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Event-site plan a ‘social disaster’ Luis Feliu

Mozzie man to hang up his nets Steve Spencer

Using natural methods to keep the Tweed’s biting insects at bay has been Clive Easton’s passion for 28 years.

Pottering around the shire’s wetlands and woodlands may not be everyone’s idea of a fun career, but Mr Easton describes it as the best job at council.

‘I’ve had a really good time. I’m allowed scope to do my job which involves research and innovation, working with scientists, engineers, public health officers, town planners and the public. I get to meet and work with a lot of people,’ said Mr Easton, who plans to spend more time fishing, surfing and travelling after his retirement in February.

‘It keeps you thinking when you are dealing with complex ecology and a

Tweed Shire Council entomologist Clive Easton retires next month after almost 30 years keeping a keen eye on the shire’s insects, especially the biting ones. Photo Jeff ‘Itchy and Scratchy’ Dawson

lot of people. People can be annoyed when they have a problem with insects, but it is always good to be able to help an individual.’

Mr Easton said control methods had changed drastically since he first began work on the Tweed in 1983.

Nowadays mozzie control has more to do with making sure mosquito larvae become part of the aquatic food chain rather than aerial spraying with toxic insecticides.

Natural solutions Allowing small fish into mosquito breeding grounds drastically drops mozzie numbers and appropriate controlled opening of certain flood gates to flush stagnant pools with salt water and reduce acidity can solve much of the problem.

‘Improving water quality and adjusting water levels has proven to be the best method. Mosquitoes thrive in poor-quality water devoid of natural predators,’ he said.

‘These days we have nothing like the number of mosquitoes that were about in the 1980s. Every season is different of course.

‘We try to avoid chemicals whenever possible and look to environmental solutions. Small changes to the habitat work well.’

One method now used involves use of soil bacteria discovered to kill only mozzies around desert waterholes in the Middle East. Spread around the wetlands, the commercially bred bacteria have a devastating effect of Tweed mozzies.

Decades of work by Mr Easton must have led to fewer cases of Ross River virus and Barmah Forest virus in the shire. Mr Easton said the two illnesses were particularly debilitating to manual workers, such as farmers and tradesmen, because they may cause extended episodes of fatigue and arthritis in the small joints.

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A potential crime wave and a social and environmental disaster is how several speakers at the upcoming NSW Planning Assessment Commission (PAC) public hearings have described the controversial plan for a permanent music-festival site at Yelgun on the Tweed-Byron shire border.

The commission, which makes the final decision on the North Byron Parklands event site proposal where Splendour in the Grass and other music festivals are set to be staged, has scheduled two public hearings for Wednesday, February 1, at the Byron Bay Community Centre and Thursday, February 2, at the Ocean Shores Public School hall in Shara Boulevard, Ocean Shores, both starting at 9am.

The NSW planning department recently recommended approval for the development, allowing maximum crowds of up to 30,000 people for three events in its first year, growing to 50,000 people in later years. It also recommended a maximum of 25,000 on-site campers. It says the events site would attract tourists from across Australia and overseas and provide job opportunities.

But Tweed and Byron shire community and environmental groups, including Pottsville Community Association and Wooyung Defenders, are unanimous in their opposition to the plan.

Byron Shire Council recently moved an urgency motion directing staff to prepare a submission for the hearings opposing the plan.

Mayor Jan Barham said the recommendation showed a total disregard for community concerns and undermined local democracy. Cr Barham

said the proposed event numbers recommended were ‘huge’.

Deputy mayor Basil Cameron says ‘council doesn’t think it’s an appropriate development for the site’, right next to the Billindugel Nature Reserve.

‘And we’re not talking about the event Splendour, which often gets confused, but an application for a permanent ongoing event site at Yelgun,’ Cr Cameron said.

Local environmental broadcaster and author Gary Opit fears the plan ‘will generate a potential crime wave, besides the traffic problems, the lack of suitable fire and flood emergency evacuations and the disruption to the migratory rainforest birds along the narrowest portion of the adjacent wildlife corridor’.

Illegal drug industry targeting the area Mr Opit says that ‘over time any locality offering a permanent party atmosphere, whether it be Kings Cross, Surfers Paradise or, in the future, the Tweed Coast towns and Brunswick Heads, will eventually lead to ‘a crime wave’ with the illegal drug industry targeting the area.

Convenor of the Coalition for Festival Sanity, Mac Nicolson, says the proposal was an unrivalled recipe for ‘an environmental and social disaster’ and the recommendation had been ‘100 per cent in favour of the music promoters’ with the local community totally ignored.

‘I am absolutely astounded by the numbers and the overkill,’ Mr Nicolson said.

Greens MLC Cate Faehrmann said the decision was a blow to the work continued on page 4

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Looking to boost farming viability Albert Elzinga

The push to improve agricultural sustainability on the Tweed continues with an upcoming brainstorming session to look at several projects to boost viability of farms.

Tweed Shire Council has invited local farmers to an information session next Tuesday, January 17, to discuss the future of agriculture in the Tweed.

A 10-year community strategic plan adopted by council identified a number of community objectives for an enhanced farming sector prompting council to launch a number of projects aimed at improving the viability and environmental capacity of the Tweed’s farmland.

Council introduced a ‘nutrient cycle’ project as part of its Sustainable Agriculture Program which provided 35 local farmers with 500 tonnes of compost and manure to apply on various crops in order to highlight the benefits of compost and animal manures in improving soil carbon and soil health.

The project’s results showed consistent increases in soil carbon, nitrogen and sulphur and provided anecdotal evidence of healthier, more resilient crops.

Participating farmers said it would make economic sense

Left: Bray Park dairy farmer Corey Crosthwaite has applied over 1,000 tonnes of manure from his effluent ponds on to his paddocks, reducing the need for chemical fertilisers.

Photo Jeff ‘Gongfermor’ Dawson

to have a composting plant in the Tweed because most products are currently trucked in from outside the Tweed.

Bray Park dairy farmer Corey Crosthwaite has been work-

ing his dairy for more than 22 years and joined the project some two years ago.

Corey said he became part of the project to try new things and find out how these innova-

tions would affect his output.

Corey said he applied over 1,000 tonnes of manure from his effluent ponds on his paddocks, reducing the need for chemical fertilisers.

The main advantage Corey hoped to gain from joining council’s project was to better utilise things such as the farm’s run off and make the most of what was already at the farm.

The information session will take place at the Imperial Hotel in Murwillumbah on Tuesday, January 17, from 6pm till 8pm.

For more information or to register, call Claire Masters on 02 6670 2199 or email: csotweed@tweed.nsw.gov.au.

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Northern Rivers Guardians have described as ‘ridiculous’ a secret push by federal energy minister Martin Ferguson for increased surveillance by federal police intelligence officers of environmental activists protesting peacefully at coal-fired power stations and coal export facilities.

Documents released recently under freedom of information laws confirm police are ‘continually monitoring anti-coal mining and other environmental groups with much of the intelligence collection carried out for the federal police by a private contractor.

The Sydney Morning Herald reported that Mr Ferguson, prompted by lobbying from energy companies, had urged stronger criminal penalties against protests that disrupt ‘critical energy infrastructure’.

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groups campaigning against coal and, by implication, coalseam gas.

‘Local groups likely to be the subject of AFP attention would have to include those hotbeds of environmental radicalism Tweed Shire Council, Rous Water and Northern Rivers Tourism since they have all taken a strong stand in relation to coalseam gas mining, Mr McNamara said.

‘If it wasn’t so serious it would be laughable. Local community members who actively campaign in defence of their communities are not the enemy, they are the heart and soul of a healthy democracy,’ he said.

‘As an example, the farmers and other community members at Gloucester who recently held a blockade to stop AGL from commencing CSG exploration drilling are ordinary community members taking an extraordinary stand against vested interest running rampant over public interest.’

Greens leader, Bob Brown, said it was ‘intolerable that the

federal Labor government is spying on conservation groups’ and wanting to ‘criminalise political protest’.

The documents from the minister’s department revealed that Mr Ferguson wrote to the then attorney-general, Robert McClelland, in September 2009 to raise concerns of ‘issues-motivated activism, and the possibility of disruptions to critical energy infrastructure sites’.

Mr Ferguson sought advice on whether intelligence gathering services of the federal police could be used to help the energy sector and police to ‘manage the increasing risk of disruptions’.

The documents show the energy security branch of Mr Ferguson’s department warned Macquarie Generation and Transgrid of a ‘peaceful mass action’ at Bayswater power station in the Hunter Valley in December 2010 where police arrested 73 protesters who had occupied a railway line used to take coal to the power station.

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Freeze on Kings Forest approvals urged Luis Feliu

The state planning department has been called on to defer a decision on the massive Kings Forest housing project until courts have ruled on the developer’s alleged unauthorised clearing and draining of parts of the Cudgen Nature Reserve adjacent to the site.

The first stage of the 4,500home development is currently on public exhibition with submissions closing on January 25.

On Wednesday scores of people concerned about the impacts of the development, including campaigners trying to protect a nearby koala colony, attended a meeting at Cabarita Beach where they were urged to object to the project by the Leda Group.

Authorities recently impli-

Court ruling on illegal clearing ‘should come first’ cated Leda, owned by billionaire developer Bob Ell, in the massive illegal vegetation clearing in the nature reserve along Blacks Creek (see the Tweed Shire Echo, December 22).

But the property group claimed workmen bulldozed trees and other vegetation along a 300-metre stretch inside the protected area by accident.

Environment minister Robyn Parker revealed the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) only learnt about the environmental destruction after Leda dobbed itself in late last year.

After repeated attempts in the past few months by The Echo to learn how the investiga-

tion into the clearing was progressing, an NPWS spokesman maintained the oft-repeated line that it was ‘ongoing’ and would not comment further till it had ‘concluded’.

Greens MP Cate Faehrmann recently launched a scathing attack in parliament over the illegal clearing, saying if guilty, the property mogul should be hit with the most severe penalty available. Ms Faehrmann said Mr Ell and his company had a history of illegal clearing and used intimidation and bullying tactics against people to get their way.

This week, former Tweed Greens councillor Henry James, who was threatened with defa-

Rubbish dumped on rural roads

Luis Feliu

Burringbar local Don Harvey sits in the gully where a ute-load of household rubbish was illegally dumped this week. Photo Lifelong Burringbar local Don Jeff ‘Dumpster’ Dawson

Harvey is fed up with often having to clean up loads of rubbish illegally dumped on his rural Cudgera Creek property, but a whole ute-load of household garbage thrown down a gully there on Monday morning takes the cake.

The load, believed to be from a Koala Beach rental property, included an old trampoline, a rusty 44-gallon drum, a broken-down lawn mower and brushcutter, a hose reel and various assorted household items.

‘I had to climb down on a rope to retrieve it and discovered from some discarded let-

ters and real-estate signs that it had come from the Koala Beach address,’ Mr Harvey told The Echo.

‘I believe it was dumped by a new tenant getting rid of the previous tenant’s unwanted goods, but there was also some local real-estate agency signs and I called them to ask if they knew anything about it.

‘Overnight on Monday, some of the rubbish including the real-estate signs were removed, but this morning further down the road I discovered another load, also much the same old household goods.

‘I’m not happy,’ Don, a semiretired farmer said. ‘When I contacted the agency again, they didn’t seem to want to know about it.

‘I’ve lived here most of my life, the property is on a gravel road with no garbage service, so some people feel they can dump garbage without being detected, but in this case I was able to determine where the rubbish originated.’

Mr Harvey said it was a shame ‘this sort of thing goes on’ and more often in remote rural areas by people avoiding tip fees.

mation by Mr Ell some years ago after he raised questions about illegal clearing at Kings Forest, called for a freeze on further approvals until the case over Blacks Creek was settled.

Mr James, who said the illegal work along the creek inside the reserve would improve drainage in the southeast corner of Kings Forest and facilitate development in low-lying areas of the 1,100-acre site, has written a submission describing the project application ‘not fit for approval.’.

Mr James said the assessment of impacts regarding the proposed maintenance of Blacks Creek ‘is seriously flawed and should not be accepted’.

It was ‘extraordinary’ that the developer’s environmental assessment report had ‘admitted that “the main east-west drain will need to be maintaind to provide adequate drainage for the site, which is important in the event of flooding”’.

He said it was ‘all the more extraordinary given the recent unapproved excavation undertaken by the applicants of the section of Blacks Creek within Cudgen Nature Reserve’.

‘It is reasonable to ask whether they excavated it to specifications they have assumed for their flood modelling but for obvious reasons have not published in this environmental assessment report.’

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Swells keep fishers onshore

Steve Spencer

Albert Elzinga

Visiting fishers on the Tweed to catch Spanish mackerel and Yellowfin tuna now abundant at Nine Mile Reef at this time of the year have been forced to stay onshore while storms battered the coast over Christmas.

Twenty-knot southerlies and heavy swells kept the Tweed’s offshore fishing boats in the harbour, but with the change of the weather, the hunt for some of the ocean’s most desired and tastiest inhabitants has started in earnest.

A beach fisherman at Hastings Point hoping to catch whiting and flathead that are now plentiful.

Photo Jeff ‘Flat Head’ Dawson

A Tweed Fisheries officer said the upper reaches of the Tweed River held plenty of mud crabs while the river’s seagrass areas offered whiting, flathead and bream.

The river’s south bank between Fingal Head and Chinderah was particularly suited to fishers with families.

Cabarita Bait and Tackle store owner Bevan Wise said tailor, whiting and flathead could also be found off the

Tweed’s beaches and some nice-sized bream were caught off the headlands.

Bevan said worms were very scarce at the moment although pippies could be found at Cabarita Beach.

‘We’ve had a good holiday period of fishing with quite a few fish about, for a change’, Bevan said.

Although the Tweed River offers boaties and fishers many miles of fantastic cruis-

Retailers give mixed reviews on holiday period Tweed tourism businesses have experienced an unexpected boom with some retailers reporting best ever trading results.

Local cafes and restaurants have done a roaring trade over the last few weeks and although business is slowly easing off, owners said they were very happy with the results.

Local caravan parks were

packed to the rafters and the more upmarket accommodation providers also reported steady trading.

Retailers in Kingscliff benefitted from ‘erosion tourism’ and experienced an increase in visitors keen to see the damage storms have done to the beach.

However, businesses which rely on the traditional big Christmas gift spending spree

have been disappointed by lacklustre sales.

Retailers at Tweed City said the expected stampede before Christmas and at the Boxing Day sales did not eventuate; however, the situation had not been disastrous either.

Customers focused on gifts for the kids this year and seemed less interested in buying presents for adults, according to one Tweed City retailer.

ing space, certain areas remain dangerous, especially the mouth of the river which can easily catch unwary boaties out.

Tweed Fisheries warned visitors from Queensland and other states that fees need to be paid when fishing in NSW waters, unless people have an exemption.

Visiting anglers can buy a three-day pass for $6, a onemonth pass for $12, a one-year pass for $30 and a three-year pass for $75.

■ See David Solano’s fishing

column on page 19.

A coalition of business and community leaders, formed to stop a 24-hour police headquarters being built on the Kingscliff beachfront, has launched a court challenge to sink the project.

The newly formed Tweed Business and Residents Focus Group (TBRFG) aims to reverse the approval, granted by a government-appointed planning panel late last year, in the NSW Land and Environment Court, following months of community outrage.

Tweed Shire Council’s attempt to stop the $15 million local area command HQ from being built on Marine Parade was ignored by the Joint Regional Planning Panel, despite many hours of public submissions, with residents, business leaders and former cops all branding the location unsuitable.

Tweed councillors want the police minister Michael Gallacher to spend the government funding for the project on creating an integrated emergency services precinct closer to the Pacific Highway, and either sell the prime slice of beachfront real estate to a developer, or leave the Kingscliff cop shop as a small suburban police station.

Newly elected president of the TBRFG Paul McMahon described plans for the command centre as ‘over-development of the greatest magnitude’.

Mozzie man hangs up nets from page 1

to solve, according to Mr Easton, because they live much of their lives underground in their larval stages.

He said a big step forward took place in the 90s when council began to consider biting insect problems in their

development control plans.

Mr Easton said creating buffer zones around new housing developments also helped to keep mozzies away from people.

‘We use softer methods of control these days.’

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‘We have named seven respondents who will be called on [in court] to justify why this should be built in the middle of residential homes and units,’ said Mr McMahon.

‘Other than destroying residential amenity with a 24-hour station operating 108 staff there are many other reasons why the Marine Parade site is totally unsuitable.

‘We are asking that the police minister take this over-development in the seaside village back to the drawing board and work with the Tweed Shire Council to locate a site that is more central to service the residents of the Tweed-Byron area.’

Controversial push However, the bid to stop the Kingscliff project has involved a related and controversial push by leading National Party figures on the Tweed, including Cr Warren Polglase, to rezone prime farming land at Cudgen for the command centre.

The Cudgen land, in which longtime former National Party MP Don Beck has an interest, is one of five options Tweed Council recently voted for as potential sites for the HQ. NSW Upper House MP Walt Secord recently likened the figures behind the repeated attempts to rezone the Cudgen land to characters from the Aussie hit movie, Muriel’s Wedding.

The 1994 film parodies the controversy surrounding a former Tweed council and its former deputy mayor Tom Hogan, a Labor powerbroker who was found to have acted corruptly by the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC).

Mr Secord called for any decision over the future of the land to be made by an independent body.

Event-site plan a ‘social disaster’

Bloodsuckers lying low this season

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Steve Spencer

of conservationists who have been working to protect the very fragile area for years.

Ms Faehrmann said the department’s recommendation threatened the future of the Marshalls Ridge wildlife corridor which linked the World Heritage area of Mt Warning caldera to the Billinudgel Nature Reserve adjacent to the site.

‘The impact of thousands of festivalgoers and associated infrastructure, traffic and rubbish and booming noise will be unacceptable; it will be a serious blow to threatened species such as the koala and longnosed potoroo that depend on the protected area network around the site,’ she said.

Conservation of North

Ocean Shores president Bob Oehlman said the state government had reneged on its pre-election promise to return planning powers to local government and as a result the planning department had ridden roughshod over the community.

Mr Oehlman said he was alarmed that an earlier Land and Environment Court ruling banning a trial festival event at Yelgun had not been considered ‘For a government to approve a festival site catering for up to 50,000 patrons several times a year in the middle of a nature reserve and the most easterly wildlife corridor on the Australian mainland defies logic,’ he said.

‘Even more ironic is the fact

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that it was the NSW coalition government, via Don Page, which made the decision to establish the Billinudgel Nature Reserve in order to protect its natural and cultural values.’

The PAC panel hearing the case comprises Emeritus Professor Kevin Sproats as chair and Ms Gabrielle Kibble.

People wishing to speak or make a submission at the meetings are urged to register by 4pm, Friday, January 20, by contacting Mrs Paula Poon on 02 9383 2101 or email: paula. poon@planning.nsw.gov.au.

The concept plan and first two stages of the development, including the planning department’s assessment report and recommendation, are available at website www.pac.nsw.gov. au.

Midges and mosquitoes have been keeping a relatively low profile so far this season with Tweed Shire Council staff getting fewer complaints than normal about plagues of the aerial bloodsuckers.

Council entomologist Clive Easton says midge larval numbers were low in the shire’s canals following a treatment of larvicide during winter.

Mozzies numbers are also down in many parts of the Tweed following aerial sprays and ground applications over the last few months.

Areas including Cobaki, West and South Tweed Heads, Terranora Chinderah and Pottsville all received their

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share of mozzie control, which involves aerial spraying of naturally occurring substances in hard-to-reach areas and hand spreading of slow-release pellets closer to homes.

Mr Easton said there was also good news in the fight against the pandanus plant hopper, which has been damaging the Tweed’s iconic coastal plants.

Efforts to control the hoppers with a tiny parasitic wasp imported from north Queensland stalled in early winter after wasp numbers crashed, but they have made a comeback and are now successfully culling the hoppers.

Mr Easton said it may have been wet weather that prevented the wasps’ effective-

ness, but the insect was back with a vengeance to protect the trees growing on the Tweed’s coastal headlands.

‘We really don’t know why but the wasps seemed to have missed a generation.

It reached a point where we had to go in and protect some trees. We would rather let the wasps do the work naturally,’ said Mr Easton.

The 0.5mm-long wasps lay their eggs inside the hopper eggs, keeping the number of adults down and hopefully below levels where they can cause pandanus dieback.

Mr Easton said the summer season had been quiet in the council entomology office, with most inquiries concerning ants, wasps and termites.

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The need to reform Labor is urgent

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he case for reforming the structure of the Labor Party is unarguable Volume 4 #19 January 12, 2012 and it has been unarguable for many years.

