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Terranora project an ‘overdevelopment’ Steve Spencer
Plans to build nearly 1,800 multi-storey homes on a hillside overlooking Terranora Broadwater have been put on public display as a battle brews over a bid to move a section of an access road into wetland to squeeze more housing sites in. The 296-hectare greenfield-site project, called Area E, is bounded by Mahers Lane, Terranora Road, Fraser Drive and the broadwater, and will eventually house 4,000-plus new shire residents.
Farmland rezoned It was once prime agricultural land, famed for its tomatoes, but was earmarked for housing two decades ago and rezoned by the NSW government in 2007. Cr Katie Milne described it as an overdevelopment of the site and said she was concerned about the project’s effect on water quality in the broadwater and adjacent wetlands, and about the bid to have a portion of the access road shifted into wetland zoned for environmental protection. The road’s route is likely to be decided by a vote of Tweed councillors later this year or early next year. ‘What we are getting is housing density with urban sprawl. The whole hillside will be planted with houses and there has been a lack of community engagement on the issue,’ she said. ‘It shows a lack of respect for the community by not involving them in the decision making. ‘In other shires a project which will increase the population by 200 people is a big issue, but here we have plans for an extra 4,000 people, a minitown, and the issue is pretty well set in concrete.’
Cr Milne suggested wildlife corridors be created around the development. ‘Around Cobaki Broadwater there are 644 species of animals and I would assume Terranora Broadwater has about the same,’ she said. Deputy mayor Barry Longland also said the alignment of the access road was the most contentious issue, with a push to squeeze an extra eight to 10 home sites out of the project. But he said he was mostly pleased with the plans. ‘I will be seeking to keep the road alignment where it is [outside the wetland]. I think the development code adopted at the last council meeting is quite robust. It respects and seeks to protect the fragile ecology near the broadwater,’ he said. ‘It is a thorough document in terms of respect for the site. It provides adequate provision for open space and is well designed.’ Cr Longland said the land’s agricultural value was not an issue for councillors as the farmland was rezoned years ago. He said construction on the site’s steep slopes would be monitored to make sure developers do not undertake unauthorised excavations. ‘There are restrictions on cut and fill work,’ he said. Council’s director of planning Vince Connell said the access road, to be named Broadwater Parkway, had taken various routes during the planning process, but council planners had recommended against placing it though the environmental protection zone. ‘The applicant believes he had a previous agreement with council,’ he said.
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Kicking in for Tweed’s Kenyan son Albert Elzinga
When Kenyan orphan, Sam Macharia (pictured), joined his mates and started playing soccer in the slums of the capital Nairobi, he never imagined his favourite sport would eventually take him to Australia. However, Sam’s luck changed when he met Tweed Kenya Mentoring Program (TKMP) coordinator Olita Ongonjo some five years ago at a soccer tournament in Nairobi. Olita was impressed by the youngster’s soccer skills, his volunteer work and his pleasant and engaging personality and offered the youngster the required support to come to Australia on a three-month cultural exchange continued on page 2 visit.
Murwillumbah couple Bernie and Sandra Zietlow took Sam in and after some early language problems, he became the family’s much-loved ‘fourth son’. Sam applied to have his threemonth visa extended and after nine months in the country he decided he wanted to stay and applied for a longer visa. Initially Sam was asked to return to Kenya but in October 2007 he arrived back in Australia with a five-year visa stamped in his passport. Sam said he loved his new life in Australia and was particularly impressed with the beautiful beaches in the Tweed. ‘I had never seen a beach before I came here,’ he said. Sam’s ‘second dad’ Bernie said that when he took him to the beach for the first time, Sam was utterly mesmerised by the crashing waves and didn’t want to leave his new favourite place. Sam, now 16 years old, attends Lindisfarne Anglican Grammar School and plays soccer for Murwillumbah Football Club.
His soccer skills attracted the attention of the Gold Coast’s premier soccer team, Gold Coast United, and Sam has already trialled for the club. Sam hopes to get a spot in the club’s A-league side and trains daily to achieve his goal. A fundraising effort at the start of Sam’s stay helped the Zietlows pay for some of Sam’s study costs; however, the money is about to run out.
Soccer tournament To cover some of the impending bills associated with Sam’s stay, the Zietlows have organised a charity soccer tournament for this Saturday, August 13. The event, billed as the Great Nairobi/Tweed Kenyan Six-a-Side Tournament, will double as a farewell party for Olita Ongonjo who has recently attained a masters degree in integrated water management at the University of Queensland and will soon be leaving for Kenya to continue his work with the Tweed Kenya Mentoring Program (TKMP).
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The head of the energy company aiming to develop the first coal-gas power plant on the Northern Rivers and build a 145-kilometre pipeline to supply southern Queensland defended the besieged industry to a Murwillumbah business breakfast meeting last week in the face of growing concern among local, state and federal governments. The industry is now subject to both federal and NSW government inquiries (see story page 5). The Senate inquiry has been conducting public hearings in Queensland and NSW looking into the impacts of coal-seam gas (CSG) mining on water resources, agricultural land values and the future of regional towns. Peter Henderson, chief executive of Metgasco which has discovered several CSG reserves around Casino, told the Murwillumbah and District Business Chamber meeting the debate so far had focused on ‘hysteria and emotion’ but admitted the industry also had done a ‘lousy job’ of consulting with communities over the issue. Mr Henderson said CSG exploration and its controversial hydraulic fracturing or ‘fracking’ technique used to unlock
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coal-gas deposits was relatively safe but blamed bad publicity against the industry in what he called the ‘Hollywood’ film Gasland. The home-made documentary, which screened around Australia over the past year, claims much of the impact of contamination of aquifers in the US by coal-gas exploration is irreversible and results in the destruction of food-production land.
Protest drew 3,000 It has been followed by unrest around the world including Australia where the national Lock the Gate Alliance was formed by landowners to keep the mining companies out of their area. Hundreds of Northern Rivers farmers have already joined the mass campaign against extraction of coal-seam gas and a protest rally in Murwillumbah recently drew about 3,000 people. But Mr Henderson rejected the concerns over the new boom energy industry as unfounded, and claimed the media had misrepresented an apparent admission only days earlier by the oil and gas lobby’s chief spokesman that coal-gas
extraction would inevitably contaminate aquifers. He singled out a Sydney Morning Herald report on an apparent admission by chief of the Australian Petroleum and Exploration Association Ross Dunn in Sydney last week, attacking it as ‘disgusting’ journalism. Mr Henderson said Metgasco, which ‘may want to frack for deeper coals’ during exploration from its scores of wells around Casino, was a relatively small player in the resource stakes and ‘excited’ about its prospects to develop large CSG fields around Casino to produce and sell gas in the area, build a gas-fired power plant and, the most controversial of all, lay a 145 km pipeline under the Lions Way from Casino to Ipswich via Kyogle to Queensland customers. He said gas pipelines were ‘low risk and very safe’ and fracking, which had ‘been around for ages’, could be ‘managed safely’, and ‘the water we produce during extraction was ‘not toxic’. ‘To me it’s not an environmental problem but an economic one,’ he said. Environmenal controls for
water use were ‘strict’ and in the US the technique had been given a ‘clean bill of health’. Mr Henderson said the ‘concept’ of fracking had been cleared in many other places and dismissed the banning of fracking in countries such as France ‘which had no hydrocarbon potential so it doesn’t mean much’. He also took a swipe at singer/actress and longtime environmental activist Olivia Newton-John, who owns a resort farm near Alstonville and who last week expressed fears about the industry’s potential to damage agricultural and tourism industries. ‘She doesn’t know anything about coal-seam gas,’ he said, adding that her arguments were ‘light on intelligence’ and should ‘not be based on emotive and unproved comments’. In reply to concerns by Limpinwood nursery owner Russell Costin about water contamination of the Tweed’s aquifers if fracking was allowed, business chamber president Toni Zuschke told the meeting that three natural water bottling plants operated in the Tweed Valley and it was ‘insanity that people are thinking of drilling inside the volcano’, referring to the Tweed caldera.
Fears from organic farmers Organic farmer Gita Dunbar said she feared what could happen if CSG wells were drilled in her neighbour’s property, as her farm was certified (which depends on being free of chemicals and other contamination). Mr Henderson replied there was ‘no difference’ to a farmer whose neighbour used pesticides, as ‘you’re already exposed to pesticides’ and the ‘biggest risk’ is runoff from farming. He said that in such a case, concerned landowners such as herself ‘should be asking those questions’.
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Mr Connell said guidelines for the project would protect ‘significant bushland, wetlands and other land of high ecological value’. ‘It seeks to ensure residential development within Area E is of high quality and responds to the location’s topography,’ he said. ‘That includes the promotion of various lot sizes and housing types, capitalising on medium density and integrated housing opportunities to meet future demand while retaining natural amenity and providing for public open space.’ He said there would be a co-ordinated approach to the development.
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‘Guidelines have been developed to create a new village centre which will serve as a hub for retail and commercial development, as well as a mix of community uses. The code also fosters an integrated design approach to interconnect roads, open space, pedestrian and cycleway paths to achieve maximum accessibility and connectivity.’ Three storeys will be permitted under the plan, with a maximum of four storeys around the area earmarked for the village centre. The plans can be viewed at council offices in Murwillumbah, Tweed Heads and at the Kingscliff library until August 26 or online at www. tweed.new.gov.au.
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The program will place its fourth water filtration system in Kenya at the end of the year and aims to provide clean drinking water to some of Africa’s poorest by installing a new system at a different location every year. The program is funded by council staff salary sacrifices and donations by the International River Foundation. Saturday’s six-a-side soccer tournament will kick off at 2pm and players can join for $5 per player or register a team at bzietlow@tweed.nsw.gov.au. Refreshments will be on sale and the day will end on a musical note with a performance by band Sonic Tonic at 4.30pm. www.tweedecho.com.au
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Art does its part, environmentally Well-known writer, journalist, filmmaker and political commentator Bob Ellis with Cath Elliott and her painting ‘Gold Digger’ and fellow exhibitor Marcia Gibbs during a function for the opening of Faunacation, an art exhibition highlighting the environmental pressures on Fingal Head. The exhibition is on display at the Sheoak Shack gallery in Fingal Head till this Sunday, August 14. Bob, who often holidays with family living at Fingal Head, attended the Byron Bay Writers’ Festival last week. The artists in the exhibition are all locals who want to vironment. The exhibition has highlight the importance of proved popular with almost all protecting the area’s fragile en- of the works already sold, and
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Former mayor Cr Warren Polglase has ramped up his crusade to fast-track a rezoning application by the operators of Tweed City shopping centre, despite his defeat on the issue just weeks ago. Cr Polglase will attempt to speed up the rezoning again at next Tuesday’s council meeting, after lodging a rescission motion. The veteran councillor claims future employment will be lost if the rezoning is not accelerated. But other councillors have questioned whether any future expansion of the shopping complex would be accelerated by the rezoning, which involves several residential blocks adjoining the complex on Kirkwood Road. Cr Dot Holdom summed up the opposition to the bid when she asked her fellow councillors: ‘What would we toss out to make way for this rezoning? Whose stuff would we put on hold? ‘It is not that I believe we don’t need economic growth. But we have a schedule that works.’ Crs Katie Milne, Barry
Longland and Joan van Lieshout also voted against the fast-tracking, but mayor Kevin Skinner backed it, describing the rezoning as ‘urgent’. ‘The necessity for investment in our shire is paramount. It really is tough out there. Just ask anyone who is involved in small business,’ he said. Planners have already pencilled in the rezoning in the
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he had gained the support of a councillor who last month voted against fast-tracking the rezoning, Cr Polglase said he was pushing the issue because the ‘project meant jobs’. ‘These things can take a long time. If the rezoning isn’t done for years the project could be delayed by years,’ he said. ‘If you look at the past, every time Tweed City puts forward
‘If the rezoning isn’t done for years the project could be delayed by years.’ 2012/13 ‘work program’ which led to some councillors questioning the urgency. ‘The urgency of this is not obvious to us. Walking around Tweed City today there were at least six shops vacant, so I don’t see the pressing need,’ Cr Longland told the meeting. But Cr Polglase told his fellow councillors the rezoning had to be approved before Tweed City could embark on expanding the shopping complex. ‘You may as well hang up a shingle saying, “Tweed Shire is closed for business” if you don’t approve this.’ Asked yesterday whether
Polglase in new push for rezoning Steve Spencer
a proposal like this they quickly embark on an expansion. ‘It is the biggest regional shopping centre in northern NSW and it wants to grow. They can see the Cobaki and Kings Forest developments about to go ahead and they are building for the future.’ Cr Longland said he understood the project was already ‘high on the list.’ ‘The works program was adopted unanimously by councillors, which included Cr Polglase,’ he said. ‘It would mean putting another project back and would seriously inconvenience someone who has been on the list
and force them to wait for another year.’ The planning proposal, lodged by consultants Urbis Pty Ltd on behalf of the centre’s owners, public service superannuation giant State Super, is aimed at cementing its dominance of the region’s retail industry. The centre has been quietly buying up about 10 homes and several commercial sites along Kirkwood Road and Minjungbal Drive to expand its existing site by what it describes as ‘a modest but valuable 9.5 per cent.’ Urbis says the expansion will change its status from simply a ‘regional centre’ to a ‘major regional centre’ and was likely to generate up to 1,500 direct jobs and include one full-line department store. The proposal follows a $7 million expansion on the site just four years ago which included a new fashion court and food mall. The centre underwent its first major expansion about 10 years earlier after it bought part of the golf course from the cash-strapped Tweed HeadsCoolangatta Golf Club despite players’ protests over the loss of greens.
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Erosion meeting wasteful says Milne Luis Feliu
A Tweed councillor has slammed the calling of an urgent meeting last week to discuss the Kingscliff beach erosion crisis as a waste of time, while the Tweed’s federal MP has attacked the local state MP and his government over lack of action to fix the problem. The erosion from storm and tide events in the past two months has taken metres off the Kingscliff beach foreshore with council forced to relocate caravan park cabins to avoid them falling into the sea and undertake a major sandbagging operation to protect the van park, bowling and surf clubs. It has also become a political football as councillors and MPs argue over what should be done. The meeting of Tweed Coast Holiday Parks Reserve Trust resolved to ask council to prepare an urgent report for this month’s council meeting to map out the process for developing a longterm solution to beach erosion at Kingscliff. Greens Cr Katie Milne said councillors, as trustees, ‘have to make a decision on what to do with the beach one day, as we’ll be unable to protect it forever’. Cr Milne said she was dis-
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appointed that despite mayor Kevin Skinner and Cr Dot Holdom calling the urgent meeting of the trust at the Cudgen Headland Surf Lifesaving Çlub last Thursday, no other trustee (councillor) backed her motion to seek a proper review and expert advice on the impacts on the beach of other man-made coastal procedures, such as the sand bypass and manipulation of Cudgen Creek.
‘These experts can rule in or out sand bypassing and the Cudgen Creek works but everyone is in the dark, the community is black and blue over it, half are for a sand bypass, the other half for works at Cudgen Creek.’ The council report is to examine the feasibility of a terminal wall to be extended across the potential area under threat (clubs and van park) and pro-
‘We need a real financial commitment by the O’Farrell government.’ ‘Nothing significant came from the extraordinary meeting, no outcomes or resolutions from it, just inane stuff about signage and updates on the website and calling for a further report on terminal walls,’ she said. ‘I’m disappointed no expert advice has been sought, no peer review report to tell us what’s happening, yet we have many universities around here with experts in coastal management.
vide information on the costs and benefits of a variety of potential materials, such as sandbags and rocks. The following day, NSW environment minister Robyn Parker visited the erosion site to announce funding of $75,000 to allow council to ‘move forward with the planning approval’ to extract sand from the Tweed River for the longterm strategy of sand nourishment. Council estimates it needs
about $8 million to fund a solution to restore the beach but Ms Parker told media the $75,000 was what council had asked for ‘and that’s what we’re giving them’. Richmond MP Justine Elliot said, ‘We don’t need a report to tell us that the beach is disappearing’ and slammed Tweed MP Geoff Provest and the state government for inaction over the problem. ‘Today we have the NSW state environment minister insulting locals with the promise only of a bureaucratic report. The urgency of what is happening is too great to focus on report writing while our local beach and tourist assets get eroded away,’ Mrs Elliot said. ‘We need a real financial commitment by the O’Farrell government before the surf club and the caravan park fall into the ocean. ‘We need the state government to declare this a natural disaster zone to get the proper state government funding to fix the erosion for good,’ she said.
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Surfboards that won’t cost the planet Luis Feliu
Terranora surfboard shaper Addy Jones believes common surfboards, made from foam, are toxic and that’s why he’s offering a healthy alternative with his custom-made environmentally friendly bamboo boards. Addy, a lifelong surfer who often experimented with his own surfboard designs, grows about 60 different varieties of bamboo on his 64-acre property, which he uses for his madeto-order eco-friendly boards which also use old timber, bottle corks and other recycled materials. ‘I change the shape of the bamboo while it’s growing from round to square using a special jig,’ he said. ‘There’ are two and a half thousand different varieties of bamboo in the world. It’s a member of the grass family, it’s the quickest-growing biomass producer on the planet and it cleans the air all the time. Sometimes I watch it grow a foot a day,’ Addy enthused. The 40-year-old says sustainability is the key to a healthy planet and that the ‘throwaway’ surf culture with its toxic foam boards was costing it heavily. That’s why Addy wants his bamboo boards to replace them, as he says every little bit helps. He uses a special compressor and rollers to shape and process the bamboo into boards and finishes them with a veneer made from old red cedar window blinds for the top and bottom of the boards. He also recycles old vinyl records as fins.
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Addy Jones with some of the unique surfboards he’s made from bamboo and recycled materials. Photo Jeff ‘Shape I’m In’ Dawson
‘At least that way, it’s taken out of landfill and given another use. ‘Thousands of surfboards are made each year using petrochemicals for the foam and glue. People pay about $800 each for them, but they have no guarantee they won’t snap on the first surf and when they do, they’re buggered and have to be thrown away.’ Addy has made surfboards, of all shapes and sizes, for top surfers such as Byron Bay’s Dave Rastovich and three-time world champion Tom Curren from the US. ‘They perform well and their longevitiy is a big plus, as you can pass the boards down to
the next generation, as it’s not a throwaway item,’ he said. Addy, whose commitment to the environment led him to complete a diploma in permaculture, also conducts workshops on composting and permaculture on his property where he lives with Japanese-born partner and artist Yuko. He is also developing a composting system as part of a joint project, because as a surfer knows only too well, ‘all the shit just flows out to sea’. Addy plies his trade under the name FARM Surfboards (Functional Art Recycled Materials) and can be contacted on 0409 260 082. www.tweedecho.com.au
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Young pianist getting ready to shine Albert Elzinga
Sixteen-year-old local pianist Ayesha Gough will take on her toughest assignment to date when she joins 23 other young virtuosos and competes in the Lev Vlassenko Piano Competition in Brisbane next week. For Ayesha entering the hotly contested competition seemed the next natural step in her relentless progression towards stardom and her ultimate goal: to live and study in Europe and become a pianist with one of Europe’s famous orchestras. Although the importance and standard of next week’s contest was beyond anything she’d ever experienced, she was confident she would do well. ‘I’m quite nervous because it’s a really big thing’, Ayesha said. The demanding contest is the only major piano event in Australia that mirrors the requirements of an international piano competition. She said she had to learn and refine a repertoire by a variety of composers and started preparing some pieces
over a year ago. She intended to play music by Chopin, Schubert, Bach, Haydn and Mozart and was required to occupy the stage for around 2 ½ hours. The Brisbane competition was a great preparation for future competitions in Europe because the Lev Vlassenko contest mirrored the requirements of international piano competitions. Ayesha and her rivals will compete for $40,000 in prize money and the winner will walk away with around $20,000. Darwin-born Ayesha has become a household name in
Murwillumbah and surrounds because of a number of winning performances at the Murwillumbah Festival of Performing Arts and acclaimed recitals at the Tyalgum Festival of Classical Music among others. Ayesha is a student of Lev Vlassenko Piano Competition artistic director Oleg Stepanov who runs the contest with his wife Natasha. Ayesha said she didn’t believe she had an advantage over her competitors just because she was a student of the event’s artistic director. The standard of all teachers at this level was very high and although Mr Stepanov knew
Very Fast Train now on the horizon Steve Spencer
High speed rail could be heading for the Tweed Shire, with one of two potential routes taking it to the Gold Coast Airport at Coolangatta, following the federal government’s announcement last week. While the exact route may not be finalised for years, the project looks like favouring high-population centres to make it economically viable, and Tweed Shire is perfectly placed to be on the SydneyGold Coast-Brisbane route. The other option would take the planned Very Fast Train from Casino to Beaudesert, just north-west of the Tweed, where it would link up with a standard rail line into Brisbane and the Gold Coast. Under either option, Tweed residents would not be too far away from the express service, which could be fast enough to ferry passengers from Coolan-
gatta to the Brisbane CBD in just 15 minutes. Karin Kolbe, from lobby group Trains On Our Tracks (TOOT), said a passage through the Tweed was the obvious route if the project was to stay close to coastal population centres. She said the project could act as a catalyst for the re-opening of the decommissioned Casino to Murwillumbah rail link and accelerate the construction of the Queensland government’s light rail project south to Coolangatta. ‘The Casino to Murwillumbah line is ideally placed to move people to wherever the Very Fast Train service ends up stopping; either Coolangatta airport or Casino,’ said Ms Kolbe. The train service, which could reach speeds of up to 350km/h and reduce travel time between Sydney and Brisbane to about three hours,
would cost well below that of an airline ticket. Bryan Nye, chief executive of the Australasian Railway Association, said the federal government’s announcement was ‘for an implementation report, not just another feasibility study’. ‘The challenge for the government now is to make highspeed rail a reality. It must not be put into the too hard basket again.’ Mr Nye said the estimated cost of between $61 billion and $108 billion was not expensive compared with the $293 billion spent on east coast roads since 1985. ‘It will create more jobs, allow people better access to employment, take cars off our roads, improve the links between major cities and regional areas, defer the need for a second Sydney airport and increase land values in regional areas.’ he said.
the competition inside out, it did not mean she automatically had the upper hand, she said. Ayesha’s achievements could not have been possible without the help from her grandmother Janet, who looked after her when she moved from Darwin to Murwillumbah at the tender age of nine months and the financial support from Variety, the children’s charity. Since 2007, Variety has provided Ayesha with a scholarship which allowed the young virtuoso to study at the Young Conservatorium at Griffith University. Ayesha showed her gratitude when Variety celebrated its 35th anniversary in 2010 and performed at the charity’s party, held at Sydney’s Government House. Last week, Ayesha performed at a fundraising concert at Murwillumbah’s Sathya Sai Primary School where she received another resounding ovation. The event raised over $1,000 which will help pay for Ayesha’s continuing education. Ayesha thanked Tyalgum Festival of Classical Music director Alex Wilkinson for organising the benefit concert and was grateful for the support she received from festival organisers and businesses such as the White Olive Restaurant.
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August 11, 2011
Eroding confidence Our local councillors, MPs and state ministers seem not only ignorant of the causes of beach erosion but prepared to use the issue for cheap political pointscoring rather than see a realistic way through it. The erosion at Kingscliff made the national news last week and highlighted how much money would need to be thrown at coastal problems to fix them. Obviously the state government doesn’t want to be the one to throw all the money and will most likely try to pass the problem to the federal government – after all, the coastline’s a national problem. Further south the NSW government has told Byron Council to produce a site-specific coastal plan for the Byron Bay area. This has followed on from extensive lobbying by local beachside residents. And this is likely to be the way it will go in future – coastal management by popularity contest. Nothing will turn back the tide but it’s the tide of votes the state government is interested in watching. At least the Tweed doesn’t have Byron’s problem of a privatised beachfront such as the one at Belongil spit where erosion is hitting hardest, but it still has to try to protect, where it can, public assets on public land at Kingscliff, such as the surf and bowls clubs and caravan park. But that’s also a huge dilemma. To be fair, coastline planning is an expensive, complex problem and state governments are not well equipped to deal with it, let alone local councils. The problem was set in place in more sanguine times when residential subdivision was allowed next to the ocean. Engineers couldn’t cope with natural processes then, and the added problem of sea-level rise was not imagined. Local government reaction has varied from Tweed Council’s ‘throw heaps of sand at it’ to Byron Council’s policy of ‘planned retreat’ which the O’Farrell government will not wear for political reasons. Hence erosion control will be an ad hoc process unless the feds impose a template from above. We suspect politics will eventually give way to emergency disaster plans as our leaders discover, as did King Canute, that they cannot hold back the tide.
