The Byron Shire Echo – Issue 33.51 – May 29, 2019 by Echo Publications

NOW IS THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT AND COMFORT The Byron Shire Echo • Volume 33 #51 • Wednesday, May 29, 2019 • www.echo.net.au

Primary colours up the creek – with paddle The Brunswick River was all a-splash on Sunday morning for the double-digit birthday of Australia’s largest organised paddling event, the Mullum 2 Bruns Paddle. Some of the top kayakers and standup paddlers in the country competed in the various 10km challenges but the majority of paddlers were just in it for the fun. Organisers welcomed a creative and colourful array of dragon boats, kayaks, inflatables and even homemade tugboats for the 10th anniversary event.

Major annual fundraiser for Bruns The Paddle is a major annual fundraiser for three non-for-profit organisations based in Brunswick Heads – the Surf Life Saving Club, Marine Rescue, and the Bruns Visitor Centre.

Mullum 2 Bruns Paddle participants. The 10th annual event was held on Sunday. Photo Jeff ‘Paddles’ Dawson

Bypass gets green light, small business future unsure Hans lovejoy While the Byron bypass passed its final hurdle at Thursday’s Council meeting, there is uncertainty around how businesses located in the old Norco building will operate, given that all parking has been consumed by the bypass. Council staff are yet to reply to The Echo as to how these businesses will continue – Byron Music will perhaps be the most affected, along with a sound-recording studio and others in the same building. On Thursday, the Greens bloc supported a $14m tender to a QLD-based construction company

with last-minute inclusion of a biodiversity enhancement program and plans to relocate the Byron monthly markets from Butler Street for six months to the beachside. The weekly farmers markets, held at the same location, will relocate to the Cavanbah Centre. In favour of the tender approval were the Greens bloc: mayor Simon Richardson, Crs Sarah Ndiaye, Jeannette Martin, and Michael Lyon, along with Labor’s Paul Spooner and Jan Hackett. National Party-aligned Cr Alan Hunter also supported the motion. Independent Crs Basil Cameron and Cate Coorey voted against.

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Byron Music’s Nick Sergi told The Echo he is ‘quite nervous’ about the future of his business, given there are no parking and truck-access allocations in the plans.

Parking not considered He says around 20 to 25 people turned up to a meeting with staff on Monday night, and staff were adamant it was all going ahead. Sergi said, ‘The meeting was combined with residents and businesses, which was a bit disappointing because we have quite separate issues.’ Noise-mitigation issues may be addressed for businesses he added, ‘Yet none was included in the Noise

Community effort conjures up Sean’s magic boots ▶ p6

Mitigation Plan, as approved by the Planning Panel’. During Thursday’s morning access, Butler Street resident Paul Jones stood before councillors as ‘defeated’ and outlined claims of deception and lies that led to the decision, none of which were refuted (See Council roundup page 4). Under pressure to apply more vigorous environmental oversight, Greens mayor Simon Richardson was supported by all councillors for a report on ‘establishing a biodiversity enhancement program separate from, and above that which is required by the biobanking ▶ Continued on page 2

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Greens Mayor again attempts to impose paid parking on Bruns The Brunswick Heads chamber of commerce, represented by Kim Rosen, has again highlighted a lack of consultation by Council over parking arrangements for the town and rejected Greens mayor Simon Richardson’s plans to again introduce paid parking. While she addressed Thursday’s Council meeting in the morning outlining staff report inadequacies, the mayor brought an unexpected lengthy amendment later in the day calling for paid parking for the town and expanding parking schemes. It was voted down – Crs Lyon, Coorey, Cameron, Hackett, Spooner, Hunter voted against. Instead, councillors voted for Cr Hunter’s motion to defer any decisions for a month. Cr Hunter told the gallery it is ‘not in my nature to defer [decisions]… We haven’t talked to [businesses]… We should show good governance.’ Rosen later told The Echo, ‘Brunswick businesses want to know why the latest report by Traffic & Parking Consultants (TPS), who were engaged by Council with ratepayer money, was once again ignored’. Ms Rosen said, ‘Recommendations in the staff report did not match those from TPS, critical data for councillors to be able to make informed decisions was missing, and there was no consultation with affected stakeholders, as was expected in the Parking Review.’ The contentious staff recommendations included turning all the all-day parking into 4-hour parking ▶ Continued on page 5

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Phillip Frazer dissects the election ▶ p15

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Mercato story correction Further to the last week’s story, Mercato developer denied special treatment over airspace policy, Cr Cate Coorey told The Echo, ‘I wish to correct the record regarding the article on the Mercato development’.

‘I did not actually move that Council refuse the request for a peppercorn lease under Byron Shire Council’s Airspace policy. I moved what the staff recommended in the Council agenda. Credit should go where it is due’.

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Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, ƱĶŕīƆ Ɛş ƐĲĕ ŔĶŕĎǼ ǕĶīĲƐ Ɛş ƐĲĕ ĶŔëīĶŕëƐĶşŕǼ ë ĈĲëſŔ to sadness, and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is good, just and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but nevertheless dazzling, passionate, and eternal form – Plato

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Vale Annie O’Halloran Becky and Rory O’Halloran If you lived in Byron in the nineties, the name Annie O’Halloran would have been familiar to you. Annie was the driving force in creating a safe NYE community celebration leading up to the millennium 1999 NYE event. This model became best practice and

was used throughout the country to help create positive community celebrations. At the same time, Annie worked at Byron Hospital as a night-shift Emergency Room nurse. Many patients will remember her kind, professional way. Annie was also instrumental in the creation of a ‘safe room’ at the hospital

at the beginning of the ice epidemic and worked

tirelessly behind the scenes for the new Byron Hospital and the detox unit at Lismore Base Hospital. She was a part of the Byron Town Centre Committee for many years and worked energetically for the betterment of the community. On Tuesday May 21, Annie died peacefully at home with her loving family by her side.

Battle for the million dollar view Aslan Shand A proposal for a 40-seat cafe adjacent to Scarrabelottis Lookout in Coorabell with commanding views to the north and sweeping to the south has come under fire from nearby locals. The proposed building, as it sits high on the escarpment of the Shire’s iconic ridgeline, has significant amounts of glass in the structure and will use the lookout as its access and partial carpark. Marion Toms, who has lived near the site since 1970, says, ‘This magnificent lookout was given to locals in the 1970s by Mr Scarrabelotti Senior “in perpetuity” and continues to be enjoyed by hundreds’. ‘To give it over to parking and access for a privately

owned restaurant would totally spoil the ambience of the site. This lookout provides magnificent viewing of our coastline and it is unparalleled whether at dawn, sunset, enjoying the night skies or anytime in between. Many people have been enchanted by this scenery so let’s keep it unspoiled by rank commercialism.’ Objections submitted by another of the local landowners highlight that the proposal fails to meet a range of the requirements as set out in the zone 7(d) and its subclauses and calls for the proposal to be refused by the Byron Shire Council on multiple grounds. These include that the development will have a visually disruptive effect on the scenic quality and visual amenity of the Shire; it will be geologically

hazardous; will be detrimental to the native ecosystem owing to spraying of weeds and runoff from the site onto neighbouring properties; and that it will alienate public lands that were donated to the community. Further issues raised in the submission addressed the fact that the ‘large areas of glass and parking will be visible from Mullumbimby to the north, east across the coastal plane, and around to the Cape Byron Lighthouse’ and therefore ‘is a development that is at odds with the Zone 7(d) (Scenic/Escarpment Zone) objectives’. Light pollution has also been raised as a significant concern by Byron’s Star Stuff organiser and amateur astronomer Dylan O’Donnell. According to Council, the cafe would not be operating

at night; however, as Dylan highlights there would still be lights on in and around the buildings at night that would interfere with the ability to view the night sky. ‘Anything that adds more light is an issue and often the lights added at commercial sites are not under the control of Council or the proprietor of the business but someone like Essential Energy and they are not turned off at night. He adds, ‘The lookouts around the region are popular destinations, not just for daytime travellers, but also Milky Way observers. Away from town lights, much of the area is Bortle scale 2 or 3 (with 1 being perfect, like say central Australia). ‘Unlike most other forms of tourism, space tourism is low impact and family friendly’.

Bypass set to start, small business future unsure ▶ Continued from page 1 component within the Byron Bay alternative route construction’. Biobanking is where a like-for-like flora and fauna are destroyed and a credit applied elsewhere. Despite that policy being unsupported by the state and federal Greens, locally it has been accepted by the Greens councillors, largely without question. During the meeting, it became clear that the biobanking component is a voluntary agreement, yet the mayor told The Echo last week he was ‘acting within the rules forced upon us.’ The Echo asked the mayor, ‘Which is correct – is biobanking voluntary or were you forced to use biobanking as part of this project?’ He replied, ‘The two options available to us both included biobanking. Of the two paths available, one was of biobanking as a

standalone process (which we chose) and the other had biobanking as part of its process, so in reality we always had to satisfy the biobanking requirements. Biobanking is now mandatory’.

Confused mayor In reply, ecologist David Milledge told The Echo, ‘I think the mayor is confused’. Milledge says he has completed training for the new Biodiversity Accredited Assessors Certification and has lodged his application with the Office of Environment and Heritage. He said, ‘Banking was only ever a voluntary scheme. Two options may have been available, but the option with biobanking as part would still have had that part as voluntary. ‘In reality, the second option with biobanking as part could have all been assessed with respect to biodiversity under Part 5A of

the EPA Act 1979. However, this is likely to have had more stringent conditions attached to it by government agencies, particularly OEH. ‘In fact, because biobanking was not allowed to be used in the 7(a) Wetland Zone (an Environmental Zone), Council had to use Part 5A of the EPA Act 1979 to assess biodiversity in the section of the southern roundabout that fell within the 7(a) Wetland Zone (refer to the EIS prepared by GHD). ‘Biobanking now no longer exists; it’s been replaced by the Biodiversity Offsets Scheme (under the new Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016). The Biodiversity Offsets Scheme is mandatory for all developments that are likely to have a significant effect on biodiversity (threatened species, communities, and populations)’. Meanwhile former Greens mayor and state MP Jan

Barham told the chamber in Thursday’s morning access that the rainforest in question for destruction is recognised as primary habitat for the Mitchells Rainforest Snail, ‘which has Commonwealth status as critically endangered and qualifies as being unable to withstand further loss, including loss of habitat in this region’. She maintained the process was flawed, given ‘the number and type of ecosystem credits required to compensate for the loss of biodiversity from the bypass construction [is] substantially under calculated’.

604 objections Despite 604 objection submissions received by Council for its proposal in February 2016, planning staff member Chris Larkin considered it to ‘be an appropriate response to site and locality characteristics and circumstances,’ within his report.

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Plans for a new Byron Bay bus interchange are on display, with Review of Environmental Factors (REF) up for public comment until June 6. The proposed location on Butler Street is opposite Somerset Street and sits adjacent to the railway station, with the layout indicating an access roundabout at Butler Street. Plans include an ‘allocated area for kiss and ride and taxi services, a new amenities building with a family-accessible toilet and an ambulant toilet, an upgraded pedestrian crossing to formally link to the town centre’, and, ‘three dedicated coach and bus bays’. While no consultation was afforded the community for its location, The Echo understands that NSW infrastructure such as this does not require consultation. In November 2017, The Echo reported that Council staff tried to force councillors to decide on the plans, which were initially slated for the Butler Street Reserve, in only a few days. After discovering the market site was a contaminated former tip site, a new location was announced. Greens mayor Simon Richardson says he and and former Council GM Ken Gainger travelled to Sydney to lobby the state government for the interchange’s new location, near the water tower, to be reduced in size. Cr Richardson told The Echo, ‘We had no say in the decision to initially focus the interchange onto

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Successfully lobbied He said, ‘Our subsequent lobbying was to minimise the size and scale of the bus interchange. Initial designs in the location near the water tower had the footprint going almost to the rails platform; this would have taken up the whole corridor and made it impossible for any other use within the corridor.

‘We successfully lobbied for it to be pushed back and shrunk to be contained mainly behind the current fenceline. Now we will be able to open the corridor land to public use and reactivate the tracks for possible shuttle uses etc’. Butler Street residents maintain they were never consulted about the project and say they are concerned about the increase in noise, lights, and traffic. Costings for the project have been requested by The Echo, but are yet to be supplied by the government. While the project’s authors claim, ‘The interchange design will incorporate and celebrate Byron Bay’s heritage’, it’s unclear how that will be achieved. According to Transport NSW, ‘The Review of Environmental Factors (REF) is a planning document that outlines the proposed works of a project and assesses the potential impacts and identifies mitigation measures’.

To view the REF and supporting documentation, which includes 19 planning documents totalling 878 pages, visit the project website at transport.nsw.gov.au/ projects/current-projects/ byron-bay-interchange.

Consultation Community consultations with the project team are planned. On Thursday May 30 from 8am till 11am, the team will be at the Byron Farmers Markets, Butler Street Reserve. They will also be available June 2, from 8am till 3pm at the Byron Bay Community Markets, Butler Street Reserve, and a community information session is planned for Saturday June 1 at 1pm–4pm at the Byron Bay Community Centre. The REF and design can be viewed at the Byron Shire Council foyer in Mullum and Byron Bay Library. Submissions can be sent to projects@transport.nsw. gov.au.

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lëīŕĶǕ ĈĕŕƐ ōĕëĎĕſƆĲĶż ëŕĎ şƐĲĕſ ƐëōĕƆ şĪ ōşĈëō īşưĕſŕëŕĈĕ Hans Lovejoy ‘We stand before you as the defeated’, began Butler Street resident Paul Jones during Council’s Thursday meeting during public access. It was an impassioned final speech, where Jones outlined clear claims of deception by staff surrounding why no other Byron bypass option or traffic-easing measures was considered. The claims by the residents remain largely unaddressed by staff and councillors appear uninterested in pursuing why. Ignoring poor process will evidently be forgotten in years to come, presumably. Such is the brutal nature of politics and the relentless grind of bureaucracy. It would be hard not feel some sense of sympathy for those on Butler Street who are about to have their road – a heritage precinct – widened and bulldozed into a busy road, yet there has been little sympathy, if any, from the councillors pushing for it. After Jones finished giving his speech, the mayor asked if there were any questions. Greens councillor Michael Lyon primly said that he did. What followed was extraordinary. Cr Lyon placed on the overhead projector an image of his federal campaign poster that had been altered to say ‘Who is this person?’

Cr Lyon demanded angrily of Jones, ‘Did you deface these posters?’. Using Council’s time to accuse a resident – seemingly without any evidence – is a questionable use of resources, given Council are there for formal business, not personal vendettas. After a puzzled Jones replied no, he didn’t deface the posters, heckles from the gallery directed at Cr Lyon erupted. Sufficient to say Cr Lyon appeared foolish, and hopefully he regrests his actions. Will there be a public apology to Jones? After the mayhem, a man called Morgan spoke to councillors and asked all councillors to look him in the eye over the looming destruction. A Greens councillor asked Morgan if he had sat in traffic, and he replied that yes, he had sat in his car in traffic. The Greens mayor seemed to scoff at the admission that a so-called environmentalist drove a car. Morgan then added he needed to drive in early to attach defaced posters of Cr Michael Lyon around town, which delighted the gallery. The Echo later asked the Greens mayor, ‘Do you believe it was appropriate for Cr Lyon to use Council time to accuse resident Paul Jones – without proof – that he had defaced his political posters?

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At Thursday’s meeting, Greens Cr Michael Lyon angrily accused –without evidence – a Butler Street resident of defacing his federal campaign posters to read ‘Who is this person?’ Cr Richardson replied, ‘Putting oneself out there in a public community leadership position is a tough gig and most could never understand the personal toll in the face of public attacks’. ‘Cr Lyon is a courageous and intelligent leader. Just like the editor of a paper using his platform to push his personal agenda, at times public community leaders may use their platforms to vent personal emotions. ‘We are all human and any sin Michael may have or not committed responding to cheap shots is small change compared to what he gives to our Shire everyday’.

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Mullum, Bruns and Bangalow paid parking? Cr Spooner was successful in moving a motion to tinker with Mullum’s parking schemes (Crs Martin and Cameron voted against), which will see more 1P and 2P spaces and 2P zones on Tincogan Street between Dalley Street and Stuart Street. An expanded Automated Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) survey will be undertaken to assess the results, and staff will investigate increasing enforcement officers, parking meters, and parking sensors. As for Bangalow’s parking arrangements, paid parking will also be investigated by staff, along with increased patrols and ‘in-ground parking sensors’. Cr Richardson’s successful motion requests a report in seven months, including revenue predictions.

Bureaucracy runs everything: Putin Here’s a fun insight into bureaucracy. Russia’s Vlad Putin told Oliver Stone in Stone’s excellent doco that bureaucrats have, and will always, run everything. So it should be no surprise to learn that upon the roll-out of Byron Bay’s paid parking, staff ordered a whole bunch more parking meters in anticipation of

their being used in Mullum, Bruns and Bangalow. There is sweet bureaucratic consonance in rolling out parking meters across the Shire with a reduced locals fee. These parking metres sit in storage, as Greens Cr Sarah Ndiaye has told the gallery at least once. So now it’s a waiting game, apparently, as locals resist the inevitable. That’s how bureaucracy rolls – there’s perhaps only glimpses of real democracy throughout history.

Other notables from Thursday’s meeting The Byron Bay Memorial Recreation Ground Plan of Management will be adopted. Staff will prepare an audit report on the number and type of residential developments approved under the State Environmental Planning Policy (Affordable Rental Housing) 2009 since the policy came into effect, ‘and where able, the status of compliance these developments have with post approval requirements for affordable housing imposed by Council on development consents including current rental costs’. (Ndiaye/Richardson) The Dingo Lane Solar Farm project will receive $465,000 ‘to the draft 2019/20 budget from the non-domestic waste reserve to progress the Dingo Lane Solar project to detailed feasibility (prebuild) and procurement phase’. (Ndiaye/Lyon).

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mayor and state MP Jan Barham asked councillors/ staff why section 94 funds (developer contributions) were not listed in the 2019/2020 draft budget. While staff later replied that the funds are described on the first page of the budget, Barham says the figures don’t ‘define how much is being held in Developer Contributions and doesn’t provide the breakdown’. She said, ‘I was asking why the general fund S94 contributions weren’t listed in the May 23 Budget Review agenda, especially when the Water and Sewer Funds S64 contributions were’. Barham also highlighted that the draft budget refers to the ‘transfer funds from the Environment Enforcement Levy reserve to cover the decrease in income in the Development & Certification program’. The Echo is yet to receive a reply from staff from the question, ‘Why there has been decreased income with the Development & Certification program?’ ‘Won’t diminished funds from the Environment Enforcement Levy reserve provide less compliance and potentially more issues of environmental damage and degradation?’ Barham also said a recent dumping of waste at Broken Head was reported, yet no action was taken from Council and the incident was not mentioned in the last compliance report.

difficult to look at. ‘Sometimes they confront me in a way I didn’t expect,’ she says. ‘But I guess that feeling of confrontation is part of what it’s about. I want people to feel that and to look at why.’ Growing up in a society saturated with pornography and masculine constructions of female sexuality, the Mullumbimby artist explores eroticism from a consciously feminine perspective. The pieces feature a striking eroticism, which is set amidst intricate ornamentation that reflects Ms Miho’s work as a Henna artist. ‘I was exposed to porn and it didn’t leave me with a good feeling, so I wanted to create something more connected,’ she says. ‘It’s about women

reclaiming their bodies and seeing their bodies and their sexuality as natural and normal, without judgment.’ ‘I think that can be quite challenging for people, but I think it’s good to be challenged, including for me.’ It is with this goal in mind that Ms Miho is releasing a selection of her erotic watercolours into the world on June 7 at an event which will also mark the opening of her new studio – Studio F. Located in the old Mullumbimby industrial precinct on Mill Street, Studio F is a space where Ms Miho hopes she and other local creatives can explore freely. ‘It’s really coming from the need to have a space for me to be creative where there are no rules other than my own,’ she says.

‘I’d love to expand it and bring other people in.’ The opening night will include an open mic for local poets, musicians and performers of all kinds to share their creations, and will also feature some of Ms Miho’s own poetry, including one poem/song called ‘Words’. ‘There were so many things in the last couple of years that broke my heart – a lot of people to let go of,’ she says. ‘That’s what the song is about: how words can affect us in relationships.’ The opening of Studio F kicks off at 6pm at 28 Mill Street, Mullumbimby, with entry by donation. Ms Miho’s works will be available for purchase. For more information visit the Studio F opening Facebook event.

