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THE THINGS WHICH ARE MOST IMPORTANT DON’T ALWAYS SCREAM THE LOUDEST – BOB HAWKE The Byron Shire Echo • Volume 33 #50 • Wednesday, May 22, 2019 • www.echo.net.au

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Sunday’s billycart derby again commandeered Bangalow’s main street, as competitors young (like George, pictured) and old ran the downhill race. Events also included a street parade, exotic food stalls, music, circus displays, and the Pit Stop Fair at the Primary School. Photo Jeff ‘Stopped And Pitted’ Dawson

Council’s environmental credentials questioned The question arround the Greens councillor majority’s commitment to environmental protection and good governance has again been highlighted by state Greens MP Tamara Smith, who is calling on councillors to pause the beleaguered Byron bypass project. The Greens council majority have delegated the general

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manager (GM) to manage almost every aspect of the project, amid accusations of poor process. In reply, mayor Simon Richardson told The Echo he is acting ‘within the rules forced on us’, yet says he will table a mayoral minute at this Thursday’s Council meeting ‘to find out possible ways and the costs to enhance the local wetland

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far and beyond what is required’. Tamara Smith MP told The Echo, ‘It is the eleventh hour for the protection of biodiversity and riparian wetlands about to face the chop to make way for the Butler Street bypass’. ‘I am imploring all of the Byron Shire councillors – not least of which the four Greens councillors

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– to pause the development this week and read the ecological report by David Milledge and consider the next right thing to do.’ She said, ‘The Greens both at NSW state level and at federal level fundamentally oppose biodiversity banking. It is an utterly flawed planning principle that says if you ▶ Continued on page 2

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Labor’s Justine Elliot returned in Richmond Labor’s Justine Elliot has held onto the seat of Richmond (Tweed, Byron and Ballina shires), after the surprise re-election of the LiberalNational government. And like many elections preceding this, the Byron Shire Green vote was again instrumental in returning Labor’s Elliot to office. Nationals candidate Matthew Fraser secured strong voter support in both surrounding electorates of Ballina and Tweed. According to www.tallyroom. aec.gov.au on Tuesday, 80.85 per cent of votes have been counted and the two-candidate-preferred (TCP) vote for Richmond put Labor’s Elliot at 48,343 votes, or 53.79 per cent of the vote. This is a swing of -0.17 from the last election three years ago. Elliot’s margin against the Nationals’ candidate Matthew Fraser is 6,818. His two-candidatepreferred result was 41,525, or 46.21 per cent of the vote. Greens candidate and Byron Shire councillor Michael Lyon picked up 17,795 votes, or 19.80 per cent. The Greens result is a -0.64 per cent swing down from the previous election in 2016. According to www.tallyroom. aec.gov.au there were 119,446 eligible Richmond electors and the turnout was 79.95 per cent. Informal votes accounted for 6.94 per cent of the total.

▶ For a full roundup of how the minor parties fared, visit www.echo.net.au and follow the elections tab.

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Council’s environmental credentials questioned by local Greens state MP ▶ Continued from page 1 destroy an endangered species in one place you can offset it in another place by supporting the habitat of a different species’. Smith said, ‘The wording in our state policy says we “oppose market-based processes and trading mechanisms such as biodiversity banking and offsets that trade off high-conservation areas for development”.’ ‘It is hard for me to understand why our Greens councillors are pursuing this path so vehemently when the Greens oppose biobanking so emphatically. ‘What is even harder to understand, and impossible to forgive, are the mistakes and omissions in the actual biodiversity banking process that Council staff, in a Greens-dominated Council, have made. ‘I and other environmentalists have been forced to commission David Milledge from our own pockets to review and report on the biobanking processes and Environmental Impact

Statements (EIS) completed by Council, in a last-bid attempt to force proper process’. She added, ‘I have written to both the minister for Planning and the minister for the Environment to review Council’s processes for the bypass, because of the raft of concerns including mistakes, omissions, and flaws in the process identified by David Milledge. We should not have had to do any of these things.’

Mayor replies Mayor Simon Richardson told The Echo, ‘I have read the report by David Milledge, as have other councillors and pertinent staff members’. ‘Though David is not an accredited assessor, and there appear to be some gaps in a detailed understanding of the process within his report, I have upmost respect for him and his knowledge. ‘Staff have identified many gaps, such as the claim that the fauna studies undertaken were over 15 years old, and thus outdated, noting that thorough assessments and

field surveys were conducted less than five years ago. ‘However, rather than dissect all the major points from David’s report, I invite him and anyone else interested in learning more to let me know and I’ll organise a sit down with the accredited assessor for the project. ‘I do wholeheartedly agree with Tamara’s disapproval of the biobanking process. ‘Even more worrying, if the bypass assessment was to be done now, the protections required have now lessened and the biobanking regime is even weaker. ‘In her press release, Tamara outlines her anger that we are “pursuing” the biobanking regime “vehemently”. ‘We are simply playing on the field we’re given and within the rules forced on us, rather than standing on the sidelines in the terraces and yelling at the umpire. ‘By playing the game by the biobanking rules given to us, we will of course seek to do as well as we can and win. I am confident that

because we will vehemently pursue outcomes far above what is required and set by the rules we will have led our community well. ‘Though the road will actually affect only 0.36 per cent of the wetland area, it is vital we do far more to alleviate the impact to that what is required within the biobanking regime. Currently, the Byron Bay Bypass is set to impact 1.56ha of vegetation and the approved biobanking agreements protect and improve 44.5ha of land. ‘However, this is Byron and we will do way better than that. I have a mayoral minute scheduled to be considered at Thursday’s Council meeting to find out possible ways and the costs to enhance the local wetland far and beyond what is required, and to do so’. The mayor added traffic management will require many different responses, including ‘re-activating the rail corridor, re-establishing park and ride and advocating for better public transport etc’. Q Full mayoral reply at www.echo.net.au.

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Mercato developer denied special treatment over airspace policy Hans Lovejoy Who was telling the truth? Was it the uber-wealthy Gold Coast developer behind the new Mercato shopping centre on Jonson Street, or was it Council’s chief planner, Shannon Burt? Let’s get to that, but first, the context, which was acted out in varying degrees of competency by councillors at Council’s planning meeting last Thursday. A lawyer representing Mercato developer Robert Badalotti asked councillors during morning access to waive a considerable fee for their airspace lease, which is a Council tax for building a balcony over a street. Badalotti’s lawyer Ross Fox said that Badalotti had an understanding with staff that he would receive a peppercorn lease for the balconies, which now tower over Jonson Street. He then went on to explain

that the developer went ‘above what was required,’ in the DA, with around $750,000 of extra spending in art and associated works. Later in the debate, mayor Simon Richardson said that while the airspace policy was in place when the DA was first submitted, the cost ‘doubled since it was opened’. Therefore, argued the mayor, the developer should be given a fee reduction. There was a lack of consistency about how it is applied, he added. Yet what followed was remarkable. The Greens mayor lavished the Gold Coast developer with praise. ‘This is a far better outcome than what could have happened,’ said the mayor. ‘We got better ventilation – which is not a bad outcome – that was a commercial cost for developer’. Okay – there’s a lot at stake here, dear reader. The mayor pinned his reputation

seeking to capitalise on his precedent, with a massive $40m 146-room hotel on the old Woolies site next door. Were there any negotiations on what Badalotti would do there when the Mercato deal was being made?

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early on as a negotiator with this development, and supported the developer’s wish to fast-track its completion. He defended meeting with the developer with staff over that wish, without any other councillor present. At the time, he was criticised on the basis that other councillors should have been informed about that, and been present at meetings with developers. So what we have ended up with? A large shopping mall that is much larger than anything that surrounds it (a precedent perhaps), and the much-touted Green five-star rating, we learn later, was non-binding and just an ‘aspiration’. It was a pity the mayor left the room after his speech, as Cr Cameron made some interesting points. ‘A policy exists’, Cr

‘The developer wanted to add to the height, so it was a benefit. We suffered landscaping loss. I see concrete edges instead of what was proposed. We shouldn’t make decisions on informal conversations. ‘This is about raising revenue in a shire with a low ratebase’. Cr Cameron added, ‘This is not a one off’. ‘This same developer wants a concession for height extension for the nextdoor DA and are using the Mercato as the precedent’. Indeed – Badalotti is now

So when Council’s planner Shannon Burt was eventually asked if, in a private meeting with staff, the developer Badalotti secured an agreement for a peppercorn airspace lease, she replied, ‘No’. Moving on, Greens Cr Sarah Ndiaye supported the mayor’s courageous position that Council were at fault and that we are all lucky to get what we got. She said, ‘We are not appeasing developers; our policy hasn’t been clear’. ‘We’ve done pretty well. It all came from ongoing discussions with the developer’. To prove her point that we could have ended up with a much worse development, she showed an illustration of the second Mercato proposal on the overhead projector. ‘This is a visual eyesore and not in keeping with who we are. We could have had fast food and Dan Murphys’. Was there legal advice tabled as to whether the original DA could have been refused owing to its not fitting in with the character of the street? That seems a reasonable

A new multiple occupancy (MO) for fifteen dwelling sites near Eureka was approved at last Thursday’s Council meeting, subject to conditions such as prohibiting holiday letting/short-term rental accommodation or the use of the dwellings as tourist

and visitor accommodation. A ‘Management Zone Plan Illustration 6’ is also required in relation to the ongoing management and land use of the property. During debate, Cr Basil Cameron moved that it be deferred to ‘seek a rural

land-use management plan (RLMP) from the proponent’. Referring to the rich soil and high agricultural values he said, ’We can’t pretend that there won’t be land-use conflicts. We need to make it clearer’. Cr Spooner’s motion later

Greens Cr Sarah Ndiaye told the chamber at last Thursday’s Council meeting the second Mercato proposal (pictured) would have been a disaster for the town if approved. Cameron said. ‘It allows for an equitable outcome for all’. ‘If we change it on the run and do ad hoc decisions, we are asking for trouble’. Cr Cameron described the height argument as ‘disingenuous’.

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position, given the law allows that, and is especially relevant if a clear policy outlining the town’s character is in place. It’s all unknown because it wasn’t mentioned during the debate. Do wealthy developers mostly get their way in Byron Shire? At one point, Cr Alan Hunter said the developer was ‘a pretty formidable fella’.

Motion passed A motion by Cr Cate Coorey was eventually supported, which refused the request for a peppercorn lease under Byron Shire Council’s Airspace Policy. Additionally the ‘fees and charges for road airspace usage (commercial occupation) be reviewed as part of the annual fees and charges process’. Crs Coorey, Lyon, Cameron, Hackett, and Spooner voted in favour of the motion; Crs Ndiaye and Hunter voted against. Both the Greens mayor and Cr Jeannette Martin were absent for the vote. Cr Ndiaye’s amendment was voted down, which sought to apply the airspace fee ‘at a rate of 50 per cent of the footpath dining adopted fees and charges per square metre rental rates for DA2013.587.6, applicable at the time of the application for a period of five years’.

passed, and he said during debate the MO will lead to a community title (CT). ‘There’s no community here’, Cr Spooner said, ‘just a few people with an interest’. ‘It’s part of what this region wanted… To look after land together’.

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ƖĎĶƐ Īşſ ëǔ şſĎëćōĕ ĲşƖƆĶŕī ëżżſşưëōƆ żſşżşƆĕĎ Paul Bibby Byron Council would undertake a Shire-wide audit of developments approved under the state’s affordable housing policy, under a plan by Greens Cr Sarah Ndiaye. Under the proposal, Council would examine developments such as The Kollective in Mullumbimby, which have agreed to rent 20 per cent of their dwellings at below market rates in return for exemptions from standard planning rules.

!şƆƐ Ɛş ĈşŔŔƖŕĶƐƷ The motion will come before this Thursday’s Council meeting for a vote. Cr Ndiaye said, ‘I want to

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Under the audit, Council staff would firstly figure out the exact number and type of developments approved under the laws. They would then determine whether the owners of these dwellings had complied with the affordability requirements they had agreed to. There is no plan to prosecute any of the developers found to be non-compliant; rather the information would be used to inform future decision making. However, Cr Ndiaye said the process of conducting the audit would, she hoped, encourage developers to meet their obligations. Staff have identified that completing the audit would

not be straightforward, owing to the difficulty of determining information on individual compliance. ‘Council may not have this information on file and staff may need to undertake further checks with landowners and building certifiers to ascertain compliance or not,’ Ms Burt said. ‘This may impact on the timeframe for reporting back to Council on the recommendation.’

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Family business destroyed in blaze Wilsons Creek tourist accom DA deferred Hans Lovejoy

Eve Jeffery Local designer Joy Decarne was devastated to find out that sometime in the early hours of Saturday, an electrical fault in her shop Bamboo Lifestyle, caused a fire that destroyed all her stock. ‘The fire brigade arrived at 6.30am, but the electrical fault from the wiring happened earlier,’ said Ms Decarne. ‘We are not one hundred per cent sure when exactly it started. The police said it started from the fault behind the counter.’ Joy and her family, who live locally, opened the business about two years ago on Burringbar Street. She is yet to learn whether insurance will cover the damage. There is some fire damage

Mullum’s Bamboo Lifestyle suffered extensive fire damage on Saturday morning. Photo Simon Haslam and a lot of smoke damage. ‘We think nothing is salvageable, but we can’t confirm that yet,’ said Ms Decarne. ‘We are shattered’. ‘We spent our life building up to this – we are so passionate about sustainable products.’

The area outside the shop was cordoned off on Saturday morning while police checked inside the premises. Chief Inspector Michael Dempsey from the Tweed-Byron LAC said there were no suspicious circumstances.

TV’s Sea Change Ǖ ōŔĶŕī ƖżĎëƐĕ Paul Bibby The producers of the Sea Change television series say around 500 locals will be employed during filming in the Byron Shire, including a number of people in senior positions. As production of the eight-part series continues across the north of the Shire, some locals have questioned the show’s claim that it will benefit the local economy and film industry by employing hundreds of locals. In response to questions from The Echo, the show’s publicist Tracey Mair said approximately 500 locals would be employed, including crew, cast, and extras. ‘Of these, there are a total of 45 local crew, which is approx 60 per cent of our production crew,’ Ms Mair said. She conceded that a number of the more senior

positions in the production had been filled by Sydneybased employees, including the director of photography and the designer. Ms Mair said this was because ‘Heads of department need to be experienced in TV drama and approved by the network’. However, she said there were a number of senior positions that had been filled locally, including director Wayne Blair, producer Lois Randall, script editor Sam Carroll, production coordinator Nicki Ellis, and set decorator Christian Petersen. Ms Mair said the production’s philosophy was to provide opportunities for local people to get experience and credits. ‘In some roles, we have employed people in roles they want to step into, and are supporting them to succeed by also employing a mentor/

trainer in the first few weeks. ‘In other departments we have provided attachment opportunities. And we are also working with local education providers and the Mullumbimby Neighbourhood Centre to provide opportunities for media students and Indigenous school students to observe production, meet cast and crew, and learn about career pathways as actors and in production.’

Billi transformed Last week Billinudgel was transformed into the fictional seaside village of Pearl Bay for a full day of shooting. The famous Billi pub became the Morning Star Hotel and the Billi General Store became the Pearl Bay General Store. ‘It was actually really interesting,’ local resident Kath said. ‘Sigrid Thornton and Tom Burstall were there with about 50 people’.

The decision on a development application (DA) for a ‘rural tourist accommodation,’ comprising eight cabins, swimming pool, and a large entertainment area 5km from Mullum in Wilsons Creek was deferred at Thursday’s planning meeting. In morning public access of Byron Shire Council’s monthly planning meeting, neighbours assembled in the gallery, and a representative told councillors that there was no consultation by the proponent, who are listed in the staff report as Mr S B Yishay and Ms L B Levi. And despite Council planning staff recommending approval, it soon became clear that the DA breached numerous Council policies and lacked required information, such as a cultural assessment from the TweedByron Land Council. Objectors criticised the staff recommendation of approval for what they said was a contentious and flawed DA. Yet the unified objections (15) from all surrounding neighbours will not be a factor in any decision – they will be merely be ‘noted’ as they have with other similar DAs. A neighbour asked councillors, ‘Why are so many rules being broken for this DA?’ ‘We are concerned about traffic – there is no traffic report. There is a rough single-lane track in poor condition. It’s unsafe and Council’s engineer agrees it should be upgraded. Who will pay for road upgrade? ‘We welcome conditions [for consent], but Council can’t enforce these conditions, such as loud parties. It will be down to us to complain.’ Another resident says the septic and water tanks described in the DA are

inadequate, and that the area is a riparian zone with threatened species. ‘In no way does this benefit the community,’ they said. ‘It’s a private business venture and all surrounding residents and Council will bear the brunt’. Another issue raised was the possibility that the cabins would potentially provide more beds than initially proposed, given their size. Longtime Council watcher John Anderson voiced his concerns around the ‘clustering’ or the sparse co-location of the cabins. He said, ‘The DCP (development control plan) clause says it must be within 80m of the house’. ‘Why hasn’t an application been made for a variation in the DA? Staff don’t say why it should be allowed’.

Policy review It later emerged that Council are in the process of reviewing their rural tourist accommodation policy, which includes the clustering of dwellings. The clustering definition was described as ‘unclear’ by architect Frank Stuart, who spoke in favour of the DA on behalf of the proponents. Stuart spruiked the development to councillors as ‘high quality, low impact.’ Yet it also emerged from residents that many requests have been made for road upgrades along Wilsons Creek, with two cars rolling off the steep embankment in recent times. All issues raised in the DA by staff would be addressed, Stuart said, which include a bushfire report, night-time restrictions, relocated power lines, and addressing the clustering of the cabins. An estimated 36 vehicles per day was considered ‘low impact’, Stuart said, adding

the proponent would only be required to upgrade the road around where the property is located.

mĕĶīĲćşƖſƆȜ ĈşŕĈĕſŕ ‘overblown’ – mayor While councillors eventually voted for the DA to be deferred owing to the missing cultural assessment – and a clear lack of clarity around clustering tourist cabins in rural areas – mayor Simon Richardson told the gallery he saw no overarching issue with the proposal. ‘It might attract a few people for the Splendour weekend’, he said. At another point the Greens mayor said he wanted to ‘avoid the old days of court [cases].’ Without addressing the inadequacies of the staff report, he said, ‘The scale of eight cabins is small. It’s been overblown [by neighbours] as to how many would stay… it’s not unreasonable.’ Cr Cate Coorey disagreed and told the gallery, ‘We might think we are the king of our own domain, but we don’t live in isolation. Goodwill should be considered here, but it isn’t factored in planning [laws]’. She said, ‘You can’t say they won’t have four people in a cabin… You can’t anticipate how many there will be. This is a lot of development for a quiet, rural area’. Without any sense of irony that the DA is aimed at tourists, the lone hard-right conservative in the room, Alan Hunter, told the gallery it should be approved owing to the ‘housing crisis’. Greens Cr Sarah Ndiaye added, ‘It offers nothing to the locals or Council in [way of] contributions. If it were affordable housing, I would look at it differently’. All were in favour of deferment except Cr Hunter.

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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

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.

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.

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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 10.2019.138.1 – MULLUMBIMBY 11 Fern Street Demolition of Shed 10.2019.37.1 – OCEAN SHORES, 20 Aloota Crescent Secondary Dwelling 10.2019.117.1 – BANGALOW, 38 Blackwood Crescent Dwelling House 10.2019.185.1 – POSSUM CREEK, 602 Friday Hut Road Swimming Pool

Submissions may be made to Council in the following ways:

10.2019.191.1 – OCEAN SHORES, 2 Terrara Court Swimming Pool

Online:

10.2018.645.1 – SKINNERS SHOOT, 282 Skinners Shoot Road Dual occupancy (detached) comprising the existing dwelling including modiﬁcations to the ﬂoor layout, and a new dwelling with studio and swimming pool

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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 LICENCE PART LOT 22 DP 1073165 Council is proposing to licence part Lot 22 DP 1073165, 156 Stuart Street Mullumbimby known as the Mullumbimby Community Garden, for a period of one (1) month with ongoing monthly holding over to the Mullumbimby Sustainability Education and Enterprise Development Inc (‘Mullum SEED’) In accordance with Section 47 of the Local Government Act 1993 interested parties are invited to make submissions about this proposal within 28 days. 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: 1 May 2019 Submissions close: 28 May 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.

PROPOSED LEASE LOT 1 DP 1249921 Council is proposing to lease the whole of Lot 1 DP 1249921, 4 Ashton Street Bangalow known as the Bangalow Heritage House for a period of ﬁve (5) years to the Bangalow Historical Society Inc for the purpose of a not-for-proﬁt museum and ancillary tea house. In accordance with Section 47 of the Local Government Act 1993 interested parties are invited to make submissions about this proposal within 28 days. 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: 1 May 2019 Submissions close: 28 May 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.

10.2018.625.1 – BYRON BAY, 8 Burns Street Install Manufactured Dwelling to Create Dual Occupancy (Detached) 10.2019.224.1 – BINNA BURRA, 824 Friday Hut Road Alterations and Additions to Existing Dwelling House 10.2018.492.1 – BANGALOW, 47a Cedarvale Road New Dwelling to Create Dual Occupancy (Detached), Swimming Pool and Associated Works

Local News Permanent holiday rentals targeted by lobby group A lobby group wanting to rein in permanent holiday rentals in residential areas have challenged Council to act on what they say are examples in Byron Bay. Trish Burt, convenor from Neighbours Not Strangers, provided a list of properties to The Echo and Council which appear to be rented out full time as holiday lets in residential areas. Burt says, ‘Byron Shire Council can/should simply subpoena the booking records from the owner/ Airbnb/Stayz/Booking.com. When asked to comment, Council staff replied, ‘We will be writing to Trish in response to her email’. A spokesperson from NSW Fair Trading told The Echo, ‘The Property, Stock and Business Agents Act 2002 (the Act)

and the Property, Stock and Business Agents Regulation 2014 (the Regulation) create and regulate the licensing framework for the real estate and property services sector’. ‘Real estate agents who advertise and manage properties for the sole purpose of short-term holiday letting are not automatically in breach of the Act or the Regulation simply based on this action. ‘The owner or occupier of a property has a responsibility to ensure that the property is not used for any purpose that is prohibited by local council planning regulations and other laws, including ensuring the property is not occupied by more people than are allowed, and that the use of the property does not create a nuisance or hazard to other property owners or occupiers.’

10.2018.611.1 – SUFFOLK PARK, 175 Broken Head Road, 177 Broken Head Road Two (2) Lot Strata Subdivision into Two (2) Lot Torrens Subdivision

PUBLIC EXHIBITION OF DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS

10.2019.73.1 – OCEAN SHORES, 25 Kolora Way Secondary Dwelling

ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING & ASSESSMENT ACT, 1979

10.2019.74.1 – BRUNSWICK HEADS, 20 Fingal Street External Alterations to Existing Mixed Use Development including Fencing, Awnings and Entry Structures

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.

10.2018.557.1 – OCEAN SHORES, 7 Yackatoon Court Torrens Title Subdivision of One (1) Lot into Two (2) Lots 10.2019.108.1 – BANGALOW, 8/231 Fowlers Lane Alterations and Additions to existing Dwelling 10.2019.83.1 – MULLUMBIMBY, 13 Lorikeet Lane Dwelling House 10.2017.468.2 – SUFFOLK PARK, 9 Armstrong Street S4.55 to Delete Internal Stairs and Add Timber Deck

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.

10.2018.265.2 – MULLUMBIMBY, 72 Burringbar Street S4.55 to Modify Condition 7 to Modify Trading Hours and Condition 8 to allow the sale of alcohol

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.

10.2016.478.2 – BYRON BAY, 71 Lilli Pilli Drive Relocation of Laundry in Secondary Dwelling

Please quote the development application and property description when making a submission.

10.2017.256.2 – GOONENGERRY, 161 Repentance Creek Road S4.55 to Modify Internal Layout

APPLICATIONS REFUSED 10.2019.123.1 – BYRON BAY, 50 Julian Rocks Drive Use of Existing Carport

APPLICATIONS DEFERRED 10.2019.148.1 – MULLUMBIMBY, 23 Casuarina Street Use of Alterations & Additions to existing Secondary Dwelling 10.2018.592.1 – BYRON BAY, 6 Seaview Street Dual Occupancy (Detached) and Two (2) Swimming Pools

BYRON BAY MEMORIAL RECREATION GROUND PUBLIC HEARING REPORT DRAFT PLAN OF MANAGEMENT BYRON BAY MEMORIAL RECREATION GROUNDS

EXHIBITION CLOSES 29 MAY 2019 10.2012.269.5 – Byron Bay, 144 Bayshore Drive (Lot 1 DP 780243) Planners North, S4.55 Modify Condition 2 to Extend the Term of the Trial

EXHIBITION CLOSES 5 JUNE 2019 10.2019.216.1 – Byron Bay, 45 Wallum Place (Lot 2 DP 706286) Byron Shire Council, Electricity Generating Works – 150 Kilowatt Solar Farm 10.2017.399.2 – Byron Bay, 249 Ewingsdale Road (Lot 3 DP 706286) Byron Shire Council, S4.55 to Permit Use of Cavanbah Centre Carpark for the Byron Farmers Market 10.2019.236.1 – Coorabell, 315 Coorabell Road (Lot 1 DP 248377) Balanced Systems Planning Consultants, Community Title Subdivision of Approved Multiple Occupancy Comprising Fifteen (15) Dwelling Sites

A Public Hearing was held in relation to the Draft Plan of Management for the Byron Bay Memorial Recreation Grounds on Wednesday 24 April at the Cavanbah Centre, Byron Bay.