When the Party was formed in Australia back in the 1890s, the workers were truly exploited and unrepresented; the great In a way it was inevitable. Once we started to produce a strikes of the time, and particudaily Echo for the web it was only a matter of time before we larly the shearers’ strike whose realised that printing and distributing a paper edition every week was wasteful and uneconomic. The unexpectedly strong leaders were jailed, made the need for a political voice imperperformance of Echonetdaily has hastened that realisation. ative. Thus the ALP came into The final paper edition of the Tweed Shire Echo will therefore being with the aim of asserting be on Australia Day, January 26, and in the meantime we are and improving the rights of the preparing to transfer everything that makes The Echo special workers, under the control of into Echonetdaily. the elected representatives of In providing the Tweed Echo to a shire that has traditionthe workers, the trade union ally lacked an enquiring press, we reckon we have given the movement. And for the first community an important platform. And we intend to continue fifty years or so of its existence this arrangement was both logdoing so. Without The Echo those who want to impose social, ical and satisfactory. economic or environmental destruction on us for their own Blue collar workers, both urgain would have an easy ride. They wouldn’t be investigated ban and rural, made up the bulk by the soft-story weeklies, or by the corporate media which is of the population and the maowned by, or allied to, the big money that causes most of the jority of them belonged to the damage. appropriate union. Landmark Echonetdaily will be stepping up its coverage of Tweed Shire battles over terms and condiissues, with Luis Feliu and the team continuing to look behind tions were fought and won and the webs of influence and interest in local and state governthe Labor Party was acknowlment, and of course to chronicle the lighter side of Tweed life. edged as the party of reform.

Our free daily publication features all the Echo favourites like But its success brought fresh problems. With the rise of the Mungo and Mandy, plus comprehensive local entertainment white collar workforce and the coverage along with national and global stories. growth of the middle class, the That said, it will be sad for those of us who have grown up party need to move beyond its working for newspapers to see the presses stop for the last industrial base. It did so, and time. But it is not just newspapers that are being challenged became a broad-based proby new technology. The world stands on a cusp of change gressive party of the centre left, as profound as any in history. We can surf this wave or get increasingly winning support dumped by it, and here at The Echo we have chosen to ride it from intellectuals whose aims with enthusiasm and curiosity. We are looking forward to see- and ideals encompassed a far ing you on the web! wider agenda than those of the David Lovejoy, publisher factory floor.

Indeed, they often came into conflict with the party’s tradiTweed Shire Echo tions. What had once been arPublisher David Lovejoy ticles of faith – White AustralEditor Luis Feliu Advertising Manager Angela Cornell ia, all-round protection, public Accounts Manager Simon Haslam ownership of resources, indeed Production Manager Ziggi Browning the socialist objective itself – ‘The job of a newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.’ – Finley Peter Dunne 1867–1936 were gradually discarded as © 2012 Echo Publications Pty Ltd having passed their political Phone 02 6672 2280 use-by date. email news/letters: editor@tweedecho.com.au And in the process the party email advertising: adcopy@tweedecho.com.au Printer: Horton Media Australia Ltd structure changed; state branch-

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es were reformed, the once narrowly state-based national conference was broadened and the parliamentary representatives assumed more power and freedom. And the monopoly of the unions weakened, their direct representation on the key bodies being reduced first to 60 percent, then to 50 per cent. It is still, say the critics, far too much; these days less than 20 per cent of the workforce is

In recent years party membership has been falling steadily and after the last election it became a rout; some 10,000 left, reducing the total to 32,000.

by Mungo MacCallum unionised and in any case many of the unions are far less closely tied to the ALP, if at all.

And the rank and file party members seem to agree; in recent years membership has been falling steadily and after the last election it became a rout; some 10,000 left, reducing the total to 32,000, not much more than the crowd at a 20-20 cricket match and far less enthusiastic. Clearly, It’s Time – the need for change has become seriously urgent.

But there is a huge stumbling block: Labor is in government, and in knife-edge minority government at that. To start a major intra-party brawl over party reform in the circumstances would almost certainly be suicidal.

In the past what reforms there have been have all taken place when Labor, federally at least, has been in opposition. The major restructuring masterminded

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Speaking in the ex-cathedra manner which has become his hallmark, the former leader said last recently: ‘The party will always be sympathetic to the interests of working men and women, but that doesn’t mean there has to be what is now an almost suffocating union influence.’

Well, true enough, but how did it get to be that way?

When Bob Hawke left the union movement to enter parliament in 1980 the need for a reduction in union dominance was already obvious, but that did not stop Hawke using it, and doing so ruthlessly. He persuaded his union mates to deny Bill Hayden the agreement for wage restraint he had been seeking, thus weakening Hayden’s leadership in preparation for his own takeover.

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secretary Bill Kelty effectively held the role of a senior cabinet minister, being consulted on all major policy matters and holding an implicit power of veto on those concerning union matters.

At the same time Hawke encouraged the developing and strengthening of the unioncontrolled factions within the caucus; the legendary warlords of the right, Graham Richardson and Robert Ray, became his enforcers and protectors within the party room, at least until Richardson deserted him for Paul Keating.

And it need hardly be said that no suggestion of reforming the party structure emerged at any time during the eight years of his prime ministership. If the union influence is now so suffocating the party, this is when they got the lethal pillow.

Gillard is not averse to the idea of reform; she supported token changes during last year’s national conference, and although they made no real dint in the union leaders’ power, they did signal that at least the idea is back on the table, and that it will merit genuine attention – at the appropriate time.

And it may not be too long delayed. If the polls are to be believed, Labor is heading for a catastrophic loss at the next election. What better opportunity to rebuild the smoking ruin from its very foundations?

There will, of course, be plenty still keen to squabble over the spoils of defeat; in the Labor Party there always are.

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A harsh proposal

An article by Menkit Prince in The Echo on January 5 asks for a ‘Moratorium on commercial and non-commercial kangaroo killing’. It is obvious this person has been no further west than Uki, for if they had they would have seen the destruction of farmers’ crops and natural grasses. Kangaroos, like the flying fox, are in plague proportions and should be culled.

Please view the damage both of these pests are causing before letting the heart rule the head.

Adrian Ind

Pottsville

A tasteless jibe

How sad that Mungo could not resist spoiling an otherwise thoughtful article (The Echo, January 5) by a tasteless jibe about Mr Howard’s award of the ‘Royal Order of the Brown Nose.’

Even the Howard Haters may soon be reflecting favourably on their bête noire if they have to put up with much more of the incompetent Gillard government.

Gerry Worsell

Tweed Heads South

A little progress

On a happy note, back in May 2009 the council proposed to flatten the BMX Track in Murwillumbah. I made personal submissions and along with others petitioned for a different outcome.

It was encouraging that the council staff approached local schools, and engaged with interested parties in the future outcome for the location. It has been redeveloped as a bike jump track, and the usage has skyrocketed. I have driven past to see cyclists floating through the air. Thank you to council for listening to the community, and giving us a decent facility that we will appreciate and take care of into the future.

There is gratitude for the good developments that follow the strategies put in place for our future protection, and amenity. As ratepayers we foot the bills for many of these projects. There are always people with different opinions, and they may well have good reasons. As we grow we have to adapt to the changing nature of our population, and its expectations.

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Getting pushed around by the airport interests As our ex-prime minister found out, the government may control the people but big business controls governments.

Will nothing stop the expansion of the Tweed-Coolangatta airport? (That name is based on land area involved.)

The proposed extension will bring another large area of Tweed Heads into the pollution zone. One could argue of course that low-income families, retired people and schoolchildren mainly populate this area and they should not complain about progress.

I do not comment on the situation on the other side of the border as I am sure the people living in those areas know what I’m talking about.

I was involved in the original discussion regarding the size and future of the Coolangatta airport. Federal politicians of the time assured the concerned committee in both states that this airport would only be a domestic airport and

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nity buildings with solar power panels. It is reassuring that they are thinking of future costs, and sustainable outcomes for our communities. The incentives offered through water conservation and education are also welcome and will assist us into the future (current exhibition of water restrictions open).

There are lots of strategies that are put into place to make our home a better place to live as time goes by. Let us all hope that promises are fulfilled, and we do get what we deserve.

Robyn Lemaire

Murwillumbah

A close shave

On Friday November 25, 2011, the creek at Kingscliff was sweeping out at a violent rate; in fact I sailed past my son at 100 miles an hour, caught in the powerful force of the rip.

I was plucked into its turmoil and it was impossible to swim against it.

At my desperate shout my son Ian raced to help me and Rick, a resident of Kingscliff and the surfing community there, plunged into my rescue. They planted me behind the oyster-coated rocks on the groyne and we waited for my rescue, for no way could I climb up to the path above with two knee replacements.

So we waited while Rick sent word to the Air-Sea Rescue situated near to where the ospreys nested, and what a relief it was to see a jet ski from Salt or Cabarita come flying up the creek! Soon my rescuers heaved me on to the float at the rear of the ski and I clung on desperately as it leapt, swayed and plunged furiously into the rip and bore me to the beach.

Upon reaching the shore the young surfer-driver unloaded me. Ian and Rick swam with

a major airport would be built closer to Surfers Paradise in a more appropriate area in the future.

When the time came for the consideration of a larger airport, the power brokers of Surfers Paradise and the Queensland government realised that an international airport nearer Surfers Paradise would mean that noise, air and traffic pollution would also follow. So, wise powerful men that they are were, it was decided to leave well enough alone. Extend the airport in its present position regardless of its unsuitability for such expansion.

Without so much of a whimper from the NSW government of the time or protest or concern from our federal representative, the extension of the airport went ahead apace. Now further extensions are proposed with the blessing of both state and federal governments.

Okay, more jobs, excellent

position for transfer to Gold Coast destinations, more money for big business. But at what cost and who will pay the price?

In the area of the Tweed currently affected by air and noise pollution there are five major schools, 3,000 elderly people in retirement villages plus numerous people living in their own homes.

Those people who will not be affected by the noise will no doubt think it’s a good asset to have close by (not too close of course). Using the same promotion team that assured us that smoking was not a health hazard and asbestos was safe, the airline industry will leave no stone unturned to convince us that an ever-expanding international airport is a must for this area.

Who pays for the bill in the future? Our children, our elderly or ourselves. Those who built and bought the homes in the affected areas before the expansion of the airport were

misled. At what point can legal action be taken against the big businesses running the airport for loss of health, quality of life, and property values?

Perhaps one day a group of politicians from NSW and a federal member who cares will have the nerve to say ‘enough is enough’. Perhaps some exminister could give them a few tips.

The future of good quality government in a country is in its concern for the welfare of its young, old and disadvantaged. Is there anybody out there in any government body who also believes these hardfought values and is willing to stand up and be counted?

If not, ‘Poor Bugger Us’. This airport must not be allowed further expansion.

The Tweed Coast towns and Brunswick Heads have a rapidly growing family-oriented tourism industry employing large numbers of locals helping families enjoy one of the last rural coastal ‘simple pleasures’ destinations away from heavy traffic congestion.

This may change in the near future as the NSW Department of Planning has recommended approval of a permanent mega amplified music festival site at Yegun/Wooyung with year round unlimited minor events and eventually up to four major events a year with up to 50,000 partygoers at each event.

Even though both Byron Shire Council and the Land and Environment Court ruled against the proposal, the developers are attempting to get around the legal requirements with the now discredited Part 3A process. ICAC has found former lands minister Tony Kelly and LPMA chief Warwick Watkins corrupt, and

has accused former minister Ian Macdonald of corruption.

Yet the planning department is happy to approve a deadly black-spot intersection on a blind crest and bend on Tweed Valley Way and Jones Road as an entrance.

Although two recent massive bushfires burnt out much of the locality with helicopters fighting underground peat fires and sudden metre-high floods washing across the site, emergency evacuations will be on foot to neighbouring properties and to the forested ridge top. Potential traffic jams on the Tweed Valley Way, Yelgun interchange and the Pacific Highway are also of little concern.

The last wildlife corridors from the Mount Warning caldera to the ocean and the Billinudgel Nature Reserve are to become free environmental service providers for permanent noise and toxic waste during floods. Core koala habitat

will provide scenery and buffering for three stages directed at it from all angles.

The large number of endangered shy bird species that need to migrate from the world heritage rainforests to the coastal nature reserves during the different seasons and which are essential for the dispersal of seeds and pollen will be permanently confronted with massive noise, lights and thousands of partying people.

They will add to the wave of extinctions currently taking place.

The upcoming PAC meetings on February 1 and 2 at the Byron Bay and Ocean Shores community centres will be the last chance to stop this insanity.

It sets up a precedent for developers to do whatever they wish in the future. Contact Paula Poon at 9383 2101 before January 20 to register to speak.

Over time any locality offering a permanent party atmosphere, whether it be Kings

Cross, Surfers Paradise or, in the future, the Tweed Coast towns and Brunswick Heads, will attract unscrupulous people to take advantage of the situation.

If the North Byron Parklands permanent mega festival site begins operating, the illegal drug industry will quickly have their eyes focused on northern NSW. The push is already on and convicted criminals Jade and Dionne Lacey are designing brothel business plans for Chinderah and Byron Bay. Tweed Coast towns as well as Brunswick Heads and Ocean Shores will take their places as the permanent party capital to rival Kings Cross and Surfers Paradise. This could eventually lead to a crime wave as large and as concentrated as any other party place in our nation. The drug barons will have conquered one more community.

the rip and safely reached the beach on the other side of the creek. I had panicked when I was sucked under, and I wish to thank people for their help and kindness and for my rescue.

I have written this letter because I saw in The Echo that such incidents should be reported and this I have done.

lous when government money was made available. The latter wasn’t a good idea when tried in America, and it was not a good idea for us in Australia.

School infrastructure, though it was a great idea, was not so good in the implementation.

Kudos for the climate change initiative and for trying to make the mining companies pay for something that belongs to all Australians, but the revelations in the Sydney Morning Herald on January 5 about the spying on protest groups at the behest of ministers Martin Ferguson and Robert McClelland was the last straw.

What’s next for us – snipers on the roof tops at demon-

strations, tanks in the streets?

Liberal policies had already lost me, but Labor has also completely lost me after this – the only thing to keep this lot and that of Tony Abbott out of power is to vote for the Greens at the next election.

This is what I hope many other Labor voters will be doing.

applied to our citizens regardless of gender.

The society will shortly challenge a popular TV breakfast program to not mention ‘guys’ for five consecutive days. References to a type of rope and a certain Mr Fawkes will be excepted.

An associated organisation, COLC (Champions Of Lost Causes), has alerted us to a persistent rumour in literary circles that a new edition of the C J Dennis classic may soon hit the bookstores entitled The Sentimental Guy. The situation is desperate. It can only be a matter of time before a prime ministerial aspirant addresses the nation as ‘Guys of Australia’.

flightpath ratepayers to shoulder the entire burden of increased air traffic.

I just don’t believe there are 32,000 people living on Fingal Head. The not so silent and suffering majority from South Tweed, Banora Point, Oxley Cove, Kingscliff, etc are already receiving the majority of southbound takeoffs and landings.

The Tweed Fair Go Alliance who are fighting on our behalf realise that a projected 300 per cent increase over the next five to 10 years must be shared over a much wider area and not just add more pain on to a single group of already badly affected residents.

Our lifestyle, home values and health are at stake and Bernie Gabriel submissions close on FebruTweed Heads South ary 23. Have your say before it’s too late and it all gets set n How selfish of the Fingal in government concrete.

Diana White Head residents who want the rest of the Gold Coast airport Oxley Cove

Festival site wrong on all counts

Helen McLeod

Kingscliff

A last straw

I could forgive the Labor Party for getting rid of the former prime minister, as he could be painful at times. I could also forgive the government for the pink batts and recycled ‘cash for clunkers’ schemes. The former scheme was bound to bring out the less-than-scrupu-

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1. Sophie Lowe stars as the Kate in question in the Australian film Beautiful Kate (NBN, Saturday, 9.30pm), alongside other notable actors Rachel Griffiths, Ben Mendelsohn and Bryan Brown. Director Rachel Ward adapted the script from a 1982 novel of the same name by Newton Thornburg. The film was shot on location in the Flinders Ranges. A writer, Ned Kendall (Mendelsohn), is returning to the remote and isolated family home inhabited by his sister Sally (Griffiths), to say goodbye to his father, Bruce (Brown), who is dying. Memories of his sister Kate arise.

2. Another Australian film, Balibo (ABC1, Sunday, 8.30pm), features Anthony LaPaglia as the journalist investigating the deaths of the Balibo Five, Australian journalists who were killed in the 1975 Indonesian invasion of East Timor. It highlights another shameful instance of the Australian government failing to properly investigate atrocity on behalf of its own citizens.

FRIDAY 13 ABC 1

4.00 W-League Football 6.00 ABC News 10.00 Time Team 11.00 Chopper Rescue 11.30 One Plus One 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Schools Spectacular 2011 3.00 Kids’ Programs

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

Adventures 7.00 Eating Art 7.35 Brick City 8.30 The Staircase (M) 9.30 Movie: The Truck (MAV 2008) South Korean thriller

11.15 Movie: Crows – 0 (MAV 2007) Japanese action 1.40 Weatherwatch

TEN

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

ABC 2

6.00 Kids’ Programs

7.00 Spicks And Specks 7.30 Doctor Who 8.30 The Last Man Standing Zulu (M) 9.30 Top Boy (M) 10.20 The Trials Of Phoebe Prince (MA)

11.15 Being Human (M) 1.10 Root Of All Evil (M) 1.35 Close

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4.00 7.30 4.30 State To State 5.00 ABC News 12.30 Australia Network News 1.00 ABC News 2.30 Australia Network News 3.00 Afternoon Live 5.30 State To State 6.00 The Drum 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Contact Sport 8.00 ABC News 8.30 One Plus One 9.00 The World 9.30 State To State 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 One Plus One

SBS 1

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 Dakar Rally Highlights

7.00 ABC News 7.30 Hogfather 9.10 Single-Handed (M)

ONE HD

6.00 Serie A Football 10.00 NFL 6.00 Letters And Numbers America’s Game 11.00 NFL Total Access 6.30 World News Australia 12.00 Omnisport 12.30 Orangutan 7.30 Coast Diary 1.00 Guerrilla Gardeners 1.30 8.30 Empire Of The Seas Airline 2.00 Beach Patrol 2.30 Big Fish 9.30 Chronicle of the Third 3.00 True Heroes 3.30 Airline 4.00 Reich Jeopardy! 4.30 Beach Patrol 5.00 4x4 10.30 World News Australia 11.05 Movie: Nova (MA 2002) French Adventures romantic comedy 12.50 Movie: Head 6.00 M*A*S*H Under Water (MA 2007) German thriller 6.30 Get Smart 7.00 Cops 3.00 Weatherwatch

7.30 Bridges Of New York SBS 2 8.30 An Idiot Abroad 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News 9.30 Miami Swat (M) 6.00 China 1 10.30 NBL Basketball 6.30 Sarah Wiener’s Culinary Wollongong v Cairns

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12.30 The Ultimate Fighter (M) 1.30 6.30 Cricket continues Australian Superboat Championship 8.30 Movie: U.S. Marshals (M 2.00 Omnisport 2.30 NBL Basketball – 1998) US action. Tommy Melbourne v NZ 4.30 Serie A Football Lee Jones, Wesley Snipes 5.00 Magic Of The FA Cup 11.15 Movie: The Deer Hunter (AV 1978) US war drama. Robert De Niro, PRIME Christopher Walken 2.40 Spyforce 3.30 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Entertainment Tonight 4.00 Danoz 4.30 Show 10.00 Style By Jury 10.30 Dr Good Morning America Oz 11.30 Seven News 12.00 Movie: Wendy Wu – Homecoming Warrior GO! (PG 2006) US action. Brenda Song, 6.00 Kids’ Programs 1.00 Seinfeld 1.30 Shin Koyamada 2.00 Kids’ Programs Entertainment Tonight 2.00 TMZ 2.30 4.30 Seven News 5.30 Deal Or No Deal Married With Children 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 Kids’ Programs 6.00 Prime News

10.30 Escape To The Country

12.30 60 Minute Makeover 1.30 Australian Open Tennis: 2005 Federer v Safin 5.00 Home Shopping

7MATE

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 6.00 Florence And The Machine

6.30 My Wife And Kids 7.00 How I Met Your Mother 7.30 Megastructures 8.30 Paradise Lost (M) 9.30 Is It Real 10.30 Freak Encounters

11.30 Cops, Cars And Superstars (M) 12.30 Adam 12 1.00 Wagon Train 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 Kerri-Anne 10.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Danoz 12.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 1.00 Third Test Cricket LIVE – Australia v India 3.30 The Cricket Show 4.00 Cricket continues

6.00 Evening News

2.30 Reno 911 (M) 5.00 Bratz 5.30 Tamagotch!

GEM

6.00 Today 9.00 Alive & Cooking 9.30 The Zoo 10.00 Friends 11.00 Murder, She Wrote 12.00 Movie: Tarzan’s Three Challenges (G 1963) UK adventure.

