Tweed Echo – Issue 3.20 – 27/01/2011 by Echo Publications

THE TWEED

Keeping it in the

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Volume 3 #20 Thursday, January 27, 2011 Advertising and news enquiries: Phone: (02) 6672 2280 editor@tweedecho.com.au adcopy@tweedecho.com.au www.tweedecho.com.au

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Biosphere status urged for Tweed

Rose, Young Achiever using her brains

Murray Simpson

received a Year 12 Rotary prize for citMr McDonald received recogniizenship and the Defence Force Long tion for his services to the cattle inThe strange world of teenagers’ brains Tan leadership and teamwork award. dustry and his commitment to the Tweed River region, while Judith is a constant source of fascination to Terkelsen has been noted for her young Uki livewire Rose Spiller (pic- Citizen of the Year Winner of the Tweed Citizen of work in the field of childhood early tured above). Rose, 18, is this year’s winner of the Year was Lorraine Grennan for intervention and learning. Mr McDonald was a member of the Young Achiever section of the her work with the Murwillumbah Tweed Shire Australia Day awards. chapter of Compassionate Friends the Royal Panel of Judges of the Australian Jersey Herd Society and ofHers was one of seven awards pre- (see picture, page 2). Also awarded yesterday were palli- ficiated as a royal judge at the royal sented yesterday at a ceremony at ative care supporter Edna Gorton of shows of Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide Bogangar Public School. A graduate of Mt St Patrick Col- Uki, Caldera Artfest founder Andy and Melbourne. He is a past president and life lege, Rose plans heading to Griffith Reimanis, sporting all-rounder Sean University this year to study psy- Garner of Terranora, Tumbulgum member of the Tweed-Richmond Public School’s soccer team and the Jersey Breeders Association and was chology. the youngest of 35 members elected ‘I’m specially interested in youth Kids In Need dragon boat regatta. to the Tweed River Agricultural Sowork and teenage brain developOAM awards ciety committee, serving as president ment,’ she says. Rose was a member of the Youth Two well-known Tweed residents for 12 years. Ms Terkelson has been a director Using Their Heads committee which have been honoured with Order of liaises with the Tweed Shire Council Australia awards for their contribu- and teacher at Tweed Valley Early Childhood Intervention Service to organise alcohol-free Youth Week tions to the community. activities. Longtime jersey breeder John since 1984. Her involvement with the serShe also volunteers for the You ‘Ken’ McDonald from MurwillumHave a Friend group that provides bah and childhood expert Judith vice includes Tweed Shire Planning support and food for the homeless. Terkelsen have been recognised in Group Families NSW, Far North At Mt St Pats she was on the stu- the general division of the Order of Coast Early Childhood Intervention dent representative council and won Australia Medal announced by Gov- Collegiate and many other groups and services. an honour award for leadership. She ernment House in Canberra. Murray Simpson

A grand plan to have the Tweed Valley declared a ‘biosphere reserve’ has been launched by the Caldera Environment Centre. But it has nothing to do with Disneyland-type glass bubbles, says coordinator Edward ‘Hop. e’ Hopkins. ‘We want to become part of a global network of biospheres promoted by UNESCO,’ he said. ‘There are 546 biospheres worldwide in 109 countries and 15 in Australia. ‘We’re looking at biosphere status for the Border Ranges and Noosa to provide a green belt, or lungs, at either end of the urbanised strip we call the Moreton Basin megalopolis – centred on Brisbane but including the Sunshine and Gold Coasts. ‘That’s approximately 250 kilometres of concrete and bitumen. ‘Give us a break. Give peace a chance.’ Mr Hopkins said the biosphere project piggybacked on other intiatives such as the Border Ranges Rainforest Biodiversity Management Plan recently compiled by state and federal government agencies. ‘We see the biosphere concept as an aspirational model. It has no compulsion but relies on grassroots support from below as well commonwealth backing from above.’ To press its case, the Caldera Environment Centre is circulating a petition to generate a groundswell of support. ‘This is necessary to progress the idea to the level where UNESCO accreditation is sought,’ Mr Hopkins said. The biosphere reserve envisages taking in the Mt Warning caldera,

the McPherson and Border ranges and possibly even the marine reserve off Byron Bay. It will spill from Tweed shire to Byron, Lismore, Kyogle and Northern Rivers shire councils and will link with Queensland’s scenic rim scheme which runs down to the border. ‘It all centres on the biodiversity hot-spot we have where the McPherson and Border ranges meet roughly at the head of the Limpinwood Valley,’ he said.

Rarest of the rare ‘We’ve got species there that exist nowhere else.’ The roots of the biosphere reserve network go back to the Club of Rome, in 1972, where economists agreed current rates of development were unsustainable, and the ground-breaking Earth Conference in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. UNESCO launched its Man and the Biosphere (MAB) program in 1970 and the notion of a global network of sites was one of its earliest projects. These sites were to represent the main ecosystems of the planet in which genetic resources would be protected. The reserves were to foster conservation, sustainable development and form a base for research and education. Mr Hopkins said the Tweed reserve would have three zones – a core area, a buffer zone and a transition zone. ‘Only the core area requires legal protection and would correspond to existing protected areas such as nature reserves or national parks.’ He said UNESCO did not require any change of law or ownership; each biosphere had its own system of governance to ensure it met its objectives.

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Li Quing Hu, left, became a naturalised Australian citizen yesterday during the official Australia Day and citizenship ceremonies at Bogangar Public School, a proud day for not just herself but her husband Feipu Jing and young daughter Matilda. The family came to Australia from China over a year ago and run the Pantian Chinese restaurant on Tweed Valley Way near Murwillumbah. Li was one of 25 new Tweed citizens from 15 different countries naturalised on Australia Day. In NSW, 3,200 people became new citizens and around Australia some 13,000 people from 143 countries became citizens.

Lorraine Grennan was named Tweed Citizen of the Year. Her ongoing work with Compassionate Friends, the worldwide support group for bereaved family members, dates back to when the organisation came to her aid when her son Michael died of leukemia in 1983. All Australia Day photos by Jeff ‘Dinky Di’ Dawson

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New plan for Tyalgum water plant Murray Simpson

Tenders for a water treatment plant at the Tweed Valley vil lage of Tyalgum have been dumped and the council plans to go it alone. Four tenders for the plant were received but all were considered over the top as far as cost was concerned and the Tweed Shire Council has decided to take a different ap proach. The village of some 220 souls has had a thirsty time of it at various periods over the years, with its water supply drying up completely in 2003. A report to the council said Tyalgum drew its water from the Tyalgum Weir pool with the water treated by a system installed in the 1960s. Water from the pool under goes coarse filtration and is then disinfected with a sod ium hypochlorite solution. No other form of treatment is pro vided. Improved water treatment is considered necessary to meet Australian Drinking Water guidelines. In the summer of 2002-3 the village was placed under severe water restrictions when the Tyalgum Creek dried up and potable water had to be carted 24kms out from Murwillum bah at considerable cost. The council last year re ceived four tenders to upgrade the plant – from AquatecMaxconPty Ltd, Haulton Con struction (Aust) Pty Ltd, Pall Australia Pty Ltd and Veolia Water solutions and Technolo gies (Australia) Pty Ltd. But a council tender evalu ation panel found all quotes were substantially above the estimated budget for the work and did not represent value for money. The council now plans to do some of the upgrade itself and negotiate with another party to complete the balance of the work. Negotiations will be carried out in accordance with Inde pendent Commission Against Corruption guidelines.

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Greens make railway service once again an election issue Murray Simpson

The mothballed Murwillum bah railway has been thrust back into the political lime light by the Greens candidate for Lismore, Susan Stock. Ms Stock, right, who will contest the NSW state elec tions in March, said bringing back the Murwillumbah-Ca sino line was a priority. ‘We must move more freight off our congested roads and onto rail,’ she said. A teacher and librarian, Ms Stock lives at Mt Nardi near Nimbin. The electorate she’s running for takes in Murwil

lumbah and she has a special affinity for the issues affecting the Tweed Valley. ‘I’m opposed to the pro posal to dam the pristine and beautiful Byrrill Creek,’ she said.

‘Water supply issues can be solved through other measure such as the wider use of water tanks, water saving and reuse.’ Ms Stock holds degrees in urban and regional planning, education, visual arts and lib rarianship. She has most recently been working as a librarian at the North Coast Institute of TAFE. She has also been a high school teacher-librarian and geography teacher for many years in Sydney and the Northern Rivers. She is also assistant editor of the Nimbin Good Times com munity newspaper.

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Power sell-off ‘won’t stop price rises’ The State power sell-off has left Tweed MP Geoff Provest shocked, stunned and amazed. Mr Provest has just returned from hearings inquiring into the sell-off and said he was flabbergasted at Labor’s in competence and duplicity in the matter. ‘It was surreal. I watched on

as Premier Keneally’s own top bureaucrats deserted her,’ he said. ‘Tweed taxpayers are partshareholders in electricity assets worth $25 billion, yet we get a little as $400 million from Labor’s scorched earth policy.’ An online poll by a Sydney

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A Tweed coast koala ginger group has taken a warm fuzzy approach in a bid to persuade the council to be nice to koalas. Team Koala president Jenny Hayes turned up with a contingent of supporters at a council community access meeting recently armed with a large framed portrait of a koala mum and her two bubs. The portrait was painted by Tweed Valley artist and photographer Chris Degenhardt. Leaving nothing to chance Ms Hayes came equipped with a nail to hang it on which she formally presented to mayor Kevin Skinner. Ms Hayes stipulated the portrait was to hang in the public gallery of the council chambers – but not on the same wall that featured a picture of a bulldog, ‘which Cr Youngblutt so admires.’ ‘The artwork has been carefully selected to contain no Nazis or dead koalas,’ she told councillors, referring to a recent controversy whereby council banned a painting by the artist which was set to be hung in the Murwillumbah Library because the mayor found it offensive. The painting was seen as too political

Left: Mia, an adult female koala, recently recovered from a dog attack last year. The Lismore-based Koala Care Centre is feeling the brunt of the aftermath of the recent wet spell with a full house of 18 koalas and another 13 in homecare or under treatment at the Australian Wildlife Hospital in Beerwah, Queensland, as a result of the big wet. Mia has been placed in a clinical trial associated with the development of an anti-chlamydia vaccine for koalas being conducted at the hospital. On February 26, Professor Peter Timms of QUT’s Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation will present a seminar in Lismore ‘Koalas and their chlamydiae: the long and winding road’. To book call 02 6622 1233 or email info@friendsofthekoala.org. Photo Friends of the Koala

because of its stand against the world rally being run on the Tweed. Ms Hayes said ‘We would like to thank the councillors for their past support and say that this should be the year we

all work together to save the Tweed Coast koalas. ‘Team Koala would like, in a spirit of friendship, to offer on loan this magnificent art work. ‘We are also mindful of the council’s budget and would

also like to include this highly useful device – a nail.’ Ms Hayes leads a group that is actively pressing the council to impose conservation measures at the Kings Forest residential development which is also home one of the three remaining colonies of koalas on the Tweed coast.

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Soil will benefit from manure project Murray Simpson

Manure will be dished out with gusto by the Tweed Shire Council when the latest Food Links project gets into full swing. In a bold venture to boost soil health, 15 farmers will be selected to receive 20 tonnes each of the precious stuff. The council’s sustainable agriculture officer Sebastian Garcia-Cuenca said the project was an expansion of a scheme already trialled on selected cane farms and smallcrop properties at Duranbah He said $30,000 had been allocated to the project by Northern Rivers Food Links, and would be run in conjunction with Tweed Landcare. The Food Links project, funded through the state government’s Environmental Trust, aims to secure a sustainable food future for the Northern Rivers through more sustainable local food production, distribution and consumption practices. ‘We’re sourcing our manure from three places,’ he said. ‘Some will come from the Triton plant in Lismore where green waste is shredded and mixed with worm castings to produce high quality manure. ‘Another is from Mara Seeds at Mallanganee near Casino who have their own special brew. ‘A third source is cow manure from feed lots which will be composted on site on farms. ‘At the end of the day farmers will have a palette of options to assess what’s best for them.’ Mr Garcia-Cuenca said a trial of this scale had not been attempted before. ‘We’re trying to encourage farmers to explore different ways of enhancing soil sustainability,’ he said. ‘Transport costs are so often an inhibiting factor and we hope this project will help overcome farmers’ reluctance to give it a go.’ Tweed Landcare is calling

Piles of nutrient-rich manure prepared for use by food-growing farmers should soon be a familiar sight on the Tweed. Photo courtesy Soil Systems Australia

for expressions of interest from commercial famers interested in joining the project. Farmers producing food apart from small crops and dairying

are also encouraged to apply. Expression of interest can be lodged with Mr GarciaCuenca on 02 6670 2629 or SGarci-Cuenca@tweed.nsw.

gov.au, and also with Claire Masters, NRM community support officer, on 02 6670 2199 or csotweed@tweed.nsw. gov.au.

Waste fees waived for surf titles The carnival is expected to generate five tonnes of rubA mountain of waste expected bish a day which would have to be generated by the State incurred landfill fees of about Surf Life Saving Champion- $3500. ships being held at Kingscliff in March won’t cost organisers Mayor supportive Mayor Kevin Skinner said a zak. The Cudgen Headland Surf he had always been enorLifesaving Club last week mously supportive the club’s asked Tweed Shire Council activities and endorsed a if it would waive the rubbish council decision to waive the disposal fees for the seven-day fees. A report to the council said carnival. Murray Simpson

the request fell outside the council’s ‘waiving of disposal fees’ policy which allowed a waiver to not-for-profit organisations disposing of unwanted second-hand goods or those undertaking community restoration or clean-up programs. But the report said the council was a major sponsor of the surf carnival and the fee waiver would incur minimal direct cost to the council.

Truck operator faces fine for underpaying A former Tweed Heads truck operator is being prosecuted for underpaying his drivers by nearly $20,000. The prosecution is being brought by the Fair Work Ombudsman against Colin Alexander Neave of Terranora. Mr Neave was the operator of the Tweed Heads-based transport company Corporate Consulting (Australia) Pty Ltd

before the company went into liquidation in June last year. Documents lodged with the Federal Magistrates Court in Sydney allege Mr Neave was involved in the company’s failure to provide truck drivers with paid rostered days off to which they were entitled. It is alleged 15 drivers who transported general freight between various distribution

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(By the time you read this we will be home) Here we are in Victoria. We’ve been walking the Great Ocean Walk and apparently it’s summer... I actually have my doubts about that! We flew down to Melbourne last week; Jim and Lyn, Greg and Deb, Donna and us. We hired a people-mover and off we went... off to Lavers Hill. It was 12 degees when we arrived. I thought we were in Antarctica. Brrrrrrrrh! Let me tell you, hiking in Victoria is an experience. This is the only time I’ve had to pack a raincoat, thermals and swimmers for a day hike (and used them all). Just to keep you on your toes. We decided not to do the walk the traditional way, east to west starting at Apollo Bay, and finishing at the Twelve Apostles. We decided to do the fun bits first and then do the not-so-fun bits last. As we were doing day walks we could take our pick. Of all the walks we’ve done over the years this has got to be the most spectacular. The views are amazing, we truly have a beautiful country. Of course we’ve been busy testing products on our way. This hike was brought to us by Keen, Black Wolf, Vigilante, Sea to Summit and Gondwana. Come in and we’ll tell you all about it. Strange place this, they have issues with signs... of which there are very few, toilets... which are also very rare, and garbage. Let me tell you the saga of rubbish! Every lookout, park, walk, every public place has signs ‘Please take your garbage home’ with NO garbage bins provided. The house we stayed at said ‘Please take your garbage with you’. I’m not sure how JetStar is going to react when we turn up with a week-worth of garbage! On a lighter note we’ve had a great week. Australia is beautiful, life is good, the Tweed hasn’t flooded. We’re at peace with the world. Come into the shop and we’ll tell you all about our excellent adventure. Happy Australia Day! Tony and Cathy

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Time for Julia to rethink the deficit

f the floods of the last month have proved one thing, it is that it’s time – well past Volume 3 #20 January 27, 2011 time, in fact – for Julia Gillard to reassess her priorities. We all know what her number one imperative has been since she abandoned moving The Echo has long campaigned to preserve the prime agricultural forward in favour of decisions land on the Cudgen plateau from development and prevent the and delivery: it has been to get shire’s food bowl on the rich red volcanic soil from being concreted the budget back in to surplus over for the sake of profits for a few individual developers. in 2013. The recent devastating Queensland floods have put these floodThere have been other profree rich lands and their use into sharp focus as farmers there are jects mentioned, of course, now seeing just how valuable their livelihoods on the plateau are. and rebuilding and recovery Vegetable prices due to scarcity after the floods have skyrocketed, have certainly been among but supply is the vital issue and without local food-growing areas them; but the 2013 budget has such as these, Australian food retailers and wholesalers will have to been the overriding obsession. look offshore to import not-so-fresh food. Nothing must be allowed to get The price of sweet potatoes at Cudgen has, since the big wet, in its way: the whole of govdoubled, which will no doubt become a growing trend for other ernment is centred around this vegetables grown there. The farmers are reaping the rewards as single aim. retail giants source their vegies from Cudgen instead of food-growBut why? What is it about ing areas in floodprone land in Queensland. this piece of statistical nuYet land speculators, who bought up land at Cudgen over the merology that makes it more years expecting a huge windfall if the land could be rezoned, important than repairing the criticise those opposed to their grand money-making schemes. enormous damage done to One former mayor whose family owned and sold land there tens of thousands of families campaigned long and hard to convince locals that the land was in what must now be seen as somehow useless for farming or to grow anything on, while other an ongoing series of natural speculating landowners allowed their land to remain dormant and disasters? Where did it come infested by weeds to make a point to suit their argument. from in the first place? They are also paying the lower rural rates, yet council knows Let’s start by noting that it full well the land is being proposed for residential use and no wasn’t even Gillard’s idea; it agricultural pursuit has taken place there for years, while a minor was bequeathed to her by her developer with a small block of land zoned rural at Terranora, predecessor along with the another former food growing area now encroached by housing mining tax, climate change and development, is expected to pay residential rates, a rather unjust boat people. Kevin Rudd inanomaly. vented the idea, and there is no If councils and state governments buckle to greedy developreason why Gillard should not ers and continue to approve large-scale developments, arguing at least attempt to dispose of it they accommodate population growth with no consideration of as she has done with so much preserving land for growing food, then our future is indeed bleak of the previous agenda. And and we will all be at the mercy of the Coles/Woolworths duopoly anyway, why did Rudd come importing high-cost food. There will be widespread calls for popu- up with the promise? Because lation caps in order to be able to feed everyone. the pollsters and focus groups There is abundant land available to develop or redevelop for told him it was a killer move, housing without taking out agriculturally zoned land as some are bringing back a surplus three lobbying for; it just so happens that some of the Tweed’s prime years earlier than anticipated food-growing land has ocean views and represents a much more – there’s real economic manprofitable option for some landowners. agement. Water is in the same category as prime farmland and we should But why was the surplus seen be educating everyone about recycling this precious resource and as so important anyway? Well, harvesting it through rainwater-tank storage rather than just waste because Malcolm Turnbull said so much of it down the drain. Funny how it takes major calamities it was; the whole point was to to wake some people up to the fact that, as the Joni Mitchell song counter the opposition accusagoes, ‘You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone’. tions that the government had

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Shutting them up

It’s now a well-known tactic by big business that in order to silence critics, you sue them for some perceived libel or defamation and tie them up in the courts, with all the costs and delay involved thereby certain to hurt the smaller players most. Cr Katie Milne is the second local Greens councillor to have to defend an action by major developer Bob Ell. Former councillor Henry James was subject to a threat of legal action years ago, while a local Labor stalwart was intimidated by another major Tweed developer, since deceased, and neither of those cases got to be examined in a court of law. In Tasmania, Bob Brown and other members of the Greens were tied up for quite some time defending expensive defamation suits for their campaign against the controversial Gunns woodchip and paper mill. The cases were eventually dropped. Mr Ell is entitled to protect his reputation and we must wait for the court to decide if it has suffered at Cr Milne’s hands.

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been wastefully overspending in its approach to the GFC. But who suggested that Turnbull concentrate on debt and deficit? Presumably his own pollsters and focus groups. And the idea had been ground into them by 11 hard years of listening to John Howard and Peter Costello rabbiting on remorselessly about responsible economic management, by which they meant

change, I change my mind. What do you do sir – or in this case madam?’ And the facts have changed. The surplus projected for 2013 is of the order of $3 million. The damage from the floods is currently estimated at about $20 billion and counting. Gillard apparently believes that all that $20 billion can be found through savings on spending, perhaps supplemented by a

What started as a piece of black propaganda generated by the coalition dirt machine 15 years ago has become Julia Gillard’s ruling passion. by Mungo MacCallum keeping the budget in surplus no matter what. And that was because in 1996 some genius had coined the phrase ‘Beazley’s black hole’ to describe the semi-mythical $10 billion debt left by the last government in which Kim Beazley was finance minister, and it sounded so good that they decided to base a whole philosophy of government on it. So what started as a piece of black propaganda generated by the coalition dirt machine 15 years ago progressed through at least eight stages of Chinese whispers to become Julia Gillard’s ruling passion. And it’s high time she took a cold shower and a bromide and looked at the matter rationally. For starters, as any serious economist could tell her, and a great many already have, there is nothing intrinsically wrong with governments running deficits; it all depends on the circumstances. And as one of the greatest of all economists, John Milton Keynes, memorably put it: ‘When the facts

one-off tax levy. We will return to the idea of a levy later, but with or without it, the savings would have to be swingeing. Presumably defence would, as always, be exempted, which would mean that other bigspending portfolios – health, education, and welfare – would cop a hammering. And this is on top of the steep cuts already being demanded of them. The pain, both for the voters and for the government, would be considerable – and for what? So as not to lose face – and that’s all. Sure, Tony Abbott and the economic fundamentalists of News Limited would scream about betrayal, but the latter are unreadable and the former is very, very vulnerable on the whole issue. Abbott is totally opposed to a levy – to him, of course, it’s just another Grey Pig Newt Axe, in spite of the fact that the government of which he was part imposed no less than six levies over its lifetime, and he himself proposed a seventh to pay for his

parental leave scheme. Ah, he smirks, but our government wasn’t indulging in wasteful spending – which is a dubious proposition (Middle class welfare? Health insurance subsidies for the wealthy?) but is in any case totally irrelevant to his parental leave policy – if the Rudd government’s spending was really so wasteful surely he could have paid for it out of savings of his own. Abbott’s idea of paying for reconstruction is to take it all out of savings, and of course to start by scrapping the National Broadband Network. Since the NBN is a long-term project canning it now would actually provide very little spot cash, which is what is needed. But more to the point, Abbott has already promised that the savings he could make from it would be spent on schools and hospitals. So he now wants to dud the children and the sick. Not the best look for a politician posing as the champion of those oppressed by cost of living pressures. But for Gillard it should not be just a matter of countering the negatives and repelling Abbott’s attacks – she has spent far too long doing just that, fighting reactive battles on other people’s ground. She should make the project a positive, a crusade: Reconstruction, Recovery, Reconciliation, as Bob Hawke put it in far less parlous circumstances in 1983 when he was looking to establish his prime ministership. The floods have been a natural catastrophe, and any attempt to exploit them politically will be rightly seen as an obscenity – Tony Abbott take note. But a generous, inclusive, open-hearted program to rebuild at any cost should be welcomed and applauded. Julia, seize the day – and to hell with the deficit.