10.2019.238.1 – Byron Bay, 114 Bangalow Road (Lots 0 and 1 SP 80829) Logan Architecture, Additional One (1) Dwelling to Existing Multi-Dwelling Housing

The report of the independent Chair of that hearing; the “Byron Bay Memorial Recreation Ground Public Hearing Report” was placed on exhibition on 3 May 2019 and will be exhibited for a period of 28 days and is available on Council’s website at www.byron.nsw.gov.au/public-exhibition.

10.2019.227.1 – Ocean Shores, 80 Rajah Road (Lot 4 DP 828623) Newton Denny Chapelle, Alterations and Additions to Ocean Shores Tavern

Enquiries: Darren McAllister 02 6626 7244

10.2019.240.1 – Byron Bay, 132-138 Jonson Street (Lot 1 DP 804082) Planners North, Alterations and Additions to Existing Club Building

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Parking meter expansion tabled at Council Paul Bibby Parking meters, electronic parking sensors and a significant expansion of timelimited parking areas are among a range of measures being considered by Byron Council for Brunswick Heads, Mullumbimby and Bangalow. The measures are contained in three separate reports prepared by Council staff, which will be voted on at this week’s council meeting. The reports are based on parking surveys conducted in each of the three towns by Council staff, the data from which was then analysed by private contractor Traffic and Parking Systems (TPS). TPS found that parking in Bangalow, Brunswick Heads

and Mullumbimby was currently ‘adequate,’ but that the majority of the timed zones in each of the towns were ‘at or near capacity,’ most of the time. In response to this finding, Council staff and TPS have recommended increasing the areas covered by timed parking in Brunswick Heads and Mullumbimby (see break-outs). They have also recommended reducing the amount of time that locals are allowed to park within certain time restricted areas, including changing all threehour parking areas in Brunswick Heads to two hours. Staff further recommended increasing the amount of parking surveillance and monitoring in each of the

three towns to ensure that locals stuck to the rules. There were two sets of options put forward by TPS to achieve this. The first option, to increase the number of parking officer patrols, was seen to be difficult to sustain given, ‘the need to consistently patrol all towns and the competing demand to patrol additional compliance issues, such as illegal camping and animal compliance’. The second, coming under the delightfully optimistic title ‘technology opportunities’, included the introduction of parking sensors and parking meters. Parking sensors are electronic devices located beneath the road which

detect when a car has overstayed the limit and relays this information to Council officers. The advantage of this option is the relatively low cost of installation and the efficiency gains in terms of staffing. Staff said the advantage of parking meters was that they ‘typically reduce infringements to approximately five per cent, even without increasing patrol frequencies’.

Near capacity In justifying the need for the increase in enforcement measures, staff pointed to the fact that parking schemes in each of the towns were either approaching capacity or expected to exceed capacity in the near future.

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Messiah of the week Messiahs! They are everywhere, especially in Byron Shire. You know the messianic type – they yearn to be followed and admired for their wise words and good deeds. Some are religious or political, while others have built up a cult following based around spirituality (for example). And then there are many who are just small fry with only It would be safe to say a few followers. philosopher Alan Watts Fun fact – the name messiah would not have liked to be comes from the Hebrew thought of as a messiah, word Mashiach, which means and that is a good thing. anointed one, which could be a priest or king or both. It’s always impressive to see how one person can manipulate others with their Jedi-like hypnotism and charm. The yearning to follow is perhaps a natural state of being for most humans, given that society appears to be made up of around 15 per cent of critical independent thinkers and 85 per cent who aren’t (you are a critical independent thinker btw, that’s why you live here). Yet it’s easy to be misguided and misled by messiahs – not all have a desire to impart wisdom to raise the collective frequency. A good example is that some curanderos, or native traditional native healers, are compromised. Or just plain fake. It’s a big, wide world out there, and it’s important to know where to get quality psychic protection from. As critical independent thinkers know, the messiahs who need an audience should be treated with suspicion or ignored. Indian philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) reputedly hated the attention. A gem of his wisdom was, ‘It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society’. Another philosopher of high repute who didn’t appear interested in fame was Alan Watts (1915–1973). He is widely credited as the first to bring the knowledge of Eastern religious and philosophy (Chinese, Indian, and Japanese) to a Western audience in the 1960s. Having dabbled in psychedelics, Watts was malleable and didn’t take life too seriously, which are perhaps two of life’s greatest lessons. Watts once said, ‘I have realised that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.’ So let’s not waste time with the second-rate messiahs – there are enough of the good ones about. Swapping Jordan Peterson for Terrence McKenna would be a good start. Hans Lovejoy, editor News tips are welcome: editor@echo.net.au

istory, declared Henry Ford, is bunk. And last Saturday, the Australian electorate agreed. Rather than punishing the coalition for nearly six years of civil war, policy inertia, dysfunction, and backstabbing, the voters rewarded them. Scott Morrison, the opportunist who manoeuvred around the chaos until the chance came for the personal advantage he had always coveted, was rechristened as the great healer – the new messiah. And his gospel became not hope and optimism, but fear and timidity. Billy McMahon’s reply to Gough Whitlam’s ‘It’s Time’ was ‘Not Yet’. In 1972 it was comprehensively ridiculed. In 2019, it has become a triumphant mantra. Indeed, the times have changed. The obvious winners are Morrison himself, who, like the man from Snowy River, alone and unassisted brought them back, and the hyperpartisans of the Murdoch media, who were shameless and relentless in their pursuit of Bill Shorten. And the obvious losers are Shorten, Labor, and the opinion pollsters, who, if they have any decency, would retire to their libraries with loaded revolvers and prepare for a dignified end. But perhaps the biggest loser is serious political debate. It is now clear that positive policies, developed and argued over many months – in some cases years – are simply not acceptable: too complex, too risky. The road to success is negativity, personal abuse, and scare, whether or not they have any resemblance to truth. If you like, you can blame Paul Keating as the great exemplar; he was the man who won the 1993 unloseable election by destroying John Hewson’s Fightback package. From there John Howard gave us children overboard, Tony Abbott the carbon tax and the invasion of the people smugglers, and Bill Shorten brought us up to date with Mediscare. But this year ScoMo raised the stakes and lowered the level: his anti-campaign was not just about the terrible perils of Shorten’s policies, but overwhelmingly about the man himself – it was personal. And it worked: the lingering doubts about Shorten, the fear even among Labor supporters that he was carrying too much baggage and was too unpopular to be electable, came to fruition. After three years in which the polls told us that a Labor victory was inevitable, the one that mattered went sour. Labor needed a mere net four seats to gain

government; in the end they may have managed just one, while the coalition may win eight. Labor did not win a single state and was wiped out in Queensland – it was almost a relief that the party already had so few seats to lose in the sunshine state and only dropped two. Two more in Tasmania ensured Morrison’s election, almost certainly in majority government. It was, the ostentatious Pentecostal averred, a miracle, and his zealous coreligionists who had already hailed his leadership as an act of divine will, will no doubt agree that the Almighty has now intervened to officially anoint their chosen one.

Morrison’s policy agenda has been kept deliberately threadbare, in order not to distract from the central message – kill Bill, it’s him or me.

Mungo MacCallum Although he has also cast out the Mad Monk – Tony Abbott has finally left the parliament, if not the building. This is of course a bonus for Morrison – the perennial troublemaker, the great wrecker, is out, along with Malcolm Turnbull. Morrison still has to deal with Barnaby Joyce, but the Beetrooter’s plans for insurrection will have to be shelved – his boring leader, Michael McCormack, has held all the Nationals seats and increased their vote. Morrison has plenty of clear air to revel in his unlikely supremacy. The question, of course, is what will he do with it? His policy agenda has been kept deliberately threadbare, in order not to distract from the central message – kill Bill, it’s him or me. In winning he will be unassailable, but still vacuous: apart from the big tax reforms, most of which are still effectively on the never never, he won’t have a lot to talk about. This will not prevent him from making a lot of noise – nothing could do that. But it will mean that when he does get around to trying a modicum of legislation, he will have to move cautiously. He can hardly claim a mandate for things he has not foreshadowed and although the new senate will be a bit easier to manage than the old one, it will be no pushover. But the biggest problem could well be the one Tony Abbott ran into in the 2014 budget – big unscripted commitments, broken promises.

If Morrison foreshadowed any agenda at all, it was one of steady as she goes – not a time for change, no surprises, no risks. But even inside the ScoMo bubble, politics does not work like that. There are already challenges that have to be faced – despite all the sloganeering the economy is not strong and may not even deliver the much-vaunted surplus Morrison has already celebrated as done and dusted. Action on climate change can be delayed indefinitely – that, after all, has been coalition policy for yonks; why break the habit of a lifetime? But wage stagnation is an urgent problem – if Morrison has any ideas apart from the long-discredited trickle-down theory, it will have to be addressed, and that will be contentious. But the honeymoon will be an extended one, because the opposition will be shell-shocked for many weeks. First it will have to find a new leader, which will probably trigger a brawl in itself. The two most obvious contenders, Anthony Albanese and Tanya Plibersek, are both from the left and will be factional rivals, and even if they can reach an accommodation the dominant right factions may jack up. Their leading man would have been Chris Bowen, but as the architect of Labor’s failed reform plan, he is badly tarnished. Both Richard Marles and Jim Chalmers have been favourably mentioned in dispatches, but are virtually unknown to the general public – selling either would be a big ask. And then there will be big policy issues to resolve – climate change may still be a plus for progressives, but it is clear Adani is poison: it was obviously a key to the Queensland debacle, infecting not only the seats in the north and west, but leeching into the outer suburbs of Brisbane Labor had hoped to win. The paradigm has flipped: the last few years saw the constant brawling between the conservatives and moderates within the Liberal Party; now Labor is facing its own showdown between the progressives and the traditionalists. It will not be easy to resolve. The world has not ended, and is not about to: life and politics will go on and in spite of ScoMo there will be changes. But for the moment, the slate has been wiped: history is bunk. So on to the future. And as Henry Ford also said, you can have any colour you want – as long as it is black.

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Winter warm Winter is coming. May I respectfully suggest that choosing a jumper, nanna rug, cardy, blankie, hoody, or doona is preferable over lighting the fire or turning on the heater? There’s no need to be silly about it, but sustainable practices need to start now and continue forever if billions of you are to continue inhabiting this beautiful planet we’re sharing. All you need to do is pause... and consider your choices wisely. A side-benefit? You’ll feel warm and fuzzy on the inside. M Nature (S Loyall) Bangalow

Vale Hawke I don’t know what year it was but Bob Hawke was up here to see his daughter Rozzie, and Bill Searle (father of Adam Searle) had invited him home. Bill was a shareholder in the ‘Cosmic Song and Dance Co’ in Upper Main Arm. It was before Bob had entered politics and there was a bunch of us sitting round on the floor. At one point someone offered him a smoke, which he graciously declined and offered the fact that he was the only member of his family who didn’t smoke. Onya Hawkie! Jim Nutter Main Arm

Byron’s GC heart op Is a rotunda still a rotunda if you can no longer walk around it? For 15 years the Byron Environment Information Centre (BEC) has been ‘a place to get in touch with current environmental issues

and with Byron’s activist heart’. Now it will no longer be prominent and central in Railway Park! Is this just a sign of the times that the BEC rotunda is now sidelined in this space, and ends up dwarfed by a bank? While not downplaying the need for an upgrade of this public park, I feel that this is all part of some fundamental cultural shift in the town, wherein Council proposals challenge community market places, and Butler Street residents are asked to suck it up when their neighbourhood turns into a traffic throughway. And with a proposed bus transit centre, Butler Street becomes as busy as the CBD. Amid a cultural shift that sees building height limits stretched, development densities exceeded, where town planning morphs into urban design and environmental assets stand scared in the way of progress – I feel marooned in Mercatoland. Perhaps the environment centre should feel lucky they were not knocked right out of the park! Robert Gibson Byron Bay

Kind acts Who says that we do not live in a caring part of the world? On Friday evening we caught up with elderly friends of ours (late eighties) for a pizza in Bangalow. Unbeknown to us the man had injured himself earlier in the day. But he duly hobbled in using a walking stick and after a relaxed and laughter-filled evening they left. After we parted company

it seems that he was struggling to get down the last step from the staircase when a car stopped and a young man jumped out to assist. That was so kind and unexpected, an act of pure chivalry and respect that we as friends would like to pass on our sincere thanks to that Good Samaritan. That sort of kindness restores one’s faith in humankind. Grateful Friends Bangalow

Parking in the Shire Since council repainted the parking bays throughout the Shire we have more parking problems. Bangalow has at least seven fewer parking options; Wategos has reduced by twelve to fifteen; throughout the Shire I estimate fifty parking spots no longer exist. May I be the first to say good job well done, you knob heads. A Hunter Bangalow

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Shitty welcome Greetings from Brunswick Heads. Six months and the toilets have not been cleaned. So they join the potholes as another defining feature of Byron Shire. A heads up – Bruns parks and breakwalls are littered daily with dog shit. Welcome. Bill Rawlinson Brunswick Heads

Politics of fear The feeling of optimism so many of us felt on Saturday has been shattered. The pollsters, press, and politicians of all persuasions were primed for an inevitable change, but the people delivered a twist

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that Game of Thrones would be proud of. In the past I thought of Australian politics as a kind of pendulum. When the government became dysfunctional or went too far we would give them the boot and the other mob would get a go. But we just re-elected the most shambolic government ever. Where are the swings and roundabouts, Australia! That theory’s out the window. Clearly the Australian electorate is not capable of rational decision making. We should collectively own this; it’s not the politicians’ fault this time, it’s the people’s. We made a poor choice. We just had a professional, well-prepared, stable opposition articulate a reasonable agenda and lose to a rabble offering only fear and loathing. The better options on the senate ticket as always hardly got a look in and the crossbench has gone to dog-whistling populists. Was the Labor policy agenda too grand? Was Bill’s dorky-coach approach so unappealing to the common folk? Did ScoMo’s selfrighteous shoutyness trigger some kind of herd-like fall-inline mentality? Optimism and compassion have been trumped by greed and fear. Australia must be so enamoured of the trinkets of consumerism and spoilt by the privileges of late capitalism that it is blind to the increasingly divided society and climate catastrophe unfolding around us. Those of us who want to hold on to hope, and continue to work towards a future that includes a biosphere and a society that believes in fairness, are ▶ Continued on next page

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clearly unable to rely on the political system to achieve this. We need to embrace necessary change. We need to be the change, and to show those around us that the way to a better future is one of compassion, not one of fear. In the face of the continuation of terrible government we must look to grassroots people power. It’s time for an Extinction Rebellion. Ziggi Browning Mullumbimby

Missing link The NSW state government paid for the path all the way

around Water Lily Park in Ocean Shores. But Council, who owns the 10m missing link didn’t complete it for fear that children might ride straight onto the raod. A barrier would’ve been a solution. They are also constructing, without community consultation, a bikeway through a reserve onto the main roundabout at Ocean Shores and Orana Road, which is completely at odds with the community-approved design that has been in existence for over 35 years. Jim Mangleson Ocean Shores

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Triathlon experience I did the Byron Olympic Triathlon on Saturday and just wanted to let people know how fantastic it was. Apart from the fact that I finished, the organisation of the event was spot on (especially given the obvious tight constraints they had to work within) and the crowds were so encouraging all the way along the route. Being a local I appreciate it is a big impost on other locals who are not part of the event, especially in the cycle route, but we should also encourage people to do sport and what better way than have 1,000 people from kids to over-70-year-olds compete in a tough multisport event. Thanks again to the organisers and especially to Byron Council. Huw Jones Brooklet Q Fair go for residents having to put up with gridlock traffic with Easter school holidays etc then comes the triathlon to put more pressure on. With one road in and out of Byron they stop everyone with road closures. Other events, weddings, parents taking children to sports etc, deserve a fair go. The potholes were filled for the triathalon, yet the people who pay rates for

roads and the filling of potholes have to drive and ride on sub-standard potholed roads the rest of the year even in the CBD. The roads in the CBD should be paved in gold not potholes if the council gave Byron all the money put into the parking meters. That’s what they promised other local towns. Not to mention revenue for councils from parking fines. In 2017 they were: Ballina $197,984, Kyogle $1,019, Lismore $118,968, Richmond $40,851 and Byron $1,384,354. How much has this substitute bed tax gone up this year along with rates? The CBD should at the very least be kept pothole free. How about a fair go for Byron Bay? Paul McCarthy Byron Bay

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Elephant in the room During the recent UNESCObacked World Press Freedom Day, I could not find a single mention of Julian Assange or WikiLeaks

anywhere in the program. When our peak international body hosts an event on freedom of the press I would expect those topics to be front row and centre. What an outright hypocrisy. At his recent talk in Byron Bay, John Pilger stated that the failure of the Australian government to do anything at all to help Assange should be a source of national shame for us all. I hang my head. Jason van Tol Myocum

Intent v actions The notion of affordable housing pricks the social conscience. Indeed it dominated the ambience at Council’s Our Housing Challenge last week. Affordable housing must not be confused with social housing. Affordable housing is provided by the private sector, social housing by the public sector. This is the starting point for any discussion on housing. Consideration should be given to the question: ‘Should Byron Shire be exempt from affordable housing?’ The question needs addressing because legislation targeting affordable rental in the form of secondary dwellings and earmarking a proportion of developments has failed. ▶ Continued on page 14

The blame game continues as no-one sues for peace Q Well said, Danny Wakil, in your response to letters regarding the situation in Gaza. Apart from espousing their obvious deep-rooted hatred of Israel, Gareth Smith and John Scrivener conveniently turn a blind eye to the

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which it is not. Israel can end the violence any time it wishes by ending the occupation but that’s not going to happen because Israel is clearly preparing to annex most of the West Bank. This seems likely to happen during Trump’s second term as US president. It is clear that Trump and Netanyahu have continued the US/Israeli plan to make the Middle East safe for annexation by removing or sidelining administrations that support the Palestinians – Libya, Iraq, Syria, and now Iran. America’s attacks on Iran gain urgency as Trump’s second term approaches. There will be no two-state solution. Palestinians will not be allowed to achieve statehood. Danny Wakil sheds tears over the plight of Gazans but until he accepts Israel’s culpability for the violence and the extent of Palestinians’ suffering at the hands of Israel they’ll remain what they’ve always been – crocodile tears. Warren Kennedy Mullumbimby

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Articles Look, listen and learn through the experience of Dungarimba Wandarahn Today we sat with Uncle Roy Gordon, we spoke about Bundjalung language. Uncle Roy is a powerful man, he has, as he says, a 100-acre voice. In this the year of Indigenous languages through the Dungarimba Wandarahn his words and the words of his Elder Aunty Irene Harrington will fill the community space at the Quad in Lismore. The gentle and genuine way that Aunty Irene has shared her story is inspirational. The truth she shares calls on us to stand up and be responsible as the truth always does. Aunty Irene tells of growing up forbidden to speak her language in public, not openly forbidden but told to keep it quiet and close to family because if the mission authorities or anyone else heard her speak then the family would suffer. This subtle control existed because children could be removed to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;saveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; them from their culture. This violence was possible because Aboriginal identity was deemed to be a contamination from a primitive past in the new white Australia.

Celebrate a free multi-sensory experience of Bundjalung language. Photo Craig Walsh Uncle Roy says loudly â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;ours is an oral cultureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;; every word is significant and so important for Aboriginal people because a word is much more than just a name. Uncle Roy goes on to say how the word for a person or a place is more than just a noun in Bundjalung; each name connects people to family and country because this is the way Aboriginal culture operates. These connections also mean that the language remained concealed and protected in families for generations. The way Aunty Irene holds and communicates her story, her endurance, and her survival are evidence

of the simple and effective way her family did language and cultural protection for generations. This doing is Aboriginal Knowledge in operation. Doing is explaining â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Doing explains everything. Our Knowledge has grown over a lifetime and continues to grow as Aboriginal Knowledge is alive, living, and moving within the environment that it belongs to. It is difficult for a Western culture to articulate and comprehend this understanding and sometimes it is near impossible to translate. It uses the action of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;doingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; to teach rather than a written description. By showing and sharing knowledge through action

to the younger generations they are required to respond by acting/doing in their way and so they are more likely to hold this knowledge and utilise it. Aboriginal Knowledge is a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Layered Learningâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x201C; layering knowledge is shared among families; starting with the youngest through basic interactions with dance, art, language, and everyday usages, slowly revealing more layers of knowledge through older stages. At Gnibi Wandarahn through the leadership of our elders we are adapting to write and present these â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;ways of doingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; in a form that utilises approaches that respect how country operates teaching and interacting with its people while also achieving higher education objectives for all students. We showcase and celebrate the hard times our ancestors have been through to keep our culture, languages, and identity alive. Our way of understanding shows in the response of Aboriginal people to the violence of colonisation, assimilation, and social exclusion as a profound example of cultural strength.

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The legislation fails at the outset because developers know that after 10 years the dwelling reverts to the marketplace, by which time the depreciation benefits are mostly written off. In Byron Shire, the cost of the land component would make affordable housing supplied by the private sector an impossibility if it is to meet its target population. The impact of Airbnb cannot be overstated in relation to taking-long term rental stock out of the market. The state government is not sympathetic to the part Airbnb is playing in escalating the local housing crisis. Neither is it prepared to take responsibility for providing social housing in this Shire.

In the meantime, Council has given away heritage in Mullumbimby to embrace the social conscience of affordable housing and may do the same in Bangalow. Tweed Council has embraced a social-housing project but the Local Government Act (LGA) does not provide for councils to do so. The legitimacy of what Tweed is doing will have to be tested. In the meantime, as I sat listening to the speakers at yet another housing forum, I was aware that some of the attendees, while embracing the gravity of the issue, have themselves operated or are operating Airbnb. It would seem the social conscience stops when it threatens household income. Patricia Warren Brunswick Heads

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rather than firefighting,’ Jessop said at the time. Subsequently Jessop edited the ACF’s newsletter for a number of years. However, he also understood that such a newsletter did not reach the majority of players and used social media for chess promotion well before such a method became standard. Jessop was notable for his support for initiatives involving juniors and helped push through the creation of the Australian Junior Chess League. It was not a coincidence that the AJCL was starved of funding by the ACF and forced to shut down not long after Jessop’s influence on the ACF had waned. The tributes to Jessop have flowed freely – well deserved for a major behind-the-scenes figure in Australian chess over many decades, as well as being a genuinely nice guy.

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Waiting for Godot the Byron bypass – or was that climate action? Q I am a 17-year-old who was born and bred in Byron. My whole life has been affected by the extraordinarily progressive approach to environmental issues that the Byron Shire is so well known for. I‘ve protested against ScoMo and Abbott with my fellow students for action against climate change. I am shocked to now learn our own council is about to destroy essential wetlands near Byron for the sake of a bypass. Our world is approaching a crossroads; the decision on how we as a nation react to the threat of climate change will shape our future for better or worse. I am dismayed that Byron Shire Council is considering furthering the environmental degradation that is causing the future of my generation to be in such imminent danger. This bypass goes against everything I have known and understood about the morals of the Byron Shire community in my seventeen years on this planet. In following through with this bypass, the council, who are elected to act in mine and my peers’ best interests, are dishonouring us as humans by furthering the already irreversible damage to the planet we are supposed to inherit. Vindi Ferguson South Golden Beach Q I believe The Echo’s commentary on the Greens candidate, Cr Lyon, were mean-spirited. Though not a Greens supporter, I believe the campaign against him, the mayor and other councillors for supporting the Butler

Street bypass route has crossed the line. It is intimidation and bullying. This project hasn’t just turned up from nowhere. Byron residents have long supported a second crossing of the rail line. The line acts as an effective Berlin Wall, leading to congestion and traffic jams right across the town. The route was first placed on the Council books in the 1982 LES study; the 1987 Council organised the crossing at Browning Street with State Rail and placed it in the 88 LEP. Anyone who purchased in the area after that time would have been advised of it. This is a second rail crossing for the locals to get around the CBD, not a nuclear power station. The NSW government recently bulldozed a $2.5 billion motorway through our Shire. This project is insignificant by comparison. The so-called senior Greens have, for years, pursued a ‘do-nothing’ traffic strategy on the basis that if they could maintain traffic gridlock in Byron Bay, tourists will be deterred. That’s really worked well! For over two decades, they failed to identify an alternative second crossing and would have this Council walk away three months from commencement. When a council project reaches tender and construction councillors can not simply abandon it on a whim, no matter how well informed, particularly where approvals are in place. The bypass has successfully withstood a court challenge and

the government funds have been allocated and spent. At this stage you are effectively asking these councillors not just to sabotage years of work and chuck millions down the drain, but to effectively put their heads on the chopping block and risk an ICAC or Local Government minister-ordered Inquiry. On this issue, I say to those carrying out this campaign, I feel you are leading the charge for your faction and seeking to dictate terms to these councillors. I think that amounts to bullying. When it’s placed alongside the recent comments of the other senior Greens in your paper, it is akin to intimidation. This would not be acceptable coming from a self-interested developer or property owner, so why should it be from any other source, however high-minded? I was happy to support the Butler Street residents search for an alternative route. But it hasn’t worked. We have currently an effective working council. Be careful. Once you have torn it down, don’t complain about its replacement. Oliver Dunne Byron Bay Q I needed to take a few deep yoga breaths before responding to Warren Kennedy’s letter (May 8). Mr Kennedy’s assertion that the Shire need not take responsibility for endangered species re the Byron bypass requires a rational, heartfelt rebuttal. I challenge Mr Kennedy’s belief that humanity shouldn’t be responsible for

preserving every species. We are responsible for massive species destruction. Therefore we have an increasing responsibility to redress the mess we’ve created. Extinction was part of the natural order, but now our arrogant and self-centred species has taken control over nature’s previous wisdom. We are in the sixth mass extinction. This was not created by nature but by us, just as climate change is being created by us. The UN recently warned that a million species will soon be extinct; this will have catastrophic consequences for every living species/plant life on the planet. This therefore does require ‘us’ to feel responsible for all species. Our plummeting koala populations are a stark example of our inability to protect dwindling habitat, necessary for our koalas’ survival. Our government agencies have failed our wildlife in every instance and our environmental laws must be ripped up. As many scientists have declared we must repeal the EPBC (Environment Protection Biodiversity Conservation) Act and start again. This time to implement laws that put ecological interests before economic interests. Over the past three years endangered species have increased by 30 per cent in Australia as land clearing has skyrocketed by 244 per cent. We are ‘managing species into extinction’. Remember each day that Earth does not belong to us, we belong to Earth. Lindy Stacker Binna Burra

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Articles/Opinion Bob the (Nation) Builder Charles Boyle On a wet and unusually warm Easter Saturday afternoon in 1979 a small group of hippies gathered in Kohinur Hall. Jim Nutter had put the word out that Bob Hawke wanted to speak to locals about the counterculture as research for his impending Boyer Lecture entitled The Resolution of Conflict. Hawke was a gifted peacemaker, a vocation that requires great strength and the ability to listen. A small man, he had a powerful presence; he was a great listener and genuinely interested in people. And there he was, resplendent in shorts, a t-shirt and thongs, lying on the floor smoking a cigar, beer in hand while his daughter Ros rolled us joints from an ounce of black hash. Light rain drummed the tin roof while we talked and he listened, asking the occasional question. He wanted to know the political attitudes of the hippies. But the more we tried a concise explanation of what we were doing, the more obvious was our lack of a plan. In retrospect perhaps we were trying to create an alternative society based on anarchist collectives, hippy communes where everyone was equal, everything was shared and the environment was protected.