Jock Mahoney, Woody Strode 2.00 Friends 3.00 McLeod’s Daughters 4.00 The Golden Girls 5.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show

6.00 Third Test Cricket LIVE 6.30 Friends 7.00 The Zoo 7.30 David Attenborough’s Tiger-Spy In The Jungle 8.30 Law & Order (M) 9.30 True Crime (M)

12.00 Conan (M) 1.00 Psychic TV 2.30 Law & Order (M) 3.25 Movie: Nurse On Wheels (G 1963) UK comedy. Juliet Mills, Ronald Lewis 5.00 Murder, She Wrote

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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8.30 Movie: We’re No Angels (G 1955) US comedy.

Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov 10.10 Movie: Airport (PG 1970) US war drama. Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin

TEN

ABC NEWS 24

2009) Animation 8.30 The Graham Norton Show (M) 9.30 Movie: Mercury Rising (M 1998) US action. Bruce Willis, Alec Baldwin

7.00 Movie: Eight Below (PG

NBN

6.00 Danoz 7.00 Weekend Today 9.00 Kids’ Programs 12.00 Sweet Success In The Sun 1.00 Third Test Cricket LIVE – Australia v India 3.30 Magic Millions – LIVE 4.00 Cricket continues

6.00 NBN News 6.30 Cricket continues 8.30 CSI (M) 8.40 Lotto 9.30 Movie: Beautiful Kate (MA 2009) Australian drama. Ben Mendelsohn, Rachel Griffiths

11.35 Movie: Simpatico (M 1999) US drama. Jeff Bridges, Sharon Stone 1.40 Movie: That’ll Be The Day (M 1974) UK musical drama. Ringo Starr, James Booth 3.30 Skippy 4.00 Infomercials

GO!

6.00 Kids’ Programs 2.30 Married With 6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.00 Hot30 2006) US adventure. Paul Children 3.30 Spin City 4.30 2012 Youth Countdown 12.00 Radar 12.30 Hit Walker, Bruce Greenwood Olympic Games 5.30 Total Wipeout USA Rater.Com 1.00 Life Unexpected 2.00 9.30 Movie: Duplicity (PG 6.30 Top Gear USA Good Chef Bad Chef 2.30 Venom 3.30 2009) US drama. Clive 7.30 Movie: National Making Tracks 4.00 Escape With ET 5.00 Owen, Julia Roberts Lampoon’s Vacation (PG Ten News 12.00 Movie: Roll Bounce (PG 2004) US 1983) US comedy. Chevy 12.25 Top Boy (M) 1.15 Scrapheap 6.30 Movie: Ice Age 3 – Dawn comedy. Bow Wow, Brandon T Jackson Chase, Randy Quaid Challenge 2.05 Close Of The Dinosaurs (PG 2.20 Home Shopping

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6.00 A Fork In The Road Ireland 6.30 Risky Business 7.30 Who Do You Think You Are? 8.30 The Trouble With Tolstoy 9.40 Movie: The Wolf (MA 2004) Spanish thriller

6.30 Kids’ Programs 7.00 Weekend Sunrise 9.00 Kids’ Programs 12.00 10.45 The Jonathan Ross Show 11.30 Beat The Star 1.00 That ’70s Show 1.30 rage (MA) Movie: Hercules (G 1997) Animation 3.30 Movie: Saved! (PG 2004) US comABC 2 edy. Mandy Moore, Jena Malone 5.30 6.00 Kids’ Program 11.50 Movie: Exit (MAV 2006) Swedish Mercurio’s Menu 7.00 Whites 6.00 Seven News thriller 1.40 Weatherwatch 7.30 Changes Of Heart 6.30 No Leave No Life

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10.55 Medium (MA) 11.55 The Late Show 12.55 Valentine (M) 2.00 7TWO 6.30 Martha Stewart Show 7.30 Dr Infomercials 5.00 Religion Oz 8.30 Step By Step 9.00 The Hogan ELEVEN Family 9.30 Growing Pains 10.00 Night 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The Brady Court 10.30 Murphy Brown 11.00 Bunch 8.30 Neighbours 9.00 Touched Sydney International & Kooyong Classic

By An Angel 10.00 7th Heaven 11.00 Tennis – LIVE The Love Boat 12.00 Charmed 1.00 Jag 6.00 Bargain Hunt 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 King Of Queens 7.00 On The Buses 3.30 Cheers 4.00 Roseanne 4.30 Family 7.30 Sydney International Ties 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 The Brady Tennis LIVE Bunch

10.50 Sex And The City (M/MA) 12.00 The Late Late Show 1.00 King Of Queens 1.30 Happy Days 2.00 The Love Boat 3.00 Charmed 4.00 Touched By An Angel 5.00 7th Heaven

6.30 The WWE Experience 7.30 Fear Factor 8.30 Cops (M) 11.15 Movie: Empire Of The Wolves 9.30 48 Hours (M) (MAV 2005) French thriller 1.30 10.30 NBL Basketball Weatherwatch Townsville v Sydney comedy. Penelope Cruz, Scarlett Johansson

5.00 rage (PG) 11.00 Adventures In Architecture 12.00 My Family 12.30 Unlikely Travellers 1.00 WNBL Basketball LIVE – Bendigo v Dandenong 12.30 UFC 119 2.30 NFL America’s 3.00 W-League Football – Brisbane v SBS 2 Game 3.30 Serie A Football 5.30 500 Sydney FC 5.00 Clever Monkeys 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News Great Goals 6.00 The Great Rift

7.30 Movie: Chasing Liberty 6.30 Seven News (PG 2004) US com7.00 Highway Patrol edy. Mandy Moore, Stark 7.30 Better Homes & Gardens Sands 8.30 Wallander (M) 6.30 The Project 10.30 Movie: Red Dragon (AV 10.00 Movie: Life Or Some7.30 Jamie’s Great Britain thing Like It (M 2002) US 2002) US drama. Anthony 8.30 Movie: The Devil Wears comedy. Angelina Jolie, Hopkins, Edward Norton Prada (PG 2006) US com- 1.00 Movie: Asunder (M 1998) US Edward Burns edy. Meryl Streep, Anne 12.00 South Park (MA) 12.30 thriller. Blair Underwood, Debbi Morgan Hathaway Undercovers (M) 1.30 Rubicon (M) 3.00 Home Shopping

6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 6.30 Neighbours 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond 7.30 The Simpsons 8.30 Movie: The Omen (MA 2006) US thriller. Lionel Fanthorpe, Mia Farrow

M*A*S*H 5.30 I Fish

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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 8.30 Big Ideas 9.00 ABC News 9.30 Big Ideas 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 Queensland Weekender 7.00 Great South East 7.30 Creek To Coast 8.00 Better Homes And Gardens 9.00 The Great Outdoors 10.00 Step By Step 11.55 Movie: A Good Year (M 2006) US 10.30 Growing Pains 11.00 Head Of The comedy. Russell Crowe, Albert Finney Class 11.30 Night Court 12.00 Murphy Brown 12.30 Welcome Back Kotter 1.00 2.30 Infomercials 4.00 Religion Kooyong Classic Tennis – LIVE 5.00 ELEVEN Rising Damp 5.30 On The Buses 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The Brady 6.00 Dad’s Army Bunch 8.30 Everybody Loves Raymond 6.30 Heartbeat 9.00 Touched By An Angel 10.00 7th 7.30 Sydney International Heaven 11.00 The Love Boat 12.00 Tennis LIVE Charmed 1.00 Jag 2.00 MacGyver 10.30 Rome (M) 3.00 King Of Queens 3.30 Cheers 4.00 11.40 Taggart (M) 1.40 Bargain Hunt Roseanne 4.30 Family Ties 5.00 Happy 2.30 On The Buses 3.00 Australian Open Days 5.30 The Brady Bunch Tennis 1993: Courier v Edberg

6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 6.30 Everybody Loves Raymond 7.30 Frasier 8.00 Everybody Loves Raymond SBS 1 8.30 Frasier 5.00 World News 5.05 World News 9.00 Everybody Loves Raymond 1.00 Who Is Harry Nilsson And Why Is 9.30 Star Trek: Voyager Everybody Talkin’ About Him? 2.20 Lin Hwai-Min And The Cloud Gate Dance Theatre 3.20 Looking For Truffaut 3.55 The Beauty Of Books 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Dakar Rally Highlights

6.00 Oz And James Drink To Britain 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Big, Bigger, Biggest 8.30 RocKwiz 9.30 Movie: Vicky Cristina Barcelona (M 2008) US

ABC 1

6.00 Last Chance To See Northern White Rhino 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Grand Designs 8.30 Movie: Balibo (M 2009) Australian drama. Bea Viegas, Christine Martins 10.20 Shifting Shelter 4 (M)

11.15 Eye On The Storm 11.45 Movie: The Pink Panther (PG 1964) UK comedy. Peter Sellers, David Niven 1.40 Grand Designs 2.30 Star Stories: Heather Mills (M) 3.00 rage

ABC 2

6.00 Kids’ Programs

7.00 Video Killed The Radio Star Boomtown Rats 7.30 Dragon’s Den 8.30 Sunday Best 10.10 The Jonathan Ross Show

7MATE

6.00 The Jeff Foxworthy Show 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 Man V Food 3.00 Hercules 5.00 The Drew Carey Show 11.30 Cheers 12.00 Roseanne 12.30 5.30 Monster Fish Sabrina The Teenage Witch 1.00 King Of Queens 1.30 Happy Days 2.00 The 6.30 Mighty Structures Love Boat 3.00 Charmed 4.00 Touched 7.30 Mega Movers 8.30 Shockwave (M)

By An Angel 5.00 7th Heaven

ONE HD

6.00 The Storming 7.00 Triathlon: Cairns Challenge 8.00 Ironman Series 11.00 X Venture Corporate Games 12.00 WWE Experience 1.00 NBL Basketball – Wollongong v Cairns 3.00 True Heroes 4.00 Places We Go 5.00

SUNDAY 15 5.00 rage (PG) 6.30 Kids’ Programs 9.00 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 Let Freedom Sing 4.35 Cutting It At The Fringe 5.05 The South Bank Show

7TWO

Cycling Central 5.30 Dakar Rally

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

GEM

6.00 Movie: Tarzan’s Three Challenges (G 1963) UK adventure. Jock Mahoney, Woody Strode 8.00 Infomercials 9.30 The Avengers 10.30 Movie: Tarzan And The Trappers (G 1958) US adventure. Gordon Scott, Eve Brent 12.00 The Golden Girls 12.30 Friends 1.30 Magic Millions Horse Racing – LIVE 5.30 Third Test Cricket – LIVE

6.30 Antiques Roadshow 8.30 CSI: NY (M) 9.30 CSI: Miami (M) 10.30 CSI (M)

11.30 Conan (M) 12.20 Psychic TV 1.50 Movie: Circus Of Horrors (M 1960) UK thriller. Anton Diffring, Kenneth Griffith 3.30 Movie: The Yearling (G 1946) US drama. Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman

9.30 Mega Disasters 10.30 The Universe

11.30 Unsolved Mysteries (M) 12.30 The Jeff Foxworthy Show 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

Sport 8.30 National Football League 5.30 Smash Lab 6.30 Verminators – LIVE 3.00 Omnisport 3.30 Places We 7.30 Mythbusters Go 5.30 I Fish 6.00 Big Fish 8.35 Movie: Street Fighter

6.30 Nature’s Power Revealed 6.00 Thalassa 7.30 Ice Road Truckers 6.30 World News Australia 8.30 Movie: The Comebacks 7.30 A History Of Ancient (MA 2007) US comedy.

Britain David Koechner, Carl 8.30 Once Upon A Time In Weathers Cabramatta (M) 9.30 Movie: Venus (MA 2006) 10.25 NBL Basketball Melbourne v Gold Coast UK romantic comedy. Peter 12.25 UFC 142 Prelims (M) 2.25 The O’Toole, Jodie Whittaker

11.15 Movie: Parineeta (PG 2005) Ultimate Fighter (M) 3.30 Omnisport Bollywood 1.35 Weatherwatch 4.00 Serie A Football 4.30 World Of Free Sports 5.00 National Football SBS 2 League – LIVE 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News

6.00 More Than A Fiesta 6.40 Iron Chef 7.30 Ninja Warrior 8.00 Unbeatable Banzuke 8.30 Once Upon A Time In Cabramatta (M) 9.30 Inspector Montalbano (M)

9.30 Movie: Sgt Bilko (G 1996) US comedy. Steve Martin, Dan Ackroyd

PRIME

(M 1994) US action. JeanClaude Van Damme, Kylie Minogue 10.30 Warehouse 13 (M)

12.30 Caprica (M) 2.30 Drew Carey Show 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 Wildfire 1.00 Third Test Cricket – LIVE 3.30 The Cricket Show 4.00 Cricket continues

6.00 Religion 7.00 Weekend Sunrise 6.00 NBN News 10.00 Business Builders 10.30 Under 6.30 Cricket continues The Hammer 11.00 Kids’ Programs 8.30 The Mentalist (M) 1.00 That ’70s Show 1.30 Movie: The 9.30 CSI (M) Hunchback Of Notre Dame (G 1996) 10.30 Tour Down Under Animation 3.30 Movie: Dr Dolittle 3 Cycling Highlights (G 2006) US comedy. Kyla Pratt, Kristen 11.30 Movie: Ferpect Crime (MAV Wilson 5.30 New Zealand On A Plate 12.00 Flashpoint (M) 1.00 Memphis Beat (M) 2.00 Skippy 2.30 Home 2004) Spanish black c omedy 1.20 6.00 Seven News Shopping 4.00 Good Morning America Weatherwatch 6.30 Classified: Marine One 5.00 Early Morning News

TEN

7.30 Border Security

GO!

6.00 Religion 7.00 Kids’ Programs 8.00 Coastwatch 6.00 Kids’ Programs 2.30 The Bachelor 9.00 Hot30 Countdown 12.00 4x4 8.30 Bones (M) 4.30 2012 Youth Olympic Games 5.30 Adventures 1.00 Jayco Bay Cycling 3.00 9.30 Castle (M) The Biggest Loser 4.00 All 4 Adventure 11.30 Royal Pains (M) 12.30 Love Total Wipeout UK 6.30 Teen Mum 4.30 Ozzie Holiday 5.00 Ten News Bites (M) 1.30 Home Shopping 5.30 7.30 Two And A Half Men 10.40 London Live: The Pretty Reckless 6.30 Merlin 8.30 The Big Bang Theory Seven News 11.05 Keane 12.05 Sam Roberts 1.00 9.30 Movie: Last Boy Scout 7.30 It’s A Knockout 7TWO Scrapheap Challenge 1.50 Close (AV 1991) US action. Bruce 8.30 Terra Nova (M) 6.30 Step By Step 7.00 Growing Pains Willis, Damon Wayan ABC NEWS 24 9.30 NCIS (M) 7.30 Head Of The Class 8.00 Ugly Betty 11.40 Gossip Girl (M) 12.40 The 4.00 Big Ideas 5.00 Newshour 6.00 10.30 Medium (M) 9.00 Route 66 10.00 Naked City 10.40 Hills 1.30 Reno 911 (M) 2.00 Home Australian Story 6.30 Message Stick 11.30 TBA 1.30 Infomercials 4.00 Night Court 11.10 Welcome Back Kotter Shopping 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 Select Religion 11.40 Movie: Decision At Sundown TMZ 5.00 Married With Children 5.30 8.00 ABC News 8.30 Big Ideas 8.45 (PG 1957) Western.

Randolph Scott, The Flintstones Finance Quarter 9.00 ABC News ELEVEN John Carroll 1.20 Movie: How To 9.30 The World This Week 10.00 ABC 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The Brady Save A Marriage And Ruin Your Life GEM News 10.30 State To State 11.00 ABC Bunch 8.30 Everybody Loves Raymond (PG 1968) US comedy. Dean Martin, 6.00 Infomercials 6.30 Movie: The Last News 11.30 One Plus One 12.00 ABC 9.00 Touched By An Angel 10.00 7th Stella Stevens 3.40 Movie: The Bounty Days Of Dolwyn (G 1949) UK drama.

News 12.30 Tonic 1.00 Big Ideas 2.00 Heaven 11.00 The Love Boat 12.00 (PG 1984) UK adventure. Mel Gibson, Edith Evans, Richard Burton 8.30 ABC News 2.30 Message Stick 3.00 Charmed 1.00 Jag 2.00 MacGyver Laurence Olivier Infomercials 10.00 The Avengers 11.00 ABC News 3.30 Australian Story 4.00 3.00 King Of Queens 3.30 Cheers 4.00 6.30 Dad’s Army Movie: Tonight’s The Night (G 1954) ABC News 4.30 State To State 5.00 Roseanne 4.30 Family Ties 5.00 Happy 7.00 Worst Week Of My Life UK comedy. David Niven, Yvonne De ABC News 5.30 Catalyst 6.00 ABC Days 5.30 The Brady Bunch Carlo 12.50 Movie: The Train Robbers News 6.30 Foreign Correspondent 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 7.40 The Thin Blue Line (PG 1973) Western. John Wayne, Ann 7.00 ABC News 7.30 One Plus One 6.30 Everybody Loves Raymond 8.20 Country Calendar 8.50 Escape To The Country Margret 2.50 Getaway 3.50 Movie: The 8.00 ABC News 8.02 Winners And 7.30 The Simpsons 9.50 To The Manor Bowen (M) Time Machine (PG 1960) US adventure.

