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Mullum now hits level four water restrictions

Hopes for peace in 2020

Level 4 water restrictions are now in place for Mullumbimby after a continued rapid decrease in the water level of Lavertys Gap Weir, say Byron Shire Council.

Level 1 for other towns

The Northern Rivers Coastal Red Rebel activists made an appearance at the Mullum Farmers Market on Friday morning. They use stillness, silence, archetypes of grief and gravitas to galvanise care and empathy for our planet. The brigade was originally created for the Extinction Rebellion in London. Photo Jeff ‘Better Red than Shiraz’ Dawson

A new look at how to manage the precious coastline Paul Bibby What can we do to protect the Shire’s beautiful, but fragile coastal environment from climate change and other human impacts? Having sufficient information about the nature of the problems and adequate policies to address them is a good start, according to a new scoping study by Byron Council.

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Unfortunately, in many cases, we appear to be lacking in one or both of these. The scoping study is part of Council’s attempt to develop a long-term strategy for the coastline – a Coastal Management Program. It is currently on public exhibition so that the community can provide feedback. The study sets out the many

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challenges the coastal zone is facing and the policies and knowledge we currently have to meet them. It found that there were inadequate management arrangements for some of the biggest threats facing our coastal environment and, in some cases, a lack of data and information about these threats as well. Chief among them was the threat of beach erosion, which was

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rated as a high level threat being experienced right now at nine separate hotspots, spread out along the Shire’s coastline from The Pass to South Golden Beach. The consequences of beach erosion include: the loss of habitat, public and private assets, beach amenity, and existing surf breaks. Despite this threat being known ▶ Continued on page 3

Mungo: It was very hot in Walgett one day in 1937 ▶ p10

The remainder of the Byron Shire serviced by Rous County Council remains on level 1 restrictions. Council’s acting general manager, Phil Holloway, said the level of the weir is decreasing at a rapid rate and, ‘people need to really work hard to limit their water use. ‘This is almost unprecedented in Mullumbimby, which normally has a very high rainfall and we would not be moving to level 4 restrictions if it wasn’t absolutely necessary,’ Mr Holloway said. For residents of Mullumbimby who are connected to the town water supply, level 4 restrictions means essential uses only for showers, toilets, taps and washing machines. ‘No watering of gardens or lawns, including new turf. ‘Topping up and refilling of existing swimming pools and spas is permitted if required to reduce structural damage, between 4pm and 9am, using a hand held hose fitted with an on/off nozzle. ‘No emptying and refilling of pools/spas. No water play tools, toys and slides. Washing pets and ▶ Continued on page 5

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Byron’s NYE street party Breakfast hub keeps homeless fed this Christmas New Year’s Eve in Byron Bay will again see the CBD transformed for Soul Street. From 4pm till midnight, Jonson Street and at Railway Park will bustle with market stalls, food vendors, three stages, live bands, buskers, performers,

fun children’s activities and much more. This is a free, fun, safe, community-driven and alcohol-free event brought to you by the Byron Community Centre and Byron Shire Council to promote a ‘Safe Summer in the Bay’.

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Photo Jeff Dawson Mullumbimby Post Office was shut down at around 11am last Thursday after a package leaked and impacted on one of the post office workers. Hazmat procedures were initiated and the Ambulance, Fire Brigade and Police were called. Detective Chief Inspector of Byron Bay police station Matt Kehoe told The Echo that ‘They found a female worker

was affected by a substance. ‘Police brought in extra resources with the specialist hazmat police team attending.’ He said at the time that police didn’t believe that there was any danger or toxic substances involved. The area around the post office and surrounding street were sectioned off as a safety precaution.

Story & photo Eve Jeffery Every Wednesday at the Byron Bay Community Centre, a group of volunteers make a breakfast for rough sleepers. As Christmas falls on a Wednesday this year, the group will be providing the only social event some people will have on the day. The group, the Homeless Breakfast Hub, is a stand alone group who cook up a wonderful feast of sausages, eggs, and bacon and have plenty of fibre rich cereals such as porridge, Weetbix and toast. They provide all the spreads as well as fresh fruit and a veggie stir fry for vegetarians. At the end of the brekky, volunteers make take-away sandwiches and hand out any leftovers. But the weekly meal is more than just about food. Colleen Arnott has been a volunteer at the Hub since June 2018 and became the team co-ordinator in March 2019. The hub is a very social event which facilitates other services, she says. ‘Our homeless project worker Elyssa Purdie manages a support team, which includes volunteers who sign up people for showers at the community cabin. We have a community nurse on hand to tend to the needs of our homeless community, and

David Meyers at Byron’s homeless breakfast. Held every Wednesday at the Byron Community Centre.

Other Christmas day events Q The Brunswick Heads Uniting Church will be holding a free Christmas Day lunch from 12pm. Organisers say, ‘If you can provide a plate to share that would be great, but not a requirement’. Q Ballina Community free Christmas lunch will be held from 12pm and 2pm in the Ballina Presbyterian Hall, on the corner of Cherry and Crane Streets. This is an alcohol free event. For all enquiries phone Chris on 0431 630 900.

we have access to legal/aid, a family and youth worker, a needle exchange worker and mental health team who all pop in at various times throughout the morning’. Colleen says it’s all very discreet. ‘We have free secondhand clothing on hand as well.’ The breakfast team has between seven to twelve volunteers, working hard each week to provide nutritious food, as well as a

and safety and more importantly, somewhere to belong, somewhere to be and know they are welcome. Sleeping rough and having to move their place of sleeping often, I imagine would have to be exhausting. It is incredibly important the community provide these types of services says Colleen. ‘We are all human beings with basic needs, and many homeless people are ignored or treated with disregard and disgust from people who don’t particularly care to know the person. The work that is done by the Byron Community Centre to support our homeless community is amazing’.

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Colleen says that working with the homeless has changed her life in so many positive ways. ‘I’m ashamed to admit family/community feel for I was once one of those everyone. ‘This year we are having a Christmas breakfast people who would rather turn a blind eye to those for the first time in a few most in need than actually years so those of us without do anything to help them. family commitments on the ‘Like everyone, I’ve had morning are excited about it.’ some tough challenges in Colleen says they feed my life, but I’ve managed to between 30–70 people on come out the other side. I’ve Wednesdays and summer been lucky enough to have sees the numbers increase. support to get through. ‘I think our service is vital to ‘So many of our people these vulnerable people. They are not only fed well, but I feel here have no one. There but for the grace of God go I…’ they have a sense of comfort

After a decade, it’s last big lights at Ray’s place Eve Jeffery

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Born and bred in the Bay, Ray Costigan moved to his home on Old Bangalow Road in 1980, but it wasn’t until 10 years ago that his house and garden turned into a Christmas light extravaganza. Ray says he started putting up a few lights about 20 years ago, but about 10 years ago he upped the ante. ‘I started it to impress my six grandkids,’ says Ray. ‘It worked!’ Ray generally assembles the lights on his own, but last year his son helped him add a garden walk, and this year three local lads helped to assemble the Christmas tree. It usually takes him about four weeks to get everything up. These days most of the lights are LEDS and as the Costigan’s have a solar array, it doesn’t cost them all that much more than the usual bill. ‘There are a few old school bulbs around the reindeer, but the rest are LEDS.’

Ray Costigan’s Christmas light display. Photo Jeff ‘Bedazzled Since 1986’ Dawson Last year Ray added a donation box and the light show raised over $1,000 for the Byron Hospital Auxiliary. Ray hopes to raise a similar amount this year, though he understands that a lot of funds are going to the RFS. Ray says he enjoys the evening with visitors. ‘I stay downstairs and mingle, and that way it helps stop vandalism and you can

talk to people. They admire the garden – they come to see the lights and stay for the garden.’ Ray says it’s hard to describe the feeling when people see the display.

Hit with the kids ‘The young children come in – they are that excited, and it gives you a good feeling. ‘Some adults express

themselves right out and some are a bit reserved, but kiddies – the kiddies love it!’ The grand light show which is at 19-21 Old Bangalow Road Byron Bay, will be turned off December 31 at midnight for the last time, as family and health issues mean that Ray will have to tone the display way-down to a small gesture in future years.

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Local News Coorabell Hall latest community asset to go solar A not-for-profit volunteer run organisation has just installed a 10kW solar system at Coorabell Hall. It’s the latest project by Community Owned Renewable Energy Mullumbimby (COREM), who have been fundraising to install solar panels on community buildings since 2016. Project organiser Dave Rawlins says, in just over three years, and at a cost of over $80,000, they have funded 87 kilowatts of solar PV, installed at 10 sites, including the Mullumbimby Showgrounds, Mullumbimby Museum, Federal Hall and Dorroughby Hall. Rawlins says COREM’s Revolving Community Energy Fund pays for the solar installation up front.

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COREM’s Rob Passey with First Sun Solar’s Jeremy Ball, Charlie Wrenched and Billy Wrenched from the Coorabell Hall Committee, Bec Talbot, COREM’s Dave Rawlins, Ouida Wrenched and Lisa Coote, also from the hall committee. Photo Jeff ‘Solar Since 1986’ Dawson

through our local economy to support more community organisations to install solar panels, saving groups money on their bills while slashing our reliance on polluting coal generated electricity.’ Enova Energy has assisted to partly finance the last five of COREM’s projects.

Enova’s CEO Felicity Stening says, ‘We’re delighted to support COREM to deliver its projects by contributing funds toward solar panels. ‘Energy self-sufficiency for community halls means their funding can advance their core activities rather than covering electricity

for some time, the Scoping Study found that the current arrangements for managing it, such as coastal legislation, physical protection structures and dune management were ‘inadequate’. There was a pressing need for a ‘co-ordinated and consistent management approach for the entire bay’ including co-operation between different management authorities, and a need for better understanding

of the threats within the broader community.

Number of threats It was one of a number of threats designated as ‘highlevel’ where insufficient management arrangements are in place; others include shoreline recession, a lack of community awareness, and insufficient or inappropriate governance. Another high-level threat currently lacking management is coastal

development, according to the study. It noted that coastal development was currently encroaching into ‘natural coastal processes’. ‘Poorly sited coastal development – and associated works such as revetments… may result in enhanced hazard impacts…’ the study states. ‘Poorly sited coastal development may also enhance pressure for hard engineering and protection works, further damaging the

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bills. This in turn brings about stronger communities and that’s what Enova aims to create,’ said Felicity. Rawlins thanked Splendour in the Grass, CORENA, Enova Energy and Jeremy Ball from First Sun Solar for their support in their 10th installation.

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Vale tennis champ Margaret Fisher Stephanie Dale Margaret Fisher, Byron Bay’s legendary world champion tennis player, has died. Margaret passed away in Brisbane on 22 December, aged 89. Well-loved right around the Bay, Margaret was a friend to everyone she met. She was a woman who paid no heed to a person’s place in society. Whether you were under a tree in the park, busking on the footpath, sitting quietly at her favourite coffee shop or behind the myriad counters where she shopped, Margaret had time for everyone. Last year Margaret was crowned Byron Shire’s Senior Citizen of the Year. She would have hated that word ‘crowned’.

Turned down Queen Elizabeth II In 1953 she was summoned to Australia House to explain why she had turned down an invitation from

Margaret Fisher. Photo supplied Queen Elizabeth II, who had invited her to attend a garden party at Buckingham Palace. A country kid from Albury she had saved for three years to sail to England to play her way into Wimbledon. She was not giving up her tennis for anyone – not even the Queen. Margaret was widely regarded as an inspiration to others. She was renowned for being fitter in her 80s than she was in her 60s. Ten years ago she dusted off her racket and began playing tennis again for the

first time in more than 20 years. The following year she became the Australian over 80s tennis champion and then set her sights on international gold. She competed in seven world championships during the following years, in 2016 becoming the World Super Seniors over 80s silver medallist and in 2017 she became the world over 85s women’s doubles and mixed doubles tennis champion (with partners Rosemarie Asche, from Canada, and Max Byrne). Margaret was a veteran

teacher who pioneered maths centres and English as a second language in Canberra schools. In her 50s she launched a second career in politics, working for various Labor MPs and senators, in both government and opposition. Margaret was deeply grateful for the support she received from the Byron Bay community for her tennis, via various crowdfunding campaigns and through sponsorship from Feros Care. Margaret is survived by her loyal companion, border collie Leo, also an icon around Byron Bay, as well as daughters Stephanie, Elizabeth and Virginia, her son Andrew, five grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Everyone is welcome to attend Margaret’s funeral, which will be held at 2pm on Saturday in Marvell Hall, 37 Marvel St, Byron Bay. No flowers please, donations instead to Karuna Hospice Services, 07 3632 8300. Q Stephanie Dale is Margaret’s daughter

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NSW govt lacks leadership: Union As fighting fires becomes the new normal and two volunteer firefighters lives were lost from the Horsely Park Brigade near Sydney, the Fire Brigade Employees’ Union have been critical of budget cuts by the NSW government. Firefighter Leighton Drury, representing the union, addressed media last week and was critical of the lack of leadership being shown

during the current bushfire crisis amid budget cuts to fire services and regional communities. Mr Drury called on the NSW Government to respond to this state of emergency with increased funding for firefighters – where the State Government still does not consider firefighters as frontline and therefore subject to budget cuts. It follows the

decision to downgrade the firefighting staffing in two regional areas, as temperatures soar and fires rage.

More funding ‘We’ve been living through one of the worst droughts ever in Australian history. Now we are living through one of the worst bushfire seasons. How much longer must we wait for the

government to recognise the seriousness of the situation and increase funding to the frontline?’ said Mr Drury. ‘Budget cuts have left us without the resources we need, and Fire Rescue have responded by reducing regional community fire services as a result. It’s beyond belief. Homes are being destroyed and lives being lost.’

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Bruns surf patrols over the holidays Level 4 water restrictions for Mullum Brunswick Beach will be patrolled throughout the school holidays from 9am5pm, say the local surf club. During weekdays, Council-funded life guards will patrol, while on weekends and public holidays, the volunteer surf lifesavers will be patrolling. Additionally, the

volunteer surf lifesavers will be patrolling on jetskis on the weekends and public holidays from South Golden Beach to the north, to Byron Beach in the south. Brunswick has been designated a black spot for swimming, owing to the nasty rips and currents along the beach.

Homeless woman bashed in Byron Police are investigating a serious assault on a homeless person in Byron’s CBD last week. Meanwhile, Detective Inspector Matt Kehoe from Byron Bay police said there had been three break-ins at commercial premises in Byron Bay in the past week.

‘There have also been a number of police pursuits on the highway with people coming down from Queensland into our area.’ He added during the holiday period, there is typically an increase in opportunistic crimes, including theft from vehicles and premises.

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Water supply guaranteed Council staff say those ‘worried that Mullumbimby will run out of water should know that Council guarantees water supply into the future, even if there is no rain. ‘Mullumbimby has a connection to the Rous County Council supply, which is now turned on. This supply services half the town and this will ease the pressure on

the Lavertys Gap Weir in the short-term. ‘The good news is that the Lavertys Gap Weir, which is fed by Wilsons Creek, is a short, sharp catchment, meaning that it will fill quickly if there is a good storm, or several storm events. ‘Level 4 restrictions will however still apply to all Mullumbimby residents and businesses’. For more information on water restrictions for residents and businesses, visit Council’s website or the Rous Water website: Q www.byron.nsw.gov.au/ Services/Water-sewer/Water/ Water-restrictions. Q www.rous.nsw.gov.au/ cp_themes/default/home. asp.

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!ōëƆƆ şĪ ǟǝǞǦ The Mullumbimby Cottage, Year 10 girls group celebrated completion of their Byron Youth Service (BYS) program last week. Co-ordinator Deb Pearse told The Echo, ‘This group of girls participated in group discussions, drug and alcohol (D&A) info sessions, interpretative dance, cultural song and dance workshops with cultural leaders from the Solomon Islands and Hawaii, sharing food, love, laughs and feelings and some completed a beautiful art installation with an environmental theme installed at the school’. Pearse says, ‘They have been an absolute joy to work with, and while I will miss seeing them every week, they give me hope for the future. They are smart, courageous, funny and switched on, I look forward to seeing what they do in the world.’

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A Northern Rivers business that produces a unique beekeeping technology says it has joined with over 500 companies around the world to accelerate reduction of their greenhouse gas emissions, to reach net zero, 20 years ahead of the 2050 targets set in the Paris Agreement. Co-inventor of the Flow Hive, Cedar Anderson says, ‘We believe that making a commitment to net zero is a really important step for the future of our planet.’ He says his company – along with The Farm – are now certified as a B Corporation. According to www. bcorporation.com.au, they

are ‘businesses that meet the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose’. Brands like Patagonia, The Body Shop and Stone & Wood are also certified B Corporations.

B Corps ‘There are over 3,000 B Corps in the world, hailing from more than 70 countries and 150 industries, harnessing the power of business to solve major social and environmental challenges facing the world today’.

m É ĎĕżƐƆ żſşưĶĎĕĎ țƖŕžƖëōĶǕ ĕĎ ëƖĎĶƐ şżĶŕĶşŕƆȜǼ ƖĎĶƐ wǔ ĶĈĕ ¨ſëŕƆżşſƐ ĈşŔżëŕƷ ëĎĎƆ Ɛş ǖ ĕĕƐ A government agency tasked with evaluating the performance of NSW government departments and agencies has found ‘Unqualified audit opinions’ for almost all of the cluster agencies within the newly formed NSW Planning, Industry and Environment (DPIE). Auditor-General Margaret Crawford found the DPIE to have ‘offered no qualified audit opinions,’ within the 56 of the 66 cluster agencies. The remaining ten audits remain incomplete, she adds. Key themes included information

technology, asset management, and improvements required to expense and payroll controls.

ǟǽǟǝǝ m É ƆĈĲşşōƆ Meanwhile, all cluster agencies within NSW Education submitted financial statements that contained unqualified audit opinions, says the Audit Office. ‘Control deficiencies were also identified in a sample of the state’s 2,200 schools. Schools did not always

apply the guidance in the Department of Education’s Finance in Schools Handbook, resulting in control weaknesses in key areas such as governance, cash management and procurement. ‘From July 1, 2019, the Technical and Further Education Commission, the NSW Skills Board and the functions and activities associated with vocational training and skills will form part of the Education cluster’. For more information visit www.audit.nsw.gov.au.

A community transport operation has just been awarded a new vehicle that can accommodate passengers with limited mobility. Labor federal MP, Justine Elliot says that Tweed Byron and Ballina Community Transport (TBBCT) will receive $10,000 in federal funding to go towards an additional fleet vehicle. She says, ‘TBBCT is an important community

service that provides quality and essential services to those who are transport disadvantaged’. Mrs Elliot said, ‘This year alone they have supported approximately 4,000 members of the community by providing over 86,000 trips’. She adds that many of those trips are organised and assisted by the 130 volunteers. TBBCT can be contacted on 1300 875 895.

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Local News Practical ways to engage with climate change The Seabin Foundation have completed a three month pilot program with Byron High School, which aims to give students the skills to learn how to organise an event while making conscious decisions to reduce their footprint. The locally-based foundation manufactures a floating rubbish bin that collects garbage from the sea. Rubbish and debris are brought into the bin via a pump, which creates a flow of water. A group of students from Byron High School called Positive Change for Byron High (PCFBH), ran the event and invited students from the school to register for a day of workshops for cleaner oceans and a healthier planet.

Pilot program Mahi Paquette, COO of the Seabin Foundation, was the driver of the pilot program and meet with students on a weekly/fortnightly basis for three months. ‘They said they’d heard enough about the issues and wanted practical ideas on how to do things that would make a difference,’ said Ms Paquette. ‘The final event was a

An illegal camp on Saturday night at Whites Beach, Broken Head, resulted in the death of a wallaby and the discovery of a still-burning fire by residents. A resident contacted The Echo and said that National

The Seabin Foundation ran a pilot program aimed at giving the students the opportunity to organise an event with a minimal carbon footprint. Photo supplied series of eight workshops that included making beeswax wraps, surf wax, eco-friendly screen printing, planting trees, Indigenous bushwalks, beach walk, surfing, making eco-body care products and cooking veggie burgers and smoothies with ingredients sourced from local markets and bulk stores.’ Having organised the Summit To Sea conference

earlier this year, Ms Paquette said that they had learned a huge amount about coordinating events. Combining the volunteer work she had previously done with Positive Change for Marine Life and PCFBH, she applied for Byron Shire Council event funding to help pass on that learning. ‘You have to ask yourself; How do you reach people? What do you feed people?

There are lots of questions around how you put on a event without making a big footprint,’ said Ms Paquette. Ms Paquette said that after the success of the pilot program they would look at running the program again at other local schools. ‘We learned plenty through this pilot program and would make some changes to run it again at other local schools.’

– government departments, local councils, aboriginal land councils, state universities and other NSW public sector bodies.

30 per cent increase ‘This was a 30 per cent increase from the previous year’. The report was tabled in Parliament last Thursday, and NSW Ombudsman Michael Barnes says, ‘Corrupt conduct was the most serious allegation in 83 per cent of the 422 reports made

to public authorities. Just over 1,000 public interest disclosures were also made to the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC)’. ‘Three quarters of these were reports made by the head of a public sector organisation, who is required by law to notify the ICAC of any circumstance of suspected corrupt conduct. ‘112 public interest disclosures were made to other external investigating authorities, including the

NSW Ombudsman’. Mr Barnes said, ‘Possible reasons for this increase include that public officials may be more willing to report wrongdoing or public authorities are improving at identifying reports as PIDs.’ Known as whistleblower protection legislation, Mr Barnes says the PID Act encourages NSW public officials to report serious wrongdoing, ‘such as corrupt conduct or maladministration by providing them with certain legal protections’.

ȡǞǟǝ Ǖ ŕĕ ƱëſŕĶŕī Īşſ ƖŕōşĈŊĕĎ ĈëſƆ Paul Bibby In an attempt to reduce opportunistic car thefts and break-ins, local police have issued warnings to owners of cars left unlocked around a few popular local carparks in Byron Bay. On discovering an unsecured vehicle, they placed a sternly worded flyer on the windshield warning the owner that it was ‘an offence to leave your car out in a public place unlocked’. ‘There are infringements of $120 for an unlocked car

Parks attended to the fire. The resident believed a dog belonging to a camper killed the marsupial. They said, ‘Every night there’s illegal camping throughout the Shire, and it impacts on Council resources’.

Stop Adani Bus leaves Jan 19

ƖćōĶĈ ƆĕſưĶĈĕ ĈşſſƖżƐĶşŕ ĈōëĶŔƆ ĲĶƐ ſĕĈşſĎ ŕƖŔćĕſƆ A record number of reports of wrong-doing by NSW public officials or organisations have been recorded for 2019, says independent watchdog, the NSW Ombudsman. Its latest report on the Public Interest Disclosures Act 1994 (the PID Act), claims that ‘a record number of 1,538 reports of wrong-doing by NSW public officials or organisations were made under that Act in 2018–19.’ 422 of these ‘public interest disclosures’ were made to public authorities

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and keys left in the ignition as well,’ the message continued. ‘Lock it or lose it,’ the message concluded. While the flyer stated that it was a warning only, the threat of a fine was not well received by some locals. ‘I want to know what the problem is with leaving a car unlocked?’ one resident asked on the Byron Community Board Facebook page. ‘What’s the law based on? Who’s it protecting? Oh that’s right. Silly me... the insurance companies.’

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Others supported the move. ‘Given the disproportionate number of thefts in Byron Bay of property and vehicles I think it’s great that police are reminding people to lock up,’ another commenter said. Detective Inspector Matthew Kehoe said the strategy had been devised by a Crime Prevention Officer at Tweed Heads following a spike in stealing offences from unlocked cars and properties in Kingscliff and Casuarina.

‘We haven’t seen a spike here, but we have had a number of opportunistic property thefts, and the intention was to get on the front foot with it,’ Inspector Kehoe said. ‘I understand there was some fall-out with people worrying about fines. There were no fines issued. It was just to alert people. ‘In all likelihood we’re not going to go around fining people for keeping their cars unlocked before Christmas. That would not be a very good PR exercise.’

As the fight over Adani continues, a group of locals are organising a chartered bus to bring reinforcements for a week of actions in January. The Byron to Binbee Stop Adani Bus will leave Byron on Sunday January 19 for the Galilee Basin, and return on January 30. The cost is $260 per person. ‘The campaign needs

people power – it’s crunch time,’ says one of those organising the charter, Emma Capp. The protesters will camp for free on a neighbouring property, and pitch in for food, which is shared among the camp. Q Visit the Byron to Binbee Stop Adani Bus Facebook page for more info.

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Byron Shire Council Notices COUNCIL CONTACT DETAILS

DEVELOPMENT CONSENTS

PUBLIC EXHIBITION OF DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS

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

In accordance with Section 4.59 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (as amended), notiﬁcation is hereby given of the following development consents granted by Council. The consents listed are available to view Online at Council’s website www.byron.nsw.gov.au/ﬁnd-a-DA.

ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING & ASSESSMENT ACT, 1979

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

MAKE A SUBMISSION

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 10.2019.471.1 – SUFFOLK PARK, 172 Alcorn Street Demolition and Construction of New Dwelling and Swimming Pool

10.2019.527.1 – MULLUMBIMBY, 4 Jubilee Avenue Alterations and Additions to Existing Community Facility 10.2019.226.1 – BYRON BAY, 29 Carlyle Lane New dwelling House to form a Dual Occupancy and Swimming Pool

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

10.2019.529.1 – OCEAN SHORES. 8 Gira Place Alterations and Additions to Existing Dwelling House

Online:

10.2019.526.1 – MULLUMBIMBY, 19 Dalley Street Double Carport

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

submissions@byron.nsw.gov.au

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

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

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COUNCIL SERVICE CLOSURE NOTICE Byron Shire Council wishes to advise the following service closures across the Christmas and New Year festive period. Please contact our after hours service for any urgent matters on 02 6622 7022 during this time.

COUNCIL OFFICES Closed from 4.30pm Tuesday 24 December 2019 and will re-open 8.30am on Thursday 2 January 2020.

RESOURCE RECOVERY CENTRE CLOSED: Wednesday 25 and Thursday 26 December 2019 Wednesday 1 January 2020 OPEN: Friday 27 December 8.00am to 4.00pm Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 December 8.30am to 11.30am Monday 30 and Tuesday 31 December 8.00am to 4.00pm Thursday 2 January 2020 8.00am to 4.00pm We wish our residents and all visitors to the Shire a safe and enjoyable festive season.

PROPOSED LEASE FOR A PORTION OF PUBLIC ROAD RESERVE ADJOINING 27 MARINE PARADE BYRON BAY (LOT 2 DP 250068) Council proposes to lease 118.9m² of the road reserve to the landowner adjoining 27 Marine Parade Byron Bay for a period of 5 years. In accordance with Section 154 of the Roads 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: 18 December 2019 Submissions close: 20 January 2020 Enquiries: Paula Telford Leasing Coordinator 02 6626 7300 For information on lodging a submission, and where to address it, refer to the “Make a submission” section within Council’s advertising.

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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.

10.2019.474.1 – MULLUMBIMBY, 17 Corella Crescent Dwelling House

Submissions may be made to Council in the following ways: www.byron.nsw.gov.au/Council/Make-a-submission

The following development applications (DA) have been received by Council and require exhibition in accordance with Development Control Plan 2014 (A14). The DAs may be viewed online at Council’s website www.byron.nsw.gov.au/ﬁnd-a-DA or by using the Online Kiosks at Councils Customer Service Centre during normal ofﬁce hours.

10.2019.383.1 – OCEAN SHORES, 13 Palmer Avenue Dwelling House, Workshop and Carport 10.2019.571.1 – OCEAN SHORES, 2 Bulgoon Crescent Secondary Dwelling 10.2019.550.1 – MULLUMBIMBY CREEK, 72 Brushbox Drive Secondary Dwelling 10.2017.464.3 – BANGALOW, 58 Charlotte Street S4.55 for Design Modiﬁcations to Existing Dwelling House 10.2017.676.3 – THE POCKET, 829 The Pocket Road S4.55 to Modify Condition 2 regarding Bushﬁre 10.2015.604.3 – MONTECOLLUM, 1250 Coolamon Scenic Drive S4.55 for Modify Design 10.2015.213.2 – SKINNERS SHOOT, 239 Skinners Shoot S4.55 For Changes to Windows and Addition of Rear Verandah 10.2009.3273.2 – OCEAN SHORES, 115 Balemo Drive S4.55 to Remove Studio

DEFERRED APPROVAL APPLICATIONS 10.2018.489.1 – MULLUMBIMBY, 112 Main Arm Road Use of Shed Conversion to Dwelling 2 of Dual Occupancy (Detached)

COMPLYING DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATES ISSUED SECTION 4.31 EP&A ACT 1979 AND CLAUSE 137 EP&A REGULATIONS 2000 The following complying development certificates may be inspected free of charge at Council’s Customer Service Counter, Station Street, Mullumbimby during normal office hours 8.30am to 4.30pm weekdays, excluding public holidays. The validity of these certificates cannot be questioned in any legal proceeding except those commenced in the Land & Environment Court by any person within 3 months of this notice. 16.2019.114.1 – SUFFOLK PARK, 5 Orchid Place (Lot 12 DP 811498) Awning

HAVE YOUR SAY DRAFT TOWARDS ZERO BYRON SHIRE’S INTEGRATED WASTE MANAGEMENT AND RESOURCE RECOVERY STRATEGY 2019-2029 Council is inviting submissions to our Draft Towards Zero Byron Shire’s Integrated Waste Management and Resource Recovery Strategy 2019-29 (strategy) which is on exhibition from 18 December 2019 – 29 January 2020. The Strategy details four main objectives: 1. Empower the community to increase avoidance, reuse and recycling 2. Optimise and enhance solutions to recover, treat and dispose of residual waste 3. Work with business and the tourism sector to reduce waste to landﬁll and explore circular economy opportunities 4. Support and lobby State and Federal Governments to facilitate change in waste outcomes. How you can be involved: • Take a look at the draft strategy and supporting information at www.byron.nsw.gov.au/Draft_Towards_Zero_Strategy • Make a submission – 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: 29 January 2020 Enquiries: Lucy Wilson 02 6626 7077

EXHIBITION CLOSES 15 JANUARY 2020 10.2019.610.1 – Eureka, 18 Taylors Road (Lot 50 DP 1099747) Byron Bay Planning & Property Consultants, Use of Alterations and Additions to Existing Dwelling House 10.2019.560.1 – Byron Bay, 3/75 Bangalow Road (Lot 3 SP 86774) Ardill Payne & Partners, Stage 1: Use of Alterations and Additions to Existing Dwelling House Stage 2: Alterations and Additions to Existing Dwelling House and Swimming Pool 10.2019.611.1 – Suffolk Park, 43/31 Hayters Drive (Lot 4 DP 271003) Mr B G Gray, Use of Sauna 10.2019.619.1 – Main Arm, 963 Main Arm Road (Lot 1 DP 1079219) Planning Sustainable Solutions, Multiple Occupancy consisting of Twelve (12) Dwelling Sites, Community Facility and Associated Works 10.2019.609.1 – Byron Bay, 10 Banksia Drive (Lot 1 DP 814604) Ingen Consulting Pty Ltd, Change of Use to Establish Place of Public Worship and Alterations and Additions 10.2019.625.1 – Byron Bay, 3/7 Lawson Street (Lot 3 SP 58526) Mr J Hill, Change of Use from Shop to Food and Drink Premises 10.2019.444.1 – New Brighton, 37 Byron Street (Lot 3 DP 869207) Ms K Radmacher, Dwelling House and Swimming Pool

EXHIBITION CLOSES 22 JANUARY 2020 10.2019.631.1 – Coorabell, 15 James View Court (Lot 7 DP 803290) Ms D Wolff-Chambers C/-Balanced Systems Planning Consultants, Tourist and Visitor Accommodation comprising of Six (6) One Bedroom Cabins, Ancillary Community Building and Associated Earthworks, Landscaping and Vegetation Management

EXHIBITION CLOSES 29 JANUARY 2020 10.2019.616.1 – Byron Bay, 137 Jonson Street, 139 Jonson Street, 3 Browning Street (Lot 21 DP 247289, Lot 5 SEC 51 DP 758207, Lot 60 DP 1256365) Mr M Scott, Demolition of Existing Buildings and Construction of Mixed Use Development

PROPOSAL FOR NAMING OF PARKLANDS IN SUFFOLK PARK Council has resolved to support a community initiative to name the parcel of land informally known as the Suffolk Park Recreation Grounds as the Linda Vidler Memorial Park. A tribute to Linda Vidler and the community proposal can be found at this link; https://byron.infocouncil.biz/Open/2019/11/ OC_28112019_AGN_1001.PDF the relevant section will be found at 13.13 (Page 62) A Community Proposal to name land at Suffolk Park as Linda Vidler Memorial Park. For information on lodging a submission, and where to address it, refer to “Make a submission” section within Council’s advertising. Submissions close: January 8 2020 Enquiries: Andy Erskine. 02 6626 7240 or aerskine@byron.nsw.gov.au

POLICY EXHIBITION DRAFT POLICY 5.52 COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES ON COASTAL & RIPARIAN CROWN RESERVES Byron Shire Council resolved (19-582) at its 28 November 2019 meeting to place ‘Draft Policy 5.52 Commercial Activities on Coastal & Riparian Crown Reserves’ on public exhibition for a period of 28 days for the making of public submissions. The draft Policy is available for viewing on Council’s website at: www.byron.nsw.gov.au/public-exhibition Submissions open: 11 December 2019 Submissions close: 13 January 2020 Enquiries: Leasing Coordinator 02 6626 7300 For information on lodging a submission, and where to address it, refer to the “Make a Submission” section within Council’s advertising.

