Tweed Echo – Issue 4.18 – 05/01/2012

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Tweed Heads CBD plan ‘a bad joke’ Crtics fear that it allows for towers to be built without scenic views and streets to be cloaked in shadow for much of the day.

Steve Spencer

A plan allowing high-rise buildings through much of Tweed Heads was ticked off at the last council meeting.

However, a bid to protect potential light-rail corridors was rejected.

Councillors had little option but to approve the masterplan, as the state planning department hijacked responsibility for re-designing the Tweed Heads CBD from Tweed Council four years ago, using a town planning template it has imposed on other regional centres, including Port Macquarie, Newcastle and Wollongong. Critics fear that instead of revitalising the ailing CBD, the plan will stifle redevelopment as it allows for towers to be built without scenic views and streets to be cloaked in shadow for much of the day.

‘It’s like a bad joke. No-one is going to build towers in Tweed Heads if they don’t have a guarantee their views won’t be built out,’ said Laurie Ganter, president of the Tweed Heads Ratepayers and Residents Association.

‘You can’t describe Tweed Heads as a regional centre. It is joined to the Gold Coast, a fact the NSW Planning Department doesn’t seem to understand.

‘The plan might be all right in Wollongong or the Sydney CBD, but it won’t work here. Developers are still selling units in the Domain tower near Twin Towns and that was finished four years ago.’

Mr Ganter said attempts to talk sense to the department were like ‘knocking your head against a wall, they are irrational. They had a good LEP finished in 2004 and have ignored it’.

‘Nothing will happen to central Tweed Heads. This plan will scare most developers away.’

The new masterplan is almost a carbon copy of the controversial Tweed Heads LEP (local environment plan) 2000 which was adopted by a prodevelopment council in 1999. There was more public support for the 2004 masterplan, drafted after community consultation.

Debate about the masterplan at the December council meeting was limited to Cr Katie Milne’s suggestion to protect rail corridors through Tweed Heads.

New art co-op shows off work Albert Elzinga Tweed’s flourishing arts scene will take over Tyalgum’s historic hall this Saturday, January 7, and offer visitors and locals an opportunity to see some of the fine works produced in Australia’s ‘Green Cauldron’.

Members of the recently formed Tweed Arts Cooperative will show their work, with around 20 new members displaying some of their locally produced arts and crafts.

Saturday’s Art Café Day follows the recent opening of a permanent exhibition space, simply called ‘The Gallery’, at Tyalgum Hall’s front room where co-op members show and

Rail corridors ignored ‘It would be foolish to exclude a rapid transport corridor,’ Cr Milne told the meeting.

‘What is a town without a proper public transport system? It would be detrimental for future generations to sterilise public transport corridors.’

Cr Milne’s suggestion the plan be deferred, at the request of both the Tweed Heads Residents Association and the Save Jack Evans Boat Harbour Committee, failed to get any support from fellow councillors. Nor did her plea to protect the rail corridors.

General manager Mike Rayner told the meeting a recent report into Tweed Shire public transport found ‘no likelihood of light rail in the planning future’.

Any future heavy rail through the shire, linking NSW with the Queensland rail system, is likely to be built west of Coolangatta airport.

The masterplan allows buildings up

Tyalgum Teapartiers, ‘Mad Beanieologist’ Megan Jack, Margie Elliott and Liffy Jack ham it up in support of the new artists’ cooperative.

Photo Jeff ‘Bad Hatter’ Dawson sell their art, seven days a week from 10.30am till 4.30pm.

Tweed Arts Co-op treasurer Joan Eccleshare said members were given the opportunity to sell their work at significantly reduced commission rates if they volunteered to staff ‘The Gallery’ one day per fortnight.

Created by local artists Ms Eccleshare said the co-op was created by local artists who wanted to offer the Tweed arts community the opportunity to show and sell its

to 49.5 metres, or about 15 storeys, in a sunless canyon for much of the time.

Cr Warren Polglase, who was maysome areas, while other sites will be staggered down to as low as two and or when the 2000 LEP was adopted, says the revitalisation of Tweed Heads three storeys. hinged on encouraging landowners to The big winners amalgamate smaller blocks into sites Among the big winners are the Twin of at least 1000 square metres. He said Towns Services Club and the shop- unless development sites were large ping centre owned by retail giant Cen- enough to have underground parking tro. The western end of Bay Street may they would not be viable.

Cr Polglase said that market forces, be one day lined with high-rise buildings, which critics say will turn it into rather than town planning, would de-

work in a more affordable way.

Saturday’s show will feature work by the co-op’s four founding members, Elizabeth Jack, Wayne Kendrigran, Joan Eccleshare and ‘Mad Beanieologist’ Megan Jack with water colours, oil paintings, handmade jewellery, folk art, furniture and beanies on display in the hall.

Ms Eccleshare said although the collective already boasted some 20 members it was looking for more local artists to join. continued on page 2

cide when a Tweed Heads development boom would begin. He pointed to a large vacant site on the corner of Bay and Wharf Streets which remains dormant, along with an existing approval for a high-rise project on the nearby Dolphins Hotel site.

The planning department is expected to approve the masterplan, officially called the Tweed City Centre Vision Local Environment Plan and Development Control Plan, early this year.

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Terranora estate set to move ahead Steve Spencer

The massive housing estate proposed at Terranora for nearly 1,800 homes, known as Area E, is just one step away from getting final approval.

Tweed councillors have voted to submit the controversial project’s development control plan to the state government, which is expected to give it the green light later this year.

But council planning staff are still seeking higher than usual infrastructure fees from the numerous landowners, needed because of steep terrain over much of the 296-hectare site.

Bounded by Mahers Lane, Terranora Road, Fraser Drive and the Terranora Broadwater, the estate will eventually house 4,000-odd extra residents.

It was once prime agricultural land, famed for its tomatoes, but was earmarked for housing two decades ago and rezoned by the state government in 2007.

Critics claim the hillside estate will be overdeveloped and runoff from roads and gardens will further pollute the already stressed Terranora Broadwater, but Tweed councillors have been limited in their influence over housing density, which has been set by the NSW Planning Department.

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ners, there are strict guidelines for the project’s ‘significant bushland, wetlands and other land of high ecological value’, but Greens Cr Katie Milne recently criticised the design for its limited wildlife corridors.

‘If you don’t have wildlife corridors you don’t have wildlife,’ Cr Milne told the December council meeting.

She said a map of the hillside showed housing ‘straight across the site’.

Nothing progressive ‘There is nothing progressive about the design. There has been no attempt to create a development with low carbon emissions,’ said Cr Milne.

‘Environmentalist are also concerned about the health of the broadwater, which is already suffering from pollution.’

Mayor Barrry Longland later defended the final design, saying it was an exaggeration to claim there were no wildlife corridors across Area E, as much open space remained.

Cr Longland said that busy Terranora Road, rather than a lack of wildlife corridors, posed

the greatest danger to Terranora’s koalas.

‘I don’t think anything in the design of Area E makes it particularly perilous to wildlife. On our roads is where most koalas are killed,’ he said.

Cr Dot Holdom told the December council meeting she didn’t want Area E developed, but it was pointless to oppose it.

‘This is a reality. It was decided a long time ago,’ she said.

‘It was a pleasure to read the DCP. When you see good work [by council planners] you should acknowledge it.’

Three-storey homes will be permitted over much of the estate, with a maximum of four storeys around the area earmarked for the village centre.

Tweed Shire Council recently asked the state government to further increase the cap on developer infrastructure contributions by an extra $16,000 per lot because of the steep topography across much of Area E. Council planning staff say that because of the steep slopes, the cost of providing infrastructure will surpass the normal level of developer contributions.

The contribution cap increased from $20,000 to $30,000 about a year ago after several NSW councils complained it was not enough to provide infrastructure on many greenfield housing estates.

Council is now proposing to ask for more than $56,000 per lot after calculating just how much the Area E infrastructure will cost – and that does not include providing water and sewerage.

Extra funds needed The extra funds will also pay for three sports fields, several parks, stormwater drains and drainage channels.

Money will also be needed to build a new road and three bridges, one of them 40 metres long.

Without a boost to developer contributions to build the infrastructure, the financial burden for much of the housing development would be thrust on ratepayers.

The exact route of a road along the foreshore, to be called Broadwater Parkway, has also yet to be determined.

The town that paints its wild treasures Story and photo Luis Feliu

Murwillumbah’s eye-catching levee-wall mural depicting the Tweed’s rare and endangered flora and fauna should be used to put the shire and its ‘treasures’ firmly on the world tourist map.

That’s the vision former longtime Tweed mayor Max Boyd wants Tweed Shire Council to adopt for the ‘Treasures of the Tweed’ mural which has nearly reached its final length of 700 metres, making it possibly the longest mural in Australia.

The mural painting began three years ago and has been funded by the federal government and job agencies with council support.

Mr Boyd told council at its last community access meeting that the colourful mural on Commercial Road, painted by artist David Adams and numerous work-for-the-dole volunteers, had ‘already drawn much favourable attention’ to the town because of its use of the local flora and fauna as subjects.

The Tweed’s elder statesman said the mural’s flora and fauna should be retained as the Tweed’s ‘special hook’ rather than copying what other towns had already used as their special theme.

He cited Sheffield in Tasmania and Chemainus on Vancouver Island, Canada, as examples of towns known around the world for their murals and which had ‘prospered greatly for the thousands of tourists who visited them by the coachload for their historical-themed murals that cover so many walls’.

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Artist David Adams in front of a section of the Treasures of the Tweed mural depicting the vulnerable Powerful Owl (Ninox strenua) native to the Tweed area.

Mr Boyd and his wife Marguerite had visited the towns and seen for themselves the ‘obvious benefits that flowed from these imaginative works to attract wealth without destroying their natural charm’.

He urged council to fund a movie of the completed wall with the further help of local unemployed workers and suggested the images be copyrighted so funds generated from a documentary and posters could be used in turn to fund murals on other walls in the town and elsewhere in the shire.

‘We are fortunate to live in one of the most beautiful and environmentally significant places on Earth and highlighting in murals much of the living flora and fauna of the Tweed is one way of sharing some of those treasures with others.

Who knows, they may become a lasting reminder of what we had in the year 2011,’ he said.

Mr Boyd said there were many places in Tweed Heads and the Tweed Coast which could be similarly painted and

noted that walls and surfaces such as public toilets painted with murals had ‘significantly’ no unsightly graffiti on them as a result.

Mr Boyd, who served on council for over 40 years, suggested the title ‘Murwillumbah – the town that paints its treasures’ for the mural vision-cummovie and urged councillors to visit the website www.flickr. com/groups/treasuresofthetweedmuralproject/ for a closer look at the images of the subjcts used in the project.

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Ms Jack said, ‘Come and enjoy fine traditionally brewed chai with gourmet cakes as you wander the exhibits, be inspired and think about joining the vibrant co-op’.

The hall will be open from 9am till 4pm this Saturday.

Artists interested in joining can contact Ms Jack on 02 6679 3562 or Joan Eccleshare on 02 6679 3897. www.tweedecho.com.au

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Appeal to save Pottsville koala tree Luis Feliu

An environmental campaigner has called for a stay of execution on a stand of mature native trees along a koala corridor at Pottsville which are planned to be chopped down early this year to make way for a community health centre at Pottsville.

Tweed Shire councillors, with the exception of the Greens Cr Katie Milne, recently voted to approve the $2.5 million centre, to be built by the North Coast Area Health Service on councilowned land in Elizabeth Street next to the Pottsville Neighbourhood Centre.

The stand includes a large 90-year-old forest redgum and several other koala food trees.

Veteran tree-protection and planting campaigner Jim Warburton pleaded with councillors at the last community access meeting to ensure the health centre was designed and built around the large redgum tree which was used by four to five koalas with their young as they travelled through the area.

Mr Warburton said the redgum was ‘irreplaceable’ and should be protected by council under state legislation.

He said council had been ‘bullied’ by the state health authorities ‘saying they can’t design the centre around the tree, but 43 car parking spaces will be built there instead.’

He said the tree had been assessed to be worth over

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It’s feared the increased dog population as a result of these new developments will be the nail in the coffin for the Tweed’s koalas unless urgent action is taken.

Proposed tree plantings by developers to compensate for lost habitat has been criticised as too little too late as it would take years for the trees to reach maturity.

Team Koala’s Jenny Hayes said a blanket ban on all dogs should be imposed on the new

developments in koala-populated areas.

‘Koala Beach near Pottsville has no cats or dogs allowed at all. It works and it’s successful and I think it’s outrageous to allow dogs in developments if there are koalas in the area,’ Ms Hayes said.

Currumbin Wildlife Hospital has reported that 200 koalas were treated there in the past 12 months and 40 of those were dog attacks. The hospital says less than half of the dog-attack victims survived, some suffering horrendous injuries.

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Tweed City plans fast-tracked Steve Spencer

Tweed City Shopping Centre’s expansion plans may be accelerated following a council vote to allow private town planners to work on the project.

The owner of the giant mall, Dexus Property Group, will pay for the private rezoning work, which will be supervised

by Tweed Shire Council planning staff.

Dexus recently purchased several homes along Kirkwood Road and want them rezoned quickly to allow for future expansion of the mall.

Council staff recommended the company be allowed to use a recently approved program that allows private consultants to do most of the work on rezoning applications.

Earlier this year Cr Warren Polglase twice tried to have the Tweed City project accelerated

up the council planning department work schedule, but failed to get enough support, with other councillors refusing to allow the project to ‘jump the queue’.

Support wasn’t unanimous for the project at the December council meeting either, with Liberal Cr Joan van Lieshout saying she didn’t support the expansion of the mall and a further concentration of retail outlets at South Tweed Heads.

Going south Cr van Lieshout suggested future retail rezoning approvals should be ‘going further south’ to Chinderah.

‘I’m not prepared to see Tweed City grow any further.

There is already too much congestion around that area,’ she said.

‘I’d like to warn this council

that we are in a global economic downturn. Everything may close down for years and we don’t want a lemon.

‘We want to support the retailers we already have. The future is online shopping and buying food that is locally grown. It is not prudent to be going ahead with this.’

But Cr Dot Holdom, who voted against the two previous attempts to accelerate the rezoning, pushed the project through, saying she had only changed her mind because it was now ‘user pays’.

‘It is a fact of life that Tweed City is going to expand,’ she said.

Mayor Barry Longland also switched his support for the project, saying council’s new strategy of allowing privately funded consultants would work well with the Tweed City proposal.

Annual art show kicks off Several Tweed-Gold Coast artists are featured in the annual Byron Arts Classic exhibition which begins tomorrow, Friday, at the Byron Community Centre.

It’s the largest visual arts event in northern NSW and comprises 453 artworks from 292 artists, including painting, sculpture, photography and digital art and works on paper.

All works are for sale.

Co-curator Tess Cullen says the whole centre is turned into an exhibition space, with all the rooms, including the theatre, being stripped of furniture to make way for the exhibits.

Pictured right is co-ordinating committee member Lelli Brown unpacking Peter Walton’s entry called The Diver.

The classic runs from Friday to next Wednesday, January 11, from 10am to 5pm daily.

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Tweed-Byron police arrested a man yesterday morning in relation to a hit-and-run accident which killed a cyclist near Mullumbimby on Tuesday morning.

Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of the cyclist, in his 60s, from Ocean Shores, following the collision on Coolamon Scenic Road near Synotts Road.

A passing surf life saver stopped at the scene to render first aid to the man who had sustained serious head injuries.

Paramedics took him to Mullumbimby Hospital where he died.

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tablished at the site and a report will be prepared for the Coroner.

Anyone who witnessed the collision is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

The man’s death brought the NSW road toll for the Christmas holiday period to 19, 11 more than for the same period last year.

Two people, a 49-year-old man and 50-year-old woman, were killed on the Pacific Highway at Tweed Heads South in the early hours of Christmas Day, a 21-year-old man was killed when his car rolled near Mullumbimby on December 31, a six-year-old girl girl died

near Uki just before Christmas, while a five-year-old girl died near Broadwater south of Ballina on December 26, all in single-vehicle accidents.

During Operation Safe Arrival, which continues until midnight tomorrow, Friday, January 6, NSW Police have conducted a total of 418,511 breath tests and charged 691 motorists with drink-driving offences compared to 369,497 tests and 885 charges for the same period in 2011.

They detected 9,716 motorists speeding (up from 9,588 for this time last year) and issued 14,705 infringements for other traffic offences (up from 14,458 last year). www.tweedecho.com.au

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Heavy storms which battered the Tweed’s coastline over Christmas may have helped change a decade-old council policy not to install ‘terminal walls’ at its beaches.

The Christmas erosion at Kingscliff removed another four metres of sand from the beach north of Cudgen Surf Lifesaving Club but may also have removed community opposition to the building of a terminal wall.

When Tweed Shire Council suggested a terminal/rock wall be built at Kingscliff some 10 years ago, the community’s opinion halted plans; however, according to new Cudgen SLSC president Adam Mills the latest erosion events may have changed the community’s attitude towards a permanent rock wall.

Mr Mills said although some sand returned to the beach south of the clubhouse, the areas in front and north of the clubhouse had lost sand and he feared a lot more time would pass before improvements became apparent.

All work done by council over the past 18 months was undertaken in response to emergencies and although this work was crucial and saved the clubhouse from disaster, it interfered with efforts to come up with more long-term solutions to the erosion and return sand to the affected areas, Mr Mills said.

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Dear Mrs Product Tester, Phew!! What a great Christmas, I’ve been busy, busy, busy… eating, eating, eating… and drinking, drinking, drinking. I think I’ve put on about 5kg. How was your Christmas?

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Josh and Sam Lake subscribe to the ‘every cloud has a silver lining’ theory. Others at Kingscliff are considerably more concerned about the current beach erosion.

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dia coverage of the erosion re- natural assets currently under sulted in an increase in visitors threat.

The draft report is due keen to have a look at the damearly this year and will proage near the surf club. vide council with options for ‘Erosion tourists’ a terminal wall, should it be Mr Mills said the number of deemed appropriate.

A spokesperson said council ‘erosion tourists’ was so large, he wished the club had an out- planned to consult the comlet to sell coffee and snacks to munity before work on a rock visitors, as the club would have wall would go ahead.

Meanwhile, Gold Coast City made a tidy profit.

The Water Resource Labora- Council is investing heavily in tory and their coastal experts the protection of its beaches (a business arm of the Univer- which withstood the big tides sity of NSW) are preparing a over Christmas.

The council is investing $6 draft report on the erosion issue and the possible erection million to manage the 52-kiloof a rock wall to safeguard the metre stretch of coastline, a big

Club makeover bid to prevent closure Steve Spencer

Club Banora is to be redesigned in a last-ditch $107 million redevelopment bid to boost cash flow and prevent its closure.

As part of the plan, sections of the club grounds are to be sliced off to make way for shops and a retirement home.

Tweed Shire Council was recently told the club has been struggling financially for years, has never been hugely popular and usually appears relatively empty of patrons. Its golf course is also below par because of the poorly draining soil it was built on.

It is hoped the massive redevelopment will save the club, which employs 41 people and injects more than $9 million a year into the Tweed economy.

Twin Towns Services Club, which built Club Banora in the early 1980s toward the end of the Tweed club industry’s financial heyday when poker machines were banned in Queensland, says it ‘no longer has the ability to subsidise’ the club ‘in its current format’.