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ſƖŕƆ !ĲëŔćĕſ ĈſĶƐĶĈëō şĪ ƆƐëǔ żëſŊĶŕī ſĕżşſƐ ▶ Continued from page 1 from Park Street west to Tweed Street and east of the Terrace to the surf club. ‘Where does Council think the workers will park? she asked. According to Ms Rosen, the new arrangements are mostly working well, although businesses and customers have suggestions for slight tweaking of the parking management plan as part of the Parking Review, but were not asked. ‘TPS agrees with us, with data confirming that there are no significant issues with infringement levels. ‘TPS reported that there was adequate parking supply in the town centre to satisfy demands at all times of the year’. She added TPS advised that while Mullum has reached capacity, both Bangalow and Brunswick Heads will approach or reach capacity within five years, she said. ‘The TPS Report did not recommend paid parking for Brunswick Heads. In fact, the TPS consultant present at the meeting stated categorically that paid parking was premature for our village.’

The TPS report says Bruns will reach parking capacity in five years, yet also states that the ‘majority of zones are operating at, or near capacity for a large part of the year.’

lëƷşſ ſĕżōĶĕƆ Mayor Simon Richardson told The Echo, ‘Paid parking is an effective parking management tool that has the added value of raising revenue from daytrippers, something most of us think is fair and reasonable. ‘As discussed in the report, paid parking is by far the most effective and successful way to ensure people park within the timelines set. ‘The other, less effective measure is to have more compliance staff issuing more fines. ‘The most equitable and effective way is through paid parking, and as we have seen from the program in Byron Bay, it makes life easier for locals with little imposition on locals. He added, ‘Brunswick Heads is at or near capacity currently, with capacity set to be exceeded within a few years; so we can either wait until the problem gets

worse, or put the program in place now – with an added bonus of raising many hundreds of thousands of dollars from daytrippers to put back into Brunswick Heads to go towards better footpaths, roads, parks, more trees and playgrounds and the like.

Bruns unfairly ƐëſīĕƐĕĎ Business owner Michelle Begg attended Thursday’s meeting and said, ‘I was shocked when our mayor, Cr Richardson, suddenly moved a motion to introduce paid

parking to Brunswick Heads before Christmas’. ‘We feel that Brunswick Heads is being unfairly targeted,’ she said. ‘We are wondering what is behind this push to impose paid parking on our village, when 6,240 petition signatories were against it in 2017, and the experts confirmed once again in 2019 that paid parking is not warranted? ‘This looks like a moneygrabbing exercise, with no consideration for the impact this will have on local customers and businesses, especially during our many low-trade months.’

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previously handing them out from the local bike store (which?), but a recent partnership with the Bay Centre Medical Clinic now means they are available there as well. With longer nights in winter, many cyclists are now riding home in the dark, meaning the need for bike lights has increased. If you are interested in picking up a free bike light, head to the Bay Centre Medical Clinic.

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manipulated me â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I got to a state of such trauma that I was completely numb when I had the termination,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; she says. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I realised later that I did it out of fear of that abuse, and that it was an extremely traumatic experience. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;After everything that happened, I felt very strongly that I wanted to support others who were going through it, to support them and for my own healing.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Ms Corlett says she is not

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Are you interested in checking out the latest electric vehicles now available in Australia? Want to hear about electric utes, mopeds, and motorbikes? Did you know you can now rent a classic car, such as a Landrover or VW, converted to EV? How much do these all cost, what’s the range, and what do they look like? Zero Emissions Byron (ZEB) has announced that on Saturday June 8 at Byron’s Cavanbah Centre, it is holding a day-long, family-friendly exhibition and forum to give NSW Northern Rivers residents and friends the opportunity to see and learn all about the latest EV technology. Entry is by gold coin donation. Opening the event will be Byron Shire resident Giles Parkinson. A journalist for 35 years and former business and deputy editor of the Australian Financial Review, he founded and edits RenewEconomy.com. au, Australia’s most-read

about EVs such as driving range and charging, and other forms of zero-emissions transport,’ she added.

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Giles Parkinson with an EV. Photo Mike Frey website focused on cleanenergy news and analysis and climate policy, as well as an insider’s guide to electric vehicles called TheDriven.io. Manufacturers will display their latest electric vehicles (EVs) – cars, mopeds, scooters, and bikes – from 10am until 4pm. Visitors will also have the opportunity to inspect new EVs and also speak directly with local EV owners on their personal experiences, though no test drives are possible. Meanwhile, inside the centre from 10.45am, short, punchy info sessions will give leading EV players in this new industry the chance

to share their knowledge on Australian Innovation; EV conversions; buses and car hire; scooters, bikes and trikes; electric vehicle strategies; charging Infrastructure and tariffs, local policies and the future of transport. EV Forum organising team member Bridie Schmidt says, ‘Come along and find out how easily electric vehicles (EVs) can fit into your life at the same time as radically reducing carbon emissions’. ‘We’re expecting a great deal of interest in this first EV Forum of its kind to be held in the NSW Northern Rivers, particularly from those keen to see and understand more

For school-aged children, ZEB is holding a competition with great prizes. For 11–18-year-olds: What would your ideal electric vehicle (EV) transport solution look like? Describe it in under 400 words. Illustrate if you want, but you must submit your entries by 5pm on Friday 7 June, by emailing zeb@zerobyron.org. For 5–10-year-olds: Draw a picture of an electric vehicle you’d like to ride in. Entries will be displayed at the EV Forum. Kids: bring your entry along before midday. Judging happens at 2pm, when prizes will be presented. For more info on the Northern Rivers EV Forum, email zeb@zerobyron.org, or check our website www. zerobyron.org or Facebook page @zerobyron. Q Christobel Munson is from Zero Emissions Byron (ZEB)

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Byron Bay’s famous point break, The Pass, is suffering from severe overcrowding. Surfers gather from all around the world to enjoy its pristine waves. Unfortunately this means that the beach is overflowing with people, who mainly have little knowledge of water

safety and surf etiquette. A lot of beginner surfers think The Pass is the best beach to learn at, but the fact is it’s not. Learning to surf isn’t easy; it’s an art that requires the ability to move the board around and be in control. The Pass is a packed beach and so it is not ideal for people who are still learning to control their boards.

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The number of people that crowd into that one surf spot, and the limited number of waves, means it ends with up to five people on a wave at once! On most waves there is a near or actual collision. I have seen this firsthand. I have been surfing for almost two years, so I am still developing my skills, and the most recent incident I remember happened on Easter Sunday morning. As I stood up on my board and dropped in on the twofoot wave I saw a man sitting about ten metres in front of me, on a thick nine-foot board. I thought to myself: ‘He will move, it will be fine’. But as I began to pick up speed I realised he wasn’t moving, he just sat there in the water, wide-eyed as I came hurtling towards him. I tried to move my board out of the way but it was too late, I landed right on top of him. Neither of us was injured but we easily could have been. Another big issue is that some surfers at The Pass don’t have a leg rope attached to their board. For some people it’s a lack of experience, for others it’s a conscious choice. Surfing without a leg rope is like driving a car without

brakes, it is dangerous and likely to result in injury for you or someone else. Just a couple of years ago, a young grommet was hit in the head by a stray leash-less longboard and was nearly killed. Nine bones in the boy’s skull were shattered and the lining of his skull had to be stitched back together. Luckily there were no signs of nerve damage. Former Greens MP Ian Cohen says tough regulations should be put in place to combat this reckless behaviour in the surf. A lawyer who specialises in sport cases, Andy Gibson, believes that surfers who refuse to wear a leg rope could be legally liable for any injuries they cause. The beach is a public space and everyone has a right to enjoy it. But it’s really important that we behave safely and look out for other people. There are plenty of breaks in Byron Bay that are great for learning to surf. So if you are a beginner surfer, and you are looking to go out at The Pass when it’s crowded, check your other options before you dive in. Q Maia Borrack is a Shearwater student on work experience at The Echo

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Local News Independent media, reporting championed at pub David Bradbury The audience at Politics in the Pub in Mullum last week heard a passionate speech by Margaret Reynolds for the importance of independent media and supporting the ABC. It comes as US media baron Rupert Murdoch puts pressure on the Morrison government to privatise the national broadcaster. Reynolds is chair of Friends of the ABC and a former Cabinet minister – the only woman – in Bob Hawke’s government. She also came out strongly in defence of Julian Assange. She said, ‘You may or may not agree with how

Julian Assange dealt with his extremely difficult situation inside the Ecuadorian embassy, but he and investigative journalism have now been criminalised’. She explained that Assange only did what any good investigative journalist must do. ‘You’re not there to please Hillary Clinton. You’re not there to please anybody other than to ensure the truth is told to the general public, exposing what goes on,’ Ms Reynolds said. ‘We know the Americans would love to extradite him. And goodness knows what will happen to him and how he will be treated.’ Mullum and Byron

residents have the chance to hear James Ricketson this week. He will speak about the importance supporting of Assange, Chelsea Manning, and other truthful voices in the media. James will speak about how and why he had 15 months of freedom stolen from him by speaking out his truth in Cambodia as a freelance journalist and filmmaker. He will be interviewed by this writer at the Mullum Court House tavern Wednesday at 6pm and Thursday night (6pm) at the Byron RSL club. James’s visit to the Northern Rivers is sponsored by the Frontline Film Foundation and The Echo.

Festival of the Voice in Bruns May 24 till June 2 Local singers and professional vocalists from around the country will come together over nine days in a celebration of all things vocal for the Festival of the Voice, to be held in Brunswick May 24 till June 2. Held in conjunction with the Bruns Picture House and and Song Dynasty Music

Events, the nine day event will be spread across three venues. The program ranges from Shout Pray Sing to two hugely acclaimed shows by Michaela Burger to an extensive series of workshops. Singer, songwriter and choirmaker Janet Swain says, ‘Collaborating with Brunswick Picture House

– the natural home for Song Dynasty Music Events – after two years of combined ad hoc choir work and performances, means that the festival has its own unique voice – a voice that combines pizzazz and showmanship with heart and community.’ For more info vist www. brunswickpicturehouse.com.

Dunstan’s Peacebus needs upgrade At 76 years, the longtime and far-ranging peace, justice and environmental activist, Graeme Dunstan, is doing okay. Thanks to more than a little help from his friends. But Peacebus, his chariot and the stuff of legend, is now worn out. With 630,000km on the clock and no reverse gear, there is no going back for Peacebus… and little more going forward either. Graeme is appealing to his friends via Chuffed.org to help him out. In the Rainbow Region of NSW, Graeme is known as a key co-creator of the 1973 Nimbin Aquarius Festival and, subsequently, as one of the leading pioneers of the counterculture that became established afterward across the Northern Rivers region of NSW. He has had a lifetime of co-creating innovative events, events as diverse as the first-ever Lismore Arts Festival, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, the Dolphin Music Awards, the Burning of Old Man Time, the Rockhampton Tiger Ploughshare trial, the

Graeme Dunstan. Photo Jeff Dawson Lismore Lantern Festival, the #ClosePineGap campaign and the Anzac eve Peace Vigil at the Australian War Memorial. For 20 years now he has been on the road with Peacebus, his mobile home and campaign vehicle. He says, ‘It’s a tradie’s van fitted out with a bunk and rudimentary kitchen’. ‘Under the bunk are crates of banners and flags for dressing public places with colour and getting messages noticed. On the roof racks are horn speakers for getting heard and bundles of bamboo poles for mounting flags.

On the side of Peacebus, a campaign mural is mounted. These are distinguished by his daughter’s excellent design and his own careful brushwork. Creating cultural movement is what Graeme has always aimed to do. Supporting other people in their acts of resistance is what he likes to do best. Being visible as an elder and setting a good example to new generations of activists is what Graeme and his Peacebus do. Keep Peacebus rolling on at www.chuffed.org/project/ keep-peacebus-rolling-on.

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Byron Shire Council Notices COUNCIL CONTACT DETAILS 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 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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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.

PUBLIC EXHIBITION DRAFT RISK MANAGEMENT POLICY The Draft Risk Management Policy 2019 is on exhibition for a period of 28 days and is available on Council’s website at www.byron.nsw.gov.au/Public-Notice. Submissions close: 2 July 2019

HAVE YOUR SAY: MINOR HOUSEKEEPING AMENDMENTS TO DCP 2014 AMENDMENTS TO VARIOUS CHAPTERS OF BYRON DEVELOPMENT CONTROL PLAN (DCP) 2014 DCP 2014 is periodically reviewed to ensure that planning controls are current and correct. The amendments proposed in this report are minor in nature and seek to address anomalies and inconsistencies that create issues when assessing development applications. The following draft Byron Shire DCP 2014 Chapters will be on public exhibition for a period of six weeks from Wednesday 1 May to Friday 14 June 2019: • Chapter B3 Services • Chapter B4 Traffic Planning, Vehicle Parking, Circulation & Access • Chapter B9 Landscaping • Chapter B14 Excavation and Fill • Chapter D1 Residential Accommodation in Urban, Village & Special Purpose Zones • Chapter D2 Residential Accommodation & Ancillary Development in Rural Zones • Chapter D3 Tourist Accommodation • Chapter D6 Subdivision Throughout DCP 2014, the term “high conservation value” is being updated for legislative purposes to “high environmental value”. The definition remains the same. The following chapters have been included solely for this purpose: • Chapter B6 Buffers & Minimising Land Use Conflict • Chapter E5 Certain Locations in Byron Bay & Ewingsdale • Chapter E8 West Byron Urban Release Area Two supporting documents titled ‘Schedule of Proposed Amendments to DCP 2014’ and ‘Rationale for Proposed Housekeeping Amendments’ are also available to view. These documents provide a description of each amendment and a rationale for why each amendment has been proposed. All documentation is available for viewing at Council’s administration centre and on Council’s website at www.byron.nsw.gov.au/public-exhibition. For information on making a submission, and where to address it, refer to the “Make a submission” section of Council’s weekly advertising. Submissions close: 14 June 2019 Enquiries: Isabelle Hawton 02 6626 7267

Enquiries: Anna Vinﬁeld 02 6626 7000 For information on making a submission, and where to address it, refer to the “Make a submission” section of Council’s weekly advertising.

PUBLIC EXHIBITION OF DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING & ASSESSMENT ACT, 1979 The following development applications have been received by Byron Shire Council and may be viewed on Council’s website at www.byron.nsw.gov.au/development-applications-on-exhibition, or at the Council administrative centre during ordinary ofﬁce hours.

Development Application No: 10.2019.169.1

Applicant:

Property Address:

Proposed Development: Mixed Use Development for Tourist and Visitor Accommodation (Hotel 146 Rooms), Function Centre and Retail Premises (Shops and Food and Drink Premises) with a Clause 4.6 Variation to Floor Space Ratio and Height Controls

Applicant:

19 Grays Lane TYAGARAH (Lot 11 DP 1066623) Dr Greg Wilding Coolamon Energy Pty Ltd

Proposed Development: Electricity Generating Station – 5 Megawatt Solar Farm Byron Shire Council is the consent authority, and the Northern Region Joint Planning Panel has the function of determining the application pursuant to State Environmental Planning Policy (State and Regional Development) 2011 and Schedule 4A of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979. The application will be on exhibition for a period of four weeks from 2 May 2019 to 5 June 2019

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Byron Shire Council is the consent authority, and the Northern Region Joint Planning Panel has the function of determining the application pursuant to State Environmental Planning Policy (State and Regional Development) 2011 and Schedule 4A of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979. The application will be on exhibition for a period of four weeks from 30 May 2019 to 26 June 2019.

Any submissions made in respect of the application should be made to Byron Shire Council, but will be provided to the Joint Regional Planning Panel and may be viewed by other persons with an interest in the application.

For further information on making a submission please refer to the factsheet ‘Making a submission on a development application’ available at council or on line at www.byron.nsw.gov.au/ submissions-on-development-applications.

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

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

APPLICATIONS APPROVED 10.2019.48.1 – BROKEN HEAD 85 Armstrong Lane Dwelling House and Secondary Dwelling 10.2019.128.1 – MULLUMBIMBY 9 Lorikeet Lane Dwelling House 10.2018.545.1 – SUFFOLK PARK 10/31 Hayters Drive Dwelling House Including Inground Swimming Pool, Tree Removal and Driveway 10.2019.183.1 – BYRON BAY 52 Ruskin Street Alterations and Additions to Existing Dwelling House 10.2019.137.1 – OCEAN SHORES 29 Natan Court Deck 10.2019.230.1 – BYRON BAY 4A Kingsley Lane Tree Removal One (1) Tree 10.2019.223.1 – BYRON BAY 2 Shirley Lane Swimming Pool 10.2018.538.1 – BANGALOW 173 Fowlers Lane New Dwelling to Create Dual Occupancy (Detached) 10.2019.62.1 – FEDERAL 9 Bougainvillea Drive New Dwelling House and Change of Use of Existing Dwelling to Secondary Dwelling 10.2019.72.1 – TYAGARAH 5 McInnes Lane New Dwelling to Create Dual Occupancy (Detached) 10.2018.609.2 – BYRON BAY 23 Jonson Street S4.55 to Modify Conditions of Consent and Permittable Uses 10.2018.227.2 – EUREKA 271 Goremans Road S4.55 to Modify the Floor Plan of Approved Dual Occupancy 10.2019.74.1 – BRUNSWICK HEADS 20 Fingal Street External Alterations to Existing Mixed Use Development including Fencing, Awnings and Entry Structures

PUBLIC EXHIBITION OF DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING & ASSESSMENT ACT, 1979 The following development applications (DA) have been received by Council and require exhibition in accordance with Development Control Plan 2014 (A14). The DAs may be viewed online at Council’s website www.byron.nsw.gov.au/ﬁnd-a-DA or by using the Online Kiosks at Councils Customer Service Centre during normal ofﬁce hours. DA submissions can be lodged using an online form via Council’s eServices Portal. Once you have viewed a copy of the DA, select ‘Make a Submission’ to lodge a submission directly with Council. Information on making a submission is available at www.byron.nsw.gov.au/Make-a-submission-on-a-DA. If you are making a submission, there are requirements in relation to the disclosure of political gifts and donations. Refer to Council’s website to satisfy yourself that you are complying with your disclosure obligations prior to lodging a submission www.byron.nsw.gov.au/Political-donations-disclosure. Please quote the development application and property description when making a submission.

EXHIBITION CLOSES 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 10.2019.238.1 – BYRON BAY, 114 Bangalow Road (Lot 0 and 1 SP 80829) Logan Architecture, Additional One (1) Dwelling to Existing Multi-Dwelling Housing 10.2019.227.1 – OCEAN SHORES, 80 Rajah Road (Lot 4 DP 828623) Newton Denny Chapelle, Alterations and Additions to Ocean Shores Tavern 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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Council’s Lennox Head Community Tree Planting Day will be held at the Lennox Headland on Friday June 7 from 9am till 12noon. Ballina Shire Council say that since 2003 they have hosted the planting with GeoLINK to coincide with World Environment Day (WED), ‘The biggest, most globally celebrated day for positive environmental action’. ‘This important initiative aims to protect our natural heritage and create a lasting

It’s often said anecdotally that the monthly gatherings of our esteemed representatives are longer than you find elsewhere, and now we have the proof. The annual review of Council performance by Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC) has found that the average Byron Council meeting during the last financial year went for a marathon 469 minutes. This compares to just 144 minutes for other councils. To be fair, we are getting more bang for our buck, with Byron Council making more decisions (69) per meeting than other councils (24). But the efficiency rate is still lagging behind and the meetings are getting longer

– up 42 minutes on average from the previous year. As Council staff are quick to point out, comparing Byron to the rest of the state is a tricky business owing to our unique ‘local circumstances’. These circumstances might go some way to explaining why we are so far behind when it comes to the condition of our roads. The PWC review found that just 11 per cent of Byron’s roads were in good condition compared to the median of 59 per cent for other regional councils. The impact of more than two million visitors coming into the Shire each year is undoubtedly contributing to this situation. Byron Council appears

to be struggling manfully to address the problem, spending 47 per cent more on roads than the median expenditure for the state as a whole. Yet we still appear to be going backwards, with the proportion of roads in good condition falling 40 per cent over the past two financial years. It isn’t all Cs and Ds for Byron Council on the annual report card, though.Council has greater gender equity than many other NSW councils. Forty per cent of staff in management positions

and above are women, compared to 31 per cent for the rest of the state. Byron Council staff also take far fewer days off owing to injury than the state average (just 24 days compared to 88 days). Council employees also appear to be working more overtime than their counterparts elsewhere. Council forked out $3,640 per employee on overtime in the 2018 financial year, compared with $2,899 for the rest of the state.

natural legacy for future generations. We invite our community to join us at the top of the headland on Friday June 7 from 9am till 12noon. ‘Trees, mulch, water and some tools will be supplied by Ballina Shire Council and the Lennox business community and volunteer groups have generously donated a barbecue and refreshments. ‘If you plan to come along just wear sun protection, closed-in shoes and bring digging tools if you own any’.

