is just around the corner, presenting a weekend that celebrates surf culture then and now! The festival is all about creating a platform to bring surfers and those interested in surfing together in a celebration to showcase and support, to grow, and evolve a more sustainable industry and lifestyle. The four-day festival activates over 10 events including surfing, shaping, art, music, film, yoga, and environment with an awareness and focus on sustainability, education, and innovation. One of these events is at the Byron Theatre at the Community Centre on Thursday for a Q&A event hosted by Vaughan Blakey and called the Surf Legends Lounge. Surf legends Mark Occhilupo, Dave Rastovich, Taylor Steele (USA), and Dick Hoole chat with Vaughan about their amazing lives and their love of the ocean. Rastovich is a surf activist passionate about engaging surfers in environmental issues and mobilising them to take action. Mark Occhilupo made his way onto the scene at 15, slipped away from the scene for a while, and then came back to win the 1999 World Title at 33 and has one of the most impressive surfing careers – he’s at most events still free surfing as well as he ever did! Taylor Steele is a surf film producer and director from the US, responsible for Momentum, Proximity, Sipping the Jetsreams, Castles in the Sky and The Drifter… and Dick Hoole, well he’s a director, cinematographer and photographer, someone obsessed with pulling focus on surfing for most of his career. Find out what makes these legends tick at the Byron Centre on Thursday at 7pm. Tickets and program info for this 20–24 Feb fest on byronbaysurffestival.com.au.

NOT SO RETIRING! Nowadays becoming a senior (from age 55) definitely does not mean ‘retiring’. Today, being a senior is often a fresh start with more time to enjoy a whole range new activities and pursuits. This Tuesday the Byron Community Centre is hosting the Byron Shire Seniors Festival & Expo, in collaboration with NSW Seniors Festival, from 10am till 4pm. This day is dedicated to the wonderful elders of our community. The theme of the festival is Love Your Life with activities to help you continue enjoying life every day. The festival will have information sharing, entertainment, and lots of activities, as well as hand, neck, and shoulder massages being offered throughout the day. Fearless Films’ Growing Bold Not Old will be screening in a special viewing room. Come along to the Byron Community Centre on Tuesday. For full program see website www.byroncentre.com.au.

BITCH! DYKE! FAGHAG! WHORE! SAY HELLO TO PENNY ARCADE! Penny Arcade is New York’s undisputed queen of the underground and the grande dame of downtown performance art. Hot on the heels of the Adelaide Fringe sensational revival of Penny Arcade’s infamous sex and censorship show Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore! Penny returns to Brunswick Picture House after her sellout appearance in 2016 for an exclusive showing of her newest work, now in progress. At the Brunswick Picture House 1 & 2 March at 7pm. Tix are $40/45 at brunswickpicturehouse.com.

I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS I Want to Know What Love is is a touring theatre show coming to NORPA in March and they want your stories to be part of it. Acclaimed Queensland performance collective The Good Room are asking members of the public anonymously to submit their stories of love – fragments and memories, confessions and admissions – to transform those secret submissions into magnificent declarations centre stage. All submissions are anonymous and treated with care. To submit your thoughts on love go to www.wewantyourlove.com. NORPA is creating an entire lovefest experience around the performances of I Want to Know What Love Is on 29 and 30 March in Lovemore. More to be revealed! Tickets for I Want to Know What Love Is at www.norpa.org.au.

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BABA DEZ NICHOLS IS AN INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED SPEAKER AND TEACHER, DAKA, AUTHOR, SINGER/SONGWRITER, AND TRANSFORMATIONAL GUIDE WHO HAS BEEN FEATURED ON NUMEROUS TV AND RADIO SHOWS FOR HIS CONTRIBUTION IN THE HEALING ARTS AND EVOLVING HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS. HE IS A GLOBAL NETWORKER AND SEEDER OF LOVING FREEDOM WHO TEACHES THE SACRED TEMPLE ARTS TO SHARE, INSPIRE, AND SUPPORT OTHERS IN THE ACTIVATION AND INTEGRATION OF LIFE-FORCE ENERGY. What does it mean to have fully integrated spirituality? Does a person need to be devoting a lot of time to achieve this? It means that your spirituality is inclusive of all that you are. Masculine/feminine, spirit/animal, body, heart, mind, and emotions. What does it mean to be free? Do we understand what that means, do you think, or have we got it all wrong? Freedom means that we are fully responsible. Responsible to all we are and all that is. What are the blocks or problems that people come to you with most commonly? Not knowing who we are and what is means to be a fully integrated adult human being. Because most people are not awake, they don’t even know that they don’t know. So, most people start with where they are at. Wanting better health, relationships, sex, clarity, personal power, etc. What is Sex Magic? Do you think porn culture has impacted on people’s experience in a positive or negative way? Sex Magic is using our intention and life-force energy to manifest in alignment with source. In order to do this you need to be a fully integrated being. You work a lot with other teachers and facilitators. As a teacher of teachers what do you try to impart? Walk your talk, be the embodiment of what you teach, stalk your shadow, your reality will give you feedback, share power with other teachers, enjoy your occupation, have fun, stand for Love, Power, and Freedom. Baba Dez Nichols will be presenting two sessions at the Taste of Love Festival: Fully Integrated Spirituality on Friday 1 March and Traversing the Cutting Edge of Spiritual Shamanism on Saturday 2 March.

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THE BOOMERANG IN BLUESFEST Byron Bluesfest welcomes Boomerang back this year. Managed and programmed from a First Nations perspective, Boomerang is a dedicated Indigenous performance and interactive event that showcases extraordinary art and culture. Festival director for Bluesfest, Peter Noble OAM, said, ‘Our Indigenous festival within a festival at Bluesfest is one of our highlights. The dance troupes are thrilling and to have a musical showcase presenting the Young Australian of the Year, the incredible Baker Boy; the legendary Archie Roach; Yothu Yindi & the Treaty Project; Mojo Juju; the Mission Songs; Benny Walker; and much, much more – this is a dream bill for us!’ The Te Kopere Maori Healers will return providing their very special talents. The local Bundjalung weavers will impart customary weaving techniques, in a way where children and adults alike can learn these skills. The local

Arakwal people will welcome you to their country, as will the peoples of the Bundjalung. Come and immerse yourself in Boomerang on a very personal level. Working alongside Rhoda Roberts AO, a member of the Bundjalung nation, Widjabul clan of northern NSW and SE Qld, they both welcome Jane Fuller to the team to curate this year’s offerings. Making a very welcome return to Boomerang Festival is Australian singer/songwriter and guitarist Archie Roach. Archie’s career has spanned three decades and his work has been recognised locally and internationally in both mainstream and Indigenous circles. Yothu Yindi & The Treaty Project aim to raise awareness around the need for treaty with Australia’s first nations people. In this exciting new, electronica-driven formation, founding members of Yothu Yindi are joined onstage by former band members and popular Indigenous singer/songwriters including Yirrimal, who will be singing lead at Boomerang 2019. The group also features cabaret artist Kamahi Djordon King and emerging Yolngu singers Yirrnga Yunupingu and Yimila Gurruwiwi. Yorta Yorta singer/songwriter Benny Walker

is the real deal. His love songs and epic tales are mixed with passion for people, the land, summer vibes, and deep grooves that reach the soul. Young Noongar man Dallas Woods lures audiences in with his cheeky vibe, inspiring the audience with a positive skew. Rapper, drummer, speaker, and workshop facilitator, 24-year-old DOBBY proudly identifies as a Filipino and Aboriginal musician. This multi-instrumentalist is sure to entertain the crowds this Easter as he jumps between the drums, mic, and piano. Jessie Lloyd’s Mission Songs Project is an initiative to revive contemporary Australian Indigenous songs from 1900 to 1999, focusing on the Christian missions, state-run settlements, and native camps where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were relocated. Searching for the secular songs that were sung after church, Mission Songs Project looks to explore the day-to-day life of the mission days, from cultural identity to love and loss. Brotherhood of the Blues is a 10-piece band built on friendship, passion, and of course, a shared love of music. Also performing are Torres Strait Islander traditional dance group Malu Kiai Mura Buai sharing their traditional songs and dances. Rako dance encompasses traditional

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LISMOR E R EGIONAL AR T GALLERY In 1979 the Terania Creek protests captured the nightly television news and made headlines all around Australia. It was the first time that a rainforest was defended by people who physically placed themselves in front of police and loggers. David Kemp, a keen amateur photographer, had recently arrived in this area and was captivated by the beauty of the Terania forest but appalled at the possibility of it being lost. His photographs, and the others in this exhibition, are among the few surviving images from this historical event and act as a time capsule for remembering it. The exhibition will also include archival material, songs of the protest, and Give Trees a Chance (1980) (narrated by Jack Thompson) has been restored for the exhibition. 11 Rural St, Lismore | 66 274 600 | lismoregallery.org

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Rotuman, Polynesian, and Melanesian dance, as well as modern dance forms such as hip-hop, crump, b-boy, and break. Tenzin Choeygal is a Tibetan artist, composer, activist, musical director, and cultural ambassador who channels the wisdom and traditions of his ancestors through his songs. In 2015 Darren Compton and Jacqui Cornforth founded Muggera Dancers, a family group whose members for Muggera come from a long line of cultural leaders, songmen, worldclass dancers, and didgeridoo players with a formidable respect for culture. Boomerang welcomes back the incredible Te Kopere Moari Healers under the guidance of healer Christine Bullock. New Zealand’s Rongoa Maori is the traditional healing system of Maori. It focuses on the oral transmission of knowledge, diversity of practice and the spiritual dimension of health. The Saltwater Dubay women’s weaving groups continue the art of weaving. The Bundjalung Women’s Weavers will share the long and intricate practice of weaving using traditional methods and materials. To find out more about some of what’s on offer go to bluesfest.com.au.