Lots of people were dirt poor – few could get the dole and survived in poverty supplemented by growing marijuana. The people who arrived first to live in abandoned banana sheds and rundown farms were political refugees from the cities, who had grown up amid the popular uprising that ended the Vietnam War and the sacking of Whitlam. Many had fled the tyranny of Joh Bjelke Petersen’s Queensland, a police state where a pound of marijuana could get you life in prison. Few non-Indigenous people live where they want; most are tied to work and family or dwell in a place out of habit, but the hippies thought this area a paradise and came by choice to the Rainbow Region to build a new world of peace and happiness. Widely regarded as drug-fucked bludgers, we were targeted by police as enemies of the state. When Bob Hawke came to listen to us we didn’t have a realistic plan, but he was astute enough to see the start of a movement that wasn’t going away; he saw these people weren’t ignorant fools – they were bright disillusioned kids who wanted to change the world. No-one in authority had listened to the freaks before and a mainstream politician

wanting to talk seriously to us about our aspirations was the first stirring of the winds of change.

Faded dreams But time passes, the dream faded some, and life went on. People had kids and found work; for some drugs became a way of life. Properties were purchased and hippy communes evolved into multipleoccupancy properties. The kids who had arrived here in kombis clutching warm copies of Lord of the Rings are now old and greying, many have died. The revolution didn’t happen and the new age didn’t materialise – but it did have an effect on Australian society that happened so slowly it was imperceptible. The changes are there and we are still here. As dusk fell and we began to stir, Bob (then boss of the ACTU), asked a surprising question: did we think he should run for parliament?

Fuck yeah! You couldn’t lie on the floor smoking a joint with Malcolm Fraser. (Although when Jim Nutter offered him the joint, Bob politely declined pointing out that while he was sympathetic, he wasn’t in a position to join us.) He was so natural and unassuming with us it was hard to believe. That afternoon I had a camera but it seemed that taking a photo would break the spell of casual intimacy. So I didn’t. I know that a photograph of Bob Hawke lying on the floor of Kohinur Hall, half-cut and jovial in a cloud of hashish smoke could be worth thousands. But I don’t regret it; it seemed important at the time. That was Saturday; on the Monday he announced he would stand in the next federal election. The rest is history. And we even got a mention in the Boyer Lecture of 1979. Vale, Bob Hawke, and thanks.

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Growing up is hard to do – you need to think John Foggon What do you think is the most common disease of the modern world, now that most of the life-threatening scourges of history have been brought under control? As I stood outside the polling booth last Saturday giving out Greens how-to-vote pamphlets, I felt that sinking feeling creep over me. Was I experiencing that all-pervading disease that seems to affect every one of us from the smallest baby to the president of the USA? I am, of course talking about SBS – Selfish Baby Syndrome. Some people accepted my leaflet acknowledging they shared my beliefs. Most people brushed me aside. Then there were those who reacted with aggression. It left me wondering if I really was so out of step with my fellow humans. How could this be when I’m representing a party that wants equality for everyone and to protect mother nature?

Back to SBS. In any litter of puppies, what at first appears to be a seething mass of joyful cuteness turns out to be a competition between each baby to get Mum’s milk. They don’t hate each other; they are oblivious to each other’s needs. They only know their own needs and they will trample the others to get them. Often the weakest puppy will starve to death. It’s the ‘natural order’, the ‘drive to survive’. Any parent will tell you that a huge part of helping your child to grow up is about getting them to put aside this basic drive to survive and learn to share and to consider others. Greed is natural behaviour, whereas caring and sharing behaviour has to be learned. Once the second child arrives, parents really get to see how strong this drive is. Even after thousands of pleas to share, reassurances they are loved equally, there is still fierce competition

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between siblings. Learning to genuinely care and to regard others’ needs as being as important as your own is the major component in growing up. It’s not just a physical process, it’s an emotional and a moral ‘growing up’. A person who cares only for themselves is immature. When I heard Bill Shorten’s concession speech I almost cried. He was sincere and obviously cares about a fair society where everyone gets a fair share. One major issue that got the LNP over the line was Labor’s promise to address the negative-gearing loophole. This makes it profitable to buy extra properties to rent out and write it off against their tax bill. The Liberals push this as a fine way for people to increase their wealth. Labor, of course, see it as a fine way for those who are already well off enough to buy a second property, to secure their future by living off those families who can’t afford to buy their own home

and must rent. This drives the price of houses up. Each new generation of voters is like those puppies. It’s that good old SBS. Labor and the Greens are like the parents that are always trying to convince an immature electorate to give up some of their personal prosperity so that everyone in our society can benefit. The Liberals promise us wealth and security, while at the same time exaggerating our fears. It’s obvious that the Liberals are beholden to big businesses and banks that want to be able to make profits unhindered by caring about environmental damage. They also do not want to be forced to share more of their profits with the rest of us. They only need to appeal to the selfish baby syndrome within each voter to find enough people who will vote for them, to be able to stay in office. The solution? It is time for the electorate to grow up.

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Mullum — time to discover your own backyard You know that feeling when you look at your backyard and rather than seeing what you’ve always seen, you suddenly see the hidden beauty, delight, and potential? Mullumbimby, the Byron Shire’s backyard. It’s very familiar; you think you know what it has to offer, yet it has so much more; interesting, exciting – both established and new there is always something worth experiencing…

MULLUM VET CLINIC

THE CACTUS HILL PROJECT

Your local vet for over 30 years, servicing Mullumbimby and surrounds. A professional, friendly team caring for small and large animals. Mon–Fri 8.30am–5.30pm, Sat 9am–12pm A/h emergency service 6684 3818

The Cactus Hill Project creates unique stories for your home and life. Designer furniture, handcrafted ceramics, decorative objects, treasured textiles, accessories, and art are all curated in collaboration with local and international artisans. 6684 6110 cactushillproject.com.au

CHINCOGAN STORE

EDENS LANDING

SUNSHINE ALLEY

LINEN HOUSE OUTLET

Your local family-owned milk bar. Open seven days. Juicy burgers, crunchy chips, fresh sandwiches, huge thickshakes, coffee, sweets and treats. Catering and function catering. Phone orders welcome. 6684 2214 5:30am – 8:30pm

At Edens landing they take pride in serving fresh local produce, with both organic and conventional seasonal fruits and vegetables. Try their extensive range of mouthwatering antipasto, olives, and delicious cheeses. www.facebook.com/edenslanding 6684 1007

Sunshine Alley houses carefully curated local art, jewellery, ceramics, body products, and beautiful clothing. Owner and jewellery designer Susie Cadsky is happy to discuss jewellery custom designed just for you. 0429 191 106 instagram.com/sunshine.alley

Linen House has something for every room of your house. Quilt covers, sheets, towels, cushions, and more. All up to 70 per cent off from a family brand you can trust. 6684 6452

YAMAN

HOLISTIC NATURAL HEALTH

SOUL PATTINSON CHEMIST

DOLPHIN COVE BISTRO

Authentic handcrafted Yemenite pastry, falafel, Middle-Eastern spices, free-range, organic, local produce and love for the flavours of their ancestors, blended with the tradition of Yemen and the vibe of Mullumbimby. www.yamanmullumbimby.com.au 6684 3778

AHPRA Registered Health Practitioners: Jamie Bellamy – Acupuncturist (General Practice, Women’s Health, Emotional Imbalances). Prema Ra – Physiotherapist, Self-help for Chronic Pain. Michael Collis – Acupuncture, Chinese Herbal Medicine. Jamie 0432 034 202 Prema 0406 912 124 Michael 6684 2559

There when you need them. Highly trained staff offering expert advice. Your health needs are first and foremost. Latest health and beauty products that make you feel and look great. Last minute gifts... they’ve got you covered! 6684 4888

Dolphin Cove Bistro at the Mullumbimby Ex-Services Club, Saturday night all you can eat Asian-themed buffets $19.90 adults and $9.90 children. Like us on Facebook. FB: Mullumbimby Ex-Services Club 6684 2533

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Care for your Body + home surrounds naturally… as nature intended. Handcrafted body products, pure soy candles and homewares. Natural | Organic | ethical | sustainable. @In the Raw.Byron Bay 0413 446 578

Mullumbimby Newsagency has a wide selection of educational books from preschool through to Naplan series. If you mention the word education you will receive 10 per cent off these products for the rest of this month. 6684 2127

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MILK AND HONEY

OLD MILL TIMBERYARD

BYRON BAY PORK & MEATS

MADE IN MULLUM

Milk and Honey is a casual restaurant offering delicious, artisan, wood-fired pizzas and a frequently changing menu showcasing the highest-quality and freshest seasonal, locally sourced produce available. milkandhoneymullumbimby.com.au 6684 1422

Supplying high-quality Australian timbers to the people of northern NSW and southern QLD. We specialise in custom machining jobs, flooring, decking, structural hardwoods, and decorative cladding. 6684 1300 www.oldmill.com.au

A local, family-owned business that sources premium quality pork, beef, lamb, and goat from their family farms. Call in and see their friendly team. Open Monday till Saturday. 6684 2137

A collective of unique and wonderful local artisans selling their creations under one roof. All handmade locally. Always something new and interesting. Find them next to the Empire Cafe. Insta & FB: @madeinmullum

MULLUMBIMBY ENGINEERING

THE BRANCHES COFFEE

MULLUM CHOCOLATE SHOP

BAREFOOT LAW

For expertly fabricated structural steelwork see Noel and the professional team at Mullumbimby Engineering. Established more than 30 years and committed to 100 per cent customer satisfaction. mullumbimbyengineering.com.au 6684 2325

The Branches lovingly roast organic, fairtrade, specialty coffees and create delicious market-fresh breakfast and lunch offerings in their cafe. Must try: housemade bagels! Open Monday to Friday 6.30am–3pm instagram.com/thebranches_

An old-fashioned chocolate shop offering a great selection of chocolates, lollies, and liquorice with friendly smiles and service. They offer a large selection of vegan, organic, and gluten-free options. mullumbimbychocolateshop.com.au 6684 4825

Low-cost practical advice – to help you make good decisions. Tuesdays at Mullum Neighbourhood Centre. To see Mark Swivel or Fiona Spencer email: book@barefootlaw.net.au 6684 1286 barefootlaw.net.au

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Don’t be fooled by the name: the Festival of the Stone is not a pebblecentred period of introspection; it’s rather a community-based rock-out with live bands, Stone & Wood beer, and food trucks that somehow manages to combine family-friendly kids’ activities like dancing with fundraising in an atmosphere like a chilled long weekend afternoon that turns into an evening music festival. The somewhat pagan name comes from the ancient tradition of using a wood-fired stone to heat the mash and wort for the beer, but the modern Byron version, held on the long weekend dedicated to the birth date of the semi-ancient female monarch, sees sharing, dancing, and drinking together in a very local style, which wouldn’t be Byron without at least a few folk in festival-style garb ready to party. Last year the festival extended into the carpark of the neighbouring property, but this year is set to be the

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biggest Festival of the Stone to date, and for the first time it will be held inside Stone & Wood’s new brewery in Byron Bay on Saturday 8 June from 3pm till 10pm.

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The friendly fun vibe at these gigs is partly a reflection of the massive amount of goodwill generated around Byron by the brewery’s continued support of practically every fundraising and community-based event. It would be hard to find to find a local who doesn’t have something good to say about Stone & Wood, and it’s not surprising that the night itself raises funds through the national not-for-profit inGrained Foundation for worthy local environmental organisations and charities.

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General tickets are on sale now, and in the past tickets have sold out fast! With bands like Kingswood, Polish Club, Last Dinosaurs, and Tropical Zombie playing at past events, this year’s lineup will be revealed soon. In addition to the food trucks, their Malt Disney kids’ area is a dancing space that made us want to join in the action, and of course there are beers pouring from the brewery’s dedicated beer truck and Troopie, Clyde and Trevor. A family-friendly community event, last year the Festival raised $17,000 for Northern Rivers-based Big Scrub Landcare. This year, all event profits will again go to the inGrained Foundation for donation to a local charity, yet to be announced.

- 12pm - 6pm everyday -

General tickets go on sale and are $45 through Eventbrite, which includes a tasting of Stone & Wood’s seasonal limited Stone Beer. Ticket sales contribute to the donation amount for the chosen local charity. More info: stoneandwood.com.au

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Eating Out Guide BYRON BAY

BALLINA

Ballina RSL Club

Level One Pizza Bar & Snacks

Chupacabra

1 Grant St, Ballina 6681 9500 www.ballinarsl.com.au

Hot and Cold Beverages from 9am All day menu 11am to 10.30pm

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

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

SPECIAL $25: Pulled lamb pizza, with pumpkin, salsa verde, rocket and fetta plus a stubby of Coopers Pale Ale We practise the responsible service of alcohol.

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 www.WharfBarBallina.com.au

Beef & Beach Byron Bay Steak & Seafood Restaurant Open 7 days 11.30am till late (11pm). Serving food all day Bookings – 5628 7070 www.beefandbeach.com. au/byronbay

Legend Pizza

BYRON BAY

One Green Acre

at The Bangalow Bowlo Restaurant, Events & Catering 21 Byron Bay Road, Bangalow 6687 2741 www.onegreenacre.com.au Open Tue–Sun 12 to 8.30pm Seven Miles Coffee, lunch, dinner, events and catering.

With a menu the whole family will love, One Green Acre is committed to sustainable and ethical food, that is a great price and locally sourced. Specials: Tuesday: Stone and Wood curry night Thursday: Chook night Sunday: Full roast

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

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. Coffee and breakfast 6.30–11.30am Lunch 11.30am–3pm Dinner Tues–Sat 5–9pm Sunday long brunch 10am–5pm An extensive menu catering to all tastes, light meals/grazing, and kids welcome. We are in the new Mercato complex upstairs next door to Palace Cinema. If you are going to see a movie we can fit you in for a very quick meal and beverage. Just let us know when you arrive and we’ll make it happen.

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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

Targa Modern European

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

Cafe • Restaurant • Bar 11 Marvell Street

Byron Bay 6680 9960 targabyronbay.com targabyronbay@gmail.com

Barrio Eatery & Bar

Lord Byron Distillery

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

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

The Hideout Cafe Breakfast and Lunch 7 days a week from 7.30am Shop 6/13 Lawson Street 6680 9300 FB thehideoutbyronbay insta @thehideoutbyronbay

Luscious Foods

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

Main Street Open 7 days 11.30am until late Call to make a reservation or for takeaway orders 18 Jonson Street 6680 8832

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

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

Bay Pho

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.

Phone orders welcome 6680 9223 FB phointhebay

Fishheads

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

7.30am till late Coffee, breakfast, lunch & dinner, functions and weddings. Fully Licensed. 1 Jonson St, Byron Bay

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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No Bones

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

Open every day from 5pm 11 Fletcher Street, Byron Bay

6680 7418 @nobonesbyronbay

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

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

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

St Elmo Dining Room & Bar Mon-Sat: 5pm till late. Sun: 5pm till 10pm. Cnr Fletcher St and Lawson Lane, Byron Bay 6680 7426 www.stelmodining.com

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Handcrafted spirits using locally sourced ingredients.

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Pho Beef Noodle Soups, Special Lunch Stir-fries and Vermicelli Noodles Trading Hours Lunch – Monday to Friday - 10.30am – 2pm Dinner – 7 Nights - 5pm – 9pm

BEACH FRONT DINING NEW MENU Come indulge in one of our NEW creations or just come along for a drink by the sea

6680 7632 functions@fishheadsbyron.com.au

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

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

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

Harvest 18-22 Old Pacific Highway Newrybar NSW 2479 02 6687 2644

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

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

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.

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

www.harvestnewrybar.com.au @harvestnewrybar

Traditional weekend country breakfast Long lunches on the garden verandah Weekly changing Wild Harvest foraged dinner menu Lunch 12–3pm daily / Dinner 6–10pm Wednesday–Sunday / Weekend breakfast 8–11am Harvest Deli is open daily with take-away pastries, sandwiches and salads Harvest Deli: Mon–Sat 8am–5pm / Sun 8am–4pm Coffee cart 6.30am–2pm daily Harvest is available for events, weddings and catering

OCEAN SHORES

SABI Blues & Roots

Success Thai

CELLAR DOOR – TASTINGS & TOURS

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

Green Room Byron Bay

Happy hour AFTERNOONS 4–6pm daily $12 Cocktails, $7 beers, $8 wines, $12 Moet

Gourmet burgers created by chefs

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

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THE TWEED Only half an hour up the road, the businesses of the Tweed hinterland and coast offer convenience and choice in both day-to-day services and interesting and eclectic offerings. The Tweed Shire is a blend of traditional old country charm with chic, new artistic influences. It is definitely worth exploring. You'll be amazed at the variety and vibrancy of these localities.

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COASTAL CLASSICS

Gorgeous contemporary, antique, vintage and retro furniture and decor now in Tweed Heads. Timeless beauty in classic pieces – unique, eclectic and stylish. 129 Minjungbal Drive, Tweed Heads South 0416 106 428 @CoastalClassicsFurniture 2

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HOYTS CINEMA

Experience the ultimate comfort at HOYTS Tweed Heads South. Sink back into recliner seats in every cinema, with alcohol and hot food service, self-serve kiosks, free parking and great group booking deals! 54 Minjungbal Drive, Tweed Heads South hoyts.com.au 3

CUDGEN HEADLAND SLSC, KINGSCLIFF

Casual bistro dining with a spectacular view. Serving fresh and delicious meals seven days a week. Lunch from 12pm, Dinner from 5.30pm, Breakfast available Sundays only from 8am. 61 Marine Parade, Kingscliff 6674 1573 www.cudgenslsc.org.au 4

KINGSCLIFF NURSERY

Create gorgeous gardens with an amazing range of plants and pots of all shapes and sizes. Whatever your garden needs, they have something for you. Expert advice and great value! 438 Cudgen Road, Cudgen 6674 1022 kingscliffnursery.net.au 5

SALT BAR

The perfect spot to soak up the Tweed Coast views. Featuring pub classics and ever-changing local and seasonal dishes, there is a craft beer or wine to complement any selection. Bells Blvd, Salt Village, Kingscliff 8322 2085 saltbar.com.au 6

JOHNNY FRANCOS

Casual elegant all-day dining that is affordable and delicious. Open lunch seven days. Dinner five nights. Afternoon, morning catch-ups and takeaway available. Awesome Sunday brunches. 9 Commercial Road, Murwillumbah johnnyfrancos.com 7

ACE MURWILLUMBAH

Boost your qualifications and career prospects. Certificate IV Leadership and Management commences at Murwillumbah Community College (RTO 90044) on 5 June. One day a week/20 weeks. Subsidised places available. 9 /47–49 Murwillumbah St, Murwillumbah 6672 6005 mbahcc.net/site

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THE ADVENTURE CLUB

There is something for everyone at The Adventure Club. We stock a unique range of puzzles, games, and toys that are designed to inspire imagination, exploration, and adventure through play. Shop 1A, 51 Tweed Coast Rd, Cabarita Beach theadventureclubtoys.com.au 9

PURE HEALTH THERAPIES

Acupuncture, Ayurveda, osteopathy, psychology, and massage. Natural and integrative therapies for your health and wellbeing – Medicare and private health fund rebates available. 3/5 Coronation Ave, Pottsville 07 5613 6755 purehealththerapies.com.au 10

THE TWEED Tweed Heads

Delicious food cooked to order. Meal packs, burgers, homemade items and a variety of fish. Fresh fish too. Open seven days 11am–7pm Sunday to Thursday 11am–8pm Friday & Saturday Shop 3, 18 Philip Street, Pottsville 6676 2299 11

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Discover the beautiful village of Burringbar, home to Heath’s Old Wares and their eclectic collection of industrial antiques, bric-a-brac, baskets, man-cave items and curios. Open seven days 19–21 Broadway, Burringbar 6677 1181 www.heathsoldwares.com.au

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Shane Moore: Pairing people & property Over the past 10 years, Shaneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s passion for the Northern Rivers and his connection to the local community give Shane a unique approach to pairing people with the right property. Shane has joined Scot Fuller Property Sales & Management, bringing with him 25 years of business management in the travel and event industry. His commitment to his craft enabled Shane to build one of the most dynamic and trusted event agencies in Australia, offering the business world a fresh and innovative approach to customer care, team education, financial management, and

strategic solutions for their future business growth with his ongoing commitment to the following important steps: â&#x20AC;˘ building relationships to deliver meaningful results â&#x20AC;˘ adding a little magic with creative solutions â&#x20AC;˘ exceeding expectations every time. Shane hopes to share much of what he has learnt about collaborative partnerships (vendors and agent), (buyers and agent), and instill a professional and supportive environment with every interaction. He understands nobody knows your property like you do. Shane believes that with collaboration the outcomes are better and the journey more enjoyable. Shane looks forward to working together to achieve a great outcome for you. If you have any questions you can contact Shane atÂ shanemore@scotfuller.com. auÂ /Â 0409 077 898.

Property managers/landlord: smoke alarm facts Did you know that home fires are more likely in winter than summer? For landlords there is a responsibility to ensure that all rental properties have working smoke alarms and it is important that smoke alarms are checked regularly and maintained. Data collected between 2016 and 2018 show that a large percentage (over half) were found non-compliant. This means one in two rental properties does not have a working smoke alarm and, therefore, one in two managing agents and landlords has not met their duty of care.Â Rental properties must be compliant to the relevant legislation and it is the landlord who is held accountable through their duty of tenant care. Legislation in NSW requires landlords to install, test, and maintain smoke alarms in rental properties annually, and: â&#x20AC;˘ at the commencement of any new tenancy agreement â&#x20AC;˘ annually (as per the manufacturerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s warranty) â&#x20AC;˘ at alarm malfunction.

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29 Yalla Kool Drive, Ocean Shores

die for and huge party deck backdropped by a native bush reserve corridor. Inspect Sat 25th May 11-11.30am Price $1,400,000 Todd Buckland 0408 966 421

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45 Acres

195 Goonengerry Road, Goonengerry

23 Flinders Way, Ocean Shores

Gary Brazenor 0423 777 237

Inspect Friday 24th May 4-4.30pm Price $800,000 to $830,000 Todd Buckland 0408 966 421

1306A Main Arm Road, Upper Main Arm A warm and inviting home with some wonderful quirky touches which give it true character. Surrounded by five acres of privacy, the property is complete with a pool, a real artist’s studio and a great cubby house.

Inspect By Appointment Price $705,000 Todd Buckland 0408 966 421

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This home provides an exceptional opportunity for the astute investor or as a perfect family home. Easy living single level design and spacious with high raked ceilings inviting light and air through the home. Peaceful location backing onto bush reserve.

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Originally known as ‘Mountain Spring Dairy’ this vacant 45 acre lot sits 250m above sea level. With some of the most fabulous views in the area, this prime block will make the ideal location to build your private sanctuary in the rolling Goonengerry hills.