Losers In The Green Economy 9.00 8.00 Futurama Rod Taylor, Alan Young ABC News 9.30 Tonic 10.00 ABC 8.30 Movie: August Rush (PG 10.50 Homes Under The Hammer 12.00 6.00 Third Test Cricket LIVE The World At War 1.00 Movie: Broken News 10.30 The World This Week 2007) US drama. Freddie Lizard’s Club Dread (AV 2004) US com- 6.30 Antiques Roadshow 11.00 ABC News 11.30 Australian Highmore, Keri Russell Story 12.00 Big Ideas 1.00 BBC 10.55 Family Ties 11.25 Everybody edy. Bill Paxton, Jay Chandrasekhar 3.10 7.30 As Time Goes By World News 1.30 7.30 Select 2.00 Loves Raymond 11.55 Roseanne 12.30 Movie: Bombardier (PG 1943) WWII 8.00 Yes Minister Newshour 3.00 BBC World News Sabrina The Teenage Witch 1.00 King drama. Pat O’Brien, Randolph Scott 5.30 8.30 Movie: High Crimes (M 2002) US drama. Ashley 3.30 Message Stick Of Queens 1.30 Happy Days 2.00 The Home Shopping Judd, Morgan Freeman Love Boat 3.00 Charmed 4.00 Touched SBS 1 7MATE 11.00 Movie: The Pledge (M 2001) US

By An Angel 5.00 7th Heaven 5.00 World News 8.30 PopAsia 6.30 Wagon Train 7.30 The Incredible drama. Jack Nicholson, Benico Del Toro 10.30 Football Asia 11.00 Football ONE HD Hulk 8.30 Adam 12 9.00 Hercules And 1.30 Friends 2.00 Home Shopping 4.30 Feature 12.00 Futbol Mundial 12.30 6.00 Omnisport 6.30 Australian Super- Xena 11.00 Magnum PI 12.00 Knight Religion 5.00 Adventures In Rainbow Speedweek 2.00 World News 3.00 boat Championship 7.00 Volvo Ocean Rider 1.00 The A Team 2.00 Man V Food Country 5.30 Today Ethnic Business Awards 2011 5.00 Race Highlights 8.00 World Of Free 3.00 Baywatch 5.00 Drew Carey Show

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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 Landline 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Monarch Of The Glen 1.30 The Free Range Cook 2.00 Waterloo Road 3.00 Kids’Programs

6.00 The Drum 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 Who’s Been Sleeping In My House?

8.30 Harry’s Arctic Heroes 9.25 Secret Pakistan 10.25 Late Edition News

10.35 Silent Witness (M) 11.30 Place Of Execution (M) 12.20 Darling Buds Of May 1.15 Harry’s Arctic Heroes 2.10 Secret Pakistan 3.00 rage

ABC 2

6.00 Kids’ Programs

7.00 Spicks And Specks 7.30 Doctor Who 8.30 Haven (M) 9.30 The Runaway (M) 10.15 Alan Carr

7.30 Who’s Line Is It Anyway? Test Cricket LIVE – Australia v India 3.30 The Cricket Show 4.00 Cricket 8.30 Burn Notice (M) continues Eye (MAV 2004) Finnish thriller 2.50 9.30 Blue Bloods (M) Weatherwatch 6.00 NBN News 10.30 M*A*S*H 11.00 The Ultimate Fighter (M) 1.00 6.30 Cricket continues SBS 2 National Football League 3.30 Serie A 8.25 Lotto 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News 8.30 The Mentalist (M) Football 5.30 FA Cup Classic 6.00 China 21 9.30 Harry’s Law (M) 6.30 Sarah Wiener’s Culinary PRIME 10.30 Big Adventures 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 Kids’ Programs 10.00 11.30 The Unusuals (M) 12.30 The That ’70s Show 10.30 Seven News Avengers 1.30 Entertainment Tonight 7.00 Eating Art 11.00 Australian Open Tennis – LIVE 2.00 Infomercials 3.30 Good Morning 7.30 How To Live To 101 6.00 Prime News Without Trying America 5.00 Early Morning News 8.30 Judgment Day Intelligent 6.30 Seven News GO! 7.00 Australian Open Tennis Design on trial 6.00 Kids’ Programs 1.00 Seinfeld 1.30 LIVE 9.30 The World Game Entertainment Tonight 2.00 TMZ 2.30 12.30 Home Shopping 5.30 News 10.30 Movie: The Eight Married With Children 3.00 Just Shoot Diagram Pole Fighter 7TWO Me 3.30 Kids’Programs 4.30 2012 Youth (MAV 1984) Cantonese 6.30 Martha Stewart Show 7.30 Dr Oz Olympic Games 5.30 Bewitched action 8.30 Sons And Daughters 9.00 Home 6.00 Seinfeld 12.15 Weatherwatch And Away 9.30 Shortland Street 10.00 6.30 Wipeout USA Coronation Street 10.30 Emmerdale 7.30 Top Gear TEN 6.00 Ten News 7.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 Designing Women 11.30 8.30 The Big Bang Theory 9.00 The Circle 11.30 Jamie’s Thirty Beautiful Homes And Great Estates 9.00 The Inbetweeners (MA) Minute Meals 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 The 12.00 Young Ramsay 1.00 Five Mile 9.30 Movie: Passenger 57 (M Doctors 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Creek 2.00 The Emeril Lagasse Show 1992) US action. Wesley Judge Judy 3.30 Infomercial 4.00 Good 3.00 Murphy Brown 3.30 Growing Pains Snipes, Tom Sizemore 4.00 Mad About You 4.30 Who’s The Chef Bad Chef 4.30 The Bold And The Boss? 5.00 Doctor Finlay Beautiful 5.00 Ten News

6.30 The Project 10.45 Dragon’s Den 11.50 Sanctuary 7.30 Modern Family (M) 12.35 Zoo Days 1.00 Scrapheap 8.00 Rules Of Engagement Challenge 1.55 Close 8.30 NCIS: Los Angeles (M) 9.30 The Glades (M) ABC NEWS 24 4.00 ABC News 4.05 The World 10.30 Medium (M)

6.00 Australian Open Tennis LIVE 7.00 On The Buses 7.30 Heartbeat 8.30 Ruth Rendell Mysteries (M)

11.00 South Park (MA) 12.00 Spin City 12.30 Fur TV (MA) 1.30 Reno 911 (M) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Married With Children 5.30 The Flintstones

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6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The Brady Bunch 8.30 Neighbours 9.00 Touched

By An Angel 10.00 7th Heaven 11.00 The Love Boat 12.00 Charmed 1.00 Jag 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 King Of Queens 3.30 Cheers 4.00 Roseanne 4.30 Family Ties 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 The Brady Bunch

7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond 7.30 The Simpsons 8.00 Futurama SBS 1 8.30 The Simpsons 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 9.00 The Office 1.00 Into The Deep: America, Whaling 9.30 American Horror Story (AV) And The World 3.00 Letters And 10.30 The Late Late Show

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10.20 True CSI (AV)

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7TWO

6.30 Martha Stewart Show 7.30 Dr Oz 8.30 Sons And Daughters 9.00 Home And Away 9.30 Shortland Street 10.00 Coronation Street 10.30 Emmerdale 11.00 Designing Women 11.30 Beautiful Homes And Great Estates 12.00 Young Ramsay 1.00 Five Mile Creek 2.00 The Emeril Lagasse Show 3.00 Murphy Brown 3.30 Growing Pains 4.00 Mad About You 4.30 Who’s The Boss? 5.00 Doctor Finlay

6.00 Australian Open Tennis LIVE 7.00 On The Buses 7.30 Heartbeat 8.30 Life Begins (M) 9.30 Hetty Wainthropp Investigates 10.30 The Bill (M)

11.20 Tour Down Under Cycling Highlights 12.20 Memphis Beat (M) 1.30 Home Shopping 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning News

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6.00 Seinfeld 6.30 Wipeout USA 7.30 Two And A Half Men 8.30 Mike & Molly(M) 9.00 The Big Bang Theory 9.30 Movie: Walk Hard – The Dewey Cox Story (MA 2007) US comedy. John C Reilly, Jenna Fischer

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6.00 Letters And Numbers 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Adriano Zumbo 8.00 One Man And His Campervan 8.30 Oz And Hugh Raise The Bar 9.35 24 Hours In Emergency

6.30 Get Smart 7.00 Cops 7.30 Extreme Fishing 8.30 Movie: Four Brothers (M 2005) US action. Mark Wahlberg, Tyrese Gibson

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ENTREES Dim Sims (steamed or fried) $7.65 Satay Chicken $7.95 Vegetarian Spring Rolls $6.95 Vegetarian Curry Puffs $6.95 Coconut Prawns $8.50 Money Bag $7.50 Mixed Entrée for 2 (spring Roll, curry puff, satay, calamari) $14.50 New Mixed Entrée for 2 (coconut prawn, money bag, fishcake, fried dim sim) $15.50 MAIN DISHES All our stir-fries come w/ mixed vegetables. Choose your own sauce, ingredients & meat.

Oyster Sauce $11 / Oyster Sauce + Ginger $11.50 / Sweet & Sour Sauce $11.50 / Cashew Nut + Chilli Jam $12 / Fresh Chilli & Basil (Hot) $12 / Garlic & Pepper Sauce $12 / Satay Sauce $12.50 / Curry Pastes Sauce (Hot) $13 / Green Curry(Hot), Red Curry (Medium), Panang Curry(Medium) $13 Add: Chicken, Pork 1.50, Beef $2, Prawns (7-8) $3.50

Menu

Massaman Beef, Yellow Chicken $14.95 Red curry w/ duck, pineapple, lychees $16.95 Pad Thai $11.95 Pad Siew Flat: noodles, veggies, sweet sauce $10.95 Thai Fried Rice $10.95 Fried Rice Combo (chicken, beef, pork, prawns) $15 Steamed Rice $2 / $3.50 Coconut Rice $3.50 / $5 AUTHENTIC DISHES Papaya Salad (carrot+bean+cashews) $14 Jungle Curry: chicken/pork/ beef (coconut-free) $14.95 Hot Wok Seafood: our signature dish prepare w/homemade curry paste in coconut milk served w/ veggies $20.50 Larb Gai: minced chicken, onion, cucumber, tomatoes, ground toasted rice, lime & chili dressing $13.50 Tom Yum soup: chicken or prawn or mixed seafood $7.20 / $7.70 / $7.95 Pad Cha Talay: (Hot) stirfried mixed

Alleys

Oven Baked Garlic Bread 7.50 Trio of Dips with Grilled Turkish Bread 10.00 Bruschetta 9.00

Oysters – Natural 1/2 dz 14.00 – Kilpatrick 1/2 dz 15.00 Lemon Pepper Calamari

1 dozen 27.00 1 dozen 29.00

15.00

Calamari lightly dusted, flash fried on a bed of salad with lemon and roasted garlic aioli

Coconut Crusted Prawns

16.00

Antipasto Plate Della Casa

19.00

served with baby salad and curry lime mayo

seafood tossed w/ 5 Thai herbs, chilli & basil $17.95 OUR UNIQUE DISHES Fresh Rice Paper Rolls w/ choice of satay chicken, prawns, or veg. $8.50 / $12.50 Duck Roll: sliced duck & veggie wrapped in rotti $6.95 Spicy Lamb Curry: slow-cooked in onion, tomatoes, ginger & garlic sauce served w/ steamed veggies w/ rice $20 or w/ rotti $22 Five Spice Salty Squid w/ homemade mango aioli $15.95 BBQ Duck Noodles NEW VEGETARIAN TREATS (*most dishes on the full menu can be made vegetarian) Deep fried tofu w/ peanut sauce $5 Crispy mixed vegetable $6.95 Stirfried Pumpkin & Egg $12 Vegetable Lovers Green Stirfry w/ Thaistyle yellow bean sauce $13

a selection of cured meat, olives, cheese and grissini croutons

Sides

Steamed Seasonal Vegetables Fries Wedges with sour cream & sweet chilli Side Salad

Steak

350g Rump Steak with chips & salad 500g T-bone Steak with chips & salad 200g Eye Fillet

25.00 27.00 29.00

300g Rib Fillet

26.00

with roasted garlic mash, field mushrooms, baby spinach & roast tomato with roasted garlic mash, field mushrooms, baby spinach & roast tomato

Starters

The Original Thai in Cabarita Beach

Choose a Sauce • Red Wine • Dianne • Peppercorn • Mushroom • Blue Cheese • Additional sauce $2 Steak Topper – 1/2 Doz Garlic Prawns

Mains

Trio of Mushroom Risotto

7.00

19.00

with a porcini & rosemary base tossed in whlte wine & parmesan cream

Chicken, Pumpkin & Baby Spinach Fettucine 19.00 tossed in a creamy oven dried tomato pesto

Mediterranean Penne Pasta

18.00

Chilli Prawn & Chorizo Fettucine

20.00

Grilled Barramundi with chips & salad Crispy Skin Salmon

20.00 24.00

Chicken Supreme

24.00

with olives, roasted peppers, mushrooms, shallots in a tomato & white wine sauce

6.50 sml 4.00 lge 7.00 8.90 4.50

on roasted garlic mash, sauteed greens & balsamic glaze

chicken wrapped in proscuitto stuffed with mushroom & cheese duxelle on garlic mash, sauteed greens & rich roasted pepper sauce

Light meals Beef Burger

14.00

Chicken Burger

15.00

Steak Sandwich rib fillet, salad, bacon & chutney Chicken Schnitzel with fries & salad Chicken Parmigiana with fries & salad Caba Fish & Chips with salad & tartare Beer Battered Flathead Fillets

17.00 14.00 16.50 12.00 15.00

with lettuce, tomato, cheese, egg, caramelised onion, bbq sauce & fries with lettuce, tomato, cheese, bacon, brie aioli & fries

with fries & salad

Seafood Basket with fries & salad Warm Thai Beef Salad Caesar Salad 16.00 w chicken 19.00 Prawn & Roast Pumpkin Salad Greek Salad

in a fresh tomato & basil sauce with baby spinach & shaved parmesan

17.00 18.00 w salmon 20.00 20.00 14.50

Kids

12 years and under

Kids Beef Burger & Chips Steak ’n’ Chips with Salad Fish ’n’ Chips with Salad Cheesy Penne Napoli Chicken Nuggets & Chips Lasagne & Chips All kids’ meals come with ice cream

9.00 9.00 9.00 9.00 9.00 9.00

Monday-Friday 12-2.30, 5.30-8.30 Saturday & Sunday 12–8.30pm Book ahead to get best tables with a view

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restaurant

Alleys Restaurant has a diverse menu with choices to suit every taste.

Here are some of the chef’s favourites. For the full menu visit www.currumbinrsl.com.au and click on the link to Alleys Restaurant.

ALLEYS FAVOURITES Moroccan Marinated Chicken Breast – with lime and coconut sauce and served on a bed of couscous $27.90 Slow Roasted Capsicum – filled with mushrooms and feta, served on toasted Vienna bread and garden salad (V) $19.95 Creamy Garlic Prawns – with jasmine rice and a house salad (GF) $26.50 Alleys Hong Kong Stir Fry – with BBQ pork, chicken, prawns, hokkien noodles, Asian greens and oyster sauce $25.50 FROM THE CHAR GRILL 300g Rump Steak $25.90 300g New York Cut Sirloin Steak $26.90 300g Rib Steak $27.90 400g Black Angus Rib on the Bone $38.90

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LASAGNE Chicken Lasagne $7 Chicken & Spinach in a Napoli Sauce Vegetable Lasagne $7 Spinach, Ricotta and Pumpkin Beef Lasagne $7 Beef mince simmered in Napoli Sauce

HOT ROAST ROLLS Beef or pork with gravy $6 With chips $8

Served with garden salad $10 Served with garden salad & chips $12

BURGERS Big Mouth Burger $9.90 With chips $11.90 Beef patty, bacon, egg, onion cheese, beetroot, tomato and lettuce

CHICKEN SCHNITZEL Served with garden salad $10.50 Served with garden salad & chips $12.50 Image for illustrative purposes only.

PLUS AN AMAZING SELECTION OF ENTREES, SALADS, SEAFOOD, KIDS’ MENU & DESSERTS!

Set along the banks of the picturesque Currumbin estuary, enjoy contemporary dining where the multi award winning chefs transform quality fresh, local produce into sumptuous meals and cater to varying dietary requirements.

The superb food is complemented by friendly, professional service from our award-winning team.

Open 7 days a week for lunch and dinner.

Lunch bookings taken from 11.30am and dinner bookings from 5.30. Bookings recommended!

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Breads

Toasted ciabatta with fresh tomato basil, garlic & balsamic

T/AWAY LUNCH STARTS $6.95

BLACK STICKY RICE PUDDING – $3.50 Served warm or cold with icecream.

Cabarita Beach Hotel

ROAST VEGETABLE FRITTATA Served with garden salad $8 Served with garden salad & chip $10 CAESAR SALAD. Plain Caesar salad $6.90 With chicken strips $9.90 With prawn cutlets $10.90 POTATOES BAKED IN THEIR SKINS Bacon, cheese and sour cream $5 Bacon, cheese, pineapple & sour cream $5.50 Chilli con carne, sour cream $6 Roast meat, onion gravey $6 Ham,coleslaw pineapple & cheese, sour cream $6 Chicken $6 Bolognese sauce, melted cheese $6

HOT CHIPS Large serving with sweet chilli & sour cream $6.50 Bacon and melted cheese $8

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Classic Burger $7.90 With chips $9.90 Beef patty, cheese, onion, beetroot, tomato and lettuce Basic Burger $6.90 With chips $8.90 Beef patty, cheese, lettuce and tomato Vegetarian Burger $7.90 With chips $9.90 Veggie patty, lettuce, tomato, beetroot, onion, sweet chilli sauce Schnitzel Burger $7.90 With chips $9.90 Lettuce, beetroot, tomato, onion, coleslaw, cheese, mayo Chilli Pork Burger $9.90 With chips $11.90 Pork patty, lettuce, tomato, pineapple, special chilli mayonnaise Minted Lamb Burger $9.90 With chips $11.90 Lamb patty, lettuce, tomato, onion

HOTDOGS

Chicken Caesar Burger $9.90 With chips $11.90 Chicken patty, bacon, egg, lettuce and caesar dressing

Plain hotdog with sauce $4.50 With chips $6.50 Extras: cheese, onion, bacon, pineapple 50c ea.

Barramundi Burger $9.90 With chips $11.90 Barramundi fish fillet with lettuce, tomato

OPENING HOURS: MON-THURS 8AM-8PM, FRI-SUN 8AM-5PM SHOP 2, 9 CORONATION AVE, POTTSVILLE PH: 0487 482 924

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A L L Y O U R L O C A L E N T E R TA I N M E N T 7 D AY S A W E E K

The Perch Creek Family Jug Band The Perch Creek Family Jug Band learned to use their voices and multi-instrumental talents to pull a crowd and keep them there. Now they’re (nearly) grown up and have fine tuned their five-part harmonies and unique style for their original and traditional repertoire that roves from bluegrass, old-time jazz, and country blues to whatever else they may just happen to fancy.

Featuring Australia’s top one-legged saw player, Who magazine’s ‘most handsome jug player’, and more (equally notable) siblings than you can count (where do they keep getting them from?), the PCFJB sing and dance their unique music to young and old.

The Perch Creek Family Jug Band are: Camilla Hodgkins: Riviera keyboard, ($5 from the local dump) frailing 5 string banjo, ukulele, ‘steam-powered piano’ (melodica), vocals and much, much more (definite over-achiever).

Lear Hodgkins: Washboard, jug, drums,

vocals and insightful teenage with (Yeah, whatever).

Eileen Hodgkins: Guitar, clarinet, ukulele, tap dancing and vocals. (No jokes may be made at Eileen’s expense, as stipulated in her contract).

‘Crispy Hot Chickens’ (Aka Christi Hodgkins): Ever the bargainer, Crispy held on to his soul, and sold his leg to the Devil in exchange for phenomenal talent and musical sensitivity that defies his meagre 16 years of life experience. He plays the harmonica, kazoo, trombone, saw and vocals.

‘Ukulele’ Lali Hodgkins: Introducing the newest member of the band at 13 years of age, Ukulele Lali with her gracious tap dancing and strumming on a mystery instrument...

Special guest Della May Swan Hodgkins: The little girl with a big name makes guest appearances gracing the tap board.

The Perch Creek Family Jug Band regularly play festivals including the Woodford Folk Lenny Hodgkins: Clocking in at 3’9” and three Festival, Mullum Music Festival, and The Tamworth Country Music Festival. In 2010 stone, Lenny plays the spoons, whistles and vocals. At seven years old, he sings in an oldthey appeared on the ABC TV show Spicks timey band by day, but at home he spends & Specks, before jetting off to Europe for a long nights practising on his bright red mini three-month tour. Now they are safely back in electric guitar, patiently waiting for his big Australia and always raring for the next gig! break as a rocker!

Get down with the family at the Sheoak ‘Bigfoot’ Jimmy Chandler: The tall man with

Live Music A long journey for one so young After a long journey and many fantastic performances on the hottest music show in the country, millions of people voted Reece Mastin as the winner of The X Factor for 2011.

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In December the debut album, Reece Mastin was be released and features the X Factor journey that the 17-year-old from Greenwith, South Australia has taken competing for his place in the final 12. It features re-recorded studio tracks of some of the incredible performances on the show, including She Will Be Loved, Joker And The Thief, Paradise City and I Kissed A Girl, as well as recordings of his standout performance Breakeven, and his winning single, Good Night.

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After his highly successful run on Australian Idol, Dan England has created a remarkable story by honing his songs and playing to tens of thousands of people in towns and cities across Australia. The tour is taking in on average five gigs per week, travelling to every state and territory in Australia – the ‘Dan England – A year on the Road’ tour saw Dan spending much of 2007/2008 on the road playing a record number of live Reece will be joined on every show shows. This record-breaking run has so far by very special guest, Johnny spanned over 168 shows in just over 230 Ruffo. A self-taught singer and days, including sold-out large auditoriums dancer, the 23-year-old from to intimate acoustic shows. Beginning in Western Australia showed his raw November 2007, the tour has already potential during his performance of had its share of rave reviews and is REECE MASTIN PLAYS AT TWIN TOWNS ON FRIDAY Jay Sean’s Do You Remember. setting a gruelling pace that would

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the fabulous moustache. Not only does he have a fantastic moustache, but Jimmy also plucks the big bass fiddle and sings.

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JESUS GOES TO WATEGOS Last week our family enjoyed a beautiful sunny breakfast at Wategos. There’s nothing quite like a freshly cooked bacon-andegg roll after a swim in the rolling waves of one of Australia’s most beautiful beaches, followed by a leisurely relax contemplating the majesty of our coastline. Until it was interrupted by a busload of 200 young people dressed in shorts and t-shirts. There was something slightly unusual about the crowd – they carried cameras, they cart-wheeled, some even clutched skateboards and wore shoes and socks which seemed a little out of kilter with the surrounds. Not one of them rushed into the surf, which was glorious.

I whispered to my daughter, ‘What do you think is going on there?’