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CINEMA REVIEWS COLD PURSUIT

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Liam Neeson made a goose of himself by saying that, before he was famous and still living in Belfast, he ‘went looking for a black guy to beat up’ after the rape of a relative. Frankly, I didn’t believe the story for a minute, instead seeing it as an ill-advised contrivance intended to attract publicity for his latest revenge flick. It was dumb and unnecessary, for the movie is a ripper, with a deep vein of dark humour constantly bringing to mind the Coens’ classic Fargo. And, as Norwegian director Hans Peter Moland has virtually re-made his Kraftidioten (2014) for a broader market, its Scandi-noir flavour, with snow all around, is also prominent. Citizen of the Year in Colorado’s freezing Kehole, upstanding Nels Coxman (Neeson) is devastated to learn that his only son has died from a heroin overdose. Convinced that the boy was not a junkie, Nels sets about unearthing the truth and, with little ado, exacting ruthless retribution on those responsible – it’s a theme that is now bread and butter for the craggy Irish actor. The killings start early, but Moland manages a tongue in cheek savagery that is almost comical, particularly when ‘Viking’ (Tom Bateman) goes into villainous overdrive. In the background there is a local cop on the case (Emmy Rossum, à la Frances McDormand in Fargo) and, as a novel twist in the genre, a crew of native Americans

who are also involved in drug-running – in an ethereal moment, their chief (Tom Jackson), watching skiers swish down a mountainside, is re-connected with his spiritual forebears. The violence is at times extreme, particularly when Nels is bashing a bad guy’s head to pulp, and the last scene shoot-out is so predictable, but the plot is watertight and the primitive morality agreeably wrong-minded. This is a film that a lot of people will dismiss because of its subject matter, but if you’re willing to step out of your comfort zone you’ll be surprised how good it is – and Neeson nails it.

ESCAPE ROOM The action kicks off immediately with a fellow falling into a room where the walls start closing in on him, before then flashing back to show what led up to the mayhem. It’s been so long since I’ve seen the old ‘moving walls’ trick (was it Jimmy Olsen about to be pulverised?) that I was briefly transported to another age and missed much of the preamble of this gamer’s brain-strain. Not that the underpinning story is very important, although there is an ironic twist at the end. In the meantime there are six ‘players’, seemingly chosen at random, who find themselves trapped in a chamber that is heating to the point where they will be cooked alive if they cannot interpret subtle clues that will open the door to another room, where they will be confronted by another challenge… etc, etc. The guy from the first scene is there, along with a shy black girl, a woman who served in Iraq, a nerdy Indian(?) boy, a black executive, and

a bloke with a beard. They are all sole survivors of accidents in which others lost their lives, so there is a reality-TV feel to it – a bit like Get Me Out Of Here, I’m A Celebrity, only with fatalities. You don’t have to be Nostradamus to foresee who will survive as, one by one, they fall victim to the fiendish traps set for them, but the visual cleverness of the movie is diverting enough. My favourite room was a bar in which everything is upside down and Petula Clark’s Downtown is being played on an endless loop (love that song!). As the gang’s number is whittled away, you inevitably begin to wonder what the point is, and who is overseeing their plight? It turns out that the mastermind (this is a spoiler, but the kids who will flock to this flick don’t read reviews) is creating games of ever-increasing bizarreness to cater to clients who want more and more… MONDAY 18TH FEBRUARY VALENTINES DAY SPECIAL: much like this type of film. )(&((Ye Klgje :gq >JGE +HE& <AFAF? >GJ LOG HDMK EGNA= LAP 9F< )*&((he Ben Is Back <JAFCK -(& KAF?D= *-& :GLLD= G> KH9JCDAF? OAF= *&(-he Let The Sunshine In +(& - <JAFC O' EGNA= LAP&

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ARIES: Your Valentine, my Aries friend? Stand in front of the mirror and recite Kamand Kojouri’s poem: When I die, my epitaph will neither commemorate who I was nor what I did, but will read: ‘She loved. And loved. And loved.’ And so, I smile now, because that is no small thing. TAURUS: Aromatics are considered the gift of Venus Aphrodite, your ruling planet. The Tauran sense of smell is legendary, so make this week lovely with essential oils,a rose petal bath, scented candles. And Taurus Charlotte Brontë: There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort. GEMINI: We’re all constantly writing the book of love, so handwrite yourself and someone else a love poem this week, in coloured ink on perfumed paper of course. And that was when you realised the fire was inside you all the time. And that was the miracle. Just that. Gemini Michael Chabon. CANCER: Time for you caretakers to give yourself some fabulous nurturing. As Cancerian Tom Robbins observed: ‘The world is a wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly flawed; no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion, but love does work; and in the end it’s love and love alone that really matters. LEO: This week’s Leo Valentine quote for your mirror, fridge, wherever: ‘A loving way to start the day is being grateful when you wake up that you’re alive, that your mind and body work, you have clothes, shelter and enough to eat. Realising how lucky you are it’s much easier to be loving to whomever you meet. VIRGO: Get some earth love this week: a hot rock massage, warm oil, sundried herb-scented towels and Virgo Mary Oliver’s reminder: ‘You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.’

MARS IS IN TACTILE TAURUS, VENUS IN CLASSY CAPRICORN, AND MERCURY IN POETIC PISCES, SO LET’S CELEBRATE THE DAY OF THE BIG RED HEART STYLISHLY, WITH LOVE LETTERS TO YOU ALL… LIBRA: On midmonth’s day of sweethearts and floral offerings, surround yourself with flowers, and the words of Libran mystic Rumi: ‘Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, through Love all that is copper will be gold, through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine’. SCORPIO: The Indian poet Kabir wrote: ‘You’re looking for love? It’s sitting beside you, leaning its shoulder against yours… Love is all around us. Every time someone does you a kindness, that’s a gift of love: something they didn’t have to do, but wanted to. Try listing ten things or people you love, then expressing your appreciation. SAGITTARIUS: Take the Valentine picnic rug, cushions, wine, and tea lights out into nature; take a breath, and open your wild heart to Sagittarius Rainer Maria Rilke: ‘For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. CAPRICORN: Venus in your sign takes the work of love seriously, viz: Love your enemies; do good to those who hate you; bless those who curse you; pray for those who treat you spitefully (celebrity Capricorn Jesus Christ). And Capricorn Martin Luther King: Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. AQUARIUS: Love songs are caresses set to music and air sign Aquarians are particularly attuned to sound, so how about chanting the heart chakra mantra YUM as a sonic Valentine to planet Earth? And consider Aquarian Alice Walker’s protest: I’m mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can’t even bring themselves to talk. PISCES: Your water sign Valentine? A liquid ritual at beach, pool or bath, involving foot massage and Pisces Anais Nin’s guidance: We don’t see people as they are. We see people as we are. You cannot save people. You can only love them. It is easy to love and there are so many ways to do it.

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THURSDAY 14 Q HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON BAY, FRIEND ZONE Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 7PM FINTAN & FERGO Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 8.30PM THUNDERFOX Q BYRON BAY BREWERY 7PM MICHAEL DUNSTON + DUSTY BOOTS Q BRUNSWICK HEADS PICTURE HOUSE 9.30AM THE PICTURE HOUSE CHOIR

Q HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON BAY, DJS CASIMIR & LOVE SMITH

Q BANGALOW HOTEL 7PM STEVE TYSON & THE TRAIN REX Q OCEAN SHORES COUNTRY CLUB 6PM RAKU ONE O’GAIA

Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 7PM SOUL’D

Q SABI SUSHI, OCEAN SHORES, 6PM MANOA

Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 5PM DJ LONGTIME, 9PM DJ JUST SAYIN’

Q MIDDLE PUB, MULLUMBIMBY, 7PM KARL S WILLIAMS, 8PM KRAPPYOKEE Q CLUB MULLUM, MULLUMBIMBY, 8PM PINKY BEECROFT AND BEC MELROSE Q BALLINA RSL 5PM PIANO BAR, LEVEL ONE 6.30PM JOCK BARNES, 8PM LIVE MUSIC Q WHARF BAR, BALLINA, 8PM JUSTIN BANNISTER Q HOTEL ILLAWONG, EVANS HEAD, 8.30PM DJ CORNELIUS

Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 7PM THE HOMBRES Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 5PM JON J BRADLEY, 9PM PINK ZINC

Q NIMBIN BUSH THEATRE IT’S ALL ART, 8PM SEAN MCMAHON

Q HOTEL BRUNSWICK 7PM ISAAC FRANKHAM DUO Q THE SUN, BYRON BAY, 6PM GREG KEW

Q MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES CLUB 7.30PM MIKE WINKWORTH Q SALTBAR, KINGSCLIFF, 8.30AM HIGH TIDE Q KINGSCLIFF BEACH HOTEL 7PM BENNY D WILLIAMS

Q TREEHOUSE, BYRON BAY, 7.30PM JAYO & KATALYSRT

Q KINGSCLIFF BEACH BOWLS 7.30PM CHRIS BENT

Q LOCURA, BYRON BAY, 5PM FLOATING POINTS

Q BYRON COMMUNITY CENTRE 7.30PM VAGINA CONVERSATIONS

Q BYRON BAY GOLF CLUB 7PM TRIVIA

Q WOODY’S SURF SHACK, BYRON BAY, 9PM LIVE MUSIC & DJS

Q TREEHOUSE, BYRON BAY, 7.30PM ANIMAL VENTURA

Q THE STICKY WICKET BAR, BYRON BAY, 9PM LOCAL DJS

Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS, 1PM GOODMAN SWINGS AGAIN, 4.30PM MERCY MERCY, 5PM LONEWOLF, THE SHOWROOM 8PM 5IVE + S CLUB 3 + BIG BROVAZ, 9PM REMEDY

Q MAIN BEACH, BYRON BAY, 6AM V-DAY

SATURDAY 16 Q HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON BAY, THE SOUTHERN RIVER BAND

Q LISMORE WORKERS CLUB 7.30PM TWO MEN AND A LADYZ

Q BYRON BAY BREWERY 7.30PM STUMPS + NELIPOT + FLOAT THERAPY

Q HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON BAY, DAN CLARK

Q SALTBAR, KINGSCLIFF, 8.30PM DJ JAKE

Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 7PM JAMIE ASHFORTH

Q CHINDERAH TAVERN 6.30PM MATTY ROGERS

Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 8.30PM 4’20 SOUND REGGAE NIGHT

Q SHEOAK SHACK, FINGAL HEAD, 2PM JADE SOUL, 7PM NATHAN KAYE Q BANGALOW BOWLO SWING BAND, 7PM MAL & THE LONGBOARDS + RUSTY MAL