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useful stick with which to beat and even edited Quadrant magathe government. zine. Nowadays he is something of a hero to the left, albeit an independent one; but the Murh yes, The Australian. I spent last weekend doch press, to which anyone at the Byron Writers’ Festival, to the left of the soupspoon is at which one of the tents was anathema, is not willing to make sponsored by the Weekend that distinction. Cater’s patently absurd line Australian. Personally I thought this was was to insist that The Australa good move by the Festival; af- ian is not an organ of the right; ter all, if Murdoch is spending it is central, mainstream, indeed his money on a tent in Byron it really old-fashioned Liberal, as means he has that much less to it proclaimed in its foundation mission statement back in 1964. And indeed in its early days The It was the speed and decisiveness Australian was a fair, even progressive paper; I know because of Australia’s response which saved I worked for it. business and consumer confidence But things have changed, and for Cater to claim that they from collapsing. haven’t is either very stupid or very dishonest. As is his pretence that the paby Mungo MacCallum per’s agenda is not fiercely antiLabor. Cater kept assuring his velopment, envious competi- devote to paying the dement- incredulous audience that the tors around the world and of ed right-wingers who staff his paper really believed in mancourse Australia’s own Treasury newspapers. made climate change and in takofficials, regard this as arrant People of good will should ing action about it, and was even nonsense; it was the speed and have no compunction in lib- in favour of a mining tax; it had decisiveness of Australia’s re- erating as much of the mogul’s said so in its editorials. sponse – go hard, go early, go ill-gotten gains as possible. When Manne pointed out families – which saved business But the reaction of the Byron that its treatment of both news and consumer confidence from Festival goers was less nuanced: and comment overwhelmingly collapsing and Australia from the Murdoch press is evil in- opposed both propositions, Cafalling into the recession that carnate and any contact must ter muttered that it was only an engulfed the rest of the world. corrupt and befoul. argument about what sort of acBut the voters apparently preAnd it must be said that their tion and what sort of tax. His ferred to believe the opportun- case was strengthened by the derisory attempts at self-justifiist opposition, the shock jocks discovery that the tent came cation were greeted with welland the Murdoch press, which with the paper’s editor, Nick merited loathing and contempt. ripped into the occasional Cater, attached. But before the Cut and Paste rorting of the hastily prepared Cater appeared reasonable column uses that fact to sneer stimulus package while ignor- enough when interviewing and smear Byron as a haven of ing both its long-term benefits New Ltd’s token lefty columnist, the mad left, it should be pointand its immediate aim: to get Phillip Adams; but he then de- ed out that another speaker, the the money out quickly enough voted a somewhat embarrass- mega-left John Pilger, also reto forestall the downturn. ing hour to defending the evil ceived a less than enthusiastic It was this haste that made a empire against some measured reception. certain amount of rorting and and evidence-based criticism He was applauded for his mismanagement inevitable, but from the Professor of Politics all-round radicalism, but his without it the consequences as Latrobe University, Robert relentless and didactic antiwould have been dire. American stance was greeted Manne. But this consideration was Manne is also a prolific essay- with some scepticism and disirrelevant to The Australian, ist who is loathed by the right as comfort. Byron may be leftist, which saw the sporadic in- a traitor to their cause; he used but it is not either uncritical or stances of waste as just another to be seen as part of their tribe irrational. ments to families, the massive schools buildings program, the home insulation handouts – actually worked, they must have been unnecessary; yet again the government had wasted their hard-earned tax money. Left to itself, the Australian economy would have muddled through. All the serious authorities, like the International Monetary Fund, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and De-
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Rail is the future
In support of Cr Barry Longland’s statements regarding the need to identify and preserve future rail corridors in the Tweed Shire we would like to add this. The Tweed Shire population is forecast for rapid expansion, the price of fuel is forecast for rapid increase. We understand the inability to rely on the rail links in the short to medium term future but please have the foresight to take the necessary steps now to ensure these potential rail links can service the communities of the future. We owe it to future generations. Chris Cherry
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Club bludgers
There is a rare snail at Byrrill Creek after all! The recent media coverage of the mystery snail found at Byrrill Creek has stimulated a renewed interest in these tiny animals with several people dusting off their snail shell collections. As suspected, the recently reported Thersites richmondianus or Richmond River keel snail has been in the area for a very long time with several shell specimens turning up along with shells of what appears to be Thersites mitchellae or the Mitchell’s Rainforest Snail. Both snails appear to be popular with scrub turkeys with quite a few being found near their nests. A resident of Pretty Gully at Byrrill Creek got a pleasant surprise last week when turning over a plank of wood while cleaning up for the dry season. Half expecting to find a sleeping snake but instead finding a live snail, this time the Thersites $905 on your club’s gaming machines in the last 12 months or have you not played your club’s gaming machines and you are happy to bludge off the regular gamblers who will contribute to the $110,000 required every day? Do you agree that it is unAustralian to introduce smartcard technology so that regular gamblers can, in a sober moment, choose to set limits on their losses and have them honoured by the machine? When did bludging off fellow Australians and not helping a fellow Australian to have a choice become part of Australia’s culture? Did you know that your Club Australia is claiming precommitment will not work and the clubs and pubs in Tasmania have refused to trial pre-commitment even when offered funds for a trial?
I address the questions below to the Tweed club members whose club recently advised the following to the Senate Joint Select Committee on gambling reform: ‘To provide the services to our members and community at the level we do at present in terms of entertainment, sporting facilities, community support and employment incurs costs around $190,000 a day. In the case of our club, $110,000 a day of that sum comes from gaming machines and $4,000 is interest received from investments. The remainder comes from food, beverage and accommodation sales. The profit the club makes each day is $3,900, slightly less than our interest earnings. The net result from operations each day, excluding interest, is a loss of $271.’ Laurie Ganter As this club has just over Tweed Heads 44,000 members each member needs to lose just over $900 a year on the club gaming ma- Neolithic villages I agree that acquiring matechines. Have you lost your required rial possessions can not give
demic which means they are only found in the local area. Both snails were fairly common a hundred years ago but land clearing and development has reduced the areas they occupy to very small pockets with T. mitchellae estimated to have less than twenty square kilometres of suitable habitat in about five small areas. T. richmondianus was once found on the Clarence River at Copmanhurst but is now thought to be limited to the Queensland side of the Border mitchellae with the full ‘racing stripes’ was hiding under the plank. Photos were taken [see above] and the plank was replaced carefully and the snail remains in residence. This snail was found only 70 metres from where the T. richmondianus was found three weeks ago. This latest find is a clear
indication that the scientific community is correct in their assessment of Byrrill Creek being ‘the best of what is left’ of Northern Rivers creeks and streams with these rare snails representing the tip of the iceberg as it were of the incredible array of rare animals and plants that call the area home. Many of these species are en-
you true fulfilment. But oh it’s so easy to be ‘holier than thou’ when all you have to do is pine for the longlost glory days of the Neolithic village and you don’t actually have to live in one; when you can complain about how all technology is ‘earth-harmful’ but you don’t actually have to live without it. In his letter last week, Geoff Dawe expressed an opinion that is typical of a small group of people who feel that they’re superior to the rest of us because they’re the enlightened few who realise that technology is the root of all evil and that we should give up all our unnatural, modernist, materialist ways and return to an ancient lifestyle that is in harmony with the Earth. Meanwhile they write ‘holier than thou’ letters on their laptop and send them to their local newspaper via the internet. If their children get sick or injured they will rush them to the hospital to take advantage of the latest medical equipment. And they are probably
amongst those who complain loudest about the poor state of housing and services provided to Aboriginal communities in central Australia. Yet they tell us that we should give up our evil ways and return to living in a Neolithic village! Should we really cut remote Aboriginal communities off from all funding and access to services and force them to return to living in the ‘natural’ way they did 200 years ago? Is that what’s best for them and the planet? At the root of this Neolithic village philosophy is a misguided belief that the things that humans do are ‘unnatural’. It assumes Earth is a ‘natural’ ecosystem and humans are foreign objects that have been introduced to the system and are doing ‘unnatural’ things to it. But humans are not foreign objects to the system; we are as natural a product of this system as are dolphins. And it could be argued that humans building skyscrapers is as natural as the
Ranges, and Byrrill Creek. Photos have been forwarded to Queensland Museum and the CSIRO for confirmation of identification. John Morrison
Byrrill Creek Queensland Museum director and snail expert Dr John Stanisic this week replied to John to confirm the find as a Mitchells rainforest snail, adding it was an ‘unusual record indeed. We have never recorded this species north of the Tweed’.
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Before he runs bleating for funds to the state and federal governments, Kevin Skinner would be better occupied in his final days on the mayoral throne investigating the actual cause of the massive erosion of Kingscliff ’s main beach. How hard is it to pick up the phone to someone of the calibre of Professor Bruce Thom or any number on international experts who realised decades ago that rock walls and groynes simply accelerate erosion, locking communities into a neverending cycle of fund-draining sand replacement? Local residents alerted council to the problem as far back as April last year, advice that was
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turns sand to Tweed beaches in a season or two. Many locals believe the loss of the beach parks would be damaging to Kingscliff ’s economy as many holiday makers would go elsewhere. The value of the land under threat has not been quantified but surely represents a valuable asset to the community. If the land and buildings under threat were put on the real estate market their value would be enormous. I think that justifies government spending on measures to protect the area from encroachment by the sea. Some people think that we should simply allow nature to take its course, but if we lose this land it is hard to imagine getting it back any time soon. Jane Lofthouse told association members she hopes the worst of the erosion may be over, if the sandbagging holds until more sand washes north along the coast – as it usually does. ‘We hope to get funding to pump sand from the Tweed River to provide longterm sand nourishment,’ she said. ‘Council recognises the value to the town and the many people who enjoy Kingscliff beaches, so we will only look at options that leave a sandy beach in the future.’ Mayor Kevin Skinner speaking at the meeting said he believed the value of Kingscliff beach parks was far more than real estate value, because they serve the people of the region as well as drawing visitors from further afield. Monthly meetings of KRPA are open to the public and provide a valuable forum for residents to seek information and express views. The next meeting will be at Kingscliff Primary School on September 5 from 7pm.
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Jane Lofthouse, Tweed Shire Council’s Natural Resources Management Coordinator, speaking to the monthly meeting of Kingscliff Ratepayers and Progress Association (KRPA) on Monday night, talked about the natural processes which have resulted in dramatic erosion which now threatens to wash away the beachside parks and Surf Lifesaving Club at Kingscliff. Unusual changes in wind and swell patterns are responsible for the loss of sand along the beach at Kingscliff. The current situation has resulted from pounding waves that have effectively pulled the sand back out to sea into deeper water. Monitoring the northward movement of sand along the shoreline indicates the volume of sand was significantly less last year than the normal annual average of 500,000 cubic metres. Council planners have to consider both variations due to usual weather patterns and the effects of rising sea levels, now predicted to be nearly a metre higher over the next 90 years. State government modelling indicates a 0.9 metre rise by the year 2100. Battering by storm surf could further erode the coastline, as has happened in Jeremy Cornford many places at different times. Kingscliff Normally sand movement re■
termites in Western Australia building those huge termite mounds. Did those termites always build such huge mounds to live in? No. They evolved naturally from other termites that didn’t build mounds. At first they just built tiny mounds but gradually they perfected their moundbuilding technology until they could build huge towering mounds that wouldn’t collapse. I wonder whether the termites that live in fallen logs complain about the unnatural use of technology by their mound-dwelling cousins. What about rabbit and wombat burrows, or otter dams? Are they Earth-harming technologies? The most intelligent animals that Mother Earth’s amazing natural ecosystem has given birth to are humans. The ancestors of humans used to live in trees (like termites) but now a new species is evolving which lives in larger groups called cities. Humans have developed complex systems of communication and co-operation through work specialisation, just as ants and bees have. I’m not an ‘anything goes’ pro-development extremist. I believe in using our intelligence to come up with innovative ways of improving our lives in a way that is sustainable. And I certainly don’t see any wisdom in returning to live as the Neanderthals did, regardless of how many Taoist masters are quoted!
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ignored until this year’s surf championships when $600,000 was committed to sandbagging and sand trucking, the result of which was half-way to New Zealand within three days of the event ending. Now, every morning we see a giant crane dragging sandbags from the surf where the overnight tide has washed them, and returning them to an ever-decreasing foreshore. Local surfers and scuba divers have found bags hundreds of metres out to sea and as far north as Fingal. And council’s solution? More sandbags, proposed sand-pumping from the Tweed River, another rock wall, and ratepayers sentenced to an infinity of sandreplenishment debt. The most wonderful irony is that at least half the area on which the geniuses of Tweed planned to build their underground car park next to the Amenities Hall no longer exists, although I’m sure the parking-starved residents of Auckland would have welcomed a double-tier car park washing up with their westerly tide. The only good thing to be said for the efforts of Kev and his ‘Fab Five’ is that there won’t be any sand left in which next year’s new councillors can bury their heads.
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I ask the Minister for Energy, Chris Hartcher, how long will you prevaricate on a fair price for solar? Where is the solar action plan? What is the timeframe for the government and industry task force to complete their job? You say you are waiting for a determination from IPART. However, when I phoned IPART, they said they were waiting for you. Stall it in the Lower House, then stall it in the Upper House. And don’t fob me off with a promise of a hardship package that requires complex administrative hurdles to negotiate. Each moment stalled is another nail in the coffin of the NSW solar industry. What a fine way to be remembered, as the minister who killed the NSW solar industry. Killed jobs. Killed small businesses. Stalled NSW from stepping in to the 21st century of renewable energies. The outdated Minister of Energy who increased dependence on coal in the face of a world move to renewables. What a fine epitaph! The solar scheme is one way that, as a pensioner, I can provide electricity to the grid and help Australia to move toward the future of renewable energies. If I lived in Queensland or Victoria I would be receiving 40 cents/kWh. How can zero cents/kWh for net meter export on my bill possibly be justified? The last government lost the election over its electricity mismanagement. This government won the election on a promise to do better. The current uncertainty is unsustainable. I ask the Minister for Energy for parity of price on solar-generated electricity while a decision is being made. Miranda Mills
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Funding rort
Recent research has exposed that each year the NSW government spends $874 million on private schools in this state. Combined with federal funding, taxpayers are handing over $2.8 billion a year to these institutions. Meanwhile our nurses, hospital boards and public servants fight against inadequate conditions and for reasonable pay increases. The public has a right to know how much money is being spent and how this heavilysubsidised sector arranges its finances. Premier Barry O’Farrell should review the amount of funding allocated, and insist that the full value of private school assets, trust accounts and surpluses are disclosed on the MySchool3 website. I conclude that public schools must be looking on at the extraordinary luxury of many private institutions and wondering why their politicians allow this deeply unfair situation to continue. Dave Norris
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149,000 kilograms of mobile phones and accessories. This year’s aim is to collect twice as many handsets as last year. But not only will Australia’s beaches and coastlines benefit from the campaign, you’ll also be helping to keep mobiles out of landfill and to conserve valuable resources. Over 90 per cent of the materials in a mobile phone can be recycled. Recycling 250,000 old mobiles plus their batteries and chargers will recover enough materials to make 48,000 aluminium cans and more than 2,400 plastic fence posts. Recovery of these materials will also preclude the need to mine more than 728 tonnes of gold ore, 808 tonnes of silver ore and 178 tonnes of copper sulphide. • See http://recyclingnearyou.com. au/phones/TweedNSW for mobile phone drop-off points.
Surfing champion Layne Beachley supports MobileMuster.
• See more about the campaign at www.mobilemuster.com.au
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Exciting times at Aussie Computer Experts The team at Aussie Computer Experts are extremely excited to have a range of new ‘Cloud’ products available to businesses to improve productivity and reduce cost. As authorised agents for Microsoft Office 360, ACE can setup an online email server which offers all the
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This month Upside Creative is offering basic website packages for $950 including up to seven pages of images and text. Your website will be originally created to be a strong and effective online presence for your business. Most importantly your website will be flexible. Other companies offer websites for less but they use templates which can’t be easily changed in the future when your business has grown.
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More than any other part of the Continent, Central Europe and Russia define the epic history, culture and traditions that Australians travel so far to see. Medieval castles, Gothic cathedrals, art galleries displaying priceless works, and lavish palaces dating back centuries. It is only in recent times that visitors have been truly welcomed to these nations which were cloistered for so long behind the Iron Curtain. Specialists in designing personalised small group holidays, Bob and Beth Malcolm from Lifestyle Travel have designed a comprehensive 26-day escorted tour that allows you to experience everything that this fascinating region has to offer. Departing on June 26, the journey starts with a slow-paced exploration of Central Europe, travelling to Budapest, Vienna, Prague and Berlin. Your floating hotel on the Russian segment of this tour is the newly renovated Viking Peterhof – one of the best ships in Russia. Viking Peterhof takes you from Moscow to St Petersburg on the most interesting and historic part of the Russian waterways with beautiful vistas, villages and people experiences that occur along the riverbank.
JUMPSTART begins Monday August 15 so call now to get your place. Result Fitness have a fully equipped personal training studio that offers one-on-one personal training as well as various groups. Check out our website for prices and timetable or call us for any questions you have. (02) 6674 4968/ 0415 200 558. www.resultfitness.com.au
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As an introductory offer, all new customers who order before the end of September will receive a bonus $20 welcome pack comprising locally produced artisan breads, deli meats produce and more. So confident that you’ll love their food, Northern Rivers Produce guarantee that there is no obligation and you can cancel at any time.
Join Elodie as she teaches you to prepare some of her favourite spring dishes including: vol-au-vent aux fruits de mer (creamy seafood pastry shell), salade de chèvre chaud et petits farcis nicois (toasted goats cheese salad and stuffed veggies), profiteroles and crème brûlée. Joining Elodie will be Coco Voinot, a native of Reim in the champagne region of North East France, who will be your native French-speaking specialist. Coco will help you on your path to becoming bilingual, in a supportive class that is also good fun! For further information contact our Customer Service Centre on 131 601 or 6588 8000, Kingscliff Campus on 6674 7200 or email nci.courseinfo@tafensw.edu.au.
A taste of French in spring
French cooking has had an unmistakable influence on the cultures and diets of people all over the world. Passion and perfection are two words that would deftly describe French cuisine. Join Elodie and Coco at Kingscliff TAFE for ‘A taste of French Elodie Attrazic and Coco Voinot inspecting fresh in spring’, French conversation and cooking classes. ingredients for a Taste of French in spring.
Supporting local growers and producers
Supporting local growers and producers in the Northern Rivers has just been made a whole lot easier with the launch of online provider Northern Rivers Produce. Sourcing the freshest produce and delivering it right to your door and value for money is their speciality.
This Tweed-based business sources mostly locally produced fruit, vegetables, eggs, artisan breads and deli meats, and where possible also select produce that is organically grown. It’s all packed into a cold storage box and delivered free, weekly. How simple is that? Simply jump onto their website at www.northernriversproduce. com.au and choose the box size that suits you. Prices start from as low as $24.95 and are packed with the best
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Elodie Attrazic, your French chef, who hails from Grenoble in the French Alps, will guide you through hands-on cooking classes. Elodie trained and worked in Michelin-starred establishments for more than 10 years in her native France. She is passionate about all aspects of hospitality and loves to share her passion with other gourmets. ‘Because French cuisine is based largely on seasonal foods, the classic French kitchen gets a creative awakening in spring. The heavy textures and rich flavours of winter are replaced with bright fruits and vegetables,’ Elodie said.
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Business & Finance
Advertising Feature
This no-nonsense feature highlights local businesses that can help you get ahead and achieve your financial goals.
Local Byron lad stacks motorbike in Asia, paid over $60,000 a year to recover! A mate of mine in Byron went on an overseas holiday a few years back and while out exploring the joys of Asia, he became separated from his motorbike on a gnarly little corner. Not long after the dismount, he became acquainted with a steel guard rail on the side of the road. As a result of the unplanned deviation, he suffered serious injuries and was rushed to hospital. I received an unpleasant phone call from my mate’s father asking me to give him a call. So I make the overseas call to the intensive care unit of the Phuket hospital wondering what to expect. The hospital’s automated phone service was incredible: 7 different language options and a couple of buttons later my mate answers the phone with a little groggy and softly spoken ‘Hello’. The conversation went like this: ‘What happened, are you ok?’ ‘…Yeah, I’m fine, stacked a motorbike I hired. I’m a little busted up, but doctors say I will be sweet.’ The ‘little busted up’, involved a brain haemorrhage, three broken ribs, a punctured lung, broken spine, knee, elbow and shoulder. When he told me the extent of his injuries in his quiet but still positive tone of voice, I got that terrible feeling that seems to start in your throat and then runs down into your stomach and churns whatever is in there. Our conversation went through the whole carnage of the accident etc and how he is going to pull through; that news gave me relief from the stomach condition I was suffering (poor me)! He had great travel insurance that was paying hospital costs and arranging his trip home when he was healthy enough to travel. Great, things were looking positive! He then said he might be off work for a while and asked about his income protection policy I set up for him years before and whether it was still current. I told him not to worry, I’ll look into it. That’s when the stomach churning started again! In the back of my mind I was remembering that some
What would you do if you were injured and couldn’t work? Have you considered taking out income protection insurance? six months before, the same mate rings me and says he was thinking about cancelling his insurance; he knew the cost was tax deductible and generally a good idea to have it but he was just not sure he needed it. He said he didn’t need it then… but he knows he needs it now! I had faint recollections of telling him at that time to give it some serious thought before cancelling his policy without trying to sound like a dodgy insurance salesman with only self-interest (my worst fear) but I could not remember if he actually stopped the policy. So I end the phone call and start another with the insurance company I had written his policy with, nervously waiting to see if it was still current. Turns out it was. Not only that, the amount he was insured for had grown annually with inflation and was now at over $60,000 per year. I ring my mate back and let him know that after his policy waiting period (30 days) he will have $5,000 paid into his account a month, every month while he can’t work and if he takes a few years to recover, the $5,000 increases every year with inflation. My mate’s tone was soft and positive as I said, but I could tell the relief that news had given him, made him relax and breathe that little bit more easily. Needless to say, his recovery which is still ongoing was/is financially stress free! When clients tell me they
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can’t afford income insurance, I tell them they can’t afford not to have it. But if you really can’t afford it, you can use your superannuation to pay the premiums for you. Call 6687 6566 to help you relax and breathe easy! Simon Jones – Financial Adviser
FX fees killing you softly?
Leaving on a jetplane? The States, UK or Europe within your reach with our strong Aussie dollar? Tickets, passport, insurance and accommodation? Check! Now to spending money. The foreign currency equation is confusing, isn’t it? What’s with the TV rate being different to the bank? How much and when should you change? ‘I’m just going to take my cards’ or ‘I’ll just get it at the airport’ are the wrong answers. Convenience WILL cost. Bank cards may seem easy, but when you step off this ‘big island’ up to four lots of fees can apply to every transaction while away. Daily rate fluctuation you have no idea of (why SHOULD you, you’re on holidays after all), cross-currency conversion fees, ATM fees, overseas transaction charges, international cash advance fees and *gasp, interest
and no free period if you ever NEED an advance on your credit card at 20+%. Aussies can come home to hundreds in fees on their statements; I have seen it, and very few understand why. You didn’t read the PDS/FSG/ Condtions of Use brochure? Who does?! But it’s there, in the fine print. So Global Travel Cards have arrived for security and convenience without the fear of credit card fraud. But WAIT! All GTCs are not created equal. Are there load, reload or unload fees? Flat fee or percentage ($10 vs $80 if you are loading AU$8000)? Does the card expire? If used outside the country of the currency loaded, what is the crosscurrency fee? Are there added benefits like travel, medical and legal assistance? A charge for replacement cards or providing emergency funds if your card is lost or stolen? Is there an inactivity fee? Can you use EFTPOS free of charge? Can you use it online? Asking before you buckle-up can save you money, time and headaches knowing that your money is being spent BY you and ON you. Isn’t that why you’re going on holiday? Kylie Ryan-Milroy Director Atlas Currency E xch a n g e / B y ro n Fo re i g n Exchange AMEX Global Travel Card Agent Phone: 1300 261 090 AFSL: 342627
There’s a mining boom, but don’t bury your head in the sand
Some business owners think their employees should be grateful to have a job, but over the next eighteen months local businesses can expect to see labour market conditions turning substantially in favour of candidates. Although there isn’t a big
yellow truck full of dirt in our neighbourhood, we shouldn’t dismiss the local effects of the mining boom. At the recent Gold Coast Regional Development Australia forum, a Rio Tinto economist estimated that investment in mining capital equipment would increase from $24 to $87 billion in just one year. The boom is just starting. The impact is coming. The impact became clearer to me this week when a local landscaper told me he got offered a job in the mines. One of his clients recruits staff for a mining company which needs landscapers for rehabilitation work after areas are finished with. Before you pack up for your new fly-in, fly-out lifestyle, remember that these jobs are in hot places a long way from the beach. People work long hard shifts around the clock. But the pull of big money in mining is a strong one and should not be underestimated. I’ve heard stories of sparkies pulling $180K a year. And it’s not just specialist jobs. Miners require feeding, accommodation and other services on site that will be provided by people skilled and unskilled. In fact, the largest area of jobs growth supporting mining efforts will be in unskilled jobs. Mo s t b u s i n e s s e s h av e contingencies for major supply changes, but have you considered the impact of not being able to find or retain staff? It’s essential to ensure a planned approach to future and ongoing staffing requirements – whatever the size or line of business you are in. Don’t wait until getting good staff becomes a crisis. ON-Q Human Resources is a premium provider of specialised employment solutions operating to benefit the local community. By partnering with us early we can help you establish reliable staffing solutions for now and the future. When people are important to your bottom line, the first choice of the best candidates will give you the edge over the competition. There’s a crisis coming. Act now before it’s too late. Next time: When job seekers have choice, why would they work for you? Alec Morgan, Managing Director ON-Q Human Resources Alec.Morgan@onqhr.com.au www.tweedecho.com.au
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Sarah Grant lives and breathes to perform. Growing up working in the theatre group Theatre Theatre Productions, she was always looking for the warmth of the stage lights and now with life’s journey bringing her to music, she can’t back down. Over the last few years Sarah has worked with various musicians and bands and from this is now fronting the covers band Pink Zinc, performing with National Campus Band Competition Winners ‘The Downstairs Mix-Up’, singing with the eight-part vocal group Isabella A Capella and working as a session musician. Pink Zinc is a sassy four-piece covers band that will get you up off your seats and bopping all night long. This setup embraces a variety of grooving tunes from a total mix of genres, playing classic tunes from the swinging sixties, to the Motown era right through to modern favourites; this band has something for everyone that will keep you moving and grooving all night long. Pink Zinc reminds us that music is a language that we all understand. Saturday at Seagulls Lakeview Lounge. PINK ZIN LAKE C SEAGUL VIE W LS LO FRIDA UNGE Y
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Spankin’ the Pulse Queensland’s premier African drumming ensemble, Spankinhide, play this month’s GLO dance in Uki. Regular features at the Woodford Folk Festival, The Dreaming Festival and Island Vibe, Spankinhide play a mixture of traditional West African and contemporary rhythms. Their line-up extends to nine or more players and includes a horn section with music that is entirely dedicated to making you dance. Spakinhide’s artistry has developed from journeys to West Africa as well as regularly bringing African drumming masters to Australia. Founding member Elliott Orr has been passionately teaching African drumming all over the country for the last 20 years and it is this infectious passion that shines out in all the members of Spakinhide. Their high-energy concerts blend traditional ceremonial elements with a contemporary dance experience. The band plays acoustically on dancefloor level with rhythms and melodies that create an irresistible dance frenzy, leaving no choice but to surrender to the beat. The night will open with the eclectic global beats of DJ Pulse. So to get your dance fix head to Uki Hall this Friday.