104 Shara Boulevard, Ocean Shores Under $700,000 and less than 10 years old in North Ocean Shores. A contemporary 3-bedroom home with polished hardwood floors, raked ceilings, stone kitchen bench and vanity tops, fully insulated, private yard, double garage and timber decks.

Inspect Saturday 25th May 10-10.30am Price $660,000 Todd Buckland 0408 966 421

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Set on a rolling green acre with 90m of permanent creek reserve frontage, this property offers a wealth of features: established gardens and fruit trees, four-car garage, and a big family home. Constructed of double brick with terracotta tile roof, the solid 2-storey house will accommodate a growing family or multigenerational living. Open-plan kitchen and dining areas have views over the property and allow the cooling breezes right through the home. 4 good-sized bedrooms all with built-in wardrobes are part of a floorplan that lends itself to easy living. Downstairs has a large rumpus room with high ceilings and bathroom, which could easily be used for guest accommodation or shared living. There is also a 2-bay carport, perfect for storing vehicles and or machinery. This is walk-to-town convenience with room to move and grow. Tonnes of space for chooks, gardens, and pets. This property has fantastic bones and oodles of potential. Inspect: By Appointment only Contact: Todd Buckland - 0408 966 421 Byron Shire Real Estate

• 23.5 acres tucked away in your own private valley - this is truly a country paradise • Expansive north facing verandah, complete with surround sound and a delightful salt chlorinated pool overlooking your own constantly flowing creek • Superb well-appointed kitchen with gas burner cooktop and double smeg wall oven, stylish granite bench tops, below bench fridges, breakfast bar and butler’s pantry • This characterful home holds the perfect balance of historical charm and modern

This is a rare chance to grab a beautiful creekside acre in Mullumbimby. It’s with a heavy heart that the owners have decided to downsize from what has been the perfect place to bring up their children. The home is family sized and suited with privacy from the street, and recent renovations have updated the kitchen and bathrooms so there’s nothing to do. Fully landscaped grounds are adorned with mature plantings including an abundance of healthy fruit trees. Established garden beds and paths wind through the property down to a shaded frontage to the permanent creek. The town centre, schools and sporting fields are all a short walk away. A fully serviced 40 square metre steel framed shed at the back of the house is perfect for storing and tinkering and 2.1kW of solar power will make keep the bills down. A great property that gives you both convenience and space. Inspect: By Appointment Contact: Todd Buckland 0408 966 421 Byron Shire Real Estate

amenities, where period features blend seamlessly with modern conveniences • 2 x 25,000 litre water tanks and a pump from the creek to take care of your gardens needs • 2 x large sheds to use as you wish, and wellappointed kennels for your canine friends Close to everywhere $1,405,000 Contact: Scott Harvey: 0412 296 872

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24 Nimbin St - The Channon At 1016 m2, Lot 1/ 24 Nimbin St offers you the opportunity to build whatever you please. This rare find of a vacant block is centrally located to everywhere. To the North you can easily walk to the school, and the town centre, with the general store, tavern and post office. To the South an easy walk to ‘Coronation Park’, home of the famous Channon markets, held on the 2nd Sunday of each month.

Just 15 minutes drive to Lismore and within easy reach of Nimbin, Terania Creek, Whian Whian and the Nightcap Ranges.

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Welcome to Mullumbimby Proudly stationed at the welcome gates to Mullumbimby, the property is set on a 746sqm allotment, overlooking picturesque paddocks giving the feel of ‘farm life’ but without all the hard work. Gorgeous timber cottage (circa 1920s) with panoramic views of the Koonyum Ranges, Mt Warning and Mt Chincogan. Walk to town, cafes and only 6 minutes to the beach. This unique residence is perfectly positioned for passing trade and would suit a home business. • Panoramic views over paddocks with spectacular mountain vista • Gorgeous 1920s circa timber character cottage • High ceilings, ornate features, timber ﬂoors • Covered timber decks, outdoor rooms, yesteryear features • Air conditioning, gas cooking, heat pump, ﬁreplace • NBN internet connected, town water, fenced yard • Privacy, views and 6 minutes to beach Inspection: By appointment Contact: Fiona Johnson – 0400 418 886 Elders Brunswick Valley Brunswick Valley

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BRUNSWICK H EADS IS HOSTING A U NIQUE COMMUNITY EVENT RUNN ING FROM 24 MAY TILL 2 JUNE. CALLED THE F ESTIVAL OF THE VOICE, IT ’S ALL ABOUT CELEBRATING THE POWER O F THE HUMAN VOICE. CHOIR DIRECTOR EX TRAORDINAIR E AND SINGER WITH THE LOVEYS, JANE T SWAIN, IS ON BOARD TICKLING TONSILS ARO UND THE SHIRE!

So tell me, Janet, what exactly is Festival of the Voice? The human voice is an extraordinary instrument, and our festival explores this; we are interested in its potential to reach into the human heart. This festival will be an outrageous celebration of what those little folds can do! It is THE inaugural Festival of the Voice in our region, a collaboration between the guys at Brunswick Picture House and Janet Swain from Song Dynasty Music. What was your inspiration? I moved to Mullumbimby five years ago, after living and working in Singapore, and I immediately started a bunch of choirs and singing groups because that is what I do. When I went to Mullum Music Festival for the first time I was really inspired by the community engagement and the style and variety of the festival, and I remember thinking that Brunswick Heads would be a great place for a Festival of the Voice. We are using four venues in this small town – Picture House, the Memorial Hall, St Thomas Anglican Church, and Brunswick Public School. The intention was that it be quite small and contained, especially this first one. However, we all know that the Picture House doesn’t do

small, and once Brett Haylock was on board it grew into what it is now. Essentially we want to inspire everyone to have a go, to explore their voice, to see and hear wonderful cutting-edge performances, and to have fun! The program is jam packed with really interesting and varied events. Our workshops are for everyone.

sang! For me, singing is a lifelong exploration – of repertoire, of building technique, of trying out different sounds, of connecting with other cultures, of telling and listening to stories. The vibration from sound is also incredibly powerful and I am learning to use it in meditation and healing. I can’t imagine my life without singing!

How have you got community involved?

You have kids performing Oliver for this. What’s the secret to working with kids?

It was really important to me that we involve our local singing community, including kids, and we have several concerts where heaps of people are singing – Great Big Kids Sing which will have 200 kids from six local schools, and Community Choirs Will Change the World. And of course there is The Oliver Project – our reworking of the Oliver story written and directed by Ollie Heathwood. This show involves many local children. What seeded your love of singing and music? I grew up in a very musical family – both my grandfathers and grandmothers were choir directors and musicians in small country towns in Victoria, and there was always some kind of singing in my life. My parents are both singers, and my brother (Andrew Swain who leads Dustyesky) and I always sang – for as long as we can both remember. I thought everyone

We have worked the kids hard and demanded a lot from them! As my mother Elizabeth says all the time, ‘Confucius said “a lion chased me up a tree and I liked the view from the top!”’ Never underestimate what children can do when given a push! Tell me about some of the highlights that we can expect? We have our Gala Launch this Friday afternoon at 5pm – Welcome to Country, followed by a 20-minute performance by opera diva Emilie Le Masson – all in the Garden of Good and Evil at the Picture House. Join us to kick off the festival in a grand and gorgeous way. There will be food available, BYO champagne, and then stick around for the Cheeky Cabaret at 7pm. Our program for this inaugural festival is varied and eclectic, from six exciting workshops to

cabaret performances, community choirs, kids singing, sound yoga and meditation, and classical choral works. Shout Pray Sing (on Friday 31 May at 7pm) is an hour-long experimental show featuring many of our performers and workshop leaders in an art gallery kind of setting, with live solo and choir performance combined with lights, video, and recordings, and featuring Dustyesky and local singer Áine Tyrrell. Amulet is a show of stories and songs by a multicultural choir from Sydney. I am encouraging singers to come to world-class performer Michaela Burger’s three-hour voice workshop called Freeing the Natural Voice, and to her two incredible cabaret shows. And also, if you have never heard a choir sing fast and furious Vivaldi and Bach, I encourage you to come to the Bruns Does Baroque concert – it’ll blow your mind and quite possibly singe your eyebrows. And then there’s The Oliver Project – but you’d better book your tickets soon because it will sell out! You can see the whole program at www.brunswickpicturehouse.com and we are on Facebook and Instagram.

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W W W. E C H O. N E T. A U / S OA P - B OX Last week I really did have Georgia on my mind. And Alabama. And Ohio. Kentucky and Mississippi. These are the US states lining up to pass ‘heartbeat bills’, which prohibit abortion once a foetal heartbeat can be detected – as early as six weeks into pregnancy. If a woman proceeds, even in another state, it’s a murder charge, which is punishable by life imprisonment or the death penalty. Alabama, Georgia, and Ohio have already passed these bills. Kentucky and Mississippi are next in line. As are Louisiana and Missouri. Most women don’t even know they’re pregnant at six weeks, especially young women who are not yet familiar with their body’s cycles. Most young women start their unwanted pregnancies in denial about actually being pregnant at all. For many, it’s not until around 8–10 weeks that we become aware of the changes in our body. I’ve had three abortions – all around 11 weeks. I was just 20 for my first, 24 for my second, and 25 for my third. I have no shame around my choices, because they were mine to make. I got to ‘play God’ in my own life.

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Is this why the state hates our choosing so much? Because we as women have the ultimate power? Does it scare men that no matter how much they oppress us, rape us, kill us, that we still have this primal power? We can make life with their semen and then it’s our choice to choose or reject? Is this why so many men keep turning up in our wombs and deciding what should happen there? This is the ultimate Christian conspiracy: the corporatising of our wombs – like they’re a chain of government-owned drive-through burger bars. There has been a national race in the US to pass new legislation limiting women’s right to abortion. All this began when Trump chose Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court. This was the fifth vote many believed would uphold new limits on abortion. In fact since then, eight states have passed bills in the US to limit the procedure this year alone. Being pregnant via rape or incest is no exception. While the pregnancy incurring ‘harm to mother’s life’ is noted as the only valid legal reason to carry out a termination, many believe that medical practitioners won’t perform abortions at all because of the risk to their personal liberty if challenged.

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This law isn’t just limited to the states where the bill has passed; it will impact on women’s right to abortion across the US, and possibly around the world, setting the pro-choice movement back 50 years, back to the era of the coat-hanger in a lonely backroom. The Christian fundamentalists are winding back the feminist clock, and according to them, the unborn have more rights than women. We are but ovens with legs. The women’s movement has come so far, but in a heartbeat, a foetal heartbeat, we’ve lost. Men have decided that women have no agency over their choices. Our bodies have been legislated. They no longer belong to us. The state will decide. In America right now it’s men’s ownership over guns… and wombs. The right to bear arms and bear babies. Australia looks to America for moral guidance. They’re our cultural compass. We emulate their values like some sick co-dependent puppy. America is our cult leader; we suck from the teat of populist thinking. We drink the Kool-Aid. It won’t be long before our alt-right and ultra-conservative parties start trying the same here.

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King Coaster have had a busy start to 2019. With their latest single Out of Time released at the beginning of May, they’re hot on the heels with the launch of their debut EP Superflow. The EP is made up of six songs in total, including the latest single and the much-loved Miles Away, which was released in January of this year and enthusiastically received by fans and critics alike, gaining Triple J airplay. With a solid, punchy drum backdrop the band’s music has everything it needs to appeal to a wide-ranging audience. In fact the lofty sound of their recorded music defies the fact that as a live act these guys pack a serious blow to the crowd. With elements of

Whether you agree with abortion or not, making a woman’s rights less than a 6-week heartbeat tells us exactly where we stand: back in the margins. On our knees in the dark quiet kitchens of HIS house. In a world where we earn 63 per cent of what men earn, where we have less property, where we are under-represented in government (hence these bills) why have we still got to fight so hard for ownership of the only thing we have: our bodies? Why are women’s bodies a country still colonised by men’s belief? By Christian soldiers who take no responsibility for the role of their cocks? Those flags of ownership placed into our wombs, making our vaginas their golfing hole. Feel the shoes in your womb? Start ironing your bonnets, girls, because Handmaid’s Tale wasn’t a dystopian fantasy, it was a documentary. This is not about abortion. This is about who owns us. It’s never been more important to be a feminist. A loud angry militant feminist claiming sovereignty on a womb of her own.

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THIS WEEK QOTSA underlying their increasingly rockdriven performances they’re the perfect combination of melody and grunge in an indie outfit. Superflow was mixed and mastered at Inky Studios in Byron with local producer Jordan Power. They return to Byron to play the Hotel Great Northern on Saturday June at 9pm. Free

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ELTON UKE To celebrate the release of Rocketman, the Elton John movie, Miss Amber and Stukulele are presenting two sets of Reginald Dwight’s finest well-crafted pop songs. Doesn’t matter if you can play the songs or not, this will be a great evening of music with the UKE NIGHT band and guest singers from the Uke Mullum community. So come on down to Club Mullum at the Ex-Services Club on Thursday 30 May from 6.30 ready to belt out classics like Bennie and The Jets, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Crocodile Rock and more. The songbook is available through www.ukemullum.com. Adults $15, under 16 $2.50, and under five free.

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PE: CINEMATIC IN SCO RE A S G N SO â&#x20AC;&#x2122;S O IR RIBE A CROSS DESERTS LIKE A , LS VE A TR T A TH , ITâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S MUSIC ETS LIKE FILM NOIR RE ST Y IT C H G U WESTERN, THRO SCAPE HAZY ROCK, LAND TO IN G N LO D EA H DIVING IOUS 60S PSYCH. D O EL M D N A E, C AMBIEN Have you always felt your musical creation process to be like that? The music process and creating is oceanic and forever ongoing for me; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a messy and mysterious thing but it comes together in the end. What were your earliest experiences of music and how did your process to where you are today as an artist begin? Did you grow up in a musical family? I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t grow up in a musical family but fortunately music was everywhere. The recorder in kindergarten. Singing songs about Jesus at school. Listening to my dadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s record collection at home, which included Cantonese pop music because he is Chinese. Listening to the radio and watching Rage as a teenager. Seeing the occasional live band, and tinkering on guitar and violin in my bedroom with a few throw-in lessons in singing too. It was what I always loved. I always made up songs and started writing them down from around age nine. After I finished school, I studied

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teaching and classical music, specifically the voice. I worked as a teacher in Indigenous communities in the NT, writing songs with children and adults in Yolngu language, as well as making my own music with a friend in Darwin. We were picked up by Triple J and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve just continued onwards from there working with amazing artists and mentors along the way. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re on your way to play Bello Winter Music this year. What can your fans heading to the festival expect from your performance there? A rock show with some standup comedy in between. I like to talk about my misfortunes in love. People seem to enjoy this. What else does 2019 have in store for Jess Ribeiro? Anything else you would like to tell all your people here in Byron Bay, Bellingen, and northern New South Wales? Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m happy to be coming home. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a while since Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve visited the Shire so Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m looking forward to catching up with old friends and family. Jess Ribeiro will play Bello Winter Music on Sat 13 July & Sunday 14 July. Tickets and info at www.bellowintermusic.com.

Women Like Us continues to win hearts around the country with their noholds-barred tell-it-how-it-is-comedy show. Garnering five stars at Adelaide Fringe this year from two reviewers, the girls were hailed by one writer as â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;goddesses who should be reveredâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. They liked that. They liked that a lot. Then they went home and Goddess worship was put on hold while they unpacked the dishwasher. Women Like Us with Mandy Nolan and Ellen Briggs at the Dunoon Sports Club on Saturday 1 June at 8pm. Tix are $35 at the club or womenlikeus.com.au

KARNIVOOL PEOPLE THE SLEEPING GIANT HAS STIRRED: AFTER A QUIET 2018 KARNIVOOL HAS AWOKEN. THE BEAST IS BACK! THEY SPOKE WITH THE ECHO AHEAD OF THEIR GIG AT THE HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN. Karnivool evolved out of a band you formed in high school so your musical career started relatively early. Where did the musical influence come from?Â Did you grow up in a musical family or did the inspiration come from elsewhere? My mum was a singer back in her day and I have a lot of uncles and cousins who play well and sing well so, I guess, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in the blood and bones. I notice you are also part of another wellknown Australian band, Birds of Tokyo. One successful band is often more than enough for a lot of musicians. How do you manage to balance your involvement in both these groups? Sometimes itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like juggling infant leopards but, for the most part, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s handled quite well. Both bands are very different stylistically so they occupy their own space, which keeps them seperate enough for it all to work.Â In 2010 you had a great experience when you played a show in India drawing 10,000, your biggest crowd up to that time. You said in an interview after the show, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;We didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even have a release or anything. We didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even realise we had a following there (in India).â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Must have been a real trip realising that you had this huge fanbase in this faroff country who love your music that you didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even know about. Has that happened since in other countries?Â Yeah it has, which is amazing, and I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all down to file sharing and internet access. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve

played in parts of Europe like Romania to soldout crowds, which is pretty insane.Â You have been playing gigs for quite a few years now. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s it like touring today compared to your early days as a less-wellknown band of young blokes living the rockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;roll dream? These days I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wake up from the night before feeling like a broken bag strap a hobo used as a headband for the last ten yearsâ&#x20AC;Ś Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m very focused these days on nailing the show and not the booze. As part of your Praxis national tour you guys are playing a string of dates on the east coast and are returning to Byron Bay to play at the Northern Hotel, 29 May. What can your fans up here in northern New South Wales expect from your show in a couple of weeks? We love playing The Northern so the band will be looking forward to it. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be playing some new music so the fans can expect to hear new â&#x20AC;&#x2122;Vool. What else is on the horizon for Karnivool this year? Do you have any other news youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to share with your fans?Â After the tour itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s back to writing more new â&#x20AC;&#x2122;Vool. We have a number of songs to finish for the next record so Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be very keen to hit some studio hours. I may have to get into an empty bath and think myself clean at some point but then itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s back to the studio. Karnivool play the Hotel Great Northern on Wednesday 29 May. Tix are $56.65 at northern.oztix.com.au.

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IT’S TIME TO GET YOUR HANDS DIRTY. PAUL BUTTON OF MULLUM CLAYWORKERS GALLERY SPOKE WITH SEVEN ABOUT WHAT’S IN STORE WHEN THE GALLERY REOPENS ON SATURDAY WITH A MEET AND GREET. What does the new renovation mean to you and the other members of the Clayworkers Gallery? I think that our renovated gallery will give our members new energy, new direction, and new initiatives in terms of promotion. It means a new era in Mullum Clayworkers. Our members are excited about the potential the gallery offers them to display and, they hope, sell their work. It also means that the ‘best kept secret’ in the Northern Rivers of a pottery and ceramic studio that’s available 24/7 is no longer a secret. The gallery is our vehicle for displaying and selling the beautiful creations that emerge from the studio. What’s the history of the Mullum Clayworkers Gallery. Has it been a part of the community for many years? I am told that the potters group was formed back in the 70s when pottery was done in the Drill Hall, so we are over 40 years old. By the mid-90s, the potters had built a standalone studio and become incorporated as Mullumbimby Adult Learning Association (MALA). Following a longstanding history of supporting local artists, in April 2007 MALA became a not-for-profit incorporated body, open for community members to join. In 2009, members formed a partnership with providers of services for people with special needs in the community, offering weekly workshops. In Nov 2010, what was formerly the Audrey Hoving studio space was converted into a gallery with substantial refurbishment by the members. In June 2011 this became the Mullumbimby Community Art Gallery – the only gallery specialising in three-dimensional art in Byron Shire. In April 2019 the members undertook additional renovation works to refresh the gallery décor, making it an even more light, airy, and attractive display gallery. To celebrate our new, refreshed gallery we’ve decided to rename it Mullum Clayworkers Gallery. What was the drive behind the gallery’s renovation, and where did the funding come from? Did the community chip in together to raise the funds? We raised money by running fundraising activities like providing chai, cakes, soup etc on exhibition and market days, and during Mullum Music Festival. Much of the renovation work was done by the members, except for resurfacing of the floor, which now looks fantastic. Tell us some more about the event you’re holding at 3pm on 25 May. Is this something everyone is invited to? What does the event entail? The Mullum Clayworkers Gallery Grand Relaunch will be open on Saturday from 3pm till 5pm with an exhibition of members’ latest ceramic artworks. There will be delicious homemade chai, cakes, and soft drinks provided by the members. The gallery will also be open on a regular basis during the week and at weekends. We’ve put a roster together, and plan for it to be open on Thursday and Friday mornings (9am–1pm), and all day on Saturdays (9am–4pm). Mullum Clayworkers Gallery Opening. Saturday 3–5pm. Located at the Drill Hall. All Welcome

‘It’s effectively a multimedia site sound work,’ says Craig. ‘It’s dual projection. We use video projection on the wall of the library. We can manipulate the spaces, we map spaces and take them out. We also project onto the ground. We have created an intimate space with a surround system. The reason I have done that is because the work itself is a portrait of Aunty Irene. When I started researching the site, I realised it was the old high school and Aunty Irene went to school there. She has lived through the assimilation policy. Her life is almost a mapping around the policy of assimilation in education. It became interesting to see her story and the story of the site and her recollection of existing in a dual culture. Living on the mission in South Lismore, where she had an education based at home with culture and language, she’d go to school where she would not be allowed to use her language. ‘Aunty Irene talks about how Indigenous culture was kept under the carpet. It’s really reflected in the audio,’ says Craig. ‘There’s a whole lot of symbolism that makes the environment reflective of the institution by using earth and

INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED MULTIMEDIA ARTIST CRAIG WALSH WILL CREATE A SPECTACULAR, LARGE-SCALE DIGITAL WORK IN THE QUAD PROVIDING A MULTI-SENSORY EXPERIENCE OF BUNDJALUNG LANGUAGE, HISTORY, AND STORY. DUNGARIMBA WANDARAHN (LISMORE PLACE OF LEARNING) IS CREATED IN COLLABORATION WITH SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY’S INDIGENOUS SCHOOL GNIBI WANDARAHN, RESPONDING TO THE LISMORE QUADRANGLE AND THE SITE’S HERITAGE-LISTED HISTORY AS THE ORIGINAL LISMORE HIGH SCHOOL (NOW THE CONSERVATORIUM OF MUSIC AND LISMORE LIBRARY). nature; we present two spaces and the interplay reflects Aunty Irene’s situation. She was someone who wanted to write her language – she did it in the dirty at home. This is not a narrative like a film. It loops and moves through different experiences and different periods of her life as a young Indigenous woman.’ In this site-specific work Craig Walsh takes us inside and outside the playground to reflect the life of a young Indigenous girl at that time. ‘She had to deal with understanding what racism was,’ says Craig. ‘We tried not to be too explicit. This maps the trajectory of how education is changing and how Aunty Irene and Gnibi (Southern Cross University’s Indigenous school Gnibi Wandarahn) have been working to include language and culture. I have always been fascinated by resilience, to retain culture in harsh circumstances and then helping all Australians get a sense of place.’ Site-specify work is something that Craig started doing two decades ago. ‘I realised,’ he said, ‘that when you work with a site you have be true to the site and talk to the people who understand that place. Early on I realised that I

needed ‘tone collaborative’ to make it work. It’s a process I work with all the time; it’s about facilitating the voice of another person and using visual devices to create a shared experience. ‘It would be arrogant of me to think I could go into a place and provide a new insight. So I make art, and create another layer. It’s more internist to be honest, and once distilled it can be defined in many ways. I think it really connects, not just the person who is involved, but its reaction to the people who live in the place. I think it’s how it contributes to understanding about a sense of place.’ This is a collaborative story – showing at The Quad in Lismore from Thursday till Sunday in a continuous loop (20 mins in total). Dungarimba Wandarahn (Lismore place of learning). A multi-sensory experience of Bundjalung language, history, and story created by internationally acclaimed digital artist Craig Walsh.Thursday 23 till Sunday 26 May, 6–9pm Opening Ceremony 6pm Thursday 23rd.The Quad, 110 Magellan Street, Lismore. Free entry. www.lismorequad.org.au

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C U LT U R E STARS ALL ABOUT EVE

Gillian Anderson and Lily James lead in the National Theatre’s live streaming of All About Eve, filmed live for cinemas from the West End in London. Lifting the curtain on a world of jealousy and ambition, this new production, from one of the world’s most innovative theatre directors Ivo van Hove, asks why our fascination with celebrity, youth, and identity never seems to get old. All About Eve is adapted by Ivo van Hove from the 1950 Twentieth Century Fox film by Joseph L. At the Byron Theatre on Wednesday 29 May at 6pm and Saturday 1 June at 1pm. For tickets go to byroncentre.com.au.

TRIBAL MEDITATION Meet at the St Martin’s Hall in Mullumbimby on Saturday for an afternoon together in mystical, cinematic, and tribal sound. It kicks off with a DMTFM collaboration sound journey and closing with a big sound mandala to create a 99-people intuitive choir! Led by De Meru Tikal. This is a fundraiser, with proceeds going to the Mongolia Eco Arts Tour 2019 – an Australian-Mongolian Multicultural project that will help to protect Mongolia’s largest lake from mining waste. 4–7pm. Bring a cushion. $20 at the door.