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Dam floods

Last week’s Echo contained three letters with different views on dams. The influence that Wivenhoe Dam had on Brisbane has yet to be ascertained through flood modelling. The water did come close to the erodible plugs that would have produced sudden uncontrollable releases adding to Brisbane’s devastation. Wivenhoe owners were warned of the current La Nina pattern and (in hindsight) should have lowered the water level beforehand. With the gates wide open, more water flooded Brisbane than should have been the case. A little more rain would have eroded the plugs and negated the dam’s flood mitigation ability altogether. By itself, the Bremer River has the capacity to produce major flooding in Brisbane but it was lower than 1974 thereby reducing damage in Brisbane. Fairbairn Dam, upstream from Emerald and larger than Wivenhoe, didn’t save that town from severe inundation. It is no myth that dams have a small window of opportunity to mitigate floods and once that is exceeded, the consequences are disastrous. This was indicated to the Mt Warning Road property owner by Tweed Shire Council if Clarrie Hall Dam is overtopped because its spillway flood capacity is inadequate. Clarrie Hall Dam ‘Flood Warning Arrangements’ and ‘Dam Safety Emergency Management Plan’ should be more accessible to the community. Bob McDonald

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To the point

As I take a few minutes off from helping my family deal with the flood in Victoria, I am appalled at the latest antics by the mayor and his mates over Hastings Point. This fight was never about ‘shutting the gate’, or ‘highrise in Hastings Point’ – it was always about fairness, decency and protecting people from themselves by restricting silly development on flood plains. People in Queensland are already asking why councils there allowed development on flood plains, where developers whack up buildings, sell them off to unsuspecting families, who are then left to deal with the consequences. The lack of accountability for decisions and poor development are appalling. I wonder how different decisions would be if the mayor had to sign a personal guarantee www.tweedecho.com.au

Pre-Raphaelite technology It’s amazing how much technological dependence will cause a rejection of alternatives even as there is at the same time acknowledgement of the desperation of our environmental situation, and how vision needs to be different. In Wizards of Oz, research psychologist, author and broadcaster, Peter Spinks writing about Australian scientific achievements says: ‘The restoration of environmental balance… is long overdue. There have been countless mistakes and many continue to be made.’ Nevertheless, he says earlier, ‘Roger Kitching, an ecologist at Griffith University in Queensland, feels there is a small movement afloat within the wider conservation community that owes a lot to pre-Raphaelite romanticism – the idea of small communities, self-sufficiency, bucolic ruralism and a happy and self-motivated village based population.’ For Kitching, the idea ‘can only work when populations are small with respect to the availability of environmental resources’. One wonders also whether his ‘bucolic ruralism and a happy and self-motivated village’ are not offered tonguein-cheek as though to say, ‘you wish!’ The thought that we have the ability to increase renewable resources even though in the past we depleted them, cannot be taken on easily by a people who view progress as involving raw materials for industrial processes that tend to occur off the immediate area where the environmental resources are reduced. Bucolic ruralism has much to offer. A dictionary definition of bucolic includes the word ‘rustic’ and the desire for rustic has never left European consciousness. The paint col-

our Mission Brown was used extensively in Australia in the 1980s, rather than bright colours, and people often buy furniture and other household items because they are felt to be rustic; not too machined; more of the earth than of industry. The extension of rustic to major expression of one’s living began arguably in Nimbin at the Aquarius festival of 1973. On the hoardings of shopfronts in Nimbin soon after were written environmental truisms such as ‘there is no economy without an environment’ and ‘live simply that others may simply live’. Rustic had begun in earnest, for around the Nimbin area people began to notice that the older the technology the more rustic it was, and the less they required mining and factory dependence, the greater there was movement toward simplicity of lifestyle and toward sustainability. A brace and bit was more progressive technology than an electric drill, and a handsaw that required the skill of sharpening sawteeth, which when blunted, required throwing away the whole saw. Nevertheless, older technologies while slower in using resources, were not economic. That is, a carpenter using a brace and bit would be too slow compared to one using an electric drill. Spinks sees preRaphaelite romanticism as ‘a stratagem that could help heal the planet. However, major sacrifices may be required. As Peter Jacklyn, a biologist and the Communications Coordinator of the Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Savannas in Darwin, comments, “to live sustainably in local communities would mean we would have to do away with much of the global economy, many of our material posses-

on his decisions, and if development company directors had to do the same. Perhaps then we would see less of the billion dollar homes for developers in Sydney, while the people who buy from them get washed away in cyclones and floods. By the way, thank you to all who supported Hastings Point residents over the past 12 years. We are grateful to each and every one of you and also the councillors whose integrity saw them standing firm through the extreme pressure that was put on them. To the others, in the words if the inimitable Dr Phil, ‘don’t let the gate hit you in the butt on the way out of town.’

Echo, January 20). This plan is a giant leap back to 1980s style thinking. Cover our town with highrise development, allow Tweed Centro and Twin Towns Services Club to go as high as 45 metres. Who cares if the redeveloped parkland of the boatharbour is shadowed by highrise! It’s stamp duty and rates that will fill the coffers of state government and council that count! It’s a shame that our council is so backward in their forward thinking. Why can’t they be creative in their efforts to revitalise Tweed Heads? Residents don’t want their town covered in highrise, it’s not what people move to the Tweed for. If they wanted highrise living they would move to Surfers Paradise. Why can’t our town be revitalised along the lines of the Robina Town Centre that is being created to the western side of Robina Shopping C entre? It’s m odern

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I support Laurie Ganter’s call for council to reject government plans to put highrise buildings in Tweed Heads (The

sions and almost all large business enterprises and government departments as they are currently structured”.’ In effect Jacklyn had come to the same conclusion as the ‘hippies’ of 1973. That was progress! The means by which a brace and bit can supplant an electric drill requires an economy where the more progressive technology of the brace and bit is accepted at a voluntary level. If for example, a carpenter and his employer agree that brace and bit technology can only produce at $20 an hour rather than the $30 the carpenter normally receives with his electric drill, then there might be an agreement where with brace and bit, the carpenter is paid $25 an hour. With such an agreement both the employer and the carpenter lose $5 an hour each. That is the cost of a movement toward sustainability and it is equitably apportioned between employee and employer. Such an undertaking between two people might be considered romantic or unrealistic. Another view is that it is a sign of more extensive use of the neocortex in human beings; perhaps the only ‘tool’ humanity ultimately requires.

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Renowned Australian painter Euan Macleod and curator Gavin Wilson during their visit to the Tweed River Art Gallery early in 2008 for Euan’s exhibition entitled ‘Connections and Collaborations’. Macleod’s latest touring exhibition opens at the Tweed River Art Gallery tomorrow (Friday). Photo Jeff ‘Profound Repose’ Dawson

tion at 5.30pm. It will be followed at 6.30pm by an official opening of the exhibition by Sydney Morning Herald art critic John McDonald. This Saturday, January 29, at 2pm, visitors can enjoy a lively conversation between Euan Macleod and gallery director Susi Muddiman as they discuss works in the exhibition. Then on Sunday, Macleod is teaching a masterclass to 10 lucky artists of the region who first enrolled. The popularity of Euan Macleod and his work has prompted the gallery to offer a special preview for school teachers and educators of the region. Teachers are invited to meet the artist and enjoy LETTERS cont. from page 8

urban living, which still retains a village-like atmosphere. Heights are set from four to ten storeys, with cafes, retail, etc at ground level. The streets are heavily tree-lined and the whole area has a welcoming feel to it. One can only hope that if there is a change in government in the March election, Tweed residents might have their voices heard in the halls of planning at a state and council level. To even consider allowing highrise in the vicinity of the Jack Evans Boat Harbour is ludicrous following the recent and ongoing flood issue in Queensland. I recently heard an interview with an insurance company executive talking about the muddy issue of flood cover contained within policies. He pointed out that while the government and Premier Bligh scream about insurance companies being liable, he put forward this thought, ‘Who is really responsible for allowing buildings on the shoreline of rivers and low lying land?’ It’s not the insurance companies, ultimately it’s local

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an exclusive introduction to Call the gallery on or before the exhibition on Thursday, Monday, January 31, to book February 3, at 5.30pm (DST). for this.

Film highlights coal gas fears NSW Greens MP Cate Faerhrmann, along with the Greens’ state election candidates for the seats of Tweed, Andrea Vickers, and Lismore, Susan Stock, will attend a special screening of the documentary film Gasland in Murwillumbah tonight (Thursday). The documentary exposes the impacts of coal seam gas mining in the United States, a timely warning as the industry begins to expand in Australia, including some places on the north coast.

Overseas experiences have shown that CSG mining poses significant environmental and health risks. Recent incidents of groundwater, air and surface contamination have had devastating impacts on productive farming lands and community health in the United States and now in Queensland. The film screens at the Regent Cinema in Brisbane Street, Murwillumbah. Refreshments and information will be available from 6pm, with the film commencing at 7.30pm.

councils and state governments who are responsible for people’s homes and businesses being destroyed by flood. He went on to say that the insurance industry would look at making those who give the green light to development in flood prone areas accountable. Please make your voices heard when this plane is exhibited next month.

successful in relaxing NSW gun laws, putting public safety at risk, through its deal making with the Labor government over a number of years. By committing to strengthening gun laws now, the Opposition leader Barry O’Farrell can demonstrate to the public that his government will not develop an unhealthy relationship with the Shooters Party in a bid to gain control of the NSW Upper House. This incident demonstrates a major failure in NSW gun laws and highlights what can happen if self-regulation of gun clubs continues to go unchecked. Support for tougher vetting of unlicensed shooters from the Fernando family and the Sydney Pistol Club itself is welcome and provides an added urgency to the task of protecting our community from accidents and deaths. This election period provides an opportunity for Labor and the Coalition to move away from the rhetoric on law and order to commit to real action to reduce the number of firearms in circulation.

Stephanie Deane

Tweed Heads

Commit to gun law

I call on Labor and the Coalition to commit to strengthening gun laws in the lead up to the March 2011 election, including ending the self-regulation of gun clubs and banning semi-automatic hand guns, to better protect public safety (‘Club joins bereaved family in urging tough vetting of shooters’, Sydney Morning Herald http://tiny.cc/4pwtn). Both Labor and the Coalition should commit to tougher gun control laws to prevent the kind of tragedy experienced by the Fernando family when their mentally ill daughter stole a pistol from a gun club. The Shooters Party has been

David Shoebridge

Greens MP

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Television Guide 1. Michael Keaton has great fun in the title role of Beetlejuice (GO!, Friday, 9.30pm), an hilarious early offering from director Tim Burton, on par with Corpse Bride. 2. Is the little boy imagining it all, or is there something strange going on in The Orphanage (SBS1, Saturday, 10.05pm)? Highly rated horror from Spain, even more deadly than Rafael Nadal. 3. Howard Schultz, who ‘revolutionised’ Starbucks, is one of the players in this week’s Iconoclasts (ABC1, Sunday, 10.05pm), a series which profiles a range of talented people from musos to entrepreneurs.

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ABC 1 4.00 Can We Help? 4.30 The Cook And The Chef 5.00 Something In The Air 5.30 The Einstein Factor 6.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 The New Inventors 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Movie: From Here To Eternity (PG 1953) US drama. Stars Burt Lancaster 2.30 Creature Comforts 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 My Family 6.30 Shamwari 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 Chopper Rescue 8.30 Murderland (M) 10.30 Late Edition News 10.45 John Safran’s Race Relations (M) 11.10 Being Human (M) 12.10 rage (M)

ABC 2 5.30 Can We Help? 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 Kids’ Programs 7.15 The Daily Show 7.35 Important Things 8.00 Navy Divers 8.30 Monday Monday 9.30 The Tudors (M) 10.25 The Wire (MA) 12.20 I Rock: Band On The Run (M) 12.45 I’m From Rolling Stone (M) 1.10 Coach Trip 1.35 Close

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5.00 rage (PG) 11.00 The Best In Australia 12.00 Message Stick (G*) 12.30 Best Of Australian Story 1.00 WNBL Basketball – Bendigo v West Coast 3.00 W-League Football LIVE – Canberra v Perth 5.00 NSW Open Bowls 6.00 Kylie Kwong My China 6.30 Best Of Gardening Australia 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Bed Of Roses 8.30 Midsomer Murders (M) 10.10 Graham Norton Show (M) 11.00 Desperate Romantics (M) 12.00 rage (M)

4.00 ABC News 4.05 The Quarters 4.15 The Drum 5.00 Big Ideas 6.00 Dispatches 2010 6.30 Stateline Select 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Contact Sport 8.00 ABC News 8.45 The Quarters 9.00 ABC News 9.30 Landline Extra 10.00 One Plus One 10.30 Stateline 11.00 ABC News 11.30 The World This Week 12.00 ABC News 12.30 7.30 Select 1.00 Big Ideas 2.00 Four Corners 2.45 The Quarters 3.00 Stateline Select 3.30 Foreign Correspondent 4.00 ABC News 4.30 Stateline 5.00 ABC News 5.30 One Plus One 6.00 ABC News 6.30 Australian Story Classic 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 Select 8.00 The Howard Years 9.00 ABC News 9.30 Landline Extra 10.00 ABC News 10.30 Contact Sport 11.00 ABC News 11.30 Foreign Correspondent 12.00 Big Ideas 1.00 BBC World News 1.30 Stateline Select 2.00 Four Corners 2.45 The Quarters 3.00 BBC World News 3.30 Stateline

5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News 6.00 Here Comes The Neighbourhood 6.30 Sarah Wiener And The Kitchen Kids 7.30 The Map Makers Waldseemuller Map 1507 8.30 The Adventure Of English 9.30 Movie: Memories Of Murder (MA 2003) Korean mystery 11.50 Movie: Monique (MA 2002) French comedy 1.30 Weatherwatch

6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The Brady Bunch 8.30 Everybody Loves Raymond 9.00 Touched By An Angel 10.00 7th Heaven 11.00 The Love Boat 12.00 Diagnosis Murder 1.00 Jag 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 Cheers 3.30 Roseanne 4.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 4.30 Mork & Mindy 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 The Brady Bunch 6.00 Family Ties 6.30 Everybody Loves Raymond 7.30 Get Smart 9.30 Movie: National Security (M 2003) US comedy. Stars Martin Lawrence 11.30 Cheers 12.00 Roseanne 12.30 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 1.00 Mork & Mindy 1.30 Happy Days 2.00 The Love Boat 3.00 Diagnosis Murder 4.00 Touched By An Angel 5.00 7th Heaven

ABC 2 6.00 Kids’ Program 7.00 IPC World Athletics Championships 7.45 Republic Of Doyle 8.30 Movie: Sunset Boulevard (PG 1950) US drama. Stars Gloria Swanson 10.15 Movie: Rio Grande (PG 1950) Western. Stars John Wayne 12.05 Tutankhamun 12.55 Sun, Sea & Bargain Spotting 2.00 Close

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6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.00 Hit List TV 12.00 Landed Music 12.30 Infomercials 1.00 Big Cat Diary 2.00 Country Music Awards 2011 4.00 Everybody Hates Chris 4.30 Making Tracks 5.00 Celebrity Ready Steady Cook 6.00 Ten News 6.30 The Gadget Show 7.30 Movie: Dr Seuss’ Horton 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News Hears A Who! (G 2008) 1.00 Opera: Les Paladins 3.30 IM Pei: Animation Building China Modern 4.30 Newshour 9.15 Movie: The Jackal (M 5.30 Food Safari 1997) US drama. Stars 6.00 Disable Bodied Sailors Richard Gere 6.30 World News Australia 11.45 Movie: Mrs Henderson 7.30 Big, Bigger, Biggest Presents (M 2005) UK comedy. Stars 8.30 Iron Chef Judy Dench 2.00 Infomercials 4.00 9.20 RocKwiz Rewind Religion 10.05 Movie: The Orphanage (MA 2007) Spanish horror 12.00 SOS 1.00 Great Australian Albums: The Go-Betweens – 16 Lovers Lane 2.00 Drawn Together (MA) 2.25 Weatherwatch

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ARIES: As Jupiter’s arrival fires the starting pistol on half a year of fire power infusing the Life Of Aries, your lucky streak’s up and running. And the newer, truer emerging you may be surprisingly different from the old one, especially in the area of creative expression. TAURUS: The cosmic crockpot serves up a stimulating stew of promising options on a bed of economic optimism this week – along with a side dish of contradictions and variables. If loved ones need to assert their independence, use understanding and careful handling to defuse tension. GEMINI: Jupiter’s move to Aries stimulates your powers of innovation and originality to initiate a significant shift in your money zone – plus a new

4.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 4.30 Mork & Mindy 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 4.00 ABC News 4.05 The Quarters 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News The Brady Bunch 6.00 Family Ties 4.20 The Drum 5.00 ABC News 5.15 6.00 A Fork In Africa Kenya 6.30 Neighbours The Quarters 5.30 The 7.30 Report 6.30 Come Dine With Me 7.00 Everybody Loves 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 ABC Greece Raymond News 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 7.30 More Than A Fiesta 7.30 90210 Landline Extra 1.00 ABC News 2.00 8.00 China 21 Midday Report 2.30 One Plus One 8.30 Lighting A Candle 8.30 So You Think You Can 3.00 Afternoon Live 5.30 Australian 9.30 Movie: One Missed Call Dance Story Classic 6.00 ABC News 6.05 10.30 The Late Late Show (MAV 2003) Japanese The Drum 6.45 The Quarters 7.00 11.30 Cheers 12.00 Roseanne 12.30 horror ABC News 7.30 Contact Sport 8.00 11.30 Movie: Golden Chicken 2 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 1.00 Mork ABC News 8.30 One Plus One 9.00 (M 2003) Cantonese comedy 1.20 & Mindy 1.30 Happy Days 2.00 The The World 10.00 ABC News 10.30 Weatherwatch Love Boat 3.00 Diagnosis Murder Australian Story Classic 11.00 ABC 4.00 Touched By An Angel 5.00 7th News 11.05 The Drum 11.45 The Heaven Quarters 12.00 ABC News 12.05 Big Ideas 1.00 BBC News 1.30 Australian 6.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Ten News Network News 2.00 BBC World News 10.00 The Circle 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 6.00 Liverpool Football 9.00 2.30 Australian Network News 3.00 Oprah Winfrey Show 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Judge Judy 3.30 America’s Game 10.00 Surf Coast Golf Big Ideas Infomercial 4.00 Good Chef, Bad Chef Knockout 12.00 NBA Basketball – LIVE 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful 5.00 5.15 Omnisport 5.30 Escape With ET 6.00 Pat Callinan’s 4x4 Adventures Ten News 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 6.00 6PM With George Negus 7.00 I Fish 7.30 Sports Tonight 1.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia 6.30 Ten News 8.00 NBL Basketball LIVE – 1.30 Don Matteo 2.30 Rex In Rome 7.00 The 7pm Project Wollongong v Cairns 3.30 Letters And Numbers 4.00 The 7.30 Bondi Vet 10.00 Pro Series Drag Racing 11.30 Journal 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Global 8.30 Movie: Speed (M 1994) US Sports Tonight Late 12.00 UFC Village drama. Stars Keanu Reeves Unleashed 12.55 NBA Basketball 6.00 Letters And Numbers 10.45 Late News 11.15 Sports 2.55 NFL Total Access 3.50 MVP 4.20 6.30 World News Australia Tonight 11.45 The Late Show 12.30 Omnisport 4.35 Auto Auction 5.30 7.30 Coast Cops (M) 1.30 Infomercials 5.00 ATP World Tour Tennis 8.30 As It Happened: Religion Apocalypse World War II 9.30 World News Australia 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 Kids’ Programs 10.05 Erotic Tales (MA) 10.30 Seven News 11.00 Celebrity 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The 10.40 Mistresses (M) 11.10 Movie: Yo-Yo Dieters 12.00 I Married A Antenna (MAV 2003) Japanese drama Brady Bunch 8.30 Neighbours 9.00 Stranger 2.00 Beyond Tomorrow Touched By An Angel 10.00 7th 1.20 Entourage (M) 1.55 Shameless Heaven 11.00 The Love Boat 12.00 3.00 Australian Open Tennis (MA) 2.55 Weatherwatch LIVE – Semi finals Diagnosis Murder 1.00 Jag 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 Cheers 3.30 Roseanne 6.00 Prime News

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6.05am to 5.35pm Kids’ Programs 6.00 Spliced! 6.25 Prank Patrol International 6.50 Good Game SP 7.10 What Do You Know? 7.40 Dead Gorgeous 8.10 Jeopardy 8.35 Degrassi: The Next Generation 9.00 Close

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6.30 Seven News 7.00 Home And Away 7.30 Australian Open Tennis LIVE – Semi finals 9.30 Movie: Scent Of A Woman (M 1992) US drama. Stars Al Pacino 12.45 Movie: 48 Shades (M 2006) Australian comedy. Stars Richard Wilson 3.00 Home Shopping

5.30 According To Jim 6.30 Scrubs 7.00 That ’70s Show 7.30 Gary Unmarried 8.30 I Shouldn’t Be Alive (M) 9.30 Movie: Wrong Turn (AV 2003) US thriller. Stars Desmond Harrington 11.30 Club Reps (MA) 12.30 Strikeforce (M) 1.00 Airwolf 2.00 Magnum PI 3.00 Wagon Train 4.00 Baywatch 5.00 McHale’s Navy 5.30 6.00 Kids Time 8.30 Sons & Daughters Deal Or No Deal 9.00 Home & Away 9.30 Shortland Street 10.00 Coronation Street 10.30 Emmerdale 11.00 Hollyoaks 11.30 5.30 Today 9.00 Kerri-Anne 11.00 Passport To The Sun 12.00 Murphy Infomercials 12.00 The Ellen Brown 12.30 The Good Life 1.00 Degeneres Show 1.00 The View Best Of The Morning Show 2.00 Full 2.00 Days Of Our Lives 3.00 Alive House 2.30 Movie: Delirious (PG And Cooking 3.30 Kids’ Programs 1991) US comedy. Stars John Candy 4.30 Afternoon News 5.30 Hot Seat 4.30 Welcome Back Kotter 5.00 Head 6.00 Evening News Of The Class 5.30 Growing Pains 7.00 A Current Affair 6.00 A House In Florida 7.30 Motorway Patrol 6.30 Bargain Hunt 8.00 Hot Pursuit 7.00 Men Behaving Badly 8.30 Movie: Proof Of Life (M 7.30 Ghost Whisperer 2000) US drama. Stars 8.30 Escape To The Country Russell Crowe 11.25 Movie: Ripley’s Game (AV 9.30 60 Minute Makeover 10.30 Living In The Sun 11.30 Movie: 2002) Italian drama. Stars John No Way Out (M 1987) US drama. Stars Malkovich 1.40 Movie: Waiting For Kevin Costner 2.00 2010 Australian Guffman (M 1996) US comedy. Stars Open Tennis Final: Federer v Murray Deborah Theaker 3.25 Entertainment Tonight 4.00 Danoz 4.30 Good 5.30 Harry’s Practice Morning America

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without them. VIRGO: Virgo writer Paulo Coehlo perfectly encapsulates this week’s operating instructions: Know when a stage comes to an end. Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters, whatever name we give it, what matters is to leave the past…Staying longer robs time from the next part of our journey. LIBRA: Saturn retrograding in your sign feels like Libran Groucho Marx’s comment about it not being so much that hard times are coming, more that soft times are going…Saturn’s about cleaning up acts, and this week it’s worth ditching the quick fix for the hard yards. SCORPIO: This ambitious, adventurous week rips through solidified attitudes in a cosmic clearing process, purging

GEM 6.00 Today 9.00 Alive & Cooking 9.30 The Zoo 10.00 The Nanny 10.30 Friends 11.00 Murder, She Wrote 12.00 Movie: Where The Boys Are (PG 1960) UK comedy. Stars Connie Francis 2.00 Wife Swap USA 3.00 McLeod’s Daughters 4.00 Neighbours At War 4.30 How Clean Is Your House 5.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 6.00 The Nanny 6.30 Friends 7.00 The Zoo 7.30 Antiques Roadshow 8.30 The Mentalist (M) 9.30 Law & Order (M) Marathon 4.25 Movie: The Ghost Of St Michael’s (PG 1941) UK comedy. Stars Charles Hawtrey

6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.30 Entertainment Tonight 11.00 TMZ 11.30 Get Smart 12.00 Here’s Lucy 12.30 Seinfeld 1.00 The Hills 2.00 Charlie’s Angels 3.00 Just Shoot Me

6.30 Engineering Disasters 7.30 Air Crash Investigations 8.30 Mega Disasters 9.30 The Universe 10.30 World War II: The Lost Films (M) 12.30 Airwolf 1.30 Strikeforce (M) 2.00 Magnum PI 3.00 Wagon Train 4.00 Baywatch 5.00 McHale’s Navy 5.30 Deal Or No Deal

8.30 Movie: Vertical Limit (M 2000) US action. Stars Chris O’Donnell 11.00 Movie: Anaconda – Trail Of Blood (AV 2008) US thriller. Stars Crystal Allen 1.00 Movie: Stealing Sinatra (M 2002) US black comedy. Stars David Arquette 3.00 Get Smart 4.00 The Dukes Of Hazzard 5.00 Kids’ programs