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cd review
MeXico Tim Stokes
From working as a chef, to busking for a living, living with and overcoming mental health, and up to an dislocating his thumb jus d including which will be launched this Friday at the t before the first date planned to release his debut album Hotel Great Northern in Byron, had its MeXico, Tim Stokes has sneaky, sneaky preview certainly paid his at the Chinderah dues and done every sin tav ern last week with a hu gle one of the ge response hard yards to get to wh from the punters. ere he is. In saying that, it is also The whole album is ver this y lyr tive attitude towards life bloke’s posican see the marks left on ical. You that has brought the man by him to where he is today. the words he has woven ‘There have into song. The been lots of happy thing album’s EP release single s on my path,’ Ride says Tim. ‘The support I ear thy and sets a nice table On is very have received for the rest of from the locals is one thi the feast. ng tion from the local music . The inspirascene, enjoying The title track is a little bit country the beauty this area pro and a little bit rock ‘n’roll and vides and its enone of those couragement to live the tun es that gets in your head life you imagine and won’t is another. Having peop get out (I have found the le wh o cure for that. will stand and Sing Bananas in Pyjamas three times over openly cry when – it gets rid of anything else). you are busking Chock full of great guita in the street r riff is a bounce along offeri s, this record is something ng. Stokes’s rhythmic syntax is couple you don’t find d timbre of both husk and with a rich everywhere. clarity that will make most straight People here girls’ knees go wobbly – For a Little are open to While is on permanent rotation on your music’. my you are the kind of candy iPod – Tim that I can’t Tim’s album, refuse. My favourite tracks were Follow – a song I just wanted to go on for another 25 minutes, the first half of Four Seasons is he art melting and as I am a suc ker for a good ol’ guitar tun e my number one is St Albans. Tim is no blowin to the music scene. He is a craftsman and this is the end of the first chapter in a very long career.
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A man on the road to musical essence
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EDGE OF THE WEDGIE According to Wikipedia, a wedgie occurs when a person’s underwear or other garments are wedged between the buttocks. Today I have had a constant wedgie. It became obvious while walking from my car to the tent where I was performing at the Writers’ Festival. I was aware as I trotted over the lawn that those walking behind me were treated to the sight of a curvaceous blonde woman in a too-tight frock attempting to dislodge her underpants from her crack, while at the same time attempting to maintain a nice middle-class dignity. Today’s wedgie was asymmetrical, meaning my knickers didn’t travel up my butt evenly, only the left side. This left me with two possible scenarios: either the elastic in the left leg of my Berleis had lost its grip or my left arse cheek has grown disproportionately in comparison to the right. The mirror in the toilet at the Writers’ Festival was not big enough to ascertain which option I was looking at and when I used the reflective glass of the tea house I was asked to leave. It’s hard to relax when you’ve got a wedgie. It’s all you can think about. I have never understood how women voluntarily wear g-strings. That’s an underpant designed purely on the principle of a constant wedgie. When it comes to one’s smalls, I am an oldfashioned girl. I expect my underwear to contain my butt cheeks, not be consumed by them. Not all wedgies are naturally occurring. Who could forget the favourite schoolyard prank, when a person on the receiving end of a wedgie has their undies yanked up their bum by their jolly associates. It’s a simple act that achieves both humiliation and affection in one simple yank. We Aussies love it so much it could be an Olympic event. Although men should be warned. Wedgies can be dangerous. A badly performed wedgie can cause testicular or scrotal damage. Back in 2004 a particularly nasty schoolyard wedgie left a 10-year-old boy requiring the re-attachment of a testicle to the scrotum. Wedgies should never be performed by amateurs. It’s all in the flick of the wrist. Performing a wedgie requires an understanding of the elasticity of the waistband, the possible resistance of the gusset and the pliability of the victim’s cheeks. You should never perform a wedgie on anyone wearing a colostomy bag or a sanitary pad.
Wedgies are more often performed on blokes by blokes. Very rarely do women greet each other by using underwear as dental floss. But I kind of wish they did. It would put a whole new twist on hanging with the girls at a ladies’ luncheon. There are also variants on the wedgie, with more sinister and painful results. The Melvin is a variant where the victim’s underwear is pulled up from the front, to cause injury, or at least severe pain, to the victim’s genitals. There is a female variant called the Minerva. This can sometimes cause underwear-induced labioplasty or a lacy clitoridectomy. A more frightening wedgie variant is the Atomic Wedgie. This is where the waistband of the receiver’s underwear is hoisted over the wearer’s head. This sometimes results in the obstruction of the small intestine, but the results are sensational. If you can manage to perform an atomic wedgie on one of your friends, be prepared for some pretty toxic fallout. No-one is ever prepared for that moment in the day when the back of your underpants touches your face. A rather cruel twist to the wedgie is the Hanging Wedgie, where the victim is hung from their underwear, elevated above the ground. This does require pretty impressive undie architecture and should not be performed on police who pull you over for a roadside breath test, your in-laws or your boss. Wedgies should only be used in the appropriate situation. Wedgies are for bonding or bullying, that’s it. Instead of fighting our battles with guns and bombs, why not have a war with wedgies? Gallipoli would have played out a whole lot differently if the Aussies could have rushed out of those trenches and given the Turks a few wedgies. History would have been rewritten if Göring had managed to sneak up behind Adolf and perform an atomic wedgie. It’s hard to be a brutal psychopathic dictator with your underpants over your head. Just imagine if the Americans had found Osama but instead of killing him, they’d shamed him with a hanging wedgie instead? I’m all for it. In my household we’re all going Straight Wedge.
Having left the The Beautiful Girls behind and taken off on a global adventure alone, Mat McHugh is not so much reinventing himself as he is rediscovering. It began with a theatre tour across the States and into Canada with fellow troubadour John Butler. It was during that trip Mat reconnected with the essence of being a muso – just one man and his music on the road; the only concern, finding the next stage on which to play. Upon his return Mat headed into the studio and created the Go Don’t Stop solo EP. He then stuffed that in his bag too and jumped the next plane to South America landing in one of his favourite countries outside of home, Brazil. As he moves now through the States, with the blacktop of asphalt trailing behind him, he prepared excitedly for the homeland leg of the Go Don’t Stop Tour. In celebration of this new turn at the crossroads, Mat also launches The Blacktop Diaries; an ongoing series of musings about travel/self/art/Hemingway/ global responsibility and all in between. You too can be part of the adventure. Join Mat McHugh live and intimate, as he strips back songs spanning ten years – from the classic Morning Sun days through to his latest solo treasures on the Aussie leg of the tour at the Currumbin SoundLounge Friday.
Master of the Guitar
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Master guitarist Kirk Lorange brings his own special brand of jazz/blues/rock/country/boogie to town this weekend and it promises to be an afternoon to be remembered. Lorange’s career has been mixture of solo work, playing in bands, sessions for other artists, advertising, and film work typical of all music industry ‘survivors’. In recent times he has become one of the world’s most respected guitar teachers. Within days of arriving in Australia from Canada on Christmas Day 1974 he had met Aussie folk legend Doug Ashdown and together they formed the acclaimed country-rock group Sleeping Dogs, who went on to support Super-
tramp on their Australian tour. In 1977 and 1978 he toured extensively with the Richard Clapton Band and in 1988 he formed country-boogie band Chasin’ The Train with members of the recently disbanded Moving Pictures. Lorange got to jam on air with Ringo Starr after a chance TV studio encounter on the Parkinson
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THURSDAY 11 ■ BURLEIGH BEARS LEAGUES CLUB 6PM MR JOHN ■ CLUB BANORA 6PM MARK MCGUIRE ■ CUDGEN LEAGUES 6PM GEOFF DUTTON ■ COOLANGATTA HOTEL 8PM GLEN ESMOND ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 6PM VEENIE’S SMOOTH & GROOVE
FRIDAY 12 ■ AUSSIE TAVERN MURWILLUMBAH 8PM MOONSTONE ■ BILAMBIL SPORTS CLUB 8PM JOHNNY CARR ■ BURLEIGH BEARS LEAGUES CLUB 7.30 CHRIS DOYLE ■ CABARITA BEACH SPORTS CLUB SCOOBY DON’T ■ CLUB BANORA 7PM DAVE BARRY ■ COOLANGATTA HOTEL 8PM REMEDY ■ CUDGEN LEAGUES 7PM ROBERT KEITH ■ CURRUMBIN SOUNDLOUNGE 7.30PM MAT MCHUGH ■ CURRUMBIN RSL 7PM POCO LOCO ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH BOWLS CLUB
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7.30PM ALIBI ■ MARTY’S @ CABA, CABARITA BEACH 7PM NORTH COAST TIME ■ SEAGULLS LAKEVIEW LOUNGE PINK ZINC ■ MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES CLUB 6.30PM TREVOR RIX ■ PATCH LOUNGE COOLANGATTA 7.30PM GYPSY SOUL FIRE ■ SALTBAR KINGSCLIFF CABOOSE ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 11AM CRAIG SHAW 7.30PM SMOKIN CRAWDADS ■ UKI HALL 8PM GLO DANCE WITH SPANKINHIDE & DJ PULSE
SATURDAY 13 ■ BURLEIGH BEARS LEAGUES CLUB 7.30PM AKASHA ■ CABARITA BEACH SPORTS CLUB RICHARD O ■ CHINDERA TAVERN M.C. PIG ■ CLUB BANORA 7PM OZ LATIN BROTHERS ■ COOLANGATTA HOTEL 5.30PM PAUL LINES TRIO 10PM MR PERKINS ■ CURRUMBIN RSL 7PM POWERPLAY ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH BOWLS CLUB
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7.30PM KARAOKE - HEAT 4 ■ MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES CLUB 6.30PM BO JENKINS ■ PATCH LOUNGE COOLANGATTA 8PM DJ ALFIE ROMEO ■ SALTBAR, KINGSCLIFF ARCHIE RYE ■ SEAGULLS LAKEVIEW LOUNGE 8PM PINK ZINC ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 7.30PM THE LIONS DEN + ROBBIE & TONY ■ TWIN TOWNS 8.30PM ELVIS TO THE MAX N
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■ BABALOU, KINGSCLIFF HOTEL, 2.30PM SOUTH PACIFIC SOUND SYSTEM ■ BURLEIGH BEARS LEAGUES CLUB 2.30PM ROBBIE & TONY ■ CHINDERA TAVERN DARREN MARLOW ■ CLUB BANORA 11.30AM SARAH POTTER 12.30PM GLENN BRACE ■ COOLANGATTA HOTEL 3PM ALTER EGOS ■ CONDONG BOWLS CLUB 1PM KIRK LORANGE BAND W SUPPORT: JAMES T. & DIRK DUBOIS ■ CURRUMBIN RSL 7PM SMOOTH
■ IVORY TAVERN TWEED HEADS 3PM THE DIRTY CHANNEL ■ KIRRA SPORTS CLUB 4PM HAVE-AGO-KARAOKE ■ MARTY’S AT CABA, CABARITA BEACH 5PM MARK FERRIS ■ NEVERLAND COOLANGATTA EASY SUNDAYS ■ PATCH LOUNGE COOLANGATTA 3PM DAN HANNAFORD ■ SPHINX ROCK CAFE MT BURRELL 1PM MARK HEAZLETT ■ RIVERVIEW HOTEL MURWILLUMBAH 1PM BROADFOOT ■ SURFERS BEER GARDEN SUNDAY SESSIONS ■ TUGUN SURF CLUB 2PM NITESTAR ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 5PM ROY DANIELS ■ TWIN TOWNS 1PM DANCE COMPANY 121 - RIGHT NOW
MONDAY 15 ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH BOWLS CLUB 12 NOON ROBBIE ROENLUND ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 11AM MARCO 6.30PM ROBBIE ROSENLUND
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■ CUDGEN LEAGUES CLUB NOON JAYNE HENRY ■ MARTY’S AT CABA CABARITA BEACH 7PM JAM NIGHT WITH ANNETTE ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 6.30PM PETER JOHNSON ■ TWIN TOWNS 11AM BACK TO THE TIVOLI NWEDNESDAY
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■ BABALOU 7PM SPANISH DANCE NIGHT ■ CLUB BANORA 6PM JEFF CAMILLERI ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 11AM PAUL RENO 6.30PM INDER ■ TWIN TOWNS 11AM BACK TO THE TIVOLI
THURSDAY 18 ■ BURLEIGH BEARS LEAGUES CLUB 6PM PAUL ANTHONY ■ CLUB BANORA 6PM SHANDELL ■ CUDGEN LEAGUES 6PM RUSSELL SPROUT ■ KIRRA SPORTS CLUB 8PM PHIL EIZENBERG’S OPEN MIKE NITE ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 6PM VEENIE’S – SWIZZLE
The Tweed Echo has the most comprehensive entertainment gig guide in the area. For your free listing, email gigs@tweedecho.com.au or phone us on (02) 6672 2280. Deadline is noon Tuesday prior to Thursday’s publication. Show but there was nothing chance about his invitation to guest on stage with ex-Eagle Don Felder in Calgary in 2009. And Felder’s verdict? ‘Kirk, you’ll have to teach me slide one of these days. You’re amazing!’ Complimentwise that’s not too bad from the guy who taught Tom Petty to play. Such is his stature in the industry that he was one of ten Australian guitar ‘legends’ assembled in Sydney last month to perform the tribute to Eric Clapton concert. Despite a rich performing history Lorange has forged his reputation as one of Australia’s premier guitarists in the recording studios. Included among the hundreds of sessions he has played are those for albums by Shane Howard, Kevin Johnson, Mark Hunter, Simon Gallagher, Marcia Hines, Renee Geyer, John Williamson, Graeme Connors and Anne Kirkpatrick. When it comes to putting a band together Lorange has his pick of the best players
around. For this performance his band consists of James Cox on percussion (from Chasin’ The Train), Jim Kelly on guitar, Doug Gallagher on drums, and Greg Lyon on bass (all from legendary jazz-blues fusion band Crossfire). Playing the support spot will be expatriate US bluesman James T with Chain bassist Dirk Dubois. See this amazing show at the Condong Bowls Club on Sunday.
DAN HANNAFORD PATCH LOUNGE COOLANGATTA SUNDAY
KIRK LORANGE CONDONG BOWLS CLUB SUNDAY
Country legend tour Australia’s pubs, clubs & carparks Lee Kernaghan has earned his place as one of Australia’s leading contemporary music artists. He has dominated the charts with successive hit albums, including Outback Club, Three Chain Road, 1959, Hat Town, Electric Rodeo, The New Bush and Planet Country. To many people, Lee represents the spirit and values of contemporary rural Australia. His love of the Australian way of life features in his music, and he is a passionate supporter of Australia’s rural culture. Lee will be bringing his Pubs, Clubs & Carparks to the Twin Towns Showroom on August 20. www.tweedecho.com.au
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Chinderah Tavern 66 Chinderah Bay Drive, Chinderah Ph 02 6674 1137 www.taphouse.com.au Open 7 days Lunch 12pm-2.30pm Dinner 5.30pm–8.30pm
Wilson’s by The Creek Open Fri, Sat, Sun Lunch 12-3pm Dinner 5-10pm 139 Newes Rd, Coorabell 6684 7348 Bookings essential
Alleys
Saltbar has something for everyone, a large deck, newly refurbished Sports Bar, family friendly Bistro and Kids Korner. As well as ocean views, there’s always a great atmosphere, daily food specials, a well-equipped children’s area, live music and more. Kids eat free* Mon-Thurs 5.307pm + free kids’ movie 7pm, T-Bone Tues & free trivia, Half Price Wednesday + free Karaoke 7pm. Saltbar is on the absolute beachfront, Salt Village, 15 mins south of Coolangatta Airport. *conditions apply
Saltbar Beach Bar & Bistro
Discover Wilson’s By The Creek Restaurant tucked away in the Byron hinterland. Newly open to the public, the elegant restaurant offers a truly gourmet experience, accompanied by Peppers renowned personal service. Savour the incredible flavours of the hinterland for a romantic dinner or gathering with friends, as Head Chef Adam Hall inspires you with his seasonal menu brimming with local produce.
The Beach Shack ORGANIC MILK
ALLEYS GOURMET CATS
Horizons
Currumbin RSL Club Currumbin Creek Road, Currumbin Open 7 days lunch and dinner 07 5534 7999 www.currumbin.com.au
Sheoak Shack
If you are looking for delicious food, coffee or a romantic sunset cocktail on the riverbank, the Sheoak Shack is the beach shack for you with a funky laid back vibe. 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.
Bells Boulevard, Salt Village, South Kingscliff Open 7 days 1300 725 822 www.saltbar.com.au
Shop 5, 60 Marine Parade, Kingscliff (next to Subway) 6674 5822 Open 7 days 9am-5pm
Now available with your coffee or smoothie. Creamy full cream, just as nature intended. Just ask.
Overlooking the sparkling blue waters of the Jack Evans Boat Harbour at Twin Towns is Horizons Lunch from 11am restaurant. Enjoy casual indoor or alfresco dining Dinner from 5.30pm Brunch Sundays from 10am where you can take in the spectacular views. June Special – Grilled Barramundi and Prawn Skewers Phone: (07) 5536 2277 with a mango and chilli salsa, creamy potato mash or visit and broccolini. A complimentary glass of house wine www.twintowns.com.au with your meal for just $19.95 for members and $24.95 for non-members!
Mount Warning Hotel
Mt Warning Hotel Open 7 days 10am till late Bistro open daily 1497 Kyogle Rd, Uki 02 6679 5111
Kingscliff
GOOD FOOD GUIDE CHEFS HAT EVERY YEAR SINCE 1998
The ‘Chindy’ is an ideal place to bring family and friends of all ages for a real country pub experience. Kick back and watch the kids play on our brand new playground while you enjoy an ice cold beer and a dozen of our famous $12 oysters on the deck overlooking the Tweed river. Open 7 days for lunch and dinner, with afternoon entertainment on the weekends. Come and see why everyone is talking about the new Chinderah Tavern.
Exclusive VIP events for food and wine lovers. Official launch August 19. Enjoy Italian fare and wines presented by Mezzanine wine company. Only $15. Bookings essential.
64 Fingal Rd, Fingal Head Ph 07 5523 1130 Wed-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 9.30am-5pm www.sheoakshack.com
Fresh from his travels in Europe, Steven Snow is excited to launch a NEW MENU at Fins. From Basque style BBQ seafood platters to spicy Mauritian King prawn curry. Book now to sample our new flavours.
Salt Village, Kingscliff 6674 4833 dining@fins.com.au Dinner 7 days Lunch Fri, Sat & Sun
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.
tweed heads
Mon-Thurs 9 to 5 Fridays 9 to 4 OPEN TO THE PUBLIC 3/7 Brigantine Street, Byron Arts & Industry Park (02) 6685 5685
Fins
Small enough for personal care, large enough to offer competitive prices. Santos has been supplying high quality biodynamic, organic, natural foods, and healthy products since 1975. We continue our commitment to sourcing as locally as possible. Santos is the home of Rainfed Rice–zero irrigation, certified biodynamic, as local as you can get, and the most delicious rice you’re likely to find. Visit rainfedrice.com.au for more info, or visit our online store at santostrading.com.au. Eat well.
Uki
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Santos Trading Warehouse
Here you will find some of the best local dining on offer. Restaurant owners take note: Good Taste provides you with the chance to tell your customers more about your business with ample room for that extra information that may not fit in a small advertisement. Great introductory rates are on offer. Call 02 6672 2280 to find out more.
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From Talent to musos showcase
The winter of reason (Photo: vince lacanilao)
Following on from the success of the Raw Talent Quest, Currumbin RSL is bringing Queensland’s premier indie singer songwriter showcase to the stage. fRETfEST, which is credited with discovering Pete Murray, Bobby Flynn and many others, will hold an event at the RSL lounge room on August 28. Locals will get a chance to sample the soothing sounds of six singer/songwriters and the program is expanding with some additional names you’ll know, such as Raw Talent Winner Mick McHugh, Brisbane’s favourite acoustic duo, The Winter of Reason, and international guitar superstar, Daniel Champagne. Mick McHugh says the concert will be an opportunity to
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showcase his original music and to be acknowledged and recognised as a winner in something you love doing, which for him is music. fRETfEST founder Al Buchan says that it’s important to be offering additional performance opportunities as well as prizes. ‘There is good to be had working daniel champagne with other mu(Photo: eryca green) sicians and playing to new audiences’. The showcase will take place once a month, from 2pm on Sundays, and will feature excellent new musicians on the cusp of their careers. The musicians will have their debut CDs on sale at the gigs and audiences can mingle with the musicians and pick up a personally autographed copy. Imagine. Pete Murray’s first CD, personally autographed. That’s the kind of situation here. It is not a jam night. www.tweedecho.com.au
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TWEED GALLERY
Tweed Gallery celebrates the opening of Australia’s most popular exhibition, the Archibald Prize.
EVOLUTIONARY TENDENCIES MARIKA BRYANT Image courtesy of Caldera Art Gallery
The itinerary for the Archibald Prize 2011: NSW Regional Tour is a tight one. With only six weeks allocated to each gallery ME, MARCH 2011 on the tour, the exhibition will KEN DONE be on display until Sunday 11 Image courtesy of Art Gallery of NSW September only. The gallery and café are open to the public from 10am to 5pm Wednesday to Sunday, and closed Monday and Tuesday. Admission is free. ANZ is the principal sponsor. Visitors to each regional gallery on the tour are encouraged to register their vote in a People’s Choice Award that offers the generous prize of an ANZ Visa Debit card valued at $500, valid for six months from the draw date. All entries will be in a draw at the end of the exhibition period at Tweed River Art Gallery. At 11am and 2pm on each Wednesday and Sunday throughout the exhibition the gallery will launch a new initiative, offering visitors an exhibition tour guided by Robyn Sweaney, the gallery’s new Education and Audience Development Officer, and specially trained volunteers. Michelle Dawson hosts self-portrait exercises on Saturday 13th at 10.30 and 11.30am. Spaces are limited. Bookings on 02 6670 2790. On Sunday 28 August at 2pm, Archibald Prize 2011 finalist Angus McDonald will discuss meeting and working with the late Dr Ann Lewis AO to create his compelling portrait. At 11am on Wednesday 7 September, Danielle Gullotta, the Coordinator of Access Programs at the Art Gallery of NSW, will deliver a floortalk on the Archibald Prize 2011. All are welcome. Events are free of charge, but a gold coin donation is always appreciated. The Gallery Café has glorious views for you to enjoy while having a light lunch or coffee. Come and visit us at 2 Mistral Rd, Murwillumbah. Ph: 02 6670 2790, www.tweed.nsw.gov.au/tweedart.
STOKERS SIDING POTTERY & GALLERY Stokers Siding Pottery & Gallery, home to world-famous potter Bob Connery, is located in an historic building in Stokers Siding. The gallery carries both functional and decorative pieces with a wide range of pottery, ceramics, glass, jewellery, paintings, zyladrums, cards and more from the best of the local Tweed artists. 224 Stokers Road, Stokers Siding, Tweed Valley, Phone: 02 6677 9208
MOTHER (A PORTRAIT OF CATE) DEL KATHRYN BARTON Image courtesy of Art Gallery of NSW
“I HAVE TO GIVE YOU THIS AGAIN,” HE SAID... JOHN LENNOX Image courtesy of Art Gallery of NSW
JEN HUTCHISON PHOTOGRAPHY Image courtesy of Coastal Framing & Design
A PIECE FROM BOB CONNERY’S RANGE OF SMOKED (REDUCED) LUSTREWARE Image courtesy of Stokers Siding Pottery
CALDERA ART GALLERY MURWILLUMBAH VISITOR CENTRE PROVIDES NEW SHOWCASE FOR GREEN CAULDRON ART A section of the World Heritage Rainforest and Visitor Information Centre at Murwillumbah has recently become a permanent showcase for high-quality environmentally themed art, complementing the Tweed’s status as the heart of Australia’s Green Cauldron National Landscape. The Caldera Art Gallery (CAG) is set to become a destination for serious art collectors hence giving talented artists a platform for commercial gallery involvement. Furthermore, the artist-in-residence program gives visitors an opportunity to see the artists at work. The CAG is open 7 days, 9.30am - 4pm Enquiries 6672 1340
COASTAL FRAMING & DESIGN Jen’s new art gallery at Coastal Framing and Design is worth a visit. This month we feature the spectacular macro photography of Kathie Nichols, surfing photography of Alex Ormerod, contemporary paintings of Tony Alexander and the mixed-media art of Pamela McNamara. All of this work is for sale. The Gallery is growing as new artists and photographers come into our shop for their framing needs. We give artists a discount. The more work, the more discount! We invite you to stop by for a browse and check out The Gallery. We’d love to meet you. ~ Jen and Rex
CALDERA ART GALLERY
World Heritage Rainforest Centre Murwillumbah Open 7 days - Fine art of Australia’s Green Cauldron Phone 02 6672 1340 Ros Oakes Ancient Relics (detail) acrylic Free admission Gallery open Wed-Sun 10am - 5pm (DST)
On display until 11 September
Archibald Prize 2011 NSW Regional Tour An Art Gallery of NSW exhibition toured by Museums and Galleries NSW
FOR THE LOVE OF ART... www.coastalframinganddesign.com Image: Ben Quilty Margaret Olley 2011 Archibald Prize winner Courtesy of Art Gallery of NSW
The gallery carries functional and decorative pieces by resident potter Bob Connery, plus a wide range of other ceramics, glass, paintings, jewellery, cards and craft items from the very best local artists.
COASTAL FRAMING & DESIGN
Open 7 days 9:30am - 5pm
4/25 INDUSTRY DRIVE TWEED HEADS SOUTH 07 5523 4101
tel: 02 6677 9208
info@stokerspottery.com.au
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For the love of art... The Gallery Stokers Siding NSW 2484 www.stokerspottery.com.au
The tertium quid: case study - Brendan McCumstie 12 August - 5 February
Seven Little Australians: A Dromkeen Travelling Exhibition PUBLIC PROGRAMS Sat 13 Aug 10.30am & 11.30am Archibald Life: self portraits with Michelle Dawson Sat 13 Aug 2pm Banana Festival Event: Banana Splits with Michele Thomas in Foyer Sun 28 Aug 2pm Exhibition talk: Archibald Prize 2011 with Finalist Angus McDonald Sun 11 Sept 2pm The tertium quid: Brendan McCumstie ‘artist-in-residence’ in Foyer
(02) 6670 2790 | 2 Mistral Road Murwillumbah NSW 2484 | www.tweed.nsw.gov.au/tweedart
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Television Guide 1. As the stockmarket curls up in a foetal position in a corner, Wall Street (One HD, Friday, 8.30pm) gets another airing, with Michael Douglas excellent as a total ruthless bastard. 2. Long before there was a black American president, Katherine Haughton and Sidney Poitier starred in Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner (ABC2, Saturday, 10.05pm), a fine menu of racial prejudice. 3. Even after Arnie, the Terminator franchise lives on with Terminator Salvation (NBN, Sunday, 8.30pm). Aussie Sam Worthington plays a cyborg. Hey, it’s a gig, and work is hard to get.