She swallowed a mouthful of her roll and mumbled ‘Christians’. I was like ‘really? How can you tell?’ Zoe pointed at one of the girls with a bit of bacon and chewed, ‘the girls are wearing boardshorts’.

My bacon-munching daughter was more astute than me. All of a sudden the group launched into song, performing a spectacularly public prayer of evangelical worship.

Great, I got up early to bring the kids down to the beach for breakfast, and now I can’t see the bloody ocean because of an annoying clump of fricking Christians. I was tempted to gather a group of pagan goat worshippers like myself to assemble farther down the beach to perform some satanic rituals. Hands were waving in the air in Jesus-enthused ecstasy, others dropped to their knees and started reading their bibles. Zoe was mildly amused and whispered in my ear ‘they must have waterproof bibles’.

It’s not like they don’t have ample time to read the the Word of the Lord. Surely in the time other young people are taking drugs, having sex or masturbating, they’re tucked up in bed with the good book. Why the sudden urge to read the bible on the beach at 10 o’clock on a Wednesday morning? Oh, I get it, because other people can see them. In fact, what is the point in praying unless you get to inflict it on the whole fricking beach?

Christians with cameras start taking photos of Christians reading bibles. What for? Are they going to upload it on their version of Facebook? Prayerbook? Imagine the status updates: ‘Read Isaiah at Wategos! POL! (That means Pray Out Loud). Then they start the baptisms. Weddings have to apply to council and pay a fee, but this busload of bible bashers just start inflicting their religious choices on the whole beach.

Groovy young tattooed ministers duck fully clothed initiates under the Wategos waves to cleanse them of their sins. I’m hoping that the evil that’s washed off our family infects them. Now I can’t swim because I don’t want to get stinky born-again christian all over me.

If you want to baptise your followers at the beach, then don’t choose peak tourist time on the world’s smallest and most popular beach. Go to Tallow. Try Lennox. There’s plenty of remote beaches where the only people you’ll see are surfers, a few fishermen, and some escaped psycho killer jerking off in the bushes. There’s a colossal amount of arrogance thinking it’s okay for 200 people to land in the middle of a crowded public beach and start performing their religious ritual.

Clearly we are a country that practises religious tolerance but I can’t help but wonder what the public reaction would be if 200 Muslims turned up, laid out their prayer mats and started praying to Allah. There is nothing wrong with prayer to the god of your choosing. Just don’t do it in my face. Most religions respect the beliefs of others by being discreet. That’s why people have churches, or temples or mosques.

I am aware that this ministry of hug-giving, creepy crepe-making youngsters worship publicly so as to seduce other young people into their midst. These people are just like drug dealers, except

they deal Jesus. If you are depressed, or lost, or feeling alienated, these large anomalous groups of Jesus Junkies will swallow you up. You never have to think or feel independently again.

While I am strictly agnostic, I have immense respect for all religions, Christians included, but I hate evangelical Christians with a passion. They frighten me. When my father died a group of bornagains moved in on my mother and I spent three years living in the clutches of hands-on healing, tongue-talking Jesus freaks. They gathered in large groups with acoustic guitars and sang songs of praise. They collapsed, they shrieked, they wept. I now know this is the behaviour of brain-washed cult members. Even as a small child I knew that they were the stupidest people on the planet.

I once watched a group pray on someone’s broken leg for about three hours, then they cut off the cast to see if he could walk, but the silly dickhead just collapsed and had to be taken back to Emergency who clearly weren’t impressed. It was the second one he’d had on that day. I am convinced that if Jesus were alive today he wouldn’t hang with born-again Christians. He’d be sitting behind me playing the bongos eating a bacon sandwich yelling ‘fuck off ’ to the 200 spiritual exhibitionists blocking his view of the ocean.

‘In recent times Australian cultural life has become increasingly urban and city-centric.

The idea of any small country town being a hotbed of culture and sophistication is dismissed by city folk proud of their cafe culture and committed to the cultural joys of urban living. It is, therefore, a surprise that the country’s sharpest and wittiest comedic columnist lives modestly in northern NSW and writes for the Byron Bay Echo.’ (Excerpt of review for Pick Of The Week), Bruce Elder, Sydney Morning Herald.

Read more of Mandy in her new book, What I Would Do If I Were You, available at all good bookshops.

test the steeliness of any seasoned performer. Dan England has travelled the highways with his band, meeting and playing to people in all walks of life. His Idol success was left behind for a road journey involving a genuine connection with people across the country, and a genuine willingness to play great music night in and night out. Dan’s band – The Thieves – is a powerful rock group playing tracks from his new EP The Deconstruction of Dan England. This EP involved Dan collaborating alongside renowned producers Jeff Lang and Michael Stangel to form a new sound and direction.

This originally inspired Dan to put his own band together (‘the Thieves’) and hit the road to tour the new CHRIS E THOMAS PLAYS AT CURRUMBIN recording the old fashioned way. The idea of calling his SOUNDLOUNGE ON FRIDAY band ‘the Thieves’ came about one night while Dan was staying at his manager’s house and listening to a story for many legendary performers such about a break-in that had happened there recently. Dan’s voice is as Buddy Guy, Peter Frampton, and powerful. Alongside a great band playing fantastic songs – this is Heart, to name a few. Also this year Kara a live show that will lift you and be sure leave you wanting more. completed her first ever European tour Make sure you get a chance to meet Dan in person and hear the which saw her visiting seven countries, songs that are sure to break him on Australian radio in the coming the tour was a complete success and year. Twin Towns from Thursday to Saturday. promises to be the first of many more.

Summer, Wine, Women and song

Three of Australia’s most respected and uniquely gifted female performing artists will join together for a performance covering many musical styles including pop, folk, country and blues. The three woman are sure to bring something for everyone. The performances are set to be a celebration of original music, friends, fine wine and the art of singing.

Kara Grainger is one of Australia’s most respected live performers.

She has an incredibly soulful voice which is easily matched by her ability as a guitar player. She is particularly known for her bottleneck guitar and her effortlessly seductive take on blues and roots music. Over the past five years Kara has been residing and touring in the USA she has completed two CDs and opened

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the planet through MELT. Corinne Gibbons was born and raised Chris E Thomas is a gifted vocalist and in the small country town of Bega. songwriter who emphasises the word Corinne Gibbons has gone from strength CARLOTTA LIVE AT CURRUMBIN RSL ‘FUN’. Since moving from Tasmania, also to strength since performing at the ON SATURDAY at the age of 17, Chris E has become tender age of 17 with her all-female rock recognised as one of Australia’s finest band Pash. Corinne’s quirky sense of humour, chocolate-like voice session singers. Billy Thorpe, Tina Arena, Brian Cadd, Vanessa and innovative new album Melt have been creating a buzz around Amorosi and Adam Brand are just a few of the well respected the globe as a refreshingly unprocessed album, full of meaningful Australian artists to draw upon talents for live and studio work. lyrics that, when partnered with Corinne’s heartfelt singing, bring Rock Legend Brian Cadd recently rated her amongst the best forth an emotional resonance. Recently Melt which is sponsored female vocalists he’s encountered during his illustrious career. ‘Her

by National Geographic received two awards at the World Wildlife power and passion are what music should be all about,’ he says.

Film Festival in the US for Best Music and Nature video. She also Her new single Workin was set to be released into the country and took out two awards last year at the Summer Solstice Festival in blues/roots music realm in December 2011, followed by the fullStonehenge, Best Album and a Peace award for her contribution to length album in January 2012.

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Gig Guide

7PM MICK MCHUGH ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH BOWLS CLUB 7.30PM HIGH NOON ■ KINGSCLIFF HOTEL 8.30PM JON J BRADLEY ■ MARTY’S @ CABA, CABARITA BEACH 7.30PM AARON BISHOP ■ CLUB BANORA 7PM RUSSELL HINTON ■ MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES CLUB 6.30PM MANTRA ■ CHINDERAH TAVERN 8PM MR TROY ■ BURLEIGH BEARS LEAGUES CLUB ■ POTTSVILLE BEACH SPORTS CLUB 6PM INDER ■ COOLANGATTA SANDS HOTEL 6PM LANCE COASSIN 7.30PM CLAY BLYTHE 8PM GREG ■ CLUB BANORA 6PM WHITEY ■ SEAGULLS LAKEVIEW LOUNGE 8PM WALL ■ KIRRA SPORTS CLUB 8PM PHIL WEST TEXAS CRUDE ■ CUDGEN LEAGUES 7PM JEFF EIZENBERG’S OPEN MIKE NITE ■ SHEOAK SHACK 7PM PERCH CREEK CAMILLERI ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 6PM FAMILY JUG BAND ■ CUDGEN SLSC KINGSCLIFF 6PM DARBY BURGER TONY LLEWELIN ■ BILAMBIL HALL 8PM THE BILAMBIL ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 7.30PM ■ TWIN TOWNS 8PM REECE MASTIN JOHN DARSK DANCE ■ CURRUMBIN SOUNDLOUNGE WITH SPECIAL GUEST JOHNNY ■ TWIN TOWNS 8PM DAN ENGLAND 7.30PM SUMMER WINE, WOMEN ■ BURLEIGH BEARS LEAGUES CLUB RUFFO & SONG WITH KARA GRAINGER, 7.30PM GREG & LAURA DOOLAN ■ TWIN TOWNS 8PM DAN ENGLAND CORINNE GIBBONS & CHRIS E ■ CABARITA BEACH SPORTS CLUB THOMAS 7PM JASON TOWERS ■ BABALOU 2.30PM SOUTH PACIFIC ■ CURRUMBIN RSL 7PM THE SECRET ■ CHINDERAH TAVERN 3PM JAYNE SOUND SYSTEM AGENTS ■ AUSTRALIAN HOTEL, HENRY ■ BURLEIGH BEARS LEAGUES CLUB MURWILLUMBAH 8.30PM NITESTAR ■ JAKES @ KINGSCLIFF MR TROY 2.30PM FIDDLE ME PLEASE ■ CLUB BANORA 7PM CATFISH AND ■ BILAMBIL SPORTS CLUB 8PM DR THE DEEJAYS ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH BOWLS ■ CHINDERAH TAVERN 2PM BUGGY SCRUBBY & THE BLUES HEALERS CLUB 7.30PM THE ALDERMAN ■ COOLANGATTA SANDS HOTEL 8PM ■ CLUB BANORA 11.30AM LACHLAN BROTHERS CHRIS HUTCHINSON ■ BURLEIGH BEARS LEAGUES CLUB BAKER 2PM TALENTED TEEN 7.30 EUGENE ELLISON ■ MARTY’S @ CABA, CABARITA BEACH ■ COOLANGATTA TWEED HEADS COMPETITION – HEAT 2 7.30PM MARK FERRIS GOLF CLUB SONIIQ ■ CABARITA BEACH SPORTS CLUB ■ COOLANGATTA HOTEL 8PM THE 8PM MARTIN WAY VENGABOYS ■ CURRUMBIN RSL 6.30PM CARLOTTA ■ MURWILLUMBAH SERVICES CLUB

THURSDAY 12

6.30PM VANYA ■ POTTSVILLE BEACH SPORTS CLUB 7PM SONIIQ ■ SALTBAR KINGSCLIFF ANGRY PENGUINS ■ SEAGULLS LAKEVIEW LOUNGE 7PM RUSSEL SPROUT ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 11AM BOB MILDREN 7.30PM THE STREET ■ TWIN TOWNS 8PM REECE MASTIN WITH SPECIAL GUEST JOHNNY RUFFO ■ TWIN TOWNS 8PM DAN ENGLAND

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SUNDAY 15

FRIDAY 13

■ COOLANGATTA SANDS HOTEL 5PM JONESY ■ CUDGEN SLSC KINGSCLIFF 1PM ADAM BROWN ■ CURRUMBIN RSL 7PM SMOOTH & GROOVE ■ GREENHILLS 1PM VANESSA HOFFMAN ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH BOWLS CLUB 5PM TOMMY MEMPHIS ■ KIRRA SPORTS CLUB 4PM HAVE-AGO-KARAOKE ■ NEVERLAND COOLANGATTA EASY SUNDAYS ■ POTTSVILLE BEACH SPORTS CLUB 5PM DAVE CAVANAGH ■ SHEOAK SHACK 4PM NICE VERDES ■ SPHINX ROCK CAFE MT BURRELL 2PM BILL JACOBI ■ SURFERS BEER GARDEN SUNDAY SESSIONS ■ TYALGUM HOTEL 2PM CHRIS COOK BAND ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 5PM BEN GILGEN ■ TWIN TOWNS 8PM DAN ENGLAND

MONDAY 16 ■ KINGSCLIFF BEACH BOWLS CLUB 12NOON CRAIG SHAW

■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 11AM ALICE ANDERSON 6.30PM PETER JOHNSON

TUESDAY 17 ■ MARTY’S AT CABA CABARITA BEACH 7.30PM DAVE MURRAY’S OPEN MIC NIGHT ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 6.30PM FABIAN

WEDNESDAY 18 ■ CLUB BANORA 6PM DEAN HEAZLEWOOD ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 11AM CRAIG TAYLOR 6.30PM INDER ■ TWIN TOWNS SHOWROOM 10.30AM A POMMIE NIGHT OUT

THURSDAY 19 ■ BURLEIGH BEARS LEAGUES CLUB 6PM MARCO ■ CLUB BANORA 6PM MARTIN WAY ■ KIRRA SPORTS CLUB 8PM PHIL EIZENBERG’S OPEN MIKE NITE ■ TWEED HEADS BOWLS CLUB 6PM DAVID J

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Live Music

This performances will provide you with an opportunity to experience three unique performers in an acoustic and intimate setting. Packed with personality and harmony, this is an event not to be missed. Currumbin SoundLounge Friday. .

Inspiration for a Queen

Carlotta is the inspirations behind the movie Priscilla Queen of the Desert. Carlotta began her career in the 1960s as one of the original members of the internationally renowned Les Girls in Sydney’s Kings Cross. Shortly after starting at Les Girls, Carlotta became the show’s star and witty compare. Since then she has moved onto appearances in numerous television productions from Number 96 to Good

and thrill of living life as a groundbreaking female performer. The journey unfolds with Carlotta’s unique and legendary comic humour punctuating the decades.

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Morning Australia with Bert Newton and more recently Beauty and the Beast with Stan Zemanek.

Carlotta – Live exposes the private dramas of iconic Australian entertainer Carlotta. A unique look into her life at Les Girls during the Golden Mile era of Kings Cross to appearances on hit Australian TV shows.

Carlotta’s story is both an outrageously funny journey and a brutally honest look at the ruthless entertainment industry, the trappings of success and the ultimate vulnerability of the first Queen of Les Girls.

The shows takes the audience on a ride through Carlotta’s life; it peels away the mask of an iconic Australian entertainer, laying bare both the struggle

Now Carlotta brings you her brilliant one-woman show Carlotta Live for one unforgettable night at the Currumbin RSL on Saturday.

Award winner with universal appeal Irish singer-songwriter Mick McHugh has clocked up over twenty nominations in international, national and regional song-writing competitions in categories of world, folk, lyrics, ballad, instrumental, spiritual, protest, and CORRINE GIBBONS PLAYS AT CURRUMBIN song of the year.

Stars

SOUNDLOUNGE ON FRIDAY

With 2012 predicted as either the end of the world or a date of great spiritual transformation, what’s in it for you personally? As this week’s birthday Capricorn Alan Watts observed, valid plans for the future can’t be made by those who have no capacity for living now…

WITH LILITH

 ARIES: With trailblazing innovator Uranus in Aries initiating a sort of divine wake up call, this year could see expanded understandings produce some dramatic shifts in the way you operate. Best approach? Refusing to bring past battles into the present. Forgiving, learning and starting over.  TAURUS: For the next six months Jupiter instigates a personal journey of self-discovery, surrendering a persona you’ve outgrown so a more authentic version can emerge – who you are now, not who you think you should be.

Most helpful mindset: Whenever life hits the spin cycle, slow down.  GEMINI: Last year started you letting go of old baggage, this year continues the cull.

Smartest action plan: making peace with your past and putting it into perspective so you can utilise April to August Venus vibes for getting primary relationships on a fresher, more relevant track.  CANCER: Moving on from the past is never easy for Cancerians, but making new connections is essential during the first half of 2012. If midyear Jupiter highlights areas where the balance of power in close relationships is out of alignment, Mars will propel you to take action.  LEO: In the words of Leo Madonna, 2012 is the year to Express Yourself and move to higher ground, beyond your current comfort zone.

Also to totally rejig your finances. Biggest issues: Around leadership (yours and other people’s), your personal power and what has power over you.  VIRGO: For the first half of this year, Mars continues fuelling new career moves and opportunities. For the last half, Jupiter and Saturn get together to liven up your finances.

Note to self: If relationships lose that loving feeling, tune into deeper, more intimate and sensitive levels.  LIBRA:The next six months initiates a re-

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examining and possible reprogramming of your core beliefs as Pluto and Uranus deepen your understanding of your ancestral heritage.

Flashpoint: When taskmaster Saturn quits Libra in October you’ll be stronger, more practical and way less affected by family dynamics.

SCORPIO: Your year, like most people’s, comes in two parts: closure and completion, followed by one of your signature phoenix rebirths as your astral destiny point enters Scorpio in August, realigning your life purpose. 2012 diary highlight: March’s potent Venus/Jupiter combo makes it a significant love month.

SAGITTARIUS: April to August you’ve got serious Venus appeal, but after Jupiter’s June move you’ll need to be extremely choosy about how you allocate time, friendship and energy. As the worth of your work becomes clearer, finances gain weight. Memo: If the work/play ratio slips, fix it.

CAPRICORN: There’s no escaping selfexamination with Pluto making you face your deepest demons before you can access your hidden riches. As Capricorn’s guardian planet Saturn places you in your starring role of teacher/mentor, living situations could change so stay flexible. And don’t forget fun, baby.

AQUARIUS: This year requests a lifestyle reality check. Could revising your relating style achieve more clarity, better communication?

Creativity and inspiration are 2012 buzzwords, but they require stillness and receptivity to flourish – also choices that nourish who you are now, not The Person Formerly Known As You. PISCES: Pisceans are born for spiritual work, and with your planetary captain Neptune moving to Pisces for the next fourteen years you’re unavoidably into the mystic. Best resolve for 2012: Streamline and simplify.

Meanwhile, next week Venus arrives in your sign to kick off a promising year…

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Bangalow Hotel Open 7 days Lunch: 12 – 3pm Dinner 5.30 – 9pm All day bistro menu

6687 1144

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CHINDERAH

Chinderah Tavern 66 Chinderah Bay Drive, Chinderah Ph 02 6674 1137 www.taphouse.com.au Open 7 days Lunch 12pm-2.30pm Dinner 5.30pm–8.30pm

Wilson’s by The Creek Open Fri, Sat, Sun Lunch 12-3pm Dinner 5-10pm 139 Newes Rd, Coorabell 6684 7348 Bookings essential

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

Sheoak Shack 64 Fingal Rd, Fingal Head Ph 07 5523 1130 Wed-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-10pm Sun 9.30am-8pm www.sheoakshack.com

The ‘Chindy’ is an ideal place to bring family and friends of all ages for a real country pub experience. Kick back and watch the kids play on our brand new playground while you enjoy an ice cold beer and a dozen of our famous $12 oysters on the deck overlooking the Tweed river. Open 7 days for lunch and dinner, with afternoon entertainment on the weekends. Come and see why everyone is talking about the new Chinderah Tavern.

Fins

Discover Wilson’s By The Creek Restaurant tucked away in the Byron hinterland. Newly open to the public, the elegant restaurant offers a truly gourmet experience, accompanied by Peppers renowned personal service.

Savour the incredible flavours of the hinterland for a romantic dinner or gathering with friends, as Head Chef Adam Hall inspires you with his seasonal menu brimming with local produce.

Blue Pacific Bistro

Alleys Opens Early

Horizons

Salt Village, Kingscliff 6674 4833 dining@fins.com.au Dinner 7 days Lunch Fri, Sat & Sun GOOD FOOD GUIDE CHEFS HAT EVERY YEAR SINCE 1998

Salt Village, Kingscliff 6674 4833 dining@fins.com.au Dinner 7 days Lunch Fri, Sat & Sun GOOD FOOD GUIDE CHEFS HAT EVERY YEAR SINCE 1998

Open 7 days Lunch: 12pm-2:30pm Dinner: 6pm-8:30pm, 6pm-9pm Fri & Sat Marine Parade, Kingscliff 02 6674 1404 www.kbbc.com.au

Throughout daylight saving Alleys will open at 11.30am (QLD time) Enjoy award winning, contemporary dining along the banks of the picturesque Currumbin Creek

If you are looking for delicious food, coffee or a romantic sunset cocktail on the riverbank, the Sheoak Shack is the beach shack for you with a funky laid back daytime vibe and a party atmosphere with live music on Saturday nights at 7pm and Sundays at 4pm. This gallery/cafe showcases the work of high quality local artists and is available for private functions… more Byron than Byron, in sleepy Fingal Head.