THE SCAREDIE’S BIG BERTHER

SCINTILLANT SUN AND EFFERVESCENT MERCURY IN THE SIGN OF THE TWINS RAISE A TOAST TO THIS WEEK’S GEMINI BIRTHDAYS…

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ARIES: Mars has you emotionally touchy with friends and family this week, while Mercury in your house of personal expression advises against lashing out in the heat of the moment. Rein in strong feelings before responding: walk away, breathe, or best of all sleep on it. Domestic unrest needs a cool head and smart heart. TAURUS: This week reverberates with vivid opinions, chattering static, negative natter, and the white noise of just too much information. You’ll have to contend with others talking in circles, but cerebral Mercury has you astute and on the ball where finance is concerned, with hard-bargaining Mars brokering the best deals. GEMINI: Happy birthday, Twins, as sun and Mercury in Gemini arrive with your annual challenge to maintain stability, discipline, and regularity in the midst of flux. Filmmaker Bill Bennett offers a possible approach, which is to consult your PGS (Personal Guidance System) via these five steps: Stop. Listen. Ask. Trust. Follow…

CANCER: With this week’s gregarious Gemini vibes, people are full of surprises: some delightful, others not so much. So steer clear of button pushers, avoid draining divas, and don’t let masterful Mars pile your plate with so many diverse commitments you go into overload and personal power outage. LEO: Argumentative Mars heating temperatures in the home zone may not make this the easiest of weeks, but it’s in your own interests not to take a head-butting approach to friction, tension, and challenges, as victories are likely to be Phyrric. Allow for misunderstandings – especially the ones on your side. VIRGO: With mindy Mercury downloading genius ideas fast and furious, this week strobes with lightbulb moments and eureka realisations. Long story short, there’s a lot of brainwork going on, plus driving Mars accelerating your teamwork sector. So heed the inner prompts of Saturn downshifting gears and pause before important decisions.

EXPOSING EDITH This award-winning cabaret tells the story of the legendary French star Edith Piaf. From critically acclaimed seasons at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Leicester Square Theatre, Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Festival of Voices, 10 Days On the Island, Fringe World, and Auckland International Cabaret Festival, winner Best Cabaret Adelaide Fringe 2016 and nominated for a Helpmann Academy, Exposing Edith charts the tragic life of arguably the greatest French singer of all time, Edith Piaf. Experience her life, loves, and losses through the songs that shot her to stardom including La Vie en Rose, Milord and Non, je ne regrette rien.

After 20 years as half of Australia’s favourite musical comedy duo, The Scared Weird Little Guys, Rusty Berther (the little one) continues the musical hijinks and slick silliness that established The Scaredies as one of the most sought-after acts in the country. Rusty brings his unique musical humour to the Ballina RSL for the very first time. Don’t miss this opportunity to see one of Australia’s best-known comedy personalities offering all his 20 years of comedy experience to the stage. Ballina RSL on Thursday 30 May at 8pm and at the Ocean Shores Country Club on Tuesday 4 June at 7pm. MC’d by Mandy Nolan with fabulous guest support acts. Both shows are free.

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Created and performed by Michaela Burger (vocals) and Greg Wain (guitar), Exposing Edith is a stunning mix of authentic French chanson and contemporary sounds. Having explored the undertones of Piaf’s vocals and lyrics, Burger and Wain have created their own unique interpretations of Piaf’s work, using voice and acoustic guitar and the subtle use of loop, delay, and effect pedals. Showing as part of Festival of the Voice – Sunday at the Brunswick Picture House at 5pm. Tix are $30/35 and $25 for kids at brunswickpicturehouse.com.

LIBRA: Libra Paul Simon best described this week: Everybody’s talking at me, I don’t hear a word they’re saying, only the echoes of my mind… And who really wants to hear Mars in Cancer arguing or Mercury in Gemini’s logorrhoea anyway? So get your love glasses on and let Venus light up your finest Mona Lisa smile… SCORPIO: Mars expanding your personal chemistry and social perspectives this week favours home entertaining, relationship renovation, and planning or taking a vacation. With Mercury in extremely frank and candid mode, it’s definitely worth being mindful that words have the ability to wound or heal, depending on your intent. SAGITTARIUS: The fact that humans have two ears and only one mouth is pertinent to chatty Mercury in your relationship zone, which also includes working partnerships. So resist getting carried away with complicated rhetoric or oversharing: keep it simple.This week’s mantra is Listen. Then listen a bit longer. Then keep on listening…

CAPRICORN: With Venus in earthy, flirty mode and lateweek moon in Capricorn corner escalating your attraction factor, hello hot stuff. But sensual grooves notwithstanding, you’ll still need to keep things on track while others are all over the shop and astral energies support getting ideas and plans mapped out ready to test. AQUARIUS: Mercury has this week’s minds and mouths hyperactive and working overtime, yours included. The devil’s definitely in the detail during weekend Aquarius moon, which may make you a tad hypercritical, so be hypervigilant in keeping your feedback and delivery light – which doesn’t require laborious effort, merely a modicum of restraint. PISCES:While it mightn’t be easy, it’s definitely necessary to keep communications as basic and uncomplicated as possible despite this week’s confusing profusion of changing arrangements. Don’t take anything for granted and do stay open, or at least less resistant, to ideas you wouldn’t usually consider: could they actually have some merit?

FIST FULL OF FACTS Byron Writers Festival invites you to an insightful evening with Sweden’s Anna Rosling Rönnlund, whose hopeful book Factfulness is changing the way we view the world. Asking big questions about the world is easy. How many people live below the poverty line? How many girls go to school? Why is the global population increasing? But answering them ‘factfully’ is hard. So hard in fact that because of our internal biases we get them wrong more often than not. In Factfulness Hans Rosling and his two lifelong collaborators, Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling-Rönnlund, show why this happens. Fresh from Sydney Writers’ Festival and multiple TED talks, this is an illuminating evening for anyone interested in the real state of the world. Thursday at the Byron Theatre at 6pm. Tix $25 and available at byroncentre.com.au.

FREE 2040 SCREENING FOR SCHOOL-AGE KIDS 2040 is a film for the new generation of thinkers and innovators and a must see for kids to regain belief in humanity’s future. Madman Entertainment and Palace Cinemas have partnered to announce that school-age students will be able to see the new film 2040 without charge on opening weekend at Palace Cinema locations around the country. Directed by and starring Damon Gameau (That Sugar Film), 2040 is a positive and empowering journey to explore what the future could look like by the year 2040 if we simply embraced the best solutions already available to us to improve our planet and shift them rapidly into the mainstream. 2040 opens nationally in Australian cinemas THIS Thursday. To redeem the ticket you must be a student 18 years or younger – bring your current student ID when purchasing a ticket; must be accompanied by one paying adult.

MEDITATING WITH A MONK SCHUBERTIAD Chamber music and songs by Schubert and Mozart Emilie Lemasson – soprano Bridget Crouch – violin Nicholas Routley – piano A multi-sensory experience of Bundjalung language, history and story created by internationally acclaimed digital artist Craig Walsh LismoreQuadrangle

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Khenpo Choying Dorjee is coming to the Northern Rivers from June 10 till 23 and will be giving various public teachings. Khenpo (a title that is given to a monk or nun with great erudition and human qualities) is the head principal and abbot of a large monastic college in India with over 1,000 students. Born into a Buddhist family in northwest Nepal in 1972, Khenpo has studied with some of the greatest lamas and scholars of his time. In 2002 he received the Khenpo title from Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, and in 2004 he also received this title from His Holiness the Dalai Lama. In 2013 he became the dean of the Khyentse Chokyi Lodro Institute for Higher Buddhist Studies. He has a number of local teachings. For info contact si.org.au or contact Jangchub Haubner on 0448 324 391 or Kamala Kennedy on 0427 568 185.

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As a filmmaker with a pronounced social conscience, and as a native Mancunian, Mike Leigh will have approached the story of the Peterloo massacre with both a heavy heart and fire in his belly. After the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo (1815), a bugler returns home to Lancashire, shell-shocked and dazed. He finds that the ‘sceptred isle’ for which he fought is riven with inequality and that restlessness among the factory workers of the north is finding expression through orators and revolutionaries who are demanding representation in parliament. Fearing sedition, the establishment’s response would be to repeal ‘habeas corpus’ (thus enabling authorities to detain people without legal procedure). By 1819, key figures among those who have not benefited from industrialisation are organising a major demonstration in Manchester to promote their cause. Collaborating with Dick Pope, his regular cinematographer, Leigh has a great eye for period as well as a refined sense of a period’s atmospherics – see Topsy Turvy (1999) for the definitive take on Gilbert and Sullivan. In this he departs from the traditional model of individual protagonist and antagonist – unless those opposites can be seen as the shimmering ideal of democracy and the reactionary forces of the status quo. A terrible sense of foreboding grows as Leigh, who also wrote the screenplay, leaves you in no doubt as to where his sympathies lie, even to the point of indulging in caricature when depicting the odious judges, ministers of the crown, and landowners who represent the ancient regime. This is an intense movie, built with attention to detail and a love of humanity, and it’s not entirely shy of humour – when the ‘celebrity speaker’ pompously demands his repast, the wife of the house looks to her husband and asks “What’s that?” As is so often the case, a largely unknown cast make it easier to become engrossed, free as we are from star-gazing. The final crowd scene is overwhelming and Leigh’s nod to the fourth estate reminds us of a time when newspapers were more than just advertising outlets. Fantastic.

It’s sometimes too easy to attend the cinema with not overly high expectations. The trailers for this were hokey and Screen Australia’s keenness to award grants to Indigenous projects can get a bit ho-hum. And in the end there are no surprises in Wayne Blair’s sweet rom-com, but I’ll be damned if a man didn’t have a tear in his eye when it was done and dusted. Lauren (Miranda Tapsell) has agreed to marry her white boyfriend, Ned (Gwyllim Lee). They travel to Darwin to bring the good news to her parents, but upon arrival Lauren discovers that her mother has left her (also white) father, Trevor (Huw Higginson). Trevor is a pathetic character who locks himself in the cupboard to play Chicago’s If you leave me now every time his wife comes to mind – I would not have cared if he never came out. Lauren and Ned embark on a road trip to find the missing mum, so if you like the Top End scenery you’ll love the visuals. But there is a moment when, just as things are turning predictable to the point of dreariness, the voices of a female choir singing an ancient song in their native language is heard as the camera pans across the horizon. It’s incredibly moving and it underscores the theme of re-connection with Land that Lauren will undergo. Eventually, she learns that her mother has returned to the Tiwi Islands, a god-forsaken place where there are a lot of people hanging around on littered streets with nothing to do – as a tourist promo it doesn’t exactly shout ‘come visit!’ Lauren’s reunion with her mother and introduction to her grandparents is genuinely moving and the feelgood wedding is highlighted, again, by the singing of the face-painted old women of her mob. The air of authenticity is palpable and it more than makes up for the writing by numbers that preceded it. Tapsell grates a bit, but Ursula Yovich is terrific as the mother and Lee likeable as the groom.

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PAINTING ANIMALS Working in pastel artist Terri Bradley paints animals and birds, subjects she describes as her passions. She supports charities that rescue injured or mistreated animals and nurses them back to health. She will be donating 10 per cent of her proceeds of the sales of her upcoming exhibition to Four Paws Australia. You can see Terri’s work at the Kirra Hill Gallery at the Community Centre (behind the Iron Eagle). 9am–4pm. Until May 31.

The musical Pirates of Penzance was written in 1879 by Gilbert and Sullivan and it remains a classic musical with huge popular appeal. Pirates of Penzance opens at Ballina Players Theatre on 14 June for 14 performances, finishing on 7 July. Tickets are $30/Adult, $22/Child (16 & under), and are available at Just Funkin Music, 124 River St, Ballina, 6686 2440 (a $2 booking fee applies) or online at www.ballinaplayers.com.au (no booking fee). All shows are at 8pm except for Sundays, which are at 2pm.

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3:00pm Gloria Bell 5:00pm Avengers: Endgame 8:15pm Top End Wedding

TUESDAY 28TH MAY 11.00am 1:00pm 3:15pm 5:15pm 7:30pm

The Chaperone Top End Wedding Gloria Bell Top End Wedding Avengers: Endgame

WEDNESDAY 29TH MAY 11.00am 1.00pm 3.00pm 6.00pm

Top End Wedding Gloria Bell Top End Wedding Films For Change Presents The Connected Universe 8.15pm Avengers: Endgame

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THURSDAY 23 Q HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON BAY, FRIEND ZONE Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, VANESSA BAKER Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 8PM THE DETECTIVES Q BYRON BAY BREWERY 6PM ARMANDINHO + KIMMY N’ CREW Q BYRON THEATRE 6PM BYRON WRITERS FESTIVAL PRESENTS FACTFULNESS WITH ANNA ROSLING RÖNNLUND Q TREEHOUSE, BYRON BAY, 7PM BENJI & THE SALTWATER PEOPLE Q WOODY’S SURF SHACK, BYRON BAY, UPSTAIRS 9PM THURSDAY TAKEOVER WITH DJ REFLEX + FRIENDS Q A&I HALL, BANGALOW, 7.30PM DREAMLAND Q SABI BLUES & ROOTS, OCEAN SHORES, 6PM MANOA Q BALLINA RSL LEVEL ONE 7PM KINGS OF COUNTRY Q MARY G’S, LISMORE, SYDNEY HOTSHOTS Q DUSTY ATTIC, LISMORE, GREENSWOOD Q THE QUAD, LISMORE, 6PM DUNGARIMBA WANDARAHN (LISMORE PLACE OF LEARNING) Q MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES CLUB 6PM PHIL GUEST Q KINGSCLIFF BEACH HOTEL 7PM MALLRAT + KOTA BANKS Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS, 2PM SOCIAL NEW VOGUE DANCING

FRIDAY 24 Q HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON BAY, HANDS LIKE HOUSES, YOUNG LIONS & WHARVES Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, RAGGA JUMP Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 8PM BALL PARK MUSIC Q BYRON BAY BREWERY 6PM NICK CUNNINGHAM + GUESTS Q BYRON THEATRE 7.30PM SACRED EARTH – LIVE IN

CONCERT Q TREEHOUSE, BYRON BAY, 7PM BEJA MEEK Q WOODY’S SURF SHACK, BYRON BAY, UPSTAIRS 9PM LIVE DJS Q PARK HOTEL, SUFFOLK PARK, 6PM RAKU ONE O’GAIA Q BANGALOW HOTEL 7PM TAHLIA MATHESON Q A&I HALL, BANGALOW, 7.30PM DREAMLAND Q HOTEL BRUNSWICK 7PM MARSHALL OKELL DUO Q BRUNSWICK HEADS PICTURE HOUSE 5PM FESTIVAL OF THE VOICE – GALA LAUNCH, 7PM CHEEKY CABARET Q SABI BLUES & ROOTS, OCEAN SHORES, 6PM ANDY JANSBROWN Q MIDDLE PUB, MULLUMBIMBY, 8PM KRAPPYOKEE Q DRILL HALL THEATRE, MULLUMBIMBY, 8PM SHIT Q LENNOX HOTEL 10PM THE BILLY GUDGEON BAND Q BALLINA RSL LEVEL ONE 6.30PM JOCK BARNES Q HOTEL ILLAWONG, EVANS HEAD, 8.30PM WHO’S CHARLIE Q DUSTY ATTIC, LISMORE, BENJI & THE SALTWATER SOUND SYSTEM Q THE QUAD, LISMORE, 6PM DUNGARIMBA WANDARAHN (LISMORE PLACE OF LEARNING) Q LISMORE WORKERS CLUB MAIN LOUNGE 7.30PM CHECK 2 Q CASINO GOLF CLUB 7.30PM DISCO STATIK – CHILL SESSION Q MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES CLUB 6PM CHERILEE HALL, 7.30PM COURT N SPARK Q CIVIC CENTRE AUDITORIUM, MURWILLUMBAH, 7.30PM IT’S MY PARTY (AND I’LL DIE IF I WANT TO) Q KINGSCLIFF BEACH BOWLS 7.30PM BRETT HEALY Q SALTBAR, KINGSCLIFF, 8.30PM LEIGH JAMES Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS, 2PM DANIELLE GOULLET PRESENTS, 5PM DAVE CAVANAGH, T8PM BOYS IN THE BAND

Q SOUNDLOUNGE, CURRUMBIN, KYLE LIONHART, 7.30PM GANGGAJANG Q CURRUMBIN PUB 8PM WOODSHED ‘SINGLE LAUNCH’, ACACIA, HAPPY RAYZ, DREAMS OF INDIGO Q COOLANGATTA HOTEL 8PM BIG NIGHT OUT

SATURDAY 25 Q HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON BAY, PACIFIC AVENUE, PORT ROYAL & FLORA LINK Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, DEVILS KIOSK Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 5PM DJ LONGTIME, 5PM DJ JUST SAYIN’ Q BYRON BAY BREWERY 6PM COCO REPUBLIC Q BYRON THEATRE 8PM THE SIDEMEN Q HOTEL BRUNSWICK 7PM BROADFOOT Q BRUNSWICK HEADS PICTURE HOUSE FESTIVAL OF THE VOICE, 7PM CHEEKY CABARET Q PALACE CINEMAS, BYRON BAY, 2040 (FREE SCREENING FOR STUDENTS) Q FOXY LUU’S, BYRON BAY, 6PM ACOUSTIC GYPSY JAZZ WITH BEN JULIAN Q TREEHOUSE, BYRON BAY, 7PM CHRISTIAN PATEY Q PARK HOTEL, SUFFOLK PARK, 8PM EPIC Q BANGALOW BOWLO 2PM JON J BRADLEY Q A&I HALL, BANGALOW, 3PM DREAMLAND, 7.30PM DREAMLAND Q BANGALOW HOTEL 7PM STEPHEN LOVELIGHT Q SABI BLUES & ROOTS, OCEAN SHORES, 6PM ELANI BUTLER Q LULUS CAFE, MULLUMBIMBY, 11AM MANDY HAWKES Q MULLUMBIMBY CIVIC HALL 3.30PM AMATORI Q ST MARTIN’S, MULLUMBIMBY, 4PM BLUESKAY TRIBAL CHOIR & SOUND MEDITATION Q CLUB MULLUM, MULLUMBIMBY, 7.30PM RUSSELL FAMILY JAZZ EXPERIENCE Q DRILL HALL THEATRE, MULLUMBIMBY, 8PM ‘SHIT’ Q BALLINA RSL LEVEL ONE 6PM STU BLACK, 9PM BOURBON STREET Q HOTEL ILLAWONG, EVANS HEAD, 8.30PM DJ CORNELIUS Q EUREKA HALL 6PM FOLK AT EUREKA HALL

Q MARY G’S, LISMORE, PUSH Q DUSTY ATTIC, LISMORE, EASILY BRIBED Q THE QUAD, LISMORE, 6PM DUNGARIMBA WANDARAHN (LISMORE PLACE OF LEARNING) Q LISMORE WORKERS CLUB MAIN LOUNGE 7.30PM DAISY DUKES Q CIVIC CENTRE AUDITORIUM, MURWILLUMBAH, 7.30PM IT’S MY PARTY (AND I’LL DIE IF I WANT TO) Q CABARITA BEACH SPORTS CLUB 7.30PM THE JACKS BAND Q SALTBAR, KINGSCLIFF, 8.30PM DJ DAYLEE Q SHEOAK SHACK, FINGAL HEAD, 2PM DEAN HAITANI, 7PM BENJI AND THE SALTWATER SOUND SYSTEM Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS, 8PM KINGS OF COUNTRY Q CHINDERAH TAVERN 6.30PM MATTY ROGERS Q COOLANGATTA HOTEL 8PM AMANDINHO

SUNDAY 26 Q HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON BAY, JESSE PUMPHREY Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, HELL & WHISKEY Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 4.30PM LISA HUNT, 8PM DJ MY HAPPY PLACE Q BYRON BAY BREWERY 3PM SUBSONIC LAUNCH PARTY Q BYRON THEATRE 3PM GAUGUIN IN TAHITI: PARADISE LOST – ART ON SCREEN Q PALACE CINEMAS, BYRON BAY, 2040 (FREE SCREENING FOR STUDENTS) Q TREEHOUSE, BYRON BAY, 12PM SUNDAY SESSION DJS VINNIE LADUCE & JEZ VEGAS Q PARK HOTEL, SUFFOLK PARK, 5PM ADAM HARPAZ Q BANGALOW HOTEL 1PM BACKBEAT Q DOMA, FEDERAL, 3PM GLENN KELLET Q HOTEL BRUNSWICK 4PM MADDY JANE Q BRUNSWICK HEADS PICTURE HOUSE FESTIVAL OF THE VOICE, 5PM EXPOSING EDITH STARRING MICHAELA BURGER Q SABI BLUES & ROOTS, OCEAN SHORES, 6PM BE HAPPY MUSIC CLUB Q COURT HOUSE HOTEL, MULLUMBIMBY, 1PM ANDY BUCKLE

Q BILLINUDGEL HOTEL SON OF DRUM Q ST MARY’S ANGLICAN CHURCH, BALLINA, 3.30PM AMATORI Q HOTEL ILLAWONG, EVANS HEAD, 3PM SARAH GRANT Q LISMORE WORKERS CLUB 11.30AM COUNTRY CARNA Q THE QUAD, LISMORE, 6PM DUNGARIMBA WANDARAHN (LISMORE PLACE OF LEARNING) Q SPHINX ROCK CAFE, MT BURRELL, 12PM BUTTON COLLECTIVE Q SOUNDLOUNGE, CURRUMBIN, 7.30PM I KNOW LEOPARD

MONDAY 27 Q HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON BAY, DAN CLARK Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, FINTAN & CO Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 8PM 4’20 SOUND REGGAE NIGHT Q FRESH, BYRON BAY, 4PM STEVE TYSON Q TREEHOUSE, BYRON BAY, 6PM MONSIEUR DIOP (DJ SET) Q WOODY’S SURF SHACK, BYRON BAY, UPSTAIRS 9PM REGGAE AFTERPARTY Q BRUNSWICK HEADS PICTURE HOUSE FESTIVAL OF THE VOICE, 9.30AM THE PICTURE HOUSE CHOIR Q KINGSCLIFF BEACH BOWLS 12.30PM RAFF DE Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS, 2.30PM LINE DANCING WITH RUSSELL HINTON, 6.30PM MARK WILSON'S DANCE NIGHT

TUESDAY 28 Q HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON BAY, MARSHALL OKELL Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, JASON DELPHIN Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 8PM BEN WALSH Q TREEHOUSE, BYRON BAY, 6PM VINNIE LADUCE (DJ SET) Q WOODY’S SURF SHACK, BYRON BAY, UPSTAIRS 9PM HIP-HOP HOORAY LIVE DJS Q BANGALOW HOTEL 7PM BRACKETS OPEN MIC Q A&I HALL, BANGALOW, 7.30PM DREAMLAND Q BRUNSWICK HEADS PICTURE HOUSE 6PM FESTIVAL OF THE VOICE WORKSHOP: FREE YOUR NATURAL VOICE BY MICHAELA BURGER Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS, 1PM SOCIAL NEW VOGUE DANCING

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WEDNESDAY 29 Q HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON BAY, KARNIVOOL Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, OOZ Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 8PM SCOTT DAY VEE Q BYRON BAY BREWERY 7.30PM OPEN MIC Q BYRON THEATRE 6.30PM ALL ABOUT EVE STARRING GILLIAN ANDERSON – NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE Q BRUNSWICK HEADS PICTURE HOUSE 6PM FESTIVAL OF THE VOICE FILM: SISTER ACT 2, BACK IN THE HABIT Q TREEHOUSE, BYRON BAY, 6PM DUSTIN MCLEAN (DJ SET) Q WOODY’S SURF SHACK, BYRON BAY, UPSTAIRS 9PM DJ MY HAPPY PLACE Q BANGALOW HOTEL 7PM TRIVIA WITH TRENT Q A&I HALL, BANGALOW, 7.30PM DREAMLAND Q DUSTY ATTIC, LISMORE, DUSTY OPEN MIC Q TWIN TOWNS, TWEED HEADS,1.30PM THE MUSTANGS TRIO, 6.30PM ATMOSPHERE

WHAT’S ON BWF PRESENTS FACTFULNESS WITH ANNA ROSLING RÖNNLUND Thursday 23 May, 6.00pm Full $30 | BWF Members $25 Info & Tickets at www.byronwritersfestival.com

SACRED EARTH – LIVE IN CONCERT Friday 24 May, 7.30pm All tickets $38.80 | All ages event

BEACH SLEEPERS-YOUTH ARTS PROJECT FILMMAKING, MUSIC AND VISUAL ARTS WORKSHOPS FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT BYS

THE SIDEMEN PRESENTED BY STEVE BANKS PRODUCTIONS Saturday 25 May, 8.00pm All tickets $32.50 | Ages 16+

Sunday 26 May, 3.00pm Full $20 | Conc $18 | BT Club $18 | U18 $15

ALL ABOUT EVE WITH GILLIAN ANDERSON NT LIVE SCREENING Wed 29 May, 6.30pm & Sat 1 June, 1.00pm Full $25 | Conc $23 | BT Club $20 U18 $15 | Group of 10+ $15

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6685 6807

MAY/JUNE

GAUGUIN IN TAHITI: PARADISE LOST ART ON SCREEN

MONDAYS 20 MAY & 3 JUNE 3.30–5.30PM

HOUSING WORKSHOPS WITH THE FAMILY CENTRE

TUESDAY 4 JUNE 4.30 TO 7.30PM

SAFER DRIVERS COURSE FOR LEARNERS

CALL KYM ON 0400 007 834

$140 – BOOKINGS: WWW.BYS.ORG.AU

TUESDAY 18 JUNE 4.30–7.30PM

$50 - AGES: 15 TO 24 BOOKINGS: WWW.BYS.ORG.AU

WED & THURS 3.30–5.30PM

WEDNESDAYS AT THE COTTAGE, MULLUMBIMBY THURSDAYS AT BYRON HIGH SCHOOL

BARISTA COURSE LEVEL 1

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ACCOUNTS & BOOKINGS: 6684 1777

INDEX Accountants & Bookkeepers.............. 39 Acupuncture ..................................... 39 Agent ................................................ 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, Shutters... 39 Bricklaying ........................................ 39 Building Trades ................................. 39 Bush Regen & Weed Control.............. 39 Carpet Cleaning................................. 39 Chimney Sweeping ........................... 39 Chiropractic....................................... 39 Cleaning............................................ 40 Computer Services ............................ 40 Concreting & Paving.......................... 40 Decks, Patios & Extensions ................ 40 Dentists............................................. 40 Design & Drafting ............................. 40 Driveway Maintenance ..................... 40 Earthmoving & Excavation ................ 40 Electricians........................................ 40 Fencing ............................................. 40 Floor Sanding & Polishing ................. 40 Garage Doors .................................... 41 Garden & Property Maintenance....... 41 Garden Design .................................. 41 Gas Suppliers .................................... 41 Glaziers ............................................. 41 Graphic Design .................................. 41 Guttering .......................................... 41 Handypersons ................................... 41

ANTENNAS & INSTALLATION

BUILDING TRADES • 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

Friendly Reliable Prompt Local

JP DIGITAL ANTENNAS Reception problems, new antennas, extra TV points, all areas .....0432 289705

Darren Paxton

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Master Builders Licence No.94573C

0412 497 637

1300 095 393

FURNITURE RESTORATION Old/antique, 40+ yrs exp. erwinfurniturerestoration.com ...0412 528454

APP DEVELOPERS

YOUR LOCAL APP DEVELOPERS Have an idea? We can build it.