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Targeted, curative radiation ƐĲĕſëżƷ ë ƱşſōĎ Ǖ ſƆƐ A team led by local cancer experts has published a world-first evaluation of a revolutionary radiation therapy treatment that leaves patients cancer-free after two years, say Northern NSW Local Health District (NNSWLHD). Radiation oncologist Associate professor Tom Shakespeare works in Northern and Mid North NSW Coast Local Health Districts, and led the evaluation, which looked at the effectiveness of a new prostate cancer treatment using a new scan to detect tiny deposits of cancer in patients’ lymph nodes. A/Prof Shakespeare says, ‘In the past, men with prostate cancer which had spread to lymph glands were thought to be incurable, but modern advances in radiation therapy and PET scan imaging mean we can now offer targeted, curative radiation therapy. ‘For the first time, men can be treated, with the aim of totally eradicating the prostate cancer within both lymph nodes and the prostate.’ The team have published their findings on the effectiveness of these new treatments in the European journal,

Radiation oncologist Associate Professor Tom Shakespeare. Radiotherapy and Oncology. ‘Nobody has ever published how successful this new PET-guided radiation therapy is, until now,’ A/Prof Shakespeare said.

Cancer-free The evaluation followed the first 46 patients from the Lismore, Port Macquarie and Coffs Harbour areas treated using this new technique, and found that two years following the radiation therapy, all patients were cancer-free. ‘Even though these are early results, the findings are remarkable considering that previously these men would not even have been offered curative treatment. ‘The PET-guided radiation

therapy was also very well tolerated, with few significant side effects, and patients have been very happy with their outcomes.’ This PET-guided radiation therapy is now offered to all men with lymph node positive prostate cancer who are referred to the North Coast Cancer Institute in Lismore and the Mid North Coast Cancer Institute in Coffs Harbour and Port Macquarie. Over 100 men have now been treated using this revolutionary technique. The department say their 2019-20 budget for Northern NSW Local Health District is over $875 million. ‘This is an increase of over $37 million on the 2018-19 budget’.

Something new at Crystal Castle

Crystal Castle have revealed its latest acquisition recently – a huge Uruguayan geode called the Giant Treasure Chest. The outside is natural Jasper that has been polished to reveal beautiful pinks and greens, while inside, the geode is lavender amethyst with huge yellow calcites. The extraordinary and unique formation weighs around 8 tonne (8,000 kilograms) and began to form 120 million years ago. Crystal Castle is located at 81 Monet Dr, Montecollum. Photo Jeff ‘Unique As A Prehistoric Geode’ Dawson

wŕōĶŕĕ ëƖĈƐĶşŕ Īşſ ćƖƆĲǕ ſĕ ĪƖŕĎſëĶƆĕſ While the bushfire fundraiser has sold out (January 8 and 9 at the Beach Hotel), there are still ways to support fire fighters and perhaps score great prizes and services. An online charity auction is open until January 14, and

New boats for Brunswick SLSC!

features goods and services donated by Chris Hemsworth, Elsa Pataky, Ben Quilty, Joel Parkinson, Mick Fanning, Powderfinger, Pat Rafter, Spell & The Gypsy Collective, Stone and Wood and more. Money raised for Make It

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Rain 2020 will go to the NSW RFS Northern Rivers and Far North Coast Brigades, say organisers.

Club president Craig Reid accepting the new Inflatable Rescue Boat from Guy Knox. Story and photo Kathy Bird Brunswick SLSC took delivery of a new Inflatable Rescue Boat (IRB) to replace one of its three ageing boats. Built by Thundercat in the Gold Coast and painted by Signxtreme, it displays the logo of the donor. Bruns SLSC was the recipient of a Qantas Sidebyside grants program (which funds eligible volunteer

organisations that are actively supported by a Qantas employee). Qantas has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to a diverse range of volunteer programs over the years.

Grass roots In accepting the IRB, club president Craig Reid said, ‘Regional grass root community organisations like Brunswick SLSC are

not normally in receipt of National Corporate Charity support. Qantas’s generous donation is a great benefit to our small community’. Nicknamed Pickle Fork, the IRB will be a key asset in saving lives along the extensive patrol area that Bruns’ SLSC is responsible for. Remember, keep you and your family safe on the beach this summer by always swimming between the flags.

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The Byron Shire Echo Volume 34 #29 • December 24, 2019

When political jokes were dangerous

Some bright spark on Twitter, ahem, photoshopped Scott from Marketing alone in a Hawaiian resort last week against the backdrop of most what NSW now looks like. While guffawing at the incompetence of political leaders is perhaps the only way to deal with ones’ own sanity (and their insanity), there were plenty of times throughout history where it would have resulted in being thrown in a labour camp or worse. For example, political satire during Stalin’s reign of the Soviet Union (1918–1920; 1941–1953) wasn’t such a great idea. Jonathan Waterlow wrote about such perils at www.aeon. co and is the author of It’s Only a Joke, Comrade! Humour, Trust and Everyday Life under Stalin (2018). He asks why would ordinary Soviet people share jokes ridiculing their paranoid and brutal leaders if they ran the risk of state security breaking down doors and tearing them away from their families, perhaps never to return? He says despite the risks, it’s a natural response when facing the horrors of tyranny. In this case, communism. From the mid-1930s onwards, he says that the [Stalin] regime came to see political humour as a toxic virus with the potential to spread poison through the arteries of the country. ‘According to a directive issued in March 1935, the telling of political jokes was henceforth to be considered as dangerous as the leaking of state secrets – so dangerous and contagious, in fact, that even court documents shied away from quoting them. Only the most loyal apparatchiks were permitted to know the contents of these thought crimes, and joke-tellers were sometimes prosecuted without their words ever being included in the official trial record’. Laughing at leaders in the darkest of times, as history proves throughout history, will not bring regime change. But as Waterlow points out, it can always change how we feel about our circumstances. And that’s just as good as tending to your own vegetable garden. Hans Lovejoy, editor

cott Morrison is rummaging around in his near-empty presents sack looking for some spare socks and mouldy chocolates, the sleigh is off at the panel beaters in need of drastic repairs, and the reindeer continue to shit on us from a great height. Merry Christmas from ScoMo and his orcish elves. Not even our hyperbolically Panglossian treasurer, the hapless Josh Frydenberg, could really spin last week’s Mid Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook as good news, although of course the spruikers and boosters in the Murdoch media were determined to do so. The government was acting with caution, persistence and stability, they insisted – which is in a sense correct, in that the government continues to do absolutely nothing useful. In fact our hard working leader has gone on holiday to a supposedly secret destination to recharge his marketeering batteries. But in fact the figures are almost entirely negative and the ones that aren’t require heavy qualification. Frydenberg’s line is, as always, that any minor setbacks were the result of economic headwinds for which he is entirely irresponsible, like drought and international trade worries. Leaving aside the dubious claim that there was nothing much his government could do about the drought, the fact is that on balance the Australian economy has benefitted far more from factors beyond Canberra’s control than it has suffered: rather than being buffeted by headwinds, it has been sailing along on a strong tail wind. The most obvious assistance came from the windfall gain in iron ore prices, which is unlikely to persist, and the other helpers were booming population growth and increased government spending from both the commonwealth and the states. But to the extent that Morrison and Frydenberg can claim any credit for the latter, they are, as so often, in denial; they don’t want to talk about population and they continue to maintain the fiction that they are holding government spending down as a matter of deliberate policy – they certainly do not want to admit that it has in fact increased over their years in office. And they certainly will not mention

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the inconvenient truth that private spending, like private investment and private consumption, has gone nowhere – to keep the risk of recession at bay they have had to hand out taxpayers’ loot, relying on ‘bracket creep’ to hold up the rapidly crumbling walls.

Private spending, like private investment and private consumption, has gone nowhere Mungo MacCallum This has allowed them to claim positive growth – downgraded and derisory, but at least a little better than the worst of the worst – and to boast about the extraordinary resilience of the Australian economic miracle which they now, absurdly, celebrate as their own fiscal expertise. The harsh reality, which is becoming dismally apparent even to their most fervent supporters, is that on a per capita basis, living standards are actually declining, and according to all the serious predictions, there is no real prospect of better times for at least a few years to come. Not a lot of tidings of comfort and joy for this festive season. It might not matter so much that the stockings were empty if the decorations were a bit more cheerful; but not even the tinsel and the goblin balls provided much relief. Morrison likes to tell his silenced Australians that it is all about the economy, stupid – everything flows from that. But this neo-Marxist view is belied by the other problems he is being forced to deal with – or perhaps not, as the last days of 2019 close in on him. The reactionary theocrats of his parliamentary rump continue to demand more discrimination to stoke their religious dominance and our Pentecostalist Prime Minister is happy to oblige – if he could only work out a way of doing so without tearing the country apart to promote a lawyer’s bonanza in toxic division. This will be not only a major distraction in the months ahead, but another indication that the leader’s

knee jerk style of decision making is, as Anthony Albanese and his colleagues are increasingly keen to point out, both ineffectual and reckless. The ongoing argument over what, if anything, needs to be done about the long-going promise to implement some form of constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians in the current term will have to be resolved. And of course the culture wars, particularly those over gender issues, will continue unabated. But the big one remains climate change. and on this burning (literally) issue ScoMo, or SmoKo, as he is now better known, seems to have completely given up. As the records tumble across the continent and the fires become ever more threatening, as the drought gets to the stage where towns are running out of drinking water and the agricultural sector is driven to the wall, as the Great Barrier Reef and the coastlines face imminent destruction, Morrison remains unmoved. And his dwindling rearguard of denialists seem not only completely out of touch, but manifestly absurd. They are now resorting to lines about how they once heard a story that it was very hot in Walgett one day in 1937, which clearly proves that climate change is a vicious conspiratorial fiction aimed at establishing a one world socialist dictatorship. And Morrison’s response? Don’t you worry about that. The climate may have changed, but the government is standing firm. We will meet our obligations in a canter, our emissions are going down. Well actually they’re not, even with all the spin Morrison’s whirling dervishes can muster. The year’s most embarrassing politician, Angus Taylor has just returned from Madrid to work his accounting trickery, but even that will not save his already inadequate predictions, let alone the grim reality. Which is to be placed on hold, certainly for the holiday season and preferably a long way beyond that. It was the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, and especially not our prime minister. So a Crappy Hissmas to all.

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from surveys during 1996 to 2003 were used to estimate species and ecology for biobanking credits. The requirement for Council to proceed with caution, owing to the legal status of the Mitchell’s Rainforest Snail and the other 10 Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act matters – of national environmental significance – as notified by the federal DoE (Department of Environment) on 2 November 2015, is unchanged by the opinions or educated guess of their newly found snail expert (Echo 4 December). Greg Davies Byron Bay

How can ScoMo relax on a beach in Hawaii when his country is burning and all the people that voted for him are fighting to save their homes? And how could he stand in a multi-million dollar Hillsong church in New York praising God when his country is burning? How can people around him justify his behaviour? These are signs of a very misguided mind and heart. I don’t know one Australian that is happy about this, not even the ones who voted for him. Trump has just been impeached, what fate for ScoMo? Gabi Giacomin Ocean Shores

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rison. Keep fiddling while Australia burns. History will remember you. Harald Ehrlich Balmain

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I’m perplexed as to why The Echo states at the bottom of the letters page that (in bold type) ‘Letters more than 200 words may be cut’. The majority in every edition are well over the prescribed maximum. Especially from one favoured writer. How about you put one Mr Buck$ on to staff. Might save space for other concerned residents.Peace, love and fairness man. John Donnellan Ocean Shores

Resting places The article (Echo, December 4) concerning the possible establishment of a natural burial ground in the Shire made me think of how I dealt with the body of my mother after her passing. While a natural burial ground might be appealing; for me having my mother’s ashes placed in a special little garden next to the small pond on our property, and planting a miniature white rose bush on top of those ashes, was by far the best choice for me. Mother’s final resting place is in a place she loved and in clear sight of the house; and the little white rose bush continues to bloom. Of course this means that unless one has a large acreage and is able to bury the body, cremation is required. The intense heat of a cremation is not so

environmentally friendly, but the body did go into the fire in a cardboard coffin and it means so much to have her near, not placed with a group of strangers. I know it’s what she wanted. The entire process of having her body collected, stored in the undertaker’s morgue, the cremation and the delivery of the ashes to my home address within a couple of weeks cost me less than $2,000. Bronwyn Sindel Mullumbimby

EſĕĕŕǼ ƐĲĕ ŕĕƱ ōëĈŊ They say hindsight is 20/20 but in the year of 2020 there is no time for doing it the wrong way. These old white men should not be able to get away with their negligence and denial of climate change and other necessary changes regarding energy and how we interact with Mother Earth. Why aren’t these self-serving, power hungry narcissists being held accountable for their lack of action that is affecting the health of the planet and all the life forms who inhabit it? It’s good news about Finland’s new prime minister; 34 year-old, social democrat, and female, Sanna Marin. And the fact that all her leadership team are women. Can’t wait to see what they come up with. New Zealand got it right with Jacinda Ardern who manages to balance political strength and being a feminine breast feeding mother.

How are we feeling about Australia’s world political face currently? I’m afraid we’ve become a laughing stock. Last Saturday some Seventh Day Adventists knocked on my door. I have recently moved and have not had time to put up all my Buddha’s which normally repels them. After I told them I found it rude that strangers knocked on my door in my private time to try and persuade me to believe in what they believe in they replied that they were telling people ‘there’s a change coming!’ I said ‘that’s obvious and the change that is coming is matriarchal rule. Women are smarter, can see the bigger picture, are not afraid of change and really care about the future generations.’ In this new decade, with much of the world being held back by conservative politicians only interested in money, money, money, it is up to the people to make change. In the meantime what can you do? Plant trees! Green is the new black. Magenta Appel-Pye Mullumbimby

'ſƷĶŕī ƖƆƐſëōĶë Could it be there are clearly identified man-made causes for the drought and fires? This video exposes the sale of water to corporations, stored in corporate dams, resulting in the eradication of the Murray River (https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=CokfPuU3SDI). This video shows satellite images of extensive regions

of remote Australia scarred by fracking which takes billions of litres of water to conduct (https://larryhannigan.com/australia/62-whatshappeningdec-2019/). Australia’s water systems and aquifers are being diverted and dried up on a vast scale. No wonder we are suffering heat waves, drought and fires. Government policy to reassign Australia’s water for corporate use needs urgent investigation and exposure. Neal Bowhay Myocum

0ĈşōşīƷ ćƷżëƆƆĕĎ Council decision makers are responsible for the pause in the construction of the Byron bypass Stage 2 (Burns Street to Browning Street crossing), with continued traffic delays and project costs. Jan Barham and MP

Tamara Smith deserve species and biodiversity awards. Council and January 2016 EIS (environmental impact statement) author GHD, reported on the projected impacts as was lawfully required but I believe they then understated and dismissed their significance in assessment. Obligation, rebellion. One pilar of deceit was to underestimate the project footprint. Of the 6ha (500m x 120m) Stage 2 site, from the railway line to the western edge of Butler Street, only the 1.44ha of native vegetation to be bulldozed (30m wide new road plus 5m buffer) was used to calculate the biobanking credits. A second pillar of deceit was to report a science based field survey without evidence of the results (EIS p95). Only minimised out of date data

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I heard that on the Mullumbytes Facebook page last week there were a couple of posts and many comments about the ‘Mullumbimby rain dance’. I didn’t get to see these as they were deleted by admin. I would ask that admin leave these posts up and just delete the comments that contravene the page rules. Australians are, in general, unversed, unaccustomed and inexperienced in having any conversations about racism or cultural appropriation and the nuances and manifestations of that in our community. These posts on social media are an opportunity to express and learn about different perspectives, especially from those who are not represented in the mainstream majority. In this case, a mainly white migrant group failed to understand, and attacked the viewpoint of a First Nation’s woman who was ▶ Continued on page 14

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Pal Benko died in 2019, the Hungarian-US legend known not only for his cross-board achievements and his well-planned escape from Hungary to the West, but also his longevity and creativity as a chess problem composer. In July two chessplayers, Gary Quillan and Simon ‘Ginger GM’ Williams, found themselves on the front page of the London Times thanks to their involvement in, and promotion of, a dodgy ‘pension liberation’ scheme which turned out to be not as tax-free as advertised. Q The best finish of the year came in October at the World U/18 Girls Championship in Mumbai. On her way to winning the title, Russian Polina Shuvalova (White against compatriot Anna Afonasieva) ended the game in spectacular fashion with 31.Rxg7!! Bxg7 32.Qxh7+!! Afonasieva resigned one move before checkmate after 32...Kxh7 33.f6+ Kh6 34.Be3+ Kh5 35.Bf3+ Kh4 36.Bf2+ 1-0

2019 was the year when Magnus Carlsen reasserted his dominance of the chess world, winning six consecutive classical tournaments and equalling his own record rating. Carlsen’s sole blemish came in losing two playoffs late in the year, after a ten-year run winning every tiebreaker he had played. Although Carlsen’s 2018 world title challenger Fabiano Caruana remained world number two, it was China’s Ding Liren who established himself as the person most likely to dethrone Carlsen. Ding won the last two super-tournaments of the year: beating Carlsen in a playoff to win the Sinquefield Cup in Saint Louis and then taking out the London Classic earlier this month. 2019 also featured a major cheating scandal, with Latvian Grandmaster Igors Rausis photographed during a tournament in France using a mobile phone in a toilet cubicle. The photograph was apparently taken by a group of players upset that no action was being taken against the 55-year-old despite him winning tournaments in France and Italy with massive scores, enough to push him into the top 50. Rausis was ultimately banned by the world body FIDE for six years and stripped of his GM title, having confessed only to a limited number of infringements. Shuvalova (White) to move and win

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et ready, the swarms are coming! Swarms of drones that is – and like it or not, they’re already an increasingly essential part of life. Drones, aka UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) aka RPAs (Remote Piloted Aircraft) were originally designed for battle. Their earliest recorded use was in 1849 when Austrian forces unleashed 200 incendiary hot air balloons to attack Venice – but the wind changed, blowing most of the balloons back to drop their bombs on the Austrians. The Wright Brothers made the first powered flight in 1903 ushering in the era of aviation. Suddenly pilots were pioneering heroes and the idea of remotely piloted aircraft was on hold. The 1930s saw the invention of radio-controlled model planes that could fly out of sight of the pilot – the first powered drones – but they remained children’s toys and the pursuit of hobbyists. In WW2 the Nazis invented the V1 rockets; and while technically drones, they weren’t radio-controlled. It wasn’t until 1946 the US successfully transformed B17 bombers into radio-controlled drones for collecting data during the Bikini Atoll nuclear tests – but they were very specialised, and very expensive. The 1962 Cold War shooting down of Gary Powers in his U-2 spy-plane over the

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USSR triggered the start of America’s secret drone development program. Over the next two decades US designed drones were used in Vietnam and Middle-east conflicts and for secret surveillance across the world. Osama Bin Laden was stalked by a US Stealth drone prior to his assassination. While US military drones remain extremely effective, these large fixed wing aircraft are expensive to manufacture and operate.

Who’s a pretty boy? Everything changed in 2010 when pioneering French company Parrot introduced the world’s first small multi-rotor consumer camera-drone; but the Parrot didn’t live up to expectations with battery problems and a poor quality camera. While Parrot foundered, the invention of lithium polymer (LI-Po) batteries was the game-changer for a Chinese engineering student Wang Tao (aka Frank Wang). Wang Tao, who had quietly founded the DJI company in his dorm room in 2006,

revolutionised drone design with a rechargeable electricpowered multi-rotor aircraft, responsive wi-fi control, GPS navigation, and a great camera. Coupled with a sleek design, his drones were smarter, affordable and user friendly. In 2013 DJI launched the wildly successful Phantom 1 fitted with a Go-Pro camera. Six years later DJI is the world’s leading consumer drone manufacturer, producing over 70 per cent of the world’s civilian (and many military) drones – and Mr Wang is personally worth US$4.8 billion – and the market is predicted to boom exponentially.

The drone wave This is a significant moment in history. Like the advent of the automobile and powered flight, the world is riding the crest of a drone wave, with technology developing faster than legislators can keep up. Don’t be deceived – drones may be small, but they are smart flying robots, not toys. A drone shares the

skies with all other aircraft – including passenger planes. While there have been minor incidents involving drones and many near misses, as yet there have been no major air disasters or fatalities (ignoring the casualties of US military drone operations) – but it’s only a matter of time. Because no-one knows how many drones are in Australia or who’s flying them, the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) is developing tough new laws to register all the nation’s drones and certify all drone pilots, to be implemented in 2020. With the development of Artificial Intelligence apps, drones are becoming increasingly sophisticated – autonomous flying taxis, swarms of agricultural UAVs managing broad-acre crops, filming Hollywood movies, meticulous mapping and surveying applications, emergency search and rescue etc; the list is growing almost daily. One thing is certain – China is leading the world in the development and implementation of drone technology. The details of every DJI drone flight across the planet is recorded online and stored by the company in China. Wollongbar TAFE is NSW’s only TAFE offering a Remote Pilot Licence (RePL), the official CASA drone pilot accreditation. This is a unique opportunity to get qualified for the jobs of tomorrow in the brave new world of flying robots – and avoid the rush!

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angry and trying to talk about racism and cultural appropriation in the community. A lot of time and emotional labour goes into the comment threads, and this all goes to waste when the whole post gets deleted. From my point of view, as a woman of colour, we also lose the opportunity to see who the people are that are blatantly racist; those who use hate speech to shut conversation down, those who are trying to understand more, and those who are educators and allies. This is important information and it is all lost once the post has gone. We need to practise having difficult conversations and listening to viewpoints that radically differ from our own. Those that resort to personal attacks and racist (or any) hate speech should have their individual comments heavily censored and be banned from being a member of the group so that the rest of us can speak up, be heard, and gain experience from a healthy discussion. It is one way to begin to learn new and more inclusive perspectives and to be better allies to First Nation’s people. Vashti Easton Wright Byron Bay

We are holidaying at Suffolk Park and last night we thought we would enjoy a walk down to the beach in the evening. On our short walk my husband squashed twelve cane toads. We are going to do the walk every evening. If there was a bounty on Cane Toads I could pay for my holiday three times over. Lesley Dacey Long Jetty

This is a lot better than having to clean out your gutter on a regular basis. If it is your house, you will be aware of this and can sweep it off if you are threatened by bushfire. I am in no way commercially associated with this mesh, only interested in correct dissemination of information and hopefully saving someone’s house. David Warren Goonegerry

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In reply to David Gillet. Yes, it is a 2mm metal mesh manufactured for the specific purpose of preventing embers blowing under the roof and behind the gutter. When it is installed it should go over the roof and be screwed down to form the roof shape in the corrugations, that way no embers will enter, which is its purpose. My experience as a builder for forty years can tell you that what you have seen is an incorrect installation of the mesh. It may be true that some debris will accumulate over the mesh but you will find the roof pitch where this occurs is very flat. When a breeze occurs, this debris should blow away.

Ah, nothing like a conspiracy theory to get The Echo juices flowing. If you believe certain correspondents it appears local councillors are a bunch of illiterate nut jobs drinking way too much kool aid supplied courtesy of the executive staff. While this may be an entertaining image, it is simply wrong. A case in point: The majority of councillors supported the approval and construction of the Byron Bay bypass in full knowledge of the facts. Yes, it goes through a wetland, that is why the project required a development application to be submitted. Yes, there is an endangered snail present in the

area, that is why it required offset credits through a biobanking arrangement. Yes, the project requires land fill because it was going through a wetland. The uncomplicated fact is that councillors voted to support the bypass because of the growing traffic congestion when trying to get into and through Byron Bay. This position was ultimately supported by Labor, Greens and Nationals on council as the alternative of using the transport corridor, was rejected. To argue to do nothing or block this from happening would be a complete failure of our local government body to fulfil its legislated role. Documents relating to the Byron Bay bypass are available on council’s website: https://www.byron.nsw.gov. au/Services/Major-projects/ Byron-Bay-Bypass Have a good end of 2019 and may we all travel better in 2020! Cr Paul Spooner Byron Shire Council

Palestine It is so important that the public get a chance to hear the truth from those of us who deeply care for the Palestinian people and who

have had first hand experience of seeing the military occupation. I was in Palestine/Israel in 2016 and witnessed for myself the drastic impact of the occupation on the daily lives of Palestinians. I have read all the arguments of those in our community, but I believe that it is an indisputable fact that Israel’s long term plan is to expand its territory to what it believes were its Old Testament Biblical boundaries. I believe there never has been a serious plan for a two state solution, but a smokescreen to hide creeping annexation of Palestinian land in the West Bank and Jordan Valley. Leonie de Dreux-Crawford Mullumbimby

Call to action What is it about these Rhode scholars? What planet do they inhabit? The recent attack by Rhodes scholar Angus Taylor on feminist writer Naomi Wolf and Clover Moore, Mayor of Sydney, has more than a whiff of delusion emanating from his toxic gripe! However, my memory was prompted by Naomi’s remarkable book The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot. Naomi warns

of the threat to democracy and the parallel steps taken by dictatorial countries such as Germany, Russia, China and Chile to achieve totalitarian regimes. Resonances abound in this book as we in Australia query climate change, social action and the lack of political transparency in Pastor Morrison’s homoeconomicus government. It’s Heaven for him and Hell for the governed. This book is a must read for any activist. Jo Faith Newtown

On the art of art Dev Lengiel states (Echo, December 11) regarding the ‘Disco Dong’ scenario, that this issue involved cyberstalking that was abusive, invasive and aroused threatening behaviour and negativity and did not reflect well on Byron’s reputation as a ‘spiritual’ community and that ‘we as a community need to do better’ etc. However, Mr Lengiel may not have given much scrutiny and possibly not looked very deeply into this issue that supposedly raised such ‘negativity’. Just to remind Mr L of a few salient facts... the choice of this image/structure was ▶ Continued on page 16

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When the river runs dry – civilisations have ended Story & image David Lowe

while ago my creek stopped running. Well, it’s not really my creek, any more than the inland waterways belong to the cotton irrigators, but it’s hard not to feel a bit proprietorial about a place you visit almost every day, year after year. If you’ve been to the Channon Craft Market, you might have noticed the mural on the toilet block at Coronation Park showing all the creeks converging nearby, before they flow, as one, down to Lismore. This water eventually finds the sea at Ballina. Tuntable Creek is one of those streams, winding its way along the Tuntable Valley from near the community of the same name, where it falls over an escarpment in the Nightcap National Park. Along with humans and their animals, the creek supports all kinds of life; water dragons, turtles, eels, water birds, platypus, bullrouts (so I’m told) and friendlier fish, as well as countless other living things. The biodiversity

a few metres from its banks is exponentially higher than the surrounding country.

Wild to dry After Cyclone Debbie, Tuntable Creek became so wild and uncontrollable it swept horses away. Now it has contracted to a series of pools connected by a path of beautiful but strangely dry rocks. Living up the hill with rainwater tanks, I don’t use the water from the creek for anything practical, but I’ve come to realise that spiritually I do rely on it, a great deal. When the creek stopped flowing it was a shock on multiple levels. I didn’t think it could happen. During the last major drought, the creek never stopped. People who have been in the district a lot longer than me can’t remember seeing it dry, or even hearing that it had ever gone dry. There’s a scary word for this, and it’s a word we keep hearing as the climate crisis worsens – unprecedented. The fires may be getting the headlines, but they’re only a symptom of the greater catastrophe.

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The recent rains, though very welcome, have done little to bring life back to the creek. The country is just too parched. And this is just one of many waterways across the Northern Rivers that have dried up. Spring-fed flows like Minyon Falls and Wilsons Creek have also stopped running.

Farmers walk away Even major rivers have been drastically affected above their tidal reaches; the Macleay, Manning, and Clarence. Over the border, the Nerang is in the same situation. The Tweed is only flowing at Uki because it’s being supplemented by dam water. The Bellinger has never been so low. Without functional springs, or water in their dams, some farmers between Kyogle and Nimbin have had to stop growing food and walk away. Cattle are starving.

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made completely behind closed doors by an unelected panel of in-house consultants. The community were hardly consulted. There was barely any time given to public viewing or consideration. The process was extremely rushed. There were no proper engineering report on whether the sculpture was either safe or stable to erect at such a busy roundabout. The medium used was largely mill-aluminium which would have corroded and perished in a very short period of time in Byron’s salt air. The structure itself was a 40 foot high alien monstrosity that overwhelmed and confused the vast majority of people. It cost a huge amount of money, when

And it’s not just the Northern Rivers. There are stories about waterways drying up with catastrophic effects in other traditionally wet parts of NSW, such as Gloucester and the Shoalhaven. Greater Sydney’s dam levels are at 44 per cent. This is something we’ve become accustomed to out west, beyond the Dividing Range. Images of dying fish and blue-green algae poisoned outback rivers have become commonplace, to the point where even ‘creek’ is too grand a name for many of these once-glorious western arteries.

Follow the money But now it’s our creeks on the chopping block. And as the water crisis deepens, the water-miners are extending their grip, with only community members standing in their way. There are stories of water bottling trucks continuing to ship water out while people were driving across pot-holed roads close to the ‘sculpture’ site. A proper engineering report wasn’t done until after the structure had already been erected. Large sums of money were spent and serious questions were being asked after the event about the whole process of its installation. The Council then voted unanimously to swiftly to remove it. Yes, it was an event alright, but not the kind of outcome the Council envisaged. Mr L, please look a little more deeply at the context of this whole issue and do not so easily fall into the trap of blaming the community for the incompetent disconnect of Council’s behaviour. Liz Friend Ocean Shores

fire trucks race the other way with lights and sirens. This drought is particularly hard to process in the Northern Rivers because one of the main reasons people came from all over the world to live here was the water. In a dry and uncertain continent, this corner of New South Wales has always been a comparative oasis. Floods are a much more common problem than droughts. But drought is a silent and less spectacular killer. Beyond this continent, lack of water is the reason many civilisations have collapsed, with examples including the Old Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, the Mayans, the Tang Dynasty, the Anasazi culture of North America, and the Khmer empire (who had drought as well as monsoons to contend with, sound familiar?) Drought tore apart the Ming Dynasty in the fifteenth century and Syria in the twenty

Surcharge Tony Duff wrote (Letters, December 11) about a surcharge applied on his credit card for the purchase of coffee. The excessive payment surcharge ban was brought in by the ACCC on the 31 August 2017. This was for every business charging excessive surcharges for certain types of EFTPOS, Mastercard, Visa and AMEX cards to make payments. The excessive surcharging ban has applied to large businesses since September last year. The good news for customers is that businesses can now only surcharge what it actually costs them to process card payments, including bank fees and terminal costs. The surcharge must be set at the level of the lowest

first century. It was a major factor in Western Sudan’s Darfur conflict. Now climate change is leading to worse droughts in more places, along with other extremes unfriendly to life. Maybe the stopped creek is temporary? Maybe someone is pumping upstream to replace water lost in firefighting? Maybe the pools will link up again? Maybe the floods will return? Who knows. But hope may not be enough, and if things continue like this, the Northern Rivers will need a new name. Seven years ago, at Coronation Park in the Channon, a child dressed in flowing blue ran along a path strewn with fragments of blue paper in gentle rain as her community looked on. The path she travelled represented Tuntable Creek. She met other running kids representing other creeks, threatened as they were then by the encroaching CSG industry. The gas threat may have left these valleys for now, but a changing climate and the burgeoning water mining industry may be more insidious threats. The creatures that live in Tuntable Creek are trapped in a series of ponds, each of which is steadily shrinking. Whatever happens to them, will happen to us, in time. ‘Water is life’ is not just a slogan. When we see a dry creek, we need to pay attention to what nature is saying. Because nature tells the truth. cost method, not an average. For example, if a business’s cost of acceptance for a Visa Debit card is one per cent, for Visa Credit is 1.5 per cent, and for AMEX is 2.5 per cent, the surcharge would be 1 per cent as that is the lowest of all payment methods. My advice for anyone would be to contact the ACCC and lodge a complaint about anyone charging excessive card fees. Mr D Haydock Suffolk Park Q The Beach Hotel has clarified that they don’t have any credit card surcharges in the hotel, however, they do have a Sunday surcharge in line with most hospitality venues which is to cover higher wages on Sundays.