Lunch from 10.30am Dinner from 5.00pm Brunch Sundays from 10am Phone: (07) 5536 2277 or visit www.twintowns.com.au

Mount Warning Hotel

Santos Trading Warehouse

Mon-Thurs 9 to 5 Fridays 9 to 4 OPEN TO THE PUBLIC 3/7 Brigantine Street, Byron Arts & Industry Park (02) 6685 5685

$250 $500

Terrina Lowe on percussion and vocals has magical vocal abilities and classy appearance. She shines on stage and adds the spark to Smooth & Groove’s performance. Coming from a very musical family background, Terrina is one of those gifted ladies who can not only sing a great song but also flavours the music tastefully with some rich harmonies.

Get some Smooth in your Groove

Overlooking the sparkling blue waters of the Jack Evans Boat Harbour at Twin Towns is Horizons restaurant. Enjoy a friendly atmosphere with casual indoor or al fresco dining where you can take in our spectacular views. Bring a friend to Horizons for High Tea available Monday to Saturday in the afternoon from 2.30pm to 4.30pm for an extra special afternoon delight!

Small enough for personal care, large enough to offer competitive prices. Santos has been supplying high quality biodynamic, organic, natural foods, and healthy products since 1975. We continue our commitment to sourcing as locally as possible. Santos is the home of Rainfed Rice–zero irrigation, certified biodynamic, as local as you can get, and the most delicious rice you’re likely to find. Visit rainfedrice.com.au for more info, or visit our online store at santostrading.com.au. Eat well.

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form for the party-centric foursome. Back after a brief hiatus with their tongues firmly in cheek and doing what they do best. The Vengaboys are probably best remembered for a string of Euroflavoured party anthems originally released back in the mid-1990s, most notably Boom Boom Boom and We’re Going To Ibiza. They not only dominated the pop charts but permeated dance floors across the globe, from weddings to nightclubs and pretty much any social/embarrassing occasion you can think of. Coolangatta Hotel Sunday.

World folk music

Back in the solo saddle After a solid week of gigs playing bass with latin funk rocksters Floyd Vincent and the Childbrides, Bill Jacobi is back in the saddle solo this Sunday at The Sphinx Rock Café in Mt Burrell.

As a solo artist, Bill has embraced the role of singer-songwriter and one-man band. Using foot percussion, lap slide and open tuned guitar, Bill has developed his own take on the roots/folk/rock genre. Laden with a down to earth honesty and a healthy sense of humour, his songs are an eclectic amalgamation of swamp/roots, alternative county and hillbilly funk; that somehow manage to look back at a wealth of musical tradition, have a good poke around and then turn and run the other way. Sphinx Rock Café Sunday.

NEW SUMMER MENU AVAILABLE

Monday night: Veal or Chicken Schnitzel + Middy – $14.00 Tues & Sun night: Traditional Roast Dinner + Dessert – $12.90 Wednesday night: Rump Steak, Chips & Salad Bar – $12.00 Thurs night: T-Bone Steak, Chips & Salad Bar + Middy – $14.00 Friday & Saturday night: SPECTACULAR DINNER SPECIALS Sat morning: Beachside Breakfast – cooked to order menu Sun morning: Beachside Breakfast – all you can eat hot & cold champagne buffet breakfast – $14.00

One of the region’s great old country pubs. Delicious Open 7 days 10am till late food, bistro open for lunch everyday from 12-2pm, dinner Thursday to Sunday from 6-8pm. Children’s Bistro open daily playground, relaxing beer garden. Curry night on 1497 Kyogle Rd, Uki Thursday, raffles and member’s draw on Friday, 02 6679 5111 punter’s draw on Saturday and on Sunday there is a delicious roast.

Shop 5, 60 Marine Parade, SPECIAL Kingscliff (next to Subway) Mon – Fri 7am – 9am 6674 5822 Regular Coffee Open 7 days 9am-5pm

Winner of a the Raw Talent Quest in 2011 and a knockout performance at Byron Bay Bluesfest 2011, Mick McHugh was selected by Northern Rivers Arts for a Music Mentorship in 2011, Mick is powerful and energetic on stage and his sound is fresh and has universal appeal. He blends story and song in the heartwarming, traditional Irish way, but adds a new age, positive, conscious folk twist. Whether he’s singing a heart-touching ballad or positive energetic up-tempo song, McHugh is renowned as a performer who wears his heart on his sleeve with every note he plays. See Mick at the Currumbin RSL on Saturday.

FINS is famous for serving the best seafood in Australia. We have now launched FINS EARTH. An exciting menu of the best steaks from Australia’s most premium producers. Choose your cut, choose how you would like it served.

Mt Warning Hotel

The Beach Shack EARLY BIRD

Fresh Juices

DJ Aqua LIVE every Sunday night in the Fins Bar. Join us for cocktails on our NEW SUNSET DECK daily from 5pm.

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Bangalow

The Bangalow Dining Rooms at the Bangalow Hotel produces great food using predominantly local produce. The beautiful restaurant space on the high verandah and intimate dining room hosts a modern menu. Enjoy our bistro menu in the pub all day. With reasonable prices, generous portions and a kids menu, our delicious menu will appeal to all.

www.stelmodining.com Enjoy great company, delicious food, tasteful wines and sophisticated cocktails. Our modern Spanish menu, combining fresh and flavoursome ingredients, goes hand in hand with our extensive and careful selected wine list - featuring a unique selection of locan and imported wines. Kick back with friends and share tapas, enjoy a main meal to yourself or relax at the bar.

There's something to please everyone.

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Opening hours: Mon-Wed: 4pm til late Thurs-Sun: Noon til late Lunch, Dinner, Tapas, Drinks Cnr Fletcher St and Lawson Lane, Byron Bay 6680 7426

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Nice Verdes are Sally Miller and Jesse Hamilton, an original world folk music duo from Canada and South Australia. Since first meeting in 2003, Nice Verdes have come along way round the world. The last few years has seen them play the Illawarra Folk Festival in NSW, The Edge of the World Music Festival in Haida Gwaii, Discovery Coast Festival and Arts Wells Arts Festival in Canada, Nannup and Nukara Music Festivals in WA, and they have been played on Triple J Roots ’n’ All and other radio stations both in Canada and Australia.

NICE VERDES PLAY AT THE SHEOAK SHACK ON SUNDAY

In 2008 they released their first album Succulence and toured both the east and west coasts of Australia and North America to promote this album.

Throughout the years together they have travelled to perform and study in many countries that have influenced and inspired their style such as Cuba, West Africa and Latin America.

Smooth and Groove are a dynamic vocal, keyboard, sax, percussion and harmony trio. They have a big-band sound that captivates audiences of all age groups. Their professional presentation, personality and musicianship give them the cutting edge of performances. Don’t miss these fine entertainers who will take you on a trip through the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and today’s hits with a variety of disco, funk, soul, rock, ballads, country and rock ‘n’ roll.

Catch the bus to the Boys

Nice Verdes play music that has been said to be refreshingly different, sunny and uplifting. Highly influenced by the musics of Cuba and West Africa, Nice Verdes have by using combinations of the piano accordion, Cuban tres, piano, guitar, Indian shruti box, stomp box, harmonicas and vocals created original compositions also incorporating traditional tunes from these regions.

Woody Dean on keyboard and vocals has achieved success in theatrical productions with lead roles played in Jack The Ripper, ‘A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, and Grease, in which he was understudy to world-renowned performer Rob Guest.

It’s time to dust off that tatty old party pass because the Vengabus is due at any minute. And God forbid you miss it. Nineties European chart toppers, the Vengaboys, are heading to Australia this summer with a brand-new album, rather gloriously entitled Rocket To Your Uranus. The new album marks a sparkling return to

A show not to be missed if you love a bit of folky world music.

Sheoak Shack Sunday.

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Paul Desmond who plays percussion and sax has been working in clubs, hotels, restaurants, weddings and corporate events as a soloist and duo (Sax a Go Go) for many years and adds a special touch of smooth sax and groove percussion to Smooth and Groove’s polished sound. Currumbin RSL Sunday.

They have always been drawn to collaborating with artists from all countries and they enjoy most of all the parties and festivals that celebrate a true sense of community and equality in diversity.

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Culture

Crawford and Switchfoot plus many more. Emerging artists from a number of disciplines will also be invited to exhibit their work within this exhibition.

Bleach is more than just art…

The premiere of this theatre adaptation will be presented at Surf World Gold Coast Museum as a children’s cushion show before it moves to The Arts Centre Gold Coast. This production features Music Direction by Nadia Sunde and Theatre Direction by Melinda Collie Holmes.

Bringing together creative pursuits inspired by surf culture, Bleach Surfing the Fringe will celebrate all art forms kissed by the ocean, encrusted in salt and bleached by the sun. From February 11 to 26, art, music, film, fashion, theatre, food and photography sharing the common theme of surfing will be on display across the iconic beaches and venues of the southern Gold Coast.

A major component of the Pop Up Bleach concept is enabling surf-inspired creations to be displayed in the place that inspired them – the beach. This will be achieved by creating temporary galleries in shipping containers One of the largest arts events in size, scope and duration ever held placed along the southern Gold Coast foreshores. on the Gold Coast, Bleach will feature the works of more than 50 artists in dozens of separate pop up events and installations that The vision is for the containers to be will stretch over a radius of 10 km, including shipping containers illuminated each night with lighting and laid on prominent foreshores, outdoor mobile music concerts, film surf imagery. Also keep an eye out for nights, art projections and more. artist talks, live art shows, film screenings

Bleach on the rocks

‘RIPPLES’ BY ANTHONY SKINNER

and other activities at each gallery site.

Pop Up Bleach Expect the unexpected with these unique art ‘pop up’ exhibitions peppered across shops, galleries and iconic Southern Gold Coast beaches and landmarks.

Bleach theatre

As part of Pop Up Bleach, celebrated local visual artists, photographers, street artists and new-media artists will be on display.

The stunning children’s tale, The Surfer and The Mermaid, is set to be brought to this year’s Bleach Festival. Take a journey to an enchanting oceanic world with this exciting new theatre production. In collaboration with the Arts Centre Gold Coast, Bleach will bring The Surfer and the Mermaid to life.

The line-up includes internationally renowned artists Claudio Kirac, Peter Joli Wilson, Dick Hoole, Jack McCoy, Mal Sutherland, Sean Scott, Ted Grambeau, Shelli Bankier, Trent Mitchell, Duncan Macfarlane, Jasson Mackay, Joel Rea, Jenny Midson, Magnus Kennedy, Yoshi, Narani Henson, Justin

The book by internationally renowned Gold Coast writer Tim Baker and world-famous surf photographer Ted Grambeau depicts a magical underwater world where a young surfer is guided by a mermaid to meet her marine friends. He must earn their trust before he can return to the surface.

Kaleb Smith

been displayed at multinational surf expos around the world. Kaleb is forever looking for the next spectacular wave or that next unique image to photograph.

Kaleb Smith is a multi-award-winning artist who diversifies his creative vision through the artistic media of photography, design, illustration, painting Kaleb’s current exhibition Feel the Groove is an and woodwork. His unique designs and art have experiment in time and place – an

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by Ian Rogers Play at Seagulls Club, Thurs 6pm After the Khanty Mansiysk Olympiad in 2010, Grandmaster Darryl Johansen acknowledged that, despite top scoring for the Australian team, his Olympic career was probably over.

A cohort of teenagers were improving rapidly, closing in on his world ranking and making no secret of their intention to displace Johansen and other veterans from the 2012 Olympic team.

The mild-mannered Melbournian, who has been involved in coaching many of the new rising stars, has not raged against the dying of the light, explaining, ‘I don’t enjoy playing as much as I used to – if you don’t play consistently, you tend to feel like you shouldn’t play. I’m still motivated to try and do well; if I come to a tournament I don’t want to bomb out and become cannon fodder for every other player.’

But in the 2011/12 Australian Championship in Geelong Johansen has played superbly and, instead of struggling to overcome opponents a third of his age, has turned the form guide on its

head, virtually securing a record 15th appearance at the 2012 Chess Olympiad in Istanbul.

One of only six in the biennial championship field aged over 30, Johansen started unambitiously, with draws in the first two rounds. But then, in search of his sixth national title, he opened up with four consecutive wins, including this one.

Geelong 2011 White: D Johansen Black: J Ikeda Opening: English 1.c4 e6 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.g3 b6 5.Bg2 Bb7 6.Qc2 0-0 7.a3 Bxc3 8.Qxc3 d5 9.d4 dxc4 10.Qxc4 Nc6?! Playing too casually against Johansen’s unpretentious opening. After 10...Bd5 11.Qc3 Nbd7 Black would have nothing to fear. 11.0-0 Na5 12.Qc3 Be4 13.Bg5 Rc8 14.Bxf6! gxf6 14...Qxf6 15.Ne5 is also unpleasant for Black. 15.b4! Nb7 An awkward square but 15...Nc6 walks into 16.d5!! Bxd5 17.Rad1 with vicious threats. 16.Rfd1 Nd6 17.Rac1 Qe7 18.Nd2 Bxg2 19.Kxg2 c6!?

20.Qf3 f5 21.Nc4! Johansen is determined not to give Ikeda any counterplay by grabbing the c pawn. 21...Ne4 22.Qf4 Qc7?! 22...f6 was ugly but necessary. 23.Ne5 f6 24.Nxc6 Qd7 25.d5! The flaw in Ikeda’s calculation; now 25...exd5 loses to 26.Rxd5! and 25...e5 allows 26.Qxf5! Qxf5 27.Ne7+. 25...Rfe8 26.dxe6 Qxe6 27.Nd4 Rxc1 28.Rxc1 Qd5 29.Nf3 Re7 29...Ng5 was the last chance. 30.Qh6 Nd6 and Ikeda resigned before Johansen could play 31.Qxf6. 1-0

Mungo’s Crossword

epoch of Kaleb’s artistic evolution through singular moments and time itself. Kaleb’s fascination with the idea of travelling in time and love of interpreting life through his camera is a driving force of his creative focus. Inspired by vivid

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So take a stroll along the beachfront promenade or take a picnic rug down the sand and enjoy the vision of the Rock’s spectacular beauty illuminated at night. To find out more visit the festival website: www.bleachfestival.com.au.

Kaleb Smith – Photography and Mixed Media Exhibition – at Dbar Gallery this January.

Artists’ books are not books about art or artists. They are artworks in themselves using the form or concept of the book.

An artist book is a tool used to explore, communicate and function in the same way as contemporary art as an expression of creativity, often with social comments.

They are usually handmade, unique or limited editions and self-published.

They may combine some or all art forms, such as painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, collage, installation textiles fibre art, bookbinding, typography, and calligraphy, taking the form of the book or adopting a sculptural approach. They

DOWN 1. Poses, takes a chair (4) 2. Basic unit of heat (7) 3. Procession held during Pascal festivities (6,6) 4. Citizens of Zagreb (6) 5. A wave with a broken crest (8) 7. Black bituminous road surface (7) 8. Seriously incapacitated person, often

The piece de resistance will be live installations by celebrated artist Kellie O’Dempsey, whose vast scope of work spans international platforms including the Festival Internationale de Benicassim, Spain, M on the Bund 10th Anniversary event in Shanghai and the University of Queensland Centenary celebrations.

Feel the Groove depicts fragments of my imagination infused with elements of fluid movement, sublime dimension and abstract revelations. Tick Tock... whickety whack... it’s time we go back,’ says Kaleb.

(Back to the future that is...)

The Kingscliff branch of the Tweed library is currently exhibiting a selection of local artists’ books.

ACROSS 1. People or institutions considered to be above criticism (6,4) 6. Clothing, dress (4) 9. Long-distance lens or sight (10) 10. Copies, imitates (4) 12. Harmless Australian serpent (5,4,5) 14. City in Northern Syria (6) 15, Gaining pleasure from causing pain (8) 17. Losers, back in the pack (4-4) 19. Spiny desert plant (6) 22. Poisonous Australian arachnid (8,6) 24. Told porkies (4) 25. American firearms (10) 26. Walk, pace (4) 27. Clumsy or inept person (10)

Every city in the world has iconic buildings or landmarks that are instantly recognizable and create a sense of identity. For the Gold Coast, this would be Currumbin beachfront’s striking natural rock formations forged as ancient volcanic eruptions met the sea.

catalysts, Kaleb travels back to junctures in time to transform visual entities with his unique style of artistic perception.

The Kingscliff Tweed Library Artists’ Books

Quick Clues

Watch Elephant Rock come to life each Saturday and Sunday night of the Bleach Festival with animation and lighting to create starlit evenings.

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may have some or all of these elements as well as incorporating a large variety of formats, materials and structures which can open, fold-out, look through, flip through, scroll through, pull apart, walk around. They can be conceptual, political, technically astounding or very simple. All of their physical attributes are not visible at once and a single work may have a number of different display possibilities

and internationally. Heather Matthew’s most recent exhibition A stitch in time was held at the Tweed River Art Gallery in 2011.

Babette and Heather were both selected finalists in the SCU Book Awards and the East Gippsland Gallery’s (Victoria) Books Beyond Words in 2011. The books will be on display until February 10.

Local artists Heather Matthew (Nunderi), Babette Angell (Bogangar), and Edith Streiner (Uki) are displaying a selection of hand made artists’ books in the foyer of the library. These books are works of art that combine a variety of processes presented in book form.

Angell, Matthew and Streiner have exhibited widely both locally

multiple amputee (6,4) 11. Ambitious, upwardly mobile voter (12) 13. South American spiders (10) 16. Not guilty (8) 18. Triangle with three unequal sides (7) 20. Affectionate term for the public British broadcast service (3,4) 21. An Indian retreat, for cleansing and meditation (6) 23. Australian Society for Ultrasound Medicine (inits) (4)

Cryptic Clues ACROSS 1. Spread seed over land area 500 – can’t be criticised! (6,4) 6. Actress discards ring and dress! (4) 9. Type of lens needed to make closet epic (10) 10. Parrots primates (4) 12. Inexperienced Ken trees a surprisingly harmless reptile (5,4,5) 14. Very quietly, circle after beer in a Syrian city (6) 15. Grieving, first in command enjoys inflicting pain on others (8) 17. Some on Right initially among

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shock-jock Jones’s losers (4-4) 19. Dead desert plant? (6) 22. Once again wets cross section; returning, it’s deadly! (8,6) 24. Told stories for a song (4) 25. The German top shearers are guns!

(10) 26. Dog’s backward walk (4) 27. Unsteady, but mumbles – clumsy oaf! (10)

16. Popular number with church territory – not sinful (8) 18.Type of triangle, a quarter undersize (7) 20. Confused Beth embraces a worker – a familiar British broadcaster! (3,4) 21. Remains of computer part found in retreat (6) 23. Total: about 100. Worthless (4)

DOWN 1. Poses object on board (4) 2.About fifty rocks holding one unit of heat (7) 3. Pederast area set aside for spring celebration (6,6) 4. Outerwear about right for Balkan citizens (6) 5. W..wave? (8) 7. Snake with resting place on surface of road (7) 8. “Place for a coffin,” declared Spooner, eyeing a seriously incapacitated man (6,4) 11. Ambitious, upwardly-mobile Hal? (12) 13. Stuart, anal pervert, gives us the creepy crawlies! (10)

Last week’s solution

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Cabba ripper wins Summer’s canal fishing trickster Twenty-year-old Cabarita ripper Jason Jameson took out the 2012 Single Fin Classic presented by Billabong, in a closely fought final.

Conditions on the final day were tricky northerly windblown peaks about half to under one metre, with marine stingers peppering the line-up making it difficult for the six finalists.

The final wrapped up two days of competition, where surfers competed on boards made before 1985, with one fin, and the antique boards took a bit of a battering on the Burleigh Heads rocks.

The surfing standard was exceptional, the surfers putting the surfboards through turns never thought possible when the boards were created.

The final was an up-anddown battle with all of the surfers taking the lead at various points of the 30-minute battle, Noah Lane kicked into action with a vertical backhand attack on two long wide waves, with Cabarita’s Jason Jameson and local and three-time win-

ner Kyle Robinson scoring a good wave each as well. As the final came down to the closing minutes, Lane scored what was one of the best waves of the final, only to watch as Jameson picked off a long running waves, which he aggressively tore into, finishing with a huge re-entry amongst a group of swimmers.