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6.00 Kids’ Programs 7.00 Weekend Sunrise 9.00 Kids’ Programs 1.30 Go Go Stop 2.00 Movie: Kronk’s New Groove (G 2005) Animation 3.30 Movie: Recipe For Disaster (G 2003) US comedy. Stars John Larroquette 5.30 Sydney Weekender 6.00 Seven News 6.30 Australian Open Tennis LIVE – Women’s final 12.05 Movie: Asunder (M 1998) US 6.00 Danoz 7.00 Weekend Today thriller. Stars Blair Underwood 2.15 9.00 Saturday Kerri-Anne 10.00 Home Shopping Kids’ Programs 12.30 Fishing Australia 1.00 Movie: Hotel (PG 1967) US drama. Stars Rod Taylor 3.30 Discover 6.00 Kids’ Programs 8.30 Better Downunder 4.00 The Garden Gurus Homes And Gardens 9.30 The Great 4.30 Random Acts Of Kindness 5.30 Outdoors 10.30 Second Chance Postcards Honeymoon 11.30 Big J’s Place 6.00 NBN News 12.15 Movie: The Greatest Story 6.30 Australia’s Funniest Home Videos Ever Told (PG 1965) US epic. Stars Max Von Sydow 4.30 Playing Tricks 7.30 The Cube 5.00 Destination New Zealand 5.30 8.30 Movie: Alexander (M Man About The House 2004) US action. Stars 6.00 Love Thy Neighbour Anthony Hopkins 6.30 Born And Bred 8.40 Lotto 7.30 Heartbeat 12.15 Movie: A Time To Remember 8.40 Inspector Morse (PG 2003) US drama. Stars Dana 11.00 The Knock (M) 1.15 2009 Delany 1.55 Movie: Loot (M 1970) UK Australian Open Tennis Final: Nadal drama. Stars Richard Attenborough v Federer 3.45 Kings Of Leon 4.00 Infomercials

6.00 NBA Basketball 8.00 NFL Total Access 9.00 America’s Game 10.00 NFL Playoffs 12.30 NBL Basketball 2.30 Liverpool Football 5.30 The WWE Experience 6.30 M7 Multisport 7.00 Sports Tonight 7.30 Powerboating 8.30 Ironman Series Review 9.30 Drift 10.30 MotoGP Classic 11.30 UFC Marathon 1.25 Bundesliga Football 3.20 Omnisport 4.00 Serie A Football 6.00 Wagon Train 7.00 The Virginian 8.30 McHale’s Navy 9.00 NBC Today 11.00 Beach Patrol 12.00 Quincy ME 1.00 Airwolf 2.00 Magnum PI 3.00 King Of The Hill 4.00 Baywatch 5.00 The Drew Carey Show 5.30 According To Jim

chapter in your work story which could see you altering course for a direction more aligned with your deeper dreams and capabilities. CANCER: Home-based hospitality can’t last forever and the best antidote to cabin fever’s getting out and connecting with your clan. Jupiter’s offering a rosy bunch of future prospects, but retro Saturn’s whispering that all’s not hotsy totsy in your internal world. Something’s missing. What is it? LEO: This week generous Jupiter says spend while strict Saturn forbids extravagance, a scenario guaranteed to send any Leo into the bewilderness. Mars could be straining relationships too, but this isn’t a time for sentimentality about endings because you can’t do anything new

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3.30 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Movie: Scooby-Doo And The Legend Of The Vampire (G 2003) Animation 7.30 Movie: Ice Pirates (PG 1984) US comedy. Stars Robert Urich 9.30 Movie: Beetlejuice (M 1988) US comedy. Stars Michael Keaton 11.25 Movie: Druids (M 2001) French adventure. Stars Christopher Lambert 1.50 Movie: Peaches (MA 2004) US drama. Stars Hugo Weaving 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Get Smart 5.30 The Flintstones

6.00 Movie: Operation Bullshine (G 1959) UK comedy. Stars Donald Sinden 7.45 Movie: Holiday On The Buses (PG 1973) UK comedy. Stars Reg Varney 9.30 Movie: Where The Boys Are (PG 1960) UK comedy. Stars Connie Francis 11.30 Movie: Spring In Park Lane (G 1948) UK comedy. Stars Anna Neagle 1.40 Movie: Henry VIII & His Six Wives (PG 1972) UK drama. Stars Keith Michell 4.10 Movie: The Boy From Oklahoma (G 1954) Western. Stars Will Rogers Jr 6.00 The Nanny 6.30 Wild South America: Andes To Amazon 7.30 Blackadder Goes Forth 8.30 CSI (M) 9.30 CSI: Miami (M) 10.30 CSI: New York (M) 11.30 Conan (M) 12.20 Movie: The Boy From Oklahoma 2.10 Movie: Entertaining Mr Sloane (M 1970) UK comedy. Stars Beryl Reid 4.00 Movie: 6.00 Kids’ Programs 1.00 Get Smart Spring In Park Lane 2.00 Here’s Lucy 3.00 Green Acres 3.30 The Dukes Of Hazzard 4.30 Privileged 5.30 The Unnatural History 6.30 Movie: Daddy Daycare (PG 2003) US comedy. Stars Eddie Murphy

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mind-sets that served you once but now need updating, pressuring you to question your values, expand your parameters and open up to new ways of behaving. A potent period of personal progress… SAGITTARIUS: Venus in Sagittarius has your mojo working overtime and everyone wants a piece of you but hey, that doesn’t mean giving yourself away. Relax. Pace yourself, and this could be a stimulating week of dynamic teamwork, inspiring camaraderie and illuminating insights on the subject of love. CAPRICORN: Your personal planet retrograde in the sign of couples challenges you to question your beliefs, examine your attitudes and review your behaviour in relationships of all kinds:

intimate, family, social and business, with a view to developing increasingly loving and invigorating collaborations. AQUARIUS: With the Sun/Mars/ Neptune trifecta in Aquarius you’ll ignore rule makers and fun police, being too busy inventing genius new shortcuts to eliminate major amounts of boring slog. Like Aquarian James Dean said: Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today. PISCES: Your finances singing the blues could bring on a bout of self-doubt this week, which necessitates introspection and self awareness. Ask yourself what you’re not being totally truthful about. Scrupulous Saturn is insisting you do two things: get facts straight and honour your obligations yourself...

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Popat 6.55 Kaitangata Twitch 7.20 The Latest Buzz 7.45 The Wannabes 5.00 rage (PG) 6.30 Kids’ Programs 8.10 Majority Rules 8.35 Degrassi: The 9.00 Surfing The Menu 9.30 The Wild Next Generation 9.00 Close Gourmets 10.30 Nicholas Crane’s Britannia 11.30 Songs Of Praise 12.00 Best Of Landline 1.00 Best Of Gardening 4.00 Four Corners 4.45 The Quarters Australia 1.30 Message Stick (G*) 2.00 5.00 Big Ideas 6.00 Dispatches 2010 Adventures In Architecture 3.00 Joan 6.30 Stateline Select 7.00 ABC News Baez 4.25 Beethoven Boot Camp 5.30 7.30 Talking Heads: Dr Craig Jurisevic 8.00 ABC News 8.30 7.30 Select 9.30 Mr Bean 5.45 Dr Who 6.30 Wallace And The World This Week 10.00 ABC News Gromit’s World Of Invention 10.30 Stateline Summer 11.00 ABC 7.00 ABC News News 11.30 One Plus One 12.00 ABC 7.30 South Pacific News 12.30 Contact Sport 1.00 Big 8.30 Poirot (M) Ideas 2.00 Landline 3.00 Stateline 10.05 Iconoclasts Howard Select 3.30 Australian Story Classic 4.00 ABC News 4.30 Stateline Summer Schultz and Norman Lear 10.50 The Man Who Lost His Head 5.00 ABC News 5.30 Landline Extra 6.00 12.25 Movie: Frenzy (M 1972) UK ABC News 6.30 Foreign Correspondent thriller. Stars Barry Foster 2.20 Movie: 7.00 ABC News 7.30 One Plus One 8.00 The Moon Is Blue (PG 1953) US com- Dispatches 2010 9.00 ABC News 9.30 Dispatches 2010 10.00 ABC News 10.30 edy. Stars Maggie McNamara The World This Week 11.00 ABC News 11.30 Australian Story Classic 12.00 Big Ideas 1.00 BBC World News 1.30 6.00 Kids’ Programs Stateline Select 2.00 Big Ideas 3.00 BBC 7.00 IPC World Athletics World News 3.30 Stateline Summer Championships From Christchurch 8.00 Rocksteady Roots of 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.35 World News Reggae 9.35 The Making Of I Was Only 10.30 Football Asia 11.00 Football Feature 12.00 FIFA Futbol Mundial 19 (M) 12.30 Speedweek 2.00 Nerds FC 2.30 10.00 Extras: David Bowie (M) Two Of Us 3.00 India Reborn 4.00 Who 10.30 Gavin And Stacey (M) Do You Think You Are? 5.00 Cycling 11.00 Hamish Macbeth 11.50 The Central Last Enemy (M) 12.50 jtv Live: Gotye 6.00 Thalassa 1.50 Close 6.30 World News Australia

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7.30 Faces Of America 8.30 Spitfire Women 6.05am to 5.30pm Kids’ Programs 9.40 Secrets Of The Shanghai 6.00 Dani’s House 6.30 My Life As A Cosmopolitan

10.40 John Adams (M) 11.55 Movie: How I Spent The End Of The World (MA 2006) Romanian drama 1.50 Weatherwatch

Raymond 9.00 Touched By An Angel 10.00 7th Heaven 11.00 The Love Boat 12.00 Diagnosis Murder 1.00 Jag 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 Cheers 3.30 Roseanne 4.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 4.30 Mork & Mindy 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 The Brady Bunch 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 6.00 Family Ties 6.00 ADbc 6.30 Everybody Loves 6.30 The Hairy Bikers’ Food Raymond Tour Of Britain 7.30 New Zealand’s Next Top 7.30 Ninja Warrior Model 8.00 Unbeatable Banzuke 8.30 Smallville (M) 8.30 Tropic Of Cancer 10.30 Angel (M) 9.30 Movie: I Served The King 12.30 Sabrina The Teenage Witch Of England (M 2006) Czech 1.00 Mork & Mindy 1.30 Happy Days comedy 2.00 The Love Boat 3.00 Diagnosis 11.35 Movie: Facing Windows Murder 4.00 Touched By An Angel (M 2002) Italian drama 1.25 5.00 7th Heaven Weatherwatch

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TEN 6.00 Religion 7.00 Kids’ Programs 8.00 Fishin’ Trip 8.30 The Hit Rater. Com 9.00 The Benchwarmers Oz Made 10.00 Hit List TV 12.00 Pat Callinan’s 4x4 Adventures 1.00 Escape With ET 2.00 Movie: The American President (PG 1995) Stars Michael Douglas 4.30 Places We Go 5.00 H2O Just Add Water 5.30 Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals 6.00 Ten News 6.30 Biggest Loser Families 7.30 Modern Family 8.30 Hawaii Five-O (M) 9.30 NCIS: Los Angeles (M) 11.30 Cops (M) 12.30 Infomercials 4.00 Religion

6.00 Religion 7.00 Weekend Sunrise 10.00 Business Builders 10.30 China’s Entombed Warriors 11.00 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The Go Go Stop 12.00 Journey To The Brady Bunch 8.30 Everybody Loves Edge Of The Universe 1.15 Movie:

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4.00 Sleuth 101 4.30 The Cook And The Chef 5.00 Something In The Air 5.30 The Einstein Factor 6.00 Kids’ Programs 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Time Team 1.20 Paul Merton In China 2.00 The Bill 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 My Family 6.30 Shamwari 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 Poh’s Kitchen 8.30 Three Boys Dreaming 10.00 Artscape 10.30 Lateline 11.05 Lateline Business 11.35 Infamous Victory: Ben Chifley’s battle for coal 12.30 The Chaser’s War On Everything (M) 1.00 Movie: I Am A Camera (PG 1955) UK drama. Stars Laurence Harvey 2.40 Movie: The Life Of The Party (G 1937) US comedy. Stars Joe Penner

6.05am to 5.30pm Kids’ Programs 6.00 Spliced! 6.35 Prank Patrol International 7.05 What Do You Know? 7.35 Dead Gorgeous 8.05 Dani’s House 8.35 Degrassi: The Next Generation 9.00 Close

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4.00 ABC News 4.05 The Quarters 4.20 The Drum 5.00 ABC News 5.15 The Quarters 5.30 Newsline 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 ABC News 9.30 Business Today 10.00 ABC News 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Australian Story Classic 1.00 ABC News 2.00 Midday Report 2.30 7.30 Select 3.00 Afternoon Live 5.30 Stateline Summer 6.00 ABC News 6.05 The Drum 6.45 The Quarters 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 ABC News 8.30 Lateline Business 9.00 The World 10.00 ABC News 10.05 The Drum 10.45 The Quarters 11.00 ABC News 5.30 Can We Help? 6.00 ABC News 11.30 The 7.30 Report 12.00 ABC News 12.30 Newsline 1.00 BBC News Breakfast 9.00 Kids’ Programs 1.30 Australia Network News 2.00 7.00 Spicks And Specks BBC World News 2.30 The 7.30 Report 7.30 In Search Of Perfection 3.00 Lateline 3.35 Lateline Business 8.00 Black Books 8.30 Jack Osbourne (M) 9.30 Whitest Kids U Know 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World 10.00 Generation Kill (M) 11.05 Hyperdrive 11.35 Black Books News 1.00 Movie: Three Times (PG 12.00 Choose Your Own Adventure 2005) Taiwanese romance 3.20 Alma (M) 12.30 London Live 12.55 I’m 3.30 Letters And Numbers 4.00 The From Rolling Stone 1.20 Coach Trip Journal 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Global Village 1.45 Close 6.00 Letters And Numbers 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 The Vaccine War

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ELEVEN

Know? 7.35 Dead Gorgeous 8.05 Jeopardy 8.35 Degrassi: The Next 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News 4.00 The Cook And The Chef 5.00 Generation 9.00 Close 6.00 Global Village Something In The Air 5.30 The 6.30 Come Dine With Me Einstein Factor 6.00 Kids’ Programs Greece 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Pride And 4.00 ABC News 4.05 Big Ideas 5.00 Prejudice 1.30 An Island Parish 2.00 ABC News 5.15 The Quarters 5.30 7.30 Did Cooking Make Us The Bill 3.00 Kids’ Programs 7.30 Select 6.00 ABC News Breakfast Human? 9.00 ABC News 12.00 Midday Report 8.30 The Truth About Killer 6.00 My Family 12.30 One Plus One 1.00 ABC News 6.30 Shamwari Dinosaurs 2.00 Midday Report 2.30 Talking 9.30 The World Game 7.00 ABC News Heads 3.00 Afternoon Live 5.30 7.30 10.30 Movie: Akira (M 1989) 7.30 The 7.30 Report Select 6.00 ABC News 6.05 The Drum 8.00 Grumpy Guide To Japanese animation 6.45 The Quarters 7.00 ABC News Romance 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 ABC News 12.15 Weatherwatch 8.30 Gandhi: The Road To 8.30 Lateline Business 9.00 The World Freedom 10.00 ABC News 10.05 The Drum 9.30 Drive (M) 10.45 The Quarters 11.00 ABC News 6.00 Ten Early News 7.00 Kids’ 10.30 Lateline 11.05 Lateline Business 11.35 11.30 The 7.30 Report 12.00 ABC Programs 9.00 Ten News 10.00 Murphy’s Law (M) 12.25 The Clinic News 12.30 Newsline 1.00 BBC News The Circle 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 1.25 Movie: Dakota Lil (PG 1950) 1.30 Australia Network News 2.00 Oprah Winfrey Show 2.00 Ready US drama. Stars George Montgomery BBC World News 2.30 The 7.30 Report Steady Cook 3.00 Judge Judy 3.30 3.00 Lateline 3.35 Lateline Business Infomercial 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef 3.00 NSW Open Bowls 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World 6.00 6PM With George Negus 5.30 Can We Help? 6.00 ABC News News 1.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To 6.30 Ten News Breakfast 9.00 Kids’ Programs Australia 1.30 Les Misérables 3.05 7.00 The 7pm Project 7.15 The Daily Show Two Cars, One Night 3.15 Spitted By 7.30 Glee 7.40 Important Things Kiss 3.30 Letters And Numbers 4.00 8.30 Undercover Boss 8.00 Absolutely Fabulous The Journal 4.30 Futbol Mundial 5.00 9.30 Melbourne International 8.30 Durham County (M) Great Debate (M) The Crew 5.30 Global Village 9.30 Generation Kill (M) 10.30 Late News & Sports 6.00 Letters And Numbers 10.30 Teachers (M) Tonight 6.30 World News Australia 11.30 Being Erica 12.15 London 7.30 Mythbusters 11.00 The Late Show 12.00 Cops (M) Live: British Anthems 12.40 I’m From 8.30 Man v Wild 1.00 Infomercials 4.00 Religion Rolling Stone (M) 1.00 Coach Trip 9.30 World News Australia 1.30 Close 10.00 Facejacker (M) 10.30 South Park (M) 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The 11.30 The World Game 12.30 Movie: Brady Bunch 8.30 Neighbours 9.00 6.05am to 5.30pm Kids’ Programs The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter Touched By An Angel 10.00 7th 6.00 Spliced! 6.30 Prank Patrol (MAV 1984) Cantonese action 2.15 Heaven 11.00 The Love Boat 12.00 International 7.05 What Do You Weatherwatch Diagnosis Murder 1.00 Jag 2.00

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ONE HD

6.00 Gucci Masters Equestrian 7.00 Sportscar Series – 24 Hour At Daytona 2.00 America’s Game 3.30 World Tour Beach Volleyball 4.00 World Championship Powerboating 4.30 I Fish 5.00 Ironman Series Review 6.00 NBL Basketball LIVE – Gold Coast v Sydney 8.00 Sports Tonight 8.30 Movie: Against The Ropes (M 2004) US biography. Stars Meg Ryan 10.30 Movie: Freedom’s Fury (M 2006) Doco 12.15 MVP 12.45 Omnisport 1.00 Serie A Football – LIVE 3.00 Sportscar Series – 24 Hour At Daytona

8.30 Lost In Wonderland 9.30 World News Australia 10.05 The Late Session 11.05 Hot Docs 12.55 Movie: Luxury Car (M 2006) Mandarin drama 2.30 Weatherwatch

SBS 2 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News 6.00 Global Village 6.30 Come Dine With Me Greece 7.30 Lost Worlds Europe in the Middle Ages 8.30 As It Happened: Japan In Ruins 9.30 Movie: The Warlords (MAV 2007) Chinese action 11.25 Movie: Come Drink With Me (MA 1966) Mandarin action 1.10 Weatherwatch

TEN 6.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Ten News 10.00 The Circle 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Judge Judy 3.30 Infomercial 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News 6.00 6PM With George Negus 6.30 Ten News 7.00 The 7pm Project 7.30 Talking’ ’Bout Your Generation 8.30 NCIS: Los Angeles (M) 9.30 Hawaii 5-O (M) 10.30 Late News & Sports Tonight 11.00 The Late Show 12.00 Cops (M) 1.00 Infomercials 4.00 Religion

MacGyver 3.00 Cheers 3.30 Roseanne 4.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 4.30 Mork & Mindy 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 The Brady Bunch 6.00 Family Ties 6.30 Neighbours 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond 7.30 Futurama 8.30 Supernatural (M) 9.30 Dexter (MA) 10.30 The Late Late Show 11.30 Cheers 12.00 Roseanne 12.30 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 1.00 Mork & Mindy 1.30 Happy Days 2.00 The Love Boat 3.00 Diagnosis Murder 4.00 Touched By An Angel 5.00 7th Heaven

ONE HD 8.00 PGA Tour Of Australasia Golf 9.00 America’s Game 10.00 NBL Basketball 12.00 Drag Racing Jamboree 1.00 Iron Man Series Review 2.00 Just Add Water 3.00 Omnisport 3.30 Real NBA 4.00 Red Bull X Fighters 5.00 King Lines 6.00 NFL Total Access 7.00 Summer Series Swimming – North Sydney 8.30 World Football News 9.30 Sports Tonight 10.00 The Pro Shop 11.00 Fore Inventors Only 12.00 The Big Break 1.00 Sports Tonight Late 1.10 Omnisport 1.40 Gucci Masters Equestrian 2.40 All Star Lacrosse 3.40 UCI Road Cycling 4.35 Auto Auction 5.30 Omnisport

Phenomenon (PG 1996) US drama. Stars John Travolta 4.00 Australian Open Tennis LIVE 6.00 Seven News 6.30 Australian Open Tennis LIVE – Men’s final 10.30 Movie: The Perfect Catch (M 2004) US comedy. Stars Jimmy Fallon 12.30 Home Shopping 5.30 Seven News

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2.00 Dr Oz 3.00 Nurses 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 6.00 Prime News 6.30 Seven News 7.00 Home And Away 7.30 My Kitchen Rules 8.30 Bones (M) 9.30 Brothers & Sisters (M) 10.30 Fat Family Diet 11.30 My Shocking Story (M) 12.30 Home Shopping 5.30 Seven News

6.30 Scrubs 7.00 That ’70s Show 7.30 How I Met Your Mother 8.30 Family Guy (M) 9.00 American Dad 9.30 Reaper (M) 10.30 CNNNN (M) 11.30 Russell Brand’s Ponderland (M) 12.00 Strikeforce (M) 12.30 Big Joe’s Place 1.00 Airwolf 2.00 Magnum PI 3.00 Wagon Train 4.00 Baywatch 5.00 McHale’s Navy 5.30 Deal Or No Deal

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NBN

6.00 Kids Time 9.30 Shortland Street 10.00 Coronation Street 10.30 Emmerdale 11.00 Hollyoaks 11.30 Passport To The Sun 12.00 Murphy Brown 12.30 Desperate Housewives 1.30 October Road 2.30 Movie: Alexander The Great (PG 1956) US drama. Stars Richard Burton 5.30 Growing Pains 6.00 A House In France 6.30 Bargain Hunt 7.00 Men Behaving Badly 7.30 Heartbeat 8.30 Jonathan Creek (M) 9.40 Maisie Raine (M) 10.50 The Philanthropist (M) 11.50 Last Man Standing (M) 12.50 Harry’s Practice 1.20 Coronation Street 2.20 Movie: Alexander The Great 5.00 Home Shopping

5.30 Today 9.00 Kerri-Anne 11.00 Home Shopping 12.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 1.00 The View 2.00 Days Of Our Lives 3.00 Alive And Cooking 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Afternoon News 5.30 Hot Seat 6.00 NBN News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 Two And A Half Men 8.00 My Dad Says 8.25 Lotto 8.30 The Mentalist (M) 9.30 CSI (M) 10.30 Embarrassing Bodies (M) 11.30 Til Death 12.00 What Would You Do 1.00 Spyforce 2.00 Infomercials 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

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ELEVEN

PRIME

6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The Brady Bunch 8.30 Neighbours 9.00 Touched By An Angel 10.00 7th Heaven 11.00 The Love Boat 12.00 Diagnosis Murder 1.00 Jag 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 Cheers 3.30 Roseanne 4.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 4.30 Mork & Mindy 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 The Brady Bunch 6.00 Family Ties 6.30 Neighbours 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond 7.30 The Simpsons 8.00 Futurama 8.30 The Office 9.30 Nurse Jackie (MA) 10.05 Californication (MA) 10.40 The Late Late Show 11.30 Cheers 12.00 Roseanne 12.30 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 1.00 Mork & Mindy 1.30 Happy Days 2.00 The Love Boat 3.00 Diagnosis Murder 4.00 Touched By An Angel 5.00 7th Heaven

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.30 Morning News 12.00 Movie: Hidden Places (PG 2006) US drama. Stars Sydney Penny 2.00 Dr Oz 3.00 Nurses 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 6.00 Prime News 6.30 Seven News 7.00 Home And Away 7.30 My Kitchen Rules 8.30 Parenthood 10.30 Cougar Town (M) 11.30 10 Years Younger 12.00 Mercy (M) 12.30 Home Shopping 5.30 Seven News

ONE HD

Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic (AV) 12.30 Fur TV 1.00 The Dukes Of Hazzard 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Privileged 5.00 Here’s Lucy

GEM 6.00 Religion 6.30 Movie: Twice Round The Daffodils (PG 1962) UK comedy. Stars Gerald Thomas 8.20 Movie: The Brigand Of Kandahar (PG 1965) UK adventure. Stars Oliver Reed 10.00 Movie: The Titfield Thunderbolt (G 1953) UK comedy. Stars Charles Crichton 11.45 Movie: Waterloo Bridge (PG 1940) WWII drama. Stars Vivien Leigh 2.00 Movie: Cheyenne Autumn (PG 1964) Western. Stars Richard Widmark 5.00 Birds Of A Feather 5.30 Bless This House 6.00 The Nanny 6.30 Antiques Roadshow 7.30 As Time Goes By 8.00 Allo Allo 8.30 Movie: Legends Of The Fall (M 1994) US drama. Stars Brad Pitt 11.10 Without A Trace (M) 12.05 Movie: Waterloo Bridge 2.00 Home Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 Rainbow Country 5.30 Today