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Dear Joy, Well I must admit, mine was a little quieter then yours, we’ve been keeping a pretty low profile. What with all the rain I’m starting to grow webbed feet. I always make a point of never letting the rain dampen my spirit. Over the holidays we’ve been walking (getting in training for the Great Ocean Walk!).

I’ve been walking with my new Shelta umbrella, a real pretty girly one with butterflies on it. Sometimes I’ve even had to wear my lightweight rain jacket. Then last week we went canoeing (ask Tony about getting up close and personal with the fish ladder at slippery crossing). He reckoned he couldn’t let Lucy have all the fun! Luckily the hardware shop sells fibreglass repair kits, and yes, it rained again but it didn’t really matter ’cause we were all wet already!

So just because it’s a bit wet, it doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy yourself. You just need the right gear. I know of this little shop in Murwillumbah called Outdoorism; it’s got all your wet weather needs. So get out and enjoy!

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club indefinitely’.

A recent report to Tweed councillors says the viability of the club as a stand-alone entity in the Twin Towns group has come under considerable pressure ‘because of significant changes in the club industry relating to poker machines, indoor smoking and increased taxation’.

The club’s top storey was closed just over a year ago to help stem the financial losses.

Retail and agedpersons component The report also says that ‘a key element of the redevelopment is the inclusion of a retail and aged-persons component to generate the necessary cash flows to fund the redevelopment’.

The proposed redevelopment includes: 1. Creating a smaller building partly suspended over the existing lake.

2. Relocation of the tennis courts and bowling greens.

3. A 5,000-square metre retail development adjacent to Leisure Drive, with supermarket and specialty shops.

4. A retirement home cov-

ering 11,000 square metres of the club.

5. Reconfiguration of the car park, which currently can cope with 700 vehicles.

Shire councillors were urged to allow the club to fund private planning consultants to help speed up the redevelopment to avoid the ‘loss of a broad range of public amenities’ including a heated swimming pool.

Council planners will oversee the work of the private consultants in a process recently approved by the state government to allow faster rezonings.

Shire planning staff have been in discussions about the redevelopment since late 2009 and recommended the move allowing the private planners to speed up the approval process because, they said, of the club’s ‘prevailing difficult financial position’.

The club has already ‘invested substantially in the preparation of application documentation and studies’.

Councillors were told the club’s poor financial situation had been confirmed by accountancy firm KPMG. Club Banora is built on 60 hectares of land, much of it flood prone.

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Some of the key projects being undertaken include beach nourishment offshore from Surfers Paradise, and contributing to the sand bypassing project at the Tweed River entrance. In November, the annual dredging campaigns in Currumbin and Tallebudgera creeks were completed, and a section of seawall at Marine Parade, Miami, was finished.

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Another hard year ahead for Labor

Volume 4 #18

January 5, 2012

Killing our quality of life It appears our councillors, with the exception of Cr Katie Milne, are not serious about the plight of the Tweed’s last koalas.

That is the only conclusion to be drawn from their callous ­decision to give the state health authorities carte blanche to chop down a mature forest redgum, known to be a koala food tree, to make way for a new health centre at Pottsville.

Some of those councillors claimed the health of people was more important than koalas, but they missed the point that both can co-exist. It seems to them that bitumen car parking spaces are more important for the design of the centre than a beautiful old tree used as a food source by koalas and their joeys, which also provides shade and spirit-lifting birdlife.

But sensible planners could easily have designed the centre and parking around the tree and enhanced the new health centre’s look and feel.

After all, such mature trees are treasured by those willing to pay more to live in the ‘leafy’ suburbs of capital cities around the world; they know their true value and how singing birds and shade improve the quality of life, ambience and general health of their environment, and accordingly, their own health.

In US and European cities, trees are major capital assets, and just as streets, sidewalks, public buildings and recreational facilities are a part of a community’s infrastructure, so are these publicly owned trees.

So our out-of-touch older-generation councillors also ignored the future generations who will live, work and play in the shire and who truly value koalas and other wildlife. They too will use the new health centre and no doubt would appreciate such a grand old tree as part of it. Just recently, almost 3,000 local kids participated in Team Koala’s colouring-in competition, an overwhelming response proving this very point.

A community of humans is not just a built concrete environment. That’s why many escape the cities for a tree or sea change.

The trees at the site could and should be incorporated into the building design to complement the overall amenity of the new centre.

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ulia Gillard’s government is entering the new year with a kind of desperate optimism.

After all, what’s the alternative? The Labor Party has to hope and believe that things can only get better. 2011 was indeed an annus horribilis, marked by ministers lurching from crisis to crisis, pausing only to occasionally shoot themselves (or sometimes each other) in the foot, and the chaos was reflected in the polls.

But 2012 can’t possibly be as bad as 2011 was. Things have to improve, don’t they? Well, don’t they?

Sorry chaps, but here’s the bad news: no they don’t, and indeed they could actually get worse. The problem is that just as the government finally looks like pulling itself into some kind of shape, with the carbon tax and the mining tax through parliament and the beginnings of a genuine Gillard agenda emerging, the arse looks like falling out of the world economy. Europe is a basket case and the other industrial power houses – the United States and Japan – are in no position to rescue it, even if they had the desire to do. GFC Mark II looks all but inevitable; the only real questions are what form it will take, how severe it will be, and how long it will last.

Treasurer Wayne Swan comments bravely that the demand from China for our resources will insulate Australia from the worst of it, and it is true that our economy is better armoured than most to withstand a crash.

But it would be sanguine to the point of nuttiness to imagine that with the world imploding around it, little Australia will remain untouched. At the very least the economy is certain to slow down considerably, and there is no longer the money available for the stimulus packages which protected both con-

sumer demand and investor confidence last time.

The Reserve Bank, unlike almost all its international counterparts, has a bit of room to play with interest rates, but that’s about the only tool left in the shed and it is unlikely to be sufficient. Thus Gillard’s reform program will once again grind to a halt, bereft of the funds needed to grease the wheels. In particular the big-ticket items foreshadowed in recent times,

Just as the government finally looks like pulling itself into some kind of shape, the arse looks like falling out of the world economy.

by Mungo MacCallum like a disabilities scheme, a universal dental service, or any serious tax reform, will be pushed back into the cupboard whence they emerged. And the government will have to devote much of its time and energy in not only trying to cushion the voters against the threat of recession, but in soothing, cajoling and comforting them to try and avoid a collapse of confidence – a task in communications for which both Gillard and Swan have proved themselves to be manifestly unsuited in the past.

At the same time they will continue to be haunted by their twin obsessions: the tyranny of the weekly opinion polls, an absurd distraction regarded as holy writ by politicians and commentators alike, and the ever-present spectre of Kevin Rudd. The possibility of Rudd making a successful challenge for the leadership has always been minuscule and nothing that has happened in the last few months has made it more likely: he has mended few if any fences within the caucus and

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the powerbrokers would eat their own young before having him back.

But within the Gillard camp the foreign minister still has the status of an obsession: sooner or later, perhaps in the next few months, almost certainly by the end of the year, the matter of Rudd must be resolved one way or another. Such is the paranoia that there is even talk of a Gillard supporter moving for a spill before Rudd’s few followers

or logic back to the so-called debate over asylum seeker policy, but Abbott’s hypocrisy on the issue has reached truly Stygian depths. He objects to sending asylum seekers to Malaysia, because it hasn’t signed the refugees convention; well no, but nor had Nauru at the time of John Howard’s Pacific Solution, which Abbott now lauds as the acme of policy, and he still wants to turn the boats back to Indonesia, which hasn’t signed up either. The answer must be Nauru, which the professionals say would not work as a deterrent because when it was last used almost all the detainees ended up in Australia or New Zealand anyway.

Well, if it doesn’t, says Abbott, bring back temporary protection visas – the device of psychological torture by which even those accepted as refugees were not given the rights of residents, in particular the right to bring out their families. This actually resulted in more risks as the wives and children of TPV holders had no alternative but to brave the boats themselves.

But we’ll think of something – perhaps we could threaten to pull their fingernails out with red-hot pincers to save them from the people smugglers.

All in the name of compassion, of course.

And we cannot start the New Year without congratulating John Howard for being made a member of the Royal Order of the Brown Nose by Her Majesty. He will no doubt keep it on his desk next to his boy scout woggle for Janette to dust every morning. And alarmingly, he claims it is a tribute not just to himself but to his country.

No, Johnnie, it was just for you. Most of us like our honours to be Australian.

have the opportunity to organise their numbers. The idea is lunacy: far from killing off the threat, it would give it credibility and split the caucus in the process. It would not be a show of strength but an admission of weakness.

Look at the history of such moves. In 1971 John Gorton took on Billy McMahon by asking for a vote of confidence, and lost the prime ministership as a result. In 1982 Bill Hayden called a special party meeting to bring Bob Hawke’s challenge into the open; he won that round but the impetus it gave Hawke made him irresistible a few months later. And most notoriously of all in 1984 Andrew Peacock demanded that his party rid him of the menace of John Howard: the party room refused and Peacock was forced to resign the leadership – to Howard.

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Where should the police go?

I have been watching the debate over the location of the police station with interest, and I am wondering why we don’t do as the Europeans do…

I am wondering if the option of building an essential services centre on a purposebuilt bridge spanning the highway has been considered, and if so, why it has been dismissed. As a matter of fact, I think it would be a good idea to have these every 200km or so. Ambulance, fire and police can be located together, or on alternate sites, with quick access on ramps to and from the highway. Very little land of significance would be required, and the location seems sensible to me.

The cost I imagine would be quite high… but what cost to the Kingscliff community under the current plan? And surely the sites currently occupied in Kingscliff by the fire and police could be sold to help cover the cost? That land has to be worth a small fortune.

Helen Edwards-Davis

Kingscliff

DoP’s blunder

The Coalition for Festival Sanity is dismayed at the NSW Department of Planning recommendation to approve a permanent festival site at Yelgun. Despite the O’Farrell government’s promise to return planning powers to local government, the DoP has blatantly ignored the local community, expressing a she’llbe-right-mate attitude that is simply appalling.

This is a politically motivated recommendation rather than one based on neutral principles of planning. Although the DoP has painted its assessment process as ‘rigorous’, the only rigour has

And the questions for Leda keep mounting up

■ I was interested to read in a one-column article Leda’s admission to mistakenly entering the Cudgen Nature Reserve and clearing vegetation (Tweed Daily News, December 23, 2011). The several lines of admission to their mistake contrasted greatly with their full-page paid advertisement in the same edition of the TDN touting the ‘neighbourly’ values of their soon-to-bedeveloped King’s Forest and Cobaki Lakes.

In their paid ad, Leda make much of the proximity of their developments to ‘protected nature reserves and open space’ and ‘environmentally sensitive open space’. The irony of those claims seems to have escaped Leda in light of their admissions to entering those same ‘protected’ lands without authority (by mistake, we are told) and undertaking works that are alleged to have increased the development potential of their land.

Those of us that have been involved in the development of community facilities know that the first rule is always to

make sure you know where your property boundaries are, and to ensure that contractors working on your behalf are also well briefed. The most basic project management system requires that.

In light of this mistake, I’d be interested to learn what action Leda has taken against its project manager and contractors, and what strengthening of systems it has undertaken to guard against further mistakes. I’d also like some explanation of Reg Van Rij’s claim that Leda reported the mistake to NPWS as soon as it became known to us’. Does that mean they became aware of it as soon as their contractor entered the reserve, or was it the same day, or the next week, or was it, as some have alleged, only reported once the unauthorised works were completed?

I expect we will see another Leda full-page paid ad in the next edition of the TDN providing us with the answers.

I won’t hold my breath!

been in the extent to which the department has bowed to developer demands. The motivation appears to be the desperate hope of keeping one music festival in NSW rather than see it move permanently to Queensland. But if we cannot hold these massive music festivals to a size, location, and frequency considerate to all, then let them go!

We’ve always wanted to see Splendour stay in NSW, too.

Just not in Yelgun. But could the government help the promoters find another site? No. Easier to pretend that all the serious issues (flooding, increased traffic, loss of residential amenity, environmental damage, etc.) can be effectively ‘managed’.

50,000 people at Yelgun when the population of the shire is only 30,000? No worries! Irreversible damage to the Billinudgel Nature Reserve, into which the NSW government has poured mil-

lions of dollars to establish and protect? No worries! Destroyed residential amenity in the north of the shire? No worries! Compromised living standards for residents who have been living in the area for decades? No worries! But surely this is not what the residents must accept!

This development is not essential infrastructure, such as a highway or a bridge. Will the Planning Assessment Commission see the madness in the DoP’s recommendation?

Our hope now rests with the PAC to apply proper planning principles and perspectives to this application and make a determination that is devoid of political influence.

■ Isn’t it heartening to see that

Leda is wanting to become part of the local community spirit with their sponsoring of ‘Carols by Candlelight’?

However, it’s not so heartening that carols are considered more important than koalas.

Leda thinks it’s okay to have the last koala corridor going through the centre of the proposed Kings Forest golf course.

It makes me wonder if the letters LEDA stand for ‘Lacking Ecological Development Application’ or perhaps ‘Leave Every Dead Animal’.

Of course Leda supporting local events, such as koalas – oops! I mean Carols by Candlelight – may have been more to do with obligation than initiative on their part.

Chris Degenhardt

Nobbys Creek

■ Koalas are so Australian.

Can you imagine Australia without koalas?

Leda Developments does not care about koalas. The miNigel Greenup ni-city development at Kings Nunderi Forest, as it is currently pro-

Mac Nicolson

North Ocean Shores

Council questions

Why did Cr Milne’s motion to have the 132-year-old Chinderah fig tree protected under a heritage order not get seconded? Why was Thomas George in the audience and why did he leave right after Katie’s fig tree amendment was not seconded?

Why did Cr Milne’s requests for wildlife corridors also go

unseconded? Why does Tweed Shire Council keep winning so many environmental awards when they consistently do not vote for sustainable, environmentally friendly outcomes such as giving Terranora Area E maximum water protection and not permitting Gold Coast Airport to treble flight paths over Fingal (a critical bird corridor with international agreements to protect it)?

Why does mayor Barry Longland, who prior to becoming mayor half the time seconded Cr Milne’s pro-environment motions and now hardly ever does, appear to be quite snappy with her? Why are certain councillors not censured for being rude to other councillors in council chambers and insulting to the public?

Why is it that Cr Milne got the most votes in the history of Tweed Shire council elections yet the other councillors don’t follow her lead? Why is it always Cr Milne calling for orders of the day with the other councillors doing little and not even seconding her motions, let alone voting for them?

posed, will effectively destroy the Kings Forest koala colony.

This, at a time when researchers have become aware that statewide recovery programs are necessary.

In Leda’s advertising to the community great benefits are promised, but each is an empty promise.

In the past Leda Developments has employed interstate and international companies and suppliers. It is local knowledge that very few local jobs resulted from the Salt development.

Are they promising to provide 15,000 jobs for the 15,000 new residents?

Is Leda Developments proposing to provide schools?

Or will the community be left to lobby the government for more schools in the area?

More shops? Is this a promise to put the existing shops out of business with a Gold Coast-style retail centre?

Does Mr Ell think our Tweed councillors are so stupid that they will be hoodwinked by his empty promises?

Clearly this development, that was approved by the Tony Kelly who is under report by ICAC, is not in keeping with the community’s ‘Our Tweed Vision’.

Councillors should look closely at how much profit Mr Ell is anticipating.

Around the world it is being proven that the economics of growth and development on borrowed money results in the already rich getting richer, while the world economy founders. Sustainability means maintaining existing businesses and creating local jobs for locals.

Now that the details of the Kings Forest estate are undergoing assessment it is the democratic duty of the council that it vote in accordance with the community’s best interests to minimise the negative impacts of this proposed development.

This means no dogs, adequate koala fencing and substantial buffer zones. Koalas need our care.

Why are there so few people in the council’s gallery any more?

A million and one questions screaming out but whose answers are shrouded in silence.

Such as: why did they back zone Kings Forest for development against ecologists’ advice? Why are they recommending the felling of a Pottsville koala tree in critical and ever-shrinking habitat when they already know that koala populations are below sustainable levels?

For years people have been telling me that they cannot bear to sit in council’s gallery because it’s too depressing seeing the pro-development faction time after time make poor choices for our environment and win. After the last council meeting I finally understand why they feel that way.

Then again, it looks like council doesn’t want people in the gallery anyway – they

are changing council meeting time to 10.30am as of this month (January), just when everyone is at work. How convenient. It looks like they don’t really want to hear or see us, the residents, ratepayers and voters while they do their dirty work.

Miranda Mills

Mount Burrell

Megan Jack

Tyalgum

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Good and bad news from Durban Dr Mark Byrne

The wash-up from last month’s climate summit in Durban is a mix of the good, the bad and the very ugly.

The good news was the largely unexpected decision ‘to adopt a universal legal agreement on climate change as soon as possible, and no later than 2015’.

So not only did that recidivist recalcitrant the United States reluctantly agree to be bound for the first time to a legally binding agreement, but so did China (now the world’s largest emitter), India and other developing countries.

Just as Australia ratified the Kyoto Protocol but was allowed to increase its emissions, that’s not to say, though, that developing nations would be forced to cut their emissions under the coming global agreement.

Other good news stories from Durban included progress on a $100 billion Green Climate Fund, which is supposed to help developing nations limit their emissions and adapt to the impacts of a warming world. The problem is only South Korea, Denmark and Germany have so far agreed to put money into it.

The bad news was that, while 2015 might be when the agreement is finalised, the US and China managed to delay its likely starting date until 2020.

This would be several years past when the International Energy Agency recently estimated global emissions would need to peak and begin to reduce if we are to have any chance of keeping warming to the arbitrary threshold of two degrees over the preindustrial level.

(For a sobering assessment of how hard the switch to a lowor zero-emissions economy is likely to be on a global scale, given the reasonable expectations of people in developing nations for access to the goodies we in the West have long taken for granted, read Andrew Charlton’s recent Quarterly Essay, Man-Made World.)

Meanwhile, according to a paper last month in Nature Climate Change, after a brief lull during the GFC last year global emissions rose by nearly six

Researchers ignite a bubble of methane on Alaska’s Steward Peninsula. Photo from www.worldculturepictorial.com.

per cent, the highest increase on record. Current government commitments agreed to at previous climate summits in Copenhagen and Cancun are setting the world on course for climate change of at least four, and possibly six, degrees this century.

As a group of climatologists wrote late last year on the RealClimate blog, ‘Even a “moderate” warming of 2°C stands

December 2011 letter to world leaders from the geoscientists comprising the Arctic Methane Emergency Working Group, the Arctic is likely to be ice free in summer by 2020. To put this in perspective, in 2007 half of the computer models used by the IPCC for its 2007 report predicted ice-free Arctic summers by 2100 – eighty years later.

That’s not only bad news for polar bears. The decrease in al-

According to research included in a December 2011 letter to world leaders from the geoscientists comprising the Arctic Methane Emergency Working Group, the Arctic is likely to be ice free in summer by 2020. To put this in perspective, in 2007 half of the computer models used by the IPCC for its 2007 report predicted ice-free Arctic summers by 2100 – eighty years later. a strong chance of provoking drought and storm responses that could challenge civilised society, leading potentially to the conflict and suffering that go with failed states and mass migrations. Global warming of 2°C would leave the Earth warmer than it has been in millions of years.’