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6.30 Neighbours 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond 4.00 ABC News 4.05 Culture Quarter 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News 4.20 The Drum 5.00 ABC News 5.15 6.00 Global Village 7.30 The Glee Project Food Quarter 5.30 Newsline 6.00 6.30 Iron Chef 8.30 Britain’s Next Top Model ABC News Breakfast 9.00 ABC News 7.30 Dateline 9.30 Sex And The City (MA) 9.30 Business Today 10.00 ABC News 8.30 Insight 10.40 The Late Late Show 11.30 12.30 Newsline 1.00 ABC News 2.30 9.30 Movie: Best Of Times Cheers 12.00 Roseanne 12.30 One Plus One 3.00 Afternoon Live (M 2009) Thai romantic Sabrina The Teenage Witch 1.00 The 5.30 Capital Hill 6.00 ABC News 6.05 comedy King Of Queens 1.30 Happy Days The Drum 6.45 Environment Quarter 11.35 Movie: Zatoichi (MAV 2004) 2.00 The Love Boat 3.00 Diagnosis 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Contact Sport Japanese action 1.35 Weatherwatch Murder 4.00 Touched By An Angel 8.00 ABC News 8.30 One Plus One 5.00 7th Heaven 9.00 The World 10.00 ABC News 10.05 The Drum 10.45 Environment 6.00 Ten News 7.00 Kids’ Programs Quarter 11.00 ABC News 11.30 9.00 Ten News 10.00 The Circle 6.00 World Tour Kitesurfing 6.30 Capital Hill 12.00 ABC News 12.20 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 Oprah Winfrey NASCAR Sprint Cup 7.30 Pro Bull Lateline 1.00 BBC News 1.30 Contact Show 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Riding 8.30 Cliff Diving 9.00 NASCAR Sport 2.00 BBC World News 2.30 The Infomercial 3.30 Renovators 4.00 Sprint Cup 10.00 Major League World This Week 3.00 Lateline 3.40 Everyday Gourmet 4.30 The Bold Baseball – LIVE 1.00 The Game Plan Rural Quarter And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News 6.30 6.30 With George Negus 3.00 Omnisport 3.30 Bondi Rescue 4.00 Airline 4.30 Extreme Dreams 7.00 The 7pm Project 5.00 Guerrilla Gardeners 5.30 I Fish 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 7.30 Renovators 6.00 Airline 6.30 Bondi Rescue 7.00 12.00 Australia Congratulates 8.30 Law & Order (M) Cops 7.30 Mighty Movers Cadel Evans LIVE 10.30 Can Of Worms (M) 11.30 Late News 12.00 Sports 8.30 Movie: Wall Street (M – Melbourne 1987) US drama. Stars 12.30 World News 1.00 Food Lovers’ Tonight 12.30 The Late Show 1.30 Michael Douglas Guide To Australia 1.30 Insight 2.30 Infomercials 5.00 Religion 11.10 Sports Tonight 11.40 Black The Nest 3.30 Al Jazeera News 4.00 Gold 12.40 Shark U 1.40 Omnisport The Journal 4.30 Newshour 5.30 2.00 OneAsia Tour Golf 5.00 500 Great Global Village 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The Goals 5.30 FA Cup Classic 6.00 Letters And Numbers Brady Bunch 8.30 Neighbours 9.00 6.30 World News Australia Touched By An Angel 10.00 7th 7.30 James May’s Toy Stories Heaven 11.00 The Love Boat 12.00 8.30 One Germany The other Diagnosis Murder 1.00 Jag 2.00 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show side of the wall MacGyver 3.00 The King Of Queens 11.30 Seven News 12.00 Cadel Evans’ 9.30 World News Australia 3.30 Cheers 4.00 Roseanne 4.30 Victory Parade 1.00 The Diet That 10.00 Sex: An Unnatural History Family Ties 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 Time Forgot 2.00 Dr Oz 3.00 10 Years The Brady Bunch (MA) Younger 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 10.35 Erotic Tales (M) 11.10 Movie: 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Seven News 5.30 Deal Or No Deal Restless (MA 2000) Finnish drama 1.05 Witch 6.00 Prime News Spiral (M) 3.10 Weatherwatch
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4.00 Compass 4.30 Catalyst 5.00 Can We Help? 5.30 The New Inventors 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.30 Business Today 10.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Catalyst 11.30 One Plus One 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Midsomer Murders (M) 2.10 World’s Greenest Homes 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Billy’s Tasty Weekends 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 Collectors 8.30 Silent Witness (M) 9.30 Hustle 10.30 Lateline 11.15 Beautiful People (M) 11.45 rage (MA)
ABC 2 6.00 Kids’ Programs 7.00 Spicks And Specks 7.30 River Monsters 8.30 Friday Night Lights 9.15 School Of Comedy (M) 9.30 Misfits (M) 10.30 Crownies (M) 11.35 The Graham Norton Show (M) 12.00 Cold Feet 12.50 Code Geass (M) 1.15 The Office (M) 1.45 Close
ABC 3 6.05am to 5.35pm Kids’ Programs 6.00 Rated A For Awesome 6.15 Almost Naked Animals 6.25 Horrible Histories 7.10 Star Wars 7.35 The Assistants 8.00 Stay Tuned 8.30 Degrassi: The Next Generation 9.00 Close
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5.00 rage (PG) 11.00 Billy’s Tasty Weekends 12.00 Collectors 12.30 Australian Story 1.00 Foreign Correspondent 1.30 Two In The Top End 2.00 Trekking In Austria 2.25 Shamwari 3.00 Shute Shield Rugby Union LIVE – Eastern Suburbs v Eastwood 5.00 World Cup Bowls 6.00 Nigella Express 6.30 Gardening Australia 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Kingdom 8.30 Marchlands (M) 9.20 Rake (M) 10.15 Doctor Who 11.00 rage (MA)
4.00 ABC News 4.05 Finance Quarter 4.15 The Drum 5.00 Q&A 6.00 7.30 6.30 Behind The News 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Contact Sport 8.00 ABC News 8.45 Environment Quarter 9.00 ABC News 9.45 Weather Quarter 10.00 ABC News 10.30 7.30 11.00 ABC News 11.30 7.30 12.00 ABC News 12.30 7.30 Select 1.00 Big Ideas 2.00 ABC News 2.30 7.30 3.00 ABC News 3.30 Foreign Correspondent 4.00 ABC News 4.30 Behind The News 5.00 ABC News 5.30 One Plus One 6.00 ABC News 6.30 Australian Story 7.00 ABC News 7.30 The World This Week 8.00 Four Corners 8.45 Consumer Quarter 9.00 ABC News 9.30 State To State 10.00 National Press Club Address: Climate Change Debate 11.00 ABC News 11.30 Foreign Correspondent 12.00 Big Ideas 1.00 One Plus One 1.30 7.30 2.00 BBC World News 2.30 7.30 3.00 BBC World News 3.30 7.30
5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News 6.00 Wine Lovers’ Guide To Australia 6.30 Hairy Bikers’ Food Tour Of Britain 7.30 Find My Family 8.30 Lucian Freud: Portraits (M) 9.45 Movie: Loft (M 2009) Belgian mystery 11.50 Movie: Cold Showers (MA 2005) French drama 1.35 Weatherwatch
ABC 2 6.00 Kids’ Program 7.00 Monkey Thieves 7.30 Big Chef Takes On Little Chef 8.15 At The Movies 8.30 Movie: The Defiant Ones (M 1958) US drama. Stars Sidney Poitier 10.05 Movie: Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner (PG 1967) US drama. Stars Sidney Poitier 12.00 Monty Python: Almost The Truth The Lawyer’s Cut (M) 12.50 Just To Get A Rep (M) 1.40 Close
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TEN 6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.00 Hit List TV 12.00 Landed Music 12.30 Hit Rater. Com 1.00 Infomercial 1.30 Hook Line & Sinker 2.00 AFL Premiership Season LIVE – Hawthorn v Port Adelaide 5.00 Ten News 5.30 Jamie’s Thirty Minute Meals 6.00 Ten News 6.30 Jamie Does Marrakesh 7.30 Talkin’ ’bout Your Generation 8.40 Movie: Taken (M 2008) French action. Stars Liam Neeson 10.35 AFL Premiership Season: Western Bulldogs v Essendon 1.05 Infomercials 4.00 Religion
5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 1.00 Opera: La Boheme 2.55 2010 Literature Nobel Prize 3.30 Bronzino: Restoring Genius 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Costa’s Garden Odyssey 6.00 Behind The Front Door 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Engineering Connections 8.30 Iron Chef 9.20 RocKwiz 10.15 Movie: Paris, Je T’aime (MA 2006) French romance 6.05am to 5.45pm Kids’ Programs 6.00 12.15 SOS 1.15 Life’s A Zoo (M) 2.10 Stoked 6.30 The Slammer 7.00 Deadly Weatherwatch 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The 60 7.30 Good Game SP 8.00 The Tribe Brady Bunch 8.30 Everybody Loves 9.15 Close Raymond 9.00 Touched By An Angel 10.00 7th Heaven 11.00 The Love
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Boat 12.00 Diagnosis Murder 1.00 Jag 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 The King Of Queens 3.30 Cheers 4.00 Roseanne 4.30 Family Ties 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 The Brady Bunch 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 6.30 Everybody Loves Raymond 7.30 Frasier 8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond 8.30 Biggest Loser US 10.30 90210 11.30 Cheers 12.00 Roseanne 12.30 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 1.00 The King Of Queens 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 World Tour Kitesurfing 6.30 Major League Baseball 9.00 Isle Of Man TT 10.00 Pro Bull Riding 11.00 World Of Free Sports 11.30 Drive 12.00 WWE Experience 1.00 World Tour Triathlon: London 2.00 Extreme Dreams 3.30 Bondi Rescue 4.00 Airline 5.00 Guerrilla Gardeners 5.30 I Fish 6.30 WWE Experience 7.30 Everest: Beyond The Limit 8.30 An Idiot Abroad (M) 9.30 MotoGP Qualifying – LIVE 11.10 UFC (M) 1.10 Rally World 2.10 OneAsia Tour Golf 5.00 Omnisport 5.30 FA Cup Classic
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ARIES : Aries Joseph Follow your bliss Campbell’s directive to ‘participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world’ is like the Irish saying that you can’t stop trouble knocking but you needn’t invite it in for a drink. In other words, engage in this week’s reversals with a light heart. TAURUS :
Economics of happiness seem increasingly out of reach? Your cohabs, compats Mercury’s retrograde into Leo presses the button on and cohorts bickering and quibbling? Tauran machine malfunctions - composer Bob Telson wrote: All Wars Are Lost. So don’t engage – it’s vital for your joie de vivre to except defence mechanisms choose less stress and more enjoyment this week.
which spin into overdrive. Top survival tips? Anger management and emotional-self control…
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GEMINI: With your planetary ruler retrograde don’t even think about showdowns, risk taking or shortcuts, especially travelling. Don’t rush
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anywhere; forget driving if you’re upset. Sure you’re as busy as, but the trick is to simultaneously slow down and chill out – and who multitasks better than Geminis?
CANCER : The
secret to dealing with this week’s competitive energy is first making it easy for others to help you and being extremely appreciative when they do. And second, following Cancerian Ann Landers’s advice: Make someone happy today. Mind your own business…
LEO :
Mercury backtracking in your sign sometimes clouds your judgment then sends you ballistic if that judgment’s challenged, which could be costly in terms of damage control and post-dramatic stress. If you’re losing your cool, channel Leo Matt Preston and
3 6.30 Seven News 7.00 Home And Away 7.30 Better Homes And Gardens 8.30 Ghost Whisperer 10.30 AFL Premiership Season St Kilda v Collingwood 2.50 Home Shopping
’70s Show 6.00 According To Jim 6.30 My Wife And Kids 7.00 That ’70s Show 7.30 Pimp My Ride 8.30 My Name Is Earl 9.30 Movie: Coyote Ugly (PG 2000) US comedy. Stars Piper Perabo 11.30 Club Reps (MA) 12.30 Malcolm And Eddie 1.00 Six Million Dollar Man 2.00 Quantum Leap 3.00 Quincy ME 6.00 Home Shopping 6.30 Martha 4.00 Hercules 5.00 Xena 5.30 Home Stewart Show 7.30 Dr Oz 8.30 Sons Shopping & Daughters 9.00 Home & Away 9.30 Shortland Street 10.00 Coronation Street 10.30 Emmerdale 11.00 Designing Women 11.30 Deal Or 5.30 Today 9.00 Kerri-Anne 11.00 No Deal 12.00 Hart To Hart 1.00 Cadel Evans Home Coming Parade Grey’s Anatomy (M) 2.00 Murphy – LIVE 12.30 The Ellen Degeneres Brown 2.30 The Hogan Family 3.00 Show 1.30 The View 2.30 Days Of Perfect Strangers 3.30 Night Court Our Lives 3.30 Magical Tales 4.00 Kitchen Whiz 4.30 Afternoon News 4.00 Columbo 5.30 The Voice 6.00 Bargain Hunt 6.00 Evening News 7.00 Harry’s Practice 6.30 A Current Affair 7.30 Are You Being Served? 7.30 Friday Night Football LIVE 8.10 One Foot In The Grave – Penrith Panthers v Wests 8.45 Escape To The Country Tigers 11.00 60 Minute Makeover 12.00 Living In The Sun 1.00 Movie: Sione’s 9.30 Friday Night Football North Queensland Wedding (M 2006) NZ comedy. Stars Cowboys v Brisbane Oscar Kightley 3.00 Hart To Hart 4.00 Broncos Coronation Street 4.30 Emmerdale 5.00 Designing Women 5.30 Home 11.30 Movie: Half Past Dead (M 2002) German action. Stars Steven Shopping Seagal 1.30 Movie: The Omega Man (M 1971) US action. Stars Charlton 6.30 Six Million Dollar Man 7.30 The Heston 3.30 Entertainment Tonight Rockford Files 8.30 Adam 12 9.00 4.00 Danoz 4.30 Good Morning NBC Today 11.00 Quantum Leap America
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6.00 AFL Premiership Season: St Kilda v Collingwood 8.30 Red Bull X-Fighters International Series 10.30 Man v Food 11.00 Quantum Leap 12.00 Great Grand Prix Racing Heroes 1.00 Zoom TV 1.30 Car Sharks 2.00 Fifth Gear 3.00 V8 Supercars 3.30 Monster Garage 5.30 That ’70s Show 6.00 According To Jim 6.30 Superships 7.30 Air Crash Investigation 9.30 Unsolved Mysteries (M) 12.30 Movie: Barbershop 2 – Back In Business (M 2004) US comedy. Stars Ice Cube 3.00 Man v Food 3.30 Great Grand Prix Racing Heroes 4.30 Quantum Leap 5.30 Home Shopping
6.30 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Better Homes And Gardens 10.00 The Great Outdoors 11.00 Queensland Weekender 11.30 Out Of The Blue 12.00 A House In Tuscany 12.30 Passport To The Sun 1.00 Weekend Kitchen 5.00 Great Australian Doorstep 5.30 Men Behaving Badly 6.00 Are You Being Served? 6.30 Born And Bred 7.30 Heartbeat 8.40 Inspector Morse (M) 11.00 That’s My Boy 11.30 Please Sir 12.00 Minder 1.00 Passport To The Sun 1.30 The World Around Us 2.30 Leyland Brothers World 3.30 Weekend Kitchen
your inner regal, dignified leader.
VIRGO: This week delivers more questions
than answers, putting you more in the mystery than the know, which is usually when doing nothing’s the smartest move and silence the wisest response. Hardest of all is not acting on assumptions, especially the one that you know what’s going on.
LIBRA: You may have to stand your ground
this week against dominating power pushes. Negotiate as best you can to defuse explosive situations, but if it’s all just in the too-hard basket then head for home and play with creative ways of stretching the pay cheque.
SCORPIO: This week rude moods could go
NBN 6.00 Danoz 7.00 Weekend Today 10.00 Saturday Kerri-Anne 11.00 Kids’ Programs 2.30 Gaga Live At Sydney Monster Hall 3.00 Movie: Seminole Uprising (G 1955) US drama. Stars George Montgomery 4.30 Discover Downunder 5.00 NBN News 5.30 Getaway 6.00 NBN News 6.30 Australia’s Funniest Home Videos 7.30 Movie: Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (PG 2005) US adventure. Stars Johnny Depp 8.40 Lotto 10.00 Movie: The Dark Knight (M 2008) US action. Stars Heath Ledger 12.55 Tri-Nations Rugby LIVE – Australia v South Africa 3.00 The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air 3.30
viral, so strengthen your creative vision by looking for the brighter threads in life’s tapestry. And buff up your love muscles by finding the love in every situation, and make ‘make love not war’ your mantra no matter what’s happening.
SAGITTARIUS :
Behind-the-scenes shenanigans don’t require any input from you this week, just your awareness that they’re there. But do double check new intel before presenting or acting on it, because during the present transit information can often be inaccurate or misleading.
CAPRICORN: Your
patience and people skills get a workout this week, staying objective in situations which make objectivity difficult – one of which could be giving others advice and watching them ignore it. Midweek Capricorn
GEM 6.00 Today 9.00 Alive & Cooking 9.30 The Zoo 10.00 Friends 11.00 Murder, She Wrote 12.00 Movie: Carry On Cowboy (PG 1965) UK comedy. Stars Sid James 2.00 Stingers (M) 3.00 McLeod’s Daughters 4.00 The Golden Girls 5.00 The Block 6.00 Friends 7.00 The Zoo 7.30 Wild Caribbean 8.30 Movie: Chocolat (M 2000) UK drama. Stars Juliette Binoche 11.00 Friends 11.30 Conan (M) 12.30 Psychic TV 2.00 Movie: The Sea Wolves (M 1980) WWII drama. Stars Roger Moore 4.15 Movie: Don’t Bother To Knock (PG 1961) UK comedy. Stars Richard Todd
Skippy 4.00 Infomercials
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GO! 6.00 Kids’ Programs 1.00 Married With Children 2.30 Here’s Lucy 3.00 Green Acres 3.30 Spin City 4.30 Dukes Of Hazzard 5.30 Wipeout 6.30 Top Gear 7.30 Two And A Half Men 8.30 Movie: 16 Blocks (PG 2006) German action. Stars Bruce Willis 10.30 Movie: Police Academy 5 (PG 1988) US comedy. Stars Bubba Smith 12.30 South Park (MA) 1.00 Vampire Diaries (M) 5.00 The Hills 5.30 Tamagotch!
GEM 6.00 Movie: Carry On Cowboy (PG 1965) UK comedy. Stars Sid James 8.00 Movie: Cry The Beloved Country (PG 1951) UK drama. Stars Canada Lee 10.10 Murder, She Wrote 11.10 Movie: Contraband Spain (PG 1958) UK drama. Stars Richard Greene 12.55 Movie: Singin’ In The Rain (G 1952) US comedy. Stars Gene Kelly 3.05 Movie: Rio Bravo (PG 1959) Western. Stars John Wayne 6.00 The Golden Girls 6.30 Antiques Roadshow 7.30 Secret Dealers 8.30 CSI: NY (M) 9.30 CSI: Miami (M) 10.30 CSI (M) 11.30 Conan (M) 12.30 Psychic TV 2.00 Movie: Singin’ In The Rain 3.55 Movie: Contraband Spain 5.30 Discover Downunder
moon is a specially sensitive time not to take things personally.
AQUARIUS :
Aquarians like stirring – unnecessary at present with the universe doing it for you. This week you’re dealing with other people’s fluctuating feelings: hissy fits, dummy spits, histrionics, forgotten promises. By all means help those experiencing emotional meltdown, but know when to walk away.
PISCES: Money flows in, then out again even faster. There’re sexual sparks, but they fizzle rather than flare. Wishful thinking meets brutal reality checks. So what’s good about this week? It has fabulous potential once you decide to maintain your focus on gratitude instead of dissatisfaction.