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The meme of obedience in the modern world Juliette Fredonnet It is the duty of every police officer to submit to the authority of the state and wilfully follow its orders. In his essay Politics as a Vocation (1919) Max Weber defined the state as an organisation that holds the exclusive right to legitimately use, threaten or authorize force against the residents of its territory. Many people believe that the cohesiveness of our society relies on the enforcement of the law and that it is the duty of a police officer to serve and protect the community.

Exercise of conscience However, serving and protecting are duties of care. They require one to wilfully exercise their conscience. In order to be able to help someone, we must understand their situation and feel into what they need, so we know what is right for them. We have to exercise our judgment and take responsibility for acting upon it. For example, should a person need to drive away from their home because of some natural disaster, with their family, their pets and all their belongings, then a police officer, critical of the manner in which the vehicle was loaded, might choose to help these people to make the load more secure, rather than giving them a fine. But in order to apply the law, a police officer must relinquish their moral conscience, as it is irrelevant. A law, or an order, might be completely unfair and might have disastrous consequences for someone’s day or even life when applied; but those who follow orders must do their job. If the duty of a police officer is simply to follow orders without making use of their own judgement of what is right and wrong, it is incoherent that a police officer could possibly truly serve and protect other citizens. The police solely protect the state and its laws.

Placard quoting Dr Seuss’s The Lorax, at the People’s Climate March 2017 in Washington DC. Photo Dcpeopleandeventsof2017 Through abdicating one’s personal responsibility and blindly following and executing orders through the use of violence or the threat of it (and let’s be clear here, taking a large amount of money from someone against their will is a form of violence), the police, as well as the military, are responsible for the continuation of violence and injustice in our society. Without order followers, an unfair law or order is null. We have been taught to believe that law enforcement and obedience are the only ways to preserve order and peace in our society. But back in my home country, France, I remember learning in high school that, in the face of a corrupt government, civil disobedience is the duty of every citizen, in order to protect our country against fascism and abuses of power. Coming from a culture that prides itself of its ability to say ‘No’ to injustice as a people, I was surprised to hear some members of the Australian government talking about protesting and civil disobedience as being ‘antidemocratic’.

Civil disobedience the responsibility of citizens I believe that democracy depends on people speaking out and doing the right thing in a time of great inequality and injustice.

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And I’ll go as far as saying that civil disobedience is actually required to maintain a democracy. And don’t get me wrong. I am not promoting violence. I am promoting justice and compassion. I’d assume most people would want to be in the police force or the military to make the world a better place. After all, we need support to be protected against violence and crime. But institutions tend to be corrupt and only serve and protect their own interests. These days you can get a huge fine for trivial matters. In NSW a toot of the horn and a wave goodbye out the window as you drive away could cost you almost $600, and three demerit points. After all, making more laws to break is good for (state) business! I’m not encouraging anyone to throw the baby out with the bath water, as some laws are right and just. But solely following orders, with no consideration for the unique circumstances at play, or the impact that following an order will have on an individual, a people or even the environment, is morally questionable.

No intrinsic virtue And in a true democracy, it is our duty as citizens (civilians or not) to take responsibility to keep our lawmakers in check in order to protect our rights, our freedom, our environment and our dignity. Acting upon and standing up for what is right, rather than what is lawful, requires the freedom to exercise one’s own moral conscience. Only then can we fight the rampant corruption and cruelty that dwells in the higher realms of politics, business and finance to truly serve and protect our democracy. In the end, we all need to be extremely courageous and stop blindly following the gospel of the orders given. Blind obedience is the cause of the violence of our times.

Music makes me... To all the lucky people who were at the Brewery for the Animals gig last week, good on you. It was such a joy to look around and see everyone enjoying themselves with big smiles on their faces, while dancing and singing along in the choruses to such timeless music. I was on cloud nine, with plenty of room to dance, just like in Newcastle City Hall, North East England, back in 1964 when I was 15. The night was made all the more special for my partner and I, having a good chat with Mick Gallagher. He’s a long time keyboard player, with a CV that includes The Clash, The Eurythmics, and Blockheads, who kindly put us on the guest list, which allowed us to pass on our pre-purchased tickets to two

happy punters, cheap (with Mick’s approval). It’s good to share one’s fortune with other rockers. See you on the dance floor Gayle. The sound was superb. The band were in top form. Danny Handley, lead vocals and guitar, had the whole joint reelin’ and a rockin’, with his fun rapport with the audience. While original Animal John Steel (drums) and bass player Roberto Ruiz held the whole thing together, giving Mick lots of space for his keyboard wizardry. What would we do in this crazy mixed up world, without music and dance! Thanks to the Brewery for having us. ‘Be glad be glad for the song has no ending’. Mick Stacey Ballina

Another step toward a nuclear arms race John Hallam As the US launches a second Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty-busting missile from Vandenberg Air-Force Base in California, the world has taken another step toward a nuclear arms race. This will involve the US, Russia and potentially China, and takes us another step away from ‘strategic stability’ and thus, toward an increased risk of nuclear war. The latest test, far from making the US or the world as a whole safer, increases competition in missiles and missile systems between the US and Russia, and between the US and China. With the impending demise of the New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty), there will come a time when there are no treaty restraints between the US and Russia. That is unless the New START is extended a further five years while a replacement treaty is negotiated. Without a treaty in place it could lead to (or at least allow) unbridled competition in nuclear delivery systems and nuclear weapons between the US and Russia; a position the world has not been in since the early 1970s.

If the fingers of the Doomsday Clock could be moved further toward midnight no doubt they would be. As it is, at two minutes to figurative ‘midnight’ (the end of civilization), there really is no place for the doomsday clock fingers to go. We are literally and figuratively running out of time. What is needed is: A recognition that a nuclear war cannot be won and must therefore never be fought. Commonsense risk reduction measures such as No First Use, de-alerting, improved or resumed milto-mil communications, and the implementation of the data exchange facility agreed upon back in 1998. Extension of the New START Treaty by five years as urged by Vladimir Putin recently. The elimination of nuclear weapons and universal signatures to and ratification of the TPNW (Ban treaty), in particular by the nuclear weapon owning states. Absent all or some of these, not at all radical measures, and the world risks sleepwalking, into WW III as it did into WW I in 1914. All the indicators are that we are doing just that.

It changes sex and scales waterfalls… An unusual species of shrimp found in north Queensland, which scales 100-metre high waterfalls, changes sex, and uses nets on its front legs to eat. A distinctive feature of the shrimp, Australatya hawkei, are the small ‘nets’ on its front legs used to catch plankton to eat. Because dirty water blocks up the ‘nets’, the shrimp are only found in places with clean water. Dr Ben Mos, a marine biologist based at Southern Cross University’s National Marine Science Centre in Coffs Harbour NSW investigated the shrimp’s complex lifecycle as part of the project. ‘By understanding the lifecycles of freshwater animals like shrimp, we are learning more about the ways in which land and freshwater ecosystems are connected with the oceans,’ Dr Mos said. The shrimp start life as males and switch sex when they are about half-grown.

Females carry their eggs under their abdomen until the eggs hatch as tiny larvae that are likely carried all the way to the sea. Eventually juveniles return to freshwater streams high in the mountains. Large waterfalls are just one of many obstacles that must be overcome as the shrimp return. ‘This species of shrimp climb out of the water to scale 100 metre high cliffs beside waterfalls. It’s an amazing feat for an animal that normally lives in water,’ Dr Mos said. The researchers found this shrimp is closely related to another ‘filter-feeding’ shrimp first described almost 100 years ago. The new species was probably overlooked until now because the two species look very similar.

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Brain dissection for everyone David Lovejoy

s I contemplate my seventy-fifth Christmas through the bottom of a glass, I realise that I still have no idea how my mind works. Or if it is ‘my’ mind. Or even if there is such a thing as ‘mind’. You would think there’s been enough time to have established some elements of self-knowledge by now. But observing yourself is like picking up water with your fingers. Meditation and certain drugs can slow you down enough to give the insight, or perhaps illusion, that thought and personality are separate, but what then?

The greatest illusion Neuroscientists discovered years ago that a third of a second before we consciously decide on a bodily movement, the appropriate neurons controlling that movement fire in our brains. That fraction of a second is a long time, given the speed of nerve messages. I remember that this finding gave rise to a philosophy of resolute determinism among those scientists

who liked to consider themselves tough minded. An objective fact trumps a subjective one every time, so our subjective experience of being conscious entities, free to choose our actions, must be an illusion when set against the cold objective truth of the brain scan. However grand and convincing the illusion, free will – consciousness itself – is just a chemical phantom in the predetermined lurching of our zombie bodies. Even the evangelical atheists at the end of the last century found it hard to cope with that bleak prospect, so they found a way to tip-toe past the short-lived resurrection of determinism. Subjectivity may not be a proper part of the scientific method, but subjectivity itself is a recognised phenomenon; its existence is an objective fact to be examined. And if it exists, then we are (in some sense) free. Perhaps all our thinking processes are based on illusion, but that doesn’t clarify anything, does it? We cannot prove that the universe is not a computer simulation, but most of us don’t obsess over the possibility.

I haven’t kept up with the subject, so perhaps all is now explained – but those threehundred milliseconds between my neurons lighting up, and my decision to scratch my nose, still intrigue me. Does this delay between signal and thought actually hint that the universe is not just matter? Surely a thorough-going materialism would have our brain activity and our thoughts perfectly in sync?

What’s your vibe? Whatever flirtations I may have had with other realities, I have always found that strict materialism explains more than any other system. And yet… Those ‘vibes’ we used to feel in the sixties were easy enough to ascribe to unconsciously read body language and non-verbal cues, but can we really account for all atmospherics so glibly? Sometimes sensitive and perfectly sane people detect something invisible in external reality that they can be certain they are not projecting. If it’s a wave or a field, science only recognises the electro-magnetic; if it’s

Hippos: drones keep researchers safe Aslan Shand The old adage is to never get between a hippo and the water. While hippos don’t set out to hunt humans they are well known to be aggressive if humans get in their way. A new UNSW study has shown the effectiveness of using drones to film hippos in Africa and is a welcome relief for those scientists still keen to study this large, water loving animal. ‘Wild numbers of the vulnerable Hippopotamus amphibius are declining because of habitat loss and hunting for meat and ivory, so monitoring their population is crucial for conservation management,’ said researchers in a recent press release. Lead author of the study Victoria Inman, a PhD candidate at UNSW Science explaines that, ‘Even though hippos are a charismatic megafauna, they are surprisingly understudied, because of how difficult it is to work with nocturnal, amphibious and aggressive animals’. Traditional methods of counting hippos include unreliable aerial surveys and hazardous land and

a force it can only be one of the four known forces. But if it is something that only a finely tuned human nervous system can perceive, we prejudge the case by insisting that everything must fit one of our existing categories. By definition something that isn’t in the electro-magnetic spectrum won’t show up in your electro-magnetic wave detecting instruments. At which point I have always given up, because the likelihood of a ‘psi-wave’ existing, for example, is much smaller than the likelihood of my not being able to think straight. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, as the saying goes, and if a claim threatens to upset the scientific establishment, it needs truckloads of evidence. And yet… if you press on hard enough through the scientific press, as for example Will Storr does in The Heretics (Picador, 2013: references to page 325), you find that all those experiments in the twentieth century to see if people could correctly read blind cards, above the level of chance, produced an extraordinary amount of evidence.

‘Where oh where has that glass go to?’ Photo Felicity Gaze The extra-sensory perception experiments were abandoned in universities years ago, not because they yielded the sceptic’s expected negative answer, but because there was a slight but significant variation from chance results. There is statistical proof that people can read the standard test cards without seeing them, proof which has been replicated many times. So tests for ESP yield positive results overall, but there has been no widespread acknowledgement of the

fact, and there has been no follow up research. I can guess why; firstly, the statistics give no handle for framing further experiments; they just exist, embarrassing and anomalous, hinting that we know less than we think. Secondly, until there’s an answer to firstly, any scientist who takes up this question is sabotaging their own career. So, like everyone else I don’t know my own mind. But I’ve just noticed my brain has decided to have another beer. Happy Christmas.

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water surveys. Ground-based observations are unsafe for surveyors because the hippo is one of the most dangerous animals in Africa and lives in inaccessible areas. Hippos also prefer an aquatic lifestyle and regularly submerge themselves in water, further complicating efforts to keep an eye on their population. These challenges inspired UNSW researchers, in collaboration with conservation organisation Elephants Without Borders, to take to the skies with drones to film hippo pods and thus, more accurately estimate hippo numbers. ‘The bird’s-eye perspective the drone gave us made

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it a lot easier to differentiate between individual hippos,’ Ms Inman said. ‘Our successful method can be repeated easily and avoids the dangers associated with counting hippos from land. It was also great that the drone did not bother the hippos.’ Ms Inman said the lower the drone flew, the more accurate the counting. ‘Counting hippos from 40 metres above was the best method and about 10 per cent more accurate than land surveys,’ she said. ‘Another important advantage with the drone footage was our ability to measure hippos’ body lengths in order to determine their ages.’

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Will Byron Shire achieve an ecologically sustainable future? Jan Barham

e are in a crucial time of species extinction and destruction of our natural environment. The shock of rainforests burning and the loss of the conservation achievements of forty years, put in place by our ‘alternative’ elders and the Indigenous community, is devastating. This must be a wake-up call for the deniers. Is it possible that Byron Shire can be at the forefront of much needed changes by retaining a commitment to an ecologically sustainable future? Since the 1970s, the north coast has had a proud history of environmental and social activism that defined the area we live in and enjoy today. But the fires and the loss of hundreds of thousands of hectares of biodiversity should ignite our emotions and our sense of responsibility to protect what is left and inform how we respond to future challenges. A locally focussed way of living and decision making is the realisation of the old saying ‘Think globally, act locally’. Our future must be defined by an informed understanding of what growth and change delivers and whether it’s possible to manage their impacts in an ecologically sustainable manner within the capacity of our environment.

A little history Recent Byron Shire planning proposals presented to the community for feedback haven’t fully considered the impacts of the projected growth or undertaken cumulative assessments. More land for development is proposed but also higher densities in our existing urban areas. Both increase impacts. It’s the role of professional planners to present this information to the community and the elected council. But perhaps they don’t know our history. Decision making that allows growth without consideration of, planning for and investigation of impacts is irresponsible. It breaches the trust that the community places in our council and fails to inform us of the risks and consequences. The current planning minister, Rob Stokes, in a paper he presented in 2008 said: ‘The concept of environmental planning

A bucolic vista of Byron Shire. Photo Ziggi Browning involved “decision making for planned development and conservation to achieve economic and social growth within the tolerable limits and capacities of the physical environment”.’

Sustainable marketing The oft repeated perspective that any ‘alternative’ views to growth and change represent a naysayer position is false. The concept of Ecological Sustainable Development (ESD) is very much a YES statement. It involves respect for the values of our environment and community and a clear commitment to the precautionary principle, inter-generational equity and climate change considerations. ESD is not a slogan, it has principles and guidelines and is recognised by the courts, unlike the term ‘sustainable’ which has no legal or planning definition, but developers love to use it; it’s marketing. The approval of growth decisions in local planning documents must be rigorous; firstly investigating the values and constraints and if additional impacts can be managed. More development delivers more sewerage and greater demand for water. The impacts of more traffic and climate change must be thoroughly investigated prior to making decisions for growth. New planning opportunities can leave a community vulnerable to legal challenges if they try and oppose inappropriate development after the rules that allow it have been adopted.

Dealing with shit Over twenty years ago, poor development decisions resulted in overloaded sewerage plants and polluted waterways. A development approval freeze was imposed on Byron Council by the State. It was referred to as the ‘Sewerage Moratorium’. At the same time the general

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manager departed and it was revealed that council was $7 million in debt, primarily due to the building of the Council Chambers. This was the reality of poor governance. Some of the current planning changes proposed are due to state wide planning laws, but some have been initiated by Byron Council. If Council undertakes detailed investigation and has evidence that the imposed changes, many aimed at providing ‘affordable housing’ are not achievable without adverse impacts, it can make the case to the state government for exclusion or variation from general state provisions.

Ecological limits? We know that Byron Shire is desirable and people want to live here, but it just isn’t possible, there are limits; ecological, social and geographic. Tourism must also be considered for any planning decisions as we have very little control over the everincreasing popularity of our location, but the impacts are escalating. As residents, we have a right to comment on plans for growth and change. It is council’s role to present the consequences of change to ensure informed engagement and feedback. Planning can be that experience you encounter when you want to build a home, or the one that you have when you get the council letter that says you are faced with a mini-motel in the guise of a house next door. It’s about rules, that once adopted, are near impossible to reverse. Best practice strategic planning develops from a process of understanding where we live, what values and constraints exist and what sort of future we desire, before we adopt growth possibilities. Byron Shire has a proud history of environmental planning. In the 1980s, three

storey town limits, environmental protection zones, heritage protection and coastal erosion management (Planned Retreat) were put in place and have all served this community well. There’s been many challenges but if the planning is rigorous, it’s defensible. Perhaps it’s time to consider if there are lessons to be learnt from the past and if they present a more cautious approach to defining our future.

A vision of ESD The United Nations, Rio Earth Summit, in 1992 changed the focus of planning and growth. Ecologically Sustainable Development principles were adopted and a commitment to addressing climate change. The worlds’ leaders agreed that future planning must address the responsibility to protect and preserve the Earth that makes our existence possible. Soon the principles of ESD became enshrined in law, including provisions for it to inform council decision making in the Local Government Act (S8A). Also in 1992, local environmental organisation BEACON (Byron Environment and Conservation Organisation) held a community event about the future of Byron Shire. It created an opportunity for the community to be informed about alternatives; instead of the inevitable growth that we could see to the north where developers were destroying the landscape to build massive residential developments and high rises. That event led to the development of the Byron Shire Vision Statement which presented guidelines for our future, based on ESD principles. A leaflet with visuals depicting both the urban and rural future visions defined by ESD, was sent to every household. Byron Shire had a counterpoint to rampant growth and it was

this Vision Statement. Byron Council was in the middle of a pro-development council (1991–1995). It had already approved Club Med and Broken Head Quarry (Batsons) expansion and developed an anything goes draft residential strategy. The community opposed this poor decision making and were successful in court opposing both Club Med and the quarry. As more unsustainable growth-based planning was presented, concerns were heightened. The case of ‘yes’ to ESD not just ‘no’ to growth was defined.

In the CAN The Community Action Network (CAN) was formed and organised for the 1995 local election. Increased awareness led to the election of a majority of councillors who had committed to an ecologically sustainable future. The Big Picture Show event highlighted options and provided further understanding of an alternative future. The new council developed the ‘Greenprint for a Sustainable Future’, based

on the Vision Statement and guided by ESD and later, embedded it in the Local Environmental Plan (LEP). It identified a program necessary to inform and progress an ecologically sustainable future, including a Biodiversity Conservation Strategy, Social Impact Assessment policy and Sustainable Agriculture Strategy and Rural, town and village growth plans. Byron Shire Council was the first council in Australia to implement a comprehensive ESD planning program. In 1997, the poor decision making of the 1991–95 council came into effect. The pollution of our waterways was due to the overloading of sewage treatment plants. The sewage/ planning moratorium was imposed on council and an intensive program to design and build three new sewage treatment plants that would meet current and future growth commenced. The new plants came at a cost of $95 millon and the input of many aimed to ensure the mistakes of the past weren’t repeated. When I was elected to council in 1999, we inherited a financial and infrastructure crisis, but also a progressive framework to get on with; we had the Greenprint to deliver. The delivery of sound ESD planning requires a commitment to the precautionary principle and a priority to protect our environment. It’s an important time to reflect on what sort of future we are creating and caution is vital. ESD may be an old idea, but a bit like democracy, it’s as good as it gets.

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Back in 1993 Tsuyoshi Suzuki landed in London, setting up the legendary trance label Matsuri Productions. His regular event, Return to the Source, was hugely successful and travelled the world. He produced music for Issey Miyake’s Tokyo/Paris collection in ’98 and his electro rock band Joujouka started in the same year. He moved his base of operations to Tokyo in 2000 and started to organise a global genre-less party called Tokio Drome, held at the Liquid Room venue in Tokyo, and set up the electro-rock label Madskippers (www.madskippers.com). He is Tokyo’s number one dance and electro trailblazer – hailed as one of Japan’s finest – and he’s headlining 2020 Vision at Billinudgel. He shared some of his story with The Echo.

How did you get into DJing? I’ve been in an alternative new wave rock band since my teenage time, and Nick Taylor, who is my best friend, took me to a DJ Kudo event in Tokyo when I was 22 years old, and that had a profound effect on my life – it sent a shock through me! Who are your early influences? The first that come to mind are YMO, Kraftwerk , Ultravox and Gary Numan... What single night out has been the most memorable for you as a DJ? And as an attendee? There are many good memories from my experiences – one of the best was Eclipse, in Australia in Nov 2012! What are you into at the moment? Where have you been playing? Really into ‘90s stuff nowadays, and I’ve just come back from a tour of Israel last week. What is it about DJing, compared to producing your own music, which makes it interesting for you? DJing is to make people dance, and to make a psychedelic atmosphere and a creative field for the ceremony of human being. Producing music is just for me, to develop my creativity. What advice would you give to aspiring DJs? It’s not easy to do it, but try to read what they want from the dance floor as much you can… please don’t make track lists beforehand… DJing is about improvisation and interactive action.

If you could eternally be stuck in one year’s music scene, which year would it be? Definitely ‘90s! What is your opinion regarding the difference between old school DJing where everything was restricted to vinyl, and modern DJing, where most tracks are MP3 files? Is this about the difference between vinyl and MP3 files? If so, it’s better to discuss the difference between vinyl and WAV files isn’t it? LOL! What makes the local dance scene in the Byron Shire different to other places around the world? I used to play there, many times, and I had amazing times there – but I haven’t been there for ages… so I don’t know much about the local Byron scene nowadays, but I’m guessing there is still a great psychedelic scene. What’s new and coming up for you? There are many tracks to be released, which I’ve worked on with many different producers: UNI, Etnica, Filteria, Sun Project, Skizologic, Ubar Tmar and many more… Also my label Matsuri Digital will be released. Matsuri will be old classics, stuff from the ‘90s – and many compilations and singles soon. You can check it out on www.matsuridigital.com for more details. Tsuyoshi Suzuki plays 2020 Vision at Billinudgel Hotel on New Year’s Day. Tickets $38 from eventbrite.com.au

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WHY THE WORLD STILL HATES WOMEN Weak men hate powerful women. Powerful men hate powerful women. And sadly, there are some women who hate powerful women too. Powerful women donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hate those poor women; they feel sad for them. And when I say â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;powerfulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean machine gun toting, muscle bound, super rich billionaires. Those barely exist in the female form. That kind of power isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t threatening to patriarchy because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what they curate to signify â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;powerfulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s their language. No, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;quietâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; power â&#x20AC;&#x201C; that which wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be threatened or diminished â&#x20AC;&#x201C; that the patriarchy find unsettling. Difficult, defiant, smart, outspoken female disruptors make them angry. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why Alan Jones said Scott Morrison should give Jacinda Ardern a few backhanders. That was not a joke. It was not said in passing. It carried real intent. Those men share a bond; a distinct hatred and fear of women. Not quiet Christian women who are cardigan wearing wives, who smile nicely while holding their childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hands in publicity photos. Those women have been subdued. They hate women like Jacinda Ardern, women who call them to account. Jonesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; backhander comment was a threat of violence. Violence is how powerful women have been subdued throughout history. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so ingrained in culture as normative that men are rarely held to account for expressing it â&#x20AC;&#x201C; in words or deeds. Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young recently won a defamation battle with David Leyonhjelm when he tried to publicly shame her by saying â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;She should stop shagging men.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Even though these men are being called to account, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not stopping. The recent #metoo movement saw such an outpouring of stories of menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s misuse of power â&#x20AC;&#x201C; that the world stopped listening. It was too much. The #metoo movement has become a running joke. Possessing women, controlling women, diminishing women, hating women â&#x20AC;&#x201C; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been what privileged men do when theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not playing polo. Some of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most privileged men are finally being called to account for it; Prince Andrew, Jeffrey Epstein, Harvey Weinstein. It must be unsettling for men like that to see the world start to tilt. To see the world turn and listen to an angry 16 year old girl in braids. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ludicrous how so many old white men are scared of Greta. She isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t scared of them. And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what really scares them. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not climate change theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re pushing up against. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s her â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and a new generation that has more to fear than the men who rule through fear. If you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fear them, then theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve lost power. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why some men hit women. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why some of those men go on to kill women. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s violence in the way powerful old white men try to bully and diminish Greta. She has a certain Joan of Arc-esque fuck you about her. Four hundred years ago they would have burnt her. I guess by not responding to climate change they still get to burn her. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just slower and a less satisfying ignition, and they probably wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be around to toast marshmallows on the pyre. Powerful women have been feared ever since the mythical Eve cajoled poor widdle Adam into eating that apple. If it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t for her insistence weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d all still be living in the Garden of Eden. Well, men would be â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d frack it thoroughly. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no accident the foundation story of the Christian faith places the blame for eviction from Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s paradise on a woman (and thereby on all women.) The human condition is apparently all our fault. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how you seed misogyny. You make it ingrained in culture. The church has always feared women. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why the Catholics wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let them hold power. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why so many of them were burnt as witches. There are parts of Europe where, below the ground, if you were to investigate a cross section, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d find 6 inches of charred womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bodies. Ironically, as the heat gets turned up on Donald Trump, with two articles of impeachment carried by the American senate, he was quoted as saying â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;More due process was afforded to those accused in the Salem Witch Trials.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Wow, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comparing himself to innocent, powerless women who were hanged or pressed to death without any evidence of guilt. He needs to shut up and take his seat at Pussy Grabbers Anonymous. Apparently they stopped burning and hanging witches centuries ago, but sometimes, when I pick up a paper, or a story flashes across my newsfeed, or I get an abusive email, I wonder if they have really? Sometimes, I can still smell the pungent scent of burning women.

THE VERY JUICY FRUITS One of the best NYE parties I can remember was a Tropical Fruits party at Repentance Creek. It was pretty small back then â&#x20AC;&#x201C; would have been 27 years ago â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I remember wearing two different shoes. I guess, even though I am straight, it felt like a safe place for deviant footwear. The Fruits have grown into a wondrous juggernaut that sees people travel from all over the country to be part of their family. And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the theme this year: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. Be part of this extraordinary New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eve Festivalâ&#x20AC;Ś you can even camp â&#x20AC;&#x201C; literally! Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on my bucket list to do a drag number there one yearâ&#x20AC;Ś with Maude Boat and maybe my good mate Bob Downe. I could be Boob Downe (an ageing hippy sexgoddess who wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get implants). Anyway, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a bloody cracker of an event that celebrates our LBTQI+ community! All welcome, provided youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re 18 or older.

DJ LADY K AT THE QUAD! Lismore Quad and Lismore Regional Gallery are putting on the perfect afternoon soiree for a pre-Tropical Fruits get together on Monday, 12pm-6pm. Think picnic rugs, tipples and nibbles, and tunes from the fabulously swanky DJ, Lady K (2pmâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;6pm). Lismore Regional Gallery will also open on Monday so people can experience the incredible Partnershipping and Alchemists exhibitions â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and much more, in air-conditioned comfort!

And donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forget the Recovery Fruitsâ&#x20AC;Ś come to the Tropical Fruits Recovery Party. Sometimes getting over the party is almost as much fun as the party. The Tropical Fruits peeps are offering Northern Rivers locals a discount on tickets for Recovery; $20 off all categories of the recovery party tickets â&#x20AC;&#x201C; you just have to show your photo ID with a Northern Rivers postcode.

DJ Lady Kayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s electronic roots lie in the underground rave and house scenes of Perth back in the mid â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;90s. After moving to the east coast, Lady K (aka Kaz Hernandez) has risen to become an integral part of the music scene of the Northern Rivers. Both as a respected DJ and passionate LGBTQI+ community member, Lady Kâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s flexible disk and vinyl stylings transcend the boundaries of modern house music. Unconfined, she surges through the borders of tech and vocal house, techno, electro and across the spectrum of tribal and progressive beats.

NYE at the Lismore Showgrounds. Tix from tropicalfruits.org.au

A cruisy afternoon with free tunes provided by DJ Lady K, at Lismore Quad and Lismore Regional Gallery.

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For John Butler it’s been 20 years since he first stepped out on stage to use that quiet charisma and that sensational guitar work to bring an audience to their feet. What you see is what you get with Butler – he’s passionate about his music, his family, his community and his world.

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He’s a musician who has never shied away from lending his voice to a cause and this interview caught him just after a stint up north at the Stop Adani camp. For John it’s all part of who he is. I can’t separate myself – what you see as a husband, as an artist or as a father is who I am. As a human being we live in intense times – it has always been intense. I think it’s important to keep hope. Hope is a verb. It’s a doing word. You don’t find hope, you make hope with your hands and the way you treat others, and from the way you choose to live your life. When I am most inundated by hopelessness, I go to a blockade – I just came back from the Adani blockade, and you find hope there. We did it in the Kimberly when resource companies tried to move in – we stopped the destruction of the environment. John believes that we need to get out into our community and engage to really find out what is going on. If you are just watching your feed you don’t really know what’s going on because your feed is a false reality created by algorithms. You start to only see the world through your own lens – and that can be dangerous. The best way is to go and mingle with people, and interact with people who are not like you. This can take your opinions to the next level! I am for the environment because I like clean water and clean air and healthy community. I am not against mining. Without mining I wouldn’t have my guitar; but why open more coal mines when we have clean energy available? I will fight for those things – and I hope, in doing so, we find a middle ground that brings all sides of politics together. We are not as different as we think we are. When you talk to other human beings most people want a job, clean water, and they would like a job for about 60 years of their life. Music is the language John Butler believes unites us all. Music doesn’t wave a flag. It’s not a nationality and it’s not a political party. It’s why some musicians totally avoid politics – because they don’t want to isolate their audience. Although that’s not the case for Butler. He’s always been outspoken. I have never been good at keeping my mouth shut! No one wants Butler to keep his mouth shut. Whether it’s speaking up for his beliefs or singing one of his songs, we all want to hear it! Butler has almost a cowboy Zen Master approach to his song writing. All my songs, and how they come to me, are different. Songwriters are like horsemen – they are like cowboys – we go out bush all the time, some days we are out there by ourselves and that’s when we get to see wild horses, and they are so beautiful! Not many people get to see them, so we bring them in to show people in the city. Every horse – every song – is different, and they all get ‘brought in’ differently. Some follow me without a bridle, others I dragged in. Nowadays I see the horses and I am like ‘how do you want to come in?’ Sometimes it’s on an iPad, or a piano, or while I am driving, or just through words. The less I drag them in the better – the less I break their spirit. In a sense I have become sensitive to how the song isn’t mine. John Butler celebrates 20 years in the biz in 2020, and we’re just thrilled that he keeps bringing horses in! He performs solo at Bluesfest in Easter. For tickets and program info go to bluesfest.com.au

Melbourne based indie rockers British India play Kingscliff Beach Hotel on Sunday, 29 December as part of their Countdown to New Year tour. Over the course of their impressive career, British India have released six albums and earned four Top 10 ARIA albums, eight entries into the Hottest 100, and their classic single I Can Make You Love Me is accredited Gold in Australia, and is soon to be accredited with Platinum status. On the upcoming tour, the boys will be armed with tracks from their entire discography; particularly boasting those from their bulging back-catalogue of Australian live favourites – think Hottest 100 tracks like Vanilla, I Can Make You Love Me, Suddenly, Run The Red Light, I Said I’m Sorry and the song that started it all, Tie Up My Hands. The show will be an afternoon twilight session with doors open at 3pm and support from Brisbane band Dopamine. Be sure to catch the legendary Melbourne rockers doing what they do best on Sunday at the Kingscliff Hotel. Tickets from www.britishindia.oztix.com.au

THE FREQUENCY AT THE ROCK In 2020, Earth Frequency will be returning to its awesome venue Ivory Rock for its 15th anniversary edition. From its origins in 2006 as a one night Landcare music event, Earth Frequency Festival has grown over the past 14 years and become a highlight of the QLD festival calendar. The 2020 music line-up features a huge range of international and domestic talent across a wide spectrum of live and electronic music genres. Highlight acts include Koan Sound who will be touring a unique audio-visual show. Clozee, the new female star of psychedelic bass music, German techno master Thomas Schumacher, and Australia’s favourite bass funk producer – Opiuo. The international psytrance and techno line-up features names such as Talpa, Menog, Quivver, Gabriel Moraes, Zen Mechanics and Smoke Sign. The international bass music line-up includes Culprate, Dub Phizix & Strategy, kLL sMTH, Kayo Project, K+Lab, and many more. Festival favourites from around Australia include Twisted Sibling, Smilk, Safire, Terrafractyl, Skwid, Sumiruna, Mood Swing & Chevy Bass, Purple Hayes, Paul Abad, Doe, Z.I.V and many more. Over 100 artists will complete the music line-up which spans four

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stages, for four days. Music is not the only focus with visionary art headliners Mugwort (Canada) and Amanda Sage (USA), Miles Toland (USA) and Luke Brown (Bali) and over a dozen Australian artists will be showing their astonishing works in the Luminarium Gallery and performing live painting throughout the festival. The festival also features a wide range of roving and stage performances, a full program of inspirational and educational talks, workshops and yoga, a huge craft market and food area, a family space with activities for the young ones, and amazing decor and stage design throughout the festival. Tickets are on sale now, and the organisers have announced a limited capacity of 5000 for the festival this year and beyond, to help preserve the intimate and welcoming vibe that the festival is so well known for. 14–17 February at Ivory Rock. Tickets and info from earthfrequency.com.au

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WHY MS KITTY? Kitty Flanagan is, without a doubt, one of the most enjoyable comics to listen to. She has this cutting comedic common sense and she’s not afraid to cut right down to the quick. Kitty maintains her spot as one of the most reliably funny, fresh and innovative comics around by continually challenging herself to develop new material. In preparation for the comedy festival season, she is performing her trial shows at the Brunswick Picture House. She chatted with The Echo.