And we haven’t even got to the very ugly yet. There is lots of bad climate news, but let’s just focus on the Arctic, where warming is happening at twice the global average rate. According to research included in a

bedo (reflected sunlight) and increase in ocean heat absorption will escalate atmospheric and ocean warming in the Arctic, which is already warming faster than anywhere else on Earth. It will accelerate the release of huge stores of methane – a twenty times more potent, albeit shorter lived, greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide – from Arctic permafrost and seabeds.

This appears to be already happening. Russian scientists who have been studying emissions of methane from the Arctic seabed for nearly two de-

cades reported last month that instead of ‘torches’ of methane up to a few metres across bubbling up from the seabed they had previously recorded, last year they found about one hundred methane ‘fountains’ up to a kilometre wide in an survey area only one hundred kilometres square. This concentration was a hundred times higher than normal, and the team, which reported its findings to a meeting of the American Geophysical Union, estimated that there could be thousands of such fountains over a wider area.

This is distinct from the increasing release of methane from thawing Siberian permafrost, which is one of the tipping points for runaway or catastrophic climate change long feared by climate scientists. Worldwide, the amount of methane in peat bogs and permafrost has been estimated at up to two trillion tonnes, or about a century of fossil fuel burning. Escalating methane emissions caused by a warmer atmosphere and ocean would dwarf any attempts to limit greenhouse emissions from human sources.

This doesn’t mean we should give up on reducing emissions.

There are many uncertainties, and the less CO2 is in the atmosphere, the less extreme future warming and its impacts are likely to be. But the longer we delay radical action, the more it is that we may need to resort to extremely risky technofixes like nuclear energy and geoengineering to reduce atmospheric warming and ocean acidification or to mitigate some of their impacts.

We have perhaps five years to turn this leviathan of a fossilfuel economy around, but only a global war footing is likely to achieve that. In lieu of which, strap yourselves in while turning off the cabin lights, because the ride is likely to get bumpy sooner than expected.

■ Dr Mark Byrne is an environmental educator who will take up a position as energy market advocate with the Total Environment Centre later this month.

Tweed ‘not a priority’ for coal-seam gas mining Steve Spencer

Mining company Arrow Energy has decided to retain its coal-seam gas (CSG) exploration licences in the Tweed Shire.

President of the Northern Rivers Guardians, Michael McNamara, said he had hoped Arrow might have given up on the Tweed after Macquarie Energy walked away from its exploration licences in October.

Exploration licences held

by Arrow Energy cover areas

from Pottsville west to Kyogle and include land around Murwillumbah.

But Arrow claims the Tweed is not a ‘priority project’.

Nearly half the shire is earmarked for coal-seam gas exploration with support from the NSW Department of Primary Industries.

More than 3,000 people attended a protest rally against CSG mining in Murwillumbah last May, one of the biggest rallies ever seen in the Northern Rivers.

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And in October, protest rallies were organised by the Lock the Gate Alliance and the Northern Rivers Guardians, at Murwillumbah, Tweed Heads, Burringbar, Uki, Byrrill Creek and Tyalgum.

Tweed, Byron, Ballina, Lismore and Kyogle councils, Rous Water and Northern Rivers Tourism have all pushed for a moratorium, along with environmental and farmer groups.

Federal MP for Page, Janelle Saffin, also backed the call but

Richmond MP Justine Elliot declined to support it, saying it was a state government responsibility.

Concerns have focused chiefly on ‘fracking’, which involves pumping, under high-pressure, large amounts of water mixed with various chemicals into drilling wells in order to extract gas trapped in coal seams.

Companies exploring northern NSW have not ruled out using the controversial process here.

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Have Fun Now Try something new that’s affordable and will leave everyone saying ‘that was AWESOME, we have to do this again!’ Hire stand-up paddle boards and kayaks from Have Fun Now to experience it yourself, or get a group together and make your whole day UNFORGETTABLE! In no time you’ll be paddling like a pro and laughing like crazy! Life jackets and instruction included.

Call Nick on 0423 547 723.

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Would you like to retire to a place where you wake up to the sound and smell of the ocean from your apartment before you take a leisurely 200m walk to a pristine surf beach that is never overcrowded? Then take a look at TriCare’s Hastings Point Retirement Community.

As with all of TriCare’s Retirement Communities, Hastings Point is equipped with a 24-hour emergency call system for your security and peace of mind. Of course there are many other activities and facilities to enjoy on site such as swimming pools, gymnasium, games room and billiards along with spacious areas to relax in and make the village your home.

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If you have recently downsized from a large home to smaller one and are surrounded by furniture that you don’t know what to do with? Then we at the Repsychlers Op-Shop feel that we have the answer. Call us on 07 5536 2537 and we will come to your home to pick up any quality donations free of charge. We are a community-based not-for-profit organisation that assists people recovering from a mental illness to re-connect to employment and community inclusion.

We are open Monday to Saturday from 9.30am to 4pm and are located at 56 Recreation Street, Tweed Heads. Call 07 5536 2537.

McKenzie Aged Care Group has just celebrated 10 years as an aged-care provider.

McKenzie CEO Rob Hutchinson says that the aged-care provider has started from very small beginnings and is now one of Australia’s largest independent operators.

‘We are proud of this achievement but most importantly we are proud to RE-USE • REPAIR • REMAKE • RECYCLE • RECOVERY provide excellent care and a great range of programs and activities in beautiful facilities Brett Str eet BIGGEST & for all of our residents.’

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Please come in and see our friendly, experienced staff for all your money exchange needs. In addition to the major currencies, we also keep on hand stocks of more exotic currencies such as Egyptian pounds and Argentinian pesos.

Our staff are dedicated to providing outstanding service to all travellers, providing competitive foreign exchange rates on currency purchases and sales, travellers cheques, phone cards and travel insurance. Please note that we no longer issue moneygrams at any of our locations.

We specialise in assisting the senior traveller. Coupled with our ‘no fee’ policy, we are able to offer suggestions as to the appropriate currencies required and general travel tips, together with supplying products such as phone cards, travel insurance etc.

We offer the very best rates for international money transfers.

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apartments available with the two-bedroom apartments starting from just $265,000.

To help furnish your new home TriCare is offering a $5000 furniture package for settlements made before 30 June 2012 (conditions apply).

TriCare also have retirement communities in south-east Queensland at Aspley, Stafford, Mt Gravatt and Mt Ommaney, on the Gold Coast at Runaway Bay and Clear Island Waters, along with Toowoomba and Box Hill in Victoria.

If you would like more information on Hastings Point or any of TriCare’s Retirement Villages, please call 07 3360 9000 or visit tricare.com.au and start experiencing the difference today.

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Healthy ageing: Tips for coping with change from www.helpguide.org As you age, there will be periods of both joy and stress. It’s important to build your resilience and find healthy ways to cope with challenges. This ability will help you make the most of the good times and keep your perspective when times are tough.

• Focus on the things you’re grateful for. The longer you live, the more you lose. But as you lose people and things, life becomes even more precious. When you stop taking things for granted, you appreciate and enjoy what you have even more.

• Acknowledge and express your feelings. You may have a hard time showing strong emotions, perhaps feeling that such a display is inappropriate and weak. But burying your feelings can lead to anger, resentment, and depression. Don’t deny what you’re going through. Find healthy ways to process your feelings, perhaps by talking with a close friend or writing in a journal.

• Accept the things you can’t change. Many things in life are beyond our control. Rather than stressing out over them, focus on the things you can control such as the way you choose to react to problems. Face your limitations with dignity and a healthy dose of humour.

• Look for the silver lining. As the saying goes, ‘What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.’ When facing major challenges, try to look at them as opportunities for personal growth. If your own poor choices contributed to a stressful situation, reflect on them and learn from your mistakes.

• Take daily action to deal with life’s challenges. When challenges seem too big to handle, sweeping them under the carpet often appears easier. But ignoring the problem doesn’t make it go away; it allows both the problem and your anxiety to build. Instead, take things one small step at a time. Even a small step can go a long way to boosting your confidence and reminding you that you are not powerless. quality,’ says Rob. “This is achieved through the development of training programs, advanced processes, quality systems and infrastructure to support every aspect of our work in managing our facilities and caring for residents.

‘We are looking forward to the journey ahead and would like to take this moment to say thank you to everyone who has helped us get this far,’ says Rob. All McKenzie facilities provide a safe, comfortable and friendly environment where the focus is on lifestyle, choice and independence.

This enables residents to make a smooth lifestyle transition into a stimulating social environment, recognising their immediate and long-term needs.

For more information about the McKenzie Aged Care facility Raffles located in Tweed Heads visit www.mckenzieacg.com.

Scooters & Mobility Downsize your car but not your mobility at Scooters & Mobility in Tweed Heads South. For more than 10 years Scooters & Mobility have been assisting the residents of Tweed Shire and southern Gold Coast with their mobility needs. Conveniently located in Industry Drive, Tweed Heads South there is no need to go elsewhere when Scooters & Mobility can offer the whole package in sales, after-sales service, spare parts/batteries/tyres and repairs.

SCOOTER OF THE MONTH

We offer a large variety of scooters -long-range outdoor/ golf scooters down to the portable scooter ideal for indoor situations. With the ability to be taken apart to put in the car they are ideal for an outing to the shops, cinema or dining out. A good selection of secondhand scooters are always available. Call us to arrange a free home demonstration with no obligation to buy.

Other quality products on display in the showroom are walkers (new and second hand), lightweight wheelchairs, lift/recline lounge chairs, stand assist dining chairs, shower chairs and toilet aids are all readily available. Scooters & Mobility also have mobility scooters, wheelchairs and walkers for hire.

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• 4 wheel large outdoor scooter range up to 50km • Adjustable suspension on all four wheels • Large 3hp motor delivers more power for climbing steep driveways and hills • Weight capacity: 227kg ALSO AVAILABLE New and used scooters, walkers/wheelchairs, lift chairs and daily living aids.

SCOOTERS & Mobility

YOUR TRIED & TRUSTED LOCAL MOBILITY SPECIALISTS FOR OVER 10 YEARS Open Monday to Friday 8.30am – 4.30pm and Saturday 8.30am – 12 noon

3/25 Industry Drive, Tweed Heads South

Mark and Marion of Scooters & Mobility focus on assisting their clients to keep their independence and look forward to being of service to attend to your individual requirements.

Phone 1800 726 000 / 07 5524 4398 or visit www.scootersandmobility.com.au.

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REBALANCE YOUR CHAKRAS

‘JOHN OF GOD’ CRYSTAL LIGHT BED FROM BRAZIL We are pleased to announce the opening of Empowerment Crystal Healing’s new home in Murwillumbah.

Come and enjoy the relaxing, healing, pure energy of a combination of crystals, lights, colour therapy, and a direct link to the healing energy of the ‘Casa De Dom Inacio’ in the hills of Brazil.

Re-balance your chakras and feel the very essence of pure love emanating from the crystals, and penetrating deep into your conscious and unconscious being.

All you do is lie on a bed in light-coloured clothes, listen to beautiful calming music and melt into a deep relaxation, emerging calm and centred. After your healing, you will be offered a cup of tea and a delicious homemade biscuit to ground you before driving.

Call Libby on 0438 145 972 or libmac65@yahoo.com. au to book an appointment.

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TOP TEN TIPS FOUND AT ROUGEMAG.COM.AU 1. Feed your skin from the inside. Honey, especially the dark kind, is high in disease-fighting antioxidants. Add it to your morning yogurt or tea for a health – and taste – kick.

2. Ditch alcohol-based toner. It strips away bad oils like sebum along with essential fatty acids that form a barrier against germs and irritants. Look for alcohol-free toner and use blotting papers to absorb any midday shine.

3. Do the sunscreen test. Put your arm up over your head. Does the skin on the underside of your upper arm match your face? You may be tanner than you realise. Look for a sunscreen that absorbs UVA (wrinkle-causers) and UVB (those that burn) rays.

4. Exfoliate. Retinoids are wrinkle-reducing creams that thicken the skin and unclog pores, but they can also leave behind dry, patchy areas. Gently exfoliate those dead skin cells with a heavy washcloth.

5. Take a milk bath. The white stuff is rich in protein and fat, both of which calm irritated skin. Add two to four cups of whole milk to a warm bath and dip in.

6. At-home healing. Dry scalp? Massage with warm olive oil and cover with a shower cap for 10 minutes to soothe itching and dryness.

7. Shop at the children’s aisle. Since sunscreen is needed all year round, adults with sensitive skin should pick up baby sunscreen. Formulated with titanium or zinc oxide, this gentle lotion or cream protects the skin without causing irritation.

8. Hair for your face. To make a round face look oval, avoid haircuts that are shorter than shoulder length. Side parts tend to widen the face, so opt for a middle-part. A few layers in front will elongate the face.

9. Add shine to hair. Try a post-shampoo rinse once a week with 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar diluted in a pint of water. The acid in the vinegar will remove buildup from styling products like mousse and hairspray.

10. Fine hair + highlights = fragile ends. To keep ends from fraying and breaking during a blow-dry, use a medium heat setting. Styling will take longer this way, but it will leave your hair shinier and healthier.

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FUTURE REFLECTIONS Future Reflections opened 3 October 2011 at 91 Griffith St, Coolangatta. They will soon be the most successful and wellrespected fitness organisation in Coolangatta.

Future Reflections has been designed to welcome everybody from everywhere who never thought they could enter a gym. The floor layout is designed with dedication towards neatness, easy design to move around, manageable equipment and great cool floor staff.

Our equipment is fitted with the most up-market functions with all cardio machines featuring TV, internet and games built into LCD screens. The resistance equipment travels smoothly with the design of the slide-pin, so we will ensure you a fun but easy workout all at once!

Plus this month we have erased all our GYM JOINING FEES! For more information or to join today phone 07 5599 3771.

Relax Energise Revitalise For appointments ph Libby: 0438 145 972

NEW GYM OPEN IN COOLANGATTA • 12 different styles of group fitness classes • Over 22 group sessions a week • Fully air-conditioned premises • Cycle studio and group fitness room • Slide-pin loaded strength equipment • Free weights area / cardio area

INTOUCH YOGA TEACHER TRAINING Flo Fenton’s Intouch Yoga Teacher Training is now coming into its third year. It has produced a very high standard of graduate teachers in the previous two years, who are not only ready to teach, but are confident that they are teaching what is beneficial to their students. The part-time format runs just one day per week and begins in March. The Level One training will be held Wednesdays, and the Level Two on Fridays in Suffolk Park. There is a special focus on yoga for individual needs, leading into yoga therapy. Accredited by Yoga Alliance.

Details and bookings: www.intouchyogabyronbay.com.

PHYTONAIL Put your best toes forward this summer with Phytonail.

Embarrassed by your ugly, discoloured toe nails? It’s a surprisingly common complaint. Here’s a simple and natural solution. Phytonail contains Australian blue cypress, tea tree

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and lavender oils and the handy pen applicator makes it quick and easy to apply. The unique carrier system allows the natural essential oils to actually penetrate the nail. Used regularly, improvements are visible in just a few weeks. Your nails not only look more beautiful but they’re healthier too.

To purchase Phytonail at the Summer Special Price or for further information visit www.phytonail.com or call 6685 5599.

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07 5599 3771 Flo Fenton’s Intouch Yoga Teacher Training Level One & Level Two Part time, 1 day per week Begins March 2012 in Suffolk Park This format encourages an integration of deep spirituality into daily life whilst allowing one to continue with the responsibilities of work and parenting.

The training has a strong focus on yoga for individual needs, leading into Yoga Therapy.

Fully accredited with Yoga Alliance.

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Television Guide

SATURDAY 7 ABC 1

1. The ABC continues its belated interest in the work of the wonderful British writer Terry Pratchett with Hogfather (ABC1, Saturday, 7.30), in which Death has to fill in for Hogfather in Discworld’s equivalent of Christmas. If you’re not familiar with Pratchett’s amusing and insightful novels, there’s more than 20 to entertain you – find out more in L Space www.au.lspace.org.

2. Laurence Fishburne and Drea De Matteo strut their stuff in the remake of Assault On Precinct 13 (ONE HD, Sunday, 8.30pm), an implausible crime thriller stuffed with prime cheese and entertaining action.

On New Years Eve, a police station is under attack by bad guys. At some stage a prison bus explodes and the good guys escape via an abandoned sewer. What more could you want? Drea De Matteo is perhaps best known for her role in The Sopranos, which won her an Emmy. She also owned a clothing store called Filth Mart – just in case you wanted to know.

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4.00 W-League Football 6.00 ABC News 10.00 River Cottage 11.00 Chopper Rescue 11.30 One Plus One 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2011 2.00 Robin Hood 3.00 Kids’ Programs

6.00 Grand Designs 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 My Family 8.30 Midsomer Murders (M) 10.05 Graham Norton Show

8.30 The Last Man Standing Brazil (M) 9.30 Top Boy (M) 10.20 Fast Food Baby

6.30 The Project 7.30 Jamie’s Great Britain 8.30 Movie: Ghost (M 1990) US drama. Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore

11.20 Behing Human (M) 1.20 Root Of All Evil: Oprah v Church (M) 1.40 Close 11.10 The Late Show 12.00 Movie: New Best Friend (MA 2002) US drama.