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Byron Shire Council Notices HAVE YOUR SAY: AMENDMENTS TO BYRON 2014 AND 2010 DEVELOPMENT CONTROL PLANS PUBLIC ART DCP 2014 – CHAPTER D8 DCP 2010 – CHAPTER 1 PART E Amendments relating to the above Chapters of Byron Development Control Plans (DCP) 2010 and 2014 are on exhibition for a period of six weeks from 1 May to 14 June 2019 and are available on Council’s website at www.byron.nsw.gov.au/Public-Notice. The amendments to the Public Art Chapters are a reflection of the revised Public Art Policy and new Public Art Strategy, as well as recommendations from the Public Art Panel. Amendments proposed relate to: • definition of public art and mural • aims and applications of the chapters • assessment pathways • required financial value of public art • requirement for applicants to provide a public art plan and report A supporting document showing the definition amendments in DCP 2014 Part A Preliminary, Appendix A1 – Dictionary and DCP 2010 Part A General is also on display. For information on making a submission, and where to address it, refer to the “Make a submission” section of Council’s weekly advertising. Submissions close: 14 June 2019 Enquiries: Sam Tarrant 02 6626 7216

TEMPORARY LICENCE PART LOT 3 DP 706286 Council is proposing to license part Lot 3 DP 706286, 249 Ewingsdale Road Byron Bay, known as the Cavanbah Centre, for a period of six (6) months to the Byron Farmers Market Inc for the purpose of temporary relocation of weekly farmers markets. 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: 29 May 2019 Submissions close: 26 June 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.

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The age of deep fake ‘The first casualty when war comes is truth’, US senator Hiram Johnson (1866–1945) reportedly said. As the dust settles from May 18, the first casualty from the federal election appears political polling, with The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald (Fairfax, owned by Nine) having ‘pressed pause’ on publishing predictions from polling companies such as Ipsos and others. The move follows anger and confusion at the misleading federal election prediction. Busting our collective perceptions about polling that uses outdated technologies is a good start towards a clearer understanding of whatever truth is. Next would be holding social media giant Facebook to account for allowing misinformation and lies to spread. Last week, Facebook admitted that it knew a fake video of US senator Nancy Pelosi appearing drunk was shared millions of times on its platform, yet says it won’t remove fake videos because it’s not in the news business. Even Murdoch’s US Fox network reported the video of Pelosi to be fake. Facebook have always been firmly in the fake-news business and have never understood or cared for the important job of news dissemination and analysis. On Twitter and other social media platforms that are replied upon for ‘news’, fake news has become embedded into the psyche. The latest tool for furthering illiterate distrust and division is called deep fake. Its origins began in 2016 with the launch of the Face2Face program. It modifies video footage of a person’s face to depict them mimicking the facial expressions of another person in real time. That technology has developed into deepfake, with doctored pornography (including revenge porn) surfacing on the internet around 2017. In January 2018, a free desktop application called FakeApp was launched, which allows users to easily create and share videos with faces swapped. Mass deception from artificial intelligence (AI) has now again leapt to a new level, with www.sciencealert.com reporting last week that the Samsung AI Center, based in Moscow, have developed a way to create ‘living portraits’ from a very small dataset (as small as a single photograph, in a few models). Realistic talking heads can be generated from a single image, including putting words into their mouths. Yet despite the impending uncertainty of reality, Finland appears to be winning the war on fake news. According to www.cnn.com, since 2014, students have been taught a checklist of methods to deceive readers on social media. They include image and video manipulations, halftruths, intimidation, and false profiles. Bot (AI robot) and stock photo identification is also covered, along with assessing the volume of posts per day and a lack of personal information. Hans Lovejoy, editor News tips are welcome: editor@echo.net.au

t didn’t take long for the hubris to kick in. Before the dust was settled, an exultant Liberal was reported as gloating: ‘We just campaigned on a strong economy – we’ve got a mandate to do anything!’ Well, anything – or nothing. And just in case there was any doubt about who that ‘we’ referred to, when asked who would drive the agenda if the coalition won, the Supreme ScoMo replied flatly: ‘I will.’ If this sounds arrogant and authoritarian, it’s because it is: a long way from our miraculous prime minister’s claim to straddle the middle ground. But we are now realising that Australia – or at least parts of it – have shifted decisively to the right, and we do not mean the centre right but the extremes. It is now clear that the big swing in Queensland was against Labor, but it was not to the coalition: the winners were Pauline Hanson and Clive Palmer and to a lesser extent Bob Katter. It was their preferences that delivered the swag of seats which procured the majority Morrison needed. So he owes them. He may have enough political capital to ignore the debt – at least for a while. But there will come a time of reckoning. The senate results are still to be finalised, but it is highly likely that Morrison will need One Nation’s two votes sooner or later. And while Palmer is out of the parliament in body, his presence will live on, demanding commercial favours as he has always done. He will not, and cannot, be ignored. And in the meantime the Liberals’ own steroid-charged right wing will want their kilograms of flesh. The most obvious and immediate will be the boost for religious freedom – by which they mean Christian privilege. But there are other interest groups, and people, that will suffer far more than the humanists. The ABC is an inevitable target – it certainly won’t get the funding that it wants and needs, that is a given. But the demands that it must be cut down to size, if not actually privatised entirely, will become still shriller and more strident. Once again, Aunty will be going

through another change-of-life crisis. Depressing enough, but the fate of Indigenous Australia is even more dire. Bill Shorten’s promise of a referendum for implementing the Uluru Statement from the Heart now lies in the dust of the red desert where it was devised. Malcolm Turnbull promulgated the lie that it was promoting a third chamber of parliament and Morrison quickly doubled down on it.

While Palmer is out of the parliament in body, his presence will live on Mungo MacCallum In the past I have written, optimistically, that the history of reconciliation has always been a process of two steps forward, one step back – tortuous and frustrating, but at least there was progress to report. Now it has been kyboshed for many years. No doubt there will be the odd token gesture, a few paternalistic and patronising moves to what is called ‘practical’ reconciliation – meaning the government will decide what is good for the blackfellas, and they should bloody well be grateful. The hope that they might actually be given a say in what they actually want has been crushed by the weight of Hanson and Palmer. Business as usual – as it has been for the last 231 years or, if you take the longer view, about 60,000. And then there is the Labor Party — or its smoking remains. As always, it is raking over the ashes for consolation – hey, we could still be in reach of government in another three years, the Libs lost the unloseable election in 1993 and stormed back in 1996, we have kept our key members, it could have been worse. And it could – but not much. After a clobbering like that, there will have to be a completely new agenda. The leader in waiting, Anthony Albanese, says that we will have to review the policies, but not the values, which is all very well, but one clear lesson from last week is that the values

of the blue-collar traditionalists and the white-collar progressives are becoming increasingly incompatible. Albo believes he can somehow square that circle; well, good luck with that. As a lifelong warrior from the left, he will have to do a lot of reconnecting. The trolls of the Murdoch press have already decreed that he should have been strangled at birth as a cryptocommunist. Well, they would, wouldn’t they? And there are those on his own side of politics who fear he is past his time – a class warrior in the mould of the great loser, Arthur Calwell. They see the need for generational change. But at least Albanese starts with a near unanimous endorsement from his party. Even the once-dreaded New South Wales right has effectively backed him, and if he may not have the full support of his caucus, he will be overwhelmingly welcomed by the party rank and file. This is why the potential candidates from the right – Chris Bowen, Jim Chalmers, Joel Fitzgibbon – meekly surrendered as soon as they saw those who should have been their factional allies drifting to Albanese. They knew their only hope was the party room – in the open ground the only people who could have given Albanese a fight were Tanya Plibersek and Penny Wong, both of whom were, for different reasons, unavailable and both of whom ended up backing Albo anyway. And this, I think, is Albo’s great virtue – while some may disagree with his prescriptions, no-one seriously questions his integrity. During the last Labor governments, he was a zealous supporter of Kevin Rudd, who briefly rewarded him with the deputy’s job. But during the leadership of Julia Gillard, he was unswerving loyal as one of her senior ministers – indeed, she said she could not imagine a Labor government without Albanese in it. And although he had beaten Bill Shorten in the rank-and-file vote in 2013, Albanese worked tirelessly to elect his leader for six long years – no sniping, no wrecking, no undermining. Albo exudes an authenticity that ScoMo can only fake. And if the voters come to realise that, he may be halfway there.

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Letters DëƆƐ !şǔ ĕĕ To the driver of a white Ford Ranger with a Queensland licence plate. I am a loving partner, father to three children under six, a professional working on local environmental initiatives, and a keen cyclist. On Tuesday morning 21 May at 7am, I was one of three cyclists on Coolamon Scenic Drive having just passed Valances Road. With no warning, a white Ford Ranger screamed past us with hand firmly on horn. We waved good morning. When my heart rate came back down to 150 BPM after my adrenaline rush to 200BPM, I thought I would try to find said driver to share my experience with him. Co-incidentally on exiting Mullumbimby, now in car, I happened to encounter White Ranger Man and followed, via Uncle Tom’s, to the Byron Bay turning. If I had had more fuel I would have continued to follow you. My message: I hope you made it to your chosen destination 0.1 second earlier than if you had SLOWED DOWN, politely made your presence felt by a gentle and friendly honk, and a wave as you passed. I love my kids, I love my partner, and I love my life. I would like to be here on planet Earth longer. I request you, and other motorists, to slow down and consider cyclists on the roads. So to White Ford Ranger

the coal-ition government thereby guaranteeing years more of lies and inaction on climate change, the same Queensland that only a few months ago was asking us for donations to help them cope with disastrous climate-related drought and floods? Matthew Lambourne Mullumbimby

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!şŕĈſĕƐĕ lĕſĈëƐş Thank you, Mercato, for bringing concrete mediocrity and ensuring the homogenisation of Byron. Thank you for not living up to what we were told was your pledge to include five-star cutting-edge environmental features. Thank you for not building the proposed aesthetically pleasing building that was rendered in your updated submission at Council; for inadequate pedestrian access from both sides of Jonson Street; for cold ugly cement

slabs in the cold ugly forecourt (already filthy); for black steel building trims. I feel that you have must little interest in the wellbeing and continuing ambience of Byron and its attractiveness. The structure is cold and uninviting. Now we are stuck with it. Heaven help us if you are allowed to apply your regard for locals and your sense of aesthetics to the proposed monstrosity next door (on the Woolies site). You have compromised the visual and sentient feel of Byron, and should be held accountble. Bianca Haberman The Pocket

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I have several rescued rabbits as pets, which led to caring for a dwarf longhaired lop-ear bunny found at the side of the road. She was so matted that her hind leg, infested with maggots, was stuck to her body. Longhaired rabbits need frequent brushing to avoid this kind of trauma. The most healthy conditions for a bunny are indoors with a litter tray, bedding, food, and water. An outside play area that keeps predators out and bunnies in. They can live well into their teens this way versus three to five years in a hutch (think caged hens). Bunnies are fantastic companion animals, but they are not a quick and easy pet and generally not suitable pets for younger kids. For info on house rabbits check out www.rabbit.org. Shani Darling Wilsons Creek

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by Ian Rogers Daniil Dubov is not a household name, but with one spectacular game this week the self-confident 23-year-old Russian made the world sit up and take notice. Dubov, currently rated outside the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top 40, was fortunate to receive a wild card to the 2019 Grand Prix series, part of the new World Championship cycle; his nationality and World Rapid Champion title counting for more than his ranking. However, at the first GP tournament, currently underway in Moscow, Dubov has grabbed his unexpected opportunity with both hands. Paired with Dutchman Anish Giri in the first round, Dubov eliminated the top seed in such swashbuckling style that after the game Giri could only marvel at the storm and wonder where he had gone wrong. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Daniil is one of those guys who is capable of that,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; said World Champion Magnus Carlsen after the game. (The two had worked together before Carlsenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s title defence against Fabiano Caruanan in 2018.) â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;He comes up with unbelievable concepts

and when he manages to follow those concepts up with energetic play then heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very, very good.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Dubov himself regards his entry into the Grand Prix, only his third world class event, as â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;a big and important step for me. I just want to play wellâ&#x20AC;Ś I hope to move higher. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know if I will manage it or not, but I have a chance.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Moscow Grand Prix 2019 White: D Dubov Black: A Giri Opening: Queenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gambit Accepted 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Bg5 dxc4 5.e4 b5 Once thought risky, Black attempts to hang on to the gambit pawn are now commonplace. 6.a4 c6 7.Nc3 b4 8.Nb1 Ba6 9.e5 h6 10.Bxf6 gxf6 11.exf6 c5 12.Nbd2 Dubov had studied the line to here; his next moves were improvisation. 12...c3 13.bxc3 bxc3 14.Ne4 cxd4 15.Bb5+!? Bxb5 16.axb5 Qd5 17.Qxd4 Qxb5 18.Nxc3 Bb4 19.0-0-0!!? Castling on to the flank where you have no pawn cover is brave indeed. 19...Qa5? Blackâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first and perhaps only mistake. After 19...Qb6, Dubovâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s intended 20.Nb5 allows 20...Qc6+ 21.Kb1 Na6. 20.Nb5! Na6 21.Qd7+ Kf8 22.Kb1 Ba3 23.Rd3! Providing just enough protection for the White king. 23... Qb4+ 24.Kc2 Qa4+ 25.Kd2 Bb4+ 26.Ke2 Kg8 27.Ne5 Qc2+ 28.Kf3 Now one king is safe, but the other is about to start suffering. 28...Rf8 29.Rhd1 h5 30.Qd4! Rh7 31.Qf4! Bc5 32.Nd4 Qa2 33.R1d2 Qd5+ 34.Ke2 Bb4 35.Ndc6 Qc5 36.Ne7+ Kh8 1-0 Giri resigned as after 37.Nxf7+! White forces checkmate.

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Q Congratulations must go to our re-elected Richmond MP Justine Elliott, who has withstood a vicious and spurious scare campaign including by the Nationals candidate Matthew Fraser. I was appalled to see claims the Labor Party was going to suddenly tax retirees and pensioners and with the Greens introduce a death and inheritance tax. Australians are more than ever going to need a strong unified opposition to hold to account what is undoubtedly going to be another three years of chaos and cuts. A shocking display of media bias from the Murdoch-owned News Corp; the Sunday before the election saw every edition carry editorials blatantly denigrating Bill Shorten and Laborâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s election policies, desperately attempting to influence the election outcome. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s amazing how such spurious and misleading articles can be printed as â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;factual reportingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. All media outlets should be subject to the same stringent controls on factual and balanced reporting as our ABC. Keith Duncan Pimlico Q On the first day of the new parliament I have no doubt that the prime minister will enter carrying his sacred and miraculous lump of coal. After all, the closer an electorate is to the site of the proposed Adani coal mine the greater was the winning margin of the coalition candidate. Notice that the word coalition contains the word coal.

â&#x2013;ś Continued from page 13 of years before we arrived and would continue even if humankind made no impact at all on the planet. If itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s true that a million species are at risk thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all the more reason to be selective in the species we try to support individually. If a million species are at risk then, as Lindy said, we might be seeing the start of Earthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sixth mass extinction. And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just climate change thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the problem. We also have to deal with human overpopulation. The one amplifies the effects of the other. We must drastically reduce our atmospheric emissions and curb population growth. It took more than 200,000 years for the human population to reach a billion and only 200 years to add six billion more. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a

Not even the reverence and worship that Tony Abbott publicly displays for the carboniferous mineral was able to save him from defeat in Warringah. On the other hand, another acolyte of the miraculous mineral, Barnaby Joyce in Armidale, had an easy victory only a short distance from the vast reserves of coal in the Hunter Valley. It seems that Australia will have no possibility of transition to pollution-free methods of generating electricity and export income while coal is able to inspire such religious devotion in its electorate. Michael Trevaskis Alstonville Q I committed to hand out how-to-vote cards for the Together Party. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d never done this before and I was a bit nervous and edgy. Advice: donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take what people say personally. So I did the best I could to help people make the change that I feel will give our kids more security about their future. There were young and old people; people set in their ways, fearful people â&#x20AC;&#x201C; maybe too much TV and Murdoch papers, angry people. But I stayed on top, had fun, laughed heaps, even got a bit cheeky sometimes. Then with my Together family we celebrated and saw that Abbott had been extinguished. The roar was deafening. I woke in the morning and learnt ScoMo was still the leader with a four per cent swing in Queensland â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I went

plague of humans. Many of the issues raised by Lindy are a result of overpopulation. Land clearance that destroys habitat and accelerates climate change makes way for homes, food, clothing, and people. The more of us there are the more pressure is put on other species. Not all species will survive and we should only save individual species if they have a special value. For example, species living on and around coral reefs depend on the coral so maybe coral polyps are species worth trying to save but other reef species will have to take their chances. The only way we can mitigate large-scale anthropogenic extinction is to dramatically reduce greenhouse emissions and population growth. Addressing just one

down. I spent most of the day moping, feeling like a cane toad that had been run over by Archieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s big yellow truck on Main Arm Road. Depression? You bet it was. Listening to Bay FM Latino I started singing and I realised others are feeling down about Labor not getting in â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the Sounds of Africa then Tiki Lounge and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m healed. In three years I will be 80 and if Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m still alive Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll do it again, but only better. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to keep banging the drum for change. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gotta do it all again. When we had our first female PM Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s national debt was the lowest per head of population in the world. Now after years of NLP governance Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s debt is the highest per head in the world. How will you explain this poor judgment to your great grandchildren? Veet Mayo (G Lang) Main Arm Q It seems that handing out and receiving how-to-vote (HTV) cards was not a pleasant experience for many during the federal election. A voting school teacher voiced her disappointment in the amount of wasted paper especially when every day schools are teaching students to use less paper. She also voiced the point that we should get rid of plastic election placards. We should have the HTV cards fixed to the inside of each cardboard voting booth. A draw could determine the location of each partyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s card in the booth like the candidate draw that

of these issues wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be effective. Warren Kennedy Mullumbimby Q Longer version online at www.echo.net.au/letters

Bike Path Seems â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;cyclistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; have lobbied state government for a bike path in Balemo Drive, Ocean Shores, and got it. This is a 2.5-metre wide concrete path for shared use. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more like a road and will run along the front of our houses in a straight line. Anything that stands in its way will be removed, including all the beautiful trees like my beloved tree at the front of my house. My tree is my outlook, it gives me privacy, protection and shade in summer. It supports local birdlife. I watch the birds make their

determines the candidatesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; place on the ballot paper. As a booth volunteer, the number of lies I witnessed being told to voters was alarming. I was also amazed at some votersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; beliefs and attitudes. One voter told me that he believed the reason weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re suffering extreme climate events is because God is punishing humanity for allowing abortion. This fellow and his wife are travelling around Australia, funded by his church, promoting creation science. I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unfair that churches get tax breaks and handouts while there hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been an increase to unemployment benefits for over 20 years and people are sleeping on the streets. David Norris Pottsville Q Goebbels, Hitlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s propaganda minister, said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Give me control of the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s media, and I will convert the people into a herd of pigsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. So that about covers our recent federal election! A debt-compromised, nervous electorate frightened to rock the boat even if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heading for the ecological and financial rocks. What a shame to think our lovely, ecologically fragile country is to be headed by adversarial fools for another three years! Expect that financial meltdown, Iranian wars and climate and water disasters will expose our pathetic LNP crew for the hapless, corporate graft-fuelled mob they are. Dr Liz Elliott Billinudgel

beds in the evening from my window. The removal of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;my treeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is unacceptable. It is environmental destruction. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a ratepayer and council never informed me about this bike path. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve only just found out about it. The cyclists who lobbied for their path just want to use our street as part of a circuit. Of course I want people to be safe on our roads, but a 2.5-metre wide bike â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;roadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is ugly; it would be busy and noisy and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d lose our privacy, green space and peace and quiet. How about a 1- to 1.5metre wide path with gentle curves, that meanders around our trees and gardens with soft landscaping making for a nice stroll? Deb Kayes Ocean Shores

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How Murdoch and the miners screwed us yet again Phillip Frazer

et’s get a few numbers straight first: this was not a landslide or a blowout and the people of Australia did not fall in line behind the grinning salesman Scott Morrison. The Labor Party got more primary votes than any other party, followed by the Liberals, the Greens, the Liberal Nationals (Queensland), and the Nationals. Labor’s vote was down by one per cent, Libs down by 0.6 per cent and the only significant gains were for Pauline Hanson’s One Nation (up 1.7 per cent) and Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party (3.3 per cent) – and if you add Hanson’s and Palmer’s votes together they’re still half a million votes less than the Greens got. So the shift was slight but just enough to block the Labor-Greens combo from taking back the government. A few percentage points worth of disaffected and/or easily conned voters were drawn to two blow-hard and vacuous parties – which took the pollsters, the media, and the bookies by surprise. Labor lost it in Queensland and Tasmania, the Greens didn’t lose it anywhere much, and Morrison’s mob won by getting the second preferences of those Palmer and Hanson voters.