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Trial shows have become very popular of late, particularly in our region. Why is everyone coming here to try out their unfinished work on us? Is it because we’ve got amazing audiences, or that we are too far away to affect city reviews, or perhaps just too stoned…? It’s nothing that devious. We’re just easily led. All it takes is for one comic to do a show at the Bruns’ Picture House and discover the Northern Rivers as a great place for a holiday – then the rest of us hear about it and before you know it, we’re all inventing a reason to ‘try out new material’ in order to have a tax deduction/holiday in Brunswick Heads. We’re like lemmings jumping off the bridge at Bruns’. One does it – we all do it. What do you get at a trial show that you wouldn’t get at a fully polished show? Obviously you get to see the comic up close and personal in a small venue, but best of all you get to see genuine emotions and reactions. Comedians are completely ‘present’ when they’re trying new material – there’s no room in your head to be thinking about anything but the gig you’re doing right now. So you see real excitement (and relief) when something works, and disbelief and sheer panic when something doesn’t. That’s the best bit, a comedian panicking right in front of your very eyes! Do you think comics are by nature as critical of the world, as they are of themselves? Certainly the ones I like best have a knack of pointing out the downside in an entertaining way. I don’t know how funny I’d find it watching a comedian telling me how wonderful the world was – that would feel more like being at a motivational speaker seminar. I guess the trick is to point out the negative, but not make people feel depressed about it. You just published a book on rules, which I don’t have btw, but to summarise – what are your top five rules? It changes all the time, but at the moment, these are my faves: 19. The most important bathroom rule of all – FPC: Flush, Pause, Check. Leave nothing behind. 31. If you smoke, you smell. Which is fine, no judgement – I’m just letting you know. 171. Don’t put banana in the fruit salad. It’s too overpowering. It makes the whole thing brown and slimy and makes everything taste like banana.

EVERY KID’S DREAM COME TRUE! A Brunswick Picture House crowd favourite – and back by popular demand! A comedy variety show with a real difference for kids aged 4–11. Where else can you see two talking dogs, and one world-class juggling human? Erik is a magnificent metal robot dog with a huge personality, he loves showing off, doing stunts and was a finalist on Australia’s Got Talent. Alan is a soft, adorable muppet of a dog who likes hanging out, chatting with kids and singing his own special songs. Joel Salom is the human behind the dogs. As the International Man of Circus, Joel has toured and performed in over 25 countries. However, since teaming up with Allen and Erik, for this crazy hybrid circus/dog show, he has realised it doesn’t matter how mad your skills are, you’ll always be upstaged by a talking dog. Talking Dogs – back by popular demand, Brunswick Picture House. 11am Fri 3–Sun 5 Jan, and a second show Sat, 4 Jan at 1pm.

163. For cafes: If the avocado is hard as a rock, don’t serve it. 252. A fashion rule: If you look like a rolled roast, go up a size. We all age, we all get a little thicker around the middle; there’s no shame in buying a bigger size. Three people you’d never want to share a hot tub with? Oh Mandy, you know me! You’d be hard pressed to find three people I would share a hot tub with. I’m not into communal bathing – especially not in hot tubs; those things are petri dishes, full of flakes of skin and pubes and kept at the perfect temperature to breed bacteria and disease. Your version of a top day? I’d start by taking my dogs for a walk on the beach (it’s the best thing in the world having a section where you can take your dogs at Brunswick Heads – please don’t ever let the council change it!) Then I’d have the delicious Nordic potato hash breakfast at Table View. After that I don’t care. If I get a walk on the beach with my dogs and have potatoes for breakfast, I can call it a day. If you had a job at Bras n Things how would you greet people? Welcome young lady! I see you’re looking at some teeny tiny underpants – good for you. I know it’s hard to imagine, but one day you will be like me, and you will seek out giant underpants. Look forward to that day – because I cannot tell you how comforting it is to be able to pull your underpants up over your belly button. Heaven! I know how you feel about burlesque, but let’s just say that you had to do a season – what’s Kitty F’s Burlesque name? Milly Molly Muffklunk or Betty Bigpants. I can’t decide. If you were a super hero in some upcoming blockbuster – what’s your super power? Talking to animals What made you smile today? (That’s such a Byron question!) I saw a middle aged lady marching along, wearing the same giant floppy hat as me, and realised that’s exactly what I look like – I’m not wearing it any better than her, I too look like a mad old bat in a hat. I was quite happy about it. If you lived next door to Chris Hemsworth, what would you go next door to borrow? Money. I reckon he’s got heaps of it. Monday 6 and 13 Jan, 7pm at Brunswick Picture House. Tickets from brunswickpicturehouse.com

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THE STARLIGHT SECRET Now in its 25th year The Starlight Festival is a nationally renowned cultural event that features four transformational days of keynote speakers, sound baths, yoga, workshops, chanting, breath work and more. Each day features a full program of events included with entry to the main hall with its celebrated community of healers, artists, yogis, psychics, practitioners and presenters. Showcasing more than 100 workshops over four days, participants can choose their own itinerary and enjoy a truly Byron Bay experience. Featured speakers include Brandon Bays, the international bestselling author and pioneer of the Journey Method. She is one of the most dynamic, inspirational and innovative teachers in the field of personal growth and cellular healing. Her radically transformative work has grown organically and exponentially over the last 20 years. She offers practical, accessible and liberating process work that can be used by anyone, in all areas of life, to uncover and awaken limitless potential and bring about healing, freedom, true fulfilment and abundance on all levels of being – emotionally, physically, spiritually, materially. Brandon is an authentic living example of her work. Her open, candid nature, combined with her genuine compassion for the human condition, and her relaxed, warm-hearted humour, bring her teachings alive with insight, depth, humanity and grace. She counts it as the greatest blessing in her life to be given the immense privilege of serving in the process of awakening and healing around the world. Also featured is Daniel Raccani – an Australian Shamanic practitioner, who received his first initiatory experience into the world of spirit at the age of 22 months when, during a convulsion he clinically died. It was from this time that he was called, by the world of spirit, as every night he embarked on soul flights where he would explore the lands of the dead and watch the newly dead either cross over into the light or stumble around lost and confused. He says, ‘During these explorative journeys I was given insights into energy, souls, life, death and dying.’ Sure this is pretty unconventional – but that’s what Starlight Festival is all about – a degustation of New Age and spiritual teachers who are here to expand consciousness and share their wisdom. 2–5 January 2020, at the A&I Hall in Bangalow. Tickets are $25 for one day, or $60 for four days. Tix at the door or online from starlightfestival.com.au

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AUSTEN TAYSHUS IN THE NEW YEAR! The yin and yang of Aussie comedy come together with Austen Tayshus and Mandy Nolan presenting their 2020 Vision show to herald a brand new decade. The combination of these two fearless feature acts offers a relentless ride that is both hard and soft, traverses the nasty and the kind, the dangerous and the gentle. Both Tayshus and Nolan are known for their incisive and often outrageous social comment, and for their shared billing. At 2020 Vision you can expect nothing less than satirical explosions of genius, outrage and narcissistic self-interest! Austen Tayshus, the infamous, great white shark of Australian Comedy, cutting and dangerous. Mandy Nolan, mother of 5, caring, warm, and insightful. Two of Australia’s most respected and experienced comedians back to back, taking us on a journey through the highlights and the lowlights of the last 10 years. At his most recent show at the Bondi Pavillion this is what Stage Whispers had to say in their review: ‘Pulverising the audience with gag after gag, whilst at the same time being able to humiliate audience members with ease, all combines for a night out of terror and uncontrollable laughter… Austen leaves you battered and bruised, but dying for more.’ What better way to download the decade! Local shows are at the Byron Services Club on Monday, 6 January, and Lennox Bowlo on Sunday, 12 January. All shows $30 at the clubs or from mandynolan.com.au

VINYL JUNKIES GET THEIR FIX Brunswick Heads is about to explode with vinyl after a recent trip to the US saw local DJ Matt Bowden, aka The Vinyl Junkie, spend five weeks trekking across the country in a bid to source some of America’s finest quality vinyl gold. The end result – a shipping container bound for our sunny shores, filled to the brim with fresh, original US pressings that Bowden describes as ‘all killer, no filler’. The new stock will make up a large portion of the 40,000 records on offer at this years’ Brunswick Heads Record Fair. In its fifth year, the event coincides with the annual Falls Festival and will be held over five big days from Tuesday, 31 December–Friday, 3 January at the Fingal Street Memorial Hall in Brunswick Heads.‘The quality of stock is super high this year, there’s loads of rare, highly sought after and valuable picks for serious collectors, stuff you don’t often see around here,’ Matt said. ‘We’ve got everything from jazz and soul to rock and blues, country, surf, ‘50s rock’n’roll, there’s soundtracks, spoken word, punk, new wave, indie, hardcore heavy rock, death metal, psychedelic, funk, hip hop, house, disco, techno, drum and bass and reggae. Regardless of what genre you’re into, you’ll absolutely pick up some classic tunes at this years’ fair.’ If you have a turntable you have to be there! If you don’t have one, then you should get one, because all the cool kids have one. What I’m saying is, I have a turntable and I’m totally getting my vinyl fix!

JUDITH LUCY IS SINGLE – AGAIN … and 51. She recently reflected on her entire history with men and concluded that maybe it was time to shut up shop. ‘Whatever it is that I’m selling, a lot of straight guys simply aren’t that interested in buying it and I’m including people like my father.’ In amongst exploring stereotypes and her own desires, Judith Lucy will recount her full history with the opposite sex and leave it up to the audience to determine whether she should ever date again. Should Judith hang up her vagina for good? In 2019 Judith did a massive sell-out tour around the capital cities asking this question, but she wants a second opinion. Brunswick Heads – the decision is yours! Brunswick Picture House, 6pm Wed 8–Fri 10 Jan, 5pm Sat 11–Sun 12 Jan. Tix $40– $45 from brunwsickpicturehouse.com

WAVES BREAKING AT THE BYRON BREWERY FOR SURF FESTIVAL Surfers, Beach lovers and Water people – Save the date; The 2020 Byron Bay Surf Festival is nearly here! The festival kicks off on Friday, 14 February, 2020 in Australia’s much-loved beach town Byron Bay. It’s time for some super surfing fun, chock full of music, art, surf, environment and culture. Wow! Say hello to annual favourites including the Surf Art Markets, Sunset Cinema, The Shaka Events, the BBSF Artshow, Sunday/Funday Freestyle & Stoke surf sessions at Wategos Beach, and live music and partying every night at the Byron Bay Brewery. Meet this year’s epic line-up of special guests, including surfing world champs, international film makers, surf culture artists, surfboard shapers, activists and local and national musicians. Get ready… it’s going to be huge fun! Last year’s festival was amazing, with pumping waves thanks to cyclone Oma, and this year we have planned for something even better (with or without the help of cyclones), with a new major event; the Wategos Wizards Surf Comp! Events get cranking on Thursday when BBSF will be premiering the film Spoons from the USA, with the directors & special guests. Friday continues the creative vibe with The BBSF artshow. Grab a bevvy and enjoy some of the best in Surf Art with Ozzie Wright, Ty Williams (USA), Jaleesa Vincent and others, and live beats to keep it all rolling along. Friday also features a festival favourite – the family friendly Sunset Cinema, at Byron Bay Brewery Beer Garden, including the Opening Ceremony with traditional Welcome to Country, special guests, acoustic band and a new Australian feature film – all under the stars and that big old resident fig tree! Saturday is a huge one! Commencing 7am, with our annual beach clean-up at Wategos; with Patagonia and Dr Bronners, then from 8am; Wategos Wizards Surf Comp with some of the world’s best long boarders. 9am sees you doing Yoga at Byron Bay Brewery’s rear (beer) garden, attending the Surf Art Markets and Shaka Events, as well as watching movies in the Byron Bay Brewery front carpark. To finish off this ultimate Byron Saturday, you can catch live music by the Goons of Doom, rocking it at Byron Bay Brewery. Sunday, we’ll sign off another big year with Fluoro Friday (yes it’s on Sunday) and Freestyle & Stoke Surf Sessions at Wategos beach including the inaugural festival Party Wave, with a big wrap up party and awards ceremony back at the Brewery! Tix and program info on byronbaysurffestival.com.au

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KISSING 2019 GOODBYE AND HELLO 2020

This year we don’t just change years, we change decades, so it’s even more important to do something to mark the milestone! One of the great things about living in our region is that you can never say ‘nothing was on.’ There’s HEAPS on! From high end choices of cocktail parties and swanky dinners, to family friendly street parties, to the good oldfashioned daggy fun of a karaoke night – there really is something for everyone! Read on to find out more…

Back in 2013 the local community decided they wanted to bring the spirit of Byron back to New Year’s Eve celebrations – to create a safe, family-friendly atmosphere where everyone can party! Soul Street is Byron Bay’s New Year’s Eve event in the heart – and from the heart – of town! This popular street party is a great opportunity for the Byron Bay community and our visitors to come together to celebrate New Year’s Eve and to showcase the creativity, lifestyle, and talent that we have in this region. The centre of town is filled with market stalls, food vendors, face painter’s, four stages, numerous bands, buskers, circus performers, fire twirlers, drummers, and children’s activities. All the market stalls line Jonson Street from Byron Community Centre to Lawson Lane and throughout Railway Park. Jonson Street is closed to traffic. For this event, the Byron Community Centre partners with Byron Shire Council to promote a ‘Safe Summer in the Bay’. Soul Street New Year’s Eve in Byron Bay is a fun, safe, community-driven, alcohol-free event! Immersive Byron Bay experiences running from 4pm to midnight.

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BYRON AT BYRON STYLE Surrounded by nature Bubbles and canapés on arrival Four-course dinner Live entertainment - Well Swung Daddies

PEACE, LOVE AND FUNK AT HARVEST NYE

TEX-MEX NYE AT EL CAMINO CANTINA!

Celebrate NYE at the most fabulous location in the universe – the wild planet of Harvest Newrybar. Get ready to take off into the glistening aether of dazzling funk in the cosmic tent, where you’ll be taken on a journey to outer space by DJ Bonnas for a soulful and retro-tinged disco vibe. Grab a ticket for a night of food, drinks, eco glitter, lasers and a lot more funkadelia. It’s going to be out of this world! 7pm–1pm, $225 including food, drinks and disco and a free shuttle bus from Suffolk to Byron. Email info@harvestnewrybar.com.au or call 6687 2644 to make a reservation.

Gather the Amigos and come on down to El Camino Cantina for a New Year’s Eve celebration! For just $79pp enjoy the Tex-Mex Fiesta package, which includes a three-course share-style feast and a two-hour beverage package. House beer and wine is included in the package, along with signature margaritas – in four fabulous flavours, and served frozen, or on the rocks. Pre booking essential at elcaminocantina.com.au

7:30PM TUESDAY 31 DECEMBER 2019 $199 per person adults-only To book, contact 02 6639 2105 or byron.reservations@crystalbrookcollection.com

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2020 NEW YEAR’S EVE SOUNDKALPA ROOTS RAGA REGGAE CELEBRATION AT KOHINUR HALL. Soundkalpa is a pun on the ancient Sanskrit word Sankalpa, meaning intention, focus, and resolve. The night will be a peaceful, meaningful, family-friendly gathering with a mix of local roots, soul, and reggae music, to international artists, bringing the mystical ragas and rhythms of Indian classical music to bless your 2020. South Indian restaurant ‘The Happy Elephant’ will cater the event. There will be a children’s space, massages, and top local DJs. 4pm to 4am. Tickets are $24–$34 and limited. Available at Main Arm Store and online www.aumbience.net www.facebook.com/events/795999794184474

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RING IN THE NEW YEAR BYRON AT BYRON STYLE As the summer sun sets over the rainforest, start the party with sparkling wine and delicious canapés on arrival. Then you’ll be treated to a fresh, locally inspired dinner menu in The Restaurant – celebrating the best that Byron and the surrounds have to offer! . As night falls and evening sparkles, the stylish big band sounds of the Well Swung Daddies will help ring in the new year. From 8.30pm onwards the 10-piece band will be sure to fill the dancefloor, playing tunes inspired by the Great Gatsby and prohibition-era from 8.30pm onwards. Festivities start at 7.30pm on Tuesday 31 December 2019 $199 per person, adults-only event. Guaranteed outdoor seating on The Restaurant deck available for an additional $20 per person. Includes glass of sparkling wine and canapés on arrival and , four-course dinner (additional cost for beverages) Bookings essential.

THREE OF THE BEST FOR NYE This year the Byron Bay Golf Club presents three of the best for New Year’s Eve with a lineup including Late for Woodstock, EPIQ and The Feramones. With many band members crossing over, and with Rick Fenn of the Feramones having been overseas for four months of the year, the likelihood of getting gigs where everyone could turn up was diminished. And so the master plan was hatched – put all three bands on the same night! An absolutely fabulous way to welcome in the new year! Kicking off at 8.30pm and running through until 12.30am. Tix are $60 at the venue or online at eventbrite.com.au

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MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL 31 DEC 2019 – 2 JAN 2020

HALSEY (ONLY AUS SHOWS) • VAMPIRE WEEKEND • DISCLOSURE • PLAYBOI CARTI • PEKING DUK • OF MONSTERS AND MEN • PNAU • LEWIS CAPALDI • MILKY CHANCE • JOHN FARNHAM • BANKS (ONLY AUS SHOWS) • DOPE LEMON • VERA BLUE • YUNGBLUD • G FLIP • CROOKED COLOURS • PARCELS • THELMA PLUM • MONTAIGNE • #1 DADS • WAAX • BAKER BOY • HOLY HOLY • WAVE RACER • BAD//DREEMS • PSYCHEDELIC PORN CRUMPETS • AMYL & THE SNIFFERS • THE JAPANESE HOUSE • PINK SWEAT$ • B WISE • CXLOE • A SWAYZE & THE GHOSTS • TOTTY • ADRIAN EAGLE • TEEN JESUS AND THE JEAN TEASERS

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WELCOME TO FALLS As the clock explodes on #NYE2019 wrapping up this tumultuous, nameless decade and slingshotting us all into a brand new set of Roaring Twenties, there could be no better place to be than arm-in-arm with your best friends, surrounded by Australia’s vast natural beauty and tuned in to some of the world’s greatest music! Under the Falls hood you’ll find: world class music • creative installations • visual arts performances • pop-up bars and beer gardens • thoughtful camping facilities • comedy performances • water park • glorious gourmet fare • makers’ markets • local performers and traders • beauty parlours • yoga and well-being, plus loads more! Take your time, take it easy and most of all, take care of each other.

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HALSEY Creeping up on bona-fide international pop icon status as she prepares for the release of her third record, Halsey is hitting the absolute peak of her powers, the extent of which will be on display as she headlines Falls Festival in 2019/20. First noticed in 2014 as she self-released tracks via a quickly-building social media presence (which has now grown to include over 11 million Twitter and 15 million Instagram followers), the distinctive voice and bold ambition of a young Ashley Nicolette Frangipane was plain to see.

VAMPIRE WEEKEND Probably the most consistent guitar band of the past 15 years, Vampire Weekend continue on a hell of a journey. Their fourth and latest album Father of the Bride marks the third time that Ezra Koenig and co have entered the American charts at Number 1. Collaborations with Danielle Haim, Mark Ronson and Steve Lacy are dotted throughout another brilliant collection of forward thinking guitar pop that includes irresistible singles Harmony Hall and This Life. Tracks that will sound marvellous stacked up next to previous winners A-Punk, Run, Dianne Young and countless others on the Falls main stage.

TASH SULTANA Weaving her web around the lucky citizens of Byron Bay for a one-off signature show as part of this years’ Falls Festival, Tash Sultana remains in a very special kind of haze following the release of her debut record Flow State last year. Delivering on a promise progressively made after two rapturously received EP’s (2013’s Yin Yang and

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2016’s Notion) this former busker turned international multi-instrumentally gifted luminary has ticked every box on her way to the top.

PEKING DUK Arguably one of Australia’s finest ever dance acts and absolutely the best thing to come out of Canberra in many years, Peking Duk are known for their tireless dedication to frivolity. Last year alone they should have been busy unleashing and touring their huge singles Wasted and Fire, but this well coifed duo still managed to find time to open their very own speakeasy, New York style bar in Melbourne and release an illustrated book for kids, titled DJ Duks. 2019 has been no less hectic as the lads revealed collaborations with Jack River (Sugar) and Al Wright of Cloud Control (the dreamy Ur Eyes) as they wound their way across the country on a massive, completely sold out tour.

PARCELS Rising international superstars and Byron-Baybred boys, Parcels are a timeless surf/folk/ psychedelic explosion. First moving to Berlin in 2015, when they were barely out of their teenage years, these five musical magpies take influences from the likes of The Beach Boys and Steely Dan, while still coating their tunes in a very distinctive sheen. They’ve used this ability to fantastic effect, spending the last few years travelling the globe, and impressing people of influence wherever they go. Actress Milla Jovovich is a big fan and appeared in the video for their tune Withorwithout and they’ve also co-written with the elusive Daft Punk and supported Phoenix on their recent European tour.

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BAKER BOY Inspirational, über-talented and cool as hell – Baker Boy hits this years’ Falls Festival at top speed. Growing up in the remote Arnhem Land communities of Milingimbi and Maningrida, our man honed his early taste by devouring his Dad’s classic hip-hop collection. After hearing Puerto Rican reggae star Don Omar’s Spanish rap tracks, he decided it would be a good idea to rap in his own native tongue – that of the Yolngu Matha. From this point, Baker Boy was unstoppable as he developed a passion and skill for hip-hop and dance that has seen him win over countless crowds and industry bigwigs. The current Young Australian of the Year, his tracks Cloud 9, Marryuna and Cool As Hell celebrate his incredible heritage, and fully display his exuberant personality.

From heroic hijinx in the seedy underbelly of Melbourne’s punk scene to ricocheting across the globe under the wing of the internationally infamous Rough Trade Records, Amyl & The Sniffers have had a fairly substantial couple of years. Riding high on their just released self-titled debut album, this fantastic foursome are pub rock till they die. All Harry Highpants denim wash jeans, mullets better than an 80s era full back, and, not least, a rip-snorting collection of dirty 70s style pop-punk anthems, spat out by soon to be iconic front woman, Amy Taylor (who grew up in Mullumbimby!) and backed up by the erstwhile ‘Sniffers’, who bop around like three tins of VB on the top shelf of a malfunctioning back shed fridge.

JOHN FARNHAM Whispering Jack himself. On the main stage. Falls Festival. Game, set and match. Known and loved the world over for his almighty, man-sized vocal chops, his veritable dictionary of hits (You’re The Voice, Pressure Down, A Touch of Paradise, That’s Freedom) and his iconic, sonic 80s mullet (since nicked by Client Liaison), John Farnham is a true Australian icon. He’s won 19 ARIA Awards, was the 1987 Australian of the Year, possesses the 2nd highest selling album in Australian history (1986’s Whispering Jack) and, when it all boils down to brass tacks, is just honestly, a ripper bloke. Picture a field of friends and family all belting out You’re The Voice in perfect unison on New Year’s Eve: this is your new reality.

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MAIN STAGES PLAYING TIMES TUES 31st DEC NYE

WEDNESDAY 1st JAN

THURSDAY 2nd JAN

VALLEY STAGE:

5:30 VERA BLUE 7:00 JOHN FARNHAM 8:30 TASH SULTANA 10:20 PNAU 11:50 PEKING DUK

5:10 6:30 8:00 9:30 11:00

FOREST STAGE:

1:10 WELCOME TO COUNTRY 2:00 MINI SKIRT 3:20 A SWAYZE & THE GHOSTS 4:50 PSYSCHEDELIC PORN CRUMPETS 6:20 PARCELS

1:30 TOTTY 2:50 AMYL & THE SNIFFERS 4:20 WAAX 5:50 HOLY HOLY 7:20 WAVE RACER 8:40 G FLIP 10:10 CROOKED COLOURS

12:30 ADRIAN EAGLE 1:30 BAD // DREEMS 2:50 #1DADS 4:10 MONTAIGNE 5:40 BAKER BOY 7:10 THELMA PLUM 8:40 THUNDAMENTALS 10:10 COSMO’S MIDNIGHT

YUNGBLUD LEWIS CAPALDI OF MONSTERS & MEN MILKY CHANCE HALSEY

5:00 6:20 7:50 9:20 11:10

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Playing times subject to change. For full schedule of all stages head to www.fallsfestival.com or download the Falls Festival App.

TICKETS – 3-DAY & SINGLE DAY TICKETS AVAILABLE! The good news is, there are still some 3-day and single day tickets available to get your slice of Falls fun! You can purchase up to 6x Festival Tickets and 6x Camping Tickets per transaction. If you are planning on camping, make sure to purchase a Camping Ticket with your Festival Ticket. Head to www.fallsfestival.com to grab your tickets.

SUPPORT FOR THE NSW RFS To express our gratitude and in recognition of the tireless efforts of the heroic firefighters, $20 from every Falls Byron Event Ticket sold from 17 December through to midnight Christmas Eve will be donated to the NSW Rural Fire Service. This joins the $20,000 we raised during the Black Friday campaign, donated to the Salvation Army disaster relief. Patrons can also donate to the NSW RFS via the Bettercup system onsite.

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FESTIVAL INFO

This has been introduced to create more space onsite by encouraging carpooling. It’s also better for Mother Nature. Pre-purchase car passes at www.fallsfestival.com.

COMEDY Not content with simply serving up a smorgasbord of the finest in national and international musical talent, the party planning experts behind Falls Festival have also teed up an impressive array of talent to hit your funny bone, including; Rhys Nicholson, Steph Tisdell, Daniel Townes, Stevenson Brothers, Gen Fricker and MC Kristy Webeck.

AREA 51 ARTS PRECINCT Looking for the unexpected? Area 51 is Falls Byron’s lifestyle precinct, the festival within a festival, where you can sip a cocktail by the pool, indulge in a spot of table tennis/beer pong, get lost in a stone age (silent) disco, maintain your morning yoga routine or exercise your inner artist at our outdoor gallery You’ve Finally Made It, curated by Byron Bay local Andy Mac.

WELCOME TO COUNTRY Join us in opening this year’s Festival with a traditional Welcome to Country from Minjungbal songman and elder, Uncle Magpie Yerrubilgin and dancers, at the Forest Stage on Tuesday December 31 at 1.10pm. This is an opportunity to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land and show respect for Australia’s First Peoples. Come and honour this very special place, which is part of Minjungbal Country, as we officially open Falls 2019!

SHUTTLE BUSES We have shuttle buses running to North Byron Parklands from Kirra in the north to Suffolk Park in the south. See the Falls Festival website for shuttle bus timetable and full list of locations.

KEEP IT CLEAN & GREEN Take a gander at the beautiful grounds that are the beating heart of this great festival. Take care of the fields, and please leave your campsites as you found them. Plastic Water Bottle Free: There will be no single-use plastic water bottles sold on site, so please remember to bring a reusable (non-glass) bottle to refill at our freshwater stations. If you forget, we have water bottles available at the merch stands. Bettercup: Falls Festival is flicking single-use cups! We’ve teamed up with Bettercup to offer Aussie made reusable cups at Falls. Fill it, drink it, REUSE IT. Pay a $2 cup deposit when you buy your first drink. When you’re ready for your next drink, take your cup back to one of our bars and swap it out for a fresh one. Stopped using your cup? Take your cup back to the Cup Redemption Tent within the Event area and receive $1 back. Or… if you would like to donate your cup to one of our Donation Bins – $1

per cup will go towards helping one of our local charities, including NSW RFS. Water Saving: We have a range of water harvesting and award-winning water saving programs across the venue. We harvest rainwater onsite, which is pumped, stored, tested and distributed to our sustainable gasfired onsite showers. Free water refill stations are available throughout the festival. Our world-renown composting toilets are flush free and save around two and a half million litres of water each year! Bin To Win!: On the last day of the event, we ask patrons to bring us bags of recycling or camping equipment being left behind. For every bag or item returned, our patrons go into the draw to win VIP tickets to the festival the following year! Food Donations: All caterers at Falls Festival use compostable packaging and utensils, and any leftover fresh, untouched food is donated to Byron’s Liberation Larder to feed people in need around our area.

Tree Planting: An impressive 26,000 native seedlings have been planted onsite at North Byron Parklands by our staff and patrons. Party with the Planet: When onsite make sure you do your bit this year – bring reusable water bottles to refill, look for the recycling and food waste composting stations, keep your campsite clean and take all camping equipment home with you. Make the pledge to party with the planet, not against it, for your chance to WIN a season pass to all participating festivals. Join at www.partywiththeplanet.org.

FANCY DRESS New Year’s Eve at Falls Byron is dress up time, and this year’s theme is NEON NIGHTS! Bright, punchy and as tropical-fruity as you want to take it. Fly your own flag, or create a look en masse with your friends.

CAR PASSES As well as your Festival Ticket you will require a pre-purchased Car Pass if you plan to drive to the festival site.

DROP OFF ZONE There is a drop off zone where parents/friends can drop off and pick up patrons in the Northern Car Park (entry off Tweed Vallery Way), please ask staff where to go when entering the festival site.

INFORMATION STATION We have an Information Station located just inside the main entry, it is staffed at all times by friendly, well informed Falls oracles. You can head here if you have any questions, need directions, are looking to contact security, need sunscreen, insect repellent or just want to chill out and chat to some nice folk. Lost and found is located here, plus, you can redeem your Car Pass Redemption Vouchers.

MORE QUESTIONS? Download the Falls Festival app or head to www.fallsfestival.com (check the FAQ and Goings On section) before you head to the festival to find out everything you need to know about having a fun, safe time at Falls.

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ROUNDUP NYE DANCE PARTY AT BALLINA RSL DJ Beaver from Byron Bay will be bringing his dance floor fun to the Ballina RSL this New Year’s Eve. Be part of the super fun five-hour 2020 dance party, with music from The Bee Gees to Bruno Mars, and all your favourite retro classics and commercial hits from the ‘70s, ‘80s, and ‘90s. With 20 years experience mixing it up for dance parties across The Byron Shire and beyond, you really can leave it to DJ Beaver. Dress in retro glamour and be dazzled by installations and light shows. Running 8pm–1am, tickets are $15 from ballinarsl.com.au. - H A R V E S T

NYE AT LOCURA 2020 CUT COPY, JONO MA, OLI WRIGHT & BENJAMAS Celebrate another cycle around the sun, under the stars, on the balcony of Byron Bay’s number-one nightclub, Locura – with Aussie dance legends Cut Copy! Cut Copy DJs are Dan Whitford and Tim Hoey, who are also the frontman and guitarist of the band Cut Copy. Dan Whitford began his career as a hip-hop scratch DJ, and the duo have moved on to DJing globally as a main stage attraction at both rock and dance festivals, as well as for super-clubs, underground dance parties and fashion events. Cut Copy’s unique knack for digging out deep dance cuts, balanced with their instinct for electronic pop, has ignited stadiums all over the world and is what will make this New Year’s Eve at Locura a night to remember. 7pm–3am. Tickets from locura.com.au or http:/tiny.cc/zajzfz

NEW YEAR’S EVE AT BROTHERS KINGY

LET’S PARTY LIKE IT’S 1920! Come dressed as your favourite 1920s gangster or dust off your feather boa and flapper dress and get ready for a night you won’t forget! Live music, delicious gourmet menu and complimentary bubbles on arrival. Prizes for best dressed.