7MATE

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.30 Morning News 12.00 Movie: Daughter Of The Bride (PG 2008) Canadian comedy. Stars Luke Perry

6.00 Bundesliga Football 7.00 World Football News 8.00 The Pro Shop 9.00 NFL Total Access 10.00 Summer Series Swimming 11.30 IRC Series Sailing 12.00 Pro Series Drag Racing 1.30 Powerboating 3.00 Omnisport 3.30 ATP World Tour Tennis 4.00 Sports Unlimited 5.00 Pro Bull Riding 6.00 Golf Central 6.30 M7 Multisport 7.00 Summer Series Swimming 8.30 Goodwood Festival Of Speed 9.30 Sports Tonight 10.00 Arsenal Football 1.00 Sports Tonight Late 1.10 Golf Central 1.40 Omnisport 2.10 Jayco Bay Classic Cycling 4.05 MVP 4.35 Auto Auction 5.30 Omnisport

NBN 6.00 Infomercials 7.00 Weekend Today 10.00 Surfsport 11.00 Cybershack 11.30 David Attenborough’s Gorilla 12.30 Wildfire 1.30 Pipeline 40 2.00 One Day Cricket Series LIVE – Australia v England 6.00 NBN News 6.30 Cricket continues 10.00 Movie: The 6th Day (M 2000) US action. Stars Arnold Schwarzenegger 12.30 The Baron 1.30 F Troop 2.00 Skippy 2.30 Infomercials 3.30 Religion 4.00 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

6.00 Kids’ Programs 8.10 Movie: The Three Musketeers (G 1935) US action. Stars Walter Abel 10.10 Movie: Buchanan Rides Alone (PG 1958) Western. Stars Craig Stevens 11.55 Movie: Casino Royale (PG 1967) UK comedy. Stars Peter Sellers 2.40 Movie: It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad World (G 1963) US comedy. Stars Jimmy Durante 6.00 Love Thy Neighbour 6.30 All Creatures Great And Small 7.30 Bargain Hunt 8.00 10 Years Younger 8.30 Escape To The Country 9.45 Live The Dream 10.45 Restaurant In Our Living Room 11.45 Club Reps Aftersun (MA) 12.45 6.00 Kids’ Programs 12.00 The Hills 1991 Australian Open Tennis: Edberg 12.30 Cribs 1.30 Here’s Lucy 2.30 Green Acres 3.30 The Dukes Of v Lendl 5.00 Home Shopping Hazzard 4.30 Privileged 5.30 Wipeout 6.30 The Middle 7.30 The Big Bang Theory 6.00 Wagon Train 7.00 The Virginian 9.00 Two And A Half Men 8.30 Movie: The McKenzie Break 9.30 Movie: The Craft (AV (PG 1970) WWII drama. Stars Brian 1996) US drama. Stars Neve Keith 11.00 Australia’s Greatest Campbell Athlete 2.00 Magnum PI 3.00 King Of 11.30 South Park (MA) 12.30

6.00 Wagon Train 7.00 The Virginian 8.30 McHale’s Navy 9.00 NBC Today 10.00 NBC Meet The Press 11.00 Beach Patrol 12.00 Quincy ME 1.00 Airwolf 2.00 Magnum PI 3.00 King of The Hill 4.00 Baywatch 5.00 The Drew Carey Show 5.30 According To Jim

PRIME

The Hill 4.00 Baywatch 5.00 The Drew Carey Show 5.30 According To Jim 6.30 That ’70s Show 7.30 Gene Simmons Family Jewels 8.30 Movie: The Andromeda Strain (M 2008) US sci-fi. Stars Benjamin Bratt 12.00 Lost (M) 2.00 Magnum PI 3.00 Wagon Train 4.00 Baywatch 5.00 McHale’s Navy 5.30 Deal Or No Deal

7.00 Australia’s Funniest Home Videos 7.30 Movie: Scooby Doo 2 (PG 2004) US drama. Stars Freddie Prinze Jr 9.30 The Vampire Diaries (M) 10.30 Two And A Half Men (M) 11.00 My Dad Says 11.30 Two And A Half Men 12.00 Gossip Girl (M) 1.00 The Vampire Diaries (M) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Get Smart 5.30 The Flintstones

GEM

6.00 Today 9.00 Alive & Cooking 9.30 The Zoo 10.00 The Nanny 10.30 Friends 11.00 Murder, She Wrote 12.00 Movie: Gentle Ben (PG 2002) US drama. Stars Dean Cain 2.00 Wife Swap USA 3.00 McLeod’s Daughters 4.00 Wild South America: Andes To Amazon 5.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 6.00 The Nanny 6.30 Friends 7.00 The Zoo 8.00 Animal Emergency 8.30 Movie: Jerry Maguire (M 1996) US drama. Stars Tom Cruise 11.15 Southland (M) 12.00 Friends 12.30 The Zoo 1.00 Murder, She Wrote 2.00 Home Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 Rainbow Country 6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.30 5.30 Today Entertainment Tonight 11.00 TMZ 11.30 Get Smart 12.00 Here’s Lucy 12.30 Seinfeld 1.00 The Hills 2.00 Privileged 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Seinfeld 6.30 The Middle

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7MATE

6.00 Wagon Train 7.00 The Virginian 8.30 McHale’s Navy 9.00 NBC Today 11.00 Beach Patrol 12.00 Quincy ME 1.00 Airwolf 2.00 Magnum PI 3.00 King Of The Hill 4.00 Baywatch 5.00 The Drew Carey Show 5.30 According To Jim 6.30 Scrubs 7.00 That ’70s Show 7.30 How I Met Your Mother 8.30 Family Guy (M) 9.00 American Dad 9.30 My Name Is Earl 10.30 Scrubs 11.30 Punk’d (M) 12.00 Quincy ME 1.00 Airwolf 2.00 Magnum PI 3.00 Wagon Train 4.00 Baywatch 5.00 6.00 Kids Time 9.30 Shortland McHale’s Navy 5.30 Deal Or No Deal Street 10.00 Coronation Street 10.30 Emmerdale 11.00 Hollyoaks 11.30 Passport To The Sun 12.00 5.30 Today 9.00 Kerri-Anne 11.00 Murphy Brown 12.30 Desperate Home Shopping 12.00 The Ellen Housewives 1.30 October Road 2.30 Degeneres Show 1.00 The View Movie: The Man From Colorado (PG 2.00 Days Of Our Lives 3.00 Alive 1949) Western. Stars Glenn Ford 4.30 And Cooking 3.30 Kids’ Programs Welcome Back Kotter 5.00 Head Of 4.30 Afternoon News 5.30 Hot Seat The Class 5.30 Growing Pains 6.00 NBN News 6.00 A House In France 7.00 A Current Affair 6.30 Bargain Hunt 7.30 The Big Bang Theory 7.00 Men Behaving Badly 8.00 Top Gear 7.30 Some Mothers Do ’ave ’em 9.30 20 To 1 10.30 Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares 8.10 Are You Being Served? Revisits (MA) 11.30 Til Death 12.00 8.50 To The Manor Born 20/20 1.00 Entertainment Tonight 9.30 Porridge 10.10 Movie: Carry On Doctor 1.30 Infomercials 3.30 Good Morning (PG 1967) UK comedy. Stars Frankie America 5.00 Early Morning News Howerd 12.15 The Palace (M) 1.20 Big J’s Place 1.50 Coronation Street 2.20 Emmerdale 2.50 Movie: The Man 6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.30 From Colorado 5.00 Home Shopping Entertainment Tonight 11.00 TMZ

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11.30 Get Smart 12.00 Here’s Lucy 12.30 Seinfeld 1.00 The Hills 2.00 Charlies Angels 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Seinfeld 6.30 The Middle 7.00 Australia’s Funniest Home Videos 7.30 Movie: Make It Happen (PG 2008) US drama. Stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead 9.30 Movie: Hanging Up (M 2000) US comedy. Stars Diane Keaton 11.25 The Big Bang Theory 11.55 Movie: Superman Doomsday (M 2007) Animation 1.30 Seinfeld 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Get Smart 5.30 The Flintstones

GEM 6.00 Today 9.00 Alive & Cooking 9.30 The Zoo 10.00 The Nanny 10.30 Friends 11.00 Murder, She Wrote 12.00 Movie: The Maldonado Miracle (PG 2003) UK drama. Stars Peter Fonda 2.00 Wife Swap USA 3.00 McLeod’s Daughters 4.00 The Zoo 4.30 Animal Emergency 5.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 6.00 The Nanny 6.30 Friends 7.00 The Zoo 7.30 How Clean Is Your House 8.30 Hoarders 9.30 The Closer (M) 10.30 Rizzoli & Isles (AV) 11.30 Friends 12.00 Hoarders 1.00 The Closer (M) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 Rainbow Country 5.30 Today

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ABC 1 4.00 Talking Heads: Keith Payne 4.30 The Cook And The Chef 5.00 Something In The Air 5.30 The Einstein Factor 6.00 Kids’ Programs 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 National Press Club Address 1.30 Ben’s Zoo 2.00 The Bill 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 My Family 6.30 Shamwari 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 QI 8.30 The Trophy Room 9.00 Outnumbered 9.30 Spicks And Specks 10.00 Getting On (M) 10.30 Lateline 11.05 Lateline Business 11.35 Brat Camp (M) 12.25 Grand Designs 1.25 Movie: They Won’t Believe Me (PG 1947) US drama. Stars Robert Young 3.00 National Press Club Address

ABC 2 5.30 Can We Help? 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 Kids’ Programs 7.00 Spicks And Specks 7.30 River Monsters 8.30 Miracle In The Storm 9.30 Inside The Firestorm (M) 11.25 Eataholics 12.20 What Would Happen If… 12.45 I’m From Rolling Stone (M) 1.05 Coach Trip 1.35 Close

ABC 3 6.05am to 5.30pm Kids’ Programs 6.00 Spliced! 6.25 Prank Patrol International 7.05 What Do You Know? 7.35 Dead Gorgeous 8.05 Dani’s House 8.35 Degrassi: The Next

Generation 9.00 Close

ABC NEWS 24

SBS 2

5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News 6.00 Global Village 6.30 Come Dine With Me Greece 7.30 The Meth Epidemic 8.30 Daughters of Gardeners (MA) 9.30 Movie: Or (MA 2004) Israeli drama 11.15 Movie: Taxidermia (MA 2006) Hungarian black comedy 12.55 Weatherwatch

SBS 1 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 1.00 Movie: Good Hands (PG 2001) Estonian drama 2.40 His Mother’s Voice 3.00 Help 3.30 Letters And Numbers 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Global Village 6.00 Letters And Numbers 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Rex In Rome 8.30 Big Love (M) 9.30 World News Australia 10.05 Movie: Howl’s Moving Castle (PG 2004) Japanese animation 12.10 Movie: Queens (M 2005) Spanish romantic comedy 2.05 Weatherwatch

TEN 6.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Ten News 10.00 The Circle 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Biggest Loser Families 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News 6.00 6PM With George Negus 6.30 Ten News 7.00 The 7pm Project 7.30 Biggest Loser Families 8.00 Raising Hope 8.30 Blue Bloods (M) 9.30 House (M) 10.30 Late News & Sports Tonight 11.00 Overtime 12.00 The Late Show 1.00 Infomercials 4.00 Religion

ELEVEN 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The Brady Bunch 8.30 Neighbours 9.00 Touched By An Angel 10.00 7th Heaven 11.00 The Love Boat 12.00

Diagnosis Murder 1.00 Jag 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 Cheers 3.30 Roseanne 4.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 4.30 Mork & Mindy 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 The Brady Bunch 6.00 Family Ties 6.30 Neighbours 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond 7.30 The Simpsons 8.00 Futurama 8.30 The Simpsons 9.00 The Cleveland Show 9.30 Bob’s Burgers (M) 10.00 King Of The Hill 10.30 The Late Late Show 11.30 Cheers 12.00 Roseanne 12.30 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 1.00 Mork & Mindy 1.30 Happy Days 2.00 The Love Boat 3.00 Diagnosis Murder 4.00 Touched By An Angel 5.00 7th Heaven

ONE HD 6.00 Serie A Football 8.00 School Of Golf 8.30 Golf Central 9.00 America’s Game 10.00 Summer Series Swimming 11.30 IRC Series Sailing 12.00 Goodwood Festival Of Speed 1.00 World Tour Beach Volleyball 1.30 Real NBA 2.00 NBA Basketball 4.30 Billabong Pro Surfing – Jeffrey’s Bay 5.30 Xtreme Paintball 6.00 The Big Break 7.00 Summer Series Swimming 8.30 Overtime 9.30 Sports Tonight 10.00 MVP 10.30 NBA Basketball 12.35 NFL Total Access 1.35 Sports Tonight Late 1.45 Drift 2.15 Omnisport 2.45 Serie A Football 3.15 UCI Road Cycling World Championships 4.15 ATP World Tour Tennis 4.45 Auto Auction 5.45 Omnisport

PRIME 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.30 Morning News 12.00 Movie: A Stranger’s Heart (PG 2007) US romance. Stars Samantha Mathis 2.00 Dr Oz 3.00 Nurses 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 6.00 Prime News 6.30 Seven News 7.00 Home And Away 7.30 My Kitchen Rules 8.30 Criminal Minds (M) 9.30 City Homicide (M) 10.30 I Shouldn’t Be Alive (M) 11.30 My Name Is Earl 1.00 Not Going Out (M) 1.00 Home Shopping 5.30 Seven News

7 TWO 6.00 Kids Time 9.30 Shortland Street 10.00 Coronation Street 10.30 Emmerdale 11.00 Hollyoaks 11.30 Passport To The Sun 12.00 Murphy Brown 12.30 Desperate Housewives 1.30 October Road 2.30 Movie: My Favorite Brunette (G 1947) US comedy. Stars Bob Hope 4.30 Welcome Back Kotter 5.00 Head Of The Class 5.30 Growing Pains 6.00 Bargain Hunt 7.00 Men Behaving Badly 7.30 Heartbeat 8.40 Pie In The Sky 9.45 McCallum (AV) 12.00 Minder 1.00 Coronation St 1.30 Emmerdale 2.00 Harry’s Practice 2.30 Medical Rookies 3.00 Home Shopping 4.00 NBC Today 5.00 Home Shopping

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11.30 Get Smart 12.00 Here’s Lucy 12.30 Seinfeld 1.00 The Hills 2.00 Charlies Angels 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Seinfeld 6.30 The Middle 7.00 Australia’s Funniest Home Videos 7.30 Hellcats 8.30 V (M) 9.30 Fringe (M) 10.30 Movie: Final Destination 3 (AV 2006) US thriller. Stars Ryan Merriman 12.30 Fringe (M) 1.30 Seinfeld 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Get Smart 5.30 The Flintstones

6.00 Wagon Train 7.00 The Virginian 8.30 McHale’s Navy 9.00 NBC Today 11.00 Beach Patrol 12.00 Quincy ME 1.00 Airwolf 2.00 Magnum PI 3.00 King Of The Hill 4.00 Baywatch 5.00 The Drew Carey Show 5.30 According To Jim 6.30 Scrubs 7.00 That ’70s Show 7.30 How I Met Your Mother 8.30 Family Guy (M) 9.00 American Dad 9.30 Reaper (M) 10.30 Chappelle’s Show (MA) 11.30 Nitro Circus (M) 12.00 Quincy ME 1.00 Airwolf 2.00 Baywatch 3.00 Home Shopping 4.00 NBC Today 5.00 McHale’s Navy 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 6.00 Today 9.00 Alive & Cooking 9.30 The Zoo 10.00 The Nanny 10.30 Friends 11.00 Murder, She 5.30 Today 9.00 Kerri-Anne 11.00 Wrote 12.00 Movie: Caddie (PG Home Shopping 12.00 The Ellen 1976) Australian drama. Stars Helen Degeneres Show 1.00 Alive And Morse 2.00 Wife Swap USA 3.00 McLeod’s Daughters 4.00 How Cooking 1.30 Hi-5 Clean Is Your House 5.00 The Ellen 2.00 One Day Cricket Series Degeneres Show LIVE – Australia v England 6.00 The Nanny 6.00 NBN News 6.30 Friends 6.30 Cricket continues 7.00 The Zoo 9.59 Lotto 7.30 Wife Swap USA 10.00 Movie: Tears Of The Sun 8.30 Movie: When Harry Met (M 2003) US action. Stars Sally (M 1989) US romantic Bruce Willis comedy. Stars Meg Ryan 12.30 20/20 1.30 Infomercials 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early 10.30 Hotel Babylon (M) 11.30 Conan (M) 12.30 Friends 1.00 Murder, She Morning News Wrote 2.00 Home Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 Adventures In Rainbow Country 5.30 Today 6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.30 Entertainment Tonight 11.00 TMZ

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ABC 1 4.00 Catalyst 4.30 The Cook And The Chef 5.00 Something In The Air 5.30 The Einstein Factor 6.00 Kids’ Programs 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Lost In Austen 1.30 Echo Beach 2.00 The Bill 3.00 Australian Women’s Open Golf LIVE from Melbourne 6.00 My Family 6.30 Shamwari 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report 8.00 The Bionic Vet 8.30 Ashes To Ashes (M) 9.30 Grand Designs 10.20 Lateline 10.55 Lateline Business 11.25 Elvis Costello With Bono And The Edge 12.10 Movie: The Man Who Knew Too Much (PG 1956) Hitchcock drama. Stars James Stewart 2.10 Movie: The Thief Of Baghdad (PG 1940) UK adventure. Stars Conrad Veidt

ABC 2 5.30 Can We Help? 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 Kids’ Programs 7.00 Spicks And Specks 7.30 The Trophy Room 8.00 The Young Ones 8.30 Party Down 9.00 Low Down (M) 9.30 Graham Norton Show 10.15 Father Ted 10.40 The League Of Gentlemen 11.10 Inside The Actors Studio: Josh Brolin 12.00 Planet Rock Profiles: Evanescence 12.25 I’m From Rolling Stone 12.45 Coach Trip 1.15 Close

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by Ian Rogers Play at Seagulls Club, Thurs 6-10pm One of the greats of Australian chess – Greg Hjorth – died suddenly last week, aged only 47. Hjorth first burst on to the scene when as a bare-foot tenyear-old he demolished veteran Emmanuel Basta. His subsequent rise included many original chessboard ideas and a healthy disregard for conventional wisdom. In 1979 Hjorth was strong enough to finish second in the national championship and in 1982 he narrowly missed being selected for Australia’s Olympiad team but accompanied the team to Switzerland anyway. At the Lucerne Olympiad Hjorth introduced his teammates to punk, most particularly by constant quotes from an unknown punk band named Nick Cave and the Birthday Party who performed around the corner from Hjorth’s home in St Kilda. By 1984 Hjorth was already excelling in both philosophy and pure mathematics. A tug of war over the star student was eventually decided when Hjorth chose mathematics and took up the offer to study for a PhD at the University of California in Berkeley. Soon

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9.30 World News Australia 10.05 Movie: Manslaughter (M 2005) Danish drama 11.55 Movie: The Death Of Mr Lazarescu (M 2005) Romanian drama 2.25 Weatherwatch

Touched By An Angel 10.00 7th Heaven 11.00 The Love Boat 12.00 Diagnosis Murder 1.00 Jag 2.00 6.05am to 5.30pm Kids’ Programs MacGyver 3.00 Cheers 3.30 Roseanne 6.00 Spliced! 6.25 Prank Patrol 4.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 4.30 International 7.05 What Do You Mork & Mindy 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 Know? 7.35 Dead Gorgeous 8.05 The Brady Bunch Dani’s House 8.35 Degrassi: The Next 6.00 Family Ties Generation 9.00 Close 6.30 Neighbours 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News 7.00 Everybody Loves 6.00 Global Village Raymond 4.00 ABC News 4.05 The Quarters 6.30 Come Dine With Me 7.30 The Simpsons Greece 4.20 The Drum 5.00 ABC News 5.15 8.30 Stargate Universe The Quarters 5.30 Newsline 6.00 7.30 The Bitter Taste Of Tea ABC News Breakfast 9.00 ABC News 8.30 Lucian Freud Portraits (M) 9.30 Star Trek – Next Generation 9.30 Business Today 10.00 ABC News 9.50 Movie: Lucía Lucía (MA 10.30 The Late Late Show 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Catalyst 2003) Spanish comedy 1.30 ABC News 2.00 Midday Report 11.45 Movie: A Touch Of Spice 11.30 Cheers 12.00 Roseanne 12.30 2.30 Dispatches 2010 3.00 Afternoon (M 2003) Greek drama 1.35 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 1.00 Mork & Mindy 1.30 Happy Days 2.00 The Live 5.30 The World This Week 6.00 Weatherwatch Love Boat 3.00 Diagnosis Murder ABC News 6.05 The Drum 6.45 The 4.00 Touched By An Angel 5.00 7th Quarters 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The Heaven 7.30 Report 8.00 ABC News 8.30 6.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Ten News Lateline Business 9.00 The World 10.00 The Circle 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 10.00 ABC News 10.05 The Drum 10.45 The Quarters 11.00 ABC News Oprah Winfrey Show 2.00 Ready 6.00 Omnisport 6.15 Serie A 11.30 The 7.30 Report 12.00 ABC Steady Cook 3.00 Biggest Loser Football 8.40 Playing Lessons 9.10 News 12.30 Newsline 1.00 BBC News Families 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef America’s Game 10.10 Summer 1.30 Australia Network News 2.00 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful 5.00 Series Swimming 11.40 Spirit Of BBC World News 2.30 The 7.30 Report Ten News Yachting 12.10 Arsenal Football 3.00 Lateline 3.35 Lateline Business 6.00 6PM With George Negus 3.00 Omnisport 3.30 ATP World Tour 6.30 Ten News Tennis 4.00 BMX Road Fools 5.00 7.00 The 7pm Project Tread BMX 7.30 Biggest Loser Families 5.30 NBL Basketball LIVE – New 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 8.30 The Good Wife (M) Zealand v Wollongong 1.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia 9.30 Law & Order: SVU (M) 7.30 Summer Series Swimming 1.30 Don Matteo 2.30 Rex In Rome 10.30 Late News & Sports 8.30 The WWE Experience 9.30 3.30 Letters And Numbers 4.00 The Tonight Journal 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Global 11.00 The Late Show 12.00 Burn Notice Sports Tonight 10.00 UFC 107 12.00 Sports Tonight Late 12.10 Golf Central Village 1.00 Infomercials 4.00 Religion 12.40 Overtime 1.40 Omnisport 2.10 6.00 Letters And Numbers Bundesliga Football 3.10 UCI Road 6.30 World News Australia Cycling World Championships 4.05 7.30 Luke Nguyen’s Vietnam 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The World Tour Beach Volleyball 4.35 Auto 8.00 Gourmet Farmer Brady Bunch 8.30 Neighbours 9.00 Auction 5.30 Omnisport 8.30 Anthony Bourdain

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afterwards he married a fellow Australian ex-pat, Beth, and the two lived, spartanly but happily, in San Francisco. Over the next quarter century Hjorth competed in the occasional US Open and maintained a healthy ranking. When after almost two decades Hjorth’s marriage ended he returned to teach in Melbourne, though he had decided to return again to the US when fate cut short his plans. New York Open 1984 White: G Hjorth Black: R Byrne Opening: Sicilian Defence 1.e4 c5 2.b3!? A Hjorth speciality, later adopted by many of his Olympic teammates. 2...Nc6 3.Bb2 e6 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.e5 Ng4 6.g3!? Be7 6...d6 7.exd6 Nf6 was safe enough. 7.Bh3 h5 8.0-0 b6 9.Bg2 Bb7 10.h3 Nh6 11.d4 Qc7 12.d5! exd5 13.Nc3 d4 14.Nd5 Qd8 15.c3! dxc3 16.Bxc3 Nb4? Overlooking the coming thunderbolt. 16...0-0 was ugly but necessary. 17.Nf6+!! Kf8 Sadly forced since 17...gxf6 18.exf6 Bxf6 19.Qd6!! is crushing. 18.Nxd7+ Kg8 19.Bxb4 cxb4 20.Qd3 Rc8 21.Rfd1 Rc3 22.Qe2 Qa8! 23.Ne1?! Missing the more incisive 23.e6!. 23...h4! 24.g4 Bxg2 25.Nxg2 Rxh3 26.e6! Rc3? After some excellent defence, Byrne finally falters. After 26...Rf3! Black can hang on. 27.Nf4! h3 28.Nd5! h2+ 29.Kh1 Bg5 30.e7 Rc8 31.f3! Now White’s knights are ready to wreak havoc. The rest is desperation by Byrne. 31...Kh7 32.Qe4+ g6 33.Qe5 Nxg4 34.fxg4 Bh4 35.Rf1 f6 36.N7xf6+ Bxf6 37.Rxf6 1-0