Are Queenslanders themselves the problem – are they hillbillies or deplorables like some of Trump’s hard core? If so, how come they elected state Labor governments for 25 of the past 30 years including two female Labor premiers? For 180 years Queensland’s economic role has been to grow crops, raise cattle and sheep, dig up valuable dirt, and deliver all of them to ports for export, with most of the profits going to a few megarich Australians and to global corporations. The state’s inland and coastal towns reflect that history, but nowadays new production technology offers few jobs on the land so a high percentage of Queenslanders are doing poorly. The coalition promises them more of that low-security, lowincome economy, pretending that fossil fuels have a promising future and that China needs our ores when, really, we desperately need the $125 billion they pay us each year. That’s more than what Australia earns from sales to Japan, South Korea, the United States, the UK, and India, combined. Meanwhile, Labor promised to help the bottom 80 per cent of Queenslanders by supporting some more mining, and to stop global

meltdown by supporting less CO2 somehow, somewhere, sometime. So both Labor and the coalition failed to present a plan for Queensland’s future, but Clive Palmer had one – himself. He promised to single-handedly save our country from the politics-as-usual big parties. In fact, he made a deal to give one of those parties, Morrison’s mob, his second preferences, which he absurdly over-predicted. Simultaneously Rupert Murdoch went apeshit in all his media (80 per cent of newspapers sold in Australia) because the Labor leader refused to listen to him and Labor might be bad for his business. In the end, Palmer’s United Australia Party (UAP) got 3.4 per cent of the nationwide vote, but failed to win a seat in parliament even though Palmer spent more than $60 million on advertising. Those votes cost him $107 each! Why did he do that? What did he

buy for $60 million? He has now explained that it was all about stopping Labor leader Bill Shorten from becoming prime minister. ‘We thought that would be a disaster for Australia,’ Mr Palmer told ABC radio Brisbane, using the royal ‘we’. In the last two weeks ‘we decided to polarise the electorate… [by] explaining to Australian people what Shorten’s economic plans were’. ‘I’m very, very elated that we’ve saved the country from shifty [Shorten].’ He also reckons that Australians should thank him for saving them for his charitable act which was ‘more effective than giving some money to Meals on Wheels.’ His charitable act was to inspire foolish and/or disgruntled voters, many of whom would not have gone to the trouble of voting LNP, to cast a protest vote for the Palmerites – which had the effect of adding half a million to the gross total of Morrison’s mob. In fact, Palmer’s real goal was to re-elect a government that would allow him to keep control of the many thousands of square kilometres of Australian soil he controls, some of which he rents to Chinese government corporates for huge profits. Just one of his properties

in Western Australia gives him $100 million every 12 weeks from the Chinese iron ore extractor Citic Ltd, and he expects that will soon rise to $100 million every fortnight. For some perspective, here’s what the real political parties spent on advertising this election: Labor $14,450,000, LNP $13,300,000, and the Greens $320,000 – in other words Palmer’s fake Party spent more than twice the total spent by all the major parties combined. Mind you – Morrison & Co spent an extra $200m of our tax money in the election build-up on government advertising to hype their own policies. The lesson of this election is not that we-the-voters are fools – we’re disillusioned, bombarded with disinformation, over-powered and under-represented – but we must demand 1) public funding of elections and 2) public ownership of our natural resources like minerals and fuels, sunshine and airwaves. Those are the two things that the Murdoch family, Clive Palmer, and their compradores in Canberra will fight to the death to prevent us, or parties with a social conscience, from getting our grubby little public mitts on. Q Phillip Frazer writes from atop the little round hill in Mullum and posts on coorabellridge.com.

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Truth, lies and the Byron bypass Q Oliver Dunne claimed (Letters May 22) that ‘senior Greens’ failed to identify an alternative second rail crossing for Byron Bay. I’ve kept my distance from local politics since leaving Council, but when a former Shire president misrepresents the facts so blatantly I feel compelled to jump in. Around 2002 Council adopted my suggestion to assess a second rail crossing immediately south of the railway station. The subsequent traffic study furnished by Veitch Lister predicted that this crossing would more than halve the traffic using the top end of Jonson Street and that vehicles entering the critical Lawson St /Jonson St roundabout would drop from 31,350 to 19,250. In contrast, the larger bypass (as currently proposed) would only attract about a quarter of the traffic away from the town centre. This so-called ‘minibypass’ was lambasted by the Chamber of Commerce. The Byron News, in their erudite way, described it as ‘wacko’. Why? Maybe certain individuals had/have a lot to gain from a big ‘bypass’. Follow the money.

Neither proposal acts as a bypass. Most people, especially tourists, want to come to the town centre. What is needed to ease congestion is a second rail crossing. My proposal would have cost very little (er, involve few juicy contracts). The major by-pass, if it doesn’t bankrupt the council, will starve the rest of the budget – meaning more potholes etc. The current proposal is by no means a fait accompli. At least one current politician hasn’t lost the plot. Keep up the good work, Tamara. Richard Staples Talofa Q The Greens’ excuses for the proposed bypass show they aren’t the party that’s going to save the planet. Councillor Lyon paints a picture of cars stuck in traffic emitting fumes. Solution? Typical rightwing engineering proposal: build a bypass. Once the bypass is open there’ll be a perception the problem is resolved, leading to larger inflow – back to square one. Meanwhile the roundabout near the cop shop will further slow down the traffic exiting town over the railway line.

I didn’t move here to get caught in traffic jams, so there are situations that make a bypass inevitable if not desirable. The present proposal offers illusionary benefits that don’t justify the outlay. There is a perception that state government grants are ‘money for jam’ to be grabbed for whatever reason, regardless of benefit. When the bypass was proposed 20 years ago the only traffic problem was on Shirley Street at morning peak time. These days there are jams all over the place: traffic from Suffolk Park, traffic from the direction of the lighthouse, traffic exiting town after 3.30pm, and the 9am jam extending dangerously for at least one kilometre along the freeway itself. None will be in any way improved by the bypass, and some may be made worse if the bypass generates extra traffic from the south. The shit will likely hit the fan long after the current councillors are gone, especially if there’s a court challenge to Council’s negligent handling of the wetlands issue. Fast Buck$ Coorabell

In November 2018 councillor Basil Cameron organised an information session to explain what the intentions of the elected councillors were in order to address the inflow/infiltration problems in the Mullumbimby gravity sewer mains. The newly employed hydraulic engineer (HE) in Water and Recycling (W&R) explained that surface infiltration (stormwater) and illegal connections were causing the problem. This was despite repairs being carried out and inspected by a council officer on over 400 houses in 2009 supposedly to address this problem. The HE was asked what evidence he had that the four- to six-metre deep gravity mains laid in 1963 were not the source of the infiltration. Neither the HE or other W&R representatives could supply any factual data on the condition of the gravity mains. The HE said that the mains would be camera-ed in early 2019. This has not happened but the HE continues to lead a five-year investigation, starting in 2018, to identify what is causing the infiltration without knowing the state of the gravity

mains. Ratepayers need to be aware this investigation, started in 2002, has cost millions. The principal engineer – systems planning, utilities, when first asked on 3/12/2018 re Stuart Street’s new sewer rising main upgrade, the engineer responded that the upgrade was to supply increased capacity in the sewer pump station and that the sewer rising main had reached the end of its life. I would ask doesn’t this question the integrity of the sewer gravity mains as they were laid at the same time as the rising main 1963? The HE also states on the 17 April 2019 the works will provide the potential to service Lot 22. The Lot 22 development has not been approved by the elected council, so why are W&R upgrading certain parts of the Mullumbimby sewer system to accommodate an unapproved development? Is the tail leading the horse? Alan Dickens Brunswick Heads

Back and forth Roslyn Goodchild’s letter (May 22) accused me of wanting to ‘annihilate the state of Israel’. The accusation is offensive and untrue.

The editor’s decision to facilitate this sort of defamatory attack is regrettable. It’s clear from what I’ve written that I’m concerned about the plight of the innocent victims of Israeli war crimes and human rights abuses, concerns that are shared by the international community, as evidenced by numerous UN Security Council resolutions. It’s the policies and actions of the Israeli government and its military forces that make problems for Israel, not the voices that condemn those actions and policies. I have nothing against the people of Israel, who are obviously also innocent victims of the violence and tension that afflict their region. Indeed, I’d like to see an equitable solution that respects the rights and dignity of all the people in that region, irrespective of their race, religion, or nationality. But that won’t happen until the institutions ultimately responsible for the conflict, namely the governments of Israel and the US, stop defying international law and allow truth and justice to prevail. John Scrivener Main Arm

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I’ve just come back from s p a c e... The kind of space where industrial disruption is celebrated. Last Thursday afternoon I joined around 150 space cadets from across Australia and around the world at Elements, as Byron played host to its very own s p a c e program. Okay, so we didn’t literally go to space; we came together to conceptualise a vision put to us by Holly Ransom (Google her – she’s kind of like our own Australian Jacinda Arden). Holly’s mission call is to ‘lift the standard of discourse in Australia’ and I can tell you first-hand that it’s not too early to call ‘mission accomplished’ on that brief. The exceptionally well-curated day featured a collection of incredibly diverse and progressive thinkers, who left their titles and egos in the carpark and took the s p a c e vow to openness,

kindness, generosity, empathy and Brené Brownstyle vulnerability. Together, In a conceptual and intellectual way, we really did lift the standard of discourse in this country right out of the stratosphere... It was this setting of the ‘vibe’ – the cultural tone spoken by the likes of by Jacinta, CJ Holden, and the s p a c e team that provided an ideal environment for progressive ideas and discussions to be had and shared among the inspiring group. A significant part of the day’s success was the attendance of key influencers from our own community – significant, because we have a community fabric built on an openness to celebrating different ways of thinking and with that, a certain unique sharing occurs; which is ultimately why Byron was chosen as the place where s p a c e was to be held.

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Suffice to say that I truly believe that a new tone has been set for big-picture thinking and public dialogue in this country – which we all know, we could do with right now. So as ever, I say: Byron, I’m impressed, you really are at the forefront of this conversation, so well done to all of you! See you when I come back down to Earth. Todd Sotheren President Byron Bay Chamber Of Commerce

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As he says, ‘Sometimes the most delicious apples come from Victoria and the sweetest oysters from Tasmania’. A perfect example from the menu would be the natural oysters with a fennel and citrus mignonette. The new menu still continues to highlight seafood but has ample options showcasing the best of local and Australian produce in a wide range of dishes, catering to all. Having Barratt at Paper Daisy will continue to enhance the Northern Rivers dining scene, so if you’re planning a special night out be sure to also book your accommodation at Halcyon House. With its unique beachside location overlooking an idyllic pool, it’s perfect for an intimate celebration, but the restaurant also has a special shared set menu for groups of 8–12 people, as well as facilities for groups of 13–50. You are sure to leave with a nourished spirit and a full belly. Paper Daisy at Halcyon House halcyonhouse.com.au Open daily: Breakfast 7–11am, Lunch 12–2.30pm, Dinner 6–10pm

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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.

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

6680 7418 @nobonesbyronbay

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

Beef & Beach Byron Bay

BANGALOW

One Green Acre

No Bones

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

Plant powered Tapas & Cocktails Happy Hour 5–6pm $11 Cocktails $6 Wines $5 Beers / Ciders Group Bookings / Functions www.nobonesbyronbay.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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Legend Pizza Open 7 days 9am till after midnight Shop 1 Woolworths Plaza 90-96 Jonson Street 6685 5700 www.legendpizza.com.au

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St Elmo Dining Room & Bar

FRESH PIZZA BYRON STYLE Check us out on

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

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

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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

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

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

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$40 Dinner – 2 courses Happy hour AFTERNOONS 4–6pm daily $12 Cocktails, $7 beers, $8 wines, $12 Moet Live acoustic music – Fridays 6pm

CELLAR DOOR – TASTINGS & TOURS Handcrafted spirits using locally sourced ingredients.

Naturally Better! No artificial flavours, colours or preservatives.

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

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

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

MULLUMBIMBY Gourmet burgers created by chefs

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

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

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

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

Traditional weekend country breakfast Long lunches on the garden verandah Weekly changing Wild Harvest foraged dinner menu

18-22 Old Pacific Highway Newrybar NSW 2479 02 6687 2644 www.harvestnewrybar.com.au @harvestnewrybar

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

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 New bar and bites at Beach Hotel using the best local produce

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

Green Room Byron Bay

OPEN - 7 days Breakfast & Lunch Dinner Tuesday to Saturday All day menus, licensed bar

Traditional Vietnamese Foods

Located in Woolies Carpark Shop 6/90–96 Jonson St Byron Bay

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

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.

2 GLASS OF WINE VOUCHER

(CUT AND PRESENT AT THE COUNTER)

84 Rajah Road, Ocean Shores 02 6680 1478 www.sabisushi.com.au

FB & Instagram: @sabisushibar

Sushi • Live Music • Good Vibes Enjoy authentic Japanese cuisine. Local and imported sake & wine menu (Licensed Bar) Mon – Wed 11.30 – 7.30pm Thur – Sat 11.30 – 8.00pm Sundays 11.30 – 7.00pm LIVE MUSIC from 6pm Thur – Sat We proudly support local artists and Be Happy Music Club charity.

CATERING

CELEBRATIONS Celebrations Catering By Liz Jackson

BY LIZ JACKSON

Celebration cakes Personal catering services Event co-ordination and management

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

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Katrina Beohm Real Estate shortlisted for Women in Real Estate Awards 2019 The Women in Real Estate Awards, the first national awards program to recognise the contribution of women in real estate, is dedicated to recognising excellence among the industry’s top female professionals and companies that promote gender diversity and a commitment to the progression of women. The finalist list, which was announced on Thursday 9 May, features over 180 high-achieving real estate professionals across 27 categories. ‘The awards provide a platform for women in the industry to showcase their talents. It is a great way to recognise the industry’s high-performance

female agents, property managers, BDMs, and businesses.’ Katrina Beohm Real Estate the business, Katrina herself and Ellen Hayward, executive sales assistant, are nominated under the following categories. - Office Administrator of the Year (Ellen) - Wellness Advocate of the Year – Individual (Katrina) - Wellness Advocate of the Year – Business - Diversity Boutique Independent of the Year. The awards, hosted by REB (Real Estate Business), are ‘designed to show support for the women

in Australian real estate. It’s a necessary new initiative to celebrate and recognise the female leaders, role models, and future champions of the industry and to join the campaign for a more gender-balanced world. The awards provide a platform for women in the industry to showcase their talents. It is a great way to recognise the industry’s highperformance female agents, property managers, BDMs, and businesses,’ Mr Neary, REB’s editor, said. The winners will be announced at a five-star gala dinner on 27 June at the Four Seasons Hotel, Sydney.

Katrina Beohm and Ellen Hayward of Katrina Beohm Real Estate.

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An Elegant Queenslander

Cobaki Broadwater Village

5 Harah Court, Ocean Shores

27 Cemetery Road, Byron Bay

Site 273

$1,190,000

Elevated family home with a north east aspect, peaceful views & privacy. Natural light & ducted air conditioning throughout. Kitchen with dishwasher & breakfast bar. Open plan living on both levels. All bedrooms have built-ins & ceiling fans. Bedroom 2 & the master have access to the deck. At the front of the home is an office & single garage. Upstairs is a covered timber deck & downstairs is a patio with fire pit. Both overlook the in-ground saltwater pool & mature gardens, plus there is a spa under the Bali hut. The property joins a 7 acre reserve giving an abundance of space & bird life. It’s just a short walk to the Ocean Shores Shopping Village. Also nearby you can swim in the river & surf at the beach.

Inspect by appointment Open: Contact: Katrina Beohm 0467 001 122 Katrina Beohm Real Estate

Large Byron Bay Industrial Unit 8/70 Centennial Circuit, Byron Bay $880,000

$1.6 – $1.7m

Beautiful federation home rich with history. Originally built in the 1920s, the architectural Queenslander was relocated & has been meticulously restored. The home boasts 14ft high ceilings, large double hung timber windows, decorative fireplace with original bricks, tongue & groove VJ walls, plus wide hoop pine timber floor boards. Generously sized verandahs. Lounge & separate dining room which joins a kitchen that features polished concrete bench tops, breakfast bar, dishwasher, large gas stove, & walk in pantry. Large library or 2nd living room. The master bedroom has an ensuite, & verandah access. Elegant family bathroom. Downstairs is a spacious open area ideal for a studio. 3rd bathroom & laundry downstairs, internal stairs that lead to the covered verandah. 10,000 litre rainwater tank for outdoor use. Home is serviced with solar hot water. The block is landscaped with beautiful gardens, paved driveway & room for a pool. Walk to cafes, schools, golf course & the beach. Inspection by appointment View: Contact: Katrina Beohm 0467 001 122 Katrina Beohm Real Estate

This spacious three-bedroom home is located in a highly sought after area of the village. The home features an enclosed sunroom/conservatory with outlook over park land, the village’s walking track and across to the reserve. The living area consists of a carpeted lounge and adjacent vinyl floored dining area and has both ceiling fans and a split-system air conditioner. The kitchen is complemented with relatively new appliances comprising a built-in Chef fan-forced oven/grill, and a Westinghouse ceramic cook-top. The two larger bedrooms are carpeted and the third is vinyl floored. All three bedrooms have built-in mirror door robes and ceiling fans. The large tiled bathroom consists of a new corner shower cabinet, vanity unit and a separate toilet. Adjoining the home is a carport with space for two vehicles and there is a gentle ramp leading to the main entrance. This energy efficient home has both a solar hot water service and solar panels with an Inverter. Sorry, no pets permitted. Open: By Appointment Contact: Kelvin Price 0423 028 468 Mr Property Services

Brunswick Valley 3 1 1

Mullumbimby 100 Argyle Street

GNF Real Estate is pleased to present unit 8 at 70 Centennial Circuit, Byron Bay to the market for sale. This presents a rare opportunity to secure a high-yielding investment property with a quality long-term tenant. Features of the property include: • Longstanding tenant with three years remaining on a five-year lease and two five-year options. • Quality tenant that started in Byron Bay and has operated for nearly 20 years. • Approximate 6.1% net yield. • 200m2 of ground floor Besser block warehouse, food-authorityapproved production room. • Lockup office, 2 toilets, one shower and upstairs kitchen. • 90m2 of mezzanine storage, outside deck area. • Excellent access via container height roller door. • Perfect investment for self-managed super funds. The Byron Bay Arts and Industry Estate is home to many local businesses operating in that area. It is located within close proximity of the M1 Motorway providing economical access for transport, employees and clients. The centre of Byron Bay is just 3.5km from the Arts and Industry Estate and offers a wide range of business services and amenities. Contact: Chris Hayward 0416 005 700 Alli Page 0403 498 648 GNF Real Estate Bangalow

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$295,000

$739,000

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.

Brunswick Valley

• 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 Inspections: Saturday 1.00 – 1.30pm Contact: Fiona Johnson – 0400 418 886 Elders Brunswick Valley

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T CK K E BA A R M TO

48 Balemo Drive, Ocean Shores

Inspect Saturday 1st June 10-10.30am Price $790,000 to $830,000 Todd Buckland 0408 966 421

Enjoy stunning sunsets and distant hinterland views from this eight-acre, 4 bed, 4 bath family home. Features here include a 12-year-old master suite extension, 15m heated lap pool, Yankee creek frontage and the perfect spot to build a second dwelling (STCA)

239 Rosebank Road, Rosebank

Inspect By Appointment Price Expressions of Interest Gary Brazenor 0423 777 237

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

Inspect Saturday 1st June 11-11.30am Price $870,00 to $930,000

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23 Flinders Way, Ocean Shores

Inspect By Appointment Price $990,000

Todd Buckland 0408 966 421

Inspect Saturday 1st June 12-12.30pm Price $800,000 to $830,000 Todd Buckland 0408 966 421

4 Kuringai Way, Ocean Shores This freshly renovated brick and tile home built on 999m2 is all set for a family to move right in to. There’s an updated kitchen, new bathroom, blinds, carpets, paint and flooring. The property also boasts dual occupancy potential with room for a 2nd house.

Inspect Saturday 1st June 11-11.30am Price $675,000 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.

Completely level 719sqm plot and ready to build your dream home on. This outstanding block borders 13 acres of private reserve with its’ very own private beach access, it will take you less than 350 steps to reach the water’s edge.