Q HOTEL BRUNSWICK 7PM 3 PLAY Q BRUNSWICK HEADS PICTURE HOUSE 7PM MOVIE: HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL (ALL-AGES EVENT) Q BYRON BAY BREWERY 7PM DOS LOONA Q THE SUN, BYRON BAY, 6PM OPEN MIC NIGHT Q TREEHOUSE, BYRON BAY, 7.30PM FINGAL & THE CURIOSITIES OF ESSEX Q WOODY’S SURF SHACK, BYRON BAY, 9PM LIVE DJS Q THE STICKY WICKET BAR, BYRON BAY, 9PM LOCAL DJS Q BANGALOW HOTEL 7.30PM GREG KEW Q SABI SUSHI, OCEAN SHORES, 6PM JOHN DIXON Q ST MARTIN’S, MULLUMBIMBY, 7PM KEVIN JAMES Q LULUS CAFE, MULLUMBIMBY, 11PM KENT EASTWOOD Q BALLINA RSL LEVEL ONE 6PM LEIGH JAMES Q WHARF BAR, BALLINA, 8PM TIM SCHOU Q HOTEL ILLAWONG, EVANS HEAD, 8.30PM BOURBON AND INK Q MARY G’S, LISMORE, PUSH Q LISMORE WORKERS CLUB 7.30PM CHRIS COOK BAND

Q CURRUMBIN RSL 5PM ACOUSTIC SESSIONS

Q CASINO GOLF CLUB 8PM VANESSA LEA & ROAD TRAIN

Q CURRUMBIN PUB 8PM PEACH FUR, LA LUNE MEDICINE BAND, LOTUS SHIP, ECHOWAVE

Q NIMBIN BUSH THEATRE IT’S ALL ART, 1PM PAT EYRE TRIO

Q SOUNDLOUNGE, CURRUMBIN, 8PM BUGS + CLEA + SWEATER CURSE + TONES & I

Q ROWAN ROBINSON PARK, KINGSCLIFF, 3.30PM MATT TURNER

Q MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES CLUB 6PM SWEET MIXJAH

MONDAY 18

Q KINGSCLIFF BEACH BOWLS 7.30PM PRE LOVES

Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS, THE STAGE 4.30PM ROUTE 66, 9PM REMEDY

Q WOODY’S SURF SHACK, BYRON BAY, 8PM REGGAE AFTERPARTY Q BRUNSWICK HEADS 9.30AM THE PICTURE HOUSE CHOIR

Q CURRUMBIN RSL 4PM ACOUSTIC SESSIONS

Q B-SPACE, BALLINA, 5PM JAM NIGHT

SUNDAY 17

Q KINGSCLIFF BEACH BOWLS 12PM TALK OF THE TOWN

Q HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON BAY, JESSE PUMPHREY Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 7PM THE TRISTIAN DUO Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 4.30PM THE HOMBRES, 8PM DJ EASY P Q BYRON BAY BREWERY 5PM FRIENDZONE

Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS, 2.30PM LINE DANCING WITH RUSSELL HINTON, 6.30PM MARK WILSON’S DANCE NIGHT

TUESDAY 19 Q HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON BAY, 12AM MARSHALL OKELL

Q HOTEL BRUNSWICK 7PM LIONHART

Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 7PM JON J BRADLEY

Q TREEHOUSE, BYRON BAY, 12PM EVA J & VIVA SON & VINNIE LADUCE (DJ SET)

Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 8AM DAN CLARK

Q BYRON BAY GOLF CLUB 4PM TESS LATU

Q BYRON COMMUNITY CENTRE 10AM BYRON SHIRE SENIORS FESTIVAL & EXPO,

Q THE SUN, BYRON BAY, 5PM LEIGH JAMES

Q WOODY’S SURF SHACK, BYRON BAY, 9PM YEWSDAY LIVE DJS

Q OCEAN SHORES TAVERN 2PM TAV JAM

Q BANGALOW BOWLO 6PM SALSA CLASSES

Q SABI SUSHI, OCEAN SHORES, 5.30PM ZAK KAOZ

Q BANGALOW HOTEL 7PM OPEN MIC WITH SLIM PICKENS

Q MULLUMBIMBY EX-SERVICES CLUB 12PM COUNTRY MUSIC CLUB

Q MIDDLE PUB, MULLUMBIMBY, 7PM TRIVIA

Q MIDDLE PUB, MULLUMBIMBY, 3PM JAM

Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS, 1PM SOCIAL NEW VOGUE DANCING, 6PM JOSH SETTERFIELD

Q CLUB LENNOX 4PM GUY KACHEL Q WHARF BAR, BALLINA, 4PM ROD MURRAY Q HOTEL ILLAWONG, EVANS HEAD, 4PM TAHLIA MATHESON Q NIMBIN BUSH THEATRE IT’S ALL ART, 10AM SONIC BLISS, 1PM DARYL JAMES

WEDNESDAY 20 Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 7PM TAHLIA MATHESON Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 8AM DU’EAST Q BYRON BAY BREWERY 7.30PM OPEN MIC WITH HARRY NICHOLS

Q SPHINX ROCK CAFE, MT BURRELL, 12PM THRILLBILLY STOMP

Q CLUB BYRON 6PM OPEN MIC

Q UKI MARKET 9PM THE DEAD SET FUN NUGGETS Q KINGSCLIFF BEACH HOTEL 3PM JON J BRADLEY

Q FRESH, BYRON BAY, 7PM SLIM PICKENS

Q KINGSCLIFF SURF CLUB 3PM SUNDAY SESSIONS

Q BYRON COMMUNITY CENTRE 7.15PM JANE SIBERRY & GYAN – UNTOGETHER AGAIN

Q CHINDERAH TAVERN 2.30PM SABOTAGE

Q BANGALOW BOWLO 6.30PM SWING CLASSES

BIG-PICTURE ACTIVISM FOR THE ECONOMICS OF HAPPINESS

Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS, 1PM REMEDY, 2.30PM DAVE J, 6PM MISSY VADER & THE DARK FORCE, 7PM LEO SAYER

Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS, 10.30AM BACK TO THE TIVOLI, 1.30PM WALLY & THE GATORS, 6.30PM PLUMB LOCO

Wednesday 13 February, 7.00pm All tickets $15 | Ages 12+

Q CURRUMBIN RSL 4PM ACOUSTIC SESSIONS

Q COOLANGATTA HOTEL 6PM OPEN MIC

WHAT’S ON VAGINA CONVERSATIONS #4 PRESENTED BY ZENITH VIRAGO & BCC

Thursday 14 & Friday 15 February, 7.30pm Full $29 | Conc $23 | Child U18 $23 | Ages 14+

THE BYRON SHIRE SENIORS FESTIVAL AND EXPO

TUESDAY 26 FEB 9.30AM–1PM

MOTIVATE INNOVATE COMMUNICATE ALL TRAINING MATERIALS AND MORNING TEA PROVIDED. REGISTRATION FEE $60 + GST PER PERSON WITH 3RD MEMBER FROM ONE ORGANISATION FREE. BOOKINGS: WWW.BYS.ORG.AU

BYRON SURF FLIX: STORM RIDERS

THUR 21 FEB 4.30–7.30PM

SAFE DRIVERS COURSE FOR LEARNERS $140 - BOOKINGS: WWW.BYS.ORG.AU

TUESDAY 5 MAR 4–7PM

BARISTA COURSE LEVEL I $50 - AGES: 15 TO 24 CALL STEFFIE ON 6685 7777 OR BOOK ONLINE WWW.BYS.ORG.AU

THURSDAYS 9.30AM– 2.30PM

FREE PSYCHOLOGIST FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

Tuesday 19 February, 10.00am – 4.00pm FREE event

JANE SIBERRY & GYAN – UNTOGETHER AGAIN PRESENTED BY THE MUSEAGENCY Wednesday 20 February, 7.15pm All tickets $50

Community Radio Bay FM 99.9 T 6680 7999 | W bayfm.org Bay FM public fund donations are tax deductible

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6685 6807

FEBRUARY

Tuesday 19 February, 7.30pm Bar & Music from 6.00pm All tickets $15

1 Gilmore Crescent Byron Bay | bys.org.au Byron Youth Activity Centre (YAC) is managed by Byron Youth Service (BYS)

North Coast news daily in Echonetdaily www.echo.net.au

Service Directory SERVICE DIRECTORY RATES, PAYMENT & DEADLINE

ANTIQUES / RESTORATION

NSW Lic. 83568c Qld BSA 1238105

DEADLINE: For additions and changes to the Service Directory is 12pm Friday. FURNITURE RESTORATION Old/antique, 40+ yrs exp. erwinfurniturerestoration.com ...0412 528454 LINE ADS: $99 for 3 months or $340 for 1 year prepaid. For line Service Directory ads email classifieds@echo.net.au. DISPLAY ADS: $66 per week for colour display ad. Minimum 8 week booking 4 weeks prepaid. Please supply display ads 85mm wide, 28mm high. New display ads will be placed at end of section. For display Service Directory ads email adcopy@echo.net.au. The Echo Service Directory is online in Echonetdaily â&#x20AC;&#x201C; www.echo.net.au/service-directory

APP DEVELOPERS

YOUR LOCAL APP DEVELOPERS

ACCOUNTS & BOOKINGS: 6684 1777

ALL ASPECTS OF CARPENTRY WORK

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Call Peter

INDEX Accountants & Bookkeepers ..........39 Acupuncture .................................39 Air Conditioning & Refrigeration....39 Antennas & Installation.................39 Antiques / Restoration ..................39 App Developers .............................39 Appliance Repair ...........................39 Architects .....................................39 Automotive...................................39 Bathroom Renovations..................39 Blinds, Awnings, Curtains, Shutters39 Bricklaying....................................39 Building Trades .............................39 Bush Regen & Weed Control ..........39 Carpet Cleaning ............................39 Chimney Sweeping........................39 Chiropractic ..................................39 Cleaning .......................................39 Computer Services ........................40 Concreting & Paving ......................40 Decks, Patios & Extensions.............40 Dentists ........................................40 Design & Drafting..........................40 Driving Instruction ........................40 Driveway Maintenance ..................40 Earthmoving & Excavation.............40 Electricians ...................................40 Fencing .........................................40 Floor Sanding & Polishing..............40 Garage Doors ................................40 Garden & Property Maintenance....41 Garden Design ..............................41 Gas Suppliers ................................41 Glaziers.........................................41 Guttering ......................................41 Handypersons ...............................41 Health ..........................................41

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Hire ..............................................41 Interior Decorating........................41 Ironing .........................................41 Kitchens........................................41 Landscape Design .........................41 Landscaping .................................41 Lighting ........................................41 Locksmith .....................................41 Osteopathy ...................................41 Painting........................................41 Pest Control ..................................42 Photography .................................42 Physiotherapy ...............................42 Picture Framing ............................42 Plastering .....................................42 Plumbers ......................................42 Printing & Copying Services ...........42 Removalists ..................................42 Roofing.........................................42 Rubbish Removal ..........................42 Scrap Metal Merchants ..................42 Septic Systems ..............................42 Sewing & Alterations.....................42 Solar Installation ..........................42 Swimming Pools ...........................42 Tiling ............................................43 Tree Services .................................43 Upholstery ....................................43 Valuers .........................................43 Veterinary Surgeons......................43 Water Cartage ...............................43 Water Filters .................................43 Water Tanks & Tank Cleaning .........43 Web Design Services......................43 Welding ........................................43 Window Tinting ............................43