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7.30 The Avengers 7.50 Vampire Knight 8.40 Black Hole High 9.05 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 5.00 rage (PG) 6.30 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Close 6.00 At The Table With… Insiders 10.00 Inside Business 10.30 6.30 Singapore Flavours Offsiders 11.00 Asia Pacific Focus 11.30 Songs Of Praise 12.00 Landline 1.00 4.00 7.30 5.00 Big Ideas 6.00 7.30 6.30 7.30 Ninja Warrior 7.30 1.30 Message Stick 2.00 Nature’s Behind The News 7.00 ABC News 7.30 8.00 Unbeatable Banzuke Great Events 3.00 Ballet Russes 4.00 The World This Week 8.00 ABC News 8.30 The Phone (M) One Flat Thing Reproduced 4.30 Flights 9.00 Insiders 10.00 ABC News 10.30 9.30 Movie: All About My Mother (M 1999) Spanish Of Fancy 5.00 Art Nation 5.30 Dance 7.30 11.00 ABC News 11.30 7.30 12.00 drama ABC News 12.30 Offsiders 1.00 Big Academy Ideas 2.00 ABC News 2.30 7.30 3.00 11.20 Movie: Castles In The Sky 6.00 Robin Hood ABC News 3.30 Australian Story 4.00 (M 2006) Swedish drama 1.00 6.45 Mr Bean ABC News 4.30 Behind The News 5.00 Weatherwatch 7.00 ABC News ABC News 5.30 Inside Business 6.00 7.30 Grand Designs ABC News 6.30 Foreign Correspondent 8.30 Midsomer Murders (M) 7.00 ABC News 7.30 One Plus One 8.00 6.00 Religion 7.00 Kids’ Programs 10.00 Compass Whatever hapInsiders 9.00 ABC News 9.30 Tonic 10.00 Hit List TV 12.00 I Fish 1.00 pened to the Freemasons? 10.00 ABC News 10.30 The World This Renovators 2.00 School Of Rock Oz 10.30 Strictly Speaking Week 11.00 ABC News 11.30 Australian 11.00 Foyle’s War (M) 12.30 Grand Story 12.00 Landline 1.00 Big Ideas Made 3.00 Losing It 4.00 Meet The Press 4.30 The Bolt Report 5.00 Ten Designs 1.25 Movie: The Moon Is 2.00 BBC World News 2.30 7.30 3.00 News 5.30 Jamie’s Thirty Minute Blue (PG 1953) US comedy. Stars BBC World News 3.30 7.30 Meals Maggie McNamara 3.05 The Qur’an 6.00 Ten News (M) 6.30 Bondi Vet 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.35 World News 7.30 Renovators 10.30 Football Asia 11.00 Football 8.30 Movie: X-Men Origins – 6.00 Kids’ Programs Wolverine (M 2009) US Feature 12.00 Futbol Mundial 7.00 At The Movies action. Stars Hugh Jackman 12.30 Speedweek 2.00 Al Jazeera 7.30 Gareth Malone Goes To News 3.00 Hitler’s Bodyguard 4.00 10.45 MotoGP: Czech 12.45 Glyndebourne Indigenous Football Festival 5.00 Infomercials 4.00 Religion 8.30 The Magnificent Tati Cycling Central 9.30 Making It Handmade (MA) 6.00 Trawlermen 10.30 Art Nation 6.30 World News Australia 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The 11.00 Miranda 11.30 Absolutely 7.30 Riddles Of The Sphinx Brady Bunch 8.30 Everybody Loves Fabulous 12.30 The Goodies 1.00 8.30 Dateline Raymond 9.00 Touched By An Angel Spectacle: John Prine, Lyle Lovett, Ray 9.30 Hubble’s Amazing Rescue 10.00 7th Heaven 11.00 The Love La Montagne 1.45 Close 10.30 Movie: The Secret Of The Boat 12.00 Diagnosis Murder 1.00 Jag 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 The King Of Grain (M 2007) French Queens 3.30 Cheers 4.00 Roseanne drama 6.05am to 5.35pm Kids’ Programs 1.10 Movie: Darling (M 2007) Swedish 4.30 Family Ties 5.00 Happy Days 6.00 The Legend Of Dick And Dom drama 2.50 Weatherwatch 5.30 The Brady Bunch 6.30 Horrible Histories 7.00 Trapped! 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage
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4.00 Gardening Australia 4.30 Collectors 5.00 Art Nation 5.30 The New Inventors 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.30 Business Today 10.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Landline 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Monarch Of The Glen 1.30 Cheese Slices 2.00 Poirot 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Time Team 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 Australian Story 8.30 Four Corners 9.15 Media Watch 9.35 Q&A 10.30 Lateline 11.05 Lateline Business 11.35 Brideshead Revisited 12.30 The Clinic (M) 1.25 Movie: The Clay Pigeon (PG 1949) US drama. Stars Bill Williams 2.30 The Graham Norton Show (M) 3.00 World Cup Bowls
6.05am to 5.30pm Kids’ Programs 6.00 Rated A For Awesome 6.15 Almost Naked Animals 6.25 Horrible Histories 7.10 Star Wars 7.35 Wolverine And The X-Men 8.30 Degrassi 9.00 Close
ABC 2 6.00 Kids’ Programs 7.00 Spicks And Specks 7.30 Cook Yourself Thin 8.00 Miranda 8.30 Collision (M) 9.30 Deadwood (MA) 10.20 The Graham Norton Show 10.50 Identity (M) 11.40 The Beast (M) 12.30 Spectacle: Bruce Springsteen 1.10 Close
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ABC 1 4.00 Hungry Beast (M) 4.30 New Guinea 5.00 First Tuesday Book Club 5.30 The New Inventors 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.30 Business Today 10.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Big Ideas 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Egypt Unwrapped 1.30 Surfing The Menu 2.00 Parliament Question Time 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Rick Stein’s Far Eastern Odyssey 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 Foreign Correspondent 8.30 Japan Tsunami How it happened 9.35 QI 10.00 Memoirs 10.30 Lateline 11.00 Lateline Business 11.30 Four Corners 12.15 Media Watch 12.30 Parliament Question Time 1.40 Pieces Of Me 2.30 The Graham Norton Show (M) 3.00 Big Ideas
ABC 2 6.00 Kids’ Programs 7.00 Spicks And Specks 7.30 Dirty Jobs 8.30 Good Game 9.00 School Of Comedy (M) 9.30 Misfits (MA) 10.20 Valemont (M) 10.45 The Graham Norton Show (M) 11.15 Arrested Development 11.35 The Office (M) 12.10 School Of Comedy (M) 12.35 Spectacle: Bruce Springsteen 1.20 Close
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ABC NEWS 24 4.00 ABC News 4.05 Big Ideas 5.00 ABC News 5.15 Environment Quarter 5.30 Asia Pacific Focus 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 ABC News 9.30 Business Today 10.00 ABC News 12.30 Inside Business 1.00 ABC News 2.30 Asia Pacific Focus 3.00 Afternoon Live 5.30 Capital Hill 5.45 Culture Quarter 6.00 ABC News 6.05 The Drum 6.45 The Quarters 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 ABC News 8.30 Lateline Business 9.00 The World 9.30 Q&A 10.30 ABC News 11.00 The Drum 11.45 Health Quarter 12.00 ABC News 12.20 Lateline 1.00 BBC World News 1.30 Lateline Business 2.00 BBC World News 2.30 7.30 3.00 Lateline 3.35 Lateline Business
SBS 1 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 5.45 Spanish Supercup LIVE – Real Madrid v Barcelona 8.00 World News 1.30 Dateline 2.30 Insight 3.30 Al Jazeera News 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Futbol Mundial 5.00 The Crew 5.30 Global Village 6.00 Letters And Numbers 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Mythbusters 8.30 Swift & Shift Couriers (M) 9.00 Pizza (M) 9.30 World News Australia
10.00 Flight Of The Conchords (M) 10.30 Skins (MA) 11.30 The World Game 12.30 Movie: Walk On Water (M 2004) Israeli drama 2.25 Weatherwatch
SBS 2 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News 6.00 Global Village 6.30 Iron Chef 7.30 The Lobotomist 8.30 Surgeons (M) 9.30 The World Game 10.30 Movie: Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown (M 1988) Spanish comedy 12.05 Weatherwatch
TEN 6.00 Ten News 7.00 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 Infomercial 3.30 Renovators 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News 6.30 6.30 With George Negus 7.00 The 7pm Project 7.30 Renovators 8.30 Can Of Worms (M) 9.30 Law & Order: Criminal Intent (M) 10.30 Late News With Sports Tonight 11.00 The Late Show 12.00 Saving Grace (M) 1.00 Infomercials 4.00 Religion
10.05 Hot Docs (M) 11.40 Movie: White Night (M 2007) 6.05am to 5.30pm Kids’ Programs Danish drama 1.20 Doctors Of Death 6.00 Rated A For Awesome 6.15 (M) 2.20 Weatherwatch Almost Naked Animals 6.25 Horrible Histories 7.10 Black Hole High 7.40 Wolverine And The X-Men 8.30 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News Degrassi: The Next Generation 9.00 6.00 Global Village Close 6.30 Iron Chef 7.30 Lost Worlds Civilisations 8.30 As It Happened Living With The Enemy 4.00 ABC News 4.05 Environment Quarter 4.20 The Drum 5.00 ABC 9.30 Movie: Aballay (M 2010) News 5.15 Health Quarter 5.30 Argentinian drama Newsline 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 11.30 Movie: Manitou’s Shoe 9.00 ABC News 9.30 Business Today (M 2001) German comedy 1.00 10.00 ABC News 12.30 Newsline 1.00 Weatherwatch ABC News 2.00 Question Time 3.30 Afternoon Live 5.30 Capital Hill 5.45 Arts Quarter 6.00 ABC News 6.05 The Drum 6.45 The Quarters 7.00 6.00 Ten News 7.00 Kids’ Programs ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.30 Lateline 9.00 Ten News 10.00 The Circle 12.00 Business 9.00 The World 10.00 The Dr Phil 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show 2.00 Drum 10.45 The Quarters 11.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Infomercial Newsline 12.00 ABC News 12.30 3.30 Renovators 4.30 The Bold And Lateline 1.00 BBC World News 1.30 The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News Lateline Business 2.00 BBC World 6.30 6.30 With George Negus News 2.30 7.30 3.00 Lateline 3.30 7.00 The 7pm Project 7.30 Modern Family Lateline Business 8.00 Renovators 8.30 NCIS (M) 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 9.30 NCIS: Los Angeles (M) 1.00 Movie: Waiting For Someone 10.30 Late News With Sports Tonight (M 2007) French drama 3.00 Australian Biography: Dame Beryl 11.00 Late Show 12.00 Saving Grace Beaurepaire 3.30 Al Jazeera News (M) 1.00 Infomercials 4.00 Religion 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Global Village 6.00 Letters And Numbers 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The 6.30 World News Australia Brady Bunch 8.30 Neighbours 9.00 7.30 Insight Touched By An Angel 10.00 7th 8.30 Cutting Edge Power surge Heaven 11.00 The Love Boat 12.00 9.30 World News Australia Diagnosis Murder 1.00 Jag 2.00
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Witch 6.30 Everybody Loves Raymond 7.30 The Simpsons 8.00 Futurama 8.30 Movie: Employee Of The Month (M 2006) US comedy. Stars Dane Cook 10.40 Smallville (M) 11.30 Angel (M) 12.30 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 1.00 The King Of Queens 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 World Tour Kitesurfing 6.30 World Championship Triathlon: London 7.30 City 2 Surf – LIVE 9.30 World Tour Tennis 10.00 Pro Bull Riding 11.00 World Of Free Sports 11.30 World Tour Snowboarding 12.00 NASCAR Sprint Cup 1.00 Pro Series Drag Racing 2.00 Isle Of Man TT 3.00 Omnisport 3.30 Extreme Dreams 4.30 Airline 5.30 I Fish 6.30 Extreme Dreams 7.00 125cc, Moto2 & MotoGP Motorcycle Racing LIVE – Czech 11.15 OneAsia Tour Golf 2.00 NASCAR Sprint Cup – LIVE
PRIME 6.00 Religion 7.00 Weekend Sunrise 10.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Breaking The Magician’s Code 12.00 Movie: The Legend Of Johnny Lingo (PG 2003) NZ adventure. Stars George Henare 2.00 AFL Premiership Season LIVE – Richmond v Sydney
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 The King Of Queens 3.30 Cheers 4.00 Roseanne 4.30 Family Ties 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 The Brady Bunch 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 6.30 Neighbours 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond 7.30 Futurama 8.30 Supernatural (M) 9.30 Being Human (M) 10.30 The Late Late Show 11.30 Cheers 12.00 Roseanne 12.30 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 1.00 The King Of Queens 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 6.00 500 Great Goals 6.30 NASCAR Sprint Cup 7.30 AFL Premiership Season: Hawthorn v Port Adelaide 10.00 ATP World Tour Tennis 10.30 Omnisport 11.00 UFC LIVE – Hardy v Lytle 1.30 City 2 Surf – LIVE 3.00 Omnisport 3.30 Extreme Dreams 4.00 Airline 4.30 Extreme Dreams 5.00 Guerrilla Gardeners 5.30 I Fish 6.00 Airline 6.30 Bondi Rescue 7.00 Cops 7.30 Fear Factor 8.30 24 (M) 9.30 One Week At A Time 10.30 Sports Tonight 11.00 MotoGP – Czech 1.00 One Week At A Time 2.00 Omnisport 2.30 Arsenal Football 5.30 MacGyver 3.00 The King Of Queens 3.30 Cheers 4.00 Roseanne 4.30 Family Ties 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 The Brady Bunch 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 6.30 Neighbours 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond 7.30 The Simpsons 8.00 Futurama 8.30 The Office (M) 9.30 Wilfred (MA) 10.00 Californication (MA) 10.40 The Late Late Show 11.30 Cheers 12.00 Roseanne 12.30 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 1.00 The King Of Queens 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 6.00 500 Great Goals 6.30 NASCAR Sprint Cup 7.30 AFL Premiership Season: Western Bulldogs v Essendon 10.00 MotoGP: Czech 12.00 One Week At A Time 2.00 24 (M) 3.00 Omnisport 3.30 Bondi Rescue 4.00 Airline 4.30 Extreme Dreams 5.00 Guerrilla Gardeners 5.30 I Fish 6.00 Airline 6.30 Bondi Rescue 7.00 Cops 7.30 Black Gold 8.30 Cops (M) 9.30 Movie: The Cooler (AV 2003) US drama. Stars William H Macy 11.30 Sports Tonight 12.00 NASCAR Sprint Cup 1.00 NASCAR Nationwide Series 2.00 Omnisport 2.30 Liverpool Football 5.30 FA Cup Classic
PRIME 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.30 Morning News 12.00 Lewis (M)
5.00 Destination New Zealand 5.30 Mercurio’s Menu 6.00 Seven News 6.30 Sunday Night 7.30 Highway Patrol 8.00 The Force 8.30 Bones (M) 9.30 Castle (M) 11.30 The First 48 (M) 12.30 Home Shopping 5.30 Seven News
’70s Show 6.00 According To Jim 6.30 Mythbusters 7.30 Mighty Structures 8.30 Movie: Pirates Of The Caribbean – The Curse Of The Black Pearl (M 2003) US adventure. Stars Johnny Depp 11.30 Seconds From Disaster 12.00 Strikeforce (M) 12.30 Great Grand Prix Racing Heroes 1.30 Man v Food 6.00 Home And Away 8.20 Ugly Betty 2.00 Adam 12 2.30 Six Million Dollar 9.10 Flipper 10.00 Britannia High Man 3.30 The Rockford Files 4.30 11.00 Movie: Gun Fury (PG 1953) Quantum Leap 5.30 Home Shopping Western. Stars Rock Hudson 12.45 Movie: The Blob (PG 1958) US scifi. Stars Steve McQueen 2.30 Movie: 6.00 ARL Schoolboy Cup 7.00 Pixel Perfect (G 2004) US comedy. Weekend Today 10.00 Wide World Of Stars Ricky Ullmanas 4.20 Movie: Sports 11.00 The Sunday Footy Show Loch Ness (G 1997) UK drama. Stars 12.00 The Sunday Roast 1.00 Wildfire Ted Danson 2.00 Top Design 3.00 The Block 6.30 Some Mothers Do ’ave 4.00 Sunday Football LIVE – St ’em George Illawarra Dragons v 7.00 The Lakes Sydney Roosters 7.30 Homes Under The 6.00 NBN News Hammer 6.30 The Block 8.45 Escape To The Country 7.30 60 Minutes 11.00 60 Minute Makeover 12.00 8.30 Movie: Terminator Living In The Sun 1.00 No Going Back Salvation (M 2009) 2.00 Minder 3.00 Leyland Brothers US action. Stars Sam World 4.30 The World Around Us 5.30 Worthington Home Shopping 11.00 CSI: Miami (M) 12.00 English Challenge Cup Rugby League 2.00 Skippy 2.30 Home Shopping 4.00 6.00 Million Dollar Catch 6.30 Six Good Morning America 5.00 Early Million Dollar Man 7.00 The Rockford Morning News Files 8.30 Adam 12 9.00 Man v Food 9.30 V8 Xtra 10.00 AFL Game Day 11.00 Quantum Leap 12.00 Grand 6.00 Kids’ Programs 12.00 The City Prix Racing Heroes 1.00 Car Sharks 12.30 Eclipse Music TV 1.00 Manly 2.00 Fifth Gear 3.00 Monster Garage Surf 1.30 Married With Children 2.00 5.00 Supercar Showdown 5.30 That
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PRIME 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.30 Morning News 12.00 Body Of Proof (M) 2.00 Dr Oz 3.00 10 Years Younger 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 Wild And Woolly 9.40 Suits (M) 11.30 Teen Wolf (M) 12.30 Heroes (M) 1.30 Home Shopping 5.30 News
7TWO 6.00 Raggs 6.30 Martha Stewart Show 7.30 Dr Oz 8.30 Sons & Daughters 9.00 Home & Away 9.30 Shortland Street 10.00 Coronation Street 10.30 Emmerdale 11.00 Designing Women 11.30 Deal Or No Deal 12.00 Hart To Hart 1.00 Grey’s Anatomy (M) 2.00 Murphy Brown 2.30 The Hogan Family 3.00 Perfect Strangers 3.30 Night Court 4.00 Movie: The Flying Fontaines (PG 1959) US drama. Stars Michael Callan 6.00 Bargain Hunt 7.00 Harry’s Practice 7.30 Heartbeat 9.45 Movie: Jane Austin’s Mansfield Park (PG 2007) UK drama. Stars Billie Piper 11.50 The Sweeney (M) 1.00 Movie: The Flying Fontaines 2.50 Hart To Hart 3.45 The Real Seachange 4.00 Coronation Street 4.30 Emmerdale 5.00 Home Shopping
2.00 Dr Oz 3.00 10 Years Younger 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 Four Weddings 8.30 Winners & Losers 9.30 Dinner Date 10.30 Hung (MA) 11.10 Parks And Recreation 11.40 Perfect Couples 12.00 House Calls To The Rescue 1.00 Home Shopping 5.30 News
7TWO 6.00 Raggs 6.30 Martha Stewart Show 7.30 Dr Oz 8.30 Sons & Daughters 9.00 Home & Away 9.30 Shortland Street 10.00 Coronation Street 10.30 Emmerdale 11.00 Designing Women 11.30 Deal Or No Deal 12.00 Hart To Hart 1.00 Grey’s Anatomy (M) 2.00 Murphy Brown 2.30 The Hogan Family 3.00 Perfect Strangers 3.30 Night Court 4.00 Movie: For Pete’s Sake (PG 1974) US comedy. Stars Barbara Streisand 6.00 Bargain Hunt 7.00 Harry’s Practice 7.30 Homes Under The Hammer 8.45 Around The World In 80 Trades 9.45 Keeping Up Appearances 10.15 Jonathan Creek (M) 11.15 Maisie Raine (M) 12.15 Minder 1.15 Movie: The Falcon’s Brother (PG 1942) US drama. Stars George Sanders 2.30 The Real Seachange 3.00 Hart To Hart 4.00 Coronation Street 4.30 Emmerdale 5.00 Home Shopping
Here’s Lucy 2.30 The Bachelorette 4.30 The Voice 6.30 Top Gear 7.30 Hamish & Andy’s Gap Year 8.30 The Big Bang Theory 9.30 Movie: Epic Movie (M 2007) US adventure. Stars Kal Penn 11.25 South Park (M) 12.25 Crash Course 1.25 Reno 911 (MA) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Married With Children 5.30 The Flintstones
GEM 6.00 Religion 6.30 Movie: Eight O’Clock Walk (PG 1953) UK drama. Stars Richard Attenborough 8.25 Movie: Tommy The Toreador (G 1959) UK comedy. Stars Tommy Steele 10.15 Movie: The Boy From Oklahoma (G 1954) Western. Stars Will Rogers Jr 12.05 Movie: The Black Stallion (G 1979) US adventure. Stars Mickey Rooney 2.35 Getaway 3.05 Movie: Captain Horatio Hornblower (G 1951) UK adventure. Stars Gregory Peck 5.30 Experience Europe 6.00 The Golden Girls 6.30 Antiques Roadshow 7.30 As Time Goes By 8.30 Movie: Fallen (M 1998) US drama. Stars Denzel Washington 11.00 Friends 11.30 The Golden Girls 12.00 Movie: Ransom (M 1975) UK drama. Stars Sean Connery 2.00 Home Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 Adventures In Rainbow Country 5.30 Today
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6.00 Million Dollar Catch 6.30 Six Million Dollar Man 7.30 The Rockford Files 8.30 Adam 12 9.00 NBC Today 10.00 NBC Meet The Press 11.00 Quantum Leap 12.00 Quincy ME 1.00 The Equalizer (M) 2.00 Malcolm And Eddie 2.30 Newsradio 3.00 Xena 4.00 Hercules 5.00 The Drew Carey Show 5.30 That ’70s Show 6.00 According To Jim 6.30 My Wife And Kids 7.00 That ’70s Show 7.30 No Ordinary Family 9.30 Family Guy (M) 10.30 American Dad (M) 11.00 Scrubs 12.00 Malcolm And Eddie 12.30 Newsradio 1.00 Six Million Dollar Man 2.00 Quantum Leap 3.00 Quincy ME 4.00 Hercules 5.00 Adam 12 5.30 Home Shopping
6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.30 Entertainment Tonight 11.00 TMZ 11.30 Married With Children 12.00 Here’s Lucy 12.30 Green Acres 1.00 Crash Course 2.00 The Dukes Of Hazzard 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Seinfeld 6.30 Two And A Half Men 7.00 Australia’s Funniest Home Videos 7.30 Top Gear 8.30 Two And A Half Men (M) 9.00 The Big Bang Theory 9.30 Movie: Year One (M 2009) US comedy. Stars Jack Black 11.40 South Park (M) 12.10 Hellcats 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Married With Children 5.30 The Flintstones
NBN 5.30 Today 9.00 Kerri-Anne 11.00 Danoz 12.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 1.00 The View 2.00 Days Of Our Lives 3.00 Alive And Cooking 3.30 Magical Tales 4.00 Kitchen Whiz 4.30 Afternoon News 5.30 Hot Seat 6.00 NBN News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 The Block 8.25 Lotto 8.30 Rescue Special Ops (M) 9.30 CSI: Miami (M) 11.30 Little Britain (M) 12.00 Super League 2.00 Infomercials 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News
GEM 6.00 Today 9.00 Alive & Cooking 9.30 The Zoo 10.00 Friends 11.00 Murder, She Wrote 12.00 The Golden Girls 1.00 The Block 6.00 Friends 7.00 The Zoo 7.30 Animal Kingdom 8.00 Gorilla School 8.30 David Attenborough’s Life Of Mammals 9.30 Kitchen Nightmares (MA) 10.30 The Big C (M) 11.00 Weeds (M) 11.30 Friends 12.30 Murder, She Wrote 1.30 The Golden Girls 2.00 Home Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 Adventures In Rainbow Country 5.30 Today
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6.00 Million Dollar Catch 6.30 Six Million Dollar Man 7.30 The Rockford Files 8.30 Adam 12 9.00 NBC Today 11.00 Quantum Leap 12.00 Quincy ME 1.00 The Equalizer (M) 2.00 Malcolm And Eddie 2.30 Newsradio 3.00 Xena 4.00 Hercules 5.00 The Drew Carey Show 5.30 That ’70s Show 6.00 According To Jim 6.30 My Wife And Kids 7.00 That ’70s Show 7.30 Mythbusters 8.30 Family Guy (M) 9.00 American Dad (M) 9.30 Family Guy (M) 10.30 American Dad (M) 11.00 Scrubs 12.00 Malcolm And Eddie 12.30 Newsradio 1.00 Six Million Dollar Man 2.00 Quantum Leap 3.00 Quincy ME 4.00 Xena 5.00 Adam 12 5.30 Home Shopping
6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.30 Entertainment Tonight 11.00 TMZ 11.30 Married With Children 12.00 The Backelorette 2.00 The Dukes Of Hazzard 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Seinfeld 6.30 Two And A Half Men 7.00 Australia’s Funniest Home Videos 7.30 The Voice 9.30 The Bachelorette 11.30 South Park (MA) 12.00 Eclipse Music TV 12.30 Super Storm (M) 1.30 Reno 911 (M) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Married With Children 5.30 The Flintstones
NBN 5.30 Today 9.00 Kerri-Anne 11.00 Danoz 12.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 1.00 The View 2.00 Days Of Our Lives 3.00 Alive And Cooking 3.30 Magical Tales 4.00 Kitchen Whiz 4.30 Afternoon News 5.30 Hot Seat 6.00 NBN News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 The Block 8.00 Hot Property 8.30 Top Gear 10.00 Megacities 11.15 Worst Case Scenario (M) 11.45 20/20 12.40 Entertainment Tonight 1.00 Skippy 1.30 Home Shopping 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News
GEM 6.00 Today 9.00 Alive & Cooking 9.30 The Zoo 10.00 Friends 11.00 Murder, She Wrote 12.00 Movie: Lease Of Life (G 1954) UK drama. Stars Robert Donat 2.00 Stingers (M) 3.00 McLeod’s Daughters 4.00 The Golden Girls 5.00 The Block 6.00 Friends 7.00 The Zoo 7.30 Zoo Babies 8.30 David Attenborough’s Life Of Mammals 9.30 Sensing Murder (M) 10.30 How Clean Is Your House 11.30 Friends 12.30 Murder, She Wrote 1.10 The Golden Girls 2.00 Home Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 Adventures In Rainbow Country 5.30 Today
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4.00 The Occasional Cook 4.30 Carbon Cops 5.00 The New Inventors 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.30 Business Today 10.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Big Ideas 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 National Press Club Address 1.30 Everest ER 2.00 Parliament Question Time 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.30 Grand Designs 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 The New Inventors 8.30 Spicks And Specks 9.00 The Gruen Transfer 9.30 Judith Lucy’s Spiritual Journey (M) 10.00 At The Movies 10.30 Lateline 11.05 Lateline Business 11.30 Wild China: Tides Of Change 12.25 Family Footsteps 1.20 Parliament Question Time 2.30 The Graham Norton Show (M) 3.00 Big Ideas
6.05am to 5.30pm Kids’ Programs 6.00 Rated A For Awesome 6.15 Almost Naked Animals 6.25 Horrible Histories 7.10 Black Hole High 7.35 Wolverine And The X-Men 8.30 Degrassi: The Next Generation 9.00 Close
ABC 2 6.00 Kids’ Programs 7.00 Spicks And Specks 7.30 Licence To Drill 8.30 Beauty And The Beast (M) 9.20 Ingrid Betancourt 6 years in the jungle 10.20 The Graham Norton Show 10.50 Skin Deep (M) 11.40 Shrink Rap: Chris Langham 12.30 Later: Kings Of Leon, VV Brown, Nicole Atkins, Carla Bruni, Metallica, Sway 1.30 Close
ABC NEWS 24 4.00 ABC News 4.05 Health Quarter 4.20 The Drum 5.00 ABC News 5.15 Indigenous Quarter 5.30 Newsline 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 ABC News 9.30 Business Today 10.00 ABC News 12.30 National Press Club Address 1.00 ABC News 2.00 Question Time 3.30 Afternoon Live 5.30 Capital Hill 5.45 Finance Quarter 6.00 ABC News 6.05 The Drum 6.45 The Quarters 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 ABC News 8.30 Lateline Business 9.00 The World 10.00 ABC News 10.05 The Drum 10.45 Arts Quarter 11.00 ABC News 11.30 Newsline 12.00 ABC News 12.20 Lateline 1.00 BBC World News 1.30 Lateline Business 2.00 BBC World News 2.30 7.30 3.00 Lateline 3.35 Lateline Business
SBS 1 4.30 UEFA Champions League LIVE 6.45 UEFA Champions League Delayed 9.00 World News 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Global Village 6.00 Letters And Numbers 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Tropic Of Capricorn
Diagnosis Murder 1.00 Jag 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 The King Of Queens 3.30 Cheers 4.00 Roseanne 4.30 Family Ties 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 The Brady Bunch 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 6.30 Neighbours 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News 7.30 The Simpsons 8.00 Futurama 6.00 Global Village 8.30 The Simpsons 6.30 Iron Chef 9.00 Futurama 7.30 Inspector Rex (PG/M) 10.15 UEFA Champions League 9.30 The Cleveland Show (M) 10.00 King Of The Hill Playoff 11.45 A Fork In The Mediterranean: 10.30 The Late Late Show 11.30 Cheers 12.00 Roseanne 12.30 Greece 12.20 Weatherwatch Sabrina 1.00 The King Of Queens 1.30 Happy Days 2.00 The Love Boat 3.00 Diagnosis Murder 4.00 Touched By 6.00 Ten News 7.00 Kids’ Programs An Angel 5.00 7th Heaven 9.00 Ten News 10.00 The Circle 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 Oprah Winfrey Show 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Infomercial 3.30 Renovators 4.00 6.00 500 Great Goals 6.30 NASCAR Everyday Gourmet 4.30 The Bold Sprint Cup 7.30 Pro Bull Riding 8.30 This Week In Baseball 9.00 Major And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News 6.30 6.30 With George Negus League Baseball – LIVE 12.00 Isle Of Man TT 1.00 NASCAR Nationwide 7.00 The 7pm Project Series 2.00 NASCAR Sprint Cup 3.00 7.30 Renovators Omnisport 3.30 Bondi Rescue 4.00 8.30 Talkin’ ’bout Your Airline 4.30 Extreme Dreams 5.00 Generation Guerrilla Gardeners 5.30 I Fish 6.00 9.40 The Defenders (M) Airline 6.30 Bondi Rescue 7.00 Cops 10.40 Late News With Sports 7.30 Twister Sisters 8.30 Cops (M) Tonight 9.30 Sons Of Anarchy (AV) 10.30 RPM 11.10 Late Show 12.10 Saving Grace 11.30 Sports Tonight 12.00 Pro Series (M) 1.00 Infomercials 4.00 Religion Drag Racing 1.00 Fear Factor 2.00 Omnisport 2.30 Bundesliga Football 5.30 FA Cup Classic 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
Australia 8.30 The Hotel 9.30 World News Australia 10.05 Movie: Remember Me (M 2003) Italian drama 12.15 112 Emergency 1.45 Weatherwatch
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6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.30 Morning News 12.00 Movie: To Love & Die (M 2009) US drama. Stars Shiri Appleby 2.00 Dr Oz 3.00 10 Years Younger 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 World’s Strictest Parents 8.30 Criminal Minds (M) 9.30 Covert Affairs (M) 10.30 Parking Wars 11.00 Detroit 1-8-7 (M) 12.00 Style By Jury 12.30 Home Shopping 5.30 News
6.30 Six Million Dollar Man 7.30 The Rockford Files 8.30 Adam 12 9.00 NBC Today 11.00 Quantum Leap 12.00 Quincy ME 1.00 The Equalizer (M) 2.00 Malcolm And Eddie 2.30 Newsradio 3.00 Xena 4.00 Hercules 5.00 The Drew Carey Show 5.30 That ’70s Show 6.00 According To Jim 6.30 My Wife And Kids 7.00 That ’70s Show 7.30 Pimp My Ride 8.30 Hardcore Pawn (M) 9.30 American Pickers 10.30 Ax Men (M) 11.30 Rude Tube (M) 12.00 Malcolm And Eddie 12.30 Newsradio 1.00 Six Million Dollar Man 2.00 6.00 Home Shopping 6.30 Martha Home Shopping 3.30 Room For Stewart Show 7.30 Dr Oz 8.30 Sons Improvement 4.00 Hercules 5.00 & Daughters 9.00 Home & Away 9.30 Adam 12 5.30 Home Shopping Shortland Street 10.00 Coronation Street 10.30 Emmerdale 11.00 Designing Women 11.30 Deal Or 5.30 Today 9.00 Kerri-Anne 11.00 No Deal 12.00 Hart To Hart 1.00 Danoz 12.00 The Ellen Degeneres Grey’s Anatomy 2.00 Murphy Brown Show 1.00 The View 2.00 Days 2.30 The Hogan Family 3.00 Perfect Of Our Lives 3.00 The Block 3.30 Strangers 3.45 Movie: Damn The Magical Tales 4.00 Kitchen Whiz Defiant (PG 1962) UK adventure. 4.30 Afternoon News 5.30 Hot Seat Stars Alec Guinness 6.00 Bargain Hunt 6.00 NBN News 7.00 Harry’s Practice 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 Heartbeat 7.30 The Block 8.40 Pie In The Sky 8.00 Top Design 10.40 Open All Hours 11.15 8.25 Lotto Going Straight 12.00 Minder 1.00 9.00 RPA Coronation Street 1.30 Emmerdale 11.00 Embarrassing Bodies (M) 12.00 2.00 Home Shopping 3.30 Room For Little Britain (M) 12.30 Eclipse Music Improvement 4.00 The World Around TV 1.00 Entertainment Tonight 2.00 Us 5.00 Home Shopping Home Shopping 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News
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GO! 6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.30 Entertainment Tonight 11.00 TMZ 11.30 Married With Children 12.00 Here’s Lucy 12.30 Spin City 1.00 Seinfeld 2.00 The Dukes Of Hazzard 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Seinfeld 6.30 Two And A Half Men 7.00 Australia’s Funniest Home Videos 7.30 Primeval 8.30 Two And A Half Men 9.00 The Big Bang Theory 9.30 Movie: Beowulf (M 2007) US action. Stars Ray Winstone 11.50 South Park (M) 12.20 Spartacus (AV) 1.30 Reno 911 (M) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Married With Children 5.30 The Flintstones
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GEM 6.00 Today 9.00 Alive & Cooking 9.30 The Zoo 10.00 Friends 11.00 Murder, She Wrote 12.00 Movie: Now And Forever (PG 1956) UK drama. Stars Jack Warner 2.00 Zoo Babies 3.00 McLeod’s Daughters 4.00 The Golden Girls 5.00 Top Design 6.00 Friends 7.00 The Zoo 7.30 Animal Kingdom 8.00 Gorilla School 8.30 My Strange Addiction (M) 9.30 The Closer (M) 10.30 Rizzoli & Isles (M) 11.30 Conan (M) 12.30 Murder, She Wrote 1.30 The Golden Girls 2.00 Home Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 Adventures In Rainbow Country 5.30 Today
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Please note: The Echo takes great care producing this guide, but unfortunately TV stations like to tinker with things at the last minute and sometimes make changes after we have gone to print.