SA OP T EN 11 am

Todd Buckland 0408 966 421

719m2

27 Muli Muli Avenue, Ocean Shores

W NE

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

SA OP T EN 12 pm

33 Rangal Road, Ocean Shores

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 1st June 10-10.30am Price $660,000 Todd Buckland 0408 966 421

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1 Left Bank Road, Mullumbimbimby Set on a rolling green acre with perm creek frontage, this property offers a wealth of features. Established gardens, four car garage, and a big family home. Constructed of double brick the solid house will accommodate a growing family or multigenerational guests.

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• 51 Ruskin Street, Byron Bay. Thu 3–3.30pm • Lot 20/31 Hayters Drive, Suffolk Park. Fri 11–11.30am • 21B Beech Drive, Suffolk Park. Fri 12–12.30pm • 11 Ironbark Avenue, Byron Bay. Fri 1–1.30pm • 1/70 Ballina Street, Lennox Head. Fri 1–1.30pm • 86 Brushbox Drive, Mullumbimby. Fri 2–2.30pm • 20 Azalea Street, Mullumbimby. Fri 3–3.30pm • 14 Palm Tree Crescent, Bangalow. Sat 9.30–10am • 122 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby. Sat 9.30–10am • 21 Scotts Wood Grove, Mullumbimby Creek. Sat 10–10.30am • 21B Beech Drive, Suffolk Park. Sat 10–10.30am • 11 Sansom Street, Bangalow. Sat 10–10.30am • 4 Oodgeroo Gardens, Byron Bay. Sat 10–10.30am • 7/21 Cemetery Road, Byron Bay. Sat 10–10.30am • 813 Myocum Road, Myocum. Sat 10–10.30am • House 1/4–6 Roundhouse Place, Ocean Shores. Sat 10.30–11am • 140 Broken Head Road, Newrybar. Sat 11–11.30am • 356 Kings Road, Federal. Sat 11–11.30am • 1 Ribbonwood Place, Suffolk Park. Sat 11–11.30am • 1 Gittoes Lane, Possum Creek. Sat 11–11.30am • 45 Beech Drive, Suffolk Park. Sat 11–11.30am • 6 Alexander Circuit, Lennox Head. Sat 11–11.30am • 35 Lilli Pilli Drive, Byron Bay. Sat 11–11.30am • 86 Brushbox Drive, Mullumbimby. Sat 12–12.30pm • 62 Nashua Road, Fernleigh. Sat 12–12.30pm

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F l a i h n e T g N ud e

ALL YOUR NORTH COAST ENTERTAINMENT Laura Peck is part of a four-person team – two power couples! Sarah and Sut, and Dale and Laura! ‘The original idea was Sut’s,’ says Laura. ‘He had the concept to play music to raise money and raise awareness. So it started out as a free event and we had sponsors with prizes so we could raise money – it was a party with a conscience. I want to give credit to his idea; the four of us brought it to life; it is what it is because of our collective effort. We never imagined the success was as palpable and far reaching, and this Sunday will be our 37th nudge event!’ Nudge Nudge has had a few incarnations – starting free, and then becoming so popular it had to be ticketed. The audience numbers had tripled but donations hadn’t so charging

became a way to control numbers and raise some serious coin for the community. For Laura it’s all about the three C ’s! ‘Community, community, and community!’ she laughs. When asked what the secret of the success of Nudge Nudge was, Laura is reflective. ‘It’s the perfect storm – all attitudes and everything is left at the door. It’s very egalitarian at Nudge; we refer to the audience as Nudgers, but the feedback we receive directly is everyone feels welcome and safe, and I think what unites everyone is a love of dance, whether you are 88 years old or eight months old bopping in the arms of your parents. There is a freedom of expression.’

THIS SUNDAY SEES THE LAST OF NUDGE NUDGE – THE PARTY WITH A CONSCIENCE THAT HAS RAISED OVER $300,000 FOR LOCAL CHARITIES AND HAS BECOME SOMETHING OF A MONTHLY DANCE MUST-DO. FOR THOSE OF US WHO LOVE DANCING AND FEEL A BIT SELF-CONSCIOUS GOING TO PARTIES FULL OF UNDER25S, NUDGE NUDGE WINK WINK OFFERS THE OPPORTUNITY TO DANCE IN YOUR COMMUNITY WITH LITTLE KIDS AND OLD NANAS. IT’S BRILLIANT. AND TO TOP IT OFF – YOU GET TO DANCE FOR A GOOD CAUSE!

| LIVE MUSIC...P27 | CULTURE...P28 | CINEMA...P29 | GIG GUIDE...P30 This final NUDGE is going to be a really special send-off, featuring opening sets from the ladies of NUDGE – Sarah Sutton (Lady S) and Laura Peck (Miss L) with special guest beloved DJ Stephen Allkins, plus our residents Dale Stephen and Lord Sut. Mandy Nolan will be doing the comedy raffle, Creatrix Body Art + Dubse on Live Art and there will be a Silent Auction of a limited art print kindly donated by Craig Ruddy. This month’s charity is It Takes a Town. It takes a Town is built upon the premise that we all have a role to play in creating change – residents, services, clubs, businesses, schools, and government. With a focus on nurturing the qualities of collaboration, generosity, and responsiveness, It Takes a Town believes that if we get the culture of community ‘right’ and

provide backbone support for the seeding of new collaborations and initiatives, then multiple outcomes can reverberate out for the benefit of all in our community. So don’t miss the final Nudge Nudge for some time. ‘We are putting Nudge Nudge on hiatus; there may or may not be a pop-up. But next season we are moving to a Saturday night residence – the first Saturday of the month CURIOUS – at Billinudgel. We will still be giving away some of the profits, but we are hoping now that we can pay everyone because everyone has been doing it free! We launch CURIOUS on Saturday 7 September!’ Nudge Nudge Wink Wink, a party with a conscience, at The Billinudgel Hotel on Sunday. Tix: cunningstunts.com.au – are $25 if any left!

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A Period Pi ec e This Tuesday 28 June was Menstrual Hygiene Day. I popped in a cannabis tampon to celebrate. And yes, they’re a thing. Apparently it’s to relieve cramps, but I just buy them to get my vagina stoned. (It’s awesome but you do have to watch the snacking.) Clearly there’s a lot of stigma around our lady stigmata. In Afghanistan women avoid washing their vaginas as they are told it can lead to infertility. What a shame this doesn’t work because it would be great contraception. And to top it off, in Afghanistan a menstrual pad costs $4. That’s more expensive than smoking! You literally would have to AfterPay your pads. In Bolivia girls believe menstrual blood is toxic, and to mop up in case they perform a uterine version of the Exxon Valdez spill, they cram pads in their bags. They carry used pads in their bags because they’re told that menstrual blood can cause cancer if it mixes with other trash. If it’s that powerful I’m surprised the Americans weren’t using it for chemical warfare. Imagine bringing down Bin Laden with period blood! In India you aren’t allowed to prepare food when you have your period. I know it’s sexist but sometimes I think that would be okay. Sorry, kids, no dinner tonight. Mummy has her period. Yes I know it’s been three months; just bring me another wine and let me get back to my Netflix. In places like Iran you’re not allowed to use tampons in case you lose your virginity. That’s some mighty big tampon. Oh well, as long as it’s gentle and loving, and remembers to call. In Japan, there is this tradition that women can’t become sushi chefs because their taste is thrown off by menstruation. If you’ve got your period, go eat some sushi now and tell me what it tastes like. It tastes like fish doesn’t it? That’s your crazy lady taste bloods. In Kenya, menstrual pads are seen as luxury items and only blokes are allowed luxury over there. There’s probably some big Kenyan dudes getting around with some lovely luxurious sanitary pads. The girls have to use sticks and leaves to absorb the blood. Yep, sticks and leaves. Ouch. I don’t know when you last put a twig in your twat but it’s got like zero absorbency. It is however, biodegradable. In Malawi in southeastern Africa the taboo is so intense parents can’t talk to their daughters about menstruation. Girls there clearly think they’re dying or their vagina is broken. In Nepal there was a tradition of ‘chaupadi’, which involves sending menstruating women to live in sheds away from others. ‘Go bleed in the shed’ is what women do 4–5 days a month. I guess it would mean you could take some downtime, but sheds aren’t hotels. They’re not relaxing. Generally they have animals in there. They have no access to food or clean water. This has made some women sick and led to death for others. In Somalia if you are an observant Muslim, if you have your period you’re unclean, so until your period is over you can’t wash your hair or shower, all the things you are supposed to do when you pray. So basically if you bleed you’re not allowed on the prayer mat. So that’s why we have World Menstrual Hygiene day. The theme this year is ‘Let’s end the hesitation around menstruation’, so it’s definitely a day to mark with a free bleed in recognition of all those girls around the world who leave school because of inadequate sanitation or menstrual management. Girls in developing countries literally stop thriving and succeeding when they get their period. That’s why businesses like Tsuno are so amazing – a social-enterprise sanitary-product company created by a 33-year-old woman who wanted to change the world. The pads are made from bamboo fibre, tampons are made from organic cotton, and 50 per cent of profits go to charities that empower women with education and menstrual support. So to mark World Menstrual Hygiene Day reflect on how privileged we have been, even with the stigma most Western women have experienced. It’s a good time to reflect: Is our moon cup half-full? Or half-empty?

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Paddy Cakes at the Brewery BOISTEROUS AND EXPLOSIVE GIPPSLAND BOYS THE PADDY CAKES ARE QUICKLY FORGING A NAME FOR THEMSELVES WITH THEIR FAST-PACED, HIGH-ENERGY LIVE SHOWS, A CONTAGIOUS SENSE OF MISCHIEF AND FUN, AND SOME SERIOUSLY SLICK SOUND PRODUCTION. TAKING INFLUENCE FROM A RANGE OF INTERNATIONAL FAVOURITES, THE PADDY CAKES HAVE CRAFTED AN ECLECTIC AND DANCEABLE INDIE ROCK SOUND REMINISCENT OF ARCTIC MONKEYS, THE KOOKS, AND TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB, WHILE BRINGING A UNIQUELY AUSTRALIAN CHARM TO THE TABLE. GUITARIST OAKLEY KERR SPOKE WITH SEVEN ABOUT THE BAND.

You guys are from south Gippsland in Victoria; that’s different. Is there much of a music scene down there? Yeah it is a bit different! There isn’t really much of a music scene around Gippsland, which is a shame because it is such a big area. There are definitely people around who love music but the accessibility to it is pretty hard down here. To see most live bands or musicians we travel to Melbourne. For us it was great starting our playing gigs in Gippsland because we were one of the very few bands around home. How did you guys get into music? Did you grow up in musical households? The three of us all grew up loving music. We all have very musical families; that got us into music at early ages. Jonah (drummer) and I are cousins and grew up playing guitar with each other a lot. Dalton (singer) and Jonah went to school together but it wasn’t until after high school that we formed the band and started practising. We all have pretty similar tastes in music, which helps a lot, because we are all on the same page when thinking of ideas for new stuff. How long have you been playing together? How did it all start up? We started in 2017 as a cover band, which was pretty fun! We would learn all the songs from bands that we loved. Our first gig was in at the Inverloch Inlet Hotel and we sold out the venue, which was huge. I think we sold 350 tickets to a pub with 300 capacity so it was a crowded first gig. You’re touring your new EP Broken At Best. Where did the inspiration for this EP come from? Broken At Best was written about just going out and having fun, sometimes getting into trouble, and rumours that we would hear about ourselves. Dalton was the main songwriter behind these songs’ lyrics. I think we’re all very influenced by British bands like Arctic Monkeys, The Kooks, and Catfish and the Bottlemen.

Your sound has been described as bringing together elements of Brit-pop and Australiana. Do you think that’s an accurate description? How would you describe your sound? Yeah I think it’s pretty accurate! Lots of our favourite bands are British. But across the three of us we do have a pretty vast music flavour. We try to be ourselves as much as we can and try to fit into our own genre. We want to make our own music that we actually enjoy. I think we’re making music that is quite different from most that’s happening in Australia at the minute. You’ve been receiving some great reviews and regular play on Triple J recently for your single Depressing All. How is that for you guys? Does that get you pumped to write / record more? Yes it definitely does! It’s always good getting some praise for your work. It’s still very unreal getting airtime and the fact that people like our music. I remember the first time being told we were getting played on Triple J: it was the most excited feeling in my life. We have a lot of ideas and demos recorded but it is timeconsuming working full-time jobs and trying to create quality music. We have just recorded some new music that you will hear soon. We are always writing new stuff and hope to aim for some more releases later this year. What else is on the cards for The Paddy Cakes this year? Is there any news you’d like to share with your fans up here in Byron? We are releasing a surprise new single on 30 May! It’s the day before the Byron Bay gig so come along to be the first to hear it live. We’ve had this song for a while and are excited to release it before the tour. We will no doubt be heading back to the studio after we tour to record some new material and if all goes well will be doing some more east coast gigs before the year ends. The Paddy Cakes perform a free show at Byron Bay Brewery this Friday night with Garage Sale and Matt Collins (Wharves).

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As the first-ever event inside the new space, Festival of the Stone 2019 will take over a new brewery in Byron Bay on Saturday 8 June from 3pm till 10pm, with live bands, food trucks, and fresh beer. Alex Lahey will be bringing her pop-punk energy to the stage, alongside artist-producer Alice Ivy and soul singer Lisa Hunt – an awesome ticket of female headliners. Melbourne-based songwriter Alex Lahey played an epic gig at Splendour last year following her Triple J Unearthed success, while her album I Love You Like A Brother landed on several ‘albums of the year’ lists around the country. Energetic, super fun, and with a new album, The Best of Luck Club, under her belt. With her ethereal voice and funky neo-jazz electronica, artist and producer Alice Ivy has

supported major international acts including Foster the People, Billie Eilish and Flight Facilities, and has performed at our favourite festivals around the country, including Splendour in the Grass and Falls Festival. Her dreamy tracks will set the ultimate backdrop to a starry festival night. Local favourite soul queen Lisa Hunt, who’s worked with the likes of Ray Charles, Eric Clapton, Tina Arena, and Macy Gray, will also light up the stage with her soaring vocals and funk and soul tracks. Once a closing act for Byron Bay Bluesfest, Lisa makes light work of pulling people onto the floor. Also on the lineup is the 28-man ‘Russian’ choir from Mullumbimby, Dustyesky, and for the kids, the head-banging Bunny Racket! Tix at stoneandwood.com.au $45

SONGWRITING WITH JO JO

IT’S ALL ABOUT UKE

Jo Jo Smith is one of Australia’s greatest musical treasures, drummer, singer/songwriter, soul-singing, groove-driving tour de force and 2017 marks her 50th year in the business. A radical exponent of the power of love and music – and certainly underknown given all the heavyweights from across the decades and genres whom she’s worked with and influenced – Jo Jo Smith has a somewhat cult status, deeply revered by fans and peers alike. The first woman to ever perform at the Byron Bay Blues Festival, she’s a songwriter of great depth and beauty – as her 2013 album Standing in the Lovelight attests; not to mention one of the grooviest nylon-string guitar players and drummers you’ll ever encounter… Come do a free masterclass with her.

GREAT NEWS, BALLINA! Miss Amber & Stukulele’s Uke Night is coming to town. It’s the most fun you can have with a ukulele! Stu Eadie was gifted a ukulele for Fathers Day around 10 years ago and was instantly hooked. Stu had been a professional muso for years. Amber Weedon, Stu’s partner, is a great singer though lacked confidence in her ability as a lead vocalist. The friendly forgiving nature of the world of uke made it possible to overcome fears. They are pumped to be bringing their joyous brand of self-made interactive music making and entertainment to Ballina this June. All welcome… players or non-players, even guitarists. MEANWHILE, BACK IN MULLUM… 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. Come on down to Club Mullum at the Ex-services Club ready to belt out classics like Bennie and The Jets, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Crocodile Rock and more. There is a songbook that caters for all levels of uke players and people available through www.ukemullum.com.. You can see them at Club Mullum on Thursday 30 May from 6.30. Adults $15; under 16 $2.50; and under five free. Ballina RSL Thursday 13 June at 7.30pm. $15 at ballinarsl.com.au.

Thursday at 10am–noon – Studio One29 at Southern Cross Uni! Free

Come What Mae

Multi-award-winning Melbourne contemporary folk outfit The Maes (formerly The Mae Trio) is the brainchild of sisters Maggie and Elsie Rigby. Born into the arms of the folk-music community in Australia, both sisters were side of stage at their first folk festival when they were four weeks old and have been absorbing and exploring folk music since that time. Folk music really is in your blood. Did you ever go through a rebel phase where you loved heavy metal and wore black and dyed your hair to match or has it always been folk for you? It’s funny, we often get asked that. I wish I could say that we it did for the sake of street cred but we have always loved folk music. I think for me, I didn’t fit in that well at school and in everyday normal teenaged life and so folk music (and particularly folk festivals) were these wonderful oases where it was okay to be a bit weird, to wear clothes that come from op shops, to not wear makeup, and to be interested in politics or social justice. I guess my love of folk music started with a feeling of acceptance among a group of fellow misfits. Other than your parents, who have been your biggest musical influences? The first time I remember seeing a band and having this deep feeling of ‘I want to be like that’ was when I saw a Canadian band called The Waillin Jennys at the Port Fairy Folk Festival; I remember being absolutely kicked in the guts by their vocal harmonies. We are also heavily influenced by contemporary American roots music, the music of Crooked Still and Gillian Welch among others. But our first and foremost musical influence is not our parents, exactly, but the community of Australian folk musicians whom we grew up with and around. The gigs we listened to as young children, asleep on someone’s knee. The songs we were taught by friends and sang around campfires. Those are easily our most formative musical moments. What else does 2019 have in store for you guys? Is there any other big news you’d like to share with your people here in Australia and northern NSW? We have just announced our first festival in Canada for early August so we’re going back to Canada; and also a show in London in September, so I guess it’s safe to reveal that we’ll be touring the UK as well. I’d give you more secret spoilers but I actually don’t know. This year is such a big one for us with the new record coming out and our biggest-ever Australian tour followed by overseas dates that we’re very much in taking-one-thing-at-a-time mode at the moment. I want to enjoy as much of this year as possible while it’s happening. The Maes play Bello Winter Music Fri 12, Sat 13, and Sunday 14 July. Tickets and info at www.bellowintermusic.com.

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Sellout stage thriller comes to NORPA 14 & 15 June A brutal murder is committed in a small town in France. The dismembered corpse is dropped from a railway viaduct onto passing trains below… all except the head. Witness this modern classic psychological thriller that takes you right inside the heart and mind of a murderer. Following four sold-out seasons at Melbourne’s La Mama theatre, Marguerite Duras’s gripping crime drama The Lovers of Viorne comes to NORPA for two shows: Friday 14 and Saturday 15 June. Tix $25–54 at norpa.org.au.

NORPA’s Dreamland has sold out so they’ve added more performances from Tuesday 28 May through till Saturday 1 June. Our small country halls are repositories of local history. In Dreamland you’ll see characters you know and ones you’ve heard about; maybe you’ll see yourself. You’ll experience a bit of theatre magic with lots of laughs, brilliant music, and seven kinds of dancing – you may even grace the floor yourself! Tuesday 28 May till Sat 1 June at the Bangalow A&I Hall. Tix at norpa.org.au

GERMAN FILMS

Generally I don’t do reviews. Certainly not because I don’t have an opinion, but because in a small town to honestly review something you have to be prepared to not like it and be able to say as such. In a small town that’s just not cool. So when I agreed to attend SHIT at the Drill Hall Theatre, it was with some trepidation and fingers crossed that I was going to love it. And I did. The play by Patricia Cornelius is gripping from the moment the characters start trying to say a sentence without fuck in it. Claire Atkins, Kate Foster, and Kate Horsley expertly navigate the violence and humour of the intimate space these three characters share. Their traumas are like tattoos, they say FUCK on every breath, and they have a certain menace that makes the audience slightly on edge. You’re just not sure what will happen next. Kudos to the director Georgia Martin and assistant director Marcus O’Mullane. This was powerful contemporary drama and a must-see if you can. Of course you probably can’t as the season is finished, but with capacity shows and one week of the run cancelled owing to illness, I wouldn’t be surprised if SHIT got another run. It certainly deserves to.

The 2019 German Film Festival, showcasing the best new German cinema, will screen at Palace Byron Bay Cinemas from now until 12 June. Opening the festival is Balloon by Michael Herbig, a spectacular and thrilling true story of two ordinary families who escape from East to West Germany in a homemade hot-air balloon. Opening-night tickets include a glass of sparkling on arrival and an after-film party with German delicacies, wine, beer, and live music. Tix and program info: germanfilmfestival.com.au.