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Cryptic Clues ACROSS 1. Rules restrict madwomen, right? And they keep parks and ovals in good condition (10) 6. Telepathy; a backward part of the church (4) 9. Get the rhythm, and the dance is declared innocent (4,3,3) 10. About the politician – he’s a bit effeminate (4)

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6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.30 Morning News 12.00 Movie: Ambulance Girl (PG 2005) US comedy. Stars Kathy Bates 2.00 Dr Oz 3.00 Nurses 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 6.00 Prime News 6.30 Seven News 7.00 Home And Away 7.30 How I Met Your Mother 8.30 Grey’s Anatomy (M) 9.30 Desperate Housewives (M) 10.30 Private Practice (M) 11.30 30 Rock (M) 12.00 Not Going Out (M) 1.00 Home Shopping 5.30 Seven News

6.00 Wagon Train 7.00 The Virginian 8.30 McHale’s Navy 9.00 NBC Today 11.00 Beach Patrol 12.00 Quincy ME 1.00 Airwolf 2.00 Magnum PI (M) 3.00 Xena Warrior Princess 4.00 Baywatch 5.00 The Drew Carey Show 5.30 According To Jim 6.30 Scrubs 7.00 That ’70s Show 7.30 Life After People 8.30 Megastructures Singapore’s Vegas 9.30 Gangs Of Oz (M) 10.30 The Shield (AV) 11.30 The Sopranos (AV) 12.30 Strikeforce (M) 1.00 Airwolf 2.00 Magnum PI (M) 3.00 Wagon Train 4.00 Baywatch 5.00 McHale’s Navy 6.00 Kids Time 9.30 Shortland Street 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 10.00 Coronation Street 10.30 Emmerdale 11.00 Hollyoaks 11.30 Passport To The Sun 12.00 Murphy 5.30 Today 9.00 Kerri-Anne 11.00 Brown 12.30 Desperate Housewives Home Shopping 12.00 The Ellen 1.30 October Road 2.30 Movie: The Degeneres Show 1.00 The View Big Gundown (PG 1967) Spanish 2.00 Days Of Our Lives 3.00 Alive western 4.30 Welcome Back Kotter And Cooking 3.30 Kids’ Programs 5.00 Head Of The Class 5.30 Growing 4.30 Afternoon News 5.30 Hot Seat Pains 6.00 NBN News 7.00 A Current Affair 6.00 Bargain Hunt 7.30 RBT 7.00 Men Behaving Badly 8.00 Getaway 7.30 Movie: Vice Versa (PG 8.30 CSI (M) 1988) US comedy. Stars 9.30 CSI: NY (M) Judge Reinhold 9.40 Movie: The Deep (M 1977) 10.30 Cold Case (M) 11.30 Til Death 12.00 Burying Brian (M) 1.00 US horror. Stars Robert Entertainment Tonight 1.30 Skippy Shaw 12.20 Survival On A Tropical Isle 1.20 2.00 Infomercials 3.30 Good Morning Coronation St 1.50 Emmerdale 2.20 America 5.00 Early Morning News Passport To The Sun 2.50 Movie: The Big Gundown 4.40 Harry’s Practice 5.00 Home Shopping

From The Week

12. Close pencil set – contents can be used to get a long-range picture! (10,4) 14. Tyrant trades his daughter for the right to replace a snooker ball! (6) 15. Get travel document, but don’t stop at Fremantle, for example (8) 17. There’s energy in a beer mug for the genius (8) 19. Football fighter reported (6)

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22. Use it to pick up the distant noise of an explosion, wrecking minor epoch (4,10) 24. Applause follows royal character portrayal (4) 25. Gardner with cuts around the number – they are disasters (10) 26. Try! That’s the big match …. (4) 27. …a thousand on their feet in the M A Noble! (10) DOWN 1. Politicians knock 50 off confused bills (4) 2. Marauding boats break her laws (7) 3. Fit ammeter to components – it will happen sooner or later (6,2,4) 4. Weekly vomit – poor man (6) 5. Harvest fruit will come again (8) 7. Put Derek in position? It has no real effect (7) 8. Almost unmask one conservative – that helps to explain it! (10) 11. Destroyed his son’s cards, like Edward in the movie (12) 13. Grebe and tern with energy in flight – it’s a marine characteristic! (5,5) 16. Find record on top (8) 18. Number, large

GO! 6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.30 Entertainment Tonight 11.00 TMZ 11.30 Get Smart 12.00 Here’s Lucy 12.30 Seinfeld 1.00 The Hills 2.00 Hellcats 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Seinfeld 6.30 The Middle 7.00 Australia’s Funniest Home Videos 7.30 Top Gear 8.30 The Big Bang Theory 9.00 The Inbetweeners (MA) 9.30 Movie: Beerfest (MA 2006) US comedy. 11.55 Two And A Half Men (M) 12.25 The Inbetweeners (MA) 1.00 V (M) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Get Smart 5.30 The Flintstones

GEM 6.00 Today 9.00 Alive & Cooking 9.30 The Zoo 10.00 The Nanny 10.30 Friends 11.00 Murder, She Wrote 12.00 Movie: SOS Titanic (PG 1979) US drama. Stars David Janssen 2.00 Wife Swap USA 3.00 McLeod’s Daughters 4.00 Getaway 5.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 6.00 The Nanny 6.30 Friends 7.00 The Zoo 7.30 As Time Goes By 8.30 The Golden Girls 9.30 Amazing Medical Stories (M) 10.30 Embarrassing Bodies (M) 11.30 Conan (M) 12.30 Friends 1.00 As Time Goes By 2.00 Home Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 Adventures In Rainbow Country 5.30 Today

numbers, for pasta (7) 20. Han city produced Lennon’s first wife (7) 21. Election takes two directions, becomes a method of propagation (6) 23. American journalist is not fresh (4)

DOWN 1. Australian conservative politicians (abbrev) (4) 2. People or boats in pursuit of cetaceans (7) 3. Something which is guaranteed to happen eventually (6,2,4) 4. Impoverished or pathetic person (6) Quick Clues 5. Come back into view (8) ACROSS 7. Medical treatment whose effect, 1. Machines for cutting if any, is purely psychological (7) the turf and tending the 8. Pertaining to an explanation or sward (10) display (10 ) 6. Recess in a church 11. Eponymous hero in a fantasy building (4) movie, Edward … (12) 9. Avoid or escape from a 13. Member of the US Marine Corps criminal charge, especially (5,5) in America (4,3,3) Find out, reveal (8) 10. Temporary residential 16. 18. Pasta such as spaghetti (7) site, often tented (4) 20. First name of John Lennon’s first 12. Camera attachment used for taking pictures at wife (7) 21. Floral powder which is a a distance (10,4) 14. Replace a snooker ball fertilising agent (6) in its original position on 23. Second hand (4) the table (6) Last week’s solution 15. Travel document issued by home country (8) 17. Author of the Theory of Relativity (7) 19. Most widely played code of football (6) 22. Device used in detecting and recording sound at a distance (4,10) 24. Part for an actor (4) 25. Landslides (10) 26. Trial, experiment (4) 27. Pavilion for spectators at a sports ground (10)

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Laughin’ with O’Loughlin

iona O’Loughlin is one of Australian’s most successful and popular standup comedians.

In addition to her stellar comedy career she has also been a mother to five children. 2009 saw Fiona’s contribution to the Australian cultural landscape recognised when she was awarded The Northern Territory’s ‘Australian of the Year’ honour.

featured act at the world-famous Hollywood Improv Comedy Club, as well as in theatres in Singapore and London. She was also selected from a world-wide search to participate in the top-rating USA TV program Last Comic Standing.

Fiona hails from Alice Springs, and the growth of her career is even more impressive when you take into account the geographic isolation of her home town. To have risen to become one of the most sought-after stand-up comedians in the world is truly an incredible feat, and an indisputable testament to her tenacity and talent.

Fiona is a genuine star of comedy across the globe. She has appeared on virtually every relevant program on Australian television and performed shows on ABC Radio. She is currently finishing off her first book and writes a weekly column for Australian Women’s Weekly. She’s also a popular regular on Good News Week and Spics and Specks. O’Loughlin is the Queen of Disclosure. She’s the woman who said Bindi Irwin needs a good slap! She even went on to say that she’s a bit creepy. Only a hard-core serial mum could get away with saying that! It’s what we’ve all been thinking! More recently Fiona came out as an alchoholic after a very public on-stage collapse. To her credit, she didn’t make excuses, she joined a 12 Step program and incorporated it into her show. Now she jokes that she is not only married forever…she can’t drink forever! Only an Irish Catholic girl knows just how long forever can be!

Fiona’s debut solo show was Fiona her Sister and some Guy…; it sold out Adelaide Fringe and then the Melbourne Comedy Festival in 2000, in the latter she took out the coveted Best Newcomer Award for that year. Since then Fiona has sold out ten festival shows at Melbourne Comedy Festival, five Adelaide Fringe Festivals, three Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, two Hong Kong Fringe Festival seasons and twice at The Sydney Comedy Festival. She has also been booked to perform at the invitation-only Montreal Comedy Festival, including a prized performance in one of the globally televised Just For Laughs Gala TV productions.

Free Kids’ Club (5+) will be open until 10pm.

In addition to these Festival successes Fiona has also performed as the

$25 Currumbin RSL members $30 non-members.

She joins MC Mandy Nolan and support Ellen Briggs as the exciting new headline for Side Splitting Comedy at the Currumbin RSL on Friday February 4. Show starts at 7.30pm with doors and bar open from 6.30pm.

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GET OUT OF YOUR CAR THINK TWEED’S BUSY? TRY BYRON

o you reckon we could get a few more cars in Byron? I don’t think there are enough. I don’t know about you, but when I think about relaxing, there’s nothing I like to do more than pop in the car and approach Byron Bay. I know that I can generally be assured that I’ll be stuck in a traffic jam for anywhere up to half an hour. I love watching shirtless backpackers amble past my vehicle reminding me that I am in fact moving slower than a pedestrian. Even a very drunk one. Hitchhikers offer me a ride. It’s the perfect time to practise one’s meditation. Turn off the air-con and you also get your own mini-bikram studio. Pop in a Ricki Martin CD and try to whack the kids in the backseat and you’ve got Zumba. Also, councils around the country all know that the perfect time to do a bit of roadwork is right before peak traffic times. Nothing like burning a bit of peak oil at peak hour! It’s exhilarating. I can feel every part of my body prickling. My heart is thumping. The kids are fighting. I know I’m alive. That’s why I live here. But that’s not all. It gets better. My next favourite pastime is doing lappies around Byron looking for a park. That usually adds another hour to the journey, especially as the new line marking has knocked off 60 or more spaces. Let’s approve more holiday accommodation, and get rid of some parking. What a top idea. And hey, who doesn’t love a trip to the beach? Last time I swam at Main Beach I had to park in Myocum. For the satire impaired, yes I am being ironic. There are too many cars. So let’s get rid of them. Really. Why can’t we have a park and ride? They do it in Venice and in other holiday spots that get swarmed with ridiculous numbers of people. Let local people go about their business, whack in a bunch of shuttle buses, even re-instate that little bit of train line and choo choo people in. Ride them on the back of the long term unemployed, I don’t care. But put a limit on how many cars come in. I’m not boo-hooing tourism, I’m just

suggesting that with outdated infrastructure our current numbers are completely unsustainable. We get around 1.6 million tourists into Byron every year. Considering only around 12,000 people actually live in Byron, in anyone’s language I reckon they’d have to agree that’s a shitload of visitors. I live in a house of seven. Two adults and five kids. If my house were a tourist destination with the same crazy attraction, then at that current ratio our family would be welcoming 933 visitors every year. I can barely cope with a visit from my parents. A visit from almost 1,000 people to my humble home would reduce it to rubble. And then if, say, half of them brought their cars, that would mean that over 400 cars would need to be parked out the front of my house for various periods over the year. And say that 50 per cent of them came at the same time, then that would mean that for around two weeks I’d need parking for around 200 people outside my home where there is only really space for two cars. If you are going to sustain that level of tourism over the next decade then you’d better have some pretty big plans for infrastructure upgrades. Right now a trip up Skinners Shoot Road involves an emergency session at the osteopath. It’s just a series of potholes joined by bitumen. Pretty soon that road to Wategos is just going to fall off and they’ll be isolated so all the rich bastards will have to eat each other. It will be like Lord of the Flies except with BMWs and plasma tellies. Why don’t we have a bed tax? If visitors are prepared to pay up to $5,000 a week then what’s a couple of bucks extra? If our 1.6 million tourists coughed up $10 each then that would be $16 million to spend on our roads and parks and poo-management facilities. But then maybe there’s a better idea. In the Byron Shire Echo a few years back, the editor Michael McDonald suggested camouflage trees at the entrance to Byron so people couldn’t find it. That’s an awesome idea. Let’s hide Byron, and give someone else a turn. I suggest we put a few sarongs over the top and direct them to Grafton.

live entertainment Swang that thang Les Wilson’s Swing Force Big Band has emerged as a bright and energetic band of swing sound. The band has been formed out of enthusiastic musicians and their love for swing sound and public demand for the 'people’s music. Performing songs of Frank Sinatra, Michael Bublé, Ella Fitzgerald, Natalie Cole plus many others, their professionalism comes to the fore with their presentation of swing hits from the past, combined with updated arrangements of present-day numbers. This is not a band of many stars, it is a Star Band. Friday Condong Bowling Club.

Saying it with Flower

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Dave Flower’s songwriting presents an individual style, topical and emotive, a touch feisty with social commentary but undeniably groovy with lots of rhythm and energy. A faithful acoustic guitarist throughout his musical journey, David’s sound is warm and earthy, flowing through various styles while engaging audiences with his lyrical delivery and stage presence. The soundscape is complete with a dynamic rhythm section of bass, drums, percussion and vocal harmonies inspiring and entertaining both the listener and the dancer with the band’s trademark free-spirited show. See the Flower at the Patch Lounge Coolangatta Friday.

Double Dutch Treat Melbourne-based musician Dutch Tilders will be touring the north coast this weekend. Dutch has performed at all major festivals and venues throughout Australia for more than five decades after migrating here in 1955. On his journey he has toured with internationals including John Mayall, Taj Mahal, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, BB King and more. He has remained one of Australia’s most established recording blues artists with a vocal freedom that many envy and admire. In his long career, Dutch has won at least 15 awards nationally recognising his contribution to the blues music scene. These

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O-Sushi

Winner of the ‘Favourite Japanese Restaurant all over Qld’ in the I Love Food competition 2010 Eat in or takeaway. Licensed. Open 7 days 11am till late. O-Sushi is a modern Japanese restaurant guided by a philosophy that incorporates traditional values of providing the best possible service combined with fresh wholesome food.

Fins

Back by popular demand 3 course weekday lunches $14.95 members or $24.95 non-members Visit our website to view the menu Winner – Best Club Restaurant 2007, 2008 and 2009 (Clubs QLD Awards)

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Alleys Currumbin RSL Club Currumbin Creek Road, Currumbin Open 7 days lunch and dinner 07 5534 7999 www.currumbin.com.au

Getting to the Kora Self described heavy-metal-dub-funk-blues five-piece Kora return to Australian shores in January for a run of east coast dates. Since their maiden voyage across the Tasman, Kora have expanded their fan base beyond Kiwi expats thanks to their dynamic and awe-inspiring live sets. Sharing the stage with diverse acts such as Spearhead, Cog and Salmonella Dub on various tours and gracing the stages of festivals such as One Movement, The Big Day Out and WOMAD is testament to the band’s sonic diversity. See Kora at the Coolangatta Hotel on Friday.

Adam gets into the Dirty Channel Adam Brown captivates audiences with his unique vocal style and expressive quitar sounds. Widely hailed as one of Australia's best Dobro slide guitarists, Brown's gigs and recordings leave listeners feeling energised and musically sated. Brown has honed his craft at venues across Australia – from festivals to pubs, clubs to private functions. Over the years he has worked with many artists and bands, played solo and recently been joined on stage by his dynamic band The Dirty Channel. He is also surrounded by an impressive calibre of musicians, having supported such luminous acts as Robben Ford, the Black Sorrows, Wendy Matthews, Yothu Yindi and the late Billy Thorpe. Brown has also played alongside Phil Emmanuel, wunderkind Joe Robinson and Jake Lardot. With a depth

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A big thank you to all our patrons. Fins is proud to announce we won ‘BEST SEAFOOD RESTAURANT’ in regional NSW in the Restaurant and Catering Awards. Next we take on Best in Australia!

The Gallery Café combines art with fresh food and wine. Enjoy having lunch at the beautifully appointed licensed café with indoor and outdoor seating and cnr Tweed Valley Way magnificent panoramic views over the Tweed River and Mistral Road, and Border Ranges. View the art and treat yourself to Murwillumbah delicious cakes and great coffee. A fabulous venue for Open Wed-Sun 10am-5pm special events, office parties and wedding receptions. 02 6672 5088 Group bookings essential.

echoGOODTASTEguide include three national awards in 2006 for the best album, male vocalist and blues song of the year. Friday at the Currumbin Soundlounge and Sunday at the Condong Bowls Club.

64 Fingal Rd, Fingal Head Ph 07 5523 1130 Wed & Thurs 11am-5pm, Fri & Sat 11am-10pm & Sun 9.30am-5pm www.sheoakshack.com

If you are looking for delicious food, coffee or romantic sunset cocktail on the riverbank, the Sheoak Shack is the beach shack for you with a funky laid back daytime vibe or a party atmosphere with live music on Saturday nights. This gallery/cafe showcases the work of high quality local artists and is available for private functions… more Byron than Byron, in sleepy Fingal Head.

Mount Warning Hotel

Mt Warning Hotel Open 7 days 10am till late Bistro open daily 1497 Kyogle Rd, Uki 02 6679 5111

to his repertoire that demonstrates versatility and an impressive stylistic range, Brown has attracted a strong and loyal following that is sure to grow in coming years. Adam Brown with The Dirty Channel Friday at the Imperial Hotel Murwillumbah.

One of the region’s great old country pubs. Delicious food, bistro open for lunch everyday from 12-2pm, dinner Thursday to Sunday from 6-8pm. Children’s playground, relaxing beer garden. Curry night on Thursday, raffles and member’s draw on Friday, punter’s draw on Saturday and on Sunday there is a delicious roast.

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CAT POWER COOLANGATTA HOTEL SATURDAY

A Spanish treat for Tyalgum Andrew Veivers, one of Australia's finest Spanish guitarists, will present a one-hour recital this weekend. 'I'm looking forward to presenting my first solo concert in Tyalgum. I've heard so much about the Tyalgum Festival and the deep appreciation the local community has for classical and world music. This concert is an opportunity to present my solo compositions and arrangements and some of the stories behind them.' Andrew draws on a wide range of musical influences to evoke the sensual and mesmerising sounds of the Spanish guitar in all of its guises. Tyalgum Hall on Saturday.

The specific South Pacific soul brothers South Pacific Sound System are Soul Brothers DJ T'linger and DJ Alfie Romeo, formally from New Zealand and Adelaide. They have years of experience in and around events, venues and landscapes delivering an audio journey for all to enjoy. Their keen ear for rare flavours and exciting genres across the board makes them accessible, deep, and fun – this is an anything-goes system that delivers and receives positive feedback wherever they go. Recently joining the South Pacific Sound System from Cape Town, South Africa is Papa J on drums and percussion. Papa J and T'linger were brought together by an interest in similar genres in music, and enjoy an ongoing musical relationship. Jazz, Latin, Boogaloo, Funk and Tiki are just some of the flavours they have in store for you. South Pacific Sound System play at the Sheoak Shack on Saturday.

Power aka Atlanta-born songstress Chan Marshall, in solo mode, supporting the Tren Bros – the side project of the Dirty Three's Mick Turner and Jim White – in venues as intimate as Sydney's now defunct Hopetoun Hotel, Byron Bay's tiny Railway Hotel and Melbourne's also-defunct Punters Club. Turner and White (along with STM bassist Andrew Entsch) also backed up Chan on that visit for the recording of her much-loved Moon Pix album which featured the ground- breaking Crossbones Style. Coolangatta Hotel Saturday.

Broadfoot's second launched After a journey to the Blue Mountains and Sydney playing a series of enthusiastically received summer gigs, Broadfoot return to the Far North Coast with a string of gigs coinciding with the release of their second album – Straight Between Us – a collection of songs whose feet are firmly entrenched in the bluesy funk'n'roll that is Broadfoot. Ivory Tavern, Sunday.

Bill and Frank backing the boat

Roots/rock duo Method are backing the boat into the swollen river and preparing to brave the elements on another north coast adventure tour. Guitarist Bill Jacobi is a popular solo performer in and around the Northern The Cat's whiskers Rivers area, with open-tuned and lap slide guitars It's the second successive summer drop-in for twisting their way around evocative soundscapes and Cat Power who is a firm lover of our isle datpassionate songwriting. He is joined by drummer Frank ing all the way back to 1998. That visit saw Cat Corby, who was most recently seen pounding the skins www.tweedecho.com.au

GIG GUIDE THURSDAY 27 TWEED ANDREW VEIVERS TYALGUM HALL SATURDAY

n CLUB BANORA 6PM LONE WOLF n L ATTITUDE 28 DEG RESTAURANT 6PM PHIL EIZENBERG n T WEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 6PM VEENIE’S – SWIZZLE

GOLD COAST n BILAMBIL SPORTS CLUB OPEN MIC AND JAM NIGHT n BURLEIGH BEARS LEAGUES CLUB 6PM MARCO n COOLANGATTA HOTEL 8PM DJ CHRIS TOFA 9PM JAMES JOHNSON 9-12AM n CUDGEN LEAGUES CLUB TREVOR WHITE n THE PATCH LOUNGE COOLANGATTA LIVE, LOCAL AND FREE JJJ UNEARTHED JASON DELPHIN n KIRRA SPORTS CLUB 8PM PHIL EIZENBERG’S OPEN MIKE NITE

FRIDAY 28 TWEED

K U SHEOA GURIGUR URDAY, T A SHACK S RTS CLUB SPO BILAMBIL DAY SUN

behind legendary blues band The Bondi Cigars. Frank is also a notable songwriter in his own right, adding a rich tapestry of rhythm and texture as well as his dark vocals and lyrical twists to the mix. Together they make music that is an eclectic amalgamation of swamp/roots, alternative county and hillbilly funk that somehow manages to look back at a wealth of musical tradition, have a good poke around and then turn and run the other way. You can catch them at the Riverview Hotel in Murwillumbah on Sunday.