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4.00 Headcases (M) 4.30 Message Stick 5.00 National Press Club Address 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.30 Business Today 10.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 The Ascent Of Money 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Little Dorrit (M) 1.30 Mother And Son 2.00 Parliament Question Time 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.30 Restoration Man 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 Catalyst 8.30 Crownies (M) 9.30 Junior Doctors (M) 10.25 Lateline 11.00 Lateline Business 11.30 Songbook: Texas 12.20 Parliament Question Time 1.20 Ballet Russes 2.20 Junior Doctors (M) 3.15 To The Manor Bowen (M)
6.05am to 5.30pm Kids’ Programs 6.00 Rated A For Awesome 6.15 Almost Naked Animals 6.25 Horrible Histories 7.10 Black Hole High 7.35 Iron Man 8.30 Degrassi 9.00 Close
ABC 2 6.00 Kids’ Programs 7.00 Spicks And Specks 7.30 Marngrook Footy Show 8.30 Arrested Development 9.00 How Not To Live Your Life (M) 9.30 The Gruen Transfer 10.00 The Thick Of It (M) 10.30 The Graham Norton Show (M) 11.00 The Chaser’s War On Everything (M) 11.30 Marngrook Footy Show 12.30 Later: David Gilmour, Roots Manuva, Elbow, Imelda May 1.30 Close
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by Ian Rogers Play at Seagulls Club, Thurs 6-10pm Australian number one Zhao Zong Yuan has shown a welcome return to form by winning the 19th ANU Open in Canberra. Zhao’s main challenge came from defending ANU Open Champion Andras Toth, who had beaten the top-seeded Grandmaster in 2010. A tense round 5 encounter, which saw Zhao unveiling some secret World Cup opening preparation, reversed the 2010 result. Post-game analysis involving Zhao and world number 3 Levon Aronian – the highest-rated spectator ever seen at an ANU Open – partially defused Zhao’s new opening idea. However, with the clock ticking Toth was unable to do the same and left Zhao a clear road to the title while a demoralised Toth fell outside the prize list. The following game, from the second round, was Zhao’s closest call in Canberra – in fact the top seed could not have been much closer to defeat, down to his last 30 seconds and facing a checkmating attack.
ABC NEWS 24 4.00 ABC News 4.05 Indigenous Quarter 4.20 The Drum 5.00 ABC News 5.15 Arts Quarter 5.30 Newsline 6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.00 ABC News 9.30 Business Today 10.00 ABC News 12.30 Newsline 1.00 ABC News 2.00 Question Time 3.30 Afternoon Live 5.30 Capital Hill 5.45 Food Quarter 6.00 ABC News 6.05 The Drum 6.45 The Quarters 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 ABC News 8.30 Lateline Business 9.00 The World 10.00 ABC News 10.05 The Drum 10.45 Consumer Quarter 11.00 ABC News 11.30 Newsline 12.00 ABC News 12.30 Lateline 1.00 BBC World News 1.30 Lateline Business 2.00 BBC World News 2.30 7.30 3.00 Lateline 3.30 Lateline Business
8.00 Oz And James’s Big Wine Adventure 8.30 Supersizers Go… 9.30 World News Australia 10.05 The Protectors (M) 11.10 UEFA Champions League Hour 12.10 Movie: Inspector Montalbano – The Spider’s Patience (M 2006) Italian crime 2.05 Weatherwatch
SBS 2 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News 6.00 Global Village 6.30 Iron Chef 7.30 New York 8.30 UEFA Champions League Playoff 10.00 Spanish Supercup Barcelona v Real Madrid 12.00 Movie: Like Chef, Like God (PG 2004) Greek drama 1.45 Weatherwatch
TEN
6.00 Ten News 7.00 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 Infomercial 3.30 Renovators 4.00 Everyday Gourmet 4.30 The Bold 4.30 UEFA Champions League And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News LIVE 6.30 6.30 With George Negus 6.45 UEFA Champions League 7.00 The 7pm Project Delayed 7.30 Renovators 7.45 FIFA U-20 World Cup LIVE 8.30 Law & Order (M) – semi finals 10.30 Late News With Sports 1.00 World News 2.30 Dateline 3.30 Tonight Al Jazeera News 4.00 The Journal 11.00 Late Show 12.00 Eureka (M) 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Global Village 1.00 Infomercials 4.00 Religion 6.00 Letters And Numbers 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 French Food Safari
SBS 1
2011 ANU Open White: P Broekhuyse Black: Zhao Zong Yuan Opening: Sicilian Defence 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.Bd3 Nf6 6.0-0 Qc7 7.Nc3 Bc5 8.Nb3 Be7 9.Qe2 d6 10.f4 Nc6 11.Be3 11.Bd2 and 12.Rae1 is a more common plan but Broekhuyse has a more aggressive idea in mind. 11...0-0 12.g4! Re8? The immediate 12...b5 was more precise but Zhao’s danger radar was not yet set to ‘High’. 13.g5 Nd7 14.Rf3 g6 15.Raf1 b5 16.Rh3 b4 17.Nd1 Nc5 17...Bf8-g7, well met by Nf2-g4, had already been tried and failed in an earlier game. 18.Nxc5 dxc5 19.Nf2 h5 20.e5 20.gxh6 was also strong. 20...Bb7 21.Rxh5!! Red8! The start of an amazing fightback, made even more amazing by the fact that after this move Zhao had left himself only 30 seconds on the clock (plus 10 second move increments), while his opponent had 35 minutes thinking time left. Taking the rook offer would have been fatal. 22.Ng4?! Too flashy. 22.Rh3! Nd4 23.Bxd4 Rxd4 (23...cxd4 24.Bxg6! fxg6 25.Qd3) 24.Qg4 gives a winning attack without complications. 22...Nd4! 23.Nh6+?! Going for broke. 23.Bxd4 Rxd4 24.Nf6+ Bxf6 25.gxf6 would allow Black to hang on after 25... Qc6! 26.Qg4 Qg2+!. 23...Kf8 24.Bxd4 Rxd4 25.Rh3? Now Broekhuyse is hit with a massive counterattack. After 25.Nxf7!! gxh5 26.Qxh5 Black would have had to find the unlikely defence 26... Ke8!! to survive (and prosper). Given Zhao’s time trouble, defeat was just as likely as victory. 25... c4! 26.Bxg6 Bc5! 27.Re3 A sad necessity, but now the White attack is over and Zhao can vacuum up all the sacrificed pieces. 27...fxg6 28.f5!? exf5 29.Nxf5 gxf5 30.Rxf5+ Kg7 31.e6 Re4 32.Qh5 Bxe3+ 33.Kf1 Rf4+ 34.Ke1 Bf2+ 35.Kf1 Bd4+ 36.Ke1 Rxf5 37.Qh6+ Kg8 38.Qg6+ Bg7 39.Qxf5 Rf8 0-1
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Baseball 5.00 Omnisport 5.30 FA Shopping Cup Classic
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 The King Of Queens 3.30 Cheers 4.00 Roseanne 4.30 Family Ties 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 The Brady Bunch 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 6.30 Neighbours 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond 7.30 The Simpsons 8.30 Stargate Universe (M) 9.30 Star Trek: Next Generation 10.30 The Late Late Show 11.30 Cheers 12.00 Roseanne 12.30 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 1.00 The King Of Queens 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 6.00 500 Great Goals 6.30 NASCAR Sprint Cup 9.30 ATP World Tour Tennis 10.00 Major League Baseball – LIVE 1.00 Pro Series Drag Racing 2.00 RPM 3.00 Omnisport 3.30 Bondi Rescue 4.00 Airline 4.30 Extreme Dreams 5.00 Guerrilla Gardeners 5.30 I Fish 6.00 Airline 6.30 Bondi Rescue 7.00 Cops 7.30 America’s Port 8.30 The Game Plan 9.30 Breakout Kings (M) 10.30 Sports Tonight 11.00 The Ultimate Fighter (M) 12.00 The Game Plan 1.00 NASCAR Sprint Cup 2.00 Omnisport 2.30 Major League
ACROSS 1. Shafts about 1000, and confesses:… (6) 4. … fearless, I printed scandal … (8) 10. … to gain publicity opportunity … (9) 11. …to publish complete …(5) 12 … works of Lassie on the
6.30 Six Million Dollar Man 7.30 The Rockford Files 8.30 Adam 12 9.00 NBC Today 11.00 Quantum Leap 12.00 Quincy ME 1.00 The Equalizer (M) 2.00 Malcolm And Eddie 2.30 Newsradio 3.00 Xena 4.00 Hercules 5.00 The Drew Carey Show 5.30 That ’70s Show 6.00 According To Jim 6.30 My Wife And Kids 7.00 That ’70s Show 7.30 Swamp People 8.30 How I Met Your Mother 9.30 Operation Repo (M) 10.30 Jail (M) 11.30 Heliloggers (MA) 12.30 Malcolm And Eddie 1.00 Six Million 6.00 Home Shopping 6.30 Martha Dollar Man 2.00 Quantum Leap 3.00 Stewart Show 7.30 Dr Oz 8.30 Sons Quincy ME 4.00 Xena 5.00 Adam 12 & Daughters 9.00 Home & Away 9.30 5.30 Home Shopping Shortland Street 10.00 Coronation Street 10.30 Emmerdale 11.00 Designing Women 11.30 Deal Or 5.30 Today 9.00 Kerri-Anne 11.00 No Deal 12.00 Hart To Hart 1.00 Danoz 12.00 The Ellen Degeneres Grey’s Anatomy (M) 2.00 Murphy Show 1.00 The View 2.00 Days Brown 2.30 The Hogan Family 3.00 Of Our Lives 3.00 The Block 3.30 Perfect Strangers 3.30 Night Court Magical Tales 4.00 Kitchen Whiz 4.30 Columbo 4.30 Afternoon News 5.30 Hot Seat 6.00 NBN News 6.00 Bargain Hunt 7.00 A Current Affair 7.00 Harry’s Practice 7.30 The Block 7.30 Doc Martin 8.30 Hamish & Andy’s Gap 8.30 William And Mary (M) Year 10.40 Movie: Midnight Express (AV 1978) UK drama. Stars Brad Davis 1.15 9.30 The NRL Footy Show (M) Movie: A Date With The Falcon (PG 11.15 The AFL Footy Show (M) 1.00 1945) US drama. Stars George Sanders Entertainment Tonight 1.30 Skippy 2.30 Leyland Brothers World 3.30 2.00 Infomercials 3.30 Good Morning The Real Seachange 4.00 Coronation America 5.00 Early Morning News Street 4.30 Emmerdale 5.00 Home
6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.30 Morning News 12.00 McMillan & Wife 2.00 Dr Oz 3.00 10 Years Younger 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 Drug Bust 8.00 Crash Investigation Unit 8.30 Pawn Stars 9.30 Law & Order: LA (M) 11.30 Off The Map (M) 12.30 Trauma (M) 1.30 Home Shopping 5.30 News
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25. A mark denoting fate (5) 26. Idiot rant – silly custom (9) 27. Looks after, in advance, claims? (8) 28. Scientologist’s holiday (6) DOWN 1.Radical 10, confused but forward-looking (5-5) 2. Passover one source of entertainment (5) 3. John Laws’s golden works around both poles (7) 5. Requires new mixed seed (5) 6. Actors mumble regret, say, and a cutting remark (7) 7. Shoot an old chook? That’s a pretty ordinary effort (9) 8. Hurry, back first quadrella in 26 (4) 9. Security devices find hair under the bed (8) sly during the Christmas holiday 13. Help idiot individual break! (3,5,6) with attitude (10) 14. Range and directions (5) 15. Free fire (9) 16. Effeminate rings – we hear in 17. Rising swimming star song that they’re coming! (9) is wise, we hear, about 18. Sacking and prayer book state of the galaxy (6,3) following hell (9) 19. Set apart saint in ten 20. Company… Right! Private, dead (7) you’re a dog! (5) 20. Messenger for the 21. Ugly thug .. Hoot! Hooray! firm: Fraudulent illusionist Not the way to talk (7,4,3) dominates Queen! (7)
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fight like giant whiting. Anyway I eventually landed him and, unusual for me, I kept him. It gets better. I peddalled back into position; next cast nothing. Third cast: bang on again and same kind of fight. I was shaking with excitement after this encounter and would you believe on the fourth cast, the lure didn’t even hit the bottom. This schoolie hit it on the drop. Cool! I had a quick thought back to my last encounter with schoolies, up behind the sugar mill at
The Kingscliff Netball Club is the fastest growing and most progressive netball club in the Tweed District. From its inception in 2009, the club has grown from two teams to now boasting ten teams in 2011, with ages ranging from six years to Open Senior Division 1 players. The teams vary widely in ability and skill level from first-time players to seasoned Representative players for the Tweed Netball Association, Tweed Academy of Sport, Junior Jags and Tweed Open Cadbury Schweppes Cup. Recently six of our players represented the Tweed Netball Association in two divisions at the QLD Country Netball Championships held in Brisbane. They were Carly George (Opens), Tess McLeod, Mahleah Chadburn, Julia King, Angela Clark and Jasmine Sandall (U/15 Division 1). Other players of note are Mariah Curtis, who plays in the Kingscliff Stars and is a Representative Player for the South Coast Netball AssociaCondong where I shared my tion and Grace Lawson from catch with a shark. Not this Twisters, who is a Representatime. L. Spencer, H. Bardsley, M. Picking. * J. The fish disappeared as def. Clark, J. Rynan, D. Turner def. B. Orchard, K. quickly as they’d arrived and Davies, E. Hunt. * B. Huygen, V. Cunningham, within half an hour the place D, McNamara def. M. Ingley, J. Withington, M. Gwynne. * R. Reiter, D. Kendall, H. Ramsay def. was holding ten boats. B. LeBouef, I. Muldoon, C. Hawkins. * D. DunIt was one of those days can, K. Cusack, J. Smith def. G. Evans, J. Simins, Robinson. * M. Cerane, P, Southern, def. K. where everything went right. V.Figura, J. Green. I’d look at a particular spot Tweed Heads Men and think ‘There’s a flathead Monday, August 8, 2011 2011 Pennants Round Round 1 results in there’. Then I’d go straight in Division 1 against Broadbeach lost 52/57 nil with the Nuke Chook and wait, points, Division 2 against Beenleigh lost 42/60 points, Division 4 against Musgrave Hill lost wait and bang! A really good nil 51/75 nil points, Division 5 against Musgrave day’s outing as just I kept find- Hill lost 61/66 nil points, Division 6 against Helensvale lost 64/66 nil points, Division 7 ing fish. More of this please.
Sunday Dummy Spitter Tony Gates. Cudgen Leagues Ladies Consistency Singles Helen Wylie def Ann Revie;Michelle Van Run def June Wotherspoon;Joanne Dent def Sharon Hinks;Maureen Alcorn def Judy Martin;Liz Fleming def Pat Pieterse; Lorraine Sandall def T McGee. Thurs 4 winning rink 1 Liz Fleming, Beryl Mapp (marker)Raffle Roni Stevens. Cudgen Leagues Men Minor Pairs Championship Les Browning & Fred Smith def Mick Ryan & Ken Hansen 32/8, Keith Foran & Bill Bell def Jeff Hazell & Graham Border 24/13 and Brien Murray & Jim McGill def Keith Foran & Bill Bell 29/13. Social Monday’s Mixed Mufti winners C. Street, E. Street & A. Cabana, Wednesday’s Mufti Men’s triples club selected winners A. Reid, L. Morris & G. Whelan Losers N. Thomas & B. Neil. Friday Mixed Pairs winners John & Faye T Saturday’s Men’s Triples winners Barry Cusack & Fred Smith, losing winners P. Tindale, I. Tilly & D. McLennan. Kingscliff Ladies Results August 6 Social Play, Wednesday, August 3: Winners: A. Graham/ R. Clarke. Pennant Play Friday, July 29: Division 2: Kingscliff 4 1/2, Tweed Heads 1/2; Division 3: Kingscliff 1, Burleigh Heads 4. Pennant Play Friday, August 5: Division 2: Kingscliff 0, Tugun 5; Division 3: Kingscliff 1/2, South Tweed 4 1/2. Kingscliff Men President’s Singles. Vic Lewis 21 d Ken Banks 21. In the Pennants, Divisions 1, 6 and 9 all enjoyed wins at home. Results of Round 1 Major Minor Pairs: D Whittington, B Turner d K Dawson, T Hills; R Phipps, T King d D Roughley, G Barrack; J Julius, K Jordan, I Smith d W Blackwood; B Henry, B Beattie d A Simpson, J McDonald; T Wonka, J Akers d T Halloran, R McLeay; K Taylor, R Lewis, K Lliddington d H Hockey; Social Bowls Results: Thursday 4th August: Winners: M Redfern, R Hall, D Smith; J Bonnett, C lane, J Mirls; G Hallett, A Simpson, K Ridout. Plate Winners: H Moores, R Sharpe, R Ford. Saturday 6th August: Winners: R Stephens, R
Hayes, D Ross; J McDonald, K Groves. Plate Winners: O Cunningham, J Easter, S Lofber, R Carnes. Tweed Heads Ladies Tuesday Fours B. LeBouef, A. Nash, B. Sydenham, M. Gunton def. J. Thurley, M. Fysh, B. Crane, V. Kitchener. * R. Ash, M. Croghan, P. Clarke, A. Duckworth def. G. Gorgenyi, B. Adams, L. Vidulich, G. Deveson, * A. Duddy, K. Bester, A. Boyes, P. Grotegoed, def.L. Turner, A. Harris, S. Hambleton, M. Picking. * A. Warman, H. Bardsley, D. Evans, W. Grant def. G. Keech, S. Rushton, P. Reedy, D. Fysh. * B. Huggen, J, Clake, R. Thomassen, S. Ganter def. S. Lusby, J. Wike, M. Blagborough, K. Robinson. * K. Sieben, N. Bell, M. Heydt, P. Henderson, def. N. Hutton, I. Wilson, J. Reekie, J. Dean. * R. Witt, D. Hunt, M. Crane, E. Bradley def. J. Ware, J. Ware, L.A. French, S. Goldsmith. * C. Hawkins, S. Hanlon, B.Makin, C. Cragg def. J. Romlin, M. Hellyer, J. Ward, L. Holstock. * S. Spears, D. King, C. Boyle, A. Martin, def. R. Reiter, J. GIlroy, D. Kendall, H. Ramsay. * D. Stewart, S. Jackson, J. Green, M. Purcell def. J. Webster, M. Gwynne, J. Smith, B. Bitmead. Wednesday Pairs - J. Badenoch, M. Davy def. L. Rayward, M. Dare. * K. Figura, A. Ebsworth def. V. Moore, R. Curtis. * P. Clark, H. Mason def. J. Lynch, J. Williamson, * B. Makin, V. Young def. F. Martin, P. Dearlove. * K. Rogalski, J. Rogalski def. M. Rodgers, I Muldoon. * L.A. French, M. Little, A. Plowright def. G. Horlock, S. Asser, P. Southern. * D. Duncan, J. Gilroy def. B. LeBouef, N. Bell. * G. Evans, M. Purcell def. N. Wise, J. Hoffman. * B. Bryant, F. Hewitt def. A. Morrissey, V. Neill. * M. Cooper, E. Simpson def. A. Harris, V. Cunningham * P. Mann, J. Finney def. P. Griffith, L. Elsey. Thursday Triples - J. Webster, B. Fox, S. Rushton def. D. Spencer, N. Matheson, S. Ganter. * S. Wilson, J. White, K. Henshaw def. K. Sullivan, C. Keane, J. Pearce. * A. Warman, J. Gilroy, C. Cragg def. M. Jarick, B. Jacobsen, B. Bradley. * J. Lyon, S. Taylor, M. Purcell def. N. Wise, M. Cooper, F. Hewitt. * H. Reid, T. Congdon, N. Dowling def. S. Lusby, B. Rodger, S. Asser. * M. Kelly, N. Ward, D. Woods def. J. Patton, J. Kerkow, A. Martin. * J. Wilson, A. Nash, A. Duckworth def. P. Clarke, D. Stewart, J. Finney. * N. Craig, D. King, N. Bell def. M. Baxter, D. Evans, P, Govett. * J. Ryan, S. Hambleton, B. Bitmead
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Wow! Terranora Broadwater is proving to be a hot spot for fishing. I’ve caught such a variety of fish there including mangrove jack, golden, silver and giant trevally and bream and whiting, but early Sunday I caught my first school jew. It was strange as I had slept in and didn’t get on the water till around 7am and, unusual for a Sunday, I couldn’t spot another fisho anywhere. I headed straight for one of the secret holes, and as I fished it I noticed smouldering embers of a camp fire by the edge of the water. The Phantom? I should have known things were different as I caught heaps of little tailor trawling on the way there; I landed a couple of decent choppers but the babies seemed to be everywhere. I fished the 15–20 foot hole using a 1/12oz TT jig head with a Nuclear Chicken gulp three-inch minnow, letting the jig head hit the bottom then sharply lifting the rod tip a metre or so, taking up the slack and repeating. When the first mullaway hit the lure, it pulled my rod tip into the water. What’s this? I was thinking trev but soon those telltale head shakes of a schoolie told me differently. The drag was screaming, so I peddalled away from any snags. I stood up on the hobie and had a lot of fun pulling this fish in. Again, I had no net with me so I had to be careful getting him in. I got it close to the yak three times. Each time he’d look at me then bolt. I reckon they
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BOWLS Cabarita Men Pairs Winners G Knight & K McClelland 2nd L Ponting & K Stanley 3rd R Everett & M Azzopardi, 4th D Crow & S Brecard, 5th G Lake & C Bailey, 6th M Penfold & J Norris. Round winners R Tonkin & J Hay, I Smith & K Liddington,G Rasmussen & D Vegter. Best performed Cabarita team M Morgan & B Venner. Championship Triples (SemiFinal) C Klaverstyn,R Parlett & G Searle def J McArdle,M Morgan & B Griffith. Cook, P Schofield & B Lambert def E Kolbee,C Sheppard & S Anderson. 6/8/11 Social winners J Hammersley, L Robson & K Ross. cons B Creedon & L Freeman. 8/8/11 Winners G Lake & D Hopps r/up M James & T Kingcons G Rasmussen & Woody. Cabarita Beach Women August 4: NZ Playaway Group Visit. The Kiwis were the winners on the day with the winning rink prize going to Robyn Michelson, Syd Payne, Doreen Thornhill and Edna Harper while the consolation prize went to Tina Hogg, Selwyn McNicholl, Barbara Cox (Caba) and Trevor Rayner. Random prizes Carmen Henry (Kingscliff), Jackie Peacock (NZ), Sylvia McDermott (NZ) and Brian Jones (S.Aust). August 9: Social Bowls. Winning rink Barry Petty, Den Healy, Archie Campbell. Consolation Fay Wright, Katherine Lynch and AnnetteMcLean. Raffles Barry Petty, Ken Ross and Robyn Wickbold. Condong Ladies Results Tues 2/8/11 Winning Rink N Worthy & R Ross. Club Comp Winner P Flack. Condong Men Wednesday 1 full green used winners were B Dunne, B Young, T Kennedy 2nd place W Rice, C Douglas. Raffle winners R Nelson, B Young. Open Singles played B Clifford def C Pawlak. Thursday 4th semi final of Round Robin winners: Cabarita def Brunswick Heads, Pottsville def Condong. Saturday winners were J Wood, S Overgard, P Dunes r/ups S Knight,J Knight, S Knight.Raffle scotch Tony Gates.