When the final was over, Jameson and Lane could not be separated by the judges on their two scoring waves, so the officials had to count back to the highest scoring wave from each surfer.

Jameson won compliments on his last wave, which received an average score of 8.5 from the judges.

‘I am stoked’, said the 20-year-old Jason who is a surfer/shaper. ‘I will be back next year and every year’.

Jameson received the glory of the win, and to return tickets to Bali compliments of Air Asia, and he will take fellow Cabarita surfer and finalist Brent Savage with him for a holiday.

David Solano

SPORT RESULTS BOWLS

Tweed Heads Men Social Results Sun Dec 18: Green 1: Colleen Graver, David Nelson, Ron Edwards; r/up: Margaret Marquis, Pat and Jim Maynard, Oscar Cunningham Green 2: Ngarie Gibson, Brian Bevan; r/up: Diane and Murray James Random Rink Winners: Joan Lyon, Tony and Pam Govett, Ken Calvert.

Tues Dec 20: Winners Men: Jim Croghan, Graham Simpson, Don Shoobert, Allen Jackson; r/up: Ken Scott, Stan Nicol, Tom Reeves, Ian McLean Winners Ladies: Hazel Bardsley, Sylvia Jackson, Jean Green, Pauline Houghton; r/up: Marlene Gwynne, Brenda LeBoeuf.

Wed Dec 21: Highest Winning Margin Green 1: Peter Newman, Tom Kelly + 35; r/ up: Paul Chircop, John Parker-Smith + 27 Green 2: Tony Goad, Ian Wildman + 20; r/ up: Rob Empson, Richard Mills, Mario Liberatore + 14 Green 3: Roger Sydenham, Mike Kiker + 28; r/up: Jack Blagbrough, John Griffiths + 22.

Fri Dec 23: Green 1: Brian Bitmead, Ross Cali, George Brooks; r/up: Tony Halloran, Peter Goldsmith, Fred Axford Green 2: Frank McPhillips, Brian Scrase, Bill Finney; r/up: Richard Mills, Greg Nolan, Jim Cowen on c/b Green 3: Oscar Cunningham, Bill Dangerfield, Doug Grenfell; r/up: John LeBoeuf, Les Hore, Bill Grose.

Sat Dec 24: Green 1: Bob Mullens, Barbara Makin; r/up: Paul Chircop, Bernie Fletcher Green 2: Fred Brown, John Reardon; r/up: Jack Maloney, Frank McPhillips, Syd Gregory Tues Dec 27: Winners: Geoff Green, Fred Brown, Frank Birkin, Tony Houghton; r/up: Derek Chapman, Jim Cowen, John Heath, Tony Laycock.

Sat Dec 31: Jackpot Saturday Green 1: Barry Milburn, Roger Graf; r/up: John Reardon, Dennis Freeman Green 2: Dylan Cooper, K. Symes; r/up: Doreen Kendall, Jack Blagbrough Wed Jan 4: Green 1: David Nelson, Jim Bryant; r/up: Ray Carter, Mario Liberatore Green 2: Laurie Cooper, Bernie Fletcher; r/ up: Don Shoobert, Graham Simpson Green 3: Brian Scrase, Bill Finney; r/up: Arthur Collins, Jim Hammersley Fri Jan 6: Green 1: Peter Howell, Tom Kelly, Geoff Dixon; r/up: Don Shoobert, Terry Sullivan, Bob Wike Green 2: John Swift, George Gorgenyi, Con Impellizzeri; r/up: John Burden, Norm Hoffman, Ian Irvine.

Green 3: Fred Fry, Roy Nuttall; r/up: Guy Amiconi, Jim Croghan, Leigh Tynan Green 1: Dan Holt, Ken Withington, Dorothy Evans, Bill Dempsey; r/up: Kevin Connelly, Chris Bidwell, John Craig, Jim Maynard Green 2: George Vlismas, Lidia Elsey; r/up: Fred Brown, Nanette Wise Green 3: Krys and Rob Henshaw; r/up: Oscar Cunningham, John Heath Green 4: Eddie Viuk, Russell Luland; r/up: Val Robinson, David Taylor.

GOLF Murwillumbah Sunday 18th December Women’s winner D.Souter 34 pts, Members L.Higgins 38 pts b.r.d. to 34 pts c.b. Monday 19th December Veteran’s winner A,Grade C.Hulme 38 pts c.b r.up W.Mavin 38 pts B.Grade C.Somerville 41 pts r.up R.Pols 39 pts N.Piins 2nd C.Somerville 8th J.McKillop 10th C.Somerville b.r.d. to 34 pts c.b Wednesday 21st A.Grade Winner A.Soan 43 pts R.up M.Knight 41 pts B.Grade J.Paul 44 pts R.up W,Kendrigan 40 pts N.Pin 2nd L.Travers-Jones 10TH L.Dean Veterans A.Soan 43 pts b.r.d. to 35 pts c.b 9 hole sporters Winner G.Papas 147pts Club Winner W.Kemdrigan 24 pts c.b n.pin 8th p.Fleming 14th G.Papas b.r.d. to 21 pts. Friday 23rd Women’s Winner S.Gorton 32 pts Members M.Handcock 40 pts b.r.d. to 36 pts c.b Saturday 24th Individual Staleford Winner A.Grade J.Hunt 42 pts R.Up C.Evesson 40 pts B.G P.Brown 40 pts c.b R.Up H.Prichard 40 pts C.Grade A.Dempster 42 pts R.Up M.O’Grady 37 pts D.Grade R.Dick 43 pts R.Up P.Hughes 42 pts N.Pin 2nd R.Suttie 8th L.McCormack 10th B.Lybutt 14th S.Walton B.R.D. to 35 pts c.b c.b Monday 26th December Veteran’s N.Piins 2nd E.Sherwood 8th W.Rattray 10th W.Rattray 14th C.Hulme b.r.d. to 33 pts c.b Club Results Women’s Winner C.Fogo 27 pts Mmebers T.McDoald 34 pts c.b B.R.D TO 33 pts Tuesday 27th Women’s Winner R.Thompson 41 pts Members B.Julius 40 pts b.r.d. to 35 pts Wednesday 28th A.Grade Winner R.Corcoran 42 pts R.up J.Hopkins 41 pts B.Grade J.Scott 45 pts R.up J.Clark 43 pts N.Pin 2nd B.Woodham 10th M.McConnell Veterans I.Audsley 40 pts B.Sterling Eagle in 16th b.r.d. to 35 pts c.b 9 hole sporters results Club Winner L.Reese 23 pts n.pin 8th G.Brown 14th G.Hughes b.r.d. to 19 pts. Thursday 29th Women’s Winner c.Coates 34 pts Members D.Paton 39 pts b.r.d. to 32 pts c.b Friday 30th Women’s Winner J.Brooks 33 pts Members Winner J.Hopkins 43 pts B,RD, to 36 pts c.b Saturday 31st Individual Staleford Winner A.Grade D,Hobday 40 pts R.Up M.Ross 38 pts B.G P.Taylor 44 pts R.Up C.Brown 39 pts C.Grade J.Seckold 43 pts R.Up K.Walker 40 pts D.Grade R.Brown 40 pts R.Up J.Borrowdale 39 pts N.Pin 2nd D,Hobday 8th N.Fogo 10th K.Bullen 14th Jlansley B.R.D. to 35 pts c.b c.b Sunday 1st January Individual Stableford medley Women’s Winner C.Waugh 42 pts Members Winner L.McCormack 40 pts B.R.D. tp 35 pts c.b Monday 2nd Veteran’s Individual Stableford Winner K.Bullen 39 pts R.Up T.Chilcott 37 pts c.b N.Piins 2nd C.Hulme 8th K.Bullen 10th W.Rattray 14th R.Green b.r.d. to 34 pts c.b Club Results Women’s Winner J.O’Flanagan 41 pts Members .T.Brown 39 pts B.R.D to 37 pts Tuesday 3rd Women’s Winner D.Blunsden 35pts Members K.O’Grady 38 pts b.r.d. to 34 pts Wednesday 4th A.Grade Winner G.Watts 39 pts R.up T.Taylor 37 pts B.Grade G.Brown 44 pts R.up A.Mitchell 41 pts N.Pin 2nd A.Mitchell 10th A.Mitchell Veterans M.Biltoft 40 pts A.Mitchell Hole In Ons 10th b.r.d. to 34 pts c.b 9 hole sporters results Sporterd winner A.McLean 18 pts & a Start of 132 Club Winner G.Brown 23 pts n.pin 8th nil 14th A.McLean b.r.d. to 20 pts. Friday 6th Blue Marker Day Members Winner A.Causley

Cabarita Beach Men Monday the competition winnerswere Max North and John North with a very impressive 26 +7.Runners Up were Russ McLeay and Brian Lamb who put together a scoreline of 22+3.Consolation winners were Mick McLeod and the evergreen Barry “Shep” Sheppard with a strong 24+11 result.Wednesday, January 4saw a “changing” of the guard with Charles Klaverstyn and Geoff Westall winning with a scoreline of 22 + 14,narrowly beating Linton Morris and Barry Griffiths on 22 + 13.Consolation winners were the evergreen ever consistent Dave Crowe and Serge Brecard with a 22+ 10 finish.Monday, January 9-winners were the “old firm” of Graham Lake and Derek Hopp with a 22+15 result.Finishing on the same scoreline, but losing on a countback were Wayne Blackwood and Ross Spence.Consolation winners were father and son team of Ray and Josh Millington with a score of 24 +14.

Cabarita Beach Women January 10 – Social Bowls – The men were the lucky bowlers collecting both the winning rink and consolation prizes. Winning Rink went to Ken Ross and his team, Ian Wilson, Archie Campbell and Patrick Grogan while Ian McGlashan and his team, Harold Mclean/Roy King, Jim Paterson and Ron Lee took out the Consolation prize. Congratulations chaps.

Lucky Raffle winners were Robyn Wickbold, Lisa Morris and Robyn Darling.

Kingscliff Men Social Bowls Results: Thursday 29th December: Winners: R Sharpe, R Ford, J Waide: K Davey, J Bonnet, R Coleman. Plate Winners: P Grogan, P McGirr, A Brown. Saturday 31st December: Highest Winning Margin: R Dark, B Turner, V Lewis. Second Highest Winning Margin: J Brinsmead, B Morrow, B Beattie. Lowest Winning Margin: R Eglington, A Curnow, I White, G Pritchard.

Pottsville Men Wednesday 4th January Winners: B. Brown – T. Halloran – T. Fuller Runners-up W. Hill – D. Lee – T. Wignall W.O.H.: B. Jackson – D. Moir. Consulation; G. Crawley – J. Rae. Saturday 6th January 2012 Winners: B. Cumming – J. Banks. Runners-up B. Moore – B. Jackson – D. Moir Consulation: G. Booth – J. Buckley – K. McInnes South Tweed Wed a.m. Triples: 1st R Hill, B Harvey & W Earea. 2nd K Banks, N Smith & P Willmott.

PM Social : winning rink: J Willey, B Coste & G Coste. Losing Rink: J Evans, O Kinane & I Ensby.

Thursday PM triples; Winners B Bullock,K Stanley & L Pointing. Winners of Losers: R Hill, V Giacomi & J Mizzi.

Sat. PM. Social: winning rink: E Robinson,F Fisher & P Blanksby. Losing Rink: L Cox, A Read & A Potts.

South Tweed Ladies Welcome 2012. Ladies started back Tuesday 10 to a very warm welcome from the weather.

Winners: M.Hubbard, C.Stephens & C.Cornwaithe. Winners of losers: D.O’Neill, S.Concillier & M.Miller. Board winners: H.Larkin & J.Sutton.

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Fishing the Tweed River during the first week of January is always a hard ask. The river is full of boats taking up most of the good spots, so what to do?

One little trick is to fish the canals as the holiday makers tend to leave them alone.

Fishing with hard bodied lures in amongst the jetties and boats involves spot on casting; you see, if you hit a boat you’ll spook the fish so you’ve got to land it just right. One way I find works well is to cast the lure right up onto the sand then slowly bring it into the water and start your retrieve; often this lifelike retrieval will pick up a fish. Another method is to look for overhanging trees as you’ll often find fish underneath them and quite often they’ll eat whatever falls from the tree and lands in the water; this is where a surface bug type lure can do a lot of damage.

The most obvious way to avoid the crowds is either get up early or stay out late. I

know of a few local guys putting in the hours doing over -nighters and often landing a big jew or jack.

My brother Tony, pictured recently in the Echo with his first jack, now has two to his name. He went out the next night and got another one, 72 Gross Nett Winners G.Perkins 66 Nett M.Thomas 68 nett J.Thompson 68 Nett B,RD, to 74 nett c.b Saturday 7th Individual Strpke in 4 Grades Winner A.Grade E.Selwood 62 nett R.Up P.Fahy 67 nett B.G M.Adams 65 nett R.Up L.McMahon 68 nett C.Grade G.Crowe 65 nett R.Up N.Sams 68 nett D.Grade J.Forrester 63 nett R.Up P.Van Trier 67 nett N.Pin 2nd J.Prichard 8th J.Hoffmann 10th F.Monement 14th R.Dickson B.R.D. to 73 nett c.b SHOOTING Murwillumbah Rifle Club Fullbore: Monthly trophy winners were Alan Cronk and Gordon Morris.

900 yards- A Cronk 97.11, 2, 99.11; W Shoobridge 96.10, 2, 98.10; D Phippard 96.4, 2, 98.4; S Dolan 93.7, 4, 97.7.

Scope: G Morris 116.5, 5, 121.5; P Weeks 115.4, 6, 121.4; Rama 101.2, 18, 119.2; P Loxley-Lewis 112.3, 5, 117.3; R Millingen 84, 18, 102.

Smallbore: J Wickert 384, 21, 405; S Dickson 345, 60, 405; R Millingen 394, 9, 403; B Jenkins 391, 12, 403; A Cronk 400, 0, 400; W Sunderland 399, 1, 400; S Dolan 394, 6, 400; A Turner 398, 2, 400; G Kendall 377, 23, 400; R DeLyon 366, 34, 400; H Sadleir 384, 15, 399; G Morris 389, 9, 398; Rama 387, 10, 397; R Couch 383, 12, 395; M Shoobridge 381, 14, 395; G Johnston 384, 8, 392..

MONTHLY MARKETS 1st Sat Brunswick Heads (02) 6628 4495 1st Sun Byron Bay (02) 6680 9703 1st Sun Pottsville (02) 6676 4555 1st Sun Tweed Heads (07) 5599 1714 2nd Sat 2nd Sun 2nd Sun 2nd Sun 2nd Sun 2nd Sun

Kingscliff 0406 724 323 The Channon (02) 6688 6433 Chillingham 0437 041 023 Lennox Head (02) 6672 2874 Coolangatta (07) 5533 8202 Tweed Heads (07) 5599 1714

3rd Sat Mullumbimby (02) 6684 3370 3rd Sat Murwillumbah Cottage Markets 0417 759 777 3rd Sun Ballina (02) 6687 4328 3rd Sun Nimbin (02) 6689 0000 3rd Sun Pottsville (02) 6676 4555 3rd Sun Tweed Heads (07) 5599 1714 3rd Sun Uki (02) 6679 5921 4th Sat Kingscliff 0406 724 323 4th Sun Bangalow (02) 6687 1911 4th Sun (in 5 Sun month) Coolangatta (07) 5533 8202 4th Sun Murwillumbah 0422 565 168 4th Sun Tweed Heads (07) 5599 1714 5th Sun 5th Sun

Nimbin (02) 6689 0000 Tweed Heads (07) 5599 1714

WEEKLY FARMERS MARKETS Each Tue New Brighton (02)6684 5390 Each Wed 7-11am Mur’bah (02) 6684 7834 Each Thu 8-11am Byron Bay (02) 6687 1137 Each Sat 8-11am Bangalow (02) 6687 1137 8am-1pm Uki (02) 6679 5438 Each Sat

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even bigger, under Boyds Bay Bridge. There’s so many snags around there, I really don’t know how he does it as he uses an old Alvey reel with a cut-down beach rod. Needless to say I think he’s under that bridge every night now.

I’ve been putting in a crab

pot over the holidays with limited success, though yesterday I spoke with the captain of a Crab Cooker Boat; he says to look for the oysters around the bottom of the mangroves as that is what they eat, that is where they hang.

Happy New Year.

Tweed Netball Association The Tweed Netball Association is commencing a new Monday night, under lights, netball competition.

The season kicks off February 6 with sign-on being Monday January 30 at Arkinstall Park from 6pm.

Visit: www.tweed.netball.asn.au for forms and further information.

Daily surf reports with Rusty Miller!

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January 23 Sun set 1947 1947 1947 1947 1947 1948 1948 1948 1948 1948 1948 1948 1948 1948 1948 1948 1947 1947 1947 1947 1947 1946 1946 1946 1945 1945 1945 1944 1944 1943 1943

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JANUARY 2012 Astronomical data and tides

High tide, height (m) 0240,1.35; 1430,1.28 0322,1.37; 1530,1.20 0427,1.41; 1638,1.15 0522,1.46; 1746,1.15 0614,1.53; 1845,1.17 0600,1.60; 1934,1.21 0743,1.67; 2017,1.25 0825,1.74; 2058,1.29 0903,1.80; 2137,1.33 0943,1.83; 2217,1.37 1024,1.84; 2300,1.41 1105,1.82; 2344,1.44 1149,1.75 0030,1.46; 1235,1.65 0121,1.49; 1326,1.53 0216,1.51; 1424,1.40 0316,1.54; 1533,1.29 0421,1.59; 1652,1.23 0528,1.66; 1808,1.24 0630,1.74; 1914,1.28 0728,1.82; 2009,1.33 0820,1.87; 2058,1.38 0908,1.89; 2142,1.42 0951,1.86; 2224,1.44 1032,1.80; 2304,1.44 1111,1.71; 2344,1.44 1146,1.60 0021,1.43; 1222,1.48 0101,1.42; 1300,1.36 0145,1.40; 1344,1.26 0233,1.40; 1438,1.17

Low tide, height (m) 0836,0.71; 2057,0.55 0944,0.73; 2146,0.58 1057,0.71; 2240,0.59 1205,0.65; 2333,0.59 1301,0.57 0022,0.59; 1347,0.49 0108,0.54; 1429,0.42 0150,0.50; 1506,0.35 0231,0.46; 1543,0.30 0313,0.43; 1620,0.26 0356,0.41; 1659,0.23 0442,0.40; 1738,0.23 0530,0.42; 1818,0.26 0622,0.45; 1901,0.30 0719,0.49; 1948,0.36 0825,0.53; 2040,0.42 0940,0.55; 2140,0.47 1100,0.52; 2245,0.49 1216,0.44; 2349,0.48 1321,0.35 0049,0.45; 1415,0.27 0145,0.41; 1502,0.22 0235,0.38; 1545,0.21 0323,0.37; 1626,0.22 0408,0.39; 1702,0.26 0451,0.43; 1737,0.32 0533,0.48; 1809,0.38 0616,0.54; 1842,0.44 0701,0.60; 1915,0.51 0752,0.66; 1955,0.57 0853.0.70; 2045,0.62

Times Eastern Daylight Saving Time. Time lags: Ballina Boat Dock: 15 min; Byron Bay: nil; Brunswick River Highway Bridge: high 30 min, low 1 hr; Mullumbimby: 1 hr 10 min; Billinudgel: 3 hr 55 min; Chinderah: high 1 hr 30 min, low 2 hr; Terranora Inlet: high 2 hr 10 min, low 2 hr 25 min; Murwillumbah: high 2 hr 30 min, low 2 hr 50 min. Tides in bold indicate high tide of 1.7m or more and low tide of 0.3m or less. Data courtesy of the National Tidal Centre.