Guriguru at the Shack Local Indigenous music duo Guriguru return to the Sheoak Shack with Gary Kafoa singing what was passed down to him by his elders and contemporary issues that affect us all today: and trying to step outside traditional rock song structures has meant mixing didgeridoo with modern dance beats and his own funk percussion techniques. The result is a new dimension in Indigenous storytelling born in the unique musical culture of the NSW north coast. See them Saturday at the Shack and Sunday at the Bilambil Sports Club.

n BILAMBIL SPORTS CLUB 8PM KENNEDY MANSION n CABARITA BEACH SPORTS CLUB INNOCENT ACOUSTIC n CABARITA BEACH BAR 8.30PM NITESTAR n CONDONG BOWLING CLUB – TWEED VALLEY JAZZ CLUB PRESENTS LES WILSON’S SWING FORCE BIG BAND WITH GREG & KATIE ASPELING 8PM n CLUB BANORA 7PM STEVEN MICHAEL n CUDGEN LEAGUES CLUB GLEN SHIELD n ELTHAM HOTEL 7PM NORM & KATH BELL n IMPERIAL HOTEL MURWILLUMBAH 8PM THE DIRTY CHANNEL n LUFFLEY CAFE 7PM KEL & THE JAZZ CANARIES

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n KINGSCLIFF BEACH BOWLS CLUB 7.30PM RICHARD BRENT n L ATTITUDE 28 DEG RESTAURANT 6PM PHIL EIZENBERG n MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES CLUB 6.30PM HIGH NOON DUO n POTTSVILLE BEACH SPORTS CLUB 7PM WAYNE NETTLE n SALTBAR, KINGSCLIFF 8.30PM PRESTON TRAIN n T WEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB NOON BOB MILDREN 7.30PM JUST THE TICKET

GOLD COAST n BURLEIGH HEADS BOWLS 7.30PM SORRENTO n BURLEIGH BEARS LEAGUES CLUB 7.30 DON WHITAKER n COOLANGATTA HOTEL 8PM KORA, 9PM DJ CHRIS TOFA 10PM MR PERKINS n CUDGEN HEADLAND SLSC 7PM PAUL ATKINS n CURRUMBIN SOUND LOUNGE 7.30PM DUTCH TILDERS BLUES REVUE n L ATTITUDE 28 DEG RESTAURANT 6PM PHIL EIZENBERG n NEVERLAND COOLANGATTA HOUSE PARTY n THE PATCH LOUNGE COOLANGATTA 8PM DAVID FLOWER n SURFERS BEER GARDEN JABBA

SATURDAY 29 n CABARITA BEACH SPORTS CLUB BILLY FEBRUARY n CLUB BANORA 7PM DAVO n KINGSCLIFF BEACH BOWLS CLUB 7.30PM HAPPY DAZE KARAOKE n L ATTITUDE 28 DEG RESTAURANT 6PM PHIL EIZENBERG n MURWILLUMBAH HOTEL 9PM MASON RACK n MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES CLUB 6.30PM GLENN BRACE n POTTSVILLE BEACH SPORTS CLUB 6PM MAT STOKES n SALTBAR, KINGSCLIFF 8.30PM

CINEMA GUIDE AMC Tweed 6 Cinemas Tweed City Shopping Centre, 54 Minjungbal Drive, South Tweed Heads 07 5523 3321 www.amcmovies.com.au

DAVE MURRAY DUO n SHEOAK SHACK 7PM GURIGURU n T WEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 7.30PM ROCK ‘N’ ROLL EXTRAVAGANZA n T YALGUM HALL 5PM ANDREW VEIVERS

GOLD COAST n BURLEIGH HEADS BOWLS 6.30PM GRANT PUKEROA n BURLEIGH BEARS LEAGUES CLUB 7.30PM THE STREET n COOLANGATTA HOTEL 8PM CAT POWER, CARNIVAL THEME NIGHT 9AM SPARKZ BAND n CURRUMBIN RSL 7PM CHILLAXE n NEVERLAND COOLANGATTA SEDUCTION n PLATINUM NIGHTCLUB, BROADBEACH LAIDBACK LUKE / GERRY MORALES / CRAIG ROBERTS / JOEY MOJO n SURFERS BEER GARDEN VENUS ENVY N

SUNDAY 30 TWEED

n BABALOU, KINGSCLIFF HOTEL, 2PM SOUTH PACIFIC SOUND SYSTEM n BILAMBIL SPORTS CLUB GURIGURU n CLUB BANORA 11.30AM MATTHEW WARD, 1.30PM GLENN BRACE n ELTHAM HOTEL 2PM MICK MCHUGH n IVORY TAVERN 3PM BROADFOOT n KINGSCLIFF BEACH BOWLS CLUB 4PM SHOW ME THE LYRICS n POTTSVILLE BEACH SPORTS CLUB 4PM DAVE CAVANAGH n POTTSVILLE TAVERN 1.30PM LEIGH JAMES n RIVERVIEW HOTEL, MURWILLUMBAH 2PM BILL JACOBI n SPIHNX ROCK CAFE 2PM

Murwillumbah Regent Cinema 5 Brisbane St, Murwillumbah 02 6672 8265 www.cinemaregent.com

TOMMEE n T WEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 5PM DAVE CLAYTON n T WEED HEADS CIVIC CENTRE MINI COOLY ROCKS ON DANCE PARY FOR QUEENSLAND FLOOD VICTIMS

GOLD COAST n BURLEIGH BEARS LEAGUES CLUB 2.30PM DAVID BARRY n CONDONG BOWLS CLUB DUTCH TILDERS BLUES REVUE n COOLANGATTA HOTEL 3PM CASEY BARNES 6PM DJ CHRIS TOFA n COOLANGATTA SURF CLUB 2PM ANTHONY CLASSEN n CUDGEN HEADLAND SLSC 3PM DAN HANNAFORD n CURRUMBIN RSL 1.30PM ROB HACKWOOD n NEVERLAND COOLANGATTA EASY SUNDAYS n NOTH KIRRA SURF CLUB 2PM MASON RACK n SURFERS BEER GARDEN SUNDAY SESSIONS + THE HOWLING BELLS (DJ SET

MONDAY 31 TWEED n KINGSCLIFF BEACH BOWLS CLUB 12 NOON DAVID LEE n T WEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 6.30PM PETER JOHNSON N TUESDAY

TWEED n T WEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 6.30PM NOEL PARLANE

WEDNESDAY 2 TWEED n ELTHAM HOTEL 6.30PM NOT QUITE FOLK JAM NIGHT n T WEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 6.30PM CRAIG SHAW

BCC, Coolangatta Coolangatta Shopping Resort Griffith St (Cnr Warner St) Coolangatta 07 5536 9300

Cinemax Cinema 60 Marine Parade Kingscliff 02 6674 4422

ART GALLERIES CAFÉ D’BAR GALLERY 275 BOUNDARY ST, COOLANGATTA 07 5536 2500 • OPEN EVERY DAY COMMUNITY PRINTMAKERS MURWILLUMBAH (CPM INC) 33-35 KYOGLE ROAD BRAY PARK, MURWILLUMBAH • 6672 8276 CAROLYN JOHN STUDIO 02 6674 4072 OPEN DAILY EXCEPT THURSDAY CURIOUS ART GALLERY 94A CHINDERAH BAY DRIVE, CHINDERAH • 6674 5340 OPEN 10AM-5PM WED-SAT, SUN 12PM-5PM

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GALLERY VISION U4B/18 STUART ST, TWEED HEADS 07 5536 1699 KENITA’S DECORATIVE ARTS 15 COOLMAN ST TYALGUM 6679 3339 • OPEN 10AM-4PM 6 DAYS (CLOSED WED) MINJUNGBAL ABORIGINAL CULTURAL CENTRE CNR KIRKWOOD ROAD & DUFFY STREET, SOUTH TWEED HEADS 07 5524 2109 OPEN: 9AM-4PM EVERY DAY EXCEPT WEEKENDS SHEOAK SHACK GALLERY CAFÉ 64 FINGAL RD, FINGAL HEAD

07 5523 1130 OPEN WED-THURS: 11AM-5PM, FRI-SAT: 11AM-10:30PM, SUN 9:30AM-5PM STOKERS SIDING POTTERY 224 STOKERS ROAD, STOKERS SIDING, TWEED VALLEY 6677 9208 OPEN 7 DAYS FROM 9:30AM-5PM SHELENA RUSSELL GALLERIES 36 GRIFFITH ST, COOLANGATTA 07 5536 6559 OPEN: MON-FRI 10-5PM, SAT 10AM-2PM, SUN 10-12.30PM SEAN SCOTT PHOTOGRAPHY SHOP 3, 110 MARINE PARADE, REFLECTIONS TOWER TWO, COOLANGATTA 07 5599 1150 OPEN MON-SUN 6.30AM-5PM TUMBULGUM GALLERY 110 RIVERSIDE DR, TUMBULGUM 02 6676 6234 OPEN 11AM-4PM WED-SUN THE WAY OF DESIGN GALLERY 2/792 PACIFIC PARADE, CURRUMBIN BEACH • 07 5534 1530 OPEN TUES-SAT 9.30AM-2.30PM TWEED RIVER ART GALLERY 2 MISTRAL RD , MURWILLUMBAH 6670 2790 OPEN WED-SUN 10AM-5PM

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Surface Tension: the art of Euan Macleod 1991–2009 N RY TAVER OOT IVO BROADF SUNDAY

April, and the winner will pocket the much sought-after prize of a trip to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Local comedian Ellen Briggs got her break when she won the QLD final and made it to the National Finals. For anyone who wants to fast track their journey to becoming a comedian, then winning RAW is the way to do it. Mandy Nolan's ex comedy student Hannah Gadsby is testament to this as her win has seen her go on to become one of the most sought after comics in the country. Hannah can now be seen fronting documentaries on the ABC with appearances on Good News Week and Spics and Specks. Heats take place nationwide, with two Byron Bays heats at the Pandanus Lounge at the Byron Ex-Services Club on February 21 and March 7 at 8pm. Shows are all $10/15. Comics will be judged by industry peers and both the evenings will be hosted by Mandy Nolan who's certainly done her time in the Raw. Enter now at www.comedyfestival.com.au/raw.

This show is a Tweed River Art Gallery touring exhibition, curated by Gavin Wilson. ‘Surface Tension’ is the first major touring exhibition of work by an artist considered to be one of the finest painters of his generation. This ground-breaking exhibition includes 47 high-quality works produced by Euan Macleod between 1991 and 2009. Macleod is widely recognised as one of Australia’s most renowned contemporary painters with major works held in public galleries, corporations and private collections. METHOD’S BILL JACOBI & FRANK CORBY RIVERVIEW HOTEL MURWILLUMBAH SUNDAY

Dream Run's Double Bill Blown Sideways Through Life by Claudia Shear A true account of a woman's life at the edges of society. Artist's model, receptionist at a brothel, waitress, proofreader – this play offers the audience an insightful look at the inner lives of those who serve us: a thought-provoking and funny

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tary film Gasland in Murwillumbah. The documentary is an exposé on the impacts of coal seam gas mining in the United States, and offers a timely warning as the industry begins to rapidly expand in Australia, including in some locations on the north coast. Coal seam gas (CSG) mining involves drilling wells at regular intervals, hundreds of metres below the surface, to extract methane which is trapped in layers of rock and sediment above coal seams. Overseas experiences have shown that CSG mining poses significant environmental and health risks. Recent incidents of groundwater, air and surface contamination have had devastating impacts on productive farming lands and community health in the United States and now in Queensland. Regent Cinema, Murwillumbah Thursday.

FEBRUARY 4 CURRUMBIN RSL FIONA O'LOUGHLIN. FEBRUARY 5 COOLANGATTA HOTEL DOC NEESON BAND FEBRUARY 5 TWIN TOWNS THE CHOIRBOYS FEBRUARY 11 COOLANGATTA HOTEL MASON RACK BAND’S NEW ALBUM LAUNCH FROM FEBRUARY 12 GOLD COAST REGIONAL ART GALLERY ‘OFFSPRING’, A NEW EXHIBITION BY GOLD COAST-BASED ARTIST FIONA KENNEDY-ALTOFT MARCH 4 COOLANAGATTA HOTEL ASH GRUNWALD MARCH 17 TWIN TOWNS KAMAL MUSALLAM'S EASTMANIA

The Tweed River Art Gallery appreciates the generosity of more than 30 private and corporate lenders who agreed to loan this fascinating selection of works for tour. The Gallery was also privileged to be awarded over $120,000 from the Commonwealth Government’s Visions of Australia program to develop the exhibition and tour. Following the exhibition at Tweed the exhibition will travel to Orange Regional Gallery, Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery, Newcastle Region Art Gallery and the University of Queensland Art Museum. Friday official exhibition opening events, Saturday Euan Macleod in conversation with Susi Muddiman.

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SOUTH PA CIFIC SOU ND SYSTEM S HEOAK SHACK SA TURDAY.

Greens Highlight Coal Seam Gas Concerns NSW Greens MP Cate Faerhrmann, along with the Greens’ state election candidates for the seats of Tweed (Andrea Vickers) and Lismore (Susan Stock), will be attending a special screening of the documen-

glimpse of the nameless workers who make the world go round. The Man who couldn't Dance by Jason Katims During a dinner party, Gail shows her ex-boyfriend Eric her new baby. Old feelings reveal themselves in exchanges over Gail's all-too-practical husband and Eric's young bohemian girlfriend. As they grapple for closure, Eric finally explains the reason he fled the country at the height of their relationship... and why he never danced with her. It questions the roads not taken by a man and a woman. Friday and Saturday Red Cross Hall, Knox Park, Murwillumbah. For more information visit www.dreamruntheatre.com.au. www.tweedecho.com.au

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Fishing for giants of the Tweed Kingscliff ready for 2011

Solano senior: our fishing expert David Solano’s dad Fernando, with a snapper he caught in the mouth of the Tweed. David Solano

Australia Day and I was on the oyster leases at Terranora Broadwater again. I had the good fortune to run into a marauding school of giant trevally. I was catching bream, casting my surface lure and I got a big shock at the end of the lease when one of those giant trevallys grabbed it and headed straight back for the cover of the snags of the lease. I fought with him for a while,

but could not control him, he had too much power and wrapped my line around one of the oyster-encrusted poles. I noticed that they were still attacking bait fish on the surface and this was an area outside the lease, no snags out there. So I put on an Atomic Hardz diver and cast straight out into the school and within a second or two I was on. It was a fantastic fight; these fish have so much go in them.

I lost two to start with but managed to land one after a 20 -minute fight. My yak was a mess, I had blood everywhere, as one fish was gilled on my diver lure and two rods decommissioned due to lost leaders, the consequences of running into and going to combat with a school of marauding trevs. n If you have any fishing news and hints and tips you would like to share with David, email: editor@tweedecho.com.au.

Kingscliff Netball Club is a new club in our region, playing at Tweed Netball Association at Arkinstll Park, Tweed Heads. The club started in 2009 with two 13/14yrs teams, Komets and Stars. Stars went on to be the Minor Premiers for the season, going on to win the Grand Final. The club progressed to four teams in 2010, adding two open sides, Twinkles and Avatars. This year saw Stars finishing Minor Premiers again but losing the Grand Final by three goals. The club finished with a total of 47 members ranging in ages from 12 to 40+. In 2011 we expect to have a minimum of 60 members adding a 16yrs and a 12/13yrs team. Kingscliff Netball prides itself on progress and development of not only players but coaches and umpires as well. Our club this year has four players, Jasmine Sandall, Mahleah Chadburn, Angela Clarke and Julia King playing in the U15s Tweed representative side, Kritin Baker playing in the U14s Tweed Representative side and Carly George playing in the Tweed Open Cadbury Schweppes Cup side at the State League Centre in Brisbane. Jasmine Sandall and Lucy O’Keefe also were selected to train at the Tweed Coast Academy of Sport for netball, receiving

Stephanie all smiles at Gilmore Surf Camp

quality coaching from former Australian player and Australian Diamonds assistant coach, Nicole Cusack. We also have accredited coaches, badged umpires and accredited first aid personnel. Kingscliff Netball Club is a not-for-profit club, staffed by volunteers who work hard with fundraising to keep the costs of playing netball in our region to a minimum for our players, but this does not cover all costs. Kingscliff Netball are grateful to receive sponsorship from local businesses for the purchase of equipment and uniforms. We are very thankful to our sponsors, Rory Curtis’s The Good Guys at South Tweed and the Tweed Echo Newspaper. Currently we are on a drive for more sponsors. You can contact our president. Julie San-

dall on jbsandall@dodo.com for more information. The club will hold its first sign on day on Saturday February 5 at Saint Anthony’s Primary School, Kingscliff between the hours of 9am and 3pm. We hope to increase our club numbers by even more and are open to all ages from 12yrs to open. We will endeavour to place all applicants into a team and if players want to play with their friends, the club will always try to achieve this. For more information on fees and signing up with Kingscliff Netball, contact the registrar, Jo DeVries, on joanndevries@gmail.com or come down to the sign-on. Kingscliff Netball Club have registered with the Queensland Flood Appeal to receive donations on their behalf.

Kingscliff Netball Club 2011 SIGN-ON DAY Surfing’s golden girl Steph Gilmore with young female surfers at last week’s Quiksilver Stephanie Gilmore Surf Camp. Photo Beau Brenchley/Surfing Australia.

Seven fortunate female surfers had the rare opportunity to rub shoulders with surfing’s golden girl, Stephanie Gilmore, last week as she hosted the second instalment of her very own branded Summer Surf Camp at Surfing Australia’s High Performance Centre (HPC) at Casuarina Beach. The Quiksilver Stephanie Gilmore Summer Surf Camp marked the third of four Summer Surf Camps at Surfing Australia’s High Performance Centre which have proven to www.tweedecho.com.au

be highly popular with junior males and females nationally and internationally. Gilmore was all smiles as she devoted precious time out of her busy schedule, to pass on priceless knowledge of her adventures on the ASP Dream Tour as well as important advice to help all campers succeed in surfing and in life. ‘It is an honour to host my second Summer Surf Camp here at Surfing Australia’s HPC,’ said Steph. ‘The opportunities you get from coming

to these camps are endless; there is so much to learn from the professional coaches here at the HPC, not only do these kids get the chance to learn from the best, they also get the rare opportunity to meet and learn from their heroes. Ms Gilmore said it was very rewarding to come to the camps. ‘All the girls see me as a role model, so it is great to see they were all really enthusiastic to meet me and ask questions.’ she said. HPC Manager James Eggington thanked

professional surfers who have played host to their respective Summer Surf Camps for 2011. ‘Surfing Australia and all parties involved are very thankful to the professional athletes who have donated their time and expertise to the Summer Camps,’ said Eggington. ‘All the kids who have attended these camps have shown huge improvements and have a fresh enthusiasm about their surfing. These Summer Camps are only going to get bigger and better in the future.’

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February 5th - 9am to 3pm St Anthony’s Primary School 8 Pearl St, Kingscliff

Old & new members welcome! DONATE TO THE QLD FLOOD APPEAL ON THE DAY

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AUSTSWIM urges parents: be wiser around water Child drowning remains a significant preventable cause of death, particularly in children aged under five years. AUSTSWIM, the Australian Council for the Teaching of Swimming and Water Safety urges Australian parents to be wiser around water. AUSTSWIM strongly promotes the importance of learn to swim and water safety education from an early age though stresses that at no stage in a child’s life does the amount of learn to swim and water safety lessons replace the need for constant supervision when in and around any body of water.

‘Supervision means constant visual contact, not just the occasional glance’ Gordon Mallett, AUSTSWIM Chief Executive Office says it is important to never turn your back on toddlers, children or your swimming companions. ‘Don’t look away, don’t walk off and don’t get distracted – not even for a second’, he says. ‘Children should be kept within arm’s reach at all times’. AUSTSWIM recommends that parents be prepared with the skills needed to carry out resuscitation in an emergency. There are several organisations that offer resuscitation or first-aid courses geared towards parents for example, Surf Life Saving Australia, Royal Life Saving Society, the Red Cross, New moon

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which offers ‘Emergency First Aid for Parents and Carers’ and St John Ambulance, which offers ‘Caring for Kids’, a course designed to meet the needs of carers of babies and children. Once they have a resuscitation qualification, parents are advised to update it every 12 months. AUSTSWIM are committed to educating Australians about the importance of water safety and believe that it is critical for all Australian children to participate in learn to swim and water safety lessons and recommend six months as the age for starting. It is a requirement of AUSTSWIM that AUSTSWIM Licensed Teachers hold a current CPR certificate. Parents and carers can reduce this risk and provide their children valuable skills for life by taking preventive measures including, but not restricted to, active supervision, restricting the child’s access to water, taking their child to water familiarisation lessons and learning resuscitation (CPR). AUSTSWIM has over 550 AUSTSWIM Recognised Swim Centres nationally who provide a range of learn to swim and water safety classes catering for ages six months through to adults. Classes are taught by AUSTSWIMLicensed Teachers of Swimming and Water Safety. To find a swim school in your area or if you are interested in becoming an accredited AUSTSWIM Teacher go to www.austswim.com.au. 20:03

FEBRUARY 2011 Astronomical data and tides

High tide, height (m)

Low tide, height (m)

T 0616 1942 0416 1819 0805,1.72; 2040,1.30 0130,0.51; 1447,0.34

W 0617 1941 0513 1858 0846,1.74; 2117,1.34 0215,0.47; 1523,0.32

T 0617 1941 0610 1933 0924,1.73; 2153,1.38 0255,0.45; 1556,0.31

F 0618 1940 0704 2005 0959,1.71; 2227,1.40 0333,0.44; 1627,0.32

S 0619 1940 0757 2035 1031,1.66; 2300,1.42 0410,0.45; 1656,0.34

S 0620 1939 0849 2105 1103,1.60; 2333,1.43 0447,0.47; 1725,0.37

M 0621 1938 0941 2134

1136,1.52

0526,0.50; 1754,0.41

T 0622 1938 1033 2205 0009,1.44; 1211,1.43 0607,0.54; 1825,0.46

W 0622 1937 1126 2238 0047,1.43; 1249,1.33 0652,0.59; 1859,0.52

10 T 0623 1936 1220 2315 0130,1.42; 1335,1.23 0744,0.64; 1939,0.58 11 F 0624 1935 1316 2357 0220,1.41; 1432,1.14 0846,0.88; 2030,0.63 12 S 0625 1935 1412

0319,1.42; 1545,1.09 1003,0.68; 2135,0.66

13 S 0625 1934 1509 0044 0426,1.45; 1709,1.10 1121,0.52; 2248,0.64 14 M 0626 1933 1604 0138 0530,1.53; 1819,1.16 1226,0.52; 2353,0.57 15 T 0627 1932 1656 0238 0630,1.65; 1914,1.26

1318,0.40

16 W 0628 1931 1744 0343 0722,1.77; 2002,1.37 0050,0.48; 1405,0.28 17 T 0628 1930 1829 0450 0811,1.87; 2047,1.47 0143,0.38; 1448,0.18 18 F 0629 1930 1910 0559 0859,1.93; 2133,1.57 0233,0.29; 1530,0.12 19 S 0630 1929 1950 0707 0946,1.94; 2219,1.65 0325,0.22; 1613,0.10 20 S 0631 1928 2029 0815 1035,1.88; 2306,1.70 0417,0.20; 1655,0.13 21 M 0631 1927 2109 0923 1124,1.76; 2354,1.72 0512,0.22; 1737,0.20 22 T 0632 1926 2151 1031

1215,1.60

0608,0.27; 1821,0.30

23 W 0633 1925 2236 1137 0045,1.70; 1309,1.43 0708,0.35; 1907,0.42 24 T 0634 1924 2326 1242 0139,1.65; 1408,1.27 0815,0.44; 1959,0.53 25 F 0634 1923

1344 0240,1.60; 1519,1.16 0929,0.51; 2101,0.62

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BOWLS Cabarita Beach Women Social Bowls: Winning Rink – Sue Goods, Liza Morris, Gwen Coustley.Consolation – Cath Lynch, Joan Griffith, Jocelyn Simpson. Raffles: Sadie Vincent, Robyn Creedon, Glenys Cartwright. Monthly Raffle: Robyn Creedon 01.02.11 Club Open Fours nominations close. Please enter your team on sheet on board. 13.02.11 Visit In from Lismore Worker’s Club. $5 p.p. green fees. $10 p.p. includes breakfast. Breakfast 8.30 am. Play starts 9.30 am. 08.02.11 Quarterly Meeting after bowls. Members requested to attend for an update on club activities, etc. Social Bowls – Tuesdays 9.00 am. Visitors warmly welcomed. Ladies also invited to play Saturdays 1.00 pm. Please phone Club on 6676 2951 and leave message and contact number. Coaching – Free every Saturday with accredited coaches from 930 am. Cabarita Beach Men Wednesday 29th December; Winners: B Carnley and B Burger, Runners Up: J McArdle and C Shepherd, Consolation: G Goode and B Pilling. Wednesday 19th January; Winners: W Blackwood and R Maunders, Runners Up: H Schelbach and R Tonkin, Consolation: P Glancy and M Azzopardi. Thursday 20th January; Winners: R Lee and Woody, Consolation: D Vegter and C Hill. Saturday 22nd January; Winners: G Bowen, B Venner and J Hunter, Consolation: B Gormly, B Creedon and B Barnes. Monday 24th January; Winners: I Turnbull and P Schofield, Runners Up: B Clacker and P Glancy, Consolation: B Gormly and E Behr. Condong Cane Toads Sunday 23rd 28 bowlers enjoyed a great morning bowls. Winners were W Elvy, B McBurney, C Bruce r/up C Martinoles, B Martinoles, S Keen. Raffle winners C Sager (meat) R Pilon, B McEwan (6 packs). Comming events players are of to Austonivlle B C for old mates day 6th Feb bus leaves Condong 6am. Next cane toad day 13th February 9-30 am start. Condong Ladies Avery hot day on the green today. We had only two rinks. A game of fours, D.Dawes, R.Ross, M/.Chisholm and H.Fuller def D.Dawes, E.Elvy .Sweetnam and P/.Flack.. Daphney Edwards and M.Stanfield def., E.Hunt and B.Mullen. In a game of pairs Days to look forward to are our first game of the Super Challenge at home on the 5th of February and 1st March is our 1st pennant game for this season. Ladies monthly meeting is on the 8th of Feb., Social bowls next week, 1-2-11. 9am for 9-30 on the