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

ARCHITECTS

DINGO DEMOLITIONS & ASBESTOS REMOVAL ................................. 66834008 or 0407 728998 CARPENTER All jobs. Michael Dow. Lic 147675C .................................... 66291169 or 0412 967677

FRANK STEWART ARCHITECT Reg. 6075. www.frankstewart.com.au............................66856984 BUILDER â&#x20AC;&#x201C; JOHN McGAURAN Personalised Service. 20 yrs exp. Lic 170208C .............0415 793242 OCEANARC ARCHITECTS Reg. 6042 www.oceanarc.com.au ..............................................66855001 FABRICA JOINERY Quality kitchens/timber doors/windows. Lic 244652C .........................66808162

AUTOMOTIVE

BUILDER CARPENTER Extensions, renos, new homes, insurance, all jobs. Lic 19953 .......... 0403 458177 CARPENTER Lic 39791 Decks, studios, pergolas etc Paul Varendorff ................66845035 or 0414 842602 BUILDER Renovations, maintenance, 30yrs exp. mchughdesign.com.au Lic 29792C....0408 663420 CARPENTER. Insured & qualified. Homes, extensions, decks, free quotes. Lic 231104C..0431 674377 CARPENTER BUILDER Extensions, renos, cabins, sheds. Lic 147887C ...0481 785008 or 0432 060110

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WEED CONTROL SPECIALIST Lawns - bindii weeds .....................................................0418 110714

CARPET CLEANING

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Lic: 299433C ARC: AU40492

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0404 421 518 free M & Q

BRICK/BLOCK LAYING Contractors. Lic 291958C. Phone Mark ........................................0409 444268 COOLMAN AIR CONDITIONING 23 years experience. Lic 178464C AU30147 ..............0412 641753 SEARLEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BRICK & BLOCK LAYING. Contact Tom.........................................................0487 947237 RAINBOW REGION AIR CONDITIONING ARC AU36141. Lic No. 264313C.....................0487 264137

BUILDING TRADES

ANTENNAS & INSTALLATION

â&#x20AC;˘ DEPT OF FAIR TRADING: A licence is required for all residential building work where the reasonable market cost of the work to be done (labour and materials) exceeds $5000 (including GST).

0439 624 945

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02 66 804 173

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Friendly Reliable Prompt Local

JP DIGITAL ANTENNAS Reception problems, new antennas, extra TV points, all areas .....0432 289705 IWIRE ANTENNAS David Levine FAST Service Antenna Repairs and Replacements ......0402 022111

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CHIMNEY SWEEPING BLACKS CHIMNEY SWEEPING & REPAIRS AHHA member, insured. 3rd generation .....66771905

CHIROPRACTIC BAY FAMILY CHIROPRACTIC Peter Wuehr 17 Bangalow Rd Byron Bay ..............................66855282 WAVE OF LIFE NETWORK CHIRO (lowforce) 8/9 Fletcher St, Byron Bay. Andrew Badman...66858553 MICHAEL SCHWAGER 108 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby ...................................................66841962 MULLUMBIMBY CHIROPRACTIC Massage & Chiropractic. 110 Dalley St ........................66841028 BYRON BAY CHIROPRACTIC CENTRE Bruce Campbell. 1/12 Tasman Way, A&I Estate ....66858159

CLEANING

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APEX CARPET CLEANING www.apexcarpetcleaning.com.au......................... Nathan 0412 926441

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ACCOUNTANTS & BOOKKEEPERS

ACUPUNCTURE

CARPET CLEANING

TENDER LOVING CARE Specialising in household carpet cleaning Speedy Drying

ACCOUNTANT Paul Mayberry..............................................................................................66847415 ACCOUNTANT BANGALOW + BYRON BAY The Office Accountants & Business Advisors ...66872960 BOOKKEEPER Local and reliable .................................. barbarasbookkeeping.com.au 0402 118649 BOOKKEEPER: XERO cert. MYOB and BAS AGENT. 19 years experience. Phone Deb .....0411 659959

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Award Winning Builders â&#x20AC;˘ Renovations â&#x20AC;˘ Extensions â&#x20AC;˘ New Homes Darren Paxton

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DENTISTS

ELECTRICIANS

BANGALOW DENTAL In the Medical Centre Complex, Bangalow ......................................66872766

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LITTLE LANE DENTAL, MULLUMBIMBY ...........................................................................66842816 BRUNSWICK HOLISTIC DENTAL CENTRE .......................................................................66851264 MICHAEL LEACH 100 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby .............................................................66842644

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

0439 624 945

02 66 804 173 Lic: 154293c

CLEANING (continued)

All Jobs Small or Large

Domestic Commercial

DAVID ROBINSON DESIGN DRAFTING All Council & construction requirements ......0419 880048

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Call Glenn or Tracey 0403 428 232 or 6680 9901 email: impresswindowcleaning@gmail.com Reliable â&#x20AC;˘ Friendly â&#x20AC;˘ Professional â&#x20AC;˘ Fully Insured â&#x20AC;˘ Free Quotes â&#x20AC;˘ Affordable Rates Locally Owned and Operated â&#x20AC;˘ Quality Work with Over 10 Years Experience

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TINY EARTHWOR Philip Toovey

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various implements available for limited access projects

AIR B+B MANAGEMENT. cleaning, hosting, laundry + re-stock .................................0457 575900

EARTHMOVING & PLANT HIRE

COMPUTER SERVICES

Specialising in driveway construction & maintenance

â&#x20AC;˘ Tip trucks 3 to 12 tonne â&#x20AC;˘ Excavator 5 to 21 tonne â&#x20AC;˘ Positrack loader augers 150 to 600mm & rock grab â&#x20AC;˘ Driveways â&#x20AC;˘ Roads â&#x20AC;˘ Acreage clearing â&#x20AC;˘ House pads â&#x20AC;˘ Drainage â&#x20AC;˘ Carparks â&#x20AC;˘ Bush rocks â&#x20AC;˘ Rock walls â&#x20AC;˘ Competitive rates

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COUGHRAN ELECTRICAL 24 hour service, Lic 154293C .......................... 0439 624945 or 66804173 RONNIE SPINKS Everything electrical. Lic 27673 .........................................................0429 802355 JP ELECTRICAL Level 2 ASP Under-g/O-head lines, Pwr poles, Solar. Lic 133082C ........0432 289705 CHRIS APPEL. Ocean Shores. Lic EC 22349.....................................................................0422 607444 JIM LABELLE ELECTRICAL O.Shores, Mullum, Byron, Brunswick. Lic 176417C..............0415 126028 SPINKS ELECTRICAL Lic 284939C..................................................................Call Mitch 0421 843477 BLUE BEE ELECTRICAL 25 years experience. Lic 189508C. Call Dave ............................0429 033801

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MOBILE COMPUTER SUPPORT Home & business workrightcomputersupport.com.au 0422 804449 RENT-A-GEEK Mobile PC Repair (Byron Shire) ....................................................................66844335

CONCRETING & PAVING

5.5 TONNE EXCAVATOR, POSITRACK & TIPPER HIRE Specialising in road works, land clearing, retaining walls and general earthworks. Augers and rock grab available.

EXPERIENCED OPERATORS | FREE QUOTES 0432 299 283

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SALISBURY CONCRETING

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FLANAGAN CONCRETING & EXCAVATIONS. Lic No. 310498C. Ph Andrew ..................0401 968173 ADVANCED CONCRETE POLISHING Grind & seal, polished concrete. Shane ................0419 961708

DECKS, PATIOS & EXTENSIONS

Suffolk Park

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cleaning, bookings, linen, restocking, listing management and property management. Flexible to your needs and requirements

DARYL 0418 234 302 OR 02 6680 1793

0458 267 777

Lic. 211410C

Local, home and hosting support services:

Over 25 yrs local experience. All forms of concreting. â&#x20AC;˘ Residential Civil Industrial. â&#x20AC;˘ Resurfacing and rejuvenation of existing concrete. â&#x20AC;˘ Steel ďŹ xing & formwork.

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Jai â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 0467 482 948

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SECURITY, DATA, TV Tim Nicholls ph: 0468 384 203 lic: 000102498

Specialising in Asphalt Driveways, Subdivisions, Earthworks, Carparks and all Maintenance!

EARTHMOVING & EXCAVATION

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4 Hot Bitumen Seal 4 Driveway Construction 4 All Base Work 4 Pothole Repairs

Holiday lets and Airbnb, residential homes and end of lease cleans, bond cleans, builders cleans etc. Friendly reliable and trustworthy local service.

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licence no. 201775c

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fullcirclerefinishing.com

Professional Cleaning Services

Blue Sky

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Phone Oliver 0419 789 600

JAMIE 0408 809 817

TOP GEAR DRIVING TRAINING First lesson offer: Pay for 1hr and get 30mins free

Window Cleaning Professionals

Full Circle

DRIVING INSTRUCTION

DOMESTIC COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL

Lic no. 141097C

Call

BYRON ENERGY EFFICIENT DESIGN & DRAFTING www.beedad.com.au ...............0423 531448

Lic 12939

â&#x20AC;˘ Window Cleaning â&#x20AC;˘ Screens & Tracks â&#x20AC;˘ Pressure Washing â&#x20AC;˘ House â&#x20AC;˘Roof â&#x20AC;˘ Paths â&#x20AC;˘ Solar

POOLSAFE GLASS FENCING GLASS & ALUMINIUM POOL FENCING PROFESSIONALS 0499 178 297 psgfencingnsw@gmail.com BYRON & BEYOND FENCING Any fence, any time, prompt quotes....... 66804766 or 0416 424256 EDL FENCING Installations & repairs. Prompt service ............................. 66771852 or 0432 107262

FLOOR SANDING & POLISHING

â&#x20AC;˘ Land clearing â&#x20AC;˘ Augers, rock grab &Â breaker attachments â&#x20AC;˘ Free quotes

NJH FLOOR SANDING Eco oils, hard wax oils & water-based finishes. Nathan .............0420 215716

Luke Jarrett â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 0431 329 630

THE FLOOR SANDER non-toxic finishes. Free quotes richardneylan1@bigpond.com ...0407 821690

STEVE BROWN EARTHMOVING

GARAGE DOORS

Specialising in road repairs & driveways Rock walls, clearing, house shed and tank pads. Augers â&#x20AC;&#x201C; hole boring. All general earthworks, excavators, positrack, bobcat, roller and tipper hire.