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Celebrate NYE at your favourite location in the universe, the wild planet of Harvest Newrybar. Get ready to take oﬀ into the glistening aether of dazzling funk in the cosmic tent, where you’ll be taken on a journey into outer space by DJ Bonnas for a soulful and retro-tinged disco vibe. Don’t wait around to grab your ticket, join us for food, drinks, eco glitter, lasers and a lot more funk. It’s going to be out of this world! GLITTER UP! PEACE LOVE & FUNK

BAKERY - STAR BAR psychedelic rainbow punch / space balls and sticks off the BBQ / doughnuts

NYE COCKTAIL PARTY Starts at 7:30pm Tickets $200 per head

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ROUNDUP PUSH ON AT MULLUM EX-SERVICES

Mullum Ex-Services Club is hosting the best party in town on New Year’s Eve. Their NYE entertainment will be none other than premier covers band, Push, with a decade-breaking mix of modern and classic rock. Push are hip, now, relevant and entertaining, keeping up to date with the latest trends and songs while throwing a few surprises in along the way. A mix of youthful energy and a wealth of performance experience provide a solid rock foundation to their Push for perfection. From smooth groove dance to blazing tracks from such varied artists as Split Enz, The Divinyls, Baby Animals, Maroon 5, Pink, Bruno Mars, Thirsty Merc, Hoodoo Gurus, Powderfinger and ACDC – Push are the total entertainment package! Celebrate 2019 and get your new year off to an awesome start at Club Mullum. Push hits the stage 8pm. It’s a free show, so no excuses accepted as they will even pick you up and take you home in their free courtesy bus service – just call the club to book your seat. 6684 2533.

THE ROARING 20 S WITH BROTHERS Show some moxie and bring in 2020 at Brothers speakeasy – party like it’s 1920 with live music, food and fancy dress. Get your Chopper Squad together, grab your Broad, Doll or Bearcat in her Flapper and don’t forget your Tommy Gun. The prohibition store front will supply you with our finest whisky. Hopefully no one ends up in a Meat Wagon, or gets picked up by any Bulls! Bring in the new year in roaring style at Brothers in Kingscliff. Live music and great food. $65 a ticket. Dress is 1920’s themed. To book contact 6674 8499 www.brotherscaferestaurantbar.com

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NYE COCKTAILS AT ST ELMO Feel like doing something super classy for NYE? Then get yourself frocked up for the cocktail party at St Elmo, Byron Bay. With food and cocktail on arrival, wines and beers, and entertainment by Niall Lochhead and DJ Kurt King. 7.30pm till late. $200 stelmodining.com

COME PARTY WITH TEAM TAV THIS NYE! Head into 2020 with your flashest pair of sunnies and bust out some tunes at the Ocean Shores Tavern’s Karaoke Party. Your future’s so bright – you gotta wear shades! Great food, awesome cocktails, and NYE frivolity. Call the Tav on 6680 3222 to book a courtesy bus pick up between 6pm and 9pm, and let the bus take you home. Team Tav wishes everyone a safe and fabulous new year.

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9pm Push Free Band New Years Eve. Free Courtesy Bus Service. Cocktail & Drink Specials.

Theme: Sunglasses at night! Future is so bright, we gotta wear shades! Karaoke - 8pm , cracking food and cocktails Bring your 2020 vision and come party with team Tav this NYE!

Courtesy bus to get you home, or call us to arrange a pick up to the Tav between 6pm-9pm

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NEW YEARS EVE DANCE PARTY TUESDAY 31 DECEMBER 8pm to 1am Tickets: $15 18+ - DJ Beaver Dress Retro Glamour if you wish. Be dazzled by Installations and Light Shows plus a Sophisticated Sound System to keep your body moving.

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1. The Bruns Doughnut float for the Surf Club. Plastic in the water, what could go wrong? 2. Letters of Love for our Firefighters collected by The Valentines at The Mullum Music Fest. 3.The disappearing Disco Dong. Birds without a feather flew away together. 4. Modelling heatwave appropriate outfits at the WNBR. 5. Aria and Sunny have pretty strong feelings about plastic. 6. Big LOVE from the Mullum Music Festival. 7. After the September fires in Drake and no clouds in sight, Felicity Cahill is praying for rain. 8. The class bully, Eric and the teachers pet Allen, with their trained human, Joel. 9. People who just don’t understand what coal can do for our country – or is it that they know what it has done to our planet. 10. Falls, Iconic Laundromat. Airing the dirty laundry. 11. Always was, always will be… Born on country Shamiyah Kay-Hammond will remember the day in May 2019 that the Federal Court convened at Brunswick Heads to recognise the native title rights of Arakwal – the Bundjalung People of Byron Bay. Photos by Jeff Dawson and Tree Faerie.

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As we gather with kin to farewell the old year, remember those no longer with us and count our blessings, we wish readers love, laughter and a smooth cruise into the new decade… ARIES: If end of year exhaustion’s hit, this week ignites new sparks in something that might have felt like it had run its race. As an ambitious, expansive planetary congregation joins forces, conversations in the last days of the decade are likely to concern your forte: courageous endings, bold beginnings, new goals. TAURUS: This week’s dramatic eclipse injects fresh fuel into projects, situations or relationships plateaued to backburner or autopilot. Packed with propulsion for moving on from what’s passed its use-by date, the lead up to the new decade fizzes with fertile potential – so stay alert for visionary downloads that revolutionise your new year resolutions. GEMINI: The Sun and Jupiter only meet once every 12 years in the intimate, deepest-desires part of your chart, and it’s this week. Find the words to articulate what you truly, madly, most want, even if it’s just to yourself, and then listen to the planetary gathering in intentionsetting Capricorn as it sends info about long term security moves. CANCER: New moons offer impetus for making changes, and this week’s seasonal celestial vibes offer a lunar lift to any revamping that might be necessary in your partnership departments. As the year approaches its grand finale, this will give group projects their best chances of becoming dream teams when newdecade initiatives get into their stride.

LIBRA: Big shifts and resets are simmering away at the Libran base of operations this week, which is highly auspicious for Having That Talk while celestial blessing energy’s operating on your behalf. Boxing Day’s blazing halo round the new moon eclipse is the perfect transit for sharing fears and concerns and discussing future plans. SCORPIO: New moon joining a gang of planets in your communications centre strongly suggests this week’s prophetic conversations could be sowing the seeds of future collaborations. A Sun/ Jupiter alignment inspires big picture thinking, so while you’ve got the cosmic mic (or talking stick, depending on your tribe) take your message to the masses. SAGITTARIUS: This week’s energy influx of abundant material pleasures sees exuberant Sun and Jupiter clinking celebratory glasses, and even the party season won’t stop chatty Mercury pursuing money/work discussions. The last few days of the decade are full of luck and promise, so ride the high of holiday vibes before next year launches into some serious yakka. CAPRICORN: Time to break out the vision boards, mind maps, goals and wish lists as five planets, including a galvanizing solar eclipse new moon on Boxing Day, illuminate your cosmic portal into the new year. Then Mercury joins the Sun, Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto for a highly creative exit to this decade and auspicious entrance into the next.

LEO: Festive pressures inevitably spawn forceful dynamics and high voltage emotions, making this week the season to keep cool, slow down, avoid arguments and drama, regroup and recoup. Not to mention thinking big for the new decade as the Sun/Jupiter annual alliance activates a master-planning transit for practical action

AQUARIUS: While there’s definitely the feeling of a cycle winding up, remember closure walks arm in arm with new openings. As Sun and Jupiter align in the deep healing part of the Aquarian chart, gratitude for lessons learned makes letting go poignant and potent, so balance festive celebrations with enough downtime for those ‘A-ha!’ moments.

VIRGO: . The climatic back-story may be sombre, but an extravagant planetary bonanza in your house of fun ends the twenteens on a personal high note. This week offers a transformational time for Virgo relationships, zinging with fresh possibilities as the past decade’s lessons start settling into material shape.

PISCES: Boxing Day new moon’s solar eclipse (think Pisces Johnny Cash singing Ring of Fire) could heat up your teamwork zone to super-upbeat levels, which end the decade on a lucky note. Even on holidays you’re likely to make elite connections as group energy escalates, so team up and tune into the synergies of the hive mind.

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ALL SHORTS DEADLINE APPROACHES Want to submit a film to Flickerfests’ Byron All Shorts? You have until Friday! Filmmakers from across the region are invited to submit their short films of up to 30min in length, from all genres. Byron All Shorts celebrates the filmmaking talent of the Northern Rivers region and encourages audiences to experience the many amazing films

and local stories that are produced here each year. Prizes and cash to the value of around $3k will be included in awards for the Flickerfest-iQ Best Short Film Award, the SAE Qantm Emerging Talent Award, the Audience Award and more, all in the quest to recognise the incredible talent in our region.

The best of local shorts from the Northern Rivers will screen in the Byron All Shorts finalists program on Saturday, 1 February at 4pm, alongside the best of Australia, and the world, at Flickerfest International Short Film Festival screenings from Thursday, 29 January–Saturday, 1 Feb. Entry Forms and Info from iQ.org.au 0414 779 881

Session Times: Thu 26 Dec - Wed 1 Jan

FAMILY SELECTION All tickets $14.00 Each FROZEN 2 (PG) - NOW SHOWING • SPIES IN DISGUISE (PG) - JAN 1 FARMAGEDDON (G) - JAN 9 • GO! (PG) - JAN 16

NYE 31st Dec Sparkling Event BOMBSHELL (M) Tue: 6:30PM Adv screenin JOJO RABBIT (M) NFT Daily except Wed, Tue: 10:45AM, 1:50, 4:10, 6:30, 8:15 Xmas: 1:50, 4:10, 6:30PM Tue: 10:45AM, 1:50, 4:10, 6:30 THE TRUTH (PG) NFT Daily except Wed: 10:30AM, 3:40, 6:30PM Xmas: 3:40, 6:30PM JUMANJI: THE NEXT LEVEL (PG) NFT Daily except Wed, Tue: 9:45, 11:15, 1:15, 4:15, 6:50, 8:50 Xmas: 1:15, 4:00, 6:30PM Tue: 9:45, 11:15AM, 1:15, 4:15, 6:50PM STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER (M) NFT Daily except Wed, Tue: 10:00AM, 1:00, 2:50, 4:00, 6:00, 7:00, 8:50PM Xmas: 1:00, 3:50, 6:00, 6:40 Tue: 10:00AM, 1:00, 2:50, 4:00, 7:00PM

CATS (CTC) NFT Daily except Wed, Tue: 10:30AM, 4:00, 6:20, 8:45PM Xmas: 4:00, 6:20PM Tue: 10:30AM, 4:00, 6:20PM CHARLIE'S ANGELS (M) Daily except Wed: 11:00AM Xmas: 1:00PM FORD V. FERRARI (M) Daily except Wed, Tue: 1:00, 8:45PM Xmas, Tue: 1:00PM FROZEN 2 (PG) Daily except Wed: 9:30AM, 1:30, 6:00PM Xmas: 1:30, 6:15PM JOKER (MA15+) Daily except Wed: 4:00PM Xmas: 3:40PM JUDY (M) Daily except Wed: 9:15AM KNIVES OUT (M) Daily except Wed, Tue: 3:20, 8:30PM Xmas: 3:30PM Tue: 3:20PM

LAST CHRISTMAS (PG) Daily except Wed: 11:40AM OFFICIAL SECRETS (MA15+) Daily except Wed: 12:30PM Xmas: 3:45PM PAIN AND GLORY (MA15+) Daily except Wed: 1:50PM Xmas: 1:30PM PLAYING WITH FIRE (PG) Daily except Wed: 11:40AM Xmas: 3:30PM PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE (M) Daily except Wed: 12:50, 6:00 Wed: 1:00, 6:15PM SORRY WE MISSED YOU (MA15+) Daily except Wed, Tue: 1:45PM Xmas: 1:20PM Tue: 1:45, 6:30PM THE ADDAMS FAMILY (PG) Daily except Wed: 9:20AM THE GOOD LIAR (MA15+) Daily except Wed, Tue: 4:00, 6:30, 8:50PM Wed: 6:00PM Xmas: 4:00PM

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KNIVES OUT Written and directed by Rian Johnson and filled with so many incredible actors, namely Daniel Craig, Jamie Lee Curtis and Toni Collette; Knives Out is a good old fashioned who-done-it about the death of a patriarch of an eccentric family. Trying to solve this murder mystery is an equally eccentric detective (Daniel Craig). There isn’t a weak link in the acting lineup with everyone delivering outstanding performances. Director Rian Johnson does well at delicately balancing a witty script and a continuous feeling of suspense. Knives Out is one of the very few original who-done-it films in recent times which successfully navigates through everything these movies quintessentially are, as well as putting it’s on spin on it. For example, you may be surprised at how much information you learn at the start of the film, compared to other films of this genre that leak information to the audience much more slowly. It makes you re-think how you process a who-done it. This is a funny and fresh film with a fantastic script and great acting. 'ĕĈĕŔćĕſ ǩǫǽ ǩǧǨǰ The Byron Shire Echo 39

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FRIDAY 27 Q HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON BAY, TOXIC FOX, KAVA KINGS, THE MOVING STILLS Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, EPIC Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 4.30PM DAN CLARK DUO 9PM DJ REFLEX

Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, CHRIS & JAMIE Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 4.30PM LISA HUNT 8PM SECRET SHOW

Q TREEHOUSE, BYRON BAY, 7.30PM LIVE MUSIC

Q BALLINA RSL BOARDWALK 6PM SLIM PICKENS Q WORKER’S CLUB, LISMORE, 7.30PM CHECK 2 Q CASINO GOLF CLUB 7.30PM FLIPSIDE 45 Q THE CHANNON TAVERN 7.30PM JON J BRADLEY – VOCAL PARTY KARAOKE Q MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES CLUB 7.30PM LEIGH JAMES Q RIVERVIEW HOTEL, MURWILLUMBAH, 8PM EUREKA FUNK

Q HOTEL BRUNSWICK 6PM WEAR THE FOX HAT Q OCEAN SHORES COUNTRY CLUB 6.30PM TRIVIA

Q KINGSCLIFF BEACH BOWLS 3PM SUNDAY BEATS & BREWS

Q TREEHOUSE, BYRON BAY, 6PM OPEN MIC, 7.30PM ANIMAL VENTURA Q THE STICKY WICKET BAR, BYRON BAY, 9PM JAMES SCOTT + LOCAL DJS Q WILLIAMS STREET KITCHEN & BAR, LENNOX HEAD, 6.30PM ALOHA BABY Q BANGALOW HOTEL 7PM ADAM BROWN Q HOTEL BRUNSWICK 7PM PUSH

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SATURDAY 28 Q HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON BAY, VANILLA GORILLA, SUNSET BURRITOS, DUSTY BOOTS AND FELIPE BALDIMOR

SUNDAY 29 Q HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON BAY, THE SWAMPS Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, MARSHALL & THE FRO Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 4.30PM FRIEND ZONE, 7.30PM LIVE DJS Q TREEHOUSE, BYRON BAY, 12PM SUNDAY SESSION DJS – JEZZA J & VINNIE LADUCE

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Q MIDDLE PUB, MULLUMBIMBY, 7PM NICOLE BROPHY

Q THE SUN, BYRON BAY, 5PM OOZ

Q MARY G’S, LISMORE, PINK ZINC Q LISMORE WORKER’S CLUB, 7.30PM DANCE ON Q RICHMOND HOTEL, LISMORE, 9.30PM PISTOL WHIP

Q CABARITA BEACH SPORTS CLUB 7.30PM AGENT 77

Q TREEHOUSE, BYRON BAY, 7.30PM LIVE MUSIC Q THE STICKY WICKET BAR, BYRON BAY, 10PM ROMISOUNDS

Q HOTEL BRUNSWICK 6PM BULLHORN AND DJ KIRBY

Q CHINDERAH TAVERN 2.30PM OFF THE GRID

Q MIDDLE PUB, MULLUMBIMBY, 8PM KRAPPYOKEE

Q HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON BAY, THE SWAMPS

Q RIVERVIEW HOTEL, MURWILLUMBAH, 2.30PM MR TROY

Q THE SUN, BYRON BAY, 7PM DAN HANNAFORD

Q MARY G’S, LISMORE, PUSH

THURSDAY 26

Q LENNOX HOTEL 7PM NYE PARTY

Q COOLANGATTA HOTEL 2PM THIRSTY MERC

Q HOTEL BRUNSWICK 7PM THE DISCO DISCIPLES

Q TREEHOUSE, BYRON BAY, 6.30PM OLI WRIGHT (DJ SET)

Q SPHINX ROCK CAFE, MT BURRELL, 11.30AM JAMES Q

Q TARGA, BYRON BAY, 6PM LEIGH JAMES

Q MIDDLE PUB, MULLUMBIMBY, TRIVIA

WEDNESDAY 25

Q BYRON BAY GOLF CLUB 8.30PM FERAMONES, EPIQ, LATE FOR WOODSTOCK

Q KINGSCLIFF BEACH HOTEL 3PM BRITISH INDIA

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

Q RIVERVIEW HOTEL, MURWILLUMBAH, 7PM DEVILS KIOSK

Q RICHMOND HOTEL, LISMORE, 8.30PM JIMMY AND PAINTED CROW

Q BYRON BAY BREWERY 7PM LEMAIRE

Q BRUNSWICK HEADS PICTURE HOUSE 4PM CHRISTMAS IN THE HOUSE

Q LISMORE WORKER’S CLUB 7.30PM JAKE & THE CADILLACS

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Q FRESH, BYRON BAY, 4PM SLIM PICKENS

Q THE STICKY WICKET BAR, BYRON BAY, 9PM BIGGY P

Q MIDDLE PUB, MULLUMBIMBY, 7PM ADAM BROWN Q MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES CLUB 6PM PHIL GUEST

Q BYRON BAY BREWERY 4PM COCO REPUBLIC

Q CLUB MULLUM, MULLUMBIMBY, 8PM NEW YEARS EVE PARTY WITH PUSH Q KOHINUR HALL, MAIN ARM, 4PM NEW YEARS EVE SOUNDKALPA ROOTS RAGA REGGAE Q LISMORE WORKER’S CLUB, 6PM HILLBILLY GOATS, 6.30PM CHRIS MATTHEWS & HILLBILLY GOATS

Q HOTEL GREAT NORTHERN, BYRON BAY, SKEGGS, RUBY FIELDS, PIST IDIOTS AND CATS Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, MICKA SCENE Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 6PM DU’EAST, 9PM CHARLIE HUSTLE

Q SHOWGROUNDS, LISMORE, 8PM HONCHO DISKO X TROPICAL FRUITS NYE 2019 – GEM CLUB Q CASINO GOLF CLUB 6PM DISCOSTATIK Q MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES CLUB 6PM CHERILEE HALL

Q TREEHOUSE, BYRON BAY, 6.30PM VINNIE LADUCE (DJ SET)

Q CABARITA BEACH SPORTS CLUB 8PM THE TITANIX

Q THE STICKY WICKET BAR, BYRON BAY, 10PM ROMISOUNDS

Q KINGSCLIFF BEACH BOWLS 4PM NYE FAMILY PARTY, 8PM THE HODADS

Q HOTEL BRUNSWICK 7PM BEN JANSZ Q THE QUAD, LISMORE, 12PM OPEN FOR FRUITS

Q KINGSCLIFF BEACH HOTEL 6PM NEVER ENDING 80’S – PARTY LIKE IT’S 1989!

Q HOTEL BRUNSWICK 4PM MASON RACK BAND

Q LISMORE REGIONAL GALLERY 12PM OPEN FOR FRUITS

Q BROTHERS, KINGSCLIFF, 6PM 1920S NYE PARTY

Q OCEAN SHORES COUNTRY CLUB 1PM CARLY & ROO

Q DUSTY ATTIC, LISMORE, 4PM HAUS OF BOOGIE TROPICAL FRUITS PARTY FEAT ART PLEASLEY

Q SHEOAK SHACK, FINGAL HEAD, ROSIE MISCHIEF BAND + KATIA DEMEESTER

Q WILLIAMS STREET KITCHEN & BAR, LENNOX HEAD, 5PM DJ VYNIL RICHIE

Q MIDDLE PUB, MULLUMBIMBY, 3PM SUNDAY JAM Q DRILL HALL THEATRE, MULLUMBIMBY, 6PM BYRON LIVE WITH MANDY NOLAN Q EVANS HEAD SLSC 2.30PM ADAM BROWN Q NORPA AT CITY HALL, LISMORE, 7.30PM CARLOTTA: I’M NOT DEAD YET DARLINGS

Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, SOUL’D Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 5PM DJ LONGTIME 9PM TOM & JARRY

MONDAY 30

Q OCEAN SHORES COUNTRY CLUB WEAR THE FOX HAT

Q COOLANGATTA HOTEL 6PM THE BONDI CIGARS WITH SPECIAL GUESTS

Q CHINDERAH TAVERN 4PM NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY

TUESDAY 31 Q RAILWAY HOTEL, BYRON BAY, RAGGA JUMP & THE SWAMPS Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 7.30PM FUNK SOUL & DISCO NYE PARTY Q BYRON BAY BREWERY 2PM NYE WITH CLAPTONE, REBŪKE + MORE Q LOCURA, BYRON BAY, CUT COPY DJS, 7PM CUT COPY DJS Q BYRON COMMUNITY CENTRE PRESENT 4PM SOUL STREET ON THE STREETS OF BYRON

WHAT’S ON

Q THE SUN, BYRON BAY, 5.30PM DJ BILLY THE KID

SOUL STREET NEW YEAR’S EVE 2019 JONSON ST & RAILWAY PARK

Q TREEHOUSE, BYRON BAY, 6.30PM VINNIE LADUCE (DJ SET)

Tuesday 31 December, 4pm – Midnight Family Friendly & Alcohol Free

Q SEAGULLS, TWEED HEADS, 7.30PM ROUND MOUNTAIN GIRLS + JET CLUB EFFECT

Q COOLANGATTA HOTEL 7PM NEW YEARS EVE - LISA HUNT & THE BUNCH

WEDNESDAY 1 Q BEACH HOTEL, BYRON BAY, 4.30PM THE FERAMONES, 8PM MY HAPPY PLACE Q CAPE BYRON LIGHTHOUSE 4AM FIRST SUN Q TREEHOUSE, BYRON BAY, 6.30PM OLI WRIGHT (DJ SET) Q FRESH, BYRON BAY, 7PM SLIM PICKENS Q HOTEL BRUNSWICK 7PM DAN HANNAFORD Q BILLINUDGEL HOTEL 1PM 2020 VISION NYD

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Saturday 11 January, 1pm Full $25 | Conc $23 | BT Club $20 | U18 $15 Group of 10+ $15

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Houses don’t create jobs, farms do a lot of time and money to overcome the barriers to entry. Some of those barriers are regulatory, and it doesn’t help that different rules apply in Ballina, Lismore, Byron, Kyogle, and Tweed – every shire is different. Regionality is working with the NSW office of small business commissioner to help small farms be profitable and thus maintain our economic capacity. When small producers value-add, they employ people in technology, marketing, sales, distribution, accounts and office jobs, for example.’

S Haslam Covering farmland with houses is not a new idea, it’s been going on for centuries – as cities and towns expand. But as our climate dries out, we’re starting to realise that there’s not always an area ‘further out’ that can be sustainably farmed – and that means that we have a food security issue. The Northern Rivers is a beautiful place to live. It has beaches and a nice environment, but part of the winning combination is the soil, farmland, climate and reliable access to the water that also make it ideal for primary production. In fact, the Alstonville Plateau and the Cudgen/Duranbah Plateau are so good they’re classified State Significant Farmland. The NSW government has just decided to put the new Kingscliff Hospital complex on top of the latter!

Ancillary uses The Farm at Byron is a rare example of productive farmland being rescued from the jaws of housing development.

Stunning planning omission

Not many food bowls

‘What stuns me, is we plan for roads, water, shopping, housing etc but we don’t plan for where we are going to plant our food. In this ‘sustainable’ region we don’t identify where our food production is going to come from’, says Rose Wright from Regionality, who works across agriculture, agrifood and tourism with a key focus on helping farmers to innovate and diversify. ‘Covering the Northern Rivers with houses does not create jobs, it creates a demand for jobs. Once the tradesmen have left and new residents move in, they need work. ‘It is critical that farmland is kept for farming. Despite the widespread drought, we still have farmers here who are farming because they have access to water. We have a unique situation here. ‘Although our area is small, compared to broadacre farming areas out west, it is worth protecting for our region’s food future, but also for our economic future – farms underpin our way of life and tourist industry’, she says. Rebecca Zentveld from Zentveld’s Coffee agrees. She grows coffee in Newrybar, and says that we have had a decade of skyrocketing land values, with productive farmland being sold for growing only a house and garden, rather than primary production.

‘There aren’t many real food bowls in Australia, and if you don’t grow food in these productive zones with a gentle microclimate, rich soils, natural springs and (until now) predictable rainfall, then where are we going to grow food?’, she asks. The Northern Rivers is gaining recognition for growing sustainable, organic food (see northernriversfood.org). Showcased in great restaurants, or as value-added products, our local produce is a tourist drawcard, but there are also other important cultural, economic and environmental benefits to food production. ‘Plenty of us up here are thoughtful farmers open to new ideas’, she says. ‘We are implementing regenerative soil practices and understand that we need to nurture the soil microbes to build soil resiliency and carbon. At Zentvelds coffee farm we look after the soil first – with cover crops and nitrogen plants, mulch and cow poo. Our coffee trees and inter-row plantings have greened up with just that little rain – [making them] wonderfully resilient through the drought. Along with our considerate macadamia farming neighbour, we have regenerated the rainforest at the headwaters of Skinners Creek and have a healthy riparian zone of local tree species and lively wildlife habitat.

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We are bee friendly farmers - so much so we have our own coffee blossom honey! I see our local food farmers being considerate to their land, looking after and creating wildlife corridors – with no multinationals, feed lots or monocultures, just relatively small lots of increasingly ecologically considerate farmers dotting our hinterland’.

Small scale farms In fact the scale of the farms in our region is a major challenge as they are small lots and they are getting smaller, so they rarely have the scale to be able to tap into the central market system, as there is not enough turnover. Rose Wright says that the way to make it work in the Northern Rivers is to leverage the growth in organics (the fastest growing high value sector) and value add to the produce, and use the assets we have on farms to create diversification. ‘Just farming, picking and shipping to market is not that viable’, says Rose. ‘What we need to do, like Zentvelds or Brookfarm, is to process to a branded high-value product, and then sell it either to retail or wholesale. At the moment that is expensive and time consuming and is a massive gamble for small farmers. You don’t know what the opportunity will be. Micro, small scale and artisan producers have to spend

The way forward, according to Ms Wright, is for planning rules to support diverse income streams from activities ‘ancillary’ to primary production. As long as primary production is maintained, you should be able to serve coffee, have people stay on your property in cabins, sell your goods such as cheese, butter or milk from your property, do on-farm meat processing, and cooperate with other businesses. For example, a business that makes hand-creams using your product. Not every farmer would do it, but State land use planning should be developed to support that. The goal would be to develop a link between agriculture and tourism that would open up great opportunities state-wide, but would be a clear winner in the Northern Rivers: we need production and retail opportunities on farm, so that the consumer can experience the product,

Right to farm A second initiative is to acknowledge a ‘right to farm’; every development should set aside their own buffer zone to neighbouring farms. Anyone buying property should be given a notice that they are in a farming area and there may be noise (normally inconsistent with the right to quiet enjoyment), and anyone buying a lifestyle lot should realise that it’s a farming area, which means it has farming activities. These initiatives need not hold back housing development: there are many parcels of land that look like good farming land, but have limited productive capacity, and are more suitable for housing.

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Right on Targa for a summery freelance Christmas breakup Story and Photos by Vivienne Pearson How do you have a Christmas party when you work alone and face deadlines right up to when you declare the year a wrap? The perfect solution presented itself this year in my decision to double up research for this story with my freelance festivities. I enjoyed Targa’s Dinner at Dusk and couldn’t be happier. Behind every freelance creative, there is a supportive partner or friend, and my husband Richard deserved his presence at my endof-year celebrations thanks to his year-long provision of a supportive ear, an eagle-sharp proofreading eye, and a steadier income than mine. Last time I wrote about Targa, it was all about their winter warming menu (even more so, now they have installed a fire). This time was the exact opposite, with our meals being a celebration of summer. We sat outside and started with a Spritz; an ‘In the Pink’ for me, with a biting blend of campari and pink cranberry juice, and a Summer Berry for Richard (he highly recommends biting into the frozen Brookies gin-infused

strawberry before it melts). Dinner at Dusk offers two courses for $40 or three for $50; great value for those happy to be seated by 5:30pm and eat within a two-hour window. Hand rolled gnocchi with mushrooms Dusk diners order from and sage the regular menu, so can choose from the full range of Targa’s delicious Italian dishes. We went summery for the entrée, choosing grilled Ballina king prawns served with an avocado mojo verde and a colourful tomato salad. The prawns carried a gorgeous hint of smokiness and were huge enough to easily divide in half when our politeness about who Vivienne enjoying her Christmas ‘work was going to get the third party’ at Targa with her hubby, Richard one ran thin. We stuck with the seafood theme for one of our question why you would ever bother mains, thoroughly enjoying a crab with supermarket excuses for this tagliatelle dish with a perfect blend dish. Hand rolled and served with of chilli and garlic. Our other main was gnocchi; the sort that makes you mushroom, sage, toasted pine nuts

Entree selections for Targa’s Dine at Dusk and truffle oil, these were little pillows’ of delectableness. A side salad of rocket, radicchio and parmesan helped us feel like we were being nice as well as naughty for this Christmas celebration. As well as debriefing on our current end-of-year busyness and anticipating our upcoming holiday, we used the relaxed ambiance of Targa alfresco dining at sunset to reflect on the year of work that was; deciding that our favourite story for the year (apart from my Echo ones, of course) was for the ABC, about the demise of the Disco Dong.

If you work for yourself, I hope that you enjoy some sort of work celebration. I wish everyone a very happy Christmas and welcoming in of the year 2020. Targa: targabyronbay.com Ph 02 6680 9960 Open Breakfast, lunch and dinner 11 Marvell St, Byron Bay FB: TargaByronBay Insta: targabyronbay Link for online version of story: ABC Disco dong story: https:// www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-20/ byron-bay-disco-dong/11529846

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Eating Out Guide BYRON BAY

BALLINA

Ballina RSL Club 1 Grant St, Ballina 6681 9500 www.ballinarsl.com.au Open 7 Days from 8am Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Snacks

Wharf Bar & Restaurant Ballina FB/Insta: wharfbarballina 12–24 Fawcett St, Ballina 6686 5259

Dine in our fabulous waterfront location … it’s a combination restaurant, brasserie and bistro all rolled into one.

Gourmet treats and daily chef’s specials guarantee a memorable experience.

EVERY TUESDAY HALF PRICE PIZZA & PEZZO POCKET Dine in and take away www.wharfbarballina.com.au

One Green Acre

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

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

BILLINUDGEL

billi

Billi’s Indian Open Tuesday – Sunday 4.30pm to late Closed Monday 8 Wilfred St, Billinudgel BYO. Credit cards 6680 3352

AUTHENTIC INDIAN RESTAURANT • Chef specials every night • Exciting New Menu • 10% off for seniors every day • Catering available for parties • Vegan and gluten free food available • Complimentary papadams if pre-booked!

Targa Modern European Cafe • Restaurant • Bar 11 Marvell Street

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

4 Jonson Street, Byron Bay 6680 9183

Book online: loftbyronbay.com.au @loftbyronbay

Lord Byron Distillery

Open Tuesday–Saturday 12 noon – 5pm 7, 4 Banksia Drive, Byron Bay 8646 4901

Bay Pho

OPEN - 7 days Breakfast & Lunch Dinner Tuesday to Saturday All day menus, licensed bar DINE AT DUSK 2 Course $40, 3 Course $50 – seated by 6pm only Happy hour AFTERNOONS 4–6pm daily $12 Cocktails, $7 beers, $8 wines, $12 Moet Live acoustic music – Fridays 6pm

Just off the sand at famous Main Beach and centrally elevated above bustling Jonson Street and Bay Lane, Loft has the ultimate Byron Bay vibe. Wander up from the beach any day after noon and enjoy impressive food, irresistible cocktails and plenty of beers. Share plates, mains, oysters and incredible deli boards featuring local and international favourites. Open every day noon till midnight.

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

Naturally Better! No artificial flavours, colours or preservatives.

GIN MAKING AND COCKTAIL MASTERCLASS

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

Traditional Vietnamese Foods

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

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The Byron Bay Olive Company is based at the start of the Industrial estate.

From our kitchen ‘La Cuisine’ we produce the tastiest 2/29 Brigantine St marinated olives, sweet garlic and tapenades according Industrial Estate Open Mon–Sat/9am–4pm to our French family’s recipes. We also offer a range of the best sandwiches in the bay, gourmet cheeses and 0431 842 340 surprising add-ons to liven up your platters! byronbayolivescompany.com

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

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Fishheads

WELCOME 2020 BY THE SEA!