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green Happy bowling. Condong Men Tuesday 18th bowls 12 players Winners R White, B Goodwin. Wednesday 18th bowls 39 bowlers played Winners were T Kennedy, B Wilkins, R Fuller, r/ups S Munro, R Peterson. Raffle Winners B Dunne, J Walsh, B Dunne. A big thank you to the 15 Murwillumbah ladies who played at Condong while Murwillumbah was closed. Thursday 3 bowl pairs shootout 12 teams played rain stopped game for 15 minutes before winners S Keen, P Pluis $40 each B Dunne, R Pilon $25 each. Raffle winners G King, B Dunne. Saturday 22nd 60 bowlers turned up to have a practice for Super challenge. Winners on day D Reynolds, P Knight. R/ Ups A Fing, B Rohweder, B Ayres. First game of Open fours for 2011 D Reynolds, R Shoobridge, T Martin, R Kachler DEF D Smith, B Rohweder,S Reading, P Martain. Coming events bowls Tuesday 1pm Social Wednesday 1pm Thursday Shootout 1-30 pm Sunday Kevin Leslighter day 9-30am start. Cudgen Leagues Ladies President Liz welcomed members & visitors to a good afternoon of bowling last Thurs 20th. Results as follows – Club champ/ship fours, Congratulations to Maureen Alcorn, Michelle Van Runt, Di North, Liz Fleming winners of round 1, well done girls. Ladies Social Winners, Rnk 3, Marion Hull & June McLean/Tilley. Raffle – Roni Stevens. Congratulations girls. Cudgen Leagues Men Well what a wonderful week of sunshine which enabled the rinks to be full and the weeks results are as follows, Monday Mixed Bowls saw J. Tom, N. Smith & G. Smith take home the cash, while the winning rink on Wednesday’s Men’s Mufti game saw t. Grimes, G. Ellen, L. Crombie & B. Henry winners and R. Toby, B, Cusack & J. Tom winners of the losing rink prize, Saturday’s Game was won by J. Tom, G. Tobin & R. Mathews and J. Hermann, G. Murphy and R. Cox picked up the losing rink. The clubs “A” grade four championship nominations close on the 31st January and the draw will be displayed on the notice board shortly. Kingscliff Men Results of the semi-finals of the 2011 Artie Booth Memorial Singles played on Saturday 22nd January: M Turner d I Smith; O Simpson d G Barrack. In the B Grade Singles played on Saturday 22nd January: J Brinsmead d D Miller; B Henry d G Hallett; L Rootsey d R Phipps; B Butler d B O’Kane; D Roughley d L Downes. On Sunday 23rd January: R Lewis d J Julius in a game that required an extra end: M Scott d T Wonka; K Dawson d J Barnes; B Henry d K Taylor; D Whittington d L Rootsey; B Butler d H De Vries; J Brinsmead d G Hinks. Games called for Saturday 29th January: J Brinsmead v R Lewis; B Henry v M Scott; D Whittington v K Dawson; B Butler v D Roughley. The winners will play the semi-finals on Sunday 30th January. Results of the Tweed Valley Shield played on Monday 24th January: A Division: Coolangatta d Kingscliff. B Division: Kingscliff d Coolangatta. Round 3 will be played at Coolangatta on Monday 31st January and Kingscliff will play Pottsville. The Super Challenge Trials continue this Saturday 29th January. Silver play Coolangatta at Coolangatta and Bronze play Coolangatta at Kingscliff. Games start at 1:00pm NSW time. Social bowls results: Thursday 20th January: Winners: R Dark, G Barrack, T King; B Butler, R Cavanaugh, B Jack; J Brinsmead, B Morrow; B Beattie.. Plate Winners: R Fathers, S Dawson, D Whittington. Saturday 22nd January: Winners: S Kemp, J Akers, L Morris; F McNamara, D Whittington. Plate Winners: T Wonka, T Halloran, H Hockey, J Julius. Tuesday Morning Open Pairs Competition: Winners: P Crompton, T Abraham. Runners Up: P Murphy, G Barrack. Plate Winners: N Debnam, P Lumb. At the meeting on 13th January it was decided that commencing 25th January the Tuesday Morning Open Pairs competition would have guaranteed prize money of $75.00 each for the winners, $30.00 each for the Runners Up and $15.00 each for the Plate Winners. The first game will consist of 9 ends and the second game of 13 ends. Pottsville Ladies Thursday 20th January Winners: HWS T. Pollard & D. Buckley. Runners Up: LWM D.Donges, C. Royan & G. Moore. Lucky Bowler: T. Pollard. Raffle: C. Royan Welcome back to all lady bowlers hope

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we all have a safe and great bowling year. Pelican 4’s is on 7th February consisting of 3 rounds of 11 ends play starting 9.30am with morning tea at 8.30am anyone wishing to enter a team please call Secretary Doreen Buckly on 66762111 entries close on the 28th of January. Friday: Mixed Pairs, Mufti 1.00pm start. Updates: Check the board regularly for events. Visitor Info: Thurs Women’s Social Bowls. Names must be in by 8.30am morning of play. New bowlers requiring coaching should contact the club on (02)6676 1077. Pottsville Men Weekly Results Wednesday 19th January 2011 Winners: B. Brown, G. Crawley, B. Kent Runnersup: D. Pearce, J. Thorpe N Cahill Friday 21st January 2011 Winners: M. VanRunt, M. VanRunt Runnersup: J. Kent, B. Kent Consulation: R. Parker, T. Fuller Friday is a great social day with visitors most welcome, starts 2.pm.Nomination Sheet at Club or contact R. Parker, Games Director on 6676 1077 Saturday 22nd January 2011 Winners: I. Sullivan, B. Wilson, G. Roots Runnersup: J. Field, B. Kent Tweed Heads Ladies Wednesday Pairs L. A. French, A. Plowright def. J. Ware, P. Reedy. V. Moore, R. Curtis def. S. Lusby, M. Purcell. N. Gibson, L, Spencer, def. A. Harris, V. Cunningham. S. Hanlon, B. Makin def. J. Lyon, F. Hewitt. K. Figura, B. Syndenham def. J. Smith, M. Van Runt E. Simpson, M. Cooper def. S. Asser, P. Southern. C. Keane, D. Duncan def. L. Elsey, P. Griffith. N. Matheson, J. Hoffman, def. B. Le Bouef, F. Keen. P. Mann, J. Finney def. L. Raywood, M. Dale Thursday Pairs H. Bardsley, M. Picking, def. L. Spencer, E. Carter. B. Jacobson, P. Southern def. F. Keech, B. Le. Bouef. P. Henderson, A. Plowright def. J. Ryan, P. Houghton Thursday Triples A. Nash, M. Gunton, H. Ramsay def. N. Wise, B. Sydenham, H. Carter. J. Lyon, S. Hambleton, J. Webster def. K. Henshaw, P. Govett, J. Kerkow Thurdy Fours D. Stewart, J. Oswald, E. Simpson, R. Wallis def. A. Warman, C. Thatcher, S. Taylor, D. McNamara. N. Craig, M. Cooper, E. Titmarsh, V. Robinson def. J. Redman, V. Pridham, D. Evans, S. Asser. B. Everson, B. Fox, J. Smith, B. Cooper def. H. Reid, P. Graham. S. Jackson, M. Gwynne. Tweed Heads Men Tweed Valley Shield: Round 3 has Pottsville playing Kingscliff; Coolangatta playing Tweed Heads and South Tweed playing Tugun at Coolangatta. Results from Round 1: A Division: Tweed Heads def Tugun 53/31 [7/0]; Coolangatta def Pottsville 51/30 [7/0]; South Tweed def Kingscliff 46/30 [7/0]. B Division: Tweed Heads def Tugun 42/38 [5/2]; Pottsville def Coolangatta 42/35 [5/2] and Kingscliff def South Tweed 43/42 [5/2]. A reminder for Tweed Heads players: check the notice board to see if you have been selected to play. Play starts at 1.00pm NSW time at Coolangatta. Social Results: Sun 16 Jan Green 1: Dorothy Evans, Roy Nuttall; r/ up: Carolyn and Ian Davis, Kathy and Col Robinson Green 2: Andrew and Lauren Wilson; r/up: John Rayward, Francis Hewitt Indoor Green: Sylvia and Dennis Lusby; r/ up: Lynda and Tony Kattenberg Tues 18 Jan Men: Bern Jacobson, Ted Hughes, Les Morrison; r/up: Col Robinson, Ean Quested, Jeff Walter, Howard Waye. Ladies: Dorothy Stewart, Sylvia Jackson, Judith Webster; r/up: Marjorie Croghan, Joan Fisher, Jean Smith, Francis Hewitt Wed 19 Jan: Random Rink Draw Green 1: John Asser, Stan Loeber, Ron Sturrock [on c/b]; John LeBoeuf, Ian Irvine, John Sieben Green 2: Roger Graf, Laurie Cooper, Bernie Fletcher; r/up: Bob Trinder, Fred Willis, Brian Lamb Random Rink Draw Overall: Jim O’Neill, John Easter, Ron Hottinger; r/up: Robert Carnes, Richard Mills, Ron Parker. Fri 21 Jan: Green 1: John Griffiths, Laurie Cooper, Gordon Holthouse; r/up: Ian McLean, Graham Simpson, Terry Patton Green 2: Frank Birkin, John Cunningham, Col Hawkins; r/up: Clem Jones, Brian Scrase, Bill Finney Green 3: Jim O’Neill, John Easter, John

Thompson; r/up: Ken Withington, Peter Benson, Syd Gregory Sat 22 Jan Chris Garside Jackpot Saturday Green 1: Tony Muldoon, Clive Weston; r/ up: Chris Bidwell, Ken Withington, Dorothy Evans Green 2: Don Shoobert, Doug Grenfell; r/ up: John Brabham, John Craig, Tom Armour Green 3: John Parker-Smith, Brian Lamb; r/ up: Al and John Blake. The Jackpot reached $928.00 but was not won. Consolation winners of a $10.00 voucher were Keith Downey and Bill Boyle Next Saturday’s Jackpot will reach $1,000.00 and a new jackpot will be started with the surplus. Indoor Pairs Monday’s winners were Betty Bradley and Lois Hodsdon. GOLF Chinderah Seniors Social Results for 13th January 2011 Stableford Winner Ken Bagnall 39 points new h/cap 15, R/up Mal Saggus 38 points new h/cap 16. Ball rundown to 34 points. Results for 17th January 2011 Stroke Winner A grade Dudley Wallis net 58 (c/ back) new h/cap 5, R/up Don Gordon net 58 (c/back) new h/cap 11. Winner B grade Peter Ireland net 58 (c/ back) new h/cap 17, R/up Bob Sladden net 58 (c/back) new h/cap 14. Winner C grade Ken Byrne net 55 new h/ cap 20, R/up Val Henderson net 58 new h/cap 33. Ball rundown to net 61 (c/back) Results for 20th January 2011 Stroke Winner A grade Garry Carey net 59 9c/ back) new h/cap 1, R/up Ron Hatch net 59 (c/back) new h/cap 21. Winner B grade Lynne Hatch net 60 (c/ back) new h/cap 21, R/up Kevin Burke net 60 new h/cap 25. Ball rundown to net 62 (c/back). Murwillumbah Sunday 16th Individual Stableford Winner S.Singh 46 pts N.Pin 2nd S.Walton B.R.D. tp 37 pts Monday 17th veterans Individual Stableford A.Winner K.Bullen 40 pts R.Up W.Barton 37 pts B.Grade A.Parkes 45 pts R.Up G.Hughes 42 pts N.Pin 2nd K.Dawson 8th K.Dawson 10th L.Morris 14th B.Wedlock B.R.D. to 36 pts c.b Wednesday 19th. 4.B.B.B.Stableford Winners C.Dennis & D.Baxter 49pts R.Up L.McCormack & P.Varela 49 pts c.b N.Pin 2nd K.Maxwell 10th P.Berryman B.R.D. 43 pts c.b Saturday 22nd January Individual Stableford Winner A.Grade T.Boorman 40 pts R.Up E.Selwood 39 pts c.b B.Grade J.Mitchell 42 pts c.b R.Up C.Hyde 42 pts C.Grade G.Staunton 42 pts R.Up W.Wiseman 41 pts D.Grade C.Hindmarch 40 pts c.b R.Up G.Papas 40 pts c.b N.Pin 2nd K.Bullen .8th C,Gray 10th P.Taylor 14th J.Prichard B.R.D. 36 pts c.b RUGBY UNION The Gentlemen of Murwillumbah Sign-on and registration Saturday January 29, Brother’s leagues Club, Murwillumbah. For more information phone Geoff Campbell on 6677 5123, Michael Cooper on 6679 5570 or email: tgmruc@gmail.com. SHOOTING Murwillumbah Pistol Club 19-Jan-11; Air Pistol - A Berry 593, A Uren 584, P Schlunke 570, J Schlunke 569, J Lumsden 567, R Rees 563, D Reid 555. Ladies Air Pistol - A Gazzard 370, E Reid 360. 22-Jan-11; Sports Pistol - R Fleming 554, M Fleming 550, A Uren 538, J Hoctor 535, A Aumann 526, V Aumann 490, J Deubel 470, R Rees 405. Rapid Fire - J Traves 488. Air Pistol - D Reid 535. Centre Fire - S Nash 577, G Andronicus 568, J Lumsden 549, W Gray 476. Murwillumbah Rile Club Fullbore: Shooting was at 900 yards with only a gentle breeze. Dan and Brett Chittick maintained their good form to top score off rifle in their respective classes. Scores: S.Dolan 98.10, 2, 100.10; D.Chittick 99.8, 1, 100.8; W.Shoobridge 97.8, 1, 98.8; A.Cronk 96.7, 2, 98.7; D.Phippard 95.8, 2, 97.8; T.Matthews 91.4, 4, 95.4; E.McKeever 78, 16, 94. Scope: B.Chittick 116, 2, 120; P.Weeks 103, 12, 115; P.Pritchard 95, 14, 109; G.Morris 88. Smallbore: D.Perry 369, 31, 400; C.Freeman 387, 13, 400; G.Johnson 384, 15, 399; R.Millingen 386, 13, 399; A.Cronk 398, 1, 399;A.Glover 387, 11, 398; W.Shoobridge 387, 11, 398; T.Lamb 372, 25, 397; J.Malek 372, 20, 392; G.Morris 387; M.Morris 376. Next events: Smallbore at 50metres on Friday 28th January, starting 1.30pm. Fullbore on Sunday morning January 30 at 300 yards, followed by a Shot Gun match. Field Class Sunday morning February 6.

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BYRON WEDDING & PARTY HIRE.... www.byronbayweddingandpartyhire.com.au 02 6685 5483 MULLUM HIRE Wedding and party hire.............................www.mullumhire.com.au 02 6684 3003

PLUMBING & GAS SOLUTIONS

LANDSCAPING & EXCAVATION

Whatever your plumbing needs we have the answer.

BASALT BUSHROCK Highgrade. Rock walls. Cheap prices.................................. Rolly 0408 860 543 BRENDON POWELL Bobcat, excavator, tipper & auger. All jobs..................................0404 988 222 FENCING & RETAINING WALLS BSA Licensed. Free quotes. Any area.......................0411 594 314

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Specialising in • all styles of paving & brickwork • irrigation • retaining walls • turf areas• water features and all aspects of paving and landscaping. Over 20 yrs experience - friendly reliable service Ring Dean on 0417 856 212

TINY EARTHWOR

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All scrap metal, white goods, farm machinery 4WD access • Local towing service

Nathan 0432 511 579 Tristan 0458 025 747 plumbjet@gmail.com

Lic 06105 NSW

SCREENPRINTING

• Same day response • 10% pensioner discount • All plumbing & maintenance • Plumbing & gasﬁtting • Guttering & downpipe replacement NSW Lic 204860C Qld Lic 28721

0409 848 800 PRINTER TONERS & CARTRIGES

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SELF STORAGE

Philip Toovey 0409 799 909 ph/fax 02 6684 3208

various implements available for limited access projects

LICENSED BROTHELS

Venus Lounge Gentlemen’s Retreat OUTCALLS AVAILABLE – OPEN 24/7

17 Morton Street, Chinderah • 02 6674 5020

Black Orchid

OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK No. 12 Greg Chappell Drive, Burleigh Heads • 07 5522 1400

LIGHTING

REMOVALISTS TOP OF THE STATE FREIGHT Delivering Tweed, Lismore, Ballina daily.......................0418 664 236

• Local • Country • interstate

REMOVAL

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• Freight services to Brisbane Mon & Wed • Carriers of ﬁne art • Mini moves • E-bay pick up & delivery

6687 6445 / 0409 917646

6672 3211 57 Quarry Road, MURWILLUMBAH

NATUROPATH Your Professional Health Coach

SOLAR INSTALLATIONS

CRANE TRUCK FOR HIRE Mullumbimby based

Tracey Lee Morley ND DBM 24 years Experienced Practitioner

Doug 6684 5294 Wayne 0401 471 097

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PAINTING Professional Painting & Decorating

Specialising in: Customer Service, Residential Homes, Interiors & Exteriors

Joel Watson 0404 202 415 Fully insured

Lic No. 211420C

ROOFING ALL ROOF REPAIRS, CLEANING & PAINTING...........................................................0407 261 213 ROOF PAINTING & REPAIRS Free quotes. Lic 1134084........................................Joe 0414 587 884

6 GENERATIONS IN ROOFING

Honest, reliable, all work guaranteed. 6681 4163 / 0414 674 110 • www.rooﬁngcraftsmen.com.au local 25 years DOMESTIC COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL METAL ROOFING Preferred insurance repairer Craig Montgomery Lic 30715C

0418 751 972

COVERING THE TWEED AND GOLD COAST New customers – 10% DISCOUNT

FREECALL 1800 991 322 Est. 1994

RELAX – Safe, effective pest control is our business • Comprehensive management plans & property inspections • Spray-free cockroach treatments • Non-toxic termite control If you have found termites do not disturb them! Contact us for advice. 6672 4400 or after hours on 0414 769 018 • www.sanctuarypest.com.au

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Servicing this area for 11 years.

SOLAR SYSTEMS Lic. Electrical Contractors

Your local installer dealing in Sharp Solar Modules, Australian made Latronic Inverters and Century/Yuasa batteries. Specialists in Standalone and Grid Interact Solar Power Systems. P: 02 6679 7228 E: sunbeamsolar@bigpond.com www.sunbeamsolar.com.au

Solar Power Systems & Electrical 1.5kw system

$12,000 (fully installed)

Call Darren Email: drmelectrical@bigpond.com

ROOF RESTORATIONS • RE-ROOFING • REPAIRS • FREE QUOTES

ARACHNID PEST MANAGEMENT Environmentally friendly.......................................0409 497 706

•REPAIRS & SUPPLIES

0412 693 189

ROOFING CRAFTSMEN

PEST CONTROL

TERMITE & PEST CONTROL SPECIALISTS

•INSTALLATIONS

RUBBISH REMOVAL

TILING CERAMIC TILER Lic 161050C. Robbie...........................................................................0409 368 046 RON: WALL/FLOOR TILER Waterproofing. Lic 1089627..............................................0407 374 013

TREE SERVICES POWER CLEAR TREE SERVICES Murwillumbah & Tweed..........................................02 6672 8954

WEDDING SERVICES TAILORED CEREMONIES BY WILL ALLAN................................. will.allan@me.com 07 5590 9757

WINDOW TINTING

OCEAN SHORES SKIPS Mini skip specialist..................................................................0412 161 564 SUNRISE WINDOW TINTING 30 years experience. Cars, homes, etc..........................0412 158 478

Call Gary now for a free quote 0421 999 018 or 02 6676 0098

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COUNSELLING Ring Heather McClelland of Uki if seeking individual/couples counselling. Payment on sliding scale depending on income. Ph 66795603, 0423693744 SWEET, FRUITY, SPICY full body massage. Mobile service. Ph 0431787552 MISHKA MASSAGE positive & sensitive. Deep tissue work, relaxation. Byron/ Mullum. Dip Rem. Ana 0413608927 FELDENKRAIS METHOD Mind, Body & Movement • Functional Integration Consultations appointments only;some health rebates • Movement Classes - gentle & effective Tues 5.30pm M’bah: $15 class/4@$50 Phone 66728908 Angela Collins

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READINGS

BRUNSWICK VALLEY

ASTROLOGY

Nova columnist Daniel Sowelu now at Animal Dreaming, readings by appt. Phone 0448870022 or email: sacredlawfirm@bigpond.com

TRADEWORK

DIGGER MAN

Excavator & tipper hire. 0427172684

TREE SERVICES

ANDREW HALL

Monday to Friday every 2nd week New Brighton. 66802027 Not your usual Osteopathy

Sexual Counselling

Alison Rahn qualified sex therapist www.alisonrahn.com.au 0432599812 OSCILLATION MASSAGE January specials! Detox body scrubs, remedial massage, foot scrubs, fresh juices & deeply divine divination. Call now 66805592, 0411366504

Yoga Teacher Training with Flo Fenton Internationally approved with Yoga Alliance One day per week, Wednesday, Suffolk Park March-December Cost $2,950 02 6685 9910 www.intouchyogabyronbay.com

CHAVUTTI THIRUMAL MASSAGE MASSAGE BY FOOT PRESSURE

For information and consult phone Sally or Gerry @ Murwillumbah Massage Centre

6679 1427 0447 326 713

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BBQ used twice, 2 burner + 20kg full gas cyl, regulator, cover $180. 66743620

FOR ALL YOUR PROFESSIONAL TREE CARE NEEDS!

• REMOVALS • PALMS • TREE SURGERY • PROFESSIONAL CLIMBERS •12”, 15” & 18” CHIPPER • FREE QUOTES • FULLY INSURED ‘CERT. HORT/ARB’ • STUMP GRINDING • TREE REPORTS & DA APPLICATIONS

Carmine 6685 4015 - 0401 208 797

FOR SALE

BAMBOO PLY

from $10.50sqm & Bamboo Flooring. For ceilings, walls, doors, etc. Ph 66884188 - sample & brochure www.bambooply.com.au TIMBER, pine, treated pine, hardwood, mouldings, sleepers, fencing, Koppers logs, ply, MDF, lattice, made to order. Brims Builders Hardware, Billinudgel 02 66801718, Sth Tweed 07 55236002

Aria Pro22 TA60

Vintage Japan ES355 copy, a high quality hand crafted instrument with a vintage Bigsby tremolo fitted. Has major tone and plays beautifully. Compares well with top Ibanez 355s and Gibson. $550

Phone 6619 0503 or 0408 333 282

WANTED 2ND HAND aluminium bronze glass sliding doors 2400 x 2100. 0402779376 SITAR needed 1 day for stage prop in short video performance. Will pay $200 cash & guarantee instrument safety. Ph 66779249, Leslie Murwillumbah

GARAGE SALES

Clutter Overload?

Time to clear it out with a garage sale. Ph us on 66722280 to advertise here. POTTSVILLE 2 Caroline St Sun Jan 30 after 8am h/hold, clothes, books, toys, etc

MOTOR VEHICLES

CAR BODIES REMOVED FREE

$$$s for most. Phone 0418189324, 0438189323 VOLVO XC70 Cross Country 2001, 7 seat, dark blue, 146000ks, good cond, reg service, 2.4lt auto, racks, towbar, leather interior, alloys, air, cruise, CD, etc Priced to sell $12950. 66287707, 0425319286

BARGAINS 97 Toyota Tarago auto, A/C, P/S, 8 seater. Family van. GB91BG ...................................... $5,650 2000 Subaru Forrester 5 SPD 140 606 kms Service and log book history WSJ777.......... $7,650 2000 Mitsubishi Magna Sed Auto, A/C, P/S good car AM77CA ......................................... $3,950 Holden VT “Berlina” Full log book history, V6 Auto ,VMY053 ................................................. $3,850 “Automatic” Toyota Corolla Seca Hatch Very low kms Always poular UKQ649 ............$6,850

35 CARS UNDER $10,000

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16 ENDEAVOUR CLOSE, BALLINA

Ballina Car Centre

6686 5586

DLN 19950

BUSINESS FOR SALE SUCCESSFUL food business: markets, events, festivals. 0434236297, 66840036

MAG WHEELS 17” ultra light racing, tyres with 70% tread, new $1700, sell $550. Ph Jay 0421485217

CHAMELEON GLOBAL CAFE/BAR Jonson St. Vibrant cafe, music & function courtyard. PSA licence until midnight. Phone Peter 0417052494

POTTED ANTHURIUMS Cut flower type. 02 66777245

PRIVATE 300 acres, springs, lake, cliffs, views, wildlife, large old home & sheds, pasture & forest, $575,000. Phone Steve 66840400

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PRIVATE 1880 acres, caves, cliffs, creeks, springs, lake, views, old trees, wildlife, cattle yards, large old home & sheds, 20 min to Casino NSW, $1,475,000. Open to selling smaller lots of 200+ acres. Ph Steve 66840400

HOLIDAY ACCOM.