ABC NEWS 24 Mia Kirshner, Meredith Monroe 2.00 4.00 7.30 4.30 State To State 5.00 ABC Valentine (M) 3.00 Infomercials 5.00 News 12.30 Australia Network News Religion 1.00 ABC News 2.30 Australia Network News 3.00 Afternoon Live 5.45 Capital ELEVEN Hill 6.00 ABC News 6.30 Tonic 7.00 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The Brady ABC News 7.30 Contact Sport 8.00 ABC Bunch 8.30 Everybody Loves Raymond News 8.30 One Plus One 9.00 The World 9.00 Touched By An Angel 10.00 7th 9.30 State To State 10.00 ABC News Heaven 11.00 The Love Boat 12.00 10.05 Best Of Landline 11.00 ABC Charmed 1.00 Jag 2.00 MacGyver News 11.30 Australia Network News 3.00 King Of Queens 3.30 Cheers 4.00 12.00 ABC News 12.30 7.30 1.00 BBC Roseanne 4.30 Family Ties 5.00 Happy News 1.30 Australia Network News 2.00 Days 5.30 The Brady Bunch Newshour 3.00 BBC World News 3.30 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch One Plus One 6.30 Everybody Loves Raymond

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5.00 rage (PG) 11.00 Adventures In Architecture 12.00 My Family SBS 2 12.30 Unlikely Travellers 1.00 WNBL 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News Basketball LIVE – Bulleen v Townsville 6.00 A Fork In The Road 3.00 W-League Football: Canberra v Ireland Adelaide 5.00 Diving With Aliens

6.00 The Great Rift 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Hogfather 9.10 Single-Handed

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12.10 Movie: 2 Become 1 (M 2006) 8.30 Wallander (M) Taylor Lautner, Taylor Dooley Cantonese romantic comedy 1.55 10.30 Maneaters Weatherwatch 11.30 That ’70s Show 12.00 Along The 7.30 Movie: Uptown Girls (PG 2003) US comedy. Brittany Andes 2.00 Home Shopping TEN

10.55 Late Edition News 11.05 Adam Hills In Gordon St Tonight 12.05 rage 6.00 Ten News 7.00 Kids’Programs 9.00 (MA) The Circle 11.00 Ten News 12.00 Dr Phil ABC 2 1.00 The Doctors 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Judge Judy 3.30 Infomercial 6.00 Kids’ Programs 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef 4.30 The Bold 7.00 Spicks And Specks And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News 7.30 Doctor Who

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Murphy, Dakota Fanning 9.30 Movie: Waiting… (MA 2005) US comedy. Ryan Reynolds, Anna Faris

11.30 South Park (M) 12.00 Spin City 12.30 Undercovers (M) 1.30 Rubicon (M) 2.30 Reno 911 (M) 5.00 Bratz 5.30 Tamagotch!

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6.00 Today 9.00 Alive & Cooking 9.30 The Zoo 10.00 Friends 11.00 Murder, She Wrote 12.00 Movie: Jailhouse Rock (PG 1957) US musical drama. Elvis Presley, Judy Tyler 2.00 Friends 3.00 McLeod’s Daughters 4.00 The Golden 11.30 Escape To The Country 1.30 The Girls 5.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show Lakes 2.00 Australian Open Tennis: 6.00 Friends 2009 Dokic v Kleybanova 5.00 Home 7.00 The Zoo Shopping

6.00 Bargain Hunt 7.00 On The Buses 7.30 The Benny Hill Show 8.00 Brisbane International Tennis LIVE

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6.30 Wagon Train 7.30 The Incredible Hulk 8.30 Adam 12 9.00 NBC Today 11.00 Magnum PI 12.00 Knight Rider 1.00 The A Team 2.00 Xena: Warrior Princess 3.00 Monster Garage 5.00 The Drew Carey Show 5.30 That ’70s Show

6.30 My Wife And Kids 7.00 How I Met Your Mother 7.30 Movie: Bratz – The 7.30 Megastructures Movie (PG 2007) US com- 8.30 Banged Up Abroad (M) edy. Skyler Shaye, Janel 9.30 Reaper (M) Parrish 10.30 Jersey Shore (M) 9.40 Sex And The City (MA) 12.00 Knight Rider 1.00 Wagon Train

5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 1.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia 1.30 Inspector Rex 2.30 The Squiz 3.00 Letters And Numbers 3.30 World News 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour 5.30 10.50 The Late Late Show 11.40 Cheers 12.00 Roseanne 12.30 Sabrina The Dakar Rally Highlights Teenage Witch 1.00 King Of Queens 6.00 Letters And Numbers 1.30 Happy Days 2.00 The Love Boat 6.30 World News Australia 3.00 Charmed 4.00 Touched By An 7.30 Coast Angel 5.00 7th Heaven

7.30 David Attenborough’s Tiger-Spy In The Jungle 8.30 Law & Order (M) 9.30 The Commander (AV)

11.30 Conan (M) 12.30 Psychic TV 2.00 Movie: Laughter In Paradise (G 1951) US comedy. Joyce Grenfell, Hugh Griffith 4.00 Murder, She Wrote 5.00 The Golden Girls

2.00 Magnum PI 3.00 The Incredible Hulk 4.00 Xena: Warrior Princess 5.00 The A Team

NBN

5.30 Today 9.00 Kids’ Programs 10.00 Second Test Cricket LIVE – Australia ONE HD v India 12.30 The Cricket Show 1.00 6.00 Hopman Cup Tennis 2.00 Airline Cricket continues 2.30 Beach Patrol 3.00 Omnisport 6.00 Evening News 3.30 Airline 4.00 Hopman Cup Tennis 6.30 A Current Affair – LIVE 12.00 NBL Basketball – Perth 7.30 Two And A Half Men 11.05 Movie: Eight Miles High (MA v Melbourne 2.00 Omnisport 2.30 8.30 Movie: A Few Good Men 2007) German drama 1.05 Movie: National Football League 5.00 NFL (M 1992) US drama. Jack Family Hero (M 2006) French drama America’s Game Nicholson, Tom Cruise 3.00 Weatherwatch 11.20 Movie: Bad Boys (M 1983) US drama. Sean Penn, Reni Santoni 1.15 Movie: Scars Of Dracula (M

8.30 As It Happened War for the Atlantic 9.30 As It Happened Chronicle of the Third Reich 10.30 World News Australia

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.

Channel 9 (NBN, Gem and Go!) is the worst offender – they frequently change their prime-time movies and other shows just before screening, and Channel 7 (Prime7, 7two and 7mate) is not much better.

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NBL Basketball – Perth v Melbourne 4.30 Magic Of The FA Cup 5.30 500 (M 2006) Cantonese action 1.50 Great Goals Weatherwatch

Pu r na Yoga

4.00 Big Ideas 5.00 ABC News 6.00 Tonic 6.30 Message Stick 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Contact Sport 8.00 ABC News 8.45 Arts Quarter 9.00 ABC News 9.45 Health Quarter 10.00 ABC News 10.30 State To State 11.00 ABC News 11.30 Catalyst 12.00 ABC News 12.30 7.30 Select 1.00 Big Ideas 2.00 ABC News 2.30 Message Stick 3.00 ABC News 3.30 Foreign Correspondent 4.00 ABC News 4.30 State To State 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 Finance Quarter 9.00 ABC News 9.30 State To State 10.00 ABC News 10.30 7.30 Select 11.00 ABC News 11.30 Foreign Correspondent 12.00 Big Ideas 1.00 BBC World News 1.30 Tonic 2.00 Newshour 3.00 BBC World News 3.30 Message Stick

6.30 Risky Business 7.30 Who Do You Think You Are? 8.30 Maestro A Portrait of Valery Gergiev 9.30 Movie: Read My Lips (MAV 2001) French thriller

11.35 Movie: 13 (Tzameti) (M 2005) French thriller 1.15 Weatherwatch

TEN

The Dragon Tattoo (MAV

6.00 Seven News 6.30 No Leave No Life 7.00 Movie: Robots (G 2002) Animation 9.00 Movie: Jersey Girl (M 2004) US comedy. Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler

11.10 Movie: Jaws 3 (M 1983) US 6.00 Kids’ Programs 12.00 The Doctors thriller. Dennis Quaid, Lea Thompson 1.00 Life Unexpected 2.00 Good Chef 1.10 Home Shopping Bad Chef 2.30 Orangutans: People Of The Forest 3.30 Making Tracks 4.00 7TWO 6.30 Queensland Weekender 7.00 Escape With ET 5.00 Ten News 6.30 Movie: Dr Dolittle 2 (PG Great South East 7.30 Creek To Coast 2001) US comedy. Eddie 8.00 Better Homes And Gardens 9.00 The Great Outdoors 10.00 The Hogan Murphy, Kristen Wilson Family 10.30 Growing Pains 11.00 8.30 Movie: The Siege (M Perfect Strangers 11.30 Night Court 1998) US action. Denzel 12.00 Murphy Brown 12.30 Welcome Washington, Bruce Willis Back Kotter 1.00 Brisbane International 10.50 Movie: Love And A Bullet Tennis – LIVE (AV 2002) US action. Anthony Criss, 7.00 Heartbeat Kent King 1.00 Ally McBeal (M) 2.00 8.00 Brisbane International Infomercials 4.00 Religion

ELEVEN

Tennis LIVE

11.30 Taggart (M) 2.30 Australian Open 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The Brady Tennis 2003: Venus v Serena Bunch 8.30 Everybody Loves Raymond 7MATE 9.00 Touched By An Angel 10.00 7th 6.00 The Jeff Foxworthy Show 6.30 Heaven 11.00 The Love Boat 12.00 Wagon Train 7.30 The Incredible Hulk Charmed 1.00 Jag 2.00 MacGyver 8.30 Adam 12 9.00 NBC Today 11.00 3.00 King Of Queens 3.30 Cheers 4.00 Magnum PI 12.00 Knight Rider 1.00 Roseanne 4.30 Family Ties 5.00 Happy The A Team 2.00 Xena: Warrior Princess Days 5.30 The Brady Bunch 3.00 Hercules 5.00 The Drew Carey 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch Show 5.30 Monster Fish

11.45 Movie: Enter The Dragon (AV 1973) US action. Bruce Lee, John Saxon 1.40 Movie: The Hollywood Mom’s Mystery (M 2004) US comedy. Justine Bateman, Elizabeth Peña 3.30 Skippy 4.00 Infomercials

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6.00 Kids’ Programs 2.30 Married With Children 3.30 Spin City 4.30 Just Shoot Me 5.30 Total Wipeout USA

6.30 Top Gear USA 7.30 Movie: City Slickers (PG 1991) US comedy. Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern 10.00 Movie: Memoirs Of An Invisible Man (M 1992) US comedy. Chevy Chase, Daryl Hannah

12.00 Total Wipout UK 1.00 Top Gear USA 2.00 V (M) 5.00 Bratz 5.30 Tamagotchi

GEM

6.00 Movie: Jailhouse Rock (PG 1957) US musical drama. Elvis Presley, Judy Tyler 8.00 Infomercials 9.30 Movie: Barnacle Bill (G 1957) UK comedy. Alec Guinness, Irene Browne 11.20 Movie: Jules Verne’s Rocket To The Moon (G 1967) UK comedy. Burl Ives, Troy Donahue 1.45 Movie: Ensign Pulver (PG 1964) US comedy. Burl Ives, Walter Matthau 3.55 Movie: The Getting Of Wisdom (G 1977) Australian drama.

Julia Blake, Dorothy Bradley

6.00 The Golden Girls 6.30 Movie: The Secret Garden (G 1993) US fantasy. Kate Maberly, Maggie Smith 8.30 CSI: NY (M) 9.30 CSI: Miami (M) 10.30 CSI (M)

6.30 Everybody Loves Raymond 6.30 Mighty Structures 7.30 Frasier 7.30 Mega Movers 8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond 8.30 Shockwave 8.30 Frasier 9.30 Mega Disasters 9.00 Everybody Loves Raymond 10.30 The Universe 9.30 Star Trek: Voyager 11.30 Unsolved Mysteries (M) 12.30 11.30 Conan (M) 12.20 Psychic TV 1.50

11.30 Cheers 12.00 Roseanne 12.30 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 1.00 King 5.00 World News 5.05 World News Of Queens 1.30 Happy Days 2.00 The 1.00 Opera: La Pietra Del Paragone Love Boat 3.00 Charmed 4.00 Touched 3.45 Robert Lepage 3.55 The Beauty By An Angel 5.00 7th Heaven Of Books 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Dakar ONE HD Rally Highlights 6.00 Oz And James Drink To 6.00 Arsenal Football 9.00 WWE Experience 10.00 NFL Total Access Britain 11.00 X Venture Corporate Games 6.30 World News Australia 12.00 NBL Basketball – Perth v 7.30 Big, Bigger, Biggest Melbourne 2.00 WWE Experience 3.00 8.30 RocKwiz Crash Test Humans 4.00 Places We Go 9.30 Movie: The Girl With 5.00 Holiday Dream Team 5.30 I Fish

SBS 1

PRIME

6.30 Kids’ Programs 7.00 Weekend Sunrise 9.00 Kids’ Programs 12.00 Australian International Equestrian 1.00 Minute To Win It 2.30 Beat The Star 3.30 Movie: D3 – The Mighty Ducks (PG 1996) US comedy. Emilio Estevez, Jeffrey Nordling 5.30 Mercurio’s Menu

dy. Michael Caine, Robert Duvall 8.40 Lotto 9.45 Movie: Blame (AV 2010) Australian drama. Damian de Montemas, Sophie Lowe

6.00 Hopman Cup Tennis LIVE

2009) Swedish thriller 12.00 NBL Basketball – Wollongong 12.10 Movie: Dragon Tiger Gate v Townsville 2.00 Omnisport 2.30

SUNDAY 8

Man V Food 1.00 Knight Rider 2.00 The Incredible Hulk 3.00 Wagon Train 4.00 Magnum PI 5.00 Adam 12 5.30 Home Shopping

Movie: Devil Girl From Mars (PG 1954) UK scifi. Hazel Court, Peter Reynolds 3.20 Movie: Ensign Pulver 5.30 The Golden Girls

NBN

6.00 Danoz 7.00 Weekend Today 9.00 The Cornish Invasion Of South Australia 1.00 Second Test Cricket LIVE – Australia v India 12.30 The Cricket Show 1.00 Cricket continues

6.00 NBN News 6.30 Australia’s Funniest Home Videos 7.30 Movie: Secondhand Lions (PG 2003) US come-

8.30 Movie: Fletch Lives (PG 1989) US comedy. Chevy Speedweek 2.00 Australian Road Chase, Hal Holbrook ABC 1 Cycling Championships 5.00 Cycling 6.00 Fiberglass & Megapixels 7.00 5.00 rage (PG) 6.30 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Central 5.30 Dakar Rally Highlights Australian Superboat Championship 10.30 Warehouse 13 (M) ABC News 9.30 The World This Week 10.00 ABC News 10.40 Christianity: A History 11.30 Songs Of Praise 12.00 Britain From Above 1.00 7.30 Select 1.30 Message Stick 2.00 The Story Of India 3.00 Sound Of Mumbai 4.00 A Boy Called Alex 5.00 After The Deluge

Heaven

ONE HD

– Geelong 7.30 NFL Total Access 8.30 6.00 Thalassa National Football League – LIVE 3.00 6.30 World News Australia Omnisport 3.30 Places We Go 5.30 I Fish 7.30 A History Of Ancient 6.00 Big Fish Britain 6.30 Megastructures 8.30 Once Upon A Time In 7.30 Ice Road Truckers Cabramatta 8.30 Movie: Assault On 9.30 Movie: I’ve Loved You Precinct 13 (M 2005) So Long (M 2008) French US action. Ethan Hawke, drama Laurence Fishburne 11.35 Movie: Salaam Namaste

6.00 Last Chance To See Amazonian Manatee 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Grand Designs 8.30 Movie: Bran Nue Dae (PG (M 2005) Bollywood 2.15 2009) Australian drama. Weatherwatch Geoffrey Rush, Jessica SBS 2 Mauboy 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 10.00 Inspector George Gently (M) 6.00 More Than A Fiesta 11.15 Movie: The Italian Job (PG 1969) 6.40 Iron Chef UK action. Michael Caine, Noel Coward 7.30 Ninja Warrior 1.00 Movie: Magnificent Obsession (PG 1935) US drama. Irene Dunne, 8.00 Unbeatable Banzuke Robert Taylor 2.40 Star Stories: Bono 8.30 Once Upon A Time In Cabramatta (M) (M) 3.00 rage 9.30 Inspector Montalbano (M)

ABC 2

6.00 Kids’ Programs

7.00 Video Killed The Radio Star Spandau Ballet 7.30 Dragon’s Den 8.30 Sunday Best (M) 10.05 London Live JLS Special 10.30 BBC Electric Proms 07 Editors

PRIME

6.00 Religion 7.00 Weekend Sunrise 10.00 Business Builders 10.30 Under The Hammer 11.00 Movie: The Love Bug (G 1968) US comedy. Dean Jones, Michele Lee 1.30 Movie: Camp Rock (G 2008) US comedy. Demi Lovato, Joe 11.25 Movie: The Flower Of Jonas 3.30 Movie: Camp Rock 2 (G Evil (M 2003) French drama 1.15 2010) US comedy. Demi Lovato, Joe Weatherwatch Jonas 5.30 New Zealand On A Plate

TEN

6.00 Religion 7.00 Kids’ Programs 1.00 All 4 Adventure 1.30 Ozzie Holiday 2.00 Ironman Series 5.00 Ten News

6.30 Merlin 7.30 It’s A Knockout 11.30 Divas 12.20 Beautiful Noise: 8.30 Terra Nova (M) Pilot Speed 1.15 Scrapheap Challenge 9.30 NCIS (M) 2.00 Close 10.30 Medium (M)

ABC NEWS 24

10.45 NBL Basketball – Melbourne v NZ 12.45 NBL Basketball – Wollongong v Townsville 2.45 Omnisport 3.00 NBL Basketball – Perth v Melbourne 5.00 National Football League – LIVE

11.30 Movie: A River Runs 4.00 Big Ideas 5.00 Newshour 6.00 Through It (M 1992) US drama.

Australian Story 6.30 Message Stick Craig Sheffer, Brad Pitt 2.00 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 Select Infomercials 4.00 Religion 8.00 ABC News 8.30 Big Ideas 8.45 ELEVEN Weather Quarter 9.00 ABC News 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The Brady 9.30 The World This Week 10.00 ABC Bunch 8.30 Everybody Loves Raymond News 10.30 State To State 11.00 ABC 9.00 Touched By An Angel 10.00 7th News 11.30 One Plus One 12.00 ABC Heaven 11.00 The Love Boat 12.00 News 12.30 Tonic 1.00 Big Ideas 2.00 Charmed 1.00 Jag 2.00 MacGyver ABC News 2.30 Message Stick 3.00 3.00 King Of Queens 3.30 Cheers 4.00 ABC News 3.30 Australian Story 4.00 Roseanne 4.30 Family Ties 5.00 Happy ABC News 4.30 State To State 5.00 Days 5.30 The Brady Bunch ABC News 5.30 Catalyst 6.00 ABC News 6.30 Foreign Correspondent 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 7.00 ABC News 7.30 One Plus One 6.30 Everybody Loves Raymond 8.00 ABC News 8.02 Future Forum 7.30 The Simpsons 9.00 ABC News 9.30 Tonic 10.00 ABC 8.00 Futurama News 10.30 The World This Week 8.30 Movie: Anywhere But Here (PG 1999) US com11.00 ABC News 11.30 Australian Story 12.00 Big Ideas 1.00 BBC edy. Ted Danson, Shelley World News 1.30 7.30 Select 2.00 Long Newshour 3.00 BBC World News 10.50 Everybody Loves Raymond 3.30 Message Stick 11.20 Family Ties 11.50 Cheers 12.15 Roseanne 12.40 Sabrina The Teenage SBS 1 Witch 1.00 King Of Queens 1.30 Happy 5.00 World News 8.30 PopAsia Days 2.00 The Love Boat 3.00 Charmed 10.30 Football Asia 11.00 Football 4.00 Touched By An Angel 5.00 7th Feature 12.00 Futbol Mundial 12.30

6.00 Seven News 6.30 The Last Lioness 7.40 Border Security 8.10 Coastwatch 8.40 Bones (M) 9.40 Castle (M)

11.35 Royal Pains (M) 12.30 Home Shopping 5.30 Seven News

7TWO

6.30 Step By Step 7.00 Ugly Betty 8.00 The Hogan Family 8.30 Growing Pains 9.00 Head Of The Class 9.30 Welcome Back Kotter 10.00 Night Court 10.30 Murphy Brown 11.00 Brisbane International Tennis – LIVE

12.30 Caprica (MA) 2.30 Man V Food 3.00 Wagon Train 4.00 Magnum PI 5.00 Adam 12 5.30 Home Shopping

NBN

6.00 Home Shopping 7.00 Weekend Today 10.00 Surfsport 11.00 Australian Fishing Championships 11.30 Discover Downunder 12.00 Gilligan’s Island 12.30 Spirit Of The Horse 1.00 Jack Newton Celebrity Classic Golf 2.00 Fresh Prince Of Bel Air 2.30 Movie: Jeremiah Johnson (PG 1972) Western.