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

Far North Coast

0408 232 066

Cleans deeply, dries in 1-2 hours

Commercial / Domestic / Insurance

CLEANING

Hard to 85x28 0109.ai 30/01/2009 11:48:16 AM

HOUSE & OFFICE CLEANING Competitive prices .......................................................07 5536 1773

PH/FAX 02 6677 9443 MOB 0421 251 477

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ADVANCED Blind & Curtain Cleaning & Repairs

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TWEED ELECTRIC MOTORS Sales & Service

Pool pumps, electric motors, power tools, electrical equipment & repairs

Unit 2/42 Machinery Drive, Tweed Heads South

07 5524 7055 ELECTRICIANS

CURTIS ELECTRICAL 24 hour service. Lic 79065C .......................................................0427 402 399

2 Pauls

Electricians

All electrical work, including home maintenance and air conditioning systems

Email: 2paulselectricians@gmail.com NSW: 218495C, Qld: 70561

Paul Taylor 0412 506 536

FENCING BEDNARZ, H & W, FENCING Specialise in pool, Colorbond & timber fencing ............0417 491 136

Verticals Curtains Timber Hollands Romans

EDL FENCING Installations & repairs ................................................... 0432 107 262 or 6677 1646

6/6 Enterprise Ave, Tweed Heads South

GARDEN & PROPERTY MAINTENANCE

07 5523 3622

CProfessional ompulsive About Cleaning Pristine & Polite cleaning services

Regular cleans Spring cleans One-off cleans Pre-sale Bond cleans Home detailing

100% ORGANIC CLEANING

0488 063 828 Fully insured, ASIC holder

ABLE Window Cleaning  

ELECTRIC MOTOR REPAIRS

Lic EC 26523

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.

For a free quote and professional service call David: 0411 831 522 or Michael: 0431 728 797 <echowebsection=Service Directory>

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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& Byron Shires Tweed Call Jeff 02 6680 1728 0408 666 418

READINGS

SCREENPRINTING

Rhonda’s Readings

BUDGE PRICEST FULLY INSURE D

abn 66 121 220 310

• 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

LANDSCAPING & EXCAVATION

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

REMOVALISTS

TINY EARTHWOR

SOLAR INSTALLATIONS •INSTALLATIONS

Philip Toovey 0409 799 909 ph/fax 02 6684 3208

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

•REPAIRS & SUPPLIES

• Local • Country • interstate

Servicing this area for 11 years.

LOCAL • Sydney • GOLd COASt • BriSBAne • MeLBOurne

02 6684 2198

MYOB TRAINING GEOFFREY COLWILL Certified consultant, BAS agent.................................................02 6679 4231

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

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 search “Lighthouse Removals”

YouTube

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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

ROOFING 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

RELAX...

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

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

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

PLASTERING

Lic CPC30808

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

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

PLUMBING

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

0418 992 111

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.

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

Satisfaction guaranteed • 30% off limited time only!

PEST CONTROL

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

No weekend surcharge

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

Lic. Electrical Contractors

mullumbimbyremovals@bigpond.com

Friendly Staff

Black Orchid

SOLAR SYSTEMS

Share a bin with your neighbour!

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

WINDOW TINTING 6680 2484 • 0416 218 720 TWEED BYRON WINDOW TINTING

Available 24/7. FREE quotes.

Personalised, professional approach to your plumbing requirements.

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

Call your local plumber

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

g

bin Plum

Servicing Coolangatta to Byron

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

0414 611 418

24 hour emergency plumbing Lic No. 27413 ABN 84115795912

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

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Thanks to our avid readers for all the encouragement we have had. The best support you can show us as a reader is to support the businesses that advertise in our paper. Their ads have made possible for us to bring you the coverage of news and entertainment that the Tweed Shire deserves, but hasn’t always had in the past. Please support the businesses that support us. <echowebsection=Service Directory>

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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.

BY POST PO Box 545 Murwillumbah 2484

ACCOUNT ENQUIRIES phone 02 6684 1777

PUBLIC NOTICES

HEALTH

LOST?

HOLIDAY SPECIAL

FIND YOURSELF AT THE RUG SHOP BANGALOW

KA HUNA BODYWORK/MASSAGE $40 KINGSCLIFF: Ph Susan 0418726877

ECHO ECHO DOUBLE DEAL

REIKI, CRYSTAL THERAPY & SHAMANIC SOUND THERAPY Crystal & Treasure Map Workshops Ph Pia 0434922727 www.crystalcircle.com.au

Prepare to find the love of your life.

9 wk program starts Feb 1. 66803436 www.thealchemyoftheheart.com

WOODWORKING

Basic furniture making course 9-12 Feb Women & power tools 4 & 5 Feb www.woodworkforwomen.com.au

www.theatre-of-life.org personal development through performing arts

Part-Time Theatre Courses

‘Philippa and Adrian bring such to Gap Year Theatre Company

Voice + Presentation Coaching ’Fresh, open, powerful and tender’....’Uncompromising delight’… ‘I felt held all along the way’.

Tel: 02 66802057 or 0437 328394

TO LET

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

PERMANENT ON SITE VAN Brunswick Heads park $60000 ono Ph 0404200460

O.SHORES top half house, s/c, 1br flat, own entry, cathedral ceilings, light, charming, exc quality, ocean/leafy views.

Long term, close Bruns, shops, beach, river. Quiet, conscious, considerate, n/s $230pw + bills. Phone 66803436

TRACTOR REPAIRS

MUR’BAH 3br queenslander, refs req, $380pw + bond + utilities. 66793445

Sexual Counselling

TRACTOR FOR SALE as new Kubota L4400 only 83hrs use with Titan front end loader 4-in-1 bucket s3500-101x82.

Also as new posthole digger, carry-all etc $30,000 the lot 66777549 Murwillumbah

POSITIONS VACANT

KINESIOLOGY

BUSINESS FOR SALE

with Flo Fenton's Intouch Yoga in Suffolk Park Level 1/Level 2 one day a week beg Mar Details; www.intouchyogabyronbay.com 02 66859910

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

DEADLINE 12pm Wednesday for display ads and line ads.

Calling In The One

CARAVANS JACO 18’ Tandem 2006 roll out awning, annex, many extras, very little use $29,900.

Ph 0409983565

Part Time Yoga Teacher Training

THE TWEED

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

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

REIKI WITH DEVI Reiki healing, channelled reading, foot detox. Reiki 1, Egyptian workshop Feb. Ph 0401796769

REMEDIAL MASSAGE

Introductory price of $40.

1 hr full body remedial massage @ Fingal Head.

Ph: 0416 838 563 Make a Difference!

Become a Consultant in Ayurveda

Clear subconscious sabotages.

Reprogram patterns and beliefs.

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

SANDRA DAVEY, Reg. Pract. 66846914

BANGALOW LIC’D POST OFFICE (business only) Secure, profitable excellent opportunities & choices post2479.com.au Jacinta. 0417547242

TRADEWORK

BUSINESS OPP.

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

Contractor Lic. 237294C Contact Kim on 0409058618

MAKE 2012 your year to create abundance.

Dynamic home business that works for you and the planet. Certified organic beauty, health & lifestyle products. Very affordable set up costs, pre-training provided. Judi 0425711688. Health is wealth

TREE SERVICES

HOUSES FOR SALE

Tallow TREE SERVICES

PROFESSIONAL TREE CARE • • • • •

REMOVALS PALMS TREE SURGERY FREE QUOTES FULLY INSURED

• • • •

STUMP GRINDING TREE REPORTS DA APPLICATIONS CRANE HIRE

6685 4015 - 0401 208 797 FOR HIRE

CHEAP REMOVALIST. No job too small.

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

Phone 0421281410

FOR SALE

BAMBOO PLY

from $10.50sqm & Bamboo Flooring.

For ceilings, walls, doors, etc.

Ph 66884188 - sample & brochure www.bambooply.com.au

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

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

Phone 1300 557 487 or email

FIREWOOD DELIVERIES

FREE PROSPECTUS:

aiasayurveda@gmail.com www.aiasinstitute.com

EMERGENCY NUMBERS Please stick this by your phone

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

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- HONEST & RELIABLE Best rates & service in the Shire.

Phone Matt 0427172684 CRYSTAL SINGING BOWLS 16” & 12” + collection of crystals. 0266764041 BALI HUT 3 x 3 kit, imported with floor & hd posts, easy to erect, sale $3000. Ph 0422232760

WANTED 60s TEAK PARKER or Scandinavian furniture, or Scandinavian ceramics and/ or glass. Ph 0417073029

GARAGE SALES MURWILLUMBAH 2/57 William St. Sat 8-2pm. Moving Sale, furn & h’hold items.

MOTOR VEHICLES

BARGAINS Suzuki Cino Auto, 1 owner, AC, 76,019km. Full log book history. Fuel miser. UVT 069 ..... $4295 Toyota Camry Auto, AC, PS, CD, full service history. Great car. BN 78 KI ...................... $3950 1997 Holden Barina 5 speed, AC, PS, 10/2012 rego. JRU 284 ............................ $2250 2007 Toytal Yaris YR 5 speed, AC, PS, log books, 78,129km. Very nice car. BBF 34Z . $8950 2000 4x4 Mitsubishi Triton Dual Cab Alloy tray. Great value. XJW 520 .............. $7250 2003 Kia Rio LS Wagon 113,096km, 5 speed, AC, PS. Fantastic condition. SN575 ......... $6250

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

TUITION

ATTN LANDOWNERS! Need some cash? Do you know that under State Environmental Planning Policy (Rural Lands), it is possible to subdivide a block for agricultural purposes, that is less than the normal minimum lot size for rural lots.

We need a minimum of 4 hectares of flattish land (10 acres) to buy for a rural enterprise. With 3 Phase power close by.

Ideally within 15km of Billinudgel or along the Tweed Valley Way to Murwillumbah.

Phone 66802752

Noticeboard Probus club

Murwillumbah Probus Club meets 10am on January 16 at Mountain View retirement village. Guest speaker John Argent, retired senior lecturer in geology at Macquarie University.

M’bah ratepayers Murwillumbah Ratepayers and Resident Association’s next meeting on Monday, January 16, from 7.30pm, with guest speaker Jenny Hayes from Team Koala, at the Autumn Club, Tumbulgum Road (next to the library) Murwillumbah. All welcome.

Gold coin donation for tea and biscuits after the meeting. For info email Robyn at rlemaire@ une.edu.au, or post to PO Box 851 Murwillumbah, 2484, or just turn up. Membership costs $6 for the year. If you are new to the area and you are interested in local history, flood levels, and the development of our town, we may be what you are looking for.

GOING AWAY? Who is looking after your pets? Kingscliff Petsitting 0419358794 or www.kingscliffpetsitting.com.au

COCO

is a 7 year old, desexed female Kelpie x Lab. She is one of those lovely girls who is no trouble. She gets along well with other dogs and people. She is happy with whatever is offered to her.

Her owner got her as a puppy then had medical problems and could not care for Coco. Coco was very sad to leave her owner and we would love to settle her into a new home as soon as possible. She is loyal and loving.

She used to play out in the court with all the kids and dogs and was never any trouble. Coco has a minor medical problem which may need ongoing treatment. If you can give her a permanent, loving home 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 homes.

friendsofthepound.com

07 5524 8590 WANTED

Wanted:

Someone to go back in time with me.

Round Two Submisssions

This is not a joke. You’ll get paid after we get back.

Must bring own weapons – safety not guaranteed.

I have done this once before. emailmethanks@gmail.com Apologies to not responding to last week’s emails; my time machine is undergoing its 20,000 year maintenance.

PROPERTY WANTED

Voice Weavers a’capella choir will return to regular practice on Thursday, Feb 2, at 7pm

DLN 19950

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

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

A’capella choir

6686 5586

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.

PROPERTY FOR SALE

16 ENDEAVOUR CLOSE, BALLINA

Ballina Car Centre

CAREER IN CHILDCARE

TENTERFIELD SHOP + 4br house, good position, currently leased, good return $296,000. Ph 66284127 or 0429023402

50 CARS UNDER $10,000

www.dealcars.net

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

Contact Tim 0400824968

PETS

MUSICAL NOTES

ONLY ADULTS

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

Phone 0412732465

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

NSW/6pm Qld, at the Coolangatta-Tweed Heads Golf Club auditorium, Soorley Street, Tweed Heads South. If you have been thinking about joining a choir, think no more. Just do it!

New members always welcome.

Our members range from 14 up to retirees. For more info go to http://voiceweavers.brettlogan. com or phone Brett 0418 754 868 or Jan 07 5536 1078.

must be paid on the day $11 per member. Also, a mystery bus trip arranged for February 20. Form info and apologies cal Mary 02 6672 1840 or Bernie 02 6672 8640.

Garden club 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.

Library storage need Friends of Tweed Heads Library need storage space for books accumulated by donations for our annual book sale. An unneeded lockable, easily accessible 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 read books. New members welcome.

If you can help call Rosalind on 07 5524 3342.

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 VIEW playing, Stretch your Mind, Tai Chi, Mah Jong, Scrapbooking, Murwillumbah Day View meeting/AGM will be held at Sporties, Art, Scrabble, Gentle exercise with weights call Lyn on 07 5523 formally Murwillumbah Bowls 2030. The centre is on the corner Club on Monday, January 23. of Leisure and Woodland Drives, Morning tea at 10am and lunch at 12.30pm. Subs are due and Banora Point.

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THE BYRON SHIRE

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

Comprehensively covering the Far North Coast

The outlook for housing starts According to the Housing Industry Association’s quarterly National Outlook, the most recent update for housing starts (dwelling commencements), for the September 2011 quarter, highlights further weakening into the 2011/12 financial year. Seasonally adjusted housing starts fell by 6.8 per cent to 35,672, the lowest level in two years.

HIA’s view is that housing starts will decline by 10.4 per cent in FY2011/12 to a level of 141,159 before recovering by 5.6 per cent to a level of 149,007 in 2012/13. Detached house starts are forecast to fall by 6.6 per cent to 90,488 in 2011/12 before growing by 5.6 per cent in 2012/13 to a level of 95,535.

Starts for ‘other dwellings’ are forecast to drop by 16.4 per cent in 2011/12 to 50,671 before increasing by 5.5 per cent to a level

of 53,472 in 2012/13. A full set of HIA’s housing forecasts can be found at: http://economics.hia. com.au/media/December%20 2011%20%20Forecasts.pdf.

The downside risk to new home building Based on the uncertainty surrounding the situation in Europe, the risk is for a weaker result. There are a multitude of outcomes that could unfold in terms of the saga in Europe and its implications for the Australian economy. Consequently the risks to the Australian economy and the extent to which they might eventuate as real economic weakness are many and varied in timing, but particularly in magnitude.

The main implication of this situation for Australia’s housing sector (and the wider economy) is that nobody knows how much

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Selling?

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Book club Tweed Heads Friends of the Library meet every fourth 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 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. Lots of jobs for willing workers. Make lots of friends and have fun in a caring atmosphere. For info call Sylvia 0419 437 217.

Men’s a’cappella Are you of the male variety, can sing and possess a sense of comedy, then come and join Men Wot Sing a’cappella singers.

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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.

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Al-Anon Are you concerned about someone else’s drinking? Meet others who share your problems and learn how to improve the family atmosphere. Meetings held up and down the coast and at Murwillumbah at the Christian Outreach Centre, 19 Prince Street, on Mondays at 10am. For info call 07 5532 4320.

further the RBA will cut rates and nobody knows whether the federal government will step in to stimulate the domestic economy, and if they do, to what extent, with what policies, after what period of deliberation.

The world according to Europe, which is the current theatre playing out, muddles through to mixed reviews but with the audience refraining from wanting a refund, then our forecast trough in housing starts in Australia of around 141,000 is a reasonable expectation. This of course would be a very weak outcome which betrayed yet again the urgency in reforming the supply side delivery of new housing.

A further meltdown in Europe could see a result for housing starts not much weaker than our core forecast if the domestic policy response was rapid, aggressive, and effective (three

factors that are obviously not mutually exclusive). However, less than rapid and effective policy stimulus could fail to prevent housing starts reaching or falling below their GFC-induced low of 131,420 reached in 2008/09.

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Low cost food Low cost groceries. Finding it tough going? Come and see us at Elevation Care, 56 Caloola Drive, Tweed Heads, Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 10am to 2pm, opening January 9. Huge variety and quality food. Bring your bags. For info call 07 5507 6999.

Justices of the Peace Tweed Justices of the Peace returning on January 19 at Tweed City. For info call Donna on 0414 894368.

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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.

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.

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The 2012 YWCA Encore Program, an innovative and inspiring approach to recovery from breast Lifeball cancer surgery, starts in MurwilLifeball is an exercise sport similar lumbah in February and runs End of life choices to netball but played at walking for eight weeks until March 28, pace by senior men and women. For information about end of life each Wednesday from 12.30pm choices workshops and meetings to 2.30pm. To register call 02 9285 At Chinderah: sessions held every Tuesday 9.30am-11.30am at to be held this year, call Elaine on 6264 or 1800 305 150. ParticipaTweed Supersports Centre, Chin- 0421 796 713. tion is free.

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Lismore-based Friends of the Koala says last year, the International Year of Forests, was a particularly busy year for koala conservation. President Lorraine Vass said the Senate Inquiry’s report, The koala – saving our national icon, documented the mountain of evidence provided to the Senate Environment and Communications Committee, ‘insinuating to [environment] minister [Tony] Burke that he list the koala as vulnerable’. Ms Vass says koala supporters will have to wait till February 17 to ‘learn whether he heard’. Here, she says, on the Northern Rivers koalas continue to be under threat by mega coastal development proposals such as the Cobaki Estate, Kings Forest, Bayside Brunswick Heads, and the West Byron urban release area, ‘not to mention the day by day whittling away of the here and now’. On the Tweed and elsewhere it seems governments at all levels continue to turn a blind eye to the plight of our furry icon. The call to ban those koala predators, pet dogs, from new housing estates such as Kings Forest should be heeded but we won’t hold our breath…

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It seems Tweed Shire Council is not alone when it comes to claims that councillors have misused their code of conduct, which is now being reviewed by the state government for a second time in six years. As The Echo reported last year, Liberals MLC Marie Ficarra in parliament accused Cr Dot Holdom and general manager Mike Rayner of being involved in a campaign of vilification and politically motivated complaints against former mayor Joan van Lieshout. Both the GM and Cr Holdom in their right of reply denied the allegations as unfounded. Earlier this month, a Greens councillor from Gosford Council, Cr Peter Freewater, said the code had been misused against him when his

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Short-film enthusiasts from the Tweed and Gold Coast will be out in numbers for the 14th annual Flickerfest International Short Film Festival at Bangalow’s A and I Hall from January 20–22.Described by organisers as ‘Bite Size Chunks Of Great Cinema’, showing some of the best short films from Australia and around the world, Flickerfest 2012 received a record 2,200 entries. Pictured above is a scene from an Australian film, Fish and Chips, showing the main character, 10-year-old Pauline Hanson, who ‘joins Chef of the Universe to cook against culinary geniuses Barry Obama, Kim Jong Il and Vlad Putin and breaks all the rules’. For info and tickets for the festival visit www.flickerfest.com.au.

council found he had breached the code by referring to some of his colleagues as ‘arrogant’ and for dubbing a weekend retreat by fellow councillors at a luxury resort as a ‘junket’ and a ‘rort’, allegations which he says are frivolous.

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We think Cr Freewater is absolutely right in saying ‘it’s frustrating; the code of conduct is for reporting conflicts of interest and to go after people who are corrupt,’ but it was ‘just being used to stifle criticism’.

MP David Shoebridge says Cr Freewater had raised legitimate matters for public debate and he should not have been prosecuted for raising them publicly.

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frivolous complaints, but the lack of disciplinary action. He said long investigations, which cost ratepayers thousands of dollars and found breaches, regularly resulted in just a public apology from the councillor concerned, rather than suspension for proven misbehaviour. minister for local government, Don Page, said the review of the code was timely due to several incidents of ‘inappropriate’ use.

The submissions period closes mid-January, with the government expected to then draft legislation changing the code.

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Richmond Tweed Regional Library has begun to celebrate the National Year of Reading this year by giving library members access to their new expanded eResources service. Current and classic eBooks are now available to download from the library’s

Tweed householders sick of the ever-increasing air traffic rumbling over their homes just got some more bad news. The ABC recently reported a deal is about to be struck between the Gold Coast Airport and a private air charter operation to ferry thousands of mine workers from Coolangatta to destinations across the Outback. Let’s hope these extra aircraft don’t fly too low.

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Who’s not telling the full story? Septuagenarian and prodevelopment bloc Tweed Shire councillor Phil Youngblutt, who surprised everybody last September when he voted to install Cr Barry Longland as mayor instead of his longtime ally Cr Warren Polglase, told local media this week that Cr Longland had made a promise to him to support the controversial Byrrill Creek dam project after the election, but that he reneged on the deal. Cr Longland has denied the claim, saying he had only ever agreed to re-examine the issue after a state government review of the previous government’s investigation had been finalised. The mayor says he had no qualms using his deciding vote to block the project, and Backburner finds it odd that the Uki-based mayor anyway would go against the wishes of many of his neighbourhood constituents who are opposed to the dam. That’s politics we say, much shifting ground and allegiances: just ask Cr Dot Holdom, who observers say switches camps often – not altogether a bad thing.

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