6684 0160 | 0439 840 160 | 0421 460 932

FULL CIRCLE REFINISHING Timber & deck oiling, coating, stripping. Fast free quotes .....0419 789600 NORTHERN RIVERS TRENCHING 65hp chain trencher, mini excavator, cable locating.0402 716857 THE DECK DOCTOR Sanding & refinishing, cable balustrading. Free quotes. Richard ...0407 821690 BEAU JARDIN 1.8 tonne excavator & 3 tonne tip truck .................................................0417 054443

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Service Directory GARDEN & PROPERTY MAINTENANCE

GLAZIERS

LIGHTING

24/7 EMERGENCY GLASS 0415 660 801

6685 8588

Lighting Showroom Open 9am â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 5pm Mon â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Fri Unit 5, 21-23 Tasman Way, Byron A+I Estate Free on-site consultancy 6680 7007 creativelightingsolutions.com.au

Mirrors â&#x20AC;˘ Security doors and screens Shower screens â&#x20AC;˘ Commercial glazing

CREATIVE LIGHTING SOLUTIONS

BYRON GLASS & ALUMINIUM Home, Shop & Office. 24 hr/7 days. Lic 313329C ..............66808123

GUTTERING 978 383

THE BYRON BAY GARDEN & LANDSCAPING COMPANY Structural Landscaping â&#x20AC;˘ Paving â&#x20AC;˘ Stonework â&#x20AC;˘ Timber work â&#x20AC;˘ Retaining wall â&#x20AC;˘ Garden maintenance â&#x20AC;˘ Planting â&#x20AC;˘ TurďŹ ng â&#x20AC;˘ Mulching â&#x20AC;˘ Hedging â&#x20AC;˘ Lawns

0434 329 111

Acreage & Residential Mowing | Gardening Non-Toxic Herbicide Spray | Brush Cutting Tip Runs | Fully Insured

0430 297 101 / 6684 5437 info@byronbaymowing.com.au www.byronbaymowing.com.au

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

DASH LOCK SERVICE Commercial & Domestic Locks & Security Call Ash .....................0430 170841

OSTEOPATHY

www.spotlessgutters.com.au

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

at Mullumbimby Comprehensive Health Centre

HANDYPERSONS

Dr. Matthew Fourro (Osteo) Dr. Egbert Weber (Osteo)

A TO Z HANDYMAN SERVICES Tip runs, pressure cleaning, gardening, odd jobs ....Andre 66847553 or 0439 495247

60 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby | 02 6626 7900

A.S.A.P. All renos, carpentry, plastering, painting, studios & bathrooms .......................0405 625697 HANDY ANDY Carpentry, plastering, welding ......................................... 66884324 or 0476 600956

NORTH COAST OSTEOPATHY Jodie Jacobs. Mon, Wed, Fri..............................................66857517

PAINTING

AWESOME REPAIRS Professional, commercial & domestic. Wayne...............................0423 218417 THE HANDYMAN CAN All home maintenance, gardens, painting, odd jobs etc ...........0427 110953 RELIABLE HANDYMAN SERVICES Michael ...........................................66844970 or 0405 325569 MCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S HANDYMAN SERVICES Exp. painter, home repairs, odd jobs. Great rates............0412 559509

â&#x20AC;˘ DEPARTMENT OF FAIR TRADING INFO: When dealing with home owners, painters are required to quote a licence number only for external work valued over $5000.

CARPENTER HANDYMAN FB Gregâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Handyman Services Byron Bay Lic No 1039897....0414 109595

Paola Landscapes Pty Ltd Garden Clean Ups Gutter Cleaning Lawn Maintenance Irrigation & Repairs Hedge Trimming Planting & Lawn Edging Turf Laying Full Garden Maintenance Servicing Residential, Commercial and Government PLEASE CALL MATTHEW PAOLA 0431 871 245

R E LIAB LE

Caring for all your garden needs

20 years experience in residential & acreage care Mowing, Brushcutting, Hedge trimming.

Byron Bay hinterland and surrounds

0490 149 067

Acreage mowing â&#x20AC;˘ Brush cutting Care taking / Management Rubbish removal â&#x20AC;˘ Tree removal prestigeacreagecare.com

â&#x20AC;˘ Domestic & Commercial â&#x20AC;˘ Servicing all areas â&#x20AC;˘ Workmanship guaranteed â&#x20AC;˘ Attention to detail

GOOD NEWS HANDYMAN Carpentry, home renovations/repairs etc. Jesse..................0458 968290

HEALTH

0438 784 226 â&#x20AC;˘ 6685 4154

â&#x20AC;˘ OTHER HEALTH RELATED SECTIONS IN THIS SERVICE DIRECTORY: Acupuncture, Chiropractic, Counselling, Dentists, Osteopathy, Physiotherapy ACUPUNCTURE & COSMETIC MEDICINE Dr Adam Osborne ...........................................66857366 MULLUMBIMBY HERBALS Naturopathy, Ayurveda, Massage, Herbs. .............................66843002 MALIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Therapeutic Chinese Massage Service. In & out calls ..............................................66841790 WWW.EASTCOASTPILATES.COM.AU Judy Leane BSpSc ..............................................0408 110006

HIRE MULLUM HIRE Builders, party and much more ........................www.mullumhire.com.au 66843003

Prestige Acreage Care

BYRON BAY

ALL BUILDING TRADES carpentry, fencing, landscaping, lawns. Free quotes. .............0415 454476

Michael 0497 842 442

Fully insured

ALL-WAYS PAINTING

AAA HOME MAINTENANCE Handyman, painting decks, lawns, insured, reliable ........0434 705506

YVES DE WILDE

X FINALIST OF THE MASTER PAINTERS OF AUSTRALIA AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE X ENVIRO FRIENDLY PAINTING

BYRON HIRE Building & home handyman equipment hire ........ www.byronhire.com.au 66856228

INTERIOR DECORATING FOR ALL YOUR INTERIOR DECORATING NEEDS ..........................................................0457 575900

QUALITY PAINTING SERVICES

www.duluxaccredited.com.au

0415 952 494 X 6680 7573 X www.yvesdewilde.com.au LIC 114372C

IRONING

MULLUM.MOWING@gmail.com. Ride-on, large lawns & acreage. Ph Peter................0423 756394 THE IRONING LADY www.TheIroningLadyByronBay.com.au Angela ...........................0414 719680 GUTTERS CLEANED Solar panel cleaning, all areas, free quotes, fully insured ... 66841778 or 0405 922839 A-Z Lawns & acreage, trees & hedges, clean ups & tip runs, all gutters ..........................0405 625697 A.C.E. LAWNMOWING & GARDENING Best rates, reliable, guaranteed.............Sam 0438 655763 LEAF IT TO US Specialists in acreage mowing, garden, tree maintenance .....................0402 487213

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GARDEN DESIGN

No Rental

6684 2323 / 0418 663 983 SOIL MULCH

CRACKER DUST ROAD BASE

GRAVEL

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18 Lucky Lane Billinudgel Industrial Estate

Reliable

www.brunswickvalleygas.com

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1176 Myocum Rd, Mullumbimby (just past golf course)

GAS SUPPLIERS Locally Owned Est 18 years

Painting & Decorating

ABN 31 490 733 798 LIC 203196C

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GARDEN DESIGN, FENG SHUI www.simplybeautifulspaces.com.au...........................Lyn 0428 884329

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Mark Wopling Mob: 0409 451 518

BYRON BAY BRUSH CUTTING Acreage mowing, garden detailing, insured. Gyan .........0402 728207

LAWN MOWING Mullum, Bruns, Ocean Shores. Call Mark ............................................0437 343348

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THE BURBS MOWING All suburban mowing. Andrew .................................................0431 248888

BRUSHCUTTING Rubbish, Property Maintenance, Lawns.............................................0412 469109

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D HINGED Kitchens & Joinery. Lic 283553C. www.hinged.com.au ....................... Dave 0409 843689

PAULâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S MOWING Local & reliable. Mullum, Bruns, O. Shores, Byron & Bangalow.........0422 958791 BEAU JARDIN We design & build beautiful gardens www.beaujardin.com.au Lic 177274C ...0417 054443 A GREEN EARTH Garden restoration, maintenance, tree & rubbish removal ................0405 716552 LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT Garden Design & Property Planning. Andrew Pawsey ..........0478 519804 TIP RUNS & RUBBISH REMOVALS 4m3 trailer..............................................................0408 210772

Lic No 189144C

Contact Vadi: 0404

MOBILE LOCKSMITH SERVICE Automotive car keys & lock installation/repair .............0412 764148

Lic 167371C

Acreage Mowing Specialist $75/hr | Mini excavation $90/hr

LOCKSMITH

landscaping supplies

0266 804555

SUBTROPICALLANDSCAPES.COM.AU 20 years exp. Lic 231789C ................................0405 122456 LEMONTREELANDSCAPES.COM.AU Liam. Lic No 277154C .........................................0423 700853 GREEN SKY LANDSCAPES. All aspects of landscape construction + design. Lic 208800C.