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against McKenzie Park won 74/49 2 points, Division 8 against Helensvale Red lost 44/64 nil points, Division 9 against Kingscliff lost 53/78 nil points. Championships: Senior Singles [65 and over] results Round 3, Quarterfinals: Dennis Freeman d. John Reardon 25/21; Roy Nuttall d. John Griffiths 25/22; Jim Hammersley d. Gary Hewitt 25/9; John Strachan received a walk over Social Results Sun July 31: Green 1: K & E Sonter, B & W Patmore; r/up: D & J Thompson, B. Wells,G. Chidgey Green 2: Jan McLaughlin, Dennis Ely, Betty and Noel Hodge; r/up: R & R Davis, S & K Mitchell Green 3: Val and Roger Jones, Liz and Eric Braley; r/up: Neil and Joan Deslandes, Pam and Ben Grotegoed Green 4:Terry and S. Sanders, Bev and J. Coles; r/up: Lois and Ron Lees, Pauline and Gordon McIntyre Tues Aug 2: Men: Green 1: Frank Dawson, John Easter, Brian Newcombe, Alan Stephen; r/up: Trevor Daly, Geoff Turner, Peter Chatfield, Gordon Badenoch Green 2: Oscar Cunningham, George Craig, Val McGrath, Laurie Lennox; r/up: Neil Deslandes, Ted Helyer, David Taylor, Graham McNamara. Ladies: Green 3: Renee Laycock, Margaret Marquis, Jan Tynan, Cynthia Hall; r/up: Carolyn Davis, Betty Graham, Beth Jacobson, Helen Carter Green 4: Judy Badenoch, Nancy Ward, Pam Govett, Margaret Davy; r/up: Kaye McNamara, Joan Deslandes, Shirley Taylor, Pauline Taylor Wed Aug 3: Lowest Winning Margin Green 1: Errol Perkins, Oscar Cunningham, John Archer + 2; r/up: Neil Flett, Roy Barwick, Jim Quin + 3 Green 2: Bill Boyle, Ross Cali, Keith Downey + 4; r/up: Ramsay MacDonald, Norm Hoffman, Vince Leather + 8 Green 3: Jim O’Neill, John Easter, Jim A. Smith, John Thompson + 2; r/up: Ray White, Bill Dempsey, Rod Stebbins, Ron Gleep + 3 Green 4: Barry Milburn, Neil Lewis, Roger Graf + 5 on c/b; r/up: Richard Mills, Mike Alder, Ron Taylor + 5 New Member: President Peter welcomed new member Bill Ornsby to Tweed Heads Bowls Club Fri Aug 5:
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tive Player in the Open Division for TNA. The club is equally proud and very supportive of all its members. The coach of one of the U/9s teams, Michelle Webster, describes her team, the Purple Hearts, as being friendly, quiet and enthusiastic with ages ranging from six to nine years and with all players being novices to the sport of netball. Michelle says her girls have great team spirit and each week are progressing with new skills and understanding of the game. They love coming to training, have the best fun playing netball for KNC and proudly wear their uniform. The current TNA Competition Ladder indicates the majority of the KNC teams will be eligible for playing in the semi-finals with the most successful team, the Kingscliff Stars in Division 2, being clear leaders. Deb Curtis, coach of the Stars, attributes their success to their total commitment to the game, ability to focus on the task at hand and being able to enjoy playing the game with their friends who have been together since the U/8s.
The success of the Kingscliff Netball Club is largely due to the innovative, dynamic and proactive club president, Julie Sandall, whose enthusiasm and dedication to the sport of netball is well known. Julie is supported by an equally impressive team of devoted committee members who work tirelessly throughout the season to ensure the best possible outcomes are achieved by the club. The club currently has National Badged Umpires, qualified First Aid Officers, and this season has seen our number of qualified Netball coaches increase from three to now thirteen. All of our club officials, coaches and managers hold a current QLD Blue Card / Working With Children authorisation. Any information about Kingscliff Netball Club can be accessed via the Tweed Netball Association website: www. tweednetball.com.au. Follow the link to ‘Clubs’ or phone club president, Julie Sandall on 02 6674 5705, or our club secretary Shirley Clark on 02 6676 3719.
Green 1: Brian Meara, Ernie Robbins, Alan Taylor; r/up: Bill Davies, Val McGrath, George Mynott Green 2: Mike Goddard, Jim Croghan, Ron Edwards; r/up: John Griffiths, Laurie Cooper, Gordon Holthouse Green 3: Bob Sonter, George Chidley, Basil Wells; r/up: Les Rosevear, Fred Lynch, Ron Duckworth Green 4: Tom Wotton, John LeBoeuf, Frank Holdsworth; r/up: Barry Milburn, Col Robinson, Howard Waye Sat Aug 6: Green 1: Kaye and Gilbert Sprowle; r/up: Al Blake, Ken Schmidt Green 2: Fred McIntyre, John Lewis; r/up: Dan Holt, Brian Irby, Brian Neill, Ron Hottinger DARTS Tweed Valley Results for the 8.8.11 Blues 15 def Ramseys Heros’ 0, Jokers 13 def Lions 2, Gulls 11 def Hogan Heros 4 Moon Guppies 6 def Devils 5, We’re Back 8 def Boomerangs 3, Leftovers 6 def Chuckers 5, Tigers 6 def Misfits 5 POINT SCORES. I apologise if this is wrong. A Grade Jokers 71, Blues 69, Hogan Heros 42, Gulls 39, Lions 17. B Grade Misfits 42, We’re Back 38, Tigers 34, Chuckers 32, Devils 31, Ramseys Heros’ 30, Moon Guppies 27, Leftovers 25, Boomerangs 12. Congradulations to Jim King (Blues), Mick Duncan(Gulls), Jason Anderson, Brett Atkinson(Jokers), Graham Cameron(MoonGuppies) all Throw 180’s GOLF Chinderah Seniors Social Results for 1/8/11 Stableford Winner A grade Kevin Martin 41 points new h/cap 4,R/up Bob Keane 40 points new h/ cap 0. Winner B grade Ria Cahill 38 points(c/back) new h/cap 17, R/up Robert Northey 38 points new h/cap 17. Winner C grade Bob Swanson 39 points new h/cap 28, R/up Kath Gordon 38 points(c/ back) new h/cap 19. Ball rundown to 37 points. Results for 4/8/11 Stableford Winner A grade Ray Bruce 37 points new h/cap 8, R/up Stan Wills 36 points(c/back) new h/cap 12. Winner B grade Tom Cassin 41 points new h/cap 13, R/up Kathy Griffiths 40 points new h/cap 16. Winner C grade Greg McKelvey 42 points new h/cap 19, R/up Norm Agent 41 points new h/cap 21.Ball rundown to 37 points(c/ back). Murwillumbah Golf Club Sunday 31 July Women’s Winner K.Armstrong 39 pts Members S.Murnane 40 pts N.Pin 2nd Women I.McCormack members R.Souter B.R.D. 38 pts Monday 1 August Veterans Individual Stroke Winner C.Somerville 67 nett R.Up A.Fraser 70 nett N.Pin 2nd H.Axford 8th H.Axford 10th K.Blyth B.R.D to 71 nett Wednesday 3rd A.Grade J.Johnson 39 pts c.b R.Up G.Veares 39 pts B.Graede D.Burgess 42 pts R.Up T.Carter 41 pts N.Pin 2 J.Thompson 10 D.Watts B.R.D to 34 pta c.b Wednesday Sporters Winner D.Watts 140 pts with 120 start Club Winner D.Veares 24 pts N.Pin 8 J.Gray
B.R.D. to 19 pts c.b Saturday 6th Individual Stroke Murwillumbah Open Saturday winners J.Akehurst 66 nett R.Up G.Veares 68 nett B.Grade G.Carroll 64 nett R.Up R.Rattray 65 nett C.Grade M.Shields 66 nett R.Up K.Forster 67 nett D,Grade g.Sevil 62nett R.Up G.Crosse 65 nett N.Pins 2 F.Monement 8 B.Davies 10 D.Endcott 14 A.Hunt B.R.D. to 72 nett c.b Sunday 7th Womens Winner I.McCormack 72 nett Members D.Noon 63 nett R.Up J.Quinn 67 nett B.R.D to 72 nett Winner Laruie & Glad Jenkins Mmeorial Shiels K.Forster with 133 Nett best Gross D.Van Egdom 153 gross NETBALL Kingscliff NonCompetitive: * U/8s Kingscliff Twinkles Def Terranora Terrors 172. Player of the Match: Savanna Sillars. * U/9s Kingscliff V. Cudgen Cougars. Lost. Player of the Match: Lucy Byrnes. Competitive” * U/10s Kingscliff Meteors Def Saints Fireflies 267. Player of the Match: Holly MacDonald. * Division 3: Kingscliff Twisters Def Banora Point Road Runners 2423. Player of the Match: Mahoney Rogers. * Division 2: Kingscliff Stars Def Kingscliff Astrals 3617. Player of the Match: Abby Wilson. * Division 1: Kingscliff Avatars Def SCU on a Forfeit. SHOOTING Murwillumbah Pistol Club 3-Aug-11: Air Pistol - R Cavanagh 600, P Melnikas 574. 6-Aug -11: Standard Pistol - N Davis 612, A Berry 600, D Edginton 587, J Maclachlan 571, B Kleem 569, S Nash 560, J Lumsden 545, R Fleming 545, P Norris 542, W Byrne 540, K Hansen 539, R Rees 530, A Uren 528, A Gazzard 522, J Hoctor 518, J Gove 516, S Dundon 496, J Bair 492, D Gazzard 386. Air Pistol - J Higgins 660, D Reid 578, R Cavanagh 576, P Stupka 572. Ladies Air - E Bartrim 387, H Luna 373, E Reid 340. 7-Aug-11; Rifle - D Gazzard 689, E Reid 594, J Guinery-Smith 592, B Welsh 592, B Wenban 584, E Wenban 578, R Cavanagh 576, J Duckworth 571, J Lumsden 570, N Luxton 563, M Luxton 555, R Blair 548. Standard Pistol - D Reid 619, A Gazzard 480. Air Pistol - R Cavanagh 566. Please visit the Clubs website www.murwillumbahpistolclub. org.au for more information. Murwillumbah Rifle Club Fullbore: Shooting was at 800 yards in good conditions for the monthly trophies. Winners were Stuart Waddell Fullbore and Paul Weeks Scope class. S.Waddell 99.13, 1, 100.13; W.Shoobridge 99.6, 1, 100.6; B.Barrett 82.3, 17, 99.3; S.Dolan 96.10, 2, 98.10; D.Phippard 95.9, 3, 98.9. Scope: P.Weeks 116, 7, 123; A.Glover 104, 15, 119; Rama 98, 16, 114; G.Morris 106.5, 7, 113.5. Military: S.Dolan 80.3; P.Weeks 77; W.Shoobridge 46.2; P.Loxley-Lewis 42.1. Modified: Bob Clinch 66. Smallbore: 50 metres: C.Freeman 388, 18, 406; A.Glover 395, 8, 403; R.Couch 395, 8, 403; Rama 389, 13, 402 ; G.Johnston 389, 12, 401; J.Malek 387, 13, 400; W.Shoobridge 391, 7, 398; T.Lamb 384, 13, 397; W.Sunderland 388, 7, 395.
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Chris Holt The McGrath network covers all areas in Tweed-Byron with offices in Tweed Heads and Ballina/Byron Bay. Chris Holt, McGrath 0438 361 111 35 Wharf St, Tweed Heads
Broncos Tigers Warriors Sea Eagles Storm Rabbitohs Dragons Sharks
Alison Harman Never underestimate the power and hidden talents of a blonde! The Tweed Echo 02 6672 2280 www.tweedecho.com.au
Broncos Tigers Warriors Eels Storm Raiders Dragons Bulldogs
Phil Harris Signfix is a major supplier of sign fixing systems with many of its products approved by road transport departments across Australia. For all your sign fixing needs call Signfix. Unit 4 / 7 Wheeler Cres, Currumbin 07 5598 4319 • mail@signfix.com.au
Cowboys Tigers Knights Sea Eagles Titans Rabbitohs Dragons Sharks
Barry Schadel The Byron Bay Brewery and Buddha Bar/Restaurant is the home of Byron Bay Premium Ale and one of Byron’s newest attractions. Open from lunch until late, seven days a week. 1 Skinners Shoot Road, Byron Bay www.byronbaybrewery.com.au
Tigers Broncos Knights Sea Eagles Storm Rabbitohs Roosters Bulldogs
Video Pete is the name... ad sales, fishing and footy’s the game... can we please revisit ’08!
Broncos Tigers Warriors Sea Eagles Storm Rabbitohs Dragons Sharks
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TWEED BATTERY CENTRE
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DEADLINE: For additions and changes to the Service Directory is 12pm Tuesday LINE ADS: $80 for 3 months or $280 for 1 year prepaid DISPLAY ADS: $40 per week for colour display ad. Minimum 8 week booking 4 weeks prepaid.
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ACCOUNTANTS & BOOKKEEPING
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ACCOUNTANT Jeannie Anderson .................................................................................02 6672 4044 VIRGINIA FRANCIS MYOB, qualified, experienced, reasonable rates .........................0434 630 953
AIR CONDITIONING & REFRIGERATION
• Hardware & software repairs • Internet connections • Home service • No job too small • PROMPT SERVICE
Avoid the extremes with Daikin.
Residential & commercial air conditioning with over 30 years experience
Ph:
Ben Cullen Dip I.T.
Energy efficient. Quiet. Comfort all year round.
• SALES • SERVICE • INSTALLATION
0419 146618
• hard disks • USB flash drives • ipods/mp3 players • CDs/DVDs • digital camera storage (SD etc)
TWEED MOBILE COMPUTER SERVICES
AIR CONDITIONING making cool waves
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Call Doctor Data Rescue today! Low rates, Fast local service.
07 5524 4439 • Fax: 07 5524 5424 • www.coolitac.com.au
• Professional data recovery (clean room class 100)
Beautiful, Functional & Ethical
BSC Lic 1180797 NSW Lic 178680C ARC AU05854
Designs that are ✓ Sustainable ✓ Comfortable ✓ Affordable
ANTENNA INSTALLATION TV ANTENNA SERVICES
0412 593 511
Inspired to support ✓ Planet Builders Lic. 218298C ✓ People ✓ Budgets
Call to discuss your new home – 02 6684 2100 www.e-construct.com.au www.beconstruct.com
• Desktop/ laptop repairs & sales • Computer component sales www.itland.com.au • Network design & support • Custom build computers Honest & Reliable Service
07 5523 2384 • info@itland.com.au 8/2 Machinery Drive, Tweed Heads South
• Satellite systems • AM/FM radio • Home audio • Sales • Service
Graeme Archer
Free quotes, free information, 17 years local experience, 12 month warranty on all installations 60 Poinciana Ave, Bogangar
(02) 6676 0903 • 0417 496 282
All aspects of carpentry. Qualified, friendly & professional. Free COMPETITIVE quotes for all work – call Simon:
0427 633 703 / 02 6674 4709
Digital TV Reception - QLD & NSW Channels FM Antennas Set Top Boxes Tune-Ins Servicing Ocean Shores to Bilambil Heights CALL FOR YOUR FREE QUOTE Endorsed under the Australian Government’s Antenna Installer Endorsement Scheme
COMMITED TO ECOLOGICAL AND SUSTAINABLE BUILDING FOR NEW HOMES AND RENOVATIONS
Lic 227281C
PAUL COOPER Building with Integrity
0414 920 741 paulcooper99@gmail.com
Fix your DIGITAL TV reception NOW NO FIX NO CHARGE*
• DVD/ video setup • New TV sockets • Surround sound setup • New phone sockets • Flat TV wall mounting • Pensioner discounts David Levine • FM radio antennas • Lic. electrical contractor www.iwire.net.au
0408 232 066
Cleans deeply, dries in 1-2 hours
Commercial / Domestic / Insurance
CLEANING Hard to 85x28 0109.ai 30/01/2009 11:48:16 AM HOUSE & OFFICE CLEANING Competitive prices .......................................................07 5536 1773
www.tweedecho.com.au
ALL AREAS:
1300 199 585
Naguar Holdings Pty Ltd T.A. Atlas Awnings, Northern Rivers NSW BLN 42748 Qld BLN 24566
DESIGN & DRAFTING GERARD BISSHOP Design, drafting, extensions & carports...........0407 151 740 or 02 6676 3405
ELECTRIC MOTOR REPAIRS TWEED ELECTRIC MOTORS Sales & Service
Unit 2/42 Machinery Drive, Tweed Heads South
07 5524 7055 ELECTRICIANS
CURTIS ELECTRICAL 24 hour service. Lic 79065C .......................................................0427 402 399
ADVANCED 2 Pauls Electricians Blind & Curtain Cleaning & Repairs Verticals Curtains Timber Hollands Romans
07 5523 3622 6/6 Enterprise Ave, Tweed Heads South
WE CLEAN DRIVEWAYS…!
DECKS, PATIOS & EXTENSIONS
Pool pumps, electric motors, power tools, electrical equipment & repairs
Lic 222684C
VIEW YOUR HOME IN 3D Design, DA plans, walkthrough .........................................0427 090 767
BLACK SPOT TV RECEPTION SOLUTIONS NOW AVAILABLE www.iwire.net.au BLINDS & AWNINGS
All aspects of concrete. No job too small. Call now for a free quote. Ph: 0403 053 073 email: aaron@alexiuc.com
Green & Clean
Carpet and upholstery cleaning, urine extraction, rust removal, heavy traffic areas, deodorising and sanitation.
Far North Coast
*conditions apply
0402 022 111
APEX CARPET CLEANING Specialising in Bond Cleans, Any Area.................. Nathan 0412 926 441
AWARD WINNING
Mako Concrete Constructions
NSW Lic 223098C Qld Lic 1120203
CARPET CLEANING
ANTEN NAS
CONCRETING
PATIOS & PATHS Quick & professional water blasting Phone Kel on 0432 097 765 for a quote <echowebsection=Service Directory>
All electrical work, including home maintenance and air conditioning systems
Email: 2paulselectricians@gmail.com NSW: 218495C, Qld: 70561
Paul Taylor 0412 506 536
Ernst Max Mann
Electrical Contractor 02 6677 1943 / 0410 314 897 Lic EC 26523
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Service Directory GARDEN & PROPERTY MAINTENANCE RON’S MOWING Banora Point.....................................................................................0447 744 933
Prestige
MAINTENANCE & REPAIRS
• Fully insured • Garden maintenance • Lawn/acreage mowing • Edge trimming • Weeding/poisoning • Hedging/tree trimming • Rubbish removal • Pressure cleaning • All handyman repairs • Residential, commercial and body corporate • Lic 234358C For a free quote call
07 5524 3202
LOCAL GARDEN MAKEOVER & MAINTENANCE • Weed control • Rubbish removal • Mowing • Whipper snipping • Hedge trimming • Small trees removed • Minor handyman work From $30 – ring Woz for a free quote
NATUROPATH Your Professional Health Coach Tracey Lee Morley ND DBM 24 years Experienced Practitioner
10% DISCOUNT WHEN YOU MENTION THIS AD! Anthony Neaves • Lawn mowing • Brush cutting • Pruning • Hedge trimming • Rubbish removal • Pressure cleaning • BBQ cleaning nicetomowyou@gmail.com • Pensioner discount
0421 699 872
ROOFING CRAFTSMEN
0266 841219
ROOF RESTORATIONS • RE-ROOFING • REPAIRS • FREE QUOTES
www.alternative-natural-remedies.com.au
Honest, reliable, all work guaranteed. 6681 4163 / 0414 674 110 • www.roofingcraftsmen.com.au
1446 Coolamon Scenic Drive Mullumbimby
Poor Digestion? Tired? Lethargic? Bloated? Nauseous? Wind?
This may lead to serious long term health problems such as obesity, migraine and diabetes to name a few. Call Naturopath / Nutritionist / Herbalist Barry Donnelly
Ph: 02 6680 3025 Mob: 0429 801 320
0458 795 659 (bh) 6679 5659 (ah)
Nice to Mow you
ROOFING
PAINTING
Specialising in: Customer Service, Residential Homes, Interiors & Exteriors
Joel Watson 0404 202 415 Fully insured
HOUSE ROOFS PAINTED
ONLY $1450 Service includes: roof cleaned, repaired & painted
Call Peter NOW – 0447 075 615
Lic 210271C
RUBBISH REMOVAL
Professional Painting & Decorating
GRAPHIC DESIGN
6 GENERATIONS IN ROOFING
Lic No. 211420C
PEST CONTROL ARACHNID PEST MANAGEMENT Environmentally friendly ......................................0409 497 706
OCEAN SHORES SKIPS Mini skip specialist.................................................................0412 161 564
Call Gary now for a free quote 0421 999 018 or 02 6676 0098
www.tweedskips.com.au
COWBOYS CAR REMOVALS FREE PICK UP
Est. 1994
RELAX – Safe, effective pest control is our business
LANDSCAPING & EXCAVATION 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
• 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
PLUMBING
All scrap metal, white goods, farm machinery 4WD access • Local towing service Lic 06105 NSW
Ph/Fx 02 6677 9443 Mob 0421 251 477
SCREENPRINTING
PLUMBING & GAS SOLUTIONS Blocked drains? New water heater?
Whatever your plumbing needs we have the answer. Available 24/7. FREE quotes.
TINY EARTHWOR
Nathan 0432 511 579 Tristan 0458 025 747 plumbjet@gmail.com
Personalised, professional approach to your plumbing requirements.
Philip Toovey 0409 799 909 ph/fax 02 6684 3208
• Same day response • 10% pensioner discount • All plumbing & maintenance • Plumbing & gasfitting • Guttering & downpipe replacement
various implements available for limited access projects
EXCAVATOR BOBCAT & WATER TRUCK
• TIP TRUCKS • FLOAT • TRUCK & DOGS • DRIVEWAYS • ROADS • HOUSE PADS • CLEARING • DRAINAGE • CARPARKS • BUSH ROCKS • ROCK WORK • MACHINE TICKETS ALL MATERIAL DELIVERIES Ph: Quentin
0404 193 933
LICENSED BROTHELS
Venus Lounge
NSW Lic 204860C Qld Lic 28721
Call your local plumber
TWEED COAST PLUMBING & EXCAVATION
OUTCALLS AVAILABLE – OPEN 7 DAYS
Black Orchid
OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK No. 12 Greg Chappell Drive, Burleigh Heads • 07 5522 1400
MYOB TRAINING GEOFFREY COLWILL Certified consultant, BAS agent.................................................02 6679 4231
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•INSTALLATIONS •REPAIRS & SUPPLIES
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
• MAINTENANCE COMMERCIAL & DOMESTIC • BACKFLOW TESTING • DRAINAGE • HOT WATER SYSTEMS • LPG GASFITTING • TIGHT ACCESS MINI EXCAVATOR
Northern Solar Pty Ltd
Servicing the TWEED SHIRE
Quality solar power systems, after sales service and maintenance program
PHIL CAVEY 0418 250 360
LIC NO. L13688 NSW
PO Box 1067 Kingscliff NSW
REMOVALISTS
Gentlemen’s Retreat
17 Morton Street, Chinderah • 02 6674 5020
0409 848 800
SOLAR INSTALLATIONS
Solar Power Systems & Electrical
Contact Darren or Jenny – phone 0427 661 421 or email info@northernsolar.com.au Lic No. 230119C CEC No. A7271144
WEDDING SERVICES
• Local • Country • interstate
PERFECT WEDDINGS Diane Paludi. www.callacelebrant.com...................................0402 432 179
LOCAL • Sydney • GOLd COASt • BriSBAne • MeLBOurne
02 6684 2198
mullumbimbyremovals@bigpond.com
THE SHIRE FREIGHT CO
From Middle Pocket to Middle Earth – just give us a ring
• Freight services to Brisbane Mon & Wed • Carriers of fine art • Furniture removal • E-bay pick up & delivery
6687 6445 / 0409 917646 <echowebsection=Service Directory>
WINDOW TINTING
WINDOW TINTING 6680 2484 • 0416 218 720 TWEED BYRON WINDOW TINTING www.tweedecho.com.au
Classifieds
CLASSIFIEDS 02 6672 2280
PHONE ADS
Ads may be taken by phone on
02 6672 2280
9am-12pm Wednesday 9am-5pm Monday to Friday Ads not taken on the weekend
BY POST
PO Box 545 Murwillumbah 2484
DEADLINE
12pm Wednesday
LINE CLASSIFIEDS RATES
$15.00 for the first two lines (minimum charge) $5.00 for each extra line
DISPLAY CLASSIFIEDS RATES
Black & white 4cm x 1 column $35.20 (minimum charge) Colour 12cm x 2 columns $265 – premium position – 1 only
PAYMENT
Cash, cheque or credit card – Mastercard or Visa Prepayment is required for all ads Account enquiries: 02 6684 1777
PUBLIC NOTICES
HEALTH
ECHO ECHO DOUBLE DEAL
SEXUAL HEALTH SERVICE Free STI/HIV checkups Clinics Murwillumbah & Tweed For appointment phone 0755066850
Double your exposure. Your ad will appear in over 44,000 newspapers weekly. Ask us about our great deals when you advertise in both THE TWEED SHIRE ECHO & THE BYRON SHIRE ECHO Phone 02 66722280 or 02 66841777
GET SWEPT UP
THE RUG SHOP BANGALOW 66872424 SUBSCRIBE TO THE ECHO If you want to be sure of your copy each week, or if you have a friend who’d like to have a subscription, why not send them one? $35 per quarter or $125 per year, post incl. Write to ‘The Echo’ 6 Village Way, Stuart St, Mullumbimby 2482 including payment in advance. AN EVENING OF MEDIUMSHIP with psychic medium Barry Gray, Sat 20 Aug at Twin Town, Coolangatta, starts 7.15pm, tickets $30. 0418890277 or 0409777361 or go to www.barrygray.com.au
Woodwork W’shop
Beg 4 x Tues 30/8. Patt 66843160
ON A TIGHT BUDGET? NEED AN INTEREST FREE LOAN? Ring Byron Community Centre on 6685 6807 or visit www.byroncentre.com.au and look for NILS under Community Services
AGMs MURWILLUMBAH AUTUMN CLUB INC. AGM to be held 1st September 2009 at 10.00am. Tumbulgum Rd, Murwillumbah
FOR HIRE EVENT & PARTY HIRE Audio & lighting. 0418676534 or 66722680 • www.eventandhire.com.au
PROF. SERVICES
Video Production
Web - events - dvd - doco The ‘greener’ the project the cheaper the rate. kat@forgreenies.com
www.tweedecho.com.au
Sexual Counselling
Alison Rahn qualified sex therapist www.alisonrahn.com.au 0432599812
KINESIOLOGY
Clear subconscious sabotages. Reprogram patterns and beliefs. De-stress. Restore vibrancy and physical health. Clear allergies. SANDRA DAVEY, Reg. Pract. 66846914 QUIT SMOKING IN 60 MINUTES How? Ask Ingrid phone 66803827
Calling In The One
Prepare to find the love of your life 9wk program starts 17 Aug. 66803436 www.thealchemyoftheheart.com
TREE SERVICES
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
TRADEWORK BRUNSWICK VALLEY
DIGGER MAN
Excavator & tipper hire. 0427172684
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
FIREWOOD DELIVERIES
- HONEST & RELIABLE Best rates & service in the Shire. Phone Matt 0427172684 CARAVAN with annexe $5000 please phone 0432322998
helenluna.com.au
locally made jewellery & wedding rings SOLID TIMBER river red gum dining tbl, 4 timber & leather chairs, 2 carvers ex Griffith Tbl Craft $750 ono. 0438708049 POTTSVILLE Pavilions 4/2-4 Overall Dr. Sat 13/8 from 7am. Furniture, bricabrac.
GARAGE SALES
Clutter Overload?
Time to clear it out with a garage sale. Ph us on 66722280 to advertise here.