1 Jonson Street, Byron Bay 6680 7632

3 COURSE MENU Mumm champagne on arrival. Exclusive use of your table to come and go and enjoy the town’s festivities until 1 AM. $110 PP BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL

GREEN ROOM

Absolute beachfront views

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No Bones

continued Bar & Dining in the BEACH HOTEL Tuesday – Sunday From 4pm till late

1 Bay Lane, Byron Bay 6685 6402

Success Thai

HAPPY HOUR EVERY DAY 5–6PM $12 Cocktails – lychee mojito, margarita, sake sour

Vegan bar and kitchen Open every day from 5pm Tasting Menu $40 11 Fletcher Street 6680 7418 Group bookings and special events up to 100 pax available @nobonesbyronbay please email us at nobonesbyronbay@gmail.com www.nobonesbyronbay.com.au

Mon-Fri lunch & dinner closed Sundays Dinner from 5pm. 3/31 Lawson St, Byron Bay

Chupacabra

St Elmo Dining Room & Bar

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

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Authentic Mexican in a relaxed, fresh and bright atmosphere. This is slow ‘fast food’ with all produce sourced locally. Mexican blend Moonshine coffee by day, margaritas by night, TACOS all day long! Family friendly and specials each night. Coffee: 7am – 11.30am Dinner: 5pm – 9pm Saturday Lunch: 11.30am – 3pm Open Mon – Sat: Closed Sundays

Legend Pizza

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

Byron Bay Deli 6/25–27 Lawson Street 6680 8700 Open Tuesday to Saturday 9am to 5pm

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

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

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

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

Book a table, up to 20 on the fork. For Functions & Events email events@beachhotel.com.au

All your favourites every lunch and dinner Experienced Thai chefs cooking fresh delicious Thai food for you. BYO only Welcome for lunch, dinner and takeaway. Menus available on Facebook St Elmo is a place where you can enjoy great company, first-class food, sophisticated cocktails and an extensive wine list. St Elmo is plating up modern Spanish cuisine to be enjoyed amongst friends and family. Our menus change regularly and feature daily specials.

Check us out on

facebook.com/byron.legendpizza Scan code for our menu! BYO Home delivery 7 days Established 1992 Proudly serving the people of Byron and beyond with the finest gourmet food for over 20 years. Bringing a little bit of the middle east to the bay. We have everything you want for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Eat in or take home. Let us take the stress out of cooking. Picnic Hampers – coffee - catering

MULLUMBIMBY

Yaman Mullumbimby 62 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby 6684 3778

www.yamanmullumbimby.com.au

Open 7 days. Mon–Wed: 9am–8pm Thu–Sun: 9am–8.30pm

Our Rocking New Fresh Summer Menu Come and join us at the Rocks for some delicious summer bites! We have just launched a new menu, and have a range of home-made, locally sourced meals at affordable prices. Try our new salmon ceviche, sizzling brekkie skillet or our crispy pork bahn-mi roll! Cool yourself down with an iced coffee, or why not try our new nutty date smoothie to kick start your day! Indoor and outdoor seating available. Fully licenced.

The Empire

Open 7 days: S,S 9am–3pm, Mon–Thurs 8.30am–4pm, Fri 8.30am–8.00pm Dine in, takeaway, licensed FB/Insta: EmpireMullum empiremullum.com.au 20 Burringbar St, Mullum 6684 2306

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

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

Societa Bistro

Located in Mullum Ex-Services Club

58 Dalley Street, Mullumbimby 6684 2533 www.societabistro.com

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

Modern Australian Cuisine with a heavy influence on local sustainable produce. 18–20 Marvell Street, Winter Hours: Byron Bay Tuesday–Friday Lunch 12–2pm; Dinner 5.30–8pm 6685 6202 Sunday Lunch 12–2pm; Dinner 5.30–8pm 0419 217 144 Saturday - Open 12–8pm www.ourtablebyronbay.com.au

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

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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.

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Handcrafted Malawach, Falafel, Pita Pocket, Middle Eastern spices… blended with the tradition of Yemen and the vibe of Mullumbimby. Visit and experience authentic atmosphere and culture. Dine-in, Takeaway and BYO Vegan & Gluten-Free friendly Special Edition Humus Plate every Wednesday.

Now open later on Fridays for happy hour & burgers! We’re Staying open Friday nights, serving up happy hour and bar snacks 4 – 6pm and burgers 6 – 8.00pm. The Empire is where it’s at! Something for all tastes from epic burgers to vegan delights. Enjoy delectable treats and good vibes at this Mullum icon. The place to go for a relaxed, delicious meal, with a varied menu offering quality dishes made from local ingredients, as well as creative Italian specials. Tuesday – 2 for 1 shnitzel night Thursday – kids eat free Saturday – pasta and salad buffet $17 Sunday – Sunday roast $17

Authentic Mexican food for the whole family. Tacos, Nachos, Burritos, Gorditas and more. Now doing take away. Follow us on Social Media to get special promotions Open Thursday to Sunday 5pm to 9pm

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

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

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Intouch Yoga Teacher Trainings 2020 These courses taught by senior teacher and Yoga Therapist, Flo Fenton, provide you with the skills, confidence and understanding to develop a rewarding career in yoga teaching. There are smaller numbers, many more face to face hours and practice teaching opportunities than on other trainings. One graduate of this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Level 1 training said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;This teacher training has opened up a whole new world of knowledge and practices and ways of effecting positive change in my body and mind â&#x20AC;&#x201C; something I will forever be grateful for. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve developed patience for myself and others, the ability to enjoy time off without feeling guilty or inadequate, the ability to be fully present in this moment, without always planning for future moments, and the skill of acceptance.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; One day a week (Wednesdays) Level 1 begins in March in Suffolk Park, Level 2 starts in April, one day a fortnight (Thursdays) in Bruns. www.intouchyogabyronbay.com flo@intouchyogabyronbay.com 0418 441 437

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Pippi Lifestyle Tucked away behind the famous Byron Salvos in Byron Arts and Industry Estate you'll find Pippi Lifestyle, importer of gorgeous high quality Rattan Furniture. Coming direct from Vietnam, their furniture has been designed and manufactured to be lightweight but extremely sturdy, using plantation materials with nature and sustainability in mind. For just a couple of months you can visit the warehouse for beautiful, affordable furniture, homewares and clothing â&#x20AC;&#x201C; everything from lights, bedheads, tables, daybeds, sofas, sun lounges, hanging chairs and double hanging chairs, mirrors and loads more. The warehouse sale will continue throughout December and January, but hurry in early as they have limited stock available. You can also browse their online store at pippiifestyle.com Unit 3, 5 Banksia Drive, Byron Bay 0402 139 585 @pippilifestyle

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Farm Moto Farm Moto is a locally owned business in the Northern Rivers which has been supplying and servicing Polaris ATVs for over 25 years. With a shift towards driver and rider safety, Polaris offer over 30 petrol or diesel sideby-sides with roll-over protection, however, they also have a fully electric option. The Ranger EV features a strong 30 HP/48V AC electric motor, with zero fuel, zero emissions, and an ultra-quiet operation which won’t disturb neighbours or nature. The tipping tray on the back is good for 227kgs, plus you can drop on a trailer with towing capacity rated to 680kgs. If you have some serious or steep country to cover, the EV borrows the On-Demand-All-Wheel-Drive system from the rest of the Ranger range, and also has engine braking for stability on steep descents.

iFLY Indoor Skydiving iFLY Indoor Skydiving on the Gold Coast is fun, safe and fully accessible for people aged 3+. Indoor skydiving is the simulation of an outdoor skydive, but in a fully controlled, ultrasafe environment, where you can fly solo! There’s no parachute, no jumping and nothing attaching you to planet Earth… it’s just you, the air and an incredible adrenaline rush. Make Indoor Skydiving your new sport! Our Join the Sport Days run throughout the holidays offering a great introduction for new flyers aged 6-16 years. Or just come in for any first flight experience and see for yourself how addictive the feeling of flying is! Blow every other sport away these holidays, with iFLY Indoor Skydiving. Book now at iFLY.com.au, or give them a call on 1300 366 364.

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Bless the RFS Tamsin Smyth lived in the Bungawalbyn for 17 years before moving to Byron Bay. When she saw her former home on fire, she wanted to thank the RFS who were quietly and bravely fighting the fires and actively saving people, properties and wildlife.

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‘I was walking around for days saying, “Bless the RFS”,’ she says. So instead of trying to hug every single firey, because they were a little bit busy, the graphic artist decided to use the words on a T-shirt and raise money for the Rural Fire Service. She designed several versions of her concept and created a fundraising online shop with Redbubble, whom she chose for their great quality apparel, good ethics and sustainability practices. They print one T-shirt at a time on demand, so there is no backlog surplus of T-shirts piled up in a shed! All profits after manufacturing and printing are donated to the Rural Fire Service.

Celebrate Christmas with locally made products and Christmas cards from Bruns News in Brunswick Heads. They have a great range of Indigenous artwork, Boomerangs, Woomeras, Stones and Didgeridoos made locally and authenticated. Ranging from very modestly priced items, up to larger spectacular paintings, these items will make superb Christmas presents. Locally made jewellery from the Mermaid Collective and Merchants of Venus make meaningful gifts, which showcase some of the unique talents of the Shire. Christmas cards from Marion Liddle and Moonface Maddy offer gorgeous local views that you can share with friends and family.

There are T-shirts for kids and adults in all styles, sizes and colours. To see all the available choices, just scroll down under the design to where it says, ‘View this design on all products’.

Lots of other interesting stuff such as Panama hats, quality bluetooth speakers, 3D postcards, placemats, jigsaws and drink bottles all emblazoned with ‘Brunswick Heads’.

Go to tedhead.redbubble.com to order a T-shirt, cotton bag or sticker. All profits go to the RFS.

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Eastgate Christian Church Looking for community and a place to belong? You are welcome at Eastgate. Drop into their Billi Op Shop and purchase or donate clothing and bric-a-brac and help them sow back into the local community. They run a high school youth program Friday nights during the school term, and partner with Red Frogs and YWAM as they voluntarily serve Byron Shire during the big music festivals, Schoolies and other community events. For anyone interested in exploring questions about Christian Faith they offer the ALPHA Film Series. Together with their ACC movement they are assisting drought and fire affected communities in Australia, and on a global front they engage in humanitarian assistance and asset based community development. They have two campuses in the Byron Shire. Their Sunday services are 9.30am at 20 Centennial Cct Byron Bay and 4.30pm at 14 Mogo Place Billinudgel. Contact Nev - 0412 769 586.

Byron Anglican Christmas Services 2019 At Christmas we celebrate our God who redeems and saves us through the birth of Jesus Christ who enters into our humanity and rests his head in the manger of Bethlehem. Jesus is born into the world as we know it; full of wonder and beauty, as well as corruption and darkness. Yet, being born into the messiness of humanity and history, Jesus claims all of it and redeems it, for indeed he is Emmanuel, ‘God-is-withus.’ And even now, we are called to join God in divine life, so that we might be-withGod. In the harsh light of Christmas Day, when all the world’s brokenness is laid bare, we hear the angels rejoice at the announcement of peace. Song is heard among the ruin of our relationships made right. For in this new beginning, with the birth of Jesus, we, too, are re-created again.

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Byron Anglican Christmas Services 2019 Christmas Eve Tuesday 24 December 7pm – St Aidan’s Eureka and St Paul’s Byron Bay

CHRISTMAS DAY SERVICE Wednesday December 25

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Regular Sunday Services: 9:30am Byron Campus 20 Centennial Cct Arts & Industrial Estate, Byron Bay 4:30pm Billi Campus 14 Mogo Place, Billinudgel

Christmas Day Wednesday 25 December 7.30am – St Columba’s Ewingsdale and St Thomas’ Brunswick Heads 9am – All Souls’ Bangalow and St Paul’s Byron Bay 9:30am St Martin’s Mullumbimby

Celebrate with us the birth of Jesus and God’s gift to all All Souls’ – 1 Ashton St, Bangalow St Aidan’s – 3 Federal Dr, Eureka St Paul’s – 14 Kingsley St, Byron Bay

St Columba’s – William Flick Lane, Ewingsdale St Martin’s – 38 Stuart St, Mullumbimby St Thomas’ – 21 Fingal St, Brunswick Heads

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Seasons Greetings from Byron Community College Wishing all our tutors and students, past, present and future a wonderful festive season. Huge thanks from the entire team at Byron College for your ongoing support over the years. It continues to be such a privilege to see so many people within our community embark on a new learning experience. Whether it’s the start of a new career, upskilling, learning new skills for a hobby or special interest or simply to meet new friends, we see the benefits of adult learning daily. In 2019 the College offered over 400 courses to 3000+ students over the 4 terms from nationally recognised certificate courses to small business, language, writing, photography, handcrafts and wellbeing general interest courses. Enrolments for the new 2020 program are now available for booking online. We look forward to welcoming you all to the College in the new year! It’s never too late to learn.

I’d like to wish all members of the community a Merry Christmas and a safe and healthy season. With bushfires still burning, I encourage those of you travelling across the state to do so safely. Please consider supporting local businesses and those who are doing it tough this Christmas. I encourage locals and visitors to be water wise this summer and be mindful of our precious resources. I acknowledge all of our frontline services – police, firies and SES – who will be busy over this period. Thank you from our community for keeping us safe. Let’s hope we get some rain! Merry Christmas. I look forward to serving the community further in 2020. – Tamara Smith, Member for Ballina

HOYTS Cinema You have done the hard yards! Put your feet up, recline and let HOYTS do the work these summer holidays. You’ll be spoiled for choice with an epic range of movies the whole family will love. Go on an enchanted adventure with Frozen 2, meet some spooky (but loveable) characters with The Addams Family, or have a laugh with John Cena in Playing with Fire. If animated action is more your style, don’t miss Playmobil. Save big on family movies every day with specially marked SAVER and SUPER SAVER sessions for HOYTS Rewards members. Join HOYTS Rewards for free to unlock instant family savings and more sweet rewards.

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Tropical Fruits Struts Their Stuff... Please support the Rural Fire Service this Christmas. Visit rfs.nsw.gov.au to volunteer or donate.

Come and join the Fruity Family of Tropical Fruits at this year’s Pride Street Parade through Lismore on Sunday December 29th. Kicking off from the Winsome Hotel in Bridge Street, North Lismore at 4.30pm, the parade winds onto Molesworth Street down towards City Hall. So come along in your finest attire and take part, or be one of their amazing cheerleaders on the sidelines and welcome all their Fruity visitors. A post parade Soiree Spectacular will be held in the forecourt, featuring Welcome to Country from Destiny Haz Arrived, along with other performing artists and then DJ Big Furr to get you moving! Following the Soiree, NORPA presents the one woman show by Carlotta: I’m Not Dead Yet, Darlings. www.tropicalfruits.org.au

Linen House Christmas Clearance Christmas is well and truly in full swing at Linen House Mullumbimby. With up to 70% off everyone’s favourite quilt cover sets, sheets, bathroom towels and stylish home accessories, you’ll reap the rewards of stocking up on the best products – for way less. Fill up your children’s stockings, become your family’s champion gift-giver and get a thrill from discovering stylish homewares and décor to step-up your festive styling. You’ll also enjoy stocking up on trendy napery and fabulous homewares to suit every entertainer’s aesthetic. Update your loungewear for the season ahead with our stylish range of pure linen garments. We’re giving you the gift of an affordable Christmas with quilt covers starting from $30, to homewares from $5. 29-31 Burringbar Street, Mullumbimby 6684 6452 www.linenhouse.com

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Wishing you all a peaceful festive season and prosperous new year. As another year draws to a close and we thought weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d take the opportunity to check in with the agents on what happened in ÇŠÇ§Ç¨Ç° ĂŤĹ&#x2022;Ä&#x17D; ĆąÄ˛ĂŤĆ? Ĺ&#x201D;ÄśÄŤÄ˛Ć? Ä&#x2021;Ä&#x2022; Ĺ?ÄśĹ&#x160;Ä&#x2022;Ĺ?Ćˇ Ć?Ĺ&#x; Ä˛ĂŤĹźĹźÄ&#x2022;Ĺ&#x2022; ÄśĹ&#x2022; ÇŠÇ§ÇŠÇ§Č&#x201A;

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If you had to sum up the 2019 market in one word what would it be? Awesome What was your most

Everyday! Notably the speed at which technology is impacting our industry and how quickly it is being embraced by our clientsâ&#x20AC;Ś just love it! How do you think the market will perform in 2020? The current market has been performing extremely well and I believe current trends will continue into 2020 no doubt. Are you closing over Christmas/New Year? Phones are always on, however our amazing support team will be having a break to recharge, reconnect with family and loved ones as 2020 is going to be a very exciting year in the real estate industry.

surprising result in 2019? Why was it surprising? Surprising and fabulous that after four years we achieved four finalists in the national REB Awards and came home with a win. I shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t call it surprising, as our team are passionate and love everything real estate! Our clients are family and our connections are real. We have a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;whole team approachâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and everyone is part of that, from business growth to marketing and ensuring we are doing, and being, the best we possibly can on all levels. We love what we do and it shows! Did you hear or read anything inspiring that you would like to share?

fell in love with this one above all the others they had seen. Did you hear or read anything inspiring that you would like to share? â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Two things in life that I have total control of: My attitude and my effortâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.

Brett McDonald

RAINE & HORNE OCEAN SHORES, BRUNSWICK HEADS, MURWILLUMBAH

If you had to sum up the 2019 market in one word what would it be? MOVING. What was your most surprising result in 2019? Why was it surprising? Sale of an acreage property in McLeans Ridge that sold in two weeks. An exceptional property sold to a couple who had been looking for twelve months and

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BYRON BAY & HINTERLAND PROPERTY

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Property prepare properties, house, farm animals and pets and offer places to sleep to others during the recent fires. How do you think the market will perform in 2020? We live in paradise, I predict that in 2020 properties will be going up, up, up and selling fast, fast, fast! Are you closing over Christmas/New Year?Â Â My business approach is simple and direct. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m always available, 24/7 any day, any time.

Did you hear or read anything inspiring that you would like to share? Make 2020 the best year of your life!Â How do you think the market will perform in 2020? My prediction is there will always be buyers who want to live in the Northern Rivers, so it is always a great time to sell! Are you closing over Christmas/New Year?Â Â I will be closed on the public holidays.

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If you had to sum up the 2019 market in one word what would it be? Interesting...

If you had to sum up the 2019 market in one word what would it be? Slow.

What was your most surprising result in 2019? Why was it surprising? I had a record sale in Bangalow in September 2019. The home sold for $2,525,000! It was surprising because apparently it is a depressed market. Quality properties always achieve excellent results.

What was your most surprising result in 2019? Why was it surprising? Better than expected response to our marketing/advertising campaign, including print, bus shelters and direct and digital. Surprising as we anticipated it would take longer. Did you hear or read anything

inspiring that you would like to share? Our six year old granddaughter announced her Plan for Life: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Become a scientistâ&#x20AC;Ś but only until I invent a pill which makes me live foreverâ&#x20AC;Ś then become a buskerâ&#x20AC;Ś and a marine biologist.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; How do you think the market will perform in 2020? I am always optimistic and see positive signs. The buyers are ready and some sellers will soon tire of sitting on their hands. Are you closing over Christmas/New Year? Closed Xmas Day between noon and 4pm and New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eve after 9pm.

Tara Torkola

BYRON BAY FIRST NATIONAL

If you had to sum up the 2019 market in one word what would it be? Uplifting. What was your most surprising result in 2019? Why was it surprising? We had our best month in 35 years in the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history this September. We also sold

more than 100 acres of land in Coopers shoot for 4.375m. The property sold off-market with multiple people interested. It was amazing to see how much interested we actually have in the Byron Bay hinterland.

Heads. The property was on the market for 4 years with Byron Bay agents, and in the end I had four buyers fighting over it. Both the vendor and the new owners were very happy with the result.

Did you hear or read anything inspiring that you would like to share? â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Stick to your vision, if you know where youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going, the challenges are minimalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.

Did you hear or read anything inspiring that you would like to share? Have an attitude of gratitude.Â

How do you think the market will perform in 2020? Stronger. Best time to sell property since 2007! Are you closing over Christmas/New Year?Â Â Public holidays only.

Fiona Johnson @ REALTY

If you had to sum up the 2019 market in one word what would it be? Vibrant. What was your most surprising result in 2019? Why was it surprising? That would be the sale of 7 Tweed Street, Brunswick

How do you think the market will perform in 2020? oohh... I never like to speculate on what will happen to prices in the future. Regardless of the market conditions, properties will always sell if you have realistic sellers, motivated buyers and a skilled agent at the helm. Are you closing over Christmas/New Year? Having just returned to work after some much needed time off, I am planning to work right through the summer holidays and into the new year. There are plenty of buyers around in December and January, and so while most agents are drinking beer and sleeping in, I will be available for all your real estate needs.

Michele Jackson

BYRON & BYRON REAL ESTATE

If you had to sum up the 2019 market in one word what would it be? Strong.

surprising result in 2019? Why was it surprising? The banking royal commissionÂ made the real estate market sluggish as many purchasers could not get a bank loan early in the year. Once this was over, in July approx, the recovery of the real estate market in sales was phenomenal.Â Did you hear or read anything inspiring that you would like to share? Life might not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here, we might as well dance. How do you think the market will perform in 2020? Our area has well and truly been found and the real estate market will continue to be strong, as we are land locked; With supply being low and demand to purchase being stronger than ever. Are you closing over Christmas/New Year? Â We will be closed for public holidays only, with business as usual around those dates.

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26 Mia Court, Ocean Shores

Relax to the sound of waves from this modern, spacious Beach House. The 904mÂ˛ block, high ceilings, seamless indoor/outdoor flow, private tropical gardens & pool, two alfresco areas, stunning aspect and tasteful design all make this home a rare opportunity!

Inspect By appointment Price $1,450,000 Todd Buckland 0408 966 421 Gary Brazenor 0423 777 237

2B Booyun Street, Brunswick Heads There are so many reasons to love this beautiful Brunswick Heads charmer. With location being top of the list, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so close to the village you can hear the surf and smell the coffee brewing. It has gorgeous Edwardian street appeal, high ceilings, timber floors & elegant ambience.

Inspect By appointment Price $1,450,000 Todd Buckland 0408 966 421 Gary Brazenor 0423 777 237

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Michele Jackson 0407 906 301

200 St Helena Road, Mcleods Shoot

$4,000,000

• A private 55-acre, 137 year longterm holding estate, located in one of Byron Bay’s most exclusive ůŽĐĂƟ ŽŶƐ͘ • Circa 1881 elegantly restored ĨĞĚĞƌĂƟ ŽŶ ŚŽŵĞ ǁŝƚŚ ϯϲϬͲĚĞŐƌĞĞ ƵŶŝŶƚĞƌƌƵƉƚĞĚ ǀŝĞǁƐ͘ &ƵůůǇ ĨĞŶĐĞĚ improved pastures, including ƉƌŝƐƟ ŶĞ ĐƌĞĞŬ ďŽƌĚĞƌĞĚ ďǇ ŽůĚ rain forest remnant plus spring fed ĚĂŵ͘ ^Ž ŵĂŶǇ ŽƉƟ ŽŶƐ ƚŽ ĐŚŽŽƐĞ ŝŶ regards to the next step in history. • Separate 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom ůƵǆƵƌǇ ĂĐĐŽŵŵŽĚĂƟ ŽŶ͕ ƉůƵƐ ĂĚĚŝƟ ŽŶĂů ƐĞůĨͲĐŽŶƚĂŝŶĞĚ ƐƚƵĚŝŽ enabling passive income.

Michele Jackson 0407 906 301

48 Binalong Court, Burringbar

$1,375,000 – $1,450,000

Michele Jackson 0407 906 301

$1,299,500 • This free hold shop is one of four commercial shops, situated opposite the World famous Byron Bay Main Beach & surrounded by some of the area’s best long term food and trading businesses in the Byron eat street precinct. • Shop size is 81sqm + large undercover ĚĞĐŬ ƐƉĂĐĞ ĨŽƌ ƐĞĂƟ ŶŐ͕ ǁŝƚŚ ŚŝŐŚ ƉĞĚĞƐƚƌŝĂŶ ƚƌĂĸ Đ Ň Žǁ ĚĂŝůǇ͘ ƌĞĂŬĨĂƐƚ͕ lunch and dinner trading hours overlooking main beach. • Secure parking for the shop. Tightly ŚĞůĚ ƉŽƐŝƟ ŽŶ͕ ƉĞƌĨĞĐƚ ĨŽƌ ƚŚĞ ƐĂǀǀǇ entrepreneur.

Michele Jackson 0407 906 301

2 Beach Avenue, South Golden Beach

$1.495M

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ͻ &ŽƌŵĞƌůǇ ŽƉĞƌĂƚĞĚ ĂƐ ƚŚĞ ŝĐŽŶŝĐ Exclusive Peppers Coorabell Retreat. ͻ ŽƵŶĐŝů ĂƉƉƌŽǀĞĚ ϲϲͲĂĐƌĞ ůƵǆƵƌǇ ƌĞƚƌĞĂƚ͕ ĐŽŶƐŝƐƟ ŶŐ ŽĨ͗ ϭϮ ĐĂďŝŶƐ͕ ϱ ŵƵůƟ ͲƵƐĞ ǇƵƌƚƐ͕ ŵĂŶĂŐĞƌ͛Ɛ ƌĞƐŝĚĞŶĐĞ͕ music studio, conference centre, commercial kitchen, large dining areas, inground pool plus hot tub by ƚŚĞ ĐƌĞĞŬ͕ ϭϴ͘ϲ Ŭŵ ĨƌŽŵ ǇƌŽŶ ĂǇ͘ ͻ KǀĞƌůŽŽŬŝŶŐ ϯŬŵ ŽĨ ƉƌŝƐƟ ŶĞ tŝůƐŽŶƐ Creek frontage, absolutely stunning. • This stylish retreat is perfect for ǁĞĚĚŝŶŐƐ͕ ĞǆĞĐƵƟ ǀĞ ƌĞƚƌĞĂƚƐ Θ ĐŽŶĨĞƌĞŶĐĞƐ͕ ƐĞƌǀŝĐŝŶŐ ƵƉ ƚŽ ϭϮϬ ŐƵĞƐƚƐ͘ hŶǁŝŶĚ͕ ƌĞůĂǆ ĂŶĚ ďƌĞĂƚŚĞ ŝŶƚŽ ƚŚŝƐ ƚƌĂŶƋƵŝů ƐĞƫ ŶŐ͘ dŚŝƐ ŝƐ ĂƐ ŐŽŽĚ ĂƐ ŝƚ ŐĞƚƐ͘ • Lush sub-tropical rainforest and stunning hinterland outlooks from all cabins. ͻ ƚŽƵƌŝƐƚ ĚĞǀĞůŽƉŵĞŶƚ ŽĨ ƚŚŝƐ ƐŝǌĞ ǁŝůů ŶĞǀĞƌ ďĞ ƌĞƉĞĂƚĞĚ ŝŶ ǇƌŽŶ ^ŚŝƌĞ͘ • Large permaculture vegetable gardens. Michele Jackson 0407 906 301

33 Wallaroo Drive, Burringbar

$1,200,000 – $1,300,000

6066 Tweed Valley Way, Burringbar

$1,195,000

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• Charming and fully renovated 4 bedroom Queenslander home situated on 899m2 block. ͻ ,ŝŐŚ ĐĞŝůŝŶŐƐ͕ ƉŽůŝƐŚĞĚ Ɵ ŵďĞƌ Ň ŽŽƌƐ͕ ĨƌĞƐŚ ǁŚŝƚĞ ŝŶƚĞƌŝŽƌƐ͕ ƚǁŽ ůŝǀŝŶŐ ĂƌĞĂƐ Ň ŽŽĚĞĚ ďǇ ŶĂƚƵƌĂů ůŝŐŚƚ͘ • Perfect for those looking to add ƚŚĞŝƌ ŽǁŶ ƉĞƌƐŽŶĂů ƚŽƵĐŚ Θ ƚĂƐƚĞ to the landscaping of the property. Ɛ ĂŶ ŝŶǀĞƐƚŽƌ Žƌ ŽǁŶĞƌͲŽĐĐƵƉŝĞƌ ŽƉƉŽƌƚƵŶŝƟ ĞƐ ĂďŽƵŶĚ͘ ͻ ĞƐŝƌĂďůĞ ǀŝůůĂŐĞ͕ ǁŝƚŚŝŶ Ă ƋƵĂŝŶƚ ĂŶĚ Ɵ ŐŚƚůǇ ŚĞůĚ ĐŽŵŵƵŶŝƚǇ͕ ŽŶůǇ ϭϰŬŵ ƚŽ ƉƌŝƐƟ ŶĞ ƐƵƌĮ ŶŐ ďĞĂĐŚĞƐ͘

8 Eloura Court, Ocean Shores

Inspect: By appointment Michele Jackson 0407 906 301

$585,000 – $600,000

Inspect: By appointment Michele Jackson 0407 906 301

• 5 perfectly level north facing acres of prime usable land, located at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac. ͻ &ůŽǁŝŶŐ ĨƌĞƐŚ ǁĂƚĞƌ ĐƌĞĞŬ Θ ƐƉƌŝŶŐ ĨĞĚ ĚĂŵ͕ ŚŽŵĞ ƚŽ ĂŶ ĂƌƌĂǇ ŽĨ ŶĂƟ ǀĞ ďŝƌĚƐ ĂŶĚ ǁŝůĚůŝĨĞ͘ • Expansive single level residence radiates peaceful country living perfectly. ͻ ^ŚĞĚĚŝŶŐ͕ ǁĂƚĞƌ ƚĂŶŬƐ͕ underground bore and three ƉŚĂƐĞ ƉŽǁĞƌ н ůĂƌŐĞ ϯ ďĂǇ ŐĂƌĂŐĞ͕ ǁŽƌŬƐŚŽƉ Θ ĐŽŽů ƌŽŽŵ͘

Inspect: By appointment Michele Jackson 0407 906 301

• Level, spacious & tastefully designed coastal abode - only 2 years young • Desirable N/E facing aspect, nestled ŽŶ Ă ϲϮϲ ƐƋŵ ĐŽƌŶĞƌ ďůŽĐŬ͘ ͻ ,ĂƌĚǁŽŽĚ Ɵ ŵďĞƌ Ň ŽŽƌƐ Θ ĐƌŝƐƉ ǁŚŝƚĞ ŝŶƚĞƌŝŽƌƐ Ň ŽŽĚĞĚ ďǇ ŶĂƚƵƌĂů ůŝŐŚƚ͘ • Open plan living & dining area, ďĞĂƵƟ ĨƵů Į ƌĞƉůĂĐĞ Θ ĞŶƚĞƌƚĂŝŶĞƌ͛Ɛ kitchen. ͻ ĚĚŝƟ ŽŶĂů ĨƵůůǇ ƐĞůĨͲĐŽŶƚĂŝŶĞĚ ůƵǆĞ ĂĐĐŽŵŵŽĚĂƟ ŽŶ ǁŝƚŚ ƐĞƉĂƌĂƚĞ entrance & parking.

Michele Jackson 0407 906 301

ͻ WĂŶŽƌĂŵŝĐ ǀŝĞǁƐ ƚŚĂƚ ƐƉĂŶ ƚŚĞ ƌŽůůŝŶŐ hills & across the countryside to the ŐůŝƐƚĞŶŝŶŐ ďůƵĞ WĂĐŝĮ Đ KĐĞĂŶ ǁŚŝĐŚ ŝƐ ŽŶůǇ ϭϰ͘ϴ Ŭŵ ĂǁĂǇ͘ • This immaculate sanctuary on approx ϲ͘ϱ Eͬ ĨĂĐŝŶŐ ĂĐƌĞƐ ƵƉŽŶ ǀŽůĐĂŶŝĐĂůůǇ rich soil, magically framed by naturally ƌĞŐĞŶĞƌĂƟ ŶŐ ƌĂŝŶ ĨŽƌĞƐƚ ĞŝƚŚĞƌ ƐŝĚĞ ƚŽ enjoy full privacy. • High ceilings, modern kitchen, open plan ůŝǀŝŶŐ͕ ƉŽůŝƐŚĞĚ Ɵ ŵďĞƌ Ň ŽŽƌŝŶŐ͕ ǁŚŝƚĞ crisp interiors + spacious under cover ĞŶƚĞƌƚĂŝŶŝŶŐ ĚĞĐŬ ǁŝƚŚ ŵĂŐŶŝĮ ĐĞŶƚ ǀŝĞǁƐ͘ • KǀĞƌ ϱϬ ĞƐƚĂďůŝƐŚĞĚ ĨƌƵŝƚ ĂŶĚ ŶƵƚ ƚƌĞĞƐ͕ grape vines and vegetable garden.