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www.greenskylandscapes.com.au .................................................................................0421 986373 PAINTER 30 years exp. Available 7 days pw. Great rates. Call Bert.................................0491 334459

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SIMONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PLUMBING

RUBBISH REMOVAL

SIMON HERBERT

LICENSED PLUMBER + GASFITTER FRIENDLY + RELIABLE SERVICE

0490 025 872

simonplumbs@gmail.com

LIC 327106C

PEST CONTROL

OCEAN SHORES SKIPS Mini skip specialists ......................................... 0412 161564 or 66841232 TIP RUNS & RUBBISH REMOVAL 4m3 trailer................................................................0408 210772 TIPPER HIRE avail for rubbish removal & tip runs. Jono................................................0412 871438 RUBBISH REMOVALS & TIP TRUCK HIRE Free quotes and same day service .............0451 079060

JARRAH DAVIDSON Plumbing, draining, gas fitting & roofing. Lic 187712C................0438 668025 A1 RUBBISH REMOVAL + tip runs. 7sqm trailer, reliable. Same day service. Best rates ...0413 289443

SCRAP METAL MERCHANTS

BILL CONNORS All plumbing/draining. Lic #1051 .................................. 66801403 or 0414 801403 HRH PLUMBING Providing a prompt, reliable & efficient service. Lic 220755C ............0402 652017 MARK STRATTON All plumbing & emergency. Sewer drain camera/locator. Lic 57803C ....0419 019035

Free quotes on active termites Environmentally safe

ADM PLUMBING SERVICESâ&#x20AC;Ś (NO JOB TOO SMALL)â&#x20AC;Ś Lic 234528C. ....... Call Adam 0466 992483

YOUR PEST & TERMITE SPECIALISTS

BLOCKED DRAINS Drain camera, no dig repairs. Drain Pipe King. Lic 237124C ...................66770004

www.allpestsolutions.com.au

I LOVE PLUMBING. All plumbing. All areas. Ph Steve. Lic 148904C ..............................0412 916140 MATT WILSON PLUMBING Lic 10704. All plumbing, draining & gas fit. Free quotes ...0408 665672

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PaciďŹ c Highway, Tyagarah 6684 2351

PRINTING & COPYING SERVICES

Home sewage solutions Commercial wastewater treatment Rainwater tanks concrete and plastic

REMOVALISTS BRUNSWICK BYRON PEST CONTROL................................................................................66842018

PHOTOGRAPHY

Andyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Move & More Small and Medium Moves, Tip Runs & Deliveries, 1 or 2 Men at Low Prices to Most Areas Based from Byron Bay & Mullumbimby Calls always returned

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0429 149 533 Est 2006

SHIRE REMOVALS & FREIGHT CO

Professional â&#x20AC;˘ Commercial â&#x20AC;˘ Personal 30+ years experience in commercial photography and photojournalism

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

PHYSIOTHERAPY

From Middle Pocket to Middle Earth â&#x20AC;&#x201C; just give us a ring

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SEPTIC SYSTEMS

PRINTWORKS Traditional / Digital art@mullumprintworks.com.au .................................66843633

THE PEST MAN EXTRAORDINAIRE Second opinion / alternative views. 50 yrs exp .....0418 110714

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02 6681 6555

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0418 754 149 â&#x20AC;˘ 07 5523 9930

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TRINE SOLUTIONS Local waste specialists. Plumbers, drainers & gas fitters. Lic 138031C .. 0407 439805 NEWT Environmental Wastewater Treatment. Design, upgrades, maint & intall. Lic 207479C . 0429 805081

SEWING & ALTERATIONS SEWING Repairs & alterations. Byron Bay & all areas. Phone Jan ..................................0427 570812

SOLAR INSTALLATION

6681 4912 / 0409 917646

Pioneers of the solar industry

Serving Northern NSW since 1998

BANGALOW PHYSIOTHERAPY Manual therapies, acupuncture, mat/reformer Pilates classes. Kim Snellgrove, Cally Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hara ................................................................................................66872330 NICK EDMOND Physiotherapy & Acupuncture. Open Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday

LEAPFROG REMOVALS

466 Main Arm Road, Mullumbimby.....................................................................................66845288

BYRON BAYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LOCAL REMOVALIST MOVING THE SHIRE FOR OVER 10 YEARS

ANTHONY Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ORSOGNA Physiotherapy, acupuncture, hydrotherapy Suffolk Park 1 Bryce St ... 66853511

0432 334 200 02 6680 8170

CONTINENCE / PELVIC FLOOR Janelle Angel ..................Bangalow 66872337 & Mâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;bah 66723818

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PETRA KARNI Physio, Craniosacral, Alexander Technique. Byron. Open Saturdays.......0403 226858 OCEAN SHORES PHYSIOTHERAPY Manual therapies, dry needling, custom orthotics, shock wave therapy, real time ultrasound. Nigel Pitman, Ilse V Oostenbrugge, Steve Clifford.......66803499 PETER FARRELL Cold laser, manual therapy & exercise, Mullumbimby ..............................66843385

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MULLUM PICTURE FRAMERS Stuart St rear lane behind Mitre 10 ............................0403 734791 BILLINUDGEL CUSTOM PICTURE FRAMING. 7/1 Wilfred St, Billinudgel ........................ 6680 3444

PLASTERING

PLASTERING CONTRACTOR DOMESTIC & COMMERCIAL

www.shiftremovals.com.au LOCAL + INTERSTATE REMOVALS ROAD + RAIL FREIGHT CONTAINER REMOVALS + TRANSPORT

Patrick - 0425 256 802

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PLUMBERS NEED A PLUMBER? DRAINER? GASFITTER?

Chay 0429 805 081 20 YEARS LOCAL SERVICE

Licence No. 207479C

MAN WITH A VAN/TRUCK Reasonable rates. Phone Don ............................................0414 282813 BENNY CAN MOVE IT! .................................................................................................0402 199999

ROOFING DOMESTIC â&#x20AC;˘ INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL

MONTYS METAL

ROOFING Licence NSW: 30715C Licence QLD: 1227049

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SWIMMING POOLS

ATTENTION POOL OWNERS â&#x20AC;˘ All pool requirements â&#x20AC;˘ Professional advice â&#x20AC;˘ Water testing â&#x20AC;˘ Friendly service â&#x20AC;˘ Pool servicing

73 Station St, Mullumbimby ALL ROOF CLEANING Experienced, insured & fast free quotes. Call ..............................0419 789600 METAL ROOFING + GUTTER GUARD SPECIALIST. NSW Lic 102013C. David ..............0499 853889

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6684 3003 North Coast news daily in Echonetdaily www.echo.net.au

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For enquiries call Jason 0402 852 974 www.northcoastmineralpools.com

We provide professional & reliable tree services to make your environment safe and healthy.

TILING

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Dirty Tiles & Grout?

Ballina / Byron Bay / Tweed Heads / Gold Coast / Murwillumbah

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Call Ben on 0456 606 911 www.groutpro.com.au

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0408 232 066

WINTER SPECIAL:

1300 384 766

The Water Filter Experts for home, commercial and rural properties

PETER GRAY Grad. Cert. Arb. AQF8. Consulting arborist................................................0414 186161

6680 8200 or 0418 108 181

BYRON TREE SERVICES Qualified, insured. Call Alex ....................................................0402 364852 TALLOW TREE SERVICES Removal, free quote & full insurance .....................................0401 208797 MARTINO TREE SERVICES ..............................................................................Martino 0435 019524 OUT ON A LIMB www.outonalimbtreeservices.wordpress.com Call Lucas ............0402 191316 HART TREE SERVICES 18â&#x20AC;? chipper bobcat cranetruck stump grinding, cherry . 66849137 or 0427347380

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BANGALOW UPHOLSTERY Now at Billinudgel. Re-covering specialists.............................66805255

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BYRON BAY UPHOLSTERY. Soft furnishings, curtains & outdoor. ................................0403 713303 TANK CLEANING Repairs, installation, first flush diverters, pumps, etc ........................0418 662285

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MULLUM VET CLINIC Richard Gregory, Erin Tottenham, Bec Patison. 24 hrs 7 days ..........66843818 SURFWAGON - Car/Home/Office tint. Lifetime Warranty. W/sale price .........................0434 875009

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COSTUME HIRE, PROPS, SUITS & ACCESSORIES Open Thurs 4–6.30pm, Sat 10.30am–1pm or by appointment

TAYLORS PROPS 1 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby Phone 6684 2978

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AGMs PERIWINKLE PRESCHOOL AGM Wednesday 6th March, 7pm at the Preschool. All welcome

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Yin Yoga

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with Kim

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Just turn up or call 0405 452 496

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TREE SERVICES

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TREE SERVICES

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ROCK Good quality, Bangalow. Different sizes $60/ton. No deliveries. 0402061110

MIELE WASHERS

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6684 9137 • 0427 347 380

SUMMERLAND TREE SERVICES • Cherry Picker • Wood Chipper • Stump Grinder • Tree Surgeon • Fully Insured

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6687 7677 Mobile 0417 698 227

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FRIDAY

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6.30-7.30am: BARRE FUSION 9.30-11am: YIN YANG

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9.30-11am: YOGALATES WITH WEIGHTS 5.30-6.45pm: GENTLE VINYASA

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8-9.30am: SIGNATURE YOGALATES 10-11am: PILATES ALIGN

6.30am: VINYASA 8am: HATHA 10am: GENTLE YOGA

8am: HATHA 10am: GENTLE YOGA

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6am: LED ASHTANGA YOGA 9.30am: STRENGTH 9.30am: YIN YOGA & BALANCE YOGA 6pm: VINYASA YOGA

8.30am: AKHANDA 8.30am: HATHA YOGA & MEDITATION VINYASA YOGA

9.30-10.15am: STRENGTH METHOD 4.30-5.15pm: 5.30-6.15pm: HIT CIRCUIT CORNER METHOD 6.30-7.15pm: CORNER 6.30-7.15pm: METHOD STRENGTH METHOD

6.30-7.15am: MOBILITY METHOD 7.30-8.15am: STRENGTH METHOD 5.30-6.15pm: CORNER METHOD

7.30-8.15am: CORNER METHOD 5.30-6.15pm: STRENGTH METHOD

6.30-7.15am: HIT CIRCUIT 7.30-8.15am: MOBILITY METHOD 9.30-10.15am: STRENGTH METHOD

7.30-8.15am: CORNER METHOD INTRO SPECIALS AVAILABLE 8.30-9.15am: STRENGTH METHOD

5-6.30pm: THERAPEUTIC VINYASA SUFFOLK PARK COMMUNITY HALL

8.30am-4.30pm: ONE DAY A WEEK LVL 1 TEACHER TRAINING MARCH-DEC SUFFOLK PARK HALL

5-6.30pm: THERAPEUTIC VINYASA SUFFOLK PARK COMMUNITY HALL

PRIVATE YOGA/ YOGA THERAPY BY APPOINTMENT

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7-8am: YOGA 5.30pm: Q-YOGA 7pm: EMPOWERED PARENTING

7-8am: YOGA 5.15-6.15pm: ACTIVE MEDIATION 6.30-7.30pm:

7-8am: YOGA 7pm: “NEW TO BYRON” WOMENS GROUP

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6.30-7.15am: CORNER METHOD 7.30-8.15am: STRENGTH METHOD