Arts Northern Rivers is celebrating the conclusion of a regionwide Indigenous arts project, Art on Bundjalung Country, with an Aboriginal art market honouring the creative and cultural heritage of the Bundjalung region. Art on Bundjalung Market will be held at The Quad in Lismore on Saturday between 10am and 4pm. The free family event is a unique opportunity to purchase authentic Indigenous artwork and to meet the makers. Visitors can engage with a combination of established and emerging artists and collectives employing traditional and contemporary materials. Arts Northern Rivers is profiling artists on their website, including Bundjalung artist Digby Moran selling his renowned paintings and prints, didgeridoos, clapping sticks, and more. The impressive lineup at the Art on Bundjalung Market also includes wearable art and homewares from celebrated artists Kay Lee Williams and Frances Belle Parker including scarves, bags, crafts, and sculptural pieces. Casino’s Wake Up Time group, who have transformed their passion for weaving into art, will be hosting a weaving workshop on the day as well as holding a stall selling woven baskets and jewellery, handprinted silks, and ceramics. Arts Northern Rivers presents Art on Bundjalung Market at the Quad, LismoreSaturday June 1st 10am–4pm. Free www.artonbundjalungcountry.com.

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Stupidest idea your husband has had? To not buy the house in Brunswick Heads 25 years ago. Oh, and he bought me three wheatbags for my 50th birthday. He’ll regret that for the rest of his natural life. The best way to get into your good books? Let me pat and talk to your dog and then leave me alone. Ellen is joined by Mandy Nolan when they perform their hit touring show Women Like Us at the Dunoon Sports Club on Saturday 1 May at 8pm! Tix are $35 at

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BY LILITH

ARIES: Slow-tempo home comforts are this week’s astral recommendation, especially if late-week Aries moon has you reaching for the emergency brake. In which case, let first thoughts settle and wait for the following response – which might be the total opposite. Confusing? Then give yourself the same practical advice you’d offer a dear friend…

THE HEIRESSES Just because a movie picks up a shiny prix at some circus in Europe doesn’t necessarily mean it’s any good. This dour, patronising and sleep-inducing piece is not unlike the wildly overrated Gloria Bell, in that it is the product of yet another South American bloke making his judgment of a woman’s life – and it’s a pretty miserable judgment at that. Set in Asunción, Paraguayan writer/director Marcelo Martinessi has shot much of his film in what feels like a dull half-light, with more close-ups and pregnant pauses than you’d think was absolutely necessary and without ever really developing an on-screen character that that you can properly care for. The elderly Chela (Ana Brun) has been disappointed by life – although it is unclear why. At our first encounter, she is in bed, not wishing to get up to attend a function with her more lively, longtime partner Chiquita (Margarita Irun). Soon after, Chiquita is imprisoned for not having paid outstanding debts,

and Chela finds herself in the position of needing to leave the boudoir to visit her friend. This leads to her getting behind the wheel of their car for the first time in ages and giving another woman a ride to her regular game of cards with a group of fellow patrician biddies and, through these trips, to an encounter with Angy (Ana Ivanova), a maid whose experiences will open Chela’s eyes to what she has been missing out on in her cloistered existence. Quite frankly, it is terribly predictable, as the car becomes the vehicle of Chela’s belated awakening – you know where it’s headed when she dares to leave the narrow streets of her neighbourhood to venture on to the freeway. The prison scenes are an eye-opener, and Angy adds some feistiness to proceedings, albeit in a stereotypical role, but the narrowness of Martinessi’s world view is too stifling to be balanced by what is intended to be a great liberation. For mine, it makes a Hugh Grant rom-com look like a masterpiece.

BRIGHTBURN Rule #1: If you are travelling in the US, don’t go anywhere near Kansas – nothing good ever happens there. Rule #2: If you are an actor up for a gig in a horror flick such as this, steer clear 2040 (G) NFT GODZILLA II: KING OF THE POKEMON DETECTIVE of the role of small-town sheriff – your guts are bound to end Daily except Sun: 11:00AM*, MONSTERS (M) NFT PIKACHU (PG) Daily except Sun: 10:20AM, 4:00PM, 6:00PM, 8:20PM. Daily except Sun: up splattered everywhere. Tori and Kyle (Elizabeth Banks, 3:45PM, 6:20PM, 9:15PM. Sun: 12:00PM, 3:15PM, 1:45PM, 8:45PM. Sun: Sun: 10:00AM, 3:00PM, David Denman) are a childless couple living on a Midwest 6:20PM, 7:45PM 1:00PM, 8:30PM 6:00PM, 9:15PM farm. A rocket crashes into a nearby paddock one night and ALADDIN (PG) NFT THE HEIRESSES (M) POMS (PG) Daily except Sun, Mon: they adopt the baby boy that is in it as their own – setting up Daily except Sun, Mon: Daily except Sat, 10:45AM, 1:15PM, 3:40PM, 3:50PM, 4:00PM, 6:10PM. Sun: 4:00PM a ‘what if Superman turned out to be bad?’ scenario. To the Sun: 3:40PM, 4:15PM, 6:15PM, 8:00PM. Sun: 5:45PM. Mon: 3:50PM, 10:15AM, 12:40PM, story’s immense benefit, director David Yarovesky takes his ROCKETMAN (M) NFT 4:00PM, 6:20PM 3:20PM, 5:20PM, 8:20PM. Daily except Sun: 10:30AM, time in revealing the malevolence and superhuman power Mon: 10:15AM, 1:15PM, THE HUSTLE (M) 12:30PM, 1:15PM, 3:15PM, 3:40PM, 6:15PM, 8:00PM of little Brandon (Jackson A Dunn). Concentrating instead Daily except Sat, Sun: 4:00PM, 6:00PM, 6:45PM, 10:15AM, 6:15PM. 8:30PM, 9:00PM. Sun: on establishing the close family dynamic, it is only when ALL IS TRUE (M) Sat: 6:15PM. 10:30AM, 12:30PM, 1:15PM, Daily except Mon: 10:20AM. Sun: 5:40PM Brandon has sudden temper tanties – at school when he is 3:15PM, 4:00PM, 6:00PM, Mon: 1:30PM JOHN WICK 3: 6:45PM, 7:50PM, 8:30PM bugged by a girl, in a restaurant when Dad will not allow him PARABELLUM (MA15+) ASTERIX: THE SECRET Daily except Sun: 10:45AM, to accept the birthday gift of a rifle – that the boy’s irrational OF THE MAGIC TOP END WEDDING (M) 1:00PM, 6:00PM. POTION (PG) NFT Daily except Sun, Mon: behaviour threatens danger to all. This is so much better than Sun: 10:10AM, Thurs, Mon, Tues, Wed: 3:45PM. Sun: 3:20PM. 1:00PM, 5:45PM your average sci-fi horror, primarily because of the character 1:30PM. Fri: 11:00AM. Sat: Mon: 4:00PM 10:20AM. Sun: 10:00AM LONG SHOT (M) development and the cold-blooded murderousness of Brandon Daily except Sun, WOMAN AT WAR (M) AVENGERS: END GAME (M) Mon: 1:20PM (a bit like the kid in We Need To Talk About Kevin). When push Thurs, Tues, Wed: Daily except Sun, Mon: 11:00AM, 1:30PM. Fri, comes to shove, and Yarovesky needs to unleash the essential MY BIG GAY ITALIAN 12:15PM, 8:15PM. Sat, Mon: 1:30PM. WEDDING (M) NFT Sun: 11:50AM, 8:00PM. violence of the genre, he does it with incredible impact. The Special Event Preview Sun: 12:50PM Mon: 12:30PM, 8:30PM Sun: 2:15PM waitress pulling a sherd of glass from her eye after a fluoro *Babes in Arms session; BRIGHTBURN (MA15+) PETERLOO (M) light has exploded above her head is simply unwatchable, and Thursday only Daily except Sun: 9:00PM. Daily except Sun: 10:20AM. the sight of Brandon’s uncle losing his bloodied jaw in a car Sun: 8:40PM Sun: 10:00AM NFT = No Free Tickets smash-up is enough to make the most hardened viewer look A L L T I C K E T S $ 1 0 O N M O N D AY S away, but the film never turns into a gore-fest. As the loyal 108 Jonson St, Byron Bay • 3 hours free parking* • Buy tickets online and skip the queue! mom, Banks, as always, is delightful, while Denman as the PalaceCinemas.com.au worried father has you on his side throughout. The last shot Validated in Mercato Centre suggests that a sequel is inevitable and I for one can’t wait to see how the little bastard will BABY FRIENDLY SESSIONS: MONDAYS & WEDNESDAYS be stopped. MONDAY 3RD JUNE

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TAURUS: Replenishing your stores of recreational relaxation during laidback, pleasure-loving weekend Taurus moonshine could help neutralise the current excess of circular waffling and endless unsolicited opinion; like the nether regions of human anatomy, everyone has one, and think of the function it performs. You’re perfectly capable of making up your own mind, anyway. GEMINI: If Sun and Mercury riding tandem in your optimistic sign dangle tempting carrots that have you leaping immediately to best-outcome conclusions, blind to potential downsides, let practical Saturn help you imagine a few worst-case scenarios before Monday’s only Gemini new moon this year presses your personal restart button on the coming six months. CANCER: No, it isn’t easy making judgment calls in the midst of ambivalent feelings, contradictory information, confusing conditions, and conflicting opinions. So why not focus less on problems and more on gratitude for all the problems you don’t have until next week’s spritzy new-start new-moon kick-off?

W H IL E SU N , M ERCU RY , A N D M ON D A Y’ S N EW M OON IN GEM IN I H A VE COM M U N ICA TION PEA K IN G, RICH EST IN FO W IL L B E VIA N ON - VERB A L , N ON - TECH N O IN PU T… LIBRA: With stabilising Saturn acting like an emotional anchor and welcome reality check to May’s mixed messages and over-excitable vibes, this week belongs to those who can listen, so the less said the better. Be alert for the kernel of an attractive idea or sudden spark of inspiration around Monday’s new moon. SCORPIO: As heady Gemini vibes sharpen your laser Scorpio focus to clearly express ideas and articulate emotions, don’t let the hot winds of controversy blow you off course. Or away from Monday’s new-moon message, which is: just because you haven’t tried something before doesn’t mean it’s not worth giving a go. You might be surprised. SAGITTARIUS: If you want to keep people on side, hold your audience’s attention and maintain their goodwill, don’t go off on tangents or include too much story. Actions speak louder than words this week so make it short and sweet, stay on track, communicate from the heart and watch golden opportunities unfold. CAPRICORN: Don’t take well-intentioned but tactless feedback to heart: we’ve all done the same without intending to. Instead, let it guide your own comments when others are squandering a lot of air space and energy on something you can see isn’t going to work. Monday’s new moon in your admin corner sets something straight.

LEO: Not a week to believe all you see, hear, or think. With plenty of misinformation going round, question everything, especially your own reactions. Be wary, but also aware of the fine line between protection and paranoia. Don’t let simple negotiations escalate into a war of the worlds. Trust where trust has been earned.

AQUARIUS: This fast-paced, mental-as-anything week is just your Aquarian cup of speed, though finding the sweet spot between exciting ideas, erratic emotions, and inconsistent behaviour will be nothing if not interesting. Addressing a sensitive subject? If approached respectfully and with good intent it could be unexpectedly healing – or at the very least informative.

VIRGO: Changing minds, rearranging goalposts – who knows what others are up to this week. Overthinking or second guessing only messes with your head, so don’t go there. Ask for dream guidance before you go to sleep and the answer could be there when you wake up, most likely around Monday’s new moon.

PISCES: New moon is a fertile time for calling in what you want for the rest of this year, and Monday’s directs your attention to considering ways you could make your home/work space more delightful, inviting, joyous, and efficiently organised. Make use of the synergy of group energy while ideas are flying.

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

ANTIQUES / RESTORATION 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

APPLIANCE REPAIR

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

DIGITAL ELECTRONICS REPAIR & SERVICE TV. Audio. Antennas .......... 66843575 or 0414 922786 CARPENTER All jobs. Michael Dow. Lic 147675C .................................... 66291169 or 0412 967677 ALL MAKES & models: Fridges, washers, ovens. All kitchen/laundry. Fast w/ good rates ..0401 159371 BUILDER – JOHN McGAURAN Personalised Service. 20 yrs exp. Lic 170208C .............0415 793242 FABRICA JOINERY Quality kitchens/timber doors/windows. Lic 244652C .........................66808162

ARCHITECTS

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

FRANK STEWART ARCHITECT Reg. 6075. www.frankstewart.com.au............................66856984 CARPENTER Lic 39791 Decks, studios, pergolas etc Paul Varendorff ................66845035 or 0414 842602 OCEANARC ARCHITECTS Reg. 6042 www.oceanarc.com.au ..............................................66855001 BUILDER Renovations, maintenance, 30yrs exp. mchughdesign.com.au Lic 29792C....0408 663420 ATELIER LUKE – Luke Hayward architect, Reg. 10438 www.atelierluke.com ...............0401 875535 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

AUTOMOTIVE

CARPENTER HANDYMAN FB Greg’s Handyman Services Byron Bay Lic No 1039897....0414 109595 HAVEN BUILDING All aspects of building. Lic 326616C ...............................................0432 565060

ACCOUNTANTS & BOOKKEEPERS

RENOVATION SPECIALIST Excellent quality. Builder: Levi Alexander Lic 189611C .......0402 434154 CARPENTER All work types, 20 years exp, free quotes, fully insured, no job too small...0473 027848

ACCOUNTANT Paul Mayberry..............................................................................................66847415 ACCOUNTANT BANGALOW + BYRON BAY The Office Accountants & Business Advisors ...66872960 BOOKKEEPER Local and reliable .................................. barbarasbookkeeping.com.au 0402 118649 LOOKING FOR A XERO BOOKKEEPER? byronbaybookkeeper@gmail.com Call Drasta 0400 971480

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

LEGENDARY OFFROAD TYRES

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

BATHROOM RENOVATIONS

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

AGENT

CARPET CLEANING

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

Byron & Co Agent V. F. M. (Visual FM)

& producer 0407 076 374

Call Kane

yocodesigners@gmail.com

AIR CONDITIONING & REFRIGERATION

0410 534 081

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

BLINDS, AWNINGS, CURTAINS, SHUTTERS LOCAL

PLEASE CALL

6680 9394 AU 37088

14 Manns Road, Mullumbimby Lic: 299433C ARC: AU40492

Lic 246545C

– 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

TLC

SHOWCASE DEALER SHOWROOM

Visit or Showroom at

CARPET CLEANING

TENDER LOVING CARE Specialising in household carpet cleaning Speedy Drying

FRANCHISE OF THE YEAR!

SUNSCREENS

0408 232 066

CURTAINS

(02) 6684 1001

Green & Clean

Carpet and upholstery cleaning, urine extraction, rust removal, heavy traffic areas, deodorising and sanitation. Far North Coast NSW John & Teresa

1/84 Centennial Circuit Byron Bay

Truck Mounted Machine

Kevin & Margaret Bower

artisanair.com.au

Mullumbimby Refrigeration & Airconditioning Services

BUSH REGENERATION & WEED CONTROL

BAYSIDE RADIATORS Windscreens & air-con. Billinudgel. AU29498 .................................66802444 WEED CONTROL SPECIALIST Lawns - bindii weeds .....................................................0418 110714

ACUPUNCTURE

AIR CONDITIONING & REFRIGERATION

BUILDER decks, pergolas renovations Lic: 182983C ......................................................0412 551353

Cleans deeply, dries in 1-2 hours

Commercial / Domestic / Insurance

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

02 6680 8862 PLANTATIONSHUTTERS

FREE MEASURE QUOTE ON OUR COMPLETE RANGE OF QUALITY

AWNINGS

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

INTERIOR & EXTERIOR WINDOW TREATMENTS SPECIALISTS IN HOME AUTOMATION

www.blinddesignbyronbay.com.au

BRICKLAYING

CHIMNEY SWEEPING CHIROPRACTIC

ROLLERBLINDS

BAY FAMILY CHIROPRACTIC Peter Wuehr 17 Bangalow Rd Byron Bay ..............................66855282 WAVE OF LIFE NETWORK CHIRO (lowforce) 8/9 Fletcher St, Byron Bay. Andrew Badman...66858553 MICHAEL SCHWAGER 108 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby ...................................................66841962

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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CONCRETING & PAVING

ACTION WINDOW & PRESSURE CLEANING

SALISBURY CONCRETING

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

DECKS, PATIOS & EXTENSIONS

&2%% 15/4%3 %NVIRONMENTALLY AWARE NO CHEMICALS MINIMAL WATER USE 0HONE *ON ON FREE QUOTES FREECALL 1800 683 838 MOBILE 0419 677 991 cmhwindows@gmail.com COMMERCIAL, DOMESTIC, SHOPS & REAL ESTATE FULLY INSURED

Call

0434 539 979

DECKS FREE QUOTES

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

DESIGN & DRAFTING BAREFOOT BUILDING DESIGN www.barefootbuildingdesign.com..........Bob Acton 0407 787993 DAVID ROBINSON DESIGN DRAFTING All Council & construction requirements ......0419 880048

DRIVEWAY MAINTENANCE

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.

SW IF T E C O C L EAN PROFESSIONAL WINDOW & PRESSURE CLEANING fully insured | free quotes | swiftecoclean@gmail.com

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BETTER CALL SAUL The Mac Doctor. Repairs. Upgrades. Used Macs.............................0411 562111

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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

nichollselectrical@outlook.com

0458 267 777

Lic. 211410C

Suffolk Park Lic No: 143433C | ACRS Master Cabler A017916

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

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 Specialising in driveway construction & maintenance

POOLSAFE GLASS FENCING

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

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

5.5 TONNE EXCAVATOR, POSITRACK & TIPPER HIRE

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

0439 624 945

JP ELECTRICAL Level 2 ASP Under-g/O-head lines, Pwr poles, Solar. Lic 133082C ........0432 289705

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

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

24 HOUR SERVICE

RONNIE SPINKS Everything electrical. Lic 27673 .........................................................0429 802355

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

COMPUTER SERVICES

ELECTRICIANS

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

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

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

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

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

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

20 Year+s Exp.

Quality Exterior Refinishing

Phone Oliver 0419 789 600

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

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

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

fullcirclerefinishing.com

Rock walls, clearing, house shed and tank pads.

Domestic Commercial

DENTISTS

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

Full Circle

Specialising in road repairs & driveways

FULL CIRCLE REFINISHING Timber & deck oiling, coating, stripping. Fast free quotes .....0419 789600

Call Glenn or Tracey 0403 428 232 or 6680 9901

Roof & Pressure Cleaning Roof Painting Deck Oiling

STEVE BROWN EARTHMOVING

Call Mark 0498 115 182

www.byroneco.com.au

Window Cleaning Professionals

6684 0160 | 0439 840 160 | 0421 460 932

THE DECK DOCTOR Sanding & refinishing, cable balustrading. Free quotes. Richard ...0407 821690

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

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

Lic: 154293c

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

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

Lic no. 141097C

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DARYL 0418 234 302 OR 02 6680 1793

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

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

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.

5.5 Tonne Excavator, Positrack Loader & 12 Tonne Tipper

Lic.136717c

CLEANING

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 Contact Vadi: 0404

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

OSTEOPATHY

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

OSTEOPATHY at Mullumbimby Comprehensive Health Centre

www.spotlessgutters.com.au

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

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

HANDYPERSONS

60 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby | 02 6626 7900 NORTH COAST OSTEOPATHY Jodie Jacobs. Mon, Wed, Fri..............................................66857517

PAINTING

A TO Z HANDYMAN SERVICES Tip runs, pressure cleaning, gardening, odd jobs ....Andre 66847553 or 0439 495247 Acreage & Residential Mowing | Gardening Non-Toxic Herbicide Spray | Brush Cutting Tip Runs | Fully Insured

A.S.A.P. All renos, carpentry, plastering, painting, studios & bathrooms .......................0405 625697

0430 297 101 / 6684 5437

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

info@byronbaymowing.com.au www.byronbaymowing.com.au

â&#x20AC;˘ DEPARTMENT OF FAIR TRADING INFO: When dealing with home owners, painters are required HANDY ANDY Carpentry, plastering, welding ......................................... 66884324 or 0476 600956 to quote a licence number only for external work valued over $5000.