2/14 Bay Street, Byron Bay

139 Newes Road, Coorabell (formerly Peppers Retreat)

ͻ WƌŝǀĂƚĞ ƐĞƌĞŶŝƚǇ ǁŝƚŚ ƉŝĐƚƵƌĞƐƋƵĞ ǁĂƚĞƌ ǀŝĞǁƐ ĨƌŽŵ ƐƵŶƌŝƐĞ ƚŽ ƐƵŶƐĞƚ͘ ͻ DƵůƟ ƉůĞ ŝŶĚŽŽƌͬŽƵƚĚŽŽƌ ůŝǀŝŶŐ spaces for a relaxed lifestyle or entertaining. ͻ >ŝǀĞ ƐƵƐƚĂŝŶĂďůǇ ǁŝƚŚ ǇŽƵƌ ŽǁŶ ƉŽǁĞƌ͕ ǁĂƚĞƌ ĂŶĚ ĞƐƚĂďůŝƐŚĞĚ ĂŶĚ edible gardens. ͻ /ĚĞĂů ůŽĐĂƟ ŽŶ ǁŝƚŚ ďĞĂĐŚ͕ ƐĐŚŽŽůƐ͕ cafes, pubs and markets a short ǁĂůŬ͕ ƌŝĚĞ Žƌ ĚƌŝǀĞ ĂǁĂǇ͘ • 817.2m2

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Ocean Shores / Brunswick Heads / Murwillumbah 2

2 47 Waranga Cres, Burringbar

Dreaming of living the coveted North Coast lifestyle? This captivating home with gorgeous ocean, coastline and hinterland views, set on 892m2 block of land, is your perfect seaside haven. The light-ﬁlled home’s generous open plan living and dining areas feature soaring ceilings, which open out onto the covered alfresco entertaining deck where you can enjoy the views once more. • Master bedroom featuring walk-in robe and ensuite. • Polished timber ﬂoors and ceiling fans throughout. • Huge under-house storage with potential to create additional living areas (STCA). • Crisp white Master Chef’s kitchen with gas cooktop, dishwasher and plenty of storage. • Just 2.5km from the unspoilt sands of New Brighton beach.

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4 3 2 11 Mia Court, Ocean Shores BEACHSIDE LIFESTYLE RESIDENCE IN SOUTH GOLDEN BEACH $1 PR .18 IC M EG –$ U 1 . IDE 22 M

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31 Warrambool Road, Ocean Shores PICTURE PERFECT POSTCARD VIEWS !

Privately set in a peaceful cul-de-sac on the fringe of a beautiful Tweed Valley village, this idyllic rural lifestyle property oﬀers a generously sized, immaculately presented family home set on 1.3 acres (5236 square metres) of land, just moments away from the village Post Oﬃce, pharmacy, butcher, café and general store.

Positioned in a quiet cul-de-sac within the exclusive beachside enclave of Fern Beach this beautifully presented, inviting family haven is superbly located, just 300 metres stroll – via a bush walking trail – to the pristine sands and clear blue waters of South Golden Beach. Children’s playground and tennis/basketball court situated right across the road.

• Polished timber ﬂoors in living areas.

• Downstairs master bedroom oﬀers ensuite & air conditioning.

• Ducted reverse cycle a/c + ceiling fans.

• Upstairs bedroom also features ensuite and private timber deck.

• Inground saltwater pool with waterfall. • Auto double garage + double carport. • Colourbond shed for up to 4 vehicles. • 2 × 3.5kilowa solar systems. • Town water + 30,000L rainwater tank.

• Chef’s kitchen featuring Caesarstone benchtops, 900mm wide gas cooktop and oven. • Work from home in the roomy oﬃce with built-in cabinets plus under-stair storage. • High ceilings & large windows ﬂood the home in natural light. • Saltwater plunge pool + hot and cold Outdoor shower.

Price Guide $830,000 – $875,000

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Price Guide $1,180,000 – $1,220,000

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Wishing you a safe, festive Merry Christmas from our family to yours! The team at Raine & Horne Ocean Shores / Brunswick Heads / Murwillumbah would like to thank you for your ongoing support and we look forward to helping you achieve your property dreams in 2020. Christmas Oﬃce hours: Closed: Midday 24th Dec - 6th Jan, 2020

Ocean Shores 6680 5000 / 0411 081 118 Shop 33, Rajah Road, Ocean Shores 2483 rh.com.au/oceanshores

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Breathtaking panoramic views over Byron Bay and beyond

The over 50’s Palm Lake Resort is situated at a prestigious location, close to shopping centres and sports clubs which include some of Australia’s top bowling and golf venues. Resort amenities include swimming pool, spa, indoor and outdoor bowls, croquet, snooker/pool and billiard tables, massage therapist, library and community hall. 2 1 1 This immaculately presented, light and airy manufactured home has recently been Call Kelvin 0423 028 468 $339,000 redecorated throughout, nothing remaining to do, simply move in and enjoy! The home has an entrance verandah running the full width of the home. Spacious open plan living areas with high raked cathedral ceilings and bay windows with tinted glass. At the rear of the home is a low maintenance, fully fenced garden making it ideal for your four-legged companion. The living area has new carpets, a reverse cycle air conditioner and ceiling fans. The two good-sized, newly carpeted bedrooms have built-in robes and ceiling fans; the master bedroom robe has mirror doors. The kitchen has a built-in Simpson oven/grill and ceramic cook-top with plenty of storage and bench space. The tiled bathroom comprises of a large shower cabinet with bench seat and a good-sized vanity unit with a separate toilet. Palm Lake is a ‘Pet Friendly’ resort.

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A beautiful contemporary home in an elevated location, providing a beach lifestyle with a lush green outlook. Set in North Ocean Shores, a short stroll or drive to South Golden Beach, local cafes and Brunswick Heads village. This expansive architect-designed family home delivers sweeping ocean views from Pottsville to Cape Byron Lighthouse and a sun-drenched North aspect. It’s truly a gorgeous home with everything the family needs. An oversized timber front door opens to a grand entrance revealing the mixed hardwood timber floors and 396m2 of living area over four levels. This relaxed designer home enjoys 9-foot ceilings and airflow all year round. You will be captivated by this home and its choice of spacious light-filled living zones. The three living areas include a media room and a rumpus for the kids or in-laws. Inspect: by appointment Contact: Todd Buckland – 0408 966 421 Byron Shire Real Estate

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

This is your opportunity to secure one of Byron’s most iconic businesses. Established 20 years ago it has the support of locals and tourists. What’s Great: • Strong history of sales • Full Systems in place • Training and support provided Ready for new owners to start their new lives Enquire now: Michael Godwin 0416 638 154

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New Listings Byron Bay First National • 25 Paterson Street, Byron Bay • 1 Plantation Drive, Ewingsdale. $2.195m to $2.295m • 44 Banool Circuit, Ocean Shores. $695,000 to $760,000 • 11/174–176 Fowlers Lane, Bangalow. $2.25m to $2.45m • 5/591 Broken Head Road, Broken Head. $1.7m Raine & Horne Ocean Shores/Brunswick Heads/Murwillumbah • 15 Reynolds Street, Murwillumbah North Coast news daily in Echonetdaily www.echo.net.au

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chill@hinterlandhire.com.au | hinterlandhire.com.au ARC Licence No. AU08726 | ABN 70 116 609 726

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

RENOVATION SPECIALIST Customised Service. Builder: Levi Alexander Lic 189611C ..0402 434154 FABRICA JOINERY Quality kitchens/timber doors/windows. Lic 244652C .........................66808162

APPLIANCE REPAIR

BUSH REGENERATION & WEED CONTROL

DIGITAL ELECTRONICS REPAIR & SERVICE TV. Audio. Antennas .......... 66843575 or 0414 922786 WEED CONTROL SPECIALIST Lawns - bindii weeds .....................................................0418 110714 NORTHERN RIVERS APPLIANCE REPAIRS All makes and models. nrar.com.au ..........0401 159371 EAST COAST BUSH REGENERATION Tree planting, weed control. Call Rossco Faithfull.0409 157695

CARPET CLEANING

ARCHITECTS

TLC

FRANK STEWART ARCHITECT Reg. 6075. www.frankstewart.com.au............................66856984 OCEANARC ARCHITECTS Reg. 6042 www.oceanarc.com.au ..............................................66855001 ATELIER LUKE – Luke Hayward architect, Reg. 10438 www.atelierluke.com ...............0401 875535

Truck Mounted Machine

CARPET CLEANING

TENDER LOVING CARE Specialising in household carpet cleaning Speedy Drying

GREENARK Greg Tollis architect. Reg. 3608 www.greenark.com.au Ph.......................0421 575299

Kevin & Margaret Bower

AUTOMOTIVE

FRANCHISE OF THE YEAR!

(02) 6684 1001

Green & Clean

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

LEGENDARY OFFROAD TYRES

0408 232 066

Commercial / Domestic / Insurance

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

CHIROPRACTIC

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Cleans deeply, dries in 1-2 hours

Far North Coast NSW John & Teresa

BAYSIDE RADIATORS Windscreens & air-con. Billinudgel. AU29498 .................................66802444

BAY FAMILY CHIROPRACTIC Peter Wuehr 17 Bangalow Rd Byron Bay ..............................66855282 WAVE OF LIFE NETWORK CHIRO (lowforce) 8/9 Fletcher St, Byron Bay. Andrew Badman...66858553 MICHAEL SCHWAGER 108 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby ...................................................66841962 MULLUMBIMBY CHIROPRACTIC Massage & Chiropractic. 110 Dalley St ........................66841028

Call Jason 0434 177 594

CLEANING

BLINDS, AWNINGS, CURTAINS, SHUTTERS

ACTION WINDOW & PRESSURE CLEANING

SHOWCASE DEALER SHOWROOM

1/84 Centennial Circuit Byron Bay

6680 8862

FREE MEASURE QUOTE ˘˗ ˘˞˛ ˌ˘˖˙˕ˎ˝ˎ ˛ˊ˗ːˎ ˘ˏ ˒˗˝ˎ˛˒˘˛ ϻ ˎˡ˝ˎ˛˒˘˛ ˠ˒˗ˍ˘ˠ ˝˛ˎˊ˝˖ˎ˗˝˜ SPECIALISTS IN HOM E AUTOM ATION

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SUNSCREENS

• House washing • High pressure or soft wash • Window cleaning • Driveways, paths & roofs • Gutters & ﬂyscreens • Water efﬁcient • Free quotes Phone Joe or Helen 6687 4655 or 0412 495750

CURTAINS

PLANTATION SHUTTERS

Call

0434 539 979

• Window Cleaning • Screens & Tracks • Pressure Washing • House •Roof • Paths • Solar

www.byroneco.com.au

AWNINGS ROLL BLINDS

YOUR LOCAL BLIND MAN at North Byron Blinds .................................................. Amos 0404 421518

BRICKLAYING

RAINBOW REGION AIR CONDITIONING ARC AU36141. Lic No. 264313C.....................0487 264137 BRICK/BLOCK LAYING Contractors. Lic 291958C. Phone Mark ........................................0409 444268

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CARPENTER Lic 39791 Decks, studios, pergolas etc Paul Varendorff ................66845035 or 0414 842602

HAVEN BUILDING All aspects of building. Lic 326616C ...............................................0432 565060

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

6680 9394

6684 2783

BUILDER – JOHN McGAURAN Personalised Service. 20 yrs exp. Lic 170208C .............0415 793242

JP DIGITAL ANTENNAS Reception problems, new antennas, extra TV points, all areas .....0432 289705 BUILDER Renovations, maintenance, 30yrs exp. mchughdesign.com.au Lic 29792C....0408 663420 CARPENTER. Insured & qualified. Homes, decks, small jobs, free quotes. Lic 231104C...0431 674377

PLEASE CALL

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

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

artisanair.com.au

Lic 246545C

CALL BRETT 0414 542 019

• Surround sound design & installation • Wi-Fi set up & boosting • All electrical work Call Norm now on

MARLENE FARRY Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine marlenefarry.com ..............66842400

AU 37088

SERVICING THE BYRON SHIRE

YOUR DIGITAL AND PROGRAMMING SOLUTIONS

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

AIR CONDITIONING & REFRIGERATION

LICENCE NUMBER 344531C

*conditions apply

BATHROOM RENOVATIONS

AIR CONDITIONING & REFRIGERATION

• RELIABLE TRADESMAN • DECKS & PERGOLAS • TIMBER SCREENS & DOORS • GARAGE CONVERSIONS

0402 022 111

David Levine iwireantennas.com.au

ACUPUNCTURE

Lic: 299433C ARC: AU40492

Friendly Reliable Prompt Local

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

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

45 Manns Road, Mullumbimby

02 66 804 173

IWIRE

ACCOUNTANTS & BOOKKEEPERS

Mullumbimby Refrigeration & Airconditioning Services

Digital TV ALL Antenna Installations & Repairs ALL Electrical Work

INDEX Accountants & Bookkeepers ..........56 Acupuncture .................................56 Air Conditioning & Refrigeration....56 Antennas & Installation.................56 Antiques/Restoration ....................56 Appliance Repair ...........................56 Architects .....................................56 Automotive...................................56 Bathroom Renovations..................56 Blinds, Awnings, Curtains, Shutters56 Bricklaying....................................56 Building Trades .............................56 Bush Regen & Weed Control ..........56 Carpet Cleaning ............................56 Chimney Sweeping........................56 Chiropractic ..................................56 Cleaning .......................................56 Computer Services ........................57 Concreting & Paving ......................57 Decks, Patios & Extensions.............57 Dentists ........................................57 Design & Drafting..........................57 Driveway Maintenance ..................57 Earthmoving & Excavation.............57 Electricians ...................................57 Fencing .........................................57 Financial Services ..........................57 Floor Sanding & Polishing..............57 Garden & Property Maintenance....57 Garden Design ..............................57 Gas Suppliers ................................57 Glaziers.........................................57 Graphic Design ..............................57 Guttering ......................................58 Handypersons ...............................58

BUILDING TRADES

Window Cleaning Professionals Call Glenn or Tracey 0403 428 232 or 6680 9901 email: impresswindowcleaning@gmail.com Reliable • Friendly • Professional • Fully Insured • Free Quotes • Affordable Rates Locally Owned and Operated • Quality Work with Over 10 Years Experience

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

Quality Exterior Refinishing Roof & Pressure Cleaning Roof Painting Deck Oiling

fullcirclerefinishing.com

C RET E ED G IN

SHARON CLARKSON Senior Mortgage Broker 20yrs exp sharon@sharonclarkson.com..0400 609916

FLOOR SANDING & POLISHING

Burringbar

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

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FINANCIAL SERVICES

SERVICING THE EAST COAST OF THE NSW NORTHERN RIVERS

EARTHMOVING & EXCAVATION

Professional Cleaning Services

Blue Sky

ALL ASPECTS OF ASPHALT & BITUMEN SERVICES

6677 1859

Phone Oliver 0419 789 600

Full Circle

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GARDEN & PROPERTY MAINTENANCE

0409 799 909

5 Stars

various implements available for limited access projects

EARTHMOVING & PLANT HIRE

CLEANING SERVICE

Specialising in driveway construction & maintenance

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

CLEANS: Holiday, Residential, Bond, Commercial, Spring

Phone Mick 0409 009 024

Acreage Mowing Specialist | Mini excavation Toro Dingo with stump grinder, trencher and soil cultivator

Contact Vadi: 0404

Training & assessment: earthmoving plant & forklift

Email: mickbhl@gmail.com

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

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

0427 663 678 / 0410 056 228

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

Acreage & Residential Mowing | Gardening Fire Hazard Reduction | Brush Cutting Tip Runs | Turf Laying | Fully Insured

5.5 TONNE EXCAVATOR, POSITRACK & TIPPER HIRE

PROFESSIONAL LOCAL CLEANER excellent references, good rates. Shire wide. Ph Krissy ..0410 860330

COMPUTER SERVICES

978 383

0430 297 101 / 6684 5437

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

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

EXPERIENCED OPERATORS | FREE QUOTES 0432 299 283

5.5 Tonne Excavator, Positrack Loader & 12 Tonne Tipper â&#x20AC;˘ Driveways â&#x20AC;˘ Landscaping â&#x20AC;˘ Rock walls â&#x20AC;˘ House & shed sites

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

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

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

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

MY GEEK MATE Personal tech support. Phone Mark .....................................................0431 122057

STEVE BROWN EARTHMOVING

CONCRETING & PAVING

Specialising in road repairs & driveways Rock walls, clearing, house shed and tank pads.

SALISBURY CONCRETING

Over 25 yrs local experience. All forms of concreting. Residential â&#x20AC;˘ Civil â&#x20AC;˘ Industrial. DARYL 0418 234 302

Lic.136717c

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

PAULâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S MOWING Local & reliable. Mullum, Bruns, O. Shores, Byron & Bangalow.........0422 958791

24 HOUR SERVICE

Call Daniel

0439 624 945

0424 876 155

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

02 66 804 173

Domestic Commercial

Lic: 154293c

Lic No. 337066C

CONCRETING

All Jobs Small or Large

PLATINUM CRETE CONCRETING Lic 225874C. 20 years exp. Free quotes. Justin .........0458 773788

Lic No 142383C

DECKS FREE QUOTES

Call Mark 0498 115 182 FULL CIRCLE REFINISHING Timber & deck oiling, coating, stripping. Fast free quotes .....0419 789600 THE DECK DOCTOR Sanding & refinishing, cable balustrading. Free quotes. Richard ...0407 821690 SURFSIDE BUILDING Decks, Patios, Extensions. Free Quotes. Lic: 182983C. Contact ...0412 551353

ELECTRICAL Steve Nicholls ph: 0455 445 343 lic: EC28753

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

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

1800 763 911 | 0417 415 474

DENTISTS

COUGHRAN ELECTRICAL 24 hour service, Lic 154293C .......................... 0439 624945 or 66804173 RONNIE SPINKS Everything electrical. Lic 27673 .........................................................0429 802355 LITTLE LANE DENTAL, MULLUMBIMBY ...........................................................................66842816 JP ELECTRICAL Level 2 ASP Under-g/O-head lines, Pwr poles, Solar. Lic 133082C ........0432 289705 BRUNSWICK HOLISTIC DENTAL CENTRE.......................................................................66851264 JIM LABELLE ELECTRICAL O.Shores, Mullum, Byron, Brunswick. Lic 176417C..............0415 126028 SPINKS ELECTRICAL Lic 284939C..................................................................Call Mitch 0421 843477 BLUE BEE ELECTRICAL 25 years experience. Lic 189508C. Call Dave ............................0429 033801 BAREFOOT BUILDING DESIGN www.barefootbuildingdesign.com..........Bob Acton 0407 787993 BEN FORSYTH, Electrician. Lic:240691C. Ocean Shores & surrounds. No job too small ...0422 136408

DESIGN & DRAFTING

DAVID ROBINSON DESIGN DRAFTING All Council & construction requirements ......0419 880048 BYRON ENERGY EFFICIENT DESIGN & DRAFTING www.beedad.com.au ...............0423 531448

DRIVEWAY MAINTENANCE

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

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FENCING

POOLSAFE GLASS FENCING 20 Year+s Exp.

Jai â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 0467 482 948

www.echo.net.au/byron-echo Byron Shire Echo archives

A GREEN EARTH Garden restoration, maintenance, tree & rubbish removal ................0405 716552 TIP RUNS & RUBBISH REMOVALS 4m3 trailer..............................................................0408 210772 BRUSHCUTTING Rubbish, Property Maintenance, Lawns.............................................0412 469109 RICKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PROPERTY MAINTENANCE Mowing, brushcutting, gardening, pool service ...0424 805660 GREEN DINGO for all your mowing and gardening needs. Ph Michael .........................0497 842442 PROBLEM CAMPHORS and woody weeds removed. No fuss-green waste, lantana too! ..0478 779650 G.W. GARDEN MAINTENANCE. Mowing, whipper snipping, gardening, tip runs ........0408 244820 A LUMSDEN LAWN CARE Qualified green keeper. Mowing, edges and weed control ..0410 378375

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

GAS SUPPLIERS

nichollselectrical@outlook.com

Lic no. 141097C

DECKS, PATIOS & EXTENSIONS

MULLUM.MOWING@gmail.com. Ride-on, large lawns & acreage. Ph Peter................0423 756394 GUTTERS CLEANED Solar panel cleaning, all areas, free quotes, fully insured ... 66841778 or 0405 922839

NORTHERN RIVERS TRENCHING 65hp chain trencher, mini excavator, cable locating.0402 716857 A-Z Lawns & acreage, trees & hedges, clean ups & tip runs, all gutters ..........................0405 625697 ALEX EXCAVATION 3.5T Zero Swing excavator & bobcat loader & 5T Tipper Rock Grab 0417 920300 A.C.E. LAWNMOWING & GARDENING Best rates, reliable, guaranteed.............Sam 0438 655763 CIVIL TRAK Road construction, excavators, rollers, grader & truck hire .........................0499 912459 LEAF IT TO US Specialists in acreage mowing, garden, tree maintenance .....................0402 487213

ELECTRICIANS

ALL AROUND

Free Quotes

6684 0160 | 0439 840 160 | 0421 460 932

GLASS & ALUMINIUM POOL FENCING PROFESSIONALS 0499 178 297 psgfencingnsw@gmail.com BYRON & BEYOND FENCING Any fence, any time, prompt quotes....... 66804766 or 0422 207299 EDL FENCING Installations & repairs. Prompt service. ..................................................0432 107262 FLOW FENCING Pool fencing, timber/colourbond, local, professional and reliable.......0416 424256

Free Delivery

Locally Owned Est 18 years

No Rental Reliable

www.brunswickvalleygas.com

6680 1575 or 0408 760 609 GLAZIERS

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

GRAPHIC DESIGN www.thinkblinkdesign.com

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

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GUTTERING

LOCKSMITH

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

PHOTOGRAPHY

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

OSTEOPATHY

Professional â&#x20AC;˘ Commercial â&#x20AC;˘ Personal

OSTEOPATHY

www.spotlessgutters.com.au

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

30+ years experience in commercial photography and photojournalism

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

at Mullumbimby Comprehensive Health Centre

HANDYPERSONS

Tree Faerie Fotos

Dr. Matthew Fourro (Osteo) Dr. Egbert Weber (Osteo) 60 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby | 02 6626 7900

PHYSIOTHERAPY BANGALOW PHYSIOTHERAPY Manual therapies, acupuncture, mat/reformer, clinical exercise

NORTH COAST OSTEOPATHY Jodie Jacobs. Mon/Tues/Thurs/Fri.....................................66857517 classes, laser, shockwave. Kim Snellgrove, Cally Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hara .......................................................66872330

PAINTING

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

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

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

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

THE HANDYMAN CAN All home maintenance, repairs, painting, odd jobs etc .............0427 110953 MCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S HANDYMAN SERVICES Exp. painter, home repairs, odd jobs. Great rates............0412 559509

0438 784 226 â&#x20AC;˘ 6685 4154

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

Lic No 189144C

BYRON BAY

HANDY ANDY Carpentry, plastering, welding ......................................... 66884324 or 0476 600956

ANTHONY Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ORSOGNA Physiotherapy, acupuncture, hydrotherapy Suffolk Park 1 Bryce St ... 66853511 CONTINENCE / PELVIC FLOOR Janelle Angel ..................Bangalow 66872337 & Mâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;bah 66723818

ALL-WAYS PAINTING

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

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

OCEAN SHORES PHYSIOTHERAPY Manual therapies, dry needling, custom orthotics, shock wave therapy, real time ultrasound. Nigel Pitman, Ilse V Oostenbrugge....................66803499 PETER FARRELL Cold laser, manual therapy & exercise, Mullumbimby ..............................66843385 PETRA KARNI PHYSIOTHERAPY & Craniosacral, Manual Therapy, TMJ, Classes. Petra Karni & Andrew Weatherstone. Byron and Suffolk. Mâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;F & open Saturdays. Ph ....0403 226858

ABSOLUTE HANDYMAN. Repairs, renovation, maintenance ........................................0402 281638

PICTURE FRAMING

HANDYMAN SERVICE BYRON BAY. Local, reliable, insured .........................................0412 395604

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

HEALTH

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

PLASTERING

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

PLASTERING CONTRACTOR

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

YVES DE WILDE

HIRE www.duluxaccredited.com.au

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

KITCHENS

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

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PAINTER

LANDSCAPE SUPPLIES

NEIL A McINTOSH

INTERIOR/EXTERIOR â&#x20AC;˘ PLASTER REPAIRS â&#x20AC;˘ WALLPAPERING CLEAN & TIDY â&#x20AC;˘ ALWAYS ON TIME â&#x20AC;˘ ALL AREAS Mobile: 0421 938 104 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 465 Uralba Road, Uralba

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

1176 Myocum Rd, Mullumbimby (just past golf course)

6684 2323 / 0418 663 983 SOIL MULCH GRAVEL

CRACKER DUST ROAD BASE

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

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ALL WAYS PAINTING NORTHERN RIVERS. Qualified, insured, clean. 0413 401907 or 66805015

SHANE

0400 852 141

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BYRONBAYPAINTINGSERVICES.COM.AU â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Reliable. Quality work. Ph .....................1300 255 724 JARRAH DAVIDSON Plumbing, draining, gas fitting & roofing. Lic 187712C................0438 668025

PEST CONTROL

LANDSCAPING

20 YEARS LOCAL SERVICE

24 years experience

AD PAINTING by John Hand. Lic 13246C ................................................ 0413 185399 or 66841249

0266 804555

NEED A PLUMBER? DRAINER? GASFITTER?

QUALIFIED â&#x20AC;˘ INSURED â&#x20AC;˘ LOCAL â&#x20AC;˘ FREE QUOTES

Mob: 0409 451 518

FIRE WOOD

SUNRISE PLASTERING. No job too small. Renovations + patchworks. Gtd sat. Free quote ....0418 992001

ABN 31 490 733 798 LIC 203196C

Painting & Decorating

18 Lucky Lane Billinudgel Industrial Estate

landscaping supplies

Mark Wopling

451 186

Chay 0429 805 081 ABN 48867459605 Lic 33995C

GREEN SKY LANDSCAPES.COM.AU Design & Construction. Lic 208800C ....................0421 986373

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PLUMBERS

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

LANDSCAPE DESIGN

C. A. Warwick Lic. No. 114578C Â&#x2021; )UHH TXRWHV Â&#x2021; *\SURFN Ă&#x20AC; [LQJ VHWWLQJ

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

WWW.EASTCOASTPILATES.COM.AU Judy Leane Ex. Phys ...........................................0408 110006

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

DOMESTIC & COMMERCIAL

QUALITY PAINTING SERVICES

Licence No. 207479C

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

Lic 167371C

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

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

Professional Property Protection you can Trust 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

6685 4490 or AH on 0414 769 018

DESIGN ALL ASPECTS OF LANDSCAPING AND DESIGN CONSTRUCT

0421 986 373 www.greenskylandscapes.com.au

MAINTAIN

02 6681 6555 Lic: 208800C

PLANT

www.sanctuarypest.com.au

Free quotes on active termites Environmentally safe

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

COLIN J WILLIAMS PLUMBING & GAS Lic L7990. Water specialist. Mullum/Byron .....0434 273726 MATT WILSON PLUMBER BANGALOW Lic 10704. All plumbing & gas fitting needs ..0408 665672

POOLS

ATTENTION POOL OWNERS â&#x20AC;˘ All pool requirements â&#x20AC;˘ Professional advice â&#x20AC;˘ Water testing â&#x20AC;˘ Friendly service â&#x20AC;˘ Pool servicing 73 Station St, Mullumbimby (opp. Council chambers)

6684 3003

SUBTROPICALLANDSCAPES.COM.AU 20 years exp. Lic 231789C ................................0405 122456 THE PEST MAN EXTRAORDINAIRE Second opinion / alternative views. 50 yrs exp .....0418 110714 MULLUM POOL SHOP Water testing, eco products, mobile service, construction/repairs....0418 666839 LEMONTREELANDSCAPES.COM.AU Liam. Lic No 277154C .........................................0423 700853 BRUNSWICK BYRON PEST CONTROL................................................................................66842018 POOL CONSTRUCTION BYRON BAY. Baywater Pool. Lic 206487C.........0419 479921 or 66843489

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POOL FENCING

SOLAR INSTALLATION

Northern Rivers Glass *

Serving Northern NSW since 1998

* Beat any written quote by 10% *Australian standard certified *Pool Fencing, Balustrading and Shower screens

Call us on 6679 7228

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

Electric Lic 124600c

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SUMMERLAND TREE SERVICES ............................................. Call Tim 66813140 or 0417 698227 PETER GRAY Grad. Cert. Arb. AQF8. Consulting arborist................................................0414 186161

PRINTING & COPYING SERVICES

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PRINTWORKS Traditional / Digital art@mullumprintworks.com.au .................................66843633 GRAPHIC EXPRESSIONS BYRON Digital Printing/Fine Art Prints info@gexprint.com.au..66858226

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BYRON TREE SERVICES Qualified, insured. Call Alex ....................................................0402 364852 TALLOW TREE SERVICES Removal, free quote & full insurance .....................................0401 208797 MARTINO TREE SERVICES ..............................................................................Martino 0435 019524 LEAF IT TO US 4x4 truck/chipper + stump grinding. Local, qualified, insured. Free quotes.0402 487213 A VERY HANDY MAN TREE SERVICES................................... Happy to help. Andrew..0412 558890 OUT ON A LIMB www.outonalimbtreeservices.wordpress.com Call Lucas ................0402 191316

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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

Pioneers of the solar industry

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SHIRE REMOVALS & FREIGHT CO

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

Patrick - 0425 256 802

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

LEAPFROG REMOVALS

HARMONIUM TUITION, REPAIRS, SALES. Contact Alice.............................................0427 423723

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

VALUERS

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

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

0409 917646

TUITION

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

â&#x20AC;˘ Best Price Promise â&#x20AC;˘ Highest Quality Products â&#x20AC;˘ 10 Year Installation Workmanship Guarantee â&#x20AC;˘ 5 Year Annual Onsite Cleaning and Maintenance included

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

0432 334 200 02 6680 8170

The Water Filter Experts

Your Local Solar Experts

leapfrogremovals@yahoo.com.au

for home, commercial and rural properties

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TILING

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FRANCHISE OF THE YEAR!

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MAN WITH A VAN/TRUCK Reasonable rates. Phone Don ............................................0414 282813 BENNY CAN MOVE IT! .................................................................................................0402 199999 MAN WITH A TALL VAN (5 star reviews) from $55ph. Call Evan ...................................0410 120777

ROOFING

ROOFING Licence NSW: 30715C Licence QLD: 1227049

TILE & GROUT CLEANING

Water puriďŹ cation systems Rainwater Filters Fridge water ďŹ lters

Servicing the Far North Coast for 20Â years. Free quotes. Experienced local technicians. ChemDryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s patented cleaning systems.

Every 5th m2 FREE

TREE SERVICES

Metal RooďŹ ng Installations â&#x20AC;˘ Guttering Downpipes â&#x20AC;˘ Fascia â&#x20AC;˘ Skylights â&#x20AC;˘ Whirlybird Patios â&#x20AC;˘ Repairs â&#x20AC;˘ Leaf Guard

Craig Montgomery â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 0418 870 362 Email: montysmetalrooďŹ ng@gmail.com www.montysmetalrooďŹ ng.com.au

CHOPPY CHOP TREE SERVICES

$399

FULLY INSTALLED IN YOUR HOME

Phone Chris 0414 229 114

WINTER SPECIAL:

0408 232 066

WATER SUPPLIES

TILER/STONEMASON/WATERPROOFER Lic 24418C. Phone Karl ...................................66804103

DOMESTIC â&#x20AC;˘ INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL

MONTYS METAL

Far North Coast NSW John & Teresa

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TRIDENT WATER Remote access delivery, 4WD water truck. Northern Rivers & surrounds ..0412 580 564 THE WATER BOY Water delivery, Byron Shire. From $250 for 9000L .............................0432 734645

WATER TANKS & TANK CLEANING

The Fully Insured Professionals

TANK CLEANING Repairs, installation, first flush diverters, pumps, etc ........................0418 662285

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

WEB DESIGNS

Mark Linder QualiďŹ ed Arborist 0408 202 184 choppychoptrees@bigpond.com RESIDENTIAL / COMMERCIAL NEW ROOFS / RE-ROOFS INSULATED ROOF PANELS FASCIA & GUTTERS REPAIRS & MAINTENANCE

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ALL ROOF CLEANING Experienced, insured & fast free quotes. Call ..............................0419 789600

RUBBISH REMOVAL

WELDING & FABRICATION Structural, general, repairs & Aluminium. Call Rod ...........0408 410545

OCEAN SHORES SKIPS Mini skip specialists ......................................... 0412 161564 or 66841232 TIP RUNS & RUBBISH REMOVAL 4m3 trailer................................................................0408 210772 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 MAN WITH UTE. RETHINK REUSE RECYCLE. Ph Mark ................................................0411 113300

Home sewage solutions Commercial wastewater treatment Rainwater tanks concrete and plastic

Lic 312643C

SEPTIC SYSTEMS

Sales Installation Service

Northern Rivers Pty Ltd

0418 754 149 â&#x20AC;˘ 07 5523 9930

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

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

1300 384 766

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0479 066 311 yourtreefeller.com.au

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

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

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

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www.harttreeservices.com.au

SUNRISE W. T. NO BUBBLES, NO TROUBLES Cars, homes & offices ..........................0412 158478 SURFWAGON - Car/Home/Office tint. Lifetime Warranty. W/sale price .........................0434 875009

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NEWT wastewater treatment. Septic design, upgrades, maint & intall. Lic 207479C............... 0429 805081

WINDOW TINTING

0427 347 380

Find

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Classifieds

For North Coast news online visit

INDEX

ECHO CLASSIFIEDS – 6684 1777

For Sale ................................. 61

RATES & PAYMENT

CLASSIFIEDS THAT WORK ALL WEEK!