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ACUPUNCTURE

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7-8am: VINYASA

6pm: GENTLE YOGA 10-11:30am: PRENATAL EMBODY BIRTH 12:30-1:30pm: YIN YOGA

7-8am: PILATES 9:30-11am: KIDS YOGA 9:30-11am: FREE COMMUNITY CLASS

4-5pm: KIDS YOGA 12:30-1:30pm: YIN YOGA 6-7.30pm: ELEMENTAL 4-5pm: VINYASA VINYASA 6-7.30pm: AFRICAN DANCE 6-7.15pm: KUNDALINI 7.30-9.30pm: REBIRTHING BREATHWORK YOGA

6.30-7.15pm: HIT CIRCUIT

8.30am-4.30pm: LVL 2 TEACHER TRAINING. THURSDAYS FORTNIGHTLY MARCHSEPT. LENNOX HEAD

3.30-4.30pm: SOUND BATH MEDIATION

GROUNDING EXERCISE

7-8am: ELEMENTAL VINYASA 9:30-11am: RISE! DANCE 12:30-1:30pm: YIN YOGA

4-5pm: VINYASA 4.15-5.15pm: QI GONG MEDITATION

6-7.30pm: E-MOTION YOGA 6-7.30pm: VINYASA

7-8am: VINYASA YOGA 9:30-11am: FIT FLOW FLY YOGA 10-11.30am: PRE-NATAL YOGA

12:30-1:30pm: CHAKRA YOGA 4-5pm: VINYASA 4-5pm: KIDS YOGA 6-7.30pm: YIN YOGA

7-8am: VINYASA YOGA 12:30-1:30pm: PILATES 4-5pm: YIN YOGA

8-9:15am: YIN RESTORATIVE WITH LIVE VOCALS 9:30-10:30am: FAMILY YOGA

10-11am: CARDI YOGA 11-12:30pm: ACRO YOGA

4-6pm: RAINBOW SPIRIT DANCE

SPECIAL EVENTS THURSDAY 14 VALENTINES YOGA FOR THE BEDROOM FRIDAY 15 BIODANZA

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BUSINESS FOR SALE FOOD STALL PAELLA well-established business in the Byron Shire. Permanent sites at Byron, Bangalow & Channon markets. $45,000 ono. Ph 0401617780

STARTING AT $960 Green Building Centre 0431721073

MARKET COFFEE & FOOD VAN On permanent local site for sale. $45,000 neg. Phone 0404887568

GUITARS, RECORDS, HI FI valiantmusic.com.au 66851005

BAMBOO PLY

For ceilings, walls, doors, etc. Ph 66884188 • sample & brochure. www.bambooply.com.au

WANTED LP RECORDS: good condition, no op shop crap! Ph Matt 0401955052

GARAGE SALES MONSTER SALE 3 HOUSE CLEARANCE at Three Ways Malcoms Corner Wilsons Creek. Sat 8am. Linen, bedding, tools, building materials, art, lots of furniture, and clothing and of course bric-a-brac. MOOBALL POST SHOP CAFE. Sat 8–2pm. Something for everyone MULLUM 7 New City Rd, Sat 8–2pm. Huge moving sale, clothes, retro furniture, silver jewellery, plants, collectables and lots more. BYRON 16 Julian Rocks Dr, Sat 8am. Antique furniture, lounge, camping, clothes, collectables, tools, toys, timber, old car stuff, lots more. Ph 0488151243 BRUNS HEADS STOCK CLEARANCE up to 25% off @ Clem’s Cargo. Sat & Sun 10-4pm BYRON 2/5 Cemetery Rd, Sat 8am. Chainsaw, drum, tennis racquet, clothes, books and much more. Ph 0422761775 Combined Sale – Brunswick Heads Balun Lane next to Trawlers Bar Antique bed & mattress, wooden chairs, tables, double futon base, carvings, bamboo goods, clothes, wine fridge, bit of retro, bric-a-brac. Sat from 8am NEW & ENDS DESIGNER CLOTHES surfboards, sarongs, jewellery, books, bric-a-brac & furniture. 53 Coogera Cct, Suffolk. 8-2pm Sat. 0423365871

Tip Runs & Rubbish Removal 0408 210 772 MOTOR VEHICLES

CASH PAID FOR UNWANTED CARS Local reg’d business 66845296 or 66845403

SUBARU LIBERTY 2006, auto, sedan, white, 11 months rego, log book, 227,000km. $4200. Ph 0402621565

BYRON spacious 4br house, all bdrms have sliding drs or lge windows to outside. 2 bathrms with baths. Spacious open living, sunroom, large kitch/dining, off street parking, pagoda, fishpond, patios, sundeck. Suit quiet family or 4-5 professionals. Long lease $1100pw. Avail March 9. Ph 0434191045 or 0411705313 Summerland Storage Bangalow From $105 to $290 mth Call GNF Bangalow 66872833 BANGALOW Very private 35m2 studio, fully furnished, standalone dwelling with own entrance & courtyard with rural views. Single person, no pets, no smoking. $350pw (negotiable) incl bills & internet. kendall@heritagedesigns.com.au STORAGE SHEDS available for rent Byron Bay Industrial Estate priced from $130.00 per month Contact LJ Hooker Byron Bay 66857300 BANGALOW RENT-A-SHED Modern & Secure from $140 p/m Elders Real Estate 66871500

TO LEASE WISDOM SPACE FOR HIRE suits workshops, classes & events A & I Estate, Byron Bay. Ph 0403747442 www.wisdomspacebyron.com MADE IN MULLUM Interested in selling your handmade crafts, artworks, photography etc locally from $25 a week? Interested to see what sells and what doesn’t? Contact Facebook: Made In Mullum or email madeinmullum@gmail.com ARTISTS wanted to share studio/gallery space in Byron Arts & Industry Estate. No live-in. Phone Tracey 0431092618

HOUSE SWAP MELBOURNE Family wanting to swap with Byron family over Easter. 6 bdrm home with pool on Maribyrnong River. Looking for 3-4 brm home in Byron. 15 mins to CBD. Please call 0419007123

BUSINESS OPP.

& backloads to Brisbane. Friendly, with 10 years local exp. 0409917646

TWO INTERNS WANTED International business based in New Brighton. Marketing and IT support. 3 days pw for 3 months. E: passionmaps@gmail.com

MOTIVATED tech-savvy person to help with social media, must love kids books, huge potential. Robbie 0407285276

LILLI PILLI beautiful elevated 2br, 1 bthrm, huge decks, cathedral ceilings. Suit professional cple, long-term tenants, $595pw incl exp, avail 20/3. 0428649657

EXPERIENCED tech-savvy office manager required for chiropractic ofﬁce in Ocean Shores. Start at 3 days pw with a view to 5 days. Call 0413249163

BYRON BAY 1brm house close to beach, n/s, no pets, avail 6/3-14/04. $420pw incl bills. Phone 0404723266 EXPANSIVE OCEAN VIEWS trees, space, priv 2br luxury f-furn, huge deck BBQ WiFi, laundry, off-street covered parking $500pw all inclusive, short or long term ok, n/s, d/f, dog OK. Ph 0444538880

SHARE ACCOM. ALSTONVILLE share 4br house, 1 or 2 rooms from $150pw, 2 weeks bond. Phone owner 0434431110 leave message

MYOCUM 1bdrm large studio apartment. Decks, beautiful surrounds $375pw incl bills, no pets. 12 mnth lease. 0419419402

RESIDENTIAL Brunswick Heads 2 bed 1bth $480 Ocean Shores 3 bed 1 bth $550 Mullumbimby 3 bed 1 bth $450 South Golden Beach 3 bed 1 bth $660 3 bed 2 bth $670 The Pocket 4 bed 3 bth $800

COMMERCIAL Brunswick Heads 54m2 in Fingal St Brand new with grease trap 27m2 in Park St Perfect for retail L.J. Hooker Brunswick Heads 6685 0177 5/16 The Terrace, Brunswick Heads

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One Roof Byron No fixed address? Lost your housing in the last 12 months? One Roof Byron is looking for people interested in joining a long-term accommodation program in this Shire. Enquiries: call/text Jenny 0422 455 735 9am–4.30pm, Monday to Wednesday.

Mullum Market Mullumbimby Community Market is on this Saturday from 8am until 2pm, with a mini record fair, great local crafts, produce and coffee and live music from Broadfoot. Please support your local community market cnr of Stuart and Myocum Streets Mullumbimby. No dogs, please.

Homework help There is free homework help on Wednesdays @ The Cottage Mullumbimby and Thursdays @ Byron YAC from 3.30 till 5.30pm. Internet, computer and printer access and a youth worker available to provide support with assignments/homework/study. Contact: youthsupport@bys.org.au.

U3A Ballina/Byron Music Appreciation – Gerti will present the life and music of Sergei Prokofiev at 10am on Tuesday February 19, in the RSL meeting room, Mullumbimby. Enquiries 6680 7350. Brunswick Valley Tuesday Forum February 19, 10am–12, Uniting Church Hall, Fingal St, Brunswick Heads. Dr Elizabeth Hawkins, executive officer and founding director,

Dolphin Research Australia – dolphins populations, their ecology and conservation in our region. Visitors and potential new members are very welcome. Ring 6685 1732.

Breastfeeding support Australian Breastfeeding Association Mullumbimby meeting Thursday February 14, from 9.30am at St John’s School Hall, Murwillumbah Road, north over the Federation Bridge. Mums, babies, pre-schoolers, grandmothers, etc all welcome. We are talking about introducing other foods. Enquiries 0431 477 445.

Dunecare Day The Green and Clean Awareness Team’s monthly Dunecare Day is on Sunday February 17 from 9am to 12 noon, meeting in front of the Beach Cafe at Clarkes Beach. We plant in the sand dunes from Clarkes Beach to Main Beach. From 12 noon to 1pm, enjoy a delicious free BBQ and be in the draw to win one of four excellent prizes. It’s good fun. Info Udo 0413 173 786 or Veda 6685 7991.

End-of-life choices Exit International is a voluntary euthanasia group that meets quarterly. The Northern Rivers Chapter has meetings on a quarterly basis at the Lismore Workers Club. The next meeting is on 14 February 2–4pm. For interested persons, it is a prerequisite that they become a financial member of Exit International before attending a chapter meeting.

Regular As Clockwork DEADLINE NOON FRIDAY Please note that, owing to space restrictions, not all entries may be included each week. Email copy marked ‘Regular As Clockwork’ to editor@echo.net.au.

Mullumbimby & District Neighbourhood Centre is open Monday–Thursday 9am–4pm and offers a range of services and activities. Everyone is welcome to come and enjoy art, music, games, great food and more. Call reception on 6684 1286 and discover what is on offer.