ALL-WAYS PAINTING

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

BYRON BAY

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

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

0438 784 226 â&#x20AC;˘ 6685 4154

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

Lic No 189144C

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

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

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 WWW.EASTCOASTPILATES.COM.AU Judy Leane BSpSc ..............................................0408 110006

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

HIRE

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

QUALITY PAINTING SERVICES

www.duluxaccredited.com.au

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

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

KITCHENS

PAULâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S MOWING Local & reliable. Mullum, Bruns, O. Shores, Byron & Bangalow.........0422 958791 D HINGED Kitchens & Joinery. Lic 283553C. www.hinged.com.au ....................... Dave 0409 843689 A GREEN EARTH Garden restoration, maintenance, tree & rubbish removal ................0405 716552 TIP RUNS & RUBBISH REMOVALS 4m3 trailer..............................................................0408 210772

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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

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BRUSHCUTTING Rubbish, Property Maintenance, Lawns.............................................0412 469109 BEAU JARDIN We design & build beautiful gardens www.beaujardin.com.au Lic 177274C ...0417 054443 AD PAINTING by John Hand. Lic 13246C ................................................ 0413 185399 or 66841249 ALL WAYS PAINTING NORTHERN RIVERS. Qualified, insured, clean. 0413 401907 or 66805015 RICKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PROPERTY MAINTENANCE Mowing, brushcutting, gardening, pool service ...0424 805660 LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT Garden Design & Property Planning. Andrew Pawsey ..........0478 519804 FEMALE GARDENER with years of experience. Bridget.................................................0429 335501 STEVEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PROPERTY MAINTENANCE Acerage mowing, general prop main, fully insured.. 0488 550988

LANDSCAPE SUPPLIES

PEST CONTROL

GREEN DINGO for all your mowing and gardening needs. Ph Michael .........................0497 842442 SAMURAI HEAVY BUTY BRUSHCUTTING. Ph .............................................................0402 733620

Professional Property Protection you can Trust

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

No Rental Reliable

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

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Locally Owned Est 18 years

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18 Lucky Lane Billinudgel Industrial Estate

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02 6681 6555 Free quotes on active termites Environmentally safe

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

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REMOVALISTS

SEPTIC SYSTEMS

Andyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Move & More

Home sewage solutions Commercial wastewater treatment Rainwater tanks concrete and plastic

Small and Medium Moves, Tip Runs & Deliveries, 1 or 2 Men at Low Prices to Most Areas Based from Byron Bay & Mullumbimby Calls always returned THE PEST MAN EXTRAORDINAIRE Second opinion / alternative views. 50 yrs exp .....0418 110714 BRUNSWICK BYRON PEST CONTROL................................................................................66842018

PHOTOGRAPHY

0429 149 533 Est 2006

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

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

Tree Faerie Fotos

0409 917646

Sales Installation Service

Northern Rivers Pty Ltd

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0418 754 149 â&#x20AC;˘ 07 5523 9930

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

Motion Mover Septic Pumping & Vacuum Excavation

motionmover@bigpond.com 0428 813 310 Multiple Tank Discounts | EPA & Council Approved

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

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

PHYSIOTHERAPY

LEAPFROG REMOVALS

TRINE SOLUTIONS Local waste specialists. Plumbers, drainers & gas fitters. Lic 138031C .. 0407 439805

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

NEWT Environmental Wastewater Treatment. Design, upgrades, maint & intall. Lic 207479C . 0429 805081

0432 334 200 02 6680 8170

SEWING & ALTERATIONS

leapfrogremovals@yahoo.com.au

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

BANGALOW PHYSIOTHERAPY Manual therapies, acupuncture, mat/reformer, clinical exercise classes. Kim Snellgrove, Cally Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hara ...................................................................................66872330 NICK EDMOND Physiotherapy & Acupuncture. Open Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday 466 Main Arm Road, Mullumbimby.....................................................................................66845288 ANTHONY Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ORSOGNA Physiotherapy, acupuncture, hydrotherapy Suffolk Park 1 Bryce St ... 66853511

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

PETER FARRELL Cold laser, manual therapy & exercise, Mullumbimby ..............................66843385

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

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SUNRISE PLASTERING. No job too small. Renovations + patchworks. Gtd sat. Free quote ....0418 992001 ALL ROOF CLEANING Experienced, insured & fast free quotes. Call ..............................0419 789600 MR NORTHERN RIVERS ROOFING & Gutterguard Specialist NSW Lic 102013C...........0499 853889 GLENN WATERS For the finish you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see. Lic 58928C...............................................0427 908129

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NEED A PLUMBER? DRAINER? GASFITTER?

Chay 0429 805 081 20 YEARS LOCAL SERVICE

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PLUMBERS

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CALL RYAN 0412 873 816

RUBBISH REMOVAL OCEAN SHORES SKIPS Mini skip specialists ......................................... 0412 161564 or 66841232 TIP RUNS & RUBBISH REMOVAL 4m3 trailer................................................................0408 210772 RUBBISH REMOVALS & TIP TRUCK HIRE Free quotes and same day service .............0451 079060 EVERGREEN TIP RUNS and rubbish removal, 8x5 trailer, heavy duty...........................0427 176771 A1 RUBBISH REMOVAL AND TIP RUNS. 9m3 trailer. Same day service. Best rates ....0413 289443

SCRAP METAL MERCHANTS 30 years experience Blocked drain specialists Everything plumbing, drainage & gasďŹ tting SHANE

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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

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PRINTING & COPYING SERVICES

MULLUM POOL SHOP Water testing, eco products, mobile service, construction/repairs....0418 666839

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

POOL CONSTRUCTION BYRON BAY. Baywater Pool. Lic 206487C.........0419 479921 or 66843489

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Service Directory TILING FRANCHISE OF THE YEAR!

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TILER/STONEMASON/WATERPROOFER Lic 24418C. Phone Karl ...................................66804103 TILING PERFECTION & WATERPROOFING Free quotes, repairs. Lic 179306C .66801168 or 0409 847653

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 NORTH COAST VETERINARY SERVICES Dr Lauren Archer .................................................66840735

WATER FILTERS

0479 066 311 yourtreefeller.com.au

FLOOR & WALL TILING & WATERPROOFING. Lic no 157459C Ian ..............................0459 559237

TREE SERVICES

The Water Filter Experts for home, commercial and rural properties

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WATER TANKS & TANK CLEANING

SUMMERLAND TREE SERVICES ............................................. Call Tim 66877677 or 0417 698227 TANK CLEANING Repairs, installation, first flush diverters, pumps, etc ........................0418 662285 PETER GRAY Grad. Cert. Arb. AQF8. Consulting arborist................................................0414 186161 BYRON TREE SERVICES Qualified, insured. Call Alex ....................................................0402 364852 TALLOW TREE SERVICES Removal, free quote & full insurance .....................................0401 208797 WELDING & FABRICATION Structural, general, repairs & Aluminium. Call Rod ...........0408 410545 MARTINO TREE SERVICES ..............................................................................Martino 0435 019524 WWW.DELAFORJA.COM-Unique Custom Gates, Railings & More, Made Locally..........0404 292344 LEAF IT TO US Skilled climbing, chipping & stump grinding. Fully insured, free quote .0402 487213

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

Eddy 0477 Karl 0423

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WINDOW TINTING

UPHOLSTERY

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 Birthdays ................................ 37 Childcare................................ 36 Death Notices ........................ 37

ECHO CLASSIFIEDS 6684 1777 CLASSIFIED AD BOOKINGS

DEADLINE TUES 12PM

Garage Sales......................... 37

PHONE ADS

Halls For Hire......................... 36

Ads may be taken by phone on

Health Notices ....................... 36

6684 1777

Publication day is Wednesday, booking deadlines are the day before publication.

For Sale ................................. 36 Funeral Notices ..................... 37

Items Under $100 .................. 37 Lost & Found ......................... 38 Motor Vehicles ....................... 37 Musical Notes ........................ 37 Only Adults ............................ 38 Pets ........................................ 38 Positions Vacant .................... 37

AT THE ECHO HEAD OFFICE Ads can be lodged in person at the Mullum Echo office:

Village Way, Stuart St, Mullumbimby

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

Professional Services ............ 36

EMAIL ADS

Public Notices ........................ 35

Display classies (box ads):

Removalists ........................... 37

adcopy@echo.net.au

Share Accommodation .......... 37

Line classies:

Short Term Accommodation .. 37

classifieds@echo.net.au

Social Escorts........................ 38

Ad bookings only taken during

These prices include GST.

To Lease ................................ 37

business hours: Monday to Friday,

Cash, cheque, Mastercard or Visa

To Let ..................................... 37 Tradework .............................. 36

9amâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;5pm. Ads canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be taken on the weekend. Account enquiries phone 6684 1777.

$17 for two lines is the minimum charge.

DISPLAY ADS (with a border): $12.50 per column centimetre

Prepayment is required for all ads.

Tree Services ......................... 36 Tuition .................................... 37 Wanted .................................. 37 Wanted To Rent ..................... 37 Work Wanted ......................... 37

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PUBLIC NOTICES HAMMER & HAND Jewellers bench hire $15/day, 10amâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;4pm. 7 days. Ideal for jewellers with basic tool kit. 4 Ti Tree Pl, Arts & Industry Estate, Byron Bay. Ph 0409960614

MUSIC, FOOD, SHOPPING & KIDS FUN

BYRON MARKET Sunday 2 June 8am â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 3pm Butler St Reserve

BYRON FLEA MARKET SECOND SATURDAY OF EVERY MONTH

8AM TO 2PM

BRUNSWICK HEADS MARKETS Saturday 1st June, 2019

MEMORIAL PARK, BRUNSWICK HEADS Phone 6628 4495 No dogs please

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Call Lydia, 0422 007 724 or email viaÂ sustainabilityresearch.org.au

I wish to apologise for the election advertisement in The Echo on the 15th of May, which suggested Justine Elliot had never spoken against the Adani mine in Parliament. I was corrected on Lennox Head polling station on election day by a Labor volunteer and I accept that she has spoken against it, having now seen the Hansard. Stop Adani have also been in touch to say that they have lobbied Ms Elliot extensively and Âź QDOO\ JRW ZKDW WKH\ ZDQWHG LQ )HEUXDU\ WKLV \HDU with a speech to Parliament. Stop Adani have been PDJQLÂź FHQW DQG , FRPPHQG WKHP IRU WKHLU HIIRUWV over the last year or more to get this mine stopped. I am very surprised with the decision made collectively by the Australian public on the weekend; however, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the end of the world. Not yet at least. It was disappointing however that the Stop Adani convoy was blamed somehow for the swings in Queensland toward the coalition. I am also disappointed for Bill Shorten, who I thought showed courage to take that progressive policy platform to the election. Rather than abandoning it, I hope that Labor recommits early and just works on the sales pitch. Michael Lyon The Pocket

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Mullumbimby & District Neighbourhood Centre Connecting the Byron Shire Community

Dynamic Drawing Wed Mullum, Fri Byron. Ron 0421101220 www.dynamicdrawing.com.au

HELP OUR COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER DRIVER REQUIRED

STREET LATIN dance classes. All ages welcome. Puerto Rican/Columbian Salsa plus more, Tuesday 4th June, 6.40pm Marvell Hall, Marvell St Byron. Have fun while making new friends Txt 0438214212

Mullumbimby and District Neighbourhood Centre are looking for a crew of volunteer food recovery van drivers. Requirements for the job are that you must be ﬁt and able to lift sometimes heavy boxes of food, you must have an unencumbered Drivers Licence.

NEPAL TREK in beautiful remote Mount Manaslu with experienced Australian guide 1st-16th October 2019. Susan 0406370794 shushanad@yahoo.com

Lismore Eats

If you like driving and you feel you could contribute to your community and environment please enquire by giving the centre a call on 02 6684 1286 or drop in at 55 Dalley Street, Mullumbimby.

Monthly Food Market See page 13 for details

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Help us to continue this valuable program, keeping good food out of landﬁll and in people’s bellies. So far we have recovered over 44 Tonnes of food

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CHILDCARE BABY-SITTING I love looking after children and I am a great cook, $15/hr. Phone 0424025271

PROF. SERVICES

COUNSELLOR - Sergio Galper, Grad Cert in Counselling, ACAP 0412298750 Speaks Portuguese and English. TREATMENT space avail in Byron CBD + undercover parking. Jamie 0447025006

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

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

MAW 0478 654 405

Positive Change for Marine Life are seeking a new volunteer Byron Bay Coordinator. Get involved with Byron’s largest marine conservation organisation, meet new people, expand your skillset and make a change for our ocean.

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HYPNOSIS & EFT

6687 7677 Mobile 0417 698 227

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

TREE SERVICES

FOR SALE

NICK HART

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

17 Ruskin St BYRON BAY

Fully insured • Free quotes

6684 9137 • 0427 347 380

Body Based

Psychotherapy Julie Wells Anne Goslett (nee Mannix)

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Individual and Couple Therapy Supervision and Coaching (02) 6685 5185 9 Fletcher St, Byron Bay

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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.

Shane Eade – Chiropractor 0467 660 323 Byron Bay, and now in Brunswick Heads

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

0488 609 774 bookings@mullumcivic.com

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

Matt 0427 172 684

Tallow

BYRON BAY FIREWOOD

TREE SERVICES

Pickup / Delivery Seasoned Firewood

PROFESSIONAL TREE CARE • • • • •

REMOVALS PALMS TREE SURGERY FREE QUOTES FULLY INSURED

• • • • •

STUMP GRINDING TREE REPORTS DA APPLICATIONS CRANE HIRE CHERRY PICKER

6687 2750 - 0401 208 797

BREAK THE CHAIN OF ADDICTIONS NOW!

To check out this and other available positions go to: www.pcfml.org.au/join-us or e-mail info@pcfml.org.au

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

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Mulch Supplies

SHIPPING CONTAINER with windows, screen door, safari roof, water tank, storage racks. $5000 ono 0419955041

TREE SERVICES

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KAHUNA & HOT STONE MASSAGE 8 years experience. Professional and deeply nurturing. Skye Ph 0418988947

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HAWAIIAN MASSAGE Ocean Shores, Michaela, 0416332886

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TRADEWORK

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

Michael – 0401 739 656 byronbayﬁrewood.com.au

FENCE POSTS

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

Nick Andrews 0439 849 332

• Palings • Posts • Hardwood poles • Sleepers • Firewood • Concrete Posts • Tomato stakes • Molasses Kings Creek, Mullumbimby Mark 0427 490 038 | Karen 0427 804 284

HEALTH & HEALING WEEKLY CLASS TIMETABLE MONDAY ENQUIRIES BOOKINGS

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

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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

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TAI CHI

QIGONG

SOFT-STYLE MARTIAL ART

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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

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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 MIELE WASHERS Dryers and dishwashers available at Bridglands Mullumbimby. 66842511

ARCHIBALD’S CHEAP QUARRY PRODUCTS

REMOVALISTS ARE YOU MOVING HOUSE? Call/email Complete Packing Solutions. We will pack your household items for transport. Call 0491135198 or email nr. packingsolutions@gmail.com

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

SHORT TERM ACCOM.

COMPOST TOILETS

CENTRAL BYRON, f/furn, 2br apt. Avail 20/05 to 15/07. No outgoings $680pw. Ph 0404314285

For tiny houses to commercial Green Building Centre 0431721073

BAMBOO PLY For ceilings, walls, doors, etc. Ph 66884188 • sample & brochure. www.bambooply.com.au EOFY SHOWROOM CLEARANCE SALE 5/10 Brigatine St, A&I Estate, Byron. Turn into Wollongbar St (opposite Bed R Us) Fri 31st May & Sat 1st Jun, 8-3 both days. Huge selection of refurbished healthy kitchen appliances – cold press juicers, blenders, food dehydrators, vibration exercise platforms – CHEAP. Greener Cleaner Scrubbing brushes / pots & pan brushes etc. Bali Stone lanterns – from $40 AND wholesale qty / below wholesale prices. Assorted Lazy Life Paris bean bag cover (different sizes and shapes for kids too). Lazy Life Paris expanding foam expandable foam furniture, Replica Eames Chairs x 3, gorgeous Hanging Pod Chairs, selection of Rattan Chairs and coffee tables, Colonic Beds, Sitting Exercise Machines, Walking Treadmill samples, various gym gear & exercise equipment, Resistance Exercise Arm bands, Yoga Swings & much much more. Enquiries very welcome 1800 802 924

ITEMS UNDER $100

SHARE ACCOM. MYOCUM peaceful 2bdrm house to share with 1 working fem. Furn with QB $300pw incl bills, wiﬁ, lawnmowing, cleaner. Suit n/s, d/f, working. No pets. Ph 0422455493

TYAGARAH brand new 1br studio. Elevated ocean views, walk to the beach, High ceilings, & private. $490pw. Singles only, no pets, no smoking, a life style compatible with our serene sanctuary setting. 1 year minimum. alonzoji@ hotmail.com or 66847099. MONTECOLLUM New house, 3 bedroom 2 bthrm + workshop/studio, $650pw, free NBN, no pets, 1yr min lease. Avail June 8th. Phone 0412750113 SUFFOLK PARK 200m Tallow Beach, modern 1br studio, kitchen, fridge, microwave, wash mach, timber ﬂoors, aircon, f-f, 6 mth lease. $350pw, pref sgle. Ph Len 0401898176. Avail 20th May

TO LET

BROKEN HEAD Live in a bus, s/cont, in rainforest setting on beautiful 7 Mile Beach Rd. Eco living off grid. Suit peaceful nature loving couple. $300pw incl gas & solar power. Ph 0438795381

BANGALOW SELF-STORAGE Hi-tech security. 66872333

WANTED TO RENT

SECURE LOCK-UP GARAGE SPACE BYRON CBD suitable car or storage space. $60pw. Ph 0418989936 BYRON SELF-STORAGE UNITS Clean & secure. Ph 1300762618

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

TO LEASE ART STUDIO 6m x 8m, rural Bangalow. Non-residential, $50pw. Ph 0428871244

The Ironing Lady Phone or text Angela 0414719680

Courses starting soon... Mon 3rd June • Vegan Nut Cheese Level 2 • Provide First Aid • CPR • Smartphone Photography For Social Media

Tue 4th June • Acrylic Adventures • Bridge For Beginners • Know My iPhone • Jazz Guitar Intro

Wed 5th June • Ayurveda an Introduction

• Excel Essentials • Basket Weaving • Hello Instagram! (For Business)

Sat 8th June • Henna - Sacred Body Art • Printing On Clay • Silversmithing Intro • How Music Works - Music Theory You Can Use

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

BYRON 2br cottage, close to town, bush setting, private, fully renovated, suit 1 or 2 people, no pets. Long lease $650pw + bills Please call 0408666642

byroncollege.org.au

FACE-TO-FACE FUNDRAISER

MULLUM 3bdrm unit + LUG close to park $420pw. Ph 0420947734

Q: If you are resilient, positive, have a sense of humour, a driver licence and experience in print and digital sales what might you be?

Wanted to work across Byron Shire. Paid position, training provided 0405852481 BOOKKEEPER 1 morning pw MYOB exp a must CV tyndallcolawyers@gmail.com

(hint: digital sales experience is highly valued in some jobs)

WANTED GARAGE SALES OCEAN SHORES, 6 Yungarup Place, Sat 8-3 In & Out furniture, tools, collectables, bric-a-brac, pet supplies, plants, art, clothes, books MASSIVE GARAGE SALE. 20 years of stuff, EVERYTHING must go! Saturday 1st June 9am-3pm 148 Woodford Ln Ewingsdale MULLUM 35 Riverside Drive Sat 8-12. Womens & kids clothing, baby & kids beds, bric-a-brac. All must go.

Tip Runs & Rubbish Removal 0408 210 772 MOTOR VEHICLES HONDA JAZZ - AUTOMATIC. Rego March 2020, brand new battery $1700 ono. 0432944508

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

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16 ENDEAVOUR CLOSE, BALLINA DLN 19950

6686 5586 / 0418 676 274

RESIDENTIAL Brunswick Heads 1 bed 1 bth $400 4 bed 2 bth $600 Ocean Shores 1 bed 1 bth $280 2 bed 1 bth $390 North Ocean Shores 1 bed 1 bth Neg 3 bed 1 bth Neg South Golden Beach 1 bed 1 bth $320 2 bed 1 bth $370 The Pocket 3 bed 2 bth $680 L.J. Hooker Brunswick Heads 6685 0177 5/16 The Terrace, Brunswick Heads

A: A sales rep for Echo Publications.