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

Echo Classies also appear online in Echonetdaily – echo.net.au/classified-ads

Funeral Notices ..................... 61

CLASSIFIED AD BOOKINGS

DEADLINE TUES 12PM

Garage Sales......................... 61

PHONE ADS

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

6684 1777 AT THE ECHO HEAD OFFICE

Ads may be taken by phone on

Halls For Hire......................... 61 Health Notices ....................... 60

Ads can be lodged in person at the Mullum Echo office:

Items Under $100 .................. 61

Village Way, Stuart St, Mullumbimby

Land For Sale ........................ 61

EMAIL ADS

Motor Vehicles ....................... 61 Musical Notes ........................ 61 Only Adults ............................ 61 Pets ........................................ 61

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

Ad bookings only taken during business hours: Monday to Friday, 9am–5pm. Ads can’t be taken on the weekend. Account enquiries phone 6684 1777.

These prices include GST.

Positions Vacant .................... 61

PUBLIC NOTICES

Professional Services ............ 60 Public Notices ........................ 60 Social Escorts........................ 61

$17 for two lines is the minimum charge.

Display classies (box ads): adcopy@echo.net.au Line classies: classifieds@echo.net.au

To Let ..................................... 61 Tradework .............................. 61

On sale at The Echo

BYRON TWILIGHT MARKET Every Saturday 4 – 9 pm RAILWAY PARK, BYRON BAY

Wanted .................................. 61

Connecting the Byron Shire Community

Work Wanted ......................... 61

HELP OUR COMMUNITY

DISCLAIMER

VOLUNTEER DRIVER REQUIRED

Advertisements placed in The Byron Shire Echo do not reﬂect the views or opinions of the editorial staff. The Byron Shire Echo does not make any representations as to the accuracy or suitability of any content or information contained in advertising material nor does publication constitute in any way an endorsement by The Byron Shire Echo of the content or representations contained therein. The Byron Shire Echo does not accept any liability for the representations or promises made in paid advertisements or for any loss or damage arising from reliance on such content, representations or promises.

PROF. SERVICES

DENTURES LOOK GOOD FEEL GOOD Free consultation. SANDRO 66805002

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. Help us to continue this valuable program, keeping good food out of landﬁll and in people’s bellies.

Free intro Byron with Parijat Wismer Wed 15 Jan & 12 Feb, 6-8.30pm Gold Coast - Wed 29 Jan 6-8.30pm Kinesiology Schools Australia wellness.net.au 66857991

HEALTH

Somatic Practice

Julie Wells Anne Goslett (nee Mannix)

KINESIOLOGY Clear subconscious sabotages. Reprogram patterns and beliefs. Restore vibrancy and physical health. De-stress. Ph 0403125506 SANDRA DAVEY, Reg. Pract.

Dip.Som.Psych, Clinical PACFA Reg.

Osho Meditation Camp

Tallow TREE SERVICES

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

A VERY HANDY MAN

TREE SERVICES

(02) 6685 5185 9 Fletcher St, Byron Bay

Experienced climber • Insured • Licensed FREE QUOTES HAPPY TO HELP

Call Andrew Wilson 0412 558 890

HYPNOSIS & NLP

After hours & emergency service available

www.wendypurdey.com.au

Doing Stuck? Create a plan to move forward and achieve your ultimate mental, physical, and emotional goals. Resolve addictive patterns and limiting beliefs that hold you back!

6688 2494

0402 364 852

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

3 Days 27–29 December

So far we have recovered over 44 Tonnes of food

6684 4421

Individual and Couple Therapy Supervision and Coaching

8am Silent Dynamic meditation 10am Osho Discourse 12md Dance meditation 2pm Nadabrahma humming meditation 4pm Kundalini shaking meditation 6pm Osho Evening meditation

Call Shahido

• FULLY INSURED • PROFESSIONAL SERVICE • FREE QUOTES

HAWAIIAN MASSAGE Ocean Shores, Michaela, 0416332886

COLONICS

Psychotherapy FIND OUT HOW THE ROT BEGAN

STUDY KINESIOLOGY

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

Body Based

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.

0427 347 380

byroncentre.com.au

Tree Services ......................... 60 Mullumbimby & District Neighbourhood Centre

Fully insured • Free quotes

Prepayment is required for all ads.

Wednesday 8th January Local Artisans, beautiful handmade products. Gorgeous setting. 8am-4pm

Tuition .................................... 61

20 years local experience • 19 inch chipper • Stump grinding • Cherry picker • Crane truck • Bob Cat

Cash, cheque, Mastercard or Visa

BYRON ARTISAN BEACHSIDE MARKET

To Lease ................................ 61

TREE SERVICES

Call Wendy today and let’s get started! 6680 2630

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eastcoastpilates Brunswick Heads New Studio opening early 2020 •••

• Arborist • 15” Wood Chipper • Stump Grinder • Fully Insured Byron Bay & Surrounding Areas

•••

6681 3140 Mobile 0417 698 227

HEALTH & HEALING WEEKLY CLASS TIMETABLE MONDAY ENQUIRIES BOOKINGS

ph: 0400 558 181 PSYCHOTHERAPY

info@shirshamarie.com www.shirshamarie.com

LOCATION LEGEND Yoga Pilates (B): Bangalow Yogalates Barre (SP): Suffolk Park (BT): Byron Town

AWARENESS IN MOVEMENT

0439 492 804

WEDNESDAY

MULLUMBIMBY 8.30-10am: QIGONG

BANGALOW 7.30-9am: QI POWER CLASS 6-8pm: QIGONG & TAI CHI

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

6.30-7.30am: CORE SLIDERS (B) 9.30-11am: YOGALATES (BT) 6-7.15pm: YOGALATES (B)

9.30am: YIN YOGA 6pm: YIN YOGA

9.30am: VINYASA & 9.30am: VINYASA YOGA PRANAYAMA YOGA 6pm: VINYASA YOGA 6pm: HATHA YOGA

AFTERNOON: HEALING MASSAGE

9.30am: YIN YANG @ HEAT YOGA A&I BYRON

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

TUESDAY

Jo Morrish

THURSDAY BRUNSWICK HEADS 8.30-10am: QIGONG 9.30-11am: TAI CHI

9.15-10.15am: 9.30-11am: BARRE FITNESS (B) YOGALATES WITH 6-7.30pm: PILATES W WEIGHTS (B) YOGA STRETCH (SP)

12 NOON: YIN / ROLL & RELEASE @ HEAT YOGA A&I BYRON

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY / EVENTS

TAI CHI

QIGONG

SOFT-STYLE MARTIAL ART

HEALING EXERCISE ART

Alignment, Relaxation, Meditation

Breathing, Awareness, Energy Flow

BODY PSYCHOTHERAPY SESSIONS in Byron Bay by appointment

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

9.30am: HATHA 9.30am: STRENGTH 8.30am: HATHA YOGA & BALANCE VINYASA 6pm: VINYASA YOGA YOGA YOGA

8.30am: HATHA VINYASA YOGA

XMAS GIFT CERTIFICATES AVAILABLE & PERSONALISED TREATMENTS

BALI YIN YOGA RETREAT MARCH 2020

9.30am: YIN EXPERIENCE HEARTSPACE ABOVE SANTOS

EXPERIENCED TEACHER ALL LEVELS CATERED FOR

BOOKINGS NOW OPEN

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

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

Classifieds TRADEWORK

3EPTIC 7ASTE 2EMOVAL

3UMMERLAND %NVIRONMENTAL

4HE ,IQUID 7ASTE 3PECIALISTS

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

HALLS FOR HIRE COORABELL HALL WEDDINGS, GIGS, CLASSES 66871307 www.coorabellhall.net

FOR SALE

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

ARCHIBALD’S CHEAP QUARRY PRODUCTS Road base, gravel, blue metal and metal dust. ALL SIZE DELIVERIES. Phone 66845517, 0418481617

COMPOST TOILETS For tiny houses to commercial Green Building Centre 0431721073

BAMBOO PLY For ceilings, walls, doors, etc. Ph 0429884188 • sample & brochure. www.bambooply.com.au

ITEMS UNDER $100 BOOKSHELVES Good cond. 2m high, $50 & $99 Ocean Shores, 0408547654

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

GARAGE SALES

Tip Runs & Rubbish Removal

WARNING

LAND FOR SALE

The Department of Fair Trading

'MULLUM Rainforest Share, 5 acres,

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

offering work at home. Readers should

TO LET

for employment opportunities and never

BYRON SELF-STORAGE UNITS

send money to a post ofﬁce box

be wary if asked to pay money upfront

Clean & secure. Ph 1300762618

THE ECHO PAPER DELIVERY

NEW STUDIO unfurnished, mins walk Mullum centre, private outdoor area/patio, 1 bdr, separate kitchen/living $350p/w

The Echo has a contract position to

bills & Wi-ﬁ inc. Long term. 0409534052

insert, fold, bag (wet weather) & deliver to

POSSUM CREEK, modern, stand-alone cottage with views. Renovated, semi

BANGALOW : 1280 papers

furnished, 1bdrm, $500 pw. 0421531796

COOPERS SHOOT : 220 papers

Saturday at 2pm in Marvell Hall, 37

& backloads to Brisbane. Friendly,

ABN, a reliable vehicle and ideally they

Marvell Street, Byron Bay. No ﬂowers

with 10 years local exp. 0409917646

will live near the distribution area. They

please, donations instead to Karuna

will deliver the papers very early (from

Hospice Services, 07 3632 8300.

5am) on a Wednesday morning and

All welcome.

From $105 to $290 mth

1pm Wednesday. Suit mature or stable

TO LEASE

persons/couples with a strong throwing arm. Commencing asap. Email simon@ echo.net.au or phone 0409324724

OFFICE 70m2 Byron A&I Est. a/c, carpet

WORK WANTED

$400pw incl. GST. Call Baz 0418327731

SHORT TERM LEASE FOR RETAIL SHOP

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

– Prime location –

TUITION

Shop 4, 52 Johnson St, Byron Bay

FRENCH • ITALIAN • GERMAN

$800 p/w incl gst, outgoings and electricity 31sq.m. month to month lease

Eva 0403224842 www.languagetuitionbyron.com.au

Call for further details 0418 983 970

Adobe Tutoring

WANTED: a clean, green biz for a modern 455m² ɢɭǫɽʋǫȥơ ǉŔƃǫȍǫʋˊ ǫȥ ˫ ȶȶƎ࢛ free Industry Central. 2 roller doors with delivery bays. Pallet racked warehouse with 176 spaces (128 with air-con). ࠁ ȍŔɭǌơ ȶǉ˪ ƃơɽ ࢘ ࠅ߿ȟࡋ࡬ furnished with air-con. Building is security fenced ŔȥƎ ǠŔɽ ࠄࢳɢŔɭȇǫȥǌ ɽɢŔƃơɽࡳ Fast shipping nationwide ʽǫŔࢳ¡ࢬŹŔǠ ʋɭŔȥɽɢȶɭʋ ǠʠŹ࡯ Better Call Paul: 0414 991 335

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

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

POSITIONS VACANT

Brunswick Heads 66851005

RTO NO: 90013

Create Your Future... Enrol now to study in 2020 • Massage Therapy • Permaculture

• Early Childhood Education & Care

2009 Subaru Forrester dual range 5 Spd immaculate ........................$9950

ballinacarcentre.com.au

Ballina Car Centre

DLN 19950

6686 5586 / 0418 676 274

• Individual Support NSW Government subsidised places available Call to see if you’re eligible

02 6684 3374

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COLIN ‘Col’ 22.08.1934 – 20.12.2019 Much loved husband of Jan. Loved father and father-in-law of Lexie & Shane, Steven & Hayley, David & Melissa and Kylie (dec). Loved Poppy of Sigrid, Rowan, Jem, Bill, Mac, Hamish, Jali, Willo, Freya and Arwen. Col will be sadly missed by all family and friends. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend a funeral service to be held at St John's Catholic Church, Mullumbimby on Friday (December 27, 2019) commencing at 12.30pm followed by burial at Mullumbimby Cemetery. Donations to RFS in lieu of ﬂowers please.

Dudley is a medium size 12 month old desexed male crossbreed (anybody’s guess!). He has a great personality, active and affectionate and gets on well with people and other dogs. If you can give Dudley a permanent, loving home please contact Pam on 0421 017 461. Microchip no. 953010003402586. ABN 83 126 970 338

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Handsome as they come, young STARLORD (two years) is putting his life together after losing his home following a family break up. He is becoming very depressed. Starlord would like to say that the biggest part of his life is still missing – life with a permanent human family of his own. Friendly, young and adaptable, Starlord’s winning personality will surely brighten your Christmas!

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3.45pm 6.21am 11.58pm 8.42am Moon High tide, set height (m) 0057 1.08; 1317 1.48 0000 0151 1.08; 1400 1.40 0031 0258 1.10; 1448 1.31 0101 0409 1.16; 1546 1.24 0132 0512 1.25; 1649 1.19 0204 0605 1.36; 1749 1.17 0240 0653 1.48; 1845 1.17 0320 0738 1.60; 1935 1.18 0406 0822 1.70; 2023 1.19 0459 0906 1.79; 2110 1.21 0558 0951 1.86; 2157 1.23 0702 1035 1.90; 2245 1.25 0809 1120 1.89; 2333 1.25 1205 1.85 0916 1022 0025 1.26; 1251 1.76 1126 0122 1.27; 1339 1.64 1230 0227 1.29; 1431 1.50 1332 0338 1.33; 1530 1.36 1435 0451 1.41; 1636 1.25 1537 0559 1.51; 1747 1.18 1638 0656 1.61; 1853 1.15 1737 0747 1.69; 1948 1.16 1833 0833 1.74; 2035 1.18 1924 0915 1.77; 2117 1.19 2009 0953 1.77; 2155 1.21 2050 1029 1.75; 2230 1.22 2126 1102 1.71; 2306 1.23

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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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Community at work Regular As Clockwork DEADLINE NOON FRIDAY Please note that, owing to space restrictions, not all entries may be included each week. Email copy marked ‘Regular As Clockwork’ to editor@echo.net.au. Relief Bags for anyone doing it tough, every Wednesday 10–12noon at The Hub Ocean Shores, cnr Rajah Rd and Bindaree Way. No ID or Concession Card required. NILs referral service also available. Check Facebook page The Hub Baptist Ocean Shores for details.

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

Breast Cancer Support The Breast Cancer Support Group Byron Bay gets together from November onward at the Byron Community Cabin on Carlyle Street, next to the tennis courts, from 12.30pm–2.30pm, every 3rd Wednesday of the month. More info on Facebook: Breast Cancer Support Group Byron Bay, or call 0431 207 453.

Low-cost or free food Food Box Thursdays 9.30–11.30am at Uniting Church, Mullumbimby. If you have any sort of Centrelink card you may purchase cheap food, obtain free veges, and enjoy a cuppa. Free Food

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1. Daughter is noble – bring it down a lot (8) 9. In camera, unmask an alien (8) 10. The method a way produced a Prime Minister (6) 11. Speak, choose – 10’s was Benelong (10) 12. Regret the loss of a girl (4) 13. Well guarded repository – hot ring employs secure refuges (4,6) 16. Four directions for the American Sheila to an African country (7) 17. Heading: Captain inclined to charge! (7) 20. Actors publicity break abandoned (4,6) 22. Circe of the French poems (4) 23. Frodo, call grizzly queen! (4,6) 25. English cold vulgar, brash character – but so sweet! (6) 26. Relaxes, and fibs with feathers (4,4) 27. Grab the next set of clues – reduce the arrogance! (4,4)

1. Price rebate (8) 9. Citizen of New York or Montreal (8) 10. Former prime minister (6) 11. Constituency, political subdivision (10) 12. Young girl (4) 13. Refuges for fugitives (4,6) 16. African republic (7) 17. Heading, label (7) 20. Maroon, abandon at sea (4,6) 22. Lyric poems (4) 23. Frodo, according to Tolkien (10) 25. French tart (6) 26. Relaxes, becomes horizontal (4,4) 27. Humiliate, swindle (4,4)

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2. Oliver Cromwell, or a warship (8) 3. Coagulating, blending (10) 4. Comprehend (10) 5. Leave in a hurry, ascend (4,3) 6. Torn (4) DOWN 7. Seas (6 2. Raymond Burr’s club team (8) 8. At the right time of the year (2,6) 3. Fossil fuel with Eastern aroma – 14. Despair, deep sorrow (10) it is coming together! (10) 15. Not worried (10) 4. Get it beneath the easel (10) 16. Safely, locked up (8) 5. Become airborne – skit! (4,4) 18. General summary (8) 6. Breach lease (4) 19. One switching countries (7) 7. Canoes wrecked in seas (6) 21. Twelve line poem (6) 8. Time ready to hunt, ready to eat, 24. Greek love god (4) ready to mate (2,6) Last week’s solution N314 14. Great sorrow for earth (10) O R I O L S N O C H O I R A R E R E G A L S A E N E I A I L O C A L L A I N C O M A I P N O T S O C E O E S S E N

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

Exit International is a voluntary euthanasia group that meets quarterly. Meetings are held at the Robina Community Centre. Attendees must be Exit Members. Further information on our website www.exitinternational.net or phone Local Coordinator Elaine 0421 796 713

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

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

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15. Recklessly blunder out without a care (10) 16. Directions: heal beginner youth, free from danger (8) 18. Above the spectacle, a comprehensive survey (8) 19. Diatribe after Russian fighter, one leaving the country (7) 21. Poem is a boy trap! (6) 24. Love god with sore back (4)

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Call Alcoholics Anonymous 1800 423 431 or 0401 945 671 – 30 meetings a week in the Shire – www.aa.org.au. Are you experiencing difficulties and challenges because of the alcohol or drug use of someone close to you? Learn coping skills and gain support from others. Narcotics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem. We are recovering addicts who meet regularly to help each other stay clean. For information and meetings call1300 652 820 or text your postcode to 0488 811 247. www. na.org.au. Are you concerned about somebody else’s drinking? Al-Anon Family Groups meeting held Fridays 2pm. Uniting Church Bangalow – 1300 252 666 www.al-anon.org.au.

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

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

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

Overeaters Anonymous Is food a problem for you? Do you eat when you are not hungry? Do you binge, purge or restrict? Is your weight affecting your life? Brunswick Heads Uniting Church Fridays 5– 6pm cnr Fingal/Byron Street. Call Madeleine: 0426 134 222. Byron Bay first Tuesday of the month Uniting Church, Carlyle St opposite Woolworths. Call Louise: 0401 294 252 Meetings also take place in CAsino and Lismore for more information look up their website: www.oaqld.org.

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

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

Museums Brunswick Valley Historical Society Inc Museum corner of Myocum and Stuart Sts Mullumbimby, open Tuesdays and Fridays 10–12 and market Saturdays 9–1. Discover your local history, join our team – 6684 4367. Bangalow Heritage House Museum & Cafe is open Wednesday to Friday 10am till 3pm. Enjoy home style cooking, fresh baked scones and more. Monthly meeting 1st Monday of each month at Heritage House Bangalow 6687 2183.

Meditation Buddhist meditation teaching and practice at the living Yoga Sanga, first floor, 63 Stuart Street, Mullumbimby, 6–7.30pm, Mondays. Mishaela, 0438 858 842 or mishaele@si.org.au. Dzogchen meditation and study group 2nd and 4th Saturdays each month at Mullumbimby CWA Hall. Didi 0408 008 769. Buddhist meditation and conversation with John Allan, Mondays 6.30–8.30 pm, The Yurt, Temple Byron. No fees. John 0428 991 189. Byron yoga philosophy club free meditation classes Monday, 6pm, 1 Korau Place Suffolk Park. Go to www. wisdom.yoga or phone Kris 0435 300 743. Community Yoga Nidra class free, Wednesdays 1–1.30pm at the Bamboo Yoga School, behind The Health Lodge, 78 Bangalow Road, Byron Bay. Matt 0430 008 293. Meditation Collective Mondays 6.30pm at Temple Byron. For more info: www. byronbaymeditationcollective.com.au or call Geo 0431 747 764. Yoga Nidra every Wednesday 1pm at the Bamboo

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Lonely Xmas?

Christmas lunch

Christmas Lunch, for those who are alone or lonely, at Brunswick Heads Uniting Church, Fingal Street at 12 noon. If you can provide a plate to share that would be great, but not a requirement. Come join us. No one need be alone.

Join the free community Christmas lunch held in Ballina on Christmas day. If you are interested in volunteering on the day call Chris on 0431 630 900. Christmas dinner will be between 12 and 2pm in the Ballina Presbyterian hall, on the corner of Cherry and Crane Street. This is an alcohol free event.

Xmas lunch Liberation Larder’s traditional Christmas lunch will be on December 23. If you are home alone, homeless, sole parent with a handful of kids, or financially disadvantage please come and have a healthy lunch and great company. Food and gift donations welcome too. Please call 0435 879 778 for more details.

Woodchop carnival The Festival of Fish & Chips will be holding the Woodchop carnival between January 15 and 18, 2020. There will be day and night sessions. For further information on times, see: www.woodchop.com.

Yoga School behind The Health Lodge 78 Bangalow Road, Byron Bay. Call Matt 0430 008 293. Integral Zen meditation Tuesdays 6–7.30pm at the Pura Vida Wellness Centre, 14a Park St. Brunswick Heads. By donation. Contact Erik 0418 337 508. Free guided meditation Mullumbimby every Friday from 12-1pm at the Mullumbimby Neighbourhood Centre. Contact Paul: 0401 926 090 or email: paulebibby@gmail.com. Group Mediation: Tuesdays 11.30am at Marvell Hall, 37 Marvell st, Byron Bay. Everybody welcome. Donations appreciated. Gnostic Soceiety Byron. 0412 020 234.

Rainbow Dragons Rainbow Dragons Abreast (RDA) welcomes breast cancer survivors for a paddle at Lake Ainsworth, Lennox Head, on Sundays 7.30 for 8am start. Info Marian 6688 4058, mazzerati2010@gmail.com.

Over-60s fun activities Seniors Activities Tuesdays at the Byron Community Centre, Jonson St, Byron Bay. Elder Beats seniors drumming 10.30–11.30 am with Gareth Jones in the theatre, 11.30 Morning tea in the Cavenbah room, 12.00–1.00 Chair Yoga with Pippy Wardell. Wednesdays: Choir with Kim Banffy, 10–11am; Ukelele 11.30–12.15. Suggested donation of $10. No bookings, further information seniors@byroncommuntycentre.com. or call 6685 6807. Fridays at Marvell Hall play mahjong, canasta, 500 etc and enjoy a cuppa at 1.30–5pm. Marvell Street East, Byron Bay. Enqs: Nancy 0498 480 373

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

Emerge Australia Emerge Australia Inc is a not-for-profit charity supporting those with myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. For more information see the Emerge Australia Website at http://emerge.org.au/.

Permaculture Byron Permaculture Byron Bay meets 1st Wednesday of every month at Marvell Hall 7.30pm. Ph 0427 862 902

Cryptic Crossword Club Any cryptic crossword tragics out there – beginners or advanced. If you’d like to share your obsession with others and get together once a week at Marvell Hall as part of the new seniors’ activities, please ring Christine 0407 857 991. As a team we might be able to conquer DA!

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Men’s Groups Complete Men has regular fortnightly men’s groups on different nights in both Byron and Mullum. Call Tim Fisk 0422 508 533.

Hawai’ian Hula Hawai’ian Hula (not to be confused with hula-hooping) is being practised by Byron Bay Hula troupe Mana Aloha. Join the beginners’ class to try dipping your toes in the ocean of hula. No experience necessary, all welcome to join. Mana Aloha respectfully share this cultural art with the encouragement and blessing of their Hawai’ian teachers. Class info + bookings: www. facebook.com/ByronBayHula, email alohalilith22@gmail.com or call 0417 633 080.

Fun Croquet BlackRocks Sports Field Come and join for a social game, beginners and visitors welcome Games starts 8.30am (daylight savings time) Tuesday and 8.30am (daylight savings time) Thursday $5 per game. Enquires 0413 335941

End of life choices Exit International is a voluntary euthanasia group that meets quarterly. Meetings are held at the Robina Community Centre. Attendees must be Exit Members. Further information on our website www.exitinternational.net or phone Local Coordinator Elaine 0421 796 713

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

Byron Gem Club The Bryon Gem and Lapidary Club is open weekly to members new and old. Visitors welcome to view club facilities. Activities – semi-precious and gemstone cutting, shaping and polishing – gem faceting – silver work – gem setting and jewellery making etc. Facebook @ Byron Gem Club. Club work shed located past Sky Dive Byron at Tyagrah Air Field. Contact 6687 1251 or 0427 529 967 for more info.

House of Bliss Kirtan: fortnightly Fridays chant, dance, meditate from 2 March to 23 November 2018. From 6:30 till 9pm. St Martin’s Anglican Parish Hall, Mullumbimby. E:houseofblisskirtan@gmail.com

Time to sing

Mullum op-shop dates

Giving tree

Uniting Church op shop Mullumbimby is closed from 21 December for the summer break and will reopen on Saturday 18 January, 2020. A big thank you to our community for your support. We wish you peace and joy in the coming year.

Habitat have a Giving Tree to support the homeless in Byron. Drop off donations, in particular vouchers for groceries, shoes, socks, undies, torches and batteries and bags to Habitat in Byron Arts and Industry Estate.

Food Box closed Food Box will close 19 December and re-open Thursday 30 January 2020.

Kids library fun Baby Bounce will be on Tuesdays at 11.30am and Story Time on Mondays at 10am at the Mullumbimby Library. All branches close between Christmas and New year.

Fireworks The Festival of Fish & Chips will be holding fireworks on Saturday, January 11, 2020 at 9pm in Banner Park, Brunswick Heads.

Come sing inspiring songs and make new friends, Sundays, 10am at South Golden Beach Community Hall. Call Linda: 0415 412 514.

New dementia meetup We’d love to see you at our new monthly Northern Rivers Carers Coffee Club on the 2nd Monday of every month. Our December meeting will take place at 10.30am–12noon, Monday 9 December at a café in Brunswick Heads. Please call or text Karen on 0412 911 613 or email Karen at: dementiafriendly@byronrespite. com.au for the location. We like to hold meetings close to carers. It’s your club and we are open to your suggestions. Bring your questions, bring your concerns, let other carers know what works for you, meet new friends and expect to get great support!

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Former Australia coach signs with Byron Bay FC W-League Premiership winner and former Australian U 17 coach, Belinda Wilson has been appointed as the Byron Bay Services Club Rams’ head coach for 2020 season. Wilson is the Far North Coast’s first-ever female coach of a men’s premier division team. She will also continue in her role as a women’s football consultant for FIFA. It’s a homecoming for the former Brisbane Roar coach who grew-up in Byron Bay and started her career by coaching her younger brother’s team from U/6s through to U/13s. After leaving Australia in 2006 Wilson joined the Asian Football Confederation to become director of women’s Football. She took her first full-time coaching role in Norway. In Australia, Wilson was involved in elite football development with Football NSW, NSW Institute of Sport, Football Queensland and the Queensland Academy of Sport. It was while in Brisbane that she was appointed head coach of the U/17 Australian Women’s National

Belinda Wilson will coach the Rams in 2020. Photo supplied Team who competed in the World Cup Qualifiers in China. ‘I am happy to be home again and be in a position where I can give back to the club that gave me my first opportunity and access to coaching licences that enabled me to start on a career path that I did not see coming,’ said Wilson. ‘As a kid I was not allowed to play football as girls could not play in the boy’s competitions in those days, so thankfully I was able to start coaching instead.’ Wilson says that gender

should not be a barrier to coaching and hopes her appointment will inspire another generation of female coaches to come from the Far North Coast. ‘I dreamt that I would play for Australia but the access was not there for me to do that as a player, but as a coach I did. ‘Clubs are responsible to provide opportunities and access, and I was fortunate that Byron Bay did not stop me from coaching boy’s teams back when I first started, or the men’s team today,’ she said.

keeping Grafton to just 31 off their first 10 overs. But a big effort saw the home side score 87 runs off the final ten overs to win a very exciting game. ‘The girls were excited and proud to get where they did in this knock-out competition. They really

The Mullum XI celebrate a wicket. Photo supplied worked very hard,’ coach Eddie Buckingham said.

The winners in the Bangalow Summer 6s football have been decided after the competition played out its final games in the middle of December. A total of 72 senior teams battled across four grades for the men, and five for women, to determine the victors.

Winners: A grade women’s and men’s teams with their 2019 Summer 6s trophies. Photo supplied grade), Kewell Kats (B grade), Dragonflies (C grade), Girls

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The fastest runner in Clifford Street South Golden Beach has been cheering some folk, and disappointing others, since 2001. In the early days it was easy for a half keen, half-cooked punter to take on several of the neighbourhood preschoolers and some of the more debilitated elderly residents to win a trophy. Not so much anymore as the numbers grow. These days there are several categories, so that at least half a dozen hopefuls can collect an iconic, albeit tacky, trophy. The first race of the day saw dozens of the local kids sprinting the 150 metres to the blue crepe-paper finish line. It was a tight finish with 13-year-old Matty Grey crossing the line first. The moment of the day belonged to Jarrah Farrell and Tio Martin who stopped to help a fallen and weeping three-year-old. Ten-year-old Mylee Farrell, after many years of trying, took out the girl’s trophy. Many of the same kids joined the adults for their race and annual get-together

Competition for the coveted Clifford Street pine-andaluminium trophies was fierce and fun. to sledge each other before the bragging rights are settled for another year. New Clifford Street resident Nic Smith took the honours in the men’s and a very sporting and deceptively pacey Pauline Elliot collected the women’s trophy. ‘Not bad for a 70-year-old,’ said Pauline. Residents and runners gathered for a bit of postrace hydrating and chitter chat and applauded Stacey

Sargent who, after coming middle of the pack for most of the races over the preceding years, scored this year’s coveted ‘Nobody Remembers Second’ trophy.

Winner’s roll Boy’s: Matthew Grey Girls’: Mylee Farrell Men’s: Nic Smith Women’s: Pauline Elliot Over 50s: Andy Taylor Nobody Remembers Second: Stacey who?

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Winners crowned at the Bangalow Summer 6s

Men: Brown Snakes (A grade), Cut Snakes (B grade), Rookies (C grade), Cobber Johns (D grade). Womens: White Tigers (A

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Mullumbimby High U/14 XI ŕëſſşƱōƷ ōşƆĕ Ǖ ŕëō The Mullumbimby High U/14 girl’s side lost the final of the T20 Lyn Larsen Shield on the second last ball of the day, after setting Grafton a total of 117. The Mullumbimby side batted first after travelling to Grafton, and looked in a strong position to win after

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with Balls (D grade), Chicks with Kicks (E grade).

2019 proved to be a year of change in the sport of surfing, with one of the biggest changes being the introduction of equal prize money for men and women by the WSL. The year also saw Byron Bay’s Kieren Perrow step down after six years as the ASP/WSL Tour commissioner, while Soli Bailey sported both the Indigenous and the Australian flags on his CT jersey for his debut on the CT. ‘I’m an Indigenous Australian going to compete against the world,’ Bailey said. But through it all local talent continued to shine and this included the amazing run of victories in the AS2 division of the International Adaptive Surfing circuit by Mark ‘Mono’ Stewart. In the longboard arena Lennox Head’s Ben Dickens won back-to-back titles in the O/40s men’s logger division at the Australian Longboard Titles, while Lee Middleton (Lennox Head) won the ladies division at the 22nd annual Lennox

Mark Stewart carving in Hawaii. Photo HASC Longboard Classic. Byron Bay Boardriders president Neil ‘Freddo’ Cameron proved he is the best over 60s shortboard surfer in the country, winning everything he entered. Our pro surfers had some success too with Byron Bay’s Owen Wright winning the Tahiti Pro Teahupo’o and helping lead team Australia to a win in the ISA Aloha Cup at the 2019 ISA World Surfing Games.

EſşŔ żşƱĕſ In the juniors, Lennox Head’s Mikey McDonagh

won his first ever WSL QS event at Yallingup (WA), while Lennox Head’s Nyxie Ryan finished third on the WSL Pro Junior rankings in Australasia, won the U/16s at the 2019 Skullcandy Oz Grom Open and was the NSW High School U/19 All Star Champion. Other standout juniors included: Byron Bay’s Touma Cameron and Henley Smith, Leihani Zoric (Broken Head), Keke Brain (Lennox Head), Juniper Harper (Lennox Head) and Ocea Curtis (Lennox Head).

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