Call Peter

0419 260 726

iOS and Android apps written in native code. Book an appointment. www.unidap.com.au

ATELIER LUKE – Luke Hayward architect, Reg. 10438 www.atelierluke.com ...............0401 875535

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

• Tyres • Batteries • Wheel Alignments MULLUMBIMBY TYRE SERVICE Dalley Street, Mullumbimby 6684 2016

LEGENDARY OFFROAD TYRES

CARPENTER. Insured & qualified. Homes, decks, small jobs, free quotes. Lic 231104C...0431 674377 CARPENTER BUILDER Extend, renos, cabins, sheds. Peter Bergin Lic 147887C..................0432 060110 CARPENTER HANDYMAN FB Greg’s Handyman Services Byron Bay Lic No 1039897....0414 109595

Affordable bathroom renovations are our speciality. From a simple makeover, to a total transformation, we deliver on our guarantee of workmanship and price.

Call Kane

0410 534 081

All aspects of plumbing: Gas Fitting, Drainage, Construction, Renovations. 15+ years experience. Free quotes. Licence # 289899C

LOCAL

SHOWCASE DEALER SHOWROOM

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CURTAINS

SPECIALISTS IN HOME AUTOMATION

6680 9394

www.blinddesignbyronbay.com.au

– Sales – Installation – Repairs – All Commercial Refrigeration – Residential & Commercial Airconditioning – Coolroom Design & Construction – Freezer Rooms

6684 2783

COOLMAN AIR CONDITIONING 23 years experience. Lic 178464C AU30147 ..............0412 641753

EAST COAST BUSH REGENERATION Tree planting, weed control. Call Rossco Faithfull.0409 157695

CARPET CLEANING

TLC

PLANTATIONSHUTTERS

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AWNINGS

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Far North Coast NSW John & Teresa

0408 232 066

Honest and North Byron Reliable Service

Blinds www.northbyronblinds.com.au

Truck Mounted Machine

CARPET CLEANING

(02) 6684 1001

Green & Clean

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

INTERIOR & EXTERIOR WINDOW TREATMENTS

PLEASE CALL Lic 246545C

BUSH REGENERATION & WEED CONTROL

Kevin & Margaret Bower

FREE MEASURE QUOTE

AU 37088

CARPENTER All work types, 20 years exp, free quotes, fully insured, no job too small...0473 027848 BUILDER decks, pergolas renovations Lic: 182983C ......................................................0412 551353

TENDER LOVING CARE Specialising in household carpet cleaning Speedy Drying

02 6680 8862 ON OUR COMPLETE RANGE OF QUALITY

HAVEN BUILDING All aspects of building. Lic 326616C ...............................................0432 565060 RENOVATION SPECIALIST Excellent quality. Builder: Levi Alexander Lic 189611C .......0402 434154

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

(Visual FM)

AIR CONDITIONING & REFRIGERATION

BUILDER CARPENTER Extensions, renos, new homes, insurance, all jobs. Lic 19953 .......... 0403 458177

BAYSIDE RADIATORS Windscreens & air-con. Billinudgel. AU29498 .................................66802444 BUILDER Renovations, maintenance, 30yrs exp. mchughdesign.com.au Lic 29792C....0408 663420

BLINDS, AWNINGS, CURTAINS, SHUTTERS

artisanair.com.au

BUILDER – JOHN McGAURAN Personalised Service. 20 yrs exp. Lic 170208C .............0415 793242 FABRICA JOINERY Quality kitchens/timber doors/windows. Lic 244652C .........................66808162 CARPENTER Lic 39791 Decks, studios, pergolas etc Paul Varendorff ................66845035 or 0414 842602

AGENT

AIR CONDITIONING & REFRIGERATION

www.growbuilding.com.au info@growbuilding.com.au

OCEANARC ARCHITECTS Reg. 6042 www.oceanarc.com.au ..............................................66855001

ACUPUNCTURE

yocodesigners@gmail.com

Josh 0406 351 730

FRANK STEWART ARCHITECT Reg. 6075. www.frankstewart.com.au............................66856984

LOOKING FOR A XERO BOOKKEEPER? byronbaybookkeeper@gmail.com Call Drasta 0400 971480

& producer 0407 076 374

Renovation • Alteration • Carpentry

Builder/carpenter • Owner-builder friendly • Fully insured • Lic 269566C

ARCHITECTS

BOOKKEEPER Local and reliable .................................. barbarasbookkeeping.com.au 0402 118649

Byron & Co Agent Ranger V. F. M. ‘THE BUSH’

It’s ALL in the details

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

BATHROOM RENOVATIONS

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

Grow Building

APPLIANCE REPAIR

ACCOUNTANT BANGALOW + BYRON BAY The Office Accountants & Business Advisors ...66872960

Lic: 299433C ARC: AU40492

build the dream

Award Winning Builders • Renovations • Extensions • New Homes

ANTIQUES / RESTORATION

ACCOUNTANT Paul Mayberry..............................................................................................66847415

14 Manns Road, Mullumbimby

PRESTIGE BUILDERS

IWIRE ANTENNAS David Levine FAST Service Antenna Repairs and Replacements ......0402 022111

Health ............................................... 41 Hire ................................................... 41 Kitchens ............................................ 41 Landscape Design ............................. 41 Landscape Supplies........................... 41 Landscaping ..................................... 41 Lighting ............................................ 41 Locksmith ......................................... 41 Osteopathy ....................................... 41 Painting ............................................ 41 Pest Control....................................... 41 Photography ..................................... 42 Physiotherapy ................................... 42 Picture Framing ................................ 42 Plastering ......................................... 42 Plumbers .......................................... 42 Printing & Copying Services .............. 42 Removalists ...................................... 42 Roofing ............................................. 42 Roofing Maintenance ....................... 42 Rubbish Removal .............................. 42 Scrap Metal Merchants...................... 42 Screenprinting .................................. 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 Filters...................................... 43 Water Tanks & Tank Cleaning ............ 43 Welding ............................................ 43 Window Tinting ................................ 43

ACCOUNTANTS & BOOKKEEPERS

Mullumbimby Refrigeration & Airconditioning Services

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02 66 804 173

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Cleans deeply, dries in 1-2 hours

Commercial / Domestic / Insurance

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

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

CHIROPRACTIC BAY FAMILY CHIROPRACTIC Peter Wuehr 17 Bangalow Rd Byron Bay ..............................66855282

BRICKLAYING

WAVE OF LIFE NETWORK CHIRO (lowforce) 8/9 Fletcher St, Byron Bay. Andrew Badman...66858553 MICHAEL SCHWAGER 108 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby ...................................................66841962

RAINBOW REGION AIR CONDITIONING ARC AU36141. Lic No. 264313C.....................0487 264137 BRICK/BLOCK LAYING Contractors. Lic 291958C. Phone Mark ........................................0409 444268 MULLUMBIMBY CHIROPRACTIC Massage & Chiropractic. 110 Dalley St ........................66841028

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CLEANING

CONCRETING & PAVING

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SALISBURY CONCRETING

ADVANCED CONCRETE POLISHING Grind & seal, polished concrete. Shane ................0419 961708

DECKS, PATIOS & EXTENSIONS

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Phone Oliver 0419 789 600 fullcirclerefinishing.com

Professional Cleaning Services

Blue Sky

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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BRUNSWICK HOLISTIC DENTAL CENTRE .......................................................................66851264 MICHAEL LEACH 100 Stuart Street .....................................................................................66842644

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02 66 804 173 All Jobs Small or Large

ELECTRICAL Steve Nicholls ph: 0455 445 343 lic: EC28753

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

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0458 267 777

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0414 905 900

ELECTRIC BOOGALOO â&#x20AC;˘ 24/7 Emergency â&#x20AC;˘ Residential, Commercial â&#x20AC;˘ Level 2

1800 763 911 | 0417 415 474 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

TINY EARTHWOR Philip Toovey

0409 799 909

SPINKS ELECTRICAL Lic 284939C..................................................................Call Mitch 0421 843477 BLUE BEE ELECTRICAL 25 years experience. Lic 189508C. Call Dave ............................0429 033801

FENCING

various implements available for limited access projects

EARTHMOVING & PLANT HIRE

POOLSAFE GLASS FENCING

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

Training & assessment: earthmoving plant & forklift

GLASS & ALUMINIUM POOL FENCING PROFESSIONALS 0499 178 297 psgfencingnsw@gmail.com

0427 663 678 / 0410 056 228

BYRON & BEYOND FENCING Any fence, any time, prompt quotes....... 66804766 or 0422 207299

5.5 TONNE EXCAVATOR, POSITRACK & TIPPER HIRE

RENT-A-GEEK Mobile PC Repair (Byron Shire) ....................................................................66844335

ALEX EXCAVATION 3.5T Zero Swing & 5T Tipper Rock Grab + other attachments ........0417 920300

20 Year+s Exp.

â&#x20AC;&#x201C; nationally recognised qualiďŹ cations

MOBILE COMPUTER SUPPORT Home & business workrightcomputersupport.com.au 0422 804449

NORTHERN RIVERS TRENCHING 65hp chain trencher, mini excavator, cable locating.0402 716857

DRIVEWAY MAINTENANCE

BEYOND CLEANING GROUP Quality focused. Brunswick to Ballina from $39.60ph .....0451 102239

COMPUTER SERVICES

Augers â&#x20AC;&#x201C; hole boring. All general earthworks, excavators, positrack, bobcat, roller and tipper hire.

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

DETAILED STEAM CLEANING Natural products. Bathrooms, kitchens, spring cleans .0410 723601

BOND CLEANING ..............................................................................................................0421360961

Rock walls, clearing, house shed and tank pads.

LITTLE LANE DENTAL, MULLUMBIMBY ...........................................................................66842816

Call 6684 5561 or 0428 899409 www.swiftecoclean.com.au

HOLIDAY CLEANERS AVAILABLE NOW! Domestic, AirBnB, last-minute. Local, exp & reliable .0421 360961

Specialising in road repairs & driveways

Domestic Commercial

DENTISTS

Quality Exterior Refinishing

Full Circle

STEVE BROWN EARTHMOVING

Call Mark 0498 115 182

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

Roof & Pressure Cleaning Roof Painting Deck Oiling

6684 0160 | 0439 840 160 | 0421 460 932

DECKS

www.byroneco.com.au

Window Cleaning Professionals

Lic.136717c

FLANAGAN CONCRETING & EXCAVATIONS. Lic No. 310498C. Ph Andrew ..................0401 968173

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

Lic: 154293c

%XTE HOUSE RIOR W WIN ASH CLEAN DOW

DARYL 0418 234 302 OR 02 6680 1793

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

Lic no. 141097C

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â&#x20AC;˘ Driveways â&#x20AC;˘ Landscaping â&#x20AC;˘ Rock walls â&#x20AC;˘ House & shed sites

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.

Lic No 142383C

â&#x20AC;˘ House washing â&#x20AC;˘ High pressure or soft wash â&#x20AC;˘ Window cleaning â&#x20AC;˘ Driveways, paths & roofs â&#x20AC;˘ Gutters & ďŹ&#x201A;yscreens â&#x20AC;˘ Water efďŹ cient â&#x20AC;˘ Free quotes Phone Joe or Helen 6687 4655 or 0412 495750

5.5 Tonne Excavator, Positrack Loader & 12 Tonne Tipper

Specialising in road works, land clearing, retaining walls and general earthworks. Augers and rock grab available.

EXPERIENCED OPERATORS | FREE QUOTES 0432 299 283

EDL FENCING Installations & repairs. Prompt service. ...........................66771852 or 0432 107262 FLOW FENCING Pool fencing, timber/colourbond, local, professional and reliable.......0416 424256

FLOOR SANDING & POLISHING NJH FLOOR SANDING Eco oils, hard wax oils & water-based finishes. Nathan .............0420 215716 THE FLOOR SANDER non-toxic finishes. Free quotes richardneylan1@bigpond.com ...0407 821690

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Service Directory GARAGE DOORS

GLAZIERS

LANDSCAPING

24/7 EMERGENCY GLASS 0415 660 801 6685 8588 Mirrors â&#x20AC;˘ Security doors and screens Shower screens â&#x20AC;˘ Commercial glazing

GARDEN & PROPERTY MAINTENANCE

SUBTROPICALLANDSCAPES.COM.AU 20 years exp. Lic 231789C ................................0405 122456 BYRON GLASS & ALUMINIUM Home, Shop & Office. 24 hr/7 days. Lic 313329C ..............66808123 LEMONTREELANDSCAPES.COM.AU Liam. Lic No 277154C .........................................0423 700853

LIGHTING

GRAPHIC DESIGN www.thinkblinkdesign.com

DESIGN Print | Branding | Social Media | Websites | Graphic Design

LOCKSMITH

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

OSTEOPATHY at Mullumbimby Comprehensive Health Centre

www.spotlessgutters.com.au

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

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

HANDYPERSONS

60 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby | 02 6626 7900

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

AWESOME REPAIRS Professional, commercial & domestic. Wayne...............................0423 218417

ALL-WAYS PAINTING

THE HANDYMAN CAN All home maintenance, repairs, painting, odd jobs etc .............0427 110953

BYRON BAY

MCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S HANDYMAN SERVICES Exp. painter, home repairs, odd jobs. Great rates............0412 559509

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

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

GARDENBOY.

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

0438 784 226 â&#x20AC;˘ 6685 4154

ABSOLUTE HANDYMAN. Repairs, renovations, maintenance.......................................0402 281638 PPP HOME MAINTENANCE All aspects. Carpentry, decks, painting, repairs etc. Insured. 0434 705506 ALL TIMBER REPAIRS Qualified joiner/handyman. Well presented. Andrew ...............0412 293732

HEALTH â&#x20AC;˘ OTHER HEALTH RELATED SECTIONS IN THIS SERVICE DIRECTORY: Acupuncture, Chiropractic, Counselling, Dentists, Osteopathy, Physiotherapy

BYRON AND TWEED

ACUPUNCTURE & COSMETIC MEDICINE Dr Adam Osborne ...........................................66857366

Superior Specialised Horticultural Garden Care www.gardenboy.com.au

MULLUMBIMBY HERBALS Naturopathy, Ayurveda, Massage, Herbs. .............................66843002

YVES DE WILDE

WWW.EASTCOASTPILATES.COM.AU Judy Leane BSpSc ..............................................0408 110006 www.duluxaccredited.com.au

HIRE

GUTTERS CLEANED Solar panel cleaning, all areas, free quotes, fully insured ... 66841778 or 0405 922839

QUALITY PAINTING SERVICES

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

MALIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Therapeutic Chinese Massage Service. In & out calls ..............................................66841790

MULLUM.MOWING@gmail.com. Ride-on, large lawns & acreage. Ph Peter................0423 756394

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

A-Z Lawns & acreage, trees & hedges, clean ups & tip runs, all gutters ..........................0405 625697 MULLUM HIRE Builders, party and much more ........................www.mullumhire.com.au 66843003 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 PAULâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S MOWING Local & reliable. Mullum, Bruns, O. Shores, Byron & Bangalow.........0422 958791 A GREEN EARTH Garden restoration, maintenance, tree & rubbish removal ................0405 716552 TIP RUNS & RUBBISH REMOVALS 4m3 trailer..............................................................0408 210772 BRUSHCUTTING Rubbish, Property Maintenance, Lawns.............................................0412 469109 RICKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PROPERTY MAINTENANCE Mowing, brushcutting, gardening, pool service ...0424 805660 FEMALE GARDENER with years of experience. Bridget.................................................0429 335501 STEVEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PROPERTY MAINTENANCE Acerage mowing, general prop main, fully insured.. 0488 550988

Lic No 189144C

Contact Vadi: 0404

OSTEOPATHY

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

KITCHENS

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

LANDSCAPE DESIGN BEAU JARDIN We design & build beautiful gardens www.beaujardin.com.au Lic 177274C ...0417 054443 LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT Garden Design & Property Planning. Andrew Pawsey ..........0478 519804

LANDSCAPE SUPPLIES

Lic 167371C

Acreage Mowing Specialist / Mini excavation plus attachments 0LQL /RDGHU ZLWK VWXPS JULQGHU WUHQFKHU DQG VRLO FXOWLYDWRU b

Brendan Duggan Locksmith. Automotive car keys and lock installation/repair .......0412 764148

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AD PAINTING by John Hand. Lic 13246C ................................................ 0413 185399 or 66841249 ALL WAYS PAINTING NORTHERN RIVERS. Qualified, insured, clean. 0413 401907 or 66805015

PEST CONTROL

GREEN DINGO for all your mowing and gardening needs. Ph Michael .........................0497 842442

Professional Property Protection you can Trust

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

No Rental

1176 Myocum Rd, Mullumbimby (just past golf course)

6685 4490 or AH on 0414 769 018

www.sanctuarypest.com.au

6684 2323 / 0418 663 983

GAS SUPPLIERS Free Delivery

â&#x20AC;˘ Sand â&#x20AC;˘ Soils â&#x20AC;˘ Gravels â&#x20AC;˘ Pots & statues â&#x20AC;˘ Lots, lots more

â&#x20AC;˘ Targeted treatments for all pests with â&#x20AC;&#x153;no sprayâ&#x20AC;? cockroach treatments â&#x20AC;˘ If you have found live termites, do not disturb them and call us for advice! No cost for quoting on active termites Relax, when safety, reputation and experience matters, we are the experts

SOIL MULCH GRAVEL

Locally Owned Est 18 years

18 Lucky Lane Billinudgel Industrial Estate

Reliable

www.brunswickvalleygas.com

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0266 804555

02 6681 6555 Free quotes on active termites Environmentally safe

YOUR PEST & TERMITE SPECIALISTS www.allpestsolutions.com.au

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PRINTING & COPYING SERVICES

SCREENPRINTING

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

REMOVALISTS

Andyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Move & More

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

PHOTOGRAPHY

Calls always returned

0429 149 533 Est 2006

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

â&#x20AC;˘ Freight services to Brisbane weekly â&#x20AC;˘ Carriers of ďŹ ne art â&#x20AC;˘ Furniture removal â&#x20AC;˘ E-bay pick up & delivery

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

0409 917646

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

BANGALOW PHYSIOTHERAPY Manual therapies, acupuncture, mat/reformer Pilates classes.

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

Kim Snellgrove, Cally Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hara ................................................................................................66872330

0432 334 200 02 6680 8170

CONTINENCE / PELVIC FLOOR Janelle Angel ..................Bangalow 66872337 & Mâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;bah 66723818 PETRA KARNI Physio, Craniosacral, Alexander Technique. Byron. Open Saturdays.......0403 226858 OCEAN SHORES PHYSIOTHERAPY Manual therapies, dry needling, custom orthotics, shock

PICTURE FRAMING

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

SOLAR INSTALLATION

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02 6684 2198

Serving Northern NSW since 1998

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Call us on 6679 7228

MAN WITH A VAN/TRUCK Reasonable rates. Phone Don ............................................0414 282813

Your local, qualiďŹ ed team. m 0428 320 262 Specialists in standalone & e sunbeamsolar@bigpond.com grid interact system designs.

Electric Lic 124600c

BENNY CAN MOVE IT! .................................................................................................0402 199999

MULLUM PICTURE FRAMERS Stuart St rear lane behind Mitre 10 ............................0403 734791

ROOFING

BILLINUDGEL CUSTOM PICTURE FRAMING. 7/1 Wilfred St, Billinudgel ........................ 6680 3444

PLASTERING

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RESIDENTIAL / COMMERCIAL NEW ROOFS / RE-ROOFS INSULATED ROOF PANELS FASCIA & GUTTERS REPAIRS & MAINTENANCE

SUNRISE PLASTERING. No job too small. Renovations + patchworks. Gtd sat. Free quote ....0418 992001 GLENN WATERS For the finish you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see. Lic 58928C...............................................0427 908129

PLUMBERS

Patrick - 0425 256 802

Juno Energy is your local authorised LG energy specialist offering solar and battery solutions for yourÂ business & home

www.junoenergy.com.au licence number: 255292C

Chay 0429 805 081 20 YEARS LOCAL SERVICE

Licence No. 207479C

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NEED A PLUMBER? DRAINER? GASFITTER?