Robert Redford, Will Geer 5.00 NBN News 5.30 Antiques Roadshow

6.00 NBN News 6.30 David Attenborough’s Madagascar 7.30 60 Minutes 8.30 The Mentalist (M) 9.30 CSI (M) 10.30 CSI: NY (M)

11.30 Manly Surf 12.00 Flashpoint (M) 1.00 Memphis Beat (M) 2.00 Skippy 2.30 Home Shopping 4.00 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

GO!

6.00 Kids’ Programs 1.30 The Bachelor 3.30 Survivor: South Pacific

6.30 Teen Mum 8.00 Two And A Half Men 8.30 The Big Bang Theory 9.30 Movie: Bad Boys II (AV 2003) US action. Marc Lawrence, Will Smith

12.20 Ladette To Lady USA (MA) 1.20 Mad (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

6.00 On The Buses 6.30 Dad’s Army 7.00 Country Calendar 7.30 Movie: Deep Blue (PG 2003) UK doco. Pierce Brosnan, Michael Gambon 9.30 To The Manor Bowen 10.30 Homes Under The Hammer

GEM

7MATE

8.30 Movie: The Devil’s Own (M 1997) US drama.

Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt

6.00 Infomercials 6.30 Movie: Carry On Cabby (PG 1963) UK comedy. Sid James, Hattie Jacque 8.30 Infomercials 10.00 Movie: Hobson’s Choice (PG 1954) UK comedy. Charles Laughton, John Mills 12.15 Murder, She Wrote 1.15 Getaway 2.15 Movie: Ben-Hur 11.45 The World At War 12.50 (PG 1959) US action. Charlton Heston, Australian Open Tennis 2004: Henin Jack Hawkins v Clisters 3.00 Australian Open Tennis 6.30 Antiques Roadshow 2008: Ivanovic v Hantuchova 5.30 7.30 As Time Goes By 8.00 Yes Minister Home Shopping 6.30 Wagon Train 7.30 The Incredible Hulk 8.30 Adam 12 9.00 Ned And Stacey 10.00 NWA – On Fire 11.00 Magnum PI 12.00 Knight Rider 1.00 The A Team 2.00 Man V Food 3.00 Hercules 5.00 Drew Carey Show 5.30 Smash Lab 6.30 Verminators 7.30 Mythbusters

11.00 Movie: Disclosure (MA 1994) US thriller. Demi Moore, Michael Douglas 1.30 Friends 2.00 Home Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 Adventures In Rainbow Country 5.30 Today

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4.30 Beach Patrol 5.00 I Fish

6.00 M*A*S*H 9.30 Wilfred (MA) 6.30 Get Smart 10.00 South Park (M) 7.00 Cops 10.30 World News Australia 7.30 Psych 11.05 The World Game 12.05 SOS 8.30 Burn Notice (M) (M/MAV) 1.10 Movie: Cinderella 9.30 Blue Bloods (M) (MA 2006) South Korean horror 10.30 M*A*S*H

4.00 Chaser’s War On Everything (M) 4.30 Can We Help? 5.00 Gardening Australia 5.30 State To State 6.00 ABC News 10.00 Time Team 11.00 Best Of Landline 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 11.00 Crash Test Humans 12.00 Monarch Of The Glen 1.30 The Free 3.00 Weatherwatch National Football League 2.30 Pro Range Cook 2.00 Robin Hood 3.00 SBS 2 Bull Riding 3.30 Rok Adventure 5.30 Kids’ Programs 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News Magic Of The FA Cup 6.00 The Drum

6.00 China 21 7.00 ABC News 6.30 Sarah Wiener Culinary 7.30 7.30 Adventures 8.00 Who’s Been Sleeping In 7.00 Eating Art My House?

7.30 Don’t Grow Old 8.30 The History Of Safari 8.30 Judgment Day Intelligent 9.25 Kevin McCloud: Design on trial Slumming It 9.30 The World Game 10.15 Late Edition News 10.30 Movie: The 36th 10.25 Silent Witness (MA) Chamber Of Shaolin (M 11.20 Place Of Execution (M) 12.10 1977) Cantonese action

6.00 NBN News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 The Big Bang Theory 8.25 Lotto 8.30 The Mentalist (M) PRIME 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 9.30 Harry’s Law (M) 10.00 Style By Jury 10.30 Dr Oz 11.30 10.30 Big Morning News 12.00 Movie: Life Is Ruff (G 2005) US comedy. Kyle Massey, Kay Panabaker 2.00 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Seven News 5.30 Deal Or No Deal

6.00 Prime News 6.30 Seven News 7.00 Highway Cops Darling Buds Of May 1.00 Movie: 12.30 Weatherwatch 7.30 Border Security Captain Kidd (PG 1945) US action.

8.00 Dog Patrol Charles Laughton, Randolph Scott 2.30 TEN 8.30 Criminal Minds (M) Hungry Beast (M) 3.00 rage 6.00 Ten News 7.00 Kids’Programs 9.00 9.30 Air Crash Investigations The Circle 11.00 Ten News 12.00 Dr Phil 10.30 Royal Pains (M) ABC 2 6.00 Kids’ Programs

7.00 Spicks And Specks 7.30 Doctor Who 8.30 Haven (M) 9.30 The Runaway (MA) 10.15 Graham Norton Show

NBN

5.30 Today 9.00 Kerri-Anne 10.30 Kitchen Whiz 11.00 Home Shopping 12.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 1.00 The View 2.00 Days Of Our Lives 3.00 Entertainment Tonight 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Afternoon News 5.30 Hot Seat

11.30 Undercovers (AV) 12.30 The Avengers 1.30 Entertainment Tonight 2.00 Infomercials 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

GO!

6.00 Kids’ Programs 1.00 Seinfeld 1.30 Entertainment Tonight 2.00 TMZ 2.30 Married With Children 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.00 Movie: Rocky (PG 1976) US action. Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire

6.30 Wipeout USA

1.00 The Doctors 2.00 Ready Steady 11.30 Keeping Up With The Kardashians 7.30 Top Gear Cook 3.00 Judge Judy 3.30 Infomercial (M) 12.00 Auction Squad 1.00 Home 8.30 The Big Bang Theory 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef 4.30 The Bold Shopping 5.30 News 9.00 The Inbetweeners (MA) And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News

6.30 The Project 7.30 Modern Family 8.00 Rules Of Engagement 11.00 Dragon’s Den 12.45 Sanctuary 8.30 NCIS: Los Angeles (M) (M) 12.50 Scrapheap Challenge 1.45 9.30 The Glades (M) Close 10.30 Medium (M)

7TWO

9.30 Movie: Jawbreaker (M 1999) US comedy. Rose 6.30 Martha Stewart Show 7.30 Dr McGowan, Rebecca Oz 8.30 Step By Step 9.00 The Hogan Gayheart Family 9.30 Growing Pains 10.00 Night

Court 10.30 Murphy Brown 11.00 11.20 South Park (M) 12.20 Mad (M) Sydney International Tennis – LIVE 12.30 V (M) 1.30 Reno 911 (M) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Just Shoot Me 11.30 The Late Show 12.30 Infomercials 5.00 Doctor At Large 5.30 Rising Damp ABC NEWS 24 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Married With Children 6.00 Bargain Hunt 4.00 Religion 4.00 ABC News 4.05 The World 5.30 The Flintstones 7.00 On The Buses This Week 4.30 One Plus One 5.00 Eleven 7.30 Heartbeat GEM Newshour 6.00 ABC News 12.30 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The Brady 8.30 Ruth Rendell Mysteries: 6.00 Today 9.00 Home Shopping 10.30 Australia Network News 1.00 ABC Bunch 8.30 Everybody Loves Raymond Front Seat (M) Alive & Cooking 11.00 Murder, She News 2.30 Australia Network News 9.00 Touched By An Angel 10.00 7th 9.40 The Bill (M) Wrote 12.00 Movie: The Passionate 3.00 Afternoon Live 5.45 Environment Heaven 11.00 The Love Boat 12.00 10.45 Six Feet Under (M) 11.50 Stranger (PG 1957) UK comedy.

Quarter 6.00 The Drum 7.00 ABC News Charmed 1.00 Jag 2.00 MacGyver America’s Court 12.20 Australian Open Margaret Leighton, Ralph Richardson 7.30 7.30 8.00 ABC News 8.15 Press 3.00 King Of Queens 3.30 Cheers 4.00 Tennis: 2003 Aynaouli v Roddick 5.30 2.00 As Time Goes By 2.30 Yes Minister Club Selection 9.00 The World 9.30 Roseanne 4.30 Family Ties 5.00 Happy Home Shopping 3.00 McLeod’s Daughters 4.00 The State To State 10.00 ABC News 10.05 Days 5.30 The Brady Bunch Golden Girls 5.00 The Ellen Denegeres The Drum 11.00 ABC News 11.30 7MATE

6.00

S abrina The Teenage Witch Show Australia Network News12.00 ABC 6.30 Wagon Train 7.30 The Incredible

6.30

N eighbours News 12.30 7.30 1.00 BBC News 1.30 6.00 Friends Hulk 8.30 Adam 12 9.00 NBC Today 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond Australia Network News 2.00 Newshour 7.00 Underdogs 10.00 NBC Meet The Press 11.00

7.30

F uturama 3.00 BBC World News 3.30 7.30 Select Magnum PI 12.00 Knight Rider 1.00 7.30 Michaela’s Animal Road 8.30 Supernatural (M) Trip The A Team 2.00 Xena: Warrior Princess SBS 1 9.30 Smallville (M) 3.00 Monster Garage 5.00 The Drew 8.30 Joanna Lumley’s Nile 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 10.30 The Late Late Show 9.30 Hell’s Kitchen (MA) 1.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia 11.30 Cheers 12.00 Roseanne 12.30 Carey Show 5.30 That ’70s Show 10.30 Secret Diary Of A Call 1.30 Inspector Rex 2.30 ADbc 3.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 1.00 King 6.30 My Wife And Kids Girl (MA) Letters And Numbers 3.30 World Of Queens 1.30 Happy Days 2.00 The 7.00 How I Met Your Mother 11.30 Friends 12.30 Murder, She News 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Futbol Love Boat 3.00 Charmed 4.00 Touched 8.30 Family Guy (M) Wrote 1.30 The Golden Girls 2.00 Mundial 5.00 The Crew 5.30 Dakar By An Angel 5.00 7th Heaven 9.00 American Dad (M) Home Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 Rally Highlights 9.30 Family Guy (M) The Golden Girls 5.30 Today ONE HD 6.00 Letters And Numbers 10.30 My Name Is Earl 6.00 National Football League – LIVE 11.00 Punk’d (M) 12.00 Knight Rider 6.30 World News Australia 12.00 World Of Free Sports 12.30 1.00 Wagon Train 2.00 Magnum PI 7.30 Mythbusters 8.30 Freddie Flintoff Versus Omnisport 1.00 Guerrilla Gardeners 3.00 The Incredible Hulk 4.00 Xena: 1.30 Airline 2.00 Megastructures 3.00 Warrior Princess 5.00 Adam 12 5.30 The World (M) True Heroes 3.30 Airline 4.00 Jeopardy! Home Shopping

Tuesday 10 ABC 1

2.00 MotoGP Classic 3.00 True Heroes NBN 3.30 Airline 4.00 Jeopardy! 4.30 Beach 5.30 Today 9.00 Kerri-Anne 10.30 Patrol 5.00 I Fish 10.30 World News Australia Kitchen Whiz 11.00 Home Shopping 11.05 Movie: Hit The Road (M 2008) 6.00 M*A*S*H 12.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show Brazilian drama 1.00 True Horror (MAV) 6.30 Get Smart 1.00 The View 2.00 Days Of Our Lives 1.50 Weatherwatch 7.00 Cops 3.00 Entertainment Tonight 3.30 Kids’

7.30 Expedition Impossible SBS 2 Programs 4.30 Afternoon News 5.30

8.30 Cops (M) Hot Seat 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News

4.00 Chaser’s War On Everything (M) 4.30 Can We Help? 5.00 Gardening Australia 5.30 State To State 6.00 ABC News 10.00 Time Team 11.00 Battlefield Mysteries 11.45 Picture Perfect Homes 12.00 Midday Report 6.00 China 21 12.30 Seven Ages Of Britain 1.30 6.30 Sarah Wiener Culinary Meerkat Manor 2.00 Robin Hood 3.00 Adventures Kids’ Programs 7.00 Eating Art

6.00 The Drum 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 Nigella Kitchen 8.30 Nature’s Miracle Babies 9.30 Twins 10.25 Late Edition News

6.30 The Project 7.30 Modern Family 8.00 Rules Of Engagement 8.30 NCIS (M) 10.40 Arrested Development (M) 11.05 10.30 Medium (M) Torchwood (M) 11.55 No Way San Jose 12.20 Planet Rock Profiles: John Legend 12.50 Green Wing (M) 1.45 Close

ABC NEWS 24

4.30 Seven News 5.30 Deal Or No Deal Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News 6.00 Prime News

6.30 Seven News 7.00 Highway Cops 7.30 Top Five Eaten Alive 8.30 Movie: Jaws (M 1975) US thriller. Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw

7TWO

6.30 Wagon Train 7.30 The Incredible

Hulk 8.30 Adam 12 9.00 NBC Today 8.30 The Simpsons SBS 1 9.30 American Horror Story (AV) 11.00 Magnum PI 12.00 Knight Rider 1.00 The A Team 2.00 Xena: Warrior 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 10.30 The Late Late Show

6.00 Letters And Numbers 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Who Do You Think You Are? 8.30 The Nine Months That Made You 9.30 Cutting Edge Lost in Detention

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6.00 Kids’ Programs 1.00 Seinfeld 1.30 Entertainment Tonight 2.00 TMZ 2.30 Married With Children 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.00 Movie: Rocky II (PG 1979) US action. Sylvester 11.15 Keeping Up With The Kardashians Stallone, Talia Shire (M) 12.15 Room For Improvement 6.30 Wipeout USA 12.40 Home Shopping 5.30 News 7.30 Movie: Are We Done Yet?

(PG 2007) US comedy. Ice

Cube, Nia Long 6.30 Martha Stewart Show 7.30 Dr Oz 8.30 Step By Step 9.00 The Hogan 9.30 Movie: The Invasion (M 2007) US thriller. Nicole Family 9.30 Growing Pains 10.00 Night Kidman, Daniel Craig 11.30 Late Show 12.30 Infomercials Court 10.30 Murphy Brown 11.00 Sydney International Tennis – LIVE 11.30 South Park (M) 12.30 V (M) 1.30 4.00 Religion 5.00 Doctor At Large 5.30 Rising Damp Reno 911 (M) 2.00 Home Shopping Eleven 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 6.00 Bargain Hunt 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The Brady 7.00 On The Buses Married With Children 5.30 The Bunch 8.30 Neighbours 9.00 Touched 7.30 Hale And Pace 10th Flintstones

By An Angel 10.00 7th Heaven 11.00 Anniversary GEM The Love Boat 12.00 Charmed 1.00 Jag 8.40 Homes Under The 6.00 Today 9.00 Home Shopping 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 King Of Queens Hammer 10.30 Alive & Cooking 11.00 Murder, 3.30 Cheers 4.00 Roseanne 4.30 Family She Wrote 12.00 Movie: The Man Ties 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 The Brady 9.50 The Bill (M) 10.50 Six Feet Under (M) 12.00 Who Haunted Himself (PG 1970) UK Bunch America’s Court 12.30 Australian Open drama. Roger Moore, Hildegard Nell 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch Tennis: 2008 Hewitt v Baghdatis 5.30 2.00 Michaela’s Animal Road Trip 3.00 6.30 Neighbours Home Shopping McLeod’s Daughters 4.00 The Golden 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond Girls 5.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 7MATE 7.30 The Simpsons

4.00 7.30 4.30 State To State 5.00 Newshour 6.00 ABC News 12.30 Australia Network News 1.00 ABC News 2.30 Australia Network News 3.00 Afternoon Live 5.45 Finance Quarter 6.00 The Drum 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.30 Foreign Correspondent 9.00 The World 10.00 The Drum 11.00 ABC News 11.30 Australia Network News 12.00 ABC News 12.30 7.30 1.00 BBC News 1.30 Australia Network News 2.00 Newshour 3.00 BBC World News 3.30 8.00 Futurama Foreign Correspondent

1.00 Movie: Blue Gate Crossing (PG 2002) Taiwanese drama 2.30 ADbc 3.00 Letters And Numbers 3.30 World News 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Dakar Rally Highlights

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8.30 PhoneShop (M) 9.00 Commercial Kings 9.30 Green Wing (M) 10.20 Root Of All Evil (M)

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By An Angel 5.00 7th Heaven

Princess 3.00 Monster Garage 5.00 The Drew Carey Show 5.30 That ’70s Show

Australian Superboat Championship – Geelong 8.00 Pro Bull Riding 9.00 Ironman – Busselton, WA 10.00 NBL Basketball – Melbourne v NZ 12.00 Omnisport 12.30 Orangutan Diary 1.00 Guerrilla Gardeners 1.30 Airline

11.00 Carrier At War: USS Enterprise 12.00 Knight Rider 1.00 Wagon Train 2.00 Magnum PI 3.00 The Incredible Hulk 4.00 Xena: Warrior Princess 5.00 Adam 12 5.30 Home Shopping

6.30 My Wife And Kids 7.00 How I Met Your Mother 7.30 Engineering Disasters 8.30 Mythbusters ONE HD 9.30 The Border 6.00 Bundesliga Football 7.30 10.30 All Worked Up (M)

6.00 Friends 7.00 The Zoo 7.30 As Time Goes By 8.00 Yes Minister 8.30 The Closer (M) 10.30 Rizzoli & Isles (M)

11.30 Friends 12.30 Murder, She Wrote 1.30 The Golden Girls 2.00 Home Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 The Golden Girls 5.30 Today

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11.55 The Baby Borrowers (M) 12.50 Scrapheap Challenge 1.40 Close

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6.00 M*A*S*H 6.30 Get Smart Movie: Night Run (MA 2006) Dutch 7.00 Cops drama 3.05 Weatherwatch 7.30 Ice Road Truckers 8.30 Cops (M) SBS 2 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News 9.30 The Killing (M) 10.30 M*A*S*H 6.00 China 21 6.30 Sarah Wiener Culinary 11.00 National Football League 1.30 NFL Total Access 2.30 Omnisport 3.00 Adventures ATP World Tour Tennis 3.30 Serie A 7.00 Eating Art Football 5.30 FA Cup Classic 7.30 Rex In Rome PRIME 8.30 The Killing (M) 9.35 Movie: Kabuli Kid (M 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 10.00 Style By Jury 10.30 Dr Oz 11.30 2008) Italian drama

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6.30 The Project 7.30 Modern Family 8.00 Rules Of Engagement 8.30 Hawaii Five-O (M) 10.30 Medium (M)