ANTENNA INSTALLATION great potential with digital TV. Feature advertising in Yellow pages, local numbers Ballina to Tweed. Good income for 1 person. Field strength meter, service tools, no vehicle $5000. Ph 0412495519

MULLUMBIMBY 2ND HAND Huge range of French doors, 4 panel doors, bi-fold doors, windows, Hardwood timber, VJ lining, all building materials, Ph 66843063 or 66841246

TUITION

MULLUM extra large room, ens, private balcony, WIR, furn opt, 3 month lease beautiful house, 10 mins to Mullum, $200pw sgl, $250pw cpl. 0466492720

FIREWOOD DELIVERIES

- HONEST & RELIABLE Best rates & service in the Shire. Phone Matt 0427172684

PROPERTY FOR SALE

SHARE ACCOM.

HOLDEN NOVA 96 183,000km, 5dr, man, great cond, $2900. 0418858940

HEALTH OSTEOPATH A biodynamic approach to Osteopathy in the cranial field

SITE CLEARANCE BYRON BAY over 4000sqm of second hand pavers, sheds, roofing iron, conveyers etc. Great prices, must clear. Phone Grant 0417759965

THE TWEED

RATES & PAYMENT $15.00 for the ﬁrst two lines (minimum charge) $5.00 for each extra line (these prices include GST) Cash, cheque or credit card – Mastercard or Visa. Prepayment required for all ads.

PUBLIC NOTICES

VERY RARE George Ellisson Telecaster, handmade, serial no 014. Sold by George for US$3400 in 1991. Perfect condition, $1600. David 0408333282

SHELL COTTAGE @ SCOTTS HEAD, NSW FOR YOUR NEXT RELAXING GETAWAY

• Private one-bedroom beach house • 10 minute walk to two surf beaches • Fully furnished • Suitable for couples or a small family • Located in town, close to services • Four hours drive south of Byron • Well appointed

Check it out at www.shellcottageonline.com or call Ken on 6569 0447

LIVESTOCK

TEACH ENGLISH OVERSEAS

TRAVEL – WORK – ADVENTURE!

No degree or experience required. Cert III & IV in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Recruitment service & Job Guarantee! for prompt course enrolment!

1300 558 890

millie MUSICAL NOTES GUITAR AMP REPAIRS, all pro audio & custom modifications. Ph 07 55454831 www.thorphillipsaudio.com JAZZ PIANO, DOUBLE BASS & DRUM TRIO FOR HIRE Well rehearsed & accomplished players. Phone 0412732465 SITAR needed 1 day for stage prop in short video performance. Will pay $200 cash & guarantee instrument safety. Ph 66779249, Leslie Murwillumbah

BIRTHDAYS

Happy Birthday Penny

from the Echo with love

MULLUMBIMBY

• 167m2 approx. internal lettable area, fully ducted air-con • Large reception area & waiting room • 4 x separate office/ work rooms • Excellent wheelchair facilities incl. undercover drop-off area, ramps & bathroom • Full staff facilities incl. kitchen/dining, living & toilet • Single l/u garage & separate storage facility • Could suit live-in practitioner Avail. now – short or long term lease $3,688 pcm incl. GST & outgoings CONTACT TAMARA OR PAUL – TEL: 6684 2615 www.professionalsmullumbimby.com.au

Would you like to become a carer and work from home? Free training & financial support is provided, to enable you to provide accredited high quality care in a home environment. You will be supported by the largest scheme in NSW. Flexible hours. Childcare benefit available. Phone Northern Rivers Family Day Care for more info on 07 5536 1865.

CABINS FOR SALE

MODELS 18+ years required. Nude female for Picture and People magazines. No experience required. All shapes and sizes. Backpackers welcome. Good money. Professional accredited ACP photographer. Ph 0413627846

TIMELESS STUDIOS, cabins & pavillions Aust hardwood post & beam construction, pre constructed & R.T.A. Phone Stan 0412429156 biliwood@dodo.com.au

CASUAL - ARE YOU RETIRED? Drivers license a must, help me run cars between Brisbane & Gold Coast. Ph Matt 07 55992301

www.friendsofthepound.com

07 5524 8590

LADIES URGENTLY required at Lismore’s premium adult venue. Top $s, free food & accommodation. 66225533

EX-MEDICAL FACILITY IN MULLUMBIMBY CBD

CAREER IN CHILDCARE

Millie is a happy, faithful, loyal dog. A one year old, desexed female Kelpie X, she loves the beach, loves her ball, plays soccer with her soccer ball, loves other dogs. Millie came from a suburban home and is now enjoying life on a property with cattle and other dogs. She is a friendly, energetic dog who will make a good family pet. She has had some expert training and she learns very quickly. If you can offer Millie a permanent, caring home, please contact Yolana at the Friends of the Pound Adoption Information Booth on 07 5524 8590 or after hours on 02 6674 5110. Visit www.friendsofthepound.com to view other pups, dogs and cats and kittens looking for permanent homes.

ONLY ADULTS

TO LEASE

WARNING The Department of Fair Trading has warned people to be very careful about responding to advertisements offering work at home. Readers should be wary if asked to pay money upfront for employment opportunities and never send money to a post office box.

ADOPT A CAT from Animal Welfare League NSW. Phone 66844070

FREE RESOURCE BOOK

BURRINGBAR rural, 4br house, swim in creek, rainforest, refs essential, working only, $380pw 0299040634, 0401810941

POSITIONS VACANT

PETS

Free info session – 14 February Next course 18–22 May 5/1 Carlyle St, Byron Bay

TO LET

INDUSTRIAL UNIT Byron Arts & Ind Est, 120sqm incl mezzanine, $325pw. Phone 66847609 or 0412221576

CHICKENS purebred pairs. Phone after hours Mon-Fri, 7pm to 8pm. 66801408

TOUCH OF JUSTINE Luscious massage & sensual touch. Indulge ALL your senses. Thurs - Sat, 10am-6pm. Ph or txt 0407013347

EARN BIG BUCK$ Good working environment with female staff must be 18–65 yrs old

02 6674 5020 SOCIAL ESCORTS HOT, SEXY, PETITE In calls & out calls Ocean Shores. Phone 66802420

EMERGENCY NUMBERS Please stick this by your phone

EMERGENCY ONLY AMBULANCE, FIRE, POLICE............... 000 AMBULANCE Kingscliff, Tweed Heads, Murwillumbah .... 131 233 MURWILLUMBAH HOSPITAL ............................02 6672 1822 EMERGENCY ....................................02 6672 0230 TWEED HEADS HOSPITAL ...............................07 5536 1133 FIRE BRIGADE Kingscliff..........................................02 6674 1271 Murwillumbah ....................................02 6672 8305 Tweed Heads .....................................07 5536 2222 Tweed Rural Fire Service.......................02 6672 7888 POLICE NON-EMERGENCIES 24/7 ............................ 131 444 Tweed Heads .....................................07 5536 0999 Murwillumbah ....................................02 6672 9499 Kingscliff..........................................02 6674 9399 STATE EMERGENCY SERVICE ................................ 132 500 Tweed Heads .....................................07 5524 1349 Murwillumbah ....................................02 6676 7355 LIFELINE .......................................................... 131 114 GOLD COAST HELICOPTER RESCUE SERVICE .....07 5598 0222 TWEED COAST AIR SEA RESCUE......................07 5536 9333 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 24 hour crisis line .............1800 656 463 ANIMAL WELFARE (RSPCA) .............................07 5536 5135 NSW Wildlife Information & Rescue Service (WIRES) .02 6628 1898 WILDLIFE CARERS TWEED VALLEY ...................02 6672 4789 CURRUMBIN SANCTUARY ...............................07 5534 1266 SEA WORLD ................................................07 5588 2222

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Noticeboard Breast cancer Any woman who has had a diagnosis of breast cancer is invited to join other breast cancer survivors in their beautiful pink Dragon Boat at a ‘Come and Try’ day on Saturday, February 5, at 8am. We are the Mt Warning Dragons Abreast paddling club, and we offer friendship and mutual support while enhancing our fitness, through the sport of dragon boating. Come along to the 2nd boat ramp on Mcleod Street, Condong (up the road from the sugar mill) and even if you don’t paddle come along for the ride. All ages and fitness levels are welcome. Morning tea to follow. For info call Robyn on 0427 368 819.

AOOB AOOB Twin Towns branch next monthly meeting on Friday, February 4, at South Tweed Sports Club, Tweed Heads South at 2pm (DST) in the Secret Garden Room. Guest speaker is poet Bob Dever who plays the didgeridoo. All members and intending members invited to attend.

U3A U3A Twin Towns welcomes everyone who joined at last Friday’s sign-on and congratulations to raffle winner June Carson and 2nd prize winner Gwen Kodela. Classes commence THE TWEED SHIRE

week of Monday 31 January with some new offerings: Tai chi for Arthritis, Parchment Craft, a beach walking group and our first speaker for ‘Tea & Talk’ Wed Feb 9 at 2pm, Tweed Library. We are still looking for volunteer tutors of all kinds (especially Spanish, Italian). For info call before 12pm 07 5534 7333.

Family Centre The Family Centre is taking bookings now for the following courses. Numbers are limited so book early on 07 5524 8711. Detailed info on all our courses at www.thefamilycentre. org. Pathways to Change for Women: Wednesdays, February 16-April 6, 1-3pm. Pathways to Change for Men: Wednesdays, February 9-March 30, 5pm-7.30pm. Anger and Parenting: being the parent you want to be, Friday, February 11, 9.30am-3.30pm. Parenting Happy Children: Wednesdays, March 9-23, 10am-12pm. Playgroups, all groups 9.30-11.30am during school term, no cost. Kingscliff, Monday; Cabarita, Tuesday; Murwillumbah, Wednesday; Banora Point; Thursday. Engaging Adolescents: Tuesdays, February 22-March 8, 9.30am-12.30pm, P5 Parenting Education Course: Wednesdays, February 16-March 23, 10am-12.123 Magic: Tuesdays, March 15-29, 10am-12pm. Just Us: Families Connecting Wednesdays,

February 16- March 16, 1.30pm-4pm. Understanding Domestic and Family Violence: Wednesdays, February 16March 23, 10am-12pm.

Family history Tweed Gold Coast Family History & Heritage Association will hold its monthly get-together on February 1 at Sth Tweed Sports Club, Minjungbal Dr, Sth Tweed Heads at 1.30pm (NSW time). Speaker will be Stephanie Ryan from the State Library of Queensland. Visitors welcome, for info call Noelene on 07 5599 8939.

Snakes workshop The Tweed-Byron Bush Futures Project will continue its series of Landcare education events in 2011, starting with three workshops about local fauna, both native and feral. Sue Johnson, local wildlife carer and reptile expert, will lead the workshop, titled Snakes of the Tweed, on Saturday, February 5, from 2pm-4pm. The event will be held at the Canvas & Kettle Room, Civic and Cultural Centre, Tumbulgum Road, Murwillumbah. Numbers limited, register on 02 6670 2199 or csotweed@tweed.nsw.gov.au.

Cane toad musters Two Cane Toad Musters are scheduled for 2011 due to public demand. The first muster will be held

at 7.30pm at Koala Beach, Pottsville on Thursday, February 3. Participants are asked to meet at the gazebo by the lake in Sugar Glider Drive. The second muster will be held at 7pm at Knox Park, Murwillumbah on Thursday, March 3. Participants are asked to meet at the gazebo by the pond in Wollumbin Street. Everyone is welcome to come along to the musters to learn about the impact of cane toads, how to identify them and how to safely catch and handle cane toads. For info call Pamela on 02 6670 2778 or PGray@tweed.nsw. gov.au.

an Arrangement in an Unusual Container. There will also be a sausage sizzle at Ambrose Brown Park at Pottsville on February 1 from 10am. For details call 02 6676 4641.

Garden clubs

Mental health

Twin Towns and District Garden Club’s next meeting February 14 meeting at 10am in Tweed Heads Civic Centre. Guest speaker will be Kay Baldwin, president of Fingal Dune Care Group. All the usual benching, raffle, Lucky Door, cuttings and trading table plant sales. Entry $3 which includes morning tea between 9am-9.45am. All welcome. Tweed Coast Garden Club’s next meeting will be on Tuesday February 8 from 1.30pm at the Cabarita Community Hall. This will be a fundraiser Fun Auction day. Please bring items for the auction. Members and visitors welcome. Benching Flower of the Month is Franjipanis, and Floral Art is

Families and carers of persons with a mental illness are invited to attend support meetings at Tweed Heads Library, Brett Street, Tweed Heads on the first and third Mondays of each month (no NSW public holidays). Tweed Valley Mental Health Carers is a network of experienced volunteers offering mutual support and information. Next meeting January 17 at 10am. Due to public holidays, this will be the only meeting for January. For info call 07 5598 6372.

Voice weavers Voice Weavers choir is looking for talented guys and girls. If you like to sing, come along have some fun and find your voice. We meet on Thursdays 7pm DST at the Coolangatta Tweed Heads Golf Club auditorium, Soorley St. Tweed Heads South. Phone Brett 0418 754 868 Jan 07 5536 1078.

Neighbourhood Watch Pottsville Neighbourhood Watch meeting Thursday, February 3, at 3pm in the Ebbtide Room, Elizabeth Street, Pottsville.

THE BYRON SHIRE

Church celebration St Mark’s Pottsville fellow Anglicans are invited to attend our new year celebration lunch at the White Jade restaurant Pottsville Beach, Sunday, February 13 immediately following 10.30am morning service. Bookings essential by Feb 6, for info call Bruce 6676 4329 or Barbara 6676 1758.

Justices of the Peace Justices of the Peace, Tweed Valley branch now available for witnessing signatures at Tweed Centro each Tuesday 10am-2pm and at Tweed City Shopping Centre each Thursday 10am-2pm and 5pm-7pm. For info call Margaret on 07 5599 2975.

Exit Exit International run meetings and workshops on end of life choices. If you wish to join or find out more information please ring Elaine on 0421 796 713.

Low-cost food New home for low cost food, which was the free food giveaway, is at 56 Caloola Drive, West Tweed Heads off Ducat Street. Open Mondays at 11.30am until 1.30pm DST. Bring your bags and pension card. There is plenty of food for struggling pensioners. For more information call 07 5507 6999.

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Byron Bay 02 6685 5222 Mullumbimby 02 6684 1777 adcopy@echo.net.au Tweed 02 6672 2280 adcopy@tweedecho.com.au

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ON THE MARKET

The Uki Cafe – For Sale ‘Freehold’ DA approved for three commercial ✔ Full commercial gas kitchen and coolpremises downstairs and first room, front service counter, spacious floor consising of three 2 bedroom internal and external seating areas, apartments (864m²) washrooms, office, ample parking ✔ Fantastic opportunity for a developer to come in, the hard work’s been done! ✔ Rare opportunity to purchase a successful going concern in a ✔ The only licensed cafe right in the beautiful part of the Tweed Valley centre of the village and only ten Enquiries to 02 6679 4131 minutes from Murwillumbah. or 0409 810 807 ✔ For sale on a freehold basis and P.O.A. includes all inventory & equipment ✔

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Poll shows beach houses still number one A poll released by PRDnationwide shows nearly 0 per cent of people would choose to have a second home at the beach. Twenty-two per cent of respondents said they’d prefer a CBD apartment, while 1 per cent would like a ski property. PRDnationwide research director Aaron Maskrey said respondents would prefer the second property to be in their own state, with only  per cent interested in an interstate property. ‘If someone can aﬀord a holiday home, they don’t

want to have to travel too long to get there,’ he said. ‘While in the current economic environment a second property is not possible for some people, a property at the beach is still on the wish list. A lot of these coastal properties have seen price discounts – so owning a beach house might become a reality for more people in 2011.’ Mr Maskrey said only one per cent of those surveyed would choose a rural property as a second getaway. About 2,000 home owners and investors were polled for the survey.

BUSINESS DIRECTORY

GREG OWENS ‘Breeze’ Quality Villa Centre Brunswick Heads 1/20 Booyun St, Brunswick Heads. Breeze is a contemporary two storey stand alone villa in a complex of ten. It is open and spacious which makes it perfect for families, entertaining and as a holiday home which sleeps up to six persons. Open plan lounge dining and kitchen opens out through bifold doors onto a north facing alfresco dining deck and leafy courtyard. There is also a separate TV/rumpus/guest area off the living area. Our office currently manages this property as a holiday rental and it enjoys

high occupancy levels. The property is within easy walking distance to shops, cafes, river and surfing beach. This is an excellent opportunity to secure this unique villa to either live in or use as your own holiday accommodation. Price $599,000. To inspect contact Russell Siwicki 0419 627 109 or David Bosselmann 0431 100 097.

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an ultra private and luxurious resort style residence on 5 acres with panoramic views. this is one of the most stunning properties in byron bay. this exclusive home has been designed for relaxation and entertainment.

positioned for absolute convenience this open plan family home is perfectly constructed to capture every piece of the breathtaking hinterland views that are on offer.

• heated polished concrete & carpeted floors • floor to ceiling slide away glass doors • separate media room and office • 10 mins from tropical broken head beach

occupying an exclusive byron bay beachfront position is this immaculately presented family residence known as ’dolphins’. experience the ultimate of beach lifestyle in this haven of style and sophistication. • absolute beachfront position • rare dual occupancy approval • architecturally designed • north east facing decks

view by appointment auction tue 15 feb 6.00pm frances o’connor – 0412 522 540 belleproperty.com/28p0235

view sat 2.00pm - 2.30pm auction tue 15 feb 6.00pm bryce cameron 0412 057 672 neil cameron 0419 274 798 belleproperty.com/28p0257

view sat 12.00pm - 12.30pm auction tue 15 feb 6.00pm bryce cameron 0412 057 672 neil cameron 0419 274 798 belleproperty.com/28p0240

byron bay

• quality family residence • generous rumpus room and separate study • impressive covered entertaining area • live in comfort with open, breezy living areas

byron bay

58 paterson street

63a massinger street

6 skinners shoot road

positioned in a prestigious area of byron bay, this magnificent architecturally designed home presents to the occupants stunning byron hinterland views and tranquil surrounds.

sensational ocean and hinterland views form a sweeping panorama from this premium elevated position overlooking byron township.

situated on a two acre estate just three minutes drive down a tree lined country road to a cinema, spa, restaurant and bar close to

• stunning architecture • open plan luxury living and entertaining • separate studio •1303 square metre block in the heart of byron bay

• self-contained guest accommodation • immaculatley presented split level home • opportunity for yet another level (stca) • da approved for extensive decking and wet-edge pool

• dual occupancy 2 x 4 bedroom homes • separate one bedroom residence • large artists/meditation studio space • swimming pool

view sat 1.00pm - 1.30pm auction tue 15 feb 6.00pm neil cameron 0419 274 798 bryce cameron 0412 057 672 belleproperty.com/28p0239

view by appointment auction tue 15 feb 6.00pm frances o’connor 0412 522 540 belleproperty.com/28p0247

byron bay

byron bay cbd.

view sat 1.00pm - 1.30pm auction tue 15 feb 6.00pm frances o’connor 0412 522 540 belleproperty.com/28p0220

byron bay

2/136 alcorn street

4/42 mcgregor street

91 jonson street

unequaled as far as beach side duplexes go. this modern apartment is located directly opposite the beach and has arguably the premium position on alcorn street.

extraordinarily situated with stunning absolute beach frontage offering breathtaking views of tallow beach and the pacific ocean.

this is a prime main street position in the heart of byron bay, with a solid long term tenant. commercial retail property in jonson st has enjoyed excellent capital growth over previous years and will continue to do so. • excellent investment with a secure tenant • rear lane access • separate free standing house • includes a large commercial/retail area

• directly opposite beach • excellent holiday let returns • light filled living/entertaining space • stunning plunge pool view mon 1.30pm - 2.00pm auction tue 15 feb 6.00pm neil cameron 0419 274 798 frances o’connor 0412 522 540 belleproperty.com/28p0265

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• high end accommodation business • guaranteed 5% pa income return • capital growth of 20% pa • prime beachfront location with exclusive beach access.

view sat 10.00am - 10.30am auction tue 15 feb 6.00pm frances o’connor 0412 522 540 belleproperty.com/28p0162

view by appointment auction tue 15 feb 6.00pm neil cameron 0419 274 798 bryce cameron 0412 057 672 belleproperty.com/28p0238

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Backburner Seems our mayor Kevin Skinner just can’t help his Freudian slips of the tongue as he goes in half-cocked to comment on vital issues of concern to locals. Recently the self-appointed dam expert said floods like those in Queensland could have been avoided by building more dams – a complete and utter nonsense – then more recently in a radio interview on the issue of the Hastings Point development controls, the pro-development-at-allcosts mayor said he did not represent residents, ‘I represent landowners’. Funny, last time we checked on what democratic local government representation meant, we were sure elected councillors had to represent all residents, including renters, landowners and business people, and we’re sure codes of conduct urge councillors to treat all residents equally. It’s also about leadership, but it seems the gaffe-prone mayor has his own ideas about what that means too. n n n n

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Last week the Rev Danny Nulliah had a 100 God-fearing Bible believers in Melbourne praying to God to stop the floods; this week he’s upped the ante with a press release headed ‘Flood crisis must end as 1,000 Christians to petition God on Australia Day.’ There’s nothing dodgy preachers like more than mixing religion and nationalism and Danny will be getting a few hints from his guest of honour, the Rev Donnie Swaggart. Donnie’s family business is TV evangelism and Backburner fondly remembers his father Jimmy (‘Ah hay-av sy-inned’) Swaggart, who outed a fellow preacher for adultery before having his own bed-hopping splashed across the American media. n n n n

Of course neither American hypocrites nor barking-mad Australians have a mono poly on issuing silly press releases. This week the prize

Save Hastings Point member Jan-Maree Garvey used Åustralia Day celebrations to send a big thanks (and a few photos of celebrating local kids like the one above) to the four councillors who recently ensured that the beautiful little coastal village will remain a special place for years to come. Crs Dot Holdom, Joan van Lieshout, Katie Milne and Barry Longland stuck to their guns on the two-storey height limit and other development controls which the three pro-development faction members led by the mayor tried to overturn recently. Jan wrote that thousands of children in the future would now ‘have the right to see what is special about being by the sea and its beauty’. She says she has camped on the village headland for 40 years and says ‘Hastings Point is not only for the landowners, it belongs to everyone. It is our Australian right. Happy Australia Day and thank you for standing strong’.

goes to Philip Benwell, MBE, National Chair of the Australian Monarchist League, who has delivered a stinging rebuke to Sir (oh, the irony!) Michael Parkinson for daring to suggest that Australia will inevitably become a republic. Well, no doubt he meant it to be stinging but Mr Benwell, MBE, lacks the communication skills to do other than slap Sir Michael with a very limp wrist. The incoherent PR opens with a clumsy 67-word sentence, which Backburner is too kind to repeat, and ends with a quotation from the monarch herself. In between Mr Benwell flails at Parkinson’s ‘caf-set friends’ and goes on a totally irrelevant detour round the death of TV reality show star Jade Goody. Bit too many loyal toasts, Pip, what? n n n n

A story from Melbourne has Backburner grinning. Apparently the Lord Mayor Robert Doyle says it’s time to call

last lap on the city’s Formula One Grand Prix, which now costs taxpayers a whopping $50 million a year. ‘I like the Grand Prix, I go to the Grand Prix, but then again, I like Ferraris as well. I don’t have one, because it’s too expensive and that’s what we’ve got to work out’, Cr Doyle told ABC Radio. Like our very own No Rally Group which succeeded in stopping the notorious world rally from being run again in Tweed and Kyogle shires (at the expense of Coffs Harbour, which is now hosting it), a group called Save Albert Park protests every year against the noise and the public costs of the grand prix, pointing to dwindling crowd numbers to counter the argument that Melbourne wins more than it loses from the race. The grand prix contract is up for renewal in a few years and the mayor has raised the idea of replacing it with another event such as the Tour Down Under cy-

cling race, which is hosted by Adelaide, much to the disgust of South Australian Premier Mike Rann who said, ‘They’re losing $70 million a year, so we don’t want Melbourne to do to cycling what Melbourne did to motor racing’. n n n n

Tweed locals can feel a little safer if lost at night now the Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service has been fitted out with high-tech Night Vision Goggles (NVGs) to be worn by pilots and chief crew members on search and rescue operations and other missions after dark. Chief pilot Lynton Beggs said the goggles greatly magnify the smallest light sources, such as a mobile phone, a cigarette lighter or a small battery-operated torch, from up to five kilometres away, enhancing the crews’ ability to pinpoint lost bush walkers. The project’s $300,000 cost should pay for itself over time if even one life is saved as a result.

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