ALL ROOF CLEANING Experienced, insured & fast free quotes. Call ..............................0419 789600 MR NORTHERN RIVERS ROOFING & Gutterguard Specialist NSW Lic 102013C...........0499 853889

ROOFING MAINTENANCE Pressure cleaning ABN 26565531984 Gutter Cleaning RTN Roof re-pointing / Painting Roof Restoration

30 years experience Blocked drain specialists Everything plumbing, drainage & gasďŹ tting

0400 852 141

Motion Mover

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

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wave therapy, real time ultrasound. Nigel Pitman, Ilse V Oostenbrugge, Steve Clifford.......66803499 PETER FARRELL Cold laser, manual therapy & exercise, Mullumbimby ..............................66843385

â&#x20AC;˘ 1300 Taylex â&#x20AC;˘ www.talex.com.au

Multiple Tank Discounts | EPA & Council Approved

466 Main Arm Road, Mullumbimby.....................................................................................66845288 ANTHONY Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ORSOGNA Physiotherapy, acupuncture, hydrotherapy Suffolk Park 1 Bryce St ... 66853511

â&#x20AC;˘ plumbing.td@bigpond.com

0418 754 149 â&#x20AC;˘ 07 5523 9930

motionmover@bigpond.com 0428 813 310

leapfrogremovals@yahoo.com.au

NICK EDMOND Physiotherapy & Acupuncture. Open Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday

Sales Installation Service

Northern Rivers Pty Ltd

Septic Pumping & Vacuum Excavation

LEAPFROG REMOVALS

PHYSIOTHERAPY

SHANE

Home sewage solutions Commercial wastewater treatment Rainwater tanks concrete and plastic

SHIRE REMOVALS & FREIGHT CO

Tree Faerie Fotos

&UDLJ 0413

SEPTIC SYSTEMS Lic 312643C

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

Small and Medium Moves, Tip Runs & Deliveries, 1 or 2 Men at Low Prices to Most Areas Based from Byron Bay & Mullumbimby

energyplumbing@gmail.com WWW.ENERGYJETTING.COM.AU WWW.ENERGYPLUMBING.COM.AU

RUBBISH REMOVAL

SWIMMING POOLS

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

ATTENTION POOL OWNERS

TIP RUNS & RUBBISH REMOVAL 4m3 trailer................................................................0408 210772 RUBBISH REMOVALS & TIP TRUCK HIRE Free quotes and same day service .............0451 079060

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

EVERGREEN TIP RUNS and rubbish removal, 8x5 trailer, heavy duty...........................0427 176771

73 Station St, Mullumbimby

A1 RUBBISH REMOVAL AND TIP RUNS. 9m3 trailer. Same day service. Best rates ....0413 289443

6684 3003

SCRAP METAL MERCHANTS

JARRAH DAVIDSON Plumbing, draining, gas fitting & roofing. Lic 187712C................0438 668025 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 ADM PLUMBING SERVICESâ&#x20AC;Ś (NO JOB TOO SMALL)â&#x20AC;Ś Lic 234528C. ....... Call Adam 0466 992483 I LOVE PLUMBING. All plumbing. All areas. Ph Steve. Lic 148904C ..............................0412 916140 COLIN J WILLIAMS PLUMBING & GAS Lic L7990. Water specialist. Mullum/Byron .....0434 273726

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CALL RYAN 0412 873 816

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@ BRUNSWICK BYRON AUTO WRECKERS Buying: â&#x20AC;˘ Scrap metal â&#x20AC;˘ Aluminium â&#x20AC;˘ Copper â&#x20AC;˘ Brass â&#x20AC;˘ Lead â&#x20AC;˘ Car Batteries Next to Tyagarah Service Station

PaciďŹ c Highway, Tyagarah 6684 2351

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POOL OWNERS, WE COME TO YOU! Call Luke 0468 829 756 â&#x20AC;˘ Pool Cleaning & Servicing â&#x20AC;˘ Equipment SalesÂ & Repairs â&#x20AC;˘ Pool Heating & Covers â&#x20AC;˘ Automatic Cleaners & Robots â&#x20AC;˘ Water Testing & Chemicals

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MULLUM POOL SHOP Water testing, eco products, mobile service, construction/repairs....0418 666839 POOL CONSTRUCTION BYRON BAY. Baywater Pool. Lic 206487C.........0419 479921 or 66843489

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

TILE & GROUT CLEANING

AREAS WE SERVICE Ballina / Byron Bay / Tweed Heads / Gold Coast / Murwillumbah

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0408 232 066

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info@evirongroup.com.au www.evirongroup.com.au

WINTER SPECIAL:

VALUERS BYRON BAY VALUERS NSW & QLD regâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d. Chartered Valuers ................... 0431 245460 or 66857010 SIMPSON PROPERTY GROUP - Valuation, Advisory & Asset M/ment. Specialists in: Residential, Rural, Commercial & Industrial. www.simsonproperty.com.au..........0400 134562 or 0427 220976

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

Every 5th m2 FREE

â&#x20AC;˘ Tree felling & removal â&#x20AC;˘ Stump grinding â&#x20AC;˘ Chipping â&#x20AC;˘ Pruning â&#x20AC;˘ Clean up work â&#x20AC;˘ Spider lift / cherry picker

TILER/STONEMASON/WATERPROOFER Lic 24418C. Phone Karl ...................................66804103 TILING PERFECTION & WATERPROOFING Free quotes, repairs. Lic 179306C .66801168 or 0409 847653 FLOOR & WALL TILING & WATERPROOFING. Lic no 157459C Ian ..............................0459 559237

NORTH COAST VETERINARY SERVICE 24hrs, 7 days........................................................ 6684 0735

WATER FILTERS The Water Filter Experts

0479 066 311 yourtreefeller.com.au

TREE SERVICES

CHOPPY CHOP TREE SERVICES

for home, commercial and rural properties

The Fully Insured Professionals

6680 8200 or 0418 108 181

â&#x20AC;˘ Stump Grinding â&#x20AC;˘ Bobcat â&#x20AC;˘ Cherrypicker â&#x20AC;˘ Crane Truck â&#x20AC;˘ 18â&#x20AC;? Chipper

IN IN H

Mark Linder QualiďŹ ed Arborist 0408 202 184 choppychoptrees@bigpond.com

Water puriďŹ cation systems Rainwater Filters Fridge water ďŹ lters

SUMMERLAND TREE SERVICES ............................................. Call Tim 66877677 or 0417 698227 PETER GRAY Grad. Cert. Arb. AQF8. Consulting arborist................................................0414 186161

Phone Chris 0414 229 114

BYRON TREE SERVICES Qualified, insured. Call Alex ....................................................0402 364852 TALLOW TREE SERVICES Removal, free quote & full insurance .....................................0401 208797

$399

FULLY INSTALLED IN YOUR HOME

WATER TANKS & TANK CLEANING

MARTINO TREE SERVICES ..............................................................................Martino 0435 019524 TANK CLEANING Repairs, installation, first flush diverters, pumps, etc ........................0418 662285 HART TREE SERVICES 18â&#x20AC;? chipper bobcat cranetruck stump grinding, cherry . 66849137 or 0427347380

LdS Silviculture Specialising in all aspects of tree work including milling services

Eddy 0477 Karl 0423

720 200 396 508

WELDING

A VERY HANDY MAN TREE SERVICES..................Happy to help. Andrew....................0412 558890

LEAF IT TO US Skilled climbing, chipping & stump grinding. Fully insured, free quote .0402 487213 WELDING & FABRICATION Structural, general, repairs & Aluminium. Call Rod ...........0408 410545 WWW.DELAFORJA.COM-Unique Custom Gates, Railings & More, Made Locally..........0404 292344

UPHOLSTERY

WINDOW TINTING

BANGALOW UPHOLSTERY Now at Billinudgel. Re-covering specialists.............................66805255 SUNRISE W. T. NO BUBBLES, NO TROUBLES Cars, homes & offices ..........................0412 158478 BYRON BAY UPHOLSTERY. Soft furnishings, curtains & outdoor. ................................0403 713303 SURFWAGON - Car/Home/Office tint. Lifetime Warranty. W/sale price .........................0434 875009

Classifieds INDEX Childcare................................ 43 For Sale ................................. 44 Garage Sales......................... 44 Halls For Hire......................... 44 Health Notices ....................... 43 In Memoriam.......................... 45 Items Under $100 .................. 44 Life Celebrations .................... 45 Lost & Found ......................... 45

ECHO CLASSIFIEDS 6684 1777 CLASSIFIED AD BOOKINGS

DEADLINE TUES 12PM

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Ads may be taken by phone on

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Motor Vehicles ....................... 44

OFFICE

Musical Notes ........................ 45

Ads can be lodged in person at

Only Adults ............................ 45

the Mullum Echo office:

Positions Vacant .................... 45

Village Way, Stuart St, Mullumbimby

Professional Services ............ 43

EMAIL ADS

Public Notices ........................ 43

Display classies (box ads):

Share Accommodation .......... 44

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Pets ........................................ 45

Short Term Accommodation .. 44 Social Escorts........................ 45 To Lease ................................ 45

Line classies:

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Cash, cheque, Mastercard or Visa

Tradework .............................. 44

Wanted To Rent ..................... 45 Work Wanted ......................... 45

DISPLAY ADS (with a border): $12.50 per column centimetre These prices include GST.

weekend.

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LINE ADS: $17.00 for the first two lines $5.00 for each extra line

Ad bookings only taken during

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Tree Services ......................... 44

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PUBLIC NOTICES SOCIAL STREET LATIN dance classes. Puerto Rican/Columbian Salsa plus more, every 2nd Tues. Next is 28 May 6.40pm Marvell Hall, Marvell St Byron. Have fun, while making new friends Txt 0438214212

SECOND SATURDAY OF EVERY MONTH

COLONICS

Offering colonic hydrotherapy, sauna and naturopathy at our beachside clinic. Call or text 0458633869 www.byronbaydetoxretreats.com.au

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that you want to be living! Resolve blockages with a practitioner who balances physical, mental, emotional and spiritual elements in conjunction with each other, ďŹ nding the root causes of any problems and clearing them. Kinesiology North Coast Ph 0403125506 Registered practitioner. www.kinesiologynorthcoast.com.au

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children and I am a great cook, $15/hr.

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HEALTH continued • FULLY INSURED • PROFESSIONAL SERVICE • FREE QUOTES

HALL 37 Marvell St, Byron Bay from $20ph. Kitchen, conference/workshop space. Ph 0412665985 or 0468453344

0402 364 852

SCAFFOLDING Erect, hire & sales. Aluminium, steel & mobile. 0427774450

6684 4421

NICK HART

TREE SERVICES

LIMITLESS

• Affordable tree services • Professional tree care • 18" chipper (crane truck)

Kinesiology | Byron Bay Paula Wickham Experienced Kinesiologist & Naturopath Clearing old programs Igniting your true potential

0413 192 424 paulawickham@msn.com

Fully insured • Free quotes

6684 9137 • 0427 347 380

Tallow TREE SERVICES

HYPNOSIS & EFT

• • • • •

TREE SERVICES

REMOVALS PALMS TREE SURGERY FREE QUOTES FULLY INSURED

• • • • •

STUMP GRINDING TREE REPORTS DA APPLICATIONS CRANE HIRE CHERRY PICKER

6687 2750 - 0401 208 797 TRADEWORK

3EPTIC 7ASTE 2EMOVAL FREE QUOTES

TREE PRUNING • TREE REMOVALS • QUALIFIED ARBORISTS 12” CHIPPER • STUMP GRINDING • CHERRY PICKER • FULLY INSURED

Nick Andrews 0439 849 332

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s 3EPTIC TANK CLEANING s 'REASE TRAP SERVICING s /ILY ,IQUIDS s 0ORTABLE TOILET HIRE s HOUR SERVICE

SUMMERLAND TREE SERVICES

HALLS FOR HIRE

Byron Bay & Surrounding Areas

6687 7677 Mobile 0417 698 227

COMPOST TOILETS

All Town Garage Sale registration EXTENDED closes Fri 31May REGISTER NOW! 6685 1002 Vintage Collectables Fair – Booked Church Fair stalls 0429 150 555 School Treasure Trove 6685 1204

For tiny houses to commercial Green Building Centre 0431721073 GUITARS, RECORDS, HI FI valiantmusic.com.au 66851005

BAMBOO PLY

KITCHEN dismantled, L-shaped with pantry + overheads $800. Ph 0439854854

Dryers and dishwashers available at Bridglands Mullumbimby. 66842511 DAVID LOVEJOY’S BOOKS Available from The Echo reception: Between Dark and Dark, a memoir; Moral Victories, the biography of a chess player; Heresy, an historical novel. ALL JUST $10 each.

FIREWOOD DELIVERIES ALL YEAR ROUND Supplying commercial, wood ﬁred bakeries, pizza restaurants and residential, combustion stoves, open ﬁres, pot belly, kindling. Various load sizes from 4’x 6’ to 4 ton tipper. PRICES STARTING FROM $95. VOLUME DISCOUNTS.

For ceilings, walls, doors, etc. Ph 66884188 • sample & brochure. www.bambooply.com.au SPEAKERS Pair, good quality, freestanding, pale wood $100. Pickup Mullumbimby. Ph 0403125506

ITEMS UNDER $100 PET DOOR 4 Sliding glass. Easy install and remove 2.3m+ $40 Ph 0409579671 KIDS KAYAK sit-on-top, fully moulded plastic, durable, quality, purple $60. Pickup Mullumbimby. Ph 0403125506 UNICYCLE low, suit beginner, pneumatic tyre $30. Pickup Mullum 66846914

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

Matt 0427 172 684

GARAGE SALES

BYRON BAY FIREWOOD

Tip Runs & Rubbish Removal

Pickup / Delivery Seasoned Firewood Kindling, bags, trailer, tonnage (up to 30 tonne). Residential | Commercial | Wholesale Prompt and reliable service.

Michael – 0401 739 656 byronbayﬁrewood.com.au

• Cherry Picker • Wood Chipper • Stump Grinder • Tree Surgeon • Fully Insured

Mulch Supplies

OLD & GOLD

DRY FIREWOOD for sale. $150 per 7x4 large trailer load. Ph Sigge 0428819091

MIELE WASHERS

0408 210 772 MEGA AUTUMN CLEARANCE SALE

Concerts, forums, weddings, exhibitions, functions, etc. www.mullumcivic.com

0488 609 774

bookings@mullumcivic.com

SHORT TERM ACCOM.

Brunswick Heads

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

FOR SALE

PROFESSIONAL TREE CARE

Simple and effective solutions Anxiety, Cravings, Fears & Trauma. Maureen Bracken 0402205352

ARCHIBALD’S CHEAP QUARRY PRODUCTS

FENCE POSTS

Sparkle Lily

• Palings • Posts • Hardwood poles • Sleepers • Firewood • Concrete Posts • Tomato stakes • Molasses

Rajah Road, Ocean Shores Shopping Centre Saturday from 8am

Kings Creek, Mullumbimby Mark 0427 490 038 | Karen 0427 804 284

Saturday 8th June

CENTRAL BYRON, f/furn, 2br apt. Avail 20/05 to 15/07. No outgoings $680pw. Ph 0404314285 MULLUM 3BR, furn hse. Avail 1/7 to 8/8 $500pw incl WiFi. Ph 0432245580 TINTENBAR VILLAGE. S-cont private studio. $220 pw incl. 03/07 - 02/08. Close to beach/town. N/S & D/F Ph 0414509879

SHARE ACCOM. OCEAN SHORES share with 2, walk to beach $220pw + bills. Ph 0429020215 MYOCUM. Small room, own bathroom. $170pw. Suit working female. Must love kids. Until end June. Ph 0424955419

TO LET

LENNOX 2/2 Patricia Pde all weekend. Boutique sale, no rubbish. O.SHORES 6 Wahlooga Way Sat 7.30am cupboards, ofﬁce chair, household items, ladies bike, knitting wool and more! O.SHORES 23 Binya Pl, Sat, 8am. Funky clothes, boots, dress ups, books, lots of Lego, pots and more SUFFOLK 16 Teak Cct, Sat 8am. Huge combined sale. 3 houses, designer clothes & shoes (women’s, kids) Wooden toys, bikes, furn, swag, h’hold items etc

MOTOR VEHICLES

CASH PAID FOR UNWANTED CARS Local reg’d business 66845296 or 66845403 Automatic 2000 Ford Laser 5dr hatch fantastic condition 6mths rego. SN4908 ................................................. $3490 2008 Nissan Tiida 6spd manual 148322km low km handy hatch. SN0480 ............... $5750 Automatic 2005 Subaru Forester 186947km fantastic condition 6mths rego. SN0315 ................................................. $6990 2000 Honda CRV Sport 5spd manual rego till June always reliable. SN1696 .. $3490 Automatic 2006 Toyota Prado Grande 155628km 8 seater 4wd extras plus poa

BARGAINS

ballinacarcentre.com.au

BANGALOW SELF-STORAGE Hi-tech security. 66872333 Summerland Storage Bangalow From $105 to $290 mth Call GNF Bangalow 66872833 SUFFOLK PARK 200m Tallow Beach, modern 1br studio, kitchen, fridge, microwave, wash mach, timber ﬂoors, aircon, f-f, 6 mth lease. $400pw, pref sgle. Ph Len 0401898176. Avail 20th May

Ocean Shores / Brunswick Heads 6680 5000 Ocean Shores 11 /10 Balemo Dr 3bed 1 bth $600 37 Matong Dr 4 bed 3 bth $720 46 Narooma Dr 5 bed 3 bth $770 9 Jarrah Crescent 5 bed 3 bth $875 Burringbar 1 Hunter St 3 bed 2 bth $575 Mooball 197B Kielys Rd 1 bed 1 bth $250

16 ENDEAVOUR CLOSE, BALLINA

Ballina Car Centre

DLN 19950

6686 5586 / 0418 676 274

Elizabeth Hickey 0428 883 815

HEALTH & HEALING WEEKLY CLASS TIMETABLE MONDAY ENQUIRIES BOOKINGS

ph: 0400 558 181 info@shirshamarie.com www.shirshamarie.com

LOCATION LEGEND (B): Bangalow Yoga Pilates (SP): Suffolk Park Yogalates Barre (BT): Byron Town 04032 669 17 sattvayogabyron.com.au sattvabyronbay @gmail.com

6685 5640 byronbay@ heartandsoulhealthclubs. com.au www.heartandsoulhealth clubs.com.au

MIDDLE POCKET (5MIN OFF PACIFIC HWY)

shantidwara.com 0404 351 252 shantidwara@gmail.com

THE BYRON SHIRE

AWARENESS IN MOVEMENT

TUESDAY MULLUMBIMBY 8.30-10am: QIGONG

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

BANGALOW 8.30-10am: QIGONG 6-8pm: TAI CHI

BRUNSWICK HEADS 8.30-10am: QIGONG 8.30-10.30am: TAI CHI

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY / EVENTS

TAI CHI

QIGONG

SOFT-STYLE MARTIAL ART

GENTLE EXERCISE ART

Alignment, Relaxation, Meditation

Breathing, Awareness, Self-healing

CLASSES SESSIONS WORKSHOPS RETREATS

6.30-7.30am: BARRE FITNESS (B) 9.30-10.45am: SLOW FLOW (B) 6-7.30pm: YOGALATES (SP)

9.30-11am: YOGALATES (BT) 4.30-5.30pm: GENTLE (B) 6-7.30pm: YOGALATES (B)

9.15-10.15am: BARRE FITNESS (B) 6-7.30pm: PILATES W YOGA STRETCH (SP)

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

6.30-7.30am: BARRE SPORT (B) 10.30-11.45am: YOGALATES (BT)

8-9.30am: YOGALATES (B & SP) 10-11am: PILATES ALIGN (B)

See web for full timetable and studio locations yogalates.com.au

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

8am: HATHA 10am: GENTLE YOGA

6.30am: VINYASA 8am: HATHA 10am: HATHA VINYASA 5.30pm: YIN

8am: HATHA VINYASA 10am: GENTLE YOGA

The only studio in Byron overlooking the ocean! Massage service from 12pm Monday to Saturday

6am: VINYASA FLOW YOGA 9.30am: VINYASA & 9.30am: AKHANDA 9.30am: VINYASA YOGA FLOW YOGA PRANAYAMA YOGA 6pm: VINYASA YOGA 6pm: PRANAYAMA & 6pm: YIN YOGA YIN YOGA

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

“Our teachers serve the community to provide the highest standards of yoga and meditation classes”

7-9pm: KIRTAN 6.30-8pm: YOGA (Third Fri) MASTERCLASS with 7-9pm: YOGA Swami Yogamanas MOVIE & dinner Saraswati (First Fri)

8.30-10am: HATHA & AYURVEDA 4.30-8pm: HEALING HAVAN, KIRTAN SATSANG &CHAI

7-8.30pm: SOUND HEALING, NADA YOGA & DINNER

• Bihar School of Yoga • Classical yoga • Integral system • Advanced techniques

9-10.30am: MANTRA CHANTING & YOGA NIDRA MEDITATION

Fill your classes now! For information email adcopy@echo.net.au

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Classifieds POSITIONS VACANT

RONALD WILLIAM KING

RESIDENTIAL

Brunswick Heads 1 bed 1 bth $400 4 bed 2 bth $600 Ocean Shores 2 bed 1 bth $390 South Golden Beach 1 bed 1 bth $320 2 bed 1 bth $370 New Brighton 5 bed 3 bth $850 The Pocket 3 bed 2 bth $680

Courses starting soon... • Creative Memoir Writing

• Computer Basics • Guitar Level 3

Tue 28th May

Fri 31st May

• Guitar For Beginners

• Community Design And Social Permaculture

Mon 27th May

Wed 29th May

L.J. Hooker Brunswick Heads 6685 0177

• Psychic Development And Healing: Part 2 • Create Compelling Content To Build The Right Audience • Guitar Level 2

5/16 The Terrace, Brunswick Heads

Thu 30th May

FEDERAL FARM COTTAGE 1br+ study. Suit couple. All services connected. Rural setting. $350pw + bond. Ph 66884220 ROSEBANK cabin, quiet, forest, suit sgl quiet worker $195pw. Ph 0429882058 STUDIO IN MULLUM town avail 8 June long term lease, suit prof / working person $290pw incl bills + elec. Ph 0402720883 BANGALOW 2br, bthrm + ktchn. Ground ﬂoor of home, furn/unfurn, avail Aug, suit mat couple $500pw no pets 0439854854 OFF-GRID HOME in Mullum hinterland avail late June. Unfurn, with large studio + handy workshop. Suit self-reliant artist or cple seeking peace and solitude $550pw. Email owner offgrid25@gmail.com BYRON SELF-STORAGE UNITS Clean & secure. Ph 1300762618

LOCAL REMOVAL

& backloads to Brisbane. Friendly, with 10 years local exp. 0409917646 HUONBROOK furn cabin, share sep bathroom, $135pw, pref n/s. Please SMS 0432400393 or loviepc@gmail.com MYOCUM 2br house beautiful views, open plan, large kitchen, peaceful. Suit cple, n/s $550pw avail now. 0402368050

WANTED TO RENT MATURE QUIET FEMALE seeking room. Pref Byron. Up to $200pw. 0458484869

TO LEASE BYRON A&I ESTATE Industrial unit 105sqm. Front unit. Ph 0418691429 BYRON CBD treatment/massage space + undercover parking. Jamie 0447025006 BEAUTIFUL TREATMENT ROOM Avail Tues/Fri/Sat/Sun $85/day, $45/half day. Mullum. 66849458 or 0435078551 BANGALOW STATION STREET. Retail shop or coffee/simple food outlet. Great street frontage. Approx 36m2. Ready for new ﬁt out. Ph 0418878978 OFFICE 70m2 Byron A&I Est. a/c, carpet $400pw+GST. Avail 1st May 0418327731

• Tech Savvy Seniors FULL • Lomi Lomi Massage Training

BYRON A&I EST. 70M2 D/STAIRS, 45M2U/STAIRS & YARD 50M2, KITCHENETTE, BATHROOM, A/C, 2 CARPARK $2900PM + OUTGOINGS AVAIL. NOW CALL 6680 8111

INDUSTRIAL UNIT FOR LEASE Available at the end of May. 123m2 (85m2 warehouse / 38m2 mezzanine). 12 Tasman Way. $560 / week | 8 weeks bond 1 year lease + 3 year option

Call or text 0408 288 823 E: ms.tnihuynh@gmail.com

Sat 1st June • Social Media Marketing • Supercharge Your Online Marketing • Mind, Body, Book! • Sunset, Seascape & Star Photography FULL

Limited places - don’t miss out! 02 6684 3374

byroncollege.org.au

Property Management Position Available LJ Hooker Brunswick Heads is looking for enthusiastic bright and bubbly person to join their award winning team. The ideal candidate: * A skilled time manager * Computer & administration literate * Be well presented/groomed * Explicit attention to detail * Proactive, self-disciplined and a team player * Current drivers licence

* Organisational & communicational skills are a must * Willingness to learn & drive for self-improvement * Experience is preferred * This is a full time position with rotating Saturday morning work

Email resume to bernadette@ljhbrunswickheads.com

1.11.1939 – 21.5.2014

Five years have passed. A little tribute small & tender just to say we still remember. Kaye, Margot, Matt & Will.

PETS This is the face of our gorgeous Moby. How irresistible is he? Moby is friendly to a fault, cute as a button & so desperate to be part of your home life. He can ﬁt perfectly into any family scenario & will reward you with lots of head bumps & snuggles. To meet Moby, please visit the Cat Adoption Centre at 124 DALLEY STREET, MULLUM OPEN: Tues 2.30–4.30pm THURS: 3–5pm SAT: 10am–2pm Call AWL 6684 4070

New moon 5 May First quarter 12 May Full moon 19 May Third quarter 27 May Day of Sun Sun Moon month rise set rise 1 W 0612 1713 0230 2 T 0613 1712 0323 3 F 0614 1712 0416 4 S 0614 1711 0511 5 S 0615 1710 0608 6 M 0615 1709 0707 7 T 0616 1709 0807 8 W 0616 1708 0909 9 T 0617 1707 1009 10 F 0618 1706 1106 11 S 0618 1706 1159 12 S 0619 1705 1247 13 M 0619 1704 1331 14 T 0620 1704 1411 15 W 0621 1703 1450 16 T 0621 1703 1528 17 F 0622 1702 1606 18 S 0622 1702 1646 19 S 0623 1701 1729 20 M 0624 1701 1815 21 T 0624 1700 1903 22 W 0625 1700 1955 23 T 0625 1659 2048 24 F 0626 1659 2142 25 S 0626 1659 2235 26 S 0627 1658 2328 27 M 0627 1658 28 T 0628 1658 0020 29 W 0629 1657 0113 30 T 0629 1657 0206 31 F 0630 1657 0300

CUSTOMER SERVICE & ADMIN legend wanted for immediate start at Natural Therapy Institute (IICT) in Byron Bay. Full-time, ﬂexible hours. We need people who are IT savvy, focused, independent workers & great on the phone. Join a small close-knit values & purpose driven team. Head to https:// myiict.com/careers/ for information about the role & how to apply. Applications close Wed May 29th at 5pm.

ALL HOME MAINTENANCE/REPAIRS Lic No. 60801C. For a free quote call: Paul 0423852559

BOOKKEEPER 1 morning pw MYOB exp a must CV tyndallcolawyers@gmail.com

WORDPRESS SETUP/TRAIN/MAINT Reas rates info@wordpressit.com.au

CARER NEEDED for caravan trip from Byron Bay to Nth QLD. To help with personal care for quad. gent. 2-3 weeks. No exp. necessary, but useful. Apply 0428363225

MUSICAL NOTES

WARNING The Department of Fair Trading has warned people to be very careful about responding to advertisements offering work at home. Readers should be wary if asked to pay money upfront for employment opportunities and never send money to a post ofﬁce box EXCEPTIONAL DRIVERS WANTED. Day and Night shifts available. Apply now by email careers@gobyron.com.au

TUITION FRENCH • ITALIAN • GERMAN Eva 0403224842 www.languagetuitionbyron.com.au

WORK WANTED

The Ironing Lady Phone or text Angela 0414719680

QUALITY PIANOS for sale, and expert piano tuning. Ph Fred Cole 0412216019

LOST & FOUND FOUND Blue/white budgie, some grey feathers. Green tag on leg, clipped wings. Found Sandstone Cres area, Lennox Hd 0418209462

LIFE CELEBRATIONS

HILTON THOMPSON 18.07.37 – 14.05.19

Adobe Tutoring Experienced Professional Trainer • Photoshop • Indesign • Illustrator contact@thinkblinkdesign.com www.thinkblinkdesign.com

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Alﬁe is an 11 month old desexed male Border Collie who is deaf. He is super smart and trains easily with hand signals but needs another dog (ideally female) as his ears. If you can give Alﬁe a permanent, loving home please contact Pam on 0421 017 461.