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6.30 Martha Stewart Show 7.30 Dr 11.30 Late Show 12.30 Infomercials Oz 8.30 Step By Step 9.00 The Hogan 4.00 Religion Family 9.30 Growing Pains 10.00 Night Court 10.30 Murphy Brown 11.00 Eleven Sydney International & Kooyong Classic 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The Brady Tennis – LIVE Bunch 8.30 Neighbours 9.00 Touched 6.00 Bargain Hunt

By An Angel 10.00 7th Heaven 11.00 7.00 On The Buses The Love Boat 12.00 Charmed 1.00 Jag 7.30 Sydney International 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 King Of Queens Tennis LIVE 3.30 Cheers 4.00 Roseanne 4.30 Family Ties 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 The Brady 11.30 Taggart (M) 2.20 Australian Open Tennis: 1992 Edberg v Courier Bunch 5.30 Home Shopping

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6.30 Wagon Train 7.30 The Incredible 6.00 Friends Hulk 8.30 Adam 12 9.00 NBC Today 7.00 The Zoo 11.00 Magnum PI 12.00 Knight Rider 7.30 Movie: Forever Young 1.00 The A Team 2.00 Xena: Princess (PG 1992) US drama. Mel Warrior 3.00 Monster Garage 5.00 The Gibson, Jamie Lee Curtis Drew Carey Show 5.30 That ’70s Show

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6.00 Letters And Numbers 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Vet Adventures India 8.30 From Sydney To Tokyo

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5.30 Today 9.00 Kerri-Anne 10.30 Kitchen Whiz 11.00 Home Shopping 12.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 1.00 The View 2.00 Days Of Our Lives 3.00 Entertainment Tonight 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Afternoon News 5.30 2.00 Waterloo Road 3.00 Kids’Programs 12.35 The Fixer (M) 2.25 Weatherwatch 10.55 M*A*S*H 11.25 The Ultimate Hot Seat Fighter (M) 12.25 MotoGP Classic 1.30 6.00 The Drum 6.00 NBN News SBS 2 Goodwood Revival 2.30 Omnisport 7.00 A Current Affair 7.00 ABC News 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News 3.30 Arsenal Football 7.30 7.30 7.30 Getaway

9.30 24 Hours In Emergency ABC 1 (M) 4.00 WNBL Basketball 6.00 ABC News 10.00 Time Team 11.00 Rivers And Life 10.30 World News Australia

6.00 M*A*S*H 6.30 Get Smart 7.00 Cops 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Adventures 11.00 Sex: An Unnatural History (MA) 7.30 Extreme Fishing Of Sherlock Holmes 1.30 My Family 11.30 Erotic Tales (MA) 12.05 Kill Arman 8.30 Movie: TBA

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6.30 The Project 7.30 Modern Family 8.00 Rules Of Engagement 8.30 Law & Order (M) 10.30 Medium (M)

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Oz 8.30 Step By Step 9.00 The Hogan 11.00 Misbehaving Mums To Be 12.00 11.30 The Late Show 12.30 Infomercials Family 9.30 Growing Pains 10.00 Night Court 10.30 Murphy Brown 11.00 Commercial Kings 12.20 PhoneShop 4.00 Religion Sydney International & Kooyong Classic (M) 1.00 Root Of All Evil (M) 1.40 Close Eleven Tennis – LIVE ABC NEWS 24 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The Brady 6.00 Bargain Hunt 4.00 7.30 4.30 State To State 5.00 Bunch 8.30 Neighbours 9.00 Touched 7.00 On The Buses Newshour 6.00 ABC News 12.30 By An Angel 10.00 7th Heaven 11.00 7.30 Sydney International Australia Network News 1.00 ABC The Love Boat 12.00 Charmed 1.00 Jag Tennis LIVE News 2.30 Australia Network News 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 King Of Queens 1.15 Australian Open Tennis: 1991 3.00 Afternoon Live 5.45 Consumer 3.30 Cheers 4.00 Roseanne 4.30 Family Edberg v Lendl 5.30 Home Shopping Quarter 6.00 The Drum 7.00 ABC Ties 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 The Brady 7MATE News 7.30 7.30 8.00 ABC News 8.30 Bunch Australian Story 9.00 The World 9.30 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 6.30 Wagon Train 7.30 The Incredible State To State 10.00 The Drum 11.00 6.30 Neighbours Hulk 8.30 Adam 12 9.00 NBC Today ABC News 11.30 Australia Network 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond 11.00 Magnum PI 12.00 Knight Rider News 12.00 ABC News 12.30 7.30 1.00 7.30 The Simpsons 1.00 The A Team 2.00 Xena: Warrior BBC News 1.30 Australia Network News 8.30 Star Trek Next Generation Princess 3.00 Monster Garage 5.00 The 2.00 Newshour 3.00 BBC World News 10.30 The Late Late Show Drew Carey Show 5.30 That ’70s Show 3.30 Australian Story 11.30 Cheers 12.00 Roseanne 12.30 6.30 My Wife And Kids Sabrina The Teenage Witch 1.00 King 7.00 How I Met Your Mother SBS 1 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News Of Queens 1.30 Happy Days 2.00 The 7.30 Swamp People 1.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia Love Boat 3.00 Charmed 4.00 Touched 8.30 Hardcore Pawn (M) 9.30 Operation Repo (M) 1.30 Inspector Rex 2.30 The Squiz 3.00 By An Angel 5.00 7th Heaven 10.30 Jail (M) Letters And Numbers 3.30 World News ONE HD 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour 5.30 6.00 NFL America’s Game 7.00 National 11.30 Campus PD (M) 12.00 Knight Rider 1.00 Wagon Train 2.00 Magnum Dakar Rally Highlights Football League 9.30 Australian PI 3.00 The Incredible Hulk 4.00 Xena: 6.00 Letters And Numbers Superboat Championship – Geelong Warrior Princess 5.00 Adam 12 5.30 6.30 World News Australia 10.00 NBL Basketball – Wollongong Home Shopping 7.30 Zumbo v Townsville 12.00 Omnisport 12.30 8.00 One Man And His Orangutan Diary 1.00 Guerrilla Campervan Gardeners 1.30 Airline 2.00 Beach 8.30 The Family (M) Patrol 3.00 True Heroes 3.30 Airline

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GEM

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6.00 Friends 7.00 The Zoo 7.30 Friends 8.30 Movie: You’ve Got Mail (PG 1998) US comedy.

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Now it seems all the hard work is paying off – Transvaal Diamond Syndicate’s 2011 was shaped by their inclusion on Australia’s premier Festival, Byron Bay Bluesfest.

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Hailing from the Blue Mountains, blues/roots artist Claude Hay takes Do-It-Yourself to impressive limits. He builds his own instruments. He built his own house. He customised his tour van with a kitchen and a recording studio. And his musical approach is no different – you see only one performer, but the sound and music builds layer-by-layer until you have to wonder where the rest of the band is.

TDS are currently touring to promote Sins of the Blessed, a brand new seven-track mini-album showcasing the band’s diversity as it moves and swells through straight blues progressions into half-time rock and rockabilly into stoner groove and dark roots balladry. See them at the Currumbin SoundLounge Friday.

Hot on the heels of the Australian and US release of his second album Deep Fried Satisfied, Claude debuted on the Billboard blues charts at #9, following the likes of Buddy Guy and John Bonamassa.

His interview on USA’s syndicated National Public Radio exposed him to millions of listeners which pushed the USA market interest not long after hitting #21 on the US Weekly Blues Charts.

Claude Hay fuses slide guitar, sitar, bass and electronic percussion in a loop-driven performance that invokes the best of stomping traditional blues with a booty-shaking funk edge. His fresh take on roots and blues draws in a wide spectrum of listeners, but still has the chops for the blues enthusiasts. Currumbin SoundLounge Friday.

The Beautiful Girls Summer has become synonymous with The Beautiful Girls, and the hotter months of 2011/2012 will be no different. It’s their favourite season and best time to hit the road and reconnect with the home turf. Surf, skate, surf, by day. Music, show, party by night.

Never straying far from waves, caravans, BBQ’s, bikinis, sweltering heat, cold beers, long drives, festival crowds, beach cricket, and family and friends. Everything that reminds them they are at home in Australia. Living the dream. Coolanagtta Hotel Friday.

Asa Broomhall Australia’s favourite rock/roots larrikin, Asa Broomhall, has done it again with his latest self-produced album Revelry Road. Recorded live over five days in the farmhouse where Asa grew up on the Sunshine Coast. It builds on Asa’s previous work by seamlessly

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My arrogance was rewarded with grief. There was nothing. It was 7pm, Ivy had just woken up and started to make sounds See Mandy live at about being removed from the car. Even the shit hotels that we www.echonetdaily.net.au scoffed at bore ‘No Vacancy’ signs. We patrolled the beachfront accommodation. Full Occupancy. We drove around the city. Full no room at any inn Occupancy. We drove around the caravan parks. Full Occupancy.

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After an hour of flashing neon rejections, we drove out of Port Last week my husband and I and our 2-year-old daughter hit Macquarie. I, as usual, was completely philosophical. ‘It’s a shit the Pacific Highway to return home after our Blue Mountains hole anyway, full of old people and yobbos.’ I was starting to feel Christmas. (This was our Exmas – the other four were distributed resentment prickling my skin. I felt that childish sensation welling to appropriate ex-partners and family members.) After luxuriating in my throat, the burning lump of disappointment. I wanted to cry. in the surrounds of Mosman lunching with an old girlfriend, We had to go to Kempsey. There is no five-star in Kempsey. We marvelling at her view of Balmoral and how she managed to get 12 were 30 kays outside of a two-star town. John pointed out a sofas into a sunroom, we strapped into the Commodore and bade remote roadside hotel attached to a pub on the way into town. He our farewell. joked that he thought it was just like the Bates motel. He’d once After a very cruisey two-day journey to the mountains we were stopped in for a beer, but left after one sip for fear of being raped confident that Ivy, our littlest traveller, was quite capable of and murdered. I noticed that there was a vacancy there. John managing a five-to-six-hour stint. We’d taken the New England refused to stop.

Highway on the way down, overnighted at Tamworth at a glorious We hit Kempsey. ‘Go to the other side of town,’ I declared as we resort that had once been a power station. There was no traffic, we drove past numerous decrepit roadside hotel motels. I hate hotel had a two-bedroom apartment with kingsize bed and jacuzzi for motels. They’re like stinky jail cells with chenille bedspreads and just $165. tiny soaps. But I had a plan. Some time ago I had stayed on the We stopped off at vineyards in the Hunter Valley, marvelled at the river in Kempsey at the Country Comfort, a passably modest but exclusive horses of Scone, took a dirt road, and drove through clean and well-located stopover for salesman and weary travellers. hundreds of miles of wildflowers. We reached a roundabout, the We ignored the vacancies at the other providers and went for the wheel of our misfortune. John asked the important question, Comfort. I couldn’t believe it. ‘No Vacancy’. Shit. We tried the hotel should we go to Tamworth again? I said, No! Let’s go the Coast next door. Just as we pulled into reception the woman who looked Road and try something new. like she was made from the same laminex as the check-in desk John and I chatted about our various hotel options. After a week of scrawled a definite NO on A4 and stuck it to her glass door. dossing down with family on a series of bad mattresses, I was up We tried the NRMA offering next to McDonald’s. One room only. for five-star. King-size bed, jacuzzi, plasma. Every cell in my body And it was smoking. I considered buying Ivy a pack. I wanted to rejoiced for the sheer thrill of it. Ivy watched a movie, fell asleep, cry. We sat in McDonald’s charging our phones and our DVD. I rang and as we approached Taree we realised that we’d make Port ahead to Macksville. Everything was booked out. I rang every hotel Macquarie without too much fuss.

The The V-Rays promise to deliver an intense rock experience and leave the audience with a memory that they have witnessed something different from mainstream pop. Two guitar, bass and drums gives the The V-Rays a groovy, melodic, raw stripped-down sound.

Young and Charles are the songwriters and creative force within the band, are ably supported by the solid and creative bass playing of Bradbury and the swirling electric guitar from Everson. Saturday at the Sheoak Shack.

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nick and liesl PLAY AT THE SPHINX ROCK CAFE ON SUNDAY

Wasabi are a highenergy rock show that has been playing around south-east Queensland for the past two years, building a fan base and reputation as one of southeast Queensland’s best live bands, with no exception at Currumbin. With a fully computeroperated light show, high-quality sound, and an engaging and entertaining performance every time, Wasabi are more than just a covers band, it’s a rock show aimed to keep the dance

in South West Rocks. Nothing. I tried Coffs Harbour. Every resort or hotel was fully booked. Except for one four-bedroom Villa for $600.

I looked at John; he was pragmatic. ‘We’ll just drive home.’ I wanted to throw a tantrum. My five-star dream had turned into desperate bedlessness in Kempsey McDonald’s. I ate a Mighty Angus. I cried into my McFlurry.

I didn’t want to keep driving. It was now 10pm. We had been looking for accommodation for three hours. We didn’t have enough charge in the DVD for more than a half hour and Ivy was wired – there’d be no sleeping babies for some time yet. Great, fatigue, frustration and a screaming child. John drove out of Kempsey, we drove through Macksville hoping, but nothing. Valla Beach, nothing, so John pushed homewards. Then I snapped. ‘I can’t do it. We have to stop. I’d rather sleep in the car.’ John relented and we broke into a caravan park with ‘NO CABINS NO SITES’ scrawled in chalk on the entrance board. We pulled up by the river, and John unpacked our bags into the front seat while I squatted on the grass for a piss. It was 11pm.

Then I saw her moving across the lawn. Like an old croc, Salty’s eyes gleamed in the moonlight. Obese with skin like the heel of an unshoed foot, Salty stared accusingly at me while I begged. ‘Please, I know you have nothing available, we need to sleep in the car… please… we’ve been everywhere… I can’t go on.’ She moved off with a ‘pay me in the morning’.

So we slept on towels in the back of the station wagon. Ivy was delighted. ‘This is ’citing!’ We lay in the car, on makeshift pillows, with fleshy thighs bearing down into the cold hardness of the boot. All night I was awakened by the dull ache of discomfort.

By morning, caravan park dwellers and fishermen eyed us suspiciously: who were these strange tentless folk who emerged from the wagon of their car fully clothed?

Fortunately one group took pity on us; it turned out they were Salvation Army Officers, and made us coffee. When I told them our sad story, they laughed in commiseration, with one of the chaps reaching out and rubbing my belly, ‘Just like in the Christmas Story, love, no room at the inn’. I didn’t have the heart to tell him I wasn’t pregnant. I just jumped on my fat ass and rode away.

floor busy from start to finish.

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THE ASHTON SHUFFLE PLAY AT THE COOLANGATTA HOTEL ON SUNDAY

Akmal both nationally and internationally over the last two years, will join him. Together they have built a strong, dynamic chemistry on stage, which is evident in their improvised audience Q&A promising something different every night. Saturday at Twin Towns.

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Gig Guide Thursday 5

nC lub Banora 6pm Nicky Condine nC udgen Leagues Club Lonewolf n Kirra Sports Club 8pm Phil Eizenberg’s Open Mike Nite n Tweed Heads Bowls Club 6pm Roy Daniels

Friday 6 nC abarita Beach Sports Club Surf Report n Chinderah Tavern 8pm Moondog Gypsy Band nC lub Banora 7pm Toucan Twango nC oolangatta Hotel 8pm The

Beautiful Girls n Coolangatta Sands Hotel Lounge Bar 7.30pm Fat Albert Front Bar 8pm Rick Barron n Cudgen Leagues 7pm Paul Mulqueen n Cudgen SLSC Kingscliff 6pm Jim McAllister n Currumbin Soundlounge 7.30pm Claude Hay with Asa Broomhall + Transvaal Diamond Syndicate n Currumbin RSL 7pm Kaffene n Kingscliff Beach Bowls Club 7.30pm Segue Duo n Marty’s @ Caba, Cabarita Beach 7.30pm Eilish n Murwillumbah Services Club 6.30pm Phil Guest n Pottsville Beach Sports Club

7pm The Dirty Groove n Saltbar Kingscliff The Dirty Channel n Seagulls Lakeview Lounge 7pm Street Cafe n Sphinx Rock Cafe, Mt Burrell 6pm Jay Hoad n Tweed Heads Bowls Club 11am Robbie Rosenlund 7.30pm Able Magwitch

Saturday 7 n Cabarita Beach Sports Club Peta Evans-Taylor n Chinderah Tavern 3pm Greg Kew nC lub Banora 7pm Crisis nC oolangatta Sands Hotel Front Bar 8pm Dave Murray n Coolangatta Tweed Heads Golf Club Paul Mulqueen n Currumbin RSL 7pm Wasabi n The Ivory Tavern, Tweed Heads 8pm The Dirty Channel n Kingscliff Beach Bowls Club 7.30pm Happy Daze Karaoke

n Marty’s @ Caba, Cabarita Beach 7.30pm Mark Ferris n Murwillumbah Services Club 6.30pm Trevor Rix n Seagulls Lakeview Lounge 7pm Shindig n Sheoak Shack The V-Rays n Tweed Heads Bowls Club 7.30pm The Lions Den n Twin Towns 8pm Akmal with special guest Joel Ozborn

Sunday 8

Nightshift n Kingscliff Beach Bowls Club 5pm Jim McAllister n Kingscliff Beach Hotel 2pm Mr Troy n Kirra Sports Club 4pm Have-ago-karaoke n Neverland Coolangatta Easy Sundays n Sheoak Shack 4pm Jay Hoad n Sphinx Rock Cafe Mt Burrell 2pm Nick & Liesl n Riverview Hotel Murwillumbah 2pm Bill Jacobi n Surfers Beer Garden Sunday Sessions n Tweed Heads Bowls Club 5pm David Lee n Uki Pub 2.30pm Lil’ Fi and the Dirty Rascals

n Babalou Kingscliff 2.30pm South Pacific Sound System n Chinderah Tavern 2pm Darren Marlow n Club Banora 11.30am Danielle Goullet’s Sunday Showtime 2pm Talented Teen Competition – Heat 1 n Coolangatta Hotel 8pm Bluejuice + The Aston Shuffle n Kingscliff Beach Bowls Club n Coolangatta Sands Hotel 12 Fabian Lounge Bar 5pm Brett Gannon n Tweed Heads Bowls Club 11am Marco 6pm Dick Barns n Currumbin RSL 1.30pm

Monday 9

Tuesday 10 n Marty’s At Caba Cabarita Beach 7.30pm Dave Murray’s Open Mic Night n Tweed Heads Bowls Club 6pm Davo n Twin Towns 10.30am FABBA

Wednesday 11 n Club Banora 6pm Vanya n Tweed Heads Bowls Club 11am Tracey Vaughan 6pm Russell Hinton

Thursday 12 n Club Banora 6pm Whitey n Kirra Sports Club 8pm Phil Eizenberg’s Open Mike Nite n Tweed Heads Bowls Club 6pm Darby Burger n Twin Towns 8pm Reece Mastin with special guest Johnny Ruffo

For your free listing in the most comprehensive entertainment gig guide in the area email gigs@tweedecho.com.au or phone us on 02 6684 1777.

Deadline is noon Tuesday prior to publication.