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 call 6680 7280. Are you concerned about somebody else’s drinking? Al-Anon Family Groups meeting held Fridays 2pm. Uniting Church Bangalow – 1300 252 666 www.al-anon.org.au.

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Alateen meeting every Thursday at 5–6pm. Do you have a parent, close friend or relative with a drinking problem? Alateen can help. For 8–16-year-olds meet St Cuthbert’s Anglican Church Hall, 13 Powell Street, corner of Florence Street Tweed Heads. Al-Anon family groups for older members at the same time and place. 1300 ALANON 1300 252 666 www.al-anon.org.au.

Adult Children of Alcoholic Parents and/or Dysfunctional Families (ACA) help & recovery group meets in East Lismore every Friday 10–11.30am corner 215 Dibbs St and Wyrallah Rd in small Quakers hut next to Community Hall.

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Drug support groups Call Alcoholics Anonymous 1800 423 431 or 0401 945 671 – 30 meetings a week in the Shire – www.aa.org.au. Are you experiencing difficulties and challenges because of the alcohol or drug use of someone close to you? Learn coping skills and gain support from others. Narcotics Anonymous is a fellowship of

Low-cost or free food Food Box Thursdays 9.30–11.30am at Uniting Church, Mullumbimby. If you have any sort of Centrelink card you may purchase cheap food, obtain free veges, and enjoy a cuppa. Free Food Relief Bags for anyone doing it tough, every Wednesday 10–12noon at The Hub Ocean Shores, cnr Rajah Rd and Bindaree Way. No ID or Concession Card required. NILs referral service also available. Check Facebook page The Hub Baptist Ocean Shores for details.

Contact Peter on 0429 950 352 or exitnorthernrivers@bigpond. com or the website www. exitinternational.net for more info.

Brunswick Valley VIEW The club will be holding their AGM followed by lunch at Mullumbimby Ex-Services Club at 10.30am on Thursday 14 February. Apologies to Maureen no later than Monday 11 February. 0408 294 973 or email mlightfoot@internode.on.net.

One Vision Productions We are looking for creative industry professionals who would like to join our Indigenous Youth Mentoring Program for 2019. email mentoring@onevisionproductions. com.au for info.

Probus: Hastings Point The next meeting of the Hastings Point/Tweed Coast Probus Club will be on Tuesday 19 February at 10am at Tricare Retirement Community, 87 Tweed Coast Road, Hastings Point. The speaker will be Jan Pilgrim, a rescue carer from Tweed Valley Wildlife. Enquiries: Jean Watson 6670 4072.

Libraries are fun Library meeting Friends of Libraries are holding their February meeting at Byron Shire Library on Wednesday February 20 at 10am in the Arakwal Room. An informative meeting for those who are interested in learning more about fundraising and support for their local libraries. Welcome to all. Byron Bay Library Information session: Supporting ageing parents and friends – Join RN and aged-care worker Bernadette Glass to explore ways you can support ageing friends and relatives without imposing

Respite Service Byron Shire Respite Service Inc delivers high-quality respite care to a broad range of clients throughout the Byron, Ballina and Lismore shires. Donations welcome: Ph 6685 1921, email fundraiser@ byronrespite.com.au, website: www.byronrespite.com.au.

CoDA 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 visit www. codependentsanonymous.org.au or phone 9281 3330.

PFLAG PFLAG – Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays Northern Rivers is here for you if you have LGBTQIA+ family members or friends. Email enquiries@pflag-nr.org, find them on Facebook or call 0467 382 010.

Volunteer hub Choose from 50 organisations at the volunteer hub at Byron Community Centre. Make a difference in your community, have fun, learn new skills and meet people. Ph 6685 6807 email volunteers@byroncentre.com.au.

on or restricting their decisionmaking rights. Learn how to cope with feelings of concern, learn about residential care and about community services that can help. Friday 22 February at 10.30am. Free session, but bookings essential. Call for info 6685 8540. Library friends Friends of Libraries Byron Shire are holding their annual Book Fair on the weekend of 13 and 14 July 2019. Books, books and more books are once again wanted for the fair. Both clean and in good condition, highlighting the need for children’s books and other genres such as fiction, non-fiction, limited editions, art, history, and geography to name a few. All are gratefully received. Please call Janene 0407 855 022.

Sky Tour Would you like to see craters on the Moon close up? Join Marie and Philip at Brunswick Heads for their FREE sky tour and telescope viewing. Thursday 14th February 6–8pm at South Beach Lane, just across the river from the music shell. Look out for our blow up spaceman. Details 0413 779 223.

Koala tree planting No weeding, no digging, no whipper snipping, just planting 960 trees in pre-dug holes and mulching – easy. Free sausage sizzle. Saturday February 23 from a9m at 990 Friday Hut Road, Binna Burra. RSVP Linda Sparrow at: twodogsmedia@optusnet.com.au

Garden Club The Ocean Shores & District Garden Club will hold their first meeting of the year on Monday 18th February at The Hub Church next to Target, at 1:30 pm. Our speaker is Deb from Enchanted Wood Nursery. Phone Claire on 6680 3707 for further info.

Grief support The Good Grief Group meets every Monday 6–7.30pm upstairs at the Mullumbimby Neighbourhood Centre. This is a safe place for people to share their grief and bereavement.

ManTime Calling all fellas who as a boy or man went on a Pathways, Making Men or Men2B Rite of Passage camp: weekly Monday night men’s group 7–9.30pm at the CWA Hall Mullum. Email mantime. mullum@gmail.com or call Karim 0403 755 192.

Toy Library The Byron Shire Toy Library is open Tuesdays and Thursdays 9am–12 noon, at the Children’s Centre, Coogera Cct, Suffolk Park. Come and see the large range of preschooler toys for loan.

Muslim prayer Friday Muslim prayer. Jumu’ah service held weekly at the Cavanbah Centre at 12:30pm. Come to the remembrance of Allah.

Byron FLEA Byron FLEA at the YAC (1 Gilmore Crescent) 2nd Saturday of every month from 8am till 1pm. Free stalls for young people. Call Berri 0490 026 840.

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Free English as a Second Language classes suitable for beginners to advanced learners. Bruns 6672 0834 or Kingscliff 6674 7267.

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Mullum Bowling Club wins district triples crown Michael Burke

Beez basketballers qualify for state country team Deb Milgate

The Mullumbimby Ex-Services Bowling Club has narrowly won the 2019 District Bowls Triples final against Kingscliff played at their home greens last weekend. With the semifinals contested in the morning and the finals in the afternoon it was a big day of bowls with a happy ending for the Mullum club. The reserve title was won by Bangalow while Condong took out the seniors contest. The open final produced the best bowls of the day with Kingscliff moving to a 5–1 lead after five ends. The Mullumbimby side of Paul Gray, Ben Leeson and Richie Northcott fought their way back into the contest and by the tenth end they were in the leading by 8–6. The match then settled into a battle with neither side able to secure a big score to break away. By the last end the

Ben Leeson, Richie Northcott and Paul Gray (L-R) won the District Triples shield last weekend. Photo supplied Mullum team were clinging to a two-shot lead. With only the skips to play Kingscliff held two shots but the Mullumbimby skip, Richie Northcott, produced a great bowl to move the jack and give Mullumbimby a shot. Kingscliff were not to be denied, however, and skip

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The second leg of the Shire Shootout at The Macadamia Castle last Sunday was a handicap event with entrants from Grafton, Yamba, Murwillumbah, Byron Bay and the Ballina bicycle clubs. Hayley Oakes came in first place followed by Marco Golberg and Richard Tabaka. Photo supplied

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Steve Massey took Nothcott’s bowl away to give Kingscliff one shot. Neither skip was able to change the situation and Mullumbimby hung on to deservedly take the title over a gallant Kingscliff by the thinnest possible margin, 18–17.

Byron Bay Basketball’s expanding talent pool this year saw four players representing the club at the 2019 Australia Junior Country Cup in Albury/Wodonga, and two of them going on to be selected to represent their state Byron Bay Beez players Laila Campbell, Isis Crawford, Harley Kent and Jackson Ware competed for NSW against the top country teams from Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand. Harley and Jackson also went on to be selected for the U/16 NSW Country squad owing to their performances. ‘I am extremely proud of the players. Last year we sent three players to the Country Cup; this year it’s four, and two have been selected into the country squad, which is a great achievement for a relatively new club,’ club president

Local player Jackson Ware on the charge at the Australian Junior Country Cup in January. Photo supplied Alvin Caoyonan said. The NSW country team will compete at the 2019 U/16

Australian Junior Championships in Darwin, over July 6–13, later this year.

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Syl Reid The Byron Bay second XI collected a good win in their top-of-the-table game against Lennox Head playing away at Megan Crescent oval last Saturday. The Cellars seconds won the toss and elected to bat and eventually hit up 8/207 off 40 overs, but had to recover from a precarious 3/19. Matt Irwin top scored with hit 68 runs closely followed by Mitch Loane on a lusty 59 and Ryan McGuiness hit a rapid 36 runs. Lennox Head started their chase well with captain/ wicketkeeper and opening bat Bruce Young topping

their score with a solid 71 runs. Late in the order James Barnes got 44 not out, but their innings finished in the 36th over on 184, 23 runs short. Toby Schott returned figures of 3/32 and Heath Chigwidden got 2/26 on his return to the Byron side. Lachlan Whiteford, Levi Shouldice and skipper Matt Irwin (who got their skipper out LBW) shared the other wickets. There were two run-outs as well. So the Cellars seconds batted strongly, then bowled and fielded well to get a great win putting themselves seond on the ladder behind Lennox Head.

Crystal Cylinders Byron Bay’s Soli Bailey maintained his excellent barrel-riding reputation with a quarterfinal finish at the Volcom Pipe Pro on Hawaii’s North Shore. He top scored with an excellent 8.5 super-deep Pipe wave where he disappeared, and then when all looked lost, re-appeared in a Houdini-like manner. With his result Bailey has kick-started his year goal to back up his Championship Tour debut at Snapper Rocks with more appearances in qualifying events. He scored US$950 at the QS 3,000 level event.

Byron Bay’s Kyuss King made it into round five. Bailey is a former winner, taking out the prestigious event in 2017. Nyxie Ryan from Lennox Head finished on the podium at the 2019 Lake Macquarie City Pro Junior with her third-place finish netting her $600 and valuable points on the JQS ratings. Nyxie has a chance to qualify for the World Pro Junior championships.

Sign on This year’s Byron Bay Boardriders signon day is scheduled for Saturday 23 February, 2–4pm at the Park Hotel, Suffolk Park.

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