Alﬁe

Visit friendsofthepound.com to view other dogs and cats looking for a home.

MONTHLY MARKETS 1st SAT Bruns Heads

6628 4495

1st SUN Byron Bay 6685 6807 1st SUN Lismore Car Boot 6628 7333 2nd SAT Flea, Byron YAC 0490 026 840 2nd SAT Woodburn 0439 489 631 2nd SUN 2nd SUN 2nd SUN 2nd SUN

The Channon 6688 6433 Lennox Head 0419 369 609 Tabulam Hall 0490 329 159 Coolangatta

3rd SAT Mullumbimby 6684 3370 3rd SAT Murwillumbah 0413 804 024 3rd SUN Uki 0487 329 150 3rd SUN Lismore Car Boot 6628 7333 3rd SUN Ballina 0422 094 338

5th SUN Lennox Head 5th SUN Nimbin

Those who knew and loved Hilton are welcome to join us celebrate his wonderful life at Billinudgel Pub (garden) on 28.05.19 at 11am.

Low tide, height (m) 1217 0.42 0026 0.54; 1248 0.37 0105 0.49; 1318 0.33 0144 0.45; 1348 0.31 0224 0.42; 1420 0.29 0306 0.42; 1453 0.30 0351 0.43; 1530 0.33 0440 0.45; 1609 0.39 0535 0.48; 1655 0.45 0639 0.51; 1751 0.52 0747 0.51; 1901 0.58 0855 0.49; 2024 0.60 0957 0.44; 2144 0.57 1051 0.37; 2253 0.51 1138 0.31; 2355 0.45 1220 0.27 0051 0.40; 1259 0.24 0143 0.37; 1337 0.24 0232 0.37; 1414 0.26 0321 0.39; 1449 0.31 0409 0.42; 1525 0.37 0457 0.47; 1600 0.45 0545 0.52; 1639 0.53 0634 0.56; 1725 0.61 0726 0.58; 1821 0.68 0820 0.58; 1931 0.74 0915 0.57; 2048 0.75 1004 0.53; 2201 0.73 1047 0.48; 2302 0.68 1125 0.43; 2354 0.61 1200 0.37

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4th SUN Bangalow 6687 1911 4th SUN Nimbin 0458 506 000 4th SUN Murwillumbah 0422 565 168 4th SUN (in a 5 Sunday month) Coolangatta

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8.45am 11.12am 7.11am 2.33am Moon High tide, set height (m) 1519 0600 1.51; 1834 1.44 1551 0639 1.52; 1910 1.54 1624 0716 1.52; 1946 1.63 1658 0752 1.50; 2022 1.70 1735 0829 1.47; 2100 1.76 1816 0905 1.42; 2139 1.79 1901 0945 1.36; 2220 1.80 1952 1029 1.29; 2305 1.78 2049 1117 1.22; 2356 1.74 2150 1218 1.16 2254 0054 1.69; 1332 1.15 2359 0201 1.66; 1455 1.20 0312 1.65; 1608 1.30 0103 0417 1.65; 1710 1.43 0207 0516 1.65; 1804 1.57 0310 0610 1.63; 1853 1.69 0413 0658 1.58; 1939 1.78 0516 0743 1.52; 2022 1.84 0618 0826 1.44; 2104 1.86 0720 0907 1.36; 2145 1.84 0819 0947 1.28; 2224 1.79 0915 1029 1.21; 2303 1.73 1006 1112 1.15; 2344 1.65 1052 1200 1.11 1134 0029 1.57; 1300 1.09 1211 0120 1.50; 1414 1.11 1246 0219 1.45; 1525 1.17 1319 0321 1.42; 1624 1.26 1351 0417 1.42; 1714 1.37 1423 0508 1.42; 1757 1.48 1456 0554 1.42; 1838 1.59

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

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BPA meeting

Blind Bowls

Bangalow Progress Association general meeting will be held at 6pm on Tuesday 11 June at the Bangalow Hotel. All members and residents are welcome.

Come and try vision-impaired or blind bowls on Thursday 30 May in Ballina. It runs from 9.30am till 12pm at Cherry Street Sports Club, 68 Cherry Street, Ballina. Open to people of any age from across the northern rivers with vision impairment, at all bowling levels of experience. This activity is provided free for your enjoyment. Call Guide Dogs NSW/ACT on 6691 8500.

BVU3A U3A Brunswick Valley Tuesday Forum 28 May 10am–12, Uniting Church Hall, Fingal St, Brunswick Heads. Pete Ceglinski and Mahi Paquette explain their Seabin project and its significance for sustainability practices. Visitors and potential new members welcome. Ring 6685 1732.

Byron Sophia Byron Sophia Philosophical Group: Music of Life and bringing Universal Sufism from the East to the West. Presented by Leonie Zubin Shore, teacher in Sufism. Thursday 23 May from 1.30 till 3.30pm, at Marvell Hall, 37 Marvell St, Byron Bay. Info: Celia 6684 3623.

OWN Mullumbimby OWN Mullumbimby (Older Women’s Network) welcomes women over 50 to join us for our fortnightly coffee and conversations at Flock, Mullum. Info ph coordinator on 0430 175 923 or OWN Mullumbimby on FB.

Fun Croquet Join Pottsville’s Fun Croquet Club at Black Rocks Sportsfield at 9.30am Tuesday and 2pm Thursday. $5 per game. Enquiries 0413 335 941.

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Neighbourhood Centre

Social sporting groups

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.

Mullumbimby: Tuesday Ladies Group of Riverside Tennis Club welcomes new players 9.30am every Tuesday next to Heritage Park, for social tennis, fun and friendship. Info: Barbara 6684 8058. Tuesdays: 10.30am. Byron: Drumming with Gareth Jones at Byron Theatre; Chair Yoga with Pippy Wardell 12 till 1pm. Wednesdays: Choir with Kim Banffy, 10–11am; Ukulele 11.30–12.15. Suggested donation of $10. No bookings needed, information seniors@byroncommuntycentre. com or call 6685 6807. South Golden Shores Community Centre every Monday at 10.30. Phone 0435 780 017. Bangalow Bowlo Sundays at 3pm. All welcome. Enquiries Margot 0412 394 932. Byron Bay Croquet at Croquet Club next to the Scout Hall at the Byron Rec Grounds every Monday at 3.30pm. Ring 0477 972 535. Pottsville Fun Croquet Club at Black Rocks Sportfield. Beginners and visitors welcome. Game starts 9.30am Tuesday and 2pm Thursday. $5 per game. Enquiries 0413 335 941.

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.

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.

Alateen meeting 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

ACA 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.

Bridge club Brunswick Valley Bridge Club meets every Saturday and Monday at the Ocean Shores Country Club, seated at 12.15 to commence play at 12.30. Visitors welcome. See bridgewebs. com/brunswickvalley/home.html or for partner ring Phyllis Keyte 6684 1103. Facebook Brunswick Valley Bridge Club. Play resumes Saturday, January 6.

Bosom Buddies Ballina Bosom Buddies Support Group meets the third Thursday each month 10am–12pm at the Ballina Kentwell Community Centre. Contact Julie 0499 550 757 or Karen 0439 438 576 for further information.

Museums Brunswick Valley Historical Society Inc Museum corner of Myocum and Stuart Sts Mullumbimby, open Tuesdays and Fridays 10–12 and market Saturdays 9–1. Discover your local history, join our team – 6684 4367. Bangalow Heritage House Museum & Cafe is closed for renovations until further notice.

Breast Cancer Support The Breast Cancer Support Group Byron Bay meets at the RSL Services Club in Jonson St, Byron Bay, 12–2pm, every third Wednesday of the month. For information about support for partners and families please call 0431 207 453. More info on Facebook: Breast Cancer Support Group Byron Bay or call 0431 207 453.

Contact Improvisation Contact Improvisation Saturdays in Mullumbimby 10–12 noon at St Martin’s, Church Hall, Stuart Street, Mullumbimby. All levels of dancers welcome. Enquiries 0402 059 564.

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Bushwalkers

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Are you interested in Papua New Guinea? This fascinating country will be the focus of Mullumbimby CWA’s international day on 4 June. A luncheon with entertainment will be held at Mullumbimby Ex-Services Club. All welcome. Call Jenny Barlow on 0427 847 282 or email: johnandjen6@gmail.com.

Learn about the latest lightweight equipment and meals for enjoyable multi-day hiking from leaders in the Northern Rivers Bushwalkers Club. Workshop 7 till 9pm, Thursday 23 May, 2/59 Centennial Circuit Byron Bay. Join our easy overnight hike, June 1 & 2. Bookings essential: Steve 0414 312 917. More details www.nrbc.org.au.

Next meeting of the Northern Rivers Chapter of the Fellowship of First Fleeters is on Sunday 26 May at the Cherry Street Bowling Club, Ballina, at 11.30am. The guest speaker will be Helen James who will speak about Joseph Tuzo. Contact Karla on 6688 4306 or rojokarla1788@gmail.com.

Quilters and crafters

Spirit Song

Quilters and crafters meet weekly at the Ocean Shores Community Centre each Wednesday evening from 6.30 till 9.30pm. Everybody interested is invited and most welcome to come along. Further info may be obtained from Jan on 0401 915 617.

Spirit Song: Sunday 26 May 5pm at St Paul’s Spirituality Centre, 14 Kingsley Street, Byron Bay (200 metres off Jonson Street). Contact: John Power 0403 905 543.

Repowering Mullum Repowering Mullumbimby are looking for people interested in real climate action to join them at the next Repower event. This is a free training session on Wednesday 22 May, with beer and a free meal thrown in, at The Greens’ office Mullumbimby, 2/112 Dalley St, from 5.30 till 6.30pm. For info email repowerbyronshire@gmail. com or call Sandi Middleton 0415 749 714 or Dave Rawlins 0410 019 997.

Book launch Friends of Libraries present Jody Vassallo launching her new book The Yogic Kitchen, 30 May 5.30pm at Bay Grocer. $35 includes drinks and canapés on arrival. Lucky door prizes. Bookings essential. www.byronbayfol.com.

Call to potters Calling all north coast potters to be part of the North Coast Mud Trail and Open Studio weekend on 17–18 August. Apply online at www.northcoastmudtrail.com.au.

Drug support groups

Meditation

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 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.

Buddhist meditation teaching and practice at the living Yoga Sanga, first floor, 63 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby, 6–7.30pm, Mondays. Mishaela, 0438 858 842 or mishaele@si.org.au. Dzogchen meditation and study group 2nd and 4th Saturdays each month at Mullumbimby CWA Hall. Didi 0408 008 769. Byron Mindfulness-Insight meditation Mindfulness-Insight Meditation Sangha and Pairoj Brahma, and Maggie Clark from 6.45 till 8.45pm. Tuesdays @ theYurt, Temple Byron www.templebyron.com Contact: Maggie 0409 611 845, Pairoj 0423 241 916. Buddhist meditation and conversation with John Allan, Mondays 6.30–8.30 pm, The Yurt, Temple Byron. No fees. John 0428 991 189. Byron yoga philosophy club free meditation classes Monday, 6pm, 1 Korau Place Suffolk Park. Go to www. wisdom.yoga or phone Kris 0435 300 743. Community Yoga Nidra class free, Wednesdays 1–1.30pm at the Bamboo Yoga School, behind The Health Lodge, 78 Bangalow Road, Byron Bay. Matt 0430 008 293. Meditation Collective Mondays 6.30pm at Temple Byron. For more info: www. byronbaymeditationcollective.com.au or call Geo 0431 747 764. Meditation at St Paul’s Spirituality Centre Tuesdays 4– 5pm 14 Kingsley Street, Byron Bay (200 metres off Jonson Street). John Power: 0403 905 543. Free Community Yoga Nidra every Wednesday 1pm at the Bamboo Yoga School behind The Health Lodge 78 Bangalow Road, Byron Bay. Call Matt 0430 008 293. Integral Zen meditation Tuesdays 6–7.30pm at the Pura Vida Wellness Centre, 14a Park St. Brunswick Heads. By donation. Contact Erik 0418 337 508.

Support after suicide StandBy provides support to people who have lost someone to suicide. They provide free face-to-face and telephone support and are accessible 24/7. Follow-up contact is available for up to one year. Find out more at: www. standbysupport.com.au or call 13 11 14. If you, or someone you are with, are in need of immediate support please call an ambulance or police on 000.

Library fun Baby Bounce session Mullumbimby – Tuesday 11.30am, Brunswick Heads – Friday 10am, Byron Bay – Wednesday 10am. Storytime for toddlers and preschool children Mullumbimby – Friday 10.30am, Brunswick Heads – Monday 10.30am, Byron Bay – Tuesday 10.30am.

Toastmasters Byron Cavanbah Toastmasters meetings coaching in communication and self-development run on 1st and 3rd Mondays, 6.40pm at Byron Services Club, Byron Bay; www. byronbaytoastmasters.org. Mullum Magic Toastmasters meet every 2nd, 4th and 5th Monday Presbyterian Church Hall, 101 Stuart Street Mullumbimby 7–9 pm. Contact Shona 0457356567 or Bronte 0451567996.

Ballina Photography Club The Ballina Camera Club meet every second and fourth Thursday of each month commencing 6.30pm at the Kentwell Community Centre on the corner of Moon Street and Bangalow Road – new members welcome. Enquiries: Jean 6686 0462.

Over-60s fun activities

Repair Cafe

Seniors Activities Tuesdays at the Byron Community Centre, Jonson St, Byron Bay. Elder Beats seniors drumming 10.30–11.30 am with Gareth Jones in the theatre, 11.30 Morning tea in the Cavenbah room, 12.00–1.00 Chair Yoga with Pippy Wardell. Wednesdays: Choir with Kim Banffy, 10–11am; Ukelele 11.30–12.15. Suggested donation of $10. No bookings, further information seniors@byroncommuntycentre.com. or call 6685 6807. Fridays at Marvell Hall play mahjong, canasta, 500 etc and enjoy a cuppa at 1.30–5pm. Marvell Street East, Byron Bay. Enqs: Nancy 0498 480 373

Mullumbimby’s Repair Cafe at the Mullumbimby campus of Byron Community College in Burringbar Street on Saturdays 9am till 12 noon. Volunteers will be there to help you fix things that might otherwise end up in the tip, or to advise how it might be done.

Carers’ support Mullumbimby Mental Health Carers’ Support Group for family members and friends who have a loved one with a mental health issue. Meeting on 4th Thursday of each month 9.30am at the Mullumbimby Neighbourhood Centre. Info: Leanne 0409 818 643.

Self-defence A free self-defence workshop for women 14+ is being held Saturday 25 May at The Academy Martial Arts, 12/74 Centennial Circuit, Byron Bay from 12.30 till 2.30pm. Bookings essential on info@academybyronbay.com.au or 6685 7001.

Library Book Fair Friends of Libraries Byron Shire annual Book Fair is on Saturday 13 July from 10am till 5pm and Sunday 14 July 10am till 1pm at the Byron Bay Surf Club. Good-quality secondhand

books of many genres available. Secondhand books, especially art and children’s, in good condition required. Contact Janene on 0407 855 022 or byronbayfol@gmail.com.

OS Art Expo Attention all artists! It’s time to get creative for the next Ocean Shores Art Expo. This year’s theme is Celebrating a Moment. An additional category of Digital Art is offered. Expo dates: 23 till 25 August. Registrations open midJune; see www.osartexpo.com.

Discover engineering A free forum for all high-school students interested in learning about engineering as a career choice is running on Thursday 27 June 2019, 6.30 till 8.30pm, at Ballina Byron lslander Resort, 1 Ronan Place, Ballina. Enquiries: 4911 7310 or register online: www.engineersaustralia. org.au/event/2019/04/ discover-engineering-ballina.

Mungo’s Crossword 1

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Cryptic Clues

Quick Clues

ACROSS

1. Clever, faster, demented – a serious affliction! (7,5) 8. Landlord’s correspondence (7) 9. Redeemer gestures: essential part appears (7) 11. English worker secures support: graceful! (7) 12. Party, and a supply of drugs, make an agreement (2,1,4) 13. Free state makes sense (5) 14. Man from Gdynia, perhaps – on top of the world! (5,4) 16. The palace hit: claim by ISIS (9) 19. Everything added together back in the Magellanic Clouds (2,3) 21. Ian, confused and worried (2,1,4) 23. Lower and fail (3,4) 24. Smuggled gold on a boat (7) 25. Game lad follows hidden vein (7) 26. Party embraces lunatic fringes for cultivating expertise (5,7)

1. Dangerous streptococcal infection (7,5) 8. Characters, correspondence (7) 9. Comes forth (7} 11. Stylish (7) 12. Complete a transaction (2,1,4) 13. One of the five senses (5) 14. Point at Latitude 90N (5,4) 16. State ruled by a Muslim ruler (9) 19. Altogether, summing up (2,3) 21. Confused, fretting (2,1,4) 23. Disappoint, fail (3,4) 24. Venetian boat (7) 25. Deer meat (7) 26. Successful gardener’s supposed talent (5,7)

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1. Breed of dogs (7) 2. Soluble compound (7) 3. British liner sunk in World War I (9) 4. Step, walk (5) DOWN 5. Nonsense, rubbish (7) 1. Compilers are dogs (7) 2. Expert gallery in compound (7) 6. Great Spanish painter (2,5) 3. Doomed ship: US-Italian venture 7. Female nerd (4,8) 10. Hope emerging from despair (9) (6,6) 4. Take a step: time to study (5) 5. They say I was hot – rubbish (7) 15. Bring back vigour (9) 17. Beginner, pupil (7) 6. Broken leg, about firm for the 18. Pit in the road, a hazard (7) artist (2,5) 7. Down hose – she’s an intellectual 19. Passionate, deeply committed (7) woman! (4,8) 20. Wakes, stimulates (7) 10. Abandoned evil girls’ inn: but 22. Pier, mooring (5) there is hope after despair (6,6) Last week’s solution N285 15. Line never broken: get active T I R E S O M E O F F E N D again (9) E E E A I O D A 17. Apprentice king, new queen! (7) L O G I C C O N F U S I O N E A O H F R T G 18. Drug pit, a traffic hazard (7) V A L E N T I N O T H O S E 19. Passionate, popular, perfect I D N R H R R perhaps (7) E A R A C H E M I D A I R W A H I A A 20. 15s, where French bums are S T A I N S C U M U L U S around (7) A I L A H E B 22. Hot in battle, following the place B R O A D B R O W N R I C E U N H L R S S S to moor the ships (5) S O A P O P E R A I N S E T E L O S L O U O S T E E D S M E A N D E R S

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Local rugby players excel at Junior Championships

Rams back in the game

Eight junior players have been selected to play for NSW Country rugby team at the U/15 and U/16 NSW Country Junior Rugby Championships held in Lismore over the weekend. Damon Coldwell (Wollongbar/Alstonville Rugby), Jackson Kempshall (WAR) and Jedd Windle (Lennox Head) have all been selected to play in the U/15 Country rugby side this year after playing with the Far North Coast side at the championships. The local representative team lost their first games against Central West 12–0 and Illawarra 12–7. They won their third round game against Central North 31–7 and their playoff for fifth against Central Coast 14–12. The U/16 FNCJRU side faired better winning round games against Central Coast

The Byron Bay Rams Reserves scored another convincing 5–0 win last Wednesday night in Alstonville, while the Byron Bay Services Club Prems came away with another disappointing result, losing 5–2. Saturday’s round seven saw the Reserves continue their winning ways with a 4–0 win over Ballina, while the Premier boys also enjoyed a welcome return to form with an emphatic 4–0 victory over last-placed Ballina. Ballina got points on the board early with a quick counterattack but a superbly executed free kick from young Zac Miletic at the 30-minute mark dipped under the bar to equalise. Ten minutes further in, newly signed striker Diego Vázquez blasted a cross into the box to Lisandro

The Far North Coast Dolphins on the charge at the Junior Championships held at Lismore. Photo Jason Ainsworth 26–5, Mid North Coast 29–22 and a semifinal against Illawarra 29–7, but they lost the final to the Hunter rep side 33–15. Edward Allen (Lismore), Bryce Spencer (Casino), Riley Cox (WAR), Jye Davis (WAR), and Ryan Wolton (Lismore) were all selected for the U/16

Soli Bailey struggles at Bali in small waves

Soli Bailey in action at Keramas where he failed to get through round two. Photo Dunbar/WSL Crystal Cylinders Byron Bay’s Soli Bailey was knocked out in round two of the Corona Bali Protected in inconsistent one-metre waves at Keramas up against veteran Adrian Buchan and fellow rookie Seth Moniz. Bailey finished third in the first round in a very close battle against Owen Wright and Yago Dora. Bailey has only had one heat win and just a single second-place heat finish over the first three events of 2019. Rookies like Bailey face a daunting task as they start from a low seed and always draw high seeds who have many more years’ experience. Bailey will need to channel all his nerves and frustrations into a more aggressive attack from his very first wave in the next events and take more risks with his surfing in the smaller surf to get

up the ratings ladder. He has a great reputation in bigger more powerful waves and hopefully with some swell on tap he will be able to get some heat wins.

Kennedy Stuart Kennedy (Lennox Head) was in great form to finish runner-up at the 2019 Gold Coast Open in peeling one-metre waves at Burleigh Point. Billy Stairmand (New Zealand) won with some early good scores while Kennedy waited in vain for a set wave in the last half of the heat. Kennedy was stoked with making the final and holds high hopes for the rest of the year. ‘I’m hoping I can carry this momentum into future events. I would like to requalify for the world tour, I feel like that’s where I belong,’ he said.

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NSW Country Rugby team. Bryce Spencer was also named Best Back of the Championships while Edward Allen was awarded the Best Forward of the Championships. The Championships were hosted by the Casino Bulls Rugby Club.

Story & photo by Dogwhistle

Lisandro Luaces put in a stunning two-goal performance. Luaces whose flying volley hammered the ball into the Ballina net to give the Rams a 2–1 lead into the break. Ballina fought hard to get back in the game but a Byron free kick early in the second half pinballed around the Ballina box only to be finished with a power drive from Luaces. Late in the match, veteran Ram Jono Pierce came off the bench to finish a cross

from Jack Martin with a spectacular slide into the Ballina goal. The Rams put on an entertaining display of quality football against a determined Ballina outfit. The win gives the Rams some much-needed points – and a confidence boost – going into Round 8 against Villa, in Alstonville on Saturday. Reserves kick off at 1pm and the Prems at 3.

Top players line up for Life savers share skills and equipment with Thailand the Southern Cross Snooker Classic The Ballina RSL and its Billiards and Snooker Club will host the 2019 Southern Cross Snooker Classic in Ballina over three days from Saturday June 8. The 32nd running of the Southern Cross Classic has attracted 44 top players from the Northern Rivers region and further afield from NSW and Queensland. Contestants include the current Australian Women’s Snooker Champion, Jessica Woods, and three up-andcoming Australian junior snooker champions, Lilly Meldrum, Xavier Daw, and Jayden Dinga.

Cash prizes Players will be competing on a handicap basis for prizemoney of over $7000. Prizemoney will also be available for high breaks during the tournament. First-round players who lose their first match will be eligible to play in the repechage event that also offers generous prizemoney. Club members, members of the public, and other interested parties are encouraged to visit the Ballina RSL Club snooker rooms and watch players of fine standard vie for honours

Plenty of equipment was handed out in Phuket earlier this month by FNC surf life savers. Photo supplied

Australian champion Jessica Woods, a member of Twin Towns Banora Snooker Club and a new member of the Ballina RSL Billiards and Snooker Club, is ready for the Snooker Classic in Ballina. Photo supplied during the competition. Details of the Southern Cross event, including all prizemoney categories, are available from the Ballina RSL Snooker Club’s website, brslsnooker.weebly.com, or from the tournament director Peter Taylor on 0419 875 599.

A combined children’s water safety and community lifesaving training activity was held in Thailand earlier this month with help from Byron Bay Surf Club, the Phuket Lifeguard Club, and local surf life savers. Byron Bay donated surf rescue uniforms for 50 community volunteer life savers who underwent three days training. Byron Surf Club also donated rescue boards. The shipment was part of a truckload of rescue equipment supplied by far north coast and Sydney SLS clubs.

Naval support ‘The high cost of getting large quantities of rescue and lifesaving training equipment to where they were needed was solved when

the Australian Navy offered to ship the equipment and deliver it to the Phuket Lifeguard Club,’ patron of the Phuket Lifeguard Club and Cudgen Surf Club chief training officer, Susan Eke, said. The shipment also contains 1,500 donated child-size buoyancy vests that the Lifeguard Club will distribute to villages in the south of Thailand where they have drowning-prevention projects underway. This year’s annual training tour to Phuket was staffed by volunteer life savers from Fingal, Cudgen, Salt, Cabarita, and Ballina clubs, who conducted three days of community lifesaving rescue and CPR training for 50 local people and Thai Tourist Police.

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