Live Music C o n t i n u e d Nick and Liesl

It’s been a crazy year for Aussie-Swedish duo Nick and Liesl. 2011 saw them tour Australia and Europe with their critically acclaimed debut album Feather, and what better way to wrap up an amazing year than with performing at Woodford Folk Festival. Nick and Liesl are now coming back to Queensland and NSW to follow up on their successful shows here in May and June after an extended stay in Sweden following their fifth European tour.

BLUEJUICE play at coolangatta hotel on sunday

They’ve got the Juice and the Shuffle

For the third year in a row, Bluejuice are packing the tiniest shorts they can find, dusting off their surfmats, reacquainting their shoulder hair with natural sunlight, and rolling their Sizzling 2012 tour into a coastal town near you (or at least your summer holiday town) Bluejuice are preparing the tour van with ripening nectarines and peaches and are ready to roll with their first tour in ages.

Sizzling 2012 will see Bluejuice and their house The tour, which took them through Germany, music pals The Aston Shuffle bring an unparalleled Belgium, France and Switzerland, included live level of summer fruitiness and crotch sweating performances on French TV and German radio as to the otherwise-respectable coastal towns of well as the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg. After Australia. It’s going to be sticky. For the urban, the 7-week tour Nick and Liesl returned to Sweden metropolitan, city dwelling fans of Bluejuice the for some family time and, inspired by the haunting band has just been announced as a national artist winter darkness there, have been working on new on the Big Day Out 2012. See them this week at material for when the time comes to record the the Coolangatta Hotel Sunday. next release. Sunday at the Sphinx Rock Cafe.

Instrument virtuoso Hoad on the road

THE V RAYS play at the sheoak shack on SATURDAY

Fijian born didgeridoo and stringed instrument virtuoso Jay Hoad will be bringing his unique show to the area this weekend. Jay has spent the last six years touring around the globe, following the sun and his inspiration for music throughout the Caribbean, Southeast Asia, Fiji, Canada and North America, keeping up a relentless touring schedule whilst passionately learning about third world culture and every style of music he can sink his teeth into.

The result – a very funky and high-energy show that sees Jay sitting in a cockpit of instruments including didgeridoo, Weissenborn lap steel, dulcimer, guitar, harmonica, ocarina, djembe, percussion, loops, voice and then some. Mouth, hands and feet work in harmony as Jay fuses many genres of music creating a sound that’s hard to believe comes from just one person.

CLAUDE HAY plays at currumbin soundlounge on friday

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In 2010 Jay was honoured to perform with Bob Marley’s Wailers on the northeast leg of their USA tour and has also recently toured with USA super groups Carbon Leaf and the Temptations. For a visual and sound spectacular see Jay Hoad at the Sphinx Rock Café on Friday and the Sheoak Shack on Sunday.

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Stars

As the baby year kicks off to a fresh start, you might like to consult these road maps from members of your own star tribe…

Mungo’s Crossword

WITH LILITH  ARIES: Tennessee Williams, Aries playwright: I don’t believe in original sin, guilt, villains or heroes, good or bad people. I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to persuade us to hate and fear others.

Why don’t we meet these people and get to know them?  TAURUS: Terry Pratchett, Tauran novelist: Some say the glass is either half full or half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who say: What’s up with this glass? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don’t think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass!  GEMINI: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Gemini philosopher: Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered by old nonsense.  CANCER: Tom Robbins, Cancerian author: Our lives are not as limited as we think; the world is a wonderfully weird place; no institution can be trusted, but love does work; we could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the wisdom to quit taking ourselves so damn seriously.  LEO: Dag Hammarskjold, Leo diplomat: The longest journey is the journey

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Thursday January 5 9.30am Happy Feet 2 (G) 11.05am Arthur Christmas (G) 12.50pm Happy Feet 2 (G) 2.40pm Judy Moody (G) 4.20pm Happy Feet 2 (G) 9.30am 11.05am 12.50pm 2.40pm 4.20pm 6.20pm 8.00pm

Friday January 6 Happy Feet 2 (G) Arthur Christmas (G) Happy Feet 2 (G) Judy Moody (G) Happy Feet 2 (G) The Ides of March (M) Bill C. New York (PG)

Saturday January 7 9.30am Happy Feet 2 (G) 11.05am Arthur Christmas (G) 12.50pm Happy Feet 2 (G) 2.40pm Judy Moody (G) 4.20pm Happy Feet 2 (G) 6.20pm The Ides of March (M) 8.00pm Bill C. New York (PG)

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inwards. Listen to the voice within you writer: Nobody who ever lived is specially and you’ll hear more clearly the sounds privileged; the axe can fall at any outside. In the point of rest at the centre moment, on any neck, without warning of our being we encounter a cosmos or regard for justice. We can only be ready whose riches we can only glimpse. by being in tune with the times and VIRGO: John Cage, Virgo composer: prepared to break with tradition.

My intention is to affirm life. Not to  CAPRICORN: JD Salinger, Capricorn bring order out of chaos or suggest author: You’re not the first person improvements in creation, but simply confused and frightened, even sickened wake up to this life we’re living which is by human behaviour. Many have been so excellent once one gets one’s mind just as troubled as you are. Happily, and desires out of its way and lets it act of some of them kept records. Learn from its own accord. them, and someday, someone will learn LIBRA: Mahatma Ghandi, Libran pacifist: something from you. It’s a beautiful Your beliefs become your thoughts, reciprocal arrangement. your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions  AQUARIUS: Eckhart Tolle, Aquarian become your habits, your habits become metaphysician: You cannot receive what your values and your values become you don’t give. Outflow determines your destiny. What you do may seem inflow. Whatever you think the world is unimportant, but it’s important that you withholding from you, you already have, do it. but unless you allow it to flow out, you SCORPIO: Robert Kennedy, Scorpio won’t even know that you have it. This politician: This short life cannot be includes abundance. ennobled or enriched by hatred. Every act to improve the lot of others or strike  PISCES: WH Auden, Pisces poet: Those to whom evil is done do evil in return. out against injustice sends a tiny ripple to join a million other daring ripples in Behind the lady who dances and the man a current which can sweep down the who madly drinks, the attack of migraine mightiest walls of oppression. and the sigh, there is more than meets SAGITTARIUS: James Agee, Sagittarian the eye. We must love one another or die.

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Sunday January 8 Happy Feet 2 (G) Arthur Christmas (G) Happy Feet 2 (G) Judy Moody (G) Happy Feet 2 (G) The Ides of March (M) Bill C. New York (PG)

Tuesday January 10 9.30am Happy Feet 2 (G) 11.05am Arthur Christmas (G) 12.50pm Happy Feet 2 (G) 2.40pm Judy Moody (G) 4.20pm Happy Feet 2 (G) 6.20pm The Ides of March (M) 8.00pm Bill C. New York (PG) Wednesday January 11 9.30am Happy Feet 2 (G) 11.05am Arthur Christmas (G) 12.50pm Happy Feet 2 (G) 2.40pm Judy Moody (G) 4.20pm Happy Feet 2 (G)

world title defence next May

by Ian Rogers against unfancied Israeli Boris Play at Seagulls Club, Thurs 6pm Gelfand might not be the cakewalk many have expected.

Gelfand qualified for the world title match after a hardfought and controversial series of Candidates matches in Kazan in May, a series boycotted by Carlsen.

Carlsen had become fed up with the constant rule, venue and date changes announced by the world body FIDE, whose President Kirsan Iljumzhinov put chess on the front pages by drop2011 was a year for surprises, ping into war-torn Libya in June though with one constant: the to play chess against Muammar continued amazing consistency Gaddafi. Since Gaddafi apparently didn’t know the rules of of Magnus Carlsen.

The Norwegian superstar the game, Iljumzhinov played the (above), who can no longer be moves for both sides but still described as a teenager, start- could only manage a draw.

Domestically, no single player ed the year ranked just behind World Champion Viswanathan dominated but teenagers James Anand but, after a series of elite Morris, Max Illingworth and tournament victories, ended it Bobby Cheng all enhanced their with a massive gap between him- reputations (and gave themselves self and the second ranked play- a chance for Olympic selection in er, currently Armenia’s Levon 2012). Cheng became Victorian Champion at 14 and topped Aronian.

Anand, meanwhile, dropped Grandmaster Darryl Johansen to fourth place and his recent again at the Trundle Memorial form suggests that the Indian’s in Auckland.

CHESS

Quick Clues

Cryptic Clues

ACROSS 1. Scent, perfume (5) 4. Cancer stick (9) 8. Forbearance, lack of prejudice (9) 9. Famous fountain in Rome 10. Place for surgery to revers the effects of dissection (9,4) 13. Bean curd (4) 14. Came back into sight (10) 17. Brother of Flopsy and Mopsy (10) 18. Style of jazz singing (4) 20. Large warship (6,7) 22. Derived from the sun (5) 23. Body of water between China and Korea (6,3) 25. A 4 down (9) 26. Odds pf pne to ne (5)

ACROSS 1. Scent of where all roads lead, according to Giuseppe (5) 4. Supermarket in Greek island had time for a lethal product (9) 8. Dream about a cheer for lack of prejudice (9) 9. Mix, invert but no new fountain (5) 10. About the cult charge, Othello – back to where they’ll stitch you up!

(9,4) 13. Antipasto future holds bland food (4) 14. Journalist followed harvest fruit and came back again (10) 17. N, Mopsy’s brother (10) 18. Singing of Southern Persian, perhaps (4) 20. Warship destroys sea turtle crib (6,7) 22. Power to fly over the lake (5) 23. Scream, cry of pain, leading to South East Asia – or a maritime part thereof! (6,3) 25. University returns one of its faculties, among other things, to this 4 down (9) 26. Balances short odds (5)

DOWN 1. A 4 down 2. Crude petroleum (3) 3. A 4 down (6) 4. Exercising restraint of desires or passions (9) 5. Shared, allotted (8) 6. One or perhaps two 4 downs (3,8) 7. Sinful, wicked (4) 11. Passenger restraints in vehicles (6,5) 12. Opinion pieces in newspapers (10) 15. Cinematic Queen of the Desert (9) 16. Tormentor, sadist (8) 19. A 4 down (6) 21. A 4 down (4) 24. View, look at (3)

Last week’s solution

DOWN 1. Worker curve: note about a 4 down (10) 2. Fuel 049 (3) 3. Fair fight about 4 down (6) 4. Territory constrained by change – specialist in exercising restraint (9) 5. Shared proportion with Kelly (8) 6. Emirate cash enough for one or two 4 downs (3,8) 7. Be upstanding for sin! (4) 11. False test bypasses security devices (6,5) 12. Opinionated writing or idealist?

Problem (10) 15. Advertising is back for the Queen of the Desert (9) 16. Traveller about right for a sadist (8) 19. Devalued rupee covers nothing for this 4 down (6) 21. Like individual, a 4 down (4) 24. Look at the bishop’s [lace (3) Mungo’s Crossword first published in The Week.

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BLINDS & AWNINGS       

MARTIN ACKLAND & TERRY McKIERNAN Banora Point .........................................07 5523 4090

Electrical Contractor 02 6677 1943 / 0410 314 897

AUTOMOTIVE ALL SCRAP METAL, WHITE GOODS & FARM MACHINERY E PRE LOVED & UNWANTED CARS E FR TILT TRAY TOWING SERVICE PICK UP

Lic 222684C

Ernst Max Mann

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C OWBOYS CAR REMOVALS

Mako Concrete Constructions

NSW Lic. 144632C Qld Lic. 20509

Graeme Archer

ANTEN NAS

CONCRETING

All aspects of concrete. No job too small.

Call now for a free quote.

Ph: 0403 053 073 email: aaron@alexiuc.com

• Satellite systems • AM/FM radio • Digital conversions • Sales • Service

(02) 6676 0903 • 0417 496 282

Apple Certified Support

Quality work guaranteed by local experienced builder • Insurance work • Shop fitting • Extensions • Outdoor living areas • Renovations – kitchens, bathrooms, full interior and exterior makeovers Call Brian on 0418 763 323 or 6674 5496

TV ANTENNA SERVICES

60 Poinciana Ave, Bogangar

Lic 227281C

COAST TO COAST CONSTRUCTIONS

Residential & commercial air conditioning with over 30 years experience

Ph:

SaulMordaunt@mac.com 0411 562 111 • 02 6684 6191

Domestic / Commercial / Industrial Builders’ cleans a speciality. 25 years experience.

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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

0458 795 659 (bh) 6679 5659 (ah) www.tweedecho.com.au

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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

LEGAL CourtAssist.com.au We look after you in Criminal, Traffic & Family Law Courts.........0434 129 866

LICENSED BROTHELS

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

PAINTING

Person being interviewed: Kay Williams Favourite colour? Green Favourite food? Thai Any kids? Three Your worst habit? Mmmmm... Working too hard.

Office located? Bilambil and the back of my car as I am mobile.

Service your business provides? Bookkeeping, account management, payroll.

Business motto? Get a hand on your accounts Best result you have achieved for a client? Getting them a BIG fuel tax rebate they didn’t realise they were entitled to.

When people think of you what would they think? Reliable, no hassle, personal service.

Main clientele? Small business through to self-employed tradies Where you travel to offer the service? Tweed to lower Gold Coast Thank you for spending 60 seconds with The Echo. Any last comments? Looking forward to a great 2012.

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PEST CONTROL

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• Life pathConsultation consultation • Readings by mail Life Path Readings

by Mail • Psychic counselling • Photo readings Psychic • Medical intuitive • GiftCounselling vouchers available

Photo Readings “Gift Vouchers Medical Intuitive available”02 6677 7517 / 0408 677 515 rhonda@handsofdestiny.com www.handsofdestiny.com

• Phone 02 6677 7517 • Mobile 0408 677 515 • Email: rhonda@handsofdestiny.com • www.handsofdestiny.com

REMOVALISTS

If you have found termites do not disturb them! Contact us for advice.

6685 4490 or after hours on 0414 769 018 • www.sanctuarypest.com.au

PLASTERING MASTER PLASTER 20 years experience, best price. Lic 90972C ..................................0433 800 333

PLUMBING ADM PLUMBING SERVICES No job too small. Lic 234528C .............................Adam 0466 992 483

PLUMBING & GAS SOLUTIONS Blocked drains? New water heater?

Whatever your plumbing needs we have the answer.

Available 24/7. FREE quotes.

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

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

0409 848 800

BRUNSWICK VALLEY

Plumbing & Drainage 0415 179 034

BLOCKED DRAINS & MAINTENANCE SPECIALISTS

24hr Service • CCTV Camera • High Pressure Drain Cleaning Equipment & Pipe Locator Blaine Scott NSW Lic. 224320C

Steve Swindells

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Servicing Coolangatta to Byron

For all your plumbing, drainage, gasfitting, solar hot water and maintenance needs call

0414 611 418

Servicing this area for 11 years.

02 6684 2198

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

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

For tips & testimonials

Friendly Staff No weekend surcharge

search “Lighthouse Removals”

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Plus Check our website for how to get

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free boxes and a 10% discount

Lighthouse RemovaLs (02) 6684 5395

042050 5395

www.lighthouseremovals.com.au

ALL ROOF RESTORATIONS & PRESSURE CLEANING

• All pressure cleaning – rockwalls, patios, driveways, roofs • Renewals & all types of repairs • Skylight & Whirlybird installation • Laserlight install • Roof spraying

Call 0421 502 642

Lic CPC30808

Satisfaction guaranteed • 30% off limited time only!

RUBBISH REMOVAL 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 Give us a call to do the trip to the tip!

0418 992 111

Fast delivery and friendly staff.

Your local skip operator.

Call Mick & Jo 0418 992 111.

Northern Solar Pty Ltd

Solar Power Systems & Electrical Quality solar power systems, after sales service and maintenance program Contact Darren or Jenny – phone 0427 661 421 or email info@northernsolar.com.au Lic No. 230119C CEC No. A7271144

SWIMMING POOLS We are a mobile pool and spa service specialising in RENOVATIONS. Our services include: pool cleans, on the spot water testing and balancing, maintenance, equipment supplies and installation, free chemical delivery, prepurchase inspections.

02 5610 3356 • 0421 607 376 • nspools@gmail.com

ROOFING

Lic No. 27413 ABN 84115795912

CHEAP BLACK & WHITE PRINTING 1000 A4 – $49..................................................0408 170 941

SOLAR SYSTEMS

mullumbimbyremovals@bigpond.com

24 hour emergency plumbing

PRINTING www.tweedecho.com.au

SOLAR INSTALLATIONS •REPAIRS & SUPPLIES

• Local • Country • interstate LOCAL • Sydney • GOLd COASt • BriSBAne • MeLBOurne

Safe, effective pest control is our business • Comprehensive management plans & property inspections • Spray-free cockroach treatments • Non-toxic termite control

bin Plum

SCREENPRINTING

Rhonda’s Readings

RELAX...

Call your local plumber

READINGS

•INSTALLATIONS

PAINTING/ TILING/ BUILDING/ HOME MAINTENANCE Joel JPS Painting.............0404 193 940

Personalised, professional approach to your plumbing requirements.

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TANK CLEANING TWEED SHIRE WATER TANK CLEANING Free quotes ......................................Peter 0432 680 913 PRISTINE WATER SYSTEMS Local owner/operator ........................................ James 0487 777 247

CLEAR (RainWater) TANK CLEANING SERVICE “minimal water loss"

OPENING SPECIALS: MULTIPLE TANK DISCOUNT GUTTER CLEAN from $50 ROOF GERNIIED from $350. Filters & leaf sumps

6679 5809 or 0447 268 430

Reg# BN98579290

WEDDING SERVICES A FREE ENGAGEMENT PORTRAIT Graham Mewburn Photographer ........................0408 170 941

WINDOW CLEANING CLASS GLASS 10 years experience. Free quotes...........................................................0408 170 941

WINDOW TINTING

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Classifieds

ECHO CLASSIFIEDS 6672 2280 PHONE ADS Ads may be taken by phone on 02 6672 2280 9am-12pm Wednesday, 9am-5pm Monday to Friday.

Ads can’t be taken on the weekend.

THE TWEED

BY POST PO Box 545 Murwillumbah 2484

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

DEADLINE 12pm Wednesday for display ads and line ads.

ACCOUNT ENQUIRIES phone 02 6684 1777

PUBLIC NOTICES

WOODWORKING

Basic furniture making course 12-15 Jan Women & power tools 21-22 Jan www.woodworkforwomen.com.au

LOST?

FIND YOURSELF AT THE RUG SHOP BANGALOW

ECHO ECHO DOUBLE DEAL

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 66855222

KINESIOLOGY

Clear subconscious sabotages.

Reprogram patterns and beliefs.

De-stress. Restore vibrancy and physical health. Clear allergies.

SANDRA DAVEY, Reg. Pract. 66846914

TRADEWORK KIM MCINTOSH CARPENTRY All your carpentry needs from decks, pergolas, bathroom renovations, new construction and all renovations.

Contractor Lic. 237294C Contact Kim on 0409058618

TREE SERVICES

Tallow TREE SERVICES

EVENTS MICHAEL WHEELER PSYCHIC MEDIUM from Ch7’s ‘THE ONE’ Byron Bay Events 13-15 Jan ’Awakening To Spirit’ Mediumship Workshop.