Ocean Shores 2/6 Kooringa Ct 3 bed 2 bth 2 car $600p/w 11 /10 Balemo Dr 3 bed 1 bth, 2 car $600p/w 37 Matong Dr 4 bed 3 bth 2 car $720p/w 46 Narooma Dr 4 bed 3 bth 1 car $770p/w 9 Jarrah Crescent 5 bed 3 bth 1 car $875p/w Burringbar 1A Hunter St 1 bed, 1 bth, 1 car $350p/w 1 Hunter St 3 bed 2 bth 2 car $575p/w Mooball 1 bed 1 bth 1car $250p/w Shop 33 Ocean Village Rajah Rd, Ocean Shores 6680 5000

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MATHS TUITION All levels to HSC. Current teacher. Ph Andrew 0413294982

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

TRADITIONAL SCULPTURE CLASSES IN BYRON BAY

0425 398 743

info@damienlucassculpture.com www.damienlucassculpture.com

about responding to advertisements be wary if asked to pay money upfront for employment opportunities and never

REMEDIAL MASSAGE THERAPIST.

There is a position available. Send your cv with a cover letter to positions@echo.net.au by Friday 7 June.

SCULPTURE & DESIGN

has warned people to be very careful

send money to a post ofﬁce box

Must have Dip. Rem. Massage & private health prov numbers. Prefer with facial

MUSICAL NOTES QUALITY PIANOS for sale, and expert piano tuning. Ph Fred Cole 0412216019 GUITAR STRINGS, REPAIRS Brunswick Heads 66851005

BIRTHDAYS

exp. Central Byron prof clinic. Email resume contact@thehavenbyronbay.com

Happy

HIGHLY EXPERIENCED PAINTER

Birthday

NEEDED Must be reliable, have an eye

Bebe.

for detail and be able to lead a team. No equipment needed, must be local to Lennox/Northern Rivers. Full time. Call 0427088838. Experienced applicants only

I love you more.

need apply! BYRON A&I ESTATE Industrial unit 105sqm. Front unit. Ph 0418691429 BEAUTIFUL TREATMENT ROOM Avail Tues/Fri/Sat/Sun $85/day, $45/half day. Mullum. 66849458 or 0435078551

Ocean Shores / Brunswick Heads

TUITION

WARNING The Department of Fair Trading

offering work at home. Readers should

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

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

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

Fri 7th June

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

AERIAL YOGA Swing/Hammock. Quality brand, teal, complete $60 Ph 0409579671

Ballina Car Centre

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LOCAL REMOVAL ROSEBANK cabin, near forest, for quiet sgle working person $195pw 0429882058

WORK WANTED

POSITIONS VACANT

OFFICE 70m2 Byron A&I Est. a/c, carpet $400pw+GST. Avail 1st May 0418327731 CREATIVE WORK SPACES in shared warehouse on Byron A&I. From $90pw. Ph 0411117820 MULLUM INDUSTRIAL UNIT 153m2 incl mezzanine, $589.60pw+GST+OG, carparking. Professionals 02 6684 2615

OFFICE SPACES IN MULLUMBIMBY Two units available with ongoing business support from Sourdough Business Pathways for growing local businesses. For more info: sbp.org.au/ business-mentoring-resourcesbyron-bay-bangalow or call Mark on 0411621143

INDUSTRIAL UNIT FOR LEASE Available NOW 60m2 Water, power & sewer connection

$350 / week Call or text Bill 0411 795 887 E: billsusie@bigpond.com

FUNERAL NOTICES KENNEDYS LANE FARM – Organic cert market garden is after

A FARMER Experience in growing veg on small-scale diverse farm. Passionate, organised & hardworking. Good understanding of soil works. Ability to teach, lead & supervise.

Practical, quantitative & creative thinking. Herbs & nursery knowledge preferred. Ready for a long-term commitment.

A celebration of the life of Michael Farmer will be held at Melaleuca Station Memorial Gardens, Chinderah. Michael’s family are inviting those who knew and loved him to join them at 11.30am on Monday, June 3.

DEATH NOTICES

Helen Ann O’Halloran

Send CV to oori@bigpond.com

CAPE BYRON

21.06.1955 – 21.05.2019

RUDOLF STEINER SCHOOL HIGH SCHOOL LAB TECHNICIAN Part Time (16hrs per week, school term time only) Expected start date, Monday 24th June 2019.

Cape Byron Rudolf Steiner School (CBRSS) is an independent, co-educational Kindergarten to Year 12 School with 370 students situated near the township of Byron Bay. CBRSS is looking for a suitably qualiﬁed and experienced High School Lab Technician. The primary role of the technician is to maintain and manage the chemicals and equipment of the science laboratory, assist teachers in preparation of practical lessons and assist with the supervision of these lessons. The successful applicant will hold a current NSW Working with Children Check

Applications close Friday 7th June 4pm. Position Description and application process available www.capebyronsteiner.nsw.edu.au

Helen Ann O’Halloran (Annie) died peacefully at home in the loving arms of her daughter Becky and husband Rory after a long battle with health issues. As per her wishes there will be no formal funeral service and instead of sending ﬂowers, her family ask that donations be made to cancer causes. “It was never about the destination And always about the journey”

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DEATH NOTICES cont

LOST & FOUND

Michael Stanley Farmer

LOST LONGBOARD - REWARD 9’3” Munroe white, blue ﬁn, blue legrope, for Trudy written on board, silver & white cover. Lost after surf Friday morning. Please Call Trudy 0400888444

~ Pigeon Boy ~

ONLY ADULTS www.madamekrystal.com FULL BODY MASSAGE 0406582418 EXQUISITE Be impressed with my hot body and warm hands. Tweed area. 0438573677

Sadly passed away suddenly on May 22, 2019 aged 66 years young. He lived his life to the fullest in every way possible. Michael lived for Rock’n’Roll, he raced through life alongside his racing pigeons and he grew with a heart full with his life partner Kathy, his daughter Kate, and Calley and Russell. He was adored for his humour, loud laughter and huge heart. The drums have gone quiet, the beat has stopped. Rock on and ﬂy high, Pigeon Boy Farmer. Never forgotten – Always loved

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Byron Dog Rescue (CAWI) ZIGGY & SHADOW ADOPTION (together or separate) They’re big, they’re boisterous, they’re well-bred, they’re big softies and they’re going to need socialising & training. Meet Ziggy & Shadow - 2 male 5-month-old blue-brindle Stafﬁes. Ziggy & Shadow’s sisters are all happily settled into four family situations with children and/or other dogs and/or chooks. If you’re interested in offering both these guys, or one of them, a loving home, Please phone Shell on 0458 461 935 if you can help.

Lacey is a 10 month old desexed female Dogue de Bordeaux x kelpie. She is a medium/ large, good natured girl who is well behaved and would suit just about any home situation. If you can give Lacey a permanent, loving home please contact Pam on 0421 017 461.

Lacey

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

Email copy marked ‘On The Horizon’ to editor@echo.net.au.

New moon 3 June First quarter 10 June Full moon 17 June Third quarter 25 June Day of Sun Sun Moon month rise set rise 1 S 0630 1657 0356 2 S 0631 1656 0454 3 M 0631 1656 0555 4 T 0632 1656 0657 5 W 0632 1656 0759 6 T 0633 1656 0900 7 F 0633 1656 0955 8 S 0633 1656 1046 9 S 0634 1656 1131 10 M 0634 1656 1213 11 T 0635 1656 1252 12 W 0635 1656 1328 13 T 0635 1656 1406 14 F 0636 1656 1444 15 S 0636 1656 1524 16 S 0636 1656 1608 17 M 0637 1656 1654 18 T 0637 1656 1745 19 W 0637 1656 1837 20 T 0638 1657 1931 21 F 0638 1657 2025 22 S 0638 1657 2119 23 S 0638 1657 2212 24 M 0638 1657 2304 25 T 0639 1658 2356 26 W 0639 1658 27 T 0639 1658 0049 28 F 0639 1659 0143 29 S 0639 1659 0239 30 S 0639 1659 0338

Bruns Progress Ass’n

OWN Mullumbimby

Come join the Bruns Residents’ Progress Association at Brunswick Heads Community Centre (opposite the Bruns Surf Club) at our monthly meeting, Monday 3 June at 7pm.

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.

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.

Sunday 2 June 5pm at St Paul’s Spirituality Centre, 14 Kingsley Street, Byron Bay (200 metres off Jonson Street). Contact John Power: 0403 905 543.

St Paul’s Spirituality Ruth Grayson from CAWI the Animal Rescue in Mullumbimby will be the guest speaker at St Paul’s Spirituality Centre, 14 Kingsley Street, Byron Bay (200 metres off Jonson Street) on Tuesday 4 June at 10am. Bring a friend to enjoy a morning of warm friendship, good coffee, and delicious morning tea with an informative talk.

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

Blind Bowls 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.

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.

Focus on PNG 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.

Quilters and crafters 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.

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.

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 mid-June; see www.osartexpo.com.

Byron Sophia Byron Sophia Philosophical Group: Hermes, the messenger of the Gods, linking all regions from the Heavens to the Underworld. Presentation by Sean and Rachelle Whyte, Gnostic Society. Thursday, 30 May, from 1.30 till 3.30 pm, at Marvell Hall, 37 Marvell Street, Byron Bay. Info: Celia 6684 3623.

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

Mungo’s Crossword 1

N287

18 19

20 21

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.

Astronomical data and tides Low tide, height (m) 0041 0.55; 1234 0.32 0126 0.49; 1310 0.29 0211 0.44; 1347 0.27 0257 0.40; 1427 0.27 0345 0.38; 1509 0.29 0437 0.38; 1555 0.34 0532 0.40; 1646 0.40 0630 0.41; 1745 0.48 0729 0.42; 1854 0.54 0828 0.41; 2011 0.58 0923 0.39; 2129 0.59 1015 0.36; 2241 0.57 1102 0.33; 2346 0.52 1145 0.30 0045 0.48; 1227 0.29 0137 0.44; 1306 0.29 0225 0.42; 1345 0.30 0310 0.41; 1421 0.33 0352 0.42; 1458 0.37 0433 0.44; 1535 0.42 0514 0.47; 1614 0.48 0554 0.49; 1657 0.55 0636 0.52; 1746 0.62 0722 0.53; 1845 0.69 0811 0.52; 1954 0.73 0900 0.50; 2107 0.74 0947 0.47; 2219 0.71 1031 0.42; 2322 0.65 1115 0.37 0018 0.57; 1156 0.31

OS Art Expo

Book launch

JUNE 2019

8.01pm 3.59pm 6.30pm 7.46pm Moon High tide, set height (m) 1531 0637 1.41; 1917 1.70 1610 0718 1.40; 1959 1.79 1654 0800 1.37; 2040 1.85 1744 0845 1.34; 2123 1.89 1840 0930 1.30; 2208 1.90 1941 1020 1.26; 2256 1.88 2046 1115 1.23; 2346 1.83 2151 1215 1.21 2256 0042 1.76; 1324 1.23 0141 1.69; 1437 1.28 0000 0244 1.62; 1546 1.38 0103 0346 1.55; 1649 1.50 0204 0446 1.49; 1745 1.61 0305 0542 1.44; 1835 1.72 0407 0632 1.39; 1921 1.79 0507 0719 1.34; 2004 1.83 0607 0803 1.29; 2045 1.84 0704 0845 1.25; 2124 1.82 0757 0926 1.22; 2200 1.78 0846 1005 1.19; 2237 1.73 0930 1045 1.17; 2314 1.67 1009 1129 1.15; 2352 1.59 1045 1218 1.14 1119 0034 1.52; 1316 1.15 1150 0122 1.45; 1424 1.19 1222 0217 1.38; 1530 1.26 1254 0316 1.34; 1628 1.37 1327 0414 1.31; 1718 1.48 1404 0508 1.30; 1805 1.61 1445 0600 1.30; 1851 1.72

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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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.

Self-defence

BPA meeting

PETS Elke is an exquisite silver tabby with captivating pale green eyes. She has an air of magic about her & is very reﬁned & delicate in appearance. Elke is a calm soul & is happy to be loved by both people & her fellow feline friends. To meet Elke, please visit her at the Cat Adoption Centre at

DEADLINE NOON FRIDAY

Evensong

available. Secondhand books, especially art and children’s required. Contact Janene on 0407 855 022 or byronbayfol@gmail.com.

Call to potters

On The Horizon

MONTHLY MARKETS 1st SAT Bruns Heads 1st SAT Alstonville

6628 4495 0429 019 407

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 4th SAT Evans Head 0439 489 631 4th SAT Wilsons Creek 6684 0299 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 5th SUN Lennox Head 0419 369 609 5th SUN Nimbin 0458 506 000

FARMERS/WEEKLY MARKETS Each TUE New Brighton 6677 1345 Each TUE Organic Lismore 6628 1084 Each WED 7-11am M’bah 6684 7834 Each WED 3-6pm Nimbin 6689 1512 Each THU 8-11am Byron 6687 1137 Each THU 2.30-6.30pm Lismore 0450 688 900 Each FRI 7-11am Mullum 6677 1345 Each SAT 8-11am Bangalow 6687 1137 Each SAT 8am-1pm Uki 6679 5530 Each SAT 8.30-11am Lismore 0466 415 172 Each SAT 8.30-12am Blue Knob

Cryptic Clues

Quick Clues

1. Thin, but in the pub he became a greedy pig (6) 4. Beaten, dismissed but went fast (8) 9. Books and a greeting – a great tragedy (7) 11. Hangs – it is a contingency (7) 12. Boy in charge of sound (5) 13. A lyrebird performing? No. More commonly just a lark (5,4) 14. Point around the Spanish – it is considered a bit coarse (10) 16. Complain bitterly back at the storyteller (4) 19. Former morning test (4) 20. Madmen sent revisions and corrections (10) 22. Hire ivy in dispute for old king (5,4) 23. An instrument for the liver, perhaps (5) 25. Two transcendentals – the time for a phrase of abuse (7) 26. Leave more innards in the chicken! (7) 27. Place numbers from French, after a firm … (4,4) 28. … look back at damn fool father (3,3)

1. Scarce, sparse (6) 4. Won a speed trial (8) 9. The Moor of Venice (7) 11. Trusts, relies on (7) 12. To do with sound (5) 13. The flier who catches the worm (5,4) 14. Crude, suggestive (10) 16. Fibber (4) 19. Student’s test (4) 20. Revisions, corrections (10) 22. Elizabeth I’s father (5,4) 23. Instrument or body part (5) 25. Short pithy saying (7) 26. Cowardly (7) 27. Numerical address, either for mail or phone (4,4) 28. Affectionate term for a father or husband (3,3)

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Monica Wilcox Lennox Head’s Rainbow Dragon team has returned from the Australian Dragon Boat Championships in Canberra with some close finishing times, two bronze medals and an invitation to race at the 2020 International Dragon Boat Federation’s Club Crew World Championships in France. Rainbow Dragons Women’s B (50+yrs) 20s crew qualified for this invitation-only international competition based on their AusChamps 2019 results. In the 500 metres races Rainbow Dragons senior B (50+yrs) mixed finished seventh, and the women’s 20 crew won a bronze medal. In 200m racing the senior B-mixed team finished one better in sixth, while the

The Rainbow Dragon boat women’s B-team won bronze medals in the 200m and 500m races at the Australian championship in Canberra over Easter. Photo Jan Wright senior B-women’s team won another bronze. As well as participating with the club team, eight Rainbow Dragons were selected for the Far North Coast regional team, which represented New South Wales in the state-versusstate competition. The women’s 10s team also won

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a bronze medal. Now, the club has to make the decision on whether it will accept the invitation to compete at the 2020 Club World Championships. If the invitation is accepted, the club will be looking for 20 strong women to train hard to first compete at the AusChamps in Sydney in

April 2020 before they head off to France in August. Two Queensland women’s B-teams were place-getters at the 2018 Club World Championships and recently Rainbows Dragons defeated both these club teams at local regattas. So there is room for international optimism.

This group of women golfers are now halfway through a series of beginner golf clinics at the Byron Bay Golf Club. ‘They have been enjoying the golf tuition provided by the resident professional, Greg Stewart, along with the women members of the golf club,’ organiser Margaret Pierce said. ‘The sessions are proving very popular with the cuppa and cake afterwards proving to be a hit. A second clinic will commence on June 14 but it is fully booked. We have a wait list for future clinics.’ Photo supplied

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All Girls Surfriders: (L–R) Sam Endell, Mahia Adams, China Esson, Helen Collins, Amalia Cook, Serena Adams. Jane Collins in the front. Photo Jane Collins Crystal Cylinders Lennox Head’s Nyxie Ryan has been super consistent through 2019 and she posted another podium finish at the 2019 Hydralyte Sports Shoalhaven Pro Junior. Finishing in third place in the four-woman final Ryan posted the second-highest score of the heat but couldn’t find a strong backup wave. Ryan won US$650 and 560 points and now sits in third place on the Australasia WSL

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Surfriders The All Girls Surfriders held the May club round at Chinamans Beach in Dirrawong National park as part of their annual camp. ‘The Wahine masters and opens surfed the outer banks for some epic rides and even a few barrels and the intermediates and beginners got some of the rides of their lives,’ club co-president Malissa Cook said.

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Young basketballer Djalu Barsah will travel with a Sydney-based Australian Team called USA PAthways to try to establish himself as a professional basketballer. He will travel in June and train at the Massanutten High School, and play two tournaments in front of scouts from American schools and colleges. Djalu sees this as an amazing opportunity for him to have a chance at pursuing basketball as a career. Djalu grew up near Federal and now lives west of Kyogle. Djalu started the Monday night competition at Lismore Basketball, then played the

Friday night social competition at Casino Stadium, and returned to play and train with Lismore Basketball. He now trains at the new Kyogle court and every day on a dirt court he carved by hand out of the bush at home. Djalu has been recognised with the Coaches Award, Players Player Award, and the third-highest shooting average in the Northern Junior League. He also made the All Stars at Toowoomba’s Super Camp. Djalu has set up a GOfundme page to help him get to America called ‘Basketball in the US’.

The new Cape Byron Crusaders junior rugby union football club is surging on the back of plenty of keen players and parents. Already in round four of its foundation year, the Crusaders have players for U/7 and U/9 teams and expect to add another two older groups next year, with the long-term aim of being able to cater to teenagers as well. The club was founded by parents ‘who are focused on creating buoyant, vibrant, sporty opportunities for young people,’ co-founder Mathew Simpson said. There hasn’t been a continuous offering for young people to play rugby in Byron for quite some time, which has meant players have had to travel farther to play. The club is also getting support from the Byron Bay Rugby Club, which is looking

forward to having some home-grown talent join their sides in the future. The club is focused on providing young people with opportunities to stay fit and become part of a wider community on a regular basis. The club aims to provide great fun and rewarding experiences for children. Parents are also encouraged to become involved and to not just watch from the sidelines. ‘We want parents to come down and take part in the sport with the children, to use training days as a real opportunity to spend time with their children to make it a really rewarding experience for both of them,’ he said. The Crusaders play at home this Friday from 5.30pm, and training is on Monday afternoons. All welcome.

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Water shortages are now affecting Tenterfield, 205km west of Byron Shire. Its Council is urgently seeking a fast-tracking of the approval process for alternative water sources, reports www.tenterfieldstar.com.au. ‘Queensland neighbour the Southern Downs Regional Council has declared its water situation as a natural disaster in hopes it will attract funding for assistance. The Council’s current water restrictions allow only 120 litres of water per person per day’. Meanwhile local water utility Rous is running its #160litrechallenge, which encourages less water use. The region uses approximately 194 litres of water, per person, per day on average, says www.rous.nsw.gov.au. Q Q Q Q

Wow – New Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern is creating the world’s first ‘wellbeing’ budget, reports www.sbs.com.au, to help with child poverty, domestic violence, and mental health.It will ‘feature explicit measures of public welfare alongside economic growth’. Does this prove that Murdoch’s media empire doesn’t have a hold on the former British colony? Q Q Q Q

It’s both literally and figuratively the end of May – Theresa May (anti-Brexit) has quit as embattled UK leader just as May winds its way into June. Will pro-Brexiteer Boris Johnson replace her? UK BBC reporter Eddie Mair called him ‘a nasty piece of work’ in an interview after he dodged questions about lying about an alleged affair and encouraging physical assault against a reporter. Q Q Q Q

Local circus performer and emerging author Simi Genziuk has celebrated the release of her first children’s book. So She Did is the mainly true story of May Wirth, an incredible Australian woman renowned as one of the world’s greatest horseback acrobats. May could do a backflip from one galloping horse and land on a following horse! This trick saw her tour with Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey circuses in the US during the early part of last century. Pictured is Simi Genziuk, husband Shep Huntly, and their daughter Goldie. Photo Jeff ‘Ran The Circus Away Since 1986 ’ Dawson Julian Assange will apparently face potentially 200 years in prison for his part in informing the world of US atrocities. John Pilger tweeted last week: ‘The war on Julian #Assange is now a war on all. Eighteen absurd charges including espionage send a burning message to every journalist, every publisher. The target today is #Assange. Tomorrow it will be you on the New York Times, you on the BBC. Modern fascism is breaking cover’.

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