MOTOR VEHICLES
CAR BODIES REMOVED FREE
$$$s for most. Phone 0418189324, 0438189323 MITSUBISHI LANCER hatch 92, a/c, reg to 01/12 $2900 ono. Phone 66895490
BARGAINS Toyota Tarago GLX Family wagon A/C. MJI653............................................... $6,650 2000 Holden Commodore Wagon Auto, A/C, P/S, nice car. WYV267.................$5,250 Volvo V70 7 Seater Wagon Full log book history, leather, lovely. AGG73H. ....... $6,250 Automatic Ford Laser Sedan A/C, P/S, 2/12 rego, ideal first car. AL77NJ. ..... $2,000 1999 Automatic Hyundai Excel Very low 91,069 km, A/C, P/S, great first car. WGC852............................................ $4,995
50 CARS UNDER $10,000
www.dealcars.net
16 ENDEAVOUR CLOSE, BALLINA
Ballina Car Centre
6686 5586
DLN 19950
POSITIONS VACANT 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.
BUSINESS FOR SALE
ADOPT A CAT from Animal Welfare League NSW. Phone 66844070
MONTHLY MARKETS
LOCAL ASIAN RESTAURANT A rare opportunity to purchase one of Byron Shire’s iconic restaurants. Operating successfully for 17yrs. Good figures. Potential to expand. Full training and ongoing support. Long lease & very cheap rent. POA. 0407664998
MUSICAL NOTES
1st Sat Brunswick Heads (02) 6628 4495 1st Sun Byron Bay (02) 6680 9703 1st Sun Pottsville (02) 6676 4555 1st Sun Tweed Heads (07) 5599 1714
HOLIDAY ACCOM.
ONLY ADULTS
MIA CASA lush oasis, pool, spa, view. 2 min Mullum, 15 Byron. Luxe room or s/c cottage with woodstove. Ph 66844762
SEDUCTIVE MASSAGE by attractive Australian. Ocean Shores. 0413034492
SHARE ACCOM. KINGSCLIFF fem over 30, child ok, share with 1, close shops, $180pw. Phone 0417496101 STH GOLDEN BCH ground floor of lge sunny house & pool, s-c, share kitchen upstairs with easy going mum & son, 100m to beach $195pw. 0413519800 CABARITA BCH rm in mod home close shops pref fem worker. 0438339165 CABARITA unfurn room, own kitchen, bthrm, separate entry, large backyard, parking, $180pw. Ph Danny 0438208632
TO LET TYALGUM spacious 4br rural house, gardens, views, private, no pets, refs essential $370pw. Phone 66795088 SOUTH TWEED/CHINDERAH motel style accom, own facilities, suit pensioner, long term $180pw. Ph Peter 0412446290 YELGUN/RURAL 1min to h’way. 20 min to Tweed or Byron. Choice of 2. Long or short term. Very lge part furn/unfurn, s-c 1brm lge bthrm. Newly reno, internet. $240pw + elect & austar. Or one 1br part furn/unfurn, lge kitchen & lounge, tiled throughout, suit home office, private, $295pw + elect + Austar. Lawns maintained. 0755752151 or 0451125537 Email: jwilson_59@bigpond. com.au EUNGELLA 2br house in beautiful setting $275pw. Phone 66724246 POTTSVILLE BEACH HOUSE modern 1br unit with ensuite & garage. Fully self cont & furn $195pw, refs req. Suit retired couple or single lady. Phone 0417788472
CAREER IN CHILDCARE
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. 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 NURSERY HAND hard working person required to work outdoors. Nursery exp pref. Aralumbin Nursery PO 199 Murwillumbah 2484
JAZZ PIANO, DOUBLE BASS & DRUM TRIO FOR HIRE Well rehearsed & accomplished players. Phone 0412732465
PETS
Phoebe Beautiful Phoebe is a 15 month old, short haired, brown tabby desexed female. She is a very friendly, people oriented cat who had three kittens earlier this year. She had a long stint at the pound and an even longer one in foster care - she really needs a permanent loving home. If you can help, please contact Sonia at our information booth on 07 5524 8590. Visit www.friendsofthepound.com to view other animals looking for homes.
www.friendsofthepound.com 07 5524 8590
Administration Officer
weed alley espite ervice Inc.
Tweed Valley Respite Service Inc. is a progressive, community focused not for profit organisation based in Murwillumbah providing a comprehensive range of quality respite, skills development and support services to clients with disabilities, clients with dementia and their carers. Reporting to the Disability Services Manager you will be responsible for a broad range of administration functions including word processing, petty cash, data entry, filing and reception. You will require excellent communication and word processing skills as well as the ability to problem solve and establish work priorities. Award conditions apply. This is a part-time position for 32 h/w. Application packages are available from our web page www.tvrs.org.au/positionsVacant.html or by phoning TVRS reception O2 6672 0900. Written applications should be addressed to William McManamey, TVRS PO Box 51 Murwillumbah NSW 2484 or emailed to williammcmanamey@tvrs.org.au. Applicants MUST address all the selection criteria. Applications will be received until COB Monday 22nd August.
ATTRACTIVE LADIES WANTED 18+ Phone Lilly 0422177493
EARN BIG BUCK$ Good working environment with female staff must be 18–65 yrs old
02 6674 5020
TWEED COAST ESCORTS
Full moon
Day of month 1 M 2 T 3 W 4 T 5 F 6 S 7 S 8 M 9 T 10 W 11 T 12 F 13 S 14 S 15 M 16 T 17 W 18 T 19 F 20 S 21 S 22 M 23 T 24 W 25 T 26 F 27 S 28 S 29 M 30 T 31 W
Sun rise 0629 0628 0628 0627 0626 0626 0625 0624 0623 0622 0622 0621 0620 0619 0618 0617 0616 0615 0614 0613 0612 0611 0610 0609 0608 0607 0606 0605 0604 0603 0602
21:08
August 14 04:58 August 29 13:04 Sun set 1715 1715 1716 1716 1717 1718 1718 1719 1719 1720 1720 1721 1721 1722 1722 1723 1723 1724 1725 1725 1726 1726 1727 1727 1728 1728 1729 1729 1730 1730 1731
Moon rise 0706 0745 0823 0902 0942 1025 1112 1204 1300 1358 1458 1557 1655 1751 1845 1938 2030 2122 2215 2309 0003 0057 0150 0242 0330 0416 0459 0539 0619 0658
Moon set 1853 1958 2103 2208 2313 0018 0122 0223 0319 0409 0453 0533 0609 0642 0713 0744 0815 0848 0923 1001 1044 1131 1224 1322 1424 1528 1634 1740 1847 1954
4th Sat Kingscliff 0406 724 323 4th Sun Bangalow (02) 6687 1911 4th Sun (in 5 Sun month) Coolangatta (07) 5533 8202 4th Sun Murwillumbah 0422 565 168 4th Sun Tweed Heads (07) 5599 1714 Nimbin (02) 6689 0000 Tweed Heads (07) 5599 1714
WEEKLY FARMERS MARKETS
Third quarter August 22 07:55 New moon
Kingscliff 0406 724 323 The Channon (02) 6688 6433 Chillingham 0437 041 023 Lennox Head (02) 6672 2874 Coolangatta (07) 5533 8202 Tweed Heads (07) 5599 1714
3rd Sat Mullumbimby (02) 6684 3370 3rd Sat Murwillumbah Cottage Markets 0417 759 777 3rd Sun Ballina (02) 6687 4328 3rd Sun Nimbin (02) 6689 0000 3rd Sun Pottsville (02) 6676 4555 3rd Sun Tweed Heads (07) 5599 1714 3rd Sun Uki (02) 6679 5012
5th Sun 5th Sun
0419 962 958 First quarter August 6
2nd Sat 2nd Sun 2nd Sun 2nd Sun 2nd Sun 2nd Sun
Each Tue New Brighton (02)6684 5390 Each Wed 7-11am Mur’bah (02) 6684 7834 Each Thu 8-11am Byron Bay (02) 6687 1137 Each Sat 8-11am Bangalow (02) 6687 1137 8am-1pm Uki (02) 6679 5438 Each Sat 20:03
AUGUST 2011 Astronomical data and tides
High tide, height (m) 0915,1.48; 2124,1.90 1001,1.53; 2211,1.83 1049,1.57; 2300,1.71 1140,1.59; 2351,1.56 1233,1.59 0048,1.40; 1332,1.59 0155,1.26; 1437,1.59 0312,1.18; 1545,1.61 0430,1.16; 1652,1.65 0536,1.20; 1750,1.70 0630,1.26; 1841,1.74 0715,1.31; 1925,1.76 0757,1.36; 2004,1.75 0834,1.39; 2041,1.71 0910,1.41; 2115,1.65 0945,1.43; 2149,1.57 1019,1.44; 2222,1.49 1055,1.44; 2258,1.39 1133,1.43; 2337,1.29 1216,1.42 0023,1.20; 1306,1.40 0120,1.12; 1403,1.40 0231,1.07; 1508,1.42 0350,1.07; 1613,1.48 0458,1.13; 1709,1.58 0550,1.22; 1800,1.69 0636,1.32; 1846,1.79 0721,1.42; 1931,1.85 0804,1.53; 2017,1.87 0849,1.61; 2105,1.83 0936,1.68; 2154,1.73
Low tide, height (m) 0313,0.17; 1500,0.31 0355,0.15; 1552,0.31 0437,0.18; 1648,0.34 0521,0.24; 1745,0.39 0607,0.32; 1848,0.48 0658,0.40; 2002,0.50 0755,0.48; 2123,0.51 0900,0.53; 2240,0.48 1006,0.54; 2345,0.42 1108,0.51 0038,0.36; 1204,0.47 0122,0.31;1253,0.44 0201,0.29; 1337,0.47 0236,0.28; 1418,0.41 0308,0.29; 1457,0.42 0339,0.32; 1535,0.44 0408,0.35; 1615,0.48 0438,0.40; 1656,0.52 0510,0.45; 1741,0.57 0545,0.50; 1832,0.62 0626,0.56; 1934,0.66 0717,0.61; 2050,0.66 0821,0.64; 2205,0.61 0930,0.62; 2307,0.52 1032,0.56; 2357,0.41 1128,0.48 0040,0.30; 1218,0.38 0121,0.20; 1308,0.29 0201,0.13; 1358,0.22 0242,0.09; 1448,0.18 0324,0.10; 1542,0.18
All times Eastern Standard Time. Time lags: Ballina Boat Dock: 15 min; Byron Bay: nil; Brunswick River Highway Bridge: high 30 min, low 1 hr; Mullumbimby: 1 hr 10 min; Billinudgel: 3 hr 55 min; Chinderah: high 1 hr 30 min, low 2 hr; Terranora Inlet: high 2 hr 10 min, low 2 hr 25 min; Murwillumbah: high 2 hr 30 min, low 2 hr 50 min. Tides in bold indicate high tide of 1.7m or more and low tide of 0.3m or less. Data courtesy of the National Tidal Centre.
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Shelly picks up the flag for The Echo Paper hits the wall Longtime Tweed Shire resident Shelly Strange has joined The Echo’s advertising sales team. Moving to Banora Point when she was only five years old, she now lives in Pottsville with her husband Darrin and children Owen, 11, Ruby, 8 and Demi, 7. Shelly (pictured, right) has extensive experience in sales and marketing and is well known in the Tweed. Shelly likes keeping fit, and coaching her daughter Ruby’s netball team helps with that. She loves the beach and is currently teaching herself to surf. ‘We are very fortunate to have someone of Shelly’s ability joining us,’ said Angela Cornell, the Tweed Shire Echo Sales Manager. ‘Her vivacious personality and enthusiasm are being enjoyed by the whole team.’
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Tweed Valley Woodturners will conduct woodturning demonstrations at their shed at the showgrounds in Murwillumbah during Banana Festival week 10am–3pm from Monday, August 15, to Friday, August 20, and Saturday 9am–noon. Items on display also for sale.
Stokers big day
Stokers Siding big day out is on Saturday, August 13, to celebrate the centenary of the church and the next Stokers art and craft market. Church celebration at 10am and features regency dancing displays and other heritage activities including a ball, starting at 7pm in the Stokers Dunbible Memorial Hall. The Art and craft market will be held from 9am to 2pm in the hall. Visit www.stokerssiding. com.au.
Free concert
A free concert will be held on Monday, August 29 at 1pm at the Coolangatta Senior Citizens Centre, visitors welcome, featuring ‘Popera’ singer Daniel Mallari. BYO lunch/nibbles, tea/coffee available. To book or for info call 07 5536 4050 or call into the Centre at 2 Gerrard Street, Coolangatta.
Water plant workshop
Farmers, bush regenerators and other interested people can learn more about water plants and their role in maintaining healthy waterways, during a workshop this month. Council’s Bush Futures
Shelly says she is looking forward to looking after the businesses in Tweed Heads and some of the South Tweed businesses as well. She is keen to let them know about the differences in The Echo that set it apart from other newspapers in the area. ‘It really is a quality publication. Readers love it and they go out of their way to make sure they have their weekly copy, often when the other papers are left lying in people’s driveways. ‘And the fact that The Echo is independently audited means that advertisers know their ads are definitely being seen in 21,000 newspapers, because the Circulation Audit Bureau has verified those figures. ‘That’s gold!’ she said. If you are interested in advertising in The Echo, give Shelly a call on 0437 271 177.
program will stage a Recognising and Understanding Water Plants workshop at Crams Farm Reserve on Saturday, August 20. The workshop will provide practical learning for landcare workers, bush regenerators, farmers and other people who live, work and play along waterways and begins at Doon Doon Hall, in Crams Farm Reserve, at 1pm. To register, call Claire on 02 6670 2199 or csotweed@tweed.nsw.gov.au.
Computers for seniors
Computer Association Tweed Seniors (CATS) meets on the third Wednesday of each month at 10.30 am in the Seagulls Club. Get computer advice and learn computer skills at your own pace in a friendly social environment. All welcome. For more details phone Noelene on 07 5599 8939 (business hours).
Bridge lessons
Tweed Bridge Club bridge lessons for beginners start Saturday, October 8, at 9.15am. For info visit tweedbridge@exemail.com.au or call Dinah on 02 6676 3136. New members welcome.
Low cost food
Low cost food available at Elevation Care, 56 Caloola Drive, off Ducat Street, Tweed Heads. Mondays at 11.30am to 2.30pm. Closed public holidays. Please note as from August 1 the new opening time will be noon. Bring your pension card or students card plus your bags and receive low cost food for any struggling pensioner or student. If you don’t have trans-
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boating assistant to help people with disabilities on/off boats; Kingscliff, volunteers needed for triathlon; Tweed Heads/ Murwillumbah, street outreach worker; Volunteers needed for Daffodil U3A U3A Twin Towns are always on the Day in Murwillumbah, Tweed lookout for new and interesting Heads, Kingscliff. For info call 02 learning experiences, which are 6672 8288. free to our members. Understand- Garden club ing Technology, TV, Phones, Pho- A reminder that entries for Murtography is being held in Tweed willumbah and District Garden Library on Thursday mornings Club’s annual garden competiand a Music Appreciation class is tion are now being accepted and about to commmence. For info close on August 19. Entry forms call 07 5534 7333. are available from JH Williams, Budds, Murwillumbah Services Pottsville meeting The Pottsville Community As- Club, Earth and Colour Nursery, sociation will hold its AGM on Kingscliff Bowls Club or phone Tuesday, August 30, at 7.45pm at Margaret on 02 6672 3782. Judgthe Pottsville Community Hall. ing will take place August 29–30, All committee positions will be with a presentation nightd on declared open and a new commit- September 5. Next meeting is on tee will be voted in, general meet- Monday August 22 at 7pm in the ing follows, all welcome, supper Jessie McMillan Hall, Wollumbin provided. For info call Chris on Street. Guest speaker will be Greg 0404 956 627. Plevey on various aspects of worm farming. Probus clubs Murwillumbah Probus Club Hospital fete meets at 10am on August 15 at Donations of goods for Tweed Mountain View village. Guest Hospital Auxiliary’s annual fete to speaker is retired Murwillumbah be held October 8 are being grateengineer, John Henley, a founding fully accepted and may be left at member of Murwillumbah Row- the hospital gift shop on 07 5506 ing Club. Payment of $425 is due 7867. Anyone interested in joinfor three-day trip to Toowoomba ing the auxiliary call Merle on 07 for the Festival of Flowers, Sep- 5536 1441. tember 20–22. Murwillumbah ratepayers Probus Club of Hastings Point Murwillumbah Ratepayers and Tweed Coast meets Tuesday, Resident Association’s next meetAugust 16, at 10am at The Point, ing is on Monday, August 15, Tweed Coast Road, Hastings from 7.30pm at the Autumn Club, Point. Guest speaker from Tweed Tumbulgum Road (next to the liValley Wildlife Carers. Visitors brary). All welcome, for info email welcome, for info call Jill 6676 Robyn at rlemaire@une.edu.au, or 4534. post to PO Box 851, Murwillumbah, 2484. Volunteering NORTEC Volunteering’s Five Red Cross Most Wanted volunteer positions Tweed Heads Red Cross branch this week: Dungay, Group As- will hold its annual general meetsistant/Bus Escort; Tweed Shire, ing on Friday, August 12, beginport then a bus will pick you up outside the front of Tweed Centro. Look for the white bus with Elevation Church on the side. For info call 07 5507 6999.
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The publisher of a local weekly is going into voluntary administration and restructuring because it says it wants to improve its chance of weathering the economic downturn. Brad Evans Publishing Pty Ltd, publisher of the Tweed Coast Weekly, announced last week that it was placing the company into voluntary administration as a ‘first step of a restructuring process’. The company CEO Brad Evans said Darren Vardy and Geoffrey Davis from RMG Partners would be appointed joint administrators. Mr Evans said all the newspapers he currently publishes, including ones in Armidale, Port Macquarie and Tamworth, would ‘continue to
operate as normal during this period’. ‘There is no doubt the recent trading conditions in the retail sector have had a massive effect on the advertising industry,’ Mr Evans said. He said the move was ‘the best way to maximise the opportunity for our newspapers to continue through this turbulent economic downturn. ‘Independent newspapers are of vital importance in regional communities and provide an important role in bringing balanced, unbiased news to everyone in our region,’ Mr Evans said. A meeting of creditors is due to be held in Armidale this Friday afternoon (August 12).
ning with morning tea at 9.30am at the Renaissance Room, Twin Towns Services Club. Members and non-members welcome, for info call Carol on 07 5536 8569.
info call Jenny on 07 5536 2653 by 1pm Monday prior. Murwillumbah Day View Club meeting will be held at Sporties, previously Murwillumbah Bowls Club, on Monday, August 22, starting with morning tea at 10am and lunch at 12.30pm. Guest speaker Belinda Chayko. For info call Bernie 02 6672 8640 or Mary 02 6672 1840.
Asbestos seminar
A seminar on asbestos will be conducted by the Asbestosis and Mesothelioma Support Group (AMSG) at Twin Towns, Tweed Heads on Friday, August 19. Interested people can call Nic on 0417 Mental illness 705 534 or 07 5599 7876 or visit Carers and families of persons sufwww.amsg.com.au. fering mental illness are invited to join the Tweed Valley Mental Lifeball Lifeball is an exercise sport similar Health Carers Network, a peer to netball but played at walking support group of volunteers. pace by senior men and women. Meetings are held on the first and Come and have a try, sessions held third Monday of each month at every Tuesday 9.30am–11.30am at 10am at the Tweed Heads Library, Tweed Supersports Centre, Chin- Civic Centre, Brett Street. The derah. For info call Jill 02 6674 next meeting is on August 1. Swap 0636 or George 02 6624 4558. experiences about mental health caring with those who understand Prostate awareness Twin Towns and Tweed Coast and find out about services and presents as our special guest speak- where to get information. Enquier Professor Ian Frazer, creator of ries 07 5598 6372. the HPV vaccine against cervical Historical society cancer at August 19 meeting. Open Tweed Heads Historical Society’s to the public $5 entry, members monthly meeting will be held on $3. Doors open at 9am, meeting Tuesday, August 16, at 10am in starts 10am at Twin Towns Ser- The Old Court House, Pioneer vices Club, Anzac Room. For info Park , Kennedy Drive, West Tweed call Ross on 07 5599 7576. Heads. Guest speaker is Annette Library friends Wilson on the pioneer Wilson Friends of the Tweed Heads Li- family. Visitors welcome, call 07 brary will hold its AGM on 5536 8625 for info. Wednesday, August 24, in the li- End of life choices brary at 10.30am. Members must For information about end of life be financial to vote. New members choices workshops and meetings welcome. For info call Judith on 07 that will be held during the rest 5536 1042. of the year, please call Elaine on Riding volunteers 0421 796 713. Riding for the Disabled Tweed Family centre Valley Centre needs regular help- The Family Centre is taking bookers on Tuesday, Thursday or Satings now for parenting and reurday mornings during school lationship skills courses, ring 07 terms. Horse skills are not essen5524 8711. Full course program tial and training is provided. Call www.thefamilycentre.org.au. Sylvia 0419 437 217.
View clubs
Coolangatta/Tweed View Club next luncheon meeting August 18 in the Horizons Room, South Tweed Sports Club, Minjungbal Drive, Tweed Heads at 11am for 11.30am start. Guest speaker is lawyer Brendan Madigan. Visitors welcome; for bookings call Diana 07 5576 7674 before 5pm Monday August 15. Twin Towns Evening View Club meets 2nd Wednesday of each month at Tweed Heads Bowls Club 6.30pm. Next meeting August 10 is the club’s 22nd birthday. Come and celebrate, entertainment by bush poet, Bill Essery. For
Aboriginal legal access
The Northern Rivers Community Legal Centre (Tweed Valley Office) has launched the Aboriginal Legal Access program in the Tweed and will hold a market day to provide information on legal rights and legal services available to Aborigines on Tuesday, August 23, at 10.30 am to 1.30pm. A solicitor will be available for any urgent advice, all invited to attend. Legal staff will be available for free client advice sessions on the first and third Mondays of the month from 10–noon at Minjungbal Museum. No appointments necessary. For info call Greta on 02 6672 2252.
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The Banana Festival’s popular ‘Fashion on Broadway’ glamour event is on again tomorrow night, Friday, August 12, at the Murwillumbah Civic Centre. It’s the opening night of the festival, and entrants in the Queen, Teen Queen, Prince and Princess quests will model fashions supplied by local fashion houses. Fashion parade organisers from St Joseph’s School Murwillumbah seem to have made this event a success year after year and it’s a major fundraiser for the school. The event is on from 6.30pm with plenty of raffle prizes to be won. To book tickets call Angela on 0439 579 864. ■ ■ ■ ■
New York here we come! Members of the Murwillumbah Philharmonic Choir (MPC) are thrilled by an invitation to sing at the prestigious Carnegie Hall in New York in January next year for the world premiere of composer Karl Jenkins’s latest work, The Peacemakers, which will feature choirs from the US, UK, Canada and Australia. Nine choir members are looking forward to taking part, including local music teachers Heather Martin and Mary-Anne McShane. This Sunday, August 14, at 2pm at the All Saints Anglican Church in Murwillumbah, the choir will perform some of Jenkins’s work in a concert billed as ‘Fit for a King: English Choral Music for Republicans and Royalists’. It will also feature Bangalow choral group Spirit Song and well-known organist Warren Whitney performing music from Jenkins to Handel, John Lennon and Elton John. If you love to hear great voices in harmony then don’t miss it. Admission is $20 or $15 concession and tickets are available at the door or Andersons Treasure Store in Murwillumbah. ■ ■ ■ ■
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threshold, Cr Warren Polglase says that unless households put more effort into recycling, the council could be hit with a $1 million pollution-tax bill within six years. The Stotts Island refuse depot currently copes with about 18,000 tonnes of rubbish. Cr Polglase said recycling levels had hit about 50 per cent, but could be 80 to 90 per cent if more residents took to dividing up their garbage and using all three council wheelie bins. But he said many shire residents were already on the bandwagon, with recycling having increased from 30 to 50 per cent in two years. ‘It’s been a great commitment by the community, but a fair amount of recyclable waste is still being put into the rubbish bins,’ said Cr Polglase.
The Australian Red Cross has weighed into the nuclear debate to coincide with Hiroshima Day last Saturday. Red Cross CEO Robert Tickner says, ‘It
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Renowned Australian artist/designer Ken Done, pictured in front of his self-portrait entry after he gave a talk before a packed audience and officially opened the Archibald Prize touring exhibition at Tweed River Art Gallery last Saturday. The exhibition, which continues till September 11, is set to draw thousands of people from around the region to the gallery at Murwillumbah. Special guided tours will be held on Wednesday and Sunday at 11am and 2pm, and a People’s Choice Award will run throughout the exhibition. The gallery is open Wednesday to Sunday 10am-4pm.
is time for the global community – Australians included – to decide if we want nuclear weapons to continue to be a threat to our future, or to become part of our history.’ To learn more about nuclear weapons and the Australian Red Cross campaign go to www.redcross.org.au. ■ ■ ■ ■
In our article on classical guitar duo Zoo last week, we inadvertently left out the surname of innovative Australian luthier Greg Smallman. ■ ■ ■ ■
During one of his talks at last week’s Byron Bay Writers’ Festival, former premier Bob Carr highlighted the value of reading/ploughing through any original classics such as James Joyce’s Ulysses, rather than an abridged version as many high school students tend to do.
He said he had urged a school student audience at the festival to read the original works of Shakespeare in order to understand them and not rely on modern annotated versions. He said he ‘commanded’ the students to do so ‘if nothing more than as your premier who gave you 13 national parks on the north coast for you to enjoy as well as the best modern history syllabus in any state’. That alone should have inspired the youngsters to unravel Shakespearean prose. ■ ■ ■ ■
Residents are being encouraged to recycle their rubbish like never before to help the Tweed Council avoid paying the federal government’s carbon pollution tax. While the shire’s rubbish levels are well below the 25,000 tonne per year
There’s a lot of feeble-minded bitching about the carbon price. Check out Geoff Lemon’s excellent blog response at http://heathenscripture. wordpress.com/2011/07/14/ you-shut-your-goddamncarbon-taxin-mouth. ■ ■ ■ ■
Laura Norda has always been popular with state politicians, and the Tweed’s Geoff Provest is not one to miss an opportunity to schmooze both the wench herself and voters who are fond of her. Claims that criminals are flooding across the border into Tweed Heads to escape a police blitz on the Gold Coast have prompted the Nationals’ MP to trumpet his support for the NSW government’s latest bid to clamp down on civil liberties. This is the Summary Offences Amendment (Intoxicated and Disorderly Conduct) Bill, which gives police powers of arrest when confronted with a tipsy citizen who fails to heed a police direction to ‘move on’. Backburner wonders how this new law will help curb the number of holdups being perpetrated by border-hopping armed robbers, which is what we are actually supposed to be concerned about.
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