16 Jan Private Readings. 0425228781 www.psychicoranges.com

PROFESSIONAL TREE CARE • • • • •

REMOVALS PALMS TREE SURGERY FREE QUOTES FULLY INSURED

• • • •

STUMP GRINDING TREE REPORTS DA APPLICATIONS CRANE HIRE

6685 4015 - 0401 208 797

HEALTH

FOR HIRE

SEXUAL HEALTH SERVICE Free STI/HIV checkups Clinics Murwillumbah & Tweed For appointment phone 0755066850

CHEAP REMOVALIST. No job too small.

Give us a call for a quote. Mini van Mitch.

Phone 0423287144

FOR SALE

Sexual Counselling

Alison Rahn qualified sex therapist www.alisonrahn.com.au 0432599812

HOLIDAY SPECIAL

KA HUNA BODYWORK/MASSAGE $40 KINGSCLIFF: Ph Susan 0418726877 LAHOOD CHARISMATIC TRAINING The transformation of narcissism in self/ other realisation.

2012 introduction, 19-22 Jan. Ph 0431112514 www.relationalspirit.com

Make a Difference!

Become a Consultant in Ayurveda

– the enlightened health care system of India • Nationally accredited training • flexible, ‘multi format delivery’ • taught by Dr Ajit (B.A.M.S)

FREE PROSPECTUS:

Phone 1300 557 487 or email

aiasayurveda@gmail.com www.aiasinstitute.com

GAS BBQ $50, coffee machine $40, heavy duty router $80. Ph 0755230372 HUGE BOOK COLLECTION Old, Rare & Collectable, all subjects.

December 27th to January 8th, 9am to 4pm, 4 Seaview Street, Kingscliff.

Phone 66740786

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

helenluna.com.au

locally made jewellery & wedding rings

BAYSIDE ACUPUNCTURE & HERBAL MEDICINE Eeka Berghofer BHSc (Acup) AACMA

Fertility, pregnancy & childbirth specialist.

David King

Adv Dip (Acup) AACMA

Pain conditions.

Mental/emotional disturbances & general.

14 Park Street, Brunswick Heads | 02 6685 1088 | baysideacupuncture.com ACUPUNCTURE CHINESE MEDICINE HERBS REMEDIAL MASSAGE

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GARAGE SALES

POSITIONS VACANT

Clutter Overload?

BARISTA must be experienced for Red Monkey Cafe Kingscliff, text 0408523165

Time to clear it out with a garage sale.

Ph us on 66722280 to advertise here.

MOTOR VEHICLES MITSUBISHI EXECUTIVE WAGON rego Aug 2012, all over excellent condition, fully maintained, perfect paint, towbar, no rust, $2500. Bargain. Ph 66721291 93 COROLLA SECA manual, 268,336km, drives well, in very good condition, 10 months rego, $1700 ono. 0413621219 FORD FALCON wagon 94, dual fuel, good engine, 3yo LPG, few bumps $1500 ono.

Phone 0408835000

CARAVANS POPTOP slide on for ute good cond $5750 ono 0407262677 JACO 18’ Tandem 2006 roll out awning, annex, many extras, very little use $29,900.

Ph 0409983565

BUSINESS FOR SALE RELAX HAVEN BYRON BAY established 25 years, low rent, 3x3 lease, all equipment, $15000. Ph 66858304 WEDDING & EVENTS BUSINESS Successful Wedding decorating business.

Existing bookings, easy to run, all equipment provided. Hurry, will sell fast!

Tweed Coast & Byron Bay. $39,000 incl stock. Ph 0404001560 BANGALOW LIC’D POST OFFICE (business only) Secure, profitable excellent opportunities & choices post2479.com.au Jacinta. 0417547242

CABINS FOR SALE CABIN Airstream/Argosy, 240 square feet of luxury [8x30]. Fully self-contained, bathroom, four burner stove, oven, microwave, fridge, Air Con, heater, sep double bedroom, immaculate American oak parquet, decadent upholstery.

This is a must see cabin for guests or rental. $29,500 (On wheels - No permits required!). Delivery available within 50 km.

Call Chris 66840075

HOUSES FOR SALE NTH OCEAN SHORES 4br, 2 bthrm, dbl garage, magnificent ocean views, 8 min walk to beach, $647,000. View www. diysell.com.au ID: P19537. Ph 66284127 or mobile 0429023402 TENTERFIELD SHOP + 4br house, good position, currently leased, good return $296,000. Ph 66284127 or 0429023402

PROPERTY FOR SALE KYOGLE, Collins Ck, 15 acre farm tastefully renov 3br house, usable land, small creek, 2 sheds, views, buy for $399,000 or rent for $250pw. 66847180

HOLIDAY ACCOM. MIA CASA lush oasis, pool, spa, view. 2 min Mullum, 15 Byron. Luxe room or s/c cottage with woodstove. Ph 66844762

SHARE ACCOM. TYAGARAH 1 room in large house, share 2 others, creative & clean, veggie garden, avail now $180pw. 0421387066 YELGUN room in large hse with beautiful surroundings. D/F, $200pw + bills. Ph 66805589 or 0422161915

TO LET OCEAN SHORES Brand new unit, 2br, 2 bathroom, LUG $380pw. Photos www.1111.burgundysky.net.au. Contact Lynne 0418688436 GRANNY FLAT suit single mature aged , definitely non-smoker! 10 mins Murwillumbah $180pw Ph 66727714 CHILLINGHAM, 5 Bedrooms, 1/2 an acre $440pw. Phone 0467600007

RECEPTIONIST for busy GP Practice in Murwillumbah. 1.5 days per week & some Saturdays. Must be available to cover staff leave. GP Practice experience essential. MD & Pracsoft experience an advantage. Applications close 13th Jan. Email resume to recruitment@ mainstmed.com.au 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 PART TIME Postal Deliveries. Must have clean motor bike licence & car. Pottsville area. Only apply if reliable, honest & keen to work. Ph Paul 0415415509

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.

GAIA RETREAT & SPA Require function staff for Saturday 21st January. Experience essential.

Contact Tim 0400824968

NuYu Total Health NuYu, Australia’s premier weightloss and lifestyle retreat are looking for a part-time (2 days/per week) bookkeeper with at least 12 months experience to start immediately based out of our Salt Village (Kingscliff) office.

Your responsibilities will include but not be limited to; payroll, accounts payable and receivable, BAS returns, bank and balance sheet reconciliations and administrational tasks.

To apply please forward your CV to shaun@nuyu.com.au

Noticeboard Lions raffle Lions Club of Tweed Coast South Christmas raffle was drawn at Pottsville Sports Club on Friday night, December 23: First prize ticket No. 292 was won by Kathleen West from Brisbane who donated the prize (which was a wheelbarrow full of goodies) to St Vincent de Paul; second prize ticket No. 888 was won by T. Ingram, a hamper of goodies; and third prize ticket No. 089 was won

by Cath Barker, a hamper of goodies.

EMERGENCY NUMBERS Please stick this by your phone

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

MUSICAL NOTES JAZZ PIANO, DOUBLE BASS & DRUM TRIO FOR HIRE Well rehearsed & accomplished players.

Phone 0412732465

DEATH NOTICES DI SEARLE 11/4/44 - 27/12/2011 Well loved & respected artist from Bilambil. May your spirit fly free

LOST & FOUND LOST DMS surfboard 5’9” twin fin cream w black pin stripe at Kingscliff Bowlo 29/12/11. Any info ph Trevor 0412858089

AGISTMENT AGISITMENT available Palm Vale area, approx 200 acres $70pw. Ph 66777549

SHARI

is a 4 year old, desexed female Staffy x Kelpie. She is a beautiful, obedient, friendly dog who would prefer to live in the country or a quiet suburban home. She is great with young kids and is OK with other dogs. She has made friends with the foster carer’s cat and the dog next door. She is happy to be an outside dog but enjoys human company. If you would like to meet Shari to see if she will fit into your household please phone Yolana on 0449 049 136 or the Friends of the Pound Rehoming Centre on 07 5524 8590. Visit www. friendsofthepound.com to view other animals looking for new homes.

friendsofthepound.com

07 5524 8590

PETS BORDER COLLIE pups pure bred 4 fems 1 male B&W. Vet checked, micro chipped, wormed & Vacc. $400ea 0429803167 GOING AWAY? Who is looking after your pets? Kingscliff Petsitting 0419358794 or www.kingscliffpetsitting.com.au

Visitors welcome.

Murwillumbah and District Garden Club next meeting Monday, January 23, at the Jesse McMillan Hall, Wollumbin Street, Murwillumbah. New members welcome. AGM on Monday, February 27.

ZONTA ZONTA Club of Southern Gold Coast/Tweed meets 3rd Monday of each month in Secret Garden Room, South Tweed Sports Club, 4 Minjungbal Drive, South Tweed. For info on community and international projects call Marie-Elise 0412 632 304 or Carolyn 0416 637 771.

Garden clubs

Library storage need

Twin Towns and District Garden Club’s first meeting for 2012 will be on Monday, January 9 in Tweed Heads Civic Centre.

Guest speakers will be representatives from Garden Clubs of Australia and Boyds Bay Garden World. Entry $3 which includes morning tea between 9am and 9.45am with meeting beginning at 10am. All the usual benching, cuttings and trading table, raffle, lucky door prize and library.

Friends of Tweed Heads Library need storage space for books accumulated by donations for our annual book sale. An unneeded lockable, easily assessable dry garage would be ideal. All profits from our book sale are spent on improving library facilities. Friends of Library meet 4th Wed. of the month at 10.30am at library to discuss recently reads books.

New members welcome. If you

ONLY ADULTS LADIES URGENTLY required at Lismore’s premium adult venue. Top $s, free food & accommodation. New female management. 66225533

can help call Rosalind on 07 5524 3342.

U3A U3A Twin Towns sign-on day Monday, January 9, 10am–1pm DST or 9am–noon Qld time at 4 Boyd Street, Tugun. $80 annual fee or $45 half year fee entitles members to attend as many activitiess they can fit in, from a choice of more than 40 classes, free of charge. Call 07 5534 7333 or view http://sites/google. com/site/u3atwintowns.

Banora Pt community Banora Point Community Centre senior program has various groups available on Tuesday afternoons and all day Fridays.

If you are interested in card playing, Stretch your Mind, Tai Chi, Mah Jong, Scrapbooking, Art, Scrabble, Gentle exercise with weights call Lyn on 07 5523 2030. The centre is on the corner of Leisure and Woodland Drives, Banora Point.

Book club Tweed Heads Friends of the Library meet every fourth

www.tweedecho.com.au

Housing supply at tipping point The Residential Development Council (RDC) said the Australian government’s National Housing Supply Council – State of Supply Report 2011 confirms what the industry has long known – that there is an ever-widening gap between the demand for homes and the number being delivered.

Caryn Kakas, executive director, Residential Development Council, said the report found that there is a projected housing shortfall of 215,000 dwellings nationally and growing.

‘The report identifies major gaps between the demand for homes and the available supply with the disparity being particularly pronounced in NSW and Queensland.

‘This is the result of a significant number of barriers impeding the housing market.

‘These include record lev-

els of development taxes and charges, inefficient planning systems and the failure of governments to deliver linking hard and soft infrastructure to new communities.

‘The gap between supply and demand is projected to rise to 640,000 homes over the next twenty years. If we want to ensure this is not the future of housing in Australia, the tipping point for action is now.

‘Solutions include invest-

ing more funds into successful programs, such as NRAS, that specifically target the supply of homes to low and moderate income earners. We also must undertake a long-overdue, radical reform of the planning system to give the industry and the broader community greater certainty.

‘At the same time, we need to ensure that funding for infrastructure is shared equitably rather than burdening just once market segment.

‘Crucial to successfully tackling Australia’s housing supply problems is a holistic, integrated approach from all levels of government to support the delivery of new homes.

‘The federal government’s involvement must be matched by leadership from the states and territories to support a more affordable future.

‘The release of this report could not have come at a better time for the newly appointed minister for housing, the Honourable Robert McClelland. It provides a clear picture of the issues facing the sector that are hampering its ability to supply housing.

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burringbar.home@gmail.com | www.beautifulproperty.net Wednesday of the month in the library at 10.30am. If you enjoy reading and sharing ideas with others please come along and join in. Books are provided and lent out by the library. For info call Beverly 07 5590 7435 or Rosalind 07 5524 3342.

Horse skills volunteers

Computers for seniors Computer Association Tweed Seniors meets on the third Wednesday of each month at 10.30am in the Seagulls Club.

Get computer advice and learn computer skills at your own pace in a friendly social environment. All welcome. For info call Noelene on 07 5599 8939 bh.

Supersports Centre, Chinderah, for info call Jill 02 6674 0636 or George 02 6624 4558.

At Pottsville: men and women players needed, sessions every Thursday 9.30am to 11.30am at Pottsville Community Hall, Coast Road, Pottsville. For info call Ruth 02 6676 0411.

Low cost food

Low cost groceries. Finding it tough going? Come and see us at Elevation Care, 56 Caloola Al-Anon Drive, Tweed Heads, Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 10am to Are you concerned about 2pm, opening January 9. Huge someone else’s drinking? variety and quality food. Bring Meet others who share your problems and learn how to im- your bags. For info call 07 5507 prove the family atmosphere. 6999.

Meetings held up and down Justices of the Peace the coast and at Murwillumbah at the Christian Outreach Tweed Justices of the Peace returning on January 19 at Tweed Centre, 19 Prince Street, on Men’s a’cappella Mondays at 10am. For info call City. For info call Donna on 0414 894 368.

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Are you of the male variety, Also, JP witnessing at Red Moncan sing and possess a sense key Cafe, Kingscliff, Tuesday of comedy, then come and join Lifeball and Thursday 9am-midday, call Lifeball is an exercise sport Men Wot Sing a’cappella singers. We perform at various func- similar to netball but played at Norman on 0412 473 575. tions, weddings, corporate gigs, walking pace by senior men End of life choices festivals, and charities. Check us and women. At Chinderah: For information about end of sessions held every Tuesday out on menwotsing.com.au or call Lou on 0419 735 633. life choices workshops and 9.30am–11.30am at Tweed Volunteers with horse skills or willing to learn to lead and exercise horses are needed at Riding for the Disabled, Tweed Valley Centre, Murwillumbah.

Riding sessions are held on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings during school terms.

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meetings to be held this year, call Elaine on 0421 796 713.

Nashos The Gold Coast South-Twin Towns branch next general meeting Sunday, January 15, at 11am (DST) 10am (Qld) in the new Anzac Room, Twin Towns Services Club. For info call John on 07 5535 2484.

Tweed Valley Murwillumbah branch meets the third Tuesday of every month except January at our new location Murwillumbah Sporties (bowling club), cnr Brisbane and Condong Streets, Murwillumbah at 10am. We have guest speakers, activities and welcome new members. For info call Peter on 0458 060 765.

Breast cancer The 2012 YWCA Encore Program, an innovative and inspiring approach to recovery from breast cancer surgery, starts in Murwillumbah in February and runs for eight weeks until March 28, each Wednesday 12.30pm–2.30pm. To register call 02 9285 6264 or 1800 305 150.

Participation is free.

Dragons Abreast Mt Warning Dragons Abreast aims to improve the quality of life of its members, who are breast cancer survivors and their supporters. Dragon Boat

paddling with the club provides a sense of purpose and support for breast cancer survivors. They paddle on the Tweed River, Condong. For info call Robyn on 0427 368 819.

Remove lids, caps, corks and tops

Flatten boxes Squash containers

Don’t break glass Rinse and clean all bottles and cans

Don’t put recyclables in plastic bags

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Backburner A letter writer has berated mayor Barry Longland claiming he has turned his back on colleague Cr Katie Milne since assuming the mayoralty recently. His patience with the Greens councillor may be running thin, the writer claims, as he no longer seconds her numerous environment-based motions. At the last community access meeting the mayor interrupted her a couple of times to press her to ask the question and at one time told her ‘oh okay ask the question, but don’t give the answer’. At least he was consistent, pulling up Cr Phil Youngblutt after he repeatedly and rudely kept mumbling with colleague Cr Warren Polglase while community speakers had the floor.

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There was a bit of light relief at that meeting when an elderly speaker on hearing the alarm for the end of his five minutes worth of speech kept going and when reminded his time was up said he thought it was ‘one of those mobile phones going off again’.

Southport artist Shayle Flesser at work. Her exhibition ‘New Skin: Shayle Flesser’ is on show at the Tweed River Art Gallery until the end of this month and has been described by gallery staff as ‘nothing if not arresting’. Her series of work uses both human and animal figures to ‘symbolise attributes that humans take on as they assemble their identity’.

Shayle will hold a workshop at the gallery for teenagers on Sunday, January 22, from 10am to 1pm called ‘Gothic Still Life: Drawing for Teens’ which is inspired by still life items, including skulls, taxidermy birds and other gothic imagery. The cost is $42 including materials. For info call the gallery on 02 6670 2790.

discussion with the filmmaker Helena Norberg-Hodge. BackA little later, when one of the burner wonders how many of speakers against the McDon- the councillors and senior staff ald’s fast-food shop proposal will actually bother to view it.

■ ■ ■ ■ tried to offer some packages to councillors, council’s probity A reminder that council meetofficer Neil Baldwin, looking ings this month (next one on a little aghast, stopped her in Tuesday, January 24) now start her tracks to ask her if she was at 10.30am instead of 3.30pm, trying to offer gifts, pointing following a resolution of counout councillors could not ac- cil last year. One community cept gifts due to their code of access speaker was perturbed conduct. But when the quietly by the change, telling councilspoken young woman said it lors it cut down the opportuwas only an information pack- nity for locals who had dayage, he relaxed, saying ‘okay time commitments to observe that’s different’. The package council goings on, and were was a DVD of the documenta- thus unable to make a considry The Economics of Happiness ered vote for or against them which, according to its blurb for this year’s local govern‘illuminates the impact of gov- ment election. Cr Youngblutt ernment-subsidised products muddied the waters, telling the sold by transnational corpo- speaker the last access meeting rations on a once-subsistent was only half full with observcommunity (Ladakh)’. The film ers anyway, but the speaker will be screened at the Regent stood his ground and clarified Cinema on Thursday, Febru- he was not talking about access ary 2, at 7.30pm followed by a meetings but full council meet■ ■ ■ ■

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The club and pub industry’s fight to stop restrictions on poker machine gambling has targeted Richmond MP Justine Elliot with large billboards at several venues throughout the Tweed saying ‘it’s un-Australian’ (whatever that means) for her to try to stop them raking in the profits from gamblers.

The billboards have an image of the MP with the message ‘Justine, why are you voting to hurt our community?’ which we think is a bit rich coming

from purveyors of alcohol that fuels real hurt in communities with violence, domestic bashings, etc. But Mrs Elliot is wearing it well, saying she understands the industry’s issues and concerns but she has ‘a pretty thick skin, I was in the police force’. Cop that.

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Further to our story (page 3) on calls to save the mature forest redgum set to be chopped down on the site of a proposed health centre at Pottsville, Backburner couldn’t help noticing the recent SBS TV advert by the Australian Koala Foundation saying it would take hundreds of thousands of saplings to replace one large mature tree, such as the abovementioned redgum, in its capacity to store carbon. You have to wonder if the state health authorities are serious about not just human health but environmental health, which we think go hand in hand.

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