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Flight-path fallout Reptile carer has her hands full under the scope Ken Sapwell

Air Services Australia has bowed to pressure to undertake a wide-ranging review of the impacts on residents living under increasingly busy flight paths during a sky-high period of growth for Gold Coast Airport (GCAL). The regulator acted after the airport’s draft master plan predicted 113 planes a day would be landing at the airport by 2030, a sevenfold increase since the flight paths were last re-examined 14 years ago.

The review and its high-stakes outcome is already shaping up as a repeat of the suburban dog-fight which erupted when members of the noise abatement committee (ANACC) gave the green light to a new flight path hierarchy in 1998.

Avalanche of complaints Fingal Head residents have fired the first shots with an avalanche of complaints to Air Services Australia (ASA) about a recent surge in international airliners throttling skyward just 3,000 feet above their heads.

Residents of South Tweed, Oxley Cove, Banora Point and Kingscliff living under the main southern flight path have recently formed a ‘Fair Go Alliance’ and say it’s time that aircraft noise and fuel pollutants were shared by other suburbs.

ASA is keeping details of the review lowkey, inviting hundreds of residents who’ve joined a GCAL community consultative group to a meeting to discuss the review only 24 hours before the deadline for their submissions closes on February 23.

One ANACC member, Barry Jephcote, said it seemed ASA was trying to keep a lid on a sensitive issue and at one stage set the deadline to expire

two days before Christmas until they agreed to his request for an extension.

He says he is critical of ASA and GCAL for not doing enough to inform the public about the upcoming environmental review and the draft airport master plan which includes changes to flight paths north of the airport and an increasing rate of takeoffs to the south. ‘The review is the first step in a process which could result in a change in flight paths and consequently a change in property values because of the impacts from noise as well as the chemical pollution,’ he said (see story page 4).

Under existing arrangements, about 70 per cent of aircraft departing the airport head south, with the lion’s share heading over suburbs belonging to the alliance, but Fingal Head has been hit with a sharp increase Susan Johnson holds a bearded dragon while a blue tongue looks on. Photo Jeff ‘Reptile of the Press’ Dawson following the airport’s controversial push into Asia. started a much-needed campaign to snake as black with yellow stripes Albert Elzinga educate the public and reverse some made it difficult for Susan to identify No representation Almost a quarter of a century ago, common misconceptions. She says the reptile and made her very cauThey are demanding that ASA stop Susan Johnson decided to devote her the evasive nature of snakes is often tious when she attempted to catch it. all planes from flying over their vil- working life to the care of animals. misunderstood and many people atShe managed to get hold of the lage immediately, saying they were animal’s tail and slowly tried to pull Susan’s career started at Melbourne tempted to kill a snake at first sight. denied representation when ANACC Zoo where she completed an on-theNot only is killing any snake against it from under the stored boxes. But allowed planes heading to new Asian job training course in Animal Tech- the law, but they’re often misidenti- because the snake failed to move she markets to turn left over Fingal Head nology and cared for fur seals and en- fied and their behaviour and potential was afraid the reptile had died. in 2001. They cite airport records dangered Australian marsupials such danger misunderstood. Susan said the With extreme caution, she continshowing they were encountering only as bandicoots. non-venomous Brown Tree Snake, ued to prise the reptile free and when three flights a week in 2001, but by After 12 years with the zoo, Susan felt for instance, was often mistaken for she finally managed to pull the snake 2010 the number of planes flying over the need for a ‘tree change’ and moved the deadly Brown Snake and killed free: it turned out to be a plastic toy.

Fingal had grown to 37 a week as new to Crabbes Creek where she soon on sight.

A friend had placed the fake snake in Asian routes opened up.

Catching and relocating snakes may the garage as a practical joke. joined Tweed Valley Wildlife Carers.

But Mr Jephcote, the village’s rep- She established herself as an authority be very serious and sometimes more People can reduce the attraction resentative on the ANACC, says he on reptiles and started to rehabilitate than a little dangerous; however, Susan homes and gardens have on snakes needs to weigh the views of other and relocate injured reptiles. Her work encountered some funny situations by: cleaning up any rubbish and timsuburbs he also represents, including with the Carers became the prelude to while responding to people’s calls. ber around the house, keeping the Kingscliff and East Banora which are Susan’s current occupation as ‘Reptile On one occasion, Susan was called grass cut low, pruning bushes and reopposed to changes to Asian routes. Rehabilitator and Relocator’. to catch a snake which had invaded a moving low hanging branches.

He says the push by the Fair Go Residents who encounter a snake This year alone, Susan has helped family’s garage and was hiding behind Alliance to spread flight paths would around ten sick or injured animals re- a pile of stored items. and want it removed can call Susan continued on page 4 cover and return to the wild and she’s The family’s description of the on 02 6677 1224 or 0428 771 223.

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Work has begun on selecting a new Tweed Shire Council general manager, with a strong field but no firm frontrunner, says mayor Barry Longland.

Applications for the top job closed on December 30, and recruitment consultants met with councillors on Tuesday to begin work on a shortlist.

Councillors will ultimately vote to select the new council supremo, who will replace retiring GM Mike Rayner in April. Interviews are expected

to begin next month.

‘I understand it is a fairly strong field, as you would expect. I don’t think we will have difficulty finding a suitable applicant,’ Cr Longland said.

The mayor said Mr Rayner also deserved thanks for giving the council six months’ notice so councillors would have plenty of time to decide on a replacement.

Mr Rayner says he decided on an early retirement, 12 months before his employment contract was due to end, to spend more time with his fam-

ily. He was appointed general manager in 2006 by council administrators after the former council was sacked over electoral misconduct.

Vital role Cr Longland said Mr Rayner played a vital role in helping the newly formed council following elections in 2008.

Cr Katie Milne said it would be ‘wonderful’ to see a female general manager get the top job, but an applicant with environmental credentials would be even better. ‘Someone good

at community consultation who appreciates the international environmental significance of the Tweed Shire would be suitable,’ said Cr Milne.

‘We need someone who takes global warning seriously and who has a good understanding of sustainability issues.

‘Someone who will obey the wishes of the community and values the environment is the number one priority.

‘They would also need some backbone to stand up to developers.’

Exploring the unknown a passion for author Luis Feliu

The mystery disappearance of one of Australia’s early European explorers, Ludwig Leichhardt, as he tried to traverse the Australian continent in 1848 captivated Mullumbimby author John Bailey so much he decided to write a wideranging biography of the man and his ill-fated expeditions.

The award-winning writer will share his thoughts about the explorer when he showcases his latest book Into the Unknown, The Tormented Life and Expeditions of Ludwig Leichhardt to a Tweed audience at a free session at Tweed Heads Library next Tuesday, January 24, at 10am.

John, a former barrister specialising in industrial relations and federal and state public servant who moved to northern NSW in 2000, told The Echo that several US film producers have options on the six non-fiction and fiction books he has written to date.

One of those is The White Divers of Broome, which has been turned into a play by Hilary Bell, daughter of John Bell, the founder of the Bell Shakespeare company. The play will premiere at the Perth Festival next month at which John will be a special guest.

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the 67-year-old author has what it takes to write a compelling historically based story.

His latest book on Ludwig Leichhardt is no exception, a 348-page account of the life and destiny of the Prussian adventurer who, according to Bailey, could have met his death in any of four states as he tried to cross Australia from east to west.

Enduring mystery According to the book’s blurb, Leichhardt is Australia’s most intriguing explorer and his disappearance and death is one of the enduring mysteries of Australian history. It was

on his second attempt to cross Australia in 1848 when he vanished.

‘There are six possibilities as to how he met his death: an Aboriginal attack, disease, mutiny, bushfire, flash flood or lost in the desert,’ John told The Echo.

‘But any explanation of what happened not only has to explain the catastrophe, but why nothing of his equipment has ever been found and they had plenty of items which were imperishable, such as navigation instruments, pots, stirrups and guns, all made of metals such as brass.

‘So one has to explain how

all these items vanished, which more than likely could have been covered up by mud from a flood or by sand in a desert.’

John says his books are mostly ‘period pieces’ and expensive to turn into movies because of the dress, props and settings involved. ‘I write for a niche market; they’ll never get into the bestseller lists but on the other hand fictional books and novels have a life of a pound of butter whereas non-fiction books have a much longer shelf life, and every one of mine is still in print.’

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Visitors step back in time at gallery Tweed River Art Gallery has recreated a classroom for visitors to experience and participate in summer school drawing and writing activities inspired by the past, as part of the Seven Little Australians exhibition on display until February 5.

The exhibition brings the classic novel Seven Little Australians to life through illustrations by John Lennox. Created for the 1994 centennial edition of the book, Lennox’s oil paintings portray the period of 1894, when the first edition was written by novelist Ethel Turner.

A gallery spokesperson says the fine, rich detail of the individual characters, settings and period clothing will captivate viewers, young and old alike, and introduce another generation to this classic Australian story. In addition to the schoolroom installation, museum artefacts from bygone school days and childhoods are also on display, on loan from Tweed

The campaign to soften the development footprint of the massive Kings Forest housing estate has been ramped up with concerned residents urged to lodge objections to the project with the state planning department before it’s too late. Submissions for the first stages of the estate for 4,500 homes close next Wednesday, January 25, while Tweed Shire Council meets this Tuesday at 10.30am to consider its staff report on the development, with planners recommending various changes.

Campaigners warn that unless more koala habitat is preserved, the endangered marsupials may hit the extinction tipping point. Only about 140 koalas now survive east of the Tweed River, according to recent wildlife surveys, many of them around the King Forest development site and the adjoining Cudgen Nature Reserve.

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As part of this collaboration with the museum, teacher and Tweed River Regional Museum volunteer Bev Fairley will present hands-on insights

into methods of communication and domestic tasks as they were performed more than 100 years ago. Bev, a descendant of the Tweed’s first postmaster, will also show items from her

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The four free sessions of Life in Yesteryear are on Saturday, January 21 at 2pm, Sunday, January 22 at 11am and Wednesday, January 25 at 11am and 2pm.

Koala habitat ‘must be increased’ Steve Spencer

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Environmentalists want the development footprint reduced and a variety of other koala-friendly measures put in place before the project’s final approval. They include a 40km/h speed limit in the estate, a ban on domestic dogs and the acceleration of a tree-planting program to help replace the many koala food trees which will be felled during construction.

The developer has promised to plant 20,000 eucalypts and establish wildlife corridors through the vast housing estate as part of a buffer zone.

But Greens Cr Katie Mine says no koala management plan will work when ‘the development footprint is fundamentally wrong’. She said the scale of the estate meant many koalas would die.

‘If retaining more koala habitat means increasing the housing density at Kings Forest then that should happen.

If we need to offer an incentive to shrink the development footprint by allowing higher buildings and more multi-unit structures, that’s what we must do,’ said Cr Milne.

‘Leda’s housing yields can still be met. We have been waiting for advice from the department of planning about how much flexibility there is in the concept plan. Perhaps some of the planned homes could be transferred from the east to the western side of Leda’s land.’

Leda has also said would dedicate 350 hectares to public ownership, 178 hectares of which will be added to the Cudgen Nature Reserve, some of which was illegally cleared earlier this year, an offence being investigated by the environment department.

Leda, owned by billionaire Bob Ell, was implicated by environment minister Robyn

Parker in the massive illegal clearing of vegetation along 300 metres of a creek in the reserve, but the property group claimed workmen bulldozed trees and other vegetaion by accident.

Landcare group Friends of Cudgen Nature Reserve have ask for a guarantee Leda will erect wildlife fencing around the estate and plant the koala food trees before any work begins. Secretary of the group, Chris Core, said the timing of the conservation work was not clearly spelt out in the concept plan.

‘We are just asking for clarification as to when the tree planting and fencing will be done. It will be of little use if it is not completed before the earthworks begin and the native fauna flee,’ he said.

‘Erecting wildlife fencing would also help prevent any future accidental clearing of the nature reserve.’

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Pony club season kicks off Booze banned in riverside park Steve Spencer

Tweed Shire councillors have voted to ban booze from a popular riverside park at Tweed Heads following outbreaks of ‘lewd and drunken’ behaviour.

Last year’s Australia Day celebration got out of hand in John Follent Park, with local residents also complaining about numerous outbreaks of violence and foul language.

A large amount of rubbish, including broken glass, was left to litter the foreshore parkland, which skirts the Tweed River south of the Jack Evans Boat Harbour for hundreds of metres.

Councillors voted unaniMurwillumbah Pony Club rider Charlee Anthony, 14, and her Arabian pony Billy poised to tackle the jumps at Murwillumbah Showground on Monday. Despite the wet weekend, the club hosted a three-day training camp to kick off the season, with riders from clubs around the Northern Rivers and Gold Coast taking part. The camp covered all riding disciplines from dressage to sporting and general horsemanship. For information on the club, call secretary Jackie Everson on 0429 638 006. Photo Luis Feliu

Flight-path fallout under the microscope From front page

also be resisted for the same reason it was defeated in 1998.

‘Most people who bought homes in these suburbs should have been aware they were under long-established flight paths and it’s unfair to push the burden onto those who paid extra to avoid them,’ he said.

Banora Point’s ANACC rep-

resentative could not be contacted but part-time member Rod Bates says aircraft numbers using the flight path have trebled in the 12 years since 1998 to 13,300 a year.

‘We feel that because of the growth that’s occurred since the airport was allowed to open up to international flights, that there should be a fairer and

more equitable way of sharing the load,’ he said.

ANACC currently has representatives looking after the five designated areas of the Tweed, apart from a vacancy which exists for the vast western part of the shire, which includes the fast-growing suburbs of Bilambil and Bilambil Heights.

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Residents living under flight paths are turning off their water tanks in droves because of the pollution raining from aircraft engines, says a residents’ representative on the airport’s consultative group.

East Banora resident Barry Jephcote says it’s mostly happening in suburbs which cop the brunt of the fallout of a surge in flyovers since the airport’s runway was extended in 2007.

‘I know of at least 50 people who have disconnected their

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tanks mainly because of the fuel residue which gets into their water from the roof,’ said Mr Jephcote, who’s worked in hard-hit suburbs for decades as a plumber.

Contamination ‘The tanks are being mandated in all new homes but people are disconnecting them illegally mainly because they don’t want their clothes washing or plants to be contaminated with the jet exhaust.

‘It’s like fine kerosene droplets which leave a black sooty

staining that’s clearly visible on roof tops.

‘I call these low-flying aircraft glorified crop-dusters.’

Mr Jephcote said a secondary reason why people were switching off their tanks was that electricity price hikes had made pumping costs more expensive than buying water from the council.

‘But there’s no doubt that most people are being driven by the pollution fallout from so many aircraft now taking off over the Tweed since international flights have grown in recent years.’

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Queensland police clamped down on public drinking along the Coolangatta beachfront several years ago. Since then partygoers have drifted south, seeking parkland not subject to alcohol bans.

Acting Inspector Brad Stewart said Australia Day revellers were encouraged to have a good time but warned antisocial behaviour would not be tolerated. ‘We will be making sure there is a police presence right along the river this Australia Day,’ he said.

Consuming alcohol is already banned along the foreshore behind Duranbah beach and in the Jack Evans Boat Harbour parkland.

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mously to impose the ban after receiving a petition about noise, bad language and violence, along with numerous complaints from individual residents.

The Greenbank area is home to a high percentage of the town’s pensioners.

It will be up to Tweed police and council rangers to enforce the ban, which will become permanent from Australia Day on.

Council staff have been erecting signs along the river warning of the Australia Day booze ban.

The parkland became an increasingly popular venue for Australia Day drinkers after

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Tweed Shire is in danger of becoming a massive housing estate of dormitory suburbs to service the Gold Coast.

That’s the warning by Greens Cr Katie Milne who says the spiralling cost of infrastructure is forcing council to dig financially deeper to keep up with population growth.

She says the escalating expenditure continues despite five years of hefty rate rises, which are part of the council’s seven-year plan to boost infrastructure. And the growth in housing is not being matched by any growth in employment, she says.

‘We have all this population growth and a stagnant economy. We are in danger of just becoming a housing ghetto for the Gold Coast,’ Cr Milne said.

‘Some of the most environmentally sensitive areas of the shire are being threatened by this growth. Yet there has been no truly affordable housing being approved.

‘The state government should require more housing be matched with more jobs.

The more roads you build the more it costs for maintenance. The more homes that are built the more water will be needed and the more dam infrastructure will be needed.

It is becoming increasingly unsustainable.’

Cr Milne said debate was needed to discover what resident’s want the shire to look like in the future.

She said run-off from the massive Area E housing estate at Terranora could eventually cause a environmental disaster in the Terranora Broadwater,

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‘If we incorporated dual reticulation into these housing estates, a least we could help prevent the need for more massive water-catchment infrastructure like a new dam at Byrrill Creek.’

Cr Milne also pointed to the recent approval of a $22 million extension to Kirkwood Road at South Tweed Heads, which will consume much of the shire’s roadworks budget, as an example of the spiralling infrastructure burden on ratepayers.

Mayor Barry Longland said the shire’s investment in infrastructure was mostly paid for by developer contributions.

‘Once these new shire residents buy a home they will be paying rates every year. It’s a one-off capital cost. This increases the rate base and helps

council maintain services,’ Cr Longland said.

He suggested that one way to reduce infrastructure costs was by increase housing density and height limits in older urbanised areas, like central Tweed Heads.

He said allowing more residents to plug into already existing infrastructure would save the council money and help concentrate residents in areas where services and public transport were already available.

‘Higher density housing in urbanised areas means there can be less urban sprawl elsewhere. The alternative is housing estates spread across the shire. The three-storey height limit used to be considered sacrosanct, but now I think an increase to four or five storeys may help protect our open space and rural lands.’

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Japan hangs tough on killing whales

Volume 4 #20

January 19, 2012

Moving our birthday On Thursday, January 26, Tweed Shire, along with the rest of Australia, will be celebrating Australia Day – see www.tweed. nsw.gov.au.

The fashion for widely celebrating the birth of our nation on January 26 could be said to begin in 1938, marking the 150th anniversary of the First Fleet’s arrival. It is a perverse choice, given that the nation of Australia did not exist until 1901, and the event being lauded was the establishment of a penal colony by the British which led on to the dispossession of Indigenous peoples.

It also seems just a tad insensitive to Aboriginal concerns.

Members of the local Aboriginal community mark it as ‘Invasion Day’ and celebrate the survival of their own rich culture despite persecution. It also concentrates upon an English ‘cultural’ heritage when our nation is now made up of so many more rich strands.

It would be no insult to the volunteers who are honoured on this day, and to the new citizens who choose to be naturalised then, if the birthday celebrations would be moved to some other date. Good citizens can be celebrated and awarded – and should be – at any time.

Many suggestions have been made of a possible alternative date. Federation of Australia occurred on January 1, which is a bit of a wipeout given the New Years Eve aftermath. Anzac Day would be over-egging the pudding. The opening of the first federal parliament on May 9 marks a decent interval between other events, and the more radical suggest December 3, the day of the Eureka Stockade in 1854, the day when Australians shook off their traditional lethargy and momentarily rebelled against oppressive authority. May 27, the day of the 1967 referendum which amended the status of Aborigines in the constitution to include them in census-taking, among other things, also has merit.

It’s worth thinking about now. And who knows, in another 200 years or so, we could also be celebrating our excellent citizens on Republic Day.

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et’s be clear about one thing from the start: Japanese whaling is not only unnecessary and unpleasant; it is actually illegal.

This is not simply because of the whaling ships’ blatant violation of declared marine sanctuaries and Australian territorial waters. It is illegal at its very core because it is based on a brazen lie.

The International Whaling Commission has authorised the Japanese to kill a certain number of various whale species each year for scientific purposes – not for eating or for fun, but for that single end.

Yet the Japanese have basically given up all pretence that their annual expeditions have anything at all to do with science. There are occasional throwaway lines about examining a gland behind the ears of the dead whales to determine how old they were when their lives were ended, but nothing serious has ever appeared in a scientific journal. Nor is it ever likely to.

Whale meat is openly served in Japanese restaurants, which have been given a certain cachet by the international condemnation to which they have been subjected; there is a touch of edginess about eating whale in the same way as there is about eating the potentially deadly fugu fish. But the market is a very limited one and by itself would not justify the huge expense of mounting the annual expeditions.

The real reason is Japanese persist in the practice is sheer cussedness; they are not going to be pushed around by the colonialists of the west, whom they regard as both bullies and hypocrites.

After all, every other nation on earth slaughters animals for food, often under cruel and inhumane conditions. To argue

for special treatment for whales, especially those that are well off the endangered list, is sheer humbug. And they are not going to put up with it, so there.

From this perspective the most effective way to end whaling might be to simply ignore it; the probability is that after a few years it would be quietly phased out anyway, for reasons of simple economics. But that is obviously not going to

ranting about border protection where wretched and desperate asylum seekers are concerned, is not suggesting that.

All of which leaves the politicians effectively impotent, and this is where the vigilantes come in. Groups like Sea Shepherd can and do claim the moral high ground; they are, after all, only trying to enforce the law where those sworn to uphold it have wimped out. But that

There is a touch of edginess about eating whale in the same way as there is about eating the potentially deadly fugu fish.

by Mungo MacCallum happen, so while the whaling continues it is up to the rest of the world, and in particular the countries of the International Whaling Commission, to enforce its own rules.

But once again, this is not going to happen; Realpolitik dictates that no government in its right mind is going to go to war with Japan over whaling, so all that is left is the cumbersome system of international law.

Australia has, belatedly, taken a case to the International Court of Justice, but the hearings will be both delayed and prolonged and the outcome deeply uncertain.

So in the meantime, what is to be done? The opposition, which spent a decade and more in government doing absolutely nothing, is now demanding that the government send a gunboat – well, actually a customs vessel – to look on.

But unless the customs vessel is prepared to open fire, it is hard to see what that would achieve. And even the opposition, for all its hairy-chested

Brown and others would aver?

Well, I suppose it all depends on where you stand, but at least we can agree that they are certainly not subversives; they are open and honest about their actions to the point of celebrating them.

And in this they follow the honourable tradition of most Australian protesters, even those who occasionally stray outside the law.

Which is why it is so distasteful – indeed, one could even say unAustralian – for the resources minister, Martin Ferguson, to have sooled ASIO and our other security services onto those seeking to disrupt the activities of the coal-seam gas miners.

To suggest that in some way they could constitute a threat to national security in the manner of suicide-bombing terrorists is not simply absurd; it is barely sane.

And it is the mark of a government deeply affected by paranoia, whose ministers see conspiracy, danger and insurrection in every instance of dissent, however overt and legitimate it may be.

If demonstrators and protesters break the law, it is a matter for the police, not for the spooks. Ferguson, who comes from a family steeped in the lore of political protest, should know better.

His father Jack led many a protest in the old days and regarded his ASIO file as a badge of honour, while deploring the authoritarian tendencies in the government which ordered its creation.

Gillard should call young Martin off immediately before Jack rolls out of his grave breathing righteous vengeance upon both of them.

does not give them free reign to cause chaos and carnage on the high seas, and if having done so against the advice of their own government their members get into strife, it’s a bit rough to expect the government to bail them out.

There is no virtue in taking the risks unless you are prepared to bear the responsibility for the consequences.

The government clearly has a duty to do what it can, within the law, to help its own citizens in distress, and in the case of Sea Shepherd’s three crewmen the government has fulfilled that obligation admirably.

But it would be unwise for those who sail under the skull and crossbones to take this as a green light for all future actions.

After all, even Queen Elizabeth had to deny her privateers, heroes such as Morgan and Drake, when their actions took them completely over the ■ See Mungo live at top.

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Street camping

The most recent Weekend Star reported that Tweed Council had prosecuted 15 people for ‘street camping’, which refers to people sleeping and eating in their cars.

This can’t be correct. There is nothing illegal about camping in your car; indeed two years ago Byron Council published local advice to that effect in its meeting agenda. More recently Byron Council deleted street camping from its 2012 compliance program in recognition of the fact it was locally powerless to do anything about it.

I surmise that Tweed Council actually prosecuted street campers for littering, noise, lighting fires, etc, not for street camping as such. They may have gilded the lily in their press release in order to appease local residents, who actually feel territorial about their street and nervous about itinerants.

Last year I was disappointed to hear Byron mayor Jan Barham denigrate holiday campers during council debate on the basis that they spend little money. Have the Greens become beholden to local busi-

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Last chance for say on Kings Forest plans they can go to www.bluecray. org and download several different form letters or write their own based on the content.

Submissions need only be a few lines stating your concerns about Stage 1 project application. Deadline is January 25.

Many thanks to The Echo for advertising the Kings Forest public information meeting at Cabarita last Wednesday night. There were no hecklers and everything went very smoothly.

We had about 70 people in the audience listening to speakers from many different envi-

ronmental groups who were sharing their knowledge of KF. The speakers were very informative and many people were shocked at the many problems there are with Kings Forest.

Subjects covered were ecological, social and economic issues, potential for koala extinction, lack of water saving incentives (necessitating a dam at Byrrill Creek when it need not be done), rate increases, impact on Cudgen Nature Reserve and the illegal clearing of Blacks Creek.

It’s appalling that there has been no public consultation by council, state planning or Leda!

How are we supposed to write submissions on such a huge project application (basically a mini-city for 15,000 people) that has 98 attachments over Christmas/New Year when we are busy with family and social commitments? Without help few of us would be able to do it.

If people would like to submit a form letter re Kings Forest

ness? I was under the impres- system services without pay. sion that the streets belonged Kangaroos regenerate native to everyone, money or no. grasses by dispersing seeds, Fast Buck$ eat dry grasses that ignite Coorabell easily in bush fires (thereby minimising fires), their waste fertilises soil and helps soil Valuable wildlife Why are Aussies brainwashed ecosystems and many speto think of native animals as cies depend on their ability to ‘pests’? They all perform eco- aerate soil with their big toes,

helping many seeds take root.

Flying foxes’ pollination and seed dispersal services are second to none. They collect from night-flowering species and carry them long distances necessary for trees’ survival.

Without them we would have no bananas, papaya, banksias, eucalypts, melaleucas, hard-

wood trees or rainforests.

What can we say about white man? The destruction by the livestock industry (soil erosion, deforestation leading to biodiversity loss and a hotter, windier climate, pollution of air, soil and ground/surface waters, and impact on human health and world hunger), log-

The new high-density mini-city at Kings Forest is currently up for comment. As it is proposed to situate this on top of one of our three remaining koala colonies on the Tweed coast, naturally the members of Team Koala have been taking a keen interest in it. The proposed fence is a step in the right direction by the developer; however, it is very unclear who would be responsible for the maintenance of the fence, and its upkeep.

The best solution would be for the developer to adopt the same principles of koala management as occured at Koala Beach. The simple raft of rules has now been scientifically proven to work. If we could care about our wildlife enough ten years ago, why would we go backwards now?

Councillors will vote to either ‘endorse’ or ‘note’ the professional planners’ reports on Kings Forest Development.

This is one of only two ways

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Sydney will find out what locals think should happen.

Merely ‘noting’ the reports in effect tells Sydney we don’t care what happens in the Tweed, and I’m sure we do. The meeting time is now 10.30 am, and I urge as many people as can to come and see your councillors stand up for our koala population.

Councillors and Sydney need to know we care what happens to the Tweed. Will you please help? It would be greatly appreciated.

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Liffy Jack

Tyalgum

You’ve probably seen quite a bit about koalas lately. About their population numbers reaching dangerous lows, about cars and dogs causing the biggest number of fatalities and about the dedication of volunteer groups who nurse injured koalas that reach them with limited success as injury is typically fatal.

There is a reason you’ve been reading so much lately – the time to do something to make a considerable impact on koala survival has arrived. Are you a friend of the Tweed koalas?. If a friend could not stand up or speak up for themselves in the

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face of threat surely you would be there for them to do whatever you could?

Well, now is that time. The koalas earnestly need friends at a meeting of Tweed Shire Council on Tuesday January 24 at 10.30am. (Alternatively write a quick line to tsc@tweed.nsw. gov.au.)

Councillors will be considering the recommended protections for koalas in the Kings Forest residential development. They have the option of supporting the expert advice of staff regarding this endangered koala colony or they can simply disregard it.

Strange as it seems such advice has been previously disregarded – they have ‘noted’ rather than ‘endorsed’ it.

Please come and show your representatives you support the right action on behalf of the silent but highly valuable minority that is Tweed’s wildlife.

Marion Riordan

Condong

ging, coal mines, never-ending sprawl of concrete is infinitely worse. Perhaps we are the pest?

The extensive documentation on www.stopkangarookilling.org proves kangaroos are being shot by the kangaroo industry in areas where they are quasi-extinct (ie less than continued on page 9

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five kangaroos per square km).

Red kangaroos are being killed three times faster than they can breed and their average lifespan is only two years. Kangaroos give birth to one joey every year and that joey has only a 20 per cent chance of survival. The impacts of floods, fires and drought have a huge toll on their numbers.

It’s time to stop vilifying kangaroos and flying foxes and have some respect for these sentient beings. Farmers could use kangaroo-proof fencing and bat netting. They could give 10 per cent land as a wildlife corridor. They could replace the top strand of barbed wire with single wire.

Some farmers are willing to live in harmony with our native animals and I hope this trend continues. But as long as people remain brainwashed into thinking kangaroos and flying foxes are pests and ‘in plague proportion’ that day is far away, and their potential extinction looms ever closer.

Give kangaroos and flying foxes a break! On Australia Day celebrate our national icons for a change.

Menkit Prince

Uki

Aircraft noise

It is a well-known fact to longterm Tweed residents that the low-altitude southern flight paths to and from Coolangatta Airport have historically always been in a direct line above the previously undeveloped and unpopulated areas of Casuarina, Chinderah, Oxley Cove, Banora Point/South Tweed and West Tweed Heads. The newer suburban residential areas have subsequently grown around the airport, which has also grown to become one of the busiest in the country. Long-term Tweed residents have always known this and deliberately avoided living in these areas in order to evade the noise of aircraft arriving and departing Coolangatta Airport.

Get Echo news daily: www.echonetdaily.net.au It is only in more recent times that successive pro-development Tweed Shire councillors have decided transform this undeveloped land (beneath the airport flight paths) by approving its subdivision and selling it off as residential lots to unsuspecting newcomers, who have not been alert enough to notice the number of aircraft flying at low altitudes directly above their new dream home building sites. These newcomers are now complaining about the high noise levels of the lowflying aircraft and the increased air traffic at the airport, which has been at its present location long before they decided to buy or build their houses there.

The development of vacant land beneath the flight paths on the southern approach to Coolangatta airport is planned to continue with the Kings Forest City, South Kingscliff and Cudgen. Cobaki Lakes will be on the western perimeter of the airport and new developments at Fraser Drive, Terranora and Bilambil Heights will be beneath the southern departure flight paths from Coolangatta airport.

Aircraft on a southern approach to Coolangatta previously crossed the coast at Casuarina above Salt resort, which is also a relatively recent development, but are now frequently crossing the coast at much lower altitudes above the established residential areas at Kingscliff.

Aircraft on a southern departure from Coolangatta are now frequently crossing the coast at much lower altitudes above the established residential areas at Fingal Head.

Due to these relatively recent and future developments and the selfish complaining by newcomers to the area, who have chosen to buy, build and live in the areas directly beneath the aircraft original flight paths, these aircraft are now being dispersed over a larger area and are affecting a larger number of people. The long-term residents of the previously quiet,

Miss the paper paper n What a great paper you have,

local and informative, not afraid to draw people to account even.

But I have to say I really enjoy taking the paper outside, maybe down to the river, somewhere away from computers and phones, the bane of our lives. So I am disappointed.

Hopefully someone will come forward with an idea on how to keep your ‘real’ hard copy paper.

Martin Hope

Uki

As two pensioners who look forward each week with anticipation to our copy of The Tweed Echo arriving, we must express our disappointment with the new online replacement of the printed edition.

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Echo on line, but we are no longer able to enjoy its contents over a cup of coffee at our club or collectively working out Mungo’s crossword before our afternoon ‘nanna nap’.

We recognise that this decision was an economic imperative and a sign of the technological times in which we live. However we are sure that a greater section of readers in this area are of the older generation, such as ourselves, who regret the loss of an alternative viewpoint, which sadly many of us will no longer have the means or desire to access on a computer.

Thank you for many hours of enjoyable reading. The community needed a paper such as yours, and was better for it.

Lesley & Marsh Bryde

Murwillumbah

Dam power plays drain our energy n Further to Megan Jack’s ques-

tion (Letter, Echo Jan 5 2012) as to why Cr Milne’s actions are undermined, her every word is derided and is unsupported by her ‘colleagues’ in Council.

It is an outrage that councillors sacked for corrupt behaviour in 2005 are back in the same position of power and cynically apply bullying tactics and blatant ‘special interest’ representation, as if their sacking had never occurred! These same councillors and their stooges demonstrate scorn and disregard for the community’s concern for sustainable development that protects social, aesthetic and environmental outcomes.

Tweed Shire Council staff have a highly developed understanding of our water needs from their thorough studies on Clarrie Hall Dam in 1984, the 1994 levy installations, and the recent ‘Tweed Shire future water augmentation project’.

You would think the council staff ’s recent definitive, and community supported, recommendation for raising the wall of Clarrie Hall Dam would be respected and applied; however, these same councillors rejected this expert advice for their self-centred reasons. In one short meeting, years of work were negated, causing dismay to council staff and the 200 or so people who contrib-

unpopulated and pristine areas at Kingscliff and Fingal Head are now being forced to suffer noise and pollution, which they knowingly chose to avoid by living in these areas.

If the lifestyle, home values and health of that resident of Oxley Cove are at stake due to a projected 300 per cent increase in air traffic over the next five to ten years (Letters 22/1/12), why does she wish to inflict these things upon an even larger number of people, especially the innocent victims at Fingal Head and Kingscliff, who have paid a premium price for their property deliberately in order to not live under the airport’s original flight paths? She wants everyone else to ‘shoulder the entire burden of increased air traffic’ and wants everyone else to suffer and pay for her own mistake of choosing the wrong place to live.

This is the typical selfish attitude of most of the newcomers to the area that enabled the prodevelopment councillors (who were sacked for corruption) to allow these developments to occur in the first place. These are the same selfish people that want the area developed but then complain when our hospitals are full, we run out of water and our roads are clogged with traffic. They want everything now. Who are the selfish ones here?

uted to ‘the community consulting process.’

In a subsequent meeting, this decision was overturned, Cr Lieshout re-entered the fray and provided the decisive vote against the height increase to the Clarrie Hall Dam, for the second time negating the council staff ’s recommendation... which in effect places the Byrrill Creek Dam site back on the table for further consideration.

Cr Lieshout rescinded her former abstinence to vote over a conflict of interest, by explaining that the Byrrill Creek property, an ‘approved’ 440-dwelling development site, which she lives on, has nothing to do with her... it is her ‘husband’s property’. A development that stands to make massive profits if it becomes waterfront property as a result of a Byrrill Creek Dam. This conflict of interest is obvious, but how can the community express its outrage?

There are suspicions that the process for ‘approval’ of both Cobaki and Kings Forest projects was systematically hijacked from day one and ‘concessions’ at every turn were bullied into place.

We cannot afford, as a community, the massive infrastructure cost we will have to provide, for the water, roads, schools and social issues that

will come from 35,000 additional people in an area of historic unemployment and marginal industry.

Yes, a review of the Cobaki and Kings Forest application processes is in order. The true extent of the future costs to the community should be made public. Costs that reflect not only the interest bill each month for the infrastructure... but the true dollar measure of the social and environmental impact of the projects.

These same councillors have consistently chosen to burden ratepayers with ongoing costs into the future by sanctioning an unnecessary dam and subdivisions with unsustainable social, energy and environmental standards.

I hope the community does express its outrage at the next council election, and cast aside these manipulative opportunists.

Mikah Fausch

Bogangar

n Residents of the Tweed have been divided over the sustainability of future development based on the shire’s future water needs. Whether a new dam is built or developers have to put in place other ways of securing water, the reality of an increase in population overlooks another important issue.

It was reported this week that

there is major concern by power providers that during the hot weather this past week and with more to come, there is the likelihood of power outages as maximum levels of power production are exceeded by the needs of residents. It has to be blindingly obvious that without additional power plants an increase in the population of the Tweed might just be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. Forget about just airconditioning if power is lost for any time. People with tanks won’t be able to pump water, food in refrigerators will be at risk, for those with electric stoves cooking won’t happen, and then there is fuel, medical needs and even the ability to shop because no power means no means of doing transactions. Perhaps Tweed Shire Council and the developers should be also have to consider how much of an impact any development will have on the shire’s power needs. In a sustainable community, electricity has to as important and even more important than just creating more water. Perhaps the money that some councillors want to spend on new dam might be better off being spent on providing the future residents of the Tweed with sustainable power.

Robert Franzos

Murwillumbah

Mayor slammed over dog claims Steve Spencer

Environmentalists have blasted mayor Barry Longland over his claim that allowing domestic dogs into new housing estates may help reduce koala carnage by keeping the slow-moving marsupials away from roads.

Cr Longland admitted it was unproven theory that the sound and smell of domestic dogs, even while safely locked in a backyard, could be a deterrent to roaming koalas but says he hoped it would stimulate debate on how best to protect koalas from car accidents.

But critics say he is ignoring the fact koala habitat was being fragmented by new developmnents creating the need for new roads on which they were killed in the first place.

Tweed koala campaigners have called for a blanket ban on canines in new housing estates, such as the massive Kings Forest development.

According to the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary, many koalas are maimed and killed by packs of rampaging dogs as well as cars.

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away from our busy streets then perhaps it is the lesser of two evils,’ the mayor told The Echo.

The Koala Beach estate west of Pottsville has a ban on dogs.

Just two decades ago the Tweed Coast boasted one of the most viable koala strongholds in NSW with many hundreds of animals living between Wooyung and the Queensland border.

Caldera Environment Centre spokesman Sam Dawson doesn’t share the mayor’s faith in the deterrent value of domestic dogs.

‘There is a certain logic to it, but it is not desirable to have dogs living near koalas,’ said Mr Dawson.

‘Everyone likes domestic

pets but we would like to see them barred from new estates built near koala colonies.

‘It is the scale of these new housing estates that is the real threat to the koala. Development is eating up huge chunks of koala habitat.

‘If a koala food tree becomes part of someone’s backyard, koalas will want to visit that tree whether there is a dog living there or not.

‘Dogs and koalas don’t mix.

These marsupials have few ribs to protect their abdomen and are easily killed; they have very soft underbellies. I don’t know if there is any evidence for the mayor’s theory. Unless you have evidence, putting the theory forward it just outrageous.’

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All good thing must come to an end and the doors to the successful ‘Pop-Up’ will close on Sunday 5 Feb. Pure Pod will be holding a massive SALE for the final two weeks from Sat 21st – 20%–50% off store wide.

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A Little Music on the Slide Have you always felt inclined to pioneer your own individual sound rather than emulate the music you love?… was this a conscious process for you or did it just happen? Originally we did arrangements of early blues songs by some of the great masters, and in fact our new album, alongside the originals, has a number of treatments of songs by our blues heroes. It’s always been about presenting the music we love in our own way.

How would you describe Delta-Blues wall of sound as a genre?

It’s a term I made up – kind of a spoof of Phil Spector’s (the famous producer) production style called the ‘Wall of Sound’. In our case we try to do what US multi-instrumentalist David Lindley calls ‘Little Big Music’ – make as much noise with three people as possible.

Who are the musicians that have most influenced you? It’s a long list and covers a variety of genres – in the blues ilk, the biggest influences are Mississippi Fred McDowell, Charley Patton, Son House, Lead Belly, Blind Willie McTell, Blind Blake, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Skip James, RL Burnside to name a few. In more eclectic THIS WEEK SEMINAL ACOUSTIC BLUES BAND THE mixed genres it’s Ry Cooder and David Lindley, Tom Waits, Dave BACKSLIDERS PLAY THE BYRON THEATRE AT THE Tronzo, Marc Ribot… then of course there’s Vietnamese master COMMUNITY CENTRE. THEY ARE JOINED BY THEIR guitarist Kim Sinh. In dub it’s King Tubby and Lee Perry and instrumental hip-hop, DJ Shadow… that’s before we even get to FIVE-STAR SUPPORT FOR THE EVENING, KRISTINA soul, motown and funk!

OLSEN. What new music are you listening to at the moment? The new You’ve been called ‘the best acoustic blues band in the Ry Cooder album Pull up some dust and sit down; DJ Shadow The country’; what is it about your sound and your outfit that you think has created such an iconic status? We started as an acoustic Less you know the better off you are; Tom Waits Bad as Me; The Black Keys El Camino. act but have definitely blurred the lines over the years – in saying that though, by acoustic I believe it is in reference to the influences What about films, or art; what have you seen that has moved you or you have found remarkable? 2011 films: The Help / The Tree on the band – the early 20C blues artists such as Robert Johnson of Life; music films: Cadillac Records (2008); earlier favourites Tin Men, and Fred McDowell. The status is probably because we’ve been The Apostle, Raging Bull. active for 25 years

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Tell me a little about Starvation Box, your latest release; what is the story of the title? Lead Belly has had a huge influence on me, and we included a few of his songs on the album. His father, Wes Ledbetter, allegedly referred to Lead Belly’s guitar as a ‘Starvation Box’ – meaning that it was going to make Lead Belly poor. The irony was that after Lead Belly died in 1949, the US folk group The Weavers had an international hit with one of Lead Belly’s songs. Wes may have been right.

Did you end up achieving what you set out to achieve with the recording process? We are always striving to make albums that sound real – which is not as easy as it sounds. To quote Tom Waits, ‘music doesn’t want to be recorded’. With Starvation Box (and our last two albums, Left Field Holler and Throwbacks) we recorded at Jim Moginie’s (Midnight Oil) studio in Sydney. The room is perfect for us – in fact part of the wooden flooring was salvaged from the Antler Hotel in Sydney where Midnight Oil did some of their earliest gigs – and Jim’s approach is very much to achieve as analog a sound as possible.

What are the musical choices that you make that you believe define the album? With Starvation Box we continue our theme of trying to present blues themes in a modern context – in this case songs speaking out against oppression and racism – often fuelled by tabloid-style media and ‘shock jocks’ – alongside songs that tell stories of the lives of our blues heroes.

What should we expect for your Currumbin show? A long set as usual – with a lot of material from the new album Starvation Box, interspersed with our favourites from the past 25 years.

The Backsliders plus guest support Kristina Olsen on Friday at Currumbin RSL Soundlounge. For all tickets go to www. gaynorcrawford.com.

graced our shores over the past few years and have gained a huge following in the process.

Both Dean and Lance at 25 years of age are veterans who have cut their teeth in the Imperial Palace, and the Sahara Legends in Concert shows in Las Vegas.

Movies by the Sea – Aladdin

Dean Z, acknowledged as ‘America’s favourite young Elvis’ performs six shows a week at the Branson Missouri Legends in Concert.

Aladdin is a street urchin who accidentally meets Princess Jasmine.

This legendary tale takes these two on a journey filled with magic flying carpet rides, wishes, magic lanterns with the hilarious Robin Williams as the Genie and much more. Every so often an animated movie comes along that the whole family can enjoy and this is one of them. Bring a picnic blanket, the whole family and enjoy a movie under the stars. Friday from 6.30pm – Palm Beach Parklands, Gold Coast Highway, Palm Beach.

What’s the buzz, tell me what’s happening Busby Marou are quickly gaining the reputation as one of the hardest-working live bands in Australia. They spent the back end of 2011 touring with the likes of Dolly Parton, kd lang and Pete Murray as well as some hugely successful headline shows across the nation. Busby Marou scored high rotation slots from Triple J and NOVA and their debut self-titled album reached #24 on the ARIA album charts and #5 on the Australian artist charts. The boys

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are also making their presence felt with strong showings in the nominations at the AIR, Deadly and Queensland music awards.

Their recent TV performance of Underlying Message on Rockwiz, including Jeremy’s ukulele shredfest, has certainly sent tongues wagging. Coolangatta Hotel Friday.

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Then I find out that in the Sunshine State it’s a $400 fine for an unharnessed mutt. Great, $800 for the dogs not wearing seatbelts.

Our car is a seven seater. I need Nine. It’s going to cost $1500 to hire a bus with adequate seat belts. I book the furry beasts into a doggy See Mandy live at B&B. Fleabags are sorted. www.echonetdaily.net.au I start working through the five washing baskets scattered through the house. I count 13 loads, dried and folded and returned to GET AWAY their appropriate owners. Clean ironed clothes appearing in your It’s a sad day when the thought of going on holidays causes a cupboards like that, wow, it must be like a miracle has occurred. stress reaction. Packing for a family of seven is a project that I fantasise about something like that ever happening to me. The requires army-like precision, at least a week lead-in time and day before we are due to leave I start the packing. I pack the baby’s two Valium. And that’s just to go somewhere for the weekend. bag. Jammies, cotton dresses, shorts, t-shirts, swimmers, shoes, Once upon a time when I was single, going away was simple. Ten undies, nappies, hat, shoes, little toothbrush, hair brush, nit comb minutes before I needed to leave the house I’d throw a bag on (she’s been scratching again), bum wipes, paw paw ointment, the bed, put in a few pairs of clean undies, a few t-shirts, a box of goggles, swimming cap, flotation vest, toddler sunscreen. condoms, a book and my toothbrush (clearly I used to be a man).

Then I pack a bag of toys. A few books, pens and paper, a favourite Those days are gone. doll… shit, where is the tiny blue teddy. She’s going to have a Now when I go away I need an action plan. In the week leading up conniption if we leave without him. Two hours later after pulling to our departure I have to develop an exit strategy. Problem one: the house to pieces I find him, hidden in the microwave. Of course, Animals. This never occurs to anyone else in my family. If it weren’t why didn’t I look there in the first place. I pack my son’s bag. A for me they’d be left behind and would be DOR (Dead on Return). t-shirt, a pair of undies and some shorts. I love boys, they are just so As a household with two rabbits, a cat and a dog, it’s always a bit of gloriously simple. a challenge to find someone who’s willing to tend my furry flock.

My three teenage daughters have made three separate girlie piles Occasionally one can dress up pet minding with the title ‘house sit’, of hair straighteners, bikinis, accessories, bulging make-up bags, but this requires you to have an itinerant and reliable friend who’s frilly knickers, pole-dancing shorts and push-up bras. Just what you not going to trash your house or start wearing your undies. need to see Great Nanna. Thank God she’s blind – she’ll be saved Cats can be left behind with a drop-in feeder, as can rabbits, but from all that cleavage. dogs are the co-dependents of the pet world and they require love I pack the family toiletries including my middle-aged regimen of with their meat… just like blokes. cleanser, night cream, day cream, eye cream, neck cream, body While preparing for the three-day trek to western Queensland to cream and tit cream. I pack the instant tan so I can look fat and orange rather than fat and white. I pack the first aid: Nurofen, baby visit my 95-year-old Nanna it occurs to me that my usual ElvisPanadol, dissolvable Panadol for my tablet-swallowing-phobic minding arrangements weren’t going to hold: I currently have daughter, insect repellant, tea-tree oil, band-aids, bandages, two dogs as we have been saddled with someone else’s dog for thermometer in case the baby spikes a fever, Panadol suppositories three weeks. I suggest taking the dogs on the road. They’re small, in case a sudden attack of vomiting means we need to use the if they’re not welcome they can sleep in the car. Although the back door for medication, Laxettes… for the mother who can only Bureau of Meteorology is forecasting 40-degree days.

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poo at home.

The morning of departure has arrived. John packs an esky with water and sandwiches. The baby has peed on my $3000 king-size bed again; I strip it bare, do another two loads of washing and spray the mattress with vinegar to neutralise the stench. The girls are still sleeping. Charlie is on the couch. The baby is pushing banana into the cracks in the floor. I clean out the fridge, clear the fruit bowls and empty the bins. John cleans the bathroom. I vacuum.

The girls wander Zombie-like on their two-hour dressing ritual.

After all, they are supermodels. How did they know we were going to have a leaving-home photo shoot? I prepare the animals for their doggie holiday and drop them off. I feed Ivy. I tidy the toy room. I pack towels. Shoes. John is downstairs vacuuming the car.

We paint a table so it’s dry on our return. I hang out the sheets. We charge the DVD and pack a few kiddie movies.

The kids start fighting about whose turn it is to use the iPod charger. We pack camera chargers, phone chargers, DVD charger.

I feel like crying. It’s 38 degrees inside my house and 25 outside. I wonder if my stress is giving off heat.

I change the phone message. I hide the spare key. I lock the windows. I get on my hands and knees and scrabble under the desk to turn off the computer. I turn off the kids’ computer. I flush the poo thats been lurking in the toilet. I feed the cat and put out fresh water. I move the rabbits to a shady spot. I enforce family weeing. Husband packs car. Kids fight over what seat they get. A rotational roster for the one lone seat is established. It’s midday. We were supposed to leave at 8am. We head out of Mullumbimby. Oh shit. I didn’t pack my bag!

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In 2010 Lance Lipinsky moved from Vegas to perform two shows a night four nights a week as The Killer – Jerry Lee Lewis in the hugely popular Million Dollar Quartet show at the Apollo Theatre in Chicago.

The King, The Killer and The Everlys show is a superb tribute to the early years of rock and roll with performances by Dean and Lance featuring the early years of Elvis and Jerry Lee. As Elvis and Jerry Lee these two young men are second to none, but when they don the persona of the Everly Brothers the audience is taken to another dimension, with the antics and harmonies that made the Everly Brothers a worldwide hit. Friday Twin Towns.

Be surprised by the effortlessness Quietly spoken and extremely determined, this 18-year-old from country Victoria surprises a crowd once an instrument is put in his hand, whether that instrument be guitar, banjo or lap slide. With a seemingly effortless voice and intricate guitar work he is proving

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After the success of the sold out Dance With Me Live Tour in 2011, the incredible Justice Crew are back in 2012 with a brand new show, Sexy And You Know It. The new show which will see the Crew flipping higher than ever before. The Crew will fuse music, dance and extreme athleticism to deliver a heart-pumping and entertaining show that will leave spectators breathless, inspired and wanting more.

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Beach 1.30pm Cabaleros n Seagulls Lakeview Lounge 8pm Joe Ace n Neverland Coolangatta Easy Sundays n Sheoak Shack 7pm Kurtis n Burleigh Bears Leagues Club Gentle 7.30pm Captain Wow n Pottsville Beach Sports Club 5pm Dan Hannaford n Tweed Heads Bowls Club 7.30pm n Cabarita Beach Sports Club John McSweeney 7pm Lonewolf n Sheoak Shack 4pm The n Cudgen Leagues 7pm Paul Reno n Chinderah Tavern 3pm Mark Stillsons n Twin Towns 8pm Justice Crew n Cudgen SLSC Kingscliff 6pm Easton n Sphinx Rock Cafe Mt Burrell Fire & Ice 2pm BluesCorp n Club Banora 7pm Catfish and n Riverview Hotel Murwillumbah the DeeJays n Currumbin Soundlounge n Babalou, Kingscliff Hotel, 2pm Phil Guest 7.30pm Backsliders n Coolangatta Sands Hotel 8pm 2.30pm South Pacific Sound n Surfers Beer Garden Sunday Tyney Charles n Currumbin RSL 7pm High Noon System Sessions n Coolangatta Tweed Heads n Kingscliff Beach Hotel 9pm n Burleigh Bears Leagues Club n Tweed Heads Bowls Club 5pm Golf Club Paul Anthony Stomp FX 2.30pm Robbie & Tony Craig Shaw n Marty’s @ Caba, Cabarita Beach n Currumbin RSL 7pm The Beam n Chinderah Tavern 2pm Dave 7.30pm Eilish Murray n Jakes @ Kingscliff 1pm Mr Troy n Murwillumbah Services Club n Club Banora 11.30am Cathy n Kingscliff Beach Bowls Club 6.30pm Dave Murray Drummond 2pm Talented 7.30pm Happy Daze Karaoke n Kingscliff Beach Bowls Club 12 teen Competition – Heat 3 Noon Robbie Rosenlund n Palm Beach Parklands 6.30pm n Kingscliff Beach Hotel 9pm n Coolangatta Sands Hotel 5pm n Tweed Heads Bowls Club 11am Movies By The Sea Russel Power Clay Blythe Shane Tenaiki 6.30pm Robbie n Marty’s @ Caba, Cabarita Beach n Pottsville Beach Sports Club Rosenlund n Cudgen Slsc Kingscliff 3pm 7.30pm Tess 7pm Mason Rack John J Bradley n Murwillumbah Services Club n Saltbar Kingscliff Preston n Currumbin RSL 1.30pm Soda Pop 6.30pm Darren J Ray Train n Kingscliff Beach Bowls Club n Seagulls Lakeview Lounge 8pm n Pottsville Beach Sports Club n Marty’s At Caba Cabarita Beach 5pm Alan Alderman 6pm Alice Anderson Vanilla 7.30pm Dave Murray’s Open nK ingscliff Beach Hotel 2pm Mic Night n Tweed Heads Bowls Club 11am n Red Piano, Uki 7pm Bill Jacobi Tyney Charles Michael 7.30pm Fiddle Me n Riverview Murwillumbah 7pm n Tweed Heads Bowls Club 6.30pm Please nK irra Sports Club 4pm Have-aMB All stars Shane Tenaiki go-karaoke n Twin Towns 8pm The King, The n Twin Towns Showroom 10.30am n Saltbar, Kingscliff 8.30pm One n Marty’s At Caba, Cabarita Donna Lee sings Doris Day Killer and The Everlys 2 Many

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Thursday 26 n Burleigh Bears Leagues Club 6pm Shane Tenaiki n Chinderah Tavern 2pm Bill Jacobi n Club Banora 6pm Paul Ensbey Trio n Coolangatta Hotel 8pm Kora n Coolangatta Sands Hotel 4pm Jan Nick Muir n Courthouse Hotel, Murwillumbah 12.30pm Blin Willie Wagtail n Cudgen Leagues Club 6pm Martin Way n Kirra Sports Club 8pm Phil Eizenberg’s Open Mike Nite n Riverview Murwillumbah 2pm Broadfoot n Tweed Heads Bowls Club 6pm Swizzle n Twin Towns Oz Rock Band

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Deadline is noon Tuesday prior to publication. themselves to his sizzling drives. Dave ‘Ferg’ Fergusson is the bass guitarist. His light touch and dexterity is the glue that binds the groove with the rhythm and rounds out the BluesCorp sound to perfection. Co-founder Mike ‘The Hammer’ Naylor is on drums: his exceptional timing gives the band its irresistible pulse. Glen Palmer on keyboards weaves the piano around Andrew’s vocals and rocks the house with his dynamic organ versatility.

BluesCorp: good-time rhythm and blues at the Sphinx Rock Café, Sunday.

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This accomplished duo groove to hit tracks from the past 50 years. Combined with smooth vocals and funky guitar, Soda Pop deliver a refreshing twist to any occasion.

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the first round,’ Josh laughs. ‘All we had in our minds was that we wanted to put on a great show for the audience,’ Nathan says. That mentality took Young Men Society all the way to the X Factor top eight, where week by week their unique and unforgettable performances created TV magic. See them at Twin Towns on Saturday.

Ready to spin the blues

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The show promises to entertain and excite people of all ages.

Australia’s hottest dance entertainment act Justice Crew is inviting you to an exciting night out for the whole family to enjoy. Twin Towns Saturday.

The gentlemen are very young Young Men Society formed only three years ago but they move and sound like it’s been forever. While Josh was born and raised in Sydney, Nathan moved over from Cheshire in England and Andi is originally from Indonesia.

Nathan wanted to take a break from college and jumped at his brother’s suggestion to join him in Australia six years ago. ‘Being in Australia helped me find my love for music and entertainment. If i hadn’t made the move I don’t think I would be doing any of this; my mum wanted me to be a plumber in the UK!’

BluesCorp is garnering blues lovers across the north coast with their big-band musical synergy. This group of five has been together less than two years and already they’ve got an album to their name. Three Whole Years is a treasure trove of traditional blues infused with funk and jazz backed by a sprinkle of original tunes. The signature track loops in the mind and before you know it you’re singing their brand of infectious blues.

After a series of chance meetings these talented musicians realised their combined 100 years in the music industry had solid audience appeal. From that moment BluesCorp has been on a rising trajectory.

For 30 years founding member Andrew Clark has used his trademark earthy guitar tones and emotive vocals to deliver the heart of soulful blues.

Joe Le Cleir adds a sensuous sophistication with soaring With YMS formed they wanted to try their luck at the auditions for X saxophone. The audience has Factor Australia. ‘We honestly didn’t think we were going to get past no choice but to abandon They all discovered they could move and sing when they were young. Andi, Nate and Josh all met through their love of dance.

Like their idols Michael Jackson and Chris Brown, they combine their two passions for music and dance and see it as their biggest strength.

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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!

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.

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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.

Salt Village, Kingscliff 6674 4833 dining@fins.com.au Dinner 7 days Lunch Fri, Sat & Sun

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.

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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.

album, Devil’s Night, referring to the tradition of setting unoccupied buildings on fire the night before Halloween, was released in June 2001. It debuted at number one on the US and number two on the UK chart, also reaching the top of the Canadian charts. See what they are made of at the Coolangatta Hotel, Wednesday.

Heavyweights right to the Kora Renowned for their mind-blowing live shows, thanks to their powerhouse rhythm section and multiple vocalists, New Zealand heavyweights Kora have built a solid local fan base in Australia over the past few years. Long sets, brimming with their unique brand of dub-based reggae, infused with electro beats and thumping bass lines, sounds that get everyone moving and venues pumping. Coolangatta Hotel, Thursday 26 January.

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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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Stillsons at the Sheoak Shack

This Wednesday catch one of the country’s favourite altcountry bands, The Stillsons, at the Sheoak Shack and find out just what all the fuss is about.

What do you love most about country music? Ben – It’s the white man’s blues. It’s the stories… and the great musicianship that inevitably goes with country music. A lot of country music also has great humour in the lyrics, even when singing about depressing things.

Do you think all we cool and groovy people try to excuse our deep and dirty love of country by shoving an ‘alt’ in it to make it seem like it’s okay? Ben – We have no shame in liking country music. Bring on George Jones and Buck Owens, Faron Young… But country is like all forms of music: there’s great country music and bad country music. The term ‘altcountry’ makes my think of skinny indie kids in too-tight jeans playing indie music with a steel guitar or a banjo added in…

We come at country more from the folk side of things, way less hip, but way more fun!

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behaviours arise, use them to fuel new ones. If you’re dissatisfied with the status quo then investigate. Ask questions. Do you need to clear the air with anyone before you can move forward?

WITH LILITH  GEMINI: Your boss planet Mercury’s move to If economic realities take authoritative Capricorn activates an enterprising, cana bit of the shine off this do mood which effortlessly week, this song by local attracts new prospects. If a musician Mati Jo might help: connection from long ago Remember with joy the life and faraway detonates a blast from the past that leaves you are living, remember you stirred and shaken, it’s with joy and celebrate it a reminder to complete now. Remember with joy unfinished business. the love you are given,  CANCER: It’s worthwhile remember with joy and keeping in mind this week the Buddhist premise that celebrate it now… the primary beneficiary of  ARIES: If this week’s kindness is always ourself. challenges stretch your elastic, Because it reduces mistrust, resist snappy, cranky reactions boosts confidence and or premature judgments broadens our focus from selfbecause there’s currently interest towards opening up plenty of star support for to others, bringing us a sense thoughtful communication of connection, purpose and which gets everyone on the meaning. same page. Also for steering  LEO: Others pushy this a sensible course between week? Be tolerant of their over-the-moon enthusiasm idiosyncrasies as they are of and grim pessimism… yours. If people challenge  TAURUS: This is a go-ahead, ideas you take for granted, don’t-look-back time for rather than dismiss someone Taurans. If uncomfortable who’s a potential ally, consider whether their perspective has realisations about outdated

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merit. At least it will get you you can stay open to receiving thinking in a new direction. them. If late week Sagittarius moon ignites a travel itch you VIRGO: Venus in another can’t scratch, a trip to inner mutable sign like yours fills space is teaming with all sorts this week’s social sector with of insights, answers, guidance interesting, amusing new and understanding. people to meet and greet.

And with your planetary  CAPRICORN: Capricorns captain Mercury in the sign of like control, why deny it? material concerns, the trick is Especially when this week to have the most fun you can needs control of thoughts without blowing the budget. affecting both your health and feelings towards the LIBRA: This week’s Libran future. Even if you’re not in balancing act requires a fine the mood, Mercury in your line between McScrooge sign of goals and ambitions financial cutbacks and wants a decisive step forward unnecessary comfort in a new direction. spending, between personal preferences and practical  AQUARIUS: This week realities, between gloomy suggests investigating the moods and Pollyanna internal landscape of the optimism. But shimmying Aquariusphere for any stale or along the tightrope between stagnant attitudes that could expressive and receptive? be freshened and regenerated Perfecto! to meet the new year’s changing needs. After which SCORPIO: The new success late-week Sun joins Neptune cycle you’re in closes a in Aquarius to shift your year chapter of personal history into gear… and requires committing your special skills and abilities to  PISCES: This week’s Venus in helping others. Impossible?

Pisces starts a party in your Not if you go with it. This heart and you’ve nothing week steers you away from to lose by adventurous goals that aren’t in alignment experimenting with with this soul purpose. opening your mind to wider perspectives. As Pisces poet SAGITTARIUS: Something WH Auden put it: You owe it initially stressful actually to all of us to get on with what brings improvements and new opportunities this week if you’re good at.

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CHESS by Ian Rogers

Did you go to see Dolly when she was in town, or is that too hard-core for you? Cat – Oh, no, Dolly is easy-listening country!

Only joking. I would have loved to see Dolly, but musicians generally can’t afford to go to those sort of concerts any more.

Should I pay my rent, or go see Dolly…

Play at Seagulls Club, Thurs 6pm Last week’s Australian Champ­ ionship in Geelong saw a new generation of stars, aged 14 to 10, make a significant impact.

Four youngsters in this age group, three of whom had to be given special dispensation to play in the elite championship field, scored 50 per cent or more in Geelong, with Melbourne’s Justin Tan, 14, the pick of the bunch with a top ten finish.

Tan’s was a remarkable achievement because he is also a high achiever at gymnastics, a sport whose onerous daily train­ ing regime has left him precious few non­school hours to perfect his chess.

Ten­year­old Anton Smirnov has broken so many records recently that a 50 per cent score in the Australian Championship might seem almost ho­hum, but the Sydney­sider’s fine result moved him further up on the ranking list of the world’s top ten in his age group.

Queensland’s Yi Liu is rapidly building a reputation as the lucki­ est player in Australia, though

What is the music that has most influenced you? Ben – Well a band’s members all have their own influences. My own are literally too broad to name, though playing steel guitar in the band means I have influences such as western swing, 1940s–1970s country music, jazz etc. Justin – I’m pretty eclectic with what I love, loving bluegrass at present; AC/DC are my fave. Cat – recently digging Heath Cullen, Mia Dyson and Ani Di Franco is my mainstay.

What movie have you watched recently that moved you? Ben – The Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes. Justin – The King’s Speech.

Cat – Max and Mary.

What are the stories that you feel most driven to tell? Justin – most of the time I have no choice about what I write about, so it has ranged from British child migrants to a drunken Kiwi on a pub crawl in London, but the truth be known, it has to have some connection with me.

Where do you collect the narratives for your songs? Are they personal, biographical, or do you hear them in pubs… ?

Justin – We always have an ear out for good one-liners in social situations, but I think what hits the most is when you can relate a story to a personal/family situation; that’s when you know you can write truly from the heart. Both of us (Cat and I) were very lucky to not grow up in alcohol/drug problems in our families, but there was a huge amount of anger and anxiety that could be completely debilitating, so it’s great to able to write about that in a song, then have other people relate to it.

How did you guys meet? Was it the meeting of musical soulmates? Cat – Justin and I met in Melbourne at a bar in Fitzroy in 2006. Justin was playing a show and I’d gone down to scope out his music. I loved what I heard so I propositioned him about playing drums at his next gig… We met Ben in 2009 after our first record Circus was released. Ben came down to watch a show and really dug the band so we ask him over to a jam. It was instant musical love… well, it was on my part, anyhow… I’d say it was a meeting of star-crossed country music lovers.

few would have said he was lucky to receive the 2011 Arlauskas Australian Junior Player of the Year Award at the end of the championship.

Liu’s coach Stephen Solomon, has for decades had an almost magical ability to cause his oppo­ nents to blunder and he seems to have managed to teach this skill to his two star students: David Smerdon, now a grandmaster, and Liu. Bobby Cheng, also 14, was the only member of the foursome with reason to be disappointed by his result, since he had already headed Johansen in winning the Victorian Championship and had been hoping to secure his International Master title in Geelong. When you have already won two international tourna­ ments, expectations are under­ standably high, yet it should not be forgotten that Cheng remains world class in his age group.

All four youngsters are part of a squad set up in early 2011 to help mould an Australian team capable of challenging for a high place in the World Under 16 Olympiad next August in Turkey.

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How do you keep the magic going? Justin – the ideal is to keep everything out in the open and take great care of everything; not saying we actually achieve that, but we try!

What’s on the cards for The Stillsons next year? Ben – More touring, expanding our touring to the west coast, and hopefully beyond. Maybe a new album next year. We’ll let the year unfold and take us where it takes us!

What should we expect for your show here next year? Cat – Wear your dancing shoes and dress sexily; you’ll be getting down to some of the finest original blues, roots and rock.

Sheoak Shack, Fingal Head 4pm Sunday.

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Mungo’s Crossword

Quick Clues

Cryptic Clues

ACROSS 1. Boldness, impertinence (8) 5. Turns aside (5) 10. Game like Housie (5) 11. Large beaked water bird (9) 12. Unlikely partnership (3,6) 13. Lariat (5) 14. Something, usually an organ, inserted in the body (7) 16. Container for hot beverage (6) 18. Long speech or piece of writing (6) 20. Number system based on the figure 10 (7) 22. Small featured role in film or drama (5) 23. Perform an oration (9) 25. Stores selling pastries and other baked sweet things (4,5) 26. Heath plant (5) 27. Concurs, matches (6) 28. Crookm lawbreaker (8) DOWN 1. Mythical food of the gods (8) 2. Sup[ped, ate a meal (5) 3. Popular dessert based on eggs (9,6) 4. Drunk. Toper (7) 6. Cold sweet flavoured by a bean (7, 3-5) 7. Violent wet weather occurrence (9) 8. Wan, pale (6) 9. Powerful, effective (6) 15. Artificial device used to keep heart beats regular (9) 17. Order to begin a game of baseball (4,4) 19. Tyrant, dictator (6) 20. Piece of furniture, usually in the kitchen (7) 21. Wattle (6) 24. Alternative name for the old city of Troy (5)

ACROSS 1. Our currency with a settlement?

What cheek! (8) 5. Turns aside from the way, right, the way back (6) 10. Game writer comes back; leave!

(5) 11. Bird to canoodle with – account!

(9) 12. 51 and 19, or instance – a strange pair (3,6) 13. Look around, donkey to rope (5) 14. Insert talking tree’s answer to he question: animal, vegetable or mineral? (7) 16. Drink, best back in it’s own container (6) 18. Small statement of belief, lengthy document (6) 20. 999 in transfer to number system (7) 22. Come prepared about a small part(5) 23. Talk pompously about physic fee (9) 25. Cops shake out laces to buy tarts (4,5) 26. Heath Jong (5) 27. Silver? Lloyd concurs (6) 28. aught edge of broken nail – that’s crook! (8) DOWN 1. Wild boar aims to be food for the gods (8) 2. Having eaten, expired about noon (5) 3. Cook those mules with cocoa – 1 down to some! (9,6) 4. Top drunk (7) 6. Prepare a camel liver – I can enjoy it with 3! (7,3-5) 7. Dad weather for Iran (9) 8. Not deep, not hot but pale (6) 9. Shoot about half a score -- that’s effective (6) 15. Kerry holds printer’s measure – a device for keeping s regular beat! (9) 17. Start the contest with drama and dance (4,4) 19. Point about psychic power – it can be a try=rant! (6) 20. Furniture for an actor’s helper (7) 21. Accountants and spies – the symbol of our land! (6) 24. Troy, the Italian charge (5)

Last week’s solution

Gold coast singer-songwriter Aaron Bishop recently released his new EP Perfect Place. With the same raw folky feel made the early 70s Morning of the Earth such a success, this CD is a collection of acoustically driven, folkinflected songs with catchy choruses and quirky guitar leads.

‘It’s more stripped back than my last album The Calm Electric’, says Bishop.

‘This time I wanted the songs to breathe a bit more’. Throughout Perfect Place Aaron’s songwriting explores the power of the human spirit, both the dark and the light sides. The EP was produced by composer Scott Lloyd Shelley. ‘Working with Scott was incredible’, says Aaron. ‘He’s a phenomenal musician. I think together we

Mungo’s Crossword first published in The Week.

really got to the essence of the songs’.

Aaron Bishop, who studied at The Australian Institute of Music, has been a musician for 20 years. Aaron lived abroad for many years, playing gigs and recording music in London, Edinburgh, Dublin and Tokyo. In 2008 Bishop released The Calm Electric and the single from the album Light from Killybegs was showcased at the 2009 world MUSEXPO in L.A. Aaron’s music also appears on the All Abilities Playground an online game site for disabled children.

The Echo has two copies of Aaron’s CD to give away. Email: gigs@tweedecho.com.au with the subject header – My Perfect Place.

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In its 21st year, Byron Shire’s longest-running film festival, Flickerfest, will screen a selection of multi-awardwinning Best of International Shorts on Friday and Saturday night, and the Best of Australian Shorts on Sunday.

On Saturday at 2.30pm we will also host Flickerlab, an intensive film workshop with leading industry experts.

Yummy organic food & drinks available | BYO cushion for plastic chairs supplied (or bring your special comfy one).

Tickets: Available at the door or Barebones Artspace (Bangalow – no BF) | Byron Music (+ BF) | All Music and Vision (Ballina, Lismore + BF). FOR THE FULL PROGRAM GO TO IQ.ORG.AU. Byron Flickerfest & Byron All Shorts are presented with the iQ Arts & Eco Centre, and is a fund-raiser for iQ Inc. See & support our local film-makers alongside the best in the world.

Northern Rivers Short Film Competition

Screening: Saturday 21st January. Films Start: 5.00pm. (Doors open – 4.30pm) Awards: Sunday 22nd Jan Prior to Flickerfest: 8.00pm (Doors open 7.30pm)

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RAJU – Germany/24 min/Video/2010 WRI/DIR: Max Zaehle. PROD: Stefan Gieren & Hamburg Media School.

A german couple adopts an Indian orphan.

Their child suddenly disappears and they realise that they are part of the problem.

Student Academy Award, Bronze Medal Winner in the Foreign Category; Angelus, Grand Prize Award Brussels, Best Short Film; Seattle, Grand Jury Prize, Best Film, Best Editing, Best Actor.

JE POURRAIS ETRE VOTRE GRANDMERE (I COULD BE YOUR GRANDMOTHER): France/19min/Video/2010 WRI/DIR: Bernard Tanguy.

PROD: Benoit Blanchard Touched by an old Romanian homeless woman, a business lawyer starts helping beggars.

Australian Premiere. San Sebastian Human Rights; Dresden; Grenoble, Audience Award; Ebensee, Golden Bear

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BRICK NOVAX’S DIARY: USA/15 min/Video/2011 WRI/DIR: Matt Piedmont.

PROD: Nate Young, Simon Millar & Andrew Steele.

Penniless and now living in a seedy motel with only weeks to live, international super legend Brick Novax records his amazing tales as an astronaut.

Australian Premiere. Sundance, Jury Prize; Aspen Shortsfest, The Ellen Award; Seattle, Best Screenplay, Best Art Direction, Audience Choice Award; London BFI LAS PALMAS: Sweden/13 min/Video/2011.

WRI/DIR/PROD: Johannes Nyholm.

A middle-aged lady on a holiday in the sun tries to make new friends and have a good time.

Australian premiere. Hamburg, Audience Award; Gothenburg, Jury Winner

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This competitive local program will screen on 21 January 5pm SHALL WE DANCE: The Tommy Franklin Story: 18:57min alongside the Byron Flickerfest 3-day screenings of the best of Dir: Kurt Mayes / Prod: Kurt Mayes & Travis Hanley A doco about Byron Bay’s own ‘Dancing Man’ Tommy Franklin the world’s short films.

NULLARBOR: Australia/10 min/Video/2011.

WRI: Alister Lockhart & Patrick Sarell. PROD: Katrina Mathers, Merrin Jensen, Patrick Sarell & Daryl Munton.

Brash young punk Bernie is desperate for a cigarette as he cruises across the vast and barren landscape of Australia’s Nullarbor Plain; the longest, straightest stretch of road in the world.

Melbourne International Film Festival 2011 – Holmseglen Award for Best Animation Short Film. Palm Springs International ShortFest 2011 – Special Jury Award. Annecy International Animation Festival 2011. Edinburgh International Film Festival 2011.

JULIAN: Australia/13 min/Video/2011.

WRI/DIR/PROD: Matthew Moore.

Set in a year 4 classroom in 1981 Julian explores a day in the life of a 9-year-old boy.

World Premiere. Berlin International Film Festival 2012 – Crystal Bear Nominee

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Television Guide

SATURDAY 21 ABC 1

1. Few imaginations in mainstream cinema rival that of director Tim Burton, but Guillermo del Toro’s must come close. The remarkable Pan’s Labyrinth (SBS1, Saturday, 9.30pm) has a wonderful hidden monster and darker monsters in the above-ground Spanish fascists which populate a small girl’s life. It is a rivetting exploration of metaphor, cruelty, fairytale, the subconscious and dissociation as self-defence.

2. Caterina Murino and Rufus Sewell star in Zen – Vendetta (ABC1, Sunday, 8.30pm), part of a British television series based on the Aurelio Zen detective novels by the short-lived Michael Dibdin. It was filmed in Italy and the dialogue is in English. Detective novels set in Italy by English writers are quite a phenomenon – it’s hard to go past Donna Leon’s series revolving around Venetian corruption, pasta and red wine, not to mention the charming Commissario Guido Brunetti and his insightful family. See more at www. randomhousesites.co.uk/minisites/donnaleon.

FRIDAY 20 ABC 1

Adventures 7.00 Eating Art 7.35 Brick City 8.30 Crossings (M) 9.30 Movie: 2046 (M 2004) Cantonese drama

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 Dalziel And Pascoe 2.00 My Family 2.30 Women’s Twenty20 Cricket LIVE – Australia v NZ 11.45 Movie: The Eye (MA 2002) Cantonese thriller 1.30 Weatherwatch 6.00 The Drum

7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 My Family 8.30 Midsomer Murders (M) 10.05 Getting On (PG/M)

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6.30 The Project 7.30 Jamie Cooks Summer 8.30 Movie: My Life In Ruins (PG 2009) US comedy. Nia Vardalos, Richard Dreyfuss

6.00 Ten News 7.00 Kids’Programs 9.00 The Circle 11.30 Everyday Gourmet 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 The Doctors 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Judge Judy 11.05 Late Edition News 11.15 Adam 3.30 Infomercial 4.00 Good Chef Bad Hills In Gordon St Tonight 12.15 rage Chef 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful (MA) 5.00 Ten News 6.00 Kids’ Programs

7.00 Spicks And Specks 7.30 Doctor Who 8.30 The Last Man Standing Mexico (M) 9.30 Top Boy (MA) 10.20 Laura Hall: My Battle With Booze (M)

11.15 Being Human (M) 1.10 Root Of All Evil (M) 1.35 ABC News 1.40 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 10.00 The Drum 11.00 ABC News 11.30 7.30 12.00 ABC News 12.30 One Plus One 1.00 BBC News 1.30 Australia Network News 2.00 Newshour 3.00 BBC World News 3.30 One Plus One

10.35 Medium (M) 11.35 The Late Show 12.30 Movie: Friday Night Lights (PG 2004) US football action. Billy Bob Thornton, Lucas Black 3.00 Valentine (M) 4.00 Infomercials 5.00 Religion

6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 6.30 Neighbours 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond 7.30 The Simpsons 8.30 Movie: She’s The One (M 1996) US comedy. Edward Burns, Jennifer Aniston SBS 1 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 10.30 Sex And The City (M/MA)

1.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia 11.40 Cash Call (M) 1.30 Happy Days 1.30 Inspector Rex 2.30 The Squiz 3.00 2.00 The Love Boat 3.00 Charmed 4.00 Letters And Numbers 3.30 World News Touched By An Angel 5.00 7th Heaven 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour 5.30 ONE HD Global Village 6.00 Serie A Football 8.00 RPM 8.30 6.00 Letters And Numbers NFL Total Access 9.30 Arsenal Football 6.30 World News Australia 12.30 Orangutan Diary 1.00 Guerrilla 7.30 Coast Gardeners 1.30 Airline 2.00 Beach 8.30 Empire Of The Seas Patrol 2.30 Big Fish 3.00 True Heroes 9.30 Chronicle of the Third 3.30 Airline 4.00 Jeopardy! 4.30 Beach Reich Patrol 5.00 I Fish

10.30 World News Australia

6.00 M*A*S*H 6.30 Get Smart 7.00 Cops 7.30 Megabridges 8.30 An Idiot Abroad (M) SBS 2 9.30 Miami Swat (M) 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News 10.30 NBL Basketball Sydney v 6.00 China 1 Perth 6.30 Sarah Wiener’s Culinary 12.30 The Ultimate Fighter (M) 2.30 11.05 Movie: Borderline (MA 2008) French Canadian drama 1.00 Movie: I Only Want To Walk (MAV 2008) Spanish mystery 3.15 Weatherwatch

6.00 W-League Football Semi final 7.00 ABC News 7.30 New Tricks 8.30 Accused (M) 9.35 Single-Handed (M)

11.10 The Jonathan Ross Show 11.55 rage (MA)

ABC 2

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6.00 Kids’ Program

7.00 Whites (M) 7.30 Can’t Sleep Kid 8.30 Movie: Goin’ South (PG 1978) Western.

Jack Nicholson, Mary Steenburgen 10.15 Movie: The Big Fix (M 1978) US comedy. Richard Dreyfuss, Susan Anspach

12.00 Top Boy (MA) 12.50 Jess: My New Face 1.45 ABC News 1.50 Close

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6.00 Kids’ Programs 1.00 Seinfeld 1.30 Entertainment Tonight 2.00 TMZ 12.30 Home Shopping 2.30 Married With Children 3.00 Just 7TWO Shoot Me 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 6.30 Martha Stewart Show 7.30 Dr Oz Youth Olympic Games 5.30 Movie: 8.30 Sons And Daughters 9.00 Home Dreamer (PG 2005) US drama. Kurt And Away 9.30 Shortland Street Russell, Dakota Fanning 10.00 Coronation Street 10.30 Night 7.40 Movie: Lovewrecked Court 11.00 Designing Women 11.30 (PG 2005) US comedy.

Beautiful Homes And Great Estates Amanda Bynes, Chris 12.00 Young Ramsay 1.00 Five Mile Carmack Creek 2.00 The Emeril Lagasse Show 9.20 Movie: Mr Woodcock 3.00 Murphy Brown 3.30 Growing Pains (M 2006) US comedy.

4.00 Mad About You 4.30 Who’s The Billy Bob Thornton, Susan Boss? 5.00 Doctor Finlay

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6.00 Australian Open Tennis LIVE 7.00 On The Buses 7.30 SeaChange 8.40 Escape To The Country 9.40 60 Minute Makeover

11.10 Movie: National Lampoon’s Movie Madness (M 1982) US comedy. Peter Riegert, Diane Lane 1.00 Undercovers (M) 2.00 Rubicon (M) 3.00 Reno 911 (M) 5.00 Bratz 5.30 Tamagotch!

7MATE

6.00 Today 9.00 Home Shopping 10.30 Alive & Cooking 11.00 Murder, She Wrote 12.00 Movie: Man About The House (PG 1974) UK comedy.

Richard O’Sullivan, Sally Thomsett 2.00 Friends 3.00 McLeod’s Daughters 4.00 The Golden Girls 5.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show

10.40 The Lakes 11.10 Movie: The Fisher King (M 1991) US comedy. Jeff Bridges, Kathy Najimy 1.45 Mad About You 2.15 Who’s The Boss? 2.40 The Emeril Lagasse Show 3.30 Shortland Street 4.00 Coronation Street 4.30 The Real Seachange 5.00 Designing Women 5.30 Home Shopping 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 Baywatch 3.00 Motor Mate 4.30 Monster Garage 5.30 Pimp My Ride

GEM

6.00 Friends 7.00 The Zoo 7.30 David Attenborough’s Tiger-Spy In The Jungle 8.30 Law & Order (M) 9.30 Movie: Tightrope (M 1984) US drama. Clint Eastwood, Genevieve Bujold

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

6.00 Kids’ Programs

NBN

6.00 Evening News 7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 Two And A Half Men 8.30 Movie: Maverick (PG 1994) US comedy. Mel

7.00 Video Killed The Radio Star AC/DC 7.30 Dragon’s Den 8.30 Sunday Best (M) 10.15 The Jonathan Ross Show

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11.35 Movie: Chinatown (M 1974) US drama. Jack Nicholson, John Huston 1.40 Grand Designs 2.30 Star Stories: Peter Andre And Katie Price (MA) 3.00 rage

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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 Elders: Rosalie Kunoth-Monks 2.00 From The Ashes 2.30 Women’s Twenty20 Cricket LIVE – Australia v NZ

12.00 Conan (M) 1.00 Psychic TV 2.30 Law & Order (M) 3.20 Movie: 11.30 Cops, Cars And Superstars (M) The Cracksman (G 1963) UK comedy.

12.30 Adam 12 1.00 Wagon Train 2.00 Charles Drake, George Sanders 5.30 Magnum PI 3.00 The Incredible Hulk The Golden Girls 4.00 Baywatch 5.00 The A Team

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SUNDAY 22

6.00 W-League Football Semi final 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Grand Designs 8.30 Movie: Zen – Vendetta (M 2011) UK mystery.

Rufus Sewell, Caterina Murino 10.05 Inspector George Gently (M)

7.00 How I Met Your Mother 7.30 Mighty Structures 8.30 Paradise Lost (M) 9.30 Is It Real 10.30 Freak Encounters

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TEN

6.00 Kids’ Programs 10.00 Hot30 Countdown 12.00 Radar 12.30 Hit Rater.Com 1.00 Life Unexpected 2.00 Everyday Gourmet 2.30 Kakadu Invasion 3.30 Making Tracks 4.00 Escape With ET 5.00 Ten News

12.30 Home Shopping

7TWO

6.30 Kids’ Programs 9.00 Better Homes And Gardens 10.00 The Great Outdoors 11.00 Queensland Weekender 11.30 Great South East 12.00 Creek To Coast 6.30 Movie: Doctor Dolittle 12.30 The Travel Bug 1.30 Weekend Kitchen 4.30 Petkeeping 5.00 Digging (PG 1998) US comedy.

Eddie Murphy, Ossie Davis Deep 5.30 Rising Damp

8.30 The Graham Norton Show (M) 9.30 Movie: Volcano (M 1997) US action. Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche

6.00 Australian Open Tennis LIVE 6.30 Down To Earth 7.30 Heartbeat 8.30 Taggart (M)

11.40 Movie: The Informant (M 2008) 10.40 Rome (MA) 11.50 Movie: Australian drama. Colin Friels, Matt Day Neighbours (M 1981) US comedy. John 4.00 Big Ideas 5.00 ABC News 6.00 1.30 Infomercials 4.00 Religion Belushi, Kathryn Walker 1.45 The Travel Tonic 6.30 Message Stick 7.00 ABC Bug 2.40 Australian Open Tennis 2010: News 7.30 Contact Sport 8.00 ABC ELEVEN Federer v Murray News 8.30 Big Ideas 9.00 ABC News 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The Brady 9.30 Big Ideas 10.00 ABC News 10.30 Bunch 8.30 Everybody Loves Raymond 7MATE State To State 11.00 ABC News 11.30 9.00 Touched By An Angel 10.00 7th 6.00 The Jeff Foxworthy Show 6.30 Catalyst 12.00 ABC News 12.30 7.30 Heaven 11.00 The Love Boat 12.00 Wagon Train 7.30 The Incredible Hulk Select 1.00 Big Ideas 2.00 ABC News Charmed 1.00 Jag 2.00 MacGyver 8.30 Adam 12 9.00 NBC Today 11.00 2.30 Message Stick 3.00 ABC News 3.00 King Of Queens 3.30 Cheers 4.00 Magnum PI 12.00 Knight Rider 1.00 3.30 Foreign Correspondent 4.00 ABC Roseanne 4.30 Family Ties 5.00 Happy The A Team 2.00 Man V Food 3.00 Hercules 5.00 The Drew Carey Show News 4.30 State To State 5.00 ABC News Days 5.30 The Brady Bunch 5.30 One Plus One 6.00 ABC News 6.30 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 5.30 Monster Fish Australian Story 7.00 ABC News 7.30 6.30 Everybody Loves Raymond 6.30 Mighty Structures The World This Week 8.00 Four Corners 7.30 Frasier 7.30 Mega Movers 8.45 Arts Quarter 9.00 ABC News 10.00 8.30 Shockwave Everybody Loves Raymond 8.00 ABC News 10.30 7.30 Select 11.00 ABC 9.30 Mega Disasters News 11.30 Foreign Correspondent 8.30 Frasier 10.30 The Universe 12.00 Big Ideas 1.00 BBC World News 9.00 Everybody Loves Raymond 11.30 Unsolved Mysteries (M) 12.30 1.30 Tonic 2.00 Newshour 3.00 BBC 9.30 Star Trek: Voyager 11.30 Cheers 12.00 Roseanne 12.30 The Jeff Foxworthy Show 1.00 The A World News 3.30 Message Stick Sabrina The Teenage Witch 1.00 King Team 2.00 The Incredible Hulk 3.00 SBS 1 Of Queens 1.30 Happy Days 2.00 The Wagon Train 4.00 Magnum PI 5.00 Adam 12 5.30 Home Shopping 5.00 World News 5.05 World News 1.00 Love Boat 3.00 Charmed 4.00 Touched Ballet: Snow White 2.35 Leonardo da By An Angel 5.00 7th Heaven NBN Vinci 3.25 The Neighbour 3.55 The ONE HD 6.00 Danoz 7.00 Weekend Today 9.00 Beauty Of Books 4.30 Newshour 5.30 6.00 Australian Superboat Kids’ Programs 11.30 Tour Down Under Celtic Thunder Championship 6.30 Serie A Football Cycling – LIVE 4.00 The Fresh Prince Of 6.30 World News Australia 7.00 NFL America’s Game 8.00 World Bel Air 4.30 The Garden Gurus 5.00 7.30 Monster Moves Of Free Sports 8.30 NBL Basketball NBN News 5.30 Antiques Roadshow 8.30 RocKwiz – Sydney v Perth 10.30 X Venture 6.00 NBN News 9.30 Movie: Pan’s Labyrinth Corporate Games 11.30 WWE 6.30 Australia’s Funniest (MAV 2006) Spanish Home Videos Experience 12.30 True Heroes 1.30 fantasy Omnisport 2.00 UFC LIVE – Guillard v 7.30 Movie: Monster House 11.35 Movie: REC (MAV 2007) Spanish Miller 4.30 Places We Go 5.30 M*A*S*H (PG 2006) Animation thriller 1.00 The Jaquie Brown Diaries 6.00 I Fish 8.40 Lotto

ABC NEWS 24

UFC 142 Prelims (M) 4.30 FA Cup Classic Gibson, Jodie Foster 5.00 Omnisport 5.30 RPM 11.00 Tour Down Under Cycling Highlights 12.00 Movie: Cedar Boys PRIME (AV 2009) Australian drama. Rachael 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 Kids’ Programs 10.00 Taylor, Martin Henderson 2.00 Movie: That ’70s Show 10.30 Seven News Drowning Mona (M 2000) US comedy.

11.00 Australian Open Tennis – LIVE Danny De Vito, Bette Midler 4.00 Danoz 6.00 Prime News 4.30 Good Morning America

ELEVEN

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

By An Angel 10.00 7th Heaven 11.00 The Love Boat 12.00 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

5.00 rage (PG) 11.00 Adventures In Architecture 12.00 My Family 12.30 Unlikely Travellers 1.00 WNBL Basketball LIVE – Canberra v Logan 2.30 Women’s Twenty20 Cricket LIVE – Australia v NZ

6.30 The WWE Experience 7.30 Fear Factor (M) 1.30 Weatherwatch 8.30 Cops (M/MA) 9.30 48 Hours (M) SBS 2 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News 10.30 NBL Basketball Gold Coast v Melbourne 6.00 A Fork In The 12.30 NBL Basketball –Sydney v Perth Mediterranean Venice 2.30 The Ultimate Fighter (M) 3.30 Serie 6.30 Risky Business A Football 5.30 Omnisport 7.30 Who Do You Think You PRIME Are? 6.00 Kids’ Programs 7.00 Weekend 8.30 Aurélie Dupont Sunrise 9.00 Kids’ Programs 11.00 9.35 Movie: Rapt (M 2009) Australian Open Tennis – LIVE French drama 11.50 Movie: Wintersleepers (M 1997) 6.00 Seven News 6.30 Australian Open Tennis German drama 1.55 Weatherwatch LIVE

11.00 London Live: Kells 11.25 Ryan Adams And The Cardinals 12.25 Beautiful Noise: Ben Kweller 1.25 Junkyard Wars 2.10 ABC News 2.15 Close

ABC NEWS 24

4.00 Big Ideas 5.00 Newshour 6.00 Australian Story 6.30 Message Stick 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 Select 8.00 ABC News 8.30 Big Ideas 8.45 Health Quarter 9.00 ABC News 9.30 The World This Week 10.00 ABC News 10.30 State To State 11.00 ABC News 11.30 One Plus One 12.00 ABC News 12.30 Tonic 1.00 Big Ideas 2.00 ABC News 2.30 Message Stick 3.00 ABC News 3.30 Australian Story 4.00 ABC News 4.30 State To State 5.00 ABC News 5.30 Catalyst 6.00 ABC News 6.30 Foreign Correspondent 7.00 ABC News 7.30 One Plus One 8.00 ABC News 8.30 Eye Of The Storm: The Weather In 2011 9.00 ABC News 9.30 Tonic 10.00 ABC News 10.30 The World This Week 11.00 ABC News 11.30 Australian Story 12.00 Big Ideas 1.00 BBC World News 1.30 7.30 Select 2.00 Newshour 3.00 BBC World News 3.30 Message Stick

SBS 1

Race 10.00 Australian Superboat Championship 11.00 World Of Free Australians 4.15 Spacefiles 4.30 A Fork Sports 11.30 Beach Patrol 2.00 NBL Basketball – Gold Coast v Melbourne In Africa 5.00 Cycling Central 2.00 Fear Factor 3.00 Airline 3.30 6.00 Thalassa Jaguar Adventure 4.30 Places We Go 6.30 World News Australia 5.30 I Fish 6.00 Big Fish 7.30 A History Of Ancient

Britain 8.30 Once Upon A Time In Cabramatta (M) 9.30 Movie: Head-On (MAV 2003) German drama

9.30 Movie: Firewall (M 2006) US thriller. Harrison Ford, Virginia Madsen

11.40 Movie: Killer Instinct (M 2003) US drama. Jean Smart, Robert Joy 1.20 Movie: Cross Of Iron (AV 1977) UK action. James Coburn, Maximillian Schell 4.00 Infomercials

GO!

6.00 Kids’ Programs 2.30 Married With Children 3.30 Spin City 4.30 2012 Youth Olympic Games 5.30 Total Wipeout

6.30 Top Gear USA 7.30 Movie: Three Amigos!

(PG 1986) US comedy.

Steve Martin, Chevy Chase 9.40 Movie: Blazing Saddles (M 1974) US comedy. Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder

11.30 South Park (MA) 12.30 Grind (M) 2.30 Total Wipeout UK 3.30 Top Gear USA 4.30 The City 5.00 Bratz 5.30 Tamagotchi

GEM

6.00 Movie: Man About The House (PG 1974) UK comedy. Richard O’Sullivan, Sally Thomsett 8.00 Infomercials 9.30 Murder, She Wrote 10.30 Movie: The Magic Box (G 1951) UK biography.

Maria Schell, Margaret Johnston 12.45 Movie: The Boy From Oklahoma (G 1954) Western. Will Rogers Jr, Nancy Olson 2.35 Movie: Rio Bravo (PG 1959) Western. John Wayne, Dean Martin 5.30 Movie: A Walk To Remember (PG 2002) US drama. Shane West, Mandy Moore

7.30 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: And Soon The Darkness (M 1970) UK thriller. Michele Dotrice, Claire Kelly 3.45 Movie: Ice Cold In Alex (PG 1958) WWII drama. John Mills, Sylvia Syms

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.

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 Tour Down Under Cycling – LIVE 4.00 The 6.30 Nature’s Power Revealed Bill Engvall Show 4.30 Manly Surf 5.00 NBN News 5.30 Antiques Roadshow

7.30 Ice Road Truckers 8.30 Movie: TBA

6.00 NBN News 6.30 The Big Bang Theory

10.35 NBL Basketball – Adelaide v Cairns 12.35 NBL Basketball – Sydney 7.30 60 Minutes 8.30 The Mentalist (M) 11.40 Movie: Brides (MA 2004) v Perth 2.35 The Ultimate Fighter (M) 10.30 CSI: NY (M) 3.35 RPM 4.05 Omnisport 4.30 Magic Greek drama 1.55 Weatherwatch 11.30 Flashpoint (M) 12.30 Memphis Of The FA Cup Beat (M) 1.30 Spyforce 2.30 Home SBS 2 PRIME Shopping 4.00 Good Morning America 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 6.00 Religion 7.00 Weekend Sunrise 5.00 Early Morning News 6.00 More Than A Fiesta 10.00 World’s Strictest Parents 11.00 GO! 6.40 Iron Chef Australian Open Tennis – LIVE 7.30 Ninja Warrior 6.00 Kids’Programs 7.30 Youth Olympic 6.00 Seven News 8.00 Unbeatable Banzuke 6.30 Australian Open Tennis Games 8.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Youth Olympic Games 5.30 Movie: Richie 8.30 Once Upon A Time In LIVE Rich (PG 1994) US comedy. Macaulay Cabramatta (M) 12.30 Home Shopping 5.30 Seven Culkin, John Larroquette 9.30 Inspector Montalbano (M) News 7.30 The Big Bang Theory 11.20 Movie: The Method (M 2005) 9.30 Movie: The Punisher (AV Spanish thriller 1.25 Weatherwatch 7TWO 2004) US action. Thomas 6.30 Step By Step 7.00 Growing Pains TEN 7.30 Ugly Betty 8.30 Home Shopping Jane, John Travolta 6.00 Religion 7.00 Kids’ Programs 9.00 9.30 Route 66 10.30 Naked City 11.00 12.00 Gossip Girl (M) 1.00 The Hills 1.30 Hot30 Countdown 12.00 Good Chef Welcome Back Kotter 11.20 Movie: Reno 911 (M) 2.00 Home Shopping Bad Chef 12.30 All 4 Adventure 1.00 Jubal (PG 1956) Western. Glenn Ford, 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 4x4 Adventures 2.00 Ironman Series: Ernest Borgnine 1.30 Movie: Phffft! Married With Children 5.30 The Newcastle 5.00 Ten News (PG 1954) US comedy. Judy Holliday, Flintstones 6.00 The Project Jack Lemmon 3.40 Movie: The Prince 6.30 Young Talent Time & Me (PG 2004) US comedy. Julia Stiles, GEM 6.00 Infomercials 6.30 Movie: It 7.30 Modern Family Luke Mably 8.00 New Girl 6.30 Australian Open Tennis Always Rains On Sunday (PG 1947) UK drama. Googie Withers, Jack Warner 8.30 Homeland (M) LIVE 8.30 Infomercials 10.00 Movie: Till 9.40 NCIS (M) 6.30 Dad’s Army Death Us Do Part (PG 1968) UK com10.40 Medium (M) 11.40 TBA 1.30 7.00 Worst Week Of My Life edy. Warren Mitchell, Dandy Nichols Infomercials 4.00 Religion 7.40 The Thin Blue Line 12.00 Movie: Lady Caroline Lamb 8.20 South ELEVEN (PG 1972) UK drama. Sarah Miles, Jon 8.50 Escape To The Country Finch 2.30 The Garden Gurus 3.00 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The Brady 9.50 60 Minute Makeover Getaway 4.00 Movie: Ocean’s Eleven Bunch 8.30 Everybody Loves Raymond 10.50 Homes Under The Hammer 12.00 (PG 1960) US comedy. Frank Sinatra Jr, 9.00 Touched By An Angel 10.00 7th Heaven 11.00 The Love Boat 12.00 The World At War 1.00 Route 66 1.45 Dean Martin Charmed 1.00 Jag 2.00 MacGyver Naked City 2.15 Australian Open Tennis 6.30 Movie: Music & Lyrics 3.00 King Of Queens 3.30 Cheers 4.00 2007: Federer v Gonzalez 5.00 Room (PG 2007) US comedy.

Roseanne 4.30 Family Ties 5.00 Happy For Improvement 5.30 Home Shopping Hugh Grant, Drew Days 5.30 The Brady Bunch Barrymore 7MATE

6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 6.30 Everybody Loves Raymond 7.30 Futurama 8.30 Movie: Just Married (M 2003) US comedy. Ashton Kutcher, Brittany Murphy 10.30 Everybody Loves Raymond

6.30 Wagon Train 7.30 The Incredible 8.40 Movie: Something’s Gotta Give (M 2003) US Hulk 8.30 Home Shopping 9.30 Ned comedy. Jack Nicholson, And Stacey 10.00 The Jeff Foxworthy Diane Keaton Show 11.00 Magnum PI 12.00 Knight Rider 1.00 The A Team 2.00 Man V Food 11.15 Movie: Agatha Christie’s 3.00 The Rockford Files 5.00 Drew Carey Death On The Nile (M 1978) UK mysShow 5.30 Smash Lab 6.30 Verminators tery. Peter Ustinov, Bette Davis 2.00 Home Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 11.00 Family Ties 11.30 Cheers 12.00 7.30 Mythbusters Adventures In Rainbow Country 5.30 Roseanne 12.30 Sabrina The Teenage 8.30 Movie: Armed And Today Witch 1.00 King Of Queens 1.30 Happy Dangerous (M 1986) US Days 2.00 The Love Boat 3.00 Charmed comedy. John Candy, 4.00 Touched By An Angel 5.00 7th Eugene Levy Heaven

10.30 Warehouse 13 (M)

12.30 Caprica (M) 2.30 Man V Food 5.00 World News 8.30 PopAsia ONE HD 10.30 Football Asia 11.00 Football 6.00 Pro Bull Riding 7.00 Serie A 3.00 Wagon Train 4.00 Magnum PI 5.00 Feature 12.00 Futbol Mundial 12.30 Football 7.30 Beach Patrol 8.00 Ned And Stacey 5.30 Home Shopping Speedweek 2.00 World News 3.00 First 4x4 Adventures 9.00 Volvo Ocean

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Monday 23 ABC 1

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 12.40 Monarch Of The Glen 1.30 The Free Range Cook 2.00 Waterloo Road 3.00 Kids’Programs

10.30 Blue Bloods (M) Weatherwatch

SBS 2

5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News

6.00 China 21 6.30 Sarah Wiener’s Culinary Adventures 7.00 Kung Fu Kitchen 7.30 How To Survive A 6.00 The Drum Disaster 7.00 ABC News 8.30 Dark Science 7.30 7.30 9.30 The World Game 8.00 Best Of Australian Story 10.30 Movie: Come Drink With Black Cavier Me (MA 1966) Mandarin 8.30 Harry’s Arctic Heroes action 9.30 Secret Pakistan 12.10 Weatherwatch 10.20 Late Edition News

10.35 Silent Witness (M) 11.30 Trial And TEN Retribution (M) 12.20 Darling Buds Of 6.00 Ten News 7.00 Kids’Programs 9.00 May 1.10 Harry’s Arctic Heroes 2.05 The The Circle 11.30 Everyday Gourmet Story Of India 3.00 rage 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 The Doctors 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Judge Judy ABC 2 3.30 Infomercial 4.00 Good Chef Bad 6.00 Kids’ Programs Chef 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful 7.00 Spicks And Specks 5.00 Ten News

7.30 Doctor Who 8.30 Haven (M) 9.30 The Runaway (M) 10.15 Alan Carr (M)

6.00 The Project 7.00 The Biggest Loser 8.00 Modern Family 8.30 NCIS: Los Angeles (M) 10.50 Dragon’s Den 11.50 Sanctuary 9.30 The Glades (M) (M) 12.35 Zoo Days 1.00 Junkyard Wars 10.30 Medium (M) 1.50 ABC News 1.55 Close

ABC NEWS 24

4.00 ABC News 4.05 The World This Week 4.30 One Plus One 5.00 Newshour 6.00 ABC News 12.30 Australia Network News 1.00 ABC News 2.30 Australia Network News 3.00 Afternoon Live 5.45 Environment Quarter 6.00 The Drum 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 ABC News 8.15 Press Club Selection 9.00 The World 10.00 The Drum 11.00 ABC News 11.30 7.30 12.00 ABC News 12.30 7.30 Select 1.00 BBC News 1.30 Australia Network News 2.00 Newshour 3.00 BBC World News 3.30 7.30 Select

SBS 1

5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 1.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia 1.30 Prototype This 2.30 ADbc 3.00 Letters And Numbers 3.30 World News 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Futbol Mundial 5.00 The Crew 5.30 Global Village

6.00 Letters And Numbers 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Mythbusters 8.30 Freddie Flintoff Versus The World (M) 9.30 Wilfred (MA) 10.00 South Park (M) 10.30 World News Australia

11.30 The Late Show 12.30 Infomercials 4.00 Religion

Eleven

News 5.30 Hot Seat 11.30 M*A*S*H 12.00 Omnisport 12.30 6.00 NBN News UFC – Guillard v Miller 3.00 Serie A 7.00 A Current Affair Football 5.00 Magic Of The FA Cup 7.30 The Big Bang Theory

PRIME

8.25 Lotto 8.30 The Mentalist (M)

7.00 Home And Away 7.30 Australian Open Tennis LIVE

GO!

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 Kids’ Programs 9.30 Dr Oz 10.30 Seven News 11.00 9.30 Harry’s Law (M) 11.30 The Unusuals (M) 12.30 The Australian Open Tennis – LIVE Avengers 1.30 Entertainment Tonight 6.00 Prime News 2.00 Infomercials 3.30 Good Morning 6.30 Seven News America 5.00 Early Morning News 6.00 Kids’ Programs 7.30 Youth 12.30 Home Shopping 5.30 News Olympic Games 8.30 Kids’ Programs 1.00 Seinfeld 1.30 Entertainment 7TWO Tonight 2.00 TMZ 2.30 Married With 6.30 Martha Stewart Show 7.30 Dr Oz Children 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 Kids’ 8.30 Sons And Daughters 9.00 Home Programs 4.30 Youth Olympic Games And Away 9.30 Shortland Street 5.30 Bewitched 10.00 Coronation Street 10.30 Night 6.00 Seinfeld Court 11.00 Designing Women 11.30 6.30 Movie: She’s The Man Beautiful Homes And Great Estates (PG 2006) US comedy.

12.00 Young Ramsay 1.00 Five Mile Amanda Bynes, Alex Creek 2.00 The Emeril Lagasse Show Brekenridge 3.00 Murphy Brown 3.30 Growing Pains 4.00 Mad About You 4.30 Who’s The 8.30 The Big Bang Theory 9.00 The Inbetweeners (MA) Boss? 5.00 Doctor Finlay

6.00 Australian Open Tennis LIVE 7.30 Heartbeat 9.40 Ruth Rendell Mysteries (M)

10.45 The Bill (M) 11.45 Six Feet Under (M) 12.45 Who’s The Boss?

1.10 The Emeril Lagasse Show 2.00 Room For Improvement 2.30 Leyland Brothers World 3.30 Shortland Street 4.00 Coronation Street 4.30 The Real Seachange 5.00 Designing Women 5.30 Home Shopping

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 7MATE 3.30 Cheers 4.00 Roseanne 4.30 Family Ties 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 The Brady 6.30 Wagon Train 7.30 The Incredible Hulk 8.30 Adam 12 9.00 NBC Today Bunch 10.00 NBC Meet The Press 11.00 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch Magnum PI 12.00 Knight Rider 1.00 6.30 Neighbours The A Team 2.00 Baywatch 3.00 Motor 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond Mate 4.30 Monster Garage 5.30 That 7.30 Futurama ’70s Show

8.30 Supernatural (M) 9.30 Smallville (M) 10.30 The Late Late Show

6.30 My Wife And Kids 7.00 How I Met Your Mother 7.30 American Dad 11.30 Cash Call (M) 1.30 Happy Days 8.30 Family Guy (M) 2.00 The Love Boat 3.00 Charmed 4.00 9.00 American Dad (M) Touched By An Angel 5.00 7th Heaven 9.30 Family Guy (M) 10.30 American Dad (M) ONE HD 6.00 NFL America’s Game 7.00 National Football League – LIVE 2.00 Omnisport 2.30 World Of Free Sports 3.00 True Heroes 3.30 Airline 4.00 Jeopardy! 4.30 Beach Patrol 5.00 I Fish

GEM

6.00 Today 9.00 Home Shopping 10.30 Alive & Cooking 11.00 Murder, She Wrote 12.00 Movie: Some People (G 1962) UK drama. Kenneth More, Ray Brooks 2.00 RPA 3.00 David Attenborough’s Tiger-Spy In The Jungle 4.00 The Golden Girls 5.00 The Ellen Denegeres Show

6.00 Friends 7.00 The Zoo 7.30 Friends 8.30 Joanna Lumley’s Nile 9.30 Hell’s Kitchen (MA)

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

NBN

5.30 Today 9.00 Kerri-Anne 10.30 The New Adventures Of Old Christine 11.00 Home Shopping 12.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 1.00 The View 2.00 Days Of Our Lives 3.00 Entertainment Tonight 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 NBN

Tuesday 24

4.30 Beach Patrol 5.00 I Fish

ABC 1

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

11.00 Scrubs 12.00 Knight Rider 1.00 Wagon Train 2.00 Magnum PI 3.00 The Incredible Hulk 4.00 Baywatch 5.00 Adam 12 5.30 Home Shopping

6.00 M*A*S*H 6.30 Get Smart 7.00 Cops 11.05 The World Game 12.05 7.30 Who’s Line Is It Anyway?

SOS 1.05 Movie: Connected 8.30 Seriously Funny – Comedy Gala Gold (M) (M 2008) Cantonese thriller 3.10

4.00 Chaser’s War On Everything (M) 4.30 Can We Help? 5.00 Gardening Australia 5.30 State To State 6.00 ABC News 10.00 Time Team 11.00 Battlefield Mysteries 11.45 Picture Perfect Homes 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Seven Ages Of Britain 1.30 Meerkat Manor 2.00 Waterloo Road 3.00 Kids’ Programs

9.30 Movie: The Punisher – War Zone (AV 2008) US action. Ray Stevenson, Dominic West

6.00 M*A*S*H 10.30 World News Australia 6.30 Get Smart 11.05 Movie: Transylvania (M 2006) 7.00 Cops French drama 12.55 Mad Men 2.50 7.30 Expedition Impossible Weatherwatch 8.30 Cops (M) 9.30 Rush (M) SBS 2

NBN

5.30 Today 9.00 Kerri-Anne 10.00 Kids’ Programs 10.30 Fourth Test Cricket LIVE – Australia v India 1.00 The Cricket Show 1.30 Cricket continues

6.00 NBN News 7.00 A Current Affair 11.30 M*A*S*H 12.00 24 (M) 1.00 The 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News 7.30 The Big Bang Theory League (MA) 1.30 Omnisport 2.00 6.00 China 21 8.30 Two And A Half Men (M) Magic Of The FA Cup 3.00 Arsenal 6.30 Sarah Wiener’s Culinary 9.00 Mike And Molly (M) Football Adventures 9.30 Top Gear Botswana PRIME 7.00 Kung Fu Kitchen Special 6.00 The Drum 7.30 Lost Worlds The 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 Kids’ Programs 10.40 TBA 11.30 The Unusuals (M) 7.00 ABC News 9.30 Dr Oz 10.30 Seven News 11.00 12.30 20/20 1.30 Home Shopping Forbidden City 7.30 7.30 Australian Open Tennis LIVE – Quarter 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 8.30 As It Happened Jesse 8.00 Nigella Kitchen Early Morning News Finals James 8.30 Nature’s Miracle Babies 9.30 Movie: Curse Of The 6.00 Prime News GO! 9.25 Extraordinary School Golden Flower (M 2006) 6.30 Seven News 6.00 Kids’ Programs 7.30 Youth For Boys

7.00 Home And Away Mandarin action Olympic Games 8.30 Kids’ Programs 10.25 Late Edition News 11.30 Movie: Jade Warrior (M 2006) 7.30 Australian Open Tennis 1.00 Seinfeld 1.30 Entertainment 10.35 Spooks (M) 11.30 Trial And Finnish action 1.20 Weatherwatch LIVE – Quarter Finals Tonight 2.00 TMZ 2.30 Married With Retribution (M) 12.20 Monarch Of The Glen 1.10 Nature’s Miracle Babies 2.00 TEN The Story Of India 3.00 rage 6.00 Ten News 7.00 Kids’Programs 9.00 The Circle 11.30 Everyday Gourmet ABC 2 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 The Doctors 2.00 6.00 Kids’ Programs Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Judge Judy 7.00 Spicks And Specks 3.30 Infomercial 4.00 Good Chef Bad 7.30 Doctor Who Chef 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful 8.30 PhoneShop (M) 5.00 Ten News

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

10.45 Arrested Development 11.10 Torchwood (M) 12.00 No Way San Jose 12.30 Planet Rock Profiles: Shakira 1.00 Green Wing (M) 1.50 ABC News 1.55 Close

ABC NEWS 24

Children 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Youth Olympic Games 6.30 Martha Stewart Show 7.30 Dr Oz 5.30 Bewitched 8.30 Sons And Daughters 9.00 Home 6.00 Seinfeld And Away 9.30 Shortland Street 6.30 Movie: Inkheart (PG 2007) German adventure.

10.00 Coronation Street 10.30 Night Brendan Fraser, Paul Court 11.00 Designing Women 11.30 Bettany Beautiful Homes And Great Estates 12.00 Young Ramsay 1.00 Five Mile 8.40 Top Gear 6.00 The Project Creek 2.00 The Emeril Lagasse Show 9.40 Movie: Underworld – 7.00 The Biggest Loser 3.00 Murphy Brown 3.30 Growing Pains Evolution (AV 2006) US 8.00 Modern Family 4.00 Mad About You 4.30 Who’s The action. Kate Beckinsale, 8.30 NCIS (M) Boss? 5.00 Doctor Finlay Scott Speedman 10.30 Medium (M) 11.30 Late Show 12.30 Infomercials 6.00 Australian Open Tennis 12.00 Spin City 12.30 Watchmen: The LIVE Complete Motion Comic (AV) 1.30 Reno 4.00 Religion 7.30 The Vicar Of Dibley 911 (MA) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Eleven Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Married 8.10 Father Ted 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The Brady 8.40 Bless Me Father With Children 5.30 The Flintstones Bunch 8.30 Neighbours 9.00 Touched 9.15 Dad’s Army GEM

By An Angel 10.00 7th Heaven 11.00 9.50 House Doctor The Love Boat 12.00 Charmed 1.00 Jag 10.50 The Bill (M) 11.50 Six Feet Under 6.00 Today 9.00 Home Shopping 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 King Of Queens (M) 12.50 Who’s The Boss? 1.20 The 10.30 Alive & Cooking 11.00 Murder, 3.30 Cheers 4.00 Roseanne 4.30 Family Emeril Lagasse Show 2.30 Leyland She Wrote 12.00 Movie: Baby And Ties 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 The Brady Brothers World 3.30 Shortland Street The Battleship (G 1956) UK comedy.

John Mills, Richard Attenborough 2.00 Bunch 4.00 Coronation Street 4.30 The Real 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch Seachange 5.00 Designing Women RPA 3.00 Michaela’s Animal Road Trip 4.00 The Golden Girls 5.00 The Ellen 6.30 Neighbours 5.30 Home Shopping Degeneres Show 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond

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

SBS 1

5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 1.00 Movie: Les Misérables (PG 1995) Part 1 of French drama 2.35 Spacefiles 3.00 Letters And Numbers 3.30 World News 4.00 The Journal 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Global Village

6.00 Letters And Numbers 6.30 World News Australia 7.30 Who Do You Think You Are? 8.30 Make Me Smart 9.30 The Man Who Jumped (M)

12.30 Home Shopping 5.30 News

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7MATE

6.30 Wagon Train 7.30 The Incredible Hulk 8.30 Adam 12 9.00 NBC Today 8.30 The Simpsons 11.00 Magnum PI 12.00 Knight Rider 9.00 The Office 1.00 The A Team 2.00 Baywatch 3.00 9.30 Dexter (M) 10.40 The Late Late Show 11.30 Cash Monster Garage 4.00 Motor Mate 5.30 Call (M) 1.30 Happy Days 2.00 The Love That ’70s Show Boat 3.00 Charmed 4.00 Touched By 6.30 My Wife And Kids 7.00 How I Met Your Mother An Angel 5.00 7th Heaven

7.30 Engineering Disasters 8.30 Salvage Code Red (M) 6.00 Omnisport 6.30 Pro Bull Riding 9.30 Wild Justice California 7.30 RPM 8.00 Australian Superboat 10.30 All Worked Up (M)

ONE HD

Championship 9.00 Crash Test Humans 10.00 NBL Basketball – Adelaide v Cairns 12.00 Omnisport 12.30 Airline 1.00 Beach Patrol 2.00 Fear Factor 3.00 True Heroes 3.30 Airline 4.00 Jeopardy!

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11.00 My Name Is Earl 12.00 Knight Rider 1.00 Wagon Train 2.00 Magnum PI 3.00 The Incredible Hulk 4.00 Baywatch 5.00 Adam 12 5.30 Home Shopping

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

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

Wednesday 25 ABC 1

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 The Hidden Story Of Jesus 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Mapping The World 1.30 The Trophy Room 2.00 Waterloo Road 3.00 Kids’ Programs

6.00 Australian Of The Year 2012 7.00 ABC News 7.30 7.30 8.00 Outnumbered 8.30 Australia Celebrates 2012 9.30 QI 10.05 The Thick Of It (M) 10.30 Late Edition News

9.30 The Killing (M) 10.30 M*A*S*H

7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 The Big Bang Theory Weatherwatch 11.00 RPM 11.30 NFL Total Access 8.00 RBT 12.30 National Football League 3.00 8.25 Lotto SBS 2 Bundesliga Football 8.30 Underbelly Files (M) 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News 10.30 True CSI (AV) PRIME 6.00 China 21 6.30 Sarah Wiener’s Culinary 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 Kids’ Programs 11.30 Weeds (MA) 12.00 Memphis Beat (M) 1.00 Entertainment Tonight 1.30 9.30 Dr Oz 10.30 Seven News 11.00 Adventures Home Shopping 3.30 Good Morning Australian Open Tennis LIVE – Quarter 7.00 Kung Fu Kitchen America 5.00 Early Morning News Finals 7.30 Rex In Rome

6.00 Prime News GO! 8.30 The Killing (M) 6.30 Seven News 6.00 Kids’ Programs 7.30 Youth 9.35 Movie: Bibliothèque 7.00 Home And Away Olympic Games 8.30 Kids’ Programs Pascal (MA 2010) 7.30 Australian Open Tennis 1.00 Seinfeld 1.30 Entertainment Hungarian drama Tonight 2.00 TMZ 2.30 Married With LIVE – Quarter Finals 11.40 Movie: Good Morning, Night (M 2003) Italian drama 1.35 Weatherwatch 12.30 Home Shopping 5.30 News

TEN

6.00 Ten News 7.00 Kids’Programs 9.00 The Circle 11.30 Everyday Gourmet 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 The Doctors 2.00 10.40 Debt-Defying Acts (M) 12.10 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Judge Judy Awesome: I … Shot That! (M) 1.40 The 3.30 Infomercial 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chaser’s War On Repeats (M) 2.10 The Chef 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News Story Of India 3.00 rage

ABC 2

6.00 Kids’ Programs

7.00 Spicks And Specks 7.30 Doctor Who 8.30 Persecution Blues 9.30 Autoluminescent Rowland S Howard

6.00 The Project 7.00 The Biggest Loser 8.00 Modern Family 8.30 The Good Wife (M) 10.30 Medium (M)

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 Night Court 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 11.30 Late Show 12.30 Infomercials 7.30 Heartbeat 4.00 Religion

Eleven

11.25 Sunday Best (M) 1.10 Animal 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The Brady Cops 2.00 ABC News 2.05 Close Bunch 8.30 Neighbours 9.00 Touched ABC NEWS 24

By An Angel 10.00 7th Heaven 11.00 4.00 7.30 4.30 State To State 5.00 The Love Boat 12.00 Charmed 1.00 Jag Newshour 6.00 ABC News 12.30 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 King Of Queens Australia Network News 1.00 ABC 3.30 Cheers 4.00 Roseanne 4.30 Family News 2.30 Australia Network News Ties 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 The Brady 3.00 Afternoon Live 5.45 Rural Quarter Bunch 6.00 The Drum 7.00 ABC News 7.30 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch 7.30 8.00 ABC News 8.30 One Plus One 6.30 Neighbours 9.00 The World 10.00 The Drum 11.00 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond ABC News 11.30 7.30 12.00 ABC News 7.30 The Simpsons 12.30 One Plus One 1.00 BBC News 8.00 Futurama 1.30 Australia Network News 2.00 8.30 The Simpsons Newshour 3.00 BBC World News 3.30 9.00 Futurama One Plus One

8.30 Life Begins 9.30 Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (M) 10.30 The Bill (M)

11.40 Six Feet Under (M) 12.45 McCallum (M) 2.40 The Emeril Lagasse Show 3.30 Shortland Street 4.00 Coronation Street 4.30 The Real Seachange 5.00 Designing Women 5.30 Home Shopping

7MATE

Children 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 Kids’ Programs 4.30 Youth Olympic Games 5.30 Bewitched

6.00 Seinfeld 6.30 Movie: Space Jam (G 1996) US comedy. Michael Jordan, Bill Murray 8.30 Mike & Molly (M) 9.00 The Big Bang Theory 9.30 Movie: Underworld – Rise Of The Lycans (AV 2009) US action. Michael Sheen, Bill Nighy

12.30 Howie Do It (M) 1.30 Reno 911 (MA) 2.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Just Shoot Me 4.30 TMZ 5.00 Married With Children 5.30 The Flintstones

GEM

6.00 Today 9.00 Home Shopping 10.30 Alive & Cooking 11.00 Murder, She Wrote 12.00 Movie: Carry On Cowboy (PG 1965) UK comedy. Sid James, Kenneth Williams 2.00 RPA 3.00 As Time Goes By 3.30 Yes Minister 4.00 The Golden Girls 5.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show

6.00 Friends 7.00 The Zoo

6.30 Wagon Train 7.30 The Incredible Hulk 8.30 Adam 12 9.00 NBC Today 7.30 Movie: The Notebook (PG 2004) US drama.

11.00 Magnum PI 12.00 Knight Rider Rachel McAdams, James 1.00 The A Team 2.00 Baywatch 3.00 Garner Motor Mate 4.30 Monster Garage 5.30 10.00 Hoarders That ’70s Show 9.30 The Cleveland Show (M) 12.00 Conan (M) 1.00 Murder, She 6.30 My Wife And Kids 10.30 The Late Late Show SBS 1 7.00 How I Met Your Mother Wrote 2.00 Home Shopping 4.30 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News 11.30 Cash Call (M) 1.30 Happy Days 7.30 Mythbusters Religion 5.00 The Golden Girls 5.30 1.00 Movie: Les Misérables (PG 1995) 2.00 The Love Boat 3.00 Charmed 4.00 8.30 Hardcore Pawn (M) Today Part 2 of French drama 2.40 Spacefiles Touched By An Angel 5.00 7th Heaven

9.30 American Pickers 3.00 Letters And Numbers 3.30 ONE HD 10.30 Paradise Lost (M) World News 4.00 The Journal 4.30 6.00 Serie A Football 8.30 World Of Free 11.30 The Sexy Ads Show (MA) 12.00 Newshour 5.30 Global Village Sports 9.00 NFL America’s Game 10.00 Knight Rider 1.00 Wagon Train 2.00 6.00 Letters And Numbers NBL Basketball – Sydney v Perth 12.00 Magnum PI 3.00 The Incredible Hulk 6.30 World News Australia Omnisport 12.30 Airline 1.30 Beach 4.00 Baywatch 5.00 Adam 12 5.30 7.30 Vet Adventures Malawi Patrol 2.00 NFL Total Access 3.00 True Home Shopping 8.30 From Sydney To Tokyo Heroes 3.30 Airline 4.00 Jeopardy! 4.30 NBN

By Any Means (M) Beach Patrol 5.00 I Fish 5.30 Today 9.00 Kerri-Anne 10.00 Kids’ 9.30 The Chinese Are Coming 6.00 M*A*S*H Programs 10.30 Fourth Test Cricket LIVE 10.30 World News Australia 6.30 Get Smart – Australia v India 1.00 The Cricket Show 11.05 Movie: Bitter Victory (M 2009) 7.00 Cops 1.30 Cricket continues French drama 1.00 Movie: The Airlift 7.30 Ice Road Truckers 6.00 NBN News (M 2005) Part 1 of German drama 2.45 8.30 Burn Notice (M)

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7.00 A Current Affair 7.30 The Big Bang Theory (M) 10.50 M*A*S*H 11.20 The Ultimate 8.00 Getaway ABC 1 10.30 Erotic Tales (MA) Fighter (M) 12.20 NFL America’s Game 8.30 Unforgettable (M) 4.00 WNBL Basketball 5.30 State To 11.00 Sex: An Unnatural History (MA) 1.20 RPM 1.30 Omnisport 2.00 FA Cup 9.30 CSI: NY (M) State 6.00 ABC News 10.00 Australia 2000) US action. Radha Mitchell, Cole Hauser

11.30 Erotic Tales (MA) 12.00 Kill Arman Day Flag Raising & Citizenship 12.30 The Fixer (M) 2.20 Weatherwatch Ceremony 11.00 Rivers And Life 12.00 Midday Report 12.30 Adventures Of SBS 2 Sherlock Holmes 1.30 My Family 2.00 5.00 Weatherwatch 6.00 World News Waterloo Road 3.00 Kids’ Programs 6.00 China 21

Classic 2.30 Serie A Football 4.30 Magic 11.30 Eclipse Music TV 12.00 Southland Of The FA Cup (M) 2.00 Infomercials 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Early Morning PRIME News 6.00 Sunrise 9.00 Kids’ Programs 9.30 Dr Oz 10.30 Seven News 11.00 GO! 6.00 The Drum 6.30 Sarah Wiener’s Culinary Australian Open Tennis LIVE – Women’s 6.00 Kids’ Programs 7.30 Youth 6.50 Governor-General’s Semi Finals Adventures Olympic Games 8.30 Kids’ Programs Australia Day Address 6.00 Prime News 1.00 Seinfeld 1.30 Entertainment 7.00 Kung Fu Kitchen 7.00 ABC News

6.30 Seven News Tonight 2.00 TMZ 2.30 Married With 7.30 A History Of Scotland 7.30 7.30

7.00 Home And Away Children 3.00 Just Shoot Me 3.30 Kids’ 8.35 Modern Slavery (M) 8.00 Jimmy’s Food Factory 7.30 Australian Open Tennis Programs 4.30 Youth Olympic Games 9.30 Movie: The Singer (PG 8.30 Adam Hills – Inflatable LIVE – Men’s Semi Finals 5.30 Bewitched 2006) French romance 9.35 Movie: The Combination 11.30 Movie: The Last Kiss (M 2001) 12.30 Home Shopping 5.30 News 6.00 Seinfeld (M 2009) Australian 6.30 Movie: TMNT (PG 2007) Italian comedy 1.35 Weatherwatch 7TWO

drama. George Basha, Firass Dirani

11.10 Ten Pound Poms 12.05 The Bridge 1.05 Hungry Beast (M) 1.35 The Clinic (M) 2.25 Monumental Vision In Turkey 3.00 rage

ABC 2

6.00 Kids’ Programs

7.00 Spicks And Specks 7.30 Doctor Who 8.30 Arrested Development 9.00 Psychoville (M) 9.30 Nick Cave triple j’s Tribute

TEN

6.00 Ten News 7.00 Kids’Programs 9.00 The Circle 11.30 Everyday Gourmet 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 The Doctors 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Judge Judy 3.30 Infomercial 4.00 Good Chef Bad Chef 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News

6.30 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 Night Court 11.00 Designing Women 11.30 Beautiful Homes And Great Estates 12.00 Young Ramsay 1.00 Five Mile Creek 2.00 Barry Humphries’Flashbacks

6.00 Australian Open Tennis LIVE 7.30 The Royal 9.30 Heartbeat (M) 11.00 Medium (M) 12.00 The Late Show 10.30 The Bill (M) 6.00 The Project 7.00 The Biggest Loser 8.00 A Gifted Man (M) 9.00 Law & Order (M)

11.30 Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds 1.00 Infomercials 4.00 Religion (M) 12.35 Commercial Kings 1.00 Eleven PhoneShop (M) 1.25 Junkyard Wars 6.00 Jag 7.00 MacGyver 8.00 The Brady 2.15 ABC News 2.20 Close Bunch 8.30 Neighbours 9.00 Touched ABC NEWS 24

By An Angel 10.00 7th Heaven 11.00 4.00 7.30 4.30 State To State 5.00 The Love Boat 12.00 Charmed 1.00 Jag Newshour 6.00 ABC News 12.30 2.00 MacGyver 3.00 King Of Queens Australia Network News 1.00 ABC 3.30 Cheers 4.00 Roseanne 4.30 Family News 2.30 Australia Network News Ties 5.00 Happy Days 5.30 The Brady 3.00 Afternoon Live 5.45 Technology Bunch Quarter 6.00 The Drum 7.00 ABC 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch News 7.30 7.30 8.00 ABC News 8.30 6.30 Neighbours Australian Story 9.00 The World 10.00 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond The Drum 11.00 ABC News 11.30 7.30 7.30 The Simpsons 12.00 ABC News 12.30 Australian Story 8.30 Star Trek Next Generation 1.00 BBC News 1.30 Australia Network 10.30 The Late Late Show News 2.00 Newshour 3.00 BBC World 11.30 Cash Call (M) 1.30 Happy Days News 3.30 Australian Story 2.00 The Love Boat 3.00 Charmed 4.00 Touched By An Angel 5.00 7th Heaven SBS 1

11.40 Six Feet Under (M) 12.40 Movie: The Big Street (PG 1942) US comedy.

Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball 2.30 Leyland Brothers World 3.30 Shortland Street 4.00 Coronation Street 4.30 The Real Seachange 5.00 Designing Women 5.30 Home Shopping

7.30 National Football League Numbers 3.30 World News 4.00 The 10.00 NBL Basketball – Gold Coast v Journal 4.30 Newshour 5.30 Global Melbourne 12.00 Omnisport 12.30 Village Airline 1.00 Jaguar Adventure 2.00 6.00 Letters And Numbers Australian Superboat Championship 6.30 World News Australia 3.00 True Heroes 3.30 Airline 4.00 7.30 Adriano Zumbo Jeopardy! 4.30 Beach Patrol 5.00 I Fish

11.30 Campus PD (M) 12.00 Knight Rider 1.00 Wagon Train 2.00 Magnum PI 3.00 The Incredible Hulk 4.00 Baywatch 5.00 Adam 12 5.30 Home Shopping

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Animation 8.30 The Middle 9.00 The Big Bang Theory 9.30 Movie: Resident Evil – Apocalypse (M 2004) German action. Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory

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

GEM

6.00 Today 9.00 Home Shopping 10.30 Alive & Cooking 11.00 Murder, She Wrote 12.00 Movie: Eureka Stockade (G 1949) UK drama. Chips Rafferty, Jane Barrett 2.00 RPA 3.00 Hoarders 4.00 The Golden Girls 5.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show

6.00 Friends 7.00 The Zoo

6.30 Wagon Train 7.30 The Incredible Hulk 8.30 Adam 12 9.00 NBC Today 7.30 Friends 11.00 Magnum PI 12.00 Knight Rider 8.30 Movie: City Of Angels (M 1998) German drama.

1.00 The A Team 2.00 Baywatch 3.00 Nicholas Cage, Meg Ryan Monster Garage 4.00 Motor Mate 5.30 11.00 The Big C (M) 12.00 Conan (M) That ’70s Show 1.00 Murder, She Wrote 2.00 Home 6.30 My Wife And Kids 7.00 How I Met Your Mother Shopping 4.30 Religion 5.00 The Golden Girls 5.30 Today 7.30 Swamp People

8.30 Pawn Stars 9.00 Bear Swamp Recovery (M) 5.00 Weatherwatch 5.05 World News ONE HD 9.30 Operation Repo (M) 1.00 Food Lovers’ Guide To Australia 6.00 Omnisport 6.30 Pro Bull Riding 10.30 Jail (M) 1.30 Oz Concert 2011 3.00 Letters And

8.00 One Man And His Campervan 8.30 Oz And Hugh Raise The Bar 9.35 24 Hours In Emergency

6.00 M*A*S*H 6.30 Get Smart 7.00 Cops 7.30 Extreme Fishing 8.30 Movie: Pitch Black (M

NBN

5.30 Today 9.00 Kerri-Anne 10.00 Kids’ Programs 10.30 Fourth Test Cricket LIVE – Australia v India 1.00 The Cricket Show 1.30 Cricket continues

6.00 NBN News

Please note The Echo takes great care producing this guide, but unfortunately TV stations like to tinker with things at the last minute and sometimes make changes after we have gone to print.

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Sport SPORT RESULTS

BOWLS Cabarita Beach Men On a very hot Wednesday January 11 a large contingent of bowlers took part in the pairs competition. Winners on the day were Kingsacliff pair Frank McNamara and Murray James with a return of 22 plus 8.Runners UPwere father and son John and Max North who pushed the winners all the way, and finished on a competitive 22 plus 5. The consolation money went to club committee member and game organiser Rom McCauley and his worthy partner Martin Fletcher .They ammassed a great score of 26 plus 22- very easy winners on the day!!Monday,January 16,was windy ,cold andthreataning rain all day.Winners,with a massive score of 30 plus 19 were the “ old firm” of Graham Lake and Derek Hopps .We won’t mention who they beat.Runners Up werethe regularly successful team of Abdul Latif and Bernie Lamberton with a score of 24 plus 9.Consolation winners were Barry Jones and Alan Jones{not related} with a scoreline of 24 plus 5- well done by these “newer “ members at Caba.One new member was approveds at the Dacember Bowls committee meeting - that was Warren Hammond.However there are a number of applications to be dealt with at the next monthly meeting.

Cabarita Beach Women January 17: Social Bowls cancelled due to wet weather – better luck next week.

January 24: Social Bowls – Fours and Triples. All welcome for a great morning of bowls. February 7 – Grade 4 Pennant commences – Ladies selected to play please make sure you attend practice days.

Social Bowls – Tuesdays 9.00 am. Ladies also invited to play Saturday Mufti 1.00 pm. Please phone Club on 6676 2951 and leave message and contact number. Coaching – Free Saturday mornings from 9.30 am with accredited coaches.

Cudgen Leagues Ladies President Liz welcomed everyone to a good afternoon of bowling last Thurs 12th.Thurs social results-Winners-Rnk 2,Marie Ellen,Trish McGee,Faye Turner.

Raffle-Michelle Van Runt.Congratultaions everybody.

Kingscliff Men 15th January 2012 Congratulations to K Banks, G Barrack, B Turner, M Turner on winning the Club Open Fours Championship. Michaels team defeated B Harris, H Hockey, I Smith, K Liddington in a closely contested final on Sunday 8th January.

Social Bowls Results: Tuesday 3rd January Amcal Open Pairs: Winners: K Banks, T Hills. Runners Up: D Pitt, D O’Callaghan.

Plate Winners: D & V Gravolin. Saturday 7th January: Winners: L Gillespie, P McGirr, A Hansen. Plate Winners: A Bousie, J Davies, B Clarke. Tuesday 10th January Amcal Open Pairs: Winners: H DeVries, N Peacock. Runners Up: P Crompton, T Abraham. Plate Winners: T Halloran, K Liddington. Thursday 12th January: Winners: J Brinsmead, B Morrow, B Beattie: R Dark, G Barrack, T King. Plate Winners: J Hansen, R Spence, R Julius. Saturday 14th January: Winners: K Dawson, G Barrack, T Hills; J Mirls, G Davis, M Rice. Plate Winners: G Hallett, D Fines, T Green.

Coming Up: Cub Championships: Nominations for the 2012 B Grade Fours Championship are now open. The closing date for nominations is 21st January and the first round will be played on 28th January. Nominations are also open for the Open Two Bowls Triples Championships.

Nominations close on 30th January and the first round will be held on 11th February. The club selectors are calling for all players to declare their availability for the 2012 pennant season. Please see the sheet on the pennant’s notice board.

Round 1 will commence on 24th March for Division 1 and on 28th April for Divisions 2 – 7. The Tweed Valley Shield got under way last Monday 16th January 2012 with Kingscliff playing Tugun. The next game will be held on Monday 23rd January and Kingscliff will play Pottsville at Tweed Heads. There will be a Special General Meeting of the Men’s Bowls Club on Saturday 28th January commencing at 11:30am.

Kingscliff Women Following are the results of social play, week ending 13th January, 2012: Social Play, Wednesday, January 11: Winners: K. Thompson, D. Hallett, F. Lean; Runners-Up: C. Henry, W. Butler, S. Akers.

Raffle winners: N. Sherlock, F. Lean.

Social bowls commenced for the year on Wednesday, 11th January. Welcome back

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sport@tweedecho.com.au results@tweedecho.com.au everybody. The Christmas Party Day saw a great game of bowls topped off with a delicious dinner and, once again after a couple of years’ break, with a great concert arranged by Laurel Willoughby and her ladies. The talent is still there and we were all very happy with their efforts.

The new year is off to a good start with Pennants soon to commence. Ladies, if you are playing Pennants please make sure that you are available for practice games. Quite a few ladies have not yet renewed their Affiliation for the next 6 months. If you are not financial you will not qualify for Pennants. Remember, social play commences at 9.30am during daylight saving.

Pottsville Men Weekly Results. Wednesday January 11th 2012 Winners: R. Appleton – D. Dever. Runners-up: D. Lee - H. Stevenson – K. Ferguson.

Consulation: N. Williams – C. Gallagher – B. Clark.

Saturday January 13th 2012 Winners: B. Wilson – J. Hefferan – K. Ferguson.

Runners-up: J. Burden - G. Roots. Championships Club Fours. Winners: R. Parker – G. Crawley – J. Rae – G. Sawtell. Runners-up: S. Lofts – A. Meaghan – K. McInnes – R. Scott Score 24-17 Winners: L. Swift – T. Wignall – J. Buckley – K. Coyte.

Runners-up: B. White – B. Cumming – B. Mackay – W. Whitney Score 22-12. Good Luck to Pottsville in the Tweed Valley Shield.

South Tweed Wed. AM pairs: 1st B Harvey & W Earea.

2nd A Fawcett & R Hickman.

Wed. PM Social: winning rink O Kinnane,K Ward,B Batty & I Ensby. Losing rink: J Evans,G Kiberts & C Martin.

Thurs. PM Pairs: 1st J Chapman & M.Jaffray. Winners of losers; A Young & J Mizzi.

Sat. PM Social: Winning Rink J Scully,J McBain & P Johnson. Losing Rink: B Batty & A Reid.

South Tweed Ladies Results Thursday January 12 Winners: S.Cancillier & D.O’neill. Winners losing Rink, N.Munns & J.Solly.

Tuesday 17th Wash out.

Australia Day Bonanza Tuesday January 24 Mixed Triples rink fees $8 play starts 9.30 to 12.30 followed by a real Aussie Lunch.

Dress up in your Aussie gear. No budgies or thongs. All Welcome.

Tweed Heads Men Monday, January 16, 2012 Bowls Super Challenge: This competition starts tomorrow Saturday January 21, 2012 with Gold and Bronze divisions playing at home against Algester and Silver division playing at Logan City. Games at both venues will start at 1.00pm NSW time. Silver division will back up on Sunday January 22, playing at home against West Toowoomba starting at 10.00am NSW time.

Club Chmpionships The club championship merry-go-round has started for 2012 with entry for the Men’s Open Champion Fours and the Men’s Open Indoor Singles events now open and will close on Sunday January 22 with first round games scheduled for Sunday February 5 at 9.00am for the Fours and Wednesday February 8 at 6.45pm NSW time.

Tweed Valley Shield This competition started on Monday January 16 with Tweed Heads playing the host club for 2012, Tugun, at Tugun.

Coolangatta play Pottsville and Kingscliff are playing South Tweed. Results will follow as from next week.

Round 2: Monday January 23 has Tweed Heads playing against South Tweed, Tugun against Coolangatta and Pottsville playing Kingscliff.

Social Results Sun Jan 8: Green 1: Bruce and Margaret Dare; r/up: Doreen Kendall, Ruth and Max Reiter.

Green 2: Joan Lyon, Tony and Pam Govett, Ken Calvert; r/up: Carol Brandon, Stephanie and Peter Goldsmith Tues Jan 10: Winners Men: Jim Croghan, Gary Hewitt, David Dodge, Roy Nuttall; r/up: Bob Trinder, Ian Davis, John Brabham, Bill Finney Winners Ladies: Pat Mann, Dianne Kerwitz, Kathy Robinson, Jean Finney; r/up: Barbara Makin, Sue Hanlon, Val Young, Rosely Griffin Wed Jan 11: Random Rink Draw Green 1: John Moon, Norm Picking; r/up: John Porter, David Nelson, Bill Hagen, Ed Vuik Green 2: Mike Nash, Steve Goodman; George Mynott, John Bailey Green 3: Jim Croghan, Eddie Hewitt; r/up:

Jim Cowen, Bill Finney Green 4: Bill Dangerfield, Peter Barns; r/ up: Stan Loeber, Tony Goad Fri Jan 13: Green 1: Eddie Vuik, Don Shoobert, Max Pearce; r/up: Brian Bevan, Fred Peel, Mike Nedjati.

Green 2: Peter Howell, Tom Kelly, Geoff Dixon; r/up: Laurie Rea, Max Reiter, Vince Leather.

Green 3: Rex Dell, Dennis Lusby, Daryl Maxwekll; r/up: Bob Chapman, Brian Bitmead, Ron Parker Sat Jan 14: Jackpot Saturday Green 1: Frank McPhillips, Frank Birkin; r/ up: Bill Ormsby, Syd Gregory Green 2: Jack Maloney, Bernie Fletcher; r/ up: Karen and Karl Figura Green 3:John Sieben, Gary Pickett, Ian Irvine; r/up: Kyrs and Rob Henshaw The Jackpot of $1,000.00 was not won again and will carry over until late March when the Bowls Super Challenge has been completed. Consolation winners were Ken Withington, Dorothy Evans and Bill Dempsey.

Tweed Heads Tourers The Tourers committee have arranged a weekend away to Noosa from Thursday February 23 to Sunday February 26 at a cost of $185.00 per person plus expenses.

At least 20 players are required and the list is on the notice board in the Members Lounge for interested parties.

GOLF Chinderah Seniors Social Results for 9/1/12 Stableford Winner A grade Bob Dickie 41 points (c/ back) new h/cap 6. R/up June G Holmes 41 points new h/cap 12.

Winner B grade Tom Hyde 43 points new h/cap 13. R/up Peter Forster 41 points new h/cap 13.

Winner C grade Paula Forster 45 points new h/cap 21. R/up Anne Murphy 41 points new h/cap 31.

Ball rundown to 37 points (c/back).

Results for 12/1/12 Stroke Winner A grade Bob Holmes net 56 new h/cap 11. R/up John Newton net 58 (c/ back) new h/cap 13.

Winner B grade Greg Pimm net 56 (c/ back) new h/cap 15. R/up Lyn Kennedy net 56 new h/cap 29. Ball rundown to net 60.

Murwillumbah Sunday 8th January Individual Stableford medley Women’s Winner J.O’Flanagan 38 pts Members Winner S.Sing 43 pts N.Pin 2nd S.Gorton & R.Rattray B.R.D. tp 37 pts c.b Monday 9th Veteran’s Individual Stroke Winner A.Grade R.Masiar 70 nett R.Up J.Harris 73 nett b.Grade B.Connolly 69 nett R.Up R.Bradford 73 nett N.Piins 2nd R.Masiar 8th J.McKillop 10th R.Bradford 14th R.Green b.r.d. to 75 nett c.b Wednesday 11th A.Grade Winner R.Rattray 39 pts c.b R.up J.Hawkins 39 pts B.Grade M.Bilson 44 pts R.up M.McConnell 42 pts N.Pin 2nd B.Julis 10th G.Jacobson Veterans M.Bilson 44 pts b.r.d. to 33 pts c.b, 9 hole sporters results winner M.Bilson 23 pts n.pin 8th P.Dawes 14th A.McLean b.r.d. to 18 pts c.b . Friday 13th Individual Stableford Medley Women’s Winner S.Gorton 37 pts Members S,Bridges 40 pts b.r.d. tp 35 pts c.b Saturday 14th Individual Stableford in 4 Grades Winner A.Grade L.Gorton 42 pts R.Up A.Harrison 38 pts B.G J.Fredericks 41 pts c.b R.Up S.Colefax 41 pts C.Grade B.May 37 pts c.b R.Up T.Brown 37 pts D.Grade P.Varela 42 pts R.Up Z.Hart 41 pts N.Pin 2nd W.Townsend 10th N.Sams 14th N.Baker 4.B.Aggregate Winners P.Harris & Z,Hart 76 pts r.up A.Causley & L.Cream 74 pts b.r.d. to 69 pts c.b.

Coming Events Monday January 23rd Veterans Individual Stableford 2 Grades . Wednesday 25th Individual Stableford Friday 27th Individual Stableford Meley Saturday 28th Individual Stableford in 4 Grades SHOOTING Murwillumbah Rifle Club Fullbore: 300 yards- B Barrett 89.4, 14, 103; S Dolan 100.14, 2, 102.14; S Waddell 99.8, 3, 102.8; D Phippard 99.12, 1, 100.12; W Shoobridge 100.11, 0, 100.11; A Cronk 98.11, 2, 100.11.

Scope: Zoe Helyer 110.4, 16, 126.4; Rama 101.2, 18, 119.2; P Loxley-Lewis 111.7, 6, 117.7; P Weeks 108.2, 8, 116.2; G Morris 109.4, 6, 115.4; S Routledge 96, 18, 114; W Sunderland 105.3, 7, 112.3; N Sekulic 89.1.

Smallbore: F Binding 399, 2, 401; W Shoobridge 391, 11, 401; S Dolan 397, 3, 400;A Cronk 400, 0, 400; P Turner 397, 3, 400; A Turner 397, 2, 399; A Glover 389, 9, 398; G Morris 387, 9, 396; R Millingen 374, 14, 388; Next events: Smallbore on January 20, starting 1.30pm.

Fullbore on Saturday afternoon January 21, at 500 yards.

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I was given another pair of good Spotters sunnies for Christmas and while walking around South Tweed Shopping Centre, I ended up at Lens Pro looking over the complete range. While I was there the store manager Stephen O’Keeffe, pictured, asked me if I was that fishing bloke?

It turned out Stephen is an avid fisho and reads the Echo every week. He also told me about the two jacks he caught up in Currumbin Creek recently on chicken! Sounded like my brother Tony and his jacks. What’s with these bait fishos?

I asked Stephen if he’d be interested in a yak fish and he jumped at the opportunity. We met down the front of my place a couple of days later. Left at the gentlemanly hour of 8am.

I was in the hobie, Stephen was in my other pedal yak, a Native Watercraft. Would you believe it, we both got a nice flathead on our first casts, a double

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One question I’m continually asked on the river is: Why are there pro netters in the Tweed? ‘We pay for our fishing licences thinking part of the money raised is spent on buying back their licence’, they say. I don’t have an answer to this but I will try to find it out. I wrote about the netters a while back and the only feed back I got was them getting up me. What they do is legal, but

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I have to question why don’t I ever see Fisheries up at Terranora? The netter boys told me they never catch little fish or they let them go, so why do so many pelicans follow them? I’ve jumped into this debate before though this time I’ll find out some facts before I mouth off.

On a funny note, I looked at the photo in last week’s Echo thinking I’m looking pretty young there; I rang my secretary (my mum) to tell her what a great photo it was! After a few minutes of laughter at the other end Mum told me she’d just learnt to photoshop my wrinkles out. Here I was thinking it was my new fr uit juice diet. Darn.

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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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SOLAR SYSTEMS

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Ads can’t be taken on the weekend.

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HEALTH

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Ink Brush Painting Sumi-e & Calligraphy classes Phone Ester 66847609

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Ahimsa (living peace) Tour Here in Mullum & Byron Feb 10th – 18th More info and to book: livingahimsaregistration.org Jacinta – 6684 9422

KINESIOLOGY

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Reprogram patterns and beliefs.

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

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Phone Matt 0427172684 PHIL & TED pram. Rain/sun cover incl. $160. Phone 0413859141 THE SAMBA BLISSTAS Classes starting from Wed for 2012, Kingscliff Bowling Club, beg to advanced, try a drop in session, bookings/enq 66764558 www.carnavaldrumming.com

MOTOR VEHICLES 98 CAMRY GRANDE full service history, mech A1 exc cond regretful sale $5000 ono Phone 66843369 or 0407248181 MAZDA 323 Sedan 97. Rego 11/12.

Cheap runner. $3500 Ph 0404768986

BARGAINS 1999 Daewoo Lanos 5sp, AC, PS, 132,000km. DI 86 AB ............................... $2250 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

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

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

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Hogath Ranges, caves, cliffs, springs, creek flats for grazing or cropping, creeks, views, permanent water, internal 4WD roads, good variety of trees.

380 acres with buildings & yards – offers above $395K. 1500 acres with DA approval for 3 lots – offers above $695K. Contact Steve on 0488 406 642 for details.

WAITRESS required for Sundays at Gallery Cafe Murwillumbah. Suit Uni student 0266725088 COOK REQUIRED cafe Murwillumbah, must be available Mon-Fri, 7 - 3pm. Call Chris 0427665198 MODELS 18+ years required. Nude female for Picture and People magazines.

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CUSTOMER SERVICE

Looking for a position working in a busy, safe and friendly environment?

Are you hard working, reliable, honest and need flexible hours?

If this sounds like you, we have positions vacant for evening and weekend work.

Apply by leaving your resume at BP Hastings Point, 1 Coast Road Hastings Point.

TUITION

Learn to teach English overseas A 6 week part-time TESOL course run in Byron Bay. Starts 13 Feb 2012.

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Peachie is a 10 year old, desexed female Ridgeback x Shepherd.

Peachie is a sweetie. Surrendered to the Tweed Pound at 10 years old and rescued by Friends of the Pound she is now in the market for a new home. She is a lovely girl, loves her walks and is wanting to bond with a new owner. She is okay with other dogs, but would be better with a male dog. She has lived with cats, but she had probably known them for many years. If you can find a place in your heart and home for this gentle older girl I am sure she will reward you with love and loyalty. If you can give her a permanent home, please phone Yolana on 0449 049136 or the Friends of the Pound Rehoming Centre on 07 55248590. Visit www. friendsofthepound.com to view other animals looking for homes.

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MUR’BAH queenslander, clean 3br home, one bathrm, carport, suit working couple or small family, walk to town centre, refs req, $380pw + bond + utilities. 66793445, E: murbah.house@gmail.com

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CAREER IN CHILDCARE

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

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PROPERTY WANTED 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

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

ECHO DOUBLE DEAL Double your exposure. Your ad will appear in over 44,000 newspapers weekly. Ask us about our great deals when you advertise in both THE TWEED SHIRE ECHO & THE BYRON SHIRE ECHO Phone 02 66722280 or 02 66855222

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Property industry confidence lifts slightly, biggest states suffer: new research The NSW and Victorian property markets have been stranded by declining confidence, while resource-driven states are increasingly positive, according to new research from the Property Council of Australia and ANZ. The latest Property Council-ANZ Property Industry Confidence Survey, shows positive sentiment grew in the Northern Territory, Western Australia, Queensland and South Australia – all states with a strong resources base.

However, sentiment fell in New South Wales and Victoria – the states with the largest property markets – as well as the ACT and Tasmania.

The survey polled 2800 property industry professionals across all Australian states and territories in December 2011.

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Noticeboard Koala training

Friends of the Koala are holding a basic training day Saturday, February 11, 9.30am12.30pm. Includes rescue techniques, assessment, handling, koala food collection, tree identification etc. Bookings essential, call 6622 1233 or email info@friendsofthekoala.org.

Volunteering NORTEC Volunteering’s Five Most Wanted positions this week: Tweed Heads, shop assistant; Murwillumbah, volunteer assistant; Pottsville, market stall fees collector; Tweed Heads, boating assistant; Tweed Shire, sports program development officer.

Volunteering is a great way to gain work experience and make friends in your community. For info call 02 6672 8288.

Aussie barbecue Kingscliff Lions Club will hold its usual Aussie barbecue at Lions Park, Marine Parade, from 7am on Australia Day. Paul Ensbey and his band will entertain with a selection of favourite Aussie songs. Flag raising and an oration will be held at 8am and Australia Day Ambassador, Benita Collings of Play School fame, will attend at 8.15am. There will be the usual raffle for ‘his and hers hats’ together with further chance to win $7000 in another Lions raffle.

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Old-time dancing Dancing, old-time and new vogue at Tumbulum Hall, Saturday, January 21, at 8pm.

A great night, door prize, lucky spots, raffles and music by Trilogy. Families welcome.

Bridge club Keep your brain active, Tweed Bridge Club welcomes new members for lessons, supervised play, mentoring.

Have fun while making new friends and improving memory.

For info call Dinah 6676 3136.

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

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.

VIEW Murwillumbah Day View meeting/AGM will be

It found confidence across Australia rose slightly in the three months to December, from 104 to 107 on the survey index. A value of 100 represents a neutral position on the index.

Since September, the divergence in confidence between the top region (Northern Territory) and the lowest (Tasmania) has almost doubled.

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held at Sporties, formerly Murwillumbah Bowls Club on Monday, January 23. Morning tea at 10am and lunch at 12.30pm. Subs are due and must be paid on the day $11 per member. Also, a mystery bus trip arranged for February 20. For info and apologies cal Mary 02 6672 1840 or Bernie 02 6672 8640.

Twin Towns Day VIEW Club will hold its first luncheon for the year on Thursday, February 2, at South Tweed Sports Club at 10.30am DST for 11am.

Guest speaker is clairvoyant Elizabeth-Ann. To book for International Women’s Day function on March 8, call Freda prior to January 31 on 07 5524 1357.

Family history Tweed Gold Coast Family History and Heritage Association’s research room now open for those wishing to trace their family history and don’t know where to begin, at South Tweed Sports Club, Minjungbal Drive, or come along to our monthly gettogethers at the club held on the first Tuesday of the month at 1.30pm (DST). Research room open: Tues 10am-7pm, Wed to Friday 10am-4pm and Sat 9.30am-3pm. For info call Noelene on 07 5599 8939.

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

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accessable dry garage would be ideal. All profits from our book sale are spent on improving library facilities. 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 playing, Stretch your Mind, Tai Chi, Mah Jong, Scrapbooking, Art, Scrabble, Gentle exercise with weights call Lyn on 0755 232030. The centre is on the corner of Leisure and Woodland Drives, Banora Point.

What Weekends Should Be Made Of! Well positioned on Pilot Hill is this modern and very well presented ground ✔ Ocean views in this price range are rare to say the least floor unit which overlooks the headland Price: $399,000. to the ocean and north along the coastline.

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on Monday, February 13, at willing workers. Make lots of friends and have fun in a caring Robina. For info call 0448 206 atmosphere. For info call Sylvia 856.

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. We perform at various functions, weddings, corporate gigs, festivals, and charities.

Check us out on menwotsing. com.au or call Lou on 0419 735 633.

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 Book club learn computer skills at your Tweed Heads Friends of the own pace in a friendly social Library meet every fourth Wednesday of the month in the environment. All welcome. For library at 10.30am. If you enjoy info call Noelene on 07 5599 reading and sharing ideas with 8939 bh. others please come along and Al-Anon join in. Books are provided and lent out by the library. For info Are you concerned about someone else’s drinking? call Beverly 07 5590 7435 or Meet others who share Rosalind 07 5524 3342. your problems and learn how to improve the family Horse skills atmosphere. Meetings held volunteers up and down the coast and at Volunteers with horse skills Murwillumbah at the Christian or willing to learn to lead and Outreach Centre, 19 Prince exercise horses are needed at Street, on Mondays at 10am.

Riding for the Disabled, Tweed For info call 07 5532 4320.

Valley Centre, Murwillumbah.

Spinal injuries Riding sessions are held on Tuesday, Thursday and The Spinal Injuries Association Saturday mornings during Gold Coast Post Polio Support Network will meet at 10.30am school terms. Lots of jobs for

Lifeball

Lifeball is an exercise sport similar to netball but played at walking pace by senior men and women. At Chinderah: sessions held every Tuesday 9.30am-11.30am at Tweed Supersports Centre, Chinderah, for info call Jill 02 6674 0636 or George 02 6624 4558.

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

Low cost food Low cost groceries. Finding it tough going? Come and see us at Elevation Care, 56 Caloola 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 JPs witness signatures at Tweed Centro Shopping Centre each Tuesday from 10am-2pm and at Tweed City Shopping Centre each Thursday from 10am-2pm and 5pm-7pm. Due to the Australia Day holiday, there will be no table duties on Thursday, January 26. For info call Donna on 0414 894368.

In Kingscliff, at Red Monkey Cafe, Tuesday and Thursday 9am-midday, call Norman on 0412 473 575.

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Tweed Shire Council this week started its selection process for a replacement for retiring GM Mike Rayner and The Echo has learnt that two of the applicants have been mired in much controversy in their former roles as general managers of other NSW councils. One is Max Eastcott, who was GM at Byron Shire Council for a few years in the 1990s before his departure to far-flung WA to take up his appointment as manager for the Margaret River Council. He is currently GM at Gwydir Shire Council. Former Greens MLC Ian Cohen launched a scathing attack on him in parliament in 1997, saying that when Mr Eastcott was handed the reins of Byron Shire’s affairs in 1993, the council was in sound financial shape, but in his three short years in the role, he ‘quickly drove the council into financial penury and administrative mayhem’. The MP said ‘this financial genius went about squandering the council assets in a completely reckless fashion’, and that ‘considering Eastcott’s record, it would be fair to call him the Christopher Skase of local government, running up huge deficits, hiding the true figures in mickey mouse accounting and building himself palatial administration offices’.

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The other contender is Rod Oxley, who ran Wollongong council during the years of corruption that led to a notorious scandal and its sacking by the state government and replacement by administrators four years ago. Mr Oxley was the general manager of the council for 20 years until he quit in January 2007, after ICAC raided council premises. ICAC ruled that Mr Oxley’s conduct was ‘liable to allow, encourage or cause the occurrence of corrupt conduct’, but no charges were recommended against him. The ICAC probe had led to sensational claims of sexual favours for development approvals. Just last September,

known as a brush-off. At the time, mayor Barry Longland and GM Mike Rayner sprang to the defence of the shire’s town planners, saying the dossiers only gave Leda’s spin on its dealings with council staff.

Backburner is pleased to note that councillors will finally hold a workshop with council planners today, Thursday, January 19, just before community access, to examine the shire’s submission to the planning department on the mega Kings Forest estate. Given it’s the biggest ever development facing the shire, a township for around 15,000 people, with huge ramifications for ratepayers in future, we’re glad to see they’ve deemed it important enough to examine all issues closely.

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The 52nd Brunswick Valley Woodchop Carnival, which ended last weekend at Brunswick Heads, attracts top axemen and women from around Australia and raises thousands of dollars for local charities. This photo taken by Luis Feliu on the final day of the four-day festival last Saturday shows two axemen in silhouette resting atop their planks after competing in the gruelling three-board tree-felling event.

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Mr Oxley upset many locals when he boldly but unsuccessfully ran for the job of lord mayor of Wollongong. Around 40 people have applied for the Tweed Shire’s head honcho position, with the successful candidate to be determined by councillors and expected to be named before April 27, when Mike Rayner leaves. We wait with bated breath.

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The state government has thrown a bucket of icy cold water over Leda Developments’ socalled ‘dirt’ files, which claimed to expose green bias among the shire’s town planners and consultants. The two dossiers, released to a somewhat compliant mainstream media last October shortly after The Echo revealed some massive illegal clearing in the Cudgen Na-

NETDAILY ture Reserve adjacent to Leda’s Kings Forest development site, contained spurious claims of misconduct dating back to 1988 and twice graced the front page of the fiercely pro-development Gold Coast Bulletin as well as the then local Tweed daily. But this week, the big wigs in Macquarie Street dismissed the two documents, saying council’s general manager should deal with them as he sees fit. Ross Woodward, head of the local government division of the premier’s department, says it’s just not appropriate to intervene, adding that if anyone thinks there’s been corrupt behaviour they should notify the Independent Commission Against Corruption, or the planning department if they believed planning procedures had been ignored. That’s commonly

Opponents of coal-seam gas (CSG) mining and its controversial hydraulic fracturing or ‘fracking’ technique are quite right in demanding baseline testing for water quality and air quality before any drilling takes place in the Northern Rivers or elsewhere. It’s one of the demands of blockaders at Arrow Energy’s test drilling site in the Kerry Valley near Beaudesert, especially after a recent US report said fracking posed a serious health risk to livestock and people. Around a quarter of Tweed Shire is covered by a CSG exploration licence held

by Arrow, and much of this land is in agricultural production or adjoins national parks.

Tweed anti-CSG campaigner Michael McNamara said the report demonstrates the need to adopt the precautionary principle with CSG mining.

‘That livestock have been killed by contaminated water from the fracking process should be ringing alarm bells for government regulators,’ he says, which is all the more reason for an independent body to gather data of the exploration area before, during and after any CSG activities.

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Ladies Learn how to change a tyre, jump start your car, find your dipstick and much, much more. A course designed and run by a woman, especially for women. Bring your car and a sense of humour.

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Starts Monday 30th January, 2012 10 WEEKS FOR $120 Classes available for all levels Mums & Bubs, Stroke Correction & Squad Lessons

Saturday 28 January Saturday 11 February Mums and dads, is your daughter driving your car? Do yourself a favour and book her into the course.

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Angela 0414 719 680 angela@UnderYourBonnet.com

www.UnderYourBonnet.com 24 January 19, 2012 The Tweed Shire Echo

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Drowning is the greatest cause of accidental death in children under five in Australia. Each week, on average, one child drowns.

Why do children drown? Inadequate fencing or no fencing around the pool. Lack of gate security. Lack of effective water skills. Inadequate supervision. Lack of resuscitation skills.

Parents should enrol in learn-to-swim programs that encourage: • Developmental appropriate learning skills that correlate to the child’s growth and age limitations.

• Learning without floatation devices. Children must feel buoyancy and the floating sensation to learn to swim correctly.

• Maximum practice time is essential for skill acquisition.

Make sure that your lesson focuses on swimming activities like breath control, submersion, floating and propulsion.

• Grouping into lessons children that are similar in age and ability.

• Parental involvement is essential for safe, secure and productive learning.

Most importantly when choosing a swim school make sure that they are certified by either AustSwim or Swim Australia to ensure that it meets national guidelines